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(1, '1-2-3 Magic, 3rd Ed', 'Thomas W. Phelan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11198'),
(2, '10 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children', 'Shmuley Boteach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Why do I have to repeat everything? Why does every conversation end in an argument?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Communicating with our children. Conversing. Connecting. When did it become so difficult? And how do we begin to change it for the better?\n</p>\n<p>\n This book was designed to help parents answer these important questions, and it is based on two fundamental ideas: The first is that there are no bad children, and no deliberately bad parents -- but that sometimes, despite the best of intentions on both sides, there can be bad\n <em>\n  relationships\n </em>\n between parents and children. The second is that, as parents, we must do everything we can to save those relationships, to reach out and really communicate with our children, because it is only through talking to them that we can create an environment for inspiration and change.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this compelling book, Shmuley Boteach, passionate social commentator and outspoken relationship guru, walks you through the critical conversations, including:\n <em>\n  cherishing childhood; developing intellectual curiosity; knowing who you are and what you want to become; learning to forgive; realizing the importance of family and tradition; being fearless and courageous\n </em>\n . As a father of eight, Rabbi Shmuley speaks from a wealth of experience. He has written a book for parents of children of all ages, from toddlers, who are just beginning to become aware of the world around them, to adolescents, who must learn to navigate all sorts of tricky social and academic pressures.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  10 Conversations\n </em>\n will help you stay connected to your children so that they develop the kind of strong moral character that leads to rich, meaningful lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shmuley Boteach is host of the daily national radio program\n <em>\n  The Rabbi Shmuley Show\n </em>\n on Oprah &amp; Friends and Sirius XM Satellite Radio and host of the award-winning national television show\n <em>\n  Shalom in the Home\n </em>\n on TLC. He is also the international bestselling author of twenty books, including the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling\n <em>\n  Kosher Sex\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Ten Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children\n </em>\n . In 2007, Boteach was labeled "a cultural phenomenon" and "the most famous rabbi in America" by\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n , and was also named one of the ten most influential rabbis in America. He has been profiled in many of the world''s leading publications, including\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  London Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n . Shmuley and his wife, Debbie, have nine children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10711'),
(3, 'The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy', 'Pamela Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We constantly hear that each of us will have multiple careers in a lifetime. The trick is to know how to switch from one to another. No one understands the process better than Pamela Mitchell, and she shares her secrets here in the\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n -_Fast Company_, "The Best Books for Business Owners 2010"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change."\n <br />\n -_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although there are at least 1,300 career coaches nationwide -- and countless books on career change -- Mitchell is among a handful who are pioneering a new spin on the concept: lifestyle reinvention.''"\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Use Mitchell''s 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."\n <br />\n -_Palm Beach Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mitchell''s advice is spot on."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn''t promise it''ll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."\n <br />\n -_Harvard Business Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n "After reading Pamela Mitchell''s book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."\n <br />\n -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor\n <em>\n  INC. Magazine\n </em>\n , author of\n <em>\n  The Knack\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Move over\n <em>\n  What Color is Your Parachute?\n </em>\n --this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"\n <br />\n -Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick &amp; Struggles\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."\n <br />\n -Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Six Figure Women\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Overcoming Underearning(r)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n doesn''t make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."\n <br />\n -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  Stop Sabotaging Your Career\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nice Girls Don''t Get the Corner Office\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today, career reinvention is the new-and only-form of job security.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Until recently, most people expected to have one career with maybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts advise us to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple\n <em>\n  industry\n </em>\n changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transfer and repurpose your skills in a completely new direction.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can be adapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides the tools to help you navigate the full art of career change.\n</p>\n<p>\n With ten clear, insightful, and practical "laws," you can:\n <br />\n * Market your skills to anyone\n <br />\n * Transition seamlessly from one industry to another\n <br />\n * Find fulfillment in a career that fits you\n</p>\n<p>\n From finding a vision to creating your action plan,\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n walks you through your own path to a new career, with success stories, workbook exercises, and actionable steps to start your new life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6991'),
(4, '10 LB Penalty', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis''s long and celebrated career (he''s won three\n <em>\n  10 Lb. Penalty\n </em>\n Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben''s relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben''s expulsion from Vivian Durridge''s stables; he''s removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father''s machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father''s wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George''s campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George''s life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Francis''s lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author''s best fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More murderous horseplay from the prolific Francis.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8216'),
(5, '100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It', 'David Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one''s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa\n </em>\n , y\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones\n </em>\n . Es psicÃ³logo y cientÃ­fico social, y enseÃ±a en la Florida Atlantic University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6854'),
(6, '1000 Questions for Couples', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10924'),
(7, 'The 1001 Healthy Baby Answers: Pediatricians&#39; Answers to All the Questions You Didn&#39;t Know to Ask', 'Gary Morchower', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What parent hasn''t had the experience of leaving a pediatrician''s office more confused than when they came in? Or gotten home and thought of 10 questions they should have asked after the diagnosis was given?\n</p>\n<p>\n Dr. Morchower understands. As a board-certified pediatrician and President of the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas, he has helped thousands of parents by helping keep their child healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n 1001 Healthy Baby Answers collects the most common questions parents have about a variety of different ailments, along with expert answers detailing everything the parent needs to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Perfect for parents to have on hand and in the home for quick reference, this essential guide will alleviate fears and give parents the right advice to help their child feel better . . . without another trip to the doctor''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n Find authoritative answers to your questions about:\n <br />\n - Jaundice\n <br />\n - Asthma\n <br />\n - Seizures\n <br />\n - Chicken pox\n <br />\n - Anemia\n <br />\n - Rapid breathing\n <br />\n - Autism\n <br />\n - Croup\n <br />\n - Pneumonia\n <br />\n - Diabetes\n <br />\n - Heart murmurs\n <br />\n - Sleep disorders\n <br />\n And much, much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must for a parent or grandparent caring for a sick child."\n <br />\n -Carden Johnston, MD, past president, American Academy of Pediatrics\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr. Gary Morchower is a board-certified pediatrician and President of the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas. A graduate of Tulane University and Tulane Medical School, he has received numerous honors and awards, including the Robert Moore M.D. Outstanding Teaching Award. He lives in Dallas, Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10498'),
(8, '1001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes From Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back', 'Dana Carpender', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on the best 1001 recipes from Dana Carpenderâ€™s bestselling books including\n <em>\n  500 Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes,\n </em>\n <em>\n  500 More Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n , 2_00 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes_,\n <em>\n  The Low-Carb Barbeque Book\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Low-Carb Smoothies\n </em>\n . Youâ€™ll find delicious and varied options including recipes for "high-carb" foods you thought you had to give up forever such as Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Mocha Chocolate Cheesecake. Staying the low-carb course will be easy with choices from barbecue to slow-cooker to internationally-inspired dishes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author\n <strong>\n  Dana Carpender\n </strong>\n was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Fifteen years later, she laughs at people who say â€œYou canâ€™t eat that way long-term.â€ Her eight cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, â€œWhatâ€™s for supper?â€ To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. She launches her internet radio show, Dana''s Low Carb For Life, on Labor Day 2010. Dana lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7709'),
(9, '101 Romantic Ideas', 'Michael Webb; 99c4you', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eBook will put a sparkle into even the most jaded relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n The stresses and strains of our hectic lives means that sometimes we neglect the people who mean the most to us - our partners.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this exciting new eBook from Romance Guru Michael Webb aims to change all that. He describes 101 romantic ideas that cost little or nothing to do but speak volumes to the one you love. And as you don''t need to spend a fortune, you can start as soon as you have downloaded the manual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Dear readers:\n</p>\n<p>\n If your are looking for other economic, interesting titles, please click on the name "99c4you"\n <br />\n at the top of the page, next to the title, or type "99c4you" at the search box and you will be taken\n <br />\n to our main page in Amazon, where you can find a lot more great titles!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10922'),
(10, '101 Things to Do With Ramen Noodles', 'Toni Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.    Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup,    Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo,    Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Garlic Noodle Saute, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, Corny Cheese Noodles, and more!    As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several years after graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni currently lives in Walden, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7927'),
(11, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7360'),
(12, '1105 Yakima Street', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Macomber''s tenth installment in the Cedar Cove series is every bit as entertaining as her prior nine."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -New York Journal of Books\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber deftly combines sweet romance and a breath of suspense without losing the homespun charm that''s been delighting readers for years."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -RT Book Reviews on 92 Pacific Boulevard\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers new to Macomber''s considerable narrative charms will have no problem picking up the story, while loyal fans are in for a treat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 6 Rainier Drive\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Debbie Macomber is a skilled storyteller."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 50 Harbor Street\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The books in Macomber''s contemporary Cedar Cove series are irresistibly delicious and addictive."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 44 Cranberry Point\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Excellent characterization will keep readers anticipating the next visit to Cedar Cove."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 311 Pelican Court\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber''s endearing characters offer courage and support to one another and find hope and love in the most unexpected places."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 204 Rosewood Lane\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber is known for her honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America, and this tale cements her position as an icon of the genre."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 16 Lighthouse Road\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dear Reader,\n </p>\n <p>\n  You[HTML_REMOVED]ve probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel[HTML_REMOVED]s pregnant, and she says she can[HTML_REMOVED]t handle the stress in our household anymore. My thirteenâ€“yearâ€“old daughter, Jolene, is jealous of her. Maybe it[HTML_REMOVED]s my fault. As a widower I spoiled herâ€”\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jolene was reading over my shoulder just now and says that[HTML_REMOVED]s not true. She claims Rachel ruined everything. But that[HTML_REMOVED]s not true. The real question is: How can I get my wife back? I don[HTML_REMOVED]t even know where she is. She[HTML_REMOVED]s not with Teri Polgar or any of her other friends from the salon. The other question isâ€¦when will Jolene grow up and stop acting like such a brat?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, I[HTML_REMOVED]m not the only one in town with problems. Linc Wyse[HTML_REMOVED]s fatherâ€“inâ€“law is trying to destroy his business. And you know Charlotte Rhodes? Seems she[HTML_REMOVED]s becoming forgetful, and the family[HTML_REMOVED]s worried about her and Ben. Lots of other stuff going onâ€”but Rachel is better at keeping up with it than I am.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have any idea where my wife is, give me a call. Please.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11203'),
(13, '12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe first edition of this book (published in 2000) was excellent. The second edition is\n  <em>\n   masterfully outstanding.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <br />\n  â€”From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensational! The why and how of a raw-foods lifestyle in a nutshell. A must-read for those who want more vitality, happiness, and success in their lives.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Victor M. Vieira, DC, fellow of the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous book full of useful information for people seeking a better understanding of the relationship between nutritional factors and optimal health. Victoria Boutenko asks probing questions and searches every avenue that can lead to new answers. Her conclusions are remarkable, often surprising, and always illuminating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Melvyn L. Iscove, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImagine what would happen in a society wherein people would take responsibility for their own health and wellness. Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s book provides the basis for this healthier shift in our thinking and daily lifestyle.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Jeannette Vos, EdD, co-author of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â and\n  <em>\n   The New Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor those new to Boutenko, this is a great introduction to her ideas, methods and life experiences, the latter of which includes the inspiring account of how she healed her families illnesses through healthful eating and exercise.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Spiritualitea.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  is magnificent! If you have ever attempted to incorporate raw/living foods into your diet to any degree, and hit the wall of resistance, you absolutely must read this bookâ€¦ Victoriaâ€™s 12-Step outline, which is very loosely derived from her personal research into AA and OA, has helped countless people rise above the struggle of changing behavior, and into an empowered state of raw consciousness.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Reader Views_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-lawâ€™s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who donâ€™t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6576'),
(14, 'The 120 Days of Sodom', 'Marquis De Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ...this astonishing new version renders the previous translation null-and-void...â€ -- Professor Stephen Barber, CalArts\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book that dominates all books.â€ -- Georges Bataille\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript''s loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6179'),
(15, '1222', 'Anne Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8130'),
(16, '13 Ghosts: Strange but True Stories', 'Will Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tells the stories of a man who foresaw his own death, a ghost who solved a murder, a mummy''s curse, a haunted museum, and a phantom sailor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7745'),
(17, '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n   <em>\n    1491\n   </em>\n   Timeline\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Europe and Asia\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dates\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   The Americas\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  25000-35000 B.C.   Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  6000\n </p>\n <p>\n  5000   In what many scientists regard as humankind''s first and greatest feat of genetic engineering, Indians in southern Mexico systematically breed maize (corn) from dissimilar ancestor species.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First cities established in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  4000\n </p>\n <p>\n  3000   The Americas'' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures\n </p>\n <p>\n  Great Pyramid at Giza\n </p>\n <p>\n  2650\n </p>\n <p>\n  32   First clear evidence of Olmec use of zero--an invention, widely described as the most important mathematical discovery ever made, which did not occur in Eurasia until about 600 A.D., in India (zero was not introduced to Europe until the 1200s and not widely used until the 1700s)\n </p>\n <p>\n  800-840 A.D.   Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1000\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reconstruction of Cahokia, c. 1250 A.D.*   Abrupt rise of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, the largest city north of the Rio Grande. Population estimates vary from at least 15,000 to 100,000.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Death devastates Europe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1347-1351\n </p>\n <p>\n  1398   Birth of TlacaÃ©lel, the brilliant Mexican strategist behind the Triple Alliance (also known as the Aztec empire), which within decades controls central Mexico, then the most densely settled place on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1492   The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syphilis apparently brought to Europe by Columbus''s returning crew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1493\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain on around-the-world voyage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1519\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sixteenth-century Mexica drawing of the effects of smallpox\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Cortes driven from TenochtitlÃ¡n, capital of the Triple Alliance, and then gains victory as smallpox, a European disease never before seen in the Americas, kills at least one of three in the empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1525-1533   The smallpox epidemic sweeps into Peru, killing as much as half the population of the Inka empire and opening the door to conquest by Spanish forces led by Pizarro.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1617   Huge areas of New England nearly depopulated by epidemic brought by shipwrecked French sailors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  English Pilgrims arrive at Patuxet, an Indian village emptied by disease, and survive on stored Indian food, renaming the village Plymouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1620\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Ill., painting by Michael Hampshire.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Bernardino de SahagÃºn,\n  <em>\n   Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva EspaÃ±a,\n  </em>\n  1547-77).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in the New World, Native American cultures were flourishing with a high degree of sophistication. The new researchers have turned received wisdom on its head. For example, it has long been believed the Inca fell to Pizarro because they had no metallurgy to produce steel for weapons. In fact, scholars say, the Inca had a highly refined metallurgy, but valued plasticity over strength. What defeated the Inca was not steel but smallpox and resulting internecine warfare. Mann also shows that the Maya constructed huge cities and governed them with a cohesive set of political ideals. Most notably, according to Mann, the Haudenosaunee, in what is now the Northeast U.S., constructed a loose confederation of tribes governed by the principles of individual liberty and social equality. The author also weighs the evidence that Native populations were far larger than previously calculated. Mann, a contributor to the\n  <em>\n   Atlantic Monthly\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Science\n  </em>\n  , masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history of Native America and its inhabitants. 56 b&amp;w photos, 15 maps.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8785'),
(18, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/591');
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(19, '1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n   by Charles C. Mann\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Nathaniel Philbrick\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Last Stand\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   In the Heart of the Sea\n  </em>\n  , which won the National Book Award;\n  <em>\n   Sea of Glory\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and\n  <em>\n   Mayflower\n  </em>\n  , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and one of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times''\n  </em>\n  ten best books of the year. He has lived on Nantucket since 1986._\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™m a big fan of Charles Mannâ€™s previous book\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , in which he provides a sweeping and provocative examination of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Itâ€™s exhaustively researched but so wonderfully written that itâ€™s anything but exhausting to read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his follow-up,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  , Mann has taken it to a new, truly global level. Building on the groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby (author of\n  <em>\n   The Columbian Exchange\n  </em>\n  and, Iâ€™m proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer), Mann has written nothing less than the story of our world: how a planet of what were once several autonomous continents is quickly becoming a single, â€œglobalizedâ€ entity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann not only talked to countless scientists and researchers; he visited the places he writes about, and as a consequence, the book has a marvelously wide-ranging yet personal feel as we follow Mann from one far-flung corner of the world to the next. And always, the prose is masterful. In telling the improbable story of how Spanish and Chinese cultures collided in the Philippines in the sixteenth century, he takes us to the island of Mindoro whose â€œsouthern coast consists of a number of small bays, one next to another like tooth marks in an apple.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  We learn how the spread of malaria, the potato, tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar cane have disrupted and convulsed the planet and will continue to do so until we are finally living on one integrated or at least close-to-integrated Earth. Whether or not the human instigators of all this remarkable change will survive the process they helped to initiate more than five hundred years ago remains, Mann suggests in this monumental and revelatory book, an open question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timeline for\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   200,000,000 B.C.:\n  </strong>\n  Geological forces begin to break up the worldâ€™s single giant continent, Pangaea, forever separating the hemispheres. After this, Eurasia and the Americas develop completely different suites of plants and animals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1493 A.D.:\n  </strong>\n  Columbus sails on second voyage, establishing the first consequential European settlement in the Americas. Without intending to, he ends the long separation of the hemispheresâ€”and sets off the ecological convulsion known as the Columbian Exchange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1518:\n  </strong>\n  In the first environmental calamity of the modern era, accidentally imported African scale insects in Hispaniola lead to an explosion of fire ants. Spaniards flee the ant-infested island in droves; colonists in Santo Domingo hold procession in honor of St. Saturninus, praying for his aid against the insect plague.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1545:\n  </strong>\n  Spaniards discover the worldâ€™s biggest silver strike in Bolivia. In the next century, the worldâ€™s supply of this precious metal will more than double, giving Europe an economic edge that will help it colonize Africa, Asia and the Americas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1549:\n  </strong>\n  Initial appearance of tobaccoâ€”the addictive American drug that becomes the first global commodity crazeâ€”in China. That same year, HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s inaugurates the human part of the Columbian Exchange by signing the first contract to import large numbers of Africans to the American mainland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1571:\n  </strong>\n  Miguel LÃ³pez de Legazpi colonizes Manila and establishes continual trade with Chinaâ€”Columbusâ€™s life-long, never-fulfilled dream. Knitting the entire inhabited planet into a single web of trade, Legazpiâ€™s actions are the beginning of todayâ€™s economic globalization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1615:\n  </strong>\n  Earthworms come to northern North America in English ship ballast. During the next three centuries, they will re-engineer forests from Ohio Valley to Hudson Bay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1630-60:\n  </strong>\n  The gush of American silver finally causes its price to collapse, setting off a the worldâ€™s first global economic calamity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1644:\n  </strong>\n  Collapse of Ming dynasty. Long struggle between remaining Ming in south and incoming Qing dynasty in north leads the latter to forcibly evacuate most of the southern coast; millions of dispossessed people pour into the mountains, where they grow maize and sweet potatoes, American crops first smuggled into China from Manila and other European bases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1775:\n  </strong>\n  Franceâ€™s Flour War, set off by high bread prices, persuades King Louis XVI to allow the pioneering nutritional chemist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier to stage a series of publicity stunts to persuade farmers to grow potatoes, a distrusted foreign species from Peru. Parmentierâ€™s PR is so successful that broad swathes of northern Europe are soon covered with a monoculture of potatoes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1781:\n  </strong>\n  Britainâ€™s â€œsouthern strategyâ€ pushes Gen. Cornwallisâ€™s army into North Americaâ€™s malaria zone, an area dominated by malaria parasites introduced from Europe and Africa. Defeated by malaria, the British army surrenders to a general it never fought: George Washington. This ends the Revolutionary War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1845:\n  </strong>\n  Europeâ€™s potato monoculture, which is unlike anything ever seen in Peru, turns out to be especially vulnerable to another Peruvian import, the potato blight. Ravaging the continent from Russia to Ireland, the blight causes a famine that kills an estimated two million people, half of them in Ireland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1867:\n  </strong>\n  LÃ©opold Trouvelot, French amateur entomologist, smuggles gypsy moths to Medford, Mass., hoping to breed them with native silk-producing moths to produce a more robust silk-producer. Their almost immediate escape sets off an invasion that continues today. Trouvelot hurriedly returns to France before the dimensions of the problem can be known.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1880-1912:\n  </strong>\n  Industrializing nations, desperate for the elastic belts, pliable gaskets and the aborbent tires needed by steam engines and vehicles, buy every scrap of rubber they can get from the Amazonâ€™s rubber trees, the sole source of high-quality latex. The ensuing rubber boom collapses after an Englishman smuggles rubber trees out of Brazil. Soon much of southeast Asia is covered with this foreign tree.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1979:\n  </strong>\n  The golden apple snail is sent from Brazil to Taiwan to launch an escargot industry there. It escapes, proliferates, and becomes a major menace to the islandâ€™s rice crop.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA muscular, densely documented follow-up [to_\n  <em>\n   Mannâ€™s\n  </em>\n  1491]\n  <em>\n   . . . Like its predecessor,\n  </em>\n  1493 _runs to more than 400 pages, but it moves at a gallop . . . As a historian Mann should be admired not just for his broad scope and restless intelligence but for his biological senstivity. At every point of his tale he keeps foremost in his mind the effect of humansâ€™ activities on the broader environment they inhabit.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Alfred W. Crosby,\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œIn the wake of his groundbreaking book_ 1491_ Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  is a monumental achievement."\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -David Grann, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œSpirited . . . One thing is indisputable: Mann is definitely global in his outlook and tribal in his thinking . . . Mannâ€™s taxonomy of the ecological, political, religious, economic, anthropological and mystical melds together in an intriguing whole cloth.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Jonathan E. Lazarus,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  [Newark]\n  <em>\n   Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œFascinating . . . Convincing . . . A spellbinding account of how an unplanned collision of unfamiliar animals, vegetables, minerals and diseases produced unforeseen wealth, misery, social upheaval and the modern world.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA landmark book . . . Entrancingly provocative,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  bristles with illuminations, insights and surprises.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John McFarland,\n  <em>\n   Shelf Awareness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fascinating survey . . . A lucid historical panorama thatâ€™s studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Brilliantly assembling colorful details into big-picture insights, Mannâ€™s fresh challenge to Eurocentric histories puts interdependence at the origin of modernity.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  Charles Mann brilliantly described the Americas on the eve of Columbusâ€™s voyage. Now in\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  he tells how the world was changed forever by the movement of foods, metals, plants, people and diseases between the â€˜New Worldâ€™ and both Europe and China. His book is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. A fascinating and important topic, admirably told.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John Hemming, author of\n  <em>\n   Tree of Rivers\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating . . . Engaging and well-written . . . Information and insight abound on every page. This dazzling display of erudition, theory and insight will help readers to view history in a fresh way.â€Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Roger Bishop,\n  <em>\n   BookPage\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œCharles Mann expertly shows how the complex, interconnected ecological and economic consequences of the European discovery of the Americas shaped many unexpected aspects of the modern world. This is an example of the best kind of history book: one that changes the way you look at the world, even as it informs and entertains.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Tom Standage, author of\n  <em>\n   A History of the World in Six Glasses\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8787'),
(20, 'The 1500-Calorie-A-Day Cookbook', 'Nancy S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Eat up. Slim down. Itâ€™s just that easy--with just 1,500 delicious calories a day!**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of *The 1,200-Calorie-a-Day Menu    Cookbook*, comes all new recipes for when you are counting calories but donâ€™t want to sacrifice flavor, taste, or variety. While most low-calorie meal plans leave you hungry for more, this cookbook serves up a satisfying selection of energy-boosting breakfasts, fast-fix lunches, and delectable dinners--plus two healthy snacks and one guilt-free dessert--every single day! Itâ€™s    hard to believe itâ€™s just 1,500 calories.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5740'),
(21, '1636: The Saxon Uprising', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Â Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)Â â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review)Â â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5465'),
(22, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(23, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about.Â  Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.Â \n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundlessÂ  verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5429'),
(24, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people''s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(25, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the Women''s Murder Club, they are pursuing a murderer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Their chief suspect is a socially prominent writer, but the men in charge won''t touch him. On the trail of the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever, they discover a shocking surprise that turns everything about the case upside down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2040'),
(26, '2 in the Hat: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Â A serial killer the cops thought was long gone.A good detective racing the clock to stop the murders.A chilling and twisty thriller that will leave readers gasping.Â A major spike in gang homicides has Boston on edge, leaving a growing body count of bangers in its wake and the cityâ€™s police and DAâ€™s office scrambling to catch up. Even the mayorâ€™s Street Saviors taskforce of ex-cons, devoted to steering kids out of the thug life, are working overtime to stop the bloodshed. But who will stop the even greater threat thatâ€™s about to descend when a murderous psychopath steps out of the past?Memories of the infamous Blood Bath Killer still loom large, especially for homicide detective Angel Alves, who helped bring down the multiple-murderer whose rampage shocked the city. So when a pair of students turn up bizarrely slain, Alves fears that another serial killer is stalking Boston. A fear that becomes fact when his ex-partner, Wayne Mooney, recognizes the murders as the work of the Prom Night Killerâ€”whose unsolved crimes have haunted Mooney for a decade. Now, with hands-on assistant DA Conrad Darget backing them, Alves and Mooney set out to stop grim history from repeating itself. But matching wits with a twisted mind is a dangerous game. Especially when there are no rulesâ€”and your allies really may be your enemies.Â Mixing edgy psychological suspense, hard-boiled realism, and staccato bursts of pulse-quickening action, 2 in the Hat makes another slam-dunk winning case for Raffi Yessayan, hailed by Robin Moore, author of The French Connection, as â€œthe best prosecutor-turned-crime-writer to hit the streets since George V. Higgins and Scott Turow.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3250'),
(27, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It has been forty years since the publication of this classic science fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other. This allegory about humanity''s exploration of the universe, and the universe''s reaction to humanity, was the basis for director Stanley Kubrick''s immortal film, and lives on as a hallmark achievement in storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(28, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(29, 'The 2011 Baby Names Almanac', 'Emily Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Hottest Baby Name Trends, Lists, and Forecasts\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  An instant snapshot of how the world today is shaping the name you may choose for your child tomorrow, The 2011 Baby Names Almanac is jam-packed with information and trends, plus thousands of names to browse. Here''s a sneak peek at the ideas, forecasts, predictions, and suggestions you''ll find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Why some names are a lot more popular than you think (Carly, Tristan)\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    The cutting edge names on the rise (Kellan, Serenity) and the superhot names cooling fast (Miley, Kaden)\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    The crossover pop culture names that will be moving to the cribs of tomorrow (Pandora)\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Just how many Isabellas and Jacobs are out there\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    A look at whether popular unisex names like Riley are used more for boys or girls\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    The hottest names in your state\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    The girls'' name that jumped more than 675 places on the top 1000 names, and the boys'' name that can''t shake a 902 ranking\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Packed with easy-to-read charts, graphs, and maps, this book is a screen shot of the world today. It''s stuffed with ideas on what''s hip and hot, and how you can take that trend and turn it into a name you love.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Introduction\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  So, you''ve got a baby to name.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As if preparing for the arrival of the baby isn''t enough, you''re dealing with all the pressure of figuring out what, exactly, to call the little bundle of joy. It can be stressful to find a name that will do justice to the hope you have for your child.\n  <br />\n  After all, names influence first impressions. They can trigger great-or unpleasant-nicknames. They can affect your child''s self-esteem. They can be a tangible, lasting link to a family legacy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But let''s not forget that they can be fun. And that''s what this book is all about.\n  <br />\n  Remember\n  <em>\n   The Old Farmer''s Almanac\n  </em>\n  , which comes out annuÂ­ally as a guide to each year''s trends, forecasts, and hot spots? Aimed at farmers, of course, the book provides a way to put the year into context, to navigate the shifting seasons, and to underÂ­stand all the factors swirling in the atmosphere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The 2011 Baby Names Almanac\n  </em>\n  aims to be a similar lifeline for parents. With a finger on the pulse of pop culture and an ear to the ground of what''s hip, new, and relevant, this book offers you an instant, idiosyncratic snapshot of how the world today is shapÂ­ing what you may want to name your child tomorrow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jam-packed with information and ideas, plus thousands of names to browse, this book analyzes the most recent trends and fads in baby naming, offering up forecasts and predictions. You''ll find our take on questions like these (and much more!):\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Which cutting-edge names are on the rise?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Which popular names are on the decline?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What influence do celebrities have on names?\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     <em>\n      Names in music:\n     </em>\n     Has\n     <strong>\n      Miley\n     </strong>\n     peaked? Is\n     <strong>\n      Taylor\n     </strong>\n     <strong>\n     </strong>\n     now excluÂ­sively a girl''s name?\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <em>\n      Names in movies:\n     </em>\n     Could you name a kid\n     <strong>\n      Pandora\n     </strong>\n     ?\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <em>\n      Names in sports:\n     </em>\n     Is\n     <strong>\n      Peyton\n     </strong>\n     over? Will\n     <strong>\n      Rooney\n     </strong>\n     surge? And what''s so great about\n     <strong>\n      Jacoby\n     </strong>\n     ?\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How many babies get the most popular name, anyway?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Which letter do most girls'' names start with? How about boys'' names?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What are the most popular "gender-neutral" names today- and which gender uses each name more often? (If you name your daughter\n    <strong>\n     Harley\n    </strong>\n    , will she find herself playing with lots of other little girls named Harley-or little boys instead?)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How can you take a trend and turn it into a name you love?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  We understand that sometimes this information on trends and popularity is hard to digest, so we''ve created some easy-to-visualize graphics. Turn to page 4, for example, to see a map of the United States showing where\n  <strong>\n   Isabella\n  </strong>\n  reigns and where little\n  <strong>\n   Jayden\n  </strong>\n  is king.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And what baby name book would be complete without the names? Flip to page 59 to begin browsing through more than 20,000 names, including entries for the most popular names for girls and boys as reported by the Social Security Administration (www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames).\n </p>\n <p>\n  A little bit of a mishmash and a screenshot of the world today,\n  <em>\n   The 2011 Baby Names Almanac\n  </em>\n  is like no other book out there. Stuffed with ideas on what''s hip and hot and how you can take a trend and turn it into a name you love, this book is your all-in-one guide to baby names now.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8968'),
(30, 'The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History', 'John Major Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125- year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including: - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work? - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era? - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them? - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3092'),
(31, '2012: The War for Souls', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Strieber''s epic sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Grays\n  </em>\n  blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar eclipticâ€”a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this ageâ€”he begins to uncover evidence that what he''s writing about is actually happening on a parallel earth. If nothing is done, on December 21, 2012, gateways will open into this world and reptilian invaders will not only enslave humanity but feast on their succulent souls as well. While Strieber''s exploration into the existence and import of the soul isn''t exactly profound, it is wildly entertaining. Fans of apocalyptic page-turners like King''s\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  and Niven and Pournelle''s\n  <em>\n   Lucifer''s Hammer\n  </em>\n  will enjoy this ambitiousâ€”and audaciousâ€”tale as it invokes everything from rectal probes and Ann Coulter to the destruction of the Great Pyramid of Giza._ (Sept.)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Martin Winters gets out of the collapsing Great Pyramid of Khufu just in time to see a gigantic lens arise from the rubble. Simultaneously at equally ancient monument sites all over the world, other lenses emerge. What''s happening is a kind of alien invasion, but the aliens, whose advance agents have been subverting human society for some time, aren''t really another species. They''re their world''s degenerates, whose earlier incursions into human history inspired the way the evil beings of religious mythology have been represented. In short, they''re demons, fortunately killable but possessed of awesome power by the standards of Martin''s world, which is one of three parallel Earths. The others are the invaders'' and ours, in which buff sf writer Wiley Dale is compulsively and automatically writing Martin''s story, which is more transmission than story. Eventually the demonic aliens pop up in Wiley''s as well as Martin''s Kansas homeland. Each Earth has advantages over the others; one of those,Â in both Martin''s and the aliens'' worlds, is that the physical existence of the soul has been discovered. The implications of that discovery drive the action of Strieber''s hyperactive cosmological thriller. Despite Wiley and his cop buddy''s excruciating hardy-har-he-man palaver and the exposition turning to cardboard whenever love is mentioned, it''s immensely entertaining, and it''s optioned for a big, splashy, FX-laden movie. Oh boy! Olson, Ray\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5951'),
(32, '206 Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs''s outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why of the forensic anthropologist''s deadly predicament. When Brennan and Andrew Ryan of the SÃ»retÃ© du QuÃ©bec arrive in Chicago on business, she''s accused of botching the autopsy of Rose Jurmain, a Canadian heiress. Knowing only that an anonymous caller instigated the investigation, Brennan is determined to uncover who''s out to sabotage her. Back in her Montreal lab, Brennan soon realizes that not only is Jurmain''s death possibly linked to the brutal murders of other elderly women but that whoever is out to tarnish her reputation refuses to back off. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science and a stubborn, compelling heroine, Reichs manages to juggle several story lines without losing an ounce of momentum.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe science is fascinating, and every minute in the morgue with\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe is golden.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11164'),
(33, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world''s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.*From the Paperback edition.*\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "[Clarke] remains a master at describing the wonders of the material universe in sentences that combine a respect for scientific accuracy with an often startling lyricism."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fifty years after meeting the spirit of Dave Bowman aboard the abandoned Discovery and witnessing the fiery transformation of Jupiter into Earths second sun, 103-year-old Dr. Heywood Floyd boards the luxury spaceship Universe for the historic first landing on the surface of Halley''s Comet.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At the same time, the Galaxy expedition sets out to probe the evolutionary upheaval on Jupiter''s former moon Europa haunted by the fate of a doomed Chinese mission and by the ominous message from space: "All these worlds are yours *except Europa. Attempt no landings there. "\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As the stranded Galaxy awaits rescue on the dangerous and forbidden surface of Europa and Universe races to her aid, the omniscient force that is Dave Bowman watches *and waits to reveal the extraordinary secrets of the monoliths, of the masters he now serves, and of mankind''s ultimate role in the course of cosmic history . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "[Clarke] is, after all, the poet laureate of the Space Age. He is at his best making the reader feel . . . that it is those dreams that finally come true that are the best dreams of all."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Los Angeles Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/102');
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(34, '22 Britannia Road', 'Amanda Hodgkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011\n  </strong>\n  : By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That''s where\n  <em>\n   22 Britannia Road\n  </em>\n  , Amanda Hodgkinson''s stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz''s dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz''s betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson''s poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied.\n  <em>\n   --Miriam Landis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Author Q&amp;A with Amanda Hodgkinson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didnâ€™t feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. â€œWe were so hungry,â€ she said, â€œwe ate the bark of the silver birch trees.â€ An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  From Silvanaâ€™s exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novelâ€™s historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survivalâ€”even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived HÃ©lÃ¨ne and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through\n  <em>\n   The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II\n  </em>\n  by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he\n  <em>\n   felt\n  </em>\n  . I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4666'),
(35, '23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.**When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to *kill. *Caxtonâ€™s always been able to watch her own backâ€“even when itâ€™s against a cell-block wallâ€“but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the worldâ€™s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtonâ€™s strings, too, and she''s issued an ultimatum that Laura canâ€™t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justiniaâ€™s evil. **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(36, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You About Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the "free-market ideologues," the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world--over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing "free" about a market where wages are largely politically determined; that greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable; and a more educated population itself won''t make a country richer. An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thought--and all the places it''s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: "This will some readers uncomfortable... it is time to get uncomfortable." (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œChang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thoughtâ€”and all the places itâ€™s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: â€˜This will [make] some readers uncomfortableâ€¦[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.â€™â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMyth-busting and nicely-written collection of essaysâ€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Independent\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core â€¦ Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the wayâ€”for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”John Gray,\n   <em>\n    Observer\n   </em>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA lively, accessible and provocative book.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor 40 years, I have worked as a journalist and trained thousands of other journalists from my former perches as a University of Missouri Journalism School professor and as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. I have written newspaper articles, magazine features and entire books with heavy doses of economics policy and business behavior. I wish the book\n  <em>\n   23 Things They Donâ€™t Tell You About Capitalism\n  </em>\n  had been available when I was a rookie; I would have been more alert to the hands-off-business catechism by which Americans are relentlessly indoctrinated.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Weinberg,\n   <em>\n    Remapping Debate\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7738'),
(37, '25,001 Best Baby Names, 2E', 'Lesley Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The most convenient, value-priced reference for parents-to-be who want an easy guide to the best baby names out there\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the author of the #1 baby name book in the country comes an updated edition of the mass entry into the category: 25,001 Best Baby Names.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An easy-to-use, affordable book aimed at frazzled, overwhelmed parents-to-be, this is the perfect reference to make naming boys and girls quick and painless. 25,001 Best Baby Names is thoroughly researched and updated to reflect recent trends in baby names.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a compact format and with incredible variety, 25,001 Best Baby Names offers a low price, a handy package, and the most current names for parents making one of their biggest decisions for baby.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lesley Bolton\n  </strong>\n  is a freelance writer and publishing professional with over six years of publishing experience. She is also the author of\n  <em>\n   The Complete Book of Baby Names\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Everything Guide to Writing Children''s Books\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Everything Psychology Book\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10065'),
(38, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2nd Chance reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (adetective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner)who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles tosolve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, themurders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all thesigns of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of SanFrancisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even moredisturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at bothmurder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikesagain and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever morecleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--andthe killer knows who they are. 2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves,but unlike recent entries in theAlex Cross series, itdoesn''t sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay''s the star, butthere''s a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even betterdeveloped here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing andinteresting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick theirnecks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a JamesPatterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --BarrieTrinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(39, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5157'),
(40, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--From Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld &amp; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  , 6/25/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n  <em>\n   The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n  </em>\n  offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Hungry Vegan blog\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   , 7/9/10\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n  <em>\n   Taste of the East\n  </em>\n  . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Hippo\n   </em>\n   , 7/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAside from its veganness,\n  <em>\n   Taste of the East\n  </em>\n  also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n  <em>\n   Taste of the East\n  </em>\n  is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n  <br />\n  â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    January Magazine\n   </em>\n   , 8/29/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Midwest\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Book Review, _September 2010\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n  <em>\n   Taste of the East\n  </em>\n  also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7094'),
(41, '300 Creative Dates', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10925'),
(42, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(43, 'The 34th Rule', 'Armin Shimerman; David R. George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(44, 'The 37th Hour', 'Jodi Compton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal...and of one woman''s search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives. Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare...**The 37th Hour**On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing-persons investigator, Sarah is used to anxious calls from wives and parents. She''s used to the innocent explanations that resolve so many of her cases. But from the moment she learns that he never arrived at Quantico, she feels a terrible foreboding. Now, beneath the bed in which they make love, Sarah finds Shiloh''s neatly packed bag. And in that instant the cop in her knows: Her husband has disappeared.Suddenly Sarah finds herself at the beginning of the kind of investigation she has made so often. The kind that she and her ex-partner, Genevieve, solved routinely -- until a brutal crime stole Genevieve''s daughter and ended her career. The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives. For Sarah this investigation will mean going back to the beginning, to Shiloh''s religion-steeped childhood in Utah, the rift that separated him from his family -- and the one horrifying case that struck them both too close to home. As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband''s past, she sees her lover and friend change into a stranger before her eyes. And as she moves further down a trail of shocking surprises and bitter revelations, Sarah is about to discover that her worst fear -- that Shiloh is dead -- may be less painful than what she will learn next...In a novel of runaway tension, Jodi Compton masterfully weaves together the quiet details of everyday life with the moments that can shatter them forever. At once a beguiling mystery and a powerful rumination on family, friendship, and loss, **The 37th Hour** is a thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn -- instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1669'),
(45, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner''s office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2043'),
(46, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.    YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.  Thatâ€™s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5131'),
(47, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3426'),
(48, '4:50 From Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ANTHONY AWARD-WINNING SLEUTH Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she''s returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5252'),
(49, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a houseâ€¦a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces forÂ \n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.Â \n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrivesÂ \n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comesÂ \n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive isÂ \n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after allâ€¦\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6035'),
(50, '&#39;48', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Herbert transcends the horror medium with ''48, a blistering tale of post-World War II London overrun with fear and blood. Delivering not only terrifying imagery, but pulse-pounding action and historical adventure, it is destined to become a classic.It is a London Too Terrifying to Imagine. Already crippled by the relentless Nazi bombing, this once-beautiful city has been depopulated by a hideous blood plague unleashed in the final convulsive collapse of the German regime. Now, human vampires wander the rubble-strewn streets, desperately searching for the only thing that can cure them...But not all survivors have been afflicted, and Hoke -- a lone hero accompanied only by his trusty dog and bitter memories -- is relentlessly pursued for the clean blood that courses through his veins. Yet his flight soon takes on a different meaning as he saves two women and a former German soldier. Banding together, they flee into the city''s underground tunnels where an unexpected betrayal that delivers them right into the hands of their deadly adversaries prompts Hoke to take a stand against these monsters once and for all."With ''48, James Herbert delivers another triumphant thriller that blends two-fisted action with the supernatural". -- Douglas E. Winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6086'),
(51, 'The 48 laws of power', 'Robert Greene; Joost Elffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally") but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded -- or been victimized by -- power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3544'),
(52, '4th of July', 'James Patterson; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the tranquility of the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay. But the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before - an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts: before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings. It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay. "Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried. There''s no stopping his imagination." -New York Times Book Review "Patterson''s skill at building suspense is enviable." -Kansas City Star "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right." -New York Daily News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1910'),
(53, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running! Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(54, '50 Secrets of Blissful Relationships', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10926'),
(55, '500 Lovemaking Tips &amp; Secrets', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10923'),
(56, 'The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World', 'W. Cleon Skousen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This is the best-selling\n   <em>\n    Original Authorized Edition\n   </em>\n   regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The nation the Founders built is now in the throes of a political, economic, social, and spiritual crisis that has driven many to an almost frantic search for\n  <em>\n   modern\n  </em>\n  solutions. The truth is that the solutions have been available for a long time -- in the writings of our Founding Fathers -- carefully set forth in this timely book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World\n  </em>\n  , Discover the\n  <strong>\n   28 Principles of Freedom\n  </strong>\n  our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years. These 28 Principles include\n  <em>\n   The Genius of Natural Law, Virtuous and Moral Leaders, Equal Rights--Not Equal Things,\n  </em>\n  and_ Avoiding the Burden of Debt._ Published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to restoring Constitutional principles in the tradition of America''s Founding Fathers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The National Center for Constitutional Studies...is doing a fine public service in educating Americans about the principles of the Constitution.\n  </em>\n  -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This is possibly the most comprehensive treatment of the genius of the American Founding Fathers which has ever been encompassed in a single volume.\n  </em>\n  --Kenneth C. Chatwin, District Judge, Phoenix, Arizona\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8004'),
(57, '52 Pickup', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn''t pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn''t get mad...he gets even.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(58, '59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot', 'Richard Wiseman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of â€œrapid changeâ€ and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: â€œThink a little, change a lot.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3606'),
(59, 'The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women''s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women''s Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery series takes the Women''s Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2030'),
(60, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2815');
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(61, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jesse Ventura\n  </strong>\n  is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n  <em>\n   Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   American Conspiracies.\n  </em>\n  Ventura is the host of the television show\n  <em>\n   Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n  </em>\n  on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dick Russell\n  </strong>\n  is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   American Conspiracies\n  </em>\n  . He is also the author of\n  <em>\n   On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Knew Too Much\n  </em>\n  . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n  <em>\n   Joan Rivers Show\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   NBC Nightly News\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4818'),
(62, 'The 6th Target', 'James Patterson; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women''s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren''t demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she''d face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1909'),
(63, '7 Effective Ways To Talk To Your Children', 'Jamie Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9590'),
(64, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(65, '7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club faces not one-but two-terrifying cases that may tear it apart. The teenage son of California''s ex-governor has mysteriously vanished-and the pressure on Detective Lindsay Boxer to find him is overwhelming. When she finally does get a lead, it''s devastating. At the same time, Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, must investigate mysterious fires that are destroying some of San Francisco''s most beautiful homes-and leaving their owners dead in the debris. But when Lindsay enlists her friends in the Women''s Murder Club to help uncover the arsonist, the blazes suddenly rage much too close to home . . . and the detective''s life may go up in flames.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2046'),
(66, 'The 7th Victim', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Jacobson''s tepid third thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Hunted\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   False Accusations\n  </em>\n  ), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who''s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between Karen''s attempts to unravel the clues left behind at the crime scenes and glimpses of the Dead Eyes Killer himself as he stalks future victims. A messy divorce and custody battle threaten to distract Karen, as do her tentative relationship with a local detective and disturbing revelations about her family history. The author fails to put a fresh spin on any of the genre''s cliches--the serial killer who taunts law enforcement, the FBI agent with an implausible connection to the case, the chaotic crime scene that contains clues only the hero can crack. Though Jacobson''s research into the FBI''s Behavioral Analysis Unit is evident, he overloads his story with too much information and unbelievable coincidences.\n  <em>\n   5-city author tour. (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jacobson''s third novel (after\n  <em>\n   False Accusations\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Hunted\n  </em>\n  ) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer''s crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail''s personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author''s seven years of study with the FBI''s profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.â€”Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8440'),
(67, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(68, 'The 8th Confession', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As San Francisco''s most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city''s most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it''s the *perfect* murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home. As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the story could be *huge*. Probing deeper into the victim''s history, she discovers he may not have been quite as saintly as everyone thought. As the hunt for two criminals tests the limits of the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Women''s Murder Club now faces its toughest challenge: will love destroy all that four friends have built? The exhilarating new chapter in the Women''s Murder Club series, *The 8th Confession* serves up a double dose of speed-charged twists and shocking revelations as only James Patterson can. And remember, this is the only Murder Club episode of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2054'),
(69, '9 Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9301'),
(70, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4511'),
(71, '97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement', 'Jane Ziegelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In "97 Orchard," Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York''s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century--a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as "pizzarelli," while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. "97 Orchard" charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(72, '98.6 degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive', 'Cody Lundin; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages Rights: W, Survival/Nature "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise. Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(73, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2052'),
(74, 'A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide', 'John H Wasson; Timothy B. Walsh; Mary C. Labrecque; Harold C. Sox; Robert Pantell; Ivan Oransky; John Wasson; Timothy Walsh; Mary Labrecque; Harold Sox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Your familyâ€™s first line of defense!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Provides expert medical advice on more than 100 common signs, symptoms, and problem areasâ€”_A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide_ is a wonderful addition to your medical reference library!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can you describe what your symptoms look and feel likeâ€”but not know what they mean? Written by an experienced team of physicians and nurses, this handy guide answers your questions before you go to the doctor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide\n  </em>\n  gives youâ€”\n  <br />\n  -A toolkit for matching your signs and symptoms to possible causes\n  <br />\n  -A renowned medical teamâ€™s advice on symptoms from allergies to vomiting blood to irritability in children\n  <br />\n  -Expert tips on relieving symptoms and helping yourself heal\n  <br />\n  -What to avoid and what could make your condition worse\n  <br />\n  -The questions your doctor will ask\n  <br />\n  -Alphabetical listing of common symptoms for easy reference\n  <br />\n  -A glossary of medical terms you may not know\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Your familyâ€™s first line of defense!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Provides expert medical advice on more than 100 common signs, symptoms, and problem areasâ€”_A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide_ is a wonderful addition to your medical reference library!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can you describe what your symptoms look and feel likeâ€”but not know what they mean? Written by an experienced team of physicians and nurses, this handy guide answers your questions before you go to the doctor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide\n  </em>\n  gives youâ€”\n  <br />\n  -A toolkit for matching your signs and symptoms to possible causes\n  <br />\n  -A renowned medical teamâ€™s advice on symptoms from allergies to vomiting blood to irritability in children\n  <br />\n  -Expert tips on relieving symptoms and helping yourself heal\n  <br />\n  -What to avoid and what could make your condition worse\n  <br />\n  -The questions your doctor will ask\n  <br />\n  -Alphabetical listing of common symptoms for easy reference\n  <br />\n  -A glossary of medical terms you may not know\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10580'),
(75, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3972'),
(76, 'The A.b.c. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirotâ€™s most challenging cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5224'),
(77, '&quot;A&quot; is for Alibi', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number-one suspect. The jury thought so, too.Eight years later and out on parole, Niki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner--and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely--and still angry over Fife''s betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills--and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include them all, with Millhone following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she finds herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4136'),
(78, 'Aaron&#39;s Rod', 'David Herbert Lawrence; Mara Kalnins; Steven Vine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Abandoning his wife and children, Aaron Sisson leaves the mining community in pursuit of the ''life single'': individual freedom, personal friendship, the ''male power'' of passion and art.Playing the flute to pay his way he travels to post-war London, where he mixes with the modern Bohemian set and finds male friendship in Rawdon Lilly. Further travels take him to Milan and Florence (''a town of men'') preoccupied with thoughts on the decline of humanity from the Renaissance to the modern age. For Aaron, in his own way, is striving to save civilization.Aaron''s Rod was completed in 1921 but was then censored by Lawrence''s publishers. This edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors of previous editions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9237'),
(79, 'The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages', 'Nancy Marie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pontiff in question is Sylvester II, pope from 999 to 1003. From the fragmentary evidence about Gerbert of Aurillac, Sylvesterâ€™s name before his elevation, Brown resourcefully recounts his remarkable career and boldly asserts that the history of mathematics must be revised in light of Gerbertâ€™s life. Born to a humble station around 950, Gerbertâ€™s precocity impressed bishops and counts, and his friendship-forming personality, visible in surviving letters, showed up in places from Barcelona to Reims to Rome. Brown speculates that he also may have studied in Cordoba, then a center of Islamic erudition, where he may have learned about Arabic numerals, the abacus, and the astrolabe. In any event, she recounts that Gerbert served as a conduit of Arab science into Christian Europe as schoolmaster at Reims. His medieval scholarly renown subsequently attracted the attention of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. As readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Overflowing with illuminating material,Â _The Abacus and the Cross_Â is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about." --Maria Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Keith Devlin, Stanford University professor and author of _Fibonacciâ€™s Bridge of Numbers: the Medieval Visionary and the Book that Launched the Modern World\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNancy Marie Brownâ€™s book provides a fascinating, well researched, in depth study of the life and times of one of the key figures who brought modern arithmetic into Western Europe.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Marilyn Yalom, author of _Birth of the Chess Queen\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThis book will change how you think about the so-called Dark Ages.Â  Well-researched, well-written, and vividly illuminating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA thoroughly engrossing account of the Dark Ages and one of its Popes, both far less dark than popular histories teach. . . .The years around 1000 CE seem to be every medieval historianâ€™s favorite era, but Brownâ€™s welcome addition to the genre provides a lively, eye-opening portrait of a sophisticated Europe whose intellectual leaders showed genuine interest in learning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Science Writers Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œAs she reconstructs the strangely illuminated Europe of the Dark Ages, Brown reminds readers that the major conflicts in our world todayâ€”between Christianity and Islam, between religion and scienceâ€”are products of our own age, not historical inevitabilities.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. Â This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rags-to-riches sagaâ€¦ captures how the direction of history can be influenced by one person. . . . Had Gerbert lived longer and been more politically savvy, Brownâ€™s portrait makes one believe his ability to teach might have jump-started science before the Dark Ages enveloped Europe. VERDICT: Enjoyable to read, informative, and highly recommended for all history and history of science buffs.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Rosa Menocal, author ofÂ _The Ornament of the WorldÂ _and co-author ofÂ _The Arts of Intimacy_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOverflowing with illuminating material,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about: the second half of the tenth century, when Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would be pope at the much-anticipated millennium, came of age. Among Brownâ€™s many virtues is her ability to weave the intellectual and the material into a seamless narrative, so that when her readers learn about what books the monks of a monastery might be copyingâ€”and how those volumes connect to the intellectual past and futureâ€”they are also going to learn the mechanics of the copying itself, beginning with the cultivation of the animals whose skins will become parchment. She has the scientistâ€™s eye for detail and the historianâ€™s gift of storytelling and she has not one but dozens of great stories to tell about this transformative moment in Latin Christendom, as it began to embrace the foundations of modern science and technology.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Rubenstein, author ofÂ _Aristotleâ€™s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Abacus and the Cross_ tells the fascinating, little known story of the â€˜Scientist-Popeâ€™ Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac), whom older writers long considered a practitioner of the Black Arts. In this vividly presented, scrupulously researched biography, Nancy Marie Brown shows how a few open-minded intellectuals illuminated the Dark Ages by importing scientific knowledge and methods into Christian Europe from Muslim Spain. Brownâ€™s descriptions of Gerbertâ€™s â€˜magicalâ€™ instruments, the abacus, celestial spheres, and astrolabe, as well as of his worship of a mathematically-inspired Creator, make important contributions to the history of medieval science.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œMs. Brownâ€™s easily readable history draws the reader into a world of political intrigue, the excitement of introducing the abacus and astrolabe to Europe, and the shaky ground that surrounding the broader culture of Europe around 1000. Her book is a useful reminder that clear and well-reasoned history is by no means simplistic. The story of dâ€™Aurillacâ€™s life and papacy shows a medieval milieu more complex than oft portrayed.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5221'),
(80, 'Abandon', 'Meg Cabot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Meg Cabot:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCabot shows the dark side behind the bling-blingy superficial worlds.â€ â€”Teenreads.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[The] strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, and the possibility of romance will draw mystery and chick-lit readers alike." â€”ALA Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBag the tiara and get out the gun ... Cabot delivers.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can''t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she''s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now she''s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only she can''t. Because even here, he finds her. That''s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he''s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn''t exactly heaven, yet she can''t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5817'),
(81, 'The Abbey', 'Chris Culver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can''t stand the thought of handling another death investigation. Another year, and he''ll be out of the department completely. That''s the plan, at least, until his niece''s body is found in the guest home of one of his city''s most wealthy citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn''t add up. Against orders, Ash begins a danger-filled investigation to find his niece''s murderer, but the longer he searches, the more entangled he becomes in a case that hits increasingly close to home. If he doesn''t solve it fast, his niece won''t be the only family member he has to bury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11246'),
(82, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she''s ever been unfaithful to her husband. Just as Republican candidate Lincoln Howe (read: Colin Powell) is about to pull ahead, his granddaughter is kidnapped. Leahy''s own newly adopted baby daughter was the victim of a similar crime eight years earlier. Are the abductions linked? Is someone connected to either of the candidates responsible? Those are the questions that never quite propel Grippando''s latest, after The Informant. While that novel had a strong narrative engine fueled by insider information on the FBI, this one never hits second gear. Neither Leahy nor Howe seems a particularly worthy candidate or likable person, and the possible villains?an ex-boyfriend, a pair of conniving campaign managers, Leahy''s tough businessman husband?are equally flat and unconvincing. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A U.S. attorney general running for president must deal with the kidnapping of an opponent''s granddaughter.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5307'),
(83, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6091'),
(84, 'About a Boy', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else''s very real son--a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown up. From the acclaimed author of "High Fidelity" comes this national bestseller that "GQ" calls "Clever and winning".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3080'),
(85, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(86, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose.".." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon "The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln," and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the "true" life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3339'),
(87, 'Absent Friends', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3232'),
(88, 'Absolute Beginner&#39;s Guide to Pregnancy', 'John Adams; Marta Justak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pregnancy is a thrilling experience, but it can also be filled with apprehension and anxiety, especially for first-time parents. _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy_ eases the worry by giving you answers to the questions you have, as well as questions that you may not think to ask. Unlike most other books available on the topic, this book provides no-nonsense information from a medical professional[HTML_REMOVED]s perspective, written in a conversational style that makes even the most confusing medical terminology easy to understand. Dr. John Adams covers the entire process, from pre-pregnancy issues like fertility and finding the right doctor, through the nine months of pregnancy to postpartum care. Dedicated chapters address the unique issues that single mothers and working mothers face.\n</p>\n<p>\n With _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy,_ you will be prepared for the physical, mental, social and financial changes to come during this exciting time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pregnancy is a thrilling experience, but it can also be filled with apprehension and anxiety, especially for first-time parents. _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy_ eases the worry by giving you answers to the questions you have, as well as questions that you may not think to ask. Unlike most other books available on the topic, this book provides no-nonsense information from a medical professional[HTML_REMOVED]s perspective, written in a conversational style that makes even the most confusing medical terminology easy to understand. Dr. John Adams covers the entire process, from pre-pregnancy issues like fertility and finding the right doctor, through the nine months of pregnancy to postpartum care. Dedicated chapters address the unique issues that single mothers and working mothers face.\n</p>\n<p>\n With _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy,_ you will be prepared for the physical, mental, social and financial changes to come during this exciting time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10334');
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(89, 'Absolute Friends', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Le Carrâ€š may have changed publishers, but his latest novel remains as resolutely up-to-date as ever. In place of the old Cold War games, his recent books have dealt with the depredations of international arms merchants and the impact of predatory drug manufacturers on the Third World. Now his eloquent and white-hot indignation is turned on what he sees as a duplicitous war in Iraq and the devious means employed to tarnish those who oppose it. The friends of the title are two beautifully realized characters, both idealists in their very different ways. Ted Mundy, the bighearted son of a pukka Indian Army officer, leads a life in which his inborn kindliness and lack of self-regard are turned to what he sees as good causes. With Sasha, the crippled son of an old Nazi who turns bitterly against that past only to be tormented by the rise of a new brutalism in East Germany, he forms a double-agent partnership that feeds British intelligence during the Cold War years. With the collapse of the Soviet system, Ted is at loose ends, trying both to make ends meet as a cheery tour guide for English-speaking visitors to Mad Ludwig''s castle in Bavaria and to support his Muslim wife and her small son in Munich. Suddenly he hears again from Sasha, who tells him that a mysterious benefactor wishes to enlist his services as teacher and translator to counter the widespread propaganda on behalf of an Iraqi war, and he is inflamed once more with a desire to help. The grim consequences are spelled out by le Carrâ€š with a deadly fury that is startling in the context of his usual urbanity. With a largely German setting that recalls some of his earliest books, as well as the same embracing clarity of vision about human motives and failings that gleams through all his best work, this is a book that offers a bitter warning even as it delivers immense reading pleasure.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n There has been a linear evolution in the mind-set of le Carre''s spies over the years--from agonizing over the moral ambiguity of the craft set against a firm belief in its necessity (the Smiley novels), through opting to place individual values over national ones (_A Perfect Spy_ and\n <em>\n  Russia House\n </em>\n ), to recognizing that bureaucracy has poisoned the intelligence business from within (the post-cold war novels). Now, driven by recent world events, that evolution takes an even more radical step--to the realization that ideology is irrelevant, that powerful governments are an evil unto themselves, forever the enemy of individual life. It is a harrowing journey to that somber knowledge for Ted Mundy, expatriate son of a British army officer, and his "absolute friend," the crippled German radical Sasha, whose idealism finally engenders its own chaos and makes him easy prey for the powerful. Jumping backward and forward in time, le Carre reveals the history of a friendship in the context of a lifetime of commitment gone sour: student radicalism in Berlin during the ''60s; active spying for the West during the waning years of the cold war; and, finally, a parting of the ways, with Sasha continuing to search for the revolution of his dreams while Teddy finds a separate peace. But Iraq and a reunion with his friend reignite Teddy''s fervor, paving the way for the inevitable tragedy. Yes, le Carre uses Teddy as a mouthpiece for some strong political opinions (the U.S. is described as a "hyperpower that thinks it can treat the rest of the world as its allotment"), but the novel never becomes the author''s soapbox. The human story remains paramount, even if the chilling message is that human stories don''t stand much of a chance in the world as we find it.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11085'),
(90, 'Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy', 'John Julius Norwich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for John Julius Norwich\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a historian, Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer, he has a taste for beauty, a love of language, and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history.â€â€”Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of\n <em>\n  The Last Days of Hitler\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Golden Age of Europe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is an enchanting and satisfying raconteur.â€â€”_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHe has put readers of this generation more in his debt than any other English writer.â€â€”_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic. His style is as graceful and easy as it is knowledgeable.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norwich] is certainly the English languageâ€™s most passionate and dedicated chronicler of [Veniceâ€™s] extraordinary history.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Critical praise for ABSOLUTE MONARCHS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Absolute Monarchs_ sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes, feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. Norwich manages to organize this crowded stage and produce a rollicking narrative. He keeps things moving at nearly beach-read pace.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Bill Keller,\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Book Review, Cover review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRenowned historian Norwich offers a rollicking account of the men who held the papal office, their shortcomings and their virtues, and the impact of the papacy on world history. He conducts us masterfully on a tour of the lives of the popes from Peter to Benedict XVI. . . . Entertaining and deeply researched, Norwichâ€™s history offers a wonderful introduction to papal lives.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œHistorian, travel writer, and television documentarian Norwich presents an excellent, often surprising history of that 2,000-year-old institutionâ€¦.he focuses on political history as he traces the evolution of the papacy as an institution, while at the same time providing entertaining profiles of the most historically significant popesâ€¦.An outstanding historical survey.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Booklist\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen Norwich writes, I read; this member of the House of Lords is a notable and engrossing historian, perhaps best known for his monumental study of Byzantium. Here he offers a history of the nearly two-millennia-old papacy that should be popular with many readers.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spirited, concise chronicle of the accomplishments of the most noteworthy popes. . . . Norwich doesnâ€™t skirt controversies, ancient and present, in this broad, clear-eyed assessment.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â A SWEEPING CHRONICLE OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANTâ€”AND CONTROVERSIALâ€”INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY\n</p>\n<p>\n With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the worldâ€™s most accomplished historians. In\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n , John Julius Norwich captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent. Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Norwich presents such brave popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat, and Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun. Here, too, are the scandalous figures: Pope Joan, the mythic woman said (without any substantiation) to have been elected in 855, and the infamous â€œpornocracy,â€ the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Romeâ€™s most powerful families.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n brilliantly portrays reformers such as Pope Paul III, â€œthe greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,â€ who reinterpreted the Churchâ€™s teaching and discipline, and John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 â€œopened up the church to the twentieth century,â€ instituting reforms that led to Vatican II. Norwich brings the story to the present day with Benedict XVI, who is coping with a global priest sex scandal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Epic and compelling,\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n is the astonishing story of some of historyâ€™s most revered and reviled figures, men who still cast light and shadows on the Vatican and the world today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8758'),
(91, 'Absolute Zero', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan''s previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing and fills in for his uncle as a wilderness guide in the northernmost reaches of the state. It''s hardly a pleasure trip: Broker''s soldier wife, Nina, has just split with their child, and one of Broker''s three clients, action writer Hank Sommer, is constantly fighting with his wife, Jolene, by cell phone while Dr. Allen Falken and lawyer Milt Bane look on. Caught by a sudden blizzard as they are kayaking, Broker nearly drowns until Sommer fights their kayak across the lake, but ruptures his colon in the effort. At a minimal hospital with no surgeon in snowbound Ely, Falken operates with local nurse anesthetist Amy Skoda, but Sommer goes into post-op coma and Skoda gets the blame. Then Sommer''s sexy wife takes Sommer home early, and the kinky death of a CPA, Cliff Stovall, hits the news. Pondering Sommer''s last words "tell Cliff to move the money" Broker teams up with Skoda to visit Sommer and Jolene, but Skoda gets info that puts their lives in danger. Lured back to Ely and tricked by experts, Broker and Skoda are put out of action, and the scene is set for a shattering surprise ending. Logan parlays the plot elements with the icy finesse of James M. Cain and draws characters so real you can feel the body heat steaming off the page. Once again, he proves himself an awesome storyteller with a unique voice and a flawless sense of place and mood. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour; Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his winning streak, Logan (The Big Law) brings back recurring character Phil Broker, now as a wilderness guide rather than an undercover police officer. Broker leads three minimally equipped men deep into the Minnesota woods to hunt moose. Before they can bag a beast, however, a massive storm destroys most of their supplies and critically injures one of the men. As the troupe''s guide, it falls to Phil to get to civilization and bring back a rescue team before the man dies. The rescue and subsequent events connect their four lives in unexpected ways. Readers will delights in the first-rate characterization and compelling plot filled with unexpected twists. Recommended for popular fiction collections. Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7323'),
(92, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionâ€“and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Denning is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star; the Star Wars: Dark Nest trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War; and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, Inferno, and Invincible\n </strong>\n â€“as well as\n <em>\n  Pages of Pain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond the High Road\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Summoning\n </em>\n , and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6545'),
(93, 'Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest, slaving and drug trade. The Acacian empire, encompassing "The Known World," is hated by its subjugated peoples, especially the Mein, who 22 generations earlier were exiled to the icy northland. Having sent an assassin to kill the Acacian king, Leodan, the rebel chieftain, Hanish Mein, declares war on the empire. As Acacia falls, Leodan''s treasonous but conflicted chancellor, Thaddeus Clegg, spirits the king''s four children to safety. When the Mein''s rule proves even more tyrannical than the old, the former chancellor seeks to reunite the now adult Akaran heirsâ€”the oldest son Aliver (once heir to the throne), the beautiful elder daughter Corinn, their younger sister, Mena, and youngest brother, Darielâ€”to lead a war to regain the empire. Durham has created a richly detailed alternate reality leavened with a dollop of magic and populated by complicated personalities grappling with issues of freedom and oppression.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Anthony Durham, the author of three historical novels, envisions a fascinating, fully developed world in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  . He delves into great detail-explaining religious beliefs, political philosophies, even courting rituals-to draw the reader into his creation. Critics acknowledge the necessity of these "info dumps" (_Science Fiction and Fantasy News_) as setups for future volumes of the saga, while maintaining that the frequent descriptions did not detract from the absorbing, fast-paced plot. Readers won''t find any wizards or dragons in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  ; it is narrated in the alternating voices of genuine, convincing characters that blur the lines between good and evil. Packed with suspense, intrigue, and adventure, most readers will devour this first\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  installment and impatiently await the next.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6304'),
(94, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord''s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it''s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord''s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1721'),
(95, 'Academy 5 - Odyssey', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchinson''s fifth adventure opens with the former starship pilot deskbound at the Academy (the twenty-third-century equivalent of NASA), which is facing catastrophic cuts to the space program. In a media campaign led by Hutch''s old friend, acerbic newspaper editor Gregory MacAllister, pundits and politicians alike argue that the program''s money would be better spent on the earthbound threats of global warming and disease. Perhaps not coincidentally, humans everywhere from Earth to Ophiuchi begin witnessing repeated visitations from "moonriders" (apparently alien spherical spacecraft), and they prompt an Academy investigative mission. To humor Hutch and grab a good story, MacAllister joins a spacebound team including a celebrated pilot and a senator''s daughter. When the moonriders apparently redirect a few asteroids to destroy an orbiting hotel and narrowly bypass Earth, suspicions begin to emerge that the moonriders--and certain members of the Academy--may not be what they seem to be. McDevitt''s energetic, character-driven prose serves double duty by exploring Earth''s future political climate and forecasting the potential dangers awaiting humanity among the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9016'),
(96, 'Accident', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with Steel''s trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her 32nd novel (after Vanished ) is set in California''s plush Marin County. Page Clarke, devoted wife of Brad and mother of Allyson and Andy, finds her golden life shattered when 15-year-old Allyson sneaks off with friend Chloe to meet two boys. In a subsequent head-on collision, one boy is killed, Chloe is seriously injured and Allyson lapses into a coma. Page can''t reach Brad, who confesses when he comes home that he is having an affair. Stunned and hurt, Page keeps a vigil at Allyson''s bedside while also coping with needy seven-year-old Andy and an ambivalent husband who can''t decide whether to stay or leave. Her only support comes from Chloe''s father, Trygve Thorensen, who has been the primary caretaker for his kids since their mother divorced him. Other plot twists include a visit from Page''s self-indulgent, neurotic mother and her sister, and a secret concerning the driver of the other car in the accident. While not drawn in much depth, the characters are believable; Trygve in particular is likable and nurturing. The ending is predictable but pleasant, bound to delight Steel''s fans. One million first printing; national ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s 32nd work, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, but at least Page can lean on handsome Trygve, father of her daughter''s best friend.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6032'),
(97, 'The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car''s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he''s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he''s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who''s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian''s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAudacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft . . . Maybe itâ€™s true and maybe it isnâ€™t, but either way itâ€™s a great thriller read. I loved it.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the best first thriller I have read since\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal\n </em>\n , and that was a long time ago. With one mighty bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Frederick Forsythâ€™s tail.â€\n <br />\n â€”Wilbur Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5549'),
(98, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her. Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(99, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler &amp; Jennifer Bassett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon''s attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon''s life gets more and more complicated.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4484'),
(100, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(101, 'The Accusers', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of "informer" Marcus Didius Falco will be glad to find the classical world''s answer to the modern-day gumshoe back in Rome in Davis''s stellar historical, the 15th entry in this witty and learned series, after two adventures set in Britain (A Body in the Bathhouse; The Jupiter Myth). In an effort to resume his career as an informer on his home turf, Falco ends up playing advocate in a messy dispute that pits him against two highly successful "legals," Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus. The convoluted case, which involves a wealthy, fractious family and tricky questions of inheritance, gives Davis the opportunity to explore the vagaries of Roman law, which she approaches with her usual mix of respect and sarcasm. The corruption conviction of senator Rubirius Metellus followed by his mysterious demise threaten the Metelli family''s fortunes. Hired to prove the senator''s death was not a suicide, Falco finds himself immersed in scandal, blackmail, corruption and intrigueÃ¢â‚¬"common ingredients of legal practice. In one particularly fine scene, Falco delivers a speech in the Basilica that relies on amusing and effective rhetorical tricks. Wry, cynical and principled, Falco makes the perfect guide to Davis''s vividly realized ancient Rome.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rome, 75 A.D. Marcus Didius Falco, professional informer (that is, private investigator), returns to Italy after an extended trip to Britain and finds that his clients have forgotten him. Falco needs a new case to put some money in the coffers, so he signs on to investigate the supposed suicide of a senator who was recently exposed as corrupt. But, after he''s talked to a few interested parties and made a few discoveries, Falco begins to wish he had passed on the case. This is the fifteenth Falco mystery, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. Falco (who narrates the novel in a noirish but never anachronistic tone) is a personable hero, and the stories are always suspenseful and surprising. Also, Davis knows how to stage a mystery against a historical backdrop without overwhelming us with information. Many historical series go flat once the milieu becomes familiar, but this one continues to mix its history and its mystery in a pleasing blend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7183'),
(102, 'Achebe&#39;s Things fall apart', 'Ode Ogede', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Reader''s Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Chinua Achebe''s remarkable novel "Things Fall Apart (1958)" is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world''s most influential literary masterpieces. Since publication, a total of nearly 12 million copies have been sold, with translations into more than 50 languages. Despite its undoubted success, its apparent simplicity has tended to blind readers to the dazzling storytelling resources and the inventive language, plot, setting, and characterization which first draw them to the novel and keep them reading. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting "Things Fall Apart" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2751'),
(103, 'Acorna&#39;s People', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna''s Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. And with the help of a rogue spacetrader and his feline sidekick, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than the Khleevi. Along the way, she will at last uncover the Universe''s most carefully guarded secret--the true nature of the ancient link between the Linyaari and the space-faring humans she has also come to think of as her "people."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10838'),
(104, 'Acorna&#39;s Quest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **"I must find my own kind!"**Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her "funny" feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected, and raised her, she sets off to find her people. No sooner does she leave than a mysterious craft appears, piloted by the *Linyaari,* a gentle race with telepathic powers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The *Linyaari* are roaming the galaxy, spreading the alarm about the deadly *Khleev*--And searching for a beloved little girl they had given up for lost, long ago...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10797'),
(105, 'Acorna&#39;s Rebels', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10840'),
(106, 'Acorna&#39;s World', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Acorna the "unicorn girl" -- found as a baby years ago, abandoned and floating alone in an escape pod at the far end of the galaxy -- has made peace with her past, her *Linyaari* heritage, and with the powerful "differences" that set her apart from the loving humans who raised her. But only in the deep reaches of limitless space can she truly feel at home.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel *Condor*, Acorna is free once more, traveling through space in the company of her good friend, ship''s commander Captain Jonas Becker, his gargantuan feline "first mate" Roadkill, and Aari, a proud *Linyaari* survivor of torture at the hands of the savage, bug-like *Khleevi*. But the journey is interrupted when a transmitted distress call -- faint but undeniable -- draws Acorna and her companions down to the surface of a nearby planet.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What awaits them is a world of wonders, shrouded in an atmosphere of strange, intoxicating perfumes. Intelligent, sentiment plants help guide Acorna, Becker, Aari, and RK to the source of the SOS. But a broken, burned out -- alien ship is all they find, the pitiful remnants of a relentlessly brutal yet carefully coordinated assault. To Acorna, the signs are unmistakable.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is the grim handiwork of the cold-blooded species that seeks the complete eradication of all human and *Linyaari* life from the galaxy...the *Khleevi*!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And suddenly all that Acrona holds dear is in grave peril. Because the devastation that was wrought here was no isolated occurence, but the opening move in a planned onslaught that will decimate the two races to whom Acorna is culturally, emotionally, and genetically tied. A worlds-shattering catastrophe is in the making -- unless one courageous and beautiful young woman with remarkable healing powers and her small, motley group of friends can go the unthinkable: discover the fearsome insectile enemy''s greatest weakness...and strike first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10832'),
(107, 'Acqua Alta', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Donna Leonâ€™s growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in what many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught of *acqua alta*â€”the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a manâ€™s body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full of marvelous plot twists, *Acqua Alta* is a chilling addition to Donna Leonâ€™s addictive series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(108, 'Across the Bridge', 'Mavis Gallant &amp; Robertson Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer whoâ€“like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munroâ€“has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. InAcross the Bridgefour of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In â€œ1933â€ their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was â€œclever with her hands.â€ In â€œThe Chosen Husbandâ€ the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marieâ€™s mother and sister: â€œBut then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. â€˜How dark it is,â€™ said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.â€ We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymondâ€™s flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. â€œâ€˜The place was full of Canadians,â€™ he said. â€˜They stole like raccoons...â€™â€ With the exception of â€œThe Fenton Child,â€ an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. â€œAcross the Bridge,â€ the title story, begins with the narratorâ€™s mother throwing her reluctant daughterâ€™s wedding invitations into the Seine. â€œI watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.â€ This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5430'),
(109, 'Across the Nightingale Floor', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...across the nightingale floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7954'),
(110, 'Across the River and Into the Trees', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for\n <em>\n  Across the River and into the Trees,\n </em>\n the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice,\n <em>\n  Across the River and into the Trees\n </em>\n stands as Hemingway''s statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway''s last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O''Hara in\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 6 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8978'),
(111, 'Across the Universe', 'Beth Revis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n challenges readers to consider the impact of unchecked power, blind trust, and the ability of one dissenting voice to make a difference.--\n <em>\n  Seira Wilson\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Preview the Spacecraft in\n  <em>\n   Across the Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n , Godspeed is a vast spaceship, the size of a small county. The lives of its passengers are severely regulated. And people are divided into three categories--Feeders, Shippers, and Keepers--represented by the three levels of the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn''t know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy''s and Elder''s points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don''t enjoy science fiction. Revis''s thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7667'),
(112, 'Across the Wall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself. ''Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case'' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, that range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart. Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today''s leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.Garth Nix is the author of The Old Kingdom trilogy and the Keys to the Kingdom series''The reader''s absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure ''  AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6093'),
(113, 'The Act of Love', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Â Â Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece,Â \n   <i>\n    Kalooki Nights\n   </i>\n   , acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.\n   <p>\n    All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The Act of Love\n    </i>\n    Â is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8161'),
(114, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in "New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller. It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose. When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4188');
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(115, 'Act of Will', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don''t want you thinking you''re going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You''re not, I''m not, and in my experience it never does. Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift scenes, Hartley (\n  <i>\n   On the Fifth Day\n  </i>\n  ) deftly proves that people you shouldn''t trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.\n  <i>\n   (Mar.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This fantasy by a Shakespearean scholar tells the story of hapless young actor William Hawthorne in a fictional world that, not unlike Elizabethan England, brims with intrigue. Saving his neck by joining a band of heroes led by a warrior possessed of a magical and powerful sword, Hawthorne unwittingly joins a battle against an evil empire bent on crushing everyone to its will. The subsequent story is at times formulaic, the whole piece a pastiche of clichÃ©s and plot twists from better-known movies and adventure fiction. Only someone unfamiliar with the genre may be surprised, for example, that Hartleyâ€™s foolish and cowardly protagonist learns, over the course of this ripping yarn, to be wise and brave. Hartleyâ€™s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut, and his battle scenes so exciting and well described, however, that one quickly forgives his betimes paint-by-numbers development. All this is especially true of the compulsively readable second half, which unfolds with remarkable elegance and power. --Jack Helbig\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6385'),
(116, 'Active Meditation: The Western Tradition', 'Robert R. Leichtman; Carl Japikse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a clear, practical description of all aspects of meditation. The authors show people how to improve relationships, be more creative, heal the emotions, etc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3539'),
(117, 'Acts of Faith', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Philip Caputoâ€™s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. Thereâ€™s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who canâ€™t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4067'),
(118, 'Acts of Malice', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O''Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O''Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly''s life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Acts of Malice\n </em>\n begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area''s largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other examples of the O''Shaughnessy expertise include\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O''Shaughnessy sisters'' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly''s client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex''s chest match the soles of Jim''s footgear. But the suspect claims he''s being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim''s wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn''t get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4733'),
(119, 'Acts of Nature', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Florida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King''s fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.). The vacation trip that Max and his cop girlfriend, Sherry Richards, take to his Everglades cabin and then to a friend''s even more remote fishing camp turns into a struggle for survival when hurricane Simone shifts course unpredictably. A trio of unscrupulous thieves scavenging in the hurricane''s wake and a pair of deadly security guards out to protect an illegal asset compound the danger. King vividly describes the hurricane''s force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen''s\n <em>\n  Stormy Weather\n </em>\n and Tim Dorsey''s\n <em>\n  Hurricane Punch\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The latest entry in the Max Freeman series (King won an Edgar with the debut of cop-turned-recluse Freeman in 2002''s Blue Eye of Midnight) is every bit as polished and absorbing as its four predecessors, and it trumps King''s own standards for description with a stunning depiction of a hurricane and its aftermath. A longtime Philadelphia crime reporter, King knows cops well, and it shows in the hero he has crafted. Ex-cop Freeman has been holed up in a former research shack deep in the Florida Everglades, accepting some detective work from an old lawyer friend but mostly hiding himself away from his horror at having killed a 12-year-old boy in a robbery attempt. Each novel inches Freeman away from his grief and into life; King is both a master plotter and an able psychologist. In his latest, Freeman and his new love, a South Florida detective, are enjoying a break at Max''s retreat when a hurricane rips apart the shack, nearly killing Freeman''s girlfriend. This novel is more adventure-suspense tale than mystery, as the couple struggles to survive, first against the hurricane and then against the villains who flood into the Everglades. King juxtaposes Max''s first-person narration with third-person accounts of criminals in a breathtaking series of survival moves. Gripping. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5694'),
(120, 'Acupuncture in Pregnancy and Childbirth', 'Zita West; Giovanni Maciocia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the joys of this book is Zita''s ability to combine knowledge of the traditional western approach, essential for the confidence of those non-midwife acupuncturists, with the traditional eastern knowledge, essential for all practitioners, to produce a detailed ''how to'' book. However, I would also recommend this book to midwives and student midwives in general. The terminology used in TCM is wonderfully evocative (the uterus is known as the ''envelope of Yin'', and improving postnatal wellbeing may involve ''mother roasting''), yet also so alien sounding that many may dismiss this book as being of specialist interest only. Please don''t! There is so much knowledge, and understanding of the underlying principle of holistic care, and the fundamental importance of all aspects of a mother''s wellbeing before, during and after pregnancy, that it would be unfortunate if this book became purely a specialist tome."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  MIDIRS Digest\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ACUPUNCTURE IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH is a concise highly illustrated and practical guide to using acupuncture to treat women throughout their pregnancy and labour. Drawing on an unparalleled wealth of experience as a midwife and an acupuncturist, the author has produced a book accessible to both acupuncture students and practitioners covering physiology related to pregnancy and childbirth, illuminating links between Western knowledge and acupuncture approaches and suggesting points and point combinations for particular stages and actions during pregnancy and labour.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Highly illustrated with summary boxes and guidelines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Covers nutritional aspects of pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gives practical advice and instruction on the use of acupuncture through the four trimesters of pregnancy and labour\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Uses case examples to further illustrate the text\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Covers recent advances in relation to the effects of aspirin and heparin to the immune system and pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Includes IVF pregnancies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Glossary and appendix of useful addresses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fully updated and revised throughout to include recent research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nutrition and its effect on the foetus (new and developing area of research)\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10119'),
(121, 'Adam &amp; Eve', 'Sena Jeter Naslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happened to Eden?   The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab''s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve   Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanityâ€”the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &amp; Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date.   Hours before his untimelyâ€”and highly suspiciousâ€”death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofâ€”or acceptâ€”proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work.   Devastated by Thom''s death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom''s friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.   Midway through the daring journey, Lucy''s small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy''s wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries.   Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam &amp; Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &amp; Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8031'),
(122, 'Adam Bede', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with a woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. Adam Bede was Eliot''s first long novel. Its masterly realism--evident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialect--brought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin was commending in the Pre-Raphaelites. But what was new in this work of English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10662'),
(123, 'Adam Schell', 'Tomato Rhapsody (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9914'),
(124, 'Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ''This is your enemy''. I searched every compartment, but he wasn''t on the train''. Spike Milligan''s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3487'),
(125, 'The Adventure of Black Peter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9368'),
(126, 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9364'),
(127, 'The Adventure of Silver Blaze', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9359'),
(128, 'The Adventure of the &quot;Gloria Scott&quot;', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9361'),
(129, 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9407'),
(130, 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9392'),
(131, 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9396'),
(132, 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9387'),
(133, 'Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of corpse in chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the of the dead man who altered his eating habits..and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these six baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5186'),
(134, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9398'),
(135, 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9369'),
(136, 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9414'),
(137, 'The Adventure Of The Devil&#39;s Foot', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9376'),
(138, 'The Adventure of the Dying Detective', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9408'),
(139, 'The Adventure of the Empty House', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9389'),
(140, 'The Adventure of the Engineer&#39;s Thumb', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9411'),
(141, 'The Adventure of the Final Problem', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9372'),
(142, 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9390'),
(143, 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9377'),
(144, 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9409'),
(145, 'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9378'),
(146, 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9371'),
(147, 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9391'),
(148, 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9393'),
(149, 'The Adventure of the Priory School', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9375'),
(150, 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9382'),
(151, 'The Adventure of the Second Stain', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9399'),
(152, 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9397'),
(153, 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9415'),
(154, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9384'),
(155, 'The Adventure of the Stockbroker&#39;s Clerk', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9363'),
(156, 'The Adventure of the Three Students.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9379'),
(157, 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9366'),
(158, 'Adventures', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Con-man adventurer Dr. Lucifer Jones matches wits with hordes of cannibals, royal mummies, bloodthirsty vampires, the Lord of the Apes, the White Goddess, and other perils on the Dark Continent, in this satirical fantasy romp\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11004'),
(159, 'Adventures in the Screen Trade', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3384'),
(160, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado &amp; Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5883'),
(161, 'The Adventures of Button', 'Richard W. Leech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3372'),
(162, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3179'),
(163, 'The Adventures of Sam Spade', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(164, 'The adventures of Tom Bombadil: and other verses from The red book', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This adventure book tells of Tom''s encounters with the River-woman''s beautiful daughter, Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk, the ghostly Barrowwight, a lovely princess, trolls, dwarves, and legendary beasts. A delightful volume of 16 songs, rhymes and poems from the acclaimed The Hobbit. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1965'),
(165, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3178'),
(166, 'The adventurous four again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a story of the further adventures of four children who get into some hair-raising scrapes, but always manage to survive them. It is one in a series of adventure stories by Enid Blyton, and should appeal to both boys and girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(167, 'The adventurous four', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(168, 'An Aegean Prophecy', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece''s eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island''s thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos''s town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer.Andreas''s impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world''s oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church . . . in a matter of days.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7307'),
(169, 'The Aeneid', 'Virgil, Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n With his translations of Homer''s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism,\n <i>\n  The Aeneid\n </i>\n follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10489'),
(170, 'Aenir', 'Garth Nix &amp; Steve Rawlings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment...or death. Tal and Milla must fight their way through this shifting landscape. They are searching for the Codex, a magical object that will decide the fate of their worlds. Many creatures stand in their way--from the cloud-flesh Storm Shepherds to a swarm of venomous Waspwyrms to a horrifying figure named Hazror. Tal and Milla cannot leave Aenir without the Codex. But finding it might endanger them more than they''ve ever dreamed...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Garth Nix, the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed novels Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, as well as the Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series, has had a long and varied career in the publishing world. After receiving his degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, he started working in the publishing industry, steadily moving from the positions of sales rep to publicist. In 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational publisher. After a period in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, he left publishing in 1993 to work as a marketing communications consultant, but came back in 1999 to become a part-time literary agent. Garth Nix currently lives in Sydney with his family and lots of books. For more information about Garth Nix, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9670'),
(171, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(172, 'An affair to forget', 'Rachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3228'),
(173, 'The African Safari Discovery', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stanleyâ€™s not the only flat one!\n</p>\n<p>\n When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley''s flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it''s the safari of a lifetime!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n <em>\n  Flat Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Invisible Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley in Space\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Stanley, Flat Again!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5389'),
(174, 'After America', 'Mark Steyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Optimistic About America''s Future?\n  </b>\n </p>\n <b>\n </b>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Don''t Be.\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his giant\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestseller,\n  <i>\n   America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It\n  </i>\n  , Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s not just our looming financial collapse; it''s not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it''s not just America''s potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washingtonâ€”no, it''s all this and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What will a world without American leadership look like? It won''t be prettyâ€”not for you and not for your children. America''s decline won''t be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a cafÃ© until extinction (and the odd Greek or Islamist riot). No,...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11236'),
(175, 'After Dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami''s signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny''s, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari''s gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny''s asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami''s omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute''s assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dÃ©nouement.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Other than an unexpected cheerfulness,\n <em>\n  After Dark\n </em>\n is classic Haruki Murakami, featuring themes of loneliness and alienation, carefully crafted characters, Western references (such as an all-night Denny''s where Hall &amp; Oates plays in the background), and distinctive magical-realist twists of fate. Critics also praised the impassive, omniscient narration, like a constantly shifting video camera, which renders each scene in magnificent detail. The chief complaint was the brevity of the novel, and the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n felt that Eri''s dreamlike scenes missed the mark as well. "For the unfamiliar, it''s the perfect appetizer. For the established fan, it''s a quick work that is over far too soon" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6732'),
(176, 'After Dark, My Sweet', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he''s a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end, for Bill, is inevitable and shattering. This is a tour de force of paranoia and violence from the master of the crime noir novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2188'),
(177, 'After Life: Answers From the Other Side', 'John Edward &amp; Natasha (CON) Stoynoff &amp; Larry King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''John has audiences rapt with his amazing spiritual revelations'' News of the World"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What happens after we die?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! Â For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans'' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what heâ€™s learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that itâ€™s never too late to forgiveâ€¦and never too far away to love.\n</p>\n<p>\n John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5889'),
(178, 'After Midnight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old Alice, the book opens on a peaceful night of house-sittingâ€”but as Alice warns, "You can\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n be sure it''s safe." Indeed, shortly after midnight she spots a strange man emerge from the woods and go swimming naked in the family pool. A fortunately timed phone call that''s a wrong number gives Alice the chance to drive off the stranger, but sets in motion a 24-hour whirlwind of murder, terror and madness, beginning when Alice splits open someone''s head with a Civil War saberâ€”and escalating precipitously from there. Alice''s matter-of-fact attitude toward her grisly handiwork can make her hard to sympathize with ("I felt rotten about killing him, but not particularly guilty"); supporting characters are easier to like, but don''t get too attached. As the night wears on, Laymon piles on gory details and violent sex with perverse, over-the-top glee; it''s definitely not for everyone and can strain credibility, but Alice proves to be one of Laymon''s most original and memorable protagonists, and should keep hardened horror fans reading well past the stroke of midnight.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Alice''s friend Serena goes away she stays in her house, with its sunken bathtub and big-screen TV. Best of all is the outdoor swimming pool. But one night a stranger walks out of the woods and jumps naked into the pool. Alice hopes he won''t be coming to get her, like so many have done before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8626'),
(179, 'After Moreau', 'Jeffrey Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10368');
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(180, 'After the Fall', 'Kylie Ladd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kylie Ladd on\n  <em>\n   After the Fall\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me about my occupation I always reply that Iâ€™m a psychologist. Itâ€™s true. Iâ€™m a clinical neuropsychologist, to be precise, with a Ph.D. in the field and fifteen years'' experience working in both the public and private sectors. What I fail to mention--mostly because I still canâ€™t quite believe that itâ€™s true, and Iâ€™m stupidly afraid that saying it out loud will make it disappear--is that Iâ€™m also a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I never planned to study psychology. At the time it simply seemed like a good compromise between the medical degree my parents wanted me to do and the arts degree I was keener on, but now I realize what a great fit it was. I have always been fascinated by people, and more specifically how we become who we are and why we make the choices we do. I''m also--as is true for most writers--rather a voyeur. Psychology gave me the tools to observe others; writing gives me the reason to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychology has also helped me understand something I think every writer needs to grasp: that "story" is a fluid concept, depending wholly on perspective. In the clinic where I work, part of my role is to take a history from both the client and a member of his or her family. Though I have been doing so for many years, the process still has the power to surprise, given how differently the same events can be perceived and experienced by different people. It seems there is always some fresh way for us to love or hate, to accommodate or alienate each other; there are at least two sides to every story. Listening to my patients and their families gave me the idea for the narrative structure of\n <em>\n  After The Fall\n </em>\n , where four main characters take turns at telling their side of a shared story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that both my children are in school, I write three days a week and practice as a psychologist for two--but the distinction is often blurred. When I write, I am using the resources that psychology has given me; when I am seeing a client I am simultaneously alert for what I can learn from them about being human. In both cases, I am listening for story--the stories that explain and define us all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neuropsychologist Ladd''s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couplesâ€”and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there''s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6005'),
(181, 'After the fire, a still small voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(182, 'After the First Death', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Block''s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful tale of a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasnÃ‚Â¹t committed . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8670'),
(183, 'After the Funeral', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the family tree--with eight blows of a hatchet. And detective Hercule Poirot suspects she won''t be the last to go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5225'),
(184, 'After the prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3001'),
(185, 'After the Quake: Stories', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6734'),
(186, 'After the Rain', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan''s last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in\n  <em>\n   Vapor Trail\n  </em>\n  , froze in\n  <em>\n   Absolute Zero\n  </em>\n  , and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil''s estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne''er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina''s assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philâ€”ex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantâ€”is drawn in because it''s a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It''s an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home.â€ (Denver Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book simply canâ€™t be put down....Thrillers donâ€™t get any more up to date than this nail-biter.â€ (Tampa Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA hair-raising yarn thatâ€™s complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thatâ€™s almost unthinkable.â€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action.â€ (St. Paul Pioneer Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLogan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense.â€ (Kansas City Star )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks.â€ (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story.â€ (Fargo Forum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you like your thrillers hard [and] tough â€¦ then Chuck Loganâ€™s books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7322'),
(187, 'After You', 'Julie Buxbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author ofThe Opposite of Love,delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each otherand ourselves. It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner''s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy''s life. While Lucy''s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking. Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child,The Secret Garden.As the two spend hours exploring the novel''s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy''s secretssome big, some smallsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend''s life, she''s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she''d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie''s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeand those around her forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who''s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets,After Youproves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2608'),
(188, 'Afterlife', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Stoker-winner Clegg (_The Hour Before Dark_) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters'' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder of her husband, Jeff, in this stand-alone tale full of subtle suspense, inventive twists and credible characters. Julie has erotic nightmares and hideous hallucinations while slowly trying to piece together the decades-old puzzle involving her husband''s past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP. Eventually, with the assistance of her mother, daughter and stepson, as well as Jeff''s ex-wife and Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, Julie unearths bizarre secrets about her family that lead her to an underground society of scientific misfits. The book''s final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers and leave them wanting more. A concise writer, Clegg manages to weave into his plot such grand ideas as reincarnation and psychic phenomena in a mere 272 pages. Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation. --\n  <em>\n   Bentley Little\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clegg...can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby. --\n  <em>\n   Dean Koontz\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4488'),
(189, 'Afterlife: The Resurrection Chronicles', 'Merrie DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to your next chance.   Chaz Dominguez is a professional Babysitter in New Orleans, helping to integrate the recently deceased into their new and improved lives. Though Fresh Start has always been the only game in town, resurrection isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Nine lives are all a person can getâ€”and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality.   Now the only hope for Chaz and his familyâ€”and the human raceâ€”lies in the secrets locked away in the mind of Angelique, the beautiful, mysterious Newbie he must protect . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7402'),
(190, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Human civilisation as we know it has ended. What next? The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as she and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(191, 'Afternoon Delight', 'Mia Zachary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2886'),
(192, 'AG_orgasmsrus', 'Alice Gaines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10349'),
(193, 'AG_Victorian', 'Alice Gaines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10350'),
(194, 'Agahta Christie: An Autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.  Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5227'),
(195, 'Again, Dangerous Visions', 'Harlan Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">\n  Again, Dangerous Visions is the sequel to the sf short story anthology Dangerous Visions, 1st published in ''72. It was edited by Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions &amp; the 46 stories w/in it received many awards. The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin, won a Hugo for Best Novella. When It Changed by Joanna Russ won a Nebula Award for Best Short Story. For a 2nd time, Ellison received a special Hugo for editing the anthology. Again, Dangerous Visions was to be followed by a 3rd anthology, The Last Dangerous Visions. At this point, Ellison has said that it will probably never see the light of day.Â \n  <br />\n  An Assault of New Dreamers: introduction by Harlan EllisonÂ \n  <br />\n  The Counterpoint of View by John HeidenryÂ \n  <br />\n  Ching Witch! by Ross RocklynneÂ \n  <br />\n  The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinÂ \n  <br />\n  For Value Received by Andrew J. OffuttÂ \n  <br />\n  Mathoms From the Time Closet--1/Robot''s Story, 2/Against the Lafayette Escadrille, 3/Loco Parentis by Gene WolfeÂ \n  <br />\n  Time Travel For Pedestrians by Ray NelsonÂ \n  <br />\n  Christ, Old Student in a New School (poem) by Ray BradburyÂ \n  <br />\n  King Of The Hill by Chad OliverÂ \n  <br />\n  The 10:00 Report Is Brought To You By...from Edward BryantÂ \n  <br />\n  The Funeral by Kate WilhelmÂ \n  <br />\n  Harry The Hare by James B. HemesathÂ \n  <br />\n  When It Changed by Joanna RussÂ \n  <br />\n  The Big Space Fuck by Kurt VonnegutÂ \n  <br />\n  Bounty by T.L. SherredÂ \n  <br />\n  Still-Life by K.M. O''Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)Â \n  <br />\n  Stoned Counsel by H.H. HollisÂ \n  <br />\n  Monitored Dreams &amp; Strategic Cremations--1/The Bisquit Position, 2/The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements by Bernard WolfeÂ \n  <br />\n  With A Finger In My I by David GerroldÂ \n  <br />\n  In The Barn by Piers AnthonyÂ \n  <br />\n  Soundless Evening by Lee HoffmanÂ \n  <br />\n  (the title is an ink blot) by Gahan WilsonÂ \n  <br />\n  The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward by Joan BernottÂ \n  <br />\n  And The Sea Like Mirrors by Gregory BenfordÂ \n  <br />\n  Bed Sheets Are White by Evelyn LiefÂ \n  <br />\n  Tissue at the fitting shop &amp; 53rd American Dream by James SallisÂ \n  <br />\n  Elouise &amp; the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon by Josephine SaxtonÂ \n  <br />\n  Chuck Berry, Won''t You Please Come Home by Ken McCulloughÂ \n  <br />\n  Epiphany For Aliens by David KerrÂ \n  <br />\n  Eye Of The Beholder by Burt K. FilerÂ \n  <br />\n  Moth Race by Richard HillÂ \n  <br />\n  In Re Glover by Leonard TushnetÂ \n  <br />\n  Zero Gee by Ben BovaÂ \n  <br />\n  A Mouse In The Walls Of The Global Village by Dean R. KoontzÂ \n  <br />\n  Getting Along by James Blish &amp; Judith Ann LawrenceÂ \n  <br />\n  Totenbuch by A Parra (Y Figueredo)Â \n  <br />\n  Things Lost by Thomas M. DischÂ \n  <br />\n  With The Bentfin Boomer Boys On Little Old New Alabama by Richard A. LupoffÂ \n  <br />\n  Lamia Mutable by M. John HarrisonÂ \n  <br />\n  Last Train To Kankakee by Robin ScottÂ \n  <br />\n  Empire Of The Sun by Andrew WeinerÂ \n  <br />\n  Ozymandias by Terry CarrÂ \n  <br />\n  The Milk Of Paradise by James Tiptree, Jr\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5417'),
(196, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6686'),
(197, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8244'),
(198, 'Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8008'),
(199, 'Against the Tide of Years', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Against The Tide Of Years* continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own.... Praise for *Island In The Sea Of Time*: "...one of the best time/travel alternate history stories I''ve ever read, period. Stirling combines complex, believable characters, meticulous research, and a fascinating setup to produce a book you won''t want to--and won''t be able to--put down." --Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of *Guns of the South* "...unquestionably Steve Stirling''s best work to date, a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans. I wouldn''t be surprised to see it on a few awards ballots either." --George R. R. Martin, author of *A Game of Thrones* "A well thought-out time travel scenario with a few interesting differences from most books in the genre." --*Kliatt* "Stirling has surpassed his previous work in the creation of a compelling cast of characters and does a fine job of conveying both a sense of loss and hope." --*Science Fiction Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3683'),
(200, 'Age of Chivalry Or Legends of King Arthur', 'Thomas Bulfinch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is believed that this presentation of a literature which held unrivaled sway over the imaginations of our ancestors, for many centuries, will not be without benefit to the reader, in addition to the amusement it may afford. Found within are the tales of King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, Crusades - Robin Hood, and Knights of English History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9795'),
(201, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1250'),
(202, 'The age of innocence: a novel of ironic nostaglia', 'Linda Wagner-Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature.Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text-- Uses clear, conversational language-- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages-- Includes a chronology of the author''s life and era-- Provides an overview of the historical context-- Offers a summary of its critical reception-- Lists primary and secondary sources and index\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2822'),
(203, 'The Age of Odin', 'James Lovegrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Gideon Dixon was a good solider but bad at everything else. Now the British Army doesn''t want him any more. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project it seems like a dream come true. They''re recruiting fromer service personnel for execellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations. The last thing Gideon expects is to finding himself fighting alongside the gods of the\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ancient Norse pantheon. The world is in the grip of one of the worst winters it has ever known, and Ragnarok-the fabled final conflict of the Sagas-is looming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4462'),
(204, 'The Age of Revolution', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; Jeffrey Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n </span>\n</h3>\n<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n Synopsis\n</h3>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Winston S. Churchill''sÂ \n <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  A History of the English Speaking Peoples\n </i>\n Â is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century''s greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough''s victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington''s defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain''s rise to world leadership over the course of the eighteenth century. In this volume Churchill provides an excellent illustration of his unique literary voice, together with an introduction to his thoughts on the forces that shape human affairs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7007'),
(205, 'The Age of Revolution: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume III (Barnes &amp; Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)', 'Winston S. Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9327'),
(206, 'The Age of the Pussyfoot', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10200'),
(207, 'The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on\n  <em>\n   The Age of Wonder\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oliver Sacks is the author of\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n I am a Richard Holmes addict. He is an incomparable biographer, but in\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n , he rises to new heights and becomes the biographer not of a single figure, but of an entire unique period, when artist and scientist could share common aims and ambitions and a common language--and together create a "romantic," humanist science. We are once again on the brink of such an age, when science and art will come together in new and powerful ways. For this we could have no better model than the lives of William and Caroline Herschel and Humphry Davy, whose dedication and scientific inventiveness were combined with a deep sense of wonder and poetry in the universe. Only Holmes, who is so deeply versed in the people and culture of eighteenth-century science, could tell their story with such verve and resonance for our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Elena Seibert)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the astronomer William Herschel and his accomplished assistant and sister, Caroline; Humphrey Davy, a leading chemist and amateur poet; and Joseph Banks, whose journal of a youthful voyage to Tahiti was a study in sexual libertinism. Holmes''s biographical approach makes his obsessive protagonists (Davy''s self-experimenting with laughing gas is an epic in itself) the prototypes of the Romantic genius absorbed in a Promethean quest for knowledge. Their discoveries, he argues, helped establish a new paradigm of Romantic science that saw the universe as vast, dynamic and full of marvels and celebrated mankind''s power to not just describe but transform Nature. Holmes''s treatment is sketchy on the actual science and heavy on the cultural impact, with wide-ranging discussions of the 1780s ballooning craze, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n and scientific metaphors in Romantic poetry. It''s an engrossing portrait of scientists as passionate adventurers, boldly laying claim to the intellectual leadership of society. Illus.\n <em>\n  (July 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8127'),
(208, 'Agent 21', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zak Darkeâ€™s parents die in an unexplained mass murder heâ€™s left alone in the world. That is until heâ€™s sought out by a mysterious man: â€œI work for a government agency,â€ the man tells him. â€œYou donâ€™t need to know which one. Not yet. All you need to know is that weâ€™ve had our eye on you. Thereâ€™s a possibility you could help us in certain... operational situations.â€Zak becomes Agent 21. What happened to the 20 agents before him heâ€™ll never know. What he does know is that his life is about to change forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8945'),
(209, 'Agent X', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noah Boyd on How to Catch a Serial Killer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery Readers,\n</p>\n<p>\n Thought you might like to hear about my last case with the FBI.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first three bodies were found in the abandoned Monterey Motel in Highland Park, a small, once affluent city surrounded by Detroit. But the public concern didnâ€™t reach full pitch until the count reached eight, all the victims raped and strangled. Thatâ€™s when I was called in.\n</p>\n<p>\n My first impulse when tackling any problem is looking for a way to slice through the Gordian knot, a shortcut seekerâ€™s most reliable tool. What I had learned by working on the Green River Murders and studying other serial killings was to search for a surviving victim; itâ€™s how Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy had both been caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I asked for at the Highland Park PD was any tips that had been called inâ€”a technique I had learned during my three months in Seattle. After an exchange of confused looks, one of the detectives said that he thought they were in the third floor (long-abandoned) bathroom. Inside a twisted, dusty filing cabinet, I found about a hundred of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n One had been called in by a woman who had been raped and then severely choked by a man she knew only as â€œTonyâ€ before she escaped by running down a busy street naked in the middle of the winter. The assault had taken place in the basement of an abandoned Howard Johnsonâ€™s restaurant, which was immediately adjacent to the Monterey Motel. Being an investigator of keen insight, it occurred to me that Tony was somebody we needed to find.\n</p>\n<p>\n It being Detroit, the woman had used an alias to report the crime and â€œTonyâ€ would turn out to be a nickname without a single etymological connection to the killerâ€™s true identity. Theseâ€”letâ€™s call themâ€”big city idiosyncrasies, caused a two-month delay before we were able to arrest Benjamin Atkins and obtain a confession to 11th homicides, along with a planned 12th to celebrate his birthday in two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Noah Boyd\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureauâ€™s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russianâ€™s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them. But before that can happen, Vail must solve the many puzzles that Calculus uses to conceal information. Thriller fans get an endlessly twisting plot strewn with chases, gun battles, and explosions. Calculusâ€™ puzzles are engaging, and the bureauâ€™s procedural and bureaucratic thickets sound real. Cynics will enjoy the portrayal of all FBI administrators as butt-covering careerists, but Vail, equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Dirty Harry, strains credulity. Not as strong as The Bricklayer, but fans wonâ€™t want to give up on the series yet. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6969'),
(210, 'The Agent&#39;s Secret Child', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he''d cherished...a woman who''d died. And one look at the child -- and he saw himself in her eyes.... Until she''d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella''s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake -- and there was only Jake to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(211, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5831'),
(212, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAddictiveâ€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n</p>\n<p>\n As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n <strong>\n  Aggressor\n </strong>\n is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5537');
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(213, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7273'),
(214, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(215, 'The AI War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dreaded AI''s have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet. But war weary humanity refuses to accept the threat as real. Commodore J''Quel D''Trelna has been secretly ordered to enter forbidden territory to find the only weapon that can stop the AI''s from overwhelming his universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4482'),
(216, 'Ain&#39;t She Sweet?', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sugar Beth Carey''s come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she''s brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She''s broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened into lethal points. Winnie Davis, her longtime rival, is fully armed with the money, power, and prestige that had once been Sugar Beth''s. But worst of all is Colin Byrne, the man whose career Sugar Beth had destroyed -- and not exactly accidentally. Now Colin''s a famous novelist living in Sugar Beth''s old mansion, and this modern day dark prince is using his writer''s imagination to figure out how to bring the town''s beautiful former princess to her knees. But despite her sassy mouth, feisty spirit, and hardheaded ways, Sugar Beth''s no longer the spoiled rich girl they all remember. No, now she''s a woman to be reckoned with ... and a great big reckonin'' is about to happen, not least of all for one dark prince who might -- just might -- be thinking about falling in love with the wickedest girl in town. Ain''t She Sweet? A funny, heartwarming, oh-so-spicy story of love, friendship, and the possibility of happily-ever-after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4635'),
(217, 'Air Apparent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the Good Magician Humfrey''s son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young girl beset by an obnoxious curse; Hugo''s beloved wife Wira, whose sightlessness is balanced by a talent for sensitivity, Happy and Fray, a pair of sprightly storm-spirits; Nimbus, the Demon Xanth''s own son; and the mysterious outlaw known as the Random Factor.As they travel through some of the magical realm''s most astonishing locales, these unwitting adventurers discover they are key players in a grand drama whose origins reach back to the origins of time itself. Filled with exhilaration and excitement, ribaldry and romance, "Air Apparent "is a fabulous new fantasy saga from the lively imagination of master storyteller Piers Anthony.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3311'),
(218, 'Air Bridge', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9346'),
(219, 'Air Force One Is Down', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10328'),
(220, 'Airborne', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They are America''s front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation''s armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne''s mission in an ever-changing world... * Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task force * Airborne''s weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter * 18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6482'),
(221, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2245'),
(222, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8181'),
(223, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor. You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done. As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(224, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a tale originally found in a Middle-Eastern folk tale and in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). A poor boy obtains a magic lamp and when the lamp is rubbed, a genie appears and fulfils its owner''s wishes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(225, 'Alan Lomax', 'John Szwed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Exiled from the US for seven years in the McCarthy era, his influence on British folk and rock was virtually as profound as on American music. The Stones owed both their existence and their name to Lomax''s discovery Muddy Waters, and without Leadbelly there would have been no skiffle and no Beatles as we know them. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? and The Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby''s Play. John Szwed''s biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis and Sun Ra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4751'),
(226, 'Alara Unbroken', 'Doug Beyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As nefarious forces work to hasten the cataclysmic realignment for their own gain, the populations of once ordered planes struggle to come to terms with a new planar order in which long separated struggles between opposite clash once more; martyrs face executioners, fire and water, earth and air, growth and decay, the innate versus the artificial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid this chaos, Ajani, a fierce leonin planeswalker, struggles to bring justice and resolution to his brother''s death. Noble warrior Rafiq searches for the source of the of this evil that has invaded his world. And Sarkhan Vol, planeswalker and dragon hunter, taps into a power so pure and ancient, it threatens to consume him even as he revels in its unadulterated totality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An action packed story from the mind of one of the creators, Doug Beyer opens up the\n  <strong>\n   Shards of Alara\n  </strong>\n  (TM) set like no one else can.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4460'),
(227, 'Alas, Babylon', 'Pat Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4052'),
(228, 'Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed **London: A Biography** with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, **Albion*** *reveals the manifold nature of English genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3701'),
(229, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(230, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3835'),
(231, 'Alchemist&#39;s Secret', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where therea??s Hope therea??s troublea?| Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former ??lite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before. But it soon becomes apparent that others are hunting this most precious of treasures - for far more evil ends. When the secrets of alchemy hidden within the pages remain impenetrable, Ben teams up with beautiful American scientist Dr Roberta Ryder to crack the code. It seems that everyone - from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini - wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. The trail leads Ben and Roberta from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc, where an astonishing secret has lain hidden for centuriesa?|\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6744'),
(232, 'The Alchemyst', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protectsâ€”the Book of Abraham the Mage. It''s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That''s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won''t know what''s happening until it''s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2962'),
(233, 'The Alcoholics', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson''s most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2187'),
(234, 'Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he''s written--a novel called *Trial.***Connected by blood**As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. **United by bravery**When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town''s black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror--but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, *Alex Cross''s *Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, and, above all, bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2038'),
(235, 'The Alexander Cipher', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Egyptologist Daniel Knox''s lifelong fascination with Alexander the Great and his tomb, a fabled wonder of the ancient world, could be the death of him. After construction workers excavating in Alexandria expose a catacomb dating back to ancient times, Knox eagerly sneaks in to scout the cavernous and dusty site. Among the relics he finds clues that may solve one of the world''s greatest mysteries: the last resting place of Alexander the Great. An unconquerable warrior king, Alexander was the single most powerful man on the planet and thought to be a god. Now, nearly 2,500 years later, the discovery of his tomb, seemingly lost forever, is within reach, triggering a deadly hunt for one of the greatest treasures of all time. Knox is not the only seeker; others are after the prize, and they would kill to win it . . . In the spirit of the great adventure-thrillers by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, Raymond Khoury, and Steve Berry, THE ALEXANDER CIPHER keeps the pages turning with a rip-roaring ride through history, archaeology, and the great deserts of Egypt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3255'),
(236, 'Alexandra, Gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . . Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisterâ€™s art career, and looking after their volatile motherâ€”all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her. Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandraâ€™s husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevatorâ€™s other passengersâ€”Janeâ€™s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whoâ€™s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnâ€™t the only one among them whoâ€™s looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense. In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(237, 'Alexandria', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A locked-room murder provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge in Davis''s 19th novel to feature the first-century Roman sleuth (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Saturnalia\n </em>\n ). In the spring of A.D. 77, while on vacation with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, Falco is stunned to get word that Theon, the Great Library''s head librarian, with whom he just dined, has been found dead with neither marks of violence on the body nor evidence of how the killer got away from the scene of the crime. Falco probes the academic politics surrounding the Great Library to determine whether one of Theon''s potential successors was the culprit. Other deaths follow, including that of a philosophy student, mauled by a crocodile that escaped from the local zoo. While the impossible crime''s solution may disappoint some readers, the twisty plot with its various false leads and the author''s plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even spies age, but fortunately Marcus Didius Falcoâ€”"informer" for the Roman emperor in the first century C.E.â€”is aging with grace. What makes Davis''s long-standing series so indelible is the expert blend of Falco''s wisecracking observations and crazy family life with some masterly suspense. In this latest, Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation. (They''re staying at the house of his wayward uncle and the uncle''s partner.) In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right awayâ€”the Librarian of Alexandria''s great library is found dead in his sealed office. There''s been plenty of controversy surrounding the Librarian already, and the controversy over who will succeed him turns bloody. Who knew that the race for a top library spot could be so intriguing? The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans. [See Prepub Mystery,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 1/09.]â€”Barbara Hoffert,\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7180'),
(238, 'Alfred Hitchcock presents: Fear and trembling', 'Alfred Hitchcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(239, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6680'),
(240, 'Alias Grace', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9786'),
(241, 'Alice I Have Been: A Novel', 'Melanie Benjamin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves''s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she''s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice''s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2867'),
(242, 'Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics', 'Robert Gilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My eyes tend to glaze over when I encounter YAPBAQPs (Yet Another Popular Book About Quantum Physics). But this volume captured my attention, and imagination. Told in the same way as\n <strong>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </strong>\n (with many of the original passages re-tooled to their new purpose) and a hint of\n <strong>\n  Flatland\n </strong>\n , Gilmore guides us through the principles of Quantum mechanics in a truly lively and fun way. I suspect it may even be a good read for teens or extremely bright children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It (..) includes characters like the uncertain accountant and the state agent who shows Alice how items can be two places at once. --\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4414'),
(243, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3182'),
(244, 'Alicia', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain''s newest pop sensation Â¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can''t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never call her fake-Spanish again. The only trick: She''ll have to beat her super-bonita cousins to win the coveted spot. Adios, bimbos!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2219'),
(245, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times  reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist  conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6779'),
(246, 'Alis', 'Naomi Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thiefor worse. Facing an impossible choice between a forced marriage or life on the streets, Alis seizes control of her own fate. But the path she chooses sets off a disastrous chain of events that leave her accused of murder. Steadfastly loyal, Alis must decide: will she betray a loved one or sacrifice herself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2731'),
(247, 'Alistair MacLean&#39;s time of the assassins', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9620'),
(248, 'All Cakes Considered', 'Melissa Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melissa Gray is National Public Radio''s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake\n <em>\n  All Cakes Considered\n </em>\n is an essential addition to every baker''s library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5297'),
(249, 'All Good Things...', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This audio adaptation is based on the series finale of Star TrekR: The Next GenerationTM, the most successful syndicated show in television history. As the title suggests, "all good things" must come to an end. The crew''s final adventure begins abruptly as Captain Picard announces he is inexplicably moving backward and forward through time. He soon realizes that his old nemesis, known simply as "Q," is at least partly responsible. As the plot unfolds, three different time lines emerge: one seven years in the past, where we meet old friends long gone; another 25 years in the future, where we get a glimpse of the crew''s fate; and, of course, one in the present. As time collides in a desperate climax, Picard risks everything to save a condemned humanity. The story is deftly read by Jonathan Frakes, who appears as Commander Riker in the TV series. Frakes''s riveting narration is accented by an impeccable depiction of Patrick Stewart''s Picard. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Charles A. Weiss, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity''s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind''s destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4685'),
(250, 'All Just Glass', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampireâ€”changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood.\n <br />\n Aida Vida is Sarah''s older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida''s mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.\n <br />\n Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia''s fansâ€”old and new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel,\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night,\n </em>\n when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are\n <em>\n  Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator,\n </em>\n all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha''ra:\n <em>\n  Hawksong,\n </em>\n a\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults'' Choice; and\n <em>\n  Wyvernhail\n </em>\n . She is also the author of\n <em>\n  Persistence of Memory\n </em>\n . Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7677'),
(251, 'All My Life: A Memoir', 'Susan Lucci &amp; Laura (CON) Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n "See that moon up there?\n <br />\n You can reach that high.\n <br />\n Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n <em>\n  Annie Get Your Gun\n </em>\n ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n <em>\n  Dancing with the Stars\n </em>\n ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n</p>\n<p>\n As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Susan Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6774'),
(252, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive."The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1124'),
(253, 'All Souls&#39; Rising', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world''s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul''s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7335');
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(254, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling _Three Cups of Tea\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n  <strong>\n   Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and _Lift\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œJuddâ€™s hauntingly beautiful memoir reflects upon her life as actress, wife, daughter, sister, woman of faith, and ultimately, as friend of the worldâ€™s forgotten. The book is engaging as a narrative (I could not put it down), but this is not your typical â€˜celebrity memoir.â€™\n  <em>\n   All That is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is written with uncommon depth and uncommon love. It has the power to transport you not only into the mind and spirit of a true activist, but into the elusive meaning of our shared humanity, and even into unexpected places in your own soul. Prepare to have your eyes opened and your heart jolted.Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Sue Monk Kidd\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Ashley Judd has given us magnetic and searingly honest portrayals of diverse women on screen. Now with the same honesty and magnetism, she brings us her true self on the page. From her childhood to her revolutionary empathy with women and girls living very different lives, her path will inspire readers on journeys of their own."Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Gloria Steinem\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is all that is enlightening and inspiring. Â Ashley Judd has composed a memoir that teaches while it entrances and finds hope and faith in the most unlikely places. Â The book is full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world.â€Â \n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --Madeleine K. Albright\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOver the last decade I have watched my gifted, brilliant friend grow as an artist, but more importantly, as a wise, deeply empathetic woman. Â I have read the diaries that are the heart of this memoir since she began traveling the world, fearing for her safety and sanity, baffled why she chooses these grueling missions.\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  will be a revelation to readers, exposing Ashley Judd for what I have known for years she is: Â An amazing woman doing extraordinary work." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Morgan Freeman\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "There are certain books that stay with you far after the last page - Ashley Judd''s\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is that very type of book. With her sincere honesty, her commitment to servant leadership and her intense passion for everything that she is involved with, Ashley Judd presents a multi-layered portrait of how one person - committed, caring and conscientious - can truly make a difference. She may be our program''s No. 1 fan, but after reading this, you can count me as one of her top fans." --\n  <strong>\n   John Calipari\n  </strong>\n  , University of Kentucky Head Coach\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5909'),
(255, 'All That Lives Must Die', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Following the events of 2009''s Mortal Coils, 15-year-old twins Fiona and Eliot Post--children of Lucifer and the goddess Atropos--come into their powers at the onset of a vast battle between supernatural entities. Forced to enroll in an ultra-competitive magical school called Paxington, where even gym class can prove lethal, the twins encounter such mysterious, dangerous, and intriguing characters as headmistress Miss Weston and gym teacher Mister Ma, while learning more about familiar characters like slick Uncle Henry and Lucifer himself. Nylund masterfully blends the mundane details of studying with an epic war in Hell, and with similar skill portrays Fiona and Eliot''s sibling bond even as their political and romantic interests diverge. Nylund has hit his stride, piling on the plot developments, but never losing sight of the standout characterizations that made the first book memorable.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Immortals and the Infernals are still at it in the sequel to Mortal Coils (2009), and twins Eliot and Fiona, children of Lucifer and a goddess, are still caught in the middle as both sides vie to claim the half-Immortal, half-Infernal teens as their own. Having passed the life-or-death tests set up by the league of gods, the twins face even more challenges when they are admitted as freshmen to Paxington Institute, a high school for children of the gods, which has an extremely rigorous and competitive curriculumâ€”it is possible they might not survive the first semester. Their skills of diplomacy and strategic thinking are tested, and they are trained how to use and strengthen their powers. However, Eliot and Fiona not only face the deadly perils inherent in their classes but also the machinations of the Infernals, who plan to draw the twins into a war between clans. The Immortals are also manipulating the twins, and the tale abounds with lies, plans, schemes, and double-crosses as well as death and destruction. The twins become even more multifaceted than in the first book, and the swirling intrigue is compelling. To be continued in the planned What Fools These Mortals, which is sure to be anticipated. --Sally Estes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6288'),
(256, 'All that remains: a novel', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A masterly new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel by the author of Body of Evidence and Postmortem. A killer stalks young lovers, taking their lives and leaving behind just a single clue--one playing card. Four couples have been murdered, their remains turning up months after their abandoned automobiles are discovered. It is a ferocious case only the Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Virginia can solve. LG Featured Alternate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4100'),
(257, 'All the King&#39;s Men', 'Robert Penn Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great classics of American fiction reissued as it was originally written.Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King''s Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power. All the King''s Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.In a momentous publishing event, Robert Penn Warren''s masterpiece has been restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, and without the deletions required by its original editors. The result restores Warren''s complexity and subtlety to an already near-perfect work, charging the characters with an energy and a more tangled web of relationships than previously was available. All the King''s Men is a landmark in letters. This new edition brings it fully to life."The publication of a new, corrected edition of All the King''s Men is welcome news for all who care about American literature. Robert Penn Warren''s prize-winning novel has remained a classic since its publication more than half a century ago. Editor Noel Polk has studied the manuscript and all other available versions of Warren''s finest novels, eliminating errors and retrieving deleted material. The result has been to enrich the character of narrator Jack Burden and his protagonist, Willie Talos, in this story of tumultuous Louisiana politics which also has implications for morals and manners in the modern world." -Joseph Blotner, author of Robert Penn Warren: A Biography\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10402'),
(258, 'All the Possibilities', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cynical Senator Alan MacGregor falls for free-spirited beauty Shelby Campbell despite their long-standing family feud.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2594'),
(259, 'All the Pretty Dead Girls', 'John Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women''s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it''s an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she''s being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game - a game that only will end when she dies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3111'),
(260, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(261, 'All the Rage', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesnâ€™t deal with electronic appliancesâ€”he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Giaâ€™s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(262, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men', 'Keith Gessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame. Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work on the Russian Revolution, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting "the first great Zionist epic" even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, more earnest and easily upset than the other two, is haunted by catastrophes both public and private--and his inability to tell the difference. At every turn, at each character''s misstep, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3036'),
(263, 'All the way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(264, 'All the Weyrs of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For Generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet''s surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F''lar and Lessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancient remains of the planet''s original settlement, they uncovered the colonists'' voice-activated artificial intelligence system-which still functioned! And the computer had incredible news for them: There was a chance-a good chance- that they could at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10847'),
(265, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(266, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4168'),
(267, 'All Worked Up', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/679'),
(268, 'All You Zombies', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10415'),
(269, 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture', 'Harold Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Through the stories of gaming''s greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame''s meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world''s most popular forms of mass entertainment. But as the gaming industry grows in numerous directions and everyone talks about the advance of the moment, few explore and seek to understand the forces behind this profound evolution. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How exactly did gaming become a $50 billion industry and a dominant pop culture form? What are the stories, the people, the innovations, and the fascinations behind this incredible growth?Through extensive interviews with gaming''s greatest innovators, both its icons and those unfairly forgotten by history, All Your Base Are Belong To Us sets out to answer these questions, exposing the creativity, odd theories--and passion--behind the twenty-first century''s fastest-growing medium.Go inside the creation of: Grand Theft Auto * World of Warcraft * Bioshock * Kings Quest * Bejeweled * Madden Football * Super Mario Brothers * Myst * Pong * Donkey Kong * Crash Bandicoot * The 7th Guest * Tetris * Shadow Complex * Everquest * The Sims * And many more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8887'),
(270, 'The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."--Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman''s journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune"[A] grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it. Smiley may have snared a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres . . . but it is with Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton that she emphatically captures our hearts. . . . The key word in Smiley''s title is Adventures, and Lydia''s are crammed with breathless movement, danger, and tension; populated by terrifically entertaining characters and securely grounded in telling detail."--The Miami Herald"SMILEY BRILLIANTLY EVOKES MID-19TH-CENTURY LIFE. . . . Richly imagined and superbly written, Jane Smiley''s new novel is an extraordinary accomplishment in an already distinguished career."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A SPRAWLING EPIC . . . A garrulous, nights-by-the-hearth narrative not unlike those classics of the period it emulates. In following a rebellious young woman of 1855 into Kansas Territory and beyond, the novel is so persuasively authentic that it reads like a forgotten document from the days of Twain and Stowe."--The Boston Sunday Globe"CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING, FILLED WITH ACTION AND IDEAS."--The New York Times Book Review"ENGAGING . . . [A] HARROWING ADVENTURE . . . This picaresque tale presents a series of remarkable characters, particularly in the inexperienced narrator, whose graphic descriptions of travel and domestic life before the Civil War strip away romantic notions of simpler times. . . . Smiley has created an authentic voice in this struggle of a young woman to live simply amid a swirl of deadly antagonism."--The Christian Science Monitor"A fine historical novel that describes a fascinating time and place . . . It is both funny and subtle, rich in ideas . . . Smiley has created a better all-around piece of fiction than any of her previous work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres."--The Wall Street Journal"Smiley is a writer of rare versatility who travels widely in her creative endeavors. She proved her mastery of both short fiction and the novel with three sterling works (The Age of Grief, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and A Thousand Acres); her fondness for history had already been established with The Greelanders. In 1995, she successfully extended her repertoire to comedy with the hilarious academic satire Moo. What her new novel shares with all these works is its authorial intelligence."--The Boston Sunday GlobeÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "Jane Smiley is nothing if not protean, a literary ventriloquist of incredible range. . . . This is a novel that manages to combine the evocative storyteller''s voice with the moviemaker''s sense of drama and visuals, an old-fashioned tale told with contemporary steam and panache."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"Not only is this a rollicking feminist tale of a woman who can handle herself in the thick of the Kansas Wars, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is also a coming of age story as well as a lasting portrait of the genuinely tumultuous time just before the Civil War."--The Raleigh News &amp; Observer"A tale of love and war, revenge and betrayal, Smiley''s fictional memoir invites comparisons with Gone with the Wind, even War and Peace. . . . Lidie Newton has the ring of honesty and truth. It also carries the stamp of its author''s historical sense, stylistic verve, and moral passion."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Full of the same arresting authenticity of detail that carried A Thousand Acres."--New York Daily News"LIDIE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER . . . The All-True Travels is a showcase for Smiley''s range and dexterity, dead-on in its emotional impact and resonant in the painful truths it conveys."--San Diego Union-Tribune"Rendered in sharply lucid prose and filled with wonderful period detail . . . Lidie''s story reads like a long and various dream, brightly colored and brilliantly observed--a journey into a world as troubled, ambiguous, and full of life as our own."--Chicago Tribune"An adventure story, full of suspense, near-misses, and coincidence . . . The first and sustaining marvel of [Smiley''s] new novel is Lydia Newton''s voice: grounded in 19th-century reserve, yet honest, self-aware, and curious."--Toronto Globe &amp; Mail"Smiley nabbed a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres. This stunning new effort should win equally thunderous acclaim."--MademoiselleÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "An immensely appealing heroine, a historical setting conveyed with impressive fidelity and a charming and poignant love story make Smiley''s new novel a sure candidate for bestseller longevity. . . . Propelled by Lidie''s spirited voice, this narrative is packed with drama, irony, historical incident, moral ambiguities, and the perception of human frailty. . . . This novel performs all the functions of superior fiction: in reading one woman''s moving story, we understand an historical epoch, the social and political conditions that produced it, and the psychological, moral, and economic motivations of the people who incited and endured its violent confrontations."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gloriously detailed and brilliantly told, this is a hugely entertaining, illuminating, and sagacious vision of a time of profound moral and political conflict, and of one woman''s coming to terms with the perilous, maddening, and precious world."--Booklist (starred review)"Smiley scales another peak with this bighearted and thoughtful picaresque novel. . . . [A] richly entertaining saga of a woman who might have been well matched with Thomas Berger''s Little Big Man, and whom Huck Finn would have been proud to claim as his big sister."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "HER FINEST WORK YET . . . Resembling a cross between the writing of Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain . . . A fast-paced historical ride through a defining moment in our nation''s history as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman. . . . Smiley''s biggest triumph is in the character of Lidie. One can actually ''see'' her growth throughout the story as Lidie learns about the ambiguity of human morality--and that true justice is rarely served."--San Antonio Express-News"Highly recommended . . . Trust Smiley to take a situation charged with both social significance and novelistic opportunity and ride it for all its worth. . . . Smiley gives us a rich lode of historical detail yet keep the story moving, so that it seems to flow by like a river while at the same time yielding up its riches in leisurely fashion."--Library Journal (starred review)"Like Cold Mountain and Beloved--and with more than a casual nod to Mark Twain--this sprawling saga by the Pulitzer-winning author of A Thousand Acres connects readers to the historical issues of the time."--Glamour"Our heroine is a horse-riding, river-swimming, plain-faced young woman with a distinctly well-calibrated mind of her own."--The Baltimore Sun"A long, wild adventure . . . Lidie never loses her pluck, and her story becomes both a rich homage to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a thrilling variation on the derring-do of Lonesome Dove."--Outside magazine"[A] gripping, epic new novel . . . The All-True Travels is consistently absorbing, thanks in large part to the strong, vibrant voice of the unforgettable Lidie Newton."--Good Housekeeping"Packed with action in a setting worthy of a Western shoot-''em-up."--Newark Star-LedgerÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "ROUSING . . . ACTION-PACKED . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for regardless of the outcome. . . . The voice Smiley creates for her sympathetic and wonderfully human heroine is sharp, engaging, wry, and wise."--Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5903'),
(271, 'Alligator Bayou', 'Donna Jo Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899, Napoli presents a moving, sobering story about an aspect of American immigration that is probably unknown to most readers. After his mother''s death, 14-year-old Calogero leaves his bustling Sicilian home for the sleepy southern town to help his uncles and younger cousin run their grocery store. White customers expect to be served before blacks and make their displeasure angrily apparent when the Sicilians fail to do so. Barred from the white school and unaware that he can attend the black school, Calogero learns English from a tutor who also tries to help him comprehend Southern American behavior. The cousins meet some African American boys who take them on a terrifying alligator hunt that firmly cements their friendship. Calogero is attracted to Patricia, a African American girl, but fails to fully understand the danger behind her fear of being seen in public with him. Although he has heard his uncles'' stories of the recent lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans, he is unprepared for the horrifying tragedy that befalls his family when a local white doctor kills Uncle Francesco''s goats and then convinces an angry mob that the Sicilians plan to retaliate violently. Historical events are smoothly integrated with vivid everyday details, strong characterizations, and genuine-sounding dialogue. Ultimately, the author expands her themes beyond the story''s specifics, encouraging readers to reconsider the motivations behind this calamity and other manifestations of racism.â€”_Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...The facts from [a] little-told chapter in American history frame Napoliâ€™s wrenching novel about a 14-year-old Sicilian, Calogero, who joins male relatives in Tallulah after his motherâ€™s death. Legally segregated from both whites and blacks, the Italians maintain an insular life, focused on their thriving produce business, until Caloâ€™s secret crush on African American Patricia begins to dissolve social barriers between the two communities, even as social tensions with whites escalate into shocking violence. Through Caloâ€™s active questioning, Napoli integrates a great deal of background history that is further explored in an extensive authorâ€™s note. Readers learn, right along with naive Calo, the draconian specifics of Jim Crow laws and the complex factors of fear and economics that fueled the Southâ€™s entrenched bigotry. A few passages do have a purposeful feel, particularly those between Calo and his tutor, but Napoliâ€™s skillful pacing and fascinating detail combine in a gripping story that sheds cold, new light on Southern history and on the nature of racial prejudice. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5155'),
(272, 'Alma', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBell writes with taut drama, building scene upon scene to the climactic revelation.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning YA author William Bellâ€™s Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Times have been tough since Almaâ€™s father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Almaâ€™s teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for â€œMiss Lily,â€ a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickensâ€™ Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4507'),
(273, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized. Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(274, 'Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2059'),
(275, 'Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing', 'Paul R. Amato; Alan Booth; David R. Johnson; Stacy J. Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Alone Together\n </em>\n is an immensely useful book. It deals with an important topic by drawing on a unique data set, analyzing and interpreting the data in a very sophisticated fashion and presenting the results in clear, straightforward prose. The book is dense with useful and interesting information, and the authors have made a very important contribution. They are masters at what they do.\n <br />\n --Norval Glenn, The University of Texas at Austin (20080901)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the best and most comprehensive examination available of how the institution of marriage in America has changed over the past few decades.\n <br />\n --David Popenoe (_International Journal of Sociology of the Family_ 20080901)\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the most comprehensive studies of marriage.\n <br />\n --Sue Shellenbarger (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors find increasing separateness in aspects of marital life, along with maintained or even increased stability and commitment to the relationship. The details hold as much interest as the big picture...[A] landmark, authoritative, complex but readable study...This book offers a wealth of useful information to professional helpers, clergy, judges, policy makers, and general readers. A cornucopia of data and ideas, it is a boon to everyone who wants to know what is going on at home in America.\n <br />\n --E. James Lieberman (_PsycCritiques_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n [_Alone Together_] makes an important and timely contribution to the current debate about the meaning of marriage in American society...For teachers and researchers in marriage and family studies, this book is an extremely valuable resource.\n <br />\n --Susan D. Stewart (_American Journal of Sociology_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as increasing gender equality, have made marriage a better arrangement for men as well as women.\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, this book takes a middle view, showing that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time togetherâ€”people may be â€œbowling aloneâ€ these days, but married couples are also eating alone. Indeed, the declining social capital of married couplesâ€”including the fact that couples have fewer shared friendsâ€”combined with the general erosion of community ties in American society has had pervasive, negative effects on marital quality.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, family income has increased, decision-making equality between husbands and wives is greater, marital conflict and violence have declined, and the norm of lifelong marriage enjoys greater support than ever.\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors conclude that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the vast changes that have occurred in society over the recent past, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.\n</p>\n<p>\n (20080702)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9796'),
(276, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other', 'Sherry Turkle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships from MIT professor Turkle (Simulation and Its Discontents). In this third in a trilogy that explores the relationship between humans and technology, Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. For all the talk of convenience and connection derived from texting, e-mailing, and social networking, Turkle reaffirms that what humans still instinctively need is each other, and she encounters dissatisfaction and alienation among users: teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration but by how they are perceived by the online collective, mothers who feel texting makes communicating with their children more frequent yet less substantive, Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. Turkle ''s prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. In her university-sponsored studies surveying everything from text-message usage among teens to the use of robotic baby seals in nursing homes for companionship, Turkle paints a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage. Despite her reliance on research observations, Turkle emphasizes personal stories from computer gadgetryâ€™s front lines, which keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human speciesâ€”to restrain ourselves from becoming technologyâ€™s willing slaves instead of its guiding mastersâ€”loud and clear. --Carl Hays\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4903'),
(277, 'Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world''s most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers'' Association''s Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell''s writing, including several award-winners.Campbell crowns the book with a length preface-revised for this edition-which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, and illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his work.Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer''s development of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9998'),
(278, 'Along Came a Husband', 'Helen Brenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy only wanted-still wants-a home and family. Jonas isn''t husband material, not even close. And now his latest undercover mission has trailed him to Mirabelle Island. With both their lives on the line, Missy knows she''s been fooling herself. She loves Jonas as much as she ever did-maybe more. His return also means finally admitting the truth: she can''t lose him againhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1548'),
(279, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2029'),
(280, 'Along for the Ride', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents'' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5170'),
(281, 'Alpha Force 01: Survival', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber bond on board a sailing ship. When they are marooned on a desert island, they must face the ultimate test -- survival! The team is born.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8922'),
(282, 'Alpha Force 02: Rat-catcher', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The elite young SAS team sees action in a South American operation to catch a drug baron, where their individual skills are tested to the max.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8942'),
(283, 'Alpha Force 03 - Desert Pursuit', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8931'),
(284, 'Alpha Force 04: Hostage', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In their toughest challenge yet, Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber fly to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste. They must mobilize all their survival skills to cope with the harsh landscape, and a man who is out to kill them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8920'),
(285, 'Alpha Force 05: Red Centre', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force â€“ a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world â€“ are in Australia, helping with a TV reality show. But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town, events suddenly force them into a terrifying adventure as the terrorist seizes hostages and flies off into the bush. Supporting the Australian SAS, Alpha Force has to take action â€“ even if it means flying into the middle of a scary bushfire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8930'),
(286, 'Alpha Force 06: Hunted', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The team freefall into danger.The elite young squad head to Namibia to compete in an extreme sports contest. When they discover a horrifying threat to the local wildlife, they snap into action, only to find themselves facing a desperate flight across the African plains, hunted by a group who are prepared to shoot to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8925'),
(287, 'Alpha Force 07 - Blood Money', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8919'),
(288, 'Alpha Force 08 - Fault Line', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8952');
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(289, 'Alpha Force 09: Black Gold', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force are in the Caribbean, diving, when a sudden oil spill draws them into a new mission. All their skills â€” powerboating, scuba-diving and jetskiing â€” are needed when an underwater bomb explodes. And then an assassin strikes . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8928'),
(290, 'Alpha Force 10 - Untouchable', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8947'),
(291, 'Alpha One', 'Chris Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. Carla is looking for her sister, who left home 6 years before to join the Collective, led by the sinister and mysterious Professor Winterburn. Winterburn casts a spell over everyone he meets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Sentinels and the Betanica Sect lock horns with Alpha in a battle to assume control of the Tri Star System. Alpha''s aim is to open the Blue Worm hole; a gateway to another galaxy. The gathering masses are joined by Winterburn and his flock and by Jake and Steve whose sole intention is to rescue Carla Stevenson from Winterburnâ€™s clutches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8146'),
(292, 'Alphabet Weekends', 'Elizabeth Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime.\n</p>\n<p>\n So when Natalie''s long-term love walks out on her, Tom''s is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. And Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends - starting with A for Abseiling - to make her forget the heartache and, he hopes, to make her see what''s been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as they tumble from A to Z, their families and friends face broken hearts and tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many and wonderful guises? And not just for Natalie and Tom, but for everyone they care about?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7471'),
(293, 'Alphas', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At OCD the losers are tormented.At Alpha Academy, they''re sent home.Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country''s best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4368'),
(294, 'The Alpine Advocate', 'Mary Daheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sassy, intelligent, single mother Emma Lord has always wanted to own a newspaper. And when she inherits half a million dollars from an ex-boyfriend, she is able to do just that. She buys The Alpine Advocate, local paper of the sleepy town of Alpine, Washington. Unfortunately, there''s not much to write about in a small town. But then the murders start, and Emma finds that not only does she have front-page stories to write, she also has killers to uncover! Family drama reaches a fever pitch when rich old Neeny Doukas'' handsome grandson Mark Doukas is found murdered. Evidence suggests that Mark''s brother Chris, the black sheep of the Dooukas clan, may be to blame, but suddenly everyone in the family is acting suspicious. Emma and her trusted assistant Vida, who knows everyone in Alpine and is related to most of them, are on the case!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2955'),
(295, 'Alpine for You', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A TRIP TO DIE FOR... Accompanying her grandmother on a seniors tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food, and a classy European hotel, all worlds away from her rural Iowa hometown. But her dream trip quickly snowballs into mayhem when smooth-talking tour escort Andy Simon is found dead. To be sure, Andy was as randy as a mountain goat on Viagra, hitting on every miss -- Swiss or otherwise -- within striking distance. His constant advances were driving Emily cuckoo -- but had someone orchestrated his untimely death? For savvy, resourceful Emily, leading the tour in Andy''s place is only natural. But she can''t remain neutral when a fellow traveler takes a fatal plunge -- she''s convinced a murderer lurks among them. With precision timing, sexy Etienne Miceli steps in to investigate, and Emily warms to the suave detective. Still, with the group roster suddenly sprouting more holes than the local cheese, Emily wonders: is there a safe haven anywhere in the shadow of the Alps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2298'),
(296, 'Already Dead', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: theyâ€™re true. Only itâ€™s not like the movies or old man Stokerâ€™s storybook. Itâ€™s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.Thereâ€™s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folksâ€™ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but heâ€™s still the one who has to deal with them. Thatâ€™s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and heâ€™s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and heâ€™s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus thatâ€™s eating at him isnâ€™t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesnâ€™t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattanâ€“it ainâ€™t easy. Itâ€™s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalitionâ€“the cityâ€™s most powerful Clanâ€“and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl whoâ€™s gone missing in Alphabet City.Now the Coalition and the girlâ€™s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(297, 'Already Home', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth Kendrick and Susan Mallery: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Okay, before we start this interview, Iâ€™d like to take a moment to talk to you about your Christmas card this year, which featured your adorable poodle, Nikki. Dressed up in an elaborate chiffon holiday neckpiece. Featuring jingle bells and ribbon. You and I both know that this is not an isolated incident. Oh yes, Iâ€™ve seen the photos of Miss Nikki making love to the camera in Halloween costumes and baseball jerseys. I think everyone here deserves to know the truth: does Nikki have a stylist? Or do poodles have an innate French flair for accessorizing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Nikki actually does have a personal stylist, a friend who sends her a new outfit at least once a year. Nikki is a star. Sigh. Itâ€™s getting to be a problem. She was born in a playpen in Albuquerque, but has grown so used to attention that she demands it. When she decides itâ€™s time to cuddle, nothing will deter her. She bats my hands away from the keyboard with her nose. Like everyone else who meets her, I have fallen under her spell. Iâ€™m helpless to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Who gets more fan mail--you or Nikki?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I get more, but hers tastes better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  is technically womenâ€™s fiction, which means that in addition to the romance storyline, thereâ€™s a truckload of family drama. Oh, how I love family drama. The fictional kind, I mean. Give us a few hints about the book. Whatâ€™s your favorite scene?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  : The story revolves around Jenna, recently divorced and in the midst of an unexpected career change. So her life is already in a state of flux when sheâ€™s hit with the sudden appearance of her birth parents who are, to put it mildly, nothing like Jennaâ€™s â€œrealâ€ (aka, adoptive) parents. Jenna was raised in a conservative Texas town by loving but traditional parents. Her birth parents are throwbacks to the 1970s, vegetarian hippies who get messages from "the Universe" and have an unnatural dislike of dairy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the scenes I love best takes place when Jenna travels with them to their home on a California vineyard. There, she meets siblings and other family, and she gets a glimpse of the life she would have lived if they hadnâ€™t given her up for adoption all those years ago. What I love about this scene is that this is where Jennaâ€™s heart begins to open. First impressions can be wrongâ€¦ or at least incomplete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Jenna is getting to know her birth family, she canâ€™t help wondering why they seem to think they have to dive into deep family intimacy immediately. Whatâ€™s the urgency? Why canâ€™t they let their feelings develop over time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna, the main character in\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  , has invited Amy and Linnie, the main characters from my novel\n  <em>\n   The Bake-Off\n  </em>\n  , over for a dinner party. Discussion topics will include: dysfunctional families, cooking disasters, and truly unfortunate dating choices. What is your heroine cooking, and what can my characters bring?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna has discovered the joy of fusion cuisine. In the book, she experiments with Mexican-Indian fusion and comes up with a fabulous recipe for Curry Chicken Enchiladas. Served, of course, with chips and salsa and hummus and pita. As for your characters, they can bring dessert. Itâ€™ll have to be apple pie, since they are big old bake-off frauds and that is really the only recipe they can make, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Well, yes. But they prefer the term â€œcounterfeit confectionistasâ€ to â€œfrauds,â€ thank you very much. Since Jenna is a sous chef who wants to open her own cooking store, I assume you had to slog through hours of torturous research at places like Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table. (These are the sacrifices you make for your art!) What is your favorite kitchen implement or gadget?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: wine key.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  If you had a reality show, what would it be called, and what would a typical episode be like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I adore watching reality shows, and Iâ€™m not even embarrassed to admit it. (Okay, Iâ€™m a little embarrassed.) Theyâ€™re just so grotesque. The situations are staged, but the emotions are real, and Iâ€™m an emotion junkie. But I would never go on a reality show because I donâ€™t want people to feed off of my emotions, other than in my books, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  I know, I know, but humor me. If you didâ€¦?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I actually do have a reality dating show in\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  , an August release in my\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series of romance novels. It doesnâ€™t go well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  So in addition to being talented and witty, youâ€™re prolific as all get-out. How many books do you have coming out in 2011? Five? Eighteen? What gives? Have you somehow figured out how to clone yourself or survive without sleep? I demand to know your secret. And donâ€™t give me that song and dance about â€œhard workâ€ and â€œself-discipline.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I have four books coming out in 2011.\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  in April, and then Iâ€™ll continue the\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series in August, September, and October with\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Only Yours\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Only His\n  </em>\n  . The Hendrix triplets will all fall in love this year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My secret? I have the attention span of a gnat. If I donâ€™t write quickly, I get bored. I start thinking about the next story I want to write, and the next one after that. I donâ€™t lack for ideas, so I have to be disciplined about completing each one. Working on the next one is my reward for finishing the current project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful story about turning your life around. --Fresh Fiction\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Stars, Top Pick! Warm, snappy dialog...signature Susan Mallery. --Night Owl Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best books I''ve read this year! --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery''s many, devoted fans. --Booklist-Starred Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5316'),
(298, 'Alta', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey''s latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia with Avatre, the crimson female dragon he has secretly raised. In his native Alta, the former serf finds his fate interconnected with the destinies of Orest, youngest son of the Lord Ya-tiren, and the girl Aket-ten, a "Winged One" in training capable of speaking with animals. Vetch begins a new career teaching other Altan males how to bond with dragons from the egg. Vivid depictions of mythical creatures and a pastoral, casual approach to magic enliven such emotionally charged themes as cultural displacement, alienation and search for self. The crises of individual characters with easily identifiable conflicts nicely mirror larger catastrophes of plot. Full of adventure, romance and political intrigue if low on moral complexity, this highly readable fantasy will appeal particularly to young adults. Fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern series will also be happy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Vetch, former serf turned dragon boy in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n [BKL Mr 15 03], and his hand-reared dragon, Avarte, escape from Tia and cross the deadly desert to Altan-controlled lands. Back among his own people, Vetch becomes indispensable because he knows how to tame newly hatched dragons, which then don''t need to be drugged into submission. All is not well with the Altans, however. The Magi, who work their will on the world, have great powers they use to prolong the war that is raging for their own benefit. There''s plenty of dragon lore as Vetch, now known as Kiron, teaches a close-knit cadre of young jousters how to bond with dragonets and train them for combat in the hope of ending the war. Rife with intrigue and dangerous counterintrigue, the story continues a classic quest-for-good-against-evil plot development while beautifully maintaining the world, society, and characterizations established in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n . A very satisfying sequel with an ending that begs for another episode because the final battle is yet to come.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4782'),
(299, 'The Altar of Bones', 'Philip Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This conspiracy thriller from the pseudonymous Carter opens in 1937 with a rousing Siberian prison camp escape, but the present-day action soon turns predictable. After the murder of Katya Orlova, the grandmother of San Francisco lawyer Zoe Dmitroff, a letter written by Katya reaches Zoe informing her that she''s now the "Keeper" of an ancient secret involving a Siberian cave known as the Altar of Bones. Many people try to wrest the secret from Zoe, including her own mother, a mysterious business tycoon, and the Russian mob. Ry O''Malley, a hunky tough guy, signs on to protect Zoe, and soon they''re on the run. Zoe and Ry prove to be amazingly lucky, to the point that by the time the unsurprising ending rolls around, all suspense has been drained from the action. Readers should be prepared for prose typical of erotic romance fiction (e.g., "He tried to gentle his kiss, but then she tangled her fingers in his hair and sucked on his tongue, pulling it deeper into her mouth, making love with their mouths, sucking, tonguing, and he was lost"). (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Will blow your mind! Dan Brown meets Robert Ludlum in this gripping, incredibly fast-paced thriller.â€--_New York Times_ bestseller Greg Iles\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t put it down until you get up to walk around and catch your breath."â€”_New York Times_ bestseller Ted Bell\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Altar of Bones_ is one of the most stunning novels I''ve ever read. From superbly etched characters to a plot rich with twists and heart-stopping action . . . an incredible reading experience you can''t miss.â€ --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Catherine Coulter\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] action-filled story . . . lots of sex, lots of violence, and lots of plot twists.â€ --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8364'),
(300, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4208'),
(301, 'Alternate Generals II', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1640'),
(302, 'The Alternative Hero', 'Tim Thornton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do if you''re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you "belonged" in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpies'' lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyes--basically taking you with him--and just today you''ve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you? If you''re Clive Beresford--the haplessly obsessed guy at the center of Tim Thornton''s wildly comic and energetic debut novel--you get remarkably drunk and write and deliver a note to your idol (the contents of which you can''t remember the next morning), which causes two very large bouncer types to appear at your door warning you to back off, which, in turn, causes you to hide your true identity when you do finally meet Lance, totally by accident (he''s come a long way since the Magpies, but he is still LANCE F**CKING WEBSTER!) . . . none of which deters you from believing--really believing--that he could still save your life if only you could get that "earth-shattering exclusive" interview with him. With the story shifting between Clive''s life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, we get a headlong, boisterous coming-of-age (if-not-quite-growing-up) romp and a warmhearted, hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6536'),
(303, 'Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7662'),
(304, 'The Altman Code', 'Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He''s brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn''t want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3940'),
(305, 'Alvin journeyman', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Using the lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settled the North American continent, Card has created an alternate frontier America: a world where folk magic really works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. "Knacks" abound: Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read the heart of anyone. And Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. Alvin is a Maker, and what he can make is a new future for America. But to do that he must defeat his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvin''s life at every turn. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family and friends in the town of Vigor Church, to share in their isolation, to work as a blacksmith, and to try to teach anyone who will learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the city he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone. But the Unmaker is not through with Alvin. If that spirit of destruction cannot stop him by magic, or war and devastation, then it will try to crush the young Maker by simpler means - more human means. By lies and innuendo, and by false accusations, Alvin is driven from his home back to Hatrack River, only to find that the Unmaker has been there before him, and that he must now stand trial for his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2489'),
(306, 'Always', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself livingâ€”and lovingâ€”on the edge of danger. Â  Lisa Landon makes her living with her voiceâ€”a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisaâ€™s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps thatâ€™s what brings her to the exotic desert nation of Sedikhan and the nightclub where she meets Clancy Donahue.  Clancy takes one look at the beautiful, vulnerable chanteuse and knows she is exactly the woman heâ€™s been searching for. The Sedikhan security chief needs to bait a trap for a terrorist moneyman, and Clancy is certain that Lisa will be irresistible. What he doesnâ€™t count on is that he wonâ€™t be able to resist her eitherâ€”and that heâ€™ll do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his own life. With deadly plans in motion and Lisa in the crosshairs, Clancy realizes that before their romance can get to always, it will first have to reach tomorrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5861'),
(307, 'Always a Thief', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild cardâ€¦The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibitedâ€”and the showâ€™s director, Morgan West, canâ€™t ignore her growing uneasiness. Sheâ€™s certain she hasnâ€™t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her helpâ€”help she canâ€™t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and itâ€™s a game that just might get him killed.With Morganâ€™s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusiveâ€¦and more deadlyâ€¦than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trustedâ€”and everythingâ€™s at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5294'),
(308, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of *Always Looking Up* will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. ***The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.*.** *Always Looking Up* is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s. With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, *Lucky Man*, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3223'),
(309, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1106'),
(310, 'Amagansett', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and haunting as its backdrop, Amagansett is an unforgettable evocation of life''s epic forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2845'),
(311, 'The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2281'),
(312, 'Amazing Grace', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bungalow 2\n </em>\n still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn''t counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admittingâ€”much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriendâ€”that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there''s nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5987'),
(313, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal ** *One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.* The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.... Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3438'),
(314, 'The Amazing Mexican Secret', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Special delivery: Danger!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Stanley''s mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley''s simple trip becomes a race against an opponent that even a flat boy like himself can''t slip past!!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n  <em>\n   Flat Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Invisible Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley in Space\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Stanley, Flat Again!\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5391'),
(315, 'The Ambassadors', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is no\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8854'),
(316, 'Amber and Ashes', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The paperback edition of the new novel from\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling\n  <br />\n  author Margaret Weis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The paperback edition of the opening title in a new trilogy from\n  </strong>\n  Dragonlance\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  setting co-creator Margaret Weis takes up where the War of Souls series left off\n  <br />\n  with the central character Mina. While following her story, this new trilogy also explores the chaos that is post-war Krynn. This is Weisâ€™s first solo trilogy in\n  <br />\n  the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  AUTHOR BIO: MARGARET WEIS is the author of numerous\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including\n  <em>\n   the New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling War of Souls trilogy. She is also the author of The\n  <em>\n   Soulforge\n  </em>\n  and the Star of the Guardian novels and the designer of many\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  roleplaying products, including the\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Dragonlance\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Campaign Setting\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Margaretâ€™s latest title is\n  <em>\n   Mistress of Dragons\n  </em>\n  from Tor Books.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  MARGARET WEIS is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the New York Times best-selling War of Souls trilogy. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels and the designer of many Dragonlance role-playing products, including the Dragonlance Campaign Setting. Margaret''s latest title is Mistress of Dragons from Tor Books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9461'),
(317, 'Amber and Iron', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Synopsis:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The world of Krynn is ever changing, and even the gods can be taken by surprise. And if thatâ€™s true of the gods, what chance can a mere mortal have? Caught up in forces none of them could hope to face alone, a small but determined band of adventurers come together in a desperate attempt to stop an invasion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mina, as enigmatic as ever, escapes imprisonment to set off on a quest that will test even her considerable will. All the while, evil spreads across the land, gaining ground with each new day. With so much at stake, with the very soul of Krynn on the line, champions must be found even in the darkest places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9459');
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(318, 'The Amber Room', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that''s long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel''s father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia''s Catherine Palace. The disappearance of the panels, which together formed a room, remains one of the world''s greatest unsolved art mysteries. Borya''s secret gets him killed as two European industrialists/art collectors go head to head in a deadly race to find the fabled room. Searching for Borya''s killer, Rachel and Paul bumble their way to Europe, where their naivetâ€š triggers more deaths. Berry has obviously done his homework, and he seems determined to find a place for every fact he''s unearthed. The plot slows for descriptions of various art pieces, lectures and long internal monologues in which characters examine their innermost feelings and motives in minute detail, while also packing in plenty of sex and an abundance of brutal killings. A final confrontation between all the principals ends in a looming Bavarian castle where Rachel is raped. All the right elements are in place, but the book is far too long and not as exciting as the ingredients suggest. Readers may end up wishing Berry had written a nonfiction account of the fascinating story of the Amber Room and skipped the fictional mayhem.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Give this man credit: whereas most lawyers who decide to write a novel stay fairly close to home, Berry, a Georgia trial attorney, wanders far off the beaten path. Although his debut novel features a trial judge as its central character and opens with a pretty typical courtroom scene, it soon steps outside the courtroom--way outside. When Judge Rachel Cutler''s father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that, so the legend goes, was appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Now, to find out why her father died, and who''s responsible, Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Germany, where she hopes to find the truth about the Amber Room. Based loosely, very loosely, on certain historical events, the novel is plotted cleverly and written with style and substance. A welcome change from the usual legal-thriller fare from wanna-be Turows.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6463'),
(319, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Una fria noche de invierno, la nieve cae en una pequena ciudad, el viento hace resonar las campanas de la iglesia... y Fritz el novelista empieza el relato de su ultima narracion. En ese instante los mas extranos sucesos empiezan a desencadenarse, ligados unos a otros, casi como los engranajes de un reloj.En la inquietante historia se entremezclan un atormentado aprendiz de relojero, un principe automata, un amenazador caballero enfundado en su armadura y el siniestro senor Kalmenius, que, segun algunos, es el diablo en persona... A medida que la historia va desarrollandose, la vida y el reloj mecanico se entremezclan en esta muestra unica de la literatura de suspense, de la mano de uno de los mas prestigiosos escritores de nuestros dias. Philip Pullman ha sido el ganador de los codiciados premios Carnegie Medad y Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4179'),
(320, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3864'),
(321, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HE''S SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN''T EXIST--HIMSELF. On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there''s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn''t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was...and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead. "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film...slickly paced...all consuming."--"Entertainment Weekly"" ""Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined."--"The New York Times" " " Visit the Robert Ludlum(TM) Web site atwww.ludlumbooks.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3583'),
(322, 'Ambushed!', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancÃ©e''s disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office, Cash was finally off the hook...even though his instincts told him he''d never before held this woman in his arms. Posing as a missing woman had seemed like a good idea to on-the-run Molly Kilpatrick...unfortunately, she''d made the mistake of stealing the wrong identity. Someone wanted the woman dead and would stop at nothing to make sure, this time, she stayed dead. Molly needed Cash''s protection and had to trust in his innocence, but if she was wrong, she''d be *dead* wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(323, 'America&#39;s Great Depression', 'Murray Newton Rothbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Applied Austrian economics doesn''t get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard''s *America''s Great Depression* is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises Institute edition features, along with a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson, top-quality paper and bindings, in line with the standard set by The Scholars Edition of *Human Action*. Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive. Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed''s policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust. The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2437'),
(324, 'America&#39;s War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust, and Liberty', 'Marty Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spotlights the political, legal and civic battles raging in this country against what is arguably our most private and pluralistic right - sexual freedom.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Right has politicized private life, expanding the zone of public sexuality. This guarantees policies that will worsen social problems and increase personal anxiety, providing proof that sexuality is fundamentally negativeÃ¢â‚¬â€so citizens demand more sex-negative policies.\n</p>\n<p>\n With examples ripped from today''s headlines, with brutal honesty and a wicked sense of humor, Marty Klein names names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights. And, in the process, changing American societyÃ¢â‚¬â€forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives.Ã¢â‚¬â€ President George Bush, June 3, 2006\n</p>\n<p>\n So why does our government want to censor what you read, hear, and see, try to limit your access to contraception, attempt to legislate good moral values, and try to brainwash your kids about abstinence?\n</p>\n<p>\n These are the kinds of questions Dr. Marty Klein asksÃ¢â‚¬â€and answersÃ¢â‚¬â€in his new book,\n <em>\n  America''s War on Sex\n </em>\n . With hundreds of examples ripped from today''s headlines, he names names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights. Dr. Klein isn''t shy about it. He demands to knowÃ¢â‚¬â€as you should demand to knowÃ¢â‚¬â€answers to difficult questions, such as: If 50 million Americans consume pornography, why does the government dare to regulate it without consulting any consumers? Why do Congressmen listen to victims of porn but not healthy adults who use porn? Now that abstinence-only sex education has been proven a failure, why does the government still give it $200 million each year? And how can most of that money go to faith-based groups who tell your kids how God feels about their sexual choices? Why do hundreds of American communities feel they have the right to eliminate legal adult entertainment, claiming we''re not that kind of city? Why do family courts have the right to judge the private sexual habits of each parent when making custody decisions? How can licensed pharmacists and physicians claim they have the right to deny you legal medical care if it violates their conscience?\n</p>\n<p>\n Our glorious Constitution guarantees us the widest range of rights civilization has ever seen. Why are those rights systematically undermined and revoked when it comes to sexual expression?\n</p>\n<p>\n Is there a conspiracy to deny us our sexual rights? No, says Marty Klein: It''s worse than a conspiracy. It''s a war. They''re very open about itÃ¢â‚¬â€it''s a War on Sex.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a war that threatens the very fabric of our secular democracy. The American Taliban, our own sexual jihadists, want to replace our government with laws based on the Bible, creating a country in which normal sex is narrowly defined and no one has the right to alternative sexual information, health care, or personal expression.\n</p>\n<p>\n America is fighting a war on terror to prevent the overthrow of our way of life by fanatics who want to base all law on their strict religious beliefs. It is completely unacceptable that a group of conservative Americans is trying to accomplish the same thing right here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9325'),
(325, 'American 19th Century Literature: Complete Stories; The Golden Bowl; Moby-Dick; Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; The Age of Innocence', 'Various; Henry James; Herman Melville; Mark Twain; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.\n</p>\n<p>\n Titles included:\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Age of Innocence\n </em>\n by Edith Wharton\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Complete Stories\n </em>\n by Edgar Allan Poe\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Golden Bowl\n </em>\n by Henry James\n <br />\n <em>\n  Moby-Dick\n </em>\n by Herman Melville\n <br />\n _Tom Sawyer\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Huckleberry Finn_ by Mark Twain\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9309'),
(326, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1New York Timesbestselling author Vince Flynn returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terroristrs"s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America''s shores. Stansfield directs his protEacute;Eacute;, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command-men who do not exist. What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy''s doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesnrs"t know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn''s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind then; steely gazen of the nation''s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11216'),
(327, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This American author describes her ordinary 1950''s childhood in Pittsburgh with extraordinary clarity and humour. Her father quits the family firm and takes a boat down the Ohio River alone for a few months. Her mother teaches the three daughters how to tell a joke and bet a poker hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5113'),
(328, 'The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(329, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism,Â which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new historyâ€¦.This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Rooseveltâ€¦.I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morganâ€¦.As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent bookâ€¦.H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writerâ€¦ [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific workâ€¦. He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical sceneryâ€¦This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6978'),
(330, 'American Empire: Blood and Iron', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he''s working close enough to the present for readers to appreciate his detailed analyses of how familiar events might have turned out differently. His massive trilogy, The Great War, described how WWI might have been fought on an Earth where the Confederacy was still an independent nation. This follow-up novel begins by showing postwar life. Teddy Roosevelt is president; however, the Socialist Party gives the establishment serious competition, as veterans question the society they fought to save, and Upton Sinclair challenges TR in the election of 1920. Meanwhile, in the humiliated and bankrupt Confederate states, an angry racist with a gift of demagoguery whips up violent mobs and aims them at his enemies. Readers will recognize some of the names, but watching historical processes in action is the novel''s real attraction. Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the results of different choices. Sometimes, luck and willingness to compromise can resolve conflicts. On the other hand, the Southern Hitler may have his way. It depends on how well people make sense of the situations facing them. Turtledove''s introduction carries over a cast of 16 varied characters from The Great War. Not all survive, but readers will be curious to see how the rest go on to cope with new challenges. This book begins a panoramic story, a new trilogy at least, that promises to be immensely fascinating. 5-city author tour; on-sale date July 31.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s Great War series morphs into the American Empire series. The U.S and imperial Germany have imposed a "blood and iron" peace on Britain, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. On the western front, the Confederacy struggles to overcome defeat, dissension, and Weimar-level inflation, and the U.S. labors to stay on top of things and prepare for the next round of combat. Indomitable, muddleheaded General Custer has his sails trimmed by the election of Socialist Upton Sinclair as president in 1920, which also makes Turtledove''s creation, Flora Hamburger, the wife of the vice-president. In the Confederacy, former artillery sergeant Jake Featherstone founds the Freedom Party. His road to power turns rocky after the crackbrained assassination of President Wade Hampton V, but Ann Colleton escapes the subsequent Freedom Party debacle only slightly damaged and loses her stormy lover when the widow of one of his victims shoots him. Cincinnatus Driver leaves Ohio for the better racial climate of Iowa, and Scipio, married and now named Xerxes, learns that no matter which whites win in the Confederacy, the black man almost always loses. Turtledove''s skill at dramatizing historical forces proves magisterial once more.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4964'),
(331, 'American Empire: The Victorious Opposition', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume in Turtledove''s colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain (1997). Juxtaposing historical dilemmas and universal human ones, the novel explores weird twists of history at both levels. Jake Featherston leads an independent Confederacy toward war, with his propaganda chief a scrawny undersized Jew. Anne Colleton attends the Richmond Olympics of 1936, still dynamic but worried about losing her sex appeal. George Enos has lost his mother, accidentally shot by her drunken lover Ernie, and is now following in his late father''s footsteps as a commercial fisherman out of Boston. Cincinnatus Driver and Scipio are on a collision course with the Holocaust that the Confederacy is preparing for African-Americans in Alabama, but Cincinnatus has also borne the burden of making peace with the parents of his Chinese daughter-in-law. Jonathan Moss is climbing back into the cockpit of an alternate P-40, ready to wield it like a sword of vengeance against Canadian terrorists who killed his wife and daughter. And one does wonder what will come of a WWII with France and Britain under quasi-Fascist regimes. Readers will not have long to wait, as the WWII trilogy is only a couple of years from seeing the light of print-which many fans will find far too long.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The conclusion to American Empire, part of Turtledove''s magisterial saga of an alternate America that also includes the trilogy The Great War, is the most powerful volume in it since the post-Civil War novel that launched it all,\n <em>\n  How Few Remain\n </em>\n (1997). It demonstrates Turtledove''s continuing mastery of historical fiction on the macrocosmic and the microcosmic levels. On the grand scale, there is Confederate president Jake Featherstone (the Confederacy won the Civil War, you see) shouting, "I''m here to tell you the truth," while he does nothing of the sort; the Olympics of 1936 unfolding in Richmond, Virginia; a France ruled by the Action Francaise and upholding a king, Charles XI; and the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II precipitating the next world war. On the smaller scale, three old friends from previous saga volumes are lost: Sylvia Enos to her drunken lover Ernie, the widowed Lucien Gautier to a heart attack while with a new lady-love, and Clara Jacobs to old-fashioned blood-poisoning. Cincinnatus Driver is torn between obligations to his old Red comrades, his family in Iowa, and his parents in a Kentucky that, having voted itself into the Confederacy, is preparing a Holocaust of its black population. Farther south, Scipio has no hope of refuge if Anne Colleton comes after him, while up north Jonathan Moss leaves Canada to return to a fighter cockpit after his wife and daughter are killed by a letter bomb. Busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4972'),
(332, 'American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his first book Geist, from MSNBC''s Way Too Early and Morning Joe, imagines private conversations, e-mail exchanges, Twitter feeds, speeches, and other scenarios involving top newsmakers from our time. Such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Kate Gosselin, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, and "President" Sarah Palin are subjected to Geist''s wooden, repetitive send-ups. As Geist tells it, most everyone-including all 20th century presidents-seem to be identical to each other, right down to their speech patterns: they are arrogant, lack self-awareness, and have a penchant for swearing. While they may, indeed, share certain qualities, individual personalities are lost on Geist. Occasional "true story" vignettes about real-life "freaks" feature much fresher and funnier content; while recounting a news story in which a man was arrested for pleasuring himself with a coin-operated car wash vacuum, Geist muses, "One assumes Whitesnake was playing on the radio." Clearly commentary, rather than storytelling, is Geist''s strength, so it''s a shame that narratives make up the bulk of this effort.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6446'),
(333, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she''s been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible.He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2924'),
(334, 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n , acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original "crime of the century"--and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city''s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America''s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men--labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times''s fiercely anti-union owner--of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.\n</p>\n<p>\n While preparation is laid for America''s highest profile trial ever--and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets--two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can''t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today,\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7751'),
(335, 'American Music', 'Jane Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Mendelsohn on\n  <em>\n   American Music\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The first moment of inspiration for\n <em>\n  American Music\n </em>\n came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fact that there was a secret formula for making cymbals. I was in Maine for a reading of my first novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n I immediately envisioned a story about a woman searching for this formula, desperately, somewhat pointlessly but also movingly, as if it were the secret to life itself. I pictured her trying to work through a loss by realizing the simultaneity of all things, that memories, like symbols, and the sound of cymbals, contain all time. That idea changed over the years, but essentially remained a deep part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n A while later, I heard from a friend who does bodywork about a man who refused to lie on his back. I began imagining a tale about why he wouldn''t and started thinking of a character who was a soldier. The two ideas: the secret formula for making cymbals and the soldier with his mysterious reason for not lying on his back simmered in my mind as I started researching.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I read about the history of cymbals, I was struck that these instruments developed in 17th century Turkey by an Armenian alchemist were so central to American music. I read about jazz and learned that it was the shift to leading the beat with the cymbals instead of the drums that marked the beginning of swing. It interested me that such a quintessentially American art form could be traced so clearly to a moment in time so distant and different from America in the 1930''s, which was when swing began. And I was also struck that Istanbul in 1623 was a place of cosmopolitanism, a vibrant melting pot of cultures.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was at this point in my thinking about the book, and living in New York City, when 9/11 occurred. That I had been writing about Islamic culture and its relation to 20th century America felt uncanny. And when we went to war, the fact that I had been writing about a soldier felt uncomfortable. I put the book away for a while. My daughter was two, and not long after, I had another baby.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not stop thinking about cymbals and about the soldier. I worked on the book in my head while I pushed my daughters on the swings in Washington Square Park, the destruction at ground zero so close but at the same time, in the playground, seemingly very far away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, the strands I had been working on came together, found each other in a way, in one larger narrative about families and love stories and the world that goes on while war is happening someplace else. Of course I am still searching for that secret formula.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Nick Davis)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This digressive novel by the author of\n <em>\n  I Was Amelia Earhart\n </em>\n probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a 21-year-old physical therapist at the Bronx VA hospital; Milo Hatch is a particularly traumatized patient who was severely wounded in Iraq. During Milo''s treatment, both he and Honor begin having visions of people they don''t know. The narrative breaks up in pursuit of the stories behind the visions of the late 1930s love triangle between Joe, a saxophone player and law student; his wife, Pearl, unable to have children after many miscarriages; and Pearl''s cousin, Vivian, who shares with Joe a passion for jazz. (Mendelsohn provides, for instance, a tidy excursus on the significance of cymbals in jazz, tracing their provenance to 17th-century Istanbul.) The fallout from Joe and Vivian''s messy affair connects back to present day, yet the music evoked by this ponderously embellished work remains a vague, distant noise.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4841'),
(336, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(337, 'American Outlaw', 'Jesse James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5054'),
(338, 'American Outrage', 'Tim Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show\n <em>\n  American Outrage\n </em>\n , based in New York City, has softened his hard line a bit after his wife''s recent death, but is still capable of going for the jugular when necessary for a hot story. On the home front, to help his preteen adopted son, Sam, get over his grief, Jake agrees to try and track down Sam''s biological mother. This simple request goes from bad to worse once pseudo-celebrity Jake starts asking questions about the boy''s supposed Albanian roots. After Jake is drugged and shot at, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder as his own colleagues ruthlessly chase down the story. When Sam disappears, Jake gets serious and sets out to do whatever it takes to bring his son back, regardless of who pays the price. Green''s tale is ripe with irony and full of barbs.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, Jake Carlson is making big bucks as a reporter on the tabloid news show I^ American Outrage, but the former foreign correspondent is ashamed of his job, and his personal life is a mess, too. Widowed for a year, he''s struggling to keep his 13-year-old adopted son, Sam, on the straight and narrow. Jake finds a renewed sense of purpose, though, when Sam convinces him to help find his birth mother. He knows the hunt will be difficult, but he doesn''t realize just how challenging until he starts asking questions. The head of the agency Jake used for the adoption had died, and there''s no trace of the agency, which had been operating slightly under the radar, funneling babies from Albania to the U.S. for couples desperate for children. As Jake attempts to tie his investigation into a story to bolster his waning popularity at I^ American Outrage, he and Sam become the target of violence and revenge. Genre veteran Green hits his stride here, with his best novel since his early football thrillers (I^ Outlaws, 1996).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4707');
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(339, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For most of New York''s early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation''s founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island''s heydayâ€”from 1892 to 1924â€”coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island''s chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation''s preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3244'),
(340, 'American pastoral', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century''s promises of prosperity, civic order,  and domestic bliss. Roth''s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father''s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede''s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede''s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenagerâ€”a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9974'),
(341, 'American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n . Peter Reinhart, he who gave us\n <strong>\n  and the multi-award winning\n </strong>\n , takes the reader of\n <em>\n  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza\n </em>\n right into the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama''s, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It''s not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it''s only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Work diligently with\n <em>\n  American Pie\n </em>\n and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Schuyler Ingle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe[HTML_REMOVED]s versus Sally[HTML_REMOVED]s, Gino[HTML_REMOVED]s East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angelesâ€”these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s epic tour. Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.\n <em>\n  A fascinating look into the great pizzas and pizzerias of Italy and America.\n </em>\n Peter Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s last book, THE BREAD BAKER[HTML_REMOVED]S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Reviewsâ€œPeter Reinhart has taken a deep look into pizza, one of the best and simplest of foods, embracing all its variety. He probes American pizza especially, but he has tasted the original in Naples and visited elsewhere in Italy to learn about variations and relatives. He tells vivid stories, and his recipes and techniques are thorough and practical. A splendid book.â€â€”Edward Behr, editor, The Art of Eatingâ€œI doubt whether anyone else could be as passionate as Peter Reinhart about pizzas or have made such extensive and exciting journeys in pursuing them. He has collected great anecdotes and wonderfully detailed recipes in the course of his intercontinental hunt.â€â€”Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Foodâ€œWe all know that Peter Reinhart is a great baker and teacher, but now that he[HTML_REMOVED]s fallen in love with pizza, we can see he[HTML_REMOVED]s also a great tour guide as he takes us to the best pizzerias in Italy and America. Secrets are divulged, expert tips provided, and stories told. Much more than a collection of recipes, this is a book that is as fun to read as it is to bake from.â€â€”Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7123'),
(342, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Lion''s Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(343, 'American Psycho: A Novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7468'),
(344, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some thingsâ€¦ Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7931'),
(345, 'American rust', 'Philipp Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, **American Rust** is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperationâ€”as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and loveâ€”that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.Evoking John Steinbeckâ€™s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, **American Rust** takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.**Newsweek''s list of "Best. Books. Ever"Amazon Top 100 book of 2009A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2009A New York Times Notable Book of 2009An Economist Best Book of 2009A Kansas City Star Top 100 book of 2009Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''s Best Books of 2009Idaho Statesman''s Best Books of 2009**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3427'),
(346, 'American supernatural tales', 'S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction** As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation''s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course- Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4092'),
(347, 'American Tabloid', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Repackaged to celebrate the release of Blood''s a Rover in PB 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy''s presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant - Howard Hughes''s right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa''s hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy''s drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men''s hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamous for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2156'),
(348, 'American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6850'),
(349, 'Amerika', 'Franz Kafka &amp; Willa Muir &amp; Edwin Muir &amp; Emlen Etting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6154'),
(350, 'Amigoland', 'Oscar Casares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino''s good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather''s kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it''s never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares''s debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2506'),
(351, 'Amis, Martin - Money (v1.0)', 'Money', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10403'),
(352, 'Among Others', 'Jo Walton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10766'),
(353, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Two novels in one trade volume.** There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night... In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead. In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(354, 'Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer', 'Bryan Perro &amp; Y. Maudet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series for middle grade readers. Amos is a hero straight out of the Brothers Grimm--loyal, trustworthy, and very clever--outsmarting villains with their own nefarious schemes. In this classic story of good versus evil, Amos has been chosen as a Mask Wearer, tasked with combating forces of evil using the power embedded in four lost masks. Encountering gorgons, mermaids, nagas, and the Egyptian god Seth, Amos proves he is a fierce opponent and a steadfast friend. A satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next book, and the mythology glossary at the end is an added bonus._--Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Bryan Perro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young boy, I had a passion for comic books, especially the French\n  <em>\n   Pif Gadget\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rahan\n  </em>\n  . At fourteen, I discovered my first book,\n  <em>\n   The Devilâ€™s Triangle\n  </em>\n  by American writer Richard Winer. The book was about the Bermuda Triangle; I loved how it dealt with the supernatural and how unexplained forces exert power over the boats, aircrafts, and people who dare to venture in this eerie part of the Atlantic Ocean. This real-life mystery and Winerâ€™s way with words fueled my imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During my college years, I developed a deep interest in anthropology and the myths that exist throughout the world. I have around 350 books in my home--all myths and legends from places near and far. The fantastical creatures that populate these amazing stories, along with the hero in each of them, inspired me to create\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon\n  </em>\n  , the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I was looking for a magical item that Amos Daragon would need to find on his quest, I was surprised to learn that the first such item in the history of mankind is not the magic wand, but the mask.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the aborigines, the first men, danced around their campfires, they personified animals. How did they do this? They wore masks! If, for example, they put on the mask of the eagle, their vision grew more piercing. This enhanced power allowed them to be a better hunter. So I wanted Amos to be in pursuit of mankindâ€™s first magical item, the mask. Four of them, in fact! And since I wanted to write an extended series, I decided that stones would empower the masks. Not only did this allow Amos to harness his abilities as Mask Wearer slowly, it gave me the opportunity to explore all sorts of adventures for my young hero. Itâ€™s been an incredible journey for him and for me--one that I hope boys and girls will join as they begin\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fast paced, with a litany of new friends and foes introduced in every chapter, this first installment in the Amos Daragon series is a smart choice for die-hard fantasy lovers. Young Amos, a child of peasants in a mythical realm ruled by an evil king, is chosen to fight a ï¿½mysterious and wicked forceï¿½ by collecting four masks that represent earth, wind, fire, and water and along the way eliminating the malevolent forces corrupting the woods of Tarkasis. In his quest, Amos encounters mermaids and mermen, druids and fairies, and he befriends the ï¿½humanimalï¿½ Beorf. The plot is complex, and the fantasy can be heavy-handed at times, but a ï¿½mythological lexiconï¿½ appears as an addendum and provides some cultural context regarding many of the creatures who appear in the story. This is ultimately a tale about finding oneï¿½s own independence, and the climax will leave readers eager for the next installment in the series. Fans of Cornelia Funkeï¿½s Inkheart trilogy will approve. Grades 4-7. --Erin Anderson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6199'),
(355, 'Amsterdam', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the\n <em>\n  Judge\n </em>\n , persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to\n <em>\n  Amsterdam\n </em>\n ''s outcome--it''s only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly''s most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer''s craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As swift as a lethal bullet and as timely as current headlines, McEwan''s Booker Prize-winning novel is a mordantly clever?but ultimately too clever for its own good?exploration of ethical issues. Two longtime friends meet at the cremation of the woman they shared, beautiful restaurant critic and photographer Molly Lane. Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, the editor of a financially troubled London tabloid, could never understand Molly''s third liaison?with conservative Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is angling to be prime minister, or her marriage to dour but rich publisher George Lane. Mourning the manner of Molly''s agonizing death, which left her mad and helpless at the end, each man pledges to dispatch the other by euthanasia should he be similarly afflicted. Immediately afterwards, both Clive and Vernon are enmeshed in a crisis: Clive must finish his commissioned Millennium Symphony so it can premiere in Amsterdam, and Vernon must grapple with the moral issue of publishing photos of Julian Garmony in drag that George has discovered with Molly''s effects. The clash between whether the demands of pure art are more valid than political accountability and financial solvency soon assumes a larger dimension that turns Clive and Vernon into bitter enemies and inspires each of them to seek revenge by the same means. McEwan spins these plot developments with smooth alacrity and with acidulous wit, especially focused on the way shallow and mediocre people can occupy positions of power and esteem: "In his profession, Vernon was revered as a nonentity." His ability to sculpt a scene with such arresting visual detail that it assumes a physical dimension for the reader (most memorably in the opening of Enduring Love but also evident here as Clive observes a woman being accosted by a rapist, and as Vernon watches a TV interview that signals the end of his career) are undiminished. But when, in the last third of the book, McEwan manipulates the plot to achieve a less than credible symmetry, it is obvious that, despite the Booker recognition, this is far from McEwan''s best novel. That said, however, it will undoubtedly hit the bestseller charts, for McEwan, even when not quite at the top of his form, is a writer of compelling gifts. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9294'),
(356, 'Amy &amp; Roger&#39;s Epic Detour', 'Morgan Matson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy''s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she''s always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy''s mother''s old friend. Amy hasn''t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she''s surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she''s coming to terms with her father''s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl''s journey to find herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2438'),
(357, 'Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy: A Practical Guide', 'Steve Yentis; Anne May; Surbhi Malhotra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brimming with plenty of useful information....Overall, the well-written little handbook is a valuable resource that provides a practical approach to many important aspects of obstetric anesthesia practice."\n <br />\n --Canadian Journal of Anesthesia\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thoroughly updated edition of this well-established practical guide to obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia originally published by W. B. Saunders. All aspects of obstetric medicine relevant to the anaesthetist are covered, from conception, throughout pregnancy, to after birth care. The emphasis is on pre-empting problems and maximising quality of care. The authors have identified over 150 potential complications each covered in two sections: issues raised and management options, with key points extracted into boxes for quick reference. A section on organisational aspects such as record keeping, training, protocols and guidelines makes this an important resource for any labour ward or hospital dealing with pregnant women. Presented in a clear, structured format, this book will be invaluable to trainee anaesthetists at all levels and to experienced anaesthetists who encounter obstetric patients. Obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, nurses and operating department practitioners wishing to extend or update their knowledge will also find it highly beneficial.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9487'),
(358, 'Analog SFF, December 2009', 'Dell Magazine Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 73724 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7332'),
(359, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fat Charlie Nancy is not having a good week. It all hit the proverbial fan when his rotter of an estranged father dropped dead at a karaoke night and Charlie discovered that his dad was in fact Anansi the spider god. Then he found out that he has a brother (called Spider) who is also a god. And that said brother is hell bent on taking over his life, flat and fiance, and, just to add insult to injury, doing a much better job of being him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four loco old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo and unleashes a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2919'),
(360, 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia', 'Robert Nozick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time." Mind "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious." Economist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time."\n  <em>\n   Mind\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious."\n  <em>\n   Economist\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10675'),
(361, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizableâ€”yet strangely invertedâ€”world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent''s walls. Three times during history''s darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outsideâ€”the Extramurosâ€”for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago. Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent''s gatesâ€”at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn''t seen since he was "collected." But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change. Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramurosâ€”a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can opposeâ€”as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his worldâ€”as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8766'),
(362, 'The Anatomy of Fascism', 'Robert O. Paxton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A scholar of Vichy France, Paxton focuses here on the literature about fascism. The term is used with abandon in contemporary political discourse, reflecting scholarly disagreement about how to define it. His historical source material predominantly emanates from Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, an obvious but necessary observation since the "fascist" status of other authoritarian regimes is contentious. Paxton does integrate biographies of the two ur-fascists into his dissection, but he comments frequently that a researcher''s fixation on the leader obscures rather than clarifies the rise of his party, as does a propensity to focus on the party''s ideology instead of its actions, and he follows the significantly different trajectories of radicalism taken by the Fascists and the Nazis. Formulating a five-stage life cycle of fascism from birth in "mobilizing passions" provoked by World War I to its destructiveness in power, Paxton wants his intricate but readable work to "rescue the concept [of fascism] for meaningful use," a laudable goal largely achieved.\n  <em>\n   Gilbert Taylor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "So fair, so thorough and, in the end, so convincing, it may well become the most authoritative . . . study of the subject. . . . A splendid book."\n  <em>\n   â€“The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Useful and timely. . . . Mussolini and Hitler were the prototypical fascist leaders, and Paxton chronicles their rise to power--and their global influence and ultimate fall--with a brilliant economy." â€“_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A deeply intelligent and very readable book. . . . Historical analysis at its best." â€“_The Economist\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ[A] helpful contribution, thoughtfully mapping out the descent of a civilized people â€” first the Italians, then the Germans â€” into a primal state (and state of being) ruled by mythology, symbol and emotion. . . . Serves as a reminder of our power and responsibility.â€ â€“\n  </em>\n  The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUntil now there has been no satisfying account of fascism that includes a convincing diagnostic kit for identifying its symptoms. . . . Robert Paxton steps in to restore sanity, with his view that fascism is not what was believed but what was done.â€ â€“_Los Angeles Times Book Review_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7957');
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(363, 'The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller', 'John Truby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek.Â The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script.Â Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of StoryÂ draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own uniqueÂ approach for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative.Â Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at onceÂ insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will dig deep within and explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effectiveÂ story. Writers willÂ come away with an extremely precise set of tools to work withâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. TheyÂ will construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are so fundamental they are applicableâ€”and essentialâ€”to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. John Truby is Hollywoodâ€™s premiere story consultant and founder of Trubyâ€™s Writers Studio. He has worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, and HBO, among others, and has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide.Â  John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry.Â Â His students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek.Â His first book, The Anatomy of Story is about the process ofÂ writing a compelling script.Â Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of StoryÂ draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology and offers techniques andÂ anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s ownÂ approach toÂ developing an effective, multifaceted narrative.Â Â Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at onceÂ insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effectiveÂ story. Truby provides a precise set of toolsâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. Writers will learn toÂ construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are applicable to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "A veritable bible for screenwriters."â€”BackstageÂ  Â "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA WeeklyÂ "The Anatomy Of Story is concrete and practical without resorting to simplistic ''Three Act Structure'' screenwriting clichÃ©s. It will be an indispensable guide to writing your first great script. Then, the perfect survival manual to help you negotiate the often confusing, contradictory and cutthroat world of professional screenwriting."â€”Larry Wilson, co-writer and co-producer of Beetlejuice andÂ co-writer of The Addams FamilyÂ "Hollywood story consultant Truby commits his vast knowledge of screenwriting and storytelling to the page in this handy guide for aspiring writers of all types. Truby delves into the setup, from basic structure to the premise and the depth behind it. From there, he moves into character, emphasizing the importance of not only the hero but also the characters in the story who aid and oppose him. Truby illustrates the importance of setting to the story and how careful plotting is needed to weave the elements of the story together. He cautions that plot is not incidental and requires careful management and timely revelations. Although most of his examples are from movies, such as Tootsie, The Godfather, and Star Wars, Truby also draws from novels and plays, and his advice is applicable not only to the hopeful screenwriter but to the aspiring novelist as well. A comprehensive guide to writing stories of all kinds, Truby''s tome is invaluable to any writer looking to put an idea to paper."â€”Kristine Huntley, Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7793'),
(364, 'The Ancestor&#39;s Tale', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9801'),
(365, 'The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry', 'Tony Barnstone &amp; Ping Chou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unmatched in scope and literary quality,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translationsâ€“many new and exclusive to the bookâ€“by an array of distinguished translators.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the\n <strong>\n  Book of Songs\n </strong>\n â€“ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himselfâ€“and Laoziâ€™s\n <strong>\n  Dao De Jing\n </strong>\n _ _to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the postâ€”Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. A landmark anthology,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _captures with impressive range and depth the essence of Chinaâ€™s illustrious poetic tradition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ZHOU DYNASTY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (1122-256 BCE)\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Chinese civilization stretches back to Neolithic times, the earliest known dynasty, the Xia, is of limited importance to a discussion of Chinese literature, as there is no evidence that a written language was in use. The succeeding dynasty, the Shang, was a Bronze Age agricultural civilization. During the Shang, characters were written on oracle bones (usually made of turtle shell or cattle shoulder bones, and later on bamboo strips, silk, and bronze), but no literature from this time is extant.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Shang were overthrown by the king of Zhou, a small dependent nation in the Wei River Valley in the western Shang territory, and thus began the Zhou dynasty, the first great period of Chinese literature. It was during the Zhou dynasty that the doctrine that the Chinese King was exercising a "Mandate of Heaven" in his rule developed. It later became an extremely important doctrine both to justify imperial rule and to explain the fall of an empire (should an emperor prove corrupt or weak, heaven would remove his mandate). The Zhou dynasty is the longest of China''s many dynasties, and is divided into the Western Zhou (1122-771 BCE) and the Eastern Zhou (771-256 BCE), as the Zhou were forced out of their capital at Xian by barbarian invaders from the north, and moved east to found their new capital in Luoyang. The Eastern Zhou is itself subdivided into the Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BCE) and the Warring States Period (463-221 BCE). The troubled Warring States Period marked the waning years of the dynasty. Such great thinkers, moralists, and philosophers as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi lived during the Eastern Zhou. It was the time of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the golden age of Chinese philosophy, when the great traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Militarism, and Mohism developed. In this period, itinerant thinkers traveled with their followers, finding employment with rulers, who would seek their advice on warfare, morality, diplomacy, and government. The Zhou dynasty eventually weakened to the point where it ruled only in name, as seven powerful warring states vied for dominance. In 221 BCE, the ruler of a western state emerged triumphant from the ongoing warfare and unified China, naming himself Shi Huangdi (the "first emperor") and beginning the Qin dynasty. After eight hundred years, heaven had removed its mandate from the Zhou at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n The three Zhou dynasty texts presented here are the source of Chinese poetic literature, evolving out of the beginnings of Chinese writing, and foreshadowing what was to come in this extraordinary three thousand year tradition. Chinese poetry begins with the Book of Songs, comprised of folk songs, hymns, and court songs collected largely from ordinary people living along the Yellow River, and putatively edited by Confucius himself (thus the collection is sometimes referred to as the Confucian Odes). The fact that the Chinese poetic tradition begins with folk poetry reworked and set to music has meant that the long tradition of Chinese poetry written by the nobility has often striven for a sense of folk authenticity to blend with the master poet''s craft and skill, simplicity balancing elegance. The four-character verses in the Book of Songs are the model for shi poetry, whose variations came to dominate classical Chinese poetry for the next two thousand years.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, studied throughout Chinese history by the nobility and by those who wished to rise in society as scholar-officials. Poetry is held to be one of the great arts that educated Chinese men (and sometimes women) should know and be able to practice. In fact, poetry has been in the mainstream of literary expression in Chinese literature, and so it is often afforded great powers of influence in the Chinese critical tradition. The "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs states that poetry is a Confucian rectifier that establishes the proper relationships between spouses, encourages respect and loyalty for the old, strengthens human ties, improves civilizations, and excises bad customs. In the Analects, Confucius often mentions the Songs. In Analect 2.2, for example, he states, "There are 300 Songs, but they can be summed up with one phrase: let your thoughts be free of depravity." Poetry serves a moral purpose, according to Confucius, "stimulating the reader, and making him observant, sociable, and capable of expressing his grievances," while at the same time "helping him to serve his family and his King" (Analect 17.8). Though the poems in the Book of Songs were in fact simply songs of the peasants, they were read as moral allegories, or as analogues to political and historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second text presented here is the marvelous, riddling, profound, and elegantly difficult Dao De Jing of Laozi (better known in the West by an earlier transliteration as the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu). As the Book of Songs stands as one of the key texts that gave birth to the Confucian tradition, so the Dao De Jing (along with another great text, the Zhuangzi) stands as the source of the great religious and philosophical tradition of Daoism, and ultimately of Chinese Buddhism, which blended with Daoism in a particularly Chinese philosophical and spiritual mÃ©lange. Though it is not normally considered to be poetry, the Dao De Jing translates as marvelous poetry. A selection from it can help give Western readers an understanding of the concepts that underlie so many of the great Daoist and Buddhist poets in China who were to come later.\n</p>\n<p>\n The final text in this section is a selection from the great long poem Encountering Sorrow, by Qu Yuan (c. 332-c. 295 bce). This poem comes from the Verses of Chu, the second great early anthology of Chinese poetry, which included Qu Yuan''s poetry, as well as that of a later poet, Song Yu. Encountering Sorrow and other poems in the collection tell of how Qu Yuan''s dedication to his king was rewarded with banishment, leading him to drown himself in despair. The poems are celebrated for their Confucian dedication to duty. The work of Qu Yuan represents the beginning of an ornate literary tradition in China, which is counterbalanced by the simpler, vernacular, folk tradition of the Book of Songs. His poems are also the source of Chinese fu poetry, an irregular blend of poetry and prose that was to become an important part of the Chinese tradition. Fu poems usually begin and conclude with prose passages, with rhymed poetry in the center.\n</p>\n<p>\n Qu Yuan is supposedly the first Chinese poet whose name we know (though in fact there are a few cases in the Book of Songs in which a poet''s name is embedded). That the Verses of Chu begins the tradition of named poetry in China is more important than one might think. When one knows a poet''s name, and something of his or her life, one gets a powerful sense of human connection to the person behind the poem. As poets name the world, so their own names name something to us as readers-a life and, perhaps more important, a lifework. Though the songs from the Books of Songs can often feel personal, they are almost exclusively anonymous and written to set generic topics. Thus, despite their allusive and elaborate nature, the poems of Qu Yuan are the fountainhead of personal poetry in China.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BOOK OF SONGS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (c. 600 bce)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, and the thematic and formal source of the Chinese poetic tradition. The Chinese name for the Book of Songs is the Shi Jing, and the term shi (the general term for poetry, like the Japanese term waka) derives from its name. Legend has it that its 305 poems were compiled by Confucius (551-479 bce) from an earlier manuscript of around three thousand songs. The assertion that Confucius was the compiler is questionable, but certainly the anthology was extant in Confucius''s time, and it seems likely that the anthology was collected between 1100 and 600 bce. Confucius refers to the Book of Songs in the Analects, and it was part of the curriculum of his disciples; it is counted among the Confucian classics that form the basis of Confucian education. The collection was banned in the third century bce, along with the other Confucian classics, but was reconstructed during the Han dynasty, and the edition that is most complete derives from this time.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs contains three basic categories of song: folk songs and ballads, court songs, and sacrificial songs. Like the Sanskrit Vedas of India, these songs provide us with a window onto the simple and beautiful life of an ancient time. Heroes and ancestors are praised, love is made, war is waged, farmers sing to their crops, people complain about their taxes, and moral categories are set forth in stark and powerful form. Though these are songs, the music has been lost, and some of them have been revised from folk song roots by court musicians, rhymed and arranged into stanzas. Others were aristocratic songs, songs to be sung to accompany ritual dancing, or to accompany the rites of ancestor worship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  White Moonrise\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The white rising moon\n</p>\n<p>\n is your bright beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in spells\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n The light moon soars\n</p>\n<p>\n resplendent like my lady,\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in light chains\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moon in white glory,\n</p>\n<p>\n you are the beautiful one\n</p>\n<p>\n who delicately wounds me\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Translated by Tony Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n and Willis Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but seven of ten plums remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You gentlemen who would court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come on a lucky day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but three of ten plums still remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You men who want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come now, today is a lucky day!\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree.\n</p>\n<p>\n You can fill up your baskets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gentlemen if you want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n just say the word...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6798'),
(366, 'Ancient Chinese Warfare', 'Ralph D. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional accounts, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures. Sawyer''s analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China''s signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity." Illus. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n P. H. Liotta, author ofÂ _The Real Population Bomb: Megacities and Global Security\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAfter decades of intense and dedicated scholarship, Ralph Sawyer has produced an astonishing volume. His linguistic and strategic skillsâ€”his fierce geniusâ€”are everywhere in evidence. Sawyer is a master, and\n <em>\n  Ancient Chinese Warfare\n </em>\n is his masterpiece.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Ralph Peters, retired Military Intelligence officer and author ofÂ _The War After Armageddon_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is, paradoxically, a crucial book for the 21st century. As the â€˜newâ€™ China aspires to global power, understanding the foundations of this civilizationâ€™s way of war helps us grasp Beijingâ€™s present psychology and behavior.Â The Chinese take a very long view of history, and we need to learn to do so.Â To that end, the brilliant work of Ralph D. Sawyer has long proven unrivalled...and this book is his masterpiece.Â No work better illustrates the deep (and gnarled) roots of Chinaâ€™s contemporary ambitions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyerâ€™s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of Chinaâ€™s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyerâ€™s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Edward N. Luttwak, author ofÂ _The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNot unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyerâ€™s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7032'),
(367, 'Ancient Forces Collection', 'Bill Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6242'),
(368, 'Ancient images', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n British horror writer Campbell here focuses on one of his most intriguing inventions, a horror film supposedly starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, made in England in 1938 and immediately suppressed. When film editor Sandy Allen decides to track down a print of the film, her detective work leads her to Redfield, a rural community known for the delicious wheat that grows on its rich soil, fertilized by blood from an ancient massacre and, it turns out, in need of a fresh infusion every 50 years to maintain its fecundity. During her search, Sandy is shadowed by bizarre creatures that sometimes look like dogs and sometimes like scarecrows. After Sandy finally pins down the connection between the film and Redfield, the creatures come out of the shadows and reveal themselves. Campbell''s novels tend to be dense and less accessible than his short stories, but this narrative seems more relaxed and simplified--perhaps his most readable effort since his debut in The Doll Who Ate His Mother. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10000'),
(369, 'Ancient Shores', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker''s wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there''s the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker''s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. "If the government wants to kill anyone else, it''ll have to start with us," announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt''s readers have been waiting for.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4926'),
(370, 'And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Volume Two', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don t seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy s having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: bull;He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina bull;We re all going to explode at the age of 62 bull;Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits bull;No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie s long lost sister bull;Cooking a Sunday Roast is one thing. Gravy is quite another bull;He should probably be nicer about David BeckhamBut while these things play on his mind, the world remains Jeremy s favourite place to be. On the whole, it s brilliant. It s just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating the special things that we should hold dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1706'),
(371, 'And Another Thing...', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Douglas Adams''s Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At long last, the motley band from Douglas Adams''s renowned five-book Hitchhiker''s Guide Trilogy have returned, thanks to Artemis Fowl author Colfer. When the Vogons return to finish obliterating Earth in our universe and all alternatives, Arthur Dent and his companions find themselves hitchhiking on the spacefaring Viking longship of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an immortal with a death wish who is an expert at mass insults. Readers may find this volume paradoxical. On its own it is a funny novel, but Adams set a legendary, nearly impossible standard. Wacky humor reminiscent of the original Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy rings true, as do most of the characters, but newer elements, such as the brief appearance of Cthulhu, feel out of place. Most notably absent is the supreme inventiveness that hit us with the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the comic-sublime moments like Arthur flying with Fenchurch. You can''t go home again, but Adams fans will still appreciate the reunion with old friends.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wide variety of people love Douglas Adams''s books, so perhaps it is appropriate that each critic brought his or her own expectations to\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing . ...\n  </em>\n  Several who revered Adams''s deadpan prose and verbal inventiveness found that the new book falls short. Others felt that Colfer''s imitation often lacks subtlety and relies too heavily on reviving old Adams gags and characters. The\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  even went so far as to argue that this novel should have been reinvented in some more original form, such as an e-book. But some took the appearance of\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing ...\n  </em>\n  to critically review the Adams oeuvre and found that Colfer made up for some qualities the original author lacked. In any case, even the harshest critics of the book were happy to see Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Random saved from their doom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8182'),
(372, 'And Here&#39;s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft', 'Mike Sacks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT ?**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this entertaining and inspirational book, you''ll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry. You''ll also learn some less useful but equally amusing things, such as:How screenwriter Buck Henry came up with the famous "plastics" line for The Graduate.How many times the cops were called on co-writers Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer during the shooting of Borat.What David Sedaris thinks of his critics. What creator Paul Feig thinks would have happened to the Freaks &amp; Geeks crew if the show had had another season.What Jack Handey considers his favorite "Deep Thoughts." How Todd Hanson and the staff of The Onion managed to face the aftermath of 9/11 with the perfect dose of humor.How Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais created the original version of The Office. What it''s really like in the writers'' room at SNL.Funny and informative, And Here''s the Kicker is a must-have resource - whether you''re an aspiring humor writer, a fan of the genre, or someone who just likes to laugh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2455'),
(373, 'And So on and So On', 'James Jr. Tiptree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10003'),
(374, 'And the deep blue sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(375, 'And the Rat Laughed', 'Nava Semel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''''Girl and Rat'''' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw''s personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2206'),
(376, 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they''re unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder, and one by one they begin to fall prey to an unseen hand. As the only people on the island, unable to leave and unable to call for help, they know that the only possible suspects are among their number. And only the dead are above suspicion."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5231'),
(377, 'Android Karenina', 'Ben H. Winters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(378, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9968'),
(379, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2237'),
(380, 'Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit', 'Andy Rooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analystâ€”unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooneyâ€™s great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? â€œItâ€™s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.â€ On food? â€œThereâ€™s more dependable mediocrity than there used to be.â€\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <div>\n    Known to millions for his regular commentary on the television news magazine\n    <i>\n     60 Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and his syndicated newspaper column,\n    <b>\n     Andrew A. Rooney\n    </b>\n    is the author of numerous bestselling books. He has published five previous books with PublicAffairs:\n    <i>\n     My War\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Sincerely, Andy Rooney\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Common Nonsense\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Years of Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and\n    <i>\n     Out of My Mind\n    </i>\n    . He lives in New York.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8214'),
(381, 'The Andy Warhol Diaries', 'Andy Warhol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(382, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(383, 'The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In James Patterson''s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it''s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2018'),
(384, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2937'),
(385, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Some cases are as cold as the grave...** A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(386, 'Angel Souls and Devil Hearts', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4489');
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(387, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Anne Rice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written about many kinds of immortal or supernatural beings. What inspired you to turn to angels in this new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I have always been fascinated by the idea of angels--these perfect beings who are Godâ€™s messengers, sinless, bold, and unfathomable to the human mind. I was deliciously challenged to be biblically correct about them, and theologically correct: to present Malchiah as truly perfect, yet sent to interact with my hero Toby, and commissioned therefore to take a human body and reflect human emotions and respond to Tobyâ€™s human emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did imagining a character like Malchiah the angel differ from creating one like the vampire Lestat?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, again, Malchiah is perfect and sinless. And to make such a character appealing is a challenge; he has to reflect Godâ€™s love for human beings, Godâ€™s compassion. Heâ€™s not sent to judge Toby; heâ€™s sent to guide him to salvation, and to enlist Toby in working for the angels on earth. He must feel things; he must have a personality, but with marvelous theological constraints. Doing Lestat was entirely different: Lestat is sinful and ferociously human, a rebel who wants to be good at being bad; a rebel who is seeking redemption but turning away from it all the time. There is a certain joy in writing about Malchiah because he is sent from God. There was never a perfect joy in writing about Lestat: Lestat suffers too much and does too many bad things with relish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The hero of\n <em>\n  Angel Time\n </em>\n is Toby Oâ€™Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. Heâ€™s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters Iâ€™ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People who have read your memoir\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Yes, I did identify with Toby, though my life has been nothing like his. I know what it is like to struggle with an alcoholic parent; I know what it is like to care for younger siblings in an alcoholic household. But of course Toby suffers a family tragedy that I didnâ€™t suffer, and he turns to evil in a defiant way, whereas I only turned to writing about evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from Godâ€™s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writersâ€™ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People are clearly fascinated with angels. Why do you think even those people who do not consider themselves religious are so drawn to the idea of angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n People are drawn to angels because there is a deep seated instinctive belief that they do exist, that creatures from Heaven are here on Earth looking out for us and playing a special role in our care. Of course we read of this in the Bible. And it is a very seductive idea. Itâ€™s sometimes easier to pray to oneâ€™s guardian angel than to pray to the saints or even to the Lord. Itâ€™s easy to imagine that our guardian angel is right here with us. In my novel, Toby really does believe this, though after he suffered tragedy, he blamed the angels in charge for not stopping it. And he lived as a cursed human being for ten years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice''s new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O''Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who''s just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice''s colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4995'),
(388, 'The Angel Whispered Danger', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop''s Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband''s conspicuous absence. What she doesn''t expect is murder. Soon after arriving, Kate finds her great uncle''s housekeeper, Ella Stegall, badly injured and incoherent, at the bottom of a wooded ravine after an apparent fall from a ledge. But moments before losing consciousness, Ella whispers she was pushed--not surprising, considering that Bramblewood, Uncle Ernest''s woodsy estate, is no stranger to murder and intrigue. Could Ella''s accident be connected to Bramblewood''s mysterious past, or was her claim just the rambling of a delirious old woman? Poor Ella slips away before leaving more clues to her death. Now Kate must come to terms with disturbing doubts about close family members while coping with her troubled young daughter. Luckily for Kate, guardian angel Augusta Goodnight has dropped by to help, this time with a bumbling young apprentice in tow. With fresh baked goods and sound, heavenly advice, Augusta helps Kate investigate Ella''s untimely demise--and a few other unsolved mysteries along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4660'),
(389, 'Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they''re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to\n <em>\n  believe\n </em>\n it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Save the Planet: Kill the Humans.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson is the author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels,\n <em>\n  Witch &amp; Wizard\n </em>\n , the Daniel X series, and of bestselling detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women''s Murder Club. His novels have sold more than 180 million copies worldwide. In 2009 and 2010 he was nominated for the Children''s Choice Award for Author of the Year. He lives in Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7358'),
(390, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1484'),
(391, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(392, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch . . .This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris, a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation.Now it''s all down to Bosch - and he''s got to take a long, hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion and hatred.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9300'),
(393, 'Angels in the Gloom: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n This powerful and intense third novel in Perry''s WWI series (after 2004''s Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family''s anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents'' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to rescue fellow Brits under fire, he returns home to bucolic St. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. Perry''s deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which "the searing scarlet of grief" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. When Theo Blaine, a scientist working on a secret weapon to end the war, is mysteriously slain, the town is torn apart by fears of a spy in their midst. Joseph''s brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany''s knowledge of Britain''s war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third entry in Perry''s World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded at the front, has returned to recuperate under his sister''s Hannah''s care. Still fresh is his grief for their parents, both killed by the mysterious Peacemaker, who, in the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. The murder of a scientist whose work might have ensured Allied success leads Joseph (and his brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence) on a twisted trail that they hope will lead to the Peacemaker. As in previous books in this series and in her Victorian detective series, Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether home front or frontlines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love: Will Joseph return to the front or minister to the bereft at home? Will Matthew''s growing affection for Irish double agent Detta Hannassey interfere with his mission? The characters, familiar now after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war and asks the inevitable question, At what cost peace?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8577'),
(394, 'Angels of Destruction', 'Keith Donohue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Keith Donohueâ€™s first novel, *The Stolen Child*, was a national bestseller hailed as â€œcaptivatingâ€ (USA Today), â€œluminous and thrillingâ€ (Washington Post), and â€œwonderful...So spare and unsentimental that itâ€™s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, *Angels of Destruction*, opens on a winterâ€™s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the womanâ€™s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norahâ€™s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the childâ€™s true identity and her purpose in Margaretâ€™s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter? Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohueâ€™s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2706'),
(395, 'The Angels Weep', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wild Justice, nicely read by Steven Pacey, involves Col. Peter Stride, who leads an elite force in an assault on a hijacked airliner in an attempt to free endangered hostages. Though the raid succeeds, Stride is fired for not fully following orders. Free from his military connection, he is then in a position to fight terrorism and conspiracy independently. A good story with lots of twists and treacheries. Together or separately, these three books are fine short adventures; each tale is about one-sixth the length of its original novel and loses an awful lot in the abridging. A recommendation: get these audios if you must for patrons in a hurry, but point them to an unabridged version if you can. - Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Tulsa World\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9154'),
(396, 'Angle of Repose', 'Wallace Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wallace Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents'' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America''s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he''s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward''s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9293'),
(397, 'Angry Lead Skies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don''t open the door. But there''s a reason why Garrett''s still in the P.I. business after all these years-he''s not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that''s why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can''t quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he''s done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1904'),
(398, 'The Anguished Dawn', 'James P. Hogan; James P. Baen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After Earth is devastated by a near miss from a protoplanet that destroys civilization, leaving survivors on the edge of barbarism, technology, culture, and knowledge are preserved only in the Kronian colony near Saturn who send Landen Keene to help rebuild Earth''s civilization, but others will do anything to regain their former privileges and power, in the sequel to Cradle of Sature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1666'),
(399, 'Anil&#39;s Ghost', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizeâ€”winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anilâ€™s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden pastâ€“a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaâ€™s landscape and ancient civilization, Anilâ€™s Ghost is a literary spellbinderâ€“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s most powerful novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2356'),
(400, 'Animal farm: a fairy story', 'George Orwell; Russell Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1022'),
(401, 'The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint', 'Marc Bekoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the "unique responsibilities" of human beings, as "moral agents," to overcome speciesism and recognize animals "as fellow sentient, emotional beings," with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace "who" with "that" when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don''t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff''s arguments can be less than rigorous; an "unwavering optimist and dreamer," he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions ("alienation from nature... kills our hearts") than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being "mindful" in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff''s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the premises that animals both feel and convey emotion, are capable of actions that are motivated by compassion, and exhibit attitudes of kindness and empathy, preeminent ethologist and prolific author Bekoff comprehensively posits that the time has come for humans to return the favor. Just as environmental activists advocate reducing oneâ€™s carbon footprint in order to live more responsibly, Bekoff argues that expanding oneâ€™s compassion footprint, that is, treating animals more humanely, can have equally beneficial consequences. Supporting current scientific research with a wide range of anecdotal evidence, Bekoff outlines six guiding principles designed to increase awareness of the deplorable conditions animals experience across a broad spectrum of activities. From food production to circus acts, drug testing to wildlife encroachment, animals have long been considered objects to be manipulated for the express pleasure and benefit of humans. Unabashedly speaking on their behalf, Bekoff presents impassioned reasons why, and explicit ways in which, such destructive behaviors should stop. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5215'),
(402, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life', 'Barbara Kingsolver &amp; Steven L. Hopp &amp; Camille Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Nina Planck\n </em>\n Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don''t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldâ€”local food and sustainable agricultureâ€”is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener.\n <em>\n  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle\n </em>\n is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won''t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers'' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what''s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver''s clue to help greenhorns remember what''s in season is the best I''ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodâ€”in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingâ€”demands teamwork.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Nina Planck is the author of\n </em>\n Real Food: What to Eat and Why\n <em>\n  (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresâ€“those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one''s own produce but also of harvesting one''s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatiseâ€“the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousâ€“it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers'' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore''s\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Truth\n </em>\n (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2001)._â€“Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4947'),
(403, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner''s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2325'),
(404, 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 5 - Acorna&#39;s Search', 'Acorna&#39;s Search', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10848'),
(405, 'Anne McCaffrey - Chronicles of Pern.txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10859'),
(406, 'Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern 07 - Moreta Dragonlady of Pern [V1].txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10860'),
(407, 'Anne McCaffrey - Dragons Dawn.txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10826'),
(408, 'Anne of Avonlea', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This duo continue the adventures of Anne Shirley begun in Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables. Avonlea (1909) finds her at 16 taking on a job as a school teacher, while in Island (1915), a slightly older Anne moves on to college to continue her own education. Along with the full text, these editions also include scholarly essays. These budget hardcovers are for all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exceptional audio. Highly recommended." --Reviewerâ€™s Bookwatch\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6374'),
(409, 'Anne of Green Gables', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMatthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isnâ€™t the boy theyâ€™d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomeryâ€™s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted childrenâ€™s literature scholar Jack Zipes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of nineteen of her twenty novels. She died in Toronto in 1942.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6375'),
(410, 'Anne of Green Gables: three volumes in one', 'Lucy Maud Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three enchanting classics, favorites of generations of young readers, follow the life of the irresistible Anne Shirley from adolescence to adulthood. Includes: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne''s House of Dreams. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2949'),
(411, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The continued saga of the now adult, Anne, mother of five children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting -- and wearing out her welcome -- Anne''s life is full to bursting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still Mrs. Doctor can''t think of any place she''d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn''t love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she''s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead -- the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. . . She''s ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6377'),
(412, 'Anne of the Island', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third volume of the series in which Anne goes to college.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she''s ready for love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6378'),
(413, 'Anne of Windy Poplars', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables,\n  </em>\n  published in 1908.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Once published,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  and several other television movies and programs, including\n  <em>\n   Road to Avonlea,\n  </em>\n  which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley takes her first job away from Green Gables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6376'),
(414, 'Anne Perry&#39;s Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œInviting, comforting holiday fare.â€â€”_Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] heartwarming, if crime-tinged, complement to the holiday season.â€â€”\n </em>\n Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britainâ€“where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING\n <br />\n While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicarâ€™s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS GRACE\n <br />\n With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pittâ€™s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the pastâ€“and with one another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8569'),
(415, 'Anne&#39;s House of Dreams', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“L. M. Montgomery fans will be delighted by Barbara Caruso''s narration of the fifth volume in the series (Indy, 2001). It follows the red-headed heroine and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, to the snug little cottage that is their first home at Four Winds Harbor on Prince Edward Island. There''s laughter, heartache, and unexpected turnabouts with new friends such as lighthouse keeper Captain Jim, and neighbors, Cornelia and Leslie. There''s sorrow after the death of the couple''s first child, and happiness after their healthy son is born. The story is liberally peppered with sketches of other memorable islanders and views of family life around the turn of the 20th century. Caruso''s spirited and versatile narration brings to life diverse character traits such as Anne''s zest for life, Cornelia''s crusty opinions, and Leslie''s soft, sometimes fearful breathlessness. This story will be appreciated by anyone who likes their happy-ending stories wrapped in old fashioned values. A great choice for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 1917 volume is the latest of the publisher''s inexpensive hardcover editions of Montgomery''s adventures of Anne Shirley, which began with Anne of Green Gables.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6379'),
(416, 'Annie Dunne', 'Sebastian Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The central character in Sebastian Barry''s novel\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie''s nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie''s love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness.\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish playwright and novelist Barry''s gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving story is narrated by the eponymous Annie Dunne, who, in her 60s, has come to live with her cousin Sarah on an impoverished farm in Kelsha, County Wicklow. Plain and poor, and afflicted with a humpback since a childhood attack of polio, Annie is grateful to Sarah for taking her in. She loves the farm and attacks the backbreaking daily chores with fierce ardor. But when a scheming handyman on a neighboring farm begins to court Sarah, Annie sees her livelihood threatened and fights back with the only weapons in her arsenal: bitterness and rage. Complicating the events of the summer spanned by the plot are the two young children left in Annie''s care by her nephew, who''s gone off to London. As Annie is terrified to admit, even to herself, the children have their own dark secret, too fearsome to contemplate. Veering between dread, anger and shame, Anne''s thoughts are also a mixture of whimsical observations, naâ€¹ve ideas and a poetic appreciation of the natural world. This compassionate portrait of a distraught woman mourning the years of promise and dreams that were "narrowed by the empty hand of possibility" is a masterful feat of characterization, all the more vivid against the backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1950s, undergoing changes that throw Annie''s life into sharper focus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7511'),
(417, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton &amp; Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7673');
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(418, 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice', 'David Shapard &amp; Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Explanations of historical context\n </strong>\n <br />\n Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Citations from Austenâ€™s life, letters, and other writings\n </strong>\n <br />\n Parallels between the novel and Austenâ€™s experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Definitions and clarifications\n </strong>\n <br />\n Archaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Literary comments and analyses\n </strong>\n <br />\n Insightful notes highlight Austenâ€™s artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Maps and illustrations\n </strong>\n <br />\n of places and objects mentioned in the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, one can enjoy the novel\n <em>\n  without\n </em>\n knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of\n <em>\n  The Annotated Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austenâ€™s immortal characters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Austen\n </strong>\n was born in 1775 and died in 1817. The daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, she never married. On her father''s retirement in 1801, the family moved to Bath for several years and then to Southampton, settling finally at Chawton Cottage, near Alton, Hampshire, which was Jane''s home for the rest of her life. The novels published in Austen''s lifetime were\n <em>\n  Sense and Sensibility\n </em>\n (1811),\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n (1813),\n <em>\n  Mansfield Park\n </em>\n (1814), and\n <em>\n  Emma\n </em>\n (1816).\n <em>\n  Persuasion\n </em>\n was issued in 1818 with Northanger Abbey. Her minor works include her juvenilia, the novella\n <em>\n  Lady Susan\n </em>\n , and the fragments\n <em>\n  The Watsons\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Sanditon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Shapard\n </strong>\n graduated with a Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Berkeley; his specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at several colleges, and lives in upstate New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5330'),
(419, 'The anonymous Venetian', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Commissario Brunetti''s hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(420, 'Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words', 'John Marciano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people. **Eponymous, *adj. *Giving oneâ€™s name to a person, place, or thing. Anonymous, *adj. *Anonymous. Anonyponymous, *adj. *Anonymous and eponymous. The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practicesâ€”such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered. In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu â€œalgorithmâ€ Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you''ll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory. Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like â€œsuperhero eponyms,â€ *Anonyponymous *is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2865'),
(421, 'Another Fine Myth', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Skeeve was a magician''s apprentice--until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, Skeeve is on a quest to get even. This title is the first of Asprin''s bestselling Myth novels to become available in digest-sized paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3865'),
(422, 'Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3321'),
(423, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(424, 'Another part of the wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1378'),
(425, 'Answered Prayers', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danielle Steelâ€™s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one womanâ€™s struggle to break free from the pastâ€”and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfatherâ€”a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reachâ€”that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood backâ€”and an old friend reenters Faithâ€™s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: â€œFred.â€ Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jackâ€™s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves â€œThe Three Musketeersâ€ as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faithâ€™s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbandâ€™s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faithâ€™s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herselfâ€”and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that healâ€”and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6044'),
(426, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand''s Centennial Year. Ayn Rand''s classic tale of a future dark age of the great ?We??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(427, 'Anthill: a novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself. "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County. Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process. An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab. Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River. But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle. In a shattering ending that no reader will forget, Raff suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well. Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(428, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2058'),
(429, 'Anti-ice', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new element has been discovered in a hidden vein near the South Pole. Anti-ice is harmless until warmed, when it releases vast energies that promise new wonders and threaten new horrors beyond humankind''s wildest dreams. "A major new talent!"--Arthur C. Clarke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11114'),
(430, 'Anti-man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(431, 'The Anti-Slavery Crusade (Webster&#39;s Spanish Thesaurus Edition)', 'Jesse Macy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Anti-Slavery Crusade by Jesse Macy was edited for three audiences. The first includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Spanish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Spanish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Spanish or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Spanish, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1639'),
(432, 'Antiphon', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2764'),
(433, 'Antrax', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new novel by Terry Brooks is always a cause for celebration. For more than twenty years, the* New York Times* bestselling author of the classic Shannara epic has proven himself one of the modern masters of fantasy, winning the hearts and minds of devoted readers around the world. In his last acclaimed novel, *Ilse* *Witch*, a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Boh and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes . . .Now in *Antrax*, as the crew aboard the airship *Jerle Shannara* is attacked by evil forces, the Druidâ€™s protÃ©gÃ© Bek Rowe and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. Meanwhile, Boh is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy. For there is something alive in Castledown. Something not human. Something old beyond reckoning that covets the magic of Druids, elves, even the Ilse Witch. Something that hunts men for its own designs: Antrax. It is a spirit that commands ancient technologies and mechanical monsters, feeds off enchantment, and traps the souls of men.With the *Jerle Shannara* under siege and Antrax threatening the bold and unwary, the Ilse Witch finds herself face-to-face with a boy who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant. Now a young man, Bek wields the magic of the wishsong and carries the Sword of Shannara upon his back. Unsure whether to trust Bek or to slay him, the Ilse Witch takes him prisoner. One has come pursuing truth, the other revenge. Yet both seek Walker Bohâ€“with the fate of the Four Lands hanging in the balance. Return to the world of beloved novelist Terry Brooks, where creatures drift up from the earth like mist, a hypnotic song can kill, a sword can cut through a veil of liesâ€“and one man, the true heir of an ancient magic, must choose between betrayal and redemption.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3304'),
(434, 'Anvil of Stars', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear''s treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Anvil of Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing.Â  Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.â€Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _--ALA Booklist\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Forge of God_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as â€œThe Benefactorsâ€, who arrived at Earth too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5799'),
(435, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7733'),
(436, 'Any Way You Want Me', 'Jamie Sobrato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: She''s learned the hard way that following her impulses lands her in trouble. But being a by-the-book girl has never been so hard for Yasmine Talbot since the hot new guy started at work. Meeting deadlines is impossible with that delicious bod around. It''s time to corner him under the mistletoe with a naughty suggestion or two! Alex DiCarlo is so hot for Yasmine, he''s almost forgotten that he''s undercover investigating her. He tells himself that spending the holidays with her is perfect for some intimate observation. Truth is, he''s so enjoying this sinfully sexy weekend, he wants it to continue. Too bad flings weren''t meant to last....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2105'),
(437, 'Anybody Out There?', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy''s house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she''s able, Anna''s flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous questâ€”involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction.   Marrying life''s darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out There? is a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9948'),
(438, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A gorgeous historical indulgence.Â² --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.Â² --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Lucy MooreÂ¹s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.Â² --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelistÂ¹s relish for human foibles.Â² --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5892'),
(439, 'Apache Security', 'Ivan Ristic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4817'),
(440, 'Apaches', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra, author of a powerful, best-selling memoir, Sleepers (Ballantine, 1995), here weighs in with his first novel. Although information on the plot is a bit sketchy, the story centers around a group of controversial New York City cops.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Apaches\n </strong>\n is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n , it is a book that will never be forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5887'),
(441, 'Apartment 16', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it''s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She''s been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(442, 'Apathy and Other Small Victories', 'Paul Neilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time itâ€™s complicated: there''s a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she''s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord''s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shaneâ€™s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesnâ€™t care enough to act like he didnâ€™t do it, the question becomes just how heâ€™ll clear the good name he never had and doesn''t particularly want: his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4209'),
(443, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody. In *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan. The characters, including Amelia''s husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of *The Thin Man*. When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You ought to be ''ome washin'' your ''usband''s trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I assure you, sir, the lady''s trousers are not in such sore need of laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother''s legacy of crime solving. *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes'' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the *Book of the Dead*. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved. Other Peabody mysteries include *Seeing a Large Cat*, *The Hippopotamus Pool*, *The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog*, *The Deeds of the Disturber*, *Lion in the Valley*, *The Curse of the Pharaohs*, and *Crocodile on the Sandbank*. *--Patrick O''Kelley*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1317'),
(444, 'Aphrodite', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum meets Dashiell Hammett in this gripping, wildly plotted thriller by the author of Gideon and Icarus. In the sleepy town of East End, New York, former homicide cop Justin Westwood is trying to escape the tragedy of his past by consuming scotch and writing traffic tickets for the local police department. The murder of a young reporter (disguised as an accident), however, catapults him out of his stasis and into a complicated investigation. A terrified witness tells of a blond killer, whom readers first met in the book''s opening pages murdering another young woman. As Justin investigates, it seems that the police and the FBI are always one step ahead of him, and that folks with any connection to the case start turning up dead. Signs point to a sinister fountain-of-youth project run by a mysterious, all-powerful cabal, which the reporter had accidentally uncovered. If Westwood penetrates the secrets of the Aphrodite program, he''s sure to be their next victim. A smalltown cop does battle with a great conspiracy: the plot may sound conventional, even hackneyed, but Andrews sustains white-hot tension throughout, bolstered by enough surprises and body blows to satisfy even a hardened mystery/conspiracy buff. The suspense flags slightly at midpoint, but elsewhere the pace is fast, the dialogue sharp, the characters skillfully drawn and the familiar, heady whodunit action cleverly handled.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n From the author of\n <em>\n  Gideon\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  Icarus\n </em>\n (2001) comes another thriller that''s propelled as much by its characters as its plot. In a small Long Island town, a newspaper reporter is found dead, apparently murdered. Justin Westwood, a member of the local police force who would much rather keep to the background, reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. His problem: find out how the victim''s last story, the obituary of a little-known Hollywood actor, could possible have led to her murder. Soon Justin is up against something much bigger--and much weirder--than he could possibly have imagined. The story is solid, but it''s the lead character who elevates the novel above your typical thriller. Justin--the small-town cop in a town without murder, who clearly knows his way around a homicide investigation--keeps us flipping the pages as fast as we can. As we watch him solve the mystery, we''re working on a puzzle of our own: Who is Justin, and where did he come from? Top of the line.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5802'),
(445, 'Apocalypse', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation''s most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path.  Jill Valentine of the RCPD and several others are determined to get out of Raccoon alive, but only if they can escape the city''s hordes of undead, Umbrella''s unleashed creatures, and the relentless pursuit of Nemesis itself. Their one chance is with one of the only survivors of the Hive -- a young woman named Alice, who learns a terrifying secret behind her connection to Umbrella.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8680'),
(446, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6948'),
(447, 'The apocalypse watch', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway-- the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of theWatch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich''s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, HarryLatham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother''s fate. But when he receives the sudden good newsthat Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry''s cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the UnitedStates and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments--but is the listlegitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother? To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother''s identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for HarryLatham--and those who want Drew himself dead. From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, *TheApocalypse Watch* is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3588'),
(448, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(449, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet. A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action. In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan. But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free. Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller. **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/797');
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(450, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30 SUMMARY: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1989'),
(451, 'Appendices and Indexes', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2006'),
(452, 'Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5462'),
(453, 'Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz &amp; Matthew Ruscigno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Timesâ€™\n  </em>\n  , November/December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œOffers 125 recipes for low-fat, plant-based dishes that donâ€™t skimp on flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Living\n  </em>\n  (UK), December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œJam-packed with mouth-watering vegan recipes that are low in fat and light on caloriesâ€¦[Moskowitzâ€™s] recipes are visual and gastronomic delights, which inspire the reader to try new things and cook outside of their comfort zone, while never underestimating the beauty of the familiar.â€Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ThisDishisVeg.com_, _12/8/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œ[Isa Moskowitz is] the queen of the vegans.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press Herald_, 12/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA snappy cookbook that embraces whole plant foods without a sugary snack in sight. Those avoiding gluten or soy will appreciate the numerous gluten-free and soy-free recipes, and everyone is sure to learn something from the preparation and nutrition tips [Moskowitz] sprinkles throughout the book. Best of all, her recipes for goodies such as OMG Oven-Banked Onion Rings, Tamarind BBQ Tempeh &amp; Sweet Potatoes, and Chipotle Lentil Burgers will make even dedicated carnivores appreciate the pleasures of plant-based meals.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Technorati.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is an innovative source of vegan recipesâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ offers tempting recipes that are quick and easy, andâ€”most importantlyâ€”no- or low-fatâ€¦Moskowitz has lots of yummy ideas that prove that dieting doesnâ€™t have to be painfulâ€¦Moskowitz incorporates the reduction of unhealthy foods, environmental impact, grocery store costs, and animal suffering in her cooking philosophy. The results are tasty dishes with no guilt attached.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LeslieLovesVeggies.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 fabulous recipes that are quick to make and most take 30 minutes or less to prepare. These tasty dishes are easy on the budget and are made with real food for real people. Nothing bizarre, no outlandish over the top ingredients, just good for ya, low fat, delish vegan food! Oh and the portions are real, too! None of these ridiculous tiny serving sizes to get the low calorie counts. These are real servings folks!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Examiner.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is a proven advisor you want to have in the vegan kitchen with you, consistently creating recipes that are at once accessinle to the home cook and impressive enough to show off to those you want to, well, impress.\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reductionâ€¦\n  </em>\n  will knock your socks off, just in time for a great Christmas gift for omnivores or vegans alike and strengthen some of those New Yearâ€™s resolutionsâ€¦Easy-to-follow directions, well-organized chapters, [and] gorgeous art direction and helpful tipsâ€¦The icons that designate quick-to-prepare, gluten- and soy-free recpies make this cookbook especially user-friendlyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ casts its culinary net wideâ€¦The recipes span the globe and include rare treats calorie-conscious diners usually donâ€™t get to enjoyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction _gives lots of creative, easy and tasty opportunities to eat healthfullyâ€¦A very worthwhile edition to anyoneâ€™s cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GreenWala.com, 12/27/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz] has done a lot for dispelling the myth that vegan food equals rabbit food or that itâ€™s not satisfyingâ€¦The tone is conversational and often humorous and the book is not just about leaner recipes. Appetite refers also to environmental impact, animal cruelty, and your bank account.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews,\n  </em>\n  February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFrom the grand dame of vegan cookbooks,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t leave you hungryâ€¦From salads that satisfy like meals to hearty pasta dishes to every vegetable imaginable,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t miss a beatâ€¦Unlike other diet books,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t about dropping 20 pounds in a weekend; itâ€™s about eating healthfully in a way that can lead to weight loss without resorting to drastic measuresâ€”measures which Moskowitz assures are guaranteed to pile pounds right back on.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/30/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this cookbook for anyone, vegan or not...[Moskowitz] has put together 125 recipes that are under 400 caloriesâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to lose weightâ€”and are packed with nutrientsâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to eat healthier.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/31/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFeatures many quick and delicious low-calorie vegan recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WomanAroundTown.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrammed full of good advice as well as tasty recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org, 1/4/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitzâ€™s] latest cookbook could be one of her greatest yetâ€¦Anyone who has already inhaled a lifetime''s worth ofÂ vegan sweets and processed foods, or who is interested in the vegan diet for health reasons, will probably love\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  TreeHugger.com, 1/4/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIf you''re suffering through the fourth day of some weird diet, you might want to pick up a copy of this book and make yourself something good to eat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Daily News_, 1/9/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz is] the queen of vegan cookingâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  San Francisco Book Review_, 1/10/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz has singlehandedly revolutionized vegan cookingâ€¦_Appetite _is brimming not only with recipes, but also detailed nutritional information useful to everyone, but especially important to those who seek essential vitamins and nutrients from nontraditional (non-animal) sources. But if youâ€™re worried about typical bland diet food, have no fear: This\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  an Isa Chandra Moskowitz cookbook after all. While all recipes are between 200 and 400 calories per serving, each is loaded with delicious, vibrant flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Long Island_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press_, 1/7/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all only 200 to 400 calories per serving, plant-based and packed with nutrients, low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber and, well, delicious.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  South_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Coast_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Insider_, January 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is the best and most creative of all the chefs working with plant based foodsâ€¦This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  InfoDad.com, 1/13/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œIt moves along like a well-oiled machine, starting with salads and continuing with side dishes, beans (a mainstay of this type of cooking), tofu and tempeh, soups, stews and more...It contains solid information and a variety of recipes that vegans will find tasty.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  BBC Good Food_ (UK), February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis is a vegan diet book, but forget your preconceptions and look at the food. Isa is an amazing cookâ€”her recipes are delicious and written for people who want to lose weight, but not their enjoyment of food. She uses spices cleverly to make you forget youâ€™re eating low fat and ups the grain and veg content to keep you satisfied. Isa reworks favorites making them lighter and healthier. Her book is worth buying for the salad dressings alone.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   February 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] great read!...Moskowitzâ€”a tireless crusader against the perception that meatless, dairy-free meals taste like cardboardâ€”proves low-fat can be delicious. While offering plenty of tips for novice vegans, Moskowitzâ€™s recipes are interesting and flavorful enough to delight seasoned meatless mavens, too.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Washington_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Post_, 1/19/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSurprisingly creamy and hearty, this vegan soup [Cauliflower Pesto Soup] is elegant enough to serve as a first course at any dinner party.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Hudson_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Valley_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ News,_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re not vegan, but simply donâ€™t like meat very much, youâ€™ll find many tasty recipes here.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  January Magazine_ (Canada), 12/20/10\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Appetite for Reduction_ is all about real food for real people, really easilyâ€¦Whatâ€™s not to like?...Spend a lot of time eating from the recipes in this book and you will get smaller.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Living Without,\n   </em>\n   1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[The] tortilla soup has a light tomato broth and simple yet assertive seasoning. Stirring crushed tortilla chips into the soup as it cooks gives it a full-bodied texture.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian, _1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeave it to innovative cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the co-author of\n  <em>\n   Veganomicon\n  </em>\n  , to come up with a collection of 125 low-fat recipes that won''t have you leaving the table hungryâ€¦Moskowitz''s writing style is accessible and fun, and she demystifies ingredients like tempeh and tofuâ€¦Every recipe has detailed nutritional analysis, including vitamin content, something too many diet cookbooks don''t bother with.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo,\n  </em>\n  1/20/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œAs with previous Moskowitz books, one thing not sacrificed is flavor. She plays with Asian, Mediterranean, Indian and Latin cuisine with her recipes in ways that make you feel like youâ€™re not losing ta...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook. Thereâ€™s no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen mealsâ€¦no fake anything!\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  , bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Only 200 to 400 calories per serving\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plant-based and packed with nutrients\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Drop-dead delicious\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll also find lots of gluten-free and soy-free options, and best of all, dinner can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. So ditch those diet shakes. Skip that lemonade cleanse. And fight for your right to eat something satisfying! Now you can look better, feel better, and have more energyâ€”for health at any size.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7269'),
(454, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age', 'Steve Knopper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world''s highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry''s wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the ''80s and ''90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.With unforgettable portraits of the music world''s mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it''s going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8538'),
(455, 'The Applause of Heaven', 'Max Lucado', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is what you always dreamed but never expected. It''s having God as your dad, your biggest fan, and your best friend. It is having the King of Kings in your cheering section. It is hearing the applause of heaven. Max Lucado believes that the Beatitudes provide what we need to discover the the joy of God. Much more than a how-to book on happiness.\n <em>\n  The Applause of Heaven\n </em>\n is an encounter with the Source of Joy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8707'),
(456, 'Apple Training Series', 'White, Kevin M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10011'),
(457, 'Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials V10.6', 'Kevin M. White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6784'),
(458, 'Applying the 7 Laws of Spiritual Success', 'S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This workbook, which accompanies Selwyn Hughes'', The 7 Laws of Spiritual Success, has much to encourage the reader to read and reread Selwyn''s book which lays out the key elements in the Christian Life. Selwyn believes these are spiritual laws, with consequences, just as natural laws have consequences. The workbook also has probing questions, and action plans to challenge the reader to put into practice Selwyn''s teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3319'),
(459, 'Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don''t you, that she''s got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5244'),
(460, 'April Lady', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A very young lady marries a man 14 years her senior. Although theirs is a love match, between her reckless brother and his wild young ward, Lord and Lady Cardross''s misunderstandings pile up, until he''s convinced she only married him for his money and she believes he only married her to produce an heir.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he fears he''s driven her away with his anger, the two finally have an unexpected opportunity to mend their rifts and start afresh...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. She was born in Wimbledon in August 1902. She wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; it was published in 1921 and became an instant success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a barrister, and they had one son, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10165'),
(461, 'The Aquitaine Progression', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn''t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY''RE BACK...AQUITAINE!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world''s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he''d long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major governmentâ€”a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3592'),
(462, 'Arabella', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Georgette Heyer--author of more than 70 novels--is perhaps best known for her Regency romances. A consummate storyteller, Heyer was also an astute historian of the times she wrote about; every detail of the language, dress, and customs rings with authenticity.\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is one of Heyer''s most charming Regency novels. In it, young Arabella Tallant, the beautiful daughter of an impoverished clergyman, comes to London for her social debut and almost immediately runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris, a wealthy, eligible aristocrat. Beaumaris suspects that Arabella engineered a carriage accident in order to meet him; Arabella, in a rage, leads him to believe that she is the heiress to a massive fortune and thus quite uninterested in his own riches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having set the stage for inevitable misunderstandings between this arrogant Romeo and hotheaded Juliet, Heyer then peoples it with unforgettable secondary characters. Arabella''s warm heart and strong principles lead her to befriend such unsavory types as an abused apprentice to a chimney sweep, a stray dog, and a fallen woman happily known as "Leaky Peg"--all of whom she foists on the reluctant but gallant Mr. Beaumaris.\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is an intelligent, witty romp--both a romance with a hearty sense of humor and a historical novel that remains true to the times it depicts.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My favorite Heyer yet. (Patricia Seguine\n <em>\n  Library Queue\n </em>\n 20091109)\n</p>\n<p>\n Compulsively readable Regency romance. (Margaret Donsbach\n <em>\n  HistoricalNovels.info\n </em>\n 20091109)\n</p>\n<p>\n Engaging... the romance was delightful. (Debbie White\n <em>\n  Genre Reviews\n </em>\n 20091111)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was completely wrapped up in the story from the very beginning as I was sucked in by Heyer''s seemingly unending witty and charming writing style. (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20091111)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer fans will definitely enjoy this Regency romance. (Drey Salick\n <em>\n  Drey''s Library\n </em>\n 20091116)\n</p>\n<p>\n Wickedly entertaining; a superb comedy of manners! (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommend it to Austen fans, to anyone new to Heyer (I think it would be a great starter book for a Heyer reader), or the general historical romance fan. I don''t know how you could be disappointed in it! (Erin Page\n <em>\n  The Courtier''s Book\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n I enjoyed spending time in this one... Heyer books feel like good friends (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is simply a not-to-be-missed story that I can''t say enough about. (April Pohren\n <em>\n  Cafe of Dreams\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweet, funny and entertaining. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A nice diversion from real-life... Highly recommended. (Courtney Wilson\n <em>\n  Once Upon a Bookshelf\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10211'),
(463, 'Arabesque: a taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(464, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Freely Transcribed from the Original Translation. ...', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(465, 'Arabian Nights with a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(466, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(467, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband. Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1311'),
(468, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6528'),
(469, 'Architects of Emortality', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The futuristic biotech world of Stableford''s acclaimed SF novella Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), expanded upon in last year''s novel Inherit the Earth, provides the foundation for this sequel. After an ecological collapse brought on by biological warfare and a runaway greenhouse effect, nanotechnology is regrowing lost forests as well as offering near-immortality to those who can afford it. Although the United Nations calls itself a World Government, the true power rests with the MegaMall, a company produced by generations of multinational mergers and buyouts. On this cusp of a new world, someone is murdering the pioneering scientists of the New Human Race, and it''s up to Detective Sgt. Charlotte Holmes and Inspector Hal Watson, of the U.N. Police, to stop the killing. Charlotte and Hal are assisted by Michael Lowenthal, a "special investigator" from the MegaMall, and Oscar Wilde, a legendary bioengineer of specialty flowers. Evidence indicates that the murderer, a mysterious young woman, is somehow related to a genetic engineer who calls himself Rappaccini (after a character in a Hawthorne story). As the team investigates the murders, they realize that Rappaccini''s taut game of hide-and-seek is leading them to the truth behind a much darker secret. Stableford''s skill at creating technologically overwhelmed future worlds is evident here. His narrative teems with vivid, believable descriptions of man-eating flowers, hundred-year-old artists and rampant genetic engineering. His talent for mystery is less sure, featuring characters whose roles blur unconvincingly as the plot picks up speed. Although the novel''s ending is weakened by premature revelations of Rappaccini''s motives, the scale and audacity of Stableford''s vision is a wonder. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bizarre murder of a prominent architect of the new Decivilization of the world draws New York investigator Charlotte Holmes into a complicated web of murderous intrigue involving death by genetically altered flowers. Aided by a brilliant and occasionally maddening "expert witness" with the unlikely name of Oscar Wilde, Holmes seeks solutions to a series of puzzles rooted in the poets and authors of the 19th century. Set in the same distant future as Inherit the Earth, this literary sf mystery, based on the short story "Flowers of Evil," belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4847'),
(470, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(471, 'The Arctic Event', 'James Cobb; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-century old aeroplane is merely a relic of the early Cold War. Only a handful of insiders know that it still represents a major threat to civilization, as the aircraft is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform, still armed with two tons of active weaponized anthrax.Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith of Covert-One - the personal action arm of the President of the United States - is assigned to lead CIA agent Randi Russell and the lovely, but lethal, weapons expert, Professor Valentina Metrace to secure the site.But on the island Smith and his team find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Cut off from all outside aid, the operatives must struggle against both betrayal and the brutal polar environment. Gradually they become aware that something else exists within the hulk of the ancient bomber: a secret potentially more devastating than even the plane''s warload, and one that could bring about both a cataclysmic revision of global history and serve as the trigger for a Third World War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2063'),
(472, 'The Arctic Patrol Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES - featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice. Be a part of the fun! Start your collection of original hardcover Hardy Boys Mysteries today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10288'),
(473, 'Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate&#39;s Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open', 'Rocco Mediate &amp; John Feinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR AMERICA''S FAVORITE SPORTSWRITER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Feinstein...has done perhaps as much for golf writing as Arnold Palmer has for golf." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Monthly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Ron Rappaport\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein is the most successful sportswriter in America....He has the gift of re-creating events known to us all while infusing them with excitement, even suspense." (\n  <strong>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jay Nordlinger\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best chronicler in sports journalism." (\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Craig Smith\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Feinstein has become sportswriting''s John Grisham." (\n  <strong>\n   Sporting News\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   David Kindred\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein makes you care." (\n  <strong>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Bruce Fetts,\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best sportswriters alive." (\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Larry King\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  June 2008''s US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport''s greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game''s finest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7271'),
(474, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(475, 'Area 51', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Area 51\n </i>\n <br />\n <br />\n It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n <br />\n <br />\n Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n <br />\n <br />\n Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10012');
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(476, 'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America&#39;s Top Secret Military Base', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put together a set of strong allegations about Area 51''s covert history ... Her research into the world of ''overhead,'' the aerial espionage that needed to be developed in extreme secrecy, is compellingly hard-hittting ... the book is noteworthy for its author''s dogged devotion to her research." (_\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In\n  <em>\n   Area 51,\n  </em>\n  Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public,\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n  weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8759'),
(477, 'Arguably: Selected Essays', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Christopher Hitchens:\n  <br />\n </strong>\n "Whether he''s dodging bullets in Sarajevo, dissing Bill Clinton (with whom he says he shared a girlfriend at Oxford), or explaining his switch from leftist to Iraq war supporter, this foreign correspondent, pundit, and bon vivant makes for an enlightening companion."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Â \n </em>\n Kyle Smith\n <em>\n  , People Magazine\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "A conversation with Hitchens mimics a trip through Wikipedia. Every thought is hyperlinked, with one subject slaloming into the next in ways baffling and enlightening, confounding and profound."Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€” Washington Post\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "A great polemicist compellingly, effectively, sometimes bullyingly, attacks all gods and religions."*Â \n <br />\n â€” Globe and Mail\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Electric and electrifying . . . high-spirited. . . . [Hitchens] has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent''s arguments with a flick of the wrist. . . . The business and pleasure sides of Mr. Hitchens''s personality can make him seem, whether you agree with him or not, among the most purely alive people on the planet."\n  <br />\n </em>\n â€” New York Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Few writers can match his cerebral pyrotechnics. Fewer still can emulate his punch as an intellectual character assassin. It is hard not to admire the sheer virtuosity of his prose, yet it is rare to mistake it for wisdom or good judgment. With Hitchens one simply goes along for the ride. The destination hardly matters."Â \n  <br />\n </em>\n â€” Financial Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Hitchens] is effortlessly witty and entertaining as well as utterly rational. . . . He offers the open-minded plenty to think about."Â \n  <br />\n </em>\n â€” Booklist (starred review)\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From one of the most admired public intellectuals of our time, and a multi-award winning and #1 bestselling author, comes a collection of his most important and controversial essays on the theme of culture and politics and how the two relate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11234'),
(478, 'Aristophanes: The Complete Plays', 'Paul Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   A brand-new translation of the world''s greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6738'),
(479, 'Ark Angel', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day''s work, or will this truly be Alex Rider''s last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The over-the-top characters, with their exaggerated quirks and personalities, work well in this James Bond-like novel. Detailed background, technical, and political information, essential for any spy story, is uncomplicated and easy for most readers to understand. Though there are some references to previous missions, this title can certainly stand alone. Recommend it to your reluctant readers and get ready for them to line up for the rest of the series._-Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6--9. In his sixth adventure Alex Rider runs afoul of a group of murderous "eco warriors" and befriends Paul Drevin, the lonely son of venerated multibillionaire Nikolai Drevin, who isn''t what he seems. In fact, neither is Paul, as Alex finds out when he accompanies the father and son on a vacation to the family''s luxurious home in Flamingo Bay, which happens to be the launching site of a rocket that will carry the observation module for Drevin''s hugely publicized Ark Angel, the first hotel in space. Readers will need to suspend disbelief more than usual this time: Alex''s solo trip into space is unquestionably over the top, and there are a few glitches in plotting. What''s impossible to resist are the imaginative gadgets and the breakneck action, which Horowitz handles with his usual assurance and skill. Expect very high demand for this. The first title in the series,\n  <em>\n   Stormbreaker\n  </em>\n  (2001), is being released as a movie, and to celebrate the event, the publisher has redesigned the series'' book covers to incorporate a snazzy holographic foil.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4736'),
(480, 'The Ark', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A modern-day international thriller hailed by James Rollins as "one of the best debut I''ve read this year. . . here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned." When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah''s Ark--the artifact her father had long been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke--a man she''s never heard of. Two days later Dilara manages to track down former combat engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off Newfoundland. Her helicopter transport goes down well short of the oil rig''s landing pad and Dilara and those aboard nearly drown. No sooner is Dilara safely on the rig than she convinces Tyler the crash was no accident. Tyler agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah''s Ark and, more important, her father''s disappearance. As the picture begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise and a blistering pace, Boyd Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of one of the Old Testament''s great mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/639'),
(481, 'Armadillo', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s peculiar protagonist\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the star insurance adjuster of London''s Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd''s\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n -ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who''ve lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people''s woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person''s thriller by exploring Lorimer''s manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he''s oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ever inventive Boyd?whose highly praised first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was followed by others set in Africa and America, sets this latest work in contemporary London, which he observes with the close attention of someone seeing it for the first time. In fact, his protagonist, Lorimer Black, is not exactly a native: his ancestry derives from an obscure Central European Gypsy clan who made it to London after the war. Lorimer is the only truly Anglicized one among them, from his name to his careful sense of what to wear and say on every occasion. He is a loss adjuster at a big insurance company, whose day begins unsettlingly with the suicide of an insured client he was about to visit. Then a new hotel building, mysteriously overinsured, burns down, and his boss, the overbearing and cheerfully philosophical Mr. Hogg, seems to want Lorimer to investigate. A dreadful new colleague comes into his life and tries to make Lorimer his best friend; Lorimer falls hard for a mysterious actress glimpsed in one of his company''s TV commercials; his car is vandalized, and he is attacked in the street; his elderly father dies suddenly; and Hogg turns nasty and fires him. Throughout all this, poor Lorimer, stricken with a severe sleep disorder, tries to get some rest at a sleep clinic where he seeks what he calls "lucid dreams," which?unlike his waking life?he can control. Boyd''s comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer''s adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance. The only flaw in an otherwise sparkling performance is an odd and unlikely journal Lorimer keeps, which is designed to fill the gaps in his previous life, but which never sounds like anything other than the author''s voice. Editor, Vicky Wilson; agent: Georges Borchardt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6996'),
(482, 'Armageddon in Retrospect', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death--a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity''s tendency toward violence.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut''s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II--an essay that is as timely today as it was then--to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut''s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author''s son, Mark Vonnegut.\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, "Guns Before Butter"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Guns Before Butter," Kurt Vonnegut''s story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut''s best-known novel,\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n , and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n . Read the complete story\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut Sketchbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Click through on the images below to see samples of the artwork included in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. When Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007, the world lost a wry commentator on the human condition. Thanks to this collection of unpublished fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut''s voice returns full force. Introduced by his son, these writings dwell on war and peace, especially the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The volume opens with a poignant 1945 letter from Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to his father in Indianapolis, presenting a vivid portrait of his harrowing escape from that city. The fiction, full of his characteristic humor, includes stories about time travel and the impossibility of peace in the world (Great Day) and, in the title piece, a kind of mock\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n , Dr. Lucifer Mephisto teaches his charges about the insidious nature of evil and the impossibility of good ever triumphing. In his final speech, Vonnegut lets go some of his zingers (jazz is safe sex of the highest order) and does what he always did best, tell the truth through jokes: And how should we behave during the Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don''t already have one. So it goes.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7701'),
(483, 'Armageddon&#39;s Children', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddonâ€™s Children is a new creationâ€“the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooksâ€™s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his familyâ€™s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilizationâ€™s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined worldâ€™s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a placeâ€“and a peopleâ€“shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting oddsâ€“and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddonâ€™s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and lightâ€“and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3299'),
(484, 'Armor', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth''s most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man''s mind. This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat-and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2383'),
(485, 'Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment--the technology, the strategies, and the people... profiled by Tom Clancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first nonfiction book,\n <strong>\n  , captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of\n </strong>\n portrays today''s military as only army personnel can know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more--the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life--from the drama of combat to the daily routine--with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An interview with General Frederick Franks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies behind the Desert Storm account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander, an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s cavalry has traded four-hoofed mounts for heavily armored tanks, fighting vehicles, and helicopters in a combined arms force that is prepared for combat against much larger forces. In this report, noted technothriller novelist Clancy takes readers on a tour of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He explores the delicacies found in an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) and describes such hardware as the Abrams battle tank, the Apache helicopter, and the nine-millimeter Beretta pistol. Through interviews with General Franks of the U.S. Army''s Training and Doctrine Command and Captain McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the author reveals what life was like during the Persian Gulf War. Clancy''s thorough research makes a persuasive case for maintaining a strong post-Cold War military. For all public libraries and many academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6485'),
(486, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/669'),
(487, 'Around the World in 80 Dinners', 'Bill Jamison &amp; Cheryl Alters Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke &amp; Spice, American Home Cooking, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining) used all their frequent flier miles on a three-month global culinary tour, chronicled in this charming travelogue. Beginning in Bali, the couple traveled to 10 different countries during the fall of 2005, sampling the local cuisine and taking in the sights. Narrating as "we," the Jamisons bring readers along as they dig into succulent jumbo crab at a hole in the wall in Singapore, dine on a luxurious wood and rattan houseboat in India and tour wineries in Australia; unfortunately, the spell is occasionally broken by awkward lapses into third person. That aside, the Jamisons make for informative and inquisitive travel guides, seeking out lesser-known establishments that capture the feel of each country. Though they occasionally splurge on an upscale meal, the majority of their dining experiences are well within the budgets of most travelers. Those interested in replicating legs of their journey will find the book a welcome resource, including information on lodging, dining destinations and not-to-be-missed cultural experiences (like the Carmen Miranda Museum in Brazil). For the sedentary, the Jamisons have thoughtfully included a native recipe from each stop.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loath to squander frequent-flier miles on pointless excursions, the Jamisons organize a trip around the world to sample the best foods the planet has to offer. Traveling a westerly route, they commence their planetary banquet in Bali, with its unique island version of Hindu cookery. Fine wines enhance the Australian dining experience. Singaporeâ€™s multiculturalism turns the days spent there into a vast Asian banquet. South Africa offers an opportunity to savor such wild delights as smoked zebra. No gastronomic journey being complete without a French stopover, the travelers revisit a favorite ProvenÃ§al inn. For each destination, the Jamisons offer a list of visited hotels and restaurants and a particularly exemplary recipe. Anyone contemplating a similar circumnavigation or other extensive, exotic travel will find here a trove of practical and anecdotal information and encouragement along with useful recommendations for clothes, luggage, and even medicines. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8589'),
(488, 'Around the World in Eighty Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction ; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9489'),
(489, 'Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do if the Police Get in Your Face', 'Dale C. Carson &amp; Wes Denham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”Carson has been both a cop and a criminal defense attorney. Here, he puts his years of experience into a "how-not-to" book. He feels that most people who get arrested aren''t the worst criminals; they are just the most "clueless"â€”small-time offenders who make bad decisions and end up in what he calls the "electronic plantation." Now that computers make it ever so easy to track people, getting arrested, even if you''re not ultimately convicted, can and will come back to haunt you. Carson has three golden rules: "If cops can''t see you, they can''t arrest you," "Keep your dope at home," and "Give cops your name and basic info, then shut the f*@# up!" While the book read straight through may seem a little repetitive, it ultimately does come back to one of these three rules, which are imparted with examples and behavior charts. Carson uses a blunt style to make these points, but it''s a style that is sure to hit home with his target audienceâ€”the underclass. And he does make it plain that while there are many middle-class and white-collar criminals, the police tend to focus their patrols in bad neighborhoods. Those most likely to be in situations where they or those they know might get arrested will get the most out of this book, but even readers in more lofty areas with an interest in law enforcement could find much to discuss.â€”_Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This essential â€œhow not toâ€ guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on chargesâ€”which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7233'),
(490, 'Arrows of Time', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it''s playing tricks ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6238'),
(491, 'An Arsonist&#39;s Guide to Writers&#39; Homes in New England: A Novel', 'Brock Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  An Arsonist''s Guide to Writers'' Homes in New Englan\n </em>\n , the quirkiest title for a book since\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Clarke''s fourth book (after the story collection\n <em>\n  Carrying the Torch\n </em>\n ) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents'' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7899'),
(492, 'The Art of Always Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument', 'Arthur Schopenhauer &amp; Thomas Bailey Saunders', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€¢ This edition is annotated with footnotes and contains links to chapters for a pleasant reading experience on your device.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Art of Always Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument (1831) (Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In it, Schopenhauer examines a total of thirty-eight methods of showing up one''s opponent in a debate. He introduces his essay with the idea that philosophers have concentrated in ample measure on the rules of logic, but have not (especially since the time of Immanuel Kant) engaged with the darker art of the dialectic, of controversy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whereas the purpose of logic is classically said to be a method of arriving at the truth, dialectic, says Schopenhauer, "...on the other hand, would treat of the intercourse between two rational beings who, because they are rational, ought to think in common, but who, as soon as they cease to agree like two clocks keeping exactly the same time, create a disputation, or intellectual contest."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9781'),
(493, 'The Art of Client Service, Revised and Updated Edition: 58 Things Every Advertising &amp; Marketing Professional Should Know', 'Robert Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""A book about client service that is so practical it''s almost embarrassing. Solomon offers unique perspectives that help clients, creatives, and, oh yeah, account people do their jobs better, resulting in more creative marketing.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Tom Monahan, President, Before &amp; After, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is said that great clients get great work, but it doesnâ€™t magically happen! Â Without great account people daily bridging the gap between client and agency demands, itâ€™s virtually impossible. Â This is a must read book for all who have chosen to engage in the fine art of serving clients -Â  truly a fresh dose of account management inspiration!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Karen M. Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, DHL Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith all the time and money it takes to win new business, professional services firms would be smarter to improve client service to retain more clients. Reading and practicing Robert Solomonâ€™s advice is guaranteed to help.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a career-long â€˜client,â€™ Iâ€™ve been on a continuous search for the ideal agency account person. Robert Solomonâ€¦and students of his textâ€¦would clearly fit the bill. CMOs want insights, partnership, creative team leadership and results.\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n teaches how to deliver them all.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sara Lipson, Chief Customer Sciences Officer, Market &amp; Business Intelligence TIAA-CREF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is essential reading for anyone in the creative services profession. Marketing disciplines may change with the times, but the art of client service is timelessâ€”and Robert has captured its essence.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Barry Wacksman, Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer R/GA\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn addition to sage, prescriptive advice, Robert demonstrates the importance of checking oneself with a good, hard look in the mirrorâ€”to learn lessons, and strive for greatness in the craft of managing client relationships.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sarah Fay, President, Isobar U.S.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you work with clients in any industry,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now fully updated and revised,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff -- anyone who works with clients.Â With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know when to look it up; know when to make it up. (#7)\n </li>\n <li>\n  What happens when I screw up? (#51)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect what it takes to do great creative. (#19)\n </li>\n <li>\n  In a high-tech world, be low-tech (#46)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be brief, be bright, be gone. (#31)\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to write a letter of proposal (#44)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Zen of PowerPoint. (#45)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8140'),
(494, 'The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit From Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets', 'Carl Futia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught in bubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futiaâ€™s new book,\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n . This book will teach you Futiaâ€™s novel method of contrarian trading from the ground up.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains the principles and practice of contrarian trading. Discover the Edge which separates winning speculators from the losers. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunch principle to identify profitable trading methods.Â  Learn about the wisdom and the follies of investment crowds â€“ and how crowds are formed by information cascades that drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Discover the power of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these information cascades, measure the strength of the crowdâ€™s beliefs, and decide when the crowdâ€™s view is about to be proven wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigate safely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coaster swings in the U.S. stock market â€“ a time during which Futia kept his own media diary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading.Â  See how this Grand Strategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the Contrarian Rebalancing technique in practice during the dot.com crash of 2000-2002. Find out when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull market of 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs of contrarian trading during that dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period were foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly and consistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By monitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines â€“ and with the guidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides â€“ a trader or investor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turning points.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contrarian theory in investing and trading is based on the idea that markets are driven in large part by crowd behavior. When crowds form around investing themes in the stock market, they push stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Contrarians hold that if investment crowds are responsible for the pricing mistakes made by the stock market, it logically follows that you can do better than buy-and-hold if you can detect those situations in which an investment crowd has driven the stock market too high or too low relative to fair value.\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n shows how to take advantage of the crowd''s periodic bouts of enthusiasm and fear, and make wise investment choices that most others may think are ill-advised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran trader Carl Futia explains the contrarian trader''s principal tool: his media diary. Since major market turning points are almost always foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that turn out to be completely wrong, by monitoring crowd behavior through both quantitative indicators and news media headlinesâ€”and with the hindsight of historical examplesâ€”a trader or investor will be well equipped to profit from market turning points. Futia shows specifically how the information contained in a media diary can be interpreted and then coordinated with a statistical view of a market''s current and past swings. By looking back at the bull market of 1982â€“2000, the 2000â€“2002 bear market, the bull market of 2002â€“2007, and the crash of 2008, he reveals how his own media diary effectively identified the many valuation mistakes the stock market made during those years. In addition, he explains the development of the theory of contrary opinion, highlights the contributions key individuals made to the theory, briefly discusses several books every contrarian should read, and offers a quick primer on value investing for the contrarian trader.\n</p>\n<p>\n The contrarian trader, says Futia, is not in the business of predicting stock market highs and lows or of making correct forecasts of any kind. Instead, his focus is on a single objectiveâ€”that of achieving a higher return than that earned by the buy-and-hold strategy. This book will show you how to achieve this elusive goal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5305'),
(495, 'The Art Of Deception', 'Kevin Mitnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9805'),
(496, 'The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6851');
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(497, 'The Art of Fielding: A Novel', 'Chad Harbach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011\n </strong>\n : Though\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages, there''s rarely a word that feels out of place. The title is a reference to baseball, but Harbach''s concern with sports is more than just a cheap metaphor.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n explores relationships--between friends, family, and lovers--and the unpredictable forces that complicate them. There''s an unintended affair, a post-graduate plan derailed by rejection letters, a marriage dissolved by honesty, and at the center of the book, the single baseball error that sets all of these events into motion.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year''s finest works of fiction.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Reading\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is like watching a hugely gifted young shortstop: you keep waiting for the errors, but there are no errors. First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." (\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Franzen, author of *Freedom\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chad Harbach''s\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is one of those rare novels--like Michael Chabon''s\n <em>\n  Mysteries of Pittsburgh\n </em>\n or John Irving''s\n <em>\n  The World According to Garp--\n </em>\n that seems to appear out of nowhere and then dazzles and bewitches and inspires until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as the unexpected news-blast that the novel is very much alive and well." (\n <strong>\n  James Patterson\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An intricate, poised, tingling debut. Harbach''s muscular prose breathes new life into the American past-time, recasts the personal worlds that orbit around it, and leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page." (\n <strong>\n  TÃ©a Obreht, author of *The Tiger''s Wife\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n . It''s pure fun, easy to read, as if the\n <em>\n  other\n </em>\n Fielding had a hand in it - as if\n <em>\n  Tom Jones\n </em>\n were about baseball and college life." (\n <strong>\n  John Irving\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "That baseball rewards languid virtuosos and frothing monomaniacs about equally is one of the game''s weird fascinations. That Academe does the same would not be useful information in the hands of a hack. But\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n marries the national pastime to the life of the mind, takes off running, and never flags. Chad Harbach''s pen shatters stereotypes like fastballs shatter bats. His sentence-making keeps things fluid and tense as a September pennant race. When the best shortstop alive sounds believably like a Tibetan lama, and when a thrown ball striking a shovel head at dawn leaves your own head ringing with certainty that truth and friendship have triumphed, you know you''re in the hands of a writer you can trust." (\n <strong>\n  David James Duncan, author of\n  <em>\n   The Brothers K\n  </em>\n  and *The River Why\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Spectacular!\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is a wise, warm-hearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut, which heralds the coming of a young American writer to watch. Harbach''s characters live and breathe, yearn, ache, and in the end, make you love them for their flaws. You won''t want this book to end." (\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Evison, author of\n  <em>\n   All About Lulu\n  </em>\n  and *West of Here\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here is that rarest of pleasures, a baseball novel by someone who really knows baseball. The beautiful part is that\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is mere baseball fiction the way\n <em>\n  Moby Dick\n </em>\n is just a fish story. I read this vividly written, powerfully imagined story of a group of young ballplayers and the small-college world they inhabit in a single weekend--read it when I was supposed to be going to the park, making lunch, seeing a movie. Chad Harbach is that kind of writer, so affecting, subtle, funny and true that he gets in the way of your plans and makes everything better." (\n <strong>\n  Nicholas Dawidoff author of\n  <em>\n   The Catcher Was A Spy\n  </em>\n  and editor of\n  <em>\n   Baseball\n  </em>\n  : *A Literary Anthology\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Not being a huge fan of the national pastime, I found it easy to resist the urge to pick up this novel, but once I did I gave myself over completely and scarcely paused for meals. Like all successful works of literature\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is an autonomous universe, much like the one we inhabit although somehow more vivid." (\n <strong>\n  Jay McInerney, author of\n  <em>\n   Bright Lights, Big City\n  </em>\n  and *How It Ended\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily one of the best books of the year,\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is a triumph in every way, from glittering storytelling talent to an emotional depth of the rarest kind. I savored every page and plot line, and hated to see it end. Comparisons will abound--everything from\n <em>\n  The Natural\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Infinite Jest--\n </em>\n but they need not be offered, because this one will stand on its own for years to come." (\n <strong>\n  Michael Koryta, author of *The Ridge\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Beautifully made, surpassingly human, and quietly subversive,\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n restores one''s faith in the national pastime--i.e., reading and writing novels." (\n <strong>\n  Benjamin Kunkel, author of *Indecision\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is terrific. It is a baseball novel the way\n <em>\n  Bang the Drum Slowly\n </em>\n is a baseball novel--it is about much, much more. The plot builds and builds, the characters are spirals of fault and goodness, the descriptions of action are precise and shining." (\n <strong>\n  John Casey, author of *Compass Rose\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will, after making room in my days for reading it--which is also what a really good book will do." (\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Franzen, *TIME\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Astonishingly assured yet seemingly effortless...Sport is the metaphor here, but it is only that; [\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n ] is a wonderful tale of youth, ambition, love, and a little, unpredictable thing called life. In other words, it''s a whole other ballpark." (\n <strong>\n  Sara Nelson, *O, The Oprah Magazine\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chad Harbach can make anything mesmerizing: a potato cube in a bowl of clam chowder, a college baseball player''s batting average, the antics of teenagers, the antics of grownups, the consequences of falling in love, the consequences of falling from grace. What a beautiful book this is, a feast to gulp and savor." (\n <strong>\n  Joanna Scott\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immediately accessible narrative reminiscent of John Irving, Harbach...draws readers into the lives of his characters, plumbing their psyches with remarkable psychological acuity, and exploring the transformative effect that love and friendship can have on troubled souls. And, yes, it''s a hell of a baseball story, too, no matter who wins." (\n <strong>\n  Bill Ott,\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There''s just something so easy and riveting about the way this book''s layers unfold; not since\n <em>\n  Lonesome Dove\n </em>\n have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go." (\n <strong>\n  Andres Corsello, *GQ\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A debut swinging for the fences...You don''t have to like baseball to savor Chad Harbach''s sumptuous debut novel, a wise and tender story of love and friendship, ambition and the cruelty of dashed dreams, featuring an appealing cast of characters.... Harbach demonstrates an impressive gift for balancing his exploration of these fragile entanglements with an absorbing, well-plotted story, so we''re rooting as hard for the small company of troubled souls as we are for the ragtag Westish nine. There aren''t many books of 500 pages that feel too short. But like a true fan enjoying a game of baseball as it scrolls its leisurely signature across a summer afternoon, there are moments when you will find yourself wishing\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n would never end. It''s that good." (\n <strong>\n  Harvey Freedenberg, *BookPage\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written with wit and grace and the true fan''s eye and ear for the subtleties of the game. With\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n , Harbach turns a double play that would make Skrimshander and Roth proud: The book will knock out baseball and literature fans alike." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sports Illustrated\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Witty, intellectual and big-hearted." (\n <strong>\n  Angie Drobnic Holan, *The St. Petersburg Times\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harbach spins this simple premise into a wide-ranging book about desire and loss, friendship and loneliness....A rich, engrossing story." (\n <strong>\n  Rob Brunner, *Entertainment Weekly\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[\n <em>\n  The Art of\n  <strong>\n   Fielding\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  ] is not only a wonderful baseball novel--it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics, alongside\n </em>\n The Natural\n <em>\n  by Bernard Malamud and\n </em>\n The Southpaw* by Mark Harris--but it''s also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and the coming of age that marks the debut of an immensely talented writer...Mr. Harbach has the rare abilities to write with earnest, deeply felt emotion without ever veering into sentimentality, and to create quirky, vulnerable and fully imagined characters who instantly take up residence in our hearts and minds. He also manages to re-work the well-worn, much-allegorized subject of baseball and make us see it afresh, taking tired tropes about the game (as a metaphor for life''s dreams, disappointments and hopes of redemption) and interjecting them with new energy. In doing so he has written a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting....You don''t need to be a baseball fan to fall under this novel''s spell, but THE ART OF FIELDING possesses all the pleasures that an aficionado cherishes in a great, classic game: odd and strangely satisfying symmetries, unforeseen swerves of fortune, and intimations of the delicate balance between individual will and destiny that play out on the field." (\n Michiko Kakutani,\n The New York Times\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "His first time at bat, Harbach wins. Confident and deliberate,\n <em>\n  Art\n </em>\n imitates baseball...\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is an old-fashioned novel in the very best way--unhurried , engrossing, a universe unto itself...It''s that rare, big social novel with the quiet confidence not to overreach for grand statements on the times, and a debut that never feels like it''s straining to impress. There''s just quiet confidence in honest storytelling--Harbach is all Derek Jeter, not Alex Rodriguez....Harbach''s images are so lively and surprising, his characters so intoxicatingly engaging, that\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n becomes something special and unique, a complete and satisfying fictional universe....Harbach, in his first time at bat, has made the near-impossible act of writing a very good American novel feel almost effortless." (\n <strong>\n  David Daley, *USA Today\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] triumphant first novel...Like a great baseball game, the novel manages to feel traditional and contemporary all at once." (\n <strong>\n  Sam Sacks, *The Wall Street Journal\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harbach is witty, wise...engaging...Harbach excels in writing about baseball and those who play it...Harbach''s hand is sure.... echoes of the 19th-century greats lend unexpected richness to a book that ends up high in the standings." (\n <strong>\n  Dennis Drabelle, *The Washington Post\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chad Harbach does not merely echo\n <em>\n  Moby Dick\n </em>\n . In at least one respect, he goes Mr. Melville one better. Whereas Ishmael alone symbolically dies and then bobs to the surface in Melville''s novel, Harbach puts the noggins of two of his major characters in the paths of potentially lethal pitches. Both young men are feared dead. Each rises to play again. So\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is ambitious, and Harbach''s reach is not limited... Though there''s plenty of baseball in\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n , Harbach''s novel is no more about the game than\n <em>\n  Moby Dick\n </em>\n is about whaling. Both books examine determination and striving, which can ennoble one or drive one mad... The invocations of Melville''s ambition and achievement are lightened by the fun Harbach has with his characters." (\n <strong>\n  Bill Littlefield, *Boston Sunday Globe\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Charming...Watchers of\n <em>\n  Friday Night Lights\n </em>\n will be at home in Harbach''s generously told novel...But there''s also much more here to interest readers of the contemporary literary novel, a genre that''s clearly a preoccupation of Harbach''s....The main order of business here is to entertain, and in this Harbach succeeds. His prose, furthermore, is uncommonly resourceful...Such torches are more than surface felicities. They serve a larger purpose in a story that is, after all, about virtuosity and promise--about a young man whose future is incandescently bright, until he becomes too aware of its fragility....The dream of perfection deferred allows Harbach to tell a story about our national pastime that manages, as well, to be about our historical present--in other words, a story about fallibility." (\n <strong>\n  Wyatt Mason, *The New Yorker\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harbach takes plenty of cues from other great baseball novels, like Bernard Malamud''s\n <em>\n  The Natural\n </em>\n and Philip Roth''s\n <em>\n  The Great American Novel\n </em>\n , but more so from Melville, in a display of cleverness that wraps around Westish life....\n <em>\n  The Art Of Fielding\n </em>\n captures the bright, big sense of purpose Henry and the other Harpooners feel as they step onto the field... Henry''s attachment to baseball and his new home delivers a satisfying wallop of meaning that ultimately links his friends'' fates with his." (\n <strong>\n  Ellen Wernecke, The Onion A.V. Club\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sharp-witted...\n <em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n <em>\n  ...is an affecting portrait of the seductive powers of athletic talent and society''s eagerness to indulge its possessors. It also transcends baseball.... As the novel expands into a meditation on young love and male bonds, Harbach''s prose remains as exacting as, say, firing a leather sphere at an awaiting glove." (\n </em>\n <em>\n  Mike Peed,\n </em>\n Men''s Journal\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is a long, generous and deeply absorbing story that more than lives up to all the pre-publication anticipation....Harbach writes in precise, intelligent, yet very accessible language, and he seems to understand what makes college students tick.... Harbach is wise enough to understand what baseball\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n represents -- the folly of pursuing perfection; the challenge of bringing mind and body into perfect union -- and he explores these themes with exceptional grace on and off the field, through the perspectives of a half-dozen beautifully drawn characters.... Over the course of two baseball seasons and 500-plus pages, we become immersed in these people''s lives in the way that we only can in an epic novel; the closer the book draws to its conclusion, the slower we begin to read, for fear that we''ll have to bid adieu to this beautifully conjured universe too soon. Indeed, Harbach works wonders in painting an expansive portrait of this college... The sport doesn''t matter as much as the emotions and anxieties that it evokes in us: the fear that we won''t be as good today as we were yesterday or the day before; the doubt that plagues even the most confident souls....[a] stirring, singular novel -- the best new work of American fiction that I''ve read this year." (\n <strong>\n  Christopher Kellly, *Fort Worth Star-Telegram\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A debut novelist delivers his assured pitch right into our strike zone....\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n lives up to the hype.... Harbach''s prose is considered, clean and pastoral, and he makes it easy to root for each of his characters.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is a decidedly American story, impeccably told. Skrimshander''s pride, his struggle to regain his confidence and his dreams of a second act will resonate with baseball fans, readers of Franzen-style family dramas and anyone drawn to smart, funny, engaging writing.... this novel came right down the middle of my strike zone. But as\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is such a rich and occasionally heartbreaking experience, others will not only realize where their strike zone is, but they''ll let Harbach paint the corners for them." (\n <strong>\n  Corban Goble, The Awl\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Large-hearted... Harbach writes about the Harpooners with touching intimacy (and an impressive knowledge of baseball).... expansive, thought-provoking and ambitious... This is a big book in every way... If\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n begins as a baseball story, so it ends as one, too--poignantly, beautifully, and improbably." (\n <strong>\n  David Goodwillie, The Daily Beast\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] brilliant, intensely readable first novel...Harbach, whose knowledge of baseball is encyclopaedic but never ponderous, resists the temptation to which many other baseball writers...have succumbed: to write not a novel but a version of the core baseball myth, the game as a pastoral vision of America, in which the heroes and villains, the fictional stand-ins for the Babe and the Say-Hey Kid and Shoeless Joe, enact predestined roles. Instead, Harbach finds analogies in other literary genres: the epic, the picaresque, the coming-of-age story, the self-scrutinizing memoir.... In an endearingly traditional way, he subordinates the ironic commentaries and the mirroring influences to the tender, funny, poignant story of Henry''s travails and their unexpected resolution." (\n <strong>\n  Richard Horwich, *Newsday\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chad Harbach makes the case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and altogether excellent first novel.... It seems a stretch for a baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human condition in its mitt, well THE ART OF FIELDING isn''t really a baseball novel at all, or not only. It''s also a campus novel and a bromance (and for that matter a full-fledged gay romance), a comedy of manners and a tragicomedy of errors...Welcome to the big leagues, kid. Now get out there and play." (\n <strong>\n  Gregory Cowles, *The New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] delightful debut...Erudite enough to reference Herman Melville, Homer and T.S. Eliot, yet sufficiently geeky to pay homage to the epic struggles of ill-fated ball-players such as Steve Blass, Steve Sax and Mackey Sasser... a showcase for...Harbach''s mad skills, his humor and above all, the humanity with which the author infuses each of his characters...The author''s observations about baseball can be both pithy and witty... wonderfully insightful. And the writing throughout, as Walt Whitman once said of the game itself, is glorious...a natural talent, one who has the potential to become a Hall of Famer." (\n <strong>\n  Adam Langer, *San Francisco Chronicle\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dazzling debut....\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n might be the best book you''ll read this year....Harbach''s debut novel has a succulent heft to it--a growing weight of love and devotion that is comprised of Harbach''s deft and boundlessly emotive writing. The remarkable sincerity with which he develops characters renders their conflicts and complexities so authentic it''s impossible not to care about them.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is youthful, invigorating and fiercely intelligent writing....[It] is not really a book about baseball. Westish College sports are a backdrop as life''s more prevalent struggles--doubt, romance, grief and determination--collide and merge marvellously....This is a book about love, family and dedication...A nearly flawless construction of dazzlingly clear sentences...The most enjoyable aspect of\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is the true-to-life humanity Harbach''s characters are infused with. Their heartache, loss and yearning are palpable.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n brims with its author''s extraordinary talents. It''s going to be hard waiting to see what Harbach does next." (\n <strong>\n  Alex Lemon, *The Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Inspiring...Ambitious in a refreshing way." (\n <strong>\n  Jim Higgins, *The Milwaukee Sunday Journal-Sentinel\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Debut novel hits a grand slam... Resplendent... Ambitious and accomplished... Harbach''s characters are well developed and eminently realistic. The rich portrayals of their psychological struggles and interactions add a warmth and dept to the already colorful narrative....Harbach''s novel is mature, compelling, graced with both charm and humor, and shaped as much by his expressive prose as by its memorable and substantive characterizations. Harbach is a gifted storyteller and his debut novel may well herald a fresh, new talent in the realm of contemporary American fiction.\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n , like baseball itself, is beautiful in its simplicity, yet made great by the effortless subtlety of its many nuanced intricacies." (\n <strong>\n  Jeremy Barber, *The Sunday Oregonian\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages there''s rarely a word that feels out of place....\n <em>\n  The Art of Fielding\n </em>\n is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year''s finest works of fiction." (\n <strong>\n  Kevin Nguyen, *Louisville Courier-Journal\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast on its way to becoming a classic of the genre." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can the book possibly live up to this advance billing? In a word, yes....Harbach has pulled it off...thanks to the sheer mastery of his writing. It doesn''t hurt that the baseball details are so realistic they seem stolen from an actual small college somewhere in the American heartland.... The real magic is in the way Harbach strings words together, the inventive descriptors that liven every page." (\n <strong>\n  James Bailey,* Baseball America\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An early contender for book of the year... critics have called this an entrant in the ''Great American Novel'' sweepstakes.... One of the best baseball books in memory." (\n <strong>\n  David Swanson,* Maxim\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] endearing first novel... Harbach opens his formidable lens beyond pitch-perfect male bonding...That all its characters are crafted with an ardour equal to any ninth-inning at-bat makes THE ART OF FIELDING a marvel...Many first novels swing for the fence; Harbach''s novel\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the fence. Baseball fan or no, you should read it." (\n <strong>\n  Scott Muskin, *Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n </strong>\n * )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11240'),
(498, 'The Art of Mending: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the secrets that have long haunted her family. Her emotionally unstable sister, Caroline, tells Laura and their brother, Steve, that their mother abused her as a child. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline''s accusations and wonder how they could''ve been oblivious to or complicit in what happened, their father dies. This could be the stuff of melodrama, but Berg generally manages to avoid it. Her prose is often luminous and buoyant, and her insights can be penetrating. Her big ideas, though, are too frequently interrupted by the sort of domestic-detail overdoses that belong in less ambitious novels ("I hung up, flipped the turkey burgers for the last time, dumped the oven-baked French fries into a basket and salted them, sliced tomatoes, drained the water off the ears of corn..."). Other shortcomings include a few gender stereotypes and a husband and children for Laura who seem too good to be true ("Sometimes it seemed like I was making it up," Laura thinks). But Laura''s thornier relationships with her mother and siblings are carefully rendered and compelling. Berg has written a nuanced account of a family''s implosion, with enough ambiguity and drama to give book clubs-the book''s likely audience-"plenty to discuss and to keep any reader intrigued, right up to the fittingly redemptive ending.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Berg (_Say When_ [BKL Ap 1 03]) is unafraid of tackling gritty domestic issues such as aging and illness; in her latest, she takes on the question of why a mother would be so caring with two of her children but treat the third with great cruelty. Although Berg never answers that question satisfactorily, she does offer a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a flawed family. Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother are tempted to write Caroline''s confidences off as just another example of her histrionics. Because if what she says is true, what would that mean about their complicity in the family dynamics? Although Berg proffers a number of reasons for the mother''s singular treatment of Caroline, none of them is totally convincing. Berg is much better at detailing Laura''s childhood impatience with her gloomy sister and her inability to fully comprehend the cause of her sister''s moodiness. This is a skillful popular treatment of a troubling family issue.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8454'),
(499, 'The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6853'),
(500, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man. A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1289'),
(501, 'The Art of the Moving Picture', 'Vachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5580'),
(502, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book One of *The Warrior* Series Sun Tzu and Sun PinÃ‚â€™s timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, *The Art of War* by Sun Tzu and *The Art of Warfare* by Sun Pin, in plain English. War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun TzuÃ‚â€™s ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. ***The Art of War*** outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client. ***The Art of War*** teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by: Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down. How to be confident without being overly confident. Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack. Avoiding an opponentÃ‚â€™s strengths and striking his weaknesses. Ã‚â€œThe one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up.Ã‚â€ Be the first to the battlefield with ***The Art of War***.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3875'),
(503, 'Artemis', 'Julian Stockwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With Kydd, Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William battle ship. Now, Thomas Paine Kydd is back -- with a vengeance -- in the latest installment of Stockwin''s thrilling naval adventure series.Artemis is the eighteenth-century crack frigate that Kydd and sea-mate Nicholas Renzi are set to sail all the way to the fabled Far East. In this great age of fighting sailing ships, Kydd''s voyage promises to be a perilous undertaking. But not even shipwreck, mutiny, or a confrontation with a mighty French frigate manages to thwart Artemis and her crew. It''s only when Kydd receives an urgent message from home -- one that threatens to cut short his career and trap him on shore forever -- that Artemis''s real journey begins.Filled with mesmerizing suspense and vivid details of Napoleonic-era seafaring, Artemis is classic, page-turning storytelling at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2834'),
(504, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1385'),
(505, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1381'),
(506, 'The Artemis Fowl files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1383'),
(507, 'Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1387'),
(508, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1384'),
(509, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons. The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years. Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up. But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him. This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race. It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1382'),
(510, 'Artemis Fowl: the opal deception', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn''t know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She''s left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put here there, including Artemis. Meanwhile in the lower elements, Captain Holly Short of the fairy police is framed for a heinous crime, yet she manages to elude her captors and escape to the surface to rescue Artemis. But before Holly and Artemis can get away, Opal arrives and abducts them both, forcing Artemis to go head to head with an enemy who plans on destroying the fairy world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1386'),
(511, 'Artemis Fowl: the time paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1380'),
(512, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6673'),
(513, 'Arthurian Saga 01 - The Crystal Cave', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9873'),
(514, 'Arthurian Saga 02 - The Hollow Hills', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9874'),
(515, 'Arthurian Saga 03 - The Last Enchantment', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9872'),
(516, 'Arthurian Saga 04 - The Wicked Day', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9871'),
(517, 'Articles of the Federation', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the events of "Star Trek: Titan", in Book One: "Taking Wings", relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of the Federation/Klingon alliance goes south, Federation councillors unhappy with the solution brokered by Captain. Will Riker in Titan begin power plays of their own against the fledgling Bacco administration.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8678'),
(518, 'An Artificial Night', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael''s realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael''s inescapable power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3265');
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(519, 'An Artist of the Floating World', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  An Artist of the Floating World\n </em>\n , Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono''s wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What''s left for Ono? Ishiguro''s treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like figures on a Japanese screen, the painter Masuji Ono and his daughters Setsuko and Noriko are fixed in the formal attitudes that even their private conversations reflect. In the postwar 1940, the father is a relic of traditional Japan, of teahouses, geishas and patterned gardens not yet destroyed by industry and Westernized thinking. He is unable to communicate with his daughters, unsure of the propriety of his wartime nationalism yet unwilling to exchange it for what seem to him doubtful modern values. His thoughts turn to the optimism of his student days, to uncertainties and disappointments that were mitigated by his sense of a prevailing order, now nowhere apparent. He cannot fathom why his daughters treat him with a disdain that approaches rudeness, why they imply that he and his kind were responsible for the war that killed so many sons, his own among them. And so, despite the rigidity of Ishiguro''s prosewhich matches Ono''s inflexibilitythe once famous artist gathers pathos as he moves through the pages of a novel that is both a reminder and a warning. Ishiguro wote A Pale View of Hills.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9448'),
(520, 'As Dog Is My Witness Another Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Aspergerâ€™s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron''s son Ethan has had since birth. Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when heâ€™s assaulted by visiting Visigothsâ€”-no, wait, that''s just his wife Abby''s brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron''s poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It''s going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey''s funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1831'),
(521, 'As She Climbed Across the Table', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem''s novel\n <em>\n  As She Climbed Across the Table\n </em>\n . The tale echoes __ in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice''s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics'' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer''s consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice''s importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I''m not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this witty but telling new work from the author of The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye (LJ 8/96), our hapless narrator has completed his dissertation on "Theory as Neurosis in the Professional Scientist" and landed a job at the University of North California at Beauchamp (pronouced beach ''em), where he studies academic envirorments, producing "strong but irrelevant work" and falling for physics professor Alice. But Alice is too caught up in Professor Soft''s notorious experiment with a vacuum intelligence called Lack to pay her lover much heed, and soon Lack is the real love of her life. This is not your typically insular campus comedy; Lethem has something bigger in mind, and he succeeds admirably in skewering our pretensions, technological or not, in language that gently mocks the way we hide behind jargon. An ironical book that is, ironically, quite poignant; for public and academic libraries.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8058'),
(522, 'As We Know It Life', 'Ben Bova - Life As We Know It', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10456'),
(523, 'Ascending', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty''s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar''s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the "apathetic hibernation" overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny ... and in a vast and volatile universe, destiny is never a sure thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Alan Gardner is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, and has published numerous works of short fiction in leading genre publications. He is the author of the novel\n <em>\n  Expendable\n </em>\n . A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4533'),
(524, 'The Ascension: A Novel', 'Michael; G. Cornelius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ASCENSION BEGINS. A Catholic bishop. A Quaker prayer leader. A Methodist minister. A Mormon ward leader. An entire congregation of Seventh Day Adventists. What do they have in common? They all minister to people''s spiritual needs. And someone-or something-is ripping them to shreds for it. A BLOODY WARNING. Police detective Caldwell "Cal" Evans, still three weeks shy of completing rehab, is called in on the case. His only clue is a chilling message written in blood at the first murder scene: "Leave the Christ alone. He does not belong to you." THE SERPENT SHALL REIGN. With bodies piling up, Cal and his partner, Velvet Rabinowitz, chase leads involving snake-handling cults, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and an ancient ceremony left unfinished for two thousand years. With the help of a graduate student and an enigmatic Roman Catholic priest, the two detectives do more than fight for their lives. .THEY FIGHT FOR US ALL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2684'),
(525, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6125'),
(526, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career. Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(527, 'The Ashes of Worlds', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." ---\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert''s classic\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  series." --- Scifi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything about Anderson''s latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." ---\n  <em>\n   Starlog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." ---\n  <em>\n   Science Fiction Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." ---\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7196'),
(528, 'Asimov&#39;s Mysteries', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen short science-fiction mysteries by the acclaimed science writer are presented together with commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9549'),
(529, 'Ask the Parrot', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fleeing the authorities after a diastrous bank heist, Parker is rescued from the law enforcement pursuit by Tom Lindahl, an angry recluse and one-time whistleblower tossed aside by the corrupt political establishment, who has a daring scheme to seek revenge and a plan to use Parker to accomplish his goal. By the author of Nobody Runs Forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6552'),
(530, 'Asking for Trouble', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4 1/2 stars--an October Top Pick! --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times Bookreviews, October 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers who love a good romantic suspense mixed with some blistering love scenes shouldn''t miss Leslie Kelly''s ASKING FOR TROUBLE! --\n  <em>\n   Romance Reviews Today, October 1, 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was a dark and sexy night, and she was in Trouble! Trouble, Pennsylvania, that is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lottie Santori doesn''t realize when she arrives at the mysterious Seaton House that it''s inhabited by Simon Lebeaux, a sinfully sexy recluse. While wildly attracted to the dangerous stranger, she''s also determined to uncover the secrets of his past, and to find out whether Seaton House is merely a dark and dangerous inn on a mountain, or if it truly is inhabited by the ghost of a notorious serial killer...and his victims!\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s gothic romance...Blaze style...and it''s Leslie Kelly at her best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7772'),
(531, 'The Assassin', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It couldn''t happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption into the force. The police can''t trust their own people as seconds tick away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6080'),
(532, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father''s gruff stableman. He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz''s blood runs the magic Skill--and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3507'),
(533, 'Assassin&#39;s Creed: Brotherhood', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a sequel to Assassin''s Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oliver Bowden\n </strong>\n is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4775'),
(534, 'Assassin&#39;s quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity''s return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3468'),
(535, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M. G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tension between India''s centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prizeâ€“winner Vassanji (who won for\n <em>\n  The Book of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall\n </em>\n ). Karsan Dargawalla is destined from boyhood to succeed his father and his father''s father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine. As the novel unfolds in fits and starts, Karsan rejects his spiritual inheritance and decamps for Harvard in 1970, against his chagrined father''s wishes. The three decades of stubborn self-exile that follow represent a sorrowful generational rift between father and son that ends when Karsan returns home after his ascetic father''s death, announced at the book''s opening. Though Sufism is a Muslim tradition, Karsan''s father considered himself neither and both Muslim and Hindu, and we, says Karsan at one point, are respected for that. Yet Karsan finds the shrine destroyed by a mob of Hindu hard-liners, while his younger brother, Mansoor, militantly calls himself a Muslim and may be involved in Islamist terrorist activities. Frequent shifts in time and perspective (including flashes of the shrine''s early history) heighten Vassanji''s evocative depiction of India''s ongoing postcolonial tumult, mournfully personalized by the fate of the fractured family at the novel''s heart.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This resplendent novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions. Karsan, rebelling against "the iron bonds of history," leaves for Boston and Canada, though he ultimately returns to India to "research, recall, and write about" his abandoned heritage. Vassanji eloquently details the sufferings of Karsanâ€™s family as the price of his individual freedom, but suggests that this abandonment was necessary, and that tradition, in the face of Indiaâ€™s "ancient animosities," must be engaged with critically and in the context of the wider world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8447'),
(536, 'The Assassin&#39;s Touch', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogunâ€™s second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin.Â Sanoâ€™s wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the womanâ€™s life as a hinin?a moral outcast, shunned by the world?inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sanoâ€™s.Â As Reikoâ€™s questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata?his most loyal samurai?pursure their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path?even Reiko.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2675'),
(537, 'Assault on Soho', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(538, 'Assegai', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Courtney - 13\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the saga of the Courtney family of Africa begun in 1964 with\n  <em>\n   When the Lion Feeds\n  </em>\n  . In this installment, Leon Courtney, ladies'' man and former lieutenant in the King''s African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. Among his clients are Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Teddy Roosevelt, and a spoiled German princess who is fond of the whip. The story really doesn''t kick into gear until halfway through, on the eve of war, when Courtney''s uncle, Brig. Gen. Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto''s mistress, Eva, who has a secret life of her own. Will Courtney defeat Otto''s dastardly scheme and rescue Eva? Though the outcome is never in doubt, Smith manages to serve up adventure, history and melodrama in one thrilling package that will be eagerly devoured by series fans.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but thatâ€™s only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leonâ€™s target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesnâ€™t count on falling in love with the targetâ€™s seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbachâ€™s plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smithâ€™s novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9161'),
(539, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3511'),
(540, 'The associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in "The Firm," waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, "The Associate" Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father''s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of "The Yale Law Journal," and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn''t want--even though it''s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains--from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle''s "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country--and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1996'),
(541, 'Astro Boy: The Movie', 'Tracey West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by *New York Times* bestselling author Tracey West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3693'),
(542, 'The Astronaut&#39;s Wife', 'Robert Tine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and Earth for two minutes. Both men return from the trip with no memory of those crucial minutes, and soon thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. Little by little, Spencer''s wife Jillian, played by Charlize Theron, pregnant with twins, begins to suspect that something happened on the mission during those two minutes--something that changed Spencer into someone other than the man she loves, something that might mean the end of us all. Coming to theaters from New Line Cinema in March ''99.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4040'),
(543, 'Asylum', 'Patrick McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n review praised Patrick McGrath''s "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described\n <em>\n  Asylum\n </em>\n as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren''t quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath''s fourth novel (his other\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGrath (Dr. Haggard''s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. In this tale of headlong descent into darkness and despair, the toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusionary fit, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels'' garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max''s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him. When he begins to manifest the same furious jealousies that led to his wife''s murder, she flees home again, only to find she has ruined her husband''s career. The Raphaels, with their young son, Charlie, are exiled to a remote hospital in rural Wales, where further disaster strikes as Stella drifts into her own desperate delusions. The story is told by another psychiatrist at the asylum, ostensibly through interviews with Stella. Although the doctor''s own interpolations are sometimes a relief in the supercharged atmosphere, this seems an unnecessary device, and the intended frisson of his participation in the somber conclusion doesn''t come off. In every other respect, however, the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple''s strange love is masterly. 75,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; rights sold in the U.K. and six European nations; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6439'),
(544, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London''s eminently expensive bastion of tradition. Bertam''s Hotel. but its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished -- by new blood. For someone disreputable has just checked in. And what''s now going on at Bertram''s Hotel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5201'),
(545, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3084'),
(546, 'At Some Disputed Barricade: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings: Joseph, a chaplain working with soldiers on the front line in France; Matthew, a British intelligence officer; and Judith, an ambulance driver. (Newcomers may struggle to understand the backstory.) Matthew continues his search for the traitorous mastermindâ€”the "Peacemaker"â€”plotting to align Britain with Germany to end the war, while Joseph is working on a smaller mystery: was British officer Howard Northrop killed by one of his own men? Exposition slows down the pace in places, but the author vividly captures the unspeakable horrors of the Great War. Readers won''t have long to wait for the fifth and final entry in the series,\n  <em>\n   We Shall Not Sleep\n  </em>\n  (Reviews, Feb. 5).\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fourth entry in Perry''s World War I series finds chaplain Joseph Reavley three years into his service in the trenches of Ypres on the western front. The British army has suffered appalling losses, and the men are exhausted, hungry, and afraid. Now an incompetent officer, the son of a general, unwilling to take advice from more experienced soldiers, is sending his men to certain death by making wrongheaded, uninformed decisions. When the officer''s body is discovered, it falls to Joseph to determine whether he was killed by his own men. The investigation is complicated when Joseph''s sister, Judith, a fearless ambulance driver, is drawn into the dispute. Meanwhile, their brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence, is seeing indications of the work of the Peacemaker, who, under the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. Perry explores the shifting nature of loyalty, conscience, and honor when set against the backdrop of a blood-soaked battlefield, and her grisly descriptions of that battlefield are heartrending.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8570'),
(547, 'At Swim, Two Boys', 'Jamie O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Raised in County Dublin,Jamie O''Neillis the author ofKilbrackandAt Swim, Two Boys,which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men''s Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6017'),
(548, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet &amp; Bill Harlow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n <em>\n  The Reagan Diaries\n </em>\n ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6614'),
(549, 'At the Gates of Darkness', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten years after the terrible Darkwar finally ended, catastrophe once again threatens to engulf Midkemia and Kelewan, as the demon hordes continue their relentless quest to infiltrate this realm of magic and wonder. . . . ** *At the Gates of Darkness* Book Two of the Demonwar Saga To protect their world from the savage demon hordes, the Black Sorcerer Pug and Midkemia''s clandestine protectors, the Conclave of Shadows, forged an uneasy alliance of formidable magical talents. Together, this brave band of wizards, demon masters, warriors, and elves defeated the brutal Demon King Maarg and turned back the onrushing death tide. But Maarg''s fall has not stopped the demonic onslaught, and danger now looms greater than ever before. Amid the barren ridges of the Valley of Lost Men, in the shadows of an ancient Keshian fortress, the fearsome demon Dahun and the mad necromancer Belasco have joined forces, creating an unstoppable union of deathly black magics that even Pug and a united Conclave may not be strong enough to withstand. Battling the Demon Legion has taken a heavy blood toll on the valiant and dedicated magician, claiming the lives of nearly all those he loves. Though he is racked by despair and rage, Pug knows that the time for mourning must wait. Putting aside his pain, he and the Conclave and their alliesâ€”the cold-blooded master spy Jim Dasher; the fearsome young Knight-Adamant Sandreena; her former lover the necromancer Amirantha; two renegade Star Elves; and Pug''s surviving son, Magnusâ€”must marshal their resources against this latest threat. None can forget the dozens of worlds overrun by the demon plague and the millions of dead left behind in their wake. At the gates of darkness, where shadows hide even deeper shadows, these magical defenders will face what is sure to be the bloodiest, nastiest fight their land has ever seen. And as evil, mayhem, and dark magic are unleashed, none can predict if theyâ€”and Midkemia itselfâ€”will survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3626'),
(550, 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8639'),
(551, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(552, 'At Wick&#39;s End', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Upon his Great-Aunt Belle''s death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he''s playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind his own beeswax...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3980'),
(553, 'At Witt&#39;s End', 'Beth Solheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Things are really bustling at the Witt''s End resort in Northern Minnesota. Clients are vying for one of the few remaining rentals, except Cabin 14thing isno one gets out of Cabin 14 alive. Sadie isn''t your typical sixty-four year old senior citizen. She has things she wants to do and shouldn''t be expected to solve a murder while trying to prevent an unscrupulous sheriff''s deputy from shutting down the lakeside resort she owns with her straight arrow sister. But that''s exactly what Sadie Witt must do. When five guests with hidden agendas arrive at Cabin 14, they''re stunned to learn that the flamboyant Sadie is their conduit to the hereafter. Clad in the latest fashion trends--fads typically reserved for those without sagging body parts--and sporting hairdos that make bystanders want to look away but can''t, Sadie realizes one of the guests has been murdered and must work against the clock to untangle the web and prevent further mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1401'),
(554, 'Athabasca', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SABOTAGE!THE VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.THE RESULTCatastrophe.One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9263'),
(555, 'Atheism: The Case Against God', 'George H. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10168'),
(556, 'Atheist Universe', 'David Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9249');
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(557, 'The Athena Project: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Forceâ€™s newest members have only one thing setting them apartâ€”their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed\n <em>\n  The Athena Project,\n </em>\n four of Deltaâ€™s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nationâ€™s deadliest assignments.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of Americaâ€™s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackâ€”one of unimaginable proportionsâ€”has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinaâ€™s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nationâ€™s most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armyâ€™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brad Thorâ€™s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5805'),
(558, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of a vital belief system than in the East, where it was an orthodoxy Diplomatically, for every Western success there seemed to be multiple triumphs for Communist countries or Third World proxies. Militarily, a thermonuclear stalemate framed a spectrum of defeats in unconventional wars and insurgencies. Europe was moribund; America was uncertain. Then the U.S.S.R. imploded. The Western-generated forces of individualism and creativity might have been overshadowed, says Stone, but for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who he says personified their re-emergence. The Atlantic world boomed unexpectedly while the East was gridlocked and the Third World hobbled by ideologically based overextension and overmanagement, too arteriosclerotic to withstand the stress of reform. Stone''s consistently vivid text presents history as a contingent process whose results are never idealâ€”but neither are they permanent. Illus.\n <em>\n  (June 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] has a terrific eye for detail, bringing to life everything from the ruins of Germany to Ronald Reaganâ€™s White House with a wonderfully waspish turn of phraseâ€¦. He captures well the Westâ€™s weakness, as well as the seemingly powerful challenge that eastern-style socialism posed to Western freedom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Michael Burleigh,\n  <em>\n   Spectator\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSparkling....The bookâ€™s importance is to remind us that the Cold War was an active contest, whose outcome was by no means certain....Stone has produced a powerful alternative to the Left â€˜liberalâ€™ reading of Cold War history, without sounding in the least triumphalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes,\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and its Enemies\n </em>\n is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norman Stone] paints on a broad canvas, showing how the Cold War unfoldedâ€¦. The West is currently engaged in a new sort of war, with radical Islam.... Meanwhile, the economy of the developed world is more precarious than it was in the darkest hours of the 1970s. Mr. Stone doesnâ€™t stop to address the contemporary crisis, but\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is an inspiring reminder that the West has risen to meet such challenges before, helped at crucial moments by bold leaders.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, one of Great Britainâ€™s most distinguished historians, now offers his own assessment of the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Unionâ€¦. [He] bring[s] decades of erudition to his analysis; moreover, he lived in Eastern Europe during part of the period under review and brings that perspective to his work as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Gray,\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes, The Atlantic and Its Enemies is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant....A forthright, brave history, full of wit and humanity, and readable to a degree that will delight all but the green-eyed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Geoffrey Wheatcroft,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] knows central Europe better than most historians, and has no sympathy with the â€˜revisionistâ€™ claim that the west started the conflict, or that both sides were equally to blameâ€¦. All of this is told in a lively or even rollicking fashion, and the word â€˜personalâ€™ in Stoneâ€™s subtitle is an understatement; idiosyncratic or downright eccentric might be more like it. The author is one of the great academic characters of our time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boyd Tonkin,\n  <em>\n   Independent\n  </em>\n  (London) (UK)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWandering, opinionated, mischievous, the book is strung between two downfalls, that of the Third Reich in 1945 and the Soviet empire in 1989. Stoneâ€™s vagabond history rattles across one world-shaking scene of upheaval after another, from the Moscow-backed putsches of the late 1940s in eastern Europe via the 1960sâ€™ feast of fools and the 1970s convulsions that led to the later triumph of Thatcher, Reagan and Pinochet to the unpredicted foundering of Soviet power: Stoneâ€™s terminus, and his final vindication in the face of gormless academic fellow-travellersâ€¦. The book bristles with gleeful passages of lefty-baiting provocationâ€¦.In these moods, part-Evelyn Waugh, part-Jeremy Clarkson, Stone just loves to goad the liberal left. Yet they alternate with hard-headed analyses of the financial shifts behind political faÃ§ades (with a brilliant account of how Saudi oil-price manipulation helped sink the Soviet Union), virtuoso sketches of pivotal events (such as Papa Docâ€™s funeral) and enthralling, colourful swerves into memoir.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Mazower,\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPedantic historians are just one of Norman Stoneâ€™s targets in this swashbuckling survey of the cold war. Perhaps the most brilliant Europeanist of his generation, a man with an intimate knowledge of at least half a dozen countries, and the languages to match, he serves the reader a spicier fare than the pabulums provided by his more cautious brethren." _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  _TusconCitizen.com\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surp\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _TusconCitizen.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surprises."\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _Bookviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSome works of history are so monumental that they are especially deserving of praise. This is the case of Norman Stoneâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, the veteran British journalist and historian, has produced an original interpretative narrative that is idiosyncratic and downright odd in placesâ€¦. Yet it is precisely Stoneâ€™s departures from the standard political-diplomatic themes that enable him to offer a fresh and provocative perspective on events we might have thought thoroughly familiarâ€¦. One of the beguiling charms of Stoneâ€™s narrative is the way in which his cool, understated prose bursts from the page at piquant moments, especially when describing the defects of political leaders of the 1960s and 1970sâ€¦.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n [is] a worthy addition to the essential Cold War canon. Add it to your shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester III). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5400'),
(559, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History Of The Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9319'),
(560, 'Atlantic Fury', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9330'),
(561, 'Atlantis', 'David Gibbins &amp; Gerardo Di Masso', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineâ€”and that''s before they''ve uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It''s thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that''s doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otherâ€”often and at lengthâ€”through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don''t pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren''t your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic."â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7297'),
(562, 'Atlantis and Other Places', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian extraordinaire Turtledove (Hitler''s War) explores a dozen different "what if?" scenarios in this reprint collection. These stories, some dead serious and some absurdly improbable, demonstrate his ability to slip, chameleonlike, from one mode to the next. An aging John Audubon searches for rare birds in "Audubon in Atlantis," and Hitler''s life takes a very different turn in the epistolary "Uncle Alf." "The Catcher in the Rhine" adeptly blends an American classic and a Wagnerian opera. Perhaps the most outrageous is "Bedfellows," featuring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Turtledove also takes a few potshots at the modern media in "News from the Front." Helpful forewords explain the inspiration for, or divergence point of, each story. Whether he''s going for humor or pathos, action or social commentary, Turtledove''s research is always solid, his speculation thoughtful, and his execution professional. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove has long been established at the head of the alternate-history field. This short-story collection suggests that he can also thrust his tongue farther into his cheek than most authors can dream of. The first and last stories are laid in his new creation, the mid-Atlantic subcontinent of Atlantis. In one, John James Audubon sets out to capture on canvas the fast-disappearing birdlife; in the other, an eminent London detective and his doctor partner tackle the mystery of the Scarlet Band. In â€œDaimon,â€ the Greek general Alkibiades rises to the level of Alexander the Great, with unfortunate results for Socrates. â€œThe Horse of Bronzeâ€ is a wild romp through classical Greece, while â€œOccupation Dutyâ€ explores another possible conqueror for Southwest Asia. â€œThe Catcher in the Rhineâ€ is a send-up that a certain cult novel has long deserved, while â€œNews from the Frontâ€ savagely juxtaposes modern mediaocracy with WWII. And letâ€™s not forget â€œUncle Alf,â€ wholly spent inside the mind of an alternate Adolf Hitler (the Germans won WWI), and just plain scary. High Demand Backstory: Publisher promotion, plus his recognizable name, equals buzz. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4960'),
(563, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(564, 'The Atlantis Code', 'Charles Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and powerâ€¦ but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds'' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/571'),
(565, 'Atlantis Endgame', 'Andre Norton; Sherwood Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9110'),
(566, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America''s most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (*Chicago Tribune*). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler''s greatest adventure novel yet."I''ve always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(567, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At last, Ayn Rand''s masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man''s spirit. * Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(568, 'Atmospheric Disturbances', 'Rivka Galchen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n the person you love but a doppelgÃ¤nger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of\n <em>\n  Atmospheric Disturbances\n </em>\n . David Byrne''s infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo''s reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo''s journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema''s marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo''s obsession as his wife''s whereabouts. (Think\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leo''s patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n ) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Rema''s urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chen''s meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leo''s quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Rema''s anguish and anger at her husband. Leo''s devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Don''t be surprised if this gives you a\n <em>\n  Crying of Lot 49\n </em>\n nostalgia hit.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7395'),
(569, 'Atonement: A Novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5318'),
(570, 'The au pairs skinny-dipping', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (The Au Pairs #2) SUMMARY: The girls are back for another summer of fun in the sun (and childminding), but a lot has changed since last time. Eliza is now working at a ''celebrity playground'' nightclub: schmoozing with the A-List (well, serving their drinks), trying to regain her title of popularity queen, and attempting to forget all about her Big Palm Beach Secret. The others, meanwhile, are back at the Perrys looking after the kids: what with the arrival of sexy Philippe, the new French au pair, who forces Jacqui to reconsider her ''No More Boys'' motto; and Mara''s ex hanging around with his new Charlize Therone clone of a girlfriend, the au pairs have a lot to contend with... Will their three-way friendship survive this summer of gossip and secrets?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2726'),
(571, 'The Au Pairs', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (The Au Pairs #1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: **SUMMER AU PAIRS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY** *For four energetic children, between 3 and 10 years old. Join a NYC family for the best summer of your life in East Hampton, July 4-Labor Day. **Pay: $10,000.00** Driver''s license a must. Familiarity with the Hamptons, a plus. Send resumes and head shots to HamptonsAuPairs@yahoo.com* Meet Mara Waters, Eliza Thompson, and Jacqui Velasco -- new au pairs for one of New York City''s wealthiest families -- who will spend their summer in one of the most posh, most exclusive spots for summer summering: the Hamptons. For good girl Mara, this job is a way out of another go-slow Massachusetts summer. Eliza, New York City''s former It Girl, knows this is the fast lane back to the stylish world she wishes she''d never left. And for Brazilian bombshell Jacqui, it''s a boarding pass back to her American love who told her he''d e-mail as soon as he got home, and didn''t. After all, how hard can an au pair job be? Slap sunscreen on the kids during the day and party at the coolest hot spots at night, right?Ã¿Wrong. While Eliza is desperately trying to hide her baby-sitting job from her superspoiled friends who think she''s still just as rich as she used to be, Mara''s getting awfully cozy with the kids'' extremely attractive older brother, Ryan. And Jacqui is heartbroken when she discovers that the love of her life may have been nothing more than a spring fling. If the girls can manage au pair duties -- all the while mastering the ins and outs of the Hamptons'' social scene -- it might just turn out to be the most incredible summer of their lives. But to do it they''ll have to stick together. And that''s where things definitely get sticky.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2727'),
(572, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(573, 'The audacity to win: the inside story and lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s historic victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics** David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president. For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation. *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1312'),
(574, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4183'),
(575, 'Aurorarama', 'Jean-Christophe Valtat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--"the pearl of the Arctic"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, "the time when something is about to explode in the dark." Local "poletics" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city''s most prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you''ve ever read before. Brilliant in its conception, masterful in its prose, thrilling in its plot twists, and laced with humor, suspense, and intelligence, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6531'),
(576, 'Auschwitz: A Doctor&#39;s Eyewitness Account', 'Miklos Nyiszli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous Angel of Death: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11231'),
(577, 'The Austere Academy', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire arc intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don''t. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night''s sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2552'),
(578, 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(579, 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n George presents a romanticized Henry VIII and fails to capture the "brilliance, the cunning or the ruthlessness of the grim monarch who tore down monasteries to fill his coffers, executed two of his six wives and sacrificed friend and enemy alike for political expediency," PW commented.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A remarkable achievement...Magnificently researched and admirably written." --_Mary Stewart_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her novel is a...banquet feast for most readers...astonishing. There''s rousing drama, robust atmosphere and consistently solid characterization; and finally, Margaret George''s triumph is anchored in the urgent rhythm her writing attains." --_Forth Worth Star Telegram_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and living conservation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story. --_Detroit Free Press_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5556'),
(580, 'The autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X; Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times."Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."TEH NEW YORKTIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2309'),
(581, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain', 'Twain, Mark &amp; Smith, Harriet E. &amp; Griffin, Benjamin &amp; Fischer, Victor &amp; Frank, Michael B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11079'),
(582, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8408'),
(583, 'Automating System Administration With Perl', 'David N. Blank-Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules,\n <em>\n  Automating System Administration with Perl\n </em>\n will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8383'),
(584, 'Autumn of the Patriarch', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10405'),
(585, 'Avatamsaka Sutra', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10174'),
(586, 'Avenger', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having proved his grandfather Fergusâ€™ innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would-be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe. When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Starâ€™s spell, it will take all of Dannyâ€™s survival training to find a way out. Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5539'),
(587, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science', 'James D. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvoid Boring People, Watson lays down a lifers"s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. Itrs"s an irreverent romp through Watsonrs"s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1599'),
(588, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(589, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart. An Enchanted story. Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone. Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom. Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy. The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(590, 'Awakened', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4497');
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(591, 'Awakened: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8847'),
(592, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction', 'Kate Chopin &amp; Rachel Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopinâ€™s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novelâ€™s frank portrayal of a womanâ€™s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the authorâ€™s reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature. Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who, determined to control her own life, flouts convention by moving out of her husbandâ€™s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist.Beautifully written, with sensuous imagery and vivid local descriptions, The Awakening has lost none of its power to provoke and inspire. Additionally, this edition includes thirteen of Kate Chopinâ€™s magnificent short stories.Â Stories Included in the Volume:The AwakeningEmancipation: A Life FableA Shameful AffairAt the â€˜Cadian BallDÃ©sirÃ©eâ€™s BabyA Gentleman of Bayou TÃªcheA Respectable WomanThe Story of an HourAthÃ©naÃ¯seA Pair of Silk StockingsElizabeth Stockâ€™s One StoryThe StormThe GodmotherA Little Country Girl Â Rachel Adams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature at Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4936'),
(593, 'The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girlâ€”someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I''m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experimentâ€”not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I''m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I''m running for my life with three of my supernatural friendsâ€”a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witchâ€”and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3151'),
(594, 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge''s latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella Bradshaw, a teenage aspiring actress from the slums of Liverpool, Bainbridge limns a tough but beguiling character. She also deftly conveys the atmosphere of 1950s England, still grimly bomb-cratered, coping with food rationing and the visible casualties of maimed veterans. Her portrait of a seedy repertory troupe, whose members histrionically indulge in love affairs and unrequited passions, is classic. Into this company, directed by elegant Meredith Potter, comes Stella, inveigled into their midst by her uncle/guardian, who feels that the stage is Stella''s only alternative to working in Woolworth''s. Added to her knowledge of her illigitimacy and lower-class origins (the Bradshaws bathe once a fortnight, and share "the family towel"), Stella has the normal self-consciousness and naivete of adolescence overlaid by a strong will, guilelessness and lack of tact. Her innocent but dangerous impulses and her crush on Meredith, whose homosexuality eludes her, makes Stella a sort of Typhoid Mary of psychological injury; one after another, members of the troupe suffer from her impetuous behavior. Bainbridge''s prose brims with pithy insights tinged with sardonic humor, and her plot moves swiftly to a chilling conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n  <em>\n   ''Imagine Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES\n  </em>\n  ''A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed'' TIME OUT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8174'),
(595, 'Awkward Family Photos', 'Mike Bender &amp; Doug Chernack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner Reviews\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  , and her most recent,\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Samuel Butler once said "Every manâ€™s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."\n</p>\n<p>\n If thatâ€™s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos.\n <em>\n  Awkward Family Photos\n </em>\n reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaidsâ€™ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isnâ€™t just a book, itâ€™s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is the best book of embarrassing and strange photos of people who look like my family that I have ever seen."\n <br />\n â€”Judd ApatowÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Being a test tube baby doesn''t seem such a bad idea after looking at these folks. I laughed till it hurt. To paraphrase Tolstoy... every family is freaky in its own way. There''s so much love here- but maybe a little more pain, or desperation, or bewilderment. I often feel slightly sad or guilty that I''m not closer with my own family- but looking at this bunch I sense we all have something in common and I''m far from being alone."\n <br />\n â€”David Byrne\n</p>\n<p>\n "Awkwardness has never looked so cool.Â  Finally there''s a book that celebrates the cringe-worthy family photo we all have buried in an album somewhere."\n <br />\n â€”Â Amanda Goldberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Celebutantes\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anything that both makes me laugh and think my family isn''t so embarrassing deserves to be a book."\n <br />\n â€”Joel Stein,\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine columnist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wept with laughter fourteen times while reading this book and snorted aloud twice. I dare you to find a higher weep/snort ratio in any other publication."\n <br />\n â€”Karen McCullah Lutz, screenwriter of\n <em>\n  Legally Blonde\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Ugly Truth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family Photos_ is the funniest book that I''ve read in a long time. It reminds you that it''s okay to laugh at yourself and celebrates the family that made you awkward in the first place."\n <br />\n â€”Mia Kirshner, The L WordÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family PhotosÂ _is absolutely hysterical, yet at the same time, it''s a stunninglyÂ accurate photographic record of the late 20th century American family. Â Now I can be certain I was not alone in my awkwardness."\n <br />\n â€”Adam Herz, Writer,Â _American Pie I, II, III_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6348'),
(596, 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ', 'Hooman Majd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president''s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author''s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in\n <em>\n  ta''arouf\n </em>\n (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don''t engage his interestâ€”women''s voices are only intermittently includedâ€”this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Ayatollah Begs to Differ\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn this delightful book, Hooman Majd, a gifted storyteller, takes us on a tour of his own private Persia, which is also the Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results are illuminating, humorous, sobering, and ultimately reassuring.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Lee Anderson, author of\n <em>\n  The Fall of Baghdad\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHooman Majd is a stylish and engaging guide through the by-ways of Iranian life. Leading us from seminary to opium den to the presidential compound, his wry sense of humor makes this book a pleasure to read.â€ â€”Gary Sick, Ph.D., senior research scholar at Columbia University and member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA witty, timely perspective on the nation posing the greatest challenge to our next President.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bill White, mayor of Houston and U.S. secretary of energy under President Clinton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5412'),
(597, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7320'),
(598, 'The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z', 'Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(599, 'The Ayn Rand reader', 'Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(600, 'Azazel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Azazel, an enchanting, other-wordly imp, uses his magical powers to help humans beset by ill fortune, but his efforts frequently have unexpected results, in this collection of fantasy tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9505'),
(601, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10584'),
(602, 'Aztec 1 - Aztec', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8861'),
(603, 'Aztecs', 'Vonda N. McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10112'),
(604, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8204'),
(605, '&quot;B&quot; Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4143'),
(606, 'Baal', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3556'),
(607, 'Babbit', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1919. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street. His seventh novel, Babbitt, is considered by many critics to be his greatest work. The story follows George Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor who is unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly middle class. Vaguely dissatisfied with his position, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and by having an affair with an attractive widow, only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater than his desire for escape. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4618'),
(608, 'Babbitt', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3325'),
(609, 'Baby Proof', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isnâ€™t that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all. This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. Itâ€™s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. Itâ€™s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, itâ€™s about the things we will do---and wonâ€™t do---for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9403'),
(610, 'Baby-sitters Beware', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9736'),
(611, 'Baby-sitters On Board', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9686'),
(612, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s lifeâ€¦influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€¦turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6415'),
(613, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C.S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6857'),
(614, 'Babyproofing Your Marriage CD: How to Laugh More, Argue Less, and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows', 'Stacie Cockrell; Cathy O&#39;neill; Julia Stone; Jennifer van Dyck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warning! New parents are likely to experience:\n</p>\n<p>\n Scorekeepingâ€”An exceedingly complex, often relentless, tit-for-tat war waged by husbands and wives over the division of parenting responsibilities and domestic chores.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Ten O''Clock Shoulder Tapâ€”Considered by many men to be a form of foreplay. A paw on a wife''s shoulder is how some men indicate their desire for sex. The Tap is rarely accompanied by a term of endearment or any other verbal form of communication and is seldom well received by the often-sleeping/almost-always-exhausted wife. The frustrated husband, meanwhile, wonders if his wife has pulled a Bait and Switch in the bedroom.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clash of the Granniesâ€”A high stakes "who will have the greatest influence on the grandkids" tournament played by each set of grandparents. Competitive categories include: the Title Championship (who gets to be called "Grandma"), the Battle for Floor and Wall Space, the Battle for Face Time, and Gratuitous Grandparental Gift-Giving.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Babyproofers are three women who wouldn''t trade their roles as mothers for anything, and they love their husbands deeply. But after living through it and hearing the stories of hundreds of other couples, they know that with young children in the house, you need to block the stairs with baby gates, put plastic covers over the outlets, AND take the necessary steps to safeguard your marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Babyproofing Your Marriage\n </em>\n is the warts-and-all truth about how having children can affect your relationship. The authors explore the transition to parenthood in light of their own experiences, with input from their husbands and commentary from men and women across the country. Their evenhanded approach to both sides of the marital equation allows spouses to understand each other in a whole new way.\n</p>\n<p>\n With loads of humor and practical advice, the Babyproofers will guide first-time parents and veterans alike around the rocky shores of the early parenting years. Don''t fall prey to common relationship pitfalls: Babyproof Your Marriage!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stacie Harris Cockrell graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to receive her MBA from the University of Texas. After graduate school, she was a finance and marketing professional at Dell Inc. and subsequently co-founded a high tech company in Austin, Texas. She currently resides in Austin with her husband, Ross, and their three children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9885'),
(615, 'Babyville', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Greenâ€™s rise to reigning queen of commercial womenâ€™s literature has been positively meteoric. *Jemima J*, *Mr. Maybe,* and *Bookends* all took international bestseller lists by stormâ€”and went on to knockout paperback success (*Jemima J *has 390,000 copies in print)â€”thanks to Janeâ€™s fresh perspective on dating and marriage. Now she applies her golden touch to the next phase in a womanâ€™s life, in an insightful, bighearted tale of three friends grappling with their biological clocks. Convinced that a baby will spice up her lackluster relationship with an apathetic boyfriend, Julia launches into a frenetic round of doctorâ€™s appointments and fertility rituals that threatens to send her over the edge. Samantha, happily married and confident that sheâ€™s the next June Cleaver, is appalled to find that her little bundle of joy leaves her exhausted, overweight, and ogling a girlfriendâ€™s hottie husband. Meanwhile, glamorous Maeve knows sheâ€™s allergic to rugratsâ€”until a steamy one-night stand leaves her with more than one surprise. As the three heroines confront their maternity dilemmas, each one discovers a long-lost part of herself and stumbles toward her own unexpected happy ending.In Janeâ€™s trademark luminous and compassionate prose, *Babyville* beautifully tackles that rite of passage that crosses every womanâ€™s mind at least onceâ€”whether it takes her breath away or knocks the wind right out of her: having a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2074');
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(616, 'Bachelor Unleashed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentiveâ€”and\n <em>\n  ravished\n </em>\n her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn''t expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn''t looking for forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Xavier is.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s something about Farrahâ€¦something that touches him deep in his soulâ€¦something that keeps him coming back. So when fate brings them together again, Xavier''s ready to pick up where they left off. But this time around, he wants more. Can he convince the lean, leggy beauty that he''s finished playing the field? That he wants only one woman in his bed, in his armsâ€”in his heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, what are your plans for the holidays, X?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier leaned back in the leather chair and propped his legs up on his desk while glancing out the window at New York City''s skyline. The Empire State Building was in his direct line of vision and looked massive against the dark blue sky overhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had arrived in New York a few days ago to wrap up a business deal between the Northeast Division of Cody Enterprises and Oxley Financial Services. Cameron Cody''s takeover of the investment firm was a done deal, and as the executive attorney for all Cameron''s affairs, Xavier needed to be in place to make sure everything was handled as it should be. Not only was he considered Cameron''s right-hand man, they were very close friends. That friendship had begun back at Harvard when the two had been struggling students, determined to become successful in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now, just like then, they looked out for each other, so he wasn''t surprised by Cameron''s question. Cameron knew that Xavier''s parents had left for their annual six-month missionary crusadeâ€”this year to Haitiâ€”and wouldn''t be returning back to the States until sometime in the spring. "I''m not sure yet, Cam. I have a number of invitations out there."\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron''s deep chuckle sounded over the speaker-phone. "Hey, don''t brag about it. Not everyone is blessed to have five sets of godparents."\n</p>\n<p>\n A frown settled on Xavier''s face that was best not seen by anyone. "That could be a blessing or a curse," he said, shaking his head pensively. "Currently it might be the latter. Now that Uriel has married, some of the godparents are eyeing the remaining five of us. I''m not sure I want to be included in any of their get-togethers for the holidays. Thanksgiving was hard enough."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I bet."\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone had been invited to Uriel and Ellie''s place on Cavanaugh Lake. Former neighbors on the lake, the two had remodeled both their homes once married, combining them into one with an enclosed walkway. That meant plenty of space for sleepovers.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was nice having all six godfathers present as they retold the story of how they''d met at Morehouse and become close friends, and how on graduation day they''d promised to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children, and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from U to Z. And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, you know you can add me and Vanessa to your list," Cam was saying. "You''re always welcome to our place. We''re doing Christmas in Jamaica this year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier couldn''t help but smile. His friend sounded happy and contented. What man wouldn''t be once he''d finally gotten the woman of his dreams? The former Vanessa Steele had been determined not to become involved with Cameron after his attempt to take over her family''s business. Cameron, on the other hand, had been just as determined to win her over. Not surprisingly, Cam had succeeded and was a happily married man with a baby on the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Cam, but I think I''m going to use the two weeks I''ll have off during the holidays to chill and relax. I''m even thinking about going someplace quiet. I might decide to visit Zion in Rome," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moments later after hanging up the phone with Cameron, Xavier stood to stretch, ignoring the pile of work sitting on his desk. Not only was he executive attorney to Cameron Cody, he also managed the legal affairs for several well-known Hollywood celebrities, which was the reason he had an office in Los Angeles as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of all his clients, Cam kept him the busiest, which accounted for Xavier''s additional offices in London, Jamaica and Paris. And since Cameron''s newest brother-in-law, Quade Westmoreland, had a first cousin who was married to a sheikh, Cameron and Sheikh Jamal Yasir were anticipating a business venture that could now take Xavier to parts of the Middle East.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kane, those reports you ordered are ready."\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at the intercom on his desk before leaning over to press a button. "Thanks, Vicki. Please bring them in."\n</p>\n<p>\n "With pleasure, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier shook his head. Vicki Connell, the woman who''d replaced Christine James, his New York administrative assistant, while she was out on an extended maternity leave, was determined to get inside his pants one way or the other. He knew the signs and had read those hidden seductive looks in her pretty dark eyes plenty of times whenever he came to town. All of that would be fine and dandy if he was interested, but he wasn''t. And he downright hated admitting that he hadn''t been gung ho about any woman getting into his pants since splitting with Farrah almost a half a year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t know what the hell was wrong with him since, typically, he wasn''t the brooding type. He''d certainly never given a woman any lasting thoughts once things between them had ended. So why was he doing so now?\n</p>\n<p>\n He walked over to the window and glanced out again. If the forecaster''s predictions held true, a snowstorm would be hitting the city by Sunday, and Xavier wished he could return to Charlotte before that happened. He could kiss that wish goodbye since he was due to remain in New York for another week or so.\n</p>\n<p>\n He heard the door opening behind him and then an ultra sexy feminine voice said, "Here are the reports, Mr. Kane. Will there be anything else?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly turned around at the same time Vicki was smoothing her short skirt down her thighs, at least as much of them that could be covered. He was convinced if she were to bend over he would find out what color her panties were.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to admit her outfit looked fine on her, but did nothing for him, other than reminding him how inappropriate it was for the workplace. But then the same thing held true for the outfit she''d worn yesterday. One of his godbrothers, York, who lived in New York, had dropped by the office to take him to lunch and had mentioned a number of times during their meal how good he thought Vicki had looked. Apparently he was impressed with her attire.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, there will be something else," Xavier replied to Vicki. As he spoke he watched lust flare in her eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes?" she asked, with anticipation flowing in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted a brow. "A seat?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the chair?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He inwardly smiled. Evidently she''d been hoping he meant spread-eagle on the desk. "Yes, Vicki, please sit in the chair."\n</p>\n<p>\n When she did so, the hem of her skirt barely covered her thighs. "Yes, Mr. Kane?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "How old are you, Vicki?"\n</p>\n<p>\n After probably trying to figure out why he was asking, she said, "I''m twenty."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded as he leaned against his desk. "And I understand you''re attending classes at the university at night and working for a temp agency part-time."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted in her seat to deliberately show more of a bare thigh. "Yes, that''s right. I''m hoping to get hired here full-time during the summer so I can qualify for an internship next fall."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t surprised to hear that. Cody Enterprises had several internship programs available. Going to college had been a financial hardship for Cameron, so he was a firm believer in assisting college students whatever way he could. The internship program he had in place was just one way of doing so.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I see no reason why that can''t happen for you, other than for one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She looked surprised. "And what reason is that?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "You need to improve your attire in the workplace."\n</p>\n<p>\n She actually looked offended. "I was told there wasn''t a dress code here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "There isn''t one per se. However, a person trying to move up in a company needs to care about the image she projects."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted her chin. "And just what kind of image am I projecting?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An image of someone who enjoys getting a lot of attention. You''ve become a distraction. Deliberately so. Every man in this building finds some excuse to come to this floor every day and your work is suffering because you''re spending more time entertaining than taking care of business matters. I''ve yet to get that report that was due yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s not my fault those guys drop by and take up my time."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier''s gaze roamed up and down her outfit. "Isn''t it?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t say anything, wanting to give her time to consider everything he''d said. "That will be all for now, Vicki," he finally said. "I hope we don''t have to discuss this issue again and I hope to have that report on my desk before I leave today."\n</p>\n<p>\n He took his seat behind his desk and watched her quickly leave the room. Moments later, while sitting staring into space, the truth hit him right between the eyes as to why he wasn''t attracted to other women. He hadn''t gotten Farrah out of his system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Considering everything they''d shared for close to a year, that was understandable. Usually his affairs with women rarely lasted a couple of months. That was when the women began to get possessive, and Xavier had no interest in being tied down to one woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Farrah things had been quite different. She''d never stamped a claim to any kind of ownership on him. He''d liked that. He''d liked her. And dammit, he missed her. He still wasn''t sure why she had ended things between them, but he did have a hunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had started getting too comfortable with each other, had fallen into one of those relationship routines where they just couldn''t get enough of each other. That sort of addiction between two people was kind of scary since there was no telling where it could lead. Straight to their hearts was out of the question since falling in love was in neither of their plans. Still, the thought of doing something as drastic as ending things between them hadn''t crossed his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d been perfectly satisfied with how things had been going. She didn''t ask for anything but gave everything. Hell, no woman could compare to her in the bedroom. And she had never questioned his activities whe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8033'),
(617, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One mind-blowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she''d approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her great-aunt''s lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiter still wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her great-aunt''s never-completed romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscript but first she needs some real-life inspiration: a sultry summer fling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uriel hasn''t forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his tried-and-true bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that make-believe has turned into sweet reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8042'),
(618, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. A compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense - THE LONG WALK, ROADWORK and THE RUNNING MAN - in which Stephen King also explains ''Why I was Richard Bachman''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4272'),
(619, 'Back in the World: Stories', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff''s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier''s Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8381'),
(620, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1791'),
(621, 'Back Spin (1997)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9598'),
(622, 'Back story', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Robert B. Parker''s most popular series, an unsolved thirty-year-old-murder draws the victim''s daughter out of the shadows for overdue justice--and lures Spenser into his own past, old crimes, and dangerous lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4016'),
(623, 'Back Story (2003)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 30', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10563'),
(624, 'Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything', 'David Sirota', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Essay from Author David Sirota\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Five â€™80s Flicks That Explain How the â€™80s Still Define Our World\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Back To Our Future\n  </em>\n  posits that the 1980s--and specifically 1980s pop culture--frames the way we think about major issues today. The decade is the lens through which we see our world. To understand what that means, here are five classic flicks that show how the 1980s still shapes our thinking on government, the â€œrogue,â€ militarism, race, and even our not-so-distant past.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1984): Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddmore seem like happy-go-lucky guys, but these are cold, hard military contractors. Between evading the Environmental Protection Agency, charging exorbitant rates for apparition captures, and summoning a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the merry band shows a Zoul-haunted New York that their for-profit services are far more reliable than those of the Big Appleâ€™s wholly inept government. At the same time, the Ghostbusters were providing 1980s audiences with a cinematic version of what would later become the very real Blackwater--and what would be the anti-government, privatize-everything narrative of the twenty-first century.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1988): Though the 1980s was setting the stage for the rise of anti-government politics today, it was also creating the Palin-esque â€œrogueâ€ to conveniently explain the good things government undeniably accomplishes. Hitting the silver screen just a few years after Ollie Northâ€™s rogue triumphalism, John McClane became the â€™80s most famous of this â€œrogueâ€ archetype--a government employee who becomes a hero specifically by defying his police superiors and rescuing hostages from the twin threat of terrorism\n    <em>\n     and\n    </em>\n    his bossâ€™s bureaucratic clumsiness. This message is so clear in\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , that in one memorable scene, McClane is yelling at one police lieutenant that the government has become â€œpart of the problem.â€\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , like almost every national politician today, says government can only work if it gets out of the way of the rogues, mavericks, and rule-breakers within its own midst.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1985): â€œSir, do we get to win this time?â€ So begins the second--and most culturally important--installment of the Rambo series. The question was a direct rip-off of Ronald Reaganâ€™s insistence that when it came to the loss in Vietnam, America had been too â€œafraid to let them winâ€--them, of course, being the troops. The theory embedded in this refrain is simple: If only meddling politicians and a weak-kneed public had deferred to the Pentagon, then we would have won the conflict in Southeast Asia. Repeated ad nauseum since the 1980s, the â€œlet them winâ€ idea now defines our modern discussion of war. If only we let the Pentagonâ€™s Rambos do whatever they want with no question or oversight whatsoever, then we can decisively conclude the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanâ€¦and we can win the neverending â€œWar on Terror.â€\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1982): Before the 2008 presidential campaign devolved into cartoonish media portrayals of the palatable â€œpost-racialâ€ Barack Obama and his allegedly unpalatable â€œoverly racialâ€ pastor Jeremiah Wright, there was\n    <em>\n     Rocky III\n    </em>\n    more explicitly outlining this binary and bigoted portrayal of African Americans. Here was Rocky Balboa as the determined but slightly ignorant stand-in for White Middle America. Surveying the diverse landscape, the Italian Stallion could see only two kinds of black peopleâ€”on one side the suave, smooth, post-racial Apollo Creed, and on the other side the enraged, animalistic Clubber Lang. Rocky thus gravitated to the former, and reflexively feared the latter, essentially summarizing twenty-first-century White Americaâ€™s often over-simplistic and bigoted attitudes toward the black community today.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1983): This college reunion flick from Lawrence Kasdan is hilarious, morose, and seemingly nostalgic for the halcyon days of the past; but powerfully propagandistic in its negative framing of the 1960s. Over the course of the filmâ€™s weekend, character after character berates the 1960s as an overly decadent age that may have been rooted in idealism, but was fundamentally destined to fail. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The 1980s-created narrative of the Bad Sixties can still be found in everything from national Tea Party protests to never-ending culture-war battles on local school boards. The message is always the same: If only America can emulate the Big Chillers and get past its Sixties immaturity and liberalism, everything will be A-okay.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sirota (The Uprising) ushers readers back to the era of big money and bigger hair, the yuppie and the Gipper to show how the 1980s transformedâ€”and continues to influenceâ€”America''s culture and politics. As Carter''s presidency began to crumble in 1978, a revival of back-to-the-''50s theater, television, and film productions (Grease, Happy Days, La Bamba) overtook grittier 1960s imagery of "urbanity, ethnicity and strife" and came to define the Reagan era in a country eager to forgetâ€”or unwilling to learn fromâ€”the failure of Vietnam. Sirota argues that the combination of Reagan, the "candidate of nostalgia"; hypermilitarist movies that re-demonized communism; and sophisticated marketing campaigns glorifying the cult of the individual led to our current culture''s narcissism and obsessive pursuit of wealth and celebrity. In his effort to fit current trends to his overriding thesis, Sirota occasionally makes some sweeping statements, such as claiming the military''s public relations campaign was so successful that Americans "never dare question" the military, ignoring the numerous antiâ€“Iraq War protests and the outrage over the Abu Ghraib photographs. But the many of his arguments are well informed and sparkle with wit and irreverence. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5639'),
(625, 'Back to the bedroom', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I''m excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I''ve done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around. I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom. Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake. And for Plum fans, you''ll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur. Janet Evanovich\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2131'),
(626, 'Back to the Moon', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Praise for Travis S. Taylor * â€œ[Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won''t want to put it down.â€ â€”**John Ringo** â€œIn the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .â€ â€”Publishers Weekly* Praise for Les Johnson:* â€œ. . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary* Travel* . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. â€¦ Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . .â€ â€”Stuart Clark**, Nature* * â€œI can recommend this book [Living* Off the Land* in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos*] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration.â€ â€”Claude Semay**, Physicalia*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4201'),
(627, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Repercussions from the dark sideâ€™s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daalaâ€™s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5611'),
(628, 'The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama', 'Will Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While it was no secret that Americans on the far right of the political spectrum were unenthusiastic about Obama''s victory, the immediacy and intensity of the backlash went well beyond what anyone expected. In this exhaustive investigation of the Tea Party movement and its loudest mouthpieces, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Bunch seeks to help liberal and moderate America understand the rage of the right, where they see the nation headed, and how legitimate grievances are being manipulated by opportunists hawking fear to make millions off of working class people. While Bunch''s own biases are apparent from page one, he is careful to try to present the far right in an honest light and, according to Bunch, without challenging their perspectives. Maturity in political discourse would be refreshing if Bunch were writing political discourse; he''s not. This is investigative reporting. Bunch''s primary issue seems to be Beck''s opportunism, but his targeting of the only person he doesn''t interview will likely make conservatives avoid his book, something Bunch clearly expects. But for liberals or moderates seeking to understand current far right events, the book will fascinate, and likely frighten.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already fretting over the U.S. Census Bureau prediction that by 2050 whites will no longer be in the majority in the U.S. and worried by the loss of jobs and home equity, a certain element of the white population has been unhinged by the election of the nationâ€™s first black president, argues Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bunch. Thus, the Tea Party, Birthers, Oath Keepers, the 9.12 Project, and other right-wing radicals are on the rise, spurred by television and Internet hustlers, most prominently Glenn Beck. Bunch traveled the circuit from Delaware to Arizona, attending anti-immigration meetings and shooting rallies, to record the astonishing anger, fear, and discontent that has formed into a backlash against President Obama, alleging that he is not a U.S. citizen, that he means to take away guns from private citizens, and that he is directing FEMA to set up internment camps, all of which Bunch debunks. Bunch also profiles the cynical hustlers making money on this visceral fear, comparing Beck to Elmer Gantry as he morphs from evoker of the Founding Fathers and defender of the Constitution to evoker of God the father and defender of Christian morality, all the while hawking gold and survival food packets through Glen Beck, Inc. Despite writing in a sometimes awkward second-person voice, Bunch has rendered an insightful close-up look at the individuals and social forces that promise to churn American politics in the face of huge social and demographic changes. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5683'),
(629, 'Backseat Saints', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she''s trapped in a marriage that''s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose''s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro''s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she''s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best. BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she''s created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2453'),
(630, 'Backshot', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperityâ€“or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compoundâ€“guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiersâ€“and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/928'),
(631, 'Backup &amp; Recovery', 'W. Curtis Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of\n <i>\n  Unix Backup &amp; Recovery\n </i>\n by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5558'),
(632, 'Bacon: A Love Story', 'Heather Lauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best consumed in small portions; along with anecdotes and opinions from hog farmers, chefs, food bloggers and average Joes, first-time author Lauer also covers topics like bacon production, non-pork variations, and songs devoted to the breakfast meat. Lauer does her best to keep things light, but her relentless cheerleading quickly becomes grating; her phrase "The Best Meat Ever" appears on almost every page. Still, bacon lovers will enjoy (and probably employ) the glut of trivia, including the restaurant chain that first put bacon on a cheeseburger (A&amp;W), the number of states with a town named "Bacon" (six), and alternate uses such as "bacon plaster," assembled with cheesecloth and affixed to one''s chest in order to ward off a cold. Even those well-acquainted with bacon will find new recipes like Black Pepper Bacon Chili, Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, Bacon Bloody Marys and Candied Bacon Ice Cream. Readers who, like Lauer, possess a borderline-obsessive love for bacon are likely to embrace this as their new Bible, but anyone else will quickly get their fill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s salty, smoky, and sweet. It can make almost any dish better. It''s bacon, and it''s the best meat ever!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  , popular bacon blogger Heather Lauer serves up a piping hot dish of fun and facts and explores the ins and outs of how bacon finds its way to your skillet . . . and what to do with it when it gets there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  features\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makin'' Bacon\n  <br />\n  A tour of country-style bacon outfits and their time-honored curing methods and traditions. Includes tips for making your own signature cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon Nation\n  <br />\n  Profiles of bacon-loving chefs across the country who incorporate the meat into their menus in increasingly innovative ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s In This?\n  <br />\n  More than twenty delicious recipes for tons of bacon goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, BLT with caramelized bacon . . . plus a few surprises like Bacon Bloody Marys and Bacon Brownies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon 411\n  <br />\n  An extensive resource section on all things bacon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon fans, prepare to get your pig on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6056'),
(633, 'The Bad Beginning', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just as they are enjoying a day at Briny Beach, the three Baudelaire children--- 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and baby Sunny--- receive some bad news. Mr. Poe, a friend of the family, comes trekking across the foggy beach to tell the Baudelaires that their parents have died in a fire that also burned down the family mansion. Now orphaned, the Baudelaires face an uncertain future. They are soon packed off to their new guardian--- the icky Count Olaf, who is a distant cousin. But when they move in with the Count, the Baudelaire children are certain that he does not care about them--- he only wants to get his hands on the fortune Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire left behind. See if they are right, as you read this exciting and humorous tale of mystery. Ages 10 &amp; up\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2548'),
(634, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sept 21, 2010 When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2762'),
(635, 'Bad Boy', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8471'),
(636, 'Bad Boy: Autobiography', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2183'),
(637, 'Bad Business', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross paths with a detective hired to tail the two-timing wife. They aren''t the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4001'),
(638, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS... Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL... The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas. But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess. BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel. A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware. BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels. *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1278'),
(639, 'Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2806'),
(640, 'The Bad Place', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1434');
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(641, 'Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang''s detailed, thorough book puts another theoretical nail in the coffin of free trade and unbridled capitalism. Chang illustrates a vast array of contradictions and hypocrisies spouted by the neoliberal agenda (sometimes known as neo-conservative in the U.S.) to completely deregulate developing governments. Looking at the history of capitalism, he reveals how often free trade has failed where protectionism has benefited many of the richer countries today including the U.S. and U.K. Bond, who has his work cut out for him with Chang''s long, technical and fact-laden work, does a good job of emphasis and pacing. But staying atop the tidal wave of information and complex connections in Chang''s writing may require listening to the audiobook in small chunks or listening to some sections more than once. Bond''s smooth but stern delivery proves a useful companion. Simultaneous release with the Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 12).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA well-researched and readable case against free-trade orthodoxy.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€”Business Week\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively addition to the protectionist side of the debateâ€¦well written and far more serious than most anti-globalization gibberish.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€” New York Sun\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBookstore shelves are loaded with offerings by economists and commentators seeking to explain, in accessible prose, why free-trade-style globalization is desirable and even indispensable for countries the world over. Now comes the best riposte from the critics that I have seen. Readers who are leery of open-market orthodoxy will rejoice at the cogency of Bad Samaritans. Ha-Joon Chang has the credentials -- he''s on the economics faculty at Cambridge University -- and the storytelling skill to make a well-informed, engaging case against the dogma propagated by globalization''s cheerleaders. Believers in free trade will find that the book forces them to recalibrate and maybe even backpedal a bitâ€¦.Chang''s book deserves a wide readership for illuminating the need for humility about the virtues of private markets and free trade, especially in the developing world.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Paul Blustein,\n   <em>\n    Washington\n   </em>\n   _ Post_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled â€œeconomics in the real world.â€ Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today.  His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so.  He goes on to provide sensible and constructive proposals, solidly based on economic theory and historical evidence, as to how the global economy could be redesigned to proceed on a far more humane and civilized course.  And his warnings of what might happen if corrective action is not taken are grim and apt.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“ Noam Chomsky\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this book to people who have any interest in these issuesâ€”i.e. everyone.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Bob Geldof\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œEvery orthodoxy needs effective critics. Ha-Joon Chang is probably the worldâ€™s most effective critic of globalization. He does not deny the benefits to developing countries of integration into the world economy. But he draws on the lessons of history to argue that they must be allowed to integrate on their own terms.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Martin Wolf,\n   <em>\n    Financial Times\n   </em>\n   , author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Why Globalization Works\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThis is a marvelous book. Well researched, panoramic in its scope and beautifully written,\n  <em>\n   Bad Samaritans\n  </em>\n  is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalisation. I strongly urge you to read it.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Larry Elliott, economics editor, the\n   <em>\n    Guardian\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7737'),
(642, 'Bad science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/638'),
(643, 'Badlands', 'Richard Montanari', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take on a high-profile cold case in Montanari''s superior thriller, which combines a genuinely creepy villain with fully fleshed-out victims. The dead-end inquiry into the drowning death of 17-year-old Caitlin O''Riordan four months earlier gets a boost when someone, privy to details never made public, tips the police to an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood that later turns out to house a second corpse. The stakes are raised even higher when another body turns up, an ex-girlfriend of Byrne''s who''d worked for the local district attorney. Segments from the killer''s perspective increase the tension, and Montanari (_Merciless_) does a nice job of concealing one of the murderer''s alter egos. The fiend''s methods, modeled after elaborate magical tricks, are a welcome change from the gore typical of the serial killer subgenre. Likewise, Byrne and Balzano possess a psychological depth all too rare in such fiction.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The new Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne mystery is also, by far, the best is the series, a novel worthy of comparison with such elite procedural authors as Michael Connelly. Philadelphia homicide cops Balzano and Byrne are working a cold case, the disappearance of a young girl. Following some new evidence, the partners discover that a serial killer is stalking runaways, abducting and killing them in bizarre ways. This is a stunning novel, combining the best elements of the police procedural with the most unsettling aspects of the psycho serial-killer genre.Â  The villain is not merely a psychopath but a fully realized human being, with a backstory that explains his obsessions. We feel a certain amount of compassion for him even as weâ€™re seriously creeped out by his actions and what goes on inside his head.Â Along with such Connelly jewels as The Narrows (2004), this outstanding, truly memorable novel will remind readers ofÂ Ridley Pearsonâ€™s Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews series, especially The Pied Piper (1998), which also includes a riveting portrait of a deranged serial killer. Montanari seems poised to take his place on the top ranks of the mystery field. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4792'),
(644, 'The Badlands 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h2 class="about-the-product" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: arial; ">\n   About theÂ The Badlands Book One\n  </h2>\n </span>\n <p class="about-product-ctw" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); width: 540px; ">\n  Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations of the Starship Enterpriseâ„¢....\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  James T. Kirk braves the perils of the Badlands to confront a Romulan Bird of Prey that has entered Federation space in pursuit of a fleeing smuggler. But trespassing Romulans may be the least of Kirk''s problems when the mysterious forces at work in the Badlands threaten both his ship and his crew!\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  A generation later, Jean-Luc Picard faces the same phantom menace when he commands his Enterprise into the Badlands on a mission vital to Federation-Cardassian relations. With Will Riker''s life on the line, and the entire ship in jeopardy, it''s up to Lieutenant Commander Data to determine the true nature of the Badlands'' hidden danger!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6817'),
(645, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel, *Bag of Bones,* is a story of grief and a lost love''s enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, *Bag of Bones* recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans'' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? As vivid and enthralling as King''s most enduring works, *Bag of Bones* resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive voice of King''s powerful imagination." It''s no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In *Bag of Bones* -- described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he proves to be one of our most moving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4322'),
(646, 'Bake Sale Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone''s farmhouse, life just hasn''t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy''s lawn to another neighbor''s lovable dog, quaint Tinker''s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn''t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor--with a knife in her back. While the police start their investigation, Lucy gets busy writing up the murder for the local Pennysaver--and following a few leads of her own. Lucy knows the women in her neighborhood didn''t like Mimi, but they certainly didn''t want her dead...right? "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers." --Carolyn Hart "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth." --*Chicago Sun Times* "Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters." --*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3210'),
(647, 'Baking Artisan Bread: 10 Expert Formulas for Baking Better Bread at Home', 'Ciril Hitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While â€œbreadâ€ once implied a simple, sliced white loaf from the supermarket, consumers have begun to consider the product in a more sophisticated light. Bread enthusiasts are more aware of the diverse array of high-quality breads than ever before and are seeking out handmade artisan products at local farmersâ€™ markets, organic grocery stores, specialty shopsâ€¦even the Internet.\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  will show that finding these specialty breads is as easy as looking in your own kitchen!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  provides a simplified, formula-based approach to baking bread at home, making the mixing, the rising, and the baking itself more approachable and less intimidating. With step-by-step full-color process shots and clear directions, chef Ciril Hitz will show you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 40 different productsâ€”howâ€™s that for streamlined?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ciril Hitz is the Department Chair for the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson &amp; Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he returned to his native Switzerland and completed a three-year apprenticeship as a Pastry Chef/Chocolatier. He was first introduced to bread baking while in Europe, which laid the foundation for the skills that led him to where he is today. Hitz has been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous awards and accomplishments. He was selected as a Top Ten Pastry Chef in America in both 2007 and 2008 by Pastry Art &amp; Design magazine. In 2004 he competed in the National Bread and Pastry Team Championship, winning the overall team Gold Medal as well as all individual bread awards. He was a member of the Bread Bakers Guild Team USA that competed at the 2002 Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in Paris, France, where the team captured the silver medal. He has been a guest instructor and expert at many national and international culinary events and schools and serves on the Advisory Board of the Bread Bakers Guild of America. Ciril Hitz is frequently seen on The Food Network and has been featured on the NBC''s The Today Show. His work has graced the pages of numerous magazines and the interiors of exhibition halls and museums, including COPIA in Napa, California. He is the producer of his own line of educational DVDs. For more information on his work, visit www.breadhitz.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8056'),
(648, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(649, 'Balance of Power', 'Dafydd ab Hugh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4437'),
(650, 'The Balkan Escape (Short Story): A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way." As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. "Who to trust" becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option. Includes a sneak-preview of the new Cotton Malone thriller" The Emperor''s Tomb."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6465'),
(651, 'The Balkan Escape', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way. As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3754'),
(652, 'Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage', 'Noel Streatfeild', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5940'),
(653, 'Bamboo and Blood', 'James Church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature Inspector O of the ministry of public security (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Moon\n </em>\n ). When a foreigner O has been assigned to watch turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, O and his supervisor, Pak, come under the scrutiny of a rival security service. To complicate matters, Pak asks the inspector to investigate the murder of a North Korean diplomat''s wife in Pakistan, but O is restricted to merely collecting facts about the dead woman. O''s efforts to actually solve the crime lead to dangerous encounters with his country''s special weapons program. While the espionage elements compel, the book''s main strength, as with its predecessors, derives from the small details that enable the reader to imagine life in North Koreaâ€”and from O''s struggles to maintain his principles and integrity.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It is brutal winter in North Korea, the first winter after the death of Beloved Leader. His son and successor is grieving, and the countryâ€™s survival is threatened by famine and infrastructure collapse. Even in Pyongyang, government employees are hungry and cold. Word of mouth from the countryside and their own experiences cause Inspector O and Chief Inspector Pak to fear that the nation has â€œfallen apart.â€ But even as the country lurches toward collapse, foreigners interested in guided missiles stream into North Korea. O is sent to Geneva, ostensibly to ensure that the head of a diplomatic delegation doesnâ€™t defect. There, Swiss, Israeli, and North Korean agents alternately charm and menace him, and O doesnâ€™t even knowÂ what his superiors really want of him. The sketch of the most secretive country in the world is as spare and elegant as a Japanese painting. The machinations and motivations of the unseen politicians who pull Oâ€™s strings canâ€™t be fathomed. Pak, Oâ€™s politically astute superior, often speaks in what sound like Zen koans. O is left to rely on himself and the wisdom of his animist-woodworker grandfather for guidance. Bamboo and Blood, the third in this outstanding series,Â invites readers to take aÂ step through the looking glass. Thoughtful crime fans will love what they find. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5515'),
(654, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy was always in the thick of the fight -- from parachuting into France under a hellish crossfire early D-Day morning, to the final capture of Hitler''s supposedly impregnable Eagle''s Nest at Berchtesgaden. New York Times bestselling author Stephen E. Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died for their country, and for one another -- taking 150 percent casualties and earning Purple Hearts as combat pay. Drawing on interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers'' journals and letters, Ambrose chronicles the gripping true stories of these American heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4240'),
(655, 'Bandits', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Working at his brother-in-law''s New Orleans funeral home isn''t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney''s idea of excitement -- until he''s dispatched to a leper''s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The "deceased" is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who''s ordered her dead for trying to "infect" him, and Sister Lucy''s looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons. Plus Lucy''s getting ideas about spiriting away some of the colonel''s millions as well -- and someone with Jack Delaney''s talents could come in very handy indeed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9190'),
(656, 'The Bane of the Black Sword', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it''s master''s aim''s are met with Elric''s capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric''s hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2703'),
(657, 'Bangkok 8', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers'' customary system of bribery. This assignment''s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai''s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai''s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of\n  <i>\n   yaa-baa\n  </i>\n  -fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.\n  <p>\n   As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn''t a\n   <i>\n    whodunit\n   </i>\n   , is it?" And, no, it isn''t, but author John Burdett (\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand''s flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist.\n   <i>\n    Bangkok 8\n   </i>\n   is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai.\n   <i>\n    --Benjamin Reese\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop named Sonchai Jitplecheep, finds himself plunged into a dangerous investigation of the deaths by snakebite of his partner Pichai Apiradee and U.S. Embassy Sgt. William Bradley. Sonchai is an unusual character on several levels, from the mysteries of his violent past to his conversations with the ghost of Pichai. His ambiguous feelings toward Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent brought in to work the case, reflect his upbringing as the child of a Thai mother and an unknown American father. Above all else, however, Sonchai''s Buddhism permeates the text. An encounter with an embassy official, for example, leads to this unexpected reverie: "[She] is blithely unaware that she once accompanied me across a courtyard of startlingly similar dimensions, thousands of years ago." As Sonchai''s investigation brings him closer to Bradley''s companion, a woman known as Fatima, and the rich American jade dealer Sylvester Warren, his quest for revenge becomes muddied by the strangeness of his discoveries. The mix of detective work, Bangkok street life, the Thai sex trade and drug smuggling forms a powerful melange of images and insight. Despite an anti-climactic last chapter, the novel''s structure is solid. Sonchai''s fatalism, wry humor and dogged determination-his ability to be both vulnerable and strong-make him one of the more memorable characters in recent novel-length fiction. Readers expecting a traditional mystery structure would be advised to look elsewhere, but those who want something new will find Burdett''s novel an intriguing, fresh take on noir.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6280'),
(658, 'Bangkok Haunts', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Burdett''s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after\n <em>\n  Bangkok 8\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bangkok Tattoo\n </em>\n ), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he''s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep''s assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong''s killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men''s club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong''s ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.\n <em>\n  75,000 first printing; 6-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the hero of Burdettâ€™s Bangkok-based thrillers, is a unique police detective. A Buddhist as closely attuned to karma as to crime, Sonchai is profoundly aware that the latter is only an expression of the former, and, accordingly, he finds answers in places that logic-hampered Westerners would never know to look. In his third adventure to date, a murdered prostitute proves to beâ€”even more in death than she was in lifeâ€”a femme fatale of special magnitude. As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdettâ€™s baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6279'),
(659, 'Banker', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Investment banker Tim Ekaterin thought arranging the purchase of a champion racehorse was a sure thing-but he never gambled on getting caught up in murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8223'),
(660, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hair-raising tribute to the classic British ghost story. Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world and could commune with spirits. But in Scotlandâ€™s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light, and now the students are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited mysteriously disappear. This is no place for outsiders, especially at night, so what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a fast-paced modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(661, 'Barack and Michelle', 'Christopher P. Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4665'),
(662, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one. Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it. *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday: A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It* For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale* Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104* Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra* On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello* Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between. *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms. Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(663, 'Bare Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte."\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs knows how to keep the narrative ball rolling with a canny mix of plot developments, character delineation, and scientific detail, all relayed in Tempe''s smart, breezy, sarcastic voice. In fact,\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  has a few\n  <em>\n   too\n  </em>\n  many characters and plot lines for Reichs--or most readers--to keep perfect track of. But it''s a fun ride anyway, enlivened by some steamy romantic scenes and some fascinating, appalling information about the illicit trade in endangered wildlife (did you know that bears'' gall bladders fetch more money per ounce than cocaine?).\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  is a crisp, enjoyable read that cements Kathy Reichs''s standing as the best forensic-thriller writer at work today.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she''s awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she''s called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitor''s infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains ("\n  <code>\n   Human?''\n  </code>\n  I''m not sure'' ") are discovered by Brennan''s dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennan''s vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempe''s dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11167'),
(664, 'The Barefoot Running Book', 'Jason Robillard &amp; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8325');
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(665, 'The Barefoot Running Book: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Running', 'Jason Robillard; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11045'),
(666, 'Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch With the Earth', 'Michael Sandler &amp; Jessica Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Enjoy the insights this book has to offer -- It is about form, joy and the love of running. Run Free!" - Micah True, AKA Caballo Blanco.\n</p>\n<p>\n As seen nationally on TV, radio and in print, Barefoot Running is the original, most comprehensive guide to barefoot running, written by best-selling author and running coach Michael Sandler, who has coached and inspired thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip along with 10 knee operations, no ACL, and an inch leg-length discrepancy, former professional athlete and Olympic hopeful Michael Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground, he began to heal as he learned how to run light and free. He now runs pain free 10-20 miles a day and in all conditions. His step-by-step method helps runners overcome injuries, find their natural form and rediscover the pure joy of running, no matter their age, history, or fitness level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Co-Author Jessica Lee hated running and nagging knee pain and swore off running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women experience the joy of running barefoot (and pain free) nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written to help people get into running, back into running, or run pain free and at your best at any age, Michael Sandler''s inspirational book and step-by-step guide is an easy to read bible of information and a must read for any runner. Barefoot Running is the how-to-guide that picks up where Christopher McDougall''s inspiring book Born to Run left off. If you liked Born to Run, you''ll love Barefoot Running.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include: Barefoot Running for Kids, for Seniors, choosing footwear, transitioning safely, cold-weather running and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for." - Barefoot Ted\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized barefoot running and walking coach, teaching thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers of all abilities. He has coached athletes professionally for nearly 20 years. After a near-death accident in 2006, he was told he was lucky to keep his leg and that he would never run again. With a titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running and the lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again. With co-author Jessica Lee, they teach people how to rediscover the bliss of pain-free running. Together, they are cofounders of RunBare Company, a barefoot running school based out of Boulder, Colorado.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best selling author, barefoot running and walking coach. He has coached professionally for nearly 20 years. After a nearl-fatal accident he was told that he would be lucky to keep functioning legs and that he would not run again. With an implanted titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running, and lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again.\n</p>\n<p>\n With coauthor Jessica Lee, they travel around the world, teaching people how to discover the joy of running.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5709'),
(667, 'Barrayar', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar. At least, that was the plan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9037'),
(668, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(669, 'Barrier Island', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1573'),
(670, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(671, 'The Basilisk&#39;s Lair (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book 2)', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book 2) SUMMARY: Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basiliskâ€”the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basiliskâ€™s poisonous gaze isnâ€™t difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parentsâ€™ disappearance and protect the lone copy of the Fludd Book of Beasts from a sinister man who always seem to be one step ahead of them. Pack your goggles, rue, and an extra pair of gloves and join Nate on another unbelievable adventureâ€”thereâ€™s no rest for the worldâ€™s youngest beastologist-in-training!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3669'),
(672, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10254'),
(673, 'Bastion of Darkness', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8657'),
(674, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6963'),
(675, 'Batman and philosophy: the dark knight of the soul', 'Mark D. White; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman''s example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3191'),
(676, 'Battle Circle 1 - Sos the Rope', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8885'),
(677, 'Battle Circle 2 - Var the Stick', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8882'),
(678, 'Battle Circle 3 - Neq the Sword', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8880'),
(679, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7034'),
(680, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4058'),
(681, 'The Battle for Iwo Jima', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3898'),
(682, 'The Battle for Skandia (Book 4)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all? The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1615'),
(683, 'The Battle for Skandia', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4812'),
(684, 'The Battle for Terra Two', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harrison, a hero of the Biofab War, traces a few renegades to an alternate universe, where the Biofabs are rebuilding for another war\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4479'),
(685, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7013'),
(686, 'Battle Mask', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears - to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(687, 'The Battle of Betazed', 'Charlotte Douglas &amp; Susan Kearney &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation''s downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem''Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the Dominion within striking distance of Vulcan, Andor, Tellar -- and possibly Earth itself. To secure their position in the very heart of the Federation, the Cardassians begin constructing space station Sentok Nor in orbit of Betazed. The station is to serve as both the seat of the Dominion occupation and the site of horrific experiments by Cardassia''s foremost exobiologist, the infamous Dr. Crell Moset. With Starfleet''s forces spread too thinky in the ongoing struggle to retake Betazed outright, the U.S.S. Enterprise? along with some old and new friends, is deployed to carry out a dangerous and desperate plan. But no matter what the outcome, the consequences could alter Betazed irrevocably, forcing Deanna Troi to choose between her world''s survival and its very soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6253'),
(688, 'The Battle of Britain', 'Richard Overy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject'' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7914'),
(689, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. The war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin. In the greatest battle of science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time, and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Maud''Dib in Frank Herbert''s classic, Dune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7412'),
(690, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Percy Jackson isn''t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos''s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth-a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet. SUMMARY: Percy Jackson isn''t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun.Â  But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos''s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth-a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.Â Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4234'),
(691, 'Battle Ready', 'Tom Clancy &amp; General Tony Zinni', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." So says former U.S. Central Command commander in chief Zinni, who retired in September 2000 and has been outspoken ever since regarding the uses and abuses of the U.S. military. This book is the latest of Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series, which has previously featured collaborations with Gen. Fred Franks Jr. of the army, Gen. Chuck Horner of the air force and Gen. Carl Stiner, formerly U.S. Special Operations commander. As in those books, Clancy gives adequate background on his subject and his subject''s context, then quotes him liberally, consigning tens of pages at a time to Zinni''s italicized first-person reflections. Beginning the book with the 1998 CentCom-coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein (the unfortunately named Operation Desert Fox), Clancy and Zinni next move through 150 or so pages of Zinni''s service as a Philadelphia-born (in 1947) Marine infantry officer during Vietnam and his racially charged Headquarters and Service stint on Okinawa in the early ''70s. The book then flashes forward to the end of the Cold War and steams along from there, with details on Zinni''s European command service, including 1990 meetings with a recently de-Sovietized Russian army and support operations during the Persian Gulf War. Zinni joined CentCom just in time for the Somalia debacle, and he is candid about its failings. Over the next years, Zinni traveled widely in parts of the world that were obscure to the U.S. then (Pakistan, Central Asia), but are central now, and played cat-and-mouse with Saddam regarding weapons inspections all through the late ''90s. But it is Zinni''s 24-page closing statement, "The Calling," that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation''s legacy is in jeopardy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the fourth book in Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series; all have been cowritten with generals. This one chronicles the 40-year career of the now-retired Zinni, which includes two tours in Vietnam, two years as an instructor at the Basic School in the U.S., and his role as head of the U.S. Central Command. He also served in posts in Okinawa, Vieques Island, Germany, Turkey, and Somalia. Zinni reflects on the Vietnam War, saying, "Today we are seeing a stream of apologetic books by the policymakers and military leaders of that era--as though saying mea culpa enough will absolve them of the terrible responsibility they bear." On Operation Desert Storm, he says, "The only reason [that campaign] worked was because we managed to go up against the only jerk on the planet who was stupid enough to challenge us to refight World War II." On the Iraq war, he insists, "False rationales presented as justification, a flawed strategy, lack of planning, the unnecessary distraction from real threats, and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military, all of these caused me to speak out." He warns that military conflict has changed in the twenty-first century and we have been reluctant to recognize it or to acknowledge it. Whether or not readers agree with Zinni, this is a book that demands our attention.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6492'),
(692, 'Battlefield Earth', 'L. Ron Hubbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 3000 AD: only one man on Earth rebels against the tyranny of the all powerful Psychlos led by the evil Terl. Based on the novel by L. Ron Hubbard..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2410'),
(693, 'The Bay at Midnight', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her family''s cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer - until her sister was murdered. It''s been many years since that August night, but Julie''s memories of Izzy''s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about what really happened that night. About Julie''s own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy''s murder - and the person who didn''t. Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(694, 'Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2696'),
(695, 'Bayou Moon', 'Andrews, Ilona', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7489'),
(696, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get Shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they''re power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul''s midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, betrayal, all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer''s working on another movie. And that''s when people tend to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(697, 'Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &amp; Teachers', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone who has difficulty fitting in, this book is fantastic.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , author of Thinking in Pictures\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a love poem to his wife, Pedro Salinas, the Spanish poet, wrote,Â â€˜Glory to the differences / between you and me.â€™ John Robison teaches us toÂ celebrate differences\n <br />\n like Salinas did, but also offers clear insight and valuableÂ advice on how to cope with the challenges that being different can create.Â This book transcends the specific case of Aspergerâ€™s syndrome andÂ is a lesson in humanity and the human condition.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Alvaro Pascual-Leone\n </strong>\n , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolÂ and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone with Aspergerâ€™s, if not everyone else, will derive knowledge andÂ pleasure from the wonderful stories told in John Elder Robisonâ€™s newest book,Â Be Different. Clearly, John is one of our communityâ€™s leading voices.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael John Carley\n </strong>\n , author of Aspergerâ€™s from the Inside OutÂ and executive director of GRASP and ASTEP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBe Different is a fascinating and unique guide for young peopleÂ who may be struggling with autism and feel â€˜out of syncâ€™ with theÂ world around them. John shares personal insights about growing up,Â feeling apart from his peers, and learning to modify his socializing skillsÂ and harness his gifts to discover his path to a successful life.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mark Roithmayr,\n </strong>\n president of Autism Speaks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobison offers down-to-earth life advice for his â€œAspieâ€ peers and their friends, families, and teachers...recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand Aspergian children and adults\n <strong>\n  â€\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n " ...provides incredibly helpful advice to families learning to live with these challenges. Robisonâ€™s clear writing provides substantial insight into the mind of someone whose disorder makes clarity very, very difficult...a valuable read."_â€¬\n <strong>\n  --Booklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI believe those of us with Aspergerâ€™s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir,Â _Look Me in the Eye_, John Elder Robison described growing up with Aspergerâ€™s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didnâ€™t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. InÂ _Be Different_, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories\n <br />\n about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n In each story, he offers practical adviceâ€”for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels â€œdifferentâ€â€”on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations\n <br />\n â€¢ Why manners matter\n <br />\n â€¢ How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills\n <br />\n â€¢ How to deal with bullies\n <br />\n â€¢ When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity\n <br />\n â€¢ How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage\n</p>\n<p>\n Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family.Â _Be Different_Â will help readers and those they love find their path to success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8475'),
(698, 'The beach house', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons'' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter''s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone''s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2033'),
(699, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2039'),
(700, 'The Beach', 'Alex Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Garland''s The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling cult classic and a Hollywood blockbuster. Richard, a gap-year student, is introduced to a beautiful island by the mysterious Daffy. But with drugs and the glamorized violence of Vietnam War films haunting his perception of his Thai paradise, Richard soon finds the hideaway becomes a nightmare. A compulsive adrenaline rush, The Beach is an adventure you''ll never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(701, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3739'),
(702, 'Bear Island', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Film Crew Sails North To A Barren Arctic Island With A Killer On Board. And A Wartime Graveyard Of Ships And Men Explodes In Violence Once More&amp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9264'),
(703, 'Bearded Tit', 'Rory McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A poignant but hilarious journey into the arcane world of birdwatching by one of the most popular names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrathâ€™s story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance with the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylarkâ€”peerless king of the summer skyâ€”while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Roryâ€™s tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical, and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and all its attendant arcane knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4218');
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(704, 'Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3295'),
(705, 'The Beast Master', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm â€“ Navaho commando and master of beasts â€“ is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met.On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over â€“ but was it?â€œMiss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.â€ â€“ The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9067'),
(706, 'Beast Master&#39;s Circus', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9071'),
(707, 'Beastchild', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1449'),
(708, 'Beat the reaper: a novel', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he''d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room. Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ... Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper. Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2950'),
(709, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4458'),
(710, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win (5th Edition)', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8855'),
(711, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named **Beatrice and Virgil**â€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made *Life of Pi* so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity. SUMMARY: Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey-named Beatrice and Virgil-and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Piso beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3873'),
(712, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(713, 'Beautiful Assassin', 'Michael C. White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book author of "Soul Catcher," which "USA Today" hailed as "a marvelous historical novel" World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat''yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation''s darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat''yana to visit America and tour the country with her. For the Soviets, Tat''yana''s newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the war--but it''s also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt''s plans. Surrounded by those who would exploit her position, Tat''yana becomes a pawn in a battle for information, and she is forced to question the motivations of everyone she knows, including the American captain who has been assigned as her translator. But as quickly as she rises to fame, Tat''yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat''yana''s story . . . and reveal the truth. In "Beautiful Assassin," Michael White delivers a heartrending story of war, betrayal, and a mother''s love that can never be extinguished. Lyrical, evocative, and powerfully moving, this is a tale you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2988'),
(714, 'The Beautiful Between', 'Alyssa B. Sheinmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9â€“11â€”Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn''t get into trouble, doesn''t sit with the cool kids, and has a quiet home life. She fantasizes that she is living in a fairy tale and sees herself as Rapunzel, confined in an Upper East Side tower amid college applications and SAT scores. She sees wealthy Jeremy Cole as the prince of their school: loved and respected by all. What she doesn''t see coming is a friendship with him based on tragedyâ€”his younger sister has leukemiaâ€”and secretsâ€”Connelly is preoccupied with learning how her father died. Jeremy knows more about her life than she does, and together they find the fortitude to face the present and the past. Although the narrative concerns death and lies, this first novel is not dark, but instead full of small moments and quiet realism. Connelly and Jeremy''s friendship, which may turn into romance, is realistically portrayed as deepening over time. The story''s pace is steady. Although the buildup to the climaxâ€”Connelly confronts her mother about her fatherâ€”is better paced, and more creative and satisfying than the conflict itself, overall this is a terrific alternative to the clique-y high school novels that are all sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll.â€”_Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching, Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens." â€”_The New York Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sheinmel makes an impressive debut with an absorbing tale of unlikely friendship, loss, and family secrets." - Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satisfying and believable"- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of small moments and quiet realism. -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8591'),
(715, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2954'),
(716, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.** In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob''s Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it''s not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface. When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn''t interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won''t be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined. The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, *A Beautiful Place to Die* marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2710'),
(717, 'The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World&#39;s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves', 'James Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tooley (_Reclaiming Education_) documents his surprising finding that private schools are providing quality education to millions of poor children in the developing world. Whereas development experts insist that the path out of poverty lies in investment in public schools, the author draws on his fieldwork in India, China and Africa to argue that small entrepreneurs are educating the poor. In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China''s Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence. Tooley argues that development funds be invested to support these institutions, through vouchers to parents and microfinance loans to the schools. The author''s engaging style transforms what could have been a dry if startling research report into a moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight. While researching private schools in India for the World Bank, and worried he was doing little to help the poor, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderabad''s Old City. Shocked to find it overflowing with tiny, parentfunded schools filled with energized students, he set out to discover if schools like these could help achieve universal education. Named after Mahatma Gandhi''s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley''s journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces readers to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6449'),
(718, 'Beauty and the Feast', 'Julia Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eva Raines is an uncomplicated country girl who''s all about food. Eva moves to the Napa Valley where her culinary skills come to the attention of the owners of a start-up, All Things to All People, and Eva finds her niche as a personal chef. Now all she needs is a man as perfect as her cooking, but she has serious doubts that such a creature exists. When wealthy entrepreneur, winery owner, and noted lothario, Gabriel Abbott, makes plans to seduce his flavor of the month, his assistant hires All Things to All People to cater a gourmet dinner. Eva expects to use her way with food to showcase the startup. What she unexpectedly discovers is that her culinary skills showcase far more. Once Gabriel finds himself seduced by Eva''s voice, and the sensual flavors and textures of her food, his previous plans are quickly forgotten. He begins to obsess about meeting his little chef in person. But when Eva and Gabe finally come face to face, the question is, how hot will their fire burn?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2888'),
(719, 'The Beauty Diet: Looking Great Has Never Been So Delicious', 'Lisa Drayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails** According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, itâ€™s not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Drayer''s groundbreaking guide reveals the Top 10 Beauty Foods--natureâ€™s best kept secrets for glowing skin, fuller hair, healthier nails, brighter eyes, and whiter teeth. Her easy-to-follow programâ€”including a mouthwatering four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipesâ€”unlocks the amazing power of these Beauty Foods and makes every part of your body look and feel absolutely fantastic. **Here are the Top 10 Beauty Foods** Wild Salmon Yogurt Blueberries Spinach Kiwis Tomatoes Oysters Sweet Potatoes Walnuts Dark Chocolate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2869'),
(720, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice''s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice''s fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5073'),
(721, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the final volume of Anne Rice''s deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty''s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty''s encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love''s secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5074'),
(722, 'Beauvallet', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you love adventure, romance, intrigue, betrayal, love and history all rolled into one,\n <em>\n  Beauvallet\n </em>\n , has it! (Eliza Knight\n <em>\n  Historically Undressed\n </em>\n 20100215)\n</p>\n<p>\n Romance! Romance! Romance! The kind that puts roses in your cheeks, butterflies in your stomach, and a yearning in your heart. (Lynda Coker\n <em>\n  Between the Pages\n </em>\n 20100218)\n</p>\n<p>\n Such a sweet story! I cannot think of words enough to describe how much I adored\n <em>\n  Beauvallet\n </em>\n . (Haley Mathiot\n <em>\n  The Life (and lies) of an Inanimate Flying Object\n </em>\n 20100219)\n</p>\n<p>\n I guarantee that by the end of this book a dashing pirate will have captured your heart. (Renee\n <em>\n  Renne''s Reads\n </em>\n 20100226)\n</p>\n<p>\n You get drawn into the story, you root for the characters and you don''t want to put the book down. (Patty\n <em>\n  The Broken TeePee\n </em>\n 20100226)\n</p>\n<p>\n A Georgette Heyer novel is better than any adventure on tv today. (_Read With Tea_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n A wild romp of a read... filled with adventure, romance and excitement. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed this swashbuckling romance book . (Alaine Bucknall\n <em>\n  Queen of Happy Endings\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The most daring, dashing hero of all\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spain" to his enemies, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Queen Elizabeth''s most dashing buccaneers and has never been known to resist a challenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Spanish lady all fire and heart\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Beauvallet captures the galleon carrying DoÃ±a Dominica de Rada y Sylvan and her father, he vows to return them safely to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seasâ€”he will return to Spain, where there''s a price on his head, and claim Dominica as his bride...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What readers say:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "An adventure story you can''t put down. This is more exciting than any movie; your eyes will sparkle and your hands will grip the pages as you frantically try to keep up with the laughing pirate who leads you on the most daring trek through Spain."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Swashbuckling romance. Great yarn set in Elizabethan times...you will not be disappointed, it''s action-packed."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A love story not to be missed! Highly recommended!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you''ve ever secretly thrilled to swashbuckling films, you will LOVE Beauvallet! If you enjoy the language of Shakespearean times, the color, the pagentry, you will LOVE Beauvallet! If you love a great romance, you will LOVE Beauvallet!"\n</p>\n<p>\n (20100201)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10156'),
(723, 'Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves', 'Camille Peri; Kate Moses', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com''s "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children. Because I Said So offers thirty-three unique perspectives on motherhood from such writers as Janet Fitch, Mariane Pearl, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rosellen Brown, Mary Morris, and Ana Castillo. Witty and wise, their stories range from the anguish of giving up child custody to the guilt of having sex in an era of sexless marriages; from learning to love the full-speed testosterone chaos of boys to raising girls in a pervasively sexualized culture; from facing racial and religious intolerance to surviving cancer and rap simultaneously. This is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10103'),
(724, 'Becoming a Parent: The Emotional Journey Through Pregnancy and Childbirth Family Matters 2004 08', 'Jackie Ganley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8833'),
(725, 'Becoming Madame Mao', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her historical novel\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  . Known as the White Boned Demon during her reign of terror in China, Madame Mao was blamed for countless bloody and vengeful executions; she sought out those who had wronged her in the past and wiped them off the face of the earth. Eventually she was reviled in China and executed, even as her husband was revered as a hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before her stint as Mao''s first lady, Jiang Ching, as she was then known, was an actress, a singer, and a star in Communist films. Anchee Min grew up in Red China and watched Jiang Ching from afar; she was fascinated by her for many years, by tales of her independence and strength, and by images of her beauty. In a way, the great villain and demon was a role model for Anchee Min, and her teenage devotion is the engine of her remarkable novel. Moving back and forth between stories of the actress and the evil dictator, Min complicates the Madame Mao of history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a girl, Madame Mao narrowly escaped having her feet bound. The book opens with graphic descriptions of this process and of the ensuing infection that freed her. But if her feet were not bound, her spirit was. Reared by a mother who was the last concubine of a rich man, and a father who liked to hit his girls with shovels, Madame Mao as a young girl felt herself doomed: "I see my father hit Mother with a shovel. It happened suddenly. Without warning. I can hardly believe my eyes. He is mad. He calls Mother a slut. Mother''s body curls up. My chest swells. He hits her back, front, shouting that he will break her bones." The father then goes on to treat his daughter the same way. Decades later, when Madame Mao manifests deep brutality, Min seems to be saying that what goes around comes around. Flawed by a clumsy structure that vacillates between third and first person arbitrarily,\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  is nevertheless an immensely interesting work--defiant, morally ambiguous, and difficult to put down.\n  <em>\n   --Emily White\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min''s brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red Azalea, Min is a forceful writer, but her first novel, Katherine, did not prepare us for the highly dramatic, psychologically penetrating and provocative narrative she presents here. A girl called Yunhe is born to a rural concubine in 1919; she renames herself Lan Ping when, in 1934, she runs away to Shanghai with ambitions to be an actress, and later joins the Red Army; and finally, she is dubbed Jiang Ching by the man she marries, Mao Zedong. Madame Mao has become a myth, but Min has the background and the insight to imagine her afresh, and to create a complex psychological portrait of a driven, passionate woman and a period of history in which she would suffer, rise and prosper, and then fall victim to her own insatiable thirst for power. Min draws Madame Mao with bold, arresting strokes, gives her a fierce, imperious voice and a personality devoid of humility or self-knowledge. Lan Ping sets out to seduce the charismatic Mao, and wins him--for a time--until her jealousy, the machinations of his trusted aides, and Mao''s own loss of interest cast her into limbo. By then a veteran of the inner circle betrayals that Mao encouraged, Jiang Ching''s attempts to wrest personal power, but that becomes her undoing. As with a fine ink brush, Min details her heroine''s series of love affairs and marriages, divorces and acrimonious partings, roles in Chinese opera and movies, endurance in the shadow of Mao''s disfavor, desperate ploys to regain his attention, and brief time in the limelight during the Cultural Revolution. As a chronicle of ambition, betrayal, murder, revenge, barbaric cruelty, paranoia and internecine rivalry, the narrative speeds through its turbulent time frame: 1919-1991. But it is foremost a character study of a determined, vindictive, rage-filled, cruel and emotionally needy woman who flourished because she reinvented herself as an actress in different, self-defined roles-- and because China was ready for her. Min uses several effective prose devices to spin her narrative at top speed. Short first- and third-person vignettes juxtapose Madame Mao''s early experience with the comments of an omniciscient narrator who relates pivotal circumstances to events that will grow from their consequences. Such foreshadowing not only raises tension, it also helps readers construct a mental chart of historical figures and events. Striking metaphors and vivid Chinese proverbs enhance Min''s tensile prose, but it is her trenchant comments about the ways in which powerful individuals can paint bold colors on the panorama of history that distinguishes her spellbinding novel. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. 10-city author tour. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7807'),
(726, 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most prophetic voice of all.â€ â€”_GQ_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hottest thinker in the world.â€ â€”Bryan Appleyard,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIdiosyncratically brilliant.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the author of the modern classic\n <em>\n  The Black Swan\n </em>\n , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bed of Procrustes\n </em>\n takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Talebâ€™s view of modern civilizationâ€™s hubristic side effectsâ€”modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4789'),
(727, 'Bed of Roses', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts''s celebrated Bride Quartet series.** As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman''s dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments captured on film, Nora Roberts''s Bride Quartet shares each woman''s emotionally magical journey to romance. *In Bed of Roses*, florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn''t found Mr. Right. And the last place she''s looking is right under her nose. But that''s just where Jack Cooke is. He''s so close to the women of Vows that he''s practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passionâ€”kiss for blistering kissâ€”they must trust in their historyâ€¦and in their hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2582'),
(728, 'Bedding the Enemy', 'Mary Wine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He''s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity - were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face...Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother''s ploys for power. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes - and set her free...Among the ruthless ambitions of England''s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. But the treachery, scandal, and treason that follow can unleash as much passion as it does adventure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2868'),
(729, 'Bedford Square', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even if you prefer the tougher, edgier William Monk books by Anne Perry, such as __, there''s no denying the wealth of detail and the powerful emotions at work in her longer series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The Pitt books effectively merge Henry James with Raymond Chandler: by having a middleclass policeman married to a socialite, Perry can probe both worlds, as she does in\n <em>\n  Bedford Square\n </em>\n , a story of high-level blackmail and murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n A famous historical scandal called the Tranby Croft affair (a gambling case involving the Prince of Wales) is very much in the news when the body of a working-class man is found early one morning on the posh doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne. No one in the house claims to know the murdered man, but he has a valuable piece of jewelry belonging to the Balantynes in his pocket. Thomas Pitt and his outspoken aide, Sergeant Tellman, must tread lightly, but Charlotte--and especially her sharp relative Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--aren''t restrained by such social niceties. Gracie, the Pitts'' smart and rough-tongued maid, is also a valued asset to the investigation, which proceeds in a satisfying, if not particularly surprising, manner to a highly dramatic conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other recent books in the Pitt series include __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry''s popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when a body is found outside the home of respectable General Brandon Balantyne (who appeared in two earlier Pitt novels). Pitt and Sergeant Tellman, whose class prejudices are challenged during the investigation, are mystified by the body''s identity and the motive for the murder. Their diggings lead them to a parallel case, when Pitt discovers that six honorable men, including Balantyne and Assistant Police Commissioner Cornwallis, are being blackmailed. Perry uses the historical Tranby Croft gambling scandal involving the Prince of Wales as backdrop, highlighting how even the imputation of wrongdoing can tarnish someone''s good name. To find the blackmailer, Pitt seeks a common bond among the accused. The careful reader may spy that link before Pitt does, but will nonetheless be swept along by the narrative''s rush and engaged by its attention to period detail. Aiding Pitt is a cast of smart, well-drawn female characters: Charlotte, whose social connections afford her access to society''s upper crust; Gracie, the Pitts'' uneducated but no-nonsense maid; and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, Charlotte''s worldly-wise relation, who dominates the narrative once she joins the investigation. Pitt solves the case based on a clever red herring, uncovering the murderer in a quick, horrifying finale. Yet again, Perry delivers an astute and gripping examination of life behind Victorian England''s virtuous facade. Mystery Guild main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8576'),
(730, 'Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like me)', 'Harper, Lexy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9650'),
(731, 'Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Erotic Fairy Tales', 'Jean Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** All-new! Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. ** Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as *Beauty and the Beast, Puss n'' Boots*, and *Sleeping Beauty*, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, *Bedtime Stories* reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1737'),
(732, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement. 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3428'),
(733, 'The Beekeeper&#39;s Apprentice', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. King again proves her flair fortantalizing mystery in this first novel of an acclaimed series. Long sinceretired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engagedin a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did heexpect to meet an intellect to match his own--until he made the acquaintance ofa very modern 15-year-old girl whose mental acuity is equaled only by heraudacity, tenacity, and unconventional taste for trousers and cloth caps. Underthe master detective''s sardonic instruction, Miss Mary Russell hones her talentfor deduction, disguises, and danger--in the chilling case of a landowner''smysterious fever, and in the kidnapping of an American senator''s daughter inthe wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. A near-fatalbomb on her doorstep--and another on Holmes''s--sends the two sleuths on thetrail of a villain whose machinations scatter meaningless clues and seemutterly without motive. The bomber''s objective, however, is quite clear: to endRussell and Holmes''s partnership...and their lives.Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. KingSherlock Holmes meets his match in a formidable new enemy--and his surprising new partner"Rousing...riveting...suspenseful." -- "Chicago Sun-Times" " "The Beekeeper''s Apprentice" has power to charm the most grizzled BakerStreet Irregular." -- "Daily News," New York"If there is a new P. D. James... I would put my money on Laurie R. King, whose "A Grave Talent" kept me reading deep into the night."-- "The Boston Globe" "Amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This workexhibits strong psychological undertones,compelling urgency, and dramaticaction. [Laurie King is] a writer to watch." -- "Library Journal" "Wonderful: an intelligently and imaginatively crafted novel that''s alsogreat fun." -- "The Drood Review of Mystery" (Editors'' Choice of1994)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5349'),
(734, 'Beekeeper&#39;s Apprentice, The', 'King, Laurie R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9302'),
(735, 'Before Dishonor', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that\n  <em>\n   no one\n  </em>\n  believed the Borg could do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter David\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of numerous\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, including the incredibly popular\n  <em>\n   New Frontier\n  </em>\n  series. In addition, he has also written dozens of other books, including his acclaimed original novel,\n  <em>\n   Sir Apropos of Nothing\n  </em>\n  , and its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Woad to Wuin.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  David is also well known for his comic book work, particularly his award-winning run on\n  <em>\n   The Incredible Hulk\n  </em>\n  . He recently authored the novelizations of both the\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Hulk\n  </em>\n  motion pictures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in New York.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6763'),
(736, 'Before Eden', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8832'),
(737, 'Before I Fall', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that''s not how it happened for me'' Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn''t. On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died. Forced to live over and over the last day of her life '' the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party '' she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash. This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late. BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bonesand as luminous as Jenny Downham''s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2317');
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(738, 'Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel', 'S. J. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I''m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Memories define us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you loveâ€”all forgotten overnight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Welcome to Christine''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8755'),
(739, 'Before the Play', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11146'),
(740, 'Before the Storm', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the blockbuster bestselling tradition of\n  <em>\n   Heir to the Empire\n  </em>\n  comes this thrilling addition to the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  (r) saga, as peace gives way to a new threat...\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic.  The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant.  Yesterday''s Rebels have become today''s administrators and diplomats, and the factions that fought against imperial tyranny seem united in savoring the fruits of peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the peace is short-lived.  A restless Luke must journey to his mother''s homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quest to find her people.  An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive power and an unknown mission.  And Leia, a living symbol of the New Republic''s triumph, must face down a ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war that could shatter the fragile unity of the New Republic...and threaten its very survival.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11181'),
(741, 'Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It''s bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that''s coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod''s scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land . . . but a plot is festering to hand the city to its beseigers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon. And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1676'),
(742, 'Before You Know Kindness', 'Christopher Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you imagine most writer''s bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you''d picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it''s impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian''s bathroom as anything but an\n <em>\n  Architectural Digest\n </em>\n centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor''s garden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s eighth novel,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n , is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights'' activist Spencer McCullough''s gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer''s political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian''s style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weaponâ€”owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotteâ€”becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer''s employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (_Midwives_, etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon''s families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character''s head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawedâ€”Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activistâ€”others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer''s niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator''s irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian''s skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7488'),
(743, 'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self', 'Danielle Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The territory Evans covers in her debut collection may be small, but she owns it. Her main characters are almost all teen girls and young women who struggle with disorder, and the reader is given close access to each one''s interior, from which the muted plots originate. "Jellyfish," one of the better stories, starts out with the plight of middle-aged William, whose roof has just collapsed, before settling on his adult daughter, Eva, and examining her life. The two friends in "Virgins," the opening and best story, maneuver unsteadily through the minefield of casually predatory men and boys. "Snakes" looks back on a consequential summer in the lives of two little girls. "The King of a Vast Empire" is the biggest departure from form and is narrated by good son Terrence, who frustratedly tells the story of his free-spirited sister, Liddie. The stories are beautifully observed, though their similarities in theme and voice make them better read individually than together. Evans has some great chops that would really shine with a little more narrative breadth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evansâ€™ first collection of short stories deals thoughtfully and incisively with considerations of class, race, and coming-of-age. That six of the stories are told in their female or male protagonistsâ€™ first-person voices brings them immediacy and emotional resonance. Sometimes, though, this device results in narrative voices that sound too much alike while the stories they tell lack thematic originality. Interestingly, two of the best storiesâ€”â€œSomeone Ought to Tell Her Thereâ€™s Nowhere to Go,â€ about a deeply troubled veteran of the Iraq War, and â€œJellyfish,â€ about the fraught relationship of a young woman and her fatherâ€”are told in third person. Yet, whether told in first or third person, what all of the stories share is a demonstration of the profound influence of the past on the present-day lives of their characters and the intricacies of relationships among African American, white, Hispanic, and mixed-race young people. Clearly, Evans lives up to her reputation as an important new voice in literary fiction. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7925'),
(744, 'A Beggar at the Gate', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n , native Bostonian and Muslim convert Ali continues the saga of Marianna Givens, a young Englishwoman living in 19th-century India. Though competently written and often entertaining, the novel feels like exoticism cloaked as historical fiction (the prologue delivers a taste of what''s to come: in Calcutta, Marianna encounters a Hindu soothsayer who points his "authoritative, brown hand away from the crowd" and tells her that her "path lies to the northwest" and that she "must return there to find [her] destiny"). Marianna casts her lot with the Sufi family of Shaikh Waliullah as she marries his son, the Punjabi courtier, Hassan Ali Khan. She flees to Calcutta with Hassan''s infant son, Saboor, to protect him from the opium-addicted Maharajah of Punjab. After two years in exile, Marianna travels back to Lahore to give Saboor to his father, divorce Hassan and return to respectable British society. Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture, and her description of the conniving ineptitude of the British as they travel across the subcontinent humanizes them. Upon arriving in Lahore, the traveling party finds itself caught between warring Punjabi factions. The conclusion, in which Marianna predictably displays a redemptive heroism, sets up for the final book in this trilogy, slated for release in 2005.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (Bantam, 2002), Mariana Givens, a tempestuous Englishwoman, is sent to India to find a husband from the surfeit of bachelor British officers there. Two years have passed since her disastrous first visit, when her reputation was ruined by her marriage to a wealthy Punjabi, Hassan. She is devoted to his son Saboor, whom she rescued from kidnappers and has been sheltering. The revelation that the marriage was never consummated affords Mariana the chance to restore her good name: once in Lahore she can return Saboor to his father, request a divorce, and proceed to Afghanistan with her aunt and uncle and the rest of the British entourage. But she again falls under the spell of Hassan and his family, and decides to stay with him. Amid fighting following the death of the maharajah, Mariana goes to tell her aunt and uncle of her decision and returns to find him gravely wounded. This mid-19th-century adventure story contrasts the richness of Islam and its strict laws regarding women with the equally rigid societal norms of privileged, upper-class British. The characters and their actions illustrate the barriers between cultures and the difficulty of establishing trust among peoples with different worldviews. The engaging ending suggests another installment to come._â€“Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7818'),
(745, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve.  Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€  â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art.  Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography.  Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound.   Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6564'),
(746, 'The Beginner&#39;s Guide to Preserving Food at Home', 'Janet Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wonderful thing is happening in home kitchens. People are rediscovering the joys of locally produced foods and reducing the amount of the grocery budget that''s spent on packaged items, out-of-season produce, and heavily processed foods. But fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables don''t stay fresh and delicious forever - they must be eaten now . . . or preserved for later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all the vegetable gardeners facing baskets overflowing with bright tomatoes, and for all the dedicated farmers'' market fans and CSA members,\n  <em>\n   The Beginner''s Guide to Preserving Food at Home\n  </em>\n  has the simple solutions that turn overwhelming bounty into neatly canned tomatoes, jars of jams and jellies, and crispy-tart relishes and pickles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Organized in a friendly, food-by-food format, readers will find freezing, drying, canning, and storing instructions for each vegetable, fruit, and herb. In many cases, several ways to freeze or can a food are described, and there are often other preserving suggestions as well, such as making juice or fruit leather.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is written with busy people in mind: these are the quickest, most efficient methods for preserving summer''s bounty. Up-to-date information and clear, step-by-step instructions show even absolute beginners the way to a fully stocked pantry.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enjoy local produce year-round.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You don''t need a lot of time or years of experience to preserve garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. Simple step-by-step instructions give you the confidence and know-how to freeze, dry, can, root cellar, and brine the abundance from your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share or summer garden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grate and freeze excess zucchini; it will be perfect in quick breads and muffins all winter long. Pick up a crate of less-than-perfect tomatoes at the farmers'' market and preserve them in jars of spicy salsa. Turn the overflow of green beans from your CSA farm share into tasty dilly beans to eat all winter or give as holiday gifts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  These techniques and recipes will have you eating locally all year long.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8211'),
(747, 'The Beginning... the End... Anew!', 'Zedart Hodges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For sometime Iâ€™ve been clean and at times it has been hard but I think about my love for me and know that I canÂ´t and refuse to fall back into that self pity state of denial and that now I understand that itÂ´s not about me also thereÂ´s a saying that is so true which sayÂ´s in order to keep what you got you must give it away I hope this will help someone or some bodyÂ´s out there thatÂ´s beginning to realize that life is bigger than they are and more important to someone else other than you thank you for time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3916'),
(748, 'Beguilement', 'Judy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9032'),
(749, 'Bel Ami', 'Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n French author Guy de Maupassant''s second novel â€œBel Ami,â€ charts the incredible rise to power of journalist Georges Duroy. Itâ€™s widely considered Maupassant''s greatest achievement as a novelist. By manipulating a series of wealthy mistresses Duroy rises from a poor peasant family in Normandy to become one of the most successful men in Paris. Set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa, the novel explores society and itâ€™s attitudes toward sex, wealth, and power. It also places journalism under the microscope as a pointed satire. Read this book and discover how little has changed from the late nineteenth-century to today, and see why â€œBel Amiâ€ is one of the finest French novels ever written.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English, French (translation)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9348'),
(750, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10701'),
(751, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7096'),
(752, 'The Bell at Sealey Head', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of towels or encounter knights, crows and a lonely princess. As Lady Eglantyne, the ancient matron of the house, lies dying, her long-lost grand-niece is sent for. The townspeople are delighted by wealthy, city-bred Miranda Beryl, but suspicious of her eagerness to make herself at home and inherit the houseâ€”spellbound bell and all. Meanwhile, vacationing academic Ridley Dow''s interest in Aislinn House hints at another motive for his visit to the village beside the ocean. Romantic intrigue and touches of this fantastic make this light mystery an easy and pleasant read.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The small seaside town of Sealey Head is home to a few families, an inn, and Aislinn House, an old mansion with a special powerâ€”its doors sometimes open onto the world of faerie, where princesses like young Ysabo occupy their time with a complex ritual and knights exist to marry the princesses. Each day at sunset, a bell sounds, heard by everyone, yet its whereabouts and the identity of its ringer remain unknownâ€”until a few strangers arrive to unlock an ancient past. McKillip (_Song for the Basilisk_;\n <em>\n  Solstice Wood\n </em>\n ) weaves elegant modern fairy tales from simple themes, drawing the mythical and everyday worlds into an enchanted union. Elegant, deceptively spare prose and well-developed characters make this a good choice for adult and YA fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6087'),
(753, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4119'),
(754, 'The Bell', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8132'),
(755, 'Belle', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage. But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her. Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness? Number One bestseller Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lesley Pearse''s novels have sold close to 4 million copies in the UK alone. Her thirteen most recent books, including Stolen, Gypsy, Faith and Hope - each of which occupied a Top Three slot in both hardback and paperback - are huge bestsellers and are all available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7052'),
(756, 'The Bells: A Novel', 'Richard Harvell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me â€œson.â€ And I called him â€œfather.â€ On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarification, he simply laughed as though the questioner were obtuse. â€œOf course heâ€™s not my son!â€ he would say. â€œDonâ€™t be ridiculous.â€Â But whenever I myself gained the courage to ask him further of our past, he just looked sadly at me. â€œPlease, Nicolai,â€ he would say after a moment, as though we had made a pact I had forgotten. With time, I came to understand I would never know the secrets of my birth, for my father was the only one who knew these secrets, and he would take them to his grave.Â The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. Shaped by the bellsâ€™ glorious music, as a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discoveredâ€”along with its power to expose the sins of the churchâ€”young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Â Rescued from certain death by two traveling monks, he finds refuge at the vast and powerful Abbey of St. Gall. There, his ears lead him through the ancient stone hallways and past the monksâ€™ cells into the choir, where he aches to join the singers in their strange and enchanting song. Suddenly Moses knows his true gift, his purpose. Like his motherâ€™s bells, he rings with sound and soon, he becomes the protÃ©gÃ© of the Abbeyâ€™s brilliant yet repulsive choirmaster, Ulrich. Â But it is this gift that will cause Mosesâ€™ greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupilâ€™s voice, Ulrich has Moses castrated. Now a young man, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angelâ€”a musicoâ€”yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. When his saviors are exiled and his beloved leaves St. Gall for an arranged marriage in Vienna, he decides he can deny the truth no longer and he follows herâ€”to sumptuous Vienna, to the former monks who saved his life, to an apprenticeship at one of Europeâ€™s greatest theaters, and to the premiere of one of historyâ€™s most beloved operas. Â In this confessional letter to his son, Moses recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europeâ€™s celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired? Â Like the voice of Lo Svizzero, The Bells is a sublime debut novel that rings with passion, courage, and beauty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6345'),
(757, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do. When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1314'),
(758, 'Beloved: A Novel', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison''s Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  . Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is arguably her best. To modern readers, antebellum slavery is a subject so familiar that it is almost impossible to render its horrors in a way that seems neither clichÃ©d nor melodramatic. Rapes, beatings, murders, and mutilations are recounted here, but they belong to characters so precisely drawn that the tragedy remains\n  <em>\n   individual\n  </em>\n  , terrifying to us because it is terrifying to the sufferer. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the\n  <em>\n   bit\n  </em>\n  , for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate all of slavery''s many cruelties into one apt symbol--a device that deprives its wearer of speech. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothing to soothe the tongue or take the wildness out of the eye." Most importantly, the language here, while often lyrical, is never overheated. Even as she recalls the cruelties visited upon her while a slave, Sethe is evocative without being overemotional: "Add my husband to it, watching, above me in the loft--hiding close by--the one place he thought no one would look for him, looking down on what I couldn''t look at at all. And not stopping them--looking and letting it happen.... And if he was that broken then, then he is also and certainly dead now." Even the supernatural is treated as an ordinary fact of life: "Not a house in the country ain''t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro''s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby," comments Sethe''s mother-in-law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe''s history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby''s death start to make terrible sense. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe''s daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion.\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  may well be\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mixed with the lyric beauty of the writing, the fury in Morrison''s (Song of Solomonp latest book is almost palpable. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this haunting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath traces the life of a young woman, Sethe, who has kept a terrible memory at bay only by shutting down part of her mind. Juxtaposed with searing descriptions of brutality, gradually revealed in flashbacks, are equally harrowing scenes in which fantasy takes flesh, a device Morrison handles with consummate skill. The narrative concerns Sethe''s former life as a slave on Sweet Home Farm, her escape with her children to what seems a safe haven and the tragic events that ensue. The death of Sethe''s infant daughter Beloved is the incident on which the plot hinges, and it is obvious to the reader that the sensuous young woman who mysteriously appears one day is Beloved''s spirit, come back to claim Sethe''s love. Sethe''s surviving daughter, Denver, immediately grasps the significance of Beloved''s return and so does Paul Dno period after D, another escapee from Sweet Home; but Sethe herself resists comprehension, and, as a result, a certain loss of tension affects the latter part of the narrative. But this is a small flaw in a novel full of insights, both piercing and tender, with distinctive, memorable characters, flowing prose that conveys speech patterns with musical intensity and a brilliantly conceived story. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8070'),
(759, 'Ben Bova - Cafe Coup', 'Coup Cafe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10458'),
(760, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3082'),
(761, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(762, 'Beneath the Skin', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she''s been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterious, cruel, and unstoppable, this assassin is dead-set on killing a certain presidential candidate. Now Team Darkwing has to find him before it''s too late. But soon, Daphne finds herself drawn back into the life she once rejected: a secret vampire underworld, where all pleasures-like human blood-can be found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3931'),
(763, 'Benedict 4 - the Devil&#39;s Eye', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDevitt fills the fourth far-future Alex Benedict adventure (after 2005''s Nebula-winning\n <em>\n  Seeker\n </em>\n ) with historical details and thrilling stunts as well as sharp political allegory. When famous horror writer Vicki Greene leaves antiquities dealer Alex a desperate message and then voluntarily has her memory erased, he and his pilot companion, Chase Kolpath, follow clues literally to the end of the galaxy, where Vicky had been researching her next novel. Official threats and a kidnapping reveal a planet-threatening catastrophe, covered up for years by hapless bureaucrats. As panic ensues and evacuation looks hopeless, the space opera turns into commentary on government reaction to emergencies and the values of openness. McDevitt balances the two sides of his story well, never losing sight of either the fast-paced action or the message behind it.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œNo one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJack McDevitt is a master at describing otherworldly grandeur.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Denver Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhy read Jack McDevitt? The question should be: Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isnâ€™t reading McDevitt?â€\n <br />\n â€”Harlan Ellison\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou should definitely read Jack McDevitt.â€\n <br />\n â€”Gregory Benford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9018'),
(764, 'Bent Road', 'Lori Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in the mid ''60s, Roy''s outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott''s teenage daughter, Arthur decides it''s time to leave Detroit and return to the small Kansas town that he left 20 years earlier after his sister Eve''s mysterious death. His wife, Celia, resents the move that will put her close to in-laws she barely knows and that will change her family dynamic. That Arthur''s younger daughter, Eve-ee, resembles her late aunt unsettles Arthur''s older sister, Ruth, and Ruth''s husband, Ray, who have never seen Eve-ee before. When a neighbor''s child disappears, suspicion uncomfortably settles on Ray, who was suspected in Eve''s death. Roy couples a vivid view of the isolation and harshness of farm life with a perceptive look at the emotions that can rage beneath the surface. This Midwestern noir with gothic undertones is sure to make several 2011 must-read lists. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''_Bent Road_ is a remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy''s voice is a welcome addition to American fiction.'''' --Dennis Lehane,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In her promising debut novel\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  , Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. Set in the beautifully rendered Kansas plains,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  is a family story with a suspenseful gothic core, one which shows that the past always has a price, whether you''re running from it or back toward it. Crisp, evocative prose, full-blooded characters, and a haunting setting make this debut stand out.'''' --Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   Tonight I Said Goodbye\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Dropping us in a world of seeming simplicity, in a time of seeming calm, Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape. Bringing to mind the family horrors of Jane Smiley''s\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Acres\n  </em>\n  and the dark emotional terrain of Tana French''s\n  <em>\n   In the Woods\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  manages to be both psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, burrowing into your brain with a feverish power all its own.'''' --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning novelist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5934'),
(765, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(766, 'Beowulf&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10226'),
(767, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5784'),
(768, 'The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing', 'Stan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Illustrated in full color. Brother Bear is a master at teasing--until the tables are turned and he''s the one being heckled for being the principal''s pet. And when Brother finally understands that teasing isn''t just mean, it''s also dangerous, he actually decides to stick up for the new kid at school.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5786');
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(769, 'The Berlin Conspiracy', 'Tom Gabbay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallowing in a postâ€“Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack''s ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his contact''s identity and his information about a plot to kill President Kennedy during an upcoming visit to West Berlin. His dormant idealism roused, Jack delves into the conspiracy while dodging the threats of corrupt CIA higherups and falling in with colorful residents of Berlin''s Cold War demimonde. Mixing cynical world-weariness with dead-pan humor and a refreshing lack of Bond-style omnicompetence (random mishaps include a nasty dog bite and a disastrous attempt to shoot off a pair of handcuffs), Jack''s story is part John le CarrÃ© and part Elmore Leonard. Gabbay constructs the thriller as a dress rehearsal and what-if scenario for the actual Dallas assassination. With rogue intelligence operatives, gangsters, Texas tycoons and a mob of snipers, coverup hit men, fall guys, fall guy impersonators, and miscellaneous functionaries all jostling each other, the plot''s many moving parts make the climax a virtual parody of ponderous JFK conspiracy theories. But until this odd turn, Gabbay offers a stylish thriller with an appealing hero.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The nuances of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories chillingly collide with the intricacies of Cold War espionage in this well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. CIA agent Jack Teller is a hard-boiled, world-weary pragmatist who would rather be fishing in Florida but warms to the notion that fate has selected him to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. As implausible as this may sound, Gabbay does a credible job of juxtaposing his story with historically accurate but equally implausible events, namely the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination in Dallas. The novel could be viewed as simply a good escapist read, but there is an enormously significant lesson at its core: in a world with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it only takes a well-placed loose cannon or two to set us all on a course of utter destruction. That story has been told before, but it bears repeating. This is a thrilling tale with historical lessons of lasting consequences.â€“_Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7933'),
(770, 'Beside a Burning Sea', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *Beneath a Marble Sky* comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances. One moment, the World War II hospital ship *Benevolence* is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercyâ€”to save wounded American soldiers. The next, *Benevolence* is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island. Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their companyâ€”and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their makingâ€”a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving. With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countriesâ€”all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2479'),
(771, 'The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What if\n </em>\n ? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they might be, they inspired some of the previous century''s most brilliant speculative fiction, including the 14 short stories collected here.\n</p>\n<p>\n And with contributors like Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Turtledove himself, there''s truly not a clunker in the bunch. All of these stories revolve around Turtledove''s central beard-tugging question, but they vary wildly in style, mood, and approach. Many toy with how the future might be altered had some particular event turned out differently (what if the Confederates had won at Gettysburg, or the\n <em>\n  Enola Gay\n </em>\n had crashed before making its fateful flight?), while others follow dimension-hoppers traveling through tangled branches of our timeline (as in Sterling''s "Mozart in Mirrorshades," Anderson''s "Eutopia," and Jack L. Chalker''s surreal ferry ride through "Dance Band on the\n <em>\n  Titanic\n </em>\n ").\n</p>\n<p>\n All but four of these stories were written in the last two decades of the century--before then, Turtledove suggests in part, we weren''t scientifically certain about whether Martians and "oceans on Venus full of reptilian monsters" might exist, so we were satisfied by more conventional, planet-faring SF. But the ideas that the contributors wrestle with here, and that irresistible human urge to speculate about the implications of our actions (and whether our decisions matter at all), prove timeless.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ghostly ferry makes passages between coexisting "different Earths"; a 20th-century man describes his impact on the Civil War, brought about by time-machine tricks; and Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Antoinette end up as employees at an oil refinery in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg. Contributors include Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ward Moore and Susan Shwartz.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4962'),
(772, 'The Best American Crime Reporting 2009', 'Jeffrey Toobin &amp; Otto Penzler &amp; Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thieves, liars, and killersâ€”it''s a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year''s best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre,\n  <em>\n   The Best American Crime Reporting 2009\n  </em>\n  brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals. Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin,\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  since 1993 and is the senior legal analyst for CNN. In 2000 he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the EliÃn GonzÃlez case. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court\n  </em>\n  , which spent more than four months on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. Before joining\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He lives in Manhattan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4899'),
(773, 'The Best and the Brightest', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet a new generation of cadets: a newly joined Trill just beginning the first of many lives; a Bajoran Vedek who finds himself torn between his vows and an unspoken love; a reckless young man fond of pushing the limits; a feline alien raised among humans; a brilliant but immature young woman with a lot to learn; and a native-born Earth woman with a talent for engineering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together they will learn about courage, life, teamwork, and themselves. Their future is just beginning -- but one of them will not survive!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6813'),
(774, 'Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5232'),
(775, 'The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6913'),
(776, 'Best Food Writing 2010', 'Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mourning the demise of Gourmet magazine, series editor Hughes asks "is food writing a dying art?" Readers of this year''s anthology will offer a resounding "nowhere close." Ethical concerns of organic and locavore movements and free range meats are tidily summed up by now-famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. Whereas MIT grad J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares a recipe for making French fries as good as what McDonalds makes: "salty, crisp, light, and not greasy." At the other end of the spectrum, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton offers a version of Nora Ephron''s meat loaf recipe to die for. Pulitzer prize winner Jonathan Gold tracks the shifting locations of Los Angeles'' street vendors and Tod Kliman hunts down Peter Chang, the elusive "perfect chef" who moves between Chinese restaurants, from D.C. to Atlanta, to avoid celebrity. Along the way Kliman learns that innocuous Chinese restaurants can have secret menus for the cognoscenti and experiences the exquisite pleasure of hot peppers that scorch and even numb. And travelling to Tokyo, Kevin Pang discovered to his great surprise that eating a bowl of ramen "satisfied every taste sense man is blessed to experience." A sparkling collection.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a time where the most elemental of activitiesâ€”consuming sustenanceâ€”is an increasingly political act, itâ€™s not surprising that there might be more attention paid to talking about eating food than there is in actually eating food. Series editor Hughes sheds a tear for the shuttering of the venerable Gourmet, but maintains that â€œthe rumors of food writingâ€™s death have been greatly exaggerated.â€ Big changes in the culinary world are visible here, from Michael Steinbergerâ€™s lament over the passing of Franceâ€™s reign of culinary mastery (all hail Spain) to Tim Carmanâ€™s plea to put Zagat out of its misery. But the trend du jour continues to be locavorism, evidenced by Carla Capalboâ€™s take on the epicenter of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli, getting dethroned as best restaurant in the world by a small Copenhagen joint that focuses on seasonal, place-specific ingredients. Despite all the delicious food fussiness on parade, though, the best of the best might just be Jason Sheehanâ€™s hilarious (if youâ€™re an industry insider) or terrifying (if youâ€™re an unsuspecting patron) account of flash-defrosting 80-pound blocks of haddock on a frantic fish-fry Friday. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8451'),
(777, 'Best Friends for Never', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Clique is back ...Massie Block - Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school...she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school''s first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire. She''s not sure which is scarier...Dylan Marvil - Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy. Kristen Gregory - Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren''t. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him. Alicia Rivera - With the Clique unravelling faster than last season''s Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2216'),
(778, 'Best Laid Plans', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as flexible. But Cody had plans for Abra that not even this spirited beauty could resist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2639'),
(779, 'The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not merely a task that''s thankless--it''s impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and military SF, at that)? But this 13-story collection really\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n pull together at least\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n of the best short stories penned for the genre in the last century. Thanks to editors Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, you''ll find some of science fiction''s biggest names--and most influential shorts--in this expertly chosen anthology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chronologically, the entries range from ''50s pieces like Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" and Arthur C. Clarke''s "Superiority" to more modern ruminations on war like "The Scapegoat" by C.J. Cherryh and "To the Storming Gulf" by Gregory Benford. But rather than quality (all these stories are of inarguable pedigree) or even breadth, what might recommend these most to readers new to them are the ideas and other works they later inspired: Anne McCaffrey''s "Dragonrider" and Orson Scott Card''s "Ender''s Game" both gave rise to phenomenally successful series, Joe W. Haldeman''s "Hero" preceded __, and Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" became the SF thriller\n <em>\n  Screamers\n </em>\n . The collection also gives you a glimpse of what dark thoughts were rattling around the heads of prolific writers like David Drake and George R.R. Martin in the ''70s.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, musters 13 tales by such top brass of this popular subgenre as Orson Scott Card, David Drake, George R.R. Martin, Arthur C. Clarke and editor Turtledove, who provides an introduction. SF military addicts won''t need a direct order to seize a copy of this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4952'),
(780, 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">\n <h2 style="font-size: 14px; ">\n  The Plot\n </h2>\n</span>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages â€œto keep man man.â€\n</p>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n Set in the Second Age of Space, â€œScanners Live in Vainâ€ concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7080'),
(781, 'Best of Isaac Asimov', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring Asimov''s personal choices, this collection offers a variety of science fiction stories that cover the period from 1949 to the present, each accompanied by a brief introduction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9501'),
(782, 'The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson', 'Johnathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kim Stanley Robinson has been an ongoing force in the Science Fiction genre for over twenty years, with his novels (Year''s of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain) crossing over to the mainstream, and routinely appearing on the New York Times best sellers list. During the 80s and early nineties, his short fiction continued to push the boundaries of science fiction, defining the science-focused side of the science fiction genre. Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan worked with Kim Stanley Robinson to select the stories that make up this landmark volume. In addition to these reprints, The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson features a brand-new short story, "The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9242'),
(783, 'The Best of the Best New SF', 'Dozois, Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11171'),
(784, 'The Best of Times', 'Penny Vincenzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . . On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she''ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4018'),
(785, 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Mark Bittman is cooking--in every sense of the word--he gets results without fuss. Author of the almost subversively approachable\n  <em>\n   The Best Recipes in the World\n  </em>\n  , a collection of more than 1,000 international recipes, with winners like Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs; Pan-Seared Swordfish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers; and Stewed Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms and Pasilla Chile Sauce, he''s done it again. The selection, which covers cooking from Europe and Asia equally, is all can-do and instantly appealing--readers will want to "cook through" the whole chicken section, for example. But Bittman, a master distiller, also knows when more is more, with one caveat: "I don''t mind spending a long time cooking a single dish as long as I don''t have to pay too much attention to what''s going on," he writes. Thus, even fuller-dress recipes like the Indian Red Fish Stew, Fast and Spicy, and Tea-Smoked Duck or Chicken can work for time-deprived cooks. A dessert section that includes the tempting likes of Orange Custard, Walnut Tart, and Caramelized Pars Poached in Red Wine, caps this incisive collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included also are brief but enlightening notes on ingredients and techniques such as "On Pureeing Soups," which compares all approaches thoughtfully. Symbols indicate a recipe''s potential to be made ahead or in less than 30 minutes (true of most), among other variables. With a beverage chapter and menu suggestions that are actually useful, the book will appeal to a wide audience, not only for its recipes but as a source of relaxed instruction. It''s an exploration of culinary essentials from a true essentialist.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman thinks big, as we saw in his Great Wall of Recipes,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . That doorstop of a title sold big, too; there are now more than 1.7 million copies in print. This volume, in the same I-can''t-believe-I-wrote-the-whole-thing vein, collects recipes from 44 countries. Bittman successfully avoids the usual suspects, drawing as heavily from places like North Africa (home of Harira, a satisfying soup traditionally used to end Ramadan fasting) and India (Marinated Lamb "Popsicles" with Fenugreek Cream) as he does from easy targets like Italy and France. The recipes are terrific in both their variety and execution. Bittman, who writes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ''s "Minimalist" column, has a steady authorial voice and a knack for offering clear instructions, and he smoothly makes the exotic seem easy, or at least familiar (e.g., he compares Moroccan Chicken B''stilla to chicken pot pie). The everything-in-one-place format works differently here than it did in his earlier book, which was, ultimately, about technique, not individual recipes, so while there are more than 1,000 recipes here, the reader doesn''t acquire quite the same "take-away." Still, for one-stop-shopping on the world''s cuisine, it''d be tough to find a better book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4922'),
(786, 'The Best Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy of the Year', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5938'),
(787, 'Betrayal at Lisson Grove', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branchâ€™s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pittâ€™s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husbandâ€™s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pittâ€™s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the countryâ€™s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before itâ€™s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8583'),
(788, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;''However the act of murder was committed, in cold blood or hot, Eve Dallas was sworn to pursue it to its root. and serve the dead.''&gt;At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He''s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn''t help solve the crime. Because there''s someone else involved. Someone with a very personal motive. and Eve must face a terrifying possibility that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2352'),
(789, 'Betrayed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school''s most elite group. Best of all, Zoey''s made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she''s earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4499'),
(790, 'Betrayer', 'C J Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10900'),
(791, 'Betrayer of Worlds', 'Larry Niven; Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived. Theyâ€™ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gwâ€™oth. The onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Catastrophe looms again as past crises return---and converge. Who can possibly save the Fleet of Worlds from its greatest peril yet? **Louis Wu?** Trapped in the Wunderland civil war, all he wants is to go home---but the only possible escape will plunge him into unknowable danger. **Olâ€™tâ€™ro****? **The Gwâ€™oth ensemble mind fled across the stars to establish a colony world free from tyranny. But some problems cannot be left behind, and other problems---like the Fleet of Worlds itself---are racing straight at them. **Achilles?** Despite past disgrace, the charismatic Puppeteer politician *knows* he is destined for greatness. He will do anything to seize power---and to take his revenge on everyone who ever stood in his way. **Nessus?** The insane Puppeteer scout is out of ideas, out of resources, with only desperation left to guide him. Their hopes and fears, dreams and ambitions are about to collide. And the winner takes . . . worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10236'),
(792, 'Better Love Next Time: How the Relationship That Didn&#39;t Last Can Lead You to the One That Will', 'J. M. Kearns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How to Heal Your Romantic Soul Whether your breakup was last month, last year, or farther back, there "is "a way to undo its harm and unlock its lessons--a way to heal your romantic soul. "Better Love Next Time "offers help in coping with the pain and heartache of a breakup, but more than that, it reveals how to overcome the lingering damage that a broken relationship can leave behind. It then presents a simple (and entertaining) way to diagnose what went wrong--so history won''t have to repeat itself--and explains how to decode the "guide to compatibility" written in your own past. Witty, frank, and full of real-life stories, "Better Love Next Time "ensures that when you do find a new love, you will arrive whole, renewed, and empowered to make it the one that lasts. "Better Love Next Time "reveals: the best ways to deal with a broken heart the hidden dangers of a breakup, and how to overcome them how your ego tries to hijack your heart how to stop betrayal from making you choose the wrong partner again how a mismatch can trick you into feeling inadequate how to find the partner who''s really right for you, and make that love last\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8798'),
(793, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage. But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(794, 'Better to rest', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier. SUMMARY: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1041'),
(795, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way. From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come. Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom. Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3336'),
(796, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7236'),
(797, 'Between Planets', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out, and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home. Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward, the friend had been questioned by Earthâ€™s secret police and had diedâ€”from â€œheart failure,â€ they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10413'),
(798, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n <em>\n  Distant Shores\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7389'),
(799, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4376');
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(800, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters &amp; Cole Christian Kingseed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4616'),
(801, 'Beyond belief', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TheNew York Times Book Reviewhailed Roy Johansen''s debut,The Answer Man, as "offbeat [and] fascinating." Now the Edgar Award winner and Shamus Award finalist once again "keeps the pages turning" (Los Angeles Times) in a new thriller that pits a professional skeptic against something inexplicable â€” and undeniably lethal. Joe Bailey is the Spirit Basher. Formerly a professional magician, he''s become an ace police detective in Atlanta, debunking phony psychics and spiritualists who prey on the gullible. And he''s just caught his first sensational murder case. The victim is someone Joe knew. Dr. Robert Nelson was a professor at Landwyn University, head of the parapsychology program. He was killed in his own home, a sculpture of massive chrome spikes driven through his body and into a wall. A sculpture that no one could possibly have lifted. But Nelson''s girlfriend claims to know the murderer: an eight-year-old boy. Jesse Randall is not just any child. Some people say he can move objects using nothing more than his will. Nelson had been studying the boy, and Jesse''s anger at the professor was erupting in "shadow storms" â€” violent telekinetic activity â€” while Jesse slept. Nelson''s girlfriend swears that one of these episodes was responsible for Nelson''s brutal death. Joe is far from convinced. He''s certain that Jesse''s power is a hoax and Nelson''s killer is a master of deception. Driven to seek out the truth that surely lies behind the psychic fakery, Joe must rely on his wits to separate what''s real from what''s illusion â€” even if it means drawing Jesse''s anger on himself. Soon mysterious incidents thrust him and his own child into grave peril. Are they examples of Jesse''s shadow storms? Or deadly warnings from someone who cannot allow the Spirit Basher to discover the truth? Joe cannot abandon his search for answers. And he''d better find them fast before whoever â€” or whatever â€” impaled Robert Nelson like an insect does the same to him and his daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3672'),
(802, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1975'),
(803, 'Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink', 'David Margolick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit''s Joe Louis and Germany''s Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The African-American Louis''s success and demeanor were an unsubtle rebuke to the Aryan theories of race; the affable Schmeling, for his part, would be shoehorned into the role of "Nazi Max," despite the uneasiness of the fitâ€”later that year, on Kristallnacht, he would courageously protect two German Jews. _Vanity Fair\n <em>\n  contributor Margolick (\n </em>\n Strange Fruit_) keeps his bold, colorful focus squarely on the hubbub leading up to the bout; the all-consuming welter of hypeâ€”almost every utterance in the book is tinged by race or geopoliticsâ€”makes for compelling reading. The fight pitted talent against tactics: Schmeling''s previous defeat of the hitherto "unbeatable" Louis depended on Schmeling''s shrewd perception of a flaw in Louis''s technique. Louis was a critical transitional figure between the controversial first African-American champ, Jack Johnson, and the equally polarizing Muhammad Ali. Schmeling, in turn, was truly the antithesis of the thugs who were running his country. Every chapter in the company of such estimable and likable stalwarts is an unalloyed pleasure. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the greatest fight of our generation." The greatest fight, as it turned out, was still to come and would be contested outside the boxing ring. This new book examines a world near war and grapple with the lasting importance of Louis versus Schmeling. Margolick provides a roaring ride through Nazi Germany and Depression-era America, as seen in the lives of Louis and Schmeling. Written with all the verve and wit of the best 1930s sportswriters (whom Margolis often quotes to great effect),\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n contains gripping accounts of Louis and Schmeling''s two fights with each other and their bouts with other top contenders. But the greatest strength of Margolick''s narrative is the larger history it supplies. For two boxers who claimed no interest in politics, Schmeling and Louis got caught up in one of the great political conflicts of the century. Margolick magnificently captures the tension--between white and black, American and German, Jew and Gentile, Fascist and Democrat--that defined the time. Readers emerge with nuanced characterizations of the fighters and the nations they represented. With its balance of popular history and riveting comeback story,\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n will be the definitive account of Louis versus Schmeling. And it''s a hell of a good read besides.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6694'),
(804, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1354'),
(805, 'Beyond Lies the Wub', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Originally published in Planet Stories in 1951, here is Philip K. Dick''s classic tale of humanity''s discovery of a strange alien race . . . the Wub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9910'),
(806, 'Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English', 'Bhante Henepola Gunaratana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In\n <em>\n  Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offered basic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana) meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n he presents the levels of concentration with the same simplicity and humor that made the previous book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, those meditative states of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path to joy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the author provides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation as a tool for building a more fulfilling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6695'),
(807, 'Beyond Seduction', 'Kathleen O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sex didn''t scare her**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks''s first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **This thing beyond seduction did.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam''s career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7362'),
(808, 'Beyond Temptation', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beyond Duty...    A proud yet haunted warriorï¼Œ Sir Richard de Cantor left his past behind when he joined the secret brotherhood of Templar Knights.  Now he is returning home to face a challenge greater than any he has ever known: a forbidden promise of ecstasy that dwells in the gentle heart of a fallen noblewoman...    Beyond Desire...    Lady Margaret Newcomb has paid dearly for her sins of long agoï¼Œ her good name stripped away as she was forced into seclusion.  Yet such torment is nothing compared to what she suffers when Richard de Cantor enters her world of penance.  Here is a manï¼Œ brave and strong yet tenderï¼Œ whose breathtaking masculinity tempts her to sin once more.  To want him is dangerous and taboo.  But to deny her passion is to deny life itself and the one chance for a love beyond limitsï¼Œ beyond rapture...    BEYOND TEMPTATION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7972'),
(809, 'Beyond the Blue Event Horizon', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10197'),
(810, 'Beyond the Hanging Wall', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone high fantasy set in the same universe as her Wayfarer Redemption series (Enchanter, etc.), Australian Douglass fashions a promising milieu of elemental Gnostic magic within a rugged coastal setting. Unfortunately, stock characters wending their way down standard plot-lines to a foregone conclusion obscure her world-building. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice healer who''s inherited an extra helping of "the Touch" (the ability to feel-and, to some degree, alleviate-his patients'' pain), journeys to the Veins, a complex of underground mines. While tending condemned workers in the shafts, Garth happens upon prisoner 859, whom Garth''s Touch reveals to be Prince Maximilian, the missing heir to the throne of Escator. Later, in the Land of Dreams, Garth has a conversation with the ancient heraldic beast of Escator, the droll monster Manteceros, who agrees to confirm the identity of the true king if Garth can rescue prisoner 859 from the Veins and have him challenge the vile pretender, King Cavos. In an overly complicated finale Manteceros administers a moral test of worthiness to the two kingly claimants. Maximilian''s near-instantaneous transformation after 17 years'' hard labor from broken-minded wretch to dashing, lighthearted prince strains credibility, while a spate of hand-waving mystical exposition at book''s end does more to confuse than resolve the story. Still, the atmosphere of maritime magic is diverting, and, for fans of the author''s Redemption books, this may be enough.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourteen-year-old Garth and his father are healers gifted with "the Touch." Because the physicians of Escator are required to spend three weeks each year ministering to the prisoners confined in the dank, underground mine called the Veins, Garth''s father brings his son, still an apprentice, along when he goes to fulfill his obligation. Using his own powers to heal, Garth senses the king''s mark on a prisoner and suspects that beneath layers of dirt lies the young prince who disappeared 17 years ago and had been presumed dead. Aided by a marsh witch, a mythical creature, an order of monks, and his own courage, Garth sets out to rescue the prince and restore him to his kingdom. Australian Douglass'' latest American release is packed with sympathetic characters and heroic challenges. Lacking the violence and sex of Douglass''\n <em>\n  Hades Daughter\n </em>\n [BKL Ja 1 &amp; 15 03], this is a rousing fantasy for all ages.\n <em>\n  Candace Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6649'),
(811, 'Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7241'),
(812, 'Beyond the pale', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making her perfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3930'),
(813, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom. In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him. Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess. * Beyond the Shadows* is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(814, 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan', 'Jamie Zeppa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Despite the initial shock of material privation and such minor inconveniences as giardia, boils, and leeches, Zeppa felt herself growing into the vast spaces of simplicity that opened up beyond the clutter of modern life. Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. Still she maintained her center by devouring the library''s Buddhist tracts and persevering in an increasingly fruitful meditation practice. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. Zeppa''s candid, witty account is a spiritual memoir, a travel diary, and, more than anything, a romance that retraces the vicissitudes of ineluctable passion.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Bruya\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zeppa''s story is nearly an inversion of the ancient Buddhist tale of Siddhartha (in which a prince ventures from the paradise of his father''s palace only to find the suffering and decay that he never knew existed) in that the author, at the age of 22, abruptly leaves a stale life in Canada to become a volunteer teacher in the remote and largely undisturbed Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Cloaked in the airy mountains between India and China, Bhutan initially frustrates but eventually captivates Zeppa with its rudimentary lifestyle that forces her to question former values and plans for the future. Though the story line would seem to open itself to cloying romanticization, Zeppa''s telling of her clumsy attempts to adapt rings with sincerity and inspires sympathy. She thinks to herself upon visiting a local house: "In one shadowy corner, there is a skinny chicken. I blink several times but it does not vanish. Is it a pet? Is it dinner?" Zeppa''s lucid descriptions of the craggy terrain and honest respect for the daily struggles of the natives bring the tiny land to life in a way that is reverent but real. Though she tries to avoid what a friend terms "that Shangri-La-Di-Da business" and grapples with the poverty, sexism and political squabbles in Bhutan that bother her, there is little doubt that she sees the place in a largely positive light and is tempted to remain. In the end, Zeppa''s is a lively tale of her earnest efforts to reconcile what she has learned with what she has known. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6777'),
(815, 'Beyond World&#39;s End', 'Mercedes Lackey; Rosemary Edghill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***This is your soul on drugs...*** After the events chronicled in *Bedlam''s Bard,* world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there''s a new evil for them to quard against.... When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world -- and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyon. With his possibly loyal companions -- a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle -- Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham''s fate -- and his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3206'),
(816, 'Biba&#39;s Northern Italian Cooking', 'Biba Caggiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba''s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from antipasto to dessert, with dishes for all occasions. First she discusses essential Italian ingredients and equivalents and begins each course section with a brief account of what it entails. Her Green Lasagne Bologna Style, Shellfish Risotto, Pheasant with Gin and Juniper Berries and Pears Poached in Red Wine will lure eager diners to a bounteous table.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italian-born Biba Caggiano takes readers under her wing with more than 200 recipes from Northern Italy-the center of great cooking. Simple-to-master recipes cover tortellini from scratch, authentic pasta sauces, savory meat dishes, luscious desserts and more. This new edition features everything from simple dishes for a family meal to more elaborate recipes for special occasions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Homemade Minestrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tagliatelle Bolognese Style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shellfish Risotto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bruschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil\n </li>\n <li>\n  Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7338'),
(817, 'The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version', 'The Bible', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9517'),
(818, 'The Bicentennial Man and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov''s single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9513'),
(819, 'Bicycle diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities** Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(820, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2015'),
(821, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(822, 'The Big Black Mark', 'A. Bertram Chandler &amp; Bertram A. Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mutiny aboard the Discovery ends John Grimes'' military career with the Galactic Federation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5507'),
(823, 'The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries', 'Michele Borba Ed.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children''s difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by\n  <em>\n   Today Show''s\n  </em>\n  resident parenting expert Michele Borba\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Author has written outstanding parenting books including\n  <em>\n   Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin'', Don''t Give Me that Attitude\n  </em>\n  , and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Top Ten Proven Parenting Solutions\n </strong>\n <br />\n Content from Dr. Michele Borba\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is just a sample of the hundreds of proven and simple tips from Dr. Borbaâ€™s latest book,\n <em>\n  The Big Book of Parenting Solutions\n </em>\n . The best news is that these solutions work for all ages, take less than a minute to do, are based on proven research and when consistently used will reap lasting change.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Get attention:\n </strong>\n Lower your voice almost to a whisper and then say your request. Kids arenâ€™t used to a quiet request.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2. Increase positive behavior:\n </strong>\n Research shows that giving kids the right kind of praise (called â€œpositive reinforcementâ€) is one of the best ways to shape new behavior. So, catch your kid doing the action you want. Just make sure your praise is specific and tells your child exactly what he did right. (Adding â€œbecauseâ€ or â€œthatâ€ takes your praise up a notch. â€œIâ€™m so impressed that you started your homework all by yourself this time.â€)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Stretch persistence:\n </strong>\n Praising the childâ€™s effort (â€œYouâ€™re working so hardâ€) and not inherent intelligence (â€Youâ€™re so smartâ€) is proven to enhance perseverance and performance, but the child is also more likely to bounce back from a mistakeâ€”all because he feels success is not mixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. Reduce fear:\n </strong>\n Expose your child to a fear in small manageable doses and help them develop a statement to speak back to the worry (â€œGo away worry!â€ or â€œI can do this!â€)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Curb a tantrum:\n </strong>\n The longer you give attention to a tantrum the longer it lasts. Ignore, ignore, ignore!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6. Nurture kindness:\n </strong>\n Encourage your child to use the Two Praise Rule everyday. â€œSay or do at least two kind things to someone.â€ Random acts of kindness really are catchy!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7. Increase assertiveness:\n </strong>\n Stress: â€œLook at the color of the talkerâ€™s eyes.â€ Using eye contact helps kids appear confident. Strong body posture also helps a child be less likely to be bullied.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8. Friendship builder:\n </strong>\n The two most commonly used traits of well-liked kids are â€œsmilingâ€ and â€œencouraging.â€ Reinforce those traits in your child to boost his friendship quotient.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9. Develop healthy eating habits.\n </strong>\n Eating relaxed family meals regularly enhances kidsâ€™ psychosocial well- being, boosts grades and deters behaviors like smoking and drinking and eating disorders as well as teaches the child healthy eating habits.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10. Curb nagging.\n </strong>\n Say "no" the first time and donâ€™t back down. The average kid nags nine times knowing the parent will give in.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Borba, author and\n <em>\n  Today Show\n </em>\n regular, employs a cookbooklike approach in her latest volume: rather than read through the entire tome, parents can flip to topics pertinent to their family. Borba opens with a friendly overview, noting that contemporary parents feel more stressed and find their roles increasingly difficult (June Cleaver, she points out, didn''t have to deal with cyberbullying or Facebook). With characteristic wit, Borba identifies the seven deadly parenting styles, including helicopter, buddy, incubator, bandage, paranoid, accessory parenting (judging themselves by their kids'' accolades) and secondary parenting (relinquishing power to such outsiders as marketers or the media). In nine sections on family, behavior, character, emotions, social scene, school, special needs, day-to-day and electronics, the author urges readers to roll up their sleeves and get back to basic, instinctual parenting. As she tackles 101 issues ranging from sibling rivalry, lying and peer pressure to cell-phone use and TV addiction, Borba helps readers identify the reason underlying the behavior or problem, and work with 10 essential principles of change. With her no-nonsense yet compassionate voice, Borba once again delivers an indispensable resource for parents of toddlers to 13-year-olds.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10448'),
(824, 'The Big Bounce', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is an awfully good writer of the sneaky sort; he is so good, you don''t notice what he''s up to."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler."\n <br />\n --_The Cleveland Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"\n <br />\n --_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn''t hit a curveball, so he turned his attention to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor''s edge, he''s just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She''s a rich man''s plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game -- and it''s going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9193'),
(825, 'Big city girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(826, 'The Big Four', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot''s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man''s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ''Number Four''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5239'),
(827, 'The Big Gamble', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael McGarrity''s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney''s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7937'),
(828, 'Big Girl: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Household name Steel (_Going Home_) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the tester cake, and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister''s shadow, and though she loves Gracie dearly, she''s anxious to leave home. The pain doesn''t stop there, though. Her father calls her first job at a prestigious private school in Manhattan pathetic, and Victoria begins a battle with her weight and her belief that she is unlovable (even though men pursue her). The premise of the story is sound, but it doesn''t ring true: the parents are two-dimensional, cruel monsters and Victoria seems to have everything: fantastic job, amazing apartment, perfect best friends. It''s hard to believe that her parents would still wield such power. Steel barely grazes the surface of an important topic, but it''s not reality that has positioned her at the top of bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6040'),
(829, 'The Big Honey Hunt', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--_Chicago Tribune. _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his â€œsmartsâ€ to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5783'),
(830, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7429'),
(831, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2334'),
(832, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1421'),
(833, 'The Big Nowhere', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff''s deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they''re his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.''s Bureau brass. He''s climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2157');
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(834, 'Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6860'),
(835, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6326'),
(836, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(837, 'The big sleep', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in."Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."--Ross Macdonald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3973'),
(838, 'The Big Thaw', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It''s very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad''s third outing in his series featuring Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his partner Hester Gorse. The only thing mild is the humor in this spare procedural, which involves the usual turf battle between the white hats (local law enforcement) and the black hats (the FBI) as a sidebar to the main plot. Instead of the mean streets and criminal underclass of urban thrillers, we get the militant extremists who frequent the vast, empty reaches of the Midwest. In this case, the black hats are onto the crazies, and the local good guy, Deputy Carl, is caught in the crossfire. The crazies want enough money to blow the heartland (who wouldn''t, in January?), and to get it, they''re prepared to blow up Iowa''s biggest economic asset, a riverboat casino on the Mississippi. They''re being manipulated by a chief crazy (or maybe an arch crazy) named Gabriel, and (naturally) the feds have been a few steps behind Gabriel for a while now. Deputy Carl is a nice guy, but irony is not his strong suit, and he''s not particularly fast on the uptake, either. Eventually he does save the day in this somewhat pedestrian and slow-motion regional mystery. If you liked the movie\n <em>\n  Fargo\n </em>\n , you''ll love\n <em>\n  The Big Thaw\n </em>\n . --_Jane Adams_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony Award nominee Harstad (Eleven Days and Known Dead) makes a third foray to the town of Nation County, Iowa, in this compelling police procedural. One cold winter night, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman gets a call to join the pursuit of a burglary suspect who''s leading the police on a merry car chase. When the suspect drives into a snowy ditch, Houseman digs him out and recognizes him as Fred Grothler, a bored kid who''s committed petty crimes in the past. Fred confesses that he and his two cousins, Dirk and Royce Colson, have been responsible for a spate of recent break-ins into the homes of wealthy residents staying warm in Florida. Two nights earlier he dropped his cousins off at Cletus Borglan''s palatial farmhouse, but they never came out. Maybe they froze? Houseman visits the farm and indeed finds Dirk and Royce frozen stiffAafter having been shot dead. Hardly any of the characters in this busy novel are what they seem. Upstanding citizen Borglan keeps a library whose contents betray his extreme antigovernment views. Even the FBI special agent who takes charge of the case has some strange associates for a lawman. A retired deputy sheriff, Harstad writes "cop talk" that''s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny. He also supplies plenty of interesting trivia. For instance, half a million quarters, stacked, stretch 4.2 miles and weigh 25,000 pounds. That''s what Houseman and Hester Gorse, his second in command, have to secure on the Beauregard, Nation County''s floating casino and scene of the book''s spectacular finale. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6961'),
(839, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist...and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt''s intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny''s alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid''s room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks'' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur''s embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks'' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph."The funniest book I''ve read in fifty years."--Elmore Leonard"Despite wealth, fame and a tendency to undermedicate himself, Dave Barry remains one of the funniest writers alive. Big Trouble is outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved--and harrowingly close to true life in Florida. This book will do for our tourism industry what Dennis Rodman did for bridal wear."--Carl Hiaasen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(840, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic\n  <em>\n   Cryptonomicon\n  </em>\n  , it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print,\n  <em>\n   The Big U\n  </em>\n  is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8776'),
(841, 'The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!', 'Cheryl Forberg &amp; Melissa Roberson &amp; Lisa Wheeler &amp; Biggest Loser Experts &amp; Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the last six seasons of\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser,\n  </em>\n  you''ve watched as contestants shed pounds, got healthy, and dramatically changed their lives for the better. In fact, you may have been so inspired by the showâ€™s remarkable success stories that you''ve considered embarking on your own weight loss journey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re looking to get healthy now, thereâ€™s good news: You don''t have to spend time at the ranch to benefit from\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  magic.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE BIGGEST LOSER: 30 DAY JUMP STAR\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  T brings all of the secrets of the ranch right into your own home.\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  expertsâ€”the same ones who advise the contestantsâ€”are here to walk you through a 30-day plan that will kick off your weight loss and help you build new, healthy habits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book youâ€™ll find easy-to-follow menus, recipes, exercise plans, and motivation for each day of the week. Youâ€™ll also find helpful tips and advice from past\n  <em>\n   Biggest Losers\n  </em>\n  who have been in your shoes, including the nine contestants from Season 7 who left the ranch early to follow this very plan at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So far, the Biggest Losers have lost more than a combined 10,000 pounds. But for each of them, the journey started with a commitment: to health, to weight loss, and to themselves. The first steps toward a healthier future are in this bookâ€”what are you waiting for? Make the commitment, take the leapâ€”and begin your 30 day jump start today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cheryl Forberg, RD,\n  </strong>\n  is the nutritionist for\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  . As co-creator of the eating plan, she has counseled each season''s contestants on reaching their fitness and nutrition goals. A James Beard award-winning chef, Cheryl brings a flavorful and fresh approach to eating for weight loss with a special emphasis on anti-aging. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Positively Ageless: A 28-Day Plan for a Younger, Slimmer Sexier You\n  </em>\n  (Rodale, 2008). Cheryl is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Napa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Roberson\n  </strong>\n  is the editor of BiggestLoserClub.com, the website that offers food, fitness, and exercise tips. She often visits the ranch and interviews trainers and contestants about their inspiring weight loss journeys. She is a web veteran, having worked on new media projects for Time Inc.,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , News Corps., Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. She lives in Hoboken, NJ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , an international dance/fitness professional based in New York City, is the National Creative Manager for Equinox Group Fitness, a Contributing Editor for\n  <em>\n   Shape\n  </em>\n  Magazine and Choreographer for Cal Pozo''s Fit Vid Productions, where clients include The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, American Gladiators and Denise Austin. She has appeared in more than 20 fitness videos, FiT TV, and hosted The Method Fitness Show. Lisa leads the Westin Workout segments on SPG TV and has hosted fitness programs for the NFL Channel, CNN Headline News, The View and QVC. She holds NASM, ACSM, ACE, and AFAA certifications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5469'),
(842, 'Biggie and the Devil Diet', 'Nancy Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole. Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2996'),
(843, 'Biggles - Secret Agent', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10180'),
(844, 'Biggles Air Commodore', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10132'),
(845, 'Biggles Air Detective', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10130'),
(846, 'Biggles And Co', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10133'),
(847, 'Biggles and the Black Peril', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When zero visibility forces Biggles to land his Vandal amphibian aircraft on the North Sea he thinks he''s just got a spot of aeroplane bother. Bigger trouble is ahead for Biggles when he takes an unchartered ride in a flying boat manned by ''Blackbeard'' -\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10181'),
(848, 'Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dull murmur, like distant thunder, reached their ears and brought Biggles to his feet with a rush. ''What is it?'' he gasped.-At the first sound Dickpa had leapt for the flashlight. ''Quick,'' he snapped, as the floor of the cave sagged sickeningly. ''Get out - it''s an earthquake! Ah - stop!'' he screamed. A visit to Biggles'' uncle, Dickpa, lands Biggles, Algy and mechanic Smyth in a dangerous adventure looking for an ancient Inca treasure hoard.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10143'),
(849, 'Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10189'),
(850, 'Biggles and the Rescue Flight', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10185'),
(851, 'Biggles Breaks the Silence', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10127'),
(852, 'Biggles Defies the Swastika', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Suffering rattlesnakes! What am I getting into? murmured Biggles, a ghost of a smile softening his face. First I m sworn into the German Air Force; now, of all things, I m a full-blown Gestapo Agent. Biggles is on a reconnaissance mission in Norway w\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10183'),
(853, 'Biggles Delivers the Goods', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10182'),
(854, 'Biggles Fails to Return', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€˜It is my opinion that Biggles is dead,â€™ asserted the Air Commodore.â€˜I had already sensed that, Sir, but I donâ€™t believe it,â€™ retorted Algy.When Biggles undertakes a lone mission to rescue an Italian princess from Mussoliniâ€™s Italy he doesnâ€™t know heâ€™s walking into a trap. Against all the odds he gets the princess to the aircraft ready to fly them back to safety, but he never reaches the plane. Heâ€™s last seen wounded and surrounded by the enemy, but Algy, Ginger and Bertie refuse to accept that heâ€™s dead until they see the evidence themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10125'),
(855, 'Biggles Flies Again', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10138'),
(856, 'Biggles Flies East', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10187'),
(857, 'Biggles Flies North', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10129'),
(858, 'Biggles Flies South', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10139'),
(859, 'Biggles Flies West', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10141'),
(860, 'Biggles Goes to War', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The escort fell in on either side of the prisoners, and at a word of command the party moved forward. Down the corridor it marched, and through an open door into a grim-looking courtyard. Across this it proceeded, and came to a halt against a wall on the far side.-Biggles glanced at the sky. It was just turning pink with the first flush of dawn. ''If Ginger is going to do the rescue act, he hasn''t got much time left.'' He observed calmly.-Algy said nothing. His face was pale. In the uneasy atmosphere of Europe between the two World Wars, Biggles, Algy and Ginger are persuaded to defend a small middle European country from an aggressive neighbour backed up by an unnamed Big Power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10122'),
(861, 'Biggles Hits the Trail', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10131'),
(862, 'Biggles Hunts Big Game', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10179'),
(863, 'Biggles In Africa', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10123'),
(864, 'Biggles in Borneo: A &quot;Biggles Squadron&quot; Story of the Second Great War', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10134'),
(865, 'Biggles In France', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10190'),
(866, 'Biggles in Spain', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Don''t move yet. I''m going out of the front door. They''ll rush me then. That''s your chance to go out the back way. Got that?''-''Quite clear.''-''Good! But don''t think I''m exaggerating. My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred. Yours\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10136'),
(867, 'Biggles in the Baltic', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10184'),
(868, 'Biggles in the Jungle', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10191'),
(869, 'Biggles in the Orient', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10126'),
(870, 'Biggles in the South Seas', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10142'),
(871, 'Biggles Learns to Fly', 'W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He tilted the machine on to its side, holding up his nose with the throttle, and commenced to slip wing-tip first towards the ground. Whether he was over British or German territory he neither knew nor cared; he had to get on to the ground or be burnt ali\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10128'),
(872, 'BIGGLES OF 266', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10188'),
(873, 'Biggles of the Camel Squadron', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10186'),
(874, 'Biggles Sees It Through', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10124'),
(875, 'Biggles Spitfire Parade', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10135'),
(876, 'Biggles, Charter Pilot', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10140'),
(877, 'Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10178'),
(878, 'Biggles: The Camels Are Coming', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Camel closed up until it was flying beside him; the pilot smiling. Biggles showed his teeth in what he imagined to be an answering smile. â€˜You swine,â€™ he breathed: â€˜you dirty, unutterable, murdering swine! Iâ€™m going to kill you if itâ€™s the last thing I do on earth.â€™Set in the last years of the First World War air combat has now become the order of the day and air duelling is a fine art. Biggles and his fellow pilots now have to contend with the enemy using their own British aircraft, a Sopwith Camel, to lure the British pilots to their deathsâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10121'),
(879, 'The Bike Lesson', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, heâ€™s all set to ride itâ€“that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Papa teaches Junior to ride a bicycle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5782'),
(880, 'Bike Snob', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  BILL STRICKLAND, EDITOR-AT-LARGE OF BICYCLING\n  <br />\n  Bike Snob should be lovingly gifted to all new cyclers - and forcefully smacked against the heads of all the jaded know-it-alls who take the sport way too seriously.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CHRISTIAN LANDER, AUTHOR OF STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE\n  <br />\n  After reading Bike Snob I put a brake on my fixie, started wearing a helmet, then punched myself in the stomach for spending so much time as a stupid hipster. This is a social manual that should be bundled with every bike shipped in America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ROBERT LANHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HIPSTER HANDBOOK\n  <br />\n  As any avid biker will attest, cycling isn t just a form of transportation. It s a complicated culture with its own slang, taxonomy, and preferred tat styles. If you haven t read Bike Snob, you should consider reattaching those training wheels to your overpriced fixie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  LANCE ARMSTRONG\n  <br />\n  I like to think I know a thing or two (or three) about being ruthless and relentless - either trying to win the Tour or fighting cancer. The Snob knows it too. Keeping us dorks in line is tough work. I take pleasure in getting picked on by the Snob, slightly more pleasure in reading his writing, but take the most pleasure punishing his ass (my payback) on the bike either in Central Park or on 9W/River Road. Long live the Snob.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ELDEN "FATTY" NELSON, FATCYCLIST.COM\n  <br />\n  First you ll think the Snob is funny. Then you ll think he s smart. Eventually you ll probably think that he s seen far too many movies for his own good. At some point during this book, however, you re going to say to yourself: Holy crap. He is right. Believe me, that is one disconcerting moment.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling''s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle to hit personal transportation since the horse.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  treats readers to a laugh-out-loud rant and rave about the world of bikes and their riders, and offers a unique look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its history and hallmarks to its wide range of bizarre practitioners. Throughout, the author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture while maintaining a contagious enthusiasm for cycling itself.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  is an essential volume for anyone who knows, is, or wants to become a cyclist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6974'),
(881, 'Bill Warrington&#39;s Last Chance', 'James King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride ** Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them. In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, *Bill Warrington''s Last Chance* speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1908'),
(882, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow''s mesmerizing odyssey about a teenage, fatherless street kid adopted by mobsters makes its first appearance in trade paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6750'),
(883, 'Binary', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972 under the pen-name  John Lange. The villain is a middle-class small businessman named John Wright who decides to assassinate the President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2253'),
(884, 'Bio-Strike', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy lives in Maryland, USA. His bestselling books include RAINBOW SIX and THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6523'),
(885, 'The Biofab War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harrison and Zahava, intelligence agents, and Greg Farnesworth, explore an ancient temple and discover a matter transmitter that transports them to an alien spacecraft\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4480'),
(886, 'Birchwood', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one of the most startling of the century''s varied achievements in Irish writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Seamus Deane\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Scotsman_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Birchwoo_d represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing..â€\n <br />\n â€”Colm Toibin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I am therefore I think\n </em>\n . So starts John Banvilleâ€™s 1973 novel\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secretsâ€”a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmotherâ€”Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland,\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6511'),
(887, 'Bird Eating Bird: Poems', 'Kristin Naca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca''s debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets'' first books. Poems short and long, made of family anecdotes and (like Neruda''s) of impressionistic lists, poems of remembered place (The Adoration at El Montan, set in San Antonio, Tex.) and poems of sexual joy between women give uncommon variety to the collection, even as Naca''s fast pace, mixed English and Spanish (with bits of Tagalog), and first-person emphasis give it obvious unity. Spanish means there''s another person/ inside you, she remembers her father saying. Poems composed originally in English mix with poems composed in Spanish and printed with her English translations. The next-to-last poem finds Naca in Mexico City, City so high that passion lacks heat... City where I spoke a word of Spanish, and like a spigot, my dreams squeezed shut. She also takes up, repeatedly, her Filipino-American background, the Pittsburgh of her youth, and the wide-open spaces she saw as an optimistic young writer in Nebraska. Chosen for the National Poetry Series'' new mtvU award by Yusef Komunyakaa, the volume might be noticed by young people who may not otherwise purchase poetry but may discover Naca on cable TV.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristinâ€²s work perpetuates NPSâ€²s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter â€²hâ€² -- among other things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7432'),
(888, 'Bird in Hand', 'Christina Baker Kline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her fourth novel (after\n <em>\n  The Way Life Should Be\n </em>\n ), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey after an awkward party for her lifelong friend Claire''s highly autobiographical first novel, Alison gets into a car accident that kills a boy in the other car. Even though the accident wasn''t her fault, Allison, a mother of two young children, is wracked with grief and guilt. Her husband, Charlie, also struggles with the impulse to blame his wife, especially as he longs for any excuse to escalate his nascent affair with Claire and end his marriage. Episodes detailing the inevitable collapse of Alison and Charlie''s marriage, as well as Claire''s marriage to her well-meaning husband, Ben, are interspersed with vignettes revealing the four friends'' 10-plusâ€“year history together. Shifting perspectives and thoughtful interior monologues reveal just how isolated, and in some cases misguided, the characters are. Kline''s unflinching gaze and lovely prose sets Kline''s novel apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. It''s well-done, thoughtful and thought provoking.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œChristina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful.â€ (Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and That Old Cape Magic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.â€ (More magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is both thrilling and terrifying to read this powerful new novel and think: this could be me. Christina Baker Kline takes us on an intimate journey with her characters, one that brings us dangerously close to the hidden truths about love, trust and friendship.â€ (Ellen Sussman, author of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex; Bad Girls: 25 Writers Misbehave; and On a Night Like This )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set [BIRD IN HAND] apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. Itâ€™s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Bird in Hand] exhibits an unsparing eye for the telling details that reveal how people think and act.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKline explores the complications of the lines and bonds between marriage and friendship with honest and complex emotions on all four narrative fronts.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping tale about two crumbling marriages, [BIRD IN HAND] offers a realistic and, at times, heartbreaking look at love and friendship.â€ (RealSimple.com, Entertainment Pick )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. This is a wise and lovely book.â€ (Roxana Robinson, author of Cost )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7856'),
(889, 'Birds of Prey', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Look up "classic adventure novel" in the dictionary and you''ll find the strong and capable features of South Africa''s own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   When the Lion Feeds\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Diamond Hunters\n  </em>\n  --displays an awesome storytelling ability. His latest is one of his best efforts: a richly detailed story of war and piracy on the high seas in 1667, 150 years before Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey and Maturin books.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England''s war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal''s swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father''s torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father''s hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales with nonstop action. For popular collections.?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9163'),
(890, 'Birdsong', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man''s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as **A Farewell to Arms** and as sensuous as **The English Patient**. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, **Birdsong** is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3635'),
(891, 'Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe', 'Raymond de Vries; Cecilia Benoit; Edwin van Teijlingen; Sirpa Wrede', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through their comparative and multi-leveled analyses, the editors and contributors remind readers that while birth is a natural physiological phenomenon, our understandings of birth, the birthing process, and how and from whom mothers should receive maternity care are culturally based and are continually constructed and reconstructed. By re-focusing our attention on birth outcomes as women''s experiences and the reproduction of societies and culture, the editors and contributors of\n <em>\n  Birth by Design\n </em>\n do problematize all contexts of maternity care, and by doing so, challenge birthing mothers, caregivers, and policy makers in our thinking about the birthing process..\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Canadian Journal of Sociology Online (CJS Online), March - April 2002\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. The essays focus on the practical side of "good" social science and "feminist-friendly" research. The text not only looks at maternity, but also the act of childbirth, with the goal of providing not just comparative perspectives of care, but also to integrate the differences in care within each essay for a truly international understanding of maternity care.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9425'),
(892, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians were finally defeated, Arn is saved from certain death by Saladin, his longtime enemy and trusted friend. Ravaged by wounds and sickness, Arn is at last granted his wish: to return at last to his homeland, it plagued by endless wars. Arn is determined to find her - the woman for whom he was exiled. He must discover if their love could endure so long a separation, and if it can sustain his new quest: the create a new people, a new society, both Christian and Muslim, both craftsmen and warriors, with Arn at its helm, fighting for peace in a savage land. A fitting conclusion to a great trilogy, a bestseller all over Europe, and now the basis for a major film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1559');
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(893, 'Birthright: The Book of Man', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11009'),
(894, 'A Bit on the Side', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of storiesâ€”a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her marriage to a hateful man in "Sitting with the Dead"; a woman stalked by her lonely, possibly violent ex-husband in "On the Streets"; an heiress who compulsively recounts her tragic life story to total strangers in "Solitude"; and a couple who exploit each other on a blind date in "An Evening Out"â€”are generally 50-ish, usually childless and almost always burdened by regret over relationships decayed or forgone. They live in the aftermath of irremediable mistakes, ruefully cognizant that hope and romance are often delusory covers for self-interest and survival. Even the youngâ€”an 18-year-old girl who weeps with regret over future betrayals, an Irish woman who calls off her wedding after realizing she loves the dream of America more than her intendedâ€”are melancholy and introspective. Trevor reveals his native Ireland as a world sandwiched between modernity and its accompanying wealth, secularism and vulgarity, and a past that was more soulful and pious but also more restrictive. The much-lauded Trevor (_Felicia''s Journey_;\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) explores the many sources and shadings of regret with his usual delicate but brilliant psychological nuance, brightened occasionally by nostalgia for the lost love that once impelled his characters forward.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If one were to pick a single word to characterize\n  <em>\n   A Bit on the Side\n  </em>\n  , it would be forlorn," writes Michael Dirda in the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  . Here, as in his two dozen or so collections of short fiction and novels (see\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  1/2 Jan/Feb 2003), Trevor introduces credible characters beset by hopelessness. But these Chekhovian stories, many previously published in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , offer anything but hopeless reading. Trevor is a master of simple, quiet prose and psychological intuition, and, even if you donâ€™t identify with each characterâ€™s plight, youâ€™ll recognize familiar patterns of behavior. That critics laud the relative merits of each story attests to the great power of this collection as a whole. It only proves, as\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  claims, that Trevor may be "the greatest living writer of short stories."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5494'),
(895, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black! When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not. *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love. In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying. As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1772'),
(896, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, *mais non* . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(897, 'Bitten', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An erotically charged, addictive thriller from the future queen of suspense.Living in Toronto for a year, Elena is leading the normal life she has always dreamed of, including a stable job as a journalist and a nice apartment shared with her boyfriend. As the lone female werewolf in existence, only her secret midnight prowls and her occasional inhuman cravings set her apart. Just one year ago, life was very different. Adopted by the Pack when bitten, Elena had spent years struggling with her resentment at having her life stolen away. Torn between two worlds, and overwhelmed by the new passions coursing through her body, her only option for control was to deny her awakening needs and escape.But now the Pack has called Elena home to help them fight an alliance of renegade werewolves who are bent on exposing and annihilating the Pack. And although Elena is obliged to rejoin her "family," she vows not to be swept up in Pack life again, no matter how natural it might feel. She has made her choice. Trouble is, she''s increasingly uncertain if it''s the right one.An erotically charged thriller, **Bitten** will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader, as the age-old battle between man and beast, between human and inhuman forces, comes to a head in one small town and within one woman''s body.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3159'),
(898, 'Bitter Gold Hearts', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Stormwarden''s children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold--after all, even in this enchanted land, he''s only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(899, 'Bittersweet', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the rest of her novels, Steel''s 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TV''s\n <em>\n  Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\n </em>\n . Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist if it wasn''t for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom, and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League, and Doug''s revelation that he''s happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, a.k.a. "Lion of Wall Street," who has a yacht called the\n <em>\n  Sea Star\n </em>\n and likes to coo such things as "I think I''m a little crazy, but I love you." Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seem destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. What''s not to love about Danielle Steel? She starts so many sentences with the word\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n that you start to do it yourself. And there''s a run-on quality to the narrator''s consciousness. But she drips glamour, drops famous names better than Robin Leach, and makes those pages fly so fast they cool your face on the hottest beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many a stay-at-home mom''s worst nightmare is realized in Steel''s latest novel when India Taylor''s husband, Doug, threatens to end their 17-year marriage if she dares to pursue her long-abandoned photojournalism career. Doug repetitively intones that marriage is by necessity an unromantic contract in which the wife''s sole purpose is to care for the home, kids and husband, and if she reneges on her end of the deal with a pipe dream of independence, that is the ultimate "deal breaker." But in tried-and-true Steel (Mirror Image, etc.) fashion, India has a handsome Wall Street billionaire, Paul Ward, in the wings. His glamorous wifeAan internationally bestselling authorAdies in a plane crash several months after he and India have struck up a close friendship. But then Paul turns guilty and skittish about the budding romance, leaving India alone to face the harsh realities of being a single mom of four. Predictably, India''s desolation is brief, punctuated by travel, adventure, a thrilling new career and a near-tragedy to put everything into perspective. As usual, Steel takes a theme of interest or concern to manyAin this case, a woman striking out on her ownAand turns it into a compulsively readable tale. With its swiftly moving story line and tidy love-conquers-all ending, Steel''s latest should gratify her millions of fans. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6043'),
(900, 'Bitterwood', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  In the distant futureâ€”year 1070 of the Dragon Age, to be exactâ€”Earth has been commandeered by dragons, who subject their human inferiors to lives of misery and squalor, either as slaves or pets. Human Bant Bitterwood, consumed with thoughts of vengeance against the dragons he believes murdered his family, goes on a dragon-killing spree that makes him a folk hero among the oppressed human populace. When Bitterwood slays the dragons'' crown prince, Bodiel, their king vows to exterminate humankindâ€”the only way he can be certain of victory over Bitterwood. To that end, the king enlists his murderous brother Blasphiel to build a city that will serve as humanity''s abattoir. Maxey''s world is stunningly imaginative, a landscape both familiar and alien, and packed with thoughtful treats for readers. Skillfully examining themes of faith, martyrdom and heroism, Maxey maintains an unflagging believability even while borrowing some of the most generic elements from science fiction and fantasy. The dragons are wonderfully written, as is the tormented hero; it is almost a shame that the story is so self-contained, as many readers will pine for a whole series of Dragon Age titles.\n  <i>\n   (July)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Bitterwood has spent the past twenty years hunting down dragons, one at a time. But he is getting old and the hate that he has carried in his heart since a group of dragon-soldiers killed his family is beginning to fade. When he kills the royal prince dragon, the king decides the only retribution is genocide of the human race. Bitterwood is forced to enter the Free City, the grand trap designed to eradicate mankind, with thousands of others. Can he lead from within, or can a select few dragons unite to stop the king''s madness from becoming reality. Full of rich characters and drama, this is an amazingly astute vision of our own culture by way of a feudal kingdom where dragons rule, and humans are used as workers or pets.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4761'),
(901, 'Black', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8789'),
(902, 'Black Alice', 'Thomas M. Disch; John Sladek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Held for a million dollars in ransom, Alice, a blonde, is disguised by her kidnappers as a young Black girl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3826'),
(903, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1662'),
(904, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2523'),
(905, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doliâ€”all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for â€œthe most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3061'),
(906, 'The Black Cloud', 'Fred Hoyle &amp; Fred Hoyle (Sir.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7666'),
(907, 'Black Coffee', 'Agatha Christie; Charles Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion''s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip ''twix his low lips.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(908, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1883'),
(909, 'The Black Dahlia', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1947: The mutilated body of a beautiful young woman -- dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press -- is found, spawning the greatest manhunt in California history. Warrants Squad cops Buckeye Bleacher and Lee Blanched are on the case, and soon become obsessed with the victim. They are driven to learn everything about her, and find that their pursuit of her killer and her twisted past lead them on a hellish tour of post-war Hollywood and into a region of total madness."Brutal and at the same time believable". -- The New York Times"Turgid with passion, violence, and frustration...imaginative and bizarre". -- Los Angeles Times"Fine attention to detail and a dead-on sense of the period...Ellroy has established himself as one of the finest practitioners of noir fiction". -- Cleveland Plain Dealer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2159'),
(910, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5339'),
(911, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(912, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2897'),
(913, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(914, 'Black Horses for the King', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This fast-moving historical fantasy by bestselling author Anne McCaffrey traces the beginnings of the British cavalry, as recounted by a boy growing up in exciting and perilous times.After his fatherâ€™s death, young Galwyn Varianus is apprenticed to his uncle, who puts the boy to work on the high seas. But horses, not ships, are Galwynâ€™s passion. Luckily, a passenger aboard, Lord Artos (later to rule as the legendary King Arthur), is bound for the great horse fair at Septimania. Risking his life, Galwyn abandons his uncle to serve the gallant leader. Galywnâ€™s calming way with horses quickly impresses Lord Artos and his men. But what no one expects is how crucial Galwyn will be to their upcoming battlesâ€”as he masters the secrets of the iron shoes that will protect the exotic horsesâ€™ delicate hooves. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10804'),
(915, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4264'),
(916, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Narcotics officer Cal Moore''s orders were to look into the city''s latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don''t look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry''s making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11222'),
(917, 'Black Is the Colour of My True Love&#39;s Heart', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Singers and musicians are gathered for a course in folk music that will occupy a weekend in the fantastic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have non-musical scores to settle. When brilliantly talented Liri Palmer sings " Black, black, black is the color of my true-love''s heart!" she clearly has a message for someone in the audience. Passions run high, and there is murder brewing at Follymead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4867'),
(918, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney; Dave Chappelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.** Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious. *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage. While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3551'),
(919, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia', 'Rebecca West &amp; Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West''s\n <em>\n  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon\n </em>\n is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think\n <strong>\n  crossed with\n </strong>\n . West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured."\n <em>\n  Black Lamb\n </em>\n is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.\n</p>\n<p>\n West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West''s search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region''s doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It''s the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A masterpiece . . . as astonishing in its range, in the subtlety and power of its judgment, as it is brilliant in expression. (_The Times_, London)\n</p>\n<p>\n Surely one of the great books of our century. (Diana Trilling)\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Westâ€™s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time. (Clifton Fadiman,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7609'),
(920, 'Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger''s father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger''s door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don''t want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper''s target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father''s murder buried.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of a trilogy. In the process, Hunter confirms his status as one of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger has put his past behind him until he meets Russell Pewtie, who wants to write a book about Bob Lee''s father, Earl, a state trooper who died in a shoot-out in Blue Eye, Ark., in 1955. The link between Pewtie and Bob Lee, which ties the three novels together, is that Lamar Pye, the escaped con who almost killed Pewtie''s father in Dirty White Boys, turns out to be the son of one of the men who killed Earl. Behind that death, it''s revealed here, lies a 40-year-old conspiracy that is somehow tied to the brutal murder of a young black girl that Earl was investigating on the day he died. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush that echoes the finale of Point of Impact but that stands on its own as a classic one-on-one confrontation. Other echoes of the earlier novels sound as well, giving this one the feel of a recapitulation, or a farewell. But then Hunter has set a high standard for himself-and while this novel doesn''t match the escalating craziness of Dirty White Boys or the stone-cold efficiency of Point of Impact, it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well. Literary Guild main selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5005'),
(921, 'Black Lightning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul''s (The Homing) best?and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel''s heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that''s what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne''s husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer''s identity and motives throughout. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House AudioBook; simultaneous release of The Homing in mass market paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle. The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won''t end it...I''m sorry I won''t be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than with who is responsible. Teens seeking a deliberately told tale that promises to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in this story.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4586'),
(922, 'Black Lotus', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he makes a shocking discovery. The three victims of the blaze did not die in the fire, but were brutally murdered before the fire even began. With a triple homicide on his hands, Sano''s search for a killer leads him to Haru, an orphan girl found at the scene of the crime. But Sano''s wife, Reiko, investigating the case against Sano''s wishes, is convinced of Haru''s innocence. Reiko''s investigation leads her behind the walls of the Black Lotus Temple, where she discovers a sect involved in extortion, prostitution, and hedonistic rituals. Could one of the sect''s members be the killer? Now Reiko must risk her marriage to Sano in order to prove Haru''s innocence...Set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, this latest installment in the bestselling series by Laura Joh Rowland is filled with shocking surprises and suspense as readers are once again allowed access into the world of Sano Ichiro.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND is the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants. She grew up in Michigan and was educated at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a B.S. in microbiology and a master''s in public health. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, Marty, and their three cats. Her previous novels include The Samurai''s Wife, The Concubine''s Tattoo, and Shinju, all of which feature the samurai-detective Sano Ichiro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2672'),
(923, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires.Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet.Published as ''The Outlaw Demon Wails'' in the US.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9638'),
(924, 'Black money', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who''s run off with his client''s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3369');
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(925, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there. With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition. "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes." -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail." -Kirkus "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves." -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford." -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now." -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/661'),
(926, 'Black notice', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean''s length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond''s Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim''s personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol''s headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: Go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.In a story that careens across international borders, "Black Notice" puts Dr. Kay Scarpetta directly in harm''s way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4099'),
(927, 'Black Out: A Novel', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Annie Powers leads the perfect life in Florida with her husband, Gray, and their four-year-old daughter in this stellar character-driven stand-alone from bestseller Unger (_A Sliver of Truth_). Less than a decade earlier, however, Annie was Ophelia March, the teenage captiveâ€”or accompliceâ€”of spree killer Marlowe Geary. Gray, a partner in his father''s private security consultant firm, tracked Marlowe and rescued Ophelia after sending the killer''s car over a cliff. Reinventing herself with Gray''s help, Annie can''t remember all that happened during her years with Marlowe, and she''s prone to panic attacks and blackouts. When a strange man appears on her property, Annie''s sure Marlowe is back. As a shady police detective digs into her past, Annie must try to recover the memories she buried if she''s ever going to be free from Marlowe. Unger expertly turns what could have been a routine serial-killer story into a haunting odyssey for Annie, dropping red herrings and clues along the way until the reader feels as unsettled as Annie.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Annie Powers seems to lead an idyllic suburban life. She has a devoted husband, a cherubic young daughter, and a beautiful home with sweeping views of the Gulf of Florida. But not so many years ago, Annie was entangled in a scenario that was anything but serene. Her emotionally twisted relationship with serial killer Marlowe Geary had turned her from a moody teen into a criminal accomplice with a hardened heart. Only by faking her death and taking on a new identity was Annie able to jettison her pastâ€”or so she thought. Her husband, Gray, had long insisted that Marlowe was dead. But after an eerie encounter on the beach, Annie is not so sure. As the cracks in her carefully constructed facade deepen, she flees her family, determined to learn the truth. Annieâ€™s mental state becomes more precarious with each passing day, until she can no longer distinguish whatâ€™s imaginary from whatâ€™s real. Thereâ€™s a bit too much shifting between present and past in this stand-alone psychological thriller by Unger, author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ridley Jones series. But the author makes up for an occasionally awkward narrative with the compelling character of Annie: dark, troubled, and teetering on the brink. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6241'),
(928, 'The Black Prince', 'Iris Murdoch; Martha C. Nussbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley''s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fertile invention is put to the service of an expansive sense of character; and since the book also has Miss Murdoch''s usual narrative energy and intellectual weight, it is the best novel she has written in years." (_The New York Times Book Review_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Martha C. Nussbaum, one of America''s most prominent philosophers and public intellectuals, is a professor of classics and law at the University of Chicago. Her books include\n <em>\n  Love''s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Therapy of Desire\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10914'),
(929, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/856'),
(930, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(931, 'Black River', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the closed court proceedings -- stands uncomfortably in the center of the most crazed media circus to hit Seattle in years . . . until a personal tragedy diverts his attention. When photojournalist Meg Dougherty -- once Corso''s lover and still his dearest friend -- comes face-to-face with a pair of cold-blooded executioners and ends up clinging weakly to life in the I.C.U., the angry lone-wolf reporter vows to make all the guilty parties pay, by his own hand if necessary. But the black river of lies, secrets, corruption, and murder surrounding both the Balagula trial and Meg''s "accident" is much deeper and more dangerous than even Frank Corso anticipated. And if he wades in over his head, the undertow could drag him to his death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7621'),
(932, 'Black rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her *In the Garden* trilogy (following *Blue Dahlia*), as three women must discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home... Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow-and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was behind her, but when romance takes her by surprise; she won''t allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness. *A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...* At forty-five, Rosalind Harper is a woman whose experiences have made her strong enough to bend without breaking-and weather any storm. A widow with three grown sons, she survived a disastrous second marriage, and built her In the Garden nursery from the ground up. Through the years, In the Garden has become more than just a thriving business-it is a symbol of hope and independence to Roz, and to the two women she shares it with. Newlywed Stella and new mother Hayley are the sisters of her heart, and together, the three of them are the future of In the Garden. But now that future is under attack, and Roz knows they can''t fight this battle alone. Hired to investigate Roz''s Harper ancestors, Dr. Mitchell Carnagie finds himself just as intrigued with Roz herself. And as they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Harper Bride''s identity, Roz is shocked to find herself falling for the fascinating genealogist. Now it is a desperate race to discover the truth before the unpredictable apparition lashes out at the one woman who can help her rest in peace...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2625'),
(933, 'Black Seconds', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Idaâ€™s friends, anyone who could have seen her. But no one has. Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasnâ€™t spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weeklyâ€”although sheâ€™s sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A motherâ€™s worst nightmare in either case: to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Idaâ€™s relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But heâ€™s puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case heâ€™s seen in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3043'),
(934, 'Black Sheep', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his family- enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, disconcertingly blunt and brash. But he turns out to be Abbie''s most important ally in keeping her niece out of trouble.\n</p>\n<p>\n But how can he possibly be considered eligible when she has worked so hard to rebuff his own nephew''s suit for her niece? And how can she possibly detach from an ailing sister who needs her? This is a heroine who has to be, literally, swept off her feet . . . (20080505)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10205'),
(935, 'Black Shrike', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9267'),
(936, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(937, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(938, 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2315'),
(939, 'The Black Tattoo', 'Sam Enthoven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jacks best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil endswhich, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe. Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend with floating sharks, intelligent jelly, oversized centipedes, gladiator pits, and vomiting bats, all for the sake of saving Charlie from the Scourge. And, hopefully, saving the universe from total and utter annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4149'),
(940, 'The Black Tide', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9344'),
(941, 'Black Widow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Ford''s 15th Doc Ford thriller (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hunter''s Moon\n </em>\n ) may baffle newcomers with a backstory relating to the murder of Ford''s parents. Ford, a marine biologist and covert operative who lives on Florida''s Sanibel Island, is busy serving his shadowy U.S. government masters by researching the potential use by terrorists of jellyfish and other venomous sea creatures when he receives a desperate appeal for help from an old friend. Shay Money, a successful 26-year-old businesswoman who''s about to be married, fears her future happiness is in jeopardy because an extortionist has videotaped her and three female friends in sexually compromising situations. While Ford manages to get the tape in exchange for a sizable payment, his suspicions that the criminal isn''t done with Money are soon confirmed. His efforts to protect her lead him to the Caribbean and a sophisticated blackmail racket with a lengthy list of victims. Despite some awkward prose (The combination of flesh and death, the orderly geometrics of my wound, struck me as indefinably profound), series fans should enjoy the ride.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n What happens in the Caribbeanâ€”at least on the tiny island of Saint Arcâ€”definitely doesnâ€™t stay there. Especially if you happen to be a rich, young woman out for a final fling with your girlfriends before tying the knot. That demographic is likely to snag you in the web of Saint Arcâ€™s resident voodoo queen, the Widow, a sexually ambiguous dragon lady who runs a sophisticated blackmail enterprise. In this fifteenth outing for Whiteâ€™s beloved hero, marine biologist and special-ops agent Doc Ford, the Widow meets her match when she targets Fordâ€™s goddaughter, Shay. Feeling a bit out of sorts since he retired from the clandestine services, Ford is ready to mix it up a little and heads off to the island to confront the blackmailers. He finds much more of a challenge than he expected and is happy to join forces with a mysterious island resident, a seventysomething Brit who appears to be a former special-ops type himself. White makes the most of this pairing (imagine Michael Caine as the Brit), injecting some bantering fun into the high-octane action. As always in this consistently entertaining series, the plot offers a fascinating mix of headline-grabbing crime (CaribbeanÂ vacations gone bad) and history (island archaeology, with a touch of those ever-popular Knights Templar). Like Robert B. Parker and John D. MacDonald at their best, White draws readers into his world with characters youâ€™d pay just to hang out with andÂ then hooks us with straight-ahead action.Â Itâ€™s an old-school combination, but it still works just fine. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7857'),
(942, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now. Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1123'),
(943, 'Black Wings', 'Mollie L Burleson, Caitin R. Kiernan &amp; Nicholas Royle, Donald R. Burleson &amp; Jonathann Thomas, Joseph S. Pulver Sr. &amp; Darrell Schweitzer, Michael Shea &amp; Brian Stableford, Sam Gafford &amp; Philip Haldeman, Laird Barron &amp; Michael Marshall Smith, William Browning Spencer &amp; Jason Van Hollander, David J. Schow &amp; Adam Niswander, W.H. Pugmire &amp; Joshi, S.T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10705'),
(944, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill''s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London''s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone''s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody-from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid-is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5755'),
(945, 'Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he''s not that concerned. In fact, he can''t remember anything-including who he is.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the way his deadly enemies like it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6002'),
(946, 'The Blackstone Chronicles', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Metcalf is the editor of the Blackstone Chronicle in Blackstone, NH. His father had been the director of the Blackstone Asylum before his death. Oliver had grown up in a cottage on the asylum''s grounds. A sense of evil and darkness pervades the now empty asylum. The Chronicle reports that the asylum is to be torn down and replaced with an upscale mall. About the time the wrecking ball makes its first swing, the funding for the project falls through. Residents of the town begin to receive mysterious gifts that seem to have the power to visit evil on the recipients. An accidental fall, a suicide, a kidnapping, and an explosion leave the town reeling. Metcalf knows he must remember something key to understanding the mystery and halting the terrible chain of accidents. This abridgment causes the "accidents" to appear with very little plot or character development. This, in turn, causes the terror to become somewhat tedious. The story is read with feeling and skill by Lee Meriwether. Recommended for large library collections.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From atop Blackstone''s highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker''s ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of Blackstone''s finest citizens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each bears a mysterious history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each brings a horrifying power to harm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each reveals another thread in the suspensefully woven web of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES\n</p>\n<p>\n Part I--An Eye for an Eye: The Doll\n <br />\n Part II--Twist of Fate: The Locket\n <br />\n Part III--Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon''s Flame\n <br />\n Part IV--In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief\n <br />\n Part V--Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope\n <br />\n Part VI--Asylum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4587'),
(947, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(948, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(949, 'The Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he''s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he''s about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1674'),
(950, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(951, 'Blaze', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Masterâ€™s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were.\n <br />\n With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem''s Lot, two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication.\n <br />\n Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6'' 7'''' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King''s mÃ©tier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -- one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -- owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. --Barry Forshaw\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling''  -- Independent on Sunday   ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities''  -- Daily Telegraph   ''Tightly written and compelling''  -- Daily Express  ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' -- The Times on CELL   ''Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention''  -- Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY   ''A consummate and compassionate novel -- one of King''s very best''  -- Guardian on LISEY''S STORY\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n <br />\n ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling''\n <br />\n (Independent on Sunday )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities''\n <br />\n (Daily Telegraph )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''Tightly written and compelling''\n <br />\n (Daily Express )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' (The Times on CELL )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n â€˜Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful inventionâ€™\n <br />\n (Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''A consummate and compassionate novel â€“ one of Kingâ€™s very best''\n <br />\n (Guardian on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8562'),
(952, 'Blaze of Glory', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) is assigned to the planet K''Trall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet''s newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew put their lives on the line to protect K''Trall from the raids. &gt; But the planet itself holds a deadly secret, one that could lead to a ressurgence of the despotic cruelty they have suffered for centuries. With time running out, Captain Picard must see his way past a maze of deadly deception, with billions of lives hanging in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6592'),
(953, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.Now, as Coach Rakeâ€™s â€œboysâ€ sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake â€“ or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach â€“ and himself â€“ before he can get on with his life, the stakes are especially high.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1988'),
(954, 'Bleak History', 'John Shirley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL** **Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, potentially dangerous. *Caution is urged....*** As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or "skip tracer," in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division of Homeland Security has been monitoring the recent emergence of human supernaturals, with Gabriel Bleak being the strongest on record. If they control Gabriel, they''ll gain access to the Hidden -- the entity-based energy field that connects all life on Earth. But Gabriel''s got other ideas. With a growing underground movement called the Shadow Community -- and an uneasy alliance of spirits, elementals, and other beings -- Gabriel''s about to face the greatest demonic uprising since the Dark Ages. But this time, history is not going to repeat itself. This time, the future is Bleak. *Gabriel Bleak.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3049'),
(955, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(956, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won''t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company''s commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1877'),
(957, 'The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving on. Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch. Stymied by her recent divorce, she wonders if there are secret ingredients to a happy, long-lasting marriage or if the entire institution is outdated and obsolete. Couples all around her are approaching important milestones. Her parents are preparing to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Her brother and his partner find their marriage dreams legally blocked. Her former sister-in-lawâ€”still her best friendâ€”is newly engaged. The youthfully exuberant romance of her teenage daughter is developing complications. And three separate menâ€”including her ex-husbandâ€”are becoming entangled in Cami''s messy post-marital love life. But as she struggles to come to terms with her own doubts amid this chaotic circus of relationships, Cami finds strange comfort in an unexpected confidant: an angry, unpredictable horse in her care. With the help of her equine soul mate, she begins to make sense of marriage''s great mysteriesâ€”and its disconnects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2847');
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(958, 'Blind Alley', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan returns in this far-fetched but expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel. When detective Joe Quinn is called to investigate the murder of a young woman whose skin has been peeled away from her skull, he presses the overloaded Eve to work her grisly magic. Eve is shocked to realize that the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane MacGuire, the headstrong 17-year-old she and Joe have adopted, and who was already menaced by another serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n . Then a suspicious inspector from Scotland Yard, Mark Trevor, arrives with the grim news that a string of women with similar features have been murdered in Italy, England and Spain. A serial killer he calls Aldo has been working his way around the globe, butchering women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius), whom he holds responsible for his father''s death (such is the logic of the insane). Since Jane looks like Cira (and, incidentally, has been having nightmares about being her and trying to escape the volcano''s destruction) she will be his preyâ€”or bait. Johansen fans will recall that Eve lost her biological daughter, Bonnie, to a serial killer, so her desire to bring Aldo to justice is tied up with her still-sharp grief. Meanwhile, Jane behaves like a typical teenager, living in denial of her own mortality while feeling intoxicated by the sexy air of peril that now surrounds her. Aldo never comes fully into focus as a villain, but that doesn''t matter much, since one of the real engines of fear in the novel is Jane''s burgeoning sexuality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct. Eerily enough, the face resembles 17-year-old Jane MacGuire, who has been offered sanctuary by Eve and Joe after surviving a rough-and-tumble life on the streets. Now it seems that a killer is trying to erase all evidence of her face because it is identical to that of a statue of a woman who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Several look-alikes have already been killed in Europe, and Scotland Yard sends in hunky Mark Trevor to help. Eve mistrusts him, but Jane, who has had recurring nightmares related to the killings, believes that he''s there to help her. Eve and Joe want to protect Jane, but the intrepid teenager knows that unless she confronts the killer, she will live the rest of her life in fear. Johansen has become adept at mixing supernatural elements with intriguing suspense, and her new tale will please both fans and new converts with its unpredictable journey from Atlanta to the archaeological digs of Herculaneum in Italy. REVWR\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5864'),
(959, 'The blind assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister''s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2555'),
(960, 'Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth', 'James M. Tabor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earthâ€™s deepest caveâ€”the supercaveâ€”remained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.Â In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchoukâ€”Stoneâ€™s polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationâ€”has targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverâ€”to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their cavesâ€™ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called The Rapture. James M. Tabor was granted unprecedented access to logs, journals, photographs, and video footage of these expeditions, as well as many hours of personal interviews with surviving participants. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of discovery and adventure. It is also a testament to human survival and enduranceâ€”and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5534'),
(961, 'A Blind Eye', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso already survived a defrocking by\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , following his alleged fabrication of a major crime story. Having since re-created himself as a true-crime writer, he can ill afford to have his credibility questioned again. So when, in G.M. Ford''s\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , he is subpoenaed to back up his book-selling boast about a Texas high-society murder, Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty--only to stumble onto one of the most horrific stories of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Seeking shelter after an SUV accident in tiny, blizzard-racked Avalon, Wisconsin, Corso discovers the bones of Eldred Holmes and his sons shoved beneath an abandoned barn. Neighbors thought the family had moved away 15 years before; instead, its males had been murdered. Bargaining with Avalon''s sheriff to stay free of the Texas authorities, Corso agrees to investigate these killings. The solution may lie with Eldred''s wife, Sissy, an exotic seductress whose skeleton isn''t among the pile, and whose deliberately obscured--and bloody--trail leads the author and Dougherty to a slain nun in Pennsylvania, a family-destroying fire among isolated hill folk in New York, and a desperate, deadly ambush in northern Michigan. It doesn''t take the rangy Corso long to realize that he''s dealing with a protean and controlling killer, immune to remorse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ford is adept at dribbling out the sort of revelations that build fictional suspense. He enhances that with a mordant wit, oddball secondary players, and a protagonist whose gruffness is infrequently but intriguingly undermined by a warmth born of loyalty. Yet\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , for all of its gripping darkness, pales beside its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . The super-secret information source to which Corso turns here whenever he loses his quarry''s scent is a contrivance beneath Ford''s talents. And the assassination of an Avalon deputy, for which Corso is held responsible, is a complication with little purpose and no satisfactions. Fortunately, this book''s chilling close makes the whole thing go down easier.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at O''Hare, Corso impulsively decides to rent an SUV and drive out of the storm zone, but when he gets to Avalon, Wis., he plunges off the icy road and over a cliff. Tearing up the flooring for firewood in the abandoned farm they take refuge in, Corso uncovers the corpses of a family, merely one set of victims in a killing spree spanning 30 years. Following in the tradition of John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee romps, Ford''s eclectic plot sends his hero from state to state, from an inbred mountain enclave in New Jersey to a nunnery with a murder. Deep into the book, he pointedly has a cop say, "This is like something out of science fiction." Corso and Dougherty alternate between acting like ruthless hard cases and giddy teenagers sneaking a joint-any excuse for a good scene, an entertaining moment (such as the guy who "looked like he''d been captured by vampires and was being kept as a pet"). When Corso falls into the hands of the killer and faces torture, though, Ford achieves fever pitch ("Corso began to make noises in his chest like a gored animal"). This is a thrill ride, sure to please readers looking for fast-paced suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7622'),
(962, 'Blind Faith', 'CJ Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blind Faith\n  </em>\n  by\n  <strong>\n   CJ Lyons had five stars written all over it from the moment I started reading.Â Â \n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  This is a great novel, and I would definitely recommend\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  CJ Lyons\n  <strong>\n   and her thrillers to readers.\n  </strong>\n  --chicklitplus.com/blind-faith-cj-lyons/\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TOP PICK!\n  </strong>\n  "This story is so fast paced with so many mesmerizing characters, "fantastic" is not high enough praise. Lyons proves once again that she is a master of suspense and nontraditional romance."\n  <em>\n   ~RT Book Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  CJ Lyons'' romantic thrillers have been described as "the perfect blend of romance and suspense" by New York Times Bestseller Sandra Brown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TOP PICK!\n  </strong>\n  "This story is so fast paced with so many mesmerizing characters, "fantastic" is not high enough praise. Lyons proves once again that she is a master of suspense and nontraditional romance."\n  <em>\n   ~RT Book Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her husband and son are murdered, she thought she''d lost it all. But for Sarah Durandt the nightmare is just beginning...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sarah has just witnessed the execution of the man who confessed to killing her husband and son, among others. She leaves with no closure as the killer has refused her repeated requests to reveal the site of her family''s graves. Sarah returns home to her small town of Hopewell in the Adirondacks Mountains and vows to search until she finds Sam and Josh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her hunt leads her to a trail of lies and unearths a new killer. In a race to save everything she holds dear, Sarah is forced to place her faith in the man who betrayed her...her husband.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11205'),
(963, 'Blind Fire', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(964, 'Blind Man&#39;s Alley', 'Justin Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the Edgar Awardâ€“nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Rothâ€™s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seaÂ­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powÂ­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murÂ­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial â€œmixed incomeâ€ housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Manâ€™s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that â€œ[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . heâ€™s got a good chance to make partner.â€ This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2525'),
(965, 'The blind side of the heart', 'Julia Franck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3196'),
(966, 'The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michaelâ€™s Lewisâ€™s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oherâ€™s size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the gameâ€™s strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor. Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enthusiast husband. Oscar winner Kathy Bates plays Miss Sue, Oherâ€™s indefatigable tutor. Quinton Aaron has his first major role as Oher. John Lee Hancock, who directed The Rookie and The Alamo, writes and directs the film. Michael Oher was just drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. This edition includes a new afterword bringing Oherâ€™s life up to date through college and the NFL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2694'),
(967, 'Blind Willie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11145'),
(968, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1863'),
(969, 'Blindfold Game', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship.... SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1031'),
(970, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2284'),
(971, 'The Blithedale Romance', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10658'),
(972, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From *New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of *Blockade Billy*, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game.** Even the most die-hard baseball fans don''t know the true story of William â€œBlockade Billyâ€ Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game''s history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of ***Blockade Billy****, *with an on-sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon &amp; Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4311'),
(973, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6365'),
(974, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(975, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4475'),
(976, 'Blood Beast', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"Locked inside Dervish''s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that''s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I''m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don''t know..."\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is currently working on his sixth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4383'),
(977, 'Blood Brothers', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal''s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it''s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2605'),
(978, 'Blood canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(979, 'Blood Contact', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared?Â Â Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines--and the entire human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/917'),
(980, 'Blood Crimes', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Blood Crimes is a genre-bending collision of dark urban fantasy and crime that rides shot-gun with Jim and Carol as they carve a homicidal path cross-country. Jim is infected with the vampire virus. Carol isn''t. Yet. But they''re united in their hunt for societyâ€™s most dangerous predators for Jim''s dinner -- so he can feed without harming the innocent. What they don''t know is that they''re not alone. There are others on their trail, and the climax of Blood Crimes is a shocking jolt of pure mayhem and rock ''n roll violence.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜I''ve just read the manuscript of Dave Zeltserman''s new novel, Blood Crimes. This is one of the few fresh takes on vampirism I''ve read in years. It''s as if Charles Bukowski sat down and said, OK, Bram Stoker, how about this?â€™ -- Ed Gorman, author of Cage of Night and The Poker Club.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   ''Blood Crimes is fast. It''s visceral. It''s definitely not your fourteen-year-old sister''s dreamy vampire fantasy. This book grabs you by the guttiwuts, wrenches hard, and doesn''t let go... But don''t get me wrong, this isn''t your run-of-the-mill shock literature. Zeltserman weaves a disturbing noir with a passionate craftsman''s hand over his characters.'' Mindy MacKay\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for OUTSOURCED\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A dark, lightening-paced read" Financial Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A small gem of crime fiction" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Outsourced is a dryly witty take on the heist caper genre... fast-paced action romp" London Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Bodies mount up as the double dealing and revenge gather apace. The blurb on the book describes it as a "fast-paced, edge-of-your seat crime novel," and it really does live up to the hype. Add this to your holiday reading list for a piece of escapism." Morning Star\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A finely paced, witty and stylish take on the heist caper novel. More than most authors churning out mysteries, Zeltserman is fully steeped in the conventions of crime fiction. He remains absolutely his own hard man." The Australian\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Dave Zeltserman''s OUTSOURCED is a speedy, gritty, hardboiled bank robbery tale that bops and weaves along as a group of out-of-work computer programmers decide to get their hands dirty and find they like it a lot. As with Zeltserman''s previous novels SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, and KILLER, his greatest storytelling skill is in the small true, emotional details that every reader will understand. He will definitely keep you flipping pages as fast you can, and once you finish one book you''ll be racing on to the next." Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season and The Cold Spot\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "delicious horror-ish novel" Newsday\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Superb mix of humor and horror" Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "superbly crafted horror story" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them." Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "a very darkly funny dark fantasy" Locus Magazine\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD succeeds as a horror novel, a psychological thriller and a haunting parable, even in some ways that Zeltserman may not have intended. There are dark levels to this work, some of which are immediately evident and others of which reveal themselves only upon later reflection. I donâ€™t know if the book will come to be regarded as a classic, either now or at some point in the future, but it deserves to be." BookReporter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜Blood Crimes: Book Oneâ€™ is approximately 68,000 words long and has an additional 20,000 words of bonus material .\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for ''Julius Katz'' and is the acclaimed author of the â€˜man out of prisonâ€™ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes (2008) and Pariah (2009) were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher''s Weekly, calling it a ''superb mix of humor and horror'', has been shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010, Outsourced (2011) has already been called ''a small gem of crime fiction'' by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8546'),
(981, 'Blood from a stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/743'),
(982, 'Blood Harvest', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Fletchers'' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that theyâ€™re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away--at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him. The adults in Tomâ€™s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than youâ€™d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to. But there are other clues that something isnâ€™t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tomâ€™s siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little villageâ€™s evil secret turns the Fletchersâ€™ dreams into a nightmare. With *Sacrifice*, *Awakening*, and now *Blood Harvest*, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4178'),
(983, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5061'),
(984, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(985, 'Blood Meridian', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/811');
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(986, 'Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5723'),
(987, 'Blood Money and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontier-elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue. For every story of inspiring moral courage in America''s untamed West, there''s one of greed and duplicity, of corrupted souls willingly sacrificed to a merciless deity of ill-gotten gold. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master brings us seven unforgettable western tales of noble stands and cowardly compromises-and battles of will more devastating than a blazing gunfight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9198'),
(988, 'Blood Music', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unusual ''invasion'' by intelligent smaller beings who are changing the structure and definition of ''humanity'' are at the heart of Bear''s classic story which has been newly reprinted in paper for new audiences. Blood Music is one of his finest works and its appearance in this new edition assures that new audiences will relish his talents. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear''s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5798'),
(989, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Readers canâ€™t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.** A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeâ€™s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeâ€™s reignâ€”and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queenâ€™s new rise to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2781'),
(990, 'Blood of Amber', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Merle Corey, hero of Trumps of Doom (1985), escapes from prison with the help of a woman who has many shapes. Merle Corey escapes from prison into Amber, a world of wonders and confusions where friends and foes are sometimes indistinguishable, where a man is out to kill him and a woman to help him. This is the seventh Amber novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9052'),
(991, 'Blood Of Angels', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins, has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Nina''s boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realize they can''t hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody." "Ward''s brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Ward''s parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society." "The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. It''s just a question of when the next killings will start...and whether they will ever stop."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3018'),
(992, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3515'),
(993, 'Blood of the Mantis', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year''s end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(994, 'Blood on My Hands', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I''m Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." His books vary widely from one another, but they all share two things - humor and loyal fans.Â  Todd lives just outside New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8529'),
(995, 'Blood on the Sand', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton''s holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corpse. When she professes to be the dead man''s psychic, Horton''s old adversary, DCI Birch, is convinced she is a mentally disturbed killer, but Horton is not so sure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5300'),
(996, 'Blood Orchid', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Blood Orchidis the third adventure of one of Stuart Woods''s most engaging characters, Chief of Police Holly Barker. This time out, Holly is trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of her fiancÃ©. With the help of her wily Doberman, Daisy, and her father, Ham, she throws herself back into the job with a vengeance. At a local restaurant, Holly and Ham meet a gentleman new to the area, rich and dapper developer Ed Shine, who has found an evocative name for both his favorite flower and his latest real-estate venture: the "Blood Orchid." But before Holly can settle into her routine again, bullets crash into the home of a friend and a floater is found bobbing in the Intercoastal Waterway. Holly connects these events to the death-by-sniper-fire of two Miami businessmen and a man evading questions at a Federal agency-but she can''t imagine how these violent occurrences could be related to her own quiet, unspoiled town of Orchid Beach. Joining forces with a handsome FBI agent, she tracks the clues straight to their source, only to find a scam more lucrative and more dangerous than any this idyllic town-or Holly-has ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3947'),
(997, 'Blood risk', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four men waited on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(998, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. ** For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying. Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1726'),
(999, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(1000, 'Blood Sport', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10970'),
(1001, 'Blood Sunset', 'Jarad Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a young runaway is found dead one morning, a syringe hanging out of his arm, no one is terribly shocked. A known junkie, even local detective Rubens McCauley is quick to conclude that Dallas Boyd died of an accidental overdose. But anomalies in the boy''s deathand the haunting memory of a childhood friendcontinue to nag at McCauley. Unable to shake his unease, he soon digs deeper into the case and finds himself enmeshed in a secret network of pedophiles, child abusers, and underage prostitutes. Forced to look evil in the eye, McCauley must conquer his own demons as he battles to find justice for a young boy he never even met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1758'),
(1002, 'Blood Test', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3057'),
(1003, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(1004, 'Blood Ties', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(1005, 'Blood Trail', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box''s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Free Fire\n </em>\n ), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe''s nemesis, game and fish director Randy Pope. The authorities suspect a group led by antihunting activist Klamath Moore, but Joe thinks an enigmatic clue near the body points to a serial killer. As usual, Joe stands alone against official protocol, placing his career and life in peril by following his hunches. He persuades Rulon to release his pal, iconoclast Nate Romanowski, who''s awaiting trial on spurious charges, to help him on the case. Writing beautifully about the mountain West and its people, Box takes care to present both sides of the controversial issue of hunting. The narrative alternates between the searchers and the killer, whose identity will keep readers guessing up to the surprising climax.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January, Box branched out from his popular Joe Pickett series with a stand-alone thriller, Blue Heaven (2008). His publisher for that book seems to be pushing him toward a broader audienceâ€”even ditching his familiar black Stetson in the author photo. Longtime fans might have wondered whether Pickett would soon be an also-ran. But thereâ€™s no need to worry just yet. Although Blood Trail is a mite slimmer than its predecessors (two books a year will do that to a writer), Box is clearly still comfortable in the saddle. And his game wardenâ€”now a special agent reporting directly to the governorâ€”is still as dogged on the trail as he is hard on government-issued vehicles. Thereâ€™s a little less family time for Joe, but there are some interesting developments in his friendship with the enigmatic Nate Romanowski. Joe needs Nateâ€™s help and some luck besides, because itâ€™s elk season, and someone is hunting elk hunters. And with a flamboyant anti-hunting activist coming to town with his supporters, itâ€™s looking like another classic standoff: implacable ideologues on both sides and a pondering Pickett caught in the middle. Box always addresses a New West issue, but thereâ€™s something great about the way heâ€™s waited until the eighth installment to tackle the one that would seem most obvious, given his heroâ€™s occupation. We prefer Box with the cowboy hat, but whether hatted or bareheaded, he continues to be red hotâ€”and now thereâ€™s twice as much of him to go around. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8683'),
(1006, 'Blood Will Tell', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandyâ€™s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires. SUMMARY: Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America''s last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.''s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate''s grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family. It''s the week of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and everyone who''s anyone - as well as a few nobodies - has gathered in Anchorage for a week of shopping, gossiping, bragging, and more than a little wheeling and dealing. But there''s more happening this year than what''s on the official agenda. A vote is coming up on the future of tribal lands, and the arguments are heated. Heated enough to raise suspicions about the recent death of a Native Association board member. Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative, and the one true weakness Kate Shugak has is for her family. Reluctantly agreeing to investigate, she is drawn into a whirlpool of deceit, lies, and secrets; she is torn not only between the modern world and the traditional, but also between opposing factions within each group. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land, and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it... EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. *AB. *"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
(1007, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor''s killer. In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s. As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2423'),
(1008, 'Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8016'),
(1009, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7082'),
(1010, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who''d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic. When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I''ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it.... MacKayla Lane''s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland''s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh-a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V''lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2227'),
(1011, 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin', 'Timothy Snyder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyderâ€™s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the periodâ€™s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tony Judt\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFor over a decade in the middle of twentieth century, the lands between Russia and Germany were the killing fields of Europe. Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. We think we know this story and we assign it shorthand labels: Auschwitz, the Gulag. But neither the concentration camps (which were mostly not death camps) nor the Soviet network of labor camps in Siberia (from which many survived) were representative of the worst crimes committed in these years. Jews were without question the supreme victim (and in the Nazi case, the dominant target); but there were many other victims with whom western readers are far less familiar. Without a better grasp of the scale and breadth of the suffering experienced in these lands, we cannot hope to appreciate the true impact of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europeâ€™s â€˜bloodlands,â€™ Timothy Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past.\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n â€“ impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material â€“ is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorians of Nazi Germany have analyzed Hitlerâ€™s war of destruction in the East, Final Solution, and vast racial revolution and colonization project outlined in the\n <em>\n  Generalplan Ost\n </em>\n .Â  Historians of the Soviet Union have analyzed Stalinâ€™s collectivization, Great Terror, Gulag archipelago, deportation and exile of mistrusted minorities, and rapid sovietization of newly-annexed territories on the western border.Â  In both cases the focus has been more often on the politics and decision-making of the dictatorships than on the fate of their victims.Â  The stunning contribution of Tim Snyderâ€™s book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another.Â  As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the â€˜bloodlandsâ€™ was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Professor Norman Davies, F.B.A., author of _Europe: A History\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNearly seventy years after VE-Day, World War Two continues to be perceived through a narrow Western perspective, and many basic problems about the war of 1939-45 remain unresolved. In\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n â€“ which refers to the huge belt of territory between Germany and Russia â€“ Timothy Snyder examines the little known tract of the European continent that was scourged by Stalin as well as Hitler, and reaches some disturbing conclusions.Â  Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted?Â Â  Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized? How can one calculate and verify the numbers?Â  This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of\n  <em>\n   The File\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTimothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating analysis of Europeâ€™s twentieth century killing fields between Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History of a high order,\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n may also point us towards lessons for our own time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , Starred Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œA chillingly systematic study of the mass murder mutually perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germanyâ€¦. A significant work of staggering figures and scholarship.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSolid and judicious scholarship.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  Â (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled from a number of previously little-known sources, and in places beautifully writtenâ€¦. He searched hidden archives in five countries and judiciously mined unknown memoirs and diaries. . . . Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of his storytelling.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n Guardian\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n (London)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[_Bloodlands_] modifies our view of this appalling period. . . . Snyder insists that the colossal atrocities in his â€˜bloodlandsâ€™ have to be set inside a single historical frame. To look at them separately â€“ for instance, to see Hitlerâ€™s crimes as â€˜so great as to stand outside historyâ€™, or Stalinâ€™s as a monstrous device to achieve modernisation â€“ is to let the two dictators â€˜define their own works for usâ€™. . . .This bookâ€™s unforgettable account of the Ukraine famine shows conclusively that Stalin knew what was happening in the countryside and chose to let it run its course. . . . The figures are so huge and so awful that grief could grow numb. But Snyder, who is a noble writer as well as a great researcher, knows that. He asks us not to think in those round numbers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Economist\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[G]ripping and comprehensiveâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europeâ€™s modern historyâ€¦. Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisonsâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s scrupulous and nuanced book steers clear of the sterile, sloganising exchanges about whether Stalin was as bad as Hitler, or whether Soviet mass murder in Ukraine or elsewhere is a moral equivalent of the Nazisâ€™ extermination of the Jews. What it does do, admirably, is to explain and record. Both totalitarian empires turned human beings into statistics, and their deaths into a necessary step towards a better future. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book explains, with sympathy, fairness and insight, how that happened, and to whom.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Anne Applebaum,\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Review of Books\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth centuryâ€¦. Snyderâ€™s original contribution is to treat all of these episodesâ€”the Ukrainian famine, the Holocaust, Stalinâ€™s mass executions, the planned starvation of Soviet POWs, postwar ethnic cleansingâ€”as different facets of the same phenomenon. Instead of studying Nazi atrocities or Soviet atrocities separately, as many others have done, he looks at them together. Yet Snyder does not exactly compare the two systems either. His intention, rather, is to show that the two systems committed the same kinds of crimes at the same times and in the same places, that they aided and abetted one another, and above all that their interaction with one another led to more mass killing than either might have carried out alone.â€\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n The Wall Street Journal\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThe story of World War II, like that of most wars, usually gets told by the victors. Diplomatic and military accounts are set largely in the West and star the morally upright Alliesâ€”the U.S., Britain and Soviet Unionâ€”in battles against fascism. The Holocaust gets its own separate history, as a case apart in its genocidal intent and human tragedy. Timothy\n <em>\n  Snyderâ€™s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin\n </em>\n forces a dramatic shift in these perceptionsâ€¦. Among his other goals in Bloodlands, Mr. Snyder attempts to put the Holocaust in contextâ€”to restore it, in a sense, to the history of the wider European conflict. This is a task that no historian can attempt without risking controversy. Yet far from minimizing Jewish suffering, Bloodlands gives a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œ[G]ripping and comprehensiveâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europeâ€™s modern historyâ€¦. Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisonsâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s scrupulous and nuanced book steers clear of the sterile, sloganising exchanges about whether Stalin was as bad as Hitler, or whether Soviet mass murder in Ukraine or elsewhere is a moral equivalent of the Nazisâ€™ extermination of the Jews. What it does do, admirably, is to explain and record. Both totalitarian empires turned human beings into statistics, and their deaths into a necessary step towards a better future. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book explains, with sympathy, fairness and insight, how that happened, and to whom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Applebaum,Â _New York__Â Review of Books_\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œ[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth centuryâ€¦. Snyderâ€™s original contribution is to treat all of these episodesâ€”the Ukrainian famin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6103'),
(1012, 'Bloodline', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age.Â  Christy neither likes nor trusts Bethlehem and hires Jack to find out if her instincts are correct.Â  As Jack delves into the manâ€™s past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute, a government-funded facility researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA.Â  Bethlehem is not who he pretends to be.As the bodies pile up, Jack discovers another horrific piece of the puzzle of his own identity, and why heâ€™s been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/623'),
(1013, 'Bloodshot', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Cherie Priestâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Boneshaker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.â€â€”Scott Westerfeld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.â€â€”Chiaroscuro\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of 2009â€™s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.â€â€”Joe Sherry,\n <em>\n  Fantasy Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VAMPIRE FOR HIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnâ€™t usually hang with her own kind. Sheâ€™s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resistâ€”even though Ian doesnâ€™t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesâ€”documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnâ€™t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6741'),
(1014, 'Bloodstone', 'Barbara Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spirits of other living creatures. Convinced that his parents will also view him as an abomination, Keirith flees, only to be captured by slavers. Carried to the heart of a distant civilization, Keirith must confront the truth about himself and his powers, even while Darak, following the kidnappers'' trail, must struggle with his darkest fears if he is to have any hope of saving his son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(1015, 'Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that''s where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door...and proceeds to rock Tommy''s life -- and afterlife -- in ways he never thought possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/511');
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(1016, 'Bloodthirsty', 'Flynn Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.\n </em>\n Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel_ called Bloodthirsty_, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it''s surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected. This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flynn Meaney lives in Mamaroneck, New York. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and is currently a poetry student in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.\n <em>\n  Bloodthirsty\n </em>\n emerged out of Flynn''s broad love of pop culture vampires and her friend Lucila''s comment: "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning." Lucila''s observation made Flynn think about how the paranormal craze would benefit the pale and thin teens who would have suffered during the\n <em>\n  Baywatch\n </em>\n years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flynn is currently working on her second novel, coming Fall 2011.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7904'),
(1017, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. ** Here''s a job to strain even Anita Blake''s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2790'),
(1018, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade - the Alex Cross, Women''s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7356'),
(1019, 'Blott on the Landscape', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude''s dynamism and Blott''s concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. To every official ploy Blott and Lady Maude oppose their own ingenious and unprincipled countermove until in a spectacular finale Blott, with four hundred tins of baked beans among his armoury, takes on the army single-handed. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3892'),
(1020, 'Blow fly', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Readers are in for the shock of Kay Scarpetta''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4113'),
(1021, 'Blue Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4591'),
(1022, 'The Blue Air Compressor', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11128'),
(1023, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The brand new Aubrey-Maturin novel, the twentieth in this classic series. ''If we had only two or three of Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction...This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.'' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O''Brian''s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship''s doctor, part secret agent. The novel''s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon''s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O''Brian''s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4253'),
(1024, 'Blue Collar &amp; Proud of It', 'Joe Lamacchia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not everyone is suited to a white-collar career or wants to get the four-year degree\n <br />\n that these jobs typically require. But that doesn''t mean you have to turn your back\n <br />\n on a great salary, exciting work, and a profession that commands respect.\n <br />\n Joe Lamacchia is proof. After graduating high school, he said no to college--"and found\n <br />\n personal and professional success as the owner of a thriving landscaping company. He also started BlueCollarandProudofIt.com, a resource for people who want to find work in the skilled trades. Blue-collar workers build and maintain our bridges, keep our cars running, fix our plumbing, and provide vital services to every home. That''s why Lamacchia\n <br />\n calls these ''necessary jobs.'' Most blue-collar work simply cannot be outsourced to foreign\n <br />\n countries and it''s often recession-proof. As Baby Boomers retire,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8169'),
(1025, 'Blue Dahlia', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel in the new *In the Garden* trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret-finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Stella has a passion for planning that keeps her from taking too many risks. But when she opens her heart to a new love, she discovers that she will fight to the death to protect what''s hers. Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee-and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn''t intimidated by the house-nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge But someone isn''t happy about the budding romance...the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride''s spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2636'),
(1026, 'Blue Dragon', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The forces of Hell are poised to strike''Åš Emma''s beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her and his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature, and must find the courage to save them all''ÅšDark Heavens, Book One.Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen''s daughter. But John''s world is different, and he is no ordinary businessman - all the gods, demons and dragons in hell want him dead. And though she doesn''t know it, Emma holds the power to save them all''ÅšKylie Chan''s Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author''s native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2444'),
(1027, 'The Blue Edge of Midnight', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Daily News\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n </em>\n . The story features Max Freeman, who was a cop in Philadelphia until he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was helping to rob a convenience store. Max was shot in the neck himself and now he keeps away from most people, living in a cabin in the backwaters of South Florida.\n</p>\n<p>\n While canoeing on the river near his home, Max spies a bundle floating near the shore which turns out to be a dead child wrapped in a sheet. Max''s first reaction is that the nightmare he thought he left behind has caught up with him. Pulling the bundle into his canoe, Max paddles downstream to the ranger station where he is met by the head ranger together with three detectives--almost as if they were waiting for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billy Manchester, a lawyer and friend to Max, tells him that the body of the girl he found is the third in a series of abductions that is terrifying South Florida communities. Because of his training as a cop, Max wants to help out with the investigation, but his offer of help is rebuffed by local law enforcement. He discovers that the killer is leaving global positioning system addresses with the bodies, which is why there was a team of detectives at the ranger station--they were on their way up-river to where they knew a body would be when Max brought it in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max himself is now a suspect and, when he returns to his cabin to discover that a GPS unit has been planted, he knows he is going to get involved anyway. If he doesn''t find the murderer, the police are going to charge him. His search takes him deep into the Everglades, off the beaten track into communities closed to outsiders and hostile to questions.\n</p>\n<p>\n King gives a vivid portrayal of a Florida still not exploited by developers and also treats us to a wonderful cast of characters--Max and Billy especially, but also to some folks who have hardly been touched by the modern world.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his first novel, King jumps into James W. Hall territory and lands firmly on his feet. Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman, haunted by his killing of an adolescent robber, has retreated to an isolated cabin in the Florida Everglades. When he discovers the body of a kidnapped youngster, the victim of a serial killer, Freeman becomes a suspect who can clear his name only by finding the murderer. Although this is an often-used plot device, the author''s stylish prose and insider''s knowledge of the sinuous, dangerous Everglades give the gimmick a fresh twist. Especially fine are the passages showing the different faces of Florida as Freeman travels between his austere cabin and the plush penthouse apartment of his Palm Beach lawyer, Billy Manchester. A scene in which Freeman seeks out a group of furtive Everglades natives in their natural habitat reeks with atmosphere. In fact, King uses descriptions of places and environment to reveal character and attitude, much as Hall, James Lee Burke and Robert B. Parker do, if not as smoothly as those established masters. While fans of Carl Hiaasen''s black humor or Lawrence Shames''s wacky characters may not find this novel to their taste, most readers should hail Freeman as an appealing addition to the already large roster of independent-minded Florida investigators. Skillful writing, original characters and evocative settings initiate a welcome new series. (Apr. 1)Forecast: With a prominent blurb from Michael Connelly, this crime debut by a feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel should get off to a strong start. Based on his ruggedly masculine author photo, King would seem a natural for the TV talk show circuit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5697'),
(1028, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Kurt Austin Adventure** In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply. **BLUE GOLD** **A Novel from the NUMA Files** From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world. Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(1029, 'The Blue Helmet', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Winner of the 2007 CLA young adult canadian book award\n <br />\n An OLA top ten best bet for schools and libraries\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Bell is arguably one of the most wide-ranging and reliable of Canadian authors. His range is impressive. So is the high quality of his writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Books in Canada_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n reminds the reader that all actions have consequences, and that one must take responsibility. . . . Bell has created a fast-paced and moving story of a teen trying to find his place in the world.â€\n <br />\n â€” (Highly Recommended)\n <em>\n  CM magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee wants to be a Tarantula â€“ a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Leeâ€™s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lee feels more lost than ever. His motherâ€™s death from cancer, and his fatherâ€™s constant absence working two jobs mean he has practically had to raise himself. But though he initially resists his Aunt Reena and the customers of Reenaâ€™s Unique CafÃ© â€“ a ragtag collection of the unusual, the unkempt and the deeply eccentric â€“ Lee gradually learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n is a powerful portrait of one young manâ€™s struggle to come into his own, and the peace that comes from the achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4506'),
(1030, 'Blue Horizon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s latest Courtney family adventure (after Monsoon), set in colonial South Africa in the early 18th century, follows Jim Courtney, scion of the English shipping and adventuring family seeking their fortune in the Cape of Good Hope colony, administered by the Dutch. A storm at sea blows a ship full of female Dutch convicts into port, and Jim saves the life of the comeliest prisoner, Louisa, before the vessel sinks. Louisa was unjustly imprisoned when she went to the authorities about her lascivious and violent employer. Jim''s rescue infuriates the greedy Dutch overlords, and the Courtneys, with Louisa in tow, head north in search of more hospitable territory. The balance of the long tale is elephant hunts, exploration of Indian sea islands, battles among native tribes and conflicts between principled colonialists-Jim and his father and brother-and their baser counterparts, including Jim''s treacherous uncle and most of the Dutch population. The Courtneys are adored by various native peoples, and a Bushman tracker named Bakkat becomes their acolyte and guide, while his enemy, Xhia, takes orders from the Dutch. The eventual confrontation of the two Bushmen is gripping, if readers can get past the generally condescending way in which Smith writes about black Africans. Subtlety takes a back seat in this broad tale, and readers may be exhausted before they get to the end, but the writer''s fans will enjoy the ride.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. In\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  (1999), brothers Tom and Dorian Courtney established themselves as both swashbuckling seamen and master tradesmen on the shores of South Africa. This time around, their sons, Jim and Mansur Courtney, are equally determined to carve out their own triumphs across the African continent. When Jim falls in love unexpectedly with a beautiful prisoner he spies on a convict ship, he vows to free her from her shackles and a life of certain misery. Escaping with the emotionally shattered and physically damaged Louisa, Jim flees cross country with both his beloved and his faithful manservant, Zama, in tow. Worried about their only son, Tom and Sarah Courtney pursue the young couple, eventually bestowing their family blessing upon them. Blazing a trail across Africa, Jim and Louisa traverse thousands of miles of unexplored wilderness, encountering risk, adventure, and passion along every step of their perilous journey into the unknown. Reuniting with Mansur, Jim and the rest of his expedition face mortal danger from an unexpected source. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance, this rip-roaring historical romp across eighteenth-century Africa will mesmerize faithful fans and win new converts to Smith''s trademark brand of lushly exotic fiction.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9165'),
(1031, 'Blue Ice', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9333'),
(1032, 'Blue Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red Mars, the kickoff to Robinson''s epic Mars trilogy, won the Nebula for best SF novel of 1992; its follow-up, Green Mars, won the parallel Hugo for 1994. The conclusion to the saga is not unlike the terrain of Robinson''s Red Planet: fertile and fully developed in some spots, vast and arid in others?but, ultimately, it''s an impressive achievement. Using the last 200 years of American history as his template for Martian history, Robinson projects his tale of Mars''s colonization from the 21st century, in which settlers successfully revolt against Earth, into the next century, when various interests on Mars work out their differences on issues ranging from government to the terraforming of the planet and immigration. Sax Russell, Maya Toitovna and others reprise their roles from the first two novels, but the dominant "personality" is the planet itself, which Robinson describes in exhaustive naturalistic detail. Characters look repeatedly for sermons in its stones and are nearly overwhelmed by textbook abstracts on the biological and geological minutiae of their environment. Not until the closing chapters, when they begin confronting their mortality, does the human dimension of the story balance out its awesome ecological extrapolations. Robinson''s achievement here is on a par with Bradbury''s The Martian Chronicles and Herbert''s Dune, even if his clinical detachment may leave some readers wondering whether there really is life on Mars. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This third book in Robinson''s hard-science Mars trilogy follows 1992 Nebula winner Red Mars (LJ 11/15/92) and 1994 Hugo winner Green Mars (LJ 3/15/94). In the 21st century, colonists almost succeed in terraforming Mars. While they fight for independence from Earth and attempt to avert a civil war, they find their new civilization threatened by an ice age. A well-written, thoughtful conclusion to the trilogy. Highly recommended for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5138'),
(1033, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We''d broken up after I''d seen him eat somebody.'' You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn''t. It was his brother. And it wasn''t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything''s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it''s Anita Blake to the rescue. I''ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him '' and why. There''s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he''ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2798'),
(1034, 'Blue Noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“There is something evil brewing in Bixby, and the teens from the previous Midnighters titles must save the world from the darklings. The monsters have found a way to expand midnight so that all humans will enter the blue time and become prey. Complicating the crisis is Rex''s residual darkling characteristics that leave him with the unsettling notion that other humans are food, Jonathan''s secret desire that the midnight hour could last forever so that he would always be free of the confining flatland gravity, and the fact that no one has yet figured out why the darklings wish to dispose of Jessica Day.\n <em>\n  Blue Noon\n </em>\n has an end of the world premise that will appeal to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Even though the characters are not completely developed, they all have distinct skills that set them apart from one another. Westerfeld doesn''t rehash all the events of the earlier books. Instead, he subtly includes the information that is needed to follow the story. Since the characters'' schemes never proceed according to plan, the plot maintains an exciting pace. However, it is never fully explained why everything works out the way it does. Despite this minor flaw, this is fun recreational reading._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n the darklings will hunt once again\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It''s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Midnighters can''t understand what''s happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8170'),
(1035, 'The Blue Notebook', 'James A. Levine; James Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader:Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levineâ€™s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin. How did Levine, a British-born doctor at the Mayo Clinic, manage to conjure the voice of a fifteen-year-old female Indian prostitute? It all began, he told me, when, as part of his medical research, he was interviewing homeless children on a street in Mumbai known as the Street of Cages, where child prostitutes work. A young woman writing in a notebook outside her cage caught Levineâ€™s attention. The powerful image of a young prostitute engaged in the act of writing haunted him, and he himself began to write.The Blue Notebook brings us into the life of a young woman for whom stories are not just entertainment but a means of survival. Even as the novel humanizes and addresses the devastating global issue of child prostitution, it also delivers an inspiring message about the uplifting power of words and readingâ€“a message that is so important to hold on to, especially in difficult times. Dr. Levine is donating all his U.S. proceeds from this book to help exploited children. Batukâ€™s story can make a difference.Sincerely,Celina SpiegelPublisherFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1556'),
(1036, 'The Blue Nowhere', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of "The Empty Chair" comes the suspenseful story of a computer hacker--code-named PHATE--on a Silicon Valley killing spree. Hot on his trail are ex-hacker Wyatt Gillette and Frank Bristol, a grizzled homicide detective who''s accustomed to using old-fashioned forensics to track his quarry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1955'),
(1037, 'Bluebeard', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man''s compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7700'),
(1038, 'Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City', 'Nelson Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''When I was first approached by HBO to use Nelson Johnson''s book as the basis for a TV series, my biggest challenge was choosing a time period in which to set it. Ultimately I settled on the 1920s of Atlantic City''s legendary treasurer Nucky Johnson. A place of spectacle, shady politics, fast women and backroom deals'' -Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos and Executive Producer of Boardwalk Empire From its humble beginnings as a fledgling seaside resort, Atlantic City grew to be America''s playground - loud, brash, and dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. In 1920 alcohol was banned across the States under Prohibition, yet, thanks to racketeers and corrupt politicians, the liquor in Atlantic City never stopped flowing. As the brothels, bars and gambling rooms flourished, the reputation of both the city itself and its most famous resident grew. Enoch ''Nucky'' Johnson was a powerful political force and leading figure in organised crime. His corrupt alliance created a city where the rules just didn''t apply, the dollar ruled and the law could be bought. The book that inspired the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire brings to life Nucky and the whole cast of his shady associates. Recounting the life of this fascinating city and its most colourful residents, it''s a brilliantly told story of a city built on cards and dice, booze and broads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7234'),
(1039, 'The Boat of a Million Years', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer''s finest works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9605'),
(1040, 'Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adve: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson', 'William Hope Hodgson &amp; Jeremy Lassen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume one of the Hodgson''s collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"\n  </em>\n  , a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book''s second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4944'),
(1041, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music.Â  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan!Â  Is there any more to be said?Â  The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman.Â  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way.Â  And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering.Â  From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   .Â  This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8713');
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(1042, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors From the Southwestern Kitchen', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Sally Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You''ve got to hand it to Bobby Flay. He opened his first restaurant, the inventive "new southwestern" Mesa Grill, in 1991--and he''s still celebrating the sweet, hot and spicy at that Manhattan outpost, not to mention on his TV shows and in other cookbooks like\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Mesa Grill Cookbook\n  </em>\n  offers 140-plus recipes for a wide range of new "signature dishes," such as BBQ Duck Filled Blue Corn Pancakes with HabaÃ±ero Sauce; Chile Rubbed Short Ribs with Creamy Polenta and Cotija Cheese; and Grilled Red Snapper with Tomato-New Mexico Red Chile Sauce. He also includes idiosyncratic takes on old favorites, like Whipped Potatoes with Cilantro Pesto, and desserts including Milk Chocolate-Peanut Butter CrÃ¨me BrÃ»lÃ©e, and Caramel Apple Shortcakes. Even drinks get the Flay treatment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His food (at least in moderation) is difficult not to like. Cooks will find the recipes eminently doable if they''re willing to cull the necessary ingredients--there''s a fine ingredients glossary--and put aside a bit of time. This is great "occasion cooking" and should appeal to dyed-in-the-grill Flay fans, as well as those whose curiosity has been tickled by his winning culinary hegemony.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flay is everywhere: overseeing six restaurants, appearing on four TV shows plus his own Web site and now assembling his seventh cookbook in 13 years. Flay preps the reader for culinary adventure with a tequila guide followed by four different margarita recipes, and then sets off on a whirlwind tour of flavorful dishes inspired by the American Southwest. Flay''s trademark is flavoring a perfectly grilled or roasted hunk of protein with smoke or chili or fruit, exemplified by Pan-Roasted Venison with Tangerineâ€“Roasted JalapeÃ±o Sauce and the slightly tamer Coffee-Rubbed Filets Mignons with Ancho-Mushroom Sauce. Shrimp, snapper and tuna dominate the seafood section, though there is also the quintessentially Flayvian Grilled Swordfish with Pineapple-Mustard Glaze and Cilantro-Mint Chimichurri. A chapter on brunches turns up the heat with dishes like Egg and Aged Sirloin Tortillas with Three-Pepper Relish. Coming full circle by drawing upon recipes from Mesa Grill, his first eatery, Flay also slyly opens the door for a series of cookbooks based on his other properties. 100 color photos not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6972'),
(1043, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes From Food Network&#39;s Ultimate Cooking Challenge', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Miriam Garron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fall into Cooking Featured Recipes from\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Throwdown!\n  </em>\n  : Pumpkin Pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bobby Flay: Pumpkin Pie with Cinnamon Crunch and Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 10-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cinnamon Crunch\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1/2 cup all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats\n <br />\n 1/2 cup light muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups graham cracker crumbs\n <br />\n 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n 1â„8 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 large egg, lightly beaten\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3 large eggs\n <br />\n 3 large egg yolks\n <br />\n 3/4 cup dark muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1/4 cup granulated sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons molasses\n <br />\n 11/2 cups canned pumpkin puree\n <br />\n 11/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, plus more for the top\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground ginger\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 cup heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/2 cup whole milk\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved, or 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows) for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the cinnamon crunch, preheat the oven to 350ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the flour, oats, muscovado sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor, and process a few times to combine. Add the butter and pulse until combined. Pat the mixture evenly into a 4-inch square on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 15 minutes. Remove and let cool. Transfer to a cutting board and chop into small pieces. Keep the oven on.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, butter, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix until combined. Press evenly onto the bottom and sides of a 10-inch pie plate. Brush with the beaten egg. Bake until light golden brown and firm, about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reduce the oven temperature to 300ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, both sugars, and the molasses together in a medium bowl. Mix in the pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Whisk in the heavy cream, milk, and vanilla seeds or extract. Strain the mixture through a coarse strainer into a bowl. Whisk in the butter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the pie plate on a baking sheet, pour the pumpkin mixture into the shell, and sprinkle additional cinnamon over the top. Bake until the filling is set around edges but the center still jiggles slightly when shaken, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cut the pie into slices and top each with a large dollop of whipped cream and some of the cinnamon crunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, very cold\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons bourbon, to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, vanilla seeds, maple syrup, and bourbon in a large chilled bowl, and whip until soft peaks form.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Challenger: Michele Albano''s Maple Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 9-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pie Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 11/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening, very cold\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, for brushing\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups pumpkin puree, preferably fresh\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1 cup Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 3 large eggs, beaten\n <br />\n Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows), for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the flour and salt in a medium bowl and mix well. Break up the shortening and toss it with the flour mixture to coat. Using a pastry blender or your fingertips, mix the ingredients together until the dough forms coarse crumbs. Add 3 to 4 tablespoons ice-cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough easily forms a ball that can hold itself together. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and as long as overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the dough is resting, make the streusel: Toss the pecans with the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add the butter, and using a pastry blender or your fingertips, work in until you have small clumps. Set aside.\n</p>\n<p>\n Preheat the oven to 425ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sprinkle flour generously over a hard surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it forms an 11-inch round. Fold the round in half, place it in a 9-inch pie plate, and then unfold the dough to completely cover the pie plate with a bit of an overhang. Tuck the overhang under to make a double-thick rim, and then use your fingers to crimp the edges of the pie shell. Brush the heavy cream over the crimped edges, and refrigerate until the filling is complete.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, mix the pumpkin, flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl well. Add the heavy cream and maple syrup, scraping the bowl several times while mixing. Mix in the beaten eggs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pour the filling mixture into the pie shell, and bake for 15 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 350ÂºF and bake until the filling is almost firm, about 30 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven and sprinkle the pecan streusel over the top, covering the pie completely. Return the pie to the oven and bake until the filling is just a bit wobbly in the middle and the pecan streusel is golden, 10 to 15 minutes. The total baking time should be 55 to 60 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cool the pie on a wire rack. The pie is best served at either at room temperature or cold. Before serving, garnish the pie with the Maple Whipped Cream.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/3 cup confectionersâ€™ sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Grade B maple syrup, or to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the metal bowl of an electric mixer in the freezer to chill for at least 15 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, confectionersâ€™ sugar, and vanilla in the chilled bowl, and beat on high speed until the mixture thickens. Add the maple syrup and beat on high speed until the cream holds firm peaks.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let''s see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac ''n'' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn''t want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6971'),
(1044, 'The Bobby Gold Stories', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it''s set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef''s menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn''t live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish''s Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain''s version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie''s appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain''s plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it''s a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author''s zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ).\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain''s third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world''s most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("''You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron'' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who''s late on a payment to Eddie and knows he''s about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?''\n <code>\n  Sure,'' said Bobby.\n </code>\n Your choice. You pick it'' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain''s charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7371'),
(1045, 'The Bodies Left Behind', 'Deaver, Jeffery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10331'),
(1046, 'Body Count', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Major Revell and his Special Combat Company, a new breed of super-warriors waging the war of the future in a land wasted by nuclear destruction, must reclaim the blood-soaked city of Frankfurt, but they find themselves outgunned by an insidious new force from inside the Zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1808'),
(1047, 'The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell brings back Kay Scarpetta, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI''s Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling novel. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more disturbing are the details of the crimes, chillingly reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the unit for years. Into this volatile atmosphere comes Scarpetta''s ingenious, rebellious niece Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico''s computer engineering facility--until she is accused of a shocking security violation. While coming to terms with Lucy, Kay must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known as the Body Farm. There she will find more answers to Emily Steiner''s murder--and evidence that paints a picture of a crime more horrifying than she imagined . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4094'),
(1048, 'A Body in the Bath House', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In another classical crime romp - this time in Roman Britain - Falco investigates a spate of killings, only to find himself next on the assassins'' list. Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associated problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house. The contractors have fled to Britain where, as the Fates have it, Falco is ordered. A local chief and ally of the Romans is having a palace built by the Emperor Vespasian. However, the project is running late, work is slipshod, and fatal accidents keep happening. Somewhere on the site are the murderers who may be behind this latest spate of killings. Somewhere in the forefront, troubleshooting for the Emperor, is Falco, without an ally and now next on the list for assassination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7184'),
(1049, 'The Body in the Library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5261'),
(1050, 'Body of evidence', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spine-tingling new novel by an author likened by the press to Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia''s dynamic Chief Medical Examiner and extraordinary sleuth. In Body of Evidence, a Halloween afternoon autopsy soon has Kay personally involved in a murder mystery that will keep readers turning the pages until the shocking conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4111'),
(1051, 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'David Leavitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family''s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone''s lives in ways that none can imagine. Hilarious, scorching, and full of surprises, The Body of Jonah Boyd is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, and, above all, the sisterhood of secretaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4987'),
(1052, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paretsky''s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago''s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen''s back provokes a violent outburst from Chad Vishneski, a troubled Iraqi war veteran. When two nights later, someone shoots the woman who upset Chad outside the club, Chad is the logical murder suspect. Hired by Chad''s estranged parents to clear his name, Warshawski straddles a minefield that reaches from the Windy City''s neighborhoods to the Gulf War battlefields. Scenes with her aging neighbor and a new love interest give a much needed balance to the serious plot. This strong outing shows why the tough, fiercely independent, dog-loving private detective continues to survive.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. I. Warshawski is "like Spider-Man with a P.I. License," claimed the\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n of its home-based heroine, and critics agreed that, despite her age, Warshawski is no Miss Marple. Reviewers had little but praise for this newest entry in the popular series; of particular note is Paretsky''s deep exploration of social and political issues--notably, homophobia; domestic violence; and the misdeeds spawned by the Iraq War. However, critics diverged in their opinion of these thematic strands. The\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n called the plotting "ingenious," while the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n described it as "bloated." For readers interested in a complex, multistrand story,\n <em>\n  Body Work\n </em>\n is another thoughtful, timely entry in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7122'),
(1053, 'Boeing 787 Dreamliner', 'Mark Wagner &amp; Guy Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing''s 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitementâ€”and more ordersâ€”than any commercial airplane in the company''s history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds of photographs, Boeing 787 Dreamliner closely details the design and building of Boeing''s new twin-engine jet airliner, as well as the drama behind its launch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the key players, the controversies, the critical decisions about materials and technologyâ€”the plastic reinforced with carbon fiber that will make this mid-sized widebody super lightweight. And here, from every angle, is the Dreamliner itself, in all its gleaming readiness to rule the air.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8429'),
(1054, 'The Bohemian Girl', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he doubts therers"s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. But why did she hide the note instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London''the world of artists and their models, of brilliance and depravity, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what itrs"s like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2861'),
(1055, 'The Boleyn Inheritance', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ANNE OF CLEVES\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  KATHERINE HOWARD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She catches the king''s eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  JANE ROCHFORD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul.The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9784'),
(1056, 'Bolt', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his smashing sequel to Break In, Francis shows his old racing colors to advantage. Champion jockey Kit Fielding again proves his mettle when Henri Nanterre, the ruthless business partner of his fiancee''s uncle, tries to convert their road construction company into an armaments enterprise. Nanterre threatens the life of Princess Casilia, his partner''s wife, who also owns many of Kit''s mounts. Nanterre is foiled, but then some of the princess''s horses are found dead, killed, ironically, by captive-bullet bolt guns designed for "humane" deaths. Next come several near-lethal attacks against humans, including Kit''s Danielle, and our Kit must devise a plan to thwart Nanterre for good. Soon Danielle has second thoughts about sharing the dangers of a steeplechaser''s life. Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fielding family, reappears and makes Kit''s life even more difficult. The characterization isn''t especially profound, but the plot races along wonderfully well, right up to a jolting twist at the end. BOMC featured alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit''s nemesis has plans to knock him off the track--and plant him under it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8230'),
(1057, 'Bomb Scare', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10144'),
(1058, 'Bombs away: the story of a bomber team', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3011'),
(1059, 'The Bone Chamber', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting herâ€”a close friendâ€”and Sydney''s abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tombâ€”on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar . . . and a curse. For buried deep in the mysteries of the Freemasons and the Vatican''s Holy See is a secret that could rock the world. Suddenly an ancient map is pointing Sydney toward something the Templars wished to hide away foreverâ€”something that could unleash an unstoppable tide of blood and devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4020'),
(1060, 'The Bone Collector', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Look who''s back to chill readers to the bone... The first novel featuring Detective Lincoln Rhyme, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stone Monkey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1951'),
(1061, 'The Bone Conjurer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and profane--creating an object whose power bends to the true nature of its owner....But until she held it in her hands, archaeologist Annja Creed hadn''t heard of the Skull of Sidon nor the twisted tale of its origins. Even now, she''s still not convinced. Yet someone wants it badly enough to hire a man who wields power beyond her imagining. Power enough to prevent Annja from protecting the mysterious skull. And power enough to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(1062, 'Bone Fire', 'Mark Spragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who''s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather. Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife and--far too young--their only child; and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother--Paul''s sister--is off marketing spiritual enlightenment. What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, involving car accidents, runaway children, strokes and Lou Gehrig''s disease, not to mention the motorcycle rallies and rodeos that flood the tiny local jail. But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so. In this gripping story, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in "Bone Fire "he is at the very height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2507'),
(1063, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW* Â  Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra. Â  As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society. Â  Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(1064, 'Bone Harvest', 'Mary Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal murders of a farming family fifty years earlier. By the author of Glare Ice and Dark Coulee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7778'),
(1065, 'The Bone House', 'Brian Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year, accusations of an affair with a female student ruined Mark''s teaching career in Wisconsin''s Door County, where he and Hilary had moved to escape Chicago. Even though Tresa Fischer insisted that her crush on Mark was nothing more than that, the tight-knit community shunned the Bradleys and labeled Mark a predator. When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa''s wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary''s hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn''t one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Markâ€”and Glory''sâ€”complicated lives. Well-developed characters and a thrilling climax help compensate for a plot that relies on too many coincidences. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but sheâ€™s on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain sheâ€™s throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilaryâ€™s story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hiddenâ€”and to make sure Mark doesnâ€™t get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freemanâ€™s first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6178'),
(1066, 'Bone House: A Novel', 'Betsy Tobin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gothic, elegant, and suspenseful, "Bone House" vividly evokes seventeenth-century rural England. It is the tale of two women. One is Dora -- large, voluptuous, and charismatic -- a prostitute to whom men are drawn for pleasure, women for friendship. Her strange death in an icy ravine affects everyone in the tiny village: her enormous, slow-minded son; an embittered midwife; the hunchbacked lord of the manor; his decaying mother; and an itin- erant portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone''s expectations.  The other -- young, slight, and solitary -- is a dutiful chambermaid to the mistress of the manor until Dora''s accident begins to distract her from her daily tasks. Her quest to uncover the truth about the prostitute''s mysterious life and sudden death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future.  A novel about murder, flesh, fertility, desire, medicine, and art, "Bone House" transports readers to stratified Elizabethan England, where the body -- or "bone house" -- had a primary role in deter-mining one''s destiny. Sensual, sophisticated, and fiercely compelling, this is an uncommonly assured debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7304'),
(1067, 'Bone in the Throat', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan''s Little Italy. The FBI is using a former dentist to open and run a restaurant in a sting operation designed to catch 280-pound loan shark "Sally Wig" Patera-a crazed mafioso assigned to do the Don''s dirty work. The deluded dentist thinks he really runs the Dreadnaught Grill and blows FBI cash on dumb marketing schemes instead of paying Sally''s dues and vig. Meanwhile, Sally''s nephew, Tommy Pagano, sous chef at the Dreadnaught, who loathes both his uncle and mob life, still feels loyal to the Family and so gives Sally after-hours use of the kitchen to "talk some business." But Tommy isn''t happy when Sally and Skinny di Milito-who strips naked before his hits to cut down on blood-spatter cleanup-kill a fellow mobster and cut up the body with the chef''s knife. Though the FBI pressures Tommy hard to sell out his uncle, he stays loyal, at least until the restaurant, the chef and his cooking career are threatened by Sally and Skinny, pushing him into unexpected action. The cast of this dark-humored, street-smart novel romps through Greenwich Village and Little Italy on a testosterone high in a perfect sendup of macho mobsters and feebs alike, while the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bourdain''s tongue-in-cheek wiseguy novel features an up-and-coming young chef who owes his position in a New York restaurant to his uncle, a Mob collector^-hit man who has loaned a considerable sum to the restaurant owner. Mobster Sal the Wig and Tommy, the sous-chef, are both unaware that state and federal agents have set up the owner, Harvey, as a plant to uncover extortion, murder, and whatever other criminal activities occur in Harvey''s presence or the eaterie. The combination of fine food and sordid slayings makes an irresistible novel, but perhaps not one to savor while dining.\n <em>\n  Denise Perry Donavin\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7374'),
(1068, 'Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8011'),
(1069, 'The Bone Palace', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Death is no stranger in the city of ErisÃ­n, but some deaths attract more attention than others.When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi. But worse things than vampires are plotting in ErisÃ­n - a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life but for the throne as well, and Isyllt''s former lover is caught in her schemes. As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city, Isyllt must decide who she''s prepared to betray - the man she still loves, or the royal family she''s sworn to defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4739'),
(1070, 'Bone Thief', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas Oâ€™Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.\n</p>\n<p>\n The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, heâ€™ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator heâ€™s ever facedâ€”a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to comeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6456'),
(1071, 'A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aurora Teagarden''s life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn''t have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn''t anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they''d both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane''s will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn''t take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn''t quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1211'),
(1072, 'Bonecrack', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10981'),
(1073, 'Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5961');
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(1074, 'Bones of Faerie', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Lizaâ€™s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to seeâ€”into the past, into the futureâ€”and she has no choice but to flee her town. Lizaâ€™s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.Janni Lee Simnerâ€™s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fictionâ€”as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2154'),
(1075, 'Bones of the Dragon', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Bones of the Dragon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the "Darksword" series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following."\n <br />\n --_Library JournalÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman (_Dragons of the Highlord Skies_) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Publishers Weeky _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to the World of Dragonships!\n</p>\n<p>\n Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.\n</p>\n<p>\n But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creationâ€¦ and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.\n</p>\n<p>\n It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddessâ€™s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with heroes and heroines young and old andÂ exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5599'),
(1076, 'Bones of the River', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Taking the little paper from the pigeon''s leg, Hamilton saw it was from Sanders and marked URGENT. Send Bones instantly to Lujamalababa... Arrest and bring to head-quarters the witch doctor.'' It is a time when the world''s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honour, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administered by Commissioner Sanders, Bones persistently manages to create his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5960'),
(1077, 'Bones to ashes', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Reichs''s entertaining 10th Temperance Brennan forensic thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Break No Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan, her relationship with Det. Andrew Ryan on the rocks, welcomes the distraction of an unidentified New Brunswick skeleton from QuÃ©bec''s cold case unit. But when the bones are determined to be that of an adolescent girl, Brennan is convinced they belong to her childhood friend, Ã‰vangÃ©line Landry, who disappeared at age 15. Now Brennan must come to terms with Ã‰vangÃ©line''s possible death, while trying to ignore her feelings for Ryan as they investigate a series of teenage abduction murders that could be tied to the mysterious bones. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science, nail-biting suspense and characters that pop off the page, Reichs, who''s vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and the producer of Fox''s\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , has produced another winner in one of the genre''s most satisfying series._ (Aug.)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With crisp prose, well-drawn characters, unflagging attention to detail, and a resonant emotional angle, Reichs'' tenth Temperance Brennan mystery (after Break No Bones, 2006) featuring the forensic anthropologist finds the forensic anthropologist in top form. This time it''s personal, when the skeleton of a young girl evokes memories of a deep, decades-old friendship with10-year-old Evangeline Landry, who sustained 8-year-old Tempe at a time of great personal loss only to disappear several years later. As Tempe works to identify the skeletal remains and cause of death, Detective Andrew Ryan seeks her help with several cases involving missing girls and unidentified bodies, raising the possibility of a serial killer. With her workload overwhelming, Tempe''s life starts falling apart: her visiting sister''s impulsiveness puts both of them at risk; her long-estranged husband, Pete, announces unsettling plans; and Ryanâ€”the man in her lifeâ€”makes a difficult personal decision. Reichs deftly provides enough background to make this a successful stand-alone, at the same time advancing relationships between characters for her increasing legion of fans, who won''t want to miss this one. Leber, Michele\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11166'),
(1078, 'Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs', 'Suzanne Clothier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Definitely not a training book full of stale dos and donts, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY is a beautifully written exploration of the ways in which humans can establish a better rapport with their dogs. Positing that owners relationships with their canine companions have the power to make them more humanand humanethe author examines the way owner/dog relationships go wrong, and how owners can make them right. Profound and practical, the book offers new insights into behavioral problems, improved communication, and mutual respect and trust, while challenging readers to re-examine their own attitudes and discover the joy in a genuine partnership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3819'),
(1079, 'Bones: Recipes, History, and Lore', 'Jennifer McLagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a lot more going on in\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  than the glorification of beef marrow. True, you will want to serve roasted marrow bones after even a casual reading. Jennifer McLagan, chef, food stylist, food writer, and now cookbook author says this is where it all began for her, this journey that has become a singular determination to rehabilitate bones in the family kitchen: "Scooping out the soft, warm marrow and spreading it on crisp toast is a sensual delight. A touch of salt, and all is right with the world."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about meat on the bone, plain and simple. Beef or veal, lamb, game, poultry, fish--it matters not. If the meat is on the bone as it enters the cooking process, be that roasting, braising, steaming, baking, or grilling, it has every chance of being far superior to meat divorced of the skeleton. Think how boring skinless, boneless chicken breasts can be. But McLagan''s underlying theme is about taking time to treat a product like meat with the respect it deserves. If you demand that it morphs into some sort of time-and-labor-saving protein package you end up with chicken fingers, not food. If it is about anything,\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about good food, and good food takes time. And time is the most precious ingredient any cook can add to the broth. The time it takes isn''t a burden, it''s where the cook truly learns and grows and matures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  McLagan divides\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  into sections devoted to Beef and Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Fish, and Game. Each section begins with a precise description of the basic animal from the skeleton on out before moving on to stocks, concentrated stocks, and consommÃ©s. As for recipe enticements you''ll find Beer-Glazed Beef Ribs, Osso Buco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce, Spicy Korean Pork Soup, Roast Leg of Pork with Crackling, Olive-Crusted Lamb Racks, Lamb Shanks in Pomegranate Sauce, Poached Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables, Grilled Quail with Sage Butter, Coconut Curry Chicken, Sardines on Toast, Cantonese-style Steamed Fish, and Herb-Roasted Rabbit (one of four rabbit recipes!).\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the novice cook should not shy away from\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , a firm foundation in basic western cooking technique is a plus. There''s a lot of learning available between these two covers. Some of it is about meat and bones, some about cooking and serving, and some is about an attitude to bring to the kitchen: If you take a little time the rewards will be far superior to any shortcuts along the way. All of which makes Jennifer McLagan something of a revolutionary in our midst.\n  <em>\n   --Schuyler Ingle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this expansive tome, food stylist and writer McLagan offers an alternative to the rubbery chicken breasts and fish filets now standard in Western cookery. By eliminating bones (and fat) from our diet, McLagan passionately argues, we''ve traded flavor for health and efficiency. Indeed, her book operates on the premise that the pleasure of gnawing on a lamb chop cannot be underestimated. More than a cookbook, this is a compendium of folklore, literary quotes and historical facts that refer to bones'' significance across cultures from ancient times to today. There are chapters on beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish and game, each with an introductory section explaining anatomy and recommended cooking temperatures. Sidebars offer suggestions for carving, using unlikely parts, and recovering endangered bone-cooking arts like "spatchcocking," or removing the wishbone from a bird. McLagan''s recipes range from arcane (Lancashire Hot Pot, which traditionally consists of a deep dish of stew covered with a potato crust, and long lamb bones piercing through the topping) to contemporary continental (Osso Bucco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce). While some recipes are time-consuming, McLagan''s instructions are generally clear and precise. With its emphasis on tradition and technique, this work won''t appeal to the 20-minute chef, but it will be a welcome addition to the slow-food aficionado''s library. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8518'),
(1080, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(1081, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Â  But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Â  Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Â  His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/997'),
(1082, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7803'),
(1083, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4803'),
(1084, 'Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times calls him â€œthe funniest man in America,â€ and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.In **Boogers Are My Beat**, Dave gives us the real scoop on:â€¢ The scientific search for the worldâ€™s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word â€œweaselâ€)â€¢ RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lotâ€¢ Outwitting â€œsmartâ€ kitchen appliances and service contractsâ€¢ Elections in Florida (â€œYou canâ€™t spell Florida without â€˜duhâ€™â€)â€¢ The Olympics, where people from all over the world come together to accuse each other of cheatingâ€¢ The truth about the Dakotas, the Lone Ranger, and feng shuiâ€¢ The choice between death and taxesAnd much, much moreâ€”including some truths about journalism and serious thoughts about 9/11.Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988, and his columns are syndicated in more than 500 newspapers. His most recent books, **Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down** and the novels** Big Trouble** and **Tricky Business**, were national bestsellers. He lives in Miami, Floriduh.Also available as an eBook*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(1085, 'Boogeymen', 'Mel Gilden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Baldwin is the Federation''s premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard''s oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin''s discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help him by erasing all traces of his existence.  but Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin''s problems. For the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)." has suddenly become a strange and dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk in every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6594'),
(1086, 'Boojum', 'Elizabeth Bear; Sarah Monette', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-size: 14px; ">\n  Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- and so do readers everywhere.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Fast Ships, Black Sails presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original swashbuckling stories from the past to the present and beyond.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Come along on the voyage with bestselling authors Naomi Novik, Garth Nix, Carrie Vaughn, Eric Flint &amp; David Firer, and. Michael Moorcock, as well as such other stellar talents as Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear &amp; Sarah Monette, Steve Aylett, and Conrad Williams -- all offering up a veritable treasure chest of piratical adventure, the likes of which have never been seen in the four corners of the Earth.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Highlights include a brand-new Garth Nix "Sir Hereward tic Mister Fitz" novella, as the two clever ne''er-do-wells storm the seagate of the scholar-pirates of Sarkoe.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  If ever you had a yearning for adventure on the high seas, now''s the time to indulge it, with Fast Ships, Black Sails. You''ll return with a sword shoved through your sash, booty in a safe harbor, and beer on your breath. We promise.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6055'),
(1087, 'The Book of Air and Shadows', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch''s Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesâ€”perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (_Night of the Jaguar_, *\n <em>\n </em>\n 1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with\n <em>\n  The Book of Air and Shadows\n </em>\n . While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Rule of Four\n </em>\n , critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre''s standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won''t be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel "hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6775'),
(1088, 'The Book of Animal Ignorance', 'John Lloyd;John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-ï¬lled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.Did you know, for instance, thatâ€¢ when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten yearsâ€¢ vampire bat salivaâ€”unsurprisingly, when you think about itâ€”is the source of the worldâ€™s most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculinâ€¢ bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per secondâ€¢ a bald eagleâ€™s feathers weigh twice as much as its bonesâ€¢ a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255â€¢ octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jarsâ€¢ spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2358'),
(1089, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(1090, 'The Book of Counted Sorrows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Limited Edition #100 of 1250\n <br />\n Signed By Koontz\n <br />\n Excellent condition in slipcase\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1501'),
(1091, 'Book of Days: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"â€¦ in Your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed\n  <em>\n   _before they had come into being."\n  </em>\n  â€”Psalm 139:16 Young Cameron Vauxâ€™s mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. Memories he knows he has to remember. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find "the book with all days in it" â€”the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book who seems to carry secrets far deeper than anyone imagines. Local hotshot TV personality Ann Bannister thinks the legend of the book is a farce, but she has her reasons to join Cameronâ€™s search anyway. Finally, there is fanatical New Age guru Jason Judah, who will stop at nothing to find the book of days before Cameron does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Acclaim for\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "I devoured\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  in one sitting. It is an exciting but poignant novel about how truly important our memories and choices are to who we become. It''s still resonating in my heart."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Colleen Coble\n  </strong>\n  , best-selling author of _The Lightkeeper''s Bride\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "_Book of Days_ is actually better than Rubart''s best-selling debut,\n  <em>\n   Rooms\n  </em>\n  . . . a terrific story that is equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Acker\n  </strong>\n  , author of _When the Devil Whistles\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "James L. Rubart is officially now one of my favorite writers.\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  is a great read, why people buy novels."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Walsh\n  </strong>\n  , award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James L. Rubart\n  </strong>\n  is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. He serves on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association and lives with his wife and sons in Seattle, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7382'),
(1092, 'The Book of Disquiet', 'Fernando Pessoa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa''s masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he''s now a Pessoa veteran-having edited and translated Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co.: Selected Poems, the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winner-Zenith''s first pass at this book was one of the four misses. He bases this new translation on his own Portuguese edition of 1998, and has done an admirable job in bringing out the force and clarity in Pessoa''s serpentine and sometimes opaque meditations. Pessoa often wrote as various personae (as Pessoa &amp; Co. carefully demonstrated); Disquiet is no exception, being putatively the work of "Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon." Thus it is impossible to ascribe the book''s anti-humanist logophilia directly to the author: "I weep over nothing that life brings or takes away, but there are pages of prose that have made me cry." That is just one of many permutations of similar sentiments, but the genius of Pessoa and his personae is that readers are left weighing each and every such sentence for sincerity and truth value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n . Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa''s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith,\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8165'),
(1093, 'The Book of Fate', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer''s overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning''s deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (_The Zero Game_) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier. Authentic details about Washington politics and historical mysteries enliven the predictable path. While readers looking for efficient plotting may be disappointed, Meltzer''s many fans will enjoy this substantial meal of a book.\n <em>\n  15-city author tour. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president''s close friend. Eight years later, the dead man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the former president. Wes thinks he can figure out what''s going on, but to do so he must decipher a two-century-old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic history. From his first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tenth Justice\n </em>\n (1997), through his sixth,\n <em>\n  Identity Crisis\n </em>\n (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take readers behind the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn''t change this time. Like the television series\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , Meltzer''s novels focus on the political people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear. He could be accused here of jumping on the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n bandwagon, but that wouldn''t really be fair. He''s too good a writer to waste his time imitating someone else''s work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far more plausible--than Dan Brown''s tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept thrillers--and the plot fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, . . . thrilled.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7161'),
(1094, 'The Book of Fathers', 'Miklos Vamos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2732'),
(1095, 'The Book of Fires', 'Jane Borodale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A stunning historical novel, ''The Book of Fires'' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel '' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition?Historical fiction at its very best, ''The Book of Fires'' is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1767'),
(1096, 'The Book of General Ignorance', 'John Lloyd &amp; John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you think you''re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you''re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers to a number of less-than-burning questions-camels store fat, not water, in their humps; only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip papers; the first American president was in fact Peyton Randolph-that you nevertheless may be embarrassed to have completely wrong. Although some of the entries rely on technicality more than actual excavation of obscure fact (Honolulu is technically the world''s largest city, despite the fact that 72% of its 2,127 square miles is underwater), these page-length entries prove entertaining and informative, perfect for trivia buffs and know-it-alls; it also makes a fine coffee table conversation piece and a handy resource for prepping clever cocktail party banter.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_The Book of General Ignorance_ wonâ€™t make you feel dumb. Itâ€™s really a call to be more curious.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Associated Press_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIgnorance may be bliss, but so is learning surprising information.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Hartford Courant_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou, too, can banish social awdwardness by having its endless count of facts and factoids at the ready. Or you could just read it and keep what you learned to yourself. Betcha canâ€™t.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_New York Daily News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinsonâ€™s The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions compiled for the BBC panel game QI (Quite Interesting).â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Financial Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book would make even Edison feel small and silly, for it offers answers to questions you never thought to ask or had no need of asking as you already knew, or thought you knew, the answer.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia books, like any kind of mental or physical addiction, are both irresistible and unsatisfying. By the standards of the genre, this one has something approaching the force of revelation. Answering silly questions suddenly seems less important than taking the trouble to ask a few.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”Melbourne Age\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEye-watering, eyebrow-raising, terrific . . . moving slightly faster than your brain does, so that you havenâ€™t quite absorbed the full import of one blissful item of trivial information before two or three more come along. Such fine and creative research genuinely deserves to be captured in print.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Daily Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis UK bestseller redefines â€˜common knowledgeâ€™ with factoids that will inform and entertain (or at least liven up your next cocktail party).â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_OK! Magazine_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6096');
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(1097, 'The Book of Lies', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Meltzer (_The Book of Fate_) deserves credit for an audacious conceitâ€”wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Supermanâ€”but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world''s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles Ã  la\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n . A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don''t help.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Meltzer builds suspenseful fiction on a previously little-explored historical nugget: Jerry Siegel, the teenage creator of Superman, lost his father in an unsolved murder in 1932. The author offers a compelling theoretical solution by way of an adult protagonist who is dealing with his conflicted feelings about his own father. Cal works for a rescue mission, picking up vagrants in need of shelter, when he stumbles across a man who turns out to be the father who abandoned him in childhood. The two men join forces in pursuit of what they believe is the lost Book of Cain, the weapon used in the Bibles original murder scene. Meltzer invokes multiple viewpoints as Cal, his father, a mysterious young woman who seems to have befriended the father, a rogue ex-cop, and a hot Federal agent converge on Cleveland in search of the biblical treasure. Teens with a taste for international conspiracies, religion-spouting bad guys, and identity-switching will enjoy this fast ride that leaves some solid and intriguing questions in the wake of its driving plot. Suggest this one to kids who enjoy the likes of Dan Brown, as well as superhero comics._â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7162'),
(1098, 'The Book Of Lost Things', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author John Connolly''s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly''s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10097'),
(1099, 'Book of Lost Threads', 'Tess Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town'' s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8184'),
(1100, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(1101, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders* When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1672'),
(1102, 'The Book of Other People', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell''s hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman''s fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer''s heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O''Hagan''s eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet''s unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt''s lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers'' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic''s solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby''s "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero''s life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell''s "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder''s "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers''s nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...But just when you''re ready to howl in frustration at the anthologification of the book world-_I''ve seen the best minds of my generation, live blogging about recipes that inspire them_-along comes\n <em>\n  The Book of Other People...Other People\n </em>\n collects 23 pieces by a who''s who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Dandicat...Smith sent her contributors just one instruction: Make somebody up."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly hip."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic- strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny." They remind us that an individual''s life is itself a narrative with a beginning, a middle and at least the intimations of an end. And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters'' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon"-like splitting of perspectives."\n <br />\n -Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From its strange, graphic-novelesque cover-an array of cartoonish sketches of odd-looking faces in profile, stacked like ladder rungs-to its uncommonly eye- catching lineup of contributors, "The Book of Other People," a 2008 paperback from Penguin Books, is extraordinary."\n <br />\n -_Charlotte Observer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you only read one book, make it this dazzling selection of short stories..."\n <br />\n -Eve Magazine UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Some of the wittiest and wisest stories you''ll read all year..."\n <br />\n -Elle UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "Character provides the thematic key to these stories, all new to this collection, from some of our finest younger contemporary fiction writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor and contributor Smith (On Beauty, 2005, etc.) invited 22 other authors, many of them (like her) better known for novels than short fiction, to write a story inspired by the creation of a character. "The instruction was simple," she writes in her introduction, "make somebody up." Yet the stories correspond to no consensus about the role of character in fiction, or a return to realism, or the responsibility of fiction to mirror society. To the contrary, what Smith believes the stories show is that "there are as many ways to create ''character'' (or deny the possibility of ''character'') as there are writers." The title of each story comes from the name of a character or type ("The Monster") with the selections sequenced alphabetically. Many of the writers, including Smith, come from the McSweeney''s and/or Believer literary circle (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Chris Ware, Nick Hornby et al.) and most of the contributions range from the short to the very short (Toby Litt''s "The Monster" is a four-page paragraph). With proceeds benefiting 826 New York (a nonprofit organization for the inspiration and development of student writing), none of the writers were paid for their work, with the results sometimes more playful (and occasionally slighter) than one has come to expect from them. Jonathan Lethem''s Dickensian titled "Perkus Tooth" offers a hilarious dismissal of rock critics. A.L. Kennedy''s "Frank" provides an existential parable about a man who isn''t who he thinks he is. Though many of the stories have a first-person perspective, the narrator is rarely the title character, and some of the challenge for the reader can be determining whom a story is really about. In Colm T~ib"n''s "Donal Webster," the name of the title character is never even mentioned, leaving the reader to guess who is addressing whom.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the quality inevitably varies, the spirit of the anthology is that reading should be fun rather than work. -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5954'),
(1103, 'A Book of Remarkable Criminals', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10422'),
(1104, 'The Book of Secrets', 'Deepak Chopra, M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(1105, 'Book of Shadows', 'Alexandra Sokoloff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Sokoloff''s solid crime thriller, the discovery in a landfill of the mutilated corpse of Erin Carmody, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent Boston businessman, presents homicide detective Adam Garrett with a particularly sensitive case. Marks on the body suggest the killer was conducting Satanic rituals. When Adam and his partner, Carl Landauer, question the prime suspect, Jason Moncrief, a college friend of Erin''s, Jason chants the name of the demon Choronzon, then assaults Carl. Despite what appears to be an open-and-shut case, Adam can''t discount the claim that Jason is innocent made by Tanith Cabarrus, an attractive witch who comes to police headquarters to report that she dreamed of other murdersâ€”and who believes that supernatural forces are behind the slaughter. As usual, Sokoloff (_The Unseen_) does a good job keeping the reader guessing whether a supernatural agency is really at work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderfully dark thriller with amazing is-it-isn''t-it suspense all the way to the end. Highly recommended.â€---Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Unseen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSokoloff keeps her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigatorsâ€™ psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain.â€_---Publishers WeeklyÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe suspense starts on page one, tightening the noose on every page with increasing velocity to a stunning, fearsome climax. Ms. Sokoloff has created a chilling, fantastic supernatural thriller that will have you fearing what you canâ€™t see.â€---Allison Brennan,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times _bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Sudden Death\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spine-tingling story that has every indication of becoming a horror classic . . . this is a chillingly dark look into the unknown. 4 1/2 stars.â€_---RT Book Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful blend of fascinating fact and chilling fiction . . . an unsettling and highly entertaining horror/thriller read.â€---_BookBitch.com_Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5554'),
(1106, 'Book of Sketches, 1952-57', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America''s underbelly ("a pile of junk, â€”&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love â€” good for/ music â€” let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn''t stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer''s habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled\n <em>\n  Book of Sketches.\n </em>\n This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6707'),
(1107, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks.  Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold.  They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests.  When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help.  Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past.  Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens.  Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4908'),
(1108, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I', 'Anonymous; John Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Payne (1842 - 1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio''s Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and other poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10170'),
(1109, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume Ii', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10171'),
(1110, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III', 'Anonymous; John Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Payne (1842-1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio''s Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and Other poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10172'),
(1111, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There came one day to Khalid ibn Abdallah el Kesri,3 governor of Bassora, a company of men dragging a youth of exceeding beauty and lofty bearing, whose aspect expressed good breeding and dignity and abundant wit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10173'),
(1112, 'The Book of Three', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3064'),
(1113, 'The Book of Xen', 'Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows.\n  <i>\n   The Book of Xen\n  </i>\n  explains everything a sysadmin needs to know to use this powerful technology, with coverage of installation, networking, virtualized storage, and managing guest and host operating systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5966'),
(1114, 'The Book on the Bookshelf', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Consider the book. Though\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they''re roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it''s easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  , books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  were\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That bookshelves might harbor secret and enchanting lives is a thrilling prospect for any serious reader. What laws of human nature govern our sturdy cases of books? What damning quirks of character glare from a few casually stowed volumes? In this disappointing study, however, Petroski''s effort to reveal the "evolution of the bookshelf as we know it" yields few rewards. Pondering the physics of the bookend and the genealogy of the library carrel, this Duke University scholar observes the bookshelf as a piece of the infrastructure undergirding our civilization. We learn that medieval books were chained to their shelves to prevent theft, and that beverage stains have plagued bibliophiles almost since the dawn of the printed word. Admirers of Petroski''s earlier works (The Evolution of Useful Things, Remaking the World, etc.) will not be surprised by his exquisite research, or by the gusto with which he plunges into the dustiest of library bins. But the bookshelf proves a more oblique topic than bridges or even pencils, two of Petroski''s other interests. The practical construction principles of bookshelves make for rather dull reading, and conjecture about lectern usage in the Middle Ages wears thin. This book is most successful when delving into the gritty aspects of engineering, whether it be the cantilevered forces of library book stacks or the architecture of the British Museum Reading Room. After lingering among such fusty stacks, readers will welcome the whimsical appendix, which proposes arranging one''s books alphabetically by the author''s first name, or even by the first word of the antepenultimate sentence. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6175'),
(1115, 'The Book Thief', 'Markus Zusak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusakâ€™s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canâ€™t resistâ€“books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3209'),
(1116, 'The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8â€“At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, enforcer of law and order for the city, desires Thorston''s secrets for himself. Brother Wilfrid, a priest with green eyes, knows the dangers of the book and seeks to retrieve it. To this mix add Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a poor orphan girl whom Thorston has taken in as his servant, and you have an intriguing tale in which goodness ultimately triumphs. Avi''s compelling language creates a dreary foreboding, a grim backdrop against which the characters work out their fate. The old city always seems enshrouded in nasty fog and disgusting odors. Thorston keeps consuming part of his life-giving formula and repeatedly appears to die before resuscitating as a younger person. This, plus the fact that after each "death" Sybil and the others bury him, only to have him tromp up the basement steps covered in grime, will surely keep readers turning pages. Odo''s cleverness and cynicism make him a likable character, while Sybil''s innate goodness will endear her to readers. Clearly this is a story with a message, a true fable. Thoughtful readers will devour its absorbing plot and humorous elements, and learn a "useful truth" along the way._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 5-8. Avi''s name on the cover of a new novel is enough to provoke shivers of anticipation in many readers, and in this "Fable of Medieval Magic" set in eleventh-century England, shivers are certainly warranted. Thirteen-year-old Sybil is the servant of Thorston, an alchemist who attempts to steal her "life''s breath" but dies before the magic can take effect. Thorston''s companion, a talking raven, convinces Sybil to help him seek the secret of alchemy, contained within an enchanted book--a task that''s complicated by a flurry of visitors ("A sniff of gold makes everyone sneeze") and by Thorston''s stubborn refusal to stay quietly in his grave. Avi reigns supreme in building gothic atmosphere, and children will be thrilled by the ghastly scenes of fog-shrouded cemeteries and villains reduced "to a foul lump of putrid muck." Less certain is how they''ll respond to the unconventional structure; though unflappable, compassionate Sybil comes closest to a central protagonist, the narrative ricochets among numerous perspectives and is fractured into terse, dialogue-heavy episodes. Many fans of Avi''s 2003 Newbery Award winner\n  <em>\n   Crispin\n  </em>\n  (2002) will miss the feeling of immersion in a narrative conferred by a single point of view even as they ponder the sweeping messages about the transience of life and the evils of avarice.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7281'),
(1117, 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', 'Alan Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindi and Vedantic philosophy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5718'),
(1118, 'Booked for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Carolina Rhapsody Emerald is displayed at the Hatteras West Inn, Innkeeper Alex Winston can''t wait to see it leave. There''s just too much stress having the valuable jewel there. Just before the exhibit is scheduled to end, the emerald is stolen, and the guard is murdered with Alex''s lighthouse-shaped letter opener!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3981'),
(1119, 'The Bookman', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Readers will enjoy watching Tidhar''s imagination throwing off sparks like a Roman candle." -\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ pokes at the fat and waddled body of steampunk with its walking cane and leaves it on the roadside with its fresh take on Victorian London without loosing any steam on its way." -\n  <em>\n   Loudmouth Man\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ is a delight, crammed with gorgeous period detail, seat-of-the-pants adventure and fabulous set-pieces." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is a steampunk gem... Bring on a sequel, Tidhar! I''m craving to know what happens after the ending!" - _SFF World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "An emerging master" _- LOCUS Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Lavie Tidhar''s Previous Works:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar beautifully evokes the power of technology " -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Dying World" fromÂ _Clarkesworld Magazine_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...richly detailed characters in a well paced and well thought out story" -\n  <em>\n   Tangent\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Pattern Makers of Zanzibar" from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story reads like a drug-infused John Le Carre novel, if Le Carre wrote science fiction and dropped LSD as he pounded on the typewriter... an amazing accomplishment, and highly recommended." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Shangri-La Affair" fromÂ _Strange Horizons_)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s stomach churning and very sweet at the same time, bizarreness and beauty like most of Tidhar''s stories." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Butcher and The Flykeeper - A Christmas Love Story"Â from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this work is the setting. It is incredibly inventive and fun... a wonderful story, especially for those who enjoy the more surreal edges of speculative fiction." -\n  <em>\n   Tangent (\n  </em>\n  reviewing "High Noon in Clown Town" from\n  <em>\n   Postscripts)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story is classic noir, but with its tongue firmly in its cheek from beginning to end. A very enjoyable read." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe" from\n  <em>\n   Aeon\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LATE EXTRA!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like a steam-powered take on\n  <em>\n   V for Vendetta\n  </em>\n  , rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure.\n  <em>\n   The Bookman\n  </em>\n  is the first of a series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History! | Reptilian Royalty! | Diabolical Anarchists! | Extraordinary Adventure! ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4830'),
(1120, 'books do furnish a room', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(1121, 'Books Have Sexes', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2946'),
(1122, 'Books of Blood', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(1123, 'Books of Blood Six', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(1124, 'Books of Blood Three', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror include, ""Son of   Celluloid,"" ""Rawhead Rex,"" ""Confessions of a Pornographer''s   Shroud,"" ""Scape-Goats,"" and ""Human Remains."" Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(1125, 'Books of Blood Two', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of horror and intrigue include, "Dread," "Hell''s   Event," "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament," "The Skins of the   Fathers," and "New Murders in the Rue Morgue." Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(1126, 'Bookwyrm', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10238'),
(1127, 'Booty for A Badman', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2828'),
(1128, 'Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1115'),
(1129, 'Border songs', 'Jim Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: By the acclaimed author of The Highest Tide, a story of contrary destinies that are further complicated by the border that separates them.Brandon Vanderkoolâ€™s extreme dyslexia and height give him a peculiar perspective, which proves handy once his father pushes him off their Washington dairy farm into the Border Patrol. Though he used to just jump over the ditch into British Columbia, heâ€™s uncomfortable in this uniformed role and instead indulges his obsession with birds and art while incidentally spotting smugglers and illegal immigrants who are provoking an already paranoid society. Drug mansions in the Canadian highlands peer down into berry farms that might offer convenient routes into the American market, where politicians clamor for increased security. Closer to home, Brandonâ€™s father battles disease in his herd and his mother something far worse. Madeline Rousseau, who grew up right across the ditch, has seen her gardening skills turn lucrative, while her father replicates great past inventions and rails against imperialism. And overseeing everything is a mysterious masseuse who knows everybodyâ€™s secrets.Rich in characters contending with a swiftly changing world and their own elusive hopes and dreams, Border Songs is at once comic, tender, and momentousâ€”a riveting portrait of a distinctive community, an inventive love story, and fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2122'),
(1130, 'Born in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2339'),
(1131, 'Born in Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attempting to escape her past, reclusive glassmaker Maggie Concannon devotes her life to her art, until gallery owner Rogan Sweeney recognizes her talent and offers to help her build a lucrative career. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2629'),
(1132, 'Born in ice', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sparkling entry in the New York Times bestselling Born In trilogy. The story of modern-day Ireland''s Concannon sisters continues with the tale of Brianna--whose cool beauty hides a heart of fiery passion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2646'),
(1133, 'Born in shame', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With her life turned upside down after learning her true father''s identity, successful graphic artist Shannon Bodine reluctantly leaves America and sets out to meet her family in County Clare and discovers the meaning of true love. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2591'),
(1134, 'Born O&#39;Hurley: Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2603');
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(1135, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6562'),
(1136, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5056'),
(1137, 'Born Standing Up: A Comic&#39;s Life', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been awriter. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott''s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times -- the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies. Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3822'),
(1138, 'Born to Be Riled', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: bull; why Surrey is worse than Wales bull; how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest bull; the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched bull; that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ls"personalitiesrs" and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarksonrs"s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1734'),
(1139, 'Born to Die', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Appearancesâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A sad, strange coincidenceâ€¦that''s Dr. Kacey Lambert''s initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It''s not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Can Beâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to notice ties between the dead women''s lives and her own-all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O''Halleran, the man Kacey just started dating.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deadlyâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The deeper Kacey digs, the more reason she has to fear. More look-alikes are dying, and the killer is getting bolder and more brutal. And Kacey knows it''s only a matter of time before hers is the next name on a list of those who were born to dieâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8742'),
(1140, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(1141, 'Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place. . .or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(1142, 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9367'),
(1143, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4472'),
(1144, 'Boston Blitz', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob. It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war. There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/772'),
(1145, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane ( Mystic River , The Given Day ) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island , the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain ; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred ; Darkness, Take My Hand ; A Drink Before the War , which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day . A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1177'),
(1146, 'The Bostonians', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    The Bostonians\n   </i>\n   , byÂ \n   <b>\n    Henry James\n   </b>\n   , is part of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Â \n   </i>\n   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   :\n   <div>\n    <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n     <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n     </li>\n    </ul>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n    <i>\n     Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n    </i>\n    pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Â \n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement,Â \n  <b>\n   Henry James\n  </b>\n  Â dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner inÂ \n  <i>\n   The Bostonians.\n  </i>\n  Â Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womenâ€™s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenaâ€™s soulâ€”and bodyâ€”their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todayâ€™s sexual politics. In fact, Jamesâ€™s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novelâ€™s quietly haunting final sentence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  <b>\n   Siri Hustvedt\n  </b>\n  Â earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry,Â \n  <i>\n   Reading to You;\n  </i>\n  Â three novels:Â \n  <i>\n   The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,\n  </i>\n  Â andÂ \n  <i>\n   What I Loved;\n  </i>\n  Â and a book of essays,\n  <i>\n   Yonder\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4509'),
(1147, 'The botany of desire: a plant&#39;s-eye view of the world', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2401'),
(1148, 'The Botticelli Secret', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Gloriously fresh and vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, ''The Botticelli Secret'' is a masterful concoction of enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Resplendent fifteenth-century Italy is seen through the eyes of the gorgeous Luciana Vetra, part-time model and full-time prostitute. After a request from one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, Luciana agrees to model for the central figure of Flora in Botticelli''s masterpiece ''Primavera'' But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively steals an unfinished version of the painting - only to find that friends and clients are slaughtered around her in an attempt to get it back. So Luciana turns to the one man who has never desired her beauty, novice monk Brother Guido Della Torre, to discover what could be so valuable about the painting. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana and Guido race through the seven cities of Renaissance Italy pursued by ruthless enemies who are determined to keep them from decoding the painting''s secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3110'),
(1149, 'The Bottle Factory Outing', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8247'),
(1150, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/886'),
(1151, 'Bound, Branded, &amp; Brazen', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Three sisters reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master". ** In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a date with destiny... *Bound*: When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband goodbye-along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories. *Branded*: Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask for more than she''s willing to give? *Brazen*: Ranch hand Walker Morgan can''t afford to get too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how she tempts him. But Jolene''s prepared to take the first step. In the style of *Wild, Wicked, &amp; Wanton*, national bestselling author Jaci Burton, delivers a threesome that no reader will ever forget in these steamy stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1948'),
(1152, 'Boundaries With Kids Leader&#39;s Guide: When to Say Yes, How to Say No', 'Henry Cloud; John Townsend; John Sims Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Boundaries with Kids will help parents: Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems Set boundaries and establish consequences with kids Get out of the â€œnaggingâ€ trap Stop controlling their kidsâ€”and instead help their children develop self-control Apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting Take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with their kidsWant to Paint a Happy Future for Your Children? Start Drawing the Line Today.One of the most loving things parents can do for their children is set firm boundaries with them. Boundaries with Kids will help the parents in your group raise their kids to take responsibility for their own actions, attitudes, and emotions. In eight sessions, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend offer tools and insights for bringing order to problematic circumstances and cultivating healthier parent-child relationships in the home.This leaderâ€™s guide gives you the clear, step-by-step instructions you need to maximize interaction, support, and insights within your group. Most of the preparation has been done for youâ€”just follow the easy-to-use lesson plan, complete with helpful tips. Because this book includes the full text of the participantâ€™s guide, itâ€™s the only guidebook you need to track page-for-page with your group.[Sidebar] Boundaries with Kids sessions: 1. Building Character in Kids 2. Kids Need Parents with Boundaries 3. The Law of Sowing and Reaping and the Law of Responsibility 4. The Laws of Power and Respect 5. The Laws of Motivation and Evaluation 6. The Laws of Proactivity and Envy 7. The Laws of Activity and Exposure 8. Six Steps to Implementing Boundaries with Your KidsBoundaries in Marriage kit includes: 1 â€“ 120-minute VHS &amp; DVD included (use either format) 1 â€“ Leaderâ€™s guide* 1 â€“ Participantâ€™s guide* 1 â€“ Boundaries with Kids softcover book*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10102'),
(1153, 'The Bounty Hunter Wars 1: The Mandalorian Armor', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous careerâ€”an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It''s a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the game is rigged, as he finds himself the target of murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire''s dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7614'),
(1154, 'The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3479'),
(1155, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3478'),
(1156, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no  future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he  was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body  riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A  frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the  flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has  altered his face. Strange things that he says in  his deliriumâ€” maybe code words.  Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that  leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four  million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.  But now he is marked for death, caught in a  maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep  layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of  murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s  most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason  Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape  him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3585'),
(1157, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(1158, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life - as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3477'),
(1159, 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A KILLER WITH NO FACE, NO IDENTITY, AND A NAME THE WORLD WANTED TO FORGET: JASON BOURNEReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity-a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage-an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances-all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes-and one must die.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3593'),
(1160, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  againâ€”assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trapâ€”a trap from which only one of them will escape.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3591'),
(1161, 'Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Although unfinished during Flaubert''s lifetime, Bouvard and Pecuchet is now considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces. In his own words, the novel is "a kid of encyclopedia made into farce...A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this novel are Bouvard and Pecuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends with a disaster. In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas. In addition to being a new translation, this edition includes Flaubert''s Dictionary of Received Ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9822'),
(1162, 'The box garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1116'),
(1163, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5172'),
(1164, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', 'John Boyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2103'),
(1165, 'Boy Lost Girl Lost', 'Lost Boy Lost Girl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9208'),
(1166, 'Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5541'),
(1167, 'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3115'),
(1168, 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind', 'William Kamkwamba;Bryan Mealer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up on learning and reading. A story of passion, determination and remarkable achievements.Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William''s family were farmers. They were totally reliant of the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months until they would be able to harvest their crop again.Forced to leave school at 14 years old, with no hope of raising the funds to go again, William resorted to borrowing books from the small local library to continue his education. One day, browsing the titles, he picked up a book about energy, with a picture of a wind turbine on the front cover. Fascinated by science and electricity, but knowing little more about the technology, William decided to build his own. Ridiculed by those around him, and exhausted from his work in the fields every day, and using nothing more than bits of scrap metal, old bicycle parts and wood from the blue gum tree, he slowly built his very own windmill.This windmill has changed the world in which William and his family live. Only 2 per cent of Malawi has electricity; William''s windmill now powers the lightbulbs and radio for his compound. He has since built more windmills for his school and his village.When news of William''s invention spread, people from across the globe offered to help him. Soon he was re-enrolled in college and travelling to America to visit wind farms. This is his incredible story.William''s dream is that other African''s will learn to help themselves '' one windmill and one light bulb at a time '' and that maybe one day they will be able to power their own computers, and use the internet, and see for themselves how his life has changed after picking up that book in the library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3971'),
(1169, 'The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2773'),
(1170, 'Boy-Crazy Stacey', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9756'),
(1171, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.  As Cory struggles to understand his father''s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father''s sanity and his own life hang in the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3559');
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(1172, 'Boys and Their Toys: Understanding Men by Understanding Their Relationship With Gadgets', 'Bill Adler Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First he showed readers how to outwit squirrels in the runaway bestseller Outwitting Squirrels, now he''s going to show them how to outwit their men. The key to understanding men is in understanding how they relate to their gadgets. In Boys and Their Toys, bestselling author Bill Adler, Jr. explains how men use toys to assert their independence and freedom, relieve stress, connect to their lost childhood and even express their nurturing side (without having to admit it). Written in Adler''s fun, humorous style, the book reveals how women can learn how a man''s interest in particular "toys" can be used to predict his behaviour , to identify when a guy''s passion for gadgets crosses the line into obsession and what to do about it, and how to take advantage of the human-gadget relationship to improve the human-human relationship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9257'),
(1173, 'Boys R Us', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The trials and tribulations of the girls at Westchester County''s most exclusive private middle school continue in this 11th novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Follow Massie, Kristen, Layne, Alicia, and Claire as these members of the Pretty Committee attempt to survive their school''s boy-swap intact, or risk tearing the Clique apart at the seams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2220'),
(1174, 'Brain Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.Â Â Until the horrifying car accident.Â Â Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.Â Â Now, Alex seems the same.Â Â but in his eyes there is a blankness.Â Â In his hear there is coldness.Â Â If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified.Â Â One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.Â Â A cry for vengeance pierced the night.Â Â That evil still lives.Â Â That vengeance still waits.Â Â Waits for Alex Lonsdale.Â Â Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4583'),
(1175, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9867'),
(1176, 'Brain Jack', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given the classic work-for-us-or-go-to-prison-forever nonchoice. The department is reluctant to use the newfangled neuro-headset technology (which lets users interface directly with their computers and the Net through brain waves), but the advantage they give to the bad guys is too much to discount. What they donâ€™t fully consider, though, are the implications of such unfettered access to the human consciousness. The hacking scenes are relentlessly paced, and Falknerâ€™s stimulating mix of technobabble (â€œIâ€™m going to crash the shell with a buffer overflow and get in via the rhosts fileâ€) and metaphor (â€œA trapdoor in the firewall, Sam thought as he hurled a frag grenade at a murky pool of the intruderâ€™s codeâ€) should appeal to geeks but carry the less savvy as well. Think of this as the high-octane, adrenalized sibling of Cory Doctorowâ€™s more lesson-laden Little Brother (2008). Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another terrifying sci-fi page-turner from the author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n Las Vegas is goneâ€”destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and itâ€™s the Internet at the speed of thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes whatâ€™s happened, Samâ€™s incursion against the worldâ€™s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nationâ€™s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Falkner, author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n , has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n and M. T. Andersonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Feed\n </em>\n will love this high-octane techno thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6413'),
(1177, 'Brain Ships', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Mercedes Lackey &amp; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve the interests of the Central Worlds Courier Service.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8075'),
(1178, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one. Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality. *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(1179, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando &amp; Robert Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n <em>\n  Streetcar\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Freshman\n </em>\n , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n <em>\n  Brando\n </em>\n and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n <em>\n  Songs My Mother Taught Me\n </em>\n has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n <em>\n  Bonnie Smothers\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6417'),
(1180, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bullet speaks louder than words . . . when Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in the new novel by Michael Connelly. Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly. Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2421'),
(1181, 'Bratfest At Tiffany&#39;s', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Watch out, boys... here comes The Clique!The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules?For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster - she just can''t keep away from irresistible Josh. Meanwhile Claire''s spent all summer dreaming about Cam, but he''s moved on faster than you can say cuh-yutest couple. At least she finally has a secure spot in the Committee - unlessalousy flirting breaks the boy-fast...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2209'),
(1182, 'The Brave and the Bold Book Two', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF\n  <em>\n   STAR TREK\n  </em>\n  Â® HISTORY!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While on their shakedown cruise, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Voyager\n  </em>\n  â„¢ discover the third artifact in the Demilitarized Zone -- in the hands of the Maquis! With the aid of Captain Robert DeSoto of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Hood, Voyager\n  </em>\n  security chief Lieutenant Tuvok infiltrates the Maquis, and must gain the trust of cell leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson before the terrorists use the artifact to throw the DMZ into chaos!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the final artifact is unearthed on Narendra III, it leads to several mysterious disappearances throughout Federation and Klingonâ„¢ space -- including Federation Ambassadors Spock and Worf. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ joins forces with Captain Klag of the I.K.S. Gorkon -- but even the greatest vessels of two nations may not be enough when the deadly secret of the final artifact is revealed!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is the author of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelization, The Xander Years Volume One, and is known to Star Trek fans as the author of Perchance to Dream, a Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries published by Wildstorm. He is the editor of Marvel Comics'' tie-in novels and of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8676'),
(1183, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle with Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be. Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1646'),
(1184, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley''s most enduring masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist''s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Saturday Review of Literature*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Forum*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley''s best book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --Martin Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(1185, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7669'),
(1186, 'A brave vessel: the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare&#39;s The tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy** In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding. Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2117'),
(1187, 'Bravo two zero', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-east Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO-ZEROBravo Two-Zero is a breathtaking account of Sepcial Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, Bravo Two-Zero is already part of SAS legend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(1188, 'The brazen gambit', 'Lynn Abbey; Brom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pavek of Urik, templar of Hamanu and lower-level bureaucrat, has grown accustomed to the benefits of his station. Neither aggressive nor rebellious, he accepts his position, follows orders, and doesn''t usually ask questions. Then one day he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy that permeates all of Urik, even the ranks of his templar superiors, and now he is on the run. Forced to flee the comforts of his station, Pavek must take to the desert in search of a new way of life and a new system of beliefs, or meet death in the blood-soaked alleys of Urik at the hands of those he used to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2269'),
(1189, 'Brazen Virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whors"s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacherrs"s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.rs"s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnrs"t fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For shers"s setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6240'),
(1190, 'A Breach of Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones When Anne Perry sets her magic pen to paper, Victorian England awakens from her long sleep to vibrant, teeming life. Firelight flickers in luxurious withdrawing rooms. Ambitious ladies gossip and scheme. Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones while cries of flower sellers and newsboys ring out in crowded streets. In this magnificent new novel featuring investigator William Monk, however, it is the breathless hush of a London courtroom that first holds readers enthralled. The plaintiffs in a sensational breach of promise suit are wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert, suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah''s alleged fiancÃ©, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Not even to his baffled counsel, distinguished barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone, will Killian explain his rejection of rich and charming Zillah. Utterly baffled, Rathbone turns for help to his old comrades in crime--Monk, the private investigator who knows his city like the back of his hand, and fearless nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, from Mayfair to sordid Devil''s Acre, the case suddenly and tragically ends. An outcome that no one--except a ruthless murderer--could have foreseen. Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society''s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart''s deepest hiding places--and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(1191, 'The Bread Lover&#39;s Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker&#39;s 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread, From Every Kind of Machine', 'Beth Hensperger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unlike electric ice cream makers and pasta machines, the bread machine hasn''t really enjoyed wholehearted acceptance in the culinary world. There are hordes of enthusiasts, no question about it, but many who consider themselves serious bakers look upon the machine with a skeptical eye. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. The book opens with an excellent orientation to both the machine and the basics of bread making. Step-by-step instructions are given for a few basic loaves. (Less helpful is a "what went wrong" section, which displays a firm grasp of the obvious.) The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it''s hard to believe a bread exists that isn''t included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. She even offers instructions for using bread machines to make pasta, jams and chutneys. By the end, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) will have convinced readers that it''s time to overcome any qualms and get to work. The bread machine is here to stay. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hensperger''s smaller quick breads book includes 100 recipes from her earlier Art of Quick Breads, now out of print, as well as 50 new ones. In addition to quick loaves, both sweet and savory, there are waffles, dumplings, biscuits, popovers, and a variety of other easy baked goods, along with some tasty accompaniments, such as the Fruit Salsa for her Hopi Blue Corn Hotcakes. For most collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6052'),
(1192, 'Bread Machine', 'Hensperger, Beth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9656'),
(1193, 'Break In', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Francis''s 25th thriller is suavely handled and full of suspense. The narrator, Kit Fielding, wins handily as a steeple-chase jockey and enjoys the friendship of the princess who owns the horses he races. But trouble threatening his twin Holly and her husband Bobby Allardeck interrupts Kit''s routine. As horse trainers, the Allardecks are about to go bankrupt after a scandal sheet prints the false report that they can''t pay their debts. Determined to discover the motive for the attack, Kit enlists the help of people in the princess''s circle, which includes her niece, Danielle. A romance develops between the jockey and Danielle, interrupted by villains sent to kill him. Thanks to Kit, the Allardecks'' business is saved and he outwits the perpetrators of a shameful conspiracy. The love story, as well as the author''s colorful descriptions of English jump racing and newspaper tycoons, add zest to the intricate novel. Literary Guild and Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suavely handled and full of suspense. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8221'),
(1194, 'Break No Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The success of the Fox TV show\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , based on bestseller Reichs''s series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (_Cross Bones_, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who''s a lawyer, appears in town, pursuing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each otherâ€”and her ex-husband''s inquiry. Reichs''s down-to-earth heroine is an appealing creation, who deftly juggles personal problems with professional challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution, this novel confirms the series'' place in the front rank of the ever-expanding forensic thriller subgenre.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this ninth in the popular series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending two weeks in May on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, where she is leading a student excavation of a prehistoric site when one of the bodies they find isn''t so ancient. After reporting her find to her friend Emma Rousseau, coroner at the Charleston County Coroner''s Office, Tempe learns that Emma is ill and unable to investigate; so Tempe fills in for her as a consultant. When another body is found in a different location, the forensic examination of the bones shows a similarity in the manner of death. As Tempe investigates further, another body turns up, leading her to a horrifying conclusion about the motive for these deaths. Complicating matters, Tempe''s estranged husband moves into the house she has borrowed, and her boyfriend arrives unexpectedly from Montreal. Tempe must work through her ambivalence about divorcing her unfaithful husband, for whom she still has feelings, but she also cares for her boyfriend. Readers who enjoy Patricia Cornwell''s mysteries will appreciate the forensic detail here, and more character-oriented readers will respond to Reichs'' likable and well-developed cast, from the local sheriff to Tempe herself, a dedicated woman who feels compelled to provide justice for those who can no longer speak for themselves. An engrossing entry in a widely read series.\n  <em>\n   Sue O''Brien\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11162'),
(1195, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: it''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany''s. And nice girls don''t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ''top banana in the shock department'', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: ''House of Flowers'', ''A Diamond Guitar'' and ''A Christmas Memory''. ''One of the twentieth century''s most gorgeously romantic fictions.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3937'),
(1196, 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction "Delightfully fun...a writer to watch." Booklist Rich, the epitome of "anti-domestic," can''t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he''s ready to settle down, and he can''t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women''s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex. Rich is the only guy who''s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she''ll give him the makeover he''s asking for, though she''ll be damned if she''s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires? PRAISE FOR TOO HOT TO HANDLE " Robin Kaye is a master at romance, and her second novel is even better than the first." Armchair Interviews " Robin Kaye has proved herself a master of romantic comedy." Night Owl Romance Praise for Romeo, Romeo " Debut author Kaye provides a pleasing romantic romp mixing Italian Brooklyn family values, hot sex, and plenty of food." Publishers Weekly " The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." Romantic Times "A rollicking romance that''s sure to please!" Novel Thought Comments " Kaye''s writing is just about perfect for this kind of story as she balances a fine line between romance, sex, and family, all of which come together with ease." A Book Blogger''s Diary " Robin Kaye''s Romeo, Romeo is sensational! I loved everything about this novel. The story, characters and writing are all five star material." Crave More Romances\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3992'),
(1197, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a frolic of cartoons and comic outbursts against rule and reason, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.''Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic...fresh, funny, outrageous... he very nearly levitates'' New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2970'),
(1198, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4334'),
(1199, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4342'),
(1200, 'Breaking Loose', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLDâ€™S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONEâ€™S LUSTING AFTERâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n No oneâ€™s ever seen it. Everybody wants it. Thatâ€™s why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent whoâ€™s planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it firstâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Dax first spotted her outside a seedy barâ€”in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. Heâ€™d know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is onâ€”and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, theyâ€™re headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the agesâ€¦or expose them to the hottest danger of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tara Janzen lives in Colorado where she is at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8243'),
(1201, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*) "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*) In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2736'),
(1202, 'Breaking Point', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6499'),
(1203, 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code', 'Darrell L. Brock PH.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(1204, 'Breaking the Rules: A Novel', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman (Infamous) masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family. Ben, the youngest, asks Danny and Eden to come to Las Vegas and rescue him from their stepfather. Ben befriends Neesha, a teen running away from years of imprisonment in a brothel, as Eden struggles to prove she''s not as messed up as Danny thinks she is. Eden is also dodging her estranged husband, Izzy, who served in the Navy with Danny; he and Danny''s fabulous girlfriend, Jennilyn, are rare voices of sanity as the Gillmans try to forget the past and learn to get along while saving Ben and Neesha from their pursuers. The slowly rekindled attraction between Izzy and Eden is steamy, and Jennilyn is a rock for Danny, giving romance fans two delightful relationships for the price of one. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Breaking the Rules\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family." --\n </em>\n Publisher''s Weekly, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR SUZANNE BROCKMANN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann strikes the perfect balance between white-knuckle suspense and richly emotional romance.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reigning queen of military suspense.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is an undisputed master at writing military and suspense fiction [with] action, danger and passion all rolled into one.â€â€”Curled Up with a Good Book\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is a master of adventure, drama, passion and suspense.â€â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brockmann] brilliantly combines superbly crafted, realistically complex characters with white-knuckle plotting.â€â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6818'),
(1205, 'Breaking the Spell', 'Daniel C. Dennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11044'),
(1206, 'Breakout', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n , he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.\n</p>\n<p>\n While there are rough spots here and there,\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that''s just what it is.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fifth book about master criminal Parker since his welcome return from a 20-year hiatus is packed so tightly with the painstaking details of everything from the dank tedium of prison life to the architecture and construction of a Midwestern shopping complex that it comes as a shock to realize the volume isn''t bigger than it is. Stark, the nom de crime adopted for this series by MWA Grand Master Donald Westlake, is an artist of compression, with the ability to create a complex, frightening character in very few words. Of an Asian lawyer visiting Parker in prison, he writes, "Li was amused, not by Parker in particular but by his own entire life; it made him easy to be around, but suggested there were circumstances when he might not be completely reliable." But Stark is also remarkable because he seems to know how everything works and can explain it without slowing down the story. Stuck in a fortress-like holding prison "on the outskirts of the only large city in this big empty midwestern state" after a robbery goes bad, Parker links up with two other prisoners in a totally logical way, then plans a breakout (the first of several in the book) so credible that we''re swept up in its mechanics. But before he can return to his haven in rural New Jersey, Parker has to pay off the help he received by taking part in another robbery that falls apart in a different way that''s just as exhilarating. Watching artists like Stark and Parker at work is a great pleasure, which an increasing audience will be delighted to share.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6553');
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(1207, 'Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World', 'Jon Queijo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This very well-written, cogent, and accessible book by freelance writer Queijo will be an important resource, especially for a lay audience. Each of the ten medical discoveries mentioned in the title is really a chapter delimiting the history of medicine. Chapters range from The World[HTML_REMOVED]s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of Medicine[HTML_REMOVED] to [HTML_REMOVED]A Return to Tradition: The Rediscovery of Alternative Medicine.[HTML_REMOVED] This book deserves a very wide readership. Especially useful for general readers, it also will be applicable in undergraduate education across a surprising range of disciplines."\n <strong>\n  Summing Up:\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and researchers/faculty\n </strong>\n . Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness."Â  -â€“\n <strong>\n  Matt Ridley\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Genome\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why are you alive right now?\n </strong>\n Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these havenâ€™t just changed the way we treat disease, theyâ€™ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In _\n <strong>\n  Breakthrough!\n </strong>\n _, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of historyâ€™s most amazing medical discoveries. This isnâ€™t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the worldâ€“and, quite likely, saved your life.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4757'),
(1208, 'Breakup', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed. SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(1209, 'Breakup Reversed', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10175'),
(1210, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9613'),
(1211, 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1998\n </strong>\n : "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat''s novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins in Haiti, on Mother''s Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother''s rights to the girl''s affections above her own. Presented with a Mother''s Day card, Tante Atie responds: "''It is for a mother, your mother.'' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. ''When it is Aunt''s Day, you can make me one.''" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."\n</p>\n<p>\n With Sophie''s transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat''s roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother''s new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie''s graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie''s mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter''s virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie''s struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat''s lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat''s short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl''s coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says narrator Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and love that bind the courageous women in her family. The burden of being a woman in Haiti, where purity and chastity are a matter of family honor, and where "nightmares are passed on through generations like heirlooms," is Danticat''s theme. Born after her mother Martine was raped, Sophie is raised by her Tante Atie in a small town in Haiti. At 12 she joins Martine in New York, while Atie returns to her native village to care for indomitable Grandmother Ife. Neither Sophie nor Martine can escape the weight of the past, resulting in a pattern of insomnia, bulimia, sexual trauma and mental anguish that afflicts both of them and leads inexorably to tragedy. Though her tale is permeated with a haunting sadness, Danticat also imbues it with color and magic, beautifully evoking the pace and character of Creole life, the feel of both village and farm communities, where the omnipresent Tontons Macoute mean daily terror, where voudon rituals and superstitions still dominate even as illiterate inhabitants utilize such 20th-century conveniences as cassettes to correspond with emigres in America. In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, she makes Sophie''s confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4676'),
(1212, 'Breathe', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre...  All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.  Itâ€™s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.  As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8462'),
(1213, 'Breathing Room', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips &amp; Susan Elizabeth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Isabel Favor is a life-style coach whose life is falling apart. Her accountant has run off with her money, her reputation is in tatters and her fiance has just dumped her for an older woman. Isabel needs to escape so she heads for Tuscany determined to find a little perspective - breathing room - and start over.Instead she ends up in a hotel room with Hollywood bad boy, Lorenzo Gage. He makes his living killing people on the screen at least. Ren''s reputation is blacker than black. But when you''re everyone''s favourite villain, it goes with the territory. Isabel''s always prided herself on her neatly ordered life. But look where being good has got her. Maybe it''s time to live a little...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4629'),
(1214, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature''s great mysteries has been revealed to him.He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and ''neutralize'' the threat to the known world.Grady and Cammy aren''t sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity '' determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect''å†°reathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(1215, 'Breed to Come', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9123'),
(1216, 'Breeder', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Priest of Blood and Afterlife, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C.-where shadows and mystery linger in the alleys, and where the haunts of the past come to life. This House has a Name . . . Rachel Adair thought Draper House in Washington, D.C, would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the century-old townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh''s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals . . . and the scraping sounds of an even greater terror that lives within the walls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(1217, 'Breeder Reaction', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic lookâ€”just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6309'),
(1218, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn''t be better. Because they''ve just found the perfect victim...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1985'),
(1219, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n <em>\n  Brianâ€™s Hunt\n </em>\n , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n</p>\n<p>\n This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n will not be the last\n <em>\n  Brian\n </em>\n book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7147'),
(1220, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A deer in his canoe, a bear attack, a leg stabbed with an arrowhead--it''s just another week in the life of 16-year-old Brian Robeson. In his opinion, this beats a date at Mackey''s Pizza Den, a fight with a bully, and a video game at the mall any day. After having survived a plane crash and 54 days in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, Brian can''t seem to fit into "civilization." The world of high school and family life makes no sense anymore. So Brian begins to plan. It''s time to return to the woods. This time, though, he makes no plans to come back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gary Paulsen, the popular author of many critically acclaimed books for young people and winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edward Award, has written another sequel to the Newbery Honor Book __. (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were earlier sequels.) Paulsen''s graphic and detailed descriptions of Brian''s adventures demonstrate a deep familiarity and connection to the wilderness; and in fact the author has spent much of his life in the bush, living almost entirely off the land. Brian''s experiences in nature parallel his growing independence and maturity; readers who don''t feel like they "fit in" will easily relate to the young protagonist''s search for identity and purity. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian''s Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier''s Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother''s house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7143'),
(1221, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First there was Hatchet, Paulsen''s classic tale of a boy''s survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn''t been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again"). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time, Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he has become. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers a dog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problem solving. The author''s ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7144'),
(1222, 'The Bricklayer', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *People are dying* . . . Each victim has been a thorn in the side of the FBI, and, inexplicably, domestic terrorists who claim to be anti-Bureau are claiming responsibilityâ€”and threatening more murders if their huge financial demands aren''t met. The trap has been set. The Bureau''s best agents attempt to follow the detailed demands of the blackmailers, only to be drawn into intricate mazes which are ingeniously riddled with hazards, ensuring that no one will emerge alive. The FBI has used every technological secret at their disposal to beat the killers at their gameâ€”and they have failed. The clock is ticking. Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon knows that the solution will not be found by following the rules. It''s time to call in someone from her past, someone who has routinely handled the impossibleâ€”a loose cannon ex-agent fired for insubordination but still the very best she has ever seen. It''s time to call in Steve Vail . . . *The Bricklayer*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2863'),
(1223, 'The Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3227'),
(1224, 'The Bride&#39;s Awakening', 'Kate Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He-s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria-s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her-an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she-s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana-s untouched body that only he can sate-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2685'),
(1225, 'Bridge of Birds', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(1226, 'Bridge to Terabithia', 'Katherine Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He''s been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay. Despite their superficial differences, it''s clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson''s characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5017'),
(1227, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1745'),
(1228, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(1229, 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were young and innocent. Arriving in a place they had barely heard of, they prepared for the ritual many men had endured before them -- war. They were American fighter pilots, and they came on a huge ship that also carried their helicopters. Trained as professionals, but as frightened as every man before them who had ever gone to war, they would face an enemy they couldn''t understand and wage a war they had to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1588'),
(1230, 'Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9857'),
(1231, 'Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary : A Novel', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1800'),
(1232, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6384'),
(1233, 'A brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes', 'Stephen W. Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig''s disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed,A Brief History of Timeis the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3679'),
(1234, 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(1235, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2612'),
(1236, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen Hawkingâ€™s worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key conceptsâ€”the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. Professor Hawkingâ€™s response is this new work that will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.â€¦ ****Although â€œbriefer,â€ this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawkingâ€™s earlier work. **A Briefer History of Time** both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the fieldâ€”from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make** A Briefer History of Time** an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3720');
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(1237, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6806'),
(1238, 'Bright Shiny Morning', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novelâ€”a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader''s sight linesâ€”some never to be seen againâ€”but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA''s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8889'),
(1239, 'Bright Young Things', 'Anna Godbersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York''s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a starâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordelia is searching for the father she''s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imaginedâ€”and more dangerous. It''s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia''s brother, Charlie. But Astrid''s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls'' fortunes will rise and fallâ€”together and apart. From the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Luxe\n </em>\n comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anna Godbersonâ€™s Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Bright Young Things_ may take place during the Jazz Age, but author Anna Godberson shows us that the tunes she prefers range from Cat Power to Prince. Check out what she loves and why. (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n I spend a lot of time in a chair in front of my computer obsessively reworking sentences. This song is ecstatic and full of life and whenever I hear it I want to get up and move.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds to me like the wise, sad, tired, wired, voice of experience, the kind of beauty that you can only see after youâ€™ve been worn down. Thatâ€™s what\n <em>\n  Bright Young Things\n </em>\n is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This one is like an exquisite\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n story, perfect in its simplicity and specificity but universal in what it expresses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m from, and this is the soundtrack of my homesickness. Plus, the lyrics are literary and whip-smart and impossible for a California girl to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n People like to make fun of Liz Phair these days, but her voice was the voice of my young womanhood, and â€œGo Westâ€ was the anthem of all to-hell-with-men, bridge-burning episodes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title says it all, and it just gets better from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Awesome plea for romantic decency, but in that raw, lusty, commanding voice. After at least four thousand listens, I still nod along like the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Not to date myself, but around the time I graduated from college, this was the coolest band to mock. Who cares? In my opinion, this is the ultimate jogging song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is also an instant dance party number for meâ€”is anyone as weird and cool as Prince?\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n To me, this is the ultimate expression of an artistâ€™s belief in self. There is something bleak, but also really clear-eyed and uplifting about. Plus, itâ€™s gorgeous.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n If I could curl up in Sam Cookeâ€™s voice and sleep forever, Iâ€™d do it. This one is just so desperate and romantic and it sounds just like what it means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n My parents were hippies, and I grew up in the Church Of Dylan. For a guaranteed good time, get on the freeway, roll the window down, step on the gas, and turn the volume up on this number. Please be prepared to sing along.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the Luxe series:â€œCharacters are vividly sketched, and the suspenseful story is propelled by interwoven scandals and wellâ€“supported plot twists. A compulsively readable romance about young women who strain against societal conventions.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldnâ€™t put The Luxe down!â€ (Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will clamor for this sharp, smart drama of friends, lovers, lies and betrayal.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4840'),
(1240, 'Bright-Sided', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10393'),
(1241, 'Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Ehrenreich (_Nickel and Dimed_) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its symbiotic relationship with American capitalism and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this reckless national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No critic completely dismissed Ehrenreich''s critique of America''s "happiness" culture. But reviewers'' enthusiasm for her critique seemed to depend on their assessment of the book''s moral urgency. Several critics felt that the message of\n <em>\n  Bright-Sided\n </em>\n was essential to readers in the aftermath of last year''s economic meltdown. But others felt that Ehrenreich''s ideas, while relevant, had been better expressed by others. They also criticized the author for "cheap shots" and outdated research. For example, she criticizes the book\n <em>\n  Who Moved My Cheese?\n </em>\n , which has long been superseded by other, even sillier titles. But many readers may react like Hanna Rosin, who wrote in the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n that even when she did not agree with Ehrenreich''s arguments, she felt less guilty about not sharing in our smiley :-) culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7270'),
(1242, 'Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sharp-witted knockdown of Americaâ€™s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a â€œpositiveâ€ peopleâ€”cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to â€œprosperâ€ you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of â€œpositive psychologyâ€ and the â€œscience of happiness.â€ Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomesâ€”like mortgage defaultsâ€”contributed directly to the current economic crisis. With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of Americaâ€™s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out â€œnegativeâ€ thoughts. On a national level, itâ€™s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative bestâ€”poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of numerous books, including Dancing in the Streets and The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harperâ€™s and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. In Bright-sided, Barbara Ehrenreich reveals how the positive thinking movement, though seemingly harmless, has in fact deluded America and played a role in some of the most destructive events in recent U.S. history. Far from just a â€œhealthy mindset,â€ bright-siding is an epidemic of self-deception that has spread to all circles of American life, from preachers who celebrate the power of prayer, to doctors who promote optimismâ€™s healing abilities. It led officials to overlook clues of 9/11 and overestimate the strength of New Orleansâ€™ levees, and enabled the business world to make egregiously unsafe loans that caused the worst financial crisis since World War II. Ehrenreich exposes the consequences of the belief that positive thinking is the key to achieving success and prosperityâ€”a notion which, at its most dangerous, prevents people from even considering the negative outcomes of major events or their own actions. â€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time "Barbara Ehrenreich wants to make clear that she is not a spoilsport. ''No one can call me a sourpuss,'' she declared. ''I have a big foot in the joy camp.'' She is the author of Dancing in the Streets, a history of ''collective joy,'' she notes, and a lot of fun at parties. So her new book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, should not be mistaken for a curmudgeonly rant. It is serious social history.Many of the 17 books that Ms. Ehrenreich has written during the past three and half decades have taken her into alien worlds. In her fantastically successful 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, for example, she details her experience of trying to get by on the salary of an unskilled, minimum-wage worker. By contrast, this newest volume is based on her stay in a world that she became intimately familiar with: the smiley-faced, pink-ribboned, positive-thinking culture that surrounds breast cancer patients . . . In Bright-sided, she traces the roots of the nationâ€™s blithe sunniness to a reaction against Calvinist gloom and the limits of medical science in the first half of the 19th century. Starting with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, perhaps one of the first American New Age faith healers, she draws a line to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; the psychologist William James; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Norman Vincent Peale, who published The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952; and the toothy television minister Joel Osteen, who preaches the gospel of prosperity."â€”Patricia Cohen, The New York Times"When I finished Barbara Ehrenreich''s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, I went in search of a stiff drinkâ€”or something that would allow me to escape, if only briefly, the feeling that I have been blind to the unyielding grip that positive thinking has on our culture. Very little I have read elsewhere has suggested that the current recession is good for us, but Ehrenreich implies that the implosion of our economy may bring us to our senses and that reason and common sense might have a chance to disempower the foolish, self-serving and dangerous promotion of positive thinking reaching into all areas of our lives: our health, jobs, science, religion, politics. She is relentlessâ€”and persuasiveâ€”in her determination to convince us of this. Her notes run to 15 pages of titles of papers, articles, books and television interviews she has researched to support her contention that the unwarranted optimism urged on us by church and corporations, by medical and psychological ''experts,'' has distorted the reality of the disaster we now find ourselves facing . . . So what''s with all this negativity Ehrenreich forces on us? Isn''t positive thinking better than being a spoilsport? In a voice urgent and passionate, Ehrenreich offers us neither extreme but instead balance: joy, happiness, yes; sadness, anger, yes. She favors life with a clear head, eyes wide open."â€”Jane Juska, San Francisco Chronicleâ€œWe''re always being told that looking on the bright side is good for us, but now we see that it''s a great way to brush off poverty, disease, and unemployment, to rationalize an order where all the rewards go to those on top. The people who are sick or joblessâ€”why, they just aren''t thinking positively. They have no one to blame but themselves. Barbara Ehrenreich has put the menace of positive thinking under the microscope. Anyone who''s ever been told to brighten up needs to read this book.â€â€”Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What''s the Matter with Kansas?â€œUnless you keep on saying that you believe in fairies, Tinker Bell will check out, and whatâ€™s more, her sad demise will be your fault! Barbara Ehrenreich scores again for the independent-minded in resisting this drool and all those who wallow in it.â€â€”Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingâ€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeâ€œOnce again, Barbara Ehrenreich has written an invaluable and timely book, offering a brilliant analysis of the causes and dimensions of our current cultural and economic crises. She shows how deeply positive thinking is embedded in our history and how crippling it is as a habit of mind.â€â€”Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: Americaâ€™s Place in World Historyâ€œOprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil: please read this relentlessly sensible book. Itâ€™s never too late to begin thinking clearly.â€â€”Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essaysâ€œBarbara Ehrenreichâ€™s skeptical common sense is just what we need to penetrate the cloying fog that passes for happiness in America.â€â€”Alan Wolfe, author of The Future of Liberalismâ€œIn this hilarious and devastating critique, Barbara Ehrenreich applies some much needed negativity to the zillion-dollar business of positive thinking. This is truly a text for the times.â€â€”Katha Pollitt, author of The Mind-Body Problem: Poems"In Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Notion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich reprises her role as Dorothy swishing back the curtain on a great and powerful given: â€˜Americans are a â€œpositiveâ€ people.â€™ Sunny, self-confident optimism defines us as individuals and as a nation. Humbug. Ehrenreich wants us to pay close attention to the truth behind the hypeâ€”positive thinking is hurting America, from obliging one another to turn that frown upside-down, to 2008''s financial meltdown . . . â€˜Flapdoodle,â€™ crows Ehrenreich, and the fun begins. Like flying monkeys tearing apart the Scarecrow, she shreds theories based on quantum physics (neuronal impulses are far too large to be influenced by quantum effects), magnetism (the magnetic properties of thought are swamped by competing magnetisms -- like the Earth''s!), and magic (pay no attention to that man behind the curtain). Ehrenreich likewise thrashes from top to bottom â€˜the motivators and gurus of positivity,â€™ from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, to prosperity preachers like Joel Osteen. Osteen makes a juicy target, sidestepping as he does sin and salvation in favor of the â€˜prosperity gospelâ€™â€”â€˜You can have that new car or house or necklace, because God wants to â€œprosper you.â€â€™ In spurning Osteen as a heretical fake, Ehrenreich fights dirty, mocking Osteen''s height (he''s shorter in person) and his mullet (it''s longer). Ehrenreich claims she approached her initial meeting with Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, â€˜with trepidation,â€™ yet we almost expect her to say, â€˜Just one more thing . . .â€™ Ã  la Lt. Columbo, as she tries to pin down the exact measurements of Seligman''s "equation" for happiness, a contrivance that makes him â€˜look like the Wizard of Oz.â€™ The refutation and character assassination, while entertaining, serve to show how positive thinking is as rickety a construct as the Wizard, merely masking insecurities about a world we can''t really control. So complete is Ehrenreich''s argument that she plays her own devil''s advocate: positive thinking requires self-deception, â€˜a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and â€œnegativeâ€ thoughtsâ€™â€”like those created by scathing social critiques . . . Those readers who''ve â€˜gone so far down this yellow brick road that â€œpositiveâ€ seems to us the way you should beâ€™ may bite their nails over the demystification in Bright-Sided. Ehrenreich''s advice on where to go from here is a workable antidote to the pursuit of secret formulas that don''t exist.â€â€”Kassten Alonso, The Oregonian (Portland)"Two-thirds of the way into the book, its theme shines through like sunlight in an old-time Baptist window, the kind they don''t make anymore because nobody knows how and even if they did they wouldn''t have the patience. It''s much easier and faster these days simply to visualize it and wish for it according to the directives of the positive-thinking life coaches of the prosperity-gospel churches. And while you''re about it, you might as well visualize a big house in the suburbs with an adjustable-rate mortgage or a diamond necklace instead, or any other nice piece of bling . . . In precisely crafted, hard-hitting language throughout, she explains how hordes of optimistic American consumers, under the spell of ''new age'' authors and psychologists, television preachers and celebrities, visualized and wished (with a lot of help from credit cards) for so much stuff that now they are enmeshed in unwished-for bankruptcy in record numbers . . . This hard-boiled analysis of the national mass fantasy of wishful thinking contributed, says the author, to the economic collapse of 2008. It represents her hope for recovery from ''the mass delusion that is positive thinking.'' Her personal vision, she says, is composed of better jobs and better health care for all, and a chance for everyone to contribute through clear thinking and hard work, not through the notion that we can ''levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it.''"â€”Tom Dodge, The Dallas Morning News"Ehrenreich, author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed, delivers her indictments of the happiness industry with both authority and wit. . . . Others have critiqued the positivity movement, but Ehrenreich does an impressive job of analyzing its broader social impact."â€”Kristin Ohlson, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"Ehrenreich convinced me completely. . . I hesitate to say anything so positive as that this book will change the way you see absolutely everything; but it just might."â€”Nora Ephron, The Daily Beast"Positive thinking should never be the same after Barbara Ehrenreichâ€™s Bright-Sided . . . Ehrenreich is a sharp and reliable student of the divided middle class, as good as the American left can boast. In attacking the thick irrationality of our public lives, [this book] homes in on a particularly salient line of argumentâ€”that positive thinking is not only preposterous but pernicious."â€”John Summers, Bookforum"Accomplished social critic Ehrenreich eviscerates the positive-thinking movement, which she blames for encouraging us to ''deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.'' The author argues that the promotion of unwarranted optimism began in the early days of the American republic, was taken up by 19th-century philosophers and mysticsâ€”William James urged people to repeat to themselves ''Youth, health, vigor!'' while dressing in the morningâ€”and entered the American mainstream in the 20th century, when it became an integral part of consumer culture. Ehrenreich''s quarrel is not with feeling upbeat but rather with the ''inescapable pseudoscientific flapdoodle'' of life coaches and self-improvement products claiming that thinking positively will result in wealth, success and other joyful outcomes. Such magical thinking has become a means of social control in the workplaceâ€”where uncheerful employees are ostracizedâ€”and prevents action to achieve social change. With life coaches, business motivators and evangelical preachers promoting delusional expectations . . . positive thinking can claim partial credit for a major role in such recent disastrous events as the Iraq war and the financial meltdown. Ehrenreich''s many interviews include meetings with psychologist Martin Seligman, whose ''positive psychology,'' she finds, offers little credible evidence to make it any different from the wishing-will-make-it-so thinking of writers from Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People) to Rhonda Byrne (The Secret). The author''s tough-minded and convincing broadside raises troubling questions about many aspects of contemporary American life, and she provides an antidote to the pervasive culture of cheerfulnessâ€”reality-based critical thinking that will encourage people to alter social arrangements in ways that improve their lives. Bright, incisive, provocative thinking from a top-notch nonfiction writer."â€”Kirkus Reviews"Ehrenreich delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its ''symbiotic relationship with American capitalism'' and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this ''reckless'' national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(1243, 'Bright&#39;s Passage: A Novel', 'Josh Ritter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Josh Ritter\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Marcelo Biglia The central premise of\n  <em>\n   Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </em>\n  is that an angel has followed young Henry Bright home from the senseless carnage of the First World War. The book follows Bright during three significant periods in his life, braiding the scenes together finally to portray a young man attempting to meet the greatest challenge of his life: returning home. The angel, perhaps a capricious refugee from the painted ceiling of a shelled French church, perhaps the dream-like manifestation of Henry Brightâ€™s own shell-shocked mind, nevertheless takes up residence in Henryâ€™s horse, and it is through their time with one another and the journey they take together that Bright attempts to find peace, not simply for himself, but if the angel is correct, for the entire world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  War always brims with bloody inscrutability, but the First World War mated the ferocious absurdity of human nature with unprecedented leaps of technological capability to birth a new and monstrous kind of world-striding warfare that for the first time in history seemed capable of wiping away whole civilizations. It was this conflict--the seeming ability of man to spin the world and yet just as easily be spun by it--that drew me to the time period surrounding the First World War, and that gave me my first glimpse of Henry Bright, a man caught up in a whirlwind he is unable to understand or control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though continuously pestered by the angel, upon returning home to West Virginia Henry attempts to put the abattoir of his time in France behind him by marrying his childhood friend Rachel and having a baby with her. When Rachel dies in childbirth however, Henry finds himself beset by new and present vagaries even as he attempts to understand the ones he has already come through. A wildfire, Rachelâ€™s vengeful family, and his struggle to protect his newborn son from both now drive Henry Bright, his horse, his goat and his tiny infant into the wilderness in a desperate attempt to finally find peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ultimately,\n  <em>\n   Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </em>\n  is about a man who has come home from war only to suspect that perhaps he has not yet returned from it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Advance praise for *Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œJosh Ritter is already one of the countryâ€™s most accomplished songwriters. Based on the heartbreaking, luminous\n  </em>\n  Brightâ€™s Passage*, he may become one of our most accomplished novelists as well.â€â€”Dennis Lehane\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn adventure story with the penetrating emotional colors of a fable; a mythlike survival quest with the convincing texture of a movie; a good read that stays in the memory.â€â€”Robert Pinsky\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œA perfect marriage of the miraculous and the mundane,\n  <em>\n   Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </em>\n  is itself something of a miracle. Combining the pull of a big ballad and the intimacy of a whispered monologue, it satisfies on every level: from its deceptively casual style and unexpected coinages to its astute psychology and emotional power. I imagine this is precisely the book every fan of Ritterâ€™s music wanted, but\n  <em>\n   Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </em>\n  is far more than that.â€â€”Wesley Stace, author of\n  <em>\n   Misfortune\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œA dark, enchanting parable that reads as both a warning and a reassurance,\n  <em>\n   Brightâ€™s Passage\n  </em>\n  has echoes of voices as disparate as Ron Rash, Richard Bausch, and Neil Gaiman. But, as always, Josh Ritterâ€™s haunting, graceful work is his own. His gifts are of singular beauty, and the world of American art is fortunate to have been blessed with his talent.â€â€”Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   So Cold the River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Cypress House\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œIn his debut novel Josh Ritter displays the same love of language and historical detail, the same irresistible combination of wit and earnestness, that make him such a brilliant songwriter. Heâ€™s created a genuine work of literature.â€â€”Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry W...\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11200'),
(1244, 'Brightness Reef', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Brin''s Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony. Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10426'),
(1245, 'Brilliance of the Moon', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn''s imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7953'),
(1246, 'Bringing Adam Home', 'Les Standiford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the ultimate cold caseï¿½tragic, high-profile, and, finally, successfully solved. Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adamï¿½s killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adamï¿½s father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of Americaï¿½s Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insiderï¿½s account of the grueling search for Adamï¿½s killer and for the evidence to convict him. While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!â€ (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLes Standifordâ€™s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâ€™ve ever read. A triumph in every way.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But itâ€™s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written.â€ (Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven yearsâ€”both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective.â€ (Joyce Carol Oates )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindberghâ€™sâ€”that of TV host John Walshâ€™s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killerâ€”is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â€ (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful.â€ (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5323'),
(1247, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1256'),
(1248, 'The Bro Code', 'Barney Stinson &amp; Matt Kuhn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone''s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Barney Stinson\n  </strong>\n  works at a corporation, and regularly â€œsuits upâ€ to help his lovelorn and altogether pathetic bro Ted Mosby. Basically the coolest dude ever, Barney Stinson has been compared to the Fonzâ€”but Barney is much, much more awesome. Stinson lives in New York, New Yorkâ€”and appears weekly on the hit CBS show â€œHow I Met Your Motherâ€ with his friends Ted, Robin, Lily and Marshall.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4365'),
(1249, 'Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryâ€”and become his next target.Ever since she discovered sheâ€™s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, sheâ€™s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whoâ€™s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughâ€”only the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londonâ€™s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersâ€”unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs. Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyâ€™re looking forâ€”which, for some unknown reason, is Elena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3188'),
(1250, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4207'),
(1251, 'The Broken Blade', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the destiny he bears, but this knowledge came at the cost of the voices that had guided him across the burning sands. For the first time in his memory, he feels alone. And still more will be lost... bearing Galdra, the fabled blade of elven kings, and accompanied by his love Ryana, Sorak sets out on a quest assigned him by the Sage. He seeks the Veiled Alliance in Altaruk, hoping to marshal its forces against a growing circle of defilers. But the legend of the Nomad has preceded him, and the defilers plan an end to the legend, and the Nomad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3762'),
(1252, 'The Broken Cycle', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5505'),
(1253, 'Broken Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of a series of killings that disturbingly emulates the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. By the author of Hidden Prey. Lit Guild Main. BOMC Main. Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6633'),
(1254, 'The Broken Teaglass', 'Emily Arsenault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban parkâ€“all collide memorably in Emily Arsenaultâ€™s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.****In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English language, poring over new expressions and freshly coined wordsâ€“all in preparation for the next new edition of the Samuelson Dictionary. Among them is editorial assistant Billy Webb, just out of college, struggling to stay awake and appear competent. But there are a few distractions. His intriguing coworker Mona Minot may or may not be flirting with him. And heâ€™s starting to sense something suspicious going on beneath this companyâ€™s academic facade.Mona has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, **The Broken Teaglass**. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists. And the quotations from it are far too long, twisting, and bizarre for any dictionary. They read like a confessional, coyly hinting at a hidden identity, a secret liaison, a crime. As Billy and Mona ransack the office files, a chilling story begins to emerge: a story about a lonely young woman, a long-unsolved mystery, a moment of shattering violence. And as they piece together its fragments, the puzzle begins to take on bigger personal meaning for both of them, compelling them to redefine their notions of themselves and each other.Charged with wit and intelligence, set against a sweetly cautious love story, **The Broken Teaglass** is a tale that will delight lovers of words, lovers of mysteries, and fans of smart, funny, brilliantly inventive fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1355'),
(1255, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1992'),
(1256, 'Bronx Noir', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Akashic''s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale, in 19 tales by authors both well known and obscure. The most imaginative entry, Joseph Wallace''s The Big Five, about a hunter who targets his prey in the Bronx Zoo as part of a national contest, concludes with a satisfying noir twist. Lawrence Block''s Riverdale story, Rude Awakening, also surprises the reader with its clever resolution of a one-night stand. Particularly inventive is Kevin Baker''s grim The Cheers Like Waves, set in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series'' better entries, with memorable tales of betrayal and despair that reflect the borough''s varied ethnic populations and geography.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S.J. Rozan\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. Sheâ€™s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones\n  <em>\n   Absent Friends\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In This Rain\n  </em>\n  (forthcoming). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for best novel. Sheâ€™s at work on another series novel,\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Moon.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8730'),
(1257, 'The Bronze Axe', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first book in the Richard Blade series (1969) Blasted into a fantastic new world, Richard Blade woke at the feet of a strange and beautiful woman, Taleen, Princess of Voth. Running for her life from the savage Albs who had kidnapped her. Without clothes or weapons of any kind, Blade was in trouble himself - but the seductive Taleen needed help... Strange experiences were nothing new to Blade, but he was ill-prepared for his trial by fire and sword, the secret cannibal rites of the Drus, the unquenchable lusts of the evil Queen Beata, and the maddening teasing of the virgin Taleen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1958');
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(1258, 'The Bronze Horseman', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler''s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ€”and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander''s impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ€”a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ€”as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3447'),
(1259, 'Brooklyn Noir', 'Tim McLoughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McLoughlin''s entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City''s most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school methodâ€”for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill''s lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he''d long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian''s compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin''s evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop''s son struggles with his dead father''s secret history, while Maggie Estep''s "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book''s weirdest tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can''t Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops &amp; Robbers." Brooklyn''s Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing."\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8212'),
(1260, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1111'),
(1261, 'The Brothel in Rosenstrasse', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9835'),
(1262, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1486'),
(1263, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls', 'Jane Lindskold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magic That Doesnâ€™t Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raisedâ€”and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. Thereâ€™s no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her pastâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8545'),
(1264, 'Brother to Shadows', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9085'),
(1265, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚Â ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4672'),
(1266, 'A Brother&#39;s Price', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world where males are rarely born, they''ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8724'),
(1267, 'Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Volume Two of The RunelordsRaj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahtan seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule-destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, becoming the Earth King-a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. And now the struggle continues. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahtan, but Ahtan is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahtan seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, to crush him. But as they weaken each other''s forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1527'),
(1268, 'Brothers &amp; Sisters', 'Charlotte Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ''Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ... Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ... You recognise one another, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You are strangers.'' You love them; it cannot be explained why or how.'' -From Charlotte Woods'' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood''s acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-known and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O''Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and non-fictional forms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6900'),
(1269, 'Brothers in Arms', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall. For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Milesâ€™s superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Milesâ€™s two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to assassinate which version of him? When Miles unravels the answers, then the complications really *begin*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9035'),
(1270, 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Andrew R. MacAndrew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man''s eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7138'),
(1271, 'The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . .\n  <em>\n   The Brothers Karamazov\n  </em>\n  stands as the culmination of his artâ€“his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.â€ â€“_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration.â€ â€“_The Times_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskyâ€™s original.â€ â€“_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAbsolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting.â€ â€“_The Independent_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt may well be that Dostoevskyâ€™s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowâ€“and through the medium of [this] new translationâ€“beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.â€ â€“_New York Review of Books_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHeartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevskyâ€™s Russian as it is possible.â€ â€“Joseph Frank, Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevsky''s last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7139'),
(1272, 'Brought In Dead', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11033'),
(1273, 'Brunswick Gardens', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This reading of Anne Perry''s sixth Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (Defend and Betray, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/96) is skillfully rendered by David McCallum, who gives an impeccable performance. Here Perry explores the social and moral issues of the day. Unity Bellwood, assistant to Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, falls down a flight of stairs to her death; her last words are: "No, no, Reverend!" He is suspected of pushing the young woman to her death. There are, however, other people in the house. Thomas, commander of the Bow Street police station, will not be satisfied until the whole truth can be unearthed. Engrossing and enjoyable for lovers of traditional mystery novels, although it holds few surprises for the discerning. Recommended for public library collections.?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Reg. H.S., Little Silver, NJ.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  In London''s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin''s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.\n  <p>\n   When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8574'),
(1274, 'A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1403'),
(1275, 'The Brush-Off: A Hair-Raising Mystery', 'Laura Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer''s hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends.  Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio''s hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she''s not only mourning her friend and mentor''s murder: she''s also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she''s one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn''s wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn''s hair curl....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7558'),
(1276, 'Brute Force', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nick Stone''s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war... Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer''s list... The fuse is lit... and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(1277, 'Bryant &amp; May on the Loose: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Fowler''s unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Victoria Vanishes\n </em>\n ). With the special police unit shut down, Arthur Bryant is feeling withdrawn and depressed while his partner, John May, is considering PI work.Ã‚Â WhenÃ‚Â a former team member stumbles on a beheaded corpse in the heart of London''s King''s Cross neighborhood,Ã‚Â May artfully uses the discovery to gain the PCU another lease on life. He persuades the higherups that unsolved gang crimes in the area could threaten the economic benefit anticipated from the 2012 Olympics. Given one week to solve the case, without any official sanction or access to police resources, May pulls Bryant out of his doldrums and reassembles the unit. To May''s dismay, his colleague is more interested in reports that a man wearing a stag''s head has been seen in the area. The pacing, prose, planting of clues and characterizations are all top-notch.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The efforts of various officials in the London police have finally succeeded in breaking up the Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). While most of the team have started remaking their lives, brilliant, eccentric Arthur Bryant has become a morose recluse. His old friend John May is definitely concerned. Then along comes a case that May thinks might pique Arthurâ€™s interest and put the unit back in business: a headless corpse is found stuffed in an old freezer. Strangely, itâ€™s not the unfortunate dead guy that calls to the elderly Bryant. Heâ€™s more interested in the oddly dressed man causing havoc around a Kingâ€™s Cross renovation project. With the groupâ€™s future at stake, which case will win out? With a liberal dose of regional history and some surprising humor, this ensemble crime story has lots to offerâ€”not the least of which are a couple of great, unexpected twists that not only change the makeup of the PCU but also lead its members straight into adventures to come. --Stephanie Zvirin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8461'),
(1278, 'Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann''s first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann''s novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9241'),
(1279, 'Buddha', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With such bestsellers as *A History of God and Islam*, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (*The New York Times*) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In *Buddha* she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2276'),
(1280, 'Buddha: The Gospel', 'Paul Carus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is for Christians who wish to grasp the message and principle beliefs of Buddhism. Carus presents the Buddha''s life in a collection of stories from his birth, attainment of enlightenment, teaching, to his death. Well written, it emulates the biblical style of the King Jame''s Bible, occasionally puncuated with Ye, Thou, Thy, and so on. The stories are enjoyable but short and somewhat numerous. Also included is a glossary of terms and a concordance with passages in the New Testament.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10953'),
(1281, 'The Bug Wars', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10072'),
(1282, 'Building Homebrew Equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen &amp; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5571'),
(1283, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... *** Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2782'),
(1284, 'Bulletproof Bride', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/677'),
(1285, 'The Bullies: Understanding Bullies and Bullying', 'Dennis Lines', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is there a particular type of person who becomes a bully? Why do bullies behave like they do? How can we interpret and understand bullying within relationships?\n <br />\n The Bullies attempts to get inside the minds of the bully and the victim - the child, the adolescent and the adult - across a wide range of ''closed'' situations including the home, school, workplace, prisons and the armed services. By listening to the voices of bullies and victims from all kinds of backgrounds without making judgments, counselor Dennis Lines provides unique insights into bullying and what makes such domineering and aggressive behavior so complex. He discusses controversial issues such as genetic predisposition towards abusive behavior and draws on his counseling knowledge to provide insights on how to understand and treat bullies to change their behavior.\n <br />\n The Bullies offers a unique and illustrated perspective on a widespread phenomenon, and will be essential reading for psychologists, sociologists, counselors, teachers, social workers, probation officers, students and researchers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dennis Lines holds a BPhil Ed (Counseling) and is MBACP affiliated. He has been a youth leader for 12 years, an RE teacher in secondary school for 11 years and has for the past 22 years worked as a School Counselor in a large secondary school in Birmingham. He has published widely and given lectures and conducted workshops on adolescent development and related topics nationally.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9672'),
(1286, 'Bump in the Night', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Enter a world where no boundaries exist - and where every seduction is supernatural...* Follow four of today''s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldy suspense. Beginning with an all-new tale from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb-and featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passion of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2350'),
(1287, 'Bundle of Trouble', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"Cigars all around"( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series. First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer.** Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you''re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(1288, 'Bundori', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head taken for a bundori -- a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called to find the culprit. In a city where danger and deceit lie just below the lush surface, Sano must rely on his mind, his instincts, and his noble training in Bushido -- the Way of the Warrior -- to solve this case that could bring him glory...or everlasting shame. Set against a backdrop of sumptuous castles, tawdry pleasure districts, and serene temples, and filled with unforgettable, rich characters, Bundori is breathtaking entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2669'),
(1289, 'Bungalow 2', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya''s first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya''s cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren''t enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel''s characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel''s many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood._ (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children will soon be heading off to college. With that hole in her life looming, she accepts an offer from her agent (she is also a free-lance writer) to work on a Hollywood script for a big-time producer and director. For Tanya, returning to the work world full time is a tough choice, but after a lot of hand-wringing and platitudes about leaving her family, she decides to do it. She plans to work in Hollywood during the week (residing at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel, in Bungalow 2) and return home every weekend. Of course, she finds herself working on weekends, and before long, her husband begins an affair with their next-door neighbor, and Tanya herself has begun to take a romantic interest in the producer she is working for. Not surprisingly, their marriage unravels, and Tanya begins a series of fruitless Hollywood relationships, all while trying to maintain her bond with her children. But this is a Steel novel, after all, and eventually she finds her man, works things out with her kids, and wins an Academy Award, no less.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6036'),
(1290, 'Bunner Sisters', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was perhaps with the idea of relieving the tension of their mood that Evelina, the following Sunday, suggested inviting Miss Mellins to supper. The Bunner sisters were not in a position to be lavish of the humblest hospitality, but two or three times in the year they shared their evening meal with a friend; and Miss Mellins, still flushed with the importance of her "turn," seemed the most interesting guest they could invite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1247'),
(1291, 'Bunner Sisters (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is n\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9474'),
(1292, 'The Burden of Proof', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Turow''s acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from "Presumed Innocent", faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3461'),
(1293, 'The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in the chair, vulnerable thanks to a dental instrument in his mouth, he discovers that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar. "Like you, Bernie", the good dentist says. So much for leading a secret life of crime. Bernie, smart guy that he is, turns the dentist down flat. So why is Bernie picking the locks on the posh apartment of Crystal Sheldrake, the dentist''s ex-wife? Because he''s a burglar. Plus, Crystal has a cache of jewels worth any burglar''s time. Trouble is, Crystal comes home early - and she''s not alone. Bernie quickly hides in a closet, which Crystal promptly and inconveniently locks. As time goes by, Crystal rids herself of her companion and Bernie manages to pick his way out of the closet -- only to discover Crystal dead on the floor and the jewels gone. Bernie must sleuth his way out of a real mess. The Burglar in the Closet is a terrific read! --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr''s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie''s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he''s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he''s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernie''s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he''ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn''t commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8671'),
(1294, 'The Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he''s excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&amp;b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagementâ€”she''s getting married . . . and not to Bernieâ€”so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city''s bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there''s a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford''s library that Bernie''s just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie''s a burglar?   But first he''s got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot''s thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it''s Bernie who''ll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8666');
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(1295, 'The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n , is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing--although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes\n <em>\n  absolutely\n </em>\n necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated--and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating objects he picks up along the way. The reader also learns about some mind-expanding facts, such as the existence of a tiny South American fish that swims up a man''s urine stream and lodges in his private parts! Or did Block make that up, too?\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Bernie picks include:\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block''s addictive series about bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, etc.) continues as our hero invades the hotel suite of an aged literary agent in search of a cache of letters, by a respected and reclusive writer, that are wanted by people both legitimate and not. As he usually does, Bernie finds a corpse on the other side of the locked door he so neatly opens, and he is immediately suspected of murder by his nemesis, sticky-fingered Ray Kirschmann of the NYPD. More murder ensues before Bernie, with the help of his lesbian buddy Carolyn, can get a handle on the proceedings. But when he does, and has gathered all the principals into a room for the inevitable explanatory/accusatory windup ("I suppose you''re wondering why I summoned you all here," he gets to say, to his and the reader''s delight, time and again), he hits on a solution that fingers a most unlikely suspect, satisfies all the claimants to the letters and leaves him (and Ray) richer. Block''s effortless mastery of his material, his relaxed ease, are as pleasurable as always, and he has some splendid fun with an author not unlike J.D. Salinger. This is the prolific Block''s only new novel of the year, and it''s a steal at any price. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8667'),
(1296, 'The Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable\n <em>\n  Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n , Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going "on the prowl" one restless eveningâ€•-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he''s pawing through a woman''s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim''s life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block''s prose is merely serviceable, but his plotting and storytelling are first-rate. He constructs a complex puzzle, yet weaves in each new development so seamlessly that you almost don''t see it happen. Like its Bernie predecessors,\n <em>\n  The Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n is droll and charming, and at times you can feel Block trying a bit too hard with the charm. However, a few truly horrific bad guys and some ugly violence keep the sweetness from cloying. And it''s impossible not to like Bernie, a gentleman criminal with few peers in contemporary fiction.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''d think that Block, with more than 50 books to his credit, would run out of ideas, but as this 10th in his Burglar series shows (after 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n ), he''s as fresh, witty and inventive as ever. The author builds his plot on stupefying coincidences, but not to worryâ€”everything eventually meshes. A friend asks Bernie Rhodenbarr, confirmed New Yorker, used-book dealer and gentleman burglar, to rob a mob-connected plastic surgeon who stole the friend''s mistress. He agrees, and cases the doctor''s house in Riverdale, the Bronx. But Bernie is restive and, uncharacteristically (because he plans carefully), he breaks into a Manhattan apartment on a whim and almost gets caught, hiding under the bed while a woman is date-raped. Next day a customer is shot near his bookstore, a mysterious Ã©migrÃ© couple is murdered, a former Latvian war criminal is reported in New York and Bernie''s apartment is ransacked. These crimes seem unrelated in such a large city, but Bernie finds a common thread. In the end, Bernie assembles 22 people (including lawmen) in the surgeon''s living room and, Charlie Chan style, explains each participant''s role and, where appropriate, crime. Lesser hands would not bring off this breathtaking performance, but in Block''s it''s seamless and hilarious. Quirky characters like Bernie''s pals Carolyn Kaiser, the dog groomer, and cop Ray Kirschmann; an insider''s love of New York; and a slew of wonderful puns add to the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8660'),
(1297, 'The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warned that their wait must be extended. For this is a reissue, after 17 years, of what was originally the third in the series. It''s therefore likely to be a new pleasure to Rhodenbarr fans won over by his recent rebirth (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart) and to fans of Block''s Matt Scudder novels. In it, Bernie has just opened Barnegat Books, has just got to know his deeply endearing friend, the lesbian dog groomer Carolyn, and is pressed into service to steal a rare book, allegedly a lost anti-Semitic work of Rudyard Kipling. As usual, he finds himself saddled with a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. And also as usual, Block''s stylish narrative flow, humor and pitch-perfect feeling for New York life make getting to the end much more fun than the ultimate solution of the mystery. Until then, it''s unalloyed pleasure?and, yes, we''re ready for another new one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block seems to relish the chance to write about the other side of the law when he''s not detailing the straight-and-narrow exploits of investigator Matthew Scudder (e.g., A Long Line of Dead Men, Morrow, 1994). Here, the literature-loving burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (e.g., The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, Dutton, 1995) is framed for murder after pilfering a Kipling manuscript.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8669'),
(1298, 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he''s also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That''s Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block''s best books about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the other entries in this admirable series--__,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n --Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn''t the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it''s unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man''s library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he''s the cops'' prime suspect when his client is murdered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he''s been masterfully painted into, he''ll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8665'),
(1299, 'The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn''t generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He''s good at it, it''s addictively excitingâ€”and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.\n</p>\n<p>\n He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled\n <em>\n  three times\n </em>\n on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no time to get all existential about itâ€”especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8659'),
(1300, 'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr''s in loveâ€”with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He''s in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festivalâ€”until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.   When he''s hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant''s early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handedâ€”and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he''s hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8662'),
(1301, 'The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It''s been an entire year since he''s entered anyone''s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord''s threat to increase Bernie''s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it''s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie''s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.   So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8661'),
(1302, 'Burglars Can&#39;t Be Choosers', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He''s not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man''s apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn''t the killer. Now he''s really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn''t do it, who will?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8668'),
(1303, 'Burial To Follow', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, it''s up to Roby Snow to help Ridgehorn''s soul move on to its eternal rest. Roby can only accomplish this by serving the grieving family a special pie. And if he fails, then his own soul will be roasting... Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off.--JA Konrath, author of Origin Includes bonus excerpts and essay\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9420'),
(1304, 'The Buried Circle', 'Jenni Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A pacy literary thriller, ''The Buried Circle'' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller '' a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic '' plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller''s spell, with fatal results.Seventy years later, Frannie''s granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing''Åš?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7482'),
(1305, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  - bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best," said\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Storm Prey\n </em>\n . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n</p>\n<p>\n A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Sandford\n </strong>\n is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n <em>\n  Bad Blood\n </em>\n . He lives in Minnesota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6631'),
(1306, 'Burned', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the House of Night series:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_People_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  TeensReadToo.com\n </strong>\n (5 stars)Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tulsa\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ World_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Darquereviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Thebestreviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On for\n  <em>\n   Untamed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 4:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 3:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 2:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n <em>\n  Chosen\n </em>\n !â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Huntress Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paranormal Romance Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ\n </strong>\n This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  )\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 1:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“MTV.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Huntress.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  RomanceJunkies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Beltane Papers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Gena Showalter\n </strong>\n , author of MTVâ€™s\n <em>\n  Oh My Goth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n <em>\n  Burned.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4495'),
(1307, 'Burned: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for the House of Night series:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_People_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   TeensReadToo.com\n  </strong>\n  (5 stars)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Tulsa\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Darquereviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Thebestreviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On for\n   <em>\n    Untamed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 4:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Chosen\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 3:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 2:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  !â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Huntress Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Paranormal Romance Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   )\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 1:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“MTV.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Huntress.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   RomanceJunkies.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Beltane Papers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Library Journal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Gena Showalter\n  </strong>\n  , author of MTVâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Oh My Goth\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n  <em>\n   Burned.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8845'),
(1308, 'The Burning Bridge (Book 2)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1618'),
(1309, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4814'),
(1310, 'Burning Bright', 'Ron Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaâ€”a muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingâ€”with the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven''t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" (The Plain Dealer). In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash''s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsâ€”including his own nephewâ€”comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect. In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sightâ€”first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4107');
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(1311, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson''s characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4171'),
(1312, 'Burning Heart', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. The Church of Adjudication holds absolute power over the people, with the consequences that come from absolute power...corruption. The Doctor is imprisoned and chaos looms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8418'),
(1313, 'The Burning Shore', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Centaine''s ship is torpedoed and sunk, she is plunged into a shark-filled sea miles from the unseen shore. And when she reaches land, Centaine puts foot not in the lush world that Michael Courtney described to her, but on the edge of a burning desert--alone and fighting for her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a strange world, under a great rushing sky, Centaine sets forth in the company of wandering Bushmen--and then into the arms of a renegade white soldier who may be her savior or destruction. As Michael Courtney''s family searches for Centaine, she comes near her promised land--and the untold tragedy and riches that it holds...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9151'),
(1314, 'The Burning Skies', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock ''em sock ''em cyber warfare, space commandos, cutthroat politics and one stunning reversal after another. Strap yourself in. These books start fast and never let up."â€”Jeff Carlson, author of\n </em>\n Plague War\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStellar hard SF.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his electrifying debut,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step furtherâ€”to the edge of annihilation . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tattersâ€”her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the groupâ€™s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd centuryâ€”but to rule all of humanity. And theyâ€™re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now itâ€™s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rainâ€™s next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8515'),
(1315, 'The Burning Tower', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10231'),
(1316, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight; Nalini Singh; Virginia Kantra; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... ** **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover. **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman. **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(1317, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters." That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno... The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2779'),
(1318, 'Burnt Shadows', 'Kamila Shamsie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India''s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel''s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" (Salman Rushdie). Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi. She has studied and taught in the United States. Two of her previous novels, "Kartography "and "Broken Verses," have won awards from Pakistan''s Academy of Letters. She writes for "The Guardian" (UK) and frequently broadcasts on the BBC. Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winner for FictionShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionHiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad''s half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel''s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested by wars and disasters, with unforeseeable consequences. "Shamsie stitches together a sweeping saga that begins with a young Japanese woman in wartime Nagasaki and ends, more than half a century later, with a Pakistani prisoner about to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. The tale unfolds through the lives of two unusually multinational (and multilingual) families: the Weiss-Burtons (German, British and American) and the Ashraf-Tanakas (Indian/Pakistani and Japanese). Not counting minor detours, their triumphs and tragedies span five countries and, without giving too much away, at least three world-changing historical events. On the face of it, collapsing so broad a canvas in a relatively slender novel is a recipe for chaos worthy of a subcontinental urban planner. But in Ms. Shamsie''s self-assured hands this does not come to pass. The story line remains taut, the characters vividly etched. Even the implausible romance at the heart of the novel--between Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and Sajjad Ashraf, a young aesthete forced to emigrate from Delhi to Karachi in the wake of the 1947 partition of British India--is somehow rendered believable. Ms. Shamsie is . . . as a cartographer of culture. She notes, for instance, that in Indo-Muslim society the emotional terrain of mourning is often communal rather than personal; Urdu contains no phrase for leaving a person alone with his grief. The siren call of modernity--with its implicit privileging of the nuclear family over the extended clan--can be deeply disturbing. As the matriarch of the undivided Ashraf family in pre-partition Delhi declares archly, ''maa-dern'' is a word ''created only to cut you off from your people and your past.'' Sajjad''s failure to try sushi after 35 years with Hiroko tells you all you need to know about the persistence of inherited attitudes that span everything from the loyalty of taste buds to the mental geography of marriage. In the end, for all its insights into the cultural and familial, this is above all a political novel. The choice of a Japanese protagonist allows the author to question much of the received wisdom of what used to be called the War on Terror. As a young teacher in Nagasaki, Hiroko has known adolescent boys as eager to embrace the cult of martyrdom as any young mujahideen. In General Zia''s concerted effort to drag Islam out of the home and into the public square, she sees the echo of Japanese emperor worship. The implication of these observations, of course, is that criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Not that long ago it was followers of Shintoism who were turning aircraft into missiles while dreaming of immortality . . . A cleverly constructed and powerfully imagined novel. Ultimately, as with any work of the imagination, the color of the politics matters much less than the quality of the prose."--"The"" ""Wall Street Journal Online, "Asia edition "Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world''s many tragedies and histories shape one another, and about how human beings can try to avoid being crushed by their fate and can discover their humanity, even in the fiercest combat zones of the age. "Burnt Shadows" is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response."--Salman Rushdie ""Burnt Shadows" is audacious in its ambition, epic in its scope. A startling expansion of the author''s intentions, imagination and craftsmanship. One can only admire the huge advances she has made, and helped us to make, in understanding the new global tensions."--Anita Desai "In this brilliant book Kamila Shamsie opens a vista onto the century we have just lived through--pointing out its terror and its solace. She is so extraordinary a writer that she also offers hints about the century we are living through--the dark corners that contain challenges, as well as the paths that lead to beauty''s lair."--Nadeem Aslam, author of "Maps for Lost Lovers """Burnt Shadows" is a beautiful, beautiful book. I was entirely swept up in the story, and I feel, now that I''ve (so reluctantly) put it down, that I have traveled the world and spent the past six decades with Hiroko and her family. The book speaks boldly and powerfully of our age; I know it will stay with me for a long time to come."--Tahmima Anam, author of "The Golden Age ""An epic tale of two families whose lives are intertwined by conflict. As a young woman, Hiroko Tanaka survives the bombing of Nagasaki, which takes the life of her first love, German-born Konrad Weiss. Physically and mentally scarred, Hiroko flees to Konrad''s sister Elizabeth, who lives with her English husband James Burton in Delhi. Sajjad Ashraf, who frequents the Burton household, gives Urdu lessons to Hiroko, and they fall in love. But arranged marriages are traditional in his Muslim family, so the couple elopes and flees to Istanbul. Later, after Partition ends Sajjad''s hopes of returning to Delhi, they move to Karachi. There Hiroko bears a son, Raza, who grows into a precocious youth with a passion for languages. With the appearance at their door of James and Elizabeth''s son Harry, the lines of the two families cross once more. Raza flubs a final exam and deviates from his college-bound path to befriend a young Afghani smuggler, with whom he attempts to join the mujahideen. Shamsie builds vivid contemporary scenes on a rich and sometimes sordid history; the modern characters'' struggles attain tragic, even mythic resonance as parents'' ordeals are visited on their children. Wit, formidable imagination and intricate, well-worked characterizations distinguish the twisty narrative. Raza experiences mixed emotions as he travels through the blasted hinterlands with Afghani arms smugglers. In a world fraught with duplicity and inside deals among militant tribesmen, military contractors and CIA operatives, he learns that morality is anything but straightforward. But the struggles of zealots and mercenaries are dwarfed by Hiroko''s titanic journey. Having survived and suffered so much, she finds herself sitting with a crossword puzzle in a West Village bistro, contemplating the grand and hellish pattern of her loved ones'' lives as she considers with horror the threat of nuclear proliferation between India and Pakistan. With a rare combination of skill and sensitivity, Shamsie generates pathos for outsiders and the displaced."--"Kirkus Reviews ""An engrossing story of resilience and humanity in the face of crushing tragedy, Shamsie''s fifth novel follows the interconnected lives of two families brought together in Nagasaki near the end of World War II. Their fates are linked for 60 years through several countries and ultimately to a somewhat paranoid New York following 9/11. The allusion to recent historical events is not simply an overt device on which to hang a particular political viewpoint; these events are integral to the personal narratives presented here. Shamsie explores the meanings of cultural identity through characters who endure sacrifice, betrayal, and human-made disaster as they live and work in countries foreign to them. This critically acclaimed Pakistani author, who writes in English, is a powerful storyteller who deserves a wider U.S. audience. Readers who appreciate the cross-cultural scope and insight into global tensions in the works of Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Highly recommended."--Gwen Vredevoogd, "Library Journal" "Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan. Konrad Weiss, living in Nagasaki in the summer of 1945, hires a local woman, Hiroko Tanaka, to help him write a book about the city. The romance that blossoms is cut short when the atom bomb falls, killing Konrad, and after a while, Hiroko, feeling she can no longer stay in her country, travels to India to find Konrad''s sister, Ilse, the wife of a British lawyer enjoying the privileges of the British raj''s final days. From there, Shamsie brilliantly interweaves the lives of an array of characters as she brings the story forward to the 1980s, then to the beginning of the 21st century, exploring the clashes between loyalty to family, homeland and cause. Shamsie''s unsparing look at how individuals respond when war affects their world makes for an intriguing, heartrending tale of human connection."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2713'),
(1319, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/860'),
(1320, 'Bush At War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1360'),
(1321, 'The Business of Dying', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he''s hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he''s been duped. Instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant -- suddenly Milne, his lucrative sideline and what remains of his conscience are heading for trouble. Twelve hours later he''s back on duty in London''s King''s Cross. Eighteen-year-old Miriam Fox has been found dead -- her throat slashed. Milne''s dogged enquiries into the murky world of the teenage vice trade soon implicate fellow police officers and the manager of the hostel where Miriam once stayed. With his own crimes returning to haunt him, Milne uncovers a web of depravity more shocking than he could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4433'),
(1322, 'Busted Flush', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Inside Straight\n </em>\n , a revamp of the shared Wild Cards universe, features crises ripped directly from today''s newspaper headlines and summer blockbusters. A burgeoning gas shortage has sparked an invasion into the Middle East; New Orleans is hurricane-beset and zombie-ravaged; someone has set off a nuclear explosion in Texas; and genocide rages in Nigeria. The conflicts between the compellingly human superheroes on the U.N.''s Committee shape this fast-paced alternate history. Veteran contributor and now assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass pens standout chapters featuring British triple-agent Double Helix, who drives the plot while posing as both seductive Committee member Lilith and Middle Eastern assassin Bahir. While those unfamiliar with the Wild Cards mosaic novels will flounder, the clever twists on today''s political landscape and the unique powers of several new aces will lure back past readers.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wild Cards revival continues in a second round of the TV show American Hero, a playoff contest between superheroes created by a mostly lethal alien virus and set in a realistically tangled and bloody world. Some players are troubleshooters, others cause trouble and shoot back, and a govement agency wants to get its hands on newcomer Drake, who can generate nuclear explosions out of his body. Drakeâ€™s jailbreak is one plotline in this installment of the multi-authored (one scribe or scribe-team per chapter) series, and it ropes in a Barbarian Days festival in Cross Plains, Texas, home of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. Others include an action-packed civil war in Nigeria and the effort to rescue humans and, this time, zombies from another New Orleansâ€“bound hurricane. Somehow, characters remain the foci of a busy book that mixes the comic and the grim to good effect. For readers who canâ€™t get enough, thereâ€™s an interactive Wild Cards Web site, too. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5918'),
(1323, 'Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buffyand\n <em>\n  Angel\n </em>\n fans are likely to enjoy Kadrey''s offbeat supernatural romp, which blends demonic evil and quirky humor. The relatively normal life of San Francisco tattoo artist Spyder Lee goes thoroughly crazy when he''s rescued from a mugger by Shrike, a mysterious blind woman who reveals that Lee''s assailant was actually a demon. The wounds he suffered in the assault give him the ability to see the Dominions, other spheres of existence that regular mortals are unaware of. Soon Spyder finds himself hip-deep in demonic trouble, protecting his friend Lulu by offering his body to the organ-collecting Black and then dragging her off to join Shrike on a madcap journey to Hell, where they encounter monsters, Lucifer and even an alternate-time version of Lee himself. Kadrey (_Kamikaze L''Amour_) juxtaposes gore and brash insouciance in the face of apocalyptic evil, a blend that may not suit everyone''s taste.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he''s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn''t fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7712'),
(1324, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert''s son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001''s Dune: House Corrino (the concluding volume of their "House" trilogy), offers the kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud. Reaching back into the beginnings of Arrakis, the authors show us Selim, a boy cast out by his tribe who discovers how to ride the fearsome giant sandworms. Selim tastes and learns the visionary power of the magical spice, melange, and how the future of Arrakis hinges on who controls it. At the same time, on planets far removed from the desolate dunes of Arrakis, others are involved in a Great Revolt. Free League World humans, led by Tercero Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler of Salusa Secundus, battle Omnius, a computer "evermind" intent on extending its dominion. The ominous Omnius seeks to conquer all planets not yet incorporated into his Synchronized Worlds system with the help of servile robotic extensions and colleagues, including Erasmus, a Thinking Machine "Hannibal Lecter" whose whimsical Mr. Spock-ish meditations enliven the proceedings immeasurably. Throughout, key revelations regarding the Zensunni Wanderers and their fight for freedom and other historical Dune elements lend an air of discovery to this fast-paced tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten thousand years before the fall of the Imperial House Corrino, two grand interplanetary organizations ruled the known universe: the Synchronized Worlds, presided over by thinking machines led by the evermind called Omnius, and the League of Nobles, beleaguered survivors of the machines'' revolt against the Old Empire. In this era, a few individuals determined to overturn the rule of the machines sought every opportunity to gain insights into ways to defeat the human race''s most intractable enemy. Herbert and Anderson (Dune: House Atreides; Dune: House Harkonnen; Dune: House Corrino) continue their prehistory of Frank Herbert''s "Dune" series with a new trilogy opener set in the distant past of Herbert''s galactic saga. The authors reveal the origins of the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit, as well as the root of the ancient feud between Houses Atreides and Harkonnen. This compelling saga of men and women struggling for their freedom is required reading for Dune fans and an essential purchase for libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7405'),
(1325, 'The Butterfly', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The life of an Appalachian coal miner, who has been separated from his family for years, is drastically changed and complicated as he seeks revenge when his daughter suddenly appears in his cabin, and he discovers the true identity of her illegitimate chi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4700'),
(1326, 'Butterfly&#39;s Shadow', 'Lee Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world''s great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini''s characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7755'),
(1327, 'Buy Jupiter, and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-four tales set in diverse locations are accompanied by critical and autobiographical commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9555'),
(1328, 'A buyer&#39;s market: a novel', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(1329, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1874'),
(1330, 'By Reason of Insanity', 'Randy Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O''Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential sourceâ€”a detective working on the case. Catherine''s intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she''s arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn''t believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine''s dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. *Who can understand the human mind?* Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for *this!* To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3785'),
(1331, 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1423'),
(1332, 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ''something behind the fireplace'', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5254'),
(1333, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts. Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life''s biggest questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3833'),
(1334, 'By the Rivers of Babylon', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly they''re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7115'),
(1335, 'By The Rules', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(1336, 'By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. To get it back, he maneuvers his rivals for possession of the sword--the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, and Kicker Cult leader Hank Thompson--into a bloody melee from which Jack plans to waltz away with the fabled artifact. Also in the mix is a pregnant teenager whose unborn child, loaded with abnormal DNA, will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. A pawn in the game, she is hunted by both sides. Of course, when things donâ€™t go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(1337, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8201'),
(1338, '&quot;C&quot; Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4142'),
(1339, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal (Book 14 in the McGarvey series) (2010) In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(1340, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-And Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail', 'Dan White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensueâ€”including the author''s ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactusâ€”that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White''s vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dashâ€¦[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Brysonâ€™s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephronâ€™s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down." --\n <em>\n  Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can goâ€¦.â€˜The Cactus Eatersâ€™ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. Itâ€™s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild." --\n <em>\n  Steve Almond, Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6982'),
(1341, 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water', 'Marc Reisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stunning work of history and investigative journalism, Reisner tells the story of conflicts over water policy in the West and the resulting damage to the land, wildlife and Indians. PW stated that this "timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7486'),
(1342, 'Caesar and Cleopatra Caesar and Cleopatra', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Egypt; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(1343, 'Caesar Remember', 'Ben Bova - Remember Caesar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10461'),
(1344, 'Caesarean: Just Another Way of Birth?', 'Rosemary Mander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A meticulous and exhaustively referenced study...Rosemary Mander tackles evidence from randomised controlled trials as well as legend, myth and fiction, and throughout her book places the discussion surrounding Caesareans in a social context. This makes for a fascinating read." --\n <em>\n  Sheila Kitzinger, birth activist and midwife\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n A short review cannot do justice to the book''s richness, precision, and compassion. Rosemary Mander combines attention to language, meticulous organization of each topic, knowledge of medical issues, and critiques of available research and research methodology with a positive view of the benefits of midwifery and an accurate perception of women''s rights and needs, among them comfort, appropriate care, attention to the whole picture, and truly informed consent. Implicit in the text is a plea for practitioners to reorient their studies, attitudes, and practice so as to meet those crucial needs." --\n <em>\n  Jane Pincus, Co-Author of Our Bodies Ourselves, Birth, Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2008\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean births.\n</p>\n<p>\n This controversial work by a practising midwife and researcher, includes discussion of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  the context of the operation and description of it\n </li>\n <li>\n  health systems around the world and their caesarean incidence rates\n </li>\n <li>\n  decision-making and cultural/medical constraints\n </li>\n <li>\n  the short and long term implications of caesarean for baby and mother.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Using up-to-date research, Rosemary Mander bases her argument on a firm evidence-base and argues that the rapidly rising caesarean section rate may not be for the benefit of either the woman giving birth or her baby. Rather, the beneficiaries may actually be those professionals whose investment is in extending the range of their influence and thus increasing the medicalization of normal life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11135');
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(1345, 'Cain His Brother', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction." --Chicago Sun-Times In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus''s fate and his vicious brother''s whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . . "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry." --Mostly Murder A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(1346, 'CakePHP Cookbook', 'Cake Software Foundation, Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11251'),
(1347, 'Calamity and Other Stories', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay''s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6598'),
(1348, 'Calamity Jayne', 'Kathleen Bacus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, finding a body in the trunk throws her into an even bigger pickle: romance with the sexy park ranger who must help her survive. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2217'),
(1349, 'Calculating God', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3614'),
(1350, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4659'),
(1351, 'The Calhouns: Suzanna And Megan: Suzanna&#39;s Surrender\\\\Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds. ***New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- ** **Suzanna''s Surrender** -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax. But when beautiful single mom Suzanna invaded his solitude to search for the missing Calhoun emeralds, he couldn''t say no. Holt had changed from a bad-boy teen to a dangerously sexy man, but Suzanna couldn''t risk her well-ordered life for a man who made her mouth go dry . . . **Megan''s Mate** -- Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O''Riley and her young son had traveled far to become the Towers'' newest residents. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions and vowed never to let her heart control her life. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, the practical lady was swept away by his formidable charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2578'),
(1352, 'Caliban', 'Isaac Asimov - Caliban1 - Caliban', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10984'),
(1353, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11050'),
(1354, 'California Hit', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states. Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(1355, 'The California Roll', 'John Vorhaus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vorhaus''s amusing thriller about the misadventures of a con man in Los Angeles hums along for a while through gags and gaffes and witty dialogue, but never gels as a whole. Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose tool box of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll, the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he''s found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grifter who lures him into a con of her own. Vorhaus, author of\n <em>\n  The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You''re Not\n </em>\n and the Killer Poker series (_Killer Poker Online_, etc.), has put more effort into generating laughs than developing the plot. Like a lot of comic novels, this one suffers from extended expository passages in which the narrator falls in love with his own voice at the expense of the action.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Master of the snuke and its bafflegab and the scourge of every mook, con artist Radar Hoverlander wonders if heâ€™s met his match in Allie Quinn. Sheâ€™s dazzling and highly intelligent and seems to be setting him up for a con. She also leads a brittle, beautiful Australian cop and a bent FBI agent to him, and everyone but Radar has multiple agendas. Radar simply wants to avoid prison or being killed and to work toward the grand snuke, the California Roll, the last payday heâ€™ll ever need. The California Roll is grand entertainment. Radar, Allie, the law-enforcement odd couple, and hapless grifter Vic Mirplo are all cleverly developed. Double and triple crosses abound in the careening plot, and Vorhaus, who writes primarily about poker, really seems to understand the bedrock mendacity of the grift. Itâ€™s in the blood, like peanut allergy, he writes. The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that heâ€™s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7337'),
(1356, 'Caliphate', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œSlavery is a part of Islam . . . Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.â€ â€”Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid (â€œMonotheismâ€) and senior Saudi cleric.Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continentâ€™s new masters. In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her familyâ€™s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmotherâ€™s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3569'),
(1357, 'Call for the Dead', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing'' -- Observer ''Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard'' -- Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John le CarrÃ© classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n George smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn''t go on. Smiley was puzzled...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11084'),
(1358, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Susan Elizabeth Phillips to Jennifer Crusie\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Jenny,\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s once again time to talk about how wonderful you are. No, waitâ€¦ My new book,\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , is coming out on January 18, 2011, so itâ€™s time to talk about how wonderful I am. Except I shamefully tried to do exactly that in our last interview, which was about you and your fabulous\n</p>\n<p>\n Back to me. So go ahead. Ask me some questions. Make them easy. Iâ€™m not half as smart as you. But Iâ€™ll put my banana bread up against yours any day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Susan\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Jennifer Crusie to Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Susan,\n</p>\n<p>\n My banana bread leaves your banana bread sniveling in the pan from its inadequacy. However, I might write another book again someday and then youâ€™ll owe ME an interview, so I wonâ€™t mention that. HA. And I will be Adult and not make the interview about me.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Jenny\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jennifer Crusie Interviews Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Jennifer Crusie:\n <em>\n </em>\n Welcome to Jennifer Crusieâ€™s interview with her Close Personal Friend, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Iâ€™m Jenny Crusie and Iâ€™m thrilled to be interviewing Susan because sheâ€™s not only my Close Personal Friend, sheâ€™s also the Queen of Romantic Comedy! Oh, and because she has a new book coming out. And because thatâ€™s what Close Personal Friends do. So Susan, tell us about\n <em>\n  Maybe This Time\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips:\n </strong>\n Sighâ€¦ Once you tell your Close Personal Friend how much you love her book, she never lets you forget it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, I meant\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n . What was I thinking? Probably that â€œirresistibleâ€ is a bitch to spell, unlike â€œMaybe,â€ â€œThis,â€ and â€œTime.â€ So you have a new novel coming out FINALLY. Not that Iâ€™ve been impatient or anything, but ye gods, woman, you have fans and none of us are getting any younger. What took you so long? And when do I get my Close Personal Friend of Susan Elizabeth Phillips copy?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n So glad you pointed out the difficulty of spelling â€œirresistible.â€ Where was my brain? As for taking so longâ€¦ Writing is hard! Didnâ€™t anybody ever tell you that? (An advanced copy of the book is coming to you in the mail. Along with a truly superb loaf of banana bread.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, Iâ€™m just thrilled that\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n is coming out. Finally. For one thing, I get to see some of my favorite characters again like Meg from\n <strong>\n  and Lucy from\n </strong>\n , not to mention Ted from\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . Is it fun for you to revisit them? (Not that I care, itâ€™s fun for me, so bring them back anyway, thatâ€™s what I say.) Oh, and will readers have to have read all those books to understand this one? Because if so, good marketing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n I love revisiting old characters. Just like revisiting old friends. (Not that weâ€™re old. Or even remotely mature.) The thing about my books is that they all stand alone, even those with familiar characters. And, boy, does\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n have a lot of familiar characters. If readers want to pick up the older books, more power to them. But they donâ€™t have to. That would be like homework. Except more fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n You remember back when I told you not to marry Charles and you got all huffy about it? Meg does the same thing to Lucy in this book and she listens. What kind of heroine tries to break up her palâ€™s wedding? (Tell Charles I said hi.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is Bill, not Charles. (This interview isnâ€™t going nearly as well as Iâ€™d hoped.) Meg, the heroine of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , sees clearly what Lucy Jorik, the bride, canâ€™tâ€”that Lucy and Ted Beaudine arenâ€™t the perfect match everyone believes them to be. Lucy flees her wedding just as sheâ€™s supposed to be saying, â€œI do,â€ leaving Meg to face the wrath of Wynette, Texasâ€¦ and Ted Beaudine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Okay, the last time I saw Ted he was a kid, so his appeal as a leading man wasnâ€™t evident (cute, though) but now he sounds like The Perfect Man: a civic minded, athletic, sweet, rich genius. Did Meg turn into superwoman in between books to earn this paragon? Because Iâ€™m feeling inadequate enough without having to live up to a Perfect Heroine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Not to worry. As you pointed out, Ted really does have it all: looks, money, charm, and that annoying genius I.Q. As for Megâ€¦ Unlike our sexy paragon of a hero, Meg is so deliciously imperfect. Kind of a screw-up, although her heartâ€™s in the right place. She also has big problems. Sheâ€™s broke, stranded, and unemployed in a town where everybodyâ€™s out to get herâ€¦and where Ted Beaudine holds all the power.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n What is it with you and Texans? Not that I have anything against Texas except, you know, politics, but youâ€™re practically a tumbleweed groupie. Did you have a great one-night stand there that youâ€™ve never quite let go of? Did you look across a room and meet the eyes of a tall, dark ranger and then Charles made you play golf? Because your erotic fascination with that state is well-documented. Give us all the details. And pictures. Pictures or it didnâ€™t happen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is NOT CHARLES, itâ€™s BILL! And who are you calling a groupie? I seem to remember a certain wild night, a certain famous rockerâ€¦ Iâ€™ll say no more. As for my Texas settingsâ€”and no offense to my Lone Star friendsâ€”but that state is a writerâ€™s dream. You can make any dang fool thing happen in Texas and readers will believe it. Thank you Sam Houston and all your fine descendents.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n I never had a chance to be a groupie once you told him I threw rolls at you. You asked me some really good questions in our last Amazon interview (smart, talented, and beautiful; you really do have it all, oh Queen of the RomCom), so Iâ€™m throwing two of the best back at you: â€œHow do the stories you want to tell now differ from the ones you wanted to tell when you started writing? How are they the same?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Do I detect a little sarcasm with all these Queen references? I should never have borrowed your tiara. Great, insightful questions, by the way! (Please donâ€™t bring up the roll incident.) My core story will, I think, always be the same. I love books that make me laugh and get a lump in my throat, sometimes on the same page. I love sexy heroes, funny heroines, and happy endings. Basically, thereâ€™s not much difference between what I used to write and what I write now. Except now Iâ€™m a lot better speller.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Thank you, Susan for these insightful and fascinating answers. And now for our last question: WHATâ€™S NEXT? Tell me all about what youâ€™re working on so I can harass you so you can finish it faster and I can read it. And because Iâ€™m a pal, proofread it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Iâ€™m not giving too much away by saying that, by page thirty of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , Lucy Jorik has fled her wedding, and we donâ€™t see her again for the rest of the book. Leaving us to wonderâ€¦ Exactly what happened to our runaway bride?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phillips crafts a laugh-out-loud and romantic story with panache that mostly makes up for some gaping plot holes. Onetime PGA star and smalltown mayor Ted Beaudine (met in 2005''s Fancy Pants) is about to marry Lucy Jorik, the daughter of a former president, when she''s persuaded to break it off by her best friend, Meg Koranda (2008''s Glitter Baby), the aimless daughter of Hollywood royalty. Everyone in Wynette, Tex., loves Ted, but Meg feels Lucy deserves a passionate partner, not a god of self-control. After the disaster of calling off the wedding at the last minute, Meg''s parents cut her off, stranding her in the hostile town. As Meg finds her own path and helps Ted discover his heart, the townspeople stoutly (and hilariously) defend their golden boy. However, some readers may not appreciate that Meg''s good deed is punished so often and severely en route to happiness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4628'),
(1359, 'The Call of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Call of Earth continues the story of Nafai, his family, and the few other people selected by the Oversoul to leave the city of Basilica, and their former lives. When the human refugees from a ruined Earth founded a colony on the planet Harmony, they determined that this world would not be devastated by the endless cycle of vicious warfare that had characterized human life from the beginning. They didn''t try to change human nature. Instead they installed a powerful computer, called the Oversoul, and gave it the task of governing human affairs by subtly influencing human minds. That was millions of years ago. Now the Oversoul is growing weak, breaking down. It must be returned to Earth, to the master computer called the Keeper of Earth, to be repaired. The Oversoul must have human help to make that journey. But as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen, stronger, smarter perhaps, than Nafai and his allies. His name is Moozh, and he is deliberately flouting the will of the Oversoul. He has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers straight at Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plains. Who will stop him? Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons, Nafai and Issib, Elemak and Mebbekew, are not strong enough to resist alone. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? And meanwhile, in their dreams, the most sensitive people of the planet Harmony hear the call of the Keeper of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5836'),
(1360, 'The Call of Kerberos: Twilight of Kerberos', 'Jonathan Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Within the call of Kerberos, lies the destiny of humankind!Silus is a fisherman working the Nurn Coast, a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. When a mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus on an extraordinary voyage, his world begins to change. And when an ancient and evil race burts from the sea to try and claim Silus as one of their own, he is forced to flee his home. Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behinf his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon the Llothriall, Silus will find out more about his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2398'),
(1361, 'The Call of the Canyon', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3710'),
(1362, 'Call of the veld', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(1363, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within. *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love. Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated. **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2204'),
(1364, 'A Call to Darkness', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "Enterprise" discovers a lifeless Federation research vessel, orbibting a planet hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Over the strong objections of his senior officers, Captain Picard and an away team beam over in search of the missing crew --  And vanish.  But soon his captain''s disappearance is not the only problem facing Commander Riker. For a mysterious disease has begun ravaging the "Enterprise" crew. Now Riker must uravel the secrets of the planet below in order to rescue Picard -- a prevent the starship''s destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4748'),
(1365, 'The Call', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queenâ€™s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigalâ€”an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boysâ€™ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and itâ€™s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queenâ€™s dangerous daughter, Ereskigalâ€”also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesnâ€™t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic,\n  <em>\n   The Magnificent Twelve: The Call\n  </em>\n  is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grantâ€™s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6346'),
(1366, 'Callaghen', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2829'),
(1367, 'Callahan&#39;s Lady', 'Spider Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10036'),
(1368, 'The Calligrapher&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Eugenia Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author''s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother''s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin''s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea''s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In 1910 Gaesong, Korea, a female child is born to a learned scholar and calligrapher and his wife. The child, unnamed by her father, who is despondent over the recent annexing of Korea by Japan, names herself\n <em>\n  Najin\n </em>\n . She proceeds to forge her own destiny, struggling to be an obedient daughter in the Confucian tradition of her father and the Christian faith embraced by her mother. To escape an arranged marriage, Najin goes to the emperor''s palace to be a companion to the princess. With the collapse of the Joseon dynasty, she loses her position. She finds ways to further her studies in education and medicine and helps support her parents and younger, shiftless brother with work as a teacher and physician. When her father arranges another marriage, to a student minister, Najin agrees. Immediately she is left with his family to act as a servant while he studies in the U.S. Accused of spying after she returns to her own now-impoverished family, Najin spends months in prison. The novel, based on the life of the author''s mother, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the surrender of Japan and the reunion of the couple. Descriptive imagery communicates Najin''s philosophical musings, dreams, and appreciation of nature. Readers are left with greater understanding of the horrors of Japanese occupation and of the cultural, political, and religious upheaval that Korean families faced as they negotiated the modern world. Delicate black-and-white illustrations complement the prose. A compelling narrative about an intellectually curious and brave heroine.â€”_Jackie Gropman, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library System, Fairfax, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6821'),
(1369, 'Calling Out for You', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector Konrad Sejer is on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway. Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to his sister''s bedside at the hospital. A local taxi driver is sent instead to meet the bride at the airport, but returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community that has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3047'),
(1370, 'Cambridge Blue', 'Alison Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge''s Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, "Cambridgeshire Murders" and "The Billingtons, Death in the Family."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7485'),
(1371, 'The Cambridge Companion To Atheism', 'Michael Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9804'),
(1372, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as "The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(1373, 'Camouflage', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it.  Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home--but the Chameleon has decided there''s only room for one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1838'),
(1374, 'Campbell&#39;s Kingdom', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9336'),
(1375, 'Can you keep a secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3737');
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(1376, 'Can&#39;t Stand the Heat', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her wickedly entertaining debut, Edwards dishes up a captivating contemporary romance expertly seasoned with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry and deliciously tart humor.â€ â€“_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance___\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€ â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Templeâ€™s kitchen to write an exposÃ© is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what _really\n  <em>\n   goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.\n  </em>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adamâ€™s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesnâ€™t even know the difference between poaching and paring.Â  Heâ€™ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his ownâ€”teaching her what it means to cook with passionâ€¦and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5079'),
(1377, 'Candide, or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism. Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life. **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3858'),
(1378, 'Candle in the Darkness', 'Lynn N. Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fiancâ€š, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve''s Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney''s "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin''s other books are in demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 1 in the Refinerâ€™s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Carolineâ€™s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6112'),
(1379, 'Cane River', 'Lalita Tademy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family''s past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana''s Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South-a unique and moving slice of America''s past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2705'),
(1380, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3015'),
(1381, 'Cannot Wait to Get to Heaven', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town''s inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a hornets'' nest while picking figs. After she dies at the hospital, the novel''s bite-size chapters alternate between funny and touching vignettes showing how Elner''s death and life has affected dozens of people in town, interspersed with scenes of Elner''s laugh-out-loud assent into the hereafter. From there, the plot offers readers a series of delightful surprises. Perhaps Flagg''s funniest novel since her debut, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, she''s created a charming, life-affirming tale and a full cast of memorable characters, including Elner''s late sister, Ida, who greets her in heaven still carrying her purse and a grudge about the bad hair styling she got for her funeral. Flagg is an expert at balancing pathos with plenty of Southern sass, and this could very well be the feel-good read of the summer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?\n</p>\n<p>\n Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerâ€™s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerâ€™s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchâ€“and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, â€œWhat is life all about, anyway?â€ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totâ€™s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep.\n <em>\n  Canâ€™t Wait to Get to Heaven\n </em>\n is proof once more that Fannie Flagg â€œwas put on this earth to writeâ€ (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5743'),
(1382, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.''s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4215'),
(1383, 'Capitalism: the unknown ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener''s time, even though the author''s overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn''t, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field''s cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(1384, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars. Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(1385, 'Capitol Threat', 'William Bernhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt''s 15th political thriller (after\n <em>\n  Capitol Murder\n </em>\n ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman''s corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush''s nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve. Thaddeus Roush, Supreme Court nominee, has just revealed he is gay, and when the body of a woman is discovered during Roush''s press conference--and Roush''s partner is implicated in her death--Ben comes to the man''s defense. Bernhardt has his formula down pat by now (the first Kincaid novel,\n <em>\n  Primary Justice\n </em>\n , appeared in 1992), and those familiar with the series won''t encounter many surprises. This one will feel either tired or comfortable, depending on whether readers think of Kincaid as an old friend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7341'),
(1386, 'Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius', 'Kevin J Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne''s classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the "Nautilus.""Captain Nemo" is also the story of Nemo''s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain''s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4904'),
(1387, 'The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9394'),
(1388, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1720'),
(1389, 'The Captain&#39;s Honor', 'David Dvorkin &amp; Dvorkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M''Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S Enterpriseâ„¢ and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet''s aid. The Centurion''s captain is Lucius Sejanus -- a powerful, magnetic man who favors taking a far stronger stance against the M''Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus''s instincts seem to be correct...for it appears only extreme measures can stop the murderous raids on Tenara.  Now the people of Tenara must decide which pathe they will follow -- the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any one of the Centurion''s officers has made that decision for them -- and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M''Dok Empire!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6766'),
(1390, 'Captain&#39;s Table 02: Dujonian&#39;s Hoard', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a bar called "The Captain''s Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it''s all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even if you''re Jean-Luc Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than two hundred years archaeologists and treasure hunters have dreamed of Dujonian''s Hoard, a fabled trove of priceless historical artifacts that may contain technology that will shift the galactic balance of power. A dream was all the hoard seemed -- until a former Starfleet officer goes in search of the treasure and turns up missing. Now everyone from Romulans to Cardassians to an enigmatic female starship captain is looking for Richard Brant, including Worf and Captain Picard, who have gone deep undercover on a secret Starfleet mission to rescue Brant, if he''s even still alive....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4741'),
(1391, 'Captivated', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A classic novel from the enchanting series *The Donovan Legacy*.** Only the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that''s been handed down through generations -- a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings. ***Captivated*** His interest in her was purely professional . . . Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Dovovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the hardheaded skeptic didn''t believe for a minute she was what she professed to be. But, as Morgana revealed herself to him, Nash found himself falling under her bewitching spell. Nash had never trusted his feelings and always kept them in check. So how could he be sure the irresistible passion he felt for Morgana was real and not just some conjurer''s trick? ***The Donovan Legacy* continues with *Entranced*, coming soon from Silhouette Books.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2570'),
(1392, 'The Captive &amp; the Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V', 'Marcel Proust; D. J. Enright; C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Terence Kilmartin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œProust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.â€ â€”Graham Greene\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Modern Libraryâ€™s fifth volume of\n <em>\n  In Search of Lost Time\n </em>\n contains both\n <em>\n  The Captive\n </em>\n (1923) and\n <em>\n  The Fugitive\n </em>\n (1925). In\n <em>\n  The Captive\n </em>\n , Proustâ€™s narrator describes living in his motherâ€™s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In\n <em>\n  The Fugitive\n </em>\n , the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.\n</p>\n<p>\n For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ€™s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ€™s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of\n <em>\n  Ã la recherchÃ© du temps perdu\n </em>\n (the final volume of these new editions was published by the BibliothÃ¨que de la PlÃ©iade in 1989).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9811'),
(1393, 'Captive Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class entertainer and Sazi councilman, Antoine Monier, has taken his big cats all over the world without any troubleâ€”until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. to Antoineâ€™s surprise, the German police have another tiger in custodyâ€”a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric. Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoineâ€”the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile. But Tahira doesnâ€™t have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshiftersâ€”and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself. Only if they can set aside their peoplesâ€™ ancient rivalry and rely completely on each otherâ€”body and soulâ€”can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1390'),
(1394, 'The Captive', 'Joanne Rock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Women should be sweet, mild manneredhellip;docile. Unfortunately, Lady Gwendolyn, a rich Saxon widow, is none of those things.And Viking warrior Wulf Geirsson wants her desperately! One glimpse of the brazen beauty scrambling over the castle ramparts, and he knows he has to have her. Especially when she takes a tumble and lands at his feet.But Wulf quickly finds that taking Gwendolyn and keeping her are two different things. And once she decides to engage in a seductive assault of her own, he''s the one captivatedhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1981'),
(1395, 'Cara MIA - Book One of the Immortyl Revolution', 'Denise Verrico', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vampires Mia and Kurt become involved in a deadly mission to harness the power of immortality. Mia Disantini is a vampire whose greatest desire is to walk in the sun again. She is enslaved by her charismatic master, Ethan, and plunged into an ancient, unenlightened Immortyl culture. As Mia struggles for the freedom to live as she chooses, she is trained as Ethan''s Bird of Prey. Soon she becomes the pawn of their powerful, enigmatic elder, Brovik, in his deadly games of deception and intrigue against his rival, Gaius, concerning their forbidden science experiments. When Mia is cast out by Ethan she joins forces with Kurt, and together the lovers steal fire from the gods and deliver it to Genpath Laboratories. The company CEO Lee Brooks deceives and imprisons the pair. While held captive, Mia calls upon the aid of Dr. Joe Ansari. The couple is hunted for their crime and time is running out. Will Mia and Kurt escape with their lives and succeed in their mission before their Immortyl enemies harness the power of immortality for evil purposes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6610'),
(1396, 'Caravan to Vaccares', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in the Provence region of southern France. But something is different about this year''s gathering, with many suspicious deaths.Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman decide to investigate. Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome center on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile. As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile find that their lives in danger many times in an effort to uncover the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide, and before long are running for their lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9282'),
(1397, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3741'),
(1398, 'The Cardinal&#39;s Blades', 'Pierre Pevel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Cardinal''s Blades is part historical novel, part old-fashioned swashbuckling high-action adventure, and part classic fantasy. Pierre Pevel has woven some of the best-loved fantasy tropes - musketeer-style adventuring, daring swordsmen, political intrigue, non-stop action and dragons - into a stunning new fantasy series. Paris, 1633. Louis XIII reigns over France ...and Cardinal Richelieu governs the country. One of the most dangerous and most powerful men in Europe, Richelieu keeps a constant, sharp eye on the enemies of the Crown to avoid their assassination attempts, thwart their spies and avert their warmongering. But he''s up against people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even going so far as to forge alliances with France''s oldest and deadliest enemies. Spain, and the Court of Dragons. The nobility keep tiny dragonnets as pets; royal couriers ride tame wyverns, and lethal man-shaped scaled dracs ropam the country. But the power rising from the Court of Dragons is anything but mundane; the Black Claw sect draws on dragons as they once were: ancient, terrible, utterly merciless ...and poised to move against France. Faced with the growing threat from Spain, Richelieu summons Captain la Fargue, an exceptional swordsman, devoted officer and brilliant leader. If he''s to turn aside the Black Claw''s schemes, La Fargue and his legenday company of swashbucklers and rogues must be persuaded to once again risk their lives, fortunes and reputations for Richelieu, and for France. It''s the biggest challenge yet for The Cardinal''s Blades - and they''ll need to be sharp ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6604'),
(1399, 'Cards on the Table', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum--a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in "getting away with it." After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum''s finest in order to determine the most likely killer. Poirot finds that many distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5178'),
(1400, 'The Cardturner', 'Louis Sachar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with no money and no job. Unfortunately, his mother insists that he become his blind great-uncle''s chauffeur and cardturner at local bridge tournaments. Though the 17-year-old has only met Lester Trapp on a few occasions, his mother hopes that this connection will inspire the wealthy old man to write the family into his will. Alton reluctantly agrees, even though he knows nothing about bridge and has no interest in learning the game. He meets Toni Castaneda at the tournaments and soon discovers that he''s not the only long-lost relative intent on winning over Trapp and his inheritance. What transpires is an intriguing glimpse into a crazy family full of secrets and unusual quirks. The characters are well limned, and the narrative is laced with Sachar''s trademark wry humor. Most teens have very little knowledge about bridge, a fact that Alton acknowledges several times throughout the novel. At times, the story line becomes thick with technical game descriptions, though he does offer an option to skip these sections by providing a symbol to indicate more in-depth card instructions. This well-written novel contains a rewarding intergenerational friendship and a sweetly appealing romance in the making. Nonetheless it may require an additional nudge to hook readers. It''s a nudge worth giving for motivated teens and those who enjoy Sachar''s novels.â€”_Stephanie Malosh, Donoghue Elementary School, Chicago, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n With his latest novel, the Newbery-winning author of Holes (1998) fulfills a need the world probably didn''t even know it had: the great teen bridge novel. Alton Richard''s great-uncle Lester Trapp is rich and ailing, a combo that leads Alton''s parents to hatch a plan for the teen to cozy up to the old man and carve out a chunk of inheritance. Though blind, Trapp is a brilliant, world-class bridge player and needs someone to read him his cards and make his plays. Enter Alton, who wouldn''t begin to know how to decipher questions like â€œOne banana, pass, pass, two no-trump. Is that unusual?â€ But he withstands the constant barbs from his irascible uncle and grows more intrigued by the game (in no small part due to the cute, kind-of-crazy girl who also plays). Sachar liberally doles out detailed commentary on the basics and then nuances of the game, and in a nod to the famously dull Moby-Dick chapter on the minutiae of whaling, a little whale image appears when the bridge talk is about to get deep so readers can skip right ahead to a pithy wrap-up. But don''t be fooled: it is astonishing how Sachar can make blow-by-blow accounts of bridge not only interesting but exciting, treating each play like a clue to unravel the riddle of each hand. An obvious windfall for smart and puzzle-minded teens, this is a great story to boot, with genuine characters (save the scheming parents) and real relationships, balanced by casual, confident storytelling. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6797'),
(1401, 'A Caress of Twilight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œI am Princess Meredith, heir to a throneâ€”if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.â€ After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And thatâ€™s just her day job. . . .From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2786'),
(1402, 'The Caretaker of Lorne Field', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Zeltserman''s superb mix of humor and horror focuses on Jack Durkin, the ninth generation of firstborn sons in his family who have daily weeded Lorne Field to purge it of Aukowies, bloodthirsty plants that could overrun the world in weeks if not attended to. Though Jack takes his job seriously, no one else does: his oldest son doesn''t want to follow in his footsteps; his wife is tired of living poorly on his caretaker''s salary; and the townspeople who subsidize him are increasingly skeptical of purported menaces that no one has ever seen because Jack diligently nips them in the bud. With his support dwindling, Jack finds himself driven to desperate measures to prove that he''s truly saving the world. Zeltserman (_Pariah_) orchestrates events perfectly, making it impossible to tell if Jack is genuinely humankind''s unsung hero or merely the latest descendant of a family of superstitious loonies. Readers will keep turning the pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superbly crafted horror story explores the dichotomy between belief and rationality. Why has a small town maintained a contract since the eighteenth century with a member of the community and his heirs to pull weeds in Lorne Field? Jack Durkin, the current and ninth generation of Lorne Field caretakers, says the things he pulls from the ground aren''t weeds; they are something called Aukowies, and if they''re not pulled up by the roots and burned every day, the world will end. Under pressure from his wife to get a real job; from the town fathers (looking to save a few bucks and end the contract); and from his sons, who don''t see themselves as career weed-pullers, Durkin is finally out of a job. No more weed pulling. So is he just a nut case, or does the novel segue into another Little Shop of Horrors? Sorry, we don''t do spoilers. Horror fans will have to read this first-class cautionary tale themselves. --Elliott Swanson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8547'),
(1403, 'Caribbean Kill', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man army, tracks the Mafia to their island hideaways - and the lush vacation isles were never hotter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(1404, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo: Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn''t the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? Any why is Miss Marple fearing for her own life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5188');
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(1405, 'Caribou Island: A Novel', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n delivers his highly anticipated debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska''s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary''s old dream, they''re hauling logs to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to build the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this island is not right for Irene. They are building without plans or advice, and when winter comes early, the overwhelming isolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatens their bond to the core. Caught in the emotional maelstrom is their adult daughter, Rhoda, who is wrestling with the hopes and disappointments of her own life. Devoted to her parents, she watches helplessly as they drift further apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n captures the drama and pathos of a husband and wife whose bitter love, failed dreams, and tragic past push them to the edge of destruction. A portrait of desolation, violence, and the darkness of the soul, it is an explosive and unforgettable novel from a writer of limitless possibility.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with David Vann\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Set in Alaska,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is the story of a marriageâ€™s unraveling and the tragic events it precipitates. How does your setting reflect and shape the novelâ€™s plot and the characters, especially Irene and Gary?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I think wilderness has no meaning on its own. Itâ€™s a giant mirror. So as I was writing\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n , I kept focusing on Alaska, and as I described the landscape I was indirectly describing and discovering the interior lives of Irene and Gary. The island and lake are constantly shifting in shape and mood, and even the storms that come down off the glacier feel like they belong to Irene. She resents taking care of this man for thirty years and receiving only his vacancy in return, and the desolation of the place increases the pressure on her. There are no distractions, and no escape is possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You were born in Alaska and spent your childhood there. What was that experience like? What are your impressions of this state that has become such a focus of public consciousness?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n Alaska is magnificent, and the cold rainforest of Ketchikan, where I spent my childhood, is still mythic in my imagination. In that forest, I always felt I was being watched, and we really did have bears and wolves. There was so much undergrowth and deadfall, Iâ€™d sometimes fall through the forest floor to a second floor and disappear completely. And the ocean was even more impossible. The first king salmon I caught was taller than I was, and my grandfather caught a 250-lb halibut. I remember watching it slowly rising to the surface, growing until it became bigger than my imagination. I write about Alaska because itâ€™s in that landscape that I can find some sense of self and possibility and freedom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You have been very open about your family tragedies, including your fatherâ€™s suicide. Was it difficult approaching such a sensitive topic? How has using the raw material of these events affected you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n It took me ten years to write\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n there are again several true family stories in the background, but farther away than my fatherâ€™s suicide, and my focus again was on seeing how the stories would shift and become something else.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n As a male writer, did you face any challenges capturing the voice of your female characters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I didnâ€™t expect to write about marriage, and I didnâ€™t expect to write from the viewpoint of a woman, but I saw that Irene was the center of the story, and that her daughter Rhoda was also vitally important. I didnâ€™t struggle with voice or point of view at all for some reason, perhaps because my sympathies were with Irene and Rhoda and less with Gary and Jim. To me, Irene and Rhoda make the best sense of the world and are the most honest, and this follows what Iâ€™ve experienced in real life, also. I was raised by women, and I trusted their accounts more than menâ€™s accounts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How would you assess your evolution as a writer from your award-winning collection\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n to this, your first novel? Did you find your voice naturally, or was it a struggle to find the right sound and rhythm?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n With\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n , I was learning how to write. The book is a short novel framed by five short stories, and I was tremendously influenced by various writers during that ten-year period, so the style and voice vary from story to story and form a kind of debate. This makes sense for the material, because no one in my family could agree on who my father was, what happened, or what his suicide meant. There was no one story or one voice to find anywhere. But\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is a far more cohesive piece, and I wrote two pages per day in a kind of extended dream, hoping it would feel like it was written in one sitting. And I didnâ€™t struggle at all with voice, because I think of writing as being mostly unconscious and out of control. All I have to do is get out of the way and avoid having plans and ideas. As long as I return each day to focus on place and character, the book writes itself. The final published version is almost exactly the same as my first draft, and it just is what it is. I donâ€™t think authors really get to choose what they write.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who are the writers you admire?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n My favorite writers focus on landscape. Cormac McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n , for instance, we find mountains â€œwhose true geology was not stone but fear.â€ We focus on the real mountains and then they slip and shift and describe what we fear and desire and who we imagine ourselves to be. We shape ourselves through place.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n People haunted by their own failures and lost dreams drive Vann''s earnest but uneven first novel, which opens with Irene, an ailing middle-aged Alaskan woman, telling her grown daughter, Rhoda, about coming home and finding her mother "hanging from the rafters" one day when she was 10 years old. Irene also tells Rhoda that she believes her husband, Gary, wants to leave her. Gary, "a champion of regret," wanted to be an academic, but ekes out a living fishing and building boats while planning a self-imposed exile with Irene on an island in Alaska''s Skilak Lake, where he''s building a crude log cabin. Rhoda envisions marital bliss with her boyfriend, Jim, a philandering, selfish dentist. Their internal monologues rage with ideas and desires that read like authorial conceits, not the thoughts of real people. The only true character is Alaska itself, and Vann, author of the story collection Legend of a Suicide, is at his best depicting the harsh, rugged landscape of the Alaskan wilderness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5870'),
(1406, 'Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius', 'Alessandro Alciato &amp; Carlo Ancelotti &amp; Paolo Maldini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The bookâ€™s a riot; frank, anecdotal, dripping with hilarious self-deprecation..." ~Jonathan Northcroft,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "hugely entertaining" ~Henry Winter,\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "smart and surprising" ~Paul Doyle,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with an interest in football (soccer), for those with an interest in a well told tale, ''Carlo Ancelotti'' by ''Carlo Ancelotti'' with Alessandro Alciato (Rizzoli New York, $25.00, 264 pages, 35 photographs) fits the bill. The former star player, the famed coach of top teams in Italy and England, the outspoken Ancelotti touches all bases in this illuminating autobiography. There is something to learn on each page about ''the beautiful game'' and the man some call ''the ordinary genius''." ~_Frommer Luxury Travel\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"For the first time in English, Ancelotti''s autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius\n  </em>\n  , released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti''s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Palo Maldini offers the forword."_~Selectism_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions Leagueâ€”European soccerâ€™s most coveted trophyâ€”as both player and coach. After a successful career playing for several of the most important teams in Italyâ€”and for the Italian national teamâ€”Ancelotti went on to become one of the most acclaimed and outspoken coaches in European football, managing Italian giants Parma, Juventus, and Milan before moving to Chelsea, one of the Premier Leagueâ€™s most successful clubs, in 2009. The book moves from anecdotes of his life growing up in Reggio Emilia to stories of his time playing among the best footballers in the world. With a characteristic mixture of sharp insight and humor, Ancelotti explores the differences between the Italian and the English games, shares his thoughts on soccerâ€™s future with the MLS in America, and reflects on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. With a preface by the legendary former captain of the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini, this book is at once a tacticianâ€™s bible from one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated footballing minds, the fascinating story of an ordinary man reaching great heights, and in part a revealing tell-all from an outspoken insider in the cut-throat world of European soccer. The perfect book for anyone with a passion for the beautiful game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5711'),
(1407, 'Carnal innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town''s most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right next door.Burned out by a whirlwind career, world-famous concert violinist Caroline Waverly arrives in Innocence looking for a little peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at her late grandmother''s house--the one with a covered porch just made for soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs. But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: handsome, charming Tucker Longstreet.Tucker is known for keeping his romances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tucker realizes that she is unlike any other woman he''s met. The coolly reserved Caroline feels an unexpected thrill at his ardent advances. But when she discovers a third murder victim in the murky waters behind her home, her summer liaison threatens to become much more. Because there''s just one small problem with her new romance: Tucker is the leading suspect in the killings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2652'),
(1408, 'Carnifex', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Revenge: it won''t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He''s raised an army and air force and used them. He''s raised a fleet and he''s about to use that. He''s suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He''s tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.Now he''s deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera''s hate still burns hot, and that''s a fire that is slowly consuming him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3570'),
(1409, 'Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger', 'Margaret Mittelbach &amp; Michael Crewdson &amp; Alexis Rockman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. Filled with Rockman''s stunning drawings of flora and fauna originally crafted from river mud, wombat scat, and even the artist''s own blood, Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. Carniverous Nights is: One of the New York Public Library''s "25 Books to Remember from 2005" A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006 selection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7170'),
(1410, 'Carpe Corpus', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He''s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7303'),
(1411, 'Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She''d be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that''s what. But in Kenner''s sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she''s making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduledâ€”at the last possible minuteâ€”to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where''s he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuartâ€”and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic.\n <em>\n  Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers\n </em>\n ._ (July)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she''d better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband''s political career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8346'),
(1412, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue. Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift. Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz." His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.* Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight. Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say... Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3390'),
(1413, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4260'),
(1414, 'Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can. Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone\n <br />\n * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry\n <br />\n * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare\n <br />\n * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams\n <br />\n Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy''s Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6488'),
(1415, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.â€ --**Stephen King**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.  A true classic." --**Guillermo del Toro**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "CARRION COMFORT* *is one of the scariest books ever written.  Whenever I get the question asked *Who''s your favorite author? *my answer is always Dan Simmons." --**James Rollins**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyâ€™s *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, Richard Mathesonâ€™s *I Am Legend*, and Stephen Kingâ€™s *Salemâ€™s Lot*. --**David Morrell**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PAST...  Caught behind the lines of Hitlerâ€™s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.  Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziâ€™s themselvesâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PRESENT...  Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world''s most horrible and violent events.  Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ''use'' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.  Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.  But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulâ€™s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindâ€™s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7458'),
(1416, 'Carved in Bone', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n A woman''s corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave''s chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that''s clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman''s corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county''s powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton''s investigation altogether. So do Brockton''s other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6932'),
(1417, 'The Caryatids', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling''s shimmering new novelâ€”Vera, Radmila and Sonjaâ€”support the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We''re 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinaâ€”the reverse of Russia, where men die youngâ€”and Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions. Sterling''s language is kaleidoscopic. We swim into a chapter, and his ideas and language flash and dance like sunlight off the Adriatic, then coalesce in a moment of plot; the effect is unsettling, but suited to the world he reveals spark by hammered spark. Dispersed around the world, the sisters mirror Earth''s difficulties: traumatized by their origin, they hate each other. Their solutions may be Earth''s solutions as well. In John Brunner''s 1968 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Stand on Zanzibar\n </em>\n , excerpts from fictional author Chad C. Mulligan''s The Hipcrime Vocab provide sharp, street-smart and world-wise commentary on the culture of 2010. Bruce Sterling is the closest we''ve come to Mulligan in the actual 21st century. His international perspective is rare in science fiction, which often suffers from Amerocentric bias. A new novel from Sterling is a guarantee of something wild and tasty, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n amply fulfills that promise._ (Mar.)__Greg Bear''s latest science fiction novel,_ City at the End of Time_, was published by Del Rey in August._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling''s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or "a mess of a book about the mess of the world" (John Clute),\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n , at the very least, illustrates Sterling''s ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier -- and much less diverse -- landscape. Sterling''s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ) and William Gibson (_Neuromancer_). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n is worth a look.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8109'),
(1418, 'Casanova&#39;s Chinese Restaurant', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(1419, 'The Case for God', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood." "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2277'),
(1420, 'A case of conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2056'),
(1421, 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes', 'Mohammed Hanif', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *Washington Post*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year**Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father''s suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali''s target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There''s only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2885'),
(1422, 'A Case of Identity', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9410'),
(1423, 'Case of Lies', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A math genius, a tough courtroom adversary and an even tougher judge make the 11th legal thriller in the Nina Reilly series (_Unlucky in Law_, etc.) the most intriguing yet. Back in Lake Tahoe, Nina gets her next case from a masseuse whose aunt was killed during a motel robbery. Unless Nina acts, the lawsuit filed against the Ace High Lodge will be dismissed, as no one has been able to locate the witnesses. Reluctant to call on ex-lover PI Paul van Wagoner for help, Nina hires her assistant''s PI son, Wish, who discovers that the witnesses are MIT students with a sideline counting cards. While the old case takes on new life, people connected to it are threatened and worse. O''Shaughnessy (lawyer Pamela and editor Mary O''Shaughnessy) takes the reader inside the beautiful mind of emotionally immature, occasionally delusional, quantitatively inspired Elliott Wakefield as he solves equations, cares for his father and plays blackjack. In thrillers as in math proofs, neatness counts. Here, the Internet and national security bring Elliott''s story to an almost too-neat conclusion, while Nina ingeniously solves the problem of replacing Paul in her personal life. As always, O''Shaughnessy keeps legal procedure straight, language crisp and plot consistently absorbing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Hanna witnessed the murder of his wife (and her unborn fetus) outside a hotel on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Now it''s two years later, and Hanna enlists the help of Nina Reilly, a formidable attorney of some local notoriety (and star of 10 previous O''Shaughnessy adventures). The plan is to hold the hotel accountable for its lack of security, which made possible the robbery that produced the stray bullet that, in turn, killed Hanna''s wife. The perp was never caught, and the three robbery victims, who Nina feels are the key to the case, have been no help, purposely staying in California so that the Nevada court has no jurisdiction over them. Nina''s search for the truth takes her all the way to Europe--and into the arms of her former husband. O''Shaunessy (pseudonym for a sister team) has a knack for plotting and for combining suspenseful action with a light and playful tone. Another fine addition to an appealing and popular series.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4735'),
(1424, 'A Case of Need', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Case of Need is Michael Crichton''s award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2239'),
(1425, 'Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences', 'Alexander L. George &amp; Andrew Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The more widely this book is read, the better future social science will be."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen M. Walt\n </strong>\n , Robert and RenÃ©e Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n "I teach qualitative methods. If I could only have one text in my classroom, this would be it."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Colin Elman\n </strong>\n , Executive Director, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This superb book will improve enormously our disciplinary debates and help all of us in our research and teaching."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter J. Katzenstein\n </strong>\n , Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Cornell University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In scope, clarity, and erudition, this book sets a new standard not just in the analysis of case-study methods, but in the study of social science methods more broadly."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  David Dessler\n </strong>\n , Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the sort of book scholarsâ€”and not just graduate studentsâ€”will want to come back to over and over again."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Marc Trachtenberg\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles\n</p>\n<p>\n "The beauty of George and Bennett''s approach is their careful integration of theory and method and their conviction that the pursuit of empirical knowledge is profoundly theory dependent."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Charles Ragin\n </strong>\n , Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences_ makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on qualitative methods in the social sciences."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Jack S. Levy\n </strong>\n , Board of Governors'' Professor, Rutgers University\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely helpful practical guide to the case method."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen Van Evera\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2006 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association''s Qualitative Methods Section.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and thus have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories.\n <em>\n  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences\n </em>\n will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6467'),
(1426, 'Cash: The Autobiography', 'Johnny Cash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10963'),
(1427, 'Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the first of Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.  The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond''s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7657'),
(1428, 'The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum; Philip Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia''s security service, is murdered by a spray of assassin''s bullets. Now Covert-One''s Jon Smith has Danko''s classified papers, and he''s unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen... It''s up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3783'),
(1429, 'The Cassandra Complex', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran British author Stableford''s Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains? Lisa''s cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one, followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions. Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe, or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford''s background in biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among the scientists, while long practice in the novelist''s trade ensures a smooth and involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large stable of unjustly neglected past work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world hovers on the brink of a biotech war and social breakdown, an attack on forensic researcher Lisa Frieman, along with the disappearance of scientist Jordan Miller, leads to a search for a dangerous secret that could determine humanity''s future. The author of Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth continues to explore his vision of the future with this latest tale of technology gone awry and the efforts of ordinary heroes to put things right. Stableford balances issue-oriented sf with suspense-filled action to create a story that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4788'),
(1430, 'Castle', 'Garth Nix &amp; Steve Rawlings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Upon escaping from the castle, Tal is found by Milla, an Icecarl marauder intent on killing the boy. But soon the two find that they must work together. As they struggle to find a place for themselves in the intricate Castle World, their two worlds collide, one a home for the spirit and intellect, and the other a realm of aggression.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Garth Nix, the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed novels Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, as well as the Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series, has had a long and varied career in the publishing world. After receiving his degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, he started working in the publishing industry, steadily moving from the positions of sales rep to publicist. In 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational publisher. After a period in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, he left publishing in 1993 to work as a marketing communications consultant, but came back in 1999 to become a part-time literary agent. Garth Nix currently lives in Sydney with his family and lots of books. For more information about Garth Nix, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9664'),
(1431, 'The Castle of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What is the secret of the old castle on the hill, and why are the locals so afraid of it? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate - and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/709');
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(1432, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3062'),
(1433, 'The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story', 'Horace Walpole; W. S. Lewis; E. J. Clery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n `with each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World''s Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for money'' Oxford Times\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published pseudonymously in 1764,\n <em>\n  The Castle of Otranto\n </em>\n purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole''s own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10513'),
(1434, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
(1435, 'Castle Roogna', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he''s a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3278'),
(1436, 'Castle to Castle (French Literature)', 'Louis-Ferdinand Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine''s darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel''s central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. This translation won a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle [is] a literary event of the first order." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle proves how appallingly up to date its dead appalling author is. . . . Cline''s style consists of outcries and exclamations, groans and curses, all in white heat, separated by dots which like machine-gun bullets mow down even the mitigating orderliness of grammar." --\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Celine''s mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." --\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline walks into great literature as other men walk into their own homes." --\n <em>\n  Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline''s experiences have not mellowed him. Here, as in all his novels, . . . he hates everybody, regardless of race, creed or color. If anyone is singled out, it is his publishers, whose limousines, he says, grow even longer, while their authors, in rags, cling behind like pitiful hitchhikers. . . . the translation is a masterpiece." --\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7397'),
(1437, 'Castles in Spain', 'Rebecca Stratton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4049'),
(1438, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane-so unimaginable-that he is thought of as "not of the earth." Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross.When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing.The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2027'),
(1439, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder!  Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart from point blank range.  The school is thrown into chaos when the ''cat'' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot''s help, she will be the next victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5202'),
(1440, 'Cat Chaser', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of Elmore Leonard novels, two ex-soldiers can sit around a hotel swimming pool in Florida and, as if it were perfectly natural, chat about a friendly fire incident during an "interventionist action" in Santo Domingo. His characters have learned the futility of complaining about a life where deadly violence and moral obligations are all too frequently intertwined. In\n <em>\n  Cat Chaser\n </em>\n George Moran is the hotel manager who got shot at back then; now, he''s rekindling his intimate acquaintance with the wife of Andres de Boya, a former Dominican military enforcer who currently invests in real estate with a healthy sideline in drugs.\n</p>\n<p>\n A dizzying series of plot twists involving various grifters and strongmen (both hired and freelance) leads to the grimly comic suspense action that Elmore Leonard fans have come to know and love. But as always, it''s Leonard''s impressive ear for dialogue that raises\n <em>\n  Cat Chaser\n </em>\n above the herd of crime novels. An example:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "That''s correct," Scully said, "I''m a consultant... I advise people on business matters, act as a go-between, bring people together that want to make deals... things like that. You want to know any more, come by my office, we''ll have a coffee sometime. Okay? Right now I''m going to see Mr. Pradi. Where you come in--I''m gonna knock on his door, he don''t open it then I might have to kick it in. I mean the business I got with him is that pressing. So you can give me a key and maybe save yourself a door. What do you think?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Well, what do you think?\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he''s back looking for a girl he lost -- and finding one he''d be better off without. But that doesn''t matter to George while he''s sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya -- only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State -- as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat''s cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder . . . and a love that''s not only blind but lethal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9185'),
(1441, 'The Cat From Hell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11140'),
(1442, 'The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion--a weekly magazine on interior design. But Qwilleran finds himself on familiar territory when a murder is committed, and he and Koko, the brilliant Siamese, take the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2508'),
(1443, 'The Cat Who Blew the Whistle', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder at a railroad tavern. Reprint. *AB. PW. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2519'),
(1444, 'The cat who knew a cardinal', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble literally lands in Jim Qwilleran''s own backyard when the local theatre''s universally disliked director is found dead in Qwilleran''s apple orchard. Qwilleran and his two feline detectives search for an actor who is playing the part of a killer. "Some of the most witty original fare in the genre".--New York Daily News.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2515'),
(1445, 'The cat who lived high', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2509'),
(1446, 'The Cat Who Played Brahms', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn''t sure, but he''s hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a longtime family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight, Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwilleran hooks on to a murder mystery. Soon Qwilleran enters into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2512'),
(1447, 'The Cat Who Played Post Office', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into the limelight of the rich and famous--until a missing maid and a shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it''s his Siamese Koko''s propensity for clues that leads the roving reporter to some unlikely suspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2513'),
(1448, 'The Cat Who Said Cheese', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During the Moose County Great Food Expo, Qwill and his crimesolving Siamese have plenty of delicious distractions. But after a mysterious death, they have to put aside the treats--and cook up a solution to the case! A Mystery Guild selection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2511'),
(1449, 'The Cat Who Sniffed Glue', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It looks like robbery gone awry to the police. But then Koko develops an odd appetite for glue, and he and Qwilleran become entangled in a web of love and danger in their stickiest case yet! "The mix of crime and cats (is) catnip to readers who like both!"--Chicago Sun-Times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2516'),
(1450, 'The Cat Who Tailed a Thief', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The delightful New York Times bestselling mystery series continues with "another winner!" (*Austin American-Statesman*) In this latest installment, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran--along with his lovable Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum--solve a mystery that arises when a local banker dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a flashy young widow, an unfinished house-restoration project, and a trail of clues as elusive as a cat burglar in the night... * *A New York Times* bestseller * Braun''s newest hardcover, *The Cat Who Sang for the Birds*, will be on sale from G.P. Putnam''s Sons Jan. 12th\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2518'),
(1451, 'The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural in the latest entry in Lilian Jackson Braun''s Edgar Award-nominated series. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter farmhouse museum? Qwill doesn''t think so--not until he finds Iris Cobb literally scared to death on the floor of the farmhouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2514'),
(1452, 'The cat who turned on and off', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action -- with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors -- as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career -- and the life -- of one of Junktown''s leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he''s right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2517'),
(1453, 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10416'),
(1454, 'The Cat Who Wasn&#39;t There', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Qwill agrees to join his beloved Polly on a group tour of Scotland to keep her safe from the Pickax Prowler. On their sixth day in Scotland, however, the tour organizer--Polly''s best friend Irma--dies of an apparent heart attack, and Qwill suspects foul play. Koko and Yum Yum may have been miles away from the scene of the crime, but they''re just a whisker away from cracking the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2520'),
(1455, 'The cat who went into the closet', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran packs up the cats and moves into a mansion in town for the winter. While Koko and Yum Yum play, Qwill turns his attention to two suspicious deaths: the mansion''s former owner and a local farmer. The case is going nowhere until Koko unearths surprising evidence that someone is willing to kill to supress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2510'),
(1456, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world''s most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn''t know that another conspiracy is brewing around himâ€”a poisonous plot to violently dictate the future of the free world. If Bauer does nothing, in twenty-four hours the entire planet may be plunged into chaos, its primary heads of state ruthlessly destroyed. But if he acts, his daughter Kim will die instead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8087'),
(1457, 'Cat&#39;s Cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2971'),
(1458, 'Cat&#39;s Eye', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9097'),
(1459, 'Cat&#39;s Karma', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(1460, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8149'),
(1461, 'Catastrophe', 'Dick Morris &amp; Eileen McGann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s time to take back our country.   Now. It''s that simple. It''s that urgent.   So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann''s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.   At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States.   Cars, banksâ€”what''s next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries.   It''s a catastrophe.   Dick Morris and Eileen McGann saw the meltdown coming. In their book Outrage, they called out the house of cards that was Fannie Mae. In Fleeced, they went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economyâ€”and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would "trigger a stock market crash."   Now, in Catastrophe, Morris and McGann take a hard look at America in free fallâ€”and at how Obama is transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state.   They tell the truth about Obama and his radical policies:   He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care.  He designed his bank rescue plan to pave the way for nation-alization of the banks and socialization of the economy. He firmly believes in government control of our major industriesâ€”he''s already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry. He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions. He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free. He gives aid to Hamas while Shariah Law threatens to take over America. He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system.   But Obama is not working alone. Morris and McGann spell out how Congress is complicit:   How Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Charlie Rangel use special interests and special friends for their own enrichment and glorification. How Ted Kennedy Jr. is exploiting his father''s health care power.   "This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," Morris and McGann remind us. "It''s a time for action." And that action must begin nowâ€”before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8365'),
(1462, 'Catch Him Keep Him Meeting the One', 'Christian Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n 4 DVD Program about Meeting "The One" entitled Catch Him Keep Him. Christian Carter offers to tell women how to avoid the ten fatal mistakes most women make with men, or how to engage and attract a man right after you meet in person. The worst mistake a woman can make is not seeking help. Because men are so hard to understand, and Christian Carter has spent years reading every relationship book ever published, and he has thought deeply about the psychology of men and women when they are dating. And he can help!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8797'),
(1463, 'Catch Me If You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot''s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law caught up with him.  Now recognized as the nation''s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit. The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world''s most sought-after con man currently in development as a DreamWorks feature film. "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies.  I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world''s most famous beaches." From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(1464, 'Catch of the Day', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!** **First Date Ã  la Maggie** Take one lovelorn diner owner (me) A generous helping of nosy local gossips A dollop of envy at married sister''s perfect life A splash of divine intervention (my matchmaking priest) *Combine ingredients with one adorable puppy, add a strong but silent lobsterman with a hidden heart of gold . . . and watch the sparks fly.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2901'),
(1465, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of *Catch-22* resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2940'),
(1466, 'The catcher in the rye', 'Jerome David Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children''s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden''s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1869'),
(1467, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3356'),
(1468, 'Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human', 'Richard Wrangham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since Darwin and *The Descent of Man*, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in *Catching Fire*, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestorsâ€™ diets, *Catching Fire* sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, *Catching Fire* will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient originsâ€”or in our modern eating habits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3480'),
(1469, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.** Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. **Catching Ideas** * Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.* -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(1470, 'Cate of the Lost Colony', 'Lisa Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, "He. Is. Mine" and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn''t evolve, and Cate''s life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh''s writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author''s note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees''s\n  <em>\n   Witch Child\n  </em>\n  (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.â€”_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Catherine incurs the queenâ€™s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O''Malley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6667'),
(1471, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7120'),
(1472, 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages', 'Frances Gies &amp; Joseph Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world''s advantage."\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moving chronologically through a millennium (500-1500 A.D.), the authors (who have written numerous books on medieval life, including Life in a Medieval City , LJ 2/1/70) show that the term "Dark Ages" is a misnomer by deftly tracing the period''s "main technological elements, . . . their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts." In addition to the technological developments highlighted in the book''s title, the authors cover such topics as the textile industry and shipbuilding/rigging, plus obligatory topics like printing, engineering, and gunpowder. Throughout, they nimbly weave medieval cultural history into the discussion. Informative, readable, enjoyable, and well written, this work is directed to general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic &amp; State Univ. Libs . , Blacksburg\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5125'),
(1473, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6350'),
(1474, 'a Catskill Eagle (1985)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 12', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10566'),
(1475, 'A Catskill Eagle', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was nearly midnight and I was just getting home from detecting. I had followed an embezzler around on a warm day in early summer trying to observe him spending his ill-gotten gain. The best I''d been able to do was catch him eating a veal cutlet sandwich in a sub shop in Danvers Square across from Security National Bank.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4022'),
(1476, 'Catwalk', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Big Apple. Bigger Problems. The success of the Forrester sisters'' On the Runway TV show lands them a hot ticket to Fashion Week in New York City. Paige is determined to garner the attention of New York''s top designers, but her newfound fame threatens to go to her head. Erin wants to help promote the work of some eco-minded designers, but struggles to be taken seriously. Can Paige keep her prima donna behavior in check? Will Erin''s involvement hurt the people she''s really trying to help? Success in the big city comes with even bigger challenges, and as the pressure grows, so does the drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3197'),
(1477, 'Catwoman - Tiger Hunt', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10052'),
(1478, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive** 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateâ€”and nationally televisedâ€”sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobenâ€™s trademark, *Caught* tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she canâ€™t trust her own instincts about this storyâ€”or the motives of the people around her. Praise for *Long Lost*: "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense, as *Long Lost* makes clear." -*Chicago Sun-Times* "Roller-coaster plot and savvy dialogue...All the ingredients of a good old- fashioned thriller: murder, action and wit." -*New York Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1759'),
(1479, 'Caught (2010)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9600'),
(1480, 'Caught Stealing (2004)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10033');
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(1481, 'Cause of death', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Full marks, as always, for the gripping forensic detail and beleagueredScarpetta''s legendary toughness." Kirkus Reviews (starred review). Through six harrowing, expertly crafted crime novels, Patricia Cornwellhas earned an international following of passionate readers who are addicted toher singular blend of spellbinding storytelling, absorbing forensic detail, andcharacters who grow more complex and interesting with each book. NowCornwell submerges Dr. Kay Scarpetta in a labyrinthine case that wraps a webof danger around those closest to her and threatens to wreak fear and death farbeyond the confines of Virginia. New Year''s Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia''s bloodiest yearsince the Civil War takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River''s icysurface. A scuba diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who wasa favorite at the Medical Examiner''s Office. Was Eddings probing the frigiddepths of the Inactive Ship Yard for a story, or simply diving for sunkentrinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reportingthe death before the police were notified? With the advent of a second murder--this one hitting even closer to home--the case envelops Scarpetta, her neice Lucy, and police captain Pete Marino ina world where both cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned detective workare critical offensive weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a well ofviolence as dark and forbidding as the water that swirled over Ted Eddings. With Cause of Death, Patricia Cornwell brilliantly delivers thehigh-tension suspense that has secured her status as the best crime writer ofour time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4097'),
(1482, 'The cave', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France. He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat.There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back. Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town.When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone. Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared. He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3071'),
(1483, 'A Cavern of Black Ice', 'J. V. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Cavern of Black Ice opens J.V. Jones''s Sword of Shadows trilogy. (Her first novel was The Baker''s Boy.) The story is set in a land divided among small warring clans of hunters and more sophisticated southern cities whose lords covet the clan territories. Young clansman Raif has a touch of "old blood" magic that guides his arrows to the heart. Bad times come when a hunting party that includes his father and clan chief is wiped out by a supernaturally aided attack, and Raif''s open suspicion of the brutal new leader eventually drives him into exile. Meanwhile, Iss, overlord of Spire Vanis city, keeps a chained-up sorcerer whose powers he channels by revolting means, and has unexplained but shuddersome plans for his "foster daughter" Ash--herself an unwilling focus of dread forces. Raif and Ash find themselves fleeing together through wintry, hostile clanlands, pursued by Iss''s vilest henchmen, seeking the dubious goal of the Cavern of Black Ice. What lifts this tale far above routine quest fantasy is Jones''s deft characterization, relentless intensity, and unsparing depiction of pain and slow-healing injury. She has a flair for memorably horrid images. Here a sorcerer gloats over one of his nastier tricks: "A man could not fight when his corneas were snapped from his eyes like badges from a chest." This hefty volume is over 800 pages long, but the narrative grips hard once it''s gained momentum, and the pages turn increasingly fast. Strong meat. Next comes book two, A Fortress of Grey Ice. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1729'),
(1484, 'The Caves of Steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  Isaac Asimov''s *Robot* novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.  Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.  But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.  The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.  Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner:  R. Daneel Olivaw.  Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9543'),
(1485, 'CB_Pleaser', 'Cameo Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10697'),
(1486, 'CEK_GingerBread', 'Celia Kyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10016'),
(1487, 'CEK_Tri-ed', 'Celia Kyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10017'),
(1488, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.\n <br />\n In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.\n <br />\n Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell.  --Daphne Durham  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Starred Review. It''s probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott''s beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King''s latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott''s voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important elementâ€”quiet believabilityâ€”to King''s bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead characterâ€”a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocketâ€”a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerousâ€”until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Fans have offered their horror-fiction idol unfaltering loyalty since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, three decades ago. More than 50 books later, Stephen King''s stock-in-trade remains stinging, darkly humorous social commentary. His latest effort, a nod to gore-meisters George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), among others, is no different. The result, though entertaining, is uneven. Some reviewers appreciate King for his prodigious imagination and his storytelling abilities, while others take issue with his two-dimensional characters, scattershot plotting, and the too-obvious echoes of past novels. For longtime fans of King''s work, Cell may bring to mind a more compact (though ultimately less satisfying) version of the author''s epic The Stand.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8563'),
(1489, 'Cell: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.?Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4325'),
(1490, 'Celtic Fire', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a Roman commander travels through Britannia to investigate a haunting vision, an ambush by hostile Celts leaves him with an unexpected prize--a beautifully enchanting witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3185'),
(1491, 'The Cement Garden', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDarkly impressive.â€ --\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.â€ -- Tom Paulin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.â€ -- Sunday Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan''s quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." -- _New York Review of Books\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- _The Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "The Maestro." -- _New Statesman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." -- John Fowles\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sparkling and adventurous writer." -- Dennis Potter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9295'),
(1492, 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story', 'Shahriar Mandanipour; Sara Khalili', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. Shahriar Mandanipour evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other despite surreal persecution and repressive parents through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creatorrs"s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching,Censoring an Iranian Love Storycelebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3261'),
(1493, 'Centaur Aisle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3309'),
(1494, 'Centennial', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener is America''s best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL."THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1585'),
(1495, 'The Center of Everything', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty''s breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.** Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty''s captivating debut novel hit the stores in June ''03. Janet Maslin of the *New York Times* praised *The Center of Everything* as "warm" and "beguiling." *USA Today* compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*. It garnered extensive national attention; from *Entertainment Weekly* to the *Boston Globe* and the *San Francisco Chronicle*, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty''s writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a *USA Today* Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after *The Center of Everything''s* original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide. With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of *The Center of Everything* is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3203'),
(1496, 'Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warlike Shâ€™daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh''daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier\n <em>\n  America\n </em>\n toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh''daar assault on Earth''s solar systemâ€”and the war for humankind''s survival must be taken directly to the enemy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n <em>\n  The Heritage Trilogy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Legacy Trilogy\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Inheritance Trilogy\n </em>\n . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6875'),
(1497, 'Ceremony', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Marika, leader of the silth, who are known for their psychic powers, challenges her enemies with a plan to use solar mirrors in space to end the world''s permanent winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1894'),
(1498, 'Ceremony in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2346'),
(1499, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''People don''t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don''t ask me why, but we make them nervous.'' There''s something about Leo Harlan that I don''t like. He''s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree '' sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don''t, someone else will. But what he hasn''t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2802'),
(1500, 'Cetaganda', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for the control of software used by Cetaganda''s rulers to genetically engineer an entire people. By the author of Mirror Dance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9030'),
(1501, 'Chad Oliver &amp; Wilson Tucker &amp; Poul Anderson', 'Three in time', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8858'),
(1502, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. SUMMARY: With Wizard''s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3513'),
(1503, 'Chains of Command', 'W.A. McCay &amp; E.L. Flood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While exploring a group of devastated class-M planets in a remote sector of space, the crew of the U.S.S. "Enterprise (TM)" is shocked to discover a group of human slaves on a forbidding, glacial world. When the slaves revolt against their human overseers, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves plight but cannot interfere in the conflict.  After the revolt is a success, Captain Picard learns that both the slaves and the overseers were controlled by a mysterious bird-like race called the Tseetsk, who are coming to reclaim their property. With the time running out, the rebels kidnap Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi -- drawing the U.S.S. "Enterprise" into the middle of their deadly plan of vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4356'),
(1504, 'Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction From Today&#39;s China', 'Howard Goldblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story''s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu''s folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants'' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui''s "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun''s "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng''s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao''s "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors'' biographies or elaborate on the collection''s post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4345'),
(1505, 'The Chairman', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n  <em>\n   Silent Partner\n  </em>\n  ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6565'),
(1506, 'The chairman: a novel', 'Stephen W. Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n <em>\n  Silent Partner\n </em>\n ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n <em>\n  Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9935'),
(1507, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the PacificÂ \n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverÂ changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7048'),
(1508, 'Chamber Music', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce''s fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1775'),
(1509, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(1510, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1990'),
(1511, 'The Champion of Garathorm', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9842'),
(1512, 'Champion of the Gods', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1922'),
(1513, 'Chance', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mafia princess Shirley Meeker wants her husband back. So does her father, kingpin Julius Ventura, and a few other shady characters. Spenser and Hawk head to Vegas to find Anthony Meeker--and confirm their suspicion that all these people aren''t just missing Anthony''s smile. And when bodies start turning up, Spenser has to make sense of some very disorganized crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4037'),
(1514, 'Chance (1996)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 23', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10546'),
(1515, 'Chancy', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Cattle drive in a deadly country... Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn''t hesitate. He guns down a man who''d been using a sheriff''s badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by a deadly gunman. Despite his youth, Chancy won''t run--and when his past catches up to him in Cheyenne, he''ll make his stand, whether his partner and cowhands back his play...or whether he fights alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2825'),
(1516, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(1517, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child. Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5045'),
(1518, 'Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchlingwas] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8014'),
(1519, 'Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The new novel in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series. ** Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden''s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry''s not fighting to save the world... He''s fighting to save his *child*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1692'),
(1520, 'Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Teeth\n </em>\n in her early twenties, but what kind she''ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n . She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace''s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn''t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ), and, in the collection''s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith''s nonfiction over the past decade.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"-_Changing My Mind_ invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith''s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith''s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5955'),
(1521, 'Changing of the Guard', 'Steve Perry &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Larry Segriff &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job -- and is about to prove that no man is above the law ...\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n   <em>\n    Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Debt of Honor.\n   </em>\n   Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n   <em>\n    State of Emergency\n   </em>\n   and co-creator of\n   <em>\n    Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n   </em>\n   series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7876'),
(1522, 'Chanur&#39;s Homecoming', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When those aliens entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were catastrophically disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew were pitched into the center of a galactic maelstrom, becoming key players in a power game which could cause an intersteller war, or bring the last hope for peace between eight barely compatible alien races.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10887'),
(1523, 'Chanur&#39;s Venture', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10876');
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(1524, 'Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n , Nick''s archenemy (and slave to the aliens) Sorus Chatelaine aboard\n <em>\n  Soar\n </em>\n , and the mysterious hired gun,\n <em>\n  Free Lunch\n </em>\n . Corrupt cyborg Angus Thermopyle and ruthless Nick Succorso battle for control of the ship and the situation. Their trail leads to Valdor Industrial, where geneticist/engineer Vector Shaheed seeks to redeem himself by manufacturing an antidote to the mutagen used by the alien Amnioni to mutate human beings against their will. Brutalized yet resilient Morn Hyland, her clone/son Davies, tough officer Mikki, Pup, Sib, and the rest continue their suffering and sacrificing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in Earth space, police and politicians battle for power as UMCP director Dios continues his grim revolution against the Dragon. Assassin kazes, political fears, and provocative bills threaten to paralyze the Governing Council for Earth and Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ships battling in space? Laboratory space stations developing antimutagen antidotes against the aliens who seek to conquer humankind by mutation? Outrage, brutality, betrayal, and secrets? Donaldson lays it all out with sharp dialogue, tense scenes, and zippy action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fourth installment of Donaldson''s Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there''s no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet , for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret "antimutagen," which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain''s Fancy , including Morn Hyland (the series'' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax; but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm. Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8005'),
(1525, 'The Chaos Curse', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prequel series to\n  <em>\n   The Ghost King\n  </em>\n  comes to an explosive end!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cadderly journeys home to the Edificant Library, hoping to rebuild his shattered life--but the chaos curse has one last surprise in store for him. Failure means the loss of his beloved Danica, success might usher in a new era for the followers of Denier.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8658'),
(1526, 'Chaos Theory', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant madman dedicated to anarchy has dark plans for the U.S. In twenty-four hours, America will be plunged into chaosâ€”the result of an unthinkable assassination to be carried out flawlesslyâ€”and the government has no inkling of the catastrophe that is about to occur.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only one man can prevent the nightmare: disgraced rogue CTU operative Jack Bauer. But Bauer''s been cut loose, is wanted for murder, and is running from the police, who have orders to shoot to kill. And there''s no one he can turn to for helpâ€”because a high-level traitor in CTU wants Jack Bauer dead.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n  <em>\n   Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n  </em>\n  , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8081'),
(1527, 'Chaosbound', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber. He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1520'),
(1528, 'Chapterhouse, Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.** The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(1529, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5309'),
(1530, 'Charity Girl', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer, in her inimitable style, explores the lengths to which a gentleman must go to avoid scandal when confronted by a very young runaway lady.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Viscount Desford encounters Charity Steane walking to London alone, he feels honor bound to assist her. Dashing about the countryside to find Charity''s elusive grandfather, the Viscount must somehow prevent his exasperating charge from bringing ruin upon herself-and him.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the most delightful new Georgette Heyer Regency romance in several years. It is witty, full of dashing period slang, and it trifles with the affairs of several maids and men with such style and gentle irony that readers of good ''ton,'' as Miss Heyer herself might put it, will find reading it a very ''comfortable cose'' indeed." -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10160'),
(1531, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In bestseller Berry''s fourth thriller to feature exâ€“Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Berry outdoes himself in his latest Cotton Malone adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ). Using his connections in the federal government, Cotton asks to see a classified file that details the mission that resulted in his father''s death. He knew his father died on a submarine but none of the shocking details about where or why he died. But Cotton is not the only person who wants this file, and they kill to get it. Nazi missions to the Antarctic, ancient societies, and a valuable artifact from Charlemagne''s tomb all play key roles as Malone uncovers the truth. So much is going on that there is enough material for two good books, let alone one great one. Mixed in with the complicated action, Berry finds the time to explore the characters as well, making this his most personal and best book to date. For all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 8/08.]â€”Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6464'),
(1532, 'Charley&#39;s Web', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the\n <em>\n  Palm Beach Post\n </em>\n and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (_Heartstopper_). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn''t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill''s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls Jack. Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next targetâ€”her son.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh offÂ the solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Sheâ€™s raising two children on her own,Â her satiricalÂ columns about her neighborsâ€™ hobbies and opinions have not made herÂ very popular in her residential community, andÂ she has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography ofÂ notorious femaleÂ serial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, FieldingÂ turnsÂ her latestÂ page-turnerÂ into a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6233'),
(1533, 'Charlie and the chocolate factory', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka''s famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka''s orders? In Dahl''s most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3661'),
(1534, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking right up where\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n left off,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we''ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie''s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.\n <em>\n  (Ages 9 to 12)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms. --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6276'),
(1535, 'Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a dark laboratory at BloorÅ¼s Academy, somebody is brewing up trouble...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1686'),
(1536, 'Charlie Bone and the Hidden King', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charlie Bone awakes one morning to find the city covered with snow and all the animals gone. Where have they gone - and why? Blessed the dog tells Billy there was a terrible shuddering of the earth and immediately after, he saw a witch with two shadows crossing the hall in the Bloor''s Academy. Could the discovery of an ancient mirror, and the movement of the shadow in the Red King''s portrait have something to do with it? And a strange girl appears outside Charlie''s house. She tells him he must follow her to find the animals. Can he trust her, and will she perhaps lead him to find someone he lost long before the animals?The spellbinding final book in the best-selling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1687'),
(1537, 'Charlie Bone and the invisible boy', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the ruins of the castle of the Red King, Charlie and Tancred discover a tree-girl that whispers secrets to them and asks for their help in restoring her to a real girl. When Charlie returns to help her, he finds that the tree has been destroyed. Meanwhile, the Yewbeam sisters are trying to marry Amy Bone, Charlie begins to hear portraits speaking, and a new music teacher has arrived at Bloor''s Academy. Soon Emma discovers that the invisible boy living upstairs in the attic is her older brother, and when Manfred finds out their plans, he threatens to lock up Emma.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1685'),
(1538, 'Charlie Bone and the Time Twister', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam''s cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor''s in the twenty-first century, and realises Henry''s cousin is none other than old Ezekiel Bloor. Charlie and Fidelio are joined by Cook and the Flames in their attempts to hide Henry from Ezekiel''s spies. But Manfred captures Henry, and although Mrs Bloor tried to save him, she vanishes with the Time Twister. With the help of the endowed, Charlie must enter the portrait of Skarpo the sorceror and retrieve the wand of a Welsh wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1688'),
(1539, 'Charlie Parker 01 - Every Dead Thing', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10099'),
(1540, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1531'),
(1541, 'Charlotte Gray', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author ofBirdsongcomesCharlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe''s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novelBirdsong,Charlotte Grayconfirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3637'),
(1542, 'The Charm School', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. Intelligence officer Sam Hollis, press attache Lisa Rhodes and CIA bureau chief Seth Alevy must discover for themselves what is going on at the Charm School. They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Once DeMille brings readers into the Charm School itself, however, he cannot sustain the magic that has propelled the narrative for two-thirds of its generous length. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Still, it''s riveting reading most of the way. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sustained action of this chilling vision of modern Russia starts with a young American tourist phoning the U.S. embassy in Moscow to report an unusual encounter with a U.S. Air Force major in the forest near Borodino. The tourist then vanishes and the officer is identified as a Vietnam MIA. Attaches Sam Hollis and Lisa Rhodes eventually uncover a spy school graduating several hundred "Americans" each year and staffed by an unwilling faculty made up of American servicemen missing from Vietnam. The blockbuster ends after a maverick CIA agent pulls off a hair-raising escape to the West, carrying proof of the camp''s existence. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7113'),
(1543, 'Charmed', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different, special -perhaps even dangerous. She had pent year hiding her eli from the world,crrified about the can equences of revealing what she really waÂ·. VI''hen Boone Sav.yer came into her life, bent on finding out the ITuth about her, Anastasia had to protect herself and her magic at all costs, She would keep her secrets whatever it look. Then -he was confronted with a terrifying thl-eat to everything he had learned Lo love. With a child''s future at take, Anasla ia could not deny he powers, even if it meant ri king her own life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2645'),
(1544, 'The Charmed Sphere', 'Catherine Asaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9116'),
(1545, 'Charmed to death: an Ophelia and Abby mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ophelia Jensen''s good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian''s best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant. Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn''t safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can''t count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she''ll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it''s Ophelia Jensen herself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3918'),
(1546, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5057'),
(1547, 'Chase: Roman', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer''s game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1493'),
(1548, 'Chasing Darkness (2008)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9958'),
(1549, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6239'),
(1550, 'Chasing Greatness', 'Lazarus, Adam &amp; Schlossman, Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9603'),
(1551, 'Chasing Greatness: Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer, and the Miracle at Oakmont', 'Adam Lazarus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The unforgettable story of the 1973 U.S. Open-and the unknown young golfer who astonished the world... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1973, a Who''s Who of golf''s greats gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. Among those favored to win were Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Instead, Johnny Miller-a 26-year-old oneÂ­time phenom from San Francisco-astonished the golfing world by edging out the legends and crafting a record-setting 63 to win by a single stroke.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring extensive archival and video research and candid interviews with leading golfers of the era, *Chasing Greatness* beautifully captures one of the unlikeliest victories and dramatic sports triumphs of the past half century. Authors Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman also chronicle the careers and the lives of six extraordinary figures during golf''s modern-day golden era: Miller, Palmer, Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Weiskopf, and John Schlee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5891'),
(1552, 'Chasing Silver', 'Jamie Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Born in 2057, Remy Capra never expected a second chance at life in Los Angeles, or her only chance at love in 2007. On the run from a cop who cares more about pain than justice, Remy inadvertently goes 75 years back in time and abruptly arrives at the feet of P.I. Nathan Pierce. Remy needs help, and Nathan finds he wants to offer her even more. There are threats from all sides - are their street smarts and unexpected passion enough to keep them together... and alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1667'),
(1553, 'Chasing Sophea: A Novel', 'Gabrielle Pina', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite her cushy Pasadena life and marriage to the preciously nicknamed "Milky," part-time college teacher Dahlia Chang suffers blackouts and headaches, can''t remember a thing about her childhood except her mother dying suddenly and is subject to the malicious jealousy of mysterious bad girl Phoebe. Gradually, Pina (_Bliss_) reveals what the reader guesses early onâ€”that Phoebe is an alter ego, the product of a mental trauma Dahlia suffered as a girl. Enter Dahlia''s Aunt Baby, who resolves to heal Dahlia, even if it means hauling Dahlia to the plantationlike home in Dallas where she grew up to confront the past. Meanwhile, unaware of his wife''s journey, Milky strikes out for Dallas on his own to investigate her mysterious condition and learns from resident grave digger Percival Tweed about Dahlia''s sordid family history. Emotions drive this novel; the characters often amount to little more than convenient vehicles that speak and think in either hoary dialect or wooden exchanges. When the living and the dead finally reunite, the book picks up a small bit of suspenseful steam and becomes an affecting story about the power of family love to mend old wounds.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlia Chang is suffering a crushing depression, robbing her of the joy of having a devoted husband, loving daughter, and successful career. Her past? Her family? She doesn''t remember, and she doesn''t want to. As her depression deepens and threatens to completely alienate Dahlia from her family, her husband, Michael, decides to visit Dahlia''s family in Dallas. Sensing the danger Dahlia is in, a long-lost great-aunt, who knows the secret behind Dahlia''s disappearance and 20-plus-year estrangement from the family, travels to Los Angeles to rescue her great-niece. Dahlia''s secret is tied to a family history of mental and emotional instability and the fateful day that tornado Sophea wrecked their lives. Pina, author of_Bliss _(2002), delivers strong characters and an intricate plot.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8143'),
(1554, 'Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For almost forty years, Robert B. Parkerâ€™s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, see how it all began as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master sheds light on Spenserâ€™s formative years spent with his father and two uncles out West. This is an event book for every fan of Spenser, and a revelation for teens about to discover an American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4010'),
(1555, 'Chasing the dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life. SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2418'),
(1556, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5863'),
(1557, 'The Chasm: A Journey to the Edge of Life', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alcorn offers a companion to his novel, Edge of Eternity, in this Pilgrim''s Progressâ€“style allegory about a man who comes to see his own wasted life through a series of misadventures, battles, and sins. These lead him to a chasm he cannot cross without the help of trustedâ€”should he trust them?â€”guides, most importantly a Christ figure, the Woodsman, and a tempter, Joshua. The end is not utopia, but a life with unexpected joys and faithful companions. For those who appreciate allegory, Alcorn''s fills the bill even as it also includes the realities of contemporary life: "I gazed into the emptiness of my daughter''s eyes. I started pushing and shoving. I wanted to kill the men who lusted after herâ€”vile men whose daughters I lusted after." Nothing here tops classic Christian allegories, but noteworthy is a "new creation" view of afterlife: "You will live on a new earthâ€”the old earth made new.... I came not to destroy but to redeem my fallen creation." (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   A Journey He Couldnâ€™t Missâ€¦ and a Step He Couldnâ€™t Take\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is graspedâ€¦and so much more seems unattainable.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Driven by a yearning he doesnâ€™t understand, compelled toward a destination he canâ€™t quite see, the traveler navigates the inhospitable landscape with determination and a flicker of something like hopeâ€”despite the obstacles that seem to unerringly block his path.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Best-selling novelist Randy Alcorn weaves a supernatural interplay of wills and motives, lusts and longings, love and sacrifice. Itâ€™s a potent mix that leaves every reader wondering: _Do I really understand this world I live in? Do I really understand myself? Is there more to all this than Iâ€™ve ever dared hope?\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  INCLUDES 12 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7894'),
(1558, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Relationships always drive Mayor''s plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Second Mouse\n  </em>\n  ). When Gunther''s mother and brother are almost killed in a suspicious car accident, he helps Deputy Sheriff Rob Barrows narrow in on a local, lawless family with a grievance against the Gunthers. Meanwhile, the investigation of two similar but seemingly unrelated deaths leads Gunther''s colleagues at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation to online chat rooms where older men pick up teen girls. Gunther''s former lover, Gail Zigman, makes an appearance, but Lyn Silva, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Surrogate Thief\n  </em>\n  , takes center stage as his new love interest. This book takes Gunther all over Vermont, offering occasional breaks from the tension with evocative descriptions of mountains and snow. Though Mayor is considered a regional writer, his books intelligently deal with subjects of national concern, and Gunther''s crime-solving skills and personal charisma have broad appeal.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The writing is strong, with sharp social observations throughout. Gunther grows on you from novel to novel." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this durable series has always been its insularity: local settings; sharp small-town characterizations; home-grown police procedures." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH PRAISE FOR MAYOR AND THE JOE GUNTHER SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Archer Mayor''s unassuming voice and down-to-earth style stamp his regional crime novels with a sense of integrity." (\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." (\n  <strong>\n   The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today." (\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4980');
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(1559, 'The Cheating Curve', 'Paula T. Renfroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything. . . Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get their nails done in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then go out for brunch. -The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang''s been keeping a secret from Aminah. She''s cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah''s husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong. Lang can see the disappointment in Aminah''s eyes when she comes clean. But she and Aminah have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn''t understand, her friend''s admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect, will be put to the ultimate test. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3371'),
(1560, 'The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right', 'Atul Gawande', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A New York TimesBestsellerIn his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry---in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people---consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can''t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as the biggest clinical invention in thirty years (The Independent).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8372'),
(1561, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8608'),
(1562, 'Cheever: A Life', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5911'),
(1563, 'Chef', 'Jaspreet Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar''s camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father''s life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue, who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. ''The smell of a woman is a thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,'' he muses, over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani ''terrorist'' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, Chefis a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2111'),
(1564, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/954'),
(1565, 'Chesapeake', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener''s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America''s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1587'),
(1566, 'Chesapeake Blue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nora Roberts returns to Chesapeake Bay and her beloved Quinn family for the story of Seth Quinn. The conclusion to the breathtaking saga.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2575'),
(1567, 'Chicago Wipe-Out', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(1568, 'Child 44', 'Tom Rob Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A propulsive, relentless page-turner.** **A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.** **A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.** **CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.** *"There is no crime."* Stalin''s Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals. But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov. A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated. Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he''s ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it''s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won''t admit even exists. Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and lives in London. Child 44 is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3986'),
(1569, 'A CHILD AL CONFINO', 'Lamet, Eric', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9178'),
(1570, 'A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini&#39;s Italy', 'Eric Lamet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most accounts of Holocaust survival are centered on central or eastern Europe, in which the Nazi program of genocide was so explicit. Although Mussolini and his Fascist minions were not necessarily genocidal in intention, they were still virulently anti-Semitic as this engrossing and moving account reveals. Lamet was born in Vienna. When he was seven, his familyâ€™s middle-class existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages. They resided in a southern rural hamlet east of Naples until the Allied liberation in 1943. Lamet recounts his motherâ€™s struggles to provide a secure home for her child while both attempt to adjust from their urban, relatively sophisticated background to life in what initially appears to be a bleak, primitive setting. This memoir will be an excellent addition to Holocaust collections. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother''s valiant efforts to make a home for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini''s Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5072'),
(1571, 'Child of a Dead God', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artifact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a murdering Noble Dead, her half-brother Welstiel. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south, on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession. Accompanying Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn, their canine protector Chap, and two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. For forces more powerful than they are rallying around Magiere, arming her for the conflict to come. Because finding the orb may be just the beginning of the challenges that await her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(1572, 'Child of the Northern Spring: Book One of the Guinevere Trilogy', 'Persia Woolley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of a queen who deserves to become a legend-a startlingly original tale of Arthur &amp; Guinevere** Often portrayed as spoiled, in Persia Woolley''s hands Guinevere comes alive as a high-spirited, passionate woman. When she is chosen by Arthur to be his wife, Guinevere''s independence wars with her family loyalty. As the wedding approaches and hints of rebellion abound, she learns that the old gods are in revolt against the new Christian church, and that scattered kingdoms are stirring from their uneasy peace. This is Arthurian epic at its best, filled with romance, adventure, authentic historical detail, and a landscape alive with the mystery of Britain in the Dark Ages. "This is truly original. As a re-creation of the legend in a version closer to the realities, it''s far better than anything else I''ve read." -Geoffrey Ashe, author of *The Discovery of King Arthur* "This richly detailed novel is romantic, its characters are vivdly drawn, and Woolley''s clear styles flows as smoothly as her unfolding story." -Morgan Llywelyn, author of *Lion of Ireland *and *The Horse Goddess.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4069'),
(1573, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', 'Robert Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning''s narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King''s "Dark Tower" series. The poem tells the tale of Roland, a knight, who comes as last to the object of his quest: the Dark Tower. His comrades have all fallen, and he is the last. He endures, marching on and on, until he comes at last to the Tower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3509'),
(1574, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the all-time classics of science fiction by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey features a race of aliens who offers mankind a golden age of peace and prosperity, but at the cost of freedom. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(1575, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(1576, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity. *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship. After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household. In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort. Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim. Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(1577, 'The Children of Dynmouth', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person''s obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5497'),
(1578, 'The Children of Hamlin', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hamlin Massacre -- every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised. Even worse, the colony''s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers.  Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors.  This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard -- and the crew of the starship Enterprise...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6626'),
(1579, 'Children of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry''s death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian''s and the biographer''s art."Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir''s sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(1580, 'The Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Told with  P. D. Jamesâ€™s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting  storytelling, **The Children of Men** is a story of a world with no children and no future.    The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now  adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace.  Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends  most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive  woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden  of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire  to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2866'),
(1581, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now in trade paperback for the first time!With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3000 years, is about to be killed by the Starways Congress, which has finally discovered her existence and fears her control of the galaxy-wide interlocked network of computers and ansibles.Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitaniathe Pequeninos, the Hive Queens daughters, and the human colony. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2494'),
(1582, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(1583, 'Chill of Night', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retiredâ€”in part because of a gunshot wound, in part his disrespect for the police hierarchyâ€”Beam morosely deals with the inactivity of retirement, tragically complicated by the recent suicide of his wife. When Deputy Chief Andy da Vinci asks for his help in catching a serial murderer dubbed the Justice Killerâ€”each of his victims at one time served as foreman on a jury that acquitted an "obviously" guilty defendantâ€”Beam is lured back to the fold. As the adversary stays one step ahead of the investigation, Beam''s team get the feeling that the Justice Killer may be looking to add them to his growing list of victims. Though it''s a familiar setup, Lutz breathes fresh life into this genre piece by keeping the suspense high and populating his story with a collection of unique characters that resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they''ve all been jurors in the city''s most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there''s only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he''s been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city''s legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he''s outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn''t officially a cop anymore...and he doesn''t have to play by the rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8634'),
(1584, 'The Chill', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3368'),
(1585, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5165'),
(1586, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7683'),
(1587, 'China&#39;s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy', 'Minxin Pei', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country''s best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative bookÂ­-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-Â­directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.\n  <br />\n  --Elizabeth J. Perry, author of\n  <em>\n   Patrolling the Revolution\n  </em>\n  (20060531)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this superb work, Pei asks penetrating questions about the course of China''s development. He offers a very effective critique of the gradualist approach to reform, explaining that the problems China faces are not incidental to but an integral part of that approach. Powerfully argued, this is a major contribution sure to stir debate.\n  <br />\n  --Joseph Fewsmith, author of\n  <em>\n   China since Tiananmen\n  </em>\n  (20060612)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s notion of a ''trapped transition'' will prove valuableÂ­-and not just for its application to China. It serves to challenge the deterministic and evolutionary assumptions behind much of the literature on democratization.\n  <br />\n  --Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute (20060901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only does Minxin Pei make the case that the Chinese reforms are partial and self-limiting, but he also calls into question the hopeful view that rapid growth will ultimately generate political reform. His important book has implications for current debates about the United States-China relationship, but will also force a rethinking of the broader comparative literature on the developmental state.\n  <br />\n  --Stephan Haggard, co-author of\n  <em>\n   The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions\n  </em>\n  (20061001)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thought-provoking...Mr. Pei argues, persuasively, that China''s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union''s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.\n  <br />\n  --Martin Wolf (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei does not have much time for the optimistic assumption that democracy in China is just around the corner...For Pei, there is little chance of dethroning the Communist party behemoth in spite of the heroic efforts of the dissidents and democracy campaigners.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Patten (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pei sees it, big trouble looms [for China]. Continued progress toward a more modern economy will require the establishment of a true rule of law, which in turn will require ''institutional curbs'' on governmental action. These two limitations on power are incompatible with the party''s insistence on dominating society. So long as the current political framework remains in place, then, China is effectively, and perhaps fatally, trapped in its state of transition...[_China''s Trapped Transition_ presents a] comprehensive and, I believe, compelling understanding of present-day China.\n  <br />\n  --Gordon G. Chang (_Commentary_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] acute and insightful examination of China''s ongoing transition.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Hunter (_China Economic Review_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s most significant contribution lies in his lucid exposition of the causal links between the structural logic of China''s "illiberal adaptation" and its manifest socio-economic and political consequences...He has arguably--like Elvin before him--raised the level of debate and altered the terms of engagement.\n  <br />\n  --Richard Baum (_China Journal_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, Chinaâ€™s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Partyâ€™s reform strategyâ€”pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why Chinaâ€™s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the â€œshock therapyâ€ prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the stateâ€™s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining powerful insights with empirical research,\n  <em>\n   Chinaâ€™s Trapped Transition\n  </em>\n  offers a provocative assessment of Chinaâ€™s future as a great power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070101)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5710'),
(1588, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Singer-songwriter Crowell''s upbringing in Texas had all the prerequisite elements of a hardscrabble country music story--drinking, guns, fistfights, fierce spankings, infidelity, Pentecostal preachers, fishing, love, hate, laughter, tears, sex, drugs, and of course, music. But Crowell''s storytelling abilities and narrative flair elevate this book far above the average music memoir. Born in 1950 to a blue-collar, hard-drinking, country-singing father and religious mother, Crowell lived in Jacinto City, east of Houston, in a shoddily constructed house cursed with leaks, mosquitoes, and vermin. He recalls hurricanes, fishing trips, rock throwing fights, and bow-and-arrow mishaps, all with the enthusiasm of a hyper 10-year-old pedaling at full speed (something he and neighborhood kids did when following the "Mosquito Dope Truck," a DDT spraying vehicle that they chased on their bicycles). Crowell touches on his early musical influences, including a Hank Williams concert when he was only two, and an outdoor show by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash in a thunderstorm, as well as his first time playing music with his father''s band. It''s not music that''s at the heart of this book, however, but his loving and turbulent relationships with his parents and their often strained but deep love for one another. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Crowell is among the best storytellers to emerge from Nashville. Up to now, he told his stories in song, but with this heartfelt memoir, he can now be called a writer of the first order. Houston, where Crowell grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, was a city full of characters found in stereotypical country songs: hard-drinking fathers and long-suffering mothers singing along to the beer-soaked ballads of Hank Williams. But this is not fiction; Crowell actually lived the life, soaking up its exhilarating and disturbing atmosphere. Crowell is unsparingly honest, yet there is an admirable restraint here, too. He clearly loves his family, accepting their bountiful deficiencies even when he criticizes them or wishes them harm. He can now see the kind of lives his parents wanted to live, and how they fell woefully short. He calls his father an enigma and savant; he admires his mother, who suffered from double dyslexia and epilepsy, for her towering instinct for survival. But he also discusses lighter topics, such as his early days in a rock â€™nâ€™ roll band, making for an exceptional memoir. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5050'),
(1589, 'Chinga', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11142'),
(1590, 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Discover the delicious mystery that started it all! No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Flukeâ€™s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimesâ€”one delicious clue at a timeâ€”has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and brand new, mouthwatering recipes, this limited edition of the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for secondsâ€¦ Hannah Swenson already has her hands full trying to dodge her motherâ€™s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesotaâ€™s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannahâ€™s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just canâ€™t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. Who would have the sheer audacityâ€”and the motiveâ€”to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah ever had? Topping the list is the high school football coach. What exactly was his wife doing, making the rounds with the milkman? Could Max Turner, owner of Cozy Cow Dairy, have had a secret he didnâ€™t want to share with his top employee? The more Hannah snoops, the more suspects turn up. Why has Lake Edenâ€™s most prominent prodigal son, Benton Woodley, just resurfaced? And what about the mysterious Mr. Harris who seemed interested in buying the property next to the dairy, but then disappeared? This is one murder thatâ€™s starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannahâ€™s mouth. And if she doesnâ€™t watch her back, Hannahâ€™s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. Filled with a healthy sprinkling of humor and a delightful assortment of nuts, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER serves up a great new mystery series and introduces a delicious, down-home sleuth that mystery readers will surely savor for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1870');
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(1591, 'Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World&#39;s Greatest Chocolate Makers', 'Deborah Cadbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A descendant of the Cadbury family of chocolatiers, author Cadbury is also an award-winning documentary producer for the BBC and has seven other books to her credit. The history of chocolate, from its origins as an exotic Aztec beverage to the most prized confectionery in the world, is told here through the eyes of the British Quaker family that transformed a gritty, oily brew into one of the most sought-after delectable treats on the planet. In doing so, the Cadbury brothers turned their fatherâ€™s humble and nearly bankrupt business into a globally dominant corporation in the span of two generations. The path to success was not easy, and Cadbury tells the story of fierce competition from names like Fry, NestlÃ©, Hershey, and Mars, as well as the Dutch and Swiss entrepreneurs who were so crucial in cracking the food chemistry of the cacao bean. Cadbury chronicles 150 years of chocolate wars that only heated up further into a global-merger competition, which saw the venerated Cadbury brand get swallowed up by the food giant Kraft in 2009. This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , October 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Washington Post\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The New Yorker Book Bench\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFor chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonkaâ€™s factory â€“ or at least something that sounds very much like it â€“ was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one familyâ€™s continuous struggle to reconcile religious values â€“ pacifism, austerity, sobriety â€“ with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... Itâ€™s hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Wars\n </em>\n is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Business Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFascinating..._Chocolate Wars_ presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â â€œA fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAlthough written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Sunday Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Chocolate Wars_ â€“ clear, readable and richly detailed â€“ is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , November 15, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadburyâ€™s branch of the Cadbury family wasnâ€™t involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousinsâ€™ company and the reader ofÂ _Chocolate Wars_Â feels they are getting an insiderâ€™s view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Examiner.com, November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe 150-year rivalry among the worldâ€™s greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families.Â Just think what sweetness came out of these families'' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadburyâ€™s chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and NestlÃ©. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFascinatingâ€¦Read this excellent book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, NestlÃ©, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently inÂ _Chocolate Wars_, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  , December 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[_Chocolate Wars_] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, itâ€™s the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadburyâ€™s book, like her namesakeâ€™s famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bnreview.com, December 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world''s greatest chocolate makersâ€”the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and NestlÃ©, and the American upstarts Hershey and Marsâ€”is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7544'),
(1592, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8157'),
(1593, 'Choke: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(1594, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4896'),
(1595, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! ** A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts. In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities. Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(1596, 'Chosen', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The House of Night:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4500'),
(1597, 'Chosen of the Gods', 'Chris Pierson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9347'),
(1598, 'The Chosen', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there''s more to the apparitions of Santo NiÃ±o--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja''s own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young artist whose genius portrays a truth too potent for words and a famed monster hunter with a terrifying agenda are the keys to the secrets that lie in the heart of Los Alamos--and unlocking the door to the very fabric of time itself .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(1599, 'Chosen: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for The House of Night:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8848'),
(1600, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong. Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(1601, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of *The Reformation* returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time ** Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch''s *Christianity* is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith. *Christianity* will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus'' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity''s essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II. We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, *The Reformation*, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(1602, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4286'),
(1603, 'Christine Falls', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman''s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman''s history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned-first subtly, then with violence-to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville''s writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(1604, 'A Christmas carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(1605, 'A Christmas Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While bestseller Perry doesn''t offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  A Christmas Grace\n </em>\n ), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in Whitechapel. As the 1883 holiday season nears in London''s East End, 13-year-old Gracie Phipps, a supporting character in Perry''s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (_Buckingham Palace Gardens_, etc.), encounters a woebegone younger child, Minnie Maude Mudway, on the mean streets of her neighborhood. Minnie is looking for a missing donkey, Charlie, which belonged to her beloved uncle Alf. The animal disappeared the day before, around the same time Alf, a bone-and-rag dealer, was killed. The two girls turn detective in an effort to find Charlie as well as the truth about how Alf died. Mr. Balthasar, a shopkeeper who assists in the sleuthing, lends an appealing Holmesian touch.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Perryâ€™s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two_ New York Times_ bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk.\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n is the seventh in Perryâ€™s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of Londonâ€™s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie.\n</p>\n<p>\n However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maudeâ€™s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlieâ€“and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandoraâ€™s box of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme,\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8582'),
(1606, 'The Christmas train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(1607, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3073'),
(1608, 'Chronicler of the Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. Jose Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city''s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life''s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. Jose is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios''s magical tale to all who will listen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1749'),
(1609, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INo matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major. It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism. They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live until due time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I\n </p>\n <p>\n  No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live--until due time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Lord Marshal knew this better than anyone. While longing for his own time of passing to arrive, he continued to consecrate his continuing existence on the present plane of existence by seeing to it that as many as possible of his unaware, improperly informed fellow humans preceded him onward toward bliss. During the preceding days, many had done so here on Aquila Major. A great many.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clad in battle armor that was intended as much to instill fear and intimidate any who cast eyes upon it as it was to protect its wearer, he stood scowling thoughtfully at the scene of desolation and redemption that flamed below him. The fires were beginning to die out. While the capital had been taken, opposition to the balm and comfort his people brought remained strong in other cities and in isolated pockets across the planet. There was still much work to be done on Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to its final outcome, the Lord Marshal had no doubt. Some worlds resisted the bringing of the message more obstinately than others. A few proved sensible and buckled under at the mere sight of the Necromongers'' ships. Such worlds were much more to the Lord Marshal''s taste. While they were to be admired for having reached a newer, higher state of being, dead resistance fighters were no use to the great cause. The deceased were to be envied, but could not be recruited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nevertheless, by craft or cajoling, by force or by bribery, the faith was advanced. Aquila Major was only the latest, not the last. No time was to be wasted here. As soon as the last pockets of resistance had been eliminated, the armada would move to the next, carrying enlightenment and revelation to the disbelieving. How he longed for his own moment of finality, for his turn to be done with this sordid, unnatural temporal plane!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he could not simply embrace that of which he knew so much. Having striven to rise to the exalted position of lord marshal, it did not behoove him to surrender it voluntarily. By the edicts of his kind he was compelled to master all that it offered, by offering his talents to the cause. This he would continue to do. That he would not be the one to finish the work he knew well, as had the various lord marshals who had preceded him. That he would be joining them eventually he also knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But first, there was much work to be done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vaako stood nearby. A fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right. While his attention was focused on the Lord Marshal, that of the saintly Purifier, who stood nearby, was directed at the destruction below. Neither man spoke. There was no need. They had done what needed to be done, and saw no reason to comment on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nor did the Lord Marshal have anything to say. The fire and smoke, the ruined buildings and flaming vegetation beneath them were more eloquent than anything those beholding it could have voiced. There were times when it was best to say nothing, he knew. Time enough for discussion later, when the last of Aquila Major''s resistance had been eliminated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Turning, he moved up the steps on which he stood. His commanders and the chief spiritual adviser of their people followed. Once they were within the Basilica, the massive portal, through which they had briefly emerged to view in person the horrendous yet beautiful vista below, closed tightly behind them, sealing them in the ship that was their home and their purpose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumbling to itself, the immense Basilica vessel that had been hovering over the once-striking and now thrice-struck capital city lifted skyward. Slowly at first, but with a gathering speed and momentum that were as formidable as the purpose for which it had been built.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are habitable worlds, and there are uninhabitable worlds. There are also worlds that can be rendered marginally habitable, but never should be. Foremost among the latter was a hellish, geologically schizoid, melted and re-formed planetary body of unremarkable size and appearance whose astronomical designation no one bothered to repeat because it had long since been supplanted in the vernacular by the name that had been given to it by its inhabitants. Or rather, its inmates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crematoria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On most worlds, the time just before sunrise is a period of calm and preparation. Of quiet introspection and looking-forward. A time to awaken and gather oneself in readiness for a bright, new day. On Crematoria, pre-sunrise was a time to be denied, avoided, shunned. This was one world where dawn killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The two prison guards lugging their burden along the rough path that wound its tortured way through the scarred, twisted lava field knew that. They moved with the urgency of men assigned to an unpleasant duty that they had tried, and failed, to avoid. The fact that their load consisted of one of their own engendered no special feelings of additional sympathy on their part, even though they knew it could just as easily have been one of them. The fact that the dead man was a former colleague and friend did not make his demised corpus any less heavy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relieved at having reached their destination, they finally halted near a shallow depression that had been machine gouged from reluctant rock. The small hollow was not empty. It was filled with ash, from which protruded a few angular objects. On closer inspection, one became recognizable as a human femur, another as part of a skull. The rest were well on their way to being reduced to the powder that was slowly engulfing them. No artificial agency had been employed to reduce these remnants of what had once been human beings to their constituent chemical components. None was needed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They only had to wait for sunrise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the container they had been carrying, the two men extracted the body of a third and dumped him unceremoniously onto the pile, sending up a small cloud of dust. The body was not intact. It was marred by deep bruises and multiple lacerations. One glance was enough to tell that these wounds had not been incurred in a fall or some other accident. The unfortunate had been involved in a fight that, as clear as the sharp-edged horizon, he had lost. Among the few effects that still adorned his corpse was a visual ident that read "V. Pavlov." Some wag back in the prison had ventured to say that the guard had died like a dog. No one had laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anxious pair who had been charged with conveying the former V. Pavlov to his final resting place looked around uneasily, plainly in a hurry to get away from where they were. There was no thought of digging a grave. It would be a wasted exercise. None would arrive to bear witness over it or view it. Anything they might erect over such an excavation would quickly go the way of the body itself. Crematoria would see to that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Should we, uh, say something? I mean, I knew Vladimir pretty well. He wasn''t a bad guy." On Crematoria, this might be considered a high\n  <br />\n  compliment: one that could be applied equally to guard or prisoner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His companion was gazing nervously eastward. The dull maroon glow that had been seeping over the ragged, distant mountains was beginning to pale toward crimson. Very soon now it would fade to pink, then yellow, and then to white. When it turned white, anything organic would do well to be as far underground as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure. Recite a whole sermon, if you want.&amp;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7909'),
(1610, 'Chronicles of the Area Man', 'The Onion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Take a look back at the Onion''s coverage of this generation''s most prominent newsmaker -- the Area Man. The Onion is already universally known for providing the best and most ground-breaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America''s Finest News Source. In this incisive and timeless collection, Chronicles Of The Area Man includes such stirring reports as "Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree," "Area Woman To Get By On Looks For Six More Years," "Area Grandparents Still Have No Idea What Grandson Does For A Living," and the classic story of perseverance, "Area Man Makes It Through Day." With this collection of the Onion''s best local coverage, you''ll see there''s a little bit of the Area Man inside us all.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7611'),
(1611, 'Chronicles of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.\n <br />\n Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more . . .\n <br />\n This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie and David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition.\n <br />\n Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSE\n <br />\n With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice, and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyoteâ€™ STEVEN ERIKSON\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6864'),
(1612, 'The Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2716'),
(1613, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8095');
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(1614, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8097'),
(1615, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8096'),
(1616, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include: The Jack Factor Appetite for Replication That ''70s Cruise In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love Band on the Couch Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button Dude Rocks Like a Lady Fargo Rock City, for Real Singularity Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1406'),
(1617, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(1618, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. ** Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3464'),
(1619, 'Ciara&#39;s Song', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9099'),
(1620, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10518'),
(1621, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller\n <em>\n  Schoolgirls\n </em>\n reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a sourceâ€”the sourceâ€”of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, realistically, how many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-size wedding gown or the latest Hannah Montana CD? And how dangerous is pink and pretty anywayâ€”especially given girls'' successes in the classroom and on the playing field? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they? Does playing Cinderella shield girls from early sexualizationâ€”or prime them for it? Could today''s little princess become tomorrow''s sexting teen? And what if she does? Would that make her in charge of her sexualityâ€”or an unwitting captive to it?\n</p>\n<p>\n Those questions hit home with Peggy Orenstein, so she went sleuthing. She visited Disneyland and the international toy fair, trolled American Girl Place and Pottery Barn Kids, and met beauty pageant parents with preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than sheâ€”or weâ€”ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniableâ€”yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters'' lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cinderella Ate My Daughter\n </em>\n is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Exclusive Note from Peggy Orenstein\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As a mom, I admit, I was initially tempted to give the new culture of pink and pretty a pass. There are already so many things to be vigilant about as a parent; my energy was stretched to its limit. So my daughter slept in a Cinderella gown for a few years. Girls will be girls, right?\n</p>\n<p>\n They willâ€”and that is exactly why we need to pay more, rather than less, attention to whatâ€™s happening in their world. According to the American Psychological Association, the emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness at ever-younger ages is increasing girlsâ€™ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: eating disorders, negative body image, depression, risky sexual behavior. Yet here we are with nearly half of six-year-old girls regularly using lipstick or lip gloss. The percentage of eight- to twelve-year-old girls wearing eyeliner or mascara has doubled in the last TWO years (I ask you: shouldnâ€™t the percentage of eight-year-olds wearing eyeliner be zero?). A researcher told me that when she asks teenage girls how a sexual experience felt to them they respond by telling her how they think they looked. Meanwhile, the marketing of pink, pretty, and â€œsassyâ€ has become a gigantic business: the Disney Princesses alone are pulling in four BILLION dollars in revenue annually.\n</p>\n<p>\n As I immersed myself in the research for this book, I began to trace a line from the innocence of Cinderella to the struggles Miley Cyrus has faced in trying to â€œage up,â€ which in turn was connected to how regular girls present themselves on Facebook (where identity itself becomes a performance, crafted in response to your audience of 322 BFFs). It seemed that even as new educational and professional opportunities unfurled before my daughter and her peers, so did the path that encouraged them to equate identity with image, self-expression with appearance, femininity with performance, pleasure with pleasing, and sexuality with sexualization.\n</p>\n<p>\n So much is at stake, for mothers with girls of all ages: How do we define girlhood? What about femininity? Beauty? Sexuality? Our choices will tell our girls how we see them, who we want them to be, our values, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Do we want them to be judged by the content of their character or the color of their lip gloss?\n</p>\n<p>\n Iâ€™m the first to admit that I do not have all the answers. Who could? But as a mother who also happens to be a journalist (or perhaps vice versa), I wanted to lay out the contextâ€”the marketing, science, history, cultureâ€”in which we make our choices, to provide information and insight that might help parents, educators, and all of us who care about girls guide them toward their true happily-ever-afters.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orenstein, who has written about girls for nearly two decades (Schoolgirls), finds today''s pink and princess-obsessed girl culture grating when it threatens to lure her own young daughter, Daisy. In her quest to determine whether princess mania is merely a passing phase or a more sinister marketing plot with long-term negative impact, Orenstein travels to Disneyland, American Girl Place, the American International Toy Fair; visits a children''s beauty pageant; attends a Miley Cyrus concert; tools around the Internet; and interviews parents, historians, psychologists, marketers, and others. While she uncovers some disturbing news (such as the American Psychological Association''s assertion that the "girlie-girl" culture''s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls'' susceptibility to depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, and risky sexual behavior), she also finds that locking one''s daughter away in a tower like a modern-day Rapunzel may not be necessary. Orenstein concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat. With insight and biting humor, the author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7431'),
(1622, 'Cinnabar Shadows', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruction to the haven. Mahtra, who fled sunlit Urik for the dark undercity, must now emerge to set all to right. Her quest leads her to the palace of a sorcerer-king, to an ancient druidic grove, and beyond...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2263'),
(1623, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Bennythe only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Evethe orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother''s wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Bennythey knew the sins and secrets behind every villager''s lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor''s handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10467'),
(1624, 'The Circus of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Why on earth did Bill have to bring Gustavus on vacation? Neither Jack nor Kiki the parrot like the boy at all, but when Gustavus is kidnapped, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack must bravely travel to a faraway country and unravel a plot to kill the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/706'),
(1625, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake''s town, a battle of the undead ensues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2793'),
(1626, 'Cirque Du Freak', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine''s Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan''s first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding buzz; this one even has Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling''s stamp of approval: "Fast-paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches," she writes. Warner Brothers will be making it into a movie, and the rest of the series is already in the works. Given all that, you''d expect a tour de force! Really, though,\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n is a thrill ride that will keep even the most reluctant readers turning pages, but will never take its place in the literary canon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren Shan, author and narrator, sets the book up as a true story, warning readers: "Real life''s nasty. It''s cruel.... Evil often wins." Indeed, evil begins to win when Darren and his buddies find a flier for "Cirque Du Freak," a traveling freak show promising performances by the snake-boy, the wolf-man, and Larten Crepsley and his giant spider, Madame Octa. Darren and his friend Steve wouldn''t miss it for the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, Saturday night they sneak out to the old theater, tall and dark, with broken windows. "Every act you see tonight is real," croaks Mr. Tall. "Each performer is unique. And none are harmless." That''s for sure. (A werewolf bites off the hand of someone in the audience, for instance.) Things grow very serious for the two boys when Steve not only recognizes Mr. Crepsley as a famous vampire, but professes his true desire to join him! To make matters worse, the spider-obsessed Darren goes back to the old theater to steal Madame Octa so he can teach her tricks in his room. (He does, with mixed results.) The plot further coagulates as Darren is faced with some terrible decisions about what to do to save his bloodthirsty friend Steve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers may be too enthralled to notice some clumsy editing (the aforementioned bitten-off hand is later referred to as an arm, Darren stops dead in his tracks when he''s already stopped, etc.). They may also not notice that the boys constantly use adult-sounding expressions like "his breath stank to the high heavens," though the book is clearly set in the 21st century. If this book gets under your kids'' skin (and it probably will), they''re in luck--we haven''t heard the last of the Saga of Darren Shan. (Ages 10 and older, not for the faint of heart)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with best friend Steve to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler, Mr. Crepsley. "This is a true story," writes Shan. "In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins." The scenario is compelling, and the author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre "Cirque du Freak." But Darren''s actions are often undermotivated: "I can''t explain why Madam Octa [the spider] meant so much to me, or why I was placing my life in such danger to have her. Looking back, I''m no longer sure what drove me on." Also his intermittent attraction to and repulsion by the vampire is never fully explored. His behavior may be explained in the sequel, The Vampire''s Assistant (due in Sept.), but the open ending leaves so many loose ends that readers may leave more frustrated than intrigued, especially since the characters'' wooden dialogue drains them of personality ("I''m upset," says Steve. "It hurt, what Mr. Crepsley said, and you ignoring me at school... If you break up our friendship, I don''t know what I''ll do"). Readers interested in boys becoming vampires would be better served by M.T. Anderson''s Thirsty and those fascinated with freaks by Iain Lawrence''s Ghost Boy. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4379'),
(1627, 'Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition', 'Michael W. Lucas; Michael W. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Cisco Routers for the Desperate\n </i>\n is a brief, meaty introduction to Cisco routers and switches designed to get you comfortable with the Cisco environment, teach you how to troubleshoot problems, and take you through the basics of switch and router maintenance and integration into an existing network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5142'),
(1628, 'Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad JuÃ¡rez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/808'),
(1629, 'Citizen of the Galaxy', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster . . .OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man''s message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . .CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10421'),
(1630, 'Citizen Soldiers', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4241'),
(1631, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8473'),
(1632, 'The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity''s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city. The Sands Of Mars: Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red planet. Its a dream come true, until he discovers the perils of survival on another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4834'),
(1633, 'The City in the Lake', 'Rachel Neumeier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The City is beautiful at sunset, almost as beautiful as the Lake itself. The waters of the Lake run with crimson and flame-orange and deep lavender as the sun sinks beyond its farther shore, colors pouring across the water all the way to Tiger Bridge. At that moment the exotic lilies carved into the Bridge, crumbling with age, look whole and alive in the moving light and cerulean shadows. But after darkness falls, it will be the tigers of the Bridge that look real and alive. They shake themselves out of stone and come down from their pedestals, the lambent fires of sunset in their eyes, to stalk on great velvet paws through the night--so it is said. At the moment between sunset and dark, the wind off the Lake sometimes dies and the air becomes utterly still. If that pause lasts long enough, it is said, the water becomes a mirror in which a man may see his true face reflected, as well as the reflection of the eternal City. Few would linger at Tiger Bridge to look into the still Lake at that moment, both because truth can be a dangerous thing and because of the tigers that wake out of stone in the night. But that is the story that people in the City tell. That, at least, is a true story. The Bastard, who did not fear velvet-footed hunters, came to Tiger Bridge sometimes to watch the sun set and look into the glass-still Lake. The face he saw in the water was indeed not the face the simple mirror in his Palace apartments reflected. The Bastard could not have explained even to himself where, precisely, the difference lay. But it was to try to find out that he came to Tiger Bridge. The Bastard had a name: Neill. He had a place in the court as elder brother to Prince Cassiel and son of Drustan, who was King. But he was not the son of Ellis, the Queen. The Bastard''s mother had been a woman who had wandered into the City and the King''s bed from some far country beyond the shores of the Lake, beyond the farthest borders of the Kingdom. She had given her son her fine ivory skin, her ash-pale hair, and her dark secretive eyes. And she had given him a heritage that ran outside the bounds of the Kingdom, a mixed blessing at best. The woman had lived in the City for a season, for a year--long enough to carry and bear the King''s son. Then she had walked out of the City. Though I go, this child will keep my presence always near you, she had said to the King, laying the baby in his hands--so the tale went. May he flourish in this Kingdom. Possibly the King did not appreciate reminders of his dalliance, especially once he married his Queen. It was well known he did not favor his illegitimate first-born son. Still, if he did not love Neill, he acknowledged him and kept him close to power. Kings have no need to be ashamed of the evidence of their indiscretions as other men may, and more than one royal bastard has grown up to rule when all the children born on the right side of the blanket have been sickly, or girls. From childhood, then, the court had called the boy Lord Neill to his face with careful deference, and, behind his back, sometimes with no less respect, Lord Bastard. When the Bastard was twelve years old, the true Prince was born, merry and bold even as a baby and beloved by all the City. By that time, folk in both the Palace and the City had learned well the habit of respect toward his elder half brother. The Bastard, even as a child, had a way of kee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3640'),
(1634, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   City of Bones\n  </em>\n  , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5342'),
(1635, 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns are spirits said to be seen only after prolonged fasting and prayer; they too are integral to understanding the city. The author, a young Scot carrying on the fine British tradition of travel writing, has a knack for meeting fascinating people and capturing their most revealing remarks. He introduces us to dervishes, eunuchs, partridge fighting, weddings, and expatriates. His wife contributes sketches that nicely complement his text. Considering the importance of Delhi, the capital of the world''s second most populous nation, this book deserves to be in most public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India'' TLS ''Now read by Tim Pigott-Smith, City of Djinns gets a wonderful new lease of life. Dalrymple has a rare gift for historical narrative and catches the engaging, Anglo-Indian speech of his cast with telling accuracy.'' Independent 23/5/98\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5914'),
(1636, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4668'),
(1637, 'The City of Ember: Book 1', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves--and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve-year-old Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet seem to be the only people who are worried. They have just been assigned their life jobs--Lina as a messenger, which leads her to knowledge of some unsettling secrets, and Doon as a Pipeworker, repairing the plumbing in the tunnels under the city where a river roars through the darkness. But when Lina finds a very old paper with enigmatic "Instructions for Egress," they use the advantages of their jobs to begin to puzzle out the frightening and dangerous way to the city of light of which Lina has dreamed. As they set out on their mission, the haunting setting and breathless action of this stunning first novel will have teens clamoring for a sequel. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Patty Campbell\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“This truly superb audio recording of the novel by Jeane DuPrau (Random, 2003) takes place in the dark city of Ember, a decaying place with no natural light surrounded by the vast Unknown. Although ancestors had arranged for information on leaving Ember to be made available after the inhabitants have spent 200 years there, a corrupt mayor lost the information many years before the novel begins. Two hundred and forty-one years later, Ember''s electrical lighting frequently fails, supplies are dwindling, and the populace is growing increasingly frightened. Twelve-year-old Doon and his acquaintance Lina are intent on finding a way to save Ember. After Lina finds a mysterious and fragmented paper titled "Instructions for Egress," they think they have a way out. Can they escape from the villainous mayor and his soldiers? Can they figure out the missing letters and words in the message? Do they find their way out of Ember and up to a post-apocalyptic Earth? Wendy Dillon, one of the most talented readers of audiobooks, does an amazing job of creating different voices for each character, has absolutely perfect diction, and skillfully conveys the building suspense. Exceptional care has been taken to faithfully convey the author''s excellent tale through a combination of a superior narrator and evocative sound effects. This engaging novel is an exceptional audiobook.â€“_B.Allison Gray, John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4386'),
(1638, 'The City of Gold and Lead', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 35th Anniversary Edition with New Text and a New Preface by the Author!\n</p>\n<p>\n Will, Beanpole, and Henry have managed to escape the Tripods. But instead of living in safety, in the small community of free people, they have chosen to embark upon a mission that may cost them their lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Christopher\n </strong>\n (Sam Youd) was born in England in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm. His early years were spent in Lancashire and Hampshire. He left school at sixteen to work as a local government clerk until being called up for army service in 1941, and spent the following four and a half years with the Royal Corps of Signals, in Gibraltar, North Africa, Italy, and Austria.\n</p>\n<p>\n On leaving the army he renewed a teenage ambition toward being a writer, and in 1947, on the basis of an unfinished novel, won an Atlantic Award, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to devote himself to writing for a year. He tried to justify the award by writing serious novels, but subsequently also wrote detective thrillers, light comedies, novels based on cricket, and science fiction, to which he had been passionately devoted in his early teens. After several adult science fiction novels, he was asked to write for the young adult field, and ended up writing sixteen books in that genre, including\n <em>\n  The Guardians, The Lotus Caves, Dom and Va, Empty World,\n </em>\n and the Sword and Fireball trilogies, as well as the Tripods trilogy. Following a BBC television series in 1984 based on the Tripods books, he wrote a prequel,\n <em>\n  When the Tripods Came,\n </em>\n explaining how it all came about.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sam Youd is a widower with five children and numerous grandchildren, and lives in Rye, in the county of Sussex, England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1609'),
(1639, 'City of Gold and Shadows', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn''t turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest until her missing relative was found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4865'),
(1640, 'City of Hope &amp; Despair: City of a Hundred Rows', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins &amp; Gods | Soul Thief! ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4667'),
(1641, 'City of Lies', 'R. J. Ellory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father''s acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. Then everything changes. A liquor store heist goes wrong - and turns John''s existence on its head. It seems that his father didn''t die all those years ago. In fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it''s time for father and son to meet at last . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5933'),
(1642, 'City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(1643, 'City of Ruin', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire''s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disappearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and holds a degree in Environmental Science. After working in bookselling, he moved into editorial positions at imprints covering film and media tie-in fiction, and later, science fiction and fantasy. He currently lives and works in Nottingham. For more information and updates, visit his website www.markcnewton.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7853'),
(1644, 'City of the Living Dead', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1914'),
(1645, 'City of Time', 'Eoin McNamee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ; illustrated by Jon Goodell EDITORIAL REVIEW: CATI, THE BOLD Watcher readers met in *The Navigator*, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running out. The moon is coming closer to the earth, causing havoc with weather, tides, and other natural cycles; people fear the world will end. To discover whatâ€™s gone wrong, Cati, Owen, and the Doctor must take an astonishing journey to the City of Time, where time is bought and sold. There, Owen begins to understand his great responsibility and power as the Navigator.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(1646, 'City of Towers: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coastâ€™s newest D&amp;D&amp;#174; campaign setting.  Author Keith Bakerâ€™s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games.  AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4455'),
(1647, 'City of War', 'Neil Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russell''s uneven debut pits hunky billionaire adventurer Rail Black against an unlikely combo of villains. Stuck in L.A. freeway gridlock, Rail is shocked to see drop-dead gorgeous Kimberly York, entirely naked, escape from a nearby van. She winds up in his Rolls-Royce and soon reveals that she possesses information of a highly sensitive nature, which has made her a target. Rail wants to help her, but his only lead is the enigmatic phrase city of war, and there''s little excitement in his efforts to glean further clues from the kind of offbeat friends and colleagues that only billionaire adventurers seem to have. There''s not enough action for a thriller and not enough intrigue for a mystery, and a glut of description and dialogue will leave readers snoozing.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel City of War is a first novel for Neil Russell and if this thriller is any indication of the style of writing that he has I canâ€™t wait to read more...This is a must read for anyone who loves a smart, sexy thriller.â€ (Bestsellersworld.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike a James Bond thriller, Neil Russellâ€™s City of War takes readers on an extreme rollercoaster ride of jet set thrills and chills... It would make quite the movie.â€ (Bookloons.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly gripping, City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knifeâ€™s edge of exciting suspense that doesnâ€™t release the reader until the last page. (Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeil Russell has to be one of the finest, skilled, and accomplished writers in the country, a true master of intrigue.â€ (Clive Cussler )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6693'),
(1648, 'City primeval: high noon in Detroit', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he''s feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he''s determined to see that the hayseed psycho does not slip through the legal system''s loopholes a second time. But that means a good cop is going to have to play somewhat fast and loose with the rules -- in order to maneuver Mansell into a wild Midwest showdown that he won''t be walking away from.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9191'),
(1649, 'City the &amp; Stars The', 'Arthur C Clarke - City; The Stars', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8974'),
(1650, 'The City Who Fought', 'Anne McCaffrey; S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10805');
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(1651, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4783'),
(1652, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4711'),
(1653, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Shelby Foote', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4784'),
(1654, 'The Civil War: A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8954'),
(1655, 'Civilian Slaughter', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A shaky truce has been called, and Major Revell''s Special Combat Company has been assigned mundane duties. But when evidence turns up of civilians being slaughtered by a KGB battalion, Revell and his men take matters into their own hands, waging merciless war on the vicious Reds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1806'),
(1656, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times  One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times  [Praise for The Ascent of Money]  An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6124'),
(1657, 'Claimed by a Scottish Lord', 'Melody Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Dragon''s Captive Raised behind the walls of Hope Abbey, Rose Lancaster''s sheltered upbringing never prepared her for a man like Lord Roxburghe. The fabled "Black Dragon," Ruark Kerr hasn''t been seen in his Scottish homeland for more than a decadeâ€”and now he has burst into Rose''s world to take her hostage, intending to trade her for the life of his young brother. But Rose does not fear this savage, powerful lord . . . and she guards a dangerous secret. Villainy called Ruark back to the borderlands, but now that he''s claimed his "prize" his path is less certain. If he does not turn her over to his enemy, a boy may die. Yet gentle, lovely Rose soothes his vengeful spirit, and the longer she remains with him, the hotter his passion for her burns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3215'),
(1658, 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice &amp; A. N. Roquelaure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4994'),
(1659, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear: A Novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   --Sara Nickerson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Imaginative, exciting."\n  <br />\n  --_The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8119'),
(1660, 'Clandestine', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950''s -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill''s reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past. And his good and pure love for a crusading woman lawyer has been corrupted and may not survive. But even without the authority of a badge, Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion. And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2163'),
(1661, 'Clans of the Alphane moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3723'),
(1662, 'Clap Hands &amp; Sing', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Clap Hands and Sing" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. It was later published in his book Posing as People along with a play based on it by Scott Brick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5848'),
(1663, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7926'),
(1664, 'Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew. All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4243'),
(1665, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson is the second-best motoring writer in Britain. For twenty years, he''s been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions about them on the BBC''s Top Gear. No one in the business is taller. Here, he''s collected his best car columns and stories in which he waxes lyrical on topics as useful and diverse as: bull; the perils of bicycle ownership bull; why Australians - not Brits - need bull bars bull; why soon only geriatrics will be driving BMW''s bull; the difficulty of deciding on the best car for your wedding bull; why Jesus''s dad would have owned a Nissan Bluebird bull; and why it is bus lanes that cause traffic jams Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy the ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1736'),
(1666, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11217'),
(1667, 'Clash of the Geeks', 'John Scalzi;Wil Wheaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press are proud to announce the publication of Clash of the Geeks, a special and fantastical electronic chapbook featuring stories by Wheaton, Scalzi, New York Times bestseller Patrick Rothfuss, Norton Award winner and Hugo Best Novel nominee Catherynne M. Valente, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee Rachel Swirsky and others, for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2855'),
(1668, 'Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories', 'Julian Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When you''re in the mood for suspense, nothing delivers like a collection of mystery and detective stories. These tales have been culled from the golden age of the genre, when masters like Charles Dickens, Thomas De Quincey, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray were producing stories at a rapid clip to satisfy millions of devoted readers. Curl up with Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories tonight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9951'),
(1669, 'Classic Mystery Collection', 'Christie, Agatha &amp; Collins, Wilkie &amp; Chesterton, Gilbert Keith &amp; Balzac, Honore de &amp; Others', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Indulge Yourself with the best Illustrated Classic Mystery Collection on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Free stories in the trial version.\n</p>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Features\n </b>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Intuitive navigation.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Searchable and interlinked.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Open the book you want to read with one click.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrations by Signey Paget, Alonzo Kimball, Aubrey Beardsley and more.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make bookmarks, notes, highlights.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Text annotation and mark-up.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the guide anytime, anywhere.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.\n  <br />\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Table of Contents\n </b>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  List of Works by Author\n </li>\n <li>\n  List of Works in Alphabetical Order\n </li>\n <li>\n  List of Illustrations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Authors'' Biographies\n </li>\n <li>\n  About and Navigation\n </li>\n</ul>\n<b>\n List of Works by Author\n</b>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Honore De Balzac\n  </b>\n  An Historical Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   John Buchan\n  </b>\n  The Thirty-Nine Steps\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Egerton Castle\n  </b>\n  The Baron''s Quarry\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Edmund Clerihew Bentley\n  </b>\n  Trent''s Last Case\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Gilbert Keith Chesterton\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n  <br />\n  The Man Who Was Thursday\n  <b>\n   <br />\n   Father Brown:\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Innocence of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Wisdom of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Incredulity of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Secret of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Scandal of Father Brown\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Robert Erskine Childers\n  </b>\n  Riddle of the Sands\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Agatha Christie\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n  <i>\n   <br />\n  </i>\n  The Secret Adversary\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Wilkie Collins\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Dream Woman\n  <br />\n  The Haunted Hotel\n  <br />\n  "I Say No."\n  <br />\n  The Moonstone\n  <br />\n  Miss or Mrs.?\n  <br />\n  The Queen of Hearts\n  <br />\n  The Traveller''s Story of a Very Strange Bed\n  <br />\n  The Woman in White\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Charles Dickens\n  </b>\n  The Mystery of Edwin Drood\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Arthur Conan Doyle\n  </b>\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Mystery of Cloomber\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  A Study in Scarlet\n  <br />\n  The Sign of Four\n  <br />\n  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Hound of the Baskervilles\n  <br />\n  The Return of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Valley of Fear\n  <br />\n  His Last Bow\n  <br />\n  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Anna Katharine Green\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  Agatha Webb\n  <br />\n  Initials Only\n  <br />\n  The Millionaire Baby\n  <br />\n  The Mill Mystery\n  <br />\n  The Mystery Of The Hasty Arrow\n  <br />\n  A Strange Disappearance\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Arthur Griffiths\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Rome Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Thomas Hardy\n  </b>\n  The Three Strangers\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Jacques Futrelle\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  Elusive Isabel\n  <br />\n  The Problem of Cell 13\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Gaston Leroux\n  </b>\n  The Mystery of the Yellow Room\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Marie Belloc Lowndes\n  </b>\n  The Lodger\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Alan Alexander Milne\n  </b>\n  The Red House Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Edgar Allan Poe\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Murders in the Rue Morgue\n  <br />\n  The Mystery of Marie RogÃªt\n  <br />\n  The Purloined Letter\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Ernest Robertson Punshon\n  </b>\n  The Bittermeads Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Bat\n  <br />\n  The Circular Staircase\n  <br />\n  The Confession\n  <br />\n  Dangerous Days\n  <br />\n  The Man In Lower Ten\n  <br />\n  The Street Of Seven Stars\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Sax Rohmer\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  Bat Wing\n  <br />\n  Dope\n  <br />\n  The Insidious Dr. Fu-manchu\n  <br />\n  The Return of Dr. Fu-manchu\n  <br />\n  The Golden Scorpion\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Melvin Linwood\n  </b>\n  <b>\n   Severy\n  </b>\n  The Darrow Enigma\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Chester K. Steele\n  </b>\n  The Golf Course Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Burton Egbert Stevenson\n  </b>\n  The Gloved Hand\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Robert Louis Stevenson\n  </b>\n  The Pavilion on the Links\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Rex Stout\n  </b>\n  Under The Andes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9373'),
(1670, 'The Classic Mystery Collection', 'Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Agatha Christie &amp; Charles Dickens &amp; Honore De Balzac &amp; Wilkie Collins &amp; Mary Roberts Rinehart &amp; Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Gilbert Keith Chesterton &amp; Sax Rohmer &amp; Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With ATOC (active table of contents):\n</p>\n<p>\n An Historical Mystery Honore De Balzac\n <br />\n The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan\n <br />\n The Baron''s Quarry Egerton Castle\n <br />\n Trent''s Last Case Edmund Clerihew Bentley\n <br />\n Gilbert Keith Chesterton\n <br />\n The Man Who Knew Too Much\n <br />\n The Man Who Was Thursday\n <br />\n Father Brown:\n <br />\n The Innocence of Father Brown\n <br />\n The Wisdom of Father Brown\n <br />\n Riddle of the Sands Robert Erskine Childers\n <br />\n Agatha Christie\n <br />\n The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n <br />\n The Secret Adversary\n <br />\n Wilkie Collins\n <br />\n The Dream Woman\n <br />\n The Haunted Hotel\n <br />\n The Moonstone\n <br />\n The Queen of Hearts\n <br />\n The Woman in White\n <br />\n The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens\n <br />\n Arthur Conan Doyle\n <br />\n The Mystery of Cloomber\n <br />\n The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n The Return of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n A Study in Scarlet\n <br />\n The Sign of the Four\n <br />\n The Hound of the Baskervilles\n <br />\n The Valley of Fear\n <br />\n His Last Bow\n <br />\n Anna Katharine Green\n <br />\n Agatha Webb\n <br />\n Initials Only\n <br />\n The Millionaire Baby\n <br />\n The Mill Mystery\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow\n <br />\n A Strange Disappearance\n <br />\n The Rome Express Arthur Griffiths\n <br />\n The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy\n <br />\n Elusive Isabel Jacques Futrelle\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux\n <br />\n The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes\n <br />\n The Red House Mystery Alan Alexander Milne\n <br />\n Edgar Allan Poe\n <br />\n The Murders in the Rue Morgue\n <br />\n The Mystery of Marie Roget\n <br />\n The Purloined Letter\n <br />\n The Bittermeads Mystery Ernest Robertson Punshon\n <br />\n Mary Roberts Rinehart\n <br />\n The Bat\n <br />\n The Circular Staircase\n <br />\n The Confession\n <br />\n Dangerous Days\n <br />\n The Man in Lower Ten\n <br />\n The Street of Seven Stars\n <br />\n Sax Rohmer\n <br />\n Bat Wing\n <br />\n The Hand Of Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Golden Scorpion\n <br />\n The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy\n <br />\n The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele\n <br />\n The Pavilion on the Links Robert Louis Stevenson\n <br />\n Under the Andes Rex Stout\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5463'),
(1671, 'The Classical World', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robin Lane Fox''s The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world''s first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. Spellbinding and stimulating, it illuminates two civilizations that dominated the ancient world and still inspire and enlighten us today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5048'),
(1672, 'Clauda Kishi, Middle School Dropout', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9685'),
(1673, 'Claudia Kishi, Live from Wsto!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9725'),
(1674, 'Claudia,Mean Janine', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9747'),
(1675, 'Claudia,The Bad Joke', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9693'),
(1676, 'Claudia,the First Thanksgiving', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9694'),
(1677, 'Claudia,The Genius On Elm Street', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9740'),
(1678, 'Claudia,the Middle School Mystery', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9749'),
(1679, 'Claudia,The Mystery At The Museum', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9716'),
(1680, 'Claudia,The New Girl', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9753'),
(1681, 'Claudia,The Phantom Phone Calls', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9752'),
(1682, 'Claudia,The Sad Goodbye', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9726'),
(1683, 'Claudia,The Terrible Truth', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9733'),
(1684, 'Claudia&#39;s Big Party', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9724'),
(1685, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7333'),
(1686, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3744'),
(1687, 'Cleaving', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do-- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world-- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6968'),
(1688, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(1689, 'Cleopatra 7.2', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra''s resurrection as the Queen of the Nile''s DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1540'),
(1690, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6999'),
(1691, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony''s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two- the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander-survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian''s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian''s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in "Cleopatra''s Daughter. "Recounted in Selene''s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian''s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian''s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia''s sardonic son and Marcellus''s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian''s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene''s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place-the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empire''s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, "Cleopatra''s Daughter "is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3004');
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(1692, 'Click: The Magic of Instant Connections', 'Ori Brafman;Rom Brafman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You know the feeling. You meet someone new--at a party or at work--and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie. In a word, you "click." From the bestselling authors of "Sway, " "Click "is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever activity or situation we''re involved in. From two co-workers who fall head over heels for each other while out to dinner and are married a month later (and fifteen years later remain just as in love), to a team of scientists who changed the world with the magic of their invention, these kinds of peak experiences, when our senses are completely focused on the moment, are something that individuals--and companies--strive to achieve. After all, when you''re in the "zone," you''re happier and more productive. Why is it that we click in certain situations and with certain people, but not with others? Can this kind of magical connection be consciously encouraged? Is there a way to create such peak experiences, whether on a date or in your job? According to Ori and Rom Brafman, there is." " In a powerful, story-driven narrative that weaves together cutting-edge research in psychology and sociology, the Brafmans explore what it means to "click": the common factors present when our brain and senses are fully engaged. They identify five "accelerators" that increase the likelihood of these kinds of magic connections in our work and relationships. From actors vying for a role on a popular TV series to police officers negotiating with hostage takers, we learn how one can foster an environment where we can click with another person and shape our thinking, behavior, and emotions. A fascinating journey into how we engage with the world around us, "Click "will transform our thinking about those moments when we are in the zone and everything seems to fall into place. Acclaim for "Sway": "A provocative new book about the psychological forces that lead us to disregard facts or logic and behave in surprisingly irrational ways." -"New York Times" "A unique and compulsively readable look at unseen behavioral trends." -"Fortune""A breathtaking book that will challenge your every thought, "Sway" hovers above the intersection of "Blink" and "Freakonomics.""--Tom Rath, coauthor of the "New York Times" #1 bestseller "How Full Is Your Bucket?""[An] engaging journey through the workings--and failings--of the mind...Their stories of senselessness...are as fascinating as the lessons we learn from them." -"Fast Company""Count me swayed--but in this instance by the pull of entirely rational forces. Ori and Rom Brafman have done a terrific job of illuminating deep-seated tendencies that skew our behavior in ways that can range from silly to deadly. We''d be fools not to learn what they have to teach us."--Robert B. Cialdini, author of "New York Times "bestseller "Influence""If you think you know how you think, you''d better think again! Take this insightful, delightful trip to the sweet spot where economics, psychology, and sociology converge, and you''ll discover how our all-too-human minds actually work."--Alan M. Webber, founding editor of "Fast Company"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9780'),
(1693, 'The client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, twoÂ Â boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to theÂ Â curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brotherÂ Â were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chanceÂ Â encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowingÂ Â a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts ofÂ Â the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caughtÂ Â between a legal system gone mad and a mob killerÂ Â desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally isÂ Â a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyerÂ Â for all of four years. Prosecutors areÂ Â willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. TheÂ Â mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. AndÂ Â Reggie will do anything to protect her client --Â Â even take a last, desperate gamble that could winÂ Â Mark his freedom... or cost them both theirÂ Â lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2913'),
(1694, 'The Clique: Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Happy New Clique! Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together--or rather, a New Year''s Yves party. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just cliques.Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). She has ah-mazing ideas--Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and atching charm bracelets. When will it be her time to rule?Alicia Rivera: Is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. With the captain on vacaÂ­tion, BADSS''s live performance on Merri Lee Marvil''s New Year''s Yves show is her chance to shine. Will she prove herself alpha-worthy--or will she need to find a whole new clique?Dylan Marvil: Is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous?Kristen Gregory: Has made a New Year''s resoÂ­lution to make friends and get a life. Escape from Planet Loser starts . . . now!Claire Lyons: Is psyched times ten to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year''s Yves satellite party in Orlando. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. And the countdown to midnight begins in ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2218'),
(1695, 'Cloaked', 'Alex Flinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 6-9-Flinn reimagines a fairy-tale world in her latest novel. Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother''s shoe repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. He spends his days with his friend Meg and designs his own line of shoes while dreaming of wealth to free his family from the confines of poverty. Unexpectedly, the striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess pleads for Johnny''s help in finding her missing brother, and offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been turned into a frog. With the aid of a magical cloak and some headphones that allow him to hear animals speak, Johnny embarks on a journey wherein he encounters talking swans, a fox named Todd, and two angry giants. When he lands in hot water with an evil witch bent on destroying him, Meg comes to his rescue. The pair journey from South Beach to Key West, to Europe, and to Manhattan; and in the end, Johnny finds wealth, fame, and true love. Flinn cleverly plays on some lesser-known fairy tales to make this book a fun, romantic adventure with likable characters. Rapid action and amusing situations make it a quick read that will easily entice even reluctant readers.-Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A princess, a cobbler, a witch, and modern-day South Beach mash up in Flinnï¿½s latest fairy-tale retelling. Johnny works tirelessly in a luxury hotelï¿½s shoe-repair shop, dreaming of becoming a high-end shoe designer. He sees an opportunity to get his shoes on famous feet when a hard-partying European princess moves in. Victoriana notices Johnny, too, and thinks he is just the one to find her brother, Prince Philippe, who was turned into a frog as blackmail for Victorianaï¿½s hand in marriage. She gives Johnny a fistful of cash, a transporting cloak, and an earpiece that allows him to understand animals that used to be human, which are a lot more plentiful in Florida than he ever imagined. Instead of a well-known classic, several lesser-known tales combine here to give the book a nice blend of the familiar (the frog who needs a kiss to transform) and the novel (how will a puny kid best two giants?). Readers will keep turning pages to figure out just how many transmogrifications Johnny can resolve, and whose dreams will come true. Grades 6-10. --Heather Booth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6772'),
(1696, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4483'),
(1697, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Queen of Crime clocks in with a  classic of untimely demise.    At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time.  Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5192'),
(1698, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(1699, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(1700, 'The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For this narrative of the seventeenth centuryâ€™s scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newtonâ€™s obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to Godâ€™s mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnickâ€™s substance follows the greatsâ€™ progress in code-breaking, depicting Keplerâ€™s mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileoâ€™s in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newtonâ€™s and Leibnizâ€™s in inventing calculus, and Newtonâ€™s in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn engrossing read.â€ (_Library Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced.â€ (_Kirkus Reviews_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA character-rich, historical narrative.â€ (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read.â€ (_Publishers Weekly_ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6803'),
(1701, 'Closer Than Blood', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child)"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer''s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death - is as close as the face in the mirror...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4729'),
(1702, 'The Closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harry Bosch is back with a badge. Teaming with former partner Kizmin Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open-Unsolved team. After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from the one he left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean up from top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department''s Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD''s files. These detectives are the Closers - they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. By applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to unearth some hidden killers and bring them to justice, for ''a city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost.'' Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something doesn''t fit. Meanwhile Harry''s nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching him. In the new ''clean'' LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2422'),
(1703, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8079'),
(1704, 'The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American &#39;80s', 'Paul Slansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A political humorist''s caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5464'),
(1705, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4619'),
(1706, 'The Cloud Maker', 'Patrick Woodhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and find themselves on the run from the Chinese secret police. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3574'),
(1707, 'The Cloud Pavilion', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile.But just as Yanagisawa''s true motives begin to emerge, Sano''s estranged uncle comes to him for help: His daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his wifewho once suffered through the kidnapping of their own sonto find her before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2674'),
(1708, 'The Clouds Beneath the Sun', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue. Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of Gifts of War, which was praised in USA Today as â€œan absorbing, morally complex read.â€ In a starred review, Library Journal said, â€œFord keeps the reader on a knifeâ€™s edge as the lies build and the truth is only a word or misstep away. Highly recommended.â€ Now Ford takes us to Kenya in 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows sheâ€™s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to be included in a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Masai peopleâ€”and murder. Compounding the tension, Eleanor Deacon, friend of the Masai, who is leading the excavating mission, watches a rift grow between her two handsome sons. Natalieâ€™s growing attracÂ­tion to Jack Deacon soon becomes a passionate affair that turns dangerous when she must give evidence in a trial that could spark even more violence and turmoil. The startling beauty of the Kenyan setting, the tension of loomÂ­ing social upheaval, and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly on every page of this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3218'),
(1709, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1219'),
(1710, 'The Clue In the Crumbling Wall', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10938'),
(1711, 'The Clue in the Embers', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10281'),
(1712, 'The Clue of the Broken Blade', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While searching for the guard end of a broken saber that will solve one mystery, the Hardy brothers become involved with a gang of bank robbers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10263'),
(1713, 'The Clue of the Screeching Owl', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES- featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10305'),
(1714, 'Coalescent (Destiny&#39;s Children S.)', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a new trilogy that will chart different evolutionary futures for mankind, COALESCENT is the story of a divergent strain of humanity; a hive mind, that subsumes the individual. It is a story that begins with a vivid depiction of the decline of the Roman Empire and which, down through the years, shows how one woman''s determination to protect her daughter has such frightening consequences for mankind''s future existence. This is at once a stunning historical novel, a superb piece of ideas-driven SF and the intensely felt story of one man''s discovery of the dark secret at the heart of his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11086'),
(1715, 'Coastliners', 'Joanne Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris''s\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n . Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made. The villagers, written with endearing panache by Harris, are an eccentric, curmudgeonly bunch, who eventually cooperate with the help of Flynn, a charismatic stranger with a shady past. He''s not the only man of mystery in Mado''s life; her father, taciturn Grosjean, has a secretive heart that''s as "prickly and tightly layered as an artichoke," and local, wealthy businessman Brismand also seems to be hiding something. Mado does her best to unravel these mysteries, while attempting to keep a hold on her own sense of self in the claustrophobic, close community. It''s not only the shore line that takes a buffeting. The villagers and the island are so vividly described that it''s impossible not to become engrossed in Mado''s story.\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n is a book about longing to belong, and Joanne Harris charts that emotional voyage compellingly.\n <em>\n  --Eithne Farry, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Family history meets village rivalry in Harris''s poignant fourth novel, an understated passion play set on the provincial French island of Le Devin. Madeleine Prasteau leaves her Paris apartment to return to the island village of Les Salants, where she discovers that her father, a widowed boat owner, is going downhill along with the village itself as the rival town of La HoussiniÅ re grows and prospers. Despite her father''s chilly greeting, Madeleine spruces up the family home, and when she meets an attractive, mysterious stranger named Flynn she gets involved in a project to save Les Salants by building a homemade reef to restore the fast-eroding beach. The project gets complicated when Madeleine realizes that Flynn has ties to Brismand, a rival of her father''s, who controls local commerce in La HoussiniÅ re. The reef project succeeds, but with a bitter aftertaste when Madeleine''s older sister, Adrienne, moves back to the island and her father becomes infatuated with Adrienne''s children. Sibling rivalry fades to the background when Madeleine learns that Flynn''s ties to Brismand extend into her own family history, and she discovers that Flynn was an integral part of a romantic triangle involving her father and Brismand. Harris develops her beguiling story in layers, drawing Madeleine into the village life she loves and loathes while exploring the nuances of island living. Despite the narrowly focused setting, Harris exposes a wide range of passions and emotions as Madeline gets involved with Flynn against the effective backdrop of the various family and village rivalries. This book lacks the lurid erotic power of Chocolat, but Harris compensates for the lowered levels of passion and eros by writing with power and grace about the family ties that bind.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7483'),
(1716, 'The Cobra Event', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis. The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists. Richard Preston''s sources include members of the FBI and the United States military, public health officials, intelligence officers in foreign governments, and scientists who have been involved in the testing of strategic bioweapons. The accounts of what they have seen and what they expect to happen are chilling. The Cobra Event is a dramatic, heart-stopping account of a very real threat, told with the skill and authority that made Preston''s The Hot Zone an internationally acclaimed bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3989'),
(1717, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. ** Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again. What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(1718, 'The Cocaine Chronicles', 'Gary Phillips &amp; Jervey Tervalon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine "the scourge of our times" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else''s thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child''s "Ten Keys," in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman''s "The Crack Cocaine Habit," in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West''s shocking "Shame," about a kid who copes with her mother''s habit and the world''s indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother''s habit in Nina Revoyr''s highly effective "Golden Pacific." James Brown''s sobering "The Screenwriter" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call "scary charms."\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NOTHING TO SNORT AT, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in COCAINE CHRONICLES, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. COCAINE CHRONICLES contains tough tales by a cross-section of today''s most thought-provoking writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5466'),
(1719, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son: A Memoir', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dave Itzkoff on\n   <em>\n    Cocaine''s Son\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cocaineâ€™s Son\n  </em>\n  is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7440'),
(1720, 'Cockroach', 'Rawi Hage', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage''s second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner\n  <em>\n   DeNiro''s Game\n  </em>\n  ) explores the peculiar politics of Montreal''s immigrant communities through the bleak obsessions of a misanthropic thief. After trying and failing to kill himself, an unnamed narrator who believes himself to be part cockroach is compelled to attend counseling sessions with an earnest and alluring therapist. As he unspools his personal historyâ€”from his apprenticeship with the thief Abou-Roro to the tragic miscalculation that led him to flee his home countryâ€”the narrator, reluctant to tell his story (we never learn where the narrator is from, and inconsistencies in his tale cast doubt upon his honesty), scuttles through the stories of others, recounting secrets both confidentially shared and invasively discovered. Unable to support himself on burglary alone, the narrator takes a job as a busboy, but runs into complications after discovering his lover''s connection to the restaurant''s most prominent customer. The novel''s gritty back-alley world gives rise to a host of glorious rogues, each swindling the others at every opportunity, and yet each is capable of great empathy under just the right circumstances.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is something exhilarating about [_Cockroach_''s] relentlessness. . . . The narrator is ambiguous, untrustworthy, sly, and filled with a despair both nasty and noisy; but he is also deeply wounded, oddly lovable, his voice both moving and manipulative. (Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n -\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8463'),
(1721, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1135'),
(1722, 'Code 61', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn''t going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. ''I''ll be ten-seventy-six to the scene''" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman''s introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff''s Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss''s niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man''s girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6903'),
(1723, 'The Code Book', 'Singh, Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9202'),
(1724, 'Code Complete, 2nd Edition (2004)', 'Steve McConnell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8831'),
(1725, 'Code of Hammurabi', 'Code of Hammurabi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(1726, 'Code of the Krillitanes', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half''. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books'' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain''s best castles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5660'),
(1727, 'Code Red 01 - Flash Flood', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8941'),
(1728, 'Code Red 02 - Wildfire', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8935'),
(1729, 'Code Red 03 - Outbreak', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that is being mined there. They soon realize that the people in the village close to the mine are frightened and it doesn''t take long for Ben and his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, and no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Ben''s father falls ill, it is up to Ben and his new friend from the village, Halima, to try and tell the government what''s going on so the village can be isolated to prevent the sickness spreading. Will they be able to prevent disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8940'),
(1730, 'Code Red 04 - Vortex', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ben Tracey is having a well-deserved, restful week of birdwatching with his cousin, Annie. They''re keen to catch a glimpse of the rare, nearly extinct Hen Harrier - and their wish comes true, but not in the way they''d hoped as they witness a man in an RAF uniform shoot one of the beautiful birds dead.When, later that day, Ben and Annie meet an old man full of conspiracy theories about the nearby RAF training base they''re curious to know more and creep into the base - Spadeadam. But little do they know that they are in serious danger . . . Having walked into the middle of the real reason the Hen Harriers are being shot down, Ben and Annie are captured as intruders and taken to a secure unit on a deserted area of the camp. These birds are just helpless victims in a much bigger operation - they attract too many visitors to the area and there''s a top-secret piece of warfare technology being developed that needs to be kept quiet.If this weapon gets into the wrong hands it could have catastrophic worldwide effects . . . Can Ben and Annie get out in time to spread the news?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8926');
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(1731, 'Code Red 05 - Twister', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8929'),
(1732, 'Code Red 06 - Battleground', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8938'),
(1733, 'The Coelura', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10809'),
(1734, 'The Coffee Trader: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Edgar Awardwinning novelA Conspiracy of Paperwas one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world''s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city''s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city''s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at successa daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam''s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8255'),
(1735, 'The Coffin Dancer', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Lincoln Rhymes, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually alluded the police. Rhymes - -a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident -- must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who''s been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony. Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene (for a start, scrapings from the tires of the emergency vehicles that responded to the Chicago crash) to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off. In the resulting game of cat-and- mouse, both Rhyme and the Dancer are constantly subject to unbelievably timely hunches and brain waves that keep their deadly shuttlecock in play down to the wire. Fair warning to newcomers: Author Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer; don''t assume he''s run out of tricks until you''ve run out of pages. By the author of "The Bone Collector."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1954'),
(1736, 'Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age', 'Clay Shirky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The author of the breakout hit\n  <em>\n   Here Comes Everybody\n  </em>\n  reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In\n <em>\n  Cognitive Surplus\n </em>\n , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we''ve had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion''s share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg''s tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clay Shirky\n </strong>\n teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego(r). His writings have appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times\n </em>\n (of London),\n <em>\n  Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Wired\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8652'),
(1737, 'Coincidence', 'Alan May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She''s traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, getting credit for a full year of high school in the bargain.And, after her boyless years at a private school, it doesn''t hurt that one of the students on the ship is tall, dark, and handsome Pierre. (She''s most impressed with his height, being close to six feet tall herself.)Melissa is excited to be learning the ropes of crewing the ship as the "Inspiration" completes the first part of its voyage, from San Diego to Mexico and then on to the Galapagos.But then things turn decidedly sour.Before the ship can reach Easter Island, it is taken over by the "Coincidence," a large yacht manned by a ruthless band of smugglers. The band needs the services of the "Inspiration''s" doctor for one of their members, who was shot during a heist in Colombia that netted them more than $100 million worth of cocaine.The future of the "Inspiration" and its passengers â€” and of Melissa and Pierre''s romance â€” hangs in the balance. Will the RCMP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and the teachers and crew be able to save Melissa''s perfect year?ALAN MAY is an entrepreneur and sailor. He was inspired to write "Coincidence" after his own daughter sailed the high seas as part of the Class Afloat high school program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5548'),
(1738, 'The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World&#39;s Favorite Soft Drink', 'Michael Blanding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks to school children." --Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like Morgan Spurlock''s\n <em>\n  Super Size Me\n </em>\n and Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n embeds current issues with history, policy, and interviews to reveal the wizard behind the curtain." --Suite101.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An eye opening expose which blows the plastic lids off a company known to associate itself with love and happiness... The book lays out the case against Coke in startling clarity." --TowerReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book''s sixty-three pages of notes attest to [Blanding''s] careful research, and lend a vital legitimacy to his allegations--this is much more than an activist''s polemic." --[tk] review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and readable... Blanding''s painstakingly reported book reminds us that Coke''s global success--perhaps like all spectacular global success--came at a price" --The Atlantic\n</p>\n<p>\n "Every company has a dark side, and you won''t believe how dark Coca-Cola''s is. After reading this book, good luck having a Coke and smile." --Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coca-Cola wants to teach the world to sing, but in the process they''ve trashed water supplies, peddled sugar to generations of kids, and undermined worker rights around the world. Put down your soda, read\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n and join the global movement to rein in unaccountable corporations." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of\n <em>\n  Nickel and Dimed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n , Michael Blanding takes a tough, unsweetened look at the business practices of this iconic American company. His investigations reveal the costs--in ethics, health, public resources, and sometimes even human life--of Coca-Cola''s relentless pressure to expand sales of its products. This book is a terrific introduction to the inner workings of corporate capitalism as it plays out on a global scale." --Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of\n <em>\n  Food Politics\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What to Eat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In shocking detail, Blanding uncovers Coke''s numerous transgressions against humanity and nature... Blanding''s thoroughly detailed, stimulating and challenging study will have many readers saying, ''Give me a Pepsi.''" --\n <strong>\n  BookPage\n </strong>\n , September 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "By this account, Coke''s domination of the market begins to look less like a triumph of advertising and more like a symptom of the dark side of globalisation." --\n <strong>\n  The Financial Times\n </strong>\n , September 20, 2010\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Coke Machine\n  </em>\n  takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they''ll go to stay there.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since its "I''d like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world''s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and "Coca-Cola" the world''s second- most recognized word after "hello." However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world''s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Michael Blanding''s\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n probes shocking accusations about the company''s global impact, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Coca-Cola''s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How Coke has harmed children''s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ That Coke bottlers stand accused of conspiring with paramilitaries to threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia\n</p>\n<p>\n A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist''s daring, in-depth research,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula for greed.\n</p>\n<p>\n COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.\n <br />\n This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7334'),
(1739, 'Cold Case', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6480'),
(1740, 'Cold copper tears', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She is tall, blonde, and offering Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seems open-and-shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers - a place where magic and religion could prove an all to potent mix - Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes. Garret''s doubts are confirmed when the Grand Inquisitor comes looking for his help in the lovely lady''s wake. But even a hard-boiled detective like Garret, with the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, can find that it''s too late to say no. Turns out Garret''s been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god - and his only chance to save his neck is to solve the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1893'),
(1741, 'A cold day for murder', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.''s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(1742, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(1743, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. a oeA master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.a - The San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(1744, 'Cold Fusion', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth Doctor''s TARDIS is not the only one to have landed on a barren ice world where a dirty civil war is raging. A genuine threat to the universe unfolds and the Doctor finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6889'),
(1745, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1402'),
(1746, 'Cold Midnight', 'Joyce Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After sheâ€™s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2999'),
(1747, 'Cold Moon Rising', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s Baaaaaack. Hired killer Tony Giodone is back in action -- this time, believe it or not, working for the ''good guys.'' Or should that be the ''not quite as bad guys?'' He isn''t sure. One thing is for certain, serving as a newly minted member of Wolven, the Sazi law enforcement agency, certainly does keep a guy busy. AND he gets to do what he does best. Kill things. Of course, Carmine doesn''t plan to let Tony off the hook, particularly when he''s attacked and nearly killed by the boys from the east coast. Paired up with Ahmad al Narmer Tony''s in danger up to his baby blues, which wouldn''t bother him a bit, if his wife, Sue wasn''t bound and determined to be a part of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1393'),
(1748, 'Cold Mountain', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10220'),
(1749, 'The Cold Room', 'J. T. Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellison''s fourth Taylor Jackson thriller finds a serial killer murdering young women in both the United States and Europe. Such an international crime brings New Scotland Yard Detective/profiler James Memphis Highsmythe into the investigation, causing an unexpected hitch in homicide detective Jackson''s romantic involvement with fianceÃŒÃ¼e FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin. But personal feelings or no, the trio must pool their resources to find the serial killer known as the Conductor in the United States and Il Macellaio across the Atlantic, before he can strike again. Joyce Bean is perfectly cast; her narration keeps the book moving at a steady pace and infuses the prose with just the right amount of menace and suspense. Her reading of the killer''s chance encounter with a young woman destined to become his next victim is chilling. Even when the writing may be a little over the top at times, Bean''s performance is down to the ground solid. A Mira paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything a great crime thriller should be. --Allison Brennan on\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Girls\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fusing gritty cop drama with dark psychological thriller, Ellison distinguishes herself with exceptional character development, consistently breakneck pacing and a sense of authenticity throughout. ----_Chicago Tribune_ on 14\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6283'),
(1750, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When his buddy Hawk is beaten within an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a ruthless mob in the name of friendship--and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4030'),
(1751, 'Cold Service (2005)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 32', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10534'),
(1752, 'The Cold Spot', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orphaned at 10â€”his mother murdered, his father a suicideâ€”Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jonah shoots one of his crew during a poker game, Chase, at 21, realizing that the icy old man could easily turn on his own grandson, strikes off on his own. He works his way around the country stealing cars and driving for petty thieves until one night in Mississippi he runs up against deputy sheriff Lila Bodeen, who sees something in this brash young outlaw that she likes. Tragedy puts Chase back on the road, where he faces not only the killer but the truthâ€”about himself and his shattered family. Piccirilli (_The Midnight Road_, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tom Piccirilliâ€™s] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past centuryâ€¦.\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is both funny and ferocious.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A powerful, hard-hittng, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." â€”David Morrell, author of _Creepers\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Tom Piccirilli''s fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful."â€”F. Paul Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Keep\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bloodline\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level."â€”Ken Bruen, award-winning author of _The Guards\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  ."â€”Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of _Nerve Damage\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli''s\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is a bull''s-eye hardboiled tale."â€”Megan Abbott, author of _The Song is You\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you''re in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel."â€”Jason Starr, author of _The Follower\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7740'),
(1753, 'Cold Springs', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Texas native Riordan, whose\n  </p>\n  <blockquote>\n   <p>\n    Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n   </p>\n  </blockquote>\n  <p>\n   But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n   <em>\n    Cold Springs\n   </em>\n   substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n   <em>\n    --Nicholas H. Allison\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Texas native Riordan, whose\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n  <em>\n   Cold Springs\n  </em>\n  substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8509'),
(1754, 'A Cold Treachery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Integral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the\n <em>\n  nom de plume\n </em>\n "Charles Todd" are particularly adept, in their historical novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, at exploiting painful secrets as tools in developing both character and plot. It''s rare, in a Todd tale, that even the innocent should escape unscathed. The authors demonstrate their skills once more in\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n , which sends the shell-shocked and lonely Rutledge to probe the winter massacre of a sheep-farming family in northern England, at the same time as he searches for the missing and only witness to that chilling savagery.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It was beyond comprehension," we''re told of the December 1919 violence, near the rustic Lake District town of Urskdale, that left Gerald and Grace Elcott and three of their progeny shot to death. A fourth child, 10-year-old Josh Robinson, is nowhere to be found. He''s thought to have fled from the scene, only to have perished in a recent blizzard. Coming off the grim proceedings recalled in __, Rutledge--shackled as always to the nattering ghost of Hamish MacLeod, a Scotsman he''d ordered executed on a World War I battlefield--must determine whether the murderer was a passing stranger, or a local who''d previously concealed his or her aptitude for barbarity--and might kill again. Gerald Elcott''s less-successful brother, Paul, has ample motive (heâ€™s next in line to inherit their clan''s farm), as does Grace''s sister, Janet Ashton, who just happens to arrive in Urskdale with a gun in hand (supposedly to protect her sibling from Paul''s anger). Yet there''s another, more frightening possibility--that Josh, Gerald''s stepson, upset by the breakup of his parents, committed these atrocities. Desperate for clues, and with his impatient superior threatening to replace him on this case, Rutledge still can''t claim to know who, or what, was behind the carnage.\n</p>\n<p>\n After their disappointing standalone,\n <strong>\n  , it''s a relief to see the Todd pair return to the "gloomy, defeated and exhausted" postwar England of Ian Rutledge, where no end of dire dramas appear to lurk. Like its half-dozen predecessors, stretching back to\n </strong>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n satisfies with its copious period details, characters traumatized by fate and failures, and a bedeviled young protagonist who must solve other people''s problems before his own. And even as Hamish seems here to slip further into the background, there''s finally the prospect of Rutledge finding companionship of a more corporeal sort. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Traditional mystery lovers who prefer their whodunits enriched with psychological insight will heartily embrace Todd''s seventh Inspector Rutledge novel (after 2002''s\n <em>\n  A Fearsome Doubt\n </em>\n ). Still haunted by the ghost of a corporal whose execution for insubordination he ordered during WWI, Rutledge fights a constant battle to hang on to his sanity by devoting himself to his detective work for Scotland Yard. This time, the brutal massacre of the Elcott family, including two adults and three children, takes him to the Lake District town of Urskdale. While the local authorities prefer to blame an outsider for the murders, the inspector quickly finds the hidden passions churning beneath the stolid surface of the small rustic town. Since one family member, a 10-year-old boy, wasn''t found with his relatives'' bloody corpses, Rutledge pursues clues suggesting that the missing lad may be either a potential future victim or the killer himself. Todd''s ear for dialogue is superb, and he effortlessly conjures up the harsh life of a simple farm community through his vivid characters. As with its predecessors, this novel is imbued with tragic sadness, and Rutledge''s struggle with his own demons serves as a moving counterpoint to the searing pain of other characters trapped by circumstances or emotions beyond their control. Perhaps this superb effort will bring Todd an audience to match the deserved critical acclaim he has received. FYI:_Todd is the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5678'),
(1755, 'Cold Vengeance', 'Lincoln Child &amp; Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife''s betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-he is also forced to dig further into Helen''s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-and everything he''s believed, everything he''s trusted, everything he''s understood . . . may be a horrific lie.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  COLD VENGEANCE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nothing is what it seems.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8783'),
(1756, 'Cold War', 'Jerome Preisler &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On the wind-swept, Ice-covered continent of Antartica, Roger Gordian''s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears -- along with the repair team sent out after it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium -- that is illegally using Antartica as a nuclear waste dump -- to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station -- and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6704'),
(1757, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn''t guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box''s searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett''s gruesome discovery of Alden''s body is followed almost immediately by the stage-managed arrest of Missy by Sheriff Kyle McLanahan. Both Missy and Earl have done plenty to earn the enmity of their neighbors, so Missy''s arrest benefits McLanahan''s bid for re-election, but Pickett is surprised to find county attorney Lisa Rich already convinced the case is solid. Pickett could use the help of his friend Nate Romanowski, but they are on the outs. Meanwhile, Romanowski, hunted by the widow of a man he killed, finds his withdrawal from the world has endangered others. Box parlays a heady mix of Wyoming politics and the advent of wind power into a deadly brew. This engaging series just keeps getting better with each new entry. Author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Joe Pickettï¿½s mother-in-law is accused of murdering her latest husband, thereï¿½s a part of him that canï¿½t believe his good luck: the social-climbing harpy has had it in for him ever since he married his beloved Marybeth. Unfortunately, itï¿½s hard for him to believe sheï¿½s guilty. Could a petite woman in her midsixties really hoist a body to the top of a wind turbine and chain it to the spinning blade? Whatï¿½s her motive, anyway? Reluctantly, the dogged Wyoming game warden begins his own investigation, one that seems to ruffle the feathers of just about everybody involved. The eleventh installment in Boxï¿½s superlative series returns Pickett to his old stomping grounds, Twelve Sleep County, and spins a complicated mystery that entangles familiar series characters in new and surprising ways. Despite Joeï¿½s guess that ï¿½things are going to get real Western,ï¿½ they end with a courtroom surprise (ï¿½like fuckinï¿½ Perry Mason!ï¿½ as one old-timer observes). But a closing scene promises plenty of action in the next book, featuring fan favorite Nate Romanowski. Boxï¿½s many fans wonï¿½t be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The 75,000-copy first printing may or may not cover all the devoted fans of Boxï¿½s long-running series. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8685'),
(1758, 'A cold-blooded business', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. By the author of Dead in the Water. SUMMARY: The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1040'),
(1759, 'The Coldest Blood', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling his own screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon heâ€™ll be dead â€“ and life can begin again. Â Three decades later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is experiencing a cold, bitter Christmas on the Fens. Drydenâ€™s wife, Laura, is emerging from years in a coma, unsure if she wants to go on living. Meanwhile, people are freezing to death, among them Declan McIlroy, a 39 year old loner found dead in his flat with the windows thrown open. The police rule the death a suicide, but Dryden has his doubts â€“ especially when he finds the body of Declanâ€™s best friend Joe frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded farmhouse. Â At the same time, Dryden is investigating allegations of abuse laid against a Catholic orphanage â€“ a touchy subject, due to his own Catholic upbringing. The incidents seem unrelated until Dryden discovers that Declan was one of the victims. Could his death have been part of a cover-up?Â Soon, Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime, and to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1844'),
(1760, 'Coldfire', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(1761, 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jared Diamond''s\n  <em>\n   Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed\n  </em>\n  is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  . While\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished,\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society''s response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist''s diatribe. He begins by setting the book''s main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because he''s addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it''s exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  so compelling.\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Buckendorff\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Pulitzer-Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  , Diamond chronicled the rise of human civilizations since the Ice Age. This time, he turns over the log and probes the rotted side--the demise of once-productive societies such as the Maya, Easter Islanders and Greenland Norse. He also sounds the alarm on environmental practices undermining modern societies, including China, Russia, Australia and the United States. Narrator Murney has his work cut out for him, even though this audiobook is abridged. The narrative, which spans the globe and the ages, is dense, overwhelmingly so at times. Diamond parses myriad ecological, geographical and biological impacts, from weather patterns to deforestation to sperm count. But Murney rises to the occasion. His engagement never flags, and he strikes all the proper notes of concern and warning. The delivery feels effortless, his tone a blend of newsreel narrator and professor-at-the-lectern. Diamond teaches geography at UCLA, and his prose style, unsurprisingly, contains shades of the lecture hall. In fact, given such abundant and oft-alarming information, listeners may feel the urge to take notes for the final exam. Though grounding materials such as photographs and maps would have made this audiobook easier to follow, their absence is a minor fault in an overall fine production.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9290'),
(1762, 'Collateral Damage', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nationâ€”a refuge for fanatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the secluded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, death, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal blow to the country''s exposed and vulnerable heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU''s New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn''t, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trustâ€”because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n <em>\n  The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n </em>\n and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n <em>\n  The Ultimate Escape\n </em>\n for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n <em>\n  The Tom Clancy Companion\n </em>\n . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n <em>\n  Wolverine: Weapon X\n </em>\n , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n </em>\n , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n <em>\n  The Official Godzilla Compendium\n </em>\n . Marc''s other credits include the book\n <em>\n  24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n </em>\n , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n <em>\n  24 Declassified\n </em>\n novels\n <em>\n  Operation Hell Gate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trojan Horse\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vanishing Point\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6824');
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(1763, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(1764, 'The Collected Stories', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating ''Memories of Youghal'' to the bittersweet ''Bodily Secrets'' and the elegiac ''Two More Gallants'', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5493'),
(1765, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne''s best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." He is best known for his novels A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1864), FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1865), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1869â€“1870), A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1871) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873) and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. A number of his works have been made into feature films and his books remain popular and in print more than a century after his death.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\n   <br />\n   2. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth\n   <br />\n   3. Around The World In Eighty Days\n   <br />\n   4. The Mysterious Island\n   <br />\n   5. From The Earth To The Moon\n   <br />\n   6. Around The Moon\n   <br />\n   7. A Voyage In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   8. Doctor Ox''s Experiment\n   <br />\n   9. Master Zacharius\n   <br />\n   10. A Drama In The Air\n   <br />\n   11. A Winter Amid The Ice\n   <br />\n   12. Ascent Of Mont Blanc\n   <br />\n   13. An Antarctic Mystery\n   <br />\n   14. Dick Sand; Or, A Captain At Fifteen\n   <br />\n   15. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon\n   <br />\n   16. Facing The Flag\n   <br />\n   17. Five Weeks In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   18. Godfrey Morgan\n   <br />\n   19. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras\n   <br />\n   Part I: The English At The North Pole\n   <br />\n   Part Ii: The Field Of Ice\n   <br />\n   21. In Search Of The Castaways\n   <br />\n   22. Michael Strogoff\n   <br />\n   23. Off On A Comet\n   <br />\n   24. Robur The Conqueror\n   <br />\n   25. The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent\n   <br />\n   26. The Blockade Runners\n   <br />\n   27. The Fur Country\n   <br />\n   28. The Master Of The World\n   <br />\n   29. The Pearl Of Lima\n   <br />\n   30. The Secret Of The Island\n   <br />\n   31. The Survivors Of The Chancellor\n   <br />\n   32. The Underground City\n   <br />\n   33. The Waif Of The Cynthia\n   <br />\n   34. Ticket No. 9262\n   <br />\n   35. Topsy Turvy\n   <br />\n   36. In The Year 2889\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5714'),
(1766, 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kippling', 'Rudyard Kippling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4019'),
(1767, 'The Collective', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4317'),
(1768, 'The Collector', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fowles launched his career with The Collector, which was welcomed with great critical enthusiasm, including that of LJ''s reviewer, who found it "a distinguished first novel" (LJ 8/63). Mantissa, on the other hand, was a departure from the author''s more popular material and received only a marginal response (LJ 9/1/82).\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable -- the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9892'),
(1769, 'The collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling connection to another murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1470'),
(1770, 'Collider', 'Paul Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe** The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world''s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don''t need to go back to school to learn about it. In *Collider*, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover. Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"*-Library Journal* "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don''t know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-*Publishers Weekly* Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics" The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read *Collider* and find out what, when, and how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3942'),
(1771, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4912'),
(1772, 'The Colonels', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3432'),
(1773, 'Colonization: Aftershocks', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of World War II and the invasion by the alien Lizards, decades of struggle have led to an uneasy attempt by the aliens to maintain a colony on Earth. Collaboration, rebellion, and attempts at understanding each other bring humans and Lizards to the brink of new hostilities, threatening the destruction of the world but holding out hope for its renewal. This conclusion to Turtledove''s multivolume alternate history features the author''s close attention to detail and his ability to paint broad, panoramic pictures without sacrificing the personal stories of his characters. A good addition to most sf collections, particularly in libraries that own previous series titles.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Colonel Sam Yeager has a terrible secret that he can share with only one person--and no humans. The former shiplord Straha, a lizard now exiled to L.A,, is willing to keep the army officer''s secret as a protective measure for Yeager and his family. But when Yeager goes missing, and Straha decides to take his secret to the colonization fleetlord, the outcome shocks everyone, from the crew of the American spaceship\n <em>\n  Lewis and Clark\n </em>\n to the ginger dealers in Marseille. Turtledove concludes his highly entertaining Worldwar alternate-history saga with a series of deadly nuclear confrontations and happier, more intimate encounters between lizards and humans. Characters once mired in the struggles between the doomed Reich and the Race are now free to travel, and Cockney Jew David Goldfarb finds himself in Edmonton, inventing a caller ID system, while Rance Auerbach moves from South Africa to the south of France. Mao and Molotov remain in power, but new humans and lizards are climbing the ranks to challenge the old guard. Turtledove explores ethics, vengeance, and the duties of familial love versus those of friendship with his trademark wry humor--for instance, the Warren Commission turns out to be a loose gathering of lizards intent on understanding the death of President Earl Warren. If only there were another five books in the series to look forward to!\n <em>\n  Roberta Johnson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4948'),
(1774, 'Colonization: Down to Earth', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Down to Earth\n </em>\n marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove''s epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume __, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove''s alt-''60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov''s SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don''t disappoint. And while\n <em>\n  Down to Earth\n </em>\n proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The alien invasion that transformed the nature of the Second World War into a fight between humans and "Lizards" resulted in a state of uneasy d?tente. Twenty years later, Lizards lay claim to parts of the earth despite a growing state of resistance to their presence. Continuing the story begun in Colonization: Second Contact (LJ 1/99), Turtledove expands on his imaginary history of the 20th century. He demonstrates his talent for crafting drama on a global scale by concentrating on the individual stories that make up the big picture. A good choice for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4973'),
(1775, 'Colonization: Second Contact', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Second Contact\n </em>\n continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they''re unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone''s smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book''s for you.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In high fashion, the master of alternative SF launches a sequel series to his acclaimed Worldwar tetralogy (Striking the Balance, etc.). It is 1963, and Earth is divided among five independent powers (the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Britain, Japan) and the invading alien Lizards. Human adaptations of Lizard technology (including space flight) and the Lizard leaders'' painful experience of fighting humans have led to an armed truce among all the parties. Now, however, the Lizard colony fleet, with 40 million sleep-frozen colonists, arrives to settle what they expect to be a completely subdued world. That the Tosevites (humans) are still holding out is only the first of several surprises to greet them. The nastiest is probably that ginger, merely addictive to Lizard males, brings Lizard females violently into heat?arousing an irresistible mating urge in the males. The Third Reich, meanwhile, under the leadership of Himmler, continues its odious ways; Jews maintain an uneasy peace with the Lizards, who saved them from the Holocaust; the Soviet Union (under Molotov) survives; and the U.S. is building a huge space station. Characters who have become old friends to readers of the earlier tetralogy abound, and new ones both human and Lizard appear by the double handful. Turtledove handles sexual themes with good taste and appropriate humor. With his fertile imagination running on overdrive, he develops an exciting, often surprising, story that will not only delight his fans but will probably send newcomers back to the Worldwar saga to fill in the backstory.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4957'),
(1776, 'The Color of Her Panties', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the fifteenth novel of his Xanth series, Piers Anthony has captured again the fantasy world loved by generations of devoted readers. Brand-new excitement and humor from the author of Question Quest, The Color of Her Panties explodes with phantasmagorical, pun-filled adventure. In the struggle for the Goblin crown, Gwenny Goblin is forced to compete with her awful half brother Gobble in a battle of the wits. To prove herself worthy, Gwenny, with her secret contact lenses, enlists the aid of Che Centaur and Jenny Elf to help her perform the tasks that will win her the chieftainship of the Goblin horde, including bringing back the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place. But the most precious secret lies in Mela Merwoman''s undergarments; in particular, their color. But Mela, Ida Human, and Okra Ogress, using Magician Humphrey''s confusing advice, are stuck in a wild-goose chase around Xanth, meeting up with the likes of dragons and the Simurg, and eventually joining the Adult Conspiracy. Meanwhile, Gwenny is still on her quest for the answer to the all-important question: What color are the Merwoman''s panties? With outrageous wit and fantastic escapades, The Color of Her Panties will thrill the fans who have entered before into this fabulous adventure of space and thyme, as well as new discoverers of the world of Xanth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3308'),
(1777, 'The Color of Law: A Novel', 'Mark Gimenez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7324'),
(1778, 'The Color Purple', 'Alice Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister''s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10910'),
(1779, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(1780, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There''s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that''s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world''s great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4275'),
(1781, 'The Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4316'),
(1782, 'A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3117'),
(1783, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Discworld is flat, and rides through space on the backs of Berilia, Tubul, Great P''Thon and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand in turn on the back of Great A''Tuin, the giant turtle. And this is where it all starts, with the naive tourist Twoflower and his incompetent and cynical guide, the wizard Rincewind, forced to flee from the proud and pestilent twin city of Ankh-Morpork. When they meet the barbarian thieves Bravd and Weasel, things that are already bad turn inevitably to the worst . . .This is the second of Terry Pratchett''s Discworld movies for SKY ONE, made by the team who brought THE HOGFATHER to you and featuring The Discworld Players, an ensemble cast including Sir David Jason as Rincewind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3440'),
(1784, 'Colouring the Captains', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10749'),
(1785, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9706'),
(1786, 'Come Lie With Me', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Blake Remington temporarily loses the ability to walk, he loses his will to live as well, until Dione Kelly, a woman with a broken soul, arrives to heal both him and herself. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6429'),
(1787, 'Come Out Tonight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s not a crime novelist around who writes cleaner prose than LaymonAand few who can jack up the tension the way he does. Yet despite his popularity overseas and a minor resurgence here (Bite, Forecasts, May 24), his readership has of late been limited in the States. This new novel, his first since The Midnight Tour, probably won''t change that. Laymon likes to grasp readers by the neck with expert wordsmithery, then haul them into a diabolical situation. Here, foxy substitute teacher Sherry Gates goes searching for her boyfriend, who''s late returning from a condom-run to a local L.A. market, and gets snatched by a homicidal, sex-crazed teen, Toby Bones. Many readers will find that too much of what ensues focuses, graphically, on Toby''s violations of Sherry (and others), including rape, child molestation, slashings, beatings, shootings, a beheading and fratricidal murder by electric drill. Laymon''s outrageousness is part of his appeal, but in his best books it''s leavened by a gratifyingly sardonic sense of humor. That wickedness flashes at times here, as does a surprising tenderness: the series of scenes in which a naked Sherry is aided by two horny teen boys combines both qualities in a dashing display of emotionally complex writing. Once again, Laymon offers unexpected, well-rounded characters blown about in a narrative that moves like the wind. But the many scenes of sadistic torture cross the line from terror to lurid cruelty and will curdle the enjoyment of all but the most dedicated Laymon fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of stomach-churning porno-violence (Quake, 1995, etc.) returns, unredeemed and of no social value whatsoever. Laymon fans must always be telling themselves, I''m sick. Im very sick. I must be absolutely worthless to be enjoying this, but, as the authors numerous villainous psychopaths would undoubtedly say, Kill em all! Let God sort em out! This time, the Santa Ana winds are blowing fire toward L.A., and tubby, teenaged Toby Bones, who with his brother murdered his wealthy parents, is on the loose. Teacher Sherry Gates and her boyfriend Duane are just about to make love when his condom falls to pieces. He''ll be right back, Duane says, heading for the nearby convenience store for some fresh booties. He never comes back. After a while, Sherry goes looking for him and eventually is kidnaped by Toby, a student from a recent class. He beats and tries to rape her, then decides they need a bed. Sherry escapes, gets a stranger named Jim to help her get back to Duane''s place. They find Duane in bed, his skull crushed, then Toby offs Jim with two butcher knives into his back, jumps a woman in Duane''s hallway and knifes her in the back, then re-abducts Sherry for some real fun. And that''s just for tasty openers as Laymon''s novel slides in slime toward a big sweet hell of pain and orgasm. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8627'),
(1788, 'Come to Grief', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10974'),
(1789, 'Come to the Edge: A Memoir', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despairâ€¦Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course.Â  Girl loses boy.Â  Boy loses everything.Â  But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families.Â  Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter ofÂ _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6268'),
(1790, 'Comeback Moms: How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven&#39;t Had a Job in Years', 'Monica Samuels &amp; J. C. Conklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what''s best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when youâ€™re ready to leave work to be a full-time mother, how to maintain contacts while away from the job, and then how to execute a successful reentry into the workforce anywhere from one to twenty years after you''ve left. Comeback Moms is filled with anecdotes and advice from economists, career counselors, employers and, of course, mothers who have made the transition from the career track to the mommy track and back again. The authors distill the wisdom of the experts and many high profile women--including Ambassador Karen Hughes, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards--into a three-tiered battle plan to help any woman get through this life-changing process and come out ahead.â€œYou canâ€™t fall into the trap of thinking you have to do it all or can do it all. You have to take advantage of opportunities when theyâ€™re offered.â€â€” Anne Richards, former Governor of TexasMillions of educated, professional women are quitting their jobs to stay home and raise their children.That would never be you, right? You worked hard for your degree and even harder to get to this point in your career. Quitting now, even for a few years, would kill your career. Right?Thatâ€™s what Monica Samuels thought when she found out she was pregnant and boy, was she wrong. Once you have a baby, your life changes in ways youâ€™d never imagine. Some of your friends and family members may think youâ€™ve gone a little crazyâ€”crazy enough to leave a salary and paid vacations to stay home with your child. Before you go storming into your bossâ€™s office to announce your departure, read this book. Thereâ€™s more to quitting than saying the words. Thereâ€™s strategy involved.Over sixty percent of professional women who leave work to raise children want to go back into the workforce someday. If you even think you might want to go back to work, be it in one year or twenty, you need to lay the groundwork now for a successful reentry or your options will be limited. If you do a little planning, you can reposition yourself professionally and have the choice to one day get back on the same career track, shift gears, accelerate, or change careers entirely. And, if youâ€™ve already been out of the workplace for several years and never thought youâ€™d go back, youâ€™ll learn about the best strategies and resources for jumping back in.Comeback Moms is a practical, commonsense approach to career planning for all mothers. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin examine every conceivable angle and obstacle to help you make the best decisions possible before leaving your job, during your time at home, and once you decide to return to work. They offer advice on how to keep one foot in the professional pool, when and if itâ€™s best to go back to school, setting realistic expectations when re-entering an old career, helping your children adjust when you do go back, and on the logistics of rebalancing marital power when a spouse leaves or re-enters the work force. It''s all here in an invaluable guide for every woman who wants it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7352'),
(1791, 'Comes the Blind Fury', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4525'),
(1792, 'Comes the Dark Stranger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treasonIn the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years later, Shane has only one goal: find out who betrayed them to Colonel Li. Shane seeks out the five men he fought beside all those years ago in order to expose a shocking truth behind the fateful day that changed all of their lives forever."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8281'),
(1793, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5319');
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(1794, 'Coming Home', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set around the time of WW II, Pilcher''s tale of youthful friendship and romance spent 16 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pilcher''s novel is big, both in size and scope. Yet its charm is in its details. The book''s heroine is Judith Dunbar, who is a schoolgirl of 13 when the tale begins in 1935. Sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore, Judith becomes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who introduces her to a family and an estate, Nancherrow, that is to influence her for the rest of her life. Pilcher does a marvelous job of describing life in England before World War II. Readers, especially Anglophiles, will adore the care Pilcher gives to setting her scenes, decorating them with everything from Cornish wildflowers to china dogs to particular tartan plaids. The same care is evident later in the tale, as Pilcher chronicles the changes brought by the war to the fabric of British life. There is, of course, more to the novel than a carefully rendered historical backdrop. There is a story, too, and a quite involving one even if its outlines are familiar from other melodramas set against the dramatic events of history. As Judith makes her way to adulthood in the midst of great wealth, great tragedy, and, naturally, romance, Pilcher effectively balances the demands of plot with the pleasures of revisiting a different place and time. Fans of the author''s previous books, such as\n <em>\n  September\n </em>\n (1990), will know what they''re getting into and willingly plunge in headfirst. A Literary Guild main selection and an 850,000 first printing indicate supreme confidence on the publisher''s part.\n <em>\n  Ilene Cooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5407'),
(1795, 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way', 'Timothy Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin''s and Lyell''s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists'' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the\n <code>\n </code>\n big names'''' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is good base material for students who will ask questions and go further on their own. Throughout the book, introductory quotations are used to advantage to tease readers into the next topic. Bob Fliess, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8250'),
(1796, 'The Coming of the Dragon', 'Rebecca Barnhouse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Loosely based on the final years of Beowulf''s kingship, this imaginative retelling fleshes out the story of the only man who truly stands beside the great king to the end. Rune is an infant when he washes ashore in a mysterious boat and is spared death by King Beowulf and Amma, a strange old woman who becomes a mother figure to him. The king protects Rune and trains him to fight, but he remains a threat and a misfit in the minds of most villagers. He is content living a simple life until a vicious dragon is awakened and destroys everyone and everything he loves. Avenging his family leads him to answers about his own heritage as well as some nail-biting suspense as he confronts the dragon more than once. While Rune''s naked insecurity and self-doubt wear thin at times, his innocence and perseverance make him a sympathetic and unlikely hero. An adventure-filled coming-of-age tale.â€“Mandy Lawrence, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TXÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune has never known his parents, and the villagers who raised him are not completely convinced he isnâ€™t cursed by the gods. But when King Beowulf is in direst need, only Rune stands by his side, finally able to claim his destiny. Barnhouse takes the final section of Beowulf, which focuses on the story of young Wiglaf, and weaves an absorbing tale of a young man finding his courage. Told as a straight narrative, descriptions of settings and plot elements reflect back to the epic itself. Although few characters are fully developed, Rune and the woman who raised himâ€”as well as King Beowulfâ€”emerge as rounded characters. This is a great bridge book to use in a classroom either before or after broaching the Beowulf story. An authorâ€™s note clearly indicates which bits of the novel have been fabricated and which are drawn directly from the poem. This novel would also appeal to those who enjoy Norse mythology in general and to readers of Judson Robertsâ€™ Strongbow Saga. Grades 7-10. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6905'),
(1797, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3600'),
(1798, 'Coming Out', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 67th novel (following May''s\n <em>\n  The House\n </em>\n ) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages to juggle a challenging full-time job; a loving relationship with her second husband, Harry (an appeals court judge who is her former law professor); the care of their five-year-old son, Max, and her three older children from a previous marriage. Olympia''s first husband, Chauncey, is a stereotypical, upper-class snob, with no job but a passion for playing polo. Harry, son of Holocaust survivors, champions liberal causes. When Olympia''s teenage twin daughters, Veronica and Virginia, are invited to an exclusive "coming out" ball, everyone''s lives are thrown into turmoil. Most of the book revolves around the arguments and disagreements spurred by the invitation, and Steel appears overly didactic as she tries to pump life into the simplistic setup: Olympia''s Jewish mother-in-law, Afro-American law partner and gay older son are trotted out like polo ponies at auction. Steel''s mÃ©tier is glamour and romance; her attempt to deal with social injustice falls flat.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her sixty-seventh novel, Steel sticks to what she knows best, the lifestyles of the rich and glamorous. Here "coming out" refers to an exclusive debutante ball in New York, to which the twin daughters of attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein have been invited. Olympia, a blue-blooded spawn of New York''s upper class, has three children from a previous marriage and a five-year-old son with her current husband, Harry. To Olympia''s surprise, the invitation has caused turmoil and chaos in her household. Ex-husband Chauncey, a stereotypical polo-playing upper-class lout, is demanding that the girls attend the ball and has threatened to withhold college tuition if both girls do not attend. Olympia''s current husband Harry, the son of Holocaust survivors, and a hard-working man with liberal tendencies, is violently opposed to the event, which he finds racist and elitist. In addition, the twins have their own ideas, with Veronica, a passionate liberal, refusing to attend, and Virginia already shopping for a dress. Olympia, who fondly recalls her own debut, is upset by her husband''s feelings but thinks he''ll come around and gently encourages her daughters to attend. The entire plot of this fairly short novel is focused on the resolution of this family dilemma, and as usual, everything works out for the best in the end.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6041'),
(1799, 'Coming Undone', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A new novel of "toe-curling" erotic romance from the national bestselling author of *Laid Bare*. ** After his parents'' death, Brody gave up a promising career to care for his family. Now, with his siblings grown, Brody owns his own business, and for the first time in years he''s alone. Elise has come to Seattle with her daughter to find peace. After years as a world-famous ballerina-and trapped in a marriage gone bad-she''s looking for neither love nor attention. But she finds both in the handsome, honest man who befriends her with no strings attached. Brody and Elise discover in each other the wild, physical passion they need. But it''ll take a shadow from Elise''s past to make them look beyond what they need-to what they truly *desire*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3135'),
(1800, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(1801, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey''s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors. SUMMARY: The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4256'),
(1802, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3331'),
(1803, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5565'),
(1804, 'The Communist Manifesto', 'Karl Marx &amp; Friedrich Engels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of\n  <em>\n   The Communist Manifesto\n  </em>\n  , commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document''s continued relevance. Marx and Engels''s critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the\n  <em>\n   Manifesto\n  </em>\n  ''s vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  May 1 to honor the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Marx and Engels''s masterpiece with this quality, affordable hardcover. This edition contains a new introduction by historian Eric Hobsbawn, who insists that the work should be read not only as a great work of literature but that, 150 years later, it still has much to teach us for the next millennium.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6100'),
(1805, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances. A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(1806, 'Companions of Paradise', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment of Thalassa''s Paradise Trilogy (following\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n ) finds Mariana Givens living within the confines of the British cantonment at Kabul in 1841, on the eve of the first Afghan war. An assassination attempt in Lahore thwarted by her husband, Hassan Ali Khan (son of a Sufi sheikh), has forced Mariana to leave Lahore, abandoning Hassan (and her stepson, Saboor). Mariana lives miserably in an English microsociety that doesn''t recognize her marriage, full of dinner parties and eager suitors. Hassan, meanwhile, is recovering slowly from wounds, and his family is second-guessing Mariana''s intentions. As tension escalates between the British (who have deposed the Afghan king, Amir Dost Muhammad, and installed a more friendly rival, Shah Shuja) and the Afghans (who are preparing to attack the British army and its 10,000 "camp followers"), Mariana faces dangerous choices. As in the other books, Ali does a highly credible job creating the clannish atmospheres of the British and Sufi subcultures, and makes the strictures that Mariana and Hassan face (and those of their servants) palpable. The detail she offers (including mystic writings from a variety of traditions) is nicely wedded to the plot, which moves with brisk and engaging efficiency.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers first met the brave Englishwoman Mariana Givens in Ali''s exciting debut novel,\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (2002), and Ali continued Mariana''s incredible adventures in\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n (2004). The final book of the Paradise trilogy concludes Mariana''s saga. It''s 1841, and Mariana is at the British cantonment in Kabul. The pressure is on to break all ties with Hassan Ali Khan, her Muslim Indian husband (from whom she''s been separated), and marry a British officer as one of her own. Mariana can''t make up her mind. Does Hassan still consider their marriage valid? Does he still love her? To help with her decision, she goes to a mystic, a Sufi seer. But things are never easy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Afghan forces have the British cantonment under siege, and Mariana is put in a terrible position. With its incredible detail, historical accuracy, strong sense of place, Sufi mysticism, and fearless heroine who risks her life to do the right thing, this is a perfect ending to an excellent trilogy.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7817'),
(1807, 'The Companions', 'Tina Daniell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10496'),
(1808, 'Company', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after\n <em>\n  Jennifer Government\n </em>\n ). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime of turning people into cogs in a machine. Recent b-school grad Stephen Jones, a fresh-faced new hire at a Seattle-based holding company called Zephyr, jumps on the fast track to success when he''s immediately promoted from sales assistant to sales rep in Zephyr''s training sales department. "Don''t try to understand the company. Just go with it," a colleague advises when Jones is flummoxed to learn his team sells training packages to other internal Zephyr departments. But unlike his co-workers, he won''t accept ignorance of his employer''s business, and his unusual display of initiative catapults him into the ranks of senior management, where he discovers the "customer-free" company''s true, sinister raison d''Ãªtre. The ultracynical management team co-opts Jones with a six-figure salary and blackmail threats, but it''s not long before he throws a wrench into the works. As bitter as break-room coffee, the novel eviscerates demeaning modern management techniques that treat workers as "headcounts." Though Barry''s primary target is corporate dehumanization, he''s at his funniest lampooning the suits that tread the stage, consumed by the sound and fury of office politics that signify nothing.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“By turns amusing and wry, this novel is a pleasure to read. It opens with a view of a large corporation as seen by a new employee whose first day on the job is one of high suspenseâ€“one of the doughnuts for a staff meeting is missing. Moving beyond the usual cheap but funny shots taken at corporate life, Barry takes his tale to the next level. What if this giant maze for laboratory rats in which so many people work was actually just that? The characters are stereotypes but readers will sympathize with them, nonetheless._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5405'),
(1809, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer &amp; Dayna Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5547'),
(1810, 'The company: a novel of the CIA', 'Robert Littell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ''50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell''s place among the genre''s elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3605'),
(1811, 'The Complete Android Guide', 'Kevin Purdy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7136'),
(1812, 'Complete Care for Your Aging Cat', 'Amy Shojai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the last few decades, tremendous advances have been made in veterinary technology--nearly tripling the average life span of many pets. But cats that are seven years and older have special needs and require additional emotional support, nutritional help, and medical care. A longer life also means more cats suffer age-related conditions such as kidney problems, diabetes, and arthritis, all of which can be successfully managed with your loving assistance. Complete Care for Your Aging Cat contains the answers you need to care for your mature cat. Pet expert Amy Shojai explains: * How to entice your older cat into getting more exercise. * What changes to expect as your cat ages--and which changes are natural and which are warning signs that should send you to the veterinarian. * Which pet-specific over-the-counter medications every owner should keep on hand. * How to use the L.O.V.E. Program to keep your cat loving longer and living better. * Tips on everything from choosing the right products and food for your aging cat to performing nursing care at home. Filled with heartwarming stories, the latest developments in geriatric veterinary care, age-defying tips, and comprehensive reference material, this is the definitive guide to turning back the clock on aging--and keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4353'),
(1813, 'Complete Guide To Lock Picking.', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9624'),
(1814, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition', 'Sari Locker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sexy is as sexy does, according to Sari Locker (called "our favorite tantalizing sex writer" by Playboy magazine). But how to feel sexy if you''re a virgin, or if you''ve experienced sexual problems, or have serious body image hang-ups? The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Amazing Sex succeeds in not only teaching technique (as well as a book can), but also offers serious advice for boosting your self-esteem. As with other Complete Idiot guides, you''ll probably want to turn this one backwards in your bookcase, or at least get a book cover for it. But get past the silly title and you''ll find a plethora of facts, tips, and tricks on topics including sexual response, masturbation, foreplay, afterplay, oral sex, fantasy, sex toys, sexual preference, cross-dressing, and "The Big Om": tantric sex. The margin notes liberally decorating the book are worth a hearty chuckle. The "Sextistics" are particularly fun and eye-opening. Some examples: only 9 percent of people surveyed believe sex appeal is innate; the rest feel it can be acquired!; about 7 percent of women have never climaxed; the majority of male crossdressers are married with children; and, according to the Hite Report, nearly 60 percent of men ages 61 to 75 said their desire for sex remained steady or increased with age, Viagra or no. Locker, a sex educator and WCBS-TV relationship correspondent, has been a sex educator for more than a decade. That said, she should have placed the facts on contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases earlier in the book, before the hot and heavy photographs of sexual positions. That gripe aside, Amazing Sex is worth investigating by both sexual neophytes and experienced couples looking to maintain a state of hot monogamy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3543'),
(1815, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5971'),
(1816, 'The Complete Lyonesse', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become embroiled in political rivalries and the quest for the grail. The Gollancz Black Books have proved to be an immensely successful formula for getting well loved stories into the hands of people who also love well made books. Jack Vance''s Complete Lyonesse is a perfect addition to the series and contains Madouc the novel for which Vance won the World Fantasy Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9171'),
(1817, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Over 300 works, with active table of contents)', 'Twain, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11080'),
(1818, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections. See the sample for the complete and navigable table of contents.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8409'),
(1819, 'The Complete Novels of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Animal FarmBurmese DaysA Clergyman''s DaughterComing Up for AirKeep the Aspidistra FlyingNineteen Eighty-FourDescribed by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4471'),
(1820, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I*, by **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveÂ—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. *Volume I* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* starts with Holmesâ€™s first appearance, *A Study in Scarlet*, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling *The Sign of Four*, which introduces Holmesâ€™s cocaine problem and Watsonâ€™s future wife. The story collections *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* and *The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes* feature such renowned tales as Â“A Scandal in Bohemia,â€ Â“The Red-Headed League,â€ and Â“The Musgrave Ritual.â€ Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, killed him off at the end of Â“The Final Problem,â€ the last tale in *The Memoirs*. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, which supposedly takes place before Holmesâ€™s death. The separate *Volume II* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* collects the remaining accounts of Holmesâ€™s exploits, including Â“The Adventure of the Empty House,â€ which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmesâ€™s literary resurrection. **Kyle Freeman**, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3357'),
(1821, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4108'),
(1822, 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The subtitle of this monumental collection refers to the home (Lookout Farm) that Hemingway owned in Cuba from 1939 to 1959. That time frame accounts for most of the short fiction, published and unpublished, that followed the major collection issued in 1938, The First Forty-Nine. There are 60 stories in all. Of the 21 not included in the 1938 collection, the seven heretofore unpublished pieces will interest readers most. Three are especially good. "A Train Trip" and "The Porter" are self-contained excerpts from an abandoned novel that match in tone and appeal the early Hemingway work in which he explored the adolescent sensibility exposed to an adult world that is exciting but at the same time threatening and morally complex. Drawing from the author''s experiences in Europe during World War II, "Black Ass at the Crossroads" is excellent in its detailing of violent action, portraying an ambush of German soldiers from the point of view of an American infantry officer, depressed and angry over the suffering he has inflicted in the course of battle. The other previously unpublished pieces include a Spanish Civil War story reminiscent of Hemingway''s play, The Fifth Column; two quite touching stories about a father''s disappointments with a troubled son; and a long section comprising four chapters from an early version of the novel, Islands in the Stream. Intrinsically readable, the collection is also significant in drawing together much that was unavailable or difficult to access.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thoughtfully arranged, comprehensive edition of Hemingway''s short fiction justifies publication. This is not it. At best, it offers convenience rather than creativity or even completeness: it omits five stories published two years ago. It reprints the "the first 49" stories (1938), adds 14 subsequently published, and appends seven hitherto unpublished. What is lacking is a fresh reordering of the storiesthematic, chronological, or stylistic. Further, three of the unpublished pieces are not stories but excerpts from novels. None of the new material is artistically significant. Yet each bears the hallmark of Hemingway''s geniuswhich will survive even this. Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll.,\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4838'),
(1823, 'The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the century''s great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh'' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh''s stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. ''Mr Loveday''s Little Outing'' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; ''Cruise'' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; ''A House of Gentlefolks'' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in ''The Sympathetic Passenger'' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5031'),
(1824, 'Complete Short Stories of Miss Marple', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5223');
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(1825, 'Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n C&amp;C brings you our complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, comprised of over 60 classic short stories, by one of the most influential writers of the romantic genre. Selections includes, but not limited to the following: "A Tale of Jerusalem" (1832), "Bon-Bon" (1832), "Loss of Breath" (1832), "Metzengerstein" (1832), "The Duc de L''Omelette" (1832), "Four Beasts in One" (1833), "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833), "The Assignation" (1834),, "Berenice" (1835), "King Pest" (1835), "Lionizing" (1835), "Morella" (1835), "Shadow" (1835), "Mystification" (1837), "A Predicament" (1838), "Ligeia" (1838), "Silence" (1838), "The Devil in the Belfry" (1839), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), "The Man That Was Used Up" (1839), "William Wilson" (1839), "The Business Man" (1840), "The Man of the Crowd" (1840), "A Descent into the MaelstrÃ¶m" (1841), "Eleonora" (1841), "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841), "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841), "The Gold-Bug" (1842), "The Landscape Garden" (1842), "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842), "The Mystery of Marie RogÃªt" (1842), "The Oval Portrait" (1842), "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842), "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1843), "The Black Cat" (1843), "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "Mesmeric Revelation" (1844), "Thou Art the Man" (1844), "The Angel of the Odd" (1844), "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844), "The Oblong Box" (1844), "The Premature Burial" (1844), "The Purloined Letter" (1844), "The Spectacles" (1844), "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844), "Some Words with a Mummy" (1845), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845), "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845), "The Power of Words" (1845), "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846), "The Domain of Arnheim" (1846), "The Sphinx" (1846), "Hop-Frog" (1849), "Landor''s Cottage" (1849), "Mellonta Tauta" (1849), "The Light-House" (1849), "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849),\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11059'),
(1826, 'The Complete Stories', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper." --Walter Clemons,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the National Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O''Connor''s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O''Connor put together in her short lifetime--_Everything That Rises Must Converge _and\n <em>\n  A Good Man Is Hard to Find\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n O''Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master''s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ€”is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O''Connor''s longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6225'),
(1827, 'The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.\n</p>\n<p>\n No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very first story ever publishedâ€”"The Trail of the Apache"â€”through five decades of classic Western tales,\n <em>\n  The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard\n </em>\n demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9214'),
(1828, 'Complicit', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is standing in her friendï¿½s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5150'),
(1829, 'Comstock Lode', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future. From the Paperback edition. SUMMARY: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2830'),
(1830, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly''s LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband''s civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch''s previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader''s benefit.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch, hero of the Edgar Award-winning The Black Echo ( LJ 1/92), is in hot water: the family of a serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest accuses him of killing the wrong man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5340'),
(1831, 'The Concubine&#39;s Daughter', 'Pai Kit Fai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li lives in a rice shed mostly forgotten, as she wonders about her dead mother, who had been an educated concubine. After Li rebels against attempts to bind her feet, she is sold on her eighth birthday to a silk merchant and finds a temporary family among the female laborers while she dreams of learning to read and write. Capt. Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. Siu-Sing learns about her lineage and returns to face her own tribulations as WWII is about to begin. Fai''s multigenerational tale has predictable elements, but is nonetheless an engaging and entertaining read.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughterâ€™s journey to their destiny.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n L_otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayâ€¦_\n</p>\n<p>\n When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or â€œBeautiful One,â€ the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her fatherâ€™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her motherâ€™s dreams of becoming a scholarâ€”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, â€œLittle Star,â€ in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4935'),
(1832, 'The Concubine&#39;s Secret', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer.But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2435'),
(1833, 'The Concubine&#39;s Tattoo', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty months spent as the shogun''s sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month''s holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun''s favorite concubine interrupts the couple''s wedding ceremony and shatters any hopes the samurai detective had about enjoying a little peace with his new wife. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume''s death to a self-inflicted tattoo, he must travel into the cloistered, forbidden world of the shogun''s women to untangle the complicated web of Harume''s lovers, rivals, and troubled past, and identify her killer. To make matters worse, Reiko, his beautiful young bride, reveals herself to be not a traditional, obedient wife, but instead, a headstrong, intelligent, aspiring detective bent on helping Sano with his new case. Sano is horrified at her unladylike behavior, and the resulting sparks make their budding love as exciting as they mystery surrounding Lady Harume''s death. Amid the heightened tensions and political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting complex investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2678'),
(1834, 'A Confederacy of Dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author''s mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole''s comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole''s lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the book''s twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2365'),
(1835, 'Confess, Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery characters who never turn out to be just exactly what they seem.\n <em>\n  Confess, Fletch\n </em>\n is as stimulent slipped into your nightcap that will have you up to dawn no matter what you think you have to do tomorrow.? --Joe Gores --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasnâ€™t exactly. His Italian fianc?eâ€™s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasnâ€™t exactly uncooperative, but it wasnâ€™t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasnâ€™t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletchâ€™s thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when heâ€™s not â€œentertainingâ€ his future mother-in-law\n <br />\n and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4678'),
(1836, 'The Confession of Brother Haluin', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brother Cadfael and embarks on an arduous journey that leads to discoveries of deceit, betrayal, revenge . . . and murder. "Each addition to the series is a joy."--USA Today. HC: Mysterious Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(1837, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_Â is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11225'),
(1838, 'Confessions of a crap artist', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier. "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges." -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3766'),
(1839, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at yourÂ doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4842'),
(1840, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pagesâ€¦fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6778'),
(1841, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she''s never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London''s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season''s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can''t actually afford itâ€”not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn''t pay much at all. And lately Becky''s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bankâ€”letters with large red sums she can''t bear to readâ€”and they''re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky''s only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our timesâ€”and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood''s hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3733'),
(1842, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', 'Dyan Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola''s dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn''t about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola''s favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ? It''s all in a day''s work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\n </em>\n , Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola''s adventures. (Ages 12 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When native New Yorker Mary Elizabeth Cep and her "astoundingly unimaginative" family move to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth, who plans to be an actress some day, changes her name to Lola and zealously begins a campaign to enrich the "humdrum" lives of suburbanites. Unfortunately, Lola''s new classmates are not quite ready to receive her guidance. They are too busy worshipping their reigning "drama queen," snooty Carla Santini, who is not about to share the spotlight on- or offstage with anyone, especially a loudmouthed city slicker named Lola. Thus begins the war between Carla and Lola to be No. 1. Carla is armed with sophistication, beauty, confidence and an entourage of admirers. Lola, on the other hand, has only a handful of weapons: an overactive imagination, the lead role in the school play and one loyal friend, Ella, "a free spirit waitingAno, beggingAto be released." Energetic, almost breathless first-person narrative relates Lola''s bitter defeats and hard-earned triumphs in her rise to stardom at school. Pitting a deliciously despicable villainess against an irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm, Sheldon (The Boy of My Dreams) pulls off a hilarious comedy of errors. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7467'),
(1843, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.* Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s. *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone. Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve. He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business. In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/893'),
(1844, 'Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies From the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion', 'Judy Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For anyone planning eventsâ€”student, novice, or experienced professionalâ€”Confessions of an Event Planner is an â€œapprenticeship in a book.â€ This insiderâ€™s guide takes you on a narrative journey, following a fictional event planning company that stages various types of events around the world for many different clients.  Â Â Â Â  While other books, college courses, and training programs give you the theory and how-to of the profession, Confessions of an Event Planner reveals the real world of event planning and what can happenâ€”usually the unexpectedâ€”on an event program when actual participants are added to the event planning design and execution mix. In a climate of media scrutiny and corporate scandals, event planners must be masters of discretion, knowing how to avoid and deal with everything from sexual romps to financial shenanigans, to chainsaw wielding salesmen dead set on â€œre-landscapingâ€ the grounds of the resort theyâ€™re staying at. From an event planner whoâ€™s seen it all and knows how to deal with it all, comes practical first-hand advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible format.  Â Â Â Â  Each chapter is set in a unique location, with a cast of characters, and a host of challenges and problems to overcomeâ€”from the boardroom to the resort guest bedrooms. Readers learn what they can come up against, how to problem solve creatively on the fly, get ideas for staging spectacular events, and see the principles of event planning in action. The scenario in each chapter is introduced by an outline of what will be covered in the chapter, and each chapter concludes with a series of review questions to explore key issues and stimulate reflection or discussion for individuals or groups. Ideal as a companion to Judy Allenâ€™s six other event planning books, as a textbook in event planning courses, or as a professional training tool Confessions of an Event Planner prepares planners for what they can expect once they start working in the world of corporate and social event planning, and will help decision-makers set company policies, procedures and protocol and promoteÂ discussion about codes of conduct in the office and offsite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7230'),
(1845, 'The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 Pulitzer Prize)', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat''s Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August. The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10674'),
(1846, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Â Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3518'),
(1847, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva''s protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel''s past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le CarrÃ©, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6919'),
(1848, 'The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West', 'Kathleen Y&#39;Barbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia â€œGennieâ€ Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudentâ€“especially as sheâ€™s supposed to go back to New York and marry another man. As Gennie adapts to the rough-and-tumble world of 1880s Colorado, she must decide whether her future lies with the enigmatic Daniel Beck or back home with the life planned for her since birth. The question is whether Danielâ€™s pastâ€“and disgruntled miners bent on revengeâ€“will take that choice away from her.Â â€œThe Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper is a fast-paced story full of fun, action, drama, and love.â€â€“Mary Connealy, author of Calico Canyon, Petticoat Ranch, and Gingham MountainÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you loved Cathy Marie Hake, give yourself a treat with The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper.â€â€“Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River Series and One Perfect Day\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2680'),
(1849, 'Confronting Cyber-Bullying: What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences', 'Shaheen Shariff Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Any book entitled "Confronting Cyber-Bullying" would be welcomed eagerly by those to whom this volume is addressed...The subtitle - "What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences" - enhances that potential appeal...Shaheen Shariff''s book is not simply the only game in town at this still early stage; it also does something that has rarely been done in the field of cyber-law...timely and cogent scholarship...a most welcome innovation for those of us who savor the legal challenges of electronic and digital communication."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Robert O''Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, First Amendment\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "...an interesting overview of cyber-bullying from a legal perspective."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Matthew L. Newman, PsycCRITIQUES\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is directed to academics, educators, and government policy-makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies. There is a current policy vacuum relating to the extent of educators'' legal responsibilities to intervene when such expression takes place outside of school hours and school grounds on home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often targets of such expression. The author analyzes government and school responses by reviewing positivist paradigms. Her review of a range of legal frameworks and judicial decisions from constitutional, human rights, child protection, and tort law perspectives redirects attention to legally substantive and pluralistic approaches that can help schools balance student free expression, supervision, safety, and learning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10718'),
(1850, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8774'),
(1851, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.   Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.   In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2240');
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(1852, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3180'),
(1853, 'Conqueror', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Conqueror (The second book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter As the comet fills the sky over Britain and rumours of war coming from across the channel spread two young men accompany a lecherous bishop north to the ruins of the ancient Hadrian''s Wall to search for a man known only as ''the last Roman'' and the mysterious prophecy he keeps - the prophecy of Isolde. It is a prophecy that tells of an invasion by a North man and an empire that will last thousands of years, an empire of the Aryans. Stephen Baxter''s new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people who''s future is not yet locked as our past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11099'),
(1854, 'Conscious Eating', 'Cousens Md, Gabriel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10195'),
(1855, 'Conscious Eating: Second Edition', 'Gabriel Cousens &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is an internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, world peace worker, and physician of the soul. He is the world''s foremost physician promoting live food nutrition for physical health and spiritual growth. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969, and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973. As a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of rejuvenation, he specializes in the healing of many chronic degenerative diseases. To the healing process he also brings experience as a homeopathic physician (M.D. (H)), Diplomate in Ayurveda, family therapist, and live-food nutritionist. Dr. Cousens is also a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), a Rebbe who has received rabbinical initiation, a student of Ecstatic Kabbalah since 1986, a certified Senior Essene Teacher in the Kabbalistic tradition, a recognized Yogi, a four-year Sundancer adopted into the Lakota Nation, and the White Buffalo Spirit Dance Chief. He is the author of a number of titles, including "Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, Spiritual Nutrition, Depression-Free for Life, Creating Peace by Being Peace, "and" Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing," co-authored with David Wagner, the creator of the Tachyon process. Dr. Cousens presents seminars worldwide on many topics including health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, meditation, and spiritual awareness. Dr. Cousens founded and directs the Tree of Life Foundation, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, and Tree of Life Health Practice in Patagonia, Arizona. He is a frequent guest on popular radio talk shows, and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines on a number of health, nutrition, and social topics. Visit his website at www.treeoflife.nu.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6964'),
(1856, 'Consent to kill: a thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp finds himself directly in the line of fire in the latest riveting political thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn. For years, Mitch Rapp''s bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come. Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him. *Consent to Kill* takes listeners behind the headlines and catapults them to the front lines of the global war on terror. It sizzles "with inside information, military muscle, and CIA secrets" (Dan Brown). Vince Flynn mixes military technology with his exclusive knowledge of Washington politics to create a hero that Americans will wish existed outside the realm of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4185'),
(1857, 'Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster; James Moran; Andrew Cartmel; David Llewellyn; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3217'),
(1858, 'Conservatives Without Conscience', 'John W. Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **On the heels of his national bestseller *Worse Than Watergate*, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement** In *Conservatives Without Conscience*, John Dean places the conservative movementâ€™s inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3030'),
(1859, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6683'),
(1860, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1110'),
(1861, 'Considering Kate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Stanislaski Kimball came home to begin a new life. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful, dilapidated building she''d bought for her new dance school is Brody O''Connell, the frustrating and fascinating contractor she''s hired for the renovation. Brody knows Kate is the daughter of Natasha Stanislaski: pampered, perfect, and not at all the right woman for him. But he longs to make her his.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2624'),
(1862, 'Consort', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10399'),
(1863, 'Conspiracies', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson''s vigilante hero from the *New York Times *bestseller *The Tomb*, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It''s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted--and that few people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack''s been having vivid dreams that make him wonder whether he''s headed for a clash with his own past--maybe *The Tomb*''s evil rakoshi beasts aren''t through with him quite yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(1864, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring police lieutenant Eve Dallas. New York City''s most vulnerable citizens fall victim to a ruthless serial killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2372'),
(1865, 'A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss''s ambitious first novel,\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n , the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver''s father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn''t quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn''t give the idea much credence:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father''s unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior''s death and that of Weaver''s father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London''s financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss seems right at home in the world he''s created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver''s Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity.\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This remarkably accomplished first novel, by a young man still completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, has a great deal going on. It is at once a penetrating study of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency in early 18th-century London, a sympathetic look at the life of a Jew in that time and place and a vision of the struggle between the Bank of England and the upstart South Sea Company to become the repository of the nation''s fiscal faith. If all that sounds daunting, it is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer who had once abandoned his family, and virtually his faith, too, for a life on the fringes of criminal society as a kind of freelance bailiff who brings debtors to book for their creditors. When his uncherished father dies suddenly, however, and he has reason to suspect the apparent accident was actually murder, he plunges himself into a hunt for those responsible, and in the process changes his life. With his native cunning and his brawling skills, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled with the villainous Jonathan Wild, thief-taker par excellence, who has institutionalized criminal mayhem. He also becomes the pawn of some powerful financial giants lurking in the shadows (much like the corporate villains in contemporary thrillers), comes to suspect his glamorous cousin Miriam of actions unbecoming a lady and employs the wiles of his philosophical Scottish friend Elias to decode the mysterious ways of finance and the laws of probability. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. Agent, Liz Darhansoff. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8258'),
(1866, 'Conspirator', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers unfamiliar with Cherryh''s Foreigner series (most recently 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Deliverer\n  </em>\n  ) are likely to be somewhat at sea in this complex and sophisticated 10th installment, but those who persevere will be rewarded with a space opera where ideas are as important as action. This book continues chronicling the experience of Bren Cameron, who serves as the paidhi-aiji, the interpreter for human colonists stranded on the planet of the alien atevi. Cameron''s current concern is the spread of human technology, which has the potential to wreak havoc with the formal communication protocols the atevi rely on to maintain their societal structure. Cameron must engage in subtle diplomacy and political maneuvering while evading attempts on his life and keeping track of a headstrong young atevi nobleman. The lack of basic background may discourage new readers, but fans will be delighted.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   First in a brand-new\n   <em>\n    Foreigner\n   </em>\n   trilogy from Hugo Award winning author C. J. Cherryh.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association-and he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father''s rule. For Cajeiri is the first\n  <em>\n   ateva\n  </em>\n  youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar-yet so dangerously different-aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10889'),
(1867, 'The Constant Gardener: A Novel', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. Tessa is Justin''s opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest thing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle''s complacency.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband''s superiors; was she? It''s all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it''s "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le CarrÃ© symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note."\n</p>\n<p>\n The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le CarrÃ© has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up of its cutthroat intrigues and petty self-delusions is unbelievably good--or rather, believably so. This is global do-gooder satire on a literary par with Doris Lessing''s\n <em>\n  The Summer Before the Dark\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n But you want to know if\n <em>\n  The Constant Gardener\n </em>\n is as good as\n <em>\n  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\n </em>\n . Very nearly. Africa''s nightmare is more complex than the cold war chess match, and the world pharmaceutical circus is tougher to dramatize than the old spy-versus-spy-versus-spymaster game. Still, le CarrÃ© can write a smart, melancholy page-turner, and his moral outrage (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world seems to move ever further beyond the comparatively clear-cut choices of the Cold War into a moral morass in which greed and cynicism seem the prime movers, le Carr ''s work has become increasingly radical, and this is by far his most passionately angry novel yet. Its premise is similar to that of Michael Palmer''s Miracle CureDcynical pharmaceutical firm allied with devious doctors attempts to foist on the world a flawed but potentially hugely profitable drugDbut the difference is in the setting and the treatment. Le Carr has placed the prime action in Africa, where the drug is being surreptitiously tested on poor villagers. Tessa Quayle, married to a member of the British High Commission staff in corruption-riddled contemporary Kenya, gets wind of it and tries in vain to blow the whistle on the manufacturer and its smarmy African distributor. She is killed for her pains. At this point Justin Quayle, her older, gentlemanly husband, sets out to find out who killed her, and to stop the dangerous drug himselfDat a terrible cost. Le Carr ''s manifold skills at scene-setting and creating a range of fearsomely convincing English characters, from the bluffly absurd to the irredeemably corrupt, are at their smooth peak here. Both The Tailor of Panama and Single &amp; Single were feeling their way toward this wholehearted assault on the way the world works, by a man who knows much better than most novelists writing today how it works. Now subject and style are one, and the result is heart-wrenching. (Jan. 9) Forecast: Admirers of the author who may have found some of the moral ambiguities and overelaborate set pieces of his last two books less than top-drawer le Carr will welcome a return to his best form. There is a wonderfully charismatic and idealistic heroine, which will bolster female readership, and the appearance of the book shortly after the release of a movie of Tailor (starring Jamie Lee Curtis) is bound to create an extra rush of media attention. Be prepared for the biggest le Carr sales in years.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11066'),
(1868, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(1869, 'Contagious', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the acclaimed author of *Infected* comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanityâ€™s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the diseaseâ€™s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nationâ€™s best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if theyâ€™re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors. These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but thatâ€™s not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat â€” one that comes from a most unexpected source â€” may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.Catapulting the reader into a world where humanityâ€™s life span is measured in hours and the presidentâ€™s finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. *Contagious* is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3434'),
(1870, 'Containment', 'Christian Cantrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(1871, 'Contamination', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The U.S.S. Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship''s science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science''s greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation''s highest honors for their achievements in scientific research. Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship''s science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7256'),
(1872, 'Contents', 'Chuck Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9173'),
(1873, 'Continental Contract', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(1874, 'Contract With God', 'Juan Gomez Jurado', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The discovery of a fragment of an ancient map leads Anthony Fowler, priest, CIA operative and member of the Holy Alliance, into an expedition in search of one of the most powerful ancient treasures of all.Anthony Fowler pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man''s true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn''t the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group - and he''s patiently awaiting the moment to strike...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2316'),
(1875, 'Contrarywise', 'Zohra Greenhalgh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, trouble follows. Trouble of a most peculiar nature. Advertising in Locus and American Fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7548'),
(1876, 'Conundrum', 'Jeff Crook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9478'),
(1877, 'The Convalescent', 'Anthony, Jessica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(1878, 'The Convenient Marriage', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [T]horoughly enjoyable... I would read this book over 90% of the romances being published today. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090522)\n</p>\n<p>\n A\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n is an amusing romp through Regency England and sure to win your heart. (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE was just a wonderful book. I thought the storyline in this novel was extremely creative. (Julie Peterson\n <em>\n  Booking Mama\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n I also just love the way Heyer writes. She takes us straight back to Regency England and I can feel it in the prose as well as in the historical details. (Meghan Kawka\n <em>\n  Medieval Bookworm\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n The story is funny and the characters are easy to love. (Carrie Zimmerman\n <em>\n  The Book Girl\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n The atmosphere of The\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n --much like Heyer''s other novels--is so rich, so detailed, so luxuriously drawn. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was immediately taken with the premise of this story, and I liked the way that Heyer jumped right into the action. (Nicole Bonia\n <em>\n  LInus'' Blanket\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n [T]his book is the epitome of a comically charming period romance. (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one of those books that you read and think to yourself ''Now why aren''t men really like that?'' Of course there is no shortage of Heyer''s wit and charm. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090622)\n</p>\n<p>\n If you are a fan of Jane Austen type romances - and haven''t yet tried Georgette Heyer - pick this one up soon. (Kristi Herbrand\n <em>\n  Books and Needlepoint\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n is certainly a fun and entertaining read that allows fans of Regency books to get a glimpse of what life was like prior to the Regency era. (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n What a fun, light, and sweet read this was. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm 07\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n a fantastic little historical fiction romp through England... (Heather Fargis\n <em>\n  A Hidden Place\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n For those who are sorely disappointed that Jane Austen''s novels stop at 6, Georgette Heyer''s Regency stories will happily salve the hurt. (Sarah Dollacker\n <em>\n  Red Room Library\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family\n </em>\n <br />\n When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family''s happiness. Everyone knows she''s no beauty, but she''ll do her best to keep out of the Earl''s way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl''s archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants\n </em>\n <br />\n Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There''s simply no way he''s going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia''s harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n WHAT READERS SAY:\n <br />\n "I couldn''t put it down, and I couldn''t stop laughing!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story is brilliant, and the characters are easy to fall in love with."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve read every novel by Georgette Heyer... this is definitely one of her best... very original and funny."\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of Georgette Heyer''s more intriguing tales."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Horry is an adorable imp while Rule in the best ''Heyerian'' tradition is a rogue turned lovely and you don''t know whether to hit him or kiss him! This is a wonderful book and is one that will be read over and over again."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090501)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10214'),
(1879, 'Conviction', 'Tom Clancy &amp; David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell(r) operative.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6470'),
(1880, 'The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy', 'Iain Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After seeing his father hauled off to debtorâ€™s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familyâ€™s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureâ€”and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemenâ€™s Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom canâ€™t abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if heâ€™s to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I begin my adventure\n</p>\n<p>\n When she was six and I was eight, my little sister, Kitty, died. She fell from a bridge, into the Thames, and drowned before anyone could reach her. My mother was there when it happened. She heard a scream and turned to see my sister spinning through the air. She watched Kitty vanish into the eddies of brown water, and in that instant my mother''s mind unhinged.\n <br />\n She put on mourning clothes of the blackest black and hid herself from head to toe, like a beetle in a shell. As the sun went up, as the sun went down, she stood over Kitty''s grave. Her veils aflutter in the wind, her shawls drooping in the rain, she became a phantom of the churchyard, a figure feared by children. Even I, who had known her all my life, never ventured near the place when the yellow fogs of autumn came swirling round the headstones.\n <br />\n It was a day such as that, an autumn day, when my father had to drag her from my sister''s grave. The fog was thick and putrid, like a vile custard poured among the tombstones. From the iron gate at the street I couldn''t see as far as the church. But I saw the crosses and the marble angels, some distinct, some like shadows, and my father among them, as though battling with a demon. I heard my mother wailing.\n <br />\n Her boots were black, her bonnets black, and the rippling of her clothes made her look more like a beast than a person. She shrieked and fought against him, clinging to the headstone, clawing at the earth. When at last my father brought her through the gate, she was howling like a dog. In her hand was a fistful of dirt. She looked at it, and fainted dead away.\n <br />\n We lifted her into the cart, among the bundles and the chests that represented all our goods. The drayman climbed to his seat. He cracked his whip and swore at his horse, and off we started for Camden Town.\n <br />\n I walked beside my father as we passed our empty house and turned toward the bridge. By chance, the drayman chose the same route that Father took every morning on his useless treks to the Admiralty. I saw him look up at the house, then down at the ground, and we went along in silence. Only a few feet before me, the cart was no more than a gray shape. It seemed to be pulled by an invisible horse that snorted and wheezed as it clopped on the paving stones. My mother woke and sat keening on the cart.\n <br />\n We were nearly at the river before my father spoke. "This is for her own good," he said. "You know that, Tom."\n <br />\n "Yes," I said, though it wasn''t true. We were not leaving Surrey for my mother''s sake, but only to save the two pennies my father spent crossing the bridge every day. We were leaving because Mr. Goodfellow had driven us away, just as he had driven us from a larger house not a year before. I believed he would haunt us forever, chasing us from one shrinking home to the next, until he saw us out on the streets with the beggars and the blind. We were leaving Surrey because my father was a sailor without a ship.\n <br />\n He didn''t walk like a sailor anymore. He didn''t look like one, nor even smell like one, and I wouldn''t have believed he had ever been a sailor if it weren''t for the threadbare uniform he donned every morning, and for the bits of sailory knickknack that had once filled our house but now were nearly gone. In all my life I had watched him sailing out to sea only once, and then in a thing so woeful that it sank before he reached the Medway. That, too, had been Mr. Goodfellow''s doing; that had been the start of it.\n <br />\n When we reached the timber wharfs at the foot of the bridge I could feel the Thames close at hand. Foghorns hooted and moaned, and there came the thumping of a steamboat as it thrashed its way along the river. But I couldn''t smell the water; the stench of the fog hid even that.\n <br />\n We paid our toll and started over the bridge. Father walked at the very edge, his sleeve smearing the soot that had fallen on the rail. Horses and carriages appeared before us, and a cabriolet came rattling up from behind. I had to dodge around people, and step nimbly from a curricle''s path, but my father walked straight ahead with a mind only for the river below us. Ladies on the benches drew in their feet as he passed. One snatched up a little white dog. A man shouted, "Watch where you''re walking." But Father just brushed by them all.\n <br />\n I imagined that he could somehow see the water, and all the life upon it. Sounds that drifted up to me as mere groans and puzzling splashes must, to him, have been visions of boatsmen and bargemen, of oars and sails at work. His head rose; his shoulders straightened for a moment.\n <br />\n I had no wish to know his world, though I had been born by the banks of the Thames, where the river met the sea. We''d left the village before I was two, at the wishes of my mother. The river had taken her father, and the sea had taken her brothers, and ever since my sister''s death she''d taught me to fear them both. I often thought--when I saw the Thames swirling by--that one or the other was waiting to take me too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7788'),
(1881, 'Convincing Alex', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McKnee, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfect - for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2642'),
(1882, 'Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes', 'Lifetime Television', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lose weight without losing your mind! *Cook Yourself Thin* is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste. For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won''t leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! *Cook Yourself Thin* shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love. *Cook Yourself Thin* is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can''t live without your chocolate cake or mac ''n'' cheese? You don''t have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There''s never enough time to cook? *Cook Yourself Thin* keeps it simpleâ”€with easy instructions and fun recipes you''ll want to make again and again. What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2270'),
(1883, 'The Cook&#39;s Illustrated How-to-Cook Library', 'The Editors of Cooks Illustrated', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This very special Kindle collection covers all the culinary ground, from barbecue, grilling, garden vegetables, holiday roasts, potatoes, soups, stews, stir-fries, pasta sauces, pizza, appetizers, salads, shrimp and shellfish, to pies, layer cakes, cookies and brownies, holiday desserts, ice cream, simple fruit desserts, and lots more. It''s all you really need in the kitchen and it all sits nice and handy on a Kindle as well. Now your own definitive recipe collection is portable and easy to access, the perfect helper in the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4204');
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(1884, 'A Cook&#39;s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cook''s Tour\n </em>\n is the written record of Anthony Bourdain''s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of __ as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep''s testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California''s Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined\n <em>\n  kaiseki\n </em>\n rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don''t-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.\n</p>\n<p>\n You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living.\n <em>\n  --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in search of the perfect meal: the Sputnik-era kitchen of a "less-than-diminutive" St. Petersburg matron, the provincial farmhouse of a Portuguese pig-slaughterer and the middle of the Moroccan desert, where he dines on "crispy, veiny" lamb testicles. Searching for the "perfect meal," Bourdain writes with humor and intelligence, describing meals of boudin noir and Vietnamese hot vin lon ("essentially a soft-boiled duck embryo") and ''fessing up to a few nights of over-indulgence ("I felt like I''d awakened under a collapsed building," he writes of a night in San Sebastian hopping from tapas bar to tapas bar). Goat''s head soup, lemongrass tripe, and pork-blood cake all make appearances, as does less exotic fare, such as French fries and Mars bars (deep fried, but still). In between meals, Bourdain lets his readers in on the surprises and fears of a well-fed American voyaging to far-off, frugal places, where every part of an animal that can be eaten must be eaten, and the need to preserve food has fueled culinary innovation for centuries. He also reminds his audience of the connections between food and land and human toil, which, in these sterilized days of pre-wrapped sausages, is all too easy to forget.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7372'),
(1885, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down." way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences. And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne. Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1765'),
(1886, 'Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food', 'Jeff Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it''s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?\n</p>\n<p>\n More than just a cookbook,\n <em>\n  Cooking for Geeks\n </em>\n applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don''t consider yourself a geek.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist HervÃ© This, and xkcd\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Cooking for Geeks\n  </em>\n  : Butternut Squash Soup\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n PurÃ©e in a food processor or with an immersion blender:\n <br />\n 2 cups (660g) butternut squash, peeled, cubed, and roasted (about 1 medium squash)\n <br />\n 2 cups (470g) chicken, turkey, or vegetable stock\n <br />\n 1 small (130g) yellow onion, diced and sautÃ©ed\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (1g) salt (adjust to taste)\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The weights are for the prepared ingredients and only rough suggestions. So, prepare each item individually. For example, for the squash, peel it, then coat it with olive oil, sprinkle it with salt, and roast it in the oven at a temperature around 400â€“425 F / 200â€“220 C until it begins to brown. When you go to purÃ©e the ingredients, hold back some of the squash and some of the stock, taste the purÃ©e, and see which you think it needs. Want it thicker? Add more squash. Thinner? Add more stock.\n </li>\n <li>\n  This soup by itself is very basic. Garnish with whatever else you have on hand that you think might go well, such as garlic croutons and bacon. Or top with a small dab of cream, some toasted walnuts, and dried cranberries to give it a feeling of Thanksgiving. How about a teaspoon of maple syrup, a few thin slices of beef, and some fresh oregano? Chives, sour cream, and cheddar cheese? Why not! Instead of purchasing items to follow a recipe exactly, try using leftover ingredients from other meals to complement the squash soup.\n </li>\n <li>\n  If youâ€™re in a rush, you can â€œjump-startâ€ the squash by microwaving it first. Peel and quarter the squash, using a spoon to scoop out the seeds. Then, cube it into 1â€“2â€ / 3â€“5 cm pieces, drop it into a glass baking pan thatâ€™s both oven and microwave safe, and nuke it for four to five minutes to partially heat the mass. Remove from microwave, coat the squash with olive oil and a light sprinkling of salt, and roast it in a preheated oven until done, about 20 to 30 minutes. If youâ€™re not in a rush, you can skip the peeling step entirely: cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, add oil and salt, roast it for about an hour (until the flesh is soft), and use a spoon to scoop it out.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pumpkin Cake\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are two broad types of cake batters: high- ratio cakes--those that have more sugar and water than flour (or by some definitions, just a lot of sugar)--and low-ratio cakesâ€”which tend to have coarser crumbs. For high-ratio cakes, there should be more sugar than flour (by weight) and more eggs than fats (again, by weight), and the liquid mass (eggs, milk, water) should be heavier than the sugar.\n</p>\n<p>\n Consider this pumpkin cake, which is a high-ratio cake (245g of pumpkin contains 220g of water--you can look these sorts of things up in the USDA National Nutrient Database, available online at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/).\n</p>\n<p>\n In a mixing bowl, measure out and then mix with an electric mixer to thoroughly combine:\n <br />\n 1 cup (245g) pumpkin (canned, or roast and puree your own)\n <br />\n 1 cup (200g) sugar\n <br />\n 3/4 cup (160g) canola oil\n <br />\n 2 large (120g) eggs\n <br />\n 1 1/2 cups (180g) flour\n <br />\n 1/4 cup (40g) raisins\n <br />\n 2 teaspoons (5g) cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon (5g) baking powder\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (5g) baking soda\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (3g) salt\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (2g) vanilla extract\n</p>\n<p>\n Transfer to a greased cake pan or spring form and bake in an oven preheated to 350 F / 175 C until a toothpick comes out dry, about 20 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Try adding dried pears soaked in brandy. You can also hold back some of the raisins and sprinkle them on top.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One nice thing about high-ratio cakes is that they donâ€™t have much gluten, so they wonâ€™t turn out like bread, even with excessive beating. With a total weight of 920 grams, of which only roughly 20 grams is gluten, there just isnâ€™t enough gluten present in this cake to give it a bread-like texture. Thereâ€™s also a fair amount of both sugar and fats to interfere with gluten development.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. He studied computer science and visual art at Brown University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6946'),
(1887, 'Cooking Up Murder', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common-except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables. But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man-a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot. Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she''s hiding, before someone else''s goose-perhaps one of their own-gets cooked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2688'),
(1888, 'Cooking Well: Osteoporosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Building Strong Bones', 'Marie-Annick Courtier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Can a healthy diet prevent Osteoporosis or make a difference in the health of patients whom already have developed the disease? "In a word, yes. An estimation of 44 million Americans are at risk for Osteoporosis today. The disease eventually affects 1 out of every 2 women and 1 out of every 5 men, which is expected to double in the next 25years. Most physicians encourage not only an active lifestyle, but also a balanced diet to help strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Indeed, people with Osteoporosis often reportconsiderable improvement in their well-being after changing their eating habits. "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" features over 100 recipes designed to improve dailyfunctioning and aid in the treatment of this disease. The book also features: * An overview on how to live with osteoporosis* A list of foods to avoid* A meal diary andchecklist to track your progress All recipes and meals in the "Cooking Well" series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, Chef Marie-AnnickCourtier, and "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" is an invaluable resource for your nutritional healing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6970'),
(1889, 'Cool Hand Luke', 'Donn Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pearce''s 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts'' mythology of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4939'),
(1890, 'A Cool Head', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "My dad used to say to me, ''Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart''. At least I think it was my dad. I don''t really remember him." Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn''t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy''s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Rankin is a regular No.1 bestseller, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diamond Dagger. He lives with his family in Edinburgh, and in 2003 received an OBE for his services to literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8548'),
(1891, 'Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting', 'Michael Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of\n   <em>\n    Truck: A Love Story\n   </em>\n   gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhoodâ€”his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farmâ€”for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he''s not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of\n  <em>\n   Being and Nothingness\n  </em>\n  ").\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it''s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"),\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud,\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Marshaling Memories by Mike Perry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In forming a recollection of that compelling moment when I laid my tongue upon a frozen hammerhead--an act some forty years past--I trust my memory completely. I give this trust based on the electric clarity with which I can resurrect the physical sensation of my taste buds tacking themselves to the subzero steel with a merciless subcellular crinkle. I see no need to verify this reminiscence by licking additional frozen hammers. Still, memory is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and therefore, whenever possible, I rummage around for verification. Sometimes it is as simple as calling Mom. When you took my brother Jud to the Frost-Top Drive-In on his first day with the family after the social worker dropped him off, did he (as I recall) really eat his hamburger, wrapper and all? He ate the wrapper, says Mom, but it was a\n  <em>\n   hot dog\n  </em>\n  . And so the correction is made.* In other instances the verification is archival. Seeming to remember that I experienced my first religious conversion after a spate of bad behavior in third grade, I traveled to the grade school of my childhood and was allowed to rummage through a box in the subterranean boiler room until I found my third grade report cards. The following excerpt served as evidence that yes, the third grade me was in need of spiritual improvement. Also, my third grade teacher wasnâ€™t a top hand with the typewriter:\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Work Habits: Continues to Waste Time. Mike appears to belligerentwhen asked to get to work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  In other cases we strive not for verification but elicitation. In looking at the first photo on the right I can recall what it was like to be a shirtless farm boy in the sun; the straw-like smell of the stubble and how it pricked the soles of my bare feet; and, out of the blue, an unexpected emotional wallop as I recognize my motherâ€™s handwriting and realize that the evocation of a person hardly requires their likeness. Literal traces will do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sometimes--and I am not speaking here of fabrication--we must construct memories we never retained. Poorly-lit as it is, the secpnd photo tells me much about my world as it was on my third day of life: that my father was the type of man who would grab a sheet of discarded stock from the paper mill of his employment and fashion a sign to welcome his wife and firstborn son home from the hospital; that the big ship painting currently hanging upstairs in my parents farmhouse has been in the family since the beginning; and finally (this required close study until I made out the rocking chair in the shadows, and further realized that the two strips of shininess visible toward the right side of the piano were reflected from the gilded pages of two bibles), I was able to conjure the week-old me, safe in my motherâ€™s arms, the Word of God close at hand, belief and unbelief yet to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *_The question of Mom as unreliable narrator is not to be raised. Shame on you._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perry (_Population: 485_) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife, daughters and titular menagerie of livestock (who are fascinating, exasperating personalities in their own right). But these luminous pieces meander back to his childhood on the hardscrabble Wisconsin dairy farm where his parents, members of a tiny fundamentalist Christian sect, raised him and dozens of siblings and foster-siblings, many of them disabled. Perry''s latter-day story is a lifestyle-farming comedy, as he juggles freelance writing assignments with the feedings, chores and construction projects that he hopes will lend him some mud-spattered authenticity. Woven through are tender, uncloying recollections of the homespun virtues of his family and community, from which sprout lessons on the labors and rewards of nurturance (and the occasional need to slaughter what you''ve nurtured). Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentenceâ€”One of the [chickens] stretches, one leg and one wing back in the manner of a ballet dancer warming up before the barreâ€”and you''ll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6925'),
(1892, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it''s different. It''s a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there''s also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever!   Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2944'),
(1893, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(1894, 'The Corfu trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(1895, 'The Corinthian', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n remains one of my favorite Georgette Heyer books... a treat and a keeper. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090612)\n</p>\n<p>\n hilarious, imaginative, witty, and compelling. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090626)\n</p>\n<p>\n I enjoyed myself while reading this fast-paced romp... delightful. (Ms. Place\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090701)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n is a light-hearted comedy of manners... This is one Heyer I''ll be revisiting soon. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n 20090701)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a delightfully fun and adventurous romance full of laugh-out-loud moments. (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n Rolicking fun in the form of a Regency-style road trip with romance and intrigue, terrific characters and witty dialogue. (Nancy Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n 20090708)\n</p>\n<p>\n I adored this book. I adore Heyer. I want to go out and gobble up everything she ever wrote and I will. Slowly and deliciously. (Heather Fargis\n <em>\n  A Hidden Place\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer was at the top of her game with The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n ... it is one of her best adventure/romances. (Sharon Goforth\n <em>\n  Ex Libris\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fascinating... a very enjoyable read. (Jessica West\n <em>\n  The Curious Reader\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n is a wonderful book... a must read on a rainy day. (Shana Haynes\n <em>\n  Books-are-Life Reviews\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n This one is playful and fun. There''s some adventure thrown in as well--and a murder!--but at it''s heart this is a romantic comedy. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n Superbly written, with an undercurrent of humor throughout, THE CORINTHIAN is a sheer joy to read. (Camellia\n <em>\n  The Long and Short of It Reviews\n </em>\n 20090825)\n</p>\n<p>\n Part road romance and all romp, this delicious comedy of manners is filled with adventure and fun, and Heyer''s superb wit and humor, Once you begin this page-turning delight, you will not be able to put it down! (Deborah Hosey\n <em>\n  The Romance Readers Connection\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n [T]he writing is good, the subtle romance is sweet, the adventure is fun. (Ana Grilo\n <em>\n  The Book Smugglers\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Georgette Heyer presents her sparkling wit with a Shakespearean twist.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Walking home at dawn, quite drunk, Sir Richard Wyndham encounters heiress Penelope Creed climbing out her window. She is running away from a dreaded marriage to her fish-lipped cousin, while Sir Richard himself is contemplating a loveless marriage with a woman his friends have compared to a cold poultice. Sir Richard can''t allow her to careen about the countryside unchaperoned, even in the guise of a boy, so he pretends to be her tutor and takes her on a fine adventure. When their stagecoach overturns, they find themselves embroiled with thieves, at the center of a murder investigation, and finally, in love.\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090526)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10212'),
(1896, 'Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing', 'Sonny Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this â€œmostly trueâ€ novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a man and his dog.Cormac, a golden retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes, runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. His owner, meanwhile, devastated by Cormacâ€™s disappearance and trying to juggle a family, a book tour, and writing his new novel, becomes determined to solve the â€œdog-nappingâ€ case. With the help of the local veterinarian, bookstore colleagues, animal rescue employees, and old friends, he picks up on Cormacâ€™s trail and watches his small-town community come together in search of his lost companion.Inspired by real events, and embellished only to serve the story through the spirit of imagination, Brewer has, as he says, â€œmainly told the truth in this story of losing my good dog Cormac.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3791'),
(1897, 'The Cornish Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Megaera''s father sold her in marriage at fifteen to Edward Devoran. Edward''s extravagance mortgaged her estates and induced him to join a band of smugglers. Meg paid the interest by selling her jewels and when they were gone-Edward was gone too, murdered by his partner Black Bart. Meg became the smuggler Red Meg, took Edward''s place and Edward''s profits and kept paying her mortgages. Philip St. Eyre wanted to fight Napoleon. Raised as a Frenchman and able to pass as French, he was the perfect spy and had a way to reach France through his father''s old friend, the smuggler Pierre. Thus Philip met Red Meg and fell in love. Meg thought Philip was Pierre''s by-blow, Philip thought Meg was a common smuggler. To both gently born lovers the match was impossible. Until Black Bart tried to murder Meg, and Philip had to take her to France where her handiness with a pistol saved his life and his mission and exposed all their secrets. Publisher Note: The book was previously published elsewhere in 1981.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3799'),
(1898, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Franzen''s exhilarating novel\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler''s, only bitter. Franzen''s great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody''s lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip''s sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen''s satirical eye:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York; St. Jude; Philadelphia; Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinson''s-induced dementia; Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas; Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly; and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast: Franzen has always been a writer''s writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales haven''t yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSG''s publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5358'),
(1899, 'The Cosmic Rape', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10483'),
(1900, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(1901, 'Cotillion', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew--provided she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly adverse to the plan,\n <em>\n  if\n </em>\n the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake, who seems to have no inclination to marry her anytime soon. In an effort to make Jack jealous,\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n to see a little more of the world than her isolated life on her great-uncle''s estate has afforded her, Kitty devises a plan. She convinces yet another of her cousins, the honorable Freddy Standen, to pretend to be engaged to her. Her plan would bring her to London on a visit to Freddy''s family and (hopefully) render the elusive Mr. Westruther madly jealous. Thus begins\n <em>\n  Cotillion\n </em>\n , arguably the funniest, most charming of Georgette Heyer''s many delightful Regency romances.\n</p>\n<p>\n No sooner does Kitty arrive in London than she becomes embroiled in the romantic difficulties of several new acquaintances. Kitty''s French cousin, Camille, a professional gambler, has won the heart of her new friend, Olivia--who also happens to be the object of Jack Westruther''s dishonorable intentions. Meanwhile, Kitty''s doltish cousin Lord Dolphinton has fallen in love with a merchant''s daughter who''s embattled with his mother and needs his help. Finally, there is Kitty herself, who begins to wonder if the dandified Freddy might not be the man for her after all. As in all of Georgette Heyer''s books,\n <em>\n  Cotillion\n </em>\n transcends genre--it is, quite simply, wonderful literature. Historically accurate down to the finest details of dress, deportment, and speech, Heyer was also a master at creating unforgettable, comic characters, and Kitty Charing and Freddy Standen stand out as one of her most charming romantic duos ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Miss Catherine Charing is in a difficult situation. Her irascible and eccentric guardian, Mr. Matthew Penicuik, will bestow his entire fortune on her only if she will marry one of his great-nephews, not a choice lot. The Rev. Hugh Rattney is a self-righteous prig; Capt. Claud Rattney is a well-known rake; Lord Dolphinton is none too bright and frightened to death of his Mama; the Honorable Frederick Standon is a useless fribble; and Kitty''s hero, Capt. Jack Westruther, resisting Uncle Matthew''s tyrannical ways, has refused to even show up. If Kitty does not accept one of them, she will be penniless and homeless. Driven to folly by these circumstances, she attempts to flee to London to find a position as a governess. Heyer''s characterizations are at their sharpest as her people change and grow in unexpected directions. The book is a joy to listen to, as Phyllida Nash manages to keep the complicated cast of characters both separate and equal. Highly recommended for all public library collections where romance or the author''s works are popular.ABarbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10154'),
(1902, 'A Cotswold Mystery', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With beautiful descriptions of the countryside, this excellent thriller marks a compulsive new series of rural adventures. --Good Book Guide\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client''s mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soon arousing Thea''s suspicion. After all, why do the Montgomery''s lock her connecting door to the house? And why do they set an alarm that goes off every time Granny goes out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea''s concerns, however, soon turn to something more sinister when the arrival of her daughter, trainee policewoman Jessica, prompts the discovery of a body. Slowly the secrets of Blockley begin to unravel themselves to the Osborne women, but nothing in the village is quite what it seems. Up against the clock to try and solve another murder, with the added complications of her elderly charge, her daughter''s career troubles and her deepening relationship with DI Phil Hollis, Thea is beginning to feel well and truly lost in the Cotswolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7759'),
(1903, 'The Cottage', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This "cottage" is actually the huge estate of fading movie star Cooper Winslow, who is so down on his luck that he must rent a part of it to make ends meet. But the two fellows who move in introduce Coop to something completely different friendship and of course in the offing there''s the promise of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â„¢In her fifty-fourth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n . Modeled after the â€œcottagesâ€ of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywoodâ€™s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. Heâ€™s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy Oâ€™Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Markâ€™s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Markâ€™s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.\n</p>\n<p>\n But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered worldâ€”a world that is becoming more and more unpredictable with each passing day.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coopâ€™s budding romance with a wealthy debutante....A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news....A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates....And in the midst of it all,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coopâ€™s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslowâ€“ loner, bachelor, movie starâ€“may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances...of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5992'),
(1904, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America. This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(1905, 'Count Brass', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 14th and final volume in the classic epic fantasy sequence : The Eternal Champion Michael Moorcock''s epic novels of the fantastic are classics of the genre that appeal to all ages and walks of life. From the earliest pulp novels of the 60''s to the award winning MOTHER LONDON he has earned wide critical acclaim. COUNT BRASS, the concluding volume of the tale of the eternal champion, makes the fearsome journey to Tanelorn in search of resolution. The avatar of the champion - Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon and Erekose must pool their talents in order to bring about the conjunction of the million spheres.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9838');
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(1906, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&amp;N)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Dashing young Edmond DantÃ¨s has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years.The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including DantÃ¨sâ€™s miraculous escape from prison, his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure, and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristoâ€”a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8433'),
(1907, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged Penguin)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This enduringly popular tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemies and arrested on trumped-up charges. Condemned to lifelong imprisonment, he befriends Faria, a priest and fellow inmate with an escape plan. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes alone. Free at last, and incredibly wealthy, Edmond enters society posing as the Count of Monte Cristo to reclaim his lost love and enact a terrible vengeance on his accusers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English (translation)\n <br />\n Original Language: French\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8434'),
(1908, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas; Robin Buss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumasâ€™ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(1909, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting.Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected.But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whomaren''t remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unpreparedfor what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo onthe Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. Untilhe meets the angel. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4173'),
(1910, 'Countdown', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific bestseller Johansen subjects gutsy Jane Maguire to more troubles in her latest thrill ride. Jane, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, was threatened by one serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n and another in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n , so it''s no surprise that she''s in danger again. The once troubled adolescent is now a brilliant Harvard student and talented artist who spends her summers at far-off archeological digs in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but she''s still haunted by her resemblance to Cira, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago in the latter city. Suddenly she''s being ambushed in alleys. Does the attempted kidnapping have something to do with\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n ''s climax, in which Eve; her husband, Joe Quinn of the Atlanta PD; soldier of fortune Mark Trevor; and Jane, the bait, triumphed over the psychopath who was killing women who looked like Cira? You bet it does, as Trevor turns up in Cambridge, enigmatic but still definitely magnetic, determined to protect Jane from danger due to new developments regarding Cira, "the femme fatale of the ancient world." Seems all kinds of notorious criminals are after Cira''s lost gold, but some people have mass murder on their minds. Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrea Cirillo at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire''s life. In\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n [BKL Ag 04], the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer''s pawn. Now she''s a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure. When one of Jane''s childhood friends is killed, she realizes that she must find out why, especially when, as before, Scotland Yard''s handsome Mark Trevor becomes involved. He has tried to keep Jane out of his latest escapade, but he swoops in to the rescue, bringing her to Scotland to keep her safe. Never completely on the right side of the law, Jane questions Trevor''s motives while trying to keep in check the sexual tension between them as they try to quell a deranged madman who is after Trevor and the lost treasure. Along the way, Jane discovers that many people are trying to find the truth about Cira, and that Jane herself is perceived as the reincarnation of that fabled Roman figure. Johansen delivers a top-notch sequel filled with great chases, original characters, and intricate plot twists, creating a unique supernatural twist on the classic thriller.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5859'),
(1911, 'Countdown: The Liberators', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure. Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader''s son and heir has been kidnapped. We don''t know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object." And then old soldiers--sailors and airmen, too--stop fading away and come back intosharpfocus. "Kratman''s dystopia [inCaliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. he''s a professional military man . . . so he''s certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book." --Mark Steyn,Maclean''s Magazine "Kratman''s written the future [inCaliphate], and it''s scary." --John Ringo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5757'),
(1912, 'Counter-Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dickâ€™s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phaseâ€“a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, â€œGood-bye,â€ and part with, â€œHello,â€ and underneath the worldâ€™s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6557'),
(1913, 'The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Alcorn''s uneven third Norman de Ratour mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  ), Norman, the Museum of Man''s director and the book''s bloviating narrator, discovers a murdered man in a parked car near the museum, located in the New England town of Seaboard. Unfortunately, the victim is honorary numismatics curator Heinrich Heinie von GrÃ¼mh, a wealthy MOM contributor. Worse, Heinie turns out to have been shot with Norman''s revolver, making him a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Norman must find a new home for a highly articulate chimp, fend off neighboring Wainscott University''s efforts to take over the MOM, and look into whether the antique coins Heinie gave the museum are fakes. Alcorn''s barbed darts at academia and the rarified world of top-notch museums amuse, but humor alone isn''t enough to redeem a rambling tale of wavering morals populated by mostly unattractive characters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Before one can do justice to Alfred Alcorn''s third Norman de Ratour mystery novel, it helps to haul out such adjectives as smart, sharp, fresh, sly, wise, original , and wildly funny. Alcorn can keep a story moving with the swiftness of a dirty look and the brilliance of a fine satire. Set in a mythical academic institution (read Harvard)Â  lucky readers of this novel will meet and get to know characters they won''t soon forget--especially Alphus , the most memorable of contemporary philosophers."\n  <br />\n  â€” Anne Bernays\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution. . . . A stylish, fiendish detective story.â€ â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn adroit, hilarious send-up.â€ â€”The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will be choked with laughter.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Sunday Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelicious details on every page.â€ â€”_ The Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSly and spicy from start to finish . . . a just-right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4423'),
(1914, 'Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for *The New Yorker*, acquired his Chinese driver''s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average peopleâ€”farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneursâ€”who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. *Country Driving* begins with Hessler''s 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital''s auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom *The Wall Street Journal* calls "one of the Western world''s most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3700'),
(1915, 'The coup', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3146'),
(1916, 'The Courage Tree', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you start your novel with a terminally ill child and a last-chance herbal remedy, chances are you''ve got a story. If you have the terminally ill child survive a car accident and become lost in the remote West Virginia woods you''ve got some stressful reading. If, for kicks, you put a psychopathic murderer in the woods, you''ve got Diane Chamberlain''s nail-biting drama\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n . Sophie Donohue is the wise-beyond-her-years child. Janine is the mother wolf who courageously admits her child into the clinical trial of a new medicine against the advice of her ex-husband, Joe, and her cynical parents. Lucas Trowell is the\n <em>\n  literally\n </em>\n tree-hugging love interest who supports Janine. Chamberlain knows how to place her characters in internal and external conflicts, and there are rich subplots for each character, though the abundance and timing of them can detract from the central drama. Even with its faults,\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n will lure you in and keep you reading late into the night._--Nancy R.E. O''Brien_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A race against time to find a sick child lost in the West Virginia wilderness keeps pages turning in this suspenseful family drama by former psychotherapist Chamberlain (Breaking the Silence). Janine Donohue lives with her eight-year-old daughter, Sophie, on the Ayr Creek estate in Vienna, W.Va., a horticultural reserve operated by the descendants of the original owner. Janine''s parents live in the main house, while Janine, a former Army Reserve helicopter pilot, and Sophie, who suffers from renal failure, live in the guesthouse. Despite resistance from her parents and ex-husband, Joe, Sophie is being treated with a new alternative herbal therapy, Herbalina, at the suggestion of estate horticulturist Lucas Trowell. The promising results have allowed Sophie to accompany her Brownie troop on a weekend camping trip. Joe blames Janine for Sophie''s illness, believing it is a result of Gulf War syndrome, and disapproves of Sophie''s trip. Sophie, her friend Holly and troop leader Allison travel in a separate car on the return journey, then an accident kills Holly and Allison. When the three don''t arrive back with the rest of the troop, the police begin to search the dense West Virginia woods. Dazed, scared and weak without her medicine, Sophie manages to make it to a dilapidated cabin, where aging film star Zoe is hiding out. Zoe is awaiting the arrival of her daughter Marti, on the lam after a jailbreak, and Zoe is prepared to do anything to ensure her daughter''s safety after many years of neglect. Meanwhile, Janine''s parents and Joe suspect Lucas of foul play. Despite some cramped characterizations and too many narrative trails converging at once, this page turner will please those who like their stories with as many twists and turns as a mountain road. Multicity author tour. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7076'),
(1917, 'The Course of Honor', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of the popular Marcus Didius Falco mystery series reaches again into the fertile bone pile of ancient Roman history, this time to fashion an unforgettable character out of a little-known woman of the first century A.D. Caenis merits a single reference in the entry on Emperor Vespasian in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition: "He then lived with an earlier mistress who had been a freed-woman of Tiberius'' sister-in-law Antonia." The story is set against the backdrop of particularly turbulent years of the Roman Empire, the time of the most notorious emperors (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero) and some of the most forgettable. In Davis''s imagining, the sparks fly from the first accidental meeting when Caenis is a slave and a secretary in Antonia''s household and Vespasian a young rustic from Reate visiting Rome. With meticulous detail and powerful drama, Davis chronicles Vespasian''s remarkable rise to power and Caenis''s equally compelling success in shaping her own future. As presented in this intricate braiding of character and action, fact and imagination, these two strong characters, bound by passionate and enduring love and parted often by what Vespasian bitterly refers to as the "cursus honorum," deserve to take their place in the pantheon of the world''s great lovers.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Davis, author of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries, here transmutes a stray historical aside into a rich and compelling piece of fiction. The freedwoman Caenis was lover and mistress to the man who became the Roman Emperor Vespasian, a strong and good leader who followed the wicked excesses of Nero. The story is told from Caenis'' point of view, beginning with her life as a slave and work as scribe and secretary for Antonia, grandmother of Caligula and Claudius. The full sweep of history in this turbulent period from A.D. 31 to A.D. 69 in the Mediterranean basin is the background for casual details of what was eaten, what was worn, and what daily life was like. Caenis is deeply intelligent, self-contained, and no-nonsense; her love for Vespasian (and his for her) is developed in a way that makes sense to both the head and the heart. Their trials and separations and reconciliations are the stuff of great romantic reading. Any reader of historical fiction will enjoy this one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10371'),
(1918, 'The Court of the Air', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author and blogger Hunt (_For the Crown and the Dragon_). Molly, pursued by determined assassins with mysterious masters, hides underground, while Oliver, framed for his uncle''s death, takes to the air to escape the fey-hunting Special Guard. They also draw the attention of the Court of the Air, a shadowy black-ops organization, and communityist revolutionaries seeking to resurrect ancient subterranean gods. An entire steampunk menagerie is pressed into lackluster service, but the pace leaves no time to focus on any single element. Only the steammen and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original. The historical and geographical parallels are overly frequent and mostly trite. Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks, but the end result is more overload than wonder.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Court of the Air\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicksâ€¦the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€--_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and moreâ€¦Harry Potter mugs H.P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€--_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thrillerâ€¦put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter that includes some nasty paranormal adversaries as this is an exciting tale of two orphans trying to save the world from those who want Armageddon now.â€--_SFRevu__ _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4540'),
(1919, 'The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World', 'Matthew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. In November 1676, the foppish courtier Leibniz, "the ultimate insider... an orthodox Lutheran from conservative Germany," journeyed to The Hague to visit the self-sufficient, freethinking Spinoza, "a double exile... an apostate Jew from licentious Holland." A prodigious polymath, Leibniz understood Spinoza''s insight that "science was in the process of rendering the God of revelation obsolete; that it had already undermined the special place of the human individual in nature." Spinoza embraced this new world. Seeing the orthodox God as a "prop for theocratic tyranny," he articulated the basic theory for the modern secular state. Leibniz, on the other hand, spent the rest of his life championing God and theocracy like a defense lawyer defending a client he knows is guilty. He elaborated a metaphysics that was, at bottom, a reaction to Spinoza and collapses into Spinozism, as Stewart deftly shows. For Stewart, Leibniz''s reaction to Spinoza and modernity set the tone for "the dominant form of modern philosophy"â€”a category that includes Kant, Hegel, Bergson, Heidegger and "the whole ''postmodern'' project of deconstructing the phallogocentric tradition of western thought." Readers of philosophy may find much to disagree with in these arguments, but Stewart''s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 2006)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the illustrious German polymath to the controversial Dutch lens grinder. In refreshingly lucid terms, he explains the controversies surrounding Spinoza as the consequence of the radical religious and political doctrines he articulated in works fiercely debated throughout Europe. By highlighting the way Spinoza''s metaphysics justified secular and democratic challenges to traditional regimes, Stewart also reveals the piquant irony in the way that metaphysics hypnotized the most brilliant of the status quo''s defenders--Gottfried Leibniz, who first eagerly absorbed Spinoza''s thought, then recognized in it a perilous threat to traditional beliefs in God and immortality. Because Spinoza''s doctrines have won acceptance from the architects of the modern world even as Leibniz''s traditional religious beliefs have persisted among many who inhabit that world, the drama Stewart recounts will rivet readers skeptical and devout alike.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6194'),
(1920, 'Courting Catherine', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trenton St. James III intends to buy the shabby old mansion on the coast of Maine and convert it into a hotel until he meets one of the owners, garage owner and mechanic Catherine "C.C" Calhoun, who is determined to stop him\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2595'),
(1921, 'The Courts of Chaos', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amber reveals the mysteries of King Oberon''s disappearance, the hell-witch''s identity, and the magical pattern that holds the kingdom of Amber together, but his victory over the Dark Lands remains in doubt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9054'),
(1922, 'Cousin Kate', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [T]the dialogue among the characters is completely delightful... Georgette Heyer builds a wonderful and complete world for her reader to sink into â€“ like a bubble bath or a welcoming chair to relax you at the end of a busy day, but more fun. Much more fun. (Lady Anne\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n Exciting and interesting from harrowing start to dramatic finish, Georgette Heyer''s\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n was a delightfully dark and sinfully satisfying read. (Rhianna Walker\n <em>\n  Rhi Reading\n </em>\n 20090626)\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with strange illnesses, intrigue, and a few murders thrown in along the way, this book is sure to please. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n was simply another great performance by this wonderful writer and it only makes me elated to know that there are plenty more of her books to read. (Lilianna Swistek\n <em>\n  Reading Extravaganza\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n As Gothic novels go\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n has all the right elements. A menacing country house set on sweeping grounds, strange knocks in the night, locked doors, family secrets, and whispers of madness. (Danielle Torress\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Very good; excellent characterization and a decent plot. As usual, Heyer is faultlessly entertaining (Nancy Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of suspense, humor, romance and myster... a dark gothic novel with a little bit of roman thrown in for fun. (Christine Plaisted\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Enjoy one of only two Heyer Gothic Regency romances.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Miss Heyer serves up a very different sort of tale in the same period setting, nothing less than a full-fledged Gothic. And a very expert job she does of it, too, complete with a remote and forbidding country house, screams in the night, dark hints of something best left unmentioned... nicely leavened with wit, romance, and wonderful period slang."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A surprising invitation\n </em>\n <br />\n Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. But the household is strange and strainedâ€”Kate''s uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A dark family secret\n </em>\n <br />\n As bizarre events unfold and Kate begins to question the reasons for her aunt''s unexpected generosity, she has no one to confide in but her cousin Philip. Sympathetic though he may appear, will he tell her what she most needs to know... before it''s too late?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What readers say:\n </strong>\n <br />\n "Flawless gothic romance."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dark and different Regency romance."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cousin Kate remains a classic Heyer study of character and Regency attitudes, and boasts a wonderfully warm and generous heroine who it is impossible to dislike and one of Heyer''s most pleasant and agreeable heroes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superior Georgette Heyer work; a bit darker and more serious than most of her other books, but as always there is the fast wit and a happy ending."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090512)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10204'),
(1923, 'Covenant 1 - Lord Foul&#39;s Bane v1', 'Donaldson, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10723'),
(1924, 'Covenant of the Forge', 'Dan Parkinson &amp; Tim Hildebrandt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Explores the folklore and history of the dwarven clans of Krynn through the bickering clans'' reconciliation and the construction of the legendary Thorbardin. By the author of\n  <em>\n   Gates of Thorbardin.\n  </em>\n  Original. 150,000 first printing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10745'),
(1925, 'The Covenant', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4413'),
(1926, 'Cowboy Accomplice', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A COWBOY IN MONTANA...? All J.T. McCall cared about were cattle. He''d always been the responsible brother and had taken over the day-to-day management of the family-owned Sundown Ranch years ago. He was as authentic as a cowboy can come -- and Regina Holland knew it. He was just what she was looking for, and she was determined to have him -- for business purposes only, of course. So when she finagled a job with his cattle drive deep in the Montana mountains, she didn''t count on becoming a killer''s target or on falling for J.T. But would they survive the assault of a madman?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(1927, 'The cowgirl in question', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WILDEST OF THE MCCALL BOYS WAS BACK The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade -- except he hadn''t counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn''t let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke...and anyone close to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(1928, 'Coyote Blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption. As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love -- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(1929, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/849'),
(1930, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5442'),
(1931, 'A Coyote&#39;s in the House', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“Leonard''s knack for creating intriguing, strong characters is evident in his first children''s book. While chasing down his latest meal, Antwan, a hip-talking coyote, makes his way into a Hollywood home, where he meets two dogsâ€“Buddy, an aging film star, and Miss Betty, a champion poodle. In a reversal of roles, Buddy decides that living in the Hollywood Hills as a wild dog with Antwan''s homeboys would suit him just fine and he talks the coyote into taking his place as a pampered pet. He comes up with a plan to convince his owners that Antwan is actually a stray dog, and the coyote is soon adopted. After many misadventures and subplots, including Miss Betty''s scheme to kidnap a cat for Buddy to rescue in order to help the German shepherd overcome his feelings of being a has-been, the animals land back in their original location, feeling content with the way things have ended. Leonard''s enlightening descriptions of the movie business may please adults more than youngsters, but all readers will delight in the growing friendship among the characters. Humorous black-and-white drawings with red accentsâ€“Buddy''s film trademark is a red bandannaâ€“add further interest._â€“Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Gr. 5-8. Anthropomorphism in fiction and film is often derided as a cheap trick, and rightfully so. But not when Elmore Leonard is writing the dialogue. Leonard''s first children''s book begins with a beguiling premise: hip coyote Antwan, leader of his pack in the Hollywood Hills, is foraging for garbage when he makes the acquaintance of German shepherd Buddy, a retired film star. Buddy is bored and has decided he''d like the freedom of the coyote''s life in the wild, while Antwan, who quickly develops a taste for peanut-butter cookies, is interested in getting to know Miss Betty, a prizewinning poodle who lives with Buddy''s family. Antwan successfully passes as a dog, but Buddy resents being displaced as the canine star of the family, prompting Antwan and Miss Betty to hatch a plan in which the German shepherd will be returned to the limelight. The story is good fun, but the real pleasure here, as in Leonard''s adult novels, lies in listening to the characters banter with one another. Kids won''t get all the Hollywood jokes or pick up the references to Leonard''s\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n , but they will respond instantly to the way Antwan and his pals work the humans to their advantage. A poignant ending gives the tale just the right edge, showing that Leonard can mix comedy and reality as nimbly for a younger audience as he does for adults.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9201'),
(1932, 'The Crack in Space: A Novel', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6507'),
(1933, 'Cradle', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning grandmaster of science fiction does for the sea in his new novel what his epic classic 2001 did for outer space. Currently in production for a major motion picture from Warner Brothers/Peter Guber.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(1934, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2042'),
(1935, 'Cranford (Ad Classic Library Edition)', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Charles Dickens; George Du Maurier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid poverty. The story reveals "touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness... naturally and truthfully just as they are found in the current of real life." Cranford is based on the experiences of Elizabeth Gaskell''s childhood upbringing in Cheshire, UK. Twelve years after publishing Cranford, Gaskell has kind words for her most prolific work. "It is the only one of my books that I can read again; but whenever I am ailing or ill, I take Cranford and - I was going to say, enjoy it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh!" This edition includes artwork by George Du Maurier, commissioned by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in 1864, and artwork by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan and Co. in 1891.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10638'),
(1936, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8498'),
(1937, 'The Crate', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11147');
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(1938, 'Crazy', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back at 1940s- era New York. As 80-year-old Joey El Bueno begins his memoirs while a patient at Bellevue Hospital, he introduces his adolescent alter ego, a wisecracking Peruvian-Irish kid with an affinity for driving the staff at St. Stephenâ€™s Grammar School batty. But the nuns arenâ€™t the only ones going a little crazy; you see, lately Joey has struck up a friendship with a girl no one else seems to have seen or heard of, and Joey himself seems to know about things before they have happened. As readers attempt to puzzle out whether Joey has a fractured psyche or has broken through the time-space continuum, they will be treated to an entertaining romp through the Lower East Side conducted by an inimitable tour guide. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA superbly executed blend ofÂ  tenderness and satire that comes to a powerful and emotional crescendo, Crazy is a marvelous work of fiction that cements Blattyâ€™s place of honor among great American authors.â€ -- Fears Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviewed by novelist Elizabeth Hand_\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to believe, but local horror meister William Peter Blatty once had a booming career as a funny guy. In addition to his comic novels, he worked with Blake Edwards on several films, including "A Shot in the Dark," the second Inspector Clouseau movie; he loved P.G. Wodehouse; and he was even compared to S.J. Perelman. All this came before those looming steps in Georgetown forever linked Blatty with his best-known work, "The Exorcist" (1971).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which makes his new novel, "Crazy," a return to form. It''s a sweet-natured, often hilarious tale cast as the memoirs of an 82-year-old former screenwriter named Joey El Bueno. Joey''s writing from a 10th-floor room at Bellevue Hospital, where the usually suspicious Nurse Bloor doesn''t raise an eyebrow at his laptop because "she has read Archy and Mehitabel and knows that sometimes even a rat can type."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joey is the son of an Irish beauty who died giving birth to him and an impoverished Peruvian immigrant who made his living pushing a hot dog cart. Joey''s memoir takes us back to the year he was a seventh-grader at St. Stephen''s, on Manhattan''s Lower East Side, in 1941. That''s where he first meets Jane Bent, a street-smart, foul-mouthed transfer student from Our Lady of Sorrows. At first, Joey finds her "nuttier than a truckload of filberts," but that changes when Jane flashes a $5 bill and suggests an afternoon at the movies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many hours and three screenings of "Gunga Din" later, the two seem to have become an inseparable pair. Then they part, and Joey never sees her again. Not that Jane, anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I won''t say more lest I spoil the pleasures of this lovely, time-shifting novel, which evokes a lost New York complete with a school excursion to Coney Island and side trips to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It''s like a classic Jean Shepherd anecdote with supernatural overtones. Blatty also cites Ray Bradbury and Robert Nathan as influences, and "Crazy" more than once invokes Kurt Vonnegut. Joey''s memoir favors run-on sentences with a comedic payoff: "There was a breeze and these jillions of gulls all circling and squawking forlornly but with great agitation and high excitement as if they were in factions that were blaming one another for the loss of some unspoiled world, some paradise where every automobile was a convertible and where hats and awnings did not exist."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blatty has always been upfront about his Catholic faith. The opening of "The Exorcist" evokes "Lucifer upward-groping back to his God," and Crazy''s poignant final pages make clear that, rather than an exercise in nostalgia, this novel is a reminder of Saint Paul''s command, "While we have time, let us do good." Or, as Joey puts it, "What would Kurt Vonnegut do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Hand''s most recent novel is "Illyria."\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Crazy _is terrific! A wonderful novel: funny, touching and SO full of love!"--Julie Andrews\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrazy left me with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.â€-- _Dread Central\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWith its wildly creative and humorous scenarios,\n  </em>\n  Crazy\n  <em>\n   is wise and witty, funny and sad. Itâ€™s a story of good and evil, of second chances, of coming to peace at the end of the road and welcoming the unknown.â€ --\n  </em>\n  bookreporter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Thereâ€™s a certain vaudevillian flair to all of Blattyâ€™sÂ  work, but itâ€™s the sort of vaudeville that powers the absurdist despair of Samuel Beckettâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Waiting For Godot\n  </em>\n  ; one-liners and gags are just another way to deal with the inevitability of death. The difference is, thereâ€™s a core of faith and optimism at the heart of Blattyâ€™s writing. Horror exists, as do evil and the monsters who perpetrate it, but thereâ€™s also God in his heaven, purpose, and at least the possibility of justice._â€ â€“-A.V. CLUB _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8441'),
(1939, 'Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival', 'Norman Ollestad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that ultimately saved his life when the chartered Cessna carrying them to a ski championship ceremony crashed 8,000 feet up in the California mountains, leaving his father and the pilot dead. The devastated eleven-year-old Ollestad had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone. Crazy for the Storm is a powerful and unforgettable true story that illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his extraordinary son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2272'),
(1940, 'Creating Web sites bible', 'David A. Crowder; Andrew Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ? Jam-packed with more than 800 pages of expert advice and hands-on guidance, this book has everything readers need to build their own cutting-edge Web sites ? A one-stop resource that delivers the scoop on everything from HTML, tables, and forms to JavaScript and Flash ? Brand-new chapters cover getting attention with Google AdWords, building Yahoo! and Amazon.com stores, creating great eBay auctions, and getting paid with PayPal ? Includes new information on designing with cascading style sheets, syndicating a site with RSS, building a blog, and more\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(1941, 'Creation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn''t save-and the killers she couldn''t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims. When it turns out that the young brunette was employed by Eve''s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him in on the case-a move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal. The victim was washed in products from a store Roarke owns, and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom''s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out on another woman''s life. And chances are he''s working up to the biggest challenge of his illustrious career-abducting a woman who will test his skills and who promises to give him days and days of pleasure before she dies: Eve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2379'),
(1942, 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter &amp; Human Evolution', 'Randal Keynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Soon to be a major motion picture The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. ** As Darwin''s theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, *Creation* (formerly *Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution*) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas. In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin''s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family''s private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3946'),
(1943, 'Creativity', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity. His advice may sound like homilies-"Try to be surprised by something every day"-but is often worthy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Bringing together 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) describes this book as "an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things." Utilizing the interviews garnered from 91 respondents (ranging from philosopher Mortimer Adler to biologist Edward O. Wilson to politician Eugene McCarthy), the author of the best-selling Flow (LJ 3/15/90) demonstrates the processes that these acknowledged creative thinkers and doers go through and the characteristics that make them stand out. He deals with what makes them and others like them "creative"?which he defines as "a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed"?and how the conduct of their professional and personal lives illustrates these traits. Csikszentmihalyi also deals with creativity and aging and ways to enhance one''s own personal creativity. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of the scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. A welcome addition to both academic and public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n A mostly fascinating look at what makes creative people who  they are, gleaned largely from interviews with 91 individuals  from a wide variety of fields.  Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi,  who invented the idea of ``flow'''' and authored a book with that  title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego- and  time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to  creativity and high achievement. Rather, he focuses on the  interplay between culture, the creative person, and the  ``domain'''' (sociologese for ``field''''), including the receptivity  of experts to new ideas and inventions. He quotes  extensively--too much so--from the subjects he and his research  team interviewed, but there are some gems among these passages,  such as writer Madeleine L''Engle''s observation that to produce  good literature, ``your intuition and your intellect should be  working together . . . making love.'''' Csikszentmihalyi''s weakest  section consists of detailing ten personality polarities that  supposedly distinguish creative individuals, but that are also  applicable to ``balanced'''' or ``fulfilled'''' individuals. His best  sections consist of longer profiles of individuals as varied as  poet Anthony Hecht, ecologist Barry Commoner, and astronomer Vera  Rubin. Also valuable is a concluding prescriptive section with  some helpful advice to the average person on how to make his or  her thinking and way of living more creative, particularly a  passage on how to rethink and use a disappointing experiences,  such as being passed over for a promotion. Unfortunately,  redundancies make the work too long by at least a third, and some  meaningless or fatuous generalizations also mar the presentation  (e.g., ``Recent studies suggest that the amount of dalliance,  marital infidelity and sexual experimentation [among creative  people studied] is much less than earlier estimates had  suggested'''').  Still, the rich anecdotal material Csikszentmihalyi has  mined and analyzed make this an important study of a vital topic.  ($40,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading." -- --Washington Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading.""--Washington Times""Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.""--Library Journal (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7956'),
(1944, 'Creature', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it''s to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won''t surprise anyone, but it should please the author''s fans as it continues Saul''s focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- An excellent example of the horror genre, although not as extreme as Stephen King. When Craig Tanner is offered a promotion by TarrenTech and the family moves to Silverdale, Colorado, everything seems perfect. It is a company town with quaint houses, little commercialization, and a community that supports its sports teams. Mark Tanner develops dramatically as an athlete after several sessions at the Rocky Mountain High sports center where the football players are given workouts. This is only the beginning of a training program that has some terrifying results. Creature will be widely read by athletes and sports fans.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4580'),
(1945, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some instinctâ€”or maybe just a stir of a breezeâ€”awakened Steven Creed; he sat up in bed, took a fraction of a moment to orient himself to unfamiliar surroundings. One by one, the mental tumblers clicked into place:\n</p>\n<p>\n Room 6. Happy Wanderer Motel and Campground. Stone Creek, Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door stood open to the fresh high-country air, which was crisply cool on this early June night, but not cold, and the little boyâ€”Steven''s newly adopted sonâ€” sat on the cement step outside. A bundleâ€”probably his favorite toy, a plush skunk named Fred, rolled up in his blanketâ€”rested beside him, and the boy''s tiny frame was rimmed in an aura of silvery-gold moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something tightened in Steven''s throat at the poignancy of the sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Poor kid. It wasn''t hard to guess who he was waiting for. Matt was small, with his dad''s dark hair and his mother''s violet eyes, and he was exceptionally intelligentâ€”maybe even giftedâ€”but he was still only five years old.\n</p>\n<p>\n How could he be expected to comprehend that his folks, Zack and Jillie St. John, were gone for good? That they wouldn''t be coming to pick him up, no matter how hard he hoped or how many stars he wished on, that night or any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven''s eyes burned, and he had to swallow the hard ache that rose in his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jillie had succumbed to a particularly virulent form of breast cancer a year and a half ago, and Zack had only lasted a few months before the grief dragged him under, tooâ€”however indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, Tex," Steven said, trying to sound casual as he sat up on the thin, lumpy mattress of the foldout sofaâ€” he''d given the bed to the child when they checked in that evening. Steven shoved a hand through his own dark blond hair. "What''s the trouble?" His voice was hoarse. "Can''t sleep?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt looked back at him, shook his head instead of answering aloud.\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked even smaller than usual, sitting there in the expanse of that wide-open doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven rolled out of bed, shirtless and barefoot, wearing a pair of black sweatpants that had seen better days.\n</p>\n<p>\n He crossed the scuffed linoleum floor, stepped over the threshold and sat down beside Matt on the step, interlacing his fingers, letting his elbows rest on his knees. There was enough of a chill in the air to raise goose bumps wherever his skin was bare, so he figured Matt had to be cold, too, sitting there in his cotton pajamas. With a sigh, Steven squinted to make out the winding sparkle of the nearby creek, sprinkled in starlight, edged by oak trees, with night-purple mountains for a backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt leaned into him a little, a gesture that further melted Steven''s already-bruised heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carefully, Steven put an arm around the boy, to lend not only reassurance, but warmth, too. "Having second thoughts about turning rancher this late in your life?" he teased, thinking he couldn''t have loved Matt any more if he''d been his own child, instead of his best friend''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the morning, Steven would attend the closing over at the Cattleman''s Bank, and sign the papers making him the legal owner of a fifty-acre spread with a sturdy though run-down two-story house and a good well but not much else going for it. The rickety fences had toppled over years ago, defeated by decades of heavy snow in winter and pounding rain come springtime, and the barn was unsalvageable. Yet something about the place had reached out to him and grabbed hold, just the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n The small ranch had been a home once, and it could be one again, with a lot of elbow greaseâ€”and a serious chunk of change. Fortunately, money wasn''t a problem for Steven, which wasn''t to say there weren''t plenty of other things to chap his figurative hide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes, he felt just as lost as Matt did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s mouth quirked up at one side in a flimsy attempt at a smile, all the more touching because of the obvious effort involved. "I''m\n <em>\n  only\n </em>\n five years and three months old," he said, in belated reply to Steven''s question, in that oddly mature way of his. "It''s not late in my life, because my life just got\n <em>\n  started."\n </em>\n The little guy had skipped the baby-talk stage entirely; he hadn''t even\n <em>\n  tried\n </em>\n to talk until he was past two, but he''d spoken in full sentences from then on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Five, huh?" Steven teased, raising one eyebrow. "If you weren''t so short, I''d say you were lying about your age. Come on, admit itâ€”you''re really somebody''s grandfather, posing as a kid."\n</p>\n<p>\n The joke, a well-worn favorite, fell flat. Matt''s small shoulders moved with the force of his sigh, and he leaned a little more heavily into Steven''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feeling lonesome?" Steven asked, after clearing his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt nodded, looking up at Steven. His eyes were huge and luminous in the predawn darkness. "I need a dog," the boy announced solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven chuckled, ruffled Matt''s hair, gleaming dark as a raven''s wing in the night. Relief swelled inside him, flailed behind his chest wall like a living thing doing its best to escape. A dog was something he could manage.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Soon as we''re settled," he promised, "we''ll visit the animal shelter and pick out a mutt."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do they have ponies at the shelter, too?" The question cheered Steven; Matt was pushing the envelope, so to speak, and that had to be a good sign.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already had the pony discussionâ€”repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You know the deal, Tex," he reminded the little boy quietly. "The fences need to be replaced before we can keep horses, and the barn, too."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt sighed again, deeply. "That might take a long time," he lamented, "since you''ll be working in town every day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven fully intended to settle down in Stone Creek, build a normal life for his young charge and for himself. And to him,\n <em>\n  normal\n </em>\n meant showing up somewhere on weekday mornings and putting in eight hoursâ€”whether he needed the paycheck or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d had to fight just to get through high school, let alone prelaw in college, and then earn the graduate degree that had qualified him to take the bar examâ€”a frustrating variety of learning disorders had all but crippled him early in his life. Although they''d been corrected, thanks to several perceptive teachers, he''d had a lot of catching up to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still felt as if he was scrambling, some of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven ruffled Matt''s hair. "Yep," he agreed. "I''ll be working."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about me? Where will I be when you''re gone?"\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already covered that ground, numerous times, but after everythingâ€”and everybodyâ€”the little guy had lost over the past couple of years, it wasn''t surprising that he needed almost constant reassurance. "You''ll be in day camp," Steven said. "Until you start first grade in the fall, anyhow."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s chin jutted out a little way, the angle obstinate and so reminiscent of Zack that the backs of Steven''s eyes stung again. Zack St. John had been his best friend since middle school, a popular athlete, excellent student and all-around good guy. Losing Jillie had been a terrible blow, knocking Zack for the proverbial loopâ€”he''d gone wild and finally died when, driving too fast down a narrow mountain road, he''d lost control somehow and laid his motorcycle down.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Couldn''t I just go to the office with you?" the boy asked, his voice even smaller than he was. "I might not like day camp. Anyhow, it''s summer. Who goes to day camp in\n <em>\n  summer?\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven sighed and got to his feet. "Lots of kids do," he said. "And you might just wind up thinking day camp is the greatest thing since 3D TV." He extended a hand. "Come on, Tex. Let''s get you back to bed. Tomorrow might be a long day, and you''ll need your rest."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt reached for the stuffed skunk, and wound up in the now-tattered blanket he always kept close at hand. Jillie had knitted that herself, especially to bring her and Zack''s infant son home from the hospital in, but the thing had been through some serious wear-and-tear since then.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven supposed that Matt was too old to be so attached to a baby blanket, but he didn''t have the heart to take it away.\n</p>\n<p>\n So he watched as the little boy got to his feet, trundled back inside, took a brief detour to the bathroom and then stood in the middle of the small room, looking forlorn.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can I sleep with you?" he asked. "Just for tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven tossed back the covers on the sofa bed and stretched out, resigned to the knowledge that he probably wouldn''t close his eyes again before the morning was right on top of him. "Yeah," he said. "Hop in."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt scrambled onto the bad mattress and squirmed a little before settling down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven stretched to switch off the lamp on the bedside table.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks," Matt said, in the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re welcome," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I dreamed about Mom and Dad," Matt confided, after a silence so long that Steven thought he''d gone to sleep. "They were coming to get me, in a big red truck. That''s why I was sitting on the step when you woke up. It took me a little while to figure out that it was just a dream."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I thought it was something like that," Steven said, when he could trust himself to speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really miss them," Matt admitted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Me, too," Steven agreed, his voice hoarse.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But we''re gonna make it, right? You and me? Because we''re pardners till the end?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven swallowed, blinked a couple of times, glad of the darkness. "Pardners till the end," he promised. "And we are definitely gonna make it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay," Matt yawned, apparently satisfied. For the moment, anyhow. He''d ask again soon. "''Night."\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Night," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon, the child was asleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, though he would have bet it wouldn''t happen, Steven slept, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Melissa O''Ballivan whipped her prized convertible roadster, cherry-red with plenty of gleaming chrome, up to the curb in front of the Sunflower Bakery and Cafe in downtown Stone Creek, shifted into Neutral and shoved open the door to jump out.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8177'),
(1946, 'The Creed of Violence', 'Boston Teran', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teran''s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone''s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel. A bargain is struck, with Lourdes assigned to accompany Rawbone into the Mexican underground. The twist: Lourdes, unknown to everyone but himself, is Rawbone''s son. As the two men make their way through a snake''s nest of smugglers, thugs and professional killers, Lourdes must suppress the angst he feels toward his father and focus on surviving another day. While this bit of dramatic irony quickly wears thin, father and son share a sharp wit, cunning instinct and thirst for adventure that make this spy mission the very definition of a thrill. Teran''s fast-paced prose reads like it was written for the big screen (Universal scooped up the film rights), and even if the moralizing about U.S. foreign intervention gets heavy-handed, this remains an intelligent page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Creed of Violence\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boston Teran''s The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it''s also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man''s attempts at regeneration. But most of all it''s exciting and tense and you''ll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting." â€”Robert Ward, author of\n <em>\n  Red Baker\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Four Kinds of Rain\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeranâ€™s considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle Ã©poque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soulâ€”a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist.â€ â€”Todd Field\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  God Is a Bullet\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRanks with Joan Didionâ€™s\n <em>\n  The White Album\n </em>\n . . . and John Fordâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  The Searchers\n </em>\n .â€ â€”_The San Francisco Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA millennial morality play . . . that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy . . . if theyâ€™d all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe.â€ â€”_Dallas Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Never Count Out the Dead\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCements Teranâ€™s talent as a . . . virtuoso.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5077'),
(1947, 'Creekers', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They''re called Creekers. Centuries old, driven by rage and lust for revenge, they move through the deep, dark woodsâ€” deformed, shadowy outcasts with twisted faces and blood-red eyes. Now, as the moon hangs low over their ancient house, they''re gathering for a harvest of terror and death Crick City will never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9880'),
(1948, 'Creepers', 'Robert Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3603'),
(1949, 'Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been themost valorus of knights--that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he''ll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3317'),
(1950, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(1951, 'Crime and Punishment in American History', 'Lawrence M. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7944'),
(1952, 'Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly''s first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly''s firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5336'),
(1953, 'Crime Scene', 'Rick R. Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6571'),
(1954, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big wayâ€”to investigate a decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn''t walking away. Because now Dana''s life was on the lineâ€”as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8022'),
(1955, 'Crime Wave', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles.  In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field.  And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy.  With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp."From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning''s police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims.  Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine.  And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood.  Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2158'),
(1956, 'A Criminal History of Mankind', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the â€˜razor king of the Mediterraneanâ€™, the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler and more. Each age has a unique characteristic pattern of crime. In the past three centuries crime has changed and evolved until the sex killer and the mass murderer have become symbols of all that is worst about our civilization. But this is not just a study in human depravity; it is an attempt to place crime in perspective against human discovery, exploration and invention. The result is a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(1957, 'Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9890'),
(1958, 'The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman &amp; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6450'),
(1959, 'The Criminal', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2202'),
(1960, 'Crimson Joy', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman''s eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan''s life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!((Dell--Fiction)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4009'),
(1961, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it''s billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,"\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber''s dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot''s __ and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favor, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself. When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped, and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar''s life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor''s wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber''s emphasis on class and sexual politics. In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber''s own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages,\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faber''s bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era''s secrets and social hypocrisy. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father''s perfume business. While spying on his sickly wife''s maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. Faber (Under the Skin) also weaves in the stories of Agnes, William''s delicate, mad and manipulative wife, and Henry, his pious, morally conflicted brother, both of whom seek escape from their private prisons through fantasies and small deceptions. Sin and vice both attract and repel the brothers: William, who becomes obsessed with Sugar, rescues her from her old life, while Henry, paralyzed by his love for Emmeline Fox, a comely widow working to rescue the city''s prostitutes, slowly unravels. Faber''s central characters, especially the troubled William and the ambitious Sugar, shine with life, and the author is no less gifted in capturing the essence of his many minor characters-the evil madam, Mrs. Castaway, and William''s pompous father-in-law, Lord Unwin. The superb plot draws on a wealth of research and briskly moves through the lives of each character-whether major or minor, upstairs or downstairs-gathering force until the fates of all are revealed. A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7327'),
(1962, 'The Crimson Shadow', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE CRIMSON SHADOW is an omnibus reissue of R.A. Salvatore''s Crimson Shadow Trilogy, which consists of the novels The Sword of Bedwyr, Luthien''s Gamble, and The Dragon King. This trilogy follows the story of The Crimson Shadow, a Robin Hood-like figure causing mischief and protecting the innocent in a medieval fantasy setting. There''s magic, a humorous dwarf sidekick, and lots of adventure and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3236'),
(1963, 'The Crimson Witch', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young mans struggle with destiny and desire in a post-nuclear world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8294');
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(1964, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5478'),
(1965, 'Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush', 'John Yoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to â€œbreakdown constitutional safeguards.â€ One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent todayâ€™s controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3066'),
(1966, 'Crisis Four', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: My Head Was Forced Under And I Swallowed A Mouthful Of Freezing River. I Kicked Back To The Surface, Forcing Myself To Breathe In Through My Nose, Only To Choke As I Inhaled Yet More Water. I Let Go Of Her. We Each Had To Fight Our Own Battle Now. She Looked At Me, Her Eyes The Size Of Saucers As She Realised What I Had Done. That Wasn T My Problem; It Would Only Become One If I Couldn T Get Her Body Out Of The Water And They Found Out Who She Was.Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained - A Master Of His Trade.Sarah Is Beautiful, Steel Willed, Intelligent, Cunning - The Only Woman That Stone Has Ever Let Under His Guard. And Now He S Been Sent To Hunt Her Down ... As The Pair Are Pursued Through The Backwoods Of The American South, Stone S Mission Becomes A Journey To The Heart Of A Dark And Deadly Conspiracy To Which Only Sarah Holds The Key. And As The Tension Builds To Breaking Point, The Two Are Led To A Confrontation That Echoes Our Worst Nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(1967, 'Crisis on Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a twenty-five year contract--arranging the cohabitation of the planet Doona between humans and the cat-like Hrrubans--comes up for renewal, an unknown entity works to sabotage the heretofore successful alliance. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10857'),
(1968, 'Crispin: At the Edge of the World', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 5-9â€“At the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying their hard-won freedom, planning to resume their 14th-century lifestyle as traveling minstrels and jugglers. But that freedom doesn''t last long because they soon find themselves hunted again by men who believe Bear to be a traitor to the Brotherhood (which is planning a revolt against the oppressive rulers of England). And, with Bear severely injured, Crispin has to make crucial decisions about their future, which for Bear means confronting the sins of the past. The thoughtful introduction of Troth, a disfigured girl, and the trio''s fearful journey across the Channel add historical relevance and bring home a critical lesson in tolerance. This second book in a planned trilogy explores even more thoughtfully the themes of religion, war, the motives of men, and the meaning of family. This is an extraordinary work of lyrical simplicity, nearly flawless in its execution, and a haunting tale of love and loss. Readers will devour this story and eagerly anticipate the conclusion of Crispin''s adventures._â€“Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Avi''s engrossing follow-up to his Newbery-winning\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (2002) begins with Crispin and his father figure, Bear, tasting freedom briefly before Bear is recognized and shot with an arrow. Fleeing into the forest, they meet Troth, a girl shunned because of her cleft lip. Her protector, old Aude, nurses Bear''s wound, but when villagers brutally turn against Aude, Crispin and Bear must flee again, this time with Troth. The three, now a family, make a stormy voyage to Brittany, where English soldiers force them to help in a ruthless attack on a church. Unlike many stories set in the Middle Ages, this novel doesn''t romanticize the era; instead, it portrays England and France as places where poverty, superstition, and violence were commonplace. Crispin, Bear, and Troth face each new situation with dread born of painful experience, well aware that the people they meet are as likely to harm them as to help them. The love connecting the three main characters is so vital that maintaining the bond and protecting each other become driving forces in their choices. Along with plenty of action and adventure, this displays a solid emotional base. The combination will make fans eager for the final installment.\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7280'),
(1969, 'The Crisscross Shadow', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy boys find the missing deed to an Indians'' land, prevent a phony salesman from carrying through a reckless scheme, and help their father solve a top-secret case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10274'),
(1970, 'Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut inThe Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn''t want made public. What''s in those photos, she won''t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(1971, 'Crocodile on the Sandbank', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father''s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she''s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1319'),
(1972, 'Crocodile Tears', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”Alex Rider is only 14, but that hasn''t stopped MI6, the British espionage organization, from recruiting him for dangerous missions. Here, Alex is enlisted in a seemingly quick and easy mission of downloading computer data while on a school trip to a lab immersed in the genetic engineering of plants. While there, he discovers a sinister plot involving a criminal turned preacher and philanthropist. As in the earlier installments, the book is chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last. It starts with a bomb at a nuclear plant in India, and along the way there is a charity black-tie card game, poison needles, car crashes, bullets, and exploding gel pens. Most of the backstory is explained, so no prior knowledge of the earlier books is necessary. Great for reluctant readers.â€”_Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Rider, teenage British secret service agent, returns. This time, a wealthy villain schemes to make millions by creating disasters and then pocketing the money from false relief agencies. Alex discovers the bad guyâ€™s plan to cause famine in Africa, but he is able to expose the fake philanthropist, although he is nearly fed to hungry crocs in the process. Horowitz''s series remains on top of the growing genre of YA novels that feature intelligence agencies employing teenagers. He knows how to pace a thriller and delivers one exciting scene after another. Alex Rider fans will rejoice. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4737'),
(1973, 'Crome Yellow', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Japanese thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley was edited for three audiences. The first includes Japanese-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Japanese speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Japanese in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Japanese Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Japanese or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Japanese, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficu\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10614'),
(1974, 'Crooked House', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he''s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one''s on the level...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5249'),
(1975, 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter', 'Tom Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Franklin''s extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literatureâ€”Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O''Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.   Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so farâ€”an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the countyâ€”and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.   More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they''ve buried and ignored for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4702'),
(1976, 'Crooked Little Vein', 'Warren Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president''s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitutionâ€”the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom''s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravityâ€”and this case is driving him even deeper into America''s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4165'),
(1977, 'Crooked Stick Figures', 'Lee Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9859'),
(1978, 'Cropper&#39;s Cabin', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn''t when he''ll explode, but who he''ll take with him when he does. "My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated."--Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2185'),
(1979, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the twelfth exciting novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington , DC , Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington , DC , Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraphcalled ''the master of the suspense genre'', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross''s fans waited years to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2049'),
(1980, 'Cross Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she''s called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris''s gunshot death is murder or suicide. An acquaintance of Avram suggests the former: he hands Tempe a photograph of a skeleton, taken in Israel in 1963, and insists it''s the reason Avram is dead. Tempe''s longtime boyfriend, Quebecois detective Andrew Ryan, is also involved with the case, so the duo head to Israel where they attempt to solve the murder and a mystery revolving around a first-century tomb that may contain the remains of the family of Jesus Christ. This find threatens the worldwide Christian community, the Israeli and Jewish hierarchy and numerous illegal antiquity dealers, any of whom might be out to kill Tempe and Ryan. Not that Tempe notices. She has the habit of being oblivious to danger, which quickly becomes annoying, as does Reichs''s tendency to end chapters with a heavy-handed cliffhanger ("His next words sent ice up my spine"). The plot is based on a number of real-life anthropological mysteries, and fans of such will have a good time, though thriller readers looking for chills and kills may not find the novel quite as satisfying.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth entry in Reichs'' popular mystery series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan spends more time contemplating biblical history than modern-day murder. A preface sets the stage, providing a bit of factual context for the puzzle that emerges when Tempe is given a photo of an articulated skeleton, which she is told is the key to the suspicious death of a slightly shady Orthodox Jewish merchant. The legend on the back of a photo leads to the bones themselves, 2,000-year-old remains that excite not only Tempe but also her friend Jake Drum, a biblical archaeologist, who suggests that the bones might even belong to Jesus himself! Unlike Tempe''s previous forays into the world of crime, this episode isn''t long on thrills. Instead, we get a fairly complicated lesson in biblical history, some radical theory to ponder, and the itch to read real-life religion professor James Tabor''s upcoming book about Masada and ancient bones,\n  <em>\n   The Jesus Dynasty,\n  </em>\n  to which Reichs refers in an afterword. Yet another read-alike for\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  fans.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11163'),
(1981, 'Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he''s ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It''s the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he''s chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger''s elusive trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Unprotected and alone, can Alex manage to both survive and catch the killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2026'),
(1982, 'Cross Fire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new thriller from the author ofBravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5540'),
(1983, 'Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles', 'Sabine Durrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life. Connie''s first order of business: finding her mother a new husband. Connie enlists the help of her best friend, Julie, and before long everything spirals out of control. Boy-crazy Delilah begins fluttering around Connie''s best guy friend, Will, and ever-reliable Will has been acting strangely awkward around Connie. But with a little luck and a lot of determination, Connie is sure that she can make everything right again in her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3684'),
(1984, 'Crosscurrent', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalkerâ€™s hopes for peace. The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”appears to be in distress.But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaughtâ€”bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jediâ€”has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The shipâ€™s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3359'),
(1985, 'Crossers', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the acclaimed author of "Acts of Faith" ("A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience"--"Houston Chronicle"), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family''s sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness--until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man''s death. When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history. Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, "Crossers" is Philip Caputo''s most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4066'),
(1986, 'Crossfire', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920â€“2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic replacement (like another Francis lead, Sid Halley). Upon discharge from National Health Service care, Forsyth makes his way home to Lambourn, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer''s threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to occupy him, he turns detective to identify the extortionist. Though the plot details won''t linger as long as those in Dick Francis''s best work, like Whip Hand, this is still a suspenseful read. Francis aficionados will hope that Felix chooses to carry on the family tradition on his own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Good authors never die; they leave behind at least one book. Francis, who died this year after writing a string of more than 40 racing mysteries, the last 3 in collaboration with his son, Felix, left at least this one book behind. For all lovers of old-fashioned, character-driven, plot-perfect suspense, this is like getting a windfall from a distant, deceased relative. The hero will remind longtime Francis fans of Sid Halley, the driving force of arguably Francisâ€™ finest mysteries. Both have had their careers cut short by a devastating injury (steeplechase jockey Halley lost his hand in a racing accident; new hero, British soldier Captain Tom Forsyth, had his foot blown off by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan). Both have to find their way out of pain and grief to construct a new life. Forsyth, temporarily cut loose from his regiment, returns to the home he fled at age 17, the cold and hostile environment of his mother, one of Britainâ€™s top racehorse trainers. While there, he stumbles into a blackmail plot involving his mother, one that puts her horses at high risk. The Francis team uses both Forsythâ€™s dilemma, which is how to find â€œtargets and objectivesâ€ in a blown-apart life, and his military skills to enable him to get to the bottom of a rotten mess. The plot reads like classic Francis; the research parts presumably come from Felix, and they add a lot of weight to the saddle. The publisher hints that Felix may be carrying on his fatherâ€™s legacy, but itâ€™s doubtful anyone can. Enjoy this bequest. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8225'),
(1987, 'Crossing Over', 'Anna Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fourteen-year-old Roger has a peculiar gift that allows him to cross from the land of the living into the world of the deadâ€”but only at the point of extreme personal pain. He finds himself at court in the capital city, and he quickly becomes a tool in the deadly contest of wills between a young queen some say is not fit to rule and her mother, who refuses to relinquish the throne. Kendallâ€™s debut novel is an atmospheric coming-of-age tale that weaves ill-fated courtly love with Rogerâ€™s difficult journey to understand the world. The involving story is weakened just a little by unnecessary and oddly placed references to sexual arousal and characters that exhibit little overall growth. There are tantalizing references to a mysterious place known as Soulvine Moor, which receives short shrift when readers are finally taken there toward the novelâ€™s end. Despite this, Kendallâ€™s first effort will find fans who will cheer Roger on and hope for his constancy. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...an atmospheric depiction of her hero''s journey and freshly imagined vision of the afterlife should resonate with gothic fantasy fans." --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5504'),
(1988, 'The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever."An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(1989, 'Crossings', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sailing to France aboard the majestic\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n amid rumors of an impending world war, the glamorous Liane De Villiers, wife of the French ambassador, meets a handsome American steel magnate trapped in a loveless marriage. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5981'),
(1990, 'Crossover', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran Trek scribe Friedman (All Good Things...) delivers the goods again with the most interesting and ambitious novel to come from this complacent franchise in a while. Friedman assimilates characters from the original TV series into a rollicking adventure/rescue story. Ambassador Spock, still working toward reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan cultures, is captured with several of his proteges by a regional Romulan dictator with delusions of grandeur. Viewing Spock''s capture as a security risk, the Federation sends Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s Enterprise to negotiate Spock''s release, assigning 140-year-old Admiral McCoy to the ship because of his familiarity with Spock. Meanwhile, Scotty steals a starship and engages in his own one-man rescue attempt. The interplay is fast and furious, as is the action, while the political intrigues are sufficiently interesting, if not very complex. Readers will have a fine time second-guessing some of Friedman''s claims (Scotty went to the Academy?), while nodding in agreement with most of them. The prose, like several of the rescue attempts, lacks subtlety and grace but is suited to its task of telling a story that stars characters of whom most readers have already formed full and sympathetic portraits.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Star Trek novel, by one of the most seasoned producers of ST fiction, is aptly titled. Not only do members of both the original and the\n  <em>\n   Next Generation\n  </em>\n  casts appear in it, but it deals with a situation in which both the Romulans and the Vulcans are striving to cross over from their long-standing mutual isolation from and hostility toward each other to some form, at least, of reunification (they were once members of the same race). The story takes place during Jean-Luc Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  but involves Mr. Spock, now a diplomat who is caught up in Romulan factional fighting that leads to his vividly described and nasty incarceration, among other things. Dr. McCoy and engineer Scotty, each of whom may be slowing down but has lost none of his ingenuity, must join forces, unofficially, with Picard and his crew, too, in order to bail out Spock and prevent the reunification effort from coming to a bloody end that would be disastrous for the United Federation of Planets as well as the two cultures directly involved. It''s a classic helping of ST adventure (you can almost hear the ST theme, sawed out on schmaltzy violins, welling up between the lines) that ought to please the seemingly endless saga''s legions of fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4684'),
(1991, 'Crossroads of twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tenth book ofThe Wheel of Timefrom theNew York Times#1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit. Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower. In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe thatsaidinis clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies. SUMMARY: In the tenth book of he Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3814'),
(1992, 'Crouch End', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11137'),
(1993, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6682'),
(1994, 'The Crowd. A Study of the Popular Mind', 'Gustave le Bon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8792'),
(1995, 'Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This closing volume of Friedman''s Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory. Even readers unfamiliar with the earlier volumes will quickly be enmeshed in the struggles of the Reverend Damien Vryce and The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, to maintain the order of the planet Erna against the forces of the demon Calesta. The battle is made more complicated in this volume by the development of an allegiance between Calesta and Andrys Tarrant, a descendant of Gerald''s who vows vengeance on his ancestor. Andrys is a bit too inept to ever seem threatening, however, and a bit too lacking in joie de vivre to come off as a classic Pretender/Fool. But the sections without Andrys, especially those focusing on The Hunter, are interesting enough, and as the final battles?involving The Church, The Hunter, the forces of Calesta and various people and factions whose alignments vary throughout the novel?are held around The Hunter''s keep, readers will be enthralled. While Friedman introduces a science fictional raising-of-the-stakes gambit here that isn''t entirely satisfying, her general mastery of her material should delight her fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman''s complex and compelling "Cold Fire Trilogy." The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in hopes of achieving its redemption. A priority purchase for fantasy collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7351'),
(1996, 'A crown of swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great Hunt Book Three:The Dragon Reborn Book Four:The Shadow Rising Book Five:The Fires of Heaven Book Six:Lord of Chaos Book Seven:A Crown of Swords Book Eight:The Path of Daggers Book Nine:Winter''s Heart Book Ten:Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3811'),
(1997, 'The Crown of the Blood', 'Thorpe, Gav', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3867'),
(1998, 'Crows (Charmed Destinies) Counting', 'Mercedes Lackey, Rachel Lee, Catherine Asaro - Charmed Destinies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8960'),
(1999, 'The crucible: a play in four acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/98');
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(2000, 'The Crucifix Killer', 'Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that''s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7214'),
(2001, 'Crucifixion River', 'Marcia Muller; Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2323'),
(2002, 'Cruddy', 'Lynda Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend''s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write.  "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe. The cruddy girl named Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life and the name of the book was called Cruddy.  Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. She could not give the authorities any information about why she was the only survivor and everyone else was lying around in hacked-up pieces."  Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools...  Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name.  Welcome to "Cruddy, " Lynda Barry''s masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years -- an eternity -- apart, which form the backbone of Roberta''s life. "Cruddy" is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale-"cum"-low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader''s mind long after the final page: Roberta''s father, a dangerous alcoholic and out-of-work meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance; the frightening owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar and sometime slaughterhouse; and two charming but quite mad escapees from the Barbara V. Herrmann Home for Adolescent Rest. Written with a teenager''s eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Roberta''s two stories -- part "Easy Rider" and part bipolar "Wizard of Oz" -- painfully but inevitably converge in a surprising denouement in a nightmarish Dreamland in the Nevada desert.  By turns terrifying, darkly funny, and resonant with humanity, propelled by all the narrative power of a superior thriller and burnished by the author''s pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, "Cruddy" is a stunning achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6698'),
(2003, 'Cruel and unusual', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Killing me won''t kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can''t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell''s fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she''d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4115'),
(2004, 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Swedish author Eriksson''s fine second ensemble procedural (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  ), members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division try to connect the dots linking the separate murders of two old men and the disappearance of a third. Eriksson eschews crackling dialogue and facile descriptions in favor of longer, slower developing profiles of the principal men and women of the police unit: Ann Lindell, Ola Haver, Sammy Nilsson, Allan Fredricksson and others. Their investigation proceeds in parallel with the story of Laura Hindersten, daughter of the missing man. Eriksson balances these stories nicely as the detectives reach for clues. Lindell, the single mother of a young boy, emerges as the most compelling investigator, but the others are also distinct individuals. The author''s squad of detectives displays the kind of interdependency and fractious loyalty that endeared Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct squad (_Cop Hater_, etc.) to fans for so many decades.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second procedural to appear in the U.S. from yet another Swedish crime fiction star follows in the substantial footsteps of the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  (2006). This time Eriksson departs a bit from the Ed McBain-like ensemble focus used in the previous book; here the point of view stays mostly with police inspector Ann Lindell as she and her colleagues investigate the murders of three seemingly unrelated men in Uppsala. The connection, unclear to the police, is immediately apparent to the reader, as Eriksson alternates point of view between Lindell and a troubled woman, Laura, whose father has recently disappeared. Dramatic irony builds as we wait for Lindell to connect the dots. Once again Eriksson displays considerable finesse in portraying the inner lives of his cast and in showing how the various inspectors attempt to cope with the strains of the job. This time, though, the alternating focus on the civilian characters is less successful, with the detailed dissection of Laura''s tangled psyche proving more distracting than compelling. Still, Eriksson is a major talent, and his feel for ensemble narrative will have McBain devotees enthralled.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8023'),
(2005, 'Cruel Zinc Melodies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it-s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn-t realize the drama he-s stepping into.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1899'),
(2006, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business. Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(2007, 'Cry for the Strangers', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,Â Â jealously guarded against outsiders. But nowÂ Â strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy isÂ Â suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him sinceÂ Â birth... His sister is haunted by fearfulÂ Â visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways theÂ Â strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. OnlyÂ Â the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struckÂ Â between the people of Clark''s Harbor and someÂ Â supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out forÂ Â a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...Â Â _Cry For The Strangers_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...\n <em>\n  Cry For The Strangers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4584'),
(2008, 'The Cry of the Halidon', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can''t refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica''s interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal and they''ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it''s too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3595'),
(2009, 'Cry of the Hunter', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic''ÅšFrom being a fighter in his teens, to becoming a leader north of the border in his twenties, by the age of forty, Martin Fallon was a revered man; a legend and hero of the Organization.After time in prison, and a battle with the bottle, he''s ready to turn his back on the fight.But the war isn''t over, and now, his services are needed once again''ÅšLed back into operation under false pretences by his employers, Fallon is thrown into a rescue mission, and up against The Ulster Constabulary; a ruthless and terrifying sect with a penchant violence, and a ransom on the head of a king.Fallon must drag himself from the edge to fight for justice, searching for truth, and spilling blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8280'),
(2010, 'Cry to Heaven', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine."To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."--San Francisco Chronicle"Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding."--The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5002'),
(2011, 'Cry Wolf', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur smith is a master."--_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith is a captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome", Italy''s army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9144'),
(2012, 'The crying of lot 49', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10362'),
(2013, 'Cryoburn-ARC', 'Lois M. Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9043'),
(2014, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8767'),
(2015, 'Crysis: Legion', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MANHATTAN IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY''RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE. Welcome to the Big Apple, son. Welcome to the city that never sleeps: invaded by monstrous fusions of meat and machinery, defended by a private army that makes Blackwater look like the Red Cross, ravaged by a disfiguring plague that gifts its victims with religious rapture while it eats them alive. You''ve been thrown into this meat grinder without warning, without preparation, without a clue. Your whole squad was mowed down the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. And the chorus of voices whispering in your head keeps saying that all of this is on you: that you and you alone might be able to turn the whole thing around if you only knew what the hell was going on. You''d like to help. Really you would. But it''s not just the aliens that are gunning for you. Your own kind hunts you as a traitor, and your job might be a bit easier if you didn''t have the sneaking suspicion they could be right. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5070'),
(2016, 'The Crystal Brucephalus', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Iâ€™m a Time Lord, not a bank manager. When I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean - a time travelling restaurant?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the galaxyâ€™s most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6149'),
(2017, 'The crystal city', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person''s future---or their heart.In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He''s a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn''t know exactly why he''s there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he''ll find out soon. But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin''s efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life---a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2496'),
(2018, 'The Crystal Gryphon', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kerovan, whose cloven hoofs instead of feet set him apart from the human folk of the Dales, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding his birth and the nature of his ultimate destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9111'),
(2019, 'Crystal Healer', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: NINTH IN THE ''CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN'' SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo''s genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal''s secrets before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3900'),
(2020, 'Crystal Lies', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carlson''s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  brings to life the horror of crystal methamphetamine addiction. Hapless Glennis Harmon, who\n  <em>\n   thought\n  </em>\n  she was a typical suburban wife and mother, wakes up one day to find her resentful teenage son, Jacob, addicted to meth, the "poor man''s cocaine." In the bargain, Glennis'' high-rolling husband is having an affair. Carlson''s story is as much about a middle-aged woman''s melancholy coping as it is about drugs, but Carlson makes the point that an addiction has ripple effects: on an indulgent mother; a self-righteous sister; and a stern, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may father. Carlson provides no easy answers; instead, she offers a realistic portrait of addictive behavior, the trap of enabling, and the always incomplete process of recovery.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  isn''t as clever as Carlson''s portrait of the ravages of schizophrenia,\n  <em>\n   Finding Alice\n  </em>\n  , but it''s every bit as valuable for bewildered parents--and therapists.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw, real, and provocative,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  thrusts us into a world inhabited by more people than we may realize on the surface. This account of one motherâ€™s struggle for the healing of her drug-addicted son speaks to anyone who has ever loved anyone else. Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Lisa Samson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Church Ladies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Tiger Lillie\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs an addiction specialist, I was moved by\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  . With great confidence, I can say that Melody Carlsonâ€™s story will enlighten, encourage, and empower you. Read this book; walk through its pages toward healthy God-directed relationships.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Counseling &amp; Health Resources, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn honest, doesnâ€™t-pull-any-punches, look at the reality of addiction and codependency in Christian families. Told in Carlsonâ€™s adept style, this is a novel that will lead readers into the light of a powerful God who stands firm and loves beyond all measure and who delights in meeting His children inside the worldâ€™s most impenetrable, convoluted issues. I found myself praying Carlsonâ€™s prayers over my own children as I lay in bed. Read, enjoy, andâ€“most importantâ€“pass this along to everyone you know who is struggling with addiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Deborah Bedford, author of _If I Had You, Just Between Us\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  When You Believe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œâ€˜Crystallize:Â to coat with sugar.Â Â To give a definite and permanent form.â€™Â  So says the\n  <em>\n   American Heritage Dictionary.Â \n  </em>\n  Melody Carlsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal LiesÂ \n  </em>\n  creates a permanent image of a family in pain and the various ways they chose to sugar coat their lives rather than face it.Â  We are this family, whether touched by methamphetamine use, alcohol addiction, super-perfection and adulteryÂ or not.Â  We are this family because we avoid, separate, pretend blindness, live inside fogs of drugs or denial because to face the pain alone is just too great.Â  What Melody reveals through her crispÂ yet tender words is that we are not alone even when we separate ourselves.Â Â God has chosen to bring each of us closer.Â  We are given the gift of hope and the definite and permanent form of Godâ€™s love to take us through the lies, theÂ pain and disappointment into a steadied peace.Â  Melodyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is\n  <em>\n   brilliant\n  </em>\n  .Â  Her best.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of The Tender Ties series\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMelody Carlson knowsÂ addiction is an issue that affects not only addicts, but their families, their friends, their associates. And she shows that, when the addict is a believer, addiction affects the body of Christ.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful lesson, taught the way Jesus taughtâ€“in story. I recommend it especially to those of us who have thought we were being charitable when we looked at those marginalized by addiction and thought, â€˜There but for the grace of God go I.â€™ Carlson''s highly personable prose puts that viewpoint on its ear, and teaches us to see it as, â€˜Here we are together, in need of God''s grace.â€™\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is clearly truthâ€“revealed in fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Tom Morrisey, author of\n  <em>\n   Yucatan Deep\n  </em>\n  and _Turn Four\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œCrystal Lies\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches about the emotional devastation caused by addictions, and yet offers beautiful, accessible hope.Â  Having been through the turmoil of addictive behavior in my own family, I wept with both the agony and the joy of what I read.Â  Don''t miss this book!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Janelle Burnham Schneider, author of â€œFrom Carriage to Marriageâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Brides for a Bit\n  </em>\n  anthology and â€œA Distant Loveâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Christmas Duty\n  </em>\n  anthology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8416'),
(2021, 'Crystal Line', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers'' profession."LOCUSWhen Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn''t counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra''s mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10825'),
(2022, 'The Crystal Seas', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1960'),
(2023, 'Crystal Singer', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10861'),
(2024, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n War in Cuba isn''t Ben Tyler''s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler''s sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he''s not dying until he gets the money he''s owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there''s one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man''s side who could help Ben get everything he''s got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island''s going straight to hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(2025, 'Cube Route', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony''s bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series'' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dimension to this exciting saga.In the magical land of Xanth, wishes are far more than mere words. So when a Plain Jane called Cube whispers a wistful wish to be beautiful, she finds herself leading a company of colorful companions on a search for the mysterious Cube Route--a perilous path that leads to danger, adventure, and perhaps her heart''s desire as well.This curious quest takes them all over Xanth, into the mythical realm of Phaze, and even to our own world, where Cube rescues a beautiful human woman from a very ugly situation, ending at last in a mysterious Counter-Xanth where things can be transformed into their opposites in the wink of an eye.A rollicking tale brimming with laughter, wonder, and enchantment, Cube Route is also a moving exploration of the beauty that dwells within all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3298'),
(2026, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen King puts nerve-tearing teeth into the terror of man''s best friend turning into the ultimate beast.With this warning, prepare to meet Cujo, a friendly, playful 200-pound Saint Bernard who chases a rabbit into an underground cavern.When he emerges from the darkness, he is something else. Something that the men, women, and children of Castle rock, Maine, do not suspect. Until is too late. Until the fever of fear rises and spreads. Until no one is safe, and no one can escape the insatiable slavering evil padding on four paws from victim to victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4281'),
(2027, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11130'),
(2028, 'Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food With Advice From Top Culinary Professionals', 'Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you suspect you might have the itch to make a mark anywhere in the hospitality industry, this is your book. It''s chockfull of genuine insights, accurate information, and thoughtful advice from real people who have already walked in your shoesâ€”or the ones you''ve been contemplating trying on."\n <br />\n -Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of _Setting the Table\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmilowâ€™s book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to todayâ€™s professional possibilities in the culinary world.â€\n <br />\n â€”Eric Peterson, The Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThank Goodness Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride have written Culinary Careersâ€\n <br />\n â€”Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmilow leaves no refrigerator unopened in this guide that is excellent for everyone from new grads to those contemplating a major career shiftâ€â€”Lisa Messenger, Cooks Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œCulinary Careers\n </em>\n does a great job laying out road maps for a career in the food world.Â And through its eighty-nine interviews, the book also conveys the passion and dedication that I see amongst my fellow chefs and restaurant professionals, around the nation.â€\n <br />\n --Marcus Samuelsson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone in the food service business, or even thinking about it, this is a must have guide.â€â€”Tim Zagat, Zagat Survey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCulinary Careers is a refreshingly unbiased introduction to the range of educational opportunities and careersavailable to those who see the world through the lens of food and cooking.â€â€”Bob delGrosso, A Hunger Artist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A heaping plate of solid, first-hand advice from real people in the business." --- The Sacramento Bee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today''s professional possibilities in the culinary world.\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Eric Petersen, Kansas City P.L., MO, Library Journal\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilowâ€”president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York Cityâ€”who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional kitchens. Tapping into that vast alumni network and beyond,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is the only career book to offer candid portraits of dozens and dozens of coveted jobs at all levels to help you find your dream job.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  Instead of giving glossed-over, general descriptions of various jobs,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n features exclusive interviews with both food-world luminaries and those on their way up, to help you discover what a day in the life is really like in your desired field.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Get the ultimate in advice from those at the very pinnacle of the industry, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl.\n <br />\n â€¢ Figure out whether you need to go to cooking school or not in order to land the job you want.\n <br />\n â€¢ Read about the inspiringâ€”and sometimes unconventionalâ€”paths individuals took to reach their current positions.\n <br />\n â€¢ Find out what employers look for, and how you can put your best foot forward in interviews.\n <br />\n â€¢ Learn what a food stylistâ€™s day on the set of a major motion picture is like, how a top New York City restaurant publicity firm got off the ground, what to look for in a yacht crew before jumping on board as the chef, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With information on educational programs and a birdâ€™s-eye view of the industry,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for anyone looking to break into the food world, whether youâ€™re a first-time job seeker or a career changer looking for your next step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8505'),
(2029, 'A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000', 'Clare Hanson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''As a teacher, I am grateful to Hanson for bringing forth a study that combines a careful historical reconstruction of the scientific practices surrounding pregnancy with incisive analysis of cultural representations responding to and shaping those practices. A timely and much-needed book!'' - Dr Lisa Zunshine, Department of English, University of Kentucky ''A fascinating study which combines clear exposition of scientific thought with incisive analysis of a range of cultural texts and contexts. Absorbing and illuminating, this book makes a major contribution both to our understanding of the history of medicine and of the intricate interrelations between medicine and culture.'' - Peter Gluckmann FRS, Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland ''The historical sweep of this study is impressive and its emphasis on the way pregnancy is framed and experienced makes it a landmark text. ''Informal'' knowledges shared by midwives and mothers over the centuries are set deftly against the discourses of science and medical observation. The resulting argument illustrates how the images, myths and ''facts'' about pregnancy contribute to shifting accounts of what pregnancy means in a given culture at a given time. From the rise in obstetrics in the eighteenth century to the ever-shifting boundaries of reproductive technology in the twenty-first century, this book captures the continuing tensions between our definitions of nature and culture, science and experience, to show that pregnancy, as both medical condition and cultural experience, is ripe for re-evaluation.'' - Imelda Whelehan, Professor of English and Women''s Studies, De Montfort University ''Hanson builds up a rounded picture of the joys, pains and prejudices that have surrounded pregnancy since 1750.'' - Beth Wright, Women: A Cultural Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and fetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8965'),
(2030, 'The Culture Code', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n  <em>\n   (June 6)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5970'),
(2031, 'The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live as They Do', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n <em>\n  (June 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9648'),
(2032, 'Cup of Gold (Ulverscroft Large Print)', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck''s sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by two passions; to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint, and to conquer Panama and wrest ''the cup of gold'' from Spanish hands. This work is a fantastic, swashbuckling stuff!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3010');
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(2033, 'A Cup of Tea', 'Amy Ephron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n adds a touch of class--and a love triangle--to the classic theme of parallel lives and their accidental crossing. New York City, in the uncertain days of World War I, is home to Rosemary Fells, who is the sort of woman with the time to strike stunning poses and rearrange her curls; Eleanor Smith, whom Rosemary finds under a street lamp, miserable and shivering, is certainly not. Miss Fells indulges a whim of beneficence, whisking "the creature" home to share warmth, tea, and a change of clothing. Once clean and dry--fortified with sandwiches and brandy--young Eleanor and Rosemary''s fiancÃ© meet in the hallway and exchange a look, the kind of look that will forever change the course of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n is a well-crafted, terse novel that reads like a good short story. It''s a refreshing step back to yesterday, a time when the fates picnicked on the glass slopes of privilege.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Rosemary Fell, privileged and accustomed to having all that she wants, is set to marry Philip Alsop. Of the same social class, Philip struggled years to build his own shipping concern into a success after the death of his father. Now their future together seems to promise happiness. Then Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith home with her, offering the seemingly penniless young woman temporary shelter from the weather. Instead, Philip instantly falls in love with her and the star-crossed love pulls all three characters into a dramatic, sorrowful ending. Ephron writes short, intense chapters, yet allows room for emotions and imagination to expand fully. She maintains interest by ending the chapters exactly at the next eventful point in the story, making the novel a natural page-turner. Sustaining the tension between the characters, while subtly interweaving more complexities of the plot, the author builds towards the intense conclusion. Using precise historical details of 1917 New York society, from clothing to moral attitudes, Ephron captures the ambiance of the era as well as the differences in lifestyles between the wealthy and working classes.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8527'),
(2034, 'Cupcake', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family -- and her true love, Shrimp.** She wants to find a cool job, the city''s best caffeination and most perfect cupcake, and a hot new love. But the reality of CC''s new life hits some unexpected obstacles, including a broken leg that renders her immobile; the joy and aggravation of sharing an apartment with a roommate who''s also an older brother; and a tasty selection of guys -- none of whom measure up to Shrimp. Then, just when CC starts to get her new life on track, her old love returns. Shrimp has given up on his plans to live and surf in New Zealand and arrives in NYC with nothing to do other than to be with CC. And this time CC is determined that she and Shrimp will not repeat their old mistakes. This third book about reformed hellion Cyd Charisse is just as unforgettable as *Gingerbread* and *Shrimp*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3272'),
(2035, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(2036, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5457'),
(2037, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era â€œa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â€ Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this â€œLost Generationâ€ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâ€™s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgeraldâ€™s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(2038, 'Curious Folks Ask', 'Seethaler, Sherry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11174'),
(2039, 'Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries', 'Sherry Seethaler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dr. Seethaler has written an excellent book for any interested student of science. She answers great questions about the world around us in this fascinating book. As a high school science teacher, I encounter many of these from my own students. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has pondered questions starting with ls"how,rs" ls"what,rs" or ls"why.rs"" Ernest James Lo, Science Teacher, Woodside High School, Woodside, CA Prepare to Be Fascinated! Why does the flu change every year? bull; What makes glue sticky? bull; What causes out-of-body experiences? bull; Are all brands of gas the same? bull; Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells? bull; Is one "horsepower" really equal to the power of one horse? bull; Why canrs"t you sneeze with your eyes open? bull; How much does a cremated body weigh? These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer andSan Diego Union-Tribune columnist Sherry Seethaler.Curious Folks Askbrings together 162 of her best answersall crystal-clear, accurate, quick, and a pleasure to read. Seethaler is one of this generationrs"s best science explainers, and it shows: Every answer is accurate, fun to read, and distilled to a single page or less! Want to know how canned air workshellip;or nuclear bombs? What causes goose bumps, earwax, dandruff, headaches? Whether itrs"s healthy to crack your knuckles, drink decaf, eat chocolate? What it costs to run all those LED lights around your house? Itrs"s all hereand a whole lot more! Your bodyrs"s oddities: knees to knuckles, itches to sneezes Surprising facts about how your body grows and works Our ingenious inventions The past, present, and future of our relentless human inventiveness Pesky pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and prions How they keep outsmarting us, and why itrs"s so hard to stay healthy Common chemical concoctions The science behind the everyday products that have transformed our lives Uniquely human: how we got here, how wers"re unique New lessons from genetics, archaeology, and evolutionary biology\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8600'),
(2040, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  , is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child''s quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor''s poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington''s owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists.\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.\n  <em>\n   --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what''s going on in other people''s heads. When his neighbor''s poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents'' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don''t speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don''t eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8270'),
(2041, 'Currant Events', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond comprehension. Vexed and bewildered, and more than a little concerned, Clio resolved to leave the quiet comfort of her study on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, and ask her old friend, the Good Magician Humfrey, to search a solution to her problem in his Book of Answers. But, much to her consternation, Humfrey required her to perform a magical Service before she could acquire her Answer: to rescue Xanth''s dragons from the verge of extinction before the delicate balance of its wildlife was permanently thrown out of whack. Her momentous mission lead her to a dangerous Dragon World hidden amongst the Moons of Ida, across a perilous landscape filled with wonder and danger, in search of the fabled Currant, a very rare red berry that might hold the secret she sought. Along the way she acquired a fellowship of companions, including the brave and beautiful Becka Dragongirl, a pair of pocket dragons named Drew and Drusie, a charming young child called Ciriana whose destiny was somehow entwined with hers, and Sherlock, a sweet but homely man from Mundania who might just be a master magician himself. Together they gradually began to unravel the momentous mystery of Xanth''s missing history. And Clio began to realize that Sherlock''s enchantments had begun to work their way into her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3302'),
(2042, 'The Currents of Space', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.  Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.  He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.  But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:  Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9511'),
(2043, 'Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages', 'R. V. Branham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although he presented only four ways to do it, Paul Simon suggested there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Whether or not there actually are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are certainly more than 80 ways to say "knep dig selv " to someone. For those of you who don''t know, knep dig selv is Danish for lech tiezdayen , which is Hebrew for "go fuck yourself." And if you really wanted to get creative, you could tell someone to "nenda kutomba, nakata tatu ," which is Swahili for "fuck yourself, in triplicate."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anyone who has ever studied foreign languages knows firsthand that what you learn from books and classrooms prepares you for only so much, and then you''re on your own to figure out what it means when someone in Finland tells you, "PÃ¤Ã¤ssÃ¤si tekee kusi patoja ja paska puroja ." But thanks to Curse &amp; Berate in 69+ Languages (Soft Skull Press, 284 pages, $13.95), you now have a useful tool that lets you know when some Finnish faszszopÃ³ has just told you, "In your mind''s eye, dams are built of piss and rivers flow with shit." (FaszszopÃ³ is Hungarian for "cocksucker," in case you were wondering).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written and edited by R. V. Branham, who''s also the editor of the multi-lingual Portland lit journal Gobshite Quarterly , Curse &amp; Berate is an indispensable resource for finding just the right way to say "vai chupar merda, o seu filho da puta "--which is Portuguese for "go suck on shit, you son of a bitch"--so as to get into less trouble than if you just came right out and said it. "From a very early age I always noticed that those people who don''t have anything nice to say and who don''t pull their punches have the most fun," says Barnham, explaining part of what inspired Curse &amp; Berate , which he has been working on in one form or another since 1984.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overflowing with invectives, curses and blasphemous belittlings, the book is more than a resource guide for becoming a multilingual potty mouth. This is a valuable tool for bridging communication barriers, making it possible to say such important things as "millananyawshanmi "--Quechua for "I feel like throwing up"--and "nej, jeg har ikke en prÃ¦servativ, har du ?"--Danish for "I don''t have a condom, do you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hopefully, this book will prove helpful in filling gaps in people''s knowledge of a language--warts and all--and also be a lot of fun," says assistant editor and contributor Channing Dodson. And you know what I say to that? Danke. --\n  <em>\n   Willamette Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those times when â€œyou blackguard!â€ just wonâ€™t do,\n  <em>\n   Sinister Wisdom\n  </em>\n  supplies an amazing array of crude, vulgar, offensive, scurrilous, lewd, and otherwise unprintable denunciations. Organized thematically and translated into more than 69 languages, it contains an alphabetical listing of every conceivable (and inconceivable) slur and insult, from comments on mothers'' peculiar anatomy and hobbies, to suggestions on where to go and how, to observations on how others spend their solitary moments. Appendices cover blasphemies, bodily functions, sexual deviations, and variations on â€œyo mama!â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7717'),
(2044, 'The Curse of Chalion', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has been scarred, physically and mentally, from secret betrayals by the very people who now rule Chalion through Iselle''s uncle, and who seek to control her younger brother, the heir, as well. To rescue the royesse, and save Chalion, Cazaril must play matchmaker between Iselle and the prince of another realm, fight off assassins, lift a century-old curse, and risk everything-learning not to run from his own love for Bertriz-along the way. Bujold weaves a convincing and captivating fantasy world, well researched, with magic that works and gods that live without destroying the balance of this medieval society. Cazaril''s life is rich with detail, and plays a part in the conclusion. The villains are believably motivated. The young heroines are deeply sympathetic characters as well. Readers will find themselves rooting for the good guys, while still uncertain that all can end without at least one of them suffering a dire fate. A finely balanced mixture of adventure, swordplay, court intrigue, romance, magic, and religion makes this book a delightful read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4906'),
(2045, 'The Curse of Deadman&#39;s Forest', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Deadman''s Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepâ€”a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracle--a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice. If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3262'),
(2046, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2109'),
(2047, 'The curse of the Moonraker: a tale of survival', 'Eth Clifford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The survivors of a strange shipwreck in the Auckland Islands fight for survival under seemingly hopeless conditions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(2048, 'The Curse of the Pharaohs', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters, a writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key (Washington Post Book World) here continues her series of mysteries starring Amelia Peabody.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1321'),
(2049, 'The Cursed Expedition', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11149'),
(2050, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera''s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord''s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable - uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army''s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort of a war-torn realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1724'),
(2051, 'A Curtain Falls', 'Stefanie Pintoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Zielers"s fiancÃ©e in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both men were earmarked for much bigger things, Ziele moved to Dobson, a small town north of the city, to escape the violence, and Mulvaney buried himself even deeper, agreeing to head up the precinct in the most crime-ridden area in the city. Yet with all of the detectives and resources at Mulvaneyrs"s disposal, a particularly puzzling crime compels him to look for someone he can trust absolutely. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading ladyrs"s costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises''no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York. Following on the heels of Stefanie Pintoffrs"s acclaimed and award-winning debut, A Curtain Fallsis a moody and evocative tale that follows Ziele and his partners as they scour the dark streets of early-twentieth-century New York in search of a true fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3542'),
(2052, 'Curtain: Poirot&#39;s Last Case', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, that ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5228'),
(2053, 'Cutting Edge', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WIRED.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fiber-optic ring is his most ambitious?and expensive?endeavor to date.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Devane trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, and the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts?and kidnaps his daughter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to save his daughter and turn the tables against Devane?once and for all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6524'),
(2054, 'Cutting Edge (2002)', 'Clancy, Tom - Power Plays 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9905'),
(2055, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11224'),
(2056, 'Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age', 'Robin M. Kowalski Phd; Susan P. Limber Phd; Patricia W. Agatston Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?It provides an excellent overview of bullying research in general, paying proper attention to research from around the world, and a good overview of the cyberbullying research, much of which the authors have been directly involved in conducting.? (_Research Papers in Education_, August 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?The authors provide current research that informs the reader as to the pervasiveness of this event in the lives of children everywhere-no child is immune.? (_Family Journal_, April 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?_Cyber Bullying_ provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.? (_The Parent Report_, March 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Champions and critics of the [cyberbullying] laws agree that preventive education is a more powerful deterrent to cyberbullying than discipline. That notion is supported by Patricia Agatston, co-author of\n <em>\n  Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age\n </em>\n and a counselor at Cobb County School District''s Prevention-Intervention Center in Georgia.? (_Washington Post_, January 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?A must-read for anyone who has access to technology, and it is particularly relevant for any parent and educator who works with youth. Cyber Bullying provides eye-opening and helpful suggestions for helping parents and educators monitor and track students'' use of technology. Provides a very useful roadmap for educators and parents about this phenomenon.? (_PsycCritiques_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The school bully isn''t necessarily that oversized, physically intimidating kid anymore. Humiliation by words has become just as popular--if not more so--as children''s social lives have migrated online...The authors of\n <em>\n  Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age,\n </em>\n which comes out November 14, interviewed approximately 150 middle and high school students during the spring and fall of 2006. Aside from their own first-hand research, the book includes a plethora of statistics from leading academic researchers covering cyberbullying and real-life bullying around the world." (_CNET Networks_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A very helpful guide to the cyber world for parents, teachers, school counselors and parent educators." (_NASAP Family Newsletter_)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Much needed addition ? .Mandatory reading for parents of adolescents and school personnel, administrators and teachers ? .Now is the time to read this book.? (_Metapsychology_)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?A useful introduction to the growing problem of electronic harassment among children. The chapters providing advice to parents and educators are quite helpful.? (_American Journal of Psychology_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating, eye-opening reading about one of the most insidious problems facing anyone working with children and teens, and anyone caring about school violence.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Michael Popkin, Ph.D.\n </strong>\n , author, _Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBullying in The Digital Age effectively uses real life stories, research and data from leading organizations like i-SAFE to provide the world with the who, what, when, where and how of cyber bullying. This is the most comprehensive look at Cyber Bullying to date and will be a great tool for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Teri Schroeder\n </strong>\n , CEO of i-SAFE, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensable resource that combines new research and specific, practical techniques to help parents, schools, and communities protect young people from cyber-bullying. This book will make a difference!"\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Stan Davis\n </strong>\n , author,\n <em>\n  Schools Where Everyone Belongs\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10446'),
(2057, 'Cybernation', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ContrÃ´ler le Net, c''est contrÃ´ler le monde. 2011. Black-out total de l''Internet aprÃ¨s une sÃ©rie d''attaques parfaitement synchronisÃ©es contre tous les relais du rÃ©seau mondial. A peine la premiÃ¨re phase exÃ©cutÃ©e, la seconde arrive, mortelle : les terroristes comptent maintenant s''en prendre aux personnes... Pour Jay Gridley et la Net Force, un seul coupable possible : Cybernation. Un groupe qui milite pour la reconnaissance internationale d''un Etat virtuel. Mais, derriÃ¨re l''utopie libertaire, se cachent des motivations aussi mercantiles que criminelles... Entre rÃ©alitÃ© virtuelle et gÃ©opolitique, espionnage et technologie de pointe, Net Force se bat contre les dÃ©rives du Web du XXIe siÃ¨cle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6477'),
(2058, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/666'),
(2059, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4287'),
(2060, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1167'),
(2061, 'The Cygnet and the Firebird', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An award-winning master of fantasy returns to the enchanting world she created in The Sorceress and the Cygnet. It is a world both dark and beautiful, filled with unforgettable characters and wonders beyond imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9710'),
(2062, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(2063, 'Cyteen', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes".--Locus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10883'),
(2064, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8196'),
(2065, 'D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food From Scratch', 'Vanessa Barrington &amp; Sara Remington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates.\n <em>\n  D.I.Y. Delicious\n </em>\n goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6977'),
(2066, 'd&#39;Alembert 01 Imperial Stars', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #1 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. The Empire of Earth, spanning more than a thousand solar systems, is threatened by a conspiracy from within. Now, with more than three-quarters of the Galaxy ready to fall into enemy hands, the Empire is forced to call on its top-secret weapon: the renowned Circus of the Galaxy featuring the d''Alembert family, a clan of circus performers with uncanny abilities. But even these super agents may not be in time to save the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith wrote the original novelette, "Imperial Stars," but passed away before he could write any more in this series. I was hired to expand the original story to book length and write nine further books. It''s not easy following in the footsteps of a master, but fans have told me I did a good job. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10784'),
(2067, 'd&#39;Alembert 02 Stranglers&#39; Moon', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10787');
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(2068, 'd&#39;Alembert 03 The Clockwork Traitor', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #3 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. By law, Princess Edna, heir to the interstellar Empire of Earth, must marry a commoner. But as she travels through her domain, word comes of a mysterious threat to her succession. It''s up to Jules and Yvette d''Alembert and their family of circus performers, all agents of the Empire, to uncover this bizarre plot before it can wreak havoc for all of humanity.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith created the universe of the Family d''Alembert in his novelette "Imperial Stars." I have built upon the foundation he established with nine further books of my own. I hope you find them worthy of his talent. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10782'),
(2069, 'd&#39;Alembert 04 Getaway world', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10768'),
(2070, 'd&#39;Alembert 05 Appointment at Bloodstar', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10774'),
(2071, 'd&#39;Alembert 06 Purity Plot', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10772'),
(2072, 'd&#39;Alembert 07 Planet of Treachery', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Classic space opera adventure, Book #7 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. For centuries, the planet Gastonia has been a planet of exile, an escape-proof prison world for the worst sorts of traitors. But now, it seems, prisoners are indeed escaping, and all evidence points to the sinister, all-knowing conspiracy that continues to shadow the Throne. The d''Alemberts must infiltrate this world of traitors--and they must do it without a safety net, because if they fail they themselves will be trapped on this inhospitable world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10004'),
(2073, 'd&#39;Alembert 08 Eclipsing binaries', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chapters: Eclipsing Binary, Epsilon Ursae Majoris, Epsilon Aurigae, Ss 433, Alpha Coronae Borealis, Zeta Andromedae, Delta Orionis, Delta Capricorni, Castor, 8 Andromedae, Vv Cephei, Zeta Cygni, Delta Equulei, Hw Virginis, Dp Leonis, 94 Aquarii, Pi Lupi, Yz Cassiopeiae, Oy Carinae, Delta Velorum, Alcyone, Ww Aurigae, Epsilon Carinae, Nn Serpentis, Zeta Tauri, Delta Cassiopeiae, 29 Aquarii, Qs Virginis, Tau Arietis, Zeta Aurigae, Ly Aurigae, Hu Aquarii, Mu Sagittarii, Hd 87822, Qs Aquilae, Ar Aurigae, Algol Variable, 17 Lyrae, 86 Aquarii, W Ursae Majoris Variable, 31 Camelopardalis, Z Chamaeleontis, Hd 172044, R Arae, V420 Aurigae, Sigma Scorpii, Upsilon Sagittarii, Sigma Aquilae, Xi Tauri, Eo Aurigae, Hr 6902, Hd 126200, Hd 141846, Epsilon Ursae Minoris, 3 Centauri, Lh54-425, Hd 152010, R Canis Majoris, Psi Virginis, V357 Carinae. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher''s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Epsilon Aurigae ( Aur / Aurigae) is a star in the constellation Auriga. It is traditionally known as Almaaz, Haldus, or Al Anz. Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary system composed of a Fo supergiant and a companion which is generally accepted to be a huge dark disk orbiting an unknown object, possibly a binary system of 2 small B-type stars. This star is special because the large supergiant is being elipsed by something even bigger and beause this object is almost completely dark, instead of an expected supergiant star. About every 27 years, epsilon Aurigae''s brightness drops from an apparent visual magnitude of +2.92 to +3.83 . This dimming lasts between 640-730 days . In addition to this eclipse, the system also has a low amplitude pulsation with a period around 66 days. The system lies approximately 2,000 light years from Earth. Epsilon Aurigae was first suspected to be a varia...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2101873\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10773'),
(2074, 'd&#39;Alembert 09 The Omicron Invasion', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8812'),
(2075, 'd&#39;Alembert 10 Revolt of the galaxy', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic science fiction action-adventure. Book #10 in the "Family d''Alembert" series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Goldin was born in Philadelphia, but has lived most of his life in California. He has a Bachelors degree in Astronomy from UCLA, and has served as editor of the SFWA Bulletin and SFWA Western Regional Director. He currently lives in the San Francisco area with his wife (and sometime collaborator) Mary Mason.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10776'),
(2076, '&quot;D&quot; Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4145'),
(2077, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion. SUMMARY: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(2078, 'Daddy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend''s unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer''s stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel''s best!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master''s degree at Harvard. Then Oliver''s mother dies of Alzheimer''s disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5986'),
(2079, 'Daemon&#39;s Mark', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Werewolf homicide detective Luna Wilder guards the fine line that separates Nocturne City''s humans from the weres and witches that roam its streets. Now, Luna must thwart a new evil more dangerous than anything she''s ever encountered."DAEMON''S MARKSomeone, or some"thing," is setting fire to the homes of the city''s most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that''s growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies, trolls, and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for help. As they work to uncover the source of the bloodshed, Luna''s attraction for Will deepens. But just as she learns Will''s darkest secret, Nocturne City is thrust into total chaos--leaving Luna and Will in a path of destruction they may not be able to stop...or survive.Praise for the Nocturne City series: "A nonstop thriller laced with ferociously deadly menace." --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced."--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1539'),
(2080, 'Dagmar&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2752'),
(2081, 'The Dain curse', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(2082, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1597'),
(2083, 'Daisy Miller: And, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4510'),
(2084, 'Dalamar the Dark', 'Nancy Varian Berberick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A talent for magic runs like fire through the blood of Dalamar Argent. Yet he is only a servant in the house of an elvish lord, not worthy of the High Art of Sorcery and denied all but the most grudging teaching.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As war simmers on the borders of Silvanesti, Dalamar will find a way to learn his art. His quest will take him along dark paths toward an awesome destiny.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10992'),
(2085, 'Damaged', 'Pamela Callow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance''s accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it''s just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn''t only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl''s death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm''s charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation--and for redemption.Unwilling to live with the damage she may have caused, Kate pursues the case on her own and unearths some chilling facts.Facts that lead straight to the heart of a legal conspiracy.Facts that lead Kate directly into the surgically skilled hands of the Body Butcher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3476'),
(2086, 'Damia', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Afra has submerged his romantic feelings for the great telepath, Rowan, and has even dedicated his life to helping raise her family, but trouble brews for Afra when Rowan''s talented daughter,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10795'),
(2087, 'Damia&#39;s Children', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although they have inherited their mother''s legendary powers of telepathy, Damia''s children will need more than psionic talent to face the enemy''s children, an alien race more insect than human\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10835'),
(2088, 'Damnation Alley', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You''ve gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi''s cinematic canon. But there''s at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it''s prevented the movie''s far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny''s post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy''s most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that''s responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what''s the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren''t much less dangerous. Damnation Alley might not be Zelazny''s best, but for reading on, say, a road trip, you can''t do much better. Throw in some ''60s-style, freak-out closing riffs, and a trip down the Alley becomes pretty hard to pass up. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9046'),
(2089, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their   prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers   that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment   for an ancient debt. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(2090, 'The Damned Thing', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his The Devils Dictionary (1911). He wrote some of his books under the pseudonyms Dod Grile and J. Milton Sloluck. Bierces lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, Bitter Bierce. Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writers career. His short stories are considered among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Killed at Resaca, and Chickamauga. His works include: The Fiends Delight (1873), Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874), Black Beetles in Amber (1892), Fantastic Fables (1899), Shapes of Clay (1903), A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky (1907), Write It Right (1909) and A Cynic Looks at Life (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10516'),
(2091, 'The Damned UTD', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''The most extraordinary novel about football yet to appear.'' Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country''s most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he''d face there would make or break the club - or him. David Peace''s extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5689'),
(2092, 'A Damsel in Distress', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Maud Marsh flings herself into American George Benson''s cab in Piccadilly, he believes he has met a damsel in distress. George traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where life is hilariously muddled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2659'),
(2093, 'Dance &amp; the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(2094, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6730'),
(2095, 'Dance Hall of the Dead', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...as with all of Hillerman''s other books on tape,\n <em>\n  Dance Hall of the Dead\n </em>\n is compelling, colorful, and just complex enough to keep you interested, but not confused." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Catalyst_, September 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "An author''s style has a lot to do with the success of an audio book...One writer whose works on the mark for listeners every time is Tony Hillerman...Hillerman is a former newspaper reporter, and his novels have a journalistic feel. His sentences tend to be straightforward, and they translate well to tape...An editor for Recorded Books said Hillerman''s books are "very crisply written, and he leaves a lot to the imagination. Some writers put in too much detail. He leaves a lot of room for the listener."...Actor Michael Ansara, who has portrayed native Americans on television and in films, is the reader for Audio Partners'' work. His reading is crisp and clear, with a touch of gravity." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Indianapolis Star_, September 1991\n</p>\n<p>\n "High entertainment, an aesthetically satisfying glimpse of the still-powerful tribal mysteries." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5445'),
(2096, 'Dance of the gods', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the second volume in Roberts'' paranormal Circle Trilogy, the Circle of Six prepare to battle for their lives--and their hearts--against the one vampire determined to rule the earth. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2648'),
(2097, 'A Dance to the music of time: a novel. At Lady Molly&#39;s', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(2098, 'Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2619'),
(2099, 'Dance Upon the Air', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2577'),
(2100, 'A Dance With Dragons', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Game of Thrones\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Once and Future King,\n  </em>\n  this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Clash of Kings\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Storm of Swords\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Feast for Crows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11221'),
(2101, 'Dance With the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8291'),
(2102, 'Dancing the Code', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Brigadierâ€™s going to shoot you, Jo,â€™ the Doctor said grimly, â€˜and then heâ€™s going to shoot me. Both of us are going to die.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor builds a machine designed to predict the future. It shows the Brigadier murdering him and Jo in cold blood. Unable to tell where or when this event is destined to occur, the Doctor and Jo decide that they must stay apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Jo is sent on a top-secret mission to the war-torn Arab nation of Kebiria. But upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and consigned to a brutal political prison. The Kebirians have something to hide: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing. And the Doctor and UNIT soon discover that unless it is stopped, the alien presence will spread to overrun the entire world.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6715'),
(2103, 'Dancing With Bears', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7105'),
(2104, 'The Danger', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10969'),
(2105, 'A Dangerous Fortune', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follett (Night Over Water, 1991; The Pillars of The Earth, 1989, etc.) peeks into the naughty world of late Victorian merchant bankers. A tragic misadventure among schoolboys is at the root of the rotten world of the Pilaster family. Weak bully Edward Pilaster and his too-dear South American chum Mickey Miranda cause the death by drowning of a lad from the lower form at their minor public school and then grow up to become as corrupt as one might expect. Mickey murders his way to a sinecure in the London legation of his nitrate-rich Latin American homeland, and, with much help from his gorgeous, manipulative mum Augusta, Edward bumbles his way to a partnership in the immensely important family bank. The only really good Pilaster, aside from discreetly gay Uncle Samuel, is young Hugh, whose father left the family firm, founded his own bank, and then had to commit suicide when the bank foundered. Hugh is a born banker, but since he''s so much smarter than cousin Edward, Aunt Augusta hates him and throws constant obstacles in his path. Against Hugh''s advice, Mickey and Edward team up on a series of huge loans to Mickey''s government--money that goes to the purchase of war materiel and the advancement of Mickey''s thuggish father. On this rotten foundation, the Pilaster bank grows to Imperial preeminence and Augusta gets the earldom she wants for the husband she dislikes. Hugh, pining for the Polish-born, Jewish bareback- rider he loved and lost and still nursing his childhood memory of That Day At The Swimming Hole, gets nothing but grief until those shaky South American bonds finally collapse and he''s really needed. Interesting financial tips and a sprinkling of naughty bits, but the rest is minor Masterpiece Theatre. (BOM ??) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Political and amorous intrigues,Â Â cold-blooded murders and financial crises...old-fashionedÂ Â entertainment!" --\n  <em>\n   San FranciscoÂ Â Chronicle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Breathlessly plotted...relentlesslyÂ Â suspensenseful." --\n  <em>\n   The New YorkÂ Â Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, complex plot..Â Â sexual intrigue...fascinating characters...you won''t beÂ Â able to put down this exciting page-turner!"Â Â --\n  <em>\n   Lexington Herald-Leader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7381'),
(2106, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4538'),
(2107, 'Dangerous liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time** Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(2108, 'a Dangerous Man (2006)(+)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10029'),
(2109, 'A Dangerous Mourning', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat''s daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth...."A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(2110, 'Dangling Conversations', 'Ed Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1375'),
(2111, 'Daniel &amp; Ian: For Now, Forever\\\\In from the Cold', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***For Now, Forever*** Annaâ€”Daniel''s wife of forty yearsâ€”relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty. ***In From the Cold*** In this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling the British couldn''t prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for the fight he''s got on his hands to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2618'),
(2112, 'Daniel Deronda (1-4)', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Volume: 1-4 Publisher: Edinburgh: William Blackwood Publication date: 1876 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10661'),
(2113, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2055'),
(2114, 'Daniel&#39;s Desire', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4155'),
(2115, 'Danielle Ganek', 'The Summer We Read Gatsby (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4210'),
(2116, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(2117, 'Danny the Champion of the World', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6277'),
(2118, 'Danse macabre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Timesbestselling series. These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2801'),
(2119, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a warm, golden evening in Romeâ€”a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The filmâ€™s star was missingâ€”and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewsonâ€™s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limboâ€”the first of Danteâ€™s nine circles of Hell.While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locationsâ€”from Rome to San Franciscoâ€”Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Danteâ€™s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killerâ€™s chilling plot is closing in around themâ€”guided by a poetâ€™s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revengeâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/819'),
(2120, 'Dare to Go A-Hunting', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9126'),
(2121, 'Daring to dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons'' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother''s acceptance...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2567'),
(2122, 'Dark Ararat', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity''s first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth''s sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader''s belief in him.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet''s early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford''s epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man''s singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4787');
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(2123, 'Dark Assassin', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For countless readers, one of lifeâ€™s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside Londonâ€™s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the manâ€™s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk canâ€™t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the womanâ€™s somber beauty, he is impelled to try.Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Maryâ€™s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently diedâ€“a suicide, according to the police and Maryâ€™s sister. But Maryâ€™s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Companyâ€™s current projectâ€“the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolisâ€“was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Suttonâ€™s clever terrier. For once, even Monkâ€™s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.With characters as vivid as Dickensâ€™s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perryâ€™s best.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(2124, 'The Dark Design', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation . . . at any cost. Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10434'),
(2125, 'Dark Dreamer: A Dark Vista Romance', 'Jennifer Fulton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Rowe Devlin never expected the solution to writerâ€™s block to be a beautiful psychic, her sexy twin, and a haunted house that is not only very real, but very deadly. Best-selling horror author Rowe Devlin keeps writing flops and falling for straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian home in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she was hoping for. Rowe doesnâ€™t believe in ghosts, yet she finds herself sharing a home with one who scares her dogs and wants her out. As if thatâ€™s not distraction enough, she is living next door to irresistible identical twins, Phoebe and Cara Temple. Phoebe is psychic, Cara is a flirt, and both twins seem to be hitting on her. When Rowe delves into the past to find out why her cottage is haunted, she uncovers a dark and disturbing mystery. Even more disquieting is the startling connection to her beautiful neighbors, one of whom has begun haunting her dreams. Intrigue, passion and suspense combine in this taut paranormal thriller/romance, the first in Jennifer Fulton''s new Dark Vista series. Reprint\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1665'),
(2126, 'Dark Force Rising', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The dying Empire''s most cunning and ruthless warlordâ€”Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”has taken command\n  <br />\n  of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New\n  <br />\n  Republic''s destruction. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason\n  <br />\n  inside the highest Republic Councilâ€”only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that\n  <br />\n  could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past,\n  <br />\n  consumed by bitterness ... and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6137'),
(2127, 'The Dark Griffin', 'K. J. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being chosen as a griffin''s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where rogue griffins battle to entertain the crowds, there lies another soul crying out to be freed-a kindred spirit that will allow Arren to fulfill his destiny and release the darkness in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7675'),
(2128, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knockout thriller...brilliant, compelling...grips you by the throat. (Flint Journal)In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4270'),
(2129, 'Dark Heart', 'Tina Daniell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10495'),
(2130, 'The Dark is Rising (Dark 2)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <blockquote>\n   <i>\n    "When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,\n    <br />\n    Three from the circle, three from the track;\n    <br />\n    Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;\n    <br />\n    Five will return, and one go alone."\n   </i>\n  </blockquote>\n  With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.\n  <p>\n   Susan Cooper, in her five-title\n   <i>\n    The Dark Is Rising\n   </i>\n   is a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. (Ages 8 and older)\n   <i>\n    --Emilie Coulter\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition." --\n  <i>\n   Review\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10576'),
(2131, 'The Dark Man', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11131'),
(2132, 'A Dark Matter', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (_In the Night Room_), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.â€”Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truaxâ€”fall under the spell of charismatic wandering guru Spencer Mallon. During an occult ceremony in which Mallon attempts to break through to a higher reality, something goes horribly awry leaving one participant dead. Decades later, Lee''s writer husband interviews the quartet to find out what happened. In Roshomon-like fashion, each relates a slightly different account of the trauma they experienced. Straub masterfully shows how the disappointments, downturns, and failed promise of the four friends'' lives may have stemmed from this youthful experience, and suggests, by extension, that the malignant evil they helped unleash into the world has tainted all hope ever since. Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six book critics venture into a new novel by a best-selling horror writer. The writer is said to have magical abilities to blend horror conventions with literary fiction to keep the pages turning. He is even said to have touched Stephen King! Four of the critics come away convinced that a transcendent supernatural event has occurred, which may have something to do with the nature of evil. But two are horribly scarred by the event--unbearably bored, convinced they have just read a rejected script from Lost. Whose version of events is true? We may never know. All critics agree on is that the only possible way to describe such a plot structure is to reference Akira Kurosawa''s Rashomon--so readers may just have to investigate for themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5087'),
(2133, 'Dark Mirror', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A gripping\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation\n  </em>\n  tale hearkening back to the original TV series episode, "Mirror, Mirror." That was the one in which Captain Kirk encountered his brutal alter ego in a parallel universe, a place where only the alternative Spock showed any humanity. Here, the alternative\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  draws Captain Picard''s vessel into its alternative space, bent on capturing it and staffing it with a look-alike crew--all to spearhead an invasion of the Federation. Deanna Troi, Geordi La Forge, and Captain Picard outwit the scheme by transporting aboard the other\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and turning its technology against the would-be conquerors. Here''s where Duane''s novel turns clever, with Picard assuming his doppelgâ€žnger''s role and discovering--among other things--just how malicious and threatening a Betazed can be and how bitter the alternative Dr. Crusher can be in the role of the "captain''s woman." There''s also a particularly nasty alternative Riker and a noble alternative Worf. The true Picard maneuvers his ship back into Federation space, but the alien follows; there''s some manipulation of hyperstrings (with the help of a spacegoing dolphin) to send the bad\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  back where it belongs. Another capable entry in this series that always seems to be better than one would expect.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Star Trek: The Next Generation yarn from the fantasist (The Door into Sunset, p. 28) and veteran of numerous Star Trek hardcovers. Duane''s first stab at a Next Generation tale is based on an old Star Trek episode,\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  Mirror, Mirror,'''' in which Kirk, Scott, and Uhura were propelled into a parallel universe where the Federation was a ruthless empire; their personal counterparts, with whom they had exchanged places, turned out to be brutal barbarian warriors bent on conquest and loot. This time, the Enterprise--with Hwiii, a dolphin scientist, aboard--is switched into the same universe visited by Kirk, and finds itself confronted by a counterpart Enterprise, bristling with weapons, of superior speed and power. Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard must defeat his evil twin and prevent the invasion planned by the other, malign, Federation. Anyone who saw the original episode knows more or less what to expect. Given the large first print run, the publishers obviously expect demand to be brisk--but, workmanlike, unsurprising, and mediocre as it is, will it play in Peoria? (First printing of 200,000) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5008'),
(2134, 'Dark Moon', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11094'),
(2135, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know: The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth. Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy. It''s all here: The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker" Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust And much more! This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world. H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2082'),
(2136, 'Dark of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBest historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith.â€â€”Stephen King\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAction is Smithâ€™s game, and he is a master.â€_â€”The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that infest the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9159'),
(2137, 'Dark of the Woods', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(2138, 'Dark Passions 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper''s nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant''s notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6816'),
(2139, 'Dark Passions 02: Book Two', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Intendant Kira, now Overseer for the entire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, has entered into a dangerous liaison with Annika Hansen, unaware that Hansen is actually an agent of the Obsidian Order who has orders to kill Kira when the time is right. But her treacherous alliance is not the only danger the Intendant faces. Both Deanna Troi, the power-hungry consort of Regent Worf, and B''Elanna Torres, the half-human Intendant of the Sol System, are threatened by Kira''s unquenchable ambition, and would be glad to see her deposed -- or worse. As four powerful women scheme for control of the Alliance, who will survive? And who will claim the ultimate prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6814'),
(2140, 'The Dark Path', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second Doctor and his companions come face to face with the Master on the faded neuron star Darkheart. The last enclave of the Earth Empire is located on one of the dead planets surrounding the star and the Doctor must discover why the Empire came to this desolate sector.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6399'),
(2141, 'Dark Piper', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9098'),
(2142, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived--and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who''ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details--proof they hope may free Ben--Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she''ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she''ll admit her testimony wasn''t so solid after all. As Libby''s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby''s doomed family members--including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(2143, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(2144, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you dare step through the red door?\n <br />\n Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn''t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can''t fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he''d buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don''t first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8289'),
(2145, 'The Dark Side of the Sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5120'),
(2146, 'Dark Star: A Novel', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Furst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign correspondent for Pravda , is asked to perform small espionage tasks by the NKVD. These assignments escalate, until Szara finds himself responsible for obtaining vital production figures from a German-Jewish industrialist who fabricates steel wire essential to airplanes. Inevitably, Szara''s integrity as a journalist is also compromised. During this period of Stalinist purges, clearly and chillingly described by Furst, only unpredictability is certain. Szara senses the precariousness of his position, which is compounded by an urgent appeal from a wealthy Jewish Frenchman for Szara to honor his own Jewish heritage by trading his steel wire information to the British in exchange for desperately needed immigration certificates to mandated Palestine. Furst depicts the historical, geographic and political context in lucid and highly readable prose; his observation that Russia annexed Lithuania and Estonia while the world''s attention was focused on France''s struggle with Germany has an eerie timeliness. As darkness descends over Europe, Szara clings to life while simultaneously attempting to make some meaning of it. His story is not a pretty one; but it is beautifully and compellingly told.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an intriguing combination of spy story and historical novel. It is about a Pravda journalist forced to become a Soviet intelligence agent in the years immediately before World War II. It is also about a Europe being driven into war, not simply by supposedly irresistible social forces but by the genuinely evil men who manipulate and direct events. Seen in this way, Stalin is as responsible for the coming of war as Hitler, and Stalin''s Russian purges signal the future deaths of millions in Central Europe. Agents in this novel are not just spies but metaphors for the actors, large and small, on the stage of history. Entertaining, exciting, and thought-provoking reading.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Charles Mi chaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5067'),
(2147, 'The Dark Symphony', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won''t give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8290'),
(2148, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7660'),
(2149, 'The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he''s not kidding. After a journey through seven books and over 20 years, King''s Constant Readers finally have the conclusion they''ve been both eagerly awaiting and silently dreading. The tension in the Dark Tower series has built steadily from the beginning and, like in the best of King''s novels, explodes into a violent, heart-tugging climax as Roland and his ka-tet finally near their goal. The body count in The Dark Tower is high. The gunslingers come out shooting and face a host of enemies, including low men, mutants, vampires, Roland''s hideous quasi-offspring Mordred, and the fearsome Crimson King himself. King pushes the gross-out factor at times--Roland''s lesson on tanning (no, not sun tanning) is brutal--but the magic of the series remains strong and readers will feel the pull of the Tower as strongly as ever as the story draws to a close. During this sentimental journey, King ties up loose ends left hanging from the 15 non-series novels and stories that are deeply entwined in the fabric of Mid-World through characters like Randall Flagg (The Stand and others) or Father Callahan (Salem''s Lot). When it finally arrives, the long awaited conclusion will leave King''s myriad fans satisfied but wishing there were still more to come. In King''s memoir On Writing, he tells of an old woman who wrote him after reading the early books in the Dark Tower series. She was dying, she said, and didn''t expect to see the end of Roland''s quest. Could King tell her? Does he reach the Tower? Does he save it? Sadly, King said he did not know himself, that the story was creating itself as it went along. Wherever that woman is now (the clearing at the end of the path, perhaps?), let''s hope she has a copy of The Dark Tower. Surely she would agree it''s been worth the wait. --Benjamin Reese Visit the Dark Tower store Over 30 years in the making, spanning seven volumes, Stephen King''s epic quest for the Dark Tower has encompassed almost his entire body of fiction. Find every volume of this fantastic adventure, an interview with the master himself, and much more in our Dark Tower Store. Authors on Stephen King Mystery writer Michael Connelly thinks Stephen King''s "one of the most generous writers I know of." Thriller author Ridley Pearson says "King possesses an incredible sense of story..." Read our Stephen King testimonials to find out what else they and other authors had to say about the undisputed King of Horror. The Path to the Dark Tower There are only seven volumes in Stephen King''s Dark Tower series but more than a dozen of his novels and short stories are deeply entwined with the Mid-World universe. Take a look at the non-series titles, from Salem''s Lot to Everything''s Eventual. Can you find the connections? History of an Alternate Universe Robin Furth, an expert on Stephen King''s Dark Tower universe if ever there was one, has created a timeline of Mid-World, the slowly crumbling world of gunslinger Roland Deschain. Read it and get up to speed on a world of adventure. Hail to the King Fans applauded and critics howled when Stephen King was awarded the National Book Foundation''s Medal for Distinguished Service to American Letters. In typical fashion, King accepted the honor with humility and urged recognition for other "popular" authors. Listen to a clip of his acceptance speech, then order the entire speech on audio CD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4312'),
(2150, 'The Dark Tower 05 - Prologue', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9989'),
(2151, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8531'),
(2152, 'Dark Water', 'Laura McNeal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007 serve as the backdrop for this compelling story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences. In the inland farming community of Fallbrook, 15-year-old Pearl tells her story through a leisurely voice. She deals with her parents'' divorce; her cousin''s anger at his father''s suspected adultery; and, most significantly, her undeniable attraction to the alluring undocumented Mexican migrant worker Amiel, whose damaged vocal chords limit his speech but not his communication. Disaster is referred to throughout the narrative, filling readers with a sense of foreboding as Pearl''s persistence overcomes Amiel''s trepidation and the two draw together in an intense secret affair. All of this leads to a heart-pounding final act when the wildfire breaks out and Pearl must choose between family and romance, safety and uncertainty. The ramifications of the ill-fated decisions made by both Pearl and Amiel will surely spark strong discussion among readers. Both the plot and setting are grounded in rich, realistic detail; the author''s love for the town of Fallbrook shines vividly through lyrical descriptions of avocado groves and orange blossoms. While Amiel remains a somewhat mysterious figure, Pearl''s relationships with her family and friends are fully realized through her nostalgic recollections of simpler times. Drawn in by the appeal of clandestine love and looming disaster, teens will also be rewarded with much thought-provoking substance in this novel''s complex characters and hauntingly ambiguous ending._Allison Tran, Mission Viejo Library, CA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This debut solo effort after several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal (_The Decoding of Lana Morris_, 2007, etc.) stands out in the crowded coming-of-age field. The affecting narrative springs believably from the first-person thoughts of Pearl DeWitt as she recalls her 15th summer, when, entranced by a nearly mute, illegal Mexican migrant worker, the beautiful and gifted teenage Amiel, Pearl makes choices that lead to tragedy. Evocative language electrifies the scenes between the pair, as they develop a relationship both complicated and deepened by their limited verbal communication. Her warnings to readers of impending disaster amplify rather than diminish the impact of the misguided, wrenching decisions she makes when a raging wildfire sweeps through their rural California community. Besides her poignant relationship with Amiel, Pearl navigates her fatherâ€™s recent abandonment of her and her mother and her complicated relationship with her cousin Robby as he blunderingly deals with his fatherâ€™s apparent infidelity. Notable for well-drawn characters, an engaging plot and, especially, hauntingly beautiful language, this is an outstanding book."_\n <br />\n -_\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8032'),
(2153, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6530'),
(2154, 'The Dark Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A beauty of a thriller . . . exotic and compelling reading." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book to read with pleasure." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Colorado Springs Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Amarillo Texas News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s best book in an already strong series." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this caseâ€”a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee''s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man''s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5436'),
(2155, 'Dark Winter', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden''s network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that''s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn''t even know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(2156, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(2157, 'A Darker Domain: A Novel', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Michelle Gibson reports her father, Mick Prentice, missing at the start of McDermid''s intricate but underwhelming stand-alone psychological thriller, Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, isn''t interested until Michelle reveals that Mick disappeared during the 1984 miners'' strike. At the time, everyone believed Mick went scabbing in Nottingham. Later, Karen is summoned to the home of wealthy Sir Broderick Maclennan Grant, whose daughter, Catriona, and baby grandson, Adam, were abducted in 1985. A botched ransom hand-off left Catriona dead and Adam nowhere to be found. New evidence linked to the kidnapping has surfaced, and now Karen has two missing people to locate. McDermid tries to pack too much story into one book, and the connection she draws between the cases feels forced. Fans of the Scottish author may be better off waiting for the next outing of McDermid''s series to feature psychologist Tony Hill (_The Mermaid Singing_, etc.).\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDermidâ€™s latest is a stand-alone set in Fife, Scotland. Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984, Pirie canâ€™t resist. But her boss, a paper pusher known as the Macaroon, wants Karen in the office, at least until Bel, an investigative journalist, turns up new evidence in a 20-year-old heiress kidnap case. As Karen and Bel investigate, friendsâ€™ and family membersâ€™ memories of the missing people are delivered as flashbacks, resulting in short chapters, multiple viewpoints, and a moderately quick pace. As Karenâ€™s two cases seem to converge, the complex and layered plotlines come together, and McDermid does an excellent job creating tension around a cold case. Sure to be a hit with McDermidâ€™s large fan base, it should also appeal to those who read other Scottish police mysteries, such as Stuart MacBrideâ€™s (Flesh House, 2008). Those who enjoyed the cold-case aspect may also enjoy Johan Theorinâ€™s Echoes from the Dead (2008). --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4816'),
(2158, 'Darker Than Amber', 'Travis McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3899');
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(2159, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1442'),
(2160, 'Darkest Fear (2000)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9599'),
(2161, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1365'),
(2162, 'The Darkest Hour', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do. ** It''s been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he''s received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2364'),
(2163, 'The darkest road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1782'),
(2164, 'The Darkest Room', 'Johan Theorin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: WINNER OF SWEDEN''S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD On the idyllic island of Oland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island''s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins'' new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it''s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense-at once a crime novel and a searing family drama-a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1818'),
(2165, 'The Darkest Secret', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Showalter''s seventh Lords of the Underworld novel (after 2010''s The Darkest Lie) focuses on Amun, one of the dozen immortal warriors who absorbed evil demons from Pandora''s box. The demon of Defeat captures Haidee, a part-demon Hunter whose relatives were slain by the Lords in ancient Greece, and takes her to the warriors'' fortress, where Amun is recovering from a journey to hell. Everyone is surprised when Haidee and her icy touch soothe the tormenting demons that burn within Amun. Their roles as Lord and Hunter create obstacles to their growing attraction, as does Haidee''s plan to find closure with her boyfriend before committing herself to a relationship with Amun, and another quest in hell tests their skills and commitment. A complicated backstory, dozens of recurring characters, throwaway references to rape, and graphic sex and violence may limit the book''s appeal to new readers.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of releaseâ€”until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and hidden vulnerability draw him into a reckless test of his loyaltyâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haidee is a demon-assassin, raised to despise Amun''s kind. Yet how can she hate the man whose touch sets her aflame? But to save him, she must give herself body and soulâ€¦and face the wrath of a powerful adversary sworn to destroy her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4425'),
(2166, 'The Darkest Touch', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ryder. The man was just as sexy as she remembered him: tall, lean, and dangerous, a demon hunter with the body of a god.â€¦ But archaeologist Angelique Deveraux has little time for lust. Sheâ€™s been hiding a gleaming black diamond, a prize everyone wantsâ€”including Ryderâ€”and now sheâ€™s running for her life. Hot on her trail is Ryder, a legendary demon hunter she desires but canâ€™t quite trust, a man with an insatiable need for danger and a few dark secrets of his own.As sparks ignite between the rogue hunter and his latest prey, Angieâ€™s world is rocked again when her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by the same dark forces stalking Angie and the black diamond. With Ryder offering protectionâ€”and moreâ€”suddenly a woman whoâ€™s never trusted anyone is falling for a man who isnâ€™t afraid of anythingâ€¦except losing his heart. Now, as an all-out demon war erupts and Angieâ€™s family secrets unravel, Ryderâ€™s demon hunt and Angieâ€™s quest to save her sister are about to collide. And when they do, itâ€™ll send these two wary hearts on the wildest adventure of their livesâ€”and maybe even save humankind in the process.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1949'),
(2167, 'Darkfall', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this Koontz classic tale, a blizzard brings a city to a standstill--and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. This repackaged edition includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1435'),
(2168, 'Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: MacKayla Laneâ€™s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, sheâ€™s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinksâ€¦until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her deathâ€“a cryptic message on Macâ€™s cell phoneâ€“Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sisterâ€™s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessedâ€“a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Faeâ€¦. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sisterâ€™s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlaneâ€“an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human womenâ€“closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Macâ€™s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Bookâ€“because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their handsâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2228'),
(2169, 'Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8015'),
(2170, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Basis for a New ShowtimeÂ® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing. Heâ€™s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. Heâ€™s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightenedâ€“of himself or some other fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1815'),
(2171, 'Darkness', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul''s ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage "swamp rat" of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of "the Dark Man" and "his children," sees a friend offer up her newborn baby, whereupon the masked Dark Man plunges a knife into the infant. Right after that, the teenager''s husband promises to deliver his own child "the night he''s born." The story proper begins when 16-year-old Kelly Anderson, all her life having suffered nightmares of a menacing old man and now sure she''s pregnant by him, tries to kill herself. She recovers and moves from Atlanta with her adoptive parents to her grandfather''s house just north of the Everglades. Kelly becomes friends with Michael, her age and also adopted, who admits to similar nightmares and a sense of dread. Michael''s adoptive mother, meanwhile, feels a strange kinship to Kelly. The secrets of the Dark Man--his identity and his fountain-of-youth formula--are revealed halfway through the book, and thenceforth the story slides into descriptions of relatively tame to-and-fro-ing, mostly in the swamp, and the revolting revenge of "the children" on a group of nasty but well-preserved old men. Saul''s ending is cozily sentimental.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years after they left the town of Villejeune, Florida, the Anderson family returns, only to find that something unspeakably evil that feeds on the young and innocent is waiting for their teenaged daughter. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4520'),
(2172, 'Darkness and Dawn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Centuries after civilization destroyed itself in a final war, Fors was driven from his clan for the crime of being a mutant. Though his people had long combed the remnants of the old world to regain lost knowledge, the land to the north was taboo. Having nothing to lose, Fors and his feline companion trekked north -- toward incredible danger and a staggering discovery. Elsewhere, Sander also searched: for the Before People, said to have survived the great devastation. Then he met Fanyl, who coveted the lost knowledge for her own purpose. Soon the pair would be threatened by an ancient evil which destroyed not just lives, but minds as well. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9089'),
(2173, 'A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus. In his travels to the Northlands, Arutha finds his father''s former enemy, Guy du Bas-Tyra, as the Protector of the city Armengar. A historic battle ensues, which ends in the destruction of the city. Murmandamus and his forces then strike south to Sethanon, a city beneath which the Lifestone had been buried in the ancient past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3628'),
(2174, 'The Darkness Before the Dawn', 'Ryan Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to destroy whole cities. When the force proves too strong for them to control, they search for a mentor to help them harness their wild talent and use it for the good of their ravaged world. The harsh environment conspires against them at every step, but so do their divergent backgrounds. Can a bond forged by necessity survive the cruelty of Athasian society, the savagery of the gladiatorial arena, or the simple test of time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3671'),
(2175, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(2176, 'A Darkness in my Soul', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(2177, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It''s a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff''s office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they''ve missed. McCaleb''s first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch''s movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch''s lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5343'),
(2178, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'Brian Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The medicine man from The Manitou has returned for his ultimate revenge on the white race, who decimated his people: People across the country are suddenly struck blind, leaving them helpless against the spirit warriors who have risen to slaughter their oppressors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7339'),
(2179, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(2180, 'The Darkness That Comes Before', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker''s Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole clothâ€”it''s language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and ritualsâ€”the kind of all-embracing universe that has thrilled readers of Stephen R Donaldson and George R.R. Martin.It''s a world scarred by an acopalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Travelling among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasurimbor Kellhusâ€”part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presenceâ€”from lands long thought dead. The Darkness that Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.With this stunning debut, R. Scott Bakker is poised to become one of the next great fantasy writers of his generation. The Darkness that Comes Before proves again that epic fantasy can be intelligent, majestic, and terrifying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6726'),
(2181, 'Darkness Under the Sun (Novella): A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11047'),
(2182, 'Darkness Under the Sun: A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8288'),
(2183, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(2184, 'The Darkness', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York''s East River\n </p>\n <p>\n  In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to my brother, Stephen Gaines, recently murdered by an elusive drug lord known only as the Fury.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For years this kingpin has been shrouded in darkness. Stephen was executed just as he was about to shed some light. Working alongside my mentor, Jack O''Donnell, I''m going to find the truth behind this blood-soaked curtain. But the more we reveal, the more we realize just how dark the Fury''s plans are. And that no matter how brutal the violence has been, we haven''t seen anything yetâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Pinter clearly knows a thing or two about what makes a good book - having worked in the editorial departments of major New York publishing houses. All that expertise is clear to see in his stunning Henry Parker series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7037'),
(2185, 'Darkside: A Novel', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author ofBlacklands, a literary thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a small town in the English countryside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4905'),
(2186, 'Darth Bane - Rule of Two', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the New York Times bestseller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping portrait of a young manâ€™s journey from innocence to evil. That man was Darth Bane, a twisted genius whose iron will, fierce ambition, and strength in the dark side of the Force made him a natural leader among the Sithâ€“until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order . . . and create it anew from the ashes. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two there should be; no more, no less.\n  <br />\n  One to embody the power, the other to crave it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun Othone, Padawan to Jedi Master Lord Hoth, who died at Baneâ€™s hands in the last great Sith War. Though the rest of the Jedi scoff at him, Joshuaâ€™s belief that there are surviving Sith on the loose is unshakeable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Johun continues his dogged pursuit of the man who killed his master, Zannah, faced unexpectedly with a figure from her past, begins to question her embrace of the dark side. And Darth Bane is led by Force-induced visions to a moon where he will acquire astonishing new knowledge and powerâ€“power that will alter him in ways he could never have imagined. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and Mass Effect: Revelation, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the blockbuster Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his wife, Jen, and their cat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9322'),
(2187, 'The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The human race''s most "devastatingly" popular humor series returns...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With five previous books and more than 1.5 million copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won''t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction\n </em>\n , readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Nine no''s with power tools\n <br />\n â€¢ Eight ways to incinerate yourself\n <br />\n â€¢ Seven safety warnings you should not ignore\n <br />\n â€¢ Six romance tips for "safe" sex...\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring illustrations and brilliant science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards\n </em>\n enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy Northcutt\n </strong>\n is a scientist and graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up The Darwin Awards in 1993 while working at Stanford University, and is the founder of the popular Web site www.DarwinAwards.com. She is the author five previous Darwin Awards collections.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7484'),
(2188, 'Darwin&#39;s Children', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Greg Bearâ€™s Nebula Awardâ€“winning novel,Darwinâ€™s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolutionâ€”one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where â€œsurvival of the fittestâ€ takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWINâ€™S CHILDREN Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNAâ€”a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the â€œoldâ€ human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special â€œschools,â€ targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseasesâ€”and who fear the worst if the governmentâ€™s draconian measures are carried to their extreme. Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stellaâ€”a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind. But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the governmentâ€™s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every moveâ€”watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve â€œhumankindâ€ at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9575'),
(2189, 'Darwin&#39;s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England', 'Steve Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist''s journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3529'),
(2190, 'Darwin&#39;s Radio', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEEGreg Bear''s powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin''s Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny--as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.A mass grave in Russia that conceals the mummified remains of two women, both with child--and the conspiracy to keep it secret . . . a major discovery high in the Alps: the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--the newborn infant possessing disturbing characteristics . . . a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage. Three disparate facts that will converge into one science-shattering truth.Molecular biologist Kaye Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, believes that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can again come to life. But her theory soon becomes chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken--a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service--has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. The shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang, along with anthropologist Mitch Rafelson, must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve. An evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.A fiercely intelligent, utterly enthralling novel of adventure and ideas, genetics and evolution, a fast-paced thriller that is grounded in the timeless human themes of struggle, loss, and redemption, Darwin''s Radio is sure to become one of the most talked-about books of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9576'),
(2191, 'The Dastard', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Piers Anthony''s comical chronicles of his enchanted realm of Xanth are among the most beloved fantasy series ever written, with millions of readers worldwide. Now, Anthony returns with an all-new adventure that blends high hilarity with super-scary suspense.Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard. Once a common country boy, he sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events and rewrite history for his own devious ends. Now the entire future of Xanth is at the mercy of the Dastard''s every whim.But this depraved desperado underestimates the courage and cleverness of a young girl named Becka, who can transform herself into a fearsome dragon at the speed of thought. With the help of a colorful band of brave companions, Becka challenges the Dastard with the greatest magic of all - the power of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3328'),
(2192, 'Dating Game', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time aroundâ€”and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when sheâ€™s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldnâ€™t imagine what he was about to say.â€œI want a divorce,â€ Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to â€œfix her upâ€ with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to moveâ€”as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchmanâ€”so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Parisâ€™s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. Thatâ€™s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in lifeâ€™s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5982'),
(2193, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(2194, 'Daughter of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stunning reissues of Raymond Feist &amp; Janny Wurts classic trilogy -- one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time. THE EMPIRE SERIES: BOOK I Enter the mysterious world of Kelewan, where Mara of the Acoma must protect her honour and her people in the ruthless Game of the Council. From the imagination of two of fantasy''s greatest names comes a magnificent epic of heroic adventure and dynastic struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3379'),
(2195, 'Daughter of Xanadu', 'Dori Jones Yang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The granddaughter of Khubilai Khan, 16-year-old Emmajin takes more interest in joining the army than in finding a husband. When her grandfather asks her to gather intelligence from foreigners who have arrived from the West, she befriends young Marco Polo. Their relationship, begun with some trepidation and marred by cultural missteps and misunderstandings, deepens throughout the story. Meanwhile, Emmajinâ€™s goals slowly alter through her contacts with other cultures and her experiences as a soldier. An appended glossary identifies characters and places, defines Mongolian terms such as del and ger, and offers historical information that separates fact from fiction within the novel. Emmajinâ€™s first-person narrative will capture readers with its scenes of adventure and its vivid depiction of a capable young woman in a time of change. The battle scene is realistically brutal, and the love scenes are subtly written, but the most involving element of the storytelling is Emmajinâ€™s ongoing struggle to forge her own way. Grades 8-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin''s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting ''dragons'' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8503'),
(2196, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Guide to Life', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Collects the humorist''s views on the problems of everyday life from "Dave Barry''s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex," "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex," "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You''re Dead," and "Claw Your Way to the Top"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(2197, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Dave Barry] is one of the funniest people ever to tap tap on a PC. This new book is a riot."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERComplete with maps, histories, quaint local facts, song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs, and tidbits from Dave Barry''s own fond vacation nightmares, here is all you really need to know about travel, including: How to Speak a Foreign Language in Just 30 Minutes Without Necessarily Having Any Idea What You Are Talking About; Camping: Nature''s Way of Promoting the Motel Industry; See the USA First! (While We Still Own Part of It), and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(2198, 'David Blaine&#39;s Magic Revealed', 'Tarko The Great', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3363'),
(2199, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(2200, 'Dawn On The Coast', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9728'),
(2201, 'Dawn Saves the Planet', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9755'),
(2202, 'Dawn,The Impossible Three', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9735'),
(2203, 'Dawn,the Older Boy', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9678'),
(2204, 'Dawn&#39;s Big Date', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9741'),
(2205, 'Dawn&#39;s Big Move', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9692'),
(2206, 'The Day After Tomorrow: A Novel', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father''s murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father''s unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh accompanies Elton Lybarger, a Swiss national whom she has helped recover from a stroke in a posh New Mexico sanatorium, back to Zurich, where he is greeted rapturously by high-ranking German business leaders. As an extensive Nazi resurgence plot emerges, Folsom adds extra flashes--Joanna in a drug-induced sex marathon, a massive train wreck, Vera''s other affair with a very important French leader--to heighten the suspense on these rapidly turning pages. A huge explosion in secret chambers under the streets of Berlin sends Osborn on a final chase through Europe and up into the Alps, where the high-tech hopes of an earlier generation are finally exposed. This is a one-sitting novel and readers will have to choose: a full, sun-burning day at the beach or, for those who can''t wait, a springtime all-nighter. 300,000 first printing; BOMC selection; movie rights to MGM and the Zanuck Co.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Paul Osborn, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Angeles, looks up from his table in a Paris cafe and sees the face of the man who murdered his father 30 years earlier. At the same time as he is pursuing the killer, the London police have a series of decaptitated corpses on their hands; Osborn falls in love with the French Prime Minister''s mistress; and a German industrialist is recuperating from a stroke in a private sanatorium in Arizona. All of these disparate elements come together nicely in the end. YAs who enjoy a sprawling plot involving Nazis, chases across Europe, and lots of unexpected twists and turns will love this fast-paced thriller.?Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8406');
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(2207, 'The Day Before Midnight', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol''s estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians. The book is fun, even if the finale is too drawn-out and a bit preachy: " . . . the regular people, the Rest of US" will save us. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad budget.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5006'),
(2208, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(2209, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: START INTERCEPT SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN. INTERCEPT COMPLETE SURVIVOR, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1974'),
(2210, 'A Day for Damnation', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces. Then he is given the opportunity to contact the Chtorr, but when a helicopter crash leaves him and his companions stranded in enemy territory, he must decide whether to communicate with the Chtorr--or kill them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4346'),
(2211, 'The day it rained forever', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3851'),
(2212, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terry McMillan''s novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they''re just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in\n  <em>\n   A Day Late and a Dollar Short\n  </em>\n  is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I''ve had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn''t think Cecil''s such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil''s first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola''s kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he''s drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn''t have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola''s daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she''s pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who''s been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At first, you''ll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who''s who, but pretty soon you''ll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys."\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  her four adult kids, all of whom have their own children, and their various circumstances, relationships and dilemmas. Not about to give Viola the last word, the other family members take turns talking in each of the remaining chapters. At first it is a bit confusing trying to keep track of who''s who (the audio book doesn''t come with family charts, the hardcover does), but it all eventually becomes clear as this complex and entertaining story of family dynamics or as daughter Paris calls it, "As the World F*\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ing Turns, again and again and again" gets fleshed out. McMillan is in her element, and readers Coleman and Willis do an excellent job of capturing the personalities of all the characters, be they surly, sassy, depressed or comic. Their talents guide the listener expertly through this captivating and ultimately optimistic tale of the ties that bind and the things that really matter. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover (Forecasts, Dec. 11, 2000).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7264'),
(2213, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die', 'Robert Newton Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.â€â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.â€â€“_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll find yourself caught up in the novelâ€™s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.â€â€“_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--\n </em>\n School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy\n</p>\n<p>\n at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of\n</p>\n<p>\n any age."--School Library Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5858'),
(2214, 'Day of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal''s confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China''s water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world''s population and ensure the Church''s world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom''s picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom''s intense novel __ won''t be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom''s frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma''s murder?and that he''s still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he''s the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It''s that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There''s a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina''s master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom''s mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8405'),
(2215, 'Day of Honor 01: Ancient Blood', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To true Klingon warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor demands its price.... Worf finds his honor tested when he goes undercover to infiltrate a planetary criminal network. How can he root out the corruption on Sindikash without resorting to deceit and treachery himself? Worf''s dilemma is shared by his son Alexander, who searches for the true meaning of honor in his own human heritage. Along with his son, Worf must confront deadly danger -- and the inner struggles of his Klingon soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7275'),
(2216, 'Day of Reckoning', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN ENIGMA... Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn''t help but want more of his steady presence...his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer''s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(2217, 'Day of the Dead', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jance''s third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n ) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O''odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne''s death, he comes across similar murdersâ€”each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker''s dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O''odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker''s friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from themâ€”no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona''s Tohono O''Odham reservation, also the setting for two earlier nonseries novels,\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n (2000). Retired cop Brandon Walker sets out to investigate a cold case, the mutilation murder of a 15-year-old Tohono O''Odham girl. Suspense builds gradually in the multilayered novel, which is filtered through multiple perspectives, each person adding a piece to a textured puzzle that tracks a pair of serial killers whose crimes extend backward across three decades. As in Jance''s two series, the action is intermixed with well-placed social commentary, this time regarding the unconscionable ill use of reservation peoples by vicious\n <em>\n  mil-ghan\n </em>\n (whites), even in the recent past. Although the Indian cultural backdrop is not as integral to the story as it is in Hillerman''s novels, this will still appeal to Hillerman devotees as well as to thriller fans accustomed to a sheen of blood spatter and sex with their suspense.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7501'),
(2218, 'The Day of the Dead', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Day of the Dead is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of novels. It was first published in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2008) and is now being offered as a free ebook. It features Tomas, a character from Touch the Dark (2006), the first Cassandra Palmer novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2724'),
(2219, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(2220, 'Day of the Predator', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liam O''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn''t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he''s torn to pieces by dinosaurs and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7014'),
(2221, 'The Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having â€œall the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.â€Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2718'),
(2222, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(2223, 'The Day the Universe Changed', 'James Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8286'),
(2224, 'A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton', 'Michael R. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vivid historical detail combines with memorable characters in Michael Phillips'' second story in his Shenandoah Sisters series." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other''s strengths and to shore up each other''s weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord''s love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6781'),
(2225, 'Dazzle the Complete Unabridged Trilogy', 'Gould, Judith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Boralevi women rose from the depths of a Russian ghetto to the heights of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, Hollywood and the Middle East. Dazzle is the story of these amazing women, a racy, scintillating novel packed with all the blockbuster potential of Gould''s earlier bestsellers, Sins and Love-Makers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6945'),
(2226, 'De Profundis', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis" explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, "De Profundis" is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls "De Profundis" "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6127'),
(2227, 'Dead Air', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she finds her coworker''s body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station''s owner, a man who''s been like a father to Gabby? She''s determined to clear her friend''s name, and will recruit anyone she can find to help. Even the mysterious newcomer in town, handsome businessman Clark McKay. Gabby doesn''t quite trust Clark, but she can''t crack the case alone. Especially when the killer threatens them both-either back down from the investigationhellip;or be silenced forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4088'),
(2228, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1452'),
(2229, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.** Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(2230, 'Dead as a doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(2231, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie! Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1714'),
(2232, 'Dead Beautiful', 'Yvonne Woon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“RenÃ©e Winters, after being inexplicably called into California''s Redwood forest, walks right up to the spot where both of her parents lay dead after suffering apparent heart attacks. Stranger still, their mouths are stuffed with gauze and coins are scattered about their bodies. The teen is put under the care of her estranged grandfather, who sends her to Gottfried Academy, a boarding school devoted to Latin, philosophy, and a strange mix of sciences, located across the country in Northern Maine. There, she meets fellow student Dante and is intensely drawn to himâ€“and he to her. A series of suspicious events occurs throughout the first semester as RenÃ©e and Dante grow closer and students mysteriously die. Woon slowlyâ€“yet suspensefullyâ€“reveals that children who die and are left unburied for 10 days wake up part alive and part deceased. Undead. Gottfried Academy exists to teach both the living and the Undead about this transformation and the rules concerning it. Dead Beautiful could be described as Twilight at Hogwarts. Despite numerous parallels to Stephenie Meyer''s saga, Woon pulls off some interesting twists and captures readers with the romantic connection between RenÃ©e and Dante. This novel will be an easy sell to readers who are still dying for more paranormal, forbidden, chaste romance. Woon sprinkles in some philosophical ideas that set the story apart from others in the same genre. Riveting and different, it is a real page-turner._Emily Chornomaz, West Orange Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly handsome Dante Berlin is the object of every girlâ€™s desire at gothic Gottfried Academy, but he seems unreachable until new girl RenÃ©e Winters crosses his path. They discover a mutual attraction, complicated by the fact that Dante is undead and RenÃ©e is very much alive. A string of murders that create more undead causes Dante and RenÃ©e to start an investigation that reveals the true purpose of Gottfried Academy as well as the potentially fatal connection between the two teens. Boarding-school story meets Murder, She Wrote meets the Twilight series in this nifty title, which also offers an attention-grabbing take on zombies. Detailed world building and setting contribute as much to the story as character and plot. Atmospheric touches such as school rituals, classes like Imaginary Arithmetic, and the use of Latin as the â€œinsiderâ€ language all add to the ambience. This lacks the sassy humor of many zombie booksâ€”not a failing, just a factâ€”so give this to the earnest Twilight crowd but also to teens who like impossible love stories with supernatural flavor. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5173'),
(2233, 'Dead by Midnight', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dead by Morning\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The popular and dependable Barton has again created an intricately plotted, thoroughly engrossing serial killer tale that satisfactorily resolves the current dilemmas but leaves a stunning cliff-hanger.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   As Good as Dead\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A powerful story that kept me up very late--with all the lights on.'''' --Kay Hooper,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In murder . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer''s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And in life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it''s a joke. Then she gets a second. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he''s drawn into a case that''s terrifyingly personal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timing is everything.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie''s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret--before the clock runs out for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5557'),
(2234, 'Dead calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(2235, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(2236, 'Dead Cert', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fresh and exciting... very lively'' Sunday Times ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true, nowadays, of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racingâ€”where one man must bring his friends'' killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival, Bill Davidson, takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn''t get up again, Alan discovers that it was no accident. Someone rigged a trip wire to take down the running horse. The more Alan investigates, the more he suspects that there is more to the plot than just murderous horseplay. But even as he approaches the finish line to this mysterious race, those responsible for his friend''s death are already planning for Alan to have a fatal accident of his own . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8226'),
(2237, 'Dead Certain', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derekâ€™s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, itâ€™s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek''s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, it''s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5641'),
(2238, 'Dead Even', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the third is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.\n <br />\n Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Mirandaâ€™s name off his hit list . . . permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5642'),
(2239, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(2240, 'Dead Giveaway', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(2241, 'Dead Guilty', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Beverly Connor''s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(2242, 'Dead Heat', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n MWA Grand Master Francis''s first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father''s previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an unlikely love interest and sinister figures somehow connected with shady racetrack doings, less than fresh. The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another jobâ€”feeding several dozen attendees at a major horse race. While that meal goes off without a hitch, a terrorist''s bomb decimates the crowd at the track. Despite the official theory that an unpopular Middle Eastern ruler at the event was responsible, the chef wonders whether the bombing is related to the earlier food poisoning and turns amateur sleuth. Crisp writing and well-paced action help offset the routine plotting.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a silence of six years,Â Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid Halley in Under Orders. Now, Francis introduces a new hero, chef Max Moreton, who runs a thriving restaurant near the Newmarket racetrack. Moreton has a complex background; he''s afraid of horses yet fascinated by the world of horse racing (his father was a steeplechase jockey and racehorse trainer). Francis is, as always, completely convincing when it comes to the track, but his efforts at depicting the challenges and delights of cooking seem labored and secondhand (his son, Felix, is credited with the research for this book). Unfortunately, the cookery details often seem pasted on and unnecessary. The action, however, is first-rate Francis. It centers on Moreton''s travails as chef. First, food poisoning hits his guests and staff at a racing gala. The next day, a bomb shatters the grandstand box where Moreton has catered a lunch. And as Moreton struggles to decipher the cause of the food poisoning and whether it was connected to the bombing, he suffers the prospect of financial ruin andÂ emotional trauma from the bombing. Then he discovers that someone is out to kill him. This mix of cooking and racetrack isn''t close enough to horse racing to be completely satisfying Francis, but the action and the hero''s struggles deliver a solid punch. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8220'),
(2243, 'Dead Hunt', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clymene O''Riley is in prison for killing her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/787'),
(2244, 'Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery', 'Peter Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wilson, a prominent wine critic, routinely makes or destroys the careers of winemakers in his popular newsletter, The Wine Maven. When he disappears after a tasting in Californiaâ€™s Napa Valley, his sister, Janie, asks her ex-husband, Babe Stern, to investigate. Babe gave up a successful career in the wine industry to run a local bar that does not appear on the tourist circuit. Working with the police after Wilsonâ€™s body turns up in a vat at Norton Winery, he uncovers a long list of possible suspects who would like to get revenge for the bad reviews that ruined their businesses. As Stern digs further into Wilsonâ€™s life, the trail takes him to Burgundy, France, and to the family of a young intern at the Norton Winery who was one of the few people in the winery when Wilson died. This is a well-crafted debut that will appeal to mystery fans interested in winemaking. --Barbara Bibel\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakersâ€™ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valleyâ€™s Norton Winery, his sister Janie looks to her ex-husband Babe Stern for help. But when Wilsonâ€™s body is found floating in a vat at Norton, Sternâ€™s search turns into a hunt for the killer.\n <br />\n Working with the Napa Valley police, Stern quickly finds a string of suspects, all with one thing in common: their desire to get revenge for the reviews that shattered their wines and livelihoods. But as the police work to quickly clear the case, those same suspects have a string of alibis and the trail begins to fade.\n <br />\n Stern digs further into the circumstances of Wilsonâ€™s death and finds himself following his only lead, to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Stern tracks the troubled son of a family of\n <em>\n  vignerons\n </em>\n , one of the few people in the winery the night Wilson died. But the wine families of the CÃ´te dâ€™Or are secretive and entangled, and the further Stern goes to discover the truth, the more he becomes the ultimate target. In a stunning debut mystery packed with revenge and murder, Sternâ€™s only choice is to find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4692'),
(2245, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(2246, 'Dead in the water', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, ''s office. Now she''s gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north- where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1033');
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(2247, 'Dead Man&#39;s Bones', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Albert''s assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  A Dilly of a Death\n </em>\n ), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned jointly with her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, when her 14-year-old stepson, Brian, announces a disturbing discovery: while on an archeological dig in a cave, he found a skeleton with its skull bashed in. Analysis later shows that the bones are about 30 years old. After a leading citizen shoots dead an apparent intruder in self-defense, China begins to suspect there''s a link between this incident and the past murder. In her own quiet way, China pursues the truth. China''s warmth and sensitivity toward Ruby''s new boyfriend, the new professor at the local university and others will endear her to readers, while her investigative skills make her a leader among female sleuths. Fascinating information about herbs and tempting recipes round out this leisurely cozy with a Southwestern flair.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n China Bayles is always trying to teach us stuff: it''s not annoying at all but somehow soothing and fascinating. The ex-attorney turned herbalist in the Texas town of Pecan Springs loves to talk about the plants and herbs she grows; she loves to share recipes and run her business (herb shop, tearoom, catering) with her friend and partner, Ruby; and she loves the opportunity to enjoy her spouse and teen stepson. In this gently narrated cozy, a skeleton in a cave allows China to think about archaeology, forensics, love affairs, immigration, and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, two elderly and reclusive sisters, one imperious and the other frail, the last of their family, donate a building, the funds for its renovation, and property for a community theater, with the stipulation that a play written about their father must be the first production. These events turn out to be intimately connected to the body in the cave, and it makes for an enjoyable journey as China makes the necessary connections one by one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4459'),
(2248, 'Dead Man&#39;s Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA classic Christie and one of the best.â€ (_The Times_ (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect.â€ (_The Times Literary Supplement_ (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoirot is the guide who led me into the wondrous maze of crime fiction. And Iâ€™ve never wanted to escape.â€ (Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up, once again, with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction.â€ (_New York Times_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspenseâ€”creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable charactersâ€”brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Poirot is called in to take part in this _Dead Manâ€™s Folly.\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9253'),
(2249, 'Dead Man&#39;s Wharf', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims sheâ€™s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead womanâ€™s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5299'),
(2250, 'Dead mans ransom: the ninth chronicle of brother cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/533'),
(2251, 'Dead Men Don&#39;t Get the Munchies', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cooking class is back in session for best friends-and sometime sleuths-Annie and Eve. But this time, Annie finds herself on the teacher''s side of the cutting board, helping out during a bar food cooking class at D.C.''s latest hotspot, Bellywasher''s. And her best friend, Eve, is in more hot water than ever-as the prime suspect in a student''s murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2687'),
(2252, 'Dead of Night', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bioterrorist attacks on DisneyWorld, gun-toting Russians and flesh-eating worms aren''t enough to stop spy-cum-biologist Marion "Doc" Ford in his 12th adventure. When Ford reluctantly agrees to check in on a friend''s brother, Jobe Applebee, a reclusive hydrobiologist, the simple favor escalates to horrific proportions. Ford stumbles onto a brutal interrogation scene, scares off Applebee''s attackers, returns to find Applebee has hung himself and later learns that Applebee was "host to a feeding, breathing, sub-community of parasites." White barrels on full throttle: pretty soon Ford''s uncovered a madman''s plot to unleash ravenous guinea worms into local waterways and piranhas into Texas lakes, which will send property values plummetingâ€”and thus make them ready for a quick snapup once the threats have been taken care of. With the help of his sidekick Tomlinson and a slew of other returning characters, Ford must hunt down the bad guys and find the miracle cure before a statewide infestation begins. Meanwhile, he''s fending off Stokes''s securityâ€”the sexually deviant Russian Dasha, the slow-witted Alexisâ€”and assuring his pregnant girlfriend he''ll be home in time for Christmas. White''s latest is deliciously addictive and nail-bitingly suspenseful.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ecoterrorism takes a new and incredibly grotesque shape in White''s latest Doc Ford thriller. Ford, the mild-mannered marine biologist and reluctant operative for an under-the-radar offshoot of the CIA, agrees to check up on a friend''s biologist brother and stumbles into a scene of unimagined horror--the biologist has been eaten from within by a ravenous species of parasite. Soon the errand has morphed into a deep-cover assignment to track down the rogue scientist whose macabre plan to infiltrate Florida''s intercoastal waterway with parasites and rare poisonous snakes is on the verge of being realized. White effectively plays the horrific but shockingly realistic thriller plot against the ongoing interpersonal drama in Ford''s life: his shaky relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and his equally complex friendship with the mercurial ex--hippie Tomlinson, now struggling with success as an Internet spiritual adviser. Thankfully, the Doc Ford series has grown from genre favorite to crossover success without losing its amiable, Margaritaville spirit. That''s no easy trick when rare parasites are invading your body from the most private of entry points.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7859'),
(2253, 'The Dead of Winter', 'Rennie Airth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "[Rennie Airth''s] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading."\n <br />\n -Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. Scotland Yard suspects the young Polish refugee was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadn''t been her employer. Madden feels he owes it to Rosa to find her killer and pushes the investigation, uncovering her connection to a murdered Parisian furrier, a member of the Resistance, and a stolen cache of diamonds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Delivering the atmospheric writing and compelling characters that have already established Rennie Airth as a master of suspense as well as style, this long-awaited third installment in the John Madden series is historical crime writing at its best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rennie Airth\n </strong>\n is the author of two other John Madden mysteries,\n <em>\n  River of Darkness\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Blood-Dimmed Tide\n </em>\n . He lives in Cortona, Italy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5035'),
(2254, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the worldâ€™s law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is Americaâ€™s, and the worldâ€™s, favorite international thriller author. Starting with\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  , all thirteen of his previous books have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. His books,\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  have been made into major motion pictures. He lives in Maryland where he is a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grant Blackwood is the author of the Briggs Tanner books and the co-author along with Clive Cussler of\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  . Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran who lives in Colorado.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6472'),
(2255, 'Dead over heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(2256, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(2257, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  !\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris\n </strong>\n writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7493'),
(2258, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(2259, 'Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White''s latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons millionaire and Ford''s hippie colleague. The scenes in which Ford painstakingly pieces together clues and provides backstory tend to drag a bit, but the action sequences are gripping and nail-bitingly suspenseful. Mystery fans are well advised to snatch this one up.\n <em>\n  A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 19). (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retirement didnâ€™t sit well with Doc Ford, Whiteâ€™s marine biologist and black-ops agent. Docâ€™s back in the game now but choosing his own projects, including aÂ spot ofÂ vigilante settling up withÂ the serial rapist who killed one of the fishing guides from Dinkinâ€™s Bay Marina, Sanibel Island, Docâ€™s beloved home. With the local cops on his tail, Doc hops a plane for New York, there to rendezvous withÂ a fetching U.S. senator who finds the biologistâ€™s horned-rim glasses and broad shoulders a very appealing combination. Naturally, things happen. Ford witnesses the senatorâ€™s attempted kidnapping and manages to keep her out of harmâ€™s way, but another person riding in the limo, a 14-year-old Native American boy, is snatched instead. Itâ€™s all part of a scheme by some rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castroâ€™s private papers. Soon enough the boy has been buried alive (with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply), and Ford and best-buddy Tomlinson, who hails from Long Island, are on the trail. The action, typical for White, is relentless, and the tension builds agonizingly (nothing like burying somebody alive to ratchet up the suspense). But the real interest here is the glimpse White provides of Tomlinsonâ€™s background (rich kid with seriously bent kinfolk). This may not be the tightest or most entertaining novel in the series, but longtime fansâ€”of whom there are manyâ€”have been wanting toÂ hear more of hippie-dippy Tomlinsonâ€™s backstory for years, and theyâ€™ll be overjoyed to get their wish. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7860'),
(2260, 'Dead Souls', 'Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dead Souls. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8377'),
(2261, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny. Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear. It cursed our world for centuries to come. This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(2262, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn''t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn''t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It''s Eric the vampire--but now he''s a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(2263, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(2264, 'Dead Water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hambly''s brilliantly crafted eighth historical (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Days of the Dead\n </em>\n ) brings the antebellum South so alive you could swear the author traveled back in time to observe her settings firsthand. One day a week the slaves of New Orleans gather at Circus Square (aka Congo Square): "Those who had garden plots sold their surplus produce: tomatoes and cornâ€¦ and peaches whose scent turned the thick hot air around them to molten gold." Series hero Benjamin January, a former slave, and his gracious wife Rose own a fine home in which they''ve begun a school to educate young girls of color. But when the president of the bank where all the Januarys'' money has been deposited comes to them and confides that a bank employee has cleaned out the coffers, the pair have only one choice: follow the thief and recover the money before a substantial payment is due on their mortgage. Enlisting the aid of their cultured and charming white ne''er-do-well friend, Hannibal Sefton, the two pose as Hannibal''s slaves/servants and board a steamboat heading up the Mississippi River. On the boat, they find themselves amid slave runners, abolitionists and a host of interesting, unsavory and downright terrifying individuals. So when their quarry is transformed into a corpse, it''s no wonder the trio have no idea who might be trusted. This riveting novel of suspense is sure to win Hambly many new fans.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in the deservedly popular Benjamin January series finds the amateur sleuth investigating a couple of mysteries. The bank that holds all his money has suddenly and suspiciously collapsed, and someone has apparently put a curse on a former student in the small school operated by January''s wife, Rose. Just goes to show: New Orleans, circa 1836, is a wild and dangerous place. The January novels--this is the eighth since 1997--are solid mysteries, but most readers are not tuning in for the plots. Perhaps because she started out writing sf and fantasy novels (and still keeps her hand in the genre), the author has a sure grasp of the art of writing historical fiction, and the novels in this series are clever mixtures of scholarship and imagination. Where many writers of historical mysteries get bogged down in exposition, or in cataloging details that most readers are not interested in, Hambly keeps things moving, always focused on her characters and her story, and not on showing off the quantity of research she''s done. Keep ''em coming!\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6444'),
(2265, 'Dead Waters', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Canderous, of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs, is used to fighting vampires and zombies. But the strange murder of a professor has everyone stumped. And it''s making some people crazy. Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5503'),
(2266, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4289'),
(2267, 'DEAD(ish)', 'Naomi Kramer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lindaâ€™s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike wonâ€™t tell her what he did with her body, and she canâ€™t find the stupid thing herself. Thereâ€™s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2976'),
(2268, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2968'),
(2269, 'The Deadliest Game', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Net Force Explorers Megan O''Malley and Leif Anderson match wits with an unknown and sinister enemy who is targeting computer users playing the Net''s most popular online wargame, "The Dominion of Sarxos"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6526'),
(2270, 'Deadline', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Heart-Pounding Murder Mystery\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This alluring repackage of the R andy Alcorn bestseller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  His Body Hung Suspended Between Two Friends--His Soul Between Two Worlds\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Docâ€™s shoulder jammed into Jake as he swerved the Suburban sharply to the right, cut between a telephone pole and a billboard, then careened into a ten-foot high embankment. Sometime between the sound of Docâ€™s last cry and the sickening crunch of bent metal from the carâ€™s first roll, Jake lost consciousness. The last sensation he felt was that of being crushed between the two men he had known since childhoodâ€¦\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When tragedy strikes those closest to him, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about their suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand andâ€”ultimatelyâ€”the deeper meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is a dramatic and vivid novel of substance, filled with hope and perspective for every reader who longs to feel purpose in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is Randy Alcorn â€™s first novel, which stayed on the bestsellerâ€™s list for thirty-six months. A thorough researcher, Randy spent time with Portland homicide detectives and columnists at the\n <em>\n  Oregonian,\n </em>\n as well as observing editorial meetings at the\n <em>\n  Indianapolis Star\n </em>\n so he could accurately create the novelâ€™s murder-mystery storyline, setting, and characters. Randy also creatively portrays characters who have died and gone to heaven, where they view events happening on earth.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7893'),
(2271, 'Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All', 'Paul A. Offit', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin''s The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offitâ€”who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism''s False Prophetsâ€”presents a smart, hard-hitting exposÃ© of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings outstanding credentials to the subject: he''s a vaccinologist at Children''s Hospital in Philadelphia and an expert in infectious diseases, and he tackles claims that childhood inoculations cause brain damage, autism, diabetes, and cancer, finding a farrago of misinformation, faulty research, and sly deceptions fed to distraught parents by media hype, ax-grinding activists, and personal-injury lawyers. He embellishes his account with a sprightly history of paranoid medical populismâ€”19th-century critics of the cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine insisted it could turn people into cowsâ€”and a blistering attack on celebrity antivaccine ideologues Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher and the medical writers who pander to parental anxieties. Offit dwells less than Mnookin on the sociology of the controversy and more on the science. The result is a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to antivaccine fear-mongering. Photos. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Infectious disease expert Offit, long an outspoken and prolific (Vaccinated, 2007) champion of universal immunization via vaccines, ratchets up the urgency of his crusade by taking on the loudest and highest-profile spokespersons for the anti-vaccine movement. He spares no one, not Jim Carrey, not Jenny McCarthy, televisionâ€™s Dr. Oz, or even Dr. Bob Sears, as he tosses salvo after salvo of scientific evidence across the bow of their anti-vaccine ships. Their anti-vaccine arguments, he says, consist of nothing more than anecdotal drama combined with conspiracy theories that pander to parentsâ€™ most emotional fears. What they should be doing, he says, is encouraging parents to trust the huge bank of scientific data proving the safety of vaccines and their efficacy in eliminating many deadly infectious diseases. Armed with his own arsenal of anecdotal horror stories that focus on worst case histories of the unvaccinated, mostly children, in addition to pages of scientific study citations supporting his premise, Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6251'),
(2272, 'The Deadly Dance', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n   Â \n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="blurb">\n   <div>\n    Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big shoulder pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.\n    <br />\n    But then wealthy divorc&amp;eacute;e Catherine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs. Laggat-Brown''s daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she recognizes an opportunity to show what Raisin Investigations can do. Even better, the case gives her a chance to reunite with her long-absent friend, Sir Charles Fraith. As they scour the Cotswolds in search of leads, Charles'' insights prove invaluable and his charms irresistible, leading poor Emma to fall madly in love with him.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    As ever, Agatha bumbles her way through the case, trying her friends'' patience and flirting shamelessly with the chief suspect. Will she put her tiny agency on the map, or has even the outrageous Agatha finally bitten off more than she can chew?\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6064'),
(2273, 'Deadly Decisions: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This book is all about a nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint who is shot dead on a Montreal Street. Dr.Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist begins an investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. Deadly DÃ©cisions combines the authenticity of an excellent forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Nobody tells a chilling story like international bestselling author Kathy Reichs, whose "most valuable tool is her expertise...she''s the real thing" "(New York Newsday)." Drawing on her years as a top forensic anthropologist, Reichs brings her cutting-edge scientific know-how to this poignant, terrifying new tour de force. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home and parts of what may be her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. For Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina, the deaths kindle deep emotions that propel her on a harrowing journey into the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs. As a scientist, Tempe should remain dispassionate. As a caring individual, she yearns to take the killers off the streets. Emily Anne was cut down in a biker crossfire. The North Carolina victim, Savannah Osprey, was last seen hitching a ride with a transient biker. Tempe''s nephew, Kit, is intrigued by motorcycles. Does he understand the difference between legitimate riders and gangs, or is he too mesmerized to comprehend that outlaw bikers are big trouble? With her boss Pierre LaManche in the hospital, and her friend Andrew Ryan disturbingly unavailable, Tempe begins a perilous investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. From blood-splatter patterns and ground-penetrating radar to bone-sample analysis, "Deadly Decisions" triumphantly combines the authenticity of a world-class forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star. This richly nuanced thriller is sure to catapult a uniquely gifted author to even greater heights.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11160'),
(2274, 'Deadly Doubles', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10929'),
(2275, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses. ONE DREAM TEAM Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together. But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(2276, 'Deadly Games', 'Cate Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Eyes Only\n <br />\n INTERNAL AGENCY E-MAIL\n <br />\n FROM: Rocco Taylor\n <br />\n October 3, 11:50 p.m.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s the waiting I can''t stand. Let me belly crawl across a minefield into an enemy stronghold. Or give me an MP5 and a load of clips and just let me shoot my way in. Anything but this: playing along with the perps while an innocent woman pays the price.\n <br />\n <br />\n I know the last thing Gena wants is a hero--or me. I made the mistake of letting her go once, putting the assignment ahead of the heat between us. Since then she''s survived things I can only imagine, but no one can escape a death agent alone. Now I''ve got one last chance to win her trust, to get it right.\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7728'),
(2277, 'Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson and her partner are suiting up for underwater training in the British Virgin Islands when a plane nosedives into the water and disappears.They save eight people-and lose four. Hannah plunges into an investigation to see if one of the passengers was a target and who would be desperate enough to kill all those people.And as she copes with a nine-year-old survivor, a shady suspect, a shaky relationship-and an approaching hurricane-Hannah begins to feel she might have gotten in too deep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7842'),
(2278, 'Deadly Intent', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10941'),
(2279, 'Deadly Little Secret', 'Laurie Faria Stolarz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2743'),
(2280, 'Deadly Little Secrets', 'Jeanne Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Security expert Gates Bromley''s number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton tracing several pieces of stolen art, Gates is distracted by the leggy brunette who stirs up the raciest thoughts...After botching an operation that cost her colleagues'' lives, Ana has been reassigned to cold cases. When news gets out that she''s reopened a case involving stolen art and five brutal murders, Ana is almost killed. Seeking comfort in Gates'' strong embrace is easy, but surrendering trust to the sexiest man she''s ever known isn''t - unless Gates can show her that an attraction this hot is worth all the risks. But first he''ll have to stop a killer who''s bent on keeping the past buried.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2153'),
(2281, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon; Dianna Love; Cindy Gerard; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3316'),
(2282, 'Deadly Quicksilver Lies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1886'),
(2283, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Capturing the hot new craze: The new Math Puzzle mystery series. ** Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1364'),
(2284, 'Deadly Visions', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A killer crosses overâ€¦Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey, a.k.a. the Spirit Basher, needs all his expertise when heâ€™s teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders--each involving strange voices and stranger circumstances. Monica senses supernatural forces at work, but whoever--or whatever--is doing the killing, the victims are real. When eerie happenings hit closer to home--to Joeâ€™s daughter, Nikki--and then Monica herself is the victim of a grisly, near-fatal attack, Joe is more determined than ever to unmask the truth behind the phenomena. As he searches for answers to inexplicable questions, he discovers that politics and the paranormal make deadly bedfellows, that his escape-artist skills still come in handy--and that even a psychic can know too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3673'),
(2285, 'Deadman&#39;s Bluff', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.â€\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBask in Swainâ€™s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the worldâ€™s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremesâ€“even cold-blooded murderâ€“to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarcoâ€™s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove thereâ€™s more to any game of chance than meets the eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Swain, the bestselling author of Grift Sense, Funny Money, Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice, Mr. Lucky, and Deadmanâ€™s Poker, is also an authority on crooked gambling and casino scams. He is the winner of the prestigious Prix Calibre 38. He lives in Odessa, Florida, with his wife, Laura, and is currently at work on his next Tony Valentine novel. Visit the authorâ€™s website at www.jimswain.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6369'),
(2286, 'Deadwood', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1876 William "[Buffalo] Bill" [Hickok] and Charley Utter rode into Deadwood, a hellish frontier settlement in the Black Hills. Bill died there, victim of a possibly demented assassin. Fortunately, this is mostly the story of his constant companion, Charley, a man of sapient insight and, though less famous than his friend, of extensive and varied experience. Charley, Bill, their acquaintance the Bottle Fiend, and later Bill''s widow Agnes and mourner Calamity Jane saw some remarkable things in Deadwood and raised considerable Cain. By turns heroic, ludicrous, vicious, pathetic, and infuriating, the exotic citizens of Deadwood grab the reader''s interest immediately and never let go. Highly recommended for its deadpan, offbeat, credible frontier anarchy. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you want to call\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n a Western, you might as well call\n <strong>\n  The House of Mirth\n </strong>\n chick lit.Â Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, â€˜I recognize that!\n <strong>\n  â€™\n </strong>\n and gave us a world-class entertainment.â€ â€”Jonathan Franzen, author of\n <strong>\n  The Corrections\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric.â€ --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n may well be the best western ever written.â€ â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What deepens and darkens [Dexter''s] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -_-Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter''s strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Great, eccentric characters....Dexter''s writing is a living thing." --_USA Today_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6383'),
(2287, 'Deaf Sentence', 'David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1305'),
(2288, 'Deal Breaker (1995)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9579'),
(2289, 'The Dealer and the Dead', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply them with arms.\n <br />\n With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him downâ€¦ but is the story as simple as they think?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6642'),
(2290, 'Dean R Koontz', 'Intensity (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11041'),
(2291, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3086');
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(2292, 'Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street', 'Janet M. Tavakoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Morgan Stanley''s David M. Darst on\n  <em>\n   Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 14 Chapters, 265 pages, and 443 footnotes drawing upon 119 sources, structured finance and derivatives consultant and expert witness Janet M. Tavakoli writes about her â€œmeeting with Warren Buffett on the eve of the greatest market meltdown in historyâ€ and how meeting him subtly changed the way she looks at global financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n </em>\n is much more than a personal investing\n <em>\n  bildungsroman\n </em>\n . The book is so loaded with lessons, warnings, admonishments, and recommendations that readers will find themselves copiously underlining the text and filling the margins with stars, checkmarks, and exclamation points.\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is wide ranging and hard hitting, written with humility, great specificity, honesty, humanity, and historical awareness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captious (or offended) readers may criticize the book as: too harsh in parts; overly broad-brush in its treatment of micro and macro events; and possibly bordering on solipsism when Tavakoli frequently cites her own articles, letters, e-mail exchanges, telephone conversations, and television appearances. Serious financial debacles in the post-Millennium years have left plenty of blame to be apportioned among firms, regulators, the financial system, and letâ€™s face it, human nature, and though polite and deferential, Tavakoli (called by Business Week â€œthe Cassandra of credit derivativesâ€) is not reticent. At times, her tone can be Biblically prophetic.\n</p>\n<p>\n That said,\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is worth its weight in gold for two main reasons. First, the timeless investment lessons laced throughout the book. To cite a few:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Warren does not rely on a price because that is what you pay. He relies on value because that is what you get (page 23).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The five most dangerous words in business may be â€œEverybody else is doing itâ€ (page 38).\n </li>\n <li>\n  Janet Tavakoliâ€™s Theory of Everything in Finance: The value of any financial transaction is based on the timing of cash flows, the frequency of cash flows, the magnitude of cash flows, and the probability of receipt of those cash flows (page 69).\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of Warren Buffetâ€™s core principles: Donâ€™t lend money to people who canâ€™t pay you back. If you do not understand something, do not invest (page 105).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fraud triangle: need, opportunity, and the ability to rationalize oneâ€™s behavior (page 199).\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Second, the book contains lucid, lapidary descriptions of options backdating (Chapter 3); mortgages (Chapter 5); complex structured products, securitizations, and off-balance sheet vehicles (Chapter 7); and the perils of leverage and the developments leading to the difficulties at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and other financial enterprises (Chapters 8 and 9).\n</p>\n<p>\n Parts of the book read like replaying a YouTube video of a hurricane. Whether or not you agree with Tavakoli in all cases on the details and/or her approach, what comes through in every sentence is her conviction and courage in recounting what happened and her creativity and concretization in proposing safeguards and solutions. In the Preface, she says she is â€œstill learning,â€ and the financial realm stands the richer from her energy, discernment, persistence, erudition, curiosity, insight, and human empathy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this book as soon as you can. As Warren Edward Buffett has said, â€œJanet Tavakoli should have been listened to much more carefully in the pastâ€¦ and\n <em>\n  will be\n </em>\n in the future.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  David M. Darst is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm''s Global Wealth Management Group and is the Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee. Darst is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a BA in economics from Yale University. Darst is a CFA charterholder.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Altogether this book is an excellent read, loaded with information about the goings-on in the financial sector in the US till as recently as September 2008. The is informal, almost like a conversation in a lounge bar, racy, laced with wit and when it comments on leading actors in the drama, dipped in vitriol. Tavakoli is a name we will be hearing about frequently in the near future. (_Business Standard_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dear Buffett_ is must reading . . . in a way that only Tavakoli could provide. . . Tavakoli knows her stuff. She knows where the bodies are buried in the complex formulas. . . And, almost as a bonus, we get Buffett''s views and insights into his derivatives trading. There''s nothing more you could ask for in a financial book in this day and age of financial derivatives meltdown." (_Economic Policy Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote." (_Financial Times_, February 21st 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A clear and pacy run through the multitude of sins and sinners in the modern financial world. . . full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth and colour to even the best known episodes of the past two years. [Tavakoli] also covers events only a few years before the current crisis that should have been big warning signs. The correspondence between Buffett and Tavakoli over the past three years reinforced her existing views on the dangers of complex finance. And with Buffett''s blessing, this book will find a ready-made fan base with little marketing effort. . . Tavakoli makes for an attractive pundit - she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote. . . There is a healthy dose of "I told you so" about this volume - but, to be fair, Tavakoli is one of the few who did." (_Financial Times_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Tavakoli has] been railing against emperors wearing no clothes in the credit derivatives markets forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6159'),
(2293, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when heâ€™s under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”but heâ€™s doing his best to keep up the disguise, spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killer couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami and killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do something about it. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1817'),
(2294, 'The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education', 'Diane Ravitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of Americaâ€™s best-known education experts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Diane Ravitchâ€”former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculumâ€”examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques todayâ€™s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving Americaâ€™s schools:       leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen     devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning*     expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools     pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not â€œmerit payâ€ based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores     encourage family involvement in education from an early age  *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8448'),
(2295, 'Death and the Joyful Woman', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the George Felse mysteries. Det Sgt Felse is called in to investigate a murder at a new roadhouse, once a beautiful old inn known as "The Joyful Woman". There is no shortage of suspects, but the arrest of Kitty Norris leads Felse''s young son, who is convinced she is innocent, into danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4858'),
(2296, 'Death and the Running Patterer', 'Robin Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?\n</p>\n<p>\n Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.\n</p>\n<p>\n With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robin Adair\n </strong>\n is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4687'),
(2297, 'Death and the Senator', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8975'),
(2298, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Firestorm! A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer. Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(2299, 'Death at Dawn', 'Caro Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a daya??s work for Liberty Lane: a new heroine for fans of Matthew Hawkwood and Sarah Watersa??s Victorian novels. Thomas Jacques Lane a?? radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father a?? had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father''s killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levelsa?|.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4976'),
(2300, 'Death at La Fenice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn''t a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/735'),
(2301, 'Death Benefits', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10351'),
(2302, 'Death Benefits: A Novel', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Thomas Perry''s popular series featuring Jane Whitefield, the Seneca Indian woman who helps people disappear (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , et al.) may be disappointed when they discover that\n <em>\n  Death Benefits\n </em>\n doesn''t feature the heroine who has won this writer so many new readers. But the disappointment won''t last longer than the first page of this intriguing and extremely well-written new thriller, whose hero, John Walker, a data analyst for a large insurance company, deserves a series of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a security man named Max Stillman plucks Walker out of the office pool and dragoons him into investigating a fraud against the McClaren Life and Casualty, Walker''s previously safe life takes a new and potentially dangerous turn. As the pair begin searching for the missing employee, who signed off on the huge (and phony) payoff of a death claim, and follow her to a grave in a Midwestern wheat field, Walker discovers talents he never knew he had and a thirst for vengeance. With the mysterious Stillman, he tracks the conspirators to a New Hampshire village and an explosive and shocking conclusion to a fraud that''s much older than either of the men might have guessed. Like Don Winslow, whose __ also focused on insurance fraud, Perry manages to make even the dusty back corners of the corporate world a likely setting for mystery and mayhem. This is a sharp, suspenseful, successful debut for a pair of unlikely compatriots, marked by Perry''s edgy, noirish style, lively dialogue, and superb pacing.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Perry (Blood Money; The Face Changers) serves up a clever entertainment (in the Graham Greene sense of the word) set in the high-stakes insurance world. After a deliberately ambiguous prologue (just why is Ellen Snyder going to an L.A. airport hotel before dawn?), we learn that Ellen, working out of the Pasadena office of a prestigious San Francisco insurance company called McClaren''s, recently authorized a 12$- million death benefit payment to a man who turned out to be an imposter. Now both the imposter and Ellen have navished, and McClaren''s has called in mysterious operative Max Stillman to investigate the apparent conspiracy to defraud. Stillman oh-so-deftly draws young John Walker, an analyst in the main San Francisco office, into the investigation. Walker cooperates with Stillman because he doesn''t believe Ellens''s guilty; he''s still a little bit in love with her from their training class days, although Ellen''s career plans left no room for more than a casual interoffice romance. Casual is the operative word here: a casual remark from Walker to an enigmatic computer hacker named Serena leads to a seriously steamy interlude. And casual is the best way to describe Perry''s seemingly effortless method of developing character and building suspense. His style is so assured as to be invisible, seamlessly supplying plot and character information as the chase leads from California to Chicago, Miami and finally a small town in New Hampshire. Though the finale echoes the premise of a particular Dachiell Hammett story, everything else feels as fresh as dawn. (Jan. 16) Forecast: Perry won an Edgar for The Butcher''s Boy, and Metzger''s Dog was New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This is his finest novel yet and, if sold with enthusiasm, could chart significant numbers. The bold evocative, b&amp;w jacket will help, as will the four-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7129'),
(2303, 'Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation''s best-known astrophysicist. â€œOne of todayâ€™s best popularizers of science.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson''s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. "Holy Wars" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. "The Search for Life in the Universe" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And "Hollywood Nights" assails the movie industry''s feeble efforts to get its night skies right. Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3022'),
(2304, 'Death by the Book', 'Lenny Bartulin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko''s business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client''s request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass''s books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz''s daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko''s unsavory background. While the story twists won''t shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulinâ€™s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isnâ€™t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesnâ€™t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunningâ€™s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7516'),
(2305, 'Death Comes as the End', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC  It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest''s daughter, believes that the woman''s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father''s household.  As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5187'),
(2306, 'Death Du Jour: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist digs for a corpse where Sister Ã‰lisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century seems missing. The puzzle surrounding Sister Nicolet''s life and death provides a welcome contrast to the discovery of scorched bodies at a burning chalet. Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan joins her in the arson investigation. Tempe is overwhelmed by the case, her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by worries about her sister Harry''s search for spiritual awakening.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season''s dead are not found until the spring melt."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers of Kathy Reichs''s cool and clever first forensic thriller __ will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de MÃ©dicine LÃ©gale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the cold weather, Tempe''s workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn''t revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Temperance "Tempe" Brennan of the Laboratoire de M?dicine L?gale in Montreal makes a triumphant second appearance in Reichs''s powerful followup to her bestselling debut, D?j? Dead. The novel opens atmospherically in a frigid church graveyard as Tempe labors to exhume the century-old remains of a nun so that the Church can posthumously declare her a saint. But the bones aren''t where they''re supposed to be according to the graveyard map, and there''s something suspicious about them when they do turn up. Tempe''s caseload multiplies as a house fire proves to be a horrific instance of arson and a university teaching assistant who''s recently joined a cult goes missing. The three seemingly individual events begin to braid together, as the doings with the doomsday cult draw Tempe to North Carolina. As in D?j? Dead, ReichsAherself a forensic anthropologistArenders comprehensively and believably the cool, tense intelligence of her heroine. A North Carolina native who consults in Montreal only a few months of the year, Tempe still hasn''t acclimated to the bone-chilling Northern cold, and if she''s come to expect the misogynist attitudes of some of the Canadian officials, she still bristles at them. Also well presented are Tempe''s refreshing compassion in the face of relentless autopsies, her ability to describe a corpse with judiciously graphic detail and her penchant for revealing the art behind the science on such matters as the preservation of a corpse''s teeth. Reichs''s first novel, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, was compared justifiably to the Kay Scarpetta novels of Patricia Cornwell. Soon, Cornwell''s novels may be compared to Reichs''s. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11159'),
(2307, 'Death in a strange country', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal...'' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man''s flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal- and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready- made solution to the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/736'),
(2308, 'Death in Paradise (2001)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10536'),
(2309, 'Death in the Clouds', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.  What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5257'),
(2310, 'A Death In The Family', 'James Agee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10908'),
(2311, 'Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America', 'James R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) "radicals and reformers" and union activists. The Haymarket demonstration, to protest police brutality during labor unrest in Chicago, remained peaceful until police moved in, whereupon a bomb was thrown by an individual never positively identified, killing seven policemen and wounding 60 others. Shortly after, labor leaders August Spies and Albert Parsons, along with six more alleged anarchists, stood convicted of murder on sparse evidence. Four of them went to the gallows in 1887; another committed suicide. The surviving three received pardons in 1893. The Knights of Labor, at that time America''s largest and most energetic union, received the blame for the riot, despite a lack of conclusive evidence , and many Knights locals migrated to the less radical American Federation of Labor. Labor historian Green (_Taking History to Heart_) eloquently chronicles all this, producing what will surely be the definitive word on the Haymarket affair for this generation. Green is particularly strong in documenting the episode''s long aftermath, especially the decades-long efforts of the white Parsons''s black wife to exonerate her husband. B&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 7)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Green, an academic, offers a narrative history of Chicago''s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart of the labor struggle for the eight-hour day, and we learn that "workers'' struggles had often been met with shocking repression, and that when violence bred violence, when powerless laboring people struck back in anger, they often paid with their lives." The Haymarket episode became a seminal moment for the American labor movement, and Green takes us inside the personal, social, and cultural elements of this tragic event. Evaluation of Haymarket includes the contention that a conservative bias against radicals, labor organizers, immigrants, and minorities was fundamental to the conflict as well as the view that execution of the anarchists saved the country from anarchy and was a moral and political victory for law and order. The author notes that after Haymarket, social peace among the various classes in Chicago was impossible, and grudges continued for decades.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7159'),
(2312, 'Death in Venice', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann''s best-known novella exemplifies the author''s regard for Sigmund Freud''s writings on the unconscious. Gustav von Aschenbach is a revered author whose work is known for its discipline and formal perfection. At his Venetian hotel he encounters the strikingly handsome young teenager Tadzio. Aschenbach is disturbed by his attraction to the boy, and although he watches Tadzio, he dare not speak to him. Despite warnings of a cholera epidemic Aschenbach stays in Venice; he sacrifices his dignity and well-being to the immediate experience of beauty as embodied by Tadzio. After exchanging a significant look with the boy on the day of Tadzio''s scheduled departure, Aschenbach dies of cholera. As in his other major works, Mann explores the role of the artist in society. The cerebral Aschenbach summons extraordinary discipline and endurance in his literary work, but his private desires overwhelm him. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.\n</p>\n<p>\n DEATH IN VENICE, this tale of forbidden love which has long intrigued the reading public, was his early masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an exciting, new translation by Martin C. Doege.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9240'),
(2313, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon hasn''t been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria''s next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva''s thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who''s also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6923'),
(2314, 'Death in Winter', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise,â„¢\n  </em>\n  he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of contentment as Beverly''s close friend, colleague, and daily breakfast partner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Doctor Crusher leaves her position on the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  to become the chief medical officer of Starfleet, the brightest light in Picard''s life is taken from him. And he has hardly resigned himself to his loss when he learns that Beverly has been declared missing in action on a distant planet -- and presumed dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevratas is a bleak, frozen world on the far side of the Romulan Neutral Zone where the Federation has become the plague-ravaged natives'' only real hope of survival and freedom. Starfleet has no recourse but to send in another team to try to save the Kevrata -- and Picard is the natural choice. Critical to the success of his mission are two colleagues who served under him when he commanded the\n  <em>\n   Starship Stargazer\n  </em>\n  -- Pug Joseph, a man with a past to live down, and Doctor Carter Greyhorse, who has served time for attempted murder -- as well as a Romulan who left his people years earlier and never expected to return. Together, they follow the trail of Beverly Crusher to Kevratas, determined to succeed where the doctor failed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the Romulan homeworld, meanwhile, the political vacuum created by the demise of Praetor Shinzon has been filled by his staunchest supporter, Senator Tal''aura. But there are those who oppose her, including Commander Donatra and the warbird fleets under her command, because of the way Tal''aura has mishandled rebellions on the Empire''s subject worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And one rebellion in particular; the movement for self-determination on frigid Kevratas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins a desperate struggle -- not only for the freedom of the long-oppressed Kevrata but also for the soul of the Romulan Empire. Before it''s over, destinies will be forged and shattered, the Empire will be shaken to its ancient foundations, and Jean-Luc Picard''s life will be changed...forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: VoyagerÂ®\n  </em>\n  episode "Resistance" prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4740'),
(2315, 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(2316, 'Death March', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(2317, 'Death Mask', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn''t flesh and blood; he''s paint and paper, a portrait come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1602'),
(2318, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in hardcover for the first time- book five in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series!** Harry Dresden, Chicago''s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Recent examples: A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin-and the possible involvement of Chicago''s most feared mob boss...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified... Not to mention the return of Harry''s ex-girlfriend Susan, who''s still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature-and who seems to have a new man in her life. Some days, it just doesn''t pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you''re charging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1725'),
(2319, 'Death Match', 'Diane Duane &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the star of South Florida''s spatball team is threatened by a ruthless gang of major bettors who stand to lose a fortune, Catie Murray and the Net Force Explorers delve into the cyber world to protect America''s newest sports phenomenon. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5010'),
(2320, 'Death of a Cad', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2540'),
(2321, 'Death of a Chimney Sweep', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-sixth craggy-cozy. The mystery centers in the tiny Highlands village of Drim, â€œa huddle of white-washed cottagesâ€ on the banks of a sea loch, where mountains rise up at waterâ€™s edge. There, the body of the posh new owner of a long-abandoned estate is found, stuffed up the chimney. The chimney sweep himself, who was to have been cleaning the estate chimney, is found dead on the motorway, an apparent accident victim, a few hours later. The local police feel the case is open and shut, with the chimney sweep tabbed as the murderer of the estate owner, until Constable Hamish Macbeth questions the findings, even of the forensics team. Someone has embarked on a spree, starting at the estate, and spreading to Edinburgh. Great stuff, as usual. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager''s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn''t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete''s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it''s up to Hamish to discover who''s responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6063'),
(2322, 'Death of a Dentist', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several harassed women, and even his wife--Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2537'),
(2323, 'Death of a Gossip', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Winters--Lady Jane--was a noted gossip columnist enrolled in the Lachdubh School of Casting (fish casting, that is). She had something on everyone in class--and so, bobby Hamish Macbeth figured, any one of them could have killed her. Martin''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2538'),
(2324, 'Death of a Hussy', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2535');
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(2325, 'Death of a Perfect Wife', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although the Thomases were not initially liked by villagers, Trixie Thomas has become a model of domestic efficiency--the perfect wife. So it comes as a great shock to everyone when she is found dead--to everyone but police inspector Hamish Macbeth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2545'),
(2326, 'Death of a Prankster', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Hamish Macbeth hears that there has been a murder at the home of the practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn''t race to the scene of the crime. The last time he was called to investigate a death at the manor, the victim turned out to be a manservant covered in fake blood. Ready for another prank, Hamish arrives to find Trent most decidedly dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2541'),
(2327, 'Death of a Scriptwriter', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish -- and more -- when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer -- or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2542'),
(2328, 'Death of a Snob', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Pure bliss." Atlanta Journal &amp; Constitution A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by the author of "Death of a Hussy." With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish island health farm -- and figure out who is trying to kill her. When Hamish arrives on the island of Eileencraig, he finds threatening locals and fellow guests barely more civil, especially a terrible snob named Heather Todd. It seems like everyone on the island has a grudge against Jane. How to choose among so many suspects? But then one suspect is eliminated. Heather Todd is murdered. And suddenly Hamish''s Christmas is looking very black indeed . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2543'),
(2329, 'Death of a Travelling Man', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "ENTRANCING . . . A GEM." --Ocala Star-Banner Hamish Macbeth''s life is going to pot. He''s been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and--to add insult to injury--a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty, eye-sore-of-a-van in the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he''s right. The doctor''s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors grow suddenly unneighborly. And when the unsavory newcomer is murdered, Hamish regrets it only because his bones tell him the killer may be one of his friends. Nobody wants to volunteer even a scrap of useful information, so canny Hamish single-handedly sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his neighbors. Yet in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the villagers may ever recover from it. . . . "EXCELLENT.. . . A cast of winning characters." --Publishers Weekly "Scottish writer M. C. Beaton develops the locals with humor and verve." --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2544'),
(2330, 'Death of a Valentine', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Beaton''s enjoyable 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Death of a Witch\n </em>\n ), a Valentine''s Day parcel explodes in the face of the Scottish Highlands'' Lammas festival queen, Annie Fleming, as soon as she tries to open it, killing her instantly. Hamish Macbeth, newly promoted to sergeant, would rather investigate with only his trusty pets in tow, but is instead forced to tote along his new constable, the less than professional Josie McSween. Considered prim and proper and a right innocent, Annie turns out to have been leading a less than virtuous double life, with no shortage of suspects in her murder. A much sought after bachelor, Hamish desperately tries to break the case, while Josie, with dreams in her eyes, strives to crack Hamish''s heart. Will Josie succeed in getting Hamish to say I do at the altar? For all the book''s farcical moments, Beaton takes care as usual to provide a satisfying police procedural.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatonâ€™s cozies set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh and starring the crusty village constable Hamish Macbeth are sometimes so predictable in their â€œstranger comes to the village and gets murderedâ€ or â€œirascible villager gets murderedâ€ plotlines that the cozy quickly becomes a drowsy. It seems that Beaton bestirred herself for this, the twenty-fifth in the series. It combines her gift for scenic description with an inventive, constantly surprising plot. Two women are at the center of the action: one is a constable from Strathbane, assigned to work for Macbeth, who lives in perpetual fear of being transferred to the urban blight of Strathbane. The other woman is the town beauty, queen of the Lammas Fest, who dies after opening a letter-bomb Valentine. This beauty queen is, we learn, what Scotland Yard terms a â€œmurderee,â€ someone whose life invites violence. Both Beaton fans and newcomers to cozies will find her latest explosive and engaging. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6066'),
(2331, 'Death of an Addict', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. When he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad''s demise to be particularly fishy - and not of the local salmon variety. Hamish decides to infiltrate the illicit drug trade in nearby Strathbane, but his daft scheme springs a leak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2539'),
(2332, 'Death of an Outsider', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain''s best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, his formerly beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up, a dark-haired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim-and without doubt will strike again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2536'),
(2333, 'The Death of Bunny Munro', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of Cave''s pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days seducing invariably attractive women, servicing both their sexual and moisturizing needs. His wife''s suicide, though, threatens to derail Bunny''s amorous adventures, as he can''t shake the feeling that he might somehow be responsible. Another new obstacle is the need to look after his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr. In an effort to escape the creepiness of the apartment he shared with his wife, Bunny takes his son on the road, teaching him the ropes of salesmanship. Meanwhile, a man in red face paint and plastic devil horns accosts women in northern England before a murderous turn sends him journeying south. Bunny''s deterioration from swaggering Lothario to sputtering pity case suggests he is carrying around more guilt than he cares to admit, and his obsessive behavior, while a bit of a stretch, allows for an interesting portrait of modern family dynamics. Cave''s bawdy humor, along with a gallows whimsy that will be familiar to fans of his music, elevate the novel from what might otherwise be a one-note adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all of Nick Caveâ€™s trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.â€ â€”Irvine Welsh\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Death of Bunny Munro_, is a sexually explicit, hyperactive soap opera of a book that proves, once again, that his talents are wide-ranging. Cave is a darkly gifted storyteller . . . Cave''s prose surprises throughout with flashes of grotesque beauty." â€”Don Waters, _San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"As in song, Cave the novelist is unafraid to launch headlong into roaring caricature, but while the sex and death quotient is significant, the book also reveals surprising new weapons in his armoury, particularly the tenderness and humanity with which he portrays Bunny Junior, a beacon of love and faith in a ruined world . . . Told with verve, studded with scalding humour." â€”Graeme Thomson,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6746'),
(2334, 'The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set adrift by his wifeâ€™s suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wifeâ€™s ghost, seems only dimly aware of his sonâ€™s existence. When his bizarre trip shades into a final reckoning, when he can no longer be sure what is real and what is not, Bunny finally begins to recognize the love he feels for his son. And he sees that the revenants of his worldâ€”decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psychokillersâ€”are lurking in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll. At turns dark and humane, The Death of Bunny Munro is a tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Nick Caveâ€™s singular vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2766'),
(2335, 'The death of faith', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leons mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettis inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinistersomething that puts her life in imminent danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(2336, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich: And, Master and Man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf) &amp; Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4988'),
(2337, 'The Death of Princes', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6789'),
(2338, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Chris Hedges', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tsunami of terrifying revelations, juxtaposed truths, and demonstrated facts, Hedges (War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) argues that the traditional beacons of the liberal classâ€”the universities, media, church, labor unions, and artsâ€“have sacrificed themselves completely to the dominance of corporate greed and unbounded capitalism. We are all to blame and everything moral about our democracy stands to be lostâ€”is indeed already vanishing, in Hedges''s viewâ€”and those who draw attention to it are banished and booed. While every page erupts with calamities of the human spirit worthy of their own irate broadcasts and bull-horned fury, Hedges is at his best when he unpacks the density of his polemic and embraces the power of his narrative. Regardless of form, however, his most interesting theses include the parallel between the current domestic climate and the fall of Weimar Germany and the conclusion that "Everything formed by violence is senseless and useless. It exists without a future. It leaves behind nothing but death, grief, and destruction." These insights come not just as warning, but as witness. (Nov.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real danger to progressive social ideals is not President Obamaâ€™s failure to push through a more liberal agenda or the threat presented by the Tea Party and others pushing the Republicans more to the Right. Hedges argues that the true threat to liberalism is the long and gradual weakening of its ideals. Drawing on analysis and interviews from his long career as a journalist, including 15 years with the New York Times, Hedges chronicles the corruption of such bastions of liberalism as the Democratic Party, academia, and labor unions. He cites the NAFTA agreement and welfare reform during the Clinton administration and union coziness with corporations as recent examples of the merging of government and corporate interests to the detriment of the interests of the poor or even the middle class. He also reviews the long history of assassination and co-optation of radical voices in the U.S. and the singular career of Ralph Nader as a consistent voice against capitalist excess. This is a thoughtful analysis of why and how liberals have compromised principles due to the allure of power and wealth. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7078'),
(2339, 'Death on the Diagonal', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2387'),
(2340, 'Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She''s the girl who has everythingâ€”including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5180'),
(2341, 'Death on Tour', 'Janice Hamrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A passport''s not needed to enjoy Hamrick''s ditzy debut, the first in a new cozy series and the winner of the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition. While Austin, Tex., high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her fashionista cousin and best friend, Kyla Shore, are on an Egyptian tour, one of their group, unpopular 55-year-old Millie Owens, takes a fatal plunge off the great pyramid of Khafre outside Cairo. The police later determine that Millie was murdered, stabbed in the neck. Entries in a journal that Jocelyn finds in Millie''s bag suggests someone on the tour might be dangerous. Good-looking Alan Stratton, who''s traveling alone and wears no wedding ring, adds romantic interest. Hamrick does a good job capturing life on an exhausting budget tour as her snazzy if snarky amateur sleuth, who tends to be hard on the middle-aged and elderly, investigates some fishy fellow tourists with a hypercritical eye. (May)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And thatâ€™s only the beginning of their troubles.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the jovial doctor haggling for trinkets he doesnâ€™t want to the mysterious imposter wearing someone elseâ€™s clothing to the attractive stranger traveling alone, this group of tourists is carrying more than one kind of baggage. Add a mistaken identity, a priceless necklace, and another unexpected death, and Jocelyn finds herself reluctantly trying to unravel an intrigue that threatens to end not only her vacation, but her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Janice Hamrickâ€™s Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books Competition winner\n <em>\n  Death on Tour\n </em>\n is a delightful debut and the beginning of a wonderfully charming cozy series featuring Jocelyn Shore, the determined teacher who always seems to get wrapped up in a mystery, against her usually very sound judgment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4397'),
(2342, 'Death Row', 'Mark Pearson &amp; Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifteen years ago when Jack Delaney was a beat cop not long out of Hendon, two children went missing from Carlton Row, a small residential street in Harrow. They were never seen alive again. Two years later Delaney rescued a young girl from the boot of an abandoned car, leading to the capture of Peter Garnier, one of the most horrific child rapists and murderers in recent history. Although the bodies were never found, Garnier admitted to murdering the two children and many, many more. He was sent to prison for the rest of his natural life. Jack had thought the case was closed. But he couldn''t have been more wrong. This morning a another young boy disappears from Carlton Row. Peter Garnier sends Jack the chilling message that they are both at the heart of the mystery, and Delaney has no time to figure out why, or how. Because tonight, the killings begin again a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5958'),
(2343, 'Death Squad', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan''s life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan. Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies - all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(2344, 'Death Takes a Honeymoon', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TO SURVIVE THE WEDDING OF THE SEASON... Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid can feel the heat when she reunites with an old flame in the wealthy resort community of Sun Valleybut handsome smoke jumper Jack Packard is about to marry Carnegie''s former best friend, now a famous TV actress. With a star-studded ceremony to pull off, a noncommittal boyfriend back in Seattle, and a supercilious Frenchman barking orders, Carnegie has no time for carnal urges. Especially once murder joins the party. YOU''VE GOT TO TAKE THE PLUNGE. The victim was a local hero who leapt from planes to fight fire. But was his impromptu skydive a smoke screen for something sinister? With her florist going AWOL, her bride going ballistically Hollywood, and her curiosity running wild, Carnegie may be in over her head: Someone in Sun Valley is a killerand it''s up to Carnegie to grill the guests and unmask the villain...or watch her glitzy job go up in flames. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(2345, 'Death to the Landlords!', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4864'),
(2346, 'Death Trance', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A grieving father wants to enter the world of the dead to visit his murdered family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1603'),
(2347, 'Death Waxed Over', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a competing candlemaker comes to town, Harrison Black tries his best to get along, but when the woman threatens to run him out of town at the Founder''s Day celebration, Harrison argues with her. A few minutes later she is murdered, and someone in the crowd points her finger at Harrison as the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3978'),
(2348, 'Death Wore White', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1843'),
(2349, 'Death, guns, and sticky buns', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a quaint Pennsylvania town hosts a Civil War reenactment, only the blood will be real....How does a once-hip New Yorker get used to living in a quaint Pennsylvania town famous for its gooey, oversized sticky buns? For Tori Miracle, it means kissing her diet good-bye, always showing up in the wrong clothes, and struggling with a love life. And now that she''s filling in for the editor of the Lickin Creek Chronicle and has the town newspaper to look after as well as her own dear fastidious felines, sometimes it means cosponsoring public events like a Civil War reenactment for the local women''s college.But when this charmingly authentic reenactment is done, and each man and woman has played his or her part to the hilt, it''s clear that Tori has miscalculated again. Someone used one live bullet in an antique gun. And with a man dead, it''s going to be up to the only city slicker in Lickin Creek to unravel a mystery of murder in a town where calories don''t count, but murder does....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3794'),
(2350, 'Death, Snow, and Mistletoe', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn''t let a living baby be part of the town''s living crÃ¨che. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3795'),
(2351, 'Death&#39;s Daughter', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Buffy fans will go wild!\n </p>\n <p>\n  SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now sheâ€™s the author of Aceâ€™s hottest new seriesâ€” killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesnâ€™t want to be daddyâ€™s little girl anymore...\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craigâ€™s List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when her fatherâ€”who happens to be Death himselfâ€”is kidnapped, and the Devilâ€™s Protege embarks on a hostile takeover of the family business, Death, Inc., Callie returns home to assume the CEO mantleâ€” only to discover she must complete three nearly impossible tasks in the realm of the afterlife first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9846'),
(2352, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. ** *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(2353, 'Death&#39;s Shadow', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn''t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she''s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity''s greatest threat... _\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his eighth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4377'),
(2354, 'Deathstalker Destiny: Being the Fifth and Last Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible romp through a wonderful universe of space opera.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_SF Site_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owen Deathstalker''s greatest love--Hazel d''Ark--has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." --_Booklist_\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Simon R. Green is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Blue Moon\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Shadows Fall\n   </em>\n   , and thirteen other novels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Deathstalker Destiny\n   </em>\n   is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5771'),
(2355, 'Deathstalker Legacy', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen''s descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor''s desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king''s intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren''t enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis''s jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon''s surface but a brilliant sociopath''s soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn''t withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don''t take it too seriously.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5780'),
(2356, 'Deathstalker Return', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green''s latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003''s Deathstalker Legacy) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the oncoming Terror, an evil and unstoppable force bent on destroying all the worlds in its path. Lewis Deathstalker, descendant of the Beloved Owen, on the lam with his renegade companions, runs into adventure after adventure as he seeks Owen on a variety of planets. Their archenemy, former Paragon Finn Durandal, dogs them every step of the way as he seizes power, overthrows King Douglas and dismantles the Golden Age that Owen helped create 200 years earlier. Others seek to overthrow the nasty Durandal, including the enigmatic robots of Shub, Douglas (who''s not the broken man he appears to be), Paragon Emma Steel and Steel''s unlikely ally, gun-toting girl reporter Nina Malapert. Green ably juggles elements of sword and sorcery, high fantasy, humorous quest and SF, with homages to authors such as Moorcock, Adams, Cordwainer Smith and Zelazny. Amazing coincidences, or the sudden appearance of powerful, supposedly long-dead heroes who give advice, save the day a few too many times, blunting the impact of the characters'' actions, but it''s a fun, twisty romp with surprises around every corner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis Deathstalker''s troubles are many, even if he is with the woman he loves, Jessamine Flowers. The problem is that she was King Douglas'' intended, and that makes Deathstalker a traitor. It is Finn Durandal, nominally a Douglas ally, who is actually hatching the highest treason, and whom Douglas and Deathstalker (the Killer Ds) really have to worry about. Deathstalker''s cohorts continue to be a charming con man, an immortal female gladiator, and a reptiloid named Saturday. They and Lewis constitute a tough bunch, but what will happen should Lewis'' ancestor Owen Deathstalker, thought to have been dead for two centuries, return? But then, is there anything dire enough to necessitate his return? Tune in on the next Deathstalker volume for answers to those questions, but meanwhile have fun with this one. After all, reading even one Deathstalker leaves one feeling jollier than before, for the series continues to avoid the lapses of tone so common in humorous space opera and fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5774'),
(2357, 'Debt Collectors, CCJs, IVAs and Bankruptcy', 'GA &amp; P', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you worried about Debts?  Does the idea of a knock on the door keep you awake at night?  Do you really know your rights?  This excellent quick-read guide gives you answers to the most commonly asked questions, and firmly puts YOU back in control.  Don''t be left in the dark - read this guide and protect yourself from unlawful and unethical action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4669'),
(2358, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3521'),
(2359, 'Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3742'),
(2360, 'Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents', 'Zac Bissonnette &amp; Andrew Tobias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In keeping with the new frugality, this college guide, written by a senior attending the University of Massachusetts, offers practical advice on how to pay for college without taking out loans. Decidedly old school in approach, Bissonnette advocates that students should bear the brunt of paying for their educations by working while in college and during breaks. He also suggests that attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year college or university would go a long way toward cutting costs. Systematically and amusingly debunking the selection criteria used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank elite colleges, Bissonnette is a strong advocate of attending reasonably priced state schools. He makes good points about how debt from student loans often prevents recent grads from starting families or buying homes. He also presents convincing research that elite graduate programs and selective employers accept plenty of people who have attended nonelite schools. Although the strictly dollars-and-cents approach to higher education may not sit well with some parents, this is a timely guide to a decision that has important financial ramifications. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If the National Association for College Admissions Counseling had anticipated the dire consequences of one of the smartest teenagers in America encountering the ill-examined assumptions of their profession, they might have found some way to buy him off, maybe a full ride scholarship to Harvard. Too late. Bissonnette is 21 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process."\n <br />\n -Jay Mathews,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let Zac Bissonnette help you plan for college-where to go, what to study, and how to pay for it-and you will finish rich"\n <br />\n -David Bach #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Automatic Millionaire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Start Late, Finish Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the new economy, your college choice is critical. Zac Bissonnette''s\n <em>\n  Debt- Free U\n </em>\n is the one book you need to make this life-changing decision-- thoroughly researched, smart, and funny. Grade: A+."\n <br />\n -Ali Rogers, CBS Moneywatch. Author,\n <em>\n  Diary of a Real Estate Rookie\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With Bissonnette, college-bound students and their parents finally have an unbiased source to help make an educated decision about choosing and affording college. Not to mention, his advice can help you pocket tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to make a smart investment in this economy? Buy\n <em>\n  Debt-Free U\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of\n <em>\n  Psych Yourself Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4513'),
(2361, 'Debtors&#39; Planet', 'W. R. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technological society, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ are ordered to transport an unlikely passenger to the system, a ruthless twentieth-century businessman who is now a Federation ambassador.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Ferengi have been changing Megaran culture, turning a hard working and horoable people into vicious xenophobic killers. But the Ferengi are only hired hands. They have hidden masters, with plans to use the Magaran people as a powerful weapon against the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Picard must find a way to use the talents of this new ambassador to free the Megarans. But the ambassador is hididng a deadly secret of his own -- a secret that could unleash an unstoppable destructive force on the Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5727'),
(2362, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(2363, 'The Decameron', 'Giovanni Boccaccio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1557'),
(2364, 'Deceiver', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The civil war among the alien\n  <em>\n   Atevi\n  </em>\n  has ended and Tabini-aiji, the ruler of the Western Association, has returned to power. Bren Cameron, Tabini''s human\n  <em>\n   paidhi\n  </em>\n  , decides to return to his recovered home on the coast, but when Tabini''s son Cajeiri, desperate for adventure, flees his responsibilities to join Bren, Tabini sends the boy''s great-grandmother to find him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even though the war is over, the opposition is still present, and a district once thought to be safe could now be a trap. With Bren, Cajeiri, and his great-grandmother under one roof...a trap is baited.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   C.J. Cherryh\n  </strong>\n  has written over fifty novels, has won three Hugo Awards, both in the novel and short story categories, and has frequently appeared on both the Hugo Award ballot and the Nebula Award ballot. She lives in Spokane, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10875'),
(2365, 'December 6: A Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo''s underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2463');
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(2366, 'Deception', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI have just finished reading Randy Alcornâ€™s new novel.\n <em>\n  Deception\n </em>\n is the same high quality as Randyâ€™s related novels\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n . All three are page-turnersâ€¦Randy is a gifted writer. I strongly recommend that you read his books.â€\n <br />\n - Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate champion, international film and television star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Deception_ was as engaging to me as books by Chricton or Clancyâ€¦Iâ€™m sure glad Randy canâ€™t paint, or Iâ€™d be in big trouble!â€\n <br />\n - Ron DiCianni, award-winning artist, author of\n <em>\n  Beyond Words\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn is amazing. Heâ€™s one of my all-time favorite authors.â€\n <br />\n - Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption series and the Firstborn series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcorn has written a novel that combines the suspense of John Grisham and the theological pondering of C.S. Lewis.â€\n <br />\n - New Man Magazine for\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Deadline_] is for clear thinkers who enjoy a good argument. There can be no mistaking â€” and there should be no ignoring â€” the vital message of this book.â€\n <br />\n - Frank Peretti, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  This Present Darkness\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn has hit it out of the park.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is riveting. Motivating. Intriguing. Provocative. And itâ€™s for the mystery lovers too. Many books feed the mind. Some feed the heart.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n nourishes both.â€\n <br />\n - Stu Weber, author of Tender Warrior\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch, and he fills the pages with enough tension to cause ulcers.â€\n <br />\n - Bookstore Journal for\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œMessinâ€™ with meâ€™s like wearinâ€™ cheese underwear down rat alley.â€\n <br />\n -Ollie Chandler\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Homicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when heâ€™s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places heâ€™s never gone before.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Places he never wanted to go.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. Thatâ€™s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubtsâ€¦about himself. Where was\n <em>\n  he\n </em>\n during the time of the murder?\n</p>\n<p>\n Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy themâ€“and anyone who tries to help. But theyâ€™re in too deep to quit. Theyâ€™ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truthâ€¦\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n No matter how uglyâ€“or dangerousâ€“it gets.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollieâ€™s first law: â€œThings are often not what they appear.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7892'),
(2367, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power. When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(2368, 'Decider', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of his best.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A smash hit novel now in tradeâ€”from â€œa rare and magical talentâ€¦ who never writes the same story twice.â€(_San Diego Union-Tribune_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Decider\n </em>\n , inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feudâ€”and the target of a ruthless killerâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8231'),
(2369, 'Decision at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10828'),
(2370, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4518'),
(2371, 'Declaration of Independence', 'Jefferson, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of Americaâ€”Independence Dayâ€”is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9779'),
(2372, 'Declare', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it''s 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah''s ark. James Theodora is the Ã¼ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There''s plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of\n <em>\n  A Thousand and One Nights\n </em>\n , which is Hale''s guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and\n <em>\n  amonon\n </em>\n plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There''s a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers''s many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah''s Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale''s mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby''s death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It''s all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6745'),
(2373, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9557'),
(2374, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title, taken from Gibbonâ€™s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite theÂ title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow atÂ Churchill College, Cambridge,Â has written a colorful and often brilliant examination of the imperial experience from the American Revolution to the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. He combines the genres of narrative history, travelogue, and biographical sketch to capture the richness, majesty, squalor, and injustice that created and maintained a vast edifice that has left an indelible imprint on the contemporary world. The narrative ranges across imperial settings in a successful effort to illustrate how both ordinary and extraordinary people lived, thrived, and often suffered under the British flag. Of course, decline and ultimate fall is part of the story. As a liberal empire based (in spirit if not always in practice) on the ideals of political liberty and even equality, it was an empire that contained the seeds of its own destruction, as citizens from America to India took those ideals to heart. The breadth, diversity, greatness, and failures of the British Empire have rarely been portrayed as well. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSplendid . . . Graphically narrated . . . [Brendonâ€™s] book is history with the nasty bits left in . . . Provides a cautionary text for a new administration that will inherit autocratic allies, penal colonies, reliance on coercive power, and pervasive cynicism about Americaâ€™s declared global arms.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Karl E. Meyer, _Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œComplex . . . Lucid . . . Every page is consistently readable and stimulating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Geoffrey Wheatcroft, _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThe author is such a lively writer that Iâ€™d be hard pressed to find dull patches in this whooper of a book . . . Brendonâ€™s narrative is wonderfully stocked with generals, politicians, rugged adventurers, consuls, eccentrics, administrators, and famous imperial hands.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Matthew Price,\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly detailed, lucid account of how the British Empire grew and grewâ€“and then, not quite inexorably, fell apart.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Kirkus\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A book of enormous range and complexity and leavened with a splendid sense of wit and irony. It takes courage to emulate the great Gibbon, but Brendon succeeds magnificently. And while there may be many books on the British Empire, this is undoubtedly the most entertaining and the best."\n  <br />\n  --Dominic Sandbrook, _The Evening Standard\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A masterpiece of a historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon''s research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humor of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one."\n  <br />\n  --Saul David,\n  <em>\n   Literary Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant . . . An enthralling mini-series of colonial adventure . . . [Brendon''s] book is stuffed with a myriad spectacular examples of human vanity, folly, depravity and greed--and is all the better for it."\n  <br />\n  --Robert McCrum,\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] sumptuous chronicle of the British empire. . . . A compelling and spectacularly detailed retelling of imperial "rise" as well as fall . . . A glittering panoply of decadence, folly, farce and devastation."\n  <br />\n  --Maya Jasanoff,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history.... An endlessly engrossing and disturbing stream of anecdotes and vignettes that Brendon tells with extraordinary flair and sympathy, warts and all." --Richard Overy,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5801'),
(2375, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5032'),
(2376, 'Dedication', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4324'),
(2377, 'The Deeds of the Disturber', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody! Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(2378, 'Deep As The Marrow', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the president of the United States decides to back the legalization of marijuana, organized crime decides he must die.  But for them to succeed, he must die without blame on them.  So they are going to make his best friendâ€”his personal physicianâ€”kill him.First, they kidnap the doctorâ€™s daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(2379, 'Deep black', 'Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3602'),
(2380, 'The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries... A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love... A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together... "New York Times" bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin--and where they may be fulfilled at last.... Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.... Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice''s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2408'),
(2381, 'The Deep Range', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8986'),
(2382, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(2383, 'Deeper (Tunnels)', 'Brian Williams; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx''s dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save all those above from annihilation when his own life is at risk down below--and when his killer sister is still at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(2384, 'A deeper sleep', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review) SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1036'),
(2385, 'A Deepness In The Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story''s main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10150'),
(2386, 'Deepsix', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A spellbinding epic adventure of discovery, catastrophe, and survival from one of the most masterful storytellers in speculative fiction. In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity -- a life-supporting planet -- is about to vanish forever, as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix. A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team -- including Randall Nightingale, a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure -- must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet''s lifeforms and lost civilizations. There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike, primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble ... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles, and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questions. But then the unthinkable occurs. An earthquake destroys the explorers'' only means of escape. As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above, Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way, to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant. From the acclaimed author of *Infinity Beach* comes the ultimate survival adventure -- a riveting, relentlessly suspenseful, awesomely possible tale with a firm foundation in hard science which showcases the best and the worst aspects of complex human nature. It is yet another stunning achievement by Jack McDevitt, proving without a doubt that he is indeed the true heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9017'),
(2387, 'The Deerslayer', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <i>\n       The Deerslayer\n      </i>\n      , byÂ \n      <b>\n       James Fenimore Cooper\n      </b>\n      , is part of theÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      <i>\n       Â \n      </i>\n      series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      :\n      <div>\n       <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n        <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n       All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n       <i>\n        Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n       </i>\n       pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     â€œLive by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.â€\n     <br />\n     -Natty Bumppo,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman ofÂ \n     <b>\n      James Fenimore Cooper\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      Leatherstocking Tales\n     </i>\n     , a series of five novels that includesÂ \n     <i>\n      The Last of the Mohicans\n     </i>\n     Â andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     . Although the final volume to be written,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppoâ€™s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Set in the 1740â€™s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoâ€”known as Deerslayerâ€”and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutterâ€™s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tomâ€™s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the earliest novels to be considered truly â€œAmerican,"Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <b>\n       Bruce L. R. Smith\n      </b>\n      Â is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8179'),
(2388, 'The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s Clint''s first case and everything should be going really well.  And it probably would be if he''d managed to stay awake when he was briefed. With four suspects and clues flying will he be able to find out who''s guilty? Or even what they''re guilty of?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(2389, 'The Defective Detective : Murder on the Links', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Murder. Intrigue. Alcohol. Detectives. Clues. Golf. Laxatives. What else do you need?\n <br />\n When a body is discovered on the golf course the identity of the killer seems obvious. The question is can Clint get to the bottom of the mystery before the stag party catches him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(2390, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦** Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise. *Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.* In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same. Filled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(2391, 'Defend and Betray', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the generalâ€™s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed himâ€“a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose.Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husbandâ€™s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(2392, 'Defender', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the best long-running SF series in existence, Cherryh''s Foreigner Universe books (Precursor, etc.) tell the story of a small human colony abandoned on a planet inhabited by the atevi, an alien race whose humanoid anatomy disguises radically different instincts and thought patterns. Misunderstandings have led to war in the past and make human/atevi diplomacy incredibly difficult. Bren Cameron trained for decades to be the paidhi, the only human allowed to negotiate with the atevi, overseeing the slow transfer of advanced human technology to the brilliant but less advanced natives of the planet in trade for vital raw materials. Eventually, Bren changed sides, becoming the representative of Tabini, the atevi''s ruler, to humanity. Now the political situation has been complicated by the return of the Phoenix, the starship whose much hated crew abandoned the colonists some two centuries earlier, and, worse yet, by the starship''s report that its crew has discovered a hostile space-faring race relatively nearby. The senior captain of the Phoenix, negotiating through Bren, agrees to help Tabini build a second starship to defend the planet, but as Bren learns after the captain''s mysterious death, other plots are afoot and not all the information shared by the starship can be trusted. As usual, Cherryh provides a riveting plot that emphasizes intense human/alien interactions instead of physical violence. Perhaps undervalued because she writes in traditional forms that don''t appeal to the literati, while too difficult for some fans of space opera, Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field. (Nov. 6)Forecast: The pulpish jacket art by the usually quite competent Stephen Youll won''t bring in new readers who will appreciate Cherryh''s work, but established fans will know bette SUMMARY: In this sequel to Precursor, the alien atevi enter the treacherous politics of space travel-as their one human negotiator is caught in the throes of a mutiny...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10892'),
(2393, 'Definitely dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1222');
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(2394, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1643'),
(2395, 'Deja Dead', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she''ll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who''d arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe''s convinced there are parallels between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues. Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon all her f\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3214'),
(2396, 'Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before I Fall\n </em>\n , throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options donâ€™t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliverâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think itâ€™s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously,\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n could have had this as a sub-title!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moodyâ€”but somehow optimisticâ€”songs. The title couldnâ€™t be more a propos, obviously.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficientâ€”to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n She asks over and over,\n <em>\n  Will you feel anything at all?\n </em>\n Enough said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! Itâ€™s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n -esque.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is one of those anthems that pushes you forwardâ€”a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering youâ€™re in control of your own destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n . It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Blues Traveler is so underratedâ€”itâ€™s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs.\n <em>\n  The time is now and you donâ€™t have long\n </em>\n â€¦ So true, man. So true!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lenaâ€”maybe while they''re in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Nothing like some old school romanceâ€”they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lenaâ€™s mom would have liked.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thereâ€™s something scary about this song. Itâ€™s so foreboding and passionateâ€”and I love it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliverâ€™s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: itâ€™s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalidsâ€”a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alexâ€™s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliverâ€™s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romanceâ€”Alex is standard-issue perfectionâ€”but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orangeâ€“style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4802'),
(2397, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(2398, 'Deliverance', 'James Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Released for the first time in trade paperback, this is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2175'),
(2399, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose', 'Tony Hsieh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8168'),
(2400, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(2401, 'Delta of Venus', 'Anais Nin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Delta of Venus Anaiuml;s Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5127'),
(2402, 'Delta Sly Honey', 'Lucius Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10660'),
(2403, 'The Demigod Files', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood''s senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson''s most perilous adventures, a Spotter''s Guide to Monsters, a Who''s Who in Greek mythology, Percy''s Summer Camp report and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, if you''re armed with this book, you''ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures have just begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8507'),
(2404, 'Demilitarized Zone', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Decorated Legion war hero Captain Joey Czerinski and his platoon go to planet New Coloradoâ€™s New Gobi Desert to guard the demilitarized zone dividing human-occupied territory from areas claimed by the Arthropodan Empire. With a new alien spider commander, a human boy rising to lead a militia, and McDonald''s, Walmart, and Chupacabra added to the mix, the funny bone gets smacked hard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8586'),
(2405, 'Democracy Incorporated', 'Wolin, Sheldon S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9641'),
(2406, 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism', 'Sheldon S. Wolin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [A] comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers. . . . Democracy Incorporated is a devastating critique of the contemporary government of the United States--including what has happened to it in recent years and what must be done if it is not to disappear into history along with its classic totalitarian predecessors. -- Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig\n</p>\n<p>\n [_Democracy Incorporated_ provides] a rare, chilling analysis of intellectual critics of democracy. If democracy means more than occasional elections and protection of those rights that are compatible with economic and political elites'' interests, Wolin''s analysis of our democratic predicament is shocking, solid, and fundamentally correct. -- C. P. Waligorski, Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n Sheldon Wolin has produced an ambitious and broad-ranging book that examines the current state of democracy in America. . . . Wolin argues that the unquestioned faith in the virtues of free market capitalism has dramatically narrowed the range of policy options that are on the table when debate turns to resolving the US''s ills. . . .[T]his is a trenchant and powerful volume. -- Alex Waddan, International Affairs\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the many books I''ve read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon S. Wolin''s\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n . Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process. -- Jonathan Crary, Artforum\n</p>\n<p>\n [W]e need to understand the deep roots of our present troubles ourselves and Wolin''s book is an excellent beginning. -- Toby Grace, Out in Jersey\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n acts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and an elitist obsession and should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty. -- Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his fundamental grasp of political theory and restless spirit to get at the essence of what threatens modern democracy, Wolin demonstrates that the threats to our democratic traditions and institutions are not always from outside, but may come from within. It is a book that policymakers and scholars of contemporary society should read and reflect upon.\n <br />\n (\n <strong>\n  Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School, author of "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5927'),
(2407, 'The demolished man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(2408, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n</p>\n<p>\n This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6640'),
(2409, 'Demolition Angel (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9960'),
(2410, 'The Demon and the City', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  ) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three. Meanwhile, Deveth''s girlfriend, Robin Yuan, frees Mhara, a demon Robin''s research company has been experimenting on for defense reasons. Robin and Zhu Irzh''s paths cross as they follow the trail of the killer, leading them to uncover a larger plot involving a goddess in Heaven''s bid for power. As the end of the world beckons, Mhara, who is far more than he seems, offers his help, but Heaven, Hell, Earth and everything in between falls into chaos. Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  (2005) returns to Singapore Three, a twenty-first-century cityscape renowned for its ready access to the denizens of heaven and hell. While Detective Inspector Wei Chen takes a brief hiatus from his customary paranormal investigations, his underworld sidekick, vice-squad-specialist Zhu Irzh, stumbles on a tricky case involving the apparently demonic murder of a beautiful young woman. When the trail leads to the heiress of the powerful Paugeng Corporation, Zhu Irzh feels inexplicably drawn to this devilishly ruthless but very human woman and inadvertently implicates himself as a murder suspect. Chen''s return to sort things out only complicates matters, however, as the pair tracks other suspects, including an enigmatic demon the corporation has been harboring for experimental purposes and a celestial goddess whose unlikely alliance with hell threatens to rain chaos down on the earthbound. Fantasy enthusiasts looking for something uniquely imaginative will find it in Williams'' surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7897'),
(2411, 'Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4381'),
(2412, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(2413, 'Demon Child', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â“What exactly was the curse?Â” asked Jenny. Her hands were so cold that they looked like white porcelain. ''\n <br />\n Her aunt spoke slowly. Â“Sarah pledged that every generation of the Brucker family would contain a child haunted-a child possessed. This child would seek the wolfbane, would howl at the full moon, and find a craving for blood.Â”\n <br />\n Â“A werewolf? That''sÂ… silly.Â” But she did not feel much like laughing.\n <br />\n Â“That night Sarah''s father diedÂ… strangely. He grabbed at his own neck, as if struggling against someoneÂ… or somethingÂ… invisible. He drew his own bloodÂ… but he died.Â”\n <br />\n Jenny''s eyes strayed to the red volumes of demonic lore. Was this really the answer to Freya''s strange spells? Impossible though it seemedÂ… could the child really be a werewolf?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8279'),
(2414, 'Demon Hunts', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. **Literally.** She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/852'),
(2415, 'The Demon in the Freezer', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œThe bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines.â€*-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with â€œhotâ€ agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In **The Demon in the Freezer**, his first nonfiction book since **The Hot Zone**, a #1 *New York Times *bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the worldâ€™s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines.Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the governmentâ€™s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3990'),
(2416, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(2417, 'Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the Dâ€™Artigo Sistersâ€”half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityâ€”and to stop a demon from devouring Delilahâ€™s soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8017'),
(2418, 'The Demon of Dakar', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavezâ€™s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8025'),
(2419, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now with a new afterword by the #1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package.** In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1416'),
(2420, 'The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(2421, 'Demon: A Memoir', 'Tosca Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I''m going to tell you my story, and you''re going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian''s dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon''s story has become his own. And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.************Praise for *Demon: A Memoir*******"So few books rattle me to the core yet lift my hopes to the heavens in the same breath. Tosca Lee''s *Demon:Â A Memoir* is a rare find that must be read."**Ted Dekker**, *New York Times* best-selling author of the Circle Trilogy"Compelling, deep... a novel that has you compulsively turning pages and makes you think at the same time."**James Scott Bell**, best-selling Author of *DeceivedÂ *"Wise, imaginative, funny and poetic, this is a book that lingers in memory after you''ve turned the last page."**Sophy Burnham**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *A Book of Angels*"Fresh, yet older than time. Years from now, we may find other books being compared to this one."**Eric Wilson**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *Fireproof* "Powerful and beautiful. Her imagery of Eden, of Paradise and angels and Elohim, filled me with awe."**Novel Reviews**********"Lee is really proving to be a leader in the art of speculative fiction."Â **Inside Corner Book Reviews** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3699'),
(2422, 'The Demonata #6: Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11196'),
(2423, 'Demons Are a Ghoul&#39;s Best Friend', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Laurie''s ghoulishly great follow-up to\n   <em>\n    What''s a Ghoul to Do?\n   </em>\n   in her new Ghost Hunter Mystery series\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school''s summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting. But with a demonic disturbance as great as Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no mercyto send him to detention for an eternity-in hell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4401'),
(2424, 'Demons Don&#39;t Dream', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two young adventurers are drawn into theworld of Xanth through a computer game and find themselves in adesperate race against time when treachery, danger, and deceit placeXanth itself in peril, as they learn that some things are moreimportant than winning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3282'),
(2425, 'Demons. Fyodor Dostoevsky', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Robert A. Maguire; Ronald Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pevear and Volokhonsky have found critical acclaim with previous translations of Dostoevsky''s Brothers Karamazov (Classic Returns, LJ 8/90), Crime and Punishment (Classic Returns, LJ 1/92), and Notes from Underground (Classic Returns, LJ 7/93). Their Demons should be equally respected.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dostoevsky''s sprawling political novel is given new life in this fresh translation. The previous translations of the husband-and-wife team of Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear--The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Notes From Underground--have been universally praised for capturing Dostoevsky''s force and subtlety, and all three works are now considered the English standards. Now they have successfully tackled one of Dostoevsky''s most complex and dense works. Mistakenly translated in the past as\n <code>\n  The Possessed,'''' the title refers to the infestation of foreign political and philosophical ideas that swept Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Pevear writes in the introduction,\n </code>\n These demons, then, are ideas, that legion of -isms that came to Russia from the West: idealism, rationalism, empiricism, materialism, utilitarianism, positivism, socialism, anarchism, nihilism, and, underlying them all, atheism.'''' Dostoevsky, taking as his starting point the political chaos around him at the time, constructs an elaborate morality tale in which the people of a provincial town turn against one another because they are convinced of the infallibility of their ideas. Stepan Trofimovich, an affable thinker who does little to turn his liberal ideas into action, creates a monster in his student, Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin, who takes his spiritual father''s teaching to heart, joining a circle of other nihilists who will justify any and all violent excesses for the sake of their ideas. Stavrogin aims for a\n <code>\n  systematic corrupting of society and all its principles'''' so that out of the resulting destruction he may\n </code>\n raise the banner of rebellion.'''' A chilling foreshadowing of Stalinist logic. Volokhonsky and Pevear''s translation brings to the surface all of Dostoevsky''s subtle linguistic and nationalist humor, and the copious notes are indispensable for making one''s way through the thicket of 19th-century Russian politics. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10364'),
(2426, 'The Den of Shadows Quartet', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSâ€”ONE CAPTIVATING WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night\n </em>\n <br />\n Three hundred years ago Risika had a familyâ€”a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Demon in My View\n </em>\n <br />\n Jessica isnâ€™t your average high school studentâ€”sheâ€™s an acclaimed published author of vampire fiction. Now two new students at her high school strongly remind her of her favorite characters. But those characters only live in her imaginationâ€”right?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shattered Mirror\n </em>\n <br />\n Christopher Raneva and Sarah Vida may look like a normal high school couple, but heâ€™s actually a vampire whoâ€™s sworn off human blood and sheâ€™s an incredibly powerful, vampire-hunting witch. As if that werenâ€™t enough to prevent their love, his past and her future collide when they get tangled up with Nikolas, one of the most reviled vampires ever.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator\n </em>\n <br />\n Once a happy teenager, Turquoise Draka is now a vampire hunter. Her current assigment is to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. But to do that, sheâ€™ll have to enter Midnight, a fabled vampire realm, as a human slave. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7676'),
(2427, 'Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives', 'Michael Specter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.** In *Denialism, New Yorker* staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad-that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn''t always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and "natural" cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards-such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed. As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against *progress*. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In *Denialism*, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind''s greatest scientific advances-and our greatest need for them-that deal must be renewed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2451');
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(2428, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4431'),
(2429, 'Depraved', 'Bryan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town''s traps. Some will be held for their captors'' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(2430, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(2431, 'Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America&#39;s Most Fiendish Killer', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America''s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place....On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd''s disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2077'),
(2432, 'Derelict for Tradel', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9077'),
(2433, 'Dermaphoria', 'Craig Clevenger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clevenger''s second novel (after 2002''s\n  <em>\n   The Contortionist''s Handbook\n  </em>\n  ) opens with a classic grabber: an amnesiac man awakes in jail with a woman''s nameâ€”Desireeâ€”on his lips. Prodded by a pushy police detective, that man (his name is Eric Ashworth, he''s told) must sift through the contents of his drug-addled brain to explain his only memory: "A ball of fire rising from a flaming house. Nails melting like slivers of silent wax. Beams and shingles collapsing into a pile of burning dust...." Released on bail, Eric checks into a flophouse and attempts to separate his ongoing drug hallucinations from reality. To aid him in this quest he turns to the doubtful promise of yet another drug, a powerful hallucinogen known on the street as Skin, Cradle or Derma. Eric''s trip toward understanding, as well as the reader''s, twists through exotic visions that may or not be real. It''s a long, painful process, but eventually Eric puts it all together and learns who he isâ€”and the terrible thing that he''s done. This is a sometimes brilliant, heavily stylized novel whose psychedelic prose and labyrinthine story line will enthrall some readers and enrage others. At one point Clevenger counsels both Eric and the reader: "Anything is possible and nothing is possible. They''re the same thing." Yes, that''s it exactly.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ...reminiscent of William Gibson''s work, but Clevenger has his own attitude and a film-noirish literary style that is unique. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clevengerâ€™s trademark voice and pace are as good as ever, but the settings are his greatest triumph. --\n  <em>\n   Santa Barbara Independent, October 6, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dermaphoria advances Clevengerâ€™s dark art, powerfully evoking the paranoia of a man attempting to reconstruct his life. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Magazine, November 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gloriously shifty puzzle-fiction whose resolution is much less important than the kaleidoscopic journey towards it. --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7779'),
(2434, 'The Dervish House', 'Ian McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world.THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5672'),
(2435, 'Descendant', 'Masterton, Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8899'),
(2436, 'The Descent', 'Jeff Long', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Long''s smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid relatives of Homo sapiens evolved to live in the depths of what appears to be hell." (*Baltimore Sun*) "A return to the fantastic epics readers associate with H.G. Wells or Jules Verne." (*Chicago Tribune*) "As frightening and exhilarating as anything in heaven or hell." (*Denver Rocky Mountain News*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(2437, 'A Desert Called Peace', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing â€“as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth''s corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey''s family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do. A legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not become exactly like the enemy he is fighting. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera''s enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3567'),
(2438, 'Desert Gold', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3711'),
(2439, 'Desert Places: a Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1277'),
(2440, 'The Desert Spear', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a generalâ€”some would say prophetâ€”who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it?Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Sharâ€™Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weaponsâ€”a spear and a crownâ€”that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkindâ€”whether they like it or not. But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Sharâ€™Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demonsâ€”or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligentâ€”and deadlyâ€”than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3533'),
(2441, 'A Desirable Residence', 'Madeleine Wickham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the *New York Times *bestsellers *The Wedding Girl *and *Sleeping Arrangements, *comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage ***The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their livesâ€”and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. *A Desirable Residence *is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2273'),
(2442, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(2443, 'Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN. SUMMARY: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O''Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack''s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4252'),
(2444, 'Desperate Cargo', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infiltrating a Dutch human trafficking organization turns deadly when two undercover agents are tortured and shot. Protected by a complex infrastructure and ruthless lawyers, the businessmen behind the crime are untouchable under international law. But Mack Bolan isn''t about to play by their rules.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Entering Holland alone, Bolan heads to Rotterdam where he is prepared to seek out his target and destroy the corrupt organization piece by piece. The leaders of the group think they are invincible, but with the lives of women and children at stake, they are about to learn what it''s like to be hunted by the Executioner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5716'),
(2445, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1529'),
(2446, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4326'),
(2447, 'Destination Unknown', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. DestinationUnknownThomas Charles Betterton, a famous scientist, has vanished. Conflicting reports of sightings of the missing man have come in from all over Europe. Then, his wife of six months decides to take a holiday to Morocco--for a rest That''s when a strange and surprising series of events begins to unfold. A superb--and different--mystery from a master at her best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5248'),
(2448, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(2449, 'Destiny', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ancient order tied to the Vatican . . . A blood fortune buried in the caves of France . . . A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil . . .** Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed''s fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudin hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny: a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Annja embarks on a high-tension race across Europe and history itself, intent on linking the unholy treachery of the ages with the staggering revelations of the present. But she must survive the shadow figures determined to silence her threat to their existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(2450, 'Destiny 01: Gods of Night', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy''s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation -- and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth''s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains -- Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , TM William Riker of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Titan\n  </em>\n  , and Ezri Dax of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Aventine\n  </em>\n  -- that some destinies are inescapable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5560'),
(2451, 'Destiny 02: Mere Mortals', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Earth, Federation President Nanietta Bacco gathers allies and adversaries to form a desperate last line of defense against an impending Borg invasion. In deep space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Ezri Dax join together to cut off the Collective''s route to the Alpha Quadrant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Half a galaxy away, Captain William Riker and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Titan\n  </em>\n  have made contact with the reclusive Caeliar -- survivors of a stellar cataclysm that, two hundred years ago, drove fissures through the structure of space and time, creating a loop of inevitability and consigning another captain and crew to a purgatory from which they could never escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the supremely advanced Caeliar will brook no further intrusion upon their isolation, or against the sanctity of their Great Work....For the small, finite lives of mere mortals carry little weight in the calculations of gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even gods may come to understand that they underestimate humans at their peril.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5561'),
(2452, 'Destiny 03: Lost Souls', 'David MacK &amp; Gene Roddenberry &amp; Rick Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal -- and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back -- only forward to whatever future awaits them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice...this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5559'),
(2453, 'Destiny&#39;s Road', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10228'),
(2454, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A return to the world of the Warlands... ** Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(2455, 'Destiny&#39;s Way', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemyâ€”from without and within.In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrenderâ€”Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-armsâ€”are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republicâ€™s favor.After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jainaâ€™s brother Jacenâ€”liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergereâ€”is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republicâ€™s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight againstâ€”and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4076'),
(2456, 'Destroyer of Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10221'),
(2457, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1673'),
(2458, 'Detroit Deathwatch', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $150 Million Plus. Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown. Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(2459, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3729'),
(2460, 'A Device of Death', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The crew of the TARDIS are scattered across the stars and the Doctor''s memory has been wiped. The fourth Doctor is at the heart of a star spanning conspiracy involving the Time Lords and the ultimate device of death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7416'),
(2461, 'The devil and Miss Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new novel of temptation by the author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "The Zahir," A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by his painful past. A woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos, a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to the question: Are human beings good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho''s stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh incentive: to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, and from truly living.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3841'),
(2462, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ''If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outrÃ© results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(2463, 'Devil Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive: Jeffery Deaver on\n   <em>\n    Devil Bones\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _Jeffery Deaver is the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   _The Broken Window\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Bone Collector\n  </em>\n  was made into a feature release from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington. He lives in North Carolina.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s always a pleasure to see a new installment in the saga of Temperence Brennan, the forensic anthropologist who plies her trade in both Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , set in the U S of A, opens with a grisly discovery that offers a very different take on\n  <em>\n   This Old House\n  </em>\n  . Tempe is pulled from staid academia to investigate the troubling and mystifying scene, which involves cauldrons, ceremonial religious artifacts and, most troubling, the severed head of a teenage girl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another torso is located nearby, and the story is off and running.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe and Charlotte police department detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, follow leads that take them through the seamier and the chicer sides of North Carolina''s largest city--the worlds of Santeria, voodoo, the Wiccan religion (any witches out there: I''m not lumping them together!), and male prostitution. Our heroine also locks horns with a crusading minister turned politician, and there''s a reporter who manages to show up at all the wrong moments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs juggles the questions of who done it (and who''s gonna get done next) until the very end with consummate skill. In series books, readers treat characters as friends and follow those storylines as ardently as the ones involving murder and mayhem. Not content to keep things simmering on low boil, Reichs dunks her protagonist into a pressure cooker, with plenty of turmoil stirred up by a former lover, a--possibly--current one and, most significantly for this reader, yet another ghost of life past, about which I''ll say no more here. Trouble on campus also surfaces for Professor Brennan, with whom we experience one of the most harrowing moments in the book: a meeting of professors and department heads (university politics as weapon of mass destruction). Oh, and we can''t forget some brief appearances by the ex, who is behaving just like, well, an ex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It might have been my imagination but I believe too that I saw the bones, if you will, of a possible subplot involving Tempe''s daughter, Katy, who''s working in the public defender''s office. I''m looking forward to seeing Reich confirm or deny this in the next installment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  we get plenty of what we''ve come to expect in a Reichs novel: engrossing details on forensic anthropology and anatomical science. Her mastery, and love, of those subjects, which Reichs herself practices (in both Montreal and Charlotte, by the way), is evident in her writing. We''re also treated to plenty of esoterica about non-mainstream religions and history (I mean, I live in North Carolina and didn''t know Charlotte was named for a seventeen-year-old German duchess). The author deftly negotiates that fine line between using such information to enhance the experience of reading a novel and padding prose. She gives us what we need to know--to enrich plot, character or atmosphere--and then gets back to the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And speaking of which: As an author writing in the same genre, I was impressed with Reichs''s ability to keep the roller coaster on track and speeding along, page after page. She''s a true master of cliff hangers--a neglected skill in a field where far too many lazy authors end chapters with people leaving rooms, falling asleep or offering hand-tipping foreshadowings of what''s to come. I call this the question-mark factor and when writing my thriller I actually tally up the number of scenes that end in a compelling, unresolved issue that drives the reader forward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs has question marks aplenty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My one complaint: I read the novel in one sitting. But I''m hoping that while poor Tempe may want a break after everything that happens to her in\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , author Reichs isn''t giving her any rest and is hard at work on number 12.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Jeffery Deaver\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan''s quest to identify two corpses pits her against citizen vigilantes intent on a witch-hunt in bestseller Reichs''s exciting 11th thriller to feature the forensic anthropologist (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Bones to Ashes\n  </em>\n  ). While working in Charlotte, N.C., Brennan investigates remains unearthed during a housing renovation and discovers disturbing clues possibly pointing to voodoo or Santeria. She must determine if the bones, including the skull of a teenage girl, are linked to an unidentified headless torso found in a nearby lake. Intent on using the deaths as the cornerstone of his crusade against immorality, fundamentalist preacher turned politician Boyce Lingo claims that the bodies bear the mark of devil worshippers. With the help of Det. Erskine Skinny Slidell, Brennan unearths a tangled web of dirty politics, religious persecution and male prostitution. Reichs, whose work inspired the hit TV series\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , once again expertly blends science and complex character development.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  ""\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11158'),
(2464, 'The Devil in Pew Number Seven', 'Rebecca N. Alonzo; Bob DeMoss; J. R. Blackstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him-with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca''s father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family''s kitchen . . . and Rebecca''s life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seventells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family''s faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3260');
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(2465, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(2466, 'Devil May Care', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate''s palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be...satanic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(2467, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(2468, 'The Devil Wears Plaid', 'Teresa Medeiros', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeirosâ€™s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Â Highlander kidnaps his rivalâ€™s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtorâ€™s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburnâ€™s sworn enemy, Emmaâ€™s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is notâ€”handsome, virile, dangerous . . . and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Â Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemyâ€™s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3273'),
(2469, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1143'),
(2470, 'The Devil&#39;s Bones: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The lack of a strong central plot undercuts the third forensic thriller by bestseller Bass, the team of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of Tennessee''s world-renowned Body Farm, and journalist Jon Jefferson (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n ). Two cases occupy Dr. Bass''s fictional alter ego, Dr. Bill Brocktonâ€”the death of Mary Latham, a 47-year-old Knoxville native, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car, and a disreputable Georgia crematorium that simply dumped bodies on its grounds. These probes soon take a backseat to a cat-and-mouse game with the doctor''s arch nemesis, Garland Hamilton, who tried to frame him for murder in\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n . When Hamilton escapes from incarceration before going to trial, Brockton must keep looking over his shoulder. While a smattering of Bass''s trademark authentic forensic detail lifts this main narrative thread, a more focused look at a single case might have made the novel a better read.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] fine thriller...this third installment is the best of a steadily improving series, but itâ€™s doubtful weâ€™ve seen the finest moments yet." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6933'),
(2471, 'The Devil&#39;s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers', 'Vicky Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men like them - with zero financial training - could more than equal the Ivy-League-educated white shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for men like them -- men who were hungry and untrained - and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls. In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance. Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But something had gone wrong on the journey. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it. Ward takes you inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. You''ll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. You will encounter an unlikely and almost unknown Marcus Brutus, who may have had more to do with Lehman''s failings than anyone--including Dick Fuld, who has widely been considered the poster-child for the mistakes and greed of all bankers. What Ward uncovers is that Lehman may have lost at the risky games of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage but that was just the end of a bigger story. "Little Lehman" was the Wall Street shop known to be forever fighting for its life and somehow succeeding. On Wall Street it was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But this cat pushed its luck too far -- and died, the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. Come inside "The Devil''s Casino" and see how good men lose their way, and see how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so much from a sun, but from a match lit from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3350'),
(2472, 'The Devil&#39;s Cat', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The town was alive with cats. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many of them. The cats'' eyes were glowing slits as they watched the newcomers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and forth. . . The town was ripe with evil. Soon Sam, Nydia and Little Sam would battle the forces of darkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator--The Devil''s Cat. Book cover designed with "horror" hologram.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4878'),
(2473, 'The Devil&#39;s Closet', 'Stacy Dittrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Multiple Amber Alerts for missing girls bring Detective CeeCee Gallagher onto the case of a serial child abducter and murderer. Time is running out as Gallagher and her partner race to save the girls- lives and apprehend the killer before he can strike again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5885'),
(2474, 'The Devil&#39;s Code', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Computer whiz, artist, and professional criminal Kidd and his sometimes lover, LuEllen, are on the run when a colleague disappears and Kidd suddenly finds himself the subject of a national manhunt and the target of an unknown assassin. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2759'),
(2475, 'The Devil&#39;s Company', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fictionâ€™s most enthralling characters.The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaverâ€™s strength and guile for his own treacherous plans.Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from Englandâ€™s most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the eighteenth centuryâ€™s most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family from Cobbâ€™s reach, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives. With millions of pounds and the security of the nation at stake, Weaver will find himself in a labyrinth of hidden agendas, daring enemies, and unexpected allies.With the explosive action and scrupulous period research that are David Lissâ€™s trademarks, The Devilâ€™s Company, depicting the birth of the modern corporation, is the most impressive achievement yet from an author who continues to set ever higher standards for historical suspense.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1373'),
(2476, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8254'),
(2477, 'Devil&#39;s Cub', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the "Devil''s Cub." Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia''s greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions. The colorful and eccentric characters fall over each other''s plots, get involved in very peculiar coincidences, engage in colorful derring-do, and generally make life difficult for each other. Narrator Michael Drew manages to distinguish one character from another without the verbal gymnastics that the plot would seem to require, allowing the listener to concentrate on the Shakespearian plot and priceless dialog. Enthusiastically recommended for libraries where romance and/or Heyer are popular. Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The words are like poetry, easily flowing from one page to another. (Amy Jacobs\n <em>\n  My Overstuffed Bookshelf\n </em>\n 20091210)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Grand Dame of this genre... (Elizabeth Bogardus\n <em>\n  Thoughts from an Evil Overlord\n </em>\n 20091214)\n</p>\n<p>\n As humorous as it is romantic, Devil''s Cub builds to a merry madness of misunderstandings that threaten the hopes of hero, heroine and assorted friends and relatives before all is happily resolved. (Margaret Donsbach\n <em>\n  HistoricalNovel.info\n </em>\n 20091217)\n</p>\n<p>\n A very fun book that perfect for an afternoon of relaxation. (Bridget Hopper\n <em>\n  Readaholic\n </em>\n 20091221)\n</p>\n<p>\n Hooray for another fun-tabulous Georgette Heyer novel! (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20091221)\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot, an intricate maze, comes to a beautiful climax and leaves the reader SO SATISFIED. (_The Long and Short of It_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n An exciting and entertaining adventure complete with confusion, flaring tempers, a copious amount of chasing, and many misadventures. (Meredith Esaprza\n <em>\n  Austenesque Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A wonderful read for those who love historical fiction, comedies of manners, and stories where it''s all about the banter that brings a pair of opposites together. (Maya Missani\n <em>\n  Apprentice Writer\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10161'),
(2478, 'The Devil&#39;s Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers', 'Katherine M. Ramsland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A forensics expert follows the historic evolution of CSI through a century of serial killers.** "Katherine Ramsland has brilliantly captured the insights and drama of some fascinating cases" (Dr. Henry Lee) in her previous bestselling books. Now she examines the case histories of twelve of the most notorious serial killers of the last one hundred years, and answers the questions: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic? From exploring the nineteenth century''s earliest investigative tools to remarkable twenty-first century CSI advances, *The Devil''s Dozen* provides a fascinating window into the world of those who kill-and those who dedicate their lives to bringing them to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3108'),
(2479, 'Devil&#39;s dream', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of All Soulsâ€™ Rising which The Washington Post called â€œA serious historical novel that reads like a dream,â€ comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations.In Devil''s Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina.As Devil''s Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2898'),
(2480, 'The Devil&#39;s Feather', 'Minette Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Walters''s harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters''s ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7289'),
(2481, 'Devil&#39;s Garden', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.** Critics called Ace Atkinsâ€™s *Wicked City* â€œgripping, superbâ€ (*Library Journal*), â€œstunningâ€ (*The Tampa Tribune*), â€œterrificâ€ (Associated Press), â€œrivetingâ€ (*Kirkus Reviews*), â€œwicked goodâ€ (*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*), and â€œAtkinsâ€™ best novelâ€ (*The Washington Post*). But *Devilâ€™s Garden* is something else again. San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe â€œFattyâ€ Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed herâ€”crushing her under his weightâ€”and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearstâ€™s newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why do so many people at the party seem to have stories that conflict? Why is the prosecution hiding witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so determined to see Fatty Arbuckle convicted? In desperation, Arbuckleâ€™s defense team hires a Pinkerton agent to do an investigation of his own and, they hope, discover the truth. The agentâ€™s name is Dashiell Hammett, and heâ€™s the bookâ€™s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal historyâ€”and his own lifeâ€”forever. â€œThe historical accuracy isnâ€™t what elevates Atkinsâ€™ prose to greatness,â€ said *The Tampa Tribune*. â€œItâ€™s his ability to let these characters breathe in a way that few authors could ever imagine. He doesnâ€™t so much write them as unleash them upon the page.â€ You will not soon forget the extraordinary characters and events in *Devilâ€™s Garden*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(2482, 'The Devil&#39;s Gold', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   The Jefferson Key\n  </i>\n  brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .\n  <i>\n   The Devil''s Gold\n  </i>\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he''s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child''s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost gold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6466'),
(2483, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging - the time when the hot wind began to blow, when Satan''s creatures rose from the putrid bowels of the earth, when the inhabitants of Whitfield were touched by... THE DEVIL''S KISS. Now it was summer again in Whitfield. The town was peaceful, quiet, and unprepared for the atrocities to come. Eternal life, everlasting youth, an orgy that would span time - that was what the Lord of Darkness was promising the coven members in return for their pledge of love. The few who had fought against his hideous powers before, believed it could never happen again. Then the hot wind began to blow - as black and as evil as THE DEVIL''S HEART\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3347'),
(2484, 'Devil&#39;s Keep', 'Phillip Finch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: BORN TO KILLEven trained warriors often feel an internal blink of resistance when the killing takes place within the zone of body heat.Not Ray Favor. He killed with the easeof flipping a light switch.ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTIONA decade ago, Ray Favor was a remorseless killer for theBlack Ops cell Bravo One Nine. He did what he was hiredt o do out of patriotism and duty. Now, having amassed a fortune but deeply troubled by his past and suspicious of his own nature, Favor is motivated by something more: a chance to r ight the wrongs he committed and restore balance .He get s that chance deep in the Philippines, where thedisappearance of two teenagers leads Favor and his Bravo team to confront an illegal operation by the Russian mob--and an evil so deplorable that it can only be righted by the means Favor once used to wreak destruction. Now, driven by a hungry sense of purpose, Ray Favor will seek retribution by any means necessary. And exact a violent justice without mercy--or regret.First in Phillip Finch''s stunning new series, Devil''s Keep is a suspense-packed international thriller introducing a powerful, complex, and memorable action hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3235'),
(2485, 'The Devil&#39;s Kiss', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the years pass, Black Wilder is waiting for just the right moment to emerge from the shadows in the small prairie town. The time is now, the beasts are hungry, the Undead are awake, and the putrid stench of evil hangs in the area. The townspeople are about to be touched by the Devil''s kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4877'),
(2486, 'The Devil&#39;s Novice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil''s Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(2487, 'Devil&#39;s Rock', 'Chris Speyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an innocent young woman and a quest for life.Dealing with the break-up of his parents'' marriage, as well as trying to help his older brother, Zaki has to use all his ingenuity, thoughtfulness and skill to unravel the mysteries of the past and perhaps even to set long-trapped spirits free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7805'),
(2488, 'The Devil&#39;s Touch', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE DEVIL''S KISS The evil that triumphed during that long-ago summer in Whitfield is festering now in the unsuspecting town of Logandale. Only Sam and Nydia Balon, lone survivors of the ancient horror, know the signs -- the putrid stench rising from the bowels of the earth, the unspeakable, inexplicable atrocities, the hideous, horrifying Beasts -- that mark the foul presence of the Prince of Darkness. Only they have the weapons that can pierce... THE DEVIL''S HEART Once the carnage begins, there''s no time for anything but terror. Hollow-eyed, hungry corpses rise from the unearthly tombs to gorge themselves on living flesh and spawn a new generation of restless Undead. The very demons of Hell cavort with Satan''s unholy disciples in blood-soaked rituals and fevered orgies. The Balons have faced the red, glowing eyes of the Master before, and they know what must be done. But there can be no salvation for those marked by... THE DEVIL''S TOUCH\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3348'),
(2489, 'The Devil&#39;s Winchester', 'Peter Brandvold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lou Prophet is accompanying the vile outlaw Blanco Metalious back to Nugget Town to see him hang. Then Sam "Man Killin" Metalious enters the picture, determined to free his son. No way is that going to happen under Prophet''s watch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7922'),
(2490, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson''s terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite''s Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille''s body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya''s brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya''s, Fr. Francis O''Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie''s sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&amp;B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her pastâ€”and Cammie''sâ€”at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson''s many fans. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crime scene at St. Margueriteâ€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sisterâ€™s death. For weeks, sheâ€™d begged Camille to leave St. Margueriteâ€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices â€” she joined the convent in part because sheâ€™d fallen for Valâ€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police arenâ€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Valâ€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Margueriteâ€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank Oâ€™Toole to the mysterious Mother Superior, has their own agenda. Despite their closeness, even Camille had a hidden life Val never suspected. But someone knew about Camilleâ€™s past â€” and Valâ€™s, too. Now she has no choice but to catch a devious, depraved killer intent on purging St. Margueriteâ€™s of all its sins â€” before she becomes the next victimâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7722'),
(2491, 'The Devouring', 'Simon Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans. (\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When the dark creeps in and eats the light, / Bury your fears on Sorry Night," begins this creepy tale that reads like A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dollop of demonic possession. Reggie Halloway, a mousy girl and avid horror fan, discovers a strange journal while working at an occult bookstore. Upon investigation, she learns about the Vours, horrific demons who feed on fear and take over the body, morphing its host into a cold, cruel creature. When, as a prank, Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to summon a Vour, things go horribly awry and a Vour takes over the body of her little brother, Henry. Reggie then must battle the Vours to try to get her brother''s soul back into his body. In this introductory volume, cinematic in its scope, Holt borrows conventions from many horror films, including a Stygian carnival complete with killer clowns and dreams in which injuries can manifest themselves in the real world. A scary yarn spun at breakneck speed, perfect for those chilly winter nights. (\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie is a horror junkie who can''t get enough of creepy movies, stories, and books, so she is naturally thrilled to stumble upon a mysterious old journal that describes the Vours, demonic beings that can enter fearful human bodies once a year. Although Reggie initially assumes the journal to be fiction, it quickly becomes clear that her timid younger brother, Henry, has actually been possessed by a Vour. Suddenly, Reggie is faced with a brother who kills his own beloved hamster and threatens her life, but she is certain that the Henry she loves is still there underneath. Although the diary gives few clues about how to actually exorcise demons, Reggie is determined to save her brother, even if it means facing unberable fears of her own. The fear-created world where Henry is stuck is remarkably creepy, built out of the most alarming imaginings of a young boy (murderous clowns, abandoning mothers, grotesquely dying children make up a few of the obstacles through which Reggie must travel to get to her brother). In addition, the intriguing local roots of the Vours, presented mostly through snippets of the desperate journal entries, add a layer of historical depth to this otherwise straightforward, modern novel. Horror fans will likely find the crsip writing, effectively relentless pacing, and haunting concept irresistible. (\n <strong>\n  The Bulletin\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7617'),
(2492, 'Dewey&#39;s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions', 'Vicki Myron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The cat that captured America''s hearts returns, to share more of his special brand of magic.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World\n  </em>\n  was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children''s books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey''s Nine Lives\n  </em>\n  offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey''s Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey''s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Myron\n  </strong>\n  was Dewey''s Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Dewey\n  </em>\n  , she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bret Witter\n  </strong>\n  is a former book editor turned writer. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7054'),
(2493, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The macabre, witty "New York Times "bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter)" continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic "artiste"--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami. After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: he''s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexter''s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexter''s curiosity and Miami''s finest realize they''ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6607'),
(2494, 'Dexter by Design: A Novel', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The macabre, witty *New York Times *bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, *Dexter)* continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic *artiste*â€”who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.**After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: heâ€™s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hardâ€”and Dexterâ€™s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justiceâ€¦and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexterâ€™s curiosity and Miamiâ€™s finest realize theyâ€™ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1813'),
(2495, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter''s happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter''s Dark Passenger â€“ mastermind of his homicidal prowess â€“ immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he''s being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he''s planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancÃ©''s two kids â€“ who might just have dark tendencies themselves. Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in recent fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1814'),
(2496, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(2497, 'The Dhammapada', 'Eknath Easwaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: According to Eknath Easwaran, if all of the Buddhist sutras had been lost except the *Dhammapada*, it alone would be enough for readers to understand and appreciate the wisdom of the Buddha. Easwaran''s version of the *Dhammapada* goes a long way toward proving this. In a lengthy introduction, Easwaran summarizes the life of the Buddha and the main tenets of his thought, including key concepts such as dharma, karma, and nirvana. The language of the Dhammapada is as lucid and flowing as the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, and this is why it is one of the most loved and remembered of all Buddhist sutras. Its subject matter, succinctly, is about training the mind, which leads to kind thoughts and deeds, which bring peace and freedom from suffering. If you are interested in reading one of the gems of Buddhist literature, this is a good place to start; and if you are looking for a great version of this beloved scripture, you can''t do better. Like all great world scripture, the verses here reward rereading and reflection, prompting you to "strive for wisdom always." *--Brian Bruya*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1353');
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(2498, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(2499, 'The Dharma bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1834'),
(2500, 'Diagnosis: danger', 'Marie Ferrarella; Jenna Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3109'),
(2501, 'Dial M for Monkey', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Adam Maxwell''s first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. The twenty stories included here range from a bizarre quest to find a dead rockstar''s limb (Jim Morrison''s Leg) to a memorable warning about the hidden dangers of building sites (the acclaimed Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun). Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short stories - and short-short stories - most never published before. This unmissable collection represents another shot in the arm for the resurgent form of the short story. As featured in Tonto Short Stories and Dave Eggers'' McSweeney''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(2502, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8771'),
(2503, 'The diamond bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(2504, 'The Diamond Hunters', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur Smith leaves fans feeling that they sailed alongside Sir Hal because the geography and the era appear so genuine. This is what makes a Smith book worth reading."\n  <br />\n  --_Midwest Book Review _on\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_ on\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...Swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. This latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."\n  <br />\n  --_The Orlando Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rich, compelling look back in time when history and myth intermingled."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle_ on\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Throughout\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , as in all Wilbur Smith novels, the plot twists and turns with constant surprises...This old-fashioned adventure novel keeps the reader enthralled all the way to its very exciting conclusion."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€˜The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight and strength.â€™ The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. â€˜Destroy Johnnyâ€™ is the old manâ€™s implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal â€“ and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9148'),
(2505, 'The Diamond Throne', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen''s Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10508'),
(2506, 'Diamonds Are Forever: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7653'),
(2507, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?" Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦ Praise "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer." â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(2508, 'Diary of a Mad Fat Girl', 'Stephanie McAfee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she''s not going to get it. What she gets is a dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a quest for truth and redemption. In the meantime, the love of her life shows up 3 years after a bad breakup. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is as adventurous as it is entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert ops.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5901'),
(2509, 'The Diary of A U-Boat Commander', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(2510, 'The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition', 'Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on *The New York Times* bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(2511, 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser', 'Sandra Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie''s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4042'),
(2512, 'Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy&#39;s Gotta Do While He Still Can', 'Tim Burke &amp; Michael Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two brothers combine forces to compile the ultimate guy''s to-do-before-marriage list. Tim is married but still "fight(ing) the good fight" and Michael is "still a free man." They take advantage of their different points of view, banking on Tim''s nostalgia for his bachelor days and Michael''s determination to take full advantage of the time he has left. Whether offering predictable ideas, like traveling Europe by rail or "road-trippin'' North America" with some buddies, or slightly more original plans like running with the bulls in Spain, throwing a mustache party, or pretending to be someone else for a weekend, they keep readers entertained. The writing style is conversational and candid, and its humor is aimed squarely at the guy''s guy ("You''re not going to meet your wife in Cancun, but you''ll probably take home her slutty sister"). Though at times repetitive; the Burkes themselves happily acknowledge the role formula plays in their schemes: "if you''re in search of a good story just get smashed in a different town" sums it up nicely. Though sure to irritate any woman who happens to pick it up (women are divided into two categories: kill-joy wives and drunken sluts), that shouldn''t be a problem for the target audience. Most single guys under thirty will enjoy this title-and may even be inspired by it.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention, guys of America: It''s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding--_never_ set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it''s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you "settle down."\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n is here to help you create the kind of stories you''ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· How you spent your graduation cash: You start at Oktoberfest in Munich and wake up on a Thai beach (which is totally what your Aunt Edith had in mind). From Fantasy Fest to La Tomatina, here''s a breakdown of the wildest parties and the craziest worldwide destinations.\n <br />\n Â· The best places to, ahem,\n <em>\n  explore other cultures\n </em>\n (or whatever): Corfu''s Pink Palace. Ireland''s pubs. Amsterdam''s Red Light District. Ibiza. Plus plenty of other fascinating events and locales, many of which also happen to serve booze.\n <br />\n Â· Getting a job (don''t worry, not a\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n job): Jet Ski guy. Cruise ship bartender. Casino dealer. Lifeguard. Roadie. Where and how to earn the money to subsidize your fun, usually in some exotic location full of very friendly women.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a "How To," a "To Do," and a "We Did,"\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n contains all the ideas, checklists, and insanely funny true stories you''ll need to help you have as much fun as possible--while you still can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8395'),
(2513, 'Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther', 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ein junger Mann, Werther, kommt in die Stadt W., um eine\n <br />\n Erbschaftsstreitigkeit zu regeln. Eines Tages begleitet er Lotte, die Tochter\n <br />\n des Amtmannes, auf einen Ball. Obwohl Werther wei?, dass Lotte verlobt ist,\n <br />\n verliebt er sich leidenschaftlich in die junge Frau. Als deren Verlobter Albert\n <br />\n von einer Gesch?ftsreise zur?ckkehrt, wird sich Werther der Vergeblichkeit\n <br />\n seiner Liebe bewusst. Er verl?sst die Stadt, kehrt aber bald wieder zur?ck zu\n <br />\n Lotte, die inzwischen verheiratet ist. Erneut kommt es zu einer Ann?herung\n <br />\n zwischen den beiden, schlie?lich zu einer Umarmung und einem Kuss. Die\n <br />\n verunsicherte Lotte beschlie?t, Werther nicht wiederzusehen. Der verzweifelte\n <br />\n junge Mann nimmt sich mit der Pistole seines Nebenbuhlers das Leben.\n <br />\n Goethes Briefroman erschien im Herbst 1774 und wurde schnell zu einem\n <br />\n europ?ischen Bestseller. Eine wahre Werther-Hysterie entstand, und dem\n <br />\n Roman wurde vorgeworfen, f?r den Selbstmord zahlreicher junger M?nner\n <br />\n verantwortlich zu sein.\n</p>\n<p>\n Der Text?folgt der Hamburger Ausgabe. Ihr liegt die zweite Fassung\n <br />\n aus dem Jahr 1787 zugrunde.\n</p>\n<p>\n Erg?nzt wird der Originaltext mit Worterkl?rungen und biografischen Notizen ?ber den Autor. Die Print ISBN bezieht sich auf unser H?rbuch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9819'),
(2514, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher''s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He''s kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2814'),
(2515, 'Died to match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a wedding no one would forgetâ€¦Luke Skywalker was juggling martini glasses. Albert Einstein was dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky. And Zorro was arguing with Death himself. For wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, it was just another night on the job: a coed bachelor party thrown by one of Seattleâ€™s hippest couples--the bride-to-be a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire, the groom a Seattle Sentinel news editor. But what started as the perfect evening for the young, handsome, and politically correct ended in disaster. One beautiful bridesmaid was dead, and another had thrown herself into Elliott Bay. Now Carnegie has more than a cutting-edge wedding to save. All around her, secret liaisons are unraveling, dangerous decisions are coming to light, and at least one criminal is lurking. With families to please, dresses to hem, and headlines to grab, Carnegie is discovering the dark side of love and marriage amid high and low Seattle society--and that while some passions may be forever, some are a motive for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(2516, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson; Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4045'),
(2517, 'Different Minds: Gifted Children With Ad/Hd, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits', 'Deirdre V. Lovecky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n '' This is a well-structured book. There are nine chapters; the first gives an overview of gifted children and theories of giftedness. The next two chaoters provide a general description off AD/HD and Asperger before going on to give detailed information on gifted children with these conditions. The following chapters look at cognitive aspects and learning styles, creativity, emotional intelligence, social cognition and moral development. The final chapters discuss issues around assessment and highlight the resources available. The author also includes useful appendices on diagnostic criteria.'' --- Community Practitioner\n</p>\n<p>\n ''In addition to case studies and research findings, Different Minds offers practical strategies and ways in which young people can be supported, both to develop their intellectual abilities and to help them feel accepted in society... This is an absorbing read crammed with observation and detail. Did you know, for instance, that difficulties with social interaction increase in line with IQ? Children with higher IQ''s (180-plus) find their age peers "a mystery, because they''re so different in interests, speed of learning, ability to understand complex material and desire to learn."...Different minds is a valuable addition to the information already available in this field.'' --- Children Now\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recognizing the different levels and kinds of giftedness, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter on a specific topic addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD, autism and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behavior and relationships at home and at school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9059'),
(2518, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986). The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4319'),
(2519, 'Digital Fortress', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It''s an Internet user''s spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is. In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You''ll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction. Although there''s enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that''s where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(2520, 'The Digital Plague', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is a very rich man. He''s probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1572'),
(2521, 'Dillinger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11002'),
(2522, 'Dimension of Dreams', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1961'),
(2523, 'Dimension of Horror', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1913'),
(2524, 'Dimiter', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an American clandestine agent referred to in some quarters of the world as ''legendary,'' while in others as ''the agent from hell.''Ã‚Â  (Rumor has it Dimiter poisoned Ho Chi Minh while the Vietnamese leader was visiting Albania shortly before his death in 1969.) Dimiter escapes to Jerusalem, where he encounters a number of engaging characters, including a doctor of neurology, a sharp-tongued nurse, and a grief-stricken Israeli policeman. The complicated plot confounds until the isolated pieces of the psychological puzzle that''s Dimiter match up and fall into place, revealing surprising truths.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and intelligent_, Dimiter_ is part detective story and part religious thriller in the grand tradition of_ The Name of the Rose_.â€ â€”Allan Folsom,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost 40 years after\n <em>\n  The Exorcis\n </em>\n t, William Peter Blatty''sÂ  new novel ''Dimiter'' is another headspinner." â€”The New York PostÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is an intelligent, tightly wound, suspenseful novel with a surprising and explosive climax. One can only hope Blatty will publish another sometime soon." â€”USA TODAYÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting."â€”The Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping and enthralling."â€”The West Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n "An amazing tale that should be read twice â€” once for the captivating and faith-affirming story, and a second time to savor the author''s elegant writing and masterful craft."â€”Book Reporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An astonishing piece of literature. You will want to reread it as soon as you put it down."â€”Horror Drive-in\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read. Had me frantically turning pages to find out what happens next."â€”The Buffalo News\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sure to keep readers'' attention until the final pages."â€”Suite101\n</p>\n<p>\n "A thrilling psychological suspense thriller."â€”Genre Go Round\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling mystery chock-full of suspense and wonder."â€”Stem Shots\n</p>\n<p>\n "A depth of mysery, imagination, and eloquence that will captivate mystery-lovers and suspense enthusiasts until its final pages."â€”BookSwim\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent literary visuals...An all-round fascinating piece of work."â€”Thriller Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Exorcist_ author thrills again!"â€”The Herald Net\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Exorcist_ author Blatty is back -- and he''s in fine form!"â€” Delawareonline\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlattyâ€™s writing contains much grace and beauty."â€”The Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author ofÂ \n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n has outdone himself.â€â€”Dreadlord_Logix\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel was worth the wait.â€â€”The Pittsburgh Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Peter Blatty balances philosophy, thrillsâ€â€”The Palm Springs\n <br />\n Desert Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnfolds a message of faith in a fast-paced thriller.â€â€”The Brothers Judd\n <br />\n Blog\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA Christian thriller with â€˜Lost-â€˜like intrigue.â€â€”Lost Wire\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlatty has outdone himself. Atmospheric, suspenseful and hugely satisfying,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a triumph!â€_â€”_The Speculative Scotsman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping. You will be hooked. I was completely unable to put it down.â€â€”Full Circle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA page turner.â€â€”News-Press.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex, suspenseful, and fast paced thriller, which does not shy away\n <br />\n from the problem of evil contrasted with the mystery of faith." â€”The\n <br />\n Catholic Media Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling spiritual thriller that is\n <br />\n chock full of suspense and wonder,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n pulses with an aura of mystique that almost begs you to revisit the whole novel as soon as you''ve finished."â€”The Horror Fiction Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous THE EXORCIST has written another grand and breathtaking tale, a stunning and powerful puzzlebox of psychological horror by a true master of modern fiction.â€â€”Dark Delights\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grace-haunted novel._â€â€”_Raymond Arroyo''s "The World Over"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Dimiter _is exciting and terrific. Like all of Blattyâ€™s stuff, itâ€™s a theological thriller that you can take on as many different levels as you want. Itâ€™s strange and enigmatic and very ambitious. It would make a great film.â€â€”BookTrust\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is a milestone not only because it comes from an award-winning author, but because he''s not written a full-length novel since his 1983 best-seller LEGION - until now... Gripping â€¦ A â€˜must'' for any Blatty fan and many newcomers."â€”California Bookwatch\n</p>\n<p>\n "Blatty proves not only that he still can write compelling prose nearly\n <br />\n 40 years after his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Excorcist\n </em>\n but also that he makes a fine\n <br />\n narrator." Â© AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Blatty) writes with an unrelenting pace that totally grips you. (The novel) ends in a fantastic climax that''s really unexpected."â€”London Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n "At one and the same time,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a page-turning detective yarn, an affectionate portrait of the Holy Land, its people and Christâ€™s lingering presence there, and a story about the search for faith â€”all told with author William Peter Blattyâ€™s mordant wit, acute powers of observation and truly beautiful writing."â€”Family and Faith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDimiter slowly pushes the thriller throttle back and requires you to feel\n <br />\n and think. Read it!â€â€”Boston Book Bums\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAbsolutely enthralling.Â  The best literary puzzle I''ve ever read, it''s a\n <br />\n book that cannot be visited only once to be truly appreciated."â€”Shocklines\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous modern horror novel, THE EXORCIST, has written another grand and breathtaking tale of terror."â€”countgore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning saga ... Blatty alternately hides and hints at the nature of the forces at play, building to a spectacular climax which will compel most readers to return to page one upon completing this masterful suspense novel."â€”Books.Com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8442'),
(2525, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1286'),
(2526, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“JOHN UPDIKE,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâ€™s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâ€™s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâ€“with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“John Updike, The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â€\n <br />\n â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4485'),
(2527, 'Dinosaur Planet', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10849'),
(2528, 'Dinosaur Planet 2 - The Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10802'),
(2529, 'Dinosaur Planet Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kai and Varian awoke from their forty years of coldsleep only to discover that mutineers had taken over Ireta. But they were determined to save their planet and its unusual dinosaurs. All they had to do was solve the planet''s myriad mysteries and gain the trust of the most dangerous beings in their Universe....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10842'),
(2530, 'Diplomatic Immunity', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a comedy of terrors. A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy''s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar''s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor''s youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9038'),
(2531, 'Diplomatic Implausibility', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon(TM) Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people "jeghpu''wI''" -- conquered.  FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empire invaded Cardassia, breaching the Khitomer Accords and causing a break with the Federation. On taD, depleted Klingon forces were overthrown in a small coup d''etat, and the victorious rebels took advantage of the disruption to appeal for recognition from the Federation.  NOW: The Klingons have returned to taD and re-established their control. But the stubborn rebels insist on Federation recognition. A solution to the diplomatic impasse must be found, a task that falls to the Federation''s new ambassador to the Klingon Empire -- Worf.  Worf thinks of himself as a fighter, not a negotiator, but the Federation disagrees. Now, for the sake of the Federation and the Empire, a Klingon warrior must weave a fragile peace out of a situation ripe for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8674'),
(2532, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster''s Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on __,\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n fleshes out the foundation for the universe that''s home to the ever-popular\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n provides essential background for fans of all the Humanx books in typical action-packed Foster style.\n</p>\n<p>\n The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in __), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous"--if strangely reticent--new race. But everything isn''t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn''t be much of a story here. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something''s suspicious about these alluring aliens--especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster''s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact team to meet the alien Pitar. Unlike the unpleasantly buglike alien thranx, the Pitar are "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly, gorgeous." Relations with the friendly but disliked thranx slow to a crawl as humanity overwhelmingly embraces the Pitar. Their telegenic appearances are so compelling that the media scarcely notices when the thranx are attacked by terrorists in a protected diplomatic enclave on Earth. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the slaughter is the founding of a joint religion by two clerics, one human and one thranx. As years pass, and the Pitar continue to refuse access to their homeworld, the media spin explains that they are "shy" and refuses to believe they could have anything to hide. Meanwhile, humanity is happily expanding through the galaxy and colonizing Argus V--until disaster strikes and all 600,000 colonists are hideously slaughtered by an unknown force. When Mallory is discovered, crazed and near death, hiding on one of the Argus''s moons, he is the only hope humankind has for ascertaining just who the villainous, slaughtering aliens really are. Although Foster implies that interesting things are going to happen with human-thranx religious philosophies, that doesn''t happen in this novel. Instead we get a vision of humanity as a race unable to see beyond the reflection of surface beauty and incapable of restraining itself from its basest instincts when that enhanced mirror is shattered. (June)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7907'),
(2533, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(2534, 'Dirk Pitt 20 - Arctic Drift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n   <em>\n    Treasure of Khan\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Black Wind\n   </em>\n   ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n   <em>\n    750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster Big Issue\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n  <em>\n   Treasure of Khan\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n  <em>\n   750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster Big Issue\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10340'),
(2535, 'Dirk Pitt 21 - Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10324'),
(2536, 'Dirk Pitt Revealed', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10341'),
(2537, 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations', 'David R. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity''s most essential natural resource and essentially linked to modern civilization''s survival. He traces the history of agriculture, showing that when humans exhausted the soil in the past, their societies collapsed, or they moved on. But moving on is not an option for future generations, he warns: there isn''t enough land. In the U.S., mechanized agriculture has eroded an alarming amount of agricultural land, and in the developing world, degraded soil is a principal cause of poverty. We are running out of soil, and agriculture will soon be unable to support the world''s growing population. Chemical fertilizers, which are made with lots of cheap oil, are not the solution. Nor are genetically modified seeds, which have not produced larger harvests or reduced the need for pesticides. Montgomery proposes an agricultural revolution based on soil conservation. Instead of tilling the land and making it vulnerable to erosion, we should put organic matter back into the ground, simulating natural conditions. His book, though sometimes redundant, makes a convincing case for the need to respect and conserve the world''s limited supply of soil. Illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Anyone interested in environmental issues should read this book. . . . Entertains and stimulates thought."--_Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes)_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating insights into what be our most precious natural resource and gives important pointers toward sustainable land management."--_Bioscience_\n</p>\n<p>\n "How societies fare in the long run depends on how they treat their soils. Simple. Concise. You are your dirt."--_Hobby Farms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sobering. . . . A timely text that will no doubt stimulate the discussion of this issue, and its potential solutions, for years to come."--_Environment &amp; History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strengthen[s] appreciation for how important the soil is to our existence."--_Great Plains Research_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4419');
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(2538, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(2539, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy. makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible. In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2526'),
(2540, 'Dirty Work', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3948'),
(2541, 'Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9383'),
(2542, 'The Disappearing Floor', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again Frank and Joe Hardy accept the challenge of a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardy s home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate. Author: Franklin W. Dixon Reading Level: Ages 8 to 14 years Publisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 9780448089195\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10297'),
(2543, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3474'),
(2544, 'Discarded Blessings', 'James A. Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9244'),
(2545, 'Disciple of the Dog', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  The cleverness Bakker displayed in his Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before, etc.) is lacking in this suspense novel introducing Disciple Manning, a Newark, N.J., PI who can remember everything he has ever heard. Jonathan and Amanda Bonjour hire Manning to track down their missing 21-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who''s joined a New Age cult known as the Framers, dropped out of nursing school, and is possibly now living at "the Compound," an old horse farm in southeastern Pennsylvania that serves as the cult''s retreat. The Framers'' leader, former Berkeley philosophy professor Xenophon Baars, has persuaded his followers that the world is more than five billion years older than it is and is about to end. Manning heads to the Compound in search of Jennifer, though he suspects she''s already dead. A crude, off-putting hero with a flatulence problem may leave few readers eager for a sequel. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    <p>\n     <b>\n      A crime thriller from an acclaimed master of speculative fiction\n     </b>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     <i>\n      â€œAnd you wonder why Iâ€™m cynical. Iâ€™ve literally â€˜seen it all before.â€™ The truth is we all have, every single one of us past the age of, say, twenty-five. The only difference is that I remember.â€\n     </i>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     No matter how hard he drinks, gambles, or womanizes, Disciple Manning simply cannot forget: not a word spoken, not an image glimpsed, not a pain suffered.Â  Disciple Manning has total recall. Whatever he hears, he can remember with 100% accuracy.Â  He can play it back in his head for an infinite number of times without a single change.Â  This ability makes him a dangerously unorthodox private investigator.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     When a New Jersey couple hires Manning to find their daughter, who joined a religious cult before vanishing in a small rust-belt town called Ruddick, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery that will pit his unnatural ability to remember against his desperate desire to forget.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     Â \n    </p>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6729'),
(2546, 'Disclosure', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today''s newspaper headlines: sexual harassment. Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders determines to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment. It''s her word against his, and suddenly Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded as the villian. As he scrambles to save his career and his reputation, Sanders uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom''s secrets . . . and the cynical scheme devised to bring him down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2243'),
(2547, 'Disclosure: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4367'),
(2548, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done. And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in. Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1118'),
(2549, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ten More Books for Readers of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Elias Ashmole,\n</p>\n<p>\n Janet Browne,\n</p>\n<p>\n Owen Davies,\n</p>\n<p>\n Carol Karlsen,\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bruce Moranâ€™s\n</p>\n<p>\n Alexander Roob,\n</p>\n<p>\n Lyndal Roper,\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n</p>\n<p>\n James Sharpe,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bryan Sykes,\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Deborah Harkness\n </em>\n (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6286'),
(2550, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ten More Books for Readers of\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elias Ashmole,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Browne,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Owen Davies,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Karlsen,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Moranâ€™s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander Roob,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyndal Roper,\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Sharpe,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bryan Sykes,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Deborah Harkness\n  </em>\n  (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9817'),
(2551, 'Disenchanted Evenings: A Girlfriend-To-Girlfriend Survival Guide for Coping With the Male Species', 'Barb Ewing; Maria Sude; Katina Z. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collection of one-liners and humorous observations about the male species in which authors Ewing and Sude zero in on dating disasters and romantic mishaps.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of dating disasters?\n <br />\n Of frogs dressed like princes?\n <br />\n If you need a good laugh, Disenchanted Evenings is for you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10743'),
(2552, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2078'),
(2553, 'Disintegration', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  DISINTEGRATION\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a mysterious fire destroys his home and shatters his family, Jacob Wells is pulled into a downward spiral that draws him ever closer to the past he thought was dead and buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright. Jacobâ€™s wife Renee is struggling with her own past and her attempts to salvage Jacob are driven by guilt and ambition.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Jacob and Joshua return to the twisted roles they adopted at the hands of cruel, demanding parents, they wage a war of pride, wealth, and passion. They share a poisonous obsession with the provocative, manipulative Carlita, whose immigrant family helped build the Wells fortune.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Joshua wants other things, too, but Jacobâ€™s desires are divided between the forbidden love he canâ€™t possess, the respectability he can never have, and the revenge he is dying to taste. And Renee has dark motives of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If only Jacob can figure out which of them to blame. But the lines of identity are blurred, because Joshua and Jacob share much more than blood.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And the childhood games have become deadly serious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  -----\n  <br />\n  A crime thriller from Scott Nicholson, #1 Kindle bestselling author of THE RED CHURCH, THE SKULL RING, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and 13 other books. He''s also written six screenplays, the graphic novels DIRT and GRAVE CONDITIONS, and, as L.C. Glazebrook, the YA paranormal series OCTOBER GIRLS. Visit him at Author Central or www.hauntedcomputer.com\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Buy everything he writes. He''s the real deal."--Bentley Little, The Disappearance\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, Shaken\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5485'),
(2554, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America', 'Eugene Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority "with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction''s end." Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town during the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation. Of particular interest is the discussion of how immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated group coming to live in the United States," are changing what being black means. Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the past 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in this era of cash-strapped state and local governments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on his years of reporting and observation of changes in black America, journalist Robinson finds that the black community has evolved to the point where it has disintegrated into distinct sectors: the mainstreamers, or black middle-class majority, who have made tremendous but often understated progress; the abandoned minority with little hope of escaping poverty; transcendental elites of such wealth and power that whites canâ€™t deny; and an emergent group of biracial blacks and recent black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are challenging an essentially native black American experience. In the age of Obama, Robinson notes the advancement of the black elites, with wealth and power, into â€œfull ownership stakeâ€ in the U.S., distancing them economically from the middle and lower classes. The emergent group identifies with a different notion of the black experience, making them ideologically and politically unreliable. All are in strong contrast to the abandoned, who are at the center of the black disintegration. Readers donâ€™t have to agree with Robinsonâ€™s observations to appreciate the undeniable differences within black America and to maybe want further analysis. --Vernon Ford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8681'),
(2555, 'Dismantling the Empire', 'Johnson, Chalmers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11095'),
(2556, 'Dismantling the Empire: America&#39;s Last Best Hope', 'Chalmers Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Stimulating and prescient. . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Times Literary Supplement_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Succinct, hard-hitting attacks on what the author perceives as America''s ruinous imperial follies..."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Concise, clear, hard-hitting. . .\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n is a must read for anyone looking for meaningful information concerning the future of the American Empire."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Foreign Policy Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Chalmers Johnson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohnson wants the scales to fall from American eyes so that the nation can see the truth about its role in the world. His is a patriotâ€™s passion: his motive is to save the American republic he loves.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Freedland,\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe role of the prophet is an honorable one. In Chalmers Johnson the American empire has found its Jeremiah. He deserves to be heard.â€\n <br />\n â€”Andrew J. Bacevich,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChalmers Johnsonâ€™s important new book is something with which everyone who aspires to a worthwhile opinion about this countryâ€™s future must contend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Los Angeles Times_ (on\n <em>\n  Nemesis\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrenchantly argued, comprehensively documented, grimly eloquent. . . Worthy of the republic it seeks to defend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Boston Globe_ (on\n <em>\n  The Sorrows of Empire\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStunning and shocking. . .\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n is a wake-up call for America.â€\n <br />\n â€”John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Embracing Defeat\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n From the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America''s waning power\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his prophetic book\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n , published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama''s Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, bad behavior in other countries, ill-fought wars, and capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle America''s empire of bases before the Pentagon dismantles the American dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and a crucial prescription for a remedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8435'),
(2557, 'A disobedient girl: a novel', 'Ru Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.** Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life''s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place. The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret. Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways. *A Disobedient Girl* is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3866'),
(2558, 'Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival', 'Anderson Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity.\n <em>\n  Dispatches from the Edge\n </em>\n , Cooper''s memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper''s ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother''s penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper''s description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It''s the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of\n <em>\n  Dispatches\n </em>\n , Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper''s memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there''s frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him. --_Erica C. Barnett_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HarperCollins touts the handsome, prematurely gray host of CNN''s\n <em>\n  Anderson Cooper 360Â°\n </em>\n as the "prototype for a twenty-first century newsman." Sadly, that statement is all too true. This brief, self-involved narrative reaffirms a troubling cultural shift in news coverage: journalists used to cover the story; now, more than ever, they are the story. Cooper is an intrepid reporter: he''s traveled to tsunami-ravaged Asia, famine-plagued Niger, war-torn Somalia and Iraq, and New Orleans post-Katrina. Here, however, the plights of the people and places he visits take a backseat to the fact that Cooper is, well, there. The Yale-educated son of heiress and designer Gloria Vanderbilt weaves personal tragedies (at 10, he lost his father to heart disease and later his older brother to suicide) awkwardly into far graver stories of suffering he''s observing. Even when he plies the reader with his own unease ("the more sadness I saw, the more success I had") and obliquely decries TV news''s demand for images of extreme misery ("merely sick won''t warrant more than a cut-away shot"), he seems to place himself in front of his subjects. Cooper is an intelligent, passionate man and he may be a terrific journalist. But this book leaves one feeling he''s little more than a television personality.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4911'),
(2559, 'The Dispossessed', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  PerfectBound e-book extra: A Study Guide to The Dispossessed by Paul Brians.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10728'),
(2560, 'The Dispossessed: A Novel', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by hatred since long before he was born.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Dispossessed\n </em>\n is a penetrating examination of society and humanity -- and one man''s brave undertaking to question the unquestionable and ignite the fires of change.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction,\n <em>\n  The Left Hand of Darkness\n </em>\n , is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three of Le Guin''s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4502'),
(2561, 'The Distant Hours', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this enthralling romantic thriller from Australian author Morton (The Forgotten Garden). At crumbling Milderhurst Castle live elderly twins Persephone and Seraphina and their younger half-sister, Juniper, the three eccentric spinster daughters of the late Raymond Blythe, author of The True History of the Mud Man, a children''s classic Edie adores. Juniper addressed the letter to Meredith, Edie''s mother, then a young teen evacuated to Milderhurst during the Blitz. Edie, who''s later invited to write an introduction to a reprint of Raymond''s masterpiece, visits the seedily alluring castle in search of answers. Why was her mother so shattered by the contents of a letter sent 51 years earlier? And what happened to soldier Thomas Cavill, Juniper''s long-missing fiancÃ© and Meredith''s former teacher? Despite the many competing narratives, the answers will stun readers. 5-city author tour. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7087'),
(2562, 'Distant Thunders: Destroyermen', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5216'),
(2563, 'Divide and conquer', 'Tom Clancy; Jeff Rovin; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit. At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante -- by deposing the President of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the President that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d''etat is within their reach. Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center are pitted against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the President -- and expose the traitors within... *A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology,* Tom Clancy''s Op-Center *is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4102'),
(2564, 'Divided in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die. A slow, withering, agonizing death. Nobody, nobody cheated on Reva Ewing.'' Roarke''s security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover - the woman Reva thought was her best friend. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her. At the time of the murders, Reva''s husband''s computer system was also sabotaged. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Roarke Industries have been working on a top secret government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers. The Doomsday Group are techno-terrorists who attack systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and they kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2342'),
(2565, 'Divided Souls', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An unseen hunter is on the loose. Scholarship girl Cassie Bell is fascinated by the city''s beauty, but there''s no time for her to relax. Torn between an old flame and a new romance, she must also choose between the select world of the Few and her loyalty towards her best friends. And all the time a killer is stalking the Few. As Cassie is about to discover, no one is above suspicion. Sometimes, the people you love can be the most dangerous enemies of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(2566, 'The Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long narrative poem originally titled Commedia (about 1555 printed as La divina commedia) written about 1310-14 by Dante. The work is divided into three major sections--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--which trace the journey of a man from darkness and error to the revelation of the divine light, culminating in the beatific vision of God. It is usually held to be one of the world''s greatest works of literature. The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man is miraculously enabled to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante the character learns of the exile that is awaiting him (an actual exile that had already occurred at the time of writing). This device allowed Dante not only to create a story out of his exile but also to explain how he came to cope with personal calamity and to offer suggestions for the resolution of Italy''s troubles as well. Thus, Dante''s story is historically specific as well as paradigmatic; his exile serves as a microcosm of the problems of a country, and it also becomes representative of the Fall of Man. The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped into the three major sections, or canticles. Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, that serves as an introduction to the entire poem. For the most part the cantos range from 136 to 151 lines. The poem''s rhyme scheme is the terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.) Thus, the divine number three is present in every part of the work. Dante adopts the classical convention of a visit to the land of the dead, but he adapts it to a Christian worldview by beginning his journey there. The Inferno represents a false start during which Dante, the character, must be disabused of harmful values that somehow prevent him from rising above his fallen world. Despite the regressive nature of the Inferno, Dante''s meetings with the damned are among the most memorable moments of the poem: the Neutrals, the virtuous pagans, Francesca da Rimini, Filipo Argenti, Farinata degli Uberti, Piero delle Vigne, Brunetto Latini, the simoniacal popes, Ulysses, and Ugolino impose themselves upon the reader''s imagination with tremendous force. Nonetheless, the journey through the Inferno primarily signifies a process of separation and thus is only the initial step in a fuller development. In the Purgatorio the protagonist''s spiritual rehabilitation commences. There Dante subdues his own personality so that he will be able to ascend. He comes to accept the essential Christian image of life as a pilgrimage, and he joins the other penitents on the road of life. At the summit of Purgatory, where repentant sinners are purged of their sins, Virgil departs, having led Dante as far as human knowledge is able--to the threshold of Paradise. Beatrice, who embodies the knowledge of divine mysteries bestowed by Grace, continues Dante''s tour. In the Paradiso true heroic fulfillment is achieved. Dante''s poem gives expression to those figures from the past who seem to defy death and who inspire in their followers a feeling of exaltation and a desire for identification. The Paradiso is consequently a poem of fulfillment and of completion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(2567, 'Divine Comedy, The: Volume 1: Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante''s Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa''s translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear but doesn''t significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." -- Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n "Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." -- Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7461'),
(2568, 'The divine invasion', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3767');
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(2569, 'Divine justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone''s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone''s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren''t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he''s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Following the instant # 1 *New York Times* bestseller *Stone Cold,* Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci''s most surprising thriller yet . . . ** Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone''s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1466'),
(2570, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought Irs"d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if theyrs"re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2803'),
(2571, 'Divisadero', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil''s Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada''s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. Description in Spanish: En la mas intima y hermosa de sus historias, Michael Ondaatje narra la vida de Anna, quien tras un brutal suceso acontecido en su hogar, tendra que dejar atras la vida en la granja de California y empezar un nuevo camino en el sur de Francia. Lejos de su padre, de su gemela Claire y de Coop un misterioso muchacho acogido por la familia encontrara en la literatura y en la reconstruccion de la biografia de un importante escritor la manera de conciliarse con su pasado. Una novela de vidas cruzadas que se extiende por dos continentes y a lo largo de un siglo. Tras El paciente ingles, Ondaatje demuestra su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dificil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las perdidas y la persistencia del pasado, asi como las exigencias de la familia, del amor y de los recuerdos. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza capaz de emocionarnos y dejarnos sin respiro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4823'),
(2572, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking, teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(2573, 'Djibouti: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <hr />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Joe Hill Reviews\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The author of the critically acclaimed novels\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <img />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In the spirit of\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   , his 48th novel.\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   10. The babes.\n  </strong>\n  The heroine of Djibouti would be one Dara Barr, who has touched down in Africa to make a documentary about the booming piracy business and maybe win herself another Oscar. Dara is as laconic and unflappable as any of Leonardâ€™s finest heroes (see:\n  <em>\n   waaaaaay\n  </em>\n  overmatched.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   9. The bad boys.\n  </strong>\n  Creative writing teachers who want to show their students how to draft an unforgettable antagonist ought to tear out chapter 18 and pass it around. Thatâ€™s where Leonard tells us the story of James Russell, a clever Miami lowlife, who reinvents himself as Jamal Raisuli, al-Queda bomb-throwerâ€¦ all in 7 pages of breezy, economical characterization.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   8. The talk.\n  </strong>\n  Plenty has been written about Elmore Leonardâ€™s mastery of dialogue, and I donâ€™t need to rehash it. Why bother, when I could just quote some of it? An elderly terrorist, jailed in\n  <em>\n   The States\n  </em>\n  , gets talking with James Russell:\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat is it you hope to become in your life?â€\n  <br />\n  â€œFamous,â€ James said. â€œI been looking at ways.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œBecome a prophet?\n  <br />\n  â€œI donâ€™t tell what will happen. I do it.â€\n  <br />\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   7. The walk.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone hustles in an Elmore Leonard novel; you canâ€™t stand still and hope to score. From the slums, where life is the only thing cheaper than khat, to the clubs, where itâ€™s easier to find a pirate than out on the open ocean, everyone is on their way up or on their way downâ€¦ in a hurry.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   6. The sound.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard famously said that if his sentences sound like writing, he rewrites them, but donâ€™t be fooled. These sentences jump to their own dirty, hothouse jazz rhythm. There isnâ€™t a better stylist anywhere in American letters.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   5. The seduction.\n  </strong>\n  Dara isnâ€™t just curious about piracy; she spends thirty days on a boat with 73-year-old Xavier LeBo, long enough to fall a little in love with her best friend, and wonder if the old dude can still get it up. Xavier bets her ten-thousand dollars he can. Itâ€™s the bookâ€™s biggest gamble; trust me, it earns out big.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   4. More boom for your buck.\n  </strong>\n  A lot of the suspense in Djibouti revolves around a tanker filled with enough liquefied natural gas â€œto set off an explosion a hundred times bigger than the Hindenburg disaster.â€ Itâ€™s an atom bomb with a rudder and all it needs is a target.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   3. The place.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard doesnâ€™t beat anyone over the head with his research, but from Djibouti to Eyl to New Orleans (the three backdrops for this story), the details are crisp, unforgettable, and right. You donâ€™t read Djibouti. You live there.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   2. The pay-off.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone in an Elmore Leonard story wants one, but only the reader is guaranteed to get one, and boy do they, in a final chapter that seems inevitable, yet comes as completely unexpected.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   1. The know-how.\n  </strong>\n  Letâ€™s get to it. In the fifty-plus years heâ€™s been turning out lean, loose, laid-back thrillers, Elmore Leonard has cast his indelible stamp on American crime fiction, inspired his peers, and spawned a thousand imitators. Heâ€™s the kind of guy critics describe as old school, but thatâ€™s missing it. Elmore Leonard isnâ€™t old school. He built the school.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  (Photo of Joe Hill by Shane Leonard)\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  *Starred Review* Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subjectâ€”Somalian piratesâ€”but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the back-and-forth banter, always oozing wit but never too smart for the room; the cast of wonderfully idiosyncratic characters, each capable of a star turn; the always startling juxtaposition of the mundane against the violent. This time, mixed in with all of that, Leonard gives us one of his trickiest plots and cleverest turns of storytelling. Dara Barr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently arrived in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa (the gateway to Islam . . . or the back door to the West) to film Somalian pirates in action. With her assistant, a 72-year-old sailor named Xavier, Dara, armed with a concealed spy camera, sets off onboard the Buster in search of pirates. She finds plenty, but she and Xavier also land in the middle of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. Portions of the tale are related in real time, but much of the narration comes in the form of Dara and Xavier viewing film of whatâ€™s already happened and debating how to structure the documentary. This curious dramatic technique works magnificently, taking us inside the characters in a way that straight, action-oriented narration might not do. Leonard never tells a story in the expected way, but this time he outdoes himself. Marvelous entertainment. --Bill Ott\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5102'),
(2574, 'DM_Weekend Fling', 'Dawn Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10763'),
(2575, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film  Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6558'),
(2576, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John BrunnerTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results."[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams Rolling Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3773'),
(2577, 'Do Comets Dream?', 'S.P. Somtow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the World, whose coming heralds the end of all things....  But to Captain Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise(TM)"; the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing but a rogue comet, easily destroyed. Picard faces a difficult dilemma: how can he save the Thanetians'' rich and intricate civilization without destroying the very beliefs upon which their culture is based?  This quandary is challenge enough, yet the captain''s position becomes even more complicated when Deanna Troi discovers that, incredibly, the comet is alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6291'),
(2578, 'Do They Know I&#39;m Running?', 'David Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, heâ€™s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayalâ€”of his country, his family, his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(2579, 'Do you take this rebel?', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: PREGNANT AND UNMARRIED, SHE LEFT TOWN... Now Cassie Collins had returned to reconnect with her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, and put her troubles behind her. But trouble found her in the disconcertingly sexy form of Cole Davis--father of her child. Having discovered her secret, Cole demanded a convenient marriage--or Cassie could lose her son to the powerful, wealthy Davis clan. Time hadn''t dulled Cassie''s anger at the man who''d betrayed her ten years ago...nor cooled the fiery attraction between them. Could she rekindle their long-lost love, and unite Cole, herself and their son in the precious bonds of family?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4153'),
(2580, 'Do Your Own Divorce: A Practical Guide to Divorcing Without a Lawyer', 'John Bolch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book will save you money. Even if the divorce is completely straightforward, and there are no arrangements for children and finances to sort out, a solicitor will typically charge between GBP500 and GBP1000 to deal with the divorce for you, not including court fees. If there are arrangements for children or finances to sort out, then the solicitor''s fees are likely to be many times that sum. This book is for the increasing number of people who have to go through divorce proceedings without legal assistance, and for those who just want to save legal costs. It includes: *A guide to divorce proceedings, including completing all the required forms. *Sorting out financial/property arrangements, whether by agreement or through the court. *Making arrangements for children. *Details of child support maintenance. *Dealing with domestic violence, costs and mediation. *Plus specimen forms, useful addresses and websites, and a detailed glossary of legal terms. This book is for anyone who is seeking or contemplating a divorce, or anyone whose spouse has issued divorce proceedings against them. Even if you are separating from your spouse and do not wish to divorce at this time, this book will be useful to you as many of the principles with regard to arrangements for children and sorting out finances are the same. AUTHOR BIOG: John Bolch is a solicitor with over 25 years experience specialising in divorce and family matters. He is a member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association), and is the author of Family Lore, the first family law blog in this country. CONTENTS: 1. Divorce 2. Children 3. Child maintenance 4. Finances and property 5. Domestic violence 6. Mediation 7. Costs and legal aid 8. Final thoughts Appendix 1 - Example Documents Appendix 2 - Useful Addresses and Websites Appendix 3 - Glossary Appendix 4 - List of Divorce County Courts Index.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9891'),
(2581, 'Doc', 'Mary Doria Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell\n </strong>\n <br />\n For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I''ve only had to say four words. â€œIt''s about Doc Holliday.â€ You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just\n <em>\n  light up\n </em>\n . â€œOh, man! I love Doc!â€ they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer''s portrayal in the movie\n <em>\n  Tombstone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I''m really writing about whom and what\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n love. The shining silver wire that runs through\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is John Henry Holliday''s love for his mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, â€œa sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents'' hearts.â€ I''m sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they''re a shock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the hole in his face. Locking eyes. Struggling to stay awake. Struggling to stay alive...\n</p>\n<p>\n When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. John Stiles Holliday performed a successful surgical repair of the cleft--an achievement kept private to protect the family''s reputation. You see, in the 1850s, the Hollidays were Georgia gentry whose large extended family would become the O''Haras, Wilkeses and Hamiltons in\n <em>\n  Gone With The Wind\n </em>\n . (Margaret Mitchell was Doc''s cousin, twice removed.) These were people who took â€œgood breedingâ€ seriously, and birth defects were a source of familial shame--for everyone but Alice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and her son became intensely close. She invented a form of speech therapy to correct his diction. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. She home-schooled him until she was sure his speech wouldn''t be ridiculed, then sent him to a local boys academy, where he excelled in every subject. In the midst of our nation''s ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice didn''t live to see him graduate. She died of tuberculosis when John Henry was 15. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awful death he faced. Hoping dry air and sunshine would restore his health, he left everyone and everything he loved, and went West. He was only 22 when he left Atlanta in 1873.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. But I have written the story of Alice Holliday''s son: a scared, sick, lonely boy, born for the life of a minor aristocrat in a world that ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War, trying to stay alive on the rawest edge of the American frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n John Henry Holliday didn''t have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. Read it, and weep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for_ Doc_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fact and mythmaking converge as Russell creates a Dodge City filled with nuggets of surprising history, a city so alive readers can smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos...Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply movingâ€”a magnificent read." _-Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Mary Doria Russell\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn clean, effortless prose and with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.â€â€”_The Bookwatch,_ on\n <em>\n  The Sparrow\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russellâ€™s storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting . . . saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly,_ on_ A Thread of Grace_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant . . . powerful . . . Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle, _on\n <em>\n  Children of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRapturous and relevant . . . a wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own.â€â€”_Seattle Post-Intelligencer,_ on_ Dreamers of the Day_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8469'),
(2582, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7652'),
(2583, 'Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <meta charset="utf-8" />\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London 1963. Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are intrigued by mysterious pupil Susan Foreman. Following her home one night after school, they discover she lives in a strange junkyard. And in a corner of this junkyard is a police box. Their investigations are disturbed by a mysterious old man who emerges out of the London fog and moves toward the police box. They learn he is Susan''s grandfather. He is the doctor. But Doctor Who?\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forcing their way past the Doctor, the two teachers enter the police box, where they suspect Susan is being held against her will. They soon discover that this is no ordinary police box, what they find inside will change their lives forever. However, now that they know its secrets, can the Doctor afford to let them leave?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Carrying the Doctor, Susan and its reluctant new passengers, the TARDIS begins its journey. Travelling back in time, the crew encounter an ancient tribe who have lost the secret of fire.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7602'),
(2584, 'Doctor Who Nuclear Time', 'Oli Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9255'),
(2585, 'Doctor Who the Colony of Lies', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the ''Realists'' -- has abandoned Ransome''s Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The ''Loyalists'' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet''s first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7945'),
(2586, 'Doctor Who: Abominable Snowmen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in the snowy Himalayas, and the Doctor makes a return visit to the nearby Det-sen monastery, which he last visited three hundred years ago. He his astonished to find the monastery under attack, apparently from the Yeti which are said to roam the mountainside. Furthermore, the Doctor discovers that his friend the High Lama his still alive, his ancient body under the influence of an apparently unearthly force...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, explorer Edward Travers is determined to track down and capture one of the Yeti. When his colleague is murdered, he refuses to blame the creatures and instead accuses the Doctor. The time-travellers discover that the Yeti are all-too prominent in the area - in fact, they are out to kill anyone who threatens the plans of the disembodies Intelligence which they serve...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7637'),
(2587, 'Doctor Who: Alien Bodies', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who novel set on an island in the East Indies, where alien forces are gathering in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rain forest, desperate to acquire what might be the deadliest weapon in creation. The Doctor and Sam walk into the middle of the strangest auction in history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8595'),
(2588, 'Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Landing in Victorian London, the TARDIS crew is surprised to meet up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4388'),
(2589, 'Doctor Who: Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7433'),
(2590, 'Doctor Who: Amorality Tale', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who disguises himself as a watchmender and visits 1950s London to discover the cause of a mysterious fatality in the East End. 4000 people died here - their deaths linked to a choking smog that blanketed the area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6833'),
(2591, 'Doctor Who: Anachrophobia', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire''s hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They''re picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there''s a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7058'),
(2592, 'Doctor Who: Android Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the zany Doctor Who and his companion, Sarah, land in a small English village, they discover zombie-like inhabitants who turn out to be Kraal androids. The Kraals are attempting to conquer Earth, and Dr. Who must take on his own android clone to stop the invasion. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7566'),
(2593, 'Doctor Who: Androids of Tara', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly peaceful planet of Tara, the Doctor claims he is owed a holiday. While he takes time off to go fishing, Romana quickly locates the Fourth Segment. All is going well until the time-travellers are drawn into the complex political intrigues of Tara.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The benevolent Prince Reynart is soon to be crowned king, but the wicked Count Grendel wants both the throne, and Reynart''s bride-to-be, the Princess Strella, for himself. Grendel plots with the android builder Madame Lamia, and soon both Reynart and Strella are replaced by robotic duplicates. Unfortunately for Romana, she also bears a startling resemblance to the princess - which makes her enormously valuable to the Count.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor is unwillingly thrust into the roles of android repair-man, king-maker and, ultimately, swash-buckling hero, when he finds himself duelling with Grendel, famous for being the finest swordsman on Tara...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7535'),
(2594, 'Doctor Who: Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4530'),
(2595, 'Doctor Who: Apollo 23', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping center. Maybe it''s a publicity stunt.  A photo shows an immaculately-dressed woman in her best shoes lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog ''Poochie''. Maybe it''s a hoax.  But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centers on a secret military base on the moon that''s where Amy and the TARDIS are.  The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there''s no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens.  Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5662'),
(2596, 'Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who learns that the secret of his molecular structure has been stolen from the Time Lord''s master computer, Matrix\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7541'),
(2597, 'Doctor Who: Ark in Space', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In this four part adventure, the Doctor, Harry and Sarah accidentally arrive on an artificial satellite where the survivors of Earth lie in cryogenic suspension waiting to begin a new life. But the Doctor soon discovers that there has been a sinister intrusion...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A gigantic insect has infiltrated the human ark. It is dead, but it was Queen of the Wirrn, sworn enemies of the Earth â€” and her egg sac was full. Something is terribly wrong and when the crew begin to awaken it soon becomes clear that some of them are not entirely what they seem...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find out how to destroy the Wirrn larvae before they absorb the last of the human race and become an invincible swarm. But this involves a desperate gamble with his own life â€” a gamble he must take if he is to save mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8304'),
(2598, 'Doctor Who: Armageddon Factor', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 conclude their search for the segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Arriving on the planet Atrios, the Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the Atrians'' seemingly endless war with their neighbouring planet of Zeos. Their ruler, the Princess Astra, has been kidnapped, leaving the deranged Marshal in sole charge of the war effort. However, the Marshal is being controlled, receiving orders from behind a strange black mirror in the command centre.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor learns that no-one on Atrios has ever seen a Zeon, and travels to Zeos in an attempt to bring the war to an end, and hopefully find the Princess Astra - who seems to be linked in some way to the Sixth Segment. He finds the planet deserted, run entirely by a huge computer, Mentalis. When the Marshal launches an all-out final attack on Zeos, Mentalis responds by activating its Armageddon Program - rather than lose the war, the computer will destroy everything.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    However, a third planet hangs in space between Atrios and Zeos, shielded from their sensors. This is the lair of the Shadow. He has been waiting for the Doctor to arrive, manipulating the war to his advantage. He is willing to use the Doctor''s own friends against him and he wants the Key to Time.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Although the Doctor''s quest is nearly over, he begins to realise that he may lose everything. For the Shadow is a servant of the Black Guardian.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7559'),
(2599, 'Doctor Who: Asylum', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oxford, 1278 -- the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes -- history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day.Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good.However, more and more murders are being committed and it''s increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6983'),
(2600, 'Doctor Who: Atom Bomb Blues', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point and destroy the human race. Playing detective among the A-bomb scientists, the Doctor tries to avoid falling under suspicion himself, but the head of Los Alamos security is convinced that something is not quite right about the small, eccentric Scottish research physicist calling himself Dr John Smith. As the minutes tick away to the world''s first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6250'),
(2601, 'Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of the television script of a Doctor Who adventure. The Doctor''s old enemy, Lytton, appears to have allied himself with the ruthless Cybermen, who have devised a scheme which, if successful, could completely destroy the web of time and bring the human race to its knees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7879'),
(2602, 'Doctor Who: Auton Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people â€” the Time Lords â€” the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce â€” UNIT for short. Led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon called into action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient â€” a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, UNIT and the recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7576'),
(2603, 'Doctor Who: Autonomy', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hyperville is 2013''s top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it''s ready, and it''s deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience... Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC Television series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7552'),
(2604, 'Doctor Who: Autumn Mist', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ardennes, December 1994: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign that will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle -- an unknown and ancient force that seems to pay little head to the forces of nature.Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6398'),
(2605, 'Doctor Who: Bad Therapy', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950''s Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5414'),
(2606, 'Doctor Who: Battlefield', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, the first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels continues where the 1989 TV series left off. The latest title is an exciting adventure called Battlefield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8487'),
(2607, 'Doctor Who: Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show!  Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6352');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(2608, 'Doctor Who: Beltempest', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the people of Bellania II witness a triple eclipse of their sun, Bel -- an impossibility, as they only have one moon -- it is the beginning of the end for an entire solar system. Their sun is shrouded in night for a month -- then returns to them a younger, brighter, hotter star. But how?100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where 20,000 people are under threat as a catastrophe threatens -- immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are rioting through their sector of space. Sam is swept away by desperate crowds trying to get off their world, and becomes involved in daring rescue attempts. The Doctor tries to stabilize the local gravity fields and help halt the devastation, but the TARDIS is lost to him.Meanwhile, a religious suicide-cult leader attempts to destroy himself on the deadly heated surface of Belannia II, but he does not die. He returns stronger, and with a new religion he is determined to spread through Bel''s system. His word may prove more dangerous even then the terrible forces brought into being from Bel''s sun. Just what has happened to the star Bel -- and will the Doctor hive time to do anything about it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8523'),
(2609, 'Doctor Who: Beyond the Sun', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bernice Summerfield''s no-good ex-husband claims to be in deadly danger. Unfortunately, Benny does not believe him until he is kidnapped. Feeling guilty she sets off to rescue him. Her only clue is a dusty artifact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient weapon, rumored to have powers beyond the sun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5415'),
(2610, 'Doctor Who: Birthright', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <hr size="10" />\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         â€˜I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.â€™ â€˜I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.â€™\n        </b>\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5703'),
(2611, 'Doctor Who: Black Orchid', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes at the tiny railway station of Cranleigh Halt in 1925, and the Doctor, Tegan, Adric, and Nyssa, though looking forward to a rest from their adventures, are faced with the discovery of a brutal murder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7071'),
(2612, 'Doctor Who: Blood and Hope', 'Iain McLaughlin &amp; John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Civil War-a time of great unrest, when fathers found themselves in conflict with their sons and when lawlessness and slavery was rife. The Doctor, together with his companions Peri and Erimem, arrive in the middle of the conflict. The Doctor manages to cope in his own inimitable manner, however Peri - an American - and Erimem - a dark-skinned Egyptian - find themselves faced with all the bigotry and haired that typified the war for some.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7102'),
(2613, 'Doctor Who: Blood Harvest', 'Paul Cornell &amp; Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Docâ€™s peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. Youâ€™re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called â€˜Docâ€™sâ€™, he knows this is one job he canâ€™t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8645'),
(2614, 'Doctor Who: Blood Heat', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <b>\n     â€˜Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.â€™\n    </b>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurrassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8525'),
(2615, 'Doctor Who: Blue Box', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn ''Internet'' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as ''The Doctor'' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles ''Chick'' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation''s vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7225'),
(2616, 'Doctor Who: Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6985'),
(2617, 'Doctor Who: Bullet Time', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attempting to cover the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Sarah Jane Smith stumbles upon alien activity. The Tzun have been trapped on Earth while searching for the location of a lost ship that will allow them to leave. But with the CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, and UNIT on the ship''s trail, it won''t be easy. Sarah discovers that the Tzun have the wisdom and ingenuity of the Doctor on their side, but finds they are not being put to the best use. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6400'),
(2618, 'Doctor Who: Bunker Soldiers', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people.Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 -- a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed".When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue -- but this creature certainly isn''t killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from -- and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8489'),
(2619, 'Doctor Who: Business Unusual', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''s C19 security division investigates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7627'),
(2620, 'Doctor Who: Byzantium!', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A First Doctor novel. The Tardis arrives in 64 AD close to the ancient capital of Byzantium. The Doctor warns of the brutality and corruption to be found here, only to see his party split up. Each believe that the others are dead and must cope with the complexities of the city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4883'),
(2621, 'Doctor Who: Camera Obscura', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5635'),
(2622, 'Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters', 'Terrance Dicks &amp; Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and Jo find themselves trapped in a time-loop as part of a peepshow on the planet Inter Minor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7604'),
(2623, 'Doctor Who: Castrovalva', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor''s regeneration really be failing this time? It certainly looks that way as his two assistants, Tegan and Nyssa, help him recuperate on the tranquil planet of Castrovalva.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n But are things as peaceful as they seem? What has happened to Adric? What is really going on in Castrovalva? And more importantly, where is the Master?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the Doctor begins to recover he realises that the Master''s trap is even more intricate than he could have imagined and that he will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7507'),
(2624, 'Doctor Who: Casualities of War', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7436'),
(2625, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Times Crucible', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Youâ€™re on your own, Ace.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is invaded by an alien presence, and is then destroyed. The Doctor disappears.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace, lost and alone, finds herself in a bizarre deserted city ruled by the tyrannical, leech-like monster known as the Process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lost voyagers drawn forward from Ancient Gallifrey perform obsessive rituals in the ruins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The strands of time are tangled in a catâ€™s cradle of dimensions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only the Doctor can challenge the rule of the Process and restore the stolen Future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor was destroyed long ago, before Time began.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8484'),
(2626, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Warhead', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The script editor of the Doctor Who television series from 1987 to 1989 returns with the second adventure in the Cat''s Cradle series of Doctor Who novels. As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a desperate effort. If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6249'),
(2627, 'Doctor Who: Catastrophe', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A jubilant Doctor has been given freedom again by the Time Lords to roam time and space. But when he and Sam arrive on the planet of Catastrophea, he begins to wish perhaps his exile on Earth had remained imposed, for the Doctor becomes embroiled in the schemes of off-world drug-smugglers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7587'),
(2628, 'Doctor Who: Cats Cradle: Witch Mark', 'Andrew Hunt &amp; Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8284'),
(2629, 'Doctor Who: Cave Monsters', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a huge creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves, there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not only is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff members.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Now exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins to make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not only a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians - intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind has replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6220'),
(2630, 'Doctor Who: Christmas on a Rational Planet', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜An end to history. An end to certainty. Is that too much to ask?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  December, 1799. Europe is recovering from the Age or Reason, the Vatican is learning to live with Napoleon, and America is celebrating a new era of independence. But in New York State, something is spreading its own brand of madness through the streets. Secret societies are crawling from the woodwork, and thereâ€™s a Satanic conspiracy around every corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roz Forrester is stranded in a town where festive cheer and random violence go hand-in-hand. Chris Cwej is trapped on board the TARDIS with someone whoâ€™s been trained to kill him. And when Reason itself breaks down, even the Doctor canâ€™t be sure who or what heâ€™s fighting for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Christmas is coming to town, and the end of civilization is following close behind...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8596'),
(2631, 'Doctor Who: Citadel of Dreams', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  And in an unknowable future the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind -- simultaneously, for preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows -- and heâ€™s not telling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble, Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8419'),
(2632, 'Doctor Who: City at World&#39;s End', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands the time travellers on the deserted observation deck of a skyscraper-like building. Giant screens show programmes about an evacuation procedure and reveal that "Zero Time" is an estimated 35 days away.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7420'),
(2633, 'Doctor Who: Claws of Axos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A mysterious UFO lands on Earth. The Axons have arrived, desperate for help and eager to offer in return an exciting gift - axonite, potentially the most powerful substance man has ever seen. With its powers of duplication, the possibilities for mankind are endless. The Ministry of Defence is delighted but the Doctor has his suspicions. Are the Axons as genuine as they seem? Just what is the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, doing aboard this ship?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7583'),
(2634, 'Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half''. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books'' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain''s best castles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9477'),
(2635, 'Doctor Who: Coldheart', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion story, the Doctor materializes underground, where he and his companions are led to safety by a humanoid character, who explains that this is the planet Eskon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5519'),
(2636, 'Doctor Who: Combat Rock', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor''s initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust. Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest. It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8385'),
(2637, 'Doctor Who: Companion Piece', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6666'),
(2638, 'Doctor Who: Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster &amp; James Moran &amp; Andrew Cartmel &amp; David Llewellyn &amp; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4494'),
(2639, 'Doctor Who: Conundrum', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, weâ€™re talking about an old man who used to dress up in a skintight white jump suit and fly around New York catching super-villains. Donâ€™t you think thereâ€™s something just a bit unusual about that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A killer is stalking the streets of the village of Arandale. The victims are found one each day, drained of blood. And if that seems strange, itâ€™s nothing compared to the townâ€™s inhabitants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Ace and Bernice think theyâ€™re investigating a murder mystery. But itâ€™s all much more bizarre than that. And much more dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Someone has interfered with the Doctorâ€™s past again, and heâ€™s landed in a place he knows he once destroyed. This time there can be no escape.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5879'),
(2640, 'Doctor Who: Corpse Marker', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor and Leela land on the planet Kaldor, home of the Sandminer crew that they recently saved from the dreaded Robots of Death.Intrigue abounds still further on the homeworld. The twisted genius that perverted the robots from their function to serve man, the late Taren Kapel, has become the deity of a cult that is causing chaos. Leda finds herself caught up in their mayhem while the Doctor learns that the survivors of the original sandminer crew are being killed off one by one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8102'),
(2641, 'Doctor Who: Creature From the Pit', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Baker, regarded by many as being the definitive Doctor Who, narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The planet Chloris is very fertile, but metal is in short supply, and has therefore become extremely valuable. A huge creature, with most unusual physical properties, arrives from an alien planet which can provide Chloris with metal from its own unlimited supplies, in exchange for chlorophyll. However, the ruthless Lady Adrasta has been able to exploit the shortage of metal to her own advantage, and has no wish to see the situation change. The Doctor and Romana land on Chloris just as the creature''s alien masters begin to lose patience over their ambassador''s long absence. The action the aliens decide to take will have devastating consequences for Chloris, unless something is done to prevent it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4895'),
(2642, 'Doctor Who: Crusaders', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It''s 12th Century Palestine and King Richard the Lionheart is embroiled in a Holy War against the Saracen ruler, Saladin.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  After Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki make their way to the King''s palace. At first, the King will not help with her rescue, but he relents and lets Ian attempt it, equipping him for the task with a knighthood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, the King''s secret plans to make peace with Saladin are discovered and all hell breaks loose. The Earl of Leicester suspects the Doctor''s influence in the King''s new-found desire for peace. It is time the Doctor left...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5501'),
(2643, 'Doctor Who: Curse of Peladon', 'Brian Hayles &amp; Alan Willow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    On its way back to Earth, the TARDIS crashlands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon''s King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a Galactic war?\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Having assumed the guise of Earth delegates, the Doctor and his assistant Jo attempt to diffuse the political timebomb and to uncover the true identity of the beast of Peladon - which they suspect is something far more sinister than a mere paranormal apparition.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor is amazed, however, to find among the delegates his old adversaries the Ice Warriors - war-like reptiles from the planet Mars. Could they be behind the goings-on and what they stand to profit from a conflict? The Doctor must use all of his wits to ensure that the warnings of Peladon''s High Priest do not come true.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6114'),
(2644, 'Doctor Who: Daemons', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who becomes concerned at plans to explore a prehistoric barrow near the quiet village of Devil''s End\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4875'),
(2645, 'Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in a London of future timesâ€”a city of devastation now ruled by Daleks. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the center of Dalek operations...and the reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth! William Russell, who played the Doctor''s companion Ian in the original TV serial, reads this unabridged novel, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7573'),
(2646, 'Doctor Who: Daleks', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Doctor Who s first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? William Russell, who created the role of Ian in the original television series of Doctor Who, reads David Whitaker s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published in hardback in 1964. The book went on to spearhead the Target Books range of Doctor Who titles, and it is one of the best-loved novelisations to be based on the programme.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Russell, Ian in the original "Doctor Who" series, narrates the novelization of the 1964 season, a retro sci-fi adventure of two average Brits caught up in the mysterious doctor''s travels. On the planet Skaro they intervene to save the pacifist Thals from the evil Daleks. Russell reads with earnest breathlessness, making Ian a sturdy, if querulous, hero. He differentiates other voices adequately, with electronic filtering for the Daleks'' voices. Frequent sound effects and occasional music are sometimes laughable, sometimes effective. The story has both the charms of old-time sci-fi and the flaws, including some nasty xenophobia. But those who overlook the negatives and get into the spirit will find this title fun. W.M. Â© AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5502'),
(2647, 'Doctor Who: Damaged Goods', 'Russell T. Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s continuing investigation of human psi powers brings him to a council estate in Thatcher''s Britain. He discovers that there''s a lethal new batch of cocaine on the streets--and the man who''s dealing it has been dead for two weeks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7919'),
(2648, 'Doctor Who: Dark Progeny', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconstitute it with seed and chemicals to grow crops. Suddenly a dozen babies are born with alien physiology and telekinetic and telepathic powers. The Doctor realizes that an archaeologist has roused up the planet''s long-dead inhabitants. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7437'),
(2649, 'Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is the agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore must die...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas'' world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the population and face certain triumph unless the Doctor betrays all he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of Styles in an attempt to change the course of history... irrevocably.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7568'),
(2650, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Assassin', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     In order to prove his innocence the Doctor must pursue his enemy into the Matrix, a dream-like repository of knowledge formed from the minds of dead Time Lords. However, he quickly discovers that in the Matrix the real assassin rules and behind this enemy lurks the even more deadlier menace of his old adversary - the Master.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7570'),
(2651, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Reunion', 'Terrance Dicks &amp; Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of the Second World War, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - then a young subaltan - was involved in intelligence operations in the Greek islands. But now his problems are rather closer to home. The Doctor and Jo are caught up in mysterious events in a small English village. Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates are ready to rush to the rescue. A sinister cult holds unholy ceremonies and prepares for a day of reckoning. And the Doctor has a shrewd idea who might be behind it all. This might seem like business as usual, but things are not always as they seem. The Brigadier finds himself trying to separate the truth from the lies, and the past from the present. Can he once again help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure - because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7532'),
(2652, 'Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dakhaari, Czhans and Salori are locked in a conflict over the planet of Moriel. When the Hollow Gods decree they must settle their differences, only the Doctor has the necessary tact to arbitrate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8421'),
(2653, 'Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    In this exciting space adventure The Doctor is forced into a desperate race against time...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    An inexplicable power-loss strands the TARDIS on the sinister planet Exxilon where the Doctor meets an expedition from Earth seeking a rare material that can cure the virulent space plague that threatens all human life throughout the galaxy. Nearby, Sarah discovers a mysterious, living Citadel but is captured by the savage Exxilons who prepare her for sacrifice...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must uncover the secrets of the ancient Exxilon City, locate the source of the power-drain, save Sarah and help the Earth expedition. But his plans are threatened by new arrivals on the planet - the Doctor''s oldest and deadliest enemies - The Daleks!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7577'),
(2654, 'Doctor Who: Deceit', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Take Arcadia apart if you have to.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earthâ€™s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Nothing is what it seems to be.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6984'),
(2655, 'Doctor Who: Deep Blue', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. He is surprised to bump into an old friend, the Doctor, who has brought his friends Tegan and Turlough there for a holiday -- a holiday which is short-lived after the crew of the boat Papillon are discovered slaughtered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6353'),
(2656, 'Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen', 'Malcolm Kohll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Chimeron homeworld is attacked by Gavrok and his troops - the Bannermen. The sole survivor is the Chimeron Queen, Delta, who flees carrying with her the last chance for the future of her race...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Mel arrive at a Galactic Tollport, to discover they''ve won a holiday to Disneyland in 1959, alongside a party of disguised alien Navarions. Just before they all depart, the tour is joined by Delta, who travels with them back to Earth...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colliding with an early American satellite, the trip back in time is thrown widely off course. Instead of ending up at Disneyland, the whole party lands instead at the Shangri-La holiday camp in South Wales, 1959.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Mel take full advantage of the holiday camp, entertainment and some vintage rock ''n'' roll. But the Bannermen are tracking Delta, and before long the holiday camp is the scene for a battle that could decide the survival of the Chimeron race - not to mention the survival of all those caught up in the conflict...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8614'),
(2657, 'Doctor Who: Demontage', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Sam and Fitz land on the Vega station, a pleasure center given over to gambling, shopping and the Arts. It hangs on the edge of Battrulian Space, close to the Earth colony''s frontier with the Canvine, huge, wolf-like dog creatures.The Earth colony president is arriving to attend an exhibition of the 3-D reality scans in oil paintings of Toulour Martinique. But the Doctor soon discovers there is more to the paintings than meets the eye. A dark secret is hidden behind the shallow delights of the station, and it seems that it is not only the President who is marked for death but the Doctor and his friends, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5651');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(2658, 'Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Accompanied by the newly regenerated Romana, the Doctor lands on a mystery planet intrigued by the evidence of drilling taking place there, deep underground.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The discoveries he makes are chilling. For the planet is Skaro and the Daleks are in charge of the operation. But just what are his old enemies searching for? And why?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Perhaps the answers lie with the Movellans, a beautiful humanoid race led by Commander Sharrel. They are waging a war of their own with the Daleks and the situation is now stalemate. Should the Doctor tip the balance of power to aid the Daleks'' ultimate destruction? Or are their intentions no less sinister than the Daleks'' themselves?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Suddenly the Doctor finds himself enmeshed in a deadly battle which could result in the destruction of the universe itself as, once more, he summons the strength to face an all too familiar, timelessly evil adversary.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7582'),
(2659, 'Doctor Who: Dinosaur Invasion', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return of these prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and, if so, who can be behind it all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6217'),
(2660, 'Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To most, the entity known as the Celestial Toymaker is an abstract pan-universal force, whose powers, origins and intentions are unknown. To a select few the Toymaker is a god, a being to be worshipped, without whom there would be no existence. But to others, the Toymaker is the embodiment of evil, a force to be thwarted at every possible juncture. Aeons past, the Time Lords of Gallifrey tried to comprehend the Toymaker, and the role this force played in the cosmos. To one group of young Time Lords centuries later, understanding the Toymaker represented a goal, a mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7626'),
(2661, 'Doctor Who: Doctor Who the Colony of Lies', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the ''Realists'' -- has abandoned Ransome''s Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The ''Loyalists'' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet''s first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10727'),
(2662, 'Doctor Who: Dominion', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole originates from there -- but where does it lead to?The time travelers discover a massive military presence in the area. The wormhole is a result of strange experiments in teleport -- but the other end of the time space tunnel is rooted in a bizarre land not even located in our dimension -- the Dominion. And the Dominion itself isn''t under threat from a shapeless, all-pervading blackness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7681'),
(2663, 'Doctor Who: Dragonfire', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who meets Sabalom Glitz at the Space Trading Colony of Iceworld, he decides to join Glitz''s search for hidden treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5593'),
(2664, 'Doctor Who: Dragons&#39; Wrath', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Are the Knights of Jeneve more than legend? Why is the warlord Nusek so desperate to secure Benny''s services? In a world of secret societies, concealed motives and overly elaborate executions, Benny must divine the truth behind the propaganda--or become a footnote in the chronicles of a maniac''s rise to power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5664'),
(2665, 'Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out.Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives?Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5658'),
(2666, 'Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon', 'Paul Leonard &amp; Paul Hinder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , Sam and the Doctor, via different routes because they are still apart, find themselves on a satellite called the Dreamstone Moon. It has come by this name because it is where dreamstone, a substance that allows the dreams of sleepers to be recorded and then played back (or something), is mined. But an artist named Anton finds that the dreamstones only give him nightmares and so determines to go to the moon to find out why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers are unlikely to be impressed with any of the characters here. It is easy to mistakenly believe that the soldier Cleomides is an android since it is the only way to explain her wooden, stilted dialogue and strange actions. The only well-developed character besides Sam is an alien Krakenite named Aloisse (a totally inhuman, cephalopodic sort of creature).\n </p>\n <p>\n  An excellent subplot is the idea that some of the humans cannot see aliens as rational and dependable beings in their own right. This leads to Aloisse being systematically tortured, blinded, and seriously wounded, since the humans simply can''t think of her as a sentient being. This, of course, echoes man''s inhumanity to man--especially where race and color are concerned--and is nicely understated here. The Doctor is probably the only hope they have, but because he is an alien, those in charge cannot see how he can help them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sam spends her time moving from one disaster area to another and encountering a series of hostile environments: it''s amazing that she survives at all. It''s also slightly annoying that she and the Doctor never actually get to meet in the novel--they spend the whole time just missing each other and only actually see each other twice. (I think it was twice--I wasn''t counting!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The biggest problem with\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , however, is that the action (and there is lots of it) is simply not very well handled. Whereas John Peel can write action so that you feel you are watching it on screen, Leonard''s events seem diluted and distant, as if it''s someone telling you about something that happened to a friend some years before.\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  is a little bland in parts. Or it could be that Leonard''s writing simply doesn''t appeal to this reviewer and that others will understand and enjoy the work more.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dreamstone allows people to record and play back their dreams; it can only be found on a certain moon. The Doctor and Sam travel there to prevent its destruction whilst Anton La Serre wants to know why his pleasant dreams have turned into nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6717'),
(2667, 'Doctor Who: Drift', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Screams are carried on the frosty winds, but as the troops break in they find the house deserted. A gunfight with no victims. The Doctor, hoping to give Leela a taste of life among the tribes of Native America, finds he has fractionally misjudged his coordinates, and they too are trapped in the frozen wastes, for he has strangely lost his homing affinity with the TARDIS. In the nearby small town of Winnipesaukee, a little girl called Amber Mailloux, distressed by the disappearance of her father, frustrated with her mother''s roaming, unsettled life, feels almost at one with the heartless, lonely raging of the storm. But none of them know that the snow, the ice is not just a backdrop, but the real enemy. At the heart of the drift is a living presence, glorying in the cold, inhuman structures of the ice. And it''s hungry...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7070'),
(2668, 'Doctor Who: Dying in the Sun', 'Jon De Burgh Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself in Hollywood where a fantastic new movie that''s playing in town is everything each one of its viewers ever wanted from a film. But the ex-fiance of the new movie''s producer thinks the film is evil, and risks her life to prevent its screening. Then a friend of the Doctor''s is found murdered, and his death seems linked to the activities of a secret society, FOCAL. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4829'),
(2669, 'Doctor Who: Earthshock', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and his fellow time-travelers become suspects when they appear at the site of the massacre of a team of paleontologists\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8336'),
(2670, 'Doctor Who: Earthworld', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji novel. The first settlers of New Jupiter were a handful of humans, with androids to help make the planet habitable. Many generations down, the New Jupitan President, John F Hoover, faces a challenge to his hereditary role. His popularity is threatened by the Association for New Jupitan Independence - ANJI - who want to establish New Jupitan Independence. So Hoover has set up an Earth Tneme Park - EarthWorld. It is nearly complete and will enormously boost the planet''s income from off-worlders - and thus the President''s popularity. He has no intention of telling anyone that there are people entering EarthWorld who are mysteriously never seen again. Meanwhile the President has three triplet daughters to succeed him in his hereditary role. Unbeknown to him, they have been tampering with EarthWorld''s androids - but why? And can the Doctor find out before the problems on New Jupiter get out of control?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6459'),
(2671, 'Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala Golightly has been assigned the mission of recovering a devastating weapon that has been accidentally sent back through time. Traced to Wiltshire, 1934, the timer on this weapon is running and if Kala doesn''t recover it before it activates, it will become capable of genetically re-engineering everything that comes into contact with it. In this event, Kala is under orders to detonate a nuclear device that will destroy the entire area.Charles Rigby, resident of the small village of Marpling, discovers the device in his back garden. It is accidentally triggered and takes over some wasps whose nest was nearby. They are transformed into carriers of psionic intelligence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5517'),
(2672, 'Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords are an immensely powerful race, so named because they were the first to discover how to travel freely through time and space. Bored with his life on Gallifrey, the Doctor steals his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) and sets off to explore the universe. He believes passionately in truth and justice, and finds himself getting involved wherever he finds evil and malevolence - which is everywhere! "Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There''s nothing a man - or woman - won''t do for true love." 1812: The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil! 2024: Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel. 5000: Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7069'),
(2673, 'Doctor Who: Empire of Death', 'BBC Worldwide', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England''s most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch''s last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan''s sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric''s ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8415'),
(2674, 'Doctor Who: Endgame', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor''s, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and finds himself caught up in the middle of a dangerous, world-threatening conflict.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7601'),
(2675, 'Doctor Who: Enlightenment', 'Barbara Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an Edwardian yacht and Dr. Who finds himself involved in a strange and deadly race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7021'),
(2676, 'Doctor Who: Escape Velocity', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the first day of the 21st century, and a space race between rival Earth entrepreneurs is underway.Both teams are being aided by an alien race called the Kulan. They were stranded on planet Earth after their scout ship crashed there and, as far as the rival teams are concerned, the Kulan are motivated by a desire to get back to their home planet.What they don''t realize is that in fact the wrecked scout ship was part of a Kulan invasion force, sent ahead of the rest of its fleet to investigate Earth. The Kulan are a ruthless race who invade planets to exploit whatever economic value they contain, and the rest of the fleet is due to arrive in 2001.However, the stranded Kulan need to escape planet Earth''s radio-thick atmosphere to contact the fleet and arrange their rendezvous. Will one of the teams succeed in helping the Kulan to destroy Earth -- or will the Doctor succeed in averting a catastrophic attack?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7947'),
(2677, 'Doctor Who: Eternity Weeps', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 2003 on Earth and mankind faces apocalypse. The Doctor and his companions must find the secrets of an ancient exodus to prevent the Earth being twisted into the image of a long-dead world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8524'),
(2678, 'Doctor Who: Eye of Heaven', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Leela travel back to Victorian times to unravel the mysteries of the Easter Island statues, and solve the conundrum of how nearly 18,000 islanders left their home without using boats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8520'),
(2679, 'Doctor Who: Fallen Gods', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies. With his encouragement she can fly and surf the time streams and see something of the future. But then the demons come. Death and disaster are meted out by the gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5810'),
(2680, 'Doctor Who: Falls the Shadow', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path,â€™ said Tanith. â€˜We are mad, and you are trapped with us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is imprisoned in a house called Shadowfell, where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet Earth.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6196'),
(2681, 'Doctor Who: Father Time', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn''t know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all the imperial family was slaughtered, with the exception of the infant Miranda. Her nanny brought her to Earth, to save her from the atrocities of the Republicans, but the Imperialists are after her too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6888'),
(2682, 'Doctor Who: Fear Itself', 'Nick Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 22nd Century, a few short years of interstellar contact have taught Man a hard lesson: there are powerful, unstoppable, alien forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. It''s a realization that deals a body blow to Man''s belief in his own superiority and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. The fight against alien forces is no job for an amateur, and for a Doctor only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7073'),
(2683, 'Doctor Who: Fear of the Dark', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon''s only moon, searching for evidence of the planet''s infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics -- and help uncover much more than ancient history. Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction. An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point -- and beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5521'),
(2684, 'Doctor Who: Festival of Death', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stuck in the end of a hyperspace tunnel lies a huge, chaotic, space city known as the G-Lock -- the end product of the most terrible intergalactic traffic jam in history. It has now been transformed into a death-themed park, where the major attraction is a death-simulator known as the Beautiful Death. However, the power generated by people enjoying the ride is being diverted to a mysterious destination. A creature called the Repulsion is on the loose, offering resurrection in two hundred year''s time to anyone who will surrender to it, allowing it to exist in the real world. Can the Doctor defeat it, and escape from the G-Lock before the interface between hyperspace and real space collapses?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7057'),
(2685, 'Doctor Who: First Frontier', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Ace raised her blaster. â€˜Youâ€™ve already killed me once, girl,â€™ Kreer said. â€˜Didnâ€™t you learn anything from that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know whatâ€™s going on: the armyâ€™s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6402'),
(2686, 'Doctor Who: Foreign Devils', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font size="-1">\n   China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and ZoÃ« arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and ZoÃ« into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font size="-1">\n   The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6247'),
(2687, 'Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Doctor Who materializes on an alien spaceship, the Monarch commander of the ship, offers to replicate the doctor as an android\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7542'),
(2688, 'Doctor Who: Frayed', 'Tara Samms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.'' On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6938'),
(2689, 'Doctor Who: Frontier Worlds', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why. He discovers that scientists from the Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4527'),
(2690, 'Doctor Who: Frontios', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unexpected meteorite storm forces Doctor Who to crash-land the TARDIS on a colony on a harsh planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7505'),
(2691, 'Doctor Who: Full Circle', 'Andrew Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor discovers the TARDIS has fallen into E-Space, an alternate universe, and landed on the planet Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana find its only inhabitants are living on a vast, crashed spaceship they have been repairing for generations to return to their home planet, Terradon. But Mistfall, a mythical time of terror, is coming again to Alzarius, and an eerie menace is rising out of the misty marshes.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But why have huge poisonous spiders begun to appear in the Alzarian food supply? And what is the secret of the strange marshmen? The Doctor and Romana must solves these riddles and more if they are to have any chance of returning to their own universe.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6364'),
(2692, 'Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Landing near a North Sea gas refinery off the east coast of England, the TARDIS crew are immediately accused of sabotage. Several rig crews have mysteriously Vanished, strange pressure build-ups have been detected, and in the refinery''s pipelines the Doctor can hear the steady, rhythmic beat of - what?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria will find themselves at the unrelenting mercy of one of the deadliest and most terrifying foe they have ever encountered â€” the deadly, parasitic Weed creatures...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4992'),
(2693, 'Doctor Who: Galaxy Four', 'William Emms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Learning that the planet will explode within two days, Doctor Who must decide which of two warring alien species to rescue, the beautiful Drahvins or the repugnant Rills\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7235'),
(2694, 'Doctor Who: Genocide', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6721'),
(2695, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Light', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 1883. At the heart of a Victorian house by the name of Gabriel Chase, lies an alien ship. For millions of years its owner has been asleep, unaware that part of the cargo has evolved into a malevolent creature.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor brings his assistant Ace to the house to face and overcome a terrible fear from her past, he finds himself catapulted into the secrets lying dormant there. Who or what is the alien presence Josiah? What has he done with the real inhabitants of the house? More importantly, of what is Josiah so frightened and can it help the Doctor?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In order to combat Josiah''s evil presence, the Doctor arranges the release of a more powerful entity called Light - the true owner of the alien ship. However, as events unfold the Doctor discovers he may have awoken an even more dangerous adversary. For Light means to destroy every living thing on Earth...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8486'),
(2696, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Ship', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps sensing the Doctor''s deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary in the year 1963. But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672? And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4885'),
(2697, 'Doctor Who: Godengine', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Weâ€™re on Mars, weâ€™re surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Plutoâ€™s moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6148'),
(2698, 'Doctor Who: Grave Matter', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an island named Dorsill, which has recently been bought by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers aren''t suspicious when they notice a few people dying, and attribute it to natural causes. Little do they realize that they are in fact now part of Sheldon''s closed experiment. The Doctor must discover what dark experiments Sheldon is carrying out on the innocent people of Dorsill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5659'),
(2699, 'Doctor Who: Greatest Show in the Galaxy', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace need all their death-defying skills in the big top to uncover a brooding, ancient evil that has broken the spirit of the Psychic Circus and demanded the sacrifice of so many lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8052'),
(2700, 'Doctor Who: Grimm Reality', 'Simon Bucher-Jones &amp; Kelly Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS arrives on a planet inhabited by a lost human colony that is dangerously close to an energy-emitting white hole. The Doctor and his companions are intent on discovering more about the territory, and find it is no ordinary planet. Various visitors contend for control over what will happen to this exotic shape-shifting world in the universe beyond. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6410'),
(2701, 'Doctor Who: Halflife', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose it twice looks like carelessness. The Doctor''s not himself. He''s not quite sure who he is, but he''s definitely not himself. It doesn''t help that he''s forgotten quite why he came to the colony world of Espero in the first place, but he''s sure it was something important. Whatever the reason, he''s not the planet''s only visitor. Before long, he''s engaged in the search for a time-bomb - a time-bomb that could have consequences not only for Espero, but for the Doctor himself - and his missing past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7227'),
(2702, 'Doctor Who: Happiness Patrol', 'Graeme Curry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has heard stories of strange and sinister goings-on on Earth colony Terra Alpha. Citizens have disappeared without trace, and strange creatures lurk in the pipes and sewers under the capital city. Believing it is high time someone got to the bottom of the mystery, the Doctor declares to his young companion Ace that tonight will be the night...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  He discovers that Terra Alpha is ruled by the tyrannical Helen A, a dictator who requires her subjects to be happy... or die. Her roving death squads - the Happiness Patrol - are empowered to kill on sight anyone displaying signs of sadness, gloom or melancholy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   However, it is not just the sadistic Happiness Patrol that the Doctor and Ace must contend with. Before they can discover the dark secret of Helen A''s regime, they must face the fearsome bloodlust of her savage pet, Fifi, and the lethal surprises cooked up by her chief executioner - and confectioner supreme - the Kandy Man.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6847'),
(2703, 'Doctor Who: Happy Endings', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, this is my fiance. Please donâ€™t kill him.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Everybodyâ€™s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8646'),
(2704, 'Doctor Who: Head Games', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deranged version of the Doctor, known as Dr. Who, has broken through a rip in reality and is going round the universe dispensing his own kind of justice. Only the real Doctor knows himself well enough to be able to deal with this threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5873'),
(2705, 'Doctor Who: Heart of Tardis', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What''s more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8422'),
(2706, 'Doctor Who: Heritage', 'Dale Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it''s nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it''s actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor''s got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they''re in the neighbourhood. That''s when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he''s not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor''s around. Whether he wants them to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7439'),
(2707, 'Doctor Who: History 101', 'Mags L. Halliday', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought. Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were ''the Doctor'', ''Anji'' and ''Fitz'' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing ''Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor'' history course.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8517'),
(2708, 'Doctor Who: Hope', 'Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s rather manic attempts to refamiliarise himself with the workings of the TARDIS result in the crew finding themselves stranded on an extremely inhospitable planet, as the TARDIS sinks through the cracking ice it landed on. This is Endpoint, the last planet in a crumbled galaxy, where hairless post-humans scrape out an existence on the noxious, barely habitable surface. In their efforts to persuade someone to resurrect the TARDIS, they encounter the real power on Endpoint, a cyborg named Silver, whose enhanced capabilities and mastery of technology mean he dictates what really happens, not only in the capital city, Hope, but on the entire planet. But he is worried: there is something going on that is beyond even his control. In increasing numbers, people are being killed on the streets of Hope. As the Doctor investigates, he discovers a hidden community below the surface of Endpoint, who are desperate enough to kill...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8384'),
(2709, 'Doctor Who: Human Nature', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Whoâ€™s going to save us this time?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. Heâ€™s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8642'),
(2710, 'Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, "Doctor Who" has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books - over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries - the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor''s new companion Martha Jones and is sure to be snapped up by all fans of the show.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7571');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(2711, 'Doctor Who: Iceberg', 'David Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Depends on how you define alien,â€™ the Doctor said simply. â€˜They were human once.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilization: the inversion of the Earthâ€™s magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Above them, theÂ \n   <i>\n    SS Elysium\n   </i>\n   Â carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4416'),
(2712, 'Doctor Who: Illegal Alien', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring Doctor Who and Ace. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, a silver sphere falls from the sky, and several large, humanoid figures emerge. The Doctor and Ace realize that the sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology, and whatever it contained is now loose in London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6665'),
(2713, 'Doctor Who: Imperial Moon', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on the far side of the moon and the time safe alarm goes off. Inside is a diary kept by a Captain Richard Halliwell, describing his mission from Earth to the Moon -- in the year 1878. The TARDIS returns to 1878 where the Doctor meets up with the expeditions and the remains of the massacred team member are discovered. The Doctor must find the alien creature responsible for the murder and solve why there is no record of Victorian space travel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7418'),
(2714, 'Doctor Who: Independence Day', 'P. Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS lands on the planet Mendeb, where Ace meets a merchant adventurer named Kedin. She falls for him, seduces him -- and then discovers him to be a slave trader. When, horrified, she tries to flee, he feeds her the will-sapping spore drug that turns independent citizens into obedient slaves, and sells her. The Doctor is on a mission to liberate the Mendeb slaves and lead them in revolt against the emperor Vathran -- but can they survive without the support of their generous employers? Meanwhile, Ace finds herself sold into the henads of Kedin''s arch-enemy Vathran, where she learns the reason for Kedin''s slave trading -- Vathran has imprisoned Kedin''s family and is threatening to have them put to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5498'),
(2715, 'Doctor Who: Inferno', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1984, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to act as the Earth is threatened by a poisonous liquid leaking from top-secret drilling project Inferno.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7580'),
(2716, 'Doctor Who: Infinite Requiem', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of history exists a psychically linked race of powerful beings, the Sensopaths. When three of them betray the race''s unity they are scattered back through time as punishment. Can the Doctor save the universe from destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7553'),
(2717, 'Doctor Who: Instrument of Darkness', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tall, thin Albino man, in various guises, appears in different parts of the world where he holds secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe that they are working for the French Secret Service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organization known as the Magnate. They come from all walks of life -- the one thing they have in common is that they are all psychometrically linked to one another.The Doctor is on Earth and alerted to a cult that attracts an array of young, vulnerable people. When the leader of the cult is held responsible for the abduction of a Magnate agent, the Doctor must work out what the connection is -- and find out exactly what plans the Magnate have for planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7629'),
(2718, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book One', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that he entire life had been stage-managed by a time-traveling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn''t it? Now Sam''s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8594'),
(2719, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book Two', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They call it the Dead Frontier. It''s as far from home as the human race ever went -- the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his own past and his own future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the Empire are only just being sown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8593'),
(2720, 'Doctor Who: Into the Silence', 'Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they''ve been dissolved! With the Welsh amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood is on its tail, but it''s moving too fast for them to track it down! This new threat requires a new tactic, so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4892'),
(2721, 'Doctor Who: Island of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4933'),
(2722, 'Doctor Who: Just War', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is March 1941, and Britain''s wartime fortunes are at their nadir. But events are still following the course of history. The Doctor is therefore alarmed to discover that the Nazis are building a superweapon that could end the war overnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6886'),
(2723, 'Doctor Who: Kinda', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A beautiful, paradise planet, Deva Loka. Its inhabitants, the Kinda, are a gentle and seemingly primitive people. On the surface, a perfect place to colonise. But if it is so perfect, why are the colonisation team disappearing one by one?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Unaware of this, the Doctor and his companions choose to rest on Deva Loka. Enchanted by the beautiful Chimes, "the place of dreams", Tegan sleeps and falls prey to the Mara, a malevolent force out to steal her mind. But just what are its ultimate evil intentions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric are captured by the surviving colonisation team''s officers, Sanders and the unstable Hindle. When Sanders disappears, Hindle collapses into a world of paranoid delusions and suddenly the security of the entire base is at risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor rescue Tegan from the Mara and defeat it - before it pushes Hindle over the edge? And who is the mysterious blind woman who appears in visions? Will she help the Doctor or ultimately impede him?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7645'),
(2724, 'Doctor Who: Kursaal', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam travel to a planet being made into a giant pleasure palace. Eco-terrorists are sabotaging the project because the construction crews are destroying the old civilization. The Doctor and Sam get caught up in the turmoil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4529'),
(2725, 'Doctor Who: Last Man Running', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on a jungle planet, the Doctor and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien life form that appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh. But who has created it?A band of humans arrives on the planet in search of something deadly and illegal -- the robot? Or the things that created it?Assuming the Doctor to be involved in the monstrous crimes against nature on the planet, the humans make life difficult for the TARDIS crew -- but who is waiting and watching in the shadows -- and for whose benefit is the arena of peril set up?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8100'),
(2726, 'Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The beautiful village of Culverton is dominated by the presence of the local Aerodrome, closed by recent defence cuts. When several locals disappear, and Spitfire veteran Captain Alec Bainbridge witnesses black-uniformed troops unloading ominous, coffin-like containers from the hangars, he contacts his old friend the Brigadier who promises to investigate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7718'),
(2727, 'Doctor Who: Left-Handed Hummingbird', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. â€˜Mr Lennon?â€™ he said.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London.Â \n  <br />\n  1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico.Â \n  <br />\n  1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York.Â \n  <br />\n  1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him -- but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events ofÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na19.htm">\n   Blood Heat\n  </a>\n  Â andÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na20.htm">\n   The Dimension Riders\n  </a>\n  , the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered -- and a lethal force from South Americaâ€™s prehistory has been released.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Titanic\n   </i>\n   Â as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7224'),
(2728, 'Doctor Who: Legacy', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜So, thatâ€™s an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime -- and sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxyâ€™s most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctorâ€™s instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly -- perhaps too friendly -- with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan -- but for once it isnâ€™t the Doctorâ€™s.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7624'),
(2729, 'Doctor Who: Legacy of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6792'),
(2730, 'Doctor Who: Logopolis', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unabridged reading of the final adventure for the Fourth Doctor, novelized and narrated by Christopher H. Bidmead from his original TV scripts. The meddling presence on Earth of the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, ensures the disruption of normality. Even he is horrified by the threat of total chaos he unintentionally precipitatesâ€”until he finds a way to turn the imminent destruction of the universe to his own advantage. But the cost for the Doctor himself wiill be terrible...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7506'),
(2731, 'Doctor Who: Longest Day', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having landed on the strange planet of Hirath, the Doctor and Sam become separated as they both strive to understand and help the inhabitants of a world where different time zones mean that the planet''s biosphere is out of control and heading for disaster.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6119'),
(2732, 'Doctor Who: Love or War', 'Paul Cornell &amp; Publishing Carol', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord''s plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This time, has the Doctor gone too far?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8647'),
(2733, 'Doctor Who: Loving the Alien', 'Robert Perry &amp; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace''s tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who''s behind it! Against a background of international (and trans-dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7393'),
(2734, 'Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising', 'Jim Mortimore &amp; Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8522'),
(2735, 'Doctor Who: Lungbarrow', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All is not well on Gallifrey. The House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor left his family 673 years ago, has disappeared. In the seventh Doctor''s final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8485'),
(2736, 'Doctor Who: MacRa Terror', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who, Jamie, Ben, and Polly visit an idyllic colony on a remote planet, only to discover it''s being threatened by mysterious forces\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8705'),
(2737, 'Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, a retired Oxford professor wrote a fantasy opus about a world ruled by super-intelligent dogs with hands. After his mysterious disappearance, his wife published the story, sparking a huge industry of sequels and films. The Doctor knew the professor when he first started writing the tale, and knows the story is similar to a real and troubled world. Someone is trafficking contraband otherworldly history, and the Doctor must find out who.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6166'),
(2738, 'Doctor Who: Made of Steel', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   An obscure Government Ministry is blown up, and secret decoding equipment disappears. High-tech equipment is stolen from an army base. Mysterious figures raid an electronics shop, take the new games consoles and then vanish. Could the Cybermen be back?\n  </font>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7636'),
(2739, 'Doctor Who: Marco Polo', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visiting the Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, in 1289, Doctor Who gambles away his space-time ship, the TARDIS, to Kublai Khan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5824'),
(2740, 'Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don''t have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more... Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5655'),
(2741, 'Doctor Who: Match of the Day', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances... It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duelists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers - the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client - Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offense punishable by death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8103'),
(2742, 'Doctor Who: Matrix', 'Robert Perry &amp; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is Victorian London and Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets -- or is it the Doctor?A crystal from the TARDIS'' telepathic circuits has a serious effect on the Doctor''s mind, and Ace finds herself isolated and in danger.What part is the Doctor being forced to play? What is the secret of the 12 shadow-TARDISes which eerily wait in silence for events to play out? Only as Ace runs for her life does she realize that the Doctor is at the mercy of a terrifying force from his own future -- one he may be powerless to stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7394'),
(2743, 'Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who is horrified to discover that his time-travelling machine is stuck on a collision course with a strange alien spaceship\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5610'),
(2744, 'Doctor Who: Meglos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor, Leader of the planet Tigella, rules a divided people. Savants and Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue - the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  To the Savants the Dodecahedron is a miracle of science to be studied, observed and used to benefit Tigellan civilisation. To the Deons it is a god and not to be tampered with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the power supply begins to fluctuate wildly the whole planet is threatened, but the Tigellans cannot agree how they should deal with the problem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor welcomes the arrival of the Doctor and invites him to arbitrate, but the Deons are suspicious of the Time Lord - and perhaps rightly so...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7565'),
(2745, 'Doctor Who: Millennium Shock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world''s computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them. In Britain panic has set in, what can the time-travelling Doctor do to help?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5656'),
(2746, 'Doctor Who: Mission Impractical', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6405'),
(2747, 'Doctor Who: Mission to Magnus', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    ''Did I hear "Doctor"? Is it the Doctor I have drawn to me?'' The laugh became more strident, forcing the Doctor to thrust his fingers into his ears in panic and close his eyes, as if here were a frightened child.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor''s transformation into a cringing coward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The takeover of the TARDIS by the school bully from the class of the fourth millennium on Gallifrey is only the first of the Doctor''s problems. On the surface of the planet Magnus more of his old enemies are conspiring to trick the planet''s all-female rulers; the Doctor and Peri have to foil a plot to freeze the entire world and wipe out most of the population.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6949'),
(2748, 'Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Stranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched - the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it''s too late - but will the Daleks find him first?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6788'),
(2749, 'Doctor Who: Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7635'),
(2750, 'Doctor Who: Night of the Humans', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 250,000 years'' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There''s a comet in the sky, and it''s on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it''s up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7713'),
(2751, 'Doctor Who: Nightdreamers', 'Tom Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Perihelion Night on the wooded moon Verd. A time of strange sightings, ghosts, and celebration before the morn, when Lord Esnic marries the beautiful Lady Ria. However, Ria has other ideas, and flees through the gravity wells which dot the moon to meet with her true love, Tonio. When the Doctor and Jo arrive on Verd, drawn down by the fluctuating gravity, they find themselves involved in the unpredictable events of Perihelion.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But what of the mysterious and terrifying Nightdreamers?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And of the Nightdreamer King?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6094'),
(2752, 'Doctor Who: Nightshade', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7721'),
(2753, 'Doctor Who: No Future', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜This time, anarchyâ€™s real. There are power cuts and Wilsonâ€™s resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now thereâ€™s real fear too. Real panic. And thatâ€™s not how itâ€™s supposed to be.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Somebody has been toying with the Doctorâ€™s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 -- where reality has been altered once again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bennyâ€™s the lead singer in a punk band. Ace canâ€™t talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so sheâ€™s made murderous plans of her own. The Doctorâ€™s alone -- he doesnâ€™t know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As usual, itâ€™s up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he canâ€™t even protect himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8644'),
(2754, 'Doctor Who: Nuclear Time', 'Oli Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My watch is running backwards.Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the DoctorAs death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctors own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs outA thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5277'),
(2755, 'Doctor Who: Oh No It Isn&#39;t', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s former companion, Bernice Summerfield, has found a new job at St Oscar''s University. Whilst on a field trip to Perfecton she is attacked by a reality warping missile. Bernice must be at her best to solve the problems that this creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8640'),
(2756, 'Doctor Who: Only Human', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor looks and seems human. He''s handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But the Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900-year-old alien with two hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered Time Travel. Brace yourself for some exhilarating experiences and deadly confrontations across time and space. The human race will survive - but only with the Doctor''s help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4800'),
(2757, 'Doctor Who: Option Lock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On contemporary Earth, the Doctor and Sam discover an ancient secret society is trying to start a nuclear war. An optical mystery compounds their confusion and the mysterious US-owned Station Nine brings further problems for them to resolve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5657'),
(2758, 'Doctor Who: Original Sin', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is arrested and sentenced to death by Adjudicators, the police of the thirtieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4387'),
(2759, 'Doctor Who: Pack Animals', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The seventh novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Shopping for wedding gifts with your fiance is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping centre. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it''s no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population. Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4526'),
(2760, 'Doctor Who: Palace of the Red Sun', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Sixth Doctor novel with Peri Brown Interstellar tyrant Glavis Judd has usurped the royal family of the world-kingdom Esselven, with intergalactic freelance reporter Dexel Dynes close behind him, faithfully advising the universe of Judd''s humanitarian ''liberations''. However, Judd''s ambitions for complete conquest are thwarted, as the royal family have escaped the planet just before his arrival, taking with them - in their genetic make-up - the keys to vital archives and systems essential to Esselven''s governance. In another time and place, the Doctor and Peri have landed in an exquisitely kept ornamental garden, peopled by strange playful creatures, and wild roaming ''scavengers''. This, it turns out, is the Esselvanian royal retreat, a small planetoid where the monarch could relax and recuperate. It is also where Judd strongly suspects they have escaped to now. Determined to avenge his humiliation on Esselven, Judd attacks the planetoid, only to find that, in the year it had taken him to track the family down, things have moved on much quicker than he could have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7421'),
(2761, 'Doctor Who: Paradise Towers', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Built towards the end of the twenty-first century, Paradise Towers is a massive housing block, stretching up towards the sky. With its beautiful decor, smart apartments, fantastic facilities and high standards of maintenance, it is hardly surprising that the architect, Kroagnon, won many professional awards.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Mel wants to go swimming and as the TARDIS pool has been jettisoned due to a leak, Paradise Towers seems to fit the bill. However, when she and the Doctor arrive, instead of the bright squares and charming cloisters the brochure promised, they find dark, rat-infested corridors full of uncontrollable cleaning machines, undisciplined street gangs and over-worked and belligerent caretakers, some of whom are disappearing in mysterious circumstances.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     What has caused such terrible decay? How could such perfect accommodation have become so run down and dangerous? And why do the street-wise Kangs, apathetic caretakers, sinister Rezzies and Pex - the self-appointed warrior who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights - all fear whatever terrible force dwells in the basement? Only the unpredictable Chief Caretaker knows what is down there - and the real secret behind the disappearances...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8051'),
(2762, 'Doctor Who: Parallel 59', 'Natalie Dallaire &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an outpost in space begins to break up, with the TARDIS crew aboard, escape is only possible in tiny life-capsules. Fitz is bundled unconscious into one, while the Doctor and Compassion take another. Steering the capsule back to its planet of origin to try and get help, the Doctor finds a hostile welcome awaits. Fitz''s capsule takes him to the apparent safety of the colony of Mechta. The Doctor decrees that Fitz''s new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8393'),
(2763, 'Doctor Who: Parasite', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Change, Benny. Itâ€™s the most terrifying thing of all.â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜And thatâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to you, is it, Doctor?â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜Itâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to all of us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has arrived in the Elysium system, lost colony of distant Earth and site of the Artifact: a world turned inside out, a world of horrific secrets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a century scientists have studied the ecosystem flourishing within the Artifact. Now the system is in collapse and even the humans trapped inside are changing into something new and strange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the members of one expedition murdered, those of another fighting for their lives and a solar system on the brink of civil war, can the Doctor, Ace and Benny survive a journey to the heart of the Artifact in their search for the truth?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8521'),
(2764, 'Doctor Who: Peacemaker', 'James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for ''the healer''. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who''s patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8556'),
(2765, 'Doctor Who: Placebo Effect', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber''s World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company''s secrets?Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber''s World, are a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor''s hands are too full to pay their threat full attention.This is another in the series of adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam which reintroduces the Wirrrn from the 1975 television adventure The Ark in Space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7631');
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(2766, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Fire', 'Peter Grimwade &amp; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor''s is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is Turlough''s link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn''s mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5608'),
(2767, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Giants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS lands in England in 1963, Doctor Who and his companions are confronted by gigantic insects who are dying from exposure to DN6, a pesticide with the power to destroy all life forms\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7641'),
(2768, 'Doctor Who: Players', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor and Peri. Suspecting mysterious forces at work behind the scenes, the Doctor determines to keep a close eye on Churchill''s career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7575'),
(2769, 'Doctor Who: Prime Time', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programs of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6662'),
(2770, 'Doctor Who: Psi-Ence Fiction', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Feynman College receives a grant for parapsychology research to be done by devious Barry Hitchens. During a routine test, he identifies five students who have genuine gifts. The students hold a seance at the site of a murder and one of the girls dies under mysterious circumstances. The Doctor arrives to attend a lecture on time travel, and is mistaken for Hitchens and finds himself drawn into the eerie events at the college. (Available in October.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8101'),
(2771, 'Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For many thousands of years the Suthekh had waited, trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up malice would be unleashed upon the world, had come. The TARDIS lands on the site of Unit headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The British actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England. At age 15, Baker left school to become a monk with the Brothers of Ploermel on the island of Jersey. Six years later, he abandoned the monastic life and performed his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he became interested in acting. He attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship. Baker acted in repertory theaters around Britain until the late 1960s when he joined up with the National Theatre. Baker was working as a laborer at a building site when he landed the role of the main character in the popular, long-running British television series "Doctor Who" (1963), which brought him international fame and popularity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7578'),
(2772, 'Doctor Who: Rags', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Third Doctor, Jo and Unit novel. In Dartmoor, a punk band get into a fight with a group of rich and rowdy young students, whose Range Rover crashes into their car. The groups are spurred on to insane acts of violence by a mysterious force, and the punk band singer hears a voice in his head which directs him towards a rusty knife buried in the ground. Murder ensues and blood soaks into the rock. It is much later on that a creature emerges from the bloody rock, greedily anticipating the chaos that it plans to cause...The Tardis alerls the Doctor to an incongruous energy fluctuation in the southwest of England. There, he finds himself part of the audience of one of the band''s gigs, and their anarchic music is attracting an ever-growing convoy of violent disciples. What is the dormant force that has been awakened, and what are its destructive aims? How many more people must suffer a brutal death before the Doctor can halt the bloody trail of the convoy?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8386'),
(2773, 'Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history. The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter? From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher -- until reality itself is threatened.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7679'),
(2774, 'Doctor Who: Relative Dementias', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Seventh Doctor novel with Ace. After the end of the interstellar Tulkan wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony. Their weapons, advanced slavery devices and planet destroying armaments in development, hidden in a secret cache before the end of the war, are bound to remain secret forever, the access codes to their stasis chamber wiped with the Tulk''s memories. But in an old people''s home in Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Brunner, Unit scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimers patients, has noticed disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate. What he and Ace find goes beyond disturbing, with campers murdered, the denizens of the home wired up to some sort of enormous calculating machine, and Ace being followed around by a mysterious figure, always remaining just beyond the edges of vision. They receive help from Annarenes, members of a race devoted to keeping the Tulkan menace down, but help from any quarter has to be regarded with utmost suspicion. Nothing, here, is sure to be what it soems...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7228'),
(2775, 'Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London, 1963. The seventh Doctor returns - with his new companion Ace - to tackle some unfinished business.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Once again, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and Totters, Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology - technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor, even with the help of the local military, stop the Daleks from stealing Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things even more complicated?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation with the fate of the entire Universe at stake!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4715'),
(2776, 'Doctor Who: Return of the Living Dad', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Benny returns to the TARDIS to follow up a clue to the whereabouts of a father who disappeared when she was a child. The trail leads to England in the year 1983 and to Admiral Isaac Summerfield who is leading a crew of aliens. Can Benny trust the man for w.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7223'),
(2777, 'Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7603'),
(2778, 'Doctor Who: Revolution Man', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Sam and Fitz, and set in the Swinging London of 1968. The TARDIS crew are investigating an anarchist group utilizing a drug that seems of an extraterrestrial nature, and how it connects to a series of bizarre, violent events world-wide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6719'),
(2779, 'Doctor Who: Ribos Operation', 'Ian Marter &amp; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and K-9 Mark 2 are sent on a mission by the immensely powerful White Guardian. The six segments of the Key to Time, currently disguised and scattered throughout the cosmos, need to be brought together. Once assembled, the Key will allow the Guardian to restore balance and good to a universe that is descending into evil and chaos. It will also thwart the plans of the fearsome Black Guardian!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  As if accepting such a daunting task wasn''t enough, the Guardian appoints a new young assistant for the Doctor, Romadvoratrelundar - or Romana for short. Fresh out of the Time Lord Academy, the 140-year-old Romana is confident that their mission will be easy and, if the Doctor can curb his irrational behaviour, can be rapidly completed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Using a special Tracer, the TARDIS locates the first segment on the feudal planet of Ribos, where two inter-galactic criminals are using a lump of Jethryk as bait in a plot to trick a visiting nobleman into buying the planet - which is not theirs to sell. The Doctor finds himself drawn into the con-men''s fiendish plan while Romana has to confront the monstrous Shrievenzale...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8302'),
(2780, 'Doctor Who: Rip Tide', 'Louise Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unsettling things are afoot in a sleepy Cornish village. Strangers are hanging about the harbor and a mysterious object is retrieved from the sea bed. Then the locals start getting sick. Could this have anything to do with the alluringly beautiful Ruth who local lifeboatman Steve has taken a shine to...or could the other stranger, a man calling himself the Doctor, be somehow involved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7812'),
(2781, 'Doctor Who: Risk Assessment', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?'' Agnes Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it''s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they''re losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it''s down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they''ll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7434'),
(2782, 'Doctor Who: Robots of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. On board the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  This is a society that is dependant on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot''s programming. So when one of the miner crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the prime murder suspects. But the Doctor soon realises that perhaps the killer isnâ€™t human. More deaths occur â€” can he persuade the remaining crewmembers that the killer may be a robot?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7642'),
(2783, 'Doctor Who: Salvation', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical. What are the strangers'' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor''s non-interventionist principles are tested to their limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5881'),
(2784, 'Doctor Who: Sanctuary', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    The Doctor pointed at Bernice. â€˜The wenchâ€™s mind is addled,â€™ he said. â€˜Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the hereticsâ€™ fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6394'),
(2785, 'Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Kennet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don''t like going out onto the streets at night, they don''t like making too much noise, and they certainly don''t like strangers asking too many questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth? While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up to date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8641'),
(2786, 'Doctor Who: Seeing I', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book''s 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and the Doctor spend three years being unable to meet up due to the fact that the Doctor has been locked up in an inescapable prison for the crime of trying to locate his companion using somewhat unorthodox methods. Sam in the meantime becomes a quasi-ecoterrorist seeking to undermine the controlling techno-company on the planet. It''s this same organization that holds the Doctor, and it isn''t until Sam finds his details on a file pirated from the company that they get to finally meet, after almost three whole books spent apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s not explained quite how Sam knows this is the Doctor (presumably there was a photo) since he was going under the name of Doctor Bowman, but within a few pages she manages to break into the prison and rescue him. Bang. All over in a flash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then the rest of the plot kicks in. The company has been using eye-implant technology, which the Doctor has realized is alien to this culture at this time. The trouble is traced to a Gallifreyan mind control device, which is supplying power to the company. Furthermore, this device has been "seeded" on the planet by an insectoid race of aliens called the I so that they may come along later and harvest whatever use the indigenous population have made of the technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is a curious mixture of well-written character pieces and a paper-thin plot designed only to achieve the objective of forcing the characters to develop. The authors have decided to push against the general trend of the BBC''s range and to present a work that only just manages to stand alone in its own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like talk, internal angst, and uncertainty as opposed to action, plot, and adventure, this novel is doubtless going to please you. For those who prefer a more traditional WHO yarn, you''d be better off starting elsewhere.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5811'),
(2787, 'Doctor Who: Set Piece', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship''s are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don''t work out as planned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7220'),
(2788, 'Doctor Who: Shadowmind', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, this first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels will continue where the 1989 TV series left off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7415'),
(2789, 'Doctor Who: Shakedown', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontaransâ€™ secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfieldâ€™s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7560'),
(2790, 'Doctor Who: Shell Shock', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is washed up -- literally -- on an alien beach with only intelligent crabs and a madman for company. How can he possible rescue Peri who was lost at sea the same time as he and the TARDIS? But Peri has problems of her own. ''Rescued'' from drowning by an intelligent sponge growth, she has been adopted by the life form as its own personal God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7068'),
(2791, 'Doctor Who: Ship of Fools', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Krytell, the wealthy head of a hugely powerful interplanetary corporation, asks Benny to do an unofficial and somewhat shady job, the benefits are immediately apparent, or are they? On board a luxurious cruise-liner, wealthy fellow travelers begin dropping dead like flies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8423'),
(2792, 'Doctor Who: Sick Building', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tiermann''s World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won''t protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6170'),
(2793, 'Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis', 'Kevin Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Launched into space 350 years ago, a meteor is returning to Earth--and insideit waits Nemesis, a silver statue made of the living metal validium, the mostdangerous substance in the Universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4478'),
(2794, 'Doctor Who: Sky Pirates!', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Benny are on a cruise with a difference - through skies populated by evil, parasitic, shape-changing monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8420'),
(2795, 'Doctor Who: Skypoint', 'Phil Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It''s the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it''s where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint''s latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6164'),
(2796, 'Doctor Who: Sleepy', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor arrives at Yemaya 4, he falls prey to a virus sweeping through the population, which unleashes latent psychic powers and something more sinister. The Doctor must face the Dione-Kismu Corporation, who will go to any lengths to cover up the s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7221'),
(2797, 'Doctor Who: Slow Decay', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. The series stars Captain Jack Harkness, last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8702'),
(2798, 'Doctor Who: Slow Empire', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Slow Empire''s advanced and complex technology is helping the Vortex Wraiths to materialize. The Empire''s pride in its advanced communications systems has invited in a menace that could mean the end of the confederation altogether. But, as the Doctor discovers, this may be no bad thing...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8417'),
(2799, 'Doctor Who: Snakedance', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The evil Mara gains control of the mind of Dr. Who''s associate, Tegan, and plans to use her in starting a reign of terror on the planet Manussa\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7564'),
(2800, 'Doctor Who: So Vile a Sin', 'Ben Aaronovitch &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The longest wunning science fiction TV series, Dr. Who has delighted fans on both sides of the Atlantic since 1963. Now, the New Adventures series, original, full-length novels which continue the Doctor''s travels in time, presents So Vile a Sin, which culminates in the final confrontation between Dr. Who and the psi-powered Brotherhood, and marks the departure of the Doctor''s companion, Roz Forrester.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4716'),
(2801, 'Doctor Who: Something in the Water', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Bob Strong''s GP surgery has being seeing a lot of coughs and colds recently - far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob contacts Owen Harper, an old student friend, who reluctantly agrees to look into it. Meanwhile, Toshiko and Gwen are investigating ghostly apparitions in the marshy areas of South Wales. It''s been a dull month and they''re just about to pack up when they discover a dead body. The Team find that there''s been a massive spike in respiratory infections right across the UK. Captain Jack agrees that it''s worth investigating, but at the moment his priority is Tosh and Gwen''s work: they''ve brought the corpse back for examination. It''s old, in an advanced state of decay...and still able to talk!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5520'),
(2802, 'Doctor Who: Sometime Never', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5649'),
(2803, 'Doctor Who: Sontaran Experiment', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 10,000 years hence and life has been extinguished - or has it?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry find themselves in the Piccadilly Circus of the future where the mysterious alien in the rocks rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the Doctor bumps into an old enemy... and finds himself part of a lethal experiment...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8300'),
(2804, 'Doctor Who: Space Age', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5878'),
(2805, 'Doctor Who: Space War', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its cargo vessels are being raided by the other''s warships.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship is boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and Jo see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor''s investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and then to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects the scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he is shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe waiting in the wings...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6215'),
(2806, 'Doctor Who: Spiral Scratch', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He''s never heard of such a thing. Mel on the other hand has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she''s never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers are watching every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? Just as Mel thinks she''s got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family to challenge everything she believes to be real...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7625'),
(2807, 'Doctor Who: St. Anthony&#39;s Fire', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜No time. They have come. They have come at last.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Bernice visit Betrushia, a planet famous for its beautiful ring system. They soon discover that the rain-drenched jungles are in turmoil. A vicious, genocidal war is raging between the lizard-like natives. The ground itself is wracked by mysterious earthquakes. And an unknown force is moving inexorably forwards, devastating everything in its path.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace wanted out; sheâ€™s resting on a neighbouring world. But from the outer reaches of space, a far greater threat is approaching Betrushia, and even Ace may find it impossible to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor must save the people of Betrushia from their own terrible legacy before the wrath of St Anthonyâ€™s Fire is visited upon them all.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7719'),
(2808, 'Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The TARDIS lands the Doctor and Martha in the Lake District in 1909, where a small village has been terrorised by a giant, scaly monster. The search is on for the elusive "Beast of Westmorland," and explorers, naturalists and hunters from across the country are descending on the fells. King Edward VII himself is on his way to join the search, with a knighthood for whoever finds the Beast. But there is a more sinister presence at work in the Lakes than a mere monster on the rampage, and the Doctor is soon embroiled in the plans of an old and terrifying enemy. And as the hunters become the hunted, a desperate battle of wits begins - with the future of the entire world at stake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7881'),
(2809, 'Doctor Who: Stones of Blood', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that every time the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids - dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic - who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7538'),
(2810, 'Doctor Who: Storm Harvest', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the original population to die out, but tales of vicious monsters proliferate.An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6663'),
(2811, 'Doctor Who: Strange England', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no denying the enormous popularity of Dr. Who, time traveler extraordinaire, or the multi-volume series that showcases his exploits. In Strange England, a rural paradise turns into a world of nightmare when the Tardis crew arrives. Are they responsible, or is some more deadly force at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8061'),
(2812, 'Doctor Who: Sunmakers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing mankind to colonise first Mars, and then Pluto...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by a series of artificial suns. But access to the sunlight is limited to a select few... The majority of the citizens of the vast Megropolis cities are being overworked and overtaxed by the ruling elite, led by the Gatherer, and the sinister Collector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive, and discover that all is not well on Pluto. The human population is being totally exploited, whilst deep in the Undercity, a small band of rebels seeks to overthrow the mysterious ''Company'' that controls all aspects of everyday life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the evil corporate rulers of Pluto. And their taxes...!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7599'),
(2813, 'Doctor Who: Superior Beings', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Rocosia consists of nothing but immaculately-cultivated plant life, which propagates and cultivates itself -- there are no mammals, insects, aquatic or avian creatures living there. So the plants seem to exist for no apparent ecological reason, but visitors to the planet are soon distracted from the enigma by the dazzling beauty of the gardens.One night, Peri spots a strange, multi-limbed creature picking fruit from one of the trees, and she decides to follow it. She gets lost though, and ends up attacked by a Decimator, a vicious, thorny plant. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a humanoid fox in tight-fitting leather who is clearly very excited about eating her...Meanwhile the Doctor finds Rocosia in a state of chaos as the Decimators appear in force and embark upon systematic destruction of the entire planet. The Doctor is rescued by the Valethske -- the creatures holding Peri captive. What are the Valethske doing on Rocosia and why are the Decimatorstrying to destroy the planet? And will the Doctor and Peri be able to escape before the entire planet is consumed by fire?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7678'),
(2814, 'Doctor Who: Survival', 'Rona Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor takes Ace back home to Perivale so she can catch up with her old friends. But Perivale has changed, the old gang has split up, and some of them have vanished without trace. They are not the only ones - West London is plagued by unexplained disappearances.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Before long the mysterious kidnappers make themselves known. A race of galactic hunters called the Cheetah people have found a way to transport themselves to Earth - and the entire human race is their prey. They have been shown the doorway to the planet by an old foe of the Doctor, a bitter and desperate enemy who needs the Doctor''s help to free him from a diabolic enchantment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Doctor tries to unravel the mystery, Ace finds some of her old friends, trapped on the savage and beautiful world of the Cheetah People. But the only way she can lead them to safety is to allow herself to succumb, like so many before her, to the curse of the planet. The Doctor realises that Ace''s new powers will provide the only route home, but it will mean the sacrifice of her humanity to the most bestial and dark side of human nature...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7098'),
(2815, 'Doctor Who: Synthespians', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and on Reef Station One, Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners. But an ancient, dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvelous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic''s greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor''s oldest enemies. If they can''t unravel the link between the two, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6152'),
(2816, 'Doctor Who: Talons of Weng-Chiang', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   n this feature-length adventure set deep in the darkest heart of Victorian London, the Doctor and Leela are confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific events.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  An innocent cabbie is viciously slain by the agents of a secret Chinese cult; young women disappear quietly and suddenly; in the depths below, the rankest sewers are infested by giant, deadly abominations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, helped only by the local pathologist Professor Litefoot and the cowardly Henry Jago, finds himself battling for his life against the hideously deformed Magnus Greel, who pretends to be the ancient Chinese God, Weng-Chiang. But Greel is not the only menace; the Doctor must also deal with the illusionist Li H''sen Chang and the murderous dwarf Mr Sin before Leela falls prey to the Talons of Weng-Chiang.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7639');
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(2817, 'Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth''s bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire''s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7883'),
(2818, 'Doctor Who: Tenth Planet', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6209'),
(2819, 'Doctor Who: Terminus', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sabotage to Doctor Who''s time machine causes the area around it to become dimensionally unstable and makes Nyssa disappear without a trace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6754'),
(2820, 'Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Time Lords have brought the Doctor to trial, accusing him of gross interference in the affairs of other planets. If he is found guilty he must forfeit all his remaining regenerations.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In his defence the Doctor tells of an adventure set on board the Hyperion III space liner in his future. Answering a distress call, the Doctor and Mel arrive on the liner just as a series of grisly murders begins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Who is behind the murders? Do the enigmatic Mogarians have anything to do with them? Who sent the distress call to the TARDIS? And what hideous menace lies waiting in the Hydroponic Centre?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4444'),
(2821, 'Doctor Who: The Adventures of Henrietta Street', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the outer reaches of the universe, where human consciousness cannot reach, time goes "soft", allowing mankind to meets its own animal and subconscious limitations in the form of the brutal baboon-like Beast. In London, and all major cities of the Napoleonic era, covens of witches are using ancient techniques to attain time-consciousness. Perceiving time in a new way, they call on the Beast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8592'),
(2822, 'Doctor Who: The Algebra of Ice', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Edgar Allen Poe lies dying in a gutter in Baltimore... The Doctor and Ace cannot help him - his death has already happened. Poe will be taken to a hospital, and will die in three days time without ever coming out of his coma. But even as the Doctor explains this, the man in the gutter groans and expires. Bewildered, the Doctor hurries Ace back to the TARDIS. At the door, they look back and see that the gutter is empty. In a moment, Poe staggers around the corner, drops to his knees in the gutter, then gets up and stumbles into another bar... Can the Doctor discover what is causing the time anomaly? Will he be able to prevent the universe itself from unraveling when everyone seems to have turned against him - even the TARDIS? Will he be able to escape the cold hell of absolute order? The answer, it seems, lies in the algebra of ice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5634'),
(2823, 'Doctor Who: The Also People', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Just how technologically advanced are they?â€™ The Doctor frowned. â€˜Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the clocest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what sheâ€™s always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4718'),
(2824, 'Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a recovery capsule sent to rescue some astronauts returns to Earth empty but radioactive, the Doctor becomes involved in solving the puzzle of the missing astronauts and alien invaders\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7563'),
(2825, 'Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell', 'Peter Anghelides &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4528'),
(2826, 'Doctor Who: The Ark', 'Paul Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who travels ten million years into the future just in time to join up with the Space Ark, which is taking the doomed Earth''s remaining humans to their new home on the planet Refusis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8477'),
(2827, 'Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world''s starving millions - but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realizes an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano? Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor are soon elevating survival to an art form - as ancient, alien hands practice arts of destruction all around them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7885'),
(2828, 'Doctor Who: The Awakening', 'Eric Pringle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has promised Tegan that they will visit her grandfather in the English village of Little Hodcombe, in the year 1984. But evil lurks in the village''s ancient church, and a historical re-enactment soon takes on a dangerous dimension for the Doctor and his friends. This is an exciting unabridged adventure, first published by Target Books in 1985.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7266'),
(2829, 'Doctor Who: The Aztecs', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who and his companions become prisoners of the Aztecs, he must find a way for them to escape and reach the TARDIS, which is sealed within a tomb\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5822'),
(2830, 'Doctor Who: The Banquo Legacy', 'Andy Lane &amp; Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Middletown in 1889 is a small mining village -- but the local mine is about to be closed down. In an attempt to avoid this catastrophe, the owner, Lord Urton built a huge dam across the river to reduce flooding in a promising area of the mine, but to no avail.However, little does he realise that the construction of the dam has disturbed something that was lying dormant in the earth. Something that is now stirring into life...Strange events are afoot, with local deaths that appear to be caused by lightning strikes. Except that the soles of the victims'' feet are burned black.It''s up to the Doctor to find out what mysterious forces have been unleashed. Perhaps the stranger in town, Nepath, who wants to buy the mine from Lord Urton, can shed some light on the matter...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8701'),
(2831, 'Doctor Who: The Blue Angel', 'Paul Magrs &amp; Jeremy Hoad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tyneside is reverting to an Ice wilderness. Three elderly women have come out shopping, accompanied by Icarus -- an orphaned boy who Maddy Sharp found on the beach. She thinks he is an angel -- the son the lost, returned to her. But he claims to be the cause of the dreadful weather...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6169'),
(2832, 'Doctor Who: The Bodysnatchers', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1895, the place, London. Amid the fog and cold, a gang of bodysnatchers is at work. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the gruesome goings-on, and discovers that the Zygons have returned to Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6351'),
(2833, 'Doctor Who: The Book of the Still', 'Paul Ebbs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence. The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers -- write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it. Fitz knows where it is, but then he''s the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she''s the one who''s stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn''t know where anybody is. Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6599'),
(2834, 'Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor and Sarah arrive on the desolate planet of Karn amid a graveyard of crashed space-ships. As they explore they come to a ruin and are welcomed by Professor Solon and his strange servant Condo. Solon is seemingly the perfect host but his underground laboratory holds a hideous secret... Morbius, exiled Time Lord, greatest criminal mind in the galaxy and long presumed dead, is not entirely dead, and Solon is in the process of bringing him back to life.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The only other inhabitants are the ancient sect of the Sisterhood of Karn who are out to avenge themselves against the Time Lords. Can the Doctor prevent the evil Morbius from regaining absolute power or will he be sacrificed by the Sisterhood?\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7638'),
(2835, 'Doctor Who: The Burning', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5665'),
(2836, 'Doctor Who: The Cabinet of Light', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Where is the Doctor? Everyone is hunting him. Honore Lechasseur, a time sensitive ''fixer, '' is hired by mystery woman Emily Blandish to find him. Lechasseur discovers that the Doctor is, in fact, a semi-mythical figure who has appeared off and on throughout Earth''s history. But what is his connection with London in 1949? And why is a mysterious group seeking ''the cabinet of light'' -- a device somehow connected with the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6197'),
(2837, 'Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on the planet Androzani Minor, Doctor Who and his new assistant, Peri, are caught between fierce gun runners, merciless Federation soldiers, and an android army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7643'),
(2838, 'Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker', 'Gerry Davis &amp; Alison Bingeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in a strange domain where the Doctor, Steven and Dodo meet the Toymaker. The Toymaker is the mysterious, immortal entity who rules this fantastic realm. He forces them to play a succession of games in return for their freedom.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has to solve the complex trilogic game while Steven and Dodo must win at a series of seemingly child-like but ever more deadly games.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6207'),
(2839, 'Doctor Who: The Chase', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Daleks are closing in on the Doctor in a chase through both the universe and through time itself. For having created their own time machine, the Daleks are able to pursue the TARDIS from the planet of Aridius, on to the Empire State Building in 1966, on to the Marie Celeste in 1872 and even on into a haunted house within someone''s nightmare.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Recognising that he must force a resolution to this desperate chase through time, the scene is set for a confrontation between the Time Lord and his most feared enemy on the jungle planet of Mechanus.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6793'),
(2840, 'Doctor Who: The City of the Dead', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fitz, Anji, and the Doctor are in New Orleans in 2000 to relax, but find the city is a center for the occult as practitioners converge on an ancient graveyard. The Doctor is also having strange dreams of something is seeking him out. A bone artifact found on board the TARDIS may be the key to a chain of murders, but can the Doctor and his companions discover the true source of the evil? Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5636'),
(2841, 'Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5648'),
(2842, 'Doctor Who: The Crooked World', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence. Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there''s Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that''s just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn mouse doesn''t jam his tail into the plug socket again. But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything -- and it''s possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again. The Doctor''s TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That''s all folks!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5875'),
(2843, 'Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   The Doctor and Ace are put to the ultimate test when the TARDIS dematerializes in Second World War England at a top â€“ secret naval base.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The army church, built on Viking graves, bears inscriptions calling for the wolves of Fenric to return for their treasure. Thereafter evil will reign... Even as the Doctor translates the words hideous corpses rise up from the sea, the evil Fenric now free to summon his wolves to a killing rampage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the stand against Fenric, only the Doctor can play the final moves...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5592'),
(2844, 'Doctor Who: The Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A mysterious virus is wrecking havoc among the crew of the Earth''s weather control station on the moon. While investigations into the strange disease are in progress, International Space Headquarters Earth puts the entire Moonbase into strict quarantine - the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie included!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   To take matters worse, the personnel of the Moonbase inexplicably vanish, and vital weather control equipment is sabotaged. Who is responsible? The Director of the base suspects the time-travellers. But the Doctor fears a ruthless enemy from his own past responsible... that the evil Cybermen have returned...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6211'),
(2845, 'Doctor Who: The Dalek Factor', 'Simon Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Thal platoon arrive on a hostile planet investigating reports that Dalek artifacts have been detected, they are unprepared for what they find. In an underground room is a stranger, a Professor, or so he claims, with no member of who he is or why he is there, With death and horror their only companions, the Thals make their way with the Professor into the heart of a crumbling Dalek citadel in search of answers-only to find that the Daleks are the least of the horrors they must face. The Dalek Factor is the last of the licensed Telos "Doctor Who" novellas to be published. Copies of all available editions will continue to be available from Telos Publishing until the end of June 2004.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6228'),
(2846, 'Doctor Who: The Deadstone Memorial', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is no such thing as a good night. Maybe, as you fall asleep, you can hide away in dreams. Or so you''d like to think. Because, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And bad dreams are a glimpse into the real world - where the monsters are. And the things in your nightmares that are worse than monsters: the creeping black memories that can bring fear and pain and blood. Even here, today, tonight ... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike. An old man will tell his last ghost story... A young family will encounter a deathless horror... And the Doctor and his friends will uncover the terrible secret of the Deadstone Memorial.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5524'),
(2847, 'Doctor Who: The Death of Art', 'Simon Bucher-Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1880s France, Doctor Who and his companions find themselves caught up in the desperate internal power struggle of a clandestine brotherhood. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6409'),
(2848, 'Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Novrosk Peninsula, the Soviet naval base, has been abandoned, and the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5650'),
(2849, 'Doctor Who: The Devil Goblins From Neptune', 'Keith Topping &amp; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The human race stands at a worrying political crossroads. UNIT is up to its ears in alien sightings, reporting of UFOs and threats from other worlds - and for good reason - the devil goblins from Neptune have landed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4884'),
(2850, 'Doctor Who: The Dimension Riders', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone here has been playing with time, Ace. Like playing with fire, only worse - you get burnt before youâ€™ve lit the match.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Abandoning a holiday in Oxford, the Doctor travels to Space Station Q4, where something is seriously wrong. Ghostly soldiers from the future watch from the shadows among the dead. Soon, the Doctor is trapped in the past, Ace is fighting for her life, and Bernice is uncovering deceit among the college cloisters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is the connection with a beautiful assassin in a black sports car? How can the Doctorâ€™s time machine be in Oxford when it is on board the space station? And what secrets are held by the library of the invaded TARDIS?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor quickly discovers he is facing another time-shattering enigma: a creature which he thought he had destroyed, and which it seems he is powerless to stop.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7554'),
(2851, 'Doctor Who: The Dominators', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who must rescue the planet Dulkis and its pacifist inhabitants from alien invaders and their powerful robots\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8303'),
(2852, 'Doctor Who: The Domino Effect', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within hours one of the Doctor''s friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity''s development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind? The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6834'),
(2853, 'Doctor Who: The Doomsday Weapon', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who travels through time to a desolate planet in the twenty-fifth century in order to find and dismantle the Doomsday Machine stolen by the insidious Master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6221'),
(2854, 'Doctor Who: The Dying Days', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first New Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor. Britain is under threat of invasion by the Ice Warriors from Mars. The only people who can save the country are the Doctor, aided by the Brigadier and Bernice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6890'),
(2855, 'Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting unabridged reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1988, the Doctor and his companions are trapped inside the TARDIS as it hurtles through Time and Space. Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5706'),
(2856, 'Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newly-regenerated and travelling through the universe in his Tardis, the eighth Doctor is suddenly hit by a mind-shattering blast of malignant psychic energy - a final booby trap left by the Master.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7593'),
(2857, 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Tiger', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten tigers not enough. The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to the chaos that mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart... This adventure features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6401'),
(2858, 'Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who tries to stop Salamander, a ruthless despot who is trying to gain control of the entire planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8337'),
(2859, 'Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks', 'John Peel &amp; David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <center>\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         Written by David WhitakerÂ \n         <br />\n         Directed by Derek MartinusÂ \n         <br />\n         Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson\n        </b>\n       </font>\n      </center>\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <p align="justify">\n       Patrick Troughton (\n       <b>\n        Dr. Who\n       </b>\n       ), Frazer Hines (\n       <b>\n        Jamie\n       </b>\n       ), Alec Ross (\n       <b>\n        Bob Hall\n       </b>\n       ) [1], Griffith Davies (\n       <b>\n        Kennedy\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], John Bailey (\n       <b>\n        Edward Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ), Geoffrey Colville (\n       <b>\n        Perry\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], Deborah Watling (\n       <b>\n        Victoria Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor [3-7], John Scott Martin [5-7], Murphy Grumbar [6-7], Ken Tyllsen [7] (\n       <b>\n        Daleks\n       </b>\n       ); Roy Skelton [1,6-7]\n       <font color="red">\n        *\n       </font>\n       , Peter Hawkins [2-7] (\n       <b>\n        Dalek Voices\n       </b>\n       ); Jo Rowbottom (\n       <b>\n        Mollie Dawson\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Marius Goring (\n       <b>\n        Theodore Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Brigit Forsyth (\n       <b>\n        Ruth Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Gary Watson (\n       <b>\n        Arthur Terrall\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7], Windsor Davies (\n       <b>\n        Toby\n       </b>\n       ) [2-4], Sonny Caldinez (\n       <b>\n        Kemel\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7].\n      </p>\n      <hr width="50" align="left" />\n      *Â \n      <font class="minus2" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n       Also in Episode 5, uncredited.\n      </font>\n      <p>\n      </p>\n      <hr size="5" color="#505050" />\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        The Doctor and Jamie are stranded in 1966 London when the TARDIS is stolen, driven away in the back of a lorry. The Doctor uses his keen sense for clues and deduction to track the TARDIS back to a very unusual antique shoppe owned by the even more unusual and mysterious Edward Waterfield. As it transpires Mr. Waterfield and Victorian scientist Theodore Maxtible have devised a method of time travel with the help of some rather sinister associates - the Daleks.\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         The Daleks have taken Edward Waterfield''s daughter, Victoria, hostage. Using her life as a bargaining piece the Daleks force the terrified men to serve them and assist in capturing the Doctor. When this is accomplished the Daleks soon force the Doctor into their service by threatening to destroy the TARDIS if he does not aide them by experimenting on Jamie...\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6787'),
(2860, 'Doctor Who: The Eye of the Tyger', 'Paul J. McAuley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inhabiting a colony spaceship in the thirty second century are members of a religious cult which left Earth to find a world of their own. Their leader, Seraph, has downloaded his mind into the ship''s computers, but now he has gone silent, enticed and serenaded by a siren song coming from inside a black hole. Trapped in orbit around the void, Seraph''s followers are confused by his silence, and when the Doctor arrives, he finds a world on the brink of chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8630'),
(2861, 'Doctor Who: The Face of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a planet the Doctor doesn''t recognise - but its inhabitants seem to know him. They think he''s the Evil One and aren''t pleased to see him.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Two warring tribes occupy the planet: the savage Sevateem and the reclusive Tesh, separated from each other by a deadly energy field. When the Sevateem believe their God, Xoanon, to be a captive of the Tesh, they decide to break through the barrier and rescue him. The Tesh, however, have other ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Befriended by Leela, a Sevateem girl who dares to question the mighty Xoanon, the Doctor sets out to discover exactly what''s happening on this planet. Has he been here before? Is he responsible for the tribal wars? And can it possibly be that Xoanon, the mad God, is really the Doctor?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7534'),
(2862, 'Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Whilst the Doctor and Jo are away from Earth the Brigadier is confronted with open warfare on the streets of Britain. He and UNIT have to rely on an old adversary to help them save Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6396'),
(2863, 'Doctor Who: The Face-Eater', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest. The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out, and humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each corpse''s face being stripped bare.Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8064'),
(2864, 'Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When thousands of young people on vacation with Chameleon Tours fail to return, the Doctor is drawn into the mystery, and must face a group of faceless aliens, the Chameleons\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7533'),
(2865, 'Doctor Who: The Fall of Yquatine', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 4991. The TARDIS is dead and Compassion is evolving into a sentient replacement for it. To avoid the Timelords, the Doctor decides to fit a Randomiser but the only place he can obtain the components is the planet Yquatine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7680'),
(2866, 'Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunts loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser''s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river''s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7888'),
(2867, 'Doctor Who: The Final Sanction', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The year is 2204. The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history. Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome. But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene...\n</p>\n<p>\n In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war. Zoe plans her escape from an alien prison camp, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5872'),
(2868, 'Doctor Who: The Five Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who has to find out who is responsible for kidnapping his other four incarnations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7530'),
(2869, 'Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army', 'Brian Minchin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn''t a story. And the army is ready to attack.'' New York - one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what''s going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they''re only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn''t, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5928'),
(2870, 'Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there''s a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn''t going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6887'),
(2871, 'Doctor Who: The Genesis of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  Back on the dreaded Skaro again, a world torn apart by a thousand-year-long war, the Doctor''s on a mission from the Time Lords themselves... simple enough. All he has to do is destroy the Daleks before they evolve and face their evil creator, Davros.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7608'),
(2872, 'Doctor Who: The Giant Robot', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the Doctor behaving rather oddly after his regeneration, the Brigadier finds a scientific research station under attack after a robot steals the plans for a new disintegrator gun.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Could the members of the mysterious Think Tank be responsible for the giant invader? How sinister are the intentions of the shadowy Scientific Reform Society? More importantly, can the Doctor recover in time to save the Earth from Atomic War?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7581');
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(2873, 'Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... and, as the Doctor and Amy realise, another place... another planet. But if Emmaline Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilization, how come she isn''t famous? How come Amy''s never heard of her? Come to that, since she''s been travelling with him for a while now, how come Amy''s never even heard of the Doctor? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be illusion. Obvious illusions could be real - and deadly! A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gary Russell is one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the author of many novels and reference books in the Doctor Who range. A former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, he also was the producer of Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions for eight years. He lives in Cardiff.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7632'),
(2874, 'Doctor Who: The Green Death', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global''s innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6219'),
(2875, 'Doctor Who: The Gunfighters', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist - the notorious Doc Holliday. Meanwhile, Steven and Dodo decide to explore the town, and soon find themselves in the Last Chance Saloon...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Tensions are running high between the feuding Clanton family and Doc Holliday, whilst the local lawman, Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep the peace. When legendary gunman Johnny Ringo comes to town, events start to escalate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor, Steven and Dodo do anything to stop the situation getting any worse? Or will there be a gunfight at the OK Corral?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6574'),
(2876, 'Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <div align="justify">\n     <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      ldrad was once hailed as the saviour of the world of Kastria. He erected force-barriers around the planet, preventing its imminent destruction. However, when the Kastrians refused to submit to his dictatorship, he removed his force-fields, condemning an entire civilisation to a slow and agonising death. For this, the mightiest of crimes, the people of Kastria sentenced Eldrad to obliteration.\n     </font>\n     <p>\n      Millions of years later, the Doctor''s TARDIS materialises in an English quarry. A freak accident traps the Doctor''s young friend, Sarah Jane Smith, under tons of rock. When she is rescued, she is frantically clinging to a large stone hand. Taken to a local hospital, it soon becomes clear that Sarah has been possessed.\n     </p>\n     <p>\n      After she goes missing - still clutching the hand - the Doctor follows the trail of death and destruction to a nearby atomic power station.\n     </p>\n    </div>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What strange power does the hand have over Sarah? Why has she fought her way to the very core of the nuclear reactor? How can she possibly survive the normally lethal radiation? To answer these questions, the Doctor must travel across the galaxy to a long-dead world - after which, life will never be quite the same again...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7591'),
(2877, 'Doctor Who: The Highest Science', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Many legends speak of this world, home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Bernice to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4799'),
(2878, 'Doctor Who: The Highlanders', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of extraordinary adventures ensues when Jamie McCrimmon discovers an episode of unrecorded history in the Scottish defeat by the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1746\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6208'),
(2879, 'Doctor Who: The Hollow Men', 'Keith Topping &amp; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4882'),
(2880, 'Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the great maze of the Power Complex dwells the dreaded Nimon, a fearsome monster with immense scientific powers.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Nimon has promised to restore the Skonnan Empire to its former glory. But first it demands sacrifice - youths and maidens from the peaceful planet Aneth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS collides with the space ship delivering the victims, and the captured Romana is condemned to be sacrificed to the Nimon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided by the faithful K-9, the Doctor goes to the rescue. In the heart of the maze he confronts the Nimon and uncovers a terrifying plot to enslave the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7579'),
(2881, 'Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is the turn of the century, and the TARDIS materialises by the lighthouse on the desolate isle of Fang Rock. When the engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, the remaining crew blame the mythical Beast of Fang Rock - until the Doctor and Leela turn up...\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  When a small clipper runs aground on the crags of Fang Rock, the lighthouse offers shelter to its desperate passengers. But the Doctor soon discovers clues that suggest that no one is safe on the tiny island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Whilst a private drama unfolds between the survivors of the wrecked clipper, another death occurs. The Doctor suspects a ruthless alien lurks in the thick unnatural fog around the island, and secures the lighthouse. But has he really locked the horror out, or is it somewhere inside with them...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7644'),
(2882, 'Doctor Who: The House That Jack Built', 'Guy Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob''s late aunt. It''s an ordinary sort of a house... except for the way the rooms don''t stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood. And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness...   Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6765'),
(2883, 'Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors', 'Brian Hayles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6115'),
(2884, 'Doctor Who: The Image of the Fendahl', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When a tussle with a sonic time scan leads the TARDIS back to Earth, the Doctor and Leela discover strange happenings in a nearby lab run by the secretive Dr Fendelman. By night an eight million year old skull glos with a devastating power, leaving destruction in its wake. Already two people lie dead in mysterious circumstances. The Doctor is appalled. Can the Fendahl, the creature from his childhood fairytales, really be emerging from its twelve million year hibernation? And if so, can he stop its energy-draining progress through the Earth''s population? The very safety of the planet depends upon it...\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7567'),
(2885, 'Doctor Who: The Indestructible Man', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty years ago, the Earth was covertly attacked by the alien Myloki, who brainwashed humans and seeded them into Earth society as terrorists and assassins. Earth governments pooled their resources and financed Operation PRISM to fight - and win - the secret war against the Myloki. Now the successor to PRISM, the SILHOUETTE organization, runs a series of Early Warning devices in space, should the dreaded Myloki return. But the financial burden of the war has caused global financial meltdown and Earth stands on the brink of anarchy. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover the war was in fact faked by a corrupt Earth dictatorship that has turned the planet into a tightly controlled utopia. Drugs keep the population under strict and docile control. Humanity is reduced to little more than work units. With the help of war hero Captain Grant Matthews, a PRISM agent accidentally made indestructible during the war, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe gradually discover the truth - but in doing so they face the opposition of a whole planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8063'),
(2886, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gallifrey. The Doctor''s home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity. and eternity, harnessed science, conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and they have used their powers carefully.But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6891'),
(2887, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Race', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn. Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth''s ruthless multi-stellar corporations. Is Sabbath''s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native? As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8060'),
(2888, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n UFO sightings over southern England, a missile attack on the TARDIS, and mysterious deliveries to the world''s largest computer firm foreshadow the Cybermen''s invasion of Earth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8301'),
(2889, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is behaving oddly, having clandestine meetings with a race known as the Vardans who can travel via the power of thought. Leela is concerned - and she worries further when she learns that K9 has been instructed to shoot her if she attempts to interfere.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Returning home to Gallifrey, the Doctor demands to take over as Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords. With no-one able to dispute his claim, he is inducted and begins a systematic purge of Time Lord society, expelling many high ranking officials - and Leela - to the wastes of Outer Gallifrey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It seems that the Doctor has joined forces with the Vardans, and is helping in their attempted conquest of Gallifrey out of revenge for his treatment at the hands of previous High Councils. The Vardans want the secrets of time travel and with only his old teacher, Cardinal Borusa, at his side, the Doctor appears to be granting them their wish. But not everything is exactly what it seems. The Doctor has an agenda hidden from the Vardans - and they in turn have a far darker one hidden from him.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7586'),
(2890, 'Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A three-man shuttle crew are completing the final stages of their journey to Titan base, when a course deviation puts the shuttle in the path of a mysterious cloud in space. The crew members arrive on Titan, but they have been somehow changed, infected by an intelligent virus that threatens everyone in the galaxy. The TARDIS picks up a Mayday message from Titan base, but before the Doctor and Leela can fully respond, the police box also passes through the mysterious cloud. With the infection spreading from person to person, the Doctor and Leela seek assistance on a medical station in the asteroid belt. As the situation worsens, their only hope lies in the unlikely combination of the eccentric scientist Professor Marius, and his dog-shaped computer K9...\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7584'),
(2891, 'Doctor Who: The Janus Conjunction', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun -- but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime''s moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmit system left behind by the planets'' former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?When the Doctor and Sam arrive they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime''s moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5522'),
(2892, 'Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7600'),
(2893, 'Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus', 'Philip Hinchcliffe &amp; Terry Nation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Materialising on an island of glass in a sea of acid, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves chosen to embark on a perilous quest set by Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of the planet Marinus.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Conscience machine has the power to control the minds of everyone on Marinus, and it is in danger of falling into the hands of the sinister Yartek, leader of the alien Voord. To prevent disaster, the TARDIS crew must recover the machine''s operating keys, hidden in various locations around the planet. Others have attempted this task before - but none have ever returned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   From Morphoton to Millenius, battling ice soldiers and deadly plants, overcoming hypnotic conditioning and hostile witnesses, this trek across Marinus promises to be the four travellers'' most challenging adventure yet.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8309'),
(2894, 'Doctor Who: The King of Terror', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two alien races -- the Jex and the Canavitchi -- are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger -- who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination... When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4886'),
(2895, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Demons', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Traveling back in time to the thirteenth century, Doctor Who encounters King John and begins to suspect a subtle plot to alter world history\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7072'),
(2896, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Dragon', 'Una McCormack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor and Amy look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure - the ''glamour'' - and next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the glamour has begun, and only the Doctor and Amy can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Una McCormack lives in Cambridge, where she reads, writes and teaches. She and her partner have no cats and many Daleks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5101'),
(2897, 'Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm', 'Christopher Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS materializes in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil''s Huntsman. And, after a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realizes the city has good reason to be scared!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6858'),
(2898, 'Doctor Who: The Krotons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    As the TARDIS door opens onto a barren planet, the Doctor steps straight into a struggle to destroy the merciless Krotons, the unseen rulers of the Gond people. Conditioned to obey by teaching machines, the Gonds put up no resistance until, with the Doctor''s help, they discover exactly what has been happening to their best students.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Battling against the Krotons'' vast scientific knowledge the Doctor and Zoe must stop them turning mental power into pure energy. With a brave band of Gonds and Jamie, prepared to fight to the end, it may be defeat for the Krotons, but ultimately it will be a test of knowledge that only the Doctor can match...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7529'),
(2899, 'Doctor Who: The Last Dodo', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum''s only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. And for millennia the Museum has been trying to trace one elusive specimen: the last of the Time Lords...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6458'),
(2900, 'Doctor Who: The Last Resort', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it''s a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it''s now time tourism, in fact - and they''re not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6714'),
(2901, 'Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Argolin-Foamasi War lasted for just 20 minutes, during which time the planet of Argolis was turned into a blasted cinder - a radioactive wasteland deadly to almost all.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The few surviving members of the now ageing and sterile Argolin race made a remarkable decision: the story of their people and the husk of their world would stand as a lesson to the galaxy about the horrors of war. The planet would become the most unlikely of holiday resorts...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the Doctor and Romana, Argolis seems like a restful and fascinating place to relax after their recent adventures. They can take in the beauty of the multi-coloured shifting sands from the safety of the towering Leisure Hive, and catch up with Argolin advances in the obscure science of tachyonics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Typically enough, however, murder and intrigue follow the time travellers wherever they go; and a lunatic''s plan to restore Argolis'' proud warrior past could, quite literally, tear the Doctor and his friend apart...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4894'),
(2902, 'Doctor Who: The Loch Ness Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The mystery deepens leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist - and it''s the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor and his companions must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape and the Doctor is in grave danger when he finds that his friends and allies are not always what they seem...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7592'),
(2903, 'Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is unexpectedly forced back in time to the nineteenth-century Luddite uprisings, where Rani, an exile from Gallifrey, is conducting sinister experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4443'),
(2904, 'Doctor Who: The Masque of the Mandragora', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tim Pigott-Smith reads this gripping novelization of a classic Doctor Who adventure. Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the TARDIS lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by the Mandragora energy-form. The Doctor has to defeat not only the Mandragora energy, but the evil schemes of the murderous Count Frederico who plans to usurp the place of his nephew, the rightful ruler of the province.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8307'),
(2905, 'Doctor Who: The Massacre', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands in Paris on 19th August 1572 and the Doctor, driven by scientific curiosity, leaves Steven in order to meet and exchange views with the apothecary Charles Preslin. Before he disappears, he warns Steven to stay out of ''mischief, religion and politics''.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Ignoring the Doctor''s warning to stay out of trouble, Steven finds himself caught up with a group of Huguenots. The Protestant minority of France is being threatened by the Catholic hierarchy and danger stalks the streets of Paris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As Steven tries to find his way back to the TARDIS, he is horrified to find that the greatest persecutor of the Huguenots is actually none other than the Doctor himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5823'),
(2906, 'Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who desperately struggles to stop the wicked Professor Emil Keller''s plot to set off World War III\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7539'),
(2907, 'Doctor Who: The Mind Robber', 'Peter Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ''nowhere''. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine''s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell? Derek Jacobi, who played The Master in the "Doctor Who" episode "Utopia", reads Peter Ling''s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986. ''Giving more depth to the tale than was ever allowed in the original television interpretation, this audiobook will keep the most ardent of "Doctor Who" fans, young and old, enthralled from start to finish'' - "Bournemouth Daily Echo". ''BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers...they benefit from new music and sound effects'' - "Doctor Who Magazine".\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Derek Jacobi won a Tony in 1985 for\n  <em>\n   Much Ado About Nothing\n  </em>\n  and was Tony-nominated in 1988 for\n  <em>\n   Breaking the Code.\n  </em>\n  His voicework includes narration for\n  <em>\n   The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Manor House,\n  </em>\n  and several\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  titles. He was awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1985 and was knighted in 1994.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5093'),
(2908, 'Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sarah to the medieval planet Peladon, some half a century after the Time Lord''s first visit. Now under the benign influence of the Galactic Federation, the Pel nobles enjoy new riches and new technology.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Federation is at war with Galaxy Five, and Peladon has taken on a new tactical importance; it is rich in the rare mineral trisilicate, which is vital to the war effort. The Pel miners, however, are in revolt. For too long they have been overworked and taken for granted by the Federation and the Pel royalty. They believe that Federation machinery has awoken the spirit of the legendary Aggedor, who is now slaughtering aliens and unbelievers. As open rebellion erupts, the Federation sends in a hard-line military taskforce - Commander Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Sarah must not only act as peace-keepers between the warring factions but also discover the truth behind the ''spirit''. They soon learn that the Galactic Federation has been infiltrated by traitors and spies, determined to destroy the alliance from within...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7585'),
(2909, 'Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a brutal deep-space prison colony. Can they stay out of gaol long enough to discover who - or what - is behind the sinister scientific plot that threatens billions of human lives? (***********Additional text added**********************) The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles. But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes? Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7882'),
(2910, 'Doctor Who: The Murder Game', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the Tardis crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But then it seems that someone is taking the games too seriously.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5882'),
(2911, 'Doctor Who: The Mutants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What was happening to the people of Solos? Why are they gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws, flesh that turns scale-like...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor meets the Marshal and Jaeger, he realizes that all is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister plan to gain control of this planet, and it''s up to the Doctor to save Solos from this mad earthman, as well as save the Solonians themselves.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7595'),
(2912, 'Doctor Who: The Mutation of Time', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As they head up an alliance of alien races bent on destroying the human race, in their midst is none other than the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A dangerous chase ensues across volcanoes, jungles, deserts and futuristic cities, as the Doctor and his companions struggle to prevent the Daleks'' plans coming to fruition. The stakes are high, and for the first time in the programme''s history the lives of two TARDIS travellers are lost...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6794'),
(2913, 'Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7561'),
(2914, 'Doctor Who: The Myth Makers', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who''s time machine lands in ancient Troy, he and his friends become involved in the Trojan War\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6572'),
(2915, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair', 'Graham Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Peri find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach along with the evil Chinse Mandarin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6579'),
(2916, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children''s nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6664'),
(2917, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Eden', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft, the Empress and the Hecate. As a result, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K9 and Romana offer to help out.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard - and where has the supply come from?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor soon realises that the aliens stored in a projection machine may hold the answers - and that the cages holding these specimens are anything but secure as the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7596'),
(2918, 'Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space world, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT are called to investigate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4874');
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(2919, 'Doctor Who: The Pescatons', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer universe: The Pescatons. The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless invader.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p align="justify">\n  Who or what is the mighty Zor, whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful alien force that is bringing Earth''s civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path?\n </p>\n <p align="justify">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This is the story of a dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor -- a frightening race against time...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4934'),
(2920, 'Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn''t the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what''s this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out he''ll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves... Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn''t hoping for mayhem, death, and badger-faced space pirates. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4937'),
(2921, 'Doctor Who: The Pit', 'Neil Penswick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and itâ€™s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, ARMAGEDDON.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materializes, it becomes clear that the plane has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As riot and anarchy spread on the systemâ€™s colonized worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lordsâ€™ past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7024'),
(2922, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A distress call from the last planet in the known universe forces the TARDIS to commence emergency materialisation on Zeta Minor. Simultaneous with the Doctor''s arrival, is the landing of a spacecraft from the planet Morestra on a rescue mission to recover a missing group of scientists. An expeditionary force from the spacecraft soon uncovers their sinister remains, but who or what has caused their gruesome deaths?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Only one scientist, Professor Sorenson, has survived and he is hell-bent on tapping the powerful resources within Zeta Minor to save his own planet which is slowly dying. But he and his compatriots cannot possibly realise the full extent of the dark forces at work. And so it is left to the Doctor to convince them that Zeta Minor is indeed, the Planet of Evil...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7562'),
(2923, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master and the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet where the TARDIS finally materialises.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Not only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks'' new stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague that will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still - somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and take what they believe is their rightful place as the Universe''s supreme beings!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7598'),
(2924, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Spiders', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIt''s happening, Brigadier! It''s happening!,â€ Sarah cried out. The Brigadier watched, fascinated, as the lifeless body of his old friend and companion, Doctor Who, suddenly began to glow with an eerie golden light. The features were blurring, changing...â€Well, bless my soul,â€ said the Brigadier. â€œWho will be next?â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7537'),
(2925, 'Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Romana to Delta 3, the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. Romana is captured by the Swampies, the original inhabitants of Delta Magna, displaced from their home world by human colonists. They intend to sacrifice Romana to their god, the mighty Kroll.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor''s search for his companion brings him to a massive refinery in the middle of the swamp, which is extracting protein from under the water to feed the people of Delta Magna. The Doctor is mistaken for Rohm-Dutt, an amoral gun-runner who is supplying the Swampies with weapons to aid them in their plan to attack the refinery and force the workers to leave Delta 3.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor escapes the refinery in time to rescue Romana from the sacrificial altar, discovering in the process that Kroll is just a myth, a story to frighten children. They resolve to find the Fifth Segment and leave the moon, avoiding the intrigues of the refinery workers and the attentions of the fanatical Swampies.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     However, all is not as it initially seems. What is stirring on the floor of the swamp and can the instruments on the refinery really be correct in saying that it is five miles across? The Doctor realises that Kroll is more than a mere legend and its centuries-long slumber has been disturbed by the refinery. Now it is awake, the time-travellers find that it is very large, and very hungry...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7531'),
(2926, 'Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Disoriented after his regeneration, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Earth colony Vulcan. Ben and Polly are disturbed - the Doctor isn''t the man he used to be.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor too is worried. The colonists have found the remains of two Daleks - which they plan to revive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once revived, the Daleks claim that they are content to serve humanity. Can it really be true? Or do they have their own, more sinister plans?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6785'),
(2927, 'Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laylora - the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land... Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? What secret lies at the heart of the natives'' ancient ceremonies? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known? When a planet itself becomes sick, can there be a cure? The Doctor and Rose find themsleves in a race against time to find out...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7946'),
(2928, 'Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a university on planet Sweeney Earth, Paul and Arlene Cole have designed TITAN -- designed to penetrate the vortex and access the very foundations of reality. The Master, who is being pursued by the Chronivores, thinks that TITAN could be the perfect means of revenge...Mel''s old friend Anjeliqua also works at the university and the Master charms her into giving him access to TITAN. He recalibrates its settings and locates the Quantum Archimage, the power source of the Chronivores. When this energy is channeled into Anjeliqua herself, she is transformed into the Quantum Archangel, the living embodiment of the Chronivores'' power source. With her new-found power, her plan is to "make things better. For everyone".If she goes ahead, reality will begin to fracture, as conflicting realities struggle to coexist. Otherwise, when the Chronivores detect the alternate timelines, they will consume every last bit of it. Can the Doctor intervene before the universe disintegrates?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6151'),
(2929, 'Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS materialises near Paris in 1794, Dr. Who and his friends become caught up in the deadly turmoil of the French Revolution\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8338'),
(2930, 'Doctor Who: The Rescue', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8339'),
(2931, 'Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint''s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5663'),
(2932, 'Doctor Who: The Romans', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is Italy 64AD and the Doctor''s intent on a holiday. However, the atmosphere turns sour when he leaves for Rome with Vicki only to be mistaken for a murdered musician - Maximus Pettulian. For Maximus is an enemy of Nero and the terrible fate that awaited him in Rome now awaits the Doctor.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara have been abducted and sold as slaves, unable to contact the Doctor or one another. Are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped in 64AD?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Events reach a climax when the time travellers are caught in the Great Fire of Rome: an inferno which will either provide the cover necessary for their escape or which will, quite literally, be the death of them...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6573'),
(2933, 'Doctor Who: The Room With No Doors', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Sixteenth century Japan a god descends to tip the balance of power in a bloody civil war. Chris finds himself alone and has to become a hero to stop the god falling into the wrong hands - but Chris isn''t sure he wants to be a hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7222'),
(2934, 'Doctor Who: The Roundheads', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure set in the time of Cromwell. The Civil Wars have ended with victory for the Roundheads, and Charles I is threatened with execution. In a country of divided loyalties, strangers are looked upon with suspicion, and the crew of the Tardis soon finds itself in danger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7720'),
(2935, 'Doctor Who: The Savages', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and his companions arrive at a city which appears to be a haven of beauty, harmony, and friendship, but they soon discover that the security of the city is founded on a deadly and appalling secret\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8706'),
(2936, 'Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor''s own race is keen to possess herself; the eccentric time traveler and philanderer Iris Wildthyme.The Doctor and Sam themselves must escape the clutches of the dying Scarlet Empress, and they encounter many strange creatures on their travels -- bearded ladies, humanoid mock turtles, transvestite cyborgs and many more -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6167'),
(2937, 'Doctor Who: The Sea-Devils', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo Grant visit their old enemy the Master, who is the sole inmate of a top-security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. Local shipping has been plagued by a series of tragic accidents and several ships have been lost. Joining forces with Captain Hart of the HMS Seaspite naval base, the Doctor learns that there have been garbled reports of sea monsters. Colonel Trenchard, Governor of the Master''s prison, believes that the ships are being attacked by enemy spies. The Master himself seems to be a reformed man and claims to have turned away from his life of crime.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Nothing could be further from the truth. The Master has in fact made contact with the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the prehistoric Silurian race encountered by the Doctor some time ago. Having slept beneath the sea for millions of years, the Sea Devils have awoken and intend to reclaim what they consider to be their planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided and abetted by the evil Master, who will stop at nothing to take revenge on those who imprisoned him, the Sea Devils plan to eliminate the human race, a species they regard as nothing more than upstart apes...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6216'),
(2938, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the twenty-first century Doctor Who tries to save the Earth from an invasion by Ice Warriors from Mars\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7605'),
(2939, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a mysterious pod unearthed in the Antarctic begins to grow into a giant man-eating plant, Doctor Who is summoned to stop the creature\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8308'),
(2940, 'Doctor Who: The Sensorites', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a seemingly deserted spaceship, Doctor Who, Susan, Ian, and Barbara discover two astronauts who have been terrorized by the Sensorites, telepathic aliens\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5702'),
(2941, 'Doctor Who: The Shadow in the Glass', 'Justin Richards &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Anterctica, nearly fifty years after the end of World War 2, Nazi Initiates inhibit a secret base; around them move the shadows and reflections of strange, Imp-like figures...The village of Turelhampton in Dorset is still a restricted military zone, cordoned off from the outside world. When a rogue film-crew breaks in, welrd damons, invisible to the naked eye, appear on camers...And in a remote country-house in Cornwall, a freelance investigative journalist is horrified to discover neo-Nazis performing an occult ritual involving a functional, accurate, crystal ball - the Scrying Glass. And in the background, the figure of Hilter watching, exactly as he appears in the last pictures of him alive...What really did happen in the Berlin bunker in 1945, when Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly committed joint suicide? And what connection does this have with the uncanny imps that can be seen only in reflections and shadows? Why is it so imperative that no-one discover the secret of Turelhampton? It is up to the Doctor and the faithful Brigadier to find out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5654'),
(2942, 'Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that''s gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor''s TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8648'),
(2943, 'Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest in a long line of suicide attempts sees Caroline ''Laska'' Darnell admitted to the Retreat, a groundbreaking medical center surrounded by woodland. To her horror, she recognizes the Retreat from her recent nightmares of an old building haunted by ghostly dogs with glowing eyes. But who will believe her stories of an evil from the past that has already made one attempt to destroy the building and all its inhabitants? The mysterious Dr. Smith seems curiously aware of the Retreat''s past, and is utterly fascinated by Laska''s waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr. Smith?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8492'),
(2944, 'Doctor Who: The Smugglers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Journeying back in time to a seventeenth century Cornish town, Doctor Who is kidnapped by pirates who are determined to learn the location of a fabulous treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7588'),
(2945, 'Doctor Who: The Space Museum', 'Glyn Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Hartnell is the original Doctor in this soundtrack of a classic TV adventure, with linking narration by Maureen O''Brien. When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a ''time track'' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold...The native Xerons are planning a rebellion against the occupying force of the Moroks who have invaded their world. The Doctor and his friends struggle not only to survive in the midst of battle, but to help change the future sufficiently to ensure their own freedom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7811'),
(2946, 'Doctor Who: The Space Pirates', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, and then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie risk their lives as they attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7606'),
(2947, 'Doctor Who: The State of Decay', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Searching for a way out of E-Space, the Doctor and Romana, joined by a young stowaway, land on a planet eerily similar to Medieval Earth. Its people live in fear, under the thumb of the Three Who Rule, cruel lords who suppress all learning to keep their subjects ignorant and helpless.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor falls in with a group of rebels and discovers a cache of advanced technology banned by the Three Who Rule. But who are these ruthless monarchs?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meeting the lords and exploring their tower, he and Romana uncover a chilling secret. The Doctor realizes an ancient evil is rising once again, a terrible threat to the universe fought by his own race long ago, and one that only he can destroy now.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7540'),
(2948, 'Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the far future, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it''s a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back, and the Doctor wants to help - until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5874'),
(2949, 'Doctor Who: The Stone Rose', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6460'),
(2950, 'Doctor Who: The Suns of Caresh', 'Paul Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet''s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9658'),
(2951, 'Doctor Who: The Taint', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Collier''s previous book, __, featured some good characters (especially the inspired Nashaad) and an interesting alien in the Kusk. With\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , all we get is very confused indeed as a group of inadequately described loonies takes over the asylum. It''s very difficult to keep track of who is who early on, and so at the end knowing who lived or died is impossible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The idea of alien mind parasites is nice if unoriginal, and the two robotic guardian-types were also neat, but their function in the novel is unclear. The new companion character Fitz remains something of an enigma, although he does have some nice moments and some interesting defining characteristics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are some good ideas in\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , but unfortunately the writing never manages to rise above the level of competent, and the plot gets a little submerged under a surfeit of characters. It''s a pity, especially after the excellence of __,\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the eighth Doctor Who and Sam, and Fitz Kreiner, a roguish dreamer from the 1960s. The Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley, who is probing the psyches of people who believe they''ve been possessed by the devil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6120'),
(2952, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they''re not here to arrange flowers...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7715'),
(2953, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Planet 5', 'Simon Bucher-Jones &amp; Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And itâ€™s alive.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside the ordered universe, things move. Theyâ€™re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but itâ€™s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6411'),
(2954, 'Doctor Who: The Terrors of Autons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who Novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, the dreaded Nestene menace is rekindled on Earth -- by the Master! The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion,\n  </em>\n  this is the adventure in which the third Doctor meets his arch-nemesis on Earth for the first time -- and in which the Autons once again stalk England...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7607'),
(2955, 'Doctor Who: The Time Meddler', 'Nigel Robinson &amp; Dennis Spooner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a beach in England. The Doctor, Vicki and new companion Steven discover a Viking helmet, and deduce they have arrived in the past. Whilst Steven and Vicki scale the cliff, the Doctor opts for a far more gentle path...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In the woods above the cliffs, Steven and Vicki find an abandoned modern wristwatch. The Doctor investigates a nearby monastery, only to discover more anachronisms...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the local villages are attacked by invading Vikings, the Doctor realises that they are a few weeks away from the famous battle of Hastings in 1066. Who is the Meddling Monk, and what is his interest in the time travellers?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5705'),
(2956, 'Doctor Who: The Time Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   UNIT are called into monitor the initial trials of a device called TOMTIT - the Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - at the Newton Institute at Wootton. Created by the enigmatic Professor Thascales, TOMTIT''s demonstration causes unexpected time anomalies. The Doctor soon discovers that TOMTIT is not all that it seems...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  At the heart of TOMTIT is an ancient crystal, which the Master hopes to use to gain control over Kronos - a Chronovore which feeds on time itself. But the stone he holds is only part of the sacred crystal of Kronos - the main crystal is hidden...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and the Master journey back in time to the lost city of Atlantis, where the battle for the control of Kronos intensifies... Can the Doctor prevent the Time Monster from being unleashed...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7594'),
(2957, 'Doctor Who: The Time Travellers', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara are eager to explore their own future. But they have arrived in the middle of a war, a war that has left London a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, and with no way of proving otherwise, the Doctor''s granddaughter and companions find themselves in the execution block on the Isle of Dogs. The Doctor has no choice but to help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4938'),
(2958, 'Doctor Who: The Tomb of Valdemar', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who perceived these Higher Dimensions went insane. The Vanier disappeared into the gateway and all that remains of them is shimmering, golden palace floating in the clouds...The Doctor inadvertently materializes on Ashkellia, where Valdemar''s tomb lies. The Doctor must escape imprisonment by Neville, a debauched aristocrat, to save both the universe and himself from the Higher Dimensions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8062'),
(2959, 'Doctor Who: The Tomorrow Windows', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There''s always one, isn''t there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver''s Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7056'),
(2960, 'Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord : The Ultimate Foe', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In a dramatic intervention the Valeyardâ€™s true identity is revealed but he escapes from the Courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow - to his face his ultimate foe...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4446'),
(2961, 'Doctor Who: The Turing Test', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious code is received at Bletchley and Alan Turing, the chief code-breaker, is unable to break it. He meets the Doctor in a club and when Turing tells him about the code, the Doctor reacts by running away, terrified. Turing confesses his indiscretion to the military and the Doctor is arrested. He eventually succeeds in breaking the code from his prison cell -- the message is a desperate cry for help from mysterious refugees in Vienna.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6718'),
(2962, 'Doctor Who: The Twilight Streets', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There''s a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just... they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something''s not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they''re going to organize street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood''s problem. Except that Tosh recognizes the man sponsoring the street parties when she''s passing one day: Bills Manger!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7623'),
(2963, 'Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a rocky fifth regeneration and a near outburst of uncontrolled violent behavior, Doctor Who decides to become a hermit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7878'),
(2964, 'Doctor Who: The Two Doctors', 'Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the 6th Doctor lands on a space station in the Third Zone, he suspects he''s been there before and when he discovers his old assistant - Jamie - he''s certain.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by Jamie and his present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (in his second incarnation) to 20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, about to dissect him in a genetic operation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  But just why are they operating on the Doctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe? Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escape their own excruciating death...\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7497'),
(2965, 'Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil', 'Wally K. Daly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <i>\n      On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series,Â \n     </i>\n     <i>\n      Doctor Who\n     </i>\n     , was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord''s travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens.\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   But missing from the Doctor''s adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories:Â \n   <b>\n    The Ultimate Evil.\n   </b>\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5141'),
(2966, 'Doctor Who: The Undertaker&#39;s Gift', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They''re suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won''t tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness. It''s been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub''s latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems. But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn''t want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything u but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker''s gift to planet Earth? Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5523'),
(2967, 'Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5704');
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(2968, 'Doctor Who: The Visitation', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Something is very wrong in 17th Century England. The shadowy figure of Death stalks the forests, terrifying the local people. Behind the chaos fugitive alien life forms called Terileptils lurk. Stranded on Earth, they have seized one of the local houses, murdering its inhabitants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But just what do they want? The Doctor must discover the answer - and fast. For as events unfold, he finds he too is looking death in the face, not to mention the threat of mass genocide...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7880'),
(2969, 'Doctor Who: The Wages of Sin', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad monk Rasputin.As history plunges onward inexorably, the Doctor''s companions realize that history books can lie. But the Doctor can see the threads that hold all time together -- can he and his companions escape the depravities of this decadent Russia without unraveling the history of Earth?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6397'),
(2970, 'Doctor Who: The Web of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After being caught up in a web-like substance on its journey through space, the TARDIS arrives in the tunnels of the London Underground railway system, only to find the web also in the tunnels - as is the Great Intelligence''s Yeti.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  How has this happened? The team learn that the impending disaster was triggered nearly forty years before, after their previous encounter with the Intelligence. Professor Travers accidentally reactivated a Yeti, thus giving the Intelligence the ammunition it needed to plan another invasion attempt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The aim is simple: the Intelligence wants to drain the Doctor''s mind. Army forces, led by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, help the Doctor and his team race against time to stop them in their mission. Can they make it?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7543'),
(2971, 'Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7536'),
(2972, 'Doctor Who: The Witch Hunters', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The original Doctor Who (from the 1960s) attempts repairs to the Tardis. Unfortunately, he chooses Salem, Massachusetts at the time of the witch hunts, as the place to do the job. The result is that he and his crew are thrown into danger by Susan''s latent telepathic powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5876'),
(2973, 'Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor has been staying on the planet Hitchemus for the past few months where he has been learning to play the violin from gifted young composer Karl Hassan. Hitchemus is a planet with two distinctive features -- the humans who live there have a formidable reputation for composing, playing and appreciating a wide range of music -- while its tiger population is showing unusual signs of intelligence.Although Anji is greatly unnerved by the sight of a tiger taking a book out of a library, no one is prepared for the day when the tigers take over the planet. Their demands are unusual though -- they want to be taught to play instruments as well as the humans, and to this end kidnap all of the planet''s most eminent musicians.Why are these tigers so intellectually advanced, and can the population of Hitchemus resolve their conflict to avoid civil war? The Doctor sympathises with the tigers and humans alike, but needs to help both parties to resolve their differences before they both begin tosee him as a traitor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5867'),
(2974, 'Doctor Who: The Zarbi', 'Bill Strutton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral plane and the TARDIS materialises in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents them from leaving. Is it a natural phenomenon or some malevolent intelligence?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Uncanny occurrences are followed by encounters with the deadly Zarbi and their unknown leader, to whom the travellers fall prey. With their allies, the Menoptra, the travellers must discover how to immobilise the Zarbi, save the Menoptra from massacre and rid the planet of this powerful and horrifying evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As a growing web building begins to envelop the planet, imprisoning the travellers in its mesh, the Doctor must consult all of his wisdom to escape its hypnotic power. But what is at the centre of the web and from where does it draw its power?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7495'),
(2975, 'Doctor Who: Theatre of War', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    <i>\n     Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.\n    </i>\n    Â \n    <br />\n    Ace stared at the Doctor. He nodded. â€˜Yes, Ace. Weâ€™re in Elsinore. And I donâ€™t like it either.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Five years ago, an archeological expedition came to Menaxus to explore the ruins of an ancient theatre. All but one of the visitors died horribly, and the planet was abandoned, bathed in lethal radiation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the only survivor has returned, determined to uncover the theatreâ€™s secrets whatever the cost. Among her archaeological team is a certain Professor Bernice Summerfield.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the deaths begin again, while the front line of an interstellar war moves ever closer. Desperate for help, Bernice tries to summon her companions. But when the TARDIS lands on the planet, the Doctor finds himself participating in a frighteningly real performance of Shakespeareâ€™s greatest tragedy. And he begins to realize that the truth about Menaxus may be far stranger than anyone imagines.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5661'),
(2976, 'Doctor Who: Three Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, Doctors One, Two, and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthless enemy - Omega. Once a Time Lord, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe. Katy Manning reads Terrance Dicksâ€™ complete and unabridged novelization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7569'),
(2977, 'Doctor Who: Time and Relative', 'Kim Newman &amp; Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7901'),
(2978, 'Doctor Who: Time and the Rani', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    After being attacked by the evil Rani, the TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    In his post-regenerative confusion the Doctor is separated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomanic scheme to construct a giant time manipulator.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani''s ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani''s control of their planet.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani''s plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4445'),
(2979, 'Doctor Who: Time Flight', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Concorde vanishes in midflight, Doctor Who decides to follow its exact route in another Concorde in order to determine exactly where in time or space the ship landed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5609'),
(2980, 'Doctor Who: Time Warrior', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   AÂ spacecraft crashes near the castle of a robber baron in the Middle Ages, and the Sontaran Warrior within needs help with its repair. Unable to obtain the technical expertise he requires, he ventures forward in time to the 20th century and begins kidnapping scientists.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This attracts the attention of UNIT and the Doctor, who follows the trail back through time, unknowingly taking a young stowaway with him...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7590'),
(2981, 'Doctor Who: Time Zero', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied. At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition''s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice. Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn''t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved? Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5653'),
(2982, 'Doctor Who: Timelash', 'Glen McCoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The planet Karfel is an oppressed world ruled over by a cruel tyrant - the Borad. Anyone opposing his will is cast out through a time tunnel known as the Timelash.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor arrives he is asked to rescue a woman, Vena, who has been sent through the Timelash to Earth with a precious amulet the Borad needs returned. If the Doctor refuses, the life of his companion, Peri, is forfeit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is the truth behind the terrible power of the Borad? Why is he desperate for all-out war with the neighbouring planet of Bandril? The Doctor falls in with the rebels, but to defeat the Borad means a one-to-one confrontation in the mad scientist''s inner sanctum - and unless he acts quickly, Peri may undergo a terrifying change...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5066'),
(2983, 'Doctor Who: Timeless', 'Stephen Cole &amp; Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why ''our'' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard -- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime. Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji''s become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe''s long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a killing ground spawned before time and space began.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7887'),
(2984, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Apocalypse', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has tracked the Timewyrm to the edge of the Universe and the end of time -- to the lush planet Kirith, a paradise inhabited by a physically perfect race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace is not impressed. Kirith has all the appeal of a wet weekend in Margate, and its inhabitants look like third-rate Aussie soap stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is troubled, too: If the Timewyrm is here, why canâ€™t he find her? Why have the elite Panjistri lied consistently to the Kirithons they govern? And is it possible that the catastrophe that he feels impending is the result of his own past actions?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5707'),
(2985, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7574'),
(2986, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Genesis', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind''s long progress to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctorâ€™s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6795'),
(2987, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. Heâ€™s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothyâ€™s skull. She dies instantly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8649'),
(2988, 'Doctor Who: To the Slaughter', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxy''s next megastar designer on the future equivalent of "Changing Planets?"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7884'),
(2989, 'Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the universe without trace. An expedition from Earth arrives on Telos â€” homeworld of the Cybermen â€” to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first mysterious death occurs. With the group now stranded on Telos, it becomes clear that the Cybermen may not be as ''dead'' as it was first thought...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Beneath the planet''s surface, giant ice-tombs hold the last remains of the Cybermen in a frozen sleep. And someone is working to re-activate them from their slumber...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6210'),
(2990, 'Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Children make better soldiers,â€™ said the teddy bear. â€˜They kill without compunction.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves unwilling guests on the planet Qâ€™ell, where a similar war still rages - and has done for fourteen hundred years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Qâ€™ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer any word for peace.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6674'),
(2991, 'Doctor Who: Trace Memory', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers it explodes, killing all but one; a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini. Fifty-eight years later a radioactive source somewhere inside Torchwood leads the team to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults. As they question the intruder, it becomes apparent that each of them has met him in the past. All of them remember him talking incoherently about terrifying "Men In Bowler Hats" and little more, but it''s Jack who remembers him best of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7714'),
(2992, 'Doctor Who: Trading Futures', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On an Earth of the not-so distant future, Anji is surprised by the way the world has developed. The EU and US have become rivals, and a situation in North Africa, in which they both have interests that they wish to protect, threatens to turn into full-scale war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6885'),
(2993, 'Doctor Who: Tragedy Day', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Tomorrow, Tragedy Day. Tomorrow, total control.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In Empire City on the planet Olleril, itâ€™s time for the annual Tragedy Day -- when the privileged few celebrate their generosity to the masses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this year, something is different. Hideous creatures infest the waters around an island that doesnâ€™t officially exist. Assassins arrive to carry out a killing that may endanger the entire universe. A being known as the Supreme One tests horrific weapons. And a secret order of monks observes the growing chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Five minutes after they arrive on Olleril, the TARDIS crew know they want to leave. But Ace is imprisoned in a sinister refugee camp, and Bernice and the Doctor are in the custody of a brutal police gang. There is no way out.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4798'),
(2994, 'Doctor Who: Transit', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Oh no, not again...â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one manâ€™s human being is anotherâ€™s psychotic killing machine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4717'),
(2995, 'Doctor Who: Trial of a Time Lord : Mindwarp', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On trial for his life, Doctor Who must prove that the evidence presented by the prosecution is false\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6951'),
(2996, 'Doctor Who: Ultimate Treasure', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago...\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan''s hoard - the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains sceptical. What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they each race to be the first to the treasure. And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7417'),
(2997, 'Doctor Who: Underworld', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of Minyan race. During the perilous voyage, the astronauts'' craft plunges into the heart of a recently formed planet, wherein an awesome secret is hidden.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   How will the Minyan quest end? What must the Doctor wrest from the Heart of the Oracle?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7589'),
(2998, 'Doctor Who: Unnatural History', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor regenerated in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium. When he returns there a few years later, it seems the catastrophic events that nearly sent the whole of Earth into cosmic oblivion have taken their toll. San Francisco was the anchor point, and a breach between dimensions has sprung up. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures have turned up -- griffins, unicorns -- and things more sinister.The Doctor''s companion Sam is exposed and becomes a changed person -- literally. Her hair is dark, she has never met the Doctor in her life. With Fitz, he is able to convince her to help them put things right -- to sacrifice herself so that the old Sam may return. For stalking the turbulent streets is the sinister Unnaturalist -- a collector of genetic curios whose private collection will be much enriched by the Time Travelers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5812'),
(2999, 'Doctor Who: Vampire Science', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5868'),
(3000, 'Doctor Who: Vanderdeken&#39;s Children', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7422'),
(3001, 'Doctor Who: Vanishing Point', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Khnemu is a closed system where space travel is prohibited by the white and black holes that distantly ring the galaxy. Each person on the planet carries in their genes a hereditary "Godswitch" which enables "God" to monitor their every move. People on their deathbeds are told the meaning of their life by God, but increasing numbers of people seem to be dying of unnatural causes. It is the job of the Destinists to investigate these people''s lifestyles in order to explain the reasons for their premature deaths to their families.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7886'),
(3002, 'Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Varos the descendants of a prison planet are force-fed a diet of endless video nasties, execution is spectacle and torture is high entertainment. The Tardis arrives desperately short of Zeiton 7 ore to power its engines, and Doctor Who knows that Varos is the only place it can be found.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6950'),
(3003, 'Doctor Who: Verdigris', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the hospital, they are watched by an oddly-dressed boy and gift, who quickly vanish. Meanwhile the train passengers die and crumble into a green powder -- Verdigris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6168'),
(3004, 'Doctor Who: War Games', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1979, the Doctor and his companions are faced by an evil of such magnitude they are forced to turn to the only people that can help themâ€”the Time Lords.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6218'),
(3005, 'Doctor Who: War Machine', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   ondon, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his ''secretary'' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life''s work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor''s travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer''s link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8704'),
(3006, 'Doctor Who: War of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6790'),
(3007, 'Doctor Who: Warchild', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Adolescence is a difficult time. Especially when you have the power to rule the world.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Creed is just an ordinary guy -- as ordinary as you can be when youâ€™re a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter. His youngest child seems able to read his mind. His oldest boy, ricky, may posssess a stranger and far more frightening power. And others seem interested in his â€˜giftedâ€™ children -- sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Around the world, the Doctorâ€™s companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right. Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe -- and the evolution of mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6248'),
(3008, 'Doctor Who: Warlock', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Thereâ€™s a strange new drug on the street. Itâ€™s called warlock and some people say itâ€™s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This disturbing sequel toÂ \n   <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na06.htm">\n    Warhead\n   </a>\n   Â moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6246'),
(3009, 'Doctor Who: Warmonger', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends. How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious ''General'' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called ''Supremo'', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri? The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo. It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7572'),
(3010, 'Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of a Doctor Who television script. The Doctor and Jo simply meant to take a ride in the Tardis to check that it was working. But instead, the Tardis takes them to Peladon, a medieval world which is seeking membership of the Galactic Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7597'),
(3011, 'Doctor Who: Warriors&#39; Gate', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS while the Doctor is searching for a way out of E-Space. It steers them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a sinister spaceship.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The void is actually a gateway to the past and future, a cosmic mirror guarded by axe-wielding robots. And the creature that brought them here is Biroc, a Tharil, a race doomed to be hunted and enslaved. Biroc seeks freedom for his people, while the captain of the spaceship seeks escape from the alternative universe -- and will kill every Tharil he holds to break free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The gateway offers the only exit, but the void is contracting. Are the Doctor and his friends fated to spend eternity in E-Space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6753'),
(3012, 'Doctor Who: Wetworld', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday''s swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can''t protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they''re only just starting to realise that Sunday''s wildlife isn''t as harmless as it first seems. Why are the native otters behaving so strangely, and what is the creature in the swamps that is so interested in the humans, and the new arrivals? The Doctor and Martha must fight to ensure that human intelligence doesn''t become the greatest danger of all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Michalowski is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels Relative Dementias and Halflife\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7226'),
(3013, 'Doctor Who: White Darkness', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion, Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6403');
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(3014, 'Doctor Who: Winner Takes All', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth to visit Rose''s mum, and become intrigued by the latest craze -- the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans. Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers - on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6457'),
(3015, 'Doctor Who: Wishing Well', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor''s warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they''ll wish they had...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5518'),
(3016, 'Doctor Who: Wolfsbane', 'Jac Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7682'),
(3017, 'Doctor Who: Wonderland', 'Mark Chadbourn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco 1967. A place of love and peace as the hippy movement is in full swing. Summer, however, has lost her boyfriend, and fears him dead, destroyed by a new drug: Blue Moonbeam. Her only friends are 3 English tourists: Ben and Polly, and their mysterious guardian and friend the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5397'),
(3018, 'Doctor Who: Wooden Heart', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted and spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all... Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious, fogbound village - a village traumatised by missing children and tales of its own destruction...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8490'),
(3019, 'Doctor Who: World Game', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7640'),
(3020, 'Doctor Who: Zamper', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the far side of a break in space is the planet Zamper, target for the last warriors of the Chelonian empire: can the Doctor defeat them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4794'),
(3021, 'Doctor Who: Zeta Major', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter.Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets -- with terrifyingly dangerous results.Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8059'),
(3022, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4890'),
(3023, 'Doctored Evidence', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady''s maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides--unofficially--to take on the case himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(3024, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5327'),
(3025, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(3026, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick''s impressive versatility. Characters vary from feuding prospectors on a heat-scoured Venus in Tin Marsh to clients of The Bordello in Faerie. On one end of the mood spectrum are the three elegantly wry adventures of Darger and Surplus, roguish postapocalypse con artists; on the other is the gentle Triceratops Summer, told in a matter-of-fact, laconic style that at first seems to show wonderful things becoming commonplace and then reveals that the familiar can still be wonderful. Swanwick (_The Iron Dragon''s Daughter_) pulls apart overused situations to see what makes them tick and then constructs fresh, surprising plots from the pieces. The locked-room mystery may seem hopelessly stale, but not when it''s A Small Room in Koboldtown, where voodoo beings and sleazy politics abound. Readers tired of conventional fantasy and SF will find this collection of intriguing characters and lovingly told stories deeply refreshing.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rounding up all Swanwick''s stories to date about unusually nondescript human Darger and genetically modified dog Surplus, a previously unpublished novella, and three Hugo-winning pieces, this generous volume opens with "Hello, Said the Stick," in which a soldier en route to battle picks up a talking stick that turns out to be unwontedly dangerous. The new publication, "The Skysailor''s Tale," is an adventure on board a British airship claiming new lands for Queen Titania that is framed as a father telling his son about some of his strange doings when a lad. The Darger and Surplus capers, occuring after the age of computers in a suspiciously nineteenth-century-ish though far-future Europe, are satisfying tales of plotting and heists involving a great team, indeed. The closer, "Urdumheim," is the brilliantly imagined story of King Nimrod and the time when the world was new, people didn''t die, and there was only one language. Swanwick''s stories are possessed of sufficient depth and generic variety to satisfy quite a range of genre tastes. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7107'),
(3027, 'The Dog Who Came in from the Cold', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ''moved house'' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(3028, 'A Dog&#39;s Purpose', 'W. Bruce Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the remarkable story of one endearing dogâ€™s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dogâ€™s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life''s most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Baileyâ€™s search for his new lifeâ€™s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Baileyâ€™s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wondersÂ—will he ever find his purpose?Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog''s Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog''s many lives, but also a dog''s-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man''s best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3692'),
(3029, 'The dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1630'),
(3030, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded onto the science fiction scene and continue to leave their mark. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic tales of men at arms by SF greats, including Hary Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer, and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A stronghold of bestselling authors\n</p>\n<p>\n Contributors to this collection include such notable authors as Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Richard C. Matheson, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8387'),
(3031, 'The Dogs Of War', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(3032, 'Dolan&#39;s Cadillac', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4308'),
(3033, 'Dolled Up for Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collecting is a family affair. They may disagree on other things, but when it comes to dolls, they share a passion for the most exquisite (and expensive) creations in history. But they have never imagined that doll collecting could inspire foul play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1285'),
(3034, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1284'),
(3035, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Extraordinarily vivid...an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt. PlayboyMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4262'),
(3036, 'Dolphin Island', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  This YA novel was first published in 1963, and was set around fifty years in its then-future. Nearly fifty years on, it has aged remarkably well. Right on the first page, I was taken back to the sensawunda I had when I first read this book as a young teenager around thirty years ago -- not least because in the first paragraph Clarke beautifully evokes the sense of wonder his teenage protagonist feels at the sight of an international cargo vessel and the daydreams it inspires about the places it has seen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  When sixteen-year-old Johnny Clinton finds that the giant hovercraft has made an emergency landing near his home, his curiosity leads him to sneak aboard for a look around, and leaves him trapped as an accidental stowaway when it lifts off again unexpectedly. The orphaned Johnny''s not too upset at the idea of being carried away from the home he''s reluctantly offered by his widowed aunt, so he doesn''t come out of hiding until the craft crash-lands in the Pacific Ocean. The crew have abandoned ship, and Johnny is left with nothing but a packing crate and his own clothing to keep him afloat and sheltered -- until a pod of dolphins find him and and save his life by pushing his makeshift raft the hundred miles to the nearest land.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  That land is Dolphin Island, an island on Australia''s Great Barrier Reef which is home to a research station studying dolphins. The station tracks down where Johnny came from before he''s even released from the infirmary, but he''s offered the chance to stay, an offer he''s quick to accept. He rapidly builds a new life for himself, one that mixes ongoing formal education with involvement in the scientific work on communicating with the dolphins. There''s more than a little adventure as well.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This is an excellent short novel, with an engaging protagonist, an interesting story, and some superb world-building. Clarke drew on his own experience of skin-diving on the Great Barrier Reef to paint a wonderful word picture of the Reef and its marine life. Clarke''s extrapolation of technology hasn''t suffered too badly as reality caught up with it -- it''s different to what really happened, but not so much so that it jars. And glory be, the story hasn''t been visited by the Sexism Fairy. There''s a distinct absence of female characters, but not in a way that says that women shouldn''t worry their pretty little heads about difficult things like science. Definitely one for my keeper collection.Â \n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4835'),
(3037, 'The Dolphins of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars, to colonize the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck in the form of Thread, deadly silver spores that fell like rain from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. And as the human colonists'' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate struggle for survival, the dolphins were forgotten, left to make their own life in the seas of Pern. As time went by, human memory of dolphins was lost to legend, and only the occasional tall tale of "shipfish" rescuing fishermen lost at sea kept the legend alive. But the dolphins never forgot, and from generation to generation they preserved their oral history against the day when humans at last might remember their old friends, and once again the seas would resound with the ringing of the dolphins'' bells from docks and ships... Now, centuries later, the dragonriders of Pern were on the verge of ridding their planet of Thread forever. But T''lion, a young bronze rider, was not old enough to participate in that great venture. Instead, he and his dragon, Gadareth, were relegated to conveying people from place to place - until he and Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, made contact with the legendary "shipfish." And as the dragonriders grappled with the ending of an era, T''lion, Readis, and the dolphins faced the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land- and ocean-dwellers and, in the process, resurrecting the dreams of the first colonists of Pern...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10829'),
(3038, 'Domes of Fire', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six years had passed since the redoubtable knight Sparhawk had triumphed over the evil God Azash and returned to Elenia with Queen Ehlana, his bride. And now a new danger had arisen to threaten the peace of Ehlana''s realm. The trouble had started quietly. At home, bandits began to plague the hill country. In neighboring Lamorkand, the customary political unrest turned ominous with whispers that the bloody heroes of old soon would rise again. And travelers reported that the Trolls had all disappeared from the icy northern haunts of Thalesia. Simple problems, apparently unrelated - until an ambassador arrived from the far-off Tamul empire, begging Sparhawk''s aid. For these same dangers that stalked Ehlana''s kingdom had already struck his realm full-force. The fabled ancient warriors of Tamuli had indeed returned - intent on carnage. Monsters and fell magics had followed, and the havoc and terror they spawned were tearing the empire apart. The empire had sent for the Pandion Knight who had killed the God Azash. If Sparhawk wanted to stop this danger before it could savage his own land, he now must lend his aid. Sparhawk, Ehlana, and their daughter, Princess Danae, agreed to make the grueling trek to the far-distant empire of the east. They traveled in company with a handful of trusted companions: the stalwart champions of the four Militant Orders, the knight Berit, Mirtai the giantess, and the young thief Talen. With the child-goddess Aphrael to speed their journey, they began the treacherous traverse of the utmost reaches of the Daresian continent, to Tamul''s distant capital. There, in the emperor''s glittering court, they would encounter corruption, treachery - and a greater danger than any man had faced before! David Eddings opens a bold new chapter in the saga begun in his bestselling series, The Elenium. In his dazzling trademark style, Eddings weaves a compelling tale of strange magic and breathtaking adventure, staunch friends and deadly enemies. Domes of Fire is a triumph of sheer story-telling magic from fantasy''s premier genius!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10509'),
(3039, 'Dominant Species', 'Michael E. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With technologies and weapon systems torn from the pages of DARPA''s most advanced military programs, DOMINANT SPECIES is an explosive roller-coaster of futuristic military action. This fast-paced, character-driven novel will immerse you in the world of lethal powered armor aboard a ghostly abandoned starship buried miles underground. Somewhere amid the twisted, frozen decks, a group of elite Marines will find themselves trapped in an ancient mystery and a life-or-death battle to see who really is... the DOMINANT SPECIES.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2738'),
(3040, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/914'),
(3041, 'Dominion', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sweet Revenge?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murdersâ€”and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcornâ€™s powerful bestseller spins off from\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Can One Manâ€™s Search for Justice Stand Up to the Forces of Evil Threatening to Destroy Him?\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n A shocking murder drags black newspaper columnist Clarence Abernathy into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict. In a desperate hunt for answers to the violence (and to his own struggles with race and faith), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, Clarence and Ollie soon find themselves sharing the same mission: victory over the forces of darkness vying for dominion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with insightâ€”and with characters so real youâ€™ll never forget themâ€”_Dominion _is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I donâ€™t know when I have read a novel that affected me so profoundly. Randy Alcorn has combined a superb mystery/detective story with a lesson in racial relations in America, gang dynamics and symbols, Christian values, and spiritual warfare.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Dave Kirby, Troy (Alabama) Broadcasting Corporation\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Even better than its predecessorâ€¦Alcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Sean Taylor,\n <em>\n  CBA Marketplace\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Randy Alcorn thoroughly researched his characters, spending time in the inner city with homicide and gang detectives to better create the scenes for this bestselling novel. He set the story in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and the main character, Clarence Abernathy, is a black journalist whose unforgettable father played baseball in the old Negro Leagues. Randy has received many letters from readers who assume he is African American due to his accurate portrayals of racial issues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7895'),
(3042, 'The Dominion War 01: Behind Enemy Lines', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem''Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon(TM) Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of "Deep Space Nine"(TM), Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance.  The "Enterprise"-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to build an artificial wormhole that will allow them to bypass the mined Bajoran wormhole and bring fresh reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant, altering the balance of power irrevocably. If Captain Picard cannot stop the project, the new wormhole will guarantee the ultimate victory of the Dominion!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7251'),
(3043, 'The Dominion War 03: Tunnel Through the Stars', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma Quadrant they came, hordes of merciless Jem''Hadar soldiers commanded by the shape-changing Founders, who seek to conquer both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has joined forces with the Cardassians, and claimed "Deep Space Nine" as their prize, Starfleet is running out of time. As a secret military project nears completion, the destiny of the entire Alpha Quadrant depends on the courage of a few. In the Federation''s time of greatest peril, as the "Starship Enterprise" readies itself for battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads a desperate mission of espionage deep into the heart of the hostile Cardassian Empire. Unless they can prevent the Dominion from creating an artificial wormhole, hordes of fresh Jem''Hadar warriors and Changelings will pour into the Alpha Quadrant, dooming the Federation to unconditional surrender. But there may be a traitor along on the mission and Picard finds he cannot trust even his closest allies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7244'),
(3044, 'Don Pendleton', 'Desperate Cargo (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9492'),
(3045, 'Don Quixote', 'Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra &amp; Edith Grossman &amp; Harold Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edith Grossman''s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you''ve never read Don Quixote.   "Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman''s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman''s translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction.   Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes''s darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake."   From the Introduction by Harold Bloom   Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor''s prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8631'),
(3046, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(3047, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1738'),
(3048, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(3049, 'Don&#39;t Get Too Comfortable', 'David Rakoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They''ll want to stay on guard as _GQ\n <em>\n  writer-at-large Rakoff (\n </em>\n Fraud_) skewers everything and everyone he encounters. His writing is at its best when trained on the pompous and ostentatious: flying on the Concorde or visiting an exclusive, $1,300-a-night resort off Belize. While attending the Paris couture shows, Rakoff reveals the silliness of the whole enterprise with quips about Karl Lagerfeld''s preâ€“weight loss "large doughy rump" and the "dry spaghetti" of one model''s hair. In another piece, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells Rakoff, "this is the Dark Ages" for cosmetic surgery (meaning that future generations will be amazed by the inevitable advances) before taking him into an examination room. While Rakoff''s sardonic wit is clearly his greatest asset, it is sometimes his undoing; the same dry humor that works so well when aimed at the rich and decadent seems mean-spirited when applied to less prominent targets, like "Wildman" Steve Brill, who forages for food in New York City''s parks. Still, Rakoff is generally a knowing observer of "first world problems," and his devilishly uncomfortable commentaries are generally quite funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff''s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff''s cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6517'),
(3050, 'Don&#39;t Look Back', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don''t Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway''s Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town''s tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town''s seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum''s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3046');
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(3051, 'Don&#39;t panic: Douglas Adams &amp; The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2918'),
(3052, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before, he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time to consider: the madness of Galapagos tortoises; the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC''s bass guitarist; the problems and perils of being English; God''s dumbest creation. Then there are the the cars: whether it''s the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, no one does cars like Clarkson. Unmoved by mechanics'' claims and unimpressed by press junkets, he approaches anything on four wheels without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1707'),
(3053, 'Dont Stand Too Close to a Nake', 'Tim Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in Australia and New Zealand in 1994. An autobiographical work by one of America''s leading comedians. Tim Allen explores the mystery of the sexes, making several humorous observations along the way. At the same time he gives an insight into his own life and the twists of fate that led to a comedy career, a television show and a feature film. Also available in paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3414'),
(3054, 'The Doom of Kings: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The return of the shifter Geth!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don Bassingthwaite is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. His latest books are\n  <em>\n   The Yellow Silk\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mistress of the Night\n  </em>\n  (co-authored with Dave Gross), and the books of The Dragon Below trilogy:\n  <em>\n   The Binding Stone\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Grieving Tree\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Killing Song\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Toronto.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6829'),
(3055, 'Doom of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Wielding the powerful, magic-absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to Merilon to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. From the bestselling authors of the Dragonlance series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born without magic, Joram was one of the Dead, denied the throne of Merilon. For years, he lived among outlaws, surviving by wit and sleight-of-hand. Now, wielding the powerful, magic absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to the enchanted Kingdom that once was his home to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. Joined by the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the young mage Mosiah, and the trickster Simkin, Jorma confronts the shattering secret of his past and discovers the ancient prophecy that puts the fate of the world in his hands-the hands that forged\n <em>\n  The Darksword\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5600'),
(3056, 'The Doomed Oasis', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9334'),
(3057, 'The Doomsday Conspiracy', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in the Swiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the event. A man whose obsession with his covert assignments has cost him the only woman he can ever love, Bellamy now faces the impossible. But as he searches for clues from Rome to Budapest to Texas, this mission blows up in his face -- and rips the lid off an incredible conspiracy that stretches around the globe and even into space...Alone and betrayed on every side, Bellamy must run for his life -- holding an astonishing secret and the key to the planet''s very survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3239'),
(3058, 'Doomsday Prophecy', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deadly conspiracy''Åš An ancient prophecy''Åš A race to prevent Armageddon''ÅšA thrilling, high-octane race to save civilisation that will engross fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims in favour of the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. Searching for missing biblical archaeologist ZoÃ« Bradbury, Ben finds himself embroiled in his riskiest mission yet. What is the ancient secret that ZoÃ« uncovered? And just who is willing to do anything to protect it? The investigation leads Ben from Greece to the American Deep South and the holy city of Jerusalem, and he soon discovers that it''s not just his and ZoÃ«''s lives on the line, but those of millions, threatened by a fundamentalist plot to gain ultimate power. The stakes are terrifyingly high as Ben races to prevent a disaster that could kick-start apocalyptic events as foretold by the Book of Revelation...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6743'),
(3059, 'Doomsday World', 'Peter David &amp; Carmen Carter &amp; Michael Jan Friedman &amp; Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K''vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the "Enterprise(TM)" and its crew are dispatched to help uncover.  Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf soon find themselves cut off from the "Enterprise" -- and the prime suspects in a series of terrorist attacks. The three "Enterprise" crewmen are imprisoned, relations between the K''vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos'' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6759'),
(3060, 'Doomstalker', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignorance and poverty, but elsewhere the silth rule a world of technology and spaceflight. In this novel, Marilka is a ten year old meth in a litter of three pups. Her dam is Skiljan, head of a loghouse in the Degnan packstead. Kublin is another pup in the litter. He is small and weak, but has more intelligence than the other male littermate Zamberlin. In this story, Marilka and Kublin like to explore together. Marilka has less fear -- as appropriate for a female -- but Kublin follows her into very fearful situations. They have been testing their limits with the Machen Cave, where the Wise hold their rituals. Kublin detects something within the cave, but Marilka can only sense the presence of old Pohsit, the sagan of the Wise. But as she gets closer, Marilka begins to detects something scary within the cave. Both decide to go elsewhere. Pohsit has decided that Marilka is a silth. Marilka doesn''t know what a silth is, but Pohsit wants her dead. And the death of Marilka will also lead to the death of her littermates. Marilka and Kublin learn to run around and tire out Pohsit. But they keep returning to the cave. Although Marilka can now sense the thing, she still doesn''t know what it is. Then the worse winter in living memory comes to the Upper Ponath. The Degnan huntresses gather meat and the males collect plants and firewood. Then the nomads invade the Upper Ponath in large numbers. Other meth packsteads in the area are overwhelmed. Then hundreds of nomads come to Degnan. The nomads lose many to the Degnan pack, but they eventually overrun the packstead. Runners sent to the packfast return with three silth. These kill or drive away the remaining nomads, but they take the three Degnan survivors back to the packfast. They insist that Marilka shall become a sister, as the silth call themselves. This tale exposes Marilka to advanced technology, but doesn''t lead her to admiration of the sisters. She is trained in three ways, including the use of her powers. But much is withheld from her by the sisters. This story presents a change in the author''s style. Over a decade after his first novel -- The Heirs of Babylon -- and the start of five series, the author tries something new. His previous works were about human cultures or something very similar. In this tale, the author depicts truly alien creatures loosely based on wolves. Then he shows a cultural clash between the primitives and the more advanced society. And he shows this conflict through the eyes of a primitive. This story ends with a cliffhanger. The next installment -- Warlock -- will reveal the extend of the disaster. Read and enjoy! Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone who enjoys tales of alien cultures, witch powers, and young heroines. -Arthur W. Jordin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1895'),
(3061, 'The Door Into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to be launched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "Total Recall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. To celebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author''s classic works back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door into Summer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip Van Winkle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3956'),
(3062, 'The Door of the Unreal', 'Gerald Biss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Werewolves Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Door of the Unreal THE BRIGHTON ROAD My name is Lincoln Osgood, my age thirty, my nationality American, my means -- well, such as never to cause me a moment''s anxiety or the negation of any fad; my hobbies have always been travel and science, the latter more particularly in its human than in its mechanical aspects. I am not, if I may say so, in any way the "Yankee millionaire" of popular fiction or even of fact. I both write and talk the King''s English, I trust; and to tell the truth, I was educated up at Christ Church, Oxford, which is my first link with these extraordinary incidents, which it has now fallen to my lot to chronicle. It was up at Oxford ten years ago that I first met Burgess Clymping, with whom, from the first night we sat next to each other in the wonderful old hall of the House with its centuries of historical portraits, I struck up the great friendship of my life. He was a year younger than I, the owner of a nice property in Sussex and had seen but little of life in those days, whereas I had travelled a lot even then for my age. It is the accident of this long friendship and my travels in obscure and unfrequented parts that brought me into the circle of the strange doings I am about to relate -- to which, by good luck, I held the key. I am in no way the hero of the piece -- if hero, in the conventional sense, there be at all -- not even the protagonist, as the Greeks used to call it. I am merely the "handy man" of the play, so to speak, who chanced into the middle of this unconventional drama at its height, and helped to see it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(3063, 'The Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(3064, 'Doorsways in the Sand', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ??\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9055'),
(3065, 'The Dope Thief', 'Dennis Tafoya', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ray and his best friend, Manny, close ever since they met in juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam going: With a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they pose as federal agents and rip off small-time drug dealers, taking their money and drugs and disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Itâ€™s the perfect sting: the dealers they target are too small to look for revenge and too guilty to call the police, nobody has to die, nobody innocent gets hurt, and Ray and Manny score plenty.But it canâ€™t last forever. Eventually, they choose the wrong mark and walk out with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a heavy hitter, who is more than willing to kill to get his money back, is coming after them. Now Ray couldnâ€™t care less about the score. He wants out---out of the scam, out of a life he feels like he never chose. Whether the victim of his latest job---not to mention his partner---will let him is another question entirely.Dennis Tafoya brings a rich, passionate, and accomplished new voice to the explosive story of a small-time crook with everything to lose in Dope Thief, his outstanding hardboiled debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1133'),
(3066, 'Doppelgangster', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Disappearing Nightly\n  </em>\n  teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York''s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther''s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Laura Resnick''s\n  <em>\n   Doppelgangster\n  </em>\n  , the New York actress is ''resting'' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it''s up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn''t believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."\n  <br />\n  --_New York Times_ bestselling author Mary Jo Putney\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5908'),
(3067, 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3174'),
(3068, 'The Double Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin''s Men at War series deceive the Germans in this solid sixth installment (after 2006''s The Saboteurs) from the bestselling author and his son, Butterworth. In 1943, the OSS''s William J. Wild Bill Donovan spearheads a disinformation effort to trick the Nazis into believing that the western Allies won''t invade the European continent through Sicily. One of Donovan''s most accomplished operatives, USAAF Maj. Richard Canidy, devises a clever scheme (albeit one familiar to readers of Ewen Montagu''s The Man Who Never Was) to plant phony plans on a corpse, along with love letters drafted by the requisite attractive female spy. Some fans may find the prominent role of the real-life celebrities a distraction, but all will enjoy the suspenseful ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Men at War series continues with this typically exciting adventure. The plucky, resourceful agents of the Office of Strategic Services face what could be their toughest assignment: to convince Adolf Hitler that the Allied invasion of Europe will not take place at Normandy. This is the second novel Griffin has cowritten with his son, but it retains all of the veteran author''s trademarks: well-researched plot; realistic characters, real and fictional; and snappy dialogue. How Griffin manages to turn out so many novels without resorting to by-the-numbers plotting and cutout characters is a mystery, but as long as he keeps delivering the goods, his legions of fans will be content. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6078'),
(3069, 'The Double Bind', 'Chris Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermontâ€™s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he wonâ€™t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secretâ€“a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsbyâ€™s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4409'),
(3070, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(3071, 'Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There''s only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he''s after is a genius of terror--and he''s after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he''ll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2048'),
(3072, 'Double Dare', 'Tawny Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wicked**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Audra Walker''s old crowd thought she''d turned her back on them and what they liked best-namely hot sex and available men. But they were so wrongâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wanton**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And Audra was in the mood to prove it. How? By taking their dare. The challenge? To seduce the very next man through the club doorâ€”regardless of who he wasâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wanted**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What the classy chick at the bar saw in his suspect was anybody''s guess. But undercover cop Jesse Martinez would make it his business to find out. Because no guyâ€”unless he was dead from the neck downâ€”would miss the chance to investigate the curvy brunette, tooâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8285'),
(3073, 'Double Deuce', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a teenaged girl and her infant daughter are shot to death outside the Double Deuce housing project, tenants of the gang-plagued neighborhood turn to Hawk for help. He, in turn, enlists Spenser''s aid in finding the killer. Their investigation leads them to a dark world of drugs, death, and despair. Previous publisher: Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4026'),
(3074, 'Double Deuce (1992)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 19', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10555'),
(3075, 'Double Helix 01: Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only the first year of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  -D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stardate: 41211.0 Captain''s Log, Supplemental\n </p>\n <p>\n  The_ Enterprise_ continues on its mission to Archaria III, a planet jointly colonized by humans and Peladians. A new disease has cropped up, terrifying the inhabitants. So far, more than five thousand cases have been confirmed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only drug at all effective in treating this disease is a rare compound called Tricillin PDF, which seems to prolong life, though only for a week at most. The\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  will deliver a supply of the drug, quarantine the planet, then stay to oversee research into finding a cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  " -- And render whatever aid the Archarians require until the emergency is over," Captain Picard said, leaning forward at the conference table and gazing at each of his senior staff in turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Riker, Geordi La Forge, and Worf looked uncomfortable at the mention of the plague, and he didn''t blame them; he had always felt ill at ease when faced with intangible dangers. Deanna Troi looked deeply concerned, and Dr. Crusher looked...intrigued?\n  <em>\n   She has dealt with plagues before,\n  </em>\n  Picard reminded himself.\n  <em>\n   She knows how to contain them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The persistent low rumble of a starship at maximum warp filled the room. None of his crew spoke.\n  <em>\n   They feel the tension building already,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Captain," Dr. Crusher finally said, "I may have to bring samples of this virus aboard the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for study, and perhaps a few patients."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Understood, Doctor. So long as all necessary security precautions are maintained, I see no problem. In the meantime" -- he slid a data padd across the conference table to her -- "the doctors of Archo City Hospital have prepared a full report, which you may find useful."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you." She pulled the padd in front of herself and began skimming the opening remarks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something else is troubling you, sir," Deanna Troi said softly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard hesitated, then gave a curt nod. Best to get it out in the open. "What disturbs me most is the thought that this whole problem may be of our own manufacture...a biological weapon."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Impossible -- how could that be?" Riker said, shaking his head dismissively. "Legalities aside, it''s against everything the Federation stands for!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We do have treaties with most sentient races which prevent the development and use of biological weapons," Data said. "With all due respect, sir, the deployment of a genetically designed plague on a remote agricultural world such as Archaria III seems highly unlikely."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not necessarily," Picard said. He cleared his throat. "Archaria III is in many ways a throwback to human civilization two or three hundred years ago. It was settled by religious zealots early in the twenty-second century, and although they have largely come into the Federation''s fold, old prejudices and resentments still bubble to the surface from time to time." The room was quiet for a moment while Picard allowed his point to sink in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker finally broke the silence. "Sir, if I may ask, what is it that leads you to conclude this disease is a weapon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Might\n  </em>\n  be a weapon, Number One. A radical political group called the Purity League claims the plague is an act of God against ''blasphemous unnatural unions.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker gave him a blank stare. "Sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard cleared his throat.\n  <em>\n   How to phrase this delicately.\n  </em>\n  He said, "The Purity League is opposed to interspecies mating -- ''mixers'' as they call such people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the rumble of the ship''s engines filled the room.\n  <em>\n   They can''t believe it, either,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n  <em>\n   Humanity is supposed to be beyond such prejudices.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He noticed that Deanna Troi, half human and half Betazoid herself, hid her inner feelings behind a mask of professional calm. He would have given a lot to know her true reaction. Undoubtedly she was even more shocked and horrified than he had been.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To think that some humans are still capable of such petty resentments...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He forced himself back to the problem at hand. "Mixers -- or anyone else suspected of adulterating the purity of the human race -- are treated as second-class citizens in many places on Archaria III," he continued. "Officially such prejudices are prohibited, of course, but in the backwater towns discrimination apparently still runs rampant. Only in the half-dozen large cities do humans and Peladians work and live together with something approaching harmony. In the country, things have apparently become so bad that most full-blooded Peladians now live in isolated enclaves surrounded by their own kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker said, "That sounds like a ghetto system."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is. Those of mixed heritage are even less fortunate, since they belong fully to neither the human nor the Peladian world. They were relocating to the cities in record numbers -- until the plague struck. Now they''re fleeing into the countryside once more, living like vagabonds in tent camps." Picard looked down at his clenched, interlaced fingers resting uneasily on the table. He didn''t bother to feign relaxation. Sometimes it was good for the crew to see him share their anger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deanna Troi asked, "How many people of mixed blood are on the planet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody is quite sure. Estimates range from between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Obviously, those mixers who most closely resemble humans hide the truth to avoid conflict with the Purity League."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data said, "I am aware of the Purity League, sir. The Federation has monitored their activities for many years, but has deemed them a minor nuisance with little actual influence."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Their influence is growing," Picard said firmly. The private reports he had read gave alarming statistics; according to confidential surveys, fully half of the planet''s human population harbored feelings of support for the Purity League, though the League''s actual membership numbers were open to conjecture. It was certainly in the tens of thousands if not the hundreds of thousands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He went on. "The Purity League''s leader, Father Veritas, is using the plague as a rallying point for anti-alien sentiment. Apparently Veritas is responsible for inciting dozens of race riots in the last few months. The whole planet is in turmoil. The nonhuman population -- and especially the partly human population -- is running scared. The plague''s growth has only served to make the situation worse."\n  <em>\n   "Veritas," indeed,\n  </em>\n  he thought, grimacing.\n  <em>\n   If ever there was a misnomer...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sir," said Deanna Troi, "Archaria III has a long history of interspecies problems, including wars, assassinations, and racism. Its history is part of several planetary evolution courses at the Academy. I believe everyone here has studied it to some degree."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A general murmur of agreement came from the rest of his senior staff. Picard found himself surprised -- it hadn''t been part of the curriculum when he had studied at the Academy -- but he was pleased.\n  <em>\n   They''re keeping up with the times.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is correct, sir," said Data. "It was settled in 2102 by a human sect of religious fundamentalists called the Brotherhood. Seven years later, these human settlers encountered Peladian settlers, who had colonized the planet almost simultaneously."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard had never seen a Peladian and knew little about them, beyond the fact that they were humanoid, militant about privacy, and generally considered pacifists...except when provoked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data went on, "After a series of small wars, as the two sides got to know each other, peaceful relations and coexistence began. According to the information I have accessed, with the increasing agricultural importance of Archaria III their differences were largely put aside, in favor of economic cooperation."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is the public story," Picard said. He folded his arms and frowned a bit. "There have always been tensions. Until Father Veritas and the Purity League burst onto the scene sixteen years\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5816'),
(3076, 'Double Helix 02: Vectors', 'Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- even to the Cardassian space station that will someday be known as\n  <em>\n   Deep Space Nineâ„¢.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor, striking down both the enslaved Bajorans and Cardassian oppressors, who blame each other for the growing epidemic. Dr. Katherine Pulaski, late of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  must work with the tyrannical Gul Dukat, as well as a rebel spy named Kira Nerys, to discover the true source of an infection that threatens them all!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor. Its name was as dark as its corridors. He actually found himself seeking the light, but carefully. Oh, so carefully. Sometimes his cloak malfunctioned, and he was seen. Partially, like a heat shimmer across desert sand, or an electronic memory buried in an old computer. But he was seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t dare make that mistake here. The General didn''t tolerate mistakes from his agents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stood in the shadows just to the left of the main entrance to a place called Quark''s Bar. The area the Ferengi bartender had called the Promenade lay before him, turning away to the right, bending with the shape of the station design. The walls were gray, the floors gray, everything was gray. The Cardassians had made no effort to decorate this place. Even the bar seemed dismal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered and drew his cape around his body. He was glad he wouldn''t have to stay here too long. This Terok Nor reminded him of his prison cell. He had lost too many years of his life there. He had spent too much time staring at gray metal walls, dreaming of escape. The metal walls, the ringing sound of boots against hard surfaces, the stench of fear -- impossible to hide, even though the Cardassians kept their Bajoran prisoners separate from the rest of the population -- permeated the place. If he shut his eyes, his other senses would find nothing to distinguish Terok Nor from that hideous cell, from that prison he had finally left. The prison had changed him -- made him bitter, made him wiser, made him more careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oh, so careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two Cardassian guards walked the wide passage. Their gray skin matched the depressing decor. The only thing that seemed wrong to him was the heat. By rights this station should have been as cold as its walls, but it wasn''t. The heat was thick and nearly unbearable. He didn''t know how anyone could stand being here for long. The heat also accentuated the smells: the processed air, the unwashed bodies, the Rokassa juice wafting out from the bar. The sensations were almost too much for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He reminded himself that Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground. Two races, living in close proximity, with others coming and going. Their petty differences didn''t matter. That one race kept the other prisoner, that one made the other labor in uridium processing were merely details. The important factor was much larger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground for the General. A closed system, for the most part. But anyone entering the system -- or departing the system -- would leave a record. A trail he could follow, should he so choose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t choose at the moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now he was most interested in Terok Nor itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To his right in the bar, crowds of uridium freighter pilots and crews shouted and laughed, the sounds echoing off the high ceilings. A few moments before, he''d been in there sitting at the bar, watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trying to stay cool and block out the uridium smell with the odor of one of the pilots'' Gamzian wine. But it hadn''t helped, and besides, he couldn''t see that well or hear that clearly with his cloak on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clang from the far end of the Promenade caught his attention. One of the Cardassian guards had dropped his phaser pistol, then grabbed the wall as if for support. The other guard bent over him, then glanced from side to side, as if worried that a Bajoran might see and take advantage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was too far away to hear their words. The first guard shrugged the other off. The second guard picked up the pistol and spoke on his communicator. Two guards who had apparently been patrolling just out of his line of sight ran toward the far end of the Promenade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first guard put an arm around the second, who again shrugged him off. The second tried to stand, and nearly collapsed. The first guard supported him, and together they walked along the walls, keeping as far out of sight as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He felt excitement flash through him, and he tamped it down. He couldn''t let his emotions interfere with his observations. This might be nothing. It was a bit early to see results. He hadn''t expected anything so soon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guards passed him. He had to press himself against the gray metal so that they wouldn''t brush him. They weren''t conversing, although he wished they would. He wanted to know exactly what had happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He needed to know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He had moved to follow the guards, but the Promenade gave him no cover. So he remained in the shadows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He would wait here, in the heat and the stench, just as he had done in his cell. He was good at waiting, especially when he knew it would end. And it would end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon he would get his answer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6014');
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(3077, 'Double Helix 03: Red Sector', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again -- to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An artificial virus has infected the entire Romulan ruling family. Ambassador Spock must put aside his efforts at unification to summon his old friend, Dr. Leonard McCoy, who discovers that the only hope for a cure lies with a long lost Romulan heir whose blood and tissues have not been contaminated by the virus. But can the heir be found before the collapse of a ruling dynasty throws the entire Empire into chaos?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "ATTENTION! THIS IS A STARFLEET SPECIAL SECURITY TY FORCES EVACUATION SQUAD! WE ARE ABOUT TO LAND A DIPLOMATIC COACH AND FIVE FIGHTER ESCORTS. ALL CIVILIANS MUST CLEAR THE COURTYARD IMMEDIATELY! ANYONE REMAINING WILL BE STUNNED AND REMOVED TO A SECURITY BRIG! ALL PERSONS...ATTENTION!...THEY''RE NOT CLEARING OUT. CAN THEY EVEN HEAR ME? PERRATON, IS THE TRANSLATOR ON? PECAN, GET YOUR WING BACK INTO FORMATION! WHERE''S THE BROADCAST GREENLIGHT? WHAT KIND OF DUNSELS INSTALLED THIS SYSTEM?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AH, PERRATON HERE...STILES, BE AWARE THE BROADCAST SYSTEM IS GREEN AND TRANSLATING. YOU JUST CALLED THE WHOLE PLANET A BUNCH OF DUNSELS."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "SHUT IT DOWN!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "OAK ONE, THIS IS BRAZIL. FORMATION''S SHIFTING STARBOARD. THE EMBASSY''S GOT A BIG GARGOYLE ON IT AND I''M ABOUT TO CLEAN ITS TEETH."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "LATERAL THRUST. ABORT LANDING PATTERN -- PERRATON, WOULD YOU RED THE P.A. BEFORE I COUGH UP A LUNG?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that. Public address speakers are shut down. Fighter formation''s still too cramped for diamond grid, Stiles. Acorn just bumped a water tower."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All wings, pull up! We''ll modify formation and try our approach again. Did the whole city hear us arguing?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They heard\n  <em>\n   you\n  </em>\n  arguing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ahhh, I should''ve become a medic...Nuts, Oak One. Go to Ruby formation. Pecan, move two degrees port. Brazil, get off his tail. Acorn, keep your wings trim. Why can''t you people hold a hover grid?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oak One, Acorn. It''s not us. Stiles, it''s you. You have to put the coach down and vertical your stabilizers to give us enough room to land in that courtyard."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stabilizers...I hate stabilizers...I was supposed to go in for multi-vehicular flight school this week, but nooo, I had to grab a mission. Listen up! I''ll land the coach first, then all wings settle around me five seconds later. Keep it sharp!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "What''s the matter with you, Stiles?"\n  </em>\n  Pilot Andrea Hipp''s German accent seemed crisp over the comm.\n  <em>\n   "This isn''t synchronized swimming, you know."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I said no chatter! The ambassador''s watching!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A prattle of aye-ayes settled the issue for the moment, but did nothing for Eric Stiles''s stomach, or his icy fingers, or his tingling feet. This command stuff left a lot to be wished for. And his hair was in his eyes...he was looking through a blond curtain. Didn''t help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the screens of his fully carpeted cockpit, Stiles saw the platinum glitter of the Federation Embassy at PojjanPiraKot seem to rise up to meet him. Actually, he and the coach he piloted were descending into the brick city courtyard, but the illusion of a floating building disoriented him briefly. On the secondary side monitors, the five fighter escorts regrouped into Ruby formation and found the space to wiggle into the brick court, settling around the main coach vessel like baby ducks crowding a drake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t look like I expected it to," he commented. "What are those metal bands on all the buildings?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The city''s all reinforced." Ensign Travis Perraton''s blue eyes peered with fresh curiosity at a smaller monitor as he adjusted the coach''s shields to let them land, irritating Stiles with his eternal good mood. "They''ve got some kind of gravitational problem on this planet. All the buildings have had to be structurally rebuilt over the past few years since it started."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What kind of gravitational trouble?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something like high tides or earthquakes, I guess. That''s what I''ve heard, anyway."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles wanted to comment, but was busy settling the coach onto its extender pads. The fantasy of brilliant artisanship in moving spaceborne vessels into an atmosphere and landing them in a surefooted, graceful manner had shriveled in his hands. At least that part was over. He trembled with irritation as the system''s check barberpoled. Perraton had managed to clear the belly shields. Otherwise, the coach would''ve sat in the air like a beachball on the water -- and probably rolled over.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''re down," Perraton confirmed. "You can unclench now."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m fine!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yeah, sure you are. You worried about coming in shielded for the whole twenty hours it took us to get here from the starbase."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles bristled at the suggestion that he wasn''t in control. "Emergency diplomatic evacuations have certain\n  <em>\n   regulations\n  </em>\n  attached. Not getting a second chance is just\n  <em>\n   one\n  </em>\n  of the assumptions. Evac regs\n  <em>\n   assume\n  </em>\n  the situation is hostile and precautions have to be -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t quote the book."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Give me a view of the whole courtyard."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Screens around the cockpit flashed views of all six lander pads with irritated civilians scooping dirt out of huge potted plants and dumping it on the ship''s pads. So much for respect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are they throwing rocks?" Stiles asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s garbage." Eying the same screen, Perraton stood up and pulled on his torso armor, buckling the padded vest over his chest. "Some of ''em are throwing balls of mud from those pots."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles straightened. "Secure the coach and scramble the evac squad. Nuts, Oak One. Remain in your cockpits. Do not get out, understood? Sit tight and let Oak Squad flush the dignitaries. I''ll escort Ambassador Spock personally."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "They''re pushing on my struts. Our light-stun phasers can -- "\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Negative!" Stiles broiled. "Let ''em crowd you. Keep finger shields activated in case they touch the wings. And all of you shut up! I don''t want the ambassador to hear the slightest disrespect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oh, we respect you. Don''t you respect him, Cashew?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "I drip respect."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As you were!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "As I was? Did I change? I like me this way. Did you change, Acorn?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Animals," Stiles grumbled. "I''d like to get you disrespectful slugs on starship duty for five minutes, just five minutes..." He buried himself in padded insulation as he pulled his flak vest over his head, then slipped into his gauntlets, adjusted his sidearm, and led Perraton out into the coach''s main seating area.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here, six other members of Oak Squad were already suited up and looking at him from inside their red-tinted helmet shields. Travis Perraton, Jeremy White, Bill Foster, Dan Moose, Brad Carter, Matt Girvan -- their names and faces swam before his eyes like a manifest, and for a moment he thought the blood was rushing out of his head. Midshipmen and ensigns, all in training for what would eventually become specialties, for now they were assigned to Starbase 10 in the Security Division, under their senior ensign -- Stiles. At twenty-one, Eric Stiles was the old man of the outfit. Perraton was next, at twenty years old and forty-two days junior to Stiles'' ensign stripes. Knowing that they had heard the ribbing he took from the wings, Stiles felt his face flush. He had to lead the mission. He''d gotten himself into this on purpose. He had to address them as a commander. Nobody to hide behind. They''d seen the landing. His dream of a crisp textbook military approach and regulation landing had gone up in an ugly puff. Now the squad members were blushing and snickering, burying grins, trying not to look right at him -- that was hard to take!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heads up." His voice cracked. "There''s a riot going on outside. Some kind of local political trouble. The embassy is beam-shielded, so we have to go in the security door. As we approach, the guard will drop the door shields. We''ll have to go in and come out in single file. We''re going to put the dignitaries between us, at two or three in a row. There are about twenty of these people, so the seven of us''ll be just about right. I''ll go last, with the ambassador right in front of me. He''s the primary person to guard, and if he gets so much as a hangnail, somebody''s gonna answer to me in a dark alley. After we go -- shut up, Foster!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I didn''t say anything!" Bill Foster protested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Quit snickering! This is...this is -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Serious," Perraton supplied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know, Eric," Foster muttered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You call me ''Ensign,'' mister!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, Ensign Mister."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I want this mission to go like clockwork! I don''t want a single twitch that isn''t in the rule book! Don''t snicker, don''t slip, don''t do anything that isn''t regulation!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hand was pressed to his shoulder and drew him backward a step on the plush carpet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything''ll go fine, Eric," Perraton mildly interrupted. "We''re ready when you are." His short dark hair was buried under a white helmet with Starfleet''s Delta Shield printed on the forehead, now obscured by the raised red visor. The shield glowed and sang at Stiles. Starfleet''s symbol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Stiles had to make it look good. In the wake of Perraton''s mental leashing, the symbol now lay heavily upon him. If he couldn''t yell at his men, how would he keep them in shape?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He huffed a couple of steadying breaths, but didn''t lower his voice. Now that he''d gotten up to a certain level of volume, it was hard to reel in from that. He took a moment to survey the squad -- bright white helmets, black leggings, white boots, red chest pads against the black Starfleet jumpsuits, and the bright flicker of a combadge on every vest. Elbow pads, chin guards, red visors...looked fair. Good enough.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time to go.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There are riots going on," he repeated, "but so far nobody''s tried to breach the embassy itself. Our job is to clear a path between the coach and the embassy and get all Federation nationals out. These people don''t have a space fleet, but their atmospheric capabilities are strong enough to cause a few problems. I won''t consider the mission accomplished until we''re clear of the stratosphere. When we get out of the coach, completely ignore the people swarming around unless they come within two meters or show a weapon. Clear?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Clear, sir!" Carter, Girvan, Moose, and Foster shouted. Perraton nodded, and White raised his rifle. Had they accented the "sir" just a little too much?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped between them and the hatch. "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton took that as a cue, and punched the autorelease on the big hatch. The coach''s loading ramp peeled back and lay neatly across the brick before them. Instantly the stench of burning fuel flooded the controlled atmosphere inside the coach. At Stiles''s side, Perraton coughed a couple of times. Other than that, nobody''s big mouth cracked open. Stiles led the way down, his heavy boots thunking on the nonskid ramp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They broke out onto a courtyard of grand proportions with colonnades flanking it on three sides and the diplomatic buildings on the fourth side -- a battery of fifteen embassies, halls, and consulates. Most of them were empty now. The Federation was the last to evacuate. Two of the colonnades were in ruins; part of one was shrouded in scaffolding while being rebuilt. Most of the buildings showed signs of structural damage, but generally the Diplomatic Court of PojjanPirakot was a stately and bright place, providing a sad backdrop for the ugliness of these protests.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick glance behind showed him the positions of the five fighters landed around the coach. Their glistening bodies, streamlined for both aerodynamics and space travel, shined in the golden sunlight. There was Air Wing Leader Bernt Folmer, their best pilot, code "Brazil," parked like a big car in front of Greg "Pecan" Blake. Behind the coach the tail fin of Andrea Hipp''s "Cashew" fighter caught a glint of sun. On the other side, hopefully parked nose to tail, were Acorn and Chestnut, brothers Jason and Zack Bolt -- but Stiles didn''t bother to check their position. He only hoped they were in sharp order.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All around were angry people waving signs, some in a language he didn''t understand, others scrawled in English, Vulcan, Spanish, Orion Yrevish, and a few other languages familiar from courtesy placards all over Starfleet Command where multitudes wandered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ones in English jumped out instantly before Stiles''s racing mind. OUT ALIENS...LEAVE OUR PLANET...GET OUT STRANGERS...ALIENS UNWELCOME...CURSE ALIENS ALL....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some of the people were calling out in English, too, though clumsily and without really understanding the arrangement of nouns and verbs. The anti-alien message, though, arrowed directly through to the team.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the music of enraged shouts from the people rattling gates and creating a din by banging small silver knives on the iron posts, Oak Squad broke into a jog and flooded into a broad shield of sunlight glaring between the embassy and the consulate next door. The doorways and lintels were heavily reinforced with titanium T-girders, and titanium bands swept around every building, two on each story, like shiny ribcages. Stiles glanced around at his squad, making sure nobody pulled ahead of the formation. This had to be crisp. The ambassador was watching from some window inside that embassy. Everybody was watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifty meters...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad thundered forward relentlessly, their phaser rifles tight against their chests. As Stiles led his men across the patterned brick, he saw that just the raw heat from the coach''s VTOL thrusters had scorched some of the bricks nearly black and pitted them beyond repair, destroying the geometric design in the historic courtyard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His boots felt secure and thick as he crunched over the litter of broken glass, smashed fruit, and rocks that had been thrown by the rioters, who were now milling around the fighters and the coach. These Pojjan people were stocky and thick, with strong round cheekbones and bronze complexions tinged with an olive Patina, reminding Stiles of Aztec paintings seen under a green filter. They wore various clothing from the men''s ordinary shirts and pants or the women''s shiftlike dresses to the brightly beaded tribal tunics and leggings he''d seen on travel posters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The travel agencies might as well rip those posters up. Nobody was going to want to come to this dump anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He cast the rioters a threatening glance or two, but although some were touching the ships'' landing struts, they weren''t doing anything destructive. Not yet anyway. If anything happened, the escort pilots would zap them. So he kept moving forward at a pace, letting the natives swerve out of his way. He led the squad manfully through a large puddle of fuel, some of which was still gulping out of a discarded and dented container. Their boots splattered it and freshened the stench.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirty meters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cries of anger, protest, and insult at Starfleet''s intrusion into their courtyard grew louder, as the squad jogged across the brick plateau. Stiles didn''t understand the Pojjan language, but some of these people were shouting in English or Vulcan and waving get-out-of-town banners in English, apparently smart enough to know how to get to the Federation personnel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   It''s getting to me. I''m allowing it to shake me. Just do the job, get the people out of the embassy, into the coach and lift off. Ignore the crowd. Just ignore them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At his right elbow, Travis Perraton was watching a gang of Pojjan teenagers on the other side of the embassy fence. A flash of flame -- the teenagers were lighting up a fuel-soaked towel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They can''t throw that this far, can they?" Blake asked from behind Stiles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They don''t have to," Perraton said. "We''re jogging toward puddles of kerosene."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gasoline," Midshipman Jeremy White corrected from the flank.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stinks," Dan Moose added, then cast to the man on his left, "Make room, Foster."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sorry."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bag the noise," Stiles snapped, turning his head briefly to the right. "Don''t splash through the gas. If we get it on our uniforms, we''re in big trouble."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And that was his error -- that one glance over his shoulder. A stunning force struck his left shin just below the kneepad, driving his entire leg out behind him. Blown forward by the force of his own movement, Stiles let out a single strangled yell, leaped forward over a slick of gasoline, and crashed to the bricks just beyond the slick. Though he evaded the gas, he slid sidelong into a pile of garbage dumped on the courtyard. Managing to thrust his arms out, he somehow kept from landing on his phaser rifle, which instead clattered to the brick and butted him in the face shield, then scratched across his bared jaw. If his visor had been up, the rifle would''ve taken out his teeth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A blunt force rammed into his lower back -- a boot -- as Carter tumbled over Stiles, crumpling to the bricks on top of the garbage. Carter rolled and ended up on one knee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his jaw and knee throbbing, Stiles tightened his body, twisted onto his side, and brandished his weapon at the laughing crowd as his face flushed with humiliation. They were laughing at him. His fantasy of a clockwork mission had just cracked and blown up before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bile rose in his throat, a rashy heat down his legs. His lungs tightened as he felt slimy garbage soak into his uniform and the stench of petroleum knot his innards. The sky wheeled above him, cluttered with white helmets and flashing red visors reflecting the afternoon sun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smiling, Perraton reached to pull him to his feet. "Nice going, lightfoot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t help me!" Stiles blurted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As if bitten, Perraton retracted his hand. Stiles rolled to his feet, now smudged with the gummy remains of garbage and mudballs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When he got to his feet, Stiles staggered a few steps in the wrong direction and was forced to endure the foolish chicken-scratch of turning around and struggling back to the front of his squad, and the further embarrassment of realizing his men were deliberately slowing down so he could get in front. He slammed his way between them, elbowing Perraton and White cruelly out of his path. He didn''t need their charity!\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the gates, two Pojjan guards immediately opened the iron grid and let them in without a word. The embassy''s medieval-looking carved wooden door, three guys wide and set between two gargoyles, also opened automatically.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No, not automatically -- this door was manual. Another guard or servant of some nationality Stiles didn''t recognize was now peeking around the door''s iron rim like a shy cow peeking out of a barn. He was an elderly man, with bent shoulders and bright green eyes set in a jowly dark face with stripes painted on it. More tribal weirdness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moving further into the heavily tiled foyer, Stiles suddenly felt ridiculously out of place. The foyer was splendid, its mosaics of gold-and-black chipped stone and glossy ceramics portraying some kind of historic battle scene and the coronation of somebody. Must be from way back, because this wasn''t a monarchical culture anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Was it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guard pushed the big door shut and swung a huge titanium bolt into place to lock them safely inside, then turned to the clutch of evac troopers and gasped, "One minute! I''ll get the ambassador''s assistant!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  And he disappeared into a wide archway that was two stories tall.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad stood in the middle of the gorgeous tile floor, their uniforms scuffed and stinking, and looked around.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''d hate to be the guy who cleans the grout," Perraton commented.\n </p>\n <p>\n  White grunted as he scanned the mosaic on the ceiling. "How long you think we''ll have to wait?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not long," Stiles filled in. "They called for us to come get them, so they''re probably ready to leave. And they''re Vulcans, so you know they''re efficient."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How do you know they''ll be stiffs?" Moose asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Because Ambassador Spock''s a st -- a Vulcan. They like to have their own kind around. They understand each other better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, right," White drawled. "They do everything better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles scoured him with a glare. "Don''t start on me, Jeremy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He turned away, but in his periphery he noted Perraton''s quick motion to White, erasing any further annoying comments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though they stood in this wide foyer feeling dirty and small, they were not alone. Sounds of footsteps and voices leaked from the depths of the embassy halls, and twice Stiles saw ethereal forms slip from one office to another. Did they trust him to get them out safely? Had they seen the botched choreography of the landing? Did they wonder whether the ensign in command was competent enough to handle this?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He gripped his phaser rifle until his hands hurt and shifted from foot to foot, halting only when a young woman -- a human -- skittered through the grand main door and into the foyer. Stiles didn''t pay attention....The small-boned woman, with tightly wrapped brown hair, tiny pearl earrings, and a twitch in her left eye, went directly to the tallest of them -- Jeremy White -- and breathily said, "I''m Miss Karen Theonella, Ambassador Spock''s deputy attachÃ©. Are you Ensign Stiles?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She had a tight foreign accent that sounded Earth-based, but Stiles couldn''t pinpoint the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s over there, ma''am," White told her, and gestured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped through the cluster of Starfleeters and took his helmet off, revealing his sweat-plastered blond hair. "Eric Stiles, ma''am. I''m here to evacuate the entire embassy. Nobody should be left behind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We understand." Miss Theonella rubbed her tiny pink palms as if kneading bread dough between them. "All embassy envoys, functionaries, ministers, delegates, and clerks will be going, as well as four Pojjana defectors who lost their homes in the last Constrictor. They''re being given asylum here and we have clearance for them to be evacuated with us. In all there are thirty-five of us."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thirty-five!" Perraton blurted. Then he instantly clammed up, but the number twenty kept flashing in his eyes like beacons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How could seven of them safely escort thirty-five dignitaries through fifty meters of rioting?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re prepared, ma''am," Stiles shoved in, more loudly than necessary, before anyone else could speak up. "About the landing...the ambassador is probably wondering why we were so...out of formation...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" Miss Theonella''s white temples puckered and her brows came together like pencil points. "We can''t see the courtyard from here. There are only reception rooms on the court side of the building. Was there some reason you wanted us to be watching you? Was there a signal?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stared at her, caught between relief and disappointment that nobody had been watching. "Uh...no, no signal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Preoccupied, the thin young woman simply said, "Continue to wait here, please, Ensign. I''ll get the ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the evac squad stood alone, holding their rifles, standing in the middle of the gleaming tile floor, listening to the drumming chants of angry people outside in the square and trying to imagine how they were going to hustle thirty-five dignitaries through that. The unpleasant possibility of rushing half of them out to the coach, then coming back for the second group -- Stiles winced. Two trips through that courtyard full of alien-haters? Was that safer than one big rush? If he ordered two separate groups, would the angry people see that as their last chance to get them and attack the second group?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wonder why they hate aliens," Dan Moose voiced.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles noted that his men were looking at the windows and doors, but his own eyes were focused on the long hall of offices into which Miss Theonella had disappeared. The ambassador was in there somewhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the men turned to face the hall to their left as a crowd of elegant dignitaries bobbed toward them. In the midst of them was the tall, instantly recognizable figure of the famous Ambassador Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bow? Kneel? Handshake?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t faint! Eric, stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton''s anxious whisper boomed in Stiles''s ear like a foghorn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Attention...." Stiles planted his boots on the tile, but wasn''t able to get them together. He squared his shoulders, raised his chin, held his breath, clutched his rifle, and forced an appearance of adept steadiness and control. Cool. Calm. Military. Crisp. In control. In charge. Confident. Smelly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador and his party approached them, but Spock wasn''t looking at them. Instead his dark head was bowed as he spoke to Miss Theonella, who was clipping along at his side. The ambassador listened, nodded, then spoke again while a male attendant slipped a glossy blue Federation Diplomatic Corps jacket onto the boss''s shoulders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sight was a shock -- Stiles had expected the flowing ceremonial robes that Vulcan seniors were usually seen wearing, but now that he saw Spock in the trim gray slacks and dark blue jacket with the UFP symbol on the left side, that outfit seemed to make more sense for a spaceborne evacuation. Robes might be harder to handle on boarding ramps and in tight quarters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why hadn''t he thought of that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Spock -- tall, narrow, controlled -- possessed all the regal formality common to his race, his famous form was somehow less imperious in person than Stiles had anticipated, his angular Vulcan features more animated, and framed by the fact that he was the only Vulcan in the bunch. Of course, Stiles had only seen still photos or staged lecture tapes. Seeing Spock in real life was very different -- he wasn''t stiff at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they approached, he could hear Miss Theonella''s thready voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...and the provincial vice-warden will be sending his prolocutrix as proxy to speak for the entire hemisphere at Federation central. Also, sir, the consul general''s wife and children are waiting in the Blue Room, and Chancellor De Gaeta''s wife is in his office."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miss Theonella finished her sentence just as she and the ambassador and their party came into the foyer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Karen, very good work," Ambassador Spock said gently, countering her quivering report with his silky baritone voice. "Suggest to the Sagittarian military attachÃ© that he post a Pojjana communications, sentry, and that person must speak both Bal Quonnot and Romulan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  That voice! That famous voice! Stiles had been hearing it all his life! Historical documentaries, training tapes, mission interactives, holoprograms -- now he was here, in person, right in the same room with that voice!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is Ensign Stiles," Miss Theonella added with a gesture. "And the evacuation escort men, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador scanned the team, then fixed his gaze at Stiles. Directly\n  <em>\n   at\n  </em>\n  him. Right in the eyes! He was looking right at him!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those eyes -- like blades! Black blades!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles tried to take a breath, but all he got was a gulp of garbage fumes from his soaked trouser leg. As his lungs seized up, he felt the boink-boink of Perraton''s finger poking him in the back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Report, you idiot!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ev...Evacuation Squad reporting as you requested, sir! Ensign Eric J. Stiles, Starfleet Special Services reporting, sir! One G-rate transport coach, evacuation team, and five fighter escorts, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador''s black-slash brows went up like bird''s wings. The chamber fell to silence. Stiles'' fervid report echoed absurdly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calmly Spock said, "At ease, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His deep mellow voice took Stiles utterly by surprise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, sir!" Stiles choked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be ready within five minutes," the ambassador told him fluidly, then turned to the attendant who''d put the jacket on him. "Edwin, please bring out the consul general''s family and Mrs. De Gaeta and turn them over to Ensign Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Right away, Ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the man left, Spock turned again to Miss Theonella. "You have our records and diplomatic pouches? The legal briefs and service files? Personnel manifests?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She held up a stern black pilot''s case with a magnetic lock, hanging from a strap on her shoulder. "All here, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well. We should also bring the jurisdictional warrants. They could be confiscated and used to gain passage into restricted areas."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll get them, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No, I''ll get them." The ambassador turned to leave, then paused and gazed briefly at the tiled floor, thinking. "Stiles..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock looked up at the inflamed response. Coolly he repeated, "At\n  <em>\n   ease,\n  </em>\n  Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles shivered, glanced at Travis Perraton, and again met the ambassador''s eyes. "Yes, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are you by chance related to -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! I am, sir! Starfleet security commander John Stiles, Retired, is my grandfather, sir! He served with you under Captain James T. Kirk, Stardates 1709 to 1788 point 6 as Alpha-Watch navigator aboard the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise,\n  </em>\n  NCC 1701, commissioned stardate -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I recall the ship, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "0h...oh...aye, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You have a long line of Starfleet service of officers in your family heritage, I also recall."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! Several active-duty servicemen lost in the Romulan Wars, sir! A captain, two lieutenants, two -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Commendable, Mr. Stiles. Carry on." Spock turned to the little gaggle of people behind him and said, "All of you please stand by until everyone else arrives. Then you''ll take your instructions from Ensign Stiles as to how you will arrange yourselves during the actual evacuation. As you know, the building is beam-shielded, and therefore we must go out the door and board the transport coach on foot. Unfortunately, our general safety compromises our safety during emergency evacuations. Karen, keep them in order. I will return momentarily."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With that he disappeared down a different hallway and into an office leaving a confused clutch of embassy persons standing here in the foyer, wide-eyed and obviously frightened. By nature, the two groups divided to opposite sides of the foyer, embassy folks over there, Oak Squad over here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles let himself be tugged aside, and barely registered the low mutters of his men around him through the afterglow of his meeting with Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beam-shielding," Matt grumbled. "There''s planning. What if they had to get out under more dangerous conditions than mudballs and molotovs?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s beam-shielded so assassins or terrorists can''t beam in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Why couldn''t they make it one-way?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Too unstable. Sucks too much energy to maintain over time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter. We''ll get ''em out. Eric''ll carry them all on his back if he has to."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If he doesn''t choke up a lung first."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be lucky if he doesn''t make us bow backward out of the room."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The team laughed. A cluttered sound, muffled...like a storm coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beside Stiles, Perraton raised his helmet visor and smiled with genuine sympathy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You okay, Eric?" he asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles felt his lips chapping as he breathed in and out, in and out, like a landed fish. He''d just met his hero and he didn''t know if he''d liked it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And it wasn''t over. In fact, it was just beginning. He''d have to do everything perfectly from now on. No more botched formations. No more stammering. He had to be perfect. Smooth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ease up, lightfoot," Perraton suggested privately. "He''s just a guy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just a guy," Stiles rasped. "He''s a hero, Travis...a Starfleet icon...the first Vulcan in Starfleet...Captain James Kirk''s executive officer...I''ve heard every story a hundred times all my life -- do you know how many times he participated in saving the\n  <em>\n   whole\n  </em>\n  Federation? And even the Klingon Empire?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter now. Anyway, the hard part''s over. You met him, you survived, and the experience didn''t suck out your brains. He was a Starfleet man for half a century. He knows the drill. So get a perspective. Here he comes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Do the job. Do the job.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador flowed back into the foyer, now carrying a slim red folder and followed by more than a dozen people and his attendant Edwin. Suddenly the foyer was swarming with civilians. At least they were mostly adults, a few teenagers -- Stiles didn''t relish the prospect of herding toddlers through that mess out there. He stiffened as the ambassador came directly to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re ready, Mr. Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Sir...how would you like to do this?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock handed the folder to Miss Theonella. "Pardon me?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I...I figured you''d have some preference about...what order you want them in and...how to do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador thought about that briefly, his dark eyes working, as if he hadn''t considered such an option. After a moment he vocally shrugged. "Your mission, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over Spock''s shoulder, Perraton smiled and gave Stiles a thumbs-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sustained by that, Stiles forced himself to rise to the demand. "Uh...if you people would form a line, two by two, and Oak Squad situate yourselves between them, uh, one every...uh -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  He paused, tried to do the math, but couldn''t remember how. His brain\n  <em>\n   had\n  </em>\n  been sucked out!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe he wouldn''t have to count and add and divide -- his men were already arranging themselves into position. Perraton was taking the lead, and motioning the others into the queue at intervals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll take the rear guard," Stiles said. "Ambassador, would you mind coming back here with me, sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Ensign, I will."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All right, let''s -- no, no, you can''t do the door." Stiles motioned to the funny-looking butler who was still standing his post at the door, waiting to open it for everybody. "Travis, put that man in line behind Girvan and you do the door. Then fall in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Okay, phaser rifles ready."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ready!" his men shouted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rifles up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles took one more look at Ambassador Spock''s steady form in line before him, at the large UFP shield printed on the back of the blue jacket. The stars of the United Federation of Planets swam before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He drew a breath. His voice echoed under the high tiled ceiling\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7274'),
(3078, 'Double Helix 04: Quarantine', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker.  Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the "Starship Enterprise''s(TM)" first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7254'),
(3079, 'Double Helix 05: Double or Nothing', 'Peter Allen David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a lethal bacillus coursing through the bloodstream of the galaxy, a fiendish master plan has spread death and terror across the 24th century -- until two heroic captains risk everything to stamp out the evil at its source!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a decade, since the very beginning of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise''sâ„¢\n  </em>\n  mission, unknown enemies have unleashed a string of deadly biological weapons throughout the Alpha Quadrant, inflicting ghastly epidemics upon the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and even the Federation. Now, at long last, Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins forces with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Excalibur\n  </em>\n  to track down and confront the hidden architects of the plagues -- and avenge the deaths of thousands!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5071'),
(3080, 'Double Helix 06: The First Virtue', 'Michael Jan Friedman &amp; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helixcurling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard,captain of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4749'),
(3081, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman &amp; Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two short novels by a couple who''ve each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who''s luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author''s full-length efforts,\n <em>\n  Double Homicide\n </em>\n nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson''s brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe''s trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author''s gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won''t stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing careers have earned each a huge following. These stories, set at opposite ends of the country, give barely a hint as to who wrote what, providing a little tantalizing "real-life" mystery to the puzzlers on the page. "Double Homicide: Boston," the strongest of the pair, is also the grittier of the two. A city college basketball star is shot at a nightclub following a nasty incident on the court. The prime suspect is a loudmouth on the opposing team, but as detectives McCain and Breton find out, the crime isn''t as straightforward as it seems. The backdrop of "Double Homicide: Santa Fe" is a tad more refined--though murder, after all, is still murder. A cutthroat art dealer is found dead, and there are plenty of suspects in his address book--including the ex-wife of one of the investigating cops. In both stories, the cops'' personal lives add welcome texture to the fairly routine if still wholly entertaining plots. A diversion for the Kellermans but sure to be of interest to their respective fans.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5115'),
(3082, 'Double Indemnity', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger''s dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist. but adding Philip K Dick''s Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.'' SCOTSMAN\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4701'),
(3083, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(3084, 'Double Star', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe''s own life was on the line -- for if he wasn''t assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10408'),
(3085, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10253'),
(3086, 'Douglas Adams&#39; Starship Titanic', 'Terry Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Starship Titanic is a science-fiction adventure set aboard a colossal spaceship (which is named after a fairly well-known cruise ship from the planet Earth). It seems that something has gone horribly wrong aboard the Starship Titanic--a fact that becomes evident as the vessel slams into the cozy confines of your living room. Now, at the request of the ship''s robotic crew, you must go aboard, figure out what went wrong, and fix it. The game uses impressively rendered graphics to depict Starship Titanic''s opulent interior. For the most part, you can make your way through the ship and the game using the mouse as you would in Myst. For conversations with the robot attendants, you use the keyboard and the game''s text parser. This combination of contemporary adventure-game graphics and classic-style text conversations works well. As with any adventure game, this one has a lot of puzzles for you to solve. And like everything else Douglas Adams comes up with, the puzzles in this game are complex, challenging, and often downright silly. You''ll have to disarm a bomb, for example, that has a 20-digit "combination" and that constantly taunts you. (Monty Python''s John Cleese plays the voice of the bomb.) You''ll also have to deal with an annoying, chicken-eating parrot (played by Terry Jones, another Python veteran and author of the Starship Titanic novel).One thing to keep in mind as you play Starship Titanic is that the puzzles will leave you frustrated at times. That''s OK--in fact, that''s probably what Adams had in mind from the start--because most of the solutions to these puzzles are incredibly bizarre and unusual. If you get really stuck, the DoorBot and BellBot can usually be of some assistance. Even with a little help from these automated assistants, however, Starship Titanic will have you puzzling for hours and hours. --Michael Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3678');
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(3087, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5034'),
(3088, 'Down Flowers', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10757'),
(3089, 'Down River', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they''ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There''s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3090'),
(3090, 'Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse', 'David W. Orr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author and environmental studies professor Orr (The Nature of Design) presents an alarming look at climate change, predicting a best-case scenario (a sharp reduction in our carbon footprint) that belies the hopes of the green movement at large: "Climate change... is not so much a problem to be fixed, but rather a steadily worsening condition with which we must contend for a long time." Even this, however, depends on a political realignment sufficient to meet the severe challenges of the coming decades and centuries, including famine, drought and population displacement. Rather than a matter of reprioritizing, Orr contends that we must reshape our deepest held values; citing the case against abortion, he suggests that "the same kind of arguments apply to the right to life of future generations... as our present use of coal, oil, and natural gas will kill into the far future." Finding hope in "the connections that bind us to each other, to all life and to all life to come," Orr maintains a guarded optimism that never forgoes the possibility that "we are irreversibly en route to extinction"; for his expertise and crystal clear vision, Orr''s disturbing message is hard to ignore.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Orr acknowledges [the] dire circumstances, but does not wallow in despair or defeatism. His book is a clear-sighted view of what we need to change now...Orr''s book will do much to help achieve the required cultural transformation, hopefully just in time."--_Nature_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you want to read the latest, and one of the most streamlined yet comprehensive accounts of our predicament, I''d recommend\n <em>\n  Down to the Wire\n </em>\n by David Orr, an Oberlin College professor who has long been one of the country''s leading environmental thinkers. He lays out the dangers, and he lays out the plans that would be needed to counteract those dangers; it''s all there in simple and unavoidable prose." --Bill McKibben,\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If climate change were not an issue, what you would have to say would be undiminished in its urgency....I thank you for not giving up, for staking out the ground of ''authentic hope,'' and for reinvigorating that indispensable term, ''maybe.''"--Wendell Berry, from a letter to the author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although his research findings are well referenced, Orr''s integration and interpretation take the book beyond the typical academic treatise...Refreshingly candid regarding heroes, villains, and difficult decisions, Orr writes with exceptional elegance and passion...Highly recommended."--_CHOICE_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Powerful and prophetic."--Thomas Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dazzling intellectual sweep across the causes and solutions to our mounting ''long emergency.'' Orr shows convincingly that leadership and good governance, not just technological solutions, will all have to be part of the mix if we are to save the planet in time."--Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sweeping synthesis of science, politics, history, and public policy--shaped by extraordinary wisdom, reason, and conviction--this very important book envisions a roadmap to a livable future."--Ray Anderson, Founder and Chair, Interface Inc., and author of\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Radical\n </em>\n <em>\n  Industrialist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "David couples realism with optimism to create an honest look at how we consider the environment, povery, and equality. If he believes that humans can rise to the occasion of our global climate crisis, so can you. Thanks, David!"--Majore Carter, Economic Development Consultant, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lucid, richly documented, and powerful."--George M. Woodwell, Director Emeritus, The Woods Hole Research Center\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is rare to find so many fresh insights between the convers of one book. We are all indebted to David Orr for his incisive thinking."--Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, and author of\n <em>\n  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Down to the Wire_ takes the reader beyond the viewpoints which are standard fare in the climate literature: technological optimism and sustainability on the one hand, or techo-criticism, lament and despair on the other. Orr foresees a pathway to solving our dilemma, one marked by political leadership and respect for human dignity."--Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deeply informed by wide reading, practical experience, and many years of passionate teaching and activism, David Orr''s cogent arguments provide leadership both to meet the climate disruption that our foresight has been insufficient to avoid, and to help avoid worse. Highly recommended!"--Herman Daly, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the great scholars in the climate change and clean energy debate, Orr''s new book sets out a challenging and hopeful agenda for real change in how we reshape our nation, our energy policies, and ultimately our personal lives, for the long haul battle against climate destabilization." --Jeff Biggers,\n <em>\n  Huffington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Orr adroitly weaves environmental science and policy together with perspectives from history, philosophy, political science, legal studies, and communications to contextualize climate change as a symptom of other problems that, if confronted, can be addressed. The result is a touchstone for anyone interested in engaging constructively in social change." --_ClimateEdu Newsletter_, National Wildlife Federation\n</p>\n<p>\n Orr''s book is gracefully written, with a lucid and comprehensive vision it is important that everyone reads it, because it is about our future, which is likely to be very different from the present. --_North Coast Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7077'),
(3091, 'Downbelow Station: Or the Company Wars', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Hugo Award-winning classic, now available in a trade edition for the first time. Pellâ€™s Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between â€œThe Company,â€ whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pellâ€™s locationâ€”on the outer edge of Earthâ€™s defensive perimeterâ€” makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10896'),
(3092, 'Downtime', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on the original video drama, this book takes place after Victoria''s departure from the Tardis in Fury from the Deep. It features unique photos taken during filming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8483'),
(3093, 'Dr Dale&#39;s Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive', 'Dale Seslick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Worried about what to do in the event of the dead rising from their graves and trying to destroy humanity? Worry no more! With the help of numerous films and Wikipedia, Dr Dale has compiled this rigorously researched A-Z list of everything you need to know about zombies: how to recognise them, how to fight them and even how to classify them. He can answer all of your burning questions including: Â§ How can a sheep help defend me against the undead? Â§ What will the response of the Women''s Institute be to an attack? Â§ What''s the most useful style of dance to know in the event of the apocalypse? From the best kind of clothing to wear to the most appropriate soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse, this is the ultimate guide to preparing for and surviving the return of the undead. Full money back guarantee offered should you die in a zombie apocalypse within 30 days of purchase!!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5301'),
(3094, 'Dr. Bloodmoney', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dickâ€™s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dickâ€™s undying hope in humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3778'),
(3095, 'Dr. Futurity', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet." --Rolling Stone\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his own instincts and training as a healer and a society where it is illegal to save lives. But Parsons is not the only one left who believes in prolonging life, and those who share his beliefs have desperate plans for Dr.Parsons'' skills, and for the future of their society. Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utlizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6560'),
(3096, 'The Draco Tavern', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The cantina scene in\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n , as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern stories in this solid SF collection. Most of the tales, set in the 2030s, are short-shorts, often reading like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings. The inverted city carved out of the ice by ocean-dwelling creatures on Europa in "Playground Earth" could be the basis for a novel. Niven tosses it off in a sentence. Many of the best moments are similar hints: an overheard conversation about how an alien species casually denied humans immortality because the perception of death flavors human poetry ("Limits"). The most startling perspective of all comes from "The Green Marauder," in which a two-billion-year-old creature explains how the Earth was "ruined" by "pollution" long ago. These stories are best taken a few at a time, to savor their inventiveness without noticing the undeveloped characters or that, even for bar stories, there''s sometimes too much chatter and not enough action.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Throughout an award-winning 40-year career, Niven has taken time out for brief layovers at his favorite interspecies watering hole, the Draco Tavern. Run by inimitable multimillionaire Rick Schumann in the middle of Siberia, where the enigmatic extraterrestrial Chirpsithra made first contact with humans, the saloon serves as trading post and chat room for aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Here Niven corrals all the Draco Tavern tales into one volume that consequently showcases his ability to use sf to explore mind-boggling, universal questions. In one story, the Chirpsithra reveal knowledge of a species that learned what waits beyond death--but were the resulting mass suicides provoked by discovering heaven, or nothingness? In others, Niven inspects such ultimate conundrums as immortality, extraterrestrial intelligence, and computers that outstrip their creators'' cleverness. Most of the 27 stories are short shorts that, taken altogether, radiate Niven''s wit and technological inventiveness. A must for Nivenites and just plain good reading for everyone else.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7008'),
(3097, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. ** *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power. Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all. **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(3098, 'Dracula in Love', 'Karen Essex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bruce Feiler Reviews Dracula in Love **Bruce Feiler is one of Americaâ€™s most popular voices on faith and family. He is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Americaâ€™s Prophet. His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive lifeâ€™s greatest challenges. Read his review of Dracula in Love:** Gorgeously written and erotically charged, the novel Dracula in Love is like its century-jumping central characters: deeply rooted in the past while pushing ageless mythology into strikingly current realms. Historical novels should have plenty of history, and this novel surely does. Romantic novels should have their share of sex and romance, and this novel delivers both. But its true revelation is its gripping sense of anticipation, heartache, discovery, and unflinching chill. With Dracula in Love Karen Essex turns her inimitable, piercing gaze to illuminating what should be familiar terrain--Victorian England--and what might seem like well-trod territory--a certain Count. Her considerable trick is to make you forget entirely all the baggage that attends her story by planting us firmly in the shoes and the psyche of one of the "victims," Mina Harker. I am walking up the steps of the finishing school with the quivering heroine; I am secreting away in Londonâ€™s subterranean shadows with the jilted lover; I am traveling into the mysteries of southern Austria and Ireland''s haunted west coast (yes, begone tired Transylvania!) where our heroine discovers her own dark powers. I shudder in horror and delight when the fangs make their inevitable plunge. I met Karen Essex when both of us were briefly embedded in the Southern gothic world of Nashville. She would soon unearth some of historyâ€™s most misunderstood women and vividly revive them for contemporary ears. From Kleopatra (note the provocative spelling) to the countess of Elgin (and her fascinating courtesan doppelganger from the ancient world, Aspasia) to feuding sisters who posed for Leonardo (watch the genius brought down to earth!), Karen overturns historyâ€™s conventions and shows how these women are keenly relevant today. I am hardly a vampire freak. The Twilight books "eclipsed" me. And Iâ€™ve never owned a set of plastic fangs. But I do love Karen Essex, and this novel is enough to make me a little bloodthirsty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2385'),
(3099, 'Dracula Is a Racist: A Totally Factual Guide to Vampires', 'Matt Melvin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vampires: The 100% Bona Fide Totally Real And Not Made Up At All Truth\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this day and age, the belief in vampires has been dwindling at an exponential rate. Those who still believe in them are often wildly misinformed. So what do you think will happen when Johnny McNormalpants finds himself face to face with a bloodthirsty vampire? Probably crap his pants, but then what? An informed citizen would know exactly what to do in this situation. If only there was some way to enlighten the public about this often forgotten subject, preferably in the form of a mock informative guide or something.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From Matt Melvin, one of the creators of Explosm.net and the hit online comic Cyanide &amp; Happiness, comes *Dracula Is A Racist,* the definitive guide to vampires, answering those gravely important questions that keep you up at night.  .  .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Was Dracula really a racist?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How do vampires do their hair if they don''t have any reflection?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is it gross for immortals to be attracted to high school girls if they''re stuck in a 17-year-old body?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Was Sesame Street ever truly safe from The Count?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is dressing in all black and acting snobby toward everyone enough to fake being a vampire?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Just how much more badass are vampires than zombies?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dracula Is A Racist* is the essential vampire handbook that digs up all the dirt and backs it up with hard vampirical evidence. That''s totally true. Really.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3194'),
(3100, 'Dracula the Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Bram Stoker''s\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula''s true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula''s former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula''s last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos."\n <br />\n --_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian) skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop."\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7298'),
(3101, 'Dracula: The Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The official sequel to Bram Stoker''s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker familyThe story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London''s famous Lyceum Theatre.The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he''s always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.The writers were able to access Bram Stoker''s hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(3102, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(3103, 'The Dragon Charmer', 'Jan Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the enchanting novel Prospero''s Children, Jan Siegel introduced an extraordinary heroine and the lushly evocative world of wonders and terrors that quickly enveloped her normal adolescent life. Now Siegel summons us back to the magic with the continuing story of Fern Capel--and the remarkable power of her extraordinary Gift . . . After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family''s past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capels'' summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. For when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Yet Fern has had enough: Enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world . . . but who will relinquish it all to one man. Jan Siegel has created an intense, fascinating world. To surrender yourself under her captivating spell is to remember how remarkably powerful a literary voyage can be. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1701'),
(3104, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(3105, 'The Dragon Factory', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.Â  One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Â Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they''ve drawn first blood.Â  Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2748'),
(3106, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest''s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3467'),
(3107, 'Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestselling author of *Dragon Keeper* returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpentsâ€”ancient, half-starved, and wearyâ€”returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them. With their survival at stake, fifteen dragonsâ€”among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpdaâ€”have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons'' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos. As the dragons, the humansâ€”including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader''s wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedricâ€”and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive. Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3502'),
(3108, 'The Dragon Heir', 'Cinda Williams Chima', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€”In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the series, there is considerable work to be done sorting out the plot and the relationships among the various characters, but after a while the power of the story takes over. The wizarding world is fractured and at war with itself. The only hope for peace lies in those few unaffiliated gifted ones (wizards, warriors, enchanters) in the sanctuary of the town of Trinity. As the novel opens, one of these characters, Jason, steals into the hold of another faction and walks out with a mysterious magical object that appears to be extremely powerful: the Dragonheart. When he brings it back to Trinity, the town and its treasure become the focus of the other factions. The action is largely propelled by the emotional needs and weaknesses of the characters, and not simply by their magical abilities. Madison Moss, whose ability to absorb magic enabled her to save her wizard boyfriend, is now a danger to Seph because she keeps leaking the toxic magic that she absorbed. Her fear that this will be discovered, along with her family problems, leads to her making decisions that put her and others in mortal danger. Maddie, along with Jason and Seph, is the central emotional focus, and it is the details of their lives that make the extraordinary plot twists exciting and compelling. Fans of the first two books are sure to love this one.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town''s perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he''s prepared to fight for his friends. When Jason finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason''s very soul -- showing him that he is meant for more than anyone guessed. Trinity''s guardians take the stone away after they realize that it may be a weapon powerful enough to save them all. Without any significant power of his own, and now without the stone, what can Jason possibly do to help the people he cares about -- and to prove his mettle?\n</p>\n<p>\n Madison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. The desire for it surges through her, drawing her to it. But Maddie has other things besides the Dragonheart on her mind. She has a secret. Ever since absorbing the magical blow that was meant to kill Seph, she''s been leaking dark powers. Although Maddie herself is immune to magic, what would her friends think if they knew what kind of evil lay within her? Trinity''s enemies are as enthusiastic about her powers as she is frightened. They think they can use her to get to the Dragonheart -- and they''ll use anyone Maddie cares about to make her steal the stone for them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason and Maddie be willing to fight for -- and what will they sacrifice? Every man is for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5033'),
(3109, 'Dragon House', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in modern-day Vietnam, DRAGON HOUSE tells the tale of Iris and Noah-two Americans, who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Irish and Noah find themselves reborn in an exotic land filled with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and beauty. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. Resounding with the powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON HOUSE brings together East and West, war and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2480'),
(3110, 'The Dragon in the Sock Drawer: Dragon Keepers #1 (Dragon Keepers)', 'Kate Klimo; John Shroades (Illustrator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TEN-YEAR-OLD COUSINS Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So itâ€™s a wish come true when Jesseâ€™s newly found thunder egg hatches, and a helpless, tiny but very loud baby dragon pops out. Soon the two kids are at the dragonâ€™s beck-and-call, trying to figure out what to feed her.An Internet search leads them to the library, which leads them back to the Internet, where they find a very strange Web site called â€œfoundadragon.org.â€ It is here that the cousins discover that the dragonâ€™s hatching has designated them â€œDragon Keepersâ€ and that not only do they have to feed her, but they have to keep her safe from the villainous Saint George who has kept himself alive over centuries by drinking dragonsâ€™ blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3126'),
(3111, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5406'),
(3112, 'Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3466'),
(3113, 'Dragon Keepers #2: The Dragon in the Driveway', 'Kate Klimo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dragon Keepers #2- SUMMARY: The Dragon Keepers have a new mission!It''s been raining for days, and dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy have been stuck inside with their dragon, Emmy. As soon as the rain stops, they are out of the house in a flash. First on their list of things to do? To find out what the villainous Dr. St. Georgeâ€”a dragon slayer in disguiseâ€”is up to. But Dr. St. George isnâ€™t in his office at the college, and all of his stuff is gone! Jesse, Daisy, and Emmy quickly discover St. Georgeâ€™s latest evil plan: to take over the forest and find the magic golden ax that is buried there. To make matters worse, he has also enslaved the mythical beings that are returning to Goldmine City. Can the two dragon keepers and their dragon free the hobgoblins and dryads under St. Georgeâ€™s power and return the forest to right?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3094');
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(3114, 'Dragon Keepers #3: The Dragon in the Library', 'Kate Klimo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dragon Keepers #3- SUMMARY: Dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help! Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she''s missing "something," and the cousins don''t have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie''s castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and betweenâ€”too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.Visit www.foundadragon.org.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3093'),
(3115, 'The Dragon King&#39;s Palace', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a whim of the shogun''s mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko''s friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun''s powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper.Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies-Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina. The delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters-forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2676'),
(3116, 'The Dragon Man', 'Brian Stableford &amp; Stableford Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4786'),
(3117, 'The Dragon Never Sleeps', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Glen Cook (The Black Company, The Dread Empire) delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera! For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roaming the galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo. But now the House Tregesser believes they have an edge; a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. Their initial gambits precipitate an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, the most unpredicted of which is the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race - the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of mysterious aliens, biological constructs, and scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must choose which side he will support; the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces from outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10067'),
(3118, 'Dragon on a Pedestal', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably.... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3294'),
(3119, 'Dragon Prince', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Melanie Rawn''s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant''s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the strength of the sword-but has yet to discover the true power of knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2871'),
(3120, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3812'),
(3121, 'Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series presents the fiery fifth book in his epic dragons saga.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattered across a continent, three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed-the final hope for their species'' survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wistala, sister to the Copper who is now Emperor of the Upper World, has long thought humans the equal of dragons. She leads the Firemaids, fierce female fighting dragons who support the Hominids of Hypatia. Which puts her at odds with both her brothers, for the Copper has no use for the humans he now dominates and AuRon, the rare scale-less grey, would isolate himself and his family from both the world of men and the world of dragons. But as the Copper''s empire roils with war, greed, and treachery, the time is fast approaching when Wistala will have to choose who to stand with- and fight for...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   E. E. Knight\n  </strong>\n  lives in Chicago. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6293'),
(3122, 'Dragon Tears', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon''s sanity:  "Ticktock, ticktock. You''ll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1413'),
(3123, 'Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they''ve been thrust until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8010'),
(3124, 'Dragon&#39;s Honor', 'Kij Johnson &amp; Robert Slater &amp; Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DRAGON''S HONOR  Isolated for centuries, the exotic Dragon Empires finally ready to join the United Federation of Planets. But first the emperor''s eldest son must marry the only daughter of his oldest enemy, bringing to an end decades of civil war. Without the wedding, there can be no peace -- and no treaty with the Federation.  As honored guests of the Dragon Empire, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise(TM) must ensure that the royal wedding occurs on schedule, despite the Empire''s complicated and difficult codes of honor. And Dr. Beverly Crusher finds her loyalties torn when she wins the confidence of the unusually reluctant bride-to-be.  More than just a treaty is at stake, for a vicious race of alien conquerors will stop at nothing, from assassination to invasion, to keep the Empire out of the Federation. Picard must now use all his skills to save the Empire...and preserve the Dragon''s Honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5018'),
(3125, 'Dragon&#39;s Kin', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10836'),
(3126, 'The Dragon&#39;s Mark', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatchedâ€” until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind. A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two swordsâ€”light and darkâ€”must meetâ€¦and only one shall triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(3127, 'Dragondrums', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Of all the young singers at the Harperhall of Pern, Piemur was the one chosen for the leading role at Lord Groghe''s Gather...and then his voice broke. Suddenly his whole future at Harperhall became uncertain. But Masterharper Robinton, Menolly and Sebell had other plans for Piemur. They were sure that his quick wits and discretion could be used to keep a check on the troublesome Oldtimers and their strange traffic in fire lizards. So, whilst serving as a messanger-drum apprentice, Piemur carried out special errands for the three. And it was on one such errand that he realized his wildest dreams.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10837'),
(3128, 'Dragonflight', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguiseâ€”and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessaâ€™s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10844'),
(3129, 'Dragonfly Falling', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire''s imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(3130, 'Dragonfly in Amber', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9609'),
(3131, 'Dragonforge: A Novel of the Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death of King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal daemons and choose where his loyalty really lies\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, the cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4762'),
(3132, 'DragonKnight', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _DragonKnight\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œDragonKnight\n </em>\n is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paulâ€™s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!â€\n <br />\n â€“Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n , we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeveâ€“unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of\n <em>\n  Reluctant Burglar\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.â€\n <br />\n â€“Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result,\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the actionâ€“and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.â€\n <br />\n â€“Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped in an evil spellâ€¦ can the knights of Paladin be rescued?\n</p>\n<p>\n Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, Nâ€™Rae, on a mission to rescue the womanâ€™s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladinâ€™s knights are imprisonedâ€“and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kaleâ€™s missing father.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret is in their handsâ€“and hearts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knightsâ€“who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?\n <br />\n Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6117'),
(3133, 'DragonLance - [Crossroads 01] - The Clandestine Circle', 'Mary H. Herbert - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9950'),
(3134, 'Dragonlance: The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.They are the Second Generation.An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic **Dragonlance **novel.This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and *Dragons of Summer Flame*. While detailing their adventures, *The Second Generation* also sets up key events and characters in future **Dragonlance **novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3102'),
(3135, 'Dragonquest', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Endorsements for DRAGONQUEST\n <br />\n By Donita K. Paul\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a rich tapestry of creatures, characters, and adventure.Â  A whimsical allegory, casting bright light on ultimate truth.â€Â \n <br />\n â€“Lyn Cote, author of The Women of Ivy Manor series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou never know what to expect in a magical world full of creatures like mordakleeps, blimmets, or doneels. But one thing is sure: This grand, fantastical odyssey of Kale the Dragonkeeper will sweep you off your feet.â€\n <br />\n â€“Robert Elmer, author of the HyperLinkz fantasy series for kids\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShut your eyes, hold your breath, and plunge into the unshackled imagination of Donita K. Paul! In\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n Kaleâ€™s journey of self-discovery continues through a succession of adventures and mishaps that leaves you grinning with breathless, page-turning anticipation. I am in awe of Donita K. Paulâ€™s intricate world-building that can rightfully stand alongside master storytellers, Lewis and Tolkien. There is so much depth of heart to this fantastic adventure that itâ€™s difficult to say what I most enjoyed. A fantasy must for the very young at heart, no matter your age.â€\n <br />\n â€“Linda Wichman, author of\n <em>\n  Legend of the Emerald Rose\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n continues the story of Kale and her well-drawn compatriots, who set out on yet another quest in service to God by serving His people.Â  Cleverly and compellingly wrought,\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a terrific sequel to\n <em>\n  DragonSpell\n </em>\n that is sure to delight readers of all ages.â€\n <br />\n â€“Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Giver of Roses\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New Quest Begins\n</p>\n<p>\n A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isnâ€™t going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, itâ€™s Bardonâ€“an older boy Kale finds irritating, but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n New Friendships Are Forged\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, bringing him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Ristoâ€™s devious plans. Itâ€™s up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role thatâ€™s rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Ristoâ€™s hands?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6118'),
(3136, 'Dragonriders 2 Dragonquest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10794'),
(3137, 'The Dragonriders of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne McCaffrey''s Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of\n <em>\n  thread\n </em>\n , a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn''t fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey''s epic series:\n <em>\n  Dragonflight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dragonquest\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The White Dragon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world''s most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: DRAGONFLIGHT, DRAGONQUEST, THE WHITE DRAGON. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F''lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales of danger, deceit, and daring, just waiting to be explored..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8150'),
(3138, 'Dragons in the Waters', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10109'),
(3139, 'Dragons of a Fallen Sun', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The start of a new epic trilogy set in the world of Dragonlance. The War of Souls The people of Krynn have known war in past ages. Some are still alive who remember the triumph of good at the conclusion of the War of the Lance. Still more remember the devastation of the Chaos War, which ended the Fourth Age of the world. But now a new war is about to begin, more terrible than any have known. This war is one for the very heart and soul of the world itself. Forty years have passed since the devastating Chaos War, when the gods departed Krynn. Cruel and powerful dragons have seized control of Ansalon, dividing the continent among them and demanding tribute from the people they have enslaved. Heroes of the past have gone to their well-deserved rest. Now new heroes take their place to continue the battle against evil. Change -- for good or for ill -- comes to the world. A violent magical storm sweeps over Ansalon, bringing flood and fire, death and destruction. Out of the tumult rises a strange, mystic young woman. Her destiny is bound up with that of Krynn. For she alone knows the truth about the future, a future strangely and inextricably tied to the terrifying mystery in Krynn''s past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9484'),
(3140, 'Dragons of a Lost Star', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A mysterious force holds Krynn in thrall. A young woman, protected by her regiment of dark-armored knights, calls upon the might of an unknown god to bring victory to her army as it sweeps across the land. The souls of the dead rob the living of their magic. A dragon overlord threatens the very land the elves hold most dear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amidst the chaos, a band of brave and selfless heroes struggles against an immortal power that appears to thwart them at every turn. The encroaching darkness threatens to engulf all hope, all faith, all light.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The War of Souls rages on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling hardcover now available in eBook.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman published their first novel in the Dragonlance Chronicles,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners -- over thirty novels as collaborators -- and alone or together with other co-authors have published over a hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role-playing games, and other game products.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9483'),
(3141, 'Dragons of a Vanished Moon', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary team of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman take to the sky on dragonback again with the final dispatch from their latest voyage to the land of Krynn in the War of Souls trilogy. In volume two,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Lost Star\n  </em>\n  , the mysterious "One God" behind the irrepressible Mina''s miraculous rise to power is revealed. Yes, Dark Queen Takhisis is up to her old tricks. This time, however, she has stolen the entire planet of Krynn and hidden it away from her fellow deities. Now, she is seeking to bring the entire populace (both the living and the dead) under her fickle sway through Mina''s zealous proselytizing. Who will stop her dark quest? Who else? The troublemaking and time-traveling kender--Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, with the mystery of the "One God" revealed, much of the narrative impetus that made the first two books page-turners is lost. However, while there isn''t much left to write about in\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n  </em>\n  , the scenery is beautiful. There is an Elven exodus across the "plains of dust," stubborn Solamnic knights, cunning dragons, plotting wizards, and a full helping of Kender antics as Tasselhoff assumes the role of fly in the dark queen''s ointment. The conclusion is a textbook deus ex machina but fans should enjoy this book for what it is--another chance to return to the wonderful world of Krynn with its two most competent guides at the helm.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The One God Takhisis has pulled a fast one and vanquished the other gods of Krynn to a place unknown in this fast-paced conclusion to the War of the Souls trilogy (Dragons of a Fallen Sun; Dragons of a Lost Star). Through the warrior princess Mina, Takhisis (aka the Dark Queen) pretends to do good, heal the sick and comfort the afflicted in her scheme to take over the world. Takhisis''s most feared foe turns out to be a kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who possesses the Device of Time Journeying, an instrument that could smash all Takhisis''s ambitions with a single push of a button. As Mina takes over city after city, adding more souls to her dread troop, her opponents frantically try to figure out ways to stop her. The Solamnic Knights send one man, Sir Gerard, to spy on Mina by passing him off as a Dark Knight. The elves of Qualinest and Silvanost find common cause in the fight against the Dark Queen, while in a strange twist of allegiances, the dragons of Krynn realize that their survival depends on allying themselves with mortals which they do with cunning and stealth. At Sanction, all the players come together in a mighty battle to save Krynn and restore the world to its proper balance. Bestselling authors Weis and Hickman have made another admirable addition to the history, lore and ways of Krynn, including a set of useful endnotes to bring newcomers up to speed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9480'),
(3142, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3103'),
(3143, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dragons of Spring Dawning, the concluding episode in the ever-popular Chronicles Trilogy, once again takes listeners on a fantastical journey to Krynn, where friendships are made and lost and destinies finally realized. Armed at last with the powerful dragonlances, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a final desperate battle against the destructive dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-eft, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage -- none has reckoned how high the price of victory -- or even defeat -- might be. One by one, they must each overcome personal doubts and conflicts -- their only hope if they are to stop the return of the five-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis. Listen and discover how truth and virtue at last triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil in this dramatic conclusion to one of fantasy''s most legendary tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3098'),
(3144, 'Dragons of the Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5601'),
(3145, 'Dragons of The Dwarven Depths', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Companions are back in the first volume that features an untold story from the War of the Lance. The beloved heroes return: Tanis, Raistlin and Caramon, Sturm Brightblade, Tasslehoff, and Flint Fireforge. Old friends, such as Riverwind and Goldmoon and Laurana travel with them. Old enemies are here too, as the companions encounter new adventures and new dangers in the very beginning months of the War of the Lance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book starts with the celebration of a wedding. The companions believe they have slain the evil Dragon Highlord Verminaard. They have rescued the refugees from Pax Tharkas and taken them to a valley in the Kharolis mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After they are attacked by the Dragon Armies, Tanis and Flint are sent to search for the long lost dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, hoping to persuade the dwarves to give the refugees shelter for winter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each of the other companions face their own trials. Raistlin remembers that, according to tales of old, the key to Thorbardin lies in the haunted fortress known as Skullcap. The others want nothing to do with this accursed place, but Raistlin feels strangely drawn to the ruins, and he persuades a reluctant Caramon to accompany him there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sturm becomes obsessed with finding the legendary Hammer of Kharas, and his obsession nearly plunges the party into disaster. Riverwind, now chieftain of his tribe, is made the reluctant leader of the refugees and worries that he is not suited for the task. Tika Waylan must decide if she has the courage to undertake a perilous journey to save those she loves from certain death, while Tanis Half-Elven wrestles with his faith in the newly returned gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the dwarf, Flint Fireforge, who faces the most crucial test. As the heroes race against time to save the lives of the innocents dependent on them, Flint is forced to make a difficult choice, one on which the future of mankind may rest. And the only one he can depend on for help is the happy-go-lucky kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For a time, it seems they have found a safe haven in the dwarven kingdom, only to discover there is no safe place anywhere in this world, as the Queen of Darkness and her dragons set the land aflame.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   School Library Journal:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gr 9 &amp; Up - In\n  <em>\n   Dragons of the Dwarven Depths\n  </em>\n  (Wizards of the Coast, 2006), authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman attempt to fill in some of the gaps in their popular "Chronicles Trilogy" series. The story picks up after the Companions of the Lance have helped a group of slaves escape from the mines of Pax Tharkas. The group takes refuge in a mountain valley, where they hope to be safe from their former masters. When the illusion of security is dispelled by the appearance of one of their old enemies, the heroes take action. They seek out the lost dwarven stronghold of Thorbardin, hoping that the dwarves that still remain within will give shelter to the refugees through the winter. However, this sanctuary comes with a cost. The Companions are forced to take up a quest for the fabled Hammer of Kharas. The story is weighted with exposition that drags down what has the potential to be an exciting plot. While the characters may be old friends to returning readers, those new to the Chronicles will find them flat and underdeveloped. Sandra Burr''s clear, melodic voice guides listeners carefully along the journey. While she skillfully provides distinct voices for a large cast of characters, some of them grate on the ears. This recording will be in demand by fans of the previous books, but it will not draw in new listeners.-_Heather Dieffenbach, Lexington Public Library, Beaumont Branch, KY_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MARGARET WEIS and TRACY HICKMAN published their first novel in the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  Chronicles,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners -- over thirty novels as collaborators -- and alone or together with other co-authors have published over a hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role-playing games, and other game products. Hickman is also the inspiration for an upcoming "Tracy Hickman Presents" line of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels for Wizards of the Coast, while Weis is in the midst of her own Dark Disciple trilogy. Weis is also the President of Sovereign Press, which publishes\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  game material as well as many other game products.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9460'),
(3146, 'Dragons of the Highlord Skies', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this enterprising second volume of the Lost Chronicles (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Dragons of the Dwarven Depths\n  </em>\n  ), Emperor Ariakis pressures Dragon Highlord Kitiara uth Matar into a plan to make sure the Solamnic knight Derek Crownguard hears about, then quests after a dragon orb recently discovered by Dragon Highlord Feal-Thas. As Crownguard''s will is weaker than the dragon essence inside the orb, he will become enthralled to it and compelled to do the bidding of Ariakis. Loathing the task but having no choice, Kitiara treks to Feal-Thas''s Ice Palace in the dangerous land of Icereach. As Crownguard and his companions join up with the group of renegades led by Kitiara''s rival, Laurana, Kitiara''s path takes an unexpected turn, leading her to Dargaard Keep to face the dread Lord Soth. Weis and Hickman have once again produced an entertaining high fantasy adventure.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Chronicles retold--from evil''s point of view.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story starts in Neraka, where Kitiara uth Matar and Emperor Ariakas hatch a plan to retrieve a dragon orb and thereby destroy Solamnia and the Companions in one fell swoop. But the guardian of the dragon orb, Highlord Feal-Thas, disagrees with this plan. Kitiara must go to Ice Wall to force him to accept Ariakas'' will, but her journey does not end there. Thrown out of favor, she conceives a daring plan to enlist the aid of the most feared beings on Krynn--Lord Soth and the Dark Queen. Meanwhile, Laurana and the Companions retrieve the dragon orb and take it back to Solamnia--not knowing that they bring their allies'' doom with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second volume of a new trilogy from celebrated authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, The Lost Chronicles details the famed War of the Lance from the perspective of the evil that menaces Krynn. The books are written in such a way that they will be marvelous complements to the original Chronicles, while at the same time accessible and exciting to new readers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9462'),
(3147, 'Dragons of the Hourglass Mage', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dramatic conclusion to the Lost Chronicles series!\n </p>\n <p>\n  The War of the Lance is nearing its endâ€”for good or ill. The wizard Raistlin Majere travels to Neraka, the lord city of the Dark Queen. Raistlin ostensibly plans to work for her, though in reality he means to further his own quest for power. The Dark Queen plans to destroy the gods of magic on the Night of the Eye, when all the wizards will congregate. Raistlin has to find a way to thwart the plot, even though this means doing battle with his own sister, the Dragon Highlord Kitiara, and her terrifying ally, the death knight, Lord Soth. And still he must overcome his final foe: the archmagus Fistandantilus, who seeks to kill Raistlin and steal his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The creators of the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  Â® world return with their iconic characters, the Companions of he Lance, to show fans the rest of what really happened in the epic battle that determined the fate of the world of Krynn.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman published their first novel in the "Chronicles" series of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners - over thirty novels as collaborators - and , alone or together with other partners, over one hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role playing games, and other game products. Hickman is also the editor of a new Tracy Hickman Presents line of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels for Wizards of the Coast, while Weis is in the midst of her own, popular, solo Dark Disciple series for Wizards. Weis is also the President of Margaret Weis Productions, which publishes\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  game material as well as many other game products.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9481'),
(3148, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures. The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen! Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3099'),
(3149, 'Dragons on Englor', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1926'),
(3150, 'Dragonseed: A Novel of Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death ok King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal demons and choose where his loyalty really lies.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4763'),
(3151, 'Dragonseye', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Anne McCaffrey''s New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE, join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern! It''s been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. But one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe--and that disbelief could spell disaster. So as the dragonriders desperately train to face a terrifying enemy, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin--before history repeats itself and unleashes its virulence on all of Pern. . . . From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10833'),
(3152, 'Dragonsinger', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10827'),
(3153, 'Dragonsong', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Science FictionLarge Print EditionMenolly loved music and wanted to be a Harper, though her father would not allow it. It was a disgrace for a woman even to think of such a thing. Finally, he forbad Menolly to even sing for fear her ambition would become known. Menolly had no choice but to run away. On her journey she meets a group of fire lizards who bring new adventure, challenge and direction to her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10866');
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(3154, 'Dragonspell', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon''s egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted first by attacking ogres, then by a detour into a cave that hides seven more dragon eggs, and finally by a daring escape aided by dragon-riding rescuers who become Kale''s guides, tutors, and closest cohorts on her travels. Two of her precious eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companionsâ€“first green Gymn, who heals, and then purple Metta, who sings. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girlâ€“she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers. This is classic quest fantasy with echoes of J. R. R. Tolkien''s "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Houghton) and of Christopher Paolini''s\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003). As in C. S. Lewis''s "Narnia" books (HarperCollins), Christian allegories and messages are clearly presented and easily found, but it is equally possible to read this as Kale''s story as it happened in Amara, a world completely separate from our own. It would be a shame to limit readership by relegating this clever and inventive story to the genre of Christian fiction. There is plenty of room for sequels, and readers will want to know much more about Kale and the remainder of her quest._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader''s imagination young and old. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it''s a book families will love reading and discussing together.\n <br />\n Christopher P. N. Maselli, children''s author of\n <em>\n  Reality Shift\n </em>\n and founder of TruthPop.com\n</p>\n<p>\n A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. Paul''s\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . This is adventure and fantasy at its finest a must read for the imaginative soul.\n <br />\n Linda Windsor, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Along Came Jones\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Fires of Gleannmara\n </em>\n trilogy\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, It''s good!high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. I can only nod my head in agreement.\n <br />\n Christopher A. Lane, Gold Medallion and C.S. Lewis award-winning author of children''s and adult fiction\n</p>\n<p>\n Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profound\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is all this and more. If Donita K. Paul''s only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. But she actually does much more than this: she enables us to see our relationship with God and His world through new eyes. A delight for all true fans of fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Jim Ware, author of\n <em>\n  God of the Fairy Tale\n </em>\n and co-author of _Finding God in the Lord of the Rings\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Enchanting! A perilous quest, a timeless battle, an unlikely heroine, and a rousing adventure in a world of magic and mystery Donita K. Paul has concocted a tale brimming with eternal truth and seasoned with delightful and amazing characters that linger in the senses long after the last page.\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is destined to become a classic for a new generation of adventurers!\n <br />\n Susan May Warren, award-winning author of _Happily Ever After\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The greatest thing any author can do is to catch you up and transport you right into the very scene, the very action, the story . . . in such a way that you live the book, not merely read it. That is exactly what Donita K. Paul does with\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . For a few hours, you will take a journey to a place you have never been, with a story you will never forget. Enjoy the trip!\n <br />\n Stephen Bly, author of _Paperback Writer\n <em>\n  and Christy-award-winning\n </em>\n The Long Trail Home\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a tightly written fantasy quest set in an extraordinarily rendered storyworld. With seven intelligent races, seven evil races, several delightful dragons, one weird wizard, and an endless supply of exotic plants and animals, you will NOT be bored.\n <br />\n Randy Ingermanson, Christy award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Oxygen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Premonition\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one will ever be able to read this and doubt that Christian fantasy is a viable genre for spreading God''s word.\n <br />\n Christine Lynxwiler, president of American Christian Romance Writers\n</p>\n<p>\n Charming, well-drawn characters, a story chock full of adventures and misadventures, a land populated with dragons, doneels, emerlindians, grawligs, and all sorts of other fascinating inhabitants I ask you, what more could any reader want With\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has nailed a complex and engaging fantasy world. Whether nine or ninety, you won''t be disappointed.\n <br />\n Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Consuming Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  All Good Gifts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Dragonspell _has a heart-thumping, page-turning plot that is sure to captivate and enthrall even the most reluctant reader!\n <br />\n Peggy Wilber, author of _Reading Rescue 1-2-3\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6116'),
(3155, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(3156, 'Drama City: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7967'),
(3157, 'The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King''s epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King''s most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. In November 2003, the fifth installment, Wolves of the Calla, will be published under the imprint of Donald M. Grant, with distribution and major promotion provided by Scribner. Song of Susannah, Book VI, and The Dark Tower, Book VII, will follow under the same arrangement in 2004. With these last three volumes finally on the horizon, readers-countless King readers who have yet to delve into The Dark Tower and a multitude of new and old fantasy fans-can now look forward to reading the series straight through to its stunning conclusion. Viking''s elegant reissue of the first four books ensures that for the first time The Dark Tower will be widely available in hardcover editions for this eager readership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4304'),
(3158, 'The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8532'),
(3159, 'Dread Companion', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9114'),
(3160, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard. What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it? Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/996'),
(3161, 'Dream a Little Dream', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''She makes you laugh, makes you cry . . . Makes you feel good. Nobody tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANN KRENTZ ''funny, sexy, fast, wonderful . . . and hilarious'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''a wicked comedy . . . Don''t miss . . .'' CLOSER (on AIN''T SHE SWEET) ''Phillips adeptly develops the theme of love''s healing power. Phillips digs deep to expose weaknesses and strengths in the psyche and faith of her characters. The result is a book that is touching, funny, sexy and humane.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ''A warm and humorous story.'' L.A. TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4636'),
(3162, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Peter Guralnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  There''s no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke''s music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while you read. Guralnick''s first book after a two-volume bio of Elvis honors Cooke''s (1931â€“1964) musical genius, especially his ability to grasp the changing music scene of the late 1950s and early ''60s. For those who only know the singer through his pop hitsâ€”"You Send Me"; "Twistin'' the Night Away"â€”the extensive account of his childhood background in gospel music will prove fascinating, and the evocation of the harsh realities faced by African-American musicians touring the South a powerful reminder of just how explosive this music could be. Yet wide-ranging interviews reveal that behind Cooke''s talent and energetic vocal style, many of his peers in the music biz saw a more troubling personality. The biography does not judge, but neither does it hold back on recounting Cooke''s ruthless interactions with record companies or the deep rifts in his marriage to his former childhood sweetheart. Guralnick''s revelation of the complicated man behind the music ultimately enables readers to rediscover songs like "A Change Is Gonna Come" as even more remarkable than before. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Until Sam Cooke was shot dead in a Los Angeles motel, in 1964, at the age of thirty-three, his life had been an ascending series of crossover moves: he conquered the postwar gospel-music scene, scored bigger hits by moving into secular rhythm and blues, and then, after signing with R.C.A., in 1960, proceeded to go pop, and released a string of smooth, catchy singles that placed him on the cusp of mainstream superstar status. Guralnick, as in his biography of Elvis Presley, displays a feel for the culture that gave rise to the musician, and his account is a revelatory portrait of the rough-and-tumble yet familial world of black show business before and during the civil-rights era. In darker corners lurk the antecedents of today''s gangster-rap subcultureâ€”racketeers who funded black record labels and tour packages, and performers like Johnny (Guitar) Watson, who made more as a pimp than he did singing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7889'),
(3163, 'Dream Called Time: A Stardoc Novel', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she''s ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship''s mystery, Cherijo''s own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family-which she''s only just been reunited with-again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3901'),
(3164, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion', 'Dexter Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A debut so magicalÂ… so extraordinaryÂ… it has to be read to be believedÂ….** Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane. The tale of Haroldâ€™s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Haroldâ€™s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Haroldâ€™s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Mirandaâ€™s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine. Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(3165, 'The Dream of Scipio', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his elegant debut,\n  <em>\n   An Instance of the Fingerpost\n  </em>\n  , Iain Pears''s\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there''s the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius''s called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small ProvenÃ§al town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears''s story. At the heart of\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn''t shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators'' unpopular devotions.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critic Harold Bloom once opined that literature is a series of misprisions, or misreadings, by writers of their predecessors. Although Pears might not have had Bloom in mind in his latest novel, the premise is an unlikely embodiment of Bloom''s thesis. The story unfolds in three time frames, in each of which a man and a woman are in love, civilization itself is crumbling and Jews become the scapegoats for larger cultural anxieties. In the first scenario, Manlius is a wealthy Roman living in Provence in the empire''s crepuscular 5th century. Although he has received the last echo of Hellenic wisdom, he is surrounded by believers in a nasty sect he despises Christianity but must find some means to protect Provence from the barbarians. In fighting for "civilization," he becomes a bishop and the promoter, almost accidentally, of one of the West''s first pogroms. In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius''s poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century. As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death. Barneuve, Pears''s third protagonist, has a Jewish lover, too, but is enmeshed in the racist policies of Vichy France. Pears has a nice sense of what it means to live in a time when things fall apart, and not only the center but even the peripheries will not hold. But the readers who flocked to An Instance of the Fingerpost might not find the pages turning so fast in this less mystery-driven outing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8541'),
(3166, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4274'),
(3167, 'Dreamer', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dream......is a plateau of mental existence where people are able to communicate by the power of their thoughts alone.The Silent...These people -- known as the Silent -- find that the Dream is threatened by a powerful Silent capable of seizing control of other people''s bodies against their will...and may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.The Risk...And if the "normals" learn of this, they will do anything to capture the Silent for use as a weapon -- and the Dream itself may be shattered forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8611'),
(3168, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master''s spell....In "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning''s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin''s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest--and most erotically charged--adventure of her life. He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister''s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted "sidhe-"seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac''s every thought--and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V''lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister''s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac''s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.... It''s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth--about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons...and about the world she thought she knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2225'),
(3169, 'The Dreaming Jewels', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10481'),
(3170, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Croaker has fallen and, following the Company''s disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals.Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse.Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1882'),
(3171, 'Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Cury, Augusto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9642'),
(3172, 'The Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Augusto Cury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wherever he goes, the dreamseller enchants, stirs up trouble and inspires his listeners to search for the most important thing: the heart of the human soul. Every person he meets is someone who has abandoned their dreams and is struggling through life: a professor who has stopped pursuing his passions, an alcoholic who has no family, the elderly who have lost their zest for life. Through his questioning and wisdom, the dreamseller helps them to look into their silent hearts and get to the root of their unhappiness. The Dreamseller: The Calling is moving, entertaining and ultimately inspiring. This book will make you laugh and cry, but above all, it will make you reflect on the purpose of your life, value others and become empowered to believe in your dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5941'),
(3173, 'Dreamsnake', 'Vonda McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10113'),
(3174, 'The Dreamthief&#39;s Daughter', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9828'),
(3175, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a collection of whimsical essays by the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker. 450,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(3176, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8402'),
(3177, 'The Dressmaker', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naÃ¯ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbourâ€™s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8173'),
(3178, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/595'),
(3179, 'Driftwood Cottage', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Single mom Heather Donovan''s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O''Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son''s father, Connor O''Brien. His parents'' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather''s just about given up on her old dreamsâ€”of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It''s going to take a lot of persuasionâ€”and some help from the O''Brien familyâ€”to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8267'),
(3180, 'A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they''ve got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna''s family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane''s acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(3181, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(3182, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today''s challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1356'),
(3183, 'Driven to Ink', 'Karen E. Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series. ** Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas''s hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates That''s Amore, a drive-through wedding chapel, as a bride-to-be looking for the mark of a murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2841'),
(3184, 'Driving Blind', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver''s seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3854'),
(3185, 'Driving Force', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10978');
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(3186, 'Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain', 'Chris Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When English sheep shearer Chris Stewart (once a drummer for Genesis) bought an isolated farmhouse in the mountains outside of Granada, Spain, he was fully aware that it didn''t have electricity, running water, or access to roads. But he had little idea of the headaches and hilarity that would follow (including scorpions, runaway sheep, and the former owner who won''t budge). He also had no idea that his memoir about southern Spain would set a standard for literary travel writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This rip-roaringly funny book about seeking a place in an earthy community of peasants and shepherds gives a realistic sense of the hassles and rewards of foreign relocation. Part of its allure stems from the absence of rose-colored glasses, mainly Stewart''s refusal to merely coo about the piece of heaven he''s found or to portray all residents as angels. Stewart''s hilarious and beautifully written passages are deep in their honest perceptions of the place and the sometimes xenophobic natives, whose reception of the newcomers ranges from warm to gruff.\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading about struggles with dialects, animal husbandry, droughts, flooding, and such local rituals as pig slaughters and the rebuilding of bridges, you may not wish to live Chris Stewart''s life. But you can''t help but admire him and his wife, Ana, for digging out a niche in these far-flung mountains, for successfully befriending the denizens, and for so eloquently and comically telling the truth. The rich, vibrant, and unromanticized candor of\n <em>\n  Driving over Lemons\n </em>\n makes it a laudable standout in a genre too often typified by laughable naivetÃ©.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stewart, a former drummer in Genesis, middle-aged travel writer and professional sheepshearer, never quite explains why he and his wife, Ana, decided to quit England 11 years ago for a dilapidated farm without electricity, water or even a road in Andaluc!a, Spain. Perhaps the olives, almonds and rosemary had something to do with it. Stewart clearly has found contentment in his good place among a lovingly described collection of local farmers, New Age travelers, artists and the occasional Buddhist. His hilly farm is a harsher place than Peter Mayle''s Provence or Frances Mayes''s Tuscany, and the local cuisine far less appetizing, yet his unfailing good humor and invincible optimism carry him past obstacles that would send most readers scurrying for home. More than a travel book, this is a record of Stewart''s slowly flourishing friendship with his neighbor, Domingo, and of how Stewart gradually sank roots deep into his beautiful Andaluc!an hillside. A bestseller in England, this enchanting memoir is likely to prove popular in North America with both armchair travelers and readers who, while curious about the odd life choices others make, would just as soon give scorpions and clouds of flies a miss. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8246'),
(3187, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(3188, 'Drop Shot', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9593'),
(3189, 'DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(3190, 'Drowned Wednesday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8 -This third volume in the series also marks its hardcover debut (with simultaneous reissues of the first two books in hardcover). Arthur is in the hospital, recovering from the events of\n  <em>\n   Grim Tuesday\n  </em>\n  (Scholastic, 2004) and trying to explain things to his friend Leaf while apprehensively awaiting the "transport" promised in Lady Wednesday''s invitation. His fears are more than realized; the ship from the House takes Leaf but leaves Arthur adrift on the Border Sea. He finds temporary refuge on a buoy-but it''s a treasure marker for the dreaded once-human pirate Feverfew, and Arthur is marked as a thief and is in mortal danger. He is rescued by a comic bunch of salvagers from Wednesday''s domain, and from them Arthur begins to understand that Wednesday is very different from the other Days he has met. Moreover, she has become a monstrous but tragic leviathan. Seafaring adventure follows; Arthur must elude Feverfew even while breaking into his stronghold, a bubble of the Secondary Realms concealed in Wednesday''s stomach where Leaf and hundreds of denizens enslaved by Feverfew are held captive. Feverfew is the real villain here, and Arthur is finally accepting (albeit reluctantly) that he must be a hero. This is another great entry with a cliff-hanger ending. It doesn''t stand alone, but it''s a must-have for anyone who has the first two entries in this well-crafted, exciting series._-Karyn N. Silverman, Elizabeth Irwin High School, New York City_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 5-8. One senses a formidable imagination in freefall in Nix''s Keys to the Kingdom series, and experiencing it can be at once exhilarating and overwhelming. In this third of seven planned installments, each set on a successive day of a single week, Arthur Penhaligon is summoned from his hospital bed by Lady Wednesday, who has metamorphosed into a 126-mile-long whale. Burdened with asthma, a broken leg, and still-fresh shock at how inextricably his fate is tied to the House (the "epicenter of the Universe"), Arthur plies the Border Sea in search of the Third Part of the Will. The conclusion melds Pinocchio and _20,000 Leagues under the Sea,\n  <em>\n   bringing into play a fearsome pirate, mercenary rats, a ship incompetently crewed by accountants, and allies old and new, human and otherworldly. New readers may find the backstory about Arthur''s quest to vanquish the Morrow Days and to reassemble the Architect''s Will frustratingly esoteric, but those who appreciated the freewheeling invention of\n  </em>\n  Mister Monday\n  <em>\n   (2003)\n  </em>\n  _and\n  <em>\n   Grim Tuesday\n  </em>\n  (2004) will emerge from the third book with enthusiasm unabated.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9667'),
(3191, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in decline and buildings sink beneath waters infested with decaying matter. Into this wasteland a group of intrepid scientists venture to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. Soon ghostly voices haunt their waking and nightmares permeate their sleep."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8499'),
(3192, 'The Drowning City', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Downum effectively combines action, magic, police procedure and political intrigue in this complex and striking debut. Isyllt Iskaldur, a SelafaÃ¯an forensic necromancer, travels to the monsoon-soaked canal city of Symir, capital of Sivahra. Her plot to undermine the occupying Assari Empire before it can invade Selafai is complicated by her attraction to handsome Imperial fire-mage Asheris. Isyllt''s bodyguard Xinai, a Sivahran native, despises the empire for its brutal destruction of her clan; young apprentice mage Zhirin Laii struggles between love for a guerrilla leader and loyalty to her mother, a respected politician. Refreshingly, Downum treats necromancy as an unclean but necessary defense against evil and nicely handles the complex nuances of a quasi-Westerner fomenting revolution in a quasi-Asian country occupied by quasi-Arabs. A strong (if not happy) conclusion still leaves plenty of room for sequels.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4738'),
(3193, 'Drugs and Pregnancy: A Handbook', 'Bertis B. Little', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This practical handbook will assist the physician and nurse prescriber in understanding the effects of drug exposure during pregnancy. Numerous tables and boxes provide information on drug classifications and regimens, as well as highlighting adverse effects and TERIS and FDA risk ratings. Sources of further information are provided where appropriate, and full references are available on the book''s website www.drugs-and-pregnancy.com. The book provides detailed guidelines on prescribing drugs in all classes, and for a wide variety of diseases and disorders, during pregnancy. Opening with a helpful analysis of potential risks and benefits of prescribing in pregnancy, the book moves on to consider the implications of both medications for pre-existing conditions and those that develop during pregnancy, including antimicrobials, drugs for cardiovascular disease, asthma and endocrine disorders, antineoplastic agents, skin preparations, epilepsy treatments and psychiatric drugs. Invaluable guidance on anesthetic administration and the use of pain relieving medication during pregnancy and labor, and helpful advice on the possible side-effects associated with over-the-counter preparations such as cold and ''flu remedies, antihistamines and nutritional supplements is also provided.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bertis B. Little is Associate Vice-President for Academic Research and Professor, Tarleton State University, Texas, USA\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10006'),
(3194, 'Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment Options and Risk Assessment', 'Christof Schaefer; Paul W. J. Peters; Richard K Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A welcome edition to an already thorough reference...succinct texts such as this are invaluable and worthy of a spot on a bookshelf of any health care practitioner who advises pregnant or lactating women."\n <br />\n - Myla Moretti, Motherisk Program, Toronto, Ontario, in CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL PHARMACY\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best feature of this book is its thorough coverage of how medications pass into breast milk and the way it takes into consideration the differences posed by infant age and maturity. Lists of drug therapies accompanied with recommendations regarding therapy choice and safe alternatives, are especially helpful. The appendixes are a highlight of this book, providing practitioners with a wealth of listed resources. This book is highly recommended to all clinicians working in the areas of obstetrics, pediatrics, and lactation. It offers more specific recommendations regarding treatment options than a similar book, Hale''s\n <em>\n  Medications and Mothers Milk\n </em>\n , 12th edition (Hale Publishing, 2006)...[Schaefer] is a great addition to the clinician''s library. This second edition contains major revisions with many sections completely rewritten, and the price is lower, making the book available to a greater readership."\n <br />\n - DOODY ENTERPRISES, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book comes with a nifty accessibility enhancer, a laminated pocket card with a table of risk/safety attributes of commonly used medications. The availability of information in such a compact and pocket-friendly form will be very popular with some clinicians...The contributors to this book have done a very nice job...An important feature of Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation. Treatment options and risk assessment is the inclusion of recommendations for most medications or groups of medications. The recommendations are set forth in a shaded box for easy visibility and will be appreciated by clinicians looking for clear answers. This book has staying power, and I expect we will see subsequent editions on a regular basis...the book will find an appreciative audience."\n <br />\n - Anthony R. Scialli, M.D., Reproductive Toxicology Center, Bethesda, MD\n</p>\n<p>\n "A user-friendly pocket guide that''s been extensively revised throughout, with content rewritten and adapted for an internal audience...includes a removable quick reference card on the safety of most frequently used drugs. The book contains new information on herbs, vitamins, and supplement use during pregnancy and expanded chapters on antiepileptics, psychopharmacological agents, disease modifying drugs, and cancer therapy."\n <br />\n -CONTEMPORARY OB/GYN\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is wonderful to have another source to assess the risks for use of medications not only in pregnancy but while breastfeeding."\n <br />\n --Sharon Voyer Lavigne, M.S, Connecticut Pregnancy Exposure Information Service\n</p>\n<p>\n "Drugs During Pregnancy and Lacation, Treatment Options and Risk Assessment, Second Edition, is a well organized, concise, and comprehensive reference guide assembled by internationally recognized experts in the field - a valuable tool for clinicians."\n <br />\n --Christina D. Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H., Departments of Pediatrics and Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California in San Diego\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest edition is\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n resource for any practicing OB/GYN, family physician, midwife, or pharmacist who prescribes medicinal products to or evaluates environmental or occupational exposures in women who are or may become pregnant. Based on the highly successful seven German editions of this reference, the up-to-date drug listings have been revised into a handy pocket guide color tabbed for quick access to important information. Easy to reference each drug is listed discussing the side effects, general impact on organ systems, potential toxicity, and risks before offering dosage recommendations. It is the only book of its kind to provide conclusive information on treatments for diseases during pregnancy and lactation and actions to be taken after (inadvertant) exposure to drugs suspected to be developmentaly toxic. Unlike other dosage guides, this edition is an affordable, compact compendium of knowledge on the very latest drugs and their effects on pregnant/lactating women.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Provides conclusive information on the prevention of birth defects through the safe use of drugs before pregnancy, as well as during pregnancy and lactation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Essential new information on herbs, vitamins, and nutrition supplements used during pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Structured according to indication group, rather than alphabetically, providing a more user-friendly guide that makes it easier to compare drugs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Includes a conveniently removable ''quick reference'' card of most frequently used drugs and their safety\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10519'),
(3195, 'Drums of Autumn', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9611'),
(3196, 'Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukaemia, Steven''s world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother''s illness and his parents'' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE is a heart warming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5684'),
(3197, 'Dry: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dryâ€”the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors and Sellevision. He lives in New York City.  You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he''s doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drinkâ€”as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs''s first outing."â€”Time"More than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he''s even alive."â€”People"[A] wrenching, edifying journey . . . with the added benefit of being really entertaining."â€”The New York Times Book Review "A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."â€”USA Today "Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer . . . Dry is a great read. Grade A."â€”Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we''re right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink . . . One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."â€”San Francisco Chronicle "Augusten Burroughs''s Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety . . . Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we''ve come to expect from rehab literature."â€”Paper magazine "When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that''s free rein to write 100 memoirsâ€”and bring them on immediately."â€”The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs''s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word "nightmare" doesn''t even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic . . . he is funny and dark . . . in his own half-mad way, he''s an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them . . . Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won''t be disappointed."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7512'),
(3198, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DUBLINERS is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a beautifully-designed edition of James Joyce''s classic DUBLINERS. Complete and Unabridged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1774'),
(3199, 'Dude, where&#39;s my country?', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stupid White Men comes a hilarious act of sedition to overthrow the ''Thief in Chief''-and effect the kind of change that just may save the country. Michael Moore is on a mission: He aims to unseat the man who slithered into the White House on tracks laid by guilty Enron execs and greased with his daddy''s oil associations. And as for ''The Left,'' they''re just as satisfied to stand idly by as the chasm between the ''haves'' and ''have nots'' grows wider and wider. That''s right, Michael Moore is back with a new book that reveals what''s gone wrong in America and, more importantly, how it can be fixed. In his characteristic style that is at once fearless and funny, Moore takes readers on another wild ride to the political edge of righteous laughter and divine revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3008'),
(3200, 'Dude, You&#39;re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School', 'C. J. Pascoe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school,\n <em>\n  Dude, You''re a Fag\n </em>\n sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe''s unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Laced with evocative stories based on ethnographic observations and interviews with high school kids,\n <em>\n  Dude, You''re a Fag\n </em>\n tells gripping stories of life in high school, while helping to extend the cutting edge of scholarly theory on gender and sexualities. C.J. Pascoe has contributed a highly readable and extremely insightful book that will be required reading for students and scholars of youth and the construction of sex and gender in schools."--Michael A. Messner, author of\n <em>\n  Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a strikingly original study of schoolboys renegotiating class, gender, and ethnicity, along with the labeling as ''fag''. Here homophobia is at work in a path breaking study, which is also a highly readable must-read."--Ken Plummer, University of Essex, and editor of\n <em>\n  Sexualities\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "We know that schools are a central site for the construction of gender identity, but until C. J. Pascoe''s careful and compassionate ethnography, we haven''t known exactly\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n gender conformity is extracted from a slurry of humiliations, fears, and anxieties. Boys will not be boys unless they are made to be, by violence, real or implied. A troubling, thoughtful work."--Michael Kimmel, author of\n <em>\n  Manhood in America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pascoe''s thoughtful analysis of the rhetorical and interactional processes that constitute the field of masculinity for young, high school men coming of age is rich and engaging. With fresh insight and careful observation, Pascoe sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink the formation of gender identities, collective gender practices, and the reproduction of gender inequalities."--Amy L. Best, author of\n <em>\n  Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this superb ethnography of daily life in a contemporary high school, C. J. Pascoe highlights the sexualized dynamics of youthful masculinity. With vivid detail and perceptive analysis, she examines the ''fag talk'' which pervades boys'' conversations; the convergence of gender, sexual, and racialized practices in school rituals like the ''Mr. Cougar'' contest; and the experiences of girls who display themselves as masculine. The result is a book that breaks fresh ground in masculinity and gender studies-and is a very good read!"--Barrie Thorne, author of\n <em>\n  Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9261'),
(3201, 'The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power', 'Tariq Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States'' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9/11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country.The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general''s party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters.With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir''s widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country''s history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4466'),
(3202, 'The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever', 'Pierre Dukan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The fat attack French women swear by'' -- Grazia ''The ultimate diet. The French have kept it secret for years... Today, more than 1.5million women swear by its dramatic - and long-lasting - results.'' -- Daily Mail ''The secret that keeps French women slim.'' -- Bella ''It''s a four-stage plan that offers the ultimate fast track to weight loss and maintenance with delish French-inspired recipes to keep you inspired.'' -- She ''Politicians, film stars and high-profile models, including Gisele Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez, live the Dukan life.'' -- Daily Mail ''How do you fancy getting the legs and curves of Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Bundchen without having to go on a diet of lettuce? ... More than 1.5million French women already swear by the slimming regime devised by nutritionist Dr Pierre Dukan ten years ago.'' -- Daily Mirror ''All over France right now, women are talking in hushed reverential tones about a certain Pierre Dukan... he is in fact, currently the biggest name on the French dieting scene.'' -- Grazia ''French women don''t get fat... But now we know the real reason why. for the last ten years, thousands of women across the channel have been following a plan called the Dukan Diet. And the results have been astonishing.'' -- New ''Want to know why French women seem to be able to enjoy long Mediterranean-style lunches but still stay slim and gorgeous? It''s all down to a diet formula worked out by eminent French doctor Pierre Dukan, based on four different eating phases that follow on from each other but result in speedy weight loss while eating unlimited quantities of real food, six days a week.'' -- Reveal\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  # 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime.\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has helped millions in France, where itÂ has been number one for more than ten years and adopted in twenty countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Korea and Brazil. All together,\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Phase one: Attack\n </strong>\n <br />\n Using Dr. Dukan''s True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan Attack phase a two-to-seven-day period during which only unlimited lean protein and a daily Oat bran galette (or pancake) are consumed and dramatic weight loss is achieved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Two: Cruise\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters alternate days of unlimited lean protein with days of protein combined with healthful vegetables until they reach their True Weight.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Three: Consolidation\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters stay on this phase for 5 days for every pound lost. At this point the diet allows unlimited protein and vegetables, and other foods (such as cheese and bread) are reintroduced.Â  Dieters are also allowed two weekly celebration meals to stave off boredom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Four: Stabilization\n </strong>\n <br />\n This is the maintenance portion of the plan, in which followers are allowed to eat whatever they like without regaining weight â€“ provided that they follow 3 unbreakable rules including eating only unlimited lean protein one set day per week.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n For each phase, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines for long term success.Â  The Dukan Diet is the perfect diet for people who want fast weight loss, that can be maintained without counting calories or weighing portions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6254'),
(3203, 'Duke Elric', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Moorcock is] the most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Moorcockâ€™s work as a critic, as an editor and as a writer has made it easier for me and a whole generation of us to roam the â€˜moonbeam roadsâ€™ of the literary multiverse.â€â€”from the Foreword by Michael Chabon\n</p>\n<p>\n Has there ever been a heroâ€“or anti-heroâ€“to match Elric of MelnibonÃ©, last emperor of an ancient civilization sunk into decadence and inhuman cruelty? Elric the albino, weary of life and enamored of death, bearer of the soul-devouring black sword Stormbringer, cursed to betray all he loves and to save that which he despises: In the unending battle between the forces of Law and Chaos, he is the wildest card of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey proudly presents the fourth in its definitive collection of stories featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s greatest creation. Here is the full novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, the script of the DC comic Duke Elric, the new story â€œThe Flaneur des Arcades de lâ€™Opera,â€ essays by Moorcock and others, and a selection of classic artwork.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lavishly illustrated by Justin Sweet, with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, Duke Elric is essential for all fans of the fantastic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6299'),
(3204, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else."Edgar, does anything make you happy?""I used to sketch.""Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4258'),
(3205, 'Dumb Witness: Hercule Poirot Investigates', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid--and now, she''s dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that''s left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery--or add to it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9250'),
(3206, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced. Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world. *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"* This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat. A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 October No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup November Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup December Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3816'),
(3207, 'Duncton Tales', 'William Horwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''More readable and rewarding than The Lord of the Rings'' --\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE JOURNEY STARTS\n  <em>\n   HERE\n  </em>\n  , AND NOW\n </p>\n <p>\n  A million readers have revelled in William Horwood''s now classic trilogy\n  <em>\n   The Duncton Chronicles\n  </em>\n  which tells how Moledom''s Stone followers struggled to find peace and truth for allmole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now Moledom''s greatest tale can be told - from which all began and to which all is leading.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have never read a Duncton story before, start here and now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are already a Stone follower then prepare for the greatest pilgrimage of your life to find the Silence of the Stone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6422'),
(3208, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(3209, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiahcontinues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(3210, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A sparkling new novel from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Beach House*** Jane Green''s last novel, *The Beach House*, was an instant *New York Times* bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafÃ©s of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere. *Dune Road* is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green''s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. *Dune Road* is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. *Dune Road* will surely be *the* book to pack in beach bags next summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2073');
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(3211, 'Dune: House Atreides', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."â€”Dean KoontzFrank Herbert''s Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago. Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert''s award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwideâ€”and transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his visionâ€”vast, sprawling, and multilayeredâ€”remained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel to Duneâ€”where we step onto planet Arrakis...decades before Dune''s hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands. â€”Beginning nearly four decades before Dune, House Atreides introduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation of Dune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnenâ€”or take it to new heights of power.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood''s son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year''s education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegadesâ€”and shapers of history. Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune''s greatest secrets, House Atreides stands next to Dune in its power and scope. While this new novel solves some of Dune''s most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad''Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul''s birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of the Dune chronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imaginationâ€”a future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake. The Story Behind Dune: House Atreidesby Brian HerbertWhen my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn''t teach me how to write; instead, he would teach me what he called "the care and feeding of editors": how to make manuscripts look presentable so that they wouldn''t be tossed into a slush pile, unread. He then proceeded to teach me how to write. I remember many instances when we would brainstorm ideas and dissect my own novel manuscripts. He taught me how to develop worlds, to create characters, to invent action...and to describe all of it. We collaborated on the novel Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert''s last published work, and even talked about working together on a new Dune novel, but we''d set no date, had established no specific details or direction.That novel was not to be. When my father died in 1986, he left several projects unfinished. For years there were rumors that I would write another novel set in my father''s Dune universe, a sequel to the sixth book in the series, Chapterhouse: Dune. Prominent writers approached me with offers of collaboration, but in tossing ideas around with them I couldn''t visualize the project coming to fruition. They were excellent writers, but in combination with them I didn''t feel the necessary synergy for such a monumental task. Along with Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings and a handful of other works, Dune stood as one of the greatest creative achievements of all time, and arguably the greatest example of science fiction world-building in the history of literature. For the sake of my father''s legacy, I could not select the wrong person.It wasn''t until I began conversation with Kevin J. Anderson, a critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling author, that I found someone whose enthusiasm and passion for the Dune universe match my own. Much of Kevin''s writing had been influenced heavily by the work of Frank Herbert. I read everything I could get my hands on that Kevin had written, and did more checking on him. It soon became clear that he was a brilliant writer and that his reputation was sterling. We hit it off immediately, both on a personal and professional level; new story ideas fairly exploded from our minds and together, we found the energy to tackle such a massive project.Frank Herbert had left behind literally thousands of pages of notes, ideas, and sketches. Of all the possible Dune stories we could tell, Kevin and I chose to concentrate on an immediate prequel, to go back to the heart of Dune''s readership, the core characters and situations that had made this the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: The love story of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica; their first battle with Baron Harkonnen; the quest of the planetologist Kynes, sent to the desert world of Dune to investigate the precious spice and the sandworms and the Fremen...and the power-hungry Crown Prince Shaddam, who would do anything to secure the Imperial throne.The Dune universe is a vast canvas, with ample opportunity for many stories, but we have chosen to start here, featuring the characters with whom all Dune fans are familiar. Dune: House Atreides is a personal story that means a great deal to us; we hope booksellers and readers alike will feel the same way. Signed,Brian Herbert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10502'),
(3212, 'Dune: House Corrino', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Dune: House Atreides and Dune: House Harkonnen chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10501'),
(3213, 'Dune: House Harkonnen', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit to be the mother of Leto''s daughter. Meanwhile, on Dune - planet Arrakis - House Harkonnen ruthlessly harvests the precious, mind-enhancing drug called spice. And Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathesome disease. Rabban Harkonnen - House Atreides'' most implacable enemy - prepares to take over his uncle''s empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10503'),
(3214, 'Duplicity: A Novel', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We must recognize all people for whom they truly are and not for the characters they\n <em>\n  pretend\n </em>\n to be. A motion picture mogul learns that everyone in his life, including his Emmy-nominated wife, are out to gain more than his multimillionaire estate can buy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motion-picture mogul Parrish Clovis learns that everyone is in his life by designâ€” including Hana Kafka, his wife. In just a few short hours, Parrishâ€™s affluent life takes a downward plunge into a seedy world that lands him on the front page of every newspaper in America. Heâ€™s been accused of the unthinkable. One problem, thoughâ€”he canâ€™t remember brutally assaulting and raping his wife. In order for Hana and a crew of out-of-work actors to drain Parrishâ€™s multimillion- dollar estate, they must first set the stage for Parrish to murder his sister by tricking him into thinking heâ€™s really going to kill the woman he was forced to hate: Hana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parrish, however, discovers the con. He throws an ingenious twist in the script that will either win him an Oscarâ€¦or get him a closed-casket funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8598'),
(3215, 'Durable Goods: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Berg''s understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an officer of unidentified rank. The girls'' mother has died of cancer, although Katie never discusses how much time has passed since the loss. Accustomed to a military lifestyle, suspecting that her home will be only a temporary one, Katie leads a fairly ordinary existence. She and her best friend go swimming, talk about puberty and meet boys. When the inevitable happens and the family learns they''re being transferred to Missouri, Katie tries to accept the impending change, but her sister, who can no longer tolerate her father''s abuse, rebels. Direct, matter-of-fact sentences convey resilient Katie''s point of view; the absence of a maternal figure is acutely felt, particularly in the vulnerable but violent father''s frightening temper. Overall, however, this subdued tale of a troubled family is more modest than memorable, insinuating rather than fully examining its characters'' motives. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-After her mother''s death, Katie and her father move from their home on a Texas army base. Her sister Diane, 18, runs away with her boyfriend rather than spend any more time with her grieving, distant father. Katie, at 12, is just discovering her potential and working through relationships with friends, boys, her sister and, most especially, her father. Every once in a while, she and readers see the unresolved despair that contributes to his abusive spells. No one in this compelling story is completely right or wrong. Diane cannot see the man''s pain or, if she does, cannot forgive him yet. He is seemingly uncaring and cruel, but, at moments, is also loving and concerned for his small family. At the end of this book, readers will feel that the girl and her father are going to make it. Katie is an endearing and persistent heroine, and Berg''s prose borders on the poetic. This is an easy read, but its haunting images of coming of age are sure to remain with YAs.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan H. Woodcock, Potomac Library, Woodbridge, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8452'),
(3216, 'The Durango Affair', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''M HAVING YOUR BABY."\n</p>\n<p>\n Savannah Claiborne''s simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland''s carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime of obligation for the confirmed bachelor.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Westmoreland men always honored their responsibilities, and leaving Savannah to raise his baby on her own was not an option. So he proposed and she accepted...with one condition: Theirs would be an in-name-only marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Durango agreed. For now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7975'),
(3217, 'Dust City', 'Robert Paul Weston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once upon a time was a long time ago in Henry Whelpâ€™s city. Now, the fairies are gone, and with them, their magical fairydust. Corporations manufacture synthetic dust to sell over the counter, while uncut nixiedust gets hawked by shady foxes in dark alleyways. But Henry never touches the stuff since his father went berserk and murdered a red-hooded girl and her granny on behalf of a golden-touch gangster named Skinner. See, dust is the stuff of miracles and fulfills destinies, which is fine if youâ€™re a princess, but can lead to a big bad fate for a wolf like Henry. The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm. Henry gets in deep with Skinnerâ€™s crew to exonerate his dad and trips his way into a scheme to return the animalia (wolves, ravens, and the like) to their primitive state. The ending feels like itâ€™s missing a twist or two, but the clever setup and gutting of fairy-tale tropes will garner plenty of enthusiasm. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Weston deftly tucks his fairy-tale tropes into this thought-provoking mystery." --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weston has created a tightly paced mystery, a coming of age story, and a vivid fantasy...Dust City is a winner." --_Quill and Quire_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dust City is so creative...As soon as I read the first page, I was hooked." --Teens Read Too\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4428'),
(3218, 'The Dust of 100 Dogs', 'A. S. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact.Now she''s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I''d follow Saffron into the briny deep.â€”Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir TodA non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable. â€”Lisa McMann, New York Times best-selling author of WakeSparkling, original, both swashbuckling and contemporary...This gripping adventure is sure to be devoured by both teens and adults. â€”Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Angel''s Choice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6635'),
(3219, 'Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Toll the Hounds\n  </em>\n  ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5476'),
(3220, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(3221, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise. Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid. Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(3222, 'Dweller', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hands down my favorite book of the year." --Fear Zone\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods.Â  His parents convinced the terrified child it was only his imagination.Â  The next time Toby saw the creature he was a lonely, unhappy teenager without friends.Â But the creature would be his friend.Â  It would be there when Toby needed someone to talk to.Â  And it would take care of the bullies who wouldn''t leave Toby alone.Â After all, the creature needed to eat.Â  And during their macabre, decades-long friendship, there will be other meals...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4544'),
(3223, 'Dying by the Sword', 'Sarah D&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New from a gifted writer ( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos s servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter a plot against the life of the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3536'),
(3224, 'The Dying Earth', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9170'),
(3225, 'Dying for Dinner', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend''s restaurant, what''s meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2690'),
(3226, 'Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery', 'Valerie Wilson Wesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Valerie Wilson Wesleyâ€™s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jerseyâ€™s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who â€œhas a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethalâ€ (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.Tamara Hayleâ€™s past has come back to haunt herâ€“literally. Sheâ€™s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celiaâ€™s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his motherâ€™s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.The search for Celia and her sonâ€™s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friendâ€™s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderousÂ  grudge. Thereâ€™s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friendâ€™s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained forâ€“and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7913'),
(3227, 'A Dying Light in Corduba', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest addition to a durable series, Marcus Didius Falco travels to the distant province of Baetica, pregnant girlfriend in tow, to investigate a possible olive oil cartel. The emphasis in this historical mystery is as much on historical as mystery, with solid detail and vivid insights that bring the ancient Roman alive. But the plotting, though leisurely, is nicely suspenseful and the ending worth the wait.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. One night, a man is killed and Romeâ€™s Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation, and he is soon plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falcoâ€™s troubles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7179'),
(3228, 'Dylan', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Game, Set, Match... Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii''s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis''s wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis- obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2222'),
(3229, 'Dyson Sphere', 'Charles R. Pellegrino &amp; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  save them all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8124'),
(3230, 'E Is for Evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€”until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnâ€™t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseyâ€™s bank account. Problem is sheâ€™s not the one who deposited the money. But when sheâ€™s accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing herâ€¦Now Kinseyâ€™s working for herself. But with new evidenceâ€”and corpsesâ€”surfacing around her, sheâ€™s going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationâ€”and quite possibly her lifeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10952'),
(3231, '&quot;E&quot; is for evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn''t pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn''t about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the bank and, assaulted by canned carols, waited on hold for an officer to clear up the snafu.It was with something less than Christmas cheer that Kinsey faced off only minutes later with California Fidelity''s Mac Voorhies. Voorhies was smart, humorless, stingy with praise, and totally fair. He was frowning now."I got a phone call this morning." he said, his frown deepening. "Somebody says you''re on the take."Suddenly the $5,000 deposit clicked into place. It wasn''t a mistake. It was a setup."E" is for evidence: evidence planted, evidence lost. "E" is for ex-lovers and evasions, enemies and endings. For Kinsey, "E" is for everything she stands to lose if she can''t exonerate herself: her license, her livelihood, her good name. And so she takes on a new client: namely, Kinsey Millhone, thirty-two and twice-divorced, ex-cop and wisecracking loner, a California private investigator with a penchant for lost causes--one of which, it is to be hoped, is not herself.As Kinsey begins to unravel the frame-up, she finds that her future is intimately tied to one family''s past and to the explosive secret it has protected for almost twenty years. Digging deeper, she discovers that probing the past can have lethal consequences as she follows a trail of murder that leads to her own front door. And in what may well be her most challenging case, Kinsey comes up against the fact that sometimes, "E" is forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4144'),
(3232, 'Eagle in the Sky', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.'' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country''s war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart...''Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared'' - "The Times."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9156'),
(3233, 'An eagle swooped', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married -- only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul''s forgiveness -- and married him. Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(3234, 'Early Autumn', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4034'),
(3235, 'Early Autumn (1980)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10562'),
(3236, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(3237, 'The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Includes stories such as Afterward the Fullness of Life a Venetian Night''s Entertainment Xingu the Verdict and the Reckoning and verse such as Botticelli''s Madonna in the Louvre etc. SUMMARY: Includes stories such as Afterward the Fullness of Life a Venetian Night''s Entertainment Xingu the Verdict and the Reckoning and verse such as Botticelli''s Madonna in the Louvre etc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(3238, 'Early to Death, Early to Rise', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”In this sequel to\n <em>\n  Once Dead, Twice Shy\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2009), purple-haired Goth Madison is adjusting to life at her new high schoolâ€”and to the fact that she is recently dead. She is the newest dark timekeeper put in charge of reapers of death. Her ideals clash with traditionâ€”she believes in choice over fate: people with the potential to do evil might still be able to change in time to save their souls. Madison and her two reapers, (mostly) light Barnabas and dark Nakita, set out to alter the fate of a teen with a computer virus set to wreak havoc on the local hospital and cause several deaths. Madison''s adversarial light timekeeper, Ron, and his apprentice are positioned to prevent them from succeeding. Amulets with hidden forces and an occasional visit from a limerick-spouting guardian angel add to the complex hierarchy of fate and supernatural power. Sharp-dressed Nakita, who can "scythe" (kill) mortals is still concerned with fitting in at school and is an engaging sidekick to Madison, yet other characters are portrayed sketchily at best. This fast-paced tale delivers some uniquely amusing moments but does not stand alone. Fans of Lauren Kate''s\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n (Delacorte, 2009) and those who enjoyed the first book may be drawn into Harrison''s world of heaven and earth, but new readers will be left confused by undeveloped characters and overly complex rules and guidelines.â€”_Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Once Dead, Twice Shy (2009) wonâ€™t be disappointed by this more-of-the-same sequel, which follows Madisonâ€”the newly minted dark timekeeper of the afterworldâ€”as she tries to stave off unnecessary reaper scythings. The plot this time revolves around a dangerous computer virus, but the storyâ€™s primary concerns are the rocky relationships between the rogueâ€™s gallery of supernatural characters (and a few human ones, too). Harrisonâ€™s afterworld rules remain rather exhausting, but her theme of fate versus choice is more finely tuned here than in the first book. If this is your kind of thing, you already have it on order. Grades 8-11. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5925'),
(3239, 'Earth and Time', 'O maldito', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2412'),
(3240, 'Earth Is Room Enough', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anything can happen and probably will right here on earth. You don''t have to rent a spaceship or sign up for a singles cruise to Saturn or spend your weekends star-hopping along the Milky Way because ... Earth Is Room Enough. Earth is where the action is and each tomorrow unleashes new discoveries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are brilliant, witty, frightening, and fascinating stories of the future by the greatest science fiction master of them all. Just hitch your mind to these weird and wonderful tales for a spin around the world of tomorrow that will take you right to the center of your wildest dreams.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contains: The Dead Past, The Foundation of S.F. Success, Franchise, Gimmicks Three, Kid Stuff, The Water Place, Living Space, The Message, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Hell-Fire, The Last Trump, The Fun They Had, Jokester, The Immortal Bard, Someday, The Author''s Ordeal, Dreaming Is A Private Thing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9504'),
(3241, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence   There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.   But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary.   To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6876'),
(3242, 'Earthborn', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak.But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul''s damaged programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5843'),
(3243, 'Earthfall', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and Nebula award-winning author''s Homecoming series, the great artificial intelligence has lost control of the population, forbidden technology has been rediscovered, war has broken out, and the only repair lies light years distant on a lost and ruined Earth. "There seems little doubt that the whole series will prove as readable--and as morally committed--as we''ve come to expect from Card." --Locus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5837'),
(3244, 'Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?', 'Clinton Ober &amp; Stephen T. Sinatra &amp; Martin Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In our high tech society, connecting with the Earth has never been morecritical to our health and well-being. This inspired and well-researched book explains the peils we face by being disconnected from the powe and energy of the Earth and its boundless storehouse of free electrons. Could much of disease, chronic inflammation, poor sleep and more be the result of this?A brillian hypothesis well-grounded in Science. Highly recommended." --Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of "Ageless Face, Ageless Mind" --Direct comments from Dr. Perricone\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin. This book is probably the most important health read of the 21st centur" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of "The Fat Flush Diet" --Direct comments from Dr. Gittleman\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing connects us to Nature and Nature is the ultimate source of health and healing. This book is a manual for one of Nture''s great healing secrets." -John Gray, Ph.D., author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" --Direct comments from Dr. Gray\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Earthing\n </em>\n introduces the planet''s powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8175'),
(3245, 'East Of Desolation', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11025'),
(3246, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3012'),
(3247, 'East of the Sun', 'Julia Gregson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There''s Rose, as beautiful as she is naÃ¯ve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3216'),
(3248, 'Easy Marks', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10937'),
(3249, 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great With Three Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diets', 'Mary G. Enig &amp; Sally Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans'' false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to helping people implement healthy approaches to nutrition), say "high-fat, low-carb really works," eschewing the disastrous effects a high-fat diet can have on a person''s heart. They like the Atkins diet, but say it doesn''t take advantage of the "metabolism-boosting" powers of coconut oil. Their approach skews more toward traditional diets and away from modern diets (e.g., chose animal fats over vegetable oils; raw or fermented dairy products instead of pasteurized ones). Though based on considerable research, the book is somewhat off-putting. Its emphasis on one ingredient-in the recipe section, for example, one sample menu has readers eating a dish with coconut in it seven times in one day-seems nutritionally suspicious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The healthy alternative to trans fats, this revolutionary program explains why we must eat healthy, saturated fats-especially coconut-to achieve weight loss and good health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the late 1950s, it''s been drilled into Americans that fat makes you fat, saturated fats (such as those found in butter, eggs, and red meat) are unhealthy, and tropical fats and oils (like coconut and palm) are downright deadly. And yet-as we eliminate saturated fats from our diet for fear of high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries-obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates have continued to climb.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on more than two decades of research by world-renowned biochemist and fats expert Dr. Mary Enig,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  flouts conventional wisdom by asserting that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as soybean and corn) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crises, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" are, in fact, essential to weight loss and health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World populations on four continents that subsist on the coconut, with less evidence of heart disease, weight gain, or other chronic illnesses, provide the best proof of this food''s safety and efficacy; dozens of studies conducted by prestigious, mainstream universities support the use of coconut and other healthy fats and reveal the faulty reasoning underlying the saturated fat/heart disease hypothesis; and case stories from a wide range of people illustrate how using coconut oil in concert with other healthy fats can spark weight loss and heal serious illnesses, including anxiety, hypothyroidism, and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring delicious recipes for each of its three nutritional programs,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  is the book to help you build energy, lose weight, fight disease, and boost your immunity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5053');
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(3250, 'Eat, pray, love: one woman&#39;s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life** Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best wayâ€”unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(3251, 'Eater', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, no matter how fantastic it might seem, never violates established scientific laws. His newest novel takes one of the oldest SF plotsAfirst contactAand spruces it up with great success using the latest developments in astronomy and, in particular, new information on black holes. In the early 21st century, astronomers observe what appears to be a distant gamma-ray burster, a black hole swallowing another star many light years away. The data is troubling because a second burster occurs only 13 h ours later, which, given the immense distance between stars, should be impossible. Eventually, the astronomers realize that the black hole, rather than being incredibly distant, is on the edge of our solar system, and moving our way at considerable speed. Stranger still, it appears to be under intelligent guidance, or, perhaps, to be intelligent itself. One of Benford''s specialties is presenting science the way it''s really done, and this is clearly the case here. His three astronomer-protagonistsABenjamin Knowlton; his cancer-stricken wife, Channing; and the British Astronomer Royal, Kingsley Dart, whom Benford has partly based on Freeman DysonAare nicely drawn and highly believable. His alien is, well, incredibly alien and endlessly fascinating. Less successful are Benford''s government officials, who can come across as caricaturesAbut this is a minor fault. Full of astronomical pyrotechnics and the kind of intellectual verbal fencing that seems to go along with creative scientific thinking, Benford''s latest should delight any serious reader of SF. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Long before there was time, a black hole became a wandering entity, feeding on asteroids, planets, and remnants of the Big Bang. Eventually, it began engulfing ancient civilizations in its never-ending roaming across the expanse of time and space. When it reaches the edge of Earth''s solar system, three scientists, Benjamin Knowlton, his wife Channing, and their friend and colleague Kingsley Dart, take on the fight to prevent the black hole, named Eater, from annihilating the Earth. Basing the foundation of the story on scientific knowledge in the fields of physics and astronomy, Benford gives enough background in both areas to elucidate concepts without overstating the obvious. He develops the main characters as the story unfolds, paralleling their personal changes, their shared history, and their heroic interactions with the increasing malevolence of the Eater. Deftly weaving scientific procedure around an exciting plot of adventure and destruction, and inserting the interpersonal relationships of three intense personalities, Benford creates scientific fiction that sounds very real.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6651'),
(3252, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customsâ€”the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues themâ€”a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2254'),
(3253, 'Eating Animals', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9118'),
(3254, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1407'),
(3255, 'Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(3256, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She''s got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that''s pure Gothic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2816'),
(3257, 'An Echo in the Bone: A Novel', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9612'),
(3258, 'Echo Park', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn''t crack. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA''s office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits'' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch''s whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2424'),
(3259, 'Echo Park: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall, _Echo Park\n <em>\n  "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n </em>\n Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5348'),
(3260, 'Echoes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry. When WWI ends, the de Vallerands return to Germany and live happily with their young daughters, Amadea and Daphne. Antoine manages the stables at an old friend''s castle, the perfect job for him, but just as all seems well, he''s thrown from a headstrong horse. Meanwhile, Hitler''s anti-Semitic sentiments spread across Europe, and Beata fears that even her half-Jewish daughters are no longer safe. Devout Catholic Amadea plans to become a Carmelite nun, but as the Third Reich''s campaign of cruelty escalates, she finds a greater sense of purpose outside the convent walls. There''s enough romance to keep readers going, but fans who prefer the glitz and glamour of Steel''s contemporary settings may be nonplussed, and the abrupt disappearance of several major characters leaves giant holes in the narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel''s beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata''s enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has two daughters. The two live happily, despite missing their families (Antoine has been cast out of his family for marrying a Jew). When they move back to Germany, Beata establishes contact with her mother, who relates her fears for the increasing persecution of the Jews under the Nazi regime. Beata, who has lived as a Catholic for nearly 20 years, feels she is safe--in fact, her daughter, Amadea, has taken vows as a Carmelite nun-- but she watches in horror as her family members are shipped off to concentration camps. Readers will enjoy the multigenerational love stories and the historical plot. Librarians should stock up.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5976'),
(3261, 'Echoes in Time', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9127'),
(3262, 'Echoes of the Fourth Magic', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8736'),
(3263, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4337'),
(3264, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4340'),
(3265, 'Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2503'),
(3266, 'Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre''s most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5936'),
(3267, 'Eclipse Three', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5937'),
(3268, 'Eclipse: A Novel', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases to matter. In fact, his tale here is tenuous in the extreme. Alexander Cleave is a successful actor because only in performance can he hide his essential hollowness, his sense of his own intangibility. When his career starts to falter, he retreats to his childhood home in a small town by the sea and tries to learn to live with himself, to discover who he really is. Into this existential anguish intrude memories of his parents, his estranged wife, his emotionally damaged daughterDand the ghosts of people he may not even know, but to whose sadness he is attuned. He begins an uneasy relationship with a slovenly caretaker, Quirke, and Quirke''s enigmatic teenage daughter, Lily; he is visited by his wife; he goes to a strangeDand magnificently evokedDcircus with Lily; he receives terrible news about his daughter. There is by no means a surfeit of incident, and the book never falters or creates impatience because every scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music. And when Banville does choose toward the end to raise the emotional temperature, the effect is deeply moving. (Feb. 28) Forecast: Banville will probably never be a hugely popular writer, and The Eclipse, unlike The Untouchable, is not structured along conventional lines. But perceptive reviews and the support of people who love exquisitely turned prose will help to slowly build his readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Banvillian narrator is often antisocial to the point of alienating his own audience. Armed with perfect diction, he uses language to hole up in an exclusive, hopelessly cool state of mind where the well-adjusted are unwanted. Esteemed stage actor Alexander Cleave is the latest in a line of haunted white males from Banville (The Untouchable). Beleaguered by a premonition of death, he quits the summer tour to live in his dilapidated childhood home, much to his wife''s contempt. Although his seemingly irrational fears do have a climax, it will leave readers dumbfounded. This has a lot to do with the misleading "plot"Aa tedious chain of Alexander''s memories about his tortured mother and aloof father. Banville''s leading man is at his best when he plays a caring father to the housekeeper Quirke''s daughter, but this comes too late. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6512'),
(3269, 'Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything', 'Daniel Goleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazoned with the slogan, I''m NOT a plastic bag. But according to Goleman (_Emotional Intelligence_), the people who bought the bag were advertising their ecological ignorance, not their consciousness. In this thorough examination of the inconsistencies and delusions at the core of the going green effort, the author argues that consumers are collective victims of a sleight of hand, helplessly unaware of the true provenance and impact of the products they purchase: they reassure themselves by buying environmentally friendly tote bags that, upon ecological assessment, reveal some uncomfortable facts, e.g., 10,000 liters of water were required to grow the cotton for one bag, and cotton crops alone account for the use of about 10% of the world''s pesticides. Goleman''s critiques are scathing, but his conclusion is heartening: a new generation of industrial ecologists is mapping the exact impact of every production process, which could challenge consumers to change their behavior in substance rather than just show.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Goleman,Â best-selling author of such groundbreaking works as Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Primal Leadership (2002), brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. Whatâ€™s required, Goleman believes, is ecological intelligence, which he defines as understanding the â€œhidden web of connections between human activity and natureâ€™s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.â€ More concretely, Goleman encourages readers to learn about the many invisible threats to our health and the health of the environment caused by product manufacturing. Wisely focusing on the one element we can control, what we purchase, Goleman calls for higher â€œgreenâ€ standards and â€œradical transparencyâ€ regarding how products are made. An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise. Given Golemanâ€™s track record and the pressing need for smart strategies,Â this fascinating treatise has tremendous potential for reaching and motivating a large and diverse audience. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4731'),
(3270, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian McCallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8540'),
(3271, 'Economics in One Lesson', 'Hazlitt, Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11169'),
(3272, 'The Economics of Enough', 'Coyle, Diane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10430'),
(3273, 'The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters', 'Diane Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world''s leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the economics of enough"? Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. The top priority must be ensuring that we get a true picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources. Saving and investment will need to be encouraged over current consumption. Above all, governments will need to engage citizens in a process of debate about the difficult choices that lie ahead and rebuild a shared commitment to the future of our societies.  Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won''t be easy. But The Economics of Enough starts a profoundly important conversation about how we can begin--and the first steps we need to take.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7258'),
(3274, 'The Eden Hunter: A Novel', 'Skip Horack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisiana-born Horack''s novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Spanish slave traders enter the Congo and purchase a captured Pygmy named Kau, transporting him to Pensacola, Fla., where he''s sold to an innkeeper. Five years later, Kau kills the innkeeper''s son and flees into the wilds of southern Florida. Along his wilderness trek, Kau regrets the murder, yearns for his family in Africa, and encounters a "Negro fort" on the Apalachicola River built by General GarÃ§on. The remote fort''s ostentatious "genius" commander befriends the diminutive Kau, who is allowed to take an escaped slave as his mate. The American victory in the War of 1812 makes GarÃ§on, an ally of the British, a target of the imminent American invasion. While sympathetic to the slaves'' desire to be free, Kau realizes the slim chance for success against the Americans; he''s more inclined to follow his heart and "live quietly" in Florida than stand with GarÃ§on. This diminutive man serves as a watchful protagonist in Horack''s crisp, vivid tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after capture and enslavement in the American South, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, manages to escape. He flees into the wilder territories of unsettled Florida, an area still very much in dispute between Native Americans and white Americans, between runaway slaves and slave catchers, between black recruits to the British army to fight the War of 1812 and the white American military. Kau finds himself caught between cultures and clashes on an odyssey through the Florida swamplands, haunted by memories of his own tribe and family, struggling to reconcile the alliances and animosities among the warring black, red, and white tribes he encounters. He meets Native Americans fighting with and against encroaching white men, a family of freed blacks eking a life for themselves, and a mesmerizing former slave who commands a fort while leading a doomed mission. What Kau wants is to find a space in the wilderness that will return him to himself. Horack is masterful in rendering a story of a man whose singularity offers fresh perspective on a turbulent period in American history in an exceptionally evocative novel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7231'),
(3275, 'Edge', 'Thomas Blackthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again."\n  <br />\n  - Robert J Sawyer, author of_ Flash Forward_ and\n  <em>\n   Frameshift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter''s condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising... an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending." - _ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney):\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again." - Robert J Sawyer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now." - Stephen Baxter\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world!" -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of British science fiction''s most original and exciting practitioners." - Barnes &amp; Noble\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Dark Blood_ is highly entertaining, more action driven and seasoned with splatters of the titular liquid." - Andrew Osbourne,\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Dark Blood)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn''t put a foot wrong here." -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Resolution\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE -Â the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.\n  </strong>\n  Â In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalized.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country''s best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hiresÂ ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland to find him. With the help of the boy''s psychiatrist,Â Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Science Fiction [ Devastated Britain | Legalised Duelling | Corporate Atrocity | Save the Children ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6325'),
(3276, 'The Edge', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The British author''s 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses and heroes, heart palpitations, speed and comedy. Heading the large, colorful cast, narrator Torquil (Tor) Kelsey is an undercover agent for the British Jockey Club. The members have been balked in their efforts to convict wily Julius Apollo Filmer of murder and other crimes that tarnish the sport of kings. With hopes of gaining evidence against Filmer, Tor joins the rich crowd going from England to Canada for "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train." Pretending he''s a waiter, Tor keeps an eye on Filmer as the train rockets across the Northwest. There is no limit to the thrills along the way, and no way of predicting the stunning denouement. 200,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Tor Kelsey, competent, race-horse wise, and independently wealthy, works for undercover security at the English Jockey Club. "Loaned" to the Canadian Jockey Club, he spies on charming but slippery British extortionist Julius Apollo Filmera horse flesh aficionadoaboard the first-ever Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. During the week-long trip, put together to promote Canadian racing, Kelsey narrowly avoids detection, single-handedly averts catastrophe, and even falls in love. This most excellent and memorable construction, crisply crafted and sparkling with intensity, evidences a deft, masterful hand. Literary Guild main selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8215'),
(3277, 'The Education of Hailey Kendrick', 'Eileen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7â€“10â€”Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. All about impressing her high-powered doctor father, she''s a straight-A student and follows every rule to the letter. One night after her aloof father changes their plans to spend the summer together yet again, she sneaks out of her dorm room after curfew, kisses a boy who is not her boyfriend, and gets caught vandalizing the school statue. As punishment, Hailey is assigned janitorial duty, and the entire school is put on lock down until she agrees to to tell who was with her. Mitigating circumstances make it impossible for her to reveal his identity. But now that Hailey has fallen from her perch of perfection, she begins to see things a little differently. She learns, with the help of the good-looking janitor she''s assigned to help, that rules shouldn''t always be followed...even when you''re the one making them. Hailey is a likable character, and the events leading up to and away from her episode of vandalism are believable. Her emotions ring true as well, whether it''s anger at her father or frustration at the restrictions she''s placed on herself. The plot develops quickly, and readers will be madly flipping pages to find out what happens next.â€”_Heather Miller Cover, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cook effectively builds both Hailey''s (justified) feelings of rebellion and the social dynamics of her ostracism, especially in her growing friendship with a challenging townie, Drew, who supervises her punishment working with the janitorial staff....Cook coaxes considerable empathy for the otherwise privileged Hailey as she abandons the achievement treadmill to explore her independence." --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "Hailey may be an A student headed to the Ivy League, but when it comes to taking a chance on life, sheâ€™s clueless. Sheâ€™s also enormously appealing and great company throughout this breezy read. Yes, itâ€™s chick lit, but of the highest qualityâ€”like a gourmet truffle. Cook has whipped up a real treat.â€ --Kirkus starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5164'),
(3278, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6266'),
(3279, 'An Education: Screenplay', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the _ New York Times_ bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can''t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening-or her undoing. This edition of Hornby''s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby''s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nick Hornby\n </strong>\n is the author of the bestselling novels _ Slam,A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity_, and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  Shakespeare Wrote for Money\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Polysyllabic Spree\n </em>\n , and editor of the short story collection\n <em>\n  Speaking with the Angel\n </em>\n . A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters'' E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers'' London Award 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8029'),
(3280, 'Eight Ball Boogie', 'Declan Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Downscale private dick Harry Rigby starts tossing out wisecracks like lit packets of firecrackers on page one of this Irish crime story, and he doesn''t let up until the last sordid plot strand is singed into submission. In both the dialogue and firs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4945'),
(3281, 'Eight in the Box: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven yearsâ€™ experience as a Boston assistant district attorneyâ€“and as chief prosecutor with the elite Gang Unitâ€“Raffi Yessayan renders a stark, realistic, and gripping portrait of law enforcement professionals on the job, and under the gun, in a city at the mercy of a madman.The scene is perplexingly always the same: the home of a single woman, no signs of forced entry, no evidence of an intruder, and no victimâ€“only a bathtub filled with blood. Newly promoted homicide detective Angel Alves wants to make his mark in the department and a difference on the streets. But juggling the needs of a family and the demands of a relentlessly driven partner tests the young copâ€™s commitment as sorely as tracking the killer challenges his skills. Meanwhile, assistant DA Conrad Darget has his own hands fullâ€“mentoring an ambitious young law student, whom he is also dating, rallying his fellow attorneys in their daily courtroom battles, and striving to win true justice in an imperfect system. With each new attack the twisted mystery only deepens, and the hunger for answersâ€“and actionâ€“intensifies. No sane mind could comprehend the dark design behind it all. And no one can anticipate the final fateful strokes that will lead to a shocking endgame.From its chilling first pages to its heart-stopping home stretch, Eight in the Box thrills at every turn and surprises at every opportunityâ€“racing at an ever increasing velocity to deliver a climax that pays off in devastating style.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3251'),
(3282, 'Eight skilled gentlemen', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone, this fantasy tale is the equivalent of Holmes and Watson in an ancient China that never was. Master Li and Number Ten Ox investigate a strange case of murder in a book that is equal parts Chinese folklore, sly parody, adventure, horror and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(3283, 'EJ_Hunger', 'Elizabeth Jewell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10741');
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(3284, 'Elantris', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. Arelon''s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself. A rare epic fantasy that doesn''t recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It''s also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9772'),
(3285, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1254'),
(3286, 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: by the wrath of God, Queen of England', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleanor of Aquitaine was a remarkable woman. She was an important factor in the reign of four kings, lived to the ripe old age of 82, bore 10 children and outlived all but two of them. Her sons were kings of England and her daughters queens of Castile and Sicily, while her later descendants included a Holy Roman emperor and kings of France and Spain, as well as a couple of saints. In an age of men, she was indeed a powerful woman. Born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine came of age in a world of luxury, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of Europe - the prize duchy of Aquitaine - yet was forced to submit to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding Louis VII, the teenage king of France. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until Eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled - only to enter an even stormier match with Henry of Anjou, who would soon ascend to the English throne as Henry II. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, Weir re-creates not only a remarkable personality, but a magnificent past era. As Weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in Europe''s twelfth-century courts, Eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Later, after sixteen years of imprisonment for plotting to overthrow Henry, the humbled Queen emerged, at age sixty-seven, to rule England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(3287, 'The Electric Church', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is a very bad man. Some might call him a criminal. He might even be a killer - for the Right Price. But right now, Avery Cates is scared. He''s up against the Monks: cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and a small arsenal of advanced weaponry. Their mission is to convert anyone and everyone to the Electric Church. But there is just one snag. Conversion means death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1571'),
(3288, 'Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers', 'Tyrone L. Adams; Stephen A. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in the non-cyber world.In Electronic Tribes, the authors of sixteen competitively selected essays provide an up-to-the-minute look at the social uses and occasional abuses of online communication in the new media era. They explore many current Internet subcultures, including MySpace.com, craftster.org, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, music downloading, white supremacist and other counterculture groups, and Nigerian e-mail scams. Their research raises compelling questions and some remarkable answers about the real-life social consequences of participating in electronic tribes. Collectively, the contributors to this book capture a profound shift in the way people connect, as communities formed by geographical proximity are giving way to communitiesâ€”both online and offlineâ€”formed around ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11186'),
(3289, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8969'),
(3290, 'The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.Â Â Â Â Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(3291, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(3292, 'Elephant Song', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his latest novel of Africa, Smith ( The Diamond Hunters ) sets a fast-paced melodrama of greed and political corruption against the stunning, indisputably commanding backdrop of a rain forest. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and African ecologist Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of South African government-protected ivory, in the process brutally killing Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong''s childhood friend, and his family. Tracing the smuggling operation to its highest source, Armstrong comes up against a sadistic Chinese diplomat and his profoundly wealthy clan, an unscrupulous entrepreneur expatriate from India, a knighted British tycoon, assorted thugs and a torture-crazed leopard guarding a warehouse. Armstrong agrees to film a PR piece for a tyrant who has just taken over a small African nation and, with money supplied by Armstrong''s enemies, is despoiling the rain forest and enslaving members of certain tribes. Some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith''s fans and other action-addicted readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dashing producer of TV documentaries battles to save his beloved Africa from callous international multimillionaires and home-grown villainous politicians--in a free-standing adventure from the author of the Africa-based Courtney sagas (Golden Fox, A Time to Die, etc.) and others. Smith''s trademark big-hunter thrills, toned down to accommodate 90''s sensibilities, keep things hopping for Rhodesian- born David Armstrong as he first documents Zimbabwe''s thoughtful elephant management--and then avenges the death of Zimbabwe''s best elephant-manager at the hands of ruthless ivory poachers. Armstrong, a one-time soldier who now turns out PBS-style nature films, just misses the slaughter of old colleague Johnny Nzou and family, but quickly deduces that Taiwan''s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ning Cheng Gong, and his avaricious subcontinental ivory-agent, Chetti Singh, are the monsters behind the murders and the heist of a fortune in elephant teeth. Vowing to send Ning and Singh to their reward, Armstrong returns to London, where he picks up the backing of a bent billionaire and the assistance of a very capable, very randy camera person, meets a lovely scholar of Pygmy life, and then heads again to Africa. The grand confrontation with Singh and Ning takes place in Ubomo, a semi-democracy that has just been taken over by a rapacious army officer. Ubomo is also the home of the pretty Pygmy scholar. Humorless and politically only partially correct, but who cares? The point of a big African adventure is big adventure with big animals and big scenery, and that''s all here. Smith knows the scene. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9162'),
(3293, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4664'),
(3294, 'The Elephant Vanishes', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6735'),
(3295, 'Elephant Winter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother''s farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2753'),
(3296, 'Elephants Can Remember', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff.  This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies -- a husband and wife -- shot dead.  But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder?  Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it''s just as well that ''old sins leave long shadows''!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5234'),
(3297, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3842'),
(3298, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she''s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She''s tired of creeps, weirdos and stalkers. But just when she thinks she''s out, they pull her back in! So fasten you seatbelt and hang on ? Stephanie''s back in town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2170'),
(3299, 'Elfsorrow', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of an ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1591'),
(3300, 'Elisha&#39;s Bones', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he''s offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn''t think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones that will take him to the very ends of the earth. But he''s not alone. Joined with a fiery colleague, Esperanza Habilla, they soon discover clues to a shadowy organization whose long-held secrets have been protected . . . at all costs. As their lives are threatened again and again, the real race is to uncover the truth before those chasing them hunt them down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bones of the prophet once raised the dead to life... but they vanished from history in a whisper. Now Jack Hawthorne, part-time skeptic and full-time professor of archaeology, is enlisted to sift them from the sands of time. Bankrolled by a dying man of unlimited means, Hawthorne''s hunt spans the globe and leads him into a deadly conspiracy older than the church itself. And he soon discovers those sworn to keep the secret of the bones will do anything to protect them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6659'),
(3301, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8550'),
(3302, 'Elminster Must Die: The Sage of Shadowdale', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-anticipated return of Elminster, the most famous mage in the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n --now in paperback!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elminster, the most famous wizard in the Forgotten Realms, has foiled countless world-spanning threats, leaving a trail of powerful enemies behind him. Now that the Spellplague has robbed Elminster of much of his power, those enemies are coming out of the shadows, whetting their blades, and preparing to hunt him down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n fantasy world setting and the author of more than 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over two dozen languages. In real life, he''s a Canadian librarian who lives in the Ontario countryside with his wife, a cat, and far too many books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8727'),
(3303, 'Elric at the End of Time', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9821'),
(3304, 'Elric in the Dream Realms', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of MelnibonÃ© is all of theseâ€“and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magicâ€“and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elricâ€™s early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;_ _a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Awardâ€”winning author Neil Gaimanâ€™s moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story â€œOne Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta,\n <strong>\n  Elric: In the Dream Realms\n </strong>\n is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6300'),
(3305, 'Elric Of Melnibone', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elric of MelnibonÃ© is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of MelnibonÃ© is the first installment. The book''s namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of MelnibonÃ©, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric''s nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric''s throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of MelnibonÃ© follows Yrkoon''s scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2699'),
(3306, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMICHAEL MOORCOCK IS MY RELIGION.â€â€”from the Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€â€”Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of MelnibonÃ© walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carriesâ€”the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Del Rey is proud to present the sixth and concluding installment of its definitive omnibus editions featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s most famousâ€”or infamousâ€”creation. Here is the full text of the novel\n  <em>\n   The Revenge of the Rose,\n  </em>\n  a screenplay for the novel_ Stormbringer,_ the novella\n  <em>\n   Black Petals,\n  </em>\n  the conclusion to Moorcockâ€™s influential â€œAspects of Fantasyâ€ essay series and other nonfiction, and an indispensable readerâ€™s guide by John Davey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sumptuously illustrated by John Picacio, with a Foreword by Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   Elric: Swords and Roses\n  </em>\n  is a fitting tribute to the most unique fantasy hero of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6302'),
(3307, 'Elric to Rescue Tanelorn', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMoorcockâ€™s writing is intricate, fabulous, and mellifluous. Reading his words I was, and am, reminded of music. His novels are symphonic experiences. They dance and cry and bleed and make promises that can live only in the moment of their utterance.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Blonde Faith and Devil in a Blue Dress\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric of MelnibonÃ©. The name is like a magic spell, conjuring up the image of an albino champion and his cursed, vampiric sword, Stormbringer. Elric, the last emperor of a cruel and decadent race, rogue and adventurer, hero and murderer, lover and traitor, is mystery and paradox personifiedâ€“a timeless testament to the creative achievement of Michael Moorcock, the most significant fantasy writer since Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now comes the second in this definitive series of Elric volumes. Gorgeously illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Wm. Kaluta and including a new Introduction by Michael Moorcock, this collection features, along with Elric, such renowned characters as ErekosÃ«, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek. Readers will delight in adventures that include â€œTo Rescue Tanelorn . . .,â€ â€œMaster of Chaos,â€ â€œThe Singing Citadel,â€ â€œThe Black Bladeâ€™s Song,â€ and the novella version of â€œThe Eternal Champion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn is essential reading for every fantasy fan and provides indelible proofâ€“if any was neededâ€“of the genius of Michael Moorcock.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND sleeping, we have most of us had the illusion of hearing voices, scraps of conversation, phrases spoken in unfamiliar tones. Sometimes we attempt to attune our minds so that we can hear more, but we are rarely successful. Between wakefulness and sleeping, I began, every night, to hear voices . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n _Had I hung, for an eternity in limbo? Was I aliveâ€“dead? Was there a memory of a world which lay in the far past or the distant future? Of another world which seemed closer? And the names? Was I John Daker or Erekosâ€˜? Was I either of these? Many other names, Shaleen, Artos, Brian, Umpata, Roland, Ilanth, Ulysses, Alric, ï¬‚ed away down the ghostly rivers of my memory. I hung in darkness, bodiless. A man spoke. Where was he? I tried to look but had no eyes to see.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ« the Champion, where are you?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Another voice, then: â€œFather . . . it is only a legend . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo, Iolinda. I feel he is listening. ErekosÃ« . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I tried to answer, but had no voice. Swirling half-dreams of a house in a great city of miracles, a swollen, grimy city of miracles, crammed with dull-coloured machines, many of which bore human passengers. Of buildings, beautiful beneath their coatings of dust and of other, brighter buildings not so beautiful, with austere lines and many glass windows. Of a troop of riders galloping over an undulating countryside, ï¬‚amboyant in armour of lacquered gold, coloured pennants draped around their blood-encrusted lances. Their faces were heavy with weariness. Of more faces, many faces, some of which I half recognized, others which were unfamiliar, people clad in strange clothes. A picture of a white haired, middle-aged man who had a tall, spiked crown upon his head. His mouth moved, he was speaking . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«, it is I, King Rigenos, Defender of Humanity. You are needed again, ErekosÃ«. The Hounds of Evil rule a third of the world and humankind is weary of the war against them. Come to us, ErekosÃ« and lead us to victory. From the Plains of Melting Ice to the Mountains of Sorrow they have set up their corrupt standard and I fear they will advance yet further into our territories.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The womanâ€™s voice: â€œFather, this is only an empty tomb. Not even the mummy of ErekosÃ« remainsâ€“it became drifting dust long ago. Let us leave and return to Necranal to marshal the living peers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I felt like a fainting man who strives to ï¬ght against dizzy oblivion but, however much he tries, cannot take control of his own brain. Again I tried to answer, but could not.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was as if I wavered backwards through time, while every atom of me wanted to go forwards. I had the sensation of vast size as if I were made of stone with eyelids of granite, measuring miles acrossâ€“eyelids which I could not open. And then I was tinyâ€“the most minute grain in the universe, and yet I felt I belonged to the whole far more than the stone giant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Memories came and went. The whole panorama of the twentieth century, its beauties and its bitternesses, its satisfactions, its striï¬ng, rushed into my mind like air into a vacuum. But it was only momentary, for the next second my entire being was ï¬‚ung elsewhereâ€“to a world which was Earth, but not the Earth of John Daker, not quite the world of dead ErekosÃ«, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were three great continents, two close together, divided from the other by a vast sea containing many islands, large and small.\n</p>\n<p>\n I saw an ocean of ice which I knew to be slowly shrinkingâ€“the Plains of Melting Ice. I saw the third continent which bore lush ï¬‚ora, mighty forests, blue lakes and was bound along its northern coasts by a towering chain of mountainsâ€“the Mountains of Sorrow. This I knew to be the domain of the Eldren, whom King Rigenos had called the Hounds of Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, on the other two continents, I saw the wheatlands of the West on the continent of Zavara, with their tall cities of multicoloured rock, the rich cities of the wheatlandsâ€“Stalaco, Calodemia, Mooros and Ninadoon.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were the great seaportsâ€“Shilaal, Wedmah, Sinana, Tarkar, and Noonos of towers cobbled with precious stones.\n <br />\n Then I saw the fortress cities of the Continent of Necralala, with the capital city Necranal chief among them, built on, into and about a mighty mountain, peaked by the spreading palace of its warrior kings.\n <br />\n Now a little more came clear as, in the background of my awareness, I heard a voice calling _Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜ . . .\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The warrior kings of Necranal, kings for two thousand years of Humanity united, at war, and united again. The warrior kings of whom King Rigenos was the last living and aging now, with only a daughter, Iolinda, to carry on his line. Old and weary with hateâ€“but still hating. Hating the unhuman folk whom he called the Hounds of Evil, mankindâ€™s age-old enemies, reckless and wild, linked, it was said, by a thin line of blood to the human raceâ€“an outcome of a union between an ancient queen and the Evil One, Azmobaana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hated by King Rigenos as soulless immortals, slaves of Azmobaanaâ€™s machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n And, hating, he called upon John Daker, whom he called ErekosÃ«, to aid him with his war against them.\n <br />\n â€œErekosÃ«, I beg thee answer me. Are you ready to come?â€ His voice was loud and echoing and when, after a struggle, I could reply, my own voice seemed to echo also.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am ready,â€ I replied, â€œbut appear to be chained.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chained?_â€ There was consternation in his voice. â€œAre you, then, a prisoner of Azmobaanaâ€™s frightful minions? Are you trapped upon the Ghost Worlds?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps,â€ I said. â€œBut I do not think so. It is space and time which chain me. I am separated from you by a gulf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlready we pray that you may come to us.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThen continue,â€ I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was falling away again. I thought I remembered laughter, sadness, pride. Then, suddenly, more faces, I felt as if I witnessed the passing of everyone I had known, down the ages, and then one face superimposed itself over the othersâ€“the head and shoulders of an amazingly beautiful woman, with blonde hair piled beneath a diadem of precious stones which seemed to light the sweetness of her oval face. â€œIolinda,â€ I said. I saw her more solidly now. She was clinging to the arm of the tall, gaunt man who wore a crownâ€“King Rigenos.\n</p>\n<p>\n They stood before an empty platform of quartz and gold, and resting on a cushion of dust was a straight sword which they dared not touch. Neither did they dare step too close to it for it gave off a radiation which might slay them.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tomb in which they stood. The Tomb of ErekosÃ«â€“my tomb. I moved towards the platform, hanging over it. Ages before, my body had been placed there. I stared at the sword which held no dangers for me but was unable, in my captivity, to pick it up. It was my spirit only which inhabited the dark placeâ€“but the whole of my spirit now, not the fragment which had inhabited the tomb for thousands of years. The fragment which had heard King Rigenos and had enabled John Daker to hear it, to come to it and be united with it.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«!â€ called the king, straining his eyes through the gloom as if he had seen me. â€œErekosÃ«â€“we pray.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Then I experienced the dreadful pain which I suppose a woman to go through when bearing a child. A pain that seemed eternal and yet was intrinsically its own vanquisher. I was screaming, writhing in the air above them. Great spasms of agonyâ€“but an agony complete with purposeâ€“the purpose of creation.\n <br />\n At last I was standing, materially, before them.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have come,â€ I said. â€œI am here, King Rigenos. I have left nothing worthwhile behind meâ€“but do not let me regret that leaving.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou will not regret it, Champion.â€ He was pale, exhilarated, smiling. I looked at Iolinda who dropped her eyes modestly and then, as if against her will, raised them again to regard me. I turned to the dais on my right.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMy sword,â€ I said reaching for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n I heard King Rigenos sigh with satisfaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThey are doomed, now, the dogs,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had a sheath for the sword. It had been made days before. King Rigenos left to get it, leaving me alone with Iolinda. I did not question my being there and neither, it seemed, did she. We regarded one another silently until the king returned with the scabbard.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis will protect us against your swordâ€™s poison,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I took it, slid the sword into it. The scabbard was opaque, like glass. The metal was unfamiliar to me, as John Daker, light, sharp, dull as lead. Yet the feel of it awaked dim remembrance which I did not bother to arouse. Why was I the only one who could wear the sword without being affected by its radiation?\n <br />\n Was it because I was constitutionally different in some way to the rest of these people? Was it that the ancient ErekosÃ« and the unborn John Daker (or was that vice versa?) had metabolisms which had become adapted in some way against the power which ï¬‚owed from the sword?\n</p>\n<p>\n I had become, in that transition from my own age to this, unconcerned. It was as if I was aware that my fate had been taken out of my own hands to a large extent. I had become a tool. If only I had known for what I should be used, then I might have fought against the pull and remained harmless, ineffectual John Daker. But perhaps I could not have fought.\n</p>\n<p>\n At any rate, I was prepared from the moment I materialized in the Tomb of ErekosÃ« to do whatever Fate demanded of me. Later, things were to change.\n</p>\n<p>\n I walked out of the to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6303'),
(3308, 'Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Steve Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Science Fiction Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBefore Elric, my idea of a fantasy novel hero was a strapping fellow who rose from simple circumstances to lofty heights. Elric was decadent, sickly, and doomed. I loved him instantly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Foreword by Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.\n  <br />\n  This volume is the third of Del Reyâ€™s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcockâ€™s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6360');
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(3309, 'Elric: The Stealer of Souls', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcockâ€™s luminous and captivating web.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta\n</p>\n<p>\n When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent MelnibonÃ©, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique heroâ€“weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himselfâ€“with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacioâ€“plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. Adventures include â€œThe Dreaming City,â€ â€œWhile the Gods Laugh,â€ â€œKings in Darkness,â€ â€œDead Godâ€™s Homecoming,â€ â€œBlack Swordâ€™s Brothers,â€ and â€œSad Giantâ€™s Shield.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famousâ€“or infamousâ€“creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hour?â€ The black-bearded man wrenched off his gilded helmet and flung it from him, careless of where it fell. He drew off his leathern gauntlets and moved closer to the roaring fire, letting the heat soak into his frozen bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight is long past,â€ growled one of the other armoured men who gathered around the blaze. â€œAre you still sure heâ€™ll come?â€ â€œItâ€™s said that heâ€™s a man of his word, if that comforts you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tall, pale-faced youth who spoke. His thin lips formed the words and spat them out maliciously. He grinned a wolf-grin and stared the new arrival in the eyes, mocking him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newcomer turned away with a shrug. â€œThatâ€™s soâ€”for all your irony, Yaris. Heâ€™ll come.â€ He spoke as a man does when he wishes to reassure himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were six men, now, around the fire. The sixth was Smiorganâ€”Count Smiorgan Baldhead of the Purple Towns. He was a short, stocky man of fifty years with a scarred face partially covered with a thick, black growth of hair. His morose eyes smouldered and his lumpy fingers plucked nervously at his rich-hilted longsword. His pate was hairless, giving him his name, and over his ornate, gilded armour hung a loose woolen cloak, dyed purple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan said thickly, â€œHe has no love for his cousin. He has become bitter. Yyrkoon sits on the Ruby Throne in his place and has proclaimed him an outlaw and a traitor. Elric needs us if he would take his throne and his bride back. We can trust him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™re full of trust tonight, count,â€ Yaris smiled thinly, â€œa rare thing to find in these troubled times. I say thisâ€”â€ He paused and took a long breath, staring at his comrades, summing them up. His gaze flicked from lean-faced Dharmit of Jharkor to Fadan of Lormyr who pursed his podgy lips and looked into the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpeak up, Yaris,â€ petulantly urged the patrician-featured Vilmirian, Naclon. â€œLetâ€™s hear what you have to say, lad, if itâ€™s worth hearing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yaris looked towards Jiku the dandy, who yawned impolitely and scratched his long nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell!â€ Smiorgan was impatient. â€œWhat dâ€™you say, Yaris?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI say that we should start now and waste no more time waiting on Elricâ€™s pleasure! Heâ€™s laughing at us in some tavern a hundred miles from hereâ€”or else plotting with the Dragon Princes to trap us. For years we have planned this raid. We have little time in which to strikeâ€”our fleet is too big, too noticeable. Even if Elric has not betrayed us, then spies will soon be running eastwards to warn the Dragons that there is a fleet massed against them. We stand to win a fantastic fortuneâ€”to vanquish the greatest merchant city in the worldâ€”to reap immeasurable richesâ€”or horrible death at the hands of the Dragon Princes, if we wait overlong. Letâ€™s bide our time no more and set sail before our prize hears of our plan and brings up reinforcements!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou always were too ready to mistrust a man, Yaris.â€ King Naclon of Vilmir spoke slowly, carefullyâ€”distastefully eyeing the taut-featured youth. â€œWe could not reach Imrryr without Elricâ€™s knowledge of the maze-channels which lead to its secret ports. If Elric will not join usâ€”then our endeavour will be fruitlessâ€”hopeless. We need him. We must wait for himâ€”or else give up our plans and return to our homelands.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt least Iâ€™m willing to take a risk,â€ yelled Yaris, anger lancing from his slanting eyes. â€œYouâ€™re getting oldâ€”all of you. Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFool!â€ Dharmitâ€™s voice rumbled around the fire-flooded hall. He laughed wearily. â€œI spoke thus in my youthâ€”and lost a fine fleet soon after. Cunning and Elricâ€™s knowledge will win us Imrryrâ€”that and the mightiest fleet to sail the Dragon Sea since MelnibonÃ©â€™s banners fluttered over all the nations of the Earth. Here we areâ€”the most powerful sea-lords in the world, masters, every one of us, of more than a hundred swift vessels. Our names are feared and famousâ€”our fleets ravage the coasts of a score of lesser nations. We hold power!â€ He clenched his great fist and shook it in Yarisâ€™s face. His tone became more level and he smiled viciously, glaring at the youth and choosing his words with precision.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBut all this is worthlessâ€”meaninglessâ€”without the power which Elric has. That is the power of knowledgeâ€”of dream-learned sorcery, if I must use the cursed word. His fathers knew of the maze which guards Imrryr from sea-attack. And his fathers passed that secret on to him. Imrryr, the Dreaming City, dreams in peaceâ€”and will continue to do so unless we have a guide to help us steer a course through the treacherous waterways which lead to her harbours. We need Elricâ€”we know it, and he knows it. Thatâ€™s the truth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuch confidence, gentlemen, is warming to the heart.â€ There was irony in the heavy voice which came from the entrance to the hall. The heads of the six sea-lords jerked towards the doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s confidence fled from him as he met the eyes of Elric of MelnibonÃ©. They were old eyes in a fine featured, youthful face. Yaris shuddered, turned his back on Elric, preferring to look into the bright glare of the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled warmly as Count Smiorgan gripped his shoulder. There was a certain friendship between the two. He nodded condescendingly to the other four and walked with lithe grace towards the fire. Yaris stood aside and let him pass. Elric was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-hipped. He wore his long hair bunched and pinned at the nape of his neck and, for an obscure reason, affected the dress of a southern barbarian. He had long, knee-length boots of soft doe-leather, a breastplate of strangely wrought silver, a jerkin of chequered blue and white linen, britches of scarlet wool and a cloak of rustling green velvet. At his hip rested his runesword of black ironâ€”the feared Stormbringer, forged by ancient and alien sorcery.\n</p>\n<p>\n His bizarre dress was tasteless and gaudy, and did not match his sensitive face and long-fingered, almost delicate hands, yet he flaunted it since it emphasized the fact that he did not belong in any companyâ€”that he was an outsider and an outcast. But, in reality, he had little need to wear such outlandish gearâ€”for his eyes and skin were enough to mark him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric, Last Lord of MelnibonÃ©, was a pure albino who drew his power from a secret and terrible source.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan sighed. â€œWell, Elric, when do we raid Imrryr?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric shrugged. â€œAs soon as you like; I care not. Give me a little time in which to do certain things.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTomorrow? Shall we sail tomorrow?â€ Yaris said hesitantly, conscious of the strange power dormant in the man he had earlier accused of treachery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled, dismissing the youthâ€™s statement. â€œThree daysâ€™ time,â€ he said, â€œThreeâ€”or more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThree days! But Imrryr will be warned of our presence by then!â€ Fat, cautious Fadan spoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll see that your fleetâ€™s not found,â€ Elric promised. â€œI have to go to Imrryr firstâ€”and return.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou wonâ€™t do the journey in three daysâ€”the fastest ship could not make it.â€ Smiorgan gaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll be in the Dreaming City in less than a day,â€ Elric said softly, with finality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan shrugged. â€œIf you say so, Iâ€™ll believe itâ€”but why this necessity to visit the city ahead of the raid?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have my own compunctions, Count Smiorgan. But worry notâ€”I shanâ€™t betray you. Iâ€™ll lead the raid myself, be sure of that.â€ His dead-white face was lighted eerily by the fire and his red eyes smouldered. One lean hand firmly gripped the hilt of his runesword and he appeared to breathe more heavily. â€œImrryr fell, in spirit, five hundred years agoâ€”she will fall completely soonâ€”for ever! I have a little debt to settle. This is my sole reason for aiding you. As you know I have made only a few conditionsâ€”that you raze the city to the ground and a certain man and woman are not harmed. I refer to my cousin Yyrkoon and his sister Cymoril . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s thin lips felt uncomfortably dry. Much of his blustering manner resulted from the early death of his father. The old sea-king had diedâ€”leaving the youthful Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets. Yaris was not at all certain that he was capable of commanding such a vast kingdomâ€”and tried to appear more confident than he actually felt. Now he said: â€œHow shall we hide the fleet, Lord Elric?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The MelnibonÃ©an acknowledged the question. â€œIâ€™ll hide it for you,â€ he promised. â€œI go now to do thisâ€”but make sure all your men are off the ships firstâ€”will you see to it, Smiorgan?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAye,â€ rumbled the stocky count.\n</p>\n<p>\n He and Elric departed from the hall together, leaving five men behind; five men who sensed an air of icy doom hanging about the overheated hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow could he hide such a mighty fleet when we, who know this fjord better than any, found nowhere?â€ Dharmit of Jharkor said bewilderedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n None answered him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They waited, tensed and nervous, while the fire flickered and died untended. Eventually Smiorgan returned, stamping noisily on the boarded floor. There was a haunted haze of fear surrounding him; an almost tangible aura, and he was shivering, terribly. Tremendous, racking undulations swep...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6301'),
(3310, 'The Elvenbane', 'Andre Norton; Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime. Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9122'),
(3311, 'Elvenblood', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9112'),
(3312, 'Elvenborn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9125'),
(3313, 'Elves: Once Walked with Gods', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The elves have fled to Calius, seeking to escape the overwhelming power of the demonic Garonin. A desperate last stand in their own dimension saved the race, at the cost of 100,000 elves lost to the Garonin. The elf who led that fight, Takaar, is blamed for the losses and has gone into hiding. Now the weakened elf race is tearing itself apart in civil war, human mercenaries have arrived in Calius and are ripping the continent apart. Only one elf can unite the elves. And only one elf believes in him. A young warrior named Auum sets out to bring back the shamed hero and save the elven race.James Barclay''s ELVES trilogy will tell the whole story of his immortal elven race, and will appeal to all fans of Tolkien and fantasy - this is a uniquely entertaining take on a fantasy staple perfect to bring new readers to Barclay. And old readers of James Barclay will welcome a return to one of their favourite creations and will also love seeing one of their favourite characters again - the Tai Gethan warriror Auum destined to be one of the Raven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1590'),
(3314, 'Embassytown', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÃ‰VILLE\n</p>\n<p>\n Embassytown\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œI cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It''s definitely one of the best books I''ve read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.â€ --Io9.com\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kraken\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and MiÃ©ville more than delivers.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandlerâ€™s love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . .\n <em>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </em>\n .â€â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory.â€â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Scar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of MiÃ©villeâ€™s vivid language [and] rich imagination.â€â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Iron Council\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œA masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity.â€â€”_Wired _\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Un Lun Dun\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n .â€â€”Salon\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with\n <em>\n  Embassytown\n </em>\n , MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.\n</p>\n<p>\n When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6432'),
(3315, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-** Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain- **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-** Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly. **To Save Her Life? ** A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(3316, 'The Emerald City of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition.Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy''s friends discover the danger before it''s too late?All the enchantment of Oz is here for a whole new generation to discover in this deluxe new edition featuring ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill.Afterword by Peter Glassman. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the original edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3176'),
(3317, 'Emerald Germs of Ireland', 'Patrick McCabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCabe''s jokey verbosity and energetic narrative voice are on full display in this messy but manically vibrant novel. Pat McNab''s social position in the dully parochial Irish village of Gullytown ranks above village idiot but below town drunk. Few of his fellow citizens would suspect the wild tales he tells are true, much less entertain the idea that he could be a serial killer. Norman Bates, however, has nothing on the middle-aged, reclusive Pat, who enjoys a beyond-Oedipal relationship with his mother (she recurrently appears long after he has dispatched her with a frying pan) and tallies up a final body count estimated "around the fifty, fifty-five mark." Over the course of McCabe''s fluctuating, episodic novel, Pat''s victims number fewer than two dozen, but each is linked with the popular songs and traditional ballads that reflect Pat''s pathetic dreams of becoming a pop singer. The teetotaling, intrusive Mrs. Tubridy is downed with alcohol to the tune of "Whiskey on a Sunday," and a land-swindling neighbor is burned in Pat''s barn with "Old Flames" for background music. At other times, Pat''s hallucinatory fantasies transform his mundane life into a spaghetti western, sci-fi epic or gangster movie. While Pat bears more than a casual resemblance to Francie Brady, the sympathetic, psychotic hero of The Butcher Boy, this novel''s heavy irony, mock verbosity and genre-juggling are more reminiscent of McCabe''s recent "serial novel," Mondo Desperado. Although the Grand Guignol humor wears thin after the first several deaths, McCabe gives occasional revealing glimpses into Pat''s damaged psyche and the stifling mindset of village life. The mixed results are a thoroughly Irish stew of pathos and bathos, deep melancholy and wild humor, cutting observation and pure blarney. 8-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Potential readers of the two-time Booker Prize finalist''s latest novel are advised first to eat a big bowl of Lucky Charms laced with psychedelics; doing so may be the only way to swallow this jarring musical tragicomedy. In it, our hero/villain, aspiring actor/singer Pat McNab, 45, of Gullytown, Ireland, commits matricide and other heinous murders, each fitted with a theme song (e.g., in "The Turfman from Ardee," the turfman from Ardee bites it). However, the point of all the bloodshed is unclear. Violence for violence''s sake doesn''t make for great literature or gut-splitting comedy. Because Pat is such a surreal concoction, it is also difficult to gauge how much empathy and sympathy he deserves, if any. McCabe has a gift for creating bent-brained yet fiendishly human outcasts ? la Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy (LJ 5/1/93) and Patrick "Pussy" Brady in Breakfast on Pluto (LJ 12/15/98), but with this Pat he falls short. An optional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7081'),
(3318, 'Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy', 'Andrew M. Greeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarr''s "The Hermit and the Sidhe," or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydon''s "The Merrow," to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in "Peace in Heaven?" tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Carey''s "The Isle of Women," or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lint''s "The Butter Spirit''s Tithe." Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lee''s "Speir-Bahn," an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patrick''s Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A sheer delight of grand storytelling."---Publishers Weekly on\n  <em>\n   Emerald Magic\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8650'),
(3319, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/841'),
(3320, 'Emily', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If Emily hadn''t gone to Annie Richmond''s party, she would never have met the impossible irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home along with his eccentric mother, Coco, and the dog, Walter Scott. She''d never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory''s past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean; never have spent a night in a haunted highland castle, or been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie...Yes, it all started at Annie Richmond''s party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1563'),
(3321, 'Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner &amp; Buzz Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Emily the Strange, evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her timeâ€”golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily''s second journal, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Lost Days\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 2009), is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.â€”_Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Lost Days (2009), Emily the Strange wakes up with a nasty case of amnesia and canâ€™t remember who she is. Now, she has managed to clone herself and canâ€™t tell which is the real her or, more importantly, which clone is evil. The book dresses up teen-identity issues in midnight-black humor and piles on so much persistent weirdness that oddball outsiders, goths in training, and other subversive types will find themselves positively smirking with glee. The diary-entry presentationâ€”crammed full of lists, doodles, and staged dialogueâ€”makes for a frenzied read, which will suit fans just fine. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7311'),
(3322, 'Emily the Strange: The Lost Days', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Mystery\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A beautiful golem\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Souped-up slingshots\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Four black cats\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Amnesia\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Calamity Poker\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Angry ponies\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A shady truant officer\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Top-13 lists\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A sandstorm generator\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     DoppelgÃ„ngers\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A secret mission\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Earwigs\n    </p>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Questions for Emily the Strange\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How does it feel to have amnesia? I can imagine there are some situations in life where amnesia would be pretty useful, right?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, when you have it and donâ€™t know whatâ€™s going on, itâ€™s pretty grabbling frustrating. Once you know why you have it, and IF you are lucky enough to have given it to yourself, and IF you have a failproof way to get your memory back, itâ€™s pretty exciting. Still frustrating, but good to know that itâ€™s all for a reason. Did I mention you feel pretty stupid, too? I mean--you donâ€™t even know who you are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   I bet golems are pretty handy, too--can you tell us how you made yours?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hmmm. Letâ€™s see. I wonâ€™t give you the full recipe, but I can tell you that my latest golem, Raven, was made from several parts bird (the Chihuahuan Raven species, to be exact--for its booming voice, navigational abilities, and superior lingual skills), circuitry from a discarded cash register (for simple math skills), extra-strength parabolic synth tubes (for muscle mass), super-long lasting chewing gum (we donâ€™t want her getting tendonitis, do we?), various devices I â€œborrowedâ€ from my mom (her garage door opener, curling iron, and blender), and finally a thermo-reducer distilling apparatus that cools volatile material (this golem needs to keep her cool in heated situations!). All that got blended with some real bad luck--and a golem is born! (Again!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Youâ€™re known for your skills with a slingshot. Can you give us any slingshot-maintenance tips?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Replace the elastic regularly (or better yet, use surgical tubing). This will keep proper torque and prevent backfire, misfire, or breakdown when you need it the most.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Depending on the size of your rig, adding a tasteful bicycle grip to the shaft can improve handling, and thus your aim (and confidence).\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    I find that a few basic modifications (time-reverse, teleport, x-ray vision) can really add value to a simple slingshot.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Keep your gear out of the sun. It dries out the elastic, makes the wood brittle, and shrivels your soul.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If Nee-Chee, Mystery, Sabbath, and Miles wrote a book about your Lost Days, what would they say?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEECHEE: Youâ€™ve gone through a lot of trouble just to make more trouble for yourself.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MYSTERY: Blackrock is such a magical essence, any effort to protect it would be worthy.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MILES: It was a nice return to the alley. Been a while since I camped out there.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    SABBATH: Dude, Cabbage was closeâ€¦but no cigar.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regerâ€™s gothy cult heroine, who began life as a sticker for skaters and other underground types before moving into comics, now makes the leap into full-fledged YA noveldom. But not to worry: this is anything but a sellout. The book (structured as the girlâ€™s diary) opens with Emily coming to with a fresh case of plot-device-grade amnesia. As she tries to figure out who she is, where she is, and just about everything else (aside from remembering an affinity for cats and the number 13), Emily gets involved in a power struggle among a cast of shady characters in the town of Blackrock. Although the lurching plot perambulations are increasingly difficult to follow, thereâ€™s no doubting the lighthearted but darkly hued creativity on display, nearly always sacrificing sense for strangeness. A bevy of lists (all 13 items long) and black-and-red drawings work to break up the narrative. The central mystery of who Emily is eventually gets (sort of) resolved; any number of other unexplained peculiarities will have to wait for further installments. Pure black gold for the right readers. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7310'),
(3323, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2099'),
(3324, 'Emperor', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emperor (The first book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices, in a tale that begins with a Celtic noble''s betrayal and culminates in the fall of the Roman empire. 20,000 first printing. A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power. A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England, the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of the family recognises the words for what they are. Only later does it become clear that the women has spoken a prophecy. A prophecy that relates to the death of the Emperor Constantine/ A prophecy that if enacted will change the fate of the Roman Empire and all of the future beyond it. Stephen Baxter''s new series takes ordinary individuals living at history''s tipping points and presents them with a prophecy that challenges everything they believe about their world and prompts them to take action that could change it forever. The fourth volume reveals the nature of the prophecies and reveals a battle that has been fought through the ages. SUMMARY: A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11100'),
(3325, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5322'),
(3326, 'The Emperor of Ocean Park', 'Stephen L. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter''s engaging debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Emperor of Ocean Park\n </em>\n . After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife''s fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife''s chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father''s dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott''s thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter''s storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter''s description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Ferch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal''s father''s disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge''s clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened. This thriller, which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7616'),
(3327, 'Emperor: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brilliantâ€¦stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(3328, 'Emperor: The field of swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/407');
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(3329, 'Emperor: The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(3330, 'Emperor: The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(3331, 'Empire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card''s bestselling science fiction (Ender''s Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card''s heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel''s polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some video-game developers asked Card to write a scenario for "an entertainment franchise . . . about a near-future American civil war." They came to the right man and held off on releasing the game until he completed this relentless thriller, which couldn''t be timelier and is, for all its hyperactivity and flip, Hollywoodish one-liners, heartfelt and sobering. Its heroes are two special-ops army officers who keep their oaths to defend the U.S. against all enemies when far too many of their ostensible colleagues have decided to abandon theirs. A rocket hits the west wing of the White House, killing the president, vice-president, and secretary of defense. While those directly responsible are Arabs, the next day, 14-foot-tall, bulletproof, armed globes on mechanical legs, backed by shooters on individual hovercraft, seize New York City by killing anyone in uniform. None of the new attackers looks anything other than American. A "Progressive Restoration" administration is established in the city, and it encourages other cities and states to join it to restore government as it should have been but for the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. Intriguing plot wrinkles come fore and aft of those basic developments, there are many deftly shaped supporting players, and major shocks explode in a split second (no Stephen King slo-mo for Card!). Moreover, all the action doesn''t obscure the author''s message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship; indeed, it drives it home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5852'),
(3332, 'Empire in Black and Gold', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ''Shadows of the Apt'', about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion. Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(3333, 'Empire of Blood', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1924'),
(3334, 'Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan&#39;s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Oulaws&#39; Bloody Reign', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain''s hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his fortune, Welshman Morgan arrived in the Caribbean just as British King Charles II decided to challenge Spain by using pirates "as a stick with which to beat [them]." Morgan accepted a privateer''s commission from the Britishâ€”in effect, a license to stealâ€”and set out in 1661 to make his fortune. Smart and charismatic, Morgan quickly rose to the rank of captain and became "fabulously rich." His attack on the Spanish stronghold at Portobelo "showed the world that the empire was vulnerable," and his raid on the city of Panamaâ€”the "greatest raid in the history of buccaneering"â€”forced "the Spanish to renounce their exclusive rights to the New World." Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him deputy governor of Jamaica, a position that tasked himâ€”"the greatest of the buccaneers"â€”with exterminating piracy. Morgan died of the effects of alcohol abuse in 1688 at 53. Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accessible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he became rum, Cap''n Morgan humbled the Spanish Empire. Part swashbuckling pirate, part aristocratic wannabe Henry Morgan blended his desire for adventure and wealth into an innovative military approach. English greed and rugged individualism could defeat Spanish monarchical bureaucracy. Talty illustrates the lures that drew free spirits from the Old World and into the new. Port Royal, Jamaica, serving as the seventeenth-century''s sin city, offered all the vices a young rogue craved, plus the pirate excursions to fund his debaucheries. Talty''s well-researched account weaves together myriad political and financial interests in the New World. From the young rogue in search of wealth and a good time to the British monarchy looking for a cheap way to defeat the Spanish (and finding that champion in the young pirate), the pirate''s ferocity and depravity became known and feared. Morgan succeeded, where most could not, in straddling dual roles. He stood as the vital force in British military cunning and success, and did so as a feared yet respected pirate.\n <em>\n  Blair Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4417'),
(3335, 'The Empire of Glass', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by something on a far greater scale\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8703'),
(3336, 'Empire of Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium''s borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso''s own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that''s only if Dakota doesn''t kill him first ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(3337, 'Empire of the Eagle', 'Andre Norton; Susan Shwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9076'),
(3338, 'Empire of the Summer Moon', 'S. C. Gwynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In the tradition of\n  <em>\n   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\n  </em>\n  a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled\n <em>\n  backward\n </em>\n by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneâ€™s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsâ€”a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n announces him as a major new writer of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8762'),
(3339, 'Empire of the Sun', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A profound and moving work of the imagination."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anthony Burgess\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg''s film, tells of a young boy''s struggle to survive World War II in China.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ballard''s enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8497'),
(3340, 'The Empire Project', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11179'),
(3341, 'The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ''has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire'' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the ''white dominions''; the commercial empire of the City of London; and ''Greater India'' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8565'),
(3342, 'The Empire Trilogy', 'J. G. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   "Farrell''s writing is well worth rediscovering. Sardonic, generous, eccentric and sad, it\n   <br />\n   seems as original now as it must have done in the 1970s, before successive waves of historical\n   <br />\n   and post-colonial fiction dampened the memory of Farrell''s achievements in this line.\n   <br />\n   His ''trilogy'' is concerned with the gap between imperial ideals and imperial practice--with\n   <br />\n   the idea that ''a nation,'' as one of his characters comes to suspect, ''does not create itself\n   <br />\n   according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge.''\n   <br />\n   Yet the novels are never earnest or pompous. On the contrary, they are often\n   <br />\n   extremely funny, combining vivid historical backdrops with an ironic, absurd sense of\n   <br />\n   humour pitched somewhere between P G Wodehouse and Samuel Beckett." -Christopher\n   <br />\n   Tayler, The New Statesmen\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In the post-Warhol world, where any wannabe can grab 15 minutes of literary fame,\n   <br />\n   it''s a rare writer indeed whose reputation is still growing 30 years after his death. All the\n   <br />\n   more reason to raise a glass to JG Farrell...Farrell''s gift was the ability to immerse himself\n   <br />\n   so thoroughly in his worlds, whether early 20th-century Ireland or mid-19th century\n   <br />\n   India, that he never seems to preach as he tackles the big issues of race, culture and class.\n   <br />\n   His drowning at 44 came when his star was at its height, after decades toiling away in\n   <br />\n   obscurity. It is wonderful that his writing is winning new admirers." -The Guardian\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell''s re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connectedÂ by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of theÂ Great Mutiny of 1857, to Ireland immediately after the Great War, to the besieged Singapore of World War II. Together theÂ books constitute not only a spectacular entertainment but also an ambitious refashioning of the traditional historical novel toÂ meet the tragic realities of the modern world.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Siege of Krishnapur - India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion onÂ their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell''s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one ofÂ the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell''s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors\n   <br />\n   of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all,Â moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering,Â and wistful--is soon revealed.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   Troubles - 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whetherÂ he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough.Â But his fiancÃ©e is strangely altered and her family''s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel''s hundreds of roomsÂ are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken overÂ the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile,Â the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room,Â outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "theÂ troubles."Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Singapore Grip - Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn''t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head ofÂ British Singapore''s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strikeÂ somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son ofÂ Blackett''s partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming--whatÂ with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett''s price-fixing and market manipulation--but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations,Â is about to come to a terrible end.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6711'),
(3343, 'Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome', 'Steven Saylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Â“May Steven Saylorâ€™s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!â€ *Â—USA Today *on *Roma ***Continuing the saga begun in his *New York Times *bestselling novel *Roma, *Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Romeâ€™s empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled itÂ—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more. *Empire *is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novelâ€™s heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the worldâ€™s imagination like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3619'),
(3344, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830', 'J.H. Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11176'),
(3345, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830', 'John Huxtable Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. Though colonists tried to recreate traditional institutions on American soil, there were inevitable differences between colonial life and life in the mother countries: familial roles, for example, were reconfigured across the ocean. In addition to differing from Europe, Spanish and British settlements differed from one another, says Elliott. Whereas Spain determined to prevent Jews and Moors from entering its territories, Britain''s grudging acceptance of religious diversity was evidenced in the Crown''s allowing, and in some cases encouraging, persecuted minorities to join colonial ventures. The English colonies'' fractious Protestantism made Spain''s Catholic colonies look homogeneous by contrast. Yet the "pigmentocratic" social order of Spanish colonies proved to be exceedingly complex. English colonies, with their adoption of racial slavery, came to be organized around the deceptively simple categories of black and white, while Spanish America was home to varied ethnic groups that readily produced "mixed-blood" offspring. Ultimately, British colonies would privilege innovation and entrepreneurship, while Spanish-speaking society held on more firmly to "the old hierarchies." Elliott''s synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic world. Illus., maps._ (May)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Richly illustrated and based on a thorough an (Carla Rahn Phillips\n  <em>\n   Eighteenth-Century Studies\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8609'),
(3346, 'The empress file', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Kidd and LuEllen, a wining pair of lovers and liars, get embroiled in a deadly con involving false identities, small-town scandals, and big-time murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2761'),
(3347, 'Empress Orchid', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor''s wife number four, gives birth to the "last Emperor," rules China as regent for 46 years. The fascinating, implausible life of Tsu Hsi, or "Orchid," was reviled by the revolutionary Chinese, but here it receives a sympathetic treatment from Min (Red Azalea; Becoming Madame Mao), who once again brilliantly lifts the public mask of a celebrated woman to reveal a contradictory character. Sexually assertive, intellectually ambitious, socially striving, Min''s Orchid is also "isolated, tense, and in some vague but very real way, dissatisfied." Even after giving birth to the emperor''s only son, Orchid feels trapped by the stultifying imperial rituals and persecuted by the other residents of the Forbidden City: six other royal wives, 3,000 invisible concubines and 2,000 scheming eunuchs. In addition to these powerful distractions, she has to discipline her overindulged son, outmaneuver the ruthless politician Su Shun (who wants her buried alive when the emperor dies) and advise the ailing emperor how to fend off both the Boxers and the Western "barbarians." Min, herself a survivor of China''s Cultural Revolution, has done a prodigious amount of on-site research to capture the glorious, hopeless last days of the Ching dynasty. At times her writing is textbook-flat, and she sometimes loses track of her teeming cast of characters (for example, Orchid''s dangerous mother-in-law and mentally ill sister). But readers will be enthralled by the gorgeously woven cultural tapestry and the psychologically astute portrait of the empress-a talented girl from the provinces who married (way) up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Min, author of the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Becoming Madame Mao\n </em>\n , which fictionalized the life of a woman demonized in history books, again melds exhaustive historical and political research with expertly articulated characters in\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid.\n </em>\n Critics praised the novel''s linguistic dexterity (once in the U.S., Min had to learn English in six months or face deportation) and revelatory insights into the lives of women possessing few rights. Too many characters and events muddle the plot, and the style wavers from glittering to dull. Yet ultimately, the novel provides a valuable glimpse into the daily habits of fascinating historical characters and charts the last, decadent days of an empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7808'),
(3348, 'The Empty Chair', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war! At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5009'),
(3349, 'The Empty Chair: The Journey of Grief After Suicide', 'Beryl S. Glover; Glenda Stansbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a loved one completes suicide, the reaction to such a sudden and final act can sometimes delay the healthy grieving process. This book describes and offers guidance for each emotion and issue that one encounters following a loved one''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/727'),
(3350, 'Empty Mile', 'Matthew Stokoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his hometown eight years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in small-town America. When a careless sexual episode leads to the suicide of the townâ€™s first lady, Johnny finds himself the target of a revenge campaign that threatens to tear apart the fragile world heâ€™s built among the gold-bearing mountains of Northern California. Left an unexplained piece of land when his father mysteriously disappears, Johnny must unravel its secrets in a desperate bid to protect those he loves. But his efforts to do this have deadly consequences and will ultimately force him to confront not only his own failings, but the very nature of guilt. A searing meditation on the futility of trying to right the wrongs of the past, *Empty Mile* blends elements of thrilling urban noir with the wide-open spaces of outdoor adventure in a story that reflects Americaâ€™s contemporary uncertainty about itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2291'),
(3351, 'Enchanted', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2640'),
(3352, 'Enchanted Again', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2559'),
(3353, 'The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It', 'Edith Nesbit; H. R. Millar; Sanford Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. â€œI love E. Nesbit. . . . Her children are very real . . . and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.â€â€”J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. In Five Children and It (1902), a group of children are digging in a sandpit one day when they discover a small, bad-tempered sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who is allowed to grant one wish per day. The children wish for many thingsâ€”to be beautiful, to be rich, to grow wingsâ€”but none of the wishes turn out right. Luckily, the magic wears off at sunset, but will that be soon enough? The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows, and umbrellas. Then things go inexplicably wrong. To the young dramatists'' horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come aliveâ€”and they prove to be most disagreeable! Features illustrations by H. R. Millar. Sanford Schwarz teaches English literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Matrix of Modernism and various essays on modern literary, cultural, and intellectual history. He is currently writing a book on C. S. Lewisâ€™s science-fiction trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/681'),
(3354, 'Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other . . . where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid . . . where a mysterious gentleman''s young bride is deliciously disciplined for her unchecked curiosity . . . where a naive daughter is married off to a beast of a man whose carnal appetites awaken her budding desire . . . With a unique and decidedly adult twist on thirteen classic fairy tales, Nancy Madore intrigues and arouses with her titillating, sizzling anthology of erotic stories guaranteed to keep you up late into the night. You''ll never look at fairy tales the same way again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2558'),
(3355, 'Enchanter&#39;s End Game', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''''æ´—Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .'' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion. For as Garion comes into his heritage as the Rivan King, Overlord of the West, and takes up the Orb of Aldur to protect the land, Torak awakes and his evil hordes of Murgo soldiers and Grolim priests march in his name. While the princess Ce''Nedra mobilises the forces of the free lands to repel the invaders, Garion heads for his duel with Torak - a duel upon which the fate of the whole world depends...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(3356, 'Enchantment', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intertwining the story of Sleeping Beauty with Russian mythology, Card (Homebody, etc.) creates an appealing though not potent fairy tale. Ten-year-old Ivan is terrified by, yet drawn to, a beautiful woman frozen in time in the middle of the primordial forest of Russia. More than a decade later, he returns and uses his prowess as a track-and-field star and a promise of marriage to rescue this princess. Echoes of Narnia sound (including some slightly preachy undertones) as Ivan is drawn back into the princess''s time. He finds that he has no skills useful in the ninth century, and yet must find a way to defeat the witch Baba Yaga, who has harnessed the power of a god to take over Princess Katerina''s kingdom. Ivan brings his betrothed into the modern world to keep her from Yaga''s clutches and the pair learn to understand not only each other, but each other''s powers and weapons. By the time they return to the fairy-tale world, they are armed with modern-day knowledge and aided by Ivan''s relatives, who turn out to be minor Russian deities and witches. In an apparent desire to make his tale believable, Card leaches it of some of its magic, offering up the extraordinary as matter of fact, and his characters lack some of the depth that usually makes his writing so rewarding. His new look at a classic tale is clever, however, adding attractive whimsical twists and cultural confluences to a familiar story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5841'),
(3357, 'The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Make no mistake, it is Rushdie who is the true "enchanter" of this story, conjuring readers into his gilded fairy tale from the very first sentence: "In the day''s last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold." At once bawdy, gorgeous, gory, and hilarious,\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is a study in contradiction, highlighted in its barbarian philosopher-king who detests his bloodthirsty heritage even while he carries it out. Full of rich sentences running nearly the length of a page, Rushdie''s 10th novel blends fact and fable into a challenging but satisfying read.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Renaissance Florence''s artistic zenith and Mughal India''s cultural summitâ€”reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar''s court in Sikriâ€”are the twin beacons of Rushdie''s ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara KÃ¶z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book''s circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer''s tricks and claims to be Akbar''s uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar''s great-aunt, Qara KÃ¶z, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar''s grandfather, Babar (Qara KÃ¶z''s brother), and it involves her relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah''s employ is Janissary general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie eventually presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of NiccolÃ² Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie''s portrayal of Florence pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that''s disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the novel''s roundabout way, Qara KÃ¶z does seem more alive as a sexual obsession in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar, however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. In Rushdie''s version of the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in Akbar as he listens to the tales. Each culture becomes the dream of the other.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6334'),
(3358, 'Encounter at Farpoint', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  WHERE THE ADVENTURE BEGAN...\n </p>\n <p>\n  CAPTAIN''S LOG, STARDATE 41254.7: The\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  is en route to Cygnus IV -- the edge of the known galaxy. There, we will rendezvous with the ship''s new first officer and the other command personnel and proceed with out mission: discover the truth about Farpoint Station, a starbase facility built by the inhabitants of Cygnus IV, a starbase of unparalleled size and complexity...and infinite mystery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the success or failure of this, our first mission together, may well determine the course of human exploration across the galaxy for centuries to come...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and their mysteriously advanced Farpoint Station. After adding to its crew complement from Deneb IV they are harassed and prosecuted by an omnipotent being named Q, who claims that humanity has not progressed beyond barbarism. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise must defend themselves by solving the mystery of Farpoint Station in a manner satisfactory to their newest judge and nemesis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4347'),
(3359, 'Encounter_DM_HotCatch', 'Dawn Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10764'),
(3360, 'Encounter_FlashShorts1', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9312');
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(3361, 'Encounter_KH_Wolfy', 'Kate Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9803'),
(3362, 'Encounter_KS_LightsOut', 'Kira Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10451'),
(3363, 'Encounter_MA_Spaceport-Iceman', 'Mikala Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10057'),
(3364, 'Encounter_MA_Spaceport-StolenLove', 'Mikala Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10056'),
(3365, 'Encounter_MHA_Monkey Play', 'Michelle Hasker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10009'),
(3366, 'Encounters', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11006'),
(3367, 'The End of Eternity', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of Isaac Asimovâ€™s SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimovâ€™s single best SF novel. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlanâ€™s job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs. During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with NoÃ¿s Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that NoÃ¿s will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlanâ€™s punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9554'),
(3368, 'The End of Faith', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8917'),
(3369, 'The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks', 'The &quot;Guardian&quot; &amp; David Leigh &amp; Luke Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world''s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning "Guardian" journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh''s London house. Now, together with the paper''s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper''s investigations editor whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper''s Moscow correspondent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7466'),
(3370, 'The end of the matter', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx''s mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn''t know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.But the minidrag''s homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(3371, 'End The Fed', 'Paul, Ron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9317'),
(3372, 'Ender in Exile', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic *Ender''s Game*. In *Enderâ€™s Game*, the worldâ€™s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to anÂ elite training school.Â At Battle School,Â they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these childrenâ€”now teenagersâ€”must leave the schoolÂ and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearsâ€”where do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home heâ€™s ever known to begin a relativisticâ€”and revelatoryâ€”journey beyond the stars.Â  What happened during the years between *Enderâ€™s Game* and *Speaker for the Dead*? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in *Speaker for the Dead*, this is the long-lost story of Ender. For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. ***Ender in Exile*** is **Orson Scott Card**â€™s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot. *On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Enderâ€™s old friend Bean**â€¦***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2485'),
(3373, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for "Ender''s Game" and then for the sequel "Speaker for the Dead." He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, "Ender''s Game" is a contemporary classic--a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for "Ender''s Game.""--"The New York Times" "An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."--Gerald Jonas, "The New York Times Book Review" "A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."--"Library Journal" "This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."--Norah Piehl, "Children''s Literature" "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers--a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2495'),
(3374, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2487'),
(3375, 'Endgame', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The National Security Agency''s top-secret initiative to protect the United States from potential threats has been dubbed the Third Echelon. It deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cellå¨›hird Echlon. Operative Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn''t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8606'),
(3376, 'Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization', 'Derrick Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author, who in earlier books like _The Culture of Make Believe\n  <em>\n   discussed his experience of violence and abuse as a child, calls now for determined and even violent resistance to environmental degradation. Jensen comes across in volume I as a provocative but personable philosopher-activist who in lyrical and witty writing bemoans species extinction, sullied air quality, shrinking icecaps, expanding deserts and vanishing forests wrought by humans. But Jensen believes "this culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living." Civilization, he says in volume II, is killing the planet, so "[c]ivilization needs to be brought down now." Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure. Jensen clearly feels a close connection to nature, writes movingly about the hoped-for return of the salmon, the trees, the grizzly bears. But he has become so disgusted with what he calls "civiluzation" that he has more compassion for the salmon than for his fellow humans.\n  </em>\n  (June)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jensen, author of\n  <em>\n   A Language Older than Words\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Culture of Make Believe\n  </em>\n  (2002), has a deserved reputation as a writer of consequence and conscience who has pursued an environmentalist message with great fervor. In his latest work, however, a two-volume manifesto, he argues for the necessary destruction of civilization to save the world. Jensen posits his case against industrial development through discussion of everything from dams to the use of torture by the U.S. military.\n  <em>\n   Endgame\n  </em>\n  touches on numerous valid and necessary subjects, but Jensen''s strident tone and heavy reliance on sources that fully support his message weaken his presentation. And when he offers solutions for the problems we face, he preaches violence. Clearly he is passionate, but apparently the success of his earlier books has led to his writing only for those who already agree with him, rather than crafting a balanced discussion that allows readers to come to their own conclusions. Jensen has become an extremist, and he may have done his cause the worst possible service by alienating the readers he most needs to inspire.\n  <em>\n   Colleen Mondor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6879'),
(3377, 'Endgame: Bobby Fischer&#39;s Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America&#39;s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Profile of a Prodigy\n </em>\n (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n , published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n is the host of â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€---which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982---Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of\n <em>\n  Otherwise Engaged\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into the Woods,\n </em>\n and as narrator in\n <em>\n  The Rocky Horror Show\n </em>\n , and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n . His column appears in the Opinionator blog on\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you donâ€™t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, youâ€™ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Bradyâ€˜s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The facts of Bobbyâ€™s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€ on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy---with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study---applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. He found a hide-away nook in a Reykjavic bookstore---barred from his homeland, Iceland had welcomed him back---where he read in marathon sessions. (After he was recognized, he never went back to his cozy cul de sac.)\n</p>\n<p>\n In Bradyâ€™s telling the high drama of the Spassky match quickens the pulse; the contest that made America a chess-crazed land was seen by more people than the Superbowl. People skipped school and played sick in vast numbers, glued to watching Shelby Lyman explain what was happening. The fanaticism was worldwide. The match was seen as a Cold War event, with the time out of mind chess-ruling Russian bear vanquished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arguably the best known man on the planet at his triumphant peak, Bobby is later seen in this account riding buses in Los Angeles, able to pay his rent in a dump of an apartment only because his mother sent him her social-security checks. The details of all this are stranger than fiction, as is nearly everything in the life of this much-rewarded, much-tortured genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked him immensely, knowing only the tall, broad-shouldered, athletically strong and handsome six-foot-something articulate and yes, witty, youth that Bobby was before the evil times set in, with deranged anti-Semitic outbursts and other mental strangeness preceding his too early end at age 64.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t ever forget the moment on the show when in amiable conversation I asked him what, in chess, corresponded to the thrill in another sort of event; like, say, hitting a homer in baseball. He said it was the moment when you â€œbreak the other guyâ€™s ego.â€ There was a shocked murmur from the audience and the quote went around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Bradyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n is one of those books that makes you want your dinner guests to go the hell home so you can get back to it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradyâ€™s insightful biography of the legendary chess player focuses more on Fischerâ€™s life as a chess champion than on his much-publicized legal troubles and alleged psychological breakdowns. Brady first became friends with Fischer at a chess tournament when they were both children, and he combines a traditional biography with a personal memoir. Fischer began playing chess at age six and was soon playing games by himself, unable to find worthy competition. He seems to have had a lifelong battle with himself, and his biggest challenge may have been conquering not his competitors but his own intellect. Brady is uniquely qualified to write this book. Not only is he a seasoned biographer and someone who knew Fischer on a personal level; heâ€™s also an accomplished chess player himself, able to convey the gameâ€™s intricacies to the reader in a clear, uncomplicated manner. The book should appeal to a broad audience, from hard-core chess fans to casual players to those who are simply interested in what is a compelling personal story. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6320'),
(3378, 'Endless Blue', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Confronted by the threat of genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humankind''s only hope lies in Captain Mikhail Volkov''s desperate mission to the Sargasso Sea in search of the mystery behind the long-lost spaceship Fenrir, but his discovery of a secret that could save the human race is threatened by damage to his own ship that could prevent him from returning home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8725'),
(3379, 'Endless Night', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  Gipsy''s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.  There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.  Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals'' warnings: ''There''s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy''s Acre.''  Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ''In my end is my beginning!''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5243'),
(3380, 'ENDSTATION: ROMAN', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2251'),
(3381, 'Endurance', 'Alfred Lansing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9418'),
(3382, 'The Endurance: Shackleton&#39;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition', 'Caroline Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley,\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship,\n  <em>\n   Endurance,\n  </em>\n  was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition''s character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley''s intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the\n  <em>\n   Endurance\n  </em>\n  and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about.\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory.\n  <em>\n   --Byron Ricks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three marvelous books: Shackleton''s own memoir, South; Alfred Lansing''s bestselling Endurance; and this stirring account by Alexander (The Way to Xanadu). In 1914, Shackleton sailed to Antarctica with 27 men in hopes of being the first human to transverse the continent. But his ship, the Endurance, was trapped, then crushed, by ice in the Weddell Sea, propelling the party into a nightmare of cold and near starvation. Alexander, relying extensively on journals by crew members, some never published, as well as on myriad other sources, delivers a spellbinding story of human courage (and occasional venality) in the face of daunting odds. She succinctly and boldly captures the character of the men and of the terrible land- and seascape they crossed toward salvation. What makes this book especially exciting, however, are the 170 previously unpublished photos by the expedition''s photographer, Frank Hurley: stark, artfully composed tributes to the savage beauty of the ice and to the fortitude of the men and their dogs. Not one of the men died during their sojourn in a freezing hell; as Alexander makes clear in her gripping, emotionally resonant book, this incredible fact bears witness not only to Shackleton''s leadership but to the strength of the human spirit. Agent, Anthony Sheil. Author tour. (Nov.) FYI: The Endurance is being published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, which in March 1999 will open an exhibit, curated by Alexander, chronicling Shackleton''s voyage. A feature-length IMAX film on the subject will be released then, as well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4853'),
(3383, 'EndWar', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new phenomenon begins.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8605'),
(3384, 'Endwar: The Hunted', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n She''s known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8601'),
(3385, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in\n <em>\n  Hyperion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , still more are raised here. Raoul''s quest will continue in at least one more volume.\n</p>\n<p>\n This series has something for everyone: Simmons''s prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7455'),
(3386, 'Enemy of God', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10600'),
(3387, 'The Enemy: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier''s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army''s brightest stars. But in every cop''s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year''s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders:Control the situation. Within hours the general''s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won''t quit. He''s fighting a new kind of waragainst an enemy he didn''t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2808'),
(3388, 'Enforcer', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10397'),
(3389, 'An Engagement in Seattle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the U.S. on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stayâ€”marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia''s going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs\n  <em>\n   him\n  </em>\n  as much as he needs her. There''s a\n  <em>\n   Groom Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Julia''s life. And not just any groom!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enoughâ€”but one advertising for a bride? It''s Chase Goodwin''s solution to the problem of finding a wife\n  <em>\n   quickly,\n  </em>\n  a wife to bring home to Alaska. Lesley Campbell has her own reasons for respondingâ€¦and in no time she''s the\n  <em>\n   Bride Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Chase''s life!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Julia Conrad wasn''t a patient woman at the best of times. She paced her office, repeatedly circling her high-gloss black-lacquer-and-brass desk. She felt so helpless. She should''ve gone to Citizenship and Immigration Services with Jerry rather than wait for their decision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing her palms together, she retracted the thought. She was a wreck and the Immigration people would have instantly picked up on that and it could hurt their case. She couldn''t help being anxious. The future of the company rested on the outcome of today''s hearing. Ultimately she was the one responsible for the welfare of Conrad Industries, the business her grandfather had started thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to calm herself she stared out the window. The weather seemed to echo her mood. There was a ceiling of black clouds, thunder roared and a flash of lightning briefly brightened the room. The lights flickered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia''s reflection was mirrored in the window and she frowned, mesmerized by the unexpected sight of herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her dark hair was swept back from her face and secured with a gold clasp. She wore a dark suit with a pale gray blouse, whichâ€”in her view, anywayâ€”conveyed tasteful refinement. She\n  <em>\n   looked\n  </em>\n  cool, calm and collected, but inside she was a mass of tension and nerves. At thirty she had a pleasant face when she smiled, but she hadn''t been doing much of that lately. Not in the past three years. Her cheekbones were high, her jaw strong, but it was her eyes that told the story. Her eyes revealed vulnerability and pain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of herself distressed Julia and she hurriedly glanced away. Sighing, she circled her desk once more, silently praying for patience. She was determined to get the company back on its feet, to overcome the odds they faced. Jerry, her brother, had worked with her, sacrificing his personal life the way she had hers. They''d met with a handful of small successes. And now\n  <em>\n   this.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Julia and Jerry were determined to revive Conrad Industries. Julia owed her father that much. Jerry had shown such faith in her by volunteering his services. If their situations were reversed, she wasn''t sure she would''ve been so forgiving. But her brother had stuck by her through all the turmoil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slowly she lowered her gaze, disturbed by that revelation. However, she didn''t have the time or the inclination to worry about it. If she ever needed a cool head and a cooler heart, it was now. Two years'' worth of innovative research was about to be lost because they''d allowed the fate of the company to hinge on the experiments and ideas of one man. Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist. Jerry had met him some years earlier while traveling in Europe and convinced Julia he was the answer to their problems. Her brother was right; Alek''s ideas would revolutionize the paint industry. Bringing him to the United States had been a bold move on their part, but she hadn''t been sorry. Not once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiring Aleksandr Berinski from Russia and moving him to Seattleâ€”it was the biggest risk Conrad Industries had ever taken. Now the fate of the company rested in the hands of a hard-nosed official.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia wondered again if she should''ve attended the hearing at the district office of Citizenship and Immigration. She''d done everything within her power to make sure Aleksandr''s visa would be extended. She''d written a letter explaining his importance to the company and included documentation to prove that Aleksandr Berinski was a man of distinct merit and exceptional ability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry, who was a very good corporate attorney, had spent weeks building their case. Professional certifications, affidavits, a copy of Aleksandr''s diploma and letters of reference filled Jerry''s briefcase.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother had told her there could be problems. It was often difficult to renew an H-2 visa, the type Aleksandr had been granted when he''d entered the United States. The H-2 is one of temporary employment. He''d warned her that if it looked as though employment might become permanent, then Immigration and the Labor Department would be reluctant to extend the visa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On top of all that, the case had been assigned to a particularly difficult bureaucrat. Jerry had warned her that the agent hearing their case might decide Alek had applied for the temporary visa knowing the job was really permanent and refuse to grant an extension on principle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She checked her watch again and exhaled with impatience. Only a few minutes had passed. Annoyed with herself for the uncharacteristic display of anxiety, she sat down on her white leather chair. Everything was neatly arranged on the polished black desk. A small marble pen stand was next to the phone. The address and appointment books were perfectly aligned with everything else. Behind the desk stood her computer table, the company website pulled up, its logo prominent. Julia liked to keep her office and her world under control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her phone rang, the sound caught her off guard. She grabbed the receiver. "Jerry?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sis," Jerry''s voice greeted her. "I''m on my cell. I thought you''d want to know the decision as soon as possible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, please."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid it didn''t go as well as we''d hoped. They''ve decided not to renew Alek''s visa."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His words felt like a kick in the stomach. She closed her eyes and waited until the shock had passed. It wasn''t as if she hadn''t known the likelihood of this verdict. The fact that Aleksandr had no proof of a permanent residence in Russia didn''t help. In the eyes of Immigration Services that was a red light indicating he didn''t intend to return. Furthermore, she and Jerry were dealing with a large, complex bureaucracy. In a fit of worry, Julia had tried to contact the agency herself, reason with them. She''d spent nearly an hour on the phone and hadn''t spoken to a single person. She was forced to listen to one recording after another. Press a number on the phone, listen, press another one, then another. She quickly became lost in a hopeless tangle of instructions and messages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When will he have to leave?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the end of the week, when his current visa expires."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That soon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid so."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jerry, what are we going to do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll talk to you about it as soon as we get back to the office," her brother said in reassuring tones. "Don''t worry, I''ve got a contingency plan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nice of him to mention it now, Julia mused. He might''ve said something this morning and saved her all this grief.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, her intercom buzzed; her assistant announced that Jerry was in her outer office. Julia asked Virginia to send him in and waited, standing by the window.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry entered and Aleksandr Berinski followed. Although Aleksandr had been working for Conrad Industries for nearly two years, she''d only talked to him a handful of times. Even those conversations had been brief. But she''d read his weekly reports and been excited by the progress he was making. If he was allowed to continue, Julia didn''t doubt that his innovations would put Conrad Industries back on a firm financial footing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia and Jerry, but primarily Julia, had taken on the impossible task of resurrecting the family business, literally from the ashes. Three years before, the plant and adjacent warehouse had been severely damaged by fire; fortunately, it hadn''t spread to the lab and the offices. Because of the rebuilding they''d had to do, she''d decided the line of paints Aleksandr was developing would be called Phoenix.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To be so close to success and lose it all now was more than she could bear. For three long, frustrating years, she''d hung on to the business by wheeling and dealing, making trades and promises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being aggressive and hardworking had come naturally to her. Jerry possessed the same determination and had been a constant help. If she was cold and sometimes ruthless, she credited it to Roger Stanhope. She''d needed to be, but Julia didn''t have any more tricks up her sleeve once Aleksandr returned to Russia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She feared that losing the business would be a fatal blow to her grandmother. No one knew better than Julia how fragile Ruth''s health had become these past few months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You said you have a contingency plan." She spoke crisply, the sound of her steps muffled by the thick wheat-colored carpet as she stalked back to her desk. She leaned forward and averted her gaze from Aleksandr''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The man disturbed her in ways she didn''t understand. He was tall and lanky with impeccable manners. His face wasn''t handsome the way Roger''s had been, but rawboned and lean. His eyes were dark, the brows arched slightly, and in him she read strength and character. Unwillingly she found her own eyes drawn to his, and the shadow of a smile crept across Aleksandr''s face. She focused her attention on Jerry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There is one way," her brother said, with obvious reluctance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This isn''t the time to play guessing games. Tell me what you''re thinking," she snapped, hardly believing he could be holding something back. Jerry knew as well as she did what kind of predicament the company was in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother set down his briefcase and motioned toward the leather chair. "Perhaps you should take a seat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me?" She noted that his voice was strained, which surprised her almost as much as his request.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You, too, Alek," Jerry advised as he moved to the opposite end of her office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia turned toward him and tried to read his features in the gloom of late afternoon. The storm had darkened the sky, stationing shadows around the room until it resembled a dungeon, Julia thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whatever you have to say, please say it, Jerry. You''ve never worried about phrasing before."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry''s eyes traveled from Julia to Aleksandr, and she saw that his cheeks were flushed. He sighed. "There''s only one legal way I know to keep Aleksandr in the country." Slowly he leveled his gaze on Julia. "You could marry him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I was hoping you''d stop by and see me." Julia''s grandmother, Ruth Conrad, spoke softly, stretching out one hand. She was sitting up in bed, her thin white hair arrang...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8324'),
(3390, 'Engine summer', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2152'),
(3391, 'Engineering Infinity', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of\n  <em>\n   Engineering Infinity.\n  </em>\n  Whether it''s coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you''d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it''s hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction''s true heart lies. The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Gwyneth Jones.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Johnathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He co-edited\n  <em>\n   The Year''s Best Australian Science\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Fiction\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   and Fantasy\n  </em>\n  anthology series in 1997 and 1998. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5935');
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(3392, 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America''s great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders'' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6173'),
(3393, 'Engineman', 'Eric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once they pushed big ships through the cobalt glory of the Nada-Continuum, but faster than light isn''t fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undiclosed destination. The Nada-Continuum holds the key to Ralph''s future. What he cannot anticipate is its univerala importance-nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony worldÂ \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric Brown is the award-winnig author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Necropath,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Trilogy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fall of Tartarus,\n  </em>\n  as well as many children''s books, radio plays, articles and reviews.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7308'),
(3394, 'Engines of Destiny', 'Gene DeWeese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE MACHINE AGE  After the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the "U.S.S. Enterpris" NCC-1701-B, Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the "U.S.S. Jenolen" -- which crashes into a Dyson Sphere, leaving only Scotty to survive suspended as a transporter pattern....  Seventy-five years later, he is revived aboard the "Enterprise-"D -- on which Guinan serves as bartender. But fate has not finished with either Scotty or Guinan. The engineer hatches an audacious plan to travel back in time and rescue Jim Kirk the moment before he would vanish into the nexus and bring him back to the twenty-fourth century without damaging the timeline.  Scotty''s plan, however, does not go as expected. Though Kirk is rescued, the famed captain and the engineer, as well as Captain Picard, Guinan, and the crew of the "Enterprise-"D, are trapped in an altered past where there is no Federation, and no human race. Sarek of Vulcan leads a ragtag collection of species fighting a losing battle against the Borg, who have swarmed into the Alpha Quadrant and assimilated Earth.  Starfleet''s finest miracle worker must find a way to restore the timeline before the galaxy is overrun....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5491'),
(3395, 'The Engines of God', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the late 2100s, archaeologists journey into outer space to seek the secret meaning of fourteen mysterious statues that had been found among the stars, uncovering ruins and following clues to the builders'' identity to the farthest boundaries of the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9015'),
(3396, 'Engleby', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  British bestseller Faulks''s latest (after\n  <em>\n   Human Traces\n  </em>\n  ) comprises the dark confessional of Mike Engleby, an intelligent but strange university student suspected in a woman''s disappearance. His journal-like account of his life, which begins in the turbulent 1970s and extends to 2006, includes day-to-day accounts of college life, pontifications on time, politics and the nature of thought, and flashbacks to his childhoodâ€”particularly the years he spent as a scholarship student at the exclusive Chatfield, where he was taunted and abused by his classmates (they, among other things, called him Toilet). As the journal progresses, his obsession with university student Jennifer Arkland deepens: he reads her mail, sits in on her classes, joins her political society and becomes involved in her student film. When Jennifer disappears after a party and is presumed dead, Mike finds himself under police investigation. The case remains open for over a decade, and Mike continues on with his life, but Jen is never far from his thoughts, and as he continues to return in his mind to Jen''s disappearance, he reveals more about that night and about himself. Though sometimes heavy with the tropes of self-deception and misdirection, this is a compelling psychological portrait of a man who is at once profoundly disturbed and wryly funny.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I don''t find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous," says Brit Mike Engleby, the smart social misfit who narrates Faulks'' new novel. The story follows Engleby through adolescence in the 1970s, when he''s frequent fodder for bullies (the kind that put their victim''s head in the toilet, then repeatedly flush). He fares a bit better at university, particularly after he makes the acquaintance of a lovely coed named Jennifer. Alas, romantic interest soon turns to obsession, and when Jennifer goes missing, Engleby becomes a suspect. The case remains unsolved for more than a dozen years, during which time Engleby finds a girlfriend and establishes himself as a journalist. When Jennifer''s remains are finally discovered, memories begin to surface that make Engleby question whether he might have been responsible for the poor girl''s demise. Faulks, the author of numerous well-received literary novels (including On Green Dolphin Street, 2002), renders luminous prose, but this time it gets lost amid a rambling tale told by a narcissist with little of consequence to say. A disappointment from a talented writer, but still of interest to Faulks'' followers. Block, Allison\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6113'),
(3397, 'The English Assassin', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Unlikely Spy*, Daniel Silva''s extraordinary debut novel, was  applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists.  Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller  rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland''s shameful WWII record of  profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is  sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive  millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered  at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless,  illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel''s  handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had  been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes spy game,  battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train.    Tense, taut, expertly crafted, and brimming with unexpected  reversals, *The English Assassin* is Daniel Silva at his  storytelling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6914'),
(3398, 'The English Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in the Heiress series. Leonie de Conyers'' life had been destroyed by the French Revolution. Her mother and brother died in the prison where she had been raped and starved for no greater crime than her father''s title. And her father died in an escape engineered by a stranger who claimed he had come to bring her to England where she would inherit the property and wealth of an uncle. Did Leonie dare to believe in such altruism? Roger St. Eyre''s life had been destroyed by the girl he fell passionately in love with. Solange did not love him; she was selfish and vicious and extravagant. By the time she died, Roger felt dead himself. Perhaps he was hoping for the peace death brings when he set out to wrest his old friend Henry de Conyers from the murderous grip of the French Revolution. Instead, Roger and Leonie found love and reasons to live-if they could escape exposure to the revolutionary fanatics and their favorite toy, the guillotine. Publisher Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1979.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3798'),
(3399, 'English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9940'),
(3400, 'English Histories 05 - The Life of Elizabeth I', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure.Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married--was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9939'),
(3401, 'English passengers', 'Matthew Kneale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n English Passengers (2000) A novel by Matthew Kneale Awards: Whitbread Prize The Booker Prize (nominee) This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. "English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place... ''A-''"â€”Entertainment Weekly "Robust and rollicking...unforgettable...It''s tough to pull off a memorable epic, but Kneale has done it. So get comfortable, and be prepared to enter a fascinating world."â€”New York Post When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contrabandâ€”but not allâ€”confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe.The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a revolutionary, and sinister, thesis of his own, about the races of men. And these passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew itself, a diverse and lively bunch better equipped to entertain one another than to steer Sincerity around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean. Yet they set sail, pointed southward and bound for a thrilling, epic romp across the high seas and cultures of the nineteenth century.Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people''s struggles against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers haplessly approach Peevay''s land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.Full of dangerous humor, English Passengers combines wit, adventure, and harrowing historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. Narrated by over twenty different characters, each one so distinct that the reader has the sense of a story not so much told as dazzlingly peopled, Matthew Kneale has created a buoyant tale, beautifully presented in a storm of voices that brings a past age to vivid and memorable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2322'),
(3402, 'The English Patient', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4822'),
(3403, 'The English patient: a novel', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje''s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companionsâ€”and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2357'),
(3404, 'The English Way of Death', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Romana and K9 are in 1930s London, planning to rest after their recent adventures. But what connects the Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by Percy Closed? Why has Hepworth Stackhouse hired an assassin? And what is the infe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4795'),
(3405, 'The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire, circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950 when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister''s death: these journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape, he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment, alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness, vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate''s gardener; with each account, the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a powerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Subscription Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An elegant memoir, a subtly incisive self-reckoning." ?_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Far and away the most curious novel I''ve read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I''ve ever read." ?_St. Petersburg Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction ? of dreams, of reality ? is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." ?_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "V.S. Naipaul is a man who can inspire readers to follow him through the Slough of Despond and beyond? Like a computer game [this book] leads the reader on by a series of clues, nearer and nearer to an understanding of the man and the writer. Few memoirs can claim as much." ?_Newsday_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6263'),
(3406, 'Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True', 'Kris Saknussemm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemmâ€™s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dreamâ€”and nightmare. Â  In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd familyâ€”Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellectâ€”are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for an uncertain future in Texas, whence Hephaestusâ€™s half-brother, Micah, has sent them a mysterious invitation, promising riches and wonders too amazing to be entrusted to paper. Thus begins one of the most incredible American journeys since Huck Finn and Jim first pushed their raft into the Mississippi. Along the way, Lloyd will learn the intricacies of poker and murder, solve the problem of manned flight, findâ€”and loseâ€”true love, and become swept up in an ancient struggle between two secret societies whose arcane dispute has shaped the worldâ€™s past and threatens to reshape its future. Each side wants to use Lloyd against the other, but Lloyd has his own ideasâ€”and access to an occult technology as powerful as his imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8330'),
(3407, 'Enlightenment', 'Roy Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France''s importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6835'),
(3408, 'Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World', 'Roy Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France''s importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10018'),
(3409, 'The Enormous Room', 'E. E. Cummings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher awords meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word i\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9292'),
(3410, 'Enquiry', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards'' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he''s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail...Hughes'' own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful - and violent - men know the sordid secret. And they''ll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option..."Highly ingenious" - "Times Literary Supplement". "Another winner" - "Publishers Weekly".\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest living suspense writers."\n <br />\n CBS RADIO\n <br />\n Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield had been barred from racing--for throwing a race for personal profit. It was a vicious frame-up and, worse, they had nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down--even though his personal enquiry might have him lying down permanently....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8233'),
(3411, 'Enslave: The Taming of the Beast', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nadia Bessonova''s career-criminal father has deadly enemiesâ€”and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to make a bargain with the devil himself. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim. Haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, Dominic is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to lifeâ€”and thaws his cold, wounded heart. But Nadia never dreamed she''d become slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that he has tasted ecstasy, will a jealous, magnificent beast be able to relinquish his prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(3412, 'The Enslavement', 'Bruce McLachlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(3413, 'The Enterprise of Death', 'Jesse Bullington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she discovers the necromancer placed a curse on her that will destroy her soul in 10 years'' time-unless she can find his book of secrets, which could be hidden anywhere in the world. During her quest, Awa befriends Manuel, a painter-turned-mercenary; Monique, a lesbian gunsmith-turned-madam; and others both dead and undead. Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart) bounces almost giddily between gruesome and tongue-in-cheek, from more horrific aspects of raising the dead to the odd problems faced by a necromancer with a conscience. Spiritual terror, Awa''s star-crossed loves, and Manuel''s guilt over becoming a mercenary to pay for art supplies are all grist for a relentless dark humor blended with occasional tragedy. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5945'),
(3414, 'Entranced', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing chi d. A desperate mother, A private investigator rwming out of tim , Mel Sutherland didn''t need th help of a fraudulent psychic to find the abducted baby -an she wasn''t about to let a con-artist exploit a grieving mother''s vulnerability, Then all the leads dIied up. Reluctantly, Mel had to acc pt Sebastian Donovan''s aid, She was cynical ab ut hi powers and suspicious of hi motives. But as the clock ticked, Sebastian unfailingly knew how to follow th abductor''s track and el had to make up her mind. Was Sebastian'' gift real? Or wa~ someth''ng far more sini ter at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2598'),
(3415, 'Eon', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth''s orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid''s surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps notourspace; it came from the future--but perhaps notourfuture; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. Ahuman--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities... And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth''s survival pale into insignificance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9574'),
(3416, 'Epic', 'Conor Kostick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committeeâ€™s tyranny. But if they lose . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(3417, 'Episode II - Attack of the Clones', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There is a great disturbance in the Force. . . . From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. It is a stalemate that once broken, could lead to galactic chaos.Mischievous and resolved, courageous to the point of recklessness, Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council, and a challenge to his Jedi Master. Time has not dulled Anakinâ€™s ambition, nor has his Jedi training tamed his independent streak. When an attempt on Senator PadmÃ© Amidalaâ€™s life brings them together for the first time in ten years, it is clear that time also has not dulled Anakinâ€™s intense feelings for the beautiful diplomat.The attack on Senator Amidala just before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Masters Yoda and Mace Windu sense enormous unease. The dark side is growing, clouding the Jediâ€™s perception of the events. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, a slow rumble is building into the roar of thousands of soldiers readying for battle. But even as the Republic falters around them, Anakin and PadmÃ© find a connection so intense that all else begins to fall away. Anakin will lose himselfâ€”and his wayâ€”in emotions a Jedi, sworn to hold allegiance only to the Order, is forbidden to have.Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales, this intense and revealing novel by bestselling author R. A. Salvatore sheds new light on the legend of Star Warsâ€”and skillfully illuminates one of our most beloved sagas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11194'),
(3418, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3435'),
(3419, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(3420, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4807'),
(3421, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom (Book 7)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1621'),
(3422, 'Erasing Memory', 'Scott Thornley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series. MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife''s grave when he''s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing the Schubert Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe''s ancient grievances, which reach out to breach all the walls that have been thrown up to keep the past at bay. MacNeice must use his splendid but unorthodox powers of observation to stem the tide of events threatening to erase any trace of memory or history, leaving the target of the crime naked in the face of loss. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5385'),
(3423, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3437'),
(3424, 'Eros, Philia, Agape', 'Rachel Swirsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky''s contemporary tale of love in all its forms â€” and of one robot''s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms â€” is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3346'),
(3425, 'The Ersatz Elevator: Traditional Characters', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at EsmÃ© Squalor''s seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2550'),
(3426, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop; Laura Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(3427, 'Escape from Hell', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he''s returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again leave?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2384'),
(3428, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the steaming hot national bestselling seriesâ€” now in hardcover.** Manager and head barista of the bustling New York coffeehouse The Village Blend, Clare Cosiâ€™s been hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for a swanky wedding. Clare should be thrilled at this chance to shine, but itâ€™s Matteo Allegro, her ex-husband and current business partner, whoâ€™s tying the knotâ€”to *Trend* magazine editor Breanne Summour, whoâ€™s in full-blown bridezilla mode. Claireâ€™s got to put her misgivings aside and focus on business, but since sheâ€™s a successful amateur sleuth, murder is Clareâ€™s business, too. And when fatal accidents begin befalling people close to Breanne, Clare becomes suspicious. But what she unveils, amid melted chocolate and steaming mochaccinos, may just get her burned...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1511'),
(3429, 'Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term. Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature. He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal â€œover-soulâ€ through which we transcend the merely mortal. Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes. This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the essays â€œSelf-Reliance,â€ â€œThe American Scholar,â€ â€œThe Over-Soul,â€ â€œCircles,â€ â€œThe Poet,â€ and â€œExperience,â€, and such important poems as â€œThe Rhodora,â€ â€œUriel,â€ â€œThe Humble-Bee,â€ â€œEarth-Song,â€ â€œGive All to Love,â€ and the well-loved â€œConcord Hymn.â€ Includes a comprehensive glossary of names. Peter Norberg has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in New England transcendentalism and the history of the antebellum period, he also has published on Herman Melvilleâ€™s poetry. He currently is writing a history of Emersonâ€™s career as a public lecturer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6011'),
(3430, 'The Essential Lotus Sutra', 'Burton Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10762'),
(3431, 'Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition', 'Douglas Mauro; Kevin Schmidt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This practical introduction to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) offers improved coverage of version 3 of the protocol, plus much more information on SNMP scripting and programming. Learn how to install, configure, and use SNMP, so you can more easily manage your network. Includes five new chapters and a host of real examples.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8331');
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(3432, 'Essential SQLAlchemy', 'Rick Copeland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlchemy''s tools rather than an advocate''s description of all the "cool" features.\n</p>\n<p>\n SQLAlchemy includes both a database server-independent SQL expression language and an object-relational mapper (ORM) that lets you map "plain old Python objects" (POPOs) to database tables without substantially changing your existing Python code.\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n demonstrates how to use the library to create a simple database application, walks you through simple queries, and explains how to use SQLAlchemy to connect to multiple databases simultaneously with the same Metadata. You also learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create custom types to be used in your schema, and when it''s useful to use custom rather than built-in types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run queries, updates, and deletes with SQLAlchemy''s SQL expression language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an object mapper with SQLAlchemy, and understand the differences between this and active record patterns used in other ORMs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create objects, save them to a session, and flush them to the database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SQLAlchemy to model object oriented inheritance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide a declarative, active record pattern for use with SQLAlchemy using the Elixir extension\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the SQLSoup extension to provide an automatic metadata and object model based on database reflection\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, you''ll learn how and when to use other extensions to SQLAlchemy, including AssociationProxy, OrderingList, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n is the much-needed guide for every Python developer using this code library. Instead of a feature-by-feature documentation, this book takes an "essentials" approach that gives you exactly what you need to become productive with SQLAlchemy right away.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5884'),
(3433, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8366'),
(3434, 'The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson &amp; Brooks Atkinson &amp; Mary Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive collection of Emerson''s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life''s work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one''s own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson''s essays "the most important work done in prose."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6010'),
(3435, 'The Eternal Champion', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Books 3,4,&amp;5:The Eternal Champion,Phoenix in Obsidian &amp;The Dragon in the S together from Michael Moorcocks fantasy sequence\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9836'),
(3436, 'Eternal Hunger', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HEâ€™LL GIVE HER A NIGHT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET.A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darknessâ€“and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ashâ€“body and soulâ€“and become a vampire.Lusting for blood and starving for Ashâ€™s embrace, Candace is pulled deeper and deeper into his world. She no longer trusts his promise that she will not have to remain a vampire forever. And as the hunger threatens to overwhelm her, it may be too late for her to leave the darkness behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(3437, 'Eternal Journey', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After shooting an episode of Chasing History''s Monsters at a dig in Australia, Annja Creed is left feeling mildly unimpressed. The artifacts being uncovered are considered fringe by experts who doubt their authenticity. Annja is disappointed by the general lack of mystery involved. But her boredom is quickly replaced with fear when all that''s left of her cameraman is a drop of blood on his hotel-room carpet.As she looks for her friend, Annja narrowly escapes an attack by gunmen. She realizes her cameraman must have captured the image of something so valuable that someone would kill them for just having dared look at it. When it becomes clear that everyone on the dig is at risk, Annja begins to think they''re in danger not because of what they saw, but whoâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(3438, 'The Eternal Prison', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system''s most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikely alliances, and figure out why the people he''s killed lately just won''t stay dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1569'),
(3439, 'Eternal Rider', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him. Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can''t-or won''t-understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman''s safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7314'),
(3440, 'Eternally Yours', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Friendsâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friendsâ€¦the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm''s length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   or Lovers?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton''s invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked by how much passion she feels. To Clayton, Syneda has become a temptation he cannot resistâ€¦and the woman he wants to share the rest of his life with. But getting her to trust again means finding a way to heal old wounds and convincing her, with all his heart, that she will always be eternally his.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your bed or mine?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton Madaris glanced up from his meal and gazed into the eyes of the woman who''d asked the question. She was beautiful, and her sensuous proposition was something any man would jump at. No hot-blooded male in his right mind would ever think of turning it down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So why was he contemplating doing just that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  An impassive expression masked his handsome features. His hesitation had nothing to do with the fact that he''d just met her that morning. Like him, she was an attorney attending a convention in D.C. He had come to enough of these conferences to be prepared for the expected. One would be surprised just how many unmarried, as well as married people took advantage of the three-day convention to engage in short, no-strings-attached affairs. In all his thirty-five years, there had never been a time when he''d been hesitant about making love to a willing woman, granted the situation wasn''t a risky one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was wrong with him tonight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His dinner companion undoubtedly was wondering the same thing and had no plans to stick around and find out. He sensed her agitation with his silence. Her eyes narrowed. "I won''t make the same offer twice," she said quietly. There was a feverish edge to her voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton nodded slowly, his eyes never leaving her face. He knew her type. She was a woman hungry for physical intimacy. Her eyes had sent him silent, intimate messages all day. There was no doubt in his mind that although he''d just disappointed her by not jumping at her offer, she wouldn''t give up on him. She would make the offer again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His smile was slow. "Sorry. Not tonightâ€¦"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evidently not happy with his response, she pushed her plate aside and stood, giving him a measured look. "Perhaps another time, then?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton stared up at her before answering. "Perhaps."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After she left he simply sat, quietly eating the rest of his meal and drinking his coffee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short while later, after taking care of the dinner bill, he rode up the elevator alone to the fifth floor. During the ride he tried coming to terms with his sudden lack of interest in an affair. It wasn''t like him to turn down any woman''s advances or not make a score or two of his own. It definitely wasn''t his style. Enjoying the opposite sex was something he had been overly fond of doing since his first time with Paula Stone when he''d been sixteen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was his problem now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The huge metal elevator doors swooshed open. Taking a deep breath he stepped out and began walking down the long hallway leading to his room. Opening the door to his suite, he walked into the sitting area, then through open double doors to the large bedroom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He leaned his shoulder against the doorjamb, looking at the king-size bed. No one, especially those who considered him a player of the third degree, would believe he''d actually slept in the huge bed alone. And definitely not by choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled as he pushed himself away from the door. There''s a first time for everything, he thought, removing his tie and jacket and going into the bathroom. Peeling off the rest of his clothes, he stepped into the shower, dismissing the fact he''d taken a shower just before dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since becoming an attorney over ten years ago, he''d discovered his most soothing moments were in the shower while warm water caressed his skin. It was during that time he possessed the ability to blank out any thoughts other than those needing his undivided attention. In the end, whatever plagued his mind was usually put in perspective. At the moment, he needed to think about why he''d just refused an offer of no-strings-attached sex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adjusting the water, he picked up the scented soap and lazily lathered himself as he mentally analyzed the situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason, he was becoming bored with the way his life was going. Somehow he was getting tired of his routine of chasing and bedding women. He twisted his lips in a wry grin. Now that was a laugh, especially since the main reason he had constantly shunned any sort of commitment with a woman was the fear of that very thingâ€”boredom. He was the type of person who found any kind of routine deadly. He''d always been afraid of committing himself to someone only to lose interest with that person and end up feeling trapped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His thoughts fell on his two older brothers, Justin, the physician, and Dex, the geologist in oil exploration. Both were happily married and neither appeared bored. If anything they seemed to be having the time of their lives with their wives, Lorren and Caitlin. Was it possible he''d been wrong? Was there a woman out there somewhere who could forever excite, stimulate and amuse him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered at the way his thoughts were going; shocked that he could even consider such a thing. His credo in life for the longest time had been "The only men who aren''t fools are bachelors." But he couldn''t help wondering why lately he had been subconsciously longing for more than a little black book filled with the names of available women.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the water from the shower pounded his body, he tossed the problem around in his mind, pulling it apart, analyzing and dissecting it. But he still couldn''t come up with any answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a groan he turned off the water and grabbed a towel. Stepping out of the shower, he began drying himself off. There were a lot of questions to which he needed answers. And he knew those answers wouldn''t come from taking just one shower. The main problem might be that he had been working too hard lately. Too many court cases and too many late nights spent poring over them. A tired body occasionally filled the mind with foolish thoughts. And what could be more foolish than the notion that he was longing for a steady relationship with a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton shook his head to clear his muddled mind. What he needed was to get away for a while. He had some vacation time coming up. And it was time he took it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda Walters looked across her desk at the elegantly groomed woman sitting in front of it. She schooled her expression not to show her irritation and annoyanceâ€”or her pity. Bracing her elbows on the arm of the chair, she leaned forward. "Ms. Armstrong, I hope you''ll reconsider your decision."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "But he has told me he''s sorry about everything and really didn''t mean to hurt me. He''s been under a lot of stress lately. He loves me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda sighed, letting her well-manicured fingers run agitatedly over the desk surface. She could barely restrain herself from calling the woman all kinds of fool for letting a man abuse her. Yet the woman sat defending a man who evidently got his kicks using her as a punching bag.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing the ache at the back of her neck, Syneda stared beyond the woman and out the window. It was a beautiful day in early May. The midday sun slanted across the sky and reflected off another building. Its golden rays gleamed brilliantly in the blue sky. She watched as a flock of birds flew by and wished she could somehow fly away with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ms. Walters?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda''s eyes again rested on the woman''s tear-stained face. The bruises hadn''t quite faded and were not adequately concealed with the use of makeup. "Yes?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You just don''t understand."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda allowed her eyes to close for a moment. Then pushing her chair back she rose and sat on the edge of her desk facing the woman. "You''re right, Mrs. Armstrong, I don''t understand," she replied quietly. "I don''t understand several things. First, how can a man who claims he loves a woman physically hurt her the way your husband has repeatedly hurt you? Second, how can a woman who cares anything about herself let him do it and get away with it?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Armstrong blew her nose in a well-used napkin. "But he''s my husband," the woman implored, pleading understanding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda didn''t give her any. "He''s also your abuser. Look, Mrs. Armstrong, you''ve only been in the marriage for three years and he''s doing this to you now. What do you think he''ll be doing to you three more years from now?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''ll change."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s what you said a few months ago." Syneda gave a disgusted shake of her head. "It''s time for you to make changes. Don''t live under a false conception you''re worth less than you really are. Don''t ever believe you deserve to be beaten. No one deserves that. And please stop thinking you''re nothing without him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was a moment of silence in the room. Then the woman spoke. Her voice quavered with indecisiveness. "What do you suggest I do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As your attorney I suggest the first thing you should do is get some counseling. And I highly recommend that you bring charges against your husband."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will he be arrested?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s a good possibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman''s face paled. "What will happen to his practice? He''s an outstanding member of the community."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda let out a huff of breath that was more disgust than anger. "He''s also an abuser. As far as his medical practice is concerned, if I were you I''d let him worry about that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He loves me, and he''s sorry that he''s hurt me. I can''t let him lose everything. I can''t do that to him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda stood. "Then there''s nothing I can do. We''ll be more than happy to help you, Mrs. Armstrong, when you''re ready to first help yourself. Good day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda continued to gaze at the closed door after Mrs. Armstrong had left. She let out a deep sigh of frustration. She was not having a good day. To be more specific, it had not been a good week. It had started with the case she''d lost on Monday, and the week had gone downhill from there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rubbed her forehead, trying to relieve the throbbing at her temples. Even after five years she often wondered about her decision to practice family law. But then, she silently admitted, the profession she had chosen was important to her because she''d always managed to feel she had somehow made a difference in someone''s life; whether it was getting them out of a hellish marriage, taking on their fight for custody rights, or in a case like Mary Armstrong''s, helping them to realize options in life other than one filled with physical abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick knock sounded at the door. "Come in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The door opened and her secretary stuck her head inside. "I''m leaving for lunch now. Do you have anything you want ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7980'),
(3441, 'Eternity in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other''s arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan''s story, she is thrust into a timeless romance with a mighty Highland laird. And Mary Kay McComas gives an unhappy wife a magic-carpet ride into an alternate reality to show her the grass isn''t always greener.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2337'),
(3442, 'Eternity Road', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Eternity Road\n </em>\n is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a cataclysmic viral plague wiped out humanity sometime in the 21st century, the next civilization arose in isolated pockets. In the Mississippi Valley, Illyrians built their town on what had been the Roadmakers'' Memphis. Some believed in the mythical Haven on the eastern ocean where books and other technological wonders had been saved. When all but one member of an expedition dies trying to find Haven, the leader''s son joins a second party on the long overland trek east. Unfortunately, the book raises more questions than it answers about the knowledge that was lost, leaving the reader unsatisfied. From the author of Ancient Shores (HarperCollins, 1996); a possible candidate to sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4927'),
(3443, 'Ethan Frome', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A tale of tragic love set near the beginning of the twentieth century in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1251'),
(3444, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7462'),
(3445, 'Ethan of Athos', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Ethan Urquhart, an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women, is Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center and one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. Then a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens--females of his own species.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9036'),
(3446, 'Ether Breather', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10480'),
(3447, 'The Ethical Assassin: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Liss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventionsâ€”drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guysâ€”but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he''ll be fingered for the crimeâ€”or worse, that he''s nextâ€”Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness. Lem must also watch out for Jim Doe, the corrupt, redneck police chief who saw Lem at the trailer on the night of the crimes. Lem''s paranoia heightens when he learns of Doe''s connection to his employers at the encyclopedia sales company, which turns out to be a front. While Lem repeatedly skitters away from danger as he gathers clues that reveal a web of corruption, he finds time to fall for fellow bookseller Chitra and to undergo a political awakening under Melford''s tutelage. Liss provides enough entertainment to keep the pages turning, but this hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age story doesn''t quite succeed as either.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers expecting another historical thriller from Liss in the manner of\n  <em>\n   A Conspiracy of Paper\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Coffee Trader\n  </em>\n  (2003) are in for quite a surprise. Moving from Arturo Perez-Reverte territory to the very different world of Carl Hiaasen, Liss delivers a contemporary ecoterrorist romp shot through with elements of the absurd. It begins with a 17-year-old Jewish encyclopedia salesman working door to door in a South Florida trailer park (Is the absurdist angle apparent yet?). Lem Altick is saving money for college by tricking poor people into buying supermarket encyclopedias, but he gets more than he bargained for when an assassin with "Warholishy" hair saunters into a trailer where Lem is about to close a deal and efficiently kills the two would-be encyclopedia readers and then engages Lem in a chat about his favorite Shakespeare play (Lem is partial to\n  <em>\n   Twelfth Night\n  </em>\n  ). It only gets weirder from there, as Lem finds himself a sort of comrade-in-arms with the ethical assassin, whose real purpose seems to be raising havoc with some distinctly unethical pig farmers. There''s also a sicko small-town sheriff lurking in the wings, having apparently wandered into the action straight out of Jim Thompson''s\n  <em>\n   Pop. 1280\n  </em>\n  . The jump from financial chicanery in seventeenth-century London to redneck craziness, South Florida style, seems daunting, but Liss sails across the abyss unscathed. Be careful to whom you recommend this: the Perez-Reverte crowd may not be amused, but Hiaasen''s homeboys will feel right at home down in the muck with a gang of evildoing pig farmers.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8259'),
(3448, 'The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities', 'Dossie Easton; Catherine A. Liszt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this funny, comforting yet controversial how-to volume, family therapist Dossie Easton and sex educator/writer Catherine A. Liszt provide a road map for exploring the sometimes difficult, often rewarding territory of non-traditional relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10710'),
(3449, 'Etta', 'Gerald Kolpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman''s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place was born Lorinda Jameson, the daughter of a prominent financier, who becomes known as the loveliest of the city''s debutantes when she makes her entrance into Philadelphia society. Though her position in life is already assured, her true calling is on horseback. She can ride as well as any man and handle a rifle even better. But when a tragedy leads to a dramatic reversal of fortune, Lorinda is left orphaned, penniless, homeless, and pursued by the ruthless Black Hand mafia. Rechristened "Etta Place" to ensure her safety, the young woman travels to the farthest reaches of civilization, working as a "Harvey Girl" waitress in Grand Junction, Colorado. There, fate intervenes once more and she again finds herself on the run from the ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency. But this time she has company. She soon finds herself at the legendary hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, where she meets the charismatic Butch Cassidy and the handsome, troubled Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. Through a series of holdups and heists, Etta and Harry begin an epic and ultimately tragic romance, which will be the greatest of Etta''s life. Then, when Etta meets the young and idealistic Eleanor Roosevelt, her life is changed forever. Blending a compelling love story, high adventure, and thrilling historical drama, Etta is an electrifying novel. With a sweeping 1900s setting, colorful storytelling, and larger-than-life characters, Etta is debut that is both captivating and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(3450, 'Eugenie Grandet', 'Honore de 1799-1850 Balzac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9245'),
(3451, 'EV_Agreement', 'Elayne S. Venton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9465'),
(3452, 'Evan and Elle', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When an unused chapel reopens as a French restaurant, the villagers of Llanfair are excited, but also a bit suspicious.For one thing, it doesn''t seem quite right to put a restaurant in what used to be the Lord''s house; for another, the owner, Madame Yvette, is a stranger, and a glamorous one at that.But Madame Yvette''s cooking classes begin to soften the hearts of the townswomen, although their husbands are less enthusiastic about the unfamiliar food on their tables.Their attention is soon diverted by more serious problems: A string of fires has begun to plague the town.Constable Evan Evans suspects that Welsh nationalists may be targeting foreign-owned property, especially after Madame Yvette receives a threatening note.When she asks for Evan''s help, he finds himself in the middle of a complicated case of murder, arson, and international intrigue (not to mention the displeasure of his longtime admirers, Bronwen and Betsy, at his frequent encounters with the exotic Yvette).Constable Evans follows a trail of clues that leads to the South of England and then to France-a trail that leads to unexpected conclusions: Nothing is what it seems and a dangerous killer may be loose in Llanfair.With her fourth book in this acclaimed series, Rhys Bowen offers another ingenious tale of mystery and murder in an otherwise tranquil town.AUTHORBIO: RHYS BOWEN is the author of Evans Above, Evan Help Us, and Evanly Choirs, the first three novels in this series, as well as more than one hundred books for children and young adults.She lives near San Francisco.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3925'),
(3453, 'Evanly Bodies', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the villageâ€™s newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila. Bronwen and Jamila are becoming good friends when Jamila finds out from her parents that they have arranged a marriage for her back in Pakistan. Evans tries to convince her family not to enforce the custom, arguing that Jamila is a normal Welsh teenager, but just asÂ the tensions increase, the girl suddenly vanishes. Bronwen is distraught, but thereâ€™s no trace of her.Â At work, Evans is investigating the murder of a man shot to death through the open window of his home while eating breakfast. After the manâ€™s wifeÂ is jailed as a suspect,Â a second man is killed---and then a third---and Evans and his team are on the hunt for a serial killer. But they canâ€™t seem to find any connections between the three menâ€¦.Â In the surprising climax of Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowenâ€™s tenth Constable Evans mystery, Evans risks everything to solve the murders and discover what happened to Jamila. All in all, the novel is a triumph for fans of Bowenâ€™s acclaimed Evans series, and a wonderful discovery for new readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3929'),
(3454, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5862'),
(3455, 'Eve of Darkness', 'S. J. Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day''s work. For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain. Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted into service to kill demons, Eve''s learning curve is short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She''s also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history... But she''ll worry about all that later. Right now she''s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she''d never believed she had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3253'),
(3456, 'The Eve of Rumoko', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9011'),
(3457, 'Even Faster Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Performance is critical to the success of any web site. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site''s performance. Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site''s performance in three critical categories: JavaScript, in the network, and in the browser.\n <br />\n <br />\n \\This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8049'),
(3458, 'Even Money', 'Dick Francis; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(3459, 'Even More Top Secret Recipes', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bestselling author Todd Wilbur serves up another mouth-watering batch of your favorite brand-name foods to make at homeWith more than 1.5 million Top Secret Recipes books sold, Todd Wilbur is the reigning master of professional-quality clones of America-s best-loved, brand-name foods. In Even More Top Secret Recipes, Wilbur shares the secrets to making your own delicious versions of:- McDonald-s - French Fries- KFC - Extra Crispy-Chicken- Wendy-s - Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich- Drake-s - Devil Dogs -- Taco Bell - Burrito Supreme -- Boston Market- Meatloaf- And many more!With a dash of humor, a tantalizing spoonful of food facts and trivia, and a hearty sprinkling of culinary curiosity, Even More Top Secret Recipes gives you the blueprints for reproducing the brand-name foods you love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4150'),
(3460, 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle', 'Ingrid Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in BogotÄ¯, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply personal and moving account of that time. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. In her most successful effort she and a fellow captive survived a week away, but were caught when her companion became desperately ill; she learned later that they had been mere miles from freedom. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt''s indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, Even Silence Has an Endis a meditation on the very stuff of life-fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it. Betancourt tracks her metamorphosis, sharing how in the routines she established for herself-listening to her mother and two children broadcast to her over the radio, daily prayer-she was able to do the unthinkable: to move through the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity. Freed in 2008 by the Colombian army, today Betancourt is determined to draw attention to the plight of hostages and victims of terrorism throughout the world and it is that passion that motivates Even Silence Has an End. The lessons she offers here-in courage, resilience, and humanity-are gifts to treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7877'),
(3461, 'An Evening of Long Goodbyes', 'Paul Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Wodehouse''s Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray''s insouciant romp, shortlisted for the Whitbread. For three years, ever since his father died, 20-something Charles has been pottering around the family''s crumbling seaside estate near Dublin, mixing himself gimlets and watching old movies. He sees himself as attempting to perfect\n <em>\n  sprezzatura\n </em>\n , "the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history"; his formidable sister, Bel, and everyone else, however, view him as a shiftless drunkard, and Charles''s own narration leaves little doubt whose judgment is more accurate. The reappearance of Charles''s mother, who''s been away at a clinic for alcoholics and is now determined to reform the rest of the family, means that his allowance is promptly cut off and he''s required to get a job. This proves to be predictably difficult (a tech recruiter says, " ''So in short, Charles, it''s fair to say you''ve\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n worked for a living, is that right?'' "). Meanwhile, the family''s Bosnian housekeeper smuggles her grown-up children into the country, and Bel starts a theater company at Amaurot with the housekeeper''s striking daughter, Mirela, who''s much too clever for smitten Charles. Murray''s blend of drawing-room comedy and postindustrial hilarity is deft and jaunty, and well-timed snippets of foreshadowing keep the story moving briskly. If the characters occasionally seem too broadly drawn, they always operate in service to the novel''s witty and satirical aims. This is a breezy, highly entertaining read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish writer Murray makes a brilliant debut with\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n , which was a finalist for the prestigious Whitbread First Novel Award after its publication in the U.K. in 2003. Often compared to P.G. Wodehouse, Noel Coward, John Kennedy Toole, and Flann Oâ€™Brien (an Irish satirist), with a touch of Chekhov thrown in, Murray has penned a solipsistic soliloquy that deftly mixes farce and melodrama with social commentary. Most critics had few complaints, though a few noted some blips in the plotting. And\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n noticed a lapse in Charlesâ€™ voice once he left his seaside home for the slums. Still, all agree that\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n is a bittersweet, and above all memorable, first novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4760');
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(3462, 'The Everborn', 'Nicholas Grabowsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "......(a)unique and terrifying world that Grabowsky launches us into...at very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic..." --\n  <em>\n   Tahoe Daily Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from religion (to) blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky''s latest offering a compelling read!" --\n  <em>\n   Sacramento News &amp; Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nicholas.....I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your accomplishments....your fertile and blissfully complex imagination..." --\n  <em>\n   Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman, Imajica)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!" --\n  <em>\n   Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/scary.net\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "YOU WILL BE SCARED! PERIOD!" --\n  <em>\n   Sean Price, Slash Productions\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tale of beings who have fallen from heaven at the dawn of mankind''s history who integrated themselves into the human gene pool, fathering themselves from life to life in a bizarre reincarnation cycle throughout the ages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story involves Max Polito, a renown ufologist bent on proving to the world that these beings exist and are responsible for a majority of all UFO phenomena. His exploits lead him to an "Everborn" reborn into society as a pair of twins, one possessing an eternal soul and one who does not, one a timid ghostwriter for a world-famous horror novelist and one a vicious serial killer on a quest to truly be "born again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A surreal guardian angel for Andrew, the ghostwriter, teams up the protagonists to thwart not only the evil twin''s diabolical plans but the apocalyptic schemes of the Magdalene Salvatia, an ancient she-demon on a quest to revenge her kind and plunge the world into everlasting darkness under her rule.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4714'),
(3463, 'Everglades', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 10th novel in the series featuring ex-CIA spook turned marine biologist Doc Ford (Twelve Mile Limit, etc.), finds Doc wallowing deep in his own doldrums. Out of shape, overweight, depressed and drinking heavily to escape from his turbulent past, Doc gets a surprise visit from Sally Minster, a former lover, whose real estate developer hubby, Geoff, is reported to have been drowned in a boating accident off Bimini six months ago. Soon to inherit his estate, Sally is being followed by an insurance investigator who may have evidence her husband is still alive. Accompanied by his hippie Zen master pal, Sighurdhr Tomlinson, Doc follows the insurance investigator deep into the Everglades, where Geoff turns out to have been in cahoots with a phony guru, Bhagwan Shiva, founder of the International Church of Ashram Meditation Inc. Geoff helped him build one of his new "theme" ashrams to attract rich South Floridians and jet setters, destroying precious Everglades forest in the process. The Bhagwan and his henchman, Izzy Kline, a Mossad-trained former Israeli soldier, are plotting to engineer a series of explosions, enacting the mythic Seminole Chief Tecumseh''s earthquake prophecy of 1811. Free-love religious cults, ecological destruction, murder and kidnapping propel Doc and his band of quirky Florida Gulf Coast beach denizens on a dizzying airboat race across the Everglades, where Doc battles his own demons when he''s not battling a real live bull shark. The busy plot gets a bit ragged in places, but while it''s not White''s career best, this satisfying, madcap fare could well go seismic on the regional bestseller lists.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Much of the tension in today''s best tough-guy detective series comes from the hero''s fear of his own toughness. From Spenser in Boston to Robicheaux in New Orleans to Doc Ford on Sanibel Island, these introspective sleuths brood about their propensity for violence. Ford, White''s former special-ops agent turned mild-mannered marine biologist, tends to brood more than his peers, perhaps because the disconnect between his twin personalities is greatest. In this superlative tenth episode in the acclaimed series, that disconnect has turned Ford against himself, despairing over the number of friends who have been sucked into his violent world and died as a result of it. Then a woman from his past turns up with a problem: her husband has disappeared after becoming involved with a Bhagwan-like cult in the Everglades. Ford, with hippie cohort Tomlinson in tow, heads to the Glades to investigate but not before a one-on-one encounter with a shark prompts an epiphany about his predatory nature. Along the way, Ford has the opportunity to dispense a wealth of fascinating information on swampland ecology and Seminole history. These forays are one of the things that makes this series so consistently satisfying, but this time the real core of the book is the process by which Ford deals with his inner demons. Too often in the mystery genre, this "I''m nice; no, I''m tough" dichotomy descends to cliche, but in White''s hands, it leads to genuine insight. The human brain, he tells us, has a tiny region, the a_mygdala_, or "lizard brain," whose sole purpose is survival. When Ford finally quits waffling and lets his lizard brain out of jail, the result is pulsating action and a kind of atavistic catharsis. Righteous indignation never felt better.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7858'),
(3464, 'Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi', 'Dean Faulkner Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America''s rich literary history."\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Winston Groom, author, _Forrest Gump\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on herÂ august uncle,Â William Faulkner."--Thomas McGuane\n</p>\n<p>\n "A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great manâ€¦.A wonderful book."--Mark Childress, author of\n <em>\n  Crazy in Alabama\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Read Every Day by the Sun_, then read\n <em>\n  Go Down Moses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hamlet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Town\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mansion\n </em>\n , and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. Dean Faulkner Wells knows where the gold is buried, where the heart strings sang, where the understanding and love were engenderedâ€¦.Burn the deconstructionistsâ€™ texts.\n <em>\n  Every day By The Sun\n </em>\n is all you need."â€”Ellen Gilchrist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t recall the last time I enjoyed a book as much as\n <em>\n  Every Day By The Sun\n </em>\n . Dean Faulkner Wells has performed a miracle: Sheâ€™s brought a great man back to life, and in doing so sheâ€™s summoned a time and a place that now seem too far gone. I love her clean, sharp, unpretentious prose, the well-hewn stories piled one on top of the other, the intimate revelations about a family that belongs to all of us but belonged to her first. William Faulkner is a fascinating character indeed, but it is Wells herself whom I found most captivating. Sheâ€™s somebody to fall in love with and never get over."--John Ed Bradley, author,\n <em>\n  Tupelo Nights\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fresh, affectionate view of ''Pappy,'' the great and difficult writer."--Roy Blount, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Part biography, part memoir, Wells'' work does much to humanize the man who is often remembered only for his words. A must-read for Faulkner-philes."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Marvelously evocative, intimate, and deeply moving."\n <br />\n --John Berendt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun,\n </em>\n Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murÂ­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important AmeriÂ­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyâ€”in particular her uncle William, or â€œPappy,â€ with whom she shared colorÂ­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  This deeply felt memoir explores the close reÂ­lationship between Deanâ€™s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beÂ­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanâ€™s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulknerâ€™s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962,\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun\n </em>\n explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisÂ­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriÂ­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6870'),
(3465, 'Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life', 'Frances Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this sequel to her* New York Times* bestsellers* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany*, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (*New York Times*) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany''s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany* appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona, how life in the mountains introduced her to a "wilder" side of Tuscany--and with it a lively engagement with Tuscany''s mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town, with particular attention to life in the piazza, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden. Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where* Under the Tuscan Sun* began. With more on the pleasures of life at* Bramasole*, the delights and challenges of living in Italy day-to-day and favorite recipes,* Every Day in Tuscany* is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(3466, 'Every Last Drop', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œ[Charlie Hustonâ€™s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.â€â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of BrooklynItâ€™s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joeâ€™s brass knuckles and straight razor canâ€™t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joeâ€™s head on a stick, itâ€™s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.So itâ€™s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joeâ€™s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters heâ€™s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than heâ€™s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tearsâ€“over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(3467, 'Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Chuck Horner &amp; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war cheerleader like General "Buck" Turgidson in\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n . He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, __ and\n <strong>\n  , but Horner''s you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam''s grim lessons. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird "Thud" fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. "All we really had to do was befriend Ho," says Horner sensibly. "Seems he wasn''t part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else." Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBroom''s pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but there''s ample room for improvement. The action scenes aren''t quite as brilliant as those in\n </strong>\n , but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horner''s improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clancy''s second study in high command of the U.S. armed forces (after Into the Storm, written with Army general Fred Franks) focuses on Air Force general Chuck Horner, the fighter pilot who was overall air commander for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. This book is less about the Gulf War than about the making of a modern fighter general and the remaking of a modern air force. Horner was part of a new Air Force generation that rejected the Strategic Air Command model of "predictability, order and control" in favor of a holistic approach to air power and air command. A firm believer in central control of air assets, Horner also regarded traditional distinctions between "strategic" and "tactical" air as no longer relevant. What mattered was the appropriate situational use of air power in an integrated war plan. The main text demonstrates Horner''s success in implementing his concepts over Iraq. Though the narrative offers no startling insights or revelations, the authors make the important contribution of presenting command friction as a natural consequence of interaction among senior officers with high intelligence and strong wills. The implication is clear: to succeed in an unpredictable international environment, America''s armed forces will need tigers at their head. Tigers are dangerous. They challenge each other. They take issue with higher wisdom and higher authority. And, according to the authors, they can be replaced by safely neutered house cats only at the country''s peril. 500,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6468'),
(3468, 'Every Man for Himself', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bainbridge, whose The Birthday Boys was an unforgettable rendition of Scott''s fatal Antarctic expedition, has turned to another Edwardian tragedy for her new novel: the sinking of the Titanic. As Bainbridge admirers might expect, it is not the kind of version that would make a spectacular movie; rather, it is a meticulously observed account that almost offhandedly convinces the reader that this is exactly what it must have been like aboard the doomed liner. The story is told by a wealthy young American man-about-town, an adopted nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, who in search of something to do has had a slight hand in the ship''s design ("the specifications of bathtubs"). Once aboard, he drinks too much with his layabout friends; sees people like the Astors and Strauses; becomes infatuated with a girl who in turn falls for a mysterious and cynical stranger; and gets to know a young Jewish dress designer who is hoping to become a hit in New York. In a few deft strokes Bainbridge shows the gulf between the steerage passengers and the "nobs" while communicating the alternating servility and resentment of the crew. The book is nearly over before disaster strikes, but once again, the unnerving details seem just right: the careless self-confidence at the beginning, the gallantry quickly eroding to panic. Bainbridge''s swift, economical novels tell us more about an era and the ways in which its people inhabit it than volumes of social history.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8248'),
(3469, 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War', 'Megan K. Stack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir.\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya''s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt''s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travailsâ€”fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia''s gender apartheid systemâ€”illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack drawsâ€”The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with itâ€”are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region''s horrific particulars.\n <em>\n  (Jun.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Society assigns war to the military, not the media, yet journalists venture into combat zones ahead of, alongside, and well after the troops whose stories they tell. As a 25-year-old correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Stack covered Afghanistan in the days immediately following 9/11, then traveled to other outposts in the war on terror, from Iraq to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. In a disquieting series of essays, Stack now takes readers deep into the carnage where she was exposed to the insanity, innocence, and inhumanity of wars with no beginning, middle, or end. Her soaring imagery sears itself into the brain, in acute and accurate tales that should never be forgotten by the wider world, and yet always are. Stack grew increasingly demoralized with each new outburst of hostilities, and clearly covering the violence took its emotional toll: the uncomfortable hypocrisy of Abu Ghraib, the unconscionable confusion over womenâ€™s subjugation, the unfathomable intricacies of tribal allegiances. Anyone wishing to understand the Middle East need only look into the faces of war that Stack renders with exceptional humanityâ€”the bombers as well as the bureaucrats, the rebels and the refugees, the victors and the victims. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8526'),
(3470, 'Every patient tells a story: medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis', 'Lisa Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, What is wrong with me? They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it on some level, restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer. A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory, making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment, only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU, bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent, and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness, the diagnosis, revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient''s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2501'),
(3471, 'Everybody&#39;s Guide to Small Claims Court', 'Ralph E. Warner &amp; Ralph Warner &amp; Emily Doskow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court walks you through the halls of small justice and explains how to file a claim, figure damages and argue your case effectively." --\n <em>\n  Kiplinger''s Personal Finance Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Step-by-step advice on how to prepare your case, how to file it, and perhaps most importantly, how to collect if you win..." --\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Takes you by the hand through all the potential pitfalls of trying your own case." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only guide to small claims court that provides insights from judges.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smart preparation for your day in small claims court can make the difference between writing a check and receiving one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court provides the information, tips and strategies you need to sue someone successfully, or put up a winning defense. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   write a demand letter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   file and serve papers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare a winning presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare evidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   line up persuasive witnesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   figure out your damages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   mediate a settlement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   collect money when you win\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court gives you down-to-earth examples of common cases, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto repair\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   rental deposit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto warranty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   property damage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   small business disputes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The 12th edition is completely updated by a state-by-state appendix of small claims rules, including increases of limits on how much people can sue for, an expanded discussion of mediation, and more advice from real judges and commissioners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4468'),
(3472, 'Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes', 'Giada De Laurentiis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don''t know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the beauty and simplicity of Italian cuisine. Which is, of course, a good thing, but a shame, too, since this work lacks depth or meaning. Readers seeking a true introduction to the building blocks of Italian cooking would be worlds better off with one of Marcella Hazan''s or Lidia Bastianich''s early primers. What those who are lured in by the good looks and charm of de Laurentiis (granddaughter of film producer Dino and star of Food Network''s\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  ) will get is an unsophisticated but decent selection of Italian-American classics, from antipasto to pasta, meat dishes to desserts, including Clams Oreganata, Caprese Salad, Salsa all''Amatriciana, Fettucine Alfredo, Veal Marsala, Caponata and Chocolate TiramisÃ¹. De Laurentiis provides an introduction to each dish, and her recipes are generally minimalist (there are no recipes for homemade pastas or stews that take a day to make). Though bursting with glamorous shots of a lovely looking author, this is a rather flat first effort.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her hit Food Network show\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  , Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the sameâ€”helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-wateringâ€”perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what youâ€™re in the mood forâ€”whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, youâ€™ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrÃ©es (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisÃ¹â€”plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s more,\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is organized according to what type of food you want tonightâ€”whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sautÃ© for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetablesâ€”whatever youâ€™re in the mood for, youâ€™ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. Thatâ€™s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and thatâ€™s what Giada De Laurentiis offers hereâ€”the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7943'),
(3473, 'The Everything Chinese Cookbook: From Wonton Soup to Sweet and Sour Chicken -- 300 Succulent Recipes From the Far East', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring hundreds of recipes, such as Snow Pea Stir-fry, Hot Chicken Salad, General Tso''s Chicken, and Traditional Mu Shu Pork, *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* makes preparing authentic Chinese dishes fun and easy!  From basic Chinese flavors and dipping sauces, such as Quick and Easy Sweet-and-Sour Sauce, to Chinese cooking methods and meals, including Stir-fried Orange Beef, Appetizers, such as Crab Rangoon Soups, such as Wonton Soup Vegetable dishes, such as Stir-fried Baby Bok Choy Beef dishes, such as Mongolian Beef with Rice Noodles Pork dishes, such as Sweet and Sour Spareribs Mouthwatering fiery dishes, such as Spicy Chicken with Cashews Desserts, such as Sweet Baked Pineapple and Banana *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* will have you serving up tasty Chinese cuisine to tempt anyone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8167'),
(3474, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA bold, terrifying read that goes down smooth thanks to a crisp infusion of humor. Thanks to this book, I can now aspire to dying in cooler ways than I ever thought possible. F\n <em>\n </em>\n k you, old age. Iâ€™m holding out for a megatsunami.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Daniel H. Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   How To Survive a Robot Uprising\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Wong, author of\n  <em>\n   John Dies at the End\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael Largo, author of\n  <em>\n   Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is hilarious. As if I wasn''t already afraid the leave the house. What''s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn''t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Garth Sundem, author of\n  <em>\n   The Geeksâ€™ Guide to World Domination\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . .\n <em>\n  Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody\n </em>\n is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing â€¨essays reveal the chilling and _very real\n <em>\n  experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could\n </em>\n â€”_or very nearly already did_â€”_bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it_â€”_until now:_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat_â€”_an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7019'),
(3475, 'Everything Is Illuminated', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.\n</p>\n<p>\n As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather''s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.\n</p>\n<p>\n An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5019'),
(3476, 'The Everything Stir-Fry Cookbook: 300 Fresh and Flavorful Recipes the Whole Family Will Love', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t have time to cook? Stir-frying is quick, healthy, and easy. With The Everything[Trademark] Stir-Fry Cookbook, you will learn the essentials for making healthy dishes. Start with the freshest ingredients and the correct equipment, then learn how to properly select and prepare food from around the world. Whip up fish and shellfish dishes and get creative with inventive ideas for marinades, sauces, and second helping-worthy desserts, for menu options such as: Indian Curried Chicken, Stir-Fried Spanish Rice, Crisped Beef with Zucchini, Coconut Shrimp/Stir-Fried Fish in Oyster Sauce, Restaurant-Style Mu Shu Pork, Gingered Pork with Udon Noodles, Double Nutty Fiddlehead Greens with Sesame, Tuna Tofu Casserole. A sizzling sourcebook of 300 recipes for delicious meals that don''t require a lot of ingredients-or time-The Everything[Registered] Stir-Fry Cookbook offers helpful tips and techniques for making mouthwatering recipes in less time than it would take you to choose what to order from a Chinese menu. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8166'),
(3477, 'The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers, 300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes You Can Make at Home', 'Jennifer Malott Kotylo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sumptuous Thai dishes you can make at home!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thai cuisine creates a  harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring  both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as youâ€™d find in your favorite Thai restaurant.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook is perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters, offering an eclectic range of spices, flavors, and aromas. Whether you want to prepare a meal for oneâ€”or an entire feastâ€”The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook will have you serving up tasty fare to tempt even the most critical food connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring mouthwatering recipes for:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Banana Fritters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Chicken-Vegetable Rice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Coconut Curried Chicken\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Fresh Oranges in Rose Water\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pad Thai\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pumpkin Rice Custard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Spicy Rice and Shrimp Salad\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5024'),
(3478, 'Everything that rises must converge', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Flannery O''Connor was working onEverything That Rises Must Convergeat the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/935'),
(3479, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his collection of short stories in almost a decade.In this spine-chilling compilation,King takes readers down a road less traveled(for good reason)in the blocbuster e-Bookâ€œRiding the Bullet,â€bad table service turns bloody when you stop in forâ€œLunch at the Gotham Cafe,â€and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you getâ€œThat Feeling,You Can Only Say What It Is in Frendhâ€â€”â€”along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybread.Enter a nightmarish mindscape of nurelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of greatest storyteller of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8537'),
(3480, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n None\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **EVERYTHING''S EVENTUAL**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Features the tale "1408," now a Dimension Films motion picture, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also inside is the blockbuster eBook "Riding the Bullet," the original audio story "In the Deathroom," plus eleven more boundary-pushing fiction masterworks that will keep you awake until daybreak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4302'),
(3481, 'Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome', 'Michael Herzfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld focuses on Romeâ€™s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Montiâ€”once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Montiâ€™s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7392'),
(3482, 'Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences', 'Jeffrey Long; Paul Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Evidence of the Afterlife shares the firsthand accounts of people who have died and lived to tell about it. Through their work at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody, have gathered thousands of accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) from all over the world. In addition to sharing the personal narrative of their experiences, visitors to the website are asked to fill out a one hundredâ€“item questionnaire designed to isolate specific elements of the experience and to flag counterfeit accounts. The website has become the largest NDE research database in the world, containing over 1,600 NDE accounts. The people whose stories are captured in the database span all age groups, races, and religious affiliations and come from all over the world, yet the similarities in their stories are as awe-inspiring as they are revealing. Using this treasure trove of data, Dr. Long explains how medical evidence fails to explain these reports and why there is only one plausible explanationâ€”that people have survived death and traveled to another dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1766'),
(3483, 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jolly Roger Hotel on Leathercombe Bay is where the wealthy partake of the salt air, the sea breezes, and the sun''s tanning rays. It''s the perfect place for spoiled heiress Arlena Marshall to be desired by handsome men, envied by jealous women, doted upon by her slavish husband...and strangled to death on the beach.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5233'),
(3484, 'Evolution', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell,â€™ the Doctor said darkly, â€˜perverting its secrets to his own dark purposes.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materializes in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the shipâ€™s doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler, is determined to investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution - and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6791');
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(3485, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4679'),
(3486, 'The Evolution of God', 'Robert Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his illuminating book,\n <em>\n  The Moral Animal\n </em>\n , Wright introduced evolutionary psychology and examined the ways that the morality of individuals might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. With this book, he expands upon that work, turning now to explore how religion came to define larger and larger groups of people as part of the circle of moral consideration. Using a naÃ¯ve and antiquated approach to the sociology and anthropology of religion, Wright expends far too great an effort covering well-trod territory concerning the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism. He finds in this evolution of religion, however, that the great monotheistic (he calls them Abrahamic, a term not favored by many religion scholars) religionsâ€”Christianity, Islam, Judaismâ€”all contain a code for the salvation of the world. Using game theory, he encourages individuals in these three faiths to embrace a nonâ€“zero-sum relationship to other religions, seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent and then acting with tolerance toward other religions. Regrettably, Wright''s lively writing unveils little that is genuinely new or insightful about religion.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright, a self-described materialist, best known for his work on evolutionary psychology, free trade, and game theory, postulates that religious world views are becoming more open, compassionate, and synthesized. Occasionally, his prescriptions can seem obviousâ€”for instance, that members of the different Abrahamic faiths should think of their religions as â€œhaving been involved, all along, in the same undertaking.â€ But his core argument, that religion is getting â€œbetterâ€ with each passing aeon, is enthralling.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7736'),
(3487, 'The Evolution of Useful Things', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork''s history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England''s Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there''s plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n For armchair inventors or those who are curious about the way things work, this book offers hours of delight. Petroski (engineering, Duke Univ.) provides an intricate look, in lay reader''s terms, at the technology and basic rationale behind a number of items we often take for granted. The list is comprehensive: kitchen utensils, zippers, tools, paper clips, fast-food packaging, and more. The text is far from a recital of mere facts. Petroski''s anecdotes and stories about individual designers and inventors are told with warm regard. Petroski also provides illuminating thoughts on the theoretical, historical, and cultural frameworks that influenced these creations. Although this book will appeal to a somewhat specialized audience, many general readers will find it fascinating and educational. For circulating libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6174'),
(3488, 'Evolution: A Novel', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following up his cosmic\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n . The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing\n <em>\n  Homo sapiens\n </em>\n ''s ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There''s nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans'' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws,\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking a page from SF saga writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Stableford, British author Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) portrays humanity''s origins, growth and ultimate disappearance in a loose-knit series of brutal vignettes spanning millions of years of evolution. Beginning with the gritty slice-of-life tale of a small, ratlike proto-primate called Purga (short for species Purgatorius), the story travels from the end of the Cretaceous through the millennia as primates slowly evolve into creatures more and more recognizably human, learning to make and use tools, developing language and the ability to feel empathy-the trait that Baxter selects as definitive of true humanity. Resonating with that theme, the vignettes are linked by a thin near-future frame about scientists meeting in the midst of ecological and political chaos to find a way to save humanity from itself through the "globalization of empathy." More concerned with technical detail than character or plot, the book rises above its fragmented narrative and frequently repetitive violence to reach a grim and stoic grandeur, which (despite a tendency toward preachiness) clearly has humanity''s best interests at heart. Here is a rigorously constructed hard SF novel where the question is not whether humanity will reach the stars but how it will survive its own worst tendencies.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8427'),
(3489, 'The Evolutionary Void', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Peter F. Hamilton''s startling perspectives on tomorrow''s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters - human, alien and other - who, for all their strangeness, still touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now, in "The Evolutionary Void", Hamilton concludes the highly acclaimed Commonwealth saga that has unfolded in "The Dreaming Void" and "The Temporal Void". ''The master of widescreen baroque'' - "Guardian". ''Compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas'' - "The Times". ''Epic, multi-stranded, full of wonders'' - "SFX".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3361'),
(3490, 'The Ex-Girlfriends&#39; Club', 'Rhonda Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Police officer Eden Rutherford has only one weakness-- bad boy Ben Wilder. With just one wicked glance, he could make her lose control, lose her heart... and lose her panties. Too bad he took all three with him when he hightailed it out of town three years ago. Now Ben''s back, and Eden''s bracing herself. First, for his assault on her libido. And second, for his reaction to BennettWildersucks.com, the Web site she and Ben''s other ex-girlfriends put together to humiliate him. Only, one woman''s going too far... . Now Eden has to deal with a stalker and her overwhelming lust. She needs to get Ben out of her system, for good this time! And offering Ben her protection might just be the way to do it... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6003'),
(3491, 'Ex-Kop', 'Warren Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This hard-bitten follow-up to Hammond''s 2007 science fiction noir debut\n <em>\n  KOP\n </em>\n , set in the 28th century on the technologically backward world of Lagarto, offers further evidence of his considerable talents. A former member of the Koba Office of Police, Juno Mozambe has been forced into retirement by corrupt detective Diego Banks, who murdered Koba''s previous police chief. Now a sleazy, broke PI, nothing but a drunken old has-been, Mozambe reluctantly lets his ex-partner Maggie Orzo hire him to exonerate Adela Juarez, a young woman about to be executed for murdering her parents. Orzo suspects her current partner and rival, Ian Davies, of framing Juarez. Mozambe struggles through a mire of corruption and violence to get the answers and protect his own loved ones. Koba is a tough town full of desperate people, and Hammond makes full use of this richly imagined society.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After getting fired, aging detective Juno of the economically depressed colony planet Lagarto has been making a scant living photographing scandals for the papers. His wife is hospitalized after what Juno only wishes were an accident, and all his money goes to her medical bills. So when his ex-partner, Maggie, offers to hire him to investigate a murder case she believes her new partner, Ian, is falsifying, he agrees, despite already knowing what bad news Ian is. While Maggie works the case of a sadistic serial killer, Juno tracks down the truth, discovering that his case and Maggieâ€™s are linked parts of a sickening undercover operation, and that Ian is even more dangerous then he thought. Ex-Kop is even better than Kop (2007), involving as it does all the best elements of an sf crime thriller: engrossing, high-stakes case; a fascinating setting; and a downtrodden, dogged hero whose worthiness outshines his flaws. Readers can only hope Hammond gives us more stories of Juno and his jungle world. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7296'),
(3492, 'An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir', 'Elizabeth McCracken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don''t--but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McCracken tells her own story in this touching and often unexpectedly funny memoir about her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy. As difficult as it must have been to read aloud, McCrackens delivery is courageous and never self-pitying. McCracken is forthright about the tragedy, telling the listener early on that a baby dies in this book, but that another one is born. McCrackens reading is enthralling and deeply moving, as if she is relating this intimate journey directly to each listener individually from a dark, candle-lit room, in an unforgettable performance.\n  <em>\n   A Little, Brown hardcover (reviewed online). (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Elizabeth McCrackenâ€™s heartrending memoirâ€”a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herâ€”McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackenâ€™s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. â€œIâ€™m not ready for my first child to fade into history,â€ explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, thereâ€™s little chance of that.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8437'),
(3493, 'Excalibur', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10593'),
(3494, 'Excalibur &amp; the Atom', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10486'),
(3495, 'An Excellent Mystery', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1141, England is still in the midst of the strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. Among its victims the Abbey of Hyde Meade, totally destroyed. Two of its brothers seek refuge in Shrewsbury: Brother Humilis, who abandoned his intended and joined the cloister after crippling injuries received on the Crusade; and his devoted attendant, the mute Fidelis. All is well until Humilis'' former squire decides to pay court on his own account to the girl who was his lord''s affianced bride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/534'),
(3496, 'Exceptions to Reality: Stories', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other worlds in an array of genres. Now he turns his imagination to the short story in these spectacular tales of outer space, cyberspace, ancient gods, modern demons, and mortal horror, including\n</p>\n<p>\n Panhandler A predatory lawyer encounters a fabled boyhood hero and falls victim to the less innocent intrigues of eternal youth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growth\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far.\n</p>\n<p>\n Basted A lowly, hen-pecked Egyptian discovers that the Pharaohâ€™s tomb holds exactly what he needs for a whole new life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Killing of Bad Bull A man with a knack for getting gamblingâ€™s one-armed bandits to give it up finds himself at the topâ€“of several hit lists.\n</p>\n<p>\n At Sea A poor Scandinavian captain forced into running drugs is shown a way out of his desperate straits with the help of five beautiful blondes who are simply out-of-this-world.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Open Exceptions to Reality to find these amazing stories and nine other irresistibly unearthly tales!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, Transformers, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century minersâ€™ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.alandeanfoster.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7846'),
(3497, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6681'),
(3498, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers of Anne Perryâ€™s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if theyâ€™ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In **Execution Dock**, Perryâ€™s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empireâ€™s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade.The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river.Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monkâ€™s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity.However, reinforcements are on the way. Monkâ€™s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husbandâ€™s causeâ€“a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips, these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting.This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.** Execution Dock **is Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(3499, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3752'),
(3500, 'Executive Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n CIA superagent Mitch Rapp s cover has been blown -- just when the world needs him more than ever....EXECUTIVE POWERReturning from a covert missionï¼Œ Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadowsï¼Œ Rapp was caught in the media spotlight -- and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisorï¼Œ Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushedï¼Œ all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat still lurks -- a ruthless assassin working for the most powerful men in the Middle Eastï¼Œ who are bent on igniting a world war. With the world watchingï¼Œ Rapp must hold back the flames of Armageddon....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8379'),
(3501, 'The Executor', 'Jesse Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It s a tough spot for a philosopher to be in, and he s ready to give up all hope of happiness when an ad in the local paper catches his eye. ''Conversationalist wanted'', it reads. Which sounds perfect to Joseph. After all, he s never done anything in his life except talk. And the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer: brilliant, generous, and willing to pay him for making conversation. Before long, Joseph has moved in with her, and has begun to feel very comfortable in her big, beautiful house. So comfortable, in fact, that he would do anything to stay there forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2076'),
(3502, 'Exile and the Kingdom', 'Albert Camus; Justin O&#39;Brien (Translator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of Albert Camus'' native Algeria, and all of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he became the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9498'),
(3503, 'Exile&#39;s Return', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: EXILE''S RETURN is the penultimate volume in the CONCLAVE OF SHADOWS from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the genre. The series promises to become one of the great all-time classics in the field. EXILE''S RETURN concludes the sweeping new epic fantasy series from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the genre, THE CONCLAVE OF SHADOWS promises to become one of the great all-time classics in the field. Once absolute ruler of his nation Kaspar, former Duke of Olasko, has been cast into exile. Abandoned in the wilds of a continent on the other side of the world and left with nothing but his wits and determination, he must fight merely to survive. Armed with guile, cunning and an iron will, he starts his odyssey with a single goal: to return to his home and revenge himself upon the man who cast him down, Talwin Hawkins. But fate has other plans for Kaspar, and as he struggles against adversity, he encounters dangers greater than any he had imagined. More is at stake than he realised and Kaspar is but a single player in a far greater game than he imagined, for pitted against the Conclave of Shadows are the agents of the Dark Empire, a looming menace that threatens not only Kaspar''s homeland, but the entire world of Midkemia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3625'),
(3504, 'Exiles', 'Howard Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other''s hope for survival.  With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace.  Soon the U.S.S. "Enterprise(TM)" crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against bother peoples -- revenge that will meant he destruction of two worlds and the U.S.S. "Enterprise."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6703'),
(3505, 'Exiles of the Stars', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9074'),
(3506, 'The Exiles Trilogy', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Computer engineer Lou Christopher''s life falls apart when the World Government decrees that the project he is working on is too dangerous to continue. Thus, he and thousands of other scientists and their families are sentenced to permanent exile from Earth on a space station. But Lou and several others decide to escape--by converting the space station into a starship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10460'),
(3507, 'Exiles: a play in three acts', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is only James Joyce''s towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce''s career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is ''an extraordinary dÃ©but'', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. ''Pomes Penyeach and Exiles'' (highly acclaimed in Harold Pinter''s 1970 staging) were written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both confront painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so pave the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment in Ulysses. Joyce''s occasional verse includes ''Ecce Puer'' for his new-born grandson, juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All are brought together in this scholarly, fully annotated yet accessible new edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(3508, 'Exit Strategy', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford. Nadia Stafford is one of the world''s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia''s very private existence is seriously challenged. A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the country -- different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book: "Helter Skelter," But does the Helter Skelter killer -- as the hysterical media now dub him -- have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work? Is this, in fact -- as Jack believes -- the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake? And, if so, which is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover -- at least, to each other -- and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3189'),
(3509, 'Exit the Actress: A Novel', 'Priya Parmar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  A real triumph\n </strong>\n â€¦.A\n <strong>\n  vivid\n </strong>\n imagining of the restoration London of Charles II with Nell Gwynn as a\n <strong>\n  powerful and engaging\n </strong>\n heroine set in the busy world of the theater. This debut novel captures the\n <strong>\n  glamorous\n </strong>\n world of the amoral court and the struggle of the city.\n <strong>\n  Priya Parmar is a writer to watch\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Philippa Gregory\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clever ... a delight ... irresistible ... I loved this book."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Sharon Kay Penman\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Devil''s Brood\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNell is irrepressible, spunky, delightful: who wouldnâ€™t fall in love with her? Her story unfolds through diary entries, letters, news announcements, recipes. ItÂ¹s a tasty and often amusing confection, sure to please. I absolutely adored it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Sandra Gulland\n </strong>\n , author of the Josephine B. Trilogy and\n <em>\n  Mistress of the Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theaterâ€™s proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heartâ€”and he hersâ€”but even the most powerful love isnâ€™t enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellenâ€™s diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6146'),
(3510, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(3511, 'Exit Wounds', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of Carol Mossman, who lived alone in the desert and was shot with an antique gun. Her 17 dogs died, too, due to an intense buildup of heat in the trailer. The investigation leads to the deceased woman''s siblings, grandmother, and father, and two murdered female reporters. As the facts come together, it becomes apparent that the victim''s father raped his daughters, impregnating at least two. While working on the case, Brady deals with the local animal activist group and illegal immigrants, all while running for reelection. While none of the scenes depict details of the incestuous relationships, the lasting effect of abuse becomes a major point of the story. The human abuse in turn leads back to the topic of animal abuse, painting a sad picture of the horrors of both. But Jance manages to keep the atmosphere positive, with lots of action, energy, and realism along the way, and Brady''s personal thoughts and beliefs give a perspective to the events. This 10th in the series offers topics for thought and a rousing plot.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No need to have read previous books to enjoy this Joanna Brady mystery. Jance slips in enough background to bring readers quickly up to speed. Before that, however, comes a whopper of a setup. Loner Carol Mossman is found brutally murdered, her 17 dogs dead beside her in her blistering hot trailer. Soon after, two more women turn up dead--all three shot with bullets more than a quarter-century old. That single clue eventually leads Sheriff Brady to a horrifying secret that nearly destroys an entire family. The dramatic opening will suck readers in, and the pacing is a satisfying balance between Joanna''s struggles to be a good sheriff, wife, and mother and her dealing with her reelection and newly discovered pregnancy. Joanna''s compassion and insecurity--and her sometimes cranky determination--make her a particularly realistic and appealing protagonist. As in\n <em>\n  Partner in Crime\n </em>\n (2002), Jance builds her story around a real-life contemporary social concern, in this case the psychological disorder known as hoarding. Brady fans won''t want to put this one down, which may itself be a form of hoarding.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7502'),
(3512, 'Exodus From Hunger: We Are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger', 'David Beckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though tremendous improvements in health and education have helped slow the epidemic of global hunger in recent decades, more needs to be done to help lift people out of poverty, says Beckmann, president of the antihunger advocacy group Bread for the World. Beckmann strongly supports new international efforts such as the United Nations'' Millennium Development Goals, rock star Bono''s ONE campaign, and programs funded through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But he also shows how no country has made gains in staunching hunger without government antipoverty programs. Beckmann offers a multifaceted solution to domestic poverty, including citizen activism, community soup kitchens, good jobs, and government policies and programs. This book will be appreciated by church groups eager to bolster their charitable outreach, especially since it includes several inspiring vignettes of ordinary Christians doing extraordinary things to help stop hunger. The book''s weakness is that it covers too much ground without offering a structured or easily applicable way forward. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is within America''s technical and financial power to help end world hunger in our lifetime, if we set our hearts and minds to the task.\n</p>\n<p>\n Contrary to what many people believe, the world has made measurable advancements against hunger and poverty over the last several decades. But too often the binding constraint on further progress is a simple lack of political will. As a result, one of the most powerful ways to affect change is often the most neglected--political activism.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this powerful and hopeful book, David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and a leading anti-hunger activist, looks at the causes of hunger, presents case studies of countries that have made great strides against it, and puts a human face on the problem by sharing stories of people who are, quite simply, hungry every day. The problems can seem overwhelming but Beckmann lays out a clear and workable plan for effectively using political channels to make great progress. He not only challenges us to get involved, he shows us how.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is no less than our call to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6973'),
(3513, 'The Exodus Quest', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria. Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed, and the finger of suspicion points at Knox himself. To add to his mounting worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna. She manages to smuggle out a message, pleading with Knox to rescue her, but he''s locked in a police cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away. His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world...before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3256'),
(3514, 'The exorcist', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture--newly re-released in a version you''ve never seen before!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4213');
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(3515, 'The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives', 'Monica Mcgoldrick; Betty Carter; Nydia Garcia-preto; Contributors Chapter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch,\n <em>\n  The Expanded Family Life Cycle\n </em>\n integrates theory and current research with clinical guidelines and cases by two of the most-respected authors, teachers, and clinicians in the field of family therapy, Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick.\n</p>\n<p>\n This classic Family Therapy text provides â€œand more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle,â€ reflecting changes in society away from orientation toward the nuclear family, toward a more diverse and inclusive definition of â€œfamily.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n This expanded view of the family includes the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the individual, family households, the extended family, the community, the cultural group, and the larger society. The text features a ground-breaking integration of individual male and female development in systemic context; our increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; the emergence of men[HTML_REMOVED]s movements and issues; the growing visibility of lesbian and gay families; and the neglected area of social class.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Monica McGoldrick, M.A., M.S.W, Ph.D. (h.c.),\n </strong>\n is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ, and on Psychiatry Faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her other books include:\n <em>\n  Ethnicity and Family Therapy,\n </em>\n 3rd ed;\n <em>\n  Genograms: Assessment and Intervention,\n </em>\n 3rd ed.\n <em>\n  Living Beyond Loss: 2nd ed\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice\n </em>\n , 2nd ed; and\n <em>\n  The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with your Family-\n </em>\n to be published by W. W. Norton in the Fall of 2010,whichtranslates her ideas about family relationships for a popular audience, using examples such as Beethoven, Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud and the Kennedys.\n</p>\n<p>\n She received her BA from Brown University, a Masters in Russian Studies from Yale University, and her M.S.W and an Honorary Doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. McGoldrick is known internationally for her writings and teaching on topics including culture, class, gender, loss, family patterns (genograms), remarried families, and sibling relationships. Her clinical videotape demonstrating the use of the life cycle perspective with a multicultural remarried family dealing with issues of unresolved mourning has become one of the most widely respected videotapes available in the field.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Betty Carter, M.S.W.,\n </strong>\n founder and Director Emerita (1977-1997) of the Family Institute of Westchester in White Plains, New York, spent over 30 years as a family therapy clinician, supervisor, teacher, and director of a major training institute. She received awards from the American Family Therapy Academy, Hunter College School of Social work, and the American Association of marriage and Family Therapy Research and Education Foundation. With her colleagues Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein and Marianne Walters she co-founded the Womenâ€™s Project in Family Therapy, which promoted a feminist revisioning of family therapy and received awards from both the Family Therapy Academy and the AAMFT. Their work culminated in a book on gender-sensitive family therapy practice:\n <em>\n  The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Therapy Relationships\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1996 Betty Carter authored a trade book on couples,\n <em>\n  Love, Honor and Negotiate: Building Partnerships That Last a Lifetime\n </em>\n . She published numerous professional book chapters and journal articles, along with educational videotapes produced by Steve Lerner for Guilford Press. Married to her husband Sam, a musician, for over 50 years, Betty has two sons and three grandchildren. She has said that of all her ideas she always loved the family life cycle framework most â€œbecause it contains all the other ideas and has room for more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nydia Garcia-Preto, M.S.W\n </strong>\n ., is the Associate Director at the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ where she also has a Private Practice. Ms. Garcia-Preto was formerly a Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and for many years the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She received her MSW from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work and her BA in Sociology at Rider College. A highly respected family therapist, author, and teacher, and organizational trainer, she has publications in textbooks and journals on issues of cultural competence, Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, immigration, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is co-editor of the most recent edition of\n <em>\n  Ethnicity and Family Therapy\n </em>\n . Ms. Garcia-Preto received the Frantz Fanon, M.D. Award from the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health for her work Puerto Rican and Latino adolescents and families, and the Social Justice Award from The American Family Therapy Academy. She and her colleagues at MFI have developed many training for many years on multiculturalism in clinical work, and organizational consulting on cultural competence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Constance Ahrons, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor emerita and former director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Private practice in San Diego.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Carol Anderson, MSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA. Editor, Family Process.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Marie Anderson,\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  MSW,\n </strong>\n Mental health with low income populations, Pittsburgh, PA.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deidre Ashton, MSSW, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Faculty/Supervisor, Center for Family, Community, and Social Justice, Inc. Princeton, NJ. Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York, NY. Couple and Family Therapist, Princeton Family Institute, Princeton, NJ.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kathy Berliner, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Marriage and Family Therapist. Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellen Berman, MD,\n </strong>\n Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lynne Blacker, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Clinical Coordinator, Family Intervention Services, Morristown, NJ\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, San Diego, CA., Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard H. Fulmer, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Postocostoral Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. Private practice, New York, NY\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Alison Heru, MD,\n </strong>\n Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Paulette Moore Hines, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Director, Office of Prevention Services &amp; Research, a division of UBHC-University of Medicine &amp; Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Evan Imber-Black, Ed.D.,\n </strong>\n Faculty, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, New York, NY\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Demaris Jacobs, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jodie Kilman, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Core faculty of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston, MA; founding member of the Boston Institute for Culturally Accountable Practice\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tracey Laszloffy, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private practice, Norwich, CT\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Lerner, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, Topeka, KS\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Mock, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor of Psychology, John F. Kennedy University; Private Clinical and Consulting Practice, Berkeley, California; former Director, Center for Multicultural Development, California Institute for Mental Health (CIMH) and Drector, Family, Youth, Childern[HTML_REMOVED]s and Multicultural Services, City of Berkeley, California.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Barbara Petkov, LMFT, Ed.S.,\n </strong>\n Private practice, Highland Park; Alumni, MFI, Core Faculty MFI. Experience with children, adolescents, couples and families. Certified in EMDR. Trainer in cultural diversity\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Sueli Petry, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Alumna &amp; Faculty of MFI. Experience with Latino families and with survivors of sexual abuse. Publications on Genograms, Brazilian families\n <br />\n <strong>\n  John Rolland, MD,\n </strong>\n Professor of Psychiatry, University of Chicago and Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health, Chicago, IL.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Mary Anne Ross, BA,\n </strong>\n COPSA Institute for Alzheimerâ€™s Disease and Related Disorders, CMHC Piscataway University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Natalie Schwartzberg, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Marriage and Family Therapist. Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Froma Walsh, MSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Co-Founder, Chicago Center for Family Health, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Editor, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Marlene Watson, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Associate Professor and the Director of Programs in Couple and Family therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia\n <br />\n <strong>\n  David Wohlsifer, LCSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, Bala Psychological Resources, Bala Cynwyd, PA; Adjunct Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work; Social Research, Univ. of Pennsylvaniaâ€™s School of Social Policy and Practice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9770'),
(3516, 'Expendable', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great writing carries this unusual story about the Explorer Corps., the branch of the League of Peoples responsible for investigating planets and contacting new life forms. The catch is that corp members usually die in the process. That''s why the corps comprises the medical misfits of society--people healthy enough to function yet disfigured or deformed enough that no one cares all that much if they die. Festina Ramos is an "Expendable Crew Member" who has just been ordered to escort a soon-to-be-senile admiral to Melaquin, a planet with an impeccable record for killing Explorer teams. It was meant to be a one-way mission to rid the League of one more has-been admiral, but Festina has other ideas about how things will turn out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you''re an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible -- ways to die.\n</p>\n<p>\n Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin -- the feared "Planet of No Return"-- which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace.\n</p>\n<p>\n Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won''t be, if Festina can help it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4534'),
(3517, 'Expensive People', 'Joyce Carol Oates; Elaine Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of Americaâ€™s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his â€œsuccessful-executiveâ€ father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.A National Book Award finalist, *Expensive People* is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. â€œYou cannot put this novel away after you have opened it,â€ said *The Detroit News*. â€œThis is that kind of bookâ€“hypnotic, fascinating, and electrifying.â€*Expensive People *is the second novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A* Garden of Earthly Delights*, them, and *Wonderland*, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2850'),
(3518, 'Exploits', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11007'),
(3519, 'Explorer', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The final installment to this sequence of the Hugo Award-winning author''s most successful series. Explorer follows a human delegate trapped in a distant star system facing a potentially bellicose alien ship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10882'),
(3520, 'Explosive', 'Beth Kery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A scorching new novel from the national bestselling author of Release.   Dr. Sophie Gable didn''t expect her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of the half-dazed, dead-sexy Thomas Nicasio, an ex-Navy explosives specialist. Even though he''s traumatized, Thomas can''t resist the urge to overtake Sophie-and her willing submission makes him want her all the more. But danger is lurking close by, and if he can''t face the demons of his past, he and Sophie could be the next victims in a pattern of meaningless violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6441'),
(3521, 'Exposed', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veteran FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believed the threat targeted Quantico. It targeted them.A deadly virusâ€”virtually undetectable until it causes death from a million internal cuts. The victims appear random, but Maggie wonders if vengeance isn''t the guiding hand.An aficionado of contemporary killers, using bits and pieces from their crimesâ€”the Beltway Sniper''s phrases, the Unabomber''s clues, the Anthrax Killer''s delivery.Maggie knows dangerous minds, but she must tackle this new opponent from within a biosafety isolation wardâ€”while waiting to see if death is already multiplying inside her body. She just fears her last case might end with the most intelligent killer she''s ever faced escalating from murderâ€¦to epidemic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(3522, 'Exposure', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/839'),
(3523, 'Express Lane Meals', 'Rachael Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How can you get a wholesome, delicious dinner on the table without spending time on long lines at the supermarket? Rachael knows how!Her secret weapon is keeping plenty of versatile, flavorful ingredients in the cupboard, fridge, and freezer, combining these staples with just a few fresh itemsâ€”never more then tenâ€”to create delicious meals for every night of the week. In Express Lane Meals, Rachael provides her personal go-to list of must-have itemsâ€”so you can do a big shop every week then simply zip through the Express Lane to make any of these 30-minute meals.She divides the recipes into three categories: â€œMeals for the Exhausted,â€ â€œ Meals for the Not Too Tired,â€ and â€œBring It On! (But, Be Gentle).â€ No matter which you choose youâ€™ll learn handy tricks and shortcuts to get the most impressive-looking meals on the table in 30 minutes or less. These are Rachaelâ€™s quickest and easiest recipes yet and a breeze to shop forâ€”because you shouldnâ€™t have to spend all of the time Rachael saves you in the kitchen standing in line at the grocery store!RACHAEL RAY IS A VERY BUSY LADY . . .And she knows youâ€™re busy, too. But that doesnâ€™t mean you canâ€™t enjoy a delicious, healthy, and home-cooked meal every night of the week. Not when cooking is as simple as this! In Express Lane Meals, Rachael Ray is back and faster than ever! With her latest batch of recipes this beloved Food Network phenomenon takes her 30-Minute Meal concept to the next level, creating recipes based on staples from a well-stocked pantry and just a few fresh itemsâ€”so few youâ€™ll never be stuck on a long grocery line again. YUMMO!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3581'),
(3524, 'Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter', 'Tom Bissell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as *Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, *and* Oblivion* for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.Â Until recently, Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well designed if mindless entertainment.Â *Extra Lives* is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gamingâ€”but he also believes games could be even better. He offers a fascinating and often hilarious critique of the ways video games dazzle and, just as often, frustrate. Along the way, we get firsthand portraits of some of the best minds (Jonathan Blow, Clint Hocking, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux) at work in video game design today, as well as a shattering and deeply moving final chapter that describes, in searing detail, Bissellâ€™s descent into the world of *Grand Theft Auto IV*, a game whose themes mirror his own increasingly self-destructive compulsions.Â Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, *Extra Lives* is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games, loathe video games, or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time, *Extra Lives* is required reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4093'),
(3525, 'Extracurricular Activities', 'Maggie Barbieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron is worried to death about her best friendâ€™s wedding in her latest and wildest adventure yet!â€œQUIRKY, ROMANTICâ€¦fashionable, free-spirited [and] intense â€â€”Tampa TribuneYouâ€™d think, now that sheâ€™s off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so farâ€¦â€œWill please readers who like action and romance in the same package.â€â€”BooklistThe recently-divorced Alison couldnâ€™t be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide detective Bobby Crawford. Alison just canâ€™t stop day-dreaming about himâ€”until a new nightmare unfolds. Â â€œSeries Grade: A.â€â€”Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout MysteriesAlisonâ€™s ex-husband has just turned up dead. And now thatâ€™s sheâ€™s being dragged into another murder investigationâ€”his time, involving the Mob-boss parent of a studentâ€”Bobby might be the only man she can trust with her life. But will he ever make Alison his wife? With a killer on the loose, the pursuit of happiness may just have to waitâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2305'),
(3526, 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed', 'William Boniface &amp; Stephen Gilpin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-7â€“This first book in a new series is great fun, and readers will zip through it faster than a speeding bullet. Ordinary Boy lives in Superopolis, where he appears to be the only citizen with no superpowers at all. Of course O Boy''s friends don''t have an easy time themselves. His best friend, Stench, possesses mighty strength, but every time he uses it he emits aâ€¦well, he lives up to his name. Halogen Boy can glow brightly, but unfortunately he''s far from the brightest bulb in the box. The greatest of them all is the Amazing Indestructo, and O Boy is his greatest fan. But a strange plot involving collector cards, million-dollar promotional contracts, and Indestructo''s greatest adversary, Professor Brain-Drain, shake O Boy''s faith in his heroâ€“in a hilarious way. Along the way, readers who are paying attention will see that O Boy might not be so ordinary after all. Boniface wields a cynical, but definitely kid-friendly, sense of humor, and Gilpin''s illustrations are sharp and witty. Kids who love comic books, superhero animations, and graphic novels will enjoy this story._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 3-5. Ordinary Boy is the only resident of Superopolis, a city of heroes, who doesn''t have superpowers. He is part of the Junior Leaguers team that includes Halogen Boy, whose glowing ability depends on his consumption of apple juice; Plasma Girl, who can transform into a jellylike substance; and Stench, notable for passing overpowering gas. Ordinary Boy''s personal hero is the Amazing Indestructo, the self-proclaimed greatest hero of Superopolis, who is the leader of the League of Ultimate Goodness. When the Junior Leaguers get the opportunity to help the Amazing Indestructo foil the sinister plans of villainous Professor Brain-Drain, Ordinary Boy realizes that even without superpowers, he can still do extraordinary things. Ordinary Boy''s narrative is interspersed with pages from the\n  <em>\n   Li''l Heroes Handbook\n  </em>\n  , offering brief profiles on characters and places in the story. Fast-paced and silly, this first title in the Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series will appeal to fans of Captain Underpants in search of new adventures.\n  <em>\n   Ed Sullivan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6956'),
(3527, 'Extras', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10949'),
(3528, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 1 - Redeemer', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme When an old friend makes a desperate call for help, former SAS Warrant Officer Joe Gardner is thrust back into the line of fire. His journey leads him into the deadliest favela in Brazil, where violent gangs, crazed hitmen and trigger-happy paramilitaries lurk. Gardnerâ€™s only hope of staying alive is through his supreme survival skills and warriorâ€™s instinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8951'),
(3529, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 2 - the Rock', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme A chance encounter with an agent from MI6 leads Joe Gardner into a perilous mission in Gibraltar. His objective: bust a major cocaine-smuggling ring involving former a Regiment operator and the Royal Navy. But Gardner isnâ€™t alone. A mysterious killer with expert martial arts skills is shadowing his every move. And itâ€™s about to get noisy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8923'),
(3530, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 3 - Die Trying', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme Dispatched to a postwar Belgrade crawling with criminals and bad memories, Joe Gardner is on a collision course with his one-time Regiment friend John Bald. Garder plans to put a stop to Bald once and for all. But with the Russian mafya and Italian mob closing in, is Gardner too late? If he fails, tens of thousands will die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8939'),
(3531, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 4 - Fallout', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Chris Ryan Extreme In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack, Joe Gardner discovers a terrifying secret. In order to protect the truth, he must escort special agent Aimee Milana to safety, all the while hunted by government agents and a former Navy SEAL operator equipped with a lethal weapon. The race is on to reach Parliament Square before the clock runs out - and the world descends into all-out war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8934'),
(3532, 'Extreme Measures: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 *New York Times* bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated and as lethal as they come.** Vince Flynn''s thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has captured the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders. Now, Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America. Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihadists and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgment of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives. But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes. Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, *Extreme Measures* is *the* political thriller of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4184'),
(3533, 'Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine - year - old Oskar discovers a key . . . The key belonged to his father, he''s sure of that. But which of New York''s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter - writer and amateur detective - across New York''s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5020'),
(3534, 'Extremis', 'Chuck Gannon &amp; Steve White &amp; Charles E. Gannon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxyâ€”humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormâ€”had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacentâ€”until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova.  They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowâ€”or, at least, they believeâ€”that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if thatâ€™s what it takes to occupy the planet.  That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxyâ€”unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6267'),
(3535, 'Exultant (Destiny&#39;s Children)', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When it comes to cutting-edge science fiction, Stephen Baxter is in a league of his own. His mastery of hard science, his fearlessly speculative imagination, and his ability to combine grand philosophical questions with tales of rousing adventure make him essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of humankind. Now, in Exultant, Baxter takes us to a distant future of dazzling promise and deadly threat, in which a far-flung humanity battles for survival against an implacable alien foe. DestinyÂ¿s Children EXULTANT For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. It is a war fought with armaments so advanced as to be godlike, a war in which time itself has become an ever-shifting battleground. At the cost of billions of lives, and with ruthless and relentless efficiency, the ruling Coalition has pushed the Xeelee back to the galactic core, where the supermassive black hole known as Chandra serves the Xeelee as both fortress and power source. There, along a front millions of light-years long, a grisly stalemate reigns, until a young pilot, Pirius, faced with certain death, disobeys orders and employs an innovative time-travel maneuver that, for the first time in the history of the war, results in the capture of a Xeelee fighter. But far from being hailed as a hero when he returns to base with his prize, Pirius is court-martialed, disgraced, and sentenced to penal servitude on a bleak asteroid. It is not only Pirius who pays the price. In flying into the future and back again, Pirius returned to a time before heÂ¿d left, a time inhabited by his younger self. And that younger self, by the pitiless logic of Coalition justice, shares the older Pirius guilt and must be punished. Not everyone in the Coalition agrees. Commissary Nilis believes that the elder Pirius, whom he dubs Pirius Blue, may have found a way to defeat the Xeelee. But Nilis can do nothing for Pirius Blue. Instead, he takes charge of the younger Pirius (Pirius Red), and brings him back to Earth, the capital of a vast empire seething with intrigue. There Pirius Red will discover truths that will shatter his preconceived notions of all that he is fighting for, even of what it means to be human. Pirius Blue, meanwhile, will learn truths harsher and more discomfiting still. Yet the most shocking revelation of all is still to come, waiting for them at a place called Chandra. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11098'),
(3536, 'The Eye of the Giant', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island''s sinister secrets. In the present, the Brigadier is left to cope with an epidemic of bizarre oc\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7419'),
(3537, 'The Eye of the Leopard', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1750'),
(3538, 'Eye of the Needle', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A spy novel of the highest order." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Follett is a master." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extraordinarily satisfying." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thrilling." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies'' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassinâ€”code name: "The Needle"â€”who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ken Follett''s unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heartâ€”_Eye of the Needle_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7444'),
(3539, 'Eye of the Storm', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Higgins''s thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn''t seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire legendary terrorist Sean Dillon to take the war to the enemy. A master of disguise and subterfuge, Dillon began his career with the IRA, earning the enmity of Liam Devlin--the unforgettable antihero of The Eagle Has Landed , who makes a featured appearance here--and of Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero and IRA member turned college professor. After Dillon''s attempt to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to France fails, he decides to go after her successor, John Major, and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. Learning that British Intelligence is recruiting Brosnan to track him down, Dillon confronts his old enemy, a meeting that ends in tragedy and leaves Brosnan bitterly committed to revenge. Although readers can be sure that Dillon''s scheme will be foiled, fun remains in the how and why. Standard Higgins in style, plot and resolution, this is bound for bestsellerdom. BOMC feature alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selection; audio rights to Dove.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-class assassin goes after British PM John Major in Higgins''s latest firmly engaging round of speculative derring-do. The Day of the Jackal this isn''t, although Sean Dillon--a rogue IRA hit-man who''s also a master thespian--is nearly as charismatic a killer as Forsyth''s Jackal; and the author''s own The Eagle Has Landed it isn''t quite either, though Higgins, a diligent literary recycler, revives the spirit, pacing, and even one major player from that 1975 classic. This is the vigorous, rather simple tale of what might have been behind the real-life, still unexplained, mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street on February 7, 1991. Here, Saddam Hussein, reeling under the allied bombing of Baghdad, asks oily Iraqi billionaire Michael Aroun to avenge Iraqi honor, which Aroun does by joining forces with Stalinist KGB Colonel Josef Makeev and hiring Dillon to blow away Margaret Thatcher, now visiting in France. When Dillon is betrayed by two hirelings and misses his shot at the Iron Lady, he ups the stakes- -why not, he proposes, go after the current PM (here, a most charming chap) and in fact the entire British War Cabinet? Using his Olivier-like powers to pose as several characters, including a bag-lady, and aided by a sexy KGB spy, Dillon sneaks into England, then Ireland, contacts old criminal/IRA pals, and plans. Arrayed against him in an ever-more suspenseful chase are several stalwart British agents, male and female, and two ex-IRA men, including Liam Devlin of Eagle fame. The mortar attack itself has about as much dramatic impact as a hiccup, but Higgins saves his big melodrama for Dillon''s attempted escape--which will leave readers happily breathless and waiting for a sequel. The action''s so fast, the heroes so valiant, and the villains so blackhearted that not even Higgins''s syntax-crunching prose will keep his fans from driving this--his most enjoyable book in years- -up the charts. (Book-of-the-Month Split Main Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8282'),
(3540, 'Eye of the Tiger', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog''s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner''s blade of the dorsal fin.'' Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck. ''Wilbur Smith is one of the benchmarks against whom others are compared'' The Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9150'),
(3541, 'Eye of Vengeance', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran journalist King, the Edgar-winning author of the Max Freeman novels (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.), sets this edgy, brooding stand-alone in a milieu he knows well, the world of the professional crime reporter. Nick Mullins, who covers the crime beat for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News\n </em>\n , is still shattered two years later by the deaths of his wife and one of his twin daughters in an auto accident with a drunk driver. Obsessed with revenge, Mullins spends his off hours stalking the driver, who''s just been released from prison after serving only 18 months. Mullins''s reputation for honesty and integrity endears him to a devoted cadre of readers, including Michael Redman, an ex-cop and former military sniper who begins assassinating criminals Mullins has profiled. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that Redman is indeed working from a list, and that the final name will fulfill a personal debt that he feels he owes Mullins. While the plot unfolds predictably, King''s crisp writing and insights into grief and loss give this novel a depth and poignancy unusual for a thriller.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n King, who won the Edgar Award for\n <em>\n  The Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n (2002), is a former daily journalist who brings both the newsroom and the field to vivid life in his Max Freeman series. His latest is a stand-alone tale about another newsman, Nick Mullins, a crime reporter for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News.\n </em>\n Mullins is a crime victim himself, having lost his wife and one of his twin daughters to a drunk driver. The scenes of Mullins trying to mimic a normal life with his surviving nine-year-old are harrowing. Pressures build for Mullins as he learns two things: the DUI offender who tore apart his family has just been released from prison, and another prisoner, en route to a courthouse plea, has been killed by a sniper. As Mullins investigates the sniper shooting, he learns that the killer has a hit list, all of whose victims have been subjects of Mullins'' own stories. Tension skyrockets as Mullins fights to save his daughter and to surmount his own need for vengeance. Intriguing views of crime scenes from the media side of the tape, masterful plotting, and a credible, striving hero make this a winner.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5696'),
(3542, 'The Eyes Have It', 'Philip K Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Start here:\n <em>\n  It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven''t done anything about it; I can''t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I''m not the first to discover it. Maybe it''s even under control. . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6202'),
(3543, 'The Eyes of a King', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTHâ€™S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pagesâ€”revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leoâ€™s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Annaâ€™s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romanceâ€”seemingly worlds away from Leoâ€”has everything to do with Malonia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/782'),
(3544, 'The Eyes of Darkness', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One year after her little boy Danny dies, his mother swears that she sees him in a stranger''s car, and becoming obsessed with the mystery, she journeys to Las Vegas and the High Sierras in search of the truth. Reissue."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n is one of the best selling writers in the world. He lives in Newport Beach with his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8275'),
(3545, 'Eyes of Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2755');
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(3546, 'The Eyes of the Beholders', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5144'),
(3547, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter must do battle to claim what is rightfully his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes - like Thomasâ€™s terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4282'),
(3548, 'The Eyre Affair', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11190'),
(3549, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8205'),
(3550, '&quot;F&quot; is for fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Floral Beach wasn''t much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.The people of floral Beach didn''t pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren''t even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men''s prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid. "Like mother, like daughter," some said--though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake, who, whatever her faults, still mourned her murdered child.And then, by sheer fluke, the cops stumbled on Bailey Fowler. And a case seventeen years dead came murderously to life again.For Royce Fowler, old and sick with not much time left, his son''s reappearance was the chance to heal an old wound. For Kinsey Millhone, the case was a long shot, but she agreed to take it on. She couldn''t know then it would lead her to probe the passions buried just below the surface of family relations, where old wounds fester and the most cherished emotions become warped until they fuse into deadly, soul-destroying time bombs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4137'),
(3551, 'Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle, from the singerâ€™s neighbors near his Kintyre, Scotland, farm to the family veterinarian. Divided into two equally large sectionsâ€”â€œWith the Beatlesâ€ and â€œAfter the Beatlesâ€â€”Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career: his early days in Liverpool; his meeting with John Lennon; the craziness of Beatlemania; his solo albums; the creation and collapse of his post-Beatles band, Wings; his marriage to Linda Eastman; his last meetings with Lennon; his drug bust in Japan; his forays into classical music; his disastrous second marriage to Heather Mills. This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician (settling for the ordinary, or, worse, mediocre rather then putting in the extra effort to create something exceptional) and as a man (a streak of selfishness that could turn callous). Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , July 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEveryone knows who Paul McCartney is. And everyone can imagine how much in demand this biography will be.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus,\n  </em>\n  9/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] solid addition to the ever-expanding library of books about the Beatle named Paulâ€¦More than 200 interviewsâ€”and no-nonsense attention to detailâ€¦The graceful prose and superb storytelling create a riveting narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 10/15/10 (starred review)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatleâ€¦Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long careerâ€¦This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician and as a man. Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fansâ€¦In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA probing work that examines McCartneyâ€™s foibles to a much greater extent than, for example, Barry Milesâ€™s authorized_Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now_â€¦There is a ton of engrossing, well-documented material hereâ€¦A worthwhile read for McCartney fans; recommended for all public libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  9/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Stuff.co.nz â€œBlog on Tracks\n <strong>\n  ,â€\n </strong>\n 9/14/10â€œ\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n A fantastic tomeâ€¦Sounes adds a lot to the story and his methodical, meticulous research style means that he''s actually bringing new things outâ€¦Sounes has, through hundreds of interviews, built a book about McCartney that addresses the myth, understands the legend and is balanced; never getting anywhere near the all too common hagiography that is the bane of reading the Â modern music biography/ghost-written-autobiographyâ€¦I found it the perfect balance of entertainment and education/researchâ€”and, as such, it''s\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  one of the best biographies I''ve ever read\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Blurt\n </em>\n Online, 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe portrait painted in Howard Sounesâ€™_FabÂ _is of a man with more to him than meets the eye or earâ€¦Sounes'' treatment of Paul is fairly even-handed though. He doesn''t shy away from the bad and doesn''t overstate the goodâ€¦There''s still a hunger for all things Beatle and Sounes'' book has its place.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Word,\n </em>\n November 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[T]he first major unauthorized biographyâ€¦. Howard Sounes brings to the task the same solid journalistic values he employed in writing his Dylan biography_Down the Highway_,which succeeded in unearthing troves of new information through the simple expedient of diligent legwork, hunting down the right people, and asking them the right questions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n , 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFew Beatle biographies are as exhaustive as this 634-page epic: Sounes paints an unsparing portrait of McCartneyâ€¦For fans willing to ponder their heroâ€™s flaws,_Fab_delivers all you need to knowâ€”and a lot more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journa\n  </em>\n  l, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvide[s] sound background on Mr. McCartney''s working-class roots, the environs of Liverpool, and the bonding of two song-writing youths (Mr. McCartney and John Lennon) who both lost their mothers while still in their teens. The author turns up new details on these early topics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Antonio\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Express-News\n  </em>\n  , 10/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] massive, exhaustively researched biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Journal of Books\n  </em>\n  , 10/26/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers on every promise it even thinks about makingâ€¦McCartney fans will enjoy hearing some of the never-before-told stories about his familyâ€¦The author handles the rougher topics with a professionalism that attempts to be as unbiased as possibleâ€¦Sounesâ€™ narrative writing style is easy to read. Instead of feeling like a dry, academic work, the book reads almost like a novelâ€¦The 500+ pages do not necessarily fly by, but the tale told is worth the time it takes to tell it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Independent\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 9/24/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling readâ€¦Since Sounes has dug so deep into McCartney lore, there is bound to be a surprise or two for even for the staunchest admirerâ€¦Hard to put down. Sounes'' writing style is breezy without being slight. His admiration for his subject is evident, even when he is at his most candid, all of which makes_Fab_a worthwhile read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Desert News_, 10/31/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] first exhaustive biography of James Paul McCartney.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookviews.com, November 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWill more than satisfy any one of his fans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n National Post_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  (Canada), 11/1/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMassiveâ€¦Full of intriguing snapshots.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n CBC News_(Canada), 11/4/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Record Collector_(UK), December 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacca examined in high-def accuracyâ€¦Where Sounes scoresâ€¦is in scything through the wild undergrowth of facts, misinformation and myths to present a level-headed portrait of a musician who, obviously, is still held in fascination by the publicâ€¦The definitive take on an extraordinary careerâ€¦Sounes is also admirably responsible in his dissection of the Heather Mills years, sifting through the tabloid salaciousness to outline chains of events with the confident, dispassionate eye of a seasoned and reliable journalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Onion\n  </em>\n  , 11/11/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Fab_does a credible job of outlining McCartneyâ€™s life and habits. So much has been written about The Beatlesâ€”and by contrast, so little about McCartneyâ€™s far longer (and during the â€™70s, nearly as popular) solo careerâ€”that Sounesâ€™ equal treatment of the eras is welcome.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Tucson Citizen_, 11/8/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA 634-page epic about Paul McCartney that covers almost every aspect of his lifeâ€¦Sounes has done his homework, his research detailed and meticulousâ€¦The result is a rather unsettling portrait of an incredibly creative, complex man who could be petty and nasty, generous and charitableâ€¦Revealing, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Toronto_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  , 11/5/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] unauthorized biography of the famous and unimaginably wealthy bassist and composerâ€¦A minutely detailed and comprehensive account of the famous musicianâ€™s life up to nowâ€¦On the whole, Sounes renders his subject sympathetically, as a gifted but flawed character.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Montreal_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n â€™s â€œWords &amp; Musicâ€ Blog, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe first book to properly deal with McCartney''s career after the Beatles.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   BookPage,\n  </em>\n  December 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressively thorough and up-to-date.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Kirkus Reviews_website, 10/26/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReveal[s] a side of the â€˜niceâ€™ Beatle most people never knew existed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n San Francisco_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Book Review,\n  </em>\n  November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating and nostalgic trip back to when the Beatles changed the course of music forever.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n InfoDad.com, 11/18/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExhaustively researchedâ€¦Name-packed, gossipy, interpretative but not judgmental, and very detail-orientedâ€¦Fans of McCartney will surely find [it] intriguing if they receive it as a gift.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BlogTalkRadioâ€™s â€œMr. Mediaâ€, 11/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHoward Sounes wonâ€™t deny that there have been an awful lot of books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. But that didnâ€™t give him pause; he just researched and wrote one of the best.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 12/5/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Fab_lifts offâ€¦in 1967, with the introduction of its most interesting characterâ€”the rock photographer Linda Eastman, who set her sights on Paul and determined to marry him even before they had metâ€¦Sounesâ€™s portrayal of her is complicated, fascinating in its contradictions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Miami Herald\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 11/28/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe first serious biographical attempt to pay as much attention to the 40-year span that followed McCartneyâ€™s run in the Beatles as it does to his decade within the Fab Fourâ€¦Sounesâ€™ reach is commendable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  (web-exclusive), 11/22/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging, set-the-record-straight biographyâ€¦Sounes writes knowledgeably of the Beatles'' close relationship with their tortured manager, Brian ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5761'),
(3552, 'Fablehaven', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(3553, 'Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Fablehaven Series, Book 5) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. Facing the potential of a world-ending calamity, all friends of light must unite in a final effort to thwart the Sphinx s designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts. To this end, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn will venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven to strange and exotic magical preserves across the globe, where the end of every quest becomes the beginning of another. In this explosive series finale, allegiances will be confirmed and secrets revealed as the forces of light and darkness collide in a desperate struggle to control the keys to the demon prison.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(3554, 'Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star', 'Brandon Mull', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists--a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper--to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infiltrate the preserve and steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. The Evening Star is storming the gates. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, it could mean the downfall of other preserves and possibly the end of the world. Will Kendra learn to use her fairy gifts in time? Will Seth stay out of trouble? Can they overcome paralyzing fear? Find out in book 2 of this bestselling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(3555, 'The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington&#39;s Times', 'Charles Royster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company\n </em>\n begins, appropriately, amidst a time of\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning __, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investorsAincluding George WashingtonApurchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area''s dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington''s death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments. Recommended for university and large public libraries.AThomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4942'),
(3556, 'The Fabulous Riverboat', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10439'),
(3557, 'The face of a stranger', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry''s best to date." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk''s efforts doubly difficult, since he''s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.... A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(3558, 'The Face of Fear', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To stop a brutal killer, the NYPD enlists the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris. He sees the murders in his mind--sometimes at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all--his own murder... "Real suspense...tension upon tension."-- *New York Times*"Koontz puts his readers through the emotional wringer!"--  *Associated Press*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1457'),
(3559, 'The Face of the Assassin', 'David Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances in Lindsey''s latest in a long line of expertly constructed thrillers (_The Rules of Silence_, etc.). The more Paul works on the skull, the more he''s convinced that there''s something distinctly disturbing about the emerging features. Soon after he figures it out (long after the reader has done so), he finds himself caught up in a murky world of spies, smugglers and international terrorism. Forced to abandon his idyllic central Texas home, he travels to Mexico City, where he must impersonate his own, recently murdered, CIA agent twin brother. Heavy Rain is the code name of the mission; the purpose is to capture or kill the world''s most feared terrorist, Ghazi Baida. There''s a beautiful agent, Susana MejÃ­a, and the usual collection of Mexican hoods, but the real showstopper is Vicente MondragÃ³n, a man whose entire face has been removed in a drug vendetta, leaving him with nothing more than exposed muscle, bone, gristle, protruding lips and a naked pair of googly eyes. This horror is kept antiseptic by a thin transparent membrane that Vicente must spritz at regular intervals. The novel''s suspense lies in Paul''s ongoing efforts to maintain his identity as his own brother and at the same time attempt to uncover Baida''s terror plan. The plot is deftly handled, the characters are sharp and memorable, there''s a shocker twist at the end and the background information on faces, or the lack thereof, is fascinating.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Bern, a forensic artist, has a fascinating job: re-creating the facial features of homicide or accident victims. But his job gets even more fascinating when a woman shows up at his door with a skull in a bag. She believes it''s the remains of her husband, and she wants Paul to confirm her suspicion. Paul soon learns some things about himself that shock him, and in no time he''s railroaded by the U.S. government into helping them ferret out a group of terrorists in South America. This is a troublesome novel from a brand-name thriller author. Its plot is needlessly far-fetched (you can feel Lindsey struggling to justify putting his fish-out-of-water protagonist into the places the plot requires him to be). Its characters are thin, and Alice, the 17-year-old girl whose "cognitive disconnect" allows her to sense when someone is lying, belongs in a different novel altogether (perhaps something by Dean Koontz, who knows what to do with this kind of character). The prose is workmanlike, for the most part, although the final chapter contains some of the worst writing of the year. Although Lindsey has a large fan base, and he has written some good novels, this is not one of them. It will sell, but finishing it--even for his keenest fans--will be an act of sheer willpower.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5487'),
(3560, 'Face the fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The final book in Nora Roberts''s bewitching New England-set Three Sisters Island trilogy brings to a close the saga of modern-day witches Nell Channing, Ripley Todd, and Mia Devlin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2572'),
(3561, 'The Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acknowledged as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(Rolling Stone ) and as one of todayâ€™s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Heâ€™s Hollywoodâ€™s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic â€œmessagesâ€ breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheimâ€™s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheimâ€™s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killerâ€”and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethanâ€™s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast.A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1433'),
(3562, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World', 'David Kirkpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, **Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectsâ€”even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebookâ€™s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companyâ€™s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5667'),
(3563, 'Faceless Killers', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in the Kurt Wallander series.It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didnâ€™t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanâ€™s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they haveâ€“and in the process, the match that could inflame Swedenâ€™s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1748'),
(3564, 'Faceless Killers (1991)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9497'),
(3565, 'The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant - Book 3)', 'Landy Derek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Skulduggery Pleasant #3) SUMMARY: Get ready for the biggest NEW publishing phenomena of 2007!''So you won''t keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die." "Okay then. Though you don''t actually have a heart," she said. "I know." "And technically, you''ve already died." "I know that too." "Just so we''re clear."Stephanie''s uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn''t fiction.Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source '' the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.When all hell breaks loose, it''s lucky for Skulduggery that he''s already dead. Though he''s about to discover that being a skeleton doesn''t stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there''s anything Skulduggery hates, it''s torture''Åš Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing''s for sure: evil won''t know what''s hit it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2821'),
(3566, 'Factoring humanity', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology. In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3613'),
(3567, 'Fade', 'Robert Cormier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Much of Cormier''s fiction poses a paradox: you are most alive just as outside forces obliterate your identity. Cormier''s protagonists want to be anonymous, and their wishes are fulfilled in nightmarish ways. In Fade , which encompasses three stories in three decades, 13-year-old Paul discovers an incredible secret gift: he can become invisible. His long-lost uncle appears, to tell Paul that each generation of the family has one fader, and to warn him of the fade''s dangers. Paul, however, abuses his power and quickly learns its terrible price. Twenty-five years later, Paul, a successful writer, confronts the next fader, his abused nephew Ozzie, whose power is pure vengeance. And 25 years after that, in 1988, Paul''s distant cousin Susan, also a writer, reads his amazing story, and must decide if Paul''s memoir is fact or fiction. Fade is an allegory of the writer''s life. Paul''s actions stem from his compulsion to understand the behavior of the people around him; Susan''s questions and her awful dilemma, which concludes the book, result from her near-pathological writer''s focus on other persons, a purpose her unreachable late cousin serves well. Omniscient powerPaul''s invisibility and Susan''s access to his unpublished workleads to identity-consuming responsibility. At its best, Fade is an examination of the writer''s urge to lose identity and become purely an observer. As in all Cormier''s novels, the protagonists are ciphers whose only affirming action seems to be to assert, however briefly, that they exist. The story is gripping, even when it approaches melodrama, and Cormier concentrates on each action''s inner meaning. Fade works better as allegory than as fantasy; this is Cormier''s most complex, artful work. He seems to challenge himself as a writer, and in doing so, offers a respectful challenge to his readers. Through him, they will discover the extremes of behavior in the quietest human soul. Ages 13-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10-12 Those who find Cormier''s novels bleak, dark, disturbing, and violent will not be disappointed with his latest. And true to his past, he has given readers a story with more twists and turns than a mile of concertina wire. The first half is set in Frenchtown, a working-class section of a Massachusetts town. The time is the 1930s, and the evocation of life among the French-Canadians (with marvelous names like Omer LaBatt and Rudolphe Toubert), who toiled in sweatshops where celluloid combs were made, is the best thing about the novel. Not that the story line doesn''t work. Cormier uses an old device that guarantees attentiona lead character who can make himself invisible. The rules for fading are as complicated as a missile defense treaty. Paul Moreaux is the teenage fader who narrates the first section, an autobiographical account written after he has become a famous novelist. Readers learn early on that there is a grim side to this gift of fading and that Cormier intends it to represent a potentially evil force within us all. Subsequent sections include a narration by a present-day female cousin, which throws into question the truth of the entire first section, and a concluding section that features another cousin who can fade but who is certainly mad and possibly possessed. So the novel has a bit of many things: magic, murder, mystery, history, romance, diabolical possession, sex (not a lot, but what there is is explicit), and even a touch of incest. The character of Paul is developed especially well. The story is too long, and the plot is too contrived to be taken seriously, but Fade is riveting enough to be appreciated by Cormier fans. Robert E. Unsworth, Scarsdale Junior High School, N.Y.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5062'),
(3568, 'Fade Away (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9577'),
(3569, 'Fade Out', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine ''Addictive and hypnotic'' The Eternal Night\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve''s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7301'),
(3570, 'Faded Steel Heat', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to "Humans rule. Now give us your gold." With the streets descending into bloody race riots, and the organized "human" brotherhoods flexing both physical and economic muscle, TunFaire was a hairsbreadth from total chaos. Garrett is a wise-guy private investigator who speaks loudly and carries a big stick. Backed by a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy Garrett is caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against.everybody! Praise for Glen Cook: "Lively homage to Chandler and company, with plenty of suspects, sex, and corpses...Cook turns fantasy inside out!" --*Locus* "Garrett spouts argot and attitude worthy of the hardest-boiled detective who ever pounded mean streets...fun to read!" --*Fantasy Review* "Fast-paced adventure that combines sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detective fiction!" --*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1885'),
(3571, 'Faded Sun', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The mri race, indestructible until having finally met their match in a war against a new and powerful enemy, are in danger of extinction, leaving three individuals--a warrior, priestess, and human being--to recapture their domination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10880'),
(3572, 'The Fading Dream: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The award-winning creator of EberronÂ® infiltrates the magical cities of the feyspires.Thornâ€™s latest mission: protect the prince of Cyre, a monarch in name only since his country was destroyed by the Mourning. But in that same cataclysm, seven cities of the Feywildâ€”the feyspiresâ€”were trapped on the plain of Eberron, a concurrence the eladrin who rule the feyspires insist is no coincidence. They insist that with the right pieces they can repair the devastation of the Mourning. All they need are a few missing â€“one in the heart of a mysterious Cyran soldier and one thatâ€™s lodged in Thornâ€™s spine, carrying the soul of the Angel of Flame. Intense secret agent action with all the magic and mystery of Eberronâ€”the Thorn of Breland series has been a perfect mix of fantasy and adventure. James Bond meets J.R.R. Tolkien.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4456');
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(3573, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *New York Times* bestselling author of **Darkfever** and** Bloodfever **returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.*****He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. *When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla* *knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the *sidhe-*seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the *Sinsar Dubh* takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2226'),
(3574, 'Faerie Winter', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner''s breathtaking YA fantasy debut,\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Liza is a summoner. She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in the wake of the war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone. But now the forests have fallen silent. Even the evergreens'' branches are bare. Winter crops won''t grow, and the threat of starvation looms. And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. To face it, Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here at last is the sequel to\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  , for all those fans of dark fantasy and dystopian adventure who thrilled to Janni Lee Simner''s unique vision of a postapocalyptic world infused with magic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JANNI LEE SIMNER is the author of\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Thief Eyes.\n  </em>\n  Visit Janni at Simner.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8348'),
(3575, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, *Fahrenheit 451* -- originally published in 1953 -- remains his most acclaimed work:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most brilliant overall jobs of social satire."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Nation*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Frightening in its implications...Mr. Bradbury''s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The New York Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Fahrenheit 451* is the temperature at which book paper burns. *Fahrenheit 451* is a short novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today, when libraries and schools are still "burning" certain books, *Fahrenheit 451* is a work of even greater impact and timeliness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3846'),
(3576, 'Fair Blows The Wind', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2826'),
(3577, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen; Harry Clarke; Jack Zipes; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1768'),
(3578, 'Faith', 'Deneane Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After meeting a charming rake at her sisters wedding, Faith Ackerly shall see all her reservations testedand all her dreams come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/680'),
(3579, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3512'),
(3580, 'Faithful Place', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9946'),
(3581, 'The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season--afterthe marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her--and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1330'),
(3582, 'A Falcon Flies', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Uncovering their father''s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9138'),
(3583, 'Fall', 'Colin McAdam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canadas elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence; a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. At night the bathrooms and beds hum with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, prowls the corridors at weekends, filling spare hours working on his body-building. Watching her, always knowing where she is and who shes talking to, he is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love. Noel keeps watching, happy to see them together. Fall deserves someone like that, for a while. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together. Julius grows physically closer to Fall, while Noel boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to his popular roommate, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Falls life for ever.A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory and confused identity, Colin McAdams second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(3584, 'Fall of Damnos', 'Nick Kyme', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10635'),
(3585, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch) Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2926'),
(3586, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This densely plotted book concludes the futuristic tale begun in Hyperion . Earth has long since been destroyed, and humans now occupy more than 150 worlds linked by the Web, an instantaneous travel system created and operated by artificial intelligences (AIs--self-aware, highly advanced computers). These worlds are about to war with the Ousters, a branch of humanity that has disdained dependency on the AIs. At risk are the planet Hyperion, its mysterious Tombs that travel backward in time, and the Shrike, its god/avatar of pain or retribution. The narrative focuses on the government of the Web and its leader, Meina Gladstone, as observed by Joseph Severn, a cybernetic re-creation of the poet John Keats, and seven Shrike pilgrims, who may affect the war''s outcome. Simmons pits good against evil, with the religions of man and those of the machines battling for supremacy. Despite his grand scale, however, he fashions intensely human individuals whom the reader will take to heart.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7453'),
(3587, 'A Fall of Moondust', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field''s foremost author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(3588, 'The fall of Shane MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: bA New York Times Bestselling Author /b PFirst published almost a decade ago, the MacKade Brothers books have long been out of print. Now loyal fans can revisit and new readers can be introduced to the MacKades - each one of them on a collision course with love. When shy professor Rebecca Knight captures the interest of the youngest MacKade brother, IThe Fall of Shane MacKade /Ican''t be far behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2634'),
(3589, 'The Fall of the Dream Machine', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(3590, 'The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History', 'Peter Heather', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long.\n <br />\n A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe''s barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome''s European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals'' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west''s last chance for survival.\n <br />\n <br />\n Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11093'),
(3591, 'Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll, and Mental Illness', 'Mary Forsberg Weiland &amp; Larkin Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiland''s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction. Growing up in a broken Southern California home in the 1980s, where she lived mostly with her working Mexican mother in near poverty, the author, nÃ©e Forsberg, found autonomy and financial independence early on in modeling; by age 14 she was a finalist for a\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n magazine modeling contest and traveling to New York; by 16, she had quit school, been legally emancipated and booked overseas jobs. She also became infatuated with aspiring rock and roller Scott Weiland, who was briefly her driver, and as he became hugely successful with his band, Stone Temple Pilots, he slid into heroin addiction and dragged her along with him. He was also involved with another woman, and the author''s account is a painful re-enactment of her youthful abasement. From partying scene to junkie desperation to psychiatrist''s office, jail and rehab, Forsberg Weiland battled her demons, learning with some surprise that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Having two children with Scott turned her around, though her marriage crumbled when he didn''t change. Weiland''s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor all the death and devastation detailed in its pages, this book is surprisingly funny.â€ (Reuters )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brutally honest and compelling account of Mary Weilandâ€™s struggles with addiction and mental illness. Brave, bold and unfiltered, Maryâ€™s writing injects humor and levity in a way that is both entertaining and necessary. I have no doubt that this important book will help save many lives.â€ (Dave Navarro )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weiland describes the depths of madness and addiction with surprising clarity. Fall to Pieces is a wild, gripping story, told with intense emotional honesty.â€ (Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA worthy addition to the rock canon.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA harrowing story of addiction and mental illness.â€ (People )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeilandâ€™s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction....Weilandâ€™s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weilandâ€™s beautifully crafted memoir takes the reader through the journey that is so very common today, the slow drift into addiction and mental illness. Honest, clear, and accurate, Fall to Pieces is perhaps the most vivid rendition of this experience I have ever come across.â€ (Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Loveline and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, author of The Mirror Effect and Cracked )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5063'),
(3592, 'The Fall', 'Guillermo del Toro;Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the authors of the instant *New York Times* bestseller *The Strain* comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The vampiric virus unleashed in *The Strain* has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherâ€”head of the Centers for Disease Control''s teamâ€”leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ignited by the Master''s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires'' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all. And it is between these warring forces that humansâ€”powerless and vulnerableâ€”find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been transformed into a bloodcrazed creature of the night, and now she stalks the city looking for her chance to reclaim her Dear One: Zack, Eph''s young son.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the future of humankind in the balance, Eph and his team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet and joined by a crew of ragtag gangsters, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone has imaginedâ€”a fate worse than annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1756'),
(3593, 'The Fall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tal, a Chosen of the Orange Order, is having the worst luck lately. Just when he is getting ready for the Day of Ascension--a day when all the 13-year-old Chosen from the Castle of Seven Towers enter the spirit world of Aenir--his father disappears with the family''s only primary Sunstone, which Tal needs for the ascension. Without it, he cannot enter Aenir and bind himself to a Shadowspirit--a kind of guardian being that serves as a friend and protector to the person it is bound to. And without a Shadowspirit, Tal will lose both his Chosen status and any hope of finding a cure for his mother''s mysterious wasting illness, a cure that can only come from Aenir. Tal tries to beg, borrow, and even steal a Sunstone. But his attempts fail, and in his final act of thievery, Tal is thrown off the Castle of Seven Towers by a powerful Shadowspirit Keeper and into an adventure beyond his imagining.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Australian fantasy author Garth Nix (well known for his novels\n  <em>\n   Sabriel\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shade''s Children\n  </em>\n  , both ALA list picks) has joined with Lucasfilm to launch a six-book fantasy series about Tal''s world, of which\n  <em>\n   The Fall\n  </em>\n  is the first installment. Packed with excitement and wonderfully weird creatures like the living sea of Selski and the hungry, one-horned Merwin, Nix''s latest tale will enchant readers. Containing elements of\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  and the Harry Potter books,\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Tower\n  </em>\n  is an epic fantasy not to be missed. (Ages 11 to 14)\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground." Amanda Craig\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9660'),
(3594, 'Fallen', 'Lauren Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Luce must spend her senior year at reform school after her boyfriend dies in a mysterious fire. She suspects that the dark shadows that have tormented her all her life had something to do with it. When she meets supernaturally gorgeous Daniel, she feels a familiar longing, making her believe they have met before. Although Cam is clearly interested in her, Luce only wants Daniel, who runs both hot and cold. He tries to keep Luce at a distance, telling her that the truth would kill her as it has many times before. The first chapter is gripping and foreshadows the supernatural elements to come. The plot revolves around lovers who find one another, only to lose one another over and over again in a story that spans centuries. Instead of vampires, though, these are fallen angels. Many elements are not resolved, such as the cause of the fire and why angels are at this school. Still, fans of supernatural romance will be lining up for this book despite its flaws, and begging for a sequel.â€”_Kris Hickey, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fallen angels sure seem poised to become the new vampires, with a similarly ideal blend of brooding mystery and sexy rebellion. After a fiery accident kills a boy she is crushing on, Luce gets sent to a reform school populated, most notably, by two gorgeous fellas, Daniel and Cam. Cam is safe and charming and eager to win Luceâ€™s affections, while Daniel operates somewhere between aloof and downright hostile toward her. Readers will figure out Luce and Danielâ€™s star-crossed-lovers angle early on, making the hints dropped throughout about past lives and dangerous fates more obvious than compelling. Although thereâ€™s not enough story to justify the length of this series opener, readers who stick with it get rewarded with a climactic payoff that far exceeds the buildup. The final pagesâ€™ flurry of delicious information about whatâ€™s really going on with the cadre of angels and demons will likely leave readers more intrigued by whatâ€™s next than invested in what just happened. Perhaps the sequel will contain an explanation of what these immortal types are doing at a reform school in the first place. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7918'),
(3595, 'Fallen Angel', 'Heather Terrell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new guy named Michael has been watching Ellie at school. It is soon revealed that he remembers Ellie from a trip their families took years ago, though Ellie has no similar recollection. But being near Michael awakens her desire to learn the truth about herself, which seems that only Michael knows. Guess what? Her recurrent dreams about flying are not dreams after all, as the two really can fly. Thatâ€™s not all: both teens can read peopleâ€™s thoughts, and each has developed a taste for blood. Ellie fears that they are vampires until her parents finally tell her the truth about the biblical story of fallen angels. Soon evil is following Ellie, and the teens are forced to choose which side of the ancient battle to align with. Yes, this is yet another entry into the crowded vampire/angel genre of series fiction. There is not a whole lot to set this apart from other recent examples, though the religious aspect is a nice twist, and fans with an insatiable appetite will eat this up, too. Grades 9-12. --Shauna Yusko\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heaven-sent?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie was never particularly good at talking to boysâ€”or anyone other than her best friend and fellow outcast, Ruth. Then she met Michael.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is handsome, charming, sweet. And totally into Ellie. Itâ€™s no wonder she is instantly drawn to him. But Michael has a secret. And he knows Ellie is hiding something, too. Theyâ€™ve both discovered they have powers beyond their imagining. Powers that are\n <em>\n  otherworldly\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie and Michael are determined to uncover what they are, and how they got this way . . . together. But the truth has repercussions neither could have imagined. Soon they find themselves center stage in an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything they love. And it is no longer clear whether Ellie and Michael will choose the same side.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this electrifying novel, Heather Terrell spins a gripping supernatural tale about true love, destiny, and the battle of good versus evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8478'),
(3596, 'Fallen Angels', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Michael Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a new technology-free government of the United States is elected to counteract the onset of the greenhouse effect, a devastating ice age results, and two hunted Space Hab astronauts become the planet''s only hope for survival. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10232'),
(3597, 'The Fallen Fortress: The Cleric Quintet', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n R.A. Salvatore''s The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of FaerÃ»n.Cadderly leads the combined forces of Carradoon and Shilmista against Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Aballister. But another mission calls him on a journey leading into a past he hoped he would be able to forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8735'),
(3598, 'Fallen Into the Pit', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1951, but just now making its first American appearance, this mystery launched Peters''s Inspector Felse series. Set in Britain just after WW II, the main sleuth here is not actually George Felse but his 13-year-old son Dominic. He and his best friend, Pussy Hart, are playing when Dom finds the body of Helmut Schauffler, an ex-P.O.W. who had stayed on after the war in the Comerford area. An autopsy indicates that Schauffler''s skull was fractured by blows that were "precise, neat and of murderous intention." Helmut, a loathsome blend of cruelty, cowardice and anti-Semitism, is hardly mourned, but his death so rends the village''s social fabric that solving the case is imperative. In his first murder investigation, George has difficulty viewing his neighbors as suspects, although the area does have its share of demobilized veterans, i.e., trained killers. Even more distressing to George and his wife Bunty is the proprietary--and potentially fatal--interest that Dom takes in the case. By giving the youth a finely balanced blend of doggedness, good luck, ingenuity and foolhardiness, Peters sets out a very effective mystery while expressing, through the gradual unfolding of the character of Helmut,her own serious skepticism that aperson--or a country--can change his--or its--spots. In 1991, Mysterious reissued Flight of the Witch , a Felse mystery written in 1964.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Widely known for her Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, Peters also built a series around British detective George Felse. This title, which initiated that series, is now published in the United States for the first time.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4856'),
(3599, 'The Fallen Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody in the world could have written that paragraph but Tony Hillerman. Two old men sit, surrounded by the natural beauty of Canyon de Chelly, talking about death. The fact that one of the men is Joe Leaphorn, (the Legendary Lieutenant, as his younger colleague Jim Chee irreverently but accurately calls him behind his back) means that something serious has happened--a crime in some way connected to the Navajo people. But Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, and the only person dead so far is a rich Anglo named Hal Breedlove, who fell while trying to climb Ship Rock 11 years before. Chee is busy on another, more prosaic matter, but he can''t resist helping his thorny mentor on Leaphorn''s first case as a private detective.\n <strong>\n  The Fallen Man\n </strong>\n is brisk, beautiful, funny, and poignant--as good a place as any for first-timers to plunge into Hillerman Country. Then they can catch up on past triumphs with\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. The latest Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery has vivid descriptions of Native American mythology and traditions but lacks the suspense and tightly woven plot of the earlier titles in this popular series. A skeleton is found on a high ledge of Ship Rock mountain, a place sacred to the Navahos. Tribal Police Lieutenant Chee and the now retired Leaphorn suspect correctly that it belongs to a wealthy rancher missing for 11 years, and Chee tries to discover if it is murder or an accidental death. Meanwhile, Leaphorn is hired by a lawyer to look into the investigation for the rancher''s Eastern family, who want to own his land legally so they can accept a lucrative bid for the mining rights. The obvious suspects, if there was foul play, are the young woman who inherited the ranch and her brother who manages it. In addition to uncovering the cause of death, Chee must determine if the rancher died before or after his 30th birthday when he legally inherited the ranch from a family trust. The continuing rocky romance between Chee and tribal lawyer Janet Pete brings an interesting love angle to the story. Environmentalism and the survival of Native American culture are strong themes.?Penny Stevens, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5449'),
(3600, 'Falling for Rachel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Falling for Rachel Landlocked in Manhattan, rugged seaman Zack Muldoon needed a tough, no-nonsense lawyer to save his kid brother''s delinquent hide. Public defender Rachel Stanislaski was not what he had in mindâ€”until he discovered there was a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded attorney than met the eye...and found himself falling for her, hook, line and sinker.Convincing Alex When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap-opera writer Bess McKnee for soliciting, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfectâ€”for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2626'),
(3601, 'Falling Free', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what''s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could *you* just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies--now all he had to do was teach them to be free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9031'),
(3602, 'Falling in Love: Why we Choose the Lovers we Choose', 'Ayala Malachi Pines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8809'),
(3603, 'Falling Man: A Novel', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.\n</p>\n<p>\n First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brave and brilliant,\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8210'),
(3604, 'Fallout', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed--by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil. Only one man stands in his way--Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell. Available in a Premium Edition. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8607'),
(3605, 'False Colours', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Filled with some very unexpected surprises and quirky characters, I kept a smile on my face several minutes after I finished the novel.\n <em>\n  False Colours\n </em>\n is not only a book written about the romance between Kit and Cressy, but also about relationships, duty and the power of love that sends a strong, warm message throughout the book. (Shellie\n <em>\n  Queue My Review\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer''s eye for detail, character development, and talent for moving a story along is masterful... For sheer fun and entertainment, I highly recommend this novel and give it my highest rating of three regency fans. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen Today\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n A missing twin\n <br />\n Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher "Kit" Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mother''s debts have mounted alarmingly.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quick-minded heiress\n <br />\n The Fancot family''s fortunes are riding on Evelyn''s marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmother''s approval of the match. If Evelyn fails to meet the Dowager Lady Stavely in a few days as planned, the betrothal could be off.\n</p>\n<p>\n A fortune in the balance\n <br />\n When the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin (just for one night, she promises) the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kit''s heart far more deeply than he''d ever anticipated with his brother''s fiancÃ©e-who might know much more about what''s going on than she cares to reveal...\n</p>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds."\n <br />\n -Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer (1902â€“1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. (20080520)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10206'),
(3606, 'False Horizon', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A small Nepali man melts into shadows. A cutthroat crime lord is looking for a miraculous cure. And a map to an impossible dream and a mythic paradise is pointing the way.Archaeologist Annja Creed is in Katmandu, awash in its scents, sounds and liveliness. But this is no sightseeing trip. An old friend is in possession of a map that leads to a place that lies outside our world. But the map is known to one otherâ€”a vicious man who has Annja and her companions right where he wants them. Her hand forced, Annja sets out in search of the fabled Shangri-Laâ€”an expedition of danger and subversion.And her journey will end only with triumphâ€¦or tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4979'),
(3607, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It''s the fear of yourself. It''s real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1497');
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(3608, 'A False Mirror', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd''s series set in post-WWI England (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Long Shadow\n </em>\n ) showcases the pseudonymous author''s usual subtle understatement and deft characterization. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who has returned from the trench warfare of France haunted by the carnage (and in particular by his order to execute one of his own men), heads to the seaside village of Hampton Regis to defuse a hostage situation. Stephen Mallory, who served under Rutledge''s command in the war and is suspected of viciously assaulting his ex-lover''s husband, demands Rutledge''s presence before he will release his ex-lover and other hostages. To manage the crisis, Rutledge must weather the suspicions of the local police and identify the person responsible for the assault and two subsequent murders. Todd, a mother-and-son writing team, seamlessly melds a fair-play whodunit with psychological suspense in the tradition of P.D. James''s best.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Motive, motive, motive. Is it jealousy? Money? Or something entirely different? Scotland Yard Inspector Rutledge must find the answer when he''s summoned to the small town of Hampton Regis at the behest of Stephen Mallory, accused of viciously attacking one Matthew Hamilton. Afraid of being railroaded for a crime he insists he didn''t commit, Mallory holds Hamilton''s wife and her housekeeper hostage, hoping Rutledge can prove his innocence. It''s tough going for Rutledge, who is dogged by unpleasant memories of Mallory, whom he knew while soldiering in the Great War, and by the echoing voice of Hamish, also a fellow soldier, whose imagined counsel steadies the investigator as he casts about for suspects. Todd, the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team, incorporates touches of both Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie in this character-driven mystery, which builds smoothly but not simply to a climax that is likely to be a genuine surprise.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5673'),
(3609, 'Family Album', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in "The Talisman," is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia''s boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise. In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena''s Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation and descriptions of often-faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Samoza''s Nicaragua. "Village of God and the Devil" is the story of the magic village of Deya, where ghosts are as real as memory and imagination. Written in deceptively simple and imaginative prose,\n <strong>\n  Family Album\n </strong>\n is a dynamic blend of the natural and supernatural.\n <em>\n  -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  From\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through forty yearsâ€”from Hollywood''s golden days in World War II to the presentâ€”Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood''s first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5994'),
(3610, 'The Family Man', 'Trish Millburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3907'),
(3611, 'Family Matters', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry''s\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson''s disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character''s reaction to this situation, from Roxanne''s husband''s struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons'' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman''s tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family''s history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warm, humane, tender and bittersweet are not the words one would expect to describe a novel that portrays a society where the government is corrupt, the standard of living is barely above poverty level and religious, ethnic and class divisions poison the community. Yet Mistrys compassionate eye and his ability to focus on the small decencies that maintain civilization, preserve the family unit and even lead to happiness attest to his masterly skill as a writer who makes sense of the world by using laughter, as one of his characters observes. Bombay in the mid-1990s, a once-elegant city in the process of deterioration, is mirrored in the physical situation of elderly retired professor Nariman Vakeel, whose body is succumbing to the progressive debilitation of Parkinsons disease. Narimans apartment, which he shares with his two resentful, middle-aged stepchildren, is also in terrible disrepair. But when an accident forces him to recuperate in the tortuously crowded apartment that barely accommodates his daughter Roxana, her husband and two young boys, family tensions are exacerbated and the limits of responsibility and obligation are explored with a full measure of anguish. In the ensuing situation, everyones behavior deteriorates, and the affecting secret of Narimans thwarted lifetime love affair provides a haunting leitmotif. Light moments of domestic interaction, a series of ridiculous comic situations, ironic juxtapositions and tenderly observed human eccentricities provide humorous relief, as the author of A Fine Balance again explores the tightrope act that constitutes life on this planet. Mistry is not just a fiction writer; he''s a philosopher who finds meaning-indeed, perhaps a divine plan in small human interactions. This beautifully paced, elegantly expressed novel is notable for the breadth of its vision as well as its immensely appealing characters and enticing plot.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8273'),
(3612, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(3613, 'The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power', 'Jeff Sharlet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A journalist''s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism''s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful They are the Familyâ€”fundamentalism''s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosenâ€”congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a "leadership led by God," to be won not by force but through "quiet diplomacy." Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls. *The Family* is about the other half of American fundamentalist powerâ€”not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of "biblical capitalism," military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, the Family''s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can''t." Sharlet''s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the cold war, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?" Part history, part investigative journalism, *The Family* is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power, a story that stretches from the religious revivals that have shaken this nation from its beginning to fundamentalism''s new frontiers. No other book about the right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of American fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1606'),
(3614, 'Fancy Pants', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n LaVyrle SpencerRefreshingly original, witty and touching.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elizabeth LowellWhat the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n This delectable confection offers unadulterated entertainment. Sleek romantic comedy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  THEY''RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. AND THEY''RE FALLING HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE....\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe''s jet-set playgrounds. Now she''s broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown....\n</p>\n<p>\n He was tall, lean, and all-American gorgeous. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett?\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is at the heart of this ravishing\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller from award-winning author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Come enjoy the adventure of a lifetime -- an irresistible story that''s touching, hilarious, and hellcat-passionate. You''ll never forget Dallie and the sassy lady who needs a good swift kick in her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4640'),
(3615, 'Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren''t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max''s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max''s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2019'),
(3616, 'Fannie&#39;s Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer&#39;s 1896 Cookbook', 'Christopher Kimball', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Kimball, founder of Cook''s Illustrated and host of the PBS series America''s Test Kitchen, spent more than two years of "research, recipe testing, and intense planning" in order to host a Victorian dinner based on the recipes of Fannie Farmer, author of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was first published in 1896. Kimball is as exhaustive in his research as he is in one of his own test recipes for Cook''s Illustrated, and fans of his work will appreciate his attention to even the smallest morsel of information. Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure as he literally traces Fannie Farmer''s steps around Boston at the turn of the century, regaling the reader with a history of Boston, observations of the Victorian character, manner of dress, and cooking implements and appliances available. In the meantime, his own team has been assembled and they are methodically testing recipes and ingredients in Kimball''s 1859 red-brick Boston bowfront. All this work culminates in a foodie''s dream dinner party, complete with Victorian plate settings, an all-star guest list, and 12 courses you won''t find in any restaurant today. A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie Farmer''s\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . Published in 1896, it was the best-selling cookbook of its age--full of odd, long-forgotten ingredients, fascinating details about how the recipes were concocted, and some truly amazing dishes (as well as some awful ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n , Kimball describes the experience of re-creating one of Fannie Farmer''s amazing menus: a twelve-course Christmas dinner that she served at the end of the century. Kimball immersed himself in composing twenty different recipes--including rissoles, Lobster Ã  l''AmÃ©ricaine, Roast Goose with Chestnut Stuffing and Jus, and Mandarin Cake--with all the inherent difficulties of sourcing unusual animal parts and mastering many now-forgotten techniques, including regulating the heat on a coal cookstove and boiling a calf''s head without its turning to mush, all sans food processor or oven thermometer. Kimball''s research leads to many hilarious scenes, bizarre tastings, and an incredible armchair experience for any reader interested in food and the Victorian era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n includes the dishes from the dinner and revised and updated recipes from\n <em>\n  The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . A culinary thriller. it offers a fresh look at something that most of us take for granted--the American table.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Fannie''s Last Supper\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris''s `Fannie'' project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I''ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it''s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique."\n <br />\n --Mark Bittman, author of\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a piece of work Christopher Kimball has pulled off. Read this book and join the escapade into what Chris calls the most progressive era in the history of the world. No, it wasn''t ten years ago, it was 110 years ago--the world of Victorian America and Fanny Farmer. Not an iota of dreamy pseudo-food history survives here. Instead, Chris challenges, provokes, entertains, and maybe even outrages our sensibilities. One thing is sure, if he gets his way, you will be rethinking some of today''s accepted political culinary wisdom."\n <br />\n --Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Fannie''s Last Supper_ is a splendid book with recipes and narrative that is based on a twelve-course dinner right out of the back pages of the original 1896\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n written by Fannie Farmer. How fantastic is that--traveling back in time to rethink the cooking of the future. A great, informative read with tempting recipes. Bravo!"\n <br />\n --Lidia Bastianich, author of\n <em>\n  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dynamic and entertaining book for chefs and home cooks alike. Christopher Kimball delves into the life, times, and recipes of Fannie Farmer, and creates an educational and delicious twelve-course menu that any food lover can sink their teeth into."\n <br />\n --Daniel Humm, Executive Chef, Eleven Madison Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6856'),
(3617, 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They''re the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they''ve concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own . . . Releasing January 2010, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl''s classic tale in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6278'),
(3618, 'Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the phenomenal Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II, the fabulous sequel to bestselling Fantastic Voyage, is a powerful high-tech thriller set in the near future and in a human brain! A band of Americans and Russians are miniaturized in a joint effort to extract vital information from a comatose scientist''s brain. Certain to become a science fiction classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9510'),
(3619, 'Fantasy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City''s most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer''s master plan. And she knows his game is far from over...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2341'),
(3620, 'Far From the Madding Crowd', 'Thomas Hardy; Linda M. Shires; Suzanne B. Falck-yi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Far from the Madding Crowd\n </em>\n was the first of Hardy''s novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England''s greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10682'),
(3621, 'The Far Pavilions', 'Mary Margaret Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rip-roaring, heart-tugging, flag-flying, hair-raising, hoof-beating ... the very presence of India The Times A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre ... wildly exciting Daily Telegraph Magnificent is the only possible description for The Far Pavilions ... not one of its 950 pages is a page too much Evening Standard A Gone With the Wind of the North-West frontier -- Jan Morris The Times A massive, meticulously researched and fascinating saga about the British in India, encompassing a guarter of a century, from the Mutiny up to war with ferocious Afghan tribemen Sunday Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. "The Far Pavilions" is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6620'),
(3622, 'The far side of the dollar', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with grifters--and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3370'),
(3623, 'The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O''Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack''s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters -- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey''s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4245'),
(3624, 'A Fare To Remember: Just Whistle\\\\Driven To Distraction\\\\Taken For A Ride', 'Vicki Lewis Thompson; Julie Elizabeth Leto; Kate Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Convincing these women he''s found their matches is hardly a smooth ride for cabbie Mario Capelli . . .** ***Just whistle*** There''s no way jaded Zachary Evans will help new grad Hannah Robertson land a swishy publishing gig. What''s the point? She can''t even hail a cab! But Hannah knows what Zach needs to find his inner optimism. It''s called S-E-X . . . in NYC. ***Driven to distraction*** Rachel Marlowe doesn''t know a thing about her supersecretive lover Roman Brach. Sure, the sex is great. But why does he jump at every pager beep? Heck, it''s enough to have him followed. Hmm. Now *there''s* an idea . . . ***Taken for a ride*** No sale! Psychic Sabina Amanar is never going to sell her grandmother''s Eat Village storefront, even if it *is* worth millions. Real-estate developer Alec Harnett predicts Sabina will cave. But first he''s got to wine her, dine her . . . and then fall in love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3869'),
(3625, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8983'),
(3626, 'A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, aspiring screenwriter -- all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one re-viewer dubbed a combination of "Bart Simpson and James Bond." In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is back on the trail again, this time trying to ferret out the murderer of a former classmate, a D.C. lobbyist whose enemies finally stick it to him, literally -- with a six-inch steak knife. The deceased leaves behind a bombshell of a widow, a hidden bankroll of $13 million, and a cloud of political controversy, all of which lead Aaron to a barrel of red herrings. But in the life of Aaron Tucker, one mystery is never enough (though he''d be quick to tell you otherwise). He''s also been dele-gated the odious task of tracking down Buzbee School''s secret stink-bomber, and his wife, the beautiful attorney Abby Stein, is being stalked by a former client. All in a day''s work for the 5''4" freelance writer, who, as procrastinator extraordinaire, would rather be doing anything but investigating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1832'),
(3627, 'Farewell, My Lovely', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.â€ --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œChandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.â€ --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œPhilip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.â€ --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œNobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.â€ â€”_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œRaymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandlerâ€™s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.â€ --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.â€ --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œChandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.â€ â€”Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.â€ --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.â€ --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Chandler]â€™s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world thatâ€™s like ours, but isnâ€™t. â€ --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10468'),
(3628, 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer', 'Novella Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter''s bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White''s performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author''s intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter''s encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Ã‚Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7696'),
(3629, 'Farm to Fork', 'Emeril Lagasse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. He has spent the past thirty years building close relationships with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers. "Farm to Fork" is his guide to help you explore the great local bounty through fifteen flavorful chapters--sweet summer in "The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash," juicy "Berries, Figs, and Melons," sublime naturally raised meats in "Out on the Range," fresh catch in "Fresh Off the Dock," and home canning tips from "Home Economics: Preserving the Harvest." Fill your basket with the ripest ingredients from every season at the markets (or your backyard garden) and dig into delicious recipes such as Sweet Potato Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter, Cheesy Creole Tomato Pie, Honey-Brined Pork Chops with Nectarine Chutney, Watermelon Rind Crisp Sweet Pickles, and Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp. Even learn how to make your own cheese and pasta at home. Emeril shares his love for fresh from-the-fields foods--and the heritage of the artisans who bring them to the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(3630, 'Farmer Giles of Ham', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1970'),
(3631, 'Farmer in the Sky', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien world with no safety nets, nature is cruelly unforgiving of even small mistakes. Billâ€™s new home is a world of unearthly wondersâ€”and heartbreaking tragedy. He will face hardships, survive dangers, and grow up fast, meeting the challenge of opening up a new world for humanity and finding strengths within himself that he had never suspected existed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10412'),
(3632, 'The Farming of Bones: A Novel', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel''s wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4674'),
(3633, 'Farnham&#39;s Freehold', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn''t expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.But Farnham''s small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one.In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody''s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape, where could he run to...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10410'),
(3634, 'Faro&#39;s Daughter', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sparkling Regency romance from the queen of the genre\n</p>\n<p>\n Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt''s elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers. One is from an older, very rich and rather corpulent lord whose reputation for licentious behavior disgusts her; the other from the young, puppyish scion of a noble family whose relatives are convinced she is a fortune hunter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max Ravenscar, uncle to her young suitor, comes to buy her off, an insult so scathing that it leads to a volley of passionate reprisals, escalating between them to a level of flair and fury that can only have one conclusion...\n</p>\n<p>\n "My favourite historical novelist--stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." --Margaret Drabble\n <br />\n "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." Sunday Telegraph\n <br />\n "Sparkling." Independent on Sunday\n <br />\n "A writer of great wit and style...I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." --Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph (20081021)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10216'),
(3635, 'Farthest Reach: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second in a trilogy of novels from "New York Times "best-selling author Richard Baker.  "Farthest Reach "is the second novel in a trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have a far-reaching impact across the entire setting.  AUTHOR BIO: RICHARD BAKER works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A "New York Times "bestselling author with "Condemnation," his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The "City of Ravens." "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5304'),
(3636, 'The Farthest Shore', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10734'),
(3637, 'Fascination', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n OBSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Sage Matthews''s fascination with hacking into computers and creating bugs got her into deep trouble. Just ask special agent Ian Chandler, who handcuffed the fiery redhead--and has been monitoring her every sexy teasing move since.\n</p>\n<p>\n POSSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian has now formed his own crack crime-busting team--The HotWires. His first case? None other than Sage, fresh off probation, but seemingly up to her old tricks. Ian''s hot on her tail, but his plans backfire one sultry steamy night.\n</p>\n<p>\n REDEMPTION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n He tangles with Sage between the sheets--breaking every rule in his personal code of honor. And he''s about to break a few more as his gut instinct tells him she''s been framed again--and only he can prove her innocence....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4681'),
(3638, 'Fast Food Nation', 'Eric Schlosser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5525'),
(3639, 'Fast, Fresh, and Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers', 'Susie Middleton &amp; Ben Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not all these recipes are fast, nor do they all feature green veggies (nor are they consciously ecofocused). The subtitle explains it better: this rainbow of appealing recipes is for those who adore vegetable dishes and want more than an afterthought chapter dedicated to them. Middleton, a former editor-at-large for\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking\n </em>\n magazine, divides recipes by cooking style, instructing readers in braising, hands-on sautÃ©ing, stir-frying, grilling, and more. She offers dishesâ€”braised fingerlings with rosemary and mellow garlic; sautÃ©ed carrots with warm olive and mint dressing; stir-fried swiss chard with pine nuts and balsamic butter; and grill-roasted bell peppers with goat cheese and cherry tomato dressingâ€”with layers of complexity that heighten but don''t overwhelm the flavors of the intended stars, the vegetables. And she employs interesting contrastsâ€”savory and sweet, for exampleâ€”in recipes such as vanilla and cardamom glazed acorn squash rings; roasted turnips and pears with rosemary-honey drizzle; and gingery sweet potato and apple sautÃ© with toasted almonds that are likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse. Fink''s photosâ€”mostly of green veggies, perhaps in a nod to the misnomer titleâ€”show lima beans and peas as mouth-watering, decadent treats.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new bible for all things vegetable from\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking''s\n </em>\n Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of cooks who want to get more veggies into their daily diet--and want to feed their families deliciously. Susie Middleton shares her love of great-tasting veggies with a guide to stocking up the pantry, shopping for vegetables, and cooking those veggies in 9 different ways.\n <em>\n  Fast, Fresh &amp; Green\n </em>\n is uniquely organized by technique so that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires. More than 100 recipes for side dishes--many that can double as starters or main dishes, and many that are vegan--include Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano, Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer Vegetable Ragout.Â _Fast,Â __Fresh &amp; Green_Â is an excellent resource for vegetarians and omnivores alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8018'),
(3640, 'The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir', 'Ken Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harmonâ€™s debut is a combination of heartwarming holiday story and tough guy noir, an interesting mix that creates an enjoyable story. For over 1300 years Gumdrop Coal has served as an elite and highly dedicated elf for The Fat Man (aka Santa Claus) and is the well known creator of the Naught List; the list of children who will be getting coal in their stockings. After Gumdrop loses his job in what he comes to realizes is a frame-up he goes on a noir style revenge mission that encompasses all the neighborhoods of the North Pole, from the Misfits Island to the depths of dark Potterville. Littered with references to popular culture from both the noir and holiday traditions, with characters like Rosebud the journalist, Citizen Candy Cane and the not very bright misfit Sherlock Stetson. Harmonâ€™s novel is a clever tale, but the ending swings too far into heartwarming land, making it much more of a holiday than a noir story and limiting its appeal to a larger audience. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don''t let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Steve Hockensmith (_Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls_) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn''t I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn''t as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It''s the "Naughty List" for you, if you don''t buy this book for Christmas!"\n <br />\n -Louise Penny,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  A Brutal Telling\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4620');
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(3641, 'Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story', 'Adam Rex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Doug Lee is undead quite by accidentâ€”attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it''s just not the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for herâ€”hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicatedâ€”it''s not as easy as studying *Dracula*. Especially when the star of *Vampire Hunters* is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, *Fat Vampire* is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4879'),
(3642, 'Fat White Vampire Blues', 'Andrew Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a caravan of bone-weary camels, Jules Duchon barely fit behind the steering wheel of his very big Cadillac taxicab. Even with the seat pushed all the way back.Damn, he was hungry.Jules stopped his cab, pressed the wobbly rocker switch that jerked the electric windows reluctantly to life, and stuck his head into the humid night air. â€œHey, baby. You interested in some dinner?â€*â€“from *Fat White Vampire Blues*****Vampire, *nosferatu*, creature of the nightâ€“whatever you call himâ€“Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he canâ€™t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he canâ€™t get his big olâ€™ butt off the ground. Whatâ€™s worse, after more than a century of being undead, heâ€™s watched his neighborhood truly go to hellâ€“and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules heâ€™d better confine himself to white victimsâ€“or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isnâ€™t kidding, Malice burns Julesâ€™s house to the ground. With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coastâ€“ Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. Itâ€™s enough to give a man the blues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9006'),
(3643, 'Fatal Flaw', 'William Lashner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  is a rare delight: a legal thriller with freshness and vitality, qualities too often lacking in this sometimes-tired genre. This third entry in the\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, William Lashner is as fine a wordsmith as he is a plotter. The settings are crisply evoked, from Philadelphia and Las Vegas to the dirt-poor Appalachians. All the characters are vivid, and a few--including the murder victim--are well-nigh unforgettable. But it''s the narrative voice of Victor Carl that really carries the book. Cynical, funny, streetwise, and ethically flexible, he''s an exceptionally engaging guy. And, like some of the wisecracking private eyes he resembles, he can deliver both breezy sarcasm and real emotional power. My suggestion: Reach past those other legal thrillers and put\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  at the top of your reading list.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this highly readable if predictable third thriller by Lashner (Hostile Witness; Veritas), Philadelphia lawyer Carl answers the late-night distress call of his friend Guy Forrest and finds him naked and sobbing on the front steps of a suburban house. Inside is the corpse of Guy''s lover, Hailey Prouix, the woman for whom he left his devoted wife and kids. Even though at first he''s unconvinced of Guy''s innocence, Carl eventually agrees to represent Guy when he''s charged with murder. Carl also holds an important secret that he keeps from Guy; from his own legal partner, Beth; from everyone, in fact, but the reader: Carl was Hailey Prouix''s lover, too. In the novel''s early chapters, Lashner effectively describes the mind games that Carl plays with himself, rationalizing decisions that are in his own best interest, if not those of his client. Once he believes Guy''s earnest claims, Carl begins to probe Prouix''s past, more to answer his own nagging questions about her than to find her killer or even to save Guy. The trail takes him to Las Vegas and to Prouix''s childhood home in West Virginia. The past sins and crimes that Carl uncovers are of the predictably unspeakable variety. Indeed, the plot has a by-the-numbers feel: in one set piece, Carl is pursued and run off the road by a mystery car with tinted windows. What raises Lashner''s thriller above the ordinary is its rich and resonant first-person narrative. Since his debut in 1995''s Hostile Witness, the character of Carl has aged like fine wine. His wit is sharper and deeper now, but he also displays a bittersweet nostalgia and a more seasoned (if jaded) worldview. He''s a provocative and entertaining guide, far more entertaining than the journey on which he leads us.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7794'),
(3644, 'Fatal Remedies', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna LeonÂ’s multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, BrunettiÂ’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his familyÂ’s innocence before itÂ’s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/813'),
(3645, 'The Fatal Shore', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com  An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of   Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything  in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader  ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents  compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen  and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced. One of the  very best works of history I have ever read.          From Library Journal  For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diariesï¼Œ lettersï¼Œ and original sourcesï¼Œ Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation Systemï¼Œ the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the coloniesï¼Œ and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixonï¼Œ Purdue Univ. Libs.ï¼Œ W. Lafayetteï¼Œ Ind.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Informationï¼Œ Inc.   See all Editorial Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5393'),
(3646, 'Fatal Voyage', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina''s Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn''t match up with the remains of any of the plane''s passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they''re linked, she''s pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs''s earlier books (__,\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  ), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane''s manifest, Ryan''s partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight''s final destination, to stand trial for murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe''s romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author''s regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With four crime thrillers to her name, Reichs (Deadly Decisions) seems to have settled into a comfortable routine with forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose adventures grow more engrossing with each outing. Here, Tempe takes on an especially gruesome case in a richly plotted tale about an airline crash, missing body parts and cannibalism. The story opens in the rugged backwoods of North Carolina, where Tempe must identify the dead from the remains of a passenger jet that spiraled straight into the ground. While rummaging through the grisly debris, she comes across a foot that doesn''t appear to match any of the 88 dead people aboard the jet. As investigators determine what brought the plane down, Tempe looks into the mystery of the foot. That seemingly well-intentioned pursuit gets her fired. Her ouster appears to be the doing of Lt. Gov. Parker Davenport, an ambitious politician taking an abnormal interest in the crash. Tempe, determined to restore her reputation, plows back into the case on the sly. What she finds is evidence of a chilling, depraved episode in local history that upends many common perceptions about North Carolina''s political and business elite. Reichs, herself a highly accomplished forensic anthropologist, expertly directs a busy plot that moves with electrical force in the final quarter. She capitalizes on the morbid yet captivating aspects of the forensic trenchwork, yet never lets it overwhelm her story. But it is Reichs''s ongoing development of Tempe a woman in her 50s with a mature understanding of human nature, and a self-deprecating sense of humor that truly lifts the book above many of its peers. (On-sale: July 17)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11165'),
(3647, 'A Fatal Waltz', 'Tasha Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Alexander''s charming third novel of romantic suspense set in late Victorian England (after\n <em>\n  The Poisoned Season\n </em>\n ), Lady Emily Ashton is at a country house party when someone shoots her noxious host, Lord Basil Fortescue, with a dueling pistol. After the husband of a good friend is accused of the murder, Emily determines to find the real killer. The only clue, a threatening letter promising a political assassination, drives Emily to Vienna, where she meets the painter Gustav Klimt and shares stolen moments with her fiancÃ©, diplomat Colin Hargreaves. But Emily never forgets her urgent missionâ€”in the service of which she must match wits with double agents and anarchists as well as ally herself temporarily with Colin''s former lover, the sexually sophisticated Kristiana von Lange. The appealing Emily at times comes across as too modern for even the most unconventional Victorian character, and the plot sags in mid-story despite several clever subplots. Still, the book''s entertaining voice and accurate period detail will seduce most readers_. (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Emily Ashton is back in her third episode of romantic suspense set in the Victorian world of mannerly gentlemen, conniving mothers, and scandals behind closed doors. Forced to join a group of socialites at the home of formidable and odious Lord Fortescue, whom she loathes (and whose daughter covets Emilyâ€™s fiancÃ©, Colin Hargreaves), Emily and others in the party feel little regret when Fortescue is murdered. Unfortunately, her best friendâ€™s husband, Robert, is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, after witnesses confirm his fight with the victim. Resolved to exonerate Robert, Emily heads for Vienna on the killerâ€™s trail. Austria proves rich with intrigue, and this portion of the story really shines as readers take a tour of nineteenth-century Viennaâ€”its parties and its cafÃ©sâ€”in the wintertime, shadowed by decidedly evil characters. Emilyâ€™s sparkling wit makes up for the somewhat convoluted plot and large cast of characters who move from England to the Continent and back at the slightest provocation. This is a captivating addition to the adventures of an irresistible Victorian iconoclast. --Jen Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8400'),
(3648, 'Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Soloâ€™s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Orderâ€™s influence within the Galactic Alliance. Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacenâ€™s fall to the dark sideâ€“and to learn whatâ€™s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daalaâ€™s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daalaâ€™s iron willâ€“at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/942'),
(3649, 'Fateful Lightning', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lost in another world and time, a regiment of Union soldiers find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the classic Russian retreats from the French and Germans. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4833'),
(3650, 'Fatelessness', 'Imre Kertesz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **One of *Publishers Weekly''s* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boyâ€™s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street.  His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell."  The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.George''s response to his experience is curiously ambivalent.  In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors.  By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy.  Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed:  when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural."  Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate:  rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6204'),
(3651, 'Father&#39;s Day Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But then Luther Read suddenly drops dead. He is head of a near-bankrupt newspaper dynasty - and father to several resentful children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3211'),
(3652, 'Fatherland', 'Harris, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10330'),
(3653, 'Faun and Games', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Piers Anthony''s most exceptional Xanth adventure ever reveals wnodrous new worlds of mirth and magic!The miraculous and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun''s quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day mare" as his constant companion, Forrest will find more marvels then he ever dreamed of.Packed with magic, mystery, and mirth, Faun &amp; Games is the freshest and most exciting Xanth adventure in a month of Pundays!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3312'),
(3654, 'The favorites: a novel', 'Mary Yukari Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters''s short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio''s Fresh Air said that "Waters''s empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her reader feel like a silent witness to the small acts of cruelty and surrender that the history books can''t record." In her exquisite first novel, Waters explores the complex relationships among three generations of women bound by a painful family history and a culture in which custom dictates behavior.Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half-American, feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. She quickly learns that in traditional Kyoto, personal boundaries are firmly drawn and actions are not always what they appear. Sarah learns of a family secret -- an interfamily adoption arranged in the throes of World War II. Her grandmother gave up one of her daughters to the matriarch of the family, and the two families have coexisted quietly, living on the same lane. While this arrangement is never discussed, it looms over the two households. In this carefully articulated world, where every gesture and look has meaning, Sarah must learn the rules by which her mother, aunts, and grandmother live.Delicately balancing drama and restraint, Waters captures these women -- their deep passions and tumultuous histories -- in this tender and moving novel about the power and beauty of mother-daughter relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2454'),
(3655, 'FBI 2 The Maze', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1363'),
(3656, 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, and other American stories', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2107'),
(3657, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Thompson, Hunter S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10685'),
(3658, 'Fear is the key', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n En flyvemaskine lastet med guldbarrer bliver skudt ned over et oliefelt ud for den amerikanske kyst. Gangsterbanden, der stÃ¥r bag nedskydningen, prÃ¸ver at finde flyvraget og fÃ¥ bjÃ¦rget lasten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9273'),
(3659, 'Fear Itself', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a blockbuster new action thriller by master novelist Walter Mosley, "one of America''s best mystery writers" (New York Times), bookstore owner Paris Minton and the deadliest man in L.A.-Fearless Jones-are back on the streets of 1950s Watts. FEAR ITSELF Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman''s husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he''s wondering whom he should fear more: the people he''s looking for or the people he''s working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.''s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner-and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5814'),
(3660, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you''ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can -- its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything -- even freedom -- is possible. Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its strange inhabitants. A place, like all places, that looks a lot different after dark. If you think you''ve got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz''s novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he''s also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they''ll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn''t bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn''t dare leave the place where he''s skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz''s legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book''s similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy. Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging ''60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins''s: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz''s style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!" YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow''s father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father''s body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller. ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA Bantam brags that it is launching the biggest Koontz campaign ever with this thriller, whose protagonist lives by night (he has a genetic order that makes him highly sensitive to light) until he witnesses a murder. length: (cm)17.8 ã€€ã€€ã€€ ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.7\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(3661, 'Fear that man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1415'),
(3662, 'Fear the Worst (2009)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9428'),
(3663, 'Fearless Fourteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Crime:Â ****Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars**. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldnâ€™t be more proud. He always was the smart one. **The Cousin:Â ****Joe Morelli**. Morelli is Domâ€™s cousin. Heâ€™s also a cop. Less than a week after Domâ€™s release from prison, Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Meanwhile, Dom has gone missingÂ… **The Catastrophe:Â ****Moonman.** Morelli hires Walter Â“Moonerâ€ Dunphy, stoner and Â“inventorâ€ turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli is low on cash. Mooner will work for potatoes. **The Cupcake:Â ****Stephanie Plum**. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. Sheâ€™s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and sheâ€™s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. **The Crisis**:Â **Ranger.** Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanieâ€™s evening activities. **The Conclusion:Â Be fearless. Â Read *FOURTEEN*!**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2151'),
(3664, 'Fearless Jones', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   Penzler Pick,\n  </b>\n  Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing--and there are many of us--have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as\n  <p>\n   Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the "hero" of\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   . When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business--a used book store. He spends the time he''s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Minton''s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He''s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard-boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series.\n   <i>\n    --Otto Penzler\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  HAbandoning the voice of his premier creation, Easy Rawlins, Mosley mines a new shaft of 1950s Los Angeles with a hero who combines the principles of Easy with the deadliness of Ray "Mouse" Alexander. The result is a violent, heroic and classic piece of noir fiction. Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He''s a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he''s afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that''s the key to a fortune. For the black characters it''s a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we''re still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one. (June 5)Forecast: With a 20-city author tour and major advertising, Mosley''s first thriller since 1996''s A Little Yellow Dog is sure to generate lots of interest and sales.\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5815'),
(3665, 'Fears unnamed', 'Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A collection of four chilling novellas, two of which are British Fantasy Award winners and one original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4330'),
(3666, 'A Fearsome Doubt', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd''s six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard inspector who is among the walking wounded after his WWI traumas, the series has always been compelling. This time, Todd ratchets up the psychological pressures by raising doubts about the one aspect of Rutledge''s life that he has felt secure about: his prewar accomplishments as a policeman. The widow of a convicted killer, who went to the gallows for preying on the infirm elderly, confronts him with a missing jewelry piece found in a neighbor''s possession, suggesting that Rutledge helped execute an innocent man. Reopening the inquiry requires caution not only because of the soul-searching it provokes, which threatens to shatter the inspector''s tenuous grasp on sanity, but also because the case contributed to his superior''s promotion. This old mystery becomes only one of the puzzles Rutledge must resolve when he''s ordered to investigate the poisoning deaths of three disabled soldiers. The solutions to both sets of crimes are logical, satisfying and unexpected, but it is the character of Rutledge himself-intuitive, exquisitely sensitive to mood, the emotions of others and the significance of what is left unsaid-that makes this both an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd''s sixth work featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge is a well-crafted addition to his popular historical series (e.g., Watchers of Time). Rutledge is taken aback when a persistent Nell Shaw brings him new evidence that could clear her late husband''s name. Had Rutledge and his fellow policemen inadvertently sent an innocent man to his death six years earlier? Reconsidering the pre-World War I case serves to distract the inspector from his current assignment: determining who is killing maimed ex-soldiers in the peaceful countryside in Kent. Rutledge is sidetracked as well by his friendship with Elizabeth Mayhew, the widow of an old school chum. Elizabeth''s feelings for a mysterious stranger further complicate Rutledge''s investigation. Todd expertly demonstrates how shadows from the past intersect with unsolved murders in the present, revealing tantalizing details about Rutledge''s wartime experience in France along the way. Here, Todd downplays the role of Hamish (the dead soldier who lives on in Rutledge''s mind), but he remains a key player in the series. A pleasure to read; highly recommended for all public libraries and collections of historical mysteries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5681'),
(3667, 'The Fearsome Particles', 'Trevor Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole has written an\n <em>\n  Ordinary People\n </em>\n for the 21st century.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Macleanâ€™s\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColeâ€™s writing is reminiscent of that of Carol Shields: he can be hilariously funny and profoundly serious at the same time. . . . He not only cares about whatâ€™s right in front of him, he makes his readers care too.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Montreal Gazette\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressive â€” funny, absorbing. . . . beautifully authentic.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Winnipeg Free Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Fearsome Particles _is a workplace comedy enveloped by human tragedy, a sympathetic study of postwar trauma played to the laugh track of finely observed farce. . . . Pitch-perfect.â€\n <br />\n â€” John Allemang\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHumour that comes froma deeper, more satisfying place . . . . The book soars.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Quill &amp; Quire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel is well-plotted, smart and perceptive, and very funny much in the same way that Kingsley Amisâ€™s mature work was darkly humorous even at its most mordant . . . . Cole is one of the best young novelists in this country.â€\n <br />\n â€” _Globe and Mail\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œWith writing like this, Trevor Cole is quickly gaining a reputation as a major talent, deservedly so.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Edmonton Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole is emerging as a master of obsessive-delusional-neurotic-tragicomic fiction. His two novels,\n <em>\n  Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for a 2004 Governor General''s Award for Fiction) and his latest,\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , both told from the points of view of obsessive and delusional people, are distressing and sometimes cringe-making funny, their humour akin to that of David Brent trying to assert his power in the BBC TV series\n <em>\n  The Office\n </em>\n . Cole''s skill at evoking this humour suggests that he himself is quiveringly attuned to the tiny shuddersâ€“say, an inexplicable bid in a game of cardsâ€“that suggest the life-threatening fault lines in people''s lives. And Cole''s prose is so confident, compassionate and clear that it draws out that neurotic admission: I wish I''d written that.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Literary Review of Canada\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good writing declares itself immediately. How comforting for a reader to know â€” after only a few pages in Mr. Cole''s company â€” that he is in such safe hands."\n <br />\n â€”Governor Generalâ€™s Award winner David Gilmour\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole belongs to the Truman Capote school of stylists; his prose is clear as a mountain stream."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Toronto Star\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Trevor Cole knows how to tell a story of the I-couldnâ€™t-put-it-down variety. . . . Just delicious!"\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trevor Coleâ€™s bestselling debut novel garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Truman Capote and Kingsley Amis. Now the Governor Generalâ€™s Award finalist is back with\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , a brilliantly observed comic tragedy about the widening cracks in a familyâ€™s picture-perfect veneer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gerald Woodlore, a window screen executive, wakes one morning to find, to his utter dismay, that he has reached the limits of what he can control. The company he works for is rapidly losing market share and a junior assistant seems to be the only one with an idea how to fix it. His wife, Vicki, a luxury real-estate dresser, appears to be bending under the pressures of constructing an image of perfect happiness both at work and at home. But most worrying of all is Gerald and Vickiâ€™s twenty-year-old son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the militaryâ€™s civilian support staff in Afghanistan. Now he has returned early and retreated to his room in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his trademark wit and strong emotional insight, Trevor Cole has created a compelling, tender story that captures a family at a crucial turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n has recently been optioned for film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5431'),
(3668, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and  praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11215'),
(3669, 'The Feast of All Saints', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n  <br />\n  "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n  <br />\n  THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4998');
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(3670, 'The Feast of the Goat', 'Mario Vargas Llosa &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In\n <em>\n  The Feast of the Goat\n </em>\n he offers a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo''s insidious and evil regime. Told from several viewpoints, the book has three distinctive, alternating strands. There is Urania Cabral, the daughter of Trujillo''s disgraced secretary of state, who has returned to Santo Domingo after more than 30 years. Now a successful New York lawyer, Urania has never forgiven her aging and paralyzed father, AgustÃ­n, for literally sacrificing her to the carnal despot in the hope of regaining his political post. Flipping back to May of 1961, there is a group of assassins, all equally scarred by Trujillo, waiting to gun the Generalissimo down. Finally there is an astonishing portrait of Trujillo--the Goat--and his grotesque coterie. Llosa depicts Trujillo as a villain of Shakespearean proportions. He is a preening, macho dandy who equates his own virility with the nation''s health. An admirer of Hitler "not for his ideas but for the way he wore a uniform" (fittingly he equips his secret police force with a fleet of black Volkswagen Beetles), Trujillo even has his own Himler in Colonel Abbes Garcia, a vicious torturer with a predilection for the occult.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the novel edges toward Trujillo''s inevitable murder, Urania''s story gets a bit lost in the action; the remaining narratives however, are rarely short of mesmerizing. Trujillo''s death unleashes a new order, but not the one expected by the conspirators. Enslaved by the soul of the dead chief, neither they nor the Trujillo family--who embark on a hideous spree of bloody reprisals--are able to fill the void. Llosa has them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president JoaquÃ­n Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat. Savage, touching, and bleakly funny, this compelling book gives an all too human face to one of Latin America''s most destructive tyrants.\n <em>\n  --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This wasn''t an enemy he could defeat like the hundreds, the thousands he had confronted and conquered over the years, buying them, intimidating them, killing them." So thinks Rafael Trujillo, "the Goat," dictator of the Dominican Republic, on the morning of May 30, 1961 a day that will end in his assassination. The "enemy" is old age at 70, Trujillo, who has always prided himself on his grooming and discipline, is shaken by bouts of incontinence and impotence. Vargas Llosa divides his narrative between three different story lines. The first concerns Urania Cabral, the daughter of one of Trujillo''s closest associates, AgustÃ­n Cabral. She is 14 at the time of the Trujillo assassination and, as we gradually discover, was betrayed by her father to Trujillo. Since then, she has lived in the U.S. At 49, she impulsively returns on a visit and slowly reveals the root of her alienation. Urania''s character is a little too pat, however. Vargas Llosa''s triumph is Trujillo''s story. We follow the sly, vile despot, with his petty rages, his lust, his dealings with his avaricious family, through his last day, with mingled feelings of repulsion and awe. Like Stalin, Trujillo ruled by turning his rage without warning against his subordinates. Finally, Vargas Llosa crosscuts Urania''s story and Trujillo''s with that of Trujillo''s assassins; first, as they wait to ambush him, and then as they are tracked down, captured and tortured to death, with almost medieval ferocity, by Trujillo''s son, Ramfis. Gathering power as it rolls along, this massive, swift-moving fictional take on a grim period in Dominican history shows that Vargas Llosa is still one of the world''s premier political novelists. (Nov.)Forecast: Vargas Llosa is on solid ground with The Day of the Goat, mining a rich vein. The former Peruvian presidential candidate''s author tour should attract crowds, and a striking jacket will seduce browsers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7671'),
(3671, 'Fed Up', 'Jessica Conant-Park; Susan Conant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in a series with "all the right ingredients-fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance."(*Elaine Viets*)** Part-time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend''s wedding, working for her parents-and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything''s going great-until one shopper drops dead. With the cameras on him from the beginning, Josh is obviously innocent, but Chloe wonders: Was it one of Josh''s competitors? Or the deceased''s husband? Or someone on the crew? Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh''s erratic behavior. She''ll have to balance her plate while trying to catch a food felon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
(3672, 'The Federalist papers', 'Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(3673, 'Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2561'),
(3674, 'Feeling Lucky', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Satirical military space opera, #1 of 11-book series. Compulsive gambler Joey Czerinski must escape Old Earth fast to elude the bad-ass loan shark gunning for him. Desperate, he borrows funds from a shady Foreign Legion ATM, then gets shipped across space to fight a spider-like alien species. But one lucky roll of the dice could put him back in the game - if he can manage to stay alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8656'),
(3675, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins'' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city''s small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city''s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn''t as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3402'),
(3676, 'Felicia&#39;s Journey', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  is a simple tale told with a subtle complexity. Felicia is an Irish country girl who has come to England to look for her jilted lover. Hilditch is a mild-mannered, gentle psychopath who lures the helpless Felicia into his trap. Interestingly, we see the story from each character''s eyes when they are separate, but from Hilditch''s view when they are together. It is an unusual and effective device that distorts the perspective and adds texture to a classic story. Trevor won a\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trevor''s artfully suspenseful tale of a naive and pregnant young Irishwoman''s encounter with a disturbed factory manager spent four weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5496'),
(3677, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2009'),
(3678, 'The Feng Shui Detective', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes. He and his brash teenage Aussie-American ex-pat intern (think an Asian Sherlock Holmes paired up with Kelly Osbourne) travel around Singapore solving crimes while trying to decipher each other''s language and behavior. His latest case involves a mysterious young woman who, according to a psychic reading, is doomed to die. Wong''s desperate efforts to save her eventually lead him and his sidekick to Sydney where the story climaxes at the Opera House, a building known for its appalling feng shui. A delightful combination of crafty plotting, quirky humor, and Asian philosophy, the Feng Shui Detective is an investigator like no other!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3205'),
(3679, 'The Feng Shui Detective&#39;s Casebook', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he''s not a detective, he''s a feng shui master, and he''d much rather just get paid, go home, put his feet up, and leave solving crimes to someone who cares. But that''s just not going to happen. CF and his assistant, Joyce, are on a business trip around the Asia Pacific and wherever they go, their unique way of getting to the bottom of the most perplexing cases seems to be needed. Baffling crimes, ingenious schemes, exotic locations and bucket-loads of charm. The Feng Shui Detective''s Casebook is Vittachi at his witty, original best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8502'),
(3680, 'The feng-shui junkie', 'Brian Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Julie and Ronan are the perfect married couple: with two incomes, and both personal and professional success, theirs is a lifestyle to envy. That is, until the day Julie comes home unexpectedly early from a week away to find a yellow wonderbra hanging from the doorknob. It seems that in the age-old style it has all gone terribly wrong - Ronan is having an affair. Fuelled by anger, despair and whiskey, Julie embarks on a campaign of detection. Revenge may not be sweet, but it is most definitely worth it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(3681, 'The Ferguson Affair', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMy favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.â€ â€”P.D. James, from\n <em>\n  Talking About Detective Fiction\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.Â  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMost mystery writers merely write about crime.Â  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.â€ â€”_The Atlantic_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWithout in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.â€ â€”Anthony Boucher\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.â€ â€”_The Guardian_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.â€ â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.Â  Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the tripâ€”fast.Â  He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl''s hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring.Â  But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn''t guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...Â Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5014'),
(3682, 'Ferguson Rifle', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2833'),
(3683, 'The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model', 'Anders, Charlie Jane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4940'),
(3684, 'Fertility Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide', 'Susan Warhus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your essential guide to FERTILITY options and reproductive HEALTH\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you are trying to start a family but are having trouble conceiving, you are not alone. Today, millions are affected by infertility issues.\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n explores many common causes of infertility and outlines the latest treatments, guiding you toward successful conception.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist,\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n begins with an overview of the different fertility concerns for men and women along with a discussion of the possible reasons for early pregnancy loss. You''ll find methods for increasing the chances of becoming pregnant--both naturally and through fertility drug therapy--and explanations of the various assisted-reproduction technologies. Also, the complex emotional issues and ethical considerations in the decision-making process are carefully explored.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand guide offers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of health and lifestyle concerns for both men and women\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for finding a fertility specialist\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Natural ways to monitor and improve your own fertility\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of various fertility medications and their risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Emerging technologies not yet available in the United States\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Alternatives for the infertile couple--including surrogacy and adoption\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Straightforward and accessible,\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n helps you make informed decisions about your fertility options.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Warhus, M.D.\n </strong>\n , a physician and a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, serves on the advisory board for Childbirth Graphics, the largest U.S. childbirth-education product company. She is the author of two books on pregnancy and childbirth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9316'),
(3685, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n <em>\n  Cemetery Dance\n </em>\n ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n <strong>\n  AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (_\n <strong>\n  AudioFile\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5075'),
(3686, 'Fever Dream (Pendergast)', 'Lincoln Child; Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen''s tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta''s assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife''s murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle-the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou-he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10431'),
(3687, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3079'),
(3688, 'Fevre Dream', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something''s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn''t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh''s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won''t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh''s concernno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York''s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolvecoupled with the terrible force of York''s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind''s most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire''s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman''s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(3689, 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps, has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. --Tom Nissley Making a Fiasco Thomas Ricks spent five tours in Iraq during the war, reporting for the Washington Post and researching and writing Fiasco. Like many of the officers he most admires, when he wanted to understand what was happening as American troops encountered stronger and longer-lived resistance to the occupation than expected, he turned to recent and classic accounts of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, from the U.S. occupation of the Philippines through the lessons of Vietnam, and he reports on his favorites for us in his list of the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren''t about Iraq. You can also get a glimpse into his writing process with a much different list he has prepared for us: the music he listened to while writing and researching the book, from Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell to Ryan Adams and Josh Ritter. And he took the time to answer a few questions about Fiasco: Amazon.com: As military correspondent for the Post, you have made five trips to Iraq over the last four years. How has it changed over that time? Thomas E. Ricks: It has been markedly worse each time, in terms of security. On my first trip, in April-May 2003, we would walk out on the streets of Baghdad at night, albeit with caution. Even on my second trip, in the summer of 2003, I would feel comfortable hopping in a car and driving 100 miles north from Baghdad to Tikrit. To do either of those things now would be suicidal. In January and February of this year, Baghdad felt worse to me Mogadishu did when I was there in 1993 or Sarajevo did when I was there a few years later. It appeared to me that there was no security, except what you provided for yourself with armed men and careful planning. One Army major described the city to me as being in "the pure Hobbesian state" in which everybody is fighting everybody. By the way, contrary to what I see asserted occasionally, most reporters don''t live in the Green Zone, the walled-off area in central Baghdad that is the headquarters of the American effort in Iraq. Reporters live out in the city, and I think generally have a better feel for what is going on than do people living in the Zone or on big American military bases. In the area of Baghdad I stayed in, I constantly heard gunfire and explosions. Yet an American colonel told me that my neighborhood was deemed "secure." I think that really meant that U.S. troops could drive through it while heavily armed--say, with a .50 caliber machine gun atop a Humvee--and usually not be attacked. I worry that what the Americans measure are threats to U.S. troops and the killings of Iraqis. That neglects a huge spectrum of other significant activities--rapes, robberies, kidnappings, acts of extortion, and, most importantly, acts of violent intimidation. Amazon.com: You cite many strategic errors in the planning and execution of the war, but perhaps the central one is that the U.S. military leadership failed to recognize that they were fighting an insurgency, and their methods of fighting in fact helped to create that insurgency. Can you explain those methods, and their effects? Ricks: The U.S. military that went into Iraq in 2003 was the best military in the world for fighting another military. But it was woefully unprepared for the task at hand. For example, U.S. military culture believes in bringing overwhelming force to bear. Yet classic counterinsurgency doctrine calls for using only the minimal amount of force necessary to get the job done. U.S. soldiers and their commanders, untrained and unschooled in the difficult art of counterinsurgency, tended to improvise. So in the summer of 2003, some soldiers in Baghdad decided that the best way to deter looters was to make them cry--and they sometimes did this by threatening to shoot the children of looters, and even conducting mock executions. More broadly, the Army in the fall of 2003 fell back on what it knew how to do, which was conduct large-scale "cordon-and-sweep" operations. These missions scarfed up thousands of Iraqis, most of them fence-sitting neutrals, and detained them. U.S. military intelligence officials later concluded that 85% of those detained were of no intelligence value. The detention experience frequently was humiliating for Iraqis, a violation of another key counterinsurgency principle: Treat your prisoners well. (Your readers who want to know more about this should read a terrific little book by David Galula titled Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.) Not every unit was ineffective or counterproductive. I was struck at how successful the 101st Airborne was in Mosul in 2003-04. And some units showed remarkable improvement--the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment had a mediocre first tour of duty in Iraq, but when it went back in 2005 for a second tour, it did extremely well. Col. H.R. McMaster, the regimental commander (and author of a very good book about the Vietnam War, Dereliction of Duty) told his troops that, "Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you are working for the enemy." I was especially struck by how his regiment handled its prisoners--it even had a program called "Ask the Customer" that quizzed detainees when they were released about whether they felt treated well. This recognized the lesson of past wars that the best way to end an insurgency is to get its leaders to put down their guns and enter the political system, and to get the rank-and-file to desert or switch sides. But it will be harder to discuss the sewage system with the new mayor next year if your troops beat him in his cell when he was your prisoner last year. Amazon.com: But today''s military leadership was formed in Vietnam, when all of those lessons of counterinsurgency were supposedly learned before. Why didn''t that experience translate into a preparation for the current conflict? Ricks: Military experts, such at Andrew Krepinevich (The Army and Vietnam) and Lt. Col. John Nagl (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife) say that after that war ended, the Army washed its hands of the entire experience and essentially concluded that it was never going to do anything like that again. It was almost as if the very word "counterinsurgency" was banned from official Army discourse. In Iraq, there was a tiny minority of American soldiers early on who understood how to win the occupation. These generally were civil affairs officers and other Special Forces types. But their wisdom often was disregarded. "What you are seeing here is an unconventional war being fought conventionally," one Special Forces lieutenant colonel glumly commented one day in Baghdad. Amazon.com: You''ve been writing about the military for the Post and the Wall Street Journal for years now, and Fiasco is built from the testimony of a remarkable array of sources up and down the chain of command, some off the record but many more on the record. Can you talk about your sources? Is this level of public criticism of a war from within the military precedented?? Ricks: Yeah, reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it. The emotions also hit me pretty hard at times, especially when I was writing my chapter 13, about how widespread abuse was by American soldiers in 2003-04, often because they hadn''t been trained for the mission they faced. I have spent more than 15 years covering the military. I tend to like and admire these people. So when I learned about a 4th Infantry Division soldier shooting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraqi detainee in the stomach, and the investigating MPs saying the soldier should be charged with homicide, and instead the commander simply discharged the soldier from the Army--well, that bothered me. Another thing that struck me with sources was the mountain of information that was available. I read over 30,000 pages of documents for this book. At the end of one interview a guy gave me a CD-ROM with every e-mail he had sent to Ambassador Bremer, who ran the civilian end of the first year of the occupation. Other people showed me diaries, unit log\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10693'),
(3690, 'Fiction Writer&#39;s Workshop', 'Josip Novakovich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. ''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Josip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool''s Day, HarperCollins), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer?s Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8710'),
(3691, 'Field of 13', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10975'),
(3692, 'Field of Thirteen', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of __ and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis''s racetrack milieu. In "Dead on Red," a jealous jockey named Davey Rockman hires Emil Jacques, a French assassin and gun collector, to kill the famed rider who stole his job; but Rockman is haunted by his deed much in the same way as is the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe''s "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Raid at Kingdom Hill" tells of Tricksy Wilcox''s scheme for a not-so-bright bomb scare, a plan that still might yield the payoff of a lifetime. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. The Kentucky Derby story, "The Gift," follows Fred Collyer, a drunken writer who overhears plans for a major racing swindle and struggles against alcohol to publish the story by his deadline. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig''s Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race-meeting judge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poe, who most historians of literature credit as the creator of the short story, declared that a good short story should have nothing extraneous. Francis''s stories, for the most part, obey Poe''s dictum. Each character and description fits tightly into an unfolding plan so that the mystery or twist is revealed with a satisfying economy of words. While\n  <em>\n   Field of 13\n  </em>\n  will appeal to Francis loyalists, newcomers, too, will find much to relish in the short fiction of this mystery grand master.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though nearly two score of his novels have come to print, Francis has published only eight short stories in his 41 years as a bestselling author. That octet, composed mostly in the 1970s and initially appearing in various journals (Sports Illustrated, the Times of London, etc.), is reprinted here, along with five new tales, each introduced in brief by Francis. There''s not a slacker among them, though few champions either. The earliest yarn, "Carrot for a Chestnut," dating from 1970 (eight years after Francis''s first novel), is typical, presenting a morally ordered universe in which malefactors get their due, albeit commonly through indirect means. Here, a jockey who bends a race by feeding a horse a drugged carrot receives his comeuppance by losing his concentration as a result of his crime and getting involved in a nasty accident; as in most of the stories, there''s a light twist to the ending. Horse racing figures in every entry, of course. Sometimes it''s the focus of a crime?as in "Blind Chance," in which a blind boy picks up on how bettors are getting inside info on races with photo finishes. Sometimes, it''s only background, as in "Collision Course," about how a fired newspaper editor hoists poetic justice upon a horrid restaurateur/horse trainer. Most of the stories are superficially clever, but below the quick plotting there''s emotional depth; in "Spring Fever," for instance, Francis plumbs the innocent desperation of unrequited December-May love. And throughout there is Francis''s voice, strong, smart, ironic, developed even at the beginning but maturing in timbre as he hones his skill. Even more than the horse racing, this voice is the tie that binds these 13 tales into a charmed entertainment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8235'),
(3693, 'Fiendish Deeds', 'P. J. Bracegirdle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Do you dare set foot in Spooking? ** It''s the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The Bawl of the Bog Fiend." Could the story be true? Could the bog fiend be on the loose? Things become truly horrifying when Joy learns that Darlington, the despicable suburban city where she is forced to go to school, is planning to build a water park over her beloved bog. It is up to her to safeguard the endangered area and its secrets. Little does she know that there is someone determined to destroy not only the bog but the town of Spooking itself -- and anyone who dares stand in his way. P. J. Bracegirdle spins a yarn of delicious devilry and macabre mayhem in the very first book of *The Joy of Spooking* trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3342'),
(3694, 'A Fierce Radiance: A Novel', 'Lauren Belfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "City of Light" comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented "Life" magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nation''s most important stories. In the bustling labs of New York City''s renowned Rockefeller Institute, some of the country''s brightest doctors and researchers are racing to find a cure that will save the lives of thousands of wounded American soldiers and countless others--a miraculous new drug they call penicillin. Little does Claire suspect how much the story will change her own life when the work leads to an intriguing romance. Though Claire has always managed to keep herself separate from the subjects she covers, this story touches her deeply, stirring memories of her daughter''s sudden illness and death--a loss that might have been prevented by this new "miracle drug." And there is James Stanton, the shy and brilliant physician who coordinates the institute''s top secret research for the military. Drawn to this dedicated, attractive man and his work, Claire unexpectedly finds herself falling in love. But Claire isn''t the only one interested in the secret development of this medicine. Her long-estranged father, Edward Rutherford, a self-made millionaire, understands just how profitable a new drug like penicillin could be. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay. Lauren Belfer dazzled readers with her debut novel, "City of Light," a "New York Times" notable book of the year. In this highly anticipated follow-up, she deftly captures the uncertainty and spirit, the dreams and hopes, of a nation at war. A sweeping tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and idealism, "A Fierce Radiance" is an ambitious and deeply engaging novel from an author of immense talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3207'),
(3695, 'The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon''s fifth installment in the __ will thrill to Gabaldon''s trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of\n <em>\n  The Fiery Cross\n </em>\n . In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready for Gabaldon. Starting in July, the publisher will set the stage for her latest by actively promoting her backlist titles featuring 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In the new novel, Jamie learns from his 20th-century wife that the American Revolution is coming.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5895'),
(3696, 'A fiery peace in a cold war: Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon', 'Neil Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyâ€“and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schrieverâ€™s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schrieverâ€™s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russiansâ€“intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitlerâ€™s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2441');
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(3697, 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman', 'Sam Wasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audreyâ€”dainty, immaculateâ€”is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like *Sex and the City* owe a debt of gratitude to *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*. In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting *Breakfast at Tiffany''s* as we have never seen it beforeâ€”through the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4148'),
(3698, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3404'),
(3699, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Struggle of the Spirit and a Search for the Truth ** Written with the same masterful prose and clarity of vision that made *The Alchemist* an international phenomenon, *The Fifth Mountain* is Paulo Coelho''s inspiring story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. In the ninth century B.C., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to seek safety in the land of Zarephath, where the unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this newfound rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams irrevocably erased as he is swept into a whirlwind of events that threatens his very existence. In what is truly a literary milestone, Coelho gives a quietly moving account of a man touched by the hand of God who must triumph over his frustrations in a soul-shattering trail of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3839'),
(3700, 'The Fifth Servant', 'Kenneth Wishnia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Whoever saves a single life saves the entire world . . . In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the soul of Europe, Prague is a relatively safe harbor in the religious storm. Ruled by Emperor Rudolph II, the city is a refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But their lives are jeopardized when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. Charged with blood libel, the shopkeeper and his family are arrested. All that stands in the way of a rabid Christian mob is a clever Talmudic scholar, newly arrived from Poland, named Benyamin Ben-Akiva. Pleading the shopkeeper''s innocence to the city''s sheriff, Benyamin is given three days to bring the true killer to justice. But the search will not be easy. Hampered by rabbinic law, and with no allies or connections, Benyamin has only his wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him on his questâ€”a trail that weaves from the city''s teeming streets to the quiet of a shul, from the forbidden back rooms of a ghetto brothel to the emperor''s lavish palace. The Talmud says many things in life depend on *mazl*, luck. Fortunately, Benyamin is blessed, for an unlikely group of heroes will risk their own lives to help him discover the truth: Anya, a Christian butcher''s daughter; the renowned reformist rabbi Judah Loew; a wise herbal healer known as Kassandra the Bohemian; and even the emperor himself. Who would most profit from the girl''s murderâ€”and from having the entire ghetto sealed off? Is the killer a Christian indebted to the girl''s apothecary father? Or a messianic Jew bent on the destruction of his people to precipitate the Messiah''s coming? The desperate search for answers is complicated by the arrival of a new Holy Inquisitor determined to root out witchcraft and heresy, and reclaim the fractious Bohemian territory for Rome. With time running out, Benyamin must dare the impossibleâ€”and commit the unthinkableâ€”to save the Jews of Prague . . . and his own life. Infused with history and spiritual insight, rich in atmosphere and color, *The Fifth Servant* vividly re-creates sixteenth-century Pragueâ€”a bustling city where superstition, ignorance, and hatred clash with curiosity, knowledge, and tolerance; a world in which innocent lives are swept away by political and religious struggles, and righteous men and women sacrifice everything in the name of justice and truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2975'),
(3701, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5404'),
(3702, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallanderâ€™s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(3703, 'Fifty Degrees Below', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson''s well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica''s ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world''s future.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Picking up where\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (Bantam, 2004) leaves off, this second book in a planned trilogy finds Earth about to experience the most intense winter on record. Governments worldwide blithely go about their routines in spite of the monumental recent flooding in Washington, DC, and other areas around the globe. When the record-setting cold sets in, people begin freezing to death and starving due to crop failures. Large corporations and world governments use the crisis to attempt to rig elections and plan other agendas to tighten their hold on the public. Meanwhile scientists, especially those at the National Science Foundation, frantically search for a way to shift the weather patterns. The answer seems to be to jump-start the Gulf Stream to get it flowing again; the world watches as millions of tons of salt pour from ships into the ocean in this attempt. While the major plot of ecological chaos plays out, the subplots show how the effects of the weather changes, ecological turmoil, and governmental and big business assaults affect the various characters as they try to survive. This well-researched and expertly written novel about a future that might be coming true all too soon will hopefully serve as a wake-up call about Earths current serious situation._â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5135'),
(3704, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n  <em>\n   Thomas Gaughan\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8495'),
(3705, 'Fight Club: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk''s brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is widely recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels of the last decade. Now the author adds his own voice to the critical debate he generated. In a new Introduction, he discusses the various interpretations in the popular media of "Fight Club" and the movie it inspired, as well as his personal reactions to the work''s reception and the influence that the "Fight Club "phenomenon has already had on our culture. Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture''s prepackaged pleasures. Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of "Diary," "Lullaby," and "Choke." He lives and works in Portland, Oregon. In this darkly funny first novel that made Chuck Palahniuk''s reputation as his generation''s most visionary satirist, an estranged young man seeks relief from the emptiness of his work and life in the enigmatic figure of Tyler Durden. Flaunting his disregard for the stultifying conventions of a hollow consumer culture, Tyler devises a series of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club offers way for Tyler and his friends to overcome the frustrations of their professional and personal lives, and his idea catches on quickly. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes. An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in the last decade. In an insightful new introduction, the author discusses why the story will resonate with readers now more than ever. ""Fight Club" offers diabolically sharp and funny writing."--"The Washington Post Book World" "An astonishing debut . . . "Fight Club" is a dark, unsettling and nerve-chafing satire."--"The Seattle Times " "A powerful, dark, original novel . . . a memorable debut by an important new writer."--Robert Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(3706, 'Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing', 'Tom Clancy &amp; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, an insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing--the planes, the technology, and the people--with Tom Clancy as your guide. Tom Clancy''s previous explorations of America''s armed forces,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , revealed exclusive, never-before-seen information an the people and technology that protect our nation. Now, the acclaimed author of takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives, showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed analyses of the Air Force''s premier fighter planes, including the F-15 Eagle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  An insider''s look at the people behind the planes and weapons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy''s explorations of America''s armed forces reveal exclusive, never- before-seen information on the people and technology that protect our nation. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the Fighter Wing.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n means to be the best of the best. This is the ultimate insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing-the planes, the technology, and the people...with Tom Clancy behind the stick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6473'),
(3707, 'The Fighting Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Fighting Agents\n </em>\n , W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in\n <em>\n  Behind the Lines\n </em>\n ) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine. In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish, romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel to the renegade general.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, another OSS team tries to carry out a critical mission: getting a German atomic scientist out of Budapest and into allied hands before Hitler''s armies can perfect and unleash the weapon that could win the war for the Axis powers. And in Cairo, a quiet, unassuming pilot named Darmstadter is drafted by the OSS for another highly unlikely mission. Griffin spices up his realistically drawn scenes of military operations, weapons, and training with a somewhat improbable love story focusing on Whittaker and a female OSS operative, but one suspects it''s merely a ruse to draw in distaff readers. Still, the action ranges from Washington to California, Egypt to London, and all points in between, and Griffin''s knowledge of military hearts, minds, and missions has won him a devoted following through five separate series of novels of men (and some women) in battle.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Lang narrates this fourth installment of Griffin''s "Men at War" series, which began with The Last Heroes. In this episode, the action concerns the extraction of an important German atomic scientist out of Hungary and the establishment of direct contact with the American guerrilla leader in the Philippines, (self-proclaimed) Brigadier-General Wendell Fertig. Griffin''s ability to weave fictional and historical characters never ceases to amaze, and this novel is populated with the usual assortment of colorful and exciting Griffin stalwarts. Lang continues his credible narrative performance of "Soldier Spies" in this work; he is comfortable and confident reading the narrative and brings out the hardened characters of the cast. For all action/adventure collections.DMichael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6072'),
(3708, 'A Figure in Hiding', 'Franklin W. Dixon; Paul Laune', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the 16th volume of Applewood Books reproductions of the Original Hardy Boys-Just as You Remember Them. Originally published in 1937, A Figure in Hiding was was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane. Its dustjacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Paul Laune. In A Figure in Hiding, Frank and Joe help their father round up a dark and sinister man posing as an eye surgeon, who promises shady cures to his unsuspecting victims.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10309'),
(3709, 'file:///F|/rah/Jack%20Vance/JackVance-TheEyesofTheOverworldUC.txt', 'The Eyes of the Overworld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9169'),
(3710, 'Final Assault', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A devastating force of Al battleglobes is almost ready--ready to invade and conquer human-occupied space. In a desperate bid for survival, humanity must regroup, calling forth men and machines of the lost Empire, for nothing short of a miracle will save them from the Final Assault.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4481'),
(3711, 'The Final Battle', 'Richard A. Lupoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has followed the adventures of Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions will be waiting for the final installment in this series, in which the heroes at last escape the confines of the mysterious Dungeon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4508'),
(3712, 'the Final Detail (1999)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9578'),
(3713, 'Final Gate: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the hands of an elf high-mage, the fabled mythals are Faerun''s most potent sources of magical power. But in the hands of a demon princess from a forgotten epoch, they''re the most powerful weapons imaginable. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5302'),
(3714, 'Final Justice', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newly promoted to sergeantï¼Œ Philadelphia detective Matt Payne finds himself in the middle of three assignments at once: trying to nail down a cop killerï¼Œ a serial rapistï¼Œ and a murderer who fled to France 20 years ago. It s enough to burn out any cop. But Payne s not just any cop. And he s about to show the bad guys that there s no place they can hide from him-or from justice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6128'),
(3715, 'The Final Prophecy (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 18)', 'Greg Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from the brink of destruction, the Jediâ€™s most fearsome enemy plots to end the warâ€“and claim victoryâ€“with a final act of domination. . . .The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begun. As Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo negotiate its place in the galactic struggle against the Yuuzhan Vong, one of its organic ships is taken by the alien invaders. Scientist Nen Yim is ordered to use the captive to find weak spots in Zonama Sekotâ€™s technology. But what Nen Yim discovers about the planet and its mysteries shocks her to the core. Clearly her people have gone terribly astray. For the peace-loving planet harbors not only the key to its own destruction, but the long-forgotten secrets of the Yuuzhan Vong themselves.Meanwhile, General Wedge Antilles, commanding one fleet in a three-pronged campaign to retake the Bilbringi system, is suddenly stranded deep in Yuuzhan Vong space, cut off from all contact. Wedge and his ships must rely on trickery and brilliant battle tactics if they are to survive long enough to ensure the success of one of the deadliest and most crucial missions the Galactic Alliance forces have ever seen. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2095'),
(3716, 'Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season', 'Peter Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America''s first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town''s leading whaling merchants, believed they were toiling in a pact with God. As whale oil lubricated the industrial revolution and turned New Bedford into the Saudi Arabia of its day, this belief only grew stronger. But as their whaleships pushed ever farther into uncharted seas in putsuit of a fast-diminishing resource, this oil business was overtaken by new paradigms. When the search for cheaper energy sources produced a new and apparently inexhaustible resource--petroleum oil--the Howlands and many others did not see the change coming, or the devastating effect it would have on an industry that has flourished for two centuries. Almost overnight, it seemed, the world changed. Business and financial institutions collapsed. The Howland brothers saw their fortune vanish and ended their lives as paupers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Willie Fish Williams, and the whalers and their families in the Arctic who watched as their floating community was crushed by the ice closing around them, that change came more swiftly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously unpublished material,\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  splices together two compelling narratives: the Howland brothers'' unprecedented rise and sudden fall with the fortunes of America''s first oil industry--which eerily prefigures today''s modern economic collapse-- and a 12-year-old boy''s vivid observation of a maritime disaster set against the world''s harshest seascape.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Peter Nichols on the Collapse of the World''s First Oil Industry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As I was completing\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  in the fall of 2008, the domino effect of the world''s collapsing economies had begun. It was startling to read daily accounts of financial disasters, of the sudden impoverishment of wealthy institutions and financiers, while writing of the same process taking place one hundred and thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  is in part about the collapse of the world''s first oil industry - the whale oil business - and the fall from staggering wealth of the Howland brothers, Matthew and George Jr, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. For much of the 19th century, New Bedford was the Houston of the oil world, and the Howlands were its pre-eminent whaleship owners and oil merchants. At a time when the President of the United States'' salary was $25,000, the Howlands were netting around $200,000 annually, with no income tax to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like many, then and now, they didn''t see what was coming. They wouldn''t admit or recognize the inherent instability in their market or its resources, and when the collapse came, they were unprepared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the fall of Lehman Brothers, in September of last year, it was impossible for me not to hear exactly the tone behind the words Matthew Howland wrote in letters to his family: "Hastings has failed." Hastings and Company was a New Bedford whale oil and candle manufacturer, one of the long-term bedrock commercial institutions of the town and its industry. The Howlands, along with many others, were deeply involved in its business and financial health, and they were devastated when Hastings went under. The failure sent shockwaves through their community, yet still the Howlands held fast and continued whaling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The business of America is business" said President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. This was as true in the 1880s, the Howlands'' time, as it is now. To men like Matthew and George Jr, who defined themselves and their lives by business, failure, insolvency, and finally the complete ruin that overtook them in the space of a decade, was accompanied by a shame akin to moral transgression. Both died paupers, bankrupt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew''s son, William Howland, made a good start as a textile manufacturer, but when his business also failed, he committed suicide. His son, Llewellyn Howland, had to leave Harvard after a single semester. A lifetime later, Llewellyn described to his grandson - Matthew''s great-great grandson, Llewellyn Howland III - how he felt on being forced to withdraw from college because there was no more money for his education: "It was a nasty April day, raining, grey, bitter. I looked out of the train window and saw the old men picking through garbage in South Boston, and the ragged children playing in the streets. God! how it frightened me. The squalor of it, the hopelessness of being poor." The sight held a spectral terror for a Howland that was passed down through generations. "Don''t ever forget," Llewellyn told his grandson, "how hard it is to rise, when you''re really, truly down."\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of danger on the open sea. Nichols has a rich understanding of the whale oil ("oyl") industry, and recreates the atmosphere of whaling voyages and villages, particularly wealthy New Bedford, Mass., in sensuous detail: "Emissions of greasy particulate settled over the town like a glaze and gave it the permanent odor of burnt flesh and fat." A collection of ships'' logbooks and letters from whaling captains give character to the phenomenal victories and challenges the seamen-and their family-faced. There is a lot to admire in the whalers; their captains "were master mariners and navigators, among the canniest and most skillful in human history," and their task enormous. Although death and loss were common in the hunt, the 1871 season recounted here marked the beginning of the end for the oyl industry, a major disaster in which an entire fleet was caught in a diabolical arctic weather system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8077'),
(3717, 'The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED. In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her - and maybe save the planet while she''s at it. THEN SHE WAS THREATENED. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escaping government forces who are watching the flock all the time. THIS IS HER FINAL WARNING. But even in Antarctica, enduring in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. . . . Maximum Ride is James Patterson''s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. The Final Warning is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can''t Miss."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2024'),
(3718, 'Finding Moon', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman''s running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon Mathias discovers his dead brother''s baby daughter is waiting for him in Southeast Asia -- a child he didn''t know existed. Finding her in the aftermath of the Vietnam War brings out a side of Moon he had forgotten he possessed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tony Hillerman''s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5440'),
(3719, 'Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul', 'Edie Thys Morgan; Cindy Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The book is a great conversation to have with your husband or significant other. . . . Buy 50 for your best friends." â€”_Phoenix Woman_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this hands-on approach to arousal, couples will learn how to communicate with each other about their sexual desires, making sex a positive and vital part of every relationship. Showing how trust, open communication, a sense of humor, and basic anatomical knowledge can deepen pleasure, this stimulating manual shows couples simple skills to excite bedroom satisfaction. Humorous stories and anecdotes take the covers off other peopleâ€™s intimate encounters and offer perspective on what is normal for the average healthy adult. While preserving decency, this manual also gently guides partners to make changes that lead to a comfortable, gratifying sex life while dispelling common false assumptionsâ€”such as that size alone matters, having sex guarantees an orgasm, and great sex has to be wildâ€”and demystifies ordinary anxietiesâ€”including how to engage the elusive clitoris, why the average male watches porn, why women fake orgasms, and if a manâ€™s sex drive is really higher than a womanâ€™s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11173'),
(3720, 'Finding the Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third book in the Dream trilogy concludes the saga of three best friends raised together in a wealthy California home. Laura Templeton is the daughter of a well-to-do hotelier. At 18 she believes her dreams are simple and easily fulfilled: she wants a good marriage and a healthy family. When Peter proposes, she believes her life will be perfect. But her dreams are short-lived. Peter doesn''t prove to be the kind of husband or father material Laura has dreamed of, and when she finds that he is a lying, philandering thief she divorces him. Like her two best friends, Laura discovers that she must look beyond her obvious talents to discover who she is--before she will find success and happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2607'),
(3721, 'A fine and bitter snow', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a tense battle between conservationists and developers of Alaskas pristine wilderness, P.I. Kate Shugak finds herself in a murderous environmentSet in Alaska, Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenows novels combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, especially the dynamic Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. A perennial bestseller regionally, Stabenows national profile is on the rise, and with A Fine and Bitter Snow, she delivers the novel that can catapult her into the forefront of crime fiction today.In this latest installment, the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near Kates home has battle lines drawn,even in Kates small community. Things heat up when a ranger at the preserve loses his job for political reasons, but when a passionate conservation spokesperson is found poisoned, the war begins in earnest. I9 a gripping story both entertaining and tensenot to mention timelyDana Stabenow brings to life the beauty and the danger of livingand dyingin Alaska. SUMMARY: Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it''s on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak''s home territory. Battle lines are drawn across their community, but at least it gives Kate something to do. Still just months after her lover''s violent death, though she doesn''t know quite how, she is trying to get back into her daily life. First, tensions run high as their resident park ranger, Dan O''Brien, is deemed "too green for them" by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops inside the Park to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a long-time Park resident is brutally murdered, another stabbed and left for dead as well. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate to help investigate, and together they tackle the loose ends: motive, timing, opportunity, means. One thing is for certain-in Dana Stabenow''s masterful crime novels about the beauty and the danger of living and dying in Alaska, nothing is as simple as it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1048');
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(3722, 'A Fine Balance', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Toronto-based Mistry (Such a Long Journey, 1991), a splendid tale of contemporary India that, in chronicling the sufferings of outcasts and innocents trying to survive in the\n  <code>\n   State of Internal Emergency'''' of the 1970s, grapples with the great question of how to live in the face of death and despair. Though Mistry is too fine a writer to indulge in polemics, this second novel is also a quietly passionate indictment of a corrupt and ineluctably cruel society. India under Indira Gandhi has become a country ruled by thugs who maim and kill for money and power. The four protagonists (all victims of the times) are: Dina, 40-ish, poor and widowed after only three years of marriage; Maneck, the son of an old school friend of Dina''s; and two tailors, Ishvar and his nephew Om, members of the Untouchable caste. For a few months, this unlikely quartet share a tranquil happiness in a nameless city--a city of squalid streets teeming with beggars, where politicians, in the name of progress, abuse the poor and the powerless. Dina, whose dreams of attending college ended when her father died, is now trying to support herself with seamstress work; Maneck, a tenderhearted boy, has been sent to college because the family business is failing; and the two tailors find work with Dina. Though the four survive encounters with various thugs and are saved from disaster by a quirky character known as the Beggarmaster, the times are not propitious for happiness. On a visit back home, Om and Ishvar are forcibly sterilized; Maneck, devastated by the murder of an activist classmate, goes abroad. But Dina and the tailors, who have learned\n  </code>\n  to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair,'''' keep going. A sweeping story, in a thoroughly Indian setting, that combines Dickens''s vivid sympathy for the poor with Solzhenitsyn''s controlled outrage, celebrating both the resilience of the human spirit and the searing heartbreak of failed dreams. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." --_Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A serious and important work . . . the product of high intelligence and passionate conviction."\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Monumental. . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry." --Pico Iyer,\n  </em>\n  Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel . . . ought to consider Rohinton Mistry. He needs no infusion of magic realism to vivify the real. The real world, through his eyes, is magical." --\n  </em>\n  The New York Times_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8274'),
(3723, 'A Fine Cast of Characters', 'J. Dane Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A suicide on a dark bridge over a rushing river is interrupted. A young woman''s dream of opening her own bakery is ruined by the discovery of an unknown stairwell. A student''s Internet plagiarism has dire consequences. All this and much more on the winding path among A Fine Cast of Characters.  J. Dane Tyler weaves a web of short stories in this, his debut publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6053'),
(3724, 'Fine Things', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernard Fine is happy with his life. In his early 30s, he has just been made senior vice-president of Wolff''s Department Store in his hometown of New York. He is not pleased, therefore, when he is sent to California to open up a posh new Wolff''s in San Francisco. His luck changes, though, when he falls in love with an enchanting five-year-old named Jane, and with her mother, Liz O''Reilly. Jane adores strong, sensitive Bernie and all three are blissfully happy until tragedy strikes the Fine family. In short, this is a story about the power of love and the unity of family to surmount grief and misfortune. The narrative moves slowly in parts and the dialogue is somewhat trite, but the characters are likeable and the story entertaining. Sure to be in demand by Steel fans. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Steel is one of the best." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5978'),
(3725, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the company down. Can Stephanie hunt down a killer, a traitor, and keep her Grandma out of the sauce?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2140'),
(3726, 'Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality', 'Barbara Bradley Hagerty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Barbara Bradley Hagerty on\n  <em>\n   Fingerprints of God\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It took me more than a decade to muster the courage to write\n <em>\n  Fingerprints of God.\n </em>\n The seed was planted on June 10, 1995, when I was reporting a story for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Sunday Magazine about evangelical churches. Kathy Younge and I were sitting on a bench outside Saddleback Church. She told me that her melanoma had returned after a remission, and she believed that the disease was not meant to kill her, but to give her a transcendent purpose. As we talked, the night darkened to indigo. The streetlamp next to our bench cast a perfect circle around us, creating the eerie sense that we were actors on a stage. The temperature had dropped into the 50''s. I was shivering but pinned to the spot, riveted by Kathy and her serene faith.\n</p>\n<p>\n My body responded before my brain, alerting me to some unseen change. My skin began to tingle and my heart started beating a little faster. Imperceptibly at first, the air around us thickened; it grew warmer and heavier, as if someone had moved into the circle and was breathing on us. I glanced at Kathy. She had fallen silent mid-sentence. Neither of us spoke. Gradually, and ever so gently, I felt engulfed by a presence I could feel but could not touch. After a minute, although it seemed longer, the presence melted away. We sat quietly, while I waited for the earth to steady itself. I was too spooked to continue with the interview, and a few minutes later I was driving back to my hotel room.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not shake the questions. Was that experience a delusion, or was it real? Is there a spiritual reality that exists beyond our everyday physical world? Is there evidence of God? Not just peopleâ€™s beliefs, but hard, scientific evidence? And most basic of all: Is there more than this? For a decade, I looked for books that would answer these questions. Finding none, I decided to investigate the only way I knew how â€“ as a journalist.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2006, I took a year-long leave of absence from National Public Radio to research the emerging science of spirituality. I spoke with dozens of prominent scientists who are bushwhacking through this controversial territory, often drawing the ire or ridicule of their colleagues who believe that everything can be explained by material means. In the meantime, I took a journey peppered with surprises and ridiculous situations. I traveled to Canada and donned the "God helmet" to see if activating my temporal lobes would unleash an encounter with the "divine." I attended to a peyote ceremony (although, like our former president, I barely ingested) and visited Johns Hopkins University in search of a chemical that would manufacture a mystical experience. I arranged for a minister to have his brain scanned while he prayed at the University of Pennsylvania, and tried to see if I could physically change my own brain through two weeks of meditation at the University of Wisconsin.\n</p>\n<p>\n And I spent endless hours with people who had enjoyed dramatic spiritual experiences. Some had had spontaneous mystical experiences, right out of the blue. Some transcendent moments were triggered by a trauma, others by drugs, or epilepsy, or near-death experiences. Some people spent hundreds of hours in prayer and meditation to cultivate the ability to connect with the divine.\n</p>\n<p>\n I confess that my exploration was not an entirely clinical. I was raised a Christian Scientist, and while I now consider myself a serious mainstream Christian, I have always believed in the presence and power of God. At the beginning I nursed a nagging concern that perhaps this God business is just a ruse, self medication in the face of certain death. I fretted that science would prove that all mystery, all transcendent experience, can be boiled down to brain chemistry and genetics.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I foundâ€”well, youâ€™ll have to see. But I can say this: By the end of my research, I had redefined God and my view of reality. And perhaps at the end of the book, you will too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In her first book, National Public Radio correspondent Hagerty acts as a tour guide through the rocky terrain of scientists who study religious experience. Is there a so-called God gene? Why do some people have mystical experiences while others never see the so-called light? Right up front, Hagerty reveals that this is not an entirely objective exercise. As a Christian, she wants to understand her own mystical encounter with the divine and why she believes when others do not. Yet to each interview, whether with a world-renowned neuroscientist or a back-road mystic, she brings a suitably skeptical eye. Along the way, she manages to explain some pretty cutting-edge scienceâ€”psychoneuroimmunology, anyone?â€”and unravel some people''s pretty hard-to-comprehend religious experiences without sacrificing depth or complexity. Then, with equal aplomb, she dances off to peyote ceremonies, church services and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6110'),
(3727, 'The Finkler Questione', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they''ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. &gt;Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor''s grand, central London apartment. It''s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends'' losses. And it''s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Questionis a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8162'),
(3728, 'Finny', 'Justin Kramon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Justin Kramonâ€™s debut novel, Finny, is a sweeping, enchanting voyage, an insightful story about a young womanâ€™s complicated path to adulthood. We meet Finny Short as an observant, defiant fourteen-year-old who canâ€™t make sense of her familyâ€™s unusual habits: Her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures sheâ€™s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with Finnyâ€™s budding romance with Earl, her parents ship her off to Thorndon boarding school. But mischief follows Finny as she befriends New York heiress Judith Turngate, a girl whose charm belies a disquieting reckless streak.Finnyâ€™s relationships with Earl and Judith open her up to dizzying possibilities of love and loss and propel her into a remarkable adventure spanning twenty years and two continents. Justin Kramon has given us a wickedly funny odyssey with a moving and original love story at its core. Finny introduces us to an unforgettable heroine, a charmingly intricate world, and an uncommonly entertaining and gifted young novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2734'),
(3729, 'Fire', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan,\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n is an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters of allâ€”a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she''s more than attractive. Fire is mesmerising.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with this extraordinary beauty comes influence and power. People who are susceptible to her appeal will do anything for her attention, and for her affection. They will turn away from their families, their work, and their duties for her. They will forget their responsibilities to please her...and worse, crush nations, neglect kingdoms and abuse their power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aware of her power, and afraid of it, Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people, and away from temptation. Until the day comes when she is neededâ€”a day when, for her king, she has to stand against not only his enemies, but also against herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5084'),
(3730, 'Fire and Hemlock', 'Diana Wynne Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Version 1.0\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9353'),
(3731, 'Fire and ice', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News* EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(3732, 'The Fire Baby', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a young woman, Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms.Twenty-seven years later, Maggie is dying. Journalist Philip Dryden knows this because Maggie is lying in the hospital ward next to his wife Laura. As Maggie prepares to leave this world, Laura---locked in a coma for four years---appears to be slowly returning to it. And for the last few days, she has listened to Maggie''s death-bed confession surrounding events on the night of the crash all those years ago.It''s a confession that will blow open the murder story that Dryden is covering. But can Laura somehow communicate to her husband the shocking secrets she has learned?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1841'),
(3733, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(3734, 'The Fire Kimono', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, March 1700. Near a Shinto shrine in the hills, a windstorm knocks down a tree to uncover a human skeleton, long buried and forgotten. Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Edo, troops ambush and attack Lady Reiko, the wife of Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power and influence in the shogun''s court. The troops who attacked Reiko appear to belong to Sano''s fiercest enemy, Lord Matsudaira, who denies all responsibility. But if the rivals are not to blame for each other''s misfortune, who is? Just as Sano''s strife with Matsudaira begins to escalate to the brink of war, the shogun orders Sano to investigate the origins of the mysterious skeleton, buried with swords that identify it as belonging to the shogun''s cousin, who disappeared forty years earlier on the night that a cursed kimono touched off a fire that nearly destroyed the city. Suddenly, Sano and Reiko are forced to confront dangerous, long-buried secrets that expose Sano''s own mother as the possible culprit. The shogun gives Sano and Reiko just three days to clear her nameor risk losing not only their position at court but their families'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2671'),
(3735, 'Fire to fire: new and selected poems', 'Mark Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mark Doty''s Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty''s seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty''s subjectsâ€”our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire''s transformative power, and art''s ability to give shape to human livesâ€”echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry''s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2995'),
(3736, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, __. Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6936'),
(3737, 'Fire Watch', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time.Â Â Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction.Â Â Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history''s hardest lessons.Â Â In "A Letter from the Clearys," a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family.Â Â In "The Sidon in the Mirror," a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim.Â Â Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5756'),
(3738, 'Fire Your Boss', 'Stephen M. Pollan &amp; Mark Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This stimulating, iconoclastic career-development primer is a rare example of the self-help/motivational genre with a difference. Life coach Pollan and his collaborator Levine, authors of the contrarian retirement planning guide Die Broke, donâ€™t mean the title literally; itâ€™s just a metaphor for taking control of your work life, one that rejects all the high-minded shibboleths of traditional business motivation. They argue that companies are "amoral legal constructs" that care nothing for their workers. Bosses are dictators rather than mentors or servant-leaders. Jobs canâ€™t provide psychological or spiritual fulfillment; people should get those things from their lives away from workâ€”where they should spend as little time as possible. The authors elaborate these insights into a refreshingly cynical take on workplace issues. Success doesnâ€™t depend on doing a good job, they say, but on soothing and flattering the boss. Workers shouldnâ€™t wallow in unrequited loyalty to the company, but ought to be constantly "fishing" for better jobs. Other rules: rely on personal ties, because landing a job is a matter of "who you know, not what you know"; donâ€™t personalize your cubicle, because that might encourage you to spend more time at work; above all, donâ€™t try to follow your heart or make a difference in your career: "the job of your dreams is the one that pays the most money." The authors provide lots of shrewd tips on job hunting, negotiating, manipulation and brown-nosing, but their book transcends the merely pragmatic. Their call to "end this destructive pursuit of meaningful work" mounts a subversive challenge to the idea of the calling, and thus to the Protestant work ethic at the very core of the motivational worldview.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fire Your Boss\n <br />\n And Hire Yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, "You don''t have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you''re never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss."\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding "success" on the job.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollan''s bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must "fire your boss." By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7668'),
(3739, 'Firefight', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8927'),
(3740, 'Fireflies', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one fathers powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, Fireflies is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/973'),
(3741, 'Fireflies in December', 'Jennifer Erin Valent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn''s father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black and prejudice is prevalent in their southern Virginia town. Violence springs up as a ragtag band of Ku Klux Klan members unite and decide to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount in the small community, loyalties are tested and Jessilyn is forced to say good-bye to the carefree days of her youth. *Fireflies in December* is the 2007 winner of the Christian Writers Guild''s Operation First Novel contest, and a 2010 Christy Award winner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1626'),
(3742, 'Firefly', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Using the same Florida setting as his horror novel Shade of the Tree , Anthony here conjures up a nightmarish creature who stalks humans through sexual attraction and leaves them grotesquely sucked dry of their protoplasm. When bodies reduced to skin and skeleton are found on a remote wildlife sanctuary, the reclusive owner of the estate refuses to call in outside help to track down the killer. His employees are left to fend for themselves against the menace of a predator who lures them in the way a firefly traps its prey--by emitting pheromones, powerfully sexual chemicals--and uses digestive acids to dissolve the bodies of its victims. Speculating about the power of an alien monster to decimate the human race, Anthony devotes much of the narrative to plumbing his characters'' past experiences, many of them couched in allegorical terms, and examining the differences between love and sex, with emphasis on sexual abuse. Absorbed in working out his theme, Anthony unfortunately overlooks flawed logic and plot inconsistencies. While some readers may find his ideas intriguing, many will be put off by a narrative that verges on the pornographic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mysterious monster stalks a private wildlife preserve, leaving behind only the skin and bones of its victims--and an overpowering pheromonic residue. The author of a multitude of fantasy and sf series and single novels tries his hand at horror with mixed results, producing an unfortunate trivialization of the problems that beset the novel''s protagonists. Despite Anthony''s strong imagination and affection for his characters, this is not recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4593'),
(3743, 'Firehand', 'Andre Norton - Time Traders 5 - Firehand (v1.1)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9083'),
(3744, 'Fires of Azeroth', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a star Gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires that Morgaine must seal. But Morgaine and Vanye have brought devastation to the peaceful land. For the hordes of Shiuan were on their heels, determined to conquer a new land for themselves and to avenge their lost planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10899'),
(3745, 'The fires of heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:. ... Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al''Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine. ... Into the Amyrlin''s study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Flaida do Avriny a''Roihan, is weaving new plans. ... Into Andor, where Siuan Sanche and her companions, including the false Dragon Logain, have been arrested for barn-burning. ... Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon. ... Into the Queen''s court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril. For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men''s lives are ablaze. And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3810'),
(3746, 'Fires of Prophecy: Book Two of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trapped within the City of Light when it fell to the Empire, James young friend and companion Miko had been captured by the Empires forces and is now being taken as a slave into the Empire. The last thing hed told Miko before they were separated was: Ill find you. Now James, with the help of some new found allies, travels into the Empire to rescue his friend. Acting as a caravan merchant from Cardri, he goes from city to city in his attempt to find his friend. From the City of Light, to the slave markets of Korazan, even unto the Empires capital itself, James continues in his search for his friend Miko, unwilling to leave him to his fate. In this exciting second book of the epic fantasy series,The Morcyth Saga, Brian S. Pratt has continued to give us the heart pounding action that his readers so much enjoyed in the first novel. For more aboutThe Morcyth Saga, go to:morcythsaga.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6749'),
(3747, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4290'),
(3748, 'Firestorm', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of warâ€“and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet Ravenette, where the Marines of the Confederationâ€™s 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) find themselves up against a full-fledged rebellionâ€“and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, The Confederation has beefed up its defenses. But to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenetteâ€“unaware that a deadly enemy even existsâ€“the governmentâ€™s move seems oppressive, and ten planets have responded with a war of secession.In touch-and-go battles with the seceding planets, the 34th FIST has emerged battered but unbowed, refusing to give up . . . even while under the command of a fanatical general. The enemy determined to strike, a new mission must be carried out, though the troops will likely return in body bags.Should Ensign Charlie Bass and his Marines somehow survive the nightmarishly difficult amphibious landing, they can expect to be outmanned, outgunned, and out-armored in a fierce duel against fresh soldiers. But like any Marine worth his salt, Bass knows thereâ€™s only one way to go when facing impossible odds: on the offense with all guns firing. Thereâ€™s no other choiceâ€“because if life was easy, thereâ€™d be no need to send in the Marines.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/919'),
(3749, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1999'),
(3750, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadÂ Â his choice of the best in America. He made a deadlyÂ Â mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withÂ Â Bendini, Lambert &amp; Locke of Memphis, he thought heÂ Â and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.Â Â The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolÂ Â loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him aÂ Â decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisÂ Â brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a TennesseeÂ Â jail -- already knew. You never get nothing forÂ Â nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch''sÂ Â firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between aÂ Â rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if heÂ Â wants to live.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2906'),
(3751, 'The First American', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10176'),
(3752, 'First Among Sequels', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11188'),
(3753, 'First and Only', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IN THE CHAOS-INFESTED Sabbat\n <br />\n Worlds, Imperial Commissar Gaunt\n <br />\n must lead his men through as mich\n <br />\n in-fighting amongst rival regiments as\n <br />\n against the heretical forces of Chaos.\n <br />\n First and Only is an epic saga of\n <br />\n planetary conquest, grand ambition,\n <br />\n treachery and honour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1114'),
(3754, 'The First Billion: A Novel', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Money makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech entrepreneur who''s on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market with an IPO worth billions. But when his best friend and second-in-command disappears after Gavallon sends him to Moscow to make sure the new company is on the up and up, Jett begins to have second thoughts, which are exactly what his Russian partners can''t afford. Beset by an FBI task force looking into Mercury Broadband''s financing by Russian mobsters, rumors of fraud being circulated by a Drudge-like online financial gossip columnist, and the discovery that his former lover is not who he thought she was, Jett puts his fortune on the line in a desperate attempt to save his company--and ultimately, his life. An exciting, fast-paced adventure by an author who puts his experience in international banking to work in the service of this carefully plotted thriller.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reich continues to struggle, trying to recapture his early success. After a rather intriguing setup, this third novel gradually evolves into something more like an unintentional parody than a real thriller. Following the altogether lackluster Allan Folsom-esque Nazi war crimes plot of The Runner, the Swiss banker-turned-thriller writer returns to the more familiar arena of international finance, which provided the intriguing backdrop of his 1998 bestselling debut, Numbered Account. But action and pacing are made to substitute for the authenticity and credibility that distinguished his promising first novel. Borrowing to the hilt in a go-for-broke move, Jett Gavallan, ex-Gulf War fighter pilot turned founding CEO of Frisco-based Black Jet Securities an up-and-coming investment banking firm puts all his chips on the line for the chance to take public Mercury Broadband (Russia''s answer to AOL) with shares worth $2 billion. The pot of gold at the end of his rainbow is a cool $70 million, but all is not blue skies. An enigmatic online financial analyst, Private Eye-PO, starts warning investors that the deal is bad, leading Jett to send partner Grafton Byrnes undercover to Moscow to verify the legitimacy of Mercury Broadband. Graf calls in with a coded warning that all is not well, Jett''s investigator locates the real Private Eye-PO in Delray Beach, Fla., and bodies begin piling up. Credibility wanes and action spins out of control as Jett and an old flame embark on an intercontinental plane and car chase. Comic-book dialogue ("Kind of you, Mr. Gavallan. It''s not often a disloyal, disgraceful slut gets any TLC") makes this thriller read like an old Saturday Night Live skit, which may give it kitsch appeal but undermines its dramatic effect.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5380'),
(3755, 'First Contact: Or, It&#39;s Later Than You Think', 'Evan Mandery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attach, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(3756, 'First degree', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter''s late father has made him a rich man--22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man--cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case becomes personal when, in a stunning development, Andy''s client is exonerated and his girlfriend, Laurie Collins, is accused of the crime. When the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy realizes that this is much bigger than one crime. Who committed the murders? Who framed Laurie? In the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie''s innocence in this thrilling mystery from the always inventive David Rosenfelt.- Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 5/02) was a Mystery Guild(R) Featured Alternate. Bulgarian, French, and German rights to the book were sold before publication. Its 5/03 mass market release will tie in with the hardcover release of First Degree.- David Rosenfelt writes legal mysteries with the same authority and sense of drama that has ensured the success of Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, and Harlan Coben.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(3757, 'First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightening outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her. Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them -and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1469');
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(3758, 'First Family: Abigail and John Adams', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America''s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic''s tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious--John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John''s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses'' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father''s absence. John was elected the nation''s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail''s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: "I can do nothing," John told Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis''s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail''s relationship unfolds in the context of America''s birth as a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6661'),
(3759, 'The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morelloâ€“known as â€œThe Clutch Handâ€â€“and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sourcesâ€“hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family membersâ€“this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.The men who battled Morelloâ€™s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe â€œJoeâ€ Petrosino of the New York Police Departmentâ€™s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, The First Family is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2862'),
(3760, 'First Flight', 'Mary Robinette Kowal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal''s Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov''s. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, will be published by Tor in 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2529'),
(3761, 'The First King of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.But his removal from Paranor was not altogether a terrible thing, for Bremen learned that dark forces were on the move from the Northlands. That seemingly invincible armies of trolls were fast conquering all that lay to their south. That the scouts for the army--and its principal assassins--were Skull Bearers, disfigured and transformed Druids who had fallen prey to the seductions of the magic arts. And that at the heart of the evil tide was an archmage and former Druid named Brona!Using the special skills he had acquired through his own study of Magic, Bremen was able to penetrate the huge camp of the Troll army and learn many of its secrets. And he immediately understood that if the peoples of the Four Lands were to escape eternal subjugation they would need to unite. But, even united, they would need a weapon, something so powerful that the evil magic of Brona, the Warlock Lord, would fail before its might...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3297'),
(3762, 'First Lady', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''Witty, moving, passionate and tender...pure up-to-the-minute entertainment...well-written, funny, sexy, and altogether satisfying.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4643'),
(3763, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The next book in the thrilling *New York Times* bestselling series.** For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera. But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1717'),
(3764, 'First Meetings: In Ender&#39;s Universe', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender''s Game -winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel-and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man-or boy-in John Paul Wiggin.... In "Teacher''s Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive-until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender''s Game," which first appeared in 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2482'),
(3765, 'The First Person: And Other Stories', 'Ali Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy''s unexplained illness in "I Know Something You Don''t Know" drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In "The Child," an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a confident older woman meets her awkward fourteen-year-old self in "Writ" but can''t figure out how to guide her-or even whether she should. As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(3766, 'the First Rule (2010)', 'Crais, Robert - Joe Pike 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9954'),
(3767, 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers', 'Loung Ung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the present tense,\n <em>\n  First They Killed My Father\n </em>\n will put you right in the midst of the action--action you''ll wish had never happened. It''s a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author''s personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia''s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, Ung, now the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, was the five-year-old child of a large, affluent family living in Phnom Penh, the cosmopolitan Cambodian capital. As extraordinarily well-educated Chinese-Cambodians, with the father a government agent, her family was in great danger when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and throughout Pol Pot''s barbaric regime. Her parents'' strength and her father''s knowledge of Khmer Rouge ideology enabled the family to survive together for a while, posing as illiterate peasants, moving first between villages, and then from one work camp to another. The father was honest with the children, explaining dangers and how to avoid them, and this, along with clear sight, intelligence and the pragmatism of a young child, helped Ung to survive the war. Her restrained, unsentimental account of the four years she spent surviving the regime before escaping with a brother to Thailand and eventually the United States is astonishing--not just because of the tragedies, but also because of the immense love for her family that Ung holds onto, no matter how she is brutalized. She describes the physical devastation she is surrounded by but always returns to her memories and hopes for those she loves. Her joyful memories of life in Phnom Penh are close even as she is being trained as a child soldier, and as, one after another, both parents and two of her six siblings are murdered in the camps. Skillfully constructed, this account also stands as an eyewitness history of the period, because as a child Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer she adds details to clarify the family''s moves and separations. Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph. 8 pages b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6381'),
(3768, 'First to Fight', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day''s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds. But the enemy didn''t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines'' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . . "HARD TO PUT DOWN . . . Any book written by Cragg and Sherman is bound to be addictive, and this is the first in what promises to be a great adventure series. FIRST TO FIGHT is rousing, rugged, and just plain fun."--Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(3769, 'The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt', 'T. J. Stiles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius â€œCommodoreâ€ Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtonâ€™s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nationâ€™s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationâ€”in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n , Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodoreâ€™s personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorkâ€™s social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excerpts from an Interview with T.J. Stiles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Your last book was a\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T.J. Stiles:\n </strong>\n I was drawn by who he was as a person, the lack of writing about him, and the historical themes that defined his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt was man of action--decisive, dramatic, and always interesting. He courted physical danger, fought high-stakes financial battles, and always set the terms of his existence. Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt has not been the subject of much serious research. And like Jesse James, Vanderbilt opened a window on the making of modern America. Vanderbilt was central to the rise of the corporation, the emergence of Wall Street, and the birth of big business. His was a dramatic life played out on an enormous stage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research went into it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n I worked on it for more than six years. My research was challenging because Vanderbilt kept no diary, preserved no letters, and left behind no collection of papers. Second, the last serious biography about him was written in 1942. The increasing digitization of newspapers and Congressional documents helped, but I did most of my work the old-fashioned way, digging through archives and sitting in front of microfilm readers. My biggest discovery came when I stumbled upon the Old Records Division of the New York County Clerkâ€™s Office; I spent months there going through original lawsuit papers from as early as 1816. I uncovered entire episodes of Vanderbiltâ€™s life that no one ever suspected--fistfights, steamboats ramming each other, inside trading and noncompetition agreements, details about his physical office and epic tales of betrayal. I also focused on Vanderbiltâ€™s associates and rivals, and found priceless letters about him in their papers. Of course, I spent months more going through the papers of his various railroad corporations at the New York Public Library. I found so much new material that I decided to include a lengthy bibliographical essay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the book, you highlight Vanderbilt''s role in the making of the modern idea of economic regulation. You also write, "The Commodoreâ€™s life left its mark on Americansâ€™ most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity." Where in our modern institutions do you think his legacy is most apparent?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n Vanderbilt early on voiced a political philosophy rooted in radical Jacksonianism. He believed in individual equality, in the right to compete freely. He denounced monopolies and corporations. This strain of thought remains a key part of American values. Yet he ended his life at the pinnacle of an incredibly unequal society, the master of a giant corporation that overshadowed almost every other business in America. That late-life transformation strongly influenced the new acceptance of government regulation that arose after the Civil War. I donâ€™t think so much that Vanderbiltâ€™s legacy can be seen in our institutions as much as our economic culture--the rise of the modern idea that government should intervene to regulate large businesses, and redress the balance of wealth and power in society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think Vanderbilt would have to say about our current economic climate; its root causes as well as the ever increasing bail-outs of giant corporations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n When the Panic of 1873 hit, Vanderbilt gave an immediate analysis to a newspaper reporter that virtually describes the current situation. The problem was asset inflation: a speculative bubble (in his case, railroads, in our case, real estate) that tamped down skepticism about the value of securities issued by overvalued companies (or, in our case, mortgage-backed securities based on shaky home loans). Eager to ride the rising wave, banks in New York marketed the securities abroad, giving a stamp of approval, much as they have done with mortgage-backed securities today. In other words, Vanderbilt would have understood the root causes of our crisis, despite the great differences in the economy between then and now. And, though he usually looked askance at government intervention, the seriousness of the situation might have led him to approve of strong action. Itâ€™s hard to say, because he denounced subsidies, yet after the Panic of 1873 he also urged the federal government to pump new money into the economy. In any case, he would have had a sophisticated grasp of our conundrum.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your own family history recently made national news when it was discovered, at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, that one of President Lincoln''s watches contained a secret inscription from your great-great grandfather. That must have been pretty exciting for you, not only as a family member but as a historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. How do you feel about this news and what do you make of all the attention it received?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n The news accounts floored me. I never expected this favorite family story, one I never quite believed, to enter national mythology. My great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Dillon, was an Irish immigrant who was working in a Washington, D.C., watch repair shop when Fort Sumter was fired on. He happened to be holding Lincoln''s watch in his hand. He made an inscription on the back of the dial, closed it up, and said nothing to Lincoln about it. My second cousin, Douglas Stiles, tracked the watch to the Smithsonian''s Museum of American History, and convinced the director to open the watch up and check. The message was there--a little different from my great-great-grandfather''s memory, but it was there.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think it struck a chord with the nation at the moment of Lincoln''s bicentennial. Here was a plucky, immigrant watchmaker who left a silent message of encouragement in Lincoln''s pocket. No fanfare, nothing attention grabbing, just a patriotic, very human little act. I grew up with this story, and named my own son Dillon, in a kind of chain tribute to Jonathan Dillon, the watchmaker. (My father''s middle name is Dillon, and of course it was my great-grandmother Isabella Dillon''s maiden name.) When he was born in 2007, I often told the story about Lincoln''s watch. If I had my doubts about it, I figured that no one would dare tear open Lincoln''s watch to check. Glad they did.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a historian, I found it particularly startling to be brought so close to perhaps the most important American of any era. I wrote about Lincoln in\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n . Now I know that, as he held an urgent conference with Cornelius Vanderbilt over how best to deal with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, he might have had in his pocket a secret message from my great-great-grandfather. The story adds an immediacy to the past, showing how close any one of us is to great historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joanne Chan)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the panic of 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt â€œappeared in the role of a hero,â€ Stiles writes, praised for steadying the markets with his confidence and his cash. In reality, Vanderbiltâ€™s own machinations had helped push the markets to the brink. He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the â€œhealth of the national economy,â€ and â€œthe only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success.â€ Vanderbilt started out running a ferry off Staten Island and went on to control shipping lines and railroads; he built Grand Central with his own money. The canvas of his life is so large that giants like Jay Gould appear as bit characters. (Thereâ€™s also Tennessee Claflin, a â€œmagnetic physicianâ€ and clairvoyant turned stockbroker; Stiles thinks that she and Vanderbilt had an affair but discounts some of the more vivid stories about their relationship.) Mark Twain described Vanderbilt as something like the Grinch, the â€œidol of . . . a crawling swarm of small soulsâ€â€”a cartoon that Stiles does a good job of redrawing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8709'),
(3770, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1973'),
(3771, 'Firstborn', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Firstbornâ€“the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey*â€“*have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarkeâ€™s writing for decades. With Timeâ€™s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic.Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mirâ€™s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike powerâ€“a power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an instrumental role in humanityâ€™s race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back.This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a â€œquantum bomb.â€ Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyedâ€“and one that will obliterate Earth.Bisesaâ€™s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(3772, 'Fish', 'Felix Sutton; Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1398'),
(3773, 'A Fish Dinner in Memison', 'E.R. Eddson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Fish Dinner in Memison is a novel centering on the characters of King Mezentius and Fiorinda; much is revealed about the links between principal characters and the separate worlds of the novel, not fully resolved in the other novels in the trilogy. The character of Lessingham is also resolved to its greatest extent in all the novels of the trilogy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(3774, 'Fistandantilus Reborn', 'Douglas Niles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Lost Gods BookEmilo Haversack is unusually worried for a kender -- though he can''t for the life of him remember what his problem is. Still, he''s been wandering across Ansalon for quite some time, trying to remember what''s wrong. All he can recall is the name of a very evil, very dead wizard . . . Fistandantilus.Joined by a young kendermaid, a human lad, and a devout, if somewhat naive priest, Emilo is drawn into a mysterious quest. As he draws closer to the secret of his past, he and his friends find themselves caught in an increasingly sinister web of intrigue.And as the conclusion of the adventure approaches, the companions learn that their pourpose is one that could catapult them from Krynn -- and forever change the destiny of the world they leave behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11097'),
(3775, 'A Fistfull of Charms', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9632'),
(3776, 'Five Are Together Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9437'),
(3777, 'Five Days in Paris', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Haskell, the debonair star of\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n , has it all: a beautiful wife, three children, and a dreamy job. He''s a magnate at one of the world''s largest pharmaceutical conglomerates, Viotec, on the brink of revolutionizing cancer treatment. "It would be Peter''s one major contribution to the human race," says the narrator--and if he can get it on the fast track toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration, he can mitigate the hell of chemotherapy for patients worldwide. Heady stuff, but it''s nothing compared to what Peter finds in Paris at his favorite hotel, the Ritz, which he likens to heaven. "The brocades on the wall were a warm peach ... the fireplace apricot marble and the window and bedcoverings were in the same matching silks and satins." All Peter needs now is a beauty to match such decor, and he finds her in lovely Olivia Thatcher, the neglected wife of Anderson Thatcher, a powerful senator. Peter and Olivia meet at the Ritz, fall head over heels at Place Vendome, and have a 120-hour affair in the city of love. Back home, they find they cannot live without each other--a secret that, once revealed, could wreak havoc. Swirling with lust, politics, love, and epicurean appetites for the best life has to offer,\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n has all the essentials of a classic Steel entertainment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0-44022284-2. Steel''s 36th novel, an 18-week PW bestseller, is a tale of l''amour fou between two Americans in Paris who are married to other people.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6028'),
(3778, 'Five Fall Into Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9439'),
(3779, 'Five Flavors of Dumb', 'Antony John', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“When in a rush of uncommon bravado high school senior Piper offers to manage Dumb, her school''s most popular student rock band, her family thinks it must be a joke. A retiring student and member of the chess team, Piper is neither the stereotypical band manager nor a typical teen: she is profoundly hearing impaired. After she discovers that her parents have spent the majority of her college money to treat her infant sister''s deafness with cochlear implants, Piper''s quest to get Dumb a paying gig leads her to consider her managerial role as a potential source of income. John''s novel is written with a reverence for popular musicâ€“particularly the work of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobainâ€“and a respect for its ambitious teen characters. Although Piper''s hearing is a characterizing detail that could have been used solely to add a type of politically incorrect and screwball humor to the story, her abilities are seen as assets: while lip reading allows her access to public conversation, she is not above using sign language to obscure her intentions. The parallel attention to Piper''s hearing family and the strain her parents'' decision to treat her sister with cochlear implants adds to the greater story and informs the novel''s direction and ending in a satisfying way. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this rock-and-roll novel joins the ranks of Randy Powell''s equally thoughtful Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (Farrar, 2003) and Blake Nelson''s Rock Star Superstar (Viking, 2004).â€“Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I loved it and laughed out loud. Hilarious and so smart. Dumb proves that everyone, no matter what, deserves to be heard." Ã‘Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, author of\n <em>\n  Dairy Queen\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4438'),
(3780, 'Five Get Into a Fix', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9457'),
(3781, 'Five Get Into Trouble', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are distraught! Dick has been kidnapped - mistaken for somebody else! The gang finally track him down - to a lonely, abandoned house - but then they too are seized and held captive! Now that all of them are miles from home, and from help, how will the intrepid Five get themselves out of this mess . . ?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/717'),
(3782, 'Five go adventuring again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(3783, 'Five Go Down to the Sea', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9442'),
(3784, 'Five Go Off in a Caravan', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(3785, 'Five go off to camp', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/715'),
(3786, 'Five Go to Billycock Hill', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9458'),
(3787, 'Five Go to Demons Rock', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9435'),
(3788, 'Five Go to Mystery Moor', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9436'),
(3789, 'Five Go to Smuggler&#39;s Top', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9440'),
(3790, 'Five Great Novels. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Martian Time-Slip. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Ubik. A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick''s unique imagination. In Dick''s writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world''s order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6561'),
(3791, 'Five Have a Mystery to Solve', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9441'),
(3792, 'Five have a wonderful time', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they''ve discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/720'),
(3793, 'Five Have Plenty of Fun', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9456'),
(3794, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Take one dead lothario; add his jealous wife accused of his murder; toss in a devoted daughter who wants to clear her mother''s name, and you get one of the greatest challenges of Hercule Poirot''s career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5267'),
(3795, 'Five on a Hike Together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9455'),
(3796, 'Five on a Secret Trail', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9438'),
(3797, 'Five on a treasure island', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There''s a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they''re not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/712'),
(3798, 'Five on Finniston Farm', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9443'),
(3799, 'Five on Kirrin Island Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won''t let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn''t really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(3800, 'The Five Orange Pips', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9395'),
(3801, 'Five Past Midnight', 'James Thayer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s remarkable that practicing lawyers such as Seattle''s James Thayer find the time, not to mention the psychic energy, to write smashing, fact-packed thrillers like this top-drawer tale, in which a lone assassin is sent into Germany at the end of World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to knock off Hitler. Unlike other "what if?" books such as\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal,\n </em>\n where readers know from the start that the plot to kill de Gaulle didn''t succeed,\n <em>\n  Five Past Midnight\n </em>\n winds up in the ruins of Hitler''s bunker, where the Nazi leader indeed met his end. Whether or not it was at the hands of American commando Jack Cray is up to readers to decide--and Thayer does his best to sway the jury in favor of his client. His last gripping thriller,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Worn out though it be, the action hero bestriding a cartoonish world is a versatile stock character with regular appeal--provided the antagonist is suitably bad. Thayer picks the baddest of the bad--Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1945. On the flimsy rumor that Hitler will continue the war from the Alps, special forces assassin Jack Cray is dispatched to stop him. Any cement head can kill, but to do so with Cray''s disguises and efficiency--with knives! guns! bare hands!--shows he''s a pro that no Gestapo thugs could possibly stop. Their efforts are short hurdles that Cray overcomes in ever more spectacular fashion. Locked up in a POW prison? Escape by faking death. Approaching a roadblock? Hide in a beef carcass. Need a German uniform? A sniper rifle? Fake documents? Cray steals, with the occasional help of a spy, everything he needs in a series of scrapes and escapes as he closes on Hitler''s bunker, where Cray''s SS ally awaits. A silly beach-time diversion with the noisy explosiveness that more people ask for by name--Thayer.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5606'),
(3802, 'Five People You Meet In Heaven', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2957'),
(3803, 'Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "We''re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."\n <br />\n --from_\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey''s discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''s advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich''s Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy''s codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist''s negligence in modern-day California.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.\n</p>\n<p>\n As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man''s life,\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5394'),
(3804, 'Five run away together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who''s been on George''s island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they''re on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/713'),
(3805, 'FJ_DeServed', 'Fiona Jayde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10023');
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(3806, 'Flamethrower', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ruby Murphyâ€”Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclistâ€”notices a human leg in her psychiatrist''s fish tank in her third diverting sleuthing adventure (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Gargantuan\n </em>\n ), the limb proves to belong to Tobias Ray, the estranged spouse of Dr. Jody Ray, Ruby''s coolly professional therapist. Once over the shock, Jody begs Ruby to help hunt for Tobias, an apparent kidnapping victim. But just when Ruby finds the one-legged Tobias, Jody disappears. Meanwhile, Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum; her live-in boyfriend suddenly needs "space"; and her only loyal friend is Jack Valentine, her beloved horse. Though the plot meanders and takes a tortoise-and-hare nap occasionally, Estep''s wry observations, razor-sharp wit and deliciously vivid characters will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep is a writer of a thousand voices. . . . She can get into just about anyoneâ€™s head, including the horses who are such strong, individualized characters in this series.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Estepâ€™s] vividly drawn characters and the wit of their interchanges . . . rip through the constraints of the [mystery] genre. I was blown away by the gale force of Estepâ€™s talent.â€ â€”Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a book that burns like brilliance at its zenith.â€ â€”Ken Bruen, author of\n <em>\n  The Dramatist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep writes like no one else. She is one of my favorite writers, and_ Flamethrower_ might be her best book. Do yourself a favor and read all of her books now.â€ â€”Sara Gran, author of\n <em>\n  Dope\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Come Closer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour de force of mystery fiction and a maniacally hilarious black comedy . . . Ruby Murphy is a terrifically flawed protagonist, operating one step ahead of disaster. . . . With\n <em>\n  Flamethrower\n </em>\n , Estep is at the top of her game.â€ â€”Jason Starr, author of_ Lights Out_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always such a joy to enter Maggie Estepâ€™s world, where everyoneâ€”dogs, horses, people, and placesâ€”is unique, real, and treated with respect, even when theyâ€™re completely demented. Ruby Murphy is a great character and I enjoy every minute I spend with her.â€ â€”S. J. Rozan, author of\n <em>\n  Absent Friends\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7448'),
(3807, 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#39;Connor', 'Brad Gooch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gooch (_City Poet:__The Life and Times of Frank O''Hara_) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O''Connor (1925â€“1964), who, despite the author''s diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gemsâ€”the full story of O''Connor''s friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance. Perhaps mindful of the writer''s dislike of being exposed in print, Gooch errs on the side of delicacy; he does not sufficiently explore her attitudes toward blacks and how the early onset of lupus left her sequestered on her mother''s Georgia farm, without the male companionship she craved. Instead, he plumbs O''Connor''s fiction for buried fragments of her daily life, and the revelations are hardly astonishing. Readers looking for more startling tidbits will be disappointed by this account that brims with the quiet satisfactions the author took in her industry (I sit all day typing and grinning like the Cheshire cat), her faith, friends and stoic approach to a debilitating disease. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery Oï¿½Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He presents a writer influenced by the early death of her father and the retreat from city life to country; an Irish Catholic upbringing that evolved into an adult fascination with theology; and a Southern small-town culture whose matrons, including Oï¿½Connorï¿½s mother, were happy for her success but put off by the unladylike nature of her workï¿½ï¿½Everybody here shakes my hand but nobody reads my stories.ï¿½ Though she spent time in both the Midwest and the Northeast, lupus narrowed the circle of her life to a dairy farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she collected exotic birds. Goochï¿½s account is meticulous, but Oï¿½Connorï¿½s sedate, chaste life is pale in comparison with her fantastic fictionï¿½a contrast that underscores her inscrutable genius.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6177'),
(3808, 'Flashfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is to overrun Ravenetteâ€™s Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need helpâ€“nowâ€“and they need it bad.Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.Charlie Bass doesnâ€™t mince words for his men in Company Lâ€™s third platoon. Two army divisionsâ€“perhaps thirty thousand soldiersâ€“are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but not the Marines. Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(3809, 'Flashforward', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert J. Sawyerâ€™s award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times called Frameshift â€œfilled to bursting with ideas, characters, and incidents.â€ His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Now, his award-winning novel Flash Forward is becoming a network TV series, expected to air in the fall of 2009. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flash forward and see their successesâ€¦or learn how to avoid their failures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3615'),
(3810, 'Flat Stanley', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Scott Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poor Stanley. He''s a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin board off of him, Stanley must adjust to life as a pancake. He is a boy who takes this kind of thing in stride, though, and soon he''s enjoying the advantages of squashedness. Sliding under closed doors is fun, and it''s gratifying to be of use to his mother when she drops her ring through a narrow metal grating. Expensive plane fare to California? No problem. Svelte Stanley folds comfortably into a brown paper envelope. There''s even room left over in there for an egg-salad sandwich. But Stanley''s true moment of glory comes when a gang of thieves begins stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art. The case seems hopeless--until our two-dimensional hero saves the day. Here is one boy who doesn''t let his profile-challenged body stop him from living life fully--that is, until his brother finds a way to help him become well rounded again. Jeff Brown''s matter-of-fact tone and Tomi Ungerer''s witty and engaging drawings tickle the funny bone, making this 1964 classic a perennial favorite. (Ages 4 to 8)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kindergarten-Grade 3â€“Based on Jeff Brown''s original story (HarperCollins, 1964), this oversize picture book condenses some of the adventures of the ever-popular character who was flattened by a bulletin board. Ending up four feet tall, a foot wide, and half-an-inch thick, Stanley discovers that being flat is not only novel (he can slip under cracks), but also exciting. He is mailed off to California in a large envelope; he can be flown like a huge kite; and one night, disguised as a shepherdess, he hides in a painting in the art museum and foils some thieves. Full-page, cartoon illustrations in watercolor and crayon enhance the story while remaining true to the original. This version of an old favorite will introduce a beloved character to a new generation of younger children. It should have wide appeal._â€“Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5390'),
(3811, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(3812, 'Flawless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liarsâ€”Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hannaâ€”have been very bad girls. . . . Spencer stole her sister''s boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. And Hanna''s obsession with looking flawless is literally making her sick. But the most horrible secret of all is something so scandalous it could destroy their perfect little lives. And someone named "A" is threatening to do just that. At first they thought A was Alison, their friend who vanished three years ago . . . but then Alison turned up dead. So could A be Melissa, Spencer''s ultracompetitive sister? Or Maya, who wants Emily all to herself? What about Toby, the mysterious guy who left town right after Alison went missing? One thing''s for certain: A''s got the dirt to bury them all alive, and with every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message A sends, the girls get a little closer to losing it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3708'),
(3813, 'Fledgling: a novel', 'Octavia E. Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower" and "Bloodchild" will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."--Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times" "Fledgling," Octavia Butler''s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted--and still wants--to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling" is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred," "Dawn," and "Parable of the Sower." Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3160'),
(3814, 'Fleet of Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10227'),
(3815, 'Flesh and Blood', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy. Â  The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel them--and their parents--to meet ever greater challenges. **Michael Cunningham** is the bestselling author of *The Hours,* which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy AwardÂ–winning film. He lives in New York. From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy. Â  The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel themÂ—and their parentsÂ—to meet ever greater challenges. "A work of dramatic humanity at a high and poetic level."Â—***Los Angeles Times ***Â  "Reading Michael Cunningham is like putting on see-through glasses. He''s got this way of exposing his characters'' deepest inclinations and motivations, letting us peer through glass directly into their souls."Â—***The Boston Globe ***Â  "The book buzzcuts like Edward Scissorhands through the conventionally dull pastures of the American family saga."Â—***Vanity Fair*** Â  Â“Family defines us, one way or another. In Cunningham''s empathic and searing family drama, the haphazardness of genetics and fate plays in mocking counterpart to the predictability of heartache. Cunningham is a tenacious and word-perfect writer with acute insight into the eccentricity of personalities and the chemistry of intimate relationships. He stretches this sorrowful saga across an entire century, beginning in 1935 in Greece, where a boy suffers poverty and neglect. Constantine Stassos eventually immigrates to the U.S., where he marries a lovely and industrious young woman, amasses a fortune, and turns his attractive home into a living hell. No one goes unscathed, from his suffocating wife, Mary, through his self-negating eldest daughter, his acerbic gay son, and his younger daughter, Zoe, a strangely feral child. As the years go by and abrupt social changes become the rack upon which families are wrenched and broken, each member of the Stassos clan struggles to achieve love and respect. Cunningham, in a remarkable performance, inhabits the psyche of each of his striking characters as they find themselves in one surprising situation after another.â€Â—**Donna Seaman, *Booklist*** Â  "The cheers that greeted his literary debut, *A Home at the End of the World*, will resound again for Cunningham''s second novel. Here his prose is again rich, graceful and luminous, and he exhibits a remarkable maturity of vision and understanding of the human condition. The marriage of Greek immigrant Constantine to Mary, the offspring of an Italian clan, is a mismatch of incompatible personalities, a union that is later maintained in a delicate balance between incomprehension and rage. The birth of their three children exacerbates the tension and leaves its indelible mark unto the third generation. When he becomes a partner in a shoddy construction company, Con lifts the Stassos family from near-poverty in Elizabeth, N.J., to a nouveau-riche enclave on Long Island, but his lifelong concern with money, and with exhibiting "manliness," erupts into violent behavior that alienates his only son, Billy, even before the boy realizes that he is a homosexual. Con damages the other children, too; Susan escapes his sexual overtures through an early marriage, and wild, feral Zoe joins the drug culture in New York. Yet Cunningham condemns no one; he understands that Con ''exists in a chaos of yearning . . . [of] love and . . . hunger and . . . bottomless grief,'' and he portrays the other characters with equal sympathy. In delineating the story of this disconnected family, each member floating in his or her own sphere of bewilderment, anger, mistrust and fear but inextricably bound to others by flesh and blood, Cunningham illuminates the chasm between parents and children in contemporary America, beginning in the 1970s, when drug use and sexual freedom broke traditional constraints. Both fate and accident determine all of the characters'' lives. Con betrays beautiful, distant Mary with his partner''s fat, plain secretaryÂ—and ends up married to her. Mary becomes friends with Cassandra, a drag queen who is the godmother of Zoe''s illegitimate half-black son. Billy renames himself Will, and finally finds a loving companion. All the characters are fallible and come late to self-knowledge. Cunningham''s portraits are so honest and sensitive that we can see into their souls. His prose is both restrained and mesmerizing: individual scenesÂ—such as one of teenagers in a car wreckÂ—become incandescent images. In the end, what remains of Con and Mary''s failed dreams of their lives and those of their children and grandchildren becomes a transcendent testament to the power of human endurance."Â—***Publishers Weekly*** Â  "The story of Constantine Stassos freshly examines the American immigrant experience and conflict between generations. He, wife Mary, and three children Susan, Will, and Zoe seemingly embody solid middle-class values. However, Constantine''s cruelty, voracious appetites, and questionable business practices poison his marriage and brutalize his children. Through painful quests for independence, personal balance, and community, the Stassos children learn acceptance of themselves and their siblings. Fairly brief episodes, often occuring years apart, recount key moments in the establishment, disintegration, and reconfiguration of the family. Thoroughly realized action, vivid character delineation, and the splendid control of language guarantee both the unity and powerful impact of this successful novel . . . Very highly recommended."Â—**Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, *Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3133'),
(3816, 'Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the entertaining second Body Farm novel from the pseudonymous Bass (the writing team of forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and journalist Jon Jefferson), Dr. Bill Brockton ties a dead man dressed in drag to a tree at the Body Farm (a facility he heads outside Knoxville, Tenn., devoted to researching postmortem decay), in an effort to replicate a recent murder. Dr. Bill''s just beginning a romantic relationship with another participant in this experiment, Chattanooga medical examiner Dr. Jess Carter. The story veers wildly from fascinating forensics with a high yuck factor to sophomoric and corny romantic byplay, often in the same scene. Fans of the bestselling first book in the series,\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n , and readers with a penchant for the gross and grisly will take to Dr. Bill, a hero with a big heart who isn''t afraid to tackle complicated issues while solving mildly engrossing mysteries. Dr. Bass and Jefferson are the coauthors of\n <em>\n  Death''s Acre\n </em>\n , about the actual Body Farm.\n <em>\n  7-city author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton, who made his debut in\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n (2005), returns to defend himself against a charge of murder. The mummified body of a woman is found in a cave in Tennessee. Brockton, who works at the University of Tennessee''s Body Farm (founded in real life by Bill Bass, one-half of "Jefferson Bass"), has seen his share of gruesome sights, but this one has him stymied. And when a second body turns up, Brockton finds himself square in the spotlight. The second Body Farm mystery is as smoothly written as the first (Bass'' coauthor, Jon Jefferson, is an accomplished journalist), but it goes a lot farther in exploring its protagonist, a man who spends his life looking at death. The story is razor sharp, too, with a nice mixture of mystery and horror. Fans of forensic fiction will want to add this author to their list of favorites.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6931'),
(3817, 'Flesh In the Furnace', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/654'),
(3818, 'The flesh in the furnace', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(3819, 'Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FletchHeâ€™s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently heâ€™s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHeâ€™s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnâ€™t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items heâ€™s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.FletchSo when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, heâ€™s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1605'),
(3820, 'Fletch&#39;s Fortune', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Bright and entertaining?. Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.? --_The New York Times Book Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been absent from novels of this sort since the days of vintage James Bond.? _--Penthouse\n</p>\n<p>\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n He hadnâ€™t been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And heâ€™s pretty sure he hasnâ€™t paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighborâ€™s wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, thereâ€™s a murder. And almost everybodyâ€™s a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4677'),
(3821, 'A Flicker of Doubt', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Harrison Black is kayaking on the Gunpowder River in front of River''s Edge when he thinks he hits a submerged log. As he looks closer into the water though, he discovers that it''s a body. Horrified, Harrison tries to bring it to shore, only to realize that it is his ex girlfriend! Harrison dives into the case, and tries to find out how Becka really died.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3979'),
(3822, 'The Flickering Torch Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When two suspicious plane accidents occur near an eastern airport, the two Hardy brothers investigate the case and find themselves in greater danger than they anticipated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10261'),
(3823, 'Flight in Yiktor', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9072'),
(3824, 'Flight Into Darkness', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Singer and spy Celestine de Joyeuse must finally come to terms with her father''s legacy in this complex sequel to 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  . While serving Francia''s King Enguerrand, Celestine longs to destroy the Magus Linnaius, whom she believes betrayed her father to the Inquisition. Celestine is aided by Faie, a spirit bound by her father to protect her, but Faie was responsible for keeping the balance between the mortal world and the realm of the dead, and now lost souls haunt the living. The story ties up minor plot threads from Ash''s Tears of Atramon trilogy, but its dependence on backstory will challenge new readers, while fans of\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  will wonder why previously major characters have been relegated to token roles.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Those who enjoyed the intricate Tracing the Shadow (2008) will want to read the conclusion of its story, set in the world of the Tears of Artamon trilogy. It continues the exploits of dozens of characters in several different countries, dealing with politics, mythology, espionage, ghosts, religion, music, and romance. A prophecy predicts the end of the world if the Drakhaouls, who change the people they inhabit and can fly as dragons, are freed and brought into the world of the living. Rieuk Mordiern finally begins to love again but faces betrayal before venturing into the Rift and getting lost for years. Musicians Celestine (formerly Klervie) and Jagu go spying in Muscobar, and when they are targeted by the inquisition, Celestine gets her appearance altered to become an opera-companyâ€™s cleaning lady (though she is soon performing in it). An exorcism gone wrong slays a monarchâ€™s best friend, seven daemons escape the Rift and possess highly placed men, and characters and story lines eventually converge. A challenging journey for characters and readers alike. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7963'),
(3825, 'Flight of a Witch', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This trio of novels by the author of the acclaimed Brother Cadfael mysteries features Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, said to be among the best-portrayed British policemen in fiction today.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When beautiful Annet Beck disappears into the remote Welsh Country believed to be the domain of witches and returns five days later, claiming she was only gone for two hours, Detective Inspector George Felse steps in to investigate. Reprint.\n <em>\n  AB. K. PW.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4869'),
(3826, 'Flight of Shadows', 'Sigmund Brouwer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (_Broken Angel_) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called soovies, the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What''s darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Flight of Shadows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ__Flight of Shadows is as haunting as it is intense. Brouwer keeps the pages\n  <br />\n  turning in this deftly written sequel that engages the intellect and paints\n  <br />\n  a frightening picture of a near-future world where the boundaries of\n  <br />\n  morality are testedâ€¦and broken.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”JEREMY ROBINSON, author of\n  <strong>\n   Antarktos Rising and\n  </strong>\n  Pulse\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5092'),
(3827, 'Flight of the Nighthawks', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: " A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance. The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantasy Raymond E. Feist returns to his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a gripping new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar. In the middle of the night on Sorcerer''s Isle, the powerful sorcerer Pug is awakened from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Disturbed by the dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows. Though Pug does not yet know it, his son Magnus has discovered the cause of Pug''s prophetic dream: a beacon has been unleashed, directing a vast army of alien invaders to Midkemia, an army so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire might fall before its fury. Meanwhile, in far Stardock town, two boys are coming of age. But on the dusty path that leads them from home they are thrust by fate into a life undreamed of, becoming enmeshed in intrigue, murder, and treason. Though untrained and unready, they are called upon by the mysterious Conclave to travel deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh, to confront a plot so dark and twisted it will implicate even the highest-ranking nobles of the Empire, even members of the royal family itself. And behind this plot they discover the ancient Brotherhood of Death, the clan of assassins known as the Nighthawks. And Pug will find himself once again facing his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia. "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3624'),
(3828, 'Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book I)', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book 1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nathaniel Fluddâ€™s life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at sea, he lands on the doorstep of a distant cousinÂ—the worldâ€™s last remaining beastologist. Soon Nate is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the worldâ€™s only phoenix prepares to lay its new egg. When disaster strikes, Nate quickly finds himself all alone. Will he be able to see the phoenix safely hatched, keep his accidental pet gremlin out of trouble, and rescue his guardian from the Bedouin? If he fails, nothing will stand between the worldâ€™s mythical creatures and extinction. Too bad Nateâ€™s not the sort of boy who enjoys adventure . . .yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3670'),
(3829, 'Flinx Transcendent: A Pip &amp; Flinx Adventure', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction''s longest running series. After the devastating events of 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Quofum\n  </em>\n  , Flinx is at his most self-destructive. His malaise is compounded by his knowledge of the Great Evil that threatens to destroy all intelligent life, a monster only he can defeat. On his way to that fateful confrontation, dodging dark agents of the Order of Null, Flinx negotiates a temporary peace between the human Commonwealth and the AAnn, reconciles with his one true love, Clarity Held, and reunites with his old mentors Truzenzuzex and the sociologist-soldier Tse-Mallory. Once the story picks up steam, the pace never slows. Flinx fans will delight in seeing familiar faces come together for one last grand adventure.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the conclusion of Fosterâ€™s long-running series, Flinx finally gets to unleash his mental powers to save the universe. With Pip faithfully at his side, Flinx has challenged himself to visit the AAnn home world, an endeavor that may be suicidal but certainly will be interesting. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up arouses official suspicion; he has to send Teacher (his ship) away and fend for himself. Hiding on AAnn, he is discovered only by a remarkably open-minded AAnn youth. The subsequent adventures are steeped in the over-the-top danger and triumph that series followers expect. When Flinx finally leaves AAnn, he is reassured that sentient life is worth saving and feels ready to find the relics of long-dead civilizations with which he might neutralize the great evil bent on destroying everything in its path. Before the inevitable showdown, he picks up some old friends and his beloved Charity Held. All loose Flinxian ends are tied up before the end of the entertaining trip Foster has led readers on since 1972 (see The Tar-Aiym Krang to start all over again). --Regina Schroeder\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7910'),
(3830, 'Flip This Zombie', 'Jesse Petersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Zombie Apocalypse has been good to Sarah and David. Their marriage is better than ever. They communicate well, share responsibilities, and now, they''re starting a business. ZombieBusters-for all your zombie extermination needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are lots of zombies and that means lots of customers...Except one of them doesn''t want the zombies dead, he wants them alive and ready for experimentation. Mad scientists make for difficult clients and this time, Sarah and David might have bitten off more than they can chew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Facebook application once told Jesse Petersen that she''d only survive a day in a zombie outbreak, but she doesn''t believe that. For one, she''s a good shot and two, she has an aversion to bodily fluids, so she''d never go digging around in zombie goo. Until the zombie apocalypse, she lives in the Midwest with her husband and two cats. Find out more about the author at www.jessepetersen.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8213'),
(3831, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The *New York Times* bestselling series. ** When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2797'),
(3832, 'Flirtation', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4683'),
(3833, 'Flirting with Disaster', 'Jane Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HE WAS THE MAN SHE COULDN''T HAVE . . .On a humanitarian mission to fly doctors to a remote village in Mexico, pilot Lisa Merrick discovers something sinister lurking behind the organization in charge. Her plane is sabotaged, leaving her trapped in the Mexican wilderness with a price on her head and no way out. Injured and desperate, she manages to contact the one man she knows will help her: Dave DeMarco, a tough but compassionate Texas cop she was once wildly in love with, a man who left her with nothing but a whispered promise that now provides her only hope.. . . SHE WAS THE WOMAN HE COULDN''T FORGETDave DeMarco is stunned when a woman from his past phones him late one night with an incredible story of smuggling, sabotage, and attempted murder. Just hearing Lisa Merrickâ€™s voice brings back memories Dave doesnâ€™t want to face, but a promise he once made leaves him no choice but to help her. Soon, though, his mission to rescue Lisa becomes a struggle for survival against an enemy who wants them both dead. When the danger they face clashes with the passion that still burns between them, Dave vows to protect the woman he never stopped lovingâ€“and keep her in his life forever. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1812'),
(3834, 'Flirting With Temptation', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Babette Robinson changes careers and lovers as easily as she changes hairstyles. But after losing her last job, she''s beginning to see that her feather-to-the-wind mentality can be unsatisfying in the long run. She''s been helping a string of friends solve their relationship problems, and when one pal points out to Babette that she could make a career out of curing people''s romantic ills, she decides to dub herself "The Love Doctor" -- a match-mender-for-hire. Living in Birmingham, Alabama, with its elite class of wealthy women, Babette has access to the ideal clientele, including the well-known Birmingham socialite Kitty Carelle. Having unceremoniously dumped her lover, Kitty now regrets her hasty decision and wants him back. Trouble is, the man Kitty seeks to recapture is none other than Jeff Eubanks -- Babette''s ex! The carefree Babette of three years ago had written him off with a shrug, yet now she can''t help remembering that he did give her the absolute best sex of her life...not to mention his charm, good looks, and brains. To save her newfound career and prove she can stick with something--if not someone--Babette is determined to mend Kitty and Jeff''s broken relationship, but Jeff has other plans. He was crazy about Babette when she suddenly bailed on their relationship, and after Kitty did the same he became convinced that no woman can ever commit. To prove his point, Jeff issues Babette a challenge: no flirting for a week, and he''ll talk to Kitty. That is, if, after seven tempting nights on the beach with Jeff, it''s still with Kitty that she wants him to reconcile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7845'),
(3835, 'The Flock', 'James Robert Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stealth, cunning and killer instinct have ensured the survival of the flock of this gonzo eco-thriller''s title, a population of prehistoric, predatory, highly intelligent giant proto-birds who''ve roamed for thousands of years in the trackless savanna of what''s now a government military reservation in central Florida. Smith''s entertaining debut kicks into high gear when the birds get caught between conflicting environmental and business interests. Vance Holcomb, a billionaire rogue environmentalist, is trying to protect the lurking creatures, while the Berg Brothers, a Disney-style entertainment conglomerate, crave the land as residential real estate. When a right-wing militia is hired to destroy the flock, a naÃ¯ve young Fish and Wildlife officer and his girlfriend find themselves caught in the resulting melee. Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability. If the book''s conclusion feels a bit cynically anticlimactic, it still shows that humans are the deadliest predators of all.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability." --_Publishers Weekly__\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This book has everything a crypto fan could want; prehistoric beasts with near human intelligence; a large corporate entity intent on turning the last wild areas of Florida into suburbia; a self made billionaire ecologist intent on preserving these same areas; and a retired Marine colonel with his own militia and a desire for mayhem. Smith does a wonderful job of brewing these disparate ingredients into a tasty story. And the fact that the hero is not much of a hero leaves a pleasant after taste on the palate."--Cryptozoology.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "I read a lot of fiction, little of it sticking to the mental ribs, but The Flock delivered and will be one of those I revisit down the road, for sure. Give it a read, you won''t be sorry!"--Steve Bissette\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5792'),
(3836, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang''s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang''s mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(3837, 'Floodgate', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9269');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3838, 'Florence of Arabia', 'Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire worldâ€“Arab-American relationsâ€“in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesnâ€™t delight.Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, sheâ€™s enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced â€œMutterâ€), the â€œSwitzerland of the Persian Gulf.â€ Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as â€œFriends from Hell.â€The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the stationâ€™s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And thatâ€™s only the beginning.A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckleyâ€™s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1351'),
(3839, 'Flow my tears, the policeman said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3728'),
(3840, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie''s intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(3841, 'Flu', 'Wayne Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <span id="freeText8706277083493538698" style="" class="reviewText">\n  There''s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won''t stop this flu. Because when you catch the flu, armed police come and lock you in your house to die alone. When you catch this flu, it kills you in days. And when you catch this flu, two hours after it''s killed you, your eyelids snap open again..."Flu" is a pacey, terrifying, frighteningly real zombie horror story.\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4362'),
(3842, 'Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just why do humpback whales sing?That''s the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Thatis, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts itstail into the air to display a cryptic message spelledout in foot-high letters: BITE ME.Trouble is, Nate''s beginning to wonder if he hasn''t spentjust a little too much time in the sun. ''Cause no oneelse saw a thing- not his longtime partner, ClayDemodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; noteven the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (nePreston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of filmreturns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot- andhis research facility is trashed- Nate realizes somethingvery fishy indeed is going on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(3843, 'Flux', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter''s third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people.Abandoned to their fate, their history lost along with contact with their makers, Star people survive in an environment that is possibly the strangest in science fiction. Microscopic inhabitants of superfluid air above a Quantum Sea and below the tangled Crust of the Star, swimming in an electric-blue grid, the Magfield, which is subject to violent storms, Star people struggle, like us, to make sense of their world''Â¦ and the threat hanging over it.Though the truth is far more disturbing and ominous than they feared, they will confront, finally, their makers, and they will rebel against the purpose for which they were created.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4221'),
(3844, 'The Fly on the Wall', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating...breathless suspense.â€ (Minneapolis Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTony Hillermanâ€™s novels are like no others.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hillerman] is a master at his game.â€ (Chattanooga Times )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him.Â  It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John''s hands.Â  Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John''s car.Â  Then John''s car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight.Â  It''s up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5438'),
(3845, 'FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio', 'Richard Neer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." fromFM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New Yorkone of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he''d have made the big time. Little did he know he''d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement''s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventiesat stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and othersdisc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7095'),
(3846, 'The Folklore of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Jacqueline Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have â€¦\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n â€” co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson â€” emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker â€¦ funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination â€” like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods â€” are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n , Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5081'),
(3847, 'Folktales from Africa: the Baboons who went this way and that', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEARTA man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked?Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(3848, 'Follow the Stars Home', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author ofA Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can beand that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.Follow the Stars Homeis just such a novel: a story of poignancy and heartbreak, grace and courage. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any manespecially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms and can be received with as much grace as it is given. As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature,Follow the Stars Homeis a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne Rice''s magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives. says acclaimed author Luanne Rice. "I always say the same thing: love. It''s an easy answer, but like love itself, far from simple." And her new novel, FOLLOW THE STARS HOME, demonstrates that on each finely wrought page. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her child was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea. Dianne was left with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout these years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But Dianne has chosen to close her heart toward all menespecially those named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given. Film rights optioned by Hallmark for television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2409'),
(3849, 'The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling author (How to Cook Everything) provides a rational approach to eating that not only improves health but also helps the environment. Extolling the benefits of a plant-heavy diet, Bittman offers more than 500 healthful recipes that feature unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains and reduce all types of meat to backup players. In addition, he shares five basic principles for sane eating that are easy to implement and understand as well as an unusually helpful pantry section and handy charts for substituting produce and seafood by season. Recipes focus on flavor, such as lemony zucchini risotto, which uses brown rice, and curried chickpeas and cauliflower with chicken. His chapter on beans offers a particularly varied selection, like a lentil stir-fry with mushrooms and caramelized onions, white beans and shrimp burgers, and beer-glazed black beans with chorizo and orange. Bittman also provides a resourceful index of dishes that can be made quickly as well as meals that can be made ahead of time. Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years ago, prolific cookbook author and newspaper columnist Bittman published a cogent injunction urging Americans to redirect their eating habits toward more environmentally friendly and agriculturally sustainable diets and away from sugary, meat-centric meals. Since that first volume offered only a few recipes, Bittman has come to the aid of cooks who need much more specific kitchen support. So he has engaged his formidable creativity to generate a cornucopia of recipes to inspire people to rethink what they prepare for meals. Bittmanâ€™s innovative approach starts at the market with teaching shoppers to spot and buy seasonal, fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. The bookâ€™s hundreds of recipes give menu planners maximum flexibility in just about every category of cookery. Many appetizer and main-dish recipes call for some meat or seafood, but in controlled quantities. Bittmanâ€™s visionary imagination sparkles on every page, and even cooks who may not wholly resonate with his planetary concerns will find themselves intrigued and inspired on virtually every page. Promise of weight loss as a side benefit adds additional incentive. Bittman eschews rigorously exacting nutritional tables in favor of empowering cooks to find healthy balances based on broad principles of disciplined, intelligent, aware, yet joyful consumption. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4921'),
(3850, 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cookbook author Bittman (_How to Cook Everything_) offers this no-nonsense volume loaded with compelling information about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make and why. Authors have covered this topic before (Michael Pollan, for example, in\n <em>\n  The Omnivores Dilemma\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  In Defense of Food\n </em>\n ), but Bittman takes a practical turn by concluding with 77 recipes that make earth-friendly eating doable and appealing. His collection of reliable recipes even includes such meat dishes as Thai beef salad, which isnt meat-heavy, but rather has just the right balance of meat to greens. There are also such staples as super-simple mixed rice; chicken not pie; and modern bouillabaisse. Bittman decries consumption of over-refined carbohydrates, but doesnt leave off without some sweets, including chocolate semolina pudding and nutty oatmeal cookiesâ€”suggesting, as the whole book does, that a diet in synch with the needs of the earth doesnt result in a sense of utter deprivation.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only America could produce a Mark Bittman. One moment, heâ€™s traversing Spain on public television with celebrities in tow, peddling the newest fad in high-end dining and drooling over prodigious quantities of savory food in tight closeup. The next moment heâ€™s promoting minimalist cooking. Now he reports his own passionate belief in agricultural sustainability and slow food, and he touts a new diet thatÂ not only offers guilt-free pleasure but also makes Americans look as good as the beautiful people he hangs out with. His prescription: become aware of where food comes from; choose foods intelligently; pay attention to broad, inclusive nutritional principles; balance intake and exercise; snack judiciously; and make sure that whatever one eats, itâ€™s as attractive to the palate as it is to the waistline. Bittmanâ€™s fame will generate lots of attention, and his commonsense advice, while not new, bears the hallmarks of contemporary nutritional wisdom. Recipes included. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4920'),
(3851, 'The Food of a Younger Land', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Award-winning *New York Times*-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation''s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers'' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Food of a Younger Land* unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky''s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country''s roots.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5570'),
(3852, 'The food of a younger land: a portrait of American food : before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation&#39;s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional : from the lost WPA files', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York Times*-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation''s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it. In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers'' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed. *The Food of a Younger Land* unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky''s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country''s roots. From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2458'),
(3853, 'Food of the Gods', 'Terence McKenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9025'),
(3854, 'Food Rules: An Eater&#39;s Manual', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of *The Omnivore''s Dilemma* and *In Defense of Food* ** Michael Pollan, our nation''s most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, *Food Rules* is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2403'),
(3855, 'Foods That Combat Aging', 'Deborah Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While it is impossible to stop the passage of time, there are ways to prevent it from taking its toll on your appearance and your healthâ€”without resorting to injections and painful, expensive plastic surgery. The secret is in the foods you eat every day! The right diet can renew your energy; help you to maintain smooth, clear skin and a youthful glow; and actually add years to your life. This remarkable handbook will be your Fountain of Youthâ€”providing meal plans, delicious recipes, and essential information that will enable you to turn back the clock and get a fresh and healthy new start on life! Your indispensable guide to looking and feeling younger An easy-to-use nutrition counter covering more than 3,000 foods, broken down by their anti-aging nutrients Mouth-watering recipes to revitalize the body and soul How to shop, how to eat, what to look for to achieve optimum health and maximize your quality of life in later years And much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(3856, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the *Times of Olde Newe Yorke* as *Lamb*, *A Dirty Job*, and *You Suck* (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(3857, 'A Fool and His Honey', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charlaine Harris''s beloved amateur sleuth, liberated Southern belle Aurora Teagarden, makes her long- anticipated return in this charming mystery about family secrets and small-town intrigue. Everything in Roe''s life finally seems to be going her way. She''s newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part-time job at the library, and settled into her dream home just outside Lawrenceton, Georgia--and there haven''t been any dead bodies in Roe''s life for quite a while. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard when he should be stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a string of troublesome events. The next is the arrival of Martin''s flighty niece Regina, who shows up unannounced with a baby no one knew she was expecting. Before anyone can figure out what''s going on, Regina disappears, leaving behind her baby--and her husband, Craig, whose brutally murdered corpse is discovered on the outside steps of Roe and Martin''s home. Now the existence of the baby is only the first question of many--such as, Where did Craig come from? Who went after him with the ax? And why? Roe and Martin abandon the sunny warmth of Georgia for snowy Corinth, Ohio, hoping that tracing Regina and Craig''s steps will get them some answers. In this fifth book in Charlaine Harris''s series blending mystery, humor, and a hearty helping of Southern charm, there''s just no telling what they''ll find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(3858, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1713'),
(3859, 'Fool: A Novel', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke as Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters--a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool. A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughters--selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia--were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Lear--at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucester--demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuvering--cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)--to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(3860, 'Fool&#39;s errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robin Hobb has emerged as one of todayâ€™s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. **Foolâ€™s Errand**For fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks him once again. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished and FitzChivalry, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony--thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment...or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him or how his loyalties to his Queen, his partner, and those who share his magic will be tested to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3501'),
(3861, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Foolâ€™s Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, spy, and Skillmaster, FitzChivalry Farseer, now known only as man-at-arms Tom Badgerlock, has become firmly ensconced in the queenâ€™s court at Buckkeep. Only a few are aware of his fabled, tangled pastâ€”and the sacrifices he made to survive it. And fewer know of his possession of the Skill magic. With Prince Dutiful, his assassin-mentor Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry strives to aid the prince on a quest that could ultimately secure peace between the Six Duchies and the Outislandsâ€”and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. For the Narcheska has set the prince on an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in iceâ€”the legendary Icefyre, on the island of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Outislands support the princeâ€™s effort to behead their legendary defender. Are there darker forces at work behind the Narcheskaâ€™s imperious demand? As the prince and his coterie set sail, FitzChivalry works behind the scenes, playing nursemaid to the ailing Thick, while striving to strengthen their Skillâ€”ultimately bringing his unacknowledged daughter into the web of the Skill magic, where the truth must finally unfold.The quest emerges amid riddles that must be unraveled, a clash of cultures, and the ultimate betrayal. For knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, FitzChivalry has plotted with Chade to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3500'),
(3862, 'The fool&#39;s run', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Con artists Kidd and LuEllen utilize state-of-the-art, high-tech corporate warfare to organize the technological takedown of a defense industry corporation, but their string of successes is cut short when the ultimate con artist gets conned. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2758'),
(3863, 'Fools die: a novel', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2233'),
(3864, '&#39;Football - Bloody Hell!&#39;: The Story of Alex Ferguson', 'Patrick Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Britain''s most respected sportswriter takes on the greatest football manager of all time. The true biography of Sir Alex Ferguson has yet to be written. Until now. Alex Ferguson is the most fascinating and controversial figure in football today. He is also the most successful. His twenty-five-year tenure of the Manchester United dugout has seen him win everything there is to be won in football, many times over. His reign as manager has led to the rise of Manchester United to become the biggest football club in the world. This book, written by the award-winning and critically acclaimed Patrick Barclay, will fill in the gaps left by Ferguson''s own book,Managing My Life. Everyone who bought that book will want Barclay''s comprehensive, objective analysis of Ferguson, the good and the bad, and the occasionally ugly and it will also appeal hugely to those outside the Manchester United extended family for whom Ferguson has often acted as a red rag. Having known Ferguson for a quarter of a century, Barclay believes him to be generous-spirited as well as ruthless and relentlessly competitive; in such an almost larger-than-life character, there is room for countless facets. And it is these facets that Barclay seeks to explore and explain. Leaving no stone unturned, Barclay has spoken with everyone who knows Ferguson best; former players, fellow managers, friends and foes. The result is''Football - Bloody Hell!'', the definitive, objective account of this fascinating man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6820'),
(3865, 'The Football Fan&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Tunison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Football Fan''s Ten Commandments You Must Choose Your Team by the Age of Eight. Value That Team Above All Else, Even Yourself. Under No Circumstances Can You Switch Teams (And Expect to Live). There is a Limit to the Amount of Merchandise You Can Own (But It''s Very Generous). Sportsmanship is for the Athletes. Fans Can Gloat Endlessly. A Self-Induced Coma to Skip the Off-season is a Practical Solution to an Annoying Problem. An Inoffensive Fantasy Football Name is a Lame Fantasy Football Name. Wealth Doesn''t Matter So Long As You Don''t Have to Work Weekends. Respect Superstitions. If Your Team Lost, It''s Because You Jinxed Them. In Life, the Order of Importance: Football First, Football Second, Football Third, Family . . . uh, I Don''t Know, twelfth? These are just the basics if you wish to be a True Football Fan. The full picture is much more complex and boozy. Thankfully, "The Football Fan''s Manifesto" is your very own playbook to the strict rules and bylaws that must be scrupulously observed. After all, trash-talking is an intricate science and running onto the field a dangerous but irresistible pursuit. There are many lessons to be learned, especially that choosing a favorite team to live and die with is not a choice made easily: It''s the most important decision of your life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2267'),
(3866, 'Footprints', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch. But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦. SUMMARY: When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch.But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(3867, 'Footprints Under the Window', 'Franklin W. Dixon; J. Clemens Gretta', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Footprints lead to the breakup of a ring smuggling Chinese aliens. Published originally in 1933.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10292'),
(3868, 'For a Few Demons More', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9636'),
(3869, 'For crying out loud!: the world according to Clarkson', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1735'),
(3870, 'For Kicks', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the New York Times bestselling author of Field of 13, 10 Lb. Penalty, To the Hilt, and so many more...a com-pelling and chilling tale of drugged racehorses, double-dealers, and masterful detection that confirms Dick Francis''s reputation as "mystery''s Gibraltar." (Chicago Sun-Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8224'),
(3871, 'For love of evil', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In today''s multilingual, multicultural society, the need for interpreters has never been greater. This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by a leading researcher in the field, Introducing Interpreting Studies guides the reader through international conference, court and hospital interpreting, in both signed and spoken modalities. The book begins by exploring the ways in which the field evolved, looking at historical developments, concepts, influential models and methodological approaches. It then moves on to consider the main areas of research in the field, before reviewing the major trends of Interpreting Studies, reflecting on how the subject will develop in the future and offering direction to those undertaking research of their own. Featuring chapter summaries, guides to the main points covered in the book and suggestions for further reading, this practical and user-friendly textbook is the definitive map of this important and growing field. The book can be used on its own, or to accompany The Interpreting Studies Reader (Routledge, 2002).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3288');
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(3872, 'For Love of Mother-Not', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(3873, 'For Now, Forever', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2565'),
(3874, 'For Sale in Palm Springs: The Henry Wright Mystery Series', 'Albert Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A murdered real estate agent. Unsatisfied home buyers. A possible celebrity scam. A secret society! Join retired police chief Henry Wright in figuring out who killed Palm Springs real estate mogul Rex Thornbird in this page turning thriller that will keep you guessing. This first book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series takes our detective from Palm Springs to the Silicon Valley to find the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(3875, 'For the Birds', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11141'),
(3876, 'For the Love of Lilah', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** The four Calhoun sisters and a special sister-by-marriage are all united by a decades-old legend and the determination to save the Towers, their magnificent family mansion on the rocky coast of Maine. Sweet sister Lilah saved a mysterious stranger from drowning. Adrift in a storm, Max thought he had hallucinated the beautiful mermaid who came to his rescue. But Lilah was a woman of flesh and blood . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2601'),
(3877, 'For the Love of Mike', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she''s following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who''s purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman''s body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it''s the missing society girl. Then Molly''s sometime beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, reveals that another corpse may be the girl''s scalawag lover, Mike Kelly. But Molly has to know their identities for certain. Now as threads of passion and greed weave a tapestry of violence, Molly descends into the underworld of the gangs of New York. It''s no place for a lady, and even a scrappy Irish lass may need more than her street smarts to get the truth...and get out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3924'),
(3878, 'For the new intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(3879, 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago', 'Simon Baatz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to commit the perfect crime. Historian Baatz, of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, replays the crime (on which Meyer Levin''s 1956 novel\n <em>\n  Compulsion\n </em>\n was based) from the killers'' point of view, detailing their intense, often sexual, relationship that culminated in the murder. But they left a crucial piece of evidence and eventually confessed to the murder. Clarence Darrow cleverly had the boys plead guilty to avoid a trial, and the legendary defense attorney went head to head with State''s Attorney Robert Crowe in a sentencing hearing before Judge John Caverly. Both sides trotted out psychiatrists to testify whether Leopold and Loeb were mentally ill. Darrow''s gamble paid off in life sentences. Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936; Leopold was eventually paroled in 1958. Baatz gives an acute portrait of the two murderers bound together in a web of fantasy, but his heavy reliance on novelistic techniques (there!â€”he had done it) and meandering pacing prevent this from being as convincing as his exhaustive research deserves. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb have been the objects of derision and curiosity ever since the sensational murder they committed on Chicagoâ€™s South Side in 1924. These two privileged teenagers, who killed little Bobby Franks, a neighbor, alsoÂ from a privileged family,Â just for the thrill of achieving the perfect crime (â€œa murder that would never be solvedâ€), have become almost legendary â€œbad boys.â€Â Baatzâ€™s comprehensive account of the case succeeds in identifyingÂ their peculiar personality traits as well as what it was in the nature of their relationship thatÂ made themÂ believeÂ in their infallibility in performingÂ the ultimate crime. All of Leopold and Loebâ€™sÂ intense planning quickly unraveled, however, whenÂ the victimâ€™s body was discovered soon after the murder; the murderers had counted on the body never being located. The second strong point of this exhaustively researched and rivetingly presented account is the thoroughness with which the authorÂ reconstructs the police investigation and the trial itself; a vivid portrait of the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, who defended Leopold and Loeb, is a fascinating by-product. One of the best true-crime books of thisÂ or any other season. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5787'),
(3880, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he''ll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don''t like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That''s the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan''s arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan''s sense of duty versus Pablo''s dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader''s small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo''s loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n combines two of the author''s recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo''s last stand is a showcase for Hemingway''s narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator''s psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway''s most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''The best book Hemingway has written'' New York Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4839'),
(3881, 'For Whom the Minivan Rolls: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Aaron Tucker isn''t a detective. So he''s baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of this wife, who inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night. A freelance writer, former investigative reporter, stay-at-home dad, aspiring screenwriter, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron reluctantly says yes, and continually wishes he hadn''t. The more he uncovers, the more complicated, and bizarre, the story becomes. He receives anonymous death threats, is plagued by a mysterious minivan that seems to be lurking everywhere he travels, and he is suddenly entangled in the town''s mayoral election. A traditional detective Aaron Tucker is not. He''s 5''4" and weighs less then Robert B. Parker''s leather jacket. But he''s funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1833'),
(3882, 'For Your Eyes Only: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; for Bond it is just routine. For anyone else - certain death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7658'),
(3883, 'Forbidden City', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destructionâ€” While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that''s linked to Chinese miners during the days of the Gold Rush. A sudden attack on the site by shadow if gures drives Annja to if nd the connection to a mysterious buried city in China. Lured by legends of gold, betrayal and the vengeance of a Han Dynasty overlord, Annja travels on the Orient Express, battling avaricious treasure hunters and a modern-day descendant of an ancient league of assassins. Her adversaries will stop at nothing to stake their claim on the fabled lost city, where a Han leader''s dark past promises doom for those who dare to reveal its evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(3884, 'Forbidden the Stars', 'Valmore Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just what sci-fi ought to be and so often isn''t!" --reader, Jim\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a solid piece of science fiction and something that reminds me slightly of the Clarke and the Herbert." --reader, Andrew\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is extremely imaginative and well written! Perfect sci-fi!" --reader, Liz\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and, four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet. From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action. The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space is on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7741'),
(3885, 'Force 10 From Navarone', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9268'),
(3886, 'Ford County: stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, *A Time to Kill*.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who''s been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton''s most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney''s wife.Three good ol'' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It''s a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a lowly paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love.One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you''ve beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.Featuring a cast of characters you''ll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1987'),
(3887, 'Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal&#39;s Journey From Down Under to All Over', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In\n <em>\n  Foreign Correspondence\n </em>\n , Geraldine Brooks (_chador_, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents'' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he''s faring in college."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Bored with her insular life in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 11-year-old Geraldine Brooks turned to pen pals as an antidote. Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family. Other pen pals included Joanie from New Jersey; Mishal, an Israeli Christian Arab; Cohen, an Israeli Jew; and Janine, a farmer''s daughter who wrote from a tiny French village. Geraldine''s global correspondence is enlightening, entertaining, myth shattering, and heartbreaking. In Joanie, she found a true and rare soulmate; however, the girl suffered a hidden anguish, hints of which were dismissed by her Australian friend. When Joanie died from anorexia, Geraldine''s grief and regret moved her to greater knowledge and deeper compassion. The author grew up to become a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, living the life she sought vicariously from her pen pals. Her return home upon her father''s death and the rediscovery of the letters prompted her to find out what happened to those individuals. Her efforts were met with enthusiasm by all except Mishal, and the subsequent meetings with the reluctant Israeli as well as with Joanie''s mother provided satisfying closure. The last pages of the memoir find the mature adventurer coming full circle to an appreciation for the small-town life she had once so derided. The desire to explore the lives of others and to express one''s individuality is strong in most young adults, who will readily identify with this intriguing memoir.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jackie Gropman, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4657'),
(3888, 'Foreign Foes', 'Dave Galanter &amp; Greg Brodeur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other''s throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the conflict between these two aggressive species. Things get off to a rocky start -- then turn deadly as the Hidran ambassador mysteriously dies, and kills a Klingon delegate as a last act of vengence.  When Lt.Worf is charged with the ambassador''s assassinaton, and Commander Riker and Counselor Troi are trapped far below the surface of the planet, Captain Picard must not only act to save the Hidranas and Klingons from each other, but to save his Klingon officer from a hideous death sentence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5325'),
(3889, 'Foreigner', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With a new introduction by the author The first book in C.J.Cherryh''s eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10898'),
(3890, 'The Forest House', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The amazing prequel to Marion Zimmer Bradley''s bestselling The Mists of Avalon--now in paperback. Inside the walls of the Forest House, in a remote part of Britain, a secret sect of Druidic priestesses guards the ancient rites of learning, healing, and magic against the onslaught of invading Romans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9537'),
(3891, 'Forest Mage', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Plague has ravaged the prestigious King''s Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freeing himselfâ€”he believesâ€”from the Speck magic that infected him. And now he is journeying home to Widevale, anticipating a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancÃ©e, Carsina, and a bright future as a commissioned officer. But there is no haven in the bosom of his kinfolk, for his nights are haunted by grim visions of treacheryâ€”and his days are tormented by a strange side-effect of the plague that shames his family and repulses the lady of his heart. And as the still-potent magic in his blood roars to life, Nevare realizes a terrible truth: that the enemy who seeks to destroy everything he loves dwells perhaps not without but within him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3505'),
(3892, 'A Forest of Stars', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don''t realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy''s most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin J. Anderson has written 41 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7195'),
(3893, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With such novels as\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to\n <em>\n  place\n </em>\n , in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting.\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd''s art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of\n</p>\n<p>\n Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium''s worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn''t end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he''s no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck''s eye.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from\n <em>\n  Bambi\n </em>\n --and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he did most recently--and with greater success--in London (LJ 6/15/97), Rutherfurd offers a sweeping picture of an area of England by focusing on a few families who lived there. This time he concentrates on the New Forest, part of the southern coast of England bounded by the English Channel. Rutherfurd traces the lives of peasants, smugglers, churchmen, woodsmen, and upper-class families from the 11th to the 20th centuries. These assorted men and women take part in the events surrounding the death of King Rufus (William the Conqueror''s son), the failure of the Spanish Armada, England''s Civil War, and more. Rutherfurd has always used his characters more as placeholders in history than as living human beings, but those in The Forest are particularly one-dimensional. That, plus the annoyingly Michener-like didactic tone of the narrative, makes this a hard book to recommend, even for fans of Rutherfurd. Still, readers looking for a fictional overview of English history will find it here in spades. Think of it as a Cliffs Notes with much heft.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7747'),
(3894, 'Forests of Gleor', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1962'),
(3895, 'Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll', 'Lord &amp; M. G', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since Barbie''s introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie''s fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6866'),
(3896, 'Forever Free', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The brilliant sequel to The Forever War, winner of the  Hugo and Nebula Awards.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From Joe Haldeman, the all-time master of military science fiction,  comes the new novel set in the universe of his Hugo and Nebula  Award-winning classic The Forever War. An epic story about war, peace,  and the price of freedom, Forever Free reintroduces readers to William  Mandella--who has been living peacefully on the planet called Middle  Finger, a refuge for humans who refuse to become part of the group  mind known as Man. But after decades of this peace, Mandella and  others are tired of living like zoo animals.  So they steal a  starship--and embark upon a voyage that will forever change their  understanding of the universe...and themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1837'),
(3897, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(3898, 'Forever Peace', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is Joe Haldeman''s triumphant return to the thoughtful science fiction that made his The Forever War a multiple award-winner. In the year 2043, the Ngumi War has raged for eight years. Julian Class is a "soldier boy, " and for him war is indeed hell. For Julian it might be worth dying just to stop living. But he and his lover have made a terrifying scientific discovery that could literally put the Universe back to square one. For Julian the discovery is tempting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1839'),
(3899, 'The Forever War', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military''s ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(3900, 'Forfeit', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10977'),
(3901, 'Forge of the Mind Slayers', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran''s former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they''re led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himselfâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8696'),
(3902, 'Forged of Steele Bundle', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Only a special woman can win the heart of a brother...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet the Steeles: Chance, Sebastian, Morgan, and Vanessa. Running the family-owned Steele Corporation, these hard-working relatives are successful in business...and once they meet that special someone, they''re lucky in love, too. Experience all the passion and romance of\n  <em>\n   USA TODAY\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brenda Jackson''s complete Forged of Steele series in one handy bundle. Bundle includes:\n  <em>\n   Solid Soul, Night Heat, Beyond Temptation,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Risky Pleasures\n  </em>\n  , plus the free bonus novella\n  <em>\n   Never Too Late\n  </em>\n  that introduces all the Steeles!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10738'),
(3903, 'Forged of Steele Bundle (Books 1-4)', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Only a special woman can win the heart of a brother...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet the Steeles: Chance, Sebastian, Morgan, and Vanessa. Running the family-owned Steele Corporation, these hard-working relatives are successful in business...and once they meet that special someone, they''re lucky in love, too. Experience all the passion and romance of\n  <em>\n   USA TODAY\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brenda Jackson''s complete Forged of Steele series in one handy bundle. Bundle includes:\n  <em>\n   Solid Soul, Night Heat, Beyond Temptation,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Risky Pleasures\n  </em>\n  , plus the free bonus novella\n  <em>\n   Never Too Late\n  </em>\n  that introduces all the Steeles!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7976'),
(3904, 'Forging the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Outlawed by the mage-priests of Thimhallen since the Iron Wars, the Ninth Mystery, called Technology, has survived only among society''s outcasts until a young man born without magic and a priest who is a catalyst of magical energy form an alliance that shakes their complacent and stagnant world. The authors of the "Dragonlance" series again demonstrate their talent for vivid world-crafting and strong characterization in a novel that will appeal to fans of epic fantasy. Recommended. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman In the enchanted realm of Merilon, magic is life. Born without magical abilities, Joram is left for dead but grows to manhood with the help of his constant vigilance and sleight-of-hand skills. When he meets the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the two join forces, attempting to forge the powerful magic-absorbing Darksword and ov.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5602'),
(3905, 'Forgiving Ararat', 'Gita Nazareth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE #1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN...AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (''The Lovely Bones'') meets William Young (''The Shack'') and John Grisham (''The Firm'')...in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visits her family in their dreams; but it is her first client in heaven, a young convict, who holds the secret-a shocking crime long repressed. Guided by her mentor, Luas, a lawyer who has been prosecuting souls for thousands of years, Brek embarks on a quest traversing heaven and earth to bring her killer to justice, uncovering an interlocking past that places her own soul in jeopardy. Entering the courtroom to face her killer at the Final Judgment, Brek must make a momentous choice that will alter her eternity. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE FOR FORGIVING ARARAT: "This glorious, triumphant work leads its readers from the wrathful lands of the east...and back to the Garden of Eden." -John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. "With mythical prose at times approaching verse, Forgiving Ararat works a miracle, bridging the chasm between life and death." -Emily Dickinson, author of Poems. "At the center of Forgiving Ararat is the Trial each of us must one day face-and the profound metamorphosis each of us must undergo to win." -Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis. "This book is the next ''Lovely Bones!''" -Anonymous Recently Departed Reader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1612'),
(3906, 'The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Gregory A. Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperbackâ€”the â€œamazingâ€( James Bradley, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Flags of Our Fathers*) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.** In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(3907, 'The Forgotten Garden', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and presentA tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to fi nd her real identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10327'),
(3908, 'The Forgotten Legion', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world. Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge. The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends: The Forgotten Legion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(3909, 'the Forgotten Man (2005)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 10', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9955'),
(3910, 'Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10990'),
(3911, 'The Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer''s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier''s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldiera unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitorsaid "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8268'),
(3912, 'The Forgotten Village', 'John Steinbeck; Rosa Harvan Kline; Alexander Hackensmid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The novelist who wrote *The Grapes of Wrath* and the director who produced *Crisis and Lights Out* in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but *The Forgotten Village* is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films. The camera crew that, headed by Kline and with Steinbeck''s script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. The motion picture they made (for release in 1941) is 8000 feet long. From this wealth of pictures 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck''s text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master story-tellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath for the beauty and the truth of the tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2733'),
(3913, 'The Forgotten War', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The human castaways face destruction, but more than these precious lives are at stake. Unless Picard can find a solution, a lost hero''s legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4831');
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(3914, 'Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia', 'Christopher Bayly &amp; Tim Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Combining breathtaking, evocative narrative with razor-sharp historical analysis, Bayly and Harper provide a dramatic account of independent Asia''s baptism of fire in the turbulent aftermath of the Second World War. They capture in vivid detail the euphoria and trauma that swept the crescent stretching from Calcutta to Singapore as Britain''s Asian empire unraveled. This brilliant book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of Britain, Asia and empire.\n  <br />\n  --Sugata Bose, author of\n  <em>\n   A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire\n  </em>\n  (20070701)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like their earlier collaborative volume,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , Bayly and Harper''s new book presents a fascinating story of Britain''s Asian empire in transition. Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Burmese, Malays, Indonesians, and many others interacted as they sought to define anew the nature of empire, territory, and citizenship. There is no better way to understand the region''s survival and emergence as a center of economic development and prosperity than to revisit the immediate postwar years under the expert guidance provided by Bayly and Harper.\n  <br />\n  --Akira Iriye, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University (20070813)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  is an insightful and original look at the fate of Britain''s Asian Empire in the wake of World War II. Engaging and provocative, the masterful discussion of the Malayan Emergency will be of interest to all concerned with the dilemmas presented by insurgencies in our contemporary world.\n  <br />\n  --Ronald Spector, author of\n  <em>\n   In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Struggle for a Postwar Asia\n  </em>\n  (20070809)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper chronicle the ensuing struggles for Britain''s Southeast Asian colonies in\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia\n  </em>\n  , the sequel to their much-praised history of Britain''s Asian empire during World War II,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941â€“1945\n  </em>\n  . Primarily a diplomatic and political history rather than a military history, the new book focuses on the causes of armed conflict. After Japan''s capitulation, Messrs. Bayly and Harper contend, Southeast Asia remained in a state of war for the same reasons it had entered into such a state: poverty, imperialism, and ethnic, religious, and ideological conflict. The authors have mined a very large number of sources. Most of their new historical unearthing can be found in the intricacies of Southeast Asian politics, which they describe in great detail and with careful nuance. Those deeply interested in the politics of Burma or Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries will find much to delight them here.\n  <br />\n  --Mark Moyar (_New York Sun_ 20070901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years after their brilliant and vivid\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45\n  </em>\n  , the Cambridge historians Bayly and Harper produce a sequel that examines Britain''s conflicts in Southeast Asia in the four years after the Second World War. While adroitly analyzing Britain''s hard-fought battle against insurrectionary forces in Malaya, the authors explore lesser-known episodes: Bengalese and Burmese skirmishes seldom highlighted in accounts of the Raj''s end, and the British interregnums between the ends of the Japanese occupations of Indonesia and Vietnam and the restorations of the respective former colonial administrations. (_The Atlantic_ 20080401)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authoritative.\n  <br />\n  --Pankaj Mishra (_New Yorker_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] compelling book...An extraordinary cast of characters populate\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  ...The authors write that "the end of empire is not a pretty thing if examined too closely," but when examined so ably it is certainly fascinating.\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors are particularly good in their analysis of the problems of state building, on the one hand, and nation building, on the other. (_Foreign Affairs_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  movingly brings out the travails of ordinary people who got caught up within a vicious cycle of political turmoil, economic deprivation, and violence. This is a â€œmust readâ€ for those interested in histories of British imperialism and decolonization in Asia and those who would like an introduction to the comparative regional histories of nation-states in Southeast Asia after 1945.\n  <br />\n  --Haimanti Roy (_Journal of British Studies_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is neither an old-fashioned â€œtop downâ€ history of imperial politics in the region, nor a regional â€œbottom upâ€ account of nationalist resistance to European rule. Rather, it shows how British illusions about the nature of Britainâ€™s power in Southeast Asia collided with Asian national movements. This book addresses an important phase of that tragic history, for which, as the authors show, Britain bore considerable responsibility.\n  <br />\n  --A. Martin Wainwright (_American Historical Review_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain''s imperial might had never seemed stronger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  , a sequel to the authors'' acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India''s Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife.\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today''s Asia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070425)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7441'),
(3915, 'Forrest Gump', 'Winston Groom; Mark Hammer (Narrator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Unabridged audiobook on eight compact discs. Forrest Gump is the publishing phenomenon that surged to #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for weeks. Satirical and hilarious, this book also inspired the motion picture that won six Academy AwardsÂ® and became one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Slow-witted, warm-hearted Forrest Gump is America''s most lovable folk hero. From his college days as a star running back for the University of Alabama, Forrest''s remarkable adventures carry him through three decades of American life. Vietnam war hero, world-class ping-pong player, and astronaut, Forrest crosses paths with some of the most famous -- and infamous -- people of the 20th century. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, saves Chairman Mao from drowning, and carries a naked Raquel Welch down Rodeo Drive. If you''ve only seen the movie, you''re in for a treat when you hear the original bawdy, madcap adventures of Forrest. Narrator Mark Hammer came to the Recorded Books studio with a long and distinguished career in the theater. He was a drama professor at Catholic University, and is a beloved acting coach at New York''s Stella Adler Studio. He has appeared in major regional theaters, Broadway productions, and on television and radio. Listeners and audio critics agree that the characters and regional dialects they hear in Mark Hammer''s narrations are astounding. AudioFile touts this narrator as "one of the finest interpreters of our day."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3571'),
(3916, 'Forsaken House: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first in a new trilogy of novels from New York Times best-selling author Richard Baker. Forsaken House is the first title in a new trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have far-reaching impact across the entire setting.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richad Baker\n  </strong>\n  works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A New York Times best-selling author with Condemnation, his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The City of Ravens and the forthcoming Last Mythal trilogy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5303'),
(3917, 'The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scotsâ€”the only British troops between Canada and New Yorkâ€”harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to â€œcaptivate, kill or destroyâ€ the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeatâ€”and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwellâ€™s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(3918, 'The Fortress of Solitude', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem''s status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race relations, black music and pop art, Lethem''s stunning, disturbing and authoritatively observed narrative covers three decades of turbulent events on Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill. Abraham is a painter who abandons his craft to construct tiny, virtually indistinguishable movie frames in which nothing happens. Ex-hippie Rachel, a misguided liberal who will soon abandon her family, insists on sending their son, Dylan, to public school, where he stands out like a white flag. Desperately lonely, regularly attacked and abused by the black kids ("yoked," in the parlance), Dylan is saved by his unlikely friendship with his neighbor Mingus Rude, the son of a once-famous black singer, Barnett Rude Jr., who is now into cocaine and rage at the world. The story of Dylan and Mingus, both motherless boys, is one of loyalty and betrayal, and eventually different paths in life. Dylan will become a music journalist, and Mingus, for all his intelligence, kindness, verbal virtuosity and courage, will wind up behind bars. Meanwhile, the plot manages to encompass pop music from punk rock to rap, avant-garde art, graffiti, drug use, gentrification, the New York prison system-and to sing a vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn throughout. Lethem seems to have devoured the ''70s, ''80s and ''90s-inhaled them whole-and he reproduces them faithfully on the page, in prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks. Scary and funny and seriously surreal, the novel hurtles on a trajectory that feels inevitable. By the time Dylan begins to break out of the fortress of solitude that has been his life, readers have shared his pain and understood his dreams.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dylan Ebdus is a white kid on a black-and-brown street. As he struggles through public school in 1970s Brooklyn, he is "yoked"--put in a headlock--and frisked for change on a daily basis. Testing into a good Manhattan school, he steps into a long-lasting role: vulnerable among street kids, he''s street-smart compared to his new, privileged pals, and loathes himself as a poseur with both crowds. When he finds a ring that grants the power of flight, he''s afraid to use it, but his black friend, Mingus, is not. They try their hand at crime fighting, but like many teenage endeavors, the project fizzles out. Lethem is a tremendous writer, and in the first half he uses magnificent language to capture the complexity of a child''s worldview. When he jump-cuts to Dylan''s adulthood, however, his switch to a more conventional narrative style is disappointing. The story regains momentum when Dylan rediscovers the ring and a new power it offers, then returns to his old street and ponders a sacrifice: whether to give the ring to the boy who yoked him the most. Lethem explores many avenues: the origins of gentrification, the development of soul music, the genealogy of graffiti, the seeds of the crack epidemic. The different concepts converge in the closing pages, but this often-excellent novel labors under the weight of its ambition.\n  <em>\n   Keir Graff\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8057'),
(3919, 'The Fortress of the Pearl', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9829'),
(3920, 'Fortunate Harbor', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards''s sunny sequel to\n <em>\n  Happiness Key\n </em>\n reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant friends in Florida. The group of seaside cottages are the only asset Tracy retained after her ex-husband, CJ Craimer, landed in prison because of some shady business dealings. The former Bel-Air trophy wife now works at a recreation center while treasuring her support system: Rishi and Janya Kapur, a young Indian-American couple trying to have a baby; pie maker entrepreneur Wanda and cop husband Ken Gray; Alice Brook and her granddaughter, Olivia Symington; plus secretive newcomers Dana Turner and her daughter, Lizzie, who dish up a poignant mystery for Tracy and friends to solve. When CJ unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he''s released from prison pending a new trial, Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there''s Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist boyfriend whose troublemaking ex, Sylvia, is also back in town. Secrets, friendships, and the Florida gulf coast all come into play in Richards''s engaging latest.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The five women who own cottages at Happiness Key could not be more different, but that doesn''t stop them from being friends. Janya hasn''t been able to get pregnant, and her husband has turned cold and distant. For support she turns to Tracy, a type A businesswoman who is being stalked by her criminal ex-husband as she tries to reenter the dating world. But Tracy''s problems can''t compare to those of Wanda, who has lost her job and struggles to start a business of her own as suggested by Alice, who has offered to babysit the daughter of new Happiness Key resident Dana. Women''s-fiction favorite Richards uses wit, suspense, and the relatable and extremely touching friendships of her main characters to weave an exciting and mysterious story revolving around a secret Dana is hiding whose revelation may well change their lives forever. --Claire Orphan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8362'),
(3921, 'The Fortunate Pilgrim', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Puzo has called this 1965 pre-Godfather novel his personal favorite of his oeuvre. It recounts the life of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo, a Southern Italian immigrant who settles in New York in the 1920s. This "very colorful and perceptive novel" remains "highly readable" for today''s audience (LJ 3/15/65).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo''s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell''s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4361'),
(3922, 'Fortune Cookie', 'Bryce Courtenay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, my unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8123'),
(3923, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s longboat."''Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4248'),
(3924, 'Fortune&#39;s Bride', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Moreton loved his life and duty in the army, it was all he ever wanted. He was happy to be sent to Portugal. . .until he came across Esmeralda Talbot, shipwrecked in a small Portuguese village and in danger of being forced to marry the headman''s son. Robert rescued Esmeralda, intending to send her immediately to England. Only there was no way he could do so, and to save her reputation from ruin, he married her. Esmeralda could not believe her luck. She had been in love with Robert since years before when he had danced with her at the Governor''s ball in India. Married to her dream! Now all she had to do was keep him from fulfilling his promise to annul the marriage. Robert knew life was brighter and better than it had ever been before-but he had no idea why. Esmeralda did not dare hint at her passion for him, lest her too-honorable husband send her to England. How was she ever to get Robert to realize he was in love and wanted to keep her beside him forever? Publisher''s Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1983.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3797'),
(3925, 'Fortune&#39;s Light', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions..  Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend -- Teller Conlon, who also served on that team -- draws Riker and the Enterprise(TM) across the galaxy, back to Imprima.  Because the jewel known as Fortune''s Light -- one of " Madraga" Criathis''s most priceless possessions -- has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortune''s Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friend''s embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a dagger''s blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4744'),
(3926, 'Fortune&#39;s Rocks: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father''s New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She''s especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse, and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair. Alas, it''s only a matter of weeks before this passionate exercise in managed care is exposed--with disastrous consequences for the young, impregnated heroine. Even her adoring father now considers her "an overplump sixteen-year-old girl whose judgment can no longer be trusted," and insists that she break off her relationship:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There is nothing more to be said on this subject," he says. She bites her lip to keep from crying out further. She holds the arms of her chair so tightly she later will have cramps in her fingers. She will refuse to obey him, she thinks. She will accept his implied challenge and set off on her own. But in the next moment, she asks herself: How will she be able to do that? Without her father''s support, she cannot hope to survive. And if she herself does not survive, then a child cannot live."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the end, Anita Shreve''s seventh novel is a polished, supremely entertaining variation on __, with Olympia and Haskell sitting in for Catherine and Heathcliff. The author did some meticulous research for her New England background, which gives this study of one particular wayward woman some extra historical heft. Some readers may find the plot twists a bit pat. And despite Olympia''s efforts to be an independent woman, she overcomes her trials largely as a result of her family''s wealth and station, which takes the edge off Shreve''s feminist message. Still,\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is a romance in the classic sense of the word, and should be enjoyed as such, unless the reader is absolutely allergic to happy endings.\n <em>\n  --Ted Leventhal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune''s Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Haskell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting friend of her father''s), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" in his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot''s Wife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plot gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by living outside her period''s societal mores. Reading, Brown (of TV''s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) clearly has the most fun at the beginning, where the story''s real heat and flushed excitement pours out. Listeners, too, may grow colder as the plot loses its torrid, forbidden edge. Based on the 1999 Little, Brown hardcover. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7687'),
(3927, 'Forty Signs of Rain', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (_The Years of Rice and Salt_) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece of the puzzle and can see calamity coming, but is helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America. Anna Quibler, a National Science Foundation official in Washington, D.C., sifts through dozens of funding proposals each day, while her husband, Charlie, handles life as a stay-at-home dad and telecommutes to his job as an environmental adviser to a liberal senator. Another scientist, Frank Vanderwal, finds his sterile worldview turned upside down after attending a lecture on Buddhist attitudes toward science given by the ambassador from Khembalung, a nation virtually inundated by the rising Indian Ocean. Robinson''s tale lacks the drama and excitement of such other novels dealing with global climate change as Bruce Sterling''s\n <em>\n  Heavy Weather\n </em>\n and John Barnes''s\n <em>\n  Mother of Storms\n </em>\n , but his portrayal of how actual scientists would deal with this disaster-in-the-making is utterly convincing. Robinson clearly cares deeply about our planet''s future, and he makes the reader care as well. FYI:_Robinson''s Mars_ trilogy (_Red Mars_, etc.) received one Nebula and two Hugo awards.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“An elegantly crafted and beguiling novel set in the very near future. Anna Quibler is a technocrat at the National Science Foundation while her husband, Charlie, takes care of their toddler and telecommutes as a legislative consultant to a senator. Their family life is a delight to observe, as are the interactions of the scientists at the NSF and related organizations. When a Buddhist delegation, whose country is being flooded because of climate change, opens an embassy near the NSF, the Quiblers befriend them and teach them to work the system of politics and grants. The Buddhists, in turn, affect the scientists in delightful and unexpectedly significant ways. The characters all share information and theories, appreciating the threat that global warming poses, but they just can''t seem to awaken a sense of urgency in the politicians who could do something about it. (Robinson''s characterizations of politicians are barbed, and often hilarious.) As the scientists focus on the minutiae of their lives, the specter of global warming looms over all, inexorably causing a change here, a change there, until all the imbalances combine to bring about a brilliantly visualized catastrophe that readers will not soon forget. Even as he outlines frighteningly plausible scenarios backed up by undeniable facts, the author charms with domesticity and humor. This beautifully paced novel stands on its own, but it is the first of a trilogy. As readers wait impatiently for the next volume, they will probably find themselves paying closer attention to science, to politics, and to the weather._â€“Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5136'),
(3928, 'Forty Stories', 'Anton Chekhov &amp; Robert Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean -- wherever my imagination ranges."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anton Chekhov\n </p>\n <p>\n  If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov''s career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepy-head," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving -- often within a single page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vintage Classic are-quality paperback editions of the world''s greatest written works. They are durably bound and are printed exclusively on acid-free paper.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English (translation)\n  <br />\n  Original Language: Russian\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8717'),
(3929, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments, finally grappling with the figure at the center of the entire series: the adult Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory and father of the Foundation itself (the young Seldon was featured in the previous series novel, Prelude to Foundation ). Here, Seldon confronts various threats to the Empire or to the psychohistory project, thwarting them for the most part by his characteristic brand of informed intuition. In part I, Seldon recognizes the rise of a dangerous anti-Imperial movement led by the charismatic Jo-Jo Joranum, and defuses it while simultaneously backing into the post of First Minister. In the second segment (of five), Seldon narrowly avoids an attempt on his life but cannot prevent the assassination of the Emperor Cleon I. Seldon faces personal as well as political setbacks while civilization crumbles. This volume neatly sews up the series, though it offers few real surprises. Most interesting is the glimpse it affords of Asimov himself, obviously personified in Seldon. The psychohistorian''s vast intellectual interest, his concern for the future of learning in a time of decline, and his frustration in the face of mortality, ring true with special poignance. Asimov''s fans should savor this final taste of his unique persona.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity''s survival. It works best when read in conjunction with the previous six titles. However, Asimov has left readers with a fascinating portrayal of a man set against the backdrop of the "rise and fall of the galactic empire." It is well written and peopled with believable characters. Essential for all science-fiction collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5717'),
(3930, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco; William Weaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlleda point located in Paris, France, at Foucaults Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4329'),
(3931, 'Foul Play', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can''t resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn''t mind Jake''s charming sincerity. Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2133'),
(3932, 'Found Money', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For anyone who''s ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando''s (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his physician son, Ryan, that there is $2 million hidden in the attic, and that Frank got the money through blackmail?albeit off someone who "deserved it." The level-headed Ryan considers both claims unbelievable?until he finds the money. What secrets had his mild-mannered, hard-working father been hiding? Meanwhile, Amy Parkins, while struggling to support her daughter and her grandmother and to put herself through law school, receives $200,000 from an anonymous benefactor, apparently Frank Duffy, whom she''d never met. Why? Could the gift have anything to do with her mother''s mysterious suicide 20 years earlier? Troubled by the criminal implications of his father''s legacy, Ryan decides he can''t touch the cash until he knows where it came from. His questions kick off a wild ride involving lawyers and guns, Panamanian banks, seductive strangers and too much FBI interest for comfort. Amy, too, tries to trace the money, putting her on a collision course with Ryan and his greed-maddened family. As Ryan and Amy search for the money''s source and meaning, they uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking government officials, multi-billion-dollar corporations and a hidden crime committed on a hot summer night years ago. The final revelation is a real kicker, but it would carry even more force if overly tricky plot contrivances hadn''t diluted the suspense of what came before.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grippando (The Abduction, LJ 3/15/98) has done it again, crafting a thrilling scenario filled with terrifying images of money''s dark side. Dr. Ryan Duffy returns home to attend his father''s funeral, expecting to console his mother. Instead, his father''s dying words, wrought with allusions to blackmail, encourage Ryan to seek out an unexpected pile of cash squirreled away in the attic. Mom is not talking about the millions there, and Ryan''s pregnant sister and abusive brother-in-law turn sinister. Meanwhile, single mom Amy Parkens receives an anonymous package from the dying Duffy Senior?$200,000 in cash in a crockpot box. Amy traces the money to the Duffys through the crockpot warranty, and this results in an immediate but wary attraction between Amy and Ryan. The pair circle around a decades-old mystery involving their parents and those they considered their most trusted friends and allies. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5306'),
(3933, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (_Foundation_,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n</p>\n<p>\n But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5768'),
(3934, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. Springing from the same impulse that has fed his myriad nonfiction work, the novel''s debate is enlivened by Asimov''s fervid curiosity and his restless urge to explain everything, right down to the human passions that have largely vanished from his fiction. In fact, the characters, the tie-ins to Asimov''s Robot series and the search''s revelations suffer from the impersonal neatness that has handicapped Asimov''s other fiction. He has, however, found an ingenious way around his clumsiness with novelistic narrative by employing a formal fairy tale structure in which the different worlds represent tasks or gifts or wishes, their fair aspect hiding a deadly surprise. As a result, this rather lightweight addendum to the series breathes in a way his heavier, more substantial books seldom do. Paperback rights to Ballantine/Del Rey; BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9551'),
(3935, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5770'),
(3936, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5765'),
(3937, 'The Foundations of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Clarke once again sounds his grand theme...man is most himself when he...challenges the very laws of the universe." --\n  <em>\n   -The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4837');
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(3938, 'Founding America: Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights', 'Jack N. Rakove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Modern American politicians refer to â€œthe foundersâ€ so often that theyâ€™re in danger of becoming clichÃ©s. But Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, and the other authors included in this new collection were a wholly uniqueâ€”and complexâ€”group of individuals, graced with extraordinary intellectual powers, a profound dedication to their ideals, and a striking ability to articulate those ideals in clear and passionate prose.Â This original anthology of their writings, many of them far less familiar to us than they should be, demonstrates the depth of their thinkingâ€”and of their disagreements. It covers the full range of events from 1773 to 1789: that is, from the early debates about whether the North American colonies should declare their independence from England, to the ratification of the Constitution and the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights).Â Among the documents included are papers from the first and second Continental Congresses, the Articles of Confederation, Washingtonâ€™s Farewell Address to his armies, and extensive excerpts from the Federalist papers and the Madisonâ€“Jefferson correspondence on the Constitution.Â Jack N. Rakove is W.Â  R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of four books on the American Revolutionary era, including The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, and Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7790'),
(3939, 'Foundling', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet RossamÃ¼nda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can RossamÃ¼nd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(3940, 'The Foundling', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer is just as enjoyable for the tenth time as the first, proving a delight to all readers. These new releases with beautiful cover artwork are a welcome addition to any regency romance lover''s bookshelf. A Night Owl Romance TOP PICK, November 2009 (Danya\n <em>\n  Night Owl Romance\n </em>\n 20091123)\n</p>\n<p>\n Almost every time I read a book by Georgette Heyer, I find myself saying, "Ooooh, this is my new favorite!" and it''s happened, again.\n <br />\n (Anna Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Anyone who appreciates romance and mystery will enjoy The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n . (Gabrielle Pantera\n <em>\n  GoshTV,net\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Witty, unexpected, and great fun. (Gaby Lupus\n <em>\n  Starting Fresh\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Georgette Heyer will appreciate seeing all the things they love best about the author-her writing style, spirited dialogue, and attention to detail-on display in The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n . (Kay James\n <em>\n  Romance Reader at Heart\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fantastic... The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n will definitely have a place of honor on my bookshelf. (Carrie Zimmerman\n <em>\n  The Book Girl\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Delightful... I love how funny Heyer is! (Meghan Kawka\n <em>\n  Medieval Bookworm\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n No matter how villainous the villains may be, no matter how topsy turvy the heroine''s path to love or fulfillment Georgette Heyer''s world is one that comes with a happy ending. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Another lovely reading experience, brought to you by Georgette Heyer. I think that this one is my favorite so far by her. (Jessica West\n <em>\n  The Curious Reader\n </em>\n 20091203)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer''s social commentary add a different dimension to a novel already filled to brimming with relevant historical details! (Megan Snider\n <em>\n  Write Meg!\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the perfect time to curl up on the couch with your favorite blanket and a nice hot mug of tea and good ole Georgette. (Fargis Heather\n <em>\n  Capricious Reader\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of readers'', librarians'' and booksellers'' most frequently requested Heyers, The Foundling features Gilly, the seventh Duke of Sale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won''t let him lift a finger for himself, the Duke sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides to set out to discover whether he is "a man, or only a Duke."\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with an incognito journey into the countryside to confront a blackmailer, he encounters a runaway school boy, a beautiful but airheaded orphan, one of literature''s most appealing and well-spoken comic villains, and a series of alarming and even life threatening events from which he can extricate himself only with the help of his shy and lovely fiancÃ©...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Katie Fforde\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Absolute monarch of the Regency romance."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (20091118)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10209'),
(3941, 'Fountain Society', 'Wes Craven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *As a film director, Wes Craven gave you nightmares and made you scream. As a novelist, he''ll thrill you with a shocking tale born in cutting-edge science and bred in eternal fear.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hope for an ingenious superweapon is dying as physicist Peter Jance''s health fails. But with one brilliant, controversial, and top-secret operation, new life is granted:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...to the U.S. military''s dream defense system,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...to a torrid love triangle transcending time and memory,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...and to a cold and unspeakable government conspiracy to create an elite circle of immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3473'),
(3942, 'The Fountain', 'Mary Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was Norfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the charming market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner and ball - the first since the dark days of the First World War. Her widowed father will be her escort, but it is not long before George Kennett seeks her out for a dance. He has had his eye on her since spotting her punting on the Cam with her great friend Penny, and Penny''s charming brother Simon. George vows to win Barbara''s hand in marriage - a woman of her prestige would help raise his prospects considerably, and George is nothing if not a man of ambition - and begins a slow and steady courtship. Little by little, Barbara is won over, and eventually agrees to marry George; although he can be rather serious at times - lacking the fun and spontaneity of Simon - she believes he is a man she can rely on. Little does she realize how wrong she can be. Worn down by several years of marriage, during which George has been continually unfaithful to her and callously ruthless in his business plans to the point of illegality, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth. But her old friend Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is - the woman he has always loved. He reawakens Barbara''s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2271'),
(3943, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.** When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(3944, 'The Fountains of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Vannemar Morgans dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all timea 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(3945, 'The Fountains of Youth', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford''s Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren''t much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born more than five centuries ago, in 2520, Mortimer Gray is an emortal, a sturdy genetic composite who was raised in the Himalayas by the standard group of eight adults. These days, unlike most of his contemporaries, Gray--who long ago discovered his potential mortality when he barely survived a massive underwater volcanic eruption--is obsessed with death, and in fact has undertaken a massive study of how human''s ideas about it have affected history. Well before completing the work, several centuries and nine volumes later, he became both famous as a popular scholar and notorious as an influence on the Thanaticists, militant believers in keeping death a part of the human condition to the point of organizing ritual suicides and creating "recreational diseases." (Meanwhile, Gray''s world has remained in flux--experiments are turning humans into cyborgs or genetically altered beings with four hands; interstellar probes have encountered intelligent aliens.) Gray is in some ways a fine narrator, able to reflect on the events circling around him with a historian''s critical eye--but because he''s rather detached, it''s hard to get involved in his story. Moreover, Stableford has written much of this book as if he was composing a literary essay (complete with excessive foreshadowing)--which makes reading it a bit of a chore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4848'),
(3946, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the verge of resigning from the D.C. police force, Detective Alex Cross knows he can''t refuse this case. His partner John Sampson has a friend who has been framed for murder and is facing the gas chamber. His accusers? The United States Army. As a new woman in Cross''s life brings him hope in the face of a devastating loss at home, Cross and Sampson go up against codes of honor and silence and three ruthless killers. But a bigger threat lies in wait: Their controller, a lethal genius who will introduce Cross to new depths of terror . . the last of the FOUR BLIND MICE. (2002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2021'),
(3947, 'Four Dukes and a Devil', 'Cathy Maxwell; Elaine Fox; Jeaniene Frost; Tracy Anne Warren; Sophia Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do with three dukes'' a dog named Duke'' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! Weâ€²ve combined five of todayâ€²s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like youâ€²ve never experienced before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1107'),
(3948, 'Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food', 'Paul Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children''s children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3475'),
(3949, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The scary story has never been the same since. An extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas: *The Langoliers*, *Secret Window*, *Secret Garden*, *The Library Policeman*, and *The Sun Dog*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4259'),
(3950, 'The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio', 'William J. Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Four Pillars of Investing offers a comprehensive, incisive and pithy treatment of the issues. --\n  <em>\n   Barron''s; May 27, 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Bernstein''s\n  <em>\n   The Four Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfoliosÂ­Â­without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make betterinformed investment decisions.\n  <em>\n   The 4 Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7287'),
(3951, 'Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Three to Get Deadly*** A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last... ***Four to Score*** Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2128'),
(3952, 'Four Weeks to a Better Behaved Child', 'Christine Chandler; Laura McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10909'),
(3953, 'The Fourth Durango', 'Ross Thomas &amp; Sarah Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tiny, godforsaken California town named Durango is the setting for Thomas''s ( Out on the Rim ) tense new novel, a suspense story laced with wry wit. The town''s mayor, plucky Barbara Huckins, and its chief of police, Sid Fork, are part-time lovers and ex-San Francisco hippies who drifted into Durango 20 years back. The action begins when Jack Adair, an acid-tongued judge falsely accused of taking a big bribe, drops into Durango to hide from whoever wants him silenced. Poor Adair already has a daughter in a mental hospital, a disbarred attorney for a son-in-law and a gay son who committed suicide (or was it murder?). Barbara and Sid, an unlikely duo assisted by no less than four detectives, follow a trail warm with corpses to a brutal killer who dresses up as a priest or a plumber. The socko climax takes place on the Fourth of July, with readers kept in the dark right through the fireworks. In this offbeat diversion, Thomas builds suspense and character almost casually, once again proving himself a master of the crime thriller. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild alternate; Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fourth Durango\n </em>\n is not your ordinary Durango. It''s not in Spain, or Mexico, and it''s not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to -and certainly would not want to-resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6099'),
(3954, 'The Fourth Man', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank FrÃ¸lich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, FrÃ¸lich coincidentally runs into her again---but their ensuing affair is no accident.By the time he learns that she is no stranger---but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang---it is already too late.In the middle of the night, FrÃ¸lich receives a call that a young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Scrambling to respond, he realizes that Elizabeth is no longer in his bed. And all at once, FrÃ¸lichâ€™s life has changed. In a turn of events cryptic, erotic, and complex, he finds himself a prime murder suspect and under the watch of his doubting colleagues.Led through the dark underworld of Oslo and his own soul, FrÃ¸lich---suspended from the force, blindly in love, and on the hunt for some hint of truth in a vortex of darkness and lies---must find out if he is being used . . . before his life unravels beyond repair.The Fourth Man is a sexy, fast-paced psychological thriller that puts a modern twist on the classic noir story of the femme fatale. K. O. Dahl has crafted a dark, poetic, and incredibly complex crime novel for his U.S. debut---the first in a series of detective novels from this rising international mystery star.Praise for The Fourth Man:â€œA Norwegian Mankellâ€---Norra Vasterbotten (Sweden)â€œI have read many clever and thrilling crime novels through my life, but often they have nothing to do with real life. If I donâ€™t believe in them, they donâ€™t impress me. But when K.O. Dahl tells his stories, I believe every single word.â€---Karin Fossum, author of The Indian Brideâ€œAn absorbing study of sexual enthrallment, dogged police work and a harrowing twist or two: Fans of proceduralsâ€¦will snap this one up.â€---Kirkusâ€œRecommend to fans of Karin Fossum and Kjell Eriksson. Dahl is a formidable talent whose books may well become as popular in the US as in Norway.â€ ---Booklistâ€œA crime master of style... Dahlâ€™s original trait, the rich language, is here fully developed. He is perhaps the most literary of our crime writers. He fully masters the use of images and re-takes that serve to emphasize and strengthen the text, the latter a risky business regardless of genre. In addition to this, he is a proper devil at describing emotions, and throughout the entire spectrum at thatâ€¦. Conclusion: Kjell Ola Dahl has again written an excellent crime novel.â€---Aftenposten (Norway)â€œEffective and entertaining crimeâ€¦.We let ourselves be both mesmerized and entertainedâ€¦â€---Adresseavisen (Norway)â€œElite crime writingâ€¦ Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the big names of Norwegian crime fiction, and The Fourth Man shows why: here, the plot is effectively narrated, the drive forward is dynamic and the reader is served his seconds over and over againâ€¦â€---Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)â€œHigh-shine crimeâ€¦ a crime novel solidly and aptly constructed. Chock full of action, with precise shifts in tempo, sparkling good dialogue and a plot that carries all the way through.â€ ---Bergens Tidende (Norway)â€œA suspenseful and well costructed storyâ€¦ Stringent and directed towards an astounding denouement.â€---MÃ¼nchner Merkur (Germany)â€œâ€¦an excellent crime novel has seen the light of dayâ€¦â€---Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5426'),
(3955, 'The Fourth Stall', 'Chris Rylander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixth-graders Mac and Vince have been running an advice and assistance service for fellow grade-school students since they were in kindergarten. Mac is a problem solver, Vince is a whiz at keeping track of the money and favors they earn, and both boys are avid Chicago Cubs fans. Their ï¿½officeï¿½ is located in an underused school bathroom, hence this first novelï¿½s title. The business takes a beatingï¿½and then so does the boysï¿½ friendshipï¿½when an older kid applies muscle to the threats he has made to grade-schoolers who owe gambling debts. Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives. Mac narrates the convoluted tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre, so swallowing even the more preposterous coincidences is easy for the sake of the storyï¿½s fun. An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here is an original - a story that really gets how guys are pals.... Do yourself a favor.Â  Read it.Â  Now."Â _ -\n  <strong>\n   Jon Scieszka\n  </strong>\n  (__NYT Best-Selling author_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The Fourth Stall makes good use of non sequitur humor and a healthy dose of schoolyard violence to draw in even the most apprehensive young reader... a robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship.\n  </em>\n  "__\n  <br />\n  --VOYA\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives...Â An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion._"_Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  --Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Boys and girls alike will be biting theirÂ nails, laughing out loud and begging for theÂ next installment. Fans of Jeff Kinney, Gordon Kormon andÂ Jon Scieszka will find a new hero inÂ Rylander." --Sioux Falls Argus Leader\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes middle-school readers just wanna have fun. And Rylander, thankfully, steers well clear of made-for-TV life lessons."__ --The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8180'),
(3956, 'The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army', 'David Cloud; Greg Jaffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military''s brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army''s most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In *The Fourth Star*, you''ll follow:â€¢Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army''s most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading. â€¢Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him. â€¢Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army''s failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plansâ€“yet rarely achieved the results he sought.â€¢Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army''s summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, heâ€“more than anyoneâ€“changed the Army''s conception of what was possible. Masterfully written and richly reported, *The Fourth Star* ranges far beyond today''s battlefields, evoking the Army''s tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/905'),
(3957, 'A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel', 'Steve Toltz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father''s body will never be found. As he tells it, Jasper has been uneasily bonded to his father through thick and thin, which includes Martin''s stint managing a squalid strip club during Jasper''s adolescence; an Australian outback home literally hidden within impenetrable mazes; Martin''s ill-fated scheme to make every Australian a millionaire; and a feverish odyssey through Thailand''s menacing jungles. Toltz''s exuberant, looping narrativeâ€”thick with his characters'' outsized longings and with their crazy argumentsâ€”sometimes blows past plot entirely, but comic drive and Toltz''s far-out imagination carry the epic story, which puts the two (and Martin''s own nemesis, his outlaw brother, Terry) on an irreverent roller-coaster ride from obscurity to infamy. Comparisons to\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  are likely, but this nutty tour de force has a more tender, more worldly spin.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ is that rarest of long booksâ€“\n  <strong>\n   utterly worth it\n  </strong>\n  ...The story starts in a prison riot and ends on a plane, and there is\n  <strong>\n   not one forgettable episode\n  </strong>\n  in between...It reads like Mark Twain with access to an intercontinental Airbus...\n  <strong>\n   This book moves; it bucks and rocks\n  </strong>\n  in a world that feels more than a hemisphere away...So comically dark and inviting that you have no choice but to step into its icy wake.â€ â€”_Esquire\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œRollicking...laugh-out-loud funny.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Entertainment Weekly_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œA rich father-and-son story\n  <strong>\n   packed with incident, humor, and characters reminiscent of the styles of Charles Dickens and John Irving\n  </strong>\n  ...Occasionally, a big, sprawling first novel fights its way into print with a flourish, at which point its ambition and the eccentricities of its â€˜firstnessâ€™ can become its best marketing tools. Such is the case with\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a book that is willfully misanthropic and very funny...like Irving, Toltz makes\n  <strong>\n   minor characters leap off the page\n  </strong>\n  ...Heâ€™s a superb, disturbing phrasemaker...this long novel, which lives or dies in the brilliance of its writing, has a subtle, compelling structure..._A Fraction of the Whole_\n  <strong>\n   soars like a rocket\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCombines the\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  high-low reference points of early Martin Amis with the annihilating punk inventiveness of Chuck Palahniuk.â€ â€”_Best Life\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œOne of the best books Iâ€™ve ever read.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is better than\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  , and Toltz did it in one book while it took Franzen two to get\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  out into the world. Granted, you have your whole life to write your first novel, but my God,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  does things that most writers canâ€™t do in a lifetime... A\n  <strong>\n   wildly addictive\n  </strong>\n  exploration into a manâ€™s soul, a\n  <strong>\n   profoundly moving\n  </strong>\n  experience almost religious in its execution and possibly one of the sharpest and irresistibly humorous post-modern adventures Iâ€™ve had the pleasure to read... Steve Toltz has written\n  <strong>\n   a masterpiece, a smashing debut that will long be remembered as a colossal example of just how good fiction can be\n  </strong>\n  . He keeps you wired to the page from the jump and he defies gravity all the way to the end.â€ â€”Ainâ€™t It Cool News\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst novels these days too seldom dare to raise their voices above an elegant whisper or an ironic murmur. Not so\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a riotously funny first novel that is\n  <strong>\n   harder to ignore than a crate of puppies\n  </strong>\n  , twice as playful and just about as messy. This is not a book to be read so much as an experience to be wallowed in. Mr. Toltzâ€™s merry chaosâ€“a mix of metaphysical inquiry, ribald jokes, freakish occurrences and verbal dynamite booming across the pageâ€“\n  <strong>\n   deserves a place next to\n   <em>\n    A Confederacy of Dunces\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  in a category that might be called the undergraduate ecstatic.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is a sort of Voltaire-meets-Vonnegut tale.â€ â€”_Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œMadcap, exhausting, and true in the way the best lies always are.â€ â€”_New York Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWild...an odyssey thatâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   inspired, sorta stoned, tender, and very funny\n  </strong>\n  . Sometimes all at the same time. Toltzâ€™s invention is as breathtaking as the speed of his narrative in a book that seems to have had all the boring parts snipped...There is wit on every page...Jorge Luis Borges is obviously an influence on Toltz. There is also a bit of John Irving and Tom Robbins here in the wacky characters and narrative drive.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  even has a touch of the weary philosophizing of Vonnegut, too. In its structureâ€“and especially in its endingâ€“there is even a pinch of Tristram Shandy. Very good company, all.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Hold on tight\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   because you are about to ride a juggernaut of words\n  </strong>\n  , where things will go by very quickly and you better pay attention...The real pleasure in reading this book is the pace and the language. What Toltz has done masterfully is have his way with every aspect of modern life. He racks â€˜em up and knocks â€˜em down with a laser wit, a fine turn of phrase and a\n  <strong>\n   devastatingly funny\n  </strong>\n  outlook on everything human.â€ â€”_Seattle Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œ\n  <strong>\n   An\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exuberantly funny debut novel that you should just go away and read\n  </strong>\n  ...There is plenty to laugh at in\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  â€“and also, goodness knows, there is plenty of plot and the narrative pace of a puppy with attention deficit disorder. But it also has a heart...\n  <strong>\n   A grand achievement\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   and the debut of a great comic talent\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSparkling comic writing...It gives off the unmistakable whiff of\n  <strong>\n   a book that might just contain the secret of life\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Independent_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis\n  <strong>\n   absurdly incident-laden, feverish, farcical\n  </strong>\n  life story bears the watermark of long gestation. Whatâ€™s more, it\n  <strong>\n   stands above the vast majority of debut novels\n  </strong>\n  because it seems so marvelously sure of itself and what it should be...Toltzâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   fizzing, acid, funny\n  </strong>\n  prose is capable of a kind of broken, lyrical beauty...Amid the dizzying whirl of events, Toltz never loses sight of a deep current that runs throughout his story...Itâ€™s a spiritual search that allows a conclusion that finds an affecting depth of feeling. Yes,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is\n  <strong>\n   a wildly looping rollercoaster\n  </strong>\n  . But thereâ€™s much more to it than meaningless exhilaration.â€ â€”_Independent on Sunday_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œWith tinges of magical realism and buckets of misanthropic humor it''s\n  <strong>\n   a clever and funny debut\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Observer_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œVery light on its feet, skipping from anecdote, to rant, to reflection, like a stone skimming across a pond...Thereâ€™s a section about a labyrinth that you could imagine Borges writing, another about a lottery gone wrong that made me think of Vonnegut, and a strange, lovely account of childhood illness that had echoes of Garcia Marquez. In some ways it\n  <strong>\n   plays like a modern Arabian Nights\n  </strong>\n  ...The inevitability of disaster is heartbreaking...\n  <strong>\n   Brilliant\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Guardian_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œQuirky, satirical, and absolutely delirious..._A Fraction of the Whole_ is\n  <strong>\n   one of the most hilarious, original literary romps in years with sizzle on each and every page\n  </strong>\n  . Hold on tight and enjoy the ride.â€ â€”_Tucson Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA sprawling, dizzying debut...Comic drive and Steve Toltzâ€™s far-out imagination carry the epic story . . .\n  <strong>\n   a nutty tour de force\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat satirical fun is found on the madcap pages of this rough-and-tumble tale...This\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , sneaky smart first novel is as big and rangy as Australia . . . Toltz salts it all with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life. This is one\n  <strong>\n   rampaging and irresistible\n  </strong>\n  debut.â€ â€“_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe\n  <strong>\n   perfect vacation read\n  </strong>\n  for just about everyone...This book allows you to romp along with the characters on an epic journey with two crazy Australian brothers who you fall madly in love with despite their wild, degenerate lives...packed with so many rich characters, setting descriptions, philosophy and fun you need something to aid digestion after each reading...Steve Toltz is\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , smart, with a fantastic imagination...His novel is a rollicking worldwide adventure...\n  <strong>\n   Take time to enjoy this one; you wonâ€™t be disappointed\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_The Daily Planet_, Telluride, CO\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ belongs to a neglected subgenre: serious fiction that refuses to take itself seriously. A ballsy, beautifully idiosyncratic epic, it asks dizzying primal questions about mortality, belief, and the shadowy, unmapped alleyways of human thoughtâ€“and Toltz manages his metaphysics like a master surfer riding a colossal wave...Itâ€™s a madcap,\n  <strong>\n   propulsive\n  </strong>\n  story...The energy of the writing is\n  <strong>\n   brilliantly infectious\n  </strong>\n  ...The novelâ€™s heart is as big as its intellect...It feels like an added bonus that, for all its hilarious misanthropy,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   testifies to the power of even the most reluctant love\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Business Post_ (Ireland)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with plots, sub-plots, sub-sub-plots, tangents, flashbacks, diversions, philosophical wanderings and spectacular set pieces...\n  <strong>\n   Fuelled by brilliant ideas and driven by an original, bracing, and very funny voice\n  </strong>\n  .â€ --_The Age_ (Australia)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Reads like the trajectory of a gleefully crazed Roman candle\n  </strong>\n  ...a sprawling, entertaining, decidedly quirky, and at times\n  <strong>\n   laugh-out-loud funny\n  </strong>\n  romp reminiscent of John Irvingâ€™s family sagas.â€ â€”_Library Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6181'),
(3958, 'The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9652'),
(3959, 'The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including __), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul--a journey he retraced in the spring of 1999.\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n describes both of those trips, concentrating on the history and character of the region more than the recent war and its aftermath. Winchester has spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent, but his more recent occupations as historian and a writer for\n <em>\n  CondÃ© Nast Traveler\n </em>\n are in evidence here. Winchester''s angle on the Balkans is unique and well written: those who have been bewildered at best and bored at worst by the Balkan conflict may find that\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n captures their interest better than hundreds of news accounts of war atrocities. "Why is there, and seemingly always has been, this dire inevitability about the Balkans being so fractious and unsettled a corner of the world?" Winchester wonders aloud. That eternal question continues to plague world statesmen and, though not fully answered here, affords the opportunity for an interesting exploration.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As NATO planes began to atttack Belgrade last March, British journalist Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) visited the Kosovar refugee camps in Macedonia, where he was shocked by the "Bruegel-scene of mass misery" that confronted him: international aid workers had not yet organized proper food and sanitation for the thousands of people crammed into a muddy field surrounded by Macedonian police. The sight provoked Winchester to visit as much of the Balkans as he could, in hope of grasping the complexities that had led to the debacle. Starting out from Vienna, he continued into Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, where he found that nationalist citizens still refer to the Muslim Kosovars as "Turks." Although he sets his travels against the history of the BalkansAfrom the battles of the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires through the Croatian massacre of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and homosexuals during WWII to the recent war in KosovoAhis conclusions are too pat to make his analysis significant. Taking a fatalistic attitude, he views the region''s problems as little more than the fruit of "classic Balkan hatreds, ancient and modern." Still, Winchester''s extensive interviews make his book notable. Almost every page contains the reflections of ordinary citizens, who reveal to Winchester their hatreds, their troubles and their hopes, lending richness and authenticity to his account. His unsentimental descriptions of the area''s destroyed mosques, burned houses and virulent graffiti serve as a poignant reminder that the effects of war last long after the planes are gone.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6009'),
(3960, 'Fragile Things', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-;and nightmares . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they''ve eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Such marvelous creations and more-;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children''s fiction-;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman''s storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7370');
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(3961, 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . .  Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreamsâ€”and nightmares . . .  In a Hugo Awardâ€“winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England . . . These marvelous creations and more showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brillianceâ€”and the terrifyingly dark and entertaining witâ€”of the incomparable Neil Gaiman. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most original writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2917'),
(3962, 'Fragment', 'Warren Fahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this powerhouse of suspense - as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins - scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they''ve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is theTrident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders - and the ultimate test of survival begins . . . For when they reach the island''s shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find - creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years. Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory - and must be saved at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3717'),
(3963, 'The Frailty of Flesh', 'Sandra Ruttan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence that the sister is innocent and is actually a potential victim herself. Now they need to find her before sheand the rest of her familyis killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3549'),
(3964, 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', 'Howard Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Howard Gardner\n  </strong>\n  is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville''s Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5140'),
(3965, 'Frank: The Voice', 'James Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich Reviews\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich is an acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author. He has directed over 25 feature films, including international award winners\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book of this kind or quality about Frank Sinatra. Like the formidable novelist he is, James Kaplan has somehow managed to get inside the man and the legend, to such a degree that you feel you are living Sinatraâ€™s life with him, almost day by day. Yet it is the fastest read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From his violent, deforming, traumatic birth, through his Hoboken childhood with a super-dominating mother and a weak father, through the heady, unprecedented bobby-sox years, his young marriage to the virtually saint-like Nancy, their three kids, his numerous--almost serial--infidelities, through the tumultuous affair with Ava Gardner--detailed as never before--through the much-frowned-on divorce, the suicide attempts, rivetingly onward through the near total collapse of his career, and right up through the miraculous comeback with the Oscar for\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sinatra the musician has never been taken as seriously or chronicled with such sensitivity and depth; it has never been as clear how very much the singer had to do with all aspects of his recordings and performances. This is a warts-and-all work, with a staggering amount of research to back everything up, revealing Nancy Sr. in all her grace, and Frank in all his moods, but it is never salacious or malicious, only honest, forthright and civilized. Nobody can be prepared for the life of a phenomenon--which Sinatra was--the first show business phenomenon of the 20th century, long before Elvis or the Beatles, and far more complicated and multi-layered. Being very human, Frank did the best he could with it all, and James Kaplan has done a magnificently resonant chronicle of the first half of an incredible journey. It leaves you hungering for the second volume!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this riveting and fast-paced biography, Kaplan, coauthor with Jerry Lewis of Dean and Me, chronicles Sinatra''s somewhat unlikely meteoric ascent to success, his failures, and his rebirth as a star of song and screen. With exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, detail, Kaplan engagingly re-creates the young Sinatra''s childhood in Hoboken, N.J., where young Frank was born, in 1915. By the time he was 12, Sinatra was singing for quarters on top of the piano in the bar in his father''s tavern. At 21, Frankie joined a group that became known as the Hoboken Four, and everyone soon recognized Sinatra''s great vocal gift. Kaplan expertly conducts us on a journey through Sinatra''s early years with Tommy Dorsey and his long solo career; Sinatra''s first marriage to Nancy Barbato and his more famous marriage to Ava Gardner; and through Sinatra''s movie career and his rebirth in the early 1950s. Although Sinatra''s career often faltered in the late 1940s, his partnership with Nelson Riddle and the release of the song "Young at Heart" in 1953 began Sinatra''s comeback. Kaplan''s enthralling tale of an American icon serves as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra''s diehard fans. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7066'),
(3966, 'Frankenstein', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1487'),
(3967, 'Frankenstein: City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1458'),
(3968, 'Frankenstein: Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victorâ€™s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalionâ€™s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionâ€“and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victorâ€™s malignant mind could have conceivedâ€“an indestructible entity that steps out of humankindâ€™s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1498'),
(3969, 'Frankenstein: Lost Souls', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In **Lost Souls**, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. ** **The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(3970, 'Frankenstein: Prodigal Son', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion''s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O''Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire raceof killers who are much moreand lessthan human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Heliosonce known as Frankenstein.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(3971, 'Frayed', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eddie''s doing his best to get by, but every day the good fight just gets harder. And now there''s a new burden to shoulder. Gray - his best friend and nemesis in literature, romance, and life - has landed in a bizarre mental hospital, known for its radical treatments, because Gray couldn''t bear the weight of an unspeakable trauma.  Now Eddie''s invited to a party at Eddie''s house...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10645'),
(3972, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifeâ€”from cheating and crime to parenting and sportsâ€”and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesâ€”how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3419'),
(3973, 'Freaks and Revelations', 'Davida Wills Hurwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/842'),
(3974, 'Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption', 'Murray Milner Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murray Milner has done more than perhaps any other American sociologist to remind us that ''status'' remains a primary mode of stratification, one that is dependent on cultural, not material power. He first set out this claim in his study of the Hindu caste system. In this new installment of his research program, he applies his considerable powers to American teenagers, and he shows how they produce caste systems of an equally deep and irrational kind.\n <em>\n  Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids\n </em>\n is exemplary sociological research and theory. It is also wise and witty, and often touching as well.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Jeffrey C. Alexander, co-editor of\n  <em>\n   The New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A rare book! Social science at its best, yet full of messages for parents, educators, and anybody who cares about the next generation.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Amitai Etzioni, author of\n  <em>\n   My Brother''s Keeper: A Memoir and a Message\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Milner explains why high school cliques have so much power and can inflict so much pain. Anyone who cares about adolescents--parents, teachers, principals, and teenagers themselves--should definitely read this book. I couldn''t stop reading it, and can''t wait to discuss it with my students. It is sociological analysis at its best!.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Caroline Hodges Persell, co-author of\n  <em>\n   Preparing for Power: America''s Elite Boarding Schools\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What do high school kids and Indian castes have in common? Murray Milner, expert on both, presents the results of a collective ethnography which is surely the most comprehensive sociological picture we have of high school society. Methodologically, theoretically, and substantively, this book is state of the art.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Randall Collins, author of\n  <em>\n   Macrohistory: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Countless books are written about the world of the teenager, but this one is unique in its discussion of the link between teen status systems and consumer culture. This scholarly study, based on two years of fieldwork with teens in one school and written interviews with teens in schools around the country, is recommended for students, researchers, and educators.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Library Journal, 2004\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely and insightful book, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Drawing upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, he argues that consumer culture has greatly impacted the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. He also suggests that the status systems in high schools are in and of themselves an important contributing factor to the creation and maintenance of consumer capitalism explaining the importance of designer jeans and designer drugs in an effort to be the coolest kid in the class.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10347'),
(3975, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks, alcoholic auto scion; Donnell Lewis, ex-Black Panther who is acting as Woody''s driver, nursemaid and would-be swindler; Robin Abbott, ex-con, exfugitive (she bombed a federal office building) who has plans for a million dollar movie based on Woody''s life, with help from her old boyfriend and erstwhile bombing partner Skip Gibbs, now a movie dynamite expert. The only character who does not have ties to the ''60s is Greta ("Who''s Huey Newton?") Wyatt, stagenamed Ginger Jones, who meets Chris when she reports that Woody has assaulted her. When Chris pursues the investigation, he is suspended from the force, ostensibly for nonresidence in Detroit but really because of Woody''s clout. Now determined to get to the bottom of things, Chris is caught up in a web of scams plotted by Robin, Skip and Donnell. Leonard (Bandits, Glitz) excels here with his trademark menace and his deadpan, throwaway humor. His superlative ear for the vernacular makes all the characters spring to life; Woody,"always in low with his dims on," is a brilliant creation. This bang-up novel has bestseller written all over it. BOMC featured selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Soon after Chris Mankowskilately transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimesvisits rich, mindless alcoholic Woody Ricks on a rape complaint, someone blows up Woody''s limousinealong with Woody''s brother Mark. Ghosts from their student activist past have returned to haunt them. One ex-Panther even now takes care of Woody, and two ex-demonstrators hope to extort cash. Leonard''s latest sports the usual draws of crisp dialogue, satiric wit, and crazy characterization, but it also lacks the pervasive sparkle of Glitz . Better than most, though, and with a wild finale that hoists the villains by their own petard. BOMC featured selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9216'),
(3976, 'Frederica', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The novel ends on a most satisfying note, and I can think of no better way of spending a chilly winter evening - wrapped in a down comforter with my pooch sleeping by my side - than reading this gem of a book. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n There was a playful, light-hearted feel to this book that, along with the engaging characters, totally charmed me. (Deborah White\n <em>\n  Genre Reviews\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n If the modern day romance novel is the wonder bread of the literary world, Georgette Heyer would offer readers the fiber-heavy complexity of whole grains. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20090527)\n</p>\n<p>\n I think Ms. Heyer''s writing is just so smart and witty... I highly recommend FREDERICA if you are looking for a good summer read. It is a very entertaining story with lots of romance. (Julie Peterson\n <em>\n  Booking Mama\n </em>\n 20090527)\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n a lot, especially the banter between\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n and Alverstone... (Christina Maclean\n <em>\n  Chris'' Book-a-Rama\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n I had previously posted on my blog that I was looking for that next favorite book, and I found it here with\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n . This book is funny, charming and full of interesting characters. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm 07\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a fun, witty and intelligent read... I highly recommend this novel to anyone who likes a good historical romance. (Alyce Reese\n <em>\n  At Home with Books\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n Verdict: delightful repartee, a good Hero and crazy kids as secondary characters = win. (Ana\n <em>\n  The Book Smugglers\n </em>\n 20090603)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a powerful Regency romance, that every fan of the genre should read. (Marlene\n <em>\n  Once Upon a Romance\n </em>\n 20090612)\n</p>\n<p>\n [A] fun, charming book...\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a keeper, going on my bookshelf. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a great book that explores both the relationships of the characters, and the Regency era itself. Fun, entertaining, enthralling! (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090821)\n</p>\n<p>\n The novel is humorous, light-hearted... a nice, comfortable way to get your Austen-fix. (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n [F]ull of family, humor, society do''s and don''ts and of course, romance.\n <br />\n (Kristi Herbrand\n <em>\n  Books and Needlepoint\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters can''t help but be loveable - from the sister who is beautiful and can''t tell anyone no, to the brother who can''t help but be ernest, to the heroine herself. It all keeps you coming back for more. (Nicole Heffernan\n <em>\n  A Blog of Books\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  One of readers favorites, Frederica is full of surprises\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Frederica brings her younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, she seeks out their distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent, and refreshingly straightforward, Frederica makes such a strong impression that to his own amazement, the Marquis agrees to help launch them all into society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lord Alverstoke cant resist wanting to help her\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Normally wary of his family, which includes two overbearing sisters and innumerable favor-seekers, Lord Alverstoke does his best to keep his distance. But with his enterprising - and altogether entertaining - country cousins getting into one scrape after another right on his doorstep, before he knows it the Marquis finds himself dangerously embroiled...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WHAT READERS SAY:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n <br />\n "Stylish, witty, and bang up to the mark!" - Punch\n <br />\n "One of Georgette Heyer''s more adorable heroines." - Saturday Review\n <br />\n "Classic Heyerâ€”the author at her best!"\n <br />\n "Not only do the characters seize your heart from the first moment, they are three dimensional and so alive. It is just wonderful!"\n <br />\n "What a great book. One of my favourites, as the most beautiful is not the heroine."\n <br />\n "Witty, enchanting, and impossible to put down. This is one of Heyer''s best works and one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read."\n <br />\n "A wonderfully written witty tale of the downfall of a cynic. I was charmed."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090123)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10163'),
(3977, 'Free Fall (1993)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9959'),
(3978, 'Free Fire', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing,\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), from the state''s game and fish department, to investigate in Anthony-winner Box''s absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. Helped by astute park ranger Judy Demming and his antisocial pal, falconer Nate Romanowski, Joe gradually connects the murders to competition for bio-mining rights in Yellowstone''s hot springs. Joe''s often harassed family is on the sidelines, except for a startling appearance by his long-estranged father. Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes peculiar to Yellowstone into his story of corruption, greed and deception. The author vividly evokes Yellowstone''s natural beauty, but the book''s real power emanates from Pickett''s (and Box''s) passion for preserving the wilderness and stopping those who would cynically destroy it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Box set the standards so high with his Joe Pickett series that, once in a while, he''s had a hard time getting over the bar himself, as with\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), where he just tripped it with his toe. In\n <em>\n  ree Fire\n </em>\n , however, he gets over cleanly. Pickett, having been fired as a game warden, is working as foreman of his father-in-law''s ranch when Wyoming''s loose-cannon governor, Spencer Rulon, reinstates him--not to work his old district but to investigate, without official support, a crime in Yellowstone National Park. A lawyer has found a legal loophole that allows him to kill four campers and walk away scot-free, enraging Rulon. (A remote, uninhabited part of the park, soon dubbed the "Zone of Death," has murky jurisdiction and no residents to form a jury.) But, sure as Pickett is hard on government vehicles, there''s something even more sinister than a twisted legal mind behind the murders. Box is a master at working New West issues into his stories--here it''s something called biomining--exploring pro and con arguments without missing a storytelling beat. And, mining series gold, he''s forged a perfect alloy of familiar and fresh. Though Joe''s far out in no-man''s-land, as professionally on his own as he''s ever been, the family man''s moral compass is as strong as ever. And setting the action in the bubbling Yellowstone caldera--which could blow sky high any minute, we''re told--is a masterstroke, lending both urgency and the long view to the proceedings. Once again, recommended for practically everybody.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8684'),
(3979, 'A Free Man of Color', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Barbara Hambly''s rich and poignant thriller, it''s 1833 and Ben January--a man of mixed blood making his living as a musician because he''s not allowed to practice surgery--is back home in New Orleans after years of freedom in Paris. Trying to walk a caste line more complicated than India''s, January risks his precarious position to investigate the killing of a young woman who--like his own younger, lighter half-sister--is the mistress of a wealthy white man. What has changed most in New Orleans while Ben was away is the influence of the white Americans: rough, ignorant, instinctively racist. Only one of these--a policeman named Abishag Shaw--seems to understand that January is at least as smart and valuable as he is, and even he at times appears to be ready to side with the white majority and pin the crime on Ben.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this historical novel, Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre (e.g., Traveling with the Dead, LJ 8/95). Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society, where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January, a free Creole with dark brown skin, has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon, but in Louisiana, he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man''s young mistress, found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the run. The result is a complicated mystery that could have used more romantic involvement. Recommended for larger libraries.?Shirley Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6442'),
(3980, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2426'),
(3981, 'Freedom&#39;s Challenge', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Deportees from many worlds, the colonists of Freedom''s Landing have made a new home for themselves on the planet where they were abandoned. Now they have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike at enslaved planet Earth itself! Kris Bjornson has come a long way since the day alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Cattani, and has worked for years to make this fertile planet, Botany, into a home. Now she has a house of sorts, a child she adores, and a respected place in the community. But she still feels a soldier''s duty to escape and rejoin the struggle. The Eosi overlords have tight control of many worlds; as they continue to drop their captives on Botany, however, the original colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world. There are rebels even among the warlike Cattani, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. Now that the settlers on Botany are well-fed, and have technology stolen from visiting Cattani warships, they might be able to help. The trip to Earth will be heartbreaking, they realize. All of Earth''s major cities are in ruins. Humans with technical ability have been enslaved, or mind-wiped. Crops and animals have been herded into spaceships for the use of alien overlords, while Earth''s people starve. But the colonists of Botany can load their stolen ship with grain and supplies to help the resistance fighters. Most important, they can bring hope: it is possible to fight back against the Eosi and their Cattani enforcers. Earth can again be free!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10856'),
(3982, 'Freedom&#39;s Choice', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kris Bjornson and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, there was no guarantee they would live through the first day. Without the help of Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people, they might all have been food for the terrifying predators of the new world. But the colonists have learned to survive, and now they have a busy little civilization growing in the caves and fields of the planet they named Botany. Automated farming machines left behind by the true owners of this world have provided metal and parts for inventions that make their lives easier - and also have made them wonder about the identity of these "farmers". Botany''s owners seem to keep watch on their world with automatic scanners; surely they will come in person sometime, if only to see who is trespassing on their land. Maybe they will help Earth against the Catteni and Eosi, who have enslaved many worlds. As the colonists no longer face death every day, questions arise. Should they settle in here, where they have begun to feel at home, bearing children and creating a new society? Many believe they could do better this time at living in peace with one another and with the planet. Others, though, argue passionately that their duty is to escape, to get back to Earth and rejoin the battle against the Catteni oppressors. For Kris Bjornson, who loves the Catteni rebel Zainal, the choice is hard. She knows she and Zainal cannot have a child, and she would do anything to see Earth again. But Kris knows too that this life - building a house brick by brick with Zainal, harvesting what they grow in the fields, and exploring the vast expanses they have yet to colonize - is the best she has ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10800'),
(3983, 'Freedom&#39;s Landing', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth''s population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block. Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi. Courageous and resourceful, she manages a single-woman escape from the Catteni and is living in the wilds of the planet when she comes to the aid of a Catteni soldier pursued by his own ranks. Recaptured together, they join forces with other slaves to outwit their captors and a hostile planetary environment. Listeners will delight in this "against-the-odds" story of survival, ingenuity and romance. As her audience has come to expect of McCaffrey, she delivers a rich and intricate science fiction adventure in Freedom''s Landing, sure to win over even more listeners and add to her legions of fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10902'),
(3984, 'Freedom&#39;s Ransom', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Kris Bjornsen and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by the alien Catteni overlords, they would surely have died-without the help of Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people. But they did survive on the planet they named Botany, and in time they drove the Catteni away from Earth and neighboring planets. Technologically limited but rich in natural resources, Botany must find its place in the newly configured universe. A trip to Earth shows Kris and Zainal how desperately the devastated home planet needs what Botany can give. Other worlds too have had their wealth skimmed by the Catteni regime; the nearby planet of Barevi is little more than a corrupt bazaar, where bits and pieces of Earth''s once powerful technology can be traded for with grain and mineral ores. Earth needs food. Botany needs technology-and, some say, the will to protect itself from being overrun by refugees. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10843'),
(3985, 'The French Lieutenant&#39;s Woman', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling Financial Times Compulsively readable Irish Times A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again New Statesman Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power Sunday Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tells the story of Charles Smithson''s infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. The author re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel. He also wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9893'),
(3986, 'French Polished Murder', 'Elise Hyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You don''t stumble upon a series like the Daring Finds novels every day... Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she''s renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer''s very powerful local family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(3987, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1513'),
(3988, 'The French Revolution: from its origins to 1793', 'Georges Lefebvre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period. In tracing the web of intrigues and influences that transpired as the French Revolution, Lefebvre illuminates the fundamentals of historical interpretation and, at the same time, tells a story that will compel every reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1164');
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(3989, 'The Frenzy', 'Francesca Lia Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“Liv went through more than mere pubescent changes on her 13th birthday, and as time goes on, she only feels like her true self when she is in the woods. While struggling to determine what really happened to her that fateful night, Liv, now 17, also grapples with being estranged from her parents, dating a boy they would not approve of, and keeping her best friend''s secrets. Once she learns the truthâ€“that she is a werewolfâ€“Liv must determine where she really fits. Does she belong with her pack or can she make things work with the guy she loves? While many of the werewolf traits are reminiscent of Stephenie Meyer''s â€œTwilightâ€ series (Little, Brown), the similarities end there. Block''s focus is not so much on the fact that Liv is a werewolf, but rather on how she deals with this information and how it impacts those she cares about. There are issues of friendship, difficulties with parents, questions about a love relationship, and even an underlying mystery about a string of serial murders that take place in Liv''s beloved woods. Block does a nice job of weaving all these elements into a solid story that makes a quick but engaging read for fans of supernatural fiction. Reluctant readers will enjoy this story as well because of its pacing and manageable chapters.â€“Gina Bowling, South Gibson County High School, Medina, TN. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red-haired Olivia doesnâ€™t look like her parents and is locked in typical teen struggles with their values. But things arenâ€™t normal otherwise. Livâ€™s hair is embarrassingly rich on every part of her bodyâ€”even her toesâ€”and her police-chief dad hasnâ€™t been able to solve the brutal murders of four hunters in the local woods. Readers will figure out that Liv is a werewolf several chapters before she does, and Blockâ€™s spin on modern werewolf lore includes a dose of small-minded, small-town meanness that Livâ€”with a black boyfriend, a gay best friend who commits suicide, and a mom who is fashion sensitive and emotionally shallowâ€”must deal with. From another writer, this would be passing fare for the magical-creature hungry, but missing here are Blockâ€™s insouciant and pithy dialogue, her usual stellar balancing of scene and action, and other hallmarks that readers adore inâ€”and expect fromâ€”her writing. Werewolf fans will accept this, as will those who consume anything by a favorite author, but this is a mere a gateway to Blockâ€™s more creative titles. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6722'),
(3990, 'Fresh', 'Mark McNay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œThe rhythm changed and the chickens came down faster and faster. Sean found it hard to catch up and they piled like corpses in the rain. As he tried to pick one up another would bounce off the back off his hand. Sometimes their legs, or shorn feet, would dig him right in the finger. It was like when youâ€™re in a fight and the guy gets a couple in.â€ (p. 16)*****Most of Sean Oâ€™Gradyâ€™s days are depressingly similar. He not only lives in a town he thought he would leave years ago, but he works a mindless, dead-end job in the fresh meat section at the local chicken processing plant. And as if he needed a reminder of the banality of life, the conveyor belt that flanks the wall where he works beats out a hypnotic rhythm thatâ€™s inescapable:*Bum-titty-bum-titty-bum-titty.*But it isnâ€™t all bad. Fresh is the least of the gag-inducing departments in the plant and Seanâ€™s uncle Albert works alongside him. Albert and his wife, Jessie, took Sean and his brother Archie in after their mother died, and treated them as if they were their own.Sean hasnâ€™t turned out too badly either: he has steady work at the plant, a good woman as his wife, and a fine daughter. But Archie is another matter. He got started as a career criminal early on, with stints in jail for teenage joy rides and small-time drug trafficking. That escalated soon enough and Archie is in prison â€“ again.Or so Sean thinks. One day Sean discovers that Archie is due out that very same day, and he panics. His brother had given him â‚¤1000 to keep while he was away and Sean has spent the money. Sean is certain that if he canâ€™t get Archieâ€™s money in time, his brother will kill him.And he has good reason to believe the worst. Archieâ€™s best friend and de facto henchman has already made it known that Sean had better be ready to hand over the cash or suffer the consequences. Sean has witnessed his brotherâ€™s brutality first-hand, which confirms his conviction that any brotherly affection Archie might have for Sean wonâ€™t stand in the way of him getting his money back â€“ all of it.With the down-at-heel joie de vivre of Roddy Doyle and the wacko plottings of Irvine Welsh, **Fresh** is a white-knuckle ride through one forgettable day in the life of Sean Oâ€™Grady. Mark McNayâ€™s debut will leave you bowled-over and breathless and marks the arrival of a major new talent.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3040'),
(3991, 'Fresh Flavor Fast: 250 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Any Time of Day', 'Martha Stewart Living Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sample Recipe from\n  <em>\n   Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Serves 4\n <br />\n Prep time: 15 minutes\n <br />\n Total time: 15 minutes\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pesto made with parsley and sharp Pecorino Romano cheese (and without nuts) makes a colorful topping for tender lamb chops. It could also be tossed with pasta, spread on sandwiches, or mixed with cream cheese for a dip to serve with cruditÃ©s.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lamb Chops\n </strong>\n <br />\n 8 lamb loin chops (each 4 ounces and 1 inch thick)\n <br />\n Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Parsley Pesto (recipe below)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heat a large skillet over medium. Pat dry lamb with paper towels. Season chops on both sides with salt and pepper. Cook (in two batches, if necessary) 4 to 6 minutes per side for medium-rare. Serve immediately, topped with pesto.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parsley Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Makes 1/2 cup\n <br />\n 2 cups packed fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves\n <br />\n 3/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese (2 ounces)\n <br />\n 1 small garlic clove, coarsely chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for storing (optional)\n <br />\n Freshly ground pepper\n</p>\n<p>\n In a food processor, finely chop parsley, cheese, and garlic. With the motor running, add oil in a slow, steady stream; season with pepper. Serve immediately, or transfer to an airtight container and cover with a thin layer of oil; refrigerate up to 4 days or freeze up to 3 months.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Freezing Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Pesto keeps very well in the freezer, so itâ€™s worth making extra. Freeze it in small airtight containers, covered with a thin layer of olive oil. Defrost in the refrigerator before using.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With 250 tempting recipes to take you from breakfast all the way through dessert,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â is the indispensable collection that home cooks yearn for. Organized into familiar categoriesâ€”including sandwiches and pizzas, appetizers, salads, soups and stews, pastas, main courses, and side dishesâ€”this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling\n <em>\n  Everyday Food: Great Food Fast\n </em>\n helps you whip up the perfect dish any time of day. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Here is a book for the way we cook and eat now, with an emphasis on stretching meals (for example, leftovers from a roasted chicken are used to make a quick gumbo and roasted vegetables perform a second act as a vibrant pizza topping), turning to economical ingredients that deliver great results (such as flank steak, served with a piquant parsley-garlic sauce), and making healthier versions of comfort foods without skimping on flavor (like a lower-calorie chicken potpie). A section on enticing vegetarian main dishes as well as a roster of irresistible desserts round out this comprehensive collection. Hereâ€™s a taste of whatâ€™s inside: Â \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Breakfast:\n </strong>\n Jam-Filled French Toast Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Sandwiches and Pizzas:\n </strong>\n Eggplant and Mozzarella Melt Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Appetizers:\n </strong>\n Goat Cheese Crostini Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Salads:\n </strong>\n BLT Salad with Buttermilk Dressing Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Soups and Stews:\n </strong>\n Minestrone Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pastas:\n </strong>\n Spaghetti Puttanesca Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Main Courses\n </strong>\n : Meatballs with Rosemary Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Vegetarian\n </strong>\n : Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Side Dishes:\n </strong>\n Roasted Sweet Potato Fries Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Desserts:\n </strong>\n Gingered Blackberry and Plum ShortcakesÂ Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Brimming with great time- and budget-saving tips as well as smart kitchen techniques,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â helps you use what you have on hand to make everyoneâ€™s favorite foods. With an easy-to-read format, a photograph of each and every dish, and plenty of ideas to keep you inspired, this is the cookbook you will turn to day after day for wonderfully simple, delicious meals.Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5276'),
(3992, 'Friction', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jessup is supposed to be taking some R &amp; R. A former hacker, she''s now legit as a member of the crack HotWires team, investigating computer crime on Uncle Sam''s dime. Taking her first real vacation in years means leaving the laptop--and handcuffs--at home. Or so she thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n After one too many run-ins with sexy Logan Sullivan at the beach, Sarah is ready to indulge in a fling. Until she accidentally discovers he''s a renegade cop on leave working a cold case--one involving an Internet sex scandal. Is Logan just using their relationship for cover? And how''s he going to react when Sarah pulls out her own police badge?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4682'),
(3993, 'Friday', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as ''Boss''. Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss'' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America''s disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10419'),
(3994, 'Friday&#39;s Child', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It would, I think, be difficult to read this book without a smile on your face. The antics of the happy couple and their supporters and detractors seem delightfully silly compared with most romance fare today. If you are in need of a few hours of escape, I heartily recommend "_Friday''s Child_" by Georgette Heyer. (Julie\n <em>\n  Queue My Review\n </em>\n 20080616)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is a cut above the rest, which is saying quite a lot since this is Georgette Heyer we''re talking about and all her books happen to be fantastic.\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is filled with likable characters that stick with you and witty dialogue that will make you laugh out loud. (Katie Trattner\n <em>\n  Blog Critics\n </em>\n 20080903)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sparkling with wit, filled to the brim with wonderfully developed characters and with Heyer''s expert eye capturing the atmosphere with great accuracy, the book is a must-read for anyone who reads, period! (Rashmi Srinivas\n <em>\n  A Book Blogger''s Diary\n </em>\n 20080714)\n</p>\n<p>\n I cannot count the number of times I have read and re-read Friday''s Child; and each re-reading is still a joy. So vivid are the characters, so real the world Heyer recreates that a return visit never fails to entertain. (Hilary Williamson\n <em>\n  Book Loons\n </em>\n 20080728)\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters are interesting, likable, and believable and the dialogue between them is a high point of the book. I recommend Friday''s Child to anyone who wishes that Jane Austen had written more books. (Kim Izzat\n <em>\n  Good Clean Reads\n </em>\n 20081002)\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed Friday''s Child and can''t wait to delve into my next GH novel. (Ames\n <em>\n  Book Binge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is a wonderful tale of regency England by master storyteller, Georgette Heyer... If you are in a mood for great comedy and endearing characters,\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is the book for you! (Kate Garrrabant\n <em>\n  Ramblings on Romance\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Jane Austen as presented on the Carol Burnett show and it''s more fun than a bag of cats. (Orin Judd\n <em>\n  Brothers Judd\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lightsome, brightsome comedy."\n <br />\n -Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency."\n <br />\n -The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer''s sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history-when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility and romantic intrigues ruled the day. Heyer''s heroines are smart and independent; her heroes are dashing noblemen who know how to handle a horse, fight a duel, or address a lady. And her sense of humor is legendary.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington''s marriage proposal (she laughs at him-laughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, who happens to be the young, penniless Miss Hero Wantage, who has adored him all her life. Whisking her off to London, Sherry discovers there is no end to the scrapes his young, green bride can get into, and she discovers the excitement and glamorous social scene of the ton. Not until a deep misunderstanding erupts and Sherry almost loses his bride, does he plumb the depths of his own heart, and surprises himself with the love he finds there.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer (1902â€“1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. (20080520)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10155'),
(3995, 'Friends in high places', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater tean the fate of Guido''s own apartment. Brunetti''s investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan-sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(3996, 'The Frightened Man', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novelsâ€”and the well-known story that, decades before, he had gunned down four men in the American Westâ€”sometimes brings unwanted visitors to his door. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says that he is being pursued by the long-gone Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as one more victim of Londonâ€™s lunacy. But then the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute named Stella Minter is found in Londonâ€™s East End. . . . Disappointed by the lack of police concern, Denton determines to pursue the murderer, even after itâ€™s clear that heâ€™s become the next target. As Denton begins to peel away the layers of the lurid and horrifying murder, he finds himself exploring the dark underbelly of the bursting metropolis, a place so vast that Denton is forced to follow nothing but his instincts through the maze of Londonâ€”its pubs, its police offices, its dark alleys and disreputable neighborhoodsâ€”to find a murderer who is himself an agent of the cityâ€™s cancerous growth. And along the way Denton is lucky enough to find an ally in a woman with a past as haunted and a spirit as independent as his own. Kenneth Cameron has brought turn-of-the-century London vividly to life in this intelligent and compelling crime novel. The Frightened Man delves far deeper than the mere circumstances of a murder to investigate the unseenâ€”the secrets harbored in Londonâ€™s immeasurable streets and in the dark side of human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2860'),
(3997, 'The Frog Prince and Other Stories', 'Walter Crane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children''s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of Sixpenny Toy-Books of Nursery Rhymes in Three Colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of long visit to Italy following on his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3550'),
(3998, 'The Frog Princess', 'E. D. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This debut novel follows the adventures of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda and the talking frog she meets one day in a swamp. The frog begs her to give him a kiss so that he will turn back into Prince Eadric, his identity before an evil witch turned him into an amphibian. When the young royal obliges, she, too, is transformed into a frog, and the two leap off in search of the spell-casting witch to ask her to reverse her handiwork. Describing the duo''s futile quest in laborious detail, the author pads her tale with some curiously drab characters, including another witch (who hopes to use Emeralda and Eadric in a spell she''s concocting) and a bat and snake who reside in her cottage. The tale occasionally offers peppy dialogue and some comical scenes-particularly as the newly transformed Emeralda adjusts to catching flies with her tongue ("My eye-tongue coordination wasn''t very good," she admits). Unfortunately, the plot doesn''t make much of the magical elements (for example, the characters'' encounters with a dragon and a nymph seem inconsequential), resulting in a disappointingly flat fantasy. Ages 8-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6â€“In E.D. Baker''s twist on the classic fairy tale (Bloomsbury, 2002), Princess Emeralda has quite an adventure when she kisses a prince-turned-frog and everything goes terribly awry. The book follows her exciting quest, along with the frog prince Eadric, to transform themselves back into their human selves. The text itself is weak, with poor story logic, many fruitless tangents, and excessive detail. However, the dialogue between the perky princess, her valiant but foolish prince, and some of the other odd characters they encounter is often genuinely funny. Narrator Katherine Kellgren produces a variety of voices that are well tailored to the characters and their personalities. This romantic comedy and non-violent adventure would appeal to youngsters fond of twisted fairy tales, but some of the jokes and sophisticated vocabulary will be beyond the intended audience.â€“_Jenna Innes, Edmonton Public Library, Alberta, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5788'),
(3999, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there''s a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there''s more power under the hood than anyone can handle....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4267'),
(4000, 'From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children&#39;s Books', 'Kathleen T. Horning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *From Cover to Cover* has been considered *the* definitive guide to reading, reviewing, and critically evaluating children''s books since its original publication in 1997. Now revised and updated, it remains an invaluable resource offering a fresh, up-to-date look at a fast-changing field. All-new material includes: An updated introduction that reflects the many changes in the children''s book industry A section on genres, including a discussion of graphic novels A section on children''s literature blogs An introduction of two new major genre awardsâ€”the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award *And* more than 90 percent of the books cited have been updated to more recent publications!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2256'),
(4001, 'From Dawn to Deceit', 'Terry Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga of a self-made multimillionaire whose greed and malice succumb him to fight the justice system to regain his freedom and stature in the business world. Through flashbacks of the adulterous years preceding Jasper''s arrest and trial, we encounter cold-blooded murders, corporate fraud and embezzlement, and justified rape. In his journey, Jasper affiliates with seemingly faithful lovers and underworld cohorts who become jointly entangled in their common goal-the pursuit of wealth, sex, and power. But who can Jasper trust? The layers of deception only accelerate after his verdict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4043'),
(4002, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(4003, 'From Eternity to Here', 'Sean Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?** Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can''t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today''s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In *From Eternity to Here*, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions *before* the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child''s play. Carroll''s scenario is not only elegant, it''s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net. *From Eternity to Here* uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It''s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like *Elegant Universe* and *A Brief History of Time*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4039'),
(4004, 'From First Kicks to First Steps: Nurturing Your Baby 039 s Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life', 'Alan Greene M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9992'),
(4005, 'From Hell With Love', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This gripping, fast-paced, emotionally intense fourth volume in Green''s Secret Histories series (after 2009''s\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Haunted Me\n </em>\n ) is sure to delight fans of paranormal investigator Eddie Drood and his girlfriend, the fabulously strong and strong-willed witch Molly Metcalf. An insignificant villain, Doctor Delirium, plans to acquire a powerful, mysterious item at a secret sale. This simple event explodes into complexity when someone kills the Drood matriarch and turns Eddie''s family into a deadly mob, with horrifying consequences. The real enemy is truly worthy of the Drood clan: a race of immortals who plan to breach the gates of heaven itself. Fans of the series will be delighted by the deft combination of urban fantasy adventure, sharp-edged sarcasm, and treachery upon treachery, which make this installment strong enough to stand alone as a great introduction to Green''s work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. They aren''t much liked by the creatures they kill, by ungrateful humans, or even by one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now their Matriarch is dead, and it''s up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. Unpopular opinion is divided: it was either Eddie''s best girl, Molly. Or Eddie himself. And Eddie knows he didn''t do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5833'),
(4006, 'From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault''s home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4112'),
(4007, 'From Russia With Love: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia''s lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7655'),
(4008, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.His story will change the way you see the world.**On the heels of his #1 bestseller **False Memory**, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every personâ€™s life has an effect on every other personâ€™s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1432'),
(4009, 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Jules Verne &amp; Lowell Bair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Jules Verne, published as De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and also published as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club. Although the novel was subtitled Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes ("Direct Passage in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes"), the actual journey to the Moon was depicted in the book''s sequel, Autour de la Lune (1870; Round the Moon). From the Earth to the Moon concerns a group of obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a "space-bullet" to the Moon from a site in Florida. -- __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verneâ€™s prophetic novel of manâ€™s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicaneâ€™s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a â€œmannedâ€ flight, one manâ€™s dream turns into an international space race.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination,\n <strong>\n  From the Earth to the Moon\n </strong>\n is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verneâ€™s timeless masterpieces\n <strong>\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Around the World in Eighty Days.\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5715'),
(4010, 'From the Heart', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Straight from the heart of #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts--a trade paperback collection of three of her favorite novels.With over 85 million copies of her books in print, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts is one of the most prolific and popular writers of our time. Now, three of her favorite novels--*Tonight and Always*, *A Matter of Choice*, and *Endings and Beginnings*--are collected in a beautiful new trade paperback edition that will find a special place in the hearts of readers everywhere."There''s no mystery about why Roberts is a bestselling author...she delivers the goods with panache and wit." --*Publishers Weekly*"A consistently entertaining writer." --*USA Today*"Roberts has a warm feel for her characters and an eye for the evocative detail." --*Chicago Tribune*"Roberts is indeed a word artist, painting her story and her characters with vitality and verve." --*Los Angeles Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2628'),
(4011, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5139'),
(4012, 'From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor', 'Jerry Della Femina &amp; Charles Sopkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant. . .Best enjoyed after a three-martini lunch.â€ â€“GQ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen there was some debate about whether something was accurate or not, Jerry said ''You''re not even close. It was so much worse than what you''re seeing on the show.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of\n  <em>\n   Mad Men (GQ)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReads like the transcript of a tape made at a bar or cocktail party with the recorder propped up next to the raconteur at the center of the crowd.â€ â€“_Salon_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe ''Mad Men'' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Maurice Saatchi, co-founder of Saatchi &amp; Saatchi and M&amp;C Saatchi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like in the â€™60s. A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1970, this frank, irreverent, and hilarious memoir is a one-of-a-kind cult classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6937'),
(4013, 'Frontier Courtship', 'Valerie Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving Godâ€” and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent.â€¦and LoveConnell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way west. And as they shared the dangers of the trailâ€”and the closeness of a covered wagonâ€”Faith felt the first tender stirrings of love for this roughhewn yet caring man. But would the secrets that seemed to haunt him threaten their growing feelings for one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3526'),
(4014, 'Frontier Fury', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A covert airdrop lands Mack Bolan inside the brutal northern Pakistan border territory. From deep within a terrorist cell an informant has leaked crucial information to Stony Man Farm. He knows the location of two of the highest-ranking members of al Qaeda. They are the most wanted men in the world, and they''ve spent years dodging American troops and plotting further attacks worldwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Bolan is in hostile territory on a mission to eliminate men who will stop at nothing in pursuit of vengeance. And he faces government troops determined to protect the terrorists. With time running out and the enemy closing in, the Executioner must do what no one else has--settle the score.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5669'),
(4015, 'Frost at Christmas', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JACK FROST\n <br />\n Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he''s something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They''d like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost''s the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to fmd a way to get the job done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten days to Christmas, and Jack Frost is in no mood to celebrate. Once Frost takes reluctant charge of a district-wide search for a missing child, his commanding officer, Divisional Commander Mullett, orders him to interview a local crank who fancies herself a psychic. To make matters worse, he''s been assigned a new sidekick for the investigation: the Chief Constable''s nephew, Clive Barnard--one name Frost wouldn''t mind seeing on a missing persons report. But Barnard isn''t about to disappear, so the inspector will have to find the girl despite him, in his own unique fashion. When the crank''s tip leads to a long-buried corpse, Frost finds himself embroiled in an old unsolved case better left untouched. But Frost never could leave the dirt alone, even if it means putting his career--and his life--in jeopardy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5281'),
(4016, 'Frost Moon', 'Anthony Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost''s talents are coveted by all. She''s the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta''s tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota''s help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city''s Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey? FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction. Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the ''Search Engine That Starts With A G''. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech. He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(4017, 'Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Cheyenne Clark, there''s a bad moon on the rise . . . There''s one sound a woman doesn''t want to hear when she''s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf''s teeth slash Cheyenne''s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who''s doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she''s within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it''s not always easy to go for the jugular.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(4018, 'The Frozen Rabbi', 'Steve Stern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this wickedly funny and ingenious novel by author Steve Stern, who, according to the "Washington Post Book World," belongs in the company of such writers as Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, and Philip Roth, all of them "innovative and restless practitioners of contemporary American-Jewish fantasy." When the rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage (Jewish), his role in life (nebbish hero), and his destiny (to ensure the rabbi''s future). and the reader enters the lives of the people who struggled to transport the holy man''s block of ice, surviving pogroms, a transatlantic journey (in steerage, of course), an ice-house fire in Manhattan''s Lower East Side, and finally, a train trip to the city on the Mississippi. An epic novel in the spirit of Michael Chabon''s "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Steve Stern''s "The Frozen Rabbi" is a wildly entertaining yet deeply thoughtful look at the burdens inherent in handing down traditions from one generation to the next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3863'),
(4019, 'Fry: A Memoir', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry''s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3803'),
(4020, 'Fuckin&#39; Lie Down Already', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clay was an honest New York City cop driven to bring down the mob and make his city a little safer, even when it seemed like nothing he did made any difference. He always played by the rules until a two-bit junkie hit man destroyed his family and left him for dead. But Clay won''t let himself lie down until he gets one last thing: revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10644'),
(4021, 'Fugitive pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(4022, 'A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past''s blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead. But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler''s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/985');
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(4023, 'Fugitives &amp; Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Want to know where Chuck Palahniukâ€™s tonsils currently reside?Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?Curious about Chuckâ€™s debut in an MTV music video?What goes on at the Scum Center?How do you get to the Apocalypse CafÃ©?In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of Americaâ€™s â€œfugitives and refugees.â€ Get to know these folks, the â€œmost cracked of the crackpots,â€ as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to â€œa little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe shouldâ€™ve kept their mouths shut.â€Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingersâ€™ sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabeâ€™s famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(4024, 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8494'),
(4025, 'Full Black', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brad Thor] is arguably the best political thriller writer of all time.â€ --Suspense Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrad has yet again managed to take a world that few people see or know about, and expose readers to the inner workings of that world.â€ --Examiner.com (Houston)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<h1>\n 1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yetâ€”a terrifying story of espionage and betrayalâ€”brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.\n</h1>\n<p>\n Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply donâ€™t exist.\n</p>\n<p>\n When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the CIAâ€™s intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terroristsâ€™ network and prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, a foreign wet work team has been sent to California. Their target: one of Hollywoodâ€™s most famous filmmakers.\n</p>\n<p>\n While working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the worldâ€™s wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokersâ€”a man with a radical anti-American agenda poised to plunge the nation into deadly, irreversible chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the plots rocket to their pulse-pounding conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid stunningly bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America. Unable to trust anyone, he will be forced to go\n <em>\n  Full Black\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Intense and frighteningly realistic, FULL BLACK is, hands down, Brad Thorâ€™s most riveting thriller to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8743'),
(4026, 'Full Blast', 'Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave''s spiked the mercury-and everyone''s sex drive! These days, when Jamie runs into Max, it''s all she can do not to tear his clothes off-and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he''s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, while the bakery''s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes. Even Jamie''s dog, Fleas, is dodging passes from the amorous French poodle next door! But when someone starts bumping off some of the town''s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie''s newspaper. Pretty soon, things are getting hot and heavy, as Max and Jamie start uncovering secrets-and undressing each other...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1741'),
(4027, 'Full Bloom', 'Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader, The temperature''s on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother''s B&amp;B (and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney). According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed &amp; Breakfast needs if it''s hosting millionaire Max Holt''s upcoming wedding! If rumors of a naughty, prank-playing ghost aren''t stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived with an eye on Annie and her master suite. Wes Bridges is all leather and denim, sporting a two-day beard, straddling a Harley, and sending the B&amp;B''s testosterone level through the roof. Annie''s cool demeanor may be dropping as fast as Wes''s jeans, but leave it to her missing ex-husband to dampen the passion! Turns out someone has done him in, and all evidence points to Annie! Wrapped up in a murder plot, Annie must find the killer, save her own neck, and get back to where she was-wrapped up in Wes''s strong loving arms...We guarantee that you''re going to have as much fun reading Full Bloom as we had writing it! (Even if we were surprised by the ending!) And you won''t want to miss the hair-raising shenanigans when Fleas, the hound dog, meets the most cantankerous, snooty, bad-tempered, twenty-two pound orange cat....Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1743'),
(4028, 'Full Circle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coming of age during the turbulent 1960s, Tana Roberts dreams of having a successful career and is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve her goal, only to discover that she can have a life that includes a career, love, and peace of mind. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. TanaRoberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that willlead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. Athoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing tosacrifice everything to get it. And it''s only much later that Tana discoversthat she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes ofage, at last, and comes full circle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5990'),
(4029, 'Full Dark House', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no surprise to find plenty of gothic touches in British author Fowler''s debut mystery, the first in a series, given the renown of his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.). When 80-year-old police detective Arthur Bryant gets blown up in an explosion at the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit headquarters, his longtime partner, John May, investigates his death. After some long, lecturing dialogue and an early chapter told from the viewpoint of a character who turns out to be of no consequence, the author reaches the core of his storyâ€”a flashback to the duo''s first case during the London Blitz. In late 1940, the Palace Theatre is staging a production\n <em>\n  of Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n when the body of a dancer is found, sans feet. From this point forward, the intrigues of the theater murders, which decimate the cast, create considerable drama. The potency of Greek myth, conjured up by the opera being staged, is skillfully played out in the detectives'' theories about the killer. The dynamic between May and Bryant makes for compelling reading, while the hubris of a police underling, Sidney Biddle, provides additional tension. Both past and present plots reach satisfying resolutions. Now that Fowler has set the stage, no doubt his second Bryant and May mystery will get off to a better start.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This mystery features the impending retirement of a Scotland Yard detective and the death of another. When Arthur Bryant is apparently blown up, his erstwhile partner, John May, begins reflecting on their first case together more than 60 years earlier. May, a raw recruit of 19, and Bryant, a 23-year-old detective, became the core of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, created to handle cases that were too important to ignore, yet that somehow seemed disproportionately insignificant in the face of the hundreds of civilians killed each night during the Blitz. Both men had been hurried through training and were suddenly faced with the strange case of the Palace Phantom, a killer victimizing the cast in an elaborate production of Offenbach''s\n <em>\n  Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n . May was both intrigued by and dismayed at Bryant''s methods and seeming flights of fancy. He used everything from crime-scene forensics to spiritualists to help him build his case. Fowler skillfully shifts the action between 1940 and the 21st century, building suspense and growing awareness as each case comes to its respective climax. Not surprisingly, they are connected. The details of wartime London and the destruction and deprivation of daily life are vividly conveyed. Today''s teens will identify with the young lives so drastically affected by the war while following the clues, and red herrings, to a satisfactory conclusion._â€“Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8458'),
(4030, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   Full Dark, No Stars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n</p>\n<p>\n "[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4277'),
(4031, 'Full House', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Filled with Evanovich''s trademark style and wit, Full House is romantic suspense with a twist...Her life was pleasant, proper, and predictable-- until he showed up and trouble moved in...Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he''s so artfully avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. They have nothing in common.To his horror, Nick is fascinated-- and irresistibly attracted. When Billie generously offers to share her home with Nick''s crazy cousin Deedee for a while, Nick finds himself visiting-- often. And while each is slowly seduced by the other''s charms, and both are wildly encouraged by devious Deedee, Billie and Nick find out that what they have in common is most important of all. But neither one knows that danger is lurking where they least expect it and a killer is closing in on them.Sneak peek of Visions of Sugar Plums inside!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2168'),
(4032, 'Full Scoop', 'Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader: Mercury''s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Â¬'' Local pediatrician MaggieÂ¬'' Farnsworth hasÂ¬'' even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop--and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time for...or does she? But Maggie and Zack aren''t the only ones getting busy: Fleas, the hound dog, is up to his old tricks--this time with Butterbean, a very allluring...goat? Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt have babies on the brain. And resident psychic-slash-astrologer Destiny is fighting a crush of her own. Since the town''s ice cream parlor isÂ¬'' a magnet for gossip, no one can keep a secret and the sticky situations are getting even stickier...Â¬'' It''s the wildest time yet in the town we love to write about, with the characters we can''t get enough of. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a FULL SCOOP of fun, adventure, and romance. Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1744'),
(4033, 'Full Speed', 'Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they''ve taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross-eyed way of looking at life. Jamie and Max have intense chemistry-even though they drive each other crazy. Max thinks Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinks Max is the most annoyingly sexy, mysterious man she''s ever met. She knows she should stay away from him. But boy, oh boy, do the sparks fly when they get together. Jamie is a newspaper owner from a small southern town. And in *Full Speed*, she''s after the story of a lifetime. Max Holt is right in the middle of that story, and so Jamie tracks down the millionaire playboy, forcing him to take her on as partner. What follows is a story of a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog called Fleas, a wise-cracking computer genius, and lots of love in the fast lane. Not to mention plenty of steamy action between Jamie and Max. So have fun with *Full Speed*. We''re going to sign off now and get back to creating more romantic adventures between Jamie Swift and Max Holt. Enjoy and happy reading! Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1740'),
(4034, 'Full Tilt', 'Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He lives life in the fast lane and she''s along for the ride-with no brakes.... Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie''s life gets shaken up. Max claims he''s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana''s now taking his shots in the political ring. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime-and what Jamie gets is a story that''s taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper, and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway could it get any more romantic-or dangerous? Max and Jamie are betting their lives on a long shot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1742'),
(4035, 'Funeral in Blue', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London''s opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk''s colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck''s death, but the riddle of her life. . . .From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(4036, 'The Funhouse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town. A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1411'),
(4037, 'Funland', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8629'),
(4038, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tradition of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE and THE LAST LECTURE comes an inspiring book of life lessons from Michael J Fox. Michael J Fox didn t finish high school, but he has gone on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and has achieved the highest accolades for his acting, as well as his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates his readers to work hard, achieve the most they can and maximise their abilities - all with his trademark optimism, warmth and humour. From moving to Los Angeles fresh from Canada, without a high school degree and learning to live on a wage; to taking on roles in Family Ties and the Back to the Future movies and nearly crashing and burning; and then learning to cope first with the death of his father and then with his own diagnosis of Parkinson''s disease, MJF shares what he''s learned about life, work, love, family and happiness and everything else along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3222'),
(4039, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Your Wedding', 'Cindy K. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Associate history professor, Kari Montgomery, has carried the feelings of loss and inadequacy ever since she broke off her engagement to Geoffrey Hudson. All that changes when she looks into a pair of steel blue eyes as she attempts to make it through a rain storm the day of her cousin Emily''s wedding. But even though Kari begins to feel compelled toward him, she isn''t sure if she can love again or if she is even worthy of that love. Youth pastor Randy Steele has a sense of humor and a pair of remarkable eyes that make him fascinating to most of the women he meets. As he tries to get Kari to see her own worthiness and ability to let God heal her heart, he realizes that he also has something in his own life to heal - the relationship with his parents. But can he reach Kari and show her how wonderful life can be with God in control of their futures?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/957'),
(4040, 'Furies of Calderon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-- Tavi''s simple courage will turn the tides of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1723'),
(4041, 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century', 'Sam Kashner &amp; Nancy Schoenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive story of Hollywood''s most famous couple   He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceâ€”often called "the marriage of the century"â€”was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.   For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.   Drawing upon brand-new information and interviewsâ€”and on Burton''s private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylorâ€”Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard''s privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O''Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, NoÃ‹l Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywoodâ€”and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.   Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton''s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple''s story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America''s changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.   Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it''s an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4901'),
(4042, 'Further Adventures', 'Jon Stephen Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To Whom It May Concernâ€”I was The Green Ray. Now it can be toldâ€”the story which many tried to silence, many refused to believe, and many did not want to hear. In the depths of the Great Depression, the voice of a radio superhero known as The Green Ray entertained America. Forty years later, the man behind the characterâ€”two-bit voice actor Ray Green, known to his family as Reuven Agranovskyâ€”is caught in an all-night blackout in the desert town of Mason, New Mexico, where a chain of events is set in motion that forces The Green Ray out of retirement. But at seventy-three, Ray faces a differentâ€”and far more terrifyingâ€”world. A wildly inventive, raucously funny novel of heroism, neurosis, and transcendence, Further Adventures was ahead of its time when it was first published fifteen years ago. Like Ray Green himself, it now reemerges in a newly revised "author''s cut" for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2295'),
(4043, 'The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(4044, 'Fury', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond right, wrong, truth, and justice. Because the lowly and the powerful alike all want Himes dead at any cost -- despite startling new evidence that threatens to devastate a city once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7620'),
(4045, 'A Fury Scorned', 'Pamela Sargent &amp; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face utter annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over one hundred million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6874'),
(4046, 'The Fury', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Am I my brother''s keeper?\n </p>\n <p>\n  If I''d known I had a brother, I might have been. But he''s deadâ€”shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines, a man with whom I shared nothingâ€¦except a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason this stranger who shared my blood came to me for helpâ€¦and I blew him off thinking he was just some junkie. Now I''m forced to question everything I ever knewâ€¦and figure out why this man was murdered in cold blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All I can do for Stephen Gaines now is find his killerâ€”and with the help of Amanda Davies uncover the whole, hard truth. If it means tracking down a vicious drug kingpinâ€”who may or may not existâ€”then so be itâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At nine in the morning, the offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  are quiet. Reporters read the morning papers, prepare to call their sources and blink off hangovers over steaming cups of coffee. Today, however, it was a different kind of quiet. The kind of quiet where everyone seems to be waiting for the roof to cave in, or the floor to suddenly give way and fall out from under you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every morning I would swipe my ID card, wave hello to the security guards who''d gradually warmed to me over the years and wait for the elevator with lots of other people who also looked like they''d rather still be in bed. I would exit the elevators at the twelfth floor, passing the receptionist, always too busy to acknowledge staffers, and walk to my desk. The offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  towered over Rockefeller Center, giving me a panoramic view of one of the busiest streets in the city. Yet when I navigated the mess of chairs and debris and entered the cubicle farm on this day, I noticed the other journalists who shared my row were nowhere to be seen. There were no faces hunched far too close to computer screens, no whispered chats about the umpteenth death knell sounded for our industry. No reporters haggling over verb usage and tense like it was a matter of life or death. It seemed every day across our industry there were more layoffs, more cutbacks, more reasons to fear the end. And it had been drilled repeatedly into us by our corporate overlords and the media that if the sickle wasn''t already lancing the air above our heads, it was in the midst of being lowered into place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I couldn''t worry about that. Still a few years shy of thirty, it had been my lifelong ambition to work at a prestigious, thriving newspaper. And while one could debate whether the\n  <em>\n   Gazette\n  </em>\n  was thriving, in my short time here I''d had the chance to work alongside some of the greats, including my idol, Jack O''Donnell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I''d also been wanted for murder and targeted by a deranged serial killer. Hey, who doesn''t complain about their job sometimes?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Externally, you might think I looked the same. Internally, though, I was a different man. A man learns who he is when his life, innocence and freedom are challenged. I was stronger than I ever knew I could be, but deep down I wished I hadn''t needed to find that out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I navigated the maze of empty desks to arrive at mine, I put my coffee and muffin on the desk, sat down and debated whether to ignore the silence or see what was causing the sound vacuum. I reached for the plastic tab on my coffee, but immediately thought twice. To ignore the strange stillness of the office would have gone against every bone in my body, and probably triggered some sort of spontaneous combustion. Curiosity not only killed the cat, but made my breakfast grow cold. So I stood back up and took a lap around the news floor to see what the hell was going on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I didn''t have to go far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A group of half a dozen reporters were huddled around the desk of Evelyn Waterstone, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  Metro editor. They were talking under their breaths, worried looks in their eyes. I wondered if there were going to be layoffs. If some of my colleaguesâ€”perhaps even myselfâ€”would be out of a job. That Evelyn''s desk had seemingly replaced the watercooler as center of office scoop was itself noteworthy. Evelyn stayed as far away from gossip as those who gossiped stayed away from her. Whatever happened had to be big enough to pique her interest. I walked up casually, inserting myself into the conversation through proximity alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn Waterstone was a short, squat woman whose haircut resembled a well-manicured putting greenâ€” only this particular green was gray with ageâ€”and whose broad shoulders would have been a welcome addition to most offensive lines. She was a disciplinarian in the gentlest sense of the word. It took several years for her to warm up to me, but when my work ethic and the quality of my reporting became clear, Evelyn began to grudgingly show me a modicum of respect. Still, I don''t think you''d ever see the two of us tossing back a couple of longnecks after hours. I made an effort never to stop by her desk unless I had a specific question, and Evelyn never stormed by mine unless I''d made some terrible grammatical mistake that, to Evelyn, was only slightly worse of an offense than treason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Parker," Evelyn said. She held a black thermos between her fleshy hands, and took a long, drawn-out sip. "Another beautiful day at your friendly local newspaper." She sniffed the air. "Glad to see you''ve begun showering regularly again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Evelyn," I said, nodded to the other reporters, who offered the same.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You hear about Rourke?" she said. I hadn''t, and told her so. She raised her arms dramatically as if recounting some heroic tale. "This paper''s most controversial sportswriterâ€”who incidentally once told a linebacker he would â€˜whup his ass like a donkey''â€”got mugged yesterday on his way home from the office. Well, I shouldn''t say mugged, because the guy didn''t take any money, but Frank ended up getting the donkey side of the whupping."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Really?" I said, incredulous. "Rourke?" I had no love lost for Frank Rourke, considering the man had once left a bag of excrement on my deskâ€”but the man''s swagger seemed to come from years of always being the one guy who was able to leave the fight on his own two feet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seems some hothead took umbrage to Frank''s calling the Yankees â€˜the most poorly run organization since FEMA.'' Some disgruntled asshat from the Bronx. Anyway, this guy waits outside of the office until Frank leaves. Then he yells, â€˜Yo, Rourke!'' Frank turns his head, and gets a sockful of quarters up against the side of his temple."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s terrible, is he okay?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Concussion, he''ll be fine. Police arrested the fan, I''m just hoping he might have damaged the area of Frank''s brain that makes him such an asshole. Maybe he''ll have one of those\n  <em>\n   Regarding Henry\n  </em>\n  kind of epiphanies and come back a better man."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s probably too much to expect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We can dream, Parker. We can dream."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As we chatted, I noticed another group of reporters huddled together in the hallway looking like they''d just been told management had decided to restructure by throwing them out the twelfth floor windows. The group shifted nervously, whispering amongst themselves. Never wanting to be the last one in the know, I approached, said, "I thought Frank was going to be fine, what gives?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonas Levinson, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  science editor, said, "Frank is the least of our concerns. Though, as a matter of fact, something has died this morning. Something to be mourned as long as we''re employed by this godforsaken newspaper. As of today, good taste, my friend, has kicked the bucket."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I stared at Jonas, waiting for some kind of an explanation. Levinson was a tall man, balding, who wore a different bow tie to the office every day. He very seldom exaggerated his feelings, so at Jonas''s remark a flock of butterflies began to flutter around in my stomach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m not following you," I said to Jonas. "Good taste? Jonas, care to explain?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just follow the eyes, Parker," Jonas said. "Follow the eyes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I opened my mouth to ask another question, but then I realized what he was saying. The eyes of every member of our group were focused on two individuals making their way across the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  floor. They were stopping at every desk, popping into each office for a few moments. It looks like some sort of introduction ritual was taking place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Immediately this struck me as odd. I''d never met another employee during a walkaround, and had not received one myself. The fact that this one person was being given the grand tour made it clear he was someone the brass wanted to coddle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the two men I recognized immediately as Wallace Langston, editor in chief. Wallace was in his midfifties, lean with a neatly trimmed beard. His brown hair was flecked with gray, and he had the slightly bent posture of a man who''d spent the majority of his years hunched over a keyboard. Wallace had been a staunch supporter of mine in the years I''d been employed by the paper, and even though now more than ever he was feeling the crunch of his corporate masters insisting on higher profit margins, he knew what it took to print good news. If not my idol, he was a good, loyal mentor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is he," I said, "introducing someone around the office?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is precisely what it looks like," Jonas replied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn walked up and said, "I never met a damn person until my first staff meeting. I got as much of an introduction as my stove has to a cooking pot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me, neither," I said. When I started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette,\n  </em>\n  I didn''t know anybody other than Jack O''Donnell. Jack was my boyhood idol, the man most aspiring reporters dreamt of becoming. He and I had grown close over the last few years, but recently he''d lost his battle with the bottle and left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  I hadn''t spoken to him in a few months. I''d tried his home, his cell phone, even walked by his Clinton apartment a few times, but never got a hold of the man. It was clear Jack needed some time alone with his demons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ironically the first reporter I''d met was a woman named Paulina Cole. We worked next to each other when I first started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  Soon she left for a job at the rival\n  <em>\n   Dispatch,\n  </em>\n  where through a combination of balls, brass and more balls she''d become one of the most talked-about writers in the city. Paulina was cold, calculating, ruthless and, worst of all, damn smart. She knew what people wanted to readâ€”namely, anything where if you squeezed a page, dirt or juice came outâ€” and gave it to them. She was part of the reason Jack had left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  She''d managed to pay off numerous people in order to discover the extent of Jack''s drinking habits, and then ran a front-page article (with unflattering pictures) depicting Jack as the ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7040'),
(4047, 'Fury: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fury\n </em>\n is a gloss on fin-de-siÃ¨cle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It''s road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie''s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here''s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist''s soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it''s that too.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born, Cambridge educated, now Manhattan resident) Prof. Malik Solanka is an unimaginably wealthy man, transformed from a philosophy professor into a BBC-TV star, then into the inventor of a wildly popular doll called Little Brain. Compelled to relinquish control of the doll when it metamorphoses into an industry, the furious Solanka flees London for an apartment on Manhattan''s Upper West Side. His prose crackling with irony, Rushdie catches roiling undercurrents of incivility and inchoate anger: in cab drivers, moviegoers and sidewalk pedestrians; in ethnic antagonisms; in political confrontations; and in Solly himself, as he tries to surmount his guilt over having abandoned a loving wife and three-year-old son in England, and as he becomes involved with two new women. Rushdie''s brilliantly observant portrait of "this money-mad burg" is mercilessly au courant, with references to George Gush and Al Bore, to Elian and Tony Soprano, and to "shawls made from the chin fluff of extinct mountain goats." The action is helter-skelter fast and refreshingly concise; this is a slender book for Rushdie, and his relatively narrow focus results in a crisper narrative; there are fewer puns and a deeper emotional involvement with his characters. Still, his tendency to go over the top leads to some incredulity for the reader; it''s a bit much that short, unprepossessing Solly is a magnet for gorgeous, articulate women, who all tend to speak in the same didactic monologues. On the whole, however, readers will nod in acknowledgement of Rushdie''s recognition that "the whole world was burning on a shorter fuse." Rushdie remains a master of satire that rings true with unsettling acuity and dark, comedic brilliance. Agent, Andrew Wylie. 8-city author tour. (Sept. 11)Forecast: Rushdie has never been so sharply observant of the American psyche and the contemporary scene, and thus so relevant to U.S. readers. His increasing visibility after the isolation of the fatwa years should create a buzz of interest in this novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6335'),
(4048, 'Future shock', 'Alvin Toffler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(4049, 'Fuzzy Nation', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9970'),
(4050, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . ''G'' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can''t wait for ''H'' ."--Louise Bernikow, CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty''s hit list. It''s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can''t handle whoever''s been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey''s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it''s over, she''ll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton''s well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."--Newsweek"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can''t-put-it-down outing for this talented author."--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8206');
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(4051, 'G&#39;Day to Die: A Passport to Peril Mystery', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Emily Andrew lands in the Land of Oz -- Australia, that is -- she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they''re not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home are, well, back home. Even Emily''s love life is upside down: her darling detective Etienne Miceli has yet to propose, while gorgeous tour director Duncan Lazarus is vying to be more than just mates. Emily is preoccupied calming the group''s jitters about the outback''s killers, from sunstroke to snake bites. But when a fellow traveler turns up dead, Emily fears something far more toxic has struck: human greed. Someone has stumbled upon a natural wonder that could turn science on its head -- was this priceless discovery the catalyst for murder? Before the dust settles, a second untimely death occurs. If Emily can''t stop a killer in their tracks, this Aussie adventure just may be her last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2299'),
(4052, '&quot;G&quot; Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *For #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Milhone, danger comes with the jobâ€”but she never expects to find herself at the top of a hit manâ€™s listâ€¦* **G IS FOR GAMEâ€¦** When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasnâ€™t heard from in six months, itâ€™s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girlâ€™s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy moneyâ€”or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened. **G IS FOR GUNâ€¦** Kinsey doesnâ€™t know what to make of Agnesâ€™s vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but sheâ€™s got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinseyâ€™s car is run off the road, and then days later, sheâ€™s almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse gameâ€¦ ***G IS FOR *****GUMSHOE** So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edgeâ€¦especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasnâ€™t so senile after allâ€”and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinseyâ€™s determined to learn the truthâ€¦even if it kills her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4130'),
(4053, 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life', 'Gerald Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this exhaustive and enlightening biography--nearly two decades in the making--Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century''s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Columbia and early journalism career, to the publication of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez''s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors--as well as the many hours Martin spent with ''Gabo'' himself--the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(4054, 'Gabriel&#39;s Horn', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation.Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen. When Annja''s mentor and friend Roux goes missing, she quickly realizes there may be something to the stranger''s stories. Making her way through the dark and violent underbelly of Istanbul, Annja must find her missing friend and the Holy Grail before the relic gets into the wrong hands. She may not fully believe the fate of the world is on the line, but she doesn''t really want to die fi nding out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(4055, 'Galactic Pot-healer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Fernwright works as a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a dull future where there isn''t much call for his skills. He''s broke and bored when the offer from the Glimmung comes along. It might just be the answer to both his financial and spiritual problems, even if it does mean working on a strange project on Plowman''s Planet with other assorted odd creatures. The only thing is that the Glimmung may just be divine and ask for more than Joe''s commitment to the job . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3775'),
(4056, 'The Galaxy Primes', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to Earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered... Here is E. E. Smith''s classic science fiction novel -- one of the greatest space operas of all time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10770'),
(4057, 'Galloway', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America''s greatest storytellers. In **Galloway**, two brothers must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future.A desperate stand. . .Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the Dunn clan, who had decided that the vast range would be theirs alone. Now Galloway and Flagan would face an enemy who killed for sport -- but as long as other Sacketts lived, they would not fight alone. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2831'),
(4058, 'Galore', 'Michael Crummey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine''s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7517'),
(4059, 'Gambit: Siege', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the Outer Rim, the planet Lanteeb has no strategic value, no political power, and one enormous problem: It has been invaded by an emboldened Separatist Alliance. To find out why, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi have snuck onto Lanteeb--and now look oblivion in the eye. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiding their lightsabers beneath their dusty disguises, Anakin and Obi-Wan draw on their Jedi skills to stay one step ahead of Lok Durd''s droid army on Lanteeb. The Jedi know that a captive scientist has given Durd the keys to a terrifying bioweapon. Durd knows that the Jedi are on his planet. With Yoda calling on the powers of the Jedi Council, with a new Separatist technology jamming the Guardians'' communications, and with a traitor at the heart of the Republic''s government, the wheels of war are turning. But the Separatists have blockaded Lanteeb. The finishing touches are being put on a weapon to destroy whole worlds. And it will be up to the two Jedi Knights and their most trusted comrades to liberate Lanteeb or forever suffer the consequences.Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada, but was raised in Sydney, Australia, where she still lives today. She has worked as a public servant, a receptionist, in the horse industry, in local government, in publishing, in telecommunications, as a college lecturer, and she ran her own science fiction/fantasy/mystery bookshop. So far she''s written eight fantasy novels and two Stargate SG-1 tie-ins, as well as Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Wild Space.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9777'),
(4060, 'The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas E. Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Rick''s news-breaking follow up to the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  &lt; bestseller\n  <em>\n   Fiasco\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005,\n <em>\n  The Gamble\n </em>\n is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America''s strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military''s entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Ricks\n </strong>\n is\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n ''s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting. He is the author if\n <em>\n  Fiasco, Making the Corps,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Soldier''s Story\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7902'),
(4061, 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime', 'John Heilemann; Mark Halperin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren''t in the middle of it."â€”Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clintonâ€”and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama''s partner and America''s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told. In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country''s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his rÃ‰sumÃ‰, he could somehow beat the odds to become the nation''s first African American president? How did the tumultuous relationship between the Clintons shapeâ€”and warpâ€”Hillary''s supposedly unstoppable bid? What was behind her husband''s furious outbursts and devastating political miscalculations? Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Palin merely painfully out of her depthâ€”or troubled in more serious ways? Game Change answers those questions and more, laying bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. Heilemann and Halperin take us inside the Obama machine, where staffers referred to the candidate as "Black Jesus." They unearth the quiet conspiracy in the U.S. Senate to prod Obama into the race, driven in part by the fears of senior Democrats that Bill Clinton''s personal life might cripple Hillary''s presidential prospects. They expose the twisted tale of John Edwards''s affair with Rielle Hunter, the truth behind the downfall of Rudy Giuliani, and the doubts of those responsible for vetting Palin about her readiness for the Republican ticketâ€”along with the McCain campaign staff''s worries about her fitness for office. And they reveal how, in an emotional late-night phone call, Obama succeeded in wooing Clinton, despite her staunch resistance, to become his secretary of state. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1636'),
(4062, 'Game of Patience', 'Susanne Alleyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After\n <em>\n  A Far Better Rest\n </em>\n (2000), an homage to Dickens''s\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n , Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who''s haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange''s ex-lover, CÃ©lie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about "mistakenly being the cause of a man''s death," Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of CÃ©lie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant\n <em>\n  incroyables\n </em>\n (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel,_ A Far Better_\n <em>\n  Rest\n </em>\n (2000), a reimagining of Dickens''\n <em>\n  A\n </em>\n Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl''s past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4990'),
(4063, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11223'),
(4064, 'The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend&#39;s Butt While Shrinking Your Own', 'Krista Vernoff; Az Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Game On! Diet* is not a diet. It''s a bold new approach to fitness that turns the latest, smartest, most successful health science into a fun, fierce, and exhilarating game. Developed by Az Ferguson, to help *Grey''s Anatomy* writer Krista Vernoff shed forty pounds of postpregnancy weight, it is the ideal program for busy people who should be working out but have a thousand good excuses not to. Az keeps you motivated and Krista keeps you laughing as they show you how to organize opposing teams, set goals, and compete to earn points for daily exercise, healthy meal plans, and positive lifestyle changes. With *The Game On! Diet*, the process of losing weight, for the first time ever, is actually fun. After all, what''s better than a bikini body . . . *and* bragging rights? Get out there and lose . . . to win! *Game on!*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2261'),
(4065, 'Game Over', 'Adele Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cas Perry wants nothing to do with love -- her dad walking out on her mother was quite enough romantic drama, thank you very much. And why should she bother with relationships when she can manipulate just about any man for sex? The steely-hearted TV producer plays with other people''s love lives and orchestrates unscripted fireworks on the edgy reality show "Sex with an Ex" -- a ratings blockbuster that is sending her already-hot career skyrocketing. Now, the woman who has all the answers meets the man who, for the first time, poses questions other than "buy you a drink?." Stunningly handsome Darren would be a sensation on "Sex with an Ex" -- and Cas needs him to ensure the show''s success. So why is she wining and dining the sexiest man she''s ever met -- and talking about family values, marriage, and fidelity? Darren''s principles are changing the rules of attraction. And this may be one game Cas won''t mind losing....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(4066, 'The Game-Players of Titan', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He''s also lost his wife, but he''ll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It''s all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that''s become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn''t even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3765'),
(4067, 'The Game', 'Neil Strauss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Game, Neil Strauss delves into the bizarre underworld of `pickup artists'' - men who have devoted their lives to different techniques of seducing women. These are men with their own vernacular and codes of honour, who operate online and in person, who are so committed to honing their strategies that they give each other seminars and live together in shared houses - or `Projects'', as they like to call them. Neil Strauss lived amongst the players and survived - but not before he became one of them. In the course of two years, he transformed himself from a self-confessed balding, skinny writer into the quick-thinking, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women, half psychologist, half magician. He became friends with the other players. He used his Game techniques on Britney Spears. By turns jaw-dropping, poignant and side-splittingly funny, The Game is a gripping portrait of a mad, self-referential community in the process of slow implosion. With guest appearances from Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise (whose character in Magnolia is based on a real-life pickup artist) and Courtney Love, who lived with Neil in `Project Hollywood'' for a while, The Game is also the most sensational relationships manual since The Rules - essential reading for men and women alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2330'),
(4068, 'Gameprey', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Mel Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape and attack two members of the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality. Though nobody believes the danger is real, Matt and Maj call in the rest of the Explorers to discover who is behind the deadly rampage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6494'),
(4069, 'Games of State', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn''t the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy a technology for the new Regional Op-Center, become entangled in the crisis. They uncover a shocking force behind the chaos -- a group that uses cutting-edge technology to promote hate and to influence world events. A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy''s Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4062'),
(4070, 'Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets', 'Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **First introduced in *Freakonomics*, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago''s most notorious gangs** The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world''s attention when it was first described in *Freakonomics*. *Gang Leader for a Day* is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrÅ½e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago''s most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT''s protection, documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang''s complex organizational structure. In Hollywood-speak, *Gang Leader for a Day* is *The Wire* meets Harvard University. It''s a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3698'),
(4071, 'Gangster', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra''s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals--in friendship, in his brutal business, in love-- yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen.As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man''s fight against his fate--and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2477'),
(4072, 'A Garden of Earthly Delights', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her motherâ€™s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Claraâ€™s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his motherâ€™s ambition.A masterly work from a writer with â€œthe uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her Americaâ€ (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7491'),
(4073, 'Garden of Eden', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An edited version of a narrative abandoned by the Nobel laureate, The Garden of Eden is about a young American couple in Europe on an extended honeymoon. PW stated that while the manuscript is of scholarly interest, it does not hold up as a "bona fide Hemingway novel."\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A few shards survive in the sandy ruins of Hemingway''s garden of Eden: the pastoral and sensual delights of loving and swimming in Provence and Spain; the pleasure the hero, a novelist, feels when he writes "truly" about his father and hunting in Africa. The rest is madness, cruelty, and corruption. Unfortunately, neither the joy nor the terror profoundly engages the reader. The bisexual grotesqueries that bind David Bourne, his antic wife, and their complaisant woman lover are for the most part silly or banal, not even sufficiently bizarre to shock. What we have here is juiceless gossip. As fiction, the book utterly failsclumsily plotted, thematically vague and indecisive, the characters unfleshed caricatures. Even Hemingway''s lyrical eloquence is stripped to frayed cliches. How then to justify publishing an edited version of a manuscript Hemingway labored over unsuccessfully for 15 years? Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll., CUNY\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8976'),
(4074, 'The Garden of Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next unknown destination, many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(4075, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', 'Katherine Mansfield &amp; Lorna Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield''s tragically short life. Many are set in the author''s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", and the short, sharp sketch "Miss Brill", in which a lonely woman''s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in "At the Bay". ''All that I write,'' Mansfield said, ''all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7791'),
(4076, 'Garden Spells', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.â€¦The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plantsâ€”from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleysâ€”except for Claireâ€™s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claireâ€™s quiet life is turned upside downâ€”along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacyâ€”if they are ever to feel at home in Bascomâ€”or with each other. Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its ownâ€¦.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6602'),
(4077, 'Gardens of the Moon &amp; Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gardens Of The Moon: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, still holds out - and Empress Lasseen-s ambition knows no bounds.However, it seems the empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister forces gather as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand-Conceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect. Acclaimed by writers, critics and readers alike, here is the opening chapter in what has been hailed a landmark of epic fantasy: the awesome -The Malazan Book of the Fallen-. Deadhouse Gates: Malazan: Book Of The Fallen 2Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion ofSeven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha-ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust that will shape destinies and give birth to legends-In the Otataral mines, Felisin, youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran, dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku, where her soul will be reborn and her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners, Fiddler and the assassin Kalam, have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland, and to confront and kill the Empress Laseen, but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile, Coltaine, the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army, will lead his battered, war-weary troops in a last, valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees and, in so doing, secure an illustrious place in the Empire-s chequered history. And into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers, Mappo and his half-Jaghut companion Icarium, bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains-Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy and dark, uncontrollable magic, Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality - a new master of epic fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5475'),
(4078, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel', 'Francois Rabelais &amp; Sir Thomas Urquhart &amp; Peter Antony Motteux', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Collective title of five comic novels by Francois Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The first two novels were published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas (Alcofrybas) Nasier. The first book, commonly called Pantagruel (1532), deals with some of the fantastic incidents of the early years of Pantagruel. While at the University of Paris he receives a letter from his father that is still considered an essential exposition of French Renaissance ideals. In Paris Pantagruel also meets the cunning rogue Panurge, who becomes his companion throughout the series. In Gargantua (1534), old-fashioned scholastic pedagogy is ridiculed and contrasted with the humanist ideal of King Francis I, whose efforts to reform the French church Rabelais supported. Le Tiers Livre (1546; "The Third Book") is Rabelais''s most profound and erudite work. In it Pantagruel has become a sage; Panurge is self-absorbed and bedeviled, wondering if he should marry. He consults various prognosticators, allowing Rabelais to hold forth on sex, love, and marriage, and to satirize fortune tellers, judges, and poets. Panurge persuades Pantagruel and friends to join him on a voyage to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle in Cathay for an answer. This they do in Le Quart Livre (1552; "The Fourth Book"), which reflects the era''s interest in exploration; the Pantagruelians encounter a series of islands that present opportunities for the author to satirize the religious and political forces wreaking havoc on 16th-century Christendom. In a fifth book, Le Cinquieme Livre (1564; of doubtful authenticity), the band arrives at the temple of the Holy Bottle, where the oracle answers Panurge with a single word: "Drink!" -- __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An elaborate parody written in the 16th century, "Gargantua and Pantagruel" is a comic blend of energetic realism and carnival fantasy. The two main characters are giants, a father and his son, who have numerous adventures. Many different types of people are satirized during their chivalric exploits, from lawyers to theologians, generals to monarchs, with humor that is often grotesque or obscene. Intertwined with this crude comedy, however, is the wisdom of Renaissance learning, which exposes countless examples of human foolishness. Divided into two volumes, one describes a sullied giant who grows into a grand knight and prince, and the other portrays his erudite son who himself becomes a Renaissance Socrates. Rabelais'' work is full of freedom and laughter, as well as a certain understanding that will give readers a renewed worldview.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4461'),
(4079, 'Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estepâ€™s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003â€™s Hex), set primarily at New Yorkâ€™s Belmont Park. The most distinctive voice belongs to Ruby, a good-hearted gal whoâ€™s taken up with a troubled jockey, Attila Johnson, after the unexpected departure of her FBI agent boyfriend, Ed Burke. Attila, torn between his attraction to Ruby and his love for his seriously disturbed wife, also has problems on the track where heâ€™s trying to overcome past mistakes. Ed Burke, Rubyâ€™s pal Big Sal and sad loner Ben Nester provide the other points-of-view, but their combined tale of tangled relationships, misunderstandings and jealousies isnâ€™t always easy to follow. Still, Estepâ€™s ability to take readers into the "backside" at the racetrack where the horses, jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers work make this an entertaining ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maggie Estepâ€™s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rubyâ€™s life is nothing if not complicated: sheâ€™s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horsesâ€”and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7447'),
(4080, 'Gary Paulsen', 'Notes from the Dog (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10346'),
(4081, 'A Gate at the Stairs', 'Lorrie Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (â€œ[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerabilityâ€ â€”James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.Now, in her dazzling new novelâ€”her first in more than a decadeâ€”Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmerâ€”his â€œKeltjin potatoesâ€ are justifiably famousâ€”has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny.The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Mooreâ€™s most ambitious book to dateâ€”textured, beguiling, and wise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2729'),
(4082, 'The Gate House', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of bestseller DeMille will welcome this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), in which Susan Sutter, then the wife of tax attorney John Sutter, had a torrid affair with Frank Bellarosa, a powerful Mafia boss and the Sutters'' neighbor on Long Island''s tony Gold Coast, with fatal results for Bellarosa. After divorcing Susan, John sailed the world for three years, then built himself a new life in London. Now John has returned to the small gatehouse that was once part of his ex-wife''s family estate, only to find Bellarosa''s thuggish son, Anthony, living next door. In another coincidence, Susan has just reacquired the six-bedroom guest cottage where she and John lived as a married couple on her family''s former property. Susan and John soon begin to explore an improbable reconciliation, even as they suspect she may be in Anthony''s gun sights. The plot more than takes its time getting to its violent and predictable resolution, but DeMille devotees should have plenty of fun along the way.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this long-awaited but ponderous sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), it is ten years later, and John Sutter has returned for the funeral of a woman who isn''t dead yet. He''s also looking to restart his life and possibly hook up with his ex-wife, Susan, who''d had an affair with a local Mafia don she later killed. Confounding the problem is the don''s son, who has taken over the family business and wants vengeance against both John and Susan. While there are interesting characters, and Sutter''s first-person observations are clever, it takes forever for the action to get going. Even an exciting climax doesn''t help. DeMille has developed a reputation for fast-paced action thrillers, and this is neither. His name will guarantee a level of success, and those patrons who enjoyed reading about the lives of the rich and decadent in\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n will enjoy this sequel. The rest will hope DeMille''s next effort is more compelling. For larger collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 6/15/08.]â€”Robert Conroy, Warren, MI\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7119');
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(4083, 'Gate of Ivrel', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds -- not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together. Now the task was to uproot these Gates, destroy their potency for mischief, take horror out of the hands of the few who hungered for power by misuse of the Gates.... This is the story of one such Gate and one such world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10895'),
(4084, 'The Gate of the Cat', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9084'),
(4085, 'Gates of Fire: A Novel of Thermopylae', 'Steven Pressfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10068'),
(4086, 'The Gates of Night: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the very heart of Dal Quor. To stop the cataclysm in time, they must fight their way toÂ .Â  "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4390'),
(4087, 'The gates of November', 'Chaim Potok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union. Solomon Slepak, an inflexible old-guard Bolshevik - military commander, diplomat, propagandist - not only miraculously survived the murderous purges of the thirties and late forties, despite his high visibility and his Jewish origins, but retained to the last his unwavering faith in the Communist Party. His son, Volodya, was raised as a true believer and easily entered the elite Moscow world of scientists and engineers - until, choosing the path of dissent, he became an internationally renowned "refusenik" hero. For eighteen years he and his wife, Masha, were the objects of government persecution for the "crime" of attempting to leave the Soviet Union - five of those years lost in Siberia as punishment for hanging a banner from the balcony of their Moscow apartment which read "Let us go to our son in Israel". The circumstances that shaped Solomon and Volodya Slepak - their personal and public histories and the clash of their ideologies - form the substance of this remarkable account of a family and a nation. Chaim Potok, who first met the younger Slepaks when they were still under siege in Moscow, tells their story with deep understanding and empathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(4088, 'The Gates of Winter', 'Mark Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in the Last Rune saga continues the tale of a complex conflict between hidden users of magic on our Earth and open users of magic on an alternate Earth called Eldh. The action jumps between worlds and times, not to mention among the viewpoints of a cast of characters grown so large that it is beginning to demand a few lists. Nevertheless, those who have stayed with the story since\n <em>\n  Beyond the Pale\n </em>\n (1998) kicked it off are going to enjoy themselves.\n <em>\n  The Gates of Winter\n </em>\n picks up right where\n <em>\n  Blood of Mystery\n </em>\n [BKL Ap 1 02] left off, and there is plenty of action in both worlds as heroes and villains alike try to win the race to find Travis, the Runemaster. Besides its plentitude, the action is brisk throughout, building to a climactic battle at the gate between the worlds at the very end of the book--an ending, be it noted, that not merely promises but guarantees at least one further volume.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a masterwork of brilliant storytelling, the epic fantasy of two parallel worlds--mystical Eldh and modern Earth--takes a surprising turn in Book Five of Mark Anthonyâ€™s thrilling saga of magic, suspense, and adventure_, The Last Rune_.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gates of Winter\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The enigmatic Shemal has known only two Runebreakers. One, her rival Kelephon, served the Pale King and his army of apocalypse. The other was Travis Wilder, the Runebreaker of prophecy.Now, in outcast and newly made Runebreaker Larad, Shemal has found a weapon to open the door between worlds. As the shadow of Shemalâ€™s master, the vengeful god Mohg, Lord of Nightfall, looms, Grace Beckett seeks to harness wild magic and Travis Wilder joins her in the struggle between warriors and mages, witches\n <br />\n and kings and betrayers of every form.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the time of final reckoning approaches, Travis and Grace will find themselves facing a dark conspiracy of evil whose virulence threatens to overwhelm anyone who stands in its way. Yet if they donâ€™t succeed in stopping it, two worlds will be lost forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7866'),
(4089, 'The Gates', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe''en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don''t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10098'),
(4090, 'Gateway', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!THE HEECHEE SAGABook One:GATEWAYBook Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZONBook Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUSBook Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEEFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10196'),
(4091, 'Gateways', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Gateways*, Jack heads south to Florida when he learns his estranged father isÂ in a coma after a car accident.Â  In the hospital Jack meets weird old Anya, one of his father''s neighbors, who seems to know an awful lot about his family. In an isolated area of the Everglades,Â a young woman named Semelee who has strange talents and lives with a group of misshapen men, feelsÂ Jack''s presence. She senses that he''s "special," like her. Back at his Dad''sÂ senior community, Gateways South, there''s a ban on watering. Florida is going through an unusual drought, and everything is brown and wilting.Â  Everything exceptÂ Anya''s lawn, whichÂ is a deep green. Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality. If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, and dangerous secrets he must uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(4092, 'Gateways 03: Doors Into Chaos', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many millennia ago, never to return -- or so it was believed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GATEWAYS\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  DOORS INTO CHAOS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Summoned to an emergency briefing at Starfleet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind the Iconians'' unexpected rebirth!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Together with Pocket Books Star Trek editor John J. Ordover, Robert Greenberger created the overall Gateways concept which forms the basis of the seven-part crossover series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7474'),
(4093, 'Gateways 07: What Lay Beyond', 'Diane Carey &amp; Peter David &amp; Keith R. A. DeCandido &amp; Robert Greenberger &amp; Susan Wright &amp; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Created by the ancient Iconians, the Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances. Throughout the known galaxy, the sudden reactivation of the Gateways has destabilized interstellar relations -- and forced several of Starfleet''s finest commanders to leap through separate Gateways into the unknown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Captain James T. Kirk of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek, The Original Series.\n  </em>\n  Captain Jean-Luc Picard of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation (R).\n  </em>\n  Colonel Kira Nerys of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (R).\n  </em>\n  Captain Kathryn Janeway of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Voyager (R).\n  </em>\n  Captains Calhoun and Shelby of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: New Frontier .\n  </em>\n  Captain Nick Keller of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: New Earth.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  All of these heroes have taken the ultimate gamble: hurling themselves through a Gateway without any forewarning of what lay beyond. Now each must face his or her own unique challenge, while struggling to find a way back to the ships and homes left behind....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   What Lay Beyond\n  </em>\n  brings the Gateways saga to a spectacular finish, in all-star collaboration by six popular, bestselling Star TrekÂ® authors. Among them,\n  <strong>\n   Diane Carey, Peter David, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Cristie Golden, Robert Greenberger,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Susan Wright\n  </strong>\n  have written dozens of Star TrekÂ® novels. This is their first mega-collaboration.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7278'),
(4094, 'Gather Together in My Name', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4447'),
(4095, 'Gather, Darkness!', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Gather, Darkness!" (originally serialized in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber''s classic novels, a tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(4096, 'The Gathering Dark', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Golden''s long-awaited return to his critically-acclaimed Shadow Saga features Peter Octavian-once a vampire, now a powerful mage-as the only man powerful enough to stop a supernatural armageddon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4490'),
(4097, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, *A Memory of Light,* was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, *New York Times* bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents *The Gathering Storm* as the first of three novels that will make up *A Memory of Light.* This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era. In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself. Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3548'),
(4098, 'The gathering', 'Anne Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland''s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright''s unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright''s work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(4099, 'Gauntlgrym', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate. In their search for treasure and magic, Jarlaxle and Athrogate inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinterâ€”a catastrophe big enough to lure even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they canâ€™t stop it on their own. Theyâ€™ll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3234'),
(4100, 'Gaza in Crisis', 'Chomsky, Noam &amp; Pappe, Ilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8989'),
(4101, 'Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel&#39;s War Against the Palestinians', 'Noam Chomsky &amp; Ilan Pappe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel''s recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian PappÃ© (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky''s consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. PappÃ© adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. PappÃ© and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by PappÃ© and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis--and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms--are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet."â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ilan PappÃ© is Israel''s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."â€”John Pilger\n</p>\n<p>\n Described by a UN fact-finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population," Israel''s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Gaza in Crisis\n </em>\n , Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappÃ©, two of the issue''s most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israel''s conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel''s longstanding occupation of Palestine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noam Chomsky\n </strong>\n is one of the world''s foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of\n <em>\n  Failed States\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hegemony or Survival\n </em>\n , both\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ilan PappÃ©\n </strong>\n is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of\n <em>\n  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4897'),
(4102, 'Geek Love', 'Katherine Dunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10540'),
(4103, 'Geektastic', 'Holly Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O''Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you''re a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7229'),
(4104, 'Geis of the Gargoyle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since Xanth began, the gargoyles of that magical place have been under a magical compulsion to protect the purity of the Swan Knee River which flows in to Xanth from dreary Mundania. But recently the pollution from the outside world has grown ever greater, and young Gary Gar, latest in a long line of gargoyle guardians, is finding it ever more difficult to fulfill his responsibilities.So Gary does what any sensible Xanth resident with a dire dilemma would do. He goes to see the Good Magician Humfrey, who sends him on a peculiar quest--to transform himself into human shape, tutor a precocious child with more than her share of wild magical talents, and find a philter which can restore the river to its previous pristine state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3315'),
(4105, 'Gemworld 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, oil carefully nurtured by the planet''s many inhabitants -- until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pozlor, who previously served on\n  <em>\n   Deep Space Nineâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  is currently stationed aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos -- and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mammoth prisms and spindly spires stretched across the pale blue sky, catching the sun in a ripple of rainbow shimmers. Stairlike forms seemed to stretch forever, crossing and weaving in an endless dance of structure and light. From a distance, the crystalline fingers and branches looked fragile, like coral growing in a fish tank. But at close range, the giant prisms were as solid as marble columns, and as smooth and dazzling as diamonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dwarfed by the towering crystals were five young humanoids; they soared among the spires like birds flying through a forest. Sails billowed from their arms and legs to catch the convection currents, but the fliers mostly depended upon graceful acrobatics to propel themselves. Tandra, the team leader of the five youths, glided to a thick green monolith, tagged up like a swimmer making a lap turn, then bounded off in an altered direction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two young Elaysians followed her lead, bouncing off the same crystal and racing after her. The other two members of the science team took different angles at the big monolith and soared off in parallel trajectories. One of the boys rolled into a midair somersault, just having fun. This close to the core of the planet, crystals grew in profusion, so there were plenty of smooth surfaces for pushing off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra frowned, deepening the crease around her V-shaped forehead ridges. Once they reached the hollow core, she knew they would have to be more careful with their flight patterns. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure the robotic hover-platform was following them. At a discreet distance, the meter-long disc floated along, its small thrusters making minute course changes. Once they reached the core, Tandra knew they might need the platform, for a push-off or a roost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laughing and chatting, the five students soared from one spidery, crystalline structure to another, plunging deeper into the center of the unique planet. To the few visitors who came here, Gemworld looked more like the intricate skeleton of a planet, or a giant snowflake made of prisms. For the Elaysians, it was a crystalline aviary. For the other sentient races, Gemworld was what they made of it. All of the inhabitants knew it was a special place, even if very few of them had ever seen a conventional planet for comparison.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Tandra flew through a stand of rainbow-hued prisms -- old growth before the natural geometry had been improved by fractal models -- she gaped at the exquisite beauty. She thought angrily about the outsiders who claimed that Gemworld wasn''t a real planet. They pointed to its forcefields and lack of mass, thinking that such a place had to be artificial, despite its immense size. They simply didn''t understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the crystals looked cold and foreboding, even with their uncanny beauty, they sheltered a surprising variety of life. What could an outsider know about that? Outsiders couldn''t stay long enough to really appreciate Gemworld because the low gravity was harmful to most gravity-dependent species. Although humans'' muscles were a dozen times more developed, they could never soar between the sparkling archways like Elaysians born and raised in this gossamer cage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clearing loomed on the far side of a thicket of crystals, and Tandra realized they were getting close to the core of Gemworld. At one time, it had been a molten, metallic mass like a conventional planetary core, but the Ancients had sacrificed it to fuel the crystal. Now the inhabitants were slowly rebuilding the core with new crystal growth, which was the reason for the students'' outing today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the fact it was empty -- or because of it -- Tandra found the core of Gemworld an eerie place to travel. Since it was hollow and equidistant from the massive crystal constructs surrounding it, the core was the most weightless part of the planet. Only trace gravity was measurable here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they flew farther into the ancient heart of the planet and the old-growth crystal, the light became more refracted and eerie, as if the ancient ocean were still there. Tandra felt the weight of ages, how many ages nobody knew, except perhaps the Lipuls. And even they had gaps in their history. The sparkling hues of the upper levels had given way to rust, olive, and sage colors, and the weathered facets were striated from elements that hadn''t assaulted them for millions of years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra could well imagine the great oceans that pummeled these prisms eons ago, when even the Lipuls and the Gendlii were single-celled animals. Gemworld had been young then. Now it was old. But it was still a planet, thought Tandra, despite its low gravity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Glancing around, she noted that her friends gave little regard to their solemn surroundings as they soared and tumbled through a swooping archway. They were just a flock of young people on a field trip, thought Tandra, and she shouldn''t judge them too harshly. Hovering so close to the birthplace of the planet always gave her a sense of history -- and a chill -- but today it seemed more eerie than usual.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up at the purple prism!" Tandra shouted to her comrades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, we can make it across!" scoffed one of the boys, soaring past her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up!" she shouted back. "I''m the team leader."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra knew she couldn''t do much if the others disobeyed, but none of them wanted to get stuck out here in the wilderness. They wanted to measure the new stand, see if the fractal modeling program was working as expected, and get out of here. It was too lovely a day to be plodding through kilometer after kilometer of empty air. Although the outing had been fun so far, it had also been long, and the young Elaysians were impatient to return to their research base about four hundred prisms above them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One by one, the students alighted softly on the ancient purple spire at the edge of the clearing. Tandra gazed into the hollow marrow of the crystal and could see its pulsing gel center. It was a sight she always found reassuring, because it meant that Lipuls probably lived within the marrow. Before the students lay a wide expanse of nothingness, broken up by little islands of discarded equipment, dust, and debris, all of it floating uselessly. In the distance, the edge of the crystal growth shimmered like a mirage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How much farther?" asked Lucio, the cutest of the boys, with his slight frame and rare dark hair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll find out." From her backpack, Tandra took a small handheld device and turned it on. She waited a few seconds until the positioning device communicated with the shell that circled the planet and fixed their current position. As the students hovered around her, Tandra punched in the coordinates of their destination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "About two hundred prisms." Tandra took a bit of ground crystal from her pocket and tossed it into the air to check the air currents. Now she knew what kind of arc to take to stay on course. "We can cover it in an hour if we get good jumps. Everyone, take a drink, because there won''t be time to stop."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Taking her advice, the young Elaysians pulled out sip tubes and sipped from water bladders built into their backpacks. One by one, they used the hovercraft to crouch on the rough-hewn monolith then bound off into the wide-open wilderness. Strung out like a line of migrant birds, the Elaysians soared gracefully across the hollow core of Gemworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra realized she would have to rely heavily on the positioning device, so she took it out of her backpack and slipped the strap around her neck, letting it float behind her. A quick glance assured her that the rest of the team and the hover-platform were following dutifully behind, then she double-checked to make sure they were on course. Finally satisfied that they would reach their destination in due time, the team leader spread her sails to catch the prevailing air currents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It didn''t take long for her to realize that somethi\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7247'),
(4106, 'Gemworld 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparkling like a three-dimensional snowflake in the depths of space, Gernworld once was one of the Federation''s greatest marvels. Six different alien races coexisted peacefully on an artificial world composed entirely of crystal -- until the very substance of Gemworld began to multiply out of control, tearing the world apart. Now the entire planet -- and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  as well-faces total destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only way to stop the disaster is to turn off the vast network of force fields holding Gemworld''s atmosphere in place, but to do so will require the cooperation of each of the planet''s half dozen alien civilizations, one of which sabotaged Gemworld in the first place. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew, including a lovestruck Lieutenant Barclay, must embark on a hazardous trek across the dying planet to find and unite the chief engineers from many strange and exotic races -- while watching out for a mass murderer determined to destroy a world!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pazlar hovered above a row of terminals in a weightless, cylindrical chamber inside the protective shell that encircled Gemworld. This chamber was a monitoring station which was usually populated by Elaysian and Alpusta engineers. The Elaysians were in residence, but now so was an away team from the Federation starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n  Melora hardly considered herself to be a member of\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  crew, having been on board only a few hours before her dreams had been invaded by the Lipuls'' call for help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Melora glanced at one of the screens. Far beneath the shell and its labyrinth of collectors, generators, pumps, and forcefields floated Gemworld itself -- a dazzling, multihued cluster of spires, prisms, and archways. Seen from afar, her crystalline world was an awesome bauble glimmering in the vastness of space. From within, it was a forest of massive monoliths, dancing light beams, and perpetual shadow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only was Melora''s body suspended in midair, which was normal, but her mind felt as if it were suspended, too. She was reminded of the out-of-body experiences humans often claimed to have had, even though few of them ever took the time to understand such phenomena.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t surprising that the Lipuls'' dreamships had first contacted humans, out of all the Federation species. Unlike Elaysians, humans were open-minded, even generous and outgoing. But like Elaysians, they could also be obstinate and blunt. That bluntness was now being amply demonstrated by the harsh words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as he lectured Tangre Bertoran and a handful of Elaysian engineers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In standard Federation language, the captain had already told them they had the equivalent of eight days to live. Did her fellow Elaysians even know how short a time period that was? They didn''t have\n  <em>\n   days\n  </em>\n  on Gemworld, in the accepted sense, only refracted sunlight and a strange sort of twilight in the shadows. Gemworld had been inhabited ever since the universe was young, and they thought they had surmounted every obstacle. How could her people possibly comprehend that their life expectancy had come down to eight rotations of a faraway alien planet?\n </p>\n <p>\n  She could tell by the concern on Reg Barclay''s face that he understood their predicament -- and the truth of Picard''s dire prediction. Counselor Deanna Troi listened with her usual detachment as the captain finished his summation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is quite impossible, Captain," said Tangre Bertoran, in a tone of voice usually reserved for small children who have told grandiose lies. The silver-haired Peer of the Jeptah shook his head in pity. "Thoron radiation is naturally occurring in our atmosphere. And in Earth''s too, I understand. It couldn''t harm all life on Gemworld, only those who spend too much time near the mutant crystal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Which continues to grow every day," insisted the captain. "Commander Data is not given to making errant predictions. Trust me when I say that we have to shut down the darkmatter collectors and the dimensional rift in eight days -- by whatever means -- or we''ll all die. If we have to shut down the shell to accomplish that goal, then so be it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran wrinkled his nose and forehead ridges as if sniffing a foul odor. "Captain, we don''t talk about ''shutting down the shell,'' even in jest....That is like saying we need to destroy the Earth in order to stop a weed from growing. Yes, it will work -- but at what cost?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The captain gestured broadly, making it clear how frustrated he felt. "I don''t want\n  <em>\n   anyone\n  </em>\n  to die, especially not two billion inhabitants. My first officer and chief engineer think that we can power your forcefields from the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for a brief period, taking over while the shell is turned off. You know how all those systems are intertwined -- there''s no other choice. If we''re successful, Gemworld won''t lose any of her atmosphere."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And if you''re wrong, we''ll all be dead," replied Bertoran snidely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We have eight days to put something together," answered Picard, sounding as if that were plenty of time. "We have considerable experience with forcefields, and my people have already gotten a head start on this. Your people can help by making sealed shelters, bottling air -- whatever is necessary. Believe me, I wouldn''t suggest this course if I didn''t think we could do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran grimaced his displeasure. "What you''re asking goes against all my upbringing and common sense. It''s akin to\n  <em>\n   murder.\n  </em>\n  I don''t know, Captain...I need to see Commander Data''s sensor readings before I agree to this."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ve got them." Picard gestured, and Reg Barclay fumbled in a pouch on his belt, finally producing an isolinear chip. Melora smiled at the contrast between this gleaming storage device and the aged violet prism that hung from Reg''s neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Can you read isolinear chips?" asked the captain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran sneered. "After we joined the Federation, it took us about two weeks to master your language and technology. Now you wish to destroy\n  <em>\n   ours\n  </em>\n  in a heartbeat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Your technology has turned against you," said Deanna Troi, speaking up for the first time since the meeting began. Hesitantly, the counselor floated down from the circular doorway, looking uneasy in her weightless state. "We wouldn''t go to this much trouble to destroy you. The only thing that can destroy you is doing nothing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran scowled and snatched the isolinear chip from Reg''s hand. "Give me a moment."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He and his entourage retreated to a monitoring console, where they plugged in the chip and studied the data, muttering in low tones. Melora hovered overhead, uncertain whether she should join her fellow Elaysians or stay with her unfamiliar crew. Since coming back to Gemworld, she had felt increasingly torn between her duty to Starfleet and a natural inclination to protect her people and her homeworld. The two shouldn''t be mutually exclusive, but Starfleet represented the whole Federation, not just one peculiar planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her split allegiance had never been an issue before, because Gemworld had always seemed like a memory from a past life, something that would never intrude on her Starfleet commitments. But being here, visiting her old enclave, seeing the frightened faces and the crumbling, mutant crystal -- it had become clear that Gemworld needed her more than Starfleet did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For now, the dimensional rift not only threatened their solar system, but it could endanger the entire quadrant if left unchecked. Captain Picard had made it clear that he would sacrifice his ship and every soul on her planet to keep that from happening. And he probably wouldn''t hesitate to use the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise''s\n  </em>\n  weapon systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reg Barclay looked at Melora and smiled sweetly, jarring her out of her depressing reverie. His boyish, earnest face brought out a smile in her, and she realized how glad she was to see him again. Here she was -- perhaps in the last days of her life -- and she had met a perfectly charming man who doted on her and strove to protect her. In fact, he strove to protect\n  <em>\n   all\n  </em>\n  of her people, as proven by the shard around his neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was an unlikely hero -- and an even more unlikely acting senior engineer for the Elaysians -- yet he performed both duties valiantly. Looking at Reg brought out a respect and affection in Melora that she had thought she could never feel for anyone. And her feelings were amplified by the guilt she felt over not being totally honest with him....The last thing she wanted to do was to hurt Reg, or any member of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  crew. They were trying to help, but they didn''t fully understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Did Reg know how she felt about him? Did it even matter -- with all the obstacles they faced?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Yes, it matters,\n  </em>\n  decided Melora. This should be a time to feel for one another -- to seek love, and give it. What did it mean to fight for life if\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7250'),
(4107, 'The Gendarme', 'M. T. Mustian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... ** Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War I veteran, he''s been affected by memory loss since being injured during the war. To those around him, he''s simply a confused man, fading in and out of senility. But what they don''t know is that Emmett has been beset by memories, of events he and others have denied or purposely forgotten. In Emmett''s dreams he''s a gendarme, escorting Armenians from Turkey. A young woman among them, Araxie, captivates and enthralls him. But then the trek ends, the war separates them. He is injured. Seven decades later, as his grasp on the boundaries between past and present begins to break down, Emmett sets out on a final journey, to find Araxie and beg her forgiveness. Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power of memory-and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities, politics, and religion, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness, *The Gendarme* is a transcendent novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2211'),
(4108, 'Gene of Isis', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac is a 13th century priestess of an ancient order. Despite time, distance and cultures these woman have several things in common.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3912'),
(4109, 'Genellan: Planetfall', 'Scott G. Gier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Genellana beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff dwellers waited in fear for the day the bear people would return, killing them for their fur... Genellanthe only refuge for a ships crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves untilthey hoped against hopethe fleet would return to rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over the spacers and the Marinesto keep her crew together and alive. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, intent on destroying the humansbut not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3276'),
(4110, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7109');
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(4111, 'The Generals', 'Simon Scarrow &amp; Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Scarrow builds up a fascinating picture of a world at war and sets the stage for the looming confrontation between these two military giants -- an enthralling sequel'' -- Good Reading, Australia ''One of the great duels in history, between two of its most fascinating characters. Simon Scarrow brings Wellington and Napoleon to life with a vengeance.'' -- Paul Strathern, author of NAPOLEON IN EGYPT\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon It''s 1796 as THE GENERALS opens, and both Arthur Wellesly (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte are making their mark as men of military genius. Wellesley, as commander of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, is sent to India, where his skill and bravery make a remarkable impression on his superiors. Napoleon''s role as commander of the Army of Italy leads to success in battle and rapid political progress. By 1804, Napoleon has established himself as Emperor, and has his sights set on conquering all of Europe. The time has come for Wellesly to stand against Napoleon in the confrontation that lies ahead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7916'),
(4112, 'Generation Warriors', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lunzie, fresh from her adventures in The Death of Sleep , has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn''t so good after all. Fordeliton, sent to investigate the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and is now dying from a mysterious, slow poison. Dupaynil, who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far, and has been exiled to Seti space. Aygar, who is out of prove he has brains as well heavyworlder brawn. And then there''s Sassinak, ordered to report to Fed Central for the trial of mutineer Tanegli. She''s been told to disarm her shop when it enters restricted space; she''s been told her crew can''t have liberty of leave; and she''s been told to follow all the rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead has never been to follow the rules...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10834'),
(4113, 'Genesis', 'Bernard Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it''s nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers for young adults, gives us his view of a brave new world. In a terrifying and stifling examination environment a young Academy candidate, Anaximander, is put through a gruelling exercise in interpreting the history and origins of her society. Through her answers, we learn that in 2052, New Zealand has been renamed The Republic after a reforming Governor, Plato. It has separated itself from a plague-ridden globe with a gargantuan ring fence guarded with military outposts. All approaching boats, exploratory air craft or refugees are shot on sight. Society is strictly divided and individuals deviate from their assigned roles at their peril. When one man, Adam Forde (2058-2077) insists on his right to independent thought and action, The Republic is set at grave risk. Adam is imprisoned: his sentence is to become the participant in a programming experiment with a new brand of artificial intelligence. Through Anaximander''s rendition of Adam''s debates with Artfink, the computer, and her own increasingly disturbing encounter with members of the Academy, we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these conundrums have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technologies. What is consciousness? What makes us human? What separates us from the animal and mechanistic worlds? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what status could humanity still claim? As a species, we may have built in our own obsolescence, even if the planet itself is preserved. Outstanding and original, Beckett''s dramatic narrative has a stunning closure that turns the reading experience on its head. Genesis will fuel intense debate about ethics and meaning between intellectually hungry young adults.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1374'),
(4114, 'Genesis ; Battle Cry ; Homecoming', 'Jack McKinney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6435'),
(4115, 'Genesis Force', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following on the success and popularity of "Genesis Wave: " Books One, Two, and Three, John Vornholt pulls together a group of "Star Trek(TM)" heroes with a mission unlike any other!  The passing of the Genesis Wave has damaged hundreds of worlds in the newly named "Genesis Sector," and chaos reigns throughout that area of space. Each world has been changed in different ways, and a group of extraordinary men and women -- some old friends, some new faces -- have been assigned the job of getting the devastated planets back on their feet.  Their first job: To resettle an entire displaced alien race on its altered home planet, where the dead come back to life, microbes have reached gigantic size, and the new ecology taking over the world is one not fit for man nor genetically altered beast....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7253'),
(4116, 'The Genesis Plague', 'Michael Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At the dawn of civilization ...An exotic stranger appears in a Mesopotamian village and is venerated as a goddess ...until she unleashes a horror beyond anything humankind has ever known. At the sunset of civilization ...A mercenary unit in northern Iraq, led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger, has trapped radical Islam''s most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the Genesis story. When a Marine platoon seeks to control the extraction mission, a threat far more ominous is found lurking beneath the mountains. Meanwhile in Boston, Massachusetts, Agent Thomas Flaherty helps archaeologist Brooke Thompson escape assassination by a Las Vegas televangelist intent on using the cave''s deepest secret to bring the Middle East to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5905'),
(4117, 'The Genesis Secret', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"Sinister, macabre, relentless and rich...the ideal blend of both *The Da Vinci Code* and *Raiders of the Lost Ark*." -Bill Loehfelm, author of *Fresh Kills* ** War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he''s sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the world''s oldest human civilization. But, soon after he arrives, the site is violated, first by sabotage-and then by death. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of spectacularly grisly murders discovers a link between the victims and what is happening in Kurdistan. As the two men race to prevent more deaths, they close in on a biblical era secret that will shake the foundations of the modern world. *The Genesis Secret* and its audacious blend of science, history, and suspense burst onto the scene, becoming a sleeper hardcover hit. The paperback publication of this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced thriller is sure to find an even broader audience and catapult debut novelist Tom Knox into the ranks of bestselling authors like Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3246'),
(4118, 'The Genesis Wave 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion of the Genesis Planet, and the Klingon Empire''s attempt to steal the top-secret technology, Starfleet wisely decided to destroy all data and records on Project Genesis, hoping to bury its deadly secrets forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now a mysterious wave of energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming matter on a molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms. Billions of living beings and hundreds of inhabited worlds lie in the path of the mutagenic wave, which is expanding outward toward Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To discover the origin of the wave, Captain Picard and his crew must probe the long-buried mysteries. But even if he can uncover the shocking history of the Genesis Wave, is there any way to save the future from its unleashed fury?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine Dominion War sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7243'),
(4119, 'The Genesis Wave 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The spectacular conclusion to the thrilling double-sized adventure!  Like an unstoppable cosmic storm, the dreaded Genesis Wave continues to sweep across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming entire planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with extinction. Based on the long-hidden scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who has mysteriously disappeared, the wave of mutagenic protomatter seems to have come from nowhere, posing a cataclysmic menace to life as we know it.  To combat the rushing terror of the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise"(TM) have been forced into an uneasy alliance with both the Klingons and the Romulan Empire, both of whom may crave the forbidden secrets of the Genesis technology for themselves. The finest engineers of three civilizations, including Geordi La Forge and his long-lost love, Dr. Leah Brahms, must race against time to devise some way of halting the deadly wave before yet another world is transformed into something entirely alien and unrecognizable.  But even if, against all odds, the Genesis Wave can be defeated, Picard and his potentially treacherous allies must still confront the greater mystery of what unknown intelligence dared to launch the wave against an unsuspecting galaxy -- and for what malevolent purpose....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7246'),
(4120, 'The Genesis Wave 03: Book Three', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fearsome progeny of forbidden technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave halted, and the cataclysmic threat to the Federation averted. Or so it seemed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis, the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency, as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from nothing, or must the entire Galaxy pay a terrible price for what Genesis has wrought?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine DOMINION WAR sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7242'),
(4121, 'Genghis: Birth of an Empire', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujinâ€™s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin enduredâ€”and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujinâ€™s legend grew. And so did the challenges he facedâ€”from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warriorâ€™s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(4122, 'Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Genghisâ€™s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperors bow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange new land of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any he has met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierce Arab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes, the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leave his own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged, savage enemy.While the Mongolsâ€”men, women, and childrenâ€”fight back, as secret assassins are sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghisâ€™s sons, Jochi and Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderer commits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has brought devastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touch off the most bitter conflict of all.In a novel that ranges from the fertile lands of the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic story of historyâ€™s most enigmatic conqueror â€”those who feared him, those who defied him, and those whose bones he left behind.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(4123, 'Genghis: Empire of Silver', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Â *** THE EMPIRE OF SILVER** Â  Conn Igguldenâ€™s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghisâ€™s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Â  Genghisâ€™s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two. Chagetaiâ€™s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedaiâ€™s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters. With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(4124, 'Genghis: Lords of the Bow', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conquerorâ€”as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. For centuries, Mongol tribes had warred with one another. But now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin. Genghis will lead his warriors across the Gobi Desert and into a realm his people had never seen beforeâ€”with gleaming cities, soaring walls, and canals. Laying siege to one fortress after another, he will crush each enemy in a different wayâ€”until his army faces the ultimate test of all.In the city of Yenkingâ€”modern-day Beijingâ€”the Chin will make their final stand, setting a trap for the Mongol raiders, confident behind their towering walls. But Genghis will strike with breathtaking audacity, never ceasing until the Emperor himself is forced to kneel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(4125, 'Genius', 'Gleick, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10243'),
(4126, 'Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. He penetrates beyond the gleeful showman depicted in Feynman''s own memoirs and reveals a darker Feynman: his ambition, his periods of despair and uncertainty, his intense emotional nature. From his childhood on the beaches and backlots of Far Rockaway and his first tinkering with radios and differential equations to the machine shops at MIT and the early theoretical work at Princeton - work that foreshadowed his famous notion of antiparticles traveling backward in time - to the tragic death of his wife while he was working at Los Alamos, Genius shows how one scientist''s vision was formed. As that vision crystallized in work that reinvented quantum mechanics, we see Feynman''s impact on the elite particle-physicscommunity, and how Feynman grew to be at odds with the very community that idolized him. Finally, Gleick explores the nature of genius, our obsession with it and why the very idea may belong to another time. Genius records the life of a scientist who has forever changed science - and changed what it means to know something in this uncertain century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7044'),
(4127, 'A Gentleman&#39;s Game: A Queen &amp; Country Novel', 'Greg Rucka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by his Eisner Awardâ€“winning Queen &amp; Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers (_Critical Space_) offers up this British cloak-and-dagger hardcover introducing Tara Chace, an intrepid, relentless female assassin. In a coolly orchestrated terrorist raid chillingly reminiscent of September 11, a well-trained trio of al Qaedaâ€“linked fanatics bomb London subway trains at three major stations, killing 372. In retaliation, Minder One (the head assassin of Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligent Service) Tara Chace is given the assignment of killing Dr. Faud bin Abdullah al-Shimmari, a Saudi Arabian religious leader. She can''t undertake an operation inside Faud''s high-security Saudi homeland, but when the Mossad gets involved on a mission of its own, the hit is scheduled to take place on Yemeni soil. In a bit of bad luck, Chace completes her primary mission with a daring hit on Faud inside the Great Mosque, but ignites international outrage when she blows away a Saudi prince, too. As a result, her queen and countrymen betray her, and she is forced to flee with one final chance to avoid being sacrificed as a pawn in a worldwide political chess game. Though a trifle muddled by bureaucratese, the novel''s superb pacing, offbeat characters, wry plot twists and damning insight into oily schizoid Middle Eastern diplomacy add up to an engrossing read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a little tricky, so pay attention. This novel is based on Rucka''s comic-book series,\n <em>\n  Queen &amp; Country\n </em>\n , which was in turn inspired by (or perhaps directly based on) a 25-year-old British television series called\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n . The comic-book series chronicles the adventures of Tara Chace, a Special Intelligence Service agent (otherwise known as a minder or a sandbagger) who takes on dangerous missions for the British government. In the novel, she is tasked with the assassination of the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks that took the lives of more than 300 British citizens. The relationships between some of Rucka''s characters mirror the relationships between similar characters in the TV series, and there are even scenes in the novel that are very much like scenes in episodes of the series. Also like the series, the novel is as much about the political machinations behind a mission as it is about the mission itself, and Rucka does an excellent job of building the tension and suspense. It''s a story about people whose lives are controlled--and often sacrificed--by government officials whose decisions are always politically motivated. There are echoes of le Carre here, to be sure, although the tone is less cerebral. Those who know\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n will be intrigued, but the novel will also interest anyone with a taste for classic British espionage. A sequel would be most welcome.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6018'),
(4128, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'Anita Loos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The great American novel . . ."\n <br />\n -- Edith Wharton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song ''Diamonds are a Girl''s Best Friend''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5568'),
(4129, 'Gentlemen Prefer Succubi', 'Jill Myles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who Knew An Angel Could Get A Girl In So Much Devilish Trouble?Jackie Brighton woke up in a Dumpster this morning, and her day has only gotten weirder. Her familiar B-cups have somehow become double Ds, her sex drive is insatiable, and apparently she had her fi rst one-night stand ever...with a fallen angel. All she remembers is gorgeous Noah''s oddly hypnotic blue eyes...and then a dark stranger whose bite transformed her into an immortal siren with a sexy Itch. With help from Noah, Jackie begins to adapt to her new lifestyle -- until she accidentally sends Noah into the deadly clutches of the vampire queen and lands herself in a fi erce battle for an ancient halo with the queen''s wickedly hot righthand man. Who just happens to be the vampire who originally bit her. How''s a girl supposed to save the world when the enemy''s so hard to resist?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1593'),
(4130, 'Geomancer', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5166'),
(4131, 'Geordie Sharp 01: Stand By, Stand By', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All of Chris Ryan''s bestselling novels in stunning new cover reissue\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8937'),
(4132, 'Geordie Sharp 02: Zero Option', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that, if things go wrong, the authorities will deny all involvement. In the first mission he is to serve as a commander of a hit team on a Black, or 100 per cent non-attributable operation assigned to the SAW, the Regiment''s ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing. His target is an Iraqi who defected to Libya after the Gulf War. The aim is to kill him and leave no clue to the identity or origin of the assassins. Returning to base, Sharp finds he must also carry out a high-level political assassination on mainland Britain. If he fails, his four-year-old son will die at the hands of the IRA. Trapped between opposing forces in a fight to the death, he twists and turns through a nightmare maze, desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be hit the hardest â€” Geordie Sharp or the British government?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8921'),
(4133, 'Geordie Sharp 03: The Kremlin Device', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8953'),
(4134, 'Geordie Sharp 04: Tenth Man Down', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8949'),
(4135, 'George Mills', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." --\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." --\n  <em>\n   Saul Bellow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stanley Elkinâ€™s imagination should be declared a national landmark." --\n  <em>\n   Paul Auster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ambitiousâ€š digressiveâ€š and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millsesâ€š GEORGE MILLS is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusadeâ€š there has always been a George Millsâ€š whoâ€”despite his best effortsâ€”is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Insteadâ€š all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workersâ€š serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture mover in contemporary St. Louis. But the latest in the long line of George Millses may also be the lastâ€š as he obsesses about his familyâ€™s history and determines that he will be the one to break this doomed cycle of servitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4363'),
(4136, 'George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I', 'Miranda Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The slippery slope into horrific armed conflict is a tale often told about World War I, but this authorâ€™s take on the antecedents of the European war of 1914â€“18 is distinct. Carter views the shifting alliance entanglements of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the growing animosity and rivalry between Britain and Germany, with particular focus on the attitudes and actions of three royal first cousins: Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and King George V of Great Britain (who also reigned as emperor of India, hence the bookâ€™s title reference to three emperors). Rich in concrete detail, elegant in style, and wise, fresh, and knowledgeable in interpretation, the authorâ€™s account observes a profound anachronism at play: that these three monarchs, in what they didnâ€™t realize were the waning days of the institution of monarchy, handled foreign diplomacy as if it were a family business. Despite the reality of growing fissures separating their countries, â€œeach emperor continued to paper over the cracks with cousinly gestures, each increasingly irrelevant.â€ Europe plunged over the precipice of war in August 1914, revealing in stark terms the inability of royal familial ties to control and contain national disagreements; as the author has it, the fact that Wilhelm, Nicholas, and George were out of touch with actual politics could not have been more apparent. An irresistible narrative for history buffs. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Miranda Carter''s George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œMiranda Carter has written an engrossing and important book. While keeping her focus on the three cousins and their extended families, she skillfully interweaves and summarizes all important elements of how the war came aboutâ€¦Carter has given us an original book, highly recommended.â€ ---_The Dallas Morning News_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully crafted. . . Carter has presented one of the most cohesive explorations of the dying days of European royalty and the coming of political modernity. . . Carter has delivered another gem." --_Bookpage_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Carter writes incisively about the overlapping events that led to the Great War and changed the world. . . George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more than she can chew for she -- as John Updike once wrote of Gunter Grass -- ''chews it enthusiasticallyÂ before our eyes.''" --The New York TimesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "An irresistably entertaining and illuminating chronicle . . . Readers with fond memories of Robert Massie and Barbara Tuchman can expect similar pleasures in this witty, shrewd examination of the twilight of the great European monarchies." â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history." â€”Craig Brown,\n <em>\n  Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A hauntingly tempting proposition for a book . . . The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V, and Nicholas II are . . . a prism though which to tell the march to the first World War, the creation of the modern industrial world and the follies of hereditary courts and the eccentricities of their royal trans-European cousinhood . . . An entertaining and accessible study of power and personality." â€”Simon Sebag Montefiore, _Financial Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europeâ€™s failing international relations well . . . A highly readable and well-documented account." â€”Margaret MacMillan, _The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this book down. The whole thing really lives and breathes â€“ and itâ€™s very funny. That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying.â€ â€“ Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] enterprising history of imperial vicissitudes and royal reversals." --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4850'),
(4137, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n George''s grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog''s bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of thick brown medicine, but it doesn''t seem to do her any good. She''s always just as horrid after she''s taken it as she was before.So when George is left alone to look after her one morning, it''s just the chance he needs...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6274'),
(4138, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine Teacher Resource', 'Gillian Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: NEW Read and Respond is back by popular demand and ready for the21st Century. The completely new text provides teachers with everythingthey need to teach these classic children''s books. Notes andactivities reflect the way that teachers teach now and includeshared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speakingand listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance.Over a third of each book is filled with invaluable photocopiables- all illustrated by the original children''s book illustrators.** Everything the teacher needs to teach a classic book** Based on best-selling children''s books** Speaking and listening activities** Assessment guidance** Photocopiable pagesNEW READ AND RESPOND George''s Marvellous Medicine provides teacherswith all the resources they need to teach George''s MarvellousMedicine by Roald Dahl. George''s Marvellous Medicine is a popularchoice for teachers because it can support the PNS at Key Stage2 as a classic and a story by a significant children''s writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1728'),
(4139, 'Geosynchron', 'David Louis Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **DAVID LOUIS EDELMAN''S BUSINESS SCIENCE FICTION SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH *INFOQUAKE* AND *MULTIREAL* COMES TO A STUNNING CONCLUSION WITH *GEOSYNCHRON*, THE LAST BOOK OF THE JUMP 225 TRILOGY.** The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from their competitors and from Margaret Surina''s unscrupulous heirs -- even though MultiReal has completely vanished. The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the deeps of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago. Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He''s still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision -- whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/700'),
(4140, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife''s nightmare has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4313'),
(4141, 'German Baking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5572'),
(4142, 'German Cooking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5573'),
(4143, 'Germany&#39;s high sea fleet in the World War', 'Reinhard Scheer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3967'),
(4144, 'Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen', 'Mollie Katzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. There''s an inherent difficulty in encapsulating basic kitchen knowledge in a single book, but Katzen''s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre. This is likely because she has some experienceâ€”Katzen''s\n  <em>\n   The Moosewood Cookbook\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Enchanted Broccoli Forest\n  </em>\n  cookbooks have been unofficial required reading for cooking students for decades, and her latest speaks directly to a newer, more food-savvy generation of just-starting-out cooks. Launched in conjunction with a companion Web site and illustrated by Katzen''s own photographs, this newest is divided into basic categories like soups, salads, pastas and desserts. Naturally, given her meatless pedigree, she gives vegetarian options with bright flavors (acorn squash stuffed with fruited basmati pilaf; mango curry) their own chapter. While the recipes cover the traditional home repertoireâ€”spaghetti and meatballs, an excellent and simple roast chicken, apple crispâ€”Katzen also sneaks in some more intriguing flavors by way of a North African red lentil soup, cherry clafouti and Thai green curry along with explanations of more unusual ingredients like jicama and panko. Encouraging cooks to experiment with additions and flavor combinations, she suggests alternatives in a running Get Creative sidebar. Rounding out the training is a short primer on kitchen tools, pantry items and photos that illustrate vegetable chopping techniques. Katzen''s enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginner''s book that accomplishes its mission. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œKatzenâ€™s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre...Her enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginnerâ€™s book that accomplishes its mission.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5578'),
(4145, 'Get Off the Unicorn', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing.477.THE SMALLEST DRAGON BOY. The only thing Keevan wanted in his life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon.477. But Keevan was small and there were always more boys than there were dragons - someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn''t exactly the foremost candidate but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly prized dragons of all.477.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10903'),
(4146, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(4147, 'Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time: For the Part-Time Student With a Full-Time Life', 'Robyn Frank-Pedersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kaplan''s Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time is written for the professional interested in balancing work and schoo. ItÂ outlines the entire process---from selecting the right program to graduation. This straightforward guide covers:Â * NEW! A chapter on getting your MBA online* Tips to help readers find the program that best meets their career goals and scheduling needs* Step-by-step explanation of the application process* Strategies for financing an M.B.A.* Advice from current business students and recent graduates\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8726'),
(4148, 'The Getaway', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America''s greatest crimewriter, THE GETAWAY is a Dante-esque tour of the underworld, a place where no motive is pure and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2194'),
(4149, 'Getting In: A Novel', 'Karen Stabiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Karen Stabiner''s GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen obsessiveness regarding the college application process in independent schools and the debilitating, distorting impact of it on kids and families. Must read for college-prep kids and their parents." --Patrick Basset, President, National Association of Independent Schools "A savvy insider''s take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign--except it''s not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner''s sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course--but a hell of a lot more fun." --Arianna Huffington "*Getting In* takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams." --Carolyn See, *Making a Literary Life* "Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours--or reassured that you fit right in. What do you *mean*, this is fiction?" --Lisa Belkin, *New York Times* parenting writer (and hardy survivor of her son''s college application process) Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process? A. A sense of humor. B. A therapist on 24-hour call. C. A large bank balance. D. All of the above. *Getting In* is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can''t afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else. *Getting In* is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2737'),
(4150, 'Getting old is a disaster', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.I. Gladdy Gold is happy to be on her Florida turf again. Especially now that she and boyfriend Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner have the yenta brigade gotten back to their routineâ€”complete with poolside stretching and kvetchingâ€”than a notorious outlaw, a.k.a. the â€œGrandpa Bandit,â€ issues Gladdyâ€™s detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can.The dapper thief has already knocked over six Fort Lauderdale banks, with no end in sight. Itâ€™s up to Gladdy and the girls to stop him before he hits the next one. But when a killer hurricane leads to the discovery of a fifty-year-old skeleton, they have to put the bandit on the back burner. With the storm wreaking havoc and a dark mystery swirling around the Lanai Gardens retirement community, Gladdy and the girls are about to confront a ruthless killer determined to bury the pastâ€”and them along with itâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3963');
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(4151, 'Getting Old Is Criminal', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighborsâ€¦until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memory, Gladdyâ€™s would-be beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency all alive and wellâ€”theyâ€™re onto a hot new murder case.Is a retirement-home Romeo to blame for the mysterious deaths in Floridaâ€™s most luxurious communities? Gladdy and her curious kibitzers will have to go undercover to find outâ€”covering themselves with as many fancy-schmancy airs as possible. But with Gladdyâ€™s drama queen sister Evvie playing the role of a Palm Beach flirt, their fun and games turn deadly. For by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of a killerâ€”and loving it.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3958'),
(4152, 'Getting Old Is Murder', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sheâ€™s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlieâ€™s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killerâ€“one who is silently stalking them.Selma Beller was the first to goâ€“but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective wonâ€™t listen to them, Hy Binder wonâ€™t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culpritâ€“time really is running outâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3959'),
(4153, 'Getting Old Is the Best Revenge', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œNEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!â€Thatâ€™s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Donâ€™t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercisesâ€“hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Floridaâ€™s wealthiest wives. But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Floridaâ€™s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killerâ€“and itâ€™s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victimâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3960'),
(4154, 'Getting Old Is to Die for', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she''s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn''t be sunnier--until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder and mayhem starring the usual suspects. Unbeknownst to Gladdy, her fellow detectives are hot on her trail. Sophie, Bella, and Ida no sooner land their tootsies in the Big Apple than trouble promptly finds them. But while the girls go deep undercover, posing as bag ladies to catch a criminal, there''s another surprise awaiting Gladdy. Her boyfriend, Jack, is in town too--and he''s reopening a forty-seven-year-old cold case: the murder of Gladdy''s husband. Can Gladdy and Jack join forces to solve a decades-old crime--and maybe heal some wounded hearts in the process? "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3961'),
(4155, 'Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Fort Lauderdale, self-proclaimed private eye Gladdy Gold is less interested in her cases than in her whirlwind romance with silver-haired Jack Langford. But just as Jack is about to pop the question to Gladdy, a curvaceous redhead from France interrupts with a mysterious agenda. She and Jack, it turns out, will always have Paris. And to make matters worse, the seductress is being stalked by a killer. Michelle DuBois is famous for her steamy bestselling exposÃ©s -- and now someone wants to silence her forever. While Jack is bodyguarding his former lover, Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey seances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That''s when Gladdy comes face-to-face with a dear departed friend with a message. . . . Between a little jealousy and a geriatric assassin, Jack is in more danger than he knows. And Gladdy is the one woman with the je ne sais quoi that could just save his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3962'),
(4156, 'Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs', 'Winifred Conkling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before turning to high-tech fertility treatments, the 15 percent of all  couples who experience fertility problems might consider reading and trying  the many conception tips in Winifred Conkling''s highly helpful Getting  Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving  Without Fertility Drugs. Conkling, an experienced medical and natural  health writer and mother of two children (one who took a long time to  conceive), differentiates between "infertile" and "subfertile" couples, and  asserts that more than half of all couples who have failed to conceive in a  year or more of trying can go on to get pregnant and have healthy babies.  Her book describes how.\n <br />\n Conkling begins with a clear description of the complicated mechanics of  conception and the basics of enhancing conception chances.  Combining  accessible and straightforward information with simple checklists, she  then presents dietary suggestions (men should avoid cottonseed oil, a  natural antifertility agent), herbal remedies, homeopathy, acupressure  (complete with pressure-point maps), and stress-reduction techniques  (including enjoying good orgasms, biofeedback, meditation, visualization,  massage, and refraining from adopting a child as a means to reduce  infertility stress). For each suggestion and remedy, a complete,  easy-to-follow description is provided. Getting Pregnant Naturally  concludes with lifestyle suggestions such as losing weight gradually (if  needed) and avoiding bicycling (for men), as well as quitting smoking and  recreational drugs, minimizing air travel, and limiting computer use (there  may be a link between computer use and miscarriage). A 27-page appendix  listing resources rounds out this highly helpful guide.  --Ericka Lutz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5486'),
(4157, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7240'),
(4158, 'Getting to Happy', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel. Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems. Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn''t given a story worthy of them; instead, this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For McMillan fans (and they are legion, given the immense popularity of her novels and film adaptations), the publication of\n <em>\n  Getting to Happy\n </em>\n will be welcome news. The novel is full of the juicy romantic entanglements, family dysfunction, and high drama that readers have come to anticipate. The novel is not without its shortcomings; most critics noted the occasional clunky writing and predictable plot line. After all, McMillan''s characters are the same as before--older and heavier, perhaps, but not necessarily happier or wiser. Still, the novel is entertaining, escapist fare, and "_Getting to Happy_ is pretty much required reading for anyone who cared about\n <em>\n  Waiting to Exhale\n </em>\n " (_Miami Herald_).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7263'),
(4159, 'The Ghost At Dawn&#39;s House', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9723'),
(4160, 'The Ghost at Skeleton Rock', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n A cryptic note from their father leads the Hardy boys to the Caribbean where they must solve the mystery, but only if they can successfully evade the henchmen who are trailing them. Author: Franklin W. Dixon Reading Level: Ages 8 to 14 years Publisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 9780448089379\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10311'),
(4161, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn''t quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n (2005), but it comes impressively close. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to infants in old bodies, it follows Jared Dirac, a superhuman soldier, from unusual birth to ambiguous death. Dirac is an altered clone of Charles Boutin, a military scientist who betrayed humankind to alien aggressors, and the Colonial Defense Forces'' only hope of finding Boutin lies in transplanting his memories into Dirac''s brain. When the transplant seems to fail, Dirac is sent to Special Forces, known as the Ghost Brigades for their habit of creating new soldiers from the DNA of the dead. His indoctrination there comes in handy when Boutin''s memories begin to surface. Scalzi pays gleeful homage to\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Forever War\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starship Troopers\n </em>\n , sometimes at the expense of originality. All he needs to make the jump from good to great is to trust in his own ideas.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it''s a sequel of sorts to his 2005 debut,\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n , John Scalzi''s new novel is hardly business as usual. Beyond the battles and the portent of humanity''s end, Scalzi plays with deeper issues of identity in an increasingly technological world in this second volume of a proposed trilogy. A switch from first person to third and one narrator (Dirac) who is unaware of his own role in the story might hold the book back from must-read status, but otherwise\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n gleams with the best traits of thoughtful SF.[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6669'),
(4162, 'The Ghost Chronicles', 'Maureen Wood &amp; Ron Kolek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The perfect combination for a paranormal investigation."  David Wells, Most Haunted  A unique collection of episodes from the case files of the New England Ghost Project Journey into a world of the unexplained and the unknown, a world where what you can''t see captivates all your attention. A trance medium and a paranormal scientist team up in this spellbinding collection of 17 supernatural mysteries, a mere sampling of the spooky episodes in their vast ghost hunting case files. Former skeptic Ron Kolek, with his infrared camera and EMF meter, and fifth-generation psychic Maureen Wood, with her sixth sense and pendulum, have become experts in investigating ghosts, whether they''re helping the descendant of an accused witch, checking out the spirits of Lizzie Borden''s slain parents, or assisting a monk with an exorcism. Their unique partnership adds a new dimension, and their adventures will test the senses and challenge everyday thinking...and just might make you believe in the paranormal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6050'),
(4163, 'Ghost Country', 'Patrick Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Lee''s dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding through Washington, D.C., and kill everyone but her. Before she''s captured, Campbell uses her cellphone to get off a call for help to Bethany Stewart, her colleague in the shadowy outfit known as Tangent. Stewart, in turn, recruits Travis Chase, who was once briefly involved in a Tangent operation, and reveals to him the existence of an "entity" resembling a dark metal cylinder that opens a hole in time. Since the entity has shown a horrific future for humanity, Chase and Stewart, who suspects the president was behind the motorcade attack, must scramble to save their friend and forestall devastation in the years to come. Lee imaginatively blends a Baldacci-like political tale of betrayals and assassination with time travel in a thoughtful science-fictional thriller. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWOW! Double Wow! Starkly original,\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n by Patrick Lee will make Asimov and Heinlein cheer with the angels. The techno-thriller meets Sci-Fi, and the result is mind-blowing. Makes Tom Clancy look like the slowest child in the class.â€ (Stephen Coonts,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSettle back and savor this one. Patrick Lee has an intense brand of storytelling. Heâ€™s a most welcome addition to the genre. The real deal. I look forward to reading more from him.â€ (Steve Berry,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of T_he Emperor''s Tomb_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatrick Leeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n is in a word: Brilliant. Less a novel, than an adventure, it left me breathless and awed. Itâ€™s explosive, innovative and ultimately mind-blowing. Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last.â€ (James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Doomsday Key\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7843'),
(4164, 'The Ghost King', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss the gripping conclusion to Salvatore''s\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling Transitions trilogy!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Spellplague ravages FaerÃ»n, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderlyâ€“the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintetâ€“Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8733'),
(4165, 'Ghost Memories', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy.... In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast. But Bartholomew also made enemies in his time--enemies that would take everything Bartholomew loved and create a curse to haunt Bone Island for centuries..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1579'),
(4166, 'Ghost of the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded Mirage Press, which grew into a major specialty publisher of nonfiction and reference books on science fiction and fantasy. His first novel, A Jungle of Stars, was published in 1976, and he became a full-time novelist two years later with the major popular success of Midnight at the Well of Souls. Chalker is an active conservationist and enjoys traveling, consumer electronics, and computers. He is also a noted speaker on science fiction and fantasy at numerous colleges and universities. He is a passionate lover of steamboats, in particular ferryboats, and has ridden more than three hundred ferries in the United States and elsewhere. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5628'),
(4167, 'The Ghost Pit', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â©Stephen Baxter 2001 First published in Isaac Asimov''s Science Fiction Magazine, July 2001 Nominee, Hugo Award 2002 (Best Short Story)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11107'),
(4168, 'Ghost Recon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11175'),
(4169, 'Ghost Shadow', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retributionhellip;vengeancehellip;to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.Katie O''Hara is one who can.As she''s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katiemustuncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancee''s murder?Worse-the body count''s rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment-especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killinghellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1577'),
(4170, 'Ghost Ship', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM itself, for if Picard can''t discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM itself, for if Picard can''t discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7277'),
(4171, 'Ghost Stories', 'Lorna Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph''s first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story â€˜Friendsâ€™ is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in ebook form they are the perfect company for a long winter''s night.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5285'),
(4172, 'Ghost Story', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *In life, not every sin goes unpunished.* **GHOST STORY** For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder. Peter Straub''s classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" *(The Washington Post Book World)* that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3416'),
(4173, 'Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Dresden Files series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn''t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.\n</p>\n<p>\n But being dead doesn''t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.\n</p>\n<p>\n To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jim Butcher\n </strong>\n is a full-time writer who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, son, and ferocious guard dog.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8751'),
(4174, 'Ghost Wars', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the managing editor of the *Washington Post*, a news-breaking account of the CIA''s involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden''s al Qaeda.    For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan''s ISI, and Saudi Arabia''s General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization.    Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA''s role in Afghanistan, from its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, *Ghost Wars*ok  is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia''s Prince Turki al Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies.    *Ghost Wars* answers the questions so many have asked since the horrors of September 11: To what extent did America''s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6989'),
(4175, 'Ghosted', 'Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, an account of the author''s undercover year in Toronto''s Tent City, Bishop-Stall''s debut novel breaks hearts. Emotionally damaged by childhood and adolescent traumas, druggie drifter and alcoholic gambler Mason Dubisee pushes the "Dogfather" hot dog cart in downtown Toronto during the day and sporadically tackles his stalled novel at night. Between his agonizingly described hangovers, Mason also writes suicide notes for various disturbed personalities. He falls in desperate love with Willy, a hemiplegic with a heart of gold and a heroin habit of her own, and runs afoul of a psychopathic prisoner on parole, who steals Mason''s file from Mason''s sometime shrink, who has serious problems of her own. Bishop-Stall''s gritty, experimental style and grungy subject matter may turn off some readers, but his occasionally inchoate if conventional message about the "toughness and grace" of people who have saved one another will resonate with many.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his gambling and cocaine addictions. After his childhood friend and drug dealer, Chaz, finds him an apartment and a job selling hot dogs in Toronto, one of Masonâ€™s lunchtime customers commissions him to write a love letter that later turns out to be a suicide note. This prompts Mason to seek out work as a suicide-note writer. He feels guilty about this occupation, spending long nights at Chazâ€™s illegal bar, The Cave, where he meets and slowly falls in love with Willy, a beautiful young hemiplegic woman addicted to heroin. As their romance develops, Mason becomes increasingly aware that crafting a suicide note for his latest customer, a recent ex-con, will be more dangerous than he bargained for. This somewhat sophomoric novel becomes increasingly more suspenseful as Mason struggles to save the lives of those closest to him and as he seeks out redemption for his former sins. An adventurous, wild page-turner of a debut from Canadian author Bishop-Stall. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5013'),
(4176, 'Ghosts', 'Hans Holzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hans Holzer is a world-renowned parapsychologist and author of several paranormal books including\n <em>\n  Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond\n </em>\n is a gigantic volume, documenting almost 200 cases of haunted houses, ships, castles, and just about any place imaginable! The cases are far more complex than just your average white-sheeted ghoul in the attic. Holzer examines the differences between "real ghosts," who reveal themselves to living people, and psychic impressions, which occur to many witnesses, always at the same time and place. There is also solid advice for interpreting paranormal signals--and even photographs of ghostly apparitions. This is an informative read, but one that is open to personal interpretation.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this definitive inquiry into ghostly manifestations and the nature of "the other side," the world''s leading authority on the subject presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from beyond and more. Photographs of haunted places and authenticated shots of actual ghosts and spirits are featured throughout the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5076'),
(4177, 'Ghosts and Roses', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a spirit from beyond begs Gage Vicknair to rescue a stranger named Makayla, he never expects that stranger to be the same sensuous woman he''s been enjoying so thoroughly in his nightly fantasies. But Makayla is very real and she''s living a nightmare.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A vengeful murderer is determined to get her. And Gage is equally determined to save her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Because the only way he and Makayla can have the love they''ve dreamed of is if they''re still around to live it....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7783'),
(4178, 'The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic', 'Robert L. O&#39;Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Military historian O''Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. O''Connell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians'' fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts O''Connell''s ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibal''s invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but O''Connell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Rome''s survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6865'),
(4179, 'The Ghosts of N-Space', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is called in to help when terrifying demons break through from another dimension and begin to wreak havoc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4876'),
(4180, 'The Ghostway', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.  This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5446'),
(4181, 'Ghostwritten: a novel', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, featuring a whole host of characters. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Saint Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent ''zookeeper'', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing - all have tales to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add to this saxophones and causality, Buddha, cherry blossoms, island cities, a mind unhooked from memory, the Trans Siberian Express, hidden narratives of the new world''s order, circles and roulette in London, ''The White Album'', Baggins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(4182, 'Ghouls Gone Wild', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "A hair-raising tale that will keep readers engrossed in the ghost-driven action." --\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n New in the national bestselling series\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychic M.J. Holliday finds herself in a witchy situation...\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When M.J. and her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to film the first installment of their new cable TV show\n <em>\n  Ghoul Getters\n </em>\n , they find plenty of spooky action in a series of supposedly haunted caverns. But when they discover the body of a maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old legend involving a witch''s wrath...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4404'),
(4183, 'Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A demonic guest terrorizes a haunted hotel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When ghost hunter and medium M.J. Holliday appears on a television show called\n  <em>\n   Haunted Possessions\n  </em>\n  , she encounters an evil knife that releases a demon. Now all hell has broken loose in the haunted hotel where M.J. is stayingâ€”and itâ€™s up to her to give the uninvited guest an early checkout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4402'),
(4184, 'Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Laurie''s frantically fun, if at times cartoonish, fifth Ghost Hunter mystery (after March 2010''s Ghouls Gone Wild), M.J. Holliday and the Ghoul Getters cable TV show crew face some anxious moments at Dunlow, a haunted Irish castle, especially after their producer, Peter "Gopher" Gophner, goes missing. Treacherous tides can make it tricky to reach Dunlow, which is located on an island. Another challenge is the powerful castle phantom guarding the hidden treasure of Lord Ranald Dunnyvale, who ransomed some survivors of the Spanish Armada back in the 16th century for a hefty sum. Reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer''s bunch, Laurie''s enthusiastic, punchy ghost busters make this paranormal series one teens can also enjoy. (Dec. 28)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show,\n  <em>\n   Ghoul Getters\n  </em>\n  , venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom won''t push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4405'),
(4185, 'A Gift of Dragons', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, "Ever the Twain." Tom Kidd''s illustrations of cuddly dragons and their human companions add extra value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in "Ever the Twain," original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are "The Smallest Dragonboy," about a young boy''s fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon; the author''s classic "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of a girl with an unusual talent; and "Runner of Pern," a tale involving one of Pern''s most important and least glamorous occupations. Tom Kidd''s moody, atmospheric illustrations give a visual focus to these tales and help create a work of the imagination that belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8147'),
(4186, 'The Gift', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the 1950s, Steel''s account of a family coming to terms with a child''s death spent 12 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In reviewing the last few Steel novels,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n has tried to make the argument that the author and her readers deserve more respect than they get. Steel does not exploit the romance genre for its racy, dark, or semipornographic underpinnings; she has taken one element of the medieval love-tale, adapted its gentle, loving, and hopeful outlook to the modern world, and produced a satisfying set of variations on her theme.\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy''s little sister wrecks a family''s happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{â€š}ed, sentimental? Maybe, but Steel\n <em>\n  believes\n </em>\n in the goodness of her characters and here, more than ever before, shows absolute faith in a simple tale of rewarded virtue. This is the author at her best: mature, to the point, refreshed by the tale of her young lovers. Not great art, perhaps, but in its own way almost perfect.\n <em>\n  Stuart Whitwell\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6034'),
(4187, 'The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World', 'Lewis Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world, The Gift is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2709'),
(4188, 'Gifts of War', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy''s English girlfriend, Sam, and let her know her fiance is alive and thinking of her. Several weeks later, Halnow injuredis discharged from the army and goes to Stratford on Avon to fulfill his promise. But things take an unexpected turn when he meets the woman in the photo and falls in love with her himself. As their romance blossoms, Sam shares with Hal her most private confidence: Her newborn son is of German lineage, information that threatens her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher. Fearful that he will lose Sam, Hal holds tight to the secretand the photographthat brought them together. The scene shifts to London, where Hal becomes involved with military intelligence and is introduced to Sam''s sisters and a different kind of secrecy. Against the broader landscape of England in wartime,Gifts of Warcaptures the era and the fates of men and women caught in the sweep of history. A vivid tale of romance, adventure, and intrigue, the novel is a remarkable narrative that explores what made War World I so tragic, so revolutionary, and so exciting. It also announces a gifted new novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3219'),
(4189, 'Gilded Chain', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the heels of his resoundingly praised fantasy series THE GREAT GAME, author Dave Duncan returns to the form with which he originally established his reputation: the epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. The breathtaking saga of THE KING''S BLADES begins with THE GILDED CHAIN, the relentlessly exciting story of an unparalleled swordsman trained from early childhood to take his place among the King''s elite corps of warrior/bodyguards in a dangerously uncertain fantasy realm. Audaciously taking as his own name of Kingdom''s most fabled champion of long ago, Durandel sees his lifelong dream of serving his liege dashed to bits whenhe is bonded for life, not to his beloved king, but to an effete noble fop. ButDestiny has inscrutable plans for this able young knight in an ancient, isolated cityin a land far from the blood intrigues of the perilous court. On a mission thatpromises glory and great treasures, grisly secrets of opulence and immortality willbe revealed--while countless betrayals and untold horrors combine to threaten a remarkable future prophesied for a warrior who could be the mightiest hero in the history of the monarchy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/675');
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(4190, 'Gilead (2005 Pulitzer Prize)', 'Marilynne Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzards''s return, 22 years after The Transit of Venus, it was worth the long wait. Books such as these take time, and thought, and a certain kind of genius. There are no invidious comparisons to be made. Robinson''s books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both. The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an apologia, a consideration of his life. Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man. The reason for the letter is Ames''s failing health. He wants to leave an account of himself for this son who will never really know him. His greatest regret is that he hasn''t much to leave them, in worldly terms. "Your mother told you I''m writing your begats, and you seemed very pleased with the idea. Well, then. What should I record for you?" In the course of the narrative, John Ames records himself, inside and out, in a meditative style. Robinson''s prose asks the reader to slow down to the pace of an old man in Gilead, Iowa, in 1956. Ames writes of his father and grandfather, estranged over his grandfather''s departure for Kansas to march for abolition and his father''s lifelong pacifism. The tension between them, their love for each other and their inability to bridge the chasm of their beliefs is a constant source of rumination for John Ames. Fathers and sons. The other constant in the book is Ames''s friendship since childhood with "old Boughton," a Presbyterian minister. Boughton, father of many children, favors his son, named John Ames Boughton, above all others. Ames must constantly monitor his tendency to be envious of Boughton''s bounteous family; his first wife died in childbirth and the baby died almost immediately after her. Jack Boughton is a ne''er-do-well, Ames knows it and strives to love him as he knows he should. Jack arrives in Gilead after a long absence, full of charm and mischief, causing Ames to wonder what influence he might have on Ames''s young wife and son when Ames dies. These are the things that Ames tells his son about: his ancestors, the nature of love and friendship, the part that faith and prayer play in every life and an awareness of one''s own culpability. There is also reconciliation without resignation, self-awareness without deprecation, abundant good humor, philosophical queries--Jack asks, "''Do you ever wonder why American Christianity seems to wait for the real thinking to be done elsewhere?''"--and an ongoing sense of childlike wonder at the beauty and variety of God''s world. In Marilynne Robinson''s hands, there is a balm in Gilead, as the old spiritual tells us. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10008'),
(4191, 'Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day', 'Jack Boulware &amp; Silke Tudor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An oral history of the modern punk-revival''s West Coast Birthplace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside of New York and London, California''s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra''s bid for mayor, the rise of\n  <em>\n   Maximum RocknRoll\n  </em>\n  magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco''s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley''s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Boulware\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bizarro\n  </em>\n  , and was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy\n  </em>\n  and _ Mojo_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silke Tudor\n  </strong>\n  was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Village Voice\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7103'),
(4192, 'Ginger and Ganesh: Adventures in Indian Cooking, Culture, and Love', 'Nani Power', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ginger and Ganesh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the same vein as Elizabeth Gilbertâ€™s\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , this book weaves together one womanâ€™s encounter with Indian cuisine and culture and her own life, love, and spirituality. This descriptive, introspective narrative . . . is also informative for those wishing to focus on the food.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Nani Power\n</p>\n<p>\n "A formidable young writer . . . one who can put you in mind of both Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson." â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Power] has an astonishing talent . . . deeply affecting." â€”_Bookforum_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Power weaves a fine yarn of the lost and lonely seeking intimacy and love.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Sea of Tears\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPlease teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Powerâ€™s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of waysâ€”woman to woman. Welcomed warmly into the homes of strangers, Power meets women of all ages and backgrounds, and from them learns the skills that were passed on to them from their own mothers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the senses of the kitchen, Power re-examines her own path as a woman. She takes the reader into a culture, a cuisine, and the female psyche, with recipes and stories from each chapter revealing the struggle of modern women. Along the way, she manages to fall in love when she least expects to.\n</p>\n<p>\n The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary; they are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in Indiaâ€”from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Powerâ€™s recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4621'),
(4193, 'The Ginger Man', 'J. P. Donleavy; Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy''s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavys wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Danger-field, a young American ne''er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield''s appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1872'),
(4194, 'Gingerbread', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter....I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks, but enough is enough....Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp''s house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. I will be as wild as I wanna be."* After being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. Lucky for Cyd, she''s always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante. After Cyd tests her parents'' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd''s parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know. Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects -- and Cyd isn''t what her newfound family expects, either. With *Gingerbread,* debut author Rachel Cohn creates a spirited world of in-your-face characters who are going to stay with readers for a long time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3270'),
(4195, 'Gingham Bride', 'Jillian Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fiona O''Rourke doesn''t believe in loveâ€”and certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. And even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motivesâ€¦or the attraction between them?Ian McPherson came to Montana to salvage his family''s dwindling fortune, not to take a wife. But he''s instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect herâ€”even if that means pretending that they''re engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there''s nothing he won''t give to show Fiona his love is for always.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1710'),
(4196, 'The Girl Had Guts', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10484'),
(4197, 'The girl in the blue dress', 'Mary Burchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original model for the picture, it seemed to be too late. Not only was she in love with the artist who had painted her, but Franklin himself was engaged to another woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2381'),
(4198, 'The Girl in the Glass', 'Jeffery Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell''s gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York''s grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged sÃ©ances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything. While "communing with spirits," Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly "powers" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10370'),
(4199, 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Novel', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman''s Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI''s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock''s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces--doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes--to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she''d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman''s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess''s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won''t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart played a photographer who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg. In Lippmanâ€™s latest entry in her long-running series featuring Tess Monaghan, a hugely pregnant Tess, suffering from preeclampsia, is ordered to spend the last two months of her pregnancy on bed rest. And, shades of Rear Window, it doesnâ€™t take long for the curious and incredibly bored investigator to procure a pair of binoculars and start spying on the dog walkers in the park across the street. Sheâ€™s especially interested in the girl in the green raincoat and her prancing little greyhound. When, later in the week, she spots the dog running through the park alone, she determines to track down the petâ€™s missing mistress. And what she finds is a guilty-looking husband with two dead wives and a dead girlfriend in his past. In addition to the central mystery, Lippman provides witty writing and a running theme on the meaning of family, and there are also welcome appearances by Tessâ€™ independent-minded best friend, Whitney; her long-suffering boyfriend, Crow; and her ace employee, Mrs. Blossom. Another winning entry in the series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Itâ€™s always an event when Laura Lippman, who has won every major crime-fiction award going, delivers a new Tess Monaghan story. This novella first appeared in serial format in the New York Times Magazine. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5129'),
(4200, 'The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King called John MacDonald ""the" great entertainer of our age". Now, Fawcett is proud to introduce to a new generation a character endowed with the values of a hero. The values of a hero never change--and neither does Travis McGee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1574'),
(4201, 'Girl in Translation', 'Jean Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. ** When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family''s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly''s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, *Girl in Translation* is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(4202, 'Girl Missing', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She''s young. She''s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won''t listen. And Kat''s chief suspect is one of the city''s most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS.With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly conspiracy and the brutal killer at its heart - a killer who will stalk her from the dangerous streets of the inner city to the corridors of power. Because he''s closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3697'),
(4203, 'The Girl of His Dreams', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leon''s "Commissario Guido Brunetti" mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In "The Girl of His Dreams" when a friend of Brunetti''s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man''s motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in the city, and it''s possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Paola, along with Inspector Vianello and his wife, go undercover. But the investigation has to be put aside when, one cold and rainy morning, a body is found floating in a canal. It is a child, a gypsy girl. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed. He has to inform the distrustful parents, encamped on the mainland, and soon finds himself haunted by the crime--and the girl. Thought-provoking, eye-opening, and profoundly moving, "The Girl of His Dreams" is classic Donna Leon, a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(4204, 'Girl on the Platform', 'Josephine Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n _Being aware of people, who for whatever reason find it difficult to read, I was only too pleased to write The Girl On The Platform. Reading is an exciting and demanding pleasure, which I believe should be enjoyed by everyone. I hope that all those who read this story find the same joy and belonging that I found in the writing of it_ Josephine CoxBest mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads'' night out.As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can''t get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself.Over the coming months Pete sees the girl often, but when tempted to speak to her, his courage fails.Then one day she simply disappears. Hopelessly besotted by this girl he believes to be his kindred spirit, Pete will not rest until he finds her_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7279'),
(4205, 'Girl out back', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(4206, 'The Girl She Used to Be', 'David Cristofano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody''s name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She''s been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she''s stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it''s a dangerous thrill that Melody can''t resist. He''s insistent that she''s just a pawn in the government''s war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(4207, 'The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her latest enchanting novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother''s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren''t solved in Mullaby, they''re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson''s cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can''t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town''s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she''s hurt in the past? Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily''s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3787'),
(4208, 'The Girl Who Could Fly', 'Victoria Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction that has plot points that are fairly derivative. When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, tooâ€”as well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA. Character development is achieved by the author telling, not showing, readers, and speech patterns are not always successful. Piper''s rural, colloquial manner of speech seems out of place in a time period that appears to be present day and borders on caricature, especially when she utters phrases such as, "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!" The writing style is clunky, and the author strives to be clever with wordplay. For example, the evil director of the school is named Dr. Letitia Hellion, and the German professor, whose accent is almost unintelligible, is named Dr. Mumbley. The acronym for the school, or institute, is I.N.S.A.N.E. (Institute of Normalcy, Stability, and NonExceptionality). The book ends with the kids taking over the school, and the affirmation of everyone''s differences, and everyone''s right to "be themselves." Libraries looking for engaging fantasy will want to look elsewhere.â€”_Jennifer Ralston, Harford County Public Library, Belcamp, MD_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In thisÂ terrific debut novel, readers meet Piper McCloud, the late-in-life daughter of farmers. Her parents revel in conformity, so itâ€™s disconcerting at best when Piper shows a talent for flying.Â Homeschooled and kept away from outsiders, Piper is lonely. Finally, herÂ parents let her go to a community picnic, whereÂ she thinks sheâ€™ll meet new friends. Instead, she terrifies the neighbors byÂ flying upÂ toÂ catch a ball during aÂ kidsâ€™Â game.Â In no time, the McCloud farm is besieged. Then, out of a helicopter comes the empathetic Dr. Letitia Hellion,Â who whisks Piper off toÂ a secret school for kids with special talents. But are things there what they seem to be? No.Â Forester getsÂ almost everything right here. The story soars, just like Piper, with enough loop-de-loops to keepÂ kids uncertain about what will come next.Â Her plainspoken heroine has aÂ big heart and a strong streak of defiance,Â andÂ Piperâ€™s reactionsÂ always seem true, even in the midst of sf machinations. ManyÂ other charactersÂ are alsoÂ clearly setÂ within the context of theirÂ lives, giving themÂ dimensionÂ sometimes lacking in supporting casts. Best of all are the bookâ€™s strong, lightly wrapped messagesÂ about friendship andÂ authenticity and the difference between doing well and doing good.Â Give this to fans of Trenton Lee Stuartâ€™s The Mysterious Benedict SocietyÂ (2007). Grades 4-7. --Ilene Cooper\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8055'),
(4209, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4893'),
(4210, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3351'),
(4211, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn''t like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic.***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. When she wanders off to escape their constant bickering, then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut through the woods, Trisha strays deeper into a wilderness full of peril and terror. Especially when night falls.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Trisha has only her wits for navigation, only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fear. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games and the gritty performances of her hero, number 36, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio''s reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her -- her key to surviving an enemy known only by the slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A classic story that engages our emotions at the most primal level, *The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon* explores our deep dread of the unknown and the extent to which faith can conquer it. It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, but aglow with a girl''s indomitable spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4279'),
(4212, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, " and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of "The Girl Who Played with Fire." As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander''s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, " and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of "The Girl Who Played with Fire." As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander''s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3353'),
(4213, 'The Girl Who Stopped Swimming', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead girl in the swimming pool, the life Laurel had hoped to build in her gated Florida neighborhood with her video-game designer husband, David, and their tween daughter, Shelby, starts to fall apart. Though the police clear the drowning as accidental, it soon appears that Shelby and her friend Bet may have been involved. Bet, who lives in DeLop, Laurel''s impoverished hometown, was staying over the night of the drowning and plays an increasingly important role as the truth behind the drowning comes to light. Meanwhile, Laurel''s sister, Thalia, whose unconventional ways are anathema to Laurel''s staid existence, comes to stay with the family and helps sort things out. Subplots abound: Laurel thinks David is having an affair, and Thalia reveals some ugly family secrets involving the death of their uncle. What makes this novel shine are its revelations about the dark side of Southern society and Thalia and Laurel''s finely honed relationship, which shows just how much thicker blood is than water.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great tale [that] builds to an exciting and violent ending, one that surprises and yet seems to fit."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "... buoyant and moving ....beautifully balanced between magical and realist fiction... closer in tone and voice to Alice Sebold''s ''The Lovely Bones'' or Richard Ford''s Frank Bascombe trilogy."\n <br />\n -_Atlanta Journal Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one. Jackson''s latest is a wild, smartly calibrated achievement. A-."\n <br />\n -_Entertainment Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances."\n <br />\n -_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joshilyn Jackson has done it again... her skillful unraveling of family secrets and betrayal left me breathless. You must read this book!"\n <br />\n -Sara Gruen,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5632'),
(4214, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chinese edition of Man som hatar kvinnor [The girl with the dragon tattoo]. #1 on NYTimes Books 9/08. First of a trilogy by late Swedish journalist Steig Larsson. A young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden disappeared and her uncle is determined to find out what happened. He hired a man with an assistant - a 24-year-old girl, a hacker, a genius, with a tattoo. Maureen Corrigan labels it "super-smart noir with a feminist jolt." In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson''s **The Girl  with the Dragon Tattoo** combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial  intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet  Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden''s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years  ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires  Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction,  to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander.  Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3352'),
(4215, 'Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls', 'Lyn Mikel Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent when adults appear. And recently, popular books and magazines have turned their gaze away from ways of positively influencing girls'' independence and self-esteem and towards the topic of girls'' meanness to other girls. What does this say about the way our culture views girlhood? How much do these portrayals affect the way girls view themselves? In Girlfighting, psychologist and educator Lyn Mikel Brown scrutinizes the way our culture nurtures and reinforces this sort of meanness in girls. She argues that the old adage "girls will be girls"gossipy, competitive, cliquish, backstabbing and the idea that fighting is part of a developmental stage or a rite-of-passage, are not acceptable explanations. Instead, she asserts, girls are discouraged from expressing strong feelings and are pressured to fulfill unrealistic expectations, to be popular, and struggle to find their way in a society that still reinforces gender stereotypes and places greater value on boys. Under such pressure, in their frustration and anger, girls (often unconsciously) find it less risky to take out their fears and anxieties on other girls instead of challenging the ways boys treat them, the way the media represents them, or the way the culture at large supports sexist practices. Girlfightingtraces the changes in girls'' thoughts, actions and feelings from childhood into young adulthood, providing the developmental understanding and theoretical explanation often lacking in other conversations. Through interviews with over 400 girls of diverse racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds, Brown chronicles the labyrinthine journey girls take from direct and outspoken children who like and trust other girls, to distrusting and competitive young women. She argues that this familiar pathway can and should be interrupted and provides ways to move beyond girlfighting to build girl allies and to support coalitions among girls. By allowing the voices of girls to be heard, Brown demonstrates the complex and often contradictory realities girls face, helping us to better understand and critique the socializing forces in their lives and challenging us to rethink the messages we send them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10954'),
(4216, 'The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship', 'Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller *The Last Lecture* comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.** Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child''s illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, *The Girls from Ames* is a testament to the deep bonds of women as they experience life''s joys and challenges -- and the power of friendship to triumph over heartbreak and unexpected tragedy. The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend. Photograph by photograph, recollection by recollection, occasionally with tears and often with great laughter, their sweeping and moving story is shared by Jeffrey Zaslow, *Wall Street Journal* columnist, as he attempts to define the matchless bonds of female friendship. It demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women''s lives - their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters - and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them. *The Girls from Ames* is the story of a group of ordinary women who built an extraordinary friendship. With both universal insights and deeply personal moments, it is a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1819'),
(4217, 'Girls in Trucks', 'Katie Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias *don''t *do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) But Sarah can''t quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they''ve left behind. When life''s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. *Girls in Trucks* introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2948'),
(4218, 'Girls of Riyadh', 'Raja Abd Allah Sani &amp; Marilyn Booth &amp; Rajaa Alsanea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four upper-class Saudi Arabian women negotiate the clash between tradition and the encroaching West in this debut novel by 25-year-old Saudi Alsanea. Though timid by American chick lit standards, it was banned in Saudi Arabia for its scandalous portrayal of secular life. Framed as a series of e-mails sent to the e-subscribers of an Internet group, the story follows an unnamed narrator who recounts the misadventures of her best friends, Gamrah, Lamees, Michelle and Sadeemâ€”all fashionable, educated, wealthy 20-somethings looking for true love. Their world is dominated by prayer, family loyalty and physical modesty, but the voracious consumption of luxury goods (designer name dropping is muted but present) and yearnings for female empowerment are also part of the package. Lines like the talk was as soft as the granules in my daily facial soap or Sadeem was feeling so sad that her chest was constricted in sorrow appear with woeful frequency, and the details about the roles of technology, beauty and Western pop culture in the lives of contemporary Saudi women aren''t revelatory. Readers looking for quality Arabic fiction have much better options.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four close girlfriends from upper-class Saudi families attend university and medical school in Riyadh and in Chicago and San Francisco. They talk in chat rooms, IM on their mobiles to their boyfriends and each other. But even with all the hip technology, they cannot escape deep-seated oppressive traditions after they return to Riyadh. Sadeem''s fiancÃ© dumps her after she has sex with him. Gamrah''s husband divorces her after she discovers he is having an affair. Michelle and Faisal adore each other, but he gives her up when his family says so. The Religious Police arrest one couple in a coffee bar. But most families don''t need official help to interfere in women''s lives. Translated from the Arabic, this debut novel was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia. The 25-year-old Saudi writer (now studying in Chicago but planning to return home) tells it from the inside, complete with the contradictions and betrayals that define daily lfe. The Sex and the Cityâ€“type drama is fast, wry, witty, and anguished. And so are the politics: "He appreciates her independence. But can''t find his." Rochman, Hazel\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4369');
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(4219, 'The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt', 'Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick &amp; Hannelore Brenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war''s end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp''s Girls'' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul''s endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."\n <br />\n â€”Elie Wiesel\n</p>\n<p>\n "The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the childrenâ€™s opera BrundibÃ¡r. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story of this children''s home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn''t that what the historical record must achieve?\n <br />\n â€”_DIE ZEIT\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book."\n <br />\n â€”_PRAGER ZEITUNG\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time."\n <br />\n â€”_SÃ„CHSISCHE ZEITUNG_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7390'),
(4220, 'Give me liberty', 'Anne Brock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(4221, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10521'),
(4222, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jonas''s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2774'),
(4223, 'Giving Up the Ghost', 'Alexa Snow; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(4224, 'The Glades', 'Clifton Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Synopsis\n </h3>\n</span>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Jim Longworth is an attractive and brilliant Chicago homicide detective with a reputation for being difficult. When his captain wrongfully accuses him of sleeping with his wife and shoots him, he is exiled and forced to relocate. He lands in the sleepy, middle-of-nowhere town of Palm Glade, outside of Florida s Everglades, where sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. But Longworth soon finds out this town isn t quite as idyllic as he originally thought, when murders keep piling up. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5287'),
(4225, 'Gladiators of Hapanu', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1918'),
(4226, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it''s time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1172'),
(4227, 'The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English', 'Roy Peter Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grammar is a subject that typically induces wincing, wheezing, or worse. Clark, a lifelong whiz at the subject, wants readers to fully appreciate the importance of good grammar and the qualities of superior writing. To that end, he has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Clark draws on examples ranging from DeLillo to Rowling, a breadth of text that readers will appreciate as much as the author''s humorous approach. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Very much a manual for the 21st century...a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares about language-and is willing to argue about it." (\n <strong>\n  Ammon Shea, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fine common-sense guide to the proper use of language." (\n <strong>\n  Barbara Fisher, the\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An engaging and witty exploration of the shifting rules of English grammar...Clark shows breathtaking knowledge of how language is used in the real world and a passionate commitment to helping writers make good choices." (\n <strong>\n  Chuck Leddy,\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Roy Peter] Clark takes readers through a well-paced presentation...he conveys the magic that is to be found in English, in its ever active evolution." (\n <strong>\n  Margaret Heilbrun,\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clark...has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "What I learned from this book:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1) That grammar has meant mastery of all arts and letters (to the Greeks) and power, magic, and enchantment (to the Scots). Wow.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2) That for the artful writer, no decision is too small, including whether to use\n <em>\n  a\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n . Awesome.\n</p>\n<p>\n 3) That there are right-branching, left-branching, and middle-branching sentences. How cool!\n</p>\n<p>\n 4) That Roy Peter Clark, a modern-day Pied Piper of grammar, makes good writing both approachable and doable. Phew!" (\n <strong>\n  Constance Hale, author of\n  <em>\n   Sin and Syntax\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who, other than a word-lover like Roy Peter Clark, would dare link "glamour" with (ugh) "grammar"? Here it is--a book of enchantment about words and how words work and what they mean and how to spell them, where even lowly semicolons get appreciated as "swinging gates" in a sentence. Who''d a thunk a book on grammar could be fun? And humorous. Check out "cleave" and "cleaveage."" (\n <strong>\n  Sister Helen Prejean, author of\n  <em>\n   Dead Man Walking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language." (\n <strong>\n  Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If ''Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne,'' as Quentin Crisp once said, then Ralph Keyes has given word and language lovers a deeply fragrant-and thoroughly enjoyable-book." (\n <strong>\n  Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of\n  <em>\n   Oxymoronica\n  </em>\n  and other quotation anthologies\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If there is indeed a glamour to grammar, I should have known Roy Peter Clark would be the one to spot it. Clark is a trusty guide for anyone wanting to avoid the (many) pitfalls and scale the (hard-won) peaks of perpetrating prose." (\n <strong>\n  Ben Yagoda, author of _Memoir: A History\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing_\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark takes the language so seriously he dares to play with it. What other English professor would seriously write ''A good pun is its own reword.''_The Glamour of Grammar_ is required fun, seriously." (\n <strong>\n  Eugene C. Patterson, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and retired chairman and CEO,\n  <em>\n   St. Petersburg Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark, the Jedi master of writing coaches, has delivered another indispensable classic for every author, young and old.\n <em>\n  The Glamour of Gramma\n </em>\n r crackles with wit and wisdom and with page after page of rock-solid strategies to guide writers toward prose that sings with vivid clarity. Somehow, Clark makes grammar seem both playful and understandable, even for those who have trouble telling the difference between a dangling participle and a wandering antecedent." (\n <strong>\n  Thomas French, author of\n  <em>\n   Zoo Story\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensible book in this Twitter world where so few words must push your story forward. Roy Peter Clark shows you a fun way to say exactly what you mean." (\n <strong>\n  Bob Dotson, NBC News National Correspondent for the\n  <em>\n   Today Show\n  </em>\n  ''s "American Story with Bob Dotson"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6908'),
(4228, 'The glass castle: a memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2112'),
(4229, 'The Glass Devil', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œKnow[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.â€â€”*The Philadelphia Inquirer* The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the GÃ¶teborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Hussâ€™ surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide. **Helene Tursten** is the author of *Detective Inspector Huss* and *The Torso.* The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in GÃ¶teborg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1695'),
(4230, 'The glass key', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett''s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(4231, 'The Glass Lake', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin''s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10493'),
(4232, 'The Glassblower of Murano', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the dissolution of her marriage, beautiful English artist Leonora Manin is hired as an apprentice glassblower in the Venetian suburb of Murano, in Fiorato''s strong U.S. debut. Leonora''s ancestor was master glassmaker Corradino Manin, and her new boss plans to exploit that connection. But centuries-old jealousies and treachery surface and the public relations campaign is suddenly canceled. A modern-day relative of Corradino''s mentor resents Leonora, while a journalist who was once involved with Alessandro Bardolino, Leonora''s new love, decides she wants him back. Complex connections, but nothing compared to those in Corradino''s time, when draconian Venetian laws enslaved glassmakers on Murano to insure techniques would remain exclusive to Venice. The author''s descriptive prose brings the beauty and danger of 17th-century Venice vividly to life, when Corradino became a traitor seeking freedom for himself and his secret daughter. Leonora''s determined to investigate Corradino, but throughout, Alessandro''s allegiance is suspect. Those who enjoy intrigue and European history will be easily drawn into this romantic story.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Switching between modern-day andÂ seventeenth-century Venice, Fioratoâ€™s novel is an intriguing mix of history, mystery, art, music, poetry, romance, and politics. Corradino Maninâ€™s family was brutally murdered by Veniceâ€™s Council of Ten; Corradino was only saved because his patron saw in the young boy a prodigious gift for glassblowing. Corradino quickly learned to make exquisite glass mirrors and chandeliers for which the Venetian island of Murano soon became renowned. The process of making Murano glass quickly became a secret jealously guarded by the government, but when Corradino is invited to use his talents in the court of King Louis XIV, he is sorely tempted, even though it means leaving his beloved little daughter, Leonora, and endangering his life. This gripping plot is interwoven with a second, similarly intriguingÂ story revolving around another Leonora, this one aÂ modern-day descendent of Corradino. Leonora has come to Venice to escape an unhappy marriage, enhance her skill as a glassblower, and learn more about her mysterious ancestor. Writing with charm and authenticity, Fiorato produces a blend of historical mystery and modern romance that is thoroughly entertaining. --Emily Melton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8078'),
(4233, 'Glide Path', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8972'),
(4234, 'Glimpse', 'Stacey Wallace Benefiel &amp; Valerie Wallace &amp; Robert Benefiel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zellie Wells has a devastating crush on Avery Adams, the son of her mom''s high school sweetheart. At her sixteenth birthday party, held in the basement of her dad''s church, she finally finds the courage to talk to him. Turns out, the devastating crush is mutual. As Avery takes her hand and leads her out onto the makeshift dance floor, Zellie is overwhelmed by her first vision of his death; shocking because not only are they both covered in his blood, but they''re old, like 35, and she is pregnant. Afraid to tell anyone about the vision, (she''d just be labeled a freaky black magic witch, right?) Zellie keeps the knowledge of Avery''s future to herself and tries to act like any other teenager in love. When they get caught on their way to a secret rendezvous by her mom and his dad, they are forbidden to see each other. Convinced that their parents are freaking out unnecessarily, Avery and Zellie vow to be together no matter what. They continue their relationship in secret until Zellie learns that their parents are just trying to prevent her and Avery from suffering like they did. The visions are hereditary, they''re dangerous, and if they stay together the visions will come true. Now Zellie must choose between severing all ties with Avery, like her mom did to prevent his father''s death, and finding a way to change Avery''s future\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stacey lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and their two young children. Glimpse is her debut novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8695'),
(4235, 'The Glimpses of the Moon (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader deciphera words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9449'),
(4236, 'The Glimpses Of The Moon', 'Edith Wharton; Ken Mattern, eBook creation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(4237, 'The Glister', 'John Burnside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the villagers"s abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they donrs"t say a thing. Not even the townrs"s only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plantrs"s cavernous center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2067'),
(4238, 'The Glitch in Sleep', 'John Hulme &amp; Michael Wexler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Becker Drane knows exactly how The World works You know the rain we had two weeks ago, or that nightmare you had last night? Becker Drane can tell you exactly who or what was responsible because Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Time, The Seems is the world-behind-our-World, and it keeps everything running smoothly.Â  But every so often, something goes wrong. When a Glitch makes its way into the Department of Sleep, Becker is called in for his very first Fixer assignment and heâ€™s got to get it right. But this Mission is tricky, and his regular Tools arenâ€™t up to the test. If Becker doesnâ€™t find a Fix fast, he just might lose the coolest job everâ€”and The World will lose a lot more than a good nightâ€™s sleep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6986'),
(4239, 'Glitter Baby', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won''t make that easy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jake Koranda is both New York''s most brilliant playwright and Hollywood''s hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there''s more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur''s tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she''s fiercely determined to discover the woman she''s destined to be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An ugly duckling who can''t believe she''s turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list with\n  <em>\n   Dream a Little Dream\n  </em>\n  . She''s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America''s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, Phillips is also a hiker, a gardener, a reader, a wife, and the mother of two grown sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4639'),
(4240, 'Glitz', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Psycho mama''s boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he''s got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn''t forgive and forget ... and he doesn''t die easy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vincent Mora just can''t win. He''s been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there''s a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set against the tacky glitter of Atlantic City''s billion-dollar casinos, Glitz has all the classic Leonard touches: quirky characters, colorful and cinematic scenes, and dialogue that''s, well, to die for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9199'),
(4241, 'Glorious One-Pot Meals: A Revolutionary New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch-Oven Cooking', 'Elizabeth Yarnell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sometimes the simplest-seeming cookbooks yield the most surprising revelations, as in nutritionist Yarnell''s guide to one-pot cooking. Yarnell''s signature infusion method, cooking in a dutch oven at a very hot temperature renders layered vegetables, starches and proteins like tandoori salmon and kale with butternut squash over basmati rice, into a surprisingly well-textured, hearty meal. (It''s also foolproof: when you smell the aroma of dinner, you''re three minutes from the end of the cooking time.) Dishes like citrus ginger chicken with root vegetables; penne puttanesca; and fiesta steak are simple choices for busy weeknight dinners. The real genius, of course, is the single potâ€”Yarnell''s all-inclusive meals don''t require the usual juggling of oven times to coordinate complementary dishes, and cleanup is simplified even further by a preliminary canola oil spritz on the pot. Her emphasis on whole foods, abundant servings of vegetables, moderate amounts of protein and the incorporation of whole grains like amaranth and quinoa justifies her health claims. Yarnell also guides readers in creating their own custom versions of the one-pot meal, even offering a one-pot meal weekly grocery list.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen I hear â€˜crisp vegetables, tender meats, incredible flavor, ONE pot, and ready in less than thirty minutes,â€™ I say COUNT ME IN! Thatâ€™s my Quick Fix mantra! Who doesnâ€™t cherish strategies that deliver wholesome, family-friendly meals in just minutes? All in one pot, which makes for easy cleanup.\n <em>\n  Glorious One-Pot Meals\n </em>\n offers tons of variety, from the fabulously ordinary to the incredibly extraordinary. Fish dishes range from Very, Very Mild Fish to Honey-Chili Trout and Pistachio Halibut (with lavender!). Elizabeth tempts you with All-American Pot Roast and Corned Beef and Cabbage and then wows you with Amaranth Chili. Ready to move beyond Simply Chicken and Chicken Marsala? Then try the African Peanut Butter Stew. Or leap from Glorious Macaroni and Cheese to Aloo Gobi (a flavor-packed, Indian feast). If youâ€™ve got a pot, youâ€™ve got a meal. Thereâ€™s truly something for everyone.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Robin Miller, host of Food Networkâ€™s â€œQuick Fix Meals with Robin Millerâ€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6645'),
(4242, 'Glory in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romancetruly fine entertainmentsure to leave you hungering for more'' Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2345'),
(4243, 'Glory Road', 'Robert A. Heinlein; Samuel R. Delany', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn''t given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me etage, apt. D." How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he''d ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her "Star." A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes. Robert A. Heinlein''s one true fantasy novel, " Glory Road "is as much fun today as when he wrote it after "Stranger in a Strange Land." Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny and tremendously readable -- a favorite of all who have read it. "Glory Road" is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail. Tor is proud to return this all-time classic to hardcover to be discovered by a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10420'),
(4244, 'The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook', 'Elana Amsterdam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOutstanding gluten-free goodies... this lovely cookbook, full of enticing photos, has my mouth watering.â€\n <br />\n â€”_DeliciousLiving Magazine: Blog_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe need is huge for cookbooks for celiacs on limited diets. They will welcome\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n when it arrives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Providence Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œFlour Girl: Gluten-Free Almond Joyâ€\n <br />\n â€”Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmsterdamâ€™s recipes will carry you through the day, with pancakes for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and quiche for dinner. She takes classic recipes...and adapts them to almond flour, creating plenty of meal options.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cookbook Digest_\n</p>\n<p>\n "We all need to pay attention to the food we eat, all of the time. For people with celiac disease, this is normally an even greater challenge--but not for Elana! Her healthful and flavorful recipes taste as good as they are good for you. Made with almond flour and high in protein and fiber,Â these dishes are sure to even please the gluten eaters in your family!"Â \n <br />\n â€”Alice Bast, President and Founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor many people, normal food becomes off-limits when they find they have an allergy or condition, such as celiac disease. To wrestle new limitations into foods that are every bit as delicious and appealing (if not more so) is a coup to be celebrated. Having tried the chocolate chip cookies, I speak from experience when I say there is nothing lacking in these recipes. They are truly wholesome and delicious!â€\n <br />\n â€”DEBORAH MADISON, _Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œElana has a tremendous gift for creating classic recipes using healthy ingredients. Her high-protein, gluten-free treats are incredibly tasty! I highly recommend this book if you are looking for good food that is also good for you.â€\n <br />\n â€”DR. ROBERT ROUNTREE, _Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œLocal hero Elana Amsterdam (straight out of Boulder) offers dozens of wheatless recipes from chicken parmesan to chocolate cake, all of which call for gluten-free almond flour. Enough of the recipes will appeal to gluten-eaters to make this collection a great go-to resource for blended families and/or hosts cooking for gluten-intolerant guests. Readers with a sweet tooth are especially well-served here, but savory recipes like salmon burgers round out the roster.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Denver Post\n </em>\n , â€œCausing a STIR: Best Cookbooks of 2009â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n , the ingenious celiac Elana Amsterdam offers another possible approach, a sandwich bread made from finely milled almond flour (do not use Bob''s Red Mill brand) and almond butter that is nutty and versatile. Amsterdam''s recipes are refreshingly simple, as the almond flour reduces the need for the expensive and obscure mix of flours other gluten-free recipes require.... But the ground nut has other virtues, including high amounts of protein and vitamins and low glycemic impact. Amsterdam employs it in a range of dishes, from shortbread cookies and carrot cake to a savory tart with kale. Her snappy herbed crackers, which are a welcome change from commercial nut-thins and dry rice crisps, are equally easy to make and delicious.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer, â€œGluten-Free But Still Tastyâ€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prevalence of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity among millions of adults and children has created the need for gluten-free recipes that are as nutritious and tasty as their traditional counterparts. Popular food blogger Elana Amsterdam offers ninety-nine family-friendly classics--from Pancakes to Eggplant Parmesan to Chocolate Cake--that feature her gluten-free ingredient of choice, almond flour. Because these recipes are low glycemic, low in cholesterol and dairy, and high in protein and fiber, they are also ideal for people with diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol.\n</p>\n<p>\n So whether youâ€™re looking for a quick breakfast treat, a comfort food entrÃ©e, or a showstopping dessert,\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n proves that gluten-free cooking can mean healthy eating for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5083'),
(4245, 'The Glycemic Load Diet: A Powerful New Program for Losing Weight and Reversing Insulin Resistance', 'Rob Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  A cardiologist''s revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weight\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n The glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn''t take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson''s breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings, and speeding up their metabolism. Safe, simple, and scientifically proven, it''s the smartest weight-loss plan yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  It''s not about willpower--it''s about your body chemistry\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve tried dieting, and, after some initial success, you always seem to put the weight back on. Stop blaming yourself! The problem isn''t with you; it''s with the diets themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many are based on the glycemic index, which doesn''t make a distinction between good carbohydrates, such as carrots, from bad ones like starches--potatoes, white pasta, sugar, etc. Nor do they take into account real-life serving sizes; the GI numbers are based on lab-controlled portions. The good news is that nutritional scientists have developed the\n <em>\n  glycemic load\n </em>\n , a powerful new tool for controlling weight that''s based on what people_ actually eat_ and allows for more of a variety of foods.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Glycemic-Load Diet,\n </em>\n cardiologist Dr. Rob Thompson unveils a revolutionary eating and exercise plan that helps you reverse insulin resistance, allowing you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eat more of the foods you like\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate cravings for starchy foods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat chocolate and still lose weight!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your metabolism with regular, non-strenuous exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep the weight off without "dieting"\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4821'),
(4246, 'Go home, stranger', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/697'),
(4247, 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or, Pearls Before Swine', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.â€â€”Conrad Aiken\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.â€â€”_The Atlantic Monthly_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eliot Rosewaterâ€”drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundationâ€”is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout.\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7708'),
(4248, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his sensational international bestseller, the preeminent scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous rebuttal of religious belief. With rigor and wit, Dawkins eviscerates the arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of the existence of a supreme being. He makes a compelling case that faith is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. In a preface written for the paperback edition, Dawkins responds to some of the controversies the book has incited. This brilliantly argued, provocative book challenges all of us to test our beliefs, no matter what beliefs we hold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3665'),
(4249, 'God Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this richly drawn novel set on the streets, porches and in the parlors of 1960s Ohio, Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever. At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward girl who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile, "Muh''Dear;" her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny; sultry Aunt Lola; and scary, surly Granny Goose. With Rhoda''s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms into a woman. But after her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette''s world will never be the same. "A moving tale of the intricacies of friendship, the awful devastation of silence, and the renewing spirit of survival."--*Ebony * "Watch out Toni Morrison, there is a new sister in town."--*Rapport*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2730'),
(4250, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(4251, 'God Hates Us All', 'Hank Moody &amp; Jonathan Grotenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wry literary masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody''s self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss -- a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure -- runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother''s desperate expectations, his father''s endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city''s mecca of ambitious slackers -- the Chelsea Hotel -- where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star''s girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hank Moody''s critically acclaimed novel,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  , was made into the major motion picture_ A Crazy Little Thing Called Love_. Originally from New York, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where the sunshine exacerbates his writer''s block. He has a twelve-year-old daughter, Becca, with his ex-girlfriend Karen, and until the three of them are together, he''ll take whatever he can get.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4704');
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(4252, 'A God in Ruins', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A God in RuinsSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O''Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2848'),
(4253, 'God is not Great', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8966'),
(4254, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(4255, 'The God Machine', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. ** Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman -- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost -- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits. One of these freed human spirits offers to help Hellboy track down those who imprisoned him: a fanatical order of psychics obsessed with creating a new messiah, one that will bring about a new stage of evolution for mankind -- whether mankind is willing or not. Now only Hellboy and his colleagues stand between a vulnerable humanity and an evil, vengeful *god*....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4056'),
(4256, 'The God of Small Things', 'Arundhati Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that''s completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9570'),
(4257, 'The God of the Hive', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Laurie R. Kingâ€™s latest Mary Russellâ€“Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspenseâ€”as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmesâ€™ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and endedâ€”or so theyâ€™d hopedâ€”with a daring escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those theyâ€™ve thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. With Holmesâ€™ young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didnâ€™t know she had. But has the couple already made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them? From hidden rooms in London shops and rustic forest cabins to rickety planes over Scotland and boats on the frozen North Sea, Russell and Holmes work their way back to each other while uncovering answers to a mystery that will take both of them to solve. A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth, Holmesâ€™ brother, Mycroft, and an Intelligence agent who knows too much: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemiesâ€”in the most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5353'),
(4258, 'The God of the Hive: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes', 'King, Laurie R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9305'),
(4259, 'God Of Thunder', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the senderâ€”an old colleague named Felliniâ€”has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching the Hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, and had linked it to a Viking warrior and a twelfth-century Latvian village. A coded message in Fellini''s package leads Annja on a wild chase along the canals of Venice to Latvia for more clues to an ancient treasure. Rumored to be hidden deep in the forests of Latvia for nine hundred years, this fabled prize is also sought by a ruthless corps of mercenaries. And they will do anything to fi nd it. Including killing Annja Creed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(4260, 'The God Project', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Saul has instincts of a natural storyteller."--_People_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent''s darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. there must be a reason for the terror. they all know it. But no one ever suspected...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4581'),
(4261, 'God Save the Child', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he''s run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn''t take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser''s only lead and he isn''t talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy''s life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. "Spenser is everyman''s fantasy: social critic, gourmet cook, physically fit, sculptor, and of course, unabashed participant in a non-destructive sexual relationship. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald." (The Boston Globe)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4007'),
(4262, 'God: The Failed Hypothesis', 'Victor J. Stenger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8955'),
(4263, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire', 'Michael Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9431'),
(4264, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars', 'Michael J. Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: "God''s Fury, England''s Fire". The name of a pamphlet written after the king''s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God - that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished.As with all civil wars, however, "God''s Fury" could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick''s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic - events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding - were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country''s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. "God''s Fury, England''s Fire" allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558--1700 and State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1500--1700.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5512'),
(4265, 'God&#39;s Gift', 'Dee Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missionary work in Africa was the most difficult and faith-affirming labor James Graham had ever faced, and warm, homey presents from a Good Samaritan back home gave him hope to carry on. But an injury halted his work and sent him home to Chicago. There, James met Rachel Ashcroft, who''d sent those thoughtful gifts, and he was intrigued by the sadness that shadowed her features. Bringing the light back into Rachel''s face gave him new purpose, but was this respite only temporary? Or could James release his past and open his heart to receive Rachel''s gift of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(4266, 'God&#39;s War', 'Kameron Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will be fascinated by the setting of this slow-starting but compelling far-future debut. On a planet settled by Muslims and ravaged by constant war and pollution, Nyx, a former government-sponsored assassin or "bel dame," gets by as a bounty hunter. Her assistant is the foreign magician Rhys, who can control the ubiquitous insects that drive the planet''s technology. When the government asks them to hunt down an off-worlder who possesses technology that could end the war, they find themselves facing off against foreign agents and their fellow bel dames. Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal, with casual references to insectile technology and the world''s history that provide atmosphere without info dumps. Far too many pages are spent introducing the characters, but the story is highly engaging once it starts, and Hurley smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal... (she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action." --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "An aggressively dark, highly original SF-fantasy novel with tight, cutting prose and some of the most inventive world-building I''ve seen in a while." - Stefan Raets, Fantasy Literature.com --fantasyliterature.com/hurleykameron.html\n</p>\n<p>\n Kameron Hurley''s a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision--her fiction burns right through your brain and your heart. --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5871'),
(4267, 'Goddess of Vengeance', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for GODDESS OF VENGEANCE:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "No one paints a more tawdry -- and delicious -- portrait of Hollywood than prolific novelist Jackie Collins."\n  </strong>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe 73-year-old chick lit doyenne of raunchy romance presents No. 27 with a revival of her most popular character, Lucky Sanangelo. But as kick-ass as the now 50-something Lucky isâ€”operating ancient patriarch Ginoâ€™s Las Vegas hotel empire as it comes under siege from a menacing royal brat with pervy sexual proclivities and a nasty drug habitâ€”the packed plot belongs to the next generation: Luckyâ€™s 17-year-old mini-me daughter, Max; hot-and-handsome oldest son, Bobby; and all the lovers and losers the spoiled duo cycle through with giddy abandon. Thereâ€™s never a doubt Collinsâ€™s cast of strong women, and the guys who chose them, will ferret out true love and survive. But thatâ€™s not entirely the point in this delicious, manic tale of rich people behaving badly, getting everything they deserve, and leaving enough loose ends to warrant an inevitable sequel.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her latest novel featuring the popular Lucky Santangelo, Collins does what she does bestâ€”dishing on Holly wood in a fast and furious read.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   RT Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owner of the luxurious and exclusive Keys complex in Las Vegas, Lucky Santangelo comes up against Armet Askarani, a ruthless billionaire middle-easterner potentate with three wives, who has little regard for women except as sexual playthings or breeding mares.\n  <br />\n  Armet wishes to purchase the Keys, and is shocked when he hears that Lucky has no desire to sell - whatever the price. That a mere woman would turn him down is insulting and unthinkable. And so the battle for power beginsâ€¦\n  <br />\n  Meanwhile, Lucky''s hot son, Bobby Santangelo Stanislopoulos is opening a branch of his successful private late night club Mood in Lucky''s hotel, and inadvertently becomes involved in his close friend Frankie Romano''s gambling and major drug problems, causing much friction between him and his girlfriend, Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney, Denver Jones.\n  <br />\n  Back in L.A., Max, Bobby''s wild and gorgeous teenage sister is getting restless. Not interested in college, she fights with Lucky and suddenly takes off for New York and a series of adventures which could become deadly...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11201'),
(4268, 'The Godfather of Kathmandu', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sonchai Jitpleecheepâ€”John Burdettâ€™s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulâ€”is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru. There are, however, obstacles in Sonchaiâ€™s path to nirvana. Police Colonel Vikorn has just named Sonchai his consigliere (heâ€™s been studying The Godfather on DVD): to troubleshoot, babysit, defuse, procure, reconnoiterâ€”do whatever needs to be done in Vikornâ€™s ongoing battle with Army General Zinna for control of Bangkokâ€™s network of illegal enterprises. And though Tietsin is enlightened and (eerily) charismatic, he also has forty million dollarsâ€™ worth of heroin for sale. If Sonchai truly wants to be an initiate into Tietsinâ€™s â€œapocalyptic Buddhism,â€ he has to pull off a deal that will bring Vikorn and Zinna to the same side of the table. Further complicating the challenge is Tara: a Tantric practitioner who captivates Sonchai with her remarkable otherworldly techniques.Here is Sonchai put to the extreme testâ€”as a cop, as a Buddhist, as an impossibly earthbound manâ€”in John Burdettâ€™s most wildly inventive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining novel yet.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1790'),
(4269, 'The Godfather', 'Mario Puzo; Peter Bart; Robert J. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily, this is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate its power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2804'),
(4270, 'Gods and Androids', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9070'),
(4271, 'Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion', 'Steven M. Davidoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also puts them into context and exposes what is really going on behind the scenes on Wall Street.\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  completely covers the strategic issues that guide the modern-day deal, and since they unfold under the shadow of the law, it also focuses on the legal aspects of deal-making and takeovers.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Each chapter unfolds through the lens of a recent transaction, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rental/Cerberus dispute\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides in-depth explanations and analysis of the events and actors that have shaped this fast-moving field\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examines the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial system and explains the government''s biggest "deals", including its bail-outs of AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Filled with in-depth insights that will enhance your understanding of this field,\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  offers an engaging look at deals and deal-makers in the context of recent historical events. It''s a book for those who want to understand deals, takeovers, and the people and institutions who shape our world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While the financial community looks to regain its footing, dealmakers will continue to do what they''ve always doneâ€”structure deals that drive the fate of corporate America. With powerful professionals competing to create and close better deals, these executives, like gods, will determine the future of companies and our economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Steven Davidoff understands both the intricacies of these deals and the forces driving them. Writing as "The Deal Professor" for the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  "DealBook," he provides daily commentary on the latest takeover news and has become a nationally known authority on this fast-moving field. Now, with\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  , Davidoff introduces you to this trillion-dollar businessâ€”from private equity and government to hedge funds and sovereign wealth fundsâ€”and reveals the recent events that have changed the way the game is played.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  is the definitive story of deal-making. Opening with an engaging look at the evolution of this discipline, the book quickly moves into the modern eraâ€”where deal-making has become a truly global endeavorâ€”and works its way through the current financial crisis and beyond. Page by page, it skillfully details:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The private equity boom and its implosion\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The return of the strategic transaction and hostile takeover\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The failure of the investment banking model\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The government''s deal-making during the recent financial crisis\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    And much more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Each chapter unfolds through the lens of recent events, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rentals/Cerberus dispute. Along the way, you''ll also become familiar with the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial systemâ€”which included the serial bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and others. In describing the dynamic events of this period, Davidoff not only reveals how deals are accomplished in modern capital markets, but he also details the transformation that the takeover marketplace is undergoing and its prospects for the future. In doing so, he puts forth a definitive view and theory of deals and deal-making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The financial revolution, globalization, and financial crises have permanently changed deal-makingâ€”creating perils and opportunities for both dealmakers and regulators. With\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  as your guide, you''ll gain a better understanding of this discipline and discover the various events, individuals, and institutions that continue to shape this competitive arena.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8398'),
(4272, 'The Gods Themselves', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know the truth--but who will listen?  They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe?  These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth''s survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9542'),
(4273, 'the Godwulf Manuscript (1973)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10541'),
(4274, 'The Godwulf Manuscript', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald".--The Boston Globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4029'),
(4275, 'Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland&#39;s Glory', 'Lisa Jardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England''s almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine (_The Awful End of Prince William the Silent_). She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. Jardine focuses mainly on the subterranean intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were continuous and mutually advantageous for decades before William''s invasion. Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the ageâ€”Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyckâ€”working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). By looking so closely at elite opinion, however, Jardine too lightly dismisses the virility of petty nationalism lower down the scale and too easily glosses over the very real military tensions between the two powers. Nevertheless, this is a highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Embarrassment of Riches.\n  </em>\n  Color and b&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the mid-1600s, historian Jardine focuses on the royal and courtier circles that cultivated the arts and sciences blossoming in that period. Her effusively illustrated book reproduces nearly 100 contemporary images of paintings and prints, each of whichÂ leads into theÂ text,Â which discusses their connective role between the two countries. Jardine also traces the connections between the House of Stuart and the House of Orange, whose political interactions culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the drama of which historically overshadows their rich web of cultural relationships, Jardineâ€™s inquiry suggests. Indeed the antagonists James II and William of Orange are instantly recognizable to history readers, whereas Jardineâ€™s protagonist is hardly known. He is Constantijn Huygens (1596â€“1687), a Dutch diplomat and connoisseur of painting, architecture, and garden design, and father ofÂ Christian, the renowned astronomer, and Constantijn, who was Williamâ€™s secretary during the invasion of England. Weaving the fortunes of the Huygens clan into dynastic dynamics, Jardine richly displays the society in which Rubens and van Dyck flourished. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6359'),
(4276, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it''s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what''s called for, he''ll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires - hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3436'),
(4277, 'Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan&#39;s Workplaces to Clinton&#39;s Columbine and Beyond', 'Mark Ames', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued - and baffled - America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s - when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings - the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8651'),
(4278, 'Going Rogue: An American Life', 'Sarah Palin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive of America''s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political "good ol'' boys club" at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel. Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn''t a packaged and over-produced candidate. She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin''s hometown story touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket. But as the campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her "refreshing" and "honest," a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin. In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom''s-eye view of high-stakes national politicsâ€”from patriots dedicated to "Country First" to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost. *Going Rogue* traces one ordinary citizen''s extraordinary journey and imparts Palin''s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4041'),
(4279, 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl', 'Yiyun Li', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   BONUS: This edition contains a reader''s guide.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of\n   <b>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </b>\n   and\n   <b>\n    The Vagrants\n   </b>\n   , gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student''s true affections. In "A Man Like Him," a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In "The Proprietress," a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offers refuge to the wives and children of inmates. In "House Fire," a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man''s wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty,\n   <b>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </b>\n   reveals worlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Excerpts\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   From the book...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    KindnessChapter One\n   </i>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   i am a forty-one-year-old woman living by myself, in the same one- bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers. Apart from a trip to a cheap seaside resort, taken with my parents the summer I turned five, I have not traveled much; I spent a year in an army camp in central China, but other than that I have never lived away from home. In college, after a few failed attempts to convince me of the importance of being a community member, my adviser stopped acknowledging my presence, and the bed assigned to me was taken over by the five other girls in the dorm and their trunks.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have not married, and naturally have no children. I have few friends, though as I have never left the neighborhood, I have enough acquaintances, most of them a generation or two older. Being around them is comforting; never is there a day when I feel that I am alone in aging.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I teach mathematics in a third-tier middle school. I do not love my job or my students, but I have noticed that even the most meager attention I give to the students is returned by a few of them with respect and gratitude and sometimes inexplicable infatuation. I pity those children more than I appreciate them, as I can see where they are heading in their lives. It is a terrible thing, even for an indifferent person like me, to see the bleakness lurking in someone else''s life.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have no hobby that takes me outside my flat during my spare time. I do not own a television set, but I have a roomful of books at least half a century older than I am. I have never in my life hurt a soul, or, if I have done any harm unintentionally the pain I inflicted was the most trivial kind, forgotten the moment it was felt-if indeed it could be felt in any way. But that cannot be a happy life, or much of a life at all, you might say. That may very well be true. "Why are you unhappy?" To this day, if I close my eyes I can feel Lieutenant Wei''s finger under my chin, lifting my face to a spring night. "Tell me, how can we make you happy?"\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The questions, put to me twenty-three years ago, have remained unanswerable, though it no longer matters, as, you see, Lieutenant Wei died three weeks ago, at age forty-six, mother of a teenage daughter, wife of a stationery merchant, veteran of Unit 20256, People''s Liberation Army, from which she retired at age forty-three, already afflicted with a malignant tumor. She was Major Wei in the funeral announcement. I do not know why the news of her death was mailed to me except perhaps that the funeral committee-it was from such a committee that the letter had come, befitting her status- thought I was one of her long-lost friends, my name scribbled in an old address book. I wonder if the announcement was sent to the other girls, though not many of them would still be at the same address. I remember the day Lieutenant Wei''s wedding invitation arrived, in a distant past, and thinking then that it would be the last time I would hear from her.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I did not go to the funeral, as I had not gone to her wedding, both of which took place two hours by train from Beijing. It is a hassle to travel for a wedding, but more so for a funeral. One has to face strangers'' tears and, worse, one has to repeat words of condolence to irrelevant people.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   When I was five, a peddler came to our neighborhood one Sunday with a bamboo basket full of spring chicks. I was trailing behind my father for our weekly shopping of rationed food, and when the peddler put a chick in my palm, its small body soft and warm and shivering constantly, I cried before I could...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Reviews\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Francine Prose,\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The New York Times Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Editor''s Choice...\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   "A literary voice that brings to mind Nabokov''s description of Chekhov''s narrative style: ''The story is told in the most natural way possible...the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life, slowly and yet without a break, in a slightly subdued voice.'' As in reading Chekhov, one is struck by how profoundly important the lives or ordinary people are made to seem, and by what a sizable chunk of existence -- an entire life or several lives -- has been compressed into a few pages....[Yiyun Li] succeeds in making the details of a very particular (and very sharply drawn) time and place express something broader and more universal....[Li''s stories] have the power to create hushed intervals that resonate with emotion....\n   <i>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </i>\n   is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Cover Review...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li''s collection well deserves a celebration with its sophistication and honesty, which often derive from a deep understanding of the history, culture and politics of China, and of their impact on ordinary people. . . . Yes, sorrows may arise during times of reflection, but it''s impossible not to fall in love with the privacy and tranquility of the time and place."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Marie Claire\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "With their quiet authority, exquisite control, and illumination of those quicksilver moments on which entire lives pivot, Li''s tales lodge in your rib cage long after you''ve finished reading....[Li will] remind you of what it''s like to be human in today''s increasingly fragmented world."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Breathtaking....starkly wondrous....gorgeous fiction....Yiyun Li writes in simple, penetrating prose....[Li] is an impresario of our essential loneliness.  Still, these nine stories are not sad, but astringently beautiful."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Junot DÃ­az...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li is extraordinary . . . a storyteller of the first order . . . each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart. . . Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Vogue\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Masterly....nuanced....Li conjures a bewildering new economy China, but her eloquent understanding of people struggling to help one another ''make a world that would accommodate their loneliness'' feels universal."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Elle\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Delectable....subtle and assured....[Li] finds the pulse points in the lives of her Chinese and Chinese-American characters and renders her findings with empathy and exactitude."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Time Out New York\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li displays a staggering poise and grace in her latest collection of short stories....the yarns spun in\n  <i>\n   Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n  </i>\n  prove to be as varied as humanity itself."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   New York Observer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "[Li''s] writing is minimal, yet packed with detail. At times, it feels like she is reporting in the manner of a journalist; at others she teeters on the verge of lyricism, often walking this line within a single paragraph."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "A stellar assortment of stories...further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Brilliant...a frighteningly lucid vision of human fate."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  About the Author\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <script>\n  </script>\n  <p>\n   Yiyun Li is the author of\n   <i>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The Vagrants.\n   </i>\n   A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers'' Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O''Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers'' Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007,\n   <i>\n    Granta\n   </i>\n   named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in\n   <i>\n    The\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Short Stories,\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The O. Henry Prize Stories,\n   </i>\n   among others. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6873'),
(4280, 'Gold Coast', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When he kicked off, Florida mob boss Frank DiCilia left his gorgeous widow Karen everything, but with strings attached. She loses the millions, the cars, the palatial Gold Coast mansion if she ever gets involved with another man. And there''s a crazy cowboy-wannabe thug named Roland who''s acting as Frank''s eyes beyond the grave, making sure Karen doesn''t dally, with serious muscle, if necessary. But now Cal Maguire''s come into the picture. A sexy, street-smart Detroit ex-con, Cal''s got a line and a scam for every occasion. And he''s got the perfect plan for getting Karen DiCilia her money\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n her freedom ... if it doesn''t get them both killed first.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gorgeous widow Karen diCilia just found out what it really means to be married to the mob. Her mafia husband Frank left her millions and a Florida Gold Coast mansion. He also left orders that she''d lose everything the day she slept with another man. With his boys as enforcers, Karen was soon a lonely lady. Then she meets Detroit''s Cal Maguire, a sexy, street-smart ex-con with a scam to get Karen her money and freedom . . . or get them both killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9200'),
(4281, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Captivating...addictive...irresistible.'' - WASHINGTON POST ''The so-called ''Gold Coast'' will never be the same again'' - DAILY MAIL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7118');
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(4282, 'Gold Mine', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--Tulsa World\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TRIUMPH OF THE SUN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Triumph of the Sun is everything [Smith''s] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventureâ€¦chalk up another winner."--Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the darkâ€¦a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful."--Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  BLUE HORIZON\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance."--Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Really big retro-fun."--Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A swashbuckling, brawling, sprawling historical epic. Rich, exciting, and fascinating."--Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Adventure and danger at every turn."--New York Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping. The writer''s fans will enjoy the ride."--Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Master storyteller Smith takes his story into another generation of adventurers battling on the sea and on land in the settling of South Africa."--Tulsa World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything Smith''s fans have come to expect from his epic adventure novels. His consummate skill at crafting vast battle scenes, passionate and wildly romantic characters, cruel and bloodthirsty villains, and larger-than-life heroes make Blue Horizon irresistible."--Journal (Flint, MI)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WARLOCK\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival. He is a warlock of writers."--Tulsa World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Filled with enough action, adventure, battles, betrayals, and actual cliffhangers to satisfy Indiana Jones, Wilbur Smith''s new novel Warlock is a rousing and worthy sequel to River God."--The Plain Dealer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seamlessly composed, this epic historical drama by veteran author Smith tracks a power struggle in ancient Egypt between false pharaohs and a true royal heir, evoking the cruel glories and terrible torments of the era. Those willing to brave the blood and gore will be carried away by the sweep and pace of Smith''s tale."-Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one. It''s the same with Warlock. Brilliantâ€¦irresistible and impossible to put down."--Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those of you familiar with Smith''s writingâ€¦can expect more of his signature brand of pulse-pounding, "Perils of Pauline"--style of adventure and excitement, with more blood and guts than a slaughterhouse."--Tampa Tribune Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This summer''s most entertaining readâ€¦another full-blown tale of war, intrigue, murder, lust, and true love set in ancient Egypt [this] is really the book Taita fans have been waiting for."--Flint Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith is at the top of his game in weaving exotic adventures in this work. Very highly recommended."--Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one."--Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A stirring tale, full of chariot battles...Smith has whipped up a heady brew...and undoubtedly deserves his immense popularity far more than most of his rivals."--Evening Standard (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can almost feel the heat and taste the dust as the narrative builds to a cracking pace...[Warlock] is a ripping yarn and a classic adventure story."--Irish News\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   RIVER GOD\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand tale of intrigue, deception, true love and exile."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --The Denver Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Vivid and fascinating...packed with passion, war, intrigue and revenge...sprawling and absorbing...gripping.â€¦ A racy rampage through ancient Egypt that puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifyingâ€¦.The author makes you see it, hear it--even smell it...Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."--The Orlando Sentinel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner...few novelists can write action scenes that all but leap off the page the way Smith can...his detailed portrait of ancient Egypt is fascinating."--Anniston Star (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith tackles the elevated literary fields of ancient Egypt, and comes up with a full-blooded epic."--The London Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like a good action movie, the book ends with a show-down between the good guys and bad guys on the battlefieldâ€¦well-written and entertaining."--Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Compulsively readable...contains intrigue, romance, greed, cruelty, and furious action...rewarding and satisfying."--El Paso Herald-Post (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic novel of ancient Egypt, a great adventure with all the right ingredients: victories and defeats, secrets and revelations, life and death, reverence and godlessness, hate and love"--The Des Moines Register\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s clear Smith knows his subject: his graphic depiction of lust, bloodletting, politics, and, in Taita''s case, honor is firmly grounded in rich details that evoke the period."--Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[River God] gallops swiftly through the action and flying blood his fans have come to relish...Brightly colored, sweeping escapism."--Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   MONSOON\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Smith] paces his tale as swiftly as he can with swordplay aplenty and killing strokes that come like lightning out of a sunny blue sky."-Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] non-stop thriller that takes readers on a magical tourâ€¦this is what makes a Smith book worth reading."-Midwest Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smithâ€¦a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Tulsa World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wild adventureâ€¦brought flawlessly to life through realistic sword fights and sea battles, vivid stories of piratesâ€¦breathtaking."-Times Record News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A masterful tale of action and suspense.... A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas."--Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith offers plenty of battles and harrowing escapes for adventure fans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BIRDS OF PREY\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--The Washington Post Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...swashbuckling and sensuous, Birds of Prey is not for the faint-hearted. Its bloodiest scenes are vivid and detailed--and so are hero Hal''s romantic encounters. But, as with Smith''s previous two best sellers, River God and The Seventh Scroll, this latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."--The Orlando Sentinel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Birds of Prey is a wonderful novel filled with excitement, pirates, and vivid sea battles...In short, it is vintage Wilbur Smith."--Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9143'),
(4283, 'The Golden Acorn', 'Catherine Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </u>\n </b>\n <br />\n The Brit Writers'' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories and is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year''s deserved winner of the Children''s story category, Catherine Cooper''s wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking ravens and mischievous Spriggans, The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it, and so will you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6016'),
(4284, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol IX', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\n  <br />\n  By Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  THE MIND MASTER\n  <br />\n  by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE ULTIMATE WEAPON\n  <br />\n  by John Wood Campbell\n  <br />\n  TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  LET ''EM BREATHE SPACE!\n  <br />\n  By Lester Del Rey\n  <br />\n  THE DEMI-URGE\n  <br />\n  By Thomas M. Disch\n  <br />\n  PHARAOH''S BROKER\n  <br />\n  By Ellsworth Douglass\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS\n  <br />\n  By Charles Dye\n  <br />\n  THE TALKATIVE TREE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  CUM GRANO SALIS\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE DARK WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE SOLAR MAGNET\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE COFFIN CURE\n  <br />\n  by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  THE DARK DOOR\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  NAUDSONC\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OMNILINGUAL\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  DANGER\n  <br />\n  by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester\n  <br />\n  MR. CHIPFELLOW''S JACKPOT\n  <br />\n  by Dick Purcell\n  <br />\n  THE GREEN BeRET\n  <br />\n  By Tom Purdom\n  <br />\n  A FILBERT IS A NUT\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  MEDAL OF HONOR\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  MERCENARY\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH-CLOUD\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat\n  <br />\n  WATCH THE SKY\n  <br />\n  by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DEATH WISH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  WARRIOR RACE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE SUCCESS MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  HELPFULLY YOURS\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!\n  <br />\n  By Jan Smith\n  <br />\n  STOP LOOK AnD DIG\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE VENUS TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE\n  <br />\n  by Arthur G. Stangland\n  <br />\n  INSIDE JOHN BARTH\n  <br />\n  By William W. Stuart\n  <br />\n  THE JUNKMAKERS\n  <br />\n  By Albert Teichner\n  <br />\n  HIGH DRAGON BUMP\n  <br />\n  By Don Thompson\n  <br />\n  LARSON''S LUCK\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MARTIAN V. F. W.\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  SILVER DOME\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  STRANGE ALLIANCE\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE IDEAL\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  The RISK PROFESSION\n  <br />\n  By Donald E. Westlake\n  <br />\n  TO MARS VIA THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By Mark Wicks\n  <br />\n  THE INHABITED\n  <br />\n  By Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  THE VERY SECRET AGENT\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE GHOST WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  NO MOVING PARTS\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n  <br />\n  THE LANSON SCREEN\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9306'),
(4285, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol VIII', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Laurence Janifer, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE BURNING BRIDGE by Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  LORDS OF THE STRATOSPHERE by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE WEAKLING by Everett B. Cole\n  <br />\n  IMPACT by Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE CRACK OF DOOM by Robert Cromie\n  <br />\n  NO PETS ALLOWED by M. A. Cummings\n  <br />\n  MONKEY ON HIS BACK by Charles V. De Vet\n  <br />\n  TEST ROCKET! by Jack Douglas\n  <br />\n  THE RED HELL OF JUPITER by Paul Ernst\n  <br />\n  THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE by H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  MASTER OF NONE by Neil Goble\n  <br />\n  UNTHINKABLE by Rog Phillips\n  <br />\n  THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas\n  <br />\n  NATIVE SON by T. D. Hamm\n  <br />\n  WIZARD by Laurence Mark Janifer\n  <br />\n  THE UNTOUCHABLE by Stephen A. Kallis\n  <br />\n  BREAD OVERHEAD by Fritz Leiber\n  <br />\n  SCRIMSHAW by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  SPIES DIE HARD! by Arnold Marmor\n  <br />\n  GIANTS ON THE EARTH by S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE STUTTERER by R. R. Merliss\n  <br />\n  GENERAL MAX SHORTER by Kris Neville\n  <br />\n  MARTYR By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  MEETING OF THE BOARD by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES by H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  HUNTER PATROL by H. Beam Piper and John J. Mcguire\n  <br />\n  GUN FOR HIRE by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  I''M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SEE? by Edward G. Robles, Jr.\n  <br />\n  I WAS A TEEN-AGE SECRET WEAPON by Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  THE STAR HYACINTHS by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  THE WINDS OF TIME by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE by Al Sevcik\n  <br />\n  HOULIHAN''S EQUATION by Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  MY FATHER, THE CAT by Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  INSTINCT by George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  NO HIDING PLACE by Richard R. Smith\n  <br />\n  JUBILATION, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX by Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  DAWN OF FLAME by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PROTEUS ISLAND by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  DEVIL CRYSTALS OF ARRET by Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE QUANTUM JUMP by Robert Wicks\n  <br />\n  DOUBLE TAKE by Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  WITH A VENGEANCE by J. B. Woodley\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH TRAPS OF FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM by Robert F. Young\n  <br />\n  CHILDREN OF TOMORROW by Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9313'),
(4286, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol X', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  THE DRAW\n  <br />\n  By Jerome Bixby\n  <br />\n  CONTROL GROUP\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE EEL\n  <br />\n  By Miriam Allen DeFord\n  <br />\n  BADGE OF INFAMY\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  SECOND VARIETY\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  OUT OF THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By George Edrich\n  <br />\n  THE VERY BLACK\n  <br />\n  By Dean Evans\n  <br />\n  THE WEDGE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  THE PLANET STRAPPERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  HAIL TO THE CHIEF\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THIN EDGE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  SPACE PRISON\n  <br />\n  By Tom Godwin\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By Arthur G. Hill\n  <br />\n  THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX\n  <br />\n  By Fox B. Holden\n  <br />\n  THE DAY OF THE DOG\n  <br />\n  By Andersen Horne\n  <br />\n  ADVANCED CHEMISTRY\n  <br />\n  By Jack G. Huekels\n  <br />\n  FIELD TRIP\n  <br />\n  By Gene Hunter\n  <br />\n  THE SHINING COW\n  <br />\n  By Alex James\n  <br />\n  ROUGH TRANSLATION\n  <br />\n  By Jean M. Janis\n  <br />\n  JOHN JONES''S DOLLAR\n  <br />\n  By Harry Stephen Keeler\n  <br />\n  SECURITY\n  <br />\n  By Ernest M. Kenyon\n  <br />\n  THE MAD PLANET\n  <br />\n  by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE THIEF OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  REEL LIFE FILMS\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin\n  <br />\n  SONG IN A MINOR KEY\n  <br />\n  By C. L. Moore\n  <br />\n  STAR HUNTER\n  <br />\n  By Andre Norton\n  <br />\n  CONTAMINATION CREW\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  DERELICT\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  ALL DAY WEDNESDAY\n  <br />\n  By Richard Olin\n  <br />\n  THE HAPPY MAN\n  <br />\n  By Gerald W. Page\n  <br />\n  OOMPHEL IN THE SKY\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OPERATION R.S.V.P.\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  SUMMIT\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  LION LOOSE\n  <br />\n  By James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  THE WORLD THAT COULDN''T BE\n  <br />\n  By Clifford D. Simak\n  <br />\n  TELEMPATHY\n  <br />\n  By Vance Simonds\n  <br />\n  LOOT OF THE VOID\n  <br />\n  By Edwin K. Sloat\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  PERFECT CONTROL\n  <br />\n  By Richard Stockham\n  <br />\n  SOLAR STIFF\n  <br />\n  By Chas. A. Stopher\n  <br />\n  MAN MADE\n  <br />\n  By Albert R. Teichner\n  <br />\n  PLEASANT JOURNEY\n  <br />\n  By Richard F. Thieme\n  <br />\n  THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By V. E. Thiessen\n  <br />\n  THE POINT OF VIEW\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  MEMBERSHIP DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9308'),
(4287, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol XI', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9310'),
(4288, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol XIII', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty classic science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Phillip K. Dick, Walter M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  ONCE UPON A PLANET\n  <br />\n  By J. J. Allerton\n  <br />\n  MR. PRESIDENT\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Arr\n  <br />\n  THE FRIGHTENED PLANET\n  <br />\n  By Sidney Austen\n  <br />\n  PET FARM\n  <br />\n  By Roger D. Aycock\n  <br />\n  THE PLOTTERS\n  <br />\n  By Alexander Blade\n  <br />\n  LOVE STORY\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Betsy Curtis\n  <br />\n  CLEAN BREAK\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE VARIABLE MAN\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  UNIFORM OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Dave Dryfoos\n  <br />\n  CATEGORY PHOENIX\n  <br />\n  By Boyd Ellanby\n  <br />\n  SKIN GAME\n  <br />\n  By Charles E. Fritch\n  <br />\n  LET THERE BE LIGHT\n  <br />\n  By Horace B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  SUITE MENTALE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE MEASURE OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE SPHERE OF SLEEP\n  <br />\n  By Chester S. Geier\n  <br />\n  A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Robert E. Gilbert\n  <br />\n  BOOMERANG BULLETS\n  <br />\n  By James A. Goldthwaite\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR INTO INFINITY\n  <br />\n  By Edmond Hamilton\n  <br />\n  BEYOND THE THUNDER\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Hickey\n  <br />\n  FEET OF CLAY\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Hoskins\n  <br />\n  THE UNLEARNED\n  <br />\n  By Raymond F. Jones\n  <br />\n  PROJECT HUSH\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Klass\n  <br />\n  TAPE JOCKEY\n  <br />\n  By Tom Leahy\n  <br />\n  OOGIE FINDS LOVE\n  <br />\n  By Berkeley Livingston\n  <br />\n  BREEDER REACTION\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  BROWN JOHN''S BODY\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  EARTHSMITH\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  WORLD BEYOND PLUTO\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  THE HITCH HIKERS\n  <br />\n  By Vernon L. McCain\n  <br />\n  LIFE SENTENCE\n  <br />\n  By James McConnell\n  <br />\n  THE AMBASSADOR\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin, Jr.\n  <br />\n  WAY OF A REBEL\n  <br />\n  By Walter Miller, Jr.\n  <br />\n  OF TIME AND TEXAS\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THY NAME IS WOMAN\n  <br />\n  By Kenneth O''Hara\n  <br />\n  THE HELL SHIP\n  <br />\n  By Ray Palmer\n  <br />\n  THE MERCENARIES\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE OCTOPUS CYCLE\n  <br />\n  By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt\n  <br />\n  THE SWORD\n  <br />\n  By Frank Quattrocchi\n  <br />\n  CODE THREE\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  THE COMMON MAN\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE BOOK\n  <br />\n  By Michael Shaara\n  <br />\n  PROBABILITY\n  <br />\n  By Louis Trimble\n  <br />\n  SUCCESS STORY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Turner\n  <br />\n  THE JUDAS VALLEY\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE END OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By Wallace West\n  <br />\n  PLANET OF THE GODS\n  <br />\n  By Robert Moore Williams\n  <br />\n  THE GOD IN THE BOX\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9311'),
(4289, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume I: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille)\n <br />\n A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n A World is Born (Leigh Brackett)\n <br />\n Accidental Death (Peter Baily)\n <br />\n Arena (Fredric Brown)\n <br />\n Atom Boy (Ray Cummings)\n <br />\n Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick)\n <br />\n Blind Spot (Bascom Jones)\n <br />\n Cully (Jack Egan)\n <br />\n Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey)\n <br />\n Dead World (Jack Douglas)\n <br />\n Divinity (Joseph Samachson)\n <br />\n Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore)\n <br />\n Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Hex (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne)\n <br />\n Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur)\n <br />\n Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer)\n <br />\n Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n McIlvaneâ€™s Star (August Derleth)\n <br />\n Missing Link (Frank Herbert)\n <br />\n Next Logical Step (Ben Bova)\n <br />\n Pandemic (J.F. Bone)\n <br />\n Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach)\n <br />\n Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n Security (Poul Anderson)\n <br />\n Subspace Survivors (E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith)\n <br />\n The Aliens (Murray Leinster)\n <br />\n The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut)\n <br />\n The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells)\n <br />\n The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner)\n <br />\n The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun)\n <br />\n The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton)\n <br />\n The Hated (Frederick Pohl)\n <br />\n The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell)\n <br />\n The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton)\n <br />\n The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones)\n <br />\n The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber)\n <br />\n The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)\n <br />\n The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin)\n <br />\n The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys)\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak)\n <br />\n The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet)\n <br />\n They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip JosÃ© Farmer)\n <br />\n Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos)\n <br />\n Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5366'),
(4290, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume II: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone\n <br />\n The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova\n <br />\n Keep Out, Frederic Brown\n <br />\n Indirection, Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith\n <br />\n The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings\n <br />\n Victory, Lester Del Rey\n <br />\n The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin\n <br />\n The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst\n <br />\n The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe\n <br />\n Psichopath, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin\n <br />\n A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall\n <br />\n Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The K-Factor, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse\n <br />\n Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert\n <br />\n Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer\n <br />\n Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis\n <br />\n Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n The Cosmic Expense Account, C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n We Didnâ€™t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang\n <br />\n Gamblerâ€™s World, Keith Laumer\n <br />\n No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Leader, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Great Drought, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr.\n <br />\n The People of the Crater, Andre Norton\n <br />\n An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Pythias, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hunters, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak\n <br />\n 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut\n <br />\n The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5369'),
(4291, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume III: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson\n <br />\n The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot\n <br />\n Zen, Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins\n <br />\n The Guardians, Irving Cox\n <br />\n Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel\n <br />\n Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy\n <br />\n Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet\n <br />\n The Skull, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin\n <br />\n Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos\n <br />\n Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n The Monster, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm\n <br />\n The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon\n <br />\n Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris\n <br />\n The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine\n <br />\n Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing\n <br />\n The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones\n <br />\n A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox\n <br />\n Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey\n <br />\n Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr.\n <br />\n PRoblem, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n The Return, H. Beam Piper &amp; John G. McGuire\n <br />\n Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt\n <br />\n Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael\n <br />\n Revolution, Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich\n <br />\n Runaway, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n DP, Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner\n <br />\n Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n Alien Offer, Al Sevcik\n <br />\n Forever, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There, Clifford D. Simak &amp; Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar\n <br />\n The Big Fix, George O. Smith\n <br />\n Vortex Blaster, E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith\n <br />\n The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl\n <br />\n Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner\n <br />\n Homesick, Lyn Venable\n <br />\n The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5371'),
(4292, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IV: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by fifty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE VALOR OF CAPPEN VARRA, by Poul Anderson\n <br />\n THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n CITADEL, by Algis Budrys\n <br />\n SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE, by Mark Clifton\n <br />\n ALARM CLOCK, by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n THE SCALPEL OF DOOM, by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n DISQUALIFIED, by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n A TRANSMUTATION OF MUDDLES, by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE, by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTY, by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE GOLDEN JUDGE, by Nathaniel Gordon\n <br />\n THE WORLD OF THE CRYSTAL CITIES, by George Griffith\n <br />\n RAIDERS INVISIBLE, by D. W. Hall\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO EVOLVED, by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n THE UNDERSEA TUBE, by L. Taylor Hansen\n <br />\n NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE BEGINNING, by Henry Hasse\n <br />\n OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert\n <br />\n I''LL KILL YOU TOMORROW, by Helen Huber\n <br />\n THE LONG VOYAGE, by Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE, by Laurence Mark Janifer\n <br />\n THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller\n <br />\n THE ADVENTURER, by C. M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK, by Murray Leinster\n <br />\n THE CALM MAN, by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n A PLACE IN THE SUN, by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PIPE OF PEACE, by James McKimmey, Jr.\n <br />\n B. C. 30,000, by S. P. Meek\n <br />\n ALL CATS ARE GRAY, by Andre Norton\n <br />\n BEAR TRAP, by Alan E. Nourse\n <br />\n CROSSROADS OF DESTINY, by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n THE THIRST QUENCHERS, by Rick Raphael\n <br />\n COMBAT, by Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n DEAD MAN''S PLANET, by Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, by Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12, by James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n SURVIVAL TACTICS, by Al Sevcik\n <br />\n MINOR DETAIL, by Jack Sharkey\n <br />\n RESURRECTION, by Robert J. Shea\n <br />\n THE LEECH, by Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND, by Ralph Sholto\n <br />\n POSTMARK GANYMEDE, By Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN, by Evelyn E. Smith\n <br />\n SUBJECTIVITY, by Norman Spinrad\n <br />\n IN THE ORBIT OF SATURN, by R. F. Starzl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5360'),
(4293, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IX: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\n  <br />\n  By Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  THE MIND MASTER\n  <br />\n  by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE ULTIMATE WEAPON\n  <br />\n  by John Wood Campbell\n  <br />\n  TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  LET ''EM BREATHE SPACE!\n  <br />\n  By Lester Del Rey\n  <br />\n  THE DEMI-URGE\n  <br />\n  By Thomas M. Disch\n  <br />\n  PHARAOH''S BROKER\n  <br />\n  By Ellsworth Douglass\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS\n  <br />\n  By Charles Dye\n  <br />\n  THE TALKATIVE TREE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  CUM GRANO SALIS\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE DARK WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE SOLAR MAGNET\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE COFFIN CURE\n  <br />\n  by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  THE DARK DOOR\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  NAUDSONC\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OMNILINGUAL\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  DANGER\n  <br />\n  by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester\n  <br />\n  MR. CHIPFELLOW''S JACKPOT\n  <br />\n  by Dick Purcell\n  <br />\n  THE GREEN BeRET\n  <br />\n  By Tom Purdom\n  <br />\n  A FILBERT IS A NUT\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  MEDAL OF HONOR\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  MERCENARY\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH-CLOUD\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat\n  <br />\n  WATCH THE SKY\n  <br />\n  by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DEATH WISH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  WARRIOR RACE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE SUCCESS MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  HELPFULLY YOURS\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!\n  <br />\n  By Jan Smith\n  <br />\n  STOP LOOK AnD DIG\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE VENUS TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE\n  <br />\n  by Arthur G. Stangland\n  <br />\n  INSIDE JOHN BARTH\n  <br />\n  By William W. Stuart\n  <br />\n  THE JUNKMAKERS\n  <br />\n  By Albert Teichner\n  <br />\n  HIGH DRAGON BUMP\n  <br />\n  By Don Thompson\n  <br />\n  LARSON''S LUCK\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MARTIAN V. F. W.\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  SILVER DOME\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  STRANGE ALLIANCE\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE IDEAL\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  The RISK PROFESSION\n  <br />\n  By Donald E. Westlake\n  <br />\n  TO MARS VIA THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By Mark Wicks\n  <br />\n  THE INHABITED\n  <br />\n  By Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  THE VERY SECRET AGENT\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE GHOST WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  NO MOVING PARTS\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n  <br />\n  THE LANSON SCREEN\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5375'),
(4294, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume V: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, H. Beam Piper, Edmund Hamilton, Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Jack Williamson, Stanley Weinbaum, C.M. Kornbluth, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n OPERATION EARTHWORM by Joe Archibald\n <br />\n AGGRAVATION OF ELMER by Robert Andrew Arthur\n <br />\n LAST RESORT by Stephen Bartholomew\n <br />\n WHERE THERE''S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n ZERO HOUR by Alexander Blade\n <br />\n LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK by Nelson Bond\n <br />\n A PRIZE FOR EDIE by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n THE EINSTEIN SEE-SAW by Miles John Breuer\n <br />\n HALL OF MIRRORS by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS by Russell Burton\n <br />\n HARD GUY by H. B. Carleton\n <br />\n THE PERFECTIONISTS by Arnold Castle\n <br />\n COMPETITION by James Causey\n <br />\n FINAL WEAPON by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE GUN by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n MAROONED UNDER THE SEA by Paul Ernst\n <br />\n THE GIFT BEARER by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n EXILE by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n AFTER A FEW WORDS by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n THE BLUFF OF THE HAWK by Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n CRY FROM A FAR PLANET by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE SECOND SATELLITE by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n TOY SHOP by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHT by C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n ALL DAY SEPTEMBER by Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n JOIN OUR GANG? by Sterling E. Lanier\n <br />\n DISTURBING SUN by Philip Latham\n <br />\n THE YILLIAN WAY by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n ONE MARTIAN AFTERNOON by Tom Leahy\n <br />\n JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT by William Lee\n <br />\n A BOTTLE OF OLD WINE by Richard O. Lewis\n <br />\n DAUGHTERS OF DOOM by Herbert Livingston\n <br />\n G-R-R-R...! by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n NEXT DOOR, NEXT WORLD by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n THE BIG TOMORROW by Paul Lohrman\n <br />\n THE MAN FROM TIME by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n WHEN I GROW UP by Richard E. Lowe\n <br />\n AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE by C.C. MacApp\n <br />\n BLACK EYES AND THE DAILY GRIND by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PUSHBUTTON WAR by Joseph P. Martino\n <br />\n REX EX MACHINA by Frederic Max\n <br />\n DEAREST by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n SORRY: WRONG DIMENSION by Ross Rocklynne\n <br />\n THE SECOND VOICE by Mann Rubin\n <br />\n CREATURES OF VIBRATION by Harl Vincent\n <br />\n A MARTIAN ODYSSEY by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n <br />\n THE LAKE OF LIGHT by Jack Williamson\n <br />\n UNDER ARCTIC ICE by H.G. Winter\n <br />\n LONESOME HEARTS by Russ Winterbotham\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5361');
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(4295, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper,Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Marlowe, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   HAPPY ENDING by Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   TEETHING RING by James Causey\n   <br />\n   MILLENNIUM by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   BEYOND THE DOOR by Philip K. Dick\n   <br />\n   THE SILK AND THE SONG by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   FLAMEDOWN by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   ANCHORITE by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE AFFAIR OF THE BRAINS by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   WE''RE FRIENDS, NOW by Henry Hasse\n   <br />\n   CHARLEY de MILO by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE FIRST ONE by Herbert D. Kastle\n   <br />\n   IT COULD BE ANYTHING by Keith Laumer\n   <br />\n   WHAT''S HE DOING IN THERE? By Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   EVIDENCE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE MAN THE MARTIANS MADE by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   MY SHIPMATEâ€”COLUMBUS by Stephen Marlowe\n   <br />\n   COLD LIGHT by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   CIRCUS by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   EXPEDITER by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   HAM SANDWICH by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE HELPFUL ROBOTS by Robert J. Shea\n   <br />\n   BESIDE STILL WATERS by Robert Sheckley\n   <br />\n   THE HUNTED HEROES by Robert Silverberg\n   <br />\n   THE SPACE ROVER by Edwin K. Sloat\n   <br />\n   BENEFACTOR by George H. Smith\n   <br />\n   THE MARTIAN CABAL by R. F. Starzl\n   <br />\n   THE REAL HARD SELL by William W. Stuart\n   <br />\n   THE BLUE GERM by Martin Swayne\n   <br />\n   FAITHFULLY YOURS by Lou Tabakow\n   <br />\n   VALLEY OF THE CROEN by Lee Tarbell\n   <br />\n   CEREBRUM by Albert Teichner\n   <br />\n   THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH by Arthur TrainÂ \n   <br />\n   WANTED: 7 FEARLESS ENGINEERS! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine\n   <br />\n   EQUATION OF DOOM by Gerald Vance\n   <br />\n   THE OBSERVERS by G. L. Vandenburg\n   <br />\n   GROVE OF THE UNBORN by Lyn Venable\n   <br />\n   GRAY DENIM by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   WANDERER OF INFINITY by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   SHOCK ABSORBER by E. G. Von Wald\n   <br />\n   The 4-D DOODLER by Graph Waldeyer\n   <br />\n   A MATTER OF PROPORTION by Anne Walker\n   <br />\n   BOLDEN''S PETS by F. L. Wallace\n   <br />\n   RAIDERS OF THE UNIVERSES by Donald Wandrei\n   <br />\n   ATTRITION by Jim Wannamaker\n   <br />\n   THE HEADS OF APEX by George Henry Weiss\n   <br />\n   THE INHABITED by Richard Wilson\n   <br />\n   LONGEVITY by Therese Windser\n   <br />\n   THE MINUS WOMAN by Russ Winterbotham\n   <br />\n   THE SERVANT PROBLEM by Robert J. Young\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5365'),
(4296, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds and many others. This collection also includes the novellas THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber and the classic story of time travel THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   THE BARBARIAN by Poul Anderson\n   <br />\n   TWO TIMER by Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW by Stanton Coblentz\n   <br />\n   THE PLAYERS by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   THE SOUND OF SILENCE by Barbara Constant\n   <br />\n   EGOCENTRIC ORBIT by John Cory\n   <br />\n   A CHOICE OF MIRACLES by James A. Cox\n   <br />\n   TRADERâ€™S RISK by Roger Dee\n   <br />\n   DEAD WORLD by Jack Douglas\n   <br />\n   SHOW BUSINESS by Boyd Ellanby\n   <br />\n   DISOWNED by Victor Endersby\n   <br />\n   ONE OUT OF TEN by J. Anthony Ferlaine\n   <br />\n   THE CIRCUIT RIDERS by R. C. FitzPatrick\n   <br />\n   WIND by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   THE FLYING CUSPIDORS by V. R. Francis\n   <br />\n   I LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC by Charles E. Fritch\n   <br />\n   IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   SATELLITE SYSTEM by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   BELLY LAUGH by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   THE STARS, MY BROTHERS by Edmond Hamilton\n   <br />\n   IT''S A SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM by Allan Howard\n   <br />\n   MEX by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   MORALE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   SAND DOOM by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE SKY TRAP by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   POISONED AIR by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   THE BLACK LAMP by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   INFINITE INTRUDER by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   LETTER OF THE LAW by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   GENESIS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   DOGFIGHTâ€”1973 by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   FREEDOM by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   NOVICE by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   ONENESS by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE DOPE ON MARS by Jack Sharkey\n   <br />\n   HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS by Clifford D. Simak\n   <br />\n   DREAM TOWN by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HEART by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HISTORY REPEATS by George O. Smith\n   <br />\n   PYGMALION''S SPECTACLES by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n   <br />\n   THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells\n   <br />\n   THE TERROR FROM THE DEPTHS by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   VAMPIRES OF SPACE by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   UNSPECIALIST by Murray F. Yaco\n   <br />\n   STAR MOTHER by Robert F. Young\n   <br />\n   THE GREAT DOME ON MERCURY by Arthur L. Zagat\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5373'),
(4297, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Laurence Janifer, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE BURNING BRIDGE by Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  LORDS OF THE STRATOSPHERE by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE WEAKLING by Everett B. Cole\n  <br />\n  IMPACT by Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE CRACK OF DOOM by Robert Cromie\n  <br />\n  NO PETS ALLOWED by M. A. Cummings\n  <br />\n  MONKEY ON HIS BACK by Charles V. De Vet\n  <br />\n  TEST ROCKET! by Jack Douglas\n  <br />\n  THE RED HELL OF JUPITER by Paul Ernst\n  <br />\n  THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE by H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  MASTER OF NONE by Neil Goble\n  <br />\n  UNTHINKABLE by Rog Phillips\n  <br />\n  THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas\n  <br />\n  NATIVE SON by T. D. Hamm\n  <br />\n  WIZARD by Laurence Mark Janifer\n  <br />\n  THE UNTOUCHABLE by Stephen A. Kallis\n  <br />\n  BREAD OVERHEAD by Fritz Leiber\n  <br />\n  SCRIMSHAW by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  SPIES DIE HARD! by Arnold Marmor\n  <br />\n  GIANTS ON THE EARTH by S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE STUTTERER by R. R. Merliss\n  <br />\n  GENERAL MAX SHORTER by Kris Neville\n  <br />\n  MARTYR By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  MEETING OF THE BOARD by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES by H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  HUNTER PATROL by H. Beam Piper and John J. Mcguire\n  <br />\n  GUN FOR HIRE by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  I''M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SEE? by Edward G. Robles, Jr.\n  <br />\n  I WAS A TEEN-AGE SECRET WEAPON by Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  THE STAR HYACINTHS by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  THE WINDS OF TIME by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE by Al Sevcik\n  <br />\n  HOULIHAN''S EQUATION by Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  MY FATHER, THE CAT by Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  INSTINCT by George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  NO HIDING PLACE by Richard R. Smith\n  <br />\n  JUBILATION, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX by Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  DAWN OF FLAME by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PROTEUS ISLAND by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  DEVIL CRYSTALS OF ARRET by Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE QUANTUM JUMP by Robert Wicks\n  <br />\n  DOUBLE TAKE by Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  WITH A VENGEANCE by J. B. Woodley\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH TRAPS OF FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM by Robert F. Young\n  <br />\n  CHILDREN OF TOMORROW by Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5367'),
(4298, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume X: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  THE DRAW\n  <br />\n  By Jerome Bixby\n  <br />\n  CONTROL GROUP\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE EEL\n  <br />\n  By Miriam Allen DeFord\n  <br />\n  BADGE OF INFAMY\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  SECOND VARIETY\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  OUT OF THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By George Edrich\n  <br />\n  THE VERY BLACK\n  <br />\n  By Dean Evans\n  <br />\n  THE WEDGE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  THE PLANET STRAPPERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  HAIL TO THE CHIEF\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THIN EDGE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  SPACE PRISON\n  <br />\n  By Tom Godwin\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By Arthur G. Hill\n  <br />\n  THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX\n  <br />\n  By Fox B. Holden\n  <br />\n  THE DAY OF THE DOG\n  <br />\n  By Andersen Horne\n  <br />\n  ADVANCED CHEMISTRY\n  <br />\n  By Jack G. Huekels\n  <br />\n  FIELD TRIP\n  <br />\n  By Gene Hunter\n  <br />\n  THE SHINING COW\n  <br />\n  By Alex James\n  <br />\n  ROUGH TRANSLATION\n  <br />\n  By Jean M. Janis\n  <br />\n  JOHN JONES''S DOLLAR\n  <br />\n  By Harry Stephen Keeler\n  <br />\n  SECURITY\n  <br />\n  By Ernest M. Kenyon\n  <br />\n  THE MAD PLANET\n  <br />\n  by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE THIEF OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  REEL LIFE FILMS\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin\n  <br />\n  SONG IN A MINOR KEY\n  <br />\n  By C. L. Moore\n  <br />\n  STAR HUNTER\n  <br />\n  By Andre Norton\n  <br />\n  CONTAMINATION CREW\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  DERELICT\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  ALL DAY WEDNESDAY\n  <br />\n  By Richard Olin\n  <br />\n  THE HAPPY MAN\n  <br />\n  By Gerald W. Page\n  <br />\n  OOMPHEL IN THE SKY\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OPERATION R.S.V.P.\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  SUMMIT\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  LION LOOSE\n  <br />\n  By James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  THE WORLD THAT COULDN''T BE\n  <br />\n  By Clifford D. Simak\n  <br />\n  TELEMPATHY\n  <br />\n  By Vance Simonds\n  <br />\n  LOOT OF THE VOID\n  <br />\n  By Edwin K. Sloat\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  PERFECT CONTROL\n  <br />\n  By Richard Stockham\n  <br />\n  SOLAR STIFF\n  <br />\n  By Chas. A. Stopher\n  <br />\n  MAN MADE\n  <br />\n  By Albert R. Teichner\n  <br />\n  PLEASANT JOURNEY\n  <br />\n  By Richard F. Thieme\n  <br />\n  THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By V. E. Thiessen\n  <br />\n  THE POINT OF VIEW\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  MEMBERSHIP DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5372'),
(4299, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5359'),
(4300, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Terry Carr, Mack Reynolds, Henry Kuttner, Raymond Cummings, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  FLATLAND\n  <br />\n  By Edwin A. Abbott\n  <br />\n  WORLD OF THE DRONE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  TO CHOKE AN OCEAN\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  BRIDE OF THE DARK ONE\n  <br />\n  By Florence Verbell Brown\n  <br />\n  IF AT FIRST YOU DON''T . . .\n  <br />\n  By John Brudy\n  <br />\n  WHAT NEED OF MAN?\n  <br />\n  By Harold Calin\n  <br />\n  WARLORD OF KOR\n  <br />\n  By Terry Carr\n  <br />\n  THE PEACEMAKER\n  <br />\n  By Alfred Coppel\n  <br />\n  THE CARTELS JUNGLE\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE WHITE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond King Cummings\n  <br />\n  THE ETHICAL WAY\n  <br />\n  By Joseph Farrell\n  <br />\n  ATOM DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Charles Fontenay\n  <br />\n  EVIL OUT OF ONZAR\n  <br />\n  By Mark Ganes\n  <br />\n  HANGING BY A THREAD\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  IN CASE OF FIRE\n  <br />\n  ByÂ \n  <br />\n  THE PLANET WITH NO NIGHTMARE\n  <br />\n  By Jim Harmon\n  <br />\n  THE FLOATING ISLAND OF MADNESS\n  <br />\n  By Jason Kirby\n  <br />\n  THE EGO MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE GREAT POTLATCH RIOTS\n  <br />\n  By Allen Kim Lang\n  <br />\n  INVASION\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  COLLECTIVUM\n  <br />\n  By Mike Lewis\n  <br />\n  TULAN\n  <br />\n  By C. C. MacApp\n  <br />\n  GAMES\n  <br />\n  By Katherine MacLean\n  <br />\n  THE DEADLY DAUGHTERS\n  <br />\n  By Winston K. Marks\n  <br />\n  CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE\n  <br />\n  By J. Francis McComas\n  <br />\n  GEORGE LOVES GISTLA\n  <br />\n  By James McKimmey, Jr.\n  <br />\n  SMALL WORLD\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THE NATIVE SOIL\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  AS LONG AS YOU WISH\n  <br />\n  By John O''Keefe\n  <br />\n  THE GOOD NEIGHBORS\n  <br />\n  By Edgar Pangborn\n  <br />\n  THIS ONE PROBLEM\n  <br />\n  By M. C. Pease\n  <br />\n  LOST IN THE FUTURE\n  <br />\n  By John Victor Peterson\n  <br />\n  TEMPLE TROUBLE\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  UNBORN TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SLAVES OF MERCURY\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner\n  <br />\n  MUTINEER\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Shea\n  <br />\n  AN''S POISON\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  STARMAN''S QUEST\n  <br />\n  By Robert Silverberg\n  <br />\n  MASTERS OF SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Edward E. Smith &amp; E. Everett Evans\n  <br />\n  THE FOURTH R\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE ULTROOM ERROR\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  THE PSILENT PARTNER\n  <br />\n  By Edward S. Staub and John Victo\n  <br />\n  THE MAROONER\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood\n  <br />\n  SJAMBAK\n  <br />\n  By Jack Vance\n  <br />\n  VALLEY OF DREAMS\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PRIESTESS OF THE FLAME\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  OUT AROUND RIGEL\n  <br />\n  By Robert H. Wilson Â  Â  Â \n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5376'),
(4301, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty classic science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Phillip K. Dick, Walter M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  ONCE UPON A PLANET\n  <br />\n  By J. J. Allerton\n  <br />\n  MR. PRESIDENT\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Arr\n  <br />\n  THE FRIGHTENED PLANET\n  <br />\n  By Sidney Austen\n  <br />\n  PET FARM\n  <br />\n  By Roger D. Aycock\n  <br />\n  THE PLOTTERS\n  <br />\n  By Alexander Blade\n  <br />\n  LOVE STORY\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Betsy Curtis\n  <br />\n  CLEAN BREAK\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE VARIABLE MAN\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  UNIFORM OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Dave Dryfoos\n  <br />\n  CATEGORY PHOENIX\n  <br />\n  By Boyd Ellanby\n  <br />\n  SKIN GAME\n  <br />\n  By Charles E. Fritch\n  <br />\n  LET THERE BE LIGHT\n  <br />\n  By Horace B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  SUITE MENTALE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE MEASURE OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE SPHERE OF SLEEP\n  <br />\n  By Chester S. Geier\n  <br />\n  A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Robert E. Gilbert\n  <br />\n  BOOMERANG BULLETS\n  <br />\n  By James A. Goldthwaite\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR INTO INFINITY\n  <br />\n  By Edmond Hamilton\n  <br />\n  BEYOND THE THUNDER\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Hickey\n  <br />\n  FEET OF CLAY\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Hoskins\n  <br />\n  THE UNLEARNED\n  <br />\n  By Raymond F. Jones\n  <br />\n  PROJECT HUSH\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Klass\n  <br />\n  TAPE JOCKEY\n  <br />\n  By Tom Leahy\n  <br />\n  OOGIE FINDS LOVE\n  <br />\n  By Berkeley Livingston\n  <br />\n  BREEDER REACTION\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  BROWN JOHN''S BODY\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  EARTHSMITH\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  WORLD BEYOND PLUTO\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  THE HITCH HIKERS\n  <br />\n  By Vernon L. McCain\n  <br />\n  LIFE SENTENCE\n  <br />\n  By James McConnell\n  <br />\n  THE AMBASSADOR\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin, Jr.\n  <br />\n  WAY OF A REBEL\n  <br />\n  By Walter Miller, Jr.\n  <br />\n  OF TIME AND TEXAS\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THY NAME IS WOMAN\n  <br />\n  By Kenneth O''Hara\n  <br />\n  THE HELL SHIP\n  <br />\n  By Ray Palmer\n  <br />\n  THE MERCENARIES\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE OCTOPUS CYCLE\n  <br />\n  By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt\n  <br />\n  THE SWORD\n  <br />\n  By Frank Quattrocchi\n  <br />\n  CODE THREE\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  THE COMMON MAN\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE BOOK\n  <br />\n  By Michael Shaara\n  <br />\n  PROBABILITY\n  <br />\n  By Louis Trimble\n  <br />\n  SUCCESS STORY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Turner\n  <br />\n  THE JUDAS VALLEY\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE END OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By Wallace West\n  <br />\n  PLANET OF THE GODS\n  <br />\n  By Robert Moore Williams\n  <br />\n  THE GOD IN THE BOX\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5363'),
(4302, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille) A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett) A World is Born (Leigh Brackett) Accidental Death (Peter Baily) Arena (Fredric Brown) Atom Boy (Ray Cummings) Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick) Blind Spot (Bascom Jones) Cully (Jack Egan) Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett) Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey) Dead World (Jack Douglas) Divinity (Joseph Samachson) Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore) Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett) Hex (Laurence Janifer) In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne) Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur) Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer) Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer) McIlvaneâ€™s Star (August Derleth) Missing Link (Frank Herbert) Next Logical Step (Ben Bova) Pandemic (J.F. Bone) Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach) Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson) Security (Poul Anderson) Subspace Survivors (E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith) The Aliens (Murray Leinster) The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut) The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells) The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson) The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner) The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun) The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton) The Hated (Frederick Pohl) The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell) The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton) The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones) The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber) The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin) The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst) The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys) The Street That Wasnâ€™t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak) The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst) There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet) They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip JosÃ© Farmer) Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos) Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9315'),
(4303, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "SUPERB . . . WONDER-FILLED."--The Washington Post Book WorldIt was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford''s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra''s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--found only in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it.Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from witches, gypsies, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle . . ."VERY GRAND INDEED . . . Scene after scene of power and beauty."--The New York Times"A ROUSING, PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE that promises to please fantasy readers of all ages."--Library Journal (starred review)"POWERFUL . . . SPARKLES WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER."--The Boston Sunday Globe\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4180'),
(4304, 'The Golden Elephant', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a reward for a priceless golden elephant, Annja gives in. After all, there are bills to be paid, adventures to be had.The artifact is said to be hidden in a vast and ancient temple complex in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia, and Annja must meet with various scholars in order to pinpoint its location. But when each expert she visits is found dead, Annja fears someone else is after the artifact.And her. And she''s probably next on the killer''s list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(4305, 'Golden fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *Farseer* and *Liveship Traders* trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, **Golden Fool** brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.**Golden Fool**Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chadeâ€™s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutifulâ€™s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Princeâ€™s secretâ€”a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread â€œbeast magic.â€Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitzâ€™s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Foolâ€™s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitzâ€™s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3508'),
(4306, 'Golden Fox', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s ( A Time to Die ) 22nd novel, already a bestseller in England, adds to his reputation as a writer of suspenseful, knowledgeable thrillers. Isabella Courtney is the only daughter of a wealthy, influential South African family. Ramon de Santiago y Machado is the calculating, cold-blooded villain who skillfully pursues, seduces and impregnates her, then uses the child as a pawn to force her to participate in his cause: a violent revolution against capitalism. In desperation, Isabella is forced to seek help from her family, and it is here that Smith''s skill in building tension shifts into high gear. The final chapters are fast-paced and action-filled, augmenting the effects of realistic settings and exemplary prose throughout. Though Smith sometimes focuses too long on unnecessary detail, this is an entertaining novel by a gifted, intelligent raconteur.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Smith''s newest novel about the Courtney family centers around Isabella, the only daughter of Shasa Courtney, South Africa''s ambassador to England. Ramon de Santiago y Machado, secretly known as El Zoro Dorado or the Golden Fox, concocts an elaborate plan to seduce Isabella, impregnate her, and then use the child as a pawn to further terrorist plots against South Africa. She gives birth to a son, Nicholas, whom Ramon kidnaps when he is one month old, setting in motion Isabella''s betrayal of her beloved family and country. Smith excels at creating finely drawn characters; descriptive settings in London, Europe, and Africa; and a masterful development of an action-packed thriller that gets better as each new predicament unfolds. Expertly written, this novel engulfs readers until the very last page. --Nancy Bard, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA-\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9136'),
(4307, 'The Golden Gate', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Startlingly good!tense!ingenious'' Sunday Express ''Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller'' Sunday Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense. A ROLLING FOR KNOX is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable -- as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9280'),
(4308, 'The Golden Gizmo', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Toddy Kent was born with a talent for finding easy money, but Toddy''s gift has the habit of deserting him when he needs it most. When he discovers a seemingly limitless ( and illicit) source of pure gold, Toddy''s wife suddenly is murdered and he himself is on the run from a sinister man with no chin and a singing Doberman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2180'),
(4309, 'The Golden Mean', 'Annabel Lyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Golden Mean\n  </em>\n  portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his tutor, Aristotle. In sharply executed, revealing dialogue, Lyon draws contrasts between the rational, sensitive Aristotle and the charming, dangerous Alexander, and we''re reminded of another sense of the Golden Mean, the classical ideal of a balance between extremes. In this subtle, earthy story, we watch as the events of Aristotleâ€™s life mold the ideas that made him famous, and watch those ideas in turn mold the prince of Macedon who would one day "open his mouth and swallow the whole world." Lyon draws the curtain back on the smoke-filled huts and palace chambers that shaped the lives of these two great men, whose mutual admiration and intellect transformed civilization. Itâ€™s historical fiction at its finest.\n  <em>\n   --Juliet Disparte\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel Reviews\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel is the author of ten novels, including\n   <em>\n    The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,\n   </em>\n   and the\n   <em>\n    London Review of Books\n   </em>\n   . She lives in England. Read her review of\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world, whether domestic or medical or military, and she has steeped herself in the thinking of the time. She makes her characters entirely solid and real, while respecting their otherness, the distance between us. That is what characterized Mary Renault''s novels, and I think that she would have deeply admired this book. There is a particular difficulty for the novelist in putting on the page characters, like Aristotle and Alexander, who are so famous that they have a mythic quality--there is the danger that anything you say will be bathetic. Lyon avoids this by clear-eyed directness, by freshness of vision, and prose that is clean and careful. And I thought that she chose to end the story at precisely the right point. Part of me said "please let there be more," but at the same time I recognize the job is done. Throughout, I think her judgment is sound and true, and the reader trusts her voice from the first paragraph.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bond between teacher and student occupies the center of Canadian Lyon''s debut novel covering the three years during which Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great, before Alexander''s accession to the throne of Macedonia. The philosopher narrates, recounting his arrival in the court of Philip of Macedon, Aristotle''s upbringing, and his bond with the ruling family. The teenaged Alexander is headstrong and arrogant, but also insecure and vulnerable. "Every student is both a challenge and a laurel leaf," Aristotle says in an early, disputatious meeting. "I haven''t seen anything in you that tells me you''re extraordinary in any way." Alexander matures as he absorbs Aristotle''s core principles. "You must look for the mean between extremes, the point of balance," Aristotle advises the future military genius. Lyon depicts Aristotle''s desire to instill a sense of virtue in his royal pupil in clear, often earthy language, and brings 4th-century Greece to startling life. Lyon richly imagines Aristotle''s stint as Macedon''s royal academician, who gave Alexander the intellectual tools to not only rule but to civilize.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5646'),
(4310, 'The Golden One: A Novel of Suspense', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous -- where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses''s beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(4311, 'The Golden Prince', 'Rebecca Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the outset of Dean''s solid historical, the highly arranged life of the 17-year-old prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, takes a drastic turn. One day in May 1911 while speeding in his motorcar, the prince, known as David, hits a young woman, Rose Houghton, riding on her bicycle near her home, Snowberry Manor. He rushes Rose to the manor house, where he falls almost instantly in love with her youngest sister, Lily. David spends much time at Snowberry, where he can pretend to be an ordinary man. He proposes to Lily, but his father, George V, refuses to allow the marriage. When David threatens to abdicate his right to the throne, Lily must choose between her own well-being and that of England. Besides creating a complicated lead in the prince, Dean (Palace Circle) deftly balances an array of well-drawn characters. Only the cartoonish villain, Captain Cullen, rings false. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "With her insight into the era, Dean brilliantly depicts the man and England so well that readers will believe they are part of the whirlwind that was 1911 England. Through her elegant prose and vibrant descriptions, that world comes to life." --_The Romantic Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well researched and well written, this is romantic historical fiction at its best.Â " --_Library Journal_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5790'),
(4312, 'The golden ratio: the story of phi, the world&#39;s most astonishing number', 'Mario Livio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: *phi*, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and rose petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it. It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci''s *Mona Lisa *to Salvador Dali''s *The Sacrament of the Last Supper*, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been found to be connected to the behavior of the stock market!*The Golden Ratio* is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2528'),
(4313, 'The Golden Rendezvous', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9278'),
(4314, 'Golden Soak', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9345'),
(4315, 'The Golden Steed', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1938'),
(4316, 'A Golden Web', 'Barbara Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alessandra is desperate to escape. Desperate to escape her stepmother, who''s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There''s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas. In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee -- and an enduring fame. In this exquisite imagining of the centuries-old story of Alessandra Giliani, the world''s first female anatomist, acclaimed novelist Barbara Quick gives readers the drama, romance, and rich historical detail for which she is known as she shines a light on an unforgotten -- and unforgettable -- heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/42');
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(4317, 'Goldfinger: 007, a James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming''s most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7649'),
(4318, 'Golem in the Gears', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Grundy Golem got no respect. So, to prove himself, he volunteered for a quest to find the long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. On the way, he somehow manages to free a damsel in distress-- but not without incurring the wrath of the Sea Hag in the process. And when it comes to avenging herself on Grundy, the Sea Hag will never give up....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3310'),
(4319, 'Gone for Good (2002)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9592'),
(4320, 'Gone South', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times bestselling author of Boy''s Life reaches the peak of his storytelling powers with this visionary masterpiece of violence and redemption. Flooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury. Now he is on the run, fleeing to the Louisiana bayous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3564'),
(4321, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan-by dozens of people with one thing in common: They''re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2817'),
(4322, 'Gone with the Wind', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Margaret Mitchell''s epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2404'),
(4323, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don''t want the case. But after pleas from the child''s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everythingâ€”their relationship, their sanity, and even their livesâ€”to find a little girl-lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1180'),
(4324, 'Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi''s definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of __ interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the bookâ€™s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heartâ€™s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow"â€”-the capacity for full engagement in an activityâ€”-to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this view, leadership is a privilege that requires checking ego in the coatroom and peering into the mirror to ask tough questions. For example, "How do I determine if something is right or wrong?" Or, "What is my business doing to benefit human well being?" He offers some inspiring stories from leaders who engage employees to go with the flow, including Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick, Patagonia crown prince Yvon Chouinard, and media mogul Ted Turner. Some of Csikszentmihalyiâ€™s advice will sound familiar. Yet he creates a compellingly fresh vision of good business in both a material and spiritual sense. Ultimately, the success of this book lies in its powerful, non-flaky ability to define corporate soul in terms of a company becoming a stakeholder in an entity larger than itself.--_Barbara Mackoff_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Asking business leaders to turn a profit in this climate is tough enough, but psychologist Csikszentmihalyi challenges them to do something even tougher: make people happy. The author first explored flow, the enjoyment felt when an individual is focused on a complex task, in 1991''s bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and he has often returned to the subject (The Evolving Self; Creativity; etc.). Now he wants to show business leaders how to foster flow and use their psychic energy to enhance the happiness of their employees, customers and even themselves. The advice book offers predictable but sound guidance to business leaders: know oneself, set clear goals for employees and consider the consequences of business decisions. Insightful quotes from figures like Aristotle, Dante Alighieri and John Locke provide some historical grounding, but mostly the author focuses on how modern businesses motivate employees and contribute to the common good. By conducting extensive interviews, the author collects the secrets of successful business leaders, including the Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick; McDonald''s chairman and CEO Jack Greenberg; and AOL Time Warner''s Ted Turner. Roddick, for example, says that looking at company''s lavatories and cafeteria can reveal a lot about a firm''s corporate culture and the happiness of its employees. If a firm fails to create a clean, healthy environment for its workers, it probably isn''t doing much good. Csikszentmihalyi shows how moral responsibility, respect for the environment and clean bathrooms can make a business good and the whole world better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7955'),
(4325, 'Good Bye Stacey, Good Bye', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9754'),
(4326, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11155'),
(4327, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugarsâ€“via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulationâ€“and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.Good CaloriesThese are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables. Bad CaloriesThese are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic diseaseâ€”all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.) Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer. Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then â€“wronglyâ€“were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be. With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories: 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being. 3. Sugarsâ€”sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specificallyâ€”are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimerâ€™s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times. 5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior. 6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller. 7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry. 8. We get fat because of an imbalanceâ€”a disequilibriumâ€”in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. 9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel. 10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be. Good Calories, Bad Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigationâ€“certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8553'),
(4328, 'Good Daughters', 'Joyce Maynard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were born on the same day, in the same hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth is an artist and a romantic, with a rich and passionate imaginative life. Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in what she can see or hear or touch. Yet these two very different women share the same struggle to make sense of their place in a world in which neither of them has ever truly felt she belonged. Told in the alternating voices of Ruth and Dana, The Good Daughters follows these "birthday sisters" as they make their way through the decades, from the 1950s to the present. Master storyteller Joyce Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women''s lives intersect-from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex, marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of home, and the loss of a beloved partner-until an unavoidable moment when a long-held secret from the past alters everything....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2824'),
(4329, 'A Good Day to Die', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dennis Milne is back! A dark, gritty, utterly page-turning novel set in London''s meanest of mean streets: the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed debut, The Business of Dying. When Dennis Milne -- now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines -- hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his friends at the King''s Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne''s search for the person behind his friend''s death leaves a trail of death and destruction that is more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4435'),
(4330, 'A good fall', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (â€œFinely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.â€â€“Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily strugglesâ€“some minute, some grandâ€“faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriendâ€™s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more â€œAmerican,â€ unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jinâ€™s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1861'),
(4331, 'Good Girls Don&#39;t', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Almost. But when fate reunites them, he realizes that some opportunities shouldn''t be missed. Lettie Campbell wants to start her own business--designing lingerie. Her dream is going to become a reality with the cash she''s bringing in as a cheating consultant at My Alibi, a company that lies for cheaters 24/7. When her sister, Amy, asks her to help a friend by providing an alibi, Lettie agrees. Lying to strangers is easy. But lying to the friend you''ve had since fifth grade is hard.As the lies pile up and Lettie and Bill burn up the sheets, she will have to come clean. Because the person she''s lying to is Bill--and no amount of lies will help her when he discovers he''s been conned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2994'),
(4332, 'Good In Bed', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She''s even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a national women''s magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend''s byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9943'),
(4333, 'Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture', 'Rosemary Gong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCharming...a good buy.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFinally, a guidebook I can refer to for answers on how and why Chinese Americans celebrate and observe special occasions.â€ (Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a great resource to Chinese traditions and celebrations, offering explanations of the customs and their symbolism.â€ (Ming Tsai, Food Network chef and author of Simply Ming )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a cultural treasure chest - itâ€™s a wonderful legacy to pass on to future generations.â€ (Martin Yan )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New Year, Clear Brightness, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and many other festivals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with warmth and wit,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is beautifully designed as an easily accessible cultural guide that includes an explanation of the Lunar Calendar, tips on Chinese table etiquette for dining with confidence, and dos and don''ts from wise Auntie Lao, who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs and superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good luck life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4712'),
(4334, 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions. In Pullmanâ€™s own words, Â“The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.â€ Written with unstinting authority, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4182'),
(4335, 'Good Morning, Killer', 'April Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer''s search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective Andrew Berringer. Before their relationship culminates in a violent episode that leaves him clinging for life and her accused of attempted murder, the deviant who brutalized the teenage girl Ana has taken into her heart and under her wing has found another victim, and Ana''s efforts to stop him before he kills her drive Smith''s stunning narrative to a shocking denouement. But the author has additional surprises in store for the reader that involve Andrew''s motivations for escalating their passion--to keep Ana from reopening a closed case involving bank robbery, fraud, and deception, which will lead her to reevaluate the man, and the obsession, that has brought her to the brink of personal and professional oblivion. While many authors who feature the same protagonist in all their mysteries simply serve up the same character in different scenarios in each new outing, April Smith expertly illuminates aspects of her heroine''s psychological life and devotion to justice that deepen our understanding about who she is--a complicated, brave, multidimensional woman it is a pleasure to meet in this engrossing and powerful novel.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intelligent and uncompromising, this second in a series by Smith reprises the successes of her acclaimed first thriller, North of Montana. Feisty, unconventional FBI Special Agent Ana Grey is teamed with tough but compassionate Police Det. Andrew Berringer on a kidnapping case involving Santa Monica teen Juliana Meyer-Murphy. Grey and Berringer continue the tempestuous personal relationship begun in Smith''s first novel: "That''s how we met. Working the same bank robbery, dubbed `Mission Impossible'' because the bandit came in through the roof. We don''t always catch the bad guys, but we''re great with the nicknames." After Juliana is released alive but physically and psychologically devastated, the case becomes personal for Ana. Learning the harrowing particulars of Juliana''s ordeal and observing the well-meaning but brutally invasive examinations the girl must undergo-described in clinical detail-she grows more and more obsessed with the demented killer/rapist, a charismatic ex-marine. As the chase intensifies, so does Ana''s troubled relationship with Andrew. An argument that escalates into physical confrontation changes the lives of both when Ana pulls a gun and fires. While Ana is still in the middle of the fallout, the kidnapping case ends in a Silence of the Lambs-style standoff at the killer''s private gallery of horrors. Smith''s finely calibrated, unsentimental writing and tart humor make her a standout in the genre. She doesn''t just tell a story; she illuminates the human condition through the pain and complex lives-and deaths-of her compelling characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5100'),
(4336, 'Good Omens', 'Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10510'),
(4337, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2318'),
(4338, 'The Good Son: A Novel', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times***** bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (*The Denver Post*), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense** Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers'' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2775'),
(4339, 'Good Things I Wish You', 'A. Manette Ansay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romancesâ€”one historical, the other modern-dayâ€”separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.   Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband''s protÃ‰gÃ‰, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanetteâ€”herself a gifted pianistâ€”wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes''s lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated?   Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara''s birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart''s casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumannâ€”also a mother, also an artistâ€”more than a century earlier.   Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay''s original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6431'),
(4340, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novelâ€”a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one womanâ€™s unbreakable spirit....Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring more griefâ€”this time caused by the secrets of the human heart. Betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine, saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more timeâ€”this time as a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with lifeâ€™s experience, building a future filled with hopeâ€¦out of the rich soil of the past. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelleâ€™s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/901'),
(4341, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher''s better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009''s\n <em>\n  Just Another Judgement Day\n </em>\n as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylor''s help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screech''s honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had, battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Green''s blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor, the Nightsideâ€™s finest PI, returns for a series of particularly difficult jobs. First, heâ€™s hired to escort an elf across town. It doesnâ€™t seem like much, but elves are not well-liked in the Nightside, and that turns a simple cross-town drive into an epic battle. Then Larry Oblivion, the Dead Detective, asks for help finding his younger brother, who hasnâ€™t been seen since the Lilith War. Taylor saw him disappear, but his Sight indicated that he wasnâ€™t dead, so heâ€™s out there somewhere. As if that werenâ€™t enough, Walker, the agent of the Authorities whoâ€™s an old friend of Johnâ€™s father, wants something from John. Walkerâ€™s dying, and he wants John to take on a job. Taylor knows better, but accidents do happen. Taylorâ€™s snappy wit and quick thinking make for another entertaining Nightside volume. While the Nightside books do rather follow a formula, itâ€™s one that delivers consistently. The Nightside may be the most bizarre place imaginable, but itâ€™s fun to read about. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5775'),
(4342, 'The Good, The Bad, and the Undead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9639'),
(4343, 'Goodbye California', 'Alistair &amp; MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Earthquake country,''said the Professor. ''San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hitâ€¦''â€¦until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California''s fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.Goodbye Californiaâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7472'),
(4344, 'Goodbye Dolly', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that contain the clues to cracking this case. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1287'),
(4345, 'Goody Two-Shoes', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: [The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children''s story by an anonymous author, published in 1765. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an excessively or annoyingly virtuous person. In more recent years, the phrase has developed a more negative connotation, implying that the virtuousness of a "goody two-shoes" is insincere.[1]PlotGoody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy, that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes." Later, Margery becomes a teacher, and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children''s literature of the era.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_Two_ShoesPlease, Enjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(4346, 'Googled', 'Ken Auletta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Googles founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Ken Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Auletta goes inside Googles closed-door meetings, introducing Googles notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with and against them. In Googled, the reader discovers the secret sauce of the company''s success and why the worlds of new and old media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists spines, but its a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.Googled is candid, objective and authoritative. Crucially, its not just a history or reportage: its ahead of the curve and unlike any other Google books, which tend to have been near-histories, somewhat starstruck, now out of date or which fail to look at the full synthesis of business and technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2474'),
(4347, 'Goon', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Relentless as a Texas Death-Match, GOON is a no-holds-barred festival of body slams; an insatiable orgy of pile-drivers and sexual grotesqueries, of neck-breakers, drop-kicks, and more blood and guts than a fish-market floor. Goon, this human juggernaut, this masked rack of guts, muscle and mayhem. Is Goon just a wrestler gone insane? Or is he something hideously worse?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9881'),
(4348, 'Goose in the Pond', 'Earlene Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller''s Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales -- she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets that destroy lives -- and inspire revenge...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Benni Harper finds a local storyteller''s body in the lake in the fourth mystery of this series. Benni has recently married the handsome Latino police chief; the murder comes just before a storytelling festival she has organized. Further complications include the arrival of assorted, unmatched relatives who stay for dinner and beyond; tensions between rabid environmentalists and locals; and the emotional bumps and whorls of Benni''s second marriage. The dialogue is often engaging, and the local California color more so, but the plot is full--perhaps overfull--of hot buttons. There are the storytelling and quilting references (each of Fowler''s books has a quilt pattern as its title) as well as plotlines that include a homeless person, lost computer files, unbiquitous coffeehouses, spouse abuse, an unfavorable comparison to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the local library, and a reference librarian. The most fully realized characters are two minor but crucial ones: Benni''s redoubtable grandmother, Dove, and her newly met stepson, Sam. Pleasant enough.\n  <em>\n   GraceAnne DeCandido\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fourth appearance for Benni Harper (Kansas Troubles, 1996, etc.), curator of the Folk Art Museum in San Celina, California- -recently married to the town''s Chief of Police Gabe Ortiz--who''s now deep in preparations for the museum''s first storytelling festival, to be combined with a show of handmade quilts. It''s Benni''s misfortune to discover the murdered body of Nora Cooper, a storyteller at the local library. Nora''s brother Nick is head reference librarian there, under director Jillian Sinclair, a niece of the library''s chief benefactor, Constance Sinclair. Nora, meanwhile, was involved in a bitter divorce settlement with soon- to-be-ex-husband Roy, who lives with girlfriend Grace Winter, a stableowner. They''re Gabe''s prime suspects until it''s revealed that Nora was the author of the Tattler, an unsigned scandal-mongering column in the town''s newspaper. It seems both library and museum staffs are chock-full of people with nasty secrets Nora was busy unearthing. Gabe works hard to restrain Benni''s rampant investigating instincts--with good reason, as it turns out in the out-of-left-field, unsatisfying denouement. Much time is spent on Gabe and Benni''s cluttered domestic life as they play reluctant hosts to Gabe''s troubled son Sam, Benni''s beloved but trying grandmother Dove and flighty cousin Rita--a setup as overpopulated, artificial, and unconvincing as the murder mystery. Quilters and storytelling enthusiasts may find some joy here; others will find this one heavy on chitchat but low on substance. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5605'),
(4349, 'The Gordian Knot', 'Bernhard Schlink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Schlink''s unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who''s struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The naÃ¯ve Polger doesn''t suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, FranÃ§oise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger''s search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author''s detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self''s Murder, etc.). (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georg Polger is down and out in Provence. The translating assignments that pay his bills arenâ€™t coming fast enough. When a new translation firm opens near his village, he finds work, money, and love with Francoise, the firmâ€™s beautiful secretary. Soon, theyâ€™re living together, and Georgâ€™s life is perfect. But that changes when he discovers Francoise photographing diagrams of a revolutionary new helicopter that are part of his latest assignment. Francoise disappears, and Georg understands that heâ€™s been a pawn in an espionage operation. Impetuously, Georg travels to New York to find Francoise and try to understand what happened to his perfect life. Schlink, whose Holocaust novel The Reader (1997) was a best-seller, seems bent on defying genre categorization. Individual scenes in this novel might recall Kafka and Camus, but the primary focus is on quotidian events. Thereâ€™s an espionage element, but naive, self-important Georg is the easiest of marks, and the erratic Francoise is hardly a practiced seductress. In the end, this offbeat, engaging novel is simply the moving story of two flawed people. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6161'),
(4350, 'Gorgeous', 'Rachel Vail', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Allison Avery''s cell phone is possessed--literally. Maybe. Growing up between two sisters of blond beauty, fiery and sarcastic Allison is fed up with being invisible. When the devil appears in a dream and offers to trade Allison good looks for her cell phone, she makes the deal. How much damage can a little phone do anyway? Allison begins to get tons of attention: new friends, a boyfriend, a chance to win a modeling contest. Is it all the devil''s work, or is something more mysterious happening?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4331'),
(4351, 'Gossamer', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11103'),
(4352, 'Goth Opera', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The time of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Manchester, 1993. The vampires of Great Britain have received a message: the long-awaited arrival of their evil messiah is imminent. Itâ€™s time for a recruitment drive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On holiday in Tasmania with Tegan and the Doctor, Nyssa is attacked by a demonic child. She escapes unharmed - except for two small wounds in her neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Why are the descendants of the Great Vampire so desperate to obtain the blood of a Time Lord? And what is their connection to a forbidden ancient Gallifreyan cult?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8643');
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(4353, 'The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York', 'Nancy MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "By demonstrating the importance of gender in the formation and dynamics of youth subcultures, this book represents a challenge to the canon of subcultural theory. A thoughtful and insightful contribution which deserves to become an important text in (sub)cultural studies." â€”Rosalind Gill, London School of Economics and Political Science\n</p>\n<p>\n "Macdonald has gone to the heart of the graffiti writers'' world and brought to bear the most thorough and provocative research. Her success depends, in part, on her forthrightness, her refusal to condescend and her respect for the writers'' enterprise and voice. Her informants are heard loud and clear giving this book an authentic tone that stays in tune with the language of the streets. Macdonald maps out this, largely male, rite of passage and presents adolescence as a period between two worlds: literally in the subway tunnels, figuratively in the subcultural underground. Her candid and often humorous description of the fieldwork process, her unusual perspective as a woman observing men and her well documented conclusions make this book essential reading in the fields of anthropology, sociology and juvenile justice and a very enjoyable read for anyone else interested in art, youth and human nature." â€”Henry Chalfont, author of_ Subway Art_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Subcultures may come and go, but graffiti has stuck around with no sell-by date in sight. In its lifecourse it has rarely been subjected to an analysis that is not only academically persuasive, but also wrapped in the walking, talking, painting actions of graffiti coda. This book offers a fascinating portal into the mind of the graffiti writer." â€”Ephraim Webber, editor of\n <em>\n  Graphotism Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is the most extensive contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture to date. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, this book explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power, and establish independence from the institutions which define, and often limit, them as young people. Forging a link between subcultural practice and identity construction, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in new understandings of youth and their subcultures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11156'),
(4354, 'The Grafton Girls', 'Annie Groves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.When Diane Wilson leaves Cambridge for Liverpool, destined for Derby House and war work as a teleprint operator, she is intent on mending her broken heart. But will hundreds of miles ease the pain of her betrayal?From the moment she first lays eyes on Myra Stone in the Wavertree terrace she is billeted to, Diane senses she''s bad news. But does Myra''s bitterness and caustic wit belie a secret heartache?Ruthie starts work at the munitions factory, enduring terrible conditions in order to put food on the table for herself and her widowed mother. But Ruthie is befriended by lively and vivacious Jess Hunt who injects colour and fun into the drab surroundings.All four women are brought together at The Grafton, the local dance hall favoured by American GIs as well as the local girls. In this heady, uncertain time, infatuation and passion blossom. But has each girl found true love - or true trouble?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7086'),
(4355, 'The Grail King', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in 130 AD on the Isle of Avalon, a lonely young druid finds more than he expected on a quest for the lost Grail of Avalonâ€”he finds a bewitching Roman beauty. It is a loosely linked sequel to *Celtic Fire*, Nashâ€™s Golden Heart Award-nominated debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3184'),
(4356, 'Grail Quest 02 Vagabond', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10589'),
(4357, 'Grail Quest 03 Heretic', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10624'),
(4358, 'Gramma', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11125'),
(4359, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3572'),
(4360, 'The Grand Ellipse', 'Paula Volsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richly inventive and breathlessly paced, this variation on the old "around the world" race theme surpasses Volsky''s earlier acclaimed fantasy The White Tribunal in deft characterizations and sly, wry wit. Tottering on the brink of war, the Vonahr republic watches uneasily as Grewzland''s "vainglorious mystic" imperior Ogron blitzes his unprepared neighbors. The traditionally neutral Low Herz, however, ruled by Ogron''s womanizing dilettante cousin, Miltzin IX, possesses a fantastic new magical weapon with a mind of its ownDthe green Sentient Masterfire. When Miltzin decrees an international race called "The Grand Ellipse" for the wealth and status of a Herzian barony, luscious Vonahrish bluestocking Luzelle Devaire accepts her government''s secret commission: win the race, convince the lascivious Miltzin to sell Masterfire to Vonahr, and thus annihilate Grewzland''s militaristic threat for good. She also hopes to escape the life of genteel wifely servitude that her domineering father has arranged for her. As feisty and resourceful as her Victorian ancestors, Luzelle finds herself drawn to her two chief rivals, the elegant Vonahrish ex-Marquis Girays v''Alisante, her former fianc , and the noble Grewzian Overcommander Karsler Stornzof, product of the mystical Promontory, where honor counts more than life''s blood itself. Although Volsky''s well-crafted novel uses the traditional quest format common in fantasies, Luzelle and her admirers provide thrilling entertainment for readers of all genres as they hurtle from one narrow escape to another. Brimming with vibrant, exotic settings and Volsky''s knack for utterly convincing dialogue (impeded only slightly by contorted consonants in proper names), this lively adventure makes for unflagging reading enjoyment that should appeal to a wide swath of SF and fantasy fans. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an ambitious and fanatical tyrant threatens to invade the rational republic of Vonahr, the leaders of that land resort to desperate measures to acquire a magical creation that could mean the difference between conquest and freedom. To help her country, a young Vonahrish adventuress enters the spectacular race known as the Grand Ellipse in the hopes of winning an audience with the king, who possesses the secret of "Sentient Fire." The author of The White Tribunal excels in portraying fantasy worlds steeped in quasihistorical authenticity and convincing "period detail." Reminiscent of Jules Verne''s Around the World in 80 Days and other "great race" novels, Volsky''s latest sf adventure features an engaging heroine determined to live by her own rules, even at the cost of her heart''s desire.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5821'),
(4361, 'The Grand Finale', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" ("Detroit Free Press"); she''s "a blast of fresh air" ("Washington Post"); "side-splitting funny" ("Publishers Weekly") and "a winner" ("Glamour"). In other words, she''s Janet Evanovich. Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn''t prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer''s pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams? She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2167'),
(4362, 'Grand Junction', 'Maurice G. Dantec', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction. On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle. In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashedviruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself. But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ''n'' roll.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2308'),
(4363, 'The Grand Sophy', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Of all Georgette Heyer''s treasure trove of witty and scintillating Regencies, The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n is my long-time favorite. (Hilary Williamson\n <em>\n  Book Loons\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was... absorbed by Sophy''s antics and rooting for the characters I had come to love. When I turned the last page, I could only wish them all the happiest of ever afters.\n <br />\n (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090710)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n was an exciting, charming read. The characters grab you and don''t let go. (Anna Lemkau\n <em>\n  Anna''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20090710)\n</p>\n<p>\n [F]resh and lively... I couldn''t have asked for a better - or happier - ending. (Meg Snider\n <em>\n  Write Meg\n </em>\n 20090713)\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading this book, I am happy to declare that I fell in love with Heyer''s writing and I think the plot and the characters are very engaging! (Melody\n <em>\n  Melody''s Reading Corner\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fun, engaging and hilarious, I can not recommend it more highly. Sophy is a devilishly fine girl. (Laurel Ann Natress\n <em>\n  AustenProse\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a fun little novel that I''m happy to recommend. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is regency romance with a sense of humor. Sophy grabs you and takes you on a ride you don''t want to end. (Sanchez Nely\n <em>\n  All About the {n}\n </em>\n 20090813)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sophy is molded by Georgette Heyer''s genius and she''s a great character. (_The Book Binge_ 20090813)\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer was known as the "Queen of the Regency romances", and deservedly so... The characters are unique, and the conversations are enjoyable and witty. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n is lively and emotive; a thoroughly satisfying read for all regency era, Historical Romance fans! (Bobbie Crawford-McCoy\n <em>\n  Book Reviews by Bobbie\n </em>\n 20090828)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer wrote a complex and detailed story that really encourages us to think and interact rather than sit idly by and watch the fun happen. (Cinnamon Brown\n <em>\n  A Journey of Books\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer perfectly twisted a tale that includes a cast of characters you''ll root for and some you''ll root against, which makes it all the more fun. (Sabrina Heise\n <em>\n  Cheeky Reads\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sophy sets everything right for her desperate family in one of Georgette Heyer''s most popular Regency romances.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the ton by storm. Sophy discovers that her aunt''s family is in desperate need of her talent for setting everything right: Ceclia is in love with a poet, Charles has tyrannical tendencies that are being aggravated by his grim fiancee, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. By the time she''s done, Sophy has commandeered Charles''s horses, his household, and finally, his heart. (20090623)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10162'),
(4364, 'Grandpa?', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(4365, 'Granny Dan', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina learns to live in and love the world beyond the ballet. And while grateful for Nikolai''s companionship, she is startled by the intense emotions growing inside her for the married doctor. Drawn to Danina, Nikolai cannot ignore the passion between them either, and the strength of their love quickly overpowers their resistance. Soon Madame Markova and Nikolai''s wife remind them of their previous obligations, and as the Revolution hovers on the horizon, the two must make a decision that will change their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if a romance set in the twilight years of czarist Russia doesn''t have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are, and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but-lovable Prince Alexander, the borrowed ball gowns, and the emotional grand jetÃ©, this book has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic, and enjoy this novel for what it is: a classic romance.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fable compact enough to be swallowed in a single gulp, the prolific Steel (Bittersweet) offers a granddaughter''s tribute to Danina Petroskova, "Granny Dan," a Russian immigrant who left the glamorous world of the St. Petersburg Ballet and lived thereafter as a Vermont housewife. The unnamed narrator always loved her grandmother, with her elegant braided hair, roller skates and soft Russian accent. Granny Dan rarely speaks of her life in Russia before the revolution, but when she dies, at almost 90, the narrator inherits a pair of ballet shoes and a packet of love letters that tell the dramatic story of her former existence. Committed at age seven to the ballet, in her teens Danina becomes a prima ballerina who enchants the czar and czarina, becoming the royal children''s boon companion. Stricken by influenza at 19, Danina''s life is saved by Czarevitch Alexei''s physician, Nikolai Obrajensky, with whom she falls passionately in love. This fairy tale is fully outfitted with dreamy details such as ermine-trimmed gowns, covered sleighs and royal balls in glittering palaces. The historical technicalities are glossed over: in this book the Russian czar is a nice man who let the revolution go too far because he wanted his people to express their feelings. The love story is pure melodrama, with Nikolai a princely man married to a "dreadful Englishwoman," and the couple tormented by their unquenchable passions, lofty joys and ultimate tragedy. Steel doesn''t unfold the plot so much as restate the same point: that Granny Dan led an extraordinary life of romance and heartbreak; this slim confection holds few surprises in telling the Cinderella story in reverse.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6026'),
(4366, 'Grantchester Grind', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This sequel to Tom Sharpe''s classic comic novel Porterhouse Blue takes the reader back to the hilarious goings- on at Porterhouse College. Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion- previously head porter, now elevated to Master- is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College''s monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet. Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle- or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap. But will those be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3887'),
(4367, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, *The Grapes of Wrath* is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2982'),
(4368, 'Grass', 'Sheri S. Tepper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets -- and nothing will ever be the same again . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10385'),
(4369, 'Grass for His Pillow', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Takeo and Kaede have visions of their future. Takeo works to escape the Tribe and fulfill the last wishes of his adoptive father, Lord Shigeru Otori. And Kaede, heir to two seats of power, moves forward step by step, aided by her own wits and a precarious alliance with Lord Fujiwara. In their separate worlds, the two long for each other, knowing that they are meant to be together, wondering if they will ever see each other again. . . .  ''The beauty, savagery and strangeness of Hearn''s gripping tale is heightened by her exquisite, crystalline prose. The second instalment in the "Tales of the Otori" is, astonishingly, even better than " Across the Nightingale Floor"'' - Amanda Craig, " Independent on Sunday"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7951'),
(4370, 'The Grass Widow&#39;s Tale', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A reissue of the crime novel first published in 1968, featuring the detective George Felse.Previous reissues include A NICE DERANGEMENT OF EPITAPHS and THE KNOCKER ON DEATH''S DOOR.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her policeman husband gone to investigate yet another murder on the eve of her 41st birthday, Bunty Felse feels dejected until she finds herself involved in kidnapping, chases and murder. Bishop''s smoothly flowing voice deftly narrates the story, keeping the tension and suspense moving forward. Balancing timing and pace with the momentum of the story, she adroitly dramatizes the emotions of the characters. The minor characters'' voices are as easily distinguished and individualized as those of the main characters. The Scottish accents are most enjoyable. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4862'),
(4371, 'Gratitude', 'Joseph Kertes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: March 1944: Warâ€™s darkest period descends upon Hungaryâ€™s Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jewsâ€™ fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of oneâ€™s family precious moment in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3028'),
(4372, 'A grave denied', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying. SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1032'),
(4373, 'A Grave in the Cotswolds', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The classic English village mystery is alive and well and living in Gloucestershire'' Sherlock Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undertaker Drew Slocombe is not having a good day. His business is failing, the car needs an MOT (safety inspection) and heâ€™s driving 120 miles to the Cotswolds to carry out the late Greta Simmondsâ€™ final wishes. Unfortunately, when he gets there, a string of bureaucratic mistakes means that heâ€™s now the chief suspect of a murder inquiry. Heâ€™s beginning to wish he had never heard of Greta Simmonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in Greta Simmondsâ€™ house, which is currently between ownership. Thea is torn between moving back home or waiting for the execution of the will. After all, she does have outstanding payments due. Then the discovery of a body in a nearby field takes the decision out of Theaâ€™s hands, and she finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. Having befriended the policeâ€™s only suspect, Drew Slocombe, Thea believes him to be innocent. As Thea and Drew work together to clear his name, it slowly dawns on them that in a village simmering with secrets, a means and a motive could be laid at anybodyâ€™s door.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7760'),
(4374, 'Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in hardcover from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Dresden Files*.** Harry Dresdenâ€™s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoâ€™s only professional wizard. But in all of Harryâ€™s years of supernatural sleuthing, heâ€™s never faced anything like this: the spirit worldâ€™s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleâ€”and not just of the door-slamming, â€˜booâ€™- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnâ€™t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1711'),
(4375, 'Grave Secret', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.  To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.  Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7494'),
(4376, 'Grave Secrets: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well where, twenty years later, Dr. Temperance Brennan and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared." Forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in North Carolina and Montreal, Tempe is in Guatemala for a month''s service to help some families identify and bury their dead. She digs in a cold, damp pit where she finds a hair clip, a fragment of cloth, a tiny sneaker. Her trowel touches something hard: the hip of a child no more than two years old. It''s heartbreaking work. Something savage happened here twenty years ago. The violence continues today. The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman''s screams. Then there is silence. Dead silence. With this new violence, everything changes, both for the team and for Tempe, who''s asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian ambassador''s daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and Tempe unfortunately knows septic tanks. Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who may have more than just professional reasons to join her on the case, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala''s borders. The stakes are huge. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices. From cutting-edge science in the lab, where Tempe studies fetal bones and cat hair DNA, to a chilling en-counter in a lonely morgue, "Grave Secrets" is powerful, page-turning entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11157'),
(4377, 'The Grave Tattoo', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England''s Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer Fletcher Christian returned secretly from exile to his homeland in the late 18th century. A shriveled body found in a bog seems to bear resemblance to this dashing hero, right down to the South Sea tattoos that blacken his buttocks. Jane searches relentlessly for a lost manuscript by the poet Wordsworth that relates Christian''s tale in tantalizing excerpts between chapters. Various subplots complicate her quest, including a fraught friendship with precocious 13-year-old Tenille, a lonely, mixed-race girl who also loves Romantic poetry. With a feminist, socially conscious spin, McDermid (_The Distant Echo_) vividly contrasts marginal subsistence in London''s dismal Marshpool neighborhood with the Lake District''s bucolic lifestyle. Boasting blurbs from such notable authors as Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen and Joseph Finder, this could be McDermid''s break-out book.\n  <em>\n   100,000 printing; author tour. (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”During an English summer of record-breaking rains, a peat bog in the Lake District opens to reveal a 200-year-old body bearing South Pacific island tattoos. The area, home to Romantic poets, is where Jane Gresham, Wordsworth scholar, grew up, and she finds her interest piqued by the news. She has long believed that Fletcher Christian, HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer, didn''t die on Pitcairn Island but returned to England. She has theorized that Christian recounted his adventures to his old schoolmate Wordsworth, who wrote them down, and those documents and a related poem, now worth millions, lay forgotten in a local home. In the race to retrieve the valuable manuscripts, Jane finds herself competing against sinister forces that would stop at nothing, including murder, to reach them first. The suspenseful story and its subplots, which include Jane''s friendship with 13-year-old poetry-loving Tenille, who lives in Jane''s London public housing project, create an absorbing thriller. McDermid establishes a strong sense of place in the atmospheric and pastoral Lake District that contrasts sharply with the sprawling housing project. Historical and literary references to Wordsworth''s life and work and to the South Pacific adventures of the\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineers all help to make this novel come alive. Teens will enjoy the lively characters, brisk pace, and careful unraveling of the centuries-old mystery with its satisfactory conclusion.â€”_Susanne Bardelson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4815'),
(4378, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2923'),
(4379, 'A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Halloween Night, 1954.Â  A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios.Â  An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall.Â  There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery -- and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3848'),
(4380, 'The Gravity Mine', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â© Stephen Baxter 2000, 2001. This story first appeared in Asimov''s SF, April 2000, and is shortlisted for the 2001 short fiction Hugo Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11087'),
(4381, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- __\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7135'),
(4382, 'The Gray Man', 'Mark Greaney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man-a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there''s no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2870'),
(4383, 'The Great Airport Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A plot to take another man''s job involves a downed plane and the return of a man presumed dead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10269'),
(4384, 'The Great Altruist', 'Z. D. Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Genesis is a confident and brash time-traveler, sure of her abilities, and ready to use them on behalf on anyone in need of fixing a past mistake. But when she tries to help a young Holocaust survivor prevent World War II, she is forced to recognize that her powers are not without a price.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Defeated and filled with regret, James Grant suddenly enters her life. Depressed over a lost love, James is taken back in time on a journey to save his parent''s marriage while learning that living in the past will destroy his future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Still filled with remorse, Genesis tries to leave James - the man she now loves - and live a life of solitude when she learns of her true origin and loses all of her powers...and just when humanity will need them the most!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halfway around the world, an organization bent on destroying civilization and starting anew is gathering its final members for a mission into Earth''s future to gather weapons of mass destruction. When James is dragged into their scheme, he is forced to choose between saving Genesis, his new bride, and the rest of the world. What follows is an adventure filled with backstabbing parents, ruthless secret societies, and a battle across time and space between Genesis reborn and the organization''s most twisted agent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4576'),
(4385, 'The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era', 'Benton Rain Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world''s most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country''s greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(4386, 'The Great Bazaar and Other Stories', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.But there was a time when the demons were not so bold. A time when wards did more than hold the demons at bay. They allowed man to fight back, and to win. Messenger Arlen Bales will search anywhere, dare anything, to return this magic to the world.Abban, a merchant in the Great Bazaar of Krasia, purports to sell everything a man''s heart could desire, including, perhaps, the key to Arlen''s quest.In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man (published in the US as The Warded Man) as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3532');
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(4387, 'The Great Big Cheese Cookbook', 'Running Press', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board offers a massive cookbook dedicated to all manner of cheese recipes that cannot fail to convince even the most resolutely antidairy partisan that every kitchen must sport a refrigerator full of one of the world''s oldest edibles. Cheeses from the Badger State''s farms consist virtually of cows'' milk alone. Goat and cheese varieties still languish in obscurity. These recipes testify to growing American taste for more assertively flavored cheeses such as blue and for less-common Italian varieties such as the liquid mascarpone. Inclusion of a number of Mexican-inspired dishes illustrates the mainstreaming of south-of-the-border cooking even in the upper Midwest. Although this book breaks no new ground and appeals to the most general audience of supermarket shoppers and cooks, it glimpses budding sophistication among both cheese producers and consumers. Color photographs throughout help sell the recipes'' promised delights. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gourmet Retailer.com, June 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œEvery so often a cookbook comes out that is not only a good collection of recipes but is a boon for the industry as wellâ€¦ So it is with great enthusiasm that I trumpet the arrival of a new book that can take its rightful place on the shelf alongside those modern classics, â€œ_The Great Big Cheese Cookbook_â€, a great new resource for cooking with cheese from the folks at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB)â€¦ What is perhaps most exciting about a cookbook such as this one is the business point of view. It lifts cheese off the snack tray and adds it to the kitchen pantry, where it becomes an integral part of the cooking processâ€¦. This one is a must-have for any cheese lover or cheesemonger.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review,Â \n  </em>\n  August 29, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThese creations are sure to whet any cheese-loverâ€™s appetite. Clifton Fadiman once said â€œCheese is milkâ€™s leap towards immortalityâ€ and this book is filled with delectable recipes that will immortalize anyone.â€Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7862'),
(4388, 'The Great Democracies (Barnes &amp; Noble Library of Essential Reading): A History of the English-Speaking Peoples', 'Winston Spencer Churchill; William Gallup', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We are still working on filling in the product descriptions. If you need more information please call or email us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9326'),
(4389, 'The Great Democracies', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; William Gallup', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We are still working on filling in the product descriptions. If you need more information please call or email us.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7006'),
(4390, 'The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941', 'Robert S. McElvaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AÂ _New York Times_Â Notable Book\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.â€â€”_Business WeekÂ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is essential reading.â€ â€”Studs Terkel\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaineâ€™s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its kneesâ€”but also brought together by peopleâ€™s widely shared plight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7490'),
(4391, 'The Great Derangement', 'Taibbi, Matt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9653'),
(4392, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(4393, 'Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now in her 80s, writer Angelou, a food lover who has struggled with weight and health concerns, learned the value of portion control. In this cookbook, she recommends eating great food (no calorie counting) in small portions all day long. Her recipes come from childhood and from her travels and include reworked concoctions influenced and inspired by other cookbooks she loves. Angelou breaks the rules of what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with recipes for meals to eat any time of the day. The emphasis is on food so flavorful that whenever it is eaten, it is savored and so satisfying that small portions are enough. Among the recipes for creamy pork hash, chicken tetrazzini, Swedish hash, and oxtail stew are recollections from her life and commentary on acquired tastes and eating beyond physical fullness. In addition to the meat dishes are sections for vegetarians and recipes for soups and desserts. Gorgeous illustrations and extended commentary add to the appeal of this book. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Praise for Maya Angelouâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Hallelujah! The Welcome Table\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour-de-force collaboration of two of Angelouâ€™s major passionsâ€”writing and cooking . . . She also shares the poignant, pithy and sometimes hilarious memories that accompany each dish.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Ebony\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoet and literary legend Maya Angelou is as mighty with her spoon and spatula as she is with her world-renowned pen.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n â€œSerious comfort food . . . The poetâ€™s life [is] laid out like a colorful banquet. . . . Meals serve as metaphors for life experience.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe life of the poet-autobiographer . . . comes even more alive through plumes of aromas, a palette of flavors and a recipe box of memories.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œEach recipe is thoughtfully conceived and made even more enticing by the personal history attached to it. . . . The result is as divine as the woman herself, full of flavor, passion and hard work.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Oakland Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Readers] will find not only a wealth of dishes . . . but a close-up, personal glimpse of a compelling writer and her family.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”New York Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWritten in the exuberant tone of an impromptu dinner gathering.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n _Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4453'),
(4394, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(4395, 'Great House: A Novel', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7674'),
(4396, 'The great hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3804'),
(4397, 'The great lover', 'Jill Dawson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask what he was like: how did he sound, what did he smell like, how did it feel to wrap your arms around him? So Nell turns her mind to 1909 when, as a seventeen-year-old housemaid, she first encountered the young poet. He was already causing a stir - not only with his poems and famed good looks, but also by his taboo-breaking behaviour and radical politics. Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him. Soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him too. But could he love a housemaid? Was he, in fact, capable of love at all? In a dazzling act of imagination, Jill Dawson gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a dual narrative that unfolds in both his own words and those of her spirited fictional character, Nell. A memorable tale of love in many guises, of heartbreak and loss, the novel brings Brooke vividly to life as it shows him to have been a far more interesting, complex and troubled figure than the romanticised version allows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2116'),
(4398, 'The Great Pursuit', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Totally Filthy Novel To Put The Literary World In Spasms - But Sure To Make A Shameful Pile Of Money In America. Frensic, A Literary Agent With A ''Nose For A Bestseller'' (As Well As Port And Snuff), Places This Hot Property With Hutchmeyer - Who Is The Least Respected Publisher In The World. And A Gullible Author Is Despatched Across The Atlantic For A Chaotic Publicity Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3889'),
(4399, 'Great Sex Secret', 'Kim Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mutual satisfaction during lovemaking - true fulfillment for both partners - really matters, especially in long-term love relationships. But because of the way our bodies "interface" during straightforward intercourse, women are often left unsatisfied. Throughout history, one-sided sex has been the norm - male contentment and female frustration. Even today, with our improved understanding of sexual anatomy, many couples are still in the same fix. Marshall''s carefully researched and superbly written book tells what a few fortunate lovers have discovered - and almost never talk about. "The Great Sex Secret" gives a detailed, straightforward description of three approaches that reliably deliver mutual satisfaction. This book is a perfect conversation-starter for couples who want to find their way to sexual happiness but are having difficulty talking about the details.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10676'),
(4400, 'The great shark hunt: strange tales from a strange time', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that''s why he peaked simultaneously with America''s 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson''s dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat. You need look no further for this writer''s best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson''s primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author''s drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail. Thompson''s style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson''s ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you''re looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2087'),
(4401, 'The Great Simolean Caper', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9587'),
(4402, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India', 'Joseph Lelyveld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhiâ€™s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtroddenâ€”against Gandhiâ€™s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhiâ€™s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatmaâ€”Great Soulâ€”but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhiâ€™s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7780'),
(4403, 'The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better', 'Tyler Cowen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and talk of a double-dip recession persists. Americans are not pulling the world economy out of its sluggish state -- if anything we are looking to Asia to drive a recovery.Median wages have risen only slowly since the 1970s, and this multi-decade stagnation is not yet over. By contrast, the living standards of earlier generations would double every few decades. The Democratic Party seeks to expand government spending even when the middle class feels squeezed, the public sector doesnâ€™t always perform well, and we have no good plan for paying for forthcoming entitlement spending. To the extent Republicans have a consistent platform, it consists of unrealistic claims about how tax cuts will raise revenue and stimulate economic growth. The Republicans, when they hold power, are often a bigger fiscal disaster than the Democrats. How did we get into this mess?Imagine a tropical island where the citrus and bananas hang from the trees. Low-hanging literal fruit -- you donâ€™t even have to cook the stuff.In a figurative sense, the American economy has enjoyed lots of low-hanging fruit since at least the seventeenth century: free land; immigrant labor; and powerful new technologies. Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are barer than we would like to think. Thatâ€™s it. That is what has gone wrong.The problem wonâ€™t be solved overnight, but there are reasons to be optimistic. We simply have to recognize the underlying causes of our past prosperityâ€”low hanging fruitâ€”and how we will come upon more of it.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6648'),
(4404, 'The Great Train Robbery', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian Londonâ€”and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city''s most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England''s industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademarks, Michael Crichton''s classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2205'),
(4405, 'The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time', 'Jeff Deck &amp; Benjamin D. Herson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.Â The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: â€œNO TRESSPASSING.â€ In that moment, his greater purpose became clear.Â  Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationâ€¦ and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.Â Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, itâ€™s into its, and coconunut into coconut.Â But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower.Â  The government charged them with defacing federal propertyÂ  and summoned them to courtâ€”with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated â€œcriminal statues.â€ Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into â€œgrammar vigilantes,â€ airing errors about their errant errand..Â The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though.Â  Â Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacyâ€”and the importance of always taking a second look.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7097'),
(4406, 'The Great War: American Front', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove''s second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," __, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they''re situated in a North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove''s earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only intermittently connect with each other. And there''s not as much in the way of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway, and\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n they''ll appear in this strange new world.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This masterpiece of alternate history takes place in the same world as Turtledove''s How Few Remain and begins a projected tetralogy of a First World War fought with Germany and the U.S. allied against Britain, France and the Confederacy. The reader is drawn in at once as a German cruiser approaches Boston and Jeb Stuart III trains his artillery on the Capitol Dome, and Turtledove sustains high interest throughout the lengthy narrative. As in How Few Remain, the author gives full recognition to social and economic factors (e.g., how conscription impacts politics; how labor shortages affect the position of barely emancipated blacks in the Confederacy). He also plausibly depicts the opening stages of race war. In addition, he unleashes the horrors of trench warfare on American soil and shows how an American army of occupation might look from the point of view of the occupied Canadians. With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it has depended on a United States of America. This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4958'),
(4407, 'The Great War: Breakthroughs', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American Front, Walk in Hell), which has seen a weakened Confederate States of America not only combating the U.S.A. but facing a communist revolt from within staged by its black slaves. In this imaginative sequel, Turtledove displays his usual mastery at maintaining suspense across a broad canvas, with characters that fans will be glad to encounter again: feisty Southern aristocrat Anne Colleton leads a group of militiamen to try to wrest control of her shattered plantation, Marshlands, from the Reds; short-order cook Nellie Semphroch and her amorous daughter escape trial as collaborators thanks to a visit from Teddy Roosevelt; General Custer and his unprecedented command of the army''s "barrels"AtanksAdivision leads to the U.S. scoring some lightning-fast victories. Peace is won, but at a high cost: working mother Sylvia Enos must face the future without a job and as a widow, while Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball may face a war crimes tribunal. Echoing the Treaty of Versailles, the victors make the grave mistake of punishing their enemies so that they dream of revenge. Although a complete and skillfully executed tale in itself, this epic story leaves enough plot threads dangling to demand a fourth novel to tie them up. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As World War I rages across a divided American continent, the beleaguered United States seeks the opportune moment to gain revenge against its Confederate enemies regardless of the cost. Building on the momentum of the previous two series novels, The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell, Turtledove follows his large cast of historical and fictional characters through the turning point of the war to end all wars. Alternate history''s grand master displays his acute knowledge of American history as well as his keen imagination as he paints a vivid portrait of a past that could have been. A good choice for most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4970'),
(4408, 'The Great War: Walk in Hell', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove marches on through history with\n <em>\n  The Great War: Walk in Hell\n </em>\n . In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (\n <strong>\n  ), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand''s assassination in 1914 (\n </strong>\n ), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson''s CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove''s characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human side of war. When Joe Hammerschmitt gets a shoulder wound in the Virginia trenches:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ... pain warred with exultation on his long, thin face. Exultation won. ''Got me a hometowner, looks like,'' he said happily. Half the men up there with him made sympathetic noises; the other half looked frankly jealous. Hammerschmitt was going to be out of the firing line for weeks, maybe months, to come, and they still risked not just death but horrible mutilation every day.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Some find Turtledove''s cast too large, the story''s action too slow. Others complain that\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n is too similar to his Worldwar series. Alternate history buffs, however, will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hugo Award-winning master of alternate world histories presents the second volume in the WWI series he began last year with The Great War: American Front. In Turtledove''s version of the War to End All Wars, conflict rages on the American continent between the USA (with 34 states) and the Confederate States of America, which won secession during the Civil War. Allied with Germany and France, the USA in 1915 hopes to take advantage of a weakened CSA, which is plagued by a socialist revolution engineered by its former slaves. Setting his tale on a suitably large canvas, Turtledove introduces a variety of characters who exemplify the diverse political and economic circumstances of the period: Anne Colleton, a former Confederate landowner, must learn to cooperate with her activist fieldhands; Flora Hamburger, a New York intellectual, fights against class injustice and runs for a seat as a socialist congresswoman; Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball plans a risky attack on New York Harbor. Turtledove judiciously blends famous historical characters into the plot, so readers learn of General Custer''s frustration at being unable to conquer Tennessee and see Woodrow Wilson as a Confederate president. Although there are numerous battle scenes, the gore is restrained. Instead, the author emphasizes character, and his thorough knowledge of the period''s history will, as usual, captivate his readers, Foreign rights sold in the U.K. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4963'),
(4409, 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : At first glance,\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris\n </em>\n might seem to be foreign territory for David McCullough, whose other books have mostly remained in the Western Hemisphere. But\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n is still a quintessentially American history. Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough''s histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it''s hard not to come away with a sense that you''ve learned something new and important about whatever he''s tackled.\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey is\n </em>\n , like each of McCullough''s previous histories, a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers. --_Darryl Campbell_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An epic of ideas, as well as an exhilirating book of spells . . . This is history to be savored."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Stacy Schiff,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn ambitious, wide-ranging study of how being in Paris helped spark generations of American genius. . . . A gorgeously rich, sparkling patchwork, eliciting stories from diaries and memoirs to create the human drama McCullough depicts so well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively and entertaining panorama. . . . By the time he shows us the triumphant Exposition Universelle in 1889, witnessed through the eyes of such characters as painters John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri, we share McCullough''s enthusiasm for the city and his affection for the many Americans who improved their lives, their talent and their nation by drinking at the fountain that was Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Michael Sims,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From a dazzling beginning that captures the thrill of arriving in Paris in 1830 to the dawn of the 20th century, McCullough chronicles the generations that came, saw and were conquered by Paris. . . .\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n will satisfy McCullough''s legion of loyal fans . . . it will entice a whole new generation of Francophiles, armchair travelers and those Americans lucky enough to go to Paris before they die."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Bruce Watson,\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "McCullough''s skill as a storyteller is on full display. . . . The idea of telling the story of the French cultural contribution to America through the eyes of a generation of aspiring artists, writers and doctors is inspired. . . a compelling and largely untold story in American history."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Kevin J. Hamilton,\n <em>\n  The Seattle Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There is not an uninteresting page here as one fascinating character after another is explored at a crucial stage of his development. . . . Wonderful, engaging writing full of delighting detail."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”John Barron,\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCulloughâ€™s research is staggering to perceive, and the interpretation he lends to his material is impressive to behold. . . . Expect his latest book to ascend the best-seller lists and be given a place on the year-end best lists.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA highly readable and entertaining travelogue of a special sort, an interdisciplinary treat from a tremendously popular Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. . . . Highly recommended.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. . . . . McCullough again finds a slighted subject in\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n , which chronicles the adventures of Americans in Paris. . . . Wonderfully atmospheric.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Wendy Smith,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCullough has hit the historical jackpot. . . . A colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8786'),
(4410, 'Greater Than the Sum', 'Christopher L. Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Starship Rhea\n  </em>\n  has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T''Ryssa Chen -- a half-Vulcan -- makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the\n  <em>\n   Rhea\n  </em>\n  comes under attack from the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  -- a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet, and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilated, the lieutenant is whisked two thousand light-years away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quantum slipstream -- instantaneous transportation -- is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  no matter the cost.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christopher L. Bennett\n  </strong>\n  is the author of two previous works of\n  <em>\n   Titan\n  </em>\n  fiction, the novel\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Titan: Orionâ€™s Hounds\n  </em>\n  and the short story "Empathy" in the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows\n  </em>\n  anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum\n  </em>\n  , as well as the alternate\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  tale\n  <em>\n   Places of Exile\n  </em>\n  in\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes: Infinityâ€™s Prism\n  </em>\n  . Shorter works include\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: SCE\n  </em>\n  #29:\n  <em>\n   Aftermath\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again\n  </em>\n  , as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies\n  <em>\n   Constellations\n  </em>\n  (original series),\n  <em>\n   The Skyâ€™s The Limit\n  </em>\n  (TNG),\n  <em>\n   Prophecy and Change\n  </em>\n  (DS9), and\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  (VGR). Beyond\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  , he has penned the novels\n  <em>\n   X-Men: Watchers on the Walls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder\n  </em>\n  , and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7090'),
(4411, 'The Greatest Knight', 'Elizabeth Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10256'),
(4412, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1859 Charles Darwin''s masterpiece, *On the Origin of Species*, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work *The God Delusion* takes them to task.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master''s vision of life, in all its splendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6227');
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(4413, 'The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History', 'Gregory Zuckerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson''s background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn''t sure how to do it. Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him. Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about. But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line. In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year''s end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros''s billion-dollar currency trade in 1992. Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move. Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn''t nearly enough. Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O''Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street''s titans--to make financial history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1589'),
(4414, 'Greek Odyssey', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10931'),
(4415, 'Green for Life', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , Victoria Boutenko focuses on the benefits of greens and offers 45 of her favorite green smoothie recipes.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green for Life _is a revolutionary but simple idea whose time has come. It is a clear inspiration and great resource to readers who desire to lead healthier lives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise. â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book.â€\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School, from the foreword\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s clear, simple, masterful concept is so valuable, so powerfulâ€”we can expect to see and feel the world of health rocked to its foundations within the decade.â€\n <br />\n â€”Thomas C. Chavez, homeopath and author of\n <em>\n  Body Electronics\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria, you did it again! I love your new book. It will bring health to millions, reduce future risks of degenerative diseases for new generations, and make life easier for all of us now. A must read!â€\n <br />\n â€”Dr. Ruza Bodganovich, internationally renowned lecturer and author of_ The Cure is in the Cause_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRaw food expert Victoria Boutenko wants you to eat more leafy greens, but she knows chomping on big bunches of them can be difficult. So, in the second edition of her book\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , originally published in 2005, she instead recommends blending kale, spinach, chard, and the like with different fruits and vegetables and drinking a quart of the resulting green smoothie every day... Already own the book? The new version includes nutritional information on Boutenko''s favorite edible weeds (stinging nettles, dandelions, lambsquarters); testimonials from smoothie converts, who marvel at how their various ailments disappear after going green; and some 20 additional recipes for smoothies and puddings, which Boutenko perfected over six years of experimentation.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Vegetarian Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is the book that makes the case, the proof, if you will, that green smoothies are the missing link in human nutritionâ€¦ After you read the science and the amazing testimonials, you''ll beÂ itching to make your first smoothieâ€¦ Few books are as â€˜must-haveâ€™ as this oneâ€¦ 10+ out of 10.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_Green for Life_ is a book of hope and encouragement, as it shares a simple and viable way to revitalize your life.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmazing and inspiring...\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is impossible to read without craving a fresh, green smoothie. Why? The information and stories in the book (including dozens of first person experiences from those who changed their diets after reading the first edition of\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n ) are compelling, even shocking, and offer the promise of healing for any of us with health and skin issues... pick up this influential book and start getting greens into your daily routine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty is Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_]_ _is extremely motivating. Itâ€™s short, itâ€™s interesting, and it makes you want to run to your nearest green grocer for an armload of greens to shove into your blender.â€\n <br />\n â€”_All Things Nourishing_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen for Life\n </em>\n is a very informative book if you are just getting into the green smoothie revolution. Lots of information and case studies on why green smoothies are beneficial, along with a recipe section. Chlorophyll is liquid sunshine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_In My Mindâ€™s Zen Garden_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n As a nutrition professional I frequently discover new diets and eating habits.Â  Many claim to offer optimal health or weight loss, disease control or the next thing. I find myself reading diet books with a certain skepticismâ€¦ [Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s] research finds many benefits to adding green smoothies to the daily diet... I highly recommend reading [_Green for Life_], and trying the smoothies, to anyone.Â  If your health is declining, your weight is increasing or decreasing unexpectedly, or if you would like overall health benefits of amazing greensâ€¦read this book!â€\n <br />\n â€”Rachel Fox, RD,\n <em>\n  Eat Drink Better\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_ offers] background, logistics, health information, facts, and even a short study with people trying out the smoothie lifestyle. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! ... I noticed a difference in myself after only one day drinking the smoothies.Â That shocked me. I felt so betrayed by my own desires of wanting ''regular'' food. I felt more energized, didn''t need as much sleep the night afterward, and could tell my digestion was betterâ€¦ I''m glad to know there''s an easy way to add greens and fruits to my dietâ€¦ helpful and informative.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Kari,\n <em>\n  Reading For Sanity\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Boutenko] makes it clear throughout [_Green for Life_] that consuming vitamin-packed smoothies is not only the most effective way for our bodies to absorb essential nutrients, adding just one quart of green smoothie a day to one''s diet can help with everything from weight loss and cravings, to healing skin conditions and reversing diabetes. She literally has pages and pages of inspiring testimonials, which is helpful for us as readers since we can pinpoint our trouble spot and then look through the book for a way to tackle it with the help of greens.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty Snob_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGo green with in-season fruits and veggies via one of Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n smoothie recipes. Our fave, the Aloe-Ha.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Posh Mom Life_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA good beginner''s guide that is ripe for discussion.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Elevate Difference_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming even the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In\n <em>\n  Green for Life,\n </em>\n raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of minerals and nutrients, greens exceed other vegetables in value.\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n details the immense health benefits of greens and suggests an easy way to consume them in sufficient quantities: the green smoothie. This quick, simple drink benefits everyone, regardless of lifestyle, diet, or environment. Green smoothies eliminate toxins, correct nutritional deficiencies, and are delicious as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n includes the latest information on the abundance of protein in greens, the benefits of fiber, the role of greens in homeostasis, the significance of stomach acid, how greens make the body more alkaline, the healing power of chlorophyll, and more. Also included are the results of a pilot study demonstrating the effectiveness of adding just one quart of green smoothies a day to oneâ€™s diet, without changing anything else in dietary intake. Green smoothie testimonials and recipes give readers confidence and motivation in exploring green smoothies for themselves. This updated edition offers important new research on the role that omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids play in metabolic health and includes nutritional data on select green smoothies and updated findings on organic versus conventional produce. Offering more in-depth nutritional and experiential information than Boutenkoâ€™s recently released\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution, Green for Life\n </em>\n makes an ideal companion piece to its recipe-rich successor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6578'),
(4416, 'Green Gone Wrong', 'Rogers, Heather', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9979'),
(4417, 'Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution', 'Heather Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In Gone Tomorrow (2005), Rogers detailed everything that is wrong about wasteful packaging and choked landfills. Here she exposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. Industrial organic farms now resemble the conventional farms they were meant to replace; biofuels such as ethanol and palm oil raise food prices and replace precious rain forests, displacing indigenous peoples and creating more greenhouse gases than they save; carbon dioxideâ€“offsetting projects are mismanaged into failure. Yet, despite the title, Rogers found solutions that do work, such as truly organic farming methods, cutting-edge green architecture in Germany and the UK, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Yet our corporate and political leaders continue to incentivize what poses the least challenge to established power structures, leaving out those such as the dedicated, truly organic farmers, who can barely make ends meet. Once again Rogersâ€™ clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The climate crisis is far too urgent to squander another decade on false solutions. This carefully researched, deeply human, and eminently sensible investigation arrives just in the nick of time. Let''s hope it inspires a radical course correction."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Naomi Klein, author of\n <em>\n  The Shock Doctrine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHeather Rogers reminds us with vivid examples that there''s no way we can just subcontract our environmental conscience to the new breed of green marketers. We have a very narrow window to preserve some version of our planet, and we can''t afford the kind of egregious mistakes this volume identifies with such precision. If it''s too good to be true, it''s not true--even if it comes with a shiny green wrapper.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Bill McKibben, author\n <em>\n  Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With deft and adventuresome reporting from around the world, Heather Rogers looks beneath the surface of today''s market- based "solutions" to our environmental challenges and skillfully distinguishes between reality and illusion. Business as usual won''t do, Rogers tells us, no matter how much we green it."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Annie Leonard, author of\n <em>\n  The Story of Stuff\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heather Rogers brilliantly and lethally exposes "green" capitalism for the chicanery that it is. While it may be disappointing to find out that "organic" and even "fair trade" don''t mean squat - not to mention, of course, "carbon offsetting," which turns out to be even stupider than it sounds - these pages make clear what the answer is: stop making colorful excuses for the system that''s driving us off the cliff, and instead make shifts in our economic priorities to bring about real change. May Rogers''s book guide our feet."\n</p>\n<p>\n --The Yes Men\n</p>\n<p>\n "By going beyond exposÃ‰ to analysis, Rogers gives a deeper assessment of environmental problems and solutions than the usual global-warming investigative book."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n Rogers â€œexposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. [Her] clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6646'),
(4418, 'Green Hills of Africa', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man''s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green Hills of Africa\n </em>\n is Hemingway''s account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region''s natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century''s classic travelogues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 6 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8981'),
(4419, 'The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two of the Grand Master''s finest:The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.Â Â Â Â Â Â  From a mysterious region on Earth, where a more advanced lifeform may be studying the interesting creatures called "humans", to the first moon colony, where a young girl''s relationship with her boyfriend is endangered by the beautiful Menace from Earth. Â Â Â Â Â Â  Classic Heinlein, in a new Omni-trade format package.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3955'),
(4420, 'Green Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic.\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n , which won the 1994\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth''s metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. Debate among the settlers--some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred--is divided between the minimalist areoformists, who have come to love Mars in all its harshness, and the terraformists, who want to replicate Earth. As the surface of Mars warms and is seeded with genetically altered plants, the settlers await Earth''s self-destruction, which they hope will give them a chance to claim their independence. They travel endlessly over every inch of Mars--no mean feat, since most of the First Hundred are criminals wanted for their roles in the failed revolt of 2061--with each kilometer and each group of settlers they meet described in laborious detail. When they''re not traveling, these colonists contemplate the history of which they have been a part and which they can only partially recall as a result of their longevity treatments. With the collapse of Earth society and internecine battles among the metanationals, the Martian settlers liberate their cities and declare their planet free. This wide-ranging novel is loaded with all manner of scientific and historical detail, but the story bogs down under its very breadth and seems almost like a Martian year--twice as long as it needs to be. The next and final volume in the trilogy will be Blue Mars .\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5133'),
(4421, 'The Green Mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King''s *The Green Mile* was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the *New York Times* bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain''s electric chair.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he''s never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4257'),
(4422, 'The Green Pearl', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In THE GREEN PEARL, King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both the Ska marauders who once enslaved him and the wicked King Casmir. While organizing the unruly barons in the frontiers of his land, Aillas goes out of his way to capture the lovely Ska noblewoman who once stung him with her disregard. When he gets separated from his men, his dream of forcing the lady''s recognition becomes the toil of dragging a defiant captive across lands governed by Casmir''s henchmen. Meanwhile, the world of magic has gone on the move. The concentrated malice of the witch Desmki has manifested as a green pearl, breeding lust and envy and death; and a sorcerer in Casmir''s employ abducts the princess Glyneth, in a bid to draw Aillas and friends on a hopeless rescue mission across a bizarre and deadly alternate world.A masterpiece of romantic, picaresque adventure, THE GREEN PEARL extends the epic founded with LYONESSE: SULDRUN''S GARDEN and concluded in the World Fantasy Award-winning MADOUC. The ElectricStory eBook comprises the definitive text assembled and re-edited by the Vance Integral Edition project with the close collaboration of Mr. Vance himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9172'),
(4423, 'The Green Ripper', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1575'),
(4424, 'Green shadows, white whale', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3852'),
(4425, 'Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book."\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural Health_ is one among many naturopathic books available that attempt to get people eating healthily againâ€¦ Filled with easy, quick recipes that combine familiar and unusual fruits, vegetables and greens, Victoria Boutenko serves up an excellent book to readers who will all be hungry for more.â€\n <br />\n â€”Examiner.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is groundbreaking and needed by a population whose health is threatened by its own processed food supply. From a naturopathic perspective, the most important constituents of healing are here in these new recipesâ€”enzymes, amino acids, fiber, minerals, antioxidants, and much more. Victoria Boutenko has an intense sense of curiosity combined with a brilliant mind... Join the Green Smoothie Revolution! You may not buy a more important book this year!"\n <br />\n â€”Ariel Policano, ND\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is clear that Victoria Boutenko did her homework, because I found myself highlighting sentences on nearly every page. Though Victoria includes ample science in her book, the tone is very conversational and easy to read...This book has truly inspired me to get back on track with more green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Basil &amp; Spice_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI rarely say this, but I am a big fan of this book. I would recommend reading\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n and then picking up a copy of\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n to launch your new understanding of health and nutrition to the next level.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Ridgefield Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBoutenkoâ€™s book is a simple guide for anyone who wants to find out what all the green smoothie fuss is about. Readers will learn why green smoothies are so healthy, why we should have more greens in the first place, and what health changes one might expect from this lifestyle changeâ€¦ I know right where to go for added health inspiration.â€\n <br />\n â€”dkMommySpot.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPublic health could be completely revolutionized by following Victoria''s adviceâ€¦ Green smoothies are for everyone, not expensive, and [Victoria Boutenko] even tells you which greens you can find through foragingâ€¦ Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Eco Mamaâ€™s Guide to Living Green_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Green Smoothie Revolution] provides lots of info and inspiration â€” basically anything you could ever want to know about green, blended drinks.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Nutritionista\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n , Victoria has truly created a companion guide to\n <em>\n  Green For Life\n </em>\n â€¦ Together, both of these books create all you need to know about Green Smoothies. There are a vast amount of recipes included in this book, with bonus recipes for pets!â€_\n <br />\n â€”Raw Food Right Now\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œYou may not think that reading about how humans and chimps share 99.4% of the same genes is exciting, but it is! Boutenko has unlocked the missing component in human nutritionâ€¦Her passion for healing is clear.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_ is an educational and inspiring reference book, giving us an understanding of the power and miracle of greensâ€¦ Everyone should have a copy of this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Raw Epicurean_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat a great resource for overall health and nutrition!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Naptime Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe great part about [_Green Smoothie Revolution_] is the variety of recipesâ€¦that are all fun and differentâ€¦Overall this is a great book for those interested in raw foods, green smoothies and healthy new ways to get greens into ones diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cooking for a Vegan Lover\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne really important concept that I learned from\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n wasâ€¦even if one does not adopt a â€˜raw foods diet,â€™ but supplements a regular diet with one or two green smoothies a day, there are still immense health benefits.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_ has] lots of great information and ideas for smoothiesâ€¦ I love the idea of getting my favorite dark, leafy green vegetables into such an easy snack or light breakfastâ€¦They keep me full longer than fruit alone and are perfect before an early morning workout.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Find Your Balance Health\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a nice primer on a very easy way to amp up your nutritional habitsâ€¦ Raw foods can be intimidating but this is such an easy first step.â€_\n <br />\n _â€”Best-SellingBooks.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI love this bookâ€¦ I usually throw a little bit of everything into the smoothies I make (veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.), but this book gave me some inspiration for a slightly different approach. Boutenko stresses the importance of dark leafy greens, and gives lots of recipes for incorporating these healthy plants into smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Mulberry Spot\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThere are some amazingly good points in the book, and I absolutely support the daily consumption of green smoothiesâ€¦ If you want great smoothie recipes, I totally recommend this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Julie Loves Dogs\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a great bookâ€¦I highly recommend itâ€¦ [the book contains] loads of recipes and tips, and also provides a detailed understanding of why you should go raw, and the wonderful healing power of green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Wellwoman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_] will not only help you become personally greener, but it will spark your creativity gene and give you the green light to experiment.â€_\n <br />\n â€”GoRawMe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe book is crammed with recipes, but the basic idea is easy to run with.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Star News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI highly recommend [_Green Smoothie Revolution_]â€¦ reading this book has convinced me that green smoothies can truly deliver. Already, I have tried a few of the recipes in the book, I can definitely feel the nutritional boost in energy from this amazing beverage!â€\n <br />\n â€”Carlos Rull,\n <em>\n  Raw2Zen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI had some questions and thoughts about the smoothies that I planned on figuring out by doing some e-search, but this book gave me all the info I was looking for! I finished it in under a day.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sabine,\n <em>\n  The Fruit Persuit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n provides comprehensive information with a large selection of recipes from the creator of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko. It will appeal to dieters who are ready to make a dramatic lifestyle change as well as those wishing to improve the nutritional quality of their diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”EveryDiet.org\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn earthy, health enthusiast, informational collection of eating your veggies, greens, and fruits through smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Reading For Sanity_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency.\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes,\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6575'),
(4426, 'Green: The Beginning and the End', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As foretold by ancient prophets, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the Earth a new Adam. This time, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called . . . Green. But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest. Then, when least expected, twenty-four-year-old Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and awoke in that future Black Forest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8790'),
(4427, 'The Greenlanders', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this vast, intricately patterned novel, Smiley accurately captures the voice of the medieval sagas. Understated, scattered with dreams and warnings, darkened by the brooding sense of unavoidable disasters to come, it is the tale of a Scandinavian settlement that lasted perhaps 500 years. With a meticulous attention to detail, the novel brings daily activities to lifefrom cheese making to hunting walruswhile examining the passions of a people under stress. The action centers on the family of Gunnar Asgeirsson. Gunnar''s sister Margret is married off to Olaf, but he fails to consummate the marriage, and Margret begins a clandestine affair with a Norwegian sailor, Skuli Gudmundsson, who has stayed on in Greenland as a household retainer. Violence and tragedy ensue, and as Margret''s unhappiness increases, her character hardens, and she offers her labor as an itinerant servingwoman. Although Margret is not always onstage, the novel spans the years of her long life. A foil to Margret, but no luckier, is Gunnar''s wife, Birgitta, who is gifted with second sight. It is she who sums up the overriding sense of futility: "We have come to the ending of the world, for in Greenland the world must end as it goes on, that is with hunger and storms and freezing." Like the original Norse sagas, The Greenlanders roves restlessly from one folk group to another. Many of their destinies interlock, and certain exterior forces prey upon them all: the harsh climate; the marauding "skraelings," aboriginal Eskimos regarded as demons; outbreaks of bubonic plague and famine. Compulsive feuding, a witchcraft craze and a willingness to heed the apocalyptic prophecies of the madman Larus help to tear the society apart. As in her previous fiction (Duplicate Keys, The Age of Grief), this novel reveals Smiley''s skill in delineating the behavior of individuals confined within a group. Her depiction of an isolated medieval folk battling for survival has a modern relevance. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Of proven skill when writing short stories and conventional novels, Smiley here attempts a family saga set among the Norse peoples of 14th-century Greenland. Centered on the fortunes of farmer Asgeir Gunnarsson and his children and grandchildren, the narrative pictures a bleak, declining society. Founded by Erik the Red, the Greenland colonies flourished for centuries; then trade shipments were cut off by the Black Death in Europe, the climate grew colder, and native peoples became increasingly hostile. Vivid, even stunning descriptions of the land and customs of these "lost settlements" are the book''s strong points. Characterizations are less successful; many personalities remain wooden throughout the lengthy action. Nevertheless, the exotic subject matter will appeal to historical novel fans.Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5904'),
(4428, 'Greenwitch (Dark 3)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Grades 4-7--In this third book in Susan Cooper''s Dark Is Rising sequence (McElderry, 1985), Simon, Jane, and Barney return to Cornwall with their Uncle Merry after learning that the grail they had found in Over Sea, Under Stone (Harcourt, 1966) has been stolen from the British Museum. Will Stanton and his American uncle come to Cornwall as well, and initially there is some tension between the children. The locals are preparing for a celebration in which the women fashion a being from sticks and leaves and toss it into the sea. Jane''s kindness wins the favor of this mystical effigy and it yields its secret the manuscript that will make it possible to decipher the writing on the grail. Although the grail has been stolen by the Dark, it is found and the writing proves to be the prophetic rhyme whose words will be fulfilled in the next books. The story requires some knowledge of the previous books, and only becomes complete after reading the subsequent books. This exciting and beautifully written story is filled with magic and mystery. It is unfortunate that the man who stole the grail identifies himself as part Romany, or Gypsy, thus reinforcing a negative stereotype. Alec Jennings does a superb job of reading this tale, as he has done with the first two books in the series. His expression and pacing suit the story well, and he is at ease with Cornish names and words. There are two places where editing cuts words short: when Merry tells the children to "look it up" it sounds like "crit up," and when the thief tells Barney to "open the box" it sounds like "pen the box." These quibbles aside, the technical quality is excellent. Libraries in which this series is popular will want this recording if they are buying the others in the sequence. Otherwise, The Dark Is Rising (Aug. 1999, p. 68) and The Grey King (Oct. 2001, p. 89) are more vital purchases.\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  "When most people hear ''large-print book,'' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children''s books -- from the powerhouse\n  <i>\n   Harry Potter\n  </i>\n  series to timeless classics like\n  <i>\n   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\n  </i>\n  -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children''s Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children''s librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children''s Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  (October 2000) (\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Thorndike Press has helped me not only find books I want to read, but they also look like regular books. That''s important when you''re a kid and you can only read Large Print, you want your book to look like all the other books. I''m reading a lot more now that we have found Thorndike Press."\n  <br />\n  -- Jim Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Everyone loves to read, there''s nothing like curling up with a good book. We''re a reading family, so when our son was diagnosed with Stargardt''s Disease and only able to read Large Print, it was particularly difficult. Books on tape are wonderful but they don''t fill the void of actually reading a good story. Large Print books have been around a long time for older people, but to find a good novel for a young person in Large Print began to feel nearly impossible. The books that Thorndike Press publishes have truly made a difference in my son''s reading life. He can enjoy current novels as well as some of the classics that he missed reading when it became too difficult with regular print."\n  <br />\n  -- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who . . . create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   Psychology Today\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10574'),
(4429, 'Grendel Tales: The Devil May Care', 'Terry Laban; Matt Wagner; Peter Doherty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While most of humanity has been decimated in the apocalypse, the hunger for sporting events survives and is stronger than ever! It''s race time in Indianapolis, and the only thing hotter than the action on the track is the passion boiling outside of the stadium walls. Local Grendel chief Hack has his hands full. Between the volatile visiting Grendel clans tearing up the town, a mysterious vigilante on a Grendel-killing spree, and forces within his own clan that seek to depose him, there''s little room for error or emotion. But when he feels himself falling for Dana, the city hospital''s headstrong lead physician, he quickly finds things spiraling out of his control. And he''s not the only one with problems. Dana''s struggling with her delinquent son, desperately trying to keep him away from the very Grendel that she herself is growing ever attracted to. Something''s gotta give, in this tragic tale of passion, love, and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4214'),
(4430, 'Grey Griffins: The Clockwork Chronicles #1: The Brimstone Key', 'Derek Benz; Jon S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!Max---the leaderNatalia---the brainsErnie---the changelingHarley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school. When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and supernatural abilities---in order to power his army of clockwork war machines. In The Brimstone Key, authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis deftly blend the mystical wonder of steampunk with magic and adventure to create an action-packed thrill ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(4431, 'The Grey King (Dark 4)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Gr 5-8-While recovering from hepatitis, Will Stanton is sent to a farm in Wales where he is soon caught up in the battle against "the Dark." He struggles to recall the prophetic lines he once memorized and gradually, as he learns the local place names of the geographic features around him, the meaning of the lines becomes clear to him. Through Bran, a young boy with mysterious origins who becomes Will''s friend, Will fulfills the prophecies and once again defeats the Dark. This fourth book of Susan Cooper''s The Dark Is Rising series (S&amp;S Childrens, 1975) won the 1976 Newbery Medal. Twenty-five years later, it is still as powerful and mesmerizing as when it was first published. Richard Mitchley''s reading is excellent and heightens listeners'' enjoyment of Cooper''s prose. His ease with Welsh pronunciation and the distinctive cadence of Welsh English adds greatly to the authenticity of the story''s setting, which is an essential element of this book. He gives the characters distinctive voices without actually doing voices for each. Children not familiar with the earlier books in the series may find the basic premise a bit confusing since Will''s status as an "old one" and the conflict between the light and the dark are not given much explanation. However, this audiobook is so well done that those who enjoy fantasy will relish it. It will also be a good choice for older children with reading disabilities when they need to "read" a Newbery title.\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n   </i>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition."\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10573'),
(4432, 'The Grey Man', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL-LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he''d like a night out himself. And he''s not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He''s going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5545'),
(4433, 'Greybeard', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on theselves. Was slighty revised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9884'),
(4434, 'A Grief Observed', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 6, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(4435, 'The Grief Recovery Handbook', 'John W. James; Russell Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Revised edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9222'),
(4436, 'The Grifters', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2192');
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(4437, 'Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America', 'Matt Taibbi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Taibbi eviscerates Wall Street for what he considers frauds perpetrated on the American people over the last ten years. Deftly delving deeply into complicated financial history and lingo, Taibbi deftly lays the subject bare, rendering heretofore-dense subject matter simple without being simplistic. Blame for the recent mortgage collapse, commodities bubble, and tech bubble are laid at the feet of a relatively small number of bankers and traders who, in the author''s opinion, act without fear of reciprocity from a U.S. government no longer representative of the American people. He begins by awarding the title "Biggest Asshole In The Universe" to former-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan, taking him to task for willfully or stupidly disemboweling what little regulation the financial markets may have had before his tenure. This theme resounds throughout, and Taibbi asserts that the collusion between Wall Street and the White House has effectively turned the United States into a massive casino, in which working Americans are regularly bilked out of their savings and homes while the wealthy are repeatedly rewarded for their graft. It''s an important and worthy read, but not for the Randian disciple or Goldman-Sachs alum. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Rolling Stone contributing editor Taibbi delivers a blistering examination of the upheaval that has roiled the American economic system over the past several years. At the heart of the upheaval, he says, is a vein of greed running up and down the real-estate industry, from mortgage brokers who falsified customer loan applications to banks that parceled out mortgages to second and third parties to rating agencies that signed off on highly suspect loans. Taibbi saves a good deal of venom for former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, arguing that Greenspanâ€™s philosophy of easy cash, limited government oversight of markets, and bailing out â€œtoo big to failâ€ financial institutions all fueled the recent economic meltdown. And Taibbi profiles a recently passed health-care bill severely compromised by an all-powerful insurance lobby. As critical as he is of the processâ€”a process not likely to get fixed any time soonâ€”he doesnâ€™t seem to carry an agenda; instead, like any good investigative reporter, he mostly follows his nose. --Alan Moores\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5939'),
(4438, 'Grim Tuesday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8â€“Just 15 minutes after\n  <em>\n   Mister Monday\n  </em>\n  (Scholastic, 2003) ended, with Arthur Penhaligon cleaning up the mess the slothful Mister Monday made of Earth, the asthmatic orphan is summoned again. His new adversary is Grim Tuesday, and once again he finds himself in a battle to the death to get the Second Key. If he gives in to the errant Days or loses the battle against them, he knows they will destroy his own home on Earth as well as the Denizens and inhabitants of the magical House, including his new friend and stalwart companion Suzy Turquoise Blue, one of the children spirited away from plague-ridden Europe by the Pied Piper centuries earlier. Grim Tuesday''s weakness is greed, and the themes running through this book all revolve around excesses of manufacturing, copying, and accumulation. As before, Nix creates unusual characters, artifacts, and settings. Once again, Arthur proves himself a worthy hero as he overcomes his fears, weaknesses, and setbacks in order to save the people and the worlds that are depending on him, whether they know it or not. But of course, there will be more challenges to come. The series is aimed at a younger audience than Nix''s masterful\n  <em>\n   Sabriel\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 1996) and its sequels. While occasionally longer than they need to be, Arthur Penhaligon''s adventures are absorbing and entertaining, with worthy characters and thought-provoking situations._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground." Amanda Craig PRAISE FOR MISTER MONDAY: "I just loved Mister Monday, which is an amazing, no-holds-barred fantasy by Garth Nix. This is destined to be a cult series. Every chapter seems to bring something new and wonderful and ends with another surprise. In all honesty, I''ve never read anything quite like it and I simply can''t wait for Tuesday." Anthony Horowitz "Magic splashes across every page! With a likeable unlikely hero, fast-paced plotting and a plethora of mystical oddities, this series is sure to garner a host of fans." Publishers Weekly starred review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9668'),
(4439, 'The Grimm Legacy', 'Polly Shulman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual libraryA- a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. ThatA''s where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow WhiteA''s stepmotherA''s sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crimeA-or captured by the thief. Polly Shulman has created a contemporary fantasy with a fascinating setting and premise, starring an ordinary girl whose after-school job is far from ordinaryA- and leads to a world of excitement, romance and magical intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5781'),
(4440, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1830'),
(4441, 'The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **National bestselling author of *Roadkill* ** Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she''s a bit more than human herself. She''s just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn''t going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3616'),
(4442, 'Grimus', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island''s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island''s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)20.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)13.3\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6332'),
(4443, 'Grip of the Shadow Plague', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Very strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem early, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn. The Sphinx has always given sound advice -- but is he a traitor? Inside the Quiet Box, Vanessa might have information that could lead to a cure -- but can she be trusted?Meanwhile, Kendra and members of the Knights of the Dawn must journey to a distant preserve and retrieve another hidden artifact. Will the Society of the Evening Star recover it first? Will the plague eclipse all light at Fablehaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(4444, 'The Gripping Hand', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." *The San Francisco Chronicle* declared that "as science fiction, *The Mote in God''s Eye* is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as *Footfall *and *The Legacy of Heorot,* return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed-- or die. And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10233'),
(4445, 'Ground Zero: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded themâ€”the obvious choice. A few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No oneâ€”absolutely no oneâ€”will guess the truth behind the who and why of this day.Â Years later, someone does. Repairman Jackâ€™s childhood friend, Weezy Connell (the genius girl from the Tor Teen novel, Jack: Secret Histories), has started fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her conclusions on the Web. But she canâ€™t stay anonymous forever. Someone is after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in every direction.Â Theyâ€™re all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack has been drafted. And if the plot behind it--millennia in the planning--succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/631'),
(4446, 'Grounded', 'David Bischoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the glaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection form spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even as the end draws neear for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  Captain Picard begins to formulate a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew -- a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a connfrontation with a malevolent alien force -- which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the galaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection from spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the end draws near for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , Captain Picard begins to formulat a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew, a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a confrontation with a malevolent alien force which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6206'),
(4447, 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole', 'Sue Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The new book takes up the diary where the last left off, and is quite as classic'' Financial Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At fourteen, Adrian Mole''s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8072'),
(4448, 'Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny', 'Marlo Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital. Thomas, author of five bestselling books, here focuses on a role she''s had her entire life: daughter. Laughter was the soundtrack for Thomas''s formative years in 1950s Beverly Hills. Her father, comedian Danny Thomas, regularly had funny friends--including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and George Burns--over to the family home. The author, actress, feminist, and philanthropist shares fond memories of enjoying and learning from these comedy luminaries, and of being a Hollywood kid long before game-changers like the Internet and cable TV. She chronicles her path from childhood to adulthood; particularly interesting tidbits include her meeting and marrying Phil Donahue, becoming friends with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, and, with her siblings, "producing" her father''s funeral. But this book is more than a well-written memoir. Thomas also includes interviews with comedy powerhouses galore, from Tina Fey to Alan Alda, Chris Rock to Ben and Jerry Stiller. On the whole, this book offers a delightful firsthand look at how comedy has become integral to American culture--and the way it''s shaped one woman''s colorful life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas, star of the classic sitcom That Girl and daughter of comedy legend Danny Thomas, has taken an interesting approach to the usual Hollywood memoir. Chapters exploring her life as the daughter of comedy royalty, and her struggles to establish an independent identity for herself, alternate with profiles of contemporary comedians (Seinfeld, Leno, Stiller, Rock, Crystal, Rivers, Williams, Fey, Wright, and Colbert, among others). We see how her father inspired her, and we also see how he inspired the professionals who came after him. Thomasâ€™ personal stories are heartwarming and entertaining. Her father, who came by his legendary status by dint of hard work and perfect delivery, comes across as a driven man who always made time for his family and who never made any secret of the fact that he loved his little girl. It was a privileged childhood, to be sure, and you canâ€™t help being a little envious of someone who grew up around the likes of Milton Berle, George Burns, and Sid Caesar. The profiles of other comedians allow us to see Danny Thomas through othersâ€™ eyes, too, offering a different perspective on the man and his legacy. An engaging, highly informative memoirâ€”definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5153'),
(4449, 'Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq', 'John C. McManus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus demonstrates that, from the invasion beaches of the Second World War to the deserts of the Middle East, the foot soldier has been the most indispensible-and most overlooked-factor in wartime victory.  Advances in weaponry have threatened to render the infantryman obsolete for centuries. Even today, precision-guided munitions, nuclear bombs, aerial drones, computers, and satellites have made victory in modern warfare seem like a simple matter of superior hardware, negating the need for ground soldiers. In truth, even as technology advanced at a dizzying pace throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ground soldiers, especially infantry "grunts," did almost all of the fighting and dying in America''s wars.  Examining ten critical battles, McManus covers six decades of warfare-from the 1944 fight on the island of Guam to today''s counterinsurgency combat in Iraq-in which the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Penetrating the flowery rhetoric of headlines and standard battle narratives, McManus exposes the shocking brutal realities of modern ground combat.  Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way that few books have. Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a passionate plea for fundamental change in our understanding of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8359'),
(4450, 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories', 'Charles Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Baxter''s skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection of 23 stories, seven of which are new. The title story is deservedly a classic, and other favorites, such as "Fenstad''s Mother," have gathered resonance as well, and the new stories show Baxter working a quirky beat. In each, the acutely observed real world is rocked by the exotic or surreal. In "Poor Devil," the "devils" are a self-destructive couple headed for a divorce, while, in "Ghosts," a stranger enters a young woman''s house and tells her they are soul mates. She accuses him of being a devil, but his intentions are much less sinister than she imagines. "Nightfall had always brought his devils out," the narrator says in "The Old Murderer," a touching story about an alcoholic and an ex-con, each trying to get through the day. In "Royal Blue," arguably the best of the new stories, an undertow of mystery shadows a handsome young art dealer who understands that 9/11 has affected a fundamental change in his life. In Baxter''s comic-melancholic world, people may be incapable of averting sadness or violence, but they survive. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baxter is a well-regarded short story writer who should be more widely appreciated. He is a consummate chroniclerâ€”depictorâ€”of ordinary lives with which the majority of good fiction readers can identify. (â€œIn my university town there are hundreds of men like Harrelson,â€ says one narrator, whose recognition of the type will be shared by all of us.) Baxter attaches to these lives an eccentric aspect, which, ironically, heightens their universalityâ€”we all have our quirksâ€”and which increases our responsiveness to them. This volume pulls stories from the authorâ€™s four previous collections and adds seven previously uncollected stories. As in all big compilations, quality varies. The superior stories, including the title story (a delightful first-person narrative, from the perspective of a fourth-grade boy, about an odd substitute teacher), showcase Baxterâ€™s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7804'),
(4451, 'Guardian of the Horizon', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hitherto lost journal of Amelia Peabody''s has been miraculously recovered -- a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending the summer at home in England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the brother of their dear friend Tarek, prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the herald brings news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek''s heir and conveys his urgent need for help. Driven by loyalty, the family sets off in secret, braving the treacherous desert climate on a trek fraught with dangers. Guided by only a crumbling map, the Emersons are unaware that deception is leading them onward into a nest of vipers -- where a dreadful fate may await.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1320'),
(4452, 'Guardians of the coral throne', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1936'),
(4453, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1189'),
(4454, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3387'),
(4455, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', 'Mary Ann Shaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9941'),
(4456, 'Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2. 0: 1001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks, and Tactics to Land Your Dream Job', 'Jay Conrad Levinson; David E. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Today''s Job Jungle, the Guerrilla is King\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren''t advertised or don''t even exist yet."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Donlin\n  </strong>\n  , creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jason Alba\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, JibberJobber.com; author,\n  <em>\n   I''m on LinkedInâ€”Now What???\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Recruiters: read this book! You''re going to need it. When people start following the advice in\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  , you''re going to be looking for a job."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shelly Harrison\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, Launch Pad\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Job hunters don''t need to be told the ''what'' of job hunting, they want and need to know the ''hows.'' They are all here and then some."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Dave Opton\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audienceâ€”in a cost-effective fashion."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Sam Zales\n  </strong>\n  , President, Zoom Information Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t get lost on the battlefield, win the war.\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  will give you the ammunition to get noticed."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donato Diorio\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Broadlook Technologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lays out a straightforward and detailed ''plan of attack'' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Gautam Godhwani\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, SimplyHired.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Rothberg\n  </strong>\n  , founder, CollegeRecruiter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Terrence Kulka\n  </strong>\n  , Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here''s how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Peter Clayton\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Total Picture Radio\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   P.S.â€”We knew you''d read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ready! Aim! Hired!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is an immensely helpful book, with the ancient wisdom of recruiters, and the up-to-date insights of two skilled Internet surfers. If you''re job-hunting, you''ll be grateful to learn the tips and tricks of these two seasoned veterans. I learned a lot myself."\n  <br />\n  â€”Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have been an apprentice, a company president, and a CEO. No other single source provides a more contemporary and embracing job search bible. This book offers literally hundreds of little known insider tips, strategies, out-of-the-box success stories, hands-on exercises, and pearls of wisdom. Many readers will hear the words, ''You''re Hired'' due to David Perry, Jay Levinson, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters."\n  <br />\n  â€”Kelly Perdew, Executive Vice President, Trump Ice winner of The Apprentice 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is an absolutely ''right on'' book for today''s job market. It not only has great job search tips but it takes you into the electronic job search system better than anything I''ve seen written to date."\n  <br />\n  â€”William J. Morin, Chairman and CEO, WJM Associates, Inc. former CEO of DBM\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using a typically unconventional Guerrilla approach, authors Levinson and Perry cover all the basics of a winning campaign. This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet for everything from research and job searches to your own Web site, blogs, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing an extreme resume makeover and creating a higher-powered value-based resume\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harnessing the full power of Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of your competition (or other job hunters)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Branding yourself and selling your strengths in resumes, letters, e-mail, and interviews\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters includes real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from over 100 prominent headhunters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8901'),
(4457, 'Guerrilla Marking for Job Hunters 2.0', 'Jay Conrad Levinson &amp; David E. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Today''s Job Jungle, the Guerrilla is King\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren''t advertised or don''t even exist yet."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Donlin\n  </strong>\n  , creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jason Alba\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, JibberJobber.com; author,\n  <em>\n   I''m on LinkedInâ€”Now What???\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Recruiters: read this book! You''re going to need it. When people start following the advice in\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  , you''re going to be looking for a job."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shelly Harrison\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, Launch Pad\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Job hunters don''t need to be told the ''what'' of job hunting, they want and need to know the ''hows.'' They are all here and then some."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Dave Opton\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audienceâ€”in a cost-effective fashion."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Sam Zales\n  </strong>\n  , President, Zoom Information Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t get lost on the battlefield, win the war.\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  will give you the ammunition to get noticed."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donato Diorio\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Broadlook Technologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lays out a straightforward and detailed ''plan of attack'' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Gautam Godhwani\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, SimplyHired.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Rothberg\n  </strong>\n  , founder, CollegeRecruiter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Terrence Kulka\n  </strong>\n  , Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here''s how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Peter Clayton\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Total Picture Radio\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   P.S.â€”We knew you''d read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ready! Aim! Hired!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is an immensely helpful book, with the ancient wisdom of recruiters, and the up-to-date insights of two skilled Internet surfers. If you''re job-hunting, you''ll be grateful to learn the tips and tricks of these two seasoned veterans. I learned a lot myself."\n  <br />\n  â€”Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have been an apprentice, a company president, and a CEO. No other single source provides a more contemporary and embracing job search bible. This book offers literally hundreds of little known insider tips, strategies, out-of-the-box success stories, hands-on exercises, and pearls of wisdom. Many readers will hear the words, ''You''re Hired'' due to David Perry, Jay Levinson, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters."\n  <br />\n  â€”Kelly Perdew, Executive Vice President, Trump Ice winner of The Apprentice 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is an absolutely ''right on'' book for today''s job market. It not only has great job search tips but it takes you into the electronic job search system better than anything I''ve seen written to date."\n  <br />\n  â€”William J. Morin, Chairman and CEO, WJM Associates, Inc. former CEO of DBM\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using a typically unconventional Guerrilla approach, authors Levinson and Perry cover all the basics of a winning campaign. This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet for everything from research and job searches to your own Web site, blogs, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing an extreme resume makeover and creating a higher-powered value-based resume\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harnessing the full power of Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of your competition (or other job hunters)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Branding yourself and selling your strengths in resumes, letters, e-mail, and interviews\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters includes real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from over 100 prominent headhunters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4695'),
(4458, 'A Guest in My Own Country', 'George Konrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography &amp; Memoir\n <br />\n <br />\n A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe''s leading intellectuals.\n <br />\n <br />\n When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust.\n <br />\n <br />\n A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe''s most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions).\n <br />\n <br />\n The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7424'),
(4459, 'Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny', 'J. Robert King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Destiny Called - They Answered\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta.\n</p>\n<p>\n The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran geÂ­nius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destinyâ€™s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7787'),
(4460, 'Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon', 'Matt Forbeck &amp; Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged swordâ€”the Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians arose again, transformed by their kingâ€™s rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm . . . forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.\n</p>\n<p>\n Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. But one obstacle remains. The charr legions wonâ€™t sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur,is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between human and charrâ€”but the undead king who rules Ascalon wonâ€™t give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5638'),
(4461, 'Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2792'),
(4462, 'The Guilty', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still relatively fresh out of J-school but already a hot scribe at the New York\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n , Henry Parker (from Pinter''s\n <em>\n  The Mark\n </em>\n ) files another hair-raising story in the Big Bad Apple. This time the juicy journo''s on the trail of the Boy, a sharpshooting serial killer who kills his prey using an antique Winchester 1873, the gun that won the West. The first victim is celebrity diva Athena Paradis, and the killer leaves a note quoting a piece of Henry''s. Henry''s research reveals a bizarre connection between Henry and a long-dead outlaw of the American West, and, as victims pile up, Henry wonders if the Boy is out for vengeance. The intrepid journalist must think fast on his feet to stop him, even if it means asking for help from a rival\n <em>\n  Dispatch\n </em>\n journalist, the lovely Paulina Cole. Tension mounts, bullets fly and Pinter''s cool fusion of a new outlaw with blood ties to an old one hits the mark. The resolution is a ripsnorter, leaving thrill fans ready for the next Henry Parker newsflash.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A suspenseful and shocking tale that will leave readers clamoring for the next Henry Parker novel." --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best thrillers of the year." --\n <em>\n  Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers who enjoyed Pinter''s first book, THE MARK, won''t be disappointed with his followup." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7039'),
(4463, 'Guises of the Mind', 'Rebecca Neason', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world Capulon IV is finally ready to join the Federation aften years of waiting. All that remains is the ruler''s coronation and a routine signing of the final treaty. When the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ and their passengers -- a group of women from a religious order dedicated to helping the downtrodden -- arrive for the event they expect to find a world willing and happy to receicve them. Instead, they encounter deceit and treachery. The crown prince, once excited and eager to join the Federation, now refuses even to speak with Captain Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming to the surface in an attempt to work out the problem, Picard, Troi, and Mother Veronica, the abbess of the nuns, are drugged and captured. Now they must somehow excape and stop the crowning. If they cannot prevent it, the King will be omnipotent, with the power to destroy the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and all of Capulon IV as well...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4349'),
(4464, 'Gulf coast girl: original title, Scorpion reef', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(4465, 'Gulliver&#39;s Fugitives', 'Keith Sharee &amp; Jonathan Frakes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a crew from the Enterprise are beamed onto the planet Rampart - a world where works of fiction are considered the ultimate crime - they find themselves in the middle of a civil war. A war which will determine not only the future of the planet, but the life of Captain Picard as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While searching for the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Huxley\n  </em>\n  , missing for more than 10 years, the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately into a vicious civil war between Rampart''s mind police and a band of determined rebels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6515'),
(4466, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adventures in which Gulliver meets giants and kings, a dangerous pet monkey and a cat the size of an ox.BLJames Riordan''s first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Novel Award in 1998\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2416'),
(4467, 'Gump &amp; Co.', 'Winston Groom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3828');
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(4468, 'The Gun Seller', 'Hugh Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn''t Thomas Lang''s cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang''s out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1868'),
(4469, 'The Gun', 'C. J. Chivers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian army officer Mikhail Kalashnikov adapted a German design of automatic infantry rifle to become the AK (for Avtomat Kalashnikov). It first attracted world attention in Vietnam by proving superior to the American M-16. Since then it has developed several relatives and been produced in many other countries, the total running into the hundreds of millions. It has armed regular armies, irregular armies, police forces, terrorists, common criminals, and ordinary householders in the majority of the worldâ€™s countries, creating a proliferation problem that has to date killed far more people than the nuclear kind. The author is a former U.S. Marine officer and prizewinning journalist who has written incisively and researched exhaustively. It lends force to his arguments that some of his informants have been assassinated with assault rifles for talking. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chiversâ€™\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  does exactly what the best art history or music writing doesâ€”it opens our eyes to see anew the familiar. Chivers'' reach and scope is syncretic, omnivorousâ€”he is dazzling in his research and reporting. This is a book about connections between people and culture, people and history, nations with nations. Chivers pulls together vast threads of an expanding portrait and what emerges is startling.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is filled with a sense of discovery in the way that John McPheeâ€™s work is filled with delight, tribulation, and surprise.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Doug Stanton, author of\n  <em>\n   Horse Soldiers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe Gun\n  </em>\n  is for those who wonder how we fight today and why we fight that way. C. J. Chivers has given us a seminal work that will be respected by future generations trying to understand us.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --James Bradley, author of\n  <em>\n   Flags of Our Fathers, Fly Boys,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Imperial Cruise\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ_The Gun_ is a model of research, historical writing, military expertise, and a soldierâ€™s ungrudging respect for a weapon that really works.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Thomas Powers, author of\n  <em>\n   Intelligence Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chilvers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produced, and was to exceed the consequences even of Soviet nuclear know-how in the Cold War, and beyond.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Alistair Horne, author of\n  <em>\n   The Price of Glory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Savage War of Peace\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThanks to C. J. Chivers, every G.I. and Marine in Vietnam who threw down his jammed M-16 in despair can trace the development of the better weapon he envied.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is part a biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47, part grim social history and, in all its parts, entirely absorbing.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --A. J. Langguth,\n  <em>\n   Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC.J. Chivers, a brilliant war correspondent, is an equally capable military historian. By telling the story of a gun--well, not just any gun but arguably â€˜theâ€™ gun--he reveals much about crime, war, and terror, and he does so in convincing and compelling fashion.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Evan Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The War Lovers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5594'),
(4470, 'Gunn&#39;s Golden Rules', 'Tim Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach.  Youâ€™ve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for â€œmaking it workâ€â€”in your career, relationships, and life. Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashionâ€™s greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runwayâ€™s biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Timâ€™s private life, Gunnâ€™s Golden Rules is like no other how-to book youâ€™ve ever read. In the world according to Tim, there are no shortcuts to success. Hard work, creativity, and skill are just the beginning. By following eighteen tried-and-true principles, you can apply Timâ€™s rules to anything you set your mind to. Youâ€™ll learn why Tim frowns on displays of bad behavior, like the vitriolic outburst by Martha Stewartâ€™s daughter about her motherâ€™s name-brand merchandise. Youâ€™ll discover the downfalls of divadom as he describes Vogueâ€™s AndrÃ© Leon Talley being hand-fed grapes and Anna Wintour being carried downstairs by her bodyguards. And youâ€™ll get Timâ€™s view on the backstabbing by one designer on Project Runway and how it brilliantly backfired. Then there are his down-to-earth guidelines for making life betterâ€”for yourself and othersâ€”in small and large ways, especially in an age that favors comfort over politeness, ease over style. Texting at the dinner table? Wearing shorts to the theater? Not in Timâ€™s book. Living a well-mannered life of integrity and character is hard work, he admits, but the rewards are many: being a good friend, being glamorous and attractive, and being a successâ€” much like Tim himself! He is never one to mince words. But Tim Gunn is always warm, witty, wise, and wonderfully supportiveâ€” just the mentor you need to design a happy, creative, and fulfilling life that will never go out of style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5107'),
(4471, 'The Guns of August', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchillâ€™s statement that the first month of World War I was â€˜a drama never surpassed.â€™ A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the dramaâ€™s protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEXCELLENT . . . [_The Guns of August_] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Wall Street Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."\n <br />\n CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n <br />\n Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn''t. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7758'),
(4472, 'The Guns of Avalon', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seeking vengeance against his usurping brother, Eric, Corwin, the rightful heir to the throne, ventures into the dark world of Shadow in order to gather ammunition, and is distracted by a beautiful and mysterious woman. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9009'),
(4473, 'Guns of Brixton', 'Mark Timlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7387'),
(4474, 'Guns of Navarone', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9272'),
(4475, 'The Guns of Shiloh', 'Joseph A. Altsheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dick Mason, caught in the press of a beaten army, fell back slowly with his comrades toward a ford of Bull Run. The first great battle of the Civil War had been fought and lost. Lost, after it had been won! Young as he was Dick knew that fortune had been with the North until the very closing hour. He did not yet know how it had been done. He did not know how the Northern charges had broken in vain on the ranks of Stonewall Jackson''s men. He did not know how the fresh Southern troops from the Valley of Virginia had hurled themselves so fiercely on the Union flank. But he did know that his army had been defeated and was retreating on the capital. Cannon still thundered to right and left, and now and then showers of bursting shell sprayed over the heads of the tired and gloomy soldiers. Dick, thoughtful and scholarly, was in the depths of a bitterness and despair reached by few of those around him. The Union, the Republic, had appealed to him as the most glorious of experiments. He could not bear to see it broken up for any cause whatever. It had been founded with too much blood and suffering and labor to be dissolved in a day on a Virginia battlefield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3027'),
(4476, 'Guns Will Keep Us Together', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image---bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who''s erased his decades-old preference for blondes. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She''s smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less---what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2361'),
(4477, 'Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller-over 1.5 million copies sold-is now a major PBS special. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren''t native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1689'),
(4478, 'The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirty-three years, a horrific and life-altering accident, and thousands of desperately rabid fans in the making, Stephen King''s quest to complete his magnum opus rivals the quest of Roland and his band of gunslingers who inhabit the Dark Tower series. Loyal DT fans and new readers alike will appreciate this revised edition of The Gunslinger, which breathes new life into Roland of Gilead, and offers readers a "clearer start and slightly easier entry into Roland''s world." King writes both a new introduction and foreword to this revised edition, and the ever-patient, ever-loyal "constant reader" is rewarded with secrets to the series''s inception. That a "magic" ream of green paper and a Robert Browning poem, came together to reveal to King his "ka" is no real surprise (this is King after all), but who would have thought that the squinty-eyed trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach would set the author on his true path to the Tower? While King credits Tolkien for inspiring the "quest and magic" that pervades the series, it was Sergio Leone''s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that helped create the epic proportions and "almost absurdly majestic western backdrop" of Roland''s world. To King, The Gunslinger demanded revision because once the series was complete it became obvious that "the beginning was out of sync with the ending." While the revision adds only 35 pages, Dark Tower purists will notice the changes to Allie''s fate and Roland''s interaction with Cort, Jake, and the Man in Black--all stellar scenes that will reignite the hunger for the rest of the series. Newcomers will appreciate the details and insight into Roland''s life. The revised Roland of Gilead (nee Deschain) is embodied with more humanity--he loves, he pities, he regrets. What DT fans might miss is the same ambiguity and mystery of the original that gave the original its pulpy underground feel (back when King himself awaited word from Roland''s world). --Daphne Durham Lots of Stephen King fans feel that his horror novels are dwarfed by what they consider his masterpiece, the genre-bending Dark Tower books. They''re a little like the sprawling epics of J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, and George Lucas, but then again, they''re really like nothing else in this world (or King''s). This set collects the first three. The Gunslinger introduces the hero Roland, who must reach the Dark Tower in order to save his universe, Mid-World. There are passageways between our world and Mid-World, and a New York City boy named Jake gets shoved in front of a car by Jack Mort ("death"), is killed, and finds himself alive in Roland''s world. He becomes Roland''s surrogate son. In book 2, The Drawing of the Three, Roland is attacked by marvelous, poisonous "lobstrosities" and enters our world for help. He takes heroin addict Eddie Dean from 1987 New York and Odetta Holmes from 1964 New York as his team. In a powerful time-tripping scene, Roland confronts Jack Mort and actually changes Jake''s Earth history, which has heady implications for Roland''s world. In The Waste Lands, book 3, Roland and company get ensnared in a civil war in the urban waste of Lud, acquire a delightful talking pet named Oy the Bumbler, and find themselves captives of a psychotic train called Blaine the Mono. The plot is complex, yet weirdly logical. But take warning: this series is addictive, and you may need to also buy book 4, Wizard and Glass. Otherwise, you won''t know what happened when Blaine went insane with Roland''s gang onboard. SUMMARY: The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4301'),
(4479, 'The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8559'),
(4480, 'Gutshot Straight', 'Lou Berney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A crime caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, this fast and funny debut is the story of "Shake" Bouchon, fresh out of prison and ready for life on the straight and narrowâ€”well, maybe after *one* last job. . . . When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he''s got only two problems: he''s too nice a guy for the life he''s led and not nice enough for any other. So he says yes when he''s asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable *pakhan* of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase. Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what''s going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that''s as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free. Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuableâ€”and highly unusualâ€”contents of The Whale''s briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he''ll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he''s going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined. Full of blindsided double-crosses and hard shots to the head, *Gutshot Straight* is a tale of love, luck, and larceny against the odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2393'),
(4481, 'Guys Read: Funny Business', 'Jon Scieszka &amp; Mac Barnett &amp; Adam Rex &amp; Kate DiCamillo &amp; Christopher Paul Curtis &amp; Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the â€œreluctantâ€ out of readers with this first volume of the â€œGuys Read Library.â€ For this title, Scieszka invited some of today''s top writers of children''s fiction to contribute a humorous short story. Not surprisingly, the resulting compilation has something for everyone. Looking for a story heavy on the ick-factor? Suggest Jack Gantos''s â€œThe Bloody Souvenir,â€ in which the Pagoda brothers return to wreak more havoc. David Yoo''s â€œA Fistful of Feathersâ€ features a bloodthirsty turkey intent on destroying the narrator''s life. Eoin Colfer offers an autobiographical piece that shares how his younger brother was his real-life inspiration for Artemis Fowl. Kate DiCamillo and Scieszka team up to offer a hilarious correspondence between Joe and an author who knows how to hold her own with unmotivated students. While these shorter stories may not have the liveliness of the authors'' full novels, each one is solid, and more importantly, it offers an introduction to that author''s style and voice. Don''t be surprised if students come seeking longer works by David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other contributors after sampling them in this collection. Scieszka promises future volumes featuring other genres, among them nonfiction, sports, and action/adventure._Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The funny fellow (Jon Scieszka) with the impressive title (Emeritus National Ambassador for Childrenâ€™s Literature) presents a collection of 10 humorous (you were expecting tragedy?) stories by some leading lights in literature for young readers. This is the first volume of the promised official Guys Read library, which is named for Scieszkaâ€™s well-known Web site, designed, like this book, to encourage boys to read. And what better way to start than with this collection of howlers by the likes of Eoin Colfer, David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other yuk-inducing luminaries. Standouts include Kate DiCamillo (the lone female among the authors) and editor Scieszkaâ€™s charmer of a story in letters between a famous author named Maureen Oâ€™Toople and a boy named Joe; David Yooâ€™s wacky, laugh-out-loud story about a disappointed father and an evil turkey; and from the diabolical imagination of Jack Gantos, a cautionary tale about dangerous friends and rusty pliers. A must-have collection for the boys in your libraryâ€”and while youâ€™re at it, get a copy for the girls, too! Grades 4-7. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8107'),
(4482, 'Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Prolific writer Lackey (The Phoenix Endangered) tackles the complex legend of King Arthur''s queens in this compelling and heart-wrenching retelling. When warrior-woman Braith announces that the Young Princess Gwen is marked by Epona, the goddess of horses, Gwen''s father allows her to train on the warrior path. Although Gwen is deep into training, in the background of her life lay the tales of two other women with the same name-Gwenhwyfar the Golden-both of whom were married to King Arthur. The story of Arthur''s kingdom unfolds as Gwen''s path as a warrior involves Lancelin, Arthur''s closest Companion, and Medraut, the illegitimate and magic-born child of Arthur and his half-sister, Anna Morgause. Lackey places the story in the early dark ages, rather than in the romanticized Camelot of the later Romances. She creates a vibrant world where the old religion and culture of the Celts vies with the invading traditions of the White Christ''s followers and Roman influence. Gwen is an independent and formidable woman, determined to follow her dreams, but also dedicated to her duty and to the good of Arthur''s kingdom. Though the ending of Arthur''s story comes as no surprise, the way that Lackey reweaves old tales to create something new and powerful, with a compelling and sympathetic heroine, is this retelling''s strength.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling author of the\n  <em>\n   Valdemar\n  </em>\n  novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur''s legendary queen.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur''s queen-only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4781'),
(4483, 'Gypsy', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth''s dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues aplenty. But Beth''s talent with the fiddle earns her the nickname Gypsy - and the friendship of charismatic gambler Theo and sharp-witted Londoner, Jack. And after dodging trouble across America, finally the foursome head for the dangerous mountains of Canada and the Klondike river in search of gold.How far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can call home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7051'),
(4484, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8195'),
(4485, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." ''Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4254'),
(4486, 'H.R.H.', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world. In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriouslyâ€“and her father has ironclad plans for Christiannaâ€™s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her fatherâ€™s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdomâ€“the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkersâ€“even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christiannaâ€™s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christiannaâ€™s life is changed foreverâ€“in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a princeâ€™s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, **H.R.H.** is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love. *From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/899'),
(4487, '&quot;H&quot; Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦* **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦** When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦ **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦** Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them. ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE*** Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4133'),
(4488, 'The Habitation of the Blessed', 'Catherynne M. Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John describing a kingdom of wonders rocked medieval Europe. In this enchanting retelling of the legend, the first volume in a projected trilogy, Hugo nominee Valente (Palimpsest) imagines what might have been discovered by Rome''s ambassadors if the letter had not been a hoax. Nothing is quite as fabulous as the pious priests had hoped. Prester John and St. Thomas the Twin married nonhuman women; the Fountain of Youth does not sparkle, but instead "oozes thick and oily, globbed with algae and the eggs of improbable mayflies." Three very different personalities narrate: the brooding Prester John himself; his carefree and openhearted wife, the blemmye Hagia; and maternal Imtithal of the elephant-eared panotii. Filled with lyrical prose and fabled creatures, this languorous fairy tale is as captivating as Prester John''s original letter. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers, missionaries, and kings for centuries. But what if it were all true? What if there was such a place, and a poor, broken priest once stumbled past its borders, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a country where everything is possible, immortality is easily had, and the Western world is nothing but a dim and distant dream?\n</p>\n<p>\n Brother Hiob of Luzerne, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness on the eve of the eighteenth century, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These strange books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prester John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives found within these living volumes, revealing the life of a priest named John, and his rise to power in this country of impossible richness. John''s tale weaves together with the confessions of his wife Hagia, a blemmye--a headless creature who carried her face on her chest--as well as the tender, jeweled nursery stories of Imtithal, nanny to the royal family. Hugo and World Fantasy award nominee Catherynne M. Valente reimagines the legends of Prester John in this stunning tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6193'),
(4489, 'The Hacker Crackdown', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1409'),
(4490, 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition', 'Jon Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n While other books merely show how to run existing exploits,\n <i>\n  Hacking: The Art of Exploitation\n </i>\n broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the extensively updated and expanded second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields: programming, networking and cryptography. Includes a live CD, which provides a Linux programming environment and all of its benefits without the hassle of installing a new operating system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7350'),
(4491, 'Hacking: The Next Generation', 'Nitesh Dhanjani &amp; Billy Rios &amp; Brett Hardin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems,\n <em>\n  Hacking: The Next Generation\n </em>\n is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7259'),
(4492, 'Hades', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the pseudonymous Andrews''s intelligent page-turner, his third Justin Westwood thriller (after\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n ), Westwood, the police chief of the quiet Long Island community of East End Harbor, has just begun a torrid affair with Abigail Harmon, the stunning wife of a wealthy investor, when a late-night phone call informs him that her husband has been found brutally murdered. Placed in the uncomfortable position of being the widow''s alibi as well as the prime suspect in the eyes of an ambitious local prosecutor angling for an eventual gubernatorial race, Westwood has a personal stake in tracking down the killer. The twisty plot provides the appealing Westwood with plenty of challenges, though his heroics sometimes border on the implausible (especially when he''s battling a lethal team of Asian assassins). Under his actual name, Peter Gethers, Andrews is the author of several bestselling nonfiction books, including\n <em>\n  The Cat Who Went to Paris\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its third installment, after\n <em>\n  Aphrodite\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n (2005), the Justin Westwood series seems to be settling in for a long run. Westwood, the troubled small-town police chief, is faced with a case that is a touch too personal for his liking: a Wall Street bigwig has been murdered, and Westwood happens to have been between the sheets with the victim''s wife at the time. Now he is looking at conspiracy charges, at the very least, and the only way to clear his name is to solve the murder, break up a multinational conspiracy, and face down memories of his own deeply disturbed past. Andrews explores a few more levels of the enigmatic Westwood, who ditched the big city--where he was a homicide detective--after a tragedy that the author hints at but never fully reveals. The author''s plots may be a bit too conspiracy minded for some readers, but those who like their crime novels dark, mysterious, and labyrinthine will have a great time.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5803'),
(4493, 'The Hades Factor', 'Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancee of Covert One''s Lt. Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned...Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight against the deadly virus. As the death toll mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3941'),
(4494, 'The Hadrian Memorandum', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Folsom''s improbable sequel to his equally improbable\n  <em>\n   The Machiavelli Covenant\n  </em>\n  (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who''s trying to create a new life for himself as a landscape architect in England, to Equatorial Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. president, John Henry Harris, who became his confidante in the previous book. In a village on the island of Bioko, Marten meets Willy Dorhn, a 78-year-old German-born priest, who shows him photos of rebels being armed by members of a U.S. security firm hired to protect American oil workers. Soon after, soldiers who serve the impoverished country''s brutal dictator attack the village, leaving Dorhn dead and Marten a fugitive. Marten''s efforts to report what he''s learned to people he can trust lead him to Germany and Portugal. Readers expecting a nuanced look at corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in the vein of John le CarrÃ©''s\n  <em>\n   The Constant Gardener\n  </em>\n  will be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFolsom sets a frenetic pace from the start . . . reading this book is like watching\n  <em>\n   24\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHigh impact thriller writing with an almost visceral impact.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_ Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMore twists and turns than a strand of DNA.â€â€”William Peter Blatty,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Dimiter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8407'),
(4495, 'Hagakure: the book of the samurai', 'Tsunetomo Yamamoto; William Scott Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"'') is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction-in the philosophy and code of behavior that foster the true spirit of Bushido-the Way of the Warrior. It is not a book of philosophy as most would understand the word: it is a collection of thoughts and sayings recorded over a period of seven years, and as such covers a wide variety of subjects, often in no particular sequence. The work represents an attitude far removed from our modern pragmatism and materialism, and posesses an intuitive rather than rational appeal in its assertion that Bushido is a Way of Dying, and that only a samurai retainer prepared and willing to die at any moment can be totally true to his lord. While Hagakure was for many years a secret text known only to the warrior vassals of the Hizen fief to which the author belonged, it later came to be recognized as a classic exposition of samurai thought and came to influence many subsequent generations, including Yukio Mishima. This translation offers 300 selections that constitute the core texts of the 1,300 present in the original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3525'),
(4496, 'Haiti Noir', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. FiÃ¨vre, Marvin Victor, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and others.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Haiti has a tragic history and continues to be one of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake. Here, however, Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the caliber of Haitian writing is of the highest order.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4675');
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(4497, 'Half a Life: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives" of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Naipaul''s protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran, named after Somerset Maugham''s encounter with Willie''s father in the 1930s while traveling "to get material for a novel about spirituality." Willie travels to England for his education, where he becomes "part of the special, passing bohemian-immigrant life of London of the late 1950s." Willie soon realizes that his colonial background allows him to write short stories for well-meaning white liberals, and he begins "to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished" and that he could "remake himself and his past" through his writing. The effect is suffocating rather than liberating, and he marries a vaguely sketched "girl or young woman from an African country," who has read his one published book. Willie begins another "half life" in colonial Mozambique, where he soon tires of the domestic and sexual tedium of plantation life and flees to Germany, mournfully reflecting that "I have been hiding for too long."\n</p>\n<p>\n This is classic Naipaul, with its effortless dissection of the damaging personal consequences of post-war decolonization, but its virtue seems its primary vice, as the novel feels like a conflation of several earlier Naipaul books, including\n <strong>\n  and the brilliant\n </strong>\n . Consequently, some readers may well find that\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n reads more like half a novel.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n V.S. Naipaul has often been accused of being ungenerous, especially in his scathing accounts of Third World countries. His slim new novel tacitly poses the question of the worth of generosity without clarity and purpose. Willie Chandran, the central figure here, is born in India in the 1930s, the son of a bitter mixed caste marriage between a Brahmin and a "backwards" person, or untouchable. Willie learns as a child to despise his father''s ineffectuality and his mother''s coarseness. His father''s vague motive in marrying his mother had been to break out of the provincial mold in which he was raised and to "live out a life of sacrifice," but too late he discovered that he retained all the prejudices of his caste and despised his wife. Going to London on a scholarship, Willie mixes in immigrant and bohemian circles, and even publishes a book. Naipaul''s detached rendering of Willie''s travails shows what happens to a young man who pieces his life together around the great, central dread of not being taken seriously the image of his father as an "idler" is always in his mind. Willie meets Ana, a woman of mixed African descent, when she writes him a fan letter about his novel. They become lovers. Willie goes back with Ana to her large outback estate in the "half and half" world of a Portuguese colony like Mozambique, where he remains for 18 years. Naipaul''s plain narrative is studded with beautifully realized scenes, such as the London party at which a newspaper editor reads his own, self-written obituary, or the night Willie goes to an African brothel with Alvaro, an estate overseer. Although this novel does not aspire to the breadth of Naipaul''s earlier fiction, it reminds us that his vision is on par with Conrad''s or Graham Greene''s. 40,000 first printing; 5-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6262'),
(4498, 'Half broke horses: a true-life novel', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily''s plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents'' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby''s crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several statesâ€”New Mexico, Arizona, Illinoisâ€”but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. SUMMARY: Jeannette Walls''s "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls''s magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn''t need to be fed if they weren''t working, and they didn''t leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette''s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in "The Glass Castle." Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn''t fit the mold. "Half Broke Horses" is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen''s "Out of Africa" or Beryl Markham''s "West with the Night." It will transfix readers everywhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10760'),
(4499, 'The Half Life of Stars: A Novel', 'Louise Wener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Claire''s older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough? Set between London and Miami, this is the story of a family with ghosts to bury. It opens on the day of the Challenger shuttle explosion at Cape Canaveral: a tragic moment that rips this family apart and sets Daniel''s disappearance in motion some 18 years later. In the midst of it all sits Claireâ€”divorced, irresponsible, fluent in six foreign languages yet hopeless at interpreting life. It is Claire who knows Daniel best. It is Claire who becomes convinced that she knows where her older brother is and sets off on a journey to find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2878'),
(4500, 'Half Moon Investigations', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher investigates a spate of crimes in the town of Lock, the finger of suspicion is soon pointing in the direction of shady brothers Herod and Red Sharkey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8183'),
(4501, 'Half Moon Street', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies, calumnies and evasions: in Anne Perry''s Victorian mysteries, these elements, rather than a hat or gloves, a bustle or a watch fob, are the usual accoutrements of refined ladies and gentlemen.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n marks the return of Inspector Thomas Pitt (20 novels now, beginning with __ and still going strong) to the cobblestoned streets and elegant drawing rooms of 19th-century London.\n</p>\n<p>\n The inhabitants of those drawing rooms aren''t usually thrilled to see him, because he always comes bearing bad news. This time, a body has turned up in a boat on the Thames: Delbert Cathcart, a talented portrait photographer with a taste for blackmail. Clad in a velvet dress, wrists manacled, legs spread grotesquely, skull crushed, Cathcart reminds Pitt of a perverse echo of the Lady of Shalott, or perhaps a debased Ophelia. Which of Cathcart''s clients could have been pushed so far as to retaliate in such hideous fashion?\n</p>\n<p>\n Pitt''s official investigation is usually combined with another more idiosyncratic approach to the crime; this secondary analysis gives Perry free rein to dissect the manners and morals of Victorian society. In\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n , the genteel inquisition falls to Caroline Fielding, Charlotte''s mother (Charlotte, who must need a bit of rest after so many outings, has been packed off to Paris for a vacation; her presence in the book is restricted to letters marveling, rather tediously, at the scandalous iniquities of the Moulin Rouge dance hall). Perry''s readers will no doubt remember that Caroline scandalized society by marrying a much younger actor, Joshua.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n introduces Caroline to his theatrical world, and to Cecily Antrim, a beautiful actress with liberal politics. Cecily poses both a personal and philosophical threat to Caroline, who is disturbed by her willingness to expose the realities of female sexuality on stage: "Should such things be said? Was there something indecent in the exposure of feelings so intimate? To know it herself was one thing, to realize that others also knew was quite different. It was being publicly naked rather than privately." This fear of exposure resonates through the worlds of theatrical and photographic art, as actors, diplomats, and genteel citizens race to hide their secrets from Pitt and Caroline.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Perry evokes the London atmosphere with her usual skill, her narrative lacks its usual finesse. Rather than balancing Pitt''s and Caroline''s investigation, the novel lurches between them so that it seems all too often that Perry, in pursuit of one story, has forgotten the other. Additionally, Caroline''s reaction to feminist politics and sexuality is inexplicably repetitive; her turgid expressions of horror seem the result of an overly eager copy-and-paste procedure. One hopes that this is a momentary lapse in an otherwise solid series.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Oscar Wilde''s London in 1891, Perry''s new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body as Delbert Cathcart, a gifted photographer. Was there a connection between Cathcart and lookalike Bonnard? Why was Cathcart''s body arranged in that disturbing "feminine pose," which Perry repeatedly describes as a "mockery" of paintings of the Lady of Shallot and Ophelia? Meanwhile, Pitt''s mother-in-law, Caroline Fielding, recently married to an actor 17 years her junior, blushes and stammers as her husband and his theater friends expound on Ibsen. While she''s clarifying her views on the irresponsibility of pornography, Caroline spends long hours entertaining Samuel Ellison, her late husband''s American half-brother, who tearfully recounts his nation''s history ("I watched the white man strengthen and the red man die"). For a grandma, Caroline is an oddly jejune character, and her moralistic musings overwhelm the mystery plot, which stagnates early on. What''s clearly intended to be intellectually challenging comes across as silly and pretentious. There''s even a pub scene in which Wilde himself witlessly pontificates, and "a pale young Irishman addressed by his fellows as Yeats, stare[s] moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr..\n <br />\n <em>\n  - moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8571'),
(4502, 'Half Share', 'Nathan Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  After Ishmael Wang is promoted to the environmental section, he''s caught in a swirl of mystery, doubt, belief, lust and a really nice fitting pair of jeans. He has to come to grips with what it means to be a spacer while he''s still trying to figure out what it means to be a man. Join Ishmael, Brillo, Pip, and the rest of the crew of the Lois McKendrick as they help the newest member of the crew adjust to life in the Deep Dark.Half Share is the sequel to Quarter Share, also available at Podiobooks.com.Note: Some scenes in Half Share involve adult themes, nudity, sex and references to religions not based on Judeo-Christian traditions. Read at your own risk.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6437'),
(4503, 'Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œOne of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.â€â€“Stephen Kingâ€œHard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban soulsâ€“ youâ€™re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.â€â€“Fangoria, on Already DeadThereâ€™s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattanâ€™s Vampyre Clans arenâ€™t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New Yorkâ€™s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out whatâ€™s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Societyâ€™s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves.From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joeâ€™s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other?Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joeâ€™s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(4504, 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide', 'Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era''s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women''s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it''s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is essential reading for every global citizen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2368'),
(4505, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6881'),
(4506, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers familiar with Angelou''s\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with 73 savory recipes. Here''s Angelou''s grandmother''s Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and Caramel Cake. Big brother Bailey makes a mean batch of Smothered Pork Chops and knows how to stretch them for a week''s worth of meals. Mother, who "cooked wonderful meals and was very poignant about how to present them," can make a Roasted Capon play second fiddle to Red Rice. As the wider world beckons, Angelou dines. Sometimes she''s the worker; having passed herself off as an experienced Creole cook, she becomes one with her Braised Short Ribs. Other times, she''s the hostess serving what M.F.K. Fisher pronounces "the first honest cassoulet I have eaten in years." A batch of spoon bread nets Angelou a job and compliment: "If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous." She does, and the food world widens (tamales, patÃ©, minestrone, chachouka), and the fellow diners often have famous names (Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy). The food remains delectable and comfortable, and Angelou''s directions are minimal but clear enough for experienced cooks. Color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angelou has feasted at both ends of the food spectrum and everywhere in between. Her appreciation of good food has given her stamina and has enriched the texture of her days. In this memoir of significant meals, the poet recalls her grandmother''s ironic discovery that rich folks relished wilted lettuce while she was investing in ice to keep her greens crisp. In another recollection, Angelou recalls her brother Bailey''s advice on how to stretch a pork chop or two into enough different meals to please even her ravenous young son. As Angelou''s renown swells, so does her purse, and before long she''s sitting down to tables where nothing is impossible. Humble beef stew becomes beef Wellington and lemon meringue pie elegant eclairs. But Angelou''s savoring of well-made food is a single continuum. Her recipes for favorite dishes derive from traditions as diverse as the origins of menudo, minestrone, spoon bread, tomato souffle, and hog head cheese. Angelou''s fans curious about their hero''s appetites will find tasty satisfaction here.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4450'),
(4507, 'Hallowe&#39;en Party', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Volume 70 (1969) in the Agatha Christie Collection. Limited edition of 1000 copies world wide.  At a Hallowe''en party, Joyce -- a hostile thirteen-year-old -- boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.  That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ''evil presence''. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5230'),
(4508, 'Halo', 'Alexandra Adornetto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyoneâ€”especially herselfâ€”from the Dark Forces. Is love a great enough power against evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(4509, 'Halo: Contact Harvest', 'Joseph Staten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is how it began... It is the year 2524.  Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space.  But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant.  What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection.  So the survival of Harvest''s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees.  In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6839'),
(4510, 'Halo: Cryptum', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universeâ€™s Living Time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then they vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is their story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting\n  </em>\n  is a young rebellious Forerunner.Â He is aÂ Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunnersâ€™ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.Â  It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this Manipular has other plans.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his fatherâ€™s hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But powerful forces are at play.Â  Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a Lifeworkerâ€™s experimental planet, Bornstellarâ€™s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellarâ€™s destiny â€¦and the fate of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. Â For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.Â Â Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Bear is a multiple Nebula and Hugo award-winning author whose works have been celebrated for their vision, scope, intensity, and sheer drama. His novels include his newest, Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, The Forge of God, Eon, Eternity, and Blood Music. He lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5795'),
(4511, 'Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there.  When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lostâ€”but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge.  In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend.  This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6289'),
(4512, 'Halo: First Strike', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life!***Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemyâ€™s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the â€œMaster Chief.â€ Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space. Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.**This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.****Bungie, Halo, Xbox, the Microsoft Game Studios logo and the Xbox Logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Used under license. Â© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(4513, 'Halo: Ghosts of Onyx', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xboxâ„¢ game!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But just how many Spartans are left?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as â€œSection Threeâ€ devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. Theyâ€™re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own  . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This novel is based on a mature-rated game.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Microsoft, the Microsoft Game Studios Logo, Bungie, the Bungie Logo, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license from owner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8512'),
(4514, 'Halo: The Cole Protocol', 'Tobias S. Buckell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4670'),
(4515, 'Halo: The Fall of Reach', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Definitive Edition to the First and Bestselling Halo Novel, Including Twenty-seven Pages of New Material***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Legends are not simply born...they are willed into existence.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call "home."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The United Nations Space Command now struggles to control this vast empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After exhausting all strategies to keep seething insurrections from exploding into interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top secret program that could bring an end to all this conflict...and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six year old boy named John.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Halsey never guessed that this little boy would become humanity''s final hope against a vast alien force hell-bent on wiping us out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the story of John, Spartan-117â€¦the Master Chief, and of the battles that brought humanity face to face with its possible extinction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This new Tor edition will serve as the definitive version of the novel that started Halo fans reading the series, and features brand-new material, including: ****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6287'),
(4516, 'Halo: The Flood', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankindâ€™s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battleâ€™s only human survivorsâ€”Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.With the cruiserâ€™s artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Haloâ€™s darkest mysteryâ€”and unleash its greatest source of power. . . .This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7765'),
(4517, 'Halt&#39;s Peril', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing HaltÃ•s only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky. The international bestselling RangerÃ•s Apprentice series turns up the tension in John FlanaganÃ•s latest epic of battles and bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1623'),
(4518, 'Hamlet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare''s life and the selection of texts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3458'),
(4519, 'The Hammer', 'K. J. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met''Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.\n</p>\n<p>\n On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met''Oc. The met''Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island''s savages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gignomai is about to discover exactly what it is expected of him, and what it means to defy his family. He is the hammer who will provide the spark that will ignite a brutal and bloody war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n K.J. Parker is a pseudonym. Find more about the author at www.kjparker.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7743'),
(4520, 'The Hand of Ethelberta', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher awords meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult wo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10680'),
(4521, 'The Hand of Oberon', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Returning to Shadow Earth to investigate a threat against his life, Corwin discovers that the Jewel of Judgment has been stolen by his traitorous brother, Brand, who plans to use the enigmatic gem to reshape the universe. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9056'),
(4522, 'The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors', 'Michele Young-Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.****Â **BECCAÂ *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed herâ€”not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick motherâ€”not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns.*Â BUCKLEYÂ *In rural Arkansas, Buckley R. Pitankâ€™s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed but protective of his obese mother, fearful of his scathing grandmother, and always running from bullies (including his pseudo-evangelical stepfather), he needed a miracle to set him free. At thirteen years old, Buckley witnessed a lightning strike that would change everything.*Â Now an art student in New York City, Becca Burke is a gifted but tortured painter who strives to recapture the intensity of her lightning-strike memories on canvas. On the night of her first gallery opening, a stranger appears and is captivated by her art. Who is this odd young man with whom she shares a mysterious connection? When Buckley and Becca finally meet, neither is prepared for the charge of emotionsâ€”or for the perilous event that will bring them even closer to one another, and to the families theyâ€™ve been running from for as long as they can remember. Crackling with atmosphere and eccentric characters, *The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors* explores the magic of nature and the power of redemption in a novel as beautiful and unpredictable as lightning itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2769'),
(4523, 'Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice, Mental Disorders', 'Bruce A. Thyer; John S. Wodarski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers clinically effective treatments for over twenty of the major mental, behavioral, and emotional diagnoses in the DSM-IV\n</p>\n<p>\n The last two decades in social work have seen tremendous strides in field research, from the development of improved research designs to more accurate methods of problem measurement and outcome analysis. Drawing upon these significant advances, the two-volume Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice brings together empirically validated interventions for many of the psychosocial problems most frequently encountered by social workers in their daily practice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike other books in the field that employ a theory-based approach to treatment, this handbook focuses on the best-supported methods of helping clients with particular problems irrespective of theoretical biases, offering clinicians a valuable compendium of practice guidelines for treatment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and authored by recognized experts in the field, the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice is clearly written and organized for easy reference. Volume One covers clinically effective treatments for over twenty of the major mental, behavioral, and emotional diagnoses in the DSM-IV(TM), including:\n <br />\n * Disorders typically diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence\n <br />\n * Substance-related disorders\n <br />\n * Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders\n <br />\n * Mood and anxiety disorders\n <br />\n * Sexual and eating disorders\n <br />\n * Personality disorders\n</p>\n<p>\n With information that is at once accessible and up to date, the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice is a vital source of guidance for today''s clinical social workers and other practicing mental health professionals, as well as students.\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best tools to promote the values of the [social work] profession is that of empirical social work practice. ''Telling the truth'' is one of these values, and discovering the truth is something that empirical research is very good at. This book presents credible reviews of contemporary empirical literature pertaining to selected behavioral, affective, and intellectual disorders, and their psychosocial assessment and treatment. That such a book is now possible is a striking affirmation of the merits of the approach to social work called empirical clinical practice."\n <br />\n -from the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A state-of-the-art overview of empirically-validated treatments for psychological and social disorders. Organized by DSM diagnoses and social problems, this reference is a jargon-free guide to the psychosocial interventions that have been shown to be clinically effective for each type of psychological, behavioral, and social problem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9771'),
(4524, 'Handful of stardust', 'Yvonne Whittal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3790');
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(4525, 'Handle with care: a novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Things break all the time.Day breaks, waves break, voices break.Promises break.Hearts break.** Every expectant parent will tell you that they don''t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O''Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they''d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it''s all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She''s smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow''s illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life? Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, *Handle with Care* brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she''s become famous for, beloved #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1660'),
(4526, 'The Handmaid&#39;s Tale', 'Margaret Atwood &amp; Valerie Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist''s nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be. This powerful, memorable novel is highly recommended for most libraries. BOMC featured alternate. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood''s novels."-_Maclean''s_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Handmaid''s Tale is in the honorable tradition of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  and other warnings of dystopia. It''s imaginative even audacious, and conveys a chilling sense of fear and menace."-_The Globe and Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Handmaid''s Tale_ brings out the very best in Atwood--moral vision, biting humor, and a poet''s imagination."-_Chatelaine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6190'),
(4527, 'Hands of Flame', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(4528, 'Hangfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery-- Now it''s up to the Marines to break the circle. Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient worlds and caters to every taste. Witches are burned at the stake in medieval towns while riotous hordes fill Rome''s Coliseum to watch gladiators battle. Even the basest of human lusts are satiated by deadly sex acts and a thriving slave trade. The crime bosses'' control of Havanagas and its people is brutally effective. Now three Marines from Co. L''s 3rd Platoon--masquerading as discharged military buddies on holiday--are going in to break the kingpins'' bloody stranglehold. From bordellos and rebellious enclaves to the very pit of the Coliseum filled with deadly beasts, Corporal Pasquin and Lance Corporals Claypoole and Dean face certain death with only their wits and skills as weapons. But they''re Marines, built to survive. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(4529, 'Hanging Hill', 'Mo Hayder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed These are questions Cal has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which if exposed may destroy her.Then Cals daughter gets into difficulties, and Cal finds she needs cash lots of it fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing.Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that theres no way back\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7739'),
(4530, 'Hanging On', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever!  It all began when Major Kelly''s Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived.  Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there--nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI''s kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it... which meant the tension was doing funny things to Major Kelly''s men''s minds ... which mean anything could happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8296'),
(4531, 'The Hangman&#39;s Daughter', 'Oliver Potzsch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found deadâ€”marked by the same tattooâ€”the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth. With the help of his clever daughter, Magdelena, and Simon, the university-educated son of the townâ€™s physician, Jakob discovers that a devil is indeed loose in Schongau. But it may be too late to prevent bloodshed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A brilliantly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller, The Hangmanâ€™s Daughter is the first novel from German television screenwriter Oliver PÃ¶tzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7912'),
(4532, 'Hank Reinhardt&#39;s Book of the Sword', 'Hank Reinhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sword is the most revered of all of manâ€™s weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called â€œThe Soul of the Samurai,â€ the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword. As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much aliveâ€”but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing. Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1906'),
(4533, 'Hannibal', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he''s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter''s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3450'),
(4534, 'Hans Andersens fairy tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen; Ella Dolbear Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1663'),
(4535, 'Happiness Key', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A divorcÃ©e is handed a swath of Gulf Coast Florida real estate in Richards''s slow if involving latest. After Tracy Deloche''s ex-husband lands in federal prison, she takes control of his Happiness Key development, which consists mostly of a handful of ramshackle cottages. Her tenantsâ€”Wanda Gray, Janya Kapur, Alice Brooks and Herb Krauseâ€”are misfits, but when Herb dies, Tracy goes on a quest to find his family that ends up forcing her to bond with her tenants in ways she never thought possible. In the meantime, the mismatched crew learns that in helping each other, they are really helping themselves. This quintessential beach read is full of intrigue, romance, comedy and a splash of mystery, and while it could be shorter and faster paced, the women at its centerâ€”and the problems they faceâ€”are fully believable. They deserve a better plot.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her husband in prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with five ramshackle beach houses and no idea how to start over. Janya Kapur left her close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Wanda Gray takes a job guaranteed to destroy her already failing marriageâ€”if her husband cares enough to notice. Widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her family comes to stay with her, but Alice isn''t sure she''s grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they loveâ€”and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8361'),
(4536, 'Happy Birthday: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning point in lifeâ€”a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce, sheâ€™s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkâ€™s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canâ€™t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerieâ€™s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, Aprilâ€™s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Sheâ€™s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.\n</p>\n<p>\n A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebrationâ€”and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Danielle Steel\n </strong>\n has been hailed as one of the worldâ€™s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include\n <em>\n  44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart,\n </em>\n and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of\n <em>\n  His Bright Light,\n </em>\n the story of her son Nick Trainaâ€™s life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8744'),
(4537, 'Happy Families: Stories', 'Carlos Fuentes &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called â€œa combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesenâ€ (Newsweek). In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoyâ€™s classic observation that â€œhappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.â€ In â€œA Family Like Any Other,â€ each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In â€œThe Mariachiâ€™s Mother,â€ the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged sonâ€™s wounds. â€œSweetheartsâ€ reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentesâ€™s trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentesâ€™s range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of loveâ€“between spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writers.Praise for Carlos FuentesWinner of the Cervantes PrizeThe Old Gringoâ€œA dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.â€â€“The New York TimesThe Death of Artemio Cruzâ€œRemarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.â€â€“The New York Times Book Review The Years with Laura DÃ­azâ€œReading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.â€â€“The Denver PostThis I Believeâ€œEngaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.â€â€“Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Eagleâ€™s Throneâ€œDazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.â€â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6596'),
(4538, 'Harbingers', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julioâ€™s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say itâ€™s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says heâ€™ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.Â As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitoes. Â Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. Thatâ€™s when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.Â A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilsonâ€™s trademark breakneck pace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/626'),
(4539, 'Hard Bitten', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully compelling vampire heroine."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_ Bestselling Author Julie Kenner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl."\n  <br />\n  -Geek Monthly (geekmonthly.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must-read."\n  <br />\n  -Candace Havens, author of\n  <em>\n   Dragons Prefer Blondes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking'' hot sexual tension...A stunning combination."\n  <br />\n  -Tate Hallaway, author of\n  <em>\n   Honeymoon of the Dead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a new talent in town, and if this debut is any indication, she''s here to stay. Not only does Neill introduce an indomitable and funny heroine, her secondary characters are enormously intriguing and make terrific foils. While the tone of this first-person Chicagoland Vampire series starter is generally light, there is an undercurrent of danger. Truly excellent."\n  <br />\n  -_Romantic Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake." -_Library Journal_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals-and they''re camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are...tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn''t help that she can''t tell who''s on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who''s tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago''s supernatural society-a world full of vampires who seem ready to fulfill the protesting human''s worst fears, and a place where she''ll learn that you can''t be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6133'),
(4540, 'A Hard Day&#39;s Knight', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator John Taylor returns in the 12th novel (after 2010''s The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny) of the Nightside, "the dark, secret, brooding heart of London." Having killed the former Walker, the voice of the Authorities, Taylor''s now the closet thing the Nightside has to a leader. When the sword Excalibur shows up in the mail, he must return to London Proper to consult with the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table. The blood runs red (and golden) as he teams up with King Arthur and tangles with Merlin, elven royalty, traitor knights, sons of the devil, the Lady of the Lake, and various creatively named denizens of the Nightside. Taylor''s irrepressible sarcasm and a twisted take on quotidian scenes compensate for a few too many solemn, self-important pronouncements and evil-overlord lectures. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He''s also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he was chosen to wield it, John must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n London Proper. It''s been years since John''s been back-and there are good reasons for that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5829'),
(4541, 'Hard eight', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hard Up Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn''s estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn''s grandmother lives next door to Stephanie''s parents, so Stephanie follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Hard Risk Steven Soder is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fianceacute; Joe Morelli and Stephanie''s mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it''s Abruzzi''s eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie most. Stephanie needs Ranger''s savvy and expertise, and she''s willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean getting too involved with Ranger. Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who''s not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn''s lawyer/Laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie''s posse, the True Blue Bonds'' agent-a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows-and the Abruzzi crew. Plus, there''s a killer rabbit on the loose! Hard Eight Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life! Hard Eight. The world of Stephanie Plum has never been wilder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2149'),
(4542, 'Hard Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wingfield writes the mystery/police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, dramatized for television in the series A Touch of Frost (seen in America on the Arts &amp; Entertainment cable channel). This novel, Wingfield''s fourth book in the series, is read by British actor and announcer Robin Browne, who skillfully imitates, for the benefit of the television series'' fans, the voice and accents of actor David Jason, who portrays Frost on TV. The novel finds the insubordinate, coarse, yet intuitive Frost stumbling from crisis to crisis with a caseload that simultaneously includes the murder of a burglar-blackmailer, a child-murder and related child-abduction, the kidnapping and ransom of a local teenager, a child-stabbing pervert, and the murder of three children by their unbalanced mother, all while under severe time constraints and while dealing with personnel pressures within the department. The portrayal of the Denton police force, especially the dialog and interplay among characters, rings true, depressingly so at times. The novel is essential for all mystery collections.AKristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What impresses me most is the extraordinarilyÂ Â vivid interplay between the police characters. FrostÂ Â himself is splendidly drawn." --\n <em>\n  TheÂ Â Times, London.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5278'),
(4543, 'Hard News', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune, the shrewd and spunky heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat , returns with a new job as a camerawoman for a local TV news station, but she still believes in magic and lives by her own rules. Rune thinks that Randy Boggs, convicted killer of network news head Lance Hopper, is innocent, and she persuades network dragon lady Piper Sutton, the country''s top news anchor, to let her investigate and produce a segment on the murder. Endearing, with lots of moxie but no experience, Rune learns the hard way as she blunders through the world of big-time investigative reporting, making mistakes and trusting the wrong people. She also has to act as a mother to her flaky friend Claire''s three-year-old, Ophelia, when Claire runs off to Boston in search of a better life. Deaver''s background as a journalist helps him to vivify the competitive, even back-stabbing caste system of network news and to successfully depict the tedium as well as the excitement a reporter experiences when breaking a major story. He writes with clarity, compassion and intelligence, and with a decidedly human and contemporary slant.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After viewing a video of a convicted murderer, houseboat dwelling Rune ( Death of a Blue Movie Star , Bantam, 1990) decides the man is innocent; she then convinces her employer, Network News, to sponsor her investigation. Why Rune believes what she does remains inexplicable, which necessitates a great deal of persuasion on her (and the author''s) part. Ultimately, Rune finds herself mixed up with the convict, her bosses, and a cute three-year-old. Despite its extended exposition, this tale of a news scoop gone wrong should appeal to fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7108'),
(4544, 'A Hard Rain', 'Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulpfiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain. But not this time. The Starship Enterprise? has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer.... Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise !\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6015'),
(4545, 'Hard Revolution: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author''s admirers are familiar with middle-aged black PI Derek Strange, featured in several novels (Soul Circus, etc.) so strong that one critic has dubbed Pelecanos the Zola of contemporary crime fiction. This memorable tale is a prequel to those novels, set in Washington, D.C., mostly just before and during the 1968 riots sparked by the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The first few chapters, though, unfold in 1959, introducing major characters whose paths will entwine later: Derek-who''s nabbed for shoplifting but given a break that will set his life on a (more or less) law-abiding pat-hand his older brother, Dennis; their hardworking parents; and some ancillary figures. By 1968, Derek is a young cop partnered with a white guy; Dennis is a pot-smoking slacker; and many of their acquaintances from ''59 are working dead-end jobs with an eye toward crime. The ensuing narrative swirls around two scenarios: a plan by Dennis and two street-thug pals to rob a local Greek-owned store (Pelecanos wrote extensively about D.C.''s Greek community in early novels, and many of the nonblack characters here are Greek-American) and a plot by three young white hoods to rob a bank, but only after they drunkenly kill a young black man for sport. The action is fueled by the heat of race relations, which Pelecanos explores with acuity-particularly in his portrayal of Derek, who as a black cop is considered an enemy by many other blacks. Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing; no wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos first introduced a 50-something Derek Strange in\n <em>\n  Right as Rain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Soul Circus\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  Hard Revolution\n </em>\n takes us back in time and juxtaposes Derek''s childhood with his early years as a cop. Pelecanos, a hard-boiled crime writer, sets this novel, like his previous ones, in a gritty, violent, and racist Washington, D.C. He makes no excuses for the era or place, describing the city and its workings in detailed, urgent, and often offensive prose. It''s not a page-turner, but rather a window into the hope--and despair--of an era. The characters seek redemption, but don''t always find it. At heart, notes\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n , the story speaks to "the ways Americans love, betray, help and cannot help one another."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7964'),
(4546, 'Hard Target', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1807'),
(4547, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(4548, 'The Hard Way Up', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5509'),
(4549, 'The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer''s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He''s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2813'),
(4550, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects'' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan''s best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami''s fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6731'),
(4551, 'Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies &amp; the Truth About Reality', 'Brad Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That''s what this book does: it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner, an early-''80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu''s Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School--Warner has appropriated the phrase "Question authority," a longtime battle cry for the punk-rock aesthetic, for use as a Buddhist mantra. Much of his book is laid out like a memoir. Readers follow the author from high school and his interest in ''70s rock music and philosophical thought through his musical career under names like Zero Defex and Dimentia 13 and finally to his dream job with the Japanese television studio that produces the popular live-action children''s show,\n <em>\n  Ultra Man\n </em>\n . The common threads throughout are a rabid interest in transcendental meditation and enlightenment. A conversational tone and endless streams of pop references to everything from Minor Threat to\n <em>\n  TheMatrix\n </em>\n movies make this a readable and even fun book. Warner stresses that enlightenment and meditation do not come easy, which separates his writing dramatically from many other Western books on Buddhism. It''s nice to see someone with strong ties to rock coming down so hard on people like Terence McKenna or even the Beatles, who promoted drug use as a way toward higher thought. Although some of Warner''s connections between Buddhism and the various pieces of pop culture are simplified, his idea of questioning is particularly striking. Not just questioning authority, but friends, oneself, and, yes, him. This wonderfully engaging primer just might get those more dubious, less willing readers to look at the world a bit differently._--Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7104'),
(4552, 'The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3913'),
(4553, 'Harem of Aman Akbar', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rasa joins Aman''s two other wives, Amollia and Aster, and travels to Sindupore in order to save Aman from the djinn who has changed him into a donkey\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1542'),
(4554, 'Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a new series, introducing a splendid hero, against the background of Europe in the One Hundred Years'' War. Thomas of Hookton becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. He revels in the life of an army at war with France and becomes known for his wildness and his fearsome skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(4555, 'The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, "The Harlequin Tea Set" brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. Featuring beloved Christie detectives such as Hercule Poirot and Mr. Harley Quin, as well as new characters, these stories will charm and fascinate the millions of Christie fans around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5189'),
(4556, 'The Harlequin', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers haven''t seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (*Publishers Weekly*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you''ve been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death. Long-time rivals for Anita''s affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there''s Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2785'),
(4557, 'The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea', 'Michael Harney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have never exhibited the same passion for tea that so many others in the world cultivate. Much of the tea consumed here is iced tea. Harney setsÂ out to change American minds and educate their palates. Writing in language typically reserved for wine, Harney describes the distinctive tastes, colors, and mouthfeel of teas from each of the major groups: white, green, oolong, yellow, and black. He divides the green teas into Chinese and Japanese, and the black into Chinese and â€œBritish legacy,â€ a catchall term for teas from India and other remnants of the British Empire. He also recommends proper brewing temperatures and the appropriate brewing time for each tea variety. Harneyâ€™s comprehensive analyses of the differences among teas make this a noteworthy book for tea drinkers and a worthwhile reference tool for librarians. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The countryâ€™s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the countryâ€™s leading tea professionals,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varietiesâ€”from delicate white tea to aged black puerh teaâ€”include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite.\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7319'),
(4558, 'Harpist in the Wind', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9709'),
(4559, 'Harpy Thyme', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all the world of Xanth, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin. As she grew to womanhood, she wondered where where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life.So, naturally, she sets off to find the Good Magician Humfrey to ask him for an Answer to the riddle of her heart''s desire. But hUmfrey, for mysterious reason of his own, propels her instead on a perilous quest in search of truth, friendship, and, just possibly, happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3284'),
(4560, 'Harriet', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, HArriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford''s leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and burried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter.Local tongues were just beginning to wag when a whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet''s peaceful routine: first Cory''s estranged wife Noel, hellbent on winning Cory back, then Cory''s glamorous brother Kit, whose old affair with Noel didn''t stop him making passes at Harriet - and finally, of all people, Simon . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1564'),
(4561, 'Harrison State Park &#39;68', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11138');
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(4562, 'Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An incendiary page turner.-Janet Maslin, New York Times on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A Spartan saga of good and evil"-Cathy Burke,\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n (Book of the Week)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most talented of crime writers."â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A taut minidrama in which even minor characters . . . play standout roles that burn with conviction."-Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harry [Bosch] is a Chandlerian knight errant: tough, shrewd, and principled enough to pursue the truth despite formidable opposition."â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Connelly diabolically teases readers while scaring the hell out of them"â€”_Kirkus Reviews _\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve left many ''page-turners'' unfinished, but I finished\n <em>\n  Chasing the Dime\n </em>\n â€”and then read it all over again. In fact, I can''t tell you what I would pay for a bookshelf full of thrillers like this one."â€”_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE LAST COYOTE: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute-his mother. TRUNK MUSIC:Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties.Up against both the LAPD''s organized crime unit and the Mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. ANGELS FLIGHT:The murder of a prominent attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality lands Harry''s friends and associates on the list of suspects-and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5341'),
(4563, 'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, the Black Ice, the Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly''s great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn''t just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won''t do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry''s making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard''s drug bazaar to Mexico''s dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.''s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church''s widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a "wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn''t afraid to walk through the flames."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5344'),
(4564, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young wizard Harry Potter finds himself back at the miserable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn''t realize the difficulty of the task that awaits him. Harry must pull out all the stops in order to find his missing friend. No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights (c) J. K. Rowling. (s05)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6589'),
(4565, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it''s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it''s not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(4566, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort''s remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord''s forces of evil. In this dramatic conclusion to the Harry Potter series, Harry must leave his most loyal friends behind, and in a final perilous journey find the strength and the will to face his terrifying destiny: a deadly confrontation that is his alone to fight. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling reveals all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6587'),
(4567, 'Harry Potter and the deathly hallows (Book 7)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Deluxe Edition includes an exclusive insert** **featuring near**-**scale reproductions of Mary GrandPrÃ©''s interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and contains a full-cloth case book that has been blind-stamped on front and back cover with foil stamping on the spine. The book includes full-color endpapers featuring the jacket art from the trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring art created especially for this edition by Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(4568, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6586'),
(4569, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season''s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians'' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders? But Quidditch buffs need not go into mourning: we get our share of this great game at the World Cup. Attempting to go incognito as Muggles, 100,000 witches and wizards converge on a "nice deserted moor." As ever, Rowling magicks up the details that make her world so vivid, and so comic. Several spectators'' tents, for instance, are entirely unquotidian. One is a minipalace, complete with live peacocks; another has three floors and multiple turrets. And the sports paraphernalia on offer includes rosettes "squealing the names of the players" as well as "tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves." Needless to say, the two teams are decidedly different, down to their mascots. Bulgaria is supported by the beautiful veela, who instantly enchant everyone--including Ireland''s supporters--over to their side. Until, that is, thousands of tiny cheerleaders engage in some pyrotechnics of their own: "The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field." Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it''s true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry''s life, the book''s emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This Daily Prophet scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete. (Ages 9 and older) --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(4570, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active."It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort''s power and followers increasing day by day . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6584'),
(4571, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet...As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate--and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.So it''s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort--and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1825'),
(4572, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *I say to you all, once again--in the light of\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  as we are united, as weak as we are divided.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth  year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school,  it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord  Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between  those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to  believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from  Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at  night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a  silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every  other nightmare combined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part  story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government  of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at  Hogwarts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength  in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and  unbearable sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will  race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only  for the next train back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6588'),
(4573, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.* So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter. Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦ â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back. EDITORIAL REVIEW: *I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.* So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter. Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦ â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(4574, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6585'),
(4575, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who''s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys'' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig. As it turns out, Harry isn''t punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he''s after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry''s very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1822'),
(4576, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone (Book 1)', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Say you''ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling''s enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he''s quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley. A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that''s where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children''s Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1823'),
(4577, 'The Harsh Cry of the Heron', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The surprise fourth installment, the epic conclusion of Lian Hearn''s beloved, bestselling Tales of the Otori.\n <br />\n <br />\n The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series that both completes the characters'' lives-prophesied and otherwise-and brilliantly illuminates unexpected aspects of the entire Otori saga. The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the only fitting end to such a stirring series: a book that takes the storytelling achievement of Lian Hearn''s fantastic medieval Japanese world to startling new heights of drama and action.\n <br />\n <br />\n Hearn''s Otori series is the best (and only) literary expression of a cultural phenomenon that has swept through cinema (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comics (manga), and popular culture at large. And, with this book, Hearn delivers in full ninja vs. samurai fashion the kinetic, simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting resolution that the Otori''s hundreds of thousands of fans richly deserve-whose epic satisfaction will surely draw even more readers into the fold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7952'),
(4578, 'Hart&#39;s Hope', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œA fantastic tapestry woven around wholly believable characters.â€ â€“ Fantasy Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€” Enter the city of Hartâ€™s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.\n <br />\n <br />\n Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her fatherâ€™s death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. [But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hartâ€™s Hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5851'),
(4579, 'The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy', 'W. Allan Walker; Courtney Humphries', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  No strict diets, no scary guidelines--just the essential nutrition expectant moms need to start their babies on the road to lifelong health\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as they grow. But new research confirms that what you eats during pregnancy can also profoundly affect the health of your baby when that baby becomes an adult--for better or for worse. Endorsed by the Harvard Medical School and written by one of the world''s leading experts in nutrition for pregnant women and babies, this guide offers more solid information and medically sound advice on prenatal nutrition than any other book on the market.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Give your unborn baby a head start on a lifetime of good health\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What you eat during pregnancy has a strong influence on your baby''s health at birth. But did you know that it also can have a\n <em>\n  lifelong\n </em>\n impact on your child''s health? The latest scientific research indicates that good nutrition begins in the womb, and healthy eating habits during pregnancy can actually help lower your child''s risk of obesity, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other problems later in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Healthy Eating During Pregnancy\n </em>\n arms you with the information you need to give your baby the very best--even before birth. One of Harvard Medical School''s top experts in pediatrics and nutrition, Dr. W. Alan Walker draws upon the latest research and his more than two decades of clinical experience to explain, in plain English, the science of prenatal nutrition. More important, he gives you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Nutritional guidelines from preconception to year one\n </li>\n <li>\n  Foods to eat and foods to avoid\n </li>\n <li>\n  A critical look at vitamins and other supplements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Menus and delicious recipes that make healthy eating easy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exercises that help guarantee optimal health for you and baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expert advice on breast-feeding and how to be sure your baby is properly nourished during weaning\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8795'),
(4580, 'The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century''s Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before _The Grapes of Wrath_. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters'' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmersâ€”the backbone of rural Americaâ€”so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. _The Harvest Gypsies_ gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck''s masterpiece, _The Grapes of Wrath_. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck''s original articles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3113'),
(4581, 'Harvest home', 'Thomas Tryon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3463'),
(4582, 'Harvest Hunting', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We''re the D''Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn''t all fun and games. We''re on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we''ve become quite a nuisance...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s Samhain, and the Autumn Lord, has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we''ve got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads and there''s no turning back from our decision. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it''s a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8009'),
(4583, 'Harvest Moon', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock''s sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she''s retreated to her sister Jillian''s house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Puttering in Jill''s garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly''s starting to feel a little\n  <i>\n   too\n  </i>\n  unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriterâ€”a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief''s rebellious stepdaughter, Courtney. She''s the reason they moved from L.A., but Courtney''s finding plenty of trouble even in Virgin River.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly''s never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Besides, a bratty teenager can''t be any worse than a histrionic chef...right?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5040'),
(4584, 'Harvesting the Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O''Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can''t afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas''s socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Picoult''s imagery is startling and brilliant; her characters move credibly through this affecting drama.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her second novel, the author of Songs of the Humpback Whale ( LJ 5/15/92) recounts with power and grace a young woman''s efforts to achieve "grandeur... andthe ability to be comfortable in the world." Paige O''Toole Prescott, a gifted portraitist, sets aside her art to support her husband, Nicholas, during his medical training. His wealthy parents reject Paige, who already suffers from self-doubt after being abandoned by her mother. Despite Nicholas''s success as a surgeon and the young couple''s love for each other, the birth of their son catapults them into emotional crisis. Paige''s resulting quest for courage and self-confidence forces Nicholas, her parents, and her in-laws to reevaluate their attitudes, standards, and behavior. Picoult considers various forces that can unite or fracture families and examines the complexities of the human heart both literally and figuratively. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5042'),
(4585, 'A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Something is coming after Tiffany ... Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn''t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany''s inner strength to save herself ... if it can be done at all. A Story of Discworld\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3408'),
(4586, 'Hatchet', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but untiland ifhe is rescued, only begins when he stops pitying himself and understands that no one can help him. He is on his own, without his divorced father, whom he was to visit, or his mother, whom Brian saw kissing another man before the divorce. This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist''s experience. Ages 11-13.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8-12 Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake. Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. The novel chronicles in gritty detail Brian''s mistakes, setbacks, and small triumphs as, with the help of the hatchet, he manages to survive the 54 days alone in the wilderness. Paulsen effectively shows readers how Brian learns patienceto watch, listen, and think before he actsas he attempts to build a fire, to fish and hunt, and to make his home under a rock overhang safe and comfortable. An epilogue discussing the lasting effects of Brian''s stay in the wilderness and his dim chance of survival had winter come upon him before rescue adds credibility to the story. Paulsen tells a fine adventure story, but the sub-plot concerning Brian''s preoccupation with his parents'' divorce seems a bit forced and detracts from the book. As he did in Dogsong (Bradbury, 1985), Paulsen emphasizes character growth through a careful balancing of specific details of survival with the protagonist''s thoughts and emotions. Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7146'),
(4587, 'Hate List', 'Jennifer Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five months ago, Valerie Leftman''s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(4588, 'Haunted', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY â€” SUPERNATURAL â€” WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine â€” half-demon, black witch and devoted mother â€” has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and canâ€™t be killed again â€” which comes in handy when youâ€™ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isnâ€™t too bad â€” all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and sheâ€™ll be happy.But fate â€” or more exactly, the Fates â€” have other plans. Eve owes them a favor, and theyâ€™ve just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy â€” previous hunters have been driven insane in the process. As if thatâ€™s not problem enough, the only way to stop her is with an angelâ€™s sword. And Eve is no angel. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3148'),
(4589, 'The Haunted Air', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: F. Paul Wilson''s engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in *The Haunted Air*. First introduced years ago in the bestseller *The Tomb*, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City, including *Legacies*, *Conspiracies*,* All the Rage*, and *Hosts*. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the *San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle.*Repairman Jack doesn''t believe a house can be haunted. But he''s about to change that tune . . .It started off as a lark, a late-night jaunt from a boring party to the home of a psychic medium, with Jack dragged along as a reluctant participant. But as soon as Jack and Gia step across the threshold, the house and the earth itself shake to the accompaniment of a tortured scream.Menelaus Manor sits atop a major geologic fault known as Cameron''s Line. But that''s not it''s only problem. The house has a horrific history. Its original owner died of cancer; his son blew his brains out in the basement; the couple that bought it next were found dead in their bed with their throats slashed; shortly thereafter a child was horribly mutilated in an upstairs bedroom. The current owners, Lyle and Charlie Kenton, clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus, use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they''re too good: they''ve lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem. Jack takes the job, figuring he''ll straighten out the situation by engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: scamming a scammer. But soon he learns that this fix-it involves more than professional jealousy in the spook trade. The earthquake marked the awakening of something in Menelaus Manor, something that used to be someone, an entity full of rage and brought back for a specific purpose. But this entity has an agenda all its own . . . Before he''s finished Jack will travel from the seamy world of psychic scams to the inner circle of a well-connected murder cult, and finally into the dark heart of madness where he must strike a deal with a rage-filed entity returned from the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(4590, 'The Haunted Earth', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(4591, 'Haunted: a novel of stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/397'),
(4592, 'The Haunting of Hill House', 'Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonâ€™s *The Haunting of Hill House* has been hailed as   a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously   unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a   "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well   acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems   destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill  House is gathering its powersâ€”and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3995'),
(4593, 'The Haunting of Hill House: A Drama of Suspense in Three Acts', 'F. Andrew Leslie &amp; Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5942'),
(4594, 'Have a Baby and Look Better Than Ever: An Holistic Guide to Health and Fitness During and After Pregnancy', 'Yinka Thomas; Tonia Buxton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10514');
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(4595, 'Have a Little Faith', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Will you do my eulogy?'' With those words, Mitch Albom begins his return to non-fiction. In this book he gravitates to an inner-city pastor of a church that houses the homeless. As his own cleric slowly lets go, Albom writes his farewell, having learned that a faithful heart comes in many forms and places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7555'),
(4596, 'Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child&#39;s Attitude, Behavior &amp; Character in 5 Days', 'Kevin Leman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anyone who has dealt with a strong-willed child knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. But the popularity of TV programs like Supernanny and Nanny 911 shows that parents have had it up to here and are ready to try anything to get their children to behave. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help. Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child''s attitude, behavior, and character, it contains chapters for each day of the week and a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls and much, much more. This large section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.EXCERPT FROM CATALOGI''ve got news for you. Since the beginning of time, kids have been unionized, and they''ve got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Don''t believe it? Take a look around....In today''s society, kids even shorter than a yardstick are calling the shots. Some hedonistic little suckers of the ankle-biter battalion have even graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. Then there''s the already-adult children who return home to your cozy little nest and stay and stay and stay.... You know all about that. If you picked up this book, you picked it up for a reason. You''d like to see a few things--or maybe many--change in your house. You may have small concerns, or big concerns, about your child at this point.... I''ll be blunt. You got a big job to do as a parent, and a short window to do it in. If you believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don''t believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, put this book down right now and buy another.... But I''ve got a Midas muffler guarantee for you. If you stick to the simple strategies in this book--strategies that any parent can carry out--you''ll have a new kid by Friday. You can have a great kid, and you can be a great parent. Your relationship with your child can change in just one week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3033'),
(4597, 'Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond', 'Bill Lee &amp; Richard Lally &amp; Dick Lally', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another playerâ€™s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseballâ€™s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was fated to pack his bags and wander the globe searching for a ball game. Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada.At the heart of this story are the rollicking, colorful characters Lee meets during his travels, and the mishaps that befall him whether heâ€™s sober or stoned. Thereâ€™s the eccentric Latin pitching master Lee plays with in Cuba, who once struck out Ernest Hemingway. And a hilarious story that takes place in the backwoods of a British Columbia timber town, where Lee and Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins go fishing and end up being chased back to their pickup truck by a 450-pound black bear.Have Glove, Will Travel is so much more than the average baseball book. Leeâ€™s humor, keen eye for detail, and extraordinary pitching intellect are always on display, but in the end this book is a love story about a middle-aged maverick who refused to stop pursuing his passion for a boyâ€™s game long after the grown-ups told him he couldnâ€™t play on their team anymore. Readers who loved Leeâ€™s bestselling The Wrong Stuff, also written with Richard Lally, will find the long wait for this rich and wonderful sequel well worth it. Those who havenâ€™t yet encountered the literary Bill Lee have a great treat in store.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5387'),
(4598, 'Have Space Suit - Will Travel', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generationsFirst prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell won it, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own to the stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries on the suit in his backyard -- and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate''s ship, and heading straight for what could be his final destination....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3949'),
(4599, 'Hawaii', 'James Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama . . . wonderful.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of viewâ€”thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous.â€ _â€”Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA memorable novel, a superb biography of a people.â€\n </em>\n â€”Houston Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Hawaii\n </em>\n , Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaiiâ€™s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.\n</p>\n<p>\n The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build Americaâ€™s strong and vital fiftieth state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4925'),
(4600, 'Hawkmistress!', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Romilly uses her power to communicate with and control animals to aid the battle to depose the usurper of the throne of Darkover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9536'),
(4601, 'Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This classic sword and sorcery novel from 1967 finds a shattered future Europe recovering from the Tragic Millennium spent under the control of the overtly evil Dark Empire of Granbretan. The reclusive Count Brass, lord of the former French region Kamarg, enrages the empire when he spurns an offer of alliance. Imperial envoy Baron Meliadus sends defeated rebel Dorian Hawkmoon to kidnap Brass''s daughter, Yisselda, but Hawkmoon''s inherent morality, his own infatuation with Yisselda, and Brass''s kindness lead Hawkmoon to ally with Brass though he knows it spells his own doom. This novel is quite short by modern standards, giving the story a compressed and distilled effect. There is little space for nuanced politics or any depth of characterization, but the action is extremely fast-paced, and Moorcock fits more plot into 224 pages than other authors manage in a dozen volumes.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --Michael Chabon, _New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  The Yiddish Policemen''s Union\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"If you are at all interested in fantastic fiction, you must read Michael Moorcock. He changed the field single-handedly: he''s a giant. He has kept me entertained, shocked, and fascinated for as long asÂ I have been reading."\n  <br />\n  --Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Otherland series\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9832'),
(4602, 'He Shall Thunder in the Sky', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Trouble is brewing in Egypt at the close of 1914 and no one will escape the fury of the tempest to come. With the world around them at war, Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson have returned to Cairo for another season of archaeological excavation -- despite the increasing danger of an attack on the Suez Canal and on Egypt itself. A terrible conflict looms. A long-simmering love affair is resolved. A dastardly plot twists like a serpent writhing in the desert sun. There is no escaping the onrushing hurricane that now threatens the Emersons and their world -- so Amelia plunges right into it. SUMMARY: Trouble is brewing in Egypt at the close of 1914 and no one will escape the fury of the tempest to come. With the world around them at war, Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson have returned to Cairo for another season of archaeological excavation -- despite the increasing danger of an attack on the Suez Canal and on Egypt itself.A terrible conflict looms. A long-simmering love affair is resolved. A dastardly plot twists like a serpent writhing in the desert sun. There is no escaping the onrushing hurricane that now threatens the Emersons and their world -- so Amelia plunges right into it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(4603, 'He Who Fears the Wolf', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a great addition to the detectives'' league." --"The Dallas Morning News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Confronting a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, Inspector Sejer finds that small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so brilliantly in "Don''t Look Back. ""With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre has to offer." --Baltimore Sun Karin Fossum is the author of many novels and two collections of short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3045'),
(4604, 'He&#39;s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys', 'Greg Behrendt; Liz Tuccillo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s a classic single-woman scenario: you really like this guy, but heâ€™s giving mixed messages. You make excuses, decide heâ€™s confused, afraid of commitment. Behrendt, a former executive story editor for Sex and the Cityâ€”and a formerly single (now happily married) guy who knows all the excusesâ€”provides a simple answer: heâ€™s just not that into you. Stop kidding yourself, let go and look for someone else who will be. After all, as Behrendt sensibly puts it, "if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ainâ€™t nothing thatâ€™s going to get in his way." If youâ€™re not convinced yet, by all means read this smart, funny and surprisingly upbeat little book, full of qâ€™s and aâ€™s covering every excuse woman has ever made to avoid admitting to herself that a man just wasnâ€™t that smitten with her.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“With a bright, breezy style, the authors highlight a list of actions that men take to demonstrate that they are "just not into you," using "Dear Greg" letters and replies, unscientific polls of men, lists reviewing the key points in each chapter, a comic glossary, and laugh-out-loud workbook assignments. Although this book is meant for the 20-plus career women who have been dating for a while, the empowering message that a woman deserves a man who truly loves her and not one that she must constantly make excuses for can''t be learned too early._â€“Jane S. Drabkin, Chinn Park Regional Library, Woodbridge, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10105'),
(4605, 'Head in the Clouds', 'Karen Witemeyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Witemeyer follows her delightful first novel, A Tailor-Made Bride, with another tale of romance in America''s West. Teacher Adelaide Proctor follows Henry Belcher to Fort Worth, Tex., but discovers her Prince Charming is a rogue. Instead of the marriage she planned, Adelaide becomes governess to Isabella, daughter of English-born sheep rancher Gideon Westcott. Adelaide comes to love both the mute, troubled Isabella and her father, but forces beyond their control are heading from England to Texas. Viscount Reginald Petchey wants his niece''s fortune and will do anything to get it, even murder and kidnapping. But Petchey doesn''t factor in Adelaide''s determination and Gideon''s love for his daughter. A final standoff is a nail-biter as a child''s life and a family''s future hang in the balance. Witemeyer''s sophomore tale is entertaining and exciting, though fans may wish for the insightful discussions of her first. Readers won''t be disappointed, however, in the strong, lovable Adelaide and her ultimate Prince Charming.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America''s wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn''t uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon--and intrigues him at the same time. But he can''t afford distractions. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence-cutting to investigate. When Isabella''s uncle comes to claim the child--and her inheritance--Gideon and Adelaide must work together to protect Isabella from the man''s evil schemes. And soon neither can deny their growing attraction. But after so many heartbreaks, will Adelaide be willing to get her head out of the clouds and put her heart on the line?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5296'),
(4606, 'Heads', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Mickey Sandoval''s brother-in-law uses the moon''s facilities to achieve zero degrees Kelvin--Absolute Zero, when all cellular motion ceases--Mickey''s sister buys 410 cryogenically frozen heads, and one of them turns out to be a big surprise. "Heads deserves to sweep all the awards".--Locus. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9556'),
(4607, 'The Healing of America', 'T.R. Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform.** In *The Healing of America, New York Times* bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can''t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance. In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform. The first question facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own. *The Healing of America* lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, *The Healing of America* is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3801'),
(4608, 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child', 'Marc Weissbluth; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the country''s leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children''s sleep problems Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child''s natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that - Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule- Rest is vital to your child''s health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2563'),
(4609, 'Hearing secret harmonies', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(4610, 'Heart and Soul', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n    SUMMARY:\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Clara Casey thought the position she coveted as senior cardiologist was hers. Instead sheâ€™s offered the thankless job - a consolation prize, as she sees it - of establishing a rehab heart clinic thatâ€™s clearly unfunded. Clara has enough on her hands, already coping with two difficult adult daughters, Adi and Linda, and the unwanted attentions of her handsome ex-husband Alan. But she reluctantly accepts the job, promising to leave after one year.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10492'),
(4611, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4399'),
(4612, 'Heart Is a Lonely Hunter', 'Carson McCullers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When one puts [this book] down, it is with . . . a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life.â€ -- Richard Wright\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  . She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers''s ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again.\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Performed by Cherry Jones\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7949'),
(4613, 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1997:\n  </strong>\n  Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in\n  <em>\n   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n  </em>\n  . In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s.\n  <em>\n   Gather Together in My Name\n  </em>\n  picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes\n  <em>\n   Singin'' and Swingin'' and Gettin'' Merry Like Christmas,\n  </em>\n  an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man.\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman,\n  </em>\n  the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou''s amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRemarkable . . . a great lady moving right on through a great memoir.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaya Angelou has . . . achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve. . . . What makes [her] writing unique is . . . a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _â€“The Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œTo say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA uniquely gifted wordsmith and storyteller.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The San Diego Union-Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4451'),
(4614, 'Heart of darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood''s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the river, at this time Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium''s King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.This very symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, his Congolese adventure. The passage of time, and the darkening sky, during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallels the atmosphere of the overall story. (wikipedia)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2987'),
(4615, 'The heart of Devin MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestselling Author** Sheriff Devin MacKade watched - patiently, painfully - as the woman he secretly cherished suffered through a less-than-perfect marriage. Now pretty Cassie Connor was free . . . but vulnerable. Devin knew he''d have to tread slowly, all the while wondering if the heart of Devin MacKade would ever claim the woman he loved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2653'),
(4616, 'Heart of Gold', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, the promise of a new love is imperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside town of Anastasia, California, Faith Kincaid is looking to start over after her bruising divorce from powerful, corrupt senator William Gerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testify against her ex at his high-profile bribery trial, the federal government is watching her every move. Theyâ€™ve even sent a special agent, Shane Callan, to protect her. Faith doesnâ€™t think she needs a bodyguardâ€”especially one as physically formidable as Shane. But he refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharing secrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs of sizzling out of control. But as Faith learns, Shaneâ€™s not a forever kind of guyâ€”unless she can convince him to undergo a major change of heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3821'),
(4617, 'Heart of Stone', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(4618, 'Heart of the Comet', 'Gregory Benford; David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9981');
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(4619, 'Heart of the Matter', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A powerful, provocative novel about marriage and motherhood, love and forgiveness\n </em>\n .__\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlieâ€”a boy who has never known his father. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, they are strangers to one another and have little in common, aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n <em>\n  Heart of the Matter\n </em>\n , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily Giffin:\n </strong>\n It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n <em>\n  Night Road\n </em>\n , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifyingâ€”especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of itâ€”the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" questionâ€”what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)â€”and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily:\n </strong>\n I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership upâ€¦just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the popular Giffin''s latest, Nick Russo is a pediatric plastic surgeon; his wife, Tessa (sister of Dex, from\n <em>\n  Something Borrowed\n </em>\n ), is a professor turned stay-at-home mom living a cushy life in Boston. Nick is called in to care for a six-year-old burn victim, and Nick''s devotion to his work is soon tangled up in his attraction to the boy''s mother, Valerie, a single attorney. Narrated in turn by Tessa and Valerie, the action centers aroundâ€”will they or won''t they, and, if they do, will Tessa forgive him? While unclear what Nick finds so unsatisfying in his marriage, adultery is always tempting and Tessa and Valerie both have their charms. Longtime fans will enjoy the cameos, but for the best of Giffin, don''t miss her earlier works.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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For every mistake we make, we can justify it by telling ourselves the reasons we did it. For every choice that we decide that affects other people, we know what led us to them. And when every small choice we make suddenly puts us square in the middle of some disaster and we''re the "bad guy" in the situation, it''s not like we didn''t have good intentions at the start. And it''s that sort of disaster that leads HEART OF THE MATTER''s two narrators, Tessa and Valerie, to find themselves at odds with one another. And because each of them gets to tell their version of events to us, there''s not really a villain in this story of injured children, gossipy private school moms, broken families and, more than anything, infidelity. Tessa and Val are just two women who''ve made mistakes and bad choices for very good reasons. And, under different circumstances, they''d probably be really close friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa and Val''s story begins with an accident. Valerie Anderson is a strong, determined, stubborn single mom to Charlie, a very sweet, sensitive little boy who''s a student at a private school in Boston. She reluctantly allows Charlie to go to a friend''s birthday party, even though she finds the parents involved to be rich and snotty. At the party, Charlie is seriously injured in a campfire and rushed to the hospital. Val beats herself up over these choices, not trusting her instincts, massively upset over her hurt little boy. Her twin brother Jason tries to comfort her. But no one is able to reassure her until her son''s excellent, attractive pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Nick Russo, arrives and tells her that Charlie is a beautiful child and would continue to be. It''s just what she needs to hear at a very tough time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick, though, had to rush to the hospital from his seventh wedding anniversary dinner with Tessa, his loving, fun wife who''s struggling to redefine her identity after she''s given up her job as a professor to be a stay-at-home mom to her two little kids, Ruby and Frank. Tessa''s mom advised her not to quit her job because she was afraid that Tessa might lose herself or become resentful of her frequently busy, often absent genius husband. Tessa feels inferior to all of the other private school moms around her, even her friend April, a cold perfectionist, and Romy, a rich woman who''s panicked because the campfire accident that burned Charlie happened at her house.\n</p>\n<p>\n So Tessa and Val are connected by community, by mutual acquaintances and now through Nick, whom they both come to care for and have issues with.\n</p>\n<p>\n Giffin''s writing style and the alternating points-of-view allow us to care about both women, building suspense as we wonder just how far their lives will become entwined and just how far the love triangle that eventually becomes central to the novel will go.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is arguably Giffin''s best book. Like her other novels, it''s occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. But, in her fifth book, Giffin allows herself to explore the deeper, darker mistakes and the minutae that can harm well-meaning people trying to find themselves while coping with marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is deep and serious, occasionally incredibly sad and moving. She lets us get to know Tessa and Val and care for them in the way that her readers came to love her SOMETHING BORROWED/SOMETHING BLUE heroines Rachel and Darcy. And she mines new territory by criticizing the privileged, gossipy culture of moms that the two women live in.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is occasionally as funny, tangled and bitterly insightful as Tom Perrotta''s LITTLE CHILDREN, another great book that I found myself thinking of often as I read this. But the voice of HEART OF THE MATTER is distinctly Giffin''s, and fans - in particular fans of SOMETHING BORROWED - will not be disappointed by HEART OF THE MATTER.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to love in this new book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 3.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Unexciting depiction of a somewhat-fresh adultery tale\n </strong>\n , May 15, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Verified Purchase\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Something Borrowed is my favorite modern novel. Period. I love how it shows a balanced, thoughtful, emotional account of infidelity, friendship, and the complexities of turning 30 with unrealized expectations...with flawed characters whose voices and backgrounds are varied and ring true.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems, though, that in each subsequent release, the narrators of Giffin''s stories become more cookie-cutter, more self-absorbed, more whiny. In fact, the first few chapters of Heart of the Matter were boring...too much exposition, to much ''tell,'' flashback, character descriptions. What happened to letting us know the characters by their behaviors and actions? Honestly, I was thrown back to Sweet Valley High when Jessica and Elizabeth''s physical appearances, down to their aquamarine eyes, were described in detail around page 6 of Every. Single. Book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also: female novelists: PLEASE stop giving every mommy-protagonist a single BFF who is longing to have what the mommy has. Is it possible that some single women are happy with their lives? Is it possible some married mothers are best friends with... other married mothers? You don''t need that cliche character in order to cultivate a random bar/hi-jinks plot excursion. Cate was unnecessary. Completely. (And don''t get me started on Romy. People DO have layers...even rich, entitled ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, this story did get better as time went along, although I found the character Val, because of what she exposed her child to, to be not nearly as sympathetic as she should have been. I found Tessa to be fairly bland. I found the re-appearance of two of my favorite characters from Giffin''s original storyline (I won''t name and spoil it) to be very exciting at first...but also... a little vanilla.\n</p>\n<p>\n I am worried that Giffin has shown us all her tricks, kind of like Danielle Steel did with her first 2 or 3 of 8 million novels. We have a lawyer...we have a competitiveness among well-to-do women...we have infidelity of some kind...we have a female character who basically has it all but is inexplicably unsatisfied over conditions she could change if she tried... oh, and we have twins. (It''s not a bothersome recurring happenstance, but again, we get it. Giffin has twins...)\n</p>\n<p>\n The relationship between Tessa''s parents and the culmination of their past was my favorite moment in the book. I also appreciate that The Conflict was handled with sensitivity toward all parties involved. For once, though, I would appreciate a mommy story in which the mommies are not too busy trying to one-up each other and make their kids into organic-Stepford-moppets to actually support and advocate for one another. There was a great passage in the book in which Tessa describes all the things the mommies compare in each other... their husbands, their houses, their problems. What I loved most about the passage was that the things listed were all things I discuss with my mommy friends...in a NON-critical or competitive way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard for female novelists to give females credit?\n</p>\n<p>\n I will continue to read Giffin, because she created Dex and Rachel and Darcy and Marcus and Hilary...but when the next novel comes out, I might be on the library''s waiting list instead of on the Amazon pre-order...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Enjoyable Giffin\n </strong>\n , March 26, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customer review from the Amazon Vineâ„¢ Program\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n I usually love Giffin''s books, and this one was no exception. 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(4620, 'Heart of the sea', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the conclusion of the Irish trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon, Darcy Gallagher has always dreamed of living in a world of glamour and adventure and gets her chance when she meets wealthy businessman Trevor Magee, who has come to Ardmore to build a theater and to uncover the secrets of his family''s past. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2627'),
(4621, 'Heart-shaped box', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman''s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can''t help but reach for his wallet. *I will "sell" my stepfather''s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .* For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man''s suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn''t afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ€”of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What''s one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It''s the real thing. And suddenly the suit''s previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude''s restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingâ€”with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . . A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2094'),
(4622, 'Heartbeat', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine years after his marriage crumbles, TV producer Bill Thigpen enjoys a chance meeting with Adrian Townsend, a successful woman who yearns for a family, in a local supermarket, and together the two of them build a new life together. Reprint.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. In as enviable life they''d worked hard for -- the American Dream. Until she got pregnant. Suddenly all she had was chaos. And Steven''s ultimatum. Him or the baby. The question was: did he mean it? He did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life.... a woman he really loves, a real family again. But does he need the heartache of another man''s baby, another wife? Neither does. But they couldn''t help it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel touches the\n <em>\n  Heartbeat\n </em>\n of two wonderful people as their friendship deepens into love, as they meet the obstacles that life presents with humor, humanity, and courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6033'),
(4623, 'Heartfire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person''s heart. She can follow the paths of each person''s future, and know each person''s most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker''s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin''s heart as well as his life.But Alvin''s destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy''s quest to set the world on the path to peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2486'),
(4624, 'Heartless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories.First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer''s house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who''s supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless, but it''s about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all, nobody likes a girl who cries wolf-least of all me. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3756'),
(4625, 'Hearts In Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America''s living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King''s newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We''re in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book''s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart''s desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King''s new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4278'),
(4626, 'Hearts of Grey', 'Earl E. Gobel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Columbia, South Carolina. By the time the sun rises the following day, Columbia would be in ruins. Three-quarters of the once-striving showcase of the South would be reduced to ashes. The pride of the South, the pride of the Confederacy, would never recover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(4627, 'Heat', 'Buford, Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8962'),
(4628, 'Heat Rises', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ?Richard Castle proves as adept at writing thrillers as he is at solving crimes. HEAT rises to the occasion.?\n   <br />\n   ?Dennis Lehane, bestselling author\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Richard Castle''s most thrilling mystery yet.\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat?s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York?s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.\n  <br />\n  But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who?s not a cop: reporter Jameson Rook.\n  <br />\n  In the midst of New York?s coldest winter in a hundred years, there?s one thing Nikki is determined to prove:Â  Heat Rises.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11237'),
(4629, 'Heat Wave', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3793'),
(4630, 'Heat: An Amateur&#39;s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany', 'Bill Buford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Buford''s funny and engaging book\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali''s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel''s\n  <em>\n   No Reservations\n  </em>\n  , executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York''s three star\n</p>\n<p>\n Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real\n</p>\n<p>\n Thirdly,\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can''t think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence.\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It''s going right in between Orwell''s\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buford''s voice echoes the rhythms of his own writing style. Writing about his break from working as a\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n editor and learning firsthand about the world of food, Buford guns his reading into hyperspeed when he is jazzed about a particularly tangy anecdote, and plays with his vocal tone and pitch when mimicking others'' voices. At its base, Buford''s voice is tinged with a jovial lilt, as if he is amused by his life as a "kitchen slave" and by the outsize personalities of the people he meets along the way. Less authoritative than blissfully confused, Buford speaks the way he writes, as a well-informed but never entirely knowledgeable outsider to the world of food love. Listening to his imitation of star chef Mario Batali''s kinetic squeal, Buford ably conveys his abiding love for the teachers and companions of his brief, eventful life as a cook.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4790'),
(4631, 'Heated Rush', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know you''re hard up when you have to buy a date... But Annie Davis''s big family reunion is looming, and she needs a stand-in man fast or she''ll never hear the end of it. Any gorgeous guy will do. Her solution? The drop-dead-sexy man at the charity bachelor auction. His good looks and blue-collar background make him perfect for her! Or is he?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sean Murphy has a bit of a surprise for Annie. Not only is he not blue-collar, he''s actually a sophisticated European entrepreneur, one who''s made pleasuring women an art form. And he wants to permanently pleasure Annie! But Sean knows that if she discovers his secret, their wickedly delicious liaison will be over. Lucky for both of them, he''s learned enough tricks to keep Annie distracted for a long, long time....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7769'),
(4632, 'Heaven', 'Randy C. Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Randy Alcorn helps answer some of these questions by sharing his extensive research on the topic--all from a biblical perspective. His writing will surprise readers and stretch their thinking beyond anything they''ve imagined heaven to be like. And *Heaven* will help readers strive for eternity while they''re living on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3731'),
(4633, 'Heaven and earth', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mia, the proprietor of the Island''s small book store and the local witch, discovers the key to her own destiny, in the second volume of the Three Sisters Island trilogy, which captures the lives, loves, and fortunes of three young women enmeshed in the legends, romance, and magic of a mysterious island off the Massachusetts coast. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2583'),
(4634, 'Heaven and the Heather', 'Elizabeth Holcombe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sabine de Sainte Montagne-a member of the royal court-meets the chief of an outlaw clan, she begins to believe that anything can happen in the Highlands-even love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(4635, 'Heaven Cent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the mind of Xanth''s precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect was to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting off with his faithfuls companion, Marrow, an enchanted skeleton, Dolph will penetrate an island of illusion, escape a goblin kingdom, outwit a husband-hungry mermaid, save marrow from bone-starved harpies, and find romance with a slinky snake princess--all on his way to discovering a magic coin with all the answers!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3292'),
(4636, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6312');
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(4637, 'Heaven, Texas', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Jayne Ann Krentz_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Susan Elizabeth Phillips triumphs once again" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Romantic Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Bobby Tom Denton is going to his Texas hometown to shoot his first movie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gracie Snow''s job is to "handle" him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Good luck with that.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n "There''s been a terrible misunderstanding, Mr. Denton. Can''t you see that I don''t look like a stripper?" Gracie snatched up her suit jacket. "Please. Could we go somewhere private to talk?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Bobby Tom sighed and uncoiled from his chair. "I s''pose we''d better. But you''ve got to give me your word you''ll keep your clothes on. It wouldn''t be fair for me to see you naked when my party guests can''t."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I promise, Mr. Denton, that you will never see me naked."\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked doubtful. "I don''t mean to question your good intentions, honey, but judging from my past history, it might not be that easy for you to resist."\n</p>\n<p>\n A head-spinning battle of the sexes with Beauty waging war against Brain, except this male beauty has a fine intelligence, and brainy Gracie isn''t nearly as ordinary as she thinks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4632'),
(4638, 'Heaven&#39;s Net Is Wide', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lord Shigeru, heir to the Otori clan, faces hostility from the shrewdly ambitious Iida family in the East and base treachery at home from his uncles. His noble education and training as a warrior have prepared him for leadership and combat, but fate and Shigeru''s youthful determination bring the Three Countries to war, and he must endure terrible and tragic defeat at thebattle of Yaegahara... and its brutal consequences.  Heaven''s Net is Wide is the first and last Tale, which both closes the circle and introduces new readers to the strange and beautiful world of the Otori. It is an epic historical fantasy of revenge and betrayal, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion and the overwhelming power of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7950'),
(4639, 'Heavy Time', 'C J Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Discovered alone and without his memory on his drifting ship, pilot Paul Dekker is accused of the murder of his crew members and he must rely on the help of renegade miner Morris Bird to learn the truth. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10888'),
(4640, 'Heavy Water: And Other Stories', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis''s writing, which is always skillful and consistently seductive--sometimes irritatingly so. Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters, and then, in some unsettling way, encourages us to patronize or disparage them. It''s an odd strategy, but it holds our attention. By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes, he focuses us intently on his story line.\n</p>\n<p>\n In "Coincidence of the Arts," the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman, aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier, who turns to him for artistic encouragement. When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress, it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin''s wife. The consequences reflect well on neither man. In "State of England," we smirk knowingly at Big Mal, a bullshitting East Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son''s sports day, but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him. Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as "Let Me Count the Times" have not stood the test of time, and Amis''s tales of literary agents, aspiring novelists, and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie. Still, when he is on form, Amis''s work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen here before, offers a good sampling of his range. This includes, of course, tone-perfect mimicry, which is evident in "State of England," about a disco bouncer with a son at a posh English boys'' school, and "What Happened to Me on My Holiday," told in the misspelled, petulant voice of a hurt child. Then there is sharp, edgy comedy based on the notion of role reversal. In "Career Move," much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other''s work and vie desperately for publication in ephemeral little magazines that never pay. "Straight Fiction" supposes that the world is predominantly gay but that outposts of heterosexuality remain in areas like New York''s Christopher Street and San Francisco''s Castro, exerting a malificent influence on the predominant, comfortable culture. "The Coincidence of the Arts" has an aristocratic and evasive English artist in New York trying to avoid reading an ambitious novel thrust upon him by his black doorman. "The Janitor on Mars" is a satirical science fiction yarn. Amis''s work is wonderfully clever and often extremely funny, but there is no escaping a certain steely-eyed coldness at the heart of it. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7216'),
(4641, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/833'),
(4642, 'A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine', 'Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney''s\n <em>\n  A Hedonist in the Cellar\n </em>\n , a collection of his essays originally published in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n . Whether talking about a California chardonnay ("like a Ginsu blade concealed in a peach"); the wines of the Cote Rotie ("like Fitzgerald, [its] reputation was almost moribund at mid-century"); or the super Valpolicellas of Italian vintner Giuseppe Quintarelli ("his [wines] should be opened only in the presence of gods and stinky cheeses"), McInerney brings a novelist''s gift and idiosyncratic wit to his personal investigations, which touch on the Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, the "forgotten whites" of Bordeaux, new developments in the wines of Chile and Argentina, spirits like Armagnac and artisinal champagnes, and much more. McInerney is a stimulating appreciator, so readers poring through his essays happily absorb viniculture and modus operandi, among other technical matters. In essays like "Translating German Labels" and "How to Impress Your Sommelier," theyâ€™re also prepped in buying and ordering. A wide-ranging tour of the wine world in sum,\n <em>\n  Hedonist\n </em>\n is for all wine lovers, who will find in it much of what''s been missing from so much other wine and food writing: the wit to do it well.\n <em>\n  --Arthur Boehm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who''ve ever thought wine writing was a bit sniffy will find McInerney''s cheeky and informative squibs on wine a generous, almost ham-handed pleasure. In this collection of short essays, reproduced from his monthly column in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n , the increasingly avid reader is enveloped in the various wines he tastes. It''s sexy. But it''s not just wine that''s sexy here, it''s also the people who have "caught the wine bug" and dedicate themselves to making their own labels. McInerney (_Bright Lights, Big City_;\n <em>\n  The Good Life\n </em>\n ) ferrets out the small winemakers, investigates their ethos and tastes their efforts with the same glee and tireless interest he dedicates to the big bottlers. This sense of discovery permeates each essay as he links the wine to its history, where the grapes come from and the culture that goes into its making. Readers will learn more than even the most dedicated oenephile can use, but everyone can be inspired to find the next bottle of something special for any occasion.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4915'),
(4643, 'Heechee Rendezvous: A Novel', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "The Heechee are one of the great creations of science fiction."Jack WilliamsonAfter millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the reative safety of a black hole)--in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space--where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake.... A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTIONTHE HEECHEE SAGABook One:GATEWAYBook Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZONBook Three:HEECHEE RENDEZVOUSBook Four:THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10199'),
(4644, 'Heidegger&#39;s Glasses: A Novel', 'Thaisa Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi''s Final Solution. Despite their absurd (and potentially confusing) orders, the 50-some Scribes live in relative peace under the supervision of Elie and Gerhardt, lovers secretly working for the Resistance. Then a daunting task comes down from Goebbels himself-answer a letter from genius philosopher Martin Heidegger to his friend and optometrist Asher Englehardt, a prisoner in Auschwitz-setting events in motion that will threaten the lives of everyone in the compound. Taking readers to a curiously polyglot netherworld, a population removed from the horrors of the Reich even as it deals in some of its most intimate dispatches, Frank''s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that''s both explosive and ponderous.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nazi Briefkation (Operation Mail), which forced concentration camp prisoners to write reassuring letters to loved ones that were sent instead to a central Berlin office, provides the historic framework for Frankâ€™s debut novel. Here the Compound of Scribes, a group of detainees selected for their language skills, answers the prisonersâ€™ letters in their original language, a mission devised by Nazi believers in the occult to assuage the dead. At the heart of this communityâ€”housed in an underground tunnel cunningly fashioned to mimic a townâ€”is Elie Schacten, the lover of Compound commander SS officer Gerhardt Lodenstein, who hides her Polish ancestry as she makes forays to gather supplies and assist escaping fugitives. When prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger writes fellow philosopher and optometrist Asher Engelhardt in Auschwitz, the Scribes are ordered to answer Heideggerâ€™s letter, an operation botched by an SS flunky that leads to endangering the entire Compound. Written in the precise prose that has garnered praise for Frankâ€™s short fiction, this surreal tale is a vivid reminder of what we must not forget. --Michele Leber\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8691'),
(4645, 'Heir of Sea and Fire', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was dead.Raederle set out to learn the truth for herself, though her small gift of magic seemed too slight for the perils she must face. The quest led through strange lands and dangerous adventures. Only her growing powers enabled her at last to reach Erlenstar Mountain. And there she discovered what she could not bear to accept.Accompanied by Deth, the High One''s Harper, she fled. And behind them came a pursuer whose name was Morgon, bent on executing a grim destiny upon Raederle and Deth.Her only hope lay in summoning the Hosts of the Dead, led by the King whose skull she bore . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9708'),
(4646, 'Heir to the Empire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- This first book in a trilogy takes place five years after Return of the Jedi (Ballantine, 1983) by James Kahn. Han and Leia are now married and expecting twins; Luke is continuing his training as a Jedi, while training Leia. The Republic is at peace, having defeated Darth Vader and the evil Empire. Enter Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, with his rogue Jedi knight. They attack the Republic and attempt to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for their own nefarious purposes. It''s great fun to romp with the\n <code>\n </code>\n Star Wars'''' cast of humans, droids, and aliens again. While it is not on a par with Zahn''s creative, powerful works such as Cascade Point (Baen, 1987), Heir is well written for what it is. Recommended for YA collections needing a Star Wars fix. --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA2-\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s five years after\n <em>\n  Return of the Jedi:\n </em>\n the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the last of the emperor''s warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the new Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build. The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale--in short, a story worthy of the name\n <em>\n  Star Wars.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6136'),
(4647, 'The Heiress of Water: A Novel', 'Sandra Rodriguez Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea. Fifteen years later, disinherited by her mother''s family, Monica, now a successful massage therapist, is hired by Will Lucero to give Yvette, his comatose wife, a massage. A series of improbable events lands the cast at a clinic in El Salvador where researchers claim to be able to revive comatose patients using the venom of the very cone snail, thought to be extinct, that Monica''s mother spent her life searching for. As Will and Monica try to deny their attraction to one another, Monica begins piecing together the truth about her mother''s family (and there are many, many things to discover). Though the scenes in El Salvador are vividly rendered, Barron clumsily handles the convoluted plot''s ungainly twists, but her debut is intriguing in spite of its excesses.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies drive the intricate plot of this first novel, which is both a gripping mystery and an intimate drama of love and betrayal. Growing up in a wealthy established family in El Salvador at the time of the civil war, Monica learns from her beloved mother, Alma, about the exciting science of the ocean, but after Alma drowns, Monica, 12, moves with her American father to Connecticut. Fifteen years later, she is a physical therapist, and one of her patients, in a coma after a car accident, might be helped by an experimental ocean-shell treatment offered in an El Salvador clinic. Why is Monica''s father reluctant for her to return to where her mother died? When they do go back, Monica makes astonishing discoveries, past and present, that make her question, "Who was the fragile one after all?" In a contemporary version of the heroic quest story, Monica''s search for home opens up a world of revolutionary politics, science, and passion.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5314'),
(4648, 'Helen of Troy', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  George (\n  <i>\n   Mary, Called Magdalene\n  </i>\n  ) depicts with bravado, grace and eloquence the grand spectacle surrounding Helen of Troy. The author''s research into Mycenaean culture, coupled with Trojan War mythology''s larger-than-life heroes, enliven a bold story pulsing with romance and sacrifice, omens and battles. Helen''s noble Spartan parents try to defy the fates when a seer foretells the tragedy Helen and her legendary beauty will cause, but, as the myth of Helen demonstrates, destiny cannot be altered. Helen''s years of seclusion in Sparta lead to a frigid marriage to Menelaus before she connects with Paris, the Trojan prince with whom she forges an inextricable bond. Barely into her 20s, Helen escapes with Paris to Troy, but finds the Trojan royals welcome her with less than open arms. The mythic war, which, in less capable hands, might be over-romanticized, is portrayed with an enthusiasm that rings true to the period without verging on stagyâ€”no small feat when dealing with such a sweeping conflict. George''s extraordinary storytelling abilities shine in her portrayal of Helen as both a conflicted woman who abandoned her homeland and child for true love, and as a legendary figure whose beauty and personal choices had epic consequences.\n  <i>\n   (On sale Aug. 7)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When Helen of Sparta is seven years old, the sibyl at Delphi prophesies she will start a war in which many Greeks will die. King Tyndareus and Queen Leda, stricken with panic, keep their younger daughter in seclusion, discouraging rumors that Zeus is her real father. To marry her off quickly, they spread word that Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. But because Helen fails to invoke Aphrodite when choosing a husband, her marriage to Menelaus of Mycenae is passionless. The fickle goddess finally hears Helen''s pleas, yet Aphrodite''s powers affect only Paris, a visiting Trojan prince, with whom Helen immediately falls in love. When the pair elopes one night to Paris'' affluent homeland, it precipitates a war destined to last 20 years, one that Menelaus'' restless and greedy brother, Agamemnon, has been itching to fight. Only George, reigning queen of the epic fictional biography, could render Helen''s story with all the emotion, grandeur, and tragedy it deserves. Her characters are precisely crafted, and the lovely Helen, clear-eyed and intelligent, is a sympathetic narrator. Despite the novel''s length, the pages practically turn themselves. An absorbing retelling of the classic Trojan War myth, and a sobering look at the utter futility of trying to change one''s fate.\n  <i>\n   Sarah Johnson\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5555'),
(4649, 'Hell Bent', 'Arlene Knowell; Judith Noelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mindy is being stalked by someone with a vendetta against one of her older brothers and promises to kidnap her to ''make him pay''. After discovering that he is a military man, she''s convinced that things like this are the reason she is hell bent against marrying military, even if it is five generations strong in her family. But the military policeman assigned to her case is smoking hot and hard to ignore. Shane Newhope promises to keep her safe, is it so bad that he sends tingles down her spine in the process? Only if you''ve told your brothers that you want nothing to do with the military, and they''re convinced that a military man is just what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(4650, 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(4651, 'Hell House', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House. Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4083'),
(4652, 'Hell Island', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Captain Shane Schofi eld and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .\n </em>\n <strong>\n  There is no hell like a man-made one.\n </strong>\n It is an island that doesnâ€™t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong. . . . When all contact with the mysterious island is suddenly and inexplicably lost, Captain Shane Schofi eld and four crack Special Forces units parachute in. Nothing prepares them for what they fi ndâ€”the island is a testing ground for a deadly breed of genetically enhanced supersoldiers. You could say theyâ€™ve just entered hell, but this place is much, much worse. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Reilly\n </strong>\n is the international bestselling author of eight novels:\n <em>\n  The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow\n </em>\n , and the children''s book\n <em>\n  Hover Car Racer\n </em>\n , and one novella,\n <em>\n  Hell Island\n </em>\n . His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6800'),
(4653, 'A Hell of a Woman', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn''t bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2182'),
(4654, 'Hell to Pay', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Damnation, Old Father Time, a world weary Count Dracula and the hard-drinking storybook character Bruin Bear are only a few of the beings that Green produces for his seventh novel set in the sinister and psychedelic world of Nightside. None, however, are more powerful than "the Griffin," an immortal who built his empire on the carcasses of foes, who has now summoned paranormal PI John Taylor to find his granddaughter. Taylor specializes in locating lost things; his Sightâ€”which allows him to see into other dimensionsâ€”should be ideal for the task. But when an entity in the Griffin''s mansion blocks his abilities, Taylor must investigate the old-fashioned way: questioning the Griffin''s family members one by one. Taylor''s q&amp;a sessions are less than thrilling, and the numerous references to the family''s fearsome reputation grow tiresome. Fortunately, Green throws in a number of left-field surprises, spicing things up with an attack of fanatical nuns (called the Salvation Army Sisterhood), a bloodthirsty gangster and a DNA-stealing Charnel Chimera. Indeed, the most entertaining aspect lies not in Taylor''s investigation but in anticipating what Green''s twisted imagination will conjure next.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor''s abilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5830'),
(4655, 'Hell&#39;s Angels: a strange and terrible saga', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pendant plus d''un an, Hunter S. Thompson a suivi un gang de motards, montrant au fur et Ã  mesure ses notes Ã  ses compagnons d''Ã©quipÃ©e. Ce livre, publiÃ© en 1966, scandalisa l''AmÃ©rique, puis l''Europe. SUMMARY: Hell''s Angels" was Hunter Thompson''s first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking him to death. "Far from being freaks, the Hell''s Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked by their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday''s outlaws raise hell with yesterday''s world...and now they are bringing up children who think Jesse James is a television character." "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson''s vivid account of his experiences with California''s most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell''s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson''s book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell''s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2086'),
(4656, 'Hell&#39;s Gate', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Earth becomes the battleground for alien creatures and men from the far future\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8292'),
(4657, 'The Hellbound Heart', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frank Cotton''s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand''s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother''s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank backâ€”though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(4658, 'Hellburner', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A futuristic tale of governmental coverups, betrayal, and murder follows the belter Pollard as he tries to determine if his partner''s space flight training accident was a mishap or attempted murder. 15,000 first printing. Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10893'),
(4659, 'Hellfire', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4589'),
(4660, 'The Hellfire Club', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straub''s recent series of books, while excellent, have been dense and rather cerebral as horror books go. This one, while employing many of the same devices about family secrets and mysteries half-buried in the past, has an action storyline with a viscerally satisfying villain and a strong female protagonist. The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors, but collides with a wily killer on a rampage. The settings--in seedy motel rooms, New England houses, a bizarre private club and an over-the-hill literary retreat--are especially fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his shift away from occult horror toward terrors inspired by the ragged social fabric of American life, Straub (The Throat) turns in another violent yet richly nuanced thriller. As in much of his work (Mystery; Koko), the past impinges on the present through secrets kept, then revealed. Here, the secrets are both familial and literary. Four women in upscale Westerholm, Conn., have disappeared from blood-spattered bedrooms. Meanwhile, Westerholm resident Nora Chancel, who''s newly menopausal, broods about a stalking wolf while her husband, publisher Davey Chancel, a decade her junior, obsesses about the novel trilogy (begun in 1939) written by Chancel House''s most popular writer, Hugo Driver. When yet another woman disappears, Nora learns that Davey once had an affair with her. Then the woman shows up, only to accuse Nora of kidnapping and torturing her, leading to Nora''s arrest. But also at the police station is Dick Dart, scion of an old local family, who is being questioned about the killings. Dart steals a cop''s gun, grabs Nora as his hostage and, he believes, potential future accomplice?and the woman''s real agony begins. Dart, a serial killer who has always loved "cutting things up. Loved it," rapes Nora and takes her on a grisly spree of terror. In time, Nora manages to escape, but in a surprising yet, with hindsight, seemingly inevitable turn of events, she again finds herself in mortal danger. Dart is a memorable villain, funny, bold and charming (and as difficult to kill as Rasputin). Nora proves his equal, however, gutsy and clever, and as the two clash, the secrets that Straub intimates early on reveal themselves. These secrets manifest neither easily nor predictably, however, for, as is said of characters in a Driver novel, Straub''s own characters are "colorful and involved, full of danger, heroism and betrayal"?as is this supple, exciting book. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5089'),
(4661, 'Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin', 'Hampton Sides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , Ray''s absence is essential--in his place, Hampton Sides traces the alter egos Ray created after escaping from prison and beginning his haphazard journey toward Memphis. Sides meticulously constructs parallel portraits of two very different men--one, the larger-than-life figurehead of the Civil Rights movement; the other, a nondescript loner with a spurious and violent history, whose identity was as fluid as his motives. The narrative builds to the staggering and heartbreaking moment of King''s assassination, then races on through the immediate fallout: the worldwide manhunt led by J. Edgar Hoover''s FBI; Ray''s nearly successful attempt to flee to Rhodesia; and the riots that erupted throughout the United States as racial tensions reached a breaking point. Sides''s storytelling packs a visceral punch, and in\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he crafts an authoritative and riveting account of two intersecting lives that altered the course of American history.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann Reviews\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hampton Sides has long been one of the great narrative nonfiction writers of our time, excavating essential pieces of American history--from the daring rescue of POWs during World War II to the settling of the West--and bringing them vividly to life. Now in his new book,\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he applies his enormous gifts to one of the most important and heart-wrenching chapters in U.S. history: the stalking and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book chronicles the terrifying collision of these two figures. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movementâ€™s nonviolent nobility. While King increasingly intuits his own death, Ray has begun to track him down. Through Sidesâ€™ prodigious research, Ray emerges as one of the eeriest characters, a prison escapee and racist who wears alligator shoes and is constantly transforming himself, changing names and physical appearances. He is determined to become somebody, to insert himself into the national consciousness, through a single unthinkable act of violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in Kingâ€™s assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history. Almost unfathomably, it is J. Edgar Hoover, the person who had long hoped for Kingâ€™s destruction and had even spied on him, who ultimately brings Kingâ€™s killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n reconstructs this taut, tense narrative with the immediacy of a novel. Yet what makes the book so powerful--indeed what lifts it into the ranks of a masterpiece--is that the story unfolds against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and the struggle to remake the country. If Ray is able to undergo a final metamorphosis, it is King, through his life and ultimate sacrifice, who enacts the greatest transformation: changing the character of a nation.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Hampton Sides\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did the idea for\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n So many books have concentrated on either advancing or debunking conspiracy theories about the King assassination, but few have looked hard at James Earl Ray himself. Who was this guy? What were his habits, his movements, his motives? I found him to be profoundly screwed up, but screwed up in an absolutely fascinating way. He was a kind of empty vessel of the culture. He was drawn to so many fads and pop-trends of the late nineteen-sixties. He got a nose job, took dancing lessons, graduated from bar-tending school, got into hypnosis and weird self-help books, enrolled in a locksmithing course, even aspired to be a porn director. His personality had all these quirks and contradictions. He was supposedly stupid, but he somehow managed to escape from two maximum security prisons. Some claimed he wasnâ€™t a racist, yet he worked for the Wallace Campaign, called King "Martin Lucifer Coon," tried to emigrate to Rhodesia to become a mercenary soldier, and eventually hired a Nazi lawyer to defend him. He lived in absolute filth and squalor, but kept his clothes fastidiously laundered. And in the end, ironically, thatâ€™s what caught him: A tiny identifying laundry tag stamped into the inseam of a pair of undershorts found near the scene of the King assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n total more than 50 pages--how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther Kingâ€™s assassination? What was your research process like?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The research nearly gave me an aneurysm. But in the end,\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n is a work of narrative history, not a journalistic exposÃ©. I don''t think I unearthed any massive bombshells that will change the world forever--like, say, proving once and for all that J. Edgar Hoover actually orchestrated the whole affair. Instead, what I unearthed were thousands and thousands of tiny details that make the story come alive on the page and make it possible, for the first time, to understand the tragedy as a complete, multi-stranded narrative. The book''s packed full of novelistic detail--weather, architecture, what people were wearing, what the landscape looked like, the music that was playing on the radio. To get all this stuff, I had to do the usual sort of archival work--from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin to the London newspaper archives--and I went pretty much everywhere James Earl Ray went, following in his fugitive footsteps: Puerto Vallarta, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Birmingham, Lisbon, London. But my real ace in the hole was a retired Memphis cop named Vince Hughes who has compiled the most fascinating, and most comprehensive, digital archive about the MLK assassination on the planet: Crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, audio tapes, and many hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents that proved a real godsend. Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince. Thank God I found mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It comes from the famous Robert Johnson blues song, "Hellhound On My Trail," which is about being pursued by fate, by the law, and ultimately by death. Johnson was the greatest of the Delta bluesmen, and he lived in and around Memphis much of his short tragic life. It was said that heâ€™d gone to The Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the guitar, so he was always looking over his shoulder for his time to come. When King arrived in Memphis in 1968, he was representing black garbage workers who were mostly former plantation hands from Johnson country, from the Delta cotton fields. As a title, "hellhound" seemed evocative on twin levels: For King, who was constantly being hounded by death threats and Hooverâ€™s FBI, as well as for Ray, who became the target of the largest manhunt in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n At the outset of my research, I took very seriously the idea that there might have been a conspiracy. I read all the conspiracy books, examined every angle. The only problem with the conspiracy theories that are out there, I found, is that they invariably fail the most basic test: They raise more questions than they address, they create more problems than they solve. And theyâ€™re so monumentally complicated: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Green Berets, President Johnson, the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Fire Department, the Memphis Mayorâ€™s Office, the Boy Scouts of America--everybody killed Martin Luther King! But as I got into it, it became clear that the evidence against James Earl Ray was overwhelming. He bought the rifle, the scope, the ammo, the binoculars. He checked into that rooming house three hours before the murder. He peeled out from the rooming house one minute after the murder, in the same getaway car described by eyewitnesses. He admitted to every one of these things. His only defense was that some other guy--a mysterious man he called Raoul--pulled the trigger. Well, thereâ€™s not a shred of evidence that Raoul ever existed. So in\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n , I take the clear position that Ray did it, but I leave many doors ajar as to the question of whether he had help, whether he was working in the hope of winning bounty money, whether members of his own family abetted him. When in doubt, I generally err on the side of Occamâ€™s razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Can you compare\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n to your previous books? Are there similarities among them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I donâ€™t concentrate on any one period of history, I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. My histories tend to be character-driven, with a lot of plot, a lot of action. I donâ€™t think youâ€™d find me writing about, say, the Constitutional Convention or the Transcendental Movement. A friend once told me Iâ€™m interested in "human disasters"--social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, through courage, ingenuity, grace under pressure, luck. Thatâ€™s true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. My other deep influence was John Hersey, who wrote\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Gary Oakley)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The counterpoint between two driven menâ€”one by a quest for justice, the other by an atavistic hatredâ€”propels this engrossing study of the King assassination. Sides, author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Ghost Solders\n </em>\n , shows us a King all but consumed by the flagging civil rights movement in 1968 and burdened by presentiments of death. Pursuing him is escaped convict James Earl Ray, whose feckless life finds a belated, desperate purpose, perhaps stimulated by George Wallace''s presidential campaign, in killing the civil rights leader. A third main character is the FBI, which turns on a dime from its long-standing harassment of Kingto a massive investigation into his murder; in Sides''s telling, the Bureau''s transoceanic hunt for Ray is one of history''s great police procedurals. Sides''s novelistic treatment registers Ray as a man so nondescript his own sister could barely remember him (the author refers to him by his shifting aliases to emphasize the shallowness of his identity). The result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory: the most significant of lives cut short by the hollowest of men. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8567'),
(4662, 'Hello, Mallory', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9729'),
(4663, 'Hellsreach', 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He''s been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6981');
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(4664, 'Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In **Helmet for My Pillow** we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the warâ€™s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.     From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckieâ€™s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, **Helmet for My Pillow** will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind* Band of Brothers*, have adapted material from **Helmet for My Pillow** for HBOâ€™s epic miniseries *The Pacific*, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3897'),
(4665, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11228'),
(4666, 'Help! a Bear Is Eating Me!', 'Mykle Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A laugh-out-loud tale of a man being eaten by a bear.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe all God''s creatures have a soul...except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!" -**STEPHEN COLBERT**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature''s finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone''s fault but his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3106'),
(4667, 'Helsreach', 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He''s been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10177'),
(4668, 'Henry Clay: The Essential American', 'David S. Heidler &amp; Jeanne T. Heidler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why Henry Clay? An Essay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many Americans do not know this extraordinary person, which is a pity. Many years ago, a conference gave us the opportunity to visit his grave and his home. A friend accompanied us to the cemetery where we stood before the large vault with its imposing column topped by a statue of Clay, his right arm partially extended, entreating during one of his famous orations. The day was raw, and a dirty cotton sky sent down a misty drizzle that glossed the marble with a wet patina. In the back portion of the vault, a marble slab held one of Clayâ€™s most famous quotes: â€œI had rather be right than be President.â€ Our friend, who inclines to the acerbic, muttered, â€œNothing about a corrupt bargain?â€ We laughed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet later as we walked through the house named Ashland, we paused over the twin legacies of Clayâ€™s fateful decision in 1825 and of his unstinting labor to improve and sustain his country. His behavior in 1825 fastened upon him--presumably forever, if our companionâ€™s remark was any evidence--the infamy of the â€œCorrupt Bargain.â€ His work for the country revealed the great poignancy of his generation, the futility of practical politics clashing with grave moral imperatives. He sought the presidency and was labeled a schemer; he compromised for the Union and was lauded as a statesman. Which one was the real Henry Clay? In this book we try to answer that question.\n</p>\n<p>\n His personal life, for instance, presents intriguing clues. Clay married what many described as an ugly girl, possibly only for the status and influence her family imparted, but there is no evidence that he ever strayed from her bed and considerable proof (they had eleven children) that he found it congenial. He early found slavery morally troubling and ultimately regarded it as incompatible with American ideals of liberty. But he died owning slaves. He gained fame as the master of political compromise, which by definition is the bending of principles to achieve functional agreements. But in 1825, he was reviled as crooked, even though he did not violate a single personal scruple or run counter to his own conscience.\n</p>\n<p>\n All lives are marked by such inconsistencies. We strive to reveal Clay to a new generation of readers by showing how he was both exemplary and unique, how he was both mired in the customs of his time and a prophet for ideas that would not gain acceptance until our own. He believed in ideas with passion, but he leavened everything with humor, a novelty among public figures of his time and obviously one of the facets that Abraham Lincoln found appealing enough to imitate. Most of all, we found that there has never been anyone like Clay in American political history. He transformed the post of Speaker of the House into its modern role, he proposed and doggedly advocated a plan to expand American prosperity, and he was a crucial leader in every matter great and small bearing upon American politics for almost fifty years.\n</p>\n<p>\n When our friend made that crack about the â€œCorrupt Bargain,â€ we all laughed, but we shouldnâ€™t have. In a way, this book is our penance for having done so, because Henry Clay was a patriot, a statesman, and a gentleman. Not without flaws, he was nevertheless about as good as it gets in public life, and we hope that readers will find him as fascinating as we have.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another hulking biography of an early American political giant, this one, unnecessarily clogged with detail, is still a fitting, up-to-date, and highly readable account of Henry Clay''s life (1777â€“1852) and achievements. In vigorous prose, the Heidlers (coauthors,\n <em>\n  The War of 1812\n </em>\n ), experienced scholars of preâ€“Civil War America, relate the emergence of the Kentuckian who served in the House (as Speaker) and Senate, as secretary of state, and as repeatedly failed presidential candidate. A man of enormous giftsâ€”the beloved mirror of his country and its aspirationsâ€”Clay bestrode Washington and the Senate as member of the Great Triumvirate with John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and did his best as the Great Compromiser to hold the nation together as it splintered over slavery. That he failed, as the authors show, was not his fault: even great congressional leadership couldn''t save the Union. The authors bring verve and clarity to Clay''s struggles, even if they add little to what''s known. They also make one yearn for more statesmen and stateswomen, who, like Clay, could say, I had rather be right than be president. 32 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7313'),
(4669, 'Henry IV (Part 1)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3420'),
(4670, 'Henry IV (Part 2)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal''s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV''s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare''s portrait of the prodigal son''s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3451'),
(4671, 'Her Innocence, His Conquest', 'Bennett, Jules', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10511'),
(4672, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her love-but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(4673, 'Her Pregnancy Surprise', 'Susan Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10613'),
(4674, 'The Herb Garden Gourmet: Grow Herbs, Eat Well, and Be Green', 'Tim Haas &amp; Jan Beane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Grow and enjoy the ultimate green food - herbs that are fresh, local, seasonal, and delicious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4403'),
(4675, 'Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation: An Evidence-Based Approach', 'Edward Mills; Jean-jacques Dugoua; Dan Perri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just as with prescription drugs, natural health products can present substantial risks and prompt the same areas of concern. Although some of these effects may be life-threatening, current literature on these important issues is scant. With the use of natural health products on the rise, physicians require quality evidence with which to make evidence-based decisions and provide answers to their patients. Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation focuses entirely on the therapeutics, safety and risk information of herbs and supplements used during pregnancy and lactation for obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, and primary care physicians.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10348'),
(4676, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Casebook', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5179'),
(4677, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.  But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5263'),
(4678, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Early Cases', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5194'),
(4679, 'Here Abide Monsters', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9092'),
(4680, 'Here Come The Bridesmaids', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9738'),
(4681, 'Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume II', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume II, edited by James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko, celebrates the achievement of a preeminent SF author of the 1950s. With numerous stories published for the first time since their initial appearance in magazines, the complete body of Tenn''s only novel and an analytic essay, this second volume should receive as much praise as the first, Immodest Proposals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8397'),
(4682, 'Here Comes Trouble', 'Donna Kauffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck - especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&amp;B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can''t help thinking he''s stumbled onto a winning streak...Sure, Kirby Farrell''s new B&amp;B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She''s still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved...Only now Brett''s past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again - and lose the best hand fortune''s dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/783'),
(4683, 'Here There Be Dragons', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragonlizards, twenty-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data, and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' ancient weapon, based on an advanced technology capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6786'),
(4684, 'Here&#39;s the Deal: Don&#39;t Touch Me', 'Howie Mandel &amp; Josh Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hostâ€™s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDâ€“and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentâ€“respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal. With a career that spans three decades and many different show-business platformsâ€“heâ€™s a renowned stand-up comedian who continues to perform more than 150 sold-out shows a year, he created the award-winning TV show Bobbyâ€™s World, heâ€™s starred in feature films and the hit TV series St. Elsewhere, and heâ€™s also hosted his own daytime talk showâ€“heâ€™s one of the most versatile performers anywhere. But there are aspects of his personal and professional life heâ€™s never talked about publiclyâ€“until now.Eleven years ago, Mandel first told the world about his â€œgermophobia.â€ Heâ€™s recently started discussing his adult ADHD as well. Now, for the first time, he reveals the details of his struggle with these challenging disorders. He catalogs his numerous fears and neuroses and shares entertaining stories about how he has tried to integrate them into his act. â€œIf Iâ€™m making myself laugh,â€ he writes, â€œthen Iâ€™m distracted from all the other things going on in my head that are, at times, torturous.â€ And he speaks frankly and honestly about the ways his condition has affected his personal lifeâ€“as a son, husband, and father of three.Fans whoâ€™ve been dying to know â€œthe dealâ€ behind Mandelâ€™s remarkable rise through the show-business ranks will be rewarded with many never-before-told anecdotes, each one generously leavened with Mandelâ€™s trademark humor. There are tales from every phase of his colorful careerâ€“from his early days as a teenage carpet salesman and aspiring stand-up comic to his stint opening for Diana Ross, his six years on St. Elsewhere, and beyond. As heartfelt as it is hilarious, Hereâ€™s the Deal: Donâ€™t Touch Me is the story of one manâ€™s effort to draw comic inspiration out of his darkest, most vulnerable places. Itâ€™s sure to please Howie Mandelâ€™s legion of fansâ€“and provide hope to the millions who strive to succeed in spite of OCD and ADHD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6447'),
(4685, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÃ‡Ã–s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth DynastyGÃ‡Ã–s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girlGÃ‡Ã–s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the PharaohGÃ‡Ã–s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her familyGÃ‡Ã–s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3003'),
(4686, 'The Heretic&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Kathleen Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts.  Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live.  Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft.  This is the story of Martha''s courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier.  She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family''s deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7928'),
(4687, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(4688, 'The Heritage of Hastur', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Described as Bradley''s best novel, ''The Heritage of Hastur'' is an epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9540'),
(4689, 'The heritage of the desert: a novel', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3714'),
(4690, 'Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings', 'Italo Calvino &amp; Martin McLaughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century''s most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome addition to his extensive works as well as to The Road to San Giovanni, a posthumous collection of autobiographical essays published more than a decade ago. This volume includes a series of articles and interviews that builds on the understanding of Calvino''s life after World War II when he returned to Italy from the Communist resistance in the Alps, a period when Calvino felt a "moment of uncertainty" and a "perplexity about" his vocation as a writer before producing his first novel, The Cloven Viscount. The articles also feature Calvino''s views on some of his most popular novels: "In the United States... the book of mine that became a hit was the one that you would have said was the furthest from American reading habits: Invisible Cities." But it is Calvino''s lifelong fascination with America that makes this collection remarkable: more than half the book is given to an "American Diary 1959-1960," written during Calvino''s two years traveling in the U.S., as he explores New York''s thriving Greenwich Village and Actors Studio; a "violent, tough" Chicago; San Francisco''s "squalid and filthy" beatnik scene; and Montgomery, Ala., where Calvino (who died in 1985) finds himself "in the middle" of "crucial days of struggle" of the Civil Rights movement. His diary reveals an obsession with what he later says most interests him as a writer: "daily life as the constant nourishment for writing."\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Posthumous writings from Calvino.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6106'),
(4691, 'The Hermit of Eyton Forest', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the Abbey. Supported by Abbot Radulfus, the boy refuses to surrender his new powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred''s arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When Richard disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquillity of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(4692, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans! The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(4693, 'Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael Korda''s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia". However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man - T.E. Lawrence - as he truly was.An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters'' governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence''s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements - as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer - transcended them.Korda analyses Lawrence''s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8446'),
(4694, 'A Hero&#39;s Justice', 'Paul B. Thompson, Tonya C. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11180'),
(4695, 'The Heroes of Olympus', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they#x2019;ll need the help of some familiar demigods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8511'),
(4696, 'Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet', 'Harriet Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The mantra of the environmental movement is "think globally, act locally," and this book offers examples of local heroes who are helping to save the planet. Maps, illustrations, and photographs are used to good effect. Each of the 12 chapters tells the story of a person doing his/her part to preserve our environment. Debby Tewa works to bring solar energy to Indian Country, and Sarah James speaks on behalf of the Gwich''in Indian Peoples of Alaska and Canada who want to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. Judy Bonds, a community activist in West Virginia, works to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining; and Omar Freilla founded ReBuilders Source, a New York City-based company that recycles building materials. Stories come from all across America and include a diverse group of men and women, making this volume of interest to a broad audience. A final section offers information on how readers can get involved in their own communities.â€”_Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rather than featuring the usual roundup of environmental heroes, this title spotlights 12 contemporary conservationists who are working to fight pollution in cities, oceans, and wetlands, from Alaska to Mexico City. Many of the featured activists are young people. At age 11, Alex Lin started a campaign in Rhode Island for the safe disposal of electronic waste (â€œTodayâ€™s technology should not become tomorrowâ€™s toxic trashâ€). Erica Fernandez, a teenage Mexican immigrant in California, led a successful fight to prevent a pipeline that would transport highly explosive gas through her neighborhood. Julia Bonds, a coal-minerâ€™s daughter in Appalachia, is working to replace coal with wind power. The bookâ€™s format is lackluster, but the black-and-white photos do show the individuals at work in their communities. The powerful mix of personal stories with crucial environmental and social issues will be a call to action for young readers, who will want to move on to the final section: â€œHow You Can Get Involved.â€ Grades 6-10. --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7465'),
(4697, 'The Heroes', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie''s First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, etc.), but stands very well alone. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy coordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incompetent, self-important officers. The strangely sympathetic Col. Bremer dan Gorst is officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill or be killed. Leading a much smaller army against the Union is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take Black Dow''s place. Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it''s imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant." -- Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "An action-packed novel full of brutality, black-humour and razor sharp characterisation." -- Dave Bradley SFX The Heroes is the first major fantasy release of 2011, and it looks like the new year is already off to a cracking start. The Heroes is Joe Abercrombie doing what he does best but better than ever before: gritty, violent, morally ambiguous and darkly funny fantasy with a streak of intelligent cynicism." THE WERTZONE A well-constructed, absorbing war novel that returns to a familiar stamping ground. There''s satisfying character development, exploration of the ironies of war, and of course plenty of blood and treachery, all delivered with Abercrombie''s trademark wry humour." SPECULATIVE HORIZONS "Abercrombie''s take on fantasy has always been dark, almost nihilistic, yet shot through with black humour. The deliberate irony of the title of this book is that he does not write about heroes, he writes about ordinary people thrust in to extraordinary situations who seldom, if ever, acquit themselves heroically. Highly recommended both for fantasy readers and lovers of Cornwell and Iggulden." BOOK GEEKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5386'),
(4698, 'The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star', 'Nikki Sixx; Ian Gittins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom - and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2875'),
(4699, 'Hex and the City', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it''s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5779'),
(4700, 'HHGTTG - The Lost Chapters', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8865'),
(4701, 'Hick', 'Andrea Portes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Portes''s chilling debut tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl''s hard-going life on the road. Young Luli knows losersâ€”her "aging Brigitte Bardot" mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas. A crooked man (literally; he "looks like an italic," says smart-alecky Luli) named Eddie picks her up briefly before throwing her out of the car. Next comes cocaine-snorting grifter Glenda, who enlists Luli as an accessory to a robbery that goes awry. Glenda takes Luli under her wing. The two cross paths again with Eddie, who rapes Luli and ties her up in a secluded motel. Glenda comes to her rescue, but the confrontation with Eddie ends badly. Luli''s flippant narration makes for a love-it or hate-it read.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though its first-person narrating voice is fast-paced, powerful and unquestionably authentic, Hick is a debut novel. Beyond this voice, what makes the book so extraordinary is that, although all of the worst things imaginable do befall this 13-year-old girl, she is never defeated by them. Luli always fights back; she always resurfaces. Set as a coming-of-age novel, Hick tracks the real perils that modern teenagers so often face. And it does so with bright wit, energy, and an indomitable spirit. This is a book that will grab the reader from the first page and not let go. And it is written by a woman who is becoming a cultural force in the hippest parts of Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6508'),
(4702, 'Hickory Dickory Death', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot''s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items -- including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup -- he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ''unique and beautiful problem''. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5193'),
(4703, 'Hickory Dickory Dock: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Fraser, who played Captain Hastings, the sidekick for arch Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the PBS\n <em>\n  Mystery\n </em>\n series, now performs the entire cast in Christie''s 1955 mystery. Fraser''s Poirot is derivative of the stellar performance of the series'' star, David Suchet; nevertheless, Fraser gives Christie''s work his own imprimatur. Poirot is absent much of the time in this tale of kleptomania, malice and murder set at a boarding house for students. Add to the mix a number of students from England, a temperamental Greek landlady and an Italian house staff, and one must conclude that Fraser is some sort of magician to keep all the players sorted out as they converge in the common room. Not to be missed among the clamoring voices is Christie''s narrative, from which Fraser manages to wring every wry drop. The producers at the Mystery Masters division of the Audio Partners were smart to hire Fraser to record this classic, and listeners will find it a delightful romp that passes all too quickly.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe Christie fan of longest standing, who thinks he knows every one of her tricks, will still be surprised by some of the twists here.â€ (_New York Times_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe characters are as good as ever and there is plenty of entertainment.â€ (_Times Literary Supplement__ (London) ) _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9252');
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(4704, 'The Hickory Staff', 'Rob Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The natural successors to Terry Goodkind: a stunning first novel that will leave readers gasping for more! Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Stevenâ€™s bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that havenâ€™t had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; itâ€™s now worth 6.3 million dollars. Thereâ€™s a safe deposit box too, 17C, thatâ€™s never been opened in all those years.\n <br />\n And it would have remained closed if Steven hadnâ€™t been browsing through a Denver antique store: as well as a dresser  for his sister, he found a new girlfriend, Hannah, the ownerâ€™s daughter â€¦ and, in a jar of oddments, the long-missing key to Idaho Springs Safety Deposit Box 17C.\n <br />\n And without that key, heâ€™d never have found the tapestry that sucked him and Mark into the land of Rona in the strange new world of Eldarn, where they are immediately captured by a group of Ronan resistance fighters. Rona has been occupied by Malakasia for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. Now an evil tyrant rules the land, but he wants more: he wants the key that will open the path for an ancient evil to manifest once and for all.\n <br />\n And Steven and Mark need this same key if they are ever to get home to Idaho Springs â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4464'),
(4705, 'Hidden', 'Tomas Mournian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on a news article written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mournian''s exquisitely written and impossibly sad fiction debut charts America''s latest version of the Underground Railroad. When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where he''s tortured, molested, and put through a "straight" rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. Regardless of their sexual orientation, readers will wait with baited breath to the end, almost suffocating on the palpable sense of fear and claustrophobia that permeates this heartbreaking story. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ahmed''s parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it''s with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.\n</p>\n<p>\n There, he moves into a secret safe house shared by a group of teens. Until they become independent at eighteen, the housemates hide away from authorities, bound by rules that both protect and frustrate. Ahmed, now known as Ben, tries to adjust to a life lived in impossibly close quarters with people he barely knows, all of whom guard secrets of their own. But even if they succeed in keeping the world at bay, there''s no hiding from each other or from themselves. And there''s no avoiding the conflicts, crushes, loneliness, and desire that could shatter their fragile, complicated sanctuary at any moment. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "This fresh and original novel defies easy labels. It''s knowing yet vulnerable, observant yet naive--a wholly unique and compelling read." --Rachel Cohn,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tomas Mournian\n </strong>\n attended U.C. Berkeley. A freelance journalist, he''s written articles for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT, In Style and Marie Claire. His investigation journalism ("Hiding Out," "Anywhere But There," and "Girls Sent to Institutions") has been recognized with awards from the Peninsula Press Club, East Bay Press Club and NCCD Pass awards, with nominations by the GLAAD Media Awards and Pulitzer. Writing under a pseudonym, his plays have been produced internationally. He held the Eli Cantor Chair at The Corporation of Yaddo and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6520'),
(4706, 'Hidden Agendas', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower.  Those who control them control the world.  To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it''s costing lives.  Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat.  Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos.  And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6486'),
(4707, 'Hidden Cities', 'Daniel Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of Fox''s trilogy set in a magical version of ancient China (Dragon in Chains; Jade Man''s Skin) mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments. The emperor is exiled, and his pregnant beloved is being targeted by assassins. Rebels battle for control of the nation. An island-dwelling dragon is linked to the boy Han in ways neither understands, and an old man bargains with the dragon for access to the sea in which she was once imprisoned. While some try remaking the dragon''s chains, others learn that the best way to escape their own bonds is to relax. The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMagnificent . . . This series ranges from imperial intrigue to ocean-spanning magic to the smallest lives.â€â€”Jay Lake, author of _Pinion\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[\n  </em>\n  Hidden Cities_] mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments...The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA rising star . . . With talent like Foxâ€™s, the future of fantasy is in good hands.â€â€”Tanith Lee, on _Dragon in Chains\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7363'),
(4708, 'The Hidden City', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sparkhawk, the royal champion, is the only hope of preserving the throne as he copes with the treachery and corruption of the Tamul court, races against time and the fearsome Shining Ones to find the hidden Stone of Power, and must rescue his wife from the foul Cyrgon, in an omnibus edition containing Domes of Fire, The Shining Ones, and The Hidden City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10507'),
(4709, 'Hidden Codes in ther Bible', 'Roy A. Reinhold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3685'),
(4710, 'Hidden Empire', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stellar launch of a new series, bestseller Anderson (Dune spinoffs with Brian Herbert; X-Files and Star Wars books) delivers action, engaging characters and credible fantastic worlds in spades or ekti, the fuel vital for spaceships in the year 2427. The Terran Hanseatic League, in a heady rush of manifest destiny, turns Oncier, a huge gas planet, into a sun so its four moons can be used for colonization. In the process, the Terrans disturb the ancient but dwindling Ildirans, their uneasy allies, whose leader, the Mage-Imperator, suspects that Terrans are far too eager to take over the spiral arm. Still worse, by inadvertently destroying Oncier''s hitherto unknown colonists, the powerful hydrogues, the conversion of Oncier sets off a catastrophic conflict that threatens the existence of all Terrans and Ildirans. The Earth Defense Forces of the Terran Hanseatic League, the Worldtrees and Green Priests of Theroc, the gypsy Roamers who mine ekti all must unite with the Ildirans to fight the alien menace. Book one sizzles with a fast-moving plot woven tightly with vivid characterizations: the space cowboys Jess, Ross and Tasia Tamblyn; the exotic Ildirans; the grotesque Mage-Imperator and his handsome Prime Designate son, Jora''h; Beneto Theron, his clan and the bewitching Nira Khali; the appealing and not-so-appealing humans, Raymond/Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas; and many others, all conspiring to make this fascinating future epic one not to be missed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An experiment in converting a gas giant into a star with the potential for transforming the former planet''s moons into environments suitable for human colonies awakens a heretofore hidden civilization and plunges the galaxy into a war for the survival of humanity. The latest novel by the author of Star Wars: Darksaber and the coauthor (with Brian Herbert) of Dune: House Atreides launches a dynamic space opera featuring political intrigue and intense personal drama. Anderson''s skill in delivering taut action scenes and creating well-rounded human and alien characters adds depth and variety to a series opener that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7193'),
(4711, 'The Hidden Harbor Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon; J. Clemens Gretta', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourteenth book in the Hardy Boys series, originally published in 1935. In this book, the Hardy Boys head South to settle a feud.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10302'),
(4712, 'The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status and Exclusion', 'Marjorie Harness Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9209'),
(4713, 'The Hidden Man', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy past before being killed by an unidentified assailant. His violent death leaves questions unanswered. Was his murder an act of retribution? Had he been silenced for discovering a conspiracy involving Mark? Or had the carefully constructed facade of his past simply collapsed? As the truth unfolds, his sons must face the legacy of their father''s life as a spy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4844'),
(4714, 'Hidden Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   All she has to do is be his lover for a week...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when the man is gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could possibly say no?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brittany Thrasher has her own hidden motives for accepting Galen''s proposal. Only the savvy businesswoman draws the line at actually falling for the sexy playboy. Even if he\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  the incredible lover of her most taboo fantasies....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The moment their paths crossed again at an auction, Galen knew Brittany was special. If she wants the house he just won so badly, how far is she willing to go to get it? That''s when the Phoenix entrepreneur makes her an offer he fully expects her to refuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But once their passion heats up, the bidding really begins. And Galen\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  uncover Brittany''s secret. Because this determined man of Steele isn''t about to let the woman of his dreams get away....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8037'),
(4715, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Elegant Universe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fabric of the Cosmos\n  </em>\n  here treats all viable alternate realities to a laudably fair shake. For a book exploring the most far-reaching implications of bleeding-edge mathematics,\n  <em>\n   The Hidden Reality\n  </em>\n  is surprisingly light on math, written as it is "for a broad audience â€¦ its only prerequisite the will to persevere." Such perseverance pays off with a motley cast of potential universes featuring doppelgÃ¤ngers, strings, branes, quantum probabilities, holographs, and simulated worlds. The result is that rare accomplishment in science writing for a popular audience: a volume that explains the science and its consequences while stimulating the imagination of even the uninitiated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oliver Sacks on\n   <em>\n    The Hidden Reality\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Brian Greene is not only a profound cosmological thinker--a pioneer of string theory--but a writer of exceptional clarity and charm. His books--_The Hidden Reality_ takes us deeper still, and it has a special personal quality and warmth that is evident from the opening of the book, when Greene recollects how, as a boy, he was fascinated by the multiple reflections in parallel mirrors. He has never lost this childlike wonder at the world of physics, but he brings it now to examining theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own. . . and destined to continue, perhaps, to the end of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the 1930s, as a boy myself, I read\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. "There was a time when Ã¿universe'' meant Ã¿all there is,''Â " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and celebrated author, Greene offers intrepid readers another in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology. Greene''s book The Elegant Universe explained late 20th-century efforts to find a unified theory of everything, culminating with string theory. But string theory opened up a new can of worms, hinting at the possible existence of multiple universes and other strange entities. The possibility of other universes existing alongside our own like holes in "a gigantic block of Swiss cheese" seems more likely every day. Beginning with relativity theory, the Big Bang, and our expanding universe, Greene introduces first the mind-blowing multiplicity of forms those parallel universes might take, from patchwork quilts or stretchy "branes" to landscapes and holograms riddled with black holes. With his inspired analogies starring everyone from South Park''s Eric Cartman to Ms. Pac-Man and a can of Pringles, Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe. Illus. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8355'),
(4716, 'The Hidden Staircase', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10932'),
(4717, 'Hide &amp; Seek: A Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world''s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world''s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie''s world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7359'),
(4718, 'Hide and seek', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world''s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world''s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie''s world -- the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless -- both death and life could never be what they seemed.From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2017'),
(4719, 'Hideaway', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic''s, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(4720, 'Hideous kinky', 'Esther Freud', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A remarkable debut novel from one of England''s finest young writers, Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a journey with their mum through Europe and North Africa in the mid-1960s.Once in Marrakech, Mum immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while the daughters rebel -- one by attempting to recreate her English life, the other by, turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Seen through the youngest girl''s eyes, events take on increasingly alarming dimensions, making Hideous Kinky as suspenseful as it is endearing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(4721, 'Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme', 'Tracy Daugherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931â€“1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activismâ€”not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme''s work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and ''70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of\n <em>\n  The Dead Father\n </em>\n in all his complexity: the experimental iconoclast, the establishment figure without a university degree who published more than 100 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , the citizen-activist, admitted alcoholic, the devoted if distant father and the prankster on the page. While Daugherty firmly takes Barthelme''s side in his four troubled marriages, he assesses the writer''s legacy, his champions and detractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner and the hundreds of readers who canceled their\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n subscriptions in 1968 to protest the publication of his catty\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n ). Like Barthelme''s best stories, this unapologetically literary and ambitious book is cultural and artistic bricolage at its finest. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics unanimously applaud Daugherty for the first comprehensive, analytical biography of his former teacher.\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n calls\n <em>\n  Hiding Man\n </em>\n a "remarkably tender, sympathetic treatment" of Barthelme, and while Daugherty may have given Barthelme a glowing biography, he doesn''t downplay his more negative traits. The book also does an excellent job of connecting the writer to his literary and social context. The Oregonian notes that while Barthelme can be difficult to read, "in Daugherty''s hands the stories seem not nearly as challenging as they are inviting," a point echoed by the\n <em>\n  Washington Post.\n </em>\n Readers interested in Barthelme will find an informative, entertaining biography; readers unacquainted with this postmodern giant may wish to start with one of his short story collections.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6783'),
(4722, 'The Hiding Place', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara''s husband has divorced her for another woman.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire''s uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don''t stay buried forever...even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8160'),
(4723, 'The High Crusade', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it''s no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave-they''ve launched their invasion against Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive-and Sir Roger''s grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9606'),
(4724, 'High druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than a quarter of a century afterThe Sword of Shannaracarved out its place in the pantheon of great epic fantasy, the magic of Terry Brooksâ€™sNew York Timesbestselling saga burns as brightly as ever. Three complete series have chronicled the ever-unfolding history of Shannara. But more stories are still to be toldâ€”and new adventures have yet to be undertaken. Book One of High Druid of Shannara invites both the faithful longtime reader and the curious newcomer to take the first step on the next extraordinary quest. Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witchâ€”saved by the love of her brother, the magic of the Sword of Shannara, and the destruction of her evil mentor, the Morgawr. Now, fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council, and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But the political intrigue, secret treachery, and sinister deeds that have haunted Druid history for generations continue to thrive. And despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhysâ€”the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies. Among the highest ranks of the Council she leads lurk those who cannot forget her reign of terror as the Ilse Witch, who covet her seat of power, and who will stop at nothing to see her deposed . . . or destroyed. Even Grianneâ€™s few alliesâ€”chief among them her trusted servant Tagwenâ€”know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now, barely a step ahead of the dark forces bent on stopping him, Tagwen joins Grianneâ€™s brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescueâ€”to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate. Expect no end of wonders, no shortage of adventure, exhilaration, suspense, and enchantment, as Terry Brooks demonstrates, once again, that there is no end to his magic of invention and mastery of storytelling. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3305'),
(4725, 'High Fidelity', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Follows the life, love affairs, and belated growth to maturity   of Rob, a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner.   Reprint. *NYT. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3078'),
(4726, 'High Five', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle-- and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won''t leave her apartment, and a Mafia wedding...Jersey''s favorite bounty hunter has never been better! With high hair, street smarts and plenty of attitude, Steph''s sure to nail this case-- or risk life and spandex-clad limb trying...A *Publishers Weekly* Best Book of the Year.A *People* Magazine Beach Book of the Week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2134'),
(4727, 'The High King of Montival: A Novel of the Change', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology. ** With *The Sword of the Lady*, Rudi Mackenzie''s destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland. Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3682'),
(4728, 'The High King', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3060'),
(4729, 'High on Arrival', 'Mackenzie Phillips; Hilary Liftin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for *One Day at a Time*, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father''s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas &amp; the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in *American Graffiti*. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father''s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up *High on Arrival* has finally come back down to earth -- to stay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2805'),
(4730, 'High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America', 'Jessica B. Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barely maintain them on the Middle Passage to the undeniable imprint of African American cuisine on southern American and Caribbean food. She traces African foods (yams, okra, black-eyed peas, corn), flavoring, cooking methods, and food rituals from the abduction of Africans and enslavement in the Americas to travel throughout the American and European continents, recounting tribulations and joy. Along the way, she profiles famous and obscure but gifted cooks; cooks in the big houses of slave plantations; â€œPig Footâ€ Mary, who grew wealthy from sales of food she cooked on a stove mounted on a baby carriage; chefs who served meals to presidents; and members of a cooperative of black hoteliers in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century. Along with historical context, Harris offers recollections from her own travels and ends with selected recipes. Photographs enhance this passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diaspora. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAbsorbingâ€¦Ms. Harris has an eye for detail and an inquisitive manner on the page, qualities that take any writer a long way.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Dwight Garner,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris covers a lot of territory economically, offering a tremendous cast of characters whose names deserve wider renown.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”William Grimes,\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOur leading historian of African-American cooking continues her quest to trace the multiplicity of ways that American food has been enrichedâ€”and in many ways createdâ€”by the Africans who were forced to immigrate to North America and their descendents.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Vogue.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone interested in food history will find plenty to savor in Jessica B. Harrisâ€™s latest book.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Saveur Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA satisfying gumbo of info, insight and research.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A]â€¦passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diasporaâ€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is more than enough for every taste in [_High on the Hog_]â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris''s flavorful writing moves with an effortless voice that you feel could recite most of these pages from loving memory. As much historical document as ethnography of a vital and rich gastronomy,\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n is a book to make your mouth water.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paste\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRejoice, all you lovers of the personal and inimitable voice of Jessica B. Harris.Â In\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , she has woven her own story into the epic of the African Diaspora, using food to illuminate the intertwined tapestries of Africa, Europe, and America. From General George Washingtonâ€™s black cook Hercules to New Orleansâ€™ famed Dooky Chase, she shows how important are the African underpinnings of the American table. Harrisâ€™s passionate devotion to languages and history, together with her own compassion and wit, resonate with the humanity she espouses in all her books, but especially this one.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  Betty Fussell, author of\n  <em>\n   Raising Steaks\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   My Kitchen Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_High on the Hog_ is a sweeping yet intimate view of food in African American life and the profound influence of blacks on American food culture. It is unusually well crafted and written with style and grace. Harris is an engaging guide in this journey that begins in Africa and ends in the twenty-first century. Her personal vignettes provide vivid detail of her experiences at sites of historical importance to the subject. She has rescued from obscurity many historical figures who make for fascinating reading and demonstrate the great range and diversity of African American achievement in areas of food culture.â€â€”\n <em>\n </em>\n Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Sr. professor of history and southern studies, Center for the Study of Southern Culture\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , the inimitable Jessica B. Harris tells the story of the African American diaspora from the perspective of an accomplished food historian. Food, she tells us, is a metaphor for society. If so, I canâ€™t think of a better one. From slave food to Taste of Ebony, this is a gripping saga laced with descriptions of food that will make your mouth water.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Marion Nestle, NYU professor and author of\n  <em>\n   Food Politics\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   What to Eat\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  __\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5566'),
(4731, 'High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition', 'Baron Schwartz &amp; Peter Zaitsev &amp; Vadim Tkachenko &amp; Jeremy D. Zawodny &amp; Arjen Lentz &amp; Derek J. Balling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  High Performance MySQL\n </em>\n is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. Learn advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL''s full power. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, with deeper coverage in all areas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6000'),
(4732, 'High Performance Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8048'),
(4733, 'The High Road', 'Terry Fallis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner\n  <strong>\n   The Best Laid Plans\n  </strong>\n  , this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Daniel to manage his next campaign.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon Daniel is helping Angus fight an uphill battle against "Flamethrower" Fox, a Conservative notorious for his dirty tactics. Together they decide to take "The High Road" and -- against all odds -- turn the race into a nail-biter with hilarious ups and downs, cookie-throwing seniors, and even a Watergate-style break-in. But that''s only the beginning. Add a political storm in the capital and a side-splitting visit from the U.S. President and his alcoholic wife, and Terry Fallis''s second novel is a wildly entertaining read full of deft political satire and laugh-out-loud comedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4645'),
(4734, 'High Stakes', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menace. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Boston Herald_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a glass of champagne in one hand and binoculars in the other, the world of racing could seem a very cosy and civilized hobby. Especially when your horse has just sprinted past the winning post. But the pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks the trainer of his horses, a man he once thought of as a friend. For although on the surface Jody Leeds is a bright young workaholic, Scott suspects he''s a crook. Racing may have its rewards but, as Scott finds out to his own cost, not all of them are innocent...or legal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8229'),
(4735, 'High Stand', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9332'),
(4736, 'High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World&#39;s Greatest Skyline', 'Jim Rasenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by a New York Times article Rasenberger wrote on ironworkers in early 2001, this historical overview of skyscraper construction in New York City and elsewhere traces the erection of such structures as the Flatiron and Chrysler buildings, the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center and the lavish new Time Warner Center. This last building is the narrative column around which Rasenberger builds his book, which is largely devoted to "the men who risked the most and labored the hardest"â€”the ironworkers who put the high-rise steel columns in place. Though his admiration at times seems compulsory rather than genuine, Rasenberger emphasizes the often heroic, death-defying feats ironworkers perform. He also takes account of far-flung communities that breed ironworkers, such as the Mohawk Indians of upstate New York. The chronological history is broken up by alternating sections on the Time Warner Center and often feels less like a single narrative than a collection of vignettes. Rasenberger''s principal claim, that ironwork''s days are numbered because of the growing reliance on concrete, is often lost in the telling. Even the Time Warner Center was built more with concrete than iron, which is costlier and more vulnerable to heat in events such as the World Trade Center attacks. This recounting, while less than fully absorbing, serves as a valuable history for building enthusiasts and a thoughtful testament to a dying craft that has helped fuel the American economy for more than a century. 21 b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journeying through the past century of New York City''s ironworking trade, Rasenberger recounts signal events in its labor history while developing a powerful impression of its unique occupational culture. The latter he absorbed from close ground- and sky-level observation of ironworkers at two mid-Manhattan construction sites, and at the World Trade Center site. Raising steel for bridges and skyscrapers is extraordinarily hazardous. Several of the workers profiled sustained severe and, in one instance, permanently disabling injuries--painfully proving ironwork''s annual 5 percent death-and-injury rate. Why any man would court its dangers is a tantalizing question to which Rasenberger advances a multitude of answers. One is generational continuity, which Rasenberger discerned from his trips to the homes of Mohawk Indians and Newfoundlanders who''ve worked in the trade for decades. Another is the autonomy on the job that ironworkers enjoy, and the pride they derive from being the first colonists of a square of air. With ironworkers'' social prestige elevated in the aftermath of the WTC calamity, Rasenberger''s muscular portrait deserves an outsize audience as well.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6532'),
(4737, 'The High Window', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n  </em>\n  The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n  </em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n  </em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7349');
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(4738, 'The High-Protein Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Irresistibly Good Low-Carb Dishes That Can Be on the Table in Thirty Minutes or Less.', 'Linda West Eckhardt &amp; Katherine West Defoyd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7732'),
(4739, 'Highborn', 'Yvonne Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. Sheâ€™s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Luciferâ€™s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her for a different reason: he needs Brynna to help him find a serial killer who is terrifying Chicago . . . and the trail leads them right to Hellspawned demons of the most dangerous kind. Sheâ€™s also got a very\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n problem: dealing with a stubborn, attractive cop who makes her long for everything she knows she canâ€™t have.\n</p>\n<p>\n Staying alive long enough to earn a shot at Heaven will mean breaking some major rules in the mortal world, as she learns just how complicated and wonderful being human can be. With so much stacked against her, even Brynna has to wonder if sheâ€™s crazy. But sheâ€™s not giving in without a fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not a chance in Hell. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7043'),
(4740, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem--compelling authentic, at breakneck speed Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS Operative Stratton has been assigned to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. When Omar''s plot is revealed, Stratton is quickly whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. With a rich cast of characters ranging from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, this is a gripping thrill-ride packed with authentic detail and heart-stopping narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(4741, 'Hill girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(4742, 'The Hippopotamus Pool', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers. As Ramses and Nefret rub elbows with thieves and thugs, Amelia finds herself faced with a surprising new villain who is every bit as clever and resourceful as the intrepid Amelia herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(4743, 'His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Collection of Short Stories\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9413'),
(4744, 'His Majesty&#39;s Dragon', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britainâ€™s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain futureâ€“and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as Franceâ€™s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparteâ€™s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2681'),
(4745, 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It''s all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunken brawls, the sudden violence, the adulation of powerful figures, whether Mafia or presidential. This is obviously a one-sided portrait, and there are no real surprises, but Kelley has documented her facts with such thorough detail that the total effect is numbing. Barely mentioned are Sinatra''s devotion to his parents and his children, and his unquestioned musical talent. This is unpleasant but compulsive reading, which most public libraries will need in order to fill demand. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of ourÂ Â time." -William Safire,\n <em>\n  The New YorkÂ Â Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ Â compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley''s book has made allÂ Â future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."Â Â --_Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6451'),
(4746, 'The Historian', 'Elisabeth Kostova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history..." Late one night, exploring her father''s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father''s past and her mother''s mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler''s dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages. Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad''s ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova''s debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable. Amazon.com Review If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova''s long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father''s library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula-Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century-was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul''s collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator''s long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight-one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi''s student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula''s beleaguered homeland-sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union. Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read-even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen-its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history''s terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Considering the recent rush of door-stopping historical novels, first-timer Kostova is getting a big launch-fortunately, a lot here lives up to the hype. In 1972, a 16-year-old American living in Amsterdam finds a mysterious book in her diplomat father''s library. The book is ancient, blank except for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and the word "Drakulya," but it''s the letters tucked inside, dated 1930 and addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," that really pique her curiosity. Her widowed father, Paul, reluctantly provides pieces of a chilling story; it seems this ominous little book has a way of forcing itself on its owners, with terrifying results. Paul''s former adviser at Oxford, Professor Rossi, became obsessed with researching Dracula and was convinced that he remained alive. When Rossi disappeared, Paul continued his quest with the help of another scholar, Helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. As Paul relates these stories to his daughter, she secretly begins her own research. Kostova builds suspense by revealing the threads of her story as the narrator discovers them: what she''s told, what she reads in old letters and, of course, what she discovers directly when the legendary threat of Dracula looms. Along with all the fascinating historical information, there''s also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. Exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love of the bloodthirsty: it''s hard to imagine that readers won''t be bitten, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11077'),
(4747, 'History of American Literature', 'Reuben Post Halleck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4162'),
(4748, 'A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christianity, one of the world''s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7503'),
(4749, 'A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain''s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2275'),
(4750, 'The History of History', 'Ida Hattemer-Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins''s overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September of 2002 with a several-month-long blank spot in her memory. Two years later, after a letter, addressed to a "Margaret TÃ¤ubner," arrives at her apartment, confirming an upcoming appointment with a doctor Margaret has never heard of, she meets the doctor, a gynecologist, who treats Margaret with uncomfortable familiarity and insists on serving as her "memory surgeon." The next morning, Berlin has "transformed into flesh," and, as Margaret negotiates the menacingly alive city, she is plagued by a mysterious feeling of guilt, all the while becoming increasingly obsessed with Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler''s propaganda minister, and the possibly parallel story of Regina Strauss, a Jewish woman who committed suicide along with her husband and children. It doesn''t take long for this novel to come undone, its magical realism and overly precious tone mixing uneasily with its ponderous claims about ethics and memory. Also problematic are the final revelations about Margaret''s past, which are intended to be shocking and enlightening, but are instead burdened with insistence on meaning. (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The Holocaust is a dark star, forever pulling new writers into its orbit. First-time novelist Hattemer-Higgins dramatizes with phantasmagoric magnitude the crisis of conscience following the genocide, drawing on her experience working in Berlin as a walking-tour guide, a role she assigns to her protagonist. An American with a German father, Margaret Taub has survived a mysterious trauma that has erased her memory of recent months and left her afflicted with nightmarish visions. As she ushers tourists to Nazi sites, the city turns to flesh before her eyes, and Nazi Madga Goebbels, who murdered her children as military defeat loomed, stalks her in the form of a bird of prey. Margaret is also visited by the ghost of a Jewish woman who committed suicide after killing her children to save them from Nazi torture. Determined to regain her past, Margaret contends with a blind, knife-throwing â€œmemory surgeonâ€ and a spying neighbor. She knows sheâ€™s guilty, but of what? With unbridled imagination and exquisite command, Hattemer-Higgins explodes the concept of remembrance and confronts the â€œspiritual aftershockâ€ of the Holocaust in a gloriously hellish and fiercely surreal dreamscape with echoes of fairy tales, Heinrich von Kleist, and Hermann Hesse, to create a bewitching and unnerving novel stunning in its artistry, audacity, and insight. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8332'),
(4751, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1120'),
(4752, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireVol 2', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Volume: 9 Publisher: New York: Thomas Crowell Publication date: 1900 Subjects: Rome -- History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Byzantine Empire -- History Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1119'),
(4753, 'A history of Zionism', 'Walter Laqueur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur''s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3415'),
(4754, 'The Hit List', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8932'),
(4755, 'Hit,Run Holiday', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10936'),
(4756, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints, Hitch-22 is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(4757, 'The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(4758, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4578'),
(4759, 'Hitler&#39;s Niece', 'Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hitler''s Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler''s apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1798'),
(4760, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. ** Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine. In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1483'),
(4761, 'Hitler&#39;s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942', 'Clay Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl DÃ¶nitz, Hitler eventually endorsed a costly program of shipbuilding. As a result, DÃ¶nitz was able to field a vast fleet of U-boats when Germany went to war against France and England in 1939. Although his enemies were initially better equipped, DÃ¶nitz was the craftier fighter, launching daring raids on shipping convoys and Allied harbors, and for a time, controlling the chief Atlantic sealanes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this monumental history, Clay Blair analyzes the German U-boat campaigns from 1939 to 1942 (a companion volume continues his narrative to 1945), which, he writes, fall into three phases: one against England alone, another against the newly arrived American navy, and a furious third against the combined Allied forces. Blair argues, against other historians, that the "U-boat peril" has been overestimated. He holds that the American submarine campaign against Japan in the Pacific was far more effective, and observes that 99 percent of Allied merchant ships on transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. Even so, the U-boats introduced a powerful element of terror into an already horrific war, diverting Allied effort into antisubmarine campaigns and delaying the transport of much-needed materiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s outstanding work adds much to the naval history of World War II. Packed with detail, it is sure to become a standard work on the Battle of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  --Gregory McNamee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about this book is big: its page count, its thesis?and its shortcomings. Blair is a respected authority on submarine warfare whose Silent Victory, a history of the U.S. submarine service, remains a widely cited work. He is also a master of operational narrative, a writer who can put readers in a destroyer''s bridge or a U-boat''s conning tower as convincingly as many novelists. Here, in the first of two projected volumes, Blair employs a comprehensive mix of German, British and U.S. sources to argue that the German U-boats have been mythologized, their successes overstated and their threat to the Allied war effort exaggerated. While U-boats delayed and diminished the arrival of supplies to Europe, 99% of all ships in transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. For Blair, that is a sizable margin of acceptable loss. He even stands foursquare behind Admiral Ernest King''s reluctance to organize merchant convoys after Pearl Harbor. German U-boats operating off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean accounted for about a quarter of all tonnage sunk during the war, but even these losses could be replaced. Blair compares by implication German failures in the U-boat war to the U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific, which succeeded in strangling Japan by mid-1945. But to assert, as he does, that the U-boats never had a chance seems to fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence that cannot be dismissed as retrospective mythmaking. Even before the climactic convoy battles of 1943, the Allied navies were morally and materially stretched to near breaking point. Though richly informed and a pleasure to read, this volume ultimately provokes without convincing. Photos and maps not seen by PW. History Book Club selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5828'),
(4762, 'Hitler&#39;s War', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready---would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been and the repercussions that might have echoed through history had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast. Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler''s War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler''s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II with a very different fate for our world today. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4950'),
(4763, 'The Hittite', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bova is best known as a prolific writer of works of science fiction. Here he tries his hand at supposedly historical fiction, with interesting, enjoyable, but uneven results. Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny. Bova tends to use flowery, descriptive language to excess, but he knows his Homer. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excellent. A thrilling and inventive retelling of the legend of Troy. --David Hagberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Expediter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Completely convincing and emotionally satisfying; the adventure and warfare are gripping enough to keep me awake to finish the book in a single night. I hope that when I''m [Bova''s] age, I''ll be doing--as he is--the best work of my career. --Orson Scott Card,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A cast of stars, all seen through the eyes of a Hittite warrior. With authentic battle scenes and the reality of siege warfare, THE HITTITE is an adventure you''ll want to undertake. --Barbara D''Amato, Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Foolproof\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7309'),
(4764, 'HMS Ulysses', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, "H.M.S. Ulysses" takes its place alongside "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Cruel Sea" as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. It is vintage MacLean -- and unforgettable.\n  <br />\n  "High-powered dramatics." San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, "H.M.S. Ulysses" takes its place alongside "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Cruel Sea" as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. It is vintage MacLean -- and unforgettable.\n  <br />\n  "High-powered dramatics." San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9270'),
(4765, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2008'),
(4766, 'Hocus Pocus', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7697'),
(4767, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3389'),
(4768, 'Hold Me Closer, Necromancer', 'Lish McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to raise the dead. After a bizarre encounter with a customer, he gets a beating from a stranger, and his coworker shows up missing her body below the neck (a misfortune that does not affect her positive attitude). It seems that Douglas, an evil local necromancer, has become aware of Sam''s powers and views him as a threat. With the help of his friendsâ€”and a very attractive werewolf girlâ€”Sam must try to tap into his necromancing abilities to beat Douglas at his own game. Some of the jokes, like the punning chapter titles that quote song lyrics from the likes of the Eurythmics,''70s-era Paul Simon, and Timbuk 3, may be lost on many of today''s teens. However, for fans of horror-humor hybrids like the film\n <em>\n  Shaun of the Dead\n </em>\n , this book may hold some appeal.â€”_Hayden Bass, Seattle Public Library, WA_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sam has dropped out of college and is stalled in a fast-food job in Seattle. Interrupting the boredom of days waiting on Plumpy customers and evenings watching old movies with his friends, a scary guy named Douglas enters Samâ€™s world. After a few pithy verbal threats, Douglas has Sam beaten and mauled by a sidekickâ€”and later delivers teen Brookeâ€™s pretty blond head to Samâ€™s door. The good news is that Brooke seems to be in no pain and is as sassy as ever. The bad news, as Sam finds out in short order, is that Douglas is a necromancer and has identified Sam, who hasnâ€™t a clue what his strengths are, as a rival. Before the week is out, Sam finds himself in a cellar, caged with another pretty girl, who is part werewolf, part fairy. And then thereâ€™s Ashley, the parochial-school-uniformed 10-year-old who can orchestrate salvation for Sam by using her Blackberry and brains. With fine writing, tight plotting, a unique and uniquely odd cast of teens, adults, and children, and a pace that smashes through any curtain of disbelief, this sardonic and outrageous storyâ€™s only problem is that it must, like all good things, come to an end. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7084'),
(4769, 'Hold Still', 'Nina LaCour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An arresting story about starting over after a friendâ€™s suicide, froma breakthrough new voice in YA fiction *dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just canâ€™t.* Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friendâ€™s suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didnâ€™t die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingridâ€™s descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingridâ€”and Caitlin herself\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2417'),
(4770, 'Hold Tight (2008)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9595'),
(4771, 'Holding the Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Raised as a sister to Margo and Laura at the grandiose Templeton house, businesswoman Kate Powell faces a professional impropriety and a dark secret from her past that forces her to search deep within herself. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2637');
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(4772, 'A Hole in the Universe', 'Mary McGarry Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens when a 43-year-old man returns to live in his hometown after serving a 25-year prison sentence for murder? That is the dramatic question at the center of this fifth novel by Morris (Songs in Ordinary Time; A Dangerous Woman). A contemporary Rip Van Winkle, Gordon Loomis returns to the home he left at age 18 to find a deteriorating neighborhood, overrun by drug dealers and mired in poverty. Gordon''s brother, Dennis, sister-in-law Lisa and loyal friend Delores can all forgive Gordon for his crime, but he can''t forgive himself. Though expertly drawn, Gordon is an enigmatic figure. Is he a bland and dull-witted giant ("three hundred and fifty pounds, six and a half feet tall") who just wants to be left alone or a paragon of virtue? Is Gordon''s interference in his brother''s marriage wrongheaded meddling or blessed intervention? When he aids Jada, a teenage neighbor whose mother is a junkie, is he asking for trouble or lifting up an oppressed and innocent child? Because he is a known ex-convict, Gordon becomes the neighborhood scapegoat, punished for his good deeds by those he seeks to help and protect. Only besotted Delores believes wholeheartedly in Gordon''s goodness. Though Delores does eventually win Gordon''s affection, he is alternately repulsed and comforted by her desperate loneliness and overeager attempts to help other people. Once again, Morris scores with her sympathetic portrayals of hard-to-like heroes and hopelessly floundering outcasts, infusing them with humanity. The plot picks up pace toward the end, reaching a fevered pitch as Gordon faces new (and unfounded) accusations, and the novel comes to a redemptive but satisfying and believable conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gordon Loomis, 43, imprisoned for 25 years for his participation in a robbery-murder, is released on parole. Instead of starting with a blank slate, he opts to return to his old neighborhood in Dearborn, Massachusetts, which is now decayed and drug-ridden. Gordon''s principal edict is to lie low and not get too involved with the police, his family, or Delores, the friend who faithfully visited him all those years. Gordon spurns his brother''s attempts to help him get a job, afraid of the inevitable reaction when his identity is discovered. His fears are justified when job offers are suddenly withdrawn, and elderly neighbors cringe at his offers of assistance. Suffocated by dread and lingering guilt, Gordon can barely cope with life outside prison walls, and Delores'' intrusive attention and the obvious need of a pathetic neighbor, forced by her mother to deal drugs, are more than he can bear. Morris has previously established her affinity for the misfits of the world. Her empathy for Gordon and his supporting characters in this novel, her fifth, is palpable, leaving the reader in awe of her uncanny ability to capture and convey each personality''s unique essence.\n <em>\n  Deborah Donovan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8481'),
(4773, 'Holiday Grind', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *There''s nothing cozier than a winter evening in Greenwich Village. Streetlights shimmer through icy flakes, cafÃ©s glow with welcoming warmth, and a layer of snow dusts historic townhouses like powdered sugar on holiday confections. Murder has no place in such a pretty picture, until now...* Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who''s been using her Village Blend as a place to warm his mittens. When she finds him brutally gunned down in a nearby alley, a few subtle clues convince her that Alfred''s death was something more than the tragic result of a random mugging--the conclusion of the police. With Clare''s boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn, distracted by a cold case of his own, and ex-husband Matt investigating this year''s holiday lingerie catalogs (an annual event), Clare charges ahead solo to solve her beloved Santa''s slaying. Then someone tries to ice Clare, and she really gets steamed. But she''d better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life. ** This very special holiday entry in Cleo Coyle''s nationally bestselling mystery series includes a bonus section of delicious holiday recipes as well as a glossary of coffeehouse terms, instructions on making espressos and lattes without an expensive machine, and tips for creating tasty coffeehouse syrups at home.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1509'),
(4774, 'Holiday in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York''s most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. Eve soon enters an elite world of people searching for their one true love--and one killer searching for his next victim. From Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2335'),
(4775, 'The Hollow', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: ''Henrietta''. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. Poirot''s enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect -- and each a victim of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5265'),
(4776, 'Holly Black', 'Geektastic (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10387'),
(4777, 'Hollywood Nocturnes', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2155'),
(4778, 'Holy Bible - the Illustrated King James Bible (KJV): The Old Testament, the New Testament, and Deuterocanonical Literature', 'MobileReference &amp; mobi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The King James Bible translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty''s special command, appointed to be read in churches.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Features\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Complete edition - The Old Testament, The New Testament, and Deuterocanonical literature\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Intuitive navigation.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Advanced search function.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Open the book you want to read with one click.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes a glossary of biblical terms.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Illustrations by Gustave DorÃ©.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Suggested Reading lists with links to texts: Help In Time Of Need, Historical Highlights, Spiritual Standards, Dynamic Doctrines, Practical Concepts\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Table of Contents\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Old Testament\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The 5 Books of Moses (The Pentateuch): Genesis | Exodus | Leviticus | Numbers | Deuteronomy\n </p>\n <p>\n  History: Joshua | Judges | Ruth | 1 Samuel | 2 Samuel | 1 Kings | 2 Kings | 1 Chronicles | 2 Chronicles | Ezra | Nehemiah | Esther\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wisdom &amp; Literature: Job | Psalms | Proverbs | Ecclesiastes | Song of Solomon\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Prophets: Isaiah | Jeremiah | Lamentations | Ezekiel | Daniel | Hosea | Joel | Amos | Obadiah | Jonah | Micah | Nahum | Habakkuk | Zephaniah | Haggai | Zechariah | Malachi\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The New Testament\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Life of Jesus and the Early Church: Matthew | Mark | Luke | John | Acts\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letters from the Apostle Paul: Romans | 1 Corinthians | 2 Corinthians | Galatians | Ephesians | Philippians | Colossians | 1 Thessalonians | 2 Thessalonians | 1 Timothy | 2 Timothy | Titus | Philemon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Other Letters from Apostles and Prophets: Hebrews | James | 1 Peter | 2 Peter | 1 John | 2 John | 3 John | Jude\n </p>\n <p>\n  Prophecy: Revelation\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Deuterocanonical literature\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Introduction | Additions to Daniel | Judith | Esdras | Additions to Esther | Susanna | 1 Maccabees | 2 Maccabees | 4 Ezra | Prayer of Manassheh | Sirach | Wisdom of Solomon | Baruch (including the Epistle of Jeremiah) | Tobit | Bel\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5721'),
(4779, 'The Holy Bullet', 'Lus M. Rocha', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The international bestseller from the author of *The Last Pope* ** After the suspicious death of Pope John Paul I, British journalist Sarah Monteiro is drawn into the web of an international conspiracy, and must reluctantly reunite with the mysterious priest/assassin Rafael, and the sinister mastermind known only as JC. But Sarah and Rafael''s determination could prove to be their downfall-and seal the doom of John Paul II. Especially if they discover the true power behind the papal throne.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2311'),
(4780, 'Holy Ghosts', 'Gary Jansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this extraordinary true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town''s past. Growing up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother - a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny - claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anything inexplicable in how their doorbell would sometimes ring of its own accord; or in the mysterious sounds of footsteps or breaking glass that occasionally would fill their home; or even in his mother''s sometimes unnervingly accurate visions of future events and tragedies. Though he once experienced a supernatural encounter in a Prague church as a young man, Jansen grew up into a rationalist, as well as a noted writer and editor. In 2001, Jansen moved back into the very same house where he had once grown up, to raise a family with his wife. One day in 2007 he encountered a weird physical sensation in his toddler son''s bedroom - "like an electric hand rubbing the length of my back. I stopped and couldn''t move, not because I was stuck but for the simple reason that the feeling was so strange. What the hell is that? Then the pressure seemed to break apart and for a brief moment I felt like I had a million little bugs crawling all over my back and neck." This became the first step in uncovering a frightening, full-blown haunting in his home-a phenomenon which lasted a full year and eventually included unveiling the identities of the spirits who occupied his house; reliving a tragic murder in his hometown; encountering mind-boggling coincidences between local history and episodes in his household; and finally, with the help of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real-life inspiration for TV''s The Ghost Whisperer, ridding his house of these uninvited visitors. The events of that year, in which Jansen''s family was terrified by ghosts in their own home, would forever change how he viewed the mysteries of life and death. Holy Ghosts is not only a gripping true-life ghost story but a wry and touching memoir, as well as a meditation on the relationship between religion and the paranormal, which are often considered at odds with each other, but which the author shows are intimately linked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(4781, 'Holy Quran', 'The Quran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9204'),
(4782, 'The holy thief', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The 19th chronicle of Brother Cadfael. In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey''s most cherished possession. When the bones disappear and a corpse is found, Brother Cadfael needs his prayers answered to catch a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(4783, 'A home at the end of the world', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours , comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city''s erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare''s child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3131'),
(4784, 'Home Fires', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same personâ€”while Skip is in his forties and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return.Still in love (somewhat to his surprise and delight), they go on a Caribbean cruise to resume their marriage. Their vacation rapidly becomes a complex series of challenges, not the least of which are spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who capture the ship for ransom. There is no writer in SF like Gene Wolfe and no SF novel like Home Fires.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8904'),
(4785, 'Home Free', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s not a global terror ring, but the desire for a personal life that threatens the Sisters in Michaels''s subdued 20thâ€”and lastâ€”Sisterhood installment (after 2010''s DÃ©ja Vu). Sisters leader Myra Rutledge Martin, her husband, Sir Charles, and Annie de Silva all remain dedicated to fighting crime, but the other ladies aren''t so sure and the group is showing signs of breaking up. When U.S. president Martine Connor asks them to join a new super-secret agency she''s created, with the promise of clean slates for all, however, everyone agrees. Their mission: to find out who''s stealing millions in secret U.S. funds. Though the ever feisty Myra is determined to assist Lady Justice, vigilantes Maggie Spritzer, who falls head over (high) heels for Master Sgt. Gus Sullivan over Thanksgiving dinner at Camp David; Nikki Quinn Emery; and Isabelle Flanders all want to focus on their personal lives. Michaels brings her popular series to a lackluster close with a tired financial corruption plot and tidy domestic ribbons tied too tightly around every girl in the group. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New Beginnings For The Sisterhood - United by a desire to overcome their personal misfortunes, seven very different women formed an indelible bond and vowed to right wrongs wherever they found them. They''ve succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. After years known as the Vigilantes, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle are enjoying their hard-won freedom and the chance at a normal life. As it turns out, once you''re a part of the Sisterhood, normal is a relative term. President Martine Connor, their long-time ally, has announced the formation of a top-secret organization. Officially, the CIC won''t exist. Unofficially, they''ll report directly to the president and tackle the jobs no one else can handle. For the Sisterhood, it''s the end of an era - and the beginning of a whole new adventure...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4755'),
(4786, 'Home Safe: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Amesâ€“recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained herâ€“is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helenâ€™s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helenâ€™s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1507'),
(4787, 'Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life', 'Sean Payton &amp; Ellis Henican', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspirational true story of how one man led a football teamâ€”and a cityâ€”to triumph in Super Bowl XLIV.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Superdome became a national symbol of misery and hopelessness, where the truly desperate rode out the storm.\n <br />\n Four years later, in that very stadium, the New Orleans Saints won the NFC championship and earned their first-ever trip to the Super Bowl.\n <br />\n Two weeks later, the Saints soundly defeated the heavily favored Indianapolis Colts 31 - 17 in what would become the most-watched television event in history.\n <br />\n This is the inspirational story of a city recovering from disaster and a team with a history of heartbreak, seen through the eyes of the coach who taught them both how to win.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sean Payton\n </strong>\n is the head coach of the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints.\n <strong>\n  Ellis Henican\n </strong>\n is a columnist for\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n and an analyst on the Fox News Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8129'),
(4788, 'Home to Italy', 'Peter Pezzelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this delightful, moving debut novel, Peter Pezzelli brings to life the earthy sensuality of Tuscany-- the smell of just-baked bread wafting through the village piazza; the shopkeepers sweeping the sidewalks under the warm, early morning sun; groups of\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4087'),
(4789, 'Home: A Memoir of My Early Years', 'Julie Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Syphilis, alcoholism, infidelity, and indeterminate parentage may seem improbable touchstones in the back story of one who didn''t so much portray as embody the blithe Maria in\n  <em>\n   The Sound of Music\n  </em>\n  . But as this memoir of her formative years makes clear, there is more gravitas to Andrews than meets the eye. From her childhood in rural England and initial forays into British theater, to her first massive successes on Broadway and in the West End--notably as Eliza Doolittle in\n  <em>\n   My Fair Lady\n  </em>\n  --_Home_ puts her celebrated career in context. While arguably offering more detail about the Andrews family than necessary, it nevertheless dishes wonderful anecdotes about legends and Andrews contemporaries like NoÃ«l Coward, Rex Harrison, Robert Goulet, Richard Burton, and Rodgers and Hammerstein, in prose as crisp and immaculate as the author herself. It also offers a revealing look into the intricate, exhaustive craft of performing--skills often taken for granted in tabloid times. Since the book ends just as Andrews is about to launch into the celluloid stratosphere, can Volume II be far behind? After\n  <em>\n   Home\n  </em>\n  , it would be most welcome. --_Kim Hughes_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Andrews, who has written several children''s books (_The Great American Mousical_;\n  <em>\n   Mandy\n  </em>\n  ), both solo and with her daughter, now dances in a different direction with this delightful remembrance of her own childhood and engrossing prelude to her cinematic career. Spanning events from her 1935 birth to the early 1960s, she covers her rise to fame and ends with Walt Disney casting her in\n  <em>\n   Mary Poppins\n  </em>\n  (1963). Setting the stage with a family tree backdrop, she balances the sad struggles of relatives and hard drinkers with mirthful family tales and youthful vocal lessons amid rationing and the London Blitz: My mother pulled back the blackout curtains and gaspedâ€”for there, snuggly settled in the concrete square of the courtyard, was the incendiary bomb. A BBC show led to a London musical at age 12: My song literally stopped the show. People rose to their feet and would not stop clapping. Her mother''s revelation of her true father left her reeling when she was 15, but she continued touring, did weekly BBC broadcasts and was Broadway-bound by 1954 to do\n  <em>\n   The Boyfriend\n  </em>\n  . The heart of her book documents the rehearsals, tryouts and smash 1956 opening of\n  <em>\n   My Fair Lady\n  </em>\n  . Readers will rejoice, since Andrews is an accomplished writer who holds back nothing while adding a patina of poetry to the antics and anecdotes throughout this memoir of bittersweet backstage encounters and theatrical triumphs.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 1)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6535'),
(4790, 'Homebody: A Novel', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Damaged Houses** A master craftsman, Don Lark could fix everything except what mattered, his own soul. After tragedy claimed the one thing he loved, he began looking for dilapidated houses to buy, renovate, and resell at a profit--giving these empty shells the second chance at life he denied himself. ** Damaged Souls ** Then in a quiet Southern town, Lark finds his biggest challenge: a squalid yet sturdy mansion that has suffered decades of abuse at the hands of greedy landlords and transient tenants. While two charming old neighbor ladies ply him with delicious cooking, they offer dire warnings about the house''s evil past. But there is something about this building that pushes Lark on, even as its enchantments grow increasingly ominous. Will finishing the house offer Lark redemption, or unleash the darkest forces of damnation upon him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9589'),
(4791, 'Homefront', 'John &amp; Benson Milius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOME IS WHERE THE WAR IS America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Koreaâ€”now a formidable world power under Kim Jong-ilâ€™s dictator son. The enemyâ€™s massive cyberattack is followed by the detonation of an electromagnetic pulse that destroys technology across the United States. Communications, weapons, and defense systems are rendered useless; thousands perish as vehicles suddenly lose power and passenger jets plummet to the ground. Fleeing the chaos of Los Angeles, Walker discovers that although Americaâ€™s military has been scattered, its fighting spirit remains. Walker joins the soldiers as they head east across the desert, battling Korean patrolsâ€”and soon finds his own mission. Walker reinvents himself as the Voice of Freedom, broadcasting information and enemy positions to civilian Resistance cells via guerrilla radio. But Walkerâ€™s broadcasts have also reached the ears of the enemy. Korea dispatches its deadliest warrior to hunt the Voice of Freedom and crush the ever-growing Resistance before it can mount a new war for American liberty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5813'),
(4792, 'Homefront: The Voice of Freedom', 'John; Benson Milius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOME IS WHERE THE WAR IS America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Koreaâ€”now a formidable world power under Kim Jong-ilâ€™s dictator son. The enemyâ€™s massive cyberattack is followed by the detonation of an electromagnetic pulse that destroys technology across the United States. Communications, weapons, and defense systems are rendered useless; thousands perish as vehicles suddenly lose power and passenger jets plummet to the ground. Fleeing the chaos of Los Angeles, Walker discovers that although Americaâ€™s military has been scattered, its fighting spirit remains. Walker joins the soldiers as they head east across the desert, battling Korean patrolsâ€”and soon finds his own mission. Walker reinvents himself as the Voice of Freedom, broadcasting information and enemy positions to civilian Resistance cells via guerrilla radio. But Walkerâ€™s broadcasts have also reached the ears of the enemy. Korea dispatches its deadliest warrior to hunt the Voice of Freedom and crush the ever-growing Resistance before it can mount a new war for American liberty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8813'),
(4793, 'Homegoing', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10198'),
(4794, 'Homeport', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2584'),
(4795, 'Homer &amp; Langley: A Novel', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World''s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer &amp; Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers-the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley''s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, technological advances-and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York''s fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/999'),
(4796, 'Homer&#39;s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, Or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat', 'Gwen Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Once in nine lives,something extraordinary happens...*****The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwenâ€™s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten whoâ€™d been abandoned. It was love at first sight.Everyone warned that Homer would always be an â€œunderachiever,â€ never as playful or independent as other cats. But the kitten nobody believed in quickly grew into a three-pound dynamo, a tiny daredevil with a giant heart who eagerly made friends with every human who crossed his path. Homer scaled seven-foot bookcases with ease and leapt five feet into the air to catch flies in mid-buzz. He survived being trapped alone for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center, and even saved Gwenâ€™s life when he chased off an intruder who broke into their home in the middle of the night. But it was Homerâ€™s unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity for love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles that inspired Gwen daily and transformed her life. And by the time she met the man she would marry, she realized Homer had taught her the most important lesson of all: Love isnâ€™t something you see with your eyes. **Homerâ€™s Odyssey** is the once-in-a-lifetime story of an extraordinary cat and his human companion. It celebrates the refusal to accept limitsâ€”on love, ability, or hope against overwhelming odds. By turns jubilant and moving, itâ€™s a memoir for anybody whoâ€™s ever fallen completely and helplessly in love with a pet.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1594'),
(4797, 'Homes and Other Black Holes', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Mr. Barry is the funniest man in America and we should encourage him." --The New York Times Book Review THERE''S NO PLACE LIKE HOME--EXCEPT IN A SELLER''S MARKET At long last, Dave Barry, the dean of everything, lets you in on the deepest, darkest mysteries of life and answers your hysterical home purchase questions like they''ve never been answered before: What''s the best way to determine a realistic price range? Take your total family income, including coins that have fallen behind the bureau, and any projected future revenue you have been notified about via personalized letters from Mr. Ed McMahon stating that you may already have won 14 million dollars. Then, multiply by something other than six. Can you recommend a good mortgage? There are several kinds: Fixed Rate, Variable Rate, and the bank''s secret weapons, the Party Hat Mortgage and the Mortgage of the Living Dead. How can I avoid spending money on do-it-yourself homeowner''s projects? Find a contractor. Their silent motto is "We Never Show Up." The Romans lived among the ruins. You must too. Is there a secret to having a beautiful lawn? Yes and no. If you fail to feed, fertilize, and water your lawn, it will die. However, if you feed, fertilize, and water your lawn, it will die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(4798, 'The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It&#39;s Right for Your Family', 'Lisa Rivero', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A perfect book for parents looking for answers about homeschooling. We highly recommend." --Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, authors of\n <em>\n  The Mislabeled Child\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a concise, easy-to-read presentation of all the challenges and concerns parents can have while deciding about\n <em>\n  The Homeschooling Option\n </em>\n . This book will help families realize there are many more places for children to learn joyfully and effectively than either public or private schooling."--Patrick Farenga, President of Holt Associates, and co-author of\n <em>\n  Teach Your Own, The John Holt Book of Homeschooling\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Creative Home Schooling\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book will at once reassure parents that they are not alone in this voyage."--David Albert, columnist,\n <em>\n  Home Education Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A solid, accessible, ''user friendly'' guide packed with advice, information, ideas, and insights on homeschooling especially gifted children."--_Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this accessible and honest look at homeschooling, Lisa Rivero explores the diverse faces of homeschooled students and the ways in which it can help children with special learning needs. She corrects misconceptions through profiles of diverse families and addresses the changing and complex needs of children today. This book addresses the major questions parents are bound to have as they consider this option: socialization, curriculum, special needs arrangements, resources, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10582'),
(4799, 'Homeward Bound', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate-history maestro Turtledove''s conclusion to his Worldwar and Colonization sagas, about how lizard-like aliens known as the Race invaded Earth during WWII and were fought to a stalemate by the major Allied and Axis combatants, lacks the vividly described battle scenes of its predecessors, but more than compensates by closely examining the Race''s culture and society. While the Race have colonized much of Earth, they''re amazed by the human ability to adapt to change. (The aliens'' probe some 600 years earlier led them to expect they''d be facing armored knights.) When an American starship makes the trip to Home, the Race''s planet of origin, the lizards fear the loss of their technological dominance and decide to annihilate Earth, their colony included... The question of how much common ground exists between the lizards and humans wouldn''t have been out of place in old issues of\n <em>\n  Astounding\n </em>\n . The author dramatizes the old "nature versus nurture" argument through the moving stories of a human woman raised from birth by the lizards and of two aliens raised as humans. Fans will be pleased that room remains for a sequel.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove brings the saga of the Lizards (the Race) and the Tosevites (Big Uglies, or humans) to a resounding and massive conclusion. The human race has developed a starship, and early in the book, it appears in the skies of Home. That sets the Race by the ears (well, it would if they had any), and their respect for and fear of the Tosevites'' rate of change and technological ingenuity has them waiting for the other shoe to drop, though they don''t wear shoes. [...] Turtledove keeps the story from becoming too convoluted by focusing on Sam Yeager, successful diplomat in spite of himself, and his family, and on Kassquit, the human baby raised as a Lizard, and thereby produces not only a more coherent narrative but also tours de force of characterization. Which is not to say that the book is free of japes, wordplay, and such odd devices as an aging Matt Damon in a pornographic historical epic, all of which reassure the reader that this is indeed a case of Turtledove in full cry. The whole saga, begun in the Worldwar series and continued in the Colonization trilogy, may not quite equal Turtledove''s alternate America books, but it certainly ranks as something few other writers would have attempted and even fewer would have brought off so well.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4955'),
(4800, 'Homicide My Own', 'Anne Argula', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A loopy, immensely likable debut, both less and more than a conventional mystery. One can only imagine the sequel. --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews, Jan. 2005\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n As debut Author Argula spins her tale, Officer Quinn struggles with her aging body, hot flashes, temper, and hormonal imbalances.... --\n <em>\n  Round Table Reviews, Jan. 2005\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The author''s talented; she kept me reading. Did I like this book? I think so. Maybe you will too. --\n <em>\n  I Love a Mystery, Jan/Feb 2005\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Wry humor, straight-talking characters, and shades of the supernatural flavor this cleverly written debut police procedural....strongly recommended. --\n <em>\n  Library Journal, April 2005\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Homicide My Own resides in that strange and fascinating land between mystery fiction and detective fiction, adjoined with the mystique of philosophy and Native American customs. Itâ€™s a story of two slog-bottom cops from Spokane, Washington, who are assigned to what appears to be a routine mission: Theyâ€™re to go to an Indian reservation on the Northwest coast and pick up a man whoâ€™s being held for kidnapping a teenaged girl. Once there, however, one of the cops (given the unusual moniker of "Odd") becomes obsessed with a decades-old murder, the only unsolved murder in the islandâ€™s history, and he really doesnâ€™t want to head back to Spokane until heâ€™s found some resolution. His partner, Quinn, the acid-tongued menopausal wife of a decent and boring pharmacist (and the novelâ€™s narrator) finds Oddâ€™s behavior rather amusing at first, but then finds it to be much more than amusing. In an intriguing character study, Anne Argula has developed a novel that not only forces a reader to keep turning the pages; it goes so far as to force the reader to look at life â€“ and death â€“ in a new and uncharacteristic way. Pick this book up at your own risk. You may find yourself having lost not only the next few hours but also your sense of confidence in, as one might say, "the world as you know it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4370'),
(4801, 'Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets', 'David Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the creator of HBO''s "The Wire," the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television showThe scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city''s homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year''s most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl. Originally published fifteen years ago, "Homicide" became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition--which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs--revives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience. David Simon''s "Homicide" won an Edgar Award and became the basis for the NBC award-winning drama. Simon''s second book, "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood," co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an HBO miniseries. Simon is currently the executive producer and writer for HBO''s Peabody Award-winning series "The Wire." He lives in Baltimore. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and in this book he tells the story of his year on the streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year''s most difficult case, the rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl. "Homicide" was originally published in 1991. This new edition--which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs--revives this classic, riveting account of those who work on the dark side of the American experience. "One of the most engrossing police procedural mystery books ever written, not only because the crimes and plots and personalities are real, but because Simon is a terrific writer."--"Newsday" "Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore''s 234 murders that year . . . Simon takes readers inside the detectives'' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of despair . . . For a complete look at what it''s like to investigate violence for a living, "Homicide" is well worth the time."--"Orlando Sentinel" "This may be the best true-crime book, the best naked look at murder and cops and crime and life on the killing streets of big-city America in the late 20th century . . . A rich, revealing look at the twisted lives of killers and their victims and at the men who are obsessed with solving the most heinous and baffling murders."--"San Diego Union" "As Richard Price says in his new introduction, Simon ''camped out'' with the Baltimore PD''s homicide unit for a year while researching this no-punches-pulled look at murders and the cops who solve them. The 1985 title was the basis of the award-winning NBC drama of the same name . . . The city of Baltimore saw 234 murders in 1988. Allowed unlimited access to a shift of the city''s homicide unit, police reporter Simon chronicles that year. The sociopaths, the crackheads, and their crimes are horrifying, but equal horrors are found in the attitudes of jurors in a case of the shooting and blinding of a policeman and in statistics showing the ultimate legal fates of those apprehended by the unit. Immersing his readers in cases, procedures, politics, and the detectives'' personalities, Simon risks being sabotaged by the sheer scope of his account. Still, for those with strong stomachs and the willingness to work to keep the characters and dramas straight, he has produced a riveting slice of urban life. Recommended."--Jim Burns, Pompano Beach City Library, Florida, "Library Journal" "We seem to have an insatiable appetite for police stories . . . David Simon''s entry is far and away the best, the most readable, reliable and relentless of them all....An eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and banter, lend Simon''s account the fascination that truth often has . . . Fueled by coffee, cigarettes, and the drive to ''put down'' (i.e. close) cases, these heroes keep at it long after ordinary mortals would have lost heart."--"The Washington Post Book World" ""Baltimore Sun" reporter Simon spent a year tracking the homicide unit of his city''s police, following the officers from crime scenes to interrogations to hospital emergency rooms. With empathy, psychological nuance, racy verbatim dialogue and razor-sharp prose, he offers a rare insider''s look at the detective''s tension-wracked world. Presiding over a score of sleuths is commander Gary D''Addario, ''connoisseur of survival'' who grapples with political intrigue, massive red tape and ''red balls'' (major, difficult cases). His detectives include Tom Pelligrini, obsessed with solving the rape-murder of an 11-year-old girl; Rich Garvey, whose ''perfect year'' is upset by a murder case that collapses in court; and black, cosmopolitan Harry Edgerton, a lone wolf, son of a jazz pianist. This hectic daily log reveals the detective''s beat on Baltimore''s mean streets (234 murders in 1988) to be brutal, bureaucratic and, occasionally, mundane."--"Publishers Weekly"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(4802, 'Honey Moon', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phillips''s new novel, a psychology-driven tale of tortured yet shallow characters, can''t touch her earlier, delightful Hot Shot. Honey Jane Moon is only 16 but has been her family''s commanding force for years when she decides to drive her pretty cousin Chantal Booker from South Carolina to California to audition for TV''s Dash Coogan Show. Dash, "the last of America''s movie cowboy heroes" is indeed impressed--but by Honey, whom he picks to play his daughter. Although suddenly tossed into life''s fast lane, Honey still wants just what she always wanted: a close-knit family and some affection. Her South Carolina kin live with her, but their closeness resembles the adhesion of leeches. Dash, who learned about relationships from his ex-wives, turns a cold shoulder to Honey, who desperately needs him to be a real-life father figure, while Eric Dillon, Honey''s "dark, sullen, and gorgeous" co-star, stomps on the puppy love she has to offer. Yet it is only through their complicated relationships that Honey, Dash and Eric can finally exorcise their personal demons.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A New York Times Bestselling Author\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n She has a crazy name, a heart full of hope, and a passion for making dreams come true. . . . Honey Jane Moon was a South Carolina orphan, discovered by Hollywood and made into a child star. Now she''s all grown up, but her life is still a dramatic roller coaster. Two men know how fiercely she lives and loves. But what Honey wants most of all is the family she never had . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4634');
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(4803, 'Honey, I Wrecked the Kids: When Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-Outs, Sticker Charts and Removing Privileges All Don&#39;t Work', 'Alyson Schafer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n More life-saving parenting advice from the bestselling author of Breaking the Good Mom Myth\n</p>\n<p>\n Bringing the same perceptive and actionable advice that made Breaking the Good Mom Myth an international bestseller, TV host and psychotherapist Alyson Schafer again comes to the rescue of desperate parents everywhere. For those who''ve tried just about everything to discipline their kids, Honey, I Wrecked the Kids explains why children today really are resistant to traditional parenting methods and how only a new model for winning cooperation really works. Full of real-life examples, the book gives parents a deeper understanding of misbehavior and their role in it, shies away from traditional behavioral models of parenting, and offers humane, good-humored advice that will make parenting a manageable and, finally, rewarding task.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alyson Schafer (Toronto, ON) is the host of The Parenting Show and a media expert on parenting. She has appeared on The Montel Williams Show and been featured in Cosmopolitan, Parenting, Reader''s Digest, and more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parenting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  HONEY, I WRECKED THE KIDS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have a "discipline-resistant" child, then you already know that the old standby parenting tactics just don''t work on this modern era kid. Naughty mats, counting, time-outs, removing privileges...all the things that seemed to work just fine on other kids are actually making things worse with this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sometime between removing the door to stop him from slamming it and pushing his shelf into the hall so he couldn''t chuck storybooks at me when I sent him to his room, I thought to myselfâˆ’this is crazy. We can''t go on forever disassembling the house. I need help!"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Shirley, mother of two\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychotherapist, bestselling author and nationally sought-after parenting expert Alyson Schaefer finally provides what perplexed parents everywhere have been waiting for: the blueprint to understandingâˆ’and correctingâˆ’misbehavior. This isn''t an assertiveness course for permissive parenting, and it''s not a PR makeover for our autocratic, punishing methods. With her characteristic blend of outrageous humor and uncanny insight (yes, she does peer into your living rooms at night), Alyson will show you how to diagnose and reverse the root cause of all misbehavior (even the most baffling) so that you can rediscover the joy of parenting your kids. Sound too good to be true? Start reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11121'),
(4804, 'Honeymoon', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Honeymoon" - In "The Partnered Ship", the last story of _The Ship Who Sang_, Helva extended her contract, and acquired Parollan as her new brawn, preparatory to a 2nd mission to Beta Corvi. ("Dramatic Mission" in that book covers mission #1.) "Honeymoon" picks up where "The Partnered Ship" left off - Helva''s first voyage with Niall Parollan. You *really* need to read _The Ship Who Sang_ first. (When Parollan''s in port, incidentally, he''s a party animal - and his idea of a date is a group of triplets.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10858'),
(4805, 'Honor thy father', 'Gay Talese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n June 2009 Review â€œMr. Taleseâ€™s insight will do more to help us understand the criminal than any amount of moral recrimination.â€ (Times Literary Supplement (London) ) â€œBrilliant...Indispensable.â€ (Los Angeles Times ) â€œAn incredible job of reporting.â€ (Mario Puzo ) â€œAn invaluable document.â€ (New York Review of Books ) â€œA marvelous piece of work, showing how a good journalist can catch a man just as he is ready to reconsider his past and is anxious to find someone who will listen...A book about a vanishing way of life in America: the Mafia.â€ (Newsweek ) Product Description A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York''s notorious Bonanno crime family On New York''s Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the â€œBanana War.â€ In this monumental workâ€”packed with intimate details and brilliant reportingâ€”bestselling author Gay Talese first brought to the American consciousness a world and a life previously known to only a few. No other book has done more to acquaint readers with the secrets, structure, wars, power plays, family lives, and fascinating, frightening personalities of the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1478'),
(4806, 'Honor Thyself', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Supreme spinner of romantic yarns, Steel (_Amazing Grace_, etc.), in her lamentable latest fable of female courage, fortune, fame and fashion, features Oscar-winning actress Carole Barber, who, at age 50 and trying to write a novel, travels to Paris, scene of a tragic love affair 15 years before. On her first night in the City of Light, she''s badly injured during a terrorist attack, after which she is left with no memory and no choice but to rebuild her life with a new perspective on her career, family and personal relationships. Steel flirts with themes of motherhood, second chances and writing, never settling on any one for long as Carole discovers the importance of pursuing her own desires while being generous to others and of keeping the men she wants in her life close but not too close. The best part is Carole''s rehabilitation; as she reacquaints herself with family and friends, Carole the patient shows the patience author Steel lacks to probe beneath the surface. Though the message is murky at best, Steel delivers a sympathetic heroine and a scene or two that makes the heartstrings quiver.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA five-handkerchief Danielle Steel heartbreaker.â€ â€”Barnes &amp; Noble\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFaithful readers will be catapulted by Steelâ€™s staccato pacing and straightforward prose.â€ â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5979'),
(4807, 'Honourable Schoolboy', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The Constant Gardener -- : ''The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning'' -- A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail ''The book breathes life, anger and excitement'' -- Nigel Williams, Observer ''A cracking thriller'' -- Economist ''Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot ... essential reading'' -- Chris Woodhead, Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, ''The Honourable Schoolboy'', a passionate lover and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11073'),
(4808, 'Honoured Enemy', 'Raymond E. Feist; William Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first of a major new Feist acquisition, returning to his best-loved series. Written with Bill Forstchen, acclaimed writer of great military fantasy novels in the US. FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE? Hartraft''s Marauders, a crack band of Kingdom raiders, are a special unit designed to infiltrate and fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison, after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani. Meanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time and discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) and they are forced by circumstances to band together and fight as one unit to survive. The only problem is, who do they hate the most -- their mutual enemy, or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle not only with the elements and their enemies, but also their conscience. For what is more important -- one''s life or one''s honour?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3374'),
(4809, 'Hood', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robin Hood The Legend Begins Anew For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated the imagination. Now the familiar tale takes on new life, fresh meaning, and an unexpected setting. Steeped in Celtic mythology and the political intrigue of medieval Britain, Stephen R. Lawhead''s latest work conjures up an ancient past and holds a mirror to contemporary realities. Prepare yourself for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3878'),
(4810, 'The Hooded Hawk Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When their peregrine falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying rubies, the Hardy brothers find themselves involved with kidnappers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10265'),
(4811, 'Hope', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother s adultery? Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond s existence until she finds the courage to fight back and prove herself a fearless and able nurse, a vocation that takes her to the horrific battlefields of the Crimea. But the secrets of the past are not yet done with Hope Renton and she must return to England to face the legacy of her birth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7049'),
(4812, 'Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink', 'Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The incredible rapid rate at which various animals and plants are disappearing from the planet is shocking. Scientists currently believe that habitats across the globe are losing dozens of species every day. Jane Goodall, who has become one of the standard-bearers for animal conservation through her numerous books, television programmes and close work with animals, is nonetheless defiant - ''While there is life there is hope'', she states in her introduction to this profound and inspirational book. In demanding natural and political environments conservationists risk their lives to save animals from the brink of extinction. Jane''s unique access takes us inside these programmes, meeting first-hand a vast range of animals from Giant Pandas in China to the young generations of Whooping Cranes in Texas that are being taught new migration routes - led by human devotees in flying machines. "Hope For Animals and Their World" is a celebration of the great work being done to protect our wildlife for future generations. Goodall''s message rings loud and clear: we must not give up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2075'),
(4813, 'Horizon Storms', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The interstellar conflict between hydrogues (aliens that live at the core of gas-giant planets) and faeros (fire entities that dwell within stars) and its impact on a dazzling array of alien and human species propel bestseller Anderson''s third thrilling installment in his Seven Suns saga (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Empire\n </em>\n and 2002''s\n <em>\n  A Forest of Stars\n </em>\n ). In the third wave of this SF tsunami, an important Earth Defense Force asset, ekti star fuel, is compromised when rebels refuse to donate all ekti to the defense effort, leading Terran Hanseatic League Chairman Basil Wenceslas (the power behind semi-puppet monarchs King Peter and Queen Estarra) to declare war on the rebels. Adding to the fireworks are human-hating Klikiss robots who break an old Ildiran peace pact, a brewing Ildiran civil war and Ildiran secret experiments that impinge on Mage-Imperator Jora''h''s relationship with green priest Nira Khali. Crackling with energy and buzzing with action, this hot summer read bodes well for future nail-biting episodes.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat?\n</p>\n<p>\n For the leader of the Roamers, survival means extending a helping hand to others, while the chairman of the Terran Hansa plans to use a new, untested alien weapon regardless of the consequences. And for the new Ildiran Mage-Imperator, survival involves throwing off the choking traditions of the Empire - even if it might trigger a civil war.\n</p>\n<p>\n As old intrigues and dark secrets come to light, a man who is believed to be long dead returns with an ally who may save mankind. But this new fragile hope will be threatened by a fresh betrayal - the most bitter and brutal of them all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7154'),
(4814, 'Hornet&#39;s nest', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The gritty, heroic life of big-city police is seen through the eyes of three leading crimefighters from Charlotte, North Carolina--Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and ambitious young reporter Andy Brazil. By the author of Cruel and Unusual. Lit Guild, Doubleday, &amp; Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4096'),
(4815, 'Horns', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (*Washington Post*); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (*Publishers Weekly*); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (*New York Times*). This gifted and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom with the chilling *Heart-Shaped Box* and cemented his reputation with the prizewinning volume of short fiction *20th Century Ghosts*. At last, the *New York Times* bestselling author returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like *Hell* on wheels. . . . Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real. Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it *all*, and moreâ€”he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. But Merrin''s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . . Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new lookâ€”a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It''s time for a little revenge. . . . *It''s time the devil had his due. . . .*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10630'),
(4816, 'The Horns of Ruin', 'Tim Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   Eva Forge is the last paladin of a dead God. Morgan, God of battle and champion of the Fraterdom, was assassinated by his jealous brother, Amon. Over time, the Cult of Morgan has been surpassed by other gods, his blessings ignored in favor of brighter technologies and more mechanical miracles. Eva was the last child dedicated to the Cult of Morgan, forsaken by her parents and forgotten by her family. Now she watches as her new family, her Cult, crumbles all around her.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a series of kidnappings and murders makes it clear that someone is trying to hasten the death of the Cult of Morgan, Eva must seek out unexpected allies and unwelcome answers in the city of Ash. But will she be able to save the city from a growing conspiracy, one that reaches back to her childhood, even back to the murder of her god?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7840'),
(4817, 'The horse and his boy', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him. It is during this glorious era in Narnian history that Shasta, a young boy living in Calormen with a cruel man who claims to be his father, dreams of traveling to the unknown North.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(4818, 'The Host: A Novel', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Now in the trade paperback edition: New Bonus Chapter and Reading Group Guide, including Stephenie Meyer''s Annotated Playlist for the book.Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie''s body, didn''t expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.As Melanie fills Wanderer''s thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she''s never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOSTis a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the essence of what it means to be human. (2008)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4333'),
(4819, 'Hostage (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9957'),
(4820, 'The Hostage', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence turns to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton, an SBS operative with a lethal reputation. Itâ€™s a dangerous race against timeâ€”if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA, his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agentâ€”someone inside MI5 is tipping them off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(4821, 'The Hostile Hospital', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2551'),
(4822, 'Hostile Intent', 'Michael Walsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It starts with the most horrific act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Only one man can stop them. Code named Devlin, he exists only in the blackest shadows of the United States government -- operating off the grid as the NSA''s top agent. He''s their most lethal weapon . . . and their most secret. But someone is trying to draw him out into the open by putting America''s citizens in the crosshairs -- until they get what they want.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2697'),
(4823, 'Hosts', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack returns in a sequel to the New York Times bestseller, The Tomb! Repairman Jack has been tearing up the urban adventure scene ever since he was introduced in the New York Times bestseller The Tomb . As his fans know, Repairman Jack doesn''t deal with electronic appliances; he''s a situation fixer, no matter how weird or deadly a situation may be. Repairman Jack has no last name, no Social Security number, and no qualms when it comes to getting the job done''even if it means putting himself in serious danger. After fifteen years of separation, Jack is contacted by his long-lost sister, Kate, to help her track down the source of her girlfriend Jeanette''s sudden trance-like behavior. Referred by a mysterious stranger who gives only Jack''s name and phone number, Kate is shocked to find out that the "repairman" she seeks is none other than her little brother''and not altogether happy to find out what little "Jackie" has been doing with himself for all these years. With Jack leading the way, Kate finds out that Jeannette''s behavior can be traced back to the experimental therapy she underwent for a brain tumor: now Jeannette''s brain and those of several other subjects are infected by a mutated virus. Like any good virus, it wants to multiply''and if Jack can''t stop the virus in its path, there will be deadly results. Meanwhile, Jack is traveling on the 9 train when suddenly a passenger goes berserk and starts shooting at random''leaving Jack no choice but to throw himself into the spotlight by putting the shooter down. Worse for Jack, one of his fellow passengers is a reporter for the local tabloid, The Light , who sees Jack''s heroism as his ticket to journalistic stardom. The reporter promises to make Jack a celebrity hero, a household name''which could mean the end of Repairman Jack as we know him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/636'),
(4824, 'Hot for Him', 'Sarah Mayberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Working in Hollywood is always about getting to the top. Or "on" top, as feisty producer Claudia Dostis prefers. But when she contends with her outrageously sexy adversary, Leandro Mandalor, the stakes change. Her charming opponent is definitely up to Claudia''s challenge. He convinces her they must come together-- in the office "and" in the bedroom. Suddenly getting on top has a whole new meaning... and leads to a new level of sensual satisfaction. But can Claudia let go of her need to succeed long enough to allow someone else to win?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4430'),
(4825, 'Hot ice', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Whitney Macallister. reckless and beautiful, she posses all the wealth and beauty every yeoman dreams of. Douglas Lord. His good looks and street smarts have made him a success at his chosen profession-larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. It is a business proposition, pure and simple. But the race to finds the treasure, from Manhattan to Madagascar, is only part of the game. For their fierce and dangerous attraction to each other soon threatens to overwhelm them--unless their merciless and shadowy rivals kill them first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2635'),
(4826, 'The Hot Kid', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before Elmore Leonard abandoned westerns to blaze across the pantheon of bestsellerdom with his hip, stylish thrillers, punctuated with dead-pan humor and dialogue worthy of a David Mamet play, he might have written\n <em>\n  The Hot Kid\n </em>\n ; it has some of the same crisp pacing and well-defined, if not especially complex, characters that marked his earlier novels. A show-down between Tulsa oil wildcatter and millionaire Oris Belmont and his 18-year-old son, who''s attempting to shake him down, says all there is to say about both men:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "I donâ€™t know what''s wrong with you. You''re a nice-looking boy, wear a clean shirt every day, keep your hair combed ... where''d you get your ugly disposition? Your mama blames me for not being around, so then I give you things .. you get in trouble, I get you out. Well, now you''ve moved on to extortion in your life of crime ... I pay you what you want or you''re telling everybody I have a girlfriend?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Jack Belmont''s blackmail scheme doesn''t work, but after destroying his father''s property, forging checks in his name, kidnapping his mistress, and joining a gang of notorious bank robbers after his release from prison, he encounters another man trying to get out from under his father''s large shadow and create his own, bigger one. Deputy U.S. Marshal Carl Webster, who at age 15 shot a man trying to steal his cows and six years later dispenses equal justice to Emmet Long, the leader of Belmont''s gang, now has Jack Belmont in his sights. Webster''s exploits have earned him even more celebrity than Jack, who dreams of rivaling Pretty Boy Floyd as public enemy number one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Weâ€™re in the early 30''s here, just as a dust cloud is rolling across the Oklahoma plains--the days of Bonnie and Clyde, when gangsters captured the public attention, and Leonard makes good use of place and time. His minor characters are much more interesting than his protagonists, especially the women, and the writing shows occasional flashes of his trademarked ironic humor. But it''s not as cool--or as hot--as even his most dedicated readers are used to, and there''s barely a trace of the bizarre plot twists and unlikely coincidences that define his most recent caper novels in this one.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Leonard''s 40th novel, set in the world of 1930s gangsters and gun molls, features characterizations so deft and true you can smell the hair oil on the dudes and the perfume on the dames. Young Carlos Webster tangles with his first gangster at 15, when bank robber Emmet Long robs an Okmulgee, Okla., store, kills an Indian policeman and takes away Carlos''s ice cream cone. Seven years later, Carlos, now Carl, a newly minted deputy U.S. marshal, gets his revenge by gunning Long down, an act that wins him the respect of his employers and the adulation of the American public, who follow his every quick-draw exploit in the papers and\n <em>\n  True Detective\n </em>\n magazine. Cinematically, Leonard introduces his charactersâ€”Carl''s colorful pecan-farmer father, Virgil; Jack Belmont, ne''er-do-well son of a rich oilman;\n <em>\n  True Detective\n </em>\n writer Tony Antonelli; Louly Brown, whose cousin marries Pretty Boy Floydâ€”in small, self-contained scenes. As the novel moves forward, these characters and others begin to interact, forming liaisons both romantic and criminal. At the stirring conclusion, scores are settled and the good and the bad get sorted out in satisfactorily violent fashion. The writing is pitch-perfect throughout: "It was his son''s quiet tone that made Virgil realize, My Lord, but this boy''s got a hard bark on him." The setting and tone fall somewhere between Leonard''s early westerns and his more recent crime novels, but it''s all pure Leonard, and that means it''s pure terrific.\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrew Wiley. (May)\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9215'),
(4827, 'Hot Money', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Francis has another winner, as skillfully constructed as his previous bestsellers. This time, amateur British jockey Ian Pembroke tells what happens after the murder of his father Malcolm''s fifth wife, Moira. A rapacious, sharp-tongued woman, she has caused a break between Malcolm and Ian, who despised her for marrying his father solely to get her hands on his considerable fortune. But two attempts on the old man''s life compel him to ask Ian for help. Although the trusted son isn''t fond of his eight half-siblings or their motheror even of his ownhe''s loath to suspect them of conspiring to kill Malcolm, which seems to be the case. To protect his father, Ian takes him to America and other countries, where the two attend the glamorous, big-purse horse racesscenes at which the author excelsbefore returning warily to England. The story gains momentum, with extended family members furious over Malcolm''s spending spree and blaming Ian for wasting their inheritance. A real spellbinder, the mystery ends when the miscreant plays one trick too many. Reader''s Digest Condensed Book selection; Literary Guild dual selection and Mystery Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amateur jockey Ian Pembroke is the narrator and principal mover in this engaging effort from the veteran British author. Summoned by his fabulously wealthy father, Malcolm, after a three-year estrangement, Ian attempts to discover who murdered Malcolm''s money-grubbing fifth wife and who wants Malcolm dead as well. Suspects include the man''s three surviving ex-wives, variously vicious or vindictive, and eight children, arrayed in darkening shades of nasty. Hidden gold, house bombs, expensive racehorses, and foreign venues spice up the familial infighting. A best bet. Literary Guild dual main selection; Mystery Guild featured alternate. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8228'),
(4828, 'Hot Shot', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Phillips ( Fancy Pants ) recovers from a sluggish start to offer a fun and lively look at lots of ''tales'' already love, microchips and rock ''n'' roll. In 1976, California socialite Susannah Faulconer is engaged to marry an up-and-coming executive in her father''s technology corporation when Sam Gamble hustles his way into Susannah''s well-ordered life with a revolutionary product: a prototype for a microcomputer, the work of electronics maven Yank Yankowski. Sam, a long-hairedp. 42 visionary, captures Susannah''s imagination, and when he crashes her picture-perfect garden wedding, she hikes up her gown and hops onto the back of his Harley. Her euphoria is short-lived as she realizes that neither Yank nor Sam has the requisite business sense to succeed in pk their venture. She digs in, making the most of her upper-crust training and a few library books on business, but it''s clear they need a professional. The unlikely entrepreneurs pique the interest of marketing wizard Mitchell Blaine. Mitch sees Susannah as Sam''s "woman trouble" but when he tries to cut her out of the company, he learns that under the ex-debutante facade is a woman who can play hardball with the boys.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A New York Times Bestselling Author\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Susannah Faulconer flees her society wedding on the back of a bad boy''s Harley and enters a world for which no etiquette book could ever prepare her. A world with men such as Mitch Blaine, a corporate genius who has no time for a rich California socialite, and Sam Gamble, a charismatic visionary. Now, the unforgettable woman called Hot Shot must find the courage to see her dreams through, on her own terms.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4638'),
(4829, 'Hot Six', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso, the man who taught her everything about fugitive apprehension. Description in Spanish: La cazarrecompensas Stephanie Plum vuelve a la carga. En esta nueva aventura su talento, su humor y su ingenio continÃºan a la mÃ¡xima altura. Ahora nos la encontramos tratando de evitar que su amiga Carol salte por un puente. DespuÃ©s de ver cÃ³mo lo consigue --aunque, al fin y al cabo, Â¿quiÃ©n se suicida con una chaqueta de 400 dÃ³lares puesta?-- nos daremos cuenta de que la acciÃ³n no ha hecho mÃ¡s que empezar. Su compaÃ±ero de trabajo, Ranger, ha desaparecido y Alexander Ramos, el traficante de armas, tiene mucho que ver en el asunto. Y, por si fuera poco, su abuela y Bob --un perro con trastornos alimenticios-- se han metido en su casa. Pero Stephanie es capaz de todo, y ningÃºn obstÃ¡culo podrÃ¡ detenerla.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2173'),
(4830, 'Hot Westmoreland Nights', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He knew better than to lust after the hired help. But Ramsey Westmoreland''s new cook was just so delectable...it was enough to make the Denver rancher rethink his rules. When temptation got the best of him, he discovered Chloe Burton was just as hot in the bedroom as she was in the kitchen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though their affair was growing steamier by the minute, Ramsey couldn''t help but question Chloe''s true motives. And when he discovered her ultimate betrayal, he was set to satisfy himself with cold showers. Until he realized his fatal mistake: never underestimate the power of the human heart,\n <em>\n  especially\n </em>\n a Westmoreland''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8044'),
(4831, 'The Hot Zone', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of theappearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3988'),
(4832, 'The Hotel New Hampshire', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The first of my father''s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany."Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."--Time"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."--Los Angeles Times"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."--Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2895'),
(4833, 'Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet: a novel', 'Jamie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Sentimental, heartfeltâ€¦.the exploration of Henryâ€™s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we donâ€™t repeat those injustices."***-- Kirkus Reviews***â€œA tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, **Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet **gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today''s world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you *feel*." ***-- *Garth Stein**, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Art of Racing in the Rain*â€œJamie Ford''s first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.â€***-- *Lisa See**, bestselling author of *Snow Flower and the Secret Fan*****In the opening pages of Jamie Fordâ€™s stunning debut novel, **Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet**, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattleâ€™s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henryâ€™s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While â€œscholarshippingâ€ at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendshipâ€“and innocent loveâ€“that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept.Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotelâ€™s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe familyâ€™s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voiceâ€“words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, **Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet** is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1649'),
(4834, 'Hothouse', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a strange future, the few remaining humans are regularly consumed by savage greenery, and their only allies are the giant Termights. Spiders over a mile in length travel to the Moon on interplanetary cobwebs, and the stationary world is now split between perpetual day and unending night. But the elders are facing the end of their time, so leadership is given to a youn girl, Toy. The groups manchild Gren wants to be his own leader, however, and with his maring partner will tear apart the group in his search of a new eden. Summoning up a world of carnivorous trees and giant insects, Hothouse is a landmark novel of the environment in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(4835, 'The Hound of Death', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from "the other side"; a haunted house; a chilling seance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless mesage; an elderly lady''s hold over a young man; a mysterious SOS - unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5198'),
(4836, 'The Hound of Rowan', 'Henry H. Neff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: MAX MCDANIELS LIVES a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him.But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he''ll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2003'),
(4837, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9362'),
(4838, 'Hour Before Midnight', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11027'),
(4839, 'Hour Game', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He''s copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun. A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal''s motives...or who will die next. Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man''s innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic, dysfunctional family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1473'),
(4840, 'The Hour I First Believed', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When 47-year-old teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife Maureen, a nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Maureen finds herself in the school library, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family''s house. The intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk ancestors, from the time of the Civil War to Caelum''s own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long buried fear, anger, guilt and grief rise to the surface. As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED is a profound and compelling work of fiction. And Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10714');
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(4841, 'House Atreides', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."â€”Dean KoontzFrank Herbert''s Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago. Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert''s award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwideâ€”and transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his visionâ€”vast, sprawling, and multilayeredâ€”remained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel to Duneâ€”where we step onto planet Arrakis...decades before Dune''s hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands. â€”Beginning nearly four decades before Dune, House Atreides introduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation of Dune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnenâ€”or take it to new heights of power.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood''s son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year''s education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegadesâ€”and shapers of history. Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune''s greatest secrets, House Atreides stands next to Dune in its power and scope. While this new novel solves some of Dune''s most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad''Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul''s birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of the Dune chronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imaginationâ€”a future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake. The Story Behind Dune: House Atreidesby Brian HerbertWhen my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn''t teach me how to write; instead, he would teach me what he called "the care and feeding of editors": how to make manuscripts look presentable so that they wouldn''t be tossed into a slush pile, unread. He then proceeded to teach me how to write. I remember many instances when we would brainstorm ideas and dissect my own novel manuscripts. He taught me how to develop worlds, to create characters, to invent action...and to describe all of it. We collaborated on the novel Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert''s last published work, and even talked about working together on a new Dune novel, but we''d set no date, had established no specific details or direction.That novel was not to be. When my father died in 1986, he left several projects unfinished. For years there were rumors that I would write another novel set in my father''s Dune universe, a sequel to the sixth book in the series, Chapterhouse: Dune. Prominent writers approached me with offers of collaboration, but in tossing ideas around with them I couldn''t visualize the project coming to fruition. They were excellent writers, but in combination with them I didn''t feel the necessary synergy for such a monumental task. Along with Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings and a handful of other works, Dune stood as one of the greatest creative achievements of all time, and arguably the greatest example of science fiction world-building in the history of literature. For the sake of my father''s legacy, I could not select the wrong person.It wasn''t until I began conversation with Kevin J. Anderson, a critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling author, that I found someone whose enthusiasm and passion for the Dune universe match my own. Much of Kevin''s writing had been influenced heavily by the work of Frank Herbert. I read everything I could get my hands on that Kevin had written, and did more checking on him. It soon became clear that he was a brilliant writer and that his reputation was sterling. We hit it off immediately, both on a personal and professional level; new story ideas fairly exploded from our minds and together, we found the energy to tackle such a massive project.Frank Herbert had left behind literally thousands of pages of notes, ideas, and sketches. Of all the possible Dune stories we could tell, Kevin and I chose to concentrate on an immediate prequel, to go back to the heart of Dune''s readership, the core characters and situations that had made this the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: The love story of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica; their first battle with Baron Harkonnen; the quest of the planetologist Kynes, sent to the desert world of Dune to investigate the precious spice and the sandworms and the Fremen...and the power-hungry Crown Prince Shaddam, who would do anything to secure the Imperial throne.The Dune universe is a vast canvas, with ample opportunity for many stories, but we have chosen to start here, featuring the characters with whom all Dune fans are familiar. Dune: House Atreides is a personal story that means a great deal to us; we hope booksellers and readers alike will feel the same way. Signed,Brian Herbert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7407'),
(4842, 'House Corrino', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sequel to Dune: House Atreides and Dune: House Harkonnen chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7404'),
(4843, 'House for Mister Biswas', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaulâ€™s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul''s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century''s finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduousâ€“and endlessâ€“struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a manâ€™s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6261'),
(4844, 'House Harkonnen', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit to be the mother of Leto''s daughter. Meanwhile, on Dune - planet Arrakis - House Harkonnen ruthlessly harvests the precious, mind-enhancing drug called spice. And Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathesome disease. Rabban Harkonnen - House Atreides'' most implacable enemy - prepares to take over his uncle''s empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7409'),
(4845, 'House of Cards', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(4846, 'The house of Doctor Dee', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption. It is concerned with the prospect of an eternal city. It is about the secrets of love and power, in a world where there can be no distinction between the past and the present.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3702'),
(4847, 'House of Dreams', 'Pauline Gedge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tiny hamlet of Aswat, far to the south of the royal capital, a beautiful young girl wants more than the meagre prospects her village offers. Determined and resourceful, she is quick to leap upon an opportunity when the great seer Hui, who is also physician to Pharaoh, visits Aswat to commune with its god, Wepwawet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taken under Huiâ€™s wing to become a healer, she has no idea of his real plans for herâ€”plans that will bring her close to Pharaoh as his favourite concubine, but will ultimately enmesh her in court intrigue of the most dangerous kind.\n</p>\n<p>\n House of Dreams is a powerful story of passion and jealousy, rich with the details of Ancient Egyptian life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8241'),
(4848, 'House of Ghosts', 'Lawrence S. Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: House of Ghosts is a gripping mystery that takes readers through some of the most shrouded history of the twentieth century. In August 1944, Allied forces launched a top-secret aerial assault on the I. G. Farben oil and rubber plant, the flight plan taking bombers directly over the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp five miles away. Considering the known threat to the Jewish population, why did Allies bypass Hitlerâ€™s most notorious extermination camp without once trying to knock out the gas chambers or railways? At the estate sale of the late Preston Swedge, an alcoholic recluse and World War II veteran, a diary including details of that 1944 aerial assault is found by retired detective Joe Henderson, which includes descriptions of a rogue attempt by a Jewish-American pilot, Paul Rothstein, to drop bombs on Auschwitz. What follows is Hendersonâ€™s determined search for the truth about the failed attempt to save 300,000 Jews.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2287'),
(4849, 'The House of Green Turf', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A famous singer wakes up in hospital after a car crash, haunted by the certainty that she has been responsible for a death at some time in the past. She hires an private investigator, who launches a hunt across Europe with the trail leading to Felse''s wife, Bunty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4863'),
(4850, 'House of Illusions', 'Pauline Gedge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ancient history comes alive and stays that way as Thu, the Egyptian peasant in Lady of the Reeds (1995) who became a pharaoh''s concubine and was then banished, now triumphantly vindicates herself. Like its predecessors, this fifth in a series is set at the height of ancient Egypt''s influence. Gedge excels at setting the scene and subtly evoking a sense of the period as she tells a timeless story of greed, love, and revenge--a story that picks up 17 years after Thu has been banished to her native village of Aswat for her part in a plot to murder the Pharaoh Ramses. Kamen, a young soldier and the adopted son of a merchant, now on his way back from Nubia, spends the night in Aswat and is accosted by a blue-eyed woman who asks him to deliver an intricately bound package to the pharaoh. Kamen''s companions dismiss the woman as mad, but he himself, not entirely convinced of her madness, agrees to take it. Back in the capital, he hands it over to his commanding general Paiis, and when Paiis realizes what the package contains--Thu''s account of the role Paiis and others played in the plot to murder Ramses--he and his co-conspirators act quickly. Kamen is commanded to bring the woman to the city, and so, once again in Aswat, he and Thu narrowly escape an assassin. As Thu seeks a hearing in the capital, she and Kamen are ruthlessly hunted down by the former plotters. Only the intervention of the dying Ramses and his heir saves them. Justice is done, and Thu is not only reunited with her long-lost son but meets up again with the only man she''s ever loved--the man who used, deserted, but never forgot her. Thu is larger than life, and coincidences abound, but Gedge is so splendid a teller of tales that all is forgiven. First-class historical fiction. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pauline Gedge is a master at recreating the golden age in Egypt. Her heroine, Thu, a peasant girl from the village of Aswat, possesses both beauty and intelligence. To her good fortune Thu is found and brought to the center of society. She is chosen and trained for the court of Pharaoh Ramses. Her talent and guile win her a post in the harem.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thu rises in favor, is betrayed in a court intrigue that threatens her life and falls from grace. Pharaoh spares her life but banishes her to serve the priests at the lowly temple of Wepwawet near the first cataract.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  House of Illusions\n </em>\n opens on Gedge''s vividly recreated Egypt, sixteen years after Thu''s banishment. During her exile she writes an account of her court life and the betrayal for which she seeks revenge. Taking place three thousand years ago, ancient Egypt''s daily life and customs are woven into the story. In a world without soap and little water, natron served quite well. Gedge is able to get into the mind of the courtiers and their attitudes to their servants. While beneath the "masters", these "inferior" beings are very much a part of the family.\n</p>\n<p>\n The mysterious Hathor, Thoth, Amun and Ma''at are part of the Egyptian pantheon. They enter the daily life of the characters and the mystery begins to make sense. Never again will the reader scoff at these queer religious notions. The harmony and truth Ma''at embodies guides Thu in seeking her revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8240'),
(4851, 'House of Many Ways', 'Diana Wynne Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9354'),
(4852, 'The House of Mirth', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social, and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty, and sophisticated, is accepted by "old money" and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears 30, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing and to maintain her life in the luxury she has come to expect. While many have sought her, somethingâ€”fastidiousness or integrityâ€”prevents her from making a "suitable" match.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(4853, 'House of Reckoning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For more than three decades John Saul has haunted the* New York Times *bestseller listâ€“and readersâ€™ imaginationsâ€“with his chilling tales of psychological suspense and supernatural horror. His instinct for striking the deepest chords of fear in our hearts and minds is unerring, and his gift for steering a tale from the light of day into the darkest depths of nightmare is at its harrowing best in **House of Reckoning. **After the untimely death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up quickly in order to help tend her familyâ€™s Vermont farm and look after her grieving father, whoâ€™s drowning his sorrow in alcohol. But their quiet life together is shattered when her father is jailed for killing another man in a barroom brawl and injuring Sarah in a drunken car crash. Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, Sarah finds a mentor eager to nurture her talent for painting. But within the walls of Bettinaâ€™s ancestral home, the mansion called Shutters, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing. Monstrous images from the houseâ€™s dark history seem to flow unbidden from Sarahâ€™s paintbrushâ€“images echoed by Nickâ€™s chilling hallucinations. Trapped for ages in the shadowy rooms of Shutters, the violence and fury of long-dead generations have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take control, and take revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2312'),
(4854, 'The House of Rothschild: . Money&#39;s prophets, 1798-1848', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family''s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family''s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family saga, tracing the importance of family unity and the profound role of Judaism in the lives of a dynasty that rose from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto and later used its influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe. A definitive work of impeccable scholarship with a thoroughly engaging narrative, *The House of Rothschild* is a biography of the rarest kind, in which mysterious and fascinating historical figures finally spring to life. "A great biography." --*Time magazine*"Absorbing. . . .Their enthralling story has been told before, but never in such authoritative detail." --*The New York Times Book Review*"Niall Ferguson''s rich and compelling new book . . . is a feast." --*The Wall Street Journal** Chosen by *Business Week* as one of the Best Business Books of 1998* A finalist for the National Jewish Book Award\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2524'),
(4855, 'House of Stairs', 'William Sleator', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere â€”except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5105'),
(4856, 'The House of the Seven Gables', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The story of the Pyncheon family, residents of an evil house cursed by the victim of their ancestor''s witch hunt and haunted by the ghosts of many generations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This Enriched Classic Edition Includes:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A chronology of the author''s life and work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader''s own interpretations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed explanatory notes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chapter One: The Old Pyncheon Family\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Halfway down a bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables,1 facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm. On my occasional visits to the town aforesaid, I seldom failed to turn down Pyncheon Street, for the sake of passing through the shadow of these two antiquities -- the great elm tree and the weather-beaten edifice.\n</p>\n<p>\n The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive, also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement. But the story would include a chain of events extending over the better part of two centuries, and, written out with reasonable amplitude, would fill a bigger folio volume, or a longer series of duodecimos, than could prudently be appropriated to the annals of all New England during a similar period. It consequently becomes imperative to make short work with most of the traditionary lore of which the old Pyncheon House, otherwise known as the House of the Seven Gables, has been the theme. With a brief sketch, therefore, of the circumstances amid which the foundation of the house was laid, and a rapid glimpse at its quaint exterior, as it grew black in the prevalent east wind -- pointing, too, here and there, at some spot of more verdant mossiness on its roof and walls -- we shall commence the real action of our tale at an epoch not very remote from the present day. Still, there will be a connection with the long past -- a reference to forgotten events and personages, and to manners, feelings, and opinions, almost or wholly obsolete -- which, if adequately translated to the reader, would serve to illustrate how much of old material goes to make up the freshest novelty of human life. Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in a far-distant time; that together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity.\n</p>\n<p>\n The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground. Pyncheon Street formerly bore the humbler appellation of Maule''s Lane, from the name of the original occupant of the soil, before whose cottage door it was a cowpath. A natural spring of soft and pleasant water -- a rare treasure on the sea-girt peninsula, where the Puritan settlement was made -- had early induced Matthew Maule to build a hut, shaggy with thatch, at this point, although somewhat too remote from what was then the center of the village. In the growth of the town, however, after some thirty or forty years, the site covered by this rude hovel had become exceedingly desirable in the eyes of a prominent and powerful personage, who asserted plausible claims to the proprietorship of this, and a large adjacent tract of land, on the strength of a grant from the legislature. Colonel Pyncheon, the claimant, as we gather from whatever traits of him are preserved, was characterized by an iron energy of purpose. Matthew Maule, on the other hand, though an obscure man, was stubborn in the defense of what he considered his right; and, for several years, he succeeded in protecting the acre or two of earth which, with his own toil, he had hewn out of the primeval forest, to be his garden ground and homestead. No written record of this dispute is known to be in existence. Our acquaintance with the whole subject is derived chiefly from tradition. It would be bold, therefore, and possibly unjust, to venture a decisive opinion as to its merits; although it appears to have been at least a matter of doubt whether Colonel Pyncheon''s claim were not unduly stretched, in order to make it cover the small metes and bounds of Matthew Maule. What greatly strengthens such a suspicion is the fact that this controversy between two ill-matched antagonists -- at a period, moreover, laud it as we may, when personal influence had far more weight than now -- remained for years undecided, and came to a close only with the death of the party occupying the disputed soil. The mode of his death, too, affects the mind differently, in our day, from what it did a century and a half ago. It was a death that blasted with strange horror the humble name of the dweller in the cottage, and made it seem almost a religious act to drive the plow over the little area of his habitation, and obliterate his place and memory from among men.\n</p>\n<p>\n Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft. He was one of the martyrs to that terrible delusion,2 which should teach us, among its other morals, that the influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Clergymen, judges, statesmen -- the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day -- stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived. If any one part of their proceedings can be said to deserve less blame than another, it was the singular indiscrimination with which they persecuted not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, brethren, and wives. Amid the disorder of such various ruin, it is not strange that a man of inconsiderable note, like Maule, should have trodden the martyr''s path to the hill of execution almost unremarked in the throng of his fellow sufferers. But, in after days, when the frenzy of that hideous epoch had subsided, it was remembered how loudly Colonel Pyncheon had joined in the general cry, to purge the land from witchcraft; nor did it fail to be whispered that there was an invidious acrimony in the zeal with which he had sought the condemnation of Matthew Maule. It was well known that the victim had recognized the bitterness of personal enmity in his prosecutor''s conduct towards him, and that he declared himself hunted to death for his spoil. At the moment of execution -- with the halter about his neck, and while Colonel Pyncheon sat on horseback, grimly gazing at the scene -- Maule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradition, has preserved the very words. "God," said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink!"\n</p>\n<p>\n After the reputed wizard''s death, his humble homestead had fallen an easy spoil into Colonel Pyncheon''s grasp. When it was understood, however, that the Colonel intended to erect a family mansion -- spacious, ponderously framed of oaken timber, and calculated to endure for many generations of his posterity -- over the spot first covered by the log-built hut of Matthew Maule, there was much shaking of the head among the village gossips. Without absolutely expressing a doubt whether the stalwart Puritan had acted as a man of conscience and integrity throughout the proceedings which have been sketched, they, nevertheless, hinted that he was about to build his house over an unquiet grave. His home would include the home of the dead and buried wizard, and would thus afford the ghost of the latter a kind of privilege to haunt its new apartments, and the chambers into which future bridegrooms were to lead their brides, and where children of the Pyncheon blood were to be born. The terror and ugliness of Maule''s crime, and the wretchedness of his punishment, would darken the freshly plastered walls, and infect them early with the scent of an old and melancholy house. Why, then -- while so much of the soil around him was bestrewn with the virgin forest leaves -- why should Colonel Pyncheon prefer a site that had already been accursed?\n</p>\n<p>\n But the Puritan soldier and magistrate was not a man to be turned aside from his well-considered scheme, either by dread of the wizard''s ghost or by flimsy sentimentalities of any kind, however specious. Had he been told of a bad air, it might have moved him somewhat; but he was ready to encounter an evil spirit on his own ground. Endowed with common sense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably without so much as imagining an objection to it. On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was unpenetrable. He, therefore, dug his cellar, and laid the deep foundations of his mansion, on the square of earth whence Matthew Maule, forty years before, had first swept away the fallen leaves. It was a curious and, as some people thought, an ominous fact that, very soon after the workmen began their operations, the spring of water, above mentioned, entirely lost the deliciousness of its pristine quality. Whether its sources were disturbed by the depth of the new cellar, or whatever subtler cause might lurk at the bottom, it is certain that the water of Maule''s Well, as it continued to be called, grew hard and brackish. Even such we find it now; and any old woman of the neighborhood will certify that it is productive of intestinal mischief to those who quench their thirst there.\n</p>\n<p>\n The reader may deem it singular that the head carpenter of the new ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10657');
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(4857, 'The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War', 'Alexander Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The modern obsession with celebrity began with the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Drawing on the virtuosic and often wrenching writings of the Bright Young People themselves, the biographer and novelist D. J. Taylor has produced an enthralling account of an age of fleeting brilliance. "The laziest way to put someone down is to call him or her an egomaniac. It''s what we say when we loathe someone but can''t think of anything more precise. That label was often and too easily applied, in London in the late 1920s and early ''30s, to members of the so-called Bright Young People: a small, carefully circumscribed circle of elite 20-somethings who seemed to glide, as D. J. Taylor puts it in his nimble new book, on ''a compound of cocktails, jazz, license, abandon and flagrantly improper behavior.'' The Bright Young People were the most glamorous, influential, self-absorbed, quasi-bohemian and overeducated creatures in existence. During their flickering moment they were adored and despised in almost equal measure. Good parties are enemy-making machines--You weren''t asked? Surely your invitation was lost in the mail--and no one orchestrated them like the Bright Young ones. Nearly every event was an eye-popping spectacle, fully played out in the era''s gossip columns. In his novel "Vile Bodies," published in 1930 (and still hilarious), Evelyn Waugh gave an overview of the Champagne-fueled social carnage: ''Masked parties, savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Russian parties, circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St. John''s Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and nightclubs, in windmills and swimming baths . . . all the succession and repetition of massed humanity. . . . Those vile bodies.'' Waugh, of course, was a Bright Young Thing himself, or at the least he existed at the group''s margins. So did others who would go on to become well-known artists: John Betjeman, Nancy Mitford, Anthony Powell, Cecil Beaton and Henry Green among them. These bold-face names were among the lucky survivors. More than a few burned out, got lost or threw their promise away. Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have ''just a few feathers where brains should be.'' Mr. Taylor, the British author of "Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London''s Jazz Age," is a biographer (he has written lives of Thackeray and Orwell) and literary critic, and he tells this story with a good deal of essayistic flair, precision and flyaway wit. Just as important, he relates this ultimately elegiac narrative with a surprising amount of intellectual and emotional sympathy. He plainly wants to be bothered by the Bright Young People''s antics, too. ''One of the great consolations of English literary life, '' Mr. Taylor observes, wonderfully, is the idea that ''seriousness is automatically the preserve of people with cheery, proletarian values and prosaic lifestyles--that a barfly with a private income and a web of well-connected friends has already damned himself beyond redemption.''"--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times ""The saga of Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and the less famous social butterflies that everyone called the Bright Young People may be the ideal escapist fantasy for these sober economic times. Theirs was a life of glittering frivolity, of scavenger hunts that stopped traffic in Sloane Square, cocktails and dancing until dawn, notorious gatherings like the Bath and Bottle Party at a swimming pool (''bring a Bath towel and a Bottle'' the invitation said), sprees that envious mortals read about in gossip columns. To make the fantasy complete, the story even offers a satisfying touch of schadenfreude. As D. J. Taylor emphasizes in this incisive social history, these flighty creatures crashed with a thud louder than you''d imagine butterflies could make. Taylor compares the Mozart party photo to a ''medieval morality play'' capturing how the Bright Young People got their comeuppance: their zaniness became more self-conscious and attenuated; they tried to ignore the fragile postwar economy and the crumbling aristocracy, but those changes were ready to bite them. It was fun while it lasted, though, for much of the 1920s . . . Lightened by the book''s beautiful design, laced with mordant period quotations and delicious satiric cartoons from newspapers and magazines. Taylor''s richly detailed work also calls attention to two breezy, auspicious first novels about the Bright Young People that are unfortunately out of print: Nancy Mitford''s "Highland Fling" and Anthony Powell''s "Afternoon Men.""--Caryn James, "The New York Times Book Review" "Combining diaries, biographies, news reports and novels to paint the social life of 1920s London, D.J. Taylor has created that rarest of books--one you can safely recommend both to scholars of Evelyn Waugh and the entourage of Paris Hilton. The engaging "Bright Young People," written by a critic and novelist best known for his biography of George Orwell, reads like a case study in youth culture, trendsetting, log-rolling and cultivated bohemianism. It examines the symbiotic relationship between a loose-knit group of partygoers and a media that, in gossip columns and mocking denunciations, made them the first celebrities who were famous, in our contemporary sense, for being famous. By the most generous estimate, there were never more than 2,000 souls among the ranks popularly known at the time as the Bright Young People. By most accounts, those souls were self-absorbed, self-mythologizing and terribly jaded. Their defining exploits included boisterous scavenger hunts, extravagant hoaxes and the ''stylized debauchery'' of more fancy-dress balls than you can shake an engraved 16-inch-high invitation at--including the Bath and Bottle Party, the Circus Party, the Hermaphrodite Party, the Great Urban Dionysia and the Mozart Party, where the menu came from a cookbook owned by Louis XVI. They excited the public imagination--and incited a moderate moral panic--with their fast living and reflexive flippancy. The greatest talents associated with the movement were Waugh and the photographer Cecil Beaton. Taylor deftly traces how the former drew on his friends'' exploits for the hysterical satire of "Vile Bodies" and "Decline and Fall," and how the latter--an Edmund Hilary among social climbers--used his to further his career. Lesser accomplishments detailed here include "Singing Out of Tune," a novel by brewery heir Bryan Guinness that documented the Bright Young Person''s daily routine: ''waking up late, meeting people for lunch, bringing the lunch party home for tea, moving on to cocktails and dinner . . . and ending up with a communal trek around the fashionable restaurants of the West End.'' But in this realm any accomplishment was an exception, and the non-career of the occasional poet Brian Howard proved emblematic of this wasted youth revolt. ''The books Brian Howard never wrote would fill a decent-sized shelf, '' Taylor writes, elsewhere noting that the man lived out his frustrating life ''in that exotic never-never land where the Ritz bar meets the out-of-season Continental resort.'' The fun ended soon enough; by 1931, England was in financial crisis and a 10-hour-long Red and White Ball rang down the era. But Taylor''s skillful reconstruction of the whole hazy time feels like a lasting party favor."--Troy Patterson, NPR"A poignant study of the elusive relationship between art and the social world from whence it springs . . . D. J. Taylor, author of a first-rate life of George Orwell, shows the sharp instincts of an expert biographer in his approach to a 1920s English youth culture."--Damian Da Costa, "The New York Observer ""In "Bright Young People" Taylor is writing splendid social history, not fiction, and he brings a more tempered and rueful approach, showing the sadness beneath an entire generation''s compulsion to waste its promise and dance in the spotlight. Scott Fitzgerald, a writer admired by Waugh (who was no soft touch), called his own ''lost'' contemporaries ''the beautiful and damned''; here, Taylor makes us feel the full force of the reckoning implied in that sad conjunction . . . Taylor has a nice way with a one-liner--''The books Brian Howard never wrote would fill a decent-sized shelf''--and is excellent on the evolution of BYP argot . . . By placing generational tensions and tenderness center-stage, Taylor gives his book a beating emotional heart."--Richard Rayner, "Los Angeles"" Times ""Jam-packed and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women, "Bright Young People" chronicles the doings of London''s gilded youth in the Roaring Twenties. Even if you think you know a lot (or enough) about them; even if you''ve read the acerbic novels of the early Evelyn Waugh or plowed your way through Anthony Powell''s "A Dance to the Music of Time," there''s bound to be material here you haven''t seen or heard of."--Carolyn See, "The Washington Post ""If the flappers of the 1920s epitomized the Jazz Age on this side of the Atlantic, in England it was the Bright Young People. The British milieu of society scions flinging themselves into the nonstop pursuit of fun in the aftermath of World War I was immortalized--and hilariously flayed--by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 with his novel "Vile Bodies," but the real-life major players who made up this set are long gone. Thanks are due, then, to English critic D.J. Taylor, who brings them back to life in "Bright Young People." Some were distinguished, others once famous only for being famous and now pretty much forgotten--but they were almost invariably fascinating . . . Mr. Taylor also reminds us of lesser-known characters, such as Beverly Nichols and Bryan Guinness, up-and-coming writers whose work fed on this scene and who were celebrated in London at the time . . . "Bright Young People" was published last year in Britain. It arrives on these shores with a new resonance as we contemplate a world in its worst financial straits since the Depression, with many troubling political and military signs on the horizon as well. Then as now, parties everywhere ended as a more sober age dawned."--Martin Rubin, "The Wall Street Journal" " ""Absorbing . . . The book really takes hold when Taylor seizes on the actual trajectory of the lives of individual members, most . . . poignantly that of Elizabeth Ponsonby . . . The pages devoted to her, enriched by Taylor''s access to the Ponsonby family papers, are all the biography her lack of accomplishments and frittered-away youth warrant; yet they greatly deepen this study of a social phenomenon."--Katherine A. Powers, "The Boston Globe ""Waugh was at once an enamored occasional participant in the Bright Young People''s decadence and a revolted critic of it. In his novels that memorialize the age, "Vile Bodies" especially, the tone Waugh takes toward his generation is ambivalent. In his captivating new history of the age, "Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London''s Jazz Age," D.J. Taylor takes his sense of 1920s London from Waugh: Mr. Taylor''s book is at once elegy and critique. And this is just as it should be, because it is hard not to be by turns enthralled by the splendor of this brief age and, in turn, dismayed by its selfishness and frivolity . . . The Bright Young People''s decadence, their frivolity, their refusal of moral seriousness for a shared escapist devotion to pleasure is, as it should be--thanks to Mr. Taylor''s deft managing of tone--both enticing and repulsive."--Emily Wilkinson, "The Washington Times" "Holroyd is an accomplished accumulator of facts and anecdotes; and he writes easily and fluently."--Richard Jenkyns, "The New Republic" "[Conveys] precisely the aspect of the Bright Young People that is most difficult to give expression to on paper: not books or parties, but ''an atmosphere . . . An outlook, a gesture, an essence.''"--Mark Bostridge, "The Independent on Sunday ""Compelling and ultimately touching . . . A witty and sensitive account of the pathos and the glamour of the generation fated to ''sorrow in sunlight.'' "--Rosemary Hill, "The Guardian ""Excellent . . . the brightest of the Bright Young People [make] their fictional counterparts in Waugh pale into insignificance . . . [Taylor] lays bare their cavortings with an archeological eye."--Philip Hoare, "The Independent ""Taylor, for years a journalist, is fascinated by--and authoritative on--the lucrative relationship forged between the shrewdest of the Bright Young People and the glamour-hunting press . . . Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford . . . promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction."--Miranda Seymour, "The Sunday Times" (London) "Moving and always entertaining."--Jane Stevenson, "The Daily Telegraph ""Fascinating . . . A complex study of family, fear and breakdown . . . Taylor''s achievement is to remind us that there are few periods of recent history more culturally interesting than the years between the wars."--Frances Wilson, "New Statesman ""A goldmine . . . If I had to choose one book as a summing up of the BYP, it would be Taylor''s."--Bevis Hillier, "The Spectator ""An engrossing social history of the blue bloods, bohos, and bobos who constituted the ''lost generation'' of post-World War I England."--Michael Moynihan, "Wilson Quarterly" "One yearns to have been a fly on the wall at the ''fancy dress ball . . . featuring a gang of fashionable debutantes dressed as the Eton rowing eight, '' or the notorious Bruno Hat exhibition of faked modernist paintings. Taylor expertly connects this shrill game-playing to memorable depictions of it in Waugh''s "Vile Bodies," Powell''s "Afternoon Men" and Henry Green''s "Party Going," while never neglecting the actual achievements of their lesser peers (e.g., Beverley Nichols''s forgotten novel "Singing Out of Tune"). A note of genuine pathos is struck in his description of how the increasingly straitened economic and political circumstances of the ''30s began rendering this gaudy subculture obsolete. Immensely readable, and of real value as a sharply pointed cautionary tale."--"Kirkus Reviews ""There are . . . plenty of juicy anecdotes to go around . . . The text is enlivened by several "Punch" cartoons from the period, vividly depicting the hold these rich young partygoers once held on the public''s imagination."--"Publishers Weekly" SUMMARY: From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons committed suicide; Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist, using only his left hand and playing compositions commissioned from Ravel and Prokofiev; while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars. Through the bleak despair of a Siberian prison camp and the terror of a Gestapo interrogation room, one courageous and unlikely hero emerges from the rubble of the house of Wittgenstein in the figure of Paul, an extraordinary testament to the indomitable spirit of human survival. Alexander Waugh tells this saga of baroque family unhappiness and perseverance against incredible odds with a novelistic richness to rival Thomas Mannâ€™s Buddenbrooks. SUMMARY: From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons committed suicide; Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist, using only his left hand and playing compositions commissioned from Ravel and Prokofiev; while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars. Through the bleak despair of a Siberian prison camp and the terror of a Gestapo interrogation room, one courageous and unlikely hero emerges from the rubble of the house of Wittgenstein in the figure of Paul, an extraordinary testament to the indomitable spirit of human survival. Alexander Waugh tells this saga of baroque family unhappiness and perseverance against incredible odds with a novelistic richness to rival Thomas Mannâ€™s Buddenbrooks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(4858, 'The House on Durrow Street', 'Galen Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA charming and mannered fantasy confection with a darker core of gothic romanceâ€ is how New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb described Galen Beckettâ€™s marvelous series opener, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent. Now Beckett returns to this world of dazzling magick and refined manners, where one extraordinary womanâ€™s choice will put the fate of a nationâ€”and all she cherishesâ€”into precarious balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her courage saved the country of Altania and earned the love of a hero of the realm. Now sensible Ivy Quent wants only to turn her fatherâ€™s sprawling, mysterious house into a proper home. But soon she is swept into fashionable societyâ€™s highest circles of powerâ€”a world that is vital to her familyâ€™s future but replete with perilous temptations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet far greater danger lies beyond the cityâ€™s glittering ballroomsâ€”and Ivy must race to unlock the secrets that lie within the old house on Durrow Street before outlaw magicians and an ancient ravening force plunge Altania into darkness forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What if there was a fantastical cause underlying the social constraints and limited choices that confront a heroine in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte BrontÃ«? Galen Beckett began writing the stories of the Lockwell sisters to answer that question.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4975'),
(4859, 'The house on Hope Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In eighteen years of marriage, Liz and Jack Sutherland had built a family, a successful law practice, and a happy home near San Francisco, on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, in the wake of an unbearable loss.How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs? Powered by her children''s love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and "daddy." One by one the holidays come and go, until a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospitalâ€”and brings Dr. Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son.With the first anniversary of Jack''s death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. But she will face one more crisis before she can look ahead to the beginning of a new life.The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after you think life is over. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(4860, 'The House on the Cliff', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grownups will remember Frank and Joe Hardy and their ability to solve even the most baffling of mysteries. The first book was published in 1927, and over the years the series has sold over 50 million copies. But mysteriously, the original books have disappeared. Now, Applewood is pleased to present The Tower Treasure, the very first Hardy Boys mystery ever published.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reader t.b.a.\n  <br />\n  approx. 3 hours\n  <br />\n  2 cassettes\n </p>\n <p>\n  Afer a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower" the Hardy Boys make an astonishing discover.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10276'),
(4861, 'House Rules', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(4862, 'The House That Jack Built: The House That Jack Built', 'Guy Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob''s late aunt. It''s an ordinary sort of a house... except for the way the rooms don''t stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood. And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(4863, 'A House to Die For', 'Vicki Doudera', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red-hot real estate agent Darby Farr has spent years trying to forget her hometown of Hurricane Harbor, Maineâ€”especially the painful memories of being raised by her controlling aunt following her parents'' tragic deaths. Then one morning, she learns her aunt is dying, and the calculating woman has one final demand: clinch the multimillion-dollar sale of Fairview, a breathtaking waterfront estate.\n</p>\n<p>\n The deal seems simple, but trouble is brewing on the rocky coast. Within hours of Darby''s arrival, an obscure deed restriction scuttles the sale just as the backup buyer is found bludgeoned to death on the property''s grounds. Assisted by handsome journalist Miles Porter, Darby uncovers dark secrets that reveal an ugly scandal . . . and even uglier motives for murder. As a brutal storm surges up the coast, Darby must salvage the deal, find the killerâ€”and somehow stay alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Doudera] expertly weaves a tale of suspense on a Maine island, where murder and real estate are an explosive combination."-Tess Gerritsen,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Mephisto Club\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here''s a fast-paced and well-told story with a smart, savvy real estate agent as the heroine, solving crimes while making sales. Bring on the next one!"-Barbara Corcoran, real estate contributor for NBC''s\n <em>\n  Today Show\n </em>\n and author of\n <em>\n  Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life\n </em>\n Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vicki Doudera\n </strong>\n is a million-dollar broker with a busy coastal firm handling luxury real estate. She is the author three nonfiction books on real estate relocation, and the Darby Farr Mystery Seriesâ€”_A House to Die For_, which was selected to the Best of 2010 list in\n <em>\n  Suspense Magazine\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Killer Listing\n </em>\n . Her articles have appeared in many magazines including\n <em>\n  Parenting\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Reader''s Digest\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Yankee\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Down East.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Doudera has been profiled on NBC affiliate WCSH-TV''s "207," and her writing has been favorably reviewed in prominent mystery and book industry magazines, as well as in the\n <em>\n  Bangor Daily News\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Times Record\n </em>\n ,_ Kennebec Journal_,\n <em>\n  Lincoln County News\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midcoast Beacon\n </em>\n . She belongs to Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and is on the board of Sisters in Crime, New England.\n</p>\n<p>\n Doudera lives in her own "house to die for" with her family in Camden, Maine, where she enjoys hiking, cycling and knittingâ€”although not at the same time. She is a member of the National Association of Realtors, was Realtor of the Year in 2009, and serves as president of her local Habitat for Humanity chapter, a charity she supports through sales of her mysteries.\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5427'),
(4864, 'The House', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Anderson, a beautiful, successful thirtysomething attorney, is having a midlife crisis. She''s become a workaholic, spending 60- to 70-hour weeks at the office, and she is involved in an unhappy relationship with a man she only sees on weekends, who refuses to involve her in any other aspect of his life. She lives in a dumpy apartment, which contains the same furniture she used in college, and she has no outside interests other than the sometime boyfriend and her job. Everything changes, however, when an eccentric, elderly client of Sarah''s dies and leaves her a small fortune and a message: to use the money for something wonderful, to live well, and to think about something other than work. Following this advice, Sarah purchases the dilapidated old mansion the client had lived in (after finding out that it was her own grandfather who originally built it), breaks up with the cheating boyfriend, and focuses all of her attention on rehabbing the old house. As she works to restore the place, she finds contentment in her new pastime; a nice, normal boyfriend in the architect who is helping her; and familial contentment as both her mother and grandmother find happiness in the purchase of this house. A typical Steel fairy tale.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman s dream, an old man s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door....\n</p>\n<p>\n Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is.\n</p>\n<p>\n A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France...and to a history she never knew she had.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man s last gift...about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation...and about a future she s only just beginning to imagine.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream and receive its gifts in return.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5985'),
(4865, 'The Houses of the Kzinti', 'Jerry Pournelle; Dean Ing; S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Two complete novels of the top-selling Man-Kzin Wars in one hugh volume: The Children''s Hour by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling: As the war rages on between the mighty felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the wimpy leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, one Kzin commander has decided to learn from the monkeys and cooperate to conquer. But the humans know how to get the rivals of an enemy to cooperate, too. Cathouse by Dean Ing: In another corner of the galaxy, Carroll Locklear is stranded on a planet with a group of prehistoric Kzinti. To survive, he must find common cause, if not with the males, then with the females of that antiques species...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10400'),
(4866, 'Houston, Houston Do You Read', 'James Tiptree Jr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8958'),
(4867, 'How Can I Forgive You?: The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To', 'Janis A. Spring', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abrahms Spring, a clinical psychologist, follows up her bestselling After the Affair with this new self-help manual that aims to provide a better way to forgive or not forgive others. With the assistance of her husband, and in clear, insightful writing, Abrahms Spring draws on many case studies to fully analyze four categories of forgiveness: cheap forgiveness, refusing to forgive, acceptance and genuine forgiveness. The author is convinced that morally and spiritually a person is no more required to forgive an unrepentant offender than he or she is to love him. When someone who has been truly wronged and forgives too easily (cheap forgiveness), that person is not acting in their own best interest, but rather preserving a relationship at any cost. An absolute refusal to forgive Abrahms, Spring posits, is also harmful to the injured person. Although punishing the offender may provide a sense of power, it also fosters negativity and self-isolation. The author advises that when genuine forgiveness is impossible, because the injury is too great or the offender will not apologize, a better decision than holding onto anger is to work through the injury, or acceptance. This healing process will lead to emotional resolution and the ability to move on with one''s life. Genuine forgiveness, Abrahms Spring maintains, occurs when both parties negotiate a process during which the hurt person expresses his or her pain, and the offender apologizes and takes responsibility for his or her poor behavior. In the end, this is a thoughtful exposition on the nuanced role of forgiveness in relationships that goes beyond the average self-help book.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA truly stellar book putting forgiveness in a new, revealing light and provides clear steps to turn wounds into wisdom.â€ (Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is a treasure trove for anyone who has ever felt betrayed or hurt by a personal relationship.â€ (Peggy Papp, author of Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for Therapists )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClear, insightful...a thoughtful exposition on the nuanced role of forgiveness in relationships that goes beyond the average self-help book.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fresh and original approach to an ancient challenge.â€ (Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of Getting the Love You Want )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpring really shines.... Armed with her insights, offenders and those theyâ€™ve offended have hope of recovery.â€ (Bellingham Herald )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10524'),
(4868, 'How Did You Get This Number', 'Sloane Crosley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine thoughtful, unfussy essays by the author of the collection\n <em>\n  I Was Told There''d Be Cake\n </em>\n navigate around illusions of youth in the hope that by young adulthood they''ll all add up to happiness. The account of Crosley''s footloose adventure to Lisbon on the eve of her 30th birthday starts things off in rollicking fashion in Show Me on the Doll: without proficient language skills, getting hopelessly lost in the labyrinth of Bairro Alto, and panicking in front of the myriad QVC channels offered by her hotel, Crosley recognizes that Lisbon was a place with a painfully disproportionate self-reflection-to-experience ratio. There is the requisite essay about moving to New York and replacing her anorexic-kleptomaniac roommate with a more acceptable living arrangement: in Crosley''s case, delineated in Take a Stab at It, she is interviewed by the creepily disembodied current occupier of a famous former brothel on the Bowery, McGurk''s Suicide Hall. As well, Crosley delivers witty, syncopated takes on visiting Alaska and Paris, and finding much consolation from a two-timing heartbreak in New York by buying stolen items from her upholstery guy, Daryl, who found them fallen Off the Back of a Truck, as the delightful last selection is titled. These essays are fresh, funny, and eager to be loved.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No doubt about it, Crosley is funny. A Thurber Award finalist, Crosley earned her stripes as a comic writer and a keen observer of the sometimes absurd in life in her debut collection,\n <em>\n  I Was Told There''d Be Cake\n </em>\n (an HBO series based on the essays may be in the works). Despite a few overlong pieces and an occasional dud, Crosley avoids the sophomore slump in her new collection, offering wry--and often downright hilarious--takes on all kinds of experiences. What about Crosley''s writing continues to appeal to a wide audience, despite the seemingly narrow scope of her adventures? "Crosley is a kind of anti-adult, refusing to buckle down," notes the\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n , "refusing to accept the way of the world, refusing to stop her bold mockery, from which she herself is not exempt."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6187'),
(4869, 'How Few Remain', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference of time travelers, as in Turtledove''s Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their own skillful military and diplomatic efforts). The defeated North has stewed for nearly 20 years. In this alternate history, the South exercises an opportunity to purchase Sonora and Chihuahua from the bankrupt Mexican Empire, having already wrested Cuba from Spain. James G. Blaine, now president of the United States, arrogantly seizes upon this pretext and invades with the aim of reunification. Lincoln has become an outcast of the Republican Party and preaches socialism while Custer is a frustrated and embittered colonel on the frontier, Samuel Clemens a fiery newspaper editor in San Francisco, and Rosecrans the inadequate head of the Union Army. Turtledove is an accomplished professional at this sort of thing and has given us an entertainment that makes us think somewhat about why we are the way we are. Highly recommended for history, historiography, military, and popular fiction collections.?Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, Kan.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove calls his numerous novels "alternative history." He changed the result of the Civil War by giving General Lee AK-47s in\n <em>\n  Guns of the South\n </em>\n (1992); in\n <em>\n  Worldwar\n </em>\n (1996), World War II came to a screeching halt as the belligerents united against alien space lizards. This current novel extends the Civil War theme. The year is 1881. Lincoln, since losing the Civil War and then the presidency, is an itinerant socialist speech-maker. In the Confederate States of America, President James Longstreet buys northern Mexico, and the U.S. president declares war, the course of which operates through several historical figures. In San Francisco, antiwar newspaper publisher Samuel Clemens talks himself out of seditious trouble with William Sherman, while the British fleet reduces the city to rubble. The British/Canadian invasion of Montana is stopped by Teddy Roosevelt, yelling "bully" constantly, and by George Custer, whose brother Tom dies, reappears, and then is later referred to as dead. The War in Mexico goes worse for the bluecoats, as would be expected, since they face the dashing, slashing J.E.B. Stuart and his "camelry" --whether their mounts are dromedaries or Bactrians is unclear. At Louisville, Stonewall Jackson reprises his successes by repelling the Union attack and capturing Frederick Douglass, war correspondent. Turtledove is successful in the plausible, albeit theatrical, characterizations of these figures, and his imaginative curiosity will appeal to the what-if segment of the vast Civil War readership, although they might trip over Tom Custer''s dead-or-alive act.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4951'),
(4870, 'How Hard Can It Be?', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson series Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again. En-route he discovers how rhubarb will become the new crack, that a comb over will end anyone''s quest for global domination and what unites a Filipino chambermaid in Abergavenny with Prince Andrew. For anyone who''s ever woken up and thought the time has come to stop the nonsense and celebrate the sensational, read on. Because seriously, how hard can it be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5579'),
(4871, 'How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming', 'Mike Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mike Brown\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart the slowly-moving objects of the distant outer solar system, my goal was never to pull Pluto off of its cherished planetary pedestal. I wanted to be a planet discoverer, like William Herschel or Clyde Tombaugh before me. I had a strong feeling that somewhere out there something bigger than Pluto was lurking, and I knew that whoever found it would get to claim the mantle as the only living planet discoverer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was right. Something bigger than Pluto\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n out there (or at least something more massive than Pluto; sizes are a little harder to pin down precisely) and one January morning in 2005, my small team of astronomers and I found it. We announced the discovery of the 10th planet to an unsuspecting world late on the afternoon of Lilahâ€™s 22nd day of life. A little after her first birthday, though, the doors to the planetary club were locked and Pluto and my own discovery were kicked out on the curb. The solar system was down to only eight planets.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was hard not to mourn the loss of my now ex-planet, except for the fact that I had to admit that kicking it out was the most scientifically sensible thing to happen to planetary classification since asteroids were also kicked out almost 200 years ago. The solar system is a beautiful and profound place, and it is made\n <em>\n  richer\n </em>\n with the realization that the eight planets are the foundation throughout which countless smaller bodies continuously swirl.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Pluto was first demoted, people said to me, â€œWhat about the children? How could you do this to them?â€ But, in fact, children live lives that are always changing. Itâ€™s the adults who have had the hardest time reconciling the new understanding of the solar system with what they remember from when they themselves were children. So, it made sense that I used to joke about what would happen the moment when Lilah first learned about the solar system. She would come home, and I would say, â€œTell me all about the eight planets,â€ and when I would try to tell her about the olden times when we used to think there were nineâ€”or even ten!â€”planets, she would slowly shake her head and exclaim, â€œDaddy, adults are so\n <em>\n  stupid\n </em>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n But I was wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lilah knows all about Pluto. She has a stuffed dog, a planet lunch box, a solar system place mat at the dinner table. She feels as warmly towards the ice ball as someone ten times her age, and, like many of those older people, she is mad at the person who killed it. Lilah, though, has a solution. She recently told me, â€œDaddy, I know that you had to kill Pluto, but will you promise me one thing?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOf course,â€ I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou have to go find another planet, and when you do, you have to name it Pluto for me, OK?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n So my search of the skies continues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Solar system astronomer Brown charted a career course to discover Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), which in the 1990s were only theorized to exist beyond Pluto. Ultimately discovering several such frigid spheres, Brown embeds the science of his search strategies into the projectâ€™s personal importance in securing his academic future at Cal Tech and, incidentally, in meeting his future wife. In wry, self-deprecating tones, he writes of science, vocation, romance, and fatherhood, with the science as the selling point for readers because Brownâ€™s success in discovering KBOs set the stage for Plutoâ€™s recent reclassification as a mere KBO. Accounts of finding specific KBOs culminate in an acrimonious engagement Brown had with a Spanish astronomer, whom Brown suspected of stealing data in order to claim priority in discovering one KBO. Scandal! Touching on how media refract such scientific conflicts to the public, Brown concludes with the professional astronomersâ€™ vote to expel Pluto from the club of planets, a decision that has already inspired several other titles (e.g., Barrie Jonesâ€™ Pluto, 2010). --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5533'),
(4872, 'How It Ended: New and Collected Stories', 'Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the writer whose first novel,Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1633');
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(4873, 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of __ checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she''s convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she''s come to a cataclysmic juncture in her life, one that forces new and difficult questions about her passions and expectations.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Her readers may be surprised that, after the gritty, tell-it-as-it-is Mama and Waiting to Exhale, McMillan has now written a fairy tale. Her "forty-fucking-two-year-old" heroine, divorcee Stella Payne, possesses a luxurious house and pool in northern California, a lucrative job as a security analyst, a BMW and a truck, a personal trainer and an adorable 11-year- old son-but no steady guy. On a whim, Stella decides to vacation in Jamaica, and she narrates the ensuing events in a revved-up voice, naked of punctuation, that alternates between high-voltage energy and erotic languor. Romance comes to Stella under tropical skies-but there''s a problem. Gorgeous, seductive Winston, the chef-trainee with whom she enjoys passionate sex (explicitly detailed), is shockingly young: he''s not quite 21. Naturally, Stella wonders if he really loves her; endless soul-searching and a few tepid complications occupy the remainder of the narrative. When Stella loses her job, it''s no sweat; she has enough savings to maintain her lifestyle. When fate throws two other gorgeous men her way, she immediately decides they are boring and isn''t tempted for a minute. Meanwhile, her intense preoccupation with feminine deodorant sprays and the smell of women''s public bathrooms is rather strange, to say the least. McMillan''s expletive-strewn narrative accommodates such musings, however, and readers who have been yearning for a Judith Krantz of the black bourgeoisie-albeit one with a dirty mouth and a more ebullient spirit-will be pleased with this fantasy of sexual fulfillment. 100,000 first printing; major ad/ promo; first serial rights to People and Essence; BOMC main selection; film rights to 20th Century Fox; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7262'),
(4874, 'How Sweet It Is', 'Alice J. Wisler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Atlanta chef Deena Livingston returns home to the North Carolina cabin she inherited from her grandfather to start a new life far from the heartbreak she suffered in Georgia. But instead of becoming isolated in self-pity, Deena finds her grandfather''s will also stipulates that she work with local middle-school children. Written with a seasoning of Southern charm and populated with richly drawn characters, Wisler''s second novel (after\n <em>\n  Rain Song\n </em>\n ) mixes romance, humor, and drama and tackles such issues such as child abuse and self-image. Sure to appeal to fans of Susan May Warren, Lisa Wingate, Angela Hunt, and Rene Gutteridge.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Deena Livingston leaves behind a broken romance and her chef job in Atlanta to spend time at her grandfather''s cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. But her grandfather has an odd request: he wants Deena to teach cooking classes to the ragtag group of middle-schoolers who attend the local afterschool program, The Center. Reluctantly, Deena agrees, but how is she supposed to convince these kids that cooking at home is better than eating at McDonalds? And after all she went through in Atlanta, why is she attracted to Zack, the social worker at The Center? Can a Dr. Seuss-quoting plumber, a curly-haired basketball player, and a group of middle-schoolers change Deena''s outlook on life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4820'),
(4875, 'How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe&#39;s poorest nation created our world &amp; everything in it', 'Arthur Herman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who formed the first modern nation?Who created the first literate society?Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism?The Scots.Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politicsâ€”contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.Arthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William â€œBraveheartâ€ Wallace to James Bond.Victorian historian John Anthony Froude once proclaimed, â€œNo people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the worldâ€™s history as the Scots have done.â€ And no one who has taken this incredible historical trek, from the Highland glens and the factories and slums of Glasgow to the California Gold Rush and the search for the source of the Nile, will ever view Scotland and the Scotsâ€”or the modern Westâ€”in the same way again. For this is a story not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world and its consequences.â€œThe point of this book is that being Scottish turns out to be more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or even culture. It is also a state of mind, a way of viewing the world and our place in it. . . . This is the story of how the Scots created the basic idea of modernity. It will show how that idea transformed their own culture and society in the eighteenth century, and how they carried it with them wherever they went. Obviously, the Scots did not do everything by themselves: other nationsâ€”Germans, French, English, Italians, Russians, and many othersâ€”have their place in the making of the modern world. But it is the Scots more than anyone else who have created the lens through which we see the final product. When we gaze out on a contemporary world shaped by technology, capitalism, and modern democracy, and struggle to find our place as individuals in it, we are in effect viewing the world as the Scots did. . . . The story of Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is one of hard-earned triumph and heart-rending tragedy, spilled blood and ruined lives, as well as of great achievement.â€â€”FROM THE PREFACE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(4876, 'How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone', 'Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hardcover publication of *How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone* launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned exuberant praise from readers and critics alike. Now in paperback, Stanisicâ€™s debut about a boy who experiences the Bosnian War and finds the secret to survival in language and stories is bound to dazzle a whole new readership. For Aleksandar Krsmanovic, Grandpa Slavkoâ€™s stories endow life in ViÅ¡egrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers invade ViÅ¡egrad&amp;#8212a town previously unconscious of racial and religious divides&amp;#8212and itâ€™s no longer important that Aleksandar is the best magician in the nonaligned states; suddenly it is important to have the right last name and to convince the soldiers that Asija, the Muslim girl who turns up in his apartment building, is his sister. Alive with the magic of childhood, the surreality of war and exile, and the power of language, every page of this glittering novel thrums with the joy of storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3964'),
(4877, 'How to Bake a Perfect Life', 'Barbara O&#39;Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Rita Awardâ€“winning author (as Barbara Samuel) of The Lost Recipe for Happiness returns with the absorbing story of Ramona Gallagher, a 40-year-old woman whose joy in running a bakery in Colorado Springs helps her transcend a life that''s anything but perfect. Ramona has a prickly relationship with her large, restaurant-owning family and a deep love for her daughter, Sofia, who Ramona had as a teenager and is now grown and pregnant. When Sofia''s husband is injured in Afghanistan and she flies to Germany to be with him, Ramona is left to care for Sofia''s 13-year-old stepdaughter, Katie, a scrawny child whose drug-addicted mother is in jail. Over the summer, Ramona struggles to keep her business afloat and find some solid footing with her family, bonds with Katie, aches for what her daughter is enduring, and rekindles a romance from 25 years earlier. O''Neal''s tale of strong-willed women and torn family loyalties is a cut above the standard women''s fiction fare, held together by lovingly sketched characters and real emotion. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ramona Gallagher does not do well with her family. Born into a long line of restaurant owners, shipped off to the country when 15 and pregnant, and skipped over for promotion in favor of her ex during an acrimonious divorce, she broke away from her family and opened her own bakery. She now leads a quiet life while residing with her pregnant daughter, Sofia, whose husband is stationed in Iraq. When Sofia receives a call that her husband has been injured, she flies to his side, leaving Ramona to take care of Sofiaâ€™s stepdaughter, Katie. Katie, 13, has had a rough life with her drug-addicted mother while her father is overseas, and Ramona, out of practice and remembering her own mother, tries her best to deal with the prickly teen. Under Ramonaâ€™s care, Katie slowly blossoms until another tragedy threatens to permanently ruin them all. Oâ€™Nealâ€™s third novel is, like its predecessors (The Lost Recipe for Happiness, 2008; The Secret of Everything, 2010), a dramatic, emotional story with honest characters and a warm heart at its center. --Hilary Hatton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4501'),
(4878, 'How to Be an American Housewife', 'Margaret Dilloway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this enchanting first novel, Dilloway mines her own family''s history to produce the story of Japanese war bride Shoko, her American daughter, Sue, and their challenging relationship. Following the end of WWII, Japanese shop girl Shoko realizes that her best chance for a future is with an American husband, a decision that causes a decades-long rift with her only brother, Taro. While Shoko blossoms in America with her Mormon husband, GI Charlie Morgan, and their two children, she''s constantly reminded that she''s an outsider--reinforced by passages from the fictional handbook How to Be an American Housewife. Shoko''s attempts to become the perfect American wife hide a secret regarding her son, Mike, and lead her to impossible expectations for Sue. The strained mother-daughter bond begins to shift, however, when a now-grown Sue and her teenage daughter agree to go to Japan in place of Shoko, recently fallen ill, to reunite with Taro. Dilloway splits her narrative gracefully between mother and daughter (giving Shoko the first half, Sue the second), making a beautifully realized whole.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shoko was a young woman in Japan during WWII. Once her parents realized that Japan was going to be defeated, they encouraged Shoko to marry an American and obtain a better life. She did so at the expense of her relationship with her brother, Taso, who could not forgive her for betraying her country. Jumping ahead many years, itâ€™s clear that Shoko has done what she could to be the best American housewife. She now longs to return to Japan and reunite with Taso, but she is too ill to travel. She enlists the help of her daughter, Sue, whose own failings as a housewife have caused a rift between the women. Despite their strained relationship, Sue makes the trip and discovers another side to her mother, and family secrets that have come between them. Dilloway narrates from both womenâ€™s perspectives, sensitively dramatizing the difficulties and struggles Shoko and Sue faced in being Japanese, American, and housewives. --Carolyn Kubisz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6647'),
(4879, 'How to Be Good', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She''s against racism. She''s a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she''s having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband''s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their local paper. But now David''s changed. He''s become a good person, too-really good. He''s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. He''s even got a homeless kid set up in the spare room. Katie isn''t sure if this is a deeply-felt conversion, a brain tumor-or David''s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she''s finding it more and more difficult to live with David-and with herself. "Hornby pulls off the seemingly impossible: He tackles marriage and the nature of benevolence from a woman''s point of view without sacrificing his impish charm." (New York)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3077'),
(4880, 'How to Build a Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew', 'Erin Bried', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A HANDY GUIDE FULL OF HOW-TO TIPS AND SAGE ADVICE FROM GRANDFATHERS   As members of the Greatest Generation, our grandfathers were not only defined by the Depression but also by their heroic service to the country in World War II. Courageous, responsible, and involved, they understand sacrifice, hard work, and how to do whatever is necessary to take care of their loved ones. They also know how to have a rollicking good time. Sensible, fun, and inspiring, How to Build a Fire offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of grandfathers near and far by sharing their practical skills and sweet stories on how to be stronger, smarter, richer, and happier. Inside are more than one hundred essential step-by-step tips for fixing, leading, prospering, playing, and hosting, including how to   â€¢ buck up and be brave in the face of adversity â€¢ play hard and break in a baseball mitt â€¢ bait a hook and catch a big fish  â€¢ look dapper and tie a perfect tie  â€¢ get a raise and earn more â€¢ write a love letter and kindle romance â€¢ change a flat tire and save the day  â€¢ stand up and give a sparkling toast  â€¢ play the harmonica and make your own music   Loaded with charming illustrations, good humor, and warm nostalgia, How to Build a Fire is the perfect handbook for guys or gals of any age. The first of its kind, this collection of our grandfathersâ€™ hard-earned wisdom will help you build confidence and get back to whatâ€™s really important in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5595'),
(4881, 'How to Create a Magical Relationship: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Love Life', 'Ariel Kane; Shya Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A masterpiece...unprecedented by any other relationship genre book this reviewer has ever come across." --\n <em>\n  Wisdom Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The first of the self-help books about living in the moment that effectively tackles the problem of relationships....highly recommended." --\n <em>\n  Harold McFarland, Readers Preference Reviews &amp; Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book will help you create vital, supportive partnerships that flow smoothly day in and day out, not just when things are easy." --\n <em>\n  Nexus Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "...you need to read this most incredible book that just might change the way you look at yourself, your partner, and yes - your relationship." --\n <em>\n  Inner Tapestry, Maine''s Holistic Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Years of therapy cannot touch what the Kanes can do in minutes...10 stars for this outstanding work." --\n <em>\n  Dr. Maryel McKinley, Awareness Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A heartfelt masterpiece for making your relationship last--from the internationally renowned speakers, workshop leaders, and lifelong soul mates\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n An instant classic in the field of love and relationships, this deeply profound book by self-help gurus Ariel and Shya Kane teaches you and your partner how to have a successful relationship in three simple steps. By learning how to let go, let be, and fully commit to the happiness that can only be found within you and each other, you will rediscover the passion that first brought you together and the magic to keep you as a couple.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ10 stars . . . outstanding.â€\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Dr. Maryel McKinley,\n  <em>\n   Awareness\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterpiece . . . unprecedented by any other relationship genre book this reviewer has ever come across.â€\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wisdom\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10392'),
(4882, 'How To Disappear Completely', 'David Bowick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Joshâ€™s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his lifeâ€™s new path, heâ€™ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often arenâ€™t what they seem. When you''re at the top of the world, there''s nowhere to go but down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(4883, 'How to Ditch Your Fairy', 'Justine Larbalestier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”In New Avalon, most everyone has a personal fairy. Charlie, 14, has a parking fairy; if she is in a car, a perfect parking spot is found on the first try. But since Charlie doesn''t drive and hates exhaust, she thinks she''s been cursed. Her friend Rochelle has a clothes-shopping fairy that makes everything look perfect on her, and her sworn enemy, Fiorenze, has an every-boy-will-like-you fairy. Charlie''s attempts to starve her fairy away by walking everywhere just collects her demerits for lateness at New Avalon Sports High, where it is all sports all the time. When the water polo star virtually kidnaps her in his car for his illegal purposes and the "pulchritudinous" new boy on whom she has a crush falls for Fiorenze, Charlie needs to get drastic. She and Fiorenze forge an alliance and hatch a plan to switch their fairies, and she learns to be careful about what she wishes for. With the every-boy-will-like-you fairy, girls turn on Charlie, and she wonders whether Steffi likes her or if he is just responding to her fairy. Charlie is totally likable, smart, and sarcastic, a perfectly self-involved, insecure teen. At its core, this is a typical coming-of-age story, but the addition of the fairies, the slightly alternative setting, and the made-up slang make it much more. This "doos" (brilliant) fantasy will not be ditched.â€”_Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy, like a specialized good luck charm, is vital to success. And in the case of the students at New Avalon Sports High, it might just determine whether you make the team, pass a class, or find that perfect outfit. But for 14-year-old Charlie, having a Parking Fairy is worse than having nothing at allâ€”especially when the school bully carts her around like his own personal parking pass. Enter: The Plan. At first, teaming up with arch-enemy Fiorenza (who has an All-The-Boys-Like-You Fairy) seems like a great idea. But when Charlie unexpectedly gets her heartâ€™s desire, it isnâ€™t at all what she thought it would be like, and sheâ€™ll have resort to extraordinary measures to ditch her fairy. The question is: will Charlie herself survive the fairy ditching experiment? From the author of the acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Magic or Madness\n  </em>\n  trilogy, this is a delightful story of fairies, friendships, and figuring out how to make your own magic. Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5924'),
(4884, 'How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food', 'Nigella Lawson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It''s about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat." Lawson is not a chef, but "an eater." She writes as if she''s conversing with you while beating eggs or mincing garlic in your kitchen. She explains how to make the basics, such as roast chicken, soup stock, various sauces, cake, and ice cream. She teaches you to cook more esoteric dishes, such as grouse, white truffles (mushrooms, not chocolate), and "ham in Coca-Cola." She gives advice for entertaining over the holidays, quick cooking ("the real way to make life easier for yourself: cooking in advance"), cooking for yourself ("you don''t have to belong to the drearily narcissistic learn-to-love-yourself school of thought to grasp that it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for"), and weekend lunches for six to eight people. Don''t expect any concessions to health recommendations in the recipes here--Lawson makes liberal and unapologetic use of egg yolks, cream, and butter. There are plenty of recipes, but the best parts of\n <em>\n  How to Eat\n </em>\n are the well-crafted tidbits of wisdom, such as the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Cook in advance and, if the worse comes to the worst, you can ditch it. No one but you will know that it tasted disgusting, or failed to set, or curdled or whatever."\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   On the proper English trifle: "When I say proper I mean proper: lots of sponge, lots of jam, lots of custard and lots of cream. This is not a timid construction ... you don''t want to end up with a trifle so upmarket it''s inappropriately, posturingly elegant. A degree of vulgarity is requisite."\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Too many people cook only when they''re giving a dinner party. And it''s very hard to go from zero to a hundred miles an hour. How can you learn to feel at ease around food, relaxed about cooking, if every time you go into the kitchen it''s to cook at competition level?"\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A chatty, sometimes cheeky,celebration of home-cooked meals."\n <br />\n â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n Through her wildly popular television shows, her five bestselling cookbooks, her line of kitchenware, and her frequent media appearances, Nigella Lawson has emerged as one of the food world''s most seductive personalities. How to Eat is the book that started it allâ€”Nigella''s signature, all-purpose cookbook, brimming with easygoing mealtime strategies and 350 mouthwatering recipes, from a truly sublime Tarragon French Roast Chicken to a totally decadent Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake. Here is Nigella''s total (and totally irresistible) approach to foodâ€”the book that lays bare her secrets for finding pleasure in the simple things that we cook and eat every day.\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Nigella] brings you into her life and tells you how she thinks about food, how meals come together in her head . . . and how she cooks for family and friends . . . A breakthrough . . . with hundreds of appealing and accessible recipes."\n <br />\n â€”Amanda Hesser,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nigella Lawson serves up irony and sensuality with her comforting recipes . . . the Queen of Come-On Cooking."\n <br />\n â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nigella Lawson is, whisks down, Britain''s funniest and sexiest food writer, a raconteur who is delicious whether detailing every step on the way towards a heavenly roast chicken and root vegetable couscous or explaining why ''cooking is not just about joining the dots.''"\n <br />\n â€”Richard Story,\n <em>\n  Vogue\n </em>\n magazine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8054'),
(4885, 'How to Flirt With a Naked Werewolf', 'Molly Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Northern Exposure\n</p>\n<p>\n Even in Grundy, Alaska, itâ€™s unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Grahamâ€”who has been openly critical of Moâ€™s ability to adapt to life in Alaskaâ€”has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, itâ€™s love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind. Several people around Grundy have been the victims of wolf attacks, and since Cooper has no memory of what he gets up to while in werewolf form, heâ€™s worried that he might be the violent canine in question.\n</p>\n<p>\n If a wolf cries wolf, it makes sense to listen, yet Mo is convinced that Cooper is not the culprit. Except if heâ€™s not responsible, then who is? And when a werewolf falls head over haunches in love with you, what are you supposed to do anyway? The rules of dating just got a whole lot more complicated. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raised in Mississippi and Kentucky, Molly Harper graduated from Western Kentucky University with a bachelorâ€™s degree in print journalism. Â She worked for six years as a reporter and humor columnist;Â her reporting duties included covering courts, school board meetings, quilt shows, and once, the arrest of a Florida man who faked his suicide by shark attack and spent the next few months tossing pies at a local pizzeria. Â Molly lives in western Kentucky with her husband and daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6448'),
(4886, 'How to Get a Job in a Museum or Art Gallery', 'Alison Baverstock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Getting your dream job in the arts is no mean feat these days. In this book, the author explores the world of museums and galleries, focusing on contemporary issues and current options for employment in this field. This down-to-earth guide will help you work out what kind of job you would be best suited to, and how to prepare for a career in your chosen field. Featuring many case studies and real life examples, this book takes a practical approach to finding the right job for you. It includes advice on creating an eye-catching CV, applying for an advertised post, finding work experience, the interview itself, and creating the career you really want. The book features a foreword by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7062'),
(4887, 'How to Know God', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: God is not a person or a thing but rather a process, according to world-renowned author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra. The purpose of this ambitious book is to assure readers that anyone can engage in this process--"it isn''t a matter of faith, religious teaching, innate goodness, luck or some other mysterious factor," Chopra explains. "Our brains are hardwired to find God." This hardwiring is deftly explored as Chopra lists the seven ways humans know God and how they correspond to the anatomy of our human brains. He devotes a chapter to each of the seven visions of God: "Protector," "Almighty," "God of Peace," "Redeemer," "Creator," "God of Miracles," and "Pure Being--I am." In every chapter he asks and answers the same questions for the readers: "Who am I?" "How do I fit in?" "How do I find God?" The format works well, helping to tame this broad discussion while also illuminating the different personality types that are attracted to these seven different visions. Fortunately, Chopra is a gifted narrator, able to make human anatomy and quantum physics understandable while also keeping spiritual and metaphysical discussions grounded. As he drifts through the cloudy realms of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, miracles, obedience, loyalty, evil, ego, addictions, and mentors, readers can trust that there is a competent pilot at the helm, deftly guiding this excellent book. Plan to take some time with this one. It is perhaps his best yet and as such deserves a slow and steady commitment. --Gail Hudson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(4888, 'How to Learn Any Language', 'Barry Farber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(4889, 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe', 'Charles Yu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Questions for Charles Yu on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n Youâ€™re a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When and why did you start writing, and what advice do you have for other young writers out there trying to get published?     I wrote poems and essays as a kid, and in college, I dreamed of becoming a professional writer, whatever I thought that meant, although, for a lot of reasons, I knew that wasnâ€™t going to happen.  Mostly, my parents were going to murder me if I tried to apply to an MFA program.  First-degree murder.      So I didnâ€™t actually start writing until 2002, shortly after I began my career as a lawyer.  Working in a high-pressure environment was squeezing me pretty hard, and all that pressure found its way out in the form of little things I was jotting down, in the margins of receipts, on the backs of business cards.  I wrote a series of physics problems about a married coupleâ€™s life together.  I wrote some instructions for how to play a metaphysical video game.  Stuff like that.      But I didnâ€™t think I was actually writing, let alone writing what anyone would call fiction, until I read CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders.  That book blew the doors off the empty little space that had previously housed my puny imagination.      Up until that point, Iâ€™d had no clue as to what a story could be.  And it was because my ideas were assumptions.  Tacit, limiting, ultimately false assumptions, which added up to a severely impoverished conception of what was possible in fiction.  After reading CivilWarLand, I knew I wanted that feeling, wanted to be surprised like that, and flattened onto the floor, and embarrassed my by own narrowness.  I wanted to have my doors blown off again and again.  It was a short distance to go from wanting to have that feeling to also wanting to see if maybe I could ever give that feeling to someone else.    As for advice, it would be to transfer all the anxiety about publication into anxiety about whether the story works, whether a reader is going to care about the characters.  I break down the process into four components: writing, rewriting, submitting, and worrying.  My ideal, not at all realistic, scenario, would be to make the proportion of time spent on each of those activities something like: 19 percent, 80 percent, 1 percent, 0 percent.  This is very hypocritical of me to say, of course, as Iâ€™ve never done this myself, Iâ€™ve never even been close.  But I do know that the farther from zero the last two numbers get, the more Iâ€™m in trouble.  And that the second number should be much bigger than the first.\n <br />\n <br />\n How has your interest in and knowledge of science and science fiction contributed to and inspired your writing of this book?     I read and collected comics as a kid, read pretty much everything I could find of Asimov, including the whole Foundation series in one semester in eighth grade (to the detriment of my English grade), and so much else, too much to list or even remember.  Then, at some point in high school, I got the idea that there were serious books we read in school, and there was science fiction, and there was not a lot of overlap.  That lasted until my senior year in college, when I stumbled on Richard Powersâ€™s Galatea 2.2, which wasnâ€™t exactly science fiction, it was this amazing love story. It also handled actual science (cognitive science, artificial intelligence) without watering it down, and yet was still clearly Serious Fiction, whatever that meant to me back then, the kind that was in the Sunday book review sections.  After that, I began to search out more writing like that, more Powers, and Jonathan Lethem.    Currently, I read more science than I do anything else, including fiction.  I especially enjoy reading books written by scientists for lay folk, like me.  I was a biochem major in college, and so part of it is that I am interested in the science itself, but Iâ€™m just as interested in the process of explanation, how the author, an expert in a specialized field, tries to explain difficult concepts through simplification and creative analogy.  I am fascinated by that process of distilling something really complex into something most people can understand.  There are so many examples of great books that do this, but the one that still stands out for me is Brian Greeneâ€™s The Elegant Universe.  After finishing that book, I was convinced I had a working knowledge of string theory.  I was like, I can do this stuff; I could hang with string theorists at a cocktail party.  Of course, when I tried to explain even the simplest concept from the book to someone else, I realized how much Greene had been holding my hand.  I was like a baby who thought he could walk, until I tried on my own.\n <br />\n <br />\n Your book deals with time travel in a more serious and even tragic way than most stories about the subject, though you mask the severity with humor to keep the dialogue light and amusing. What made you decide to write about this complicated topic, and how did you come to write about it in this unique manner?     I knew I wanted the novel to be a family story, mostly about a father and son, but also about a marriage, and a son-mother story, too.  But I could not find the right frame for the story.  At the same time, I kept coming back to this idea that had been floating around in my head and on my laptop for years, but one that I could never find a home for.  It was about of a man who keeps popping up in different hypothetical universes, trying to find the universe where he belongs.  Iâ€™d been messing around with that conceit, on and off, for close to five years.  Then I remembered a book Iâ€™d read years earlier, called The Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch (which sets out, among other things, Deutschâ€™s multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics), and in particular, one specific sentence from that book:  â€œOther times are just special cases of other universes.â€  That sentence was a bridge for me.  I realized I didnâ€™t want to write a story about hypothetical universes. I wanted to write a time travel story.      Once I decided that the novel would be about time travel, the book started to take shape.  Not quickly, more like, I had a frame, and now little pieces started sticking to the frame, just odd scraps here and there, but the frame was the right one, and I could hang things on it.  Most important, what happened was that the two vocabulariesâ€”the emotion of a father-mother-son story and the technical glossary of a time travel story--started to interact; like two dry wool blankets, they started to rub up against each other and crackle a bit. Things would pop out of that, phraselets and new words and little surprises of grammar and language and emotion, and science fiction would fall out from that interaction.      Whatever humor there is in there, if any, is probably also a product of that process, of smashing together two sub-languages, emotional and science fictional, and seeing what weird tonal particles are produced from the collision.  I knew that the story needed weight, because if it were just whimsical, a reader might wonder why any of it mattered, and of course, the most important thing that I am trying to do is create characters who matter to the reader.  I do hope that there are at least a few laughs in there.\n <br />\n <br />\n Your protagonist, a time travel technician attempting to save people from trying to alter their pasts, is named Charles Yu. How did you come to name him after yourself?     It was originally a placeholder, to be honest.  So was the fatherâ€™s name, which is my fatherâ€™s name.  I tried different names for the son and the father, but none of them would take, so I just put in my real name (and my dadâ€™s) so I could get going with the writing, but when I did that, a strange thing happened: the story started moving, fast, in a different direction.  Suddenly, it was about a self meeting his self, and the details of the characterâ€™s life started to come together, as did the relationship between the son and the father.  I think having my actual name in there gave me a straw man, a straw story, that I could write in reaction to.  For some reason, once the name of the character became Charles Yu, I stopped slipping in autobiographical or semi-autobiographical information, and actually started removing it.  I think I realized, wow, if this character is going to have my name, Iâ€™d better take some of this stuff out.  There is still a fair amount of it in there, semi- or pseudo-autobiographical, but much of it is more emotionally resonant than factually resonant.\n <br />\n <br />\n Though there is a definite science fictional aspect to your novel, it is also heavily literary and much more about real life than it at first appears. How, then, would you characterize your novel? Fiction, science fiction, or something outside the realm of typical genre classifications?     I was hoping it would be characterized as a time machine, although I realize there is no section for time machines in most bookstores.  In terms of topology, I think of it as a stable, looped, four-dimensional object with chronodiegetic properties.  In terms of genre, I would be happy for it to be shelved in both fiction and in science fiction.  Or maybe under a new category, where they would put books that resist either classification.  A lot of my favorite books would be in that category.\n <br />\n <br />\n Whatâ€™s next for you?   Iâ€™m working on a new novel that takes place in â€œAmerica,â€ i.e., not America, but a dream-and-desire-fueled holographic projection of the collective mental environment of Americans, which exists as a geographical place that happens to overlap the physical America.  Itâ€™s also a story about a man looking for his ex-wife and daughter.  I hope I can figure out a way to make that make sense.\n <br />\n (Photo Â© Michael Zara)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6372'),
(4890, 'How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer', 'Sarah Bakewell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on a different answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigneâ€™s ceaseless pursuit of this most elusive knowledge. Embedded in the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential factsâ€”when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life in a time of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus on the inner evolution of the acute mind informing Montaigneâ€™s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this was a mind at home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the meaning of his own near-death experience, and the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified his own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels at the way Montaigneâ€™s prose has enchanted diverse readersâ€”Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gideâ€”with their own reflections. Because Montaigneâ€™s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. --Bryce Christensen\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigneâ€™s life and essays into twenty thematic chaptersâ€¦Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigneâ€™s work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpretersÂ who have guided the reception of the essays.â€ â€”_The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSerious, engaging, and so infectiously in love with its subject that I found myself racing to finish so I could start rereading the Essays themselvesâ€¦It is hard to imagine a better introductionâ€”or reintroductionâ€”to Montaigne than Bakewellâ€™s book.â€ â€”Lorin Stein,\n  </em>\n  Harperâ€™s Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œMs. Bakewellâ€™s new book,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  , is a biography, but in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries.â€ â€”_The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSo artful is Bakewellâ€™s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers may well come to share her admiration.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œExtraordinaryâ€¦a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, for as Bakewell moves along she provides a brilliant demonstration of the alchemy of historical viewpoint.â€ â€”_Boston Globe\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWell,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  is a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise.â€ â€”Nick Hornby, in the November/December 2010 issue of The _Believer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIn\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  , an affectionate introduction to the author, Bakewell argues that, far from being a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne has never been more relevantâ€”a 16th-century blogger, as she would have itâ€”and so must be read, quite simply, â€˜in order to liveâ€™â€¦Bakewell is a wry and intelligent guide.â€ â€”_The Daily Beast\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œWitty, unorthodoxâ€¦_How to Live_ is a history of ideas told entirely on the ground, never divorced from the people thinking them. It hews close to Montaigneâ€™s own preoccupations, especially his playful uncertainty â€“ Bakewell is a stickler for what we canâ€™t know. â€¦_How to Live\n  <em>\n   is a delightâ€¦â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  The Plain Dealer\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book will have new readers excited to be acquainted to Montaigneâ€™s life and ideas, and may even stir their curiosity to read more about the ancient Greek philosophers who influenced his writing.\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  Â is a great companion to Montaigneâ€™s essays, and even a great stand-alone.â€ â€”_San Francisco Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA bright, genial, and generous introduction to the masterâ€™s methods.â€ _â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ[Bakewell reveals] one of literature''s enduring figures as an idiosyncratic, humane, and surprisingly modern force.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Publisherâ€™s Weekly (starred)_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs described by Sarah Bakewell in her suavely enlightening\n  <em>\n   How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer\n  </em>\n  Montaigne is, with Walt Whitman, among the most congenial of literary giants, inclined to shrug over the inevitability of human failings and the last man to accuse anyone of self-absorption. His great subject, after all, was himself.â€ â€”Laura Miller, Salon.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLively and fascinating . . .\n  <em>\n   How To Live\n  </em>\n  takes its place as the most enjoyable introduction to Montaigne in the English language.â€ _â€”The Times Literary Supplement\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSplendidly conceived and exquisitely written . . . enormously absorbing.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”Sunday Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  How to Live_ will delight and illuminate.â€_ â€”The Independent\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œIt is ultimately [Montaigneâ€™s] life-loving vivacity that Bakewell succeeds in communicating to her readers.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”The Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThis subtle and surprising book manages the trick of conversing in a frank and friendly manner with its centuries-old literary giant, as with a contemporary, while helpfully placing Montaigne in a historical context.Â  The affection of the author for her subject is palpable and infectious.â€ â€”Phillip Lopate, author of\n  </em>\n  The Art of the Personal Essay\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œAn intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”Saturday Telegraph\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œLike recent books on Proust, Joyce, and Austen,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  skillfully plucks a life-guide from the incessant flux of Montaigneâ€™s prose . . . A superb, spirited introduction to the master.â€ _â€”The Guardian\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7396');
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(4891, 'How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds Or Less', 'Nicholas Boothman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now that connection is infinitely easier to make through Nicholas Boothman''s program of rapport by design. HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN 90 SECONDS OR LESS is the work of a master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming whose career is teaching corporations and groups the secrets of successful face-to-face communication. Aimed at establishing rapport-that stage between meeting and communicating-HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU focuses on the concept of synchrony. It shows how to synchronize attitude, synchronize body language, and synchronize voice tone so that you instantly and imperceptibly become someone the other person likes. Reinforcing these easy-to-learn skills is knowing how to read the other person''s sensory preferences-most of us are visual, some are kinesthetic, and a minority are auditory. So when you say "I see what you mean" to a visual person, you''re really speaking his language. Along the way the book covers attitude, nervousness, words that open a conversation and words that shut it down, compliments, eye cues, the magic of opposites attracting, and more. It''s how to make the best of the most important 90 seconds in any relationship, business or personal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2776'),
(4892, 'How to Raise Kids You Want to Keep', 'Jerry Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on 40 years of experience counseling children and adolescents, Day offers commonsense and highly accessible advice for parents on child rearing. Relying on vignettes of case studies, converted to stories about the everyday tensions of parenting, Day advises parents on the secrets of teaching children to live willingly under parental authority. His stories feature characters from Doreen the Drama Queen to Pete the Prince to Albert the Angel. Day also advises parents to use storytelling with subliminal messages to illustrate the consequences of certain types of behavior. He advises punishment to discourage negative behavior and rewards to encourage positive behavior. When parents reward children''s behavior, Day advises consistency, raising expectations, and thinning the reward as behavior improves. His advice ranges from a 30-second technique to defuse challenges to authority quickly to suggestions for building lifelong relationships. One chapter is aimed specifically at disciplining children with ADHD.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A daily challenge for today-s parents is incorporating positive discipline techniques and practices that put an end to temper tantrums, defiance and meltdowns. Dr. Jerry Day helps parents develop practical methods that teach children a fundamental attribute: how to willingly live under authority. His successful methods are based on four key principles that parents must instill in their relationships with their youngsters:1. Tolerance and Acceptance2. Respect and Admiration3. Fun4. CommunicationThe clear guidance and real-life success stories that distinguish How to Raise Kids You Want to Keep will help end, once and for all, the constant tug-of-war between parent and child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10640'),
(4893, 'How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines', 'Thomas C. Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there''s that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form,\n <em>\n  How to Read Literature Like a Professor\n </em>\n is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Foster is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he teaches classes in contemporary fiction, drama and poetry as well as creative writing and composition. He has written several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry and lives in East Lansing, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4427'),
(4894, 'How to Rescue a Dead Princess', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8863'),
(4895, 'How to Set Up a Family Budget', 'www.WaysToSaveMoneyNow.info', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9898'),
(4896, 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(4897, 'How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It', 'James Wesley Rawles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the definitive guide on how to prepare for any crisis, from global financial collapse to a flu pandemic.It would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life. If there is a terrorist attack, a flu pandemic, or sharp currency devaluation, you may be forced to fend for yourself in ways you''ve never imagined. Where would you get water? How would you communicate with relatives? What would you use for fuel?Survivalist expert James Wesley, Rawles, editor of SurvivalBlog.com and a former US Army Intelligence officer, shares the essential tools and skills you will need for your family to survive, including how to find and build a retreat, store food, supply power, rear animals, administer medicine, barter, and defend your family.Save those wine corks. Burned cork makes quick and cheap face camouflage.''Store only foods with minimal spices. When you are surrounded by starving people, just heating up a can of spicy chili con carne could be a death warrant.'' If you are on a budget, you might get away with a good-quality bolt-action rifle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4756'),
(4898, 'How to Talk to Anyone', 'Leil Lowndes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You''ll not only break the ice, you''ll melt it away with your new skills." -- Larry King"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of â€œHow to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Aliveâ€What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book youâ€™ll find:9 ways to make a dynamite first impression 14 ways to master small talk, "big talk," and body language14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone9 ways to feed someone''s ego (and know when NOT to!) 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you''ll remember them when you really need them, including: "Rubberneck the Room," "Be a Copyclass," "Come Hither Hands," â€œBare Their Hot Button,â€ â€œThe Great Scorecard in the Sky," and "Play the Tombstone Game,â€ for big success in your social life, romance, and business.How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner''s Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter)is based on solid research about techniques that work!By the way, don''t confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil''s previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3035'),
(4899, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *How to Win Friends and Influence People* is the first, and still the finest, book of its kind. One of the best-known motivational books in history, Dale Carnegie''s groundbreaking work has sold millions of copies, has been translated into almost every known written language, and has helped countless people succeed in both their business and personal lives. First published in 1937, Carnegie''s advice has remained relevant for generations because he addresses timeless questions about the fine art of getting along with people: How can you make people like you instantly? How can you persuade people to agree with you? How can you speak frankly to people without giving offense? The ability to read others and successfully navigate any social situation is critically important to those who want to get a job, keep a job, or simply expand their social network. The core principles of this book, originally written as a practical, working handbook on human relations, are proven effective. Carnegie explains the fundamentals of handling people with a positive approach; how to make people like you and want to help you; how to win people to your way of thinking without conflict; and how to be the kind of leader who inspires quality work, increased productivity, and high morale. As Carnegie explains, the majority of our success in life depends on our ability to communicate and manage personal relationships effectively, whether at home or at work. *How to Win Friends and Influence People* will help you discover and develop the people skills you need to live well and prosper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(4900, 'How to Win Your Ex Back', 'Second Chance Romance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10245'),
(4901, 'How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery &amp; the Roller Coaster of Suspense', 'Carolyn Wheat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Here, for writers itching to get started (but not quite sure how), is one of the most useful recent guides to crafting words into stories. The author, whose mystery fiction has won a handful of awards, customizes her guide for writers of detective fiction and suspense (although her discussions of plotting and character creation will be valuable to all would-be scribblers, regardless of their chosen genre). Wheat begins with an insightful discussion of the distinction between mystery and suspense--each plays to a different part of the reader''s imagination and expectations--and then devotes a section to each genre. She offers up plenty of useful tips, such as how to dispense vital information in subtle ways and how to plant clues without being too obvious about it. Where the book really scores, however, is in Wheat''s demonstration of how to construct a novel as a series of arcs, each designed to take the reader gracefully to a certain point in the story. While covering similar territory, the sections on mystery and suspense approach the material from slightly different angles. The final section, on the writing process, provides a nuts-and-bolts discussion of such fundamentals as outlining, revising, and finding the right voice for your story. There are almost as many writer''s guides on the market as there are struggling writers, but this one is indispensable.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Writing is all about creating an experience for the reader. Whether you''re giving them a brain-teasing puzzle or an adrenaline-soaked emotional roller coaster-ride, this book helps you shape your fiction to create maximum enjoyment for your readers.Now you can learn the craft directly from one of the most respected contemporary writers in the field, Carolyn What, winner of multitudinous awards and nominations. What knows what editors want, and shows you how to achieve your writing an publishing goals. How To Write Killer Fiction is a handbook that no writer of mystery or suspense can afford to be without.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8003'),
(4902, 'How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (1990-First Edition)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Orson Scott Card shares his advice on how to break into this field, how to develop fantastic story ideas, and evolve fresh plots.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5835'),
(4903, 'How We Are Hungry', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this collection, Eggers (_Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_) is obviously straddling the line between being a writerâ€”and a very talented one at thatâ€”and being the spokesman for the new age of self-conscious writing. Reviewers are unanimously unhappy with a few of his literary pranks here. "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," for example, offers up five blank pages. But when Eggers throws off our expectations and starts writing, he shines. His longer stories are original, witty, and truthful. As his characters search for transcendence, Eggers and his readers are right there with them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first collection of short stories, Eggers shows himself to be, well, serious. Gone is the charming, smirky, self-conscious narrative voice that helped make\n <em>\n  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\n </em>\n (1999) so popular. Aside from the story "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," which consists of five blank pages, these short stories are unrelentingly sincere--sometimes too much so. Many of these stories feature Americans abroad--a man alone in Egypt, a woman (also alone) in Tanzania preparing to climb Kilimanjaro. In the collection''s best story, "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water," two old friends reunite in Costa Rica for a kind of loveless love affair. The accumulation of details--surfing together in the oil-wet water, an injured anteater in their hotel room--brings the story a haunting power. But some of the stories don''t come together as well, and Eggers'' fans may be disappointed that almost none crack a smile. Still, Eggers imagines emotionally and symbolically resonant scenes as well as any of his contemporaries, and this collection has several great ones.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8588'),
(4904, 'How We Die', 'Sherwin B Nuland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10919'),
(4905, 'How We Die: Reflections on Life&#39;s Final Chapter', 'Sherwin B. Nuland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A physician who teaches at the Yale School of Medicine, Nuland writes gracefully about a topic most of us would rather not dwell on--our impending deaths. He demystifies the process of dying by providing straightforward information on the clinical, biological and emotional details of deaths resulting from heart disease, stroke, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer''s disease, old age, accidents, suicide, euthanasia and murder or violent physical assault. Crammed with intriguing scientific findings and useful facts, as well as case histories of dying patients whom Nuland ( Doctors: The Biography of Medicine ) has treated, his report is imbued with wisdom rooted in a belief that the dignity we seek in dying must be found in the art of living life to the fullest. 50,000 first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drawing upon his own broad experience and the characteristics of the six most common death-causing diseases, Nuland examines what death means to the doctor, patient, nurse, administrator, and family. Thought provoking and humane, his is not the usual syrup-and-generality approach to this well-worn topic. Fundamental to it are Nuland''s experiences with the deaths of his aunt, his older brother, and a longtime patient. With each of these deaths, he made what he now sees as mistakes of denial, false hope, and refusal to abide by a patient''s wishes. Disease, not death, is the real enemy, he reminds us, despite the facts that most deaths are unpleasant, painful, or agonized, and to argue otherwise is to plaster over the truth. The doctor, Nuland stresses, should instill in dying patients the hope not for a miraculous cure but for the dignity and high quality of the remainder of their lives as well as of what they have meant--and will continue to mean--to family, friends, and colleagues. Nuland also has strong feelings about suicide and "assisted death": the doctor should be prepared psychologically and practically to help the longtime patient slip off the scene in relative comfort.\n  <em>\n   William Beatty\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8133'),
(4906, 'The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories', 'Howard Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An enticing collection of original writing on drugs by the bestselling author of Mr. Nice. A totally different kind of anthology filled with everything but the predictable. Take a trip through the heady highs and stoney lows of the history and discovery of drugs. The guide is Howard Marks, the guru of dope-smuggling, dope-dealing, and just, well, dope! The territory is the world of mind-bending substances. From politics and sex to business and religion, rock n'' roll to literature, this unique collection includes Howard''s favourite drug writings from Dickens to Welsh, as well as many new and hilarious anecdotal stories from the drug lord himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4690'),
(4907, 'Howards End', 'E. M. Forster; Vintage Books', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox''s soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Like all of Forster''s work,\n <em>\n  Howards End\n </em>\n concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can''t be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman''s death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Forster''s 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen''s impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century,\n <em>\n  Howards End\n </em>\n seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a new Introduction by James Ivory\n <br />\n Commentary by Virginia Woolf, Lionel Trilling, Malcolm Bradbury, and Joseph Epstein\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Howards End\n </strong>\n is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again," said Alfred Kazin.\n</p>\n<p>\n First published in 1910,\n <strong>\n  Howards End\n </strong>\n is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two familiesâ€”the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparkedâ€”some very funny, some very tragicâ€”that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes'' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes,\n <strong>\n  Howards End\n </strong>\n is a novel whose central tenet, "Only connect," remains a powerful prescription for modern life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Howards End\n </strong>\n is undoubtedly Forster''s masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10257'),
(4908, 'Howling Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Heâ€™s a Wolf...Sheâ€™s a Jaguar... Raphael is a former agent of the shapeshifter secret police, forced into retirement after a very public scandal. Now heâ€™s assigned to help the victim of a hideous crimeâ€”a woman who has been attacked by a serial killer and accidentally turned into a were-jaguar. Worse yet, Catherine turns out to be Raphaelâ€™s fated mate. But the serial killer is still on her trail, and perhaps even worse, Raphaelâ€™s pack wants her dead. Caught between destiny and duty... Raphael must make his choiceâ€”and in doing so, risk losing his packâ€”in this tale of obsession, revenge, lust, pack politics and true love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1394'),
(4909, 'Huck: The Remarkable True Story of How One Lost Puppy Taught a Family--And a Whole Town--About Hope and Happy Endings', 'Janet Elder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Huck is a page-turning, unforgettable true story of the tenacity of one small dog, the unexpected, extraordinary kindness of strangers, and a family''s devotion to each other. Michael was four when his relentless campaign for a dog began. At seven he made a PowerPoint presentation, "My Dog," with headings like "A Childhood Without a Dog is a Sad Thing." His parents, Janet and Rich, were steadfast; bringing a dog into their fast-paced New York City lives was utterly impractical. However, on a trip to Italy, a chance happening leads Janet to reconsider, a decision then hastened by a diagnosis of breast cancer. Janet decides the excitement of a new puppy would be the perfect antidote to the strain on the family of months of arduous treatments for her illness. The prospect of a new puppy would be an affirmation of life, a powerful talisman for them all. On Thanksgiving weekend, soon after the grueling months of treatments are over, Huck, a sweet, mischievous, red-haired, toy poodle joins the family and wins everyone''s heart. A few months later the family ventures to baseball''s spring training, leaving Huck with Janet''s sister in Ramsey, New Jersey. Barely twenty-four hours into the trip, Janet receives the dreaded phone call: Huck has slipped through the backyard fence and run away. Broken-hearted and frantic, the family catches the first plane to New Jersey to begin a search for their lost puppy. It is a race against time, for little Huck is now lost in an area entirely unfamiliar to him, facing the threat of bears and coyotes, swamps and freezing temperatures, rain and fast cars. Moved by the family''s plight, strangers - from school children to townspeople to the police lieutenant - join the search, one that proves to be an unyielding test of determination and faith. Touching and warm-hearted, Huck is a spirit-lifting story about resilience, the generosity of strangers, and hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6832'),
(4910, 'Huddle', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1996, editor/critic David G. Hartwell began selecting his best-of-the-year stories in an anthology providing an interesting juxtaposition to Gardner Dozois''s long-running Year''s Best Science Fiction series. Most of Hartwell''s picks are by leading authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Reed, Gene Wolfe, Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Brian M. Stableford, and Sarah Zettel; several are by less-well-known writers. Don''t miss "Game of the Century," "Visit the Sins," "Kinds of Strangers," or "Huddle." Hugo nominees include "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick, "Fossil Games" by Tom Purdom, "Border Guards" by Greg Egan, and "Macs" by Terry Bisson (which also won the Nebula short story award). Small, light, and less costly than most anthologies, Hartwell''s fifth collection is one of the series'' strongest; almost every one of the 24 stories (plus one poem) makes an enjoyable read. --Bonnie Bouman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11090'),
(4911, 'Hugger Mugger', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Someone''s making death threats in Dixie - against a thoroughbred horse destined to be the next Secretariat. At the owner''s request, Boston P.I. Spenser hoofs it down South - where the lies are buzzing...and the dying is easy.Brisk...crackling...Hugger Mugger finishes strong, just like a thoroughbred should. (*Entertainment Weekly*)A winner...the famous dialogue is polished to a high shine...terrific. (*Kirkus Reviews*)Snappy. (*Chicago Tribune*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4014'),
(4912, 'Hula Done It?', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dead in the WaterFor travel escort Emily Andrew and her fellow Iowans, aloha means "hello" to all the sun, surf, and scrumptious cuisine their Hawaiian cruise has to offer. But for Professor Dorian Smoker, a renowned expert on the legendary Captain Cook, aloha also means "good-bye" -- as in "man overboard."Sure, it could have been an accident. But Emily wonders if some guest with a grudge might have knocked off the opinionated professor. Or maybe it had something to do with that missing journal Nana''s friend lent him -- the one with the mysterious treasure map. Emily figures the map is probably a fake. But when another copy turns up, she and her friends take off, rafting down rivers and plunging through jungles to find the treasure themselves. Unfortunately, Professor Smoker''s killer just might have the same idea. And this tropical heat wave could quickly turn into a crime wave...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2301'),
(4913, 'Hull Zero Three', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Bear (City at the End of Time) sets this difficult but rewarding short novel on an interstellar colony ship gone astray. Teacher was supposed to be awakened just before landfall. What he finds when he gains some semblance of consciousness, however, is a dangerous and chaotic environment, with monsters roaming the ship''s corridors and no one in charge. As he and a small band of equally ignorant crew members attempt to reach the gigantic ship''s control center, they travel through a series of labyrinthine spaces, uncovering a variety of clues to the disaster that has destroyed large parts of the starship and damaged the controlling AIs. Not for those who prefer their space opera simpleminded, this beautifully written tale where nothing is as it seems will please readers with a well-developed sense of wonder. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Never one to play it safe in his consistently inventive fiction, Bear takes the reader for a harrowing ride on a labyrinthine starship in his latest hard-SF-oriented novel. Bearâ€™s protagonist is an amnesiac starship crew member just released from a deep hibernation state called Dreamtime. Naked, disoriented, and forced by extreme temperature and gravity fluctuations to find safety somewhere among a confusing network of passageways, the man eventually receives help from an odd assortment of fellow Dreamtime refugees. Taking stock of their surroundings, while avoiding onboard killing machines, the gang quickly realizes the starship has given them each a unique role to play, including discovering collectively why the ship has been seriously damaged and cast aside from its mission to seek out habitable worlds. Bearâ€™s pithy, occasionally cryptic writing style perfectly captures the chaotic experiences and unsettling revelations the team endures, while putting an intriguing spin on the timeworn SF theme of interstellar planet hunting. One of Bearâ€™s most thought-provoking and well-crafted novels to date. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5796'),
(4914, 'Human', 'Michael S. Gazzaniga', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the world''s leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.  What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pinpoint the change that made us thinking, sentient humans, different from our predecessors.  Neuroscience has been fixated on the life of the psychological self for the past fifty years, focusing on the brain systems underlying language, memory, emotion, and perception. What it has not done is consider the stark reality that most of the time we humans are thinking about social processes, comparing ourselves to and estimating the intentions of others. In "Human," Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4931'),
(4915, 'The Human Blend', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alan Dean Fosterâ€™s brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulationâ€”which poses profound questions about what it means to be human.\n</p>\n<p>\n Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery.\n</p>\n<p>\n So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whisprâ€™s smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable teamâ€”as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Alan Dean Foster\n </strong>\n has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, Western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Star Wars: The Approaching Storm\n </em>\n and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including\n <em>\n  Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Wars,\n </em>\n the first three\n <em>\n  Alien\n </em>\n films, and\n <em>\n  Alien Nation.\n </em>\n His novel_ Cyber Way_ won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century minersâ€™ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7850'),
(4916, 'The human stain', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser.Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk''s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk''s astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9975'),
(4917, 'Human Traces', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Jacques RebiÃ¨re is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father''s wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors'' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men''s conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3638'),
(4918, 'The Humanoid Touch', 'Jack Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9870'),
(4919, 'Humboldt&#39;s Gift (1976 Pulitzer Prize)', 'Saul Bellow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1975. The novel, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt''s existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one''s creative spirit. Rinaldo, Charlie''s self-appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel''s end, Charlie has managed to set his own course. -- __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow''s tale of the writer''s life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8870'),
(4920, 'The Hunchback Assignments', 'Arthur Slade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What do you get when you combine elements of Robert Louis Stevenson''s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Victor Hugo''s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Alan Moore''s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? You get this exciting steampunk adventure. And though Slade borrows from the classics, the story is original and a fun read. Modo, a young hunchback, is rescued from a traveling freak show by the mysterious Victorian Englishman, Mr. Socrates. He is raised in isolation and trained to master his extraordinary physical powers, which include the ability to alter his deformed features and take on any appearance. When he''s 13, Mr. Socrates presses him into service on behalf of the Permanent Association, a secret group dedicated to protecting Great Britain, and the teen is plunged headfirst into a race to prevent the government''s destruction. Modo, an innocent who is often shocked by the vulgarities of street life, is paired with fellow agent Octavia Milkweed, a rescued urchin whose street smarts complement his immense physical talents. She is at once a partner, a foil, and a possible love interest. The protagonists are likable, the villains are chilling, and the story is action packed. Forays into the raw effluence of London''s sewer system provide just enough "ick" factor. And, Slade gets the Victorian setting just right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(4921, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', 'Victor Hugo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the first great novels of the Romantic era, Victor Hugoâ€™s The Hunchback of Notre Dame has thrilled generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic story of Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback who lives in the bell tower of medieval Parisâ€™s most famous cathedral.Feared and hated by all, Quasimodo is looked after by Dom Claude Frollo, a stern, cold priest who ignores the poor hunchback in the face of his frequent public torture. But someone steps forward to helpâ€”the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, whose single act of kindness fills Quasimodo with love. Can the hunchback save the lovely gypsy from Frolloâ€™s evil plan, or will they all perish in the shadows of Notre Dame?An epic tale of beauty and sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.Isabel Roche teaches French language and literature at Bennington College. She specializes in the nineteenth-century French novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3579'),
(4922, 'The Hundred Days', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1815, and Europe''s most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it''s up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For starters, Aubrey and his squadron have been dispatched to the Adriatic coast, to keep Bonapartist shipbuilders from beefing up the French navy. Meanwhile, one Sheik Ibn Hazm is fomenting an Islamic uprising against the Allies. The only way to halt this maneuver is to intercept the sheik''s shipment of gold--because in the Napoleonic era, as in our own, even the most ardent of mercenaries requires a salary. The Hundred Days is the 19th (and, we are told, the penultimate) installment of O''Brian''s epic. Like many of its predecessors, it features a fairly swashbuckling plot, complete with cannon fire, exotic disguises, and Aubrey''s suspenseful, slow-motion pursuit of an Algerian xebek. Yet it never turns into a mere exercise in Hornblowerism. Partly this is due to O''Brian''s delicate touch with character--the relationship between extroverted Aubrey and introverted Maturin has deepened with each book, and even Aubrey''s reunion with his childhood companion Queenie Keith is full of novelistic nuance: "They sat smiling at one another. An odd pair: handsome creatures both, but they might have been of the same sex or neither." Nor does the author focus too exclusively on his dynamic duo. Indeed, The Hundred Days is very much a chronicle of a floating community, which Maturin describes as "his own village, his own ship''s company, that complex entity so much more easily sensed than described: part of his natural habitat." Finally, O''Brian shows his usual expertise in balancing the great events with the most minuscule ones. Other authors have written about battles at sea, and still others have recorded the rapid rise and fall of Napoleon''s fortunes after his escape from confinement. But who else would give equal time--and an equal charge of delight--to Maturin''s discovery of an anomalous nuthatch? --James Marcus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4250'),
(4923, 'Hundred Dollar Baby (2006)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 34', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10569'),
(4924, 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms', 'N. K. Jemisin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north.  But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky.  There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king.  But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had.  As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother''s death and her family''s bloody history.With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6939'),
(4925, 'Hundred-dollar baby', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A client from a decades-old case reaches out to Boston PI Spenser-but can he rescue troubled April Kyle once more? Longtime Spenser fans will remember that once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle-a beautiful teenage runaway who turned to prostitution to escape her terrible family life. The book was 1982''s *Ceremony*, and, thanks to Spenser, April escaped Boston''s "Combat Zone" for the relative safety of a high-class New York City bordello. April resurfaced in *Taming a Sea-Horse*, again in dire need of Spenser''s rescue-this time from the clutches of a controlling lover. But April Kyle''s return in *Hundred-Dollar Baby* is nothing short of shocking. When a mature, beautiful, and composed April strides into Spenser''s office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call-girl operation in Boston''s Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser''s approval, it takes her a moment before she can ask him, again, for his assistance. Her business is a success; what''s more, it''s an all-female enterprise. Now that some men are trying to take it away from her, she needs Spenser. April claims to be in the dark about who it is that''s trying to shake her down, but with a bit of legwork and a bit more muscle, Spenser and Hawk find ties to organized crime and local kingpin Tony Marcus, as well as a scheme to franchise the operation across the country. As Spenser again plays the gallant knight, it becomes clear that April''s not as innocent as she seems. In fact, she may be her own worst enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4012');
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(4926, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat''s sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3354'),
(4927, 'A Hunger in the Soul', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11008'),
(4928, 'The Hunger', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hudson Sun (MA)\n </em>\n Read this one with all the lights on.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n Vampire fiction at its best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n Fast-paced...intriguing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n Vividly, skillfully written.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter StraubPure and original invention.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband''s imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he''s about to realize that love and death to hand in hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5946'),
(4929, 'Hungry as the Sea', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One of the world''s most popular and prolific adventure writers."--_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith joins the ranks as one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor''s edge between human courage and nature''s wrath. In\n  <em>\n   Hungry As The Sea\n  </em>\n  , this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the_ Golden Adventurer _before a competitor and a violent storm-- to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that''s when the real danger will begin...\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9152'),
(4930, 'Hungry Girl 1-2-3: The Easiest, Most Delicious, Guilt-Free Recipes on the Planet', 'Lisa Lillien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Are you HUNGRY? The number-one New York Times bestselling phenomenon is BACK---with even more yum-a-licious guilt-free recipes. This time, the EASIEST ones on the planet!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hungry Girlâ€™s recipes aren''t just delicious, theyâ€™re SUPER-SIMPLE, too. Hungry Girl 1-2-3 will help you make the worldâ€™s most delicious guilt-free appetizers, meals, snacks, desserts, etc., with practically no effort whatsoever! There are loads of crock-pot recipes, microwavable meals, HGâ€™s famous â€œfoil packs,â€ and more. Some are such a cinch, you wonâ€™t even have to turn on the oven or stove! Really.\n <br />\n With more than 200 recipes and two-ingredient â€œcouplesâ€ to choose from, youâ€™ll never be hungry again! Get ready to chew on:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Crazy Pineapple Salmon Teriyaki (347 calories)\n <br />\n Mom-Style Creamy Chicken â€™n Veggies (307 calories)\n <br />\n Queen-of-the-Castle Sliders (254 calories)\n <br />\n Caramel Swirl Cream Puffs (121 calories)\n <br />\n Corndog Millionaire Muffins (160 calories)\n <br />\n Chili Cheese Dog Nachos (218 calories)\n <br />\n Turkey &amp; Veggie Meatloaf Minis (142 calories)\n <br />\n Planet Hungrywood Sweet &amp; Capâ€™n Crunchy Chicken (234 calories)\n <br />\n Shrimp &amp; Grits . . . for Hungry Chicks! (380 calories)\n <br />\n Cannoli-Stuffed French Toast Nuggets (228 calories)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5333'),
(4931, 'Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories', 'Lisa Lillien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Hungry Girl* mania is sweeping the nation! *The New York Times* bestselling phenomenon delivers even more yum-tastic recipes in an easy-to-use cookbook containing 200 Hungry Girl recipes all under 200 calories. Recipes include:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * H-O-T Hot Boneless Buffalo Wings\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Sassy Southwestern Roll-Ups\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Cheesy-Good Cornbread Muffins\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Holy Moly Guacamole\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * HG s So Low Mein w/Chicken\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Cheeseburger Lettuce Cups ;\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp Puddin Shake\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Swirls Gone Wild Cheesecake Brownies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Personal Pretzel-Bottomed Ice Cream Pie, and many more.Told with Lisa''s signature wit and sassy style, these recipes are as fun to read as they are to make!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5331'),
(4932, 'Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World', 'Lisa Lillien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries--and still fit into your pants?  Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings?  Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories.  Check it out!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Rockin'' Tuna Melt: 212 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * I Can''t Believe It''s Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze:  160 calories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And when you''re not in your kitchen, check out HG''s 10 mini survival guides, plus tips ''n tricks that''ll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5332'),
(4933, 'The Hunt for Red October', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Soviets'' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. Can Red October reach the U.S. safely? Gripping military thriller about the chase after a top-secret Russian missilesubmarine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3745'),
(4934, 'The Hunted', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The coolest, hottest writer in America."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nobody but nobody in the business does it better."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Daily News\n </em>\n (New York)\n</p>\n<p>\n "CRIME FICTION''S GREATEST LIVING PRACTITIONER."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Also by Elmore Leonard\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Be Cool\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cuba Libre\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Out Of Sight\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Get Shorty\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Riding The Rap\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pronto\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Rum Punch\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Maximum Bob\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Moonshine War\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Switch\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Gold Coast\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Swag\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Big Bounce\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Mr. Majestyk\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Tonto Woman And Other Western Stories\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #1\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #2\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #3\n </strong>\n <br />\n Available from Dell And Look for\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pagan Babies\n </strong>\n <br />\n Available in Hardcover from Delacorte Press --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel -- until he decided to play Good Samaritan and rescue some elderly tourists from a hotel fire.Now his picture''s been carried in the stateside press, and the guys he''s been hiding from know exactly where he is. And they''re coming to get him -- crooked lawyers, men with guns and money, and assorted members of the Detroit mob who are harboring a serious grudge. Playtime in paradise is officially over; Rosen''s a million miles from home with a bull''s eye on his back. And his only ally is a U.S. Embassy marine who''s been looking for a war . . . and who''s damn well found one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9186'),
(4935, 'Hunted: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book Description\n <br />\n What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil and all he wanted was you?\n</p>\n<p>\n At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey''s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren''t Neferet''s secrets any longer.Â  But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses.Â  Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn''t want to hear and truths she can''t face?\n</p>\n<p>\n On the run and holed up in Tulsa''s Prohibition-era tunnels, Zoey and her gang must discover a way to deal with something that might bring them all down.Â  Meanwhile, Zoey has a few other little problems.Â  The red fledglings have cleaned up well--they''ve even managed to make the dark, creepy tunnels feel more like home--but are they really as friendly as they seem?Â  On the boyfriend front, Zoey has a chance to make things right with super-hot ex-, Eric, but she can''t stop thinking about Stark, the archer who died in her arms after one unforgettable night, and she is driven to try to save him from Neferet''s sinister influence at all costs.Â  Will anyone believe the power evil has to hide among us?\n</p>\n<h2>\n An Interview with P.C. Cast\n</h2>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Why vampyres? What was intriguing to you about them? (Also, why "y"?)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  P.C. Cast:\n </strong>\n Actually, the idea for the series originated with my fabulous agent, Meredith Bernstein. We were at RWA [Romance Writers of America] Nationals in Reno several years ago and Meredith said she had an idea for a series she''d like to see me write. Then she said the three magic words: vampire finishing school. I instantly thought of YA because I''d been reading the\n</p>\n<p>\n Oh, and the spelling is just my choice ''cause I like the way it looks!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n I don''t want to draw too many comparisons between your series and\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n I see my genre as YA, and to me that encompasses everyone from Rowling to Laurie Halse Anderson to Janice Erlbaum. So, yes,\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n fits in the same genre. And while I enjoy Ms. Meyer''s books very much, I think the genre has been growing and changing and gaining popularity steadily over the past decade--mostly thanks to Ms. Rowling! As a high school English teacher I certainly noticed the increase in sophistication and popularity of the genre some time ago. Today''s YA has an incredible range and depth, and it deals with real coming of age issues in varied and interesting ways. I''m proud to be a member of the ranks of YA authors!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Can you talk a little bit about the role that religion plays in the novels? The whole series revolves around the worship of Nyx, the Goddess of Night, and\n <em>\n  Hunted\n </em>\n really digs into questions of faith and free will (often related to what guy Zoey will be drawn to next...very clever to make that her weakness!). At various points in the series you also have People of Faith, Catholic nuns, and Cherokee legend. How do you see all these elements working together?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n Very clever of you to recognize the ramifications of Zoey''s weakness!\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s easy for me to weave the different religious elements of the world together because it''s not really "religion" I''m dealing with when I create the conflicts and faith foundations in the House of Night. Instead I see it as a way to illuminate coming of age issues, which often deal with conformity and obsession and trying to learn boundaries. I chose to give my heroine a belief system in which to live that is matriarchal because my purpose is to empower young women, and by allowing Zoey to join a world where women are valued as leaders and really have no glass ceiling, except the ones they create for themselves, as exemplified by Neferet, I have a springboard for a lot of girl power.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n What were some of your influences for the House of Night school?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma! I just looked around me and wrote what I saw. I also write what I wish I could see, as in the amazing HoN facility and their very cool classes. I''d love to teach a Vampyre Sociology class!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n How has Kristin being in school affected the series as it''s progressed? The scenes with friends hanging out and geeking out on movies in the dorm seem pretty familiar...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n When the series started Kristin was nineteen and was still living at home her first semester in college. And then when she did move out it certainly wasn''t into a dorm that looked as cool as the House of Night dorms! But she does DEFINITELY geek out with her friends. (She''s going to kill me for thatâ€¦)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n When did the two of you decide to write a book together? How does your writing process work?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n I brought Kristin in while I was writing the first three chapters of\n</p>\n<p>\n We''re on book six of the series, and we have the process down. We do some brainstorming, then I write the first draft, often asking Kristin questions right in the manuscript or leaving blanks for her to fill in. Then I send the entire thing to her, and she goes through it, answering questions, filling in blanks, and asking me questions/making comments of her own. She sends it back to me and I go through it again. Then it''s ready to go to St. Martin''s and our lovely editor, Jennifer Weis. It sounds like a tedious process, but it''s really very freeing for me. I can write whatever and know Kristin has my back.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Zoey has a few mother-daughter-like relationships--with her mom, her grandma, Neferet, Nyx. How much does your mother-daughter relationship inform your writing? Is it ever awkward?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n Hmm...that''s a good question. Kristin and I have a unique writing relationship. Actually, I probably wouldn''t even consider writing with anyone else--it''s unusually easy with my daughter (perhaps because I can beat her?). She and I have always been close, and we have a very honest relationship. Talking with each other has never been a problem, so we''re used to communicating. That helps a lot in a co-author situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Regarding the mother-daughter relationships in the book: clearly Zoey''s relationship with her own mom is nothing like Kristin and mine. Sadly, both of us have met many Linda Heffers here in Oklahoma, which is why she is so easy--and disturbing--for us to write. When I write Nyx''s words I often think about how I feel about Kristin, and then try to expand that to how this goddess would view the vampyres, especially Zoey, as her children.\n</p>\n<p>\n We get the awkward question often because of the sexual tension in the books. Kristin and I do discuss the temperature of the books and the specific situations a lot. It doesn''t feel awkward between us because we''re used to communicating, and because we don''t just stick sex in our series to be gratuitous. The sexual issues are there because they''re realistic to teenagers. Yes, Zoey has several boyfriends--often at the same time. But in six books she has had sex once, and that was because she was manipulated and used by a charismatic adult. It wasn''t awkward writing those parts with my daughter--we believe in the reality of the books and the points we make about mistakes and consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Each of the books sort of has its own personality.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n I think the shifting emphasis is because of the natural arc of the story. Think about your own life. Doesn''t your focus shift from time to time? I know mine does. Actually, sometimes it feels like events happen in waves: lots of guy, no guys, friend stres, no friend stress, crazy stuff at school, kinda calm school, etc. So I guess fiction is just mimicking the patterns I see in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Even though it has a satisfying ending (no spoilers!)\n <em>\n  Hunted\n </em>\n certainly doesn''t seem like the end of Zoey''s story. What''s next?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PC:\n </strong>\n Zoey has to save the world! And it''s definitely a big job. Seriously, now that the dark influences that have been lurking on the periphery of Zoey''s world have been brought out into the open, it''s time to deal with them. Of course that''s a lot harder than "Okay, Z, kick their butts and save the world now!" sounds. Especially as there are many layers to the House of Night world and often good appears bad, and bad seems terribly attractive.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4498'),
(4936, 'Hunter Killer', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(4937, 'Hunter&#39;s Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Even an assassin can be surprised... Tony Giodone grew up in a world of predators and prey. He was one of the mafiaâ€™s top enforcers and is now a respected freelancer. He thought nothing could shock him more than a real-life werewolf ripping out his throat and leaving him for dead. Until he became one of them. Now, a new client has asked him to undertake an unusual assignment; one that makes even him sit up and take notice. The client wants him to kill her! Can Tony avoid falling in love with the woman he is scheduled to murder, or will his feelings for the one woman that can accept the beast heâ€™s become make him more likely to end her life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1392'),
(4938, 'Hunter&#39;s Moon: A Novel', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a long absence, novelist CJ Baxter returns to his hometown of Adelia in upstate New York for his grandfather''s funeral. Facing a messy divorce and doubting his talent as a writer, CJ is forced to confront secrets that have tormented him since childhood. To complicate matters, his brother Graham is running for a Senate seat, and the family is intent on keeping the most damaging secret--surrounding a murder and its cover-up--in the family, for fear the truth would ruin Graham''s chances at winning. But with CJ airing their dirty laundry in his books, the family is forced to deal with him. CJ must find a way to remain safe while coming to terms with the newfound faith that compelled him to return to Adelia in the first place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(4939, 'Hunters of Dune', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After two prequel trilogies to the legendary SF epic (the Legends of Dune and Prelude to Dune series), Frank Herbert''s son Brian, in collaboration with Anderson, launch a new trilogy that takes up where Herbert Sr. left off with Chapterhouse: Dune (1985). This entertaining if over-the-top update begins three years after the refugee "no-ship," Ithaca, has fled Chapterhouse and the brutal Honored Matres, a corrupted faction of the all-female Bene Gesserit order led by Mother Commander Murbella. Duncan Idaho, Murbella''s ex-love slave, guides the ship carrying reincarnated warrior Miles Teg, the dissident Rev. Mother Sheeana and 150 other refugees. While Murabella deals with violent rebels from within, another more sinister enemy... secretly infiltrates the Honored Matres... Herbert''s ecological and religious concerns now seem oddly prescient, but this sizzling update, still filled with crazed women who sexually enslave men, sometimes borders on campy 1950s B-movie parody.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One of the monuments of modern science fiction."--_Chicago__ Tribune_ on\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know nothing comparable to it except\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  ."--Sir Arthur C. Clarke on\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed . . . a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical vistas. . . . An astonishing science fiction phenomenon."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Washington\n  </strong>\n  Post_ on\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious."--Robert A. Heinlein on\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Herbert''s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction."--_Louisville__ Times_ on\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  __\n  <br />\n  "The kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud."--_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review) on\n  <em>\n   Dune: The Butlerian Jihad\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sit back and enjoy."--_Booklist_ on\n  <em>\n   Dune: The Machine Crusade\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  __\n  <br />\n  "_Dune_ addicts will happily devour Herbert and Anderson''s spicy conclusion to their second prequel trilogy."--_Publishers Weekly_ on _Dune: The\n  <strong>\n   Battle\n  </strong>\n  of Corrin_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7410'),
(4940, 'The Hunters', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While Henry Parker and Jack O''Donnell get some much needed rest, two killers are on the move and before the night''s done their plan will be completed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7041'),
(4941, 'Hunting for Hidden Gold', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery.In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark of night. Strange men arrange a meeting at Shadow the Bear. A suspect disappears through a curtain of frozen ice.How are these events related to the men who kidnapped the boys in Chicago? Who booby-trapped the helicopter which flew the young detectives to the ghost town? And what ever happened to Bart Dawson who seemingly deserted his gold-mining partners twenty-five years ago?Clue by clue, Frank and Joe cleverly fit into place the scattered pieces of this dangerous puzzle and come up with the astonishing solution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10271'),
(4942, 'Hunting Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The co-author of the bestselling Noble Dead novels continues her "exhilarating"(*SF Revu*) new vampire series.** Eleisha Clevon has begun a correspondence with fellow vampire Rose de Spenser. Both reluctant predators, they venture outside only when the hunger becomes unbearable, trying not to draw attention to themselves-and feel guilty when ending human lives. But Eleisha has learned a way to draw blood from her victims without killing them. She wants to share this knowledge with like-minded vampires and create a haven where they can exist together-and forge a united front against Julian Ashton, a vampire who has been hunting down and destroying his own kind...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(4943, 'Hunting the Demon', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a world seething with sin and seduction, the chase is on.Hunting demons for a living can have its moments. Especially when Shay Pearsonâ€™s latest quarry is the gorgeous bronze surfer who just stepped out of the sea. Uncovering Nic Diavoloâ€™s devilish side could prove Shayâ€™s toughest assignment yet. Because while sheâ€™s acting as bait to snatch this sexy bad boy, Nicâ€™s got a plan of seduction no womanâ€”earthly or otherwiseâ€”can resist. Caught between two warring realms, Nic needs to stay alive long enough to figure out who his enemies are. That includes the beautiful hunter who wonâ€™t let him out of her sight. And something far worse: a force of evil with an almost unimaginable goalâ€” possessing Nicâ€™s very soul. But the hunt really heats up when a guy whoâ€™s hotter than Hades and a woman whoâ€™s afraid of love join forces, igniting an inferno of lust and longing that could send them into mortal danger...or straight into each otherâ€™s arms.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1946'),
(4944, 'Huon of the Horn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Part of the Charlemagne legend retold with fanciful trappings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9107'),
(4945, 'The Husband', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakesâ€”and the pulse rateâ€”higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itselfâ€”and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now heâ€™s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitchâ€™s wife and heâ€™s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesnâ€™t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. Heâ€™s confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. Heâ€™s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But heâ€™ll pay a lot more. Heâ€™ll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelationâ€¦until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And thereâ€™s no other experience quite like it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1417'),
(4946, 'Hush money', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Spenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other, Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim, only to find himself the unwilling object of the woman''s dangerous affection. "One of the great series in the history of the American detective story!"--*The New York Times*"Spenser can still punch, sleuth, and wisecrack with the best of them."--*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4005'),
(4947, 'Hush, Hush', 'Becca Fitzpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She''s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora''s not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can''t decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(4948, 'Hush: A Novel', 'Kate White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *New York Times* bestselling author and *Cosmopolitan*''s editor-in-chief returns with a sizzling, page-turning thriller in which an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murderâ€”and realizes it''s not just the law that''s hunting her. When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she''s pretty certain that things can''t get any worse. The upside is that she''s working with the Advanced Fertility Center as a marketing consultant, alongside the attractive, flirtatious Dr. Keaton. But the morning after their one-night stand, Lake finds Keaton with his throat slashed and discovers that things can indeed become worseâ€”they can become deadly. So as not to jeopardize her case for custody, Lake is forced to lie to the police. Having just been intimate with a man who has been murdered, and wanting to protect herself from being charged with the crime, she begins her own search for the truth. Meanwhile, the police start looking at her closely, people at the clinic start treating her with hostility, and strange clues begin droppingâ€”quite literallyâ€”on her doorstep, and Lake realizes that she is dangerously close to dark secrets, both about Keaton and the clinic. But can Lake stop what she''s started before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2290'),
(4949, 'HW-The Caine Mutiny (1952 Pulitzer Prize)', 'Herman Wouk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk''s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Upon its original publication in 1951, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half-century, Herman Wouk''s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining story of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater has achieved the status of a modern classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8799'),
(4950, 'Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(4951, 'I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President', 'Josh Lieb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Josh Lieb''s hilarious, *New York Times* bestselling debut, now in paperback! ** When a provocation from his dad irks twelve-year-old evil genius Oliver Watson, he''ll have to put his plans for world domination on hold in order to beat the pants off the competition and win the middle school election.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3128'),
(4952, 'I Am America (and So Can You!)', 'Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello; Allison Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3362'),
(4953, 'I Am Legend', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Mathesonâ€™s classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence (â€œConstantineâ€), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4084'),
(4954, 'I Am Not a Serial Killer', 'Dan Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. Heâ€™s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. Heâ€™s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesnâ€™t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules heâ€™s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They donâ€™t demand or expect the empathy heâ€™s unable to offer. Perhaps thatâ€™s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that thereâ€™s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means. Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he canâ€™t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could. Dan Wellsâ€™s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(4955, 'I Am Number Four', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the beginning we were nine.We left when we were very young, almost too young to remember. Almost. And now . . .Three are gone.We are here to keep our race alive, which was almost entirely obliterated. Were just trying to survive.Six are left.But we are hunted, and the hunters wont stop until theyve killed us all.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.I am Number Four.I know that I am next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3631'),
(4956, 'I Am Ozzy', 'Ozzy Osbourne; Chris Ayres', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "They''ve said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: ''He bit the head off a bat.'' Yes. ''He bit the head off a dove.'' Yes. But then you hear things like, ''Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn''t perform until he''d killed fifteen puppies . . .'' Now *me*, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I''ve got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I''ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I''ve been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour. People ask me how come I''m still alive, and I don''t know what to say. When I was growing up, if you''d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn''t have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain''t gonna be pretty. I''ve done some bad things in my time. I''ve always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain''t the *devil*. I''m just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2952'),
(4957, 'I Am the Chosen King', 'Helen Hollick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollick (A Hollow Crown) constructs a magnificent epic in this unabashedly pro-Saxon recounting of a turning point in EnglishÂ history. Twenty-two years before the Battle of Hastings, Harold Godwinesson lives happily with his wife in the turbulent era of Edward the Confessor, but as a member of the most powerful noble family in England, Harold is drawn into a political drama that will eventually lead him to assume the rule of England as the last of the Saxon kings. While Edward''s Norman associates stir resentment inÂ England, an enemy is consolidating his positionÂ across the channel: the ruthless William, dukeÂ of Normandy, who considers himself heir to Edward''s throne. Hollick''s enormous castÂ and meticulous research combine to create a convincing account ofÂ the destructive reign of the hapless Edward and theÂ internecine warfare that weakens England as WilliamÂ prepares to invade. Thanks to Hollick''s masterful storytelling, Harold''sÂ nobility and heroism enthrall to the point of engendering hope for a different ending to the famous battle of 1066. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollick''s enormous cast and meticulous research combine to create a convincing account of the destructive reign of the hapless Edward and the internecine warfare that weakens England as William prepares to invade. Thanks to Hollick''s masterful storytelling, Harold''s nobility and heroism enthrall to the point of engendering hope for a different ending to the famous battle of 1066. (_Publishers Weekly_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n Shut off the phones, order takeaway, and have beverages at hand because once begun, this book is close to impossible to set down. I adored\n <em>\n  I Am the Chosen King\n </em>\n and highly recommend it to all readers, do not be put off by the size of this book for in the end I fancy the reader will have wished it longer.\n <br />\n (_Rundpinne_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n This was a book that was very hard for me to put down. I found myself immersed in time and place and just about felt like I was THERE. Ms. Hollick is a master at delivering a tale that you don''t want to end. (_The Broken Teepee_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n One thing for certain, reading a historical novel by Helen Hollick will leave you feeling satisfied if a little sad that the novel has ended. Even though you basically know the ending before you start the novel, it is in the telling of the story in between that will captivate you and keep you reading.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Peeking Between the Pages_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n In the days when I was reading\n <em>\n  I Am the Chosen King\n </em>\n , I felt I was kidnapped by this story of the Saxon England. When I couldn''t read the book, I thought about it during the day, I researched what I didn''t know online and when sleeping, I dreamed about the characters. I think it will not be an exaggeration when I say that Helen cast a spell on me, the one that made me fully absorbed in the world of\n <em>\n  I Am the Chosen King\n </em>\n . (_Reading Extravaganza_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n The descriptions of the Battle of Hastings were breathtaking, and heartbreaking, I had goosebumps reading these scenes. Hollick''s author notes were a wonderful addition and much appreciated by this reader. All up, another winner for Helen Hollick and fans of historical fiction.\n <br />\n (_Queen of Happy Endings_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n The genius of Hollick''s writing is her rare ability to combine accurate historical fact with damned good storytelling. (_A Reader''s Respite_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n Helen Hollick is an author who is conquering the world one country at a time with her intricate way of bringing the past to life, especially through the historical fiction favorite; I am the Chosen King. (_Suite 101 Romance_ 20110311)\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed this book and I know that historical fiction fans will absolutely love it. Hollick has the ability to take a very detailed historical account and give it life. Her style is very approachable and leaves the reader feeling like they have learned a lot, while still being entertained. (_Deb''s Book Bag_ 20110510)\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Beethoven''s Symphony Number 7, I am the Chosen King starts out quiet and touching and then slowly, almost without you realizing it, it moves to a stunning and powerful conclusion. For the last two hundred or so pages, I found myself totally obsessed with the book. (_Laura''s Reviews_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll find yourself sucked into a world from the past where everything is different, yet nothing is. (_Literary Litter_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n There are many historical fiction authors I admire: writers who can tell a good story, keep my interest, and whisk me away to times and places far away. There are, however, very few of whom I am in awe; ones whose writing skill and depth are so encompassing that I am no longer an observer of events, but a participant. Helen Hollick is that sort of author, and\n <em>\n  I Am the Chosen King\n </em>\n is arguably her best writing. (_Historical Novels Review_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8115'),
(4958, 'I Am the Messenger', 'Markus Zusak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the hearts Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He''s pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That''s when the first ace arrives in the mail. That''s when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who''s behind Ed''s mission?A 2005 Michael L. Printz Honor Book and recipient of five starred reviews, *I Am the Messenger* is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists, and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3208');
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(4959, 'I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond', 'Michael Oher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''d understand if some people out there felt like another re-telling of the Oher story was flogging a dead horse, but personally, I feel like there''s a need for Oher''s own opus."\n <br />\n -Yahoo Sports\n</p>\n<p>\n "In a development I actually think is really great, Michael Oher will be publishing his own memoir now that his parents'' story,\n <em>\n  The Blind Side\n </em>\n , has been so thoroughly covered. It''s long been my position that some of the uncomfortable things about the way that story gets covered are the simple result of the fact that he hasn''t chosen to talk very much -- as this article points out, he contributed little in the way of interviews to either the book or the movie -- and I''ll be happy to hear what the guy''s got to say."\n <br />\n -Linda Holmes, NPR blogger.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The football star made famous in the hit film\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Oher is the young man at the center of the true story depicted in\n <em>\n  The Blind Side\n </em>\n movie (and book) that swept up awards and accolades. Though the odds were heavily stacked against him, Michael had a burning desire deep within his soul to break out of the Memphis inner-city ghetto and into a world of opportunity. While many people are now familiar with Oher''s amazing journey, this is the first time he shares his account of his story in his own words, revealing his thoughts and feelings with details that only he knows, and offering his point of view on how anyone can achieve a better life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had for himself in order to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family for so long. He recounts poignant stories growing up in the projects and running from child services and foster care over and over again in search of some familiarity. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out of the madness and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. But Oher also knew he would not be successful alone. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one''s dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love,\n <em>\n  I Beat the Odds\n </em>\n is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man''s quest to achieve the American dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8700'),
(4960, 'I Can&#39;t Believe It&#39;s Not Fattening!: Over 150 Ridiculously Easy Recipes for the Super Busy', 'Devin Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Featured Recipe: Chicken Breasts with Goat Cheese and Fire-Roasted Tomatoes\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This dish is exceptionally easy to make and worth every second. That said, there is one thing to note: Be careful when checking the chicken for doneness. The tomatoes will likely drip into the chicken. If you cut into the chicken or poke it with a fork to test for doneness, be sure itâ€™s not the liquid from the tomatoes making the chicken look pink even if itâ€™s not.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ingredients\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   4 (4-ounce) trimmed boneless, skinless chicken breasts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Sea salt and pepper, to taste\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Olive oil spray\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   1/2 cup canned, drained, diced fire-roasted tomatoes or fire-roasted tomatoes with garlic\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   2 ounces (about 1/2 cup) goat cheese crumbles\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   2 tablespoons finely slivered fresh basil leaves, or more to taste (optional)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  (Serves 4)\n  <br />\n  Hands-on Time: 7 Minutes\n  <br />\n  Hands-off Time: 5 to 9 Minutes\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Directions\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Season the chicken with salt and pepper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Place a medium ovenproof nonstick skillet over high heat. When itâ€™s hot, lightly mist the skillet with spray and immediately add the chicken side by side to the pan so it does not touch. Cook the chicken just until it is golden brown on the outsides, 1 to 2 minutes per side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Remove the pan from the heat and top each piece of chicken evenly with about 2 tablespoons of the tomatoes, followed by about 1/2 ounce of the cheese. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake the chicken until it is no longer pink inside and the cheese is melted, 5 to 9 minutes. Top evenly with the basil, if desired. Serve immediately.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makes 4 servings. Each (1 topped breast) serving has: 171 calories, 29 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 72 mg cholesterol, trace fiber, 198 mg sodium\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More a guide to smarter shopping than cooking, the latest from Alexander (The Biggest Loser Cookbook) gives dieters largely healthy options in 150 basic low-calorie recipes. Alexander admits her recipes are geared for convenience, unabashedly utilizing processed foods and artificial ingredients; though she does offer substitutions for organic or all-natural diets, readers will want to pay attention to nutritional information (Mafia''s Favorite Turkey Sandwich, for instance, has over 1,600 mg of sodium per serving, while Tequila Cheese Fondue is measured in two-tablespoon serving sizes). Novices and those pressed for time will be pleased to find more assembly than actual cooking: Pigs in Comforters consists of only four ingredients-olive oil spray, low-fat beef hot dogs, biscuit dough and mustard-and Spicy Tuna Salad comes together in seconds using tuna, low-fat mayo and chili sauce. Almost all of her recipes derive their health benefits from the inclusion of low- or reduced-fat store-bought ingredients: Ravio-Sagne, a ravioli-based riff on lasagna, relies on canned sauce, ravioli and low-fat cheese; Cheesy Brown Rice consists of cooked brown rice and Laughing Cow Light Swiss Cheese Squares; Peppermint Brownie "Pizza" consists of fat-free whipped topping spread over a low-fat brownie (made from a box mix).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6836'),
(4961, 'I Do Not Come to You by Chance', 'Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams. Being the opara of the family, he is entitled to certain privileges - a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation. But times are hard in Nigeria and jobs are not easy to come by.For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. But when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in his country, but it is money that does the talking. In desperation he turns to his uncle, Boniface-aka Cash Daddy-an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket. He is also rumoured to run a successful empire of email scams. But he can help. With Cash Daddy''s intervention, Kingsley and his family can be as safe as a tortoise under its shell. It is up to Kingsley now, to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, to fully assume his role of first son. But can he do it without being drawn into this outlandish milieu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(4962, 'I Don&#39;t Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I&#39;ve Dated', 'Julie Klausner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scarsdale-bred actress and entertainer Klausner fashions a breathy, vernacular-veering-into-vulgar, spastically woe-filled account of her youthful heartaches falling for guys who were just not that into her. Chronologically arranged, the brief, zippy anecdotes move from her preadolescent sexual awakenings, poring over\n <em>\n  Stallions\n </em>\n magazine during sleepovers with her girlfriends, through the unsavory details of sleeping with a gallery of losers throughout her 20s. The author likens herself to Miss Piggy from the Muppets, plucky, stylish, mouthy and irrepressible, chasing after the perennially indifferent Kermit, who just wants to hang out with his guy pals. Klausner''s eager pursuits of men followed this doomed pattern, from falling for Tom, the long-distant Internet crush in Minnesota, because he got her dorky allusions but happened to be emotionally zero; NYU acquaintance Ryan with Ã¢â‚¬Å“instance-inappropriate intensityÃ¢â‚¬Â who suggested a threesome; Colin the vegan, who only liked the taste of his own semen; and sex with a grossly ugly person that was supposed to make her feel better about her own inadequacies. Honest she is, though her tales of being young and Ã¢â‚¬Å“habitually dating the damagedÃ¢â‚¬Â require a strong stomach and a good handle on popular cultural references.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Klausner takes the heartbreak of romantic failure and turns it into hilarious defeat. I''d love for her to get her hands on depression and apathy, and turn them into a sheet of peanut brittle."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Patton Oswalt, stand-up comedian\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wish that, like a big sister, I could have taken Julie Klausner aside and advised her against most of the dalliances in this book. On the other hand, her horrible dating experiences are your laugh-out-loud entertainment."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Rachel Dratch, actress and comedienne (_Saturday Night Live_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Julie Klausner has the perfect comedic voice for a new generation of ladies-brave, self-deprecating, high-larious beyond and brand spanking new. It''s one of those books that you take to bed with you, that keeps you up all night, and that makes you laugh so hard in public the next morning that strangers ask you what you''re reading. And it makes me so glad I''m not dating."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Jill Soloway, author of\n  <em>\n   Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants\n  </em>\n  and executive producer of\n  <em>\n   United States of Tara\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Julie Klausner is Helen\n <em>\n  Girly\n </em>\n Brown: hard-working, yet lusty! Romantic\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n intelligent! But best of all: unapologetic about wanting to be in love.\n <em>\n  I Don''t Care About Your Band\n </em>\n has more wit and all of the\n <em>\n  tsuris\n </em>\n of Carrie Bradshaw''s\n <em>\n  Sex and the City\n </em>\n , without the pithy bromides."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Sarah Thyre, author of _ Dark at the Roots_ and actress on\n  <em>\n   Strangers with Candy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "All those misplaced orgasms and disappointing hookups with deviants were well worth it. Julie Klausner''s memoir is screamingly funny and wiser than a hooker with health insurance. Take it home for a ride!"\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Michael Musto, columnist for\n  <em>\n   The Village Voice\n  </em>\n  and author of\n  <em>\n   La Dolce Musto\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you think dating can''t get any worse, then you haven''t read this book. Julie Klausner''s hilarious memoir will remind you that the worse the date, the better the story it will eventually make. If nothing else, you''ll be comforted by the fact that\n <em>\n  your\n </em>\n date was never arrested for kidnapping."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Em &amp; Lo, relationship columnists,\n  <em>\n   New York Magazine\n  </em>\n  and authors of\n  <em>\n   Sex: How To Do Everything\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10118'),
(4963, 'I Drink for a Reason', 'David Cross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on Arrested Development and the role of "David" in Mr. Show With Bob And David, as well as a hugely successful stand-up routine full of sharp-tongued rants and rages, Cross has carved out his place in American comedy. Whether deflating the pomposity of religious figures, calling out the pathetic symbiosis of pseudo-celebrity and its leaching fandom, or merely pushing the buttons of the way-too-easily offended P.C. left or the caustic, double-standard of the callous (but funnier) right, Cross has something to say about everyone, including his own ridiculous self.Now, for the first time, Cross is weaving his media mockery, celebrity denunciation, religious commentary and sheer madness into book form, revealing the true story behind his almost existential distaste of Jim Belushi ("The Belush"), disclosing the up-to-now unpublished minutes to a meeting of Fox television network executives, and offering up a brutally grotesque run-in with Bill O''Reilly. And as if this wasn''t enough for your laughing pleasure in these troubled times, some of the pieces splinter off with additional material being created online in exclusive video and animated web content created solely for the book-a historical first (presumably)!With a mix of personal essays, satirical fiction posing as truth, advice for rich people, information from America''s least favorite Rabbi and a top-ten list of top-ten lists, I DRINK FOR A REASON is as unique as the comedian himself, and cannot be missed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(4964, 'I hope I shall arrive soon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3764'),
(4965, 'I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell', 'Tucker Max', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. â€”from the Introduction   Actual reader feedback:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "I am completely baffled as to how you can congratulate yourself for being a womanizer and a raging drunk, or think anyone cares about an idiot like you. Do you really think that exploiting the insecurities of others while getting wasted is a legitimate thing to offer?"\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Thank you, thank you, thank youâ€”for sharing with us your wonderful tales of drunken revelry, for teaching me what it means to be a man, for just existing so I know that there is another option; I too can say â€˜screw the systemâ€™ and be myself and have fun. My life truly began when I finished reading your stories. Now, when faced with a quandary about what course of action I should take, I just ask myself, â€˜What Would Tucker Do?â€™â€”and I do it, and I am a better man for it."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I donâ€™t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Iâ€™ll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. Youâ€™re an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I''m in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "You are the coolest person I can even imagine existing. If you slept with my girlfriend, it''d make me love her more."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9934'),
(4966, 'I Is for Innocent', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When David Barney was acquitted in the shooting death of his wife, Isabelle, a good many thought that justice had not been served -- including Kenneth Voight, Isabelle''s former husband. Now, five years later, Voight is the plaintiff in a civil suit in which Barney stands accused of Isabelle''s wrongful death. The stakes are high -- Isabelle''s estate is worth millions -- but time is running short: the statute of limitations will cut Voight off in only a matter of weeks. Enter sexy, savvy ex-cop-turned-P.I. Kinsey Millhone, brought in by Voight to gather the necessary damning evidence. It doesn''t take long, however, for Kinsey to find that while a lot of people hate David Barney, a lot more hated Isabelle. Suddenly a simple civil case becomes a deadly hunt for someone who once got away with murder -- and may again....Look for other titles in the Alphabet Mystery Series published by Random House AudioBooks.Judy Kaye has appeared on Broadway in Oh, Brother, Grease, and On the Twentieth Century, and won the Tony Award for her performance in The Phantom of the Opera.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8152'),
(4967, 'I Just Want My Pants Back', 'David Rosen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Strider, the slacker-hero of former ad-man and MTV series creator Rosen''s screwball debut novel, is a recent Cornell grad more interested in marijuana, booze and quick lays than his boring job or romantic relationships. The carnal drought he''s been experiencing is mercifully ended early in the book with a bout of athletic sex involving his refrigerator and a bar pickup named Jane, who departs after a second hook-up wearing his favorite pair of Dickies. His quest, then, to retrieve the pants occupies the bulk of the book. Along the way, Jason gets assists in the process of personal growth from his ailing next-door neighbor, Patty, and old Cornell buds Eric and Stacey, who ask Jason to perform their wedding ceremony. By the end of the tale, Jason has begun to mature and comes back into contact with his beloved pants in an unexpected yet appropriate fashion. Rosen deftly keeps the exploits of a shallow hero moving along-and more impressively, makes readers care what happens to his caddish narrator.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s another in the long line of novels devoted to the mishaps of feckless young males struggling to get serious about life and love. The familiar story line is freshened up by its contemporary references, including conversations rendered via IMs and apt references to songs both old (Ray Davies) and new (White Stripes). Recent college graduate Jason Strider moves to New York City, where he works a day job answering phones and hits the bars every night after work. Alcohol and sex are at the forefront of his agenda until he is faced with two more serious issues. His best friends at college have asked him to officiate their wedding, and his next-door neighbor, Patty, who has partied away the best years of her life, is dying from lung cancer, alone though unafraid. Jason beds one girl after another, loses his job, and increases his already prodigious intake of drugs and alcohol before being jolted into sobriety by Patty''s death. Their touching relationship and Jason''s sharp sense of humor give this debut novel an edge in a crowded field, though it''s not on a par with such classics as Bright Lights, Big City (1984) and High Fidelity (1995). Wilkinson, Joanne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7133'),
(4968, 'I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family', 'Kate Gosselin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 9.8 million viewers of TLC''s Jon and Kate Plus Eight recognize Kate Gosselin as the practical mom of eight who has come into their homes for over 100 episodes of her family''s hit reality show. In I Just Want You to Know, Kate reveals a grateful and faith-filled mother who only wants the best for her children and is willing to sacrifice to make that happen. The book covers the three years her family lived in their Elizabethtown home, a period Kate considers one of the happiest of her life. In it she discusses the individuality of eight kids (all under the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers, as well as her thoughts on communication, everyday miracles, and providing a safe home. During that time, Kate discusses her family''s unique challenges from daily schedules to traveling, her need for control to learning how to be flexible, the individuality of all eight kids, how God provided every day, and her faith that held it all together.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 9.8 million viewers of TLC''s Jon and Kate Plus Eight recognize Kate Gosselin as the practical mom of eight who has come into their homes for over 100 episodes of her family''s hit reality show. In I Just Want You to Know, Kate reveals a grateful and faith-filled mother who only wants the best for her children and is willing to sacrifice to make that happen. The book covers the three years her family lived in their Elizabethtown home, a period Kate considers one of the happiest of her life. In it she discusses the individuality of eight kids (all under the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers, as well as her thoughts on communication, everyday miracles, and providing a safe home. During that time, Kate discusses her family''s unique challenges from daily schedules to traveling, her need for control to learning how to be flexible, the individuality of all eight kids, how God provided every day, and her faith that held it all together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5025'),
(4969, 'I Kill', 'Giorgio Faletti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Personal tragedies affect almost everyone involved in Faletti''s well-constructed serial killer novel set in glitzy Monte Carlo. FBI agent Frank Ottobre is recovering in Monaco from his wife''s death by visiting his friend police commissioner Nicolas Hulot when the first deaths occur, of an American race car driver and the celebrated driver''s chess champion girlfriend. Ottobre is soon drawn into a baffling case where the killer goads police with untraceable phone calls to Jean-Loup Verdier, the principality''s most popular radio host, before each murder. As the victim count mounts, so does the suspense in this fine cat-and-mouse game of skill and subtlety. A smooth translation and several intriguing subplots, one of which features a powerful American general intent on vigilante justice, keep the pace moving briskly, despite the unusual length. First published in Italy in 2002, this winning novel marks Milan-based publisher Baldini Castoldi Dalai''s entry into the U.S. market.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A best-seller across Europe, Italian author Falettiâ€™s first novel is a top-notch thriller. Monte Carlo, in Monaco, is supposed to be one of the safest places on earth, with a police force more concerned with paparazzi than with homicide, but that all changes when a mystery man calls a popular radio show. The next day two faceless bodies are discovered, along with I kill written in blood. The substantial cast of characters that assembles to find the killer is led by Frank, a former FBI agent; Frankâ€™s best friend, Nicholas, the police commissioner; and the charismatic DJ Jean-Loup Verdier. All the characters are fully fleshed and three-dimensional, which makes the use of multiple viewpoints particularly enjoyable. The dialogue and narration could have been a little tighter, but Faletti manages to pull it off, maintaining a good pace and masterfully building tension through 600 pages, a clear sign of a major new talent. This one will appeal not only to devotees of European crime fiction but also to thriller fans in general. --Jessica Moyer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6387'),
(4970, 'I Know This Much Is True', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With his stunning debut novel, She''s Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman''s painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you''re the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you''re into both survival of the fittest and being your brother''s keeper--if you''ve promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman''s gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap.Dominick Birdsey''s entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she''d had no control.Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother''s watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother''s gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn''t get it.But Dominick''s talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick''s lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily ''s Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather''s handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico''s fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man''s confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth''s of Domenico''s life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors'' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity''s deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10715'),
(4971, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou''s "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Up. Two slender volumes that present critical information about popular classic titles. Bloom''s introduction is followed by a short biographical sketch of each author and then a detailed thematic and structural analysis that summarizes the novel in question, chapter by chapter. Excerpts from critical essays constitute the major portion of each book. Some of the essays on The Sun center around character analysis, especially of the main female character, Brett Ashley. Other entries include comparisons to other works of literature including F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, and discussions of the symbolism, morality, and the work''s historical context. Hemingway''s own interpretation of the book and a letter from Fitzgerald to Hemingway about its flaws are excerpted. In the second book, the writings explore Angelou''s use of language, her narrative technique, unique qualities of Caged Bird, comparisons with other works, and opposition to it. Motherhood, racial pride and self-hatred, rape, and honesty are among the issues explored. While similar material may be found in many other places, these series titles will be useful resources.?Lois McCulley, Wichita Falls High School, TX\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4452'),
(4972, 'I know you got soul: machines with that certain something', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Ferrari F40 has it, a Lexus hasn''t. Concorde''s got it, but not an Airbus. And while Titanic had it in spades, the Queen Mary 2 must have been in the wrong queue. Soul. Some machines matter to us while others are, well, just machines. In his own inimitable way, Jeremy Clarkson tells the gripping stories of the planes, trains and automobiles that inspire us; and of the geniuses and visionaries that built them. Lavishly illustrated, I Know You Got Soul is the perfect Christmas present for boys of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1709'),
(4973, 'I Love a Broad Margin to My Life', 'Maxine Hong Kingston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Told in free verse reminiscent of one of Kingston''s idols, Walt Whitman, this uncommon memoir of the artist at 65 is informed by the wide margins on the pages of the Chinese editions of her works (margins her father used to write in). Kingston revisits characters, like Wittman Ah Sing, the monkey from her first novel, and themes from her books: her pacifist, feminist activism; the challenge of stereotypes; East and West. Though this homage to aging, with wisdom gained through a freewheeling reflection on family, the past, fate (karma, we''re reminded, means "work," not "doom"), and self-reliance (which is a translation of Kingston''s Chinese name, Ting Ting), often rambles, it also has the cohesion and intricate logic of a musical composition. The artist is a mental traveler, presenting her life as a dreamlike journey that culminates in a listing of "my dead," some 50 names, which both pulls Kingston toward oblivion ("Each one who dies, I want to go with you") and inspires seven reasons to live. The desire to create recedes ("I regret always writing, writing") as the memoirist sees herself becoming "reader of the world," a "surprise world" that frees her from the need to create it with words. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title is from Thoreau, and it is the perfect credo for Kingston, a gentle advocate for justice and peace, an innovative creator of unconventional, mythic, and captivating tales. The very structure of her affecting memoir involves broad margins as Kingston channels musings and memories into one long, streaming poem. Some may quail at the prospect of a narrative-in-verse, but Kingstonâ€™s language is so natural, lucid, and subtly rhythmic, reading it is as effortless as breathing. Revered for the candor of her groundbreaking creative nonfiction, beginning with The Woman Warrior (1976), and her playful and profound fiction, Kingston gracefully entwines both genres as she reflects on turning 65, shares piquant stories of family, and catches up with her characters, especially Wittman Ah Sung, who first appeared in Tripmaster Monkey (1989). Kingstonâ€™s descriptions of the timeless beauty and evolving struggle of village life in China are mystical and incisive, while wry humor shapes her account of being arrested during a 2003 peace demonstration at the White House. Looking back to her California childhood as the daughter of immigrants, Kingston remembers wanting to ask others, â€œHow do you feel being you?â€ That is the writerâ€™s great question, and the wellspring of Kingstonâ€™s artistry and deep compassion. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8554'),
(4974, 'I Met the Walrus: How One Day With John Lennon Changed My Life Forever', 'Jerry Levitan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine you''re the world''s biggest Beatles fan and you''ve just snuck into John Lennon''s hotel room. But instead of being thrown out, inexplicably you''re invited to spend the day with your idol. That''s exactly what happened to fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan in 1969. After hearing John was in Toronto for a "bed in," Jerry tracked him down at the King Edward Hotel and convinced the world''s biggest rock star to sit down for an exclusive forty-minute interview. John talked candidly about war, politics, the scandalous\n <em>\n  Two Virgins\n </em>\n album, and the supposed subliminal messages in his music.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, forty years later, it''s all here: Jerry''s once-in-a-lifetime adventure, illustrated by acclaimed artist James Braithwaite and featuring never before seen photographs of John and Yoko. Also included in the book is Jerry''s memorabilia from that day--notes from John and Yoko, the secret code to contact him, drawings, John''s doodles, and much more. Complete with an audio and video DVD of the interview that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name,\n <em>\n  I Met the Walrus\n </em>\n is an immortalized one-on-one moment with John--a must-have for Lennon fans around the world, as well as anyone who has ever dreamed of meeting a hero.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jerry Levitan is a musician, actor, filmmaker, writer, and lawyer living in Toronto. Under the persona Sir Jerry (www.sir-jerry.com), he has been described as "one of Canada''s most innovative children''s performers" and has produced two critically acclaimed children''s albums,\n <em>\n  Bees, Butterflies &amp; Bugs\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Sir Jerry''s World\n </em>\n . As a litigation lawyer, he has set precedents in the fields of constitutional, human rights, and administrative law. And as an actor, he has appeared in film and television including an appearance on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n . He produced and starred in the 2008 Academy Award-nominated film\n <em>\n  I Met The Walrus\n </em>\n , winning acclaim and festival awards from around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7026'),
(4975, 'I Never Knew There Was a Word for It', 'Adam Jacot De Boinod', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From ''shotclog'' a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody''s quality of life. All they need is this book! This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam Jacot de Boinod''s acclaimed books about language - The Wonder of Whiffling, The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo (their fans include everyone from Stephen Fry to Michael Palin) - into one highly entertaining, keenly priced compendium. As Mariella Frostup said ''You''ll never be lost for words again!''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8139'),
(4976, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . . Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that arenâ€™t sparkly, arenâ€™t fun, donâ€™t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its rootâ€”before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. Chilling drama combines with laughout-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3410'),
(4977, 'I Shot You Babe', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Perennial grad student Veronica Gale gets more than she bargained for when her latest dissertation project puts her in the path of PHosopher/assassin/carnival-ride operator Coney Bombay-and an unsolved murder that might just kill her, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2360'),
(4978, 'I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly &amp; the Family Stone', 'Jeff Kaliss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kaliss traces the former Sylvester Stewart from Denton, Texas, beginnings through fame as Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone to the present. After the bandâ€™s fourth album, Stand! yielded monster hits in the title song, Everyday People, and the Aquarian party anthem I Want to Take You Higher, Sly rivaled James Brown and George Clinton as a progenitor of funk. Unlike the Godfather of Soulâ€™s and Dr. Funkensteinâ€™s, Slyâ€™s career fizzled in the mid-1970s as substance abuse and other problems facilitated a huge reputation for missing gigs and heightened tensions within the band. Recently, Stone granted Kaliss his first face-to-face interview in 20 years, spawning this book. Kaliss finds Stone enigmatic but planning a comeback. He never quit making musicâ€”or being mysterious. At one point, he deserts Kaliss mid-chat. Mindful of Slyâ€™s tendency to disappear . . . on whim, Kaliss just picks up the conversation later. A psychedelic ethereality infuses the book and, given Stoneâ€™s internal workings, rather confirms Kalissâ€™ veracity. Good, if vague in places; an important piece of pop-music history. --Mike Tribby\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone." --\n <em>\n  Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]"It''s amazing, although not exactly surprising, that Sly and the Family Stone''s volatile story has never fully been told. But now it has, and the tellers include the elusive and elliptical Sly Stone himself. Whatever else he is, he''s a stone genius; a major influence on R&amp;B, funk, pop and rock musicians since he emerged in 1968. Through Sly and his band, this book offers additional lessons, about traversing life as well as about making music." --\n <em>\n  Ben Fong-Torres, author of Not Fade Away:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock &amp; Roll and Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing and Life[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jeff Kaliss gives his readers a fascinating tour of the life of an errant, irreverent, and iridescent musical legend." --\n <em>\n  David Kapralik, former manager, Sly &amp; the Family Stone\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance." --\n <em>\n  Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n</p>\n<p>\n An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. --\n <em>\n  Mojo\n </em>\n --Various\n</p>\n<p>\n Meticulously reported. --_Vibe_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --_SF Weekly_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n</p>\n<p>\n --Various[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance." --\n <em>\n  Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. --\n <em>\n  Mojo\n </em>\n <br />\n Meticulously reported. --_Vibe_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --_SF Weekly_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone. -- Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. It''s amazing, although not exactly surprising, that Sly and the Family Stone''s volatile story has never fully been told. But now it has, and the tellers include the elusive and elliptical Sly Stone himself. Whatever else he is, he''s a stone genius; a major influence on R&amp;B, funk, pop and rock musicians since he emerged in 1968. Through Sly and his band, this book offers additional lessons, about traversing life as well as about making music. --Ben Fong-Torres, author of Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock &amp; Roll and Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing and Life --Various\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff Kaliss gives his readers a fascinating tour of the life of an errant, irreverent, and iridescent musical legend. -- David Kapralik, former manager, Sly &amp; the Family Stone Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance. -- Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. -- Mojo Meticulously reported. -- Vibe Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --SF Weekly Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone. -- Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One --Various\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8319');
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(4979, 'I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century&#39;s Greatest Forger', 'Frank Wynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Wynne''s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world--and along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. During van Meegeren''s heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned 50 million dollars, the acclamation of the world''s press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. And, no doubt, he never would have confessed at all if he hadn''t been trapped in a catch-22: he had thrived so noticably during the war that when it ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator. His only defense was to admit that he himself had painted the remarkable "Vermeers" that had passed through his hands--a confession the public refused to believe, until, in a huge media event, the courts staged the public painting of what would be van Meegeren''s last "Vermeer." "I Was Vermeer "is an utterly gripping real-life mystery, capturing both the life of the consummate art forger, phenomenally skilled and yet necessarily unrecognized, and the equally fascinating work of the experts who identify forgeries and track down their perpetrators. Wry, amoral, irreverent, and plotted like a thriller, it is the first major book in forty years on this astonishing episode in history. Frank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland, he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and currently lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has translated more than a dozen major novels, among them the works of Michel Houellebecq, Frederic Beigbeder, Pierre Merot and the Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. A journalist and broadcaster, he has written for the "Sunday Times," the "Independent," the "Irish Times," "Melody Maker," and "Time Out." Frank Wynne''s book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret star of the art world. Along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. During van Meegeren''s heyday as a forger of Vermeer, he earned fifty million dollars, the acclamation of the world''s press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeer''s if he had not confessed. And, no doubt, he never would have confessed at all if he hadn''t been trapped in a catch-22: he had thrived so noticably during the war that when it ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator. His only defense was to admit that he himself had painted the remarkable "Vermeers" that had passed through his hands--a confession the public refused to believe until, in a huge media event, the courts staged the public painting of what would be van Meegeren''s final "Vermeer." "I Was Vermeer "is an utterly gripping real-life mystery, capturing both the life of the consummate art forger, phenomenally skilled and yet necessarily unrecognized, and the equally fascinating work of the experts who identify forgeries and track down their perpetrators. Wry, amoral, irreverent, and plotted like a thriller, it is the first major book in forty years on this astonishing episode in history. "Wynne blends reportorial skill with a love of irony to tell van Meegeren''s life story . . . Crime thriller or forgery primer, this intriguing read also proves another epigram: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."--"Bookpage" "A spectacular story of vengeance and fraud told with verve and style by British journalist Wynne . . . The incredible story of how Dutch painter Han van Meegeren avenged himself on supercilious art critics by becoming an expert forger of Vermeer and fooling the Nazis conveys a valuable lesson in how we see, notes Wynne in this methodical, suspenseful tale . . . The forger''s trajectory from wealthy charlatan to national hero makes for delicious reading. Wynne employs all the devices of an expert "roman" "policier.""--"Kirkus Reviews""" "Some real-life stories are more fantastic than anything Hollywood can invent. That a mid-20th-century artist could create forgeries that fooled the entire art world is the extraordinary story of Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren. Recognizing that very few Johannes Vermeer paintings were known in his time and that there were no known early Vermeers, Meergeren realized he could create works that could not be compared to any authenticated Vermeer. Those fakes fooled everyone: art scholars, museum curators, and Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goring included. Meegeren''s deception was only discovered when he confessed it in court to save himself. London-based journalist and literary translator Wynne uses his journalistic skills to present a remarkable story that is part mystery, part adventure, part biography, and part courtroom drama. His thorough research and accomplished writing style bring this unique event in art history to the general public. Highly recommended."--Eugene C. Burt, "Library Journal" "In this intriguing . . . biography, Wynne recounts how Dutch forger Han van Meegeren successfully passed off more than a dozen bogus works--including, most famously, The Supper at Emmaus in 1937--as authentic Vermeers, Halses and de Hooches. Van Meegeren, who favored the style of the old Dutch masters just as modernism was hitting its stride, decided to embarrass his forward-looking critics by creating and selling his own ''Vermeer.'' He continued his charade until he was forced to admit his crimes in 1947 while defending himself against a separate charge of treason. Wynne takes great care in explaining just how the increasingly paranoid and drug-addicted van Meegeren managed to fool the international art community, including a technical breakdown of how van Meegeren employed plastic to create the antique look of cracked craquelure in his canvases. Wynne also ruminates on how the arrogance of the art world--of critics like Abraham Bredius who were so confident in their ability to spot fakes that they brushed aside X-rays and other modern tests, as well as collectors desperate for authenticity--fuels the market for forgeries."--"Publishers Weekly"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7898'),
(4980, 'I Will Fear No Evil', 'Robert Anson Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''Magnificent. A science fiction masterpiece.'''' --\n  <em>\n   Galaxy\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Those who have thought of science fiction as only child''s play will see how wrong they are.'''' --\n  <em>\n   Detroit Free Press\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''One is left with the feeling that he has been in the presence of a master!'''' --_National Observer_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As startling and provocative as his famous\n  <em>\n   Stranger in a Strange Land\n  </em>\n  , here is Heinlein''s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was immensely rich -- and very old. Though his mind was still keen, his body was worn out. His solution was to have surgeons transplant his brain into a new body. The operation was a great success -- but the patient was no longer Johann Sebastian Bach Smith. He was now fused with the very vocal personality of his gorgeous, recently deceased secretary, Eunice -- with mind-blowing results! Together they must learn to share control of her body.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5026'),
(4981, 'I Will Teach you to be Rich', 'Sethi, Ramit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10007'),
(4982, 'I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt, No Excuses - Just a 6-Week Programme That Works', 'Ramit Sethi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I Will Teach You To Be Richis a practical approach delivered with a non-judgemental style based on the four pillars of personal finance '' banking, saving, budgeting and investing '' and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.Witty, entertaining, wise and practical, Ramit Sethi explains how to automate your money flow - i.e. earn while sleeping, why your new best friend should be the taxman and how to beat banks and credit cards at the fee game. How do you negotiate a raise? How can you manage student loans? And can you still enjoy your daily latte and buy that iPhone? Sethi''s 6-week plan shows you how:Week 1: Optimise your credit cards and learn exactly what to say to get fees waived Week 2: Set up no-fee, high-interest bank accounts that won''t cost you Week 3: Open investment accounts even with a small amount of money Week 4: Figure out how much you''re spending. And then learn how to make your money go where you want it to go! Week 5: Automate your new infrastructure to make your accounts play nicely together Week 6: Why investing isn''t the same as picking stocks - how to get the most out of the market with very little work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6807'),
(4983, 'I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: You can''t runDetective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington''s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer''s only victim.**You can''t hide**The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, *if* you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain--they will do *anything* to keep their secrets safe. ******Alex Cross is your only hope to stay alive**As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could rock the entire world. With the unstoppable action, unforeseeable twists, and edge-of-your-seat suspense that only a James Patterson thriller delivers, *I, Alex Cross* is the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2037'),
(4984, 'I, Q', 'John de Lancie &amp; Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As fans of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation\n  </em>\n  know, Q is the omnipotent extradimensional entity who so often causes whimsical havoc on the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and elsewhere--for example, by helpfully introducing Captain Picard and his crew to the menacing Borg collective. Now this petulant demigod''s first-person story is told by John de Lancie, the actor who plays Q, and Peter David, author of successful\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels. It''s an irreverent romp through one bizarre scenario after another, as not only\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  ''s Federation universe but the entire multiverse of alternative timelines looks set to gurgle down a metaphysical plughole. Q''s own wife and son vanish into the maelstrom, and his "Q Continuum" colleagues blither about calmly accepting apocalypse as a change from eternal tedium. Only Picard and Data the android accompany the questing Q, whose monstrous egotism and complaints that Picard never genuflects to him are barely affected when he loses his godlike powers and realizes that he may\n  <em>\n   need\n  </em>\n  mere humans. En route to the end of all things, they encounter other Federation characters, including Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi, and our captain''s dread cyborg alter-ego, Locutus of Borg. After a fast-moving sequence of fights, wisecracks, insults, old jokes, and ultimate despair, the fate of the multiverse is ... but that would be telling. Frothy entertainment.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are very few things that Q, a member of the Q continuum, can''t handle, so he isn''t going to let a little thing like the end of the multiverse get the better of him. Under normal circumstances, he might have gone along with the rest of the Qs in celebrating the End as the biggest party of all time, but these are not normal circumstances: the fates of Q''s wife and child are at stake, and Q, usually omnipotent and omniscient, in not in control. Powerless, he needs the help of his erstwhile tormentee, Jean-Luc PicardAwho is convinced that some being even more powerful than Q is causing this sudden universal decline. There are plenty of such entities to choose from, including the M continuum, a being called god and a mysterious female presence who puts the cosmos on hold as she reads a peculiar message in a bottle. Considering that Q is one of the most beloved characters in the Star Trek universe, De Lancie (who plays him on the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, and who''s here aided by veteran Trek mass-market novelist David) is sure to gain a wide readership even though Q''s egotistical ramblings, which work so well on screen, can drag on here. The narrative, which presents an almost mythological universal manifestation of the five stages of grief, will take readers on a wild and unique ride, though it leads to a predictable conclusion. As for the quest to make Q a more prominent character in the world of Star Trek books? Fans will say, "Make it so." (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8464'),
(4985, 'I, Richard', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hailed by The New York Times as â€œa master of the British mystery,â€ award-winning author Elizabeth George is one of our most distinguished writers, cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering that deftly explores the dark side of everyday peopleâ€”and the lengths to which they will go to get what they want most....In these five tantalizing and original tales, George plumbs the depths of human natureâ€”and human weaknessâ€”as only she can. From the chilling tale of a marriage built on an appalling set of lies that only death can reveal, to the final, title story about a penniless schoolteacher whose ambition turns murderous, I, Richard is filled with page-turning drama, danger, and unmatched suspense. Whether the setting is urban or suburban, affluent or middle class, no one is safe from menace. Thanks to Inspector Thomas Lynley, a squabbling group of Anglophiles discovers a killer in its midstâ€¦But little help is on hand when a picture-perfect town is shattered by an eccentric new residentâ€™s horrifying pet project.... And when a wealthy husband is haunted by suspicions about his much-younger wife, it becomes clear that a manâ€™s imagination can be his own worst enemy...Ironic, revealing, and undeniably entertaining, this imaginative collection proves once again why Elizabeth George is one of todayâ€™s best-loved authors. I, Richard belongs in the library of each and every mystery devotee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7863'),
(4986, 'I, Robot', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The three laws of Robotics:1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.With this, Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact &amp; science fiction that became Asmiov''s trademark.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9548'),
(4987, 'I.O.U.S.A', 'Addison Wiggin &amp; Kate Incontrera &amp; Dorianne Perrucci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the theatrical version of I.O.U.S.A.:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice." -- Toronto Star\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The buck stops here in this sobering but disarmingly irreverent look at the national debt." -- Hollywood Reporter\n </p>\n <p>\n  I.O.U.S.A. | 3.5 Stars! "...it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the national debt, the foreign trade deficit, the decrease in personal savings, how the prime interest rate works, and the weakness of our leaders." -- Roger Ebert\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An alternately amusing and alarming primer on America''s off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility." -- Variety\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts enlightening and alarming, "I.O.U.S.A." highlights our unwise preference for short-term reward over long-term planning." NY Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For anyone seeking a clearer understanding of the financial state of the union -- and strong enough to take the sobering news -- [I.O.U.S.A.] is a good place to start." LA Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Some even wonder if it might do for the economy what Al Goreâ€™s "An Inconvenient Truth" did for the environment..."I.O.U.S.A" is a bold attempt to highlight a potentially huge problem." -- The Economist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the messâ€”but who''s paying attention?\n  <br />\n  To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary\n  <em>\n   I.O.U.S.A.\n  </em>\n  talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul Oâ€™Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete Peterson, CEO of The Blackstone Group; Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas); and bestselling\n  <em>\n   Empire of Debt\n  </em>\n  author Bill Bonner.\n  <br />\n  Armed with these interviews, historical references, and damning statistics, the book takes a lively and entertaining romp through the four deficits the nation faces: the budget deficit, the personal savings deficit, the trade deficitâ€”and what former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned abruptly in 2008 over Congressâ€™s lack of action, calls the â€œleadership deficitâ€ in Washington.\n  <br />\n  Defiantly non-partisan, the empowering solutions outlined in these pages are a must-read for any American who wants to help change â€œbusiness-as-usualâ€ in Washington as a new administration heads towards the Oval Office. â€œWe the Peopleâ€ can get our politicians to stop spending, promote responsible economic programs, and hand our children and grandchildren the secure future they deserve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5671'),
(4988, 'I.O.U.S.A.', 'Addison Wiggin; Kate Incontrera; Dorianne Perrucci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the theatrical version of I.O.U.S.A.:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice." -- Toronto Star\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The buck stops here in this sobering but disarmingly irreverent look at the national debt." -- Hollywood Reporter\n </p>\n <p>\n  I.O.U.S.A. | 3.5 Stars! "...it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the national debt, the foreign trade deficit, the decrease in personal savings, how the prime interest rate works, and the weakness of our leaders." -- Roger Ebert\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An alternately amusing and alarming primer on America''s off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility." -- Variety\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts enlightening and alarming, "I.O.U.S.A." highlights our unwise preference for short-term reward over long-term planning." NY Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For anyone seeking a clearer understanding of the financial state of the union -- and strong enough to take the sobering news -- [I.O.U.S.A.] is a good place to start." LA Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Some even wonder if it might do for the economy what Al Goreâ€™s "An Inconvenient Truth" did for the environment..."I.O.U.S.A" is a bold attempt to highlight a potentially huge problem." -- The Economist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the messâ€”but who''s paying attention?\n  <br />\n  To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary\n  <em>\n   I.O.U.S.A.\n  </em>\n  talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul Oâ€™Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete Peterson, CEO of The Blackstone Group; Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas); and bestselling\n  <em>\n   Empire of Debt\n  </em>\n  author Bill Bonner.\n  <br />\n  Armed with these interviews, historical references, and damning statistics, the book takes a lively and entertaining romp through the four deficits the nation faces: the budget deficit, the personal savings deficit, the trade deficitâ€”and what former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned abruptly in 2008 over Congressâ€™s lack of action, calls the â€œleadership deficitâ€ in Washington.\n  <br />\n  Defiantly non-partisan, the empowering solutions outlined in these pages are a must-read for any American who wants to help change â€œbusiness-as-usualâ€ in Washington as a new administration heads towards the Oval Office. â€œWe the Peopleâ€ can get our politicians to stop spending, promote responsible economic programs, and hand our children and grandchildren the secure future they deserve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9485'),
(4989, 'I&#39;d Know You Anywhere', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novelâ€”a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim''s life....*I''d Know You Anywhere* Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life with her successful husband and children, thirteen-year-old Iso and eight-year-old Albie. But her tranquillity is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expectsâ€”or wantsâ€”to hear from: Walter Bowman. *There was your photo, in a magazine. Of course, you are older now. Still, I''d know you anywhere*. In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter and held hostage for almost six weeks. He had killed at least one girl and Eliza always suspected he had other victims as well. Now on death row in Virginia for the rape and murder of his final victim, Walter seems to be making a heartfelt act of contrition as his execution nears. Though Eliza wants nothing to do with him, she''s never forgotten that Walter was most unpredictable when ignored. Desperate to shelter her children from this undisclosed trauma in her past, she cautiously makes contact with Walter. She''s always wondered why Walter let her live, and perhaps now he''ll tell herâ€”and share the truth about his other victims. Yet as Walter presses her for more and deeper contact, it becomes clear that he is after something greater than forgiveness. He wants Eliza to remember what really happened that long-ago summer. He wants her to save his life. And Eliza, who has worked hard for her comfortable, cocooned life, will do anything to protect itâ€”even if it means finally facing the events of that horrifying summer and the terrible truth she''s kept buried inside. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation that will leave readers racing to the final page, *I''d Know You Anywhere* is a virtuoso performance from acclaimed, award-winning author Laura Lippman that is sure to be her biggest hit yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2414'),
(4990, 'I&#39;d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts', 'Larry Wilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of the incomparable Larry Wilmore. Here, collected for the first time, all in one place, are his Black Thoughts. From why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don''t see UFOs to his search for Black Jesus or his quest to replace "African-American" with "chocolate," Wilmore has finally relented, agreeing to share his unique (black) perspective. Soon, you too will have the ability to find racism in everything. Bring back the Shetland Negro and do away with Black History Month! After all, can twenty-eight days of trivia really make up for centuries of oppression? In Wilmore''s own words, "I''d rather we got casinos!"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2367'),
(4991, 'I&#39;ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World&#39;s Most Popular Wine', 'Rudolph Chelminski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Francophile Chelminski (_The Perfectionist_) offers up a feisty defense of Georges Duboeuf, who singlehandedly put Beaujolais, the grape and the region, on the culinary map. Unlike the better established regions of Burgundy and Bordeaux, the small grape growers of Beaujolaisâ€”a ribbon of land between Lyon and MÃ¢con, its capital Beaujeuâ€”held to the growing of the inferior gamay, which flourished in the region despite the attempts by the Romans to eradicate it. Surviving phylloxera and grafting from plants of American roots, the humble Beaujolais became a favorite wine of Lyon largely because of the excellence of its\n  <em>\n   primeur\n  </em>\n  , or new wine, which was available by St. Martin''s Day, November 11. In Chelminski''s circuitous path, enter young Duboeuf, on his family winery at Chaintre, who decided by 1951 to circumvent the big dealers and set up his own wine-tasting cellar. Armed with two of his own bottles, he pedaled over to Paul Blanc''s famous restaurant Le Chapon Fin down the road, and history was made: Duboeuf Wines is the #1 exporter of French wines to the U.S. Chelminski offers a stylish history of French wine-making, and an unblushing tribute to Duboeuf''s achievements.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the highly snobbish wine universe, Beaujolais lacks the cachet of many of its brother wines from France''s Burgundy region. Product of a single grape, gamay, this is a wine best enjoyed in its youth, so Beaujolais finds itself too often dismissed as common. Yet no other wine attracts the exuberant anticipatory attention that accompanies the release of a new vintage every November. In detailed and good-humored prose, Chelminski traces the history of Beaujolais from the phylloxera devastation of French vineyards in the late nineteenth century through the food revolution inaugurated in part by neighboring Lyon''s restaurateur Paul Bocuse a century later. Crediting Beaujolais'' success to an enterprising French winemaker, Georges Duboeuf, Chelminski''s narrative uncovers how Duboeuf''s public-relations coup in promoting the release of the new vintage has paradoxically cheapened Beaujolais in the minds of some oenophiles. Wine-book collections will find this volume fills a notable gap. Knoblauch, Mark\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5022'),
(4992, 'I&#39;ll Never Get Out of This World Alive', 'Steve Earle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011\n </strong>\n : Steve Earle''s heartbreaking debut novel features a morphine addict who performs illegal abortions, a young Mexican girl with mysterious healing powers, the ghost of Hank Williams, and a host of other more or less charismatic misfits. Set in San Antonio around the time of JFKâ€™s assassination, and told with an equal mix of sympathy and violent detail, the story maintains a delicate balance of many such would-be opposing forces: Catholicism and "hoodoo," addiction and redemption, brutal reality and magical realism. A first novel this compelling from any author would be cause for celebration, but Earle is also a musician (the GRAMMYÂ®-winning albums\n <em>\n  Washington Square Serenade\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Townes\n </em>\n ), actor (_The Wire_), and activist, and in this context the book is even more of a watershed accomplishment.\n <em>\n  I''ll Never Get Out of This World Alive\n </em>\n is decidedly not for the faint of art, but adventuresome fiction readers will find much to love in its shocking, tender depths. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Earle (a hell of a songwriter himself) has written\n <strong>\n  a deft, big-spirited novel\n </strong>\n about sin, faith, redemption, and the family of man." --_Entertainment Weekly_ "Earle draws on the rough-and-tumble tenderness in his music to create\n <strong>\n  a witty, heartfelt story of hope, forgiveness, and redemption.\n </strong>\n " --_Booklist_ "In this spruce debut novel...hard-core troubadour Earle ponders miracles, morphine and mortality in 1963 San Antonio... With its Charles Portis vibe and the author''s immense cred as a musician and actor, this should have no problem finding the wide audience it deserves." --_Publishers Weekly_ "A thematically ambitious debut novel that draws from the writer''s experience, yet isn''t simply a memoir in the guise of fiction...richly imagined..." --_Kirkus Reviews_, starred "Steve Earle brings to his prose the sameã€€authenticity, poetic spirit andã€€cinematic energy he projects in his music.\n <em>\n  Iâ€™ll Never Get Out of This World Alive\n </em>\n is like a dream you can''t shake,ã€€offering beauty and remorse,ã€€redemption in spades."ã€€ â€”Patti Smith ". . . a doctor, a Mexican girl, an Irish priest, the ghost of Hank Williams, and JFK the day before he dies. This subtle and dramatic book is the work of a brilliant songwriter who has moved from song to orchestral ballad with astonishing ease." â€”Michael Ondaatje Â  "A rich, raw mix of American myth and hard social reality, of faith and doubt, always firmly rooted in a strong sense of character." â€”Charles Frazier "Steve Earle writes like a shimmering neon angel." â€”Kinky Friedman Â  "Earle has created a potent blend of realism and mysticism in this compelling, morally complex story of troubled souls striving for a last chance at redemption. Musician, actor, and now novelistâ€”is there another artist in America with such wide-ranging talent?" â€”Ron Rash "The characters are unforgettable,ã€€and the plot moves like a fast train. A fantastic mixture of hardã€€reality and dark imagination." â€”Thomas Cobb Â  "Raw, honest andã€€unafraid, this novelã€€veers in and out of the lives of its many memorable characters with flawless pitch. Earle has given us dozens of remarkable songs, he has given us a dazzling collection of short stories, and now here''s his first novel, a doozy from a great American storyteller." â€”Tom Franklin "A haunting and haunted bookend to Irvingâ€™s\n <em>\n  Cider House Rules\n </em>\n . Gritty and transcendent, Earle has successfully created his ownã€€potion of Texas, twang, and dope-tinged magic-realism."\n <br />\n â€”Alice Randall "If Jesus were to return tomorrow to twenty-first-century America, and do some street preaching on the gritty South Presa Strip of San Antonio, heâ€™d love Earleâ€™s magnificently human, big-hearted drifters." â€”Howard Frank Mosher Â  "Colorful, cool, and downright gripping." â€”Robert Earl Keen "Reads like the best of Steve Earleâ€™s story songs, which means real good. The tale of a more charmingly haunted, trying-to-do-the-right-thing dope fiend you wonâ€™t easily find." â€”Mark Jacobson Â  "The best book I''ve read since\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n . As much or more than any other artist of his generation Steve Earle rises to the call, culturally and politically, traditionally in folk and country and rock music and what heâ€™s added there, and with acting and writing for theater, and now with all the literary forms crescendoing in this beautiful novel. He just keeps stepping up." â€”R. B. Morris "Steve Earle astonishes us yet again. Country Rock''s outlaw legendã€€brings the ghost of Hank Williams to life in a gloriously gritty first novel that soars like a song. And echoes in the heart." â€”Terry Bisson\n <br />\n "A mighty fine piece of storytelling." â€”Madison Smartt Bell Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6428'),
(4993, 'I&#39;ll Walk Alone', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK!\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s new novelâ€”the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as Americaâ€™s most beloved author of suspense fictionâ€” is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who has not read aboutâ€”or experiencedâ€”with a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   I ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  , Alexandra â€œZanâ€ Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Parkâ€”a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, on what would be Matthewâ€™s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebodyâ€”but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?â€”has stolen her identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herselfâ€” and those she loves mostâ€”in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even Zanâ€™s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden Oâ€™Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deeply satisfying,\n  <em>\n   Iâ€™ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  is Mary Higgins Clark at the top of her form.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Higgins Clark\n  </strong>\n  ''s books are world-wide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over one hundredÂ million copies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She is the author of twenty-nine previous suspense novels. Her first book, a biographical novel about George Washington, was re-issued with the title,\n  <em>\n   Mount Vernon Love Story\n  </em>\n  , in June 2002. Her memoir,\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Privileges\n  </em>\n  , was published by Simon &amp; Schuster in November 2002. Her first children''s book,\n  <em>\n   Ghost Ship\n  </em>\n  , illustrated by Wendell Minor, was published in April 2007 as a Paula Wiseman Book/Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She is co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of five holiday suspense novels\n  <em>\n   Deck the Halls\n  </em>\n  (2000),\n  <em>\n   He Sees You When You''re Sleeping\n  </em>\n  (2001),\n  <em>\n   The Christmas Thief\n  </em>\n  (2004),\n  <em>\n   Santa Cruise\n  </em>\n  (2006), and\n  <em>\n   Dashing through the Snow\n  </em>\n  (2008).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards. An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by Simon &amp; Schuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched by Mystery Writers of America during Edgars week in April 2001. She was the 1987 president of Mystery Writers of America and, for many years, served on their Board of Directors. In May 1988, she was Chairman of the International Crime Congress.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8344'),
(4994, 'I&#39;ll Walk Alone: A Novel', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK!\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s new novelâ€”the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as Americaâ€™s most beloved author of suspense fictionâ€” is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who has not read aboutâ€”or experiencedâ€”with a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   I ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  , Alexandra â€œZanâ€ Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Parkâ€”a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, on what would be Matthewâ€™s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebodyâ€”but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?â€”has stolen her identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herselfâ€” and those she loves mostâ€”in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even Zanâ€™s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden Oâ€™Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deeply satisfying,\n  <em>\n   Iâ€™ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  is Mary Higgins Clark at the top of her form.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Higgins Clark\n  </strong>\n  ''s books are world-wide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over one hundred million copies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She is the author of twenty-nine previous suspense novels. Her first book, a biographical novel about George Washington, was re-issued with the title,\n  <em>\n   Mount Vernon Love Story\n  </em>\n  , in June 2002. Her memoir,\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Privileges\n  </em>\n  , was published by Simon &amp; Schuster in November 2002. Her first children''s book,\n  <em>\n   Ghost Ship\n  </em>\n  , illustrated by Wendell Minor, was published in April 2007 as a Paula Wiseman Book/Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She is co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of five holiday suspense novels\n  <em>\n   Deck the Halls\n  </em>\n  (2000),\n  <em>\n   He Sees You When You''re Sleeping\n  </em>\n  (2001),\n  <em>\n   The Christmas Thief\n  </em>\n  (2004),\n  <em>\n   Santa Cruise\n  </em>\n  (2006), and\n  <em>\n   Dashing through the Snow\n  </em>\n  (2008).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards. An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by Simon &amp; Schuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched by Mystery Writers of America during Edgars week in April 2001. She was the 1987 president of Mystery Writers of America and, for many years, served on their Board of Directors. In May 1988, she was Chairman of the International Crime Congress.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11055'),
(4995, 'I&#39;m A Stranger Here Myself', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/870'),
(4996, 'I&#39;m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of\n</p>\n<p>\n Happily,\n <em>\n  I''m a Stranger Here Myself\n </em>\n unleashes a new Bryson, more contemplative and less likely to toss daggers. After two decades in England, he''s relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this collection (drawn from dispatches for London''s\n <em>\n  Night &amp; Day\n </em>\n magazine), he''s writing from home, in close proximity to wife and family. We find a happy marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective of one who''s stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.S. culture, capturing its absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he writes, "four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding."\n</p>\n<p>\n The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving--when the only goal is to "get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach ball" and be grateful. And grateful we are that the previously peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.S., turning his eye to this land--while living at home and near his wife. Under her benevolent influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic stabs.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-expatriate Bryson, who chronicled one effort at American reentry in his bestselling A Walk in the Woods, collects another: the whimsical columns on America he wrote weekly, while living in New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1990s, for a British Sunday newspaper. Although he happily describes himself as dazzled by American ease, friendliness and abundance, Bryson has no trouble finding comic targets, among them fast food, computer efficiency and, ironically, American friendliness and putative convenience. As he edges into Dave Barry-style hyperbole, Bryson sometimes strains for yuks, but he''s deft when he compares the two cultures, as in their different treatment of Christmas, pointing out how the British "pack all their festive excesses" into that single holiday. Bryson also nudges into domestic territory with regular references to his own British wife, the resolutely sensible Mrs. B. In a few columns, Bryson adopts a sentimental tone, writing about his family and his new hometown of Hanover. In others, he''s more sober, criticizing anti-immigration activists, environmental depredation and drug laws (though he draws out the humor in these as well). Not all the columns hit their mark, and they are best read in small groupings, but this collection should sell well enough, although not likely to the heights of A Walk in the Woods. Agent, Jed Mattes. Author tour; BDD audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6131');
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(4997, 'I&#39;m Dreaming of a Black Christmas', 'Lewis Black', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vituperative standup comedian Black (Me of Little Faith) delivers a caustic Christmas diatribe. Warning readers to ignore the book if they have a deep attachment to Christmastime, he notes, "This book contains, like the celebration of Christmas, only 2 percent religion. Think of it as the yuletide equivalent of low-fat milk." After recalling how he argued with the editor who urged him to write a Christmas book, Black delivers a full-scale Scrooge-styled screed. With chapters such as "Meditations of a Jewish Santa," "The Hooker at Rockefeller Center," and "The Carol from Hell," he rips into such seasonal traditions as Christmas cards, dinners, toys, advertising ("a primal scream of sales"), shopping ("Why don''t you folks wait until the 26th of December when things are the cheapest?"), trees ("something magical about a Christmas tree all dazzled up in lights... almost as breathtaking as a hooker gone wild in spangles"), carols ("A shower is a place for singing, and on Christmas, it''s where you should be caroling"), and gifts: "At Chanukah we get nothing. We don''t even get stockings." With digressions on the human comedy and his personal life, Black spews forth much invective, but successfully exposes societal truths with riotous ripostes. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For most people, Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill. But most people are not Lewis Black. Like Dickens''s most famous curmudgeon, Black says Humbug! to carols, holiday dinners, Christmas trees, decked halls, and boughs of holly. In\n <em>\n  I''m Dreaming of a Black Christmas\n </em>\n , he dares to celebrate the holiday season the only way he knows how: by letting loose on all things Yule.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Thanksgiving, when the holiday really begins, through Christmas Eve, when Black takes a moment to determine who in his life has been naughty (nearly everyone), to the saga of his annual visits to friends and their families every Christmas Day, the comedian reveals his most harrowing and hilarious holiday moments, not only inspiring laughter but also bringing into focus the true reason we gather together at this time of year.\n</p>\n<p>\n All new, and sure to delight fans both new and old,\n <em>\n  I''m Dreaming of a Black Christmas\n </em>\n is an instant holiday classic: funny, razor- sharp, the insightful, and quintessential Lewis Black.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8112'),
(4998, 'I&#39;m in No Mood for Love', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she''s suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown she''ll never wear again, and the next thing she knows it''s morning . . . and she''s lying next to Sebastian Vaughan, her girlhood crush turned sexy, globe-hopping journalist. After finding her own fiancÃ© in a compromising position with the washing machine repairman, Clare had the right to go wild. But Clare is in no mood for loveâ€”not even for lustâ€”and wants to forget about Sebastian and his six-pack abs ASAP. But he isn''t in the mood to go away, and his kiss is impossible to forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4072'),
(4999, 'I&#39;m Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0', 'Alton Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eight years ago, Alton Brown set out to create a cooking show for a new generation. The result was Good Eats, one of Food Networks most popular programs. Four years ago, Brown set out to write a cookbook for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe. A mix of cutting-edge graphics and a fresh take on preparing food, Im Just Here For the Food became one of the bestselling cookbooks of the yearand received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award as best reference book. This year, to commemorate and celebrate this success story (more than 300,000 copies in print), STC is pleased to announce Im Just Here For the Food: The Directors Cut. This special edition features 10 brand-new recipes, 20 pages of additional material, a jacket that folds out into a poster, and a removable refrigerator magnetalong with everything that made the original a classic instruction manual for the kitchen. Each of the books 15 sections is a module on a given cooking methodfrom pan searing to pressure cooking, stewing to steamingwith a master recipe and a varied selection of recipes that epitomize the technique. The text is accented throughout with food facts, history and lore, and science. Eight years ago, Alton Brown set out to create a cooking show for a new generation. The result was Good Eats, one of Food Networks most popular programs. Four years ago, Brown set out to write a cookbook for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe. A mix of cutting-edge graphics and a fresh take on preparing food, Im Just Here For the Food became one of the bestselling cookbooks of the yearand received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award as best reference book. This year, to commemorate and celebrate this success story (more than 300,000 copies in print), STC is pleased to announce Im Just Here For the Food: The Directors Cut. This special edition features 10 brand-new recipes, 20 pages of additional material, a jacket that folds out into a poster, and a removable refrigerator magnetalong with everything that made the original a classic instruction manual for the kitchen. Each of the books 15 sections is a module on a given cooking methodfrom pan searing to pressure cooking, stewing to steamingwith a master recipe and a varied selection of recipes that epitomize the technique. The text is accented throughout with food facts, history and lore, and science.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8615'),
(5000, 'I&#39;m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World', 'Jag Bhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Iâ€™m not hanging noodles from your ear." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless youâ€™re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "Iâ€™m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. Organized by themeâ€”food, love, romance, and many moreâ€”they embody cultural traditions and attitudes, capture linguistic nuance, and shed fascinating light on "the whole ball of wax." For example, when English-speakers are hard at work, weâ€™re "nose to the grindstone," but industrious Chinese toil "with liver and brains spilled on the ground" and busy Indians have "no time to die."If youâ€™re already fluent in 10 languages, you probably wonâ€™t need this book, but youâ€™ll "get a kick out of it" anyhow; for the rest of us, itâ€™s a must. Either way, this surprising, often thought-provoking little tome is gift-friendly in appearance, a perfect impulse buy for word lovers, travelers, and anyone else who enjoys looking at life in a riotous, unusual way. And weâ€™re not hanging noodles from your ear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2104'),
(5001, 'I&#39;m Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog', 'Diana Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet the men in Diana Joseph''s life: "The boy," Diana''s fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Diana''s father, who''s called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her down when she was twelve to caution her against becoming a slut (she didn''t listen); Diana''s brothers, or, as her father calls them, "the two assholes"; Diana''s ex-husband, a lumberjack with three ex-wives, yet he''s still the first one she calls when she''s in a jam; and Diana''s common-law husband, Al, an English professor who''s been mistakenly called mentally challenged. Ostensibly organized around the various men in Diana''s life, this is really a memoir about what it''s like to be a modern, smart woman making her way in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6097'),
(5002, '&quot;I&quot; is for innocent', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is our third exciting collection of crime novels in the alphabet mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Sue Grafton. Featuring former cop turned private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, one of the most popular female sleuths in modern mystery fiction, these three complex stories demonstrate the intricate plots, conflicted relationships and strong heroine that Grafton consistently portrays. Loyal fans and new friends alike will welcome this hardcover volume of bestselling novels, where G is for great read, H is for highly entertaining, and I is for instant classic. SUMMARY: "One of Kinsey''s most electryfing adventures to date...Another irresistible installment of Ms. Grafton''s series."THE BALTIMORE SUNFired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists he''s innocent. But if he is, who''s guilty? In trying to learn who''s been getting away with murder, Kinsey may be courting her own....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4132'),
(5003, 'Ian&#39;s Ultimate Gamble', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Casino owner Ian Westmoreland thought he had seen the last of Brooke Chamberlain, until she checked into his resort claiming to need a little R &amp; R. Brooke had betrayed him years before, and Ian was willing to bet there was more to her visit than she would admit. No woman had even come close to igniting the heat and passion inside him as Brooke once had. And if Ian was going to discover what Brooke was hiding, what better way than through seduction?\n</p>\n<p>\n But in this game of bedroom cat and mouse, the stakes were very high. Would Ian''s ultimate gamble pay off?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7970'),
(5004, 'The Icarus Agenda', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on complete financial and political domination.Evan Kendrick, a quiet Congressman, is an unlikely hero. But in his past is a violence that he cannot forget.On the other side of the world, five very eccentric, very rich people are meeting. They are the Inheritors of Inver Brass. Their aim - to utterly transform the world. They seek a new saviour, an innocent messiah. Evan Kendrick is to be their unwilling victim...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3584'),
(5005, 'Ice Crown', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Norton ranks unrivaled as the most popular science fiction/fantasy writer of all time, and ROC Books is delighted to be able to reissue her classic, bestselling tales. Ice Crown is the story of Offlas Keil and his neice Roane''s quest to unlock the valuable Forerunner power that resides in the famous Ice Crown of the planet Clio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9062'),
(5006, 'Ice Dragon', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1963'),
(5007, 'The Ice Limit', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9180'),
(5008, 'Ice Station', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the divers disappear while checking out the craft. Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield and his highly trained team of Marines respond to the scientists'' distress signal. By the time the leathernecks reach Wilkes, three days later, one of the scientists has killed another, six more members of the Wilkes team have disappeared in the ice cave and eight French scientists from a nearby station are for some reason at the U.S. base. Would the French government kill Americans to capture a frozen UFO? Probably: six of the French "scientists" turn out to be the members of the French special forces. From that discovery onward, this first novel offers nonstop thrills as Schofield and his team fight for their livesAand for those of the remaining American scientistsAagainst French and British commandos and a secret American spy group; against killer whales and strange aquatic mammals; and against time, for both the French and British commandos harbor "eraser" plans to wipe out all survivors in case of mission failure. Reilly''s debut evokes a host of predecessors, including Jaws, The Andromeda Strain, The X-Files and the combat novels of Tom Clancy. It also echoes the work of Ian Fleming, as the outrageously heroic Schofield comes off as less a real Marine than a fantasy action figure on a par with Bond. There''s not much that''s original hereAeven the set-up is reminiscent of the classic SF film The Thing, about a saucer buried in Arctic iceAbut Reilly doesn''t really need to be original, not at the pace at which he whips his story line past readers. Employing crude but effective prose, a nonstop spray of short, punchy paragraphs and cliffhangers galore, this is grade-A action pulp. (Sept.) FYI: Ice Station was previously published by Pan Macmillan in Reilly''s native Australia, where it sold 30,000 copies.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Clive Cussler will enjoy this first novel by Australian author Reilly. Set in Antarctica, Ice Station pits a group of U.S. Marines against a host of unexpected adversaries. Buried deep in the ice, in a layer 100 million years old, is something that arouses the greed of governments around the globe. Their respective Special Forces units are unleashed in this inhospitable land in a race to claim the hidden treasure. The book moves along at a good pace, and as with all well-told military thrillers there are plenty of unexpected twists, turns, and betrayals. Reilly''s characters are colorful and engaging, and his bad guys are more wrong-headed than evil. The laws of science are sometimes shunted aside to make way for improbable weaponry and impossible situations, but that''s just part of the fun. Recommended for public libraries with large military fiction collections.APatrick Wall, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Spartanburg\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6801'),
(5009, 'Ice Station Zebra', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A thoroughly professional cliff-hanger'' Sunday Telegraph\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Dolphin, pride of America''s nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War -- and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9274'),
(5010, 'Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption--From South Central to Hollywood', 'Ice-T &amp; Douglas Century', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this intriguing memoir, groundbreaking rapper and actor Ice-T chronicles his rise from nomadic criminal to hip-hop star. After losing both parents by the age of 12, Tracy Marrow was shipped to relatives in Los Angeles where he navigated the growing gang culture of the city and became a father at 18. A four-year tour in the army was followed by a lucrative interlude robbing jewelry and clothing stores. As his fellow thieves began to file off to prison, Ice-T turned to the nascent rap scene and scored immediate success. Continuing to reinvent himself, Ice-T went on to front a rock band and also was one of the first rap figures to work in film and television. Thereâ„¢s little focus on the music itself, but rather on his careers and his observations on the various subcultures he passes through. What lifts the book above the general run of entertainer memoirs is the quality of these observationsâ€”Ice-T is a canny businessman, and he charts clearly the decisions that brought him up each step of a very treacherous ladder. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Famous first as a rapper, and then as an actor in numerous movies and as a regular on Law &amp; Order: SVU, Ice-T was born Tracy Marrow in New Jersey, then moved to Los Angeles when both of his parents died prematurely of heart attacks. Raised by inattentive relatives, he became embroiled in gang life. After four years in the army, he found himself on the street and back in the criminal world. He had been writing his own rhymes since high school, then released several groundbreaking West Coast rap recordings and became lead vocalist for the influential thrash-metal band Body Count, which, in 1992, released its notorious single, Cop Killer. The subsequent controversy led to Ice-Tï¿½s first experience with censorship and even a dressing-down from the Bush-Quayle administration. In this no-holds-barred memoir, Ice-T writes with refreshing, if profane, down-to-earth candor, recalling his first memories of racism, his increasingly dangerous street life, and his experiences on tour, including a funny and wild anecdote about a show in Milan. A fascinating and inspiring story about an African American orphan who beat the odds to become successful, this memoir will appeal to fans of hip-hop and popular culture. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7815'),
(5011, 'Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A mysterious ship sealed fast in a giant North Atlantic iceberg becomes the cause and focus of Air Force Major Dirk Pett''s investigation into international conspiracy and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(5012, 'Icebound', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1492'),
(5013, 'The Icebound Land (Book 3)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as the captives of the fearsome Skandian wolfship captain, Erak. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, and he will do anything to keep his promise - even defy his King. Expelled from the Rangers, Halt is joined by Horace as he travels through Gallica towards Skandia. On their way, they are constantly challenged by freelance knights - otherwise known as thieving thugs. But Horace knows a thing or two about combat, and he soon begins to attract the attention of knights and warlords for miles around with his uncanny skill. But will they be in time to rescue Will from a life of slavery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1619'),
(5014, 'The Icebound Land', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as the captives of the fearsome Skandian wolfship captain, Erak. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, and he will do anything to keep his promise - even defy his King. Expelled from the Rangers, Halt is joined by Horace as he travels through Gallica towards Skandia. On their way, they are constantly challenged by freelance knights - otherwise known as thieving thugs. But Horace knows a thing or two about combat, and he soon begins to attract the attention of knights and warlords for miles around with his uncanny skill. But will they be in time to rescue Will from a life of slavery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4811'),
(5015, 'Icon', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow''s headlines.It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last--not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land.Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn? A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure "Mein Kampf" in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic.Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only person who can expose the truth about Komarov into the heart of the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and "the best damn agent-runner we ever had, " had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his mind. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk''s agents after they had been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov''s head of security.Monk has a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever ittakes, and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people. But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin. To do this he must stay alive--and the forces allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short....Frederick Forsyth is the author of nine bestselling novels: "The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil''s Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God" and " Icon." He lives outside London.The "New York Times" bestseller!"Vintage Forsyth, intricate, exact and gripping." "--The New York Times Book Review" *"A mature mastery of storytelling melded with a deep knowledge of "realpolitik" another strong performance by a writer who knows exactly what he''s about, and who here catalyzes narrative with another memorable protagonist, the stealthy and daring Monk." "--Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"Frederick Forsyth''s latest epichas reverted to the masterly storytelling that has won him so many fans. But instead of going into the past, he has set Icon in the future, and allowed his imagination to rise above the constraints of the facts that he uses to frame every book. The result is one of his best works for a long time, which provides an all-too-real look at a chilling new millennium." "--The Sunday Times, " London"For years, Frederick Forsyth has been known as the man who wrote "The Day of the Jackal, " the yardstick by which all his subsequent books have been measured. "Icon" --dare I say it?--is as good or better. What makes this book so special? Because it could easily happen. All the ingredients for disaster are now inplace, which makes for a terrifyingly real scenario." "--Detroit Free Press" "A tautly written thriller with a big cast of characters that Forsyth juggles with skillForsyth''s storytelling ability makes "Icon" one of the best spy novels in recent years." "--Star Tribune, " Minneapolis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(5016, 'The Ideal Man', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If a book has Julie Garwood''s name on it, it''s guaranteed to be a meticulously written, well-thought-out, and thoroughly engaging story."\n <br />\n -_Sun Journal_ (Maine)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Romance writer Julie Garwood attracts readers like beautiful heroines attract dashing heroes."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that''s pulse-pounding in every sense of the word.Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter''s face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation.Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he''s definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she''s attracted to him in a way she can''t explain.Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister''s wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she''ll be called to testify. But they''ve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie''s shadow until the trial, and it isn''t long before sparks fly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8777'),
(5017, 'Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free', 'Charles P. Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **NATIONAL BESTSELLER****The three Great Premises of Idiot America:Â· Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves unitsÂ· Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enoughÂ· Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it** With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an *American Idol* contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, *Idiot America* is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1404'),
(5018, 'The Idiot', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author''s acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(5019, 'IDrakula', 'Bekka Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The classic vampire story that started it all gets new life for a generation of connected teens 18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of the disease. The teenagers discover a horrifying truth: the Count is a vampire. The harrowing events unfold through emails, text messages, web pages, Twitter feeds, and instant messaging-the natural modernization of Bram Stoker''s original Dracula, which was written in letters, diary entries, and news clippings. Praise for A Trace of Smoke: "An excellent job of projecting the fear of the time through her characters. Strongly recommended."-Library Journal (starred)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5298'),
(5020, 'If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor', 'Bruce Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Okay, so at least you''re interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor. Am I supposed to know this guy? you think to yourself.No, and that''s exactly the point. Bookstores are chock full of household name actors and their high stakes shenanigans. I don''t want to be a spoilsport, but we''ve all been down that road before. Case in point: look to your left - see that Judy Garland book? You don''t need that, you know plenty about her already - great voice, crappy life. Now look to your right at the Charlton Heston book. You don''t need to cough up hard-earned dough for that either. You know his story too - great voice, crappy toupee. The truth is that though you might not have a clue who I am, there are countless working stiffs like me out there, grinding away every day at the wheel of fortune.If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is my first book, and I invite you to ride with me through the choppy waters of blue collar Hollywood. Okay, so buy the damned book already and read like the wind!Best,Bruce CampbellP.S. If the book sucks, at least there are gobs of pictures, and they''re not crammed in the middle like all those other actor books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(5021, 'If I Did It', 'O. J. Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10686'),
(5022, 'If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth', 'Clarke, Arthur C - SS -', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8970'),
(5023, 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Fiction', 'Robin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stories in Black''s solid debut collection are fraught with loss, usually of a loved one. Evocative and lyrical, the characters'' introspections, while sometimes overwrought, are balanced by the sharp dialogue. In The Guide, a father takes his blind teenage daughter to meet her new seeing-eye dog and is forced to confront her independence. While painting a portrait of a man with Alzheimer''s, the aging main character of Immortalizing John Parker grapples with the recent death of her lover. The title story is the tale of neighboring couples battling over a fence, told from the perspective of the wife with terminal cancer. In Pine, a woman must decide whether to move on from the memory of her dead husband to begin a love affair with her male best friend. Each story is carefully crafted, though Black is at her best when she resists the impulse toward tidiness.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A blind daughter prepares to leave her parents and go to college. An artist paints a portrait of a terminally ill man. A young widow contemplates life alone. This collection of poignant stories about lifeâ€™s transitions examines the truths of human relationships, even when those truths seem almost unbearably depressing. On its own, each story is a delicately crafted look at relationships and life, and is easily read. As a collection, though, a moment or two of comic relief, or a story or two not about death, illness, dying, or betrayal, would help lighten the overall feeling of gloom the book currently evokes. These are well-written explorations of characters and situations sure to appeal to readers of Alice Munro and Mary Gaitskill. --Marta Segal Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6869'),
(5024, 'If I Stay', 'Gayle Forman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeenyear- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she fi nds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...\n</p>\n<p>\n A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all makeand the ultimate choice Mia commands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(5025, 'If on a Winters Night a Traveller', 'Italo Calvino', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the most unusual love affairs in literature, If On A Winter''s Night A Traveller is a captivating game of suspense into which we are irresistibly pulled. (1995)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9759'),
(5026, 'If You Ask Me', 'Betty White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White''s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty''s candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped persuade her to host\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life,\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  is funny, sweet, and to the point-just like Betty White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Betty White\n  </strong>\n  ''s award-winning career in television and film has spanned an impressive seven decades and has included iconic roles on\n  <em>\n   The Mary Tyler Moore Show\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Golden Girls\n  </em>\n  . Widely recognized for her lifelong work for animal welfare, she lives in Brentwood, California, with her golden retriever, Pontiac.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7921'),
(5027, 'The Iliad', 'Homer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1793'),
(5028, 'Ilium', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Genre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n . Within, Simmons weaves three astounding story lines into one Earth-, Mars-, and Jupiter-shattering cliffhanger that will leave readers aching for the sequel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, a post-technological group of humans, pampered by servant machines and easy travel via "faxing," begins to question its beginnings. Meanwhile, a team of sentient and Shakespeare-quoting robots from Jupiter''s lunar system embark on a mission to Mars to investigate an increase in dangerous quantum fluctuations. On the Red Planet, they''ll find a race of metahumans living out existence as the pantheon of classic Greek gods. These "gods" have recreated the Trojan War with reconstituted Greeks and Trojans and staffed it with scholars from throughout Earth''s history who observe the events and report on the accuracy of Homer''s\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n . One of these scholars, Thomas Hockenberry, finds himself tangled in the midst of interplay between the gods and their playthings and sends the war reeling in a direction the blind poet could have never imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simmons creates an exciting and thrilling tale set in the thick of the Trojan War as seen through Hockenberry''s 20th-century eyes. At the same time, Simmons''s robots study Shakespeare and Proust and the origin-seeking Earthlings find themselves caught in a murderous retelling of\n <em>\n  The Tempest\n </em>\n . Reading this highly literate novel does take more than a passing familiarity with at least\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n but readers who can dive into these heady waters and swim with the current will be amply rewarded.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo and Stoker winner Simmons (Hyperion) makes a spectacular return to large-scale space opera in this elegant monster of a novel. Many centuries in the future, Earth''s small, more or less human population lives an enjoyable, if drone-like existence. Elsewhere, on some alternate Earth, or perhaps it''s the distant past, the battle for Troy is in its ninth year. Oddly, its combatants, Hector, Achilles and the rest, seem to be following a script, speaking their lines exactly as Homer reported them in The Iliad. The Gods, who live on Olympus Mons on the planet Mars, may be post-humans, or aliens, or, well, Gods; it isn''t entirely clear. Thomas Hockenberry, a late-20th-century professor of the classics from De Pauw University in Indiana, has, along with other scholars from his era, apparently been resurrected by the Gods. His job is to take notes on the war and compare its progress to Homer''s tale, noting even the smallest deviations. Meanwhile, the "moravecs," a civilization of diverse, partially organic AIs clustered on the moons of Jupiter, have been disturbed by the quantum activity they''ve registered from the inner solar system and have sent an expedition to Mars to investigate. It will come as no surprise to the author''s fans that the expedition''s members include specialists in Shakespeare and Proust. Beautifully written, chock full of literary references, grand scenery and fascinating characters, this book represents Simmons at his best.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7457'),
(5029, 'Ill Wind', 'Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damageand a PR disasterthe multinational oil company releases an untested "designer microbe" to break up the spill. An "oil-eating" microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic. What the company doesn''t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air. But when every car in the Bay Area turns up with an empty gas tank, they begin to suspect something is terribly wrong. And when, in just a few days, every piece of plastic in the world has dissolved, it''s too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2679'),
(5030, 'The Illumination: A Novel', 'Kevin Brockmeier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Illumination\n  </em>\n  . No longer able hide their own pains from the world, and suddenly exposed to the discomfiting wounds of strangers, friends, and lovers, these characters struggle to adapt to a new way of experiencing life and, in very different ways, to understand the intrinsic connection between love and pain. "There was an ache inside people that seemed so wonderful sometimes," one character muses. And then, because this ache is also corporeal, "He wished he had brought his camera with him." While Brockmeier''s brilliant novel is innately tied up in pain and loss, witnessing the lives he creates in the midst of this new wonder is not only a beautiful experience but, yes, an illuminating one. --_Lynette Mong_\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In Brockmeier''s spectacular latest (after The View from the Seventh Layer), pain manifests itself as visible light after a mysterious event called "the Illumination," revealing humanity to be mortally wounded, and yet Brockmeier finds in these overlapping, storylike narratives, beauty amid the suffering. Jason Williford, a photojournalist, loses his wife in a traffic accident and fixates on a troubled teenage girl who teaches him to cultivate pain "in a dreamlike vesper." Chuck Carter, a battered and bullied neighbor boy, steals a journal of love notes from Jason''s house, and later gives the journal to door-knocking evangelist Ryan Shifrin, who found his faith after watching his younger sister die from cancer. Telescoping into his decades of service to the church, Ryan wonders at the civil strife and disasters that "produce a holocaust of light." Through accounts of quotidian suffering depict humanity''s quiet desperation--the agony of a severed thumb, the torture of chronic mouth ulcers--Brockmeier''s careful reading of his characters'' hearts and minds gives readers an inspiring take on suffering and the often fleeting nature of connection. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8720'),
(5031, 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy', 'Robert Shea &amp; Robert Anton Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of\n  <em>\n   The Illuminatus\n  </em>\n  are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there''s a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4989'),
(5032, 'The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time', 'Dava Sobel &amp; William J. H. Andrewes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller "Longitude." "The Illustrated Longitude" recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship''s location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution to the longitude problem. To encourage a solution, governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The largest reward of 20,000-- truly a king''s ransom-- was offered by Britain''s Parliament in 1714. The scientific establishment-- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton-- had been certain that a celestial answer would be found and invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison imagined and built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison''s trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story. "The Illustrated Longitude" brings a new and important dimension to Dava Sobel''s celebrated story. It contains the entire original narrative of "Longitude," redesigned to accompany 183 images chosen by William Andrewes-- from portraints of every important figure in the story to maps and diagrams, scientifc instruments, and John Harrison''s remarkable sea clocks themselves. Andrewes''s elegant captions and sidebars on scientific and historical events tell their own story of longitude, paralleling and illuminating Sobel''s memorable tale. Dava Sobel is the author of the best-sellers "Longitude" and "Galileo''s Daughter," and the editor and translator of "Letters to Father." She lives in East Hampton, New York. William J. H. Andrewes is a museum consultant specializing in the history of scientific instruments and time measurement. He is the editor of "The Quest for Longitude" and lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Praise for "The Illustrated Longitude" "Two respected tellers of the longitude tale have teamed up! Sobel ''s compelling prose is coupled with colorful and detailed illustrations provided by Andrewes. This edition responds to entreaties by readers who loved Sobel''s "Longitude" but who wanted pictures to go with it."-- "Mercator''s World" "Enormous care has been devoted to the illustrations and captions. Readers will finish this book considerably more educated about geography and navigation."-- "USA Today" "This new illustrated edition of Sobel''s 1995 study of Harrison''s remarkable instrument strikingly illuminates this largely unknown but crucial discovery."-- "Dallas Morning News" Praise for "Longitude" "As much a tale of intrigue as it is of science .... A book full of gems for anyone interested in history, geography, astronomy, navigation, clockmaking, and-- not the least-- plain old human ambition and greed."-- "Philadelphia Inquirer" "Intricate and elegant .... No novelist could improve on the elements of Dava Sobel''s "Longitude.""-- "Newsweek" "Anyone with an interest in history or things maritime should consider "Longitude." This fascinating volume brings alive the eighteenth century."-- "USA Today" "Nearly perfect prose and a magnificent story, an extraordinary book."-- "Washington Post Book World"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7383');
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(5033, 'The Illustrated Man', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.* **The Illustrated Man** Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from *The Martian Chronicles* and *Fahrenheit 451* to *Dandelion Wine* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes. * The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s *The Illustrated Man* is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from *The Martian Chronicles* and *Fahrenheit 451* to *Dandelion Wine* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s THE ILLUSTRATEDMAN is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3853'),
(5034, 'Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the worldâ€™s greatest minds, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped reconfigure models of the universe and define whatâ€™s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context; it would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World. Hawking presents a series of seven lecturesâ€”covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theoryâ€”that capture not only the brilliance of Hawkingâ€™s mind but his characteristic wit as well. Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, â€œIt might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar.â€ Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotleâ€™s determination that the Earth is round to Hubbleâ€™s discovery, more than 2,000 years later, that the universe is expanding. Using that as a launching pad, he explores the reaches of modern physics, including theories on the origin of the universe (e.g., the Big Bang), the nature of black holes, and space-time. Finally, he poses the questions left unanswered by modern physics, especially how to combine all the partial theories into a â€œunified theory of everything.â€ â€œIf we find the answer to that,â€ he claims, â€œit would be the ultimate triumph of human reason.â€ A great popularizer of science as well as a brilliant scientist, Hawking believes that advances in theoretical science should be â€œunderstandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists.â€ In this book, he offers a fascinating voyage of discovery about the cosmos and our place in it. It is a book for anyone who has ever gazed at the night sky and wondered what was up there and how it came to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3719'),
(5035, 'Illywhacker: A Novel', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1985, this picaresque tale from Australian novelist Carey presents the life story of a highly unreliable 139-year-old con man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them.... Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel.... If you haven''t been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know." -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey''s uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character -- especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere."A book of awesome breadth, ambition, and downright narrative joy.... Illywhacker is a triumph." -- Washington Post Book World --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5156'),
(5036, 'Ilse Witch', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It has been 130 years since the events of the Heritage of Shannara series, and the Free-born and the Federation are still at war. The story follows a quest organized by Walker Boh, the last surviving Druid. Thirty years ago, the Elven prince Kael Elessedil led an expedition in search of a legendary magic which was said to be the most ancient and powerful in the world. Thirty years later, Kael is found floating in the sea of the Blue Divide; a map is found with him, covered with mysterious symbols. Walker is the only man who can read them. But there is another: the Ilse Witch, a beautiful but twisted young woman who is as practiced in magic as Walker himself. She will stop at nothing to possess the map and the magic it leads to. To stop her, Walker must find the magic first. Thus begins the voyage of the sleek, swift airship, the Jerle Shannara. The company chosen by Walker must fly into the face of unknown terrors while the Ilse Witch and her dark allies pursue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3306'),
(5037, 'Ilustrado', 'Miguel Syjuco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, "Ilustrado" has been called "brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor" (2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges). It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River--taken from the world is the controversial lion of Philippine literature. Gone, too, is the only manuscript of his final book, a work meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families. Miguel, his student and only remaining friend, sets out for Manila to investigate. To understand the death, Miguel scours the life, piecing together Salvador''s story through his poetry, interviews, novels, polemics, and memoirs. The result is a rich and dramatic family saga of four generations, tracing 150 years of Philippine history forged under the Spanish, the Americans, and the Filipinos themselves. Finally, we are surprised to learn that this story belongs to young Miguel as much as to his lost mentor, and we are treated to an unhindered view of a society caught between reckless decay and hopeful progress. Exuberant and wise, wildly funny and deeply moving, "Ilustrado" explores the hidden truths that haunt every family. It is a daring and inventive debut by a new writer of astonishing talent. Miguel Syjuco received the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the Philippines'' highest literary honor, the Palanca Award, for the unpublished manuscript of "Ilustrado." Born and raised in Manila, he currently lives in Montreal. Tracing 150 years of Philippine history forged under the Spanish, the Americans and the Filipinos themselves, Miguel, the student and only remaining friend of Crispin Salvador, sets out for Manila to investigate Salvador''s death. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River and the only manuscript of his final book--a work meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families--is lost. To understand the death, Miguel scours Salvador''s former life in the Philippines, piecing together his story through his poetry, interviews, novels, polemics and memoirs. To his own surprise, the young Miguel learns this story belongs to him as much as to his lost mentor, as he and the reader are treated to an unhindered view of a society caught between reckless decay and hopeful progress. Exuberant and wise, wildly funny and deeply moving, "Ilustrado" explores the hidden truths that haunt every family. "Ambitious . . . In a daring literary performance, Syjuco weaves the invented with the factual . . . "Ilustrado" is being presented as a tracing of 150 years of Philippine history, but it''s considerably more than that . . . Spiced with surprises and leavened with uproariously funny moments, it is punctuated with serious philosophical musings." --Raymond Bonner, "The New York Times Book Review ""A dazzling and virtuosic adventure in reading . . . The narrative is organised with immense confidence and skill . . . The author''s post-modernist bag of tricks also contains a whip-crack narrative skill that''s as reminiscent of Dickens as it is of Roberto Bolano . . . There''s a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into . . . [This] novel . . . fizzes with the effervescence a large book can have when its author is in total control of the material. This isn''t a story; it''s the unfolding of an entire world, a mirror-land that seems familiar but is always ineffably strange . . . Syjuco is a writer already touched by greatness . . . This is a remarkably impressive and utterly persuasive novel. Its author . . . may one day succeed with the Nobel committee."--Joseph O''Connor, "The Guardian" (UK) "An exuberant, complex, and fascinating ride through 150 years of Philippine history . . . Syjuco''s writing is playful, smart, and confident . . . An inventive and exciting debut."--Grace Talusan, "Rumpus ""An extraordinary debut, at once flashy and substantial, brightly charming and quietly resistant to its own wattage . . . Syjuco''s gifts for pastiche, his protean narrative energy, are in particular evidence in these pitch-perfect fictions of the fictions of his fictional author . . . An exuberant, funny novel that neither takes its grand ambitions too seriously, nor pretends to be measuring itself by any less a scale of intent. How Syjuco . . . has done this is foremost a testament to his prodigious gifts . . . With his dazzling first foray, Syjuco suggest how his new Asia, his new identity, must ''look'' on the page and between the covers. That look is unexpected and fresh, quite unlike anything that has been seen before."--Charles Foran, "The Globe and Mail" (Canada) "Wildly entertaining . . . Engaging . . . Absolutely assured in its tone, literary sophistication and satirical humor . . . Syjuco is only on his mid-30s, and he already possesses the wand of the enchanter." --Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post """Ilustrado" will provoke audible oohs and ahhs from readers . . . The writing is gorgeous. Plus, there''s an O. Henry twist in the epilogue. This is a great book. Read it."--Luis Clemens, Senior Editor, "Tell Me More ""Brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed, ["Ilustrado"] covers a large and tumultuous historical period with seemingly effortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humour."--2008 Man Asian Literary Prize Panel of Judges "Miguel Syjuco''s dizzyingly energetic and inventive novel views his native Philippines with a merciless yet loving eye, its many voices a chorus illuminating the various facets of this chaotic, complicated country. An ambitious and admirable debut."--Janice Y. K. Lee, author of "The Piano Teacher ""Vulnerable and mischievous, sophisticated and naive, " Ilustrado" explores the paradoxes that come with the search for identity and throws readers into the fragile space between self-pursuit and self-destruction. A novel about country and self, youth and experience, it is elegiac, thoughtful, and original."--Colin McAdam, author of "Fall" and "Some Great Thing ""From the ruckus of rumors, blogs, ambitions, overweening grandparents, indifferent history, and personal crimes, Miguel Syjuco has innovatively reimagined that most wonderfully old-fashioned consolation: literature. "Ilustrado "is a great novel."--Rivka Galchen, author of "Atmospheric Disturbances ""Syjuco''s exceptional novel exceeds its heightened expectations, serving notice that a brilliant new talent has arrived, somehow fully formed."--Jared Bland, "The Walrus ""Dazzling . . . It is a virtuoso display of imagination and wisdom, particularly remarkable from a 31-year-old author; a literary landmark for the Philippines and beyond."--Michele Leber, "Booklist" (starred review) "This imaginative first novel shows considerable ingenuity in binding its divergent threads into a satisfying, meaningful story."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Through his vivid use of language, Syjuco has crafted a beautiful work of historical fiction that''s part mystery and part sociopolitical commentary. Readers who enjoyed Junot Diaz''s "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" will enjoy this literary gem."--"Library Journal" (starred review) "An ambitious debut novel, winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, introduces an author of limitless promise . . . It dazzles as brightly as Jonathan Safran Foer''s "Everything Is Illuminated" . . . First novels rarely show such reach and depth."--"Kirkus Reviews"" (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2864'),
(5038, 'Imajica I: The Fifth Dominion', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape. There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It''s an epic in everyway; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(5039, 'Imajica: Annotated Edition', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure as Barker surpasses his previous ground-breaking work (The Great and Secret Show, 1989, etc.) to reconfigure the Fall and to imagine a modern-day attempt to reverse it. A complex cosmology underpins the vigorous, at times horrific, action here:\n  <code>\n   Imajica'''' is the known universe of five\n  </code>\n  Dominions,'''' or parallel worlds, four\n  <code>\n   reconciled'''' but the fifth, Earth,\n  </code>\n  unreconciled''''--unaware of the other four, of the tyrannical\n  <code>\n   Autarch'''' who rules them, and of the\n  </code>\n  God Hapeximendios,'''' who oversees all five (and who wrested\n  <code>\n   His'''' power from the\n  </code>\n  Goddesses'''' of old). Periodically, Hapeximendios has sent His\n  <code>\n   sons''''--including Christ--to attempt to unite, by magical rites, the Fifth Dominion to the others. The last attempted\n  </code>\n  Reconciliation'''' ended in catastrophe--an invasion of Earth by hellish powers--and today magic has been nearly eradicated from Earth by a\n  <code>\n   Society'''' that alone knows of the Imajica and of the catastrophe. The densely woven story here opens with a jealous man venturing into London''s dankest slum to hire an assassin to kill his estranged wife, Judith; the assassin turns out to be a\n  </code>\n  mystif,'''' a fabulous creature from the Second Dominion, capable of appearing as the erotic ideal of any who behold it. As the mystif hunts Judith, it in turn is hunted by Judith''s former lover,\n  <code>\n   Gentle,'''' who in time learns that he is the new\n  </code>\n  Reconciler''''- -and the mystif his long-forgotten servant. Undertaking dangerous, splendor-filled journeys through the other Dominions, Gentle and the mystif fall in love, marry, and encounter numerous fantastic creatures and, finally, death; later, Gentle helps dethrone the Autarch, learns the chilling secret of his and Judith''s origin, helps free the Goddesses and slay God, and, back on Earth, inspires the destruction of the Society and undertakes Reconciliation--with hell-borne, then heaven-sent, results. An astonishing feat of the imagination, immensely engrossing despite its demanding--at times indulgent--length, running riot with ideas, fantastical inventions, graphic sex and violence, soul- terrors, and emotional and intellectual resonances. Barker''s best yet. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Moves with tidal force and power'' - William S Burroughs ''The tears of blood and nightmare imagery are passionate and ingenious! Imajica is a ride with remarkable views'' - Times Literary Supplement ''Barker''s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind'' - Mail on Sunday ''A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination! Clive Barker is an outstanding storyteller'' - J G Ballard\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5047'),
(5040, 'Imajica: Complete Edition', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(5041, 'Imbalance', 'V.E. Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">\n </span>\n <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; ">\n  The Jarada are a mysterious race of insectoid beings with an extreme devotion to protocol. When this usually reclusive race offer to open diplomatic relations with the Federation, Captain Picard and theÂ \n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  <sup>\n   <span>\n    TM\n   </span>\n  </sup>\n  Â are quickly ordered to Jarada to negotiate the exchange of Ambassadors.\n </p>\n <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; ">\n  The Jaradan ship arrives and the Jarada seen uncharacteristically friendly. They invite Picard to send down members of his crew and negotiations proceed both quickly and smoothly. Suddenly, however, the Jarada change. They cut off Commander Riker and his away team from theÂ \n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  Â and initiate an unprovoked attack on the ship. Picard must unravel the aliensâ€™ mystery before itâ€™s too late for the away team, and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4661'),
(5042, 'Imitation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''No matter how many times you looked at the horror man inflicted on man, you never saw it all. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood over what had once been a woman, she wondered when she would see worse than this...'' The summer of 2059 is drawing to a sweaty close when a killer makes his debut with the slashing and mutilation of a prostitute. He leaves behind a note addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, commending her work and inviting her to participate in his game...and signs it "Jack." Now Eve is on the trail of a serial killer who knows as much about the history of murder as she does, and he''s paying homage to some of history''s most vicious, and infamous, killers, beginning with Jack the Ripper. But who will he choose to emulate next? And will Eve be able to stop him before he decides to finish the game by coming after her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2336'),
(5043, 'Immediate Action', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He is one of the most highly decorated soldiers alive. He is also the first to break the code of silence about the most elite fighting force in the world. What Andy McNab has to say is so explosive that the British government tried to stop him.A street fighter, a hard case, and a flawless soldier, Andy McNab became one of the elite fighting men in "the Regiment"--Britain''s covert SAS. His actions behind the lines in the Gulf War made him a hero. But the full story of his life and his amazing career in Special Forces has remained a secret...until now.In harrowing detail, McNab takes us inside the Regiment, chronicling nine years of covert operations on five continents. Plunging us into a world of surveillance, counterintelligence, and hostage rescue, he takes us behind the scenes on some of their top secret missions. For the first time, he reveals the shocking details of their training--physically severe, mentally grueling, and sometimes deadly. And he dares to expose some of their highly confidential codes and rules--including the one that sanctions murder.This is the story of the fighting men of the SAS. Here is how they live. And here is how they die...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(5044, 'Immortal Coil', 'Jeffrey Lang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form -- self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. Created by one of the most brilliant and eccentric intellects the Federation has ever known, the android Data has always believed he was unique, the one true fulfillment of a dream to create children of the mind. But is he? Investigating the mysterious destruction of a new android created by Starfleet, Data and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7033'),
(5045, 'Immortal in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1944'),
(5046, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8488'),
(5047, 'Immortal Wolf', 'Bonnie Vanak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Exiled to a life of extreme loneliness because everyone she touches dies, Emily Burke has every reason to distrust Raphael Robichaux. The immortal werewolf possesses immense power and has been summoned by her pack to end her life. And yet, from the moment she lays eyes on the powerful rebel, he awakens all the longings she''s kept bottled inside...and gives her hope. When Raphael meets Emily, he knows something enormous is at stake. For not only does he see that her blood can restore life--but she is his destined mate. Trust doesn''t come easily to Emily. But somehow Raphael must convince her to put her life in his hands. Only then will an ancient prophecy be fulfilled and a terrible evil destroyed....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(5048, 'Impact', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast...and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars...and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(5049, 'The Impaler', 'Gregory Funaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Killer Without A ConscienceThe crimes are barbaric. The victims are found in desolate rural areas, naked and impaled on long wooden stakes. There are no clues. No DNA evidence. Just a message, etched over and over again on one broken body: I have returned. Without Control FBI Agent Sam Markham''s last investigation ended with a serial killer''s death and Sam''s promotion. But back then, Sam had luck on his side. This time, the murderer''s methods are evolving too fast, his bloodlust growing too swiftly. This time, no one is safe. Without Limits With each mutilated body, new depths to The Impaler''s brutality are revealed. And as the clues finally slip into place, Sam will discover how easy it is to cross the line from hunter--to hunted. . . Praise for Gregory Funaro and The Sculptor A stone cold thrill ride! Unique and unexpected twists make this one a keeper! Lisa Jackson Funaro provides clever plotting and plenty of suspense. --John Lutz Fast-paced, exciting. . .Funaro delivers gasp-out-loud terror and relentless suspense. A genuine page-turner! --Kevin O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7158'),
(5050, 'An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in *A Duty to the Dead*, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a murder draws her inexorably into the sights of a cunning killer It is the early summer of 1917. Bess Crawford has returned to England from the trenches of France with a convoy of severely wounded men. One of her patients is a young pilot who has been burned beyond recognition, and who clings to life and the photo of his wife that is pinned to his tunic. While passing through a London train station, Bess notices a woman bidding an emotional farewell to an officer, her grief heart-wrenching. And then Bess realizes that she seems familiar. In fact, she''s the woman in the pilot''s photo, but the man she is seeing off is not her husband. Back on duty in France, Bess discovers a newspaper with a drawing of the woman''s face on the front page. Accompanying the drawing is a plea from Scotland Yard seeking information from anyone who has seen her. For it appears that the woman was murdered on the very day Bess encountered her at the station. Granted leave to speak with Scotland Yard, Bess becomes entangled in the case. Though an arrest is made, she must delve into the depths of her very soul to decide if the police will hang an innocent man or a vicious killer. Exposing the truth is dangerousâ€”and will put her own life on the line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(5051, 'The Imperfectionists', 'Tom Rachman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman''s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it - and themselves-afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff''s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family''s quirky newspaper. As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paper''s rich history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founder''s intentions. Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents. SUMMARY: Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman''s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it - and themselves-afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff''s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family''s quirky newspaper. As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paper''s rich history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founder''s intentions. Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9286'),
(5052, 'Imperial Bedrooms', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bret Easton Ellisâ€™s debut, *Less Than Zero,* is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age.Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and heâ€™s soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, an influential manager whoâ€™s still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame, fortune and power. Then thereâ€™s Clayâ€™s childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict, and their old dealer, Rip, face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than in his notorious past.But Clayâ€™s own demons emerge once he meets a gorgeous young actress determined to win a role in his movie. And when his life careens completely out of control, he has no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.A genuine literary event.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1170'),
(5053, 'The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War', 'James Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea with the intent of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the communist revolution in China. In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the remarkable truth about America''s vast imperial past. Full of fascinating characters brought brilliantly to life,The Imperial Cruisewill powerfully revise the way we understand U.S. history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2070'),
(5054, 'Implant', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young doctor Gina Panzella has known her boss, plastic surgeon Dr. Duncan Lathram, almost her entire life, and respects him deeply. Charming and brilliant, Duncan has invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. Duncan''s artistry in the operation room is the salvationof Washington''s biggest power players whenever they need touch-ups for C-Span.  But there are a few things about Duncan that Gina can''t quite figure out. Why did he trade vascular surgery for the more profitable but less vital plastic surgery, and why won''t he accept his patients'' medical insurance? What caused his daughter''s death and the breakup of his marriage? Why do his tirades agains the new congressional medical ethics committee have such a bitter personal sting? And what is his connection to two committee members who died in accidents not long after Duncan operated on them?Soon Gina''s curiosity about Duncanis replaced by suspicion and fear. With the help of Gerry Canney, a high school classmate now working for the FBI, Gina determines to find out what ruined Duncan''s personal life and aroused his wrath against the congressmen. She find a man much more complex and mysterious than the sharp-tongued but kindhearted physician she though she knew. Then two more congressmen fall ill after Duncan''s surgery. And Gina discovers another kind of implant in Duncan''s arsenal...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(5055, 'The importance of being earnest', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literatureâ€™s most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wildeâ€™s most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9705'),
(5056, 'Impossible', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sasha de Suvery Boardman, the 48-year-old heroine of Steel''s latest romance, knew she had it all - perfect marriage, two terrific grown kids, prestigious art galleries in Paris and New York, three luxury homes - until her husband''s fatal heart attack. Now brokenhearted, but still beautiful and chic, she buries herself in her gallery work, until son Xavier introduces her to bad-boy painter Liam Allison, a gorgeous, "wacky" 39-year-old who instantly "[brings] out the mother in her." So she offers him a gallery contract, thus igniting a "torrid affair" punctuated by endless arguments about their nine-year age difference, his severe allergy to all forms of authority and their incompatible "lifestyles and appearances" (including his strong aversion to wearing socks). Despite Steel''s repeated assurances that Liam is actually "innocent and likable," his petulance and impulsiveness are seriously off-putting, and the tortured romance has an icky, near-incestuous quality that may make some readers cringe. Others may just be bored by the sketchy, meandering plot, the skimpy characterizations and the hyperbolic, often stunningly repetitious style ("He was just a young man who liked to have fun and still acted like a boy at times, full of mischief and fun"). Even hardcore Steel addicts may not make it all the way through this one, her 63rd.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s usual formula is at play here in a new love story about the difficulties of a relationship between two wildly different persons. Sasha is a high-powered gallery owner, and Liam is a feckless artist. Recently widowed, Sasha, who is nine years older than Liam, is staid, conservative, and bound by tradition. Liam is married (unhappily), manic, and a pronounced nonconformist. While Sasha has been busy building her father''s Parisian art gallery into an international success, Liam has become the darling of the art world. The two meet and gradually begin an affair, but soon their strong personalities get in the way of their blossoming relationship. As well-heeled Sasha tries to keep the affair hidden from her grown children and her snooty clientele, Liam is working hard to draw Sasha out of that world and into his. Eventually, the differences become too much for them to handle, and the lovers clash, break up, and (surprise!) come together again in a dramatic, suspenseful finale. No surprises here, but Steel knows what her fans want, and this solid, meaty tale will not disappoint them; expect demand.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5977'),
(5057, 'Imposter', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Spence Olham is confronted by a colleague and accused of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth''s defences. The impostor''s ship was damaged and has crashed just outside the city. The android is supposed to detonate a planet destroying bomb on the utterance of a deadly code phrase. Olham must escape and prove his innocence, providing he is actually Spence Olham. Olham tries to prove he is the real Olham by finding the crashed spaceship and recovering the android''s body.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3724');
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(5058, 'The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'John Joseph Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes is back!Sherlock Holmes, the world''s first--and most famous--consulting detective, came to the world''s attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn''t reveal all of the Great Detective''s adventures...Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes''s further exploits, as told by many of today''s greatest storytellers, including Stephen King, Anne Perry, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Naomi Novik, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and many more.These are the improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where nothing is impossible, and nothing can be ruled out. In these cases, Holmes investigates ghosts, curses, aliens, dinosaurs, shapeshifters, and evil gods. But is it the supernatural, or is there a perfectly rational explanation?You won''t be sure, and neither will Holmes and Watson as they match wits with pirates, assassins, con artists, and criminal masterminds of all stripes, including some familiar foes, such as their old nemesis, Professor Moriarty.In these pages you''ll also find our heroes crossing paths with H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, and even Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and you''ll be astounded to learn the truth behind cases previously alluded to by Watson but never before documented until now.These are tales that take us from the familiar quarters at 221B Baker Street to alternate realities, from the gaslit streets of London to the far future and beyond.Whether it''s mystery, fantasy, horror, or science fiction, no puzzle is too challenging for the Great Detective. The game is afoot!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2883'),
(5059, 'Imzadi 01: Imzadi', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Years before they served together on board the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM, Commander William Riker and ship''s counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain\n  <em>\n   Imzadi\n  </em>\n  - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet''s strictest rule and the one he calls\n  <em>\n   Imzadi\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Years before they served together on board the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM, Commander William Riker and ship''s counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain\n  <em>\n   Imzadi\n  </em>\n  - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet''s strictest rule and the one he calls\n  <em>\n   Imzadi\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6757'),
(5060, 'Imzadi 02: Triangle', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sur la planÃ¨te natale de Deanna Troi, le mot Imzadi dÃ©signe l''Ã¢me sueur. Jadis, pour Deanna, il ne s''appliquait qu''Ã  un homme : le commander William Riker. HÃ©las, le temps a Ã©loignÃ© les amoureux. Aujourd''hui, Troi Ã©prouve pour le commander Worf un trÃ¨s doux sentiment. Mais qu''y a-t-il de commun entre une empathe bÃ©tazoÃ¯de et un guerrier klingon ? " Rien ! ", rÃ©pondrait volontiers Riker. Pourtant, une profonde relation semble exister entre son tÃ©nÃ©breux ami et son ancienne compagne. L''heure des remises en question et des dÃ©chirures aurait-elle sonnÃ© ? Ou est-il temps de rÃ©veiller la braise qui couve sous les cendres ? Par Peter David, une aventure inÃ©dite des hÃ©ritiers d''une saga oÃ¹ l''homme dÃ©passe l''homme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6756'),
(5061, 'In a Gilded Cage', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s Easter Sunday 1918, and Irish immigrant Molly Murphy has agreed to march down Fifth Avenue with the sign-wielding suffragettes from Vassarâ€”a civil act of protest that lands her in jail. Mollyâ€™s betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, manages to spring her from the clink, though his hands are full dealing with Chinese opium gangs. But as soon as sheâ€™s free, Molly marches straight into trouble again. Two of the Vassar alumni need Mollyâ€™s help as a private investigator. One believes her uncle is cheating her out of an inheritance; the other suspects her husband is cheating with other women. And when one of the clients diesâ€”presumably from influenza, which is sweeping the cityâ€”Molly takes to the streets once more. Not to win the right for women to vote, but to reveal the wrongs of some very evil menâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3926'),
(5062, 'In a Glass Darkly', 'Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3051'),
(5063, 'In a Half-World of Terror', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11127'),
(5064, 'In a Strange Room: Three Journeys', 'Damon Galgut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For readers of Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and J.M. Coetzee, **In a Strange Room** is the intricate, psychologically intense, and deeply personal book of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of **The Good Doctor**.A young man named Damon takes three journeys, through Greece, India, and Africa. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way â€” including a handsome enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers, and a woman on the edge â€” he is the Follower, the Lover, and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man''s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.A book of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, **In a Strange Room** is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man''s search for love and a place to call home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(5065, 'In a Sunburned Country', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous,In a Sunburned Countrytakes us on a grand tour of Australia. It''s a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost â€” yes, lost â€” while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert. Australia is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. Its aboriginal people, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, have made it their home for millennia. And despite the fact that it is the most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the planet''s ten most deadly poisonous snakes, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, sea shells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don''t ask). The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.In a Sunburned Countryoffers the best of all possible introductions to what may well be the best of all possible nations. Even with those jellyfish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/871'),
(5066, 'In Cold Blood', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3936'),
(5067, 'In Defense of Atheism', 'Michael Onfray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10767'),
(5068, 'In Defense of Food: An Eater&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan''s "In Defense of Food," the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling "The Omnivore''s Dilemma," Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan''s sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don''t eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Writing "In Defense of Food," and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we''ll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrientapproach. "In Defense of Food" reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore''s dilemma can be found all around us. In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan''s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2389'),
(5069, 'In Dubious Battle', 'John Steinbeck; Warren G. French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books *East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven*, and *Tortilla Flat*. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3034'),
(5070, 'In Every Heartbeat', 'Kim Vogel Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s 1914, on the brink of the Great War, when three longtime friends who grew up together in an orphanage are awarded scholarships to the University of Southern Missouri. But Petey, destined for the ministry, harbors revenge in his heart against the parents who cast him away when he was only seven years old, resulting in the loss of one foot and part of his leg. Libbyâ€™s impetuousness repeatedly lands her in trouble and hinders her ambition to become a top-notch reporter, and Bennett substitutes food and fighting for the respect, admiration, and sense of belonging he desperately craves. As the school year progresses and their beliefs are tested, their ambitions take them in different directions until they are brought together again by an impending execution. Sawyerâ€™s stand-alone Christian historical is more judgmental than her usual fare, but there is still plenty of action, emotion, and background color to carry the story. --Lynne Welch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends'' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking discovery about Pete''s family, will it drive a final wedge between the friends or bond them in ways they never anticipated?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7027'),
(5071, 'In for a Penny', 'Rose Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dashing and feckless lord enters a marriage of convenience with the lovely and practical daughter of a wealthy merchant to salvage his family fortune, but they find themselves unprepared for scandal, rioting tenants, a menacing neighborand discovering a love that is neither convenient nor practical but entirely heartfelt and enduring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3598'),
(5072, 'In for the Kill', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shamus and Edgar awardâ€“winner Lutz gives us further proof of his enormous talent for crafting great police fiction in his latest, a deceivingly standard story that pulls retired NYPD homicide detective Frank Quinn back into action to help stop a woman-killing madman in New York City. The Butcher, who leaves the dismembered bodies of his victims stacked in bathtubs, somehow avoids leaving any forensic evidence, and it doesn''t take much persuading for Quinn''s old friend Deputy Chief Harley Renz to get the old detective on the case. Teamed up with an old flame, officer Pearl Kasner, Quinn gets in emotionally complicated waters early onâ€”but things get personal when they realize the first letter of the last names of the five women killed so far spell out Q-u-i-n-n. And that''s before Quinn''s headstrong daughter unexpectedly shows up in the city. As the bodies pile up, Lutz handles the familiar situationâ€”aging detective locked in battle of wits with brilliant killerâ€”with characteristic finesse, keeping suspense taut, details gritty and twists surprising. Though his New York might as well be Anycity, U.S.A., Lutz has a thorough command of plot and character, making this another enthralling page turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The victims are dismembered, their body parts ritualistically stacked in a bathtub, with all blood rinsed down the drain. Semiretired NYPD homicide detective Frank Quinn is lured back to the job out of a sense of service and a chance to reassemble his former team, which not so coincidentally includes his former lover, Pearl Kasner. The case becomes very personal when the first initials of the victims'' last names are Q-U-I, and one of the victims was killed in Pearl''s old apartment. Nothing is what it seems, and even after a terrific final act, the investigators really don''t understand what they''ve witnessed. But thanks to Edgar and Shamus winner Lutz''s brilliant narrative and shifting perspective, readers will know what the detectives don''t and will be thoroughly horrified. Moviegoers sometimes hide their eyes during the really scary parts. Readers would do that while turning these pages, too, if not for the obvious drawback. A very scary and suspenseful read. Lukowsky, Wes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8635'),
(5073, 'In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash', 'Jean Shepherd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Shepherd has a fine eye for absurdity, for the madness and idiocy in all of us."\n <br />\n --_Best Sellers_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist''s grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic, and ironic all at once, an enviable skill and one that makes reading\n <em>\n  In God We Trust\n </em>\n an infinitely satisfying experience. --\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art.\n <strong>\n  In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash\n </strong>\n represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In God We Trust\n </strong>\n , Shepherd''s wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage "You can never go back." Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World''s Fair, Shepherd''s subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6306'),
(5074, 'In Green&#39;s Jungles: The Second Volume of &#39;The Book of the Short Sun&#39; by Gene Wolfe', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8907'),
(5075, 'In Harm&#39;s Way', 'Ridley Pearson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times*-bestselling author delivers another extraordinary Walt Fleming thriller. ** Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming''s budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue and she attempts to duck the press. Despite her job and her laudable actions, she begs Walt to keep her photo out of the paper, avoiding him when he can''t. Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou Boldt, a police sergeant out of Seattle, calls to report that a recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. After a badly beaten body is discovered just off a local highway, Walt knows there is a link-but can he pull the pieces together in time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3258'),
(5076, 'In Her Shoes', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meet Rose Feller. She''s thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she''s going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she''s beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little sister to get her life together.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meet Rose''s sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie sings backup in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. Although her dreams of big-screen stardom haven''t progressed past her left hip''s appearance in a Will Smith video, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they''re more alike than they''d ever believe.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9944'),
(5077, 'In High Places', 'Arthur Hailey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(5078, 'In Milton Lumky Territory', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First published in 1985 by a small press, this realist (read: not sci-fi) early novel from dystopian master Dick (1928â€“1982) bears the following introductory author''s note: This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too, in that the funny things that happen happen to real people who come alive. The ending is a happy one. What more can an author say? What more can he give? To which one answers indeed, and quickly turns to the adventures of protagonist Bruce Stevens as he drives into the Pacific Northwestâ€”the sales territory of a Willy Lomanesque man named Milton Lumkyâ€”looking for wholesale typewriters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.â€\n  <br />\n  --_The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œRemarkable. . .echoes of Dickâ€™s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate. . . . Dick fans will be in rapture.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Publishers Weekly_ [boxed review] on\n  <em>\n   Voices from the Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6555'),
(5079, 'In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates''s most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O''Connor, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood among others--and also the emotional terrain of Oates''s own life following the unexpected death of her husband.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7445'),
(5080, 'In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove', 'Marcel Proust; D. J. Enright; C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Terence Kilmartin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIt is marvelously about life.â€ â€”Terence Kilmartin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1919,\n <em>\n  Within a Budding Grove\n </em>\n was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of\n <em>\n  In Search of Lost Time\n </em>\n , the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of\n <em>\n  Swannâ€™s Way\n </em>\n to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swannâ€™s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attentionâ€”Albertine, â€œa girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ€™s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ€™s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of\n <em>\n  Ã la recherchÃ© du temps perdu\n </em>\n (the final volume of these new editions was published by the BibliothÃ¨que de la PlÃ©iade in 1989).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9810'),
(5081, 'In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way', 'Marcel Proust; D. J. Enright; C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Terence Kilmartin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been anyone else with Proustâ€™s ability to show us things; Proustâ€™s pointing finger is unequaled.â€ â€”Walter Benjamin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The â€œGuermantes Way,â€ in this the third volume of\n <em>\n  In Search of Lost Time\n </em>\n , refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantesâ€™s chÃ¢teau near Combray. It also represents the narratorâ€™s passage into the rarefied â€œsocial kaleidoscopeâ€ of the Guermantesâ€™s Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantesâ€™s drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.\n</p>\n<p>\n For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ€™s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ€™s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of\n <em>\n  Ã la recherchÃ© du temps perdu\n </em>\n (the final volume of these new editions was published by the BibliothÃ¨que de la PlÃ©iade in 1989).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9809'),
(5082, 'In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained &amp; a Guide to Proust (A Modern Library E-Book)', 'Marcel Proust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. His father, Adrien Proust, was a doctor celebrated for his work in epidemiology; his mother, Jeanne Weil, was a stockbroker''s daughter of Jewish descent. He lived as a child in the family home on Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris, but spent vacations with his aunt and uncle in the town of Illiers near Chartres, where the Prousts had lived for generations and which became the model for the Combray of his great novel. (In recent years it was officially renamed Illiers-Combray.) Sickly from birth, Marcel was subject from the age of nine to violent attacks of asthma, and although he did a year of military service as a young man and studied law and political science, his invalidism disqualified him from an active professional life. During the 1890s Proust contributed sketches to Le Figaro and to a short-lived magazine, Le Banquet, founded by some of his school friends in 1892. "Pleasures and Days, " a collection of his stories, essays, and poems, was published in 1896. In his youth Proust led an active social life, penetrating the highest circles of wealth and aristocracy. Artistically and intellectually, his influences included the aesthetic criticism of John Ruskin, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, the music of Wagner, and the fiction of Anatole France (on whom he modeled his character Bergotte). An affair begun in 1894 with the composer and pianist Reynaldo Hahn marked the beginning of Proust''s often anguished acknowledgment of his homosexuality. Following the publication of Emile Zola''s letter in defense of Colonel Dreyfus in 1898, Proust became ''the first Dreyfusard, '' as he later phrased it. By the time Dreyfus was finally vindicated of charges of treason, Proust''s social circles had been torn apart by the anti-Semitism and political hatreds stirred up by the affair. Proust was very attached to his mother, and after her death in 1905 he spent some time in a sanitorium. His health worsened progressively, and he withdrew almost completely from society and devoted himself to writing. Proust''s early work had done nothing to establish his reputation as a major writer. In an unfinished novel, "Jean Santeuil" (not published until 1952), he laid some of the groundwork for "In Search of Lost Time, " and in "Against Sainte-Beuve, " written in 1908-09, he stated as his aesthetic credo: ''A book is the product of a different self from the one we manifest in our habits, in society, in our vices. If we mean to try to understand this self it is only in our inmost depths, by endeavoring to reconstruct it there, that the quest can be achieved.'' He appears to have begun work on his long masterpiece sometime around 1908, and the first volume, "Swann''s Way, " was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, "Within a Budding Grove, " won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent sections--"The Guermantes Way" (1920-21) and "Sodom and Gomorrah" (1921)--appeared in his lifetime. (Of the depiction of homosexuality in the latter, his friend AndrÃ©eacute; Gide complained: ''Will you never portray this form of Eros for us in the aspect of youth and beauty?'') The remaining volumes were published following Proust''s death on November 18, 1922: "The Captive" in 1923, "The Fugitive" in 1925, and "Time Regained" in 1927.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9812'),
(5083, 'In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah', 'Marcel Proust &amp; Charles Kenneth Scott-moncrieff &amp; Terence Kilmartin &amp; D. J. Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain."--Virginia Woolf\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Sodom and Gomorrah\n  </em>\n  opens a new phase of\n  <em>\n   In Search of Lost Time\n  </em>\n  . While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantesâ€™s orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. â€œFlower and plant have no conscious will,â€ Samuel Beckett wrote of Proustâ€™s representation of sexuality. â€œThey are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proustâ€™s men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ€™s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ€™s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of\n  <em>\n   Ã la recherchÃ© du temps perdu\n  </em>\n  (the final volume of these new editions was published by the BibliothÃ¨que de la PlÃ©iade in 1989).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9808'),
(5084, 'In Shade and Shadow', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The national bestselling Noble Dead saga is â€œone of those [series] for which the term dark fantasy was definitely intendedâ€ (*Chronicle*).** After her adventures with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hygeorht has returned to the Guild of Sagecraft, bearing texts supposedly penned by vampires from the time of the Forgotten History and the Great War. Seized by the Guildâ€™s scholars and sent out for copying without Wynnâ€™s consent, several pages disappearâ€”and the two sages charged with conveying these pages are murdered. Suspicious of the Guild, separated from the only friends she fully trusts, and convinced the Noble Dead are responsible for the killings, Wynn embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets of the texts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(5085, 'In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an a &amp; E Doctor', 'Nick Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Nick Edwards is an Accident and Emergency (A&amp;E) doctor working in the UK and a passionate believer in the National Health System (NHS). However, the reforms, political correctness, and the Anglo-Saxon culture of binge drinking and fighting, and the resulting A&amp;E visits, are a strain on his sanity. So, to keep up his morale, he began writing down his feelingsa form of literary cathartic therapythe results of which make up this book. From dealing with cardiac arrests and car accidents, to people with Arrest Avoidance Syndrome, and others who havent quite read the big red sign above their heads as they walk into A&amp;E, In Stitches paints a vivid picture of what its really like working at the sharp end of the NHS today. Its funny, its heartbreaking, and its infuriating. Its also more informative than any government press release.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6105'),
(5086, 'In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic', 'Professor X &amp; Professor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America''s most expensive Ponzi scheme.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable mortgage.\n</p>\n<p>\n As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. He finds himself on the front lines of America''s academic crisis. It''s quite an education.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. Funny, wry, self-deprecating, and a provocative indictment of our failing schools,\n <em>\n  In the Basement of the Ivory Tower\n </em>\n is both a brilliant academic satire and a poignant account of one teacher''s seismic frustration-and unlikely salvation-as his real estate woes catapult him into a subprime crisis of an altogether more human nature.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Professor X\n </strong>\n has been teaching English composition and literature for a decade at two small colleges somewhere in America. His essay in\n <em>\n  The Atlantic\n </em>\n , chosen by David Brooks for a Sidney Award and much trafficked and debated on the Web, inspired this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6953'),
(5087, 'In the beginning ...was the command line', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson, author of the sprawling and engaging __, has written a manifesto that could be spoken by a character from that brilliant book. Primarily,\n <em>\n  In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line\n </em>\n discusses the past and future of personal computer operating systems. "It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old," he writes, "but it is the fate of operating systems to become free." While others in the computer industry express similarly dogmatic statements, Stephenson charms the reader into his way of thinking, providing anecdotes and examples that turn the pages for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephenson is a techie, and he''s writing for an audience of coders and hackers in\n <em>\n  Command Line\n </em>\n . The idea for this essay began online, when a shortened version of it was posted on\n <em>\n  Slashdot.org\n </em>\n . The book still holds some marks of an e-mail flame gone awry, and some tangents should have been edited to hone his formidable arguments. But unlike similar writers who also discuss technical topics, he doesn''t write to exclude; readers who appreciate computing history (like __ or\n <em>\n  Fire in the Valley\n </em>\n ) can easily step into this book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephenson tackles many myths about industry giants in this volume, specifically Apple and Microsoft. By now, every newspaper reader has heard of Microsoft''s overbearing business practices, but Stephenson cuts to the heart of new issues for the software giant with a finely sharpened steel blade. Apple fares only a little better as Stephenson (a former Mac user himself) highlights the early steps the company took to prepare for a monopoly within the computer market--and its surprise when this didn''t materialize. Linux culture gets a thorough--but fair--skewering, and the strengths of BeOS are touted (although no operating system is nearly close enough to perfection in Stephenson''s eyes).\n</p>\n<p>\n As for the rest of us, who have gladly traded free will and an intellectual understanding of computers for a clutter-free, graphically pleasing interface, Stephenson has thoughts to offer as well. He fully understands the limits nonprogrammers feel in the face of technology (an example being the "blinking 12" problem when your VCR resets itself). Even so, within\n <em>\n  Command Line\n </em>\n he convincingly encourages us as a society to examine the metaphors of technology--simplifications that aren''t really much simpler--that we greedily accept.\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Buckendorff\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After reading this galvanizing essay, first intended as a feature for Wired magazine but never published there, readers are unlikely to look at their laptops in quite the same mutely complacent way. Stephenson, author of the novel Cryptonomicon, delivers a spirited commentary on the aesthetics and cultural import of computer operating systems. It''s less an archeology of early machines than a critique of what Stephenson feels is the inherent fuzziness of graphical user interfacesAthe readily intuitable "windows," "desktops" and "browsers" that we use to talk to our computers. Like Disney''s distortion of complicated historical events, our operating systems, he argues, lull us into a reductive sense of reality. Instead of the visual metaphors handed to us by Apple and Microsoft, Stephenson advocates the purity of the command line interface, somewhat akin to the DOS prompt from which most people flee in a technophobic panic. Stephenson is an advocate of Linux, the hacker-friendly operating system distributed for free on the Internet, and of BeOS, a less-hyped paradigm for the bits-and-bytes future. Unlike a string of source code, this essay is user-friendlyAoccasionally to a fault. Stephenson''s own set of extended metaphors can get a little hokey: Windows is a station wagon, while Macs are sleek Euro-sedans. And Unix is the Gilgamesh epic of the hacker subculture. Nonetheless, by pointing out how computers define who we are, Stephenson makes a strong case for elegance and intellectual freedom in computing. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9585'),
(5088, 'In the beginning... was the command line', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the Beginning...was the Command Line is a lengthy essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Macintosh, and free software communities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8768'),
(5089, 'In the Blood', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ever since the Feds "blackmailed vampiress Daphne Urban into joining Team Darkwing (or face termination), she has spied for the government. Her current assignment accompanied by her two remaining teammates is to investigate and mount a rescue of ten kidnapped teenage girls, daughters of New York City''s upper crust. To accomplish the objective, Team Darkwing needs new members to replace those who left; not all voluntarily. They recruit former criminal Rogue and researcher Audrey to assist them on their mission. Time is running out as the government refuses to negotiate with terrorists so Daphne and Team Darkwing begins a search amidst the decadent Mew York vampiric underground before a deadly outcome occurs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3933'),
(5090, 'In the Devil&#39;s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food', 'Stewart Lee Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen''s\n <em>\n  In the Devil''s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods\n </em>\n offers a high-spirited look at the way foods over time have been forbidden, even criminalized, for their "evil" effects. Food has often been, shockingly, morally weighted, from the tomato, originally called the love apple and thought to excite lust; to the potato, whose popularity in Ireland led British Protestants to associate it with sloth; to foods like corn or bread whose use was once believed to delineate "lowness," thus inflaming class pride. Allen''s approach to this incredible history also includes tales of personal journeys to, for example, a Mount Athos monastery, where a monk reveals the sign of Satan in an apple, and to San Francisco to investigate dog eating. If his history is sometimes too glancing and facetious, even beyond the sensible need to entertain, it is always fascinating.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book also features "forbidden" menus--such as the one devoted to gluttony that includes an entire steer stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a chicken, and served with sausages--and quite doable and delicious recipes, such as a dynamite hot and sweet banana ketchup and Lo Han Jai, a mushroom-replete vegetarian feast. But the real focus is on the human response to a primal pleasure--eating--and the way people have sought to control it, in every society and every culture, through prohibition. It''s quite a tale.\n <em>\n  --Arthur Boehm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "When I pluck a few leaves [from my little basil bush] for my tagliatelle, I make sure to scream obscenities at its fuzzy little head just like the Italians used to." Unaware of basil''s complicated past, some cooks might use the herb with carefree abandon, but Allen, author of The Devil''s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee, knows better. When it arrived in Europe from India around the fourth century B.C., basil came wrapped in a tale of fatal passion, which eventually morphed into the belief that a person who smelled the herb would go mad and curse up a storm. Allen''s conceit is to take dozens of such tales and categorize them as one of the seven deadly sins: the section on "Lust," for instance, looks at the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden; the section on "Sloth" covers the potato and its supposed tendency to turn the Irish into lazy fornicators; the section on "Blasphemy" recounts how 16th-century Catholic priests roamed the streets of Madrid sniffing for Jewish cookery. While the historical and cultural links between food, sex and religion make for fascinating reading, Allen''s structure is forced at times: it is difficult to understand why Allen places France''s obsession with bread and class in the section on "Sloth." The book''s tone flip and entertaining seems geared to the casual foodie, but its breeziness is often frustrating: Allen devotes only three pages, for example, to the potent trio of food, lust and homosexuality. Cooks may find Allen''s unusual assortment of recipes from around the world as well as his recommendation on where to find the world''s best potatoes (and it''s not Idaho) to be the best part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7004'),
(5091, 'In the Eye of Heaven', 'David Keck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a strong new voice in epic fantasy comes the tale of Durand, a good squire trying to become a good knight in a harsh and unforgiving world. Set to inherit the lordship of a small village in his father''s duchy because the knight of that village has been bereaved of his own son, Durand must leave when the son unexpectedly turns up alive. First he falls in with a band of knights working for a vicious son of a duke and ends up participating in the murder of the duke''s adulterous wife. Fleeing, he comes into the service of a disgraced second son of a duke, Lamoric, who is executing a long subterfuge to try to restore his honor in the eyes of his father, family, and king. By entering tournaments anonymously as "The Red Knight," Durand will demonstrate his heroism and prowess and be drafted into the honors of the king. But conspiracies are afootdark plots that could break the oaths which bind the kingdom and the duchies together and keep the banished monsters at bay. It may fall to Durand to save the world of Man... Authentic and spellbinding,In the Eye of Heavenweaves together the gritty authenticity of a Glen Cook with the high-medieval flair epitomized by Gene Wolfe''sThe Knight, to begin an epic multi-volume tale that will take the fantasy world by storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(5092, 'In the first circle a novel, the restored text', 'Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10528');
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(5093, 'In the Flesh', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker''s groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker''s dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(5094, 'In the Frame', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The horses age painted ones this time, but stop worrying. You won''t have a moment to miss the hooves and the muck. Charles Todd, master of equine portraiture, stumbles on a pattern: visitors to Australia purchase horse pictures and, in no time at all, their homes are burglarized. In the case of Todd''s kinsman, the burglary also involves murder, so it''s Down Under for the Franciscan confrontation between a resourceful loner and a ruthless crime-conglomerate. Action, character, and color ride in perfect balance again (last year''s High Stakes teetered a bit), and the "Am I my brother''s keeper?" motif returns in subtle high gear, just to remind us that Francis stays on top because he remembers to touch bottom. (Kirkus Reviews) --online\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arriving to spend the weekend with his cousin Donald, artist Charles Todd steps into a terrifying scenario. Donald''s wife Regina has been brutally murdered and the house ransacked. Among the missing valuables is a painting by Sir Alfred Munnings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8236'),
(5095, 'In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler&#39;s Berlin', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011\n  </strong>\n  :\n  <em>\n   In the Garden of Beasts\n  </em>\n  is a vivid portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitlerâ€™s reign, brought to life through the stories of two people: William E. Dodd, who in 1933 became Americaâ€™s first ambassador to Hitlerâ€™s regime, and his scandalously carefree daughter, Martha. Ambassador Dodd, an unassuming and scholarly man, is an odd fit among the extravagance of the Nazi elite. His frugality annoys his fellow Americans in the State Department and Doddâ€™s growing misgivings about Hitlerâ€™s ambitions fall on deaf ears among his peers, who are content to â€œgive Hitler everything he wants.â€ Martha, on the other hand, is mesmerized by the glamorous parties and the high-minded conversation of Berlinâ€™s salon societyâ€”and flings herself headlong into numerous affairs with the cityâ€™s elite, most notably the head of the Gestapo and a Soviet spy. Both become players in the exhilarating (and terrifying) story of Hitlerâ€™s obsession for absolute power, which culminates in the events of one murderous night, later known as â€œthe Night of Long Knives.â€ The rise of Nazi Germany is a well-chronicled time in history, which makes\n  <em>\n   In the Garden of Beasts\n  </em>\n  all the more remarkable. Erik Larson has crafted a gripping, deeply-intimate narrative with a climax that reads like the best political thriller, where we are stunned with each turn of the page, even though we already know the outcome. --_Shane Hansanuwat_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œReads like an elegant thrillerâ€¦utterly compellingâ€¦ marvelous stuff. An excellent and entertaining book that deserves to be a bestseller, and probably will be.â€â€”_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA master at writing true tales as riveting as fiction.â€--_People_ (3 1/2 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Larson has done it again, expertly weaving together a fresh new narrative from ominous days of the 20th century."--Associated Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[L]ike slipping slowly into a nightmare, with logic perverted and morality upendedâ€¦.It all makes for a powerful, unsettling immediacy."--Bruce Handy, _Vanity Fair\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œDazzlingâ€¦.Reads like a suspense novel, replete with colorful characters, both familiar and those previously relegated to the shadows.Â  Like Christopher Isherwoodâ€™s Berlin Stories or Victor Klempererâ€™s Diaries, IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS is an on-the-ground documentary of a society going mad in slow motion."--\n  </em>\n  The Chicago Sun-Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ[G]ripping, a nightmare narrative of a terrible time.Â  It raises again the question never fully answered about the Nazi eraâ€”what evil humans are capable of, and what means are necessary to cage the beast.â€--_The Seattle Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Devil in the White City\n  </em>\n  ...a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery."--_Publishers Weekly_(Starred Review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for Erik Larson\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   THUNDERSTRUCK\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œA ripping yarn of murder and invention.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLarsonâ€™s gift for rendering an historical era with vibrant tactility and filling it with surprising personalities makes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6282'),
(5096, 'In the Hands of a Chef', 'Jody Adams &amp; Ken Rivard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n How do great chefs make their food taste better? Is it the ingredients they use? Their cooking techniques and equipment? That''s part of the answer. But the real secret is that truly great chefs follow their instinctsâ€”the kitchens in their heads. Now, in her first cookbook, Jody Adams, the award-winning chef/co-owner of Boston''s Rialto, teaches you how to follow your own instincts and make the transition from passionate eater to passionate cook.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  In the Hands of a Chef\n </em>\n shares Jody''s favorite dishes, those she prepares for family and friends in her home kitchen. By teaching the basics of artisanal cooking, or making good food from scratch, she gives cooks a solid foundation for cooking like a chef. She tells readers what to look for when buying ingredients, what equipment is essential, and how a dish should look and taste while being prepared.\n</p>\n<p>\n Above all, Jody encourages readers to trust their instincts and follow them to create a cooking style that feels right, using recipes as the building blocks for their own creations.\n</p>\n<p>\n From starters, seasonal soups, salads, and main courses to desserts, Jody reinvents Mediterranean foods using unconventional ingredients, many from New England. For a boost of summer flavor, grilled tomatoes add depth to gazpacho. To vary the flavor of simple saladsâ€”from a Minted Romaine Salad with Grapes, Ricotta Salata, and Toasted Almonds to Arugula and Portobella Mushroom Salad-one or two seasonal ingredients are added to the usual recipes. Drawing inspiration from Italian tradition, Jody offers up innovative pasta and grains dishes. Ravioli, pappardelle, gnocchi, and linguine are served up with Mediterranean flavors and ingredientsâ€”tomatoes, olives, figs, chestnuts, fresh greens, wild mushrooms, Parmesan cheeseâ€”for home-style meals any time of the year. Yet much of Jody''s cooking is pure American in flavor. Dessert classics are reinvented with new twists, such as Super-Creamy Rice Pudding with Passion Fruit Sauce and Heather''s Cranberry Chocolate Pecan Tart. Here, too, are Jody''s signature dishes, including Roasted Marinated Long Island Duck with Green Olive and Balsamic Vinegar Sauce and Soupe de Poisson, which Jacques PÃ©pin calls the best version outside of France.\n</p>\n<p>\n Intended to make you wish you had more time to spend in the kitchen,\n <em>\n  In the Hands of a Chef\n </em>\n is an inspiration as well as an essential resource for every cook. Why be just a good cook when you can be a great one? Put yourself in the hands of Jody Adams with\n <em>\n  In the Hands of a Chef\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7730'),
(5097, 'In the Heart of the Canyon', 'Elisabeth Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life. Ruth and Lloyd, veteran white-water rafters in their seventies, know they will never make this trip again. Jill, a stay-at-home mother with her husband and two boys in tow, craves the luxury of relinquishing control and following someone else''s rules. Mitchell and his wife, Lena, are re-creating a historic river journey undertaken years before. Seventeen-year-old Amy Van Doren and her mother set off on this journey expecting little, especially from each other; together they will face the most daunting journey of all, one that has nothing to do with whitewater rapids.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(5098, 'In the Key-Chords of Dawn', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11132'),
(5099, 'In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor&#39;s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom', 'Qanta Ahmed', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This memoir is a journey into a complex world readers will find fascinating and at times repugnant. After being denied a visa to remain in the U.S., British-born Ahmed, a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin, takes advantage of an opportunity, before 9/11, to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. She discovers her new environment is defined by schizophrenic contrasts that create an absurd clamorous clash of modern and medieval.... It never became less arresting to behold. Ahmed''s introduction to her new environment is shocking. Her first patient is an elderly Bedouin woman. Though naked on the operating table, she still is required by custom to have her face concealed with a veil under which numerous hoses snake their way to hissing machines. Everyday life is laced with bizarre situations created by the rabid puritanical orthodoxy that among other requirements forbids women to wear seat belts because it results in their breasts being more defined, and oppresses Saudi men as much as women by its archaic rules. At times the narrative is burdened with Ahmed''s descriptions of the physical characteristics of individuals and the luxurious adornments of their homes but this minor flaw is easily overlooked in exchange for the intimate introduction to a world most readers will never know.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Denied visa renewal in America, British-born Pakistani physician Ahmed, 31, leaves New York for a job in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she celebrates her Muslim faith on an exciting Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca even as she encounters rabid oppression from the state-sanctioned religious extremist police. She is licensed to operate ICU machines in the emergency ward, but as a woman, she is forbidden to drive, and she must veil every inch of herself. Her witty insider-outsider commentary as a Muslim and feminist, both reverent and highly critical, provides rare insight into the upper-class Saudi scene today, including the roles of women and men in romance, weddings, parenting, divorce, work, and friendship. After 9/11, she is shocked at the widespread anti-Americanism. The details of consumerism, complete with Western brand names, get a bit tiresome, but they are centralÂ  to this honest memoir about connections and conflicts, and especially the clamorous clash of â€œmodern and medieval, . . . Cadillac and camel.â€ --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4943'),
(5100, 'In the manner of trees', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Feeling secure in our everyday here-and-now? Then let Stephen Baxter reveal to you disturbing traces of other worlds: traces of other pasts, other presents, other futures. Here are vestiges of civilizations lost, long-gone, footprints of passing life-forms, visions of histories that differ from our own, some in small ways, some through a fundamental difference in physical laws. Here are twenty-one extraordinary stories from the best science fiction writer of his generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11110'),
(5101, 'In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time', 'Peter Lovenheim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Social history reporting can get dull in the abstract; happily, journalist and family man Lovenheim (Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf) makes a personal project of his investigation into the disappearance of community in suburban American, learning about the residents of his suburban Rochester, N.Y. street by sleeping over at their houses (his impetus was a murder-suicide on the street that helped reveal the extent to which his neighbors remained strangers). Throughout, Lovenheim''s writing is genteel and elegantly detailed, revealing much about his subjects-issues of class, relationships, likes and gripes, obsessions and everyday struggles-that would be easy to miss in broad cultural assessments. His project also exposes the surprising variety of people in a neighborhood that seems, at first glance, a homogenous group of upper-middle-class professionals. Using the sleepover as an innovative sociological lens, Lovenheim provides a smart, from-the-front-lines update on Robert Putnam''s suburban-alienation expose Bowling Alone, taking a personal look at what Americans tend to lose by "going about their lives largely detached from those living around them."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a tragic murder-suicide in his neighborhood, Lovenheim feels compelled to learn if closer relationships among neighbors might have saved a woman from death. The cultural study that follows is as much about sociology as it is about simple friendship as Lovenheim wonders why people can live side-by-side and know literally nothing about each other. He engages in long conversations both with those he has known (at least casually) for years and others he has never met. A retired doctor, harried real-estate agent, workaholic consultant, pathologist, radiologist fighting cancer, dog walkers, and others allow him into their homes and, at least a little bit, their hearts. He meets families and pets and witnesses daily routines, asking repeatedly just what it is that makes a place a home and a street more than merely an address. He reaches out and finds others also searching for connection and longing for what used to be. Lovenheim advances ideas about isolation in the modern world, and why a welcoming front porch is needed now more than ever. --Colleen Mondor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6747'),
(5102, 'In the Night Room: A Novel', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In\n <em>\n  Black House\n </em>\n , Straub and Stephen King wrote of "slippage," whereby the borders between reality and fantasy blur. This entire brilliant novel is an act of slippage. In this sequel to last year''s\n <em>\n  lost boy lost girl\n </em>\n , and further chapter in the ongoing adventures of Straub protagonist Tim Underhill (_Koko_, etc.), the most intellectually adventurous of dark fantasy authors takes the apparent slippage of the prequelâ€”in which Underhill''s experience of a slain nephew''s survival at the hands of a serial killer was indicated to be compensatory imagining by Underhillâ€”several steps into the impressively weird. Underhill, an author, here encounters not the mere survival of a dead relation but the existence of a character he''s creating in his journals. Dark fantasy cognescenti will remember that King employed a somewhat similar device in\n <em>\n  The Dark Half\n </em>\n , but Straub''s approach is distinctly his own, directed at mining the ambiguous relationship between nature and art, fact and fiction, the real and the ideal. The character Underhill has brought into being is Willy Bryce Patrick, a children''s book author soon to be married to coldhearted financier Mitchell Faber, at least until Willy discovers that Faber had her first family murdered. Willy, whom Tim meets during a bookstore reading of his latest novel,\n <em>\n  lost boy lost girl\n </em>\n , believes she is real (as does the reader for the book''s first third), and learns otherwise only through Tim''s painful, patient revelations. The two fall in deeply in love, but their passion seems doomedâ€”not only is Willy''s existence tenuous, but the pair are being pursued with murderous intent by Faber and his goons, as the former is in fact one form of the serial killer of\n <em>\n  lost boy lost girl\n </em>\n , Joseph Kalendar; moreover, a terrible angel is insisting that only when Underhill makes an ultimate sacrifice, righting a wrong he did to Kalendar in\n <em>\n  lost boy lost girl\n </em>\n , will matters resolve. Moving briskly while ranging from high humor to the blackest dread, this is an original, astonishingly smart and expertly entertaining meditation on imagination and its powers; one of the very finest works of Straub''s long career, it''s a sure bet for future award nominations.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though most famous for his collaborations with Stephen King, Straub transcends the conventions of horror fiction.\n <em>\n  In the Night Room\n </em>\n provides more than a good scare; it deals with themes like the nature of reality and the consequences of artistic creation. Despite his cerebral bent, Straub never sacrifices the entertainment value of his storyâ€”though one reviewer found its twists hard to follow. The novel, a sequel to his acclaimed\n <em>\n  lost boy lost girl\n </em>\n (\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Jan/Feb 2004), offers a combination of gripping plot, well-drawn characters, and philosophical depth. Critics hail\n <em>\n  In the Night Room\n </em>\n as a rewarding read for horror junkies and deep thinkers alike.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5091'),
(5103, 'In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance', 'Wilbert Rideau', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1961, at the age of nineteen, young, black, eighth-grade dropout, Wilbert Rideau, despaired of the dead-end and small-town future his life held for him. He set out to rob the local bank and in an ill-concieved out and bungled robbery he murdered the bank teller a young, white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession at the local police station while angry mobs chanted kill that nigger outside. From this beginning, where we meet Rideau, newly sentenced to death row, he starts on an extraordinary journey. One that begins in the most violent prison in America, where brutality, years spent in solitary confinement, sexual slavery and local politics govern and confine many in ways that bars alone cannot.The ending to this compelling book is like nothing you will have read before, full of breathtaking suspense and gripping, gritty realism, a heartbreaking, emotionally wrought and magical ending to Rideaus prison life is skilfully and vigorously evoked.This is a powerful and inspirational memoir unlike any other, one that is sure to question our expectations of prisoners and the role of jails in rehabilitating them .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6929'),
(5104, 'In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives', 'Steven Levy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The contradictions of the Internet search behemoth are teased apart in this engaging, slightly starry-eyed business history. Wired magazine writer Levy (Hackers) insightfully recaps Google''s groundbreaking search engine and fabulously profitable online adâ€“brokering business, and elucidates the cutting-edge research and hard-nosed cost-efficiencies underlying them. He also regales readers with the "Googley" corporate culture of hip techno-capitalism: the elitist focus on braininess, the campus game rooms, the countercultural rectitude of billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (which can read more like puerile arrogance as they roller-blade into meetings with business-suited squares). Levy''s narrative updates a familiar portrait of the company, with breathless accounts of recent innovations. He offers a smart analysis of the tensions between Google''s "Ã¢Ã‡Ã¿Don''t Be Evil''" slogan and its censorship of its Chinese Web site and the privacy implications of its drive to sponge up all informationâ€”but he accepts Google''s blinkered conception of e-ethics and its demands for huge tax breaks with too much complacency. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Dense, driven examination of the pioneering search engine that changed the face of the Internet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thoroughly versed in technology reporting, Wired senior writer Levy deliberates at great length about online behemoth Google and creatively documents the companyâ€™s genesis from a ''feisty start-up to a market-dominating giant.'' The author capably describes Googleâ€™s founders, Stanford grads Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as sharp, user-focused and steadfastly intent on ''organizing all the worldâ€™s information.'' Levy traces how Googleâ€™s intricately developed, intrepid beginnings and gradual ascent over a competitive marketplace birthed an advertising-fueled ''money machine'' (especially following its IPO in 2004), and he follows the expansion and operation of the companyâ€™s liberal work campus (''Googleplex'') and its distinctively selective hiring process (Page still signs off on every new hire). The author was afforded an opportunity to observe the companyâ€™s operations, development, culture and advertising model from within the infrastructure for two years with full managerial cooperation. From there, he performed hundreds of interviews with past and current employees and discovered the type of ''creative disorganization'' that can either make or break a business. Though clearly in awe of Googleâ€™s crowning significance, Levy evenhandedly notes the companyâ€™s more glaring deficiencies, like the 2004 cyber-attack that forced the removal of the search engine from mainland China, a decision vehemently unsupported by co-founder Brin. Though the author offers plenty of well-known information, itâ€™s his catbird-seat vantage point that really gets to the good stuff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outstanding reportage delivered in the upbeat, informative fashion for which Levy is well known."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6976'),
(5105, 'In the President&#39;s Secret Service', 'Ronald Kessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Secret Service agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the presidentâ€™s inner circle. Kessler reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House aides. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carry out their missionsâ€“from how they are trained to how they spot and assess potential threats. With fly-on-the-wall perspective, he captures the drama and tension that characterize agentsâ€™ lives.In this headline-grabbing book, Kessler discloses assassination attempts that have never before been revealed. He shares inside accounts of past assaults that have put the Secret Service to the test, including a heroic gun battle that took down the would-be assassins of Harry S. Truman, the devastating day that John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, and the swift actions that saved Ronald Reagan after he was shot.While Secret Service agents are brave and dedicated, Kessler exposes how Secret Service management in recent years has betrayed its mission by cutting corners, risking the assassination of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families. Given the lax standards, â€œItâ€™s a miracle we have not had a successful assassination,â€ a current agent says.Since an assassination jeopardizes democracy itself, few agencies are as important as the Secret Serviceâ€“nor is any other subject as tantalizing as the inner sanctum of the White House. Only tight-lipped Secret Service agents know the real story, and Ronald Kessler is the only journalist to have won their trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4194'),
(5106, 'In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir', 'Neil White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following conviction for bank fraud, White spent a year in a minimum-security prison in Carville, La., housed in the last leper colony in mainland America. His fascinating memoir reflects on the sizable group of lepers living alongside the prisoners, social outcasts among the motley inmate crew of drug dealers, mob types and killers. Narrating in colorful, entertaining snapshots, White introduces the reader to an excellent supporting cast in his imprisonment: Father Reynolds, the peerless spiritual monk; Mr. Flowers, the no-nonsense case manager; Anne, the sorrowful mother with leprosy whose baby was taken from her arms; and Ella the Earth Mother, with wisdom to spare. Brisk, ironic and perceptive, White''s introspective memoir puts a magnifying glass to a flawed life, revealing that all of life is to be savored and respected.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n White was a successful magazine publisher in 1993 when he was convicted of fraud and check kiting and sentenced to prison inÂ Carville, Louisiana. He knew he was facing 18 months without his wife and two young children; he knew his enormous ego and ambition had landed him in prison; he knew he had to figure out a way to save his marriage and somehow rebound financially. What he didnâ€™t know was that the isolated 100-year-old facility at Carville was home to a leper colony of 130 patients. He learned that the patients (some severely disfigured and disabled) and the 250 inmates eyed each other suspiciously across the corridors and breezeway, each thinking the other was the scourge of the earth. Because his work detail brought him into frequent contact with the patients, White developed strong relationships with them. His favorite was Ella, a dignified and beatific elderly black woman, who had lived at Carville for more than 50 years. Among the inmates, White encountered counterfeiters and tax evaders along with drug traffickers and carjackers. When the Bureau of Prisons decided to evict the leprosy patients, tensions built on both sides. White, near the end of his sentence and struggling to come to grips with the consequences of his crime, is caught in the middle. He offers a memoir of personal transformation and a thoroughly engaging look at the social, economic, racial, and other barriers that separate individuals that harden, dissolve, and reconfigure themselves when people are involuntarily thrust together over long periods. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6062'),
(5107, 'In the Shadow of Gotham', 'Stefanie Pintoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dobson, New York, 1905. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancÃ©e in the General Slocum ferry disasterÂ—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police department north of New York, to escape the city and all the memories it conjured. But only a few months into his new life in a quiet country town, heâ€™s faced with the most shocking homicide of his career to date: Young Sarah Wingate has been brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of an otherwise calm and quiet winter afternoon. After just one day of investigation, Simonâ€™s contacted by Columbia Universityâ€™s noted criminologist Alistair Sinclair, who offers a startling claim about one of his patients, Michael FromleyÂ—that the facts of the murder bear an uncanny resemblance to Fromleyâ€™s deranged mutterings. But what would have led Fromley, with his history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies, to seek out Sarah, a notable mathematics student and a proper young lady who has little in common with his previous targets? Is Fromley really a murderer, or is someone mimicking him? This is what Simon Ziele must find out, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair SinclairÂ—before the killer strikes again. With this taut, atmospheric, and original story of a haunted man who must search for a killer while on the run from his own demons, Stefanie Pintoffâ€™s *In the Shadow of Gotham* marks the debut of an outstanding new talent, the inaugural winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel Competition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3541'),
(5108, 'In the Shadow of Midnight', 'Marsha Canham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3198'),
(5109, 'In the Shadow of the Cypress', 'Thomas Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Steinbeck has been praised by "Publishers Weekly "for his stylistic brilliance and "accomplished voice." Now, his enthralling novel "In the Shadow of the Cypress "blends history and suspense with literary mastery and brings vivid realism to California''s rich heritage. In 1906, the Chinese in California lived in the shadows. Their alien customs, traditions, and language hid what they valued from their neighbors . . . and left them open to scorn and prejudice. Their communities were ruled--and divided--by the necessity of survival among the many would-be masters surrounding them, by struggles between powerful tongs, and by duty to their ancestors. Then, in the wake of natural disaster, fate brought to light artifacts of incredible value along the Monterey coast: an ancient Chinese jade seal and a plaque inscribed in a trio of languages lost to all but scholars of antiquity. At first, chance placed control of those treasures in the hands of outsiders--the wayward Irishman who''d discovered them and a marine scholar who was determined to explore their secrets. The path to the truth, however, would prove to be as tangled as the roots of the ancient cypress that had guarded these treasures for so long, for there are some secrets the Chinese were not ready to share. Whether by fate, by subtle design, or by some intricate combination of the two, the artifacts disappeared again . . . before it could be proved that they must have come there ages before Europeans ever touched the wild and beautiful California coast. Nearly a century would pass before an unconventional young American scientist unearths evidence of this great discovery and its mysterious disappearance. Taking up the challenge, he begins to assemble a new generation of explorers to resume theperilous search into the ocean''s depth . . . and theshadows of history. Armed with cutting-edge, moderntechnology, and drawing on connections to powerful families at home and abroad, this time Americans and Chinese will follow together the path of secrets that have long proved as elusive as the ancient treasures that held them.This striking debut novel by a masterful writer weaves together two fascinating eras into one remarkable tale. "In the Shadow of the Cypress "is an evocative, dramatic story that depicts California in all its multicultural variety, with a suspense that draws the reader inexorably on until the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4053'),
(5110, 'In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother&#39;s Unceasing Quest for the Truth', 'Ann Rule', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soonâ€”and a determined motherâ€™s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughterâ€™s name.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Rondaâ€™s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. "Iâ€™m actually looking forward to getting on with my life," she told her mother earlier the night before. "I just need a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Rondaâ€™s mother, who had met her daughterâ€™s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was dead. She had committed suicide, he said, although he hadnâ€™t heard the gunshot and he didnâ€™t know if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coronerâ€™s deputy arrived, and a postmortem was conducted. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the death scene nor attended the autopsy, declared the manner of Rondaâ€™s death as "undetermined." Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would change that manner of death from "undetermined" to "suicide," back to "undetermined"â€”and then back to "suicide" again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Barb Thompson never for one moment believed her daughter committed suicide. Neither did Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics expert Marty Hayes or attorney Royce Ferguson or dozens of Rondaâ€™s friends. For eleven grueling years, through the ups and downs of the legal system and its endless delays, these people and others helped Barb Thompson fight to strike that painful word from her daughterâ€™s death certificate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On November 9, 2009, a precedent-setting hearing was held to determine whether Coroner Wilsonâ€™s office had been derelict in its duty in investigating the death of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime writer Ann Rule was present at that hearing, hoping to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting statements and mishandled evidence and present all sides of this haunting case and to determine, perhaps, what happened to Ronda Reynolds, in the chill still of that tragic December night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7399'),
(5111, 'In the Time of the Butterflies', 'Julia Alvarez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo''s dictatorship. It doesn''t have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo''s rule. The Butterflies were extraordinary women. Minerva, once the object of the dictator''s desire, had dared to publicly slap his face. Devout Patria found her calling to the uprising through the church. Alluring - and vain - Maria Teresa joined in pursuit of romance. Only Dede, the practical one, the most diligent in her duty to family and tradition, kept apart. And only she survived to see that their names were remembered. Now, through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez''s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again. And Dede joins them as a heroine of equal courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5419'),
(5112, 'In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun&#39;s Tomb', 'Daniel Meyerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened King Tutankhamunâ€™s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelible place in history, by the time of his death, the discovery had nearly destroyed him. Now, in a stunning feat of narrative nonfiction, Daniel Meyerson has written a thrilling and evocative account of this remarkable man and his times.Carter began his career inauspiciously. At the age of seventeenâ€“unknown, untrained, untriedâ€“he was hired as a copyist of tomb art by the brash, brilliant, and boldly unkempt father of modern archaeology, W. F. Petrie. Carter struck out on his own a few years later, sensing that something amazing lay buried beneath his feet, waiting for him to uncover it.But others had the same idea: The ancient cities of Egypt were crawling with European adventurers and their wealthy sponsors, each hoping to outdo the others with glittering discoveriesâ€“even as growing nationalist resentment against foreigners plundering the countryâ€™s most treasured antiquities simmered dangerously in the background.Not until Carter met up with the risk-taking, adventure-loving occultist Lord Carnarvon did his fortunes change. There were stark differences in personality and temperament between the cantankerous Carter and his gregarious patron, but together they faced down endless ridicule from the most respected explorers of the day. Seven dusty and dispiriting years after their first meeting, their dream came to astonishing life. But there would be a price to pay for this partnership, their discovery, and the glory and fame it brought both menâ€“and the chain of events that transpired in the wake of their success remains fascinating and shocking to this day.An enthralling story told with unprecedented verve, **In the Valley of the Kings** is a tale of mania and greed, of fame and lost fortune, of history and its damnations. As he did in **The Linguist and the Emperor,** Daniel Meyerson puts his exciting storytelling powers on full display, revealing an almost forgotten time when past and present came crashing together with the power to changeâ€“or curseâ€“menâ€™s lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(5113, 'In the Woods', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9929'),
(5114, 'In the Words of Ronald Reagan: The Wit, Wisdom, and Eternal Optimism of America&#39;s 40th President', 'Ronald Reagan &amp; Michael Reagan &amp; James D. Denney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, Ronald Wilson Reagan succeeded in renewing pride in America, strengthening the principles of family, faith, and freedom on which this nation was founded, and restoring our hope for the future. President Reagan endeared himself even to his political opponents with his self-effacing wit and irrepressible optimism. Inspiring, thoughtful, and at times downright funny, he had an amazing gift for stirring emotion, sparking debate, and calling a nation to action.\n</p>\n<p>\n In In The Words of Ronald Reagan, his oldest son Michael Reagan has gathered a wonderful collection of his father''s public and private words, providing a close-up portrait of our fortieth president. From hilarious one-liners to eloquent letters to intimate family moments, these selections depict Ronald Reagan in all his many roles--as world leader, conservative icon, orator, actor, and father. Complemented by Michael Reagan''s personal and insightful commentary on his father''s life, In The Words of Ronald Reagan will delight you, inspire you, and motivate you to finish the job Ronald Reagan began--the job of rebuilding the American dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5455'),
(5115, 'In Too Deep', 'Jayne Ann Krentz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It''s a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town draws misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has been drawn to the cove - Isabella Valdez, on the run from some very dangerous men.When she starts work as Fallon''s assistant, she impresses him by organising his pathologically chaotic office - and doesn''t bat an eye at the psychic aspect of his job. She''s a kindred spirit, sanctuary from a world that considers his talents a form of madness. But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused with dark energy, Fallon and Isabella are dragged into the secret history of Scargill Cove and forced to fight for their lives as they unravel a cut-throat conspiracy with roots in the Jones family business . . . and Isabella''s family tree.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6314'),
(5116, 'In Too Deep: Husband Material &amp; the Sheikh&#39;s Bargained Bride', 'Brenda Jackson &amp; Olivia Gates', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A fabulous summer two-in-one--twice the scandal all in one unforgettable volume!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Husband Material\n  </em>\n  by Brenda Jackson\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Beware the jilted husband:\n  </em>\n  Matthew Birmingham never played fair...especially when it came to his ex-wife. When she moved across the country, he moved back to their estate--back to their bedroom--determined to win back her love...by any means necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Sheikh''s Bargained Bride\n  </em>\n  by Olivia Gates\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Meet the shocked groom:\n  </em>\n  Sheikh Adham saw marriage as a business venture, his wife a mere convenience...until they portrayed the loving couple in public. Would finally seeing his bride in a new light shatter all his rules?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8045'),
(5117, 'In Too Deep: Husband Material\\\\The Sheikh&#39;s Bargained Bride', 'Brenda Jackson; Olivia Gates', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A fabulous summer two-in-one--twice the scandal all in one unforgettable volume!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Husband Material\n  </em>\n  by Brenda Jackson\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Beware the jilted husband:\n  </em>\n  Matthew Birmingham never played fair...especially when it came to his ex-wife. When she moved across the country, he moved back to their estate--back to their bedroom--determined to win back her love...by any means necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Sheikh''s Bargained Bride\n  </em>\n  by Olivia Gates\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Meet the shocked groom:\n  </em>\n  Sheikh Adham saw marriage as a business venture, his wife a mere convenience...until they portrayed the loving couple in public. Would finally seeing his bride in a new light shatter all his rules?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10737'),
(5118, 'Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh''s vanished into history. Until NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® dives into an ancient sacrificial pool far into the Andean jungle in order to rescue two archaeologists, and plunges into a vortex of corruption, betrayal, and death. A sinister crime syndicate has traced the long-lost treasure -- worth almost a billion dollars -- from the Andes to the banks of a hidden underground river flowing beneath a Mexican desert. Nothing will stop their ruthless and murderous drive to recover the gold. Nothing, that is, until Pitt and his team place themselves square in the path of danger....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(5119, 'Incarnations 1 - On a Pale Horse', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zane shot Death, he learned, too late, that he would have to assume his place, speeding over the world riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Sooner than he would have thought possible, Zane found himself being drawn to Satan''s plot. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved...unless he could discover the only way out....The first novel of the INCARNATIONS OF IMMORATLITY series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8878'),
(5120, 'Incarnations 2 - Bearing an Hourglass', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8884'),
(5121, 'Incarnations 3 - With a Tangled Skein', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil''s. Hoping for revenge, she discovered, too late, how intricate his scheming was, and that he had managed to trap her son and her granddaughter, Luna. Niobe''s only chance to save them was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit--a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan''s devising!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8881');
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(5122, 'Incarnations 4 - Wielding a Red Sword', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mym was a dutiful son, but rather than agree to his father''s choice for his marriage, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War, in order to ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth''s constant petty wars. But Mym discovered that Satan was waiting to trap him, and he must now take desperate measures to outwit the evil genius who aimed to destroy the world....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8877'),
(5123, 'Incarnations 5 - Being a Green Mother', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb''s life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician. But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that Orb had been chosen for the role of Incarnation of Nature--The Green Mother. But she also warned of a prophecy that Orb was to marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her...?From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8876'),
(5124, 'Incarnations 7 - And Eternity', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Pursuit of the Ultimate GoodAfter an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.Joined in Afterlife by Jolie -- her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself -- together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns -- facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8879'),
(5125, 'Incarnations 8 - Under a Velvet Cloak', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The eighth book in Piers Anthony''s Incarnations of Immortality series. It is the year 500 AD. Kerena, a beautiful young girl living near King Arthur''s Camelot, is apprenticed to Morely the Seer. Morely teaches her fantastic magic, but when he mysteriously disappears, Kerena finds herself out on the street and must resort to prostitution to survive. Kerena prospers as a skilled courtesan until she is taken into service by Morgan le Fey, the sorceress sister of King Arthur. Kerena''s knowledge of magic grows as she is required to carry out nefarious deeds for the evil Lady Fey. One of her missions is to seduce Sir Gawain, Knight of the Round Table, to prevent him from locating the Holy Grail. But Gawain and Kerena fall in love and she conceives his child, a child she discovers is cursed to die an early death. Using her Seer abilities, Kerena tries to locate the fabled Incarnations of Immortality, seeking their aid in removing the taint from her baby. Rebuffed by all seven major Incarnations, Kerena vows revenge. But revenge against such mighty immortals would require an even greater power...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8883'),
(5126, 'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain', 'David Eagleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA stunning exploration of the ''we''_\n  <em>\n   behind the ''I''. Eagleman reveals, with his typical grace and eloquence, all the neural magic tricks behind the cognitive illusion we call reality.â€ â€“Jonah Lehrer,Â  authorÂ ofÂ \n  </em>\n  How We Decide_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.â€ â€“_New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour mind is an elaborate trick, and mastermind David Eagleman explains how the trick works with great lucidity and amazement. Your mind will thank you.â€ â€“Kevin Kelly,\n  <em>\n   Wired Magazine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fun read by a smart person for smart peopleâ€¦it will attract a new generation to ponder their inner workings.â€ â€“_New Scientist\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWritten in clear, precise language, the book is sure to appeal to readers with an interest in psychology and the human mind, but it will also please people who just want to know, with a little more clarity, what is going on inside their own skulls.â€\n  </em>\n  â€“BooklistÂ \n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œOriginal and provocativeâ€¦Incognito is a smart, captivating book that will give you a prefrontal workout.â€ _â€“NatureÂ \n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <em>\n  â€œIncognito is fun to read, full of neat factoids and clever experiments...Eagleman says heâ€™s looking to do for neuroscience what Carl Sagan did for astrophysics, and heâ€™s already on his way.â€ â€“\n </em>\n Texas Monthly_ _\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Although\n  <em>\n   Incognito\n  </em>\n  is face-paced, mind-bending stuff, it''s a book for regular folks. Eagleman does a brilliant job refining heavy science into a compelling read. He is a gifted writer." -_Houston Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA popularizer of impressive gustoâ€¦[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars.â€ â€“_N... _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If the conscious mindâ€”the part you consider to be youâ€”is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didnâ€™t think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant in 1916? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourselfâ€”who, exactly, is mad at whom?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions,\n  <em>\n   Incognito\n  </em>\n  is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8764'),
(5127, 'Inconstant Star', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9607'),
(5128, 'The Inconvenient Bride', 'Anne McAllister', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dominic Wolfeone of the sharpest young tycoons in New York Cityshould have known that one night of great sex was no basis for a marriage. But it wasn''t his head Dominic was thinking with when he asked Sierra to be his convenient wife! Sierra wasn''t thinking with her head either, but with her heart. She was determined to teach him that there was more to life than meetings and mergers, and soon Dominic was wondering just how convenient she was! Could it be this hardheaded businessman was about to lose control in the arms of his new bride?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(5129, 'An Inconvenient Elephant', 'Judy Reene Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA reeling, contagious story of hope and interspecies empathy.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  From the author of\n  <em>\n   Still Life with Elephant\n  </em>\n  comes the story of one woman and her quest to save a majestic animal.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n After a year spent caring for baby elephants in Africa, Neelie Sterling is preparing to return to the States and a life filled with exesâ€”ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-house, ex-horse. But she is leaving behind some unfinished business in Zimbabwe: a very special elephant targeted for execution. With the help of her new friend Diamond-Rose Tremaine, an eccentric safari operator, Neelie manages to buy some time for the imperiled pachyderm, knowing that when she lands in New York they''ll need to raise funds for his rescue.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once they''re home, everything becomes a struggle. Neelie and Diamond-Rose now must relearn how to survive in an urban jungle of table manners and real beds while coping with the overbearing affections of Neelie''s family. Harder still, Neelie desperately needs the help of her wealthy conservationist ex-boyfriend, Tom, to save the magnificent creatureâ€”and swallowing her pride just might be the biggest challenge of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5764'),
(5130, 'The Incredible Shrinking Man', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous--until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4081'),
(5131, 'The Increment: A Novel', 'David Ignatius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The New York Times bestseller: â€œA remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.â€â€”Raleigh News &amp; Observer Harry Pappas, chief of the CIAâ€™s Persia House, receives an encrypted message from a scientist in Tehran. But soon the source of secrets from the Iranian bomb program dries up: the scientist panics; heâ€™s being followed, but he doesnâ€™t know whoâ€™s on to him, and neither does Harry. To get his agent out, Harry turns to a secret British spy team known as â€œThe Increment,â€ whose operatives carry the modern version of the double-O â€œlicense to kill.â€ But the real story is infinitely more complicated than Harry understands, and to get to the bottom of it he must betray his own country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(5132, 'Incubi', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The stranger beckons--the man of her dreams...or of her worst nightmares. Veronica Polk longs for love, but it isnâ€™t love that awaits in the strange, moonlit manse. Something evil broods, leading her blindly into a mire of erotic obsessions and savage desires. An unspeakable secret awaits--ancient, unholy--that thirsts for her spirit and hungers for her flesh. INCUBI: they''ll love you to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9878'),
(5133, 'Incubus dreams', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one is as good at stripping bare the dark desires of the inhuman soul as Laurell K. Hamilton, something she has proven time after time in her New York Timesbestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. Now, in Incubus Dreams, Anita''s life is more complicated than ever, as she is caught between her obligations to the living and the undead. A vampire serial killer who preys on strippers is on the loose. Called in to consult on the case, Anita fears her judgment may be clouded by a conflict of interest. For she is, after all, the consort of Jean-Claude, the ever-intoxicating Master Vampire of the City. Surrounded by suspicion, overwhelmed by her attempts to control the primal lusts that continue to wrack her as a result of her passionate contacts with vampires, werewolves, and the shapeshifter Micah, Anita does something unprecedented: She calls for help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2777'),
(5134, 'The incumbent', 'Alton Gansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An abduction a trail of disturbing clues Politics are about to become deadly. As the controversial mayor of the beautiful coastal community of Santa Rita, Madison "Maddy" Glenn likes to face things head-on. But nothing can prepare her for a hostile visit from the chief of police-or his terrible news. Lisa Truccoli, Maddy''s friend and the treasurer of her last campaign, has been kidnapped. All that remains at the crime scene is a shocking clue with Maddy''s name on it. The ensuing hunt for answers only turns up more sinister clues in a terrifying game the abductor wants to play with Maddy. Caught between a haunting past and a dangerous present, Maddy finds the walls that keep her from faith beginning to crumble. The stakes turn lethal with a second abduction and a clue that reveals inside information about Maddy''s run for Congress-a decision she has not made yet. Someone is going to dangerous lengths to make the choice for her but it is a choice she''ll survive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(5135, 'Indecent Exposure', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tom Sharpe''s second South African novel and a brilliant follow- up to Riotous Assembly Once again the setting is Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful- looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Vekramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While that great Anglophile, Kommandant van Heerden, gropes his way towards attaining true ''Englishness'' in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club, Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex, sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity, with the help of the redoubtable lady psychiatrist Dr von Blimenstein, which has remarkable and quite unforeseen results. The Kommandant, hunting the fox in the Aardvark mountains, succumbs to the bizarre charms of Mrs Heathcote- Kilkoon, as Luitenant Verkramp''s essays in counter- espionage backfire in the bird sanctuary. Once more, Konstabel Els, homicidal to the last, saves the day- or what''s left of it- in one of the most savage hunts ever chronicled in fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3885'),
(5136, 'Indecent Suggestion', 'Elizabeth Bevarly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(5137, 'Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Charles A. Eastman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having thereader decipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(5138, 'The Indian Ocean', 'Michael Pearson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''This is a fine achievement that by a very wide margin displaces such general accounts of the Indian Ocean as are available. It is commedably comprehensive, covering an immensely long span of time, from the ancient world to the present, with an enviable aura of authority throughout.'' -\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Peter Marshall, King''s College London\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''In this stimulating and comprehensive volume, Michael Pearson traces out the history of the Indian Ocean from ancient times to the present, and shows how the ocean has knitted together its diverse communities. Whether in his evocations of ship board life, or descriptions of pilgrims and traders, Pearson makes of the Indian Ocean, for the first time in historical scholarship, a vital and lively arena of study.'' -\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Thomas Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''This is a book that maritime archaeologist should find useful.''\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   - Nautical Archaeology\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ''\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   For the reader new to the subject they will provide stimulating and informative introductions ... [and] will easily win a place onÂ the few reading lists around the world that feature Indian Ocean studies.''\n  </strong>\n  -\n  <em>\n   The Round Table\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''[Pearson''s] impressive\n   <em>\n    tour de force\n   </em>\n   through human history ... covers a remarkably wide range of topics, he also writes very well ... The book will certainly become the standard account for this history of the Indian Ocean for some time.''\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   -\n  </strong>\n  Social Anthropology Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries'' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and religions across the sea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Indian Ocean\n  </em>\n  moves from a discussion of physical elements, its shape, winds, currents and boundaries, to a history from pre-Islamic times to the modern period of European dominance. Going far beyond pure maritime history, this compelling survey is an invaluable addition to political, cultural and economic world history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8623'),
(5139, 'Indian Takeaway: One Man&#39;s Attempt to Cook His Way Home', 'Hardeep Singh Kohli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''How deep is Hardeep''s love of food? As deep as Loch Ness and as unfathomable as India. Indian Takeaway is a very funny and beguiling journey.'' Paul Whitehouse\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a boy, Hardeep Singh Kohli knew where home was: Glasgow. But everyone else always assumed he was Indian. Because surely he couldn''t be British, with his brown skin and turban? Thirty years later, Hardeep sets out on a journey to discover where he is really from. His story is as hilarious as it is moving.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4378'),
(5140, 'The Indian Vegan Kitchen: More Than 150 Quick and Healthy Homestyle Recipes', 'Madhu Gadia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of\n   <em>\n    New Indian Home Cooking\n   </em>\n   presents a fresh take on Indian recipes for vegans, vegetarians, and anyone who loves Southeast Asian cuisine.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Renowned nutritionist and cooking instructor Madhu Gadia delivers a wonderful new recipe collection that is perfect for vegans looking for fresh ideas, as well as anyone who savors healthy, light recipes that don''t compromise on authenticity. Unlike most Indian vegetarian cookbooks, this unique collection avoids dairy and eggs, highlighting vegetables, and making use of soy products and other simple substitutions. It also offers nutritional analyses, as well as notes on serving, history, and variations.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Madhu Gadia, M.S., R.D.\n  </strong>\n  , is a registered dietician and the author of\n  <em>\n   New Indian Home Cooking\n  </em>\n  . She teaches popular cooking classes and workshops.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5163'),
(5141, 'Indignation', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Indignation\n </em>\n , his 25th novel, he has constructed a taut, haunting (and, as always, funny) story that ranks among his best. Reading at times like a buttoned-down\n <em>\n  Indignation\n </em>\n records a series of small explosions against ''50s propriety and the dire consequences they lead to, capturing the misery of desire amid repression, along with the greater terror of being trapped in endless, relentless memory.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Roth''s brilliant and disconcerting new novel plumbs the depths of the early Cold Warâ€“era male libido, burdened as it is with sexual myths and a consciousness overloaded with vivid images of impending death, either by the bomb or in Korea. At least this is the way things appear to narrator Marcus Messner, the 19-year-old son of a Newark kosher butcher. Perhaps because Marcus''s dad saw his two brothers'' only sons die in WWII, he becomes an overprotective paranoid when Marcus turns 18, prompting Marcus to flee to Winesburg College in Ohio. Though the distance helps, Marcus, too, is haunted by the idea that flunking out of college means going to Korea. His first date in Winesburg is with doctor''s daughter Olivia Hutton, who would appear to embody the beautiful normality Marcus seeks, but, instead, she destroys Marcus''s sense of normal by surprising him after dinner with her carnal prowess. Slightly unhinged by this stroke of fortune, he at first shuns her, then pesters her with letters and finally has a brief but nonpenetrative affair with her. Olivia, he discovers, is psychologically fragile and bears scars from a suicide attemptâ€”a mark Marcus''s mother zeroes in on when she meets the girl for the first and last time. Between promising his mother to drop her and longing for her, Marcus goes through a common enough existential crisis, exacerbated by run-ins with the school administration over trivial matters that quickly become more serious.... The terrible sadness of Marcus''s life is rendered palpable by Roth''s fierce grasp on the psychology of this butcher''s boy, down to his bought-for-Winesburg wardrobe. It''s a melancholy triumph and a cogent reflection on society in a time of war.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6622'),
(5142, 'The Indigo King', 'James A. Owen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John and Jack are mystified when they discover a cryptic warning on a medieval manuscriptâ€”a warning that is not only addressed to them, but seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson. But before they can discover the origins of the book, Hugo walks through a door in timeâ€”and vanishes into the past.\n</p>\n<p>\n In that moment, the world begins to change. Now, the Archipelago of Dreams and our world both suffer under the reign of the cruel and terrible Winter King. Dark beasts roam the countryside, and terror rules the land.\n</p>\n<p>\n John and Jack must travel back in timeâ€”from the Bronze Age to the library in ancient Alexandria to the founding of the Silver Throneâ€”to find the only thing that can save their friend and restore both words. The solution lies in the answer to a 2,000-year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  James A. Owen\n </strong>\n is the author and illustrator of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series; the creator of the critically acclaimed Starchild graphic novel series; and the author of the Mythworld series of novels.Â  He works at the Coppervale Studio in Silvertown, Arizona, where he lives with his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8456'),
(5143, 'Indigo Slam (1997)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9963'),
(5144, 'Indiscretions Of Archie', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Purchase one of 1st World Library''s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It wasn''t Archie''s fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels. Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2655'),
(5145, 'Indivisible', 'Kristen Heitzmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An inseparable bond. An insatiable force. **Battling his own personal demons, Police Chief Jonah Westfall knows the dark side of life and has committed himself to eradicating it. When a pair of raccoons are found mutilated in Redford, Colorado, Jonah investigates the gruesome act, knowing the strange event could escalate and destroy the tranquility of his small mountain town. With a rising drug threat and never-ending conflict with Tia Manning, a formidable childhood friend with whom he has more than a passing history, Jonah fights for answersâ€”and his fragile sobriety. But he canâ€™t penetrate every wound or secretâ€”especially one fueled by a love and guilt teetering on madness. From best-selling author Kristen Heitzmann comes a spellbinding tale of severed connections and the consequences of life lived alone. Follow Kristen Heitzmann online at www.KristenHeitzmann.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2497'),
(5146, 'Indulgence in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from a long overdue Irish vacation to a string of bizarre murders in Robb''s thrilling 32nd future cop novel (after Fantasy in Death). The crossbow killing of chauffeur Jamal Houston in his limo in a La Guardia parking lot is followed by the death of high-rent prostitute Ava Crampton, found at Coney Island''s House of Horrors stabbed with a bayonet. Other victims include Luc Delaflote, a celebrity chef who''s harpooned, and Adrianne Jonas, "a facilitator for the rich" strangled with a handmade bullwhip. Eve, assisted by her trustworthy sidekicks, Det. Delia Peabody and husband Roarke, uncovers a wicked game that grows increasingly macabre. Robb (the pseudonym of Nora Roberts) keeps the reader squirming as Eve and company try to avoid dying in weird ways themselves. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  NYPD lieutenant Eve Dallas might have been on holiday, but as she knows all too well, murder never takes a vacation. No sooner does Eve return from Ireland with her husband, Roarke, than she is back on the job looking into the death of a limousine driver who has been shot with a crossbow. The very next day, a high-priced licensed companion is stabbed to death in an amusement park horror house. The only connection between the two killings is the choice of weapons: the second involved an antique bayonet. As Eve and her team scramble to find more clues, Eve begins to think she is on the track of a thrill killer. When it comes to finding a killer, the smart money is always on Eve Dallas. The latest addictive addition to Robbâ€™s long-running series features spiky humor; a cleverly constructed, adrenaline-raising plot; and the requisite amount of sexy passion between Eve and her soulmate, Roarke. --John Charles\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7035'),
(5147, 'Industrial Magic', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet the smart, sexy â€” supernatural â€” women of the otherworld. This is not your motherâ€™s coven...Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all.. . .In the aftermath of her motherâ€™s murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworldâ€™s most influential Cabals â€” a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isnâ€™t blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, itâ€™s a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3157'),
(5148, 'Infamous', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** From "one of the best crime writers at work today" (Michael Connelly) comes a fast,f unny, violent new noir crime classic-a Coen Brothers movie come to life. ** He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins''s rich, raucous, passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own and never more so than in *Infamous*. In July 1933, the gangster known as George "Machine Gun" Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilÂ­man. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of his partners cut themselves into the action; a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission; and Kelly''s wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both ends against the middle. The result is a mesmerizing tale set in the first days of the modern FBI, featuring one of the best femmes fatales in history-the Lady Macbeth of Depression-era crime-a great unexpected hero, and some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction. EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** From "one of the best crime writers at work today" (Michael Connelly) comes a fast,f unny, violent new noir crime classic-a Coen Brothers movie come to life. ** He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins''s rich, raucous, passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own and never more so than in *Infamous*. In July 1933, the gangster known as George "Machine Gun" Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilÂ­man. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of his partners cut themselves into the action; a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission; and Kelly''s wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both ends against the middle. The result is a mesmerizing tale set in the first days of the modern FBI, featuring one of the best femmes fatales in history-the Lady Macbeth of Depression-era crime-a great unexpected hero, and some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(5149, 'An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This must be the most accurately researched and detailed battle description that has ever appeared in a book of romantic fiction. The battle itself, and the weeks before and after it, forms the time line and backbone of this novel. The title refers to the Duke of Wellington''s unkind nickname for the motley collection of national armies under his command in 1815 at Waterloo. Set in Brussels, as the French and Allied forces are converging, Heyer''s story concerns the stormy courtship between Lady Barbara Childe and Col. Charles Audley. Lady Barbara, forced into an unloving and ugly marriage in her youth, has buried her hated husband and become a scandalous widow. Colonel Audley is a popular member of the Duke of Wellington''s staff who knows the wicked widow''s reputation but falls for her anyway; after their first meeting, he proposes marriage. Lady Barbara, fascinated by this direct attack on her defenses, consents to an engagement but refuses to restrain her shocking behavior. The Battle of Waterloo in all its glorious and horrifying detail then becomes the center around which the book''s characters orbit. Definitely a romance for the historically minded reader, there is no fluff here. As the conflict rages, Lady Barbara helps to nurse the wounded men who wander back into the city, learning much about life, death, and love in the process. No magical happy endings occur, just the contentment of two people who have grown into their love for one another. Well read by Clare Higgins, An Infamous Army is highly recommended for public libraries. Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the eve of battle, passions are running high...\n</p>\n<p>\n "A brilliant achievement...vivid, accurate, dramatic...the description of Waterloo is magnificent."-DAILY MAIL\n</p>\n<p>\n "My favorite historical novelist."-MARGARET DRABBLE\n</p>\n<p>\n IN THE SUMMER OF 1815, with Napolean Bonaparte marching down from the north, Brussels is a whirlwind of parties, balls and soirees. In the swirling social scene surrounding the Duke of Wellington and his noble aides de camp, no one attracts more attention than the beautiful, outrageous young widow Lady Barbara Childe. On their first meeting, dashing Colonel Charles Audley proposes to her, but even their betrothal doesn''t calm her wild behavior. Finally, with the Battle of Waterloo raging just miles away, civilians fleeing and the wounded pouring back into the town, Lady Barbara discovers where her heart really lies, and like a true noblewoman, she rises to the occasion, and to the demands of love, life and war...\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect\n <br />\n period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer\n <br />\n achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."\n <br />\n -KATIE FFORDE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10207'),
(5150, 'Infected', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9220'),
(5151, 'Infected: A Novel', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In Sigler''s riveting horror thriller, alien seeds from outer space infect a number of unlucky humans, who develop some unusual symptomsâ€”itchy, blue triangular growths on their skinâ€”that eventually result in the carriers becoming screaming, homicidal maniacs. CIA agent Dew Phillips must find out why these formerly docile citizens are running amok, aided by Margaret Montoya, a Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist, who reported the first of the strange cases. One of the infected, former football player Perry Dawsey, doesn''t take any crap from anybody, not even the aliens residing in his body. Sigler (_Ancestor_) leads the reader from one startling detail to the nextâ€”the creatures learn to speak (feed us we hungry); they grow little black eyesâ€”until even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation. This terrifying page-turner could be the author''s breakout book, fueled by an extensive online podcast campaign.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Part Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk,\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense. Â Three recommendations: don''t read it at night, or just after you''ve eaten a full meal, or if you''re weak of heart.Â Â You''ve been warned!"\n <br />\n â€”James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Judas Strain\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Black Order\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPowerfully written . . . an unforgettable central character.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSigler is masterful at grabbing the reader by the throat and refusing to let go. Just when I thought I knew what abyss he was leading me across, he knocked the bridge out from under... I think I screamed the whole way down...\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n is a marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lincoln Child, _New York Times\n <em>\n  bestselling author of\n </em>\n Deep Storm\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Death Match\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œFraught with tension . . .\n <em>\n  Invasion of the Body Snatchers\n </em>\n meets\n <em>\n  The Hot Zone\n </em>\n .â€\n <br />\n â€”_Rocky Mountain News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSigler is the Richard Matheson of the 21st Centuryâ€¦smart and creepy,_ Infected_ is a flawless thinking-personâ€™s thriller.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Bravo to a bold new talent!â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Bad Moon Rising\n </em>\n and _Ghost Road Blues\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œRiveting . . . even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Horror mavens rejoice!_ Infected_ is a revelation -- a novel that lives up to its hype. From page one, the story of a mysterious smart-virus that turns its hosts into deadly drooling drones creeps up on a reader like the ratchet of a roller coaster climbing toward its inevitable crest. Sigler brings the folksy character detail of Stephen King, the conceptual panache of Clive Barker, and the oozing, shuddery pathologies of a David Cronenberg movie.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Zombies, spies, conspiracies, and gallons of goo make this the fastest read in the west! Highest recommendation!"\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Shattered, Twisted, Frozen\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Sinking of the Eastland\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sigler has a unique talent for keeping readers on the edge of their seats; I absolutely had to know what was going to happen next. Infected is full of mayhem, action, and gore--and you wonâ€™t be able to put it down."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Dave Wellington, author of\n  <em>\n   13 Bullets\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Monster Island\n  </em>\n  trilogy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Scott Sigler''s_ Infected_ isÂ a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you''ve got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended."\n <br />\n â€”Joe R. Lansdale, World Horror Convention Grand Master and six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of_ Bubba Ho-Tep_ and\n <em>\n  Lost Echoes\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Infected_ is as unnerving as a scream in a morgueâ€¦a breakout novel that gets under your skin. If the voice in your head is Sigler''s, you''re locked in for a very scary night."\n <br />\n â€”E.E. Knight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5117'),
(5152, 'Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the *Starship Enterpriseâ„¢!* It is only the first year of the *U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢*-D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1760'),
(5153, 'The Infection', 'Craig DiLouie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Not just another zombie story ... Unflinching horror and surreal, almost dreamlike imagery combine to make THE INFECTION a disturbing, nightmarish read.\n </em>\n -David Moody, author of HATER\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A wild ride into the darkest regions of zombie territory. Brilliant and terrifying!\n </em>\n -Jonathan Maberry, author of PATIENT ZERO\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  28 DAYS LATER meets THE MIST ... a definite page-turner right from the get-go all the way to the insanely intense final scene.\n </em>\n -TheGOREScore.com\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters.\n</p>\n<p>\n In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost family. Todd, a high school student who sees second chances in the end of the world. Paul, a minister who wonders why God has forsaken his children. And Anne, their mysterious leader, who holds an almost fanatical hatred for the Infected.\n</p>\n<p>\n Together, they fight their way to a massive refugee camp where thousands have made a stand. There, what''s left of the government will ask them to accept a mission that will determine the survival of them all--a dangerous journey back onto the open road and into the very heart of Infection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6349'),
(5154, 'Infernal: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They''ve never been close and Jack, the career criminal, soon finds that he adheres to a higher ethical standard than his brother the judge. Determined to get to know his brother better, Tom convinces Jack to go on a wild treasure hunt together. Armed only with a map pointing the way to a desolate wreck off the coast of Bermuda, the brothers come across something much stranger, and much more dangerous than mere treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(5155, 'Inferno', 'Isaac Asimov - Caliban2 - Inferno', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9544'),
(5156, 'Infiltrator', 'W. R. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Centuries ago, followers of the tyrant Khan Noonien Singh left Earth for the planet Hera to continue his experiment in selective breeding. Now, they are finally ready to launch their plan of universal domination -- with the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM as their weapon. Captain Picard must enlist the help of Heran expatriate Astrid Kemal to defeat her fellow superbeings. Unless the captain and crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  can stop them, the Heran infiltrators could alter the genetic landscape of the galaxy for generations to come.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Centuries ago, followers of the tyrant Khan Noonien Singh left Earth for the planet Hera to continue his experiment in selective breeding. Now, they are finally ready to launch their plan of universal domination -- with the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM as their weapon. Captain Picard must enlist the help of Heran expatriate Astrid Kemal to defeat her fellow superbeings. Unless the captain and crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  can stop them, the Heran infiltrators could alter the genetic landscape of the galaxy for generations to come.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5726');
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(5157, 'Infinite Jest', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel\n <strong>\n  Infinite Jest\n </strong>\n bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace''s brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace''s story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent of anti-O.N.A.N.ist terrorism by Quebecois separatists; drug problems are widespread; the Northeastern continent is a giant toxic waste dump; and CD-like "entertainment cartridges" are the prevalent leisure activity. The novel hinges on the dysfunctional family of E.T.A.''s founder, optical-scientist-turned-cult-filmmaker Dr. James Incandenza (aka Himself), who took his life shortly after producing a mysterious film called Infinite Jest, which is supposedly so addictively entertaining as to bring about a total neural meltdown in its viewer. As Himself''s estranged sons?professional football punter Orin, introverted tennis star Hal and deformed naif Mario?come to terms with his suicide and legacy, they and the residents of Ennet House become enmeshed in the machinations of the wheelchair-bound leader of a Quebecois separatist faction, who hopes to disseminate cartridges of Infinite Jest and thus shred the social fabric of O.N.A.N. With its hilarious riffs on themes like addiction, 12-step programs, technology and waste management (in all its scatological implications), this tome is highly engrossing?in small doses. Yet the nebulous, resolutionless ending serves to underscore Wallace''s underlying failure to find a suitable novelistic shape for his ingenious and often outrageously funny material.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7011'),
(5158, 'The Infinities', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Author John Banville\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Where did you get the idea to use Greek gods as characters in a novel? And then how did you settle on the ones we meet in\n  <em>\n   The Infinities\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  I have always been an admirer of the great German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist, particularly the play I consider his masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   The Infinities\n  </em>\n  quite closely on Amphitryon, but fiction has its own laws and its own demands, and the finished novel is an autonymous creature, though the Kleist is still there in skeletal form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why did you decide to make Adam Godley a mathematician?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  I donâ€™t know that I ever actively decided to make him anything."Decisions" in the writing of fiction tend to be mostly a matter of dream and drift. But I wanted him to be someone operating in an otherworld of speculation, pure number, and infinitudes, where the gods might be already at play.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  There is something so classical and familiar about the death bed scene, the family patriarch dying and the family coming from far and wide to gather at his bedside. What about the death bed construct appealed to you as a starting off point?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  Again, I didnâ€™t think of the book as centering on a death bed scene--and I donâ€™t think it does, really--but of course fiction is a tired old business where there is nothing new under even the intensest sun. In fact, one of the pleasures of working in the novel form is the challenge of finding new ways to present old things. Spinoza says somewhere that the wise man thinks only of death but all his thoughts will thereby be a contemplation of life. I hope thatâ€™s the case with\n  <em>\n   The Infinities\n  </em>\n  , and that everything in it is vividly alive, even the dying old man upstairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many readers have commented on the humor in this novel. Is it harder for you to write comedy or tragedy (which you have certainly done in previous novels)?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  All my books are funny, if you know how to listen for the jokes. The novel, at a certain basic level, is a comic form. Do you know the story of Kafka reading to a group of friends from\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  This novel takes place over the course of a single day. Why did you decide on that time structure?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  I was following Amphitryon in this--preserving the unities, as the Aristotelians say. There is a nice compactness to the time-scale in the book, which I like. Also the fact of limiting the action to a single day makes for a mysterious sweet melancholy. Everyone has days that will live in the memory for a lifetime; for my characters, that Midsummer Day is one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  So Hermes is our narrator (though, of course, John Banville is really our narrator). So author as messenger? Author as God? Or is that just reading too much into it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Banville:\n  </strong>\n  Well, of course, in the little world of a novel the author is a god, or at least a demigod, watching over his creatures, helping them, if he can, or at least not hindering them. In a wider sense, I find the pagan world of the Greeks highly appealing, and wish we could regain their state of innocence and sophistication. Bring back the old gods, I say.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Jerry Bauer)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Having apparently exorcised his taste for bloody intrigue with his pseudonym, Benjamin Black, Banville returns to high form (and his given name) with a novel even more pristine than his Booker-winning\n  <em>\n   The Sea\n  </em>\n  . Old Adam Godley lies dying, flying through his past on the way to eternity while his brooding son (also named Adam) sleepwalks through his marriage to the amorous Helen, and young Adam''s loony sister, Petra, writes an encyclopedia of human morbidity. But Adam and his brood are not alone, nor is our narrator any detached third person: the gods are afoot, chiefly Hermes, disguised as a farmer, whispering to us of mortal love, guiding old Adam on his way, and laying bare all the Godleys'' secrets while divine Zeus conducts illicit amours with Helen. Hermes assures us that mortal speech is barely articulate gruntings, yet Banville has the perfect instrument for his textured prose, almost never as finely tuned as this. The narrative is rife with asides, but it is to the common trajectory of a life thatâ€”despite the noise crowding ailing Adam''s reposeâ€”it lends its most consoling notes, elevating the temporal and profane to the holy eternal.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6510'),
(5159, 'Infinity Clue', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy Boys solve mysteries related to a gang of terrorists and a stolen diamond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10273'),
(5160, 'The Infinity Concerto', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A 16-year-old strays into another world in this mature fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9573'),
(5161, 'The Infinity Gate (Darkglass Mountain, Volume 3)', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one is safe when even the past can''t be trusted Elcho falling is under siege from the forces of infinity. Axis must deal with treachery while Maximilian confronts the One in the depths of the citadel. Maximilian seems to have the upper hand, but finds his oldest ally''s advice disguises a vicious motive. Meanwhile, everyone has forgotten the Skraelings, who conceal a strange, ancient secret. Now these wraiths face a choice that appears to be no choice at all: the way of Infinity, or allying themselves with the StarMan, whom they have loathed for generations. In a heart-stopping conclusion to this superb trilogy, Maximilian and his friends battle for survival from the malevolent depths of DarkGlass Mountain to the pinnacle of a crumbling Elcho Falling and beyond ... as the past reaches out to seize Axis and drag him into yet another confrontation with his hated brother, Borneheld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9980'),
(5162, 'The Infinity Gate: Darkglass Mountain: Book Three', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sara Douglass has won leagues of fans worldwide for her epic tales of sorcery, forbidden love, and heart-pounding action. She revealed her biggest story yet with the DarkGlass Mountain saga, and now, at last, the dramatic finale to the epic trilogy!  Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars still remain, and a new foe walks the world.  Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found new allies against the darkness in the mysterious Lealfast. And more crucially still, Axis SunSoar, former god and current hero, has rediscovered the magical Star Dance and revived his legendary Strike Force to push back the evil hordes commanded by the DarkGlass Mountain.  But their enemy grows stronger through blood and betrayal, the Lealfast have their own agenda, and when unexpected treachery threatens, Axis SunSoar must face a darkness greater than any he has ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6650'),
(5163, 'Infinity&#39;s Shore', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nebula and Hugo award-winning author David Brin continues his bestselling Uplift series in this second novel of a bold new trilogy. Imaginative, inventive, and filled with Brin''s trademark mix of adventure, passion, and wit,Infinity''s Shorecarries us further than ever before into the heart of the most beloved and extraordinary science fiction sagas ever written. For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic--and terrifying--choices. A scientist must rally believers for a cause he never shared. And four youngsters find that what started as a simple adventure--imitating exploits in Earthling books by Verne and Twain--leads them to the dark abyss of mystery. Meanwhile, theStreaker,with her fugitive dolphin crew, arrives at last on Jijo in a desperate search for refuge. Yet what the crew finds instead is a secret hidden since the galaxies first spawned intelligence--a secret that could mean salvation for the planet and its inhabitants...or their ultimate annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10423'),
(5164, 'Influence Science and Practice', 'Cialdini, Robert B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8849'),
(5165, 'Infoquake', 'David Louis Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How far should you go to make a profit? Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. Itâ€™s a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches. Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. Heâ€™s clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natchâ€™s devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies. To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the publicâ€”all in three days. Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy thatâ€™s disrupting the bio/logic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages. With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world thatâ€™s both as imaginative as Dune and as real as todayâ€™s Wall Street Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/701'),
(5166, 'Information', 'James Gleick Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Information\n  </em>\n  is a book about everything, from words themselves to talking drums, writing and lexicography, early attempts at an analytical engine, the telegraph and telephone, ENIAC, and the ubiquitous computers that followed. But that''s just the "History." The "Theory" focuses on such 20th-century notables as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, Alan Turing, and others who worked on coding, decoding, and re-coding both the meaning and the myriad messages transmitted via the media of their times. In the "Flood," Gleick explains genetics as biology''s mechanism for informational exchange--Is a chicken just an egg''s way of making another egg?--and discusses self-replicating memes (ideas as different as earworms and racism) as information''s own evolving meta-life forms. Along the way, readers learn about music and quantum mechanics, why forgetting takes work, the meaning of an "interesting number," and why "[t]he bit is the ultimate unsplittable particle." What results is a visceral sense of information''s contemporary precedence as a way of understanding the world, a physical/symbolic palimpsest of self-propelled exchange, the universe itself as the ultimate analytical engine. If Borges''s "Library of Babel" is literature''s iconic cautionary tale about the extreme of informational overload, Gleick sees the opposite, the world as an endlessly unfolding opportunity in which "creatures of the information" may just recognize themselves. --_Jason Kirk_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In 1948, Bell Laboratories announced the invention of the electronic semiconductor and its revolutionary ability to do anything a vacuum tube could do but more efficiently. While the revolution in communications was taking these steps, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon helped to write a monograph for them, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, in which he coined the word bit to name a fundamental unit of computer information. As bestselling author Gleick (Chaos) astutely argues, Shannon''s neologism profoundly changed our view of the world; his brilliant work introduced us to the notion that a tiny piece of hardware could transmit messages that contained meaning and that a physical unit, a bit, could measure a quality as elusive as information. Shannon''s story is only one of many in this sprawling history of information. With his brilliant ability to synthesize mounds of details and to tell rich stories, Gleick leads us on a journey from one form of communicating information to another, beginning with African tribes'' use of drums and including along the way scientists like Samuel B. Morse, who invented the telegraph; Norbert Wiener, who developed cybernetics; and Ada Byron, the great Romantic poet''s daughter, who collaborated with Charles Babbage in developing the first mechanical computer. Gleick''s exceptional history of culture concludes that information is indeed the blood, the fuel, and the vital principle on which our world runs. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7748'),
(5167, 'The Information Officer', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Summer 1942. A small, windswept island in the Mediterranean has become the most bombed patch of earth on the planet, as a fiercely independent people withstand relentless siege. Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the fragile esprit de corps. Then Max learns of the murder of a young island woman, along with evidence that it was committed by a British officer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2844'),
(5168, 'The Information', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2876'),
(5169, 'The Informationist: A Thriller', 'Taylor Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œStevensâ€™s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesnâ€™t have to kick over a hornetâ€™s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larssonâ€™s Lisbeth Salanderâ€¦.Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed reviewVanessa â€œMichaelâ€ Munroe deals in informationâ€”expensive informationâ€”working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protÃ©gÃ©, she earned the respect of the jungle''s most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she''s never looked back.Until now. Â A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. Itâ€™s not her usual line of work, but she canâ€™t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that sheâ€™s tried for so long to forget.Â Gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6416'),
(5170, 'Inherit the Earth', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n All Damon Hart wanted was to be his own man. Being the son of Conrad "Savior of Humanity" Helier didn''t leave a lot of room for Hart''s own life, so he abandoned his family, his heritage, and his money. But when the past starts catching up with him, and the people he loves start getting hurt, Hart has no alternative but to accept the responsibility of his ancestry. Was his father, the inventor of the artificial womb, a savior or an evil madman? And who is the self-appointed judge executing retribution on everyone related to Helier?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Inherit the Earth\n </em>\n begins with a good solid mystery that gets more involved and more involving as the complexities of the story pile one atop the next. Unfortunately, Brian Stableford is reworking ground that Bruce Sterling handled better in\n <strong>\n  . Moreover, the plot is often lost in lengthy explications of future history that seem derivative, either of Sterling''s work, or Neal Stephenson''s\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With the exception of Hart''s pain-in-the-ass ex-girlfriend Diana (who is a pleasure from start to finish), the characters fail to evoke much interest. It is a testament to the strength of the plot that the book carries through to the end, which unfortunately fails to deliver on the strong buildup. For the most part it''s a good gripping story, with gems of beautiful language and flashes of brilliance, but it''s not the ultimate science fiction book on nanotechnology and longevity.\n <em>\n  --Blunt Jackson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known in the U.S. for his stylishly written horror novels and alternate histories, Stableford (The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires; The Carnival of Destruction), who began his career as an SF writer, returns to his roots with a complex, hard-SF tale of nanotechnology and life extension. Having barely survived the Plague Wars of the 21st century, humanity has supposedly entered a Utopian era, one in which the average life span is at least 150 years and immortality may be imminent. Damon Hart, posthumous son of Conrad Helier, the much venerated scientist who saved humanity from extinction during the plagues, wants nothing to do with his father''s legacy and has cut himself off from his father''s colleagues and their research. Then Damon''s life is disrupted by the Eliminators, terrorists who begin to publish Net-based attacks on Helier, proclaiming that the scientist was in fact responsible for the plagues and was therefore an enemy of humankind. They also claim that Helier, supposedly 50 years dead, is still alive; eventually, they insist that Damon is Helier in disguise. Secrets and lies abound in a future where all evidence, even a dead body, can be falsified though the skillful application of computer- and nanotechnology; in time, Damon discovers that virtually nothing he has been told is true. This futuristic thriller, which contains provocative speculations about the effect of extreme life extension on society, isn''t Stableford''s best, but it''s an enjoyable and challenging piece of work nonetheless.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4785'),
(5171, 'The Inheritance of Loss', 'Kiran Desai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n This stunning second novel from Desai (_Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard_) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family''s neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be savvy readers of V.S. Naipaul but who are, perhaps, less aware of how fragile their own social standing isâ€”at least until a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides threatening their very lives, the revolution also stymies the fledgling romance between 16-year-old Sai and her Nepalese tutor, Gyan. The cook''s son, Biju, meanwhile, lives miserably as an illegal alien in New York. All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a "better life," when one person''s wealth means another''s poverty.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Desai''s second novel is set in the nineteen-eighties in the northeast corner of India, where the borders of several Himalayan statesâ€”Bhutan and Sikkim, Nepal and Tibetâ€”meet. At the head of the novel''s teeming cast is Jemubhai Patel, a Cambridge-educated judge who has retired from serving a country he finds "too messy for justice." He lives in an isolated house with his cook, his orphaned seventeen-year-old granddaughter, and a red setter, whose company Jemubhai prefers to that of human beings. The tranquillity of his existence is contrasted with the life of the cook''s son, working in grimy Manhattan restaurants, and with his granddaughter''s affair with a Nepali tutor involved in an insurgency that irrevocably alters Jemubhai''s life. Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6252'),
(5172, 'The Inheritance', 'Simon Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The promotional material for former British criminal barrister Tolkienâ€™s second novel (the first, The Final Witness, was published in 2002) shamelessly plays up the fact that the author is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien. Enough of this literary-pedigree nonsense. As Tolkien shows in both his mysteries, he does not need to have his DNA trumpeted; he is a first-rate writer in his own right. His latest thriller moves from a horrific crime perpetrated on a French family by two British soldiers during World War II and then straight into 1959, with the opening of a trial at the Old Bailey. Tolkien provides the kind of caustic portraits of judges and barristers and knowledge of the innermost cells of the Old Bailey that the late John Mortimer, also a barrister, delighted readers with in the Rumpole series. On trial is 22-year-old Stephen Cade, accused of shooting his estranged father in the head. The father was a war hero and then a well-heeled university professor. The son had motive: the father had just written him out of his will and denied him a requested sum of money. He had opportunity: he was, apparently, and by his own admission, with his father in his library. And his prints were on the gun that was found near the body. But something seems off to the officer in charge of the case. Detective Inspector William Trave of the Oxford CID uses the window of opportunity between trial and sentencing to trace the locked-room mystery back to its origins in France. Written with great surety and absolutely compelling. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Inheritance\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA fine novel. A thinking personâ€™s\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n .â€ â€“_Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSimon Tolkienâ€™s grandfather is J. R. R., but his new novel owes more to Agatha Christieâ€”and Dan Brown.â€\n </em>\n â€“New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œExpertly pacedâ€”the suspense builds to nearly unbearable levelsâ€”and filled with fascinating characters,\n <em>\n  The Inheritance\n </em>\n also showcases Tolkien''s spare, graceful proseâ€”and his moral fervor. He spins a gripping story, but there''s more to\n <em>\n  The Inheritance\n </em>\n than smarts and skill. It''s also a meditation on the death penalty, and Tolkien leaves no doubt that he''s an ardent opponent.\n <br />\n A deft combination of Agatha Christie manor-house whodunit, Erle Stanley Gardner courtroom drama and Dan Brown thriller,\n <em>\n  The Inheritance\n </em>\n is nonetheless unique to its creator. And Tolkien, with this compelling read, proves himself worthyâ€”and then someâ€”of his literary pedigree. â€”_Richmond Times Dispatch\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSimon Tolkien is the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien and, while there are no elves or dwarves in these pages, there is on display a narrative skill that the author of\n </em>\n The Lord of the Rings\n <em>\n  would surely have recognized and admiredâ€¦. It works so well, not because of cheap tricks like cliff-hanger chapter endings, but because of Tolkien''s deft handling of ensemble. It is the differences in character and motive, the continual changes in viewpoint, that drive one to find out what exactly is going on and what actually happened.â€ â€“\n </em>\n The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6627'),
(5173, 'Inheritor', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix - the same ship which brought humans to the world of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago, leaving a small and vulnerable colony to struggle for survival in a hostile environment. During these six months, the alien atevi have striven to reconfigure their fledgling space program in a breakneck bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans. But the return of the Phoenix has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing political factions in both human and atevi societies, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an even more likely threat. On the atevi mainland, human ambassador Bren Cameron, in a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, has risked alienation from his own people by communicating with the staff of the Phoenix as spokesman for the atevi, and has arranged for one human representative from the Phoenix to take up residence with him in his apartments, and for another to be stationed on Mosphiera, humanity''s island enclave. Now, Bren has the difficult task of indoctrinating Jason Graham, a young man who has never before set foot on a planet, in the intricate, delicate, and potentially lethal maneuverings of the human-atevi interface. And this at a time when, thanks to the assassination of an atevi lord who had been one of Bren''s primary adversaries, and the near-collision of Bren''s personal plane with a jet manned by an unknown pilot, the relationship between atevi factions is becoming more strained by the minute.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10879'),
(5174, 'The Inheritors', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5508'),
(5175, 'The Inhuman Condition', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(5176, 'Iniquitous Computing', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(5177, 'Injury Time', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n En midaldrende gift mands forhold til sin elskerinde trues af afslÃ¸ring, da et middagsselskab hos hende udvikler sig til et gidseldrama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8249'),
(5178, 'Inked', 'Karen Chance; Marjorie M. Liu; Yasmine Galenorn; Eileen Wilks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Four of today''s hottest urban fantasy writers together for the first time! ** From today''s most provocative authors come four tales of urban fantasy and paranormal romance exploring body art that is more than it seems-in a world of magic and mayhem that always leaves its mark. This captivating tattoo theme surrounds each author''s popular characters and worlds: **Karen Chance**''s war mage Lia de Croissets, **Marjorie M. Liu**''s demon-hunter Maxine Kiss, **Yasmine Galenorn**''s Otherworld Intelligence Agency operative Camille D''Artigo, and **Eileen Wilk**''s Lupi world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2820'),
(5179, 'The Inn at Angel Island', 'Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *New York Times* bestselling authors present a new series set on an island a stone''s skip away from Cape Light... Welcome to Angel Island, not far from the shores of Cape Light. It''s said to harbor angels that help guide the lost, that sometimes lead them right back to where they began... Liza Martin arrives on Angel Island to sell the inn she and her brother inherited from their aunt, so she can bolt back to her busy life in Boston. But back home awaits a broken marriage and an unstable career. The more time she spends on Angel Island, and with every local she meets, the more she finds herself enjoying the tranquility of the place. Her new friends don''t want to see her sell the inn to developers who will ruin the island''s charm. There is much for her to resolve before her departure- and it is going to take a band of angels to mend her broken wings and redirect her soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3252'),
(5180, 'The Inner Circle', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with a pulse-pounding new novel of lies and deception at the highest levels of government. There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living.So says Benjamin January, a young archivist who spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. When Clementine Kaye, his first childhood crush, shows up at the Archives asking for his help tracking down her long-lost father, Benjy tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault where the President of the United States privately reviews classified documents. It is also where Benjy and Clementine accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact-a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington-hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7164'),
(5181, 'Inner harbor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that began with Sea Swept and Rising Tides , Philip Quinn''s bond to his adopted brother, Seth, is threatened by a young woman with a troubling secret. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2638'),
(5182, 'Innkeeping with Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Alex Winston owns and operates the Hatteras West Inn, a replica of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When one of Alex''s favorite guests is murdered at the top of the lighthouse, Alex must find the killer before someone else checks out!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3975'),
(5183, 'Innocent in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eve Dallas has a mysterious homicide to solve when a popular teacher at an exclusive school turns up dead in his classroom, apparently poisoned. Dallas is baffled as to who could possibly hold a grudge against this enthusiastic young teacher.It doesn''t help when a beautiful ex-girlfriend of Roarke''s comes back into his life. While Eve is fighting her jealousy, she grows more and more frustrated with the case, especially as it becomes obvious that no one is as innocent as they seem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2377'),
(5184, 'The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ronâ€™s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to deathâ€”in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a manâ€™s already broken lifeâ€¦and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grishamâ€™s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocenceâ€”a book no American can afford to miss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2914'),
(5185, 'The Innocent', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McEwan''s name will be on everyone''s lips with his startling new novel, an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War. Basing his story on an actual (but little known) incident, he tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians'' communication system. The protagonist, Leonard Marnham, is a 25-year-old, naive, unsophisticated English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation. At the same time that he loses his political innocence, Leonard experiences his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds come together, events develop into a gruesome nightmare, far more macabre than anything McEwan ( The Child in Time ) has previously written, building to a searing, unforgettable scene of surrealist intensity in which Leonard and his lover try to conceal evidence of a murder. Acting to save himself from a prison sentence, Leonard desperately performs an act of espionage whose ironic consequences resonate down the years to a twister of an ending. Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances, and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits, all decorum and civility; the brash, impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan''s neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre. Film rights to Paramount; BOMC and QPB featured alternates.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Never less than wholly entertaining." â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master''s best." â€”_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." â€”_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of\n <strong>\n  The Third Man\n </strong>\n and that is no mean feat." â€”Jonathan Carroll,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5321'),
(5186, 'Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences', 'John Allen Paulos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I''m distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."\n</p>\n<p>\n But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don''t speak math. "I think there''s something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."\n</p>\n<p>\n Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.\n</p>\n<p>\n It remains to be seen if\n <em>\n  Innumeracy\n </em>\n will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable.\n <em>\n  --Mary Ellen Curtin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n He takes us a couple of steps closer to numeracy, and it is all in all an enlightening place to be. --\n <em>\n  Christopher Lehman-Haupt, New York Times, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paulos makes numbers, probability, and statistics perform like so many trained seals for the reader''s entertainment and enlightenment. --\n <em>\n  Jon Van, Chicago Tribune, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The innumerate will surely profit from this entertaining book. --\n <em>\n  Morris Kline, New York Times Book Review, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The world, as seen by Paulos, is less mysterious, yet somehow more elegant, less magical, yet more wonderful. So many apparently strange events do, in fact, become all the more magnificent in their not-so-fearful symmetry. --\n <em>\n  Arthur Salm, San Diego Tribune, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This admirable little book is only 135 pages long. You can read it in 2 hours. Chances are that they could be among the most enlightening and even profitable 120 minutes you ever spent. --\n <em>\n  Henry Kisor, Cicago Sun-Times, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This elegant survival manual is brief, witty, and full of practical applications. (Stefan Kanfer, Time Magazine, 1989)\n</p>\n<p>\n REVIEW: Like carrying on a conversation with an engaging, articulate math whiz who easily shifts from the profound to the funny. --\n <em>\n  Christopher Farrell, Business Week, 1989\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6935');
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(5187, 'Insectopedia', 'Hugh Raffles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Neil Shubin Reviews\n  <em>\n   Insectopedia\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Insectopedia\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Insectopedia\n </em>\n is one of the most remarkable books I have read in a long time. Like its subject, it is many things, all of them fascinating. First, it is a reference book of the first order: it is loaded with facts--some profound, others curious, and still others laugh-out-loud funny.\n <em>\n  Insectopedia\n </em>\n is also part personal memoir, scientific detective story, and even cultural study. We travel the Amazon, visit Chernobyl, and enter laboratories and sidewalk cafes in search of insects and the ideas and cultures they inspire. Insects stir eerie fascination: they are beautiful, disgusting, important, and annoying. To some they are tasty. To others they are a source of sexual fetish. Who knew? In Raffles''s hands insects become windows into our culture, science, health--even our psyche. In each page of\n <em>\n  Insectopedia\n </em>\n , the more we learn of insects, the more we come to face--and sometimes even challenge--our own views of the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Insectopedia\n </em>\n , it''s hard to look at a cricket, a bumblebee, and a human being the same way ever again. I adored the book. What an accomplishment. And I thought I knew insects...\n <em>\n  --Neil Shubin\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n A Q&amp;A with Hugh Raffles\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™re an anthropologist who has written about life in the Brazilian Amazon in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hugh Raffles:\n </strong>\n Actually, no! But since I started researching this book a few years ago, Iâ€™ve become completely obsessed by insects and our relationships with them. Now they seem like the most amazing creatures. But before that, they were around me but werenâ€™t something I paid that much attention to unless they were biting me or invading my apartment.\n</p>\n<p>\n For a long time though, Iâ€™ve been interested in the connections between people and animals of all types. And Iâ€™ve thought a lot about what other worlds exist alongside the ones that we people live in. Most of these worlds are invisible to us. To give an example: we usually assume that time is a universal measure that everyone experiences in more or less similar ways. But it seems likely that other animalsâ€™ experience of time is completely different from ours--that for them, their short lives might actually last a very long time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite the complexity of our own reality, itâ€™s quite a limited universe when we consider all the parallel realities within which other beings exist. Insects are fascinating because theyâ€™re so different from us. Itâ€™s almost impossible to imagine what the worlds they live in are like. Recreating those worlds is one of the things I try to do in\n <em>\n  The Illustrated Insectopedia\n </em>\n , often by meeting people (artists, musicians, and scientists, for example) who have their own interesting ways of thinking about this.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you decide on this encyclopedic format of A to Z? Did that seem a natural order after you wrote the essays or did you plan that from the beginning?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hugh Raffles:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m one of those people whoâ€™s interested in pretty much everything. After spending a long time writing a book about one small community in the Brazilian Amazon, I wanted a project that would give me the freedom to find out about as many things as possible. The form of an encyclopedia seemed perfect for that. Now, I also realize that the insects pushed me in this direction: there are so many of them and so many different species, theyâ€™re everywhere and they wonâ€™t stay still--the book needed a structure that would capture some of that energy.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were two other reasons for the A to Z. One was that, much as I like encyclopedias, I also wanted to make fun of them--the vanity of the idea that itâ€™s possible to know everything, and then possible to collect all that knowledge in one place. My entries are a little arbitrary, but then, so are the entries in a real encyclopedia when you compare them with all the possible information that could be included.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second reason was that I wanted to find out what it would be like to write with such a constraining form. It was tough! In fact, it was exhausting to be locked into 26 entries. There was a long period when Iâ€™d already written enough chapters for a whole book but still wasnâ€™t even halfway through the alphabet. Iâ€™d say there were a couple of years when I lost hope that Iâ€™d ever get the thing finished. But on the other hand, thereâ€™s no doubt that the alphabet pushed me to be more creative than I would have been otherwise--and it let me experiment with writing essays of different lengths and different styles. And it was fun--it encouraged me to be playful, which is always good!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you research topics in this book? What led you from one topic to the next?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hugh Raffles:\n </strong>\n I started working on this book back in 2003 and since then Iâ€™ve been constantly on the lookout for interesting stories and situations about insects. Lots of people sent me ideas and I built up a collection of possible topics. I wanted an "encyclopedic" spread of chapters--a wide range across history and geography. And, in fact, the book visits 11th century Japan, 16th century Prague, 19th century France, modern-day China, Niger, and Florence, among many other times and places.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was especially interested in situations in which people and insects encountered each other in such a way that the superiority of human beings was no longer certain. I looked for situations in which the meeting between people and insects led to the person discovering something new about themselves, about his or her relationship to other beings, and about what it means to be human. Iâ€™d like to say that the insects had some kind of experience in these encounters too, but I donâ€™t think Iâ€™ve managed to figure that out yet!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What was the most bizarre thing you discovered about people and insects? How about the most universal thing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hugh Raffles:\n </strong>\n The most bizarre thing? Well, itâ€™s probably the most universal thing too. The more Iâ€™ve learned about insects and the more amazing theyâ€™ve become to me, the more strange it seems that we kill them without the least thought. Elias Canetti said that insects are "outlaws" because they are the only living beings which we kill with absolutely no moral qualms--think of Obama and the fly he swatted during that CNBC interview. What did he say? Something like "Got you, sucker!" That seems pretty bizarre to me and, unfortunately, more or less universal!\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Michael Lionstar)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Though the title suggests a Latin-heavy lexicon of insects from aphids to wolf spiders , anthropologist Raffles (_In Amazonia_) takes a decidedly different approach in his erudite and entertaining paean to bugs. Some chapters focus on nations: the paradox that in Niger, where crops are regularly ravaged by locusts, that very scourgeâ€”when salted and fried or boiled like shrimpâ€”is also a protein staple; the craze in Japan for stag and rhinoceros beetles as pets; and the revival of a Chinese traditionâ€”now televisedâ€”of crickets locking jaws with the ferocity of fighting dogs. Other sections feature individuals who have dedicated their lives to the contemplation of insects, e.g., the Austrian painter Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, who draws inspiration from radiation-deformed leaf bugs. One short chapter considers same-sex behavior (interspecies ass play); a longer one studies the crush-freaks who fetishize the close-up sight and amplified sound of bugs being crushed by women''s feet. Raffles'' eclectic examination of our diverse reactions to bugs, ranging from scholarly and aesthetic awe to revulsion or phobia, is an enthralling hodgepodge of historical fact, anthropological observation, and scientific insight.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4352'),
(5188, 'Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services', 'Microsoft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dive deep into the architecture of Exchange Web Services--and   master the intricacies for accessing data with the new, unifying API.   Exchange Web Services offers new functionality, replacing old, disparate   APIs. Written by members of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange   Web Services product teams at Microsoft, this practical guide introduces   developers to Exchange Web Services. It includes comprehensive, in-depth   coverage of the architecture and key features, including messaging,   folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and   autodiscovery. Developers who are moving applications using previous APIs   to Exchange Web Services will learn how to determine the correct Web   services constructs--and the implications of those decisions. In addition,   developers writing new software will develop a well-grounded understanding   of the methods available and how to structure interaction with Exchange   Server 2007 for maximum benefit and performance. This book assumes only   knowledge of how to write HTTP requests, but it provides proxy examples in   Microsoft Visual C#Â®.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2274'),
(5189, 'Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know', 'Alexandra Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs -- from the dog''s point of view. As a dog owner, Horowitz is naturally curious to learn what her dog thinks about and knows. And as a scientist, she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot speak for themselves.In clear, crisp prose, Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs'' perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What''s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What''s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees?Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprising -- once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research -- on dogs'' detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention -- that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do.The relationship between dogs and humans is arguably the most fascinating animal-human bond because dogs evolved from wild creatures to become our companions, an adaptation that changed their bodies, brains, and behavior. Yet dogs always remain animals, familiar but mysterious. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5383'),
(5190, 'Inside Out', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest "sexy, pulse-pounding adventure"* (Jaci Burton) from the national bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Coming Undone\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the wake of an attack that left her nearly dead, Ella Tipton has spent each day putting her life back together. She doesn''t have any room for romance, but that doesn''t mean she has to stop admiring the scenery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sexy security professional Andrew Copeland is no stranger to women, but he knows Ella is something different. Determined to get her to let him in, Andy does the one thing he can think of to get close: he offers her hands-on training in self-defense-and before long, all that skin on skin contact with have them both turning inside out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lauren Dane\n </strong>\n lives in the Northwest with her husband and three very rambunctious kids. She writes everything from paranormals to erotica and develops terrible crushes on all of her heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8335'),
(5191, 'Inside Steve&#39;s Brain', 'Leander Kahney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Here''s how he does it. It''s hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ''80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod and iTunes). No wonder some people worship him like a god. On the other hand, stories of his epic tantrums and general bad behavior are legendary. Inside Steve''s Brain cuts through the cult of personality that surrounds Jobs to unearth the secrets to his unbelievable results. It reveals the real Steve Jobs-not his heart or his famous temper, but his mind. So what''s really inside Steve''s brain? According to Leander Kahney, who has covered Jobs since the early 1990s, it''s a fascinating bundle of contradictions. Jobs is an elitist who thinks most people are bozos-but he makes gadgets so easy to use, a bozo can master them. He''s a mercurial obsessive with a filthy temper-but he forges deep partnerships with creative geniuses like Steve Wozniak, Jonathan Ive, and John Lasseter. He''s a Buddhist and anti-materialist-but he produces mass-market products in Asian factories, and he promotes them with absolute mastery of the crassest medium, advertising. In short, Jobs has embraced the traits that some consider flaws-narcissism, perfectionism, the desire for total control-to lead Apple and Pixar to triumph against steep odds. And in the process, he has become a self-made billionaire. In Inside Steve''s Brain, Kahney distills the principles that guide Jobs as he launches killer products, attracts fanatically loyal customers, and manages some of the world''s most powerful brands. The result is this unique book about Steve Jobs that is part biography and part leadership guide, and impossible to put down. It gives you a peek inside Steve''s brain, and might even teach you something about how to build your own culture of innovation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6990'),
(5192, 'Inside the Kingdom', 'Robert Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country s roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammed over a thousand years ago. In a world where events in the Middle East continue to have geopolitical consequences far beyond the region s boundaries, an understanding of this complex nation is essential. With Inside the Kingdom, British journalist and bestselling author Robert Lacey has given us one of the most penetrating and insightful looks at Saudi Arabia ever produced. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis at the end of the oil boom, Lacey has returned to find out how the consequences of the boom produced a society at war with itself. Filled with stories told by a broad range of Saudis, from high princes and ambassadors to men and women on the street, Inside the Kingdom is in many ways the story of the Saudis in their own words. It is a story of oil money that opened the door to Western ways, and produced a conservative backlash with effects that are still being felt today. It is a story of kings and princes who worried more about keeping power than the dangerous consequences of empowering radical clerics. It is a story of men who challenged orthodoxy and risked prison or death in the name of furthering open society, and of women who defied laws saying they should not write, drive, or play sports. And, at its heart, it is a story of a people attempting to reconcile the religious separatism of the past and the rapidly changing world with which they are increasingly intertwined. Their success or failure will have powerful reverberations in their own country, and across the globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3696'),
(5193, 'Insomnia', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Old Ralph Roberts hasn''t been sleeping well lately. Every night he wakes just a little bit earlier, and pretty soon, he thinks, he won''t get any sleep at all. It wouldn''t be so bad, except for the strange hallucinations he''s been having. Or, at least, he hopes they are hallucinations--because here in Derry, one never can tell. Part of the "Books That Take You Anywhere You Want To Go" Summer Reading Promotion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4271'),
(5194, 'Instant Fact: How To Get The Truth Out of Anyone', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3577'),
(5195, 'Instant Interviews: 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life', 'Jeffrey G. Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œEvery page of this exciting new book explodes with the energy of new ideas. You haven''t read these techniques on the Net or anywhere else. Highly recommended!â€â€”_Joyce Lain Kennedy, America''s No. 1 Syndicated Careers Coumist_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get all the interviews you want-instantly!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a jungle out there-a jobjungle. You''re crouching-and grouching-waiting impatiently to attack the next job that appears. You hear a rustle through the trees and hold your breath. Something movesâ€”but before you can pounce, it''s gone. Each time you get better and better...at blowing interviews.\n</p>\n<p>\n Is that you? Why? What are you waiting for? You could be having more fun and more success than you''ve ever had in your life!\n <em>\n  Instant Interviews\n </em>\n turns you into an interview magnet. If you''re going to use traditional lead sources like the Internet, classified ads, or job fairs, this book will supercharge their effectiveness. You''ll stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Instant Interviews\n </em>\n includes 101 easy, proven techniques for getting the only thing that counts in the job jungleâ€”an interview. Get face-to-face with your future using these strategies and dozens more:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find your ideal employer online right now\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incite potential employers to interview you today\n </li>\n <li>\n  Immediately reply to only the hottest job listings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know now what employers want, not what they say\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read between the lines in help-wanted ads to get interviewed first\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop your interviewing persona fast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a list of personal references by tomorrow\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use temporary assignments differently to get hired right away\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get interviews through the back door this Saturday\n </li>\n <li>\n  Auction yourself to the highest bidder by next week\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop an endless flow of job offers without delay\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n It''s all inside. The techniques in\n <em>\n  Instant Interviews\n </em>\n are designed solely to have you in the right place at the right time to land your dream job. Starting today. Smart, savvy, and sure-these are the ultimate skills for unlimited career success through unlimited interviews in any economy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeffrey G. Allen, JD, CPC\n </strong>\n , is the world''s leading placement lawyer and author of more bestselling books in the career field than anyone else. For over four decades, Jeff has worked as an executive recruiter, human resources manager, and specialist in getting people hired-people at all ages, wages, and stages. This is the guy and this is the guide!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8106'),
(5196, 'An Instinct for Trouble', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10934'),
(5197, 'Instinct: A Chess Team Adventure', 'Jeremy Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Chess Team Series ***A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and *contagious *strain of the disease, the Chess TeamÂ—King, Queen, Rook, Knight and BishopÂ—are assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain: the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle. Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnamâ€™s Special Forces unit, the teamâ€™s flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globeÂ—even as it threatens both the mission and their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1644'),
(5198, 'Instinctive', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In Fox''s titillating new series we enter Serene, a supernatural playground where sexy shape shifters live behind the white picket fences...** Free spirited Jaclyn Vasenty is about to inherit a cosmetics empire, yet her scandalous personal history may ruin her chance for a corporate take-over. Saying goodbye to her naughty ways, she moves into a quaint gated community in Serene, New Hampshire. But these gates are locked at sunset... The town''s dark sensuality rocks Jaclyn''s insatiable appetite to the core-and stirs desires that are... inhuman. That''s because Serene is home to demons, witches, vampires, lycans, and panthers, for whom primal exploration comes naturally. Especially for shape shifter Slyck, the cunning panther who''s pushing Jaclyn to the brink of erotic possibilities and making her feel wildly...*feral*. As tension between species rises, Jaclyn learns she must draw on all her feminine wiles and join forces with Slyck if she wants to make it out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/678'),
(5199, 'Instruments of Darkness', 'Robert Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A witty, fast-moving and picaresque tale . . . peopled by deliciously shady characters."--Nelson DeMille\n</p>\n<p>\n "An atmospheric and absorbing debut ... Vividly paints a credible picture of a world I know almost nothing about. Now I feel I''ve been there." --Val McDermid\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "An espionage thriller of the first order--complex, exotic, romantic."_--San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A taut international thriller."_--Time_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of the national bestseller\n <em>\n  A Small Death in Lisbon\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Company of Strangers\n </em>\n comes Wilson''s compelling first novel, never before available in the United States. Bruce Medway''s existence as a fixer and troubleshooter had been tough, but never life-threatening until he crossed paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. His life becomes even more complicated by his search for a missing fellow expat, Steven Kershaw. Against a backdrop of political disruption and endemic official corruption, Medway pursues the elusive phantom of Kershaw.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Instruments of Darkness\n </em>\n powerfully evokes the atmosphere, politics, and people of West Africa. With Medway''s ironic voice, flashes of humor that may recall Raymond Chandler, and unforgettable characters, this compulsively readable thriller is the beginning of a remarkable series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4900'),
(5200, 'Instruments of Night', 'Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Looking out over the city, imagining its once-coal-blackened spires, he knew that he did it to keep his distance, that he set his books back in time because it was only in that vanished place, where the smell of ginger nuts hung in the air and horse-drawn water wagons sprayed the cobblestone streets, that he felt truly safe.It was nearly dawn, and from the narrow terrace of his apartment, Graves could see a faint light building in the east. He''d been up all night, typing furiously, following Detective Slovak through the spectral back streets of gaslight New York, the two of them--hero and creator--relentlessly pursuing Kessler from one seedy haunt to the next, the groggeries of Five Points, the whorehouses of the Tenderloin, its boy bars and child brothels, watching as Kessler''s black coat slipped around a jagged brick corner or disappeared into a thick, concealing bank of nineteenth-century fog. Together, they''d questioned bill stickers and news hawkers and a noisy gaggle of hot-corn girls. They''d dodged rubberneck buses and hansom cabs and crouched in the steamy darkness of the Black Maria. For a time they''d even lingered with a "model artist" who''d just come from posing nude for a roomful of gawking strangers, Slovak mournfully aware of the woman''s fate, his dark eyes watching silently as her youth and beauty dripped away, her life a melting candle. They''d finally ended up on the rooftop of a five-story tenement near the river. Slovak teetered at the brink of it as he searched the empty fire escape, the deserted street below, amazed that Kessler had done it again, disappeared without a trace. It was as if he''d found some slit in the air, slipped through it into a world behind this world, where he reveled in the terror he created.Graves glanced back into his apartment. The chaos that had accumulated during the night was spread throughout the room, small white cartons of Chinese food, dirty cups and glasses, a desk strewn with papers, his ancient manual typewriter resting heavily at the eye of it all. Compared to the sleek computer screens and ergonomic keyboards most other writers now used, the typewriter looked like a perverse relic of the Inquisition, a mechanical thumbscrew or some other infinitely refined instrument of medieval torture. Once, at an exhibition of such artifacts, Graves had seen a dagger made in the form of a crucifix, its handle cut in the shape of Christ''s body to provide a better grip. Years later he''d written a scene in which Kessler had pressed an identical weapon into Sykes'' trembling hand, forced him to draw it slowly across the sagging folds of an old woman''s throat. Sykes. Kessler''s cowering sidekick. The shivering, panicked instrument of Kessler''s will.Graves took a sip of coffee and let his eyes drift out over the East River, the bridges that spanned its gray waters, cars moving back and forth on them like ants along a narrow twig. Within an hour traffic would become an unbroken stream, the noise of the city steadily increasing down below, so that even from his high aerie, perched like an eagle''s nest on the fortieth floor, he''d have to close the windows to keep it out.It was nearly five hours before he had to catch a bus upstate, to the Riverwood Colony, where he''d been invited to spend the weekend. He''d need to get a little rest before then, since his mind was too easily alarmed by changing scenes, distant voices, unfamiliar smells for him ever to sleep in transit. Instead, he''d stare out the bus window, alert and edgy, as towns and villages flashed by, inventing tales as he went along. Passing an empty field, he might suddenly envision the moldering bones of some once-desperate girl, a runaway who''d knocked at the wrong door a hundred years before, young and vulnerable, pale and hungry, wrapped in a threadbare woolen shawl, snowflakes clinging to her lustrous hair, her small, childlike voice barely audible above the howl of the wind: I''m so sorry to disturb you, sir, but might I warm myself beside your fire? He could see the man beyond the door, imagine what he imagined, her quivering white breasts, the cold-stiffened nipples, feel his fingers probing the latch as he drew back to let her in, his voice, sweet, unthreatening, Of course, my dear, come in.It was always the isolated farmhouses that called up the most dreadful scenes. Graves knew firsthand the horror that could befall them, how vulnerable they were to sudden violence and death. Once, edging close to the forbidden, he''d actually described a young woman''s murder in such a place, Kessler, the arch villain in all of Graves'' books, directing Sykes through the brutal ritual while Slovak, Graves'' tireless hero, knowing where Kessler was, what he was doing, and desperate to stop him, had pounded up the flickering, smoke-filled aisles of a stranded snowbound train, panting heavily by the time he''d finally reached the engine. But once there, he''d found the engineer too terrified by the storm to press onward, so that once again Kessler had escaped due to some unexpected cowardice, fear the servant upon which evil could most confidently rely. It was a circumstance often repeated in Graves'' books, one of his abiding themes.Graves drew in a breath and felt a wave of exhaustion settle over him. He knew where the weariness had come from and why it was so heavy. He and Slovak had just trudged up five flights of stairs, slammed through a thick wooden door, and raced across a wide black roof, arriving breathless and exhausted at its edge.Now, looking out over the city, it seemed strange to Graves that within an instant he had transported himself to this quiet terrace where he stood, calmly sipping tepid coffee in the early morning light while in the world of his creation, Slovak remained on the other side of town, thirty blocks away in space and more than a century distant in time, staring out over the same enigmatic web of streets and rooftops as Kessler crept up from the rear, grinning as he drew the little silver derringer from beneath his coat, good and evil about to face each other squarely in the dawning light.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6421'),
(5201, 'Insurgency', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Colonel Joey R. Czerinski and his band of legionnaires try to quell a citizen uprising in planet New Coloradoâ€™s New Gobi Desert and foil an insurgency plot to kill the spider Arthropodan Emperor and his lovely wife, Queen Rainbow. Suspicion and mistrust threaten the stability of Legion command, while Czerinski deals with troubles arising from a tryst with a long-gone marine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8654'),
(5202, 'The Integral Trees', 'The Integral Trees', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10222'),
(5203, 'Intellivore', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When several ships and colonies disappear into a legend-filled, virtually starless void in space known as the Rift, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  investigates and discovers a bizarre menace of unusual power.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Great Rift lies between the Sagitarius and Orion arms of the galaxy. Stars are scarce there, beyond the authority of the Federation, and legends abound of lost civilizations and of ancient monsters that prey on those who dare to venture into the vast darkness between the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When several ships and colonies mysteriously disappear into the Rift, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  leads an expedition to investigate various disturbing reports. Accompanied by two other Federation starships, Picard and his fellow captains discover a bizarre menace of unimaginable power. And the only way to trap this destructive entity is to use the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as bait.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5011'),
(5204, 'Intensity', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend''s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immense himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess''s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girlâ€”as moment by moment, the terrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1496'),
(5205, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s he who''s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire''s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3444'),
(5206, 'Interlude in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today-s hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of an unusual love triangle, from the hunger for a human touch on an alien planet to a witch-s desperate search for the love of one man, these tales of paranormal romance will transport you to a time and a place you-ve never been before-. Featuring: **New York Times** bestselling author J. D. Robb-**with a new Lieutenant Eve Dallas story **New York Times** bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton-**with a new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter tale and **USA Today** Bestselling Authors,Susan Krinard and Maggie Shayne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2376'),
(5207, 'Internecine', 'David J. Schow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***â€œSmart, scathing, and verbally inventive to an astonishing degree, David J. Schow is one of the most interesting writers of his generation.â€â€”Peter Straub\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***â€œInter-what?â€ When advertising executive Conrad Maddox returns from a redeye flight and finds a mysterious locker key waiting in his rental car, he discovers a briefcase loaded with guns and money. Several hours later, his entire life tumbles down a rabbit hole when he meets Dandine, owner of the case and former contract assassin for a shadowy organization called Norco, which is now out to nail both of them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œInternecineâ€ means conflict, mutual destruction, and slaughterâ€”or, as Dandine tells Conrad, they are now inadvertently at play in a field of â€œterrorism, counter-assassination, military coups, dirty tricks, Watergate, spy vs. spy, murky secret organizations, that sort of thing.â€ A world in which being innocent canâ€™t save you, the police canâ€™t help you, and your only hope of getting out alive is to risk unheard-of dangers against opponents with nearly unlimited power. To free themselves from the spider web of black ops, murder, madness and betrayal, Dandine and Conrad must delve ever-deeper into the spiraling, dangerous maze that is Norco, where everyone seems to be in on the most lethal of gamesâ€¦except you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7998'),
(5208, 'The Internet Is a Playground', 'David Thorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world''s leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue account with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne''s hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne''s razor-sharp writings, compiled here, say something about everyday life we can all relate to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5682'),
(5209, 'The interpretation of dreams', 'Sigmund Freud; James Strachey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Freud''s Revolutionary Theory: This ground-breaking work, which Freud considered his most valuable, forever changed the way we think. Now, in this definitive and bestselling translation by James Strachey, Freud''s timeless exploration of the unconscious through the dream world is clearly and precisely rendered. Including dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, *The Interpretation of Dreams* remains an invaluable tool in helping us all discover the truth about ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3968'),
(5210, 'Interpreter of Maladies', 'Jhumpa Lahiri', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Sen''s is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9423'),
(5211, 'The Interrogation', 'Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tight, suspenseful tale of a race against the clock to get a confession out of the chief suspect in the death of young Cathy Lake, every cop has his own private burden, his own reason for wanting to crack Albert Jay Smalls wide open and confirm him as the killer. Jack Pierce has the memory of his own murdered daughter and the promise he made to Cathy''s mother. Norman Cohen has the vision of the terrible things he saw at the liberation of a concentration camp, the certain knowledge of the presence of evil in the world. Thomas Burke, the chief of police, has a dying son who''s been dead to him for a long time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cook weaves the tragedies of all their lives almost seamlessly into the last 12 hours of their interrogation of the suspect; when it''s over, if there''s no confession, they must let Smalls go. This suspenseful thriller showcases Cook''s skill at interpreting the psychological complexities of his well-drawn characters and his ability to turn an otherwise ordinary police procedural into a tense, haunting, and resonant novel.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did Albert Jay Smalls strangle eight-year-old Cathy Lake to death on a rainy afternoon in 1952? Two police detectives have 11 hours to find out before Smalls is released. The Edgar-winning Cook makes the most of that brief period of time, not only braiding the intricate elements of the crime but laying open the secretive, troubled lives of at least half a dozen characters. The case against Smalls is thin no witnesses, no physical evidence. A homeless vagrant who lived in a tunnel not far from where Cathy''s body was found, he''s been in custody for more than a week. No one has been able to crack his denial of the murder, but detectives Jack Pierce and Norman Cohen sense he''s hiding something. Employing flashbacks and parallel action while in the interrogation frame, Cook adroitly weaves back and forth between the crime itself, the subsequent investigation and the halting questioning of the suspect. More compelling, however, is his portrayal of how the crime affects Pierce and Cohen, as well as several secondary characters. Pierce, for example, is a man driven by rage: his own daughter was murdered six years earlier and her case went unsolved. Cohen, who conducts most of the questioning while Pierce plows into Smalls''s past, is still numb from what he saw in Germany as a soldier. Down to the cleverly hatched, melancholy ending, Cook (The Chatham School Affair; Places in the Dark) again takes readers down a dark, treacherous road into the heart of human fallibility and struggle.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6420'),
(5212, 'The Interruption of Everything', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry McMillan''s sixth novel,\n <em>\n  The Interruption of Everything\n </em>\n , is every bit as enthralling and empowering as her earlier hits\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . However, as McMillan matures as an author, her characters follow suit, which leads her to a wiser, more introspective lead character in the form of Marilyn Grimes. Our reward, as readers, is a tale of midlife crisis, mixed with family and personal drama, all told in the witty, honest, and inspiring style we''ve come to expect from this seasoned storyteller.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Marilyn approaches middle-age, we follow her struggle to discover herself outside the constraints of a passionless marriage, a demanding family and an ever-growing list of dreams deferred. With three children in college, a husband who suffers from destructive professional and personal inertia, a demanding mother-in-law, a senile mother and a drug-addicted sister, Marilyn has more on her plate than she expected at this stage of the game. Torn between taking care of her friends and family and attending to her own needs, she''s faced with choices, like deciding to finish her graduate degree, that never before seemed hers to make. Along the way, supporting characters like Marilyn''s feisty little niece and supportive-yet-opinionated best friends Paulette and Bunny add humor and depth to our heroine''s character. And as always, McMillan does a flawless job of incorporating humor into even the most traumatic situations, as evidenced by a scene in which Marilyn ends up babysitting her hairdresser''s children while waiting twelve hours for new braids. ("At three, Blue has to make a run. Orange has to go to the bank to get a money order. I ask Lexus to find me a Pamper and I take the baby in the bathroom.")\n</p>\n<p>\n Warm and witty, sincere and heartfelt,\n <em>\n  The Interruption of Everything\n </em>\n is sure to delight McMillan devotees and attract a host of new fans.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marilyn Grimes is desperately frustrated with her life as a housewife and amateur crafts maker. The world seems to be conspiring against her, as she and her husband hit the emotional and physical rocks of middle age and her extended family keeps erupting in chaos. Emmy Awardâ€“winning Whitfield''s attempt at husky male voices is awkward, but she does a great job with both older women (Marilyn''s mother, who has Alzheimer''s, and her sassy mother-in-law, who "elopes" with her new retirement home lover). Oddly, her voice as Marilyn is often not engaging. In some ways the weakness in her characterization is appropriate, as Marilyn claims her soul has been "in hiding" as she''s catered to everyone else''s needs. But some listeners may get bored by Marilyn''s narration, especially compared to her lively girlfriends and family. Still, Whitfield was a natural choice for the part, and she mostly lives up to her reputation in delivering this journey of self-discovery. Also available unabridged on 10 CDs and narrated by Desiree Taylor.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7261'),
(5213, 'Interview with the Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.It is a novel only Anne Rice could write...."Magnificent, compulsively readable."CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(5214, 'InterWorld', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An astounding tale of adventure, danger, magic, science, friendship, spaceships, and, oh yeah, the battle to save all the people in all the worlds in all possible dimensions.   Joey Harker isn''t a hero.   In fact, he''s the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.   But one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.   Joey''s walk between worlds makes him prey to armies of magic and science, both determined to harness Joey''s power to travel between the dimensions. The only thing standing in their way is Joeyâ€”or, more precisely, an army of Joeys, all from different dimensions and all determined to save the worlds.   Now Joey must make a choice: return to the life he knows or join the battle to the end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7368');
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(5215, 'Intimate Secrets', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SHE HAD THE KIND OF SECRET NO WOMAN COULD KEEP... When Josie O''Malley found herself pregnant, she knew her father would surely mete out the Texas law of the West -- and shoot the no ''count before he''d demand a shotgun wedding. What her dad didn''t know was the Josie has been with the one man he''d respected above all others. Clay Jackson. HE''D NEVER GUESSED HE FATHERED HER CHILD... Two years ago Josie left Texas in a hurry for the solitude of Montana. Now Clay knew why. But it boiled his blood that she''d had anybody''s baby but his. It burned him even more that a thief led Clay to her doorstep. So what was Josie hiding besides a child? And what would Clay''s investigation reveal about the toddler''s father...and the woman he''d never stopped loving?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(5216, 'Intimate Seduction', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a man finds a beautiful woman asleep in his bedâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¦he has only one choice. To seduce her with a night of lovemaking she''ll never forget. Trouble is, Donovan Steele''s sultry new housekeeper is just as determined\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  to become the legendary playboy''s latest conquest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trading the Ivy League for down South, Natalie Ford is helping out with her ailing aunt''s housecleaning service. But she finds that this powerful, potent man of Steele ignites a different kind of chemistryâ€”one that defies every law of attraction the science professor ever learned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Natalie knows she has to come clean to Donovan about who she really isâ€¦especially when he starts believing she''s out to sabotage his family business. Will she lose her chance to love the real man behind the seductive legend?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Donovan Steele opened the door to his home and walked inside with a huge smile on his face. Over the weekend in New Hampshire, his best friend from childhood, Bronson Scott, one of the most popular drivers for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, had placed in the top five.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Donovan was proud of Bronson''s success because Donovan, of all people, knew how hard his friend had worked to achieve it. Bronson was not only a skilled driver but was also a racer for the team he owned, Scott Motorsports. Donovan''s chest also swelled with pride at the fact that his family-owned business, the Steele Corporation, was a major sponsor of Scott Motorsports. That provided plenty of advertising for SC and offered Bronson the financial support he needed to pursue his lifelong dream.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another reason for Donovan''s smile was that at the race he''d been among friends and had managed to unwind and not think about how busy the coming months would be for him back at the office. A new product under development at SC, the first in several years, had everyone excited; especially Donovan since he headed the Product Administration Division. But Gleeve-Ware, as it was called, had to be completed in time for the annual Product Trade Show being held in Toronto this November.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Instead of returning to Charlotte yesterday like he''d planned, he and a good friend from college, Uriel Lassiter, as well as two of his cousins from Phoenixâ€” Galen and Tyson Steeleâ€”decided to stay an additional day to celebrate with Bronson and Myles Joseph, another good friend and a Scott Motorsports driver.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then there had been Joanne Summerville, a racetrack groupie who''d come on to him after finding out about his close relationship to Bronson and the other drivers. Even now he could still picture her standing under the July sun in those skintight jeans and that sky-blue T-shirt that had stretched snugly across a pair of well-endowed breasts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joanne had been a looker, all right, and he regretted not taking her up on what she''d been offering. He hadn''t the time to squeeze in a short fling, no matter how tempting, and he could still see the sexy pout on her lips and the disappointment in her eyes when he''d turned her down. His only saving grace was that he figured he''d run into her again at a future race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Donovan dropped his travel bag on the floor by the sofa instead of taking it upstairs to his bedroom. Due to an early flight out this morning, he''d missed breakfast and was hungry. He walked toward the kitchen, deciding that in desperate times even a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich sounded pretty good.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The moment Donovan walked into his kitchen he could tell his housekeeper had been there. Everything gleamed, from the stainless-steel appliances to the ceramic-tile floor. He appreciated the way she kept his house clean. He was a stickler when it came to neatness, but he also liked having a good time and had no desire to spend his weekends doing chores. He was too busy spending his time doing women.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It came as no surprise to those who knew him that he enjoyed and appreciated female company. There was no crime in that and at thirty-three, he enjoyed being single. He spent his time doing things he liked, which included a lot of traveling for pleasure, and refused to be tied down to a woman who''d have a hissy fit if he left her behind or one who felt entitled to accompany him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He''d learned the hard way that women tended to get outright possessive. Alyson Greer had been such a creature, and even now he got cold chills remembering how she had resorted to stalking him. From that point on, he''d made a conscious effort to make sure any woman he became involved with knew the score.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There were simply too many beautiful ladies out there to get tied down to just one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His three older brothers were wearing wedding bands and that was all well and goodâ€”for them. He was happy they had found wonderful women to fall in love with and marry. But he was not the marrying kind. He wasn''t even the serious relationship kind. Short-term affairs suited him just fine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Besides women, his favorite pastime was auto racing. Not that he would ever get behind the wheel of a race car but he totally enjoyed being a spectator. He couldn''t describe the rush of adrenaline that flowed through his body while watching a race. Of course, sharing an orgasm with a woman was still number one in his book, but being at a race was a close second.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He reached to open his pantry when he noticed a pair of women''s sandals on the floor by the sliding glass door to his screened patio. Where had they come from and whom did they belong to?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Had the cleaning lady left her shoes? Was she still there?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He picked up the sandals to study their design. Sleek and snazzy. He''d only seen his housekeeper once or twice, and although she wasn''t a bad-looking older woman, he couldn''t imagine her wearing a pair of stylish and trendy shoes. But then he might be wrong. He couldn''t judge every fifty-something-year-old woman by his mother and his aunt''s taste in fashion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He cocked his right brow, his curiosity piqued, and for the moment his hunger was placed on the back burner. He went back into his living room and then the dining room and glanced around, noticing that the rooms were neat as a pin, tidy as could be and well-dusted. That was enough evidence to indicate his housekeeper had been here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the main level, he also had a guest bedroom and a spacious bath, with the master suite and his office and another bathroom upstairs. If and when he felt inclined to invite a woman to stay for the night, the downstairs guest room was where they would sleep. He considered it his entertainment room. At one time he''d installed mirrors in the ceiling over the bed until his nephew Marcusâ€”who would come spend the night on occasionâ€”got old enough to question why they were there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The master bedroom was off-limits. He considered it his personal domain. No woman could lay claim to ever sleeping in what he considered his\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  bed. A number of them had tried, considered it a challenge, their ultimate goal. But so far none had ever made it up those stairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After checking the other rooms, he made his way upstairs. It didn''t take him long to check the bathroom and his office before heading down the hall that led to his master suite. His bedroom door was closed, which wasn''t unusual, but what\n  <em>\n   was\n  </em>\n  unusual were the sensations he began feeling in the pit of his stomach, similar to the ones he felt when he was standing on the sidelines waiting for the race to begin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He opened the door, and his eyes quickly circulated the room, stopping first on the vacuum cleaner that was still plugged into the wall and then on the feather duster that was sitting on his dresser.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stepped into the room and held his breath when he saw a woman asleep in his bed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   What the hell?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quickly, he crossed the floor to his bed and stared down at the sleeping woman. She was definitely not his regular cleaning lady. This woman looked to be in her early twenties and was absolutely, undeniably beautiful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She was lying on her side but her face was angled in a way that showed an ample portion of it. What he saw flooded his gut with something he''d never felt before, a sensual attraction so hard, gripping and intense that he had to struggle to get air past his lungs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her skin, a beautiful chocolate-brown, looked soft, satiny and smooth. Her long eyelashes fanned her eyes, and in sleep she looked totally at peace. Her hair, a dark brown shade, flowed to her shoulders with bouncy-looking curls at the end. He had encountered beautiful women countless times but never before did one have such a gripping effect on his libido. And that very thought downright unnerved him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pulling in a deep breath, he inhaled, then took his time releasing it after deciding it was time to wake her. Although his first instinct was to remove his clothes and get into the bed with her. Instead of feeling his privacy violated by the woman in his bed, he was feeling something else altogether. Lust. Bone-chilling, gut-wrenching lust to a degree he''d never experienced before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He tried tamping down the sensations by thinking that he definitely had a number of questions for herâ€¦ but first he had to get her out of his bed. With that thought in mind, he reached out and gently touched her shoulder, trying to ignore the way his fingers trembled at the contact. He then watched as she slowly stretched her body before cuddling into another position without opening her eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempted to see the rest of her, he slowly lifted the coversâ€¦ His sex immediately got hard, pressed tight against the fly of his jeans as his gaze lit on her lush, shapely body. His eyes raked over her khaki shorts and cotton top, taking in her long, toned legs, small waist, curvy thighs and flat tummy. And then there was her scent. It assailed his senses the moment he lifted the covers, a totally feminine aroma that clutched him in blatant desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thinking he''d better do something before he totally lost it, he dropped the covers back in place and gently shook her awake. His fingers trembled for a second time when they came in contact with her shoulder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stared down at her face as her eyes fluttered open, blinked a few times, widened and then stared back. The color of flowing honey, her eyes were a perfect match for her complexion. The woman was even more beautiful with her eyes wide open looking like a deer caught in the headlights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He watched as she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something but then changed her mind. Instead she moistened her top lip with the flick of her tongue before gnawing nervously on the bottom lip. He felt an immediate tightening in his stomach. An aura of sexual magnetism surrounded them, held them within its grip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When he couldn''t handle the sensations any longer, or the torture of imagining all the things he would love doing to her tongue and lips, he spoke up. "I believe you''re sleeping in\n  <em>\n   my\n  </em>\n  bed, Goldilocks."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though her mind was working just fine, Natalie Ford was speechless and incapable of movement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When she''d opened her eyes, the last thing she expect...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7985'),
(5217, 'Into a Dark Realm', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dread plot to destroy the Empire of Great Kesh has failed. The Conclave of Shadows has ended the murderous Nighthawk brotherhood''s horrific reign of terror and death. But the mad sorcerer, Leso Varen, has fled, taking refuge among the most powerful men and women on Kelewanâ€”a world now threatened, along with Midkemia, by hordes of the most vicious warriors in the known universe. The great sorcerer Pug knows of no power that will vanquish these invaders. And now he, brave Magnus and Nakor, and a disturbing young stranger named Bek must venture into the poisonous heart of the Dasati realmâ€”the most terrible place they have ever encounteredâ€”in a valiant, impossible attempt to turn the tides against the encroaching doom that would swallow their world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3630'),
(5218, 'Into Battle', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tal and Milla become caught up in an uprising of the Underfolk, which could have dire consequences for the Castle and for the entire Dark World.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9663'),
(5219, 'Into the Fire', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Award of Excellence Winner!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Leslie Kelly demonstrates her masterful ability to blend passion and humor in INTO THE FIRE. --\n  <em>\n   Word Weaving\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Get INTO THE FIRE, as soon as it hits the shelves. It is definitely a keeper. --\n  <em>\n   Road To Romance\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you love compelling stories, filled with humor, wonderful characters...and hot, sensual moments...pick up a copy. --\n  <em>\n   Romance &amp; Friends\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The only thing columnist Lacey Clark dislikes more than fellow columnist Nate Logan is her own boring existence. She wants to be spontaneous, spirited...sexy. So when she meets a gorgeous stranger at a party and falls in lust at first sight, she figures she''ll never have a better chance to go for it. How could she guess that her first-class lover would turn out to be her number one enemy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nate Logan can''t believe it! How could he have had the best sex of his life with the woman who''s made his job a living hell? And how can he want her again...and again? Worse, their publisher is suddenly insisting Nate and Lacey collaborate on a joint column. Which leaves Nate wondering if he''s going to seduce Lacey into changing her mind--or give up and let the sexy blonde blow\n  <em>\n   his\n  </em>\n  ....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7768'),
(5220, 'Into the Inferno', 'Earl Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s a tribute to Earl Emerson''s narrative skill that he manages to make this implausible medical mystery not only believable but also compelling. When fire chief Jim Swopes traces the unknown disease that''s wiped out half his department in less than a week to a truck crash on a western Washington highway, he knows his days are numbered--like the other victims, all of whom died, he has just seven days to live unless he can find an antidote to a chemical poison no one else believes exists. Helped by a beautiful doctor whose comatose sister drove one of the trucks in the crash, he traces the poison to a biotech firm with nothing to lose and everything to gain by letting the clock run out. But until it does, this tightly plotted race-against-time thriller will keep you riveted.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seattle firefighter Jim Swope-the irresistible protagonist of this latest high-octane thriller from the author of the Thomas Black detective series-is, in his own words, "destined for a jail cell, a straitjacket, or more likely, to end up dancing the funky chicken in a fusillade of bullets." This divorced, womanizing father of two has just realized he has exactly six days to figure out the nature of the mysterious ailment that''s been killing off his North Bend Fire and Rescue colleagues-and is about to fell him, too. It all started several months ago, when he and other firefighters reported to the scene of a highway accident. It was here that Swope met emotionally unstable trucker Holly Riggs, a woman who became his girlfriend, then his ex-girlfriend, then his stalker. When Holly''s sister, Stephanie, finds her in a coma months after the accident, she figures it was a suicide attempt. Only when Jim''s colleagues also fall into comas does Jim realize that they were all poisoned at the scene of the accident. Each victim has only a week to live from the day his symptoms begin, and Jim already has trembling hands and a headache. He and Stephanie team up to uncover a tangled web of corporate corruption extending far beyond the Pacific Northwest, but centering on a nearby "hazmat" facility. Emerson, a veteran Seattle firefighter, infuses the firehouse scenes with expert detail, but it''s the full-bodied characterization and wry humor of "mad dog" Swope that really sizzle. Readers who like a little hot sauce with their mystery will snatch this up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7450'),
(5221, 'Into the Nebula', 'Gene DeWeese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n INTO THE NEBULA  While exploring an unknown region of space, the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)" encounters a strange nebular dust. Upon further investigation, they discover a planet called Krantin on which the plant and animal life, as well as the civilization are dying.  A series of explosions and a ship that simply disappears into thin air lead the crew to believe another group is causing the devastation of the planet. The leader of the planet''s society, however, is wary of trusting the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" crewmembers, and has the away team arrested. With time running out, Data must find a way to save his crewmates or watch as two worlds are destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5490'),
(5222, 'Into the Silence', 'Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they''ve been dissolved! With the Welsh amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood is on its tail, but it''s moving too fast for them to track it down! This new threat requires a new tactic, so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3349'),
(5223, 'Into the Storm: A Study in Command', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Fred Franks &amp; Jr. &amp; Frederick M. Franks &amp; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy''s latest love-letter to the military-industrial complex focuses on the Army--and Fred Franks, a general who helped smash Iraq in the Gulf War. In this first volume of a series on the intricacies of military command, Clancy traces the organizational success story of the U.S. Army''s rise from the slough of Vietnam to the heights of victory in the Persian Gulf. In 1972, the Army lacked proper discipline, training, weapons, and doctrine; all these would be overhauled in the next 15 years. For those readers keen on such nuts and bolts, the book will be fascinating. But the book truly sparkles when Franks tells his story. A "tanker" who lost a foot in the invasion of Cambodia, he is a man of great courage, thoughtfulness, and integrity. One cannot help but wince when a civilian tells him, "You and those boys did that for nothing." And for all the acronyms and military history, that is what this book is about: healing the wounds Vietnam inflicted. "But this time [the Gulf War], it was going to end differently. They all would see to that."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having conquered the best sellers lists in both the fiction and nonfiction arenas, Clancy now offers the first in a series of historical accounts of American military leaders in times of war. His first target: the Gulf War.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6471'),
(5224, 'Into the Thinking Kingdoms', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fantastical Journey of the Catechist series Foster began with Carnivores of Light and Darkness continues, as the plucky herdsman Etjole Ehomba carries on his search for a mysterious woman who has been kidnapped by the necromancer Hymneth the Possessed. In this installment, Ehomba and his two companionsAthe great black half-lion/half cheetah Ahlitah and the itinerant swordsman and treasure-hunter Simna ibn SindAseek a boat that will take them across the infamous Semordria Ocean. In Lybondai, a shifty, cigar-smoking merchant tells them the only place they can find such a ship is in the legendary port city of Hamacassar, far to the north. To get there the trio must cross many strange lands, including a dangerous marsh overrun by wild horses and a place where flowers fight for superiority. In Tethspraih they are arrested for having improper thoughts. In Phan City they barely escape with their lives when attacked by otherworldly spirits after the "witching hour," and in Netherbrae they free an intelligent beast named Hunkapa Aub from his human torturers. Though every obstacle falls a bit too neatly to Ehomba''s native wit and his grab bag of enchanted items, the story''s swift pace and Foster''s boundless imagination deliver something very different from the usual fantasy quest saga. In these magical lands, Foster shows that character and common sense can be as important, and as powerful, as any magic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having passed through the kaleidoscopic landscapes of the Changing Lands, the herdsman Etjole Ehomba and his two companions embark upon the second phase of their quest to fulfill the mission of a dying stranger. Entering the Thinking Lands, Ehomba encounters exotic cultures offering subtle dangers and strange new experiences. Foster''s latest series combines elements of epic fantasy with folkloric motifs in an engaging picaresque tale of a simple man''s honor-bound journey into adventure. Libraries owning Carnivores of Light and Darkness (LJ 5/15/98) will wish to purchase this sequel.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7848'),
(5225, 'Into the wild', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2722'),
(5226, 'Into the Wildewood', 'Gillian Summers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Don''t miss the first book in the Faire Folk Trilogy, The Tree Shepherd''s Daughter: "One of those remarkable tales in which the reader becomes completely immersed . . . [It] will have readers eagerly anticipating books two and three in this promising trilogy."â€”KLIATT After squelching an evil plot by a rotten fairy, Keelie Heartwood is ready for fun at the upcoming Wildewood Renaissance Faire. Getting to know her elf dad has been great, but camping out in his homemade RV while acting out the 16th century isn''t so fab. Keelie prefers hot showers and wearing a watch, thankyouverymuch. And a cool new cell phone would be nice, too. But with fairies turning up in the oddest places, an unfortunate misunderstanding about a credit card bill, and that nasty, stuck-up elf-girl, Elia, Keelie''s plans to have a good time are all but ruined. So far, life as an elf isn''t all that enchanting. And then the unicorn shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1982'),
(5227, 'Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer''s--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for\n <em>\n  Into Thin Air\n </em>\n , Krakauer''s epic account of the May 1996 disaster. With more than 250 black-and-white photographs taken by various expedition members and an enlightening new postscript by the author, the\n <em>\n  Illustrated Edition\n </em>\n shows readers what this tragic climb looked like and potentially provides closure for Krakauer and his detractors.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I have no doubt that Boukreev''s intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in a postscript dated August 1998. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev''s refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn''t the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since\n <em>\n  Into Thin Air\n </em>\n ''s denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer''s tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored __, Boukreev''s version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in a avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. Krakauer further buries the ice axe by donating his share of royalties from sales of\n <em>\n  The Illustrated Edition\n </em>\n to the Everest ''96 Memorial Fund, which aids various environmental and humanitarian charities.\n <em>\n  --Rob McDonald\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heroism and sacrifice triumph over foolishness, fatal error, and human frailty in this bone-chilling narrative in which the author recounts his experiences on last year''s ill-fated, deadly climb. Thrilling armchair reading.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6412'),
(5228, 'Intrinsical', 'Lani Woodland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn''t want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist''s attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn''t going to go quietly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6271'),
(5229, 'Introduction to objectivist epistemology', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Today man''s mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature--and power--of man''s conceptual faculty. She offers a startlingly original solution to the problem that brought about the collapse of modern philosophy: the problem of universals. This brilliantly argued, superbly written work, together with an essay by philosophy professor Leonard Peikoff, is vital reading for all those who seek to discover that human beings can and should live by the guidance of reason.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(5230, 'Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength', 'Laurie Helgoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *"If you have introvert inclinations and are doubting yourself, this is a must read. Or if you know someone who exhibits introvert symptoms, read this book before calling the shrink."* **- Bhante Yogavacara Rahula, author of One Night''s Shelter: An Autobiography of an American Buddhist Monk** EMBRACE THE POWER INSIDE YOU Are you an introvert? Psychologist and introvert Laurie Helgoe reveals that more than half of all Americans are. Introverts gain energy and power through reflection and solitude. Our culture, however, is geared toward the extrovert. The pressure to enjoy parties, chatter, and interactions can lead people to think that an inward orientation is a problem instead of an opportunity. Helgoe shows that the exact opposite is true: Introverts can capitalize on this inner source of power. **INTROVERT POWER** is a groundbreaking call for an introvert renaissance, a blueprint for how introverts can take full advantage of this hidden strength in daily life. Supplemented by the voices of several introverts, Helgoe presents a startling look at introvert numbers, influence, and economic might. Revolutionary and invaluable, INTROVERT POWER includes ideas for how introverts can learn to: Claim private space Carve out time to think Bring a slower tempo into daily life Create breaks in conversation and relationships Deal effectively with parties, interruptions, and crowds QUIET IS **MIGHT**. SOLITUDE IS **STRENGTH**. INTROVERSION IS **POWER**.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2610'),
(5231, 'Intrusion of Jimmy', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2658'),
(5232, 'Invader', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a world where human and humanoid settlements exist side by side, peace is shattered by the arrival of a human spaceship, the new arrivals being far less tolerant of humanoids. As rumor of war spreads, the planet''s fate is once again in the hands of Ben Cameron, the official go-between for humans and humanoids. By the author of Foreigner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10874'),
(5233, 'Invasion', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Five die. Heroic LAPD officer Jack McGarvey is badly wounded and lands in the hospital for months, uncertain he''ll walk again. While he''s out of commission, his wife and young son are left to defend themselves against both the criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director''s cult fanatic fans.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey''s murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confrontation that could rob him of his sanity or his life - or both.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez''s Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8276'),
(5234, 'Invasion 02: The Soldiers of Fear', 'Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Decades after the original\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  wards off the conquering Furies, who once owned the entire Alpha Quadrant, Captain Picard and his crew face a second confrontation and become subject to the alien''s mind-altering powers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long ago, before the dawn of civilization, they were banished to the realm of nightmares. Now the terrors are real . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  A generation ago, another\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM fought off a ship of exiled aliens intent on conquering all of the Alpha Quadrant. Starfleet thought the foe had been repelled forever -- until now. The Furies have returned in might warships even more powerful than before. But their weapons are more than merely physical, for these aliens are the origins of all the demons and monsters of ancient myth, and they have found a way to project fear directly into the minds of their enemies. To defeat the Furies, and save the Federation, Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM must first conquer the darkest terrors of their unconscious minds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6013'),
(5235, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', 'Jack Finney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved -- the world as he knew it.First published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired three major motion pictures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1862'),
(5236, 'Invasion of the Boy Snatchers', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The holidays are over and Massies room is chock full of new things from Santa: jeans, sweater, and a new . . . roommate? Once Claire unpacks, Massies room feels more crowded than a Zac Posen sample sale. But whats worse, Claire isnt the only person moving into Massies territoryAlicias hot, Spanish cousin, Nina, shows up from Spain and starts edging in on all the Briarwood boys, including Massies crush! Will Nina, with her super-tight mall clothes, make every boy in Westchester fall in love with her? Or will Massie toss her out faster than last seasons Sevens jeans? The social minefields of Westchester Countys most privileged middle school girls drive the page-turning action of this addictive series, set in New York Citys most elite suburban county. The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2221'),
(5237, 'Invasion of the Cat-People', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Centuries ago, before man evolved, the Earth was invaded by aliens, but their experiments failed. Now another race is seeking to resurrect the experiments, and it is up to the Doctor, Ben and Polly to stop them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7628'),
(5238, 'The Invention of Morel', 'Adolfo Bioy Casares &amp; Ruth L. C. Simms', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The masterpiece among Bioy Casares'' short, intense novels is The Invention of Morel, a book that won raves from Borges (who placed it alongside Franz Kafka''s The Trial), was called "perfect" by Octavio Paz, and inspired one of French cinema''s most infamous moviesf, Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Though it was published in 1940, the book''s continuing relevance was recently proven when it was featured on Lost â€” a cameo many viewers perceive as a key to that TV show''s plot. But that doesn''t mean this is a tough tract unfit for quality beach time... Just know that Morel is a poetic evocation of the experience of love, an inquiry into how we know one another, and a still-relevant examination of how technology has changed our relationship with reality. It''s also a great read â€” one you''ll be pressing into the hands of your fellow beach-goers." --Boldtype\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set on a mysterious island, The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where every detail is both crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Susan Jill Levine''s revision of Ruth Simm''s translation offers a new experience of an uncanny work of genius.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6231'),
(5239, 'Inversions', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of *The Player of Games* and *Consider Phlebas,* is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal. *Inversions* is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6684'),
(5240, 'The Investigators', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal crime...A group of urban terrorists...An investigation of dirty cops...  The leads in these supposedly unconnected cases have become tangled in some very ugly--and dangerous--knots. Now Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues find themselves fearing not only for their jobsï¼Œ but also for their very lives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6079'),
(5241, 'Invisible Boy', 'Cornelia Read', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives, and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence, and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(5242, 'The Invisible Bridge', 'Julie Orringer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Julie Orringerâ€™s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, *How to Breathe Underwater* (â€œfiercely beautifulâ€â€”*The New York Times;* â€œunbelievably goodâ€â€”Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one familyâ€™s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it.Paris, 1937. Andras LÃ©vi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the rue de SÃ©vignÃ©. As he falls into a complicated relationship with the letterâ€™s recipient, he becomes privy to a secret history that will alter the course of his own life. Meanwhile, as his elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena and their younger brother leaves school for the stage, Europeâ€™s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying uncertainty. At the end of Andrasâ€™s second summer in Paris, all of Europe erupts in a cataclysm of war.From the small Hungarian town of KonyÃ¡r to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the lonely chill of Andrasâ€™s room on the rue des Ã‰coles to the deep and enduring connection he discovers on the rue de SÃ©vignÃ©, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labor camps and beyond, *The Invisible Bridge* tells the story of a love tested by disaster, of brothers whose bonds cannot be broken, of a family shattered and remade in historyâ€™s darkest hour, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war.Expertly crafted, magnificently written, emotionally haunting, and impossible to put down, *The Invisible *Bridge resoundingly confirms Julie Orringerâ€™s place as one of todayâ€™s most vital and commanding young literary talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2391'),
(5243, 'Invisible man', 'Ralph Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.Â Â A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.Â Â The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.Â Â The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4166'),
(5244, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: She''s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you''ll ever want to look. SUMMARY: The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever heard of a culling song? Itâ€™s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of **Poems and Rhymes from Around the World**, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.Reporter Carl Streator discovers the songâ€™s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, heâ€™s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistantâ€™s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.Written with a style and imagination that could only come from Chuck Palahniuk, **Lullaby** is the latest outrage from one of our most exciting writers at work today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/385');
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(5245, 'Invisible Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, beaten to death with a metal pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It''s clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random, if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge - and it will lead Davenport to somewhere he never expected. Which is too bad, because the killers - and there is more than one of them - the killers are expecting him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6632'),
(5246, 'Invitation to murder: a card-making mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Custom Card Creations was Jennifer Shane''s chance to break away from her big sister''s scrapbooking business. But it hasn''t been all glitter and tinsel. Customers are scarce, Jennifer isn''t speaking to her sister, and - after finally landing a client - she hears a murder over the phone. When Jennifer receives a threatening note - in large block letters - it''s clear someone has designs on her life. But why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(5247, 'The Ionian Mission', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighth book in the series. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship, and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds, come triumphantly into their own. The book ends with as fierce and thrilling an action as any in this magnificent series of novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4298'),
(5248, 'IPv6 Essentials', 'Silvia Hagen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  IPv6 Essentials\n </i>\n , Second Edition provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new features and functions in IPv6. It guides you through everything you need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers and which applications currently support IPv6. Aimed at system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT managers, this book will help you understand, plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7481'),
(5249, 'An Irish Country Village', 'Patrick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly readable sequel to\n <em>\n  An Irish Country Doctor\n </em>\n follows the trials and exultations of Dr. Barry Laverty as he begins his assistantship to Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly in Balleybucklebo, a fictional Irish Ulster village of the 1960s. Barry loves his diverse workâ€”conjunctivitis to obstetricsâ€”and his provincial patients are keen on folk wisdom and proverbs. He grows fond and admiring of his gruff, imposing senior colleague, who heals bodies and also attacks social maladies, like the greedy local councilor who threatens to turn the Black Swan, a local pub, into a tourist trap. Meanwhile, Barry''s infatuation with plucky engineering student Patricia Spence thickens, though her ambition may land her a scholarship that would lure her to Cambridge. And then there''s the matter of a potential career-ending lawsuit by a recent widow whose husband died after Barry botched a diagnosis. Detailed medical procedures of the era are fascinating to a modern reader, though Taylor sometimes throws in too much play-by-play. The book, with its spot-on dialects (a glossary is included for those who don''t know what, say, soft hand under a duck means) and neatly tied endings, largely succeeds as light entertainment.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHighly readable. . . . Detailed medical procedures of the era are fascinating to a modern reader. . . . The book, with its spot-on dialects and neatly tied endings, largely succeeds as light entertainment.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on _An Irish Country Village\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œFull of stories and vivid characters, the novel recalls a good night in a pub. Its greatest charm lies in homey Ulster idioms. . . . Good, light entertainment.â€â€”\n </em>\n Booklist_ on _An Irish Country Village\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n An Irish Country Doctor_ makes for escapist, delightful fun.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œBallybucklebo is an easy place for readers to sink into, with likable characters and atmospheric dialogue.â€â€”\n </em>\n Kirkus Reviews_ on\n <em>\n  An Irish Country Doctor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6203'),
(5250, 'The Irish Devil', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An erotic adventure that will leave readers breathless and begging for more, "The Irish Devil is a charming and captivating tale from an engaging new writer. Only sixteen when she discovers that her mother is a spy for the South during the Civil War, Viola Ross desperately tries to conceal her family''s dark secret by marrying the one man in town who knows--Edward Ross, a drunkard and unappealing man who soon uproots Viola from her town and takes her out West in search of gold. When Edward is tragically killed, Viola survives the best way she can, and ends up becoming partner with another widow in a laundry and dressmaking business, barely making ends meet. Not realizing thai she has just inherited a large sum from her grandfather and that her brother is out looking for her, Viola offers William Donovan--a self-made Irish man--a deal he can''t resist. She offers to be his personal mistress for three months; in return, Donovan agrees to house and feed her, which allows Viola to turn down the advances of Paul Lennox, a treacherous man who knows about her inheritance and her dire situation. As Viola and William start to trust each other--much to both of their surprise--things heat up as Lennox plots to kidnap Viola as a way to get to her money. But will the growing bond between Viola and her Irish rogue prove strong enough to overcome the dangerous circumstances thai are headed their way, when one man can put a stop to them both?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(5251, 'Irish Rebel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Roberts'' Irish series continues with this brand-new story in "Silhouette Special Edition("! Upon arriving at Royal Meadows Farms from Ireland, rugged horse trainer Brian Donnelly is stunned by the beauty of his boss''s daughter, Keeley Grant. Now it''s up to this innocent beauty to tame this handsome Irish rogue. Satellite media tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2647'),
(5252, 'Irish Rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Erin McKinnon was a bold beauty, and thought she knew what she was letting herself into when she accepted Burke Logan''s loveless proposal and his cool promise of security and wealth.But could this ravishing Irish Rose win her hard-hearted husband''s love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2571'),
(5253, 'Irish Thoroughbred', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a dream come true for Irish Lass Adelia "Dee" Cunnane to work with her uncle, a horse trainer at the Royal Meadows, one of the most renowned stables in the world. But there was a catch, and his name was Travis Grant. He was the stable''s owner and a man as proud, as passionate and as opinionated as...herself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2623'),
(5254, 'The Irish Warrior', 'Kris Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As his men are slaughtered around him, legendary Irish warrior Finian O''Melaghlin is held captive by the despised English Lord Rardove. Struggling to break free, Finian finds aid from an unlikely source: the beautiful Senna de Valery, who is also trying to escape Rardove''s bloodthirsty grasp. Risking both their lives, Senna releases Finian from his shackles so they can both flee, but their plight has just begun...Seeking safe refuge, Finian and Senna have only each other to depend on for survival. Neither can deny their immediate attraction, but indulging their desires will put them both in grave danger. Finian vows to protect the woman who saved his life, but he soon learns she is a pawn in a much larger battle. For Senna has an unbreakable link to a priceless treasure many centuries old. It is the stuff from which dreams are made and for which men will kill - and not even Finian may be strong enough to save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2223'),
(5255, 'Iron Crowned', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eugenie Markham, the new queen of the Thorn Land (as established in Storm Born and Thorn Queen), likes being the daughter of the Storm King and carrying his powers, but the responsibility is a pain. For example, her offspring is prophesied to conquer humanity. She has to visit the otherworld regularly while keeping the bills paid with her part-time shaman gig in the real world. Her ex-boyfriend, Kiyo, is back in her life, while hunky, kinky King Dorian has designs on her body and her womb. Oh, and war is raging between her land and the land of Queen Katrice. The fabled Iron Crown might end the war, but is Eugenie willing to gamble her life on questing for it? Eugenie''s a pretty inept queen, but fans of the series will overlook that amid the kick-butt action and hot sex. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Richelle Mead takes readers back to the Otherworld, an embattled realm mystically entwined with our world--and ruled by one woman''s dangerous choice. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land''s queen, she''s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown''s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation--one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril. . .\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Praise for Richelle Mead''s Storm Born. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "My kind of book--great characters, dark worlds, and just the right touch of humor. A great read." --Patricia Briggs, #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Bestselling Author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6362'),
(5256, 'The Iron Hand of Mars: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7177'),
(5257, 'The Iron Heel', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Jack London, published in 1908, describing the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police and military, terrorize the citizenry. They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4, 1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52 socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for treason. Elements of London''s vision of fascism, civil war, and governmental oppression proved to be prophetic in the first half of the 20th century. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a harrowing tale of class warfare that merges science fiction and fantasy, the powerful state organization known as the "Iron Heel" is determined to crush the working class â€” at any cost. Praised by such luminaries as George Orwell, London''s prophetic political adventure continues to resonate with today''s readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11115'),
(5258, 'The Iron King', 'Julie Kagawa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meghan Chase has a secret destiny--one she could never have imagined...Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan''s life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school...or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she''s known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth--that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she''ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face...and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2707'),
(5259, 'Iron Kingdom', 'Christopher Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9012'),
(5260, 'Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947', 'Christopher M. Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of Prussia is one that has been told many times, but seldom as intelligently, elegantly and interestingly as it is here. Christopher Clark has written a monumental history of a state that started from small beginnings as the Mark of Brandenburg, grew in size, violence and pretensions, and ended up being destroyed forever in 1947, when the victorious Allies decided they had had enough of this troublesome phenomenon...The bulk of a fascinating text, littered with intriguing detail and wry observation, focuses on this transformation in the 200 years from the bloody Thirty Years War in the 17th century (which cost Prussia half its population) to the creation by the Prussian nobleman Otto von Bismarck of a German Empire in 1871...Clark has written a masterly synthesis of [the] many disparate strands in a long and ultimately forlorn history. (Richard Overy\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  20060806)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , is a triumph of scholarship and imagination. This is a big book in every sense--at almost 800 pages, it''s not one to slip in your briefcase for the train--but it zips along in a manner that belies its weight. In part this is because Clark writes so elegantly. This is history in its "grand sweep," but his vivid sketches of characters, places and events lighten the narrative. Yet for all its entertainment value,\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  is at heart an unflinching engagement with one of Europe''s most complex and far-reaching political and cultural entities, spanning four centuries of history and, he suggests at the end, even beyond. (Richard Aldous\n  <em>\n   Irish Times\n  </em>\n  20060818)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clark''s book, a survey of Prussian history from 1600 to 1947, is well-written, even sometimes sprightly, although it is hard to make easy reading of matters such as Pietism or the administrative reforms of the Baron Stein.\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  ''s triumph lies in a narrative structure that is even more impressive than the mass of detail that forms it; and one feels secure in the hands not only of a scholar but of a humane and fair interpreter of history. (Max Egremont\n  <em>\n   The Spectator\n  </em>\n  20060903)\n </p>\n <p>\n  To account for the rise and tumultuous extinction of Prussia is to explain how contemporary Europe came to assume its current form. It is a vast, Zeppelin-sized historical challenge; but it is also one to which Christopher Clark rises triumphantly, piloting his enormous subject through the best part of four centuries, traversing en route most of the continent of Europe, and carrying the reader with him on a bracing and exhilarating ride...For sheer range and intellectual horsepower, this book ranks as the best history of Prussia currently available in any language. However, more than that (and here it beats its German rivals hands-down), it is written with a literary finesse and narrative elan that establish its author as one of the finest writers of history at work in Britain today. It is a virtuoso performance. (John Adamson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  20060927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only by contrary example that this book may remind us how miserable some hastily written products of the recent "history boom" have been. Clark is not one to swagger over the dead, secure in the knowledge that they cannot answer back. Instead, this is a well-informed and fair-minded historical investigation, written by a man who is plainly fascinated by the changing circumstances under which lives are lived and decisions made. One of the pleasures of this book is to watch Clark weighing the undeniable otherness of the past and resisting any tendency to convert it into a costume drama. (Patrick Wright\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n  20060927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  You couldn''t have the triumph and the tragedy of Prussia better told. Christopher Clark has a voracious appetite for detail and a tart turn of phrase. His study of Prussia, from beginning to end, vividly paints one of the big pictures of European history. (Peter Preston\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n  20061209)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be. The research is scholarly but never obtrusive, the prose sprightly but never flippant, the judgements bold but always sound...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language. (Daniel Johnson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n  20061206)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many states have been conquered, partitioned, occupied, "ended" and even destroyed. Prussia is unique in that it was formally abolished by decree of the British, American, French and Soviet victors in February 1947, after it ceased to exist in any meaningful sense...Christopher Clark begins\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , his history of "the rise and downfall of Prussia," with this famous decree, but his remarkable book is not another exorcism, nor an uncritical celebration. He provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of how a middling German dynasty manoeuvred its way into the European pentarchy of powers. (Brendan Simms\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n  20070927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book ranks as the best history of Prussia currently available in any language... It is a virtuoso performance. (John Adamson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  20070801)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , Christopher Clark''s stately, authoritative history of Prussia from its humble beginnings to its ignominious end, presents a much more complicated and compelling picture of the German state, which is too often reduced to a caricature of spiked helmets and polished boots. Prussia and its army were inseparable, but Prussia was also renowned for its efficient, incorruptible civil service; its innovative system of social services; its religious tolerance; and its unrivaled education system, a model for the rest of Germany and the world. This too was Prussia--a tormented kingdom that, like a tragic hero, was brought down by the very qualities that raised it up. Mr. Clark, a senior lecturer in modern European history at Cambridge University, does an exemplary job. A lively writer, he organizes masses of material in orderly fashion, clearly establishing his main themes and pausing at crucial junctures to recapitulate and reconsider. Prussia, a self-invented artifact right down to its name, demands the kind of careful demythologizing that it receives from Mr. Clark, who gently but insistently exposes the flaws in most of the received wisdom about his subject. A result is an illuminating, profoundly satisfying work of history, brightened by vivid character sketches of the principals in his drama. (William Grimes\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  20080312)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book can...be read for sheer pleasure...It is the pleasure of discovery that Christopher Clark offers in this account of the rise and fall of Prussia...Prussia was much more than its wars, but without its wars it would not have been Prussia, and they and their protagonists (Mr. Clark''s Bismarck is priceless), origins, conduct, and consequences occupy a large part of this excellent book, which scholars of Germany and Prussia will want to ponder very carefully, and which many an unencumbered reader will simply enjoy. (Edward N. Luttwak\n  <em>\n   New York Sun\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A massively impressive history of Prussia that surely takes its place as the definitive history of this much-maligned state. Elegant, entertaining, nicely illustrated and full of arresting characters, this is a terrific book. (Dominic Sandbrook\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the military and agricultural innovations of Frederick the Great to nineteenth-century high academic politics to Bismarck''s social-security system, this magisterial and remarkably well-written history of Prussia traces back to the eighteenth century the region''s surprisingly tolerant and intellectually rich culture. Clark, a Cambridge historian, suggests that the world is poorer for Prussia''s absence. (Benjamin Healy\n  <em>\n   The Atlantic\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] enthralling, shrewd, and sparkling narrative...Clark''s immensely learned, judicious, and entertaining book provides a definitive general narrative of its subject for our times...Clark''s achievement is substantial. (R. J. W. Evans\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This beautifully written and brilliantly argued longer study will reward scholars, students, and educated laypeople who invest the time to read it...[A] riveting narrative. (C. Ingrao\n  <em>\n   Choice\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] valuable book...[Clark] shows how complicated the history of Prussia really was, and how exciting were the contrasts in its history between religious tolerance and intolerance, enlightenment and obscurantism, centralized power and regional particularism, the rule of law and ruthless authoritarianism...Prussia and its army were full of contradictions, and Clark analyzes them astutely in his book, which is certainly the best recent history of Prussia...[A] masterpiece in which charming anecdotes and serious intellectual analyses mix comfortably with political and military history and descriptions of cultural and social phenomena...Clark''s book seldom becomes dull, owing to the elegance of its style and the colorfulness of some of its powerful characters. (Istvan Deak\n  <em>\n   New Republic\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chris Clark''s new history of Prussia trumps all existing accounts. It commands four centuries of complicated history with extraordinary assurance. Its clear and confident argumentation, illuminating concreteness of detail, and sheer richness of texture make it the ideal general history. (Geoff Eley, author of\n  <em>\n   A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society\n  </em>\n  20060826)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4907'),
(5261, 'Iron Lace', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Named for the trademark elaborate cast-iron grillwork of many New Orleans homes, Iron Lace is more aptly suited to describe the protagonists'' lives in Richards''s (Bayou Midnight) first title for Mira. Globe-girdling African American journalist Phillip Benedict is leery when he''s asked by Aurore Gerritsen, an elderly white socialite to ghost her autobiography. She doesn''t intend to publish it so Phillip asks the natural question: Why? "When we''ve finished, you''ll have your answer," is Aurore''s answer. As the story slowly unfolds (take a deep breath here), Phillip learns that his great-grandmother, Marcelite Cantrelle, had once been Aurore''s father''s mistress, and that Phillip''s mother, Nicolette, is Aurore''s daughter from a love affair with Raphael Cantrelle, Marcelite''s half-caste son. (Whew!) Unwilling to raise a child of mixed blood in rigid New Orleans society, Aurore had given Raphael custody of Nicolette. Now, after nearly 50 years, Aurore is trying to right a wrong. This portrait of racism from 1919 to the mid-1960s is intricate, seductive and a darned good read.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Richly textured and deeply moving,\n <em>\n  Iron Lace\n </em>\n is a break-your-heart love story in the grand tradition." --\n <em>\n  Karen Harper, bestselling author of Shaker Run\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8363'),
(5262, 'The Iron Man', 'Robert E. Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural talent for prose writing and the encouragement of teachers, conspired to create in Howard an interest in becoming a professional writer. One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. It''s clear from Howard''s earliest writings and the recollections of his friends that he suffered from severe depression from an early age. Friends recall him defending the act of suicide as a valid alternative as early as eighteen years old, while many of his stories and poems have a suicidal gloom and intensity that seem prescient in hindsight, describing such an end not as a tragedy but as a release from hell on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3497'),
(5263, 'The Iron Queen', 'Julie Kagawa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n My name is Meghan Chase.\n</p>\n<p>\n I thought it was over. That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who''s sworn to stand by my side. Drag me into the core of conflict so powerful, I''m not sure anyone can survive it.\n</p>\n<p>\n This time, there will be no turning back.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eleven years ago, on my sixth birthday, my father disappeared.\n</p>\n<p>\n One year ago, on the very same day, my brother was taken from me, as well. But that time, I went into Faery to take him back.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s strange how a journey can change you, what you can learn from it. I learned that the man I thought was my father wasn''t my father at all. That my biological dad wasn''t even human. That I was the half-breed daughter of a legendary faery king, and his blood flowed in my veins. I learned that I had power, a power that scares me, even now. A power that even the fey dread, something that can destroy themâ€”and I''m not sure I can control it.\n</p>\n<p>\n I learned that love can transcend race and time, and that it can be beautiful and perfect and worth fighting for but also fragile and heartbreaking, and sometimes sacrifice is necessary. That sometimes it''s you against the world, and there are no easy answers. That you have to know when to hold onâ€¦and when to let go. And even if that love comes back, you could discover something in someone else who has been there all along.\n</p>\n<p>\n I thought it was over. I thought my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices for those I loved, was behind me. But a storm was approaching, one that would test those choices like never before. And this time, there would be no turning back.\n</p>\n<p>\n My name is Meghan Chase.\n</p>\n<p>\n In less than twenty-four hours, I''ll be seventeen.\n</p>\n<p>\n DÃ©jÃ  vu, right? Shocking how quickly time can pass you by, like you''re standing still. I can''t believe it''s been a year since that day. The day I went into Faery. The day that changed my life forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Technically, I won''t actually be turning seventeen. I''ve been in the Nevernever too long. When you''re in Faery, you don''t age, or you age so slowly it''s not worth mentioning. So, while a year has passed in the real world, I''m probably only a few days older than when I went in.\n</p>\n<p>\n In real life, I''ve changed so much I don''t even recognize myself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beneath me, the tatter-colt''s hooves clopped against the pavement, a quiet rhythm that matched my own heartbeat. On this lonely stretch of Louisiana highway, surrounded by tupelo trees and moss-covered cypress, few cars passed us, and the ones that did flew by without slowing down, tossing leaves in their wake. They couldn''t see the shaggy black horse with eyes like hot coals, walking along the road without reins or bit or saddle. They couldn''t see the figures on its back, the pale-haired girl and the dark, beautiful prince behind her, his arms around her waist. Mortals were blind to the world of Faery, a world I was a part of now, whether I''d asked for it or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What are you afraid of?" a deep voice murmured in my ear, sending a shiver up my spine. Even in the humid swamps of Louisiana, the Winter prince radiated cold, and his breath was wonderfully cool against my skin.\n</p>\n<p>\n I peered at him over my shoulder. "What do you mean?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Ash, prince of the Unseelie Court, met my gaze, silver eyes gleaming in the twilight. Officially, he was no longer a prince. Queen Mab had exiled him from the Nevernever after he refused to renounce his love for the half-human daughter of Oberon, the Summer King. My father. Summer and Winter were supposed to be enemies. We were not supposed to cooperate, we were not supposed to go on quests together and, most important, we were not supposed to fall in love.\n</p>\n<p>\n But we had, and now Ash was here, with me. We were exiles, and the trodsâ€”the paths into Faeryâ€”were closed to us forever, but I didn''t care. I wasn''t planning to ever go back.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re nervous." Ash''s hand stroked the back of my head, brushing the hair from my neck, making me shiver. "I can feel it. You have this anxious, flickering aura all around you, and it''s driving me a little nuts, being this close. What''s wrong?"\n</p>\n<p>\n I should''ve known. There was no hiding what I felt from Ash, or any faery for that matter. Their magic, their glamour, came from human dreams and emotions. So Ash could sense what I was feeling without even trying. "Sorry," I told him. "I guess I am a little nervous."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Why?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Why? I''ve been gone almost a year. Mom will hit the roof when she sees me." My stomach squirmed as I imagined the reunion: the tears, the angry relief, the inevitable questions. "They didn''t hear anything from me while I was in Faery." I sighed, gazing up the road to where the stretch of pavement melted into the darkness. "What am I going to tell them? How will I even begin to explain?"\n</p>\n<p>\n The tatter-colt snorted and pinned its ears at a truck that roared by, passing uncomfortably close. I couldn''t be sure, but it looked like Luke''s battered old Ford, rattling down the road and vanishing around a curve. If it was my stepdad, he definitely wouldn''t have seen us; he''d had a hard time remembering my name even when I''d lived in the same house.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You tell them the truth," Ash said, startling me. I wasn''t expecting him to answer. "From the beginning. Either they accept it, or they don''t, but you can''t hide who you are, especially from your family. Best to get it over withâ€”we can deal with whatever happens after."\n</p>\n<p>\n His candor surprised me. I was still getting used to this new Ash, this faery who talked and smiled instead of hiding behind an icy wall of indifference. Ever since we were banished from the Nevernever, he''d been more open, less brooding and angst-ridden, as if a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders. True, he was still quiet and solemn by anyone''s standards, but for the first time, I felt I was finally getting a glimpse of the Ash I knew was there all along.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But what if they\n <em>\n  can''t\n </em>\n deal with it?" I muttered, voicing the concern that had been plaguing me all morning. "What if they see what I am and freak out? What if they don''tâ€¦ want me anymore?"\n</p>\n<p>\n I trailed off at the end, knowing I sounded like a sullen five-year-old. But Ash''s hold on me tightened, and he pulled me closer against him.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Then you''ll be an orphan, just like me," he said. "And we''ll find a way to get by." His lips brushed against my ear, tying my stomach into about a dozen knots. "Together."\n</p>\n<p>\n My breath hitched, and I turned my head to kiss him, reaching back to run my hand through his silky dark hair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The tatter-colt snorted and bucked midstep, not enough to throw me off, but enough to bounce me a few inches straight up. I snatched wildly for its mane as Ash grabbed my waist, keeping me from falling off. Heart pounding, I shot a glare between the tatter-colt''s ears, resisting the urge to kick it in the ribs and give it another excuse to buck me off. It raised its head and glared back at us, eyes glowing crimson, disgust written plainly on its equine face.\n</p>\n<p>\n I wrinkled my nose at it. "Oh, excuse me, are we making you uncomfortable?" I asked sarcastically, and it snorted. "Fine. We''ll behave."\n</p>\n<p>\n Ash chuckled but didn''t attempt to pull me back. I sighed and gazed at the road over the colt''s bobbing head, looking for familiar landmarks. My heart leaped when I saw a rusty van sitting in the trees off the side of the road, so ancient and corroded a tree had grown through the roof. It had been there for as long as I could remember, and I saw it every day on the bus to and from school. It always told me when I was nearly home.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seemed so long ago, nowâ€”a lifetime agoâ€”that I''d sat on the bus with my friend Robbie, when all I had to worry about was grades and homework and getting my driver''s permit. So much had changed; it would feel strange returning to school and my old, mundane life like nothing had happened. "I''ll probably have to repeat a year," I sighed, and felt Ash''s puzzled gaze on my neck. Of course, being an immortal faery, he didn''t have to worry about school and licenses andâ€”\n</p>\n<p>\n I stopped as reality seemed to descend on me all at once. My time in the Nevernever was like a dream, hazy and ethereal, but we were back in the real world now. Where I had to worry about homework and grades and getting into college. I''d wanted to get a summer job and save up for a car. I''d wanted to attend ITT Tech after high school, maybe move to the Baton Rouge or New Orleans campuses when I graduated. Could I still do that? Even after everything that happened? And where would a dark, exiled faery prince fit into all of this?\n</p>\n<p>\n "What is it?" Ash''s breath tickled the back of my ear, making me shiver.\n</p>\n<p>\n I took a deep breath. "How is this going to work, Ash?" I half turned to face him. "Where will we be a year from now, two years from now? I can''t stay here foreverâ€”sooner or later, I''m going to have to get on with my life. School, work, college somedayâ€¦" I broke off and looked down at my hands. "I have to move on eventually, but I don''t want to do any of those things without you."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve been thinking about that," Ash replied. I glanced up at him, and he surprised me with a brief smile. "You have your whole life ahead of you. It makes sense that you should plan for the future. And I figure, Goodfellow pretended to be mortal for sixteen years. There''s no reason I can''t do the same."\n</p>\n<p>\n I blinked at him. "Really?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He touched my cheek softly, his eyes intense as they gazed into mine. "You might have to teach me a little about the human world, but I''m willing to learn if it means being close to you." He smiled again, a wry quirk of his lips. "I''m sure I can adapt to ''being human,'' if I must. If you want me to attend classes as a student, I can do that. If you want to move to a large city to pursue your dreams, I will follow. And if, someday, you wish to be married in a white gown and make this official in human eyes, I''m willing to do that, too." He leaned in, close enough for me to see my reflection in his silver gaze. "For better or worse, I''m afraid you''re stuck with me now."\n</p>\n<p>\n I felt breathless, not knowing what to say. I wanted to thank him, but those words didn''t mean the same in faery terms. I wanted to lean in the rest of the way and kiss him, but the tatte...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6317'),
(5264, 'The Iron Thorn', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steampunk fans will delight in this first title in the sure-to-be-popular Iron Codex series, featuring an alternate, Victorian-flavored America tightly controlled by Proctors and driven by the Engine, an underground power source. The only girl at the prestigious School of Engines of Lovecraft Academy, Aoife Grayson is terrified that she will follow her mother and brother into the hereditary madness that strikes on the sixteenth birthday, now just a few weeks away. Determined to escape that fate, she sets off to her never-met fatherâ€™s estate, with her friend Cal and a cocksure but very appealing hired guide. Here, she tumbles into a magical world she recognizes from her fatherâ€™s journals and her motherâ€™s mad ravings. Kittredgeâ€™s richly descriptive narrative captures all the details of clockwork, inventive machinery, foggy mists, ghastly ghouls, and creative landscapes. Thereâ€™s plenty of tame but satisfying romance, too, and plot twists galore. Aoife is a caustic-tongued, feisty, and independent young woman, with plenty of nerve and courage. The abrupt ending signals a sequel, which canâ€™t come too soon. Grades 7-12. --Debbie Carton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft''s epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Hereticalâ€”born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  Aoife Grayson''s family is unique, in the worst wayâ€”every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8391'),
(5265, 'Iron Tiger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11032'),
(5266, 'Irons in the Fire', 'Juliet E. McKenna', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The start of a brand new epic fantasy series from well known author Juliet Mckenna. Full of rich characters and high adventure, this new trilogy marks the next stage in the career of this popular writer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Juliet McKenna has been interested in fantasy stories since childhood, from Winnie the Pooh to The Iliad. An abiding fascination with other worlds and their peoples played its part in her subsequently reading Classics at St. Hildaâ€™s College, Oxford. After combining bookselling and motherhood for a couple of years, she now fits in her writing around her family and vice versa. She lives with her husband and children in West Oxfordshire, England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6001'),
(5267, 'Irresistible Forces', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danielle Steel''s forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds----.Irresistible ForcesFor fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers.Â Â Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street''s top firms.Â Â Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere.Â Â The only thing missing in their lives is children.Â Â Steve longs for them.Â Â But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn''t ready and doesn''t have time.Â Â Not yet.Â Â Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for the brass ring - in San Francisco, three thousand miles away.Â Â Meredith is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at an exciting young high-tech company.Â Â Traditionally, men''s careers forces families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to abandon friends, home, and lives to follow.Â Â But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying he''ll join her as he can find a new job himself, they can begin their family at last.Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bi-coastal marriage, as Steve''s job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned.Â Â Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules.Â Â Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow.Â Â Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own.Â Â Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives in increasingly separate worlds.Â Â And despite the best of intentions, irresistible forces begin to tear their lives and hearts apart.With unerring insight, Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed, and drift apart.Â Â Only time can tell who and what they will become as life sweeps them onward and deposits them on new, sometimes frightening, and often exciting shores.Â Â Who survives, is at the core of Irresistible Forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6031'),
(5268, 'The Irresistible Henry House', 'Lisa Grunwald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. In this captivating novel, bestselling author Lisa Grunwald gives us the sweeping tale of an irresistible hero and the many women who love him.From his earliest days as a â€œpractice babyâ€ through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disneyâ€™s Burbank studios, and the delirious world of the Beatlesâ€™ London, Henry remains handsome, charming, universally adoredâ€”and never entirely accessible to the many women he conquers but can never entirely trust.Filled with unforgettable characters, settings, and action, The Irresistible Henry House portrays the cultural tumult of the mid-twentieth century even as it explores the inner tumult of a young man trying to transcend a damaged childhood. For it is not until Henry House comes face-to-face with the real truths of his past that he finds a chance for real love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3163'),
(5269, 'A is for Alibi', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL!** *Take it from the top in #*1 New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey MillhoneÂ—and a hot new attitudeÂ—to crime fictionÂ…* ** **A IS FOR AVENGER** A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, sheâ€™s got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. **A IS FOR ACCUSED** Thatâ€™s why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now sheâ€™s out on parole and needs Kinseyâ€™s help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikkiâ€™s bad name wonâ€™t be easy. ***A IS FOR ALIBI*** If thereâ€™s one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, itâ€™s playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closerÂ—and sharperÂ—than she imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4141');
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(5270, 'Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There?', 'Whoopi Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you noticed that things aren''t as civil as they once were? Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it''s OK to rub a pregnant lady''s belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, family outings to the ball park are ruined by rowdy drunks . . . a congressman heckled the President of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, Whoopi Goldberg has noticed all this and more and asked herself, "Is it just me?" Unleashing her trademark irreverence and humor, her new book of observations takes a funny and excruciatingly honest look at how a loss of civility is messing with the quality of life for all of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n So if your pet peeve is folks who talk in movie theaters like it was their living room, or if you get bugged by people clipping their nails and performing other personal hygiene next to you on the bus, or if you cringe when "please" and "thank you" get replaced by "gimme" and "huh?" . . . you have found a kindred spirit. Because Whoopi has witnessed the growing disrespect and rudeness in our lives and realized she is not alone. And, as you''ll discover in these pages, neither are you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Whoopi Goldberg\n </strong>\n is the premier comedic actress of our day. She has won a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy, as well as two Golden Globes. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in scores of films, and is a host on ABC''s\n <em>\n  The View\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8358'),
(5271, 'Is This Bottle Corked?: The Secret Life of Wine', 'Kathleen Burk &amp; Michael Bywater', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "As appealing to wine-lovers as it is to the simply curiousâ€“and to those who like to start their sentences, â€˜Ah yes, but did you know . . . ?â€™â€“_Is This Bottle Corked?_ answers the really important questions about wine. . . . Best read with a glass of good Pomerol, or perhaps a soft consoling Constantia, this book is as much for those who just enjoy a good glass as it is for committed oenophiles."\n  <br />\n  â€”_Harpers Wine and Spirit Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A compilation of amusing and curious stories about wine."\n  <br />\n  â€”_Times_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As fascinating and quirky as the wine it celebrates."\n  <br />\n  â€”_Oxford Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Plenty here that will deepen and enrich even a developed understanding of wine."\n  <br />\n  â€”Giles Kime,\n  <em>\n   Times Literary Supplement\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is actually fun and tells you things you didnâ€™t know about everything wine-connected. . . . Read it and then instead of being a wine dullard you can be the drinker with the facts."\n  <br />\n  â€”_Diplomat_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weâ€™ve all come across those suave, confident, and all-so-knowing books that tell us precisely what to drink with which dish, how to swirl, sniff, slosh, and pronounce on our wine, and, above all, how to impress our friends and business associates with our expertise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, this is not one of those books.\n  <em>\n   Is This Bottle Corked?\n  </em>\n  is something different: a book that posesâ€“and answersâ€“the really\n  <em>\n   important\n  </em>\n  questions about wine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢What was Falstaff drinking when he called for more sack?\n  <br />\n  â€¢What was actually drunk at Platoâ€™s Symposium?\n  <br />\n  â€¢When is rot "noble"?\n  <br />\n  â€¢Who was the first American connoisseur of wineâ€“it wasnâ€™t George Washington, but speaking of the general, what was his favorite wine?\n  <br />\n  â€¢Why on earth do wine connoisseurs talk like that?\n  <br />\n  â€¢Was Pliny the Elder the first Robert Parker?\n  <br />\n  â€¢Why do we drink to forgetâ€“and why doesnâ€™t it work?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These and many other intriguing, amusing, and curious questions are answered within, guaranteeing the reader a "Yes, but did you know . . .?" for every occasion at which a cork is drawn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Best read with a glass of aged German riesling, or perhaps a soft, consoling Constantia (recommended by Jane Austen for heartbreak and, to boot, gout) or maybe even a glass of St. Anneâ€™s Rhubarb and Ginger Wine, this book is as much for bon vivants and those of us who just enjoy a good bottle or two as for the committed oenophile.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Simply open, pour, and relax.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5825'),
(5272, 'Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly before the author''s death. In these forty stories, Asimov''s vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest. Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov''s vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that are more relevant today than ever before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9553'),
(5273, 'Isaac Bell 1 - The Chase', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10336'),
(5274, 'Isard&#39;s Revenge', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sleek, swift and deadly, the famed X-Wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force the hard way--first in battle, the last line of defense.Â Â Now they must make a deal with the devil herself--an enemy whose ultimate goal is their total annihilation.It''s the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to undertake.Â Â Against impossible odds they will stage a daring raid into an enemy stronghold--only to be rescued from certain destruction by an unexpected ally.Ysanne Isard, the ruthless Imperial commander, has appeared on the scene seemingly from out of nowhere.Â Â Now she proposes a most unusual alliance, offering to help Wedge rescue his captured comrades from Imperial Warlord Admiral Krennel''s sadistic prison camp.But her offer is not without a price.Â Â Wedge must lead Rogue Squadron in Isard''s deadly struggle against an enemy made in her own image.Â Â It''s an offer Wedge would love to refuse, for Isard is certain to betray them.Â Â But how can they leave their comrades at Krennel''s mercy?Â Â The answer is: they can''t--even if it means being caught between Krennel''s ruthlessness and Isard''s treachery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3127'),
(5275, 'Ishmael', 'Daniel Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Quinn ( Dreamer ) won the Turner Tomorrow Award''s half-million-dollar first prize for this fascinating and odd book--not a novel by any conventional definition--which was written 13 years ago but could not find a publisher. The unnamed narrator is a disillusioned modern writer who answers a personal ad ("Teacher seeks pupil. . . . Apply in person.") and thereby meets a wise, learned gorilla named Ishmael that can communicate telepathically. The bulk of the book consists entirely of philosophical dialogues between gorilla and man, on the model of Plato''s Republic. Through Ishmael, Quinn offers a wide-ranging if highly general examination of the history of our civilization, illuminating the assumptions and philosophies at the heart of many global problems. Despite some gross oversimplifications, Quinn''s ideas are fairly convincing; it''s hard not to agree that unrestrained population growth and an obsession with conquest and control of the environment are among the key issues of our times. Quinn also traces these problems back to the agricultural revolution and offers a provocative rereading of the biblical stories of Genesis. Though hardly any plot to speak of lies behind this long dialogue, Quinn''s smooth style and his intriguing proposals should hold the attention of readers interested in the daunting dilemmas that beset our planet. 50,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a literary competition intended to foster works of fiction that present positive solutions to global problems, this book offers proof that good ideas do not necessarily equal good literature. Ishmael, a gorilla rescued from a traveling show who has learned to reason and communicate, uses these skills to educate himself in human history and culture. Through a series of philosophical conversations with the unnamed narrator, a disillusioned Sixties idealist, Ishmael lays out a theory of what has gone wrong with human civilization and how to correct it, a theory based on the tenet that humanity belongs to the planet rather than vice versa. While the message is an important one, Quinn rarely goes beyond a didactic exposition of his argument, never quite succeeding in transforming idea into art. Despite this, heavy publicity should create demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/91.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7510'),
(5276, 'The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America', 'Russell Shorto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen "original" American colonies. For the past thirty years scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which was recently declared a national treasure. Now, Russell Shorto has made use of this vital material to construct a sweeping narrative of Manhattan''s founding that gives a startling, fresh perspective on how America began. In an account that blends a novelist''s grasp of storytelling with cutting-edge scholarship, The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness island, a hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bears, that became a prize in the global power struggle between the English and the Dutch. Indeed, Russell Shorto shows that America''s founding was not the work of English settlers alone but a result of the clashing of these two seventeenth century powers. In fact, it was Amsterdam, Europe''s most liberal city, with an unusual policy of tolerance and a polyglot society dedicated to free trade, that became the model for the city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan. While the Puritans of New England were founding a society based on intolerance, on Manhattan the Dutch created a free-trade, upwardly-mobile melting pot that would help shape not only New York, but America. The story moves from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas. The characters in the saga-the men and women who played a part in Manhattan''s founding, range from the philosopher Rene Descartes to James, the Duke of York, to prostitutes and smugglers. At the heart of the story is a bitter power struggle between two men: Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony, and a forgotten American hero named Adriaen van der Donck, a maverick, liberal-minded lawyer whose brilliant political gamesmanship, commitment to individual freedom, and exuberant love of his new country would have a lasting impact on the history of this nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7131'),
(5277, 'Island Beneath the Sea', 'Isabel Allende', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlours of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende''s latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÃ© - known as TÃ©tÃ© - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, TÃ©tÃ© finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it''s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father''s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy.Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of TÃ©tÃ© and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island that will become Haiti for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, TÃ©tÃ© finally forges a new life - but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed.Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of one woman''s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7329'),
(5278, 'Island in the Sea of Time', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island''s inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late 20th century, but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age. Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time. Ads in "Locus". .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3681'),
(5279, 'Island Madness', 'Tim Binding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only British territory to have been occupied by German troops, such a reversal is unimaginable. Here, in idyllic surroundings, the reality of war seems a lifetime away. While resentment runs high, life goes on, parties are held, love affairs blossom and the Guernsey Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Players can still stage productions of Private Lives, Babes in the Wood and Peter Pan--albeit with suspiciously jackbooted pirates. But when a young local woman is found murdered, both the islanders and the occupiers are forced to acknowledge that this most civilized of wars conceals a struggle that is darker and more bitter than anyone cares to recognize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4089'),
(5280, 'The Island of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Enid Blytonâ€™s classic adventure series isÂ fantastically repackaged for a new generation of readers. For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack, the holiday in Cornwall is everything they''d hoped forâ€”until they begin to realize that something very sinister is taking place on the mysterious Isle of Gloom. But they''re not prepared for the dangerous adventure that awaits them in the abandoned copper mines and secret tunnels beneath the sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/702'),
(5281, 'The Island of Doctor Moreau (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader deciphera words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9452'),
(5282, 'The Island of the Day Before', 'Umberto Eco; William Weaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chapters from his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years'' War in which he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons given him on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, and blasphemy.In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4328'),
(5283, 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradiseâ€”a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy''s body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss''s pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean''s goons. Now there''s only one employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy blond high priestess on the remotest of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(5284, 'Islands in the Stream', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway''s death,\n <em>\n  Islands in the Stream\n </em>\n is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories\n <em>\n  (In Our Time)\n </em>\n to his last novella\n <em>\n  (The Old Man and the Sea)\n </em>\n -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n and a rare glimpse of Hemingway''s rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning in the 1930s,\n <em>\n  Islands in the Stream\n </em>\n follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters -- including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway''s most vivid creations -- engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man,\n <em>\n  Islands in the Stream\n </em>\n is Hemingway at his mature best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8980'),
(5285, 'Isle of dogs', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patricia Cornwell''s novels of big-city police have taken this classic genre to a new level. "Move over, Carl Hiaasen, you''ve got company," the *San Francisco Examiner* warned. "Patricia Cornwell has switched to Hiaasen''s world of black humor and nearly conquers it." *USA Today* concurred: "Cornwell has coined a new penny." With *Isle of Dogs*, Cornwell outdoes herself with a wry tale of life and turmoil behind the blue wall. Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, warning that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric Isle of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and Hammer''s right hand and confidant, find themselves at their wits'' end as they try to protect the public from the politicians-and vice versa-in this pitch-perfect, darkly comic romp. With a Swiftian eye for the absurd and dead-accurate aim on her targets, Cornwell delivers another knowing story of the lives of the men and women in blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4114'),
(5286, 'Isle of View', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LovelornLoveworn Love LostPerplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth''s precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn''t. Nonetheless, he must chose between two fiancÃ©es -- Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting -- or all three of them will suffer the most dire consequences. Luckily a convenient catastrophe has popped up to distract Dolph form his dilemma -- the foal-napping of young Che Centaur by goblins. And the only one who knows where Che is is a nice but remarkably naive elflike gir named Jenny from the World of Two Moons. If anyone can save the missing centaur...she sure can''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3327'),
(5287, 'Istanbul Noir', 'Mustafa Ziyalan &amp; Amy Spangler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Istanbul straddles the divide of Europe and Asia, and its polyglot population of 12 million seethes with political, religious and sexual tensions, as shown in the 16 stories in this strong entry in Akashic''s noir anthology series. Most of the stories are fittingly dark, though a couple are lit by a macabre humor: Hikmet Hukumenoglu''s The Smell of Fish, about a woman''s efforts to discourage suitors, and Algan Sezginturedi''s Around Here, Somewhere, about a drug runner''s attempted escape. Sadik Yemni''s Burn and Go delivers a memorable account of a childhood accident''s fearsome consequences. A lonely older woman and a polite young man share a ride in Feryal TilmaÃ§''s fateful Hitching in the Lodos. Most contributors are either natives of Istanbul or longtime residents, and their stories reflect religious extremism (Jessica Lutz''s All Quiet) and governmental repression (editor Ziyalan''s Black Palace) as well as the disaffection common to the genre. This is a welcome complement to the mostly historical mysteries set in Istanbul.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the crossroads between East and West, Constantinople (now Istanbul) has been a seething melting pot of cultures for centuries. The stories collected here are set up and down both banks of the Bosporus. The authors do an excellent job introducing readers to a city unknown to many American readers, exploring the many issues of religion and culture that face modern Istanbul. Landscape is essential to these stories, all of which convince the reader that they couldnâ€™t possibly have been set anywhere other than Istanbul. Recommend the collection to fans of Mehmet Murat Somerâ€™s Prophet Murders (2008), also set in contemporary Istanbul. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6782'),
(5288, 'It', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the children who saw - and felt - what made the town so horribly different. in the storm drains and sewers It lurked, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one''s deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of It is buried deep - until they are called back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4266'),
(5289, 'It Feels So Good When I Stop', 'Joe Pernice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Its more than just the debut novel from the acclaimed singer and songwriter-it''s "the best messed up love song you''ll ever read." (Dan Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino, creators of *The Gilmore Girls*) ** Our hero is a talented but floundering musician with no job, no apartment, no wife (anymore), and a six-pack of beer. Stuck between responsibility and freedom, and apathy and success, he''s seeking sanctuary at his sister''s home in Cape Cod, agreeing to look after his two-year old nephew. Together the unlikely pair attracts the attention of a lovely young woman with a broken past all her own and the ability to shock our hero awake-or shake him to his core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1761'),
(5290, 'It Had to Be You', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A dazzling voice in contemporary woman''s fiction" --\n  <em>\n   Linda Barlow, author of Leaves of Fortune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Watch Susan Elizabeth Phillips go places!" --\n  <em>\n   LaVyrle Spencer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Windy City isn''t quite ready for Phoebe Somervilleâ€”the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is\n  <em>\n   definitely\n  </em>\n  not ready for the Stars'' head coach, former gridiron legend Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despisesâ€”a meddling bimbo who doesn''t know a pigskin from a pitcher''s mound.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So why is Dan drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach''s good ol'' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied...and ready to fight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sexy, heartwarming, and hilarious "prequel" to\n  <em>\n   This Heart of Mine\n  </em>\n  â€”Susan Elizabeth Phillips''s\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling blockbusterâ€”_It Had To Be You_ is an enchanting story of two stubborn people who believe in playing for keeps.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4637'),
(5291, 'It Is Just You - Everythings Not Shit', 'Stack Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is it just me or is everything shit? was the question posed by Steve Lowe and Alan MacArthur in their two bestselling books. However, no one seemed to have the courtesy to answer them. Until now. It Is Just You, Everythings Not Shit is a life-affirming (although slightly piss-taking) guide to all the things that make life great. It is warm, funny, and its heart is in the right place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7005'),
(5292, 'It Must Be Love', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If it''s fun, sexy and criminally romantic acirc;euro;" it must be Rachel Gibson. Ever wanted to take the law into your own hands? Gabrielle Breedlove was under the impression that jogging was good for you. Had she known that going for an innocent morning run would result in her being booked for aggravated assault and leave her under suspicion for art robbery, she would have stayed in bed. Gabrielle is the sexiest suspect that undercover cop Joe Shanahan has ever had the pleasure of tailing. But Gabrielle doesn''t quite see it the same way. And when his next assignment turns out to be posing as her boyfriend in order to catch the real art thief, things start to get complicated. She thinks he''s stalking her. He thinks she''s a crook. Their families are picking out china patterns. Surely, it must be love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4073'),
(5293, 'It Must&#39;ve Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything', 'Jeffrey Steingarten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vogue magazine food writer Steingarten picks up where The Man Who Ate Everything left off, offering foodies a mouthwatering collection of nearly 40 obsessive essays. "Sometimes, I feel like a giant bluefin, my powerful musculature propelling me around the world in search of food," he explains in an essay about toro, the tender tuna belly used in Japanese cuisine. Equal parts travelogue and investigative reporting, Steingarten''s writing is funny, fast-paced and clever. Whether re-creating a perfect plate of coq au vin using rooster procured from a live poultry market, braising ribs for his dog or taste-testing espresso in his Manhattan loft cum laboratory ("Right now there are 14 brand new, state-of-the-art, home espresso makers in my house...."), Steingarten proves himself a true gastronome. Of course, his interest in food goes beyond haute cuisine-freeze-dried foods, hot dog buns, even his beloved Milky Way bars do not escape scrutiny. A few essays aren''t even about food. One follows the author''s south-of-the-border search for phen-fen; another contemplates New York City''s "reservation rat race." Recipes-and only Steingarten could add humor to the form-appear throughout. Devoted readers will savor this collection (many of the essays have won awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals); those unfamiliar with the author will be clamoring for more.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast becoming a star among contemporary food writers, Steingarten returns with another compilation of his columns from\n <em>\n  Vogue.\n </em>\n Steingarten''s breakneck tour through the world of unlimited consumption takes him aboard a tuna boat to find the source of his favorite sushi selection, raw fatty bluefin. The reader benefits from Steingarten''s thorough research into the murky history and spreading popularity of sushi. In another personal encounter, Steingarten takes issue with a government ban on a popular diet drug that had helped him maintain his gluttonous intake volume and still lose weight. He debunks current outrageous claims for the superiority of tony, expensive sea salts over the everyday blue-box variety. Steingarten watches a pig butchered in France and explores the origins of the outrageously complex Cajun dish, turducken. Ever on the lookout to skewer others'' pretentious food allergy claims, he calls into doubt claims of MSG sensitivities. Despite his silly New York disdain for the Midwestern heartland, Steingarten casts useful illumination on many hitherto dim areas of our fascination with food.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8099'),
(5294, 'It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer&#39;s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences', 'June Casagrande', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œan editor and grammar columnistâ€™s funny but no-nonsense guide to better writing.â€ â€”St. Petersburg Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat writing starts with strong sentences. This is your guidebook to mastering the art.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”DONALD MAASS, literary agent and author of _The Fire in Fiction\n  <br />\n  _Â \n  <br />\n  â€œJune mixes sassy fun with practical advice. Youâ€™ll laugh all the way to writing better.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”MIGNON FOGARTY, author of\n  <em>\n   Grammar Girlâ€™s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences_ is that incredibly rare breed of book: a guide to grammar and style that is simultaneously smart, engaging, and instructive. By tackling prose composition on a sentence-by-sentence level, June Casagrande has found a way to provide intensely practical advice for the novice writerâ€”not to mention unexpected insights for the expert writer. It would make a welcome addition to any language loverâ€™s library.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”ELIZABETH LITTLE, author of\n  <em>\n   Biting the Wax Tadpole\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Great writing isnâ€™t born, itâ€™s builtâ€”sentence by sentence. But too many writersâ€”and writing guidesâ€”overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences greatâ€”and other sentences suck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters on â€œConjunctions That Killâ€ and â€œWords Gone Wild,â€ this lighthearted guide is perfect for anyone whoâ€™s dead serious about writing, from aspiring novelists to nonfiction writers, conscientious students to cheeky literati. So roll up your sleeves and prepare to craft one bold, effective sentence after another. Your readers will thank you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7752'),
(5295, 'It&#39;s Nobody&#39;s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents', 'Harold Koplewicz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: People who wouldn''t dream of blaming parents for a child''s asthma or diabetes are often quick to blame bad parenting for a child''s hyperactivity, depression, or school phobia. The parents, in turn, often blame their children, believing that they''re lazy or rebellious. Even worse, the children with these psychological problems often blame themselves, convinced that they''re just bad kids. In It''s Nobody''s Fault, esteemed child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Harold S. Kopelwicz at last puts an end to this pointless--and erroneous--cycle of blame and helps parents get the help they need for their troubled children. Written in an easy, anecdotal style and filled with fascinating stories of real children and their parents, It''s Nobody''s Fault is an indispensable guide for anyone who lives or works with children who need help. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1739'),
(5296, 'It&#39;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life', 'Lance Armstrong; Sally Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity. Armstrong is a thoroughgoing Texan jock, and the changes brought to his life by his illness are startling and powerful, but he''s just not interested in wearing a hero suit. While his vocabulary is a bit on the he-man side (highest compliment to his wife: "she''s a stud"), his actions will melt the most hard-bitten souls: a cancer foundation and benefit bike ride, his astonishing commitment to training that got him past countless hurdles, loyalty to the people and corporations that never gave up on him. There''s serious medical detail here, which may not be for the faint of heart; from chemo to surgical procedures to his wife''s in vitro fertilization, you won''t be spared a single x-ray, IV drip, or unfortunate side effect. Athletes and coaches everywhere will benefit from the same extraordinary detail provided about his training sessions--every aching tendon, every rainy afternoon, and every small triumph during his long recovery is here in living color.\n <em>\n  It''s Not About the Bike\n </em>\n is the perfect title for this book about life, death, illness, family, setbacks, and triumphs, but not especially about the bike.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he''s a grateful husband, a new fatherAand a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. Cancer "was like being run off the road by a truck, and I''ve got the scars to prove it," Armstrong declares. Earlier scars, he explains, came from a stepfather he casts as unworthy; early rewards, from his hardworking mother and from the triathlons and national bike races Armstrong won as a Texas teen. "The real racing action was over in Europe": after covering that, Armstrong and Jenkins (Men Will Be Boys, with Pat Summit, etc.) ascend to the scarier challenges of diagnoses and surgeries. As he gets worse, then better, Armstrong describes the affections of his racing friends and of the professionals who cared for him. Armstrong is honest and delightful on his relationship to wife Kristin (Kik), and goes into surprising detail about the technology that let them have a child. The memoir concludes with Armstrong''s French victory and the birth of their son. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs. Bicycle-racing fans will enjoy the troves of inside information and the accounts of competitions, but Armstrong has set his sights on a wider meaning and readership: "When I was sick I saw more beauty and triumph and truth in a single day than I ever did in a bike race." Agent, Esther Newberg. First serial to Vanity Fair; BOMC main selection; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Holland and Japan. (May 22)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9350'),
(5297, 'It&#39;s Not Easy Being Mean', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After getting expelled for VERY bad behaviour on a class field trip, the Pretty Committee is back. But returning to school is a piece of fat-free cake compared to Massie''s next goal ? finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room on campus. Alpha eighth-grader Skye Hamilton and her clique have hidden it under the mattress of a mysterious Briarwood boy ? but which one?Meanwhile Claire''s finding that being famous isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Her constant meetings with movie execs are eating into her time with the P.C. and with Cam! Is being a Hollywood starlet worth the Gucci-high price tag?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2210'),
(5298, 'The Italian&#39;s Rightful Bride', 'Lucy Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joanna had been head over heels in love with her convenient fiance, Gustavo Ferrara, when he fell in love with - and married - someone else! Twelve years on, Gustavo, now single, is thrown into turmoil at seeing Joanna again. He''s older, wiser, and he realizes Joanna is the person he should have married - but he has no idea how much he hurt her. Can he persuade her to give him another chance?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2307'),
(5299, 'Ivanhoe - A Romance', 'Walter Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4212'),
(5300, 'IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon : How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It', 'Steve Wozniak &amp; Gina Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every engineerâ€”and certainly every engineering studentâ€”should read this bookâ€¦.It is, in a nutshell, the engineer''s manifesto. -- _Guy Kawasaki, author of\n <em>\n  _The Macintosh Way\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone should enjoy Woz''s very personal and engaging storyâ€¦.What a wild ride! -- _Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of\n <em>\n  _Singularity Is Near\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Worth waiting forâ€¦adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution. -- _Alan Deutschman, author of\n <em>\n  _The Second Coming of Steve Jobs\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wozniak''s lifeâ€”before and after Appleâ€”is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant,\n <em>\n  iWoz\n </em>\n presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. 16 pages of illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6570'),
(5301, 'J Is for Judgement', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''On the face of it, you wouldn''t think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changes my perceptions about my life...'' For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously. Fives hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trial of a suicide who''d allegedly just come back to life. After a five year wait, Wendell Jaffe''s widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks like a ''pseudocide'' - and Kinsey''s ready to risk everything to get to the truth. ''Friendlishly clever...better than anything else that''s currently on offer'' - "Literary Review".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8208');
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(5302, 'J. D. Salinger: A Life', 'Kenneth Slawenski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Salinger: A Life\n  </em>\n  avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at Salinger''s most famous works, but also finds a wealth of psychological insights in places like rejection letters and biographical statements. Not surprisingly, Salinger''s life, and especially his service in World War II, provided much of the raw material for his stories. But Slawenski does much more than compare Salinger''s biography to his literary output: he also shows how compromises, conflicts, and editorial intrigues shaped Salinger''s works, even when he was at the peak of his career. The book has much less to say about Salinger''s post-1960 retirement and self-seclusion, apart from the author''s occasional foray into the public eye by way of a rare interview or court case. But Slawenski does this for good reason:\n  <em>\n   Salinger: A Life\n  </em>\n  seeks only to explain Salinger as most of us knew him, through his writing. As a result, both die-hard fans and those who last picked up\n  <em>\n   --Darryl Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside\n   <em>\n    J.D. Salinger: A Life\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© PS 166\n  <br />\n  Until he was thirteen, Sonny attended public school on the Upper West Side. This is a class photo of Salinger and his schoolmates on the steps of P.S. 166, circa 1929.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Valley Forge Military Academy\n  <br />\n  Cadet Corporal Salinger in 1936. Salingerâ€™s yearbook photo from Valley Forge Military Academy. Salinger used his own boarding school as the inspiration for Holden Caulfieldâ€™s Pency Prep when writing\n  <em>\n   The Catcher in the Rye\n  </em>\n  . Unlike Holden, Salinger excelled at Valley Forge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Dorothy Nollman/Peter Imbres\n  <br />\n  Jerry in 1939. A photo taken by his friend Dorothy Nollman while on break from Columbia University. Within a year, Salingerâ€™s first short story would be published and his career launched.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Between boot camp and combat. Air Corps photo taken in 1943 while Salinger was assigned to the Public Relations Department of the Air Service Command. A year later he would be fighting in Europe.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. After nearly a decadeâ„¢s research and Slawenskiâ„¢s obvious empathy with his reclusive subjectâ„¢s search for emotional and philosophical equilibrium, this exemplary biography will be released on the first anniversary of J.D. Salingerâ„¢s death. Itâ„¢s a highly informative effort to assess the arc of Salingerâ„¢s career, the themes of his fiction, and his influence on 20th-century American literature. Born in 1919, indulged by his mother while growing up on Park Avenue, Salinger was a bored and indifferent student. He eventually found a mentor in legendary Columbia professor Whit Burnett, who encouraged him to work on the pieces that became The Catcher in the Rye even while Salinger was serving in WWII Europe. Slawenski emphasizes that Salingerâ„¢s wartime experience, from D-Day to the liberation of Dachau, Å“was the traumatic turning point in his life,Â influencing the sense of futility that permeates his early work. Salingerâ„¢s salvation, Slawenski demonstrates, came through his acceptance of Vedatic Buddhism, and he argues persuasively that Salinger came to consider writing an aspect of meditation, a task that demanded solitude and perfect control over the presentation of his fiction. The celebrity surrounding the publication of Catcher in the Rye in 1951 activated the split between his striving for asceticism and the demands of the outside world. Slawenski describes Salingerâ„¢s three marriages, records his contentious relationships with his publishers, his special relationship with the New Yorker, and Slawenskiâ„¢s assiduous research allows him to identify and assess many obscure and unpublished stories. In total, an invaluable work that sheds fascinating light on the willfully elusive author. B&amp;w photos. (Jan. 25)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5036'),
(5303, '&quot;J&quot; Is for Judgment', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€˜Jâ€™ is for â€œjust gets betterâ€ (Houston Chronicle) in this winning novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton J IS FOR JAW-DROPPINGâ€¦Wendell Jaffe looks great for a dead man! Heâ€™s been six feet under for five years agoâ€”until his former insurance agent spots him at a dusty resort bar in Mexico. Now California Fidelity wants its insurance money back. Can P.I. Kinsey Millhone get on the case?J IS FOR JEOPARDYâ€¦Just two months earlier, Jaffeâ€™s widow pocketed $500,000 in insurance benefits after Jaffe went overboard. Was his â€œpseudocideâ€ a last-ditch effort to do right by his beloved wife? Perhaps. But how would that explain the new woman in Jaffeâ€™s second life?J IS FOR JUDGMENTKinsey is in for the long haul as she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Jaffeâ€™s life and deathâ€¦and discovers that, in family matters as in crime, sometimes it''s better to reserve judgmentâ€¦â€œGrafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4146'),
(5304, 'Jack &amp; Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D. C., homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten--and desposited in front of the elementary school Cross''s son, Damon, attends. Could there be a connection between the two murders? As Cross tries to put the pieces together, the killer- or killers - strike again. And again. No one in Washington is safe - not children, not politicians, not even the President of the United States. Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case-but will he discover the truth in time? A relentless roller coaster of heart-pounding suspense and jolting plot twists, Jack and Jill proves once again that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson-the master of the nonstop nightmare."James Patterson does everything but stick our finger in a light socket to give us a buzz."-- New York Times Books Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2016'),
(5305, 'Jack and Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten - and deposited in front of the elementary school Cross''s son, Damon, attends. Could there be a connection between the two murders? As Cross tries to put the pieces together, the killer - or killers - strike again. And again. No one in Washington is safe - not children, not politicians, not even the President of the United States. Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case - but will he discover the truth in time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7355'),
(5306, 'Jack of Shadows', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack, a shadow magician from the dark side of the world who was unjustly punished for thievery, is determined to have vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9048'),
(5307, 'Jackdaws', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jackdaws is one of the most stirring, successful, and popular thrillers of Ken Follett''s career-a patriotic adventure that has won the hearts of readers and critics alike. But perhaps People magazine said it best: "Returning to the World War II setting of his bestselling thrillers Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2936'),
(5308, 'Jackie Brown', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(5309, 'Jackson Jones, Book 1: The Tale of a Boy, an Elf, and a Very Stinky Fish', 'Jenn L. Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When family reunion day arrives, Jackson, a lonely ten-and-a-half-year-old boy, is loathe to share his room with Great Aunt Harriet. She''s a hundred and twelve years old, talks unintelligibly out of her toothless mouth, and has very, very, very big hair. But when he falls into her piles of hair during the night, Jackson encounters a world he''d never dreamed existed. In this magical fantasy complemented by zany illustrations, Jackson meets a host of extraordinary characters and finds that his life, far from being average and uneventful, is being written by the great Author, in whom all stories find their meaning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5286'),
(5310, 'Jacob&#39;s Room', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10442'),
(5311, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 01 - Redwall', 'Redwall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8996'),
(5312, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 02 - Mossflower', 'Mossflower', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8995'),
(5313, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 03 - Mattimeo', 'Mattimeo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9004'),
(5314, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 05 - Salamandastron', 'Salamandastron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8998'),
(5315, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 06 - Martin the Warrior', 'Martin the Warrior', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9024'),
(5316, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 07 - The Bellmaker', 'The Bellmaker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9022'),
(5317, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 08 - The Outcast of Redwall', 'The Outcast of Redwall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8997'),
(5318, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 09 - The Pearls Of Lutra', 'The Pearls Of Lutra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9005'),
(5319, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 10 - The Long Patrol', 'The Long Patrol', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9023'),
(5320, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 11 - Marlfox', 'Marlfox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9021'),
(5321, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 12 - The Legend Of Luke', 'The Legend Of Luke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9001'),
(5322, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 13 - Lord Brocktree', 'Lord Brocktree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8999'),
(5323, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 14 - The Taggerung', 'The Taggerung', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9002'),
(5324, 'Jacques, Brian - Redwall 15 - Triss', 'Triss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9003'),
(5325, 'The Jade Peony', 'Wayson Choy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Jade Peony\n </em>\n , Wayson Choy''s first novel and a RUSA Notable Book, is a genre-bending, memoirlike collection of stories about a family in Vancouver''s Chinatown before and during World War II. Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in a world defined by change, each in their own way wresting autonomy from the strictures of history, family, and poverty. Sister Jook-Liang aspires to be Shirley Temple; adopted Second Brother Jung-Sum, who struggles with his sexuality, finds his way through boxing. Third Brother Sekky, who never feels comfortable with the multitude of Chinese dialects swirling around him, becomes obsessed with war games, and learns a devastating lesson about what war really means when his 17-year-old babysitter dates a Japanese man, with terrible consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of Choy''s most compelling subjects is the fluidity of the extended family. The shadowy woman everyone calls Stepmother is a house servant and concubine who moves into the role of mother, giving birth to two of the siblings but never quite achieving full status. Many chapters focus on the powerful effects friends and neighbors have on the family and the importance of their names and titles. Choy''s evocations of life in Depression-era and wartime Vancouver are especially memorable: the bewildered air of Little Tokyo during the first Christmas after Pearl Harbor, a burned-down church that Sekky and his grandmother pick through for bits of the stained-glass windows--a metaphor for the family''s task of sorting out what to keep and what to abandon as it moves into the future. Like the jade peony of the title, Choy''s storytelling is at once delicate, powerful, and lovely.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Told through the eyes of three Chinese Canadian siblings, Choy''s first novel gives readers a historical glimpse at life in Vancouver''s Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s. Jook-Liang, the only sister in a family of three boys; Jung-Sum, the second adopted son; and Sek-Lung (Sekky), the sickly youngest son are searching for their identities, each presenting a moving account of love and loss that combine to tell the story of their family. Although Choy''s work is fictional, it realistically echoes the difficult life struggles of early Chinese Cantonese immigrants as captured in such biographical works as Denise Chong''s The Concubine''s Children (LJ 11/15/94) and Ben Fong-Torres''s The Rice Room (LJ 4/1/94). This book was a number-one best seller in Canada and co-winner of the Trillum Prize for the best book of 1995. Highly recommended for medium and large fiction collections.?Shirley N. Quan, Orange Cty. P.L.., Garden Grove, Cal.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8073'),
(5326, 'Jade Warrior', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the second book in the Richard Blade series. __________________________________________ When a computer transported Richard Blade to Dimension X, he found himself in Mortal danger. Dimension X was a land in peril. The aristocratic Caths, besieged by the Mongs, a cruel and mindless people, were constantly engulfed in wars and violence. Richard Blade was their only hope. But he was a man alone - and time was running out . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1923'),
(5327, 'Jailbird', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œHe has never been more satirically on-target. . . . Nothing is spared.â€â€”_People_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Vonnegut] is our strongest writer . . . the most stubbornly imaginative.â€â€”John Irving\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA gem . . . a mature, imaginative novelâ€”possibly the best he has written . . .\n  <em>\n   Jailbird\n  </em>\n  is a guided tour de force of America. Take it!â€â€”_Playboy_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Jailbird\n  </em>\n  takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in governmentâ€”and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergateâ€™s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7703'),
(5328, 'James and the Giant Peach', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts'' withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede--each with his or her own song to sing. Roald Dahl''s rich imagery and amusing characters ensure that parents will not tire of reading this classic aloud, which they will no doubt be called to do over and over again! With the addition of witty black and white pencil drawings by Lane Smith (of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n fame), upon which the animation for the Disney movie was based, this classic, now in paperback, is bursting with renewed vigor. We''ll just come right out and say it:\n <em>\n  James and the Giant Peach\n </em>\n is one of the finest children''s books ever written. (Ages 9 to 12)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lane Smith trades stinky cheese for fantastic fruit with his black-and-white illustrations for Roald Dahl''s classic 1961 novel, James and the Giant Peach. The reissue is timed to coincide with the release of the Disney animated motion picture based on Smith''s suitably subversive visual interpretation.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6273'),
(5329, 'James Beard&#39;s New Fish Cookery', 'James Beard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A healthful, dramatically simplified book on cooking techniques for preparinglow cholesterol, low calorie seafood, with over 500 recipes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6223'),
(5330, 'Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron: Being a Jane Austen Mystery', 'Stephanie Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her tenth Jane Austen Mystery, Barron introduces her novelist heroine to the poet Lord Byron, who is famously regarded as being â€œmad, bad, and dangerous to know.â€ Not surprisingly, then, when a beautiful young woman, who has rejected the poetâ€™s unwanted advances, is murdered, the Romantic rakehell is the chief suspect. Ah, but could he have, in truth, perpetrated the foul deed? Fans of the series will not be a bit surprised to learn that Jane is determined to find out. As always, Barron does an excellent job of capturing Austenâ€™s first-person voice, and she gives lavish attention, as well, to period detail. Perhaps too lavish in this case, since the book is slow paced, and there is often more attention to atmosphere than to mystery. Barronâ€™s many fans will not be particularly bothered by this fact, however, and will be delighted to learnâ€”in an appended Q &amp; A with the authorâ€”that an eleventh installment in the series is already underway. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henryâ€™s wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordonâ€”otherwise known as Lord Byron. As a poet and a seducer of women, Byron has carved out a shocking reputation for himselfâ€”but no one would ever accuse him of being capable of murder. Now it falls to Jane to pursue this puzzling investigation and discover just how â€œmad, bad, and dangerous to knowâ€ Byron truly is. And she must do so without falling victim to the charming versifierâ€™s legendary charisma, lest she, too, become a cautionary example for the ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8500'),
(5331, 'Jane and the man of the cloth', 'Stephanie Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After her brilliant detective debut in *Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor*, there can be no doubt that Jane Austen would have made aremarkable sleuth. And so, with great aplomb, Stephanie Barron reveals the next superb Jane Austen Mystery... Jane Austen and her family are looking forward to a peaceful late-summer holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. But on the road thither, a fearful storm and an overturned carriage lead the shaken travelers to seek refuge at High Down Grange. And there, in a dismal manor house wrapt in an air of malevolent neglect, Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive master of High Down Grange, Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth. What murky secrets does the brooding Mr. Sidmouth hope to preserve behind his fierce glower? And who is the exceedingly lovely young woman dressed in peasant garb who shares his home? Once settled in town, Jane seeks to learn the answers. Yet common gossip is soon forgotten when a man is found hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea. Only the day before, Jane had observed this same man in a heated exchange with Mr. Sidmouth. Still, the worthies of Lyme are certain the labourer''s death is the work of "the Reverend," the notorious ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade. The Reverend''s identity is the paramount mystery of Lyme Regis. And Jane, who can never resist a puzzle, is determined to solve this one. But to her dismay, she must soon admit that she harbours a strange sensibility for a man who could very well be a murderer. And then a second mysterious death draws her into a perilous scheme to entrap and expose Geoffrey Sidmouth. From the drawing- rooms of the cultured and the devious to secret caverns and coarse haunts, her mission will take her far from a lady''s proper venue...until even so canny a student of character and valiant adventurer must ask herself: "Is the prize worth the risk--to my heart as well as my person?" Stylish, suspenseful, and wickedly diverting, *Jane and the Man of the Cloth* delves deep into the foibles, passions, and ruthless machinations that lurk within the most polite society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4229'),
(5332, 'Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House', 'Stephanie Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And only Jane can fathom the depths of his ruthless mind....**Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House**â€œI will assert that sailors are endowed with greater worth than any set of men in England.â€ So muses Jane Austen as she stands in the buffeting wind of Southamptonâ€™s quay beside her brother Frank on a raw February morning. Frank, a post captain in the Royal Navy, is without a ship to command, and his best prospect is the *Stella Maris*, a fast frigate captained by his old friend Tom Seagrave. â€œLuckyâ€ Tom â€” so dubbed for his habit of besting enemy ships â€” is presently in disgrace, charged with violating the Articles of War. Tomâ€™s first lieutenant, Eustace Chessyre, has accused Seagrave of murder in the death of a French captain after the surrender of his ship. Though Lucky Tom denies the charge, his dagger was found in the dead manâ€™s chest. Now Seagrave faces court-martial and execution for a crime he swears he did not commit.Frank, deeply grieved, is certain his friend will hang. But Jane reasons that either Seagrave or Chessyre is lying â€” and that she and Frank have a duty to discover the truth. The search for the captainâ€™s honor carries them into the troubled heart of Seagraveâ€™s family, through some of the seaportâ€™s worst sinkholes, and at long last to Wool House, the barred brick structure that serves as gaol for French prisoners of war. Risking contagion or worse, Jane agrees to nurse the murdered French captainâ€™s imprisoned crew â€” and elicits a debonair surgeonâ€™s account of the *Stella Maris*â€™s battle that appears to clear Tom Seagrave of all guilt. When Eustace Chessyre is found murdered, the entire affair takes on the appearance of an insidious plot against Seagrave, who is charged with the crime. Could any of his naval colleagues wish him dead? In an era of turbulent intrigue and contested amour, could it be a case of *cherchez la femme* ... or a veiled political foe at work? And what of the sealed orders under which Seagrave embarked that fateful night in the *Stella Maris?* Death knocks again at Janeâ€™s own door before the final knots in the killerâ€™s net are completely untangled. Always surprising, **Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House** is an intelligent and intriguing mystery that introduces Jane and her readers to â€œthe naval setâ€ â€” and charts a true course through the amateur sleuthâ€™s most troubled waters yet.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4230'),
(5333, 'Jane and the Raven King', 'Stephen Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Outside the window, a squirrel in a tree popped out with a little black suitcase. At first, Jane was sure she must be mistaken, but as she watched, the squirrel opened the tiny suitcase and began arranging nuts and acorns inside...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The animals clearly knew something was wrong. Even her pet iguana scrawled a warning in the sand of his tank: He is coming.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon all the animals are fleeing the suburb where Jane lives. But they aren''t the only ones acting strange. Jane''s parents seem to be hypnotized by their cell phones and the TV. And her grandma starts controlling the weather and speaking in a funny language. But when Jane meets an old blind man who can drive a car and claims Jane is the only one who can save the world, well, that''s when things really start to get weird...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While still in high school,\n  <strong>\n   Stephen Chambers\n  </strong>\n  sold two novels,\n  <em>\n   Hope''s End\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Hope''s War\n  </em>\n  . Stephen will contribute to the forthcoming anthology of short fantasy fiction by rising authors,\n  <em>\n   Twenty by Twenties\n  </em>\n  , introduced by bestselling writer Orson Scott Card. Stephen is currently a doctoral candidate in the history department at Brown University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4625'),
(5334, 'Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery', 'Stephanie Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel''s husbandâ€”a gentleman of mature yearsâ€”is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl''s death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it''s only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl''s nephew of adulteryâ€”and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help. And Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that leads all the way to Newgate Prison and the House of Lordsâ€”a trail that may well place Jane''s own person in the gravest jeopardy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4228'),
(5335, 'Jane Eyre', 'Charlotte Bronte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt''s house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr. Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves her too, but he has a dark secret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(5336, 'Jane Grigson&#39;s Fish Book', 'Jane Grigson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Jane Grigson''s book on fish cookery takes the reader through the alphabet from anchovies to zander giving recipes and historical, geographical and culinary information. The text also gives advice about the preparation and cooking of fish.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7731'),
(5337, 'Janissaries', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spacceship landed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10398'),
(5338, 'The Janson Directive', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When billionaire philanthropist Peter Novak is kidnapped by a terrorist known as The Caliph, itâ€™s up to Paul Jansonâ€”a legend in the notorious U.S. covert agency Consular Operationsâ€”to save him. But Jansonâ€™s rescue operation goes horribly wrongâ€¦and soon Janson is marked for death, the target of a "beyond salvage" order issued from the highest level of the government. Now Janson is running for his life, pursued by Jessica Kincaid, a young agent of astonishing ability who can anticipate and counter his every move. To survive, Janson must outrace a conspiracy that has gone beyond the control of its originators. To win, he must counter it with a conspiracy of his own...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3586'),
(5339, 'Janus', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9124'),
(5340, 'The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions', 'Robert Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pickled Martian''s tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin''s Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds. It''s 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back-engineered by Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla, have carried the Queen''s Own Electric Fusiliers to the red planet, and Mars is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. The less-than-scrupulous sideshow proprietor likes Off-worlders'' cash, so he needs a sensational new attraction. Word has reached him of the Japanese Devil Fish Girl; nothing quite like her has ever existed before. But Professor Coffin''s quest to possess the ultimate showman''s exhibit is about to cause considerable friction amongst the folk of other planets. Sufficient, in fact, to spark off Worlds War Two.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert Rankin is the author of THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE TOYMINATOR, KNEES UP MOTHER EARTH, THE BRIGHTONOMICON, THE WITCHES OF CHISWICK, THE DA-DA-DE-DA-DA CODE, NECROPHENIA and RETROMANCER. He lives in Brighton.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7729'),
(5341, 'Jared&#39;s Counterfeit Fiancee', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7983'),
(5342, 'Jaws', 'Peter Benchley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman''s body, or what was left of it, washed, up on the long, white stretch of beach...A summer of terror has begun. ''Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you''ll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day'' Daily Express; Peter Benchley''s Jaws first appeared in 1974, creating a legend that refuses to die. For a new generation, the ultimate holiday nightmare is about to begin all over again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4220'),
(5343, 'JB_Outsourced', 'Jade Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9616'),
(5344, 'JB_RedLights', 'Jade Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9615'),
(5345, 'JC-The Stories of John Cheever (1979 Pulitzer Prize)', 'John Cheever', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life."From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9848'),
(5346, 'Jedi search', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins.... While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Hans and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go from one danger to a far greater one.... On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face to face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2879'),
(5347, 'Jeff Corwin: a wild life : the authorized biography', 'Jeff Corwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin! From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Awardwinning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand look at Jeffs amazing and adventurous life. Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with Jeff, kids will get an honest telling of Jeff Corwins incredible journey from child nature enthusiast to naturalist and animal specialist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1576'),
(5348, 'Jennifer Government', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9351'),
(5349, 'The Jennifer Morgue', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to\n <em>\n  The Atrocity Archives\n </em>\n (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer Ã¼bergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes''s\n <em>\n  Glomar Explorer\n </em>\n in a bungled attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in order to access the Jennifer Morgue, an occult device that allows communication with the dead. Now a ruthless billionaire intends to try again, even if by doing so he awakens the Great Old Ones, who thwarted the earlier expedition. It''s up to Bob and a collection of British eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry''s own auditors. Stross has a marvelous time making eldritch horror appear commonplace in the face of bureaucracy.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Stross packs this new novel full of hilarious in-jokes and frenetic set pieces."\n <br />\n -_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the most enjoyable novels of the year... Stross steps carefully through all of the archetypes of a classic Bond adventure without ever becoming predictable. The resolution is as perfect as it is unexpected."\n <br />\n -Jonathan Strahan, editor of the annual\n <em>\n  Best Short Novels\n </em>\n anthology series\n</p>\n<p>\n "Some writers play with archetypes. In\n <em>\n  The Jennifer Morgue\n </em>\n , Charlie Stross makes them sing, dance, and do the dishes for him."\n <br />\n -S. M. Stirling, national bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Scourge of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Jennifer Morgue_ is Stross''s most entertaining novel to date...Astonishing."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Alternately chilling and hilarious."\n <br />\n -_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8020'),
(5350, 'Jersey Guns', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolans war against the Mafia explodes in the wilds of New Jersey!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/756'),
(5351, 'Jerusalem Delivered (1854)', 'Torquato Tasso', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Poems from the 16th-century EDITORIAL REVIEW: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XXX. Swift as the tiger or voracious pard Springs through the crashing forest, Otho pressed To the stout Mussulman, who, on good guard, Laid his tremendous spear in sudden rest: Then Tancred first awoke; then from the zest Of amorous thoughts as from a sweet dream started; And cried, " The fight is mine ! his course arrest!" But the young champion now too far had darted Within the lists, to be from his opponent parted. XXXI. Therewith he stayed, whilst wrath and crimson shame Glowed on his cheek, and in his bosom boiled, Deeming it worse than falsehood to his fame, Thus of the field''s first risks to be beguiled : Meantime in mid career the hardy Childe Struck the Circassian''s burganet, and tore The feathers from its crown; but he, half wild, With naked spear implacable for gore, [bore! Quite clove his Hedcross shield, and through the breast-plate XXXII. Pushed from his seat by rudeness of the blow, The Christian fell, half senseless from the shock ; But his more vigorous and athletic foe Bore it unbowed, impassive as a rock ; And thus began the prostrate knight to mock,â€” Fierce was his gesture, insolent his tone,â€” " Yield thee my slave! where proudest nobles flock, ''T will be enough for thy renown, to own That thou hast fought with me, and thus been overthrown!" XXXIII. "No !" said the youth, "not quite so soon we use To yield our arms and ardour on command ; Let others as they list my fall excuse, I will revenge it, or die sword in hand!" Fierce as Alecto, pitilessly grand, With all the Gorgon raging in his face, And breath like that of Ate''s flaming brand, Argantes said, " And scorn''st thou my good grace 1 Learn then my power!" he spoke, and speaking spurned the place. xxxrv. His rampant steed he drove at him, nor heeded What to his chivalry was d...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3870'),
(5352, 'Jessi Ramsey, Petsitter', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9697'),
(5353, 'Jessi,the Awful Secret', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9742'),
(5354, 'Jessi,the Dance School Phantom', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9677'),
(5355, 'Jessi,The Jewel Thieves', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9696'),
(5356, 'Jessi,the Superbrat', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9719'),
(5357, 'Jessi&#39;s Babysitter', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9695'),
(5358, 'Jessi&#39;s Gold Medal', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9682'),
(5359, 'Jessi&#39;s Wish', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9680'),
(5360, 'A Jest of God', 'Margaret Laurence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Fresh and arresting?unforgettably good and nothing less than brilliant.?\n <br />\n ?_Maclean?s_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Superb and movingly human.?\n <br />\n ?_Saturday Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettinessâ€”her own and that of others. She longs for contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Finally, by confronting both love and death, Rachel earns the freedom she desperately needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of the Governor General''s Literary Award,\n <em>\n  A Jest of God\n </em>\n was also the basis of the movie\n <em>\n  Rachel, Rachel\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mrs. Laurence tells [her story] unsparingly, with absolute authority, using her thorough understanding of Rachel to draw us into her anguish. We know Rachel, sympathize with her, and in a sense, become Rachel, so authentic is her voice. . . .\n <em>\n  A Jest of God\n </em>\n has extraordinary clarity, beautiful detail, as well as the emotional impact of honest confession."â€”Joan J. Hall,\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Laurence''s rendition is close to faultless . . . reaffirming her ability to draw, without pathos, life-sized women. . . . Skillfully wrought and eloquently told."â€”Marilyn Gardner,\n <em>\n  Christian Science Monitor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of Canada''s most accomplished writers, Margaret Laurence(1926-1987) was the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Governer General''s Litarary Award for\n <em>\n  The Diviners\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Jest of God\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5956'),
(5361, 'The jester: a novel', 'James Patterson; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Returning home from the Crusades, Hugh discovers that his wife has been abducted by relic-seeking knights, prompting him to pose as a court jester in order to infiltrate the castle where his wife is imprisoned. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. Only by taking on the role of a jester is he able to infiltrate his enemy''s castle, where he thinks his wife is captive. With the unstoppable pace and plot of a page-turning Alex Cross novel, THE JESTER is a breathtakingly romantic, pulse-pounding adventure-one that could only be conjured by the mind of James Patterson. Everyone who has ever hoped for good to defeat evil or for love to conquer all will not be able to stop turning the pages of this masterful novel of virtue, laughter-yes, laughter-and suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1828');
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(5362, 'Jesus of Nazareth: From His Transfiguration Through His Death and Resurrection', 'Pope Benedict XVI', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death. For non-Christians, he is almost anything else-a myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers.Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, and no myth, revolutionary, or misunderstood prophet, insists Benedict XVI. He thinks that the best of historical scholarship, while it can''t "prove" Jesus is the Son of God, certainly doesn''t disprove it. Indeed, Benedict maintains that the evidence, fairly considered, brings us face-to-face with the challenge of Jesus-a real man who taught and acted in ways that were tantamount to claims of divine authority, claims not easily dismissed as lunacy or deception.Benedict XVI presents this challenge in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, the sequel volume to Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.Why was Jesus rejected by the religious leaders of his day? Who was responsible for his death? Did he establish a Church to carry on his work? How did Jesus view his suffering and death? How should we? And, most importantly, did Jesus really rise from the dead and what does his resurrection mean? The story of Jesus raises many crucial questions.Benedict brings to his study the vast learning of a brilliant scholar, the passionate searching of a great mind, and the deep compassion of a pastor''s heart. In the end, he dares readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus'' life, teaching, death, and resurrection."Only in this second volume do we encounter the decisive sayings and events of Jesus'' life . . . I hope that I have been granted an insight into the figure of Our Lord that can be helpful to all readers who seek to encounter Jesus and to believe in Him." -Pope Benedict XVI"Working from Scripture, the Church Fathers and contemporary scholarship, Benedict XVI deftly brings together the historical and theological dimensions of the gospel portraits of Jesus. This is a splendid, penetrating study of the central figure of Christian faith; a learned and spiritual illumination not only of who Jesus was, but who he is for us today." +Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver"What better guide could you find than Benedict XVI to lead you on the bracing adventure of exploring the historical Jesus and discovering, under the tutelage this most sage successor to Peter, the inner meaning of Jesus'' death and resurrection. Faith and reason are the two wings Benedict XVI takes up to lead us to astonishingly fresh spiritual perspectives and dizzying heights. This book often takes ones breath away, while infusing in the reader the God-breathed Word, which is the Gospel." - Tm Gray, Ph.D., President , Augustine Institute"As is his first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, so, once again, in his second volume Pope Benedict XVI has authored a marvelous book, this time on the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. What makes this study so attractive is the depth of its biblical insight, its attention to historical issues, its keen theological acumen, and its lucid and precise expression. Moreover, as with the first volume, it is written in a serene and prayerful manner - a serenity and a prayerfulness that is conveyed to the heart and mind of the reader. This book fulfills Pope Benedict''s ardent desire - that it would "be helpful to all readers who seek to encounter Jesus and to believe in him." -Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M., Cap., Executive Director for the Secretariat for Doctrine, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7028'),
(5363, 'Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration', 'Joseph Ratzinger &amp; Mark Brumley &amp; Matthew Levering &amp; Thomas Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This easy-to-use companion study guide helps the readers who approach Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict''s\n <em>\n  Jesus of Nazareth\n </em>\n without the benefit of extensive theological or biblical training. The goal is not to replace Benedict''s book but to make it more accessible, more fruitful for the average reader--whether lay, religious, priest or deacon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Designed for individual study or for group/parish discussion, this guide has the following features for each section and chapter of\n <em>\n  Jesus of Nazareth\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   a reader-friendly summary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   an outline\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   a list of key terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   questions for understanding, reflection, application and discussion\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   a section for readers to include their personal reflections on the reading\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The guide also includes an ample introduction explaining the background for understanding Pope Benedict''s approach and how to use this guide as an easy-to-use glossary that defines important terms and identifies key people discussed in\n <em>\n  Jesus of Nazareth.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5499'),
(5364, 'Jew in the Lotus : A Poet&#39;s Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India', 'Rodger Kamenetz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9559'),
(5365, 'The Jewel Box', 'Anna Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sex and the City\n </em>\n meets London''s Roaring ''20s in Davis''s satisfying fifth novel. Grace Rutherford leads a double life: by day she''s an advertising copywriter supporting a widowed sister and mother. By night, she''s Diamond Sharpâ€”a newspaper gossip columnist and glamorous lady about town. She adores her single status until she meets mysterious American author Dexter O''Connell, with whom she begins a steamy cat-and-mouse affair that turns her world upside down. The trouble? She''s concurrently swept off her feet by her charming and equally delicious neighbor John Cramerâ€”Dexter''s bitter enemy. Grace is determined to get to the bottom of their hatred for each other. But whose story should she believe? To make matters worse, her sister is possibly falling for John, too. When Grace delves into their closets looking for skeletons, she realizes she must ultimately face her own. Davis, best known for\n <em>\n  The Shoe Queen\n </em>\n , delights once again with this romp through pre-Manolo chick lit turf.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grace is anÂ iconic flapper in the Roaring Twenties,Â burning the candle at both ends between her job as a copywriter in a London ad agency and a newspaper columnistÂ under the pen nameÂ Diamond Sharp. Her frantic pace and upbeatÂ writing keep her from thinking about the responsibilities at home, where sheÂ takes care of her mother, widowed sister, and young niece and nephew. ThingsÂ become even more hectic when she spots a gorgeous American author, and taunts him in her columns until they start a fiery love affair.Â DexterÂ is as mysterious and dramatic as the book that made himÂ famous. In contrast toÂ her tempestuous relationship with Dexter, she meets her neighbor John Cramer, also an American, who writes for the New York Times. There is bad blood between the two men, and Grace is torn between her â€œDevilâ€ Dexter and his antagonist, John, who may have captured her sisterâ€™s heart.Â Davis presents a rip-roaring read filled with enticing characters emulatingÂ the American literati living it upÂ overseas after the First World War. --Patty Engelmann\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7265'),
(5366, 'Jewel of Tharn', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the third book in the Richard Blade series. __________________________________________ The third volume in the Richard Blade series, the continuing saga,of a modern man''s exploits in the hitherto uncharted realm of worlds beyond our knowledge. Richard Blade is everyman and at the same time, a mighty and intrepid warrior. In the best tradition of America''s most popular fictional heroes-giants such as Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Conan-Richard Blade is once again in print and battling man, beast and forces unnamed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1931'),
(5367, 'Jewels', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Birthdays are a time for reflection, especially for Sarah, Duchess of Whitfield, who is awaiting the arrival of her far-flung family. Years earlier, reeling from her pending divorce, Sarah Thompson is force-marched through Europe on the grand tour by her concerned parents. Disinterested in the sons, grandsons, and nephews paraded before her by well-meaning acquaintances, Sarah chances upon William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield, 14th in line for succession to the English throne. Disarmed by his wit and intrigued by his intellect, Sarah allows William to become her companion in London, warning him they can only be friends. Undeterred, William dismisses Sarah''s protestations that her divorce makes her unsuitable to be his duchess and finally convinces Sarah to marry him. While honeymooning in France, Sarah and William happen upon Chateau de la Meuze. Enchanted, the Whitfields buy and set about restoring the estate. But World War II looms, threatening their idyllic existence. Following the birth of their first child, Phillip, William joins the RAF when England declares war on Germany. Reluctantly, he leaves Sarah and Phillip at the chateau. German troops, led by the courtly commandant Joachim von Mannheim, take possession of the chateau to establish a hospital, removing Sarah and Phillip to the caretaker''s cottage.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the war ends, William, after being imprisoned for three years and barely surviving the torture that deprived him of the use of his legs, returns to his family. The Whitfields pick up threads of lives strained, but not broken, by war. Soon, they are approached by others who lost everything during the war except a few secreted heirlooms. But jewelry can''t put food on the table, and the Whitfields begin purchasing jewelry to provide neighbors with much-needed cash. When William jokingly suggests opening a Paris store, a legacy is born: Whitfield''s, Jewelers to the Crown. Over the next decades, which bring three more children, two more branches of Whitfields, and the death of her husband, Sarah is molded into a force to be reckoned with, capable of handling her willful children and a highly successful international business with equal aplomb. Steel paints a portrait of a family, imperfect as they may be, and the powerful matriarch who reminds them of the bond that transcends titles, money, and borders.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Steel collectionoeuvre, which means works of art, is awk with following jewel metaphor , Jewels is merely a semiprecious gem. Set in the WW II era, the novel depicts the travails of its to elim dangler heroine, Sarah, Duchess of Whitfield. The beautiful debutante daughter of a wealthy American family, Sarah has endured the disgrace attending her divorce of her caddish first husband. Eventually she marries the charming and very rich Duke of Whitfield, who buys her a chateau in France. The rest of the novel follows the self-satisfied course of their usually happy since he''s in prison camp at one point union. WW II offers Steel a chance to pump drama into this bland narrative, but she misses it. Sarah spends the war comfortably ensconced on the grounds of her chateau, looked out for by a solicitious German commander so polite she doesn''t guess he has fallen in love with her. Meekly, he leaves the moment Sarah learns her husband, the duke, ? has survived a Nazi prison camp. After she nurses William back to health, their idyllic marriage placidly resumes. They are rich and envied. They eat well, dress well, live well, have or else mention first child above? children and open a jewelry store for amusement. The narrative''s greatest conflict comes in the final chapters, when widowed Sarah has to deal with her unruly offspring. Costume jewelry has more sparkle than this uninspired tale. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5993'),
(5368, 'Jewels of the sun', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in a new Irish trilogy, Roberts'' novel finds Aidan Gallahger back home in Ireland, managing the family pub and sharing the legends of the land with an American woman who is immersing herself in the study of Irish folklore. They create a passionate history of their own. Original\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2630'),
(5369, 'The Jigsaw Man', 'Gord Rollo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Homeless Michael Fox is about to commit suicide when a mysterious billionaire surgeon stops him and offers him two million dollars...for his right arm. But Fox''s arm is only the beginning, as the surgeon continues his mad experiments, removing parts of Fox''s body bit by bit and reassembling him from other parts. And Fox isn''t the only one the doctor is experimenting on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1802'),
(5370, 'Jimmy the Hand', 'Raymond E. Feist; Steve Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The third novel of Feist''s successful collaborative series. From the endlessly inventive mind of one of fantasy''s all time greats, comes a spellbinding new adventure of high magic, treachery and bloody war. This time in conjunction with master of alternative US history, Steve Stirling, Feist returns to tell the full tale of one of his fans'' favourite most colourful Riftwar characters, pickpocket, montebank and confidence trickster Jimmy the Hand. Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city. The sewers were his byways and a flea-ridden, rat infested cellar his home. Gifted beyond his peers, he was still but a nimble street urchin, a pickpocket with potential. Until the day he met Prince Arutha. Aiding the Prince in his rescue of Princess Anita from imprisonment by Duke Guy du Bas-Tyra, Jimmy ran afoul of Black Guy''s secret police. Fearing reprisal and seeking an opportunity to advance his place in life, Jimmy fled the city and ventured north to the relatively safe haven of Sarth. Suspecting the rural villagers had never encountered a lad with his talent and nose for finding wealth -- other people''s wealth, Jimmy was unprepared for what greeted him. For Sarth was home to others who trod the dodgy path, and more, to a darker secret, a dangerous presence unknown to even the local thieves and smugglers. Jimmy''s youthful bravado and courage plunge him deep into the maw of chaos and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3757'),
(5371, 'Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Something new has come up between the ancient rival cities of Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali. Literally. An island, rising out of Discworld''s circular sea. Since it''s uninhabited and claimed by both cities, Commander Vimes and his faithful trolls and cops are forced to deal with a crime so awful that there''s no law against it. It''s called "war." But don''t be alarmed. It all happens on faraway Discworld, where greed and ignorance influence politicians, and perfectly normal people occasionally act like raving idiots. A world, in short, totally unlike our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3394'),
(5372, 'Johannes Cabal the Necromancer', 'Jonathan L. Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n In this uproarious and clever debut, itâ€™s time to give the Devil his due.\n</p>\n<p>\n Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul... He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the bet even more interesting, Satan throws in that diabolical engine of deceit, seduction, and corruption known as a â€œtraveling circusâ€ to aid in the evil bidding. What better place exists to rob poor sad saps of their souls than the traveling carnivals historically run by hucksters and legendary con men?\n</p>\n<p>\n With little time to lose, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire (an unfortunate side effect of Johannesâ€™s early experiments with necromancy), to be the carnivalâ€™s barker. On the road through the pastoral English countryside, this team of reprobates wields their black magic with masterful ease, resulting in mayhem at every turn.\n</p>\n<p>\n Johannes may have the moral conscience of anthrax, but are his tricks sinful enough to beat the Devil at his own game? Youâ€™ll never guess, and thatâ€™s a promise!\n</p>\n<p>\n Brilliantly written and wickedly funny,\n <em>\n  Johannes Cabal the Necromancer\n </em>\n combines the chills and thrills of old-fashioned gothic tales like\n <em>\n  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\n </em>\n , the mischievous humor of\n <em>\n  Wicked\n </em>\n , and the sophisticated charms of\n <em>\n  Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell\n </em>\n and spins the Faustian legend into a fresh, irreverent, and irresistible new adventure.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Jonathan L. Howard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve been working on\n <em>\n  Johannes Cabal\n </em>\n in its various iterations for many years now, how did it feel spending so much time with such nefarious characters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s something of a clichÃ© to say that villains are more interesting than heroes, nor is it even very true, so I shanâ€™t be trotting that particular phrase out. I would suggest that it is the inner life of the character that makes them interesting, and that is true of the virtuous as much as the vile. Cabal does some rather horrible things, it is true, but he never does them purely to give himself the opportunity to curl his waxed moustacheâ€”heâ€™s clean-shaven, for one thingâ€”and declaim his wickedness. He always has a reason, and itâ€™s usually a good one. I find fictional villains who are evil because they are evil unengaging. Cabal, on the other hand, has motivations and drives that most can sympathise with, even if the actions he commits based on those drives can be loathsome. For him, the ends always justify the means, and damn the consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The carnival in your book is used as a device for collecting souls; was there a real life inspiration for the carnival? Do you find there to be something generally sinister about carnivals?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n Thereâ€™s no real life inspiration for the carnival, really, but plenty in fiction. The obvious inspiration was Bradburyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Something Wicked\n </em>\n â€™s Cooger &amp; Darkâ€™s Carnival wasnâ€™t the first threatening carnival in fiction, and it certainly wasnâ€™t the last, but it is probably the best. It was the persnickety question of where such a carnival might come from and how anybody would end up as a proprietor that inspired my novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n As for how sinister they are, that is to an extent a fictional conceit on my part too. You have to bear in mind that carnivals like that are unknown in the United Kingdom, and I havenâ€™t heard of the traditional British travelling fair being transported by train either. The Cabal stories take place in a slightly blurry world where things come together because they aesthetically appeal to me, and not because theyâ€™re historically accurate; a magical realism of sorts. I wanted an American-style carnival travelling by train, and thatâ€™s what I got. That said, there are plenty of permanent fairgrounds around the country, and they tended to have a slightly creepy air about them. The real Ghost Trains in Blackpool and Porthcawl, for example, inspired the exterior of the Ghost Train in the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n In addition to writing you work as a video game designer, how does that work compare to the experience of writing fiction? Are there any surprising similarities?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n There are definite similarities, but I wouldnâ€™t say that they are surprising. The games Iâ€™ve worked on tend to have definite narratives, so itâ€™s exactly the same process of inspiration, development, pacing, and polishing. The main difference is that a novel can have significant sequences in which physically little happens, which is considered heretical in games. In fairness, thereâ€™s good reason for thatâ€”the player wants to be involved, and there isnâ€™t a great deal of opportunity for that in a scene consisting of two people talking over a cup of tea. Thatâ€™s not to say it hasnâ€™t been attempted, and pretty successfully. I remember a game a few years ago based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. It hit all its target, being very atmospheric, true to its source, even thought provoking, and all without\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Have you always been a fan or horror and supernatural lore? When did this sort of thing first capture your imagination?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n Yes, Iâ€™ve always enjoyed the grotesque and the macabre, right from an early age. I recall that I somehow saw Dana Andrews being chased around the woods by a fireball in\n <em>\n  Out of the Unknown\n </em>\n episodes before being sent to bed, and any number of slightly disturbing imports like\n <em>\n  The Tinderbox\n </em>\n and\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What sort of research did you do for the book? Was there anything you came across in the process that really surprised you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n I actually did very little research for it; it was mostly lurking in my mind already. I can remember little necessary for day to day living, but if you ask me the birth name of Dr. Crippenâ€™s wife, I can tell you off the top of my head. I needed a bit of nomenclature for something or other in the running of a carnival, which a librarian friend found for me, but that was the only real piece of research for it. Even things like the Grand Conjuration to summon a demonâ€”which is an authentic ritual, you may be horrified to hearâ€”was in a book I already had. I have a large collection of books on assorted esoterica to the extent that my wife, a bibliophile herself, rolls her eyes and says, â€œNot more bloody books?â€ whenever I come home with a bookshop bag and a sheepish expression.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n There is a lot of paperwork in your version of Hell. Did you hold an especially bureaucratic job somewhere before working as a game designer?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n No, Iâ€™m very happy to say. I remember as a child considering the inevitability of growing up and wondering what the worst thing about it would be. It all looked pretty good from that perspective: money, going to bed when you liked, being able to go into any certificate film, and so on. Finally, I spotted a bad point, and that bad point was having to fill in forms. And I was right. Thereâ€™s just something about completing a form that fills me with dread in its consideration, and depression during its commission. Which reminds me; I have two to fill in this week. Oh, joy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Johannes is a bit of an anti-hero and his motivations are somewhat mysterious. Do you think that heâ€™s misunderstood by those around him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n Heâ€™s definitely misunderstood, although if he were understood, it still wouldnâ€™t make him popular. The fact that heâ€™s labeled a necromancer gives him a public relations problem, as the vast majority of them are power hungry lunatics. Cabalâ€™s ultimate aim is to defeat death, and to have the ability to bring people back just as they were when they were alive, physically, mentally, and spiritually. No lurking demonic possessions, no uncouth brain gobbling. His researches in that direction, however, have not been conducted in the most advantageous light.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Whatâ€™s next for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jonathan L. Howard:\n </strong>\n I handed in the submission draft of the second Cabal novel\n <em>\n  Johannes Cabal the Detective\n </em>\n just the other week, so that will be going through the editorial process shortly. I also have to decide what the next Cabal novel after that will be; I have a couple of ideas so itâ€™s a case of weighing pros and cons before making a decision. I have a couple of non-Cabal novels, one of which is completed but needs a second draft, and the other is about 80% done. Iâ€™d like to get them polished, and then see if we can get them into print.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Emma L.B.K. Smith)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Johannes Cabal, a haughty sorcerer, finds that the absence of a soul is an impediment to his occult studies, he strikes a bargain with Satan in British author Howard''s darkly funny debut: in one year''s time he''ll deliver the bartered souls of 100 unfortunates so that he might repossess his own. Cabal and his vampire brother, Horst, mount a traveling carnival to scour the countryside for men and women desperate enough to consign their souls to an infernal eternity for whatever will relieve their misery of the moment. Cabal proves marginally competent but maximally amusing in his dealings with a competing necromancer, an asylum of escaped lunatics and a staff of slowly decomposing carnies conjured from the dead. Howard capably synthesizes two classic themes of macabre fictionâ€”the pact with the devil and the dark carnivalâ€”but the book''s episodic structure and unconvincing ending betray it as a freshman effort. Still, Howard''s ear for witty banter and his skill at rendering black comedy bode well for the future.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6165'),
(5373, 'John Adams', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(5374, 'John Dies at the End', 'David Wong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n David Wong has updated the Lovecraft tradition and infused it with humor that rather than lessening the horror, increases it dramatically.  Every time I set the book down down, I was wary that something really was afoot, that there were creatures I couldn''t see, and that because I suspected this, I was next. Engaging, comic, and terrifying.-- **Joe Garden**, **Features Editor, The Onion**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Wong is like a mash-up of Douglass Adams and Stephen King... ''page-turner'' is an understatement."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --**Don Coscarelli**, **director, *Phantasm I-V*, *Bubba Ho-tep***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "That rarest of things--a genuinely scary story."--**David Wellington**, **author of *Monster Island, Vampire Zero***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "JOHN DIES AT THE END has a cult following for a reason:  it''s horrific, thought-provoking, and hilarious all at once.  This is one of the most entertaining and addictive novels I''ve ever read."--**Jacob Kier, Publisher, Permuted Press                                     **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **STOP.  **You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands.  NO, don''t put it down. It''s too late.  They''re watching you.  **My name is David Wong.** My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours.  You may not want to know about the things you''ll read on these pages, about **the sauce**, about **Korrok**, about the invasion, and the future. But it''s too late. You touched the book. You''re in the game. You''re under **the eye**.  The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The important thing is this:  **The drug is called **Soy Sauce** and it gives users a window into another dimension.  John and I never had the chance to say no.  You still do.   I''m sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very **dark epoch** the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind:   ***None of this was my fault.***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(5375, 'John LeCarre a New Collection of Three Complete Novels a Perfect Spy the Russia House and the Secret Pilgrim', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This three-in-one set of le CarrÃ© thrillers about late cold war spycraft has wit, atmosphere, and intelligence to die for. In le CarrÃ©''s most autobiographical novel,\n <em>\n  A Perfect Spy\n </em>\n , Rick Pym, a con artist Dickens might have invented (except that he''s based on le CarrÃ©''s dad) raises his son, Magnus, to be the perfect gentleman for the spook trade. Magnus writes to explain himself to his son, Tom; le CarrÃ© wrote the book to explain his own scalawag dad to himself, and burst into tears when he finished the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Russia House\n </em>\n , set in 1987, a Soviet dissident physicist drops a secret manuscript to Barley Blair, a boozy loser of a British book publisher, to alert the West that the evil empire is about to collapse of its own absurd weight. Can Western spies trust the dissident? Just how safe is the "safe house" where Barley parleys with his sexy Russian contact, Katya? Where should Barley''s loyalty lie, with love or country?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Secret Pilgrim\n </em>\n is almost a short-story collection. (That''s why it was broken into three separate audio versions:\n <em>\n  The Fledgling Spy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Came of Age\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Spy in His Prime\n </em>\n .) Ned, a British spook who Barley troubled in\n <em>\n  The Russia House\n </em>\n , invites le CarrÃ©''s legendary spy George Smiley to lecture his new class of recruits. Smiley''s remarks alternate with Ned''s reminiscences of his own covert adventures, from the sublimely ridiculous to the scathingly scary. The new kids have no idea what tortuous moral torments await them, but le CarrÃ© gives us an idea.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three complete works by a popular author of spy and espionage novels include\n <em>\n  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Smiley''s People.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11068'),
(5376, 'John Steinbeck&#39;s the Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country''s recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940. The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads'' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They''re a-workin'' away at our spirits. They''re a tryin'' to make us cringe an'' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin'' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on''y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin'' a sock at a cop. They''re workin'' on our decency." The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin'' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we''re the people that live. They ain''t gonna wipe us out. Why, we''re the people--we go on." It''s almost as if she''s talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck''s characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book''s final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "''You got to,''" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3016'),
(5377, 'John Wayne : The Man Behind the Myth', 'Michael Munn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to this congenial biography by film journalist Munn, movie legend Wayne (1907â€“1979) was a hard worker who held tight to his beliefs and what he thought he should show on screen. Wayne''s career did have its share of controversy (although he starred in cutthroat war films, Wayne didn''t sign up for military service in WWII; he rejected communism, which made him the object of Stalinist threats; and the actor''s given name is still debated), and Munn deftly addresses those hullabaloos while providing an overview of the actor''s accomplishments. After playing football at USC, Wayne worked as a studio prop man, coming into early contact with director John Ford, who would direct Wayne in some of his most memorable performances, including 1952''s The Quiet Man. Throughout their association, Ford treated Wayne erratically, disparaging his talents and lashing out at him for accepting a lead role from rival director Raoul Walsh (The Big Trail, 1930). Yet Ford and Wayne collaborated on 1939''s Stagecoach, which gave birth to the serious western and the Ford-Wayne movie subgenre. Other highlights include Wayne''s emergence as a heavy in 1948''s Red River and his ferocious performance in 1956''s The Searchers. Munn portrays the actor in his personal life as a man''s man, who sustained friendships with tough cohorts like stuntman Yakima Canutt but failed in romance. Although the book takes an odd turn toward the end, when Munn links Wayne''s patriotism and heroic persona to the heroic actions after September 11, overall, it''s a fine tribute.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A fine tribute."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (_Publisher''s Weekly_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6603'),
(5378, 'Johnny Angel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 1962 rock ballad, Johnny Angel isn''t an angel, but an angelic young dreamboat. In Steel''s book, the titular hero is both-as well as class valedictorian, a football/track star, a faithful boyfriend and a college scholarship winner who holds down two jobs to help out his family; on top of it all, he has "great teeth." Killed in a car crash after his senior prom, 17-year-old Johnny Peterson is sent back to earth as an angel. His mission: to fix certain troubles left unresolved at the time of his death involving his girlfriend, Becky, her impoverished mother and his dysfunctional family. The plot may strike TV viewers as little more than a warmed-over Touched by an Angel rerun, but the theme-the healing power of love-is classic Steel. Unfortunately, the story is flawed by clunky characterizations. The sticking point isn''t that Steel reveals her characters'' problems through authorial proclamation rather than action and dialogue-that bluntness is simply her style-but that she explains those problems repeatedly. The first time readers learn that Johnny''s dad drinks himself into a stupor every night from guilt over causing the accident that traumatized Johnny''s brother, Bobby, into muteness, it is necessary information. The second repeat can be justified as emphasis. But multiple further repetitions are downright tedious. Still, Steele''s heartfelt depiction of the central relationship between Johnny and his mother is touching, and few readers will get through the revelation of Johnny''s final gift with dry eyes.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this brief foray into the world of a family devastated by the death of their teenage son, Steel moves away from the contemporary romance stories she is famous for, although her fans likely won''t complain. Handsome, tall, polite, college-bound, hardworking, and the backbone of his fragile family, Johnny Peterson also is a star athlete and class valedictorian. All in all, his future is looking pretty bright when a terrible accident on prom night kills him and shatters the already tenuous relationships of his parents and siblings. Of course, Johnny, being the great guy that he is, returns as a vision/ghost/angel and begins to repair the damaged lives of his family and friends. Before we know it, his mute and semi-autistic brother is speaking, his father has laid off the booze, his girlfriend gets a scholarship to attend college, and his heartbroken mother gains the fortitude to let go of her grief and embrace life once more. Despite its sad story line, Steel ties it all together with a neat and somewhat happy ending. Librarians should stock up; this one will be hot this summer.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6039'),
(5379, 'Johnny Got His Gun', 'Dalton Trumbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo''s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. As timely as ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4420'),
(5380, 'Johnny Mnemonic', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The award-winning author of Neuromancer brings his acclaimed talents to the screen in a March movie release, starring Keanu Reeves. This special edition features his screenplay and the original story on which it''s based. Johnny''s a 21st century smuggler with a computer chip in his head--24 hours to complete his mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4170'),
(5381, 'Joker One: A Marine Platoon&#39;s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood', 'Donovan Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Campbell decided as a junior at Princeton that attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School would look good on his rÃ©sumÃ©. Three years later, in the spring of 2004, he was in Iraq commanding a platoon known by its radio call sign, Joker One. Campbell tells its story, and his, in an outstanding narrative of the Iraq War. Joker One counted around 40 dudes: country boys and smalltown jocks; a few Hispanics and a single black. Some were college men with futures; some had pasts they preferred to forget. The battalion was assigned to one of Iraq''s worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi, where faceless enemies found shelter among 350,000 Iraqi civilians. Joker One fought from street to street, house to house and ambush to ambush for seven straight months. By the end of the tour, even the Gunny''s hands had started ceaselessly shaking, Campbell writes. Faced with urgent life-and-death decisions, Campbell had learned that there are no great options... you live with the results and shut up about the whole thing. For all his constant self-questioning, Lt. Campbell brought Joker One home with only one KIAâ€”a record as impressive as his account.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 17)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics praised Campbell as a gifted and deft writer who retells his Iraq tour in â€œpowerful, exacting detailâ€ (Dallas Morning News). While Campbell avoids much analysis of the war overall, or even his platoonâ€™s specific mission, most critics found this to be a virtue. As the New York Times noted, Campbell â€œnever quite puts his finger on the meaning, if any, of the extraordinary violence,â€ but he does â€œ[lay] it all out for anyone else who wants to have a try.â€ Only the Denver Post found Campbellâ€™s unreflective style trying, citing that the author â€œseems awkwardly obtuse when it comes to ascertaining the needs of other people.â€ Most reviewers, however, admired the bookâ€™s honest day-to-day look at attempting to quell the Iraqi insurgency.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7750'),
(5382, 'Jolie Wilkins 01 - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble', 'H P Mallory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8903'),
(5383, 'Jolie Wilkins 02 - Toil and Trouble', 'H P Mallory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8902'),
(5384, 'Jonathan &amp; the Witches', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11129');
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(5385, 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell', 'Susanna Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The international bestseller, finally in paperback! "Time "magazine''s #1 book of the year - 11 weeks and counting on the "New York Times" bestseller list - Shortlisted for the "Guardian "First Book Award - Longlisted for the Booker prize - A Book Sense pick - "People "Top Ten Books of the year - Salon.com Top Ten of 2004 - "New York Times "Notable Books of the Year - "Christian Science Monitor" Best Fiction 2004 - Nancy Pearl''s Top 12 Books of 2004 - "Washington Post" "Book World "Best of 2004 -" San Francisco Chronicle" Best Books of 2004 - "Chicago Tribune "Best of 2004 - "Seattle Times "25 Best Books of 2004 - "Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Top 12 Books of 2004 -" Village Voice" "Top Shelf" -" Raleigh News &amp; Observer "Best of 2004 - "Rocky Mountain News "critics'' favorites of 2004" "- "Kansas City Star" 100 Noteworthy Books of 2004 -" Fort Worth Star-Telegram" 10 Best Books of 2004 -" Hartford Courant" Best Books of 2004 Susanna Clarke''s brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two very different magicians who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history. Sold in 21 languages, with a major motion picture from New Line on the way, "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell "is a tour de force that has captured the imagination of readers worldwide. Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham, England, in 1959, the eldest daughter of a Methodist minister. She was educated at St Hilda''s College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of nonfiction publishing. She has published a number of short stories and novellas in American anthologies, including "Mr Simonelli, or the Fairy Widower," which was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001. Susanna lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland. A" New York Times "Notable Book of the YearA "Chicago Tribune" Best Book of 2004 In "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell" we find a debut novel marked by wonderfully vivid details, enchanting characters, and fantastic yet familiar situations--a grand and engrossing saga that reads, as "Salon.com" has noted, much like "when Harry Potter met Jane Austen." English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while the fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England''s magical past and regained some of the powers of England''s magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French. All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative--the very opposite of Mr. Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington''s army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Norrell, such power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to magic''s wildest, most perilous forms. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange''s heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear. Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke''s magisterial and widely celebrated novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of English history. "A gorgeous book of unforgettable images."--"People""What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it."--"USA Today""Combines the dark, wild spirit of English fantasy with the grand wit and high style of the 19th-century social novel . . . A grand performance--and the most sparkling literary debut of the year."--Laura Miller, "Salon""This book delivers splendid and unpredictable surprises . . . [It] also contrives witty interactions between its characters and real, renowned figures of the period . . . [Clarke presents] a brand new fantasy world, an intricate and fully imagined universe of bewitching tricks."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "I admire Susanna Clarke''s imaginative dexterity and deeply enjoyed "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell" . . . [This book is] magnificent and original, and that should be enough for any of us."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post Book World""The drawing-room social comedies of early 19th-century Britain are infused with the powerful forces of English folklore and fantasy in this extraordinary novel of two magicians who attempt to restore English magic in the age of Napoleon. In Clarke''s world, gentlemen scholars pore over the magical history of England, which is dominated by the Raven King, a human who mastered magic from the lands of faerie. The study is purely theoretical until Mr. Norrell, a reclusive, mistrustful bookworm, reveals that he is capable of producing magic and becomes the toast of London society, while an impetuous young aristocrat named Jonathan Strange tumbles into the practice, too, and finds himself quickly mastering it. Though irritated by the reticent Norrell, Strange becomes the magician''s first pupil, and the British government is soon using their skills. Mr. Strange serves under Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars (in a series of wonderful historical scenes), but afterward the younger magician finds himself unable to accept Norrell''s restrictive views of magic''s proper place and sets out to create a new age of magic by himself. Clarke manages to portray magic as both a believably complex and tedious labor, and an eerie world of signs and wonders where every object may have secret meaning. London politics and talking stones are portrayed with equal realism and seem indisputably part of the same England, as signs indicate that the Raven King may return. The chock-full, old-fashioned narrative (supplemented with deft footnotes to fill in the ignorant reader on incidents in magical history) may seem a bit stiff and mannered at first, but immersion in the mesmerizing story reveals its intimacy, humor, and insight, and will enchant readers of fantasy and literary fiction alike."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Rival magicians square off to display and match their powers in an extravagant historical fantasy . . . English author Clarke''s spectacular debut is something far richer than [Harry] Potter: an absorbing tale of vaulting ambition and mortal conflict steeped in folklore and legend, enlivened by subtle characterizations and wittily congenial omniscient authorial presence . . . Clarke sprinkles her radiantly readable text with faux-scholarly (and often hilarious) footnotes while building an elaborate plot that takes Strange through military glory, unsuccessful attempts to cure England''s mad king, travel to Venice and a meeting with Lord Byron, and on a perilous pursuit of the fabled Raven King, former ruler of England, into the world of Faerie, and Hell. There''s nothing in Tolkein, Mervyn Peake, or any of their peers that surpasses the power with which Clarke evokes this fabulous figure''s tangled ''history.'' The climax, in which Strange and Norrell conspire to summon the King, arrives--for all the book''s enormous length--all too soon. An instant classic, one of the finest fantasies ever written."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4791'),
(5386, 'Journals of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; David Harriman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From *Journals of Ayn Rand*, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us. Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to conveyy them in *We the Living*. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks, *The Fountainhead* and *Atlas Shrugged*, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death, *Journals of Ayn Rand* illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages, Ayn Rand lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(5387, 'Journey', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s amazing to think that\n <em>\n  Journey\n </em>\n is Danielle Steel''s 50th novel. What''s even more amazing is the high standard she has maintained throughout all her books: when an author is this prolific, there is usually a falling off in inspiration, but Steel seems able to add new elements to each book that keep the level of invention fresh.\n <em>\n  Journey\n </em>\n uses elements familiar from earlier Steel bestsellers, but manages a totally novel spin on the private problems of a very public marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Madeleine and Jack Hunter are one of Washington''s glittering couples. Jack is the head of a TV network, while Maddy is an award-winning anchorwoman. All around, people regard them as a golden couple: he advising the president on media issues, she at the top of the tree in her profession. Needless to say, the relationship we are shown behind the closed doors of their lavish Georgetown home is far more troubled than the public could ever know. As Maddy enjoys more and more career success, Jack''s resentment and desire for control grow daily, and her life becomes hell in this fracturing marriage. Steel manages, as always, to convey character in concise paragraphs:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  The diamond studs and her eight-carat engagement ring were her prize possessions. Not bad for a kid from a trailer park in Chattanooga, she often admitted to him, and he called her "poor white trash" when he wanted to really tease her. It was obvious that he thought calling her that was funny...\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n When Maddy joins the president''s wife in the latter''s newly formed commission on violence against women, the grim stories she hears from other terrified wives start her on a journey which will help her break the cycle of fear she is living through. Steel makes this situation resonate with a strong emotional impact, and the dark marriage is painted with the kind of skill we have come to expect from her. When Bill Alexander, a high-flying scholar and diplomat, enters the narrative and realizes what is happening in Maddy''s marriage, the story is taken to a powerful new level, with their growing affection treated intelligently and sympathetically.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marital abuse in its most insidious form is the focus of Steel''s (The House on Hope Street, etc.) dependable page-turner, her 50th novel. To the outside world, Washington, D.C., television coanchor Maddy Hunter appears to have an enviable life. Married to her boss, former football star-cum-media mogul Jack Hunter, she''s got brains, beauty, a prestigious job, a glamorous marriage and all the trappings of success. Yet MaddyAwhose current husband saved her from a physically abusive former spouseAis trapped in another relationship that''s as devastating and destructive as her first. Jack doesn''t hit Maddy, but he subjects her to mind games, put-downs and constant undermining; it''s obvious psychological abuse to observers, though not to Maddy. Using Maddy''s participation in a commission on violence against women chaired by the nation''s First Lady, Steel explicates the various forms of spousal abuse, and although the text occasionally gets preachy, the desperate plight of women who remain in destructive situations is clearly delineated. Meanwhile, Maddy warily builds a friendship with Bill Alexander, a fellow committee member and former ambassador to Colombia whose wife was killed by kidnappers. Maddy''s experience interacting with women like herself and the appearance of a daughter she gave up for adoption as an unwed teenager (and whom Jack forbids her to see) both have an impact. Still, it takes a life-threatening event to convince her finally to change her life and accept the gift of a good man''s love. Steel has her formula down pat, and she executes her story with her usual smooth pacing.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6027'),
(5388, 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric creatures are in abundance. But in the bowels of the earth, a shocking discovery pits the travellers face to face with their own terrifying past. Jules Verne''s A Journey to the Center of the Earth has been read by millions of inquisitive minds and has influenced some of the worlds most famous explorers such as Admiral Byrd, who announced on his 1926 expedition to the North Pole that "it is Jules Verne who is bringing me." And renowned cave explorer Norbert Casteret said in 1938 that A Journey to the Center of the Earth was a "marvelous book which impressed and fascinated me more than any other. I have re-read it many times, and I confess I sometimes re-read it still, each time finding anew the joys and enthusiasm of my childhood."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2459'),
(5389, 'A Journey: My Political Life', 'Tony Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labourâ€™s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britainâ€™s dominant political figure of the last two decades.*A Journey* is Tony Blairâ€™s firsthand account of his years in office and beyond. Here he describes for the first time his role in shaping our recent history, from the aftermath of Princess Dianaâ€™s death to the war on terror. He reveals the leadership decisions that were necessary to reinvent his party, the relationships with colleagues including Gordon Brown, the grueling negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland, the implementation of the biggest reforms to public services in Britain since 1945, and his relationships with leaders on the world stageâ€”Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush. He analyzes the belief in ethical intervention that led to his decisions to go to war in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and, most controversially of all, in Iraq. *A Journey* is a book about the nature and uses of political power. In frank, unflinching, often wry detail, Tony Blair charts the ups and downs of his career to provide insight into the man as well as the politician and statesman. He explores the challenges of leadership, and the ramifications of standing up, clearly and forcefully, for what one believes in. He also looks ahead, to emerging power relationships and economies, addressing the vital issues and complexities of our global world.Few British prime ministers have shaped the nationâ€™s course as profoundly as Tony Blair, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come. Here, uniquely, we have his own journey, in his own words.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4161'),
(5390, 'Joy Bauer&#39;s Food Cures', 'Joy Bauer &amp; Carol Svec', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The ultimate guide to using food as medicine from the Nutrition expert for the Today Show, Joy Bauer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nutritional healing has gone mainstream and researchers at top universities are publishing studies that show how the right foods can help prevent, manage, and sometimes entirely reverse the defining symptoms of a wide range of health issues. Whether it''s unwanted pounds or high blood sugar, mood swings or digestive trouble, the cure can be what you eat every day.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Joy Bauer, a nutrition consultant to celebrities from actors to gold-medal winning athletes, explains exactly what to eat to lower high cholesterol and blood pressure, improve skin tone, sharpen memory, sleep better, and take charge of PMS, arthritis, and more. Each chapter focuses on one of the many conditions that drive people to seek Joy''s professional help and simulates a personal consultation. Readers walk away with up-to-the-minute, scientifically researched recommendations on particular foods to seek out and which ones to avoid, plus grocery lists, meal plans, recipes, and supplement recommendations presented in easy-to-follow 4-step prescriptive plans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6521'),
(5391, 'The Joy Luck Club', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York Times Bestseller In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother''s lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(5392, 'The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-To-Be', 'Tori Kropp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Labor and delivery nurse Kropp was troubled when she recognized several years back that women coming into the hospital to give birth were both ill-prepared and more anxious than ever. These women had read all the latest books and had taken classes, but with so much information available they were trusting writers and ''experts'' more than they trusted themselves. Kropp found that the humor and joy of pregnancy had been lost, and set out to help remedy the situation. Her book is a refreshing mix of medical information and helpful, nonjudgmental advice, which urges readers to inform themselves but also to relax and enjoy the special time and anticipation of pregnancy. Each chapter explains what''s happening to your body (increased hormone levels) and your baby (its size and development) each month. Kropp covers topics like weight gain, which medications are safe to take, bed rest and genetic testing. Also included is a practical monthly rundown of what you can do to prepare for your baby''s arrival (register at your hospital, choose a pediatrician, etc.) and a list of necessary products, furniture, clothing and gear. Years of experience working with pregnant women gives Kropp a reassuring voice, and her book is sure to leave readers feeling more preparedâ€”and less frightenedâ€”about the journey of pregnancy.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Joy of Pregnancy\n </em>\n is a must-read for all pregnant women. Tori Kropp explains the joy and wonder of being pregnant, and offers the practical advice and information women need to make the most of their pregnancies. I strongly recommend this book. --Will Hammett, M.D., Central Ohio Ob/Gyn\n</p>\n<p>\n As a longtime perinatal nurse and childbirth educator who works with expectant families every day, Tori Kropp shares her abundant wealth of wisdom and experience in\n <em>\n  The Joy of Pregnancy\n </em>\n . This is one pregnancy book that truly captures the excitement, anticipation, fun, and joy of this special time in a woman''s life; I highly recommend it. --Kathleen Huggins, R.N, M.S., author of the best-selling\n <em>\n  Nursing Mother''s Companion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This is definitely not just another book about pregnancy. Tori Kropp should be applauded for adopting a fresh, positive, and enjoyable attitude toward pregnancy issues. Once you have this friendly companion in hand, you''ll find it difficult to part with. --Michael Katz, M.D., San Francisco Perinatal Associates\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11177'),
(5393, 'Joy School', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11116'),
(5394, 'JQuery: Novice to Ninja', 'Earle Castledine &amp; Craig Sharkie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n jQuery: Novice to Ninja is a compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. In this question-and-answer book on jQuery, you''ll find a cookbook of ready-to-go solutions to help breathe life into your web page.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics covered include: - Scrolling, Resizing and Animating Webpage elements - Backgrounds, Slideshows, and Crossfaders - Menus, Tabs, and Panels - Buttons, Fields, and Controls - Lists, Trees, and Tables - Frames, Windows, and Dialogs - Adding interactivity with Ajax - Using the jQuery User Interface Themeroller - Writing your own jQuery plug-ins\n</p>\n<p>\n All code used to create each solution is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the "web of hard knocks", Earle Castledine (Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything to do with computers. A Senior Systems Analyst and JavaScript expert - he is equally happy in the muddy pits of .NET code as in the fluffy fields of client-side interaction development. Co-creator of the client-side opus TurnTubelis, Earle recognizes the Internet not as a lubricant for social change, but as a vehicle for unleashing frivolous ECMAScript gadgets and interesting time-wasting technologies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Craig Sharkie''s intricate knowledge of best-practice JavaScript is apparent in his writing. He began his jQuery journey as a Fine Arts graduate turned programmer, and has successfully worked with some of the Web''s biggest names. Craig discovered JavaScript in 1995 and has been an evangelist for the "good parts" since then. This is your chance to benefit from Craig''s extensive experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6812'),
(5395, 'JRRTolkien - a Biography', 'Humphrey Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9475'),
(5396, 'JS_santa', 'Joanne Smyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11058'),
(5397, 'The Judas Gate', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Treachery has a price in the mesmerizing new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling writer. A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them-the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting down the traitor. But Dillon has his own way of doing things and, he will eventually discover, so does his quarry. Dillon will not only be going to war-the war will be coming to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2119'),
(5398, 'the Judas Goat (1978)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10567'),
(5399, 'The Judas Goat', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He''s gone to track down a bunch of bombers who''ve blown away his client''s wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn''t choosy. But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn''t counted on her being very blond, very beautiful and very dangerous. "Spenser is Boston''s answer to James Bond...with a little Sam Spade and Nero Wolfe thrown in...Irreverent, witty, worldly...makes for fast, amusing reading." (Pittsburgh Press)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4038'),
(5400, 'Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery', 'April Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. At the start of Smith''s superb third thriller to feature Ana Grey (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Good Morning, Killer\n </em>\n ), the FBI special agent, who''s still recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder after shooting a crazed detective on a suicide mission seven months earlier, learns that the skeletal remains of her missing onetime fiancÃ©, fellow special agent Steve Crawford, have turned up in Oregon''s Cascade Mountains. Ana later finds out Steve was murdered by members of an anarchist group with a penchant for homemade bombs. After training at the FBI''s undercover school, Ana uses an alias to penetrate the group, which includes a former FBI agent gone bad, Dan Stone. As Allfather Stone plots a terrorist act he calls the Big One, Ana must burrow through layers of paranoia to discover the precise threat the FBI is dealing with. Ana''s nuanced and coolly observational narrative voice perfectly complements the well-paced action, which builds to a satisfying conclusion that leaves open the next chapter of Ana''s story.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA genuinely scarifying thriller with a consistently vertiginous, through the looking glass mood. Every character is a hologram of sorts and every episode has the momentum of a theme-park ride. One of Smithâ€™s cleverest tricks here is her unsettling depiction of unlikely alliances: Ana turns out to have more in common with the villain, Stone, than she might ever have imagined.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA feverishly pitched adventure . . . With every dynamic scene, including a wild mustang roundup that thunders right off the page, the reader, like Ana, is reminded of the lost ideals and divided loyalties that make these mortal conflicts so bloodyâ€“and so sad.â€\n <br />\n â€“Marilyn Stasio, _New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWhy does the FBI still seem so sexy? Part of the reason is murder mysteries like April Smithâ€™s\n <em>\n  Judas Horse\n </em>\n . . . Itâ€™s creepy, chest-thumping stuff, with snitches and loyalty tests and the good guys and villains constantly in flux.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Los Angeles Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA runaway but cagey novel that never lets up . . . The incidents with which Ana must deal [at FBI undercover school] are so fast, harrowing, and breathtaking that they are like skiing down the expert slope while juggling vials of nitroglycerine.â€\n <br />\n â€“Otto Penzler, _New York Sun\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmithâ€™s superb third thriller to feature Ana Grey . . . Anaâ€™s nuanced and coolly observational narrative voice perfectly complements the well-paced action, which builds to a satisfying conclusion that leaves open the next chapter of Anaâ€™s story.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Publishers Weekly _(starred)\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œSmith does a convincing job of conveying the trials of maintaining a dual identity . . . The narrative is fast-paced without becoming frantic, and the intertwining story lines are deftly handled. Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA demonic ride through undercover terrain . . . Smith creates an undercover training regime for Ana that the FBI might do well to emulate. Sheâ€™s so expert at implanting stress that you could become bipolar just from reading one chapter. Feisty, disturbing and exceptionally well done.â€\n <br />\n _ â€“Kirkus Reviews _(starred)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5099'),
(5401, 'The Judas Strain', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The special-ops trained scientists of Sigma Force battle the criminals of the shadowy Guild in bestseller Rollins''s lively third Sigma Force thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Black Order\n  </em>\n  ). An ancient and deadly plague, the Judas Strain (which afflicted Marco Polo), has suddenly re-emerged. Gray Pierce, a Sigma operative, and Seichan, a Guild defector, pursue clues to the nature of the plague to the Vatican, Istanbul (with a fine shootout in the Hagia Sophia mosque), Marco Polo''s tomb and, finally, Cambodia''s Angkor Wat. Meanwhile, Guild members hijack a cruise ship full of plague victims (to provide experimental subjects for the weaponizing of the plague), and Gray''s parents are taken hostage (though the senior Grays prove feistier than their kidnappers reckon). Sophisticated the plot isn''t, but Rollins includes more than enough action and suspense to keep readers turning pages.\n  <em>\n   8-city author tour. (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crack, ultrasecret Sigma Force team returns in another adventure that, as usual, unfolds at breakneck speed. Sigma Force, made up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various scientific fields ("killer scientists," one of their number calls them), scours the world for technologies that could help or threaten the U.S. This time the group''s mission involves a devastating bacteriological plague, a mysterious cryptogram that may predate humanity, and the deadly truth about what happened after Marco Polo''s expedition to China. After a handful of Sigma Force novels, Rollins has fine-tuned the formula to precision: characters rendered in broad strokes, punchy dialogue, short paragraphs that propel us headlong through the story. The novels are like prose versions of comic books, or lightly fleshed out movie treatments. But this is not a criticism, at least not completely. The books'' style perfectly matches their subject matter, and it''s impossible not to be swept up by their energy and excitement. Action/adventure fans unfamiliar with Rollins'' work should be emphatically urged to read this series.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7299'),
(5402, 'Jude the Obscure', 'Thomas Hardy &amp; Amy M. King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Jude the Obscure\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Thomas Hardy\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   <em>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </em>\n   pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Virginia Woolf called him â€œthe greatest tragic writer among English novelists,â€ but\n  <strong>\n   Thomas Hardy\n  </strong>\n  was so distressed by the shocked outrage that greeted\n  <em>\n   Jude the Obscure\n  </em>\n  in 1895 that he decided to quit writing novels.Â  For in telling the story of Jude Fawley, whose many attempts to rise above his class are crushed by society or the forces of nature, Hardy had attacked Victorian societyâ€™s most cherished institutionsâ€”marriage, social class, religion, and higher education.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  A poor villager, Jude Fawley longs to study at the elite University of Christminster, but his ambitions are thwarted by class prejudiceâ€”and an earthy country girl who tricks him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant.Â Â  Entrapped in a loveless marriage, he becomes a stonemason and falls in love with his cousinâ€”the intellectual, free-spirited Sue Bridehead, who is also unhappy in marriage.Â  Sue leaves her husband to live with Jude and eventually bears his children out of wedlock.Â  Their poverty and the weight of societyâ€™s disapproval begin to take their toll on the couple, forcing them into a shattering downward spiral that ends in one of the most shocking scenes in all of literature.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A stunning masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   Jude the Obscure\n  </em>\n  is Hardyâ€™s bleakest and most personal novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amy M. King\n  </strong>\n  is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology, and the author of\n  <em>\n   Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel\n  </em>\n  , forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is also the author of articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and has taught widely in the English novel at Haverford College and Caltech. King received her doctorate in 1998 from Harvard University in English and American Literature and Language.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From Amy M. Kingâ€™s Introduction to\n   <em>\n    Jude the Obscure\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardyâ€™s stature as a novelist when\n  <em>\n   Jude the Obscure\n  </em>\n  was published guaranteed him a certain degree of critical attention, but the attention he was to receive was so negative as to alter the course of his career.\n  <em>\n   Jude the Obscure\n  </em>\n  was Hardyâ€™s final novel. In one of the strangest turns in literary history, Hardy at the age of fifty-five turned to poetry, which he continued to write until his death in 1928 at the age of eighty-eight. In letters to close friends he pretends a somewhat jaunty indifference to the negative response to\n  <em>\n   Jude\n  </em>\n  , but in an essay entitled â€œThe Profitable Reading of Fiction,â€ which appeared in the journal\n  <em>\n   Forum\n  </em>\n  in 1888, Hardyâ€™s defensiveness about readers suggests the effect the reception of his novel would have upon him:\n </p>\n <p>\n  A novel which does moral injury to a dozen imbeciles, and has bracing results upon a thousand intellects of normal vigor, can justify its existence. . . . It is unfortunately quite possible to read the most elevating works of imagination in our own or any language, and, by fixing the regard on the wrong sides of the subject, to gather not a grain of wisdom from them, nay, sometimes positive harm. What author has not had his experience of such readers?â€”the mentally and morally warped ones of both sexes, who will, where practicable, so twist plain and obvious meanings as to see in an honest picture of human nature an attack on religion, morals, or institutions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If Hardy had become wary of a certain kind of reader, his bitterness toward what he calls â€œthe mentally and morally warped onesâ€ did not prevent him from continuing to believe that such â€œimbecilesâ€ numbered in the dozens, not the thousands. He continued to tinker with the novel in subsequent editions. In the 1903 edition he tempered the scene in which Arabella throws the pig genitals at Jude, while in the 1912 edition he introduces some two hundred small but nevertheless effectively important changes. These changes, which the edition you read here reflects, are generally considered to have been softening gestures to the depiction of Sue. For instance, as the bibliographical critic Robert Slack has shown, in the 1903 edition Jude threatens to return to Arabella unless Sue consents to live with him (and, it is inferred, become his sexual partner), and Sue agrees to it because he has â€œconqueredâ€ her; in the 1912 edition, Sueâ€™s acquiescence is the result of love. The key words â€œI do love youâ€ are included seventeen years after the first publication of the novel. The revisions that Hardy makes go beyond an authorâ€™s usual attention to errors in early editions.\n  <em>\n   Jude\n  </em>\n  clearly stayed with Hardy in the years following his switch to poetry, though whether we should understand that switch in light of a renunciation inspired by the extremity of the negative reaction to\n  <em>\n   Jude\n  </em>\n  or as an excuse for returning to the genre (poetry) with which he began his writing career is less certain; it was, if nothing else, a decisive one.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7789'),
(5403, 'Judge &amp; Jury', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From #1 bestselling author James Patterson comes the ultimate legal thriller where the judge and jury are terrified. The verdict: run for your life. Failing to escape jury duty, aspiring actress Andie DeGrasse ends up as Juror #11 in a landmark case. In this new Trial of the Century, a Mafia don known as the Electrician is linked to hundreds of gruesome crimes. Tracking this ruthless killer for years, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante fears that the defendant''s power reaches far beyond the courtroom, even if the FBI''s evidence is ironclad. Just as the jury finishes deliberations, the Electrician makes a devastating move that shocks the entire nation - and shatters Andie''s world. Now she and Pellisante must hunt for the Electrician before he executes his most horrifying endgame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2028'),
(5404, 'Judgment in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this futuristic series combining mystery and suspense, police lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks down a cop killer to an underground criminal hellhole known as Purgatory. This club is the last chance for atonement--a place where one''s fate depends on one''s most intimate sins. By Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2375'),
(5405, 'Juggler of Worlds', 'Larry Niven; Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings . . . Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth''s secret weapon, humanity''s best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth''s traitors and adversaries, even after the race he reperesents abruptly vanishes from Known Space. As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift... But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3118'),
(5406, 'Julia Alvarez', 'In the Time of Butterflies (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9358'),
(5407, 'Julia&#39;s Kitchen Wisdom', 'Julia Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?How do you skim off fat?What is the perfect way to roast a chicken? Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questions-and so many more-in the masterly books she published over the course of her career. But which one do you turn to for which solutions? Over the years Julia also developed some new approaches to old problems, using time-saving equipment and more readily available products. So where do you locate the latest findings? All the answers are close to hand in this indispensable little volume: the delicious, comforting, essential compendium of Julia''s kitchen wisdom-a book you can''t do without. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2288'),
(5408, 'Juliet, Naked', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England''s bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who''s gone into seclusion in rural America - or at least that''s what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker''s work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three.Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeed life evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3076'),
(5409, 'The Julius House', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Love at first sight turns into newlywed bliss for former librarian Aurora Teagardenâ€” until violence cuts the honeymoon short.Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But both the house and Martin come with murky pasts. And when Roe is attacked by an ax-wielding maniac, she realizes that the secrets inside her four wallsâ€”and her brand-new marriageâ€”could destroy her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(5410, 'The Jumbee', 'Pamela Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A teenage actress falls for a mysterious stranger in this haunting romance, reminiscent of The Phantom of the Opera. High-school senior Esti Legard and her mother have moved to the Caribbean after the death of Estiâ€™s father, a famous Shakespearean actor. While playing Juliet at her prestigious performing-arts high school, Esti starts receiving acting instruction from a disembodied voice in the theater. Frightened that she is being courted by a jumbee, or ghost, Esti tries to switch her attention to charming flesh-and-blood Rafe, but she continues to be seduced by the velvety-voiced persona, which seems to read her mind. When Estiâ€™s real and imagined worlds collide in the climax of a tropical hurricane, her secrets are revealed, along with those of her conflicted island community, where descendants of slaves and slave owners alike live in an uneasy peace. The lushly described exotic setting breathes new life into the classic star-crossed story line. Romance fans will enjoy the fascinating locale along with the slow-building suspense and incidental acting lessons. Grades 8-12. --Jennifer Hubert\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Esti Legard starts theater school on Cariba, she''s determined to step out of the shadow of her late father, a famous Shakespearean actor. But on an island rife with superstition, Esti canÃ•t escape the darkness. In the black of the theater, an alluring phantom voiceÃ‘known only as AlanÃ‘becomes her brilliant drama tutor, while in the light of day Esti struggles to resist her magnetic attraction to Rafe, the local bad boy. Toppled sets, frightening rumors of jumbee ghosts, and brewing tropical storms culminate in a tantalizingly spooky finale where romance sizzles and truths are unmasked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Laced with eerie mystery and the lush scenery of the West Indies, this modern Phantom is perfect for readers who like their love stories served with spine-tingling suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4599');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(5411, 'Jump!', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Etta Bancroft -- sweet, kind, beautiful -- adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta''s selfish, ambitious son and daughter drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood and act as unpaid Nanny to their children. Her neighbour, powerful tycoon and ex-footballer Valent Edwards, has bought the big house next door. One night Etta finds a horribly mutilated filly in the snow in Valent''s woods, and persuades the outraged Valent to take her in. Miraculously she pulls through, and by now called Mrs Wilkinson, captivates everyone in the village. Tests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse. After a nail-biting court case, Mrs Wilkinson is awarded to Etta, thus ensuring the lasting and vengeful enmity of her evil former trainer and owner. Etta forms a village syndicate to put the filly into training. The syndicate is a riotous mix of village characters, who set off to the races in a minibus clanking with bottles. From wild parties at Newbury and Ludlow, to an overnight of musical beds at Stratford, to the thrills and spills of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one fling leads to another and another. Mrs Wilkinson becomes a star nicknamed the People''s Pony. She is beloved by the crowds as she progresses from point-to-points to the major meetings and brings fame and fortune to the syndicate. After her terrible injuries she will only run for a female jockey, giving the delectable Amber Lloyd-Foxe, Rupert''s god-daughter, her big breakthrough in the man''s world of racing. But Etta is horrified when Valent cooks up a plot with Rupert to enter Mrs Wilkinson for the Grand National. Can she be the first mare in thirty years, and Amber the first woman ever, to conquer this mighty race?In **Jump!** you will meet rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers and gallant stable lads and lasses; you will get to know the tough, brave jockeys; and you will fall in love with the horses,and above all with Mrs Wilkinson herself -- hilarious, heroic and so gutsy she will gallop into your heart forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1558'),
(5412, 'Jumper', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written In The 1990S By American Author Steven Gould, Jumper Is The Inspiration For The Film Of The Same Name To Be Released In Feb 08 And Starring Samuel L Jackson. It Tells The Story Of Davy Rice, Played By Hayden Christensen, As He Escapes His Tortured Childhood To Explore The World Via Teleportation And Find His Long Lost Mother. At Seventeen The World Is At Your Feet&amp; Especially If You Can Teleport. David Rice Barely Remembers His Mother. She Left His Alcoholic Father When Davy Was Very Young. She Left Davy Too, And Since Then All Of William Rice''S Abusive Anger Has Been Focused On His Young Teenage Son. One Evening, As He Is About To Receive Another Brutal Beating, Davy Shuts His Eyes And Wishes To Be Safe. When He Opens Them Again, He Finds Himself In His Small Town''S Library. Slowly, He Realises He Is Very Special, He Can Teleport. Armed With His New Power, Davy Sets Out With New Purpose: He Will Leave His Abusive Home And Find His Long Lost Mother. Davy''S Confidence Grows As His Skills Do, But They Also Draw Unwanted Attention And Soon Davy Finds That He Too Is Hunted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3378'),
(5413, 'Jumper Cable', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the thirty-third thrilling escapade in Piers Anthonyâ€™s rousing Xanth fantasy series, an adventurous arachnid named Jumper must assume human form to save the enchanted realm from a cosmic peril. A cataclysmic battle between two all-powerful Demons has severed a mystical connection that joins Xanth to our own world. The key to restoring it is hidden within a cryptic prophecy that Jumper discovers when he is suddenly transformed from spider to man. As he sets out to discern the prophecy''s meaning, he gathers about him a half dozen alluring damsels who do their best to help him solve the riddle while vying for his attentions. But a seductive siren and her demonic consort have determined to use their wiles to lure Jumper and his lovely companions away from their urgent mission. In a madcap adventure that is alternately harrowing and hilarious, they soon discover that danger, deception, and even true love may be found where they least expect it. In *Jumper Cable*, master storyteller Piers Anthony spins a wild and witty web of wonder that is sure to captivate fans of fantastic adventure everywhere!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3307'),
(5414, 'Jumper: Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Griffin has a secret. Itâ€™s a secret that heâ€™s sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell.Â Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been.Â  The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret.Â The most important time was when he was nine.Â That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents.Â Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him. Â  Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. And a Jumper bent on revenge is not going to let anything stand in his way. Â  *Jumper*, based on Steven Gould''s earlier novel of the same name, will be aÂ  major motion picture scheduled for release by 20th Century Fox starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Doug Limon.Â Â *Jumper:Â Griffin''s Story*Â features the character played by Jamie Bell in the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3377'),
(5415, 'The Jungle Books', 'Rudyard Kipling; Lisa Makman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Jungle Books*, by **Rudyard Kipling**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Action, adventure, and excitement spill from the pages of **Rudyard Kipling**â€™s best-loved collections of stories, *The Jungle Books*. Set in magical, mysterious India, these tales of people and animals living together--though not always harmoniously--in the world of nature have appealed equally to children and adults since their first appearance more than a century ago. Most focus on Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach their beloved Â“man-cubâ€ the ways of the jungle, Mowgli gains the strength and wisdom he needs for his frightful fight with Shere Khan, the tiger who robbed him of his human family. But there are also the tales of Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose and his Â“great warâ€ against the vicious cobras Nag and Nagaina; of Toomai, who watches the elephants dance; and of Kotick the white seal, who swims in the Bering Sea. This edition includes both the original *Jungle Book* (1894) and *The Second Jungle Book* (1895), written in response to the originalâ€™s enormous success. **Lisa Makman**** is visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research focus on Victorian culture and childrenâ€™s and adolescent literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3677'),
(5416, 'The Jungle', 'Upton Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Jungle*, by **Upton Sinclair**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Upton Sinclair**â€™s muckraking masterpiece *The Jungle* centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicagoâ€™s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians. While Sinclairâ€™s main target was the industryâ€™s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. (At the time of *The Jungle*â€™s publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was *Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin*.) Today, *The Jungle* remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges.**Maura Spiegel** teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of *The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History*. She coedits *Literature and Medicine*, a journal.************\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3546'),
(5417, 'Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 2-4. In another hilarious, easy chapter book about Junie B. Jones, the irrepressible kindergartner veers from catastrophe to rapture and back again. This time she has trouble deciding what to be on Job Day. Older kids will laugh at Junie''s mistakes and misunderstandings, especially with language, and they''ll remember their own bewilderment and bloopers. She gets punished for shooting off her big fat mouth ("Punishment is the school word for sitting at a big table all by yourself"). She''s frank that the Pledge of Allegiance is a jumble for her ("I don''t know what that dumb story is even talking about"). She''s heartbroken to discover that Mickey Mouse isn''t real. When she hates, she hates (even her "bestest" friend); when she''s humiliated, she can''t bear it ("I hided my head"). Brunkus'' energetic drawings pick up the slapstick action and the spunky comic hero.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Another hilarious, easy book about Junie B. Jones."--_Booklist _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7830'),
(5418, 'Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She''s funny, she''s outrageous, she''s bigger than life. I''m in love with Junie B....and with Barbara Park''s warm, wonderful, laugh-aloud stories." -- Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Newbery Honor Book\n  <strong>\n   Lily''s Crossing\n  </strong>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s a mushy gushy mystery!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hurray! February 14 -- Valentime''s Day, Junie B. calls it -- is just around the corner. Junie B. can''t wait to see all the valentimes she''ll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined to find out!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7823'),
(5419, 'Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 2^-4. Junie B. Jones is back, as intense, vulnerable, and funny as ever, in this chapter book that''s part of the First Stepping Stone Book series. Always, she wants to be the "bestest winner of anyone," but in her school carnival, she loses and loses, and when the kids laugh (especially that boy Jim that she HATES), it ruins her "self-steam." The innocent first-person narrative of this kindergarten kid will make lower-school readers laugh out loud at her mispronunciations as they recognize their own confusion and failure, then and now.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The innocent first-person narrative will make lower-school readers laugh out loud at her mispronunciations as they recognize their own confusion and failure." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7824'),
(5420, 'Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 2-3?Junie''s kindergarten classmates convince her that an invisible monster lives under her bed. Her parents and grandmother are unable to convince her otherwise until Junie hits upon the idea of putting her unflattering school picture under the bed to frighten the monster. In Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, the little girl discovers that "finders keepers losers weepers" is not an appealing philosophy when she loses the special gloves her grandfather gave her and the child who finds them doesn''t take them to the lost and found. Junie''s first-person narration is sprinkled with deliberate grammatical errors and misunderstood word usage in an attempt to show a five-year-old''s viewpoint ("I runned home," "They got stoled on purpose."). Precocious use of sophisticated language is also used to achieve an intended humorous effect. The black-and-white, full- and half-page illustrations reflect Junie''s cockeyed view of the world and will help attract beginning chapter-book readers. The issues the child is dealing with are right on target for the intended age group, but Junie''s personality is more annoying than endearing and the humor lacks freshness and spontaneity. Buy where the series is popular.?Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7828'),
(5421, 'Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kindergarten is just about to let out for the summer, and room 9 is going on a field trip to a farm. All the children squeal with joy--all but Junie B. Jones.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ''Cause guess what? Farms are not my favorites.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones, hilarious heroine of more than a dozen well-loved books, is mortally afraid of ponies. An imprudent babysitter once allowed her to watch a cable TV show called\n <em>\n  When Ponies Attack\n </em>\n , so a trip to a farm seems like the ultimate in reckless endangerment. Never mind the roosters, which, according to her classmate, Meanie Jim, can peck your head to a nub. It takes some pretty fast talking by Junie''s parents, teacher, and the farmer himself to get Junie to participate in the field trip, where she has a surprisingly good time. Until she bonds with Peep, a fluffy little chick, only to discover, to her horror, that Peep''s destiny is to become a rooster.\n</p>\n<p>\n Award-winning author Barbara Park has joined with illustrator Denise Brunkus to create a charmingly outrageous character with a precocious yet childish voice that readers will never forget: "After that my heart got very poundy inside. ''Cause I heard the sound of footprints, that''s why." Brunkus''s comical drawings of Junie and her friends are the "bestest" ever. Don''t miss any of the laugh-out-loud titles in the Junie B. Jones series. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It''s hard for anyone to resist Junie B."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s a real hoot!"--_School Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A genuinely funny, easily read story."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7829'),
(5422, 'Junie B. Jones Is (Almost) a Flower Girl', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. is a very grown-up little lady. So how come everyone treats her like a baby? It''s not fair. But Junie B. knows just how to fix the situation. Her aunt Flo is getting married. What a perfect chance for Junie B. to show everyone how grown-up she is! Too bad she wasn''t picked to be the flower girl in the wedding so she could really show off. But surely Junie B. can still find\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n way to get everyone''s attention.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7833'),
(5423, 'Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kindergarten-Grade 2-This exuberant kindergartner''s newest adventure begins with a visit to the local beauty shop. Fascinated with sitting in the "spinny" chair and helping the beautician give her dad a haircut, Junie decides that her hopes and dreams are wrapped up in scissors, smelly hair gel, and fluffy towels. When her father warns her that it takes years of hard work to learn how to cut hair, the girl takes his advice and starts practicing...on her bunny slippers, on the dog, and eventually on herself. When she goes to school wearing three hats to cover her unfortunate "sprigs," only her teacher and a session with the real beautician can save her. Parks does an excellent job of keeping her adult characters real, in charge, yet not overbearing. Junie''s teacher''s sympathy and understanding are heartwarming, and her dad''s exasperation is completely believable. Junie is always the focus and the one who solves the dilemma, this time by confessing to her teacher and admitting that she might need some help. Brunkus''s illustrations complete the child''s exploits. The honesty and inventiveness of this savvy kindergartner make the Junie B. books accessible and completely enjoyable.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Linda Bindner, formerly at Athens Clarke County Library, GA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7838'),
(5424, 'Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kindergarten-Grade 2?In this early chapter book, Junie, a boisterous, effervescent kindergartner, and her friend Grace invite themselves over to the home of Lucille''s wealthy grandmother, with whom the girl and her family live. They agree to help Lucille beg her "richie nanna" for a poodle. Once there, the girls find that everything in the house is exquisite?and untouchable. Lucille''s bedspread is silk and her huge stuffed animals cost a fortune. Junie accidentally drops a crystal glass, which shatters into pieces. Her hot dog slides off her fork onto a white Irish linen table cloth. The friends have a good time but Junie is glad to go home to her own nanna''s house where she can drink out of a plastic glass and not have to worry about breaking anything. Appealing black-and-white line-and-wash drawings extend the humorous situations. While parts of the story are funny and ring true, Junie''s babyish, immature grammar will quickly wear thin.?Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CT\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7825'),
(5425, 'Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones''s kindergarten teacher has some strange ideas about field day: "Field Day is a day to run around in the fresh air and enjoy the sunshine. We came out here to have fun and get some exercise. And we''re not going to care one little bit about who wins or who loses." Only what''s so fun about losing? That''s what Junie B. wants to know. In the great contest between room 8 and room 9, somehow, room 8 keeps winning all the events. As Captain Field Day of room 9, Junie B. is feeling her superpowers--and her good sportsmanship--slipping away. Can\n <em>\n  anyone\n </em>\n save the day?\n</p>\n<p>\n For beginning chapter-book readers, Junie B. Jones\n <em>\n  always\n </em>\n saves the day. As in\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , and the many other titles in Barbara Park''s series, Junie B.''s inimitable style wins her friends and fans everywhere. Denise Brunkus''s comical, expressive drawings capture all the joys and foibles of kindergarten life. With occasional "big" words (like\n <em>\n  slumped\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  sarcastic\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  apparently\n </em>\n ) and Junie B.''s grammatical curiosities, this witty book works best as a classroom read-aloud. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Afternoon kindergarten is having a field day, and Junie B. Jones is team captain! Only, here''s the problem. Room Eight keeps on winning too many events. And so how will Room Nine ever become the kindergarten champions? As Captain Field Day, will Junie B. find a way to lead her team to victory? Or will it be up to someone else to save the day?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7835'),
(5426, 'Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 2-3?Junie''s kindergarten classmates convince her that an invisible monster lives under her bed. Her parents and grandmother are unable to convince her otherwise until Junie hits upon the idea of putting her unflattering school picture under the bed to frighten the monster. In Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, the little girl discovers that "finders keepers losers weepers" is not an appealing philosophy when she loses the special gloves her grandfather gave her and the child who finds them doesn''t take them to the lost and found. Junie''s first-person narration is sprinkled with deliberate grammatical errors and misunderstood word usage in an attempt to show a five-year-old''s viewpoint ("I runned home," "They got stoled on purpose."). Precocious use of sophisticated language is also used to achieve an intended humorous effect. The black-and-white, full- and half-page illustrations reflect Junie''s cockeyed view of the world and will help attract beginning chapter-book readers. The issues the child is dealing with are right on target for the intended age group, but Junie''s personality is more annoying than endearing and the humor lacks freshness and spontaneity. Buy where the series is popular.?Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7832'),
(5427, 'Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 1^-2, younger for reading aloud. Junie B. Jones falls in love with the new boy in her kindergarten class in the latest First Stepping Stone Book about the eager pre-schooler and her friends. As with Lois Lowry''s\n <em>\n  See You Around, Sam\n </em>\n (1996), older kids will laugh at Junie''s klutzy innocence, even as they recognize their own vulnerability in the classroom and the school yard. Brunkus'' line drawings pick up the farce of Junie''s desperate efforts in the world of romance and rivalry.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7836'),
(5428, 'Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s going to be a Pet Day at school--only the rule is No Dogs! And\n</p>\n<p>\n that''s the only kind of pet Junie B. has! If Mother won''t let her get a new\n</p>\n<p>\n pet, then Junie B. will have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe a jar of\n</p>\n<p>\n ants? Or a wiggly worm? Or--could it be--something even better? The world''s\n</p>\n<p>\n funniest kindergartner is back in her twelfth book!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7837'),
(5429, 'Junie B., First Grader (At Last!)', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It had to happen. The spunkiest sass mouth in room 9 finally\n <em>\n  B.\n </em>\n I think I have mentioned that to you before... B., B., B., B., B.")\n</p>\n<p>\n The 18th installment in Barbara Park''s popular beginning chapter-book series puts our temperamental heroine into a brand-new class where she has to make brand-new friends. And as if that weren''t hard enough, her brand-new teacher, Mr. Scary ("He made that name up, I believe," Junie writes in a journal assignment), figures out that she needs eyeglasses. Will all the other kids laugh at her? Will that obnoxious Excellent-plus-getting May become even more obnoxious?\n</p>\n<p>\n With Park''s solid track record, the appeal of Junie B. just can''t be doubted-she can be a good friend to readers her age, which is a difficult grade level to find fun books for. And even kids who don''t need glasses will likely still giggle along as Junie B. plays "the E game" (an eye test) with the nurse, and kids who\n <em>\n  do\n </em>\n need glasses will find themselves with a strong (if a little scared at first) ally. (Ages 4 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 1-3-While first grade offers a whole year of exciting possibilities for Junie B., things get off to a confusing start. Feeling tentative about her new teacher, she renames him Mr. Scary. Her last year''s best friend now has two new best friends and her old bus pal has a new buddy. Then, Junie''s teacher discovers that she needs glasses. Now that is something to worry about. "What if Room One laughs their head off at me? What if I look like a goonie bird and no one wants to be my friend?" However, her classmates, who already agree that twins with rhyming names, a boy with a spiky gel hairdo, and bilingual Jose are fascinating, determine that Junie B. and her purple glasses are definitely cool. As always, Park is in touch with what the kids know and how they feel. A satisfying read, especially for fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sharon R. Pearce, Geronimo Public School, OK\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7834'),
(5430, 'Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader is thrilled when she is told she can help out Mrs. Gutzman in the school cafeteria and imagines what it will be like to be a professional lunch lady. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7827'),
(5431, 'Junie B., First Grader: One-Man Band', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones is thrilled. "The whole entire first grade" is planning a kickball tournament, and this feisty first grader daydreams about being the star of Room One. Unfortunately, where Junie B. goes, trouble must follow. "And itâ€™s called, I accidentally kicked my ball over the fence. And I didnâ€™t want to go get it. So I had to find something else to kick." That something else turns out to be her momâ€™s watering can--which happens to be full at the time. Now Junie B. has an owie on her piggy toe and it looks like she won''t be able to participate in the tournament. But wait! Her friend Sheldon can''t play kickball either, due to a spectacular fall in the classroom. Maybe these two can come up with an alternate plan that will still allow Junie B. to be the star!\n</p>\n<p>\n Barbara Parkâ€™s inexhaustible beginning chapter-book series has all the ingredients young readers like best: humor, repetition, predictability (with a few surprises), and lots of silly action. Grown-up readers might tire of the cute malapropisms, but kids will thrive on the "whole entire" series. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-3--In this adventure, Junie B. is sidelined by an injury and cannot participate in the first-grade kickball tournament. When her teacher offers her a chance to be a cheerleader, stage fright almost ruins her halftime performance, but the irrepressible protagonist comes through in the end. Text and illustrations work well together. Junie''s distinct and authentic voice speaks to beginning chapter-book readers. Her journal entries (complete with corrected spelling mistakes) are a nice counterpoint to the straightforward plot. Classroom politics, family dynamics, and the frustrations and triumphs of growing up are treated with humor and hope. This will be a hit where the series is popular._--Ellen M. Riordan, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7822'),
(5432, 'Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everybody''s favorite sass-mouth first grader comes back for her 23rd installment in this\n <em>\n  star\n </em>\n !"), but as with all Junie endeavors, expect a bumpy voyage.\n</p>\n<p>\n The usual classroom crew is back, including Lennie, Herbert, and Jose, and Junie doesn''t disappoint with her unintentionally hilarious asides ("Attendance is the school word for who isn''t here") and trademark wisdom ("Glitter can turn your whole day around"). (Ages 4 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-3â€“In another zany appearance, feisty Junie B. wins a starring role as the\n <em>\n  Pinta\n </em>\n , the "fastest" of Columbus''s ships, in a play to be presented on Parents'' Night. Amid typical kid-type disasters (a flu virus, arguments over staging, a frazzled teacher), the students in Room One have a dramaticâ€“and surprisingâ€“opening night. Like the other beginning chapter books in this series, Junie B. tells her story in simple, realistic language, including grammatical and spelling errors. Illustrations add humorous details. The interactions of the characters are consistently interesting, and the plot moves quickly. Readers will relate instantly to the trials and tribulations of this first grader, and her approach to conflict resolution and her unrefined social skills make good springboards for classroom discussion. This protagonist often offers examples of how not to handle a situation, but she is always endearing and wonderfully funny._â€“Corrina Austin, Locke''s Public School, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7831'),
(5433, 'Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder', 'Barbara Park &amp; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The inimitable Miss Jones stars in Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder by Barbara Park, illus. by Denise Brunkus. Junie is the first in her class to have a loose upper tooth. But she wants nothing to do with the Tooth Fairy and fears she''ll end up looking like her dentally challenged uncle. Ages 6-8.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-4-In this 20th book about Junie B., Parks hits on the universal theme of losing one''s first tooth. As the first person in her class to have this experience, Junie B. worries that she''ll look funny, but her teacher assures her that it is a momentous event in her life, and that she''ll look more grown up when the new one comes in. This, of course, delights the child. However, she is convinced that the tooth fairy is really a witch. After all, what would a tooth fairy do with all of those teeth? This is an ideal read-aloud to first graders and a choice that they will enjoy reading independently as they move into chapter books. Humorous black-and-white drawings show Junie B. as she interacts with her classmates and family.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jean Lowery, Bishop Woods Elementary School, New Haven, CT\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7826'),
(5434, 'The Jupiter Myth', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Davis''s 14th clever, witty adventure (after 2001''s A Body in the Bathhouse) starring the suave Marcus Didius Falco, from Ancient Rome, finds the informer/investigator plying his talents on the mean and muddy streets of Londinium, Britannia, in A.D. 75. In fact, almost everything about the growing community is mean, from its dark and dingy bars to the sprawling wharves and warehouses. The discovery of a body jammed headfirst into a bar''s well is enough to get Falco sent to the scene as an expert on unnatural death. Falco needs all his celebrated intelligence to survive the ensuing problems. Davis skillfully braids references to Britain''s future into her story of its past without ever diminishing the thrust of Falco''s adventures. And what adventures! The murder victim is a disgraced henchman of King Togidubnus, an important ally of Rome. Solving and avenging the death quickly is important to placate the king. Civil order is in disrepair, while the rapidly growing city is ripe pickings for the ambitious gangsters moving in from Rome, whom Falco and his friend Petronius, have battled before. An entourage that includes wife Helena, their two small children, his sister, Maia, and her four children gives Falco questionable help. This thoroughly entertaining addition can only burnish the luster of this fine series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lindsey Davis combines an engrossing plot with pithy dialogue and a comic (though not cartoonish) depiction of the past in all its gory splendour. The Guardian 20020802 Against this richly textured backdrop is played out a story of low-down greed and grubby deals, of backhanders and protection rackets, that pulls of the trick of feeling modern, exciting and plausible. The Sunday Times 20020802 Modern, exciting and plausible. Sunday Times As always, Davis weaves a plot full of humour, surprises and domestic irony. TLS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7178'),
(5435, 'Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Visitors to Jurassic Park, a natural area on a mysterious island where dinosaurs live, encounter danger and terror when the power fails and the dinosaurs are set free to roam and kill. SUMMARY: An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2241'),
(5436, 'Just a Geek', 'Wil Wheaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness, purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In the oddest of places, Topeka, Kansas, Wil discovered that despite his claims to fame, he was at heart\n <i>\n  Just a Geek\n </i>\n .\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path  to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role  in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on  television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next  Generation", Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness,  purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In the  oddest of places, Topeka, Kansas, Wil discovered that  despite his claims to fame, he was at heart Just a Geek.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this, his newest book, Wil shares his deeply personal and  difficult journey to find himself. You''ll understand the  rigors, and joys, of Wil''s rediscovering of himself, as he  comes to terms with what it means to be famous, or,  ironically, famous for once having been famous. Writing with  honesty and disarming humanity, Wil touches on the  frustrations associated with his acting career, his  inability to distance himself from Ensign Crusher in the  public''s eyes, the launch of his incredibly successful web  site, wilwheaton.net, and the joy he''s found in writing.  Through all of this, Wil shares the ups and downs he  encountered along the journey, along with the support and  love he discovered from his friends and family.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The stories in Just a Geek include:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - Wil''s plunge from teen star to struggling actor\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - Discovering the joys of HTML, blogging, Linux, and web design\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - The struggle between Wesley Crusher, Starfleet ensign, and Wil Wheaton, author and blogger\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - Gut-wrenching reactions to the 9-11 disaster\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - Moving tales of Wil''s relationships with his wife, step-children, and extended family\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n - The transition from a B-list actor to an A-list author\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wil Wheatonâ€”celebrity, blogger, and geekâ€”writes for the  geek in all of us.  Engaging, witty, and pleasantly  self-deprecating, Just a Geek will surprise you and make you  laugh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3423'),
(5437, 'Just After Sunset', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one *New York Times* bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since *Everything''s Eventual* six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling *Best American Short Stories 2007*, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of *Just After Sunset*. The stories in this collection have appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Playboy*, *McSweeney''s*, *The Paris Review*, *Esquire*, and other publications. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn''s character in *Wait Until Dark*. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient''s irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. *Just After Sunset* -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it''s a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It''s the perfect time for Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4288'),
(5438, 'Just Another Judgement Day', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world."\n <br />\n -Jim Butcher,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Dresden Files\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a new sheriff in town, and he''s got the Nightside''s rich and powerful quaking in their boots. He''s The Walking Man, and it''s his mission to exorcise sinners-with extreme prejudice. Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin and corruption, and The Walking Man makes no distinction between evildoers and those simply indulging themselves. He''ll leave the place a wasteland unless someone stops him, and P.I. John Taylor has been handed the job. No known magic or science can affect The Walking Man, and if John can''t discover his weakness, he''ll be facing the very Wrath of God...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5776');
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(5439, 'Just Deserts', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learning that her estranged husband has passed away is the biggest shock of Danielle Timberlakeâ€”Foster''s lifeâ€”until she learns that she wasn''t his only wife. Though Danielle and Marc were separated, she believed they were about to reconcile and start a family. Rocked by betrayal, Danielle sees her dreams slipping away. Until her brother''s best friend, Tristan Adams, offers support, comfortâ€”and a chance to have the child she''s always wanted. Danielle is drawn to Tristan''s strong, sensual nature, but she wed Marc in haste and regretted it. Is she about to repeat her mistake? Or will a marriage of convenience turn into the soulful union she''s always longed for?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n If it had been left up to Tristan Adams, he would not have given Danielle Timmons-Foster the news. But it hadn''t been left up to him. For the past two months her life had been one hellacious lie. A part of him wondered if one more lie wouldn''t hurt. But for Danielle he knew it would.\n</p>\n<p>\n And when she hurt, he hurt.\n</p>\n<p>\n She had dropped onto the sofa and was staring at him as if he had totally lost his mind. He almost wished he had. Or, at least, that this episode had been one long nightmare they would finally wake up fromâ€”and find that not only was her husband not dead, but that he hadn''t left three wives behind. Three wives who, until a couple of months ago, each assumed they were Mrs. Marc Foster. And now to add salt to the wound, he''d just told Danielle there might be a fourth woman out there with the title, as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tristan, please tell me you''re joking," Danielle said, her voice soft, low and sounding utterly defeated. "It''s a sick joke, but I''ll accept it. I don''t want to believe what you just said. I\n <em>\n  can''t\n </em>\n believe what you just said."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded slowly, understanding. He had been with her when she''d gotten the call two months ago that her husband of five years was dead after having choked onâ€”of all thingsâ€” his wedding ring. He''d also been with her at Marc''s funeral in California when they''d discovered she wasn''t the only Mrs. Foster. And he''d been by her side at the attorney''s office when it had been declared that the second wife, RenÃ©e, was the legal Mrs. Foster and that Danielle, his first wife, and Alexandra, his third, had gotten duped with phony marriage licenses.\n</p>\n<p>\n He released a long sigh and crossed the living room''s hardwood floor to sit beside Danielle on the sofa. He took her hand in his and tried to smile. "Dani, I stopped teasing you the day you began wearing your first training bra, remember?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He knew that would get a smile out of her. She would remember that day. It would remind her of happier times when her brother had been alive. Tristan couldn''t help but smile himself whenever he thought of Paul Timmons, his best friend since kindergarten. They''d lived in the same neighborhood and had gone to school together, had played peewee football and gone off to college togetherâ€”roommates at the University of Florida in Gainesville, a long way from their hometown of Port St. Lucie, Florida. And then when they''d finished college, they''d returned home to go into business together. They started A&amp;T Shipping Company, making it into a very successful corporation. Then the Iraq war started and Paul''s reserve unit was shipped out for duty. Paul never made it back home alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n "When will it end?" Danielle asked, her words intruding into his thoughts. "How could I have been married to a man and not know him the way I thought I did?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Tristan''s grip on her hand tightened. They had covered this ground before and he felt partly to blame. Danielle had been a well-known international model when she had been contacted about Paul''s death. Since their parents had gotten killed in a plane crash her first year in college, Paul had been all the family she''d had. Losing him had taken a toll on her. Claiming she was tired of the glitz and glamour of life as a successful fashion model, she had returned to Port St. Lucie to take over Paul''s role as Tristan''s partner.\n</p>\n<p>\n Barely two months after Paul''s death, Marc Foster had opened a business account, and since Danielle''s role was to wine and dine new clients, she had taken on Marc. If Tristan hadn''t been so torn up with grief himself over losing his best friend, he would have seen Marc for the conniving snake he was. Marc had set his sights on Danielle and less than a month later, Danielle had called to say she and Marc had eloped to Atlanta.\n</p>\n<p>\n The reason Tristan blamed himself was that he had promised Paul the day he''d left for Iraq that if anything were to happen to Paul, he would look after Danielle. Apparently he''d done a piss-poor job of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle pulled her hand from his, stood up and began pacing the floor. It wasn''t hard to realize she was madder than hell. He would be, too, if he were in her shoes.\n</p>\n<p>\n She had dropped by last night for dinner and he had talked her into spending the night, since the guest room practically had her name on it, anyway. He knew she thought of him as nothing more than her best friend and confidant. He was hoping that one day she would begin to see him as more.\n</p>\n<p>\n He leaned back in the sofa trying to recall when he had finally broken down and admitted to himself that he was in love with her. Had it been that day she''d called to say she''d eloped? That was probably the reason he had taken off a couple of days and drank himself into a stupor.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had called himself all kinds of fool for letting Marc into her life, but not once had Tristan gotten out of line or tried convincing her to divorce the guy. He''d respected her marriage. He''d even tried to like Marc. When he saw that he couldn''t, he''d gone five years and pretended he did.\n</p>\n<p>\n But he should have suspected something wasn''t on the up-and-up with the guy. Because Danielle confided in Tristan, he knew about the spats the couple had about Marc''s job as a salesman and the frequency of his out-of-town trips. He also knew that they were on bad terms around the issue of childrenâ€”Danielle wanted a child but Marc never seemed to have the time to slow down and give her one. Now they knew why. The man had been living a double life. Tristan took that back. Marc Foster had been living a\n <em>\n  triple\n </em>\n life. And now, according to Marc''s brother, Chris, who''d called late last night, there may have been a fourth woman involved.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who told you about the fourth woman?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at Danielle. She stoodâ€”all five foot eight of herâ€”in a stance he found totally sexy. She was an absolutely gorgeous woman whose face and body had once graced the covers of a number of magazines. Her face was tilted at a haughty angle, her hands were on her hips, her feet were bare, and she was wearing a short skirt with an even shorter ribbed top. Today she looked more like twenty than thirty, with a body that made men weep.\n</p>\n<p>\n His gaze zeroed in on her face. She had coffee-colored skin, dark almond eyes and lush, full lips. Her shoulder-length hair was tousled and sexy. She looked like she''d just crawled out of bed. Too bad it hadn''t been his.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dani didn''t know how he felt about her. Didn''t have a clue. She assumed their rela-tionshipâ€”as it had always beenâ€”was that of little sister and big brother. Boy, was she wrong. At thirty-four, he could no longer think of her as a little sister. She was a full-grown woman in every sense of the word. But he would continue to be her best friend until she finally opened her eyes to see just how things really were.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tristan?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Her saying his name reminded him that he hadn''t answered her question. "Chris called after you went to bed last night."\n</p>\n<p>\n She inhaled and he watched the movement of her chest when she did so. The low cut of her top displayed the top swell of her breasts. "Do Alex and RenÃ©e know?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He shrugged. "Yes. Chris mentioned he told RenÃ©e and that he had spoken to Hunter to relay the news to Alexandra."\n</p>\n<p>\n He thought about the three women, who at Marc''s funeral had quickly become bitter enemies. Over the past couple of months, however, after discovering that Marc had been a pathological liar, they had actually bonded. Marc had betrayed all three of them. And now there might be a fourth one out there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alexandra and Hunter Smith had gotten married last month, and RenÃ©e and Chris Foster were engaged and would be getting married later this month. Hunter was Chris''s friend. He''d agreed to fly to Atlanta and escort Alexandra to Marc''s funeral in California two months ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n "How did Chris find out?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Tristan hesitated before saying anything, deciding to give her the skimmed-down version without a lot of detail. If he told her everything, she''d be more upset. "It seems that Marc had a locker at the airport. Chris had all Marc''s mail at that post-office box in Costa Woods forwarded to him, and two days ago he received a renewal notice for the locker. Chris caught a plane out to California to check out the locker and found an apartment key inside it. After a little investigating he determined where the apartment was located and went there."\n</p>\n<p>\n "And?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "And from what he discovered, he reached the conclusion that there could be a fourth Mrs. Foster, or that Marc was planning another wedding. Chris leans toward the latter."\n</p>\n<p>\n "The bastard!"\n</p>\n<p>\n Tristan went to her and pulled her into his arms, wanting her to get her emotions out. She had cried in the attorney''s office when it was revealed that Marc was sterile, but he felt she was still holding a lot inside. She refused to let all of it out.\n</p>\n<p>\n She pulled away from his arms. "No, I won''t cry again," she said angrily. "If I cry again that means Marc has succeeded in humiliating me again. And I won''t let him."\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle walked back over to the sofa and calmly sat down. "Now, Tristan," she said in a composed voice, "does Chris know how to contact the woman?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He sat beside her. "No," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who''s been paying the rent?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris spoke with the landlord and it appears Marc had a paid-up lease for a full year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle nodded. "And from what Chris found at the apartment he''s pretty sure there might be a fourth woman?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, it''s a very good possibility."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8038'),
(5440, 'Just Imagine', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the Civil War over, Kit Weston, a.k.a. Katherine Louise of Risen Glory Plantation, South Carolina, travels to New York disguised as a boy to eliminate her newly named guardian and regain control of her beloved plantation. Unfortunately for Kit, Baron Cain proves difficult to kill, and when he discovers her identity, Baron promptly stashes her in a New York finishing school for young ladies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three years later, Kit returns to Risen Glory to find that Baron has restored the plantation to its former prosperity. Baron scarcely recognizes the hoyden he remembers in the mature, 21-year-old Kit. The instant passion that flares between them is unwanted by both and equally undeniable. Pushed to the edge, Baron threatens to banish Kit from her beloved plantation, and she commits an impulsive, nearly unforgivable act. Baron''s response is equally impossible and thrusts the pair into an intolerable situation. Wild and willful, passionate and wary, the two lovers must somehow find a way to overcome pride and distrust before there can be any likelihood of a loving resolution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers who love Phillips''s highly successful contemporary romances will be just as enthralled with this historical romance. Lush landscapes, complex characters, a charming cast of secondary players, and a subplot that takes a look at the effects of slavery and racist attitudes in the Old South all add up to an excellent novel. A rewrite of an early title,\n  <em>\n   Just Imagine\n  </em>\n  is classic historical romance at its best.\n  <em>\n   --Lois Faye Dyer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This rewritten, retitled version of Phillips''s 1984 Risen Glory is a classic tale of the Reconstruction Era, featuring a young Southern hellion who will do anything to reclaim her plantation, a Northern war hero who finds himself in possession of said plantation and guardian of the girl, and an abundance of well-defined secondary characters. It goes without saying that Baron Cain is definitely a hero of the first tier; but while he has some trust issues that he eventually overcomes with the help of the heroine it is Kit Weston''s transformation from a fiery, reckless teenager into a strong, determined, courageous woman that is truly memorable. Skillfully weaving issues of politics, power, slavery, poverty, and social class into the plot, this historical may not be what readers expect from Phillips, but her strong characters, lively humor, and excellent pacing are all there. Phillips is a best-selling, RITA Award-winning writer and lives in the Chicago area.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4644'),
(5441, 'Just Kids', 'Patti Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A prelude to fame, Just Kidsrecounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max''s Kansas City, Scribner''s Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol''s Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years--the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. Just Kidsbegins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5168'),
(5442, 'Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir', 'Mark Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Vonnegut on\n  <em>\n   Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I wrote\n <em>\n  Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n </em>\n because I was increasingly annoyed with my younger self, who had wrapped up everything with a bow. You can try but you donâ€™t just get to get over mental illness at age twenty-five, go to medical school, write a book, get married and call it a wrap.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the seventies I was in so in love with the medical model I almost thought I had invented it. "No shame. No blame." I was thrilled to not have my health be dependent on the sanity of society or the wellness of those around me. I was magnanimous about not wanting to credit insight or hard work or circumstances like the kindness of others. Now, the medical model has morphed into "Shut up and take your pills." What passes for care is medication, medication, and more medication, the purpose of which is only incidentally and occasionally to help the patient get a life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much of mental illness is genetic, but Iâ€™m now quite sure there are people with more or less the same genetics I have who never go crazy and others who never get well. As a kid who wrote a little and painted a little and played a little music, I certainly didnâ€™t want my mental health riding on anything as flimsy as my creative abilities but, among other things, Iâ€™ve come to see that a willingness to write, paint and play music is more than a little important to progress and just trying to keep my feet under me.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was the feeling that good things had happened to me in spite of myself, that I had a rich life that showed itself in my house and how I practiced pediatrics and how we lived as a family that made me want to write\n <em>\n  Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n </em>\n . Iâ€™m grateful to the gritty clench-jawed kid who wrote\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two not unrelated challenges--being novelist Kurt Vonnegut''s son and suffering episodes of schizophrenia--shape, but don''t confine, this mordantly witty, slightly subversive memoir. Vonnegut (The Eden Express) weathered a scruffy childhood with his as yet obscure dad ("I''ll always remember my father as the world''s worst car salesman") and was hospitalized for three bouts of psychosis in his 20s. He recovered and went on to Harvard Medical School and a successful career in pediatrics--then a fourth psychotic break upended him 14 years after the first one. (Taken to the hospital where he worked, he found himself greeting colleagues while tied to a gurney.) Vonnegut vividly conveys the bizarre logic of the voices and delusions that occasionally plagued him, which he finds not much nuttier than what passes for normalcy. (He''s especially incensed by the insurance bureaucracies he thinks are ruining medicine.) His father''s son, he writes with a matter-of-fact absurdism--"The patient who just died lies there quietly and everyone else stops rushing around trying to do something about it"--champions misfits, and attacks the system. All his own are Vonnegut''s hard-won insights into the value of a humble, useful life picked up from pieces. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6392'),
(5443, 'Just One Look (2004)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9597'),
(5444, 'Just One of the Guys', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Being one of the guys isn''t all it''s cracked up to beâ€¦ So when journalist Chastity O''Neill returns to her hometown, she decides it''s time to start working on some of those feminine wiles. Two tiny problems: #1â€”she''s five feet eleven inches of rock-solid girl power, and #2â€”she''s cursed with four alpha male older brothers. While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor and things start to look up. Now there''s only one problem: Trevor Meade, her first love and the one man she''s never quite gotten overâ€”although he seems to have gotten over her just fine. Yet the more time she spends with Dr. Perfect, the better Trevor looks. But even with the in-your-face competition, the irresistible Trevor just can''t seem to see Chastity as anything more than just one of the guys.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2902'),
(5445, 'Just One Wish', 'Janette Rallison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seventeen-year-old Annika Truman knows about the power of positive thinking. With a little brother who has cancer, itâ€™s all she ever hears about. And in order to help Jeremy, she will go to the ends of the earth (or at least as far as Hollywood) to help him believe he can survive his upcoming surgery. But Annikaâ€™s plan to convince Jeremy that a magic genie will grant him any wish throws her a curveball when he unexpectedly wishes that his television idol would visit him. Annika suddenly fi nds herself in the desperate predicament of getting access to a hunky star actor and convincing him to come home with her. Piece of cake, right? Janette Rallisonâ€™s proven talent for laugh-out-loud humor, teen romance, and deep-hearted storytelling shines in a novel that will have readers laughing and crying at the same time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1696'),
(5446, 'Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls', 'Brian Hodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9774'),
(5447, 'Just So Stories', 'Rudyard Kipling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9933'),
(5448, 'Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents', 'Betsy Brown Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBetsy Brown Braun is a master teacher and one of the wisest parenting experts I have ever known.â€ (--Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D., author of Children of Character: Leading Your Children to Ethical Choices in Everyday Life )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œParents of young children will find themselves reaching for this wonderful book by Betsy Brown Braun over and over again!â€ (--Reveta Bowers, Head of School, The Center for Early Education )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBetsy Brown Braun is a fine observer of children....This is a book I will recommend to all my parents.â€ (--Robert M. Landaw, M.D., Pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Parents are often perplexed by their children''s typical behaviors and inevitable questions. This down-to-earth guide provides "Tips and Scripts" for handling everything from sibling rivalry and the food wars to questions about death, divorce, sex, and\n <em>\n  "whyyyy?"\n </em>\n Betsy Brown Braun blends humor with her expertise as a child development specialist, popular parent educator, and mother of triplets. Whatever your dilemma or child''s questionâ€”from "How did the baby get in your tummy?" to "What does ''dead'' mean?" to "It''s not fair!"â€”Betsy offers the tools and confidence you need to explain the world to your growing child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10655'),
(5449, 'Just the Sexiest Man Alive', 'Julie James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fabulously fun, romantic comedy from a dynamic new talent.** Nothing fazes Taylor Donovanâ€”not in the courtroom and not in her personal life. So when sheâ€™s assigned to coach *People*â€™s â€œSexiest Man Aliveâ€ for his role in the next big legal drama, she refuses to fall for the Hollywood heartthrobâ€™s charms. Even if he is *the* Jason Andrews.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2771'),
(5450, 'Justice Hall', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front doorâ€¦literally.Itâ€™s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But itâ€™s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modeled on Paradise, that they fully understand the irony echoed in the family motto, Justicia fortitudo mea est: â€œRighteousness is my strength.â€A trail of ominous clues leads Holmes and Russell from an English hamlet to fashionable Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. But as the moment of reckoning approaches, will justice be doneâ€¦or have they been lured straight into an elusive killerâ€™s perfectly baited trap?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5355'),
(5451, 'Juxtaposition', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stile had problems on two different worlds. On Proton he was threatened with murder, and on Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic, he had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton. After that, he was ready to face the real problems!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book OneSPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book TwoBLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n BookThreeJUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stile had problems on two different worlds. On Proton he was threatened with murder, and on Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic, he had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton. After that, he was ready to face the real problems!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book OneSPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book TwoBLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n BookThreeJUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4592'),
(5452, 'JW_Serpent', 'Jonathan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9060'),
(5453, 'K Is for Killer', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn''t resist flirting with danger. Maybe that''s what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna''s body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn''t be certain she hadn''t died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file. Only Lorna''s mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder. So she hired Kinsey Millhone, P.I.Her eleventh letter into the alphabet is vintage Grafton, where our favorite private investigator finds herself facing dangerous consequences and the frightening possibility of a killer walking free.Look for other titles in the Alphabet Mystery Series from Random House AudioBooks.Judy Kaye has appeared on Broadway in Oh, Brother; Grease and On the Twentieth Century, and won the Tony Award for her performance in The Phantom of the Opera.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8197'),
(5454, '&quot;K&quot; is for killer', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can''t let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna''s young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution and pornography. She tangles with Lorna''s friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenaged hooker; Lorna''s sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4131'),
(5455, 'The Kadin', 'Bertrice Small', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie there would be no escaping the harem of the wealthy and powerful Sultan Selim. But from the moment the handsome ruler spied his breathtaking "Cyra," was captivated -- by the fiery desire that coursed through his veins. She belonged to him, body and soul -yet it was he who was enslaved.\n</p>\n<p>\n Praised for her keen sense of history and remarkable storytelling powers, the bestselling author of The Spitfire displays the passionate magic that has made her a national favorite -sweeping the reader into the romantic past, from the magnificence of Renaissance Europe to the perfumed splendor of a Sultan''s court.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatrice Small lives with her husband, George;\n <br />\n Deuteromony, the long-haired Maine Coon Cat;\n <br />\n Checquers, the fat black and white cat with the pink\n <br />\n ears; Nicky the Cockatiel; and Gilberto, the cranky\n <br />\n Half-Moon Conure, in the English speaking\n <br />\n community in New York State. The family heir, Tom,\n <br />\n is now a college man. Beatrice Small is the author of\n <br />\n _The Kadin, Love Wild and Fair, Adora,\n <br />\n Skye O''Malley, Unconquered, Beloved,\n <br />\n All The Sweet Tomorrows,\n <br />\n This Heart Of Mine, Enchantress Mine,\n <br />\n Blaze Wyndham, Lost Love Found,\n <br />\n The Spitfire, and A Love For All Time.\n <br />\n She loves hearing from her readers. You can write to\n <br />\n her at P.O. Box 765, Southold, NY 11971_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8493'),
(5456, 'Kafka on the Shore', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; J. Philip Gabriel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it''s page thirteen in\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n --the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply.\n</p>\n<p>\n Joining the rich literature of runaways,\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the worldÂ¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.\n</p>\n<p>\n To say that the fantastic elements of\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n are complicated and never fully resolved is not to suggest that the novel fails. Although it may not live up to Murakami''s masterful __, Nakata and Kafka''s fates keep the reader enthralled to the final pages, and few will complain about the loose threads at the end.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Previous books such as\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Norwegian Wood\n </em>\n have established Murakami as a true original, a fearless writer possessed of a wildly uninhibited imagination and a legion of fiercely devoted fans. In this latest addition to the author''s incomparable oeuvre, 15-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, both to escape his father''s oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. (A wonderfully endearing character, Nakata has never recovered from the effects of a mysterious World War II incident that left him unable to read or comprehend much, but did give him the power to speak with cats.) What follows is a kind of double odyssey, as Kafka and Nakata are drawn inexorably along their separate but somehow linked paths, groping to understand the roles fate has in store for them. Murakami likes to blur the boundary between the real and the surrealâ€”we are treated to such oddities as fish raining from the sky; a forest-dwelling pair of Imperial Army soldiers who haven''t aged since WWII; and a hilarious cameo by fried chicken king Colonel Sandersâ€”but he also writes touchingly about love, loneliness and friendship. Occasionally, the writing drifts too far into metaphysical musingsâ€”mind-bending talk of parallel worlds, events occurring outside of timeâ€”and things swirl a bit at the end as the author tries, perhaps too hard, to make sense of things. But by this point, his readers, like his characters, will go just about anywhere Murakami wants them to, whether they "get" it or not.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6733'),
(5457, 'Kahless', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables... until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the legends into doubt and threatens to tear the Klingon empire apart. Surrounded by treachery and rumors of revolt, this new Kahless can trust no one - except Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Worf of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables... until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the legends into doubt and threatens to tear the Klingon empire apart. Surrounded by treachery and rumors of revolt, this new Kahless can trust no one - except Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Worf of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4747'),
(5458, 'Kaleidoscope', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant AmericanÂ Â actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale butÂ Â ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their threeÂ Â children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby,Â Â adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes aÂ Â doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavishÂ Â wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is inÂ Â his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents''Â Â natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicionÂ Â that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past.Â Â  And Hilary, oldest of the WalkerÂ Â children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore themÂ Â  apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the lossÂ Â throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinaryÂ Â career and has no personal life.Â Â When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious privateÂ Â investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why.Â Â Their parents'' only friend, he did nothing to keep them togetherÂ Â as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life.Â Â The investigator follows a trail that leads fromÂ Â chic New York to Boston slums, from elegantÂ Â Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place whereÂ Â the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastatingÂ Â truth before they can move on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/896'),
(5459, 'Kalooki Nights', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. His mother, incessantly preoccupied with a card game called Kalooki, only begrudgingly puts the deck away on the High Holy Days. Max''s father, a failed boxer prone to spontaneous nosebleeds, is a self-proclaimed atheist and communist, unable to accept the God who has betrayed him so unequivocally in recent years.But it is through his friend and neighbor Manny Washinsky that Max begins to understand the indelible effects of the Holocaust and to explore the intrinsic and paradoxical questions of a postwar Jewish identity. Manny, obsessed with the Holocaust and haunted by the allure of its legacy, commits a crime of nightmare proportion against his family and his faith. Years later, after his friend''s release from prison, Max is inexorably drawn to uncover the motive behind the catastrophic act -- the discovery of which leads to a startling revelation and a profound truth about religion and faith that exists where the sacred meets the profane.Spanning the decades between World War II and the present day, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson seamlessly weaves together a breath-takingly complex narrative of love, tragedy, redemption, and above all, remarkable humor. Deeply empathetic and audaciously funny, Kalooki Nights is a luminous story torn violently between the hope of restoring and rebuilding Jewish life, and the painful burden of memory and loss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2126'),
(5460, 'Kane and Abel', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They had only one thing in common... William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save... and finally destroy... each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8807'),
(5461, 'Kapitoil: A Novel', 'Teddy Wayne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Magazine writer Wayne''s strong and heartfelt debut novel, set in New York City in the months leading up to the millennium, follows Karim Issar as he leaves his home and family in Qatar for a programming job at a Wall Street firm preparing for the Y2K bug. On the side, the very socially maladapted programming genius creates Kapitoil, a morally troubling computer program that allows his company to make a killing by modeling oil futures based on political instability. Meanwhile, a romance simmers with Rebecca, Karim''s colleague and his guide to American culture. Ultimately, Karim must make a choice about his and his family''s financial security and Kapitoil''s potential for (perhaps) doing good in the world. Wayne zips through a minefield of potential clichÃ©s and comes out unscathed, striking a balance of humor and keen insight that propels the story through Karim''s education about the West''s ethics and its capitalism, while in the background the World Trade Center looms. It''s a slick first novel that beautifully captures a time that, in retrospect, seems tragically naÃ¯ve.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Itâ€™s October 1, 1999, and young, brilliant, self-taught programmer Karim Issar is transferred from the Doha, Qatar, office of Schrub Equities to Manhattan for three months to help the high-flying firm get past Y2K without calamity. He finds the work worthwhile but routine, and his always-active mind studies cultural differences and the idiomatic English of his podmates. Within three weeks of his arrival, he has developed a program that predicts oil futures. Schrubâ€™s profits rise dramatically, and Karim gets a plush new office, a 300 percent salary increase, and the personal attention of CEO Derek Schrub. As his stock soars, he embarks on a relationship with Rebecca, his former podmate; with her help, Karim begins to see that making money for the sake of making money isnâ€™t a fully rewarding way of life. Told through Karimâ€™s journal entries, this wonderfully assured debut novel, at once poignant, insightful, and funny, details Karimâ€™s passage through a new world of corporate sharks, Manhattan clubs, museums, Bob Dylan lyrics, and personal growth. Karimâ€™s English, always grammatically correct but stilted with terms from science, mathematics, computing, and business, is a delight. Best of all, however, is simply being inside Karimâ€™s head as he ponders Jackson Pollockâ€™s paintings, baseball, programming, and the mysteries of love and life in the U.S. --Thomas Gaughan\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6892'),
(5462, 'The Karamazov Brothers', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Ignat Avsey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dostoevsky''s last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky''s intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky''s most brilliant work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(5463, 'Karen Makes Out', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9218'),
(5464, 'Katherine', 'Anya Seton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king''s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9500'),
(5465, 'Keep Out, Claudia!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9732'),
(5466, 'Keep the Apidistra Flying', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8830'),
(5467, 'The Keep', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œSomething is murdering my men.â€Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims.When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that''s both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore--who just happens to be Jewish--to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way--a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny.The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other...the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing terror that man has inevitably awakened\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(5468, 'Keeper of Dreams', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winner Card offers short, revealing commentaries on these 22 compelling short stories, novelettes, and novellas, noting that short work has inspired some of his best and best-known long fiction. These short science fiction, fantasy and literary stories, along with a handful of Hatrack River tales (related to the Alvin Maker series) and four stories written by a Mormon, about Mormon culture, for Mormon readers, illustrate Card''s fascination with complex child protagonists, touchingly portrayed in Inventing Lovers on the Phone; absorption with moral dilemmas, wrapped up in family love and tensions in Worthy to Be One of Us; and new views of old traditions, familiar and discomfiting in Homeless in Hell and Christmas at Helaman''s House. Card intended several of the included stories, like the powerful In the Dragon''s House, to open novels not yet written, but even on their own they provide significant examples of his perennial themes: morality, salvation and redemption.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”The prolific Card published one short story collection,\n  <em>\n   Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card\n  </em>\n  (Tor, 1990), which supposedly included all of the short fiction he was willing to share. But apparently there are now a lot more selections, as demonstrated by this hefty volume. This compilation, composed of science fiction, fantasy, literary tales, and Mormon stories contains no clunkers. There is some truly innovative and wonderful storytelling here. Card''s ability to create believable characters that readers come to care about remains his strongest selling point. Sometimes those characters happen into other worlds, as in "Space Boy" and "Dust." Other times they stay firmly grounded in this one, yet their stories give a new and different perspective on life. Teens who enjoy Card''s earlier work, who like short stories, or who are just looking for a new world to lose themselves in can''t go wrong here. Standout stories include "Space Boy," "Homeless in Hell," "Inventing Lovers on the Phone," and "50 WPM." Short essays give the origins of the individual selections.â€”_Charli Osborne, Oxford Public Library, MI_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5839');
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(5469, 'Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey Into Alzheimer&#39;s', 'Andrea Gillies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five years ago, Andrea Gilliesâ€” writer, wife, and mother of threeâ€”seeing that her husband''s parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar; hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work. Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer''s Disease, and Keeper charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author''s researches into what dementia is. As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy''s grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling. The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about dementia at the outset, the learning curve was steeper than she could have imagined. The most pernicious quality of Alzheimerâ€™s, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of oneâ€™s self, and Alzheimerâ€™s, because it robs us of our intrinsic self-knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self-expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness. Moreover, as Gillies reminds us, the effects of Alzheimerâ€™s are far-reaching, impacting the lives of caregivers and their loved ones in every way imaginable.Keeper is a fiercely honest â€œglimpse into the dementia abyssâ€â€”an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(5470, 'Keeping Christmas', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CHRISTMAS NEVER MEANT MUCH AT THE BONNER ESTATE...BUT COULD IT BECOME A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER AT CHANCE WALKER''S MONTANA CABIN? Ten years ago Dixie Bonner was the favorite wild child of a powerful Texas oilman. But after uncovering a dark family secret that cast suspicion on everyone close to her, she took off for a new life and never looked back. Chance Walker was the cool-eyed cowboy hired to bring her home by Christmas. But after catching her, he couldn''t decide if she was a blackmailer or a victim. Was he tempted to protect her because she told the truth--or was he falling for her? Holed up in a remote Montana cabin with the bad guys closing in, two stubborn souls needed to trust each other if they hoped to survive the season.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(5471, 'Keeping Faith: A Novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of America''s most powerful and thought-provoking novelists, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family. When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year- old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression-and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle-trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(5472, 'Keeping the Feast', 'Paula Butturini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A story of food and love, injury and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is the triumphant memoir of one couple''s nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship. ** Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting on an uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds in less than a year, the process of healing had just begun. Unable to regain his equilibrium, he sank into a deep sadness that reverberated throughout their relationship. It was the abrupt end of what they''d known together, and the beginning of a new phase of life neither had planned for. All of a sudden, Paula was forced to reexamine her marriage, her husband, and herself. Paula began to reconsider all of her previous assumptions about healing. She discovered that sometimes patience can be a vice, anger a virtue. That sometimes it is vital to make demands of the sick, that they show signs of getting better. And she rediscovered the importance of the most fundamental of human rituals: the daily sharing of food around the family table. A universal story of hope and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is an account of one couple''s triumph over tragedy and illness, and a celebration of the simple rituals of life, even during the worst life crises. Beautifully written and tremendously moving, Paula''s story is a testament to the extraordinary sustaining powers of food and love, and to the stubborn belief that there is always an afterward, there is always hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3238'),
(5473, 'Keith Haring Journals', 'Keith Haring; Robert Farris Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During his lifetime, Keith Haring''s spontaneous, archetypal creations won both a street audience and the respect of the art establishment. Kept from his teens until his death from AIDS in 1990, these illuminating journals reveal Haring''s conscious, committed drive to extend the boundaries of art. Photos and drawings throughout. Radio news feature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2750'),
(5474, 'Kell&#39;s Legend: The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles', 'Andy Remic', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH AND THE CITY FELL. The land of Falanor has been invaded by an albino army, the Army of Iron. A small band of heroes led by Kell, a magnificent and brutal hero, breaks out to warn the king. Fighting their way south, betrayal follows battle, battle follows deviation, and they are attacked on all quarters by deadly warriors, monstrous Harvesters who drain blood from their victims to feed their masters. And worse is to come, for Kell is anything but a hero. "Kell''s Legend is loosely based on the traditional fantasy story, brave but world weary warrior type who just wants to retire from any bloodshed and finds himself forced to use his talents of destruction. This tradition though is then bashed on the head and burried 6 feet deep with inclusion of the clockwork vampires creating a blend of fantasy horror and fantastic fight scenes. I mean really top quality fight scenes. One of Gemmell''s most redeeming qualities as an author was his ability to write about fighting and war to such a degree that you almost felt like rushing through his novels to get to those bits. Kell''s Legend fight scenes live up to this quality and elevate the novel way above the standard fare. Kell''s Legend is a novel of power and scope, able to stand as a worthy successor to the Gemmell crown. 5***** " - Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Books File Under: Epic Fantasy [ A City Besieged | A Dangerous Hero | Bloodsucking Hordes | Sweeping Battles ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(5475, 'Ken&#39;s Mystery', 'Julian Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters. The hoop, which was of solid silver, was so blackened and tarnished that jt looked like dilapidated iron. The strings were gone, and most of the tuning-screws had dropped out of. their decayed sockets. Altogether it had the appearance of having been made before the Flood, and been forgotten in the forecastle of Noah''s Ark ever since.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6628'),
(5476, 'Kendermore', 'Mary Kirchoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before the War of the Lance, carefree kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot is enjoying the company of his friends at the Inn of the Last Home when a bounty hunter arrives and charges him with desertion for violating the kender laws of prearranged marriage. But Tasslehoffâ€™s intended has pulled a disappearing act of her own. The race is on to see who gets dragged to the altar first in a tale of adventure replete with magic, monsters, and mayhem.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mary Kirchoff is the author of a number of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels, including\n  <em>\n   Flint the King\n  </em>\n  (with Douglas Niles) and the Defenders of Magic trilogy. Currently she is Vice President of Publishing at Wizards of the Coast, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10712'),
(5477, 'The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963', 'Laurence Leamer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, complex psychology and persistent moral failures that lie behind the events he otherwise describes so well. Putting his own spin on well-known anecdotes (including all the most popular tales from so many other books that document Joe Sr.''s rise in business and politics, his failure to recognize the menace of Hitler and his sponsorship of his children''s careers). Leamer steadfastly refuses to shed a critical light on the proclivities of Kennedy pÃ¨re. The author soft-pedals, for example, the Kennedy partriarch''s well-documented anti-Semitism. The same lack of critical analysis despite Leamer''s access to never-before available materials constitutes a considerable flaw throughout the book. Although offering engaging and fast-moving accounts of such events as Joe Jr.''s death and Jack''s rise in politics through means both fair and foul, Leamer consistently refrains from considering the ethical implications of his stories, or the evident shortcomings in the character of more than one Kennedy. He seems, for example, to step back in awe when considering the brilliance and audacity of the Kennedys'' stealing Cook County and therefore the election during the 1960 presidential race. In the final analysis, Leamer is a fan, idealizing his subjects. The result is a good read, though not necessarily a balanced history. Leamer''s book is the first of a projected two-volume set.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While this is a work of political and family history, as any Kennedy book must be, it is best described as an extended character study of Joseph Kennedy and his sons, Joseph Jr., John, Robert, and Edward. It is not a celebration of triumphs or an undraping of frailties but instead offers much of both in an evenhanded narrative of courage, meanness, ambition, hypocrisy, patriotism, anti-Semitism, duty, and wantonness. Few tales can be more familiar, yet the writing is always tight and often graceful. How the men of this family lived their lives both publicly and privately is the real subject of this book, even as the cinema of Leamer''s plot projects scenes featuring the likes of Roosevelt, King, Monroe, Castro, and Nixon. Although Leamer aims primarily at a general audience, scholars will take note of his considerable primary research, in printed and recorded material, and dozens of his own interviews. Worthy of being placed on the same shelf with Doris Kearns Goodwin''s The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, this book follows Leamer''s The Kennedy Women and precedes a planned second volume. For all libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Robert F. Nardini, Chichester, NH\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6980'),
(5478, 'Kennedy: The Classic Biography', 'Ted Sorensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ted Sorensen knew Kennedy the man, the senator, the candidate, and the president as no other associate did. From his hiring as a legislative assistant to Kennedy''s death in 1963, Sorensen was with him during the key crises and turning pointsâ€”including the spectacular race for the vice presidency at the 1956 convention, the launching of Kennedy''s presidential candidacy, the TV debates with Nixon, and election night at Hyannis Port. The first appointment made by the new president was to name Ted Sorensen his Special Counsel.   In Kennedy, Sorensen recounts failures as well as successes with surprising candor and objectivity. He reveals Kennedy''s errors on the Bay of Pigs, and his attitudes toward the press, Congress, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sorensen saw firsthand Kennedy''s actions in the Cuban missile crises, and the evolution of his beliefs on civil rights and arms control. First published in 1965 and reissued here with a new preface, Kennedy is an intimate biography of an extraordinary man, and one of the most important historical accounts of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8513'),
(5479, 'Kennedy&#39;s Brain', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell comes a gripping mystery and a depiction of every parent''s worst nightmare.When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight year old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this, and with nothing more than few suspicions and a mother''s intuition, she and her ex-husband set out to find what happened. What they discover is a dark underworld of people exploiting the victims of the AIDS epidemic: corrupt businessmen dealing infected blood, suspicious researchers carrying out dangerous tests, and lecherous drug dealers peddling black market medicine. Their investigation takes them across three continents, and leads them into some mighty financial institutions and highest corridors of power, where suddenly their own lives are at stake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1747'),
(5480, 'The Kent Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sabina thought she loved Lord Elvan until his blatant infidelities turned her heart to stone. Perce thought Sabina was just his friend Philip''s little sister-until she fell in love with Elvan and he realized he wanted her for himself. It was too late for both when they met again at a ball in St. Petersburg and passion flared between them. Neither Perce nor Sabrina wanted a life of hiding and cheating. But women who divorced their husbands-no matter the reason-could never marry again nor be received in polite society. Sabrina''s politically powerful uncle hoped to blackmail Elvan into agreeing to an annulment but Elvan insisted Sabrina accompany him on one more diplomatic mission. In Portugal Elvan indulged himself in another affaire...but this woman had an insanely jealous husband. Not content with his revenge on Elvan and his wife, Dom Jose intended to kill Sabrina for not controlling her husband. When Perce returned to England and learned Sabrina had gone to Portugal with Elvan, he set out at once to protect her-and arrived just in time to become another target for Dom Jose. Publisher''s Note: This story was originally published elsewhere in 1982.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3800'),
(5481, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 2 - Darkness, Take My Hand', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10523'),
(5482, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 3 - Sacred', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10522'),
(5483, 'Kethani', 'Eric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An alien race known as the KÃ©thani come to Earth bearing a dubious but amazing gift: immortality. Each chapter is an episode that deals with human emotions in the face of the vast consequences of the alien arrival, and how the lives of a group of friends are changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1198'),
(5484, 'Key of knowledge', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This second novel in an electrifying new trilogy from the best-selling author of Key of Light follows Dana, who has a penchant for books, as she is forced to embark on a dangerous quest to find the Key of Knowledge--or suffer a horrifying fate. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2597'),
(5485, 'Key of light', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nora Roberts invites you to unlock your dreams... Three women. Three keys. Each has 28 days to find her way through a dangerous quest. Nora Roberts brings us a unique series with a twist - each novel is written in real time, and the novels will be published in consecutive months.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2617'),
(5486, 'Key of valor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nora Roberts presents the stunning conclusion to the all-new trilogy of destiny and desire ... Join Zoe in the ultimate quest for courage. Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confront her darkest fears ... or suffer immeasurable loss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2576'),
(5487, 'The Key to Midnight', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A haunting nightmare is the key to one woman''s mysterious past in the spine-tingling novel from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Dean Koontz.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8293'),
(5488, 'The Key to Rebecca', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel''s campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff''s trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff''s mission is to steal British military plans and send them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier''s novel Rebecca. As Rommel''s troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges closer to Wolff and the crucial key. There are incredible chase scenes: a motorcycle hurtling through blacked-out Cairo; the flash of a knife, a gush of hot blood, and the fleeting shadow of an escaping assassin; a harrowing race against death and a speeding train. Follett builds tension and suspense to a screaming pitch as he follows the adversaries across the internal desert to a confrontation as startling as it is explosive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2935'),
(5489, 'KH_Studs', 'Kate Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9802'),
(5490, 'Kidnapped', 'Robert Louis Stevenson; Timothy Meis; N. C. Wyeth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 3-7 - The language in this adaptation is truer to the original, and thus, more sophisticated than that of Deborah Kestel''s "Great Illustrated Classics" version (Playmore, 1992). After his father''s death, David Balfour leaves his simple life in the Scottish Lowlands and sets out to find an uncle whom he has never met. Unaware of the bad blood between his father and uncle, he arrives at Ebeneezer''s home, only to find that the cruel man has no intention of granting the lad his rightful inheritance. In fact, he has the boy kidnapped aboard a ship to be sold as a slave in North Carolina. David''s tenacious spirit and his friendship with the rebellious Jacobite Alan Breck eventually bring him to safety. Told in 11 brief chapters, this abridgement introduces the basics of the story while maintaining a feel for the Scottish dialect. Some of the old-fashioned words and phrases may be a bit of a stretch for readers, but can be understood in context. Though obviously lacking in some of the details of the original, the narrative is easy to follow. Readers are able to gain insight into the hearts of David and Alan, although Ebeneezer and Captain Hoseason remain rather flat. Wyeth''s oils (which appeared in the full-length version) add a sense of realism and capture interesting historical details. Meis''s retelling retains the flavor of Stevenson''s rollicking tale and might inspire readers to search out the full-length epic._ - Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, LaSalle Academy, Providence, RI_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Balfour has never had an adventure. He has never spent a night camping in the Scottish Highlands. He has never sailed the high seas. He has never fought in a battle. In fact David Balfour has never even left home. All he knows is a quiet country life.\n</p>\n<p>\n All this changes after the death of his parents. He suddenly learns that he, David Balfour, is a man of wealth and standing, and that he is not destined for a simple life after all. All he needs to do to assume this new station in life is to travel to the town of Cramond, Scotland, to collect his inheritance from his father''s younger brother, an uncle he had not even known existed. But David soon discovers that this is not as simple as it sounds, as he struggles to survive and outwit his treacherous uncle in this classic adventure story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Original oil paintings by N. C. Wyeth capture the vitality of Robert Louis Stevenson''s timeless tale of fortune, camaraderie, betrayal, and independence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11192'),
(5491, 'A Kidnapped Santa Claus', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1904, "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, describes the action of some uncommon events in the land of Santa. Not far from the Laughing Valley where Santa and all his magical helpers live, and beyond the Forest of Burzee, there stands a huge mountain that contains the Cave of Demons. Each demon has a specialty: Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance. Because the promise of Santa puts all girls and boys on their best behavior, the demons have hardly any visitors to their caves. In order to remedy their dismal foot traffic, they conspire to kidnap Santa! But oh! even when it looks as if the demons might win, one can never underestimate the power of devoted (and magical!) friends. Adapted by Alex Robinson, author of several graphic novels, the action and menace of the tale will be enhanced and lightly spoofed. It seems a most appropriate treatment of Baumâ€²s work -- he was an author who often let his profound and unsettling meanings roil beneath the surface of his otherwise fanciful stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3175'),
(5492, 'The Kif Strike Back', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10877'),
(5493, 'The Kill Artist', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fans of Daniel Silva''s well-received earlier novels, especially The Marching Season, will welcome his newest novel of espionage, revenge, and Middle Eastern politics. Gabriel Allon is an art restorer who''s persuaded out of retirement by Ari Shamron, the crafty Israeli spymaster bent on a deadly mission: killing a Palestinian agent named Tariq before he can carry out his plan to assassinate an old comrade-in-arms, the treacherous peacemaker Yasir Arafat. Tariq''s role in the murder of Gabriel''s wife and son draws both Gabriel and Sarah Halevy, the beautiful French model whose affair with Gabriel led to the assassination of his family. Still in love with Gabriel, Sarah allows herself to be set up with a cover and infiltrated into Tariq''s inner circle. But before Gabriel can rescue her and fulfill his mission, Tariq turns the tables to get his old adversary as well as Arafat in his own sights. A particularly resonant scene in which Tariq and Arafat confront each other and discuss their former friendship, as well as the change in tactics that has brought Tariq to the ultimate betrayal, reveals Silva''s deep comprehension of Palestinian rivalries. He puts a clever little fillip on the ending that adds to the brio of this strongly paced thriller. Silva creates complex, fascinating characters in Gabe, Ari, and Tariq, and more than fulfills the promise of his earlier books. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6915'),
(5494, 'Kill Bin Laden: a Delta Force Commander&#39;s account of the hunt for the world&#39;s most wanted man', 'Dalton Fury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldnâ€™t be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of Americaâ€™s supersecret counterterrorist unit formerly known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force. The American generals were flexible. A swatch of hair, a drop of blood, or simply a severed finger wrapped in plastic would be sufficient. Delta''s orders were to go into harm''s way and prove to the world bin Laden had been terminated.These Delta warriors had help: a dozen of the British Queenâ€™s elite commandos, another dozen or so Army Green Berets, and six intelligence operatives from the CIA who laid the groundwork by providing cash, guns, bullets, intelligence, and interrogation skills to this clandestine military force. Together, this team waged modern siege of epic proportions against bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary burrowed deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range in eastern Afghanistan. Over the years, since the battle ended, scores of news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in Tora Bora. Most of it is conjecture and speculation. This is the real story of the operation, the first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora, and the first book to detail just how close Delta Force came to capturing bin Laden, how close U.S. bombers and fighter aircraft came to killing him, and exactly why he slipped through our fingers. Lastly, this is an extremely rare inside look at the shadowy world of Delta Force and a detailed account of these warriors in battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(5495, 'The Kill Clause', 'Gregg Andrew Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Kill Clause\n  </em>\n  ''s opening pages will knot the stomach of even the most seasoned crime reader. U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley is expecting his daughter home for her seventh birthday party. Instead he finds a fellow cop at his door, bearing the news that little Ginny has been savagely dismembered, her remains recovered in a nearby creek. Only an hour or so later, reeling with shock and grief, Rackley learns that the perpetrator has been caught--and that some fellow cops have arranged a little one-on-one meeting for him at an isolated shack, complete with an untraceable gun. Rackley arrives, faces this monster, and...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But that would be giving too much away. Suffice it to say that this powerful opening launches a killer thriller, rich in both adrenaline-pumping action and thought-provoking issues of vigilantism, power, and the moral dilemmas of those sworn to uphold the law. Hurwitz''s prose is muscular yet intelligent; he draws characters well, and he unrolls action scenes with amazing vividness (as well as treating us to lots of fascinating lore about lock picking, identity theft, and cell-phone technology). Occasionally his plot twists verge on the outlandish, and a few characters seem to exist only to speechify on a certain point of view. But these are minor flaws in this fine, intense, often un-put-downable tale.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A motley crew of ex-cops and fringe characters, who have all lost loved ones and seen the villains walk, are organized into a vigilante hit squad by a media personality who sees this as a good launchpad for his books in this first thriller in a projected series by Hurwitz (Do No Harm; Minutes to Burn). The squad-or the Commission, as it calls itself-chooses as executioner Tim Rackley, a US marshal and former Special Forces muscle who is vulnerable to their offer, having just lost his only child in a gruesome attack ("her remains had required three biohazard bags to depart the scene"). Devastated, Rackley leaves his job and his wife, a county sheriff, to take the assignment, disappearing into the murk of L.A. to begin a series of high-tech hits on high-profile criminals who have slipped through the system''s cracks-including the man who, Rackley believes, killed his daughter. But Rackley suspects the Commission of fuzzy logic after one unclear target assessment leads two of the Commission (a murderous pair of bulked-up ex-cop brothers called, none too subtly, the "Mastersons") to go on a rampage, invoking the Commission''s "kill clause"-the immediate (and brutal) dissolution of the squad. Caught between his former law enforcement colleagues and the Mastersons'' rising bloodlust, Tim must risk one more vigilante act to put justice back in the hands of the courts. The high gore level and farfetched premise give the novel a cartoonish edge, but Hurwitz''s deft descriptions of Tim''s methods of disappearing, breaking-and-entering, and stealing identities are convincing, and his fast-paced plotting will keep readers riveted. Tim is a promising series hero, with his multitude of skills and conflicted loyalties, and Hurwitz is off to a fine start with this first installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6580'),
(5496, 'Kill Me if You Can', 'James Patterson &amp; Marshall Karp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won''t stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trailing him is the Ghost, the world''s greatest assassin, who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There''s only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now, the Ghost is on Bannon''s trail--but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear forever. From "America''s #1 storyteller" (\n  <em>\n   Forbes\n  </em>\n  ) comes a high-speed, high-stakes, winner-take-all thrill ride of adrenaline-fueled suspense.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marshall Karp has written and produced numerous TV shows, plays and movies. He is the author of the Lomax and Biggs book series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11206'),
(5497, 'Kill the Messenger', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hoag''s success (_Dark Horse_;\n <em>\n  Guilty as Sin\n </em>\n ), evidenced once again in this engaging new thriller, is the triumph of substance over style. In a genre overrun with self-conscious jargon, brooding descriptions and fragments masquerading as sentences, her clean, measured proseâ€”full, balanced sentences delivered at a steady paceâ€”doesn''t so much create an ominous mood as draw the reader into the worlds of her characters. Here, before they know it, readers are invested in the dilemma of Los Angeles bike messenger Jace (J.C.) Damon, on the run after picking up a package from high-powered attorney Lenny Lowell, who is subsequently murdered. Orphaned Jace lives under society''s radar in Chinatown, with his 10-year-old brother, Tyler; his surrogate family includes sassy dispatcher Eta Fitzgerald and the Chen clan, the boy''s closest neighbors. Similarly, the police in pursuit are an unconventional, if dysfunctional, family: long-suffering lead detective Kev Parker; his annoying and ambitious new partner, Renee Ruiz; squabbling second-string detectives Jimmy Chew and Bradley Kyle; and coroner Diane Nicholson, who is also Kev''s lover. The wild card in the game is Lowell''s daughter, Abby, volatile and full of secrets, which Hoag reveals at appropriate intervals. A link to Hollywood provides a burst of fresh energy in the later chapters of this character-driven, solidly constructed thriller.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nineteen-year-old Jace Damon has had a hard life. His mother died when he was just 13, and since then he has been struggling to raise his younger brother, all while staying beneath the radar of Child Protective Services. With the help of an understanding Chinese benefactress, Madam Chan, the two have been living in L.A.''s Chinatown, where Jace works as a bike messenger. One dark and rainy night, Jace agrees to do a last delivery. He picks up a package from a shady lawyer, but when he gets to the delivery address, he finds an empty lot; suddenly, someone attacks him and tries to grab the package. The bike messenger takes off, but the attacker pursues him, nearly runs him over with a car, and takes a couple of shots at him. Injured and frightened, Jace returns to Lowell''s office only to find the place swarming with cops and the attorney murdered. The plot thickens as Jace attempts to elude both homicide detective Ken Parker, who wants some answers, and a menacing, shadowy figure, who is trying to get that package. Although this novel is a little heavy on the stereotypes, with its preponderance of macho, chauvinistic male cops and lusty, fiery female cops, Hoag''s loyal readers and fans of police procedural suspense novels will definitely love it.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6768'),
(5498, 'The Kill Zone', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8943'),
(5499, 'The kill-off', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Luane Devore is about to be murdered. It''s her favorite topic of conversation. Just who will do the murdering is anybody''s guess. It could be the young husband she keeps in bizarre servitude. Or the distinguished doctor with an ugly secret in his past. Or any of the half-dozen other people whose reputations have been blighted by Luane''s malicious gossip. It''s only a matter of time.In The Kill-Off, the patron saint of American noir reconfigures the whodunnit as a wickedly ingenious who''ll-do-it. Capturing the subterranean ambitions, jealousies, and hatreds of a decaying beach resort and orchestrating the voices of one perfect victim and a chorus of soon-to-be-suspects, Jim Thompson produces a novel that manages to be simultaneously funny, poignant, and terrifying -- and that offers shockingly persuasive evidence that any one of us could commit murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2181'),
(5500, 'Killashandra', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At first Killashandra Ree''s ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10854'),
(5501, 'Killer', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In picture-perfect Rosewood, Pennsylvania, ash-blond highlights gleam in the winter sun and frozen lakes sparkle like Swarovski crystals. But pictures often lieâ€”and so do Rosewood''s four prettiest girls. Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. Ali made them do terrible thingsâ€”things they had to keep secret for years. And even though Ali was killed at the end of seventh grade, their bad-girl ways didn''t die with her. Hanna''s on a mission to corrupt Rosewood''s youth, starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria''s snooping into her boyfriend''s past. Spencer''s stealingâ€”from her family. And pure little Emily''s abstaining from abstinence. The girls should be careful, though. They thought they were safe when Ali''s killer was arrested and A''s true identity was finally revealed. But now there''s a new A in town turning up the heat. And this time Rosewood is going to burn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3704'),
(5502, 'Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted historical true-crime expert Schechter (The Devil''s Gentleman) traces the divergent paths of the Colt brothers in a saga that falls short of the author''s usual high standards. Samuel Colt, born to a prosperous Connecticut family in 1814, was fascinated by weaponry from an early age and was determined to make a mark in the field. His older brother, John, drifted, until finally he settled in Manhattan as an accountant. Sam, who allegedly whittled his prototype of a revolving firearm while at sea, received foreign patents though American success was slower. But his life was shattered when, on September 24, 1841, John was arrested for the murder of Samuel Adams, whose decomposing body was found stuffed into a box in the hold of a ship bound for New Orleans. In a high-profile trial--witnesses testified that the financially pressed John bludgeoned Adams over a debt--John was convicted and sentences to hang, but in 1842 he was found in his cell with a knife in his chest. Despite the lively material and fascinating characters, Schechter fails to adequately explore the tragic irony of the situation wherein one brother revolutionizes a handheld killing machine and the other becomes a killer. 7 b&amp;w illus.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The nineteenth-century murder trial and subsequent sordid demise of John Colt would have been little noticed, except that Colt happened to be the older brother of Samuel Colt. Six years before the trial, Samuel had invented the revolver, and the use of â€œJudge Coltâ€ became the stuff of western lore and legend. John had also been moderately successful as a writer and accountant, but he tended to be volatile and irresponsible. He was accused of bashing in the head of a Mr. Adams during an argument over a debt and then concealing the corpse in a shipping crate. The trial attracted great attention in New York. Despite an admirable effort by his defense attorney that suggeted self-defense, Colt was convicted. Hours before his scheduled execution, he was found dead in his cell, an apparent suicide. Schechter, a literature professor, has specialized in true-crime writing, and here he captures the early form of â€œmedia circusâ€ that surrounded the trial, providing interesting and sometimes tantalizing tidbits concerning relations between the brothers. This is a well-done account of a â€œsensationalâ€ trial and its sad aftermath. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7647'),
(5503, 'Killer in the Rain', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler''s definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective Magazine", are eight of his finest stories including "The Man Who Liked Dogs", "The Lady in the Lake" and "Bay City Blues". Sharper than a hoodlum''s switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elliott Gould is an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee who has performed in over 70 feature films. Upcoming motion picture projects include Playing Mona Lisa, and Picking up the Pieces, with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone.\n</p>\n<p>\n He can be seen ongoing in his recurring role on NBC''s smash hit, Friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7342'),
(5504, 'The Killer Inside Me', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he''s a little slow and boring but that''s the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his ''sickness''. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating. Tense and suspenseful, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a brilliantly sustained noir crime masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2195'),
(5505, 'The Killer Mine', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9342'),
(5506, 'The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science', 'Douglas Starr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starr (Blood) eloquently juxtaposes the crimes of French serial killer Joseph Vacher and the achievements of famed criminologist Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne during France''s belle Ã©poque. From 1894 to 1897, Vacher is thought to have raped, killed, and mutilated at least 25 people, though he would confess to only 11 murders. Lacassagne, who headed the department of legal medicine at the university in Lyon, was a pioneer in crime scene analysis, body decomposition, and early profiling, and investigated suspicious deaths, all in an era when rural autopsies were often performed on the victim''s dinner table. Lacassagne''s contributions to the burgeoning field of forensic science, as well as the persistence of investigating magistrate Ã‰mile Fourquet, who connected crimes while crisscrossing the French countryside, eventually brought Vacher to justice. Vacher claimed insanity, which then (as now) was a vexed legal issue. Lacassagne proved the "systematic nature" of the crimes. Starr, codirector of Boston University''s Center for Science and Medical Journalism, creates tension worthy of a thriller; in Lacassagne, he portrays a man determined to understand the "how" behind some of humanity''s most depraved and perhaps take us one step closer to the "why." 16 pages of photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Douglas Starr is an old pro at reporting and writing science history, which puts\n <em>\n  The Killer of Little Shepherds\n </em>\n squarely in his wheelhouse. The author ably tells two storiesâ€”of the serial killer Vacherâ€™s lust for murder and of the developing science that finally caught up with himâ€”and there are enough fascinating details here to keep even the most jaded forensics fans entertained. More popular journalism than a failed â€œquest to understand evilâ€ (_New York Times_), Starrâ€™s compelling history can be added to the growing library of books (_Devil in the White City_,\n <em>\n  The Lost City of Z\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Ghost Map\n </em>\n ) that brings to life forgotten or neglected events by playing on a readerâ€™s sense of adventure and the unknown, as well as the satisfaction of witnessing a confounding puzzle well solved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6057'),
(5507, 'Killer of Men', 'Christian Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''It''s an old story but Cameron gives it tremendous narrative power.'' OXFORD TIMES\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line - the wall of bronze - for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen of Ephesus. So begins an epic journey from slavery that takes the young Arimnestos through a world poised on the brink of an epic confrontation, as the emerging civilization of the Greeks starts to flex its muscles against the established empire of the Persians. As he tries to make his fortune and revenge himself on the man who disinherited him, Arimnestos discovers that he has a talent that pays well in this new, violent world, for like his hero, Achilles, he is ''a killer of men''.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8566');
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(5508, 'Killer Plants of Binaark', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1917'),
(5509, 'Killers - the Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Time', 'Cawthorne, Nigel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€˜On 24 February 1994, the police turned up at 25 Cromwell Street, an ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester, with a warrant to dig up the back garden. The door was answered by Stephen West, the 20-year-old son of the householders Fred and Rosemary West. The police told him that they were looking for the body of his sister Heather, who had disappeared in May 1987 at the age of 16.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most depraved murderers were somebodyâ€™s neighbour, someone elseâ€™s father. What turns a person into a killer? Enter the dark world of true crime... With nineteen chilling chapters on notorious killers including Harold Shipman and Charles Manson, those less well known such as Albert DeSalvo and Dennis Nilsen, and the massacres at Hungerford and Columbine, this book examines how and why these people became the most barbaric murderers of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5527'),
(5510, 'Killing Castro', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, mystery Grand Master Block (_Hit and Run_) donned a pen name to publish this absorbing yarn about five men vying for a $100,000 prize put on Fidel Castros head by a mysterious guy named Hiraldo. Bounty hunter Ray Garrison only works on his own; hardened murderer Michael Turner is paired with 19-year-old Jim Hines, avenging his brothers execution; and Earl Fenton, longing to do some good before he dies of cancer, teams up with jack-of-all-trades Matt Garth, who just wants the money. As they make their way to the Cuban coast, sympathetic locals support the five would-be killers in their titular goal despite their penchant for rape and mayhem. Passages discussing Castros life and times add depth to this intense, taut thriller, just as good now as it was in 1961.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hard Case Crime continues to resurrect early work by genre salwart Lawrence Block that was orginally published in mass-market paperback under various pseudonyms. This one may be the most interesting find of all: published in 1961, before the Cuban Missile Crisis and onlyÂ a fewÂ years after Castro assumed control of the government, the novel anticipates the various off-the-wall attempts by the U.S. to assassinate the Cuban leader. Five Americans, some hardened criminals, others idealists with various anti-Castro axes to grind, are offered $20,000 each if any of them succeed in killing the dictator. Three separate plots unwind simultaneously, as Block tracks the reactions of his five principals as they, variously, realize the improbability of their task, stick to their idealistic guns, or come under the sway of the Cuban nationals they encounter. The ending may seem far-fetched in light of later history, but as a kind of alternate pulp history, the novel works just fine, with plenty of blood and bullets and, as always with Block, a fine feel for character. A curiosity, yes, but also an entertaining thriller. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8672'),
(5511, 'The Killing Dance', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel. ''These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.'' The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, is worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what''s a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it''s not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But I''m beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2800'),
(5512, 'Killing Floor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother''s killers, after a series of brutal crimes terrorizes tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town''s peaceful facade. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. BOMC Feat Alt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2819'),
(5513, 'A Killing Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFrost is a splendid creation, a cross between Rumpole and Colombo.â€ â€”_The Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A gripping new investigation for the inimitable Detective Inspector Jack Frost.\n</p>\n<p>\n The discovery of the bodies of two young girls leaves D.I. Jack Frost in a race to hunt down the killer before he, or she, can strike again. At the same time, he faces a crisis at Denton police station which could result in his being sacked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Frost, brought to magnificent life by David Jason in the TV series, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandus disguising his extraordinary powers of detection.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5280'),
(5514, 'Killing Ground', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor takes his new companion, Grant, back home to Agora, only to find the planet under the control of his old and deadly foes the Cybermen. Imprisoned on arrival, the Doctor must find a way to destroy their breeding programme, while Grant works with\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5880'),
(5515, 'The Killing Ground', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mankind''s last war continues in the contaminated strip of European hell known as "The Zone". But an American major and a British sergeant are sick of retreating. In a huge, abandoned ammunition dump, they prepare their forces to hit the ruthless Russian aggressors--and hit hard!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1811'),
(5516, 'Killing grounds', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Like Nevada Barr, Dana Stabenow writes mysteries so firmly rooted in the natural world that their sense of place becomes a vital part of the plot. In this book about Native Alaskan crime solver Kate Shugak, the ocean and the men who fish it for salmon are described in such vivid detail that you''ll never look at a salmon steak the same way again. When a particularly nasty fisherman is murdered, there''s no end of suspects--including members of Kate''s own family. The story also sports a richly ironic undertone of political incorrectness, as Kate muses about the forest rangers, "who wanted to annex every square foot of land they saw and keep it pristine and inviolate, unsullied by human hand. They failed to recall that the indigenous peoples who came across the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age had their hands all over anything that had the remotest possibility of nutritional value, and were every bit as much of the landscape and the wheel of life as the fish and the birds and the mammals." Previous Shugak sorties in paperback include *Breakup*, *Blood Will Tell*, *Play with Fire*, and *A Cold-Blooded Business*. SUMMARY: Summer in Alaska is synonymous with salmon, and the latest Kate Shugak mystery finds our heroine up to her ears in chinooks and chicanery."Every time I think Ms. Stabenow has gotten as good as she can get, she comes up with something better. Wrap your ribs for safety, find a place where you will not be disturbed for a couple of hours, and indulge yourself", The Washington Times advised its readers in its review of Breakup. In Killing Grounds, Kate finds that commercial fishing can be a deadly business.Deckhanding for Old Sam Dementieff on board the fishing tender Freya, Kate helps haul in salmon, halibut, and the body of a widely disliked fisherman, whose apparent murder is greeted with such boisterous rejoicing that she''s unsure whether to arrest the killer or give him a medal.Drafted by State Trooper Jim Chopin to assist in the investigation, Kate draws up a list of suspects that includes the dead man''s troubled teenaged son and daughter, his not-so-grief-stricken widow, and half the skippers of the fishing fleet. At the same time, Kate''s Aleut aunties, attending a fish camp on Amartuq Creek, are mixed up in some fishy dealings of their own, which Kate must prove do not include murder. A coterie of colorful supporting characters, including a Native American-wannabe, an idealistic fish hawk, and a Presbyterian minister, alternately hinder and help Kate''s investigation.With the attention to the details and difficulties of Alaskan life and another o\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(5517, 'A Killing Night', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Max Freeman has been working more or less officially as a private investigator in South Florida when he gets a call from Detective Sherry Richards, who was once his lover. Three female bartenders have gone missing and Sherry thinks that there may be a serial killer out there. A former cop buddy of Max''s called O''Shea has become the prime suspect and Sherry asks Max to check him out.Colin O'' Shea has a history of violence, rule-breaking and alcoholism. Max wants to believe in his innocence, but when it emerges that O'' Shea previously dated two of the missing women, he''s not so sure. Torn between the evidence and his gut instinct, Max decides to back O'' Shea. Could he be taking the side of a killer? As Max delves into O''Shea''s past, he finds himself pulled back into some history of his own. Who exactly is Max trying to save?Meanwhile, the killer''s victims are somewhere out there, waiting at the dark edge of the glades...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5698'),
(5518, 'The Killing of Crazy Horse', 'Thomas Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Powers (The Man Who Kept the Secrets) details the rise and untimely fall of the Lakota''s most famous warrior in this richly detailed, sensitive, and evenhanded portrayal. Little known before his stunning surprise victory over Custer''s 7th Infantry at Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse (ca. 1840â€“1877) became the strongest opponent of white incursion on Indian land in the Black Hills, revered for his strategic brilliance and bravery. Opposed to any concessions that would remove his people from their land, Crazy Horse terrified the American military as well as those Indian leaders who considered cooperating with the U.S. government''s demands. Drawing on firsthand accounts by soldiers and officers, settlers and Lakota, the author assembles a savvy analysis of the conflicting interests and worldviews at play, highlighting the cultural and political misunderstandings that led to the (most likely) accidental slaying of the Lakota leader as he surrendered to U.S. forces at Camp Robinson. Numerous conflicting versions of what happened in Crazy Horse''s final minutes are handled with aplomb by the author, as is the warrior''s shifting legacy in the decades after his death. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite the title, this beautifully written and absorbing work is less about the death of Crazy Horse and more about the personality and life of the Native American icon. It is also an insightful and scrupulously fair examination of the culture of Plains Indian bands and their interaction with advancing white civilization in the nineteenth century. Crazy Horse, from the Ogalala Lakota (Sioux) band, remains one the most revered but mysterious Native American leaders. As Powers reveals, even those who claimed to be his close friends found him to be a distant, enigmatic figure. To his credit, Powers does not attempt to unravel any mysteries of his subjectâ€™s persona. He explains Crazy Horse through his actions, and those actions seemed to constantly revolve around the incessant warfare that raged across the Great Plains during his lifetime. It seemed that he was most comfortable fighting, either against whites or against neighboring bands. As for his death at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Powers accepts that it was the result of an inadvertent struggle, but he asserts that the U.S. Army had targeted him due to his apparent recalcitrance. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7725'),
(5519, 'Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World&#39;s Greatest Outlaw', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar''s criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert sixteen-month manhunt. With unprecedented access to important players-including Colombian president C&amp;eacutesar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez-as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar''s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.     "The story of how the U.S. Army Intelligence and Delta Force commandos helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar is a compelling, almost Shakespearean tale." (*Los Angeles Times*)    "Absolutely riveting. . . . Mark Bowden has a way of making modern nonfiction read like the best of novels." (*The Denver Post*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2896'),
(5520, 'A Killing Tide', 'P. J. Alderman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Kaz Jorgensen returns to Astoria, fire breaks out on her brother''s fishing trawler, implicating him in arson and murder. Complicating Kaz''s investigation is the handsome, enigmatic fire chief, Michael Chapman, who can destroy the last remnants of the family sheâ€™s struggling to hold together. As the real killer stalks Kaz, she and Michael must learn to work together to uncover the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11250'),
(5521, 'Killjoy', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI profiler Avery Delaney has a case that really hits home: she must track down Aunt Carolyn, the woman who raised her, who has disappeared on her way to the spa.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When it comes to gripping novels of unrelenting suspense, Julie Garwood is in a class by herself. In the course of her career, she has mastered the art of creating characters who live and breathe in compelling, page-burning stories that never fail to surprise. As her legion of fans can attest, she strikes the perfect balance between excitement and insight, action and heart. Now, in this breathless new novel, Garwood has written her most electrifying thriller to date.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n KILLJOY\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Avery Delaney has always tried to put the past far behind her. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn. Then, when she was eleven, she witnessed her grandmotherâ€™s violent death, before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Miraculously she survived. The man responsible is serving time in a Florida prison. This traumatic experience propels Avery into a life of law and order.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her razor-sharp mind and ability to gather data and decipher evidence has made Avery an expert crime analyst for the FBI. But soon she will have to use every one of her adroit skills on a case that hits painfully close to home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Averyâ€™s workaholic aunt, Carolyn Salvetti, is certain her (hopefully soon-to-be ex) husband sent her the gold embossed reservation to the posh Utopia Spa in the mountains of Colorado. At first she is resistant, but then figures it will be a welcome respite from the cutthroat advertising business, not to mention a networking extravaganza. Plus she persuades her niece to join her for the two weeks of luxury and decadence.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Carolyn never makes it to Utopia. Under false pretenses, she is taken to an isolated retreat by a handsome stranger with a dazzling smile, suave demeanor, and the darkest of motives. His name is Monk, a hired assassin. Now, with scant clues and fewer resources, Avery must track down and save Carolynâ€”and outmaneuver a brilliant killer who is part of an elaborate plot of madness and lethal vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6296'),
(5522, 'Killshot', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Crime fiction doesn''t get any better than Leonard''s new thriller, which, while it breaks no new ground, is a welcome retreat to his more direct style of classics such as 52 Pickup and Unknown Man #89 . When Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne stumble onto an extortion scheme run by Armand Degas, half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian hit man, and his temporary partner Richie Nix, a talkative sociopath, the two killers set out to eliminate them, hiding out with Nix''s girlfriend Donna, a former prison guard who collects stuffed animals and believes that Elvis is alive. In detailing the killers'' relentless pursuit of the terrified couple, Leonard builds suspense with a deft, master hand, inducing an instant--and sustained--response of sweating hands and a racing heart. Even the most jaded reader will be swept along on the roller coaster of impending violence punctuated by heart-stopping crises. As always, Leonard writes with a natural ear for offbeat speech and a terrific sense of locale, moving the action from Toronto to Detroit and into Michigan and Ohio, telling the story almost totally through the thoughts and dialogue of the characters. In the Colsons, Leonard presents a more mature and realistic portrayal of a relationship than he has in the past, and he stirs up an uncomfortable fondness for the cruel but mellowing hit man Degas, all the while drawing the reader deeply into these ordinary lives. A bravura performance. Literary Guild dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fine adaptation of Leonard''s best-selling novel, Wayne and Carmen Colson''s quiet life shatters following their involvement in a failed extortion scheme. To escape from hit man Arman "Blackbird" Degas and his sidekick Richie Nix, the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Protection Program. They soon find out the program contains as many predators as does the underworld. As with all of Leonard''s (Cuba Libre, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/98) works, it is his character development and dialog that propel the simple plot toward its chilling conclusion. Bruce Boxleitner''s reading adds a special effect to the story, and the adaptation captures all the power of the original novel. Highly recommended for all collections containing Leonard''s past works.?Stephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ. Lib, OH\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9192'),
(5523, 'Kiln People', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen''s legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he''s sent plenty of clay duplicates into deadly peril, then "inloaded" memories from copies that were shot, crushed, drowned . . . all part of a day''s work.But when Morris tackles a ring of crooks making bootleg copies of a famous actress, he trips into a secret so explosive it incites open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10427'),
(5524, 'Kim Harrison - Hollows 01', 'Dead Witch Walking (v1.0) (html)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9640'),
(5525, 'Kim Harrison - Hollows 03', 'Every Which Way But Dead (.html.jpg v4.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9633'),
(5526, 'Kim Harrison - Hollows 06', 'The Outlaw Demon Wails (html)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9634'),
(5527, 'The kindly ones', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(5528, 'The Kindly Ones: A Novel', 'Jonathan Littell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Signature_Reviewed by_ Jonathan SeguraWritten in French by an American, this was the hot book of Frankfurt in 2006 and won two of France''s major literary awards. A couple of years and a reported million-dollar advance later, here it is in English. Is it worth the hype and money? In a word, no. Dr. Max Aue, the petulant narrator of this overlong exercise in piling-on, is a rising star in the SS. His career helped along by a slick SS benefactor, Aue watches the wholesale slaughter of Jews in the Ukraine, survives getting shot through the head in Stalingrad, researches and writes dozens of reports, tours Auschwitz and Birkenau, and finds himself in Hitler''s bunker in the Reich''s final days. He kills people, too, and is secretly gayâ€”a catcherâ€”and tormented by his love for his twin sister, Una, who now rebuffs his lusty advances. He also hates his mother and stepfather. As he claims, If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face. But after nearly 1,000 pages, Herr Doktor Aue, for all his alleged coldness and self-hatred and self-indulgent ruminations, amounts to nothing more than a bloodless conduit for boasting the breadth of Littell''s research (i.e., a nine-page digression on the history of Caucasian linguistics). The text itself is notable for its towering, imposing paragraphs that often run on for pages. Unfortunately, these paragraphs are loaded with dream sequences marked by various unpleasant bodily functions, a 14-page hallucination where a very CÃ©line-like crackpot cameos as Dr. Sardine and dozens of numbing passages in which SS functionaries debate logistical aspects of the Jewish Question. Also, nary an anus goes by that isn''t lovingly described (among the best is one surrounded by a pink halo, gaped open like a sea anemone between two white globes). Most crippling, however, is Aue''s inability to narrate outside his one bulldozing, breathless register, and while it may work marvelously early on as he relates the troubles of trying to fit the maximum number of bodies into a pit, the monotone voice quickly loses its luster. In the final 200 or so pages, Berlin is burning, the Russians and Americans are making rapid advances, Hitler is nearly assassinated and SS brass are formulating their personal endgames. But, alas, this massive endeavor grinds to its conclusion on a pulp conceit: two German cops, against all odds, are in hot pursuit of Aue for a crime he may or may not have committed.Littell''s strung together many tens of thousands of words, but many tens of thousands of words does not necessarily a novel make. As the French say,\n  <em>\n   tant pis\n  </em>\n  ._Jonathan Segura is the deputy reviews editor of_ Publishers Weekly\n  <em>\n   and the author of\n  </em>\n  Occupational Hazards_._\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Littell opens his Second World War novel, told through the recollections of a German officer named Max Aue, with a breakdown of how many Germans, Soviets, and Jews died, minute by minute, in the conflict. As Aue travels to Stalingrad, Auschwitz, and Hungary to report on morale and efficiency, long sections of bureaucratic analysis alternate with moments of mind-numbing sadism. Aue, a caricature of moral failure (he fantasizes at length about sodomizing his twin sister), encounters a cast of unintentionally comic characters, such as an obese and flatulent proponent of the Final Solution, who surrounds himself with Teutonic beauties. The Holocaust is recast as an extended bout of office politics, with German officials quarrelling over who is responsible for prisonersï¿½ hygiene. As the novel draws to a violent close, its story seems nearly as senseless as the horrors it depicts.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4881'),
(5529, 'Kindred in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena''s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate. When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2380'),
(5530, 'Kindred Spirits', 'Mark Anthony &amp; Ellen Porath', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Magic and Murder\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Flint Fireforge, dwarf and metalsmith, receives a wondrous summons from the Speaker of the Sun, he journeys to the fabled elven city of Qualinost. There he meets Tanis, a thoughtful youth born of a tragic union between elf and man. Tanis and Flint, each a misfit in his own way, find themselves unlikely friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But a pompous elf lord is mysteriously slain, and another elf soon meets the same fate. Tanis stands accused, and if his innocence cannot be proven, the half-elf will be banished forever. Solving the mystery will be a perilous task. Time is on the murder''s side, and he is not finished yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10687'),
(5531, 'King Blood', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ike King, a man who built his empire with blood and violence,   faces a career change when his sons threaten to take that empire away from him. By the author of *The Grifters *and *The Killer Inside Me. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2199'),
(5532, 'King Con', 'Stephen J. Cannell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Using the same mixture of action, charm, and believable characters that made his television series like\n <em>\n  The Rockford Files\n </em>\n so much fun, Stephen J. Cannell has come up with a thriller that''s as bright and breezy as a day at the beach. Ace grifter Beano X. Bates and his extended family make a nice living conning folks out of their savings with scams like "The Most Valuable Dog in the World." But when a New Jersey mobster named Joe Rina puts him in the hospital, Beano is out for massive revenge. With the help of a harried but sexy female prosecutor, the Bates family pulls off a series of consummate cons that leap to life from the printed page. Cannell''s last thriller, __, is available in paperback.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n New Jersey mobsters Tommy and Joe Rina kill the star witness in the state''s case against them, and "King Con" Beano X. Bates plots revenge in the form of an elaborate "sting." Aiding him is former New Jersey prosecutor Victoria Hart, prim, upstanding, and dedicated, who''s drawn into the sting unwillingly, then takes glee in committing felonies and telling lies right and left. Screen- and TV writer Cannell''s second novel (following Final Victim, LJ 4/15/96) is pure delight; its well-developed plot line has nice detours here and there so the reader cannot quite foresee the conclusion. The entire Bates family, criminals all, are wonderful characters, and although some of the action is far-fetched and the sting dialog gets boring in its technicality, the wry humor will keep readers enthralled. Great summer reading for all libraries. (Cannell is making this into an MGM movie with John Travolta as Beano..\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Alice DiNizo, Raritan P.L., N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5645'),
(5533, 'King Lear', 'Gareth Hinds &amp; William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Having kicked off the recent outpouring of graphic-format Beowulf adaptations, Hinds now contributes to the similarly enthusiastic flood of graphic-format Shakespeare adaptations with an excellent rendition of one of the bardâ€™s great tragedies. Using splash pages that open up the settings, washes of otherworldly colors, grotesquely expressive faces right out of William Blake, and figural work much improved from his previous effort, Hinds occasionally attains a visual poetry that marked the painful betrayals, the epic scope of the battles,Â  and Learâ€™s seething madness. Even abridged (with helpful endnotesÂ about many of the excised passages), the story and language here can seem intimidatingly dense, butÂ the artwork Â keeps the exposition moving, and comic-book sound effects (â€œthwok!â€) and expletives (â€œunh . . .â€) paradoxically add a gritty realism.Â The most effective parts of the book are the dramatic ones, and most memorable are the grisly eye-plucking scene, a supernaturally eerie storm scene, and two cracking good sword duels. For powerful drama withÂ quality art, this adaptation is the one to choose. Grades 7-10. --Jesse Karp\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A taut adaptation of Shakespeareâ€™s masterwork by Gareth Hinds â€” the standard-bearer of graphic-novel retellings of literary classics.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a graceful adaptation, Gareth Hinds transforms Shakespeareâ€™s timeless tale of pride and defiance, loyalty and ambition, betrayal and revenge into graphic-novel format, packing it with visual drama and providing accessible notes. This artful edition â€” like an extraordinary stage performance â€” offers a striking new perspective on one of the most powerful and beloved tragedies in the English language. Incorporating excerpts from the bardâ€™s own language, Gareth Hindsâ€™s inventive format opens the experience of KING LEAR to students and fans of graphic literature.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7612'),
(5534, 'King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone', 'David Carey &amp; John E. Morris &amp; John Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe authors â€¦ [take] us from the early days of the Blackstone Group, when the firm was just two guys and a secretary, to the buyout boom, when Mr. Schwarzmanâ€™s conspicuous consumption became a symbol of the new Gilded Age. In between, the book dives deeply into the firmâ€™s signature deals â€” Celanese! Nalco! Distressed cable bonds! â€” that made Mr. Schwarzman and his partners so rich. It also delivers some fun details about many of the now-famous Wall Street players that did tours of duty at the firm.\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€”New York Times DealBook\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCarey and Morrisâ€™ thorough reporting offers a compelling look into the little understood Wall Street giant and the secrets of its success.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€”Worth Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[R]anks as one of the most even-handed treatments of the industry. David Carey and John Morris . . . received unusual access to Blackstone. . . . This allowed them to chronicle the firm in full and entertaining fashion across its 25-year history.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Bloomberg Brief â€“ Mergers _\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] broad history of private equity, with Blackstone as the touchstone.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Fortune.com\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â  __\n <br />\n â€œCheck out "King of Capital" because\n <strong>\n  it''s got gossip, it''s got brains, and it''s as readable as hel\n </strong>\n l. And it''s got some really good Schwarzman stories too.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Deal\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n <strong>\n  "_King of Capital _aspires to be a serious portrait of Blackstone and the way that Schwarzman so brilliantly built it up, scoring numerous coups along the way and avoiding the mistakes of many competitors. And it does a fine job in what it sets out to do."\n </strong>\n â€” Financial Times\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe authors link Blackstoneâ€™s history to the larger story of private equityâ€™s expansion and its relationship to corporate America. They offer a lucid explanation of how the debt markets evolved from junk bonds to securitised loans, changing the types of deals that private-equity firms were able to finance.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  The Economist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street. David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and â€˜barbarians at the gateâ€™ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors.\n <br />\n The financial establishmentâ€”banks and investment bankers such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanleyâ€”were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.\n <br />\n Blackstone is now ready to break out once again since it is sitting on billions of dollars\n <br />\n that can be invested at a time when the market is starved for capital.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The story of a financial revolutionâ€”the greatest untold success story on Wall Street:\n </strong>\n Not only have Blackstone and a small coterie of competitors wrested control of corporations around the globe, but they have emerged as a major force on Wall Street, challenging the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for dominance.\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  Great human interest story:\n </strong>\n How Blackstone went from two guys and a secretary to being one of Wall Streetâ€™s most powerful institutions, far outgrowing its much older rival KKR; and how Steve Schwarzman, with a pay packet one year of $398 million and $684 million from the Blackstone IPO, came to epitomize the spectacular new financial fortunes amassed in the 2000s.\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  Controversial:\n </strong>\n Analyzes the controversies surrounding Blackstone and whether it and other private equity firms suck the lifeblood out of companies to enrich themselvesâ€”or whether they are a force that helps make the companies they own stronger and thereby better competitors.\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  The story by two insiders with access:\n </strong>\n Insightful and hard-hitting, filled with never-before-revealed details about the workings of a heretofore secretive company that was the personal fiefdom of Schwarzman and Peter Peterson.\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  Forward-looking:\n </strong>\n How Blackstone and private equity will drive the economy and provide a model for how financing will work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4801'),
(5535, 'King Of Foxes', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Young Tal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village -- rescued, recruited, and trained by the mysterious order of magicians and spies, the Conclave of Shadows. Already exceptionally skilled in swordsmanship, he has since developed into one of the secret society''s most valuable agents, keeping ever alert for the opportunity to arise when he can avenge the craven slaughter of his family and friends. That time is now. Posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles, he gains entrance into the court of the Duke of Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal''s village to the sword. But the enemy is cunning and well protected -- in league with the foul necromancer Leso Varen, dark master of death-magic -- and to gain the Duke''s trust and confidence, Tal Hawkins must first sell his soul. Only by swearing an oath of allegiance to his hated nemesis can Tal hope to get close enough to kill the Duke and bring his empire crashing down. But the tyrant demands that his new acolyte prove his loyalty with blood. Sent off to do his "master''s" malevolent bidding -- each depraved mission more odious than the last -- the Talon of the Silver Hawk faces a spirit-crushing dilemma. Only through evil can his vengeance succeed, yet his alternatives are more terrible still: madness, torture, damnation, and a slow, lingering death in the Fortress of Despair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3657'),
(5536, 'A King of Infinite Space', 'Tyler Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description:\n  </strong>\n  Long Beach, California, homicide detective Danny Beckett is pouring the weekendâ€™s first shot of vodka when the call comes in: Elizabeth Williams, a teacher at nearby Warren High School, has been brutally murdered in her classroom. When Danny arrives at the school, the blood-spattered crime scene turns even his veteran stomach. What could this young woman have done to make her the target of such a violent attack? And what is the significance of the victimâ€™s left hand, taken by the killer as a grisly trophy? Beckett delves into the case with his usual tenacious cool, yet as he pieces together the facts, long-suppressed anguish from his own past rises up with stunning force. His hunt for the murderer soon morphs into a personal quest for atonement as he struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and family.\n  <em>\n   A King of Infinite Space\n  </em>\n  is a riveting crime novel that serves as a memorable introduction for Danny Beckett to the ranks of fictionâ€™s favorite hardened detectives.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Tyler Dilts on\n   <em>\n    A King of Infinite Space\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I began writing\n  <em>\n   A King of Infinite Space\n  </em>\n  , I was in graduate school earning an MFA in fiction writing. As is the case in many such programs, there was a good deal of autobiographical introspection in the writing going on around me, and that was the last thing I wanted to do. I wanted to do something different. One of the primary reasons Iâ€™ve always loved reading is that it takes me away from myself and allows me to experience the lives of other people. What, I asked myself, could I credibly write about that was very different from my own experience?\n </p>\n <p>\n  My father was a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, and throughout most of my youth, I wanted to be a police officer. Although my career goals changed, I was left with a considerable amount of background knowledge that I felt I could put to good use. And it didnâ€™t hurt that my favorite writers included the likes of\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the writing and rewriting progressed, I felt a reassuring sense of distance from Danny, a sort of critical perspective that thought allowed me to shape and hone the character with a studied and intellectual reserve that seemed properly authorial and intellectual.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So it came as quite a surprise when the novel was finished and my friends and family began to read it. Danny sounds just like you, they said. I refused to accept this, so I interrogated them. One by one they pointed out details and ideas and jokes and phrases that theyâ€™d heard me express, usually more than once. And a few of those closest to me commented on the similarity of our voices and perspectives. Eventually, I had to admit it. They were right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was only recently, though, when I had the occasion to look through and old family photo album and saw a picture of myself at four years old, around the time of my fatherâ€™s death. In it I wore a clip-on tie, a makeshift shoulder holster complete with cap gun, and an expression befitting the most serious of detectives. It was me I was looking at, but I couldnâ€™t help thinking it might just as well have been Danny Beckett._--Tyler Dilts_\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We meet Detective Danny Beckett mixing himself another screwdriver, but itâ€™s a bit of a feintâ€”though he occasionally indulges, Danny is a remarkably sober protagonist. In fact, itâ€™s this quality of quiet practicality that helps him solve a grisly crime: a young schoolteacher, hacked to death in her own classroom and robbed of her left hand. â€œThe vic,â€ as the task force calls her, had no real enemies, and this allows Diltsâ€”a talented and understated new crime writerâ€”to flex his slow-burn, first-person narrative. Danny and his partner, Jen, turn up a surprising number of credible suspects (including a Russian mobster, an abusive father, and an Internet date), but even when characters turn out to be red herrings, Dilts plumbs them for all theyâ€™re worth in terms of fleshing out the psyches of Danny and Jenâ€”who is, by the way, another arresting character, a dutiful martial-arts enthusiast who betrays just a flicker of attraction for her partner. This is tense, intelligent, and observant writing; hereâ€™s hoping Dilts doesnâ€™t leave this duo hanging. --Daniel Kraus\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7734'),
(5537, 'The King of Lies', 'John Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jackson Workman Pickensâ€”known to most as â€œWorkâ€â€”mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife who shares their loveless marriage, and an estranged sister who bore the brunt of their childhood trauma.Â And then Ezraâ€™s body is discovered.Â Set to inherit his fatherâ€™s fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect.Â  But so does his sister, Jean.Â  As much as Workâ€™s life was overshadowed by his domineering father, Jeanâ€™s life was nearly destroyed by him. But does that make her capable of a vicious murder?Â  Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with a power-hungry detective, a string of damning evidence, and the ugly rumors that swirl within his small, moneyed Southern town.Â Desperate for the redemption that has eluded him for so many years and stripped of everything he once valued, he fights to save his sister and clear his nameâ€”in this poignant and thrilling anatomy of a murder and its ripple effect within a family and a community.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1799'),
(5538, 'King of Swords', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9834'),
(5539, 'King of the Godfathers: &quot;Big Joey&quot; Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family', 'Anthony M. DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino''s closest and most trusted friend, but also his brother-in-law. In the end, facing the death penalty and the prospect of leaving his family penniless, Massino started talking to the FBI - the first Mafia Godfather to break the sacred code of omerta, and the end of a centuries-old tradition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(5540, 'King of The Murgos', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Book Two of the Malloreon. The infant son of Garion and Ce''nedra has been foully kidnapped. And thus, they begin the great quest to rescue the child, with the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and inevitably, the little Drasnina Silk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(5541, 'The King of Torts', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his lifeâ€”that would make him, almost overnight, the legal professionâ€™s newest king of torts...From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2916');
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(5542, 'King of Zunga', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1928'),
(5543, 'King Rolen&#39;s Kin: The Uncrowned King', 'Rowena Cory Daniells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rolencia''s ancestry enemy, Merofynia, has invaded and marches on King Rolen''s castle. Powerless to help, thirteen yeard old Piro watches as her father, King Rolen, listens to poisoned whispers against Bryen. How could the King doubt his second son? Deshy;termined to prove his loyalty, Bryen races across the path of the advancing army to ask the Abbot to send the warriors monks in defence of the castle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4152'),
(5544, 'King Solomon&#39;s Mines', 'H. Rider Haggard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged.This edition of King Solomon''s Mines includes a Foreword and Biographical Note from the Publisher.Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career.His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain john Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself!Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon''s Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1979'),
(5545, 'The King&#39;s Bastard', 'Rowena Cory Daniells', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4151'),
(5546, 'The King&#39;s Buccaneer', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set ten years after the events in "Prince of the Blood", this book is a remarkable adventure of mystery and magic. In Amos Trask''s ship, Prince Nicholas and Squire Harry set sail for a friendly visit to Uncle Martin in Crydee. But while the two are guests in Crydee, disaster strikes. Nicholas, third son of Prince Arutha, is a gifted youngster, but sheltered by life at his father''s court in Krondor. To learn more of the world outside the palace walls, Nicholas and his squire, Harry, set sail for pastoral Crydee, where Arutha grew up. Shortly after their arrival, Crydee is brutally attacked. The castle is reduced to ruins, the townspeople slaughtered and two young noblewomen -- friends of Nicholas -- are abducted. As Nicholas ventures further from the familiar landmarks of his home in pursuit of the invaders, he learns that there is more at stake than the fate of his friends, more even than fate of the Kingdom of the Isles, for behind the murderous pirates stands a force that threatens the entire world of Midkemia, and only he is destined to confront this terrifying threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3656'),
(5547, 'a King&#39;s Ransom (2001)', 'Grippando, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9291'),
(5548, 'The King&#39;s Rose', 'Alisa M. Libby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Life in the court of King Henry VIII is a complex game. When fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard catches the kingâ€™s eye, she quickly transforms from pawn to queen. But even luxury beyond imagination loses its luster as young Catherine finds her lifeâ€”and her heartâ€”threatened by the needs of an aging king and a family hungry for power. Will their agendas deliver Catherine to the same fate as her infamous cousin, Anne Boleynâ€”sacrificed at the altar of family ambition?\n</p>\n<p>\n Engaging historical fiction with a throbbing YA heartbeat, this thrilling novel will draw readers into the intrigues and dangers of the Tudor court.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(5549, 'The King&#39;s Speech', 'Mark Logue &amp; Peter Conradi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed _The Quack who saved a King_. Logue wasn''t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King. Had Logue not saved Bertie (as the man who was to become King George VI was always known) from his debilitating stammer, and pathological nervousness in front of a crowd or microphone, then it is almost certain that the House of Windsor would have collapsed. The King''s Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue''s unpublished personal diaries. They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men and the vital role the King''s wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband''s reputation and his career as King. The King''s Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8468'),
(5550, 'A Kingdom Besieged', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discover the fate of the original black Magician, Pug, and his motley crew of agents who safeguard the world of Trigia, as prophecy becomes truth in the first book of the last ever Midkemian trilogy.THE KINGDOM BESIEGEDThe Darkness is coming''ÅšThe Kingdom is plagued by rumour and instability. Kingdom spies in Kesh have been disappearing - either murdered, or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant and unreliable; but one thing appears clear. Dark forces are on the move''ÅšSince Pug and the Conclave of Shadows enforced peace after the last Keshian invasion, the Empire has offered no threat. But now factions are rising and Jim Dasher reports mobilizations of large forces in the Keshian Confederacy.As the men of the West answer the King''s call to muster, Martin conDoin - left as caretaker of Crydee Keep - will suddenly be confronted with the vanguard of an invading army. He reminds himself that he is a year older than his legendary ancestor, Prince Arutha, was when he stood firm against the Tsurani invasion, but Arutha had an army to command, and Martin is left with old men and young boys.Massive events are about to unfold, events which threaten the future of all human life in Midkemia''Åš\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6200'),
(5551, 'The Kingdom Beyond the Waves', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful, thrill-packed adventure set in the world of 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Court of the Air\n  </em>\n  , this charming steam-pulp yarn chronicles the journey of archeologist Amelia Harsh as she searches for the fabled kingdom of Camlantis. Bad-boy tycoon Abraham Quest finances the journey; does he merely want to test his new airships, or is something more devious going on? Amelia is joined by Commodore Black and his crew, who have escaped a horrifying underwater debtor''s prison, as well as Amazon-like warrior Veryann, but even they may be no match for sabotage, fierce native attacks (spurred by the actions of the expedition''s lunatic steamman guide, Ironshanks), furious thunder lizards and forced service to the insectile Daggish. Wildly imaginative and compelling, Amelia''s journey plays out against a backdrop of civil war and failed rebellion, layered and complex treachery and love in surprising corners.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   THE COURT OF THE AIR\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicksâ€¦the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and moreâ€¦Harry Potter mugs H. P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€”KIRKUS REVIEWS\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thrillerâ€¦.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”SFREVU.COM\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4542'),
(5552, 'The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots', 'The New York Observer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For the last two decades,\n  <em>\n   The New York Observer\n  </em>\n  has documented the Platinum Age of New York, when the city''s new elite rose and dominated society, media, business, and culture with an amusing arrogance that redefined the power capital of the world.\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom of New York\n  </em>\n  jauntily chronicles the Rise and Fall and Rise of New York City, as personified by the protagonists and antagonists of the past twenty years, told in archival pasticheâ€”a breathtaking sprint of headlines, great reporting, witty writing, and stories in fashion, ideas, real estate, style, media, movies, politics, sex, and finance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All of New York''s major players are hereâ€”including Bill and Hillary, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, Anderson Cooperâ€”as well as essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese. Here, too, are many of the country''s finest journalists reporting on the high opulence of the 1990s; the wry irony of the\n  <em>\n   Seinfeld\n  </em>\n  years; the poignant loss of John Kennedy Jr.; and the inconceivable assault of September 11, 2001, and New York''s rallying return. Among it all are signature featuresâ€”from Candace Bushnell''s "Sex and the City" columns as they initially appeared to the couples counseling of "George and Hilly"â€”as the\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n  grew into one of the city''s most influential papers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Handsomely designed and filled with the paper''s trademark attention to politics, status, and wealth, this is a rollicking insider''s account of contemporary New York. At once wickedly funny and astute,\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom of New York\n  </em>\n  is a striking tribute to an unforgettable era in the city''s history.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The New York Observer was founded in 1987. It covers politics, media, society, real estate, fashion, business, culture, and entertainment in the power capital of the world. It is published weekly as a newspaper and ceaselessly at www.observer.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8543'),
(5553, 'Kingdom of Royth', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1937'),
(5554, 'Kingdom&#39;s Fury', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A few good Marines beat the fierce, fanatical aliens once before. But that was a skirmish-not a full-scale invasion. The truth is out. No longer are the Skinks just a horrible secret haunting the Marines of Company L. Now the aliens are all-too-real invaders whose savage attacks have devastated planet Kingdom, a world of squabbling religions where the men of the 34th FIST confront a desperate situation. Cities that haven''t already been reduced to rubble are under siege, while starving refugees roam the land. And still the Skinks come, rising from stinking primordial swamps to slake their thirst for slaughter, armed with an uncanny ability to locate the enemy and with weapons so deadly that a single blast can drop a warplane or a decimate a squad. It''s painfully evident that 34th FIST is no match for these near-invincible killers, which is why third platoon''s been ordered to whip the citizens of Kingdom into fighting shape. With their backs to the wall and time running out, there''s only one way the Marines can turn these timid, quarrelsome men into warriors: Take the battle to the enemy. It''s a brilliant strategy, sure to succeed-if it doesn''t get them killed first. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(5555, 'Kingdom&#39;s Swords', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The Marines were told it was a simple peasant rebellionâ€“but the mission proved to be far deadlier. . . .***Gunny Charlie Bass isnâ€™t** **the only Marine** **mystified by the order sending the entire 34th** **to put down a few seditious serfs on planet Kingdom. Rumors swirl of a deadly alien invasion. But few believe that such sentient beings exist. Except Gunny Bass and the Marines of the 3rd platoon, who once fought enemy aliens called Skinksâ€“fierce, fanatical fighters with hideous weapons who attack for no other reason but to kill.Then, while slogging through Kingdomâ€™s fetid swamps, the Marines are attacked by awesome unseen weapons that could destroy half a platoon with one shot. Clearly they are facing no normal enemy. And if their adversaries are Skinks, one FIST isnâ€™t enough. Third platoonâ€™s orders are to penetrate deeper into the bloody jungle hellâ€“and find out what happens when a few good men bite the bullet. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(5556, 'The Kingmaker', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breathtaking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero chance of saving his client from a death sentence. However, his obligation runs deeper than simply professional: Morrison''s wife, a CIA executive, has begged Sean to save her husband, and Drummond doesn''t want to disappoint his old flame. Despite ever-more-damning intelligence leaks that paint Morrison as worse than Bene- dict Arnold, Drummond bulls ahead and comes to suspect that this simple case of treason is actually a chess game being played at the highest levels by the best and brightest-one in which Morrison is merely a pawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(5557, 'Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground', 'Kevin Poulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative-and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century''s signature form of organized crime. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone-some brilliant, audacious crook-had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. . . . Yet at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and see through their plots. The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain''s double identity. As prominent white-hat hacker Max Vision Butler, he was a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But as the black-hat Iceman, he found in the world of data theft an irresistible opportunity to test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated thousands of computers around the country, sucking down millions of credit card numbers at will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing their ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime ring. And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as countless rivals ran afoul of police. Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to see in their dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his coup and fix what was broken, run things as they should be run-even if it meant painting a bull''s-eye on his forehead. Through the story of this criminal''s remarkable rise, and of law enforcement''s quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans. In these pages, we are ushered into vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. We learn the workings of the numerous hacks-browser exploits, phishing attacks, Trojan horses, and much more-these fraudsters use to ply their trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen''s remarkable access to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate arms race that law enforcement continues to fight with these scammers today. Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling scope and power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand in hand with murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi connection can unleash a torrent of gold worth millions. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8163'),
(5558, 'The Kings of Clonmel (Book 8)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mankind puts its faith in many thingsâ€”gods, kings, moneyâ€”anything for protection from the worldâ€™s many dangers. When a cult springs up in neighboring Clonmel, promising to quell the recent attacks by lawless marauders, people flock from all over to offer gold in exchange for protection. But this particular group, with which Halt is all too familiar, has a less than charitable agenda. Secrets will be unveiled and battles fought to the death as Will and Horace help Halt in ridding the land of a dangerous enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(5559, 'The Kings of Clonmel', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mankind puts its faith in many thingsâ€”gods, kings, moneyâ€”anything for protection from the worldâ€™s many dangers. When a cult springs up in neighboring Clonmel, promising to quell the recent attacks by lawless marauders, people flock from all over to offer gold in exchange for protection. But this particular group, with which Halt is all too familiar, has a less than charitable agenda. Secrets will be unveiled and battles fought to the death as Will and Horace help Halt in ridding the land of a dangerous enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4810'),
(5560, 'Kings of the Earth: A Novel', 'Jon Clinch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following up Finn, his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked â€œthe mythic styles of his literary predecessors . . . William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jonesâ€ (San Francisco Chronicle), Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and haunting story of life, death, and family in rural America.Â The edge of civilization is closer than we think.Â Itâ€™s as close as a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, where the three Proctor brothers live together in a kind of crumbling stasis. They linger like creatures from an older, wilder, and far less forgiving worldâ€”until one of them dies in his sleep and the other two are suspected of murder.Told in a chorus of voices that span a generation, Kings of the Earth examines the bonds of family and blood, faith and suspicion, that link not just the brothers but their entire community.Vernon, the oldest of the Proctors, is reduced by work and illness to a shambling shadow of himself. Feebleminded Audie lingers by his side, needy and unknowable. And Creed, the youngest of the three and the only one to have seen anything of the world (courtesy of the U.S. Army), struggles with impulses and accusations beyond his understanding. We also meet DelÂ Graham, a state trooper torn between his urge to understand the brothers and his desire for justice; Preston Hatch, a kindhearted and resourceful neighbor whoâ€™s spent his life protecting the three men from themselves; the brothersâ€™ only sister, Donna, who managed to cut herself loose from the family but is then drawn back; and a host of other living, breathing characters whose voices emerge to shape this deeply intimate saga of the human condition at its limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3195'),
(5561, 'Kings of the North', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The languorous sequel to 2010''s Oath of Fealty finds many characters moving up in the world, including Kieri Phelan, the king of Lyonya, and Dorrin, now Duke Verrakai. Now those newly stationed must deal with assassination attempts, counterfeiting, and a new enemy who has taken to calling himself Duke Visla Vaskronin. Kieri doesn''t understand why his elven grandmother and co-ruler, the Lady, often refuses to come when he needs her, even when a war with the Pargunese and their possibly unbeatable weapon is imminent. He will also discover that his elven heritage runs stronger than he thought. The pace is slow enough to immerse readers in the world as the characters are immersed in self-discovery, with larger events impending but usually not seen directly. There''s action a-plenty, but this series most appeals to readers who enjoy their fantasy more thoughtful and intellectual. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Moon''s novels of Paksenarrion''s world have been considered classics since they were first published more than two decades ago. Her storytelling is as electrifying as ever, and her readers should be delighted with this new vista of a well-known world'' Booklist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8178'),
(5562, 'Kinsman Saga Omnibus The', 'Ben Bova - Kinsman Saga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10462'),
(5563, 'Kiss an Angel', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''Witty, moving, passionate and tender...pure up-to-the-minute entertainment...well-written, funny, sexy, and altogether satisfying.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4626'),
(5564, 'Kiss and Dwell', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Monique Vicknair has a secret-- she''s a medium, dedicated to helping spirits cross to the other side. Unfortunately, she''s been so busy, she hasn''t taken care of her "own" earthly needs. And it''s been a long, "long" time. So when she meets recently deceased-but oh-so-sexy-Ryan Chappelle, she''s more than ready for a fling. Even if it is with a ghost! Ryan is no stranger to the pleasures of a woman''s body, and his death hasn''t changed that. But he''s never wanted anyone the way he wants Monique. So he''s refusing to leave this world until he makes love to her. And if he has to break all the laws of heaven and earth to do it, he will. "Again and again and again... ."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7784'),
(5565, 'Kiss Me Kill Me', 'Lauren Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabbyâ€™s to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is relieved that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan McAndrew. Before the party, Scarlett had only imagined what it would be like to have her first kiss with Dan, but on the penthouse terrace, Dan leaned in close and she no longer had to wonder. Their kiss was beautiful and perfect and magical, and then . . . Dan McAndrew took his last breath as she held him in her arms. No one knows how or why Dan died, and everyone at St. Tabbyâ€™s believes Scarlett had something to do with it. But now that sheâ€™s safely hidden away at Wakefield Hall, Scarlett would rather forget that it ever happened. Only she canâ€™t. Especially when she receives an anonymous note that will set her on the path to clearing her name and finding out what really happened to the first and last boy she kissed.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2320'),
(5566, 'Kiss Me, Kate! and Hug Me, Holly!: Duets 2 Romantic Comedies', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2068'),
(5567, 'Kiss of Death', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine ''Addictive and hypnotic'' The Eternal Night\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new chapter in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Morganville Vampires saga.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he''s been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael''s all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7302'),
(5568, 'A Kiss of Shadows', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt. She was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and that meant that anything said in the dark was hers to hear, eventually. The fact that spotting the missing Elven American Princess had become more popular than spotting Elvis helped. Her magic was always chasing blind leads. Princess Meredith skiing in Utah. Princess Meredith dancing in Paris. Princess Meredith gambling in Vegas. After three years I was still a front-page story for the tabloids, though the latest headlines had been speculating that I was dead as the King of Rock and Roll . . ."Three years ago, Princess Meredith fled the court of her cruel Aunt Andais, the Queen of Air and Darkness, leaving that garden of decadent delights and backstabbing intrigues for the comparative calm of Los Angeles. Using her magic to pass for human, Meredith began a new life as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now Doyle, the Queen''s chief bodyguard and assassin, has been dispatched to fetch her back--whether she likes it or not.The product of a marriage designed to cement peace between the rival Seelie and Unseelie courts, Meredith has always been scorned by both factions in spite of her royal blood. But that blood is behind the Unseelie Queen''s surprisingly urgent summons. For ever since the fey''s exile from Europe to America, their power and purity have been fading. Desperate to renew her race, Queen Andais now pins her hopes on a contest between Meredith and her own son, the sadistic Prince Cel. The first to produce a child will win the throne.The loser''s reward will be death . . . Laurell K. Hamilton''s bestselling series of novels featuring Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, established her as one of the hottest new writers of dark fantasy and erotic horror. Now, in a thrilling adventure of unbridled imagination, Hamilton turns her talents to the glittering, myth-drenched lands of Faerie and brings them brilliantly into the postmodern age. Enter a thrilling, sensual world as threatening as it is beautiful, replete with the titanic passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods or demons. Full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, Laurell K. Hamilton''s A Kiss of Shadows will hold you under its hypnotic spell.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2796'),
(5569, 'Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.''s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing- and they are working coast to coast. A Main Selection of Book-of-the-Month ClubÂ®\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2022'),
(5570, 'Kiss the girls: a novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This time it''s personal for Cross. The most elusive of killers has abducted Cross''s niece, Naomi, a talented law student. Only such a devastating blow could bring the detective back - this time to the Deep South, where old slave prisons are buried in the forests, and houses of horror can disappear as in your worst nightmare. Naomi''s kidnapping rips Alex Cross away from his kids and his jazz piano and sends him south with several questions burning in his mind. Why did the police wait seventy-two hours before beginning their search? And what is the head of the FBI doing at the scene of a small-town crime? Meanwhile, somewhere out there Casanova is living a secret fantasy. In his private hideaway, the world''s greatest lover has assembled seven of the South''s most extraordinary young women for his personal use. It''s an accomplishment he can share with only one other soulmate - and that''s definitely not his wife back in suburbia. But Casanova doesn''t count on the exceptional abilities of one of his harem - or having Alex Cross as a nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2036'),
(5571, 'The Kiss', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole.On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands stillâ€”until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus''s tremendous weight. And a long journey beginsâ€”toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future...Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosityâ€”a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility.Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabell, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever.In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5995'),
(5572, 'Kisses and Lies', 'Lauren Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After discovering that someone saw what looked like Danâ€™s emergency EpiPen in A-lister Plumâ€™s designer handbag, Scarlett and her tough American sidekick, Taylor, sneak into a posh London nightclub, where Plum has a private table. Scarlett is stunned to discover a piece of evidence that might implicate another girl in Plumâ€™s exclusive circle, Lucy Raleigh. Which means Scarlett must cast a wider net in order to catch the right suspect.Back at school, groundskeeper Jase is hoping to take Scarlettâ€™s mind off her troubles with some heart-stopping kisses. Scarlett canâ€™t help but feel guilty for indulging in romantic rendezvous when she should be hunting down Danâ€™s killer. However, once Scarlett finds out how Lucy is connected to Dan, she knows she must drop everything and travel to the McAndrew estate in Scotland to hunt for more clues. But when she arrives, Scarlett becomes the target of a dangerous hunt herself.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2321'),
(5573, 'The Kitchen Boy', 'Robert Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovsâ€™ young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovsâ€™ brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family. Does he hold the key to the many questions surrounding the familyâ€™s murder? Historically vivid and compelling, *The Kitchen Boy* is also a touching portrait of a loving family that was in many ways similar, yet so different, from any other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3862'),
(5574, 'Kitchen Confidential', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(5575, 'Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don''t Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one''s appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in the Gironde to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain''s brilliantly written, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7373'),
(5576, 'The kite runner', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father''s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3137'),
(5577, 'Klee Wyck', 'Emily Carr &amp; Kathryn Bridge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I did not write Klee Wyck, as the reviewers said, long ago when I went to the West Coast Villages painting. I was too busy then painting from dawn till dusk. I wrote Klee Wyck...in hospital. They said I would not be able to go about painting here and there any more, lugging and tramping. I was sore about it, so, as I lay there, I relived the villages of Klee Wyck. It was easy for my mind to go back to the lovely places. After fifty years they were as fresh in my mind as they were then, because while I painted I had lived them deep. I could sail out of hospital and forget about everything."\n</p>\n<p>\n When asked to write about the "struggle story" of her work out West in collaboration with a biographer, Emily replied:\n</p>\n<h2>\n --- "Nobody could write my hodge-podge life but me. Biographers can only write up big, important people who have done great deeds to which the public can attach dates. I could not be bothered with collaborators, nor would they be bothered with the little drab nothings that have made up my life."\n</h2>\n<p>\n Her first book, Klee Wyck won a Governor General''s award for general literature, the year that it was published.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of artist, writer, and rebel Emily Carr''s first book means "Laughing One," the nickname given her by the Native people of Canada''s west coast. She returned the favor with\n <em>\n  Klee Wyck,\n </em>\n a collection of 21 "word portraits" of their lives and ways. The memoir describes in witty, vivid detail Carr''s visits and travels as she painted their totem poles and villages and got to know a people whose "quiet strength healed my heart." The book is reissued here with restored text and features the original introduction by Ira Dilworth and a new introduction by Carr scholar Kathryn Bridge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4778'),
(5578, 'The Klone and I: A High-Tech Love Story', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evidently, Danielle Steel has been kidnapped by a mad scientist who clamped her into some gizmo that fused her brain with that of Douglas Adams, author of\n <em>\n  The Klone and I: A High-Tech Love Story\n </em>\n , boasts her typical trappings--a divorced heroine, a cruel man, a sexy man with big money, and lots of shopping with brand-name tags conspicuously attached--the book is also the wackiest bit of self-indulgent sci-fi since\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Klone and I\n </em>\n starts out normally enough: after a 13-year marriage, Stephanie, 41, gets dumped for a busty young bimbo. "She was gorgeous. And I felt nauseous," Stephanie reflects--though she admits that things hadn''t been going well, what with hubby living off her trust fund and their having sex every six months or so. Realistically, their farewell hug goes like this: "My nose ran on his tie, while ever so cautiously he held me, kind of like a bank robber with sticks of dynamite taped all over his body."\n</p>\n<p>\n Then, one day, on an impulsive trip to the Left Bank of Paris, Steph steps into one of those cool old French elevators with Peter, a hunk in a button-down Oxford shirt and tasteful khakis. Romance! Ritzy places! In fact, he takes her to the Ritz! Alas, Peter must Louvre her and leave her for a business trip out West.\n</p>\n<p>\n So Peter sends Paul to keep her company. Paul is a dead ringer for Peter, because he''s a kind of clone created by Peter and his clever biotech company. He''s called a "klone" to distinguish him from a conventional clone, which is a mere replica of its original--this "klone" may be a physical copy of Peter, but inside he''s had a major id upgrade. As always with Steel, the clue is in the character''s clothes: from his high-heel gator boots to his zippered zebra jumpsuit, the decidedly non-buttoned-down Paul dresses like a psychedelic kaleidoscope. But when Paul drops that leopard-satin G-string, watch out! It''s quadruple flips in\n <em>\n  flagrante delicto\n </em>\n , with our heroine (and, the next morning, her chiropractor) coming out on top. Though Paul deplorably guzzles Chateau d''Yquem by the case and crashes Peter''s Jaguar into snow banks, he''s actually even more brilliantly empathic with Stephanie''s kids than stuffy Peter is.\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s a mother to do? Is Steph robbing Peter to play with Paul? How will the mÃ©nage Ã  trois affect marriage plans? Does Steel know that her comic tone (though not her subject) actually slightly echoes that of Betty MacDonald''s classic comedy memoir\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The subtitle, "A High Tech Love Story," need not frighten Steel''s loyal fans. More fanciful than technologically snappy, this novel (her 42nd, after The Long Road Home) grafts one scientific wrinkle onto the usual romance. Stunned when her feckless husband declares that their companionable but passionless marriage is over (then sues her for alimony and child support), 41-year-old Stephanie spends the next year improving both her body and her self-respect. During a trip to Paris, she attracts a suitor; Peter Baker is a fellow New Yorker?and everything Stephanie''s been hoping for. After a chaste but exhilarating evening together, Stephanie is sure that she''ll never see him again, but he tracks her down in the Hamptons and they fall in love. An executive at a company specializing in bionics, Peter has been working on a secret invention. When he travels to California on business, his creation, Paul Klone, turns up at Stephanie''s door. Paul is a physical replica of Peter, but the resemblance ends there. Whereas Peter favors Oxford shirts and khakis, Paul is a fan of Versace''s most outlandish creations. Although she has been pleased with Peter''s lovemaking, Paul''s triple back flips during sex leave Stephanie singing the body electric. When Peter becomes jealous of Paul, things get sticky. Although the SF element is minimal (approximately one part Ray Bradbury to 35 parts Steel), Steel''s speculative whimsy spices her romantic concoction to produce a light but charming read.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5980'),
(5579, 'Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads', 'Nancy Baggett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For years, countless home cooks have shied away from baking their own bread because they were intimidated by all the mess, the experience, and of course, all the kneading required. Now, with Nancy Baggett''s revolutionary new Kneadlessly Simple method, even complete novices can bake bread quickly and easily in their own homes, with no kneading and no kitchen mess. The secret is in Baggett''s slow-rise method, which allows the yeast to grow slowly and develop the same full, satisfying flavor of traditional bread, without any kneading at all. The technique calls for minimal ingredients, often mixed in one bowl with one spoon, eliminating all the mess of traditional bread recipes, and it can be used to produce a wide variety of breads, from Whole Wheat Boules and English Muffin Loaves to Raisin Bread and Caraway Beer Bread. With this innovative new method, anyone who can read, measure, and stir can now make delicious, fine-textured yeast bread at home. This book will differ from others on the same subject because Nancy Baggett is an experienced food writer who understand home baker''s needs. While techniques by other experts may sound similar, they still require messy dough handling. Nancy Baggett''s technique is the simplest one yet, and it''s virtually fool-proof.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5637');
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(5580, 'A Knife Edge', 'David Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this latest internationally bestselling thriller from David Rollins, author of **The Death Trust***, *a bizarre murder leads an exâ€“Air Force special investigator into a shadow world of conspiracy, cover-up, and military secrecy where the difference between friend or foe is thin asâ€¦****A scientist meets a grisly end when he falls from a military research ship and is attacked by a two-ton white shark off the Japanese coast. By the time Special Investigator Vin Cooper reaches the scene, thereâ€™s literally very little left to prove that the death wasnâ€™t an accident. But Cooperâ€™s instincts tell him that heâ€™s looking at murder and that in assigning him to this case someone might just as well have shoved him, too, into shark-infested waters.What kind of top secret project could the military be engaged in that would require the services of a foremost marine biologist *and* a genetic researcher? The possibilities are ominous, but not as ominous as the truth. And then the unthinkable tragedy that everyone feared since 9/11 explodes with a terrifying sense of dÃ©jÃ  vuâ€”in San Francisco.Suddenly, with a second scientist presumed dead, an unidentified charred body in the morgue, and the â€œaccidentalâ€ parachute death of a friend in a Florida training field, Cooper is following a trail as narrow and as dangerous as a knife-edgeâ€”a trail that leads to what we all fear most: a secret â€œgovernmentâ€ within our government whose sworn duty is to kill anyone who opposes them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(5581, 'Knife Music', 'David Carnoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kristen Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago -- but now the police are questioning Cogan about her. What''s going on; What has she told them; The problem is Kristen didn''t tell the cops anything. She''s dead -- an apparent suicide. But her diary suggests that she and the good doctor were intimate -- which puts the good doctor in a heap of trouble. Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. Pitted against Cogan is handicapped veteran detective Hank Madden, who tries to suppress his prejudices while investigating the case of a 43-year-old self-described womanizer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(5582, 'Knife of Dreams', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The prologue to Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan''s eleventh title in the WHEEL OF TIME series, due out in October 2005.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3806'),
(5583, 'The Knife of Never Letting Go', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead, and the thoughts of men and animals are constantly audible as Noise. Graphically represented by a set of scratchy fonts and sentence fragments that run into and over each other, Noise is an oppressive chaos of words, images, and sounds that makes human company exhausting and no thought truly private. The history of these peculiar circumstances unfolds over the course of the novel, but Ness''s basic world-building is so immediately successful that readers, too, will be shocked when Todd and his dog, Manchee, first notice a silence in the Noise. Realizing that he must keep the silence secret from the town leaders, he runs away, and his terrified flight with an army in pursuit makes up the backbone of the plot. The emotional, physical, and intellectual drama is well crafted and relentless. Todd, who narrates in a vulnerable and stylized voice, is a sympathetic character who nevertheless makes a few wrenching mistakes. Manchee and Aaron, a zealot preacher, function both as characters and as symbols. Tension, suspense, and the regular bombardment of Noise are palpable throughout, mitigated by occasional moments of welcome humor. The cliff-hanger ending is unexpected and unsatisfying, but the book is still a pleasure for sophisticated readers comfortable with the length and the bleak, literary tone.â€”_Megan Honig, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Chased by a madman preacher and possibly the rest of his townsfolk as well, young Todd Hewitt flees his settlement on a planet where war with the natives has killed all the women and infected the men with a germ that broadcasts their thoughts aloud for all to hear. This cacophanous thought-cloud is known as Noise and is rendered with startling effectiveness on the page. The first of many secrets is revealed when Todd discovers an unsettling hole in the Noise, and quickly realizes that he lives in a much different world than the one he thought he did. Some of the central conceits of the drama can be hard to swallow, but the pure inventiveness and excitement of the telling more than make up for it. Narrated in a sort of pidgin English with crack dramatic and comic timing by Todd and featuring one of the finest talking-dog characters anywhere, this troubling, unforgettable opener to the Chaos Walking trilogy is a penetrating look at the ways in which we reveal ourselves to one another, and what it takes to be a man in a society gone horribly wrong. The cliffhanger ending is as effective as a shot to the gut. Grades 8-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7941'),
(5584, 'The Knight and Knave of Swords [Book 7 of the &quot;Fafhrd and Gray Mouser&quot; Series]', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9900'),
(5585, 'Knight of Shadows', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Time travel, fantasy and alternate history are themes that capture and hold some very loyal readers. Older fans may need or just prefer Large Print; younger fans are often encouraged to read by Large Print.This series offers selections from current and bestselling authors as well as perennial favorites and true classics of the genre.In this ninth book in The Chronicles of Amber series Merle Corey, a.k.a. Merlin, pursues the disappearance of the two people dearest to him: Julia, once murdered and now reincarnated as his enemy, and his father who leaves behind tantalizing signs of life on purpose.What enfolds is a dizzying game of magic and mayhem as Merlin finds himself transported into the shadow realm by the ghost of his great-grandfather . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9049'),
(5586, 'The Knight of the Swords', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE HAND OF KWLL AND THE EYE OF RHYNN IN EXCHANGE FOR THE HEART OF AIRIOCH There were Gods abroad in those days. It was their whim to wipe clean the slate of history, to destroy the old races, the Vadhagh, the Nhadragh, the remnants of still more ancient peoples. Mankind, the contemptible Mabden, was ther instrument, washcloth of the Gods. But the Gods themselves fell out, and Chaos gained the advantage over Law. The stage was set for heroes. One such was the Vadhagh Prince Corum. Driven mad for revenge by the callous slaughter of his family and race, and by his own grotesque multilation at the hands of the Mabden, he agreed to accept from the treacherous sorcerer Shool the Eye of Rhynn and the Hand of Kwll in exchange for a lien on his soul. Thus armed he set out upon a personal crusade against the Sword Rulers, Lords of Chaos, puppetmasters to Man. And first of these was the loathsome Arioch, Knight of the Swords, master of five of the fifteen planes of reality. From Arioch, Prince Corum required his heart. This is the first in the three-volume saga of Prince Corum and the Sword Rulers. The Queeen of the Swords and The King of the Swords will follow. Watch for them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9830'),
(5587, 'Knightley Academy', 'Violet Haberdasher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Henry Grim has never been in trouble for borrowing a sword from the headmasterÃ•s private stores. He has never discovered a forbidden room in a foreign castle, or received a death threat over breakfast. All Henry knows is life as an orphaned servant boy at the Midsummer School, bullied by the privileged sons of aristocracy. But all that changes when Henry is the first commoner to pass the entrance exam for the prestigious Knightley Academy, where he will be trained as a modern-day knight alongside the cleverest and bravest fourteen-year-olds in the country. Henry and his roommates, two other students from decidedly un-Knightley backgrounds, are not exactly greeted with open arms by their classmates. In fact, it soon becomes apparent that someone is going to great lengths to sabotage the trioÃ•s chances at becoming knights. But Henry soon learns that there is more at stake than his future at Knightley, and only he can sound the alarm. Is anyone going to believe a former servant on the brink of expulsion? Brimming with wry humor, page-turning suspense, and surprising twists, this first adventure in a memorable new series is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3620'),
(5588, 'Knights of the Cross', 'Harper, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Knights of the Cross follows Tom Harperâ€™s critically acclaimed debut, The Mosaic of ShadowsByzantium, 1098.Â Two years prior, the legions of armies of the First Crusade were called upon by the Byzantine emperor to reinforce his position as the mightiest power in Christendom. Fighting as mercenaries, and claiming no particular allegiance, their presence was strained within the city walls of Byzantium. But with their differences now settled, the armies of the First Crusade leave the emperor---racing across the vast stretch of Asia Minor, chasing the Turkish armies of the East.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As they continue to route the Turks and reclaim the stolen land for Christendom, the powerful armies are quickly halted. On the Syrian border, their advance is blocked before the impregnable walls of Antioch. As winter draws on, they are forced to suffer a fruitless, interminable siege---gnawed upon by famine, and tormented by the Turkish defenders. The perilous season leaves the entire crusade on a precarious verge of collapse.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In the midst of this freezing misery, rivalries, and divisions appear. Lines are drawn between the ruling princes; the lords and the men they command; and between the Byzantines fighting alongside the Western crusaders. So when the Norman knight, Drago, is found murdered, his lord, the ruthlessly ambitious Bohemond, charges Demetrios Askiates, unveiler of mysteries, with finding the murderer. As Demetrios investigates further, the trail seems to lead ever deeper into the vipersâ€™ nest of jealousy, betrayal, and fanaticism that lies at the heart of the crusade.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A separate army of Turkish infidels is sent to relieve Antioch. With danger looming within the crusader ranks, and impending battles headed their direction, time is running out, and Demetrios is forced to work with Bohemond to uncover the killer. And still the walls of Antioch are locked, with no key in sight---and no assurance that once the crusaders are inside, the battles will end.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The extraordinary story of the crisis of the First Crusade---a powerful novel of intrigue, sacrifice, savagery, and holy war. An amazing sequel to the acclaimed debut, The Mosaic of Shadows.Â â€œGripping for its portrayal of the crusader leaders . . . this is a great example from a trustworthy historian.â€ ---Independent\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1781'),
(5589, 'Knock Down', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. Unfortunately, that''s just the beginningâ€”and now Jonah must figure out the high-stakes game being played...before he becomes its next casualty.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dick Francis, a former jockey, brings his experience of racing and life around the racetrack to his mysteries. (And so far Francis is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award for writing the best mystery of the year.) This horse racing background is appealing to my market area of Southern California. Racing is a popular sport amongst Southlanders.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8222'),
(5590, 'Knockemstiff', 'Donald Ray Pollock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.****Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise **Knockemstiff*** *feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled and depravedâ€”but irresistibly, undeniably real. Rendered in the American vernacular with vivid imagery and a wry, dark sense of humor, these thwarted and sometimes violent lives jump off the page at the reader with inexorable force. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor.With an artistic instinct honed on the works of Flannery Oâ€™Connor and Harry Crews, Pollock offers a powerful work of fiction in the classic American vein. **Knockemstiff** is a genuine entry into the literature of place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(5591, 'The Knocker on Death&#39;s Door', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The knocker hung on a very special door--heavy oak, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a late-Gothic curse. The door was moved from an old abbey to the village church, and legend held that sinners who seized the knocker had their hands burned. But Gerry Bracewell didn''t die of burns . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4857'),
(5592, 'The Know-It-All: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs''s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it''s a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but, shall we say, unconvinced. With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs''s life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs''s project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child. The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man''s intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6185'),
(5593, 'Known and Unknown: A Memoir', 'Donald Rumsfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I would heartily recommend it. I don''t think anybody could go buy a book written by anybody who has been more intimately involved, closer to power, for as many years, has been through as much, has known all of the power players as you have. It is amazing."\n <br />\n -Rush Limbaugh (interview transcript)/2/8/2001\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers might be appreciative to find themselves in possession of a serious memoir, more in keeping with the older Washington tradition of Dean Acheson or Henry Kissinger. As might the historians."\n <br />\n -Kimberly Strassel/_Wall Street Journal_/2/8/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n "The battle is joined. After a long silence, Donald Rumsfeld opened both barrels Tuesday, releasing his memoir,\n <em>\n  Known and Unknown\n </em>\n . Early leaks of the book''s defiant take on his life, times, and conduct of the Iraq War drew howls from some of the targets of his score-settling...But Rumsfeld battles on, taking his unapologetic account to the public."\n <br />\n -John Barry/_Newsweek-The Daily Beast_/2/8/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book places the reader in Rumsfeld''s chair and is a serious stab at telling the history of a consequential period in America through the eyes of one of its most consequential players. It will be an important addition to the history of our time."\n <br />\n -Peter Baker (_New York Times_ White House correspondent)/Foreign Policy/2/9/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n Rumsfeld "describes the highs and lows of a long and dramatic career and discloses some behind the scenes details that may shock you."\n <br />\n -Sean Hannity (interview transcript)/2/9/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Known and Unknown_ is a meaty, well-written book that will be a primary source for historians...this power memoir deserves to be read with the care that went into writing it."\n <br />\n -Christopher Buckley/_Businessweek_/2/10/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Dismissive'' is a word often used to describe Rumsfeld, but ''dismissive'' perfectly describes his critics, who are unwilling or unable to re-examine their own assumptions in the light of new or overlooked information and fresh perspective provided by Rumsfeld, in his exceedingly well-documented work. With its hundreds of annotations and supplementary documents, Known and Unknown is a significant contribution to the historical record. It is, as Rumsfeld once noted about similar memoirs, ''only from one perspective,'' but it''s a unique and valuable perspective, a serious work that deserves consideration by any serious student of recent history."\n <br />\n -Jamie McIntyre (former CNN Pentagon correspondent)/Line of Departure/2/10/2011\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a terrific book...Let me tell you something, it is absolutely fascinating. He''s very blunt in talking about people and issues and so forth, you''ll really enjoy it, in my humble opinion."\n <br />\n -Mark Levin (interview transcript)/2/10/2011\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." - Rumsfeld''s Rules\n</p>\n<p>\n Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld. Now he has written an unflinching memoir of his half-century career, sharing previously undisclosed details that will fascinate readers and force historians to rethink many controversies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Starting from a middle-class childhood in Illinois, Rumsfeld had a rapid rise that won him early acclaim. He shows us what it was like growing up during the Great Depression and World War II, going to Princeton on scholarships, serving as a naval aviator, then getting his first political job on Capitol Hill during the Eisenhower administration. He recalls how he won a seat in the House of Representatives at age thirty and what he experienced as a Republican in Congress during the Kennedy and Johnson years.\n</p>\n<p>\n We also follow him back to the executive branch as he took on key cabinet positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including his service as the youngest-ever secretary of defense, just after the trauma of Vietnam. And we learn about the challenges he later faced as a CEO in the private sector, and during his special assignments for President Reagan, including a face-to-face meeting with Saddam Hussein in 1983.\n</p>\n<p>\n All of that would have been enough material for a fascinating book. But as 2001 began, Rumsfeld''s greatest challenges lay ahead of him. At age sixty-eight he returned to the Pentagon as President Bush''s secretary of defense, with a mandate to transform the military for a new century. Just nine months later he would confront the worst acts of terrorism in American history, followed by unexpected wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And he would be on the firing line for many controversies, from the revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to allegations of torture at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Known and Unknown\n </em>\n reveals what happened behind the scenes during the critical moments of the Bush years, as the President''s inner circle debated how best to defend our country. It is based not only on Rumsfeld''s memory but also on hundreds of previously unreleased documents from throughout his career. It also features his blunt, firsthand opinions about some of the world''s best-known figures, from Margaret Thatcher to Elvis Presley, from Henry Kissinger to Colin Powell, and about each American president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a famous press briefing, Rumsfeld once remarked that "there are also unknown unknowns . . . things we do not know we don''t know." His book makes us realize just how much we didn''t know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donald Rumsfeld is donating his proceeds from the sales of\n <em>\n  Known and Unknown\n </em>\n to the military charities supported by the Rumsfeld Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7361'),
(5594, 'Known Dead: A Novel', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donald Harstad was an Iowa deputy sheriff for 26 years, and only retired so that he could pursue his passion for writing. His first book was a well-received police mystery, __. The same solid foundation of experience anchors Harstad''s second mystery about Iowa deputy sheriff Carl Houseman, a sharp and likable 50-year-old with weight and blood pressure problems and strong opinions on every aspect of policing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Known Dead\n </em>\n begins with the murder of a state narcotics agent killed on Houseman''s Nation County turf while staking out a marijuana patch. Blasts of gunfire from a band of mysterious shooters take out the agent and one local smalltime dealer. Then, while various federal and state agencies wrestle for control of the case, two more Nation County cops are shot down at the farm of a local extremist with links to a large militant group. As the resourceful Houseman tries to connect the shootings and keep some of the investigation in his own office, we learn all sorts of information about guns, bullets, trajectories, stakeouts, interagency rivalries, and the eating habits of cops of all kinds--taken no doubt from the author''s lively memory and imagination.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a solid core of experience and acquired wisdom in this second mystery (after the well-received Eleven Days) from Harstad, a 26-year veteran of the Clayton County Sheriff''s Department in northeastern Iowa. There are also some shortcomings, most notably narrative padding and a tendency toward cuteness. Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is a sharp, likable 50-year-old Iowan with weight and blood-pressure problems (which get mentioned too often), and strong opinions on every aspect of policingAincluding a hatred for the special prayer called "The Lord Is My Shepherd, He Rides in My Patrol Car" that is recited at cop funerals. Readers first encounter the prayer at the services for an Iowa narcotics agent killed on Houseman''s Nation County turf while staking out a marijuana patch in a state park. Blasts of gunfire from mysterious shooters take out the agent and a smalltime dealer. While various federal and state agencies wrestle for control of the case and Harstad overwhelms readers with reams of ballistic evidence, two more Nation County cops are shot down at the farm of a local extremist with links to a large militant group. Between seemingly endless sessions of drinking coffeeAdescribed sip-by-sipAand eating everything from doughnuts to fat-free wieners, Houseman tries to connect the shootings and keep some of the glory for his own office, even as the author provides welcome information on how surveillance helicopters can tell the good guys from the bad guys in the dark (the good guys wear little chemical badges that give off heat). Overall, the novel''s a good one and Houseman''s an appealing hero, but both book and cop carry excess fat. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6960'),
(5595, 'The Known World (2004 Pulitzer Prize)', 'Edward P. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones''s debut novel,\n   <em>\n    The Known World\n   </em>\n   , is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one''s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through,\n   <em>\n    The Known World\n   </em>\n   is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day.\n   <em>\n    --Regina Marler\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In a crabbed, powerful follow-up to his National Book Award-nominated short story collection (Lost in the City), Jones explores an oft-neglected chapter of American history, the world of blacks who owned blacks in the antebellum South. His fictional examination of this unusual phenomenon starts with the dying 31-year-old Henry Townsend, a former slave-now master of 33 slaves of his own and more than 50 acres of land in Manchester County, Va.-worried about the fate of his holdings upon his early death. As a slave in his youth, Henry makes himself indispensable to his master, William Robbins. Even after Henry''s parents purchase the family''s freedom, Henry retains his allegiance to Robbins, who patronizes him when he sets up shop as a shoemaker and helps him buy his first slaves and his plantation. Jones''s thorough knowledge of the legal and social intricacies of slaveholding allows him to paint a complex, often startling picture of life in the region. His richest characterizations-of Robbins and Henry-are particularly revealing. Though he is a cruel master to his slaves, Robbins is desperately in love with a black woman and feels as much fondness for Henry as for his own children; Henry, meanwhile, reads Milton, but beats his slaves as readily as Robbins does. Henry''s wife, Caldonia, is not as disciplined as her husband, and when he dies, his worst fears are realized: the plantation falls into chaos. Jones''s prose can be rather static and his phrasings ponderous, but his narrative achieves crushing momentum through sheer accumulation of detail, unusual historical insight and generous character writing.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones''s debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one''s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through, The Known World is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day. --Regina Marler\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9945'),
(5596, 'Kokoro', 'Natsume Soseki', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Kokoro" is one of the classics of Japanese literature. Soseki introduces readers to the Japanese modern culture and its effect on the young generation of that time. Author narrates the events, when in 1857 Western imperialism invaded Japan. In order to protect Japan and it''s culture, the Japanese Emporer Meiji planned and ordered an industrial revolution in the country. Must Read!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2562'),
(5597, 'Kolyma Tales', 'Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English, Russian (translation)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6021'),
(5598, 'Komarr', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Komarr could be a garden -- with a thousand more years work. Or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. In the political and physical claustrophobia of the domed cities, are the Komarrans surrounding Miles loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels bidding for revenge?Lies within lies, treachery within treachery -- Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9028'),
(5599, 'The Kommandant&#39;s Girl', 'Pam Jenoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma''s husband, Jacob, a fiery and independent scholar, is forced to disappear underground, leaving Emma and her parents imprisoned within the city''s decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, she is smuggled out of the ghetto. Taken to Krakow to live with her husband''s Catholic cousin, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma''s already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Georg Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who insists that Emma come work for him -- a job she cannot refuse without arousing suspicion. Urged by the Resistance to use her position -- and the Kommandant''s obvious romantic intentions -- to gain access to details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must become perilously close to her enemy and, now in perpetual danger of being discovered, finds herself questioning loyalty and duty, fearful of risking her life and the lives of those she loves. *Based in part on actual events, Pam Jenoff''s astonishing debut novel delivers unrelenting tension in an achingly beautiful account of a young woman forced to bend loyalties, deny truths and betray her own beliefs -- a woman almost powerless against her extraordinary circumstances, who must decide which risks are worth taking and which vows are worth breaking.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3482'),
(5600, 'Kop', 'Warren Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acorrupt policeman, an overgrown jungle city that gets only five hours of sun between 17-hour nights, and battling crime gangs set the extremely noir scene for Hammond''s solidly constructed, fast-paced SF debut. In 2787, the impoverished colony planet Lagarto is a dead end, its economy destroyed by a trade imbalance that favors rich offworlders while natives go hungry. In Koba, Lagarto''s largest city, aging street cop Juno Mozambe clings to the power and bribery gained by strong-arm tactics in his youth. His friend Paul Chang, chief of the Koba Office of Police, senses that rivals want them removed. As Juno teams up with new partner Maggie Orzo to investigate a murder by an apparent serial killer, he and Paul must also stop their long alliance with the Bandur cartel from being exposed. Hammond''s writing is workmanlike with occasional terse highlights, offering rewards to fans of both crime novels and science fiction.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hammond''s gritty, futuristic detective story is full of morally gray characters, ambiguous alliances, necessary betrayals, and a lot of heart. In 2762, cops Juno and Paul harnessed the idea of organized crime to bring a kind of peace and prosperity to their impoverished colony planet, Lagarto. Working with the Bandur crime family, they took control of Koba and the Koba Office of Police (KOP). More than 20 years later, Paul, now chief of police, assigns Juno to a murder case that lands him in danger with the newly elected mayor. Behind a facade of purging corrupt government officials, starting with those at KOP, his honor is planning the worst crime of all. Lagarto is a vivid setting for this tale of hope borne of despair, a fully realized world as important to the story as the characters. Juno, the focal character, is a sympathetic, desperate hero trying to do what is right in a world where right is often criminal. Although the story sometimes becomes convoluted, it''s a thrillingly dark read. Hutley, Krista\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7295'),
(5601, 'Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in BogotÃ¡ and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island''s destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today''s new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims, one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6007'),
(5602, 'The Kraken Wakes', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2717'),
(5603, 'Krik? Krak!', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danticat''s collection of stories detailing daily life under dictatorship in Haiti was a finalist for the National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Danticat, born under Haitian dictatorship, moved to the U.S. 12 years ago. Many of the stories in this moving collection reflect the misery she has observed from afar and leave readers with a deep sadness for her native country. Survivors at sea in a too-small, leaky boat endure any indignity for the chance at escape. Selections about those remaining in Haiti have a dreamlike quality. A woman must watch her mother rot in prison for political crimes. A young father longs so much to fly that he gives his life for a few moments in the air. A prostitute plies her trade while her son sleeps. "New York Day Women" shows what life might be like in the U.S. for immigrants without resources. Through unencumbered prose, the author explores the effects of politics on people and especially the consequences of oppression on women, the themes of which figure into each of these vignettes.?Ginny Ryder, Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4673'),
(5604, 'Krispos Rising', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Because of rising taxes on his village and the untimely deaths of his parents and sister, young Krispos is forced to leave the family farm and seek his fortune elsewhere. He heads to the imperial city of Videssos, taking with him the magic goldpiece bestowed upon him as a child by the emperor. Krispos first gains employment as a groom for the lecherous Iakovitzes, but the stage is set for what will follow when a noblewoman, Tanilis, has a vision of Krispos as "Majesty." Through Iakovitzes''s political connections, Krispos eventually earns the trust of the lighthearted emperor Anthimos, and becomes his chamberlain, but he also earns the distrust of the emperor''s uncle, Petronas, who casts a sorcerer''s spell on the increasingly influential young man. This is only a temporary setback, however, as Anthimos quashes Petronas''s imperial aspirations and sends him packing to a monastery. In this prequel to his Videssos Cycle series , Turtledove provides a thoroughly engrossing adventure about a young farmer, thrown to the wolves in the imperial city, who not only survives but rises above it all.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empires health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Driven by crushing taxes from the farm where his family had lived -- and died -- Krispos had come to the. city seeking what fortune a good mind and a strong back could earn. He had a single goldpiece to his name -- the gift, years past, of a nomad chieftain to a ragged peasant boy. Now, though the night was raw and the inn was warm, he was loath to spend that coin, for the barbarian had claimed it carried magic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keep his lucky goldpiece or trade it for a warm, dry bed? Krispos tucked the coin away and stepped back into the wet streets -- all unaware that so simple a choice would lead to a world of peril and possibility...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4953'),
(5605, 'Kristen', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat... With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when Kristen scores a job looking after hang-ten hottie Dune Baxter''s eight-year-old sister, Ripple, Westchester suddenly doesn''t seem so bad. It looks like Kristin is about to ride the wave of first love. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2215'),
(5606, 'Kristin Lavransdatter', 'Sigrid Undset; Tiina Nunnally; Brad Leithauser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her great historical epic *Kristin Lavransdatter*, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnallyâ€™s award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty. As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend NikulaussÃ¸n, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty. With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, *Kristin Lavransdatter* is the masterwork of Norwayâ€™s most beloved authorâ€”one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most prodigious and engaged literary mindsâ€”and, in Nunnallyâ€™s exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4044'),
(5607, 'Kristy in Charge', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9698'),
(5608, 'Kristy Power!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9718'),
(5609, 'Kristy,The Haunted Mansion', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9748'),
(5610, 'Kristy,The Mothers Day Surprise', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9699'),
(5611, 'Kristy,the Secret of Susan', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9737'),
(5612, 'Kristy,The Snobs', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9727'),
(5613, 'Kristy,The Walking Disaster', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9715'),
(5614, 'Kristy&#39;s Big Day', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9758'),
(5615, 'Kristy&#39;s Great Idea', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9745'),
(5616, 'Kristy&#39;s Mystery Admirer', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9688'),
(5617, 'Krondor: Tear of the Gods', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Return now to a kingdom in constant peril; a land magical, scarred, and wondrous, where great heroes rise up from adversity to battle fearsome enemies who covet the riches within its borders. New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist -- one of the world ''s preeminent fantasists -- continues his extraordinary Riftwar Legacy with a sweeping tale of conflict, trial, and grim necessity, as the forces of good join together to staunch the golden lifeblood flowing from the pierced heart of Midkemia.The vile sorcerer Sidi plans to strike the kingdom a fatal blow, setting his creature, the murderous pirate Bear, upon the high seas in pursuit of the vessel that is transporting Midkemia''s most holy object: the Tear of the Gods. It is from this miraculous stone that all magic power is believed to flow. And if the Tear becomes the mage''s trinket, the future will hold naught but terror, death, and unending night.For Squire James, Lieutenant William, and the able magician Jazhara, the race is on to rescue the remarkable artifact from the bloodthirsty, unpredictable Bear and his despicable master who would use it to bring catastrophe down upon the world. But it will take greater-than-human swiftness. cunning, courage, and skill for the three to prevail. And the flight of her most peerless defenders will leave Krondor more vulnerable than ever to the terrible ambitions of the depraved.For the mysterious criminal known as the Crawler is preparing to wreak bloody havoc to fulfill his dastardly secret agenda. Once again the sewers of Krondor teem with assassins and monsters as the hour of destiny nears. The fate of an imperiled world is in flux, as all manner of dark creatures are gathered for one unspeakable purpose: to breed the chaos that will hasten the destruction of Squire James and his brave companions...and bring about the total corruption of the Tear of the Gods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3650');
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(5618, 'Krondor: The Assassins', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist *returns us now to a place of unparalleled wonders--a sprawling kingdom coveted by enemies on all sides; a bustling center of commerce and magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict. This is Midkemia, where great heroes are bred, and its glorious center...* **Krondor** Prince Arutha--newly returned from battle--is concerned about a rash of unexplained assassinations that plagues his capital city. And so he commissions his most trusted agent, Squire James--formerly the thief known as "Jimmy the Hand"--to discover the source of the deadly epidemic. The answers seem to lie far beneath the streets in the dank depths of Krondor, where a terrible war rages in secret between two rival criminal gangs: those who call themselves "Mockers" and others in the thrall of a mysterious being known as "The Crawler." But the deeper the Squire delves, the closer he gets to the true nature of the horror that has left untold dead in its wake. And unless James can prevent one last, unthinkable slaying, the nightmare forces of corruption and deceit will destroy his liege and reduce his beloved Krondor to ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3651'),
(5619, 'Krondor: The Betrayal', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new episode in Feist''s massively successful Riftwar saga. From the endlessly inventive mind of one of fantasy''s all-time greats, comes a spellbinding new adventure featuring old favourites Jimmy, Locklear and Pug. It is nine years on from the aftermath of Sethanon. There has been peace awhile and it''s been needed. But news is feeding through to the people of the Kingdom of the Isles that deadly forces are stirring on the horizon. The bringer of the latest tidings is Gorath, a moredhel (dark elf). The bloodletting has started. Nighthawks are murdering again. Politics is a dangerous, cut-throat game once more. At the root of all this unrest lie the mysterious machinations of a group of magicians known as The Six. Meanwhile, renegade Tsurani gem smugglers, a rival criminal gang to the Mockers led by someone known only as The Crawler, and traitors to the crown are all conspiring to bring the Kingdom of the Isles to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3652'),
(5620, 'Kurt Austin 01 - Serpent', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10337'),
(5621, 'L a Requiem (1999)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 08', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9965'),
(5622, 'L Is for Lawless', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Leeâ€™s family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks itâ€™ll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life.When Leeâ€™s apartment in burgled and a man named Ray Rawson, who claims to be an old friend of Leeâ€™s, is beaten up, Kinsey soon finds herself on the trail of a pregnant woman with a duffel bag. Soon the intrepid P.I. is following leads halfway across the country and encountering another man from Leeâ€™s pastâ€”a vengeful psychopath.Stalked by a new enemy and increasingly suspicious of Rawsonâ€”not to mention running out of time and moneyâ€”now Kinsey must steer a collision course to solve a decades-old mystery that some would like better left unsolved.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8198'),
(5623, 'L.A. Candy', 'Lauren Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”After high school, two best friends move to Los Angeles hoping to start "a new and amazing life," but their existence is anything but glamorous. Jane is an intern for a famous event planner and Scarlett is a freshman at U.S.C. However, things change quickly when a TV producer asks them to be in a new reality series along with Madison and Gaby, following their lives as they try to make it in L.A. After signing on, the two friends move into a posh apartment and get into the hottest clubs. Scarlett is skeptical about all the attention, but Jane enjoys being in the limelight. When Jane becomes the show''s star, Madison is jealous and plots to bring her down. By story''s end, Jane learns that having cameras follow you everywhere isn''t what it is cracked up to be. The cliff-hanger climax indicates that there will be more to come. Conrad writes from experience (she stars in MTV''s\n <em>\n  The Hills\n </em>\n ) and the result is a light read that will leave readers wanting more. The novel contains underage drinking and sexual liaisons, activities that are realistic for the lifestyle of the young women portrayed.â€”_Shannon Seglin, Patrick Henry Library, Vienna, VA_ END\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . .\n <em>\n  everything\n </em>\n . Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can''t wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of\n <em>\n  Sex and the City\n </em>\n ," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please!\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon Jane is TV''s hottest star. Fame brings more than she ever imagined possible for a girl from Santa Barbaraâ€”free designer clothes, the choicest tables at the most exclusive clubs, invites to Hollywood premieresâ€”and she''s lapping up the VIP treatment with her eclectic entourage of new pals. But those same friends who are always up for a wild night are also out for a piece of Jane''s spotlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a city filled with people chasing after their dreams, it''s not long before Jane wakes up to the reality that everyone wants something from her, and nothing is what it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  L.A. Candy\n </em>\n is a deliciously entertaining novel about what it''s like to come of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show, written by a girl who has experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8729'),
(5624, 'L.A. Confidential', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: A City Where The Police Are As Corrupt As The Criminals. Six Prisoners Are Beaten Senseless In Their Cells By Cops Crazed On Alcohol. For The Three L. A. P. D. Detectives Involved, It Will Expose The Guilty Secrets On Which They Have Built Their Corrupt And Violent Careers- Praise For L. A. Confidential: ''Ellroy Writes As If Driven By Demons. His Brutal, Staccato Graffiti Tips Over Into Art'' Sunday Times ''No Emotion Is Spared; The Writing Is Sparse, The Plotting Controlled. Not For The Faint Of Heart, This Is A Big, Powerful Crime Novel And Possibly The First Important Example Of The Genre In The 1990S'' Sunday Telegraph ''Empty Of Any Unessentials And Full Of Wise-Cracking Wit'' Mail On Sunday ''Unputdownable'' Time Out\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2164'),
(5625, 'L.A. Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stuart Woods is a master of the glitzy, high-concept, suspense thriller, and Stone Barrington, hero of five previous mysteries, is the kind of private cop who glides gracefully between lavishly detailed dinners, private jets, fancy parties, sexy assignations in luxury hotels, and the occasional murder investigation. Occasionally he gets his hands dirty, but more often it''s his sheets.\n  <em>\n   L.A. Dead\n  </em>\n  finds him in Venice, where he''s about to marry the beautiful (but seriously crazy) daughter of a high-ranking Mafioso, whose other daughter happens to be married to Stone''s best friend--an NYPD cop, naturally. The civil ceremony''s over, but the church wedding is only hours away when Stone is called to L.A., where his former lover has just discovered her husband''s dead body. The lover is Arrington (an oddity, given Stone''s surname; did Woods just run out of imagination here?), the dead husband is a famous movie star, and everyone believes she killed him. Everyone except Stone, who''s still in love with Arrington. He has a helluva time interviewing (and bedding) all the women in her circle, including the dead husband''s private secretary, Arrington''s best friend, her lawyer''s mistress, and a number of Hollywood wives. Jackie Collins does the ladies better, but Stone manages to save the damsel in distress, get rid of his nutty near-wife without offending her father, and wrap up all the details except the most important one. No doubt he''s saving that for the next book. In the meantime, Woods''s many fans will snap this up and spend the interim wondering: if Stone marries the woman of his dreams, will that make her Arrington Barrington?\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This latest installment in Woods''s Stone Barrington thriller series finds the lawyer/sleuth from New York back in Los Angeles on a murder case in which everyone, even the accused, lazes along, enjoying life in sunny Southern California. In his sixth outing (following 1999''s Worst Fears Realized), Barrington is surrounded by his usual cast of friends, acquaintances and casual sex partners. The biggest change here is that his ex-lover, Arrington Calder, stands accused of murdering her husband, movie star and renowned man-about-town Vance Calder, found dead of a gunshot wound in the couple''s Bel Air mansion. Upon hearing the news, Barrington, in Italy for his imminent wedding to the lovely but unpredictable Dolce Bianchi, rushes to L.A. to take over Arrington''s defense. Not much of substance happens next; there''s plenty of rambunctious sex, lots of light banter, a few tiffs and a minimal bit of sleuthing. Barrington checks out who left the size-12 shoe imprint near the murder scene and does his best to avoid Dolce, who took exception to her fianc ''s sudden departure from the nuptials and is now stalking him. The whole case ends abruptly and with little suspense, and everyone goes along his or her merry way. Woods''s desultory plottingDit is never made entirely clear who really killed Vance CalderDand chatty dialogue may not suit hardcore thriller or mystery readers, but Barrington''s fans will likely welcome the detective''s newest California-chic adventure. Mystery Guild main selection; BOMC and Literary Guild featured selections. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7150'),
(5626, 'L.A. Noir', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mysterious Press presents three classic novels -- Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, and Suicide Hill -- in one hard-cover edition from the author of L.A. Confidential.Detective Lloyd Hopkins takes on three mesmerizing cases as he prowls Los Angeles'' mean, dark streets. In Blood on the Moon, 20 women have been killed seemingly randomly...until Hopkins detects a pattern that will lead him straight to the heart of madness. In Because the Night, a pre-Civil War revolver is the weapon of choice as Hopkins tracks a killer...and a missing cop. Hopkins leads a manhunt for a violent kidnapper in Suicide Hill, as corruption and betrayal among his police colleagues expose a horrifying conspiracy. Packed with taut suspense and compelling action, these novels are the work of James Ellroy at his unparalleled best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2161'),
(5627, 'L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America&#39;s Most Seductive City', 'John Buntin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buntin, a crime writer for Governing magazine, chronicles the complex, interlocking lives of brutal gangster Mickey Cohen and durable police chief William Parker, telling their stories against the backdrop of Tinseltown from the 1930s to the ''60s. The author adds to the mix the colorful cultural and political saga of the star-struck metropolis, a city ripe for a bitter power play between the crooks and cops, rampant with drug dens, pleasure palaces, illegal gambling and other assorted vices. The ruthlessness of Cohen, an heir to "Bugsy" Siegel, and the deadpan determination of Parker are placed in proper context with the seminal events of Prohibition, the Red scare, the federal crackdown on mobsters, and the Watts riots. Packed with Hollywood personalities, Beltway types and felons, Buntin''s riveting tale of two ambitious souls hell-bent on opposing missions in the land of sun and make-believe is an entertaining and surprising diversion-as well as a sobering look at the role of the LAPD in fomenting racial tensions in L.A. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Named One of Daily Beast''s "Favorite Books of 2009"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and wonderfully enjoyableâ€¦.A highly original and altogether splendid history that can be read for sheer pleasure and belongs on the shelf of indispensable books about America''s most debated and least understood citiesâ€¦..Utterly compelling reading."\n <br />\n â€“_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Completely entertainingâ€¦.a colorful and entirely different take on the vices of Tinseltown."\n <br />\n â€“Daily Beast\n</p>\n<p>\n "Echoes crime stylists Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy."\n <br />\n â€“_American History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_L.A. NOIR _is a fascinating look at the likes of Mickey Cohen and Bill Parker, the two kingpins of Los Angeles crime and police lore. John Buntin''s work here is detailed and intuitive. Most of all, it''s flat out entertaining."\n <br />\n â€“Michael Connelly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A roller coaster ride....Gripping social history and a feast for aficionados of cops-and-robbers stories, both real and imagined."\n <br />\n â€“_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Packed with Hollywood personalities, Beltway types and felons, Buntin''s riveting tale of two ambitious souls on hell-bent opposing missions in the land of sun and make-believe is an entertaining and surprising diversion."\n <br />\n â€“_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reads like a novel....almost impossible to put down. Buntin has written an important and entertaining book about one of America''s greatest cities in the 20th century that echoes down to the world we live in today."\n <br />\n â€“_Bookreporter.com\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this breathtaking\n <strong>\n </strong>\n dual biography of mobster Mickey Cohen and police chief William Parker, John Buntin confronts America''s most enigmatic city.Â  For a half century and more, the chiaroscuro of Los Angeles, its interplay of sunshine and shadow, has inspired novelists and filmmakers alike to explore what Buntin has now explored in a tour de force of non-fiction narrative."\n <br />\n â€“Kevin Starr, University Professor and Professor of History, USC\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Buntin''s nonfiction cops and robbers narrative about mid-20th century Los Angeles is not only compelling reading, but a heretofore unexplored look into the LAPD and the city it tried "To Protect and Serve" during one of the most colorful and tumultuous eras in the always provocative history of the City of Angels (and badmen).\n <em>\n  Dragnet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  One Adam Twelve\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Police Story\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  LA Confidential\n </em>\n all rolled into one captivating book. Buntin nails it in this great read.''"\n <br />\n â€“William Bratton, Chief of Police, LAPD\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7864'),
(5628, 'L.A. Requiem', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gone to\n</p>\n<p>\n The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it''s a clichÃ©, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with\n <em>\n  L.A. Requiem\n </em>\n . It''s not as funny as the other books in the series, but it''s a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that''s what elevates this book to the level of literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This one is more about Joe Pike, Elvis''s silent sidekick, than it is about Elvis. We learn, through Pike''s own eyes, how his childhood made him the way he is today. It''s also about a friendship so strong that it threatens Elvis''s relationship with his beloved Lucy. It is a tender but dark book--a serial killer book--but it doesn''t attempt to outgross the other serial killer books on the shelf. It is funny at times and chilling at other times, making it one of the rare books that can''t help but linger in the memory long after it''s been read and put away.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his eighth book about wise-cracking Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole, Crais has expanded his narrative reach and broadened his characters'' horizons to produce a mature work that deserves to move him up a notch or twoAinto Parker or Connelly country. He''s done this by focusing on Joe Pike, Cole''s tough and hitherto totally enigmatic partner. It''s Pike who breaks in on Cole''s reunion with Lucy Chenier, his lawyer/broadcaster lover who has just moved from New Orleans, to ask for Elvis''s help in tracking down the missing daughter of a rich and powerful Hispanic businessman. When the girl turns up murdered in Griffith Park, it''s Pike who gives a nerdy medical examiner valuable assistance; and when it turns out that the girl''s death is linked to several other murders, it''s Pike who is charged with killing the chief suspect. Through flashbacks to Joe''s past life as an abused child, a highly motivated teenage soldier and an L.A. cop fighting to keep a corrupt partner from destroying his family, we learn more about Pike than we did in the seven previous Cole books. This new focus also allows Crais to keep Elvis''s often annoying throwaway lines to a minimumAalthough more pruning could have been done with no loss of flavor. The book''s scope is wide enough to include many other memorable characters, especially a rough-edged, vulnerable police officer named Samantha Dolan, plus a choice of plausible villains. There may be one too many metaphoric descriptions attempting to link aspects of the L.A. landscape with the moods and deeds of its inhabitants, but overall Crais seems to have successfully stretched himself the way another Southern California writerARoss MacdonaldAalways tried to do, to write a mystery novel with a solid literary base.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6638'),
(5629, 'L.T.&#39;s Theory of Pets', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9820'),
(5630, '&quot;L&quot; is for lawless', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Kinsey''s skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life.*"L" Is for Lawless*: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl-- quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky-- poking her nose into everyone''s dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an *Our Gang* comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.America''s favorite borderline delinquent is back with her one-liners on tap and her energy level on high, romping through her fastest and funniest adventure in this, her twelfth foray into the alphabet of crime.*"A" Is for Alibi**"B" Is for Burglar**"C" Is for Corpse**"D" Is for Deadbeat**"E" Is for Evidence**"F" Is for Fugitive**"G" Is for Gumshoe**"H" Is for Homicide**"I" Is for Innocent**"J" Is for Judgment**"K" Is for Killer**"L" is for Lawless**"M" Is for Malice**"N" Is for Noose**"O" Is for Outlaw*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4128'),
(5631, 'La Brava', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LaBrava is vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we''re glad we don''t. Only Leonard can concoct such a potent cocktail: one part raw humanity, one part pure insanity, a dash of lethal action, and his irresistible, eccentric spice.Joe La Brava is an ex-Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. This is vintage Leonard: fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly, authentically irresistible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9188'),
(5632, 'La&#39;s Orchestra Saves the World', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **La''s Orchestra Saves the World** is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the healing power of music, told with the warmth and charm we''ve come to love from this favourite storyteller.It''s 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, La, the generous and determined widow, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart. She recruits Feliks, a refugee from Poland, to play the flute, and a touching friendship emerges. When the war is over and the orchestra disbands, La is left pondering her next move. What role can she play in her community now that the war is over? And can she let herself love again?*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(5633, 'The Labors of Hercules', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the verge of retirement, Hercule Poirot can''t resist the lure of a seemingly unsolvable series of recent crimes--from a lost Pekinese to a man driven mad by love to a gentleman poisoned by gossip.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5236'),
(5634, 'LaBrava', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9197'),
(5635, 'Labyrinths', 'Jorge Luis Borges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface AndrÃ© Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style." Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges'' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various of his books published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de OnÃ­s, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5080'),
(5636, 'The Lace Makers of Glenmara', 'Heather Barbieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can always start again," Kate Robinson''s mother once told her. "All it takes is a new thread."Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, Kate follows her mother''s advice and flees to Ireland, her ancestral homeland, hoping to reinvent herself. In the seaside hamlet of Glenmara, the struggling twentysix-year-old fashion designer quickly develops a bond with members of the local lace-making societyâ€”and soon she and the lace makers are creating a line of exquisite lingerie, their skilled hands bringing flowers, Celtic dragons, nymphs, saints, kings, and queens to life with painterly skill. The circle also offers them something more: the strength to face their desires and fears. But not everyone in this charming, fading Gaelic village welcomes Kate, and a series of unexpected events threatens to unravel everything the women have worked so hard for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2102'),
(5637, 'Laced with Magic', 'Barbara Bretton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Knit shop owner and sorcerer''s daughter Chloe Hobbs felt the Fates finally got it right when she met Luke MacKenzie. And no one could have convinced her otherwiseâ€”including the trolls, selkies, or spirits who also call Sugar Maple, Vermont, home. But then out of nowhere Luke''s ex-wife suddenly shows up, claiming to see the spirit of their daughter, Steffieâ€”a daughter Chloe knows nothing about. Steffie''s spirit is being held hostage by a certain Fae leader. And if Chloe weaves a spell to free her spirit, her nemesis will also be freeâ€”free to destroy her yarn shop and all of Sugar Maple. But if she doesn''t, Steffie won''t be the only one spending eternity in hell. Chloe''ll be joining her, cursed with a broken heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(5638, 'Ladder of Years: A Novel', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family''s edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life . . . . "TYLER DETAILS DELIA''S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL . . . As so often in her earlier fiction--Celestial Navigation, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and her nine other novels--[she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . .Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."--The New York Times"UTTERLY COMPELLING. . .WONDERFULLY SATISFYING. . .Ladder of Years is virtually flawless."--Chicago Tribune"A ''PAGE-TURNER'' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler''s touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that ''human beings lead many lives.'' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."--The Baltimore Sun "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(5639, 'Ladies and Gentlemen V. Players', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2656'),
(5640, 'The Lady &amp; Sons Savannah Country Cookbook', 'Paula H. Deen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his enthusiastic introduction, John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, writes: "Authentic Southern food is not about pretension." Sure enough, this book by the proprietor of The Lady &amp; Sons restaurant in Savannah, Ga., doesn''t put on any airs. A great many recipes unabashedly list prepared foods among the ingredients. As an appetizer, Garlic Cheese Spread includes an eight-ounce package of cream cheese and an eight-ounce jar of Cheez-Whiz. Shrimp or Lobster Bisque contains, in addition to seafood, a can each of condensed tomato soup and condensed mushroom soup. The restaurant''s most popular dessert is Gooey Butter Cakes, which starts with a box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix. Still, some of the recipes attain a high level of regional authenticity: Georgia Cracker Salad is made with crushed saltines, tomato, scallions, hard-boiled egg and mayonnaise; Southern Fried Chicken acquires its crispy coating with a batter of eggs and self-rising flour. Readers concerned about high fat content should skip this book. But those looking for some distinctively American comfort food?and in a mood for some decidedly anti-nouvelle regression?might want to take a peek.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Savannah''s popularity as a tourist destination has increased dramatically in the months that John Berendt''s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been on the New York Times best sellers list, and in his introduction to this cookbook, Berendt says Deen''s restaurant is one he recommends to visitors as exemplifying "the very heart of Southern cooking." Deen (the Lady) says Southern cooking is "comfort food," and she and her two sons serve homey, completely unpretentious food at their popular downtown restaurant. Many of the recipes she includes here rely on convenience foods (canned soup, Cheese Whiz) and some have been perennial favorites in "community" cookbooks since the Fifties or Sixties. Area libraries will want copies; most others can skip.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6182'),
(5641, 'The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China&#39;s Most Exotic Animal', 'Vicki Croke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores Harkness to her rightful place along with Sacajawea, Nellie Bly, and Amelia Earhart as one of the great woman adventurers of all time.Ruth was the toast of 1930s New York, a dress designer newly married to a wealthy adventurer, Bill Harkness. Just weeks after their wedding, however, Bill decamped for China in hopes of becoming the first Westerner to capture a giant pandaâ€“an expedition on which many had embarked and failed miserably. Bill was also to fail in his quest, dying horribly alone in China and leaving his widow heartbroken and adrift. And so Ruth made the fateful decision to adopt her husbandâ€™s dream as her own and set off on the adventure of a lifetime.It was not easy. Indeed, everything was against Ruth Harkness. In decadent Shanghai, the exclusive fraternity of white male explorers patronized her, scorned her, and joked about her softness, her lack of experience and money. But Ruth ignored them, organizing, outfitting, and leading a bare-bones campaign into the majestic but treacherous hinterlands where China borders Tibet. As her partner she chose Quentin Young, a twenty-two-year-old Chinese explorer as unconventional as she was, who would join her in a romance as torrid as it was taboo.Traveling across some of the toughest terrain in the worldâ€“nearly impenetrable bamboo forests, slick and perilous mountain slopes, and boulder-strewn passagesâ€“the team raced against a traitorous rival, and was constantly threatened by hordes of bandits and hostile natives. The voyage took months to complete and cost Ruth everything she had. But when, almost miraculously, she returned from her journey with a baby panda named Su Lin in her arms, the story became an international sensation and made the front pages of newspapers around the world. No animal in history had gotten such attention. And Ruth Harkness became a hero. Drawing extensively on American and Chinese sources, including diaries, scores of interviews, and previously unseen intimate letters from Ruth Harkness, Vicki Constantine Croke has fashioned a captivating and richly textured narrative about a woman ahead of her time. Part Myrna Loy, part Jane Goodall, by turns wisecracking and poetic, practical and spiritual, Ruth Harkness is a trailblazing figure. And her story makes for an unforgettable, deeply moving adventure.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5095'),
(5642, 'The Lady and the Unicorn', 'Tracy Chevalier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you think you wouldn''t raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn''s horn, then maybe you aren''t a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling\n <strong>\n  , and its Edwardian-era follow-up,\n </strong>\n , Tracy Chevalier''s tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours,\n <em>\n  The Lady and the Unicorn\n </em>\n is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous\n <em>\n  Lady and the Unicorn\n </em>\n cycle, now in Paris''s Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste''s daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier''s imagination in this cleverly woven tale.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chevalier, whose bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring showed how a picture can inspire thousands of words, yokes her limpid, quietly enthralling storytelling to the six Lady and the Unicorn tapestries that hang in the Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris. As with her Vermeer novel, she takes full creative advantage of the mystery that shrouds an extraordinary collaborative work of art. Building on the little that is known or surmised - in this case that the tapestries were most likely commissioned by the French noble Jean Le Viste and made in a workshop in Brussels at the end of the 15th century - she imagines her way into a lost world. We are introduced to Nicholas des Innocents, the handsome, irrepressibly seductive artist who designed the works for the cold Le Viste, a rich, grim social climber who bought his way into the nobility and cares more about impressing the king and his court than pleasing the wife who has disappointed him by bearing three girls and no sons. Le Viste''s wife, Genevieve, tells Nicholas to create scenes with a unicorn but Nicholas''s love of women - and especially of GeneviÃ¨ve''s beautiful daughter Claude - inspires the extraordinary faces and gestures of the women he depicts. A great romance unfolds. What makes the tale enthralling are the details Chevalier offers about the social customs of the time and, especially, the craft of weaving as it was practiced in Brussels. There are psychological anachronisms: would a young woman in medieval times express her pent-up frustrations by cutting herself as some teenage girls do today? Yet the genuine drama Chevalier orchestrates as the weavers race to complete the tapestries, and the deft way she herself weaves together each separate story strand, results in a work of genuine power and beauty. And yes, readers will inevitably think about what a gorgeous movie this would make.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4779'),
(5643, 'Lady Be Good', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lady Emma Wells-Finch has only two weeks to destroy her reputation. The ever-so-proper headmistress of England''s St. Gertrude''s School for Girls, Emma arrives in Texas knowing that only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace. Meanwhile, world famous playboy-athlete Kenny Travelerâ€”suspended from the sport he loves because of very bad behaviorâ€”knows the only thing that can restore his career is complete and utter respectability. Unfortunately, he''s been blackmailed into chauffeuring around a beautiful, bossy, single-minded Brit who''s hell-bent on visiting honky-tonks, tattoo parlors, and worse. . . . Much worse.   The incomparable Susan Elizabeth Phillips gives readers a wild and sexy story brimming with hilarity and heartâ€”a tall Texas tale of the sparks that fly when a gorgeous god of a man who can''t afford another scandal hooks up with a hardheaded woman who''s determined to cause one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4627'),
(5644, 'Lady Chatterley&#39;s Lover', 'D. H. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrenceâ€™s German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband,Lady Chatterleyâ€™s Loveris the story of Constance Chatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper. Frank Kermode calls the book Lawrenceâ€™s "great achievement" and AnaÃ¯s Nin describes it as "artistically . . . his best novel." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes the transcript of the judge''s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed the novel to be published in the United States. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/569'),
(5645, 'The Lady Elizabeth', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become Englandâ€™s most intriguing and powerful queen.Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as â€œLady Princessâ€ and now call her â€œthe Lady Elizabeth.â€ Before she is three, she learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier she is imprisoned in the Tower of Londonâ€“and fears she will also meet her motherâ€™s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, â€œBloodyâ€ Queen Mary, all cement Elizabethâ€™s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Alison Weir uses her deft talents as historian and novelist to exquisitely and suspensefully play out the conflicts between family, politics, religion, and conscience that came to define an age. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her timeâ€“an orphaned girl haunted by the shadow of the axe, an independent spirit who must use her cunning and wits for her very survival, and a future queen whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(5646, 'Lady Friday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“9â€”Arthur Penhaligon is having a bad week. Of course he is now "Lord Arthur, Rightful Heir to the Architect, Commander of the Army of the Architect, and a whole lot of other stuff" since defeating Sir Thursday, but his job certainly isn''t any easier. Lady Friday has supposedly abandoned her claim to the Middle House, and she has challenged Arthur, the Piper, and Superior Saturday to find the Fifth Key and gain control of the Middle. Meanwhile, Arthur''s friend Leaf has been captured by Lady Friday and is being used to lure Arthur into her trap. She has become obsessed with "Experiencing" mortal memories and is bent on taking as many humans as she can. As with other books in the series, this story is replete with characters that are good, bad, and ambiguous. The plot is complex, and readers need to read the four previous books to have any sense of what is going on in this one. As always, Nix''s writing is witty and the plays on words are entertaining. The author gives just enough new information to keep the series'' fans coming back for more, but he doesn''t answer many questions.â€”_Cheri Dobbs, Detroit Country Day Middle School, Beverly Hills, MI_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground." Amanda Craig\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9661'),
(5647, 'The Lady in the Lake', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7343'),
(5648, 'Lady in the Mist', 'Laurie Alice Eakes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets: the names of fathers of illegitimate children, the level of love and harmony within many a marriage, and now the identity of a man who may have caused his wife''s death. Dominick Cherrett is a man with his own secret to keep: namely, what he, a British nobleman, is doing on American soil working as a bondsman in the home of Mayor Kendall, a Southern gentleman with his eye on a higher office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By chance one morning before the dawn has broken, Tabitha and Dominick cross paths on a misty beachhead, leading them on a twisted path through kidnappings, death threats, public disgrace, and . . . love? Can Tabitha trust Dominick? What might he be hiding? And can either of them find true love in a world that seems set against them?\n </p>\n <p>\n  With stirring writing that puts readers directly into the story,\n  <em>\n   Lady in the Mist\n  </em>\n  expertly explores themes of identity, misperception, and love''s discovery.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "_Lady in the Mist_ brims with tension, intrigue, and romance."--Julie Klassen, bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    The Silent Governess\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Girl in the Gatehouse\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  By virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets. Dominick Cherrett is a man with his own secret to keep: namely, why he, a British aristocrat, is on American soil working as an indentured servant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a time when relations between America and England rest on the edge of a knife, Tabitha and Dominick cross paths, leading them on a journey of intrigue, threats, public disgrace, and . . . love. But can Tabitha trust Dominick? Finding true love seems impossible in a world set against them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With stirring writing that draws you directly into the story,\n  <em>\n   Lady in the Mist\n  </em>\n  takes you on the thrilling ride of love''s discovery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I loved, loved, loved this book. It grabbed me by the heart and held on."--Lena Nelson Dooley, author of\n  <em>\n   Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Secrets, suspense, and a sweetly told love story make this a highly rewarding read."--Cheryl Bolen, Holt Medallion-winning author of\n  <em>\n   One Golden Ring\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The role of midwives in history began to fascinate\n  <strong>\n   Laurie Alice Eakes\n  </strong>\n  in graduate school and she knew that someday she wanted to write novels with midwife heroines. Ten years later, after several published novels and a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency, the midwives idea returned, and\n  <em>\n   Lady in the Mist\n  </em>\n  was born. Laurie Alice has a masters degree in creative writing and now writes full time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4694');
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(5649, 'The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world''s most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn''s final days.The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Anne''s ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. There remains, however, much mystery surrounding the queen''s arrest and the events leading up to it: Were charges against her fabricated because she stood in the way of Henry VIII making a third marriage and siring an heir, or was she the victim of a more complex plot fueled by court politics and deadly rivalry? The Lady in the Tower examines in engrossing detail the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen''s fate. Weir unravels the tragic tale of Anne''s fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the horrors of her incarceration and that final, dramatic scene on the scaffold. What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her, and who was tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself. Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn''s guiltâ€”or innocence. Only in Alison Weir''s capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/259'),
(5650, 'Lady of Quality', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style.... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Miss Annis Wychwood, at twenty-nine, has long been on the shelf, but this bothers her not at all. She is rich and still beautiful and she enjoys living independently in Bath, except for the tiresome female cousin, who her very proper brother insists must live with her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Annis offers sanctuary to the very young runaway heiress Miss Lucilla Carleton, no one at all thinks this is a good idea. With the exception of Miss Carleton''s overbearing guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton, whose reputation as the rudest man in London precedes him. Outrageous as he is, the charming Annis ends up finding him absolutely irresistible.\n <br />\n (20080512)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10202'),
(5651, 'Ladysmith', 'Giles Foden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the Whitbread Award-winning **The Last King of Scotland** comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman who finds love and freedom in the midst of a devastating war.The year is 1899, and the South African town of Ladysmith is surrounded by Boer forces. No one expects the siege to last, but it does, for a harrowing 120 days -- four months of dire emergency: food shortages during which bread is made with laundry detergent and the soldiers'' horses are killed to feed the troops; bombings that force the townspeople into tunnels and makeshift shelters. But in the thick of shells and shrapnel, disease and deprivation, one young woman discovers an unexpected freedom: a chance to break old loyalties and establish new loves. Even as the world she knows collapses around her, Bella Kiernan finds the courage to escape from convention, to rebel against the political forces that threaten her homeland and to pursue her life''s greatest romance. Based in part on the letters of Foden''s great-grandfather, a British trooper, **Ladysmith** is a magnificent love story, a vivid portrait of the first modern war of the twentieth century and clear confirmation of Giles Foden''s standing as one of Britain''s most formidably talented young novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1580'),
(5652, 'Laid Bare', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unexpected Desire... It''s been ten years since clean-cut, sexy-as-hell police officer Todd Keenan had a white-hot fling with Erin Brown, the provocative, wild rocker chick next door. Their power exchange in the bedroom got under his skin. But love wasn''t in the cards just yet... Now, life has thrown the pair back together. But picking up where they left off is tough, in light of a painful event from Erin''s past. As Todd struggles to earn her trust, their relationship takes an unexpected and exciting turn when Todd''s best friend, Ben, ends up in their bed--and all three are quite satisfied in this relationship without a name. As the passion they share transforms Erin, will it be enough to help her face the evil she thought she had left behind?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unexpected Desire...\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s been ten years since clean-cut, sexy-as-hell police officer Todd Keenan had a white-hot fling with Erin Brown, the provocative, wild rocker chick next door. Their power exchange in the bedroom got under his skin. But love wasn''t in the cards just yet...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, life has thrown the pair back together. But picking up where they left off is tough, in light of a painful event from Erin''s past. As Todd struggles to earn her trust, their relationship takes an unexpected and exciting turn when Todd''s best friend, Ben, ends up in their bed--and all three are quite satisfied in this relationship without a name. As the passion they share transforms Erin, will it be enough to help her face the evil she thought she had left behind?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8334'),
(5653, 'The Lair of Bones', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. They have been written by the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind. Now add to that list David Farland, whose epic fantasy series began with The Runelords, continued in Brotherhood of the Wolf and the New York Times bestseller Wizardborn, and reaches its peak now in The Lair of Bones.Prince Gaborn, the Earth King, has defeated the forces arrayed against him each time before: the magical and human forces marshaled by Raj Ahten, who seeks immortality at any cost and has given up his humanity in trade; and the inhuman, innumerable, insectile hordes of the giant Reavers from under the Earth, whose motives are unknowable, but inimical to human life. Now there must be final confrontations, both on the field of battle, with the supernatural creature that Raj Ahten has become, and underground, in the cavernous homeland of the Reavers, where the sorcerous One True Master who rules them all lies in wait--in the Lair of Bones. The survival of the human race on Earth is at stake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1521'),
(5654, 'The Lake House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it''s one that really soars! Frannie O''Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can fly. And the only place they will be save is the Lake House. Or so they believe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2034'),
(5655, 'Lake Magic', 'Kimberly Fisk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A captivating, heartwarming debut novel. After the loss of her fiancÃ© Steven, Jenny Beckinsdale has more than a broken heart to deal with-their fledgling seaplane service is going under. In debt to Steven''s best friend and fellow Navy pilot, she plans to convince the sexy, cynical flyboy to help save the business...and in the process these two lost souls may find they''re saving each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2533'),
(5656, 'The Lake of Dreams', 'Kim Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Kim Edwards\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dear Readers,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n  </em>\n  was that rare thing, a true word-of-mouth best seller, and I want to begin this letter by thanking all the readers who have been part of this amazing experience. I appreciate your passion for books and for stories, your intense and thoughtful conversations, and the comments you have sent to me from across the country and across the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Iâ€™m really pleased and excited to introduce you to my new novel,\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams.\n  </em>\n  Set in the beautiful Finger Lakes area of upstate New York, this novel is the story of Lucy Jarrett and her discovery of a hidden past, glimpsed first through fragments of old letters and traces left in stained glass windows. Lucyâ€™s quest through the artifacts of history brings her face to face with the dynamics she fled the summer after her father drowned; it compels her to make an inward journey, too, one that will alter her understanding of herself and change the course of her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams\n  </em>\n  is a book Iâ€™ve been imagining for a long time. Years ago I wrote a 400 page draft of a different novel that had some of these same thematic concerns, including a complex family history, the importance of the land, and the comet connecting generations. That early novel ended up in a box in my basement, as so many first novels do, though I did return to it from time to time, and once I even made it 200 pages into another version before I put it aside again. Meanwhile, I finished my story collection,\n  <em>\n   The Secrets of a Fire King\n  </em>\n  . I wrote\n  <em>\n   The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet the essence of the earlier story persisted, and shortly after\n  <em>\n   The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n  </em>\n  was finished, but before it was published, I started writing\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams\n  </em>\n  . Those earlier, discarded drafts had finally brought me to the heart of the story, and this time I had the voice, which is always the crucial discovery. Then the characters from the past began to emerge, with all their fascinating revelations. I immersed myself in the writing, and this new novel was well underway before the excitement of the best seller lists and book tours began. When things began to quiet down again, it was a real pleasure to return to\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams\n  </em>\n  , to Lucy and her family and the mysteries of glass, and to the story that was waiting for me there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ll be going on tour for\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams\n  </em>\n  in January.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Best wishes to my readers! I hope you enjoy\n  <em>\n   The Lake of Dreams.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Warmly,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kim Edwards\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Kim Edwards Â© Deborah Feingold)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Edwards''s much anticipated second novel may disappoint fans of her first, The Memory Keeper''s Daughter. When Lucy Jarrett returns to her childhood home in Lake of Dreams, N.Y., she learns that her brother, Blake, who''s gone into the family business, and his girlfriend hope to drain a controversial marsh to construct a high-end property. Meanwhile, Lucy, who remains haunted by her father''s death in a fishing accident years earlier, reconnects with her first boyfriend, Keegan Fall, now a successful glass artist. But when she sees something familiar in the pattern of one of his pieces, and discovers a hidden note in her childhood home, Lucy finally digs into her family''s mysterious past. Unfortunately, the lazy expository handling of information mutes the intrigue, and readers will see the reignited spark between Keegan and Lucy coming for miles. All loose ends eventually come together with formulaic ease to rock the family boat. Edwards is at her best when highlighting the strain between her characters. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8590'),
(5657, 'The Lake', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Laymon (_Island_, etc.) died in 2001, he left behind numerous unpublished novels that Leisure has been issuing. This one is good but not great, combining the savagery of his earlier work (_Beast House_, etc.) with the spooky wonder of his later books (_The Traveling Vampire Show_, etc.). As the story begins, we see Candyman, a serial killer, at work, then observe teen Deana West watch in horror as her boyfriend is mowed down by a carâ€”driven by Candyman? The narrative then flashes back 20 years to a summer Deana''s mother, Leigh, spent in rural Wisconsin; this, the strongest section, details eerie, erotic nighttime forays by Leigh and her lover, a weird local boy, that result in the boy''s accidental death. Back in the present, Leigh gets involved with a cop who''s a wolf in sheep''s clothing, and she and Deana, who''s taken to nighttime jogging and who herself gets involved with a mysterious neighbor and his odd, psychic sister, are menaced by the driver of the car that killed Deana''s boyfriend. The plot is too complicated, although Laymon does tie all the strands up in a messy knot; but what counts here, as usual for Laymon, is the white-hot pacing, the rivers of blood (which will dismay mainstream readers) and, above all, the memorable evocation of the fathomless mystery of the moonlit hours.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhite-hot pacing (with) rivers of bloodâ€¦ memorable evocation of the fathomless mystery of the moonlit hours.â€Â â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Lake_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf youâ€™ve missed Laymon, youâ€™ve missed a treat!â€Â Â â€”Stephen King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo one writes like Laymon.â€Â â€”Dean Koontz\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe master of stomach-churning violence.â€Â â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLaymon is, was, and always will be king of the hill.â€Â â€”_Horror World_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8625'),
(5658, 'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah''s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior''s pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there''s no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn''t about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(5659, 'Lamplighter', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ã’Reminiscent of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert Jordan.Ã“ Ã‘_School Library Journal_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ã’From the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies.Ã“ Ã‘_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ã“Gives the Dickensian orphan story an original spin. . . . Expertly envisioned and peopled with intriguing characters.Ã“ Ã‘_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Continuing the absorbing, inventive saga started in\n  <em>\n   Foundling\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Lamplighter\n  </em>\n  follows RossamÅ¸nd Bookchild, now one of the EmperorÃ•s lamplighters, who is sworn to protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. Small and meek, he does not fit in. Then a haughty young female monster hunter is forced upon the lamplighters for training. As RossamÅ¸nd begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6942'),
(5660, 'Lanark', 'Alasdair Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10665'),
(5661, 'Lanark: A Life in 4 Books', 'Alasdair Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide-ranging concerns, its playful narrative conveys at its core a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind''s inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka, and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been published all over the world and to unanimous acclaim. This edition marks the novel''s return to its original publisher and features a superb new introduction by the award-winning novelist Janice Galloway, and the author''s Tailpiece, a fascinating addendum to the novel. "It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it." -- Anthony Burgess "Alasdair Gray is one of the most important living writers in English." -- Stephen Bernstein, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable ... Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches." -- William Boyd, The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades." -- Time Out (London) "A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time." -- The Scotsman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7795'),
(5662, 'The Land God Gave to Cain', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9341'),
(5663, 'The Land Leviathan', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9845'),
(5664, 'Land of Fire', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An action-packed adventure from the former SAS member -- now bestseller writer.1982: The Falklands War. Young SAS trooper, Mike Hood, risks his life to capture an Argentine girl spy. Twenty years on, an Argentine military junta is returned to power and determined to reinvade the Falklands. Now a senior NCO, Hood is back in the South Atlantic. When fate throws him together with the girl from his past, he is faced with a conflict of loyalties. Can he trust her now?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8933'),
(5665, 'Land of Marvels', 'Barry Unsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Barry Unsworth, a writer with an â€œalmost magical capacity for literary time travelâ€ (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace. The site lies directly in the path of a new railroad to Baghdad, and he watches nervously as the construction progresses, threatening to destroy his discovery. The expedition party includes Somervilleâ€™s beautiful, bored wife, Edith; Patricia, a smart young graduate student; and Jehar, an Arab man-of-all-duties whose subservient manner belies his intelligence and ambitions. Posing as an archaeologist, an American geologist from an oil company arrives one day and insinuates himself into the group. But heâ€™s not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraqâ€™s rich oil fields. Historical fiction at its finest, Land of Marvels opens a window on the past and reveals its lasting impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(5666, 'The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty thousand years in the making and 31 years in the writing, Auel''s overlong and underplotted sixth and final volume in the Earth''s Children series (The Clan of the Cave Bear; etc.) finds Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar; and their infant daughter, Jonayla, settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Animal whisperer and medicine woman Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan, but all is not rosy in this Ice Age setting; there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona. While gazing on an elaborate cave painting (presumably, the Lascaux caverns in France), Ayla has an epiphany and invents the concept of art appreciation, and after she overdoses on a hallucinogenic root, Ayla and Jondalar come to understand how much they mean to one another, thus giving birth to another conceptâ€”monogamy. Otherwise, not much of dramatic interest happens, and Ayla, for all her superwomanish ways, remains unfortunately flat. Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed the previous volumes will relish the opportunity to re-enter pre-history one last time. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n What began 30 years ago with Auelï¿½s best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), namely the phenomenally popular Ice Ageï¿½era Earthï¿½s Children series, comes to an end in the sixth installment. Now a wife and mother, Ayla lives among the Zelandoni, the people of her mate, Jondalar, but she hasnï¿½t forgotten the ways of the people who raised her. Ayla is training to become a spiritual leader, and her devotion to this calling takes its toll on her union with Jondalar. On their journeys, Ayla and her friends contend with earthquakes, a band of marauding rapists, and even an outbreak of prehistoric chicken pox. When Ayla and Jondalar get wistful for the days when they were alone with their animals, readers might find themselves feeling similarly. As was the case with The Shelters of Stone (2002), thereï¿½s not a lot of urgency in this final volume, but the millions of readers who have been with Ayla from the start will want to once again lose themselves in the rich prehistoric world Auel conjures and see how this internationally beloved series concludes. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Auelï¿½s novels have been record-breaking mega-best-sellers, with 45 million copies worldwide, ensuring that readers will clamor for the series finale. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8120'),
(5667, 'Land&#39;s End: A Walk in Provincetown', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this celebration of one of America''s oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod. Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. "It is the only small town I know of where those who live unconventionally seem to outnumber those who live within the prescribed bounds of home and licensed marriage, respectable job, and biological children," says Cunningham. "It is one of the places in the world you can disappear into. It is the Morocco of North America, the New Orleans of the north." He first came to the place more than twenty years ago, falling in love with the haunted beauty of its seascape and the rambunctious charm of its denizens. Although Provincetown is primarily known as a summer mecca of stunning beaches, quirky shops, and wild nightlife, as well as a popular destination for gay men and lesbians, it is also a place of deep and enduring history, artistic and otherwise. Few towns have attracted such an impressive array of artists and writers--from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O''Neill, Mark Rothko to Robert Motherwell--who, like Cunningham, were attracted to this finger of land because it was . . . different, nonjudgmental, the perfect place to escape to; to be rescued, healed, reborn, or simply to live in peace. As we follow Cunningham on his various excursions through Provincetown and its surrounding landscape, we are drawn into its history, its mysteries, its peculiarities--places you won''t read about in any conventional travel guide. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3132'),
(5668, 'The Language of Bees', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husbandâ€™s storied pastâ€”a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to stingâ€¦this time fatally.For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solveâ€”the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmesâ€™s beloved hives.But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husbandâ€™s past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged withâ€”and exonerated fromâ€”murder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, sheâ€™ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the CafÃ© Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young womanâ€™s past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any sheâ€™s ever facedâ€”a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.From the Hardcover edition.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husbandâ€™s storied pastâ€”a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to stingâ€¦this time fatally.For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solveâ€”the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmesâ€™s beloved hives.But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husbandâ€™s past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged withâ€”and exonerated fromâ€”murder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, sheâ€™ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the CafÃ© Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young womanâ€™s past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any sheâ€™s ever facedâ€”a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5352'),
(5669, 'The Larion Senators', 'Rob Scott &amp; Jay Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€˜Could become as legendary as Donaldsonâ€™ OUTLAND Nerak is defeated. Steven Taylor has cast the malevolent dictatorâ€™s soul into the Foldâ€™s inky void - but the evil that controlled Nerak and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken Mark Jenkins with it. Steven must put his own feelings to one side, for Eldarnâ€™s fate still hangs in the balance, and he remains the land''s only real hope.\n <br />\n As he and his companions make their way across country, rallying what remains of their allies, Mark, no longer the affable teacher from Colorado, disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn.\n <br />\n During an epic sea journey to the enemy strongholds of northern Malakasia, Steven discovers he is stronger than he thought, but a confrontation with Mark is inevitable â€¦ Is Steven willing to kill his best friend and face eternal exile in Eldarn to save two worlds from annihilation?\n <br />\n Return to Eldarn for this towering finale, where our heroes face a terrifying army of mutated beasts, and the mysteries of the Larion Senators are waiting to be unlocked, for good or for evil â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4465'),
(5670, 'Lark and Termite', 'Jayne Anne Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book *Chicago Tribune*, *Christian Science Monitor*, *The Washington Post* and *Los Angeles Times* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite** is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termiteâ€™s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1668'),
(5671, 'Larry&#39;s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life', 'Daniel Asa Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country''s 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel''s help . . . even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to "not" get his money''s worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, "Larry''s Kidney" is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(5672, 'Lasher', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, who must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistable demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of spiritual aspiration and passion.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Returning to the Mayfair clan she introduced in The Witching Hour , Rice offers another vast, transcontinental saga of witchcraft and demonism in the tradition of Gothic melodrama. The eponymous Lasher is a demon spirit who preys on female Mayfairs in his attempt to procreate. Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven who has borne Lasher''s child, has now disappeared. At times this main narrative is lost as the story moves from the Louisiana Mayfairs to the Scottish Donnelaiths and the clandestine London Telamasca society, with copious personal histories and myriad characters. Long sections ramble without a compelling point of view, and are dampened by stock elements: cliched wind storms, sexy witches, the endless supply of money the Telemasca has at its disposal. At times, Lasher is too much in evidence (rattling the china, gnashing his teeth) to be frightening. But embedded in this antique demonism is a contemporary tale of incest and family abuse that achieves resonance. It is maintained through the character of Lasher, both child and man at the same time, who manipulates his victims with his own pain. At their best, Rice''s characters rise above the more wooden plot machinations with an ironic and modern complexity: Mona, the young feminist witch with sharklike business instincts; Julien, the dead patriarch, who movingly recalls his male lovers; Yuri, the clever Serbian orphan. Despite lapses into uninspired language, ultimately the novel is compelling through its exhaustive monumentality. 700,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5003'),
(5673, 'Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West', 'Timothy Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Notable Book of the Year\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller''s Association Award\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, "this region''s hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, Egan, a third-generation westerner, evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion and the holy war between preservers and possessors never ends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America''s oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho''s Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment. In a unique blend of travel writing, historical reflection, and passionate polemic, Egan has produced a moving study of the West: how it became what it is, and where it is going.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The writing is simply wonderful. From the opening paragraph, Egan seduces the reader. . . . Entertaining, thought provoking."\n <br />\n --_The Arizona Daily Star Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A western breeziness and love of open spaces shines through\n <strong>\n  Lasso the Wind\n </strong>\n . . . . The writing is simple and evocative."\n <br />\n --_The Economist_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6550'),
(5674, 'The Last 10 Seconds', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new race-against-time bestseller from the British Harlan Coben. When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell. Three days earlier he was hired by a mysterious client to snatch a suspected serial killer, Andrew Kent (aka the Penthouse Predator) from custody while he''s being transferred between prisons. Kent is snatched, but then things immediately go wrong. People start dying, Kent goes missing, and Cone begins to realize that the case against him is not what he was led to believe. Sharing that suspicion is newly promoted DI Tina Boyd, one of the murder squad team who arrested Kent several months earlier. But now Kent''s disappeared, and Tina has to find him. And find him fast, because it''s clear some very high-powered people want to silence him. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4434'),
(5675, 'Last Act in Palmyra', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Travis McGee traveled in time back to treacherous, civilized Rome in 72 A.D., he might be something like Marcus Didius Falco. Appearing in his sixth adventure, the resourceful, bantering court investigator, who is graced with more humor than his south Florida counterpart and who hates injustice without being a drone about it, is such a regular guy that it''s easy to forget he''s not speaking figuratively when he talks about the latest model of chariot. Falco was denied a promised promotion into the upper class by the emperor Vespasian after his last escapade (in Poseidon''s Gold), a promotion required for him to marry his lover, the patrician Helena Justina. To get out of town with Helena, he takes on a job for one of the emperor''s less trustworthy underlings, heading for Syria to do a little snooping; at the same time he''s also on the lookout for a runaway girl who may have been kidnapped by a Syrian. While sightseeing, Falco and Helena discover, in a cistern, the body of a playwright who had been with an acting troupe out of Rome. For various reasons, Falco and Helena sign on with the troupe in order to find the killer, with Falco taking on the little appreciated duties of the playwright for cover. Accompanying the troupe on their travels, readers get a history lesson they may wish they had had in high school, all the while being treated to a polished narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marcus Didius Falco, first-century Roman private eye, searches for a beautiful circus musician while also working for the emperor''s chief spy. Falco''s girlfriend, Helena, accompanies him to Syria, where they are both accused of murder. Excellent historical fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7188'),
(5676, 'Last Argument of Kings', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but its going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and theres only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. Its past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home.With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no-one is safe, and no-one can be trusted. His days with a sword are far behind him. Its a good thing blackmail, threats and torture still work well enough.Jezal dan Luthar has decided that winning glory is far too painful, and turned his back on soldiering for a simple life with the woman he loves. But love can be painful too, and glory has a nasty habit of creeping up on a man when he least expects it.While the King of the Union lies on his deathbead, the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No-one believes that the shadow of war is falling across the very heart of the Union. The First of the Magi has a plan to save the world, as he always does. But there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1675'),
(5677, 'Last Battle', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During the last days of Narnia, good King Tirian faces the firecest challenge to any Narnian King''s rule ever. Many Narnians think they have seen the great Aslan, but he doesn''t behave the way they had expected. The ugly Ape who guards this false Aslan allows him to be seen for only moments at a time, and says that all Narnians have been commanded by the Lion to work for the cruel Calormenes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1053');
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(5678, 'The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America&#39;s Childhood', 'Jane Leavy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Meticulously reported and elegantly written,\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author''s weekend with The Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983, after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family of the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League''s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth''s home run crown in the summer of 1961â€”the same boy who would never grow up.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   As she did so memorably in her biography of Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy transcends the hyperbole of hero worship to reveal the man behind the coast-to-coast smile, who grappled with a wrenching childhood, crippling injuries, and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. In\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   she chronicles her search to find out more about the person he was and, given what she discovers, to explain his mystifying hold on a generation of baseball fans, who were seduced by that lopsided, gap-toothed grin. It is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones: not only a portrait of an icon, but an investigation of memory itself. How long was the Tape Measure Home Run? Did Mantle swing the same way right-handed and left-handed? What really happened to his knee in the 1951 World Series? What happened to the red-haired, freckle-faced boy known back home as Mickey Charles?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I believe in memory, not memorabilia," Leavy writes in her preface. But in\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   , she discovers that what we remember of our heroesâ€”and even what they remember of themselvesâ€”is only where the story begins.\n  </p>\n  <span>\n   <strong>\n    Amazon Q&amp;A: Bill Madden Interviews Jane Leavy\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   For more than 30 years\n   <em>\n    New York Daily News\n   </em>\n   . The author of several books about the Yankees, including\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <span>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n  <img />\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   Your best-selling biography of Sandy Koufax was a tour de force, partly because Koufax was a very private man whose life story had never really been told before. Mickey Mantleâ€™s life is quite the opposite, itâ€™s been in the subject of a spate of different â€œautobiographies,â€ some of which he even wrote. Under those circumstances, what made you want to take up another book about him?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   Originally, I wanted to write about Willie, Mickey and The Duke in New York in the Fifties. The publisher said, â€œDo The Mick. Everybody loves The Mick.â€ I was wary because so much had been written about himâ€”he left a paper trail as long as the drive from Commerce, Oklahoma to the Bronx, so I didnâ€™t expect to learn that heâ€™d been raised by a den of Alaskan she-wolves. My challenge was to strip away all the layers of myth that had accumulated and let Mickey breathe. And he, of all people, was my worst source. For example: the knee surgery he said he had after tripping over a drain in the 1951 World Series trying not to run into Joe DiMaggio in centerfield. In fact, he didnâ€™t have surgery until two years later. I only learned that because I went through every day of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   from October 1951 to November 1953 looking for the date the knife fell! Thatâ€™s why this book took five years and nearly 600 interviews. I wanted to try to understand why after all these years, and all these revelations, Mickey Mantle still means so much to so many peopleâ€”including meâ€”and the first step was to get the basic facts straight.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   You make the point early on in the book that Mickey was a childhood hero, but you also have a recurring sequence in the book of your first interview with him in Atlantic City in 1983, whereâ€”at one pointâ€”he drunkenly makes a pass at you. What lingering effect did this have on how you ultimately approached your book?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   I was plenty nervous when I met him. Mickey was my hero. But, he was also a very particular kind of role model. I was born two months prematurely (in a hospital a mile from Yankee Stadium) and came with some of the flaws that afflict those who donâ€™t incubate as long as weâ€™re supposed to. Mickey taught me how to function with pain and without complaintâ€”his triumphs were mine. I was devastated with how he acted. After Iâ€™d taken his hand from my knee, I called the only person I could think of still awake at that hour, a new mother, who basically told me to grow up.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The next morning, over breakfast, I vented my anger and disappointment, railing at him for, among other things, greeting my youthful autograph request with flatulence. He was stunned and remorseful, albeit in a hilariously idiosyncratic manner. He gave me an 8 x 10 glossy that said, â€œSorry, I farted, your friend, Mick.â€ For a moment, I felt I saw behind his crude faÃ§ade. I decided the only way I could write this book was to acknowledge my lack of dispassion and scrutinize him completely. Thatâ€™s what happened that weekend in Atlantic City. It forced me to see the world as it was, not how I wanted it to be.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   One of the people I wish I''d been able to interview for my Steinbrenner book was Mantle, if only because I detected a very strained relationship between the two of them. Steinbrenner made a point to deify DiMaggio and had memorial services for Joe, Billy Martin, Roger Maris and Mel Allen, but did nothing for Mickey when he died. In your conversations with Mickey did he ever talk about Steinbrenner and anything that might have led to ill feelings toward each other?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   When I told Mantle Iâ€™d heard the Boss was thinking of turning Monument Park in centerfield into a water park for the disadvantaged youth of the South Bronx, Mantle was completely incredulous. He told me, â€œIt was 480 in centerfield when I played. Itâ€™s 420 now and heâ€™s talking about bringing them in farther,â€ and shook his head. â€œI was at a banquet one time and I said to him, â€˜they ought to let those boys throw the ball up and hit it.â€™ That pissed him off.â€\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Mantle was interested in Yankee historyâ€”he grilled a friend who saw Babe Ruth lying in state in the rotunda at the Stadium about what it was like to be there that day. But I donâ€™t think he had a whole lot of patience with â€œYankeeography.â€ It was a quick disillusionment. When he signed with the Yankees, reporters asked which Yankee had been his childhood hero. He said, â€œStan Musial.â€ George Weiss, the general manager, immediately â€œcorrectedâ€ his memory and from then on Joe D. was his hero. Furthermore, I think he was deeply disappointed with the baseball communityâ€™s responseâ€”or lack of responseâ€”when commissioner Bowie Kuhn banned him in 1983 because of his affiliation with the Claridge Hotel and Casino, a job he had taken to pay for his son Billyâ€™s treatment for non-Hodgkinâ€™s Lymphoma. He told me, â€œI feel really kind of bad no one took up for me.â€ By â€œno oneâ€ I was pretty sure he meant Steinbrenner. The Yankees did little more than observe a moment of silence when Mantle died.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   It would seem that most everybody pertinent to the book cooperated with you, especially the Mantle family. I was grateful for the cooperation I had from George Steinbrennerâ€™s friends and associates when I wrote\n   <em>\n    Steinbrenner\n   </em>\n   , but I had an advantage that you didnâ€™t in that most of them knew me personally and, I suppose, trusted me. As a stranger, did you meet any significant resistance?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   Danny and David Mantleâ€”Mickeyâ€™s sonsâ€”and their late mother, Merlynâ€”were extremely generous with their recollections and insights. Their openness about their lives and their relationship with their father was extraordinary. Like him, they are extremely honest. Thereâ€™s no put on, as folks in Commerce, Oklahoma like to say. I hope theyâ€™ll come away from the book with a deeper understanding of the forces that formed him and contributed to his downfall, but I donâ€™t know how theyâ€™ll react.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   This is the definitive â€œwarts and allâ€ biography of Mickey, with heavy emphasis on all of his demons. How do you think Mickey himself would feel about the book?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   I think itâ€™s an honest book and Mantle was a very honest man. I donâ€™t see this is as a dark book. I hope itâ€™s enlightening in the most literal sense of the word and I hope that criticsâ€”and readers at largeâ€”will agree. I think the tragedy of Mantle is that he had so little time, at the beginning of his baseball career, and at the beginning of his sober life, to be his best self. He was a decent man who was genetically pre-disposed to alcoholism and enabled his whole life by the trappings of his celebrity. Thatâ€™s his story. As Billy Crystal told me about his movie,\n   <em>\n    61*\n   </em>\n   , Mickey wouldnâ€™t have wanted the sugar coat.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   His late wife, Merlyn, wrote about the sexual abuse he suffered as a young boy in the family memoir, â€œA Hero All His Lifeâ€ and she elaborated on it when we spoke, as did several of his close friends. It turned out that his half sister wasnâ€™t his only abuser and experts tell me that many of the destructive behaviors he manifested are seen in victims of childhood sexual abuse. So, I came away with enormous compassion for him and, I hope, with an answer to the question posed by one of his minor league teammates: â€œMickey, what happened?â€\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. Bob Costas eulogized the Yankee great as "a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic." The "we" in Costas''s remarks--with author Leavy (Koufax: A Lefty''s Legacy) as stand-in--is as much the subject of this fascinating biography as the ballplayer himself. Mantle, who succumbed to cancer in 1995 at age 63, was justly famous for his baseball exploits, but what Costas described as Mantle''s "paradoxical grip" on a certain generation of baseball fans is exactly what Leavy tackles in this book. She should know. She spent much time in her childhood in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, a tomboyish "Mickey guy" listening to the roar of the crowd from across the Grand Concourse. While a sportswriter for the Washington Post, she won a 1983 assignment to interview Mantle for his upcoming golf tournament in Atlantic City. What happened that day and night between the fading, embittered Mantle and the former fan girl trying to do her job is the drama that structures Leavy''s narrative--she has never reported the truth till now, and she does so without judgment. Instead, she proceeds with steely determination to understand what brought this onetime golden boy from the zinc mines of Oklahoma to center stage at Yankee Stadium and made him into America''s quintessential tragic hero, a freakily gifted athlete haunted by a deadly genetic inheritance, including alcoholism. With storytelling bravado and fresh research, Leavy weaves around her own story the milestone dates in "the Mick''s" career, which as often burnishes the legend as tarnishes it. Leavy concludes that Mantle cavorted in a more innocent time, when people believed in sports heroes and would not hear otherwise. That''s hardly a new idea, but no matter: by the end of this book, readers will know what made Mantle rise, fall, and survive into recovery for his last 18 months. In Leavy''s hands, the life of Mantle no longer defies logic: it seems inevitable. She''s hit a long home run. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5065'),
(5679, 'LAST CALL', 'Okrent, Daniel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9657'),
(5680, 'Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition', 'Daniel Okrent', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Daniel Okrent has proven to be one of our most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction over the past 25 years, producing books about the history of Rockefeller Center and New England, baseball, and his experience as the first public editor for the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n . Now he has taken on a more formidable subject: the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. The result may not be as scintillating as the perfect gin gimlet, but it comes mighty close, an assiduously researched, well-written, and continually eye-opening work on what has actually been a neglected subject.There has been, of course, quite a lot of writing that has touched on the 14 years, 1919â€“1933, when the United States tried to legislate drinking out of existence, but the great bulk of it has been as background to one mobster tale or another. Okrent covers the gangland explosion that Prohibition triggeredâ€”and rightly deromanticizes itâ€”but he has a wider agenda that addresses the entire effect enforced temperance had on our social, political, and legal conventions. Above all, Okrent explores the politics of Prohibition; how the 18th Amendment, banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages, was pushed through after one of the most sustained and brilliant pressure-group campaigns in our history; how the fight over booze served as a surrogate for many of the deeper social and ethnic antagonisms dividing the country, and how it all collapsed, almost overnight, essentially nullified by the people.Okrent occasionally stumbles in this story, bogging down here and there in some of the backroom intricacies of the politics, and misconstruing an address by Warren Harding on race as one of the boldest speeches ever delivered by an American president (it was more nearly the opposite). But overall he provides a fascinating look at a fantastically complex battle that was fought out over decadesâ€”no easy feat. Among other delights, Okrent passes along any number of amusing tidbits about how Americans coped without alcohol, such as sending away for the Vino Sano Grape Brick, a block of dehydrated grape juice, complete with stems, skins, and pulp and instructions warning buyers not to add yeast or sugar, or leave it in a dark place, or let it sit too long, lest it become wine. He unearths many sadly forgotten characters from the war over drinkâ€”and readers will be surprised to learn how that fight cut across today''s ideological lines. Progressives and suffragists made common cause with the Ku Klux Klanâ€”which in turn supported a woman''s right to voteâ€”to pass Prohibition. Champions of the people, such as the liberal Democrat Al Smith, fought side-by-side with conservative plutocrats like Pierre du Pont for its repeal.In the end, as Okrent makes clear, Prohibition did make a dent in American drinkingâ€”at the cost of hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from bad bootleg alcohol; the making of organized crime in this country; and a corrosive soaking in hypocrisy. A valuable lesson, for anyone willing to hear it._Kevin Baker is the coauthor, most recently, of_ Luna Park_, a graphic novel published last month by DC Comics._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Okrent, who has rescued an important, relevant, and colorful chapter of American history, explores Americans'' relationship with the bottle dating back to the colonial era and analyzes the long-term effects of Prohibition on everything--from the rise of the Mafia and the Ku Klux Klan to language, art, and literature. Fast-paced and fascinating, his narrative assembles a wide collection of comical stories and outrageous personalities, such as the hatchet-wielding Carrie Nation. He explodes clichÃ©s and bypasses widely known tales of bootlegging and bathtub gin in favor of more unfamiliar accounts. Critics praised Okrent''s elegant writing and careful research--even in all its details--and agreed with the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n that this remarkably fresh take on a forgotten era is "a narrative delight."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6059'),
(5681, 'The last camel died at noon', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the Sudan to search for Viscount Blacktower''s son and his new bride, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson, and their son, Ramses, become caught in web of treachery, and their survival depends on Amelia''s sleuthing skills. Reprint. *NYT. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(5682, 'Last Chance Saloon', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Desperately single thirtysomething men and women populate Keyes''s breezy novel. Childhood friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan muddle along, dealing with the indignities and inconveniences we all face--and then some. Tara''s perfectly horrible, freeloading boyfriend Thomas watches her diet like a hawk and remarks cruelly on the size of her posterior, comparing her unfavorably to younger, thinner women. Katherine is a professional success, but her personal life is nonexistent. Every one of her prior relationships--six in all--has ended disastrously, with Katherine getting dumped. Each time, she retreats further and further into her shell, until her most intimate relationship is with her remote control. Fashion industry insider Fintan has found true love with his Italian boyfriend, Sandro, but a health crisis threatens their happiness. Tara, Katherine, and Fintan, as well as their quirky cast of friends (people with names like Lorcan and Mandii), live, love, and learn the hard way, the only way they can. Not quite as obsessive as Bridget Jones and that damn diary of hers, Keyes manages to convey a painfully accurate portrayal of what it means to be single today, tempered by a few of life''s less humiliating and more important lessons, like the value of true friendship. Funny and irreverent, Keyes''s\n <em>\n  Last Chance Saloon\n </em>\n is a terrific vacation read.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine Bridget Jones in a Jacobean revenge drama, a sort of ''Tis a Pity She''s Single that''s the flavor of this entry in the urban unmarried female angst sweepstakes. This time, the protagonists are two London women who grew up together in the small, repressive Irish town of Knockavoy. Tara, a computer analyst, lives with Thomas, a bitter and miserly high school geography teacher. Afraid to live on her own, she is willing to overlook the fact that Thomas ignores her birthday, constantly monitors her eating habits and insults her friends under the guise of being "honest." Katherine Casey, an accountant for an advertising agency, wears boring suits, has a hyperorganized underwear drawer and brushes off all advances, including those of attractive advertising account executive Joe Roth. As they turn 31, each woman is full of suggestions for improving the other''s life and full of excuses for doing nothing about her own. That begins to change when Fintan O''Grady, their gay pal and fellow Knockavoy refugee, falls ill with a mysterious disease. As their paths are crisscrossed by a self-centered Irish actor named Lorcan Larkin, Fintan emotionally blackmails Tara and Katherine into making long-needed changes. Keyes (Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married) effectively describes the young women''s searches for autonomy and love, but her flippant, arch tone is less effective when recounting the more grim stories of Fintan and Lorcan. In addition, some of the repartee, perhaps fresh when the book was originally published in Great Britain in 2001, already seems shopworn. The Knockavoy refugees are a sympathetic trio, however, and their deftly plotted saga is likely to appeal to fellow singletons. (Aug.)Forecast: Readers will have to be nearly as desperate as the heroines of Keyes''s relationship drama to find satisfaction here but there''s no underestimating the appeal of even halfway decent girl-talk books.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6625'),
(5683, 'Last Chance to See', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine on an expedition to find out what''s happening to life on this one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8868'),
(5684, 'Last chance to see--', 'Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine on an expedition to find out what''s happening to life on this one. EDITORIAL REVIEW: The record of an odyssey by a zoologist and a zoologically-innocent comic novelist. It began in 1985 with a search for a rare lemur in Madagascar and went on to include expeditions which witnessed fruitbats, man-eating lizards, gorillas, a blind dolphin and the most inept parrot, the kakapot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1138'),
(5685, 'The Last Chinese Chef', 'Nicole Mones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her satisfying, sensual third novel, Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husbandâ€™s estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last in a line of gifted chefs tracing back to the imperial palace. As she watches Sam gear up for Chinaâ€™s Olympic culinary competition by planning the banquet of a lifetime, she begins to see past the cuisineâ€™s artistry to glimpse its coherent expression of Chinese civilization. It is here, amid lessons of tradition, obligation, and human connection that she finds the secret ingredient that may yet heal her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2265'),
(5686, 'The Last Colony (omw3)', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Perry has at last found peace in a violent universe, living quietly with his family in one of humanity''s many colonies. It''s a good life, yet there''s something . . . missing. When John and his wife Jane are asked to lead a new colony world, he jumps at the chance to explore the universe once more. But they soon find out that nothing is what it seems, for his new colony are merely pawns in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy between humanity''s Colonial Union and a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance that is dedicated to ending all human colonization. As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive in the face of threats both alien and familiar, on a planet yet to reveal its own fatal secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9971'),
(5687, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork''s most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. **A professor is missing--but a search party is on the way!** A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads--even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. **Imagine a magical land** where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side. **experience the terror** as you encounter a Mad Dwarf, the Peach Butt, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater. **Feel the passion** as the denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls and the rivers fill with water (it spoils regattas, for one thing). **Thrill to the promise* of next year''s regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It''ll be asolutely gujeroo (no worries).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3401'),
(5688, 'The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his fourth outing, LAPD Homicide Detective Harry Bosch (The Concrete Blonde, et al.) confronts deep family, police and political secrets as he probes an unsolved murder of decades earlier. Smart, tough, laconic and, under all that, compassionate, Harry lives by a code according to which "Everybody counts or nobody counts... whether [the victim is] a prostitute or the mayor''s wife." He begins this case in a departmental shrink''s office, after having been suspended for attacking his commanding officer; his girlfriend has left him, and he''s living in a house that''s been condemned after an earthquake. In the enforced freedom from his job, he reopens the 30-year-old unsolved murder of an L.A. call girl?his mother. Skirting illegality along the way to the resolution, he unearths a lot of buried secrets and pain?not least to his own 11-year-old self. Nobody here is pure (a couple of people are truly nasty), but all the characters are believable, as are even the quirkier plot turns. Edgar-winner Connelly smoothly mixes Harry''s detecting forays with his therapy sessions to dramatize how, sometimes, the biggest mystery is the self. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After being put on involuntary stress leave for attacking his boss, LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch tackles the 30-plus-year-old murder case of a Hollywood prostitute?his mother. Bummed out by the failure of his latest romance as well, Harry faces a deeper, psychological crisis: his life''s "mission" may end if he solves the case. Harry continues, nonetheless, soon discovering that the police and politically powerful others purposely glossed over his mother''s murder. With prose that cuts to the quick, a masterfully interwoven plot, and gripping suspense, Connelly renders a fitting sequel to The Black Echo (LJ 1/92).\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5338'),
(5689, 'The Last Days of Krypton', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As seen on film and TV, the Phantom Zone where Superman''s enemies are exiled is insubstantial and two-dimensional, much like this chronicle of the death of the cape-clad hero''s home planet. Best known for sweeping space opera (the Seven Suns series;\n <em>\n  Sandworms of Dune\n </em>\n ), Anderson briskly and blandly narrates these events as if voicing a news documentary, completely removing the tension from otherwise dramatic turns of fate. After young artist Lara rescues gifted scientist Jor-El from the Zone, their courtship is lost among a host of fragmentary subplots and minor characters with names pulled straight from the acknowledgments page. Would-be dictator Zod, who twirls his mustache in mostly solitary musings for nearly half the book, disconcertingly insists on conducting the wedding before descending into tiresome megalomania. Frustrated Superman fans will wish that Anderson had instead expanded on Lara''s brief private account of Zod''s ascendance and Krypton''s destruction.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows how Kal-Elâ€”Supermanâ€”was sent to Earth just before his planet exploded. But what led to such a disaster? Now, in\n <em>\n  The Last Days of Krypton\n </em>\n , Kevin J. Anderson presents a sweeping tale of the pomp and grandeur, the intrigue and passion, and the politics and betrayals of a doomed world filled with brave heroes and cruel traitors.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against the spectacular backdrop of Krypton''s waning halcyon days, there is the courtship and marriage of Kal-El''s parents, the brilliant scientist Jor-El and his historian wife, Lara. Together they fight to convince a stagnant, disbelieving society that their world is about to end. Jor-El''s brother, Zor-El, leader of the fabled Argo City, joins the struggle not only to save the planet but also to fight against the menace of the ruthless and cunning General Zod.\n</p>\n<p>\n The diabolical Zod, future archenemy of Superman, avails himself of a golden opportunity to seize power when the android Brainiac captures the capital city of Kandor. As Zod''s grip on the populace tightens and his power grows, he too is blind to all the signs that point to the death of the very civilization he is trying to rule.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through all of this, Jor-El and Lara''s love for each other, their history, and their son allows for Krypton to live on even as the planet is torn apart around them. For in the escape of their baby lies Krypton''s greatest giftâ€”and Earth''s greatest hero.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Last Days of Krypton\n </em>\n is a timeless, ground-breaking exploration of a world that has never been fully defined, and reveals the extraordinary origins of a legend that has never ceased to amaze and astound generation after generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7201'),
(5690, 'The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3575'),
(5691, 'The Last Demon', 'Isaac Bashevis Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left.Why demons, when man himself is a demon?Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced?I am the last of the persuaders.''Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust survivor, illuminate the great themes of human suffering with supernal grace.This book includes The Last Demon, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and The Cafeteria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7920'),
(5692, 'the Last Detective (2003)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 09', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9961'),
(5693, 'The Last Detective', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t start reading\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n with much on your calendar. This tense, satisfying thriller will glue you to your chair, as private eye Elvis Cole--the star of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n --faces his toughest case: the abduction of his girlfriend''s son, 10-year-old Ben Chenier, who was staying with Elvis when he was snatched.\n</p>\n<p>\n Panic at Ben''s disappearance turns to terror when the kidnapper phones to reveal his apparent motive, a dark secret from Elvis''s past. But the plot thickens and twists, and then twists again, as Elvis and his longtime buddy, tough guy Joe Pike, race the clock against a group of villains as sinister as they are capable. The author mixes Elvis''s first-person narration with third-person sections that describe other points of view--a risky technique, but Crais makes it work. He also does a fine job resurrecting the wisecracking Elvis of earlier books while imbuing him with a new depth and darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n This dazzlingly plotted, crisply told story is threaded with real detection (what a rarity!) and peopled by characters you can''t help but care about--including Carol Starkey, the haunted bomb-squad cop from\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , who''s now a juvenile-abduction detective. Crais has long been getting better with each book, and\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n continues the pattern.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elvis lives! Elvis Cole that is, Crais''s iconoclastic, smart-aleck L.A. PI, last seen in Indigo Slam (1997). Violent and action-packed, this eighth book in the series has less of Cole''s usual wisecracking but all the intensity and convoluted plotting of his two recent stand-alone thrillers, Demolition Angel (2000) and Hostage (2001). Cole is babysitting Ben, the 10-year-old son of his lawyer lover, Lucy Chenier, when the boy is kidnapped. As Cole and his super-tough, enigmatic pal, Joe Pike, join the police in the search for Ben, Lucy''s obnoxious ex-husband, Richard, arrives from New Orleans with his own investigators. At first, the kidnappers imply they''re seeking revenge for atrocities Cole committed in Vietnam. Several powerful, beautifully written flashbacks to Cole''s horrendous Nam experiences and his troubled childhood follow. The narrative switches between Cole''s vivid first-person point-of-view and a third-person account of a brave, frightened Ben and his savage captors. As the kidnappers'' deadline nears and disturbing motives surface, the suspense becomes almost unbearable. The terrible, heartstopping climax is so well written that time seems to stop. Crais combines the thriller and private eye genres into a dazzling novel that is far more accomplished than the sum of its parts.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6636'),
(5694, 'The Last Dickens', 'Matthew Pearl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickensâ€™s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickensâ€™s unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer. With Danielâ€™s sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a geniusâ€™s last mystery and save his ownâ€“and Rebeccaâ€™sâ€“lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2745'),
(5695, 'The Last Dragonslayer', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in the magic release form B1-7g. But somewhere, somehow, the magic started draining away. Jennifer Strange runs Kazam!, an employment agency for state-registered magicians, soothsayers and sorceresses. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper and quicker than a spell. Why trust a cold and drafty magic carpet when jetlines offer a comfy seat and an in-flight movie? And now potions are eligible for VAT . . . But then the visions start. The Last Dragon is going to be killed by a Dragonslayer at 12.00 on Sunday. The death will unleash untold devastation on the UnUnited Kingdom, setting principality against dukedom and property developer against homesteader. And all the signs are pointing to Jennifer Strange, and saying â€˜Big Magic is coming . . .â€™\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8689'),
(5696, 'The Last Ember', 'Daniel Levin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman''s preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless manuscripts litter the floor of an abandoned warehouse. An illegal excavation burrows beneath Jerusalem''s Dome of the rock, ground sacred to three religions.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jonathan Marcus a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among antiguities dealers. But when he is summoned to Rome to examine a client''s fragment of an ancient stone map, he stumbles across a startling secert: a hidden message carved inside the stone itself. The discovery propels him on a perilous journey from the labyrinth beneath the Colosseum to the biblical-era tunnels of Jerusalem in search of a hidden 2,000-year-old artifact sought by empires throughout the ages. As MArcus and a passionate UN preservationist, Dr. Emili Travia, dig more deeply into the past, they''re stunned to discover not only an anicent intelligence operation to protect the artifact, but also a ruthless modern plot to destroy all trace of it by a mysterious radical bent on erasing every remnant of Jewish and Christian presence from the Temple Mount. With a cutting-edge plot as intricately layered as the ancient sites it explores,\n <em>\n  The Last Ember\n </em>\n is a gripping thriller spanning the high-stakes worlds of archaeology, politics, and terrorism in its portrayal of the modern struggle to define--and redefine--history itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Berry and Daniel Levin on The Last Ember\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Interview conducted by\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Berry:\n </strong>\n Let me say that\n <em>\n  The Last Ember\n </em>\n is a winner. Secrets, history, conspiracies, adventures. Great stuff. Where did the idea come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Daniel Levin:\n </strong>\n First of all, thanks â€“ itâ€™s an honor to hear that from someone like you. As for the story, the level of espionage in Rome and Greece has always fascinated me. I was a classics student and was surprised to discover loads of intrigue around every corner. So I thought, what if some of that came with modern consequences?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SB:\n </strong>\n Worked for me. You really brought the ancient world alive. What about that corpse you describe in the opening pages of the novel? The one the Italian antiquities squad finds floating inside an ancient column. Great scene. Is that level of preservation possible?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DL:\n </strong>\n Amazingly, it is. Embalming techniques in the ancient Roman world used amber and preservative oils. What got my imagination stirring was when I read a historical report that some 15th-century Roman masons once found a perfectly preserved ancient woman floating in an oil-filled sarcophagus. Now thatâ€™s a powerful image.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SB:\n </strong>\n The illicit antiquities trade couldnâ€™t be a timelier topic, especially with many museums currently investigating what artifacts in their collections may have been illegally obtained. Did current events affect your writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DL:\n </strong>\n Absolutely. While I was researching in Rome, there was a case brought against the former curator of the Getty museum, which has one of the finest antiquities collections in the world. I attended the trial and listened to the Italian prosecutorâ€™s opening arguments as to why many of the artifacts should be returned. Fascinating stuff to me, both as a writer and a lawyer. I ended up working much of that Italian courtroom atmosphere into the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SB:\n </strong>\n Did you actually research some illegal excavations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DL:\n </strong>\n I did, and the more I researched illegal excavations around the world, the more I started to see a pattern: some of the largest sites of archaeological destruction were damaged for purely political purposes â€“ simply as a way to erase the past. That''s when one of the novelâ€™s themes began to take shape. What if someone was politically motivated to control not the future, but the past?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n addicts will enjoy Levin''s debut, a dense, complicated novel of religious suspense. Jonathan Marcus, classics scholarâ€“turnedâ€“lawyer, is sucked back into his former life in archeology after becoming involved in an antiquities theft case his law firm is handling. A few minutes in the presence of a chunk of the ancient Roman Forum and a reunion with an old girlfriend from his student days, Dr. Emili Travia, and Jonathan is ready to cast off his three-piece suit and return to unearthing ancient subterranean mysteries. The prize this time is the 2,000-year-old Tabernacle menorah, eight feet of solid gold stolen from Herod''s Temple in Jerusalem and hidden somewhere in Rome. The forces of evil are represented by Sheik Salah ad-Din, who seeks to find and destroy the menorah. The fevered pace slows only to deliver a multitude, perhaps too much of a multitude, of interesting historical factoids.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6012'),
(5697, 'The Last Empress', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Power is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous novel,\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid\n </em>\n , Anchee Min covered the first part of the life of Tzu Hsi, or Empress Orchid. Now, in\n <em>\n  The Last Empress\n </em>\n , the empress is a widow, mother of the only male heir of the now-deceased emperor, and in a formidable position. Still, she must contend with palace intrigue on all fronts; even her eunuchs are bribed. She must put up with the smiling faces of men and women who mean her great harm, and, worst of all, her son takes up with prostitutes and dies of veneral disease. She adopts her nephew to be emperor, treats him like a son, and despairs of his weakness. Constant deceit is not the only difficulty which must be faced: incursions of foreigners and domestic rebellion are also part of this violent period at the end of the 19th century. There is the love-hate relationship with the Japanese, the Boxer Rebellion, and widespread mistrust of Western foreigners. Yet Empress Orchid believes that they must appease these factions in order to preserve the dynasty and the throne. All these problems converge to bring the Ch''ing Dynasty to its eventual demise.\n</p>\n<p>\n A disclaimer: do not read\n <em>\n  The Last Empress\n </em>\n as straight historical fact. Anchee Min makes no bones about the fact that her writing is meant to "rehabilitate" crucial female figures in Chinese history. Whichever account of Tzu Hsi is correct, the historical tradition that she was an overbearing harridan, selfish, greedy, and bloodthirsty or Min''s portrayal of her as a loving mother, trying to protect her country and longing to step down but prevented from doing so by her wishy-washy son,\n <em>\n  The Last Empress\n </em>\n is an endlessly interesting look at palace life, that hermetically sealed world that once existed in China.\n <em>\n  --Valerie Ryan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Min''s\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid\n </em>\n tracked the concubine Orchid''s path to becoming Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi; this revisionist look at her long years behind her son Tung Chih''s throne (1863â€“1908) won''t disappoint Orchid''s fans. Recounted through Tzu Hsi''s first-person, the early chapters encompass her trials as a young "widow," as co-regent with the late emperor''s wife and as a mother. An engaging domestic drama gives way to pedestrian political history; Tzu Hsi lectures like a popular historian on palace intrigue, military coups, the Boxer Rebellion and conflicts with Russia, France and Japan. Though tears flow, there is little passion (save Tzu Hsi''s erotic but chaste longing for Yung Lu, commander of the emperor''s troops). Min''s empress adopts a notably modern psychologizing tone ("How much was Guang-hsu affected when he was wrenched from the family nest?"), earthy language ("You are the most wretched fucking demon I know!") and notes of historical prescience (including what "future critics" will say). Min attacks the popular conception of Tzu Hsi as a corrupt, ruthless, power-hungry assassin, but the results read less like a novel than a didactic memoir.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7806'),
(5698, 'The last frontier', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Breathless, bloody and detailed.'' Daily Telegraph ''Swift-moving, with a tremendous climactic scene on the snow-swept roof of a trans-Hungarian express.'' Glasgow Herald\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong -- a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. Michael Reynolds was going insane ! slowly but inevitably insane. And the most terrible part of it was that he knew it. Since the last forced injection, there had been nothing he could do about the relentless onset of this madness. The more he struggled to ignore the symptoms, the more acutely he became aware of them, the deeper into his mind dug those fiendish chemical claws that were tearing his mind apart!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9265');
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(5699, 'The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber', 'Scott Christianson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Investigative journalist Christianson, author of the award-winning\n <em>\n  With Liberty for Some,\n </em>\n charts the 75-year history of gas chamber execution as well as its intersection with eugenics, the Holocaust, and America''s ongoing capital punishment debate. Christianson is clear that his focus is the United States, underscoring that the chamber''s operation can hardly be described as painless or kind. After the Germans launched the first gas attack during WWI, American scientists and chemical companiesâ€”particularly DuPont, which had ties to the German manufacturers that later supplied concentration campsâ€”scrambled to produce their own lethal concoctions. From their earliest incarnations, gas chambers employed various forms of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) pumped into a sealed room where the condemned was strapped to a chair. Despite being developed as a swifter and more painless alternative to death than hanging or electrocution, Christianson describes in graphic detail the numerous botched executions during which death took over 10 agonizing minutes. Though the gas chamber hasn''t been used in America since 1999, Christianson makes a chilling argument for itsâ€”and the death penalty''sâ€”abolition. 8 b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Christianson makes a chilling argument for its [the gas chamber''s]--and the death penalty''s--abolition." STARRED REVIEW--_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "This sobering work is recommended to all readers interested in exploring the topic."--_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "First full-scale history of gas chamber connects murky (and sure-to-be controversial) dots, including Hitler''s adoption of American technology and joint American-German research and development."--_American History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Christianson has written the definitive (actually, the only) history of the gas chamber. It is a history so complicated and convoluted that it reads almost like something out of Thomas Pynchon''s Gravity''s Rainbow."--_California Lawyer_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7999'),
(5700, 'The Last Hero', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cohen the Barbarian.He''s been a legend in his own lifetime.He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn''t have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization.But these days, he can''t always remember just where he put his teeth...So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He''s going to climb the highest mountain of Discworld and meet the gods.It''s time the Last Hero in the world returns what the first hero stole. Trouble is, that''ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3398'),
(5701, 'The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron', 'Howard Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron''s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his influence extends beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography of one of baseball''s immortal figures. Based on meticulous research and interviews with former teammates, family, two former presidents, and Aaron himself, The Last Hero chronicles Aaron''s childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic rivalry with Willie Mays---all culminating in the defining event of his life: his shattering of Babe Ruth''s all-time home-run record. Bryant also examines Aaron''s more complex second act: his quest to become an important voice beyond the ball field when his playing days had ended, his rediscovery by a public disillusioned with today''s tainted heroes, and his disappointment that his career home-run record was finally broken by Barry Bonds during the steroid era, baseball''s greatest scandal. Bryant reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time-fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress-and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson''s mission to obtain full equality for African-Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public spotlight. Eloquently written, detailed and penetrating, this is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2123'),
(5702, 'The Last Honest Woman', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Abigail Oâ€™Hurley Rockwell was a desperate woman. Journalist Dylan Crosby was going to start digging up her past for the book he was writing about her infamous late husband. It was just research to him, but to her it was a painful reality that had to be kept under lock and key for the sake of her children. Abby would do anything to keep their world safeâ€”no matter how compelling Dylanâ€™s promises might be.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2650'),
(5703, 'The Last Hunter - Descent', 'Jeremy Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   I''ve been told that the entire continent of Antarctica groaned at the moment of my birth. The howl tore across glaciers, over mountains and deep into the ice. Everyone says so. Except for my father; all he heard was Motherâ€™s sobs. Not of pain, but of joy, so he says. Other than that, the only verifiable fact about the day I was born is that an iceberg the size of Los Angeles broke free from the ice shelf a few miles off the coast. Again, some would have me believe the fracture took place as I entered the world. But all that really matters, according to my parents, is that I, Solomon Ull Vincent, the first child born on Antarcticaâ€”the first and only Antarcticanâ€”was born on September 2nd, 1974.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   If only someone could have warned me that, upon my return to the continent of my birth thirteen years later, I would be kidnapped, subjected to tortures beyond comprehension and forced to fight...and kill. If only someone had hinted that I''d wind up struggling to survive in a subterranean world full of ancient warriors, strange creatures and supernatural powers.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Had I been warned I might have lived a normal life. The human race might have remained safe. And the fate of the world might not rest on my shoulders. Had I been warned....Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This is my storyâ€”the tale of Solomon Ull Vincentâ€”The Last Hunter.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5103'),
(5704, 'The Last Illusion', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Irish immigrant and PI Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to the theater to see a trio of illusionists that are all the rage. Indeed, headlining is Harry Houdini, the most sensational of them all; he has just returned from entertaining European kings and queens for a brief run on Broadway. But before Houdini can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly wrong and to the crowdâ€™s shock the illusionist saws into his assistant. In the aftermath, the stunned performer accuses Houdini of tampering with the equipment he keeps under lock and key. And heâ€™s not the only one critical of â€œThe King of Handcuffs.â€ Risking his life every night, Houdini has raised the stakes to such a perilous level that heâ€™s putting lesser acts out of business. With everyone on edge, Houdiniâ€™s wife hires Molly to be part investigator/part bodyguard, but how can she protect a man who literally risks his life every night? And how is she going to uncover whether these masters of illusion are simply up to their tricks or if there truly is something much more treacherous going on. With sparkling wit, charming characters, and historic detail, multiple award winner Rhys Bowen brings early-twentieth-century New York City and the fantastic performers of the time vividly to life in *The Last Illusion*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3923'),
(5705, 'The last juror', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1970, one of Mississippi''s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn''t necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2905'),
(5706, 'The last lecture', 'Randy Pausch; Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch** A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can''t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn''t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about *living*. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4046'),
(5707, 'Last Light', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Aborting an officially-sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament when he realises who the target is, Secret Intelligence Service deniable operator Nick Stone is given a chilling ultimatum: fly to Panama and finish the job, or Kelly, the eleven-year-old orphan in his charge, will be killed. Stone is on the edge, struggling to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, trying to come to terms with a heartrending decision he has made about Kelly?s future. By the time he arrives in Panama, he is close to breaking point. And in the sweltering Central American jungle, Stone finds himself at the centre of a lethal conspiracy involving Colombian guerrillas, the US government and Chinese big business. At stake are hundreds of innocent lives. He has a critically injured friend to rescue and miles of dense rainforest to navigate. And in an explosive denouement at the Panama Canal, Nick Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of his life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(5708, 'Last Light', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world''s oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natural disastersomeone is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home, trapped as the very infrastructure of daily life begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to their children in London as events begin to spiral out of controlriots, raging fires, looting, rape, and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into an anarchic vision of hell. Meanwhile, a mysterious man is tracking Andy''s family. He''ll silence anyone who can reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. The people with a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed their muscles at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secretand their powersafe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(5709, 'The Last Light of the Sun', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this wonderfully imaginative historical fantasy from Kay (A Song for Arbonne), seemingly random deeds connect Erling (Viking) raiders and Anglcyn (English) and Cyngael (Welsh) princes: If only Bern Thorkellson hadn''t stolen that horse in a desperate act of vengeance against his sorry fate; if only Dai ab Owyn hadn''t stepped outside the safety of Brynfell right at the moment when the Erlings attacked; if only Ivarr Ragnarson hadn''t been born ill-formed and downright cruel; if only Aeldred hadn''t been king of the Anglcyn; if only Thorkell Einarson had murdered only one man and not the second; if only Alun ab Owyn hadn''t stepped into that pool on a moonless night and seen the Queen of the Elves in procession. At first glance, each individual''s act appears to be a normal human response. It''s only later, as the characters'' paths cross, that the pieces come together to weave a dazzling tapestry of conjoined fates. Solid research, filtered through vibrant prose, serves to convey a sense of how people really lived and died in Viking and Anglo-Saxon times and how they might have interacted with the realm of magic on a daily basis. Readers of lighter fantasy should be forewarnedâ€”the novel contains a lot of gruesome killing and the fairy world plays a relatively minor role, as do women.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay''s third excellent fantasy set in the world of\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Al-Rassan\n  </em>\n  (1995) and\n  <em>\n   The Sarantine Mosaic\n  </em>\n  (1999) begins about three centuries after the events of the latter. The place is an alternate Britain, the specific time the era in which a king modeled on Alfred of Wessex (849-99), called the Great, began to make headway against raiders from the north. The times and the battles are presented from several points of view, including those of Bern Thorkellson, a young northern outlaw; Aeldred of the Anglcyn (Alfred); his children; and Cenion, a learned cleric of Llywerth (Wales). Not all the battles involve weapons. The princes of Llywerth struggle with the half-world not accepted by the new faith of Jad, and Aeldred fights to get his lords to learn to use more than their weapons. The Erlings (northmen) struggle for a living, as their lives and land are hard, but realize that raiding is harder than it used to be. A distinguished story that, for those so inclined, poses intriguing historical riddles.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6046'),
(5710, 'Last Man Standing', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Web London''s FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates, suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishing the job that began in the alley. SUMMARY: Web London, a member of the FBI''s elite Hostage Rescue Team, roars into a darkened alley one night with his team members, only to be ambushed seconds later. For reasons he can''t understand, Londonis the sole survivor. As the FBI conducts their investigation, the cloud of suspicion surrounding London grows. Riddled with questions and guilt, he seeks the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels. In a search for the truth, that will take him from the battlegrounds of inner city Washington to the affluence of Virginia horse country, Web London sets out to discover what really happened that deadly night, as forces from all sides try to stop him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(5711, 'The Last Man', 'Mary W. Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n prose; fiction , Women Writers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9133'),
(5712, 'Last Night Another Soldier...', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new Quick Read title from the author of\n <strong>\n  Bravo Two Zero\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have already been killed. Forty-seven others have been wounded and flown back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n The last three months have been tough and it shows. Their kit is in a bad way. They are in a bad way. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw by the Afghan sun. Despite the hardships they are enjoying their time out here learning how to fight the Taliban. The lads are on their way to becoming the best soldiers in the Army.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Last Night Another Soldier\n </strong>\n ... is the story of four of the young men in this Rifle section, partly told from the point of view of eighteen-year-old squaddie, David ''Briggsy'' Briggs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ANDY McNABB joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller\n <strong>\n  Bravo Two Zero\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Immediate Action\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Seven Troop\n </strong>\n . He is also the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers, several novels for children and a previous Quick Read novel,\n <strong>\n  The Grey Man\n </strong>\n . Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5535'),
(5713, 'Last Night in Twisted River', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constableâ€™s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos Countyâ€“to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Torontoâ€“pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted Riverâ€“John Irvingâ€™s twelfth novelâ€“depicts the recent half-century in the United States as â€œa living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.â€ From the novelâ€™s taut opening sentenceâ€“â€œThe young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too longâ€â€“to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irvingâ€™s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the authorâ€™s unmistakable voiceâ€“the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: â€œWe donâ€™t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyâ€“as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earthâ€“the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2894'),
(5714, 'The Last Novel', 'David Markson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In recent novels, which have been called â€œhypnotic,â€ â€œstunning,â€ and â€œexhilarating,â€ David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as â€œNovelistâ€) announces that since this will be his final effort, he has â€œcarte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pressed by solitude and age, Novelist''s preoccupations inevitably turn to the stories of other artists â€” their genius, their lack of recognition, and their deaths. Keeping his personal history out of the story as much as possible, Novelist creates an incantatory stream of fascinating triumphs and failures from the lives of famous and not-so-famous painters, writers, musicians, sports figures, and scientists.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Novelist moves through his last years, a minimalist self-portrait emerges, becoming an intricate masterpiece from David Markson''s astonishing imagination. Through these startling, sometimes comic, but often tragic anecdotes we unexpectedly discern the entire shape of a man''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5804'),
(5715, 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2125'),
(5716, 'The Last Page', 'Anthony Huso', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to whatâ€™s living in the cityâ€™s sewers. Twenty-three-year-old Caliph Howl is Stoneholdâ€™s reluctant High King. Thrust onto the throne, Caliph has inherited Stoneholdâ€™s dirtiest court secrets. He also faces a brewing civil war that he is unprepared to fight. After months alone amid a swirl of gossip and political machinations, the sudden reappearance of his old lover, Sena, is a welcome bit of relief. But Sena has her own legacy to claim: she has been trained from birth by the Shradnae witchocracyÂ—adept in espionage and the art of magical equations writ in bloodÂ—and she has been sent to spy on the High King. Yet there are magics that demand a higher price than blood. Sena secretly plots to unlock the *Cisrym Ta*, an arcane text whose pages contain the power to destroy worlds. The key to opening the book lies in Caliphâ€™s veins, forcing Sena to decide if her obsession for power is greater than her love for Caliph. Meanwhile, a fleet of airships creeps ever closer to Isca. As the final battle in a devastating civil war looms and the last page of the *Cisrym Ta* waits to be read, Caliph and Sena must face the deadly consequences of their decisions. And the blood of these conflicts will stain this and other worlds forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(5717, 'The Last Place God Made', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10997'),
(5718, 'The Last Pope', 'Lus M. Rocha', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The election of Don Albino Luciani to the papal throne in 1978 threatens the Vatican status quo in this routine thriller from Portuguese author Rocha, his first novel. John Paul I''s views on papal infallibility and such controversial subjects as birth control, not to mention his resolve to clean house of those men of God who sullied the Roman Catholic church by financial chicanery with mob links, lead to his murder soon after he becomes pope. In the present-day, London journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a letter implicating the pope''s killers. The same shadowy band turns out to be behind the attempt on the life of John Paul II as well as the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. Sarah struggles to stay alive and keep the evidence out of the wrong hands amid predictable action sequences and hairbreadth escapes. An author interview at book''s end claiming that John Paul I was actually murdered is sure to please conspiracy buffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2310'),
(5719, 'The last precinct', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A profoundly original book from Americaâ€™s premier crime novelist! Follow international bestselling author Patricia Cornwellâ€™s latest addition to the Kay Scarpetta series with The Last Precinct. This engrossing piece of fiction is woven through with the extraordinary forensic detail youâ€™ve come to expect from Cornwell, with a palpable sense of fear that keeps readers looking backâ€”into the past for clues, and over their shoulders for the next enigmatic act of violence. The Last Precinct finds Virginiaâ€™s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the middle of a nightmare that began with Black Notice, and continues as she discovers the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting evidence to the contrary. By the end of the novel, it is clear that Scarpettaâ€™s life can never be the same. The Last Precinct marks a new era for Kay Scarpetta and a triumphant achievement for Patricia Cornwell. You wonâ€™t be able to put this nail-biter down!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4117'),
(5720, 'The Last Rakosh', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ABOUT THIS VERSION: Previously available in several different versions through the years (one of which is in the novel ALL THE RAGE) this release has been completely revised into novella length and incorporates all versions into one for this special publication. Previously available in hardcover, The Last Rakosh now available in this affordable trade paperback. ABOUT THE STORY: Jack finds himself, and his friends, at a traveling carnival. During a look through the freak show, they come across what was believed to be extinct: a Rakosh. Or is it? Jack had made sure that the Rakoshi were dead Ã‚â€“exterminated. Jack style. But now, somehow, there appears to be evidence of a Rakosh. The Last Rakosh puts Jack back on the trail of this new mystery that will thrill and entertain, in Repairman Jack style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(5721, 'The Last Ring-Bearer', 'Kirill Yeskov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  From WIRED.com:\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  The histories of wars are so often written from the perspective of the victors, and suchÂ  is the case with Tolkienâ€™s classicÂ \n  <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . However, back in 1999 in Russia, a paleontologist by the name ofÂ \n  <a class="zem_slink" title="Kirill Eskov" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Eskov" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n   Kirill Eskov\n  </a>\n  Â set about addressing the balance, taking up his pen in the name of orcs and goblins everywhere.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  Yeskovâ€™s novelÂ \n  <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The Last Ringbearer\n  </em>\n  Â is set during and after the end of the War of the Ring and is told from the perspective of those who lost. Evidently it was very well received in Russia, but for fear of litigation has not made it beyond a few scant translated passages and various versions in other European languages.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  However, a full English translation was published last year online andÂ \n  <a href="http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n   is available for free download.\n  </a>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  The whole story of this Russian-Middle Earth epic isÂ \n  <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n   told in length (and very eloquently) at Salon.com\n  </a>\n  Â by Laura Miller.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8104'),
(5722, 'The Last Rune 5: The Gates of Winter', 'Mark Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n In a masterwork of brilliant storytelling, the epic fantasy of two parallel worlds--mystical Eldh and modern Earth--takes a surprising turn in Book Five of Mark Anthonyâ€™s thrilling saga of magic, suspense, and adventure\n <i>\n  , The Last Rune\n </i>\n .\n <br />\n <br />\n <b>\n  The Gates of Winter\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </b>\n The enigmatic Shemal has known only two Runebreakers. One, her rival Kelephon, served the Pale King and his army of apocalypse. The other was Travis Wilder, the Runebreaker of prophecy.Now, in outcast and newly made Runebreaker Larad, Shemal has found a weapon to open the door between worlds. As the shadow of Shemalâ€™s master, the vengeful god Mohg, Lord of Nightfall, looms, Grace Beckett seeks to harness wild magic and Travis Wilder joins her in the struggle between warriors and mages, witches\n <br />\n and kings and betrayers of every form.\n <br />\n <br />\n As the time of final reckoning approaches, Travis and Grace will find themselves facing a dark conspiracy of evil whose virulence threatens to overwhelm anyone who stands in its way. Yet if they donâ€™t succeed in stopping it, two worlds will be lost forever.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10698'),
(5723, 'Last scene alive', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the first installment of the Aurora Teagarden series, Real Murders, the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, was beset by a series of horrific murders. Librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden teamed up with true crime writer Robin Crusoe to catch the killer, and the results of their investigation have gone down in Lawrenceton history. Now Robin is back in town, set to begin filming the movie version of the terrible events of so many years ago. Of course he''s not alone-he brings with him a cast and crew the size of which nearly overwhelms the tiny excitement-starved town. Roe is disturbed to discover that the film''s crew includes her stepson, who despises her, as well as an actress set to play her in the film. Everyone in Lawrenceton suddenly goes movie crazy, mentally composing awards-acceptance speeches while prancing around the fringes of the set awaiting discovery. Roe''s not so crazy about the whole thing...and neither is a secret, vicious murderer. When bodies start dropping, it''s up to Roe to reprise her role as amateur sleuth and stop the carnage before it gets out of hand. It''s no problem for the beloved small-town librarian in this wonderfully cozy installment in the adored Aurora Teagarden mystery series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(5724, 'The Last Secret: A Novel', 'Mary McGarry Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keeping secrets leads to calamitous consequences in Morris''s disturbing domestic thriller. At age 17, Nora Trimble has a dangerous eight-day summer escapade with psycho boyfriend Eddie Hawkins that ends in a violent incident in a bar. Twenty-six years later, Nora is the happy wife of wealthy Kendall Ken Hammond, co-owner of a smalltown Massachusetts newspaper, and the devoted mother of two teens. Her world''s turned upside down by Eddie''s shocking reappearance and Ken''s revelation that he''s been having an adulterous relationship for four years with his childhood sweetheart Robin Gendron, his best friend''s wife. Nora must contend with not only marital woes but the blackmailing serial killer Eddie, who refuses to leave town because of his new obsessionâ€”Robin. Morris (_The Lost Mother_) knocks over a domino chain of events that, while not too surprising, confirm the importance of comprehending past mistakes to avoid future ones.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n One assumes that a woman who marries into a family of privilege has the world on a string. Nora Hammond felt that way about her own life. Married with two teenage children, a prominent job at her husbandâ€™s family newspaper, socializing with the wealthy and powerful, Nora was living her picture-perfect lifeâ€”untilÂ her husband, Ken, reveals he has been having a â€œrelationshipâ€ with one of Noraâ€™s best friends for years. What follows is a wrenching portrait of a family falling apart under the weight and ramifications of the affair and their futile struggle to stay together. As if this wasnâ€™t emotionally compelling enough, Morris, unfortunately, addsÂ a subplotâ€”a man from Noraâ€™s past comes back to haunt her. It is unnecessary, distracting, and at times ruins the psychological arc Morris works to build. In the end, Morris ties the stories together, but it feels forced and unsatisfying. Those who follow this highly regarded authorÂ will want to read The Last Secret; those new to Morris shouldÂ start with an earlier title. --Carolyn Kubisz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8480'),
(5725, 'The Last Song', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Go Behind the Scenes of the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   The Last Song\n  </em>\n  (Touchstone Pictures, 2010)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Starring Myley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth\n <br />\n (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks''s new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.\n</p>\n<p>\n The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8158'),
(5726, 'The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World&#39;s Most Endangered Languages', 'K. David Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   The Last Speakers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the photos below to open larger images.\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by K. David Harrison\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Kelly J. Richardson\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Chris Rainier\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Chris Rainier\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Gregory Anderson\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Chris Rainier\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Chris Rainier\n</p>\n<p>\n Photo by Kelly J. Richardson\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Parallel to the extinction of biological species in our world, human languages are disappearing one by one. These tongues originated over millennia inside geographically isolated communities for whom modern methods of transportation and communication have proven mixed blessings. Harrison details the work of linguists who are speeding to preserve these tongues for posterity. He travels to Siberia to meet Aunt Marta, one of the last speakers of Tofa, a Turkic tongue. Although a scientist and a rigorous analyst of language grammars and structures, Harrison is particularly intrigued by the personalities of these mostly elderly yet fully engaged people who bravely face the end of what has been a nurturing society. Harrison compellingly details reasons why the rest of the world ought to care about these vanishing languages and what can be done to ensure that they live on despite the irresistible ascendancy of todayâ€™s rapidly evolving world culture. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6163'),
(5727, 'The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy&#39;s Finest Hour', 'James D. Hornfischer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war''s American Navy destroyers. Hornfischer, a writer and literary agent in Austin, Tex., covers the battle off Samar, the Philippines, in October 1944, in which a force of American escort carriers and destroyers fought off a Japanese force many times its strength, and the larger battle of Leyte Gulf, the opening of the American liberation of the Philippines, which might have suffered a major setback if the Japanese had attacked the transports. He presents the men who crewed the destroyer Taffy 3, most of whom had never seen salt water before the war but who fought, flew, kept the crippled ship afloat, and doomed ships fighting almost literally to the last shell. Finally, Hornfischer provides a perspective on the Japanese approach to the battle, somewhat (and justifiably) modifying the traditional view of the Japanese Admiral Kurita as a fumbler or even a coward-while exalting American sailors and pilots as they richly deserve. (American admirals don''t get off so easily.) Not entirely free of glitches in research, the book still reads like a very good action novel, indicated by its selection as a dual split main selection of the BOMC and History Book Club alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This piece of World War II naval history reads like a particularly good novel. It is an account of the October 1944 battle off Samar, in which a force of American destroyers and escort carriers drove off a Japanese fleet at least 10 times its strength. The struggle was a part of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was the beginning of the campaign to liberate the Philippines. Hornfischer focuses on the men of the escort carrier unit Taffy 3 (the radio call signal for Task Unit 77.4.3 --easy to see why it is the preferred designation), who fought, flew, and fired to nearly the last shell in a battle that at least one commander commenced by saying, "Survival cannot be expected." Readable from beginning to end, this popular history magnificently brings to life men and times that may seem almost as remote as Trafalgar to many in the early twenty-first century. Of especial interest are its account of the process that turned civilians into sailors, and its carrying forward of those sailors'' stories to the handful of aging survivors still gathering in commemoration today. One of the finest World War II volumes to appear in years.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6230'),
(5728, 'The Last Stand', 'Brad Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   THE LAST STAND\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the middle of a routine mapping mission, Captain Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise â„¢\n  </em>\n  encounter a culture just on the edge of developing warp drive technology. When they survey the planet, they are startled by the sudden approach of thousands of spacecraft from an aggressive alien race bent on destroying this emerging culture. Now Picard has only days to resolve a conflict that has been going on for millennia. If he fails, billions will die, yet if he succeeds, he will unleash a powerful new threat to the Federation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the middle of a routine mapping mission, Captain Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM encounter a culture just on the edge of developing warp drive technology. When they survey the planet, they are startled by the sudden approach of thousands of spacecraft from an aggressive alien race bent on destroying this emerging culture. Picard has only days to resolve a conflict that has been going on for millennia. If he fails, billions will die, yet if he succeeds, he will unleash a powerful new threat to the Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6004'),
(5729, 'The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The whites want war and we will give it to them.'' Sitting Bull * This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, Custer''s Last Stand continues to captivate the imagination. * Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn through to the final eruption of violence. Two legendary figures dominate the events: George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. No longer the fresh-faced ''Boy-General'' of the Civil War, Custer was now mired in financial, professional and political problems. A clear and just cause had been replaced by ambiguity and frustration u by ill-fated efforts at peace treaties, treachery and compromises on both sides. * Forced to take to the plains to feed themselves, and increasingly outraged by the government''s policies towards them, the Sioux and Cheyenne became infused with a new sense of collective identity and purpose. Between six and eight thousand people came together in the largest ever gathering of Native Americans. If the government should be foolish enough to pursue them, they would stand and fight. Sitting Bull was in his mid-forties, His charisma and political savvy had enabled him to emerge as their leader. A vision he received during a Sun Dance u of soldiers falling from the sky u was widely understood to presage a great victory. * Nathaniel Philbrick brings vividly to life all those involved u from the Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and Major Marcus Reno who led the first attack, to Libby Custer waiting with the other army wives at Fort Lincoln. He evokes too the history, geography and haunting beauty of the Great Plains and provides the finest account to date of what happened there u and why u at the end of June 1876.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2292');
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(5730, 'The Last Templar', 'Raymond Khoury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In present-day Manhattanï¼Œ four masked horsemen dressed as Templar  Knights stage a bloody raid on the Metropolitan Museum of Art during an exhibit of Vatican treasures. Emerging with a strange geared deviceï¼Œ they disappear into the night. What follows is an investigation that will draw an archaeologist and FBI agent into the darkï¼Œ hidden history of the crusading Knights-and into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers-as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5467'),
(5731, 'The Last Testament', 'Sam Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n April 2003: As his nation descends into chaos, an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities--unaware that his actions could ignite the war to end all wars.  Years later, on the eve of a historic Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, bodyguards for Israel''s prime minister gun down a possible assassin--and discover a blood-stained note clutched in the dead man''s hand.  With Middle Eastern tensions rapidly reaching the boiling point--in the wake of a frightening wave of seemingly random revenge killings--Maggie Costello is sent by Washington to try to keep the peace. A government negotiator with old sins to atone for, she immediately comes face-to-face with ancient secrets, extremist violence, and sudden, inexplicable death. For Maggie seems to hold the key to the last unsolved riddle of the Bible--a shocking revelation that could end the world''s most bitter conflict . . . or leave the earth in ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5094'),
(5732, 'The Last Thane', 'Douglas Niles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11096'),
(5733, 'The Last Time They Met: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Last Time They Met\n </em>\n opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer''s conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren''t old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime''s worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what that history contains: there was adultery, we gather, and a car accident, plus some illicit encounters under a pitiless Kenyan sun. Presumably the rest of the book will lead back to the beginnings of this grand passion, right? We think we know where this is going--but that''s the tricky part, because we don''t.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novel does get off to a slow start, with an unnecessarily drawn-out description of a luxury hotel. But it picks up speed as it moves backward in time, from the lovers'' vividly evoked interlude in Africa, to their adolescent years in the Massachusetts village of Hull, and finally to Linda''s deepest, darkest secret. Only then does the author unveil her final revelation, which should leave most readers somewhat out of breath, and possibly even obliged to turn back to the first page and read the book over again. Shreve is a canny storyteller, and she knows her characters inside and out. (As well she might: Thomas is the husband of Jean, the photographer in __.) And\n <em>\n  The Last Time They Met\n </em>\n is yet another example of the kind of book she does best--one that''s as skillfully plotted as a thriller, but with writing that lingers long after the last plot twist is unfurled. No matter whether people actually\n <em>\n  have\n </em>\n affairs like these. Reading this book only makes you wish that they did.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest work by this versatile novelist (The Pilot''s Wife; Fortune''s Rocks) may be her most mature to date, as she demonstrates new subtleties in the unfolding of a complex plot. Proceeding in reverse chronological order, Shreve recounts the obsessive love between poets Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes; theirs is a highly charged affair, though they connect only three times in 35 years. The novel''s three sections ("Fifty-Two," "Twenty-Six" and "Seventeen") refer to Linda''s ages when she meets and later encounters Thomas first (last in the book''s structure) as a troubled teen near Boston with "only indistinct memories of her mother and no real ones of her father"; then in Kenya, where Linda has joined the Peace Corps and Thomas''s wife, Regina, is working with UNICEF; and finally at a literary festival in Toronto where both characters, unbeknownst to each other, are guest speakers. Though each of the novel''s segments is intensely powerful, the cumulative effect is especially wrenching, as the reader knows what Linda and Thomas have yet to experience. Their Africa encounter is especially gripping, since both characters are torn between their mutual passion and their love for their spouses. (Linda has also married, and Regina''s announcement of her pregnancy adds further tension.) Shreve''s compassionate view of human frailties a recurring theme in much of her work is at its most affecting here, as she meticulously interweaves past and present with total credibility. Her fluid narrative perfectly mirrors her protagonists'' evolving temperaments and viewpoints, while her overall restraint serves to intensify the novel''s devastating conclusion. (Apr.) Water, starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley, is due in theaters later this year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7694'),
(5734, 'The Last Town on Earth: A Novel', 'Thomas Mullen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don''t even know where to begin the praise.\n  <em>\n   The Last Town on Earth\n  </em>\n  centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary, events are set in motion that change the town forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although this is Mullen''s first published work, there are none of the usual verbal pyrotechnics or high-wire "look how well I can write" balancing acts one sees with beginning authors. How refreshing to read a younger author who has already progressed beyond his ego and knows that it''s all about story, story, story. Mullen tells his tale cleanly, simply and plainly--making the ironies and allegories all the more potent. I knew almost nothing of the flu epidemic of 1918 and even less about the political climate in the US during WW1. These are not subjects I would go out of my way to read about, but Mullen has made them compelling and interesting. In fact, the author''s voice has the same level of confidence and maturity that one only finds in writers with decades more experience (I kept thinking of Wallace Stegner and Alice Munro while I was reading)--authors who earn your trust and confidence so early and easily that you completely relax into the writing and the voice. It''s already on my Ten Best List; I can''t imagine I''ll read ten better books this year. It''s easily the most impressive and heartfelt book I''ve read in a long while.\n  <em>\n   --Terry Goodman\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at the only road into town. A weary soldier approaches the gate on foot and refuses to stop. Shots ring out, setting into motion a sequence of events that will bring the town face-to-face with some of the 20th-century''s worst horrors. Mullen''s ambitious debut is set against a plausibly sketched background, including events such the Everett Massacre (between vigilantes and the IWW), the political repression that accompanied the U.S. entry into WWI and the rise of the Wobblies. But what Mullen supplies in terms of historical context, he lacks in storytelling; though the novel is set in 1918, it was written in a post 9/11 world where fear of bird flu regularly makes headlines, and the allegory is heavy-handed (the protagonist townie, after all, is named Philip Worthy). The grim fascination of the narrative, however, will keep readers turning the pages.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7661'),
(5735, 'The Last Unicorn', 'Peter S. Beagle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9120'),
(5736, 'The Last Vampire', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She lives.  Miriam Blaylock''s insatiable hunger has never ceased. Her incomparable beauty has made her a legend among the Keepers. Her many lovers have come and gone, crumbling into ash and nothingness. She knows the secrets of civilization, and the mysteries of life. In the hollow soul of her mother she has witnessed the agony of undeath.  For centuries she has gained the wisdom of God and the wit of the Devil. For centuries she has traveled the world undetected. For centuries she has felt safe. Until now.  For Miriam Blaylock, immortality is a thing of the past.  He watches.  Vampires. Interpol agent Paul Ward knows of them: he has battled and cleansed continents of their exquisite poison. He orchestrated the extermination of an ancient lair in Bangkok, obtained their sacred Book of Names, and knows where they hide and when they feast. He knows their weaknesses. And what''s more, he knows his own...it''s Miriam Blaylock. Elusive and toxic, she has escaped his complex network of hunters for years. Seductive and cunning, she has become his obsession.  And now each has set a trap for the other.  Now, predator is about to become prey. Killer to become lover. Good and evil will become inexorably entwined. The endgame begins for the last vampire.  The eternal heroine of Whitley Strieber''s classic novel "The Hunger, " Miriam Blaylock returns in "The Last Vampire" -- a new tale of stunning invention and mounting suspense that goes as deep into the dark as a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5948'),
(5737, 'The Last Will of Moira Leahy', 'Therese Walsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "An original, intriguing tale about the ways that love can break us or bind us."â€“Therese Fowler, author of *Souvenir *and Reunion**This haunting debut novel explores the intense bond of sisterhood as a grieving twin searches for her own identity in the ruins of her sister''s past. ****A LOST SHADOW**Moira Leahy struggled growing up in her prodigious twin''s shadow; Maeve was always more talented, more daring, more fun. In the autumn of the girls'' sixteenth year, a secret love tempted Moira, allowing her to have her own taste of adventure, but it also damaged the intimate, intuitive relationship she''d always shared with her sister. Though Moira''s adolescent struggles came to a tragic end nearly a decade ago, her brief flirtation with independence will haunt her sister for years to come.**A LONE WOMAN**When Maeve Leahy lost her twin, she left home and buried her fun-loving spirit to become a workaholic professor of languages at a small college in upstate New York. She lives a solitary life now, controlling what she can and ignoring the restâ€“the recurring nightmares, hallucinations about a child with red hair, the unquiet sounds in her mind, her reflection in the mirror. It doesn''t help that her mother avoids her, her best friend questions her sanity, and her not-quite boyfriend has left the country. But at least her life is ordered. Exactly how she wants it.**A SHARED PAST**Until one night at an auction when Maeve wins a *keris,*a Javanese dagger that reminds her of her lost youth and happier days playing pirates with Moira in their father''s boat. Days later, a book on weaponry is nailed to her office door, followed by the arrival of anonymous notes, including one that invites her to Rome to learn more about the blade and its legendary properties. Opening her heart and mind to possibility, Maeve accepts the invitation and, with it, also opens a window into her past.Ultimately, she will revisit the tragic November night that shaped her and Moira''s destiniesâ€“and learn that nothing can be taken at face valueâ€“as one sister emerges whole and the other''s score is finally settled. *The Last Will of Moira Leahy*is a mesmerizing and romantic consideration of the bonds of family, the impossibility of forgetting, and the value of forgiveness. ***From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3674'),
(5738, 'Last Words', 'George Carlin;Tony Hendra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As one of America''s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acer-bic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life.In 1993 George Carlin asked his friend and bestselling author Tony Hendra to help him write his autobiography. For almost fifteen years, in scores of conversations, many of them recorded, the two discussed Carlin''s life, times, and evolution as a major artist. When Carlin died at age seventy-one in June 2008 with the book still unpublished, Hendra set out to assemble it as his friend would have wanted. Last Words is the result, the rollicking, wrenching story of Carlin''s life from birth -- literally -- to his final years, as well as a parting gift of laughter to the world of comedy he helped create.George Carlin''s journey to stardom began in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of New York''s Upper West Side in the 1940s, where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his best known material, including the notorious "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television." His early conflicts, his long struggle with substance abuse, his turbulent relationships with his family, and his triumphs over catastrophic setbacks all fueled the unique comedic worldview he brought to the stage. From the heights of stardom to the low points few knew about, Last Words is told with the same razor-sharp honesty that made Carlin one of the best loved comedians in American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1370'),
(5739, 'The Late, Lamented Molly Marx', 'Sally Koslow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The circumstances of Molly Marxâ€™s death may be suspicious, but she hasnâ€™t lost her joie de vivre. Newly arrived in the hereafter, aka the Duration, Molly, thirty-five years old, is delighted to discover that she can still keep tabs on those she left behind: Annabel, her beloved four-year-old daughter; Lucy, her combustible twin sister; Kitty, her piece-of-work mother-in-law; Brie, her beautiful and steadfast best friend; and, of course, her husband, Barry, a plastic surgeon with more than a professional interest in many of his female patients. As a bonus, Molly quickly realizes that the afterlife comes with a finely tuned bullshit detector.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Molly looks on, her loved ones try to discern whether her death was an accident, suicide, or murder. She was last seen alive leaving for a bike ride through New York Cityâ€™s Riverside Park; her body was found lying on the bank of the Hudson River. Did a stranger lure Molly to danger? Did she plan to meet someone she thought she could trust? Could she have ended her own life for mysterious reasons, or did she simply lose control of her bike? As the police question her circle of intimates, Molly relives the years and days that led up to her sudden end: her marriage, troubled yet tender; her charmed work life as a magazine decorating editor; and the irresistible colleague to whom she was drawn.\n</p>\n<p>\n More than anything, Molly finds herself watching over Annabel--and realizing how motherhood helped to bring out her very best self. As the investigation into her death proceeds, Molly will relive her most precious moments--and take responsibility for the choices in her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Exploring the bonds of fidelity, family, and friendship, and narrated by a memorable and endearing character,\n <em>\n  The Late, Lamented Molly Marx\n </em>\n is a hilarious, deeply moving, and thought-provoking novel that is part mystery, part love story, and all heart.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Sally Koslow on the Secret to Unlocking Creativity\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Run, Writer, Run\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Four years ago, I decided to write a novel. I confess to equal parts insanity and hubris, since at this time Iâ€™d never completed anything longer than a magazine article--and weâ€™re talking a sprightly 3500 words, not a treatise in\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n After I began my project, a curious thing started happening. About fifteen minutes into my regular morning runs, ideas for the book began sprouting like weeds. This source of creativity became so dependable that I hit the track with paper and pen and became Gretel in Nikes, gathering metaphors, charactersâ€™ names, dialogue snippets and whole branches of plot, which Iâ€™d hurry back home and--dripping with sweat--build into my work-in-progress.\n</p>\n<p>\n Within eighteen months, I finished and sold my novel,\n <em>\n  The Late, Lamented Molly Marx\n </em>\n , will be published and a third is well underway. I doubt I could have written so much so fast without these runs, when my brain served up ideas, almost by osmosis, and all I had to do was take dictation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Proud of my running discovery, I mentioned it to a shrink-friend. (If you live in Manhattan, like I do, youâ€™re required to have at least one friend whoâ€™s your own private Gabriel Byrne/Paul Weston.) What he told me was that creative types will often report doing their best work early in the morning, when theyâ€™re closest to their unconscious source of creativity. Beethoven, for example, though no jock, had the ritual of a morning stroll during which heâ€™d scribble musical notes into a sketchbook. Having transported himself during the walk and limbered up his mind, heâ€™d return home and get down to business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Doing the right kind of exercise as soon as you wake up, my psychiatrist-friend explained, replicates and extends our dream state, freeing us to snag ideas, feelings and sensations generated by our unconscious. What he means by the â€œrightâ€ kind is repetitive--a.k.a. boring--activities where the outside world fades away, not golf or tennis or even a dance class, where you need to strategize or follow instructions. This was excellent news for a klutz like me, with so little eye-hand coordination sheâ€™s lucky she can type. Itâ€™s also important to minimize distractions, to leave the iPod at home and exercise solo.\n</p>\n<p>\n We can all tick off the standard benefits of exercise: protecting us from heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, obesity, osteoporosis and stroke, along with the upbeat effect it has on both our mood and our butt. But who guessed itâ€™s also a shortcut to creativity? Hans and Franz had it right, exercise pumps us up, making our minds more nimble, allowing our subconscious to cross-fertilize. One good idea drives another in a daisy chain, which is much of originality, connecting the dots between concepts no one else has put together.\n</p>\n<p>\n You canâ€™t wait for the creativity gods to send you an IM. I say, writers, lace up your sneakers. Maybe youâ€™re just one long run away from finishing a novel thatâ€™s going to hit the top of the chart._--Sally Koslow_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© James Maher)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Molly Divine Marx is dead. No one is quite sure howâ€”murder, suicide, tragic accident?â€”and even Molly''s own recollection doesn''t explain much. Narrating this charming novel from an afterlife limbo known as the Duration, Molly follows the investigation of her death while keeping tabs on the living she left behind. Nearly everyone is a suspect: Barry, Molly''s philandering plastic surgeon husband; Kitty, her controlling mother-in-law; Luke, Molly''s lover; and the cabal of wifely hopefuls who line up for a shot at Barry before Molly''s casket is safely in the ground. Longtime magazine editor Koslow (_Little Pink Slips_) knows her way around expertly tuned phrasing, and Molly is a delightful gem of a heroine. Equal parts self-deprecating, wry and sassy, Molly is honest about her faults and easily forgiving of the others'' as she reviews her life with a hearty dose of honesty and humor. Though the anticipated delicious revelation doesn''t quite live up to expectations, the narrative''s heavy dose of hilarity and heartbreak will win readers over.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4407'),
(5740, 'Lateral Thinking', 'Edward De Bono', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls ''vertical thinking''. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination.Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. After reading this book you will become a much more productive and formidable thinker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1377'),
(5741, 'The Lathe of Heaven', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of playing God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10730'),
(5742, 'Latte Trouble', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(5743, 'The Laughing Corpse', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried-and some people better off dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2791'),
(5744, 'Laughter in the Dark', 'Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov &amp; John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be writtenâ€”that is, ecstatically. (_John Updike_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The classic novel from the author of\n   <em>\n    Lolita\n   </em>\n   , brilliantly portraying one man''s ruin through love and betrayal.\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   "Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster."\n  </em>\n  Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov''s\n  <em>\n   Laughter in the Dark\n  </em>\n  ; this, the author tells us, is the whole storyâ€”except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published first in Russian as\n  <em>\n   Kamera Obskura\n  </em>\n  in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov''s own English translation six years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize-winner John Banville.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6724'),
(5745, 'The Laurel&#39;s Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking', 'Laurel Robertson &amp; Carol Flinders &amp; Bronwen Godfrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOriginal, thorough and comprehensive...Should help to demystify the process of baking with whole grains.â€\n <br />\n â€”The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHere at last is a readable source of information heretofore available only to professional bakers.â€\n <br />\n â€”East West Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSets a new standard with clear, easily followed recipes that not only tell you â€˜how,â€™ but â€˜why.â€™â€\n <br />\n â€”Newsday\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWe get lots of requests for 100 percent whole-grain bread machine recipes. Thanks to Laurel, we can fulfill these requests. What a wonderful, well-researched book! There are many delicious and varied recipes, and best of all some really innovative ideas on how to make whole-grain bread machine baking easy and successful. This will definitely be added to our baking library.â€\n <br />\n â€”Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway, authors of Bread Machine Magic\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Laurelâ€™s Kitchen Bread Book\n </strong>\n is the classic bestselling cookbook devoted to baking light, healthful, delicious bread entirely from whole grains. This specially updated edition includes an entirely new chapter on making excellent whole-grain loaves in a bread machine. Now even the busiest among us can bake the delectable loaves for which Laurelâ€™s Kitchen is famous.\n</p>\n<p>\n New research proves what weâ€™ve known all along: Eating whole grains really is better for your health! Here, the switch from â€œwhiteâ€ is made fun and easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like a good friend, the â€œLoaf for Learningâ€ tutorial guides you step-by-step through the baking process. Youâ€™ll make perfect loaves every time, right from the start.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here youâ€™ll find recipes for everythingâ€”from chewy Flemish Desem Bread and mouthwatering Hot Cross Buns to tender Buttermilk Rolls, foolproof Pita Pockets, tangy Cheese Muffins, and luscious Banana Breadâ€”all with clear explanations and helpful woodcut illustrations.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brand-new chapter on bread machines teaches you to make light â€œelectricâ€ loaves from whole-grain flour. No matter what your schedule, you can come home to the wonderful smell of baking bread, fresh, hot, and ready to enjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7672'),
(5746, 'Laurie Sheck', 'A Monster&#39;s Notes (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9352'),
(5747, 'The Law of Nines', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Goodkind (_Confessor_) ventures into thriller territory with results sure to please fans of his fantasy fiction. In the opening pages, Alex Rahl, the book''s unwitting hero, saves the beautiful Jax from being run down on the street in Orden, Neb., by a plumbing truck flying a pirate flag. Jax, who turns out to be from an alternate reality where evildoers are attempting to seize control of her civilization, has traveled to Nebraska to seek Alex''s help in saving her people. In Jax''s world, magic takes the place of technology, but on earth she''s stripped of her powers and forced to fight armed with only her trusty dagger. The author takes his time setting all this up, but once the story gets rolling, it''s a gripping ride as the bad guys whoosh in between their world, which remains unseen, and ours. Fantasy and thriller readers alike will find themselves swept along to the final confrontation and looking forward to the next installment.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFast paced, riveting and scary. It will leave the reader breathless.â€\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Nelson DeMille\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping rideâ€\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Astonishingâ€\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5500'),
(5748, 'Lawless', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Half-Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Still, the stubborn beauty was determined to make Lone Bluff her home . . . Though Jake was annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to this tantalizing innocent, he was even more disgusted to find he liked it. Because beneath Sarah''s ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a women he yearned to make his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2574'),
(5749, 'Lawrence Block', 'One Night Stands; Lost weekends (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Kellerâ€”and years before his first Edgar Awardâ€”a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can''t Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Masterâ€”an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2851'),
(5750, 'Laying a Ghost', 'Alexa Snow; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(5751, 'Layover in Dubai', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The newest thriller from the author of *The Amateur Spy* and* The Prisoner of GuantÃ¡namo* (â€œWorthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le CarrÃ© and Ken Follettâ€â€”*USA Today)* is as dazzling as its setting.Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while theyâ€™re traveling for the company. Ordinarily careful to a fault, Sam decides to live it up. What better spot for business-class hedonism than boomtown Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slope of a shopping mall.But when Samâ€™s charge is murdered during a night on the town, it is only the first in a series of bewildering events that plunge him waist-deep into a lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, crooked cops, consuls, and corporate players. Offering a chancy way out is Anwar Sharaf, the unlikeliest of detectives. A former pearl diver and gold smuggler with an undignified demeanor, Sharaf is sometimes as baffled as Sam by the changes to his homeland, especially as they are embodied in the behavior of his rebelliously independentâ€”and hauntingly beautifulâ€”daughter. But he knows where the levers of power reside. As the unlikely duo work their way toward the heart of the case, each man must confront the darkest forces threatening Dubai from within.Here is Dan Fespermanâ€™s most suspenseful novel yet: a stunning portrait of a city whose mysterious rhythm (â€œlike the precision throb of an artificial heart, clicking and insistent, yet cool to the touchâ€) is underscored by the insistent clashing of old and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(5752, 'Lazarus Rising', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hugely popular Starfist saga featuring Marines at war in outer space is the only military science fiction series written by real combat vets: David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now comes the explosive hardcover debut of this seriesâ€“packed with hell-torn action and blazing adventure.In their fiercest combat yet, the hard-charging Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have finally won their battle against a full-scale alien invasion of planet Kingdom. But victory over these savage enemies comes at a terrible price, especially for the Marines of Company Lâ€™s decimated third platoon. The leader these men would follow into hell itselfâ€“Gunnery Sergeant Charlie Bassâ€“was consumed in a fiery ambush that obliterated everything but his dog tags and a few scraps of DNA.On planet Kingdom, citizens try to return to some semblance of normalcy as the military conducts patrols to search out and destroy any remaining alien Skinks. The old government of squabbling religious leaders has been replaced by a ruthless new regime. All power rests with Dominic de Tomas, a depraved despot who will stoop to any means to achieve his vile ends. His reign of terror bodes ill for the fragile planet still reeling from the chaos of war.In a cave in some forgotten Kingdom backwater, several humans slowly regain consciousness. Their minds have been probed repeatedly . . . by whom and for what reason they cannot say, for theyâ€™ve been stripped of all memories of themselves and their past lives. In time wounds will heal, but who knows if they will ever fully recover.For now, finding food and water takes precedence. And so these half-dead outcasts begin a journey into the unknownâ€“in search of civilization, in search of themselves. And one survivorâ€™s journey will take him to places of overwhelming danger, where his identity will be revealed to the shock of all.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/925'),
(5753, 'The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Robert Ludlum; Patrick Larkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed and the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknownst to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and forever change the nature of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3998'),
(5754, 'Lean Mean Thirteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thirteenth in Janet Evanovich''s bestselling series, featuring her lovable and hapless heroine, Stephanie Plum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2169'),
(5755, 'Leap of Faith', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust--and of one woman''s triumph over a devastating betrayal.Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French chÃ¢teau. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved ChÃ¢teau de Marmouton.In Marie-Ange''s isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education--and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to ChÃ¢teau de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the chÃ¢teau''s new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn''t want to believe it.Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones and herself.Danielle Steel''s powerful novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies--until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/898'),
(5756, 'The Leaping', 'Tom Fletcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack finished university three years ago, but he''s still stuck in a dead-end job in a sinister call-centre in Manchester. When the beautiful (and rich) Jennifer comes into his life he thinks he has finally found his ticket out of there. Trouble is that his boss is interested in Jennifer as well, and there''s something strangely bestial about him...So when Jennifer buys Fell House, a mysterious old mansion out in remote Cumbria, a house party on a legendary scale seems like the perfect escape. But as the party spins out of control on a seemingly neverending night, they must face up to the terrifying possibility that not all their guests may be human - and some of them want to feed. An astonishing and innovative blend of horror, folktale and disturbing realism, The Leaping is the first instalment in what is shaping up to be a genre-defining series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Fletcher is a young author (he is 24) who has already made a name for himself thanks to spine-chilling readings of his work at Manchester''s monthly live lit event, ''There''s No Point in Not Being Friends''. He has published a number of his short stories in a three-author anthology, Before the Rain. The Leaping is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4398'),
(5757, 'Learning Python', 'Mark Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Google and YouTube use Python because it''s highly adaptable, easy to maintain, and allows for rapid development. If you want to write high-quality, efficient code that''s easily integrated with other languages and tools, this hands-on book will help you be productive with Python 3.0 quickly. Each chapter includes a unique\n <b>\n  Test Your Knowledge\n </b>\n section with practical exercises and quizzes, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as you go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7551'),
(5758, 'Learning the Bash Shell, 3rd Edition', 'Cameron Newham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This refreshed edition serves as the most valuable guide yet to the bash shell. It''s full of practical examples of shell commands and programs guaranteed to make everyday use of Linux that much easier. Includes information on key bindings, command line editing and processing, integrated programming features, signal handling, and much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5461'),
(5759, 'Learning to Lose', 'David Trueba &amp; Mara Faye Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦Trueba scores with his story about the need people have to connect to others, whether through sports, love or money.â€â€”_Cleveland Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne part Paul Thomas Anderson''s\n <em>\n  Magnolia\n </em>\n , one part Paul Haggis''\n <em>\n  Crash\n </em>\n , the rest is all David Trueba,Â modern day Madrid, and a narrative that pulsates with longing, lust and simmering rage. Don''t dare pick it up if you have plans for the weekend, or for the rest of the day for that matter. It''s that good. I was casting the adaptation in my mind as I tore through it. Vivid, real and raw, the novel is at once unsparing and entirely humane. Simply masterful.â€â€”Joe McGinniss, Jr., author of\n <em>\n  The Delivery Man\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Learning to Lose_ is complex, powerful, surprising and most of all smart.Â David Trueba is the real thing.Â I had a lot of work on my desk and it is still on my desk.Â I have however read Mr. Trueba''s novel.Â Enough said.â€â€”Percival Everett, author of\n <em>\n  I Am Not Sidney Poitier\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is Sylviaâ€™s sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to beginâ€”not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylviaâ€™s father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute.\n <br />\n Set against the maze of Madridâ€™s congested and contested streets,\n <em>\n  Learning to Lose\n </em>\n follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.\n <br />\n From one of Spainâ€™s most celebrated contemporary writers,\n <em>\n  Learning to Lose\n </em>\n is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6361');
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(5760, 'Learning to Swim: A Novel', 'Sara J. Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Troy Chance spots what she thinks is a small boy being tossed off the back of a passing ferry, she instinctively jumps into the icy waters of Lake Champlain. She rescues the youngster and discovers that his arms were bound with an adult sweatshirt. Heâ€™s incredibly frightened, speaks only French, and wonâ€™t tell her what happened. Troy determines that she will keep him safe rather than turn him over to the police. When he finally begins to confide in her, he tells a bizarre tale of being kidnapped, hearing his mother murdered by gunshot, and then being held for months. As Troy tracks down the boyâ€™s father, she begins to question whether she will be able to let him go, since he has unleashed within her a maternal instinct she had no idea she possessed. In her debut, the first in a projected series, Henry proves herself to be a smooth and compelling storyteller. And her lead is highly appealing: an athletic, fiercely independent young woman who, like crime-fiction author Gillian Flynnâ€™s feisty females, is capable of making delightfully acerbic observations. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "From the grabber beginning to the heartfelt conclusion, Sara J. Henry''sÂ _Learning to Swim_Â is an auspicious debut ... Fresh setting, well-realized characters, cleanly written, with a mysterious and suspenseful story - just what I was looking for."Â  - Daniel Woodrell, award-winning author ofÂ _The Death of Sweet Mister_Â andÂ _Winter''s Bone_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Emotional, intense, and engrossing, LEARNING TO SWIM is a terrific debut. The talented Sara J. Henry introduces a thoroughly modern heroine with an independent spirit and a tender heart. Readers will be cheering for Troy Chance as she deftly navigates the treacherous waters of betrayal and loss, and they''ll be looking forward to seeing her again when the book is closed."\n <br />\n -Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Fragile\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Learning to Swim_ is a gut-wrenching, heart-thumping twist of the knife. A compelling tale of mysteryâ€™s holy trinity: love, loss, and betrayal. Take the plunge.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Shamus Award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Innocent Monster\n </em>\n and co-author of\n <em>\n  Tower\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrom the opening page,\n <em>\n  Learning to Swim\n </em>\n is a terrific debut. This moving and insightful psychological thriller features the inspiring Troy Chance\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n anÂ everywoman hero who women will admire and men will want to meet. I canâ€™t wait for her next adventure.â€\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Michael Robotham, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Shatter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bleed for Me\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œFrom its shocking opening to its stunning conclusion,\n <em>\n  Learning to Swim\n </em>\n is a frightening ride. Sara J. Henry will quite literally take your breath away.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n J.T. Ellison, author of\n <em>\n  The Immortals\n </em>\n and _The Cold Room\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n â€œ_Learning to Swim_ is a thriller of the most thrilling kind_â€”_a smart and crafty story with whiffs of\n <em>\n  Rebecca\n </em>\n that insists from the first sentence that you sit down and not stand up again until you''ve read the last word. Tell your loved ones to take care of themselves.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Quinn Cummings, author of\n <em>\n  Notes from the Underwire\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œWith a strong believable cast of characters and a breathtaking plot, it''s a non-stop thrilling ride thatâ€™s impossible to put down.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Cat Connor, author of\n <em>\n  Killerbyte\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Terrorbyte\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œIf\n <em>\n  The Usual Suspects\n </em>\n and a Jodi Picoult novel had a love child, it would be\n <em>\n  Learning to Swimâ€”\n </em>\n a thought-provoking, evocative, and thrilling read.â€\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Steph Bowe, author of\n <em>\n  Girl Saves Boy\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA mesmerizing confluence of mystery, intrigue, and suspense, with undercurrents of deep personal dramaâ€¦_Learning to Swim_ will hook you from the first page."\n <br />\n _â€”Jamie Ford, bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Impressive...Henry adroitly handles Troy''s exposure to new emotions as she re-examines her life and relationships." - _Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n _"In her debut, the first in a projected series, Henry proves herself to be a smooth and compelling storyteller. And her lead is highly appealing:\n <br />\n An athletic, fiercely independent young woman who, like crime-fiction author Gillian Flynnâ€™s feisty females, is capable of making delightfully acerbic observations." - _Booklist\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A compelling plot, a pervading sense of foreboding, well-constructed characters" - _Kirkus Review\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5295'),
(5761, 'Leaves of Grass', 'Walt Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The poet in Whitman developed late and slowly while his early writings came only from the surface of his mind. But when he was scarcely in his teens he was publishing bits in Brooklyn papers and presently in George P. Morris''s New York Mirror. At twelve he became an apprentice printer, the first occupation of a dozen writers who were more or less of Whitman''s time. Whitman retained the interest in printing that he had acquired as a little boy standing on type-cases to reach the boxes. In old age he always knew "the easiest way out of printers'' puzzles," as his disciple Horace Traubel said, and he watched his proofs with anxious eye, ready to add or omit a line in cases where a page struck him as too loose or crowded. He did not love his line "enough to let them spoil the page" he said, and once sacrificed nine for a blank space. He would send silver dollars with thanks to the proof takers for giving him clean dark proofs on paper that he liked. But while, in his boyhood, Whitman was a printer who was also beginning to write, his real occupation was absorbing impressions, historical impressions, among the rest, that attached him deeply from the first to the past and evolution of the country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3229'),
(5762, 'Leaving Home', 'Keillor Garrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2411'),
(5763, 'The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes With Down-Home Flavor', 'Matt Lee &amp; Ted Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  From two South Carolina-bred brothers comes the ground-breaking cookbook for new Southern cooking: The Lee Bros. Simple, Fresh, Southern. Matt and Ted Lee were raised on long-simmered greens, slow-smoked meats, and deep-fried everything. But after years of traveling as journalists and with farm fresh foods more available than ever, Matt and Ted have combined the old with the new, infusing family recipes with bright flavors. Using crisp produce, lighter cooking methods, and surprising combinations, these are recipes to make any night of the week.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  From\n  <em>\n   The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern\n  </em>\n  : Ginger Lemonade\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If we were musicians, weâ€™d write a torch song about ginger and lemon, a match made in heaven. And though weâ€™ve been drinking fresh lemonade as long as we can remember (Coca-Cola was taboo at 83 East Bay Street), we never thought to make a cold fresh-ginger lemonade until recently. Now weâ€™re making up for lost time. This drink is easy to make, super-refreshing, and happens to be a kick-ass mixer with bourbon and tequila, so those of you who are of age should mix up the Lemon Gingerita variation that follows._--Matt Lee and Ted Lee_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ingredients\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   2 ounces fresh ginger, peeled, cut into thin disks (1/3 cup)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   1/4 cup honey, or more to taste\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   1/8 teaspoon kosher salt\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   3/4 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 4 large lemons)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  (Serves 8)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Directions\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Put the ginger in a medium heatproof bowl. Bring 2 cups cold water to a boil, then pour it into the bowl and stir to agitate the ginger. Slowly pour in the honey, stirring until itâ€™s dissolved in the concentrate. Add the salt, cover, and let steep for 10 minutes.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Strain the concentrate into a large pitcher (it will keep for 5 days, covered, in the refrigerator), reserving the ginger slices. Add 3 cups cold water and the lemon juice to the pitcher, and sweeten to taste with honey. Set the pitcher in the refrigerator to cool further; store the ginger slices in the refrigerator as well. (The lemonade and ginger slices will keep in the refrigerator for 5 days.)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fill each highball or pint glass two-thirds of the way to the rim with ice, and pour the ginger lemonade over it. Garnish with a slice of the steeped ginger.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  Time: 10 minutes steeping, 5 minutes preparation\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemon Gingerita\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a fine Microplane grater, zest one of the lemons youâ€™ll squeeze to make the Ginger Lemonade onto a plate; from another lemon, cut as many thumbnail-size pieces of lemon peel as the number of margaritas you plan to make. Prepare the ginger lemonade, and when itâ€™s ready to serve, for each margarita, take a piece of the lemon peel and rub it around the rim of the glass. Dip the rim in the grated lemon zest (itâ€™s okay if the lemon-zest rim is patchy; lemon zest is intense), fill the glass with ice, and top with 3 ounces Ginger Lemonade and 1 ounce silver tequila. Stir, and garnish with a slice of lemon peel and a slice of the steeped ginger.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Lee brothers'' second cookbook builds on the success of\n  <em>\n   The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook\n  </em>\n  by applying the principles of the current fashion for simplicity and speed in the kitchen to the revered down-home flavors of the South, which normally require far more extended cooking times and special ingredients. Readers who are nostalgic for the food of the South or have acquired a taste for it, but lack the time to recreate old-fashioned dishes, will be eager to try the brothers'' new takes on old classics like chicken and dumplings, shrimp cocktail and ambrosia, which cut down on some of the usual preparation time without sacrificing flavor. They manage this partly through their judicious use of less traditional ingredients, such as curry powder in potato salad or chorizo in collard greens and partly through their emphasis on using top-notch fresh, in-season ingredients. Though the brothers got their start with a catalogue selling Southern pantry staples that are unusual elsewhere, these recipes rarely call for items that are not available in any well-stocked supermarket. The recipes are easy to follow and engagingly written, dotted with amusing anecdotes and historical asides that make the book a breezy read. Detailed shopping, preparation and garnishing notes throughout help ensure cooks'' success following the Lee brothers in bringing Southern cooking into the 21st century.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6859'),
(5764, 'The Left Hand of Darkness', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. So, bringing news of a vast coalition of planets they are invited to join, he is met with fear, mistrust and disbelief.But also something more. For Genly Ai, who sees himself as a bringer of the truth, it is a bittersweet irony that he will discover truths about himself and, in the snow-shrouded strangeness of Winter, find both love and tragedy . . . First published in the year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, The Left Hand of Darkness is a classic of science fiction and a masterpiece of modern literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10732'),
(5765, 'The left hand of God', 'Paul Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.'' The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a desolate place - a place where hope and joy are not welcome. Most of its occupants were taken there as young boys, against any will they might have once had. They cower under the terrifying regime of the Lord Redeemers, whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the Hanged Redeemer.No one knows their way around all of the Sanctuary, so vast and twisting is its maze of corridors - corridors filled with the stench of centuries-old religious fervour.Standing in one of these corridors is a boy, looking out of a dark window, looking out at the latest unfortunate arrivals to this hell. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure, and neither is anyone else. He has long forgotten his real name, but now they call him Cale. He doesn''t remember anything of his former life. He doesn''t know anything of his future life . . .Meet the Angel of Death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3322'),
(5766, 'Legacies: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack isnâ€™t your average appliance repairmanâ€”he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life.Â  Jack has no last name, no social security number, works only for cash, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing that the job gets done.Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who treats children with AIDS, is full of secrets.Â  And she has just inherited a house that holds another.Â  Haunted by painful memories, Alicia wants the house destroyedâ€”but somehow everyone she enlists to help ends up violently killed.Â  The house holds a powerful secret, and Aliciaâ€™s charmless brother Thomas seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that secret himself.But not if Repairman Jack can find it first!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
(5767, 'Legacy', 'Judy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9033'),
(5768, 'Legacy of Ashes (The History of the C.I.A.)', 'Tim Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (v5.0) (html)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9617'),
(5769, 'Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA', 'Tim Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, â€œa legacy of ashes.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIAâ€”and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tim Weinerâ€™s past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as â€œimpressively reportedâ€ and â€œimmensely entertainingâ€ in The New York Times.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Wall Street Journal called it â€œtruly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage.â€ Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5915'),
(5770, 'Legacy of Heorot: Legacy of Heorot', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling science-fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of rising young author Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind''s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. 5 maps.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10224'),
(5771, 'Legacy of Terror', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gothic-romance novel written to meet a publisher''s guidelines and "stave off starvation and buy a little time to write what I really cared about."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8299'),
(5772, 'Legacy of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weis and Hickman return to the world of the "Darksword" trilogy in this heroic fantasy, which measures up to its predecessors. After the fall of Thimhallan, its people migrated to Earth. Bereft of magic, the evil Technomancers on Earth wanted and feared the new darksword. Believing that it could help defeat the alien invading Hch''nyv, King Garald and General Boris try to convince Saryon to go back to Thimhallan to retrieve the sword. Recommended for fantasy collections where the "Darksword series" is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the conclusion of the original Darksword trilogy, magic had virtually disappeared. At this tale''s opening, it exists, if at all, merged with science as\n <em>\n  technomancy\n </em>\n --a concept Weis and Hickman handle well, even if it may make both sf and fantasy purists scream. Shortly, however, aliens from space who can be dealt with only by magic appear on the scene, and it turns out the menace they pose can really be addressed only by means of a rediscovered or re-created Darksword. And so readers wind up with a time-traveling, technologically informed, admirably fast-paced quest for a magical talisman. Weis and Hickman forge their classic fantasy plot into one of their most original books and one of the least prolix recent high fantasy novels, to boot. What''s more, it allows for a sequel without so absolutely requiring one that it betrays yet another saga aborning. How admirable!\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5603'),
(5773, 'Legacy of the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The muddy, bloody horrors of WWI continue to haunt Insp. Ian Rutledge, back at work at Scotland Yard, but just barely. Still guilt-stricken over his wartime murder of Corp. Hamish MacLeod, who "cracked" during the Somme offensive of 1916, Rutledge hears Hamish''s voice in his head as a steady, moralizing conversationalist. Now Rutledge has been dispatched to Scotland to identify the probable remains of Eleanor Gray, an aristocratic suffragette inexplicably estranged from her mother, the imperious Lady Maude. Local police theorize that Eleanor was murdered on the Highlands by beautiful, young Fiona MacDonald, who''s been raising Eleanor''s newborn son as her own. Unconvinced of a link between the two women, Rutledge visits Fiona in jail and immediately recognizes her as Hamish''s beloved fianc?e. But Fiona won''t exonerate herself, refusing to identify the boy''s real parents. Following the Edgar-nominated A Test of Wills (1996), this fourth installment in the series focuses narrowly on the question: is there a link between Fiona and Eleanor? Since the answer is never in doubt, there''s not much to absorb suspense addicts, as Rutledge slogs through Scotland trying to break the apparently deadlocked circumstantial case. The resolution, implicating too many peripheral characters, is particularly unsatisfying. But readers will continue to be captivated by Todd''s portrait of the dangerously unraveling detective, and his equally incisive evocation of the grieving postwar world. Agent, Jane Chelius. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sensitive approach, literate prose, and provocative situations mark Todd''s latest addition to his Ian Rutledge series. Although recovered enough from World War I shell shock to function ably in his job with Scotland Yard, Ian still carries with him an internal voice of guilt named Hamish, a soldier he ordered shot for cowardice. When Ian investigates a possible murder in Scotland, the main suspect turns out to be the dead Hamish''s intended, who seems destined for the gallows but will not betray a confidence. Very forceful emotional scenes ensue as Ian ferrets out the truth. A special treat for series and historical fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5674'),
(5774, 'Legacy: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two womenâ€”a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book on the womenâ€™s suffrage movement that she will finishâ€”someday. Someday is Brigitteâ€™s watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in the field of archaeology, will clarify their relationship. Someday she will have children. Someday she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitteâ€™s life is jolted. Suddenly everything she counted on has changed and she finds herself questioning every choice she has made along the way. As she struggles to regain her balance and plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family genealogy project. In Salt Lake City at the Family History Library, she makes a stunning discoveryâ€”reaching back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitteâ€™s mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteâ€”and into the arms of a French marquis? How did she come to marry into Brigitteâ€™s family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records?Â Following the threads of Wachiwiâ€™s life, Brigitte travels to South Dakota, then on to Paris, irresistibly drawn to this brave young woman who lived so long ago. And as she comes closer to solving the puzzle of Wachiwiâ€™s journey, her previously safe, quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance meeting with a writer of historical fiction, a new opportunity, and a difficult choice put Brigitte at last in the forefront of her own story. With a complex and powerful family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steelâ€™s mesmerizing new novel, someday is now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5989'),
(5775, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings', 'Washington Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings, by Washington Irving, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The first great American man of letters, Washington Irving became an international celebrity almost overnight upon publication of The Sketch Book in 1820, which included the short stories â€œThe Legend of Sleepy Hollowâ€ and â€œRip Van Winkle.â€ These two tales remain his crowning achievement, but in addition to being a writer of short stories, Irving was also an acclaimed essayist, travel writer, biographer, and historian. This volume showcases Irvingâ€™s best work across a variety of genres, including whimsical newspaper articles about New York society, the theater, and contemporary fashions; charming travel pieces that evocatively weave together history and legend; humorous stories and satirical essays from The Sketch-Book and its sequel Bracebridge Hall, and excerpts from A History of New York, considered the first great American book of comic literature. The authorâ€™s success enabled him to earn a living by writing alone, unheard of for an American at that time. Irvingâ€™s energetic, often tongue-in-cheek prose style, together with his ability to blend roguish satire, pathos, and picturesque description, had a profound influence upon the popular culture of his day. His writings have become a cornerstone in the foundation of the American literary tradition. Peter Norberg received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1998. Since 1997 he has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia. A specialist on the writers associated with the transcendentalist movement, he has written and lectured extensively on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the critical reaction to transcendentalism in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3375'),
(5776, 'Legends of the Dragonrealm, Vol II', 'Richard A. Knaak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Experience New York Times bestselling author Richard A. Knaak''s classic Dragonrealm series in this exciting omnibusthree unforgettable tales, plus an original bonus novella in print for the first time ever!SHADOW STEEDBetrothed to the disfigured King Melicard of Talak, Princess Erini begins to fear her burgeoning magical powers. She soon discovers that an obsessive vendetta has led the king to cast a sinister spell that conjures the shadow creature Darkhorse . . . and worse, the mad sorcerer Shade.THE SHROUDED REALMLong before the Dragonrealm, a race of master wizards ruled Nimth with little regard for the laws of nature. Forced into desperate escape to a mysterious world, the Vraad soon discover their new home is unyielding. Only Dru Zeree, with the aid of the shadowy creature who will become Darkhorse, may be able to save them.CHILDREN OF THE DRAKEBitterness between factions is tarnishing the Vraad''s new home. As Lord Barakas attempts to rule all, the wizard Dru Zeree''s daughter discovers their adopted world has another plan. Worse, her only hope is himself transforming into the enigma that will someday call itself Shade.SKINSMorgis, son of the Blue Dragon and comrade-in-arms to the legendary Gryphon, has lingered in the land of the Wolf Raiders to help fight the remnants of the dark empire. However, with the Aramites'' fall from power, he is about to discover that other ancient, dread forces have risen again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8719'),
(5777, 'Legion', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jesus asked the man his name, and he answered, â€œLegion, for we are many.â€--Mark 5:9A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years agoâ€”and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcistâ€”William Peter Blatty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8444'),
(5778, 'Lensman 01Triplanetary', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "TRIPLANETARY is the first of the six classic ''Lensman'' books, long recognized as the greatest space opera ever written." -- John Clute "The Lensman books . . . are the books I cut my teeth on as a fan, and together they comprise one of the true milestones in science fiction literature." -- J. Michael Straczynski No single phrase can describe TRIPLANETARY, the first of the "Lensman" stories, the volume providing the background for the remaining novels in the series. It might be terned a Galactic Romance, or a Cosmological Fantasy -- but above all else it is a story. From the atomic age in Atlantis or a bloody Roman arena, you are borne to the watery world of Nevia, remote in space and time. You meet two incredible ancient races, the Arisians and the Eddorians, and you view the ancient conflict between these worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10777'),
(5779, 'Lensman 02 First Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In First Lensman, the second book in the Lensman series, we find the benevolent super beings of Arisia ready to bestow the first "lens" on a human being (which, among other things, will give humans telepathic powers). The honor goes to Virgil Samms, who will ever after be known as the "First Lensman." But it''s a title that he''ll have to earn by establishing the Galactic Patrol, a group that is at once powerful and incorruptible, and will protect the universe from the evil and almost-unstoppable Eddorians. If that weren''t tough enough, Samms must also dodge assassination attempts at home and help his second in command Rod "The Rock" Kinnison win the presidency of North America. And that''s just the beginning of his troubles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10789'),
(5780, 'Lensman 03 Galactic Patrol', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Galactic Patrol has been given the ultimate weapon in its war against the evil pirate Boskone: The Lens. But even though the Patrol''s Lensmen are the most feared peacekeepers in the galaxy, they aren''t quite sure how to use their unique gift. Things are about to change, however. Kimball Kinnison has just graduated from the academy, and now that''s he''s earned his Lens, he''s determined to figure out how it works. Kinnison begins his journey of discovery by taking command of the Brittania, an experimental ship that''s as likely to kill him as it is the Boskone raiders it was built to fight. That leads him on a series of whirlwind adventures that include a visit to the planet Arisia--where the mysterious creators of the Lens make their home--and end up in a confrontation with Helmuth, who may well be Boskone himself. Although this is the third book in the Lensman series, it''s the novel where, as SF critic John Clute puts it, "the story has started, and it does not stop." This is a rip-roaring tale of heroes, aliens, space battles, and bold deeds, the stuff that Golden Age science fiction was built from. --Craig E. Engler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10771'),
(5781, 'Lensman 04 Gray Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Space Duel to the Death. Somewhere among the galaxies was the stronghold of Boskone - a network of brilliant interplanetary criminals whose mania for conquest threatened the future o all civilization. But Where? Boskanian bases dotted the universe - shielded by gigantic thought-screens that defied penetration. It was up to Lensman Kim Kinnison, using his fantastic mental powers, to infiltrate the Boskonian strongholds and learn the location of the enemy''s Grand Base - and smash it forever! --- from book''s back cover\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10780'),
(5782, 'Lensman 05 Second Stage Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10788'),
(5783, 'Lensman 06 Children of the Lens', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Science Fiction, Fantasy, General, Futuristic, Space Opera\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10779'),
(5784, 'Lensman 07 Masters of the Vortex', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10775'),
(5785, 'Lensman 08 The Dragon Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you loved the original [E.E. "Doc" Smith LENSMEN] series, then you''ll appreciate what Kyle has achieved here. --\n  <em>\n   Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edward E. "Doc" Smith''s visionary Lensmen series of stories began in 1934 in the pages of Amazing Stories, and when it finished in 1948 it was universally recognized as the greatest space opera yet written. In telling the tale of a cosmos-spanning battle between good and evil, the Lensmen saga encompassed two entire galaxies in collision, each home to a primordial race of nearly limitless power. On one side were the Arisians, uplifting agents of wisdom who had taken it upon themselves to mentor the younger races and steer them towards the enlightenment they called Civilization. On the other were the Eddorians, embodiments of crushing efficiency and unthinking obedience who had woven together a vast web of tyrannies called the Boskone, through which they plotted the enslavement of all life. As their greatest weapon in the fight against the Boskone, the Arisians created the Lenses -- almost-living complexities of crystal that released and amplified their wearers'' latent psychic powers. Those chosen for this honor were called Lensmen, and as the leaders of the Galactic Patrol they formed Civilization''s spearhead against the Boskone. Within the Å½lite ranks of the Lensmen was an even more rarified Å½lite -- the four Second Stage Lensmen, one from each of the races which the Arisians had chosen as the most capable defenders of their galaxy. It is one of these Second Stage Lensmen -- the Velantian named Worsel -- that David A. Kyle chose to headline his first authorized sequel to Smith''s Lensmen canon: The Dragon Lensman.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As The Dragon Lensman opens, the Boskonian conspiracy seems to have been vanquished with its defeat at the great Battle of Klovia, and the victorious Galactic Patrol is busy re-orienting itself to face the new challenges of policing a galaxy instead of defending it against a ruthless invader. Among those adjusting to the new reality is Second Stage Lensman Worsel, the legendary warrior/scientist famed for his intelligence and dedication to the fight against ignorance and evil. Like all of his species, Worsel resembles the mythological dragons of old Tellus (Earth), with a sinewy, ten-meter-long body covered in scales and boasting great wings and terrifying claws and teeth. But Worsel''s real strength is his mind and its unmatched psychic abilities, concentrated and focused by the Lens shining among his many eye-stalks. And it is the intuition bred of that power that now draws Worsel to the Velantians'' incredible archive, the 18-mile-wide artificial moon known as the Planetoid of Knowledge, where he feels certain something important is waiting for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He is right -- but what awaits him on POK is more than he bargained for, and before long Worsel and his fellow Lensmen are racing against time to confront a threat that almost no one had thought possible: machines becoming self-aware and battling against organic Civilization, their calcuating computer brains invisible to any kind of psychic detection!\n </p>\n <p>\n  To counter this new menace, the Dragon Lensman finds himself hurtling through space to rendez-vous with the one Lensman who understands robots well enough to strategize against an inorganic uprising -- the mysterious Twenty-Four of Six, whose knowledge of machines turns out to be deeper and more hard-won than even Worsel could guess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon it becomes clear that Civilization will need every bit of that knowledge, and more besides, to face the enemies that are now revealing themselves. For behind the overt power there lurks a vastly more dangerous covert one, and to defeat it Worsel will not only have to challenge the worst fears of his race, but also discover the secret of the young Lensman with whom he must entrust his life -- a secret that will shake the very foundations of the Galactic Patrol!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8963'),
(5786, 'Lensman 09 New Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11049'),
(5787, 'Lensman 10 Z-Lensman', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you loved the original [E.E. "Doc" Smith LENSMEN] series, then you''ll appreciate what Kyle has achieved here. --\n  <em>\n   Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With Z-Lensman, the final novel in his post-E.E. Smith Lensmen trilogy, David A. Kyle turns his attention to the strangest of the three non-human Second Stage Lensmen: Nadreck the Palainian, whose Z-type species exists in a multidimensional state beyond the familiar three dimensions experienced by most of the galaxy''s life forms. The constant shifting of their bodies through unfamiliar dimensions -- together with the frightfully cold and poisonous atmosphere they breathe and their implacable emotional detachment -- make the Palainians one of the more unsettling races known to Civilization. But, as events will soon demonstrate, they are also one of its most valuable assets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the process of training a new class of Z-type Lensmen cadets from the Palainian Z-Academy, Nadreck makes the unintentionally fateful decision to bring a religious leader from a Boskonian Spawn-influenced planet to be studied on Tellus before continuing on to Palain VII. On Tellus, Nadreck and the newly-promoted Galactic Patrol lieutenant Benson Cloudd become aware of a strange new problem affecting Civilized space. Machines throughout a wide swathe of the galaxy have begun to malfunction, and communicators, spaceships and computers are becoming increasingly unreliable. But in the process of searching for the source of this mechanical mayhem, Nadreck discovers something even more disturbing: remnants of the Eddorian Conspiracy are planning a new invasion, and their forces are gathering on multiple planes of existence!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Faced with mysteries and threats on multiple fronts, Nadreck, Cloudd and the android-bodied Lensman Lalla Kallatra must work together while at the same time scattering themselves across the stars, each in pursuit of their own piece of the puzzle. As the final confrontation approaches, all of the power wielded by Civilization -- and all of the combined resourcefulness of its members, from Galactic Coordinator Kimball Kinnison personally leading the Patrol''s Grand Fleet against an unprecedented weapon to the shade of Deuce O''Six defending the borders of the spirit world -- must be brought to bear. But will it be enough? And will the threat that is closest to home be recognized in time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  All this and much more is revealed in Z-Lensman, the mesmerizing conclusion to Kyle''s galaxies-spanning saga!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8964'),
(5788, 'The Leopard Hunts in Darkness', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9137'),
(5789, 'The leper of Saint Giles: the fifth chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael''s abbey, leaving the monk with a terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing is hidden among the inhabitants of the Saint Giles leper colony, and Brother Cadfael must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(5790, 'Les Miserables', 'Victor Hugo; Isabel F Hapgood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo''s classic tale set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France retains its timeless appeal in this notably condensed rendition of the struggles of former convict Jean Valjean. While the abridgment inevitably cuts many of the intricate subplots and minor characters who enrich Hugo''s vast tome, this suspenseful central plot tracing Valjean''s endeavor to emerge from desperate circumstances while being pursued by the duty-obsessed Inspector Javert remains intact and comprehensible to listeners. The principal characters retain their epic proportions, and the major themes of redemption through good works and the importance of authentic charity are undiminished. Narrator Michael York adds vigor and distinct characterizations to the broad cast of characters in this fittingly dramatic performance. Suitable for collections that do not already contain one of the many audio versions of this work (e.g., Audio Reviews, LJ 5/1/93).?Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRich and gorgeous. This is the [translation] to read... and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jeanette Winterson,\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] magnificent story... marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Denver Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA new translation by Julie Rose of Hugoâ€™s behemoth classic that is as racy and current and utterly arresting as it should be.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Buffalo News_ (editorâ€™s choice)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVibrant and readable, idiomatic and well suited to a long narrative, [Julie Roseâ€™s new translation of\n <em>\n  Les Miserables\n </em>\n ] is closer to the captivating tone Hugo would have struck for his own contemporaries.â€\n <br />\n â€”Diane Johnson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels.â€\n <br />\n â€”Alison Lurie\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome of us may have read Les Miserables back in the day, but... between Gopnik and Rose, youâ€™ll get two introductions that will offer you all the pleasures of your college instruction with none of the pain.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Agony Column_ (trashotron.com)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9626'),
(5791, 'Less Than Zero', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''One of the most disturbing novels I''ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality'' - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times". In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, "Less Than Zero". Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, "Less Than Zero" continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, "Less Than Zero" - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author''s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. ''An extraordinarily accomplished first novel'' - "New Yorker". ''The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation'' - "USA Today". ''Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad'' - "Village Voice".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1171');
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(5792, 'Lessek&#39;s Key', 'Rob Scott &amp; Jay Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Return to the land of Eldarn, and the race to find Lessek''s key and save the people of two worlds. The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn''s North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek''s key it is a worthless slab of granite - and Lessek''s key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn''s people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek''s key before it falls into Nerak''s hands and is lost for ever - and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven''s worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4463'),
(5793, 'A Lesser Evil', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors. Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a hermit? Why doesnt widower Frank join his daughter and grandchildren in Australia? And why doesnt the formidable and well-bred Miss Diamond move somewhere smarter? But most of all she is ghoulishly fascinated by the Muckles who live opposite in terrible squalor. She listens to their violent quarrels, watches their ill-treated and wretchedly unhappy children, and is appalled by all she sees. When Fifi tries to help the Muckles youngest child, who has been physically abused by her father, Fifi unwittingly unleashes a chain of events which will not only bring heart ache to her and Dan, but terrible danger to all the inhabitants of Dale Street\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7050'),
(5794, 'A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel', 'Jacqueline Winspear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lee Child Interviews Jacqueline Winspear\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jacqueline Winspear, like her interviewer, the iconic, bestselling author\n <em>\n  A Lesson in Secrets\n </em>\n is her eighth novel featuring psychologist-investigator and former WW1 nurse, Maisie Dobbs. Here she talks with Child about her work on the series, and her enduring interest in the aftermath of WW1.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee Child:\n </strong>\n People are often surprised that I''m a huge Maisie Dobbs fan, because Jack Reacher is all about a kind of Spartan American masculinity, and Maisie Dobbs is all about a kind of feminine English refinement. But they''re both strong, unconventional people. Perhaps that''s the cross-genre appeal? Do you find that Maisie attracts an unusual mix of readers?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jacqueline Winspear:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m thrilled youâ€™re such a Maisie Dobbs fan--and you can count me among those millions of Jack Reacher fans. Maisie and Reacher are both unconventional, but I believe another factor in their cross-genre appeal is that both have endured life-changing challenges. Maisie attracts diverse readers: men and women, all age groups, veterans, nurses, college students, people who have faced troubles, and people interested in the era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n And in fact your novels are driven by violence far worse than mine--off the page, granted, but thereâ€™s no getting around the fact that at the heart of your books is the aftermath of a horrendous war, with its attendant violence and death. How do you see the role of violence in your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n I think you hit the theme there with â€œaftermath.â€ The violence in my books is that searing, painful residue left by the passing of a terrible time, when people were also crushed emotionally by the deep losses over a four-year period. In addition, thereâ€™s that element of violence that lingers--in\n <em>\n  Among the Mad\n </em>\n , for example--when warâ€™s tentacles will not let go. We see that again today in the stories of veterans who are still fighting their wars, but the conflict is raging inside them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n As a kid in England I remember seeing hundreds of maimed old men, and hundreds of lonely old women. My grandfather was an example of the first, and two great-aunts examples of the second - sad reminders of a terrible time. Was it something similar that drew you to the First World War and the â€œBetween the Warsâ€ era that followed?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n I have the same memories--my grandfather was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and my grandmother was partially blinded at the Woolwich Arsenal, in an explosion that wounded her sister and killed several girls working alongside her. There were the elderly spinsters in my neighborhood, and for each there was that old sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a sweetheart or brother lost to war. Those childhood memories led me to think a lot about what happens after war is done. As a character says in\n <em>\n  Birds of a Feather\n </em>\n , â€œThatâ€™s the trouble with war; it lives on inside the living.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n I was introduced to Maisie Dobbs by my wife, who passed through an airport and picked up the first in the series. She loved it, and urged me to read it, and I''m glad I did. It''s one of the very, very few series we both love equally--in fact, perhaps the only one. Is this typical of your readers?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n I receive so many emails from fans who tell me that the books are read by all members of the family. And many women tell me that it was their husband who first discovered Maisie. The books are as accessible to readers aged about fourteen as they are to seniors. There are few things today that all age groups within a family can engage in, discuss and get excited about, so itâ€™s lovely when I hear that family members are awaiting the next book so they can all read it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n Maisie is definitively feminine, but she''s running a business, and poking around in a "man''s world," which is true to the times, and indicative of the early stages of feminism in the West. Was that something you wanted to explore?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n It would have been difficult to introduce a character such as Maisie and not explore the fact that the Great War left so many women to forge a life alone. If there was one thing I wanted to do, it was to bring the spirit of that generation to the character of Maisie Dobbs. Of course, some women floundered and lived lonely lives, but there were a great many who blazed a trail. I believe an archetype was born at that time--the stoic British woman who is independent and more than a little opinionated, with a heart of gold under a tough exterior, and who knows what it is to endure. Dame Maggie Smith has played that character in several films.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n Maisie understands human psychology in a way that seems to be an early and experimental pre-echo of what we''d now call criminal profiling. It''s a huge part of both her process and her appeal. Where did that come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n That developed in a very organic way. Having established her as a â€œsensitive,â€ I wanted to give her real expertise--and there are historical underpinnings to this aspect of her character. Maisie studied the Moral Sciences curriculum at Girton College when psychology was in its infancy. I have the prospectus from 1913, and about one third of the course was the study of modern psychology. It was a time of great experimentation, so Maisieâ€™s processes have their roots in real practices considered innovative at the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n One of your decisions I admire is the way you have moved the series forward in time so firmly. Most writers would have continued mining the same immediate post-war seam forever. What was your thinking behind that? And how do you keep the character fresh as the series itself develops?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n I once heard you say at a conference, â€œThe reader comes back to a series, not to find out what the sleuth does with the case, but what the case does to the sleuth.â€ I agree. We are all impacted not only by our past, but by our current circumstances and those around us. You always put Reacher in a new area, be it small town or big city; and through his wandering we learn a lot about him. I work with the geography of time. Not everyone likes change and many readers would like Maisie Dobbs to stay as she is in a given book. But lifeâ€™s not like that--the goalposts tend to move when we are at our most comfortable, and I want to keep the series fresh.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LC:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m often asked if I have a favorite book within my series, so now Iâ€™m turning the tables: Do you have favorites among your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JW:\n </strong>\n Thatâ€™s such a difficult question, because each book not only represents a different place on my journey as a writer, but has been inspired by something that touched me. I think\n <em>\n  Maisie Dobbs\n </em>\n will always be very tightly held in my affections, because it was my first book and was written at a difficult time in my life, when I was recovering from a horrible accident. The other choice would be The\n <em>\n  Mapping of Love and Death\n </em>\n , because it was inspired by the true story of a soldier whose remains lay under Belgian soil for some 90 years until unearthed by a farmer. I learned more about him when I became involved in the quest to discover his origins. When I look at that book, I think of a young man lost to war who was never identified and who was eventually laid to rest as â€œA Soldier of The Great War, Known Unto God.â€ I ache for the parents who never knew where their son died, for he had probably been listed as â€œMissing, Presumed Dead.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Winspear''s solid eighth Maisie Dobbs novel (after The Mapping of Love and Death), Maisie finds herself financially independent, thanks to a bequest from her late mentor, Dr. Maurice Blanche, and open to new challenges exactly at the moment the British Secret Service seeks to recruit her in 1932. Greville Liddicote, the author of a pacifist children''s book that the government went to great pains to suppress during WWI, has founded a college in Cambridge devoted to maintaining peace in Europe. To keep tabs on Liddicote, Maisie infiltrates his school under the guise of a philosophy teacher. When a staff member is murdered, she reverts to her old profession and works to aid the police inquiry from the inside. Maisie''s new affluence allows her to intervene benevolently in the lives of those she cares for and her romantic life intensifies, but these positive personal developments end up making her less interesting as a protagonist than formerly. 9-city author tour. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7085'),
(5795, 'Let me call you sweetheart', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s a minor accident that brings prosecutor Kerry McGrath to the plastic surgeon''s office with her beloved daughter, Robin. But even as the doctor assures Kerry that her daughter''s scars will heal, she spies a familiar-looking beautiful woman in the waiting room and is seized by an overpowering sense of deja vu. When, on a return visit, she sees the same haunting face -- on another woman -- she has an intense flash of recognition: it''s the face of Suzanne Reardon, the "Sweetheart Murder" victim, killed more than ten years ago! The case resulted in a guilty verdict and life sentence for Suzanne''s husband, Skip. But for what possible reason would Dr. Smith be giving his patients the face of a dead woman?As Kerry immerses herself in a fresh investigation, she is catapulted into the strange and ominous territory of those so obsessed with beauty they''ll kill for it. Each new piece of evidence she unearths reveals a disturbing cache of questions. Not only does everyone involved want to keep the case closed, it''s clear somebody will stop at nothing to keep it sealed forever. As she delves deeper she finds she''s wrestling with a force so sinister that her own life -- and her daughter''s -- is threatened with increasing peril....Interweaving fascinating characters with deeply daring, staggeringly unpredictable plot twists, Mary Higgins Clark reminds us that she is, indeed, America''s Queen of Suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(5796, 'Let the Right One In', 'John Avjide Lindquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends.And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself.Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city''s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he''s frightened.Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn''t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood.John Ajvide Lindqvist''s novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(5797, 'Let&#39;s Get Lost', 'Sarra Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A compelling YA novel from the best-selling author of Guitar Girl! Isabel is the girl who rules the school with an iron fist and a gang of minions who do her bidding. Her friends are scared of her, her teachers cant get through to her, and thats just the way she likes it. With her razor-sharp edges and tall walls, nothing gets to Isabeland no one, but no one, is ever going to discover her dark, sad secrets. Then she meets Smith. And Isabel learns that sometimes when all the expectations and pressures are too much, you just need someone to help you get lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3996'),
(5798, 'Let&#39;s Ride: Sonny Barger&#39;s Guide to Motorcycling', 'Sonny Barger &amp; Darwin Holmstrom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  The Ultimate Motorcycle Guide By the Author Of The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Bestselling Memoir\n  <em>\n   Hell''s Angel\n  </em>\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Let''s Ride\n </em>\n is a nuts-and-bolts guide to mastering the art of motorcycling. From choosing the right bike to sharpening riding techniques, Sonny Barger mines his lifetime of experience to provide advice and wisdom that will help fellow ridersâ€”new and veteran alikeâ€”survive the dangers of motorcycling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Let''s Ride\n </em>\n is the only book of its kind: an essential resource covering every aspect of motorcycle riding and ownership. Chapters include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Why Ride?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dissecting the Beast: the Anatomy of a Motorcycle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Types of Bikes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fundamentals of Riding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluating a Used Motorcycle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buying a Bike\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advanced Riding Techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Living with a Motorcycle\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn how to rideâ€”the\n <em>\n  right way\n </em>\n â€”from an American legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7932'),
(5799, 'Let&#39;s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship', 'Gail Caldwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œItâ€™s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.â€ So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp became best friends, talking about everything from their shared struggle with alcohol to their love of books. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. From disparate backgrounds but with striking emotional similarities, these two private, fiercely self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Rich with the joys of raising dogs and the rivalries of competitive sports, their friendship helped them define the ordinary moments of life as the ones worth cherishing. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion and grief in this moving memoir about treasuring and losing a best friend, and about coming of age in midlife. Letâ€™s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of life and of the transformation that comes from intimate connectionâ€”and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(5800, 'Lethal', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A relentless pace and clever plot\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n twists keep the pages turning." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won''t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can''t be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11241'),
(5801, 'The Letter Of Marque', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the twelfth book in the series. Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship''s surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a ''private man-of-war'' -- a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d''etre, whose loss he so much regrets. Around these simple, ostensibly familar elements Patrick O''Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once more, in a tale full of human feeling and rarely matched in its drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4251'),
(5802, 'A Letter of Mary', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs, giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical experiments. Interrupting the idyllic scene, amateur archaeologist Miss Dorothy Ruskin visits with a startling puzzle. Working in the Holy Land, she has unearthed a tattered roll of papyrus with a message from Mary Magdalene. Miss Ruskin wants Russell to safeguard the letter. But when Miss Ruskin is killed in a traffic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. Clearly there was more to Miss Ruskin than met the eye. But why was she murdered? Was it her involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Was it her championing of women''s rights? Or was it the scroll--a deeply troubling letter that could prove to be a Biblical bombshell? In either case, Russell and Holmes soon find that solving her murder may be murder itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5351'),
(5803, 'Letter to a Christian Nation', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8916'),
(5804, 'Letter to My Daughter', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou''s erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Angelou acknowledges her own inauguration into daughterhood in "Philanthropy," recalling the first time her mother called her "my daughter." Angelou becomes a mother herself at an early age, after a meaningless first sexual experience: "Nine months later I had a beautiful baby boy. The birth of my son caused me to develop enough courage to invent my life." Fearlessly sharing amusing, if somewhat embarrassing, moments in "Senegal," the mature Angelou is cosmopolitan but still capable of making a mistake: invited to a dinner party while visiting the African nation, Angelou becomes irritated that none of the guests will step on a lovely carpet laid out in the center of the room, so she takes it upon herself to cross the carpet, only to discover the carpet is a table cloth that had been laid out in honor of her visit. The wisdom in this slight volume feels light and familiar, but it''s also earnest and offered with warmth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s a book to give to oneâ€™s daughter, mother, son or father, but definitely one to be read and savored.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion . . . What is clear is that [Maya] Angelou is, all these years later, still a charmer, still speaking her mind.â€â€”\n </em>\n Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom . . . Overarching each brief chapter is the vital energy of a woman taking lifeâ€™s measure with every step.â€â€”\n </em>\n Kirkus Reviews\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWritten in Angelouâ€™s beautiful, poetic style, the essays feel like warm advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom you know was earned.â€â€”_Fredericksburg Free Lance_â€”Star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpellbinding . . . Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire. . . . Each [essay] delivers a powerful message.â€â€”_Rocky Mountain News\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4448'),
(5805, 'Letter to My Daughter: A Novel', 'George Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Elizabeth, It''s early morning and I''m sitting here wondering where you are, hoping you''re all right. A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry--and remember. Wracked with guilt as she awaits Liz''s return, Laura begins a letter to her daughter, hoping to convey "everything I''ve always meant to tell you but never have." In her painfully candid confession, Laura shares memories of her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana, growing up in an intensely conservative household. She recounts her relationship with a boy she loved despite her parents'' disapproval, the fateful events that led to her being sent away to a strict Catholic boarding school, the personal tragedy brought upon her by the Vietnam War, and, finally, the meaning of the enigmatic tattoo below her right hip. Absorbing and affirming, George Bishop''s magnificent debut brilliantly captures a sense of time and place with a distinct and inviting voice. Letter to My Daughter is a heartwrenching novel of mothers, daughters, and the lessons we all learn when we come of age. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/883'),
(5806, 'Letter to My Father', 'Franz Kafka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father''s opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(5807, 'Letters to Elise: A Peter Townsend Novella', 'Amanda Hocking', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  In My Blood Approves, Peter Townsend fell in love with Alice Bonham, but she wasn''t his first love. In a new novella told through his letters, his history is revealed.Â \n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7003'),
(5808, 'Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation', 'Ellen Fitzpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century, a moment that left a family and a nation mourning, one that many Americans recall as their first historical memoryâ€”the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within seven weeks of the President''s death, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters would remain essentially untouched. Now historian Ellen Fitzpatrick has selected approximately 250 of these letters for inclusion in *Letters to Jackie*, a remarkable human record that perfectly preserves the heart-wrenching grief and soul searching of the nation in a time of crisis. Capturing the extraordinary eloquence of so-called ordinary Americans across generations, regions, race, political leanings, and religionâ€”in messages written on elegant stationery, scraps of paper, in pencil, type, ink smudged by tears, and in barely legible handwritingâ€”the letters capture what John F. Kennedy meant to the country, and how his death for some divided American history into Before and After. In *Letters to Jackie*, Fitzpatrick allows Americans to write their own history of these tumultuous times. "The coffin was very small," as one sixteen-year-old girl observed, "to contain so much of so many Americans." In reflecting on their sense of loss, their fears, and their striving, the authors of these letters wrote an American elegy as poignant and as compelling as their shattered and cherished dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(5809, 'Leviathan', 'Thomas Hobbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the structure of society (as represented figuratively by the frontispiece, showing the state giant made up of individuals), as is evidenced by the full title. In the book, Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war - situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") - could only be averted by strong central government. He thus denied any right of rebellion toward the social contract, which would be later added by John Locke and conserved by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. However, Hobbes did discuss the possible dissolution of the State. As the social contract was made to institute a state that would provide for the "peace and defence" of the people, the contract would become void if the government no longer protected its citizens. In such a case, man would automatically return to a state of nature until the creation of a new social contract. In Leviathan, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of societies and legitimate governments. This became one of the first scholarly works on Social contract theory. In the natural condition of mankind, what other philosophers refer to as the state of nature, while some men may be stronger or more intelligent than others, none is so strong and smart as to be beyond a fear of violent death. When threatened with death, man in his natural state cannot help but defend himself in any way possible. Self-defense against violent death is Hobbes'' highest human necessity, and rights are borne of necessity. In\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3484'),
(5810, 'Leviathans of Jupiter', 'Bova, Ben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10454'),
(5811, 'Liam Devlin 1 - Eagle Has Landed', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11039'),
(5812, 'Liam Devlin 3 - Confessional', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11015'),
(5813, 'Liam Devlin 4 - Eagle has Flown', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10999'),
(5814, 'The Liar', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. Unprepared or not, Adrian is led through an adventure that takes in toast, Piccadilly rent-boys, Charles Dickens''s lost pornographic novel, an international espionage conspiracy, disgraceful scenes on the cricket field and a machine that compels its victims to tell the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6621'),
(5815, 'Liar&#39;s Game', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dana moves to Los Angeles to start over with a new job, a new environment, and a new man, the industrious Vincent, but the arrival of her former lover and Vincent''s ex-wife forces them both to confront their pasts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
(5816, 'Liar&#39;s Poker', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9849'),
(5817, 'Liberating Atlantis', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Followers of Turtledoveâ€™s Atlantis trilogy (Opening Atlantis, 2007; The United States of Atlantis, 2008; and this book) wonâ€™t be surprised that it concludes with an Atlantean Civil War. Nor will those familiar with Turtledoveâ€™s oeuvre be surprised that his expertise on the American Civil War makes the third book the trilogyâ€™s best. To get a this-world fix on its animating conceit, imagine that Nat Turner was George Washingtonâ€™s mulatto grandson, who, threatened with death, determined to be free and raised a formidable slave army. Such is what Frederic Ratcliff does in Atlantis, where the Slave Power isnâ€™t as formidable as the American South was and racism isnâ€™t as strong. Ratcliff and his Native American general, Lorenzo, face a respectable professional army led by hard-bitten Balthasar Sinapis, a European exile with a mysterious past. At the nominal head of that army on alternating days are pro-slavery consul Jeremiah Stafford and his anti-slavery partner, Leland Newton. Political bickering, effective guerrilla tactics, and unfamiliar terrain lead to a situation in which the army must negotiate peace or be slaughtered. Then the light dawns on both parties that fighting to decisive victory or defeat will ruin Atlantis for everyone. The Treaty of Slug Hollow is hammered out and presented to the Senate. More obstacles remain, and the Senate offers a mixture of horror-struck opposition, hair-tearing doubt, and sighs of relief. In the end, readers may, overwhelmingly, join in joyously launching their hats skyward. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frederick Radcliff is a descendent of the family that founded Atlantis''s first settlement. But he is also a slave. And when fate presents him with the opportunity to throw off his shackles once and for all, he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4956'),
(5818, 'Liberation day', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: November 2001. A Zodiac Inflatable Slips Away From A Submarine Off The North African Coast. If He Hadn''T Needed American Citizenship So Badly, Nick Stone Wouldn T Have Agreed To Do This One Last Job, But The Cia S Offer Of A New Life In The United States, And The Chance To Share It With Carrie, The Woman He S Fallen In Love With, Is One He Cannot Refuse. The Job Seems Simple Enough For A Man Of His Particular Skills: Infiltrate Into The Hostile And Violent Republic Of Algeria, Kill A Money-Laundering Local Businessman, And Bring Back His Severed Head To The West. Stone Isn T Told Why The Man Has To Die Like This, And He Doesn T Want To Know. He Just Guesses It S Got Something To Do With The Democratic World S Fightback After The Terrible Events Of 11 September. But As Events Unfold Alarmingly Fast, Stone Realizes That By No Means Has He Been Told The Full Story - And That In Reality The Job Has Only Just Begun. Then Comes The Devastating News That Carrie, Enraged By His Broken Promise Never To Work With The Cia Again, Has Turned Her Back On Him For Ever. Operating In The Dangerous Underworld Of The South Of France, Where Al-Qaeda Has Embarked On A Panicked Round-Up Of Funds Using The Ancient Banking System Of Hawalla, Stone Is In At The Deep End Of A Very Dirty War. In The Most Daunting Mission He Has Ever Undertaken, As One Bloody Twist Leads To Another, Stone Ultimately Finds Himself Confronted By The Most Desperate Dilemma A Man Could Ever Face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(5819, 'The Liberation of Alice Love', 'Abby McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mousy London lawyer Alice Love gets her identity stolen and finds her true self in this rocky tale of trust, personality makeovers, and a lying globe-trotting thief. "She didn''t leave me any worse off, in the end," Alice says of Ella, a work pal who makes off with Alice''s credit card info to set up a new life in Hollywood. But before the ruse is over, Alice retaliates by morphing into a compulsive stalker, taking on Ella''s identity, and discovering that a lot of little lies add up to a whole lot of fun. The transformation nearly costs her the love of a good man, but Alice comes (nearly) to her senses by the time she corners her arch-frenemy. McDonald (The Popularity Rules) keeps the pace brisk, but a plot busy with an international chase and Alice''s many reinventions proves on occasion too much to handle, and Ella, paradoxically, proves a more intriguing character than Alice. What works best is what lies beneath all the frantic action: a good old-fashioned romantic page-turner. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alice Love is a planner and a saver, so when her bank account is drained, her credit cards maxed, and creditors come calling, the only thing more shocking is that the culprit turns out to be her new best friend, Ella. With the help of her stepsister Flora''s husband, Stefan, and his friend Nathan, a charming investigator, Alice sets out to prove that Ella is a professional con artist. As Alice follows Ella''s transactions, she gets a taste of the glamorous, well-lived life Ella hid from her: dance and cooking classes, fancy lingerie and dresses, and spontaneous trips. Even as Nathan warns her of the dangers of getting obsessed, Alice is secretly seduced by this lifestyle. McDonald''s smart chick-lit novel takes a provocative view of a timely subject''identity theft''within the usual framework of romance and comedy. --Aleksandra Walker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5023'),
(5820, 'Liberator of Jedd', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1930'),
(5821, 'Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Liberty Defined\n  </em>\n  , congressman and #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere clichÃ©. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul''s position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the chairman of the domestic monetary policy subcommittee, and the author of eight books, including the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Revolution: A Manifesto\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   End The Fed.\n  </em>\n  An advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace, he is chairman of the FREE Foundation, founder of the Campaign for Liberty, and distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He and Carol, his wife of fifty-three years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5399'),
(5822, 'The Library of Shadows', 'Mikkel Birkegaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** **An engrossing Danish literary thriller of intrigue, conspiracy, and the extraordinary power of reading****** Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings through readingÂ—to seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, and manipulate you into thinking exactly what they want you to. When Luca Campelli dies a sudden and violent death, his son Jon inherits his second-hand bookshop, Libri di Luca, in Copenhagen. Jon had not seen his father for 20 yearsÂ—since the mysterious death of his mother. After Lucaâ€™s death is followed by an arson attempt on the shop, Jon is forced to explore his familyâ€™s past. Unbeknownst to him, the bookshop has for years been hiding a remarkable secret. It is the meeting place of a society of booklovers and readers who have maintained a tradition of immense power passed down from the days of the great library of ancient Alexandria. Now someone is trying to destroy them, and Jon finds he must fight to save himself and his new friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2846'),
(5823, 'A Lick of Frost', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie, onetime private investigator in the mortal world. To be crowned queen, I must first continue the royal bloodline and give birth to an heir of my own. If I fail, my aunt, Queen Andais, will be free to do what she most desires: install her twisted son, Cel, as monarch . . . and kill me. My royal guards surround me, and my best lovedâ€“my Darkness and my Killing Frostâ€“are always beside me, sworn to protect and make love to me. But still the threat grows greater. For despite all my carnal efforts, I remain childless, while the machinations of my sinister, sadistic Queen and her confederates remain tireless. So my bodyguards and I have slipped back into Los Angeles, hoping to outrun the gathering shadows of court intrigue. But even exile isnâ€™t enough to escape the grasp of those with dark designs.Now King Taranis, powerful and vainglorious ruler of faerieâ€™s Seelie Court, has leveled accusations against my noble guards of a heinous crimeâ€“and has gone so far as to ask the mortal authorities to prosecute. If he succeeds, my men face extradition to faerie and the hideous penalties that await them there. But I know that Taranisâ€™s charges are baseless, and I sense that his true target is me. He tried to kill me when I was a child. Now I fear his intentions are far more terrifying.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2784'),
(5824, 'Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **â€œA TOUCHING, ELEGIAC COLLECTION OF STORIES about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years, about the heart and other organs. . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming.â€â€“*Newsweek***â€œTHESE STORIES SHARE A THEME OF RETROSPECT AND A BITTERSWEET TONE OF FORGIVENESS. . . . Updike, who has found in Rabbit an indispensable, if unlikely, vehicle for his truest insights into the mysterious of manhood, the promise of American life and the operations of divine grace, could no more pass up the opportunity for a further Rabbit report than Rabbit himself could forgo a bowl of macadamia nuts. . . . His observations eddy and swirl into the main stream of his narrative, swelling it with life.â€*â€“The New York Times Book Review***â€œ â€˜RABBIT REMEMBEREDâ€™ IS A THING OF RICH SATISFACTION. . . . IMPOSSIBLE TO FORGET . . . Throughout the collection are passages of stylistic certainty and bittersweet intimacy.â€*â€“The Boston Sunday Globe***â€œOUTSTANDING WORK . . . We always suspected that Updike would try to pull one more Rabbit out of his hat. Now, some 10 years after the death of everybodyâ€™s favorite Updike character, Updike has done just that, and with great success. . . . â€˜Rabbit Rememberedâ€™ ranks with his best work.â€*â€“The Star-Ledger***â€œGLIMMERING . . . SEDUCTIVE . . . JOHN UPDIKE HITS HIS STRIDEâ€*â€“Entertainment Weekly***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3147'),
(5825, 'Lidia Cooks From the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes', 'Lidia Matticchio Bastianich &amp; Tanya Bastianich Manuali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of five previous books, four of them accompanied by nationally syndicated public television series. She is the owner of the New York City restaurant Felidia (among others), and she lectures on and demonstrates Italian cooking throughout the country. She lives on Long Island, and can be reached at her Web site, www.lidiasitaly.com. Tanya Bastianich Manuali, Lidia''s daughter, received her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from Oxford University. Since 1996 she has led food/wine/art tours of Italy. She lives with her husband and children on Long Island. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6058'),
(5826, 'Lie down with lions', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them... "A deadly romantic triangle, a clandestine mission with global stakes, an exotic location, a plot as gripping and ingenious as Eye of the Needle ... engineered to perfection with breathless acceleration. I couldn''t put it down!" - Los Angeles Times "Masterful... plot and counterplot, treachery, cunning and killing ... keep you on edge every moment" - Associated Press\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2934');
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(5827, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong', 'James W. Loewen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Art and text sum up the new thinking about Columbus in a graphically appealing format. Using this colorful 32" x 21" poster, students are introduced to artwork and writings from primary sources on the early history of the Americas. With this original material, teachers can help students understand the perspectives of people who were here first, analyze historical myths, and read their textbooks more critically. The booklet provides a full discussion of this period in history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1762'),
(5828, 'The Lies of Locke Lamora', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Oceanâ€™s Eleven, and entirely enthralling.â€¦An orphanâ€™s life is harshâ€“and often shortâ€“in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chainsâ€“a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected â€œfamilyâ€ of orphansâ€“a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworldâ€™s most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerfulâ€“and more ambitiousâ€“than Locke has yet imagined.Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsaviâ€™s most trusted menâ€“and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorrâ€™s underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal gameâ€“or die trying.â€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3676'),
(5829, 'Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me', 'Chelsea&#39;s Family, Friends &amp; Other Victims &amp; Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of\n  <em>\n   Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they''ve all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they''ve lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Friends, family members, and co-workers of Chelsea Handler, who are happy to write a new book for Chelsea to promote since she''s feeling too lazy to write one herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7646'),
(5830, 'Lies, Inc', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dick was...one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced in this century." --_LA Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If there''s such a thing as ''black science fiction,'' Philip K. Dick is its Pirandello, its Beckett and its Pinter." --Harlan Ellison\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novellla\n <em>\n  The Unteleported Man\n </em>\n , which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In\n <em>\n  Lies, Inc.\n </em>\n , fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. This publication marks its first complete appearance in the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale''s Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never comeback. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale''s Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6506'),
(5831, 'Life', 'Keith Richards &amp; James Fox (Contributor)', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones''s first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970''s when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller\n  <i>\n   White Mischief\n  </i>\n  . He lives in London with his wife and sons.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4880'),
(5832, 'Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: By Charles Dickens', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized 1843-1844) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. Like nearly all of Dickens'''' novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly installments. Early sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed the author to satirically portray America, which he had recently visited, as a near wilderness, whose pockets of civilization were filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. Th.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8810'),
(5833, 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This enchanting tale, originally written more than 100 years ago by L. Frank Baum, marries all the magic and fantasy of *The Wizard of Oz* to the classic Christmas tale. Nicholas is a mortal child found in the forest and raised by a band of woodland fairies and elves, where he learns to whittle small trinkets and toys from wood. As he grows older, he makes it his mission in life to make children happy by carving and delivering toys. Such traditions like hanging stockings on the chimney, Clausâ€™s flying reindeer, and St. Nickâ€™s immortality are explained through Baumâ€™s colorful narrative thread. Award winning painter Charles Santore, who has interpreted such classics as *Peter Rabbit*, *The Little Mermaid*, and *The Wizard of Oz*, beautifully re-imagines this Christmas fairytale, which is sure to become a Christmas classic on childrenâ€™s bookshelves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3173'),
(5834, 'Life Expectancy', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacyâ€”a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers'' waiting room and his dying father''s bedside. It''s a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm''s fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandsonâ€”five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.Rudy is all too ready to discount his father''s last words as a dying man''s delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson''s birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactylyâ€”the unexplained anomal of fused digitsâ€”on his left foot. Suddenly the old man''s predictions take on a chilling significance.What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy''s story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrousâ€”a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1444'),
(5835, 'Life Is Meals: A Food Lover&#39;s Book of Days', 'James Salter &amp; Kay Salter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of\n <em>\n  A Sport and a Pastime\n </em>\n teams with his wife, his 30-year cooking companion, to produce a "dinner book," a quirky cornucopia of recipes, historical notes, household hints, brief surveys of foodstuffs (eggs, salt, avocados, doughnuts, cheeses, olives, martinis, etc.) and utensils (forks, knives or toothpicks, say), appreciation of friends met both in life (including Alice Waters and Julia Child) and through books (Lord Byron, Anna Karenina) and random observations (what makes a good waiter) and advice of all kinds. For example, six "days" in January are dedicated to the useful art of giving a dinner party, but in fact, tips on, or accounts of picnics and parties (clearly a delight for both Salters), are everywhere. Their recipes are simple and good (Polpettone alla Toscana; Chicken Marengo; Fraises Ã  la Cussy; Gazpacho) and can usually be made in advance, leaving the cooks free to socialize. But this volume is not chiefly one of recipes or hints (though both may prove practical). The Salters call it a "bedside book" and, with its attractive packaging and charming illustrations by Fabrice Moireau, it should make the perfect hostess gift, not always an easy thing to choose, say the authors.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 20)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI expected a leisurely, engaging conversation about living and eating from\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n â€“largely because of my admiration for the penetrating and gorgeously written fiction of co-author James Salter, whose 1967 novel,\n <em>\n  A Sport and a Pastime\n </em>\n , is one of a dozen of the most important novels of the past half century. And I got it. In this delectable ragout of food lore, history, anecdote, instruction and recipes, Salter and his equally engaging wifeâ€“journalist and playwright Kayâ€“are like a couple you might encounter in a railway dining car wending its way through the Andes or Alps: welcoming, knowledgeable and enthusiastic eaters and drinkers . . . [And] they never met a piece of trivia they wouldnâ€™t chew on. . . . As its subtitle suggests,\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n is broken into 365 brief entriesâ€“from a few paragraphs to a page and a half eachâ€“some of them seasonal or specific to a given day, others offered at random. . . . Other entries are built on reminiscences of wonderful outings to four-star restaurants and appealing dives around the world and to recollections of home-cooked meals with friends from the worlds of books, theater, film or art. . . . In a show of due diligence,\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n also pays charming tribute to titans of modern American cookingâ€“from Julia Child to James Beard to pioneering restaurateur and chef Alice Watersâ€“either through appealing vignettes about their exploits in and out of the kitchen or through recipes they shared with the authors. On top of all that, there is plenty of kitchen wisdom dispensed, some of it ostensibly rudimentary but really worth being reminded of. . . . [This] is a frequently fascinating, always companionable book, one that most people will choose to keep by the bed or easy chair for occasional forays into the intriguing world the Salters describe and wax so lyrically and enthusiastically about. Alternatively, if youâ€™re the type who tends to be invited for dinner at the homes of others, the book might make what is commonly called a â€˜hostess gift.â€™ . . . [You] can rest assured youâ€™ll be invited back.â€\n <br />\n â€“Rod Cockshutt,\n <em>\n  Raleigh News &amp; Observer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of my favorite new books is\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n .â€\n <br />\n â€“Joe Stumpe,\n <em>\n  Wichita Eagle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s such a joy when you stumble upon a book as delightful as\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n . . . . This book is a fabulous little gemâ€“the authors wrote an entry for each day of the year, all unrelated, so you can dip in and out as you wish. . . . If youâ€™re a foodie, a lover of trivia or just someone who appreciates a good, casual read, pick up\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n . Itâ€™s delicious.â€\n <br />\n â€“Susan Shinn,\n <em>\n  Salisbury Post\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFond food memories are what make James and Kay Salterâ€™s\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n a volume to savor. Itâ€™s all about keeping a record of good food, good times, good friends.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jean Prescott,\n <em>\n  Sun Herald\n </em>\n (South Mississippi)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEvoking the mood of Ford Madox Fordâ€™s\n <em>\n  Provence\n </em>\n , A.J. Lieblingâ€™s\n <em>\n  Between Meals\n </em>\n , Hemingwayâ€™s\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , Robert Baldickâ€™s\n <em>\n  Dinner at Magnyâ€™s\n </em>\n , and Brillat-Savarinâ€™s\n <em>\n  Physiologie du goÃ»t\n </em>\n , [_Life is Meals_ is] a readable and quotable collection of thoughts and anecdotes inspired by an interest in food. It also recalls the sumptuous feasts in the novels of Huysmans, Proust, and Lampedusa; in James Salterâ€™s\n <em>\n  Light Years\n </em>\n ; and in Ingmar Bergmanâ€™s\n <em>\n  Fanny and Alexander\n </em>\n . This culinary calendar, which can be opened at random or read straight through, has entries for every day of the year, often pegged to birthdays of famous foodies. It evolved from the Saltersâ€™ notebooks, recipes, and readings, and includes â€˜things of interest, bits of history, opinions, occurrences, odd facts.â€™ Knowledgeable, lively, and amusing, it has a rare quality: charm. Filled with\n <em>\n  joie de livre\n </em>\n as well as\n <em>\n  joie de vivre\n </em>\n , it suggests a hedonistic yet civilized life . . . The Salters write about food history and wine lore, favorite cookbooks and classic recipes, great chefs from CarÃªme to Alice Waters, and magnetic restaurants. There are social nuances and shopping hints, memorable and disastrous dinner parties, shrewd gossip and literary anecdotes, personal history and European travel, and famous friends . . . . The Salters describe aphrodisiacs from truffles to chocolate and, like Casanova, emphasize â€˜the sensual importance of dining, the opening act of so many seductionsâ€™ . . . The authors serve up some superbly written recollections . . . .\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n is really about living well. As Graham Greene wrote of Fordâ€™s\n <em>\n  Provence\n </em>\n , it is â€˜an elaborate pattern of memories, historical and personal. The subject is the good lifeâ€“as it should be lived by all the world.â€™â€\n <br />\n â€“Jeffrey Meyers,\n <em>\n  Gastronomica: A Journal of Food and Culture\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Life is Meals_ is partly a memoir of parties [James and Kay Salter] have hosted together over the past 30-some years, partly a cookbook, partly a historical and literary food guide, and wholly an homage to the pleasures of creating and eating a meal.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Aspen Home _magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasant culinary collection of bits of history, essays, ideas, remembrances and recipesâ€“one for each day of the year.â€\n <br />\n â€“Marion Sullivant,\n <em>\n  Post and Courier\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis exquisite little book has a story for every day, from a commentary on peanut butter to a list of a kitchenâ€™s barest necessities to the menu on the Titanic on that fateful April 14. A reader could sample one piece a day, or gulp them down all at onceâ€“itâ€™d taste good either way.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Eugene Weekly _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWe need extra nourishment in the winter season. To me, that means feeding the body and feeding the mind. I have a recommendation that combines the two:\n <em>\n  Life is Meals: A Food Lover''s Book of Days\n </em>\n . A yearâ€™s worth of deliciously textured day-by-day entries about preparation, tasting, culinary history and personal history.â€\n <br />\n â€“Alan Cheuse,\n <em>\n  All Things Considered, National Public Radio\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDivine . . . [_Life is Meals_] has now kept me up two nights reading until the wee hours and smacking my lips. Itâ€™s a beauty, with charming illustrations. . . I appreciate the wit, the occasional recipe and the historical ambiance of this Salter effort toward fine living. What a great Christmas gift!â€\n <br />\n â€“Liz Smith,\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA remarkable marriage of food book and life-well-lived memoir . . . This most unusual book, with delightful illustrations, is to be savored again and again.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Seattle Post-Intelligencer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA quirky cornucopia of recipes, historical notes, household hints, brief surveys of foodstuffs (eggs, salt, avocados, doughnuts, cheeses, olives, martinis, etc.) and utensils (forks, knives, or toothpicks, say), appreciation of friends met both in life (including Alice Waters and Julia Child) and through books (Lord Byron, Anna Karenina), random observations (what makes a good waiter), and advice of all kinds . . . . [When] I began reading Life is Meals, I started dog-earing pages containing information I wanted to remember. After a few weeksâ€™ worth of entries, I realized Iâ€™d marked every other page . . . . [With] its attractive packaging and charming illustrations, it should make the perfect hostess gift.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jerry Miller,\n <em>\n  San Diego Reader\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA charming collection of brief essays on food and wine, with 37 recipes and beautiful illustrations. The entries range from thumbnail biographies of the great chefs to the sauces of ancient Greece to dinner parties with John Irving . . . The Salters make entertaining seem an essential social act and will inspire anyone to get into the kitchen. The recipes represent home cooking at its best, including classics like Gazpacho, Blinis, and Chicken Marengo . . . This lovely miscellanea is fun.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJames Salter is one of the great bon vivants of our time; his novels and stories are full of the details of fine living. This book of days pays homage to great writers, great meals, great conversations and essential ingredients. Auguste Escoffier, Brillat-Savarin, Waverly Root, Alice Waters, James Beard and others are notably remembered; dinners in Sag Harbor with Jason Epstein, dinners at the Saltersâ€™ house in Aspen, Colorado with writers, snippets from the Saltersâ€™ books of dinner-party details (kept for years) and recipes, of course (Tuscan meatloaf, figs in whiskey, chili con carne and many others), become tableaux in the readerâ€™s mind. Picture James and Kay Salter in Paris at the birth of their son, asking the doctor to wet the newbornâ€™s lips with ChÃ¢teau Latour, like the ancient kings of France. The book is a safe haven, a bastion of civilization, protection from all kinds of heavy weather.â€\n <br />\n â€“Susan Salter Reynolds,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs entertaining as it is informative,\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n is beautifully illustrated and full of much more than recipes or food lore (although it includes both). Written by PEN/Faulkner Award-winner James Salter and hisÂ wifeÂ Kay, the book is packed with fascinating tidbits. The charm of\n <em>\n  Life is Meals\n </em>\n is the quirky selection and arrangement of facts. Although some entries offer a historical food fact (the menu on the Titanic on the night it went down), others are random observations (what makes a good waiter) or tips on throwing a dinner party, which fruits go with which cheeses,Â or the evolution of the fork.Â This is a book to keep by the bedside and give to every foodie on your list.â€\n <br />\n â€“Lisa Waddle,\n <em>\n  Bookpage\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf you have ev...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8126'),
(5836, 'Life Itself', 'Roger Ebert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of\n  <em>\n   Siskel &amp; Ebert at the Movies\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roger Ebert''s journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily, and took him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the\n  <em>\n   Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  , launching a lifetime''s adventures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions; his struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his years at the\n  <em>\n   Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  , his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. He remembers his friendships with Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Oprah Winfrey, and Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote\n  <em>\n   Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\n  </em>\n  and an ill-fated Sex Pistols movie). He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn''t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."\n  <br />\n  -from\n  <em>\n   LIFE ITSELF\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11233'),
(5837, 'Life of Pi', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3874'),
(5838, 'The Life You&#39;ve Imagined', 'Kristina Riggle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two childhood friends reunite when stressful circumstances bring them back to their hometown. Anna, distraught over the loss of a beloved mentor, takes a leave of absence from her law firm and returns to her mother, Maeve, and their family convenience store. Cami deals with a gambling addiction and breakup by hiding out at her fatherâ€™s home. Sadly, coming home doesnâ€™t bring them the solace they seek. Maeveâ€™s store is being threatened by an upscale development. Anna is nursing lingering feelings for the high-school sweetheart she left, who now has a wife and family. Cami still mourns her motherâ€™s long-ago death and resents her alcoholic fatherâ€™s emotional withdrawal. Riggle, author of Real Life and Liars (2009), explores what happens when real life diverges sharply from childhood dreams. Her strong and complicated female characters are interesting and likable, and she ably weaves together multiple story lines. --Aleksandra Walker\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBacked by Riggleâ€™s trademark unflinching honesty and imbued with heart and hope, The Life Youâ€™ve Imagined is a terrific novel about love and loss, letting go and holding on. A book to share with family and friendsâ€”I loved it.â€ (Melissa Senate, author of The Secret of Joy )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKristina Riggle writes womenâ€™s fiction with soul. Her characters are both familiar and quirky, and reading their stories is like spending a weekend catching up with your oldest friends. You come away laughing and also touched that someone knows you so well.â€ (Tiffany Baker, New York Times'' bestselling author, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Life Youâ€™ve Imagined is a richly woven story laced with unforgettable characters. Cami, Maeve, Anna, and Amy will snag your heart as they explore the sometimes-wide chasm between hope and reality. A beautiful book.â€ (Therese Walsh, author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn entertaining, challenging story with the potential to change us if we let it.â€ (Grand Rapids Press )\n</p>\n<p>\n Riggle, author of Real Life and Liars (2009), explores what happens when real life diverges sharply from childhood dreams. Her strong and complicated female characters are interesting and likable, and she ably weaves together multiple story lines. (Booklist )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7022'),
(5839, 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages', 'Tom Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holt''s latest comic fantasy gently twists the reader''s mind like a wet dishrag. Polly Mayer thinks she''s going crazy: her coffee keeps disappearing, someone else is doing her work, and a dry cleaner vanishes without a trace. Her brother, Don, assumes a rational explanation until he finds an object capable of working magic. Polly''s boss, Mr. Huos, knows quite a bit about some ongoing transdimensional skullduggery, but he has no idea who he is or where he came from. Holt (Blonde Bombshell) throws in a highly intelligent pig, a brass ring that isn''t, and a "chicken or the egg" riddle with universal ramifications, leaving readers clinging by their fingernails to this rapid-fire tale of a space-time continuum going manic. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner''s to pick up her dress for the party, it''s not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it''s going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.\n</p>\n<p>\n From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4680'),
(5840, 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don''t know it!"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."--The Arizona Daily Star "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(5841, 'Lifeblood', 'Penny Rudolph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. She leases parking space and the use of the rooftop helicopter pad to nearby businesses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7994'),
(5842, 'Light Boxes', 'Shane Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice. ** With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique style, this idiosyncratic debut introduces a new and exciting voice to readers of such authors as George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Yann Martel. In *Light Boxes*, the inhabitants of one closely-knit town are experiencing perpetual February. It turns out that a god-like spirit who lives in the sky, named February, is punishing the town for flying, and bans flight of all kind, including hot air balloons and even children''s kites. It''s February who makes the sun nothing but a faint memory, who blankets the ground with snow, who freezes the rivers and the lakes. As endless February continues, children go missing and more and more adults become nearly catatonic with depression. But others find the strength to fight back, waging war on February.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4054'),
(5843, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3411'),
(5844, 'The Light of Other Days', 'Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone''s most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. What happens next is a story only Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter could tell. The Light of Other Days is a novel that will change your view of what it is to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8973'),
(5845, 'The light of western stars: a romance', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3715'),
(5846, 'Light on Snow: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert Dillon and his 12-year-old daughter, Nicky, in this delicate new novel by acclaimed author Shreve (_All He Ever Wanted_,etc.). In the woods surrounding their secluded home in Shepherd, N.H., Robert and Nicky make a startling discoveryâ€”a baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the incident leaves its mark. Still recovering from the painful loss of her mother and infant sister two years earlier, and readjusting to the shock of a sudden move from suburban Westchester to rural Shepherd, Nicky struggles to reconcile her innocent notions of adult integrity with the bleak reality of their discovery. The tenuous sense of normalcy Robert manages to sustain is broken with the appearance of Charlotte, the baby''s young mother, on his doorstep. Retold 18 years later by an adult Nicky but written in the present tense, the story shifts brilliantly between childlike visions of a simple world and the growing realization of its cruel ambiguities. Aside from a few saccharine moments and a rather pat ending, Shreve does a skilled job of portraying grief, conflict and anger while leaving room for hope, redemption and renewal. Her characters are sympathetic without being pitiable, and her prose remains deceptively simple and eloquent throughout.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics agree that\n <em>\n  Light on Snow\n </em>\n is not Shreveâ€™s best work. One called it simplistic, while another complained that the charactersâ€™ actions were not believable. Some questioned Shreveâ€™s decision to tell the story from the point of view of an adult Nicky, whose removal from the events deprives the narrative of immediacy. Several readers did find Nickyâ€™s story affecting, and Shreve devotees may enjoy this book as a lesser effort by a favorite author. Those seeking an introduction to her work, however, might look for a different place startâ€”_The Pilotâ€™s Wife_, perhaps.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7690'),
(5847, 'Lightbringers and Rainmakers', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     According to his business cards, Harry Ransom is a "professor" and a "lightbringer" and "licensed"... not that business cards mean much in a town called Disorder.\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6880'),
(5848, 'Lightning', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bolt of lightning brings a blond-haired stranger into Laura Shane''s life. But is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(5849, 'The Lightning Thief', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The gods of Olympus are alive in the 21st Century. They still fall in love with mortals and have children who might become great heroes, but most of these children meet horrible fates at the hands of monsters by the age of twelve. Only a few learn the truth of their identity and make it to Half Blood Hill, a Long Island summer camp dedicated to training young demigods. Such is the revelation that launches young Percy Jackson on a quest to help his real father, Poseidon, avert a war among the gods. With the help of Grover the satyr and Annabeth the daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction - Zeus master bolt. Along the way, they face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop them. Most of all, Percy must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4231'),
(5850, 'Like Mandarin', 'Kirsten Hubbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It''s hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it''s not her mother''s pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give anything to be like Mandarin. When they''re united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, liberating the town''s animal-head trophies, and searching for someplace magic. Grace plays along when Mandarin suggests they run away together. Blame it on the crazy-making wildwinds plaguing their Badlands town. Because all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin''s unique beauty hides a girl who''s troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand betrayal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8715'),
(5851, 'Like Warm Sun on Nekkid Bottoms', 'Charles Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A clothing executive, a stripper, a comic book collector and a minister are stuck in a nudist colony! Without meaning to, Corky Wopplesdown has just gotten sexy lingerie model, Wisper Nuckeby, fired. In an effort to somehow make things right he sets off on a wild journey to find her while in the unlikely company of a rude, horny stripper, a repressed minister, an unexpeced fiancee and a comic book collecting pervert. Then Corky''s car breaks down in the tiny hamlet of Nikkid Bottoms, a little, coastal village where the sun is warm, the people are nice, and the clothing is optional. Funny, edgy and wickedly satirical, this is the irreverent Chuck Austen writing at his ingeniously zany, and unbelievably outrageous best. Fully illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6877'),
(5852, 'The Likeness: A Novel', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The haunting follow up to the Edgar Awardâ€“winning debut In the WoodsTana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, In the Woods. Now both French and Detective Cassie Maddox return to unravel a case even more sinister and enigmatic than the first. Six months after the events of In the Woods, an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used. Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more importantly, who is this girl? A disturbing tale of shifting identities, The Likeness firmly establishes Tana French as an important voice in suspense fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9947'),
(5853, 'Lilith&#39;s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient vampire, beautiful beyond words, a vulnerable young man drawn to her by a power beyond his understanding, two desperate parents searching across the world for the son they love -- these are the riveting, unexpected elements of Whitley Strieber''s extraordinary new novel.  Lilith, the ages-old mother of the dying race of vampires, has been forced to come out of her cave deep in the Egyptian desert in search of food -- human blood. But she knows nothing about the modern world. She can''t drive a car, rent a room, turn on a TV. She struggles to New York, penniless, vulnerable, and starving, protected only by her beauty and her power to capture men with desire...especially certain very special men.  The instant she sees young Ian Ward, she knows that he is part vampire himself. She knows that Ian, if he ever tastes human blood, will belong to her forever. And she needs him desperately, to help her survive and live in this harsh new world of jets and credit cards and guns. She sets out on a campaign of seduction -- as sensuous as it is terrifying -- to touch human blood to Ian''s lips, which will then become for him a drug a thousand times more addictive than heroin.  Ian''s father, Paul Ward, part vampire turned expert and obsessive hunter of vampires, knows that if the blood transforms Ian, Paul will have to kill his own son. The titanic conflict between father and son and seductress, hunter and hunted and huntress, comes to its surprise conclusion in the secret chambers beneath the great pyramids, where the hidden truths of all human history are stored.  From its beginning in the dark back alleys of Cairo to its totally unexpected ending, "Lilith''s Dream" draws the reader down seductive new paths of discovery, into places where no novel has ever before. With "Lilith''s Dream" Whitley Strieber has created a vampire so original and a story so new that he has virtually invented a new genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5953'),
(5854, 'The Limit', 'Kristen Landon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . .With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn''t let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the monthly debt limit imposed by the government. Thirteen-year-old Matt briefly wonders if he might be next, but quickly dismisses the thought. After all, his parents are financially responsible, unlike the parents of those other kids. As long as his parents remain within their limit, the government will be satisfied and leave them alone. But all it takes is one fatal visit to the store to push Matt''s family over their limit--and to change his reality forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2893');
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(5855, 'Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?', 'Seth Godin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"The only way to get what you''re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."** In bestsellers such as *Purple Cow* and *Tribes*, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. But this book is different. It''s about you - your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose. There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there''s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there''s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they''re indispensable. And in today''s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom. Have you ever found a shortcut that others missed? Seen a new way to resolve a conflict? Made a connection with someone others couldn''t reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become indispensable, by overcoming the resistance that holds people back. *Linchpin* will show you how to join the likes of... *Keith Johnson, who scours flea markets across the country to fill Anthropologie stores with unique pieces. *Marissa Mayer, who keeps Google focused on the things that really matter. *Jason Zimdars, a graphic designer who got his dream job at 37signals without a rÃ©sumÃ©. *David, who works at Dean and Deluca coffeeshop in New York. He sees every customer interaction as a chance to give a gift and is cherished in return. As Godin writes, "Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It''s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3786'),
(5856, 'The Lincoln Lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life."\n</p>\n<p>\n Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Mickey''s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly''s literary gifts. There''s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he''s no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He''s haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he''s on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can''t help seeing dollar signs: Roulet''s imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son''s innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet''s personality and his past. Levin''s murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he''s in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book''s first half involving the reader in Mickey''s complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5335'),
(5857, 'Lincoln&#39;s Dreams', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a researcher for a popular historical novelist, Jeff Johnston finds himself immersed in the minutiae of the Civil War, tracking down the name of a general''s favorite horse or the spot where Lincoln''s son was buried. His meeting with Annie, the patient of old friend Dr. Richard Madison, changes his perspective. While the novelist contemplates a book on Lincoln''s prophetic dreams and consults sleep specialist Madison, Jeff discovers that Annie is having vivid, horrible dreams of the Civil War containing details she couldn''t possibly know. The point of view is unmistakably that of defeated Confederate leader Robert E. Lee. Jeff tries to shield Annie from the opportunistic reach of both novelist and doctor, but he can''t protect her from herself, for she feels duty bound to refight the war if it will finally allow Lee some measure of peace. This charming, unpredictable book, with its unforced subtext of more recent wars and their veterans'' lingering bad dreams, is an impressive first novel from a talented writer whose short stories have already won acclaim.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haunted by the nightmares of Annie, a young woman he has just met, historical researcher Jeff Johnston leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure for her troubles. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5754'),
(5858, 'Line of Control', 'Tom Clancy; Jeff Rovin; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s a mission that only Striker -- the military arm of Op-Center -- can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America''s most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown -- a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free.... A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, *Tom Clancy''s Op-Center* is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4203'),
(5859, 'Linux Firewalls', 'Michael Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Linux firewalls provide capabilities that rival commercial firewalls, and are built upon the powerful Netfilter infrastructure in the Linux kernel.\n <i>\n  Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response\n </i>\n explores using Netfilter as an intrusion detection system (IDS) by combining it with Snort rulesets and custom open source software created by the author. Providing concrete examples to illustrate concepts, the book discusses Linux firewall log analysis and policies, passive network authentication and authorization, exploit packet traces and Snort ruleset emulation, and more. Perl and C code snippets are included to help readers maximize the deployment of Linux firewalls as effective mechanisms for the detection and prevention of various network-based attacks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5943'),
(5860, 'A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since the publication of *Wicked*, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire''s fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire''s *A Lion Among Men* is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2085'),
(5861, 'Lion in the Valley', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses -- and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death -- have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(5862, 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive. Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So join the battle to end all battles. The second volume in The Chronicles of NarniaÂ® The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Narnia .... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change ... and a great sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(5863, 'The Lion&#39;s Game', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille''s monster bestseller __, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn''t stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi''s eye after his dad''s murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He''s heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy''s got such a gift for terrorism he''s earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted Ã©migrÃ© mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he''s an infidel too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI''s sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey''s match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad''s methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad''s and Corey''s points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we''re not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we''re sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n put DeMille''s social satire on a par with Edith Wharton''s, and he''s great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he''s on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book''s real bad guys wear the priciest suits.\n</p>\n<p>\n DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like\n <em>\n  The Lion''s Game\n </em>\n , he''s earned it.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and star of DeMille''s Plum Island, is back in this breezily narrated high-octane thriller about the hunt for a Libyan terrorist who has set his sights on some very specific targets--the Americans who bombed Libya on April 15, 1986. The novel begins with a tense airport scene--a transcontinental flight from Paris is flying into New York, and no one has been able to contact the pilot via radio. On the flight is Asad Khalil, a Libyan defector who will be met by Special Contract Agent Corey, his FBI "mentor" Kate Mayfield, and the rest of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force. But when the plane lands, everyone on board is dead--except Khalil, who disappears after attacking the ATTF''s airport headquarters. Has he left the country? Not if John Corey''s right--and we know he is, thanks to gripping third-person chapters detailing Khalil''s mission alternating with Corey''s easy-going first-person narration. And by making Khalil, who lost most of his family in the 1986 bombing, as much of a protagonist as Corey, DeMille adds several shades of gray to what in less skillful hands might have been cartoonishly black and white. If anything, the reader ends up rooting for the bad guy, Khalil, with his mission of vengeance, is a more complex character than John Corey, who never drops his ex-cop bravado (thus trivializing a romance that moves from first date to proposal of marriage within the few days the plot covers). But as usual, DeMille artfully constructs a compulsively readable thriller around a troubling story line, slowly developing his villain from a faceless entity into a nation''s all-too-human nemesis. Agent, Nick Ellison. 500,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC main selection; 12-city author tour; Time-Warner audio. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7111'),
(5864, 'A Lion&#39;s Tale', 'Jericho, Chris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10527'),
(5865, 'A Lion&#39;s Tale: Around the World in Spandex', 'Chris Jericho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chris Jericho worked his way into the big time of wrestling after training in Canada. He had his first pro fight at just 19, but it wasn''t until he was 25 that he made the big time, joining the WCW. Within a year he had won his first title. Finally, in August 1999 he moved to the WWF (now WWE) where he would eventually become one of the biggest names on their books, and bedcome the undisputed Heavyweight Champion.In this fascinating account, he relives his early days in the sport in Mexico and Japan, and working his way up alongside Chris Benoit and Lance Storm. He also recalls his rivalries with The Rock, Steve Austin and Triple H among others. He retired from the sport in August 2005, but there have been many rumours since then of a comeback. A Lion''s Tale is as honest, outspoken and direct as the man himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7460'),
(5866, 'Lionboy', 'Zizou Corder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When his parents are kidnapped, whats ten-year-old Charlie Ashanti to do? Rescue them, thats what! He doesnt know who has taken his parents, or why. But he does know that one special talent will aid him on his journeyhis amazing ability to speak Cat. Charlie calls on his clever feline friendsfrom stray city cats to magnificent caged lionsfor help. With them by his side, Charlie uses wit and courage to try to find his parents before its too late.  With its whirlwind action and suspense, Lionboy is a nonstop page-turner. Already being compared to J. K. Rowling, this mother-daughter writing team will fascinate readers of all ages with their Cat-speaking hero!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7792'),
(5867, 'The Lions of Al-Rassan', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9676'),
(5868, 'Lips Unsealed: A Memoir', 'Belinda Carlisle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Goâ€™s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Goâ€™s created, but it also conceals the trials and secret demons that the members of the groupâ€”and, in particular, its lead singer, Belinda Carlisleâ€”struggled with on their rise to stardom. Leaving her unstable childhood home at the age of eighteen, Belinda battled serious weight issues, having been teased for her pudginess throughout grade school, and grappled with her confusion about being deserted by her biological father as a child. This talented but misguided teen found solace in the punk rock world that so openly welcomed misfitsâ€”even though acceptance had its price. Not long after forming, the Go-Goâ€™s became queens of the L.A. punk sceneâ€”they sold out venues, attracted a fiercely loyal fan base, and outpartied almost every male band they toured withâ€”and in the process kicked down the doors to the all-boysâ€™ club of eighties rock and roll. With a chart-topping debut album, Belinda found herself launched to international superstardomâ€”and with that fame came more access to A-list parties, and even more alcohol and drugs to fuel Go-Goâ€™s mania. Inevitably, Belinda began to self-destruct. Lips Unsealed is filled with the wild stories that Belinda Carlisle fans are dying to hearâ€”stories about the bandâ€™s crazy days on tour with acts like the Police and Madness and the fabulous parties and people to whom the Go-Goâ€™s had exclusive access. But more than that, this candid memoir reveals the gritty flip side to the glitz, as Belinda shares her private struggles with abusive relationships, weight, and self-esteem, and a thirty-year battle with drug and alcohol addiction. This spellbinding and shocking look at her rise, fall, and eventual rebirth as a wife, mother, and sober artist will leave you wistfully fantasizing about the eighties decadence she epitomized, but also cringing at the dark despair hidden behind her charming smile. One of the rare adventures through rock stardom told by a woman, Lips Unsealed is ultimately a love letter to musicâ€”to the members of the Go-Goâ€™s, whoâ€™ve maintained lifelong friendships, and to the beloved husband and son who led Belinda to sobrietyâ€”and the story of a life that, though deeply flawed, was, and is still, fully lived.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Goâ€™s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Goâ€™s created, but it also conceals the trials and secret demons that the members of the groupâ€”and, in particular, its lead singer, Belinda Carlisleâ€”struggled with on their rise to stardom. Leaving her unstable childhood home at the age of eighteen, Belinda battled serious weight issues, having been teased for her pudginess throughout grade school, and grappled with her confusion about being deserted by her biological father as a child. This talented but misguided teen found solace in the punk rock world that so openly welcomed misfitsâ€”even though acceptance had its price. Not long after forming, the Go-Goâ€™s became queens of the L.A. punk sceneâ€”they sold out venues, attracted a fiercely loyal fan base, and outpartied almost every male band they toured withâ€”and in the process kicked down the doors to the all-boysâ€™ club of eighties rock and roll. With a chart-topping debut album, Belinda found herself launched to international superstardomâ€”and with that fame came more access to A-list parties, and even more alcohol and drugs to fuel Go-Goâ€™s mania. Inevitably, Belinda began to self-destruct. Lips Unsealed is filled with the wild stories that Belinda Carlisle fans are dying to hearâ€”stories about the bandâ€™s crazy days on tour with acts like the Police and Madness and the fabulous parties and people to whom the Go-Goâ€™s had exclusive access. But more than that, this candid memoir reveals the gritty flip side to the glitz, as Belinda shares her private struggles with abusive relationships, weight, and self-esteem, and a thirty-year battle with drug and alcohol addiction. This spellbinding and shocking look at her rise, fall, and eventual rebirth as a wife, mother, and sober artist will leave you wistfully fantasizing about the eighties decadence she epitomized, but also cringing at the dark despair hidden behind her charming smile. One of the rare adventures through rock stardom told by a woman, Lips Unsealed is ultimately a love letter to musicâ€”to the members of the Go-Goâ€™s, whoâ€™ve maintained lifelong friendships, and to the beloved husband and son who led Belinda to sobrietyâ€”and the story of a life that, though deeply flawed, was, and is still, fully lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(5869, 'Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fourteen years have passed since the necromancer Sabriel bound the Greater Dead Adept Kerrigor beyond the Ninth Gate and helped restore King Touchstone to the Old Kingdom throne. Now she rules at his side as Abhorsen, the sole necromancer of the Old Kingdom, keeping the people safe from the dark power of Free Magic. But this is not just Sabriel''s tale. It is also the story of Hedge, a mysterious necromancer who is digging up a monstrous evil that could utterly destroy the Old Kingdom. And it is the story of Prince Sameth, Touchstone and Sabriel''s only son, who would rather fight an entire army of Dead than disappoint his beloved parents. And Sam''s friend Nick, who has unknowingly loosed Free Magic into the Old Kingdom, blissfully ignorant of its complete malevolence. But mostly, this is the tale of Lirael, the only daughter of the future-seeing Clayr who does not possess the Sight. Burying the pain of her Sightlessness in the Clayr''s great library, Third Assistant Librarian Lirael''s insatiable curiosity will soon lead her to an unbelievable destiny that may even be connected with that of the great Sabriel herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Garth Nix''s stunning sequel to __, full of Mages, Moggets, and even a Disreputable Dog, is on par with the equally superb works of Philip Pullman and William Nicholson. And fantasy lovers of all ages will be thrilled to discover that\n  <em>\n   Lirael\n  </em>\n  ends with more questions than answers, which will mean a third dip into Nix''s beguiling Charter Magic. Both exhilarating and mesmerizing, this fine novel is pure enchantment. (Ages 12 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Nix''s sequel to Sabriel, readers return to the entrancing and complicated Old Kingdom: a world of necromancy, seers, dangerous monsters and talking animals (the cat Mogget is back). The relationships between the Kingdom''s various realms and the magic may take some unraveling for readers new to the series, but the heroine''s plight will be instantly compelling. Lirael is the only one of a community of clairvoyant women not to be gifted with "the Sight," and the mystery of her parentage contributes to her alienation. Just after her 14th birthday, Lirael releases a Stilken (half-woman, half-crustacean) from a glass-covered coffin. Her act leads to a meeting with a healer (Lirael''s great-great-grandmother) who fortifies her and urges her to take as her only friend the impertinent "Disreputable Dog," a creature of suspicious magical origin whose true nature remains unknown. The overall plot may follow the expected course an evil magician threatens the well-being of the Old Kingdom and Lirael finds her destiny linked with that of handsome, nervous Prince Sameth (son of Sabriel) but startling subplots abound and keep the pages turning. The book ends on a cliffhanger, and Nix leaves nearly every major question unanswered. The evil is still at large, the Disreputable Dog still unexplained and Lirael''s mother''s desertion of her unresolved. Readers hoping for a satisfying ending will have to wait for the third in the series, to be titled Abhorsen, and tentatively scheduled for fall 2002. Ages 12-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6090'),
(5870, 'Lisa Jackson&#39;s Bentz &amp; Montoya Bundle: Hot Blooded, Cold Blooded, Shiver, Absolute Fear, Lost Souls, Malice, &amp; an Exclusive Extended Excerpt From Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lisa Jackson''s Bentz &amp; Montoya Bundle: Hot Blooded, Cold Blooded, Shiver, Absolute Fear, Lost Souls, Malice, &amp; an Exclusive EXTENDED Excerpt from DeviousHot BloodedA First One Dead Body...A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day''s work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two? Then Another...A second hooker''s corpse turns up. Samantha''s ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious claiming to be a woman from her past--a woman who''s been dead for years. With Detective Rick Bentz convinced that the serial killer prowling the shadowy streets of New Orleans is somebody close to Samantha, she doesn''t dare trust anyone. Especially not Ty Wheeler, her seductive new neighbor who seems to know more about her than a stranger should. ...And AnotherSomebody has discovered Samantha''s darkest secret. Somebody is convinced that lives must be sacrificed to pay for her sins. So far, the victims have been strangers. But as a cunning, cold-blooded killer grows bolder, Samantha wonders in dread if she will be the next to die...Cold BloodedHis Vengeance Will Be Repeated. . .A woman''s slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town... And Repeated. . .Weeks later, another violent vision shatters Olivia Bechet''s sleep. Convinced a serial killer is stalking the city, Olivia turns to the authorities. But jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn''t believe her--even when a second body turns up, slain in exactly the same bizarre, ritualistic manner Olivia described... And Repeated...As New Orleans panics in the icy grip of a merciless killer, Olivia is frustrated by Bentz''s skepticism--and captivated by her attraction to him. But soon her dreams are invaded by images of another murder. One that has yet to be committed. This time, Olivia recognizes not only the victim''s face--but the murderer''s. And both are closer than she ever imagined...ShiverThe Crimes Are UnthinkableA serial killer is turning the Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs--no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. It''s a very sick game, and it''s only just begun. The Fear Is RealAbby Chastain left New Orleans long ago and for good reason. Now she''s back where she feels watched, as if the devil himself is scraping a fingernail along her spine. It doesn''t help that Detective Reuben Montoya is convinced she''s somehow the key to unlocking these horrible crimes--a mystery that has something to do with Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, a decaying old asylum where unspeakable crimes were once committed, and a human predator may still wait. The Truth Is DeadlyAs more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios, Montoya and Abby are in a desperate race to stop a killer whose terrifying crimes are bringing them ever nearer to a shocking revelation. For the past is never completely gone. Its sins must be avenged. And a twisted psychopath is getting close enough to make them...Absolute FearEvery Serial Killer...A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For...Eve Renner knows Our Lady of Virtues Hospital well. As the daughter of one of its doctors, she spent her childhood exploring its secrets chambers, hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Now, somewhere in the decaying asylum lies the key to a b\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7724'),
(5871, 'Lisey&#39;s Story', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it''s Lisey''s turn to face Scott''s demons, Lisey''s turn to go to Boo''ya Moon. What begins as a widow''s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King''s most personal and powerful novel, Lisey''s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4293'),
(5872, 'Listen to the Mockingbird', 'Penny Rudolph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Its 1861 in New Mexico Territory and the Civil War is about to have a startling impact on Matty Summerhayes. Matty hopes her horse ranch will earn enough money so she may return to the East. Then a stranger dies on her land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7992'),
(5873, 'Listen to Your Heart', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her parents gone, her twin sister, Kitty, about to be married, and no hint of Mr. Right on the horizon, Josie Dupre is lonesome. Luckily, she has her booming New Orleans catering business, and her fluffy white dog, Rosie, to keep her company. Then, with all the subtlety of Bourbon Street at Mardi Gras, a jumbo-sized Boxer destroys Josie''s flowering windowboxes, and in the process, brazenly captures petite Rosie''s undying devotion. Now that Rosie and the aptly named Zip are an item, Josie finds herself an unwilling chaperone - and doing her best to avoid Zip''s owner, the irritatingly appealing Paul Brouillette. Anyone can see that the wealthy, sexy Paul is little more than a love ''em and leave ''em Cajun playboy. He''s all for l''amour, but Josie has no intention of falling for him. Still, ever since Paul came into her life, strange things have been happening. She hears music that isn''t there. Then she smells her mother''s favorite cologne in an empty room. Maybe her mom''s trying to send her a message. Something about finding love where you least expect it . . . And listening to your heart.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FERN MICHAELS is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood series, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, Up Close and Personal, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is apassionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11238'),
(5874, 'Listening Woman', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA good exciting mystery that has everything.â€ (Pittsburgh Press )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHillermanâ€™s mysteries are special . . . Listening Woman is among the best.â€ (Washington Post )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man''s secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn''s investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5439'),
(5875, 'The Listerdale Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A selection of twelve classic mystery stories by the peerless Queen of Crime, including the acclaimed ''Philomel Cottage''''ÅšTwelve tantalizing cases''Åš the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed''s fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man''s sudden personality change; a retired inspector''s hunt for a murderess; a young woman''s impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer''s arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano''s hatred for a baritone; the case of the rajah''s emerald.All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twelve tantalising cases...the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed''s fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on atrain; a domestic murder investigation; a mild man''s sudden personality change; a retired inspector''s hunt for a murderess; a young woman''s impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer''s arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano''s hatred for a baritone; and the case of the Rajah''s emerald. All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5213'),
(5876, 'Lit: A Memoir', 'Mary Karr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Liars'' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr''s hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, ''continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal'' (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner''s descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection. Karr''s longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can''t outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in ''The Mental Marriott,'' with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, ''Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet!'' has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr''s relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2877'),
(5877, 'Literary Occasions: Essays', 'V. S. Naipaul &amp; Pankaj Mishra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul''s magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cultural meditations that was released last August, covering the last four decades of the Nobel laureate''s nonfiction work. The paperback of Writer pubs a month before this book, which collects Naipaul''s literary prose, a mixed bag including everything from reminiscences of his laconic childhood approach toward writing to his 1983 foreword to his celebrated 1961 novel, A House for Mr. Biswas. Indeed, the most substantial piece here, "Prologue to an Autobiography," is also 20 years old and also previously published, as are the other 10 entries here. All touch on Naipaul''s Trinidadian upbringing and coming-of-age or his adult writing life in one way or another; together, they form a literary autobiography that has its apotheosis in the most recent piece, Naipaul''s 2001 Nobel lecture, "Two Worlds," which notes, "When I began I had no idea of the way ahead. I wished only to do a book." He has done many; this book is for readers interested in their sources.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have trusted to intuition," Naipaul confides in "Two Worlds," his elegant and poignant 2001 Nobel Prize lecture, one jewel among many in this engrossing collection of four decades'' worth of literary and autobiographical essays, a companion volume to\n <em>\n  The Writer and the World\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02]. Naipaul has also obeyed his unceasing need to understand life as lived outside the confines of the immigrant Indian community in the village of Chaguanas, Trinidad, in which he grew up. His sharp reminiscences reveal the source of his unflinching, often controversial analyses of cultural assumptions, the politics of prejudice, and the unreliability of history as he considers the confounding disconnection between his early desire to be a writer and his inability to lose himself in books because what he read had so little to do with his life. In writing about his painful struggle to find his writing voice, Oxford-educated Naipaul considers the legacy of imperialism and relates the incredibly moving story of his father, a self-taught writer. Naipaul''s vigorous interpretations of Conrad, Dickens, and R. K. Narayan, and candid self-disclosure cogently explicate the mysterious call to write and celebrate the radiance literature brings to lives otherwise relegated to the shadows.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6260'),
(5878, 'Littell, Jonathan', 'Toppy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9007'),
(5879, 'Little Bee', 'Chris Cleave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Little Bee\n  </em>\n  is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday--who should have stayed behind their resort''s walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world, which she claims she couldn''t explain to the girls from her village because they''d have no context for its abundance and calm. But she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day--with the right papers--and "no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." Where you have to give up the safety you''d assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chris Cleave''s\n  <em>\n   Little Bee\n  </em>\n  works because the unflinching, brutal story balances an outwardly political motive with rich, deep character development (and even some welcome humor), focusing narrowly on events before broadening to reveal some larger truths. Cleave''s firm grasp of human nature and his unsparing disdain for injustice allow him to articulate lives as different as those of Little Bee and the less-likeable Sarah; both characters, though, are unforgettable. Comparisons between Cleave and fellow Brits Ian McEwan and John Banville are apt. The only dissent came from the\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  , which took issue with the narrative voices and the rushed pace of the story. All others agreed, however, that Cleave''s sophomore effort is, as the\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  succinctly put it, "a loud shout of talent."Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8065'),
(5880, 'The Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know About Fighting', 'Lawrence A. Kane &amp; Kris Wilder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An exceptionally modest title for a volume so comprehensive. Kane and Wilder maintain an engaging, readable, and occasionally humorous style that makes the book not just incredibly useful, but hard to put down as well." --Barry Eisler, internationally bestselling author of the John Rain series, shodan in Kodokan judo.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Little Black Book of Violence will arm you with the knowledge and good sense to make informed choices in hazardous situations. While some yahoo spewing insults about your favorite sports team is worlds apart from a drug-crazed lunatic lunging at you with a sharp knife in his hands and bloodlust in his eyes, there is a large gray area in between these two extremes where hard and fast rules do not always apply. This is where wisdom, oftentimes hard-earned wisdom, makes the difference between good decisions and bad ones.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every time you engage in violence, no matter how small or trivial it may appear to be at the time, it has the potential of escalating into something extraordinarily serious. What is really worth fighting for when you might find yourself spending the rest of your life behind bars, confined to a wheelchair, or trying to dig yourself out of bankruptcy from beneath the crushing weight of a civil lawsuit? It is important to ask yourself, "Is this really worth fighting over?" While in some instances the response could legitimately be "Yes," more often than not it ought to be "No."\n</p>\n<p>\n More than mere techniques, this book fills in crucial information about street survival that most martial arts instructors don''t teach or even know. You will learn how to use awareness, avoidance, and de-escalation to help stave off violence. Despite the best intentions, however, you may still find yourself in situations where you have no choice but to fight and others where it is prudent to do so. Consequently you will also learn smart things you might want to try and dumb things you should attempt to avoid during a physical confrontation.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to learning strategies and techniques for defending yourself on the street you will also learn how to manage the aftermath of violence, including performing first aid, interacting with law enforcement, managing witnesses, finding a good attorney, navigating the legal system, dealing with the press, and overcoming psychological trauma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Men, who commit about 80 percent of all violent crimes, are twice as likely to become victims of aggressive behavior as women. While written primarily for this at-risk demographic, this comprehensive tome is essential reading for anyone who regularly deals with violence, thinks they may encounter a hostile situation, or who simply wants to increase their ability to survive a dangerous encounter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4396');
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(5881, 'The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World', 'G. Ip &amp; Mohamed El-Erian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A guide to understanding ''the dismal science'' and how economic concepts and institutions affect our daily lives" (_The Economist_, December 2010)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a must read in economic literacy." (_USA Today_, November 29, 2010)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Finally, an economics book that is neither dull nor inscrutable and that won''t put you to sleep. Greg Ip gives us a lucid and entertaining understanding of ''the dismal science'' and reveals how economic concepts and institutions affect our daily lives. This little gem can turn all of us into sophisticated and educated citizens."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Burton G. Malkiel\n </strong>\n , Professor of Economics, Princeton University; author of\n <em>\n  A Random Walk Down Wall Street\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Elements of Investing\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Greg Ip is one of the world''s best economic journalists. The Little Book of Economics will teach you much more than a little about the forces that shape all of our lives."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  N. Gregory Mankiw\n </strong>\n , Professor of Economics, Harvard University; author of\n <em>\n  Principles of Economics\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here''s the perfect way to understand the economy without breaking a sweat. Clearly written and easy to understand,\n <em>\n  The Little Book of Economics\n </em>\n guides you through what you need to know. Ip''s bright light illuminates places previously darkened by insider jargon and arcane formulae."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Robert B. Reich\n </strong>\n , Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; former U.S. Secretary of Labor\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book is an excellent introduction to basic economic concepts and ideas explained in clear and thoughtful ways. A must read in economic literacy." "\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Nouriel Roubini\n </strong>\n , Professor of Economics, New York University; Co-founder and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics\n</p>\n<p>\n "Greg Ip has the rare talent of making even the toughest topics easy to understand. In\n <em>\n  The Little of Book of Economics\n </em>\n , he tells you what you need to know with superb clarity and memorable examples. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a clear explanation of how the forces of economics shape the world."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Michael J. Mauboussin\n </strong>\n , Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management; Author of\n <em>\n  Think Twice\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One positive side-effect of the recent financial market meltdown that toppled giant, century-old institutions and cost millions their jobs is that it created a strong desire among many Americans to better understand how the U.S. economy functions. In\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n Â _Little Book of Economics_, Greg, Ip, one of the countryâ€™s most recognized and respected economics journalists, walks readers through how the economy really works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written for the inquisitive layman who doesnâ€™t want to plow through academic jargon and Greek letters or pore over charts and tables,\n <em>\n  The Little Book of Economics\n </em>\n Â offers indispensible insight into how the American economy works â€“ or, doesnâ€™t. With engaging and accessible prose, the book\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides a comprehensive understanding of each aspect of our economy from inflation and unemployment to international trade and finance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Serves as an insiderâ€™s guide to the people and institutions that control Americaâ€™s economy such as the Federal Reserve and the federal budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the roots of Americaâ€™s current economic crisis and the risks the country faces in its aftermath, such as stratospheric government debt, while offering advice on overcoming these threats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks readers through the basic concepts and terminology they need to understand economic news\n </li>\n <li>\n  Punctures myths and political spin from both the left and the right with candid and often surprising insight\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A must read for anyone who wants a better grasp of the economy without taking a course in economics ,\n <em>\n  The Little Book of Economics\n </em>\n Â is a unique and engaging look at how the economy works in all its wonderful and treacherous ways.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4871'),
(5882, 'A Little Dare', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Shelly Brockman walked into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland could almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they''d once shared. Then Shelly informed him he was the father of her son, the unruly preteen he''d arrested that day, and his fantasies turned to fury!\n</p>\n<p>\n Shelly had returned to her hometown in Georgia to save her son from the mean streets of Los Angeles. Getting to know his father would be good for her son. But would being so close to Dare--the only man to make her pulse race--reopen a wounded heart that had never healed? Or, would this be her final chance to win Dare''s love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7978'),
(5883, 'Little Drummer Girl', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The Constant Gardener -- : ''The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning'' -- A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail ''The book breathes life, anger and excitement'' -- Nigel Williams, Observer ''A cracking thriller'' -- Economist ''Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot ... essential reading'' -- Chris Woodhead, Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into ''the theatre of the real'' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11083'),
(5884, 'Little Earthquakes', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  First comes love. Then comes marriage. And then things start to get really interesting...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Rebecca Rothstein-Rabinowitz is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband, supportive friends, a restaurant that''s received citywide acclaim, a beautiful baby girl...and the mother-in-law from hell.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Kelly Day''s life looks picture-perfect. But behind the doors of her largely empty apartment, she''s struggling to balance work and motherhood and marriage, while entering Oliver''s every move (and movement) on a spreadsheet, and dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And Ayinde Towne is already on shaky ground, trying to live her life to the letter of a how-to guide called "Baby Success, " when her basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at the most vulnerable moment in her life, putting their marriage in peril -- and their new family even more in the public eye.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Then there''s Lia Frederick, a Philadelphia native who has just come home, leaving Los Angeles behind, along with her glamorous Hollywood career, her husband, and a tragic secret, to start her life all over again.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With her trademark warmth and humor, Weiner tells the story of what happens after happily ever after...and how an eight-pound bundle of joy can shake up every woman''s sense of herself in the world around her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9942'),
(5885, 'Little house on the prairie', 'Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Meet Laura Ingalls . . .** . . . the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Laura and her family journey west by covered wagon, only to find they are in Indian territory and must move on. Notable Children''s Books of 1940 -- 1954 (ALA)Horn Book Children''s Classics 1976\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3000'),
(5886, 'A Little Love Story', 'Roland Merullo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, â€œnot exactly a good long-term investment.â€ After meeting by accident late one night, they begin a love affair filled with humor, startling intimacy, and a deep, abiding connection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3338'),
(5887, 'Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9712'),
(5888, 'Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage', 'Jeff Benedict', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Benedict (_The Mormon Way of Doing Business_) has taken a complicated court case centered on eminent domain and turned it into a page-turner with a conscience. In 1997, an EMT named Susette Kelo left her husband, bought a cottage and started over in the economically depressed Ft. Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn. In February 1998, the New London Development Corporation began trying to muscle the neighborhood into selling homes to make way for a Pfizer research complex. Benedict''s passionate account is rife with heroes and villainsâ€”he delights in pillorying Kelo''s foil, Claire Gaudiani, the president of Connecticut College who lured Pfizer to consider New London. The fight escalated when the city tried exercising eminent domain to seize the homes of Kelo and others who refused to sell, leading to the case,\n  <em>\n   Kelo\n  </em>\n  v.\n  <em>\n   City of New London\n  </em>\n  , reaching the Supreme Court in 2005. Raising important questions about the use of economic development as a justification for displacing citizens, this book will leave readers indignant and inspired.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   ''Passionate...A page-turner with conscience...will leave readers indignant and inspired.'' - Publishers Weekly\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6804'),
(5889, 'Little Princes: One Man&#39;s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal', 'Conor Grennan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Childrenâ€™s Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil warâ€”for a huge feeâ€”by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepalâ€™s capital, Kathmandu.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with their families, but this would be no small task. He would risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu, and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and share his lifeâ€™s work.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Little Princes\n </em>\n is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. At turns tragic, joyful, and hilarious,\n <em>\n  Little Princes\n </em>\n is a testament to the power of faith and the ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Amazon Exclusive Essay by Conor Grennan\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  How Taking Notes and Living without Indoor Plumbing Would Change My Life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When I was living in Nepal, I kept a notebook with me at all times. It was a small Nepali-made notebookâ€”the brand name was Happy Days! or some such thingâ€” and it made me smile every time I looked at it. I took it everywhere I went, and wrote in it often.\n</p>\n<p>\n The children constantly asked me what I was writing, and I would tell them I was recording our conversations. That was true, but it was more than that. I was also recording everything I found strange in my new home. Like the fact that the kids chewed on chicken bones until they were practically dust, or that one of the boys, Santosh, had a digital watch which heâ€™d borrowed from a friend that, along with displaying the hour, flashed â€œI Love You!â€ once per second.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were times I was caught without my notebook, like in the middle of a soccer game when Dawaâ€™s shotâ€”destined for just inside the invisible right postâ€”was blocked by the broadside of a cow, and I had to try to recall from memory the captivating debate over the role of livestock in team sports, and whether or not the goal should count. (It didnâ€™t.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Then, when the children would go to bed at 8 p.m., I would bundle up in two or three fleeces, a hat, and woolen gloves I had cut the fingers out of; Iâ€™d pull out my notebook and Iâ€™d sit down to write my travel blog, copying everything I had put into the notebook over the course of the day into an old, ultra-light Dell Iâ€™d bought off eBay for about 200 dollars. It was pretty much useless except as a word processor, but it was the most precious thing I owned. Over the next three years, traveling the globe and living in Nepal, I would end up typing just over half-a-million words on that little workhorseâ€”five times the length of\n <em>\n  Little Princes\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n It turned out that writing everything down in the moment was critical because the more time I spent in Nepal, the more normal these â€œstrangeâ€ things became. It became normal to watch my blankets being made from scratch on the ground outside my house, to trade broken flip-flops for potatoes, and to use outhouses on a daily basis without thinking twice about it. (Did you hear that, people?\n <em>\n  Outhouses\n </em>\n !)\n</p>\n<p>\n The funny thing is, with all that note-taking, I never had any intention of writing a book about my time in Nepal. It honestly never occurred to me that it was a much of a story until someone else mentioned the idea to me.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once I started writing the book, however, I couldnâ€™t stop. I went back to my old notebooks and I was suddenly in Nepal again, hearing in my mind exactly how Hriteek had laughed, or Nishal had protested, or Raju had squealed as heâ€™d run through the house, bare feet padding against the cold cement floors.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Little Princes\n </em>\n , the book, allowed me to revisit that wonderful, difficult, challenging, happy time of my life. I still get back to Nepal, of course, and I still see the children. But they change, they grow up. Writing\n <em>\n  Little Princes\n </em>\n allowed me to visit the children as they were. And also, as the person I was.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grennan, who once worked at the East West Institute in Prague, embarked on a round-the-world trip in 2006, starting with a stint volunteering for an orphanage six miles south of Kathmandu. The orphanage, called the Little Princes Children''s Home, housed 18 children from the remote province of Humla, rescued from a notorious child trafficker who had bought the children from poor villagers terrified of the Maoist insurgents eager for new recruits; the parents hoped to keep their children safe, but the children often ended up as slaves. Grennan was stunned by the trauma endured by these children, who he grew to love over two months, and after completing his world tour, returned to the orphanage and vowed not only to locate seven Humla orphans who had vanished from a foster home, but also to find the parents of the children in the orphanage. This required starting up a nonprofit organization in America, Next Generation Nepal, raising funds, buying a house in Kathmandu for the children''s home, and trekking into the mountains of Humla to locate the parents. Grennan''s work is by turns self-pokingly humorous, exciting, and inspiring. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7861'),
(5890, 'The Little Sister', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7347'),
(5891, 'The Little Sisters of Eluria', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11150'),
(5892, 'The Little Stranger', 'Sarah Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Waters (_The Night Watch_) reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale whose ghosts are as horrifying as any in Shirley Jackson''s\n <em>\n  The Haunting of Hill House\n </em>\n . Doctor Faraday, a lonely bachelor, first visited Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked as a parlor maid, at age 10 in 1919. When Faraday returns 30 years later to treat a servant, he becomes obsessed with Hundreds''s elegant owner, Mrs. Ayres; her 24-year-old son, Roderick, an RAF airman wounded during the war who now oversees the family farm; and her slightly older daughter, Caroline, considered a natural spinster by the locals, for whom the doctor develops a particular fondness. Supernatural trouble kicks in after Caroline''s mild-mannered black Lab, Gyp, attacks a visiting child. A damaging fire, a suicide and worse follow. Faraday, one of literature''s more unreliable narrators, carries the reader swiftly along to the devastating conclusion.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At its core, The Little Stranger is an old-fashioned ghost story, complete with spooky house, eccentric inhabitants, an air of general madness and malcontent, and a narrator who may not be as mild-mannered as he seems. What elevates this novel from the crowded genre is Watersâ€™s ability to evoke the subtleties of the past as she skillfully weaves tension and dread into each paragraph. The reviewer from Newsday likened this tale to the psychological classic The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Perhaps the critic from the Telegraph (who voiced only a very minor complaint about the ending) summed up the reviewersâ€™ opinions best of all by hailing this novel as a genuinely creepy story â€œguaranteed to make anyone with a pulse gibber in fright.â€\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4726'),
(5893, 'Little Women', 'Louisa May Alcott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The lives and adventures of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy--are set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century New England while their father is off fighting in the Civil War. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2521'),
(5894, 'Live and Let Die: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful, fortune - telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time for hocus pocus. He knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men he has ever faced...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7651'),
(5895, 'The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit &amp; Planet', 'Susan E. Schenck &amp; Victoria BidWell (Contributor)', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Live Food Factor is destined to become a classic. This bookrepresents the most comprehensive study of the raw food diet and theraw food movement ever put on paper. When I received the manuscript, I simply couldn''t put it down and read the book in two days. In my classes, people have asked me over the years, Where is the scientific research backing up the raw food diet? I''m thrilled that now we have The Live Food Factor, which contains data that is thoroughly backed upwith a list of over 60 scientific studies. I am a raw food teacher, writer, and researcher myself. I have taught hundreds of workshopsabout this subject for many years, and I have learned a great deal from Susan Schenck''s book. I highly recommend this book to all readers interested in improving their health. --\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Boutenko, raw food author and educator\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Live Food Factor is the very best book on alternative health care ever done. It contains more research on the benefits of raw foods as well as the dangers of cooked foods ever amassed in one place. --\n  <strong>\n   Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano, DC, hMD, PhD, DSci\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is one of the most thoroughly researched books on nutrition. This book is easy to read. --\n  <strong>\n   Dr.Jeannette Vos, co-author of The Learning Revolution 2.0\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Live Food Factor is the first comprehensive guide to not only the raw food diet, but also the raw food movement itself. This diet is sweeping America as people discover its power to not only make a body lean, but also keep disease at bay and bolster the immune system to heal from what are typically considered "incurable" diseases. Everyone who eats should read this book! The first edition won the IPPY award as "most progressive health book of the year." The second edition of the Live Food Factor is an updated, expanded and revised comprehensive guide to the raw food diet, with a section on inspiration, a section on science, a section on the history of raw foodism, a complete how-to section, including frequently asked questions &amp; answers, and recipes. It contains 66 scientific studies to support the superiority of eating raw. This second edition brings a summary of all the benefits of Natural Hygiene as well. It includes several chapters written mainly by Victoria BidWell, including the true cause of illness, how to detox and an entire chapter on fasting. It also includes a new chapter written mainly by Dr. Vetrano and Dr. Tosca Haag on how to get children to eat raw. There are new testimonials, many new recipes, updated science studies, and even 3 new appendices. It is packed with new and updated information. In fact, this edition has about 37% more information! (The font had to be slightly smaller to squeeze everything in!) It also contains forewords by Dr. V.Vetrano, DC, hMD, PhD, DSci (who worked extensively with Dr. Shelton of the Natural Hygiene movement) and Victoria Boutenko (one of the most noted leaders of the raw food movement). It was carefully edited for accuracy by Bob Avery, expert on the raw food diet and former editor of the M2M magazine, as well as Victoria Bidwell and Dr. Vetrano for accuracy in the Natural Hygiene components.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4713'),
(5896, 'Live Wire', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Edgar-winner Coben''s 10th Myron Bolitar novel (after Long Lost) is a perfect 10: providing readers with new information about the past of the former athlete turned agent and owner of MB Reps; a satisfyingly complex mystery; and the always entertaining, sometimes shocking exploits of Bolitar''s partner and friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III (aka Win). Suzze Tervantino, a former tennis prodigy and one of Bolitar''s first clients, visits his New York office and shows him a Facebook posting that suggests that her husband, rock star Lex Ryder, isn''t the father of the child she''s carrying. When Ryder, also a client of MB Reps, disappears, Suzze begs Bolitar to find him. In the process, Bolitar catches a glimpse of his sister-in-law, Kitty, at a crowded nightclub, and begins a search for her and his estranged younger brother, Brad, whom he hasn''t seen for 16 years. This explosively fast thriller will leave fans clamoring for more. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coben, who has perfected the techno-thriller, in which social media tools are used in ingeniously devious ways (Hold Tight, 2008), has won the trifecta of mystery awards: the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthonyï¿½and is the only writer to have such a clutch at his command. Here, he returns to his humble roots and resurrects his sports agent and sleuth Myron Bolitar, who appeared in Cobenï¿½s debut, Deal Breaker, in 1995, and has starred in nine other novels. Coben may be a little too fond of Bolitar; over the years, he has transformed him from a struggling New Jersey sports agent to a wildly successful superagent who handles all forms of entertainment and, bad news for the reader, is now given to self-indulgent introspection, rumination, and endless dialogue with his sidekick, Win. This overwriting changes the Bolitar novel from spare and lively to a flabby 350-plus pager. A prime example of this workï¿½s need for a less-indulgent author (or editor) is the cringe-inducing scene in which Win appears with two Asian beauties, named Mee and Yu. Bolitar and Win carry on with sophomoric puns and a forecast of sexual activity that is supposed to be hilarious but reads as incredibly insensitive. The plot is fairly standard, involving a client whose husband disappears, with a link to Bolitarï¿½s sister-in-law and estranged brother. Bracing action, a Coben staple, is bogged down by bloated writing. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Coben takes a literary misstep with his return to series character Myron Bolitar, but his name-brand status ensures an audience. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5866'),
(5897, 'The Living Dead 2', 'John Joseph Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Two years ago, readers eagerly devoured The Living Dead. Publishers Weekly named it one of the Best Books of the Year, and Barnes &amp; Noble.com called it "The best zombie fiction collection ever." Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is back for another bite at the apple -- the Adam''s apple, that is -- with 43 more of the best, most chilling, most thrilling zombie stories anywhere, including virtuoso performances by zombie fiction legends Max Brooks (World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), and David Wellington (Monster Island).From Left 4 Dead to Zombieland to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, ghoulishness has never been more exciting and relevant. Within these pages samurai warriors face off against the legions of hell, necrotic dinosaurs haunt a mysterious lost world, and eerily clever zombies organize their mindless brethren into a terrifying army. You''ll even witness nightmare scenarios in which humanity is utterly wiped away beneath a relentless tide of fetid flesh.The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for -- more scares, more action, more... brains. Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2881'),
(5898, 'Living Dead in Dallas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The Southern Vampire Series * ** A New York Times Bestselling Author** Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered. Then, she''s face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins. But they saved her life, so when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, Sookie complies - and soon she''s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(5899, 'The Living Dead', 'John Joseph Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "When there''s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!" From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west. Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today''s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead covers the broad spectrum of zombie fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2880'),
(5900, 'Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales &amp; Oral Histories', 'Anton Treuer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This substantial volume presents a rich and varied collection of tales from the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tradition while also integrating material from associated Algonquian tribes who migrated westward for centuries before European contact. Ten Indian elders from the northwestern United States and Canada provide narratives in their native language, with English translations appearing on the facing pages. Each participant is profiled, and his contributions (assembled over several years) follow in numbered paragraphs. These contributions present various aspects of Ojibwe daily life, including fishing, maple sugaring, ricing, devilish childhood tricks, religious ceremonies, and more. Drawn from both printed and oral sources, the stories are meticulously and sensitively translated and annotated, giving shape, form, and nuance to a fragile, almost extinct civilization. This preservation project will be a vital addition to Native American lore and is certain to be treasured by comprehensive collections in special and academic libraries. Richard K. Burns, MSLS, Hatboro, PA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A language carries a people''s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol-ogy presents the elders'' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages. These stories contain a wealth of information, including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences, educational tales, and humorous anecdotes. Treuer''s translations of these stories preserve the speakers'' personalities, allowing their voices to emerge from the page. Treuer introduces each speaker, offering a brief biography and noting important details concerning dialect or themes; he then allows the stories to speak for themselves. This dual-language text will prove instructive for those interested in Ojibwe language and culture, while the stories themselves offer the gift of a living language and the history of a people.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6158'),
(5901, 'Living with the Dead', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Theyâ€™re smart, sexy, and supernatural. Theyâ€™re the men and women of the Otherworldâ€”a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire. Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles after her young husbandâ€™s sudden death, trying to put some distance between herself and her memories. Though sheâ€™s still grieving, the challenges of her new life as the PR consultant to Portia Kaneâ€”the worldâ€™s most famous celebutante wannabeâ€”can sometimes be amusing, even distracting. But when her client is gunned down in the back room of a nightclub, Robyn is suddenly on the run as the prime suspect in the murder. And as more bodies pile up around her, it seems like only Hope Adams, Robynâ€™s best friend, and Hopeâ€™s somewhat spooky boyfriend Karl are on Robynâ€™s side. Hope Adams follows the kinds of stories whose headlines scream from supermarket checkout lines. But the difference is that Hopeâ€™s stories are even weirderâ€”and theyâ€™re all true. Though determined to help Robyn, Hope knows itâ€™s only a matter of time before her friend is caught. But itâ€™s not the police Hope is worried about. For Robyn has gotten herself in the middle of a turf war between two powerful Otherworld cabals whoâ€™ll spill any amount of bloodâ€”human and inhumanâ€”to protect what they consider theirs for all eternity. And the only way Hope can keep her friend alive is by letting her enter a world sheâ€™s safer knowing nothing about.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3186'),
(5902, 'The Lizard&#39;s Bite', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Hewson''s wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Sacred Cut\n </em>\n ) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they look into the case of glassmaker Uriel Arcangelo, who apparently killed his wife, Bella, then committed suicide. Instead of coming to the foreordained conclusion higher authority demands, Costa and Peroni determine, "We''re no longer trying to understand the means Uriel Arcangelo used to kill his wife. But why, how and with whom the late Bella appears to have conspired to kill him." An urbane and wealthy Englishman who wants to buy the Isolo di Archangeli glassworks becomes an important suspect. Hewson is particularly strong on characterization, revealing each personality subtly and naturally as he or she reacts to the intricate plot developments. Newcomers as well as series fans will be enthralled.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the end of Hewson''s superb\n <em>\n  Sacred Cut\n </em>\n (2005), Roman cops Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, along with their maverick boss, Leo Falcone, were all in jeopardy, having both outfoxed and offended the Eternal City''s leading powerbrokers. Now exiled to Venice, Costa and Peroni find themselves with another hot-potato case on their hands. After being reunited with Falcone, the pair is offered a chance to return to Rome if they will rubber stamp a murder investigation on the island of Murano, where a glassmaker apparently has killed his wife and then died himself when the furnace he was tending exploded. Naturally, Costa and Peroni smell a fix and can''t resist following the scent. The setup here stretches credulity a bit--Why ask three notorious rule breakers to go through the motions?--but Hewson takes the story well beyond its genre-bound premise, mixing Venetian ambience ("the lethargic melancholy of the lagoon") and the lore of glassmaking with a multifaceted examination of his characters'' (especially Falcone''s) dark sides. A richly ambiguous finale only adds to the pleasure.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5996'),
(5903, 'A Local Habitation', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now comes the second in the series-from a dynamic new fantasy talent! ** Toby Daye-a half-human, half-fae changeling-has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world had other ideas... Now her liege, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills, has asked Toby to go to the Country of Tamed Lightening to make sure all is well with his niece, Countess January O''Leary. It seems like a simple enough assignment-until Toby discovers that someone has begun murdering people close to January, and that if the killer isn''t stopped, January may be the next victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3266'),
(5904, 'Lockdown', 'Sean Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A high concept conspiracy thriller that delivers every step of the way. It may be Christmas in New York, but for ex-soldier turned eacute;lite bodyguard Ryan Lock it''s business as usual: his mission is to protect one of America''s most ruthless businessmen. Suddenly gunshots ring out. People run for cover. Innocent people are mown down. Amid the chaos, Lock''s hunt for the killers turns into an explosive game of cat and mouse. Lock''s search for the truth takes him from the rooftops of a New York skyscraper to a heavily fortified warehouse on the Hudson where he confronts one of the world''s most dangerous women. As the clock ticks towards midnight on New Year''s Eve, all routes into and out of Manhattan are sealed, and Lock realises that not only is his own life in terrible danger but so are the lives of millions of others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5162'),
(5905, 'Locked Rooms', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. Kingâ€™s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill againâ€“lost somewhere in Russellâ€™s own past.After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her familyâ€™s old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behaviorâ€“a point not lost on Holmes, much to Russellâ€™s annoyance.In 1906, when Mary was six, San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake and a raging fire that reduced the city to rubble. For years, Mary has denied any memory of the catastrophe that for days turned the fabled streets into hell on earth. But Holmes suspects that some hidden trauma connected with the â€œunforgettableâ€ catastrophe may be the real culprit responsible for Maryâ€™s memory lapse. And no sooner do they begin to familiarize themselves with the particulars of the Russell estate than it becomes apparent that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasnâ€™t forgotten her. Why does her fatherâ€™s will forbid access to the house except in the presence of immediate family? Why did someone break in, then take nothing of any value? And why is Russell herself targeted for assassination?The more questions they ask of Maryâ€™s past, the more people from that past turn out to have died violent, unexplained deaths. Now, with the aid of a hard-boiled young detective and crime writer named Hammett, Russell and Holmes find themselves embroiled in a mystery that leads them through the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parentâ€™s marriage and the tragic car â€œaccidentâ€ that a fourteen-year-old Mary alone survivedâ€“an accident that may not have been an accident at all. What Russell is about to discover is that even a forgotten past never diesâ€¦and it can kill again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5356'),
(5906, 'Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery', 'Mary Daheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From *USA Today* bestselling author Mary Daheim comes her latest Bed-and-Breakfast book featuring innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn and her irrepressible cousin Renie in a mystery that takes them on the wrong side of the tracks. . . . *Loco Motive* It''s autumn at Hillside Manor B&amp;B, and with the changing leaves come some unexpected guests. There''s Judith''s son and daughter-in-law, with their two children in tow, a couple with an impossible (and unbelievable?) last name who show up from nowhere, and a pair of giggly young women who don''t seem to know where they''re going. As Halloween draws nigh, Judith can barely cope with her gala of guests, but at least the worst guest from the first part of the week checks outâ€”almost permanently. Wee Willie Weevil, infamous daredevil and martial-arts movie icon, insisted on performing his dangerous stunts from Judith''s roof and left the B&amp;B via an ambulance. Hoping to escape the domestic mayhem, Judith agrees to accompany Renie on a cross-country train trip to Boston with first-class accommodations on the Empire Builder. Judith''s bubble bursts when she discovers that Wee Willie and his entourage are fellow travelers. Although confined to a wheelchair, the diminutive stunt man seems capable of derailing the cousins'' vacation. Cousin Renie does her best to ease Judith''s mind until the train collides with a truckload of sugar beets. Forced to wait for a new engine in a small Montana town in the middle of nowhere, the passengers can do nothing but watch and wait. Even before the train can get back on track, the cousins discover that their sleeper attendant has gone missing. Worse yet, another passenger''s final destination is the nearest morgue. Judith and Renie have to move full speed ahead if they want to blow the whistle on the killer before death strikes again. Can the train continue its journey? Will the cousins ever get to Boston? Stay aboard!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2956'),
(5907, 'The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street', 'Charles Nicholl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminsterand it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bards life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at Shakespeare as he was writing such masterpieces as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(5908, 'The log from the Sea of Cortez', 'John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders Ricketts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3029'),
(5909, 'Logan Likes Mary Anne!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9731');
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(5910, 'Lola Carlyle Reveals All', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When ex-supermoddel Lola Carlyle learns that some very -- ahem -- private photos of herself are being peddled on the Internet, she hides out where there''s sun and -- she thinks -- safety, until the gossip dies out. Then the private yacht she''s blissfully napping on is "commandeered" by some man who says his name is Max Zamora, and that he works for the government.It sounds crazy, but Max is telling the truth -- his cover''s been blown, he''s on the run, and now he''s confronted by a very angry -- and beautiful -- woman. He''s seen Lola before -- barely clothed on covers of fashion magazines. But she''s more beautiful in person. From the top of her pert blonde head to the tips of her little painted toes, Max finds her sexy, curvy... and a pain in the butt. And that''s before she blows up the ship!Now, the unlikely pair is stranded in the middle of the ocean, it''s getting very hot -- not just from the sun -- and Lola is about to reveal it all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4071'),
(5911, 'Lolita', 'Vladimir Nabokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Vladimir Nabokov''s Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert''s lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years after its first publication, Lolita remains a powerful tale of perversion and love gone wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3880'),
(5912, 'London', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel,\n  <em>\n   London\n  </em>\n  , stretches two millennia all the way from Roman times to the present. The author places his vignettes at the most dramatic moments of that city''s history, leaping from Caesar''s invasion to the Norman Conquest to the Great Fire to (of course) the Blitz, with many stops in between.\n  <em>\n   London\n  </em>\n  is ambitious, and students of English history will eat it up. The author doesn''t skimp on historical detail, and that''s a signal pleasure of the book. Ultimately, though, the structure of the novel determines the lion''s share of its success. Rutherfurd is a good storyteller and each vignette makes for a good story; however, he has given himself the inevitable task of beginning what amounts to a new book every 40 pages or so. Just as one begins to warm to the characters, they are hurried off the stage. You can''t read\n  <em>\n   London\n  </em>\n  without a scorecardâ€”but that''s part of the fun.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA. Certainly not for the fainthearted, this 800+ page novel on the history of London is true to the author''s form. Rutherford so skillfully weaves detailed fiction and fact that YAs may have to head for the reference books to verify which is which. Basically, the story is London''s evolution from a trading post to the seat of an Empire and the families who lived that history. Through the adventures and everyday lives of these characters, one can go to Shakespeare''s Globe Theater, tend the plague patients with Dr. Richard Meredith, attend hangings at Newgate Prison, weep at the loss of life and limb due to "God''s fire," visit the taverns with Chaucer and his pilgrims, and have other experiences in this exciting city. A special book for readers who have a burning interest in history and the stick-to-itiveness to finish and reflect on it. A perfect choice for the summer hiatus or winter holidays.?Carol Clark, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7746'),
(5913, 'London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two of the greatest villains James Patterson has ever created in one book! Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross''s deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger - and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf''s identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2044'),
(5914, 'London: A Biography', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here are two thousand years of London''s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar''s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in allkinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of thephysical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6327'),
(5915, 'Lone eagle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Danielle Steel''s fifty-first bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free....The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-four years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn''t expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate''s mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she''d ever known.It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate''s eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star -- just out of reach. Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe''s planes are his life, his passion. But irresistibly drawn to her, like moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long, dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family. Joe wants the world, his limitless horizons, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives.Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other''s lives. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise--the joining of two remarkable halves into a single, far more powerful whole. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(5916, 'The Lone Star Ranger', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3712'),
(5917, 'Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10', 'Marcus Luttrell &amp; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive.This is the story of team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, but it is also the story of his team who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left, blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing.Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him off, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in a a Pashtun tribe who risked everything to protect him from the circling Taliban killers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5806'),
(5918, 'The Lonely Dead', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An electrifying thriller from the author of the international bestseller THE STRAW MEN. A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control. Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman''s body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say, and a lot more work to do. And Ward Hopkins, an ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents, is on the trail of his past, tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear, and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror. These three are ominous strands in a web of deadly secrets, roads to a dark history that should never have been told. There are people who will do anything to protect it. Anything at all. It''s not a matter of who dies. We''re all going to die. What matters is who dies last. Michael Marshall''s unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3019'),
(5919, 'The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel', 'Brady Udall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  EmNephiHelamanNaomiJosephinePaulineNovellaParleyGale...\n </em>\n When times get tense--and they often do--for Golden Richards, the title patriarch of Brady Udall''s\n <em>\n  The Lonely Polygamist\n </em>\n , he turns to a soothing chant of the names, in order, of his 28 children. (It''s also practical, when he needs to sort out just which toddler is showing him a scab, and which teen is asking if he can come to her 4-H demo.) While\n <em>\n  The Corrections\n </em>\n to John Irving.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A family drama with stinging turns of dark comedy, the latest from Udall (_The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint_) is a superb performance and as comic as it is sublimely catastrophic. Golden Richards is a polygamist Mormon with four wives, 28 children, a struggling construction business, and a few secrets. He tells his wives that the brothel he''s building in Nevada is actually a senior center, and, more importantly, keeps hidden his burning infatuation with a woman he sees near the job site. Golden, perpetually on edge, has become increasingly isolated from his massive familyâ€”given the size of his brood, his solitude is heartbreakingâ€”since the death of one of his children. Meanwhile, his newest and youngest wife, Trish, is wondering if there is more to life than the polygamist lifestyle, and one of his sons, Rusty, after getting the shaft on his birthday, hatches a revenge plot that will have dire consequences. With their world falling apart, will the family find a way to stay together? Udall''s polished storytelling and sterling cast of perfectly realized and flawed characters make this a serious contender for Great American Novel status.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4646'),
(5920, 'The Lonely Sea', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From a bestselling master of maritime and adventure tales comes this collection of short stories about the sea--stories that span his more than 30 years as a writer. An old seaman braves a brutal storm to save his family; a jewel smuggler risks all for his gems; a captain tempts fate with his prized gold watch. These are just some of the characters that make this a landmark treasury for lovers of the sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9279'),
(5921, 'The Lonely Skier', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9338'),
(5922, 'Lonesome Dove', 'Larry McMurtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtryâ€™s Pulitzer Prizeâ€” winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2397'),
(5923, 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written by the author of "The Hitch Hiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series and "Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency", this is another story about Dirk Gently, the self-styled holistic detective and master of all things alternative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(5924, 'Long Distance Life', 'Marita Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n <br />\n "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n <br />\n THE NEW YORK TIMES\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n <br />\n "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n <br />\n THE NEW YORK TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8990'),
(5925, 'Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality', 'Jonathan Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found?   In recent years, the dream of eternal youth has started to look like more than just a dream. In the twentieth century alone, life expectancy increased by more than thirty yearsâ€”almost as much time as humans have gained in the whole span of human existence. Today a motley array of scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs believe that another, bigger leap is at handâ€”that human immortality is not only possible, but attainable in our own time. Is there genius or folly in the dreams of these charismatic but eccentric thinkers?   In Long for This World, Jonathan Weiner, a natural storyteller and an intrepid reporter with a gift for making cutting-edge science understandable, takes the reader on a whirlwind intellectual quest to find out. From Berkeley to the Bronx, from Cambridge University to Dante''s tomb in Ravenna, Weiner meets the leading intellectuals in the field and delves into the mind-blowing science behind the latest research. He traces the centuries-old, fascinating history of the quest for longevity in art, science, and literature, from Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Doctor Faustus to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."   And he tells the dramatic story of how aging could be conquered once and for all, focusing on the ideas of those who believe aging is a curable disease. Chief among them is the extraordinary Aubrey de Grey, a garrulous Englishman who bears more than a passing resemblance to Methuselah (at 969 years, the oldest man in the Bible) and who is perhaps immortality''s most radical and engaging true believer.   A rollicking scientific adventure story in the grand manner of Oliver Sacks, Long for This World is science writing of the highest order and with the highest stakes. Could we live forever? And if we could...would we want to?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8465'),
(5926, 'The Long Goodbye', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7346'),
(5927, 'Long Lost (2009)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 09', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9601'),
(5928, 'The Long Road Home', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America''s hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman''s unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents'' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents'' party, in her parents'' life. But she can''t resist the magic. Later, she waits for the click, click, click of her mother''s high heels, the angry words, and the pain that will follow. Gabriella already knows to hide her bruises, certain she is to blame for her mother''s rage--and her father''s failure to protect her. Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal, and pain. Her parents'' aristocratic world is no safeguard against the abuse that knows no boundaries, respects no person, no economic lines. Gabriella knows that, try as she might, there is no safe place for her to hide. Even as a child, her only escape is through the stories she writes. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world. And when her parents'' marriage collapses, Gabriella is given her first reprieve, as her father disappears, and then her mother abandons her to a convent. There, Gabriella''s battered body and soul begin to mend. Amid the quiet safety and hushed rituals of the nuns, Gabriella grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world. Then a young priest comes into her life. Father Joe Connors never questioned his vocation until Gabriella entered the confessional and shared her soul. Confession leads to friendship. And friendship grows dangerously into love. Like Gabriella, Joe is haunted by the pain of his childhood, consumed by guilt over a family tragedy, for which he blames himself. With Gabriella, Joe takes the first steps toward healing. But their relationship leads to tragedy as Joe must choose between the priesthood and Gabriella, and life in the real world where he fears he does not belong, and cannot cope. Exiled and disgraced, and nearly destroyed, Gabriella struggles to survive on her own in New York. There she seeks healing and escape through her writing again, this time as an adult, and her life as a writer begins. But just when she thinks she is beyond hurt, Gabriella is once again betrayed by someone she trusts. Brought to the edge of despair, physically attacked beyond recognition and belief, haunted by abuse in her present and her past, she nonetheless manages to find hope again, and the courage to face the past. On a pilgrimage destined to bring her face-to-face with those who sought to destroy her in her early life, she finds forgiveness, freedom from guilt, and healing from abuse. When Gabriella faces what was done to her, and why, she herself is free at last. With profound insight, Danielle Steel has created a vivid portrait of an abused child''s broken world, and the courage necessary to face it and free herself from the past. A work of daring and compassion, a tale of healing that will shock and touch and move you to your very soul, it exposes the terror of child abuse, and opens the doors on a subject that affects us all. The Long Road Homeis more than riveting fiction. It is an inspiration to us all. A work of courage, hope, and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5984'),
(5929, 'The long Saturday night', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/692'),
(5930, 'The Long Song', 'Andrea Levy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" ("San Francisco Chronicle"). It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. With "The Long Song," Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, "The Long Song "is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite." Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son''s persistent questioning, July''s resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love. Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, "Small Island," won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in London. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize Andrea Levy reinvents the historical novel with her novel "The Long Song," a tale of slavery and freedom in colonial Jamaica." "Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, "The Long Song "is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite." Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son''s persistent questioning, July''s resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love. "When you add Levy''s almost Dickensian gifts for dialogue and storytelling to her humorous detachment, her ability to see race hatred as yet another twist of the English class system, it''s easy to understand why she has become something of a celebrity in Britain. In "The Long Song," Levy turns her attention to the final days of slavery in -early-19th-century Jamaica. Packaged with a preface and an afterword purporting to have been written by Mr. Thomas Kinsman, a well-to-do black printer living in Jamaica in 1898, and occasionally punctuated by editorial suggestions from that long-suffering man, the novel is presented as the memoirs of his octogenarian mother, Miss July, who was born into slavery on a sugar plantation known as Amity . . . In "The Long Song," she has painted a vivid and persuasive portrait of Jamaican slave society, a society that succeeded with bravery, style and strategic patience both to outsmart its oppressors and to plant the seeds of what is today a culture celebrated worldwide."--Fernanda Eberstadt, "The New York Times Book Review" "As well as providing a history of post-abolition Jamaica, "The Long Song" is beautifully written, intricately plotted, humorous and earthy. In patois-inflected prose, Levy conjures the greed and licentiousness of the island''s sugar impresarios and heiresses as they indulge vast meals and sexual gropings--before casting Jamaica aside like a sucked orange. Those who enjoyed "Small"" Island" will love "The Long Song," not just for the insights on the ''wretched island, '' but as a marvel of luminous storytelling." --Ian Thomson, " Financial Times" "Often, the difference between a good read and a great one boils down to a single element: voice. Plot, characters, subject matter and style all factor in, but without a distinctive voice, literature is flat. No worries on that score - or any other--for Andrea Levy''s vibrant fifth novel, "The Long Song," which follows her rich Whitbread and Orange Prize-winning "Small Island." Where "Small Island" concerned race, class and empire among West Indian immigrants in postwar England, "The Long Song" is about the bloody death throes of slavery in Jamaica in the 1830s. It''s a history that may be unfamiliar to American readers, but Levy''s novel, narrated in 1898 by a former slave named Miss July, makes it come alive with urgency and relevance. "The Long Song" sings the story of July''s difficult life, which she writes at the prodding of her son, Thomas, a successful printer and editor with whom she lives in Kingston. As with American slave narratives, July''s saga makes clear that slavery is a tragedy for all involved, destroying everyone''s humanity . . . With this fresh, pugnacious voice, Levy has us in her thrall . . . Levy, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in working-class North London, addresses racism at its ugliest and most virulent in this intricately imagined novel, creating a world in which little can flourish. The wonder is the spirit of indomitable dignity with which she manages to infuse her tragic tale."--Heller McAlpin, "San Francisco Chronicle" "Andrea Levy''s insightful and inspired fifth novel, "The Long Song," reminds us that she is one of the best historical novelists of her generation. By employing a charming metafictional conceit--a printer is publishing the memoir of his mother, July--we witness the extraordinary life of a woman who lived as a slave in Jamaica during the 19th century . . . Levy''s previous novel, Small Island, is rightly regarded as a masterpiece, and with "The Long Song" she has returned to the level of storytelling that earned her the Orange Prize in 2004 . . . One of the most complex and revealing moments in The Long Song is the dinner party in which the servants are told to prepare an English-style Christmas feast, though few of the menu items are available . . . "The Long Song" is a novel for those who believe that the story of a single woman is a story of the ages, for those who understand that a slave woman''s history is History, indeed."--Tayari Jones, "The Washington Post""" "This is a terrific book: beautifully written and imagined, and full of surprises . . . A brilliant historical novel." --A. N. Wilson, "Reader''s Digest" "There is great skill in the way [Levy] presents characters and dialogue; she has powers of observation and an ear for language that make her books a pleasure to read."--"The Times Literary Supplement""" ""The Long Song" is above all the female version of emancipation, told in vivid, vigorous language in which comedy, contempt and a fierce poetry are at work . . . For all that this is supposed to be the autobiography of a woman with ''little ink, '' edited by her anxious, seemly son, "The Long Song" is told with irresistible cunning; it is captivating, mischievous and optimistic, generating new stories and plot lines throughout the tale. July is one of Levy''s stubborn women who inspire both irritation and admiration. She is a splendid creation, whose wit, pride and resilience sweeten a tale that would otherwise make her white readers hang their heads in shame." --Amanda Craig, " The Daily Telegraph""" "As a story of suffering, indomitability and perseverance, it is thoroughly captivating." --Alex Clark, "The" "Guardian" (UK)"" "Levy gives us a new, urgent take on our past."--"Vogue""" "An elegant allegory of storytelling . . . A subtly observed, beautifully written, structurally complex novel--an impressive follow-up to" ""Small"" Island".""" --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review) "In the inexplicable absence of a definitive and revelatory history of Jamaica''s nearly 300 years of slavery, Levy gamely steps into the void with this lively and engaging novel . . . Charming, alarming, Levy''s vibrant historical novel shimmers with all of the artifice and chicanery slave owners felt compelled to exert."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(5931, 'Long Time Coming', 'Robert Goddard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10329'),
(5932, 'Long Time Coming: A Novel', 'Robert Goddard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this irresistible thriller full of deceit, duplicity, and vengeance, British author Goddard (_Name to a Face_) shifts effortlessly between 1976, when 68-year-old Eldritch Swan, thought killed in the Blitz, resurfaces from 36 years in an Irish prison, and 1940, when Eldritch, a cocksure secretary for an unscrupulous Antwerp diamond merchant, Isaac Meridor, prepares to leave for America. The older Eldritch, who appears as weird as his given name implies, assures his nephew, Stephen, he''d been framed in Dublin for unspecified offenses against the state, though he admits to helping steal Meridor''s Picasso collection. Eldritch needs Stephen''s help to prove the collection rightfully belongs to Meridor''s wife, daughter, and granddaughter, Rachel Banner. Bit by tantalizing bit the convoluted tale of Eldritch''s unknowing involvement in high wartime crimes and misdemeanors during Britain''s finest hour emerges, deftly counterpointed by Stephen''s growing attachment to Rachel.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ill-gotten family fortune culled from Congolese diamond mines, a forged Picasso, and a hellish Irish prison form the nexus of this eccentric thriller. There are two narrators: the first, speaking of events in 1976, is Stephen Swan, a geologist who has long worked in the booming Texas oil fields. On his return to England, he finds that an uncle, who he was told had lost his life during the Blitz, is alive but not well, having been just released from an extended stay in an Irish prison under suspicion of spying. The second narrator is the uncle himself, who tells his nephew about criminal plots hatched during the war that have taken on strength and danger through the decades. Goddard shuttles between 1976, when the forged Picasso and other stolen works are on public display and must be recovered for the wronged owners, and 1940, when the whole conspiracy began. Although the plot is complex, Goddardâ€™s gift for suspense never flags. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7092'),
(5933, 'The Long Walk to Freedom', 'Nelson Mandela', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Long Walk to Freedom is a brilliant autobiography of Nelson Mandela, capturing his generosity, patience and fortitude as he relentlessly fought against the inhuman system of apartheid. Providing a riveting insider''s view into the political cauldron that is South Africa, Mandela''s memoirs highlight his historic achievement in 1990 when he walked out of jail to liberty and leadership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4806'),
(5934, 'The Long Walk', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4315'),
(5935, 'A Long Way Down', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than just a reading of Hornby''s fourth novel, this audiobook is nearly an audio play with three excellent actors playing four characters. A famous pervert, an old maid, a crazy chick and a has-been rocker walk into a bar... well, they eventually do walk into a pub or two, but this disparate group of strangers first meet on a tower rooftop. Each of the quartet has independently decided to jump on New Year''s Eve. Now, bonded by circumstance, they can''t get rid of each other. Vance does a superb job rendering the glib tones of Martin, the TV anchor fallen from grace (he did jail time for having sex with a 15-year-old). His pompous but self-loathing delivery is dead on. Brick, with more than 150 audiobooks under his belt, perfectly nails the earnest voice and cockiness of J.J., the washed-up American rocker. And Kate Reading is outstanding playing both female characters. As Maureen, the older woman with no social life, she exudes quiet, naive dignity, but she really shines as Jess, the young wacko whose rudeness and rebellion are conveyed with a brash comical snap.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Four different people find themselves on the same roof on New Year''s Eve, but they have one thing in commonâ€“they''re all there to jump to their deaths. A scandal-plagued talk-show host, a single mom of a disabled young man, a troubled teen, and an aging American musician soon unite in a common cause, to find out why Jess (the teen) can''t get her ex-boyfriend to return her calls. Down the stairs they go, and thoughts of suicide gradually subside. It all sounds so high concept, but each strand of the plot draws readers into Hornby''s web. The novel is so simply written that its depths don''t come to full view until well into the reading. Each character takes a turn telling the story in a distinctive voice. Tough questions are askedâ€“why do you want to kill yourself, and why didn''t you do it? Are adults any smarter than adolescents? What defines friends and family? Characters are alternately sympathetic and utterly despicable, talk-show-host Martin, particularly. The narrators are occasionally unreliable, with the truth coming from the observers instead. Obviously, a book about suicide is a dark read, but this one is darkly humorousâ€“as Hornby usually is. Teens will identify with or loathe Jess and musician J. J., but they will also find themselves in the shoes of Maureen and Martin. This somewhat philosophical work will appeal to Hornby''s fans but has plenty to attract new audiences as well._â€“Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8030'),
(5936, 'Longshot', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10979'),
(5937, 'Look Again', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a â€˜Have You Seen This Child?â€™ flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops. The child in the photo looks exactly like her adopted son, Will. All her instincts tell her to deny the similarity between her son and the photo, for she knows his adoption was lawful. But sheâ€™s a journalist and canâ€™t stop thinking about the image until she figures out the truth. Moreover, she canâ€™t shake off the question - if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up?As she investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, she digs too deep, endangering her own life - and that of the son she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8712'),
(5938, 'Look at Me: A Novel', 'Jennifer Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her first novel since her widely praised debut, The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding story with language that dazzles. In this boldly ambitious and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future. Fashion model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan, having just recovered from a catastrophic car accident in her hometown of Rockford, Illinois. The skin of her face is perfect, but behind it lie eighty titanium screws that hold together the bones that were shattered when she hit the unbreakable windscreen of her car. Unrecognizable to her peers and colleagues, Charlotte finds it impossible to resume her former life. Instead, she floats invisibly through a world of fashion nightclubs and edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she had met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter of her former best friend. Young Charlotte, alienated from parents and friends, has come under the sway of two men: her uncle, a mentally unstable scholar of the Industrial Revolution, and an enigmatic high school teacher whom she seduces. In following these tales to their eerie convergence, Look at Me is both a send-up of image culture in America and a mystery of human identity. Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in a culture obsessed with surfaces and asks whether "truth" can have any meaning in an era when reality itself has become a style. Written with powerful intelligence and grace, Look at Me clearly establishes Jennifer Egan as one of the most daring and gifted novelists of her generation. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1780'),
(5939, 'Look at the birdie: unpublished short fiction', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Look at the Birdie** is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in postâ€”World War II Americaâ€“a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut''s trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturingâ€“ and provide insight into the development of his early styleâ€“collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It''s impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut'' s characteristically insouciant line drawings, **Look at the Birdie** is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled foreverâ€“and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius. Read "Hello, Red" and "The Petrified Ants," two of the stories from the collection, as single-story e-books before **Look at the Birdie** goes on sale. Available wherever e-books are sold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2965'),
(5940, 'Look Closely', 'Laura Caldwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chick-lit author Caldwell (_The Year of Living Famously_) switches gears to draw from her former career as a trial lawyer for her first suspense novel. Manhattan attorney Hailey Sutter is headed to Chicago to represent the McKnight Corporation, whose Internet company has been accused of Web technology theft, when she receives a note saying, "There is no statute of limitations on murder. Look closely." The ominous statement catapults Hailey back to Woodland Dunes (a small seaside town on Lake Michigan), where her mother died from a head injury when Hailey was seven. Shortly afterward, her older brother and sister disappeared, and she was left in the care of her father, who refuses to discuss the incident. Between the McKnight arbitrations, Hailey flies from Manhattan to Chicago to Portland in search of her estranged siblings and answers that she hopes will shed some light on her mother''s mysterious death. The smooth first-person narrative builds suspense and paints a fine picture of time and place. Unfortunately, the book loses steam in the final chapter, and the ending falls as flat as a day-old soufflÃ©.\n <em>\n  Agent, Maureen Walters at Curtis Brown Ltd. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This fast read has a thought-provoking theme and an interesting medical angle." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times on A Clean Slate\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7930'),
(5941, 'Look Me in the Eye', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits an inclination to blurt out non-sequiturs, obsessively dismantle radios or dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them) had earned him the label ''social deviant''. It didn''t help that his mother conversed with light fixtures and his father spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. Look Me in the Eye is his story of growing up with Asperger''s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis simply didn''t exist. Along the way it also tells the story of two brothers born eight years apart yet devoted to each other: the author and his younger brother Chris, who would grow up to become bestselling author Augusten Burroughs. This book is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy and insight into the workings of the human mind. For someone who has struggled all his life to connect with other people, Robison proves to be an extraordinary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8476');
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(5942, 'Look to Windward', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion -- gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended, and life went on.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, eight hundred years later, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq'' Orbital, home to the Culture''s most adventurous and decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq''s 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent and to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture''s own complicity in the terrible event.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Also journeying to Masaq'' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq'' to bring home Chel''s most brilliant star and self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Major Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major''s true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know -- a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he cannot remember it.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Hailed by SFX magazine as "an excellent hopping-on point if you''ve never read a Banks SF novel before," *Look to Windward* is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization that Banks calls the Culture.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6690'),
(5943, 'Looking Backward from 2000 To 1887: A Utopian Classic!', 'Edward Bellamy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Utopian Classic! A socialist utopian fantasy about America in the year 2000. Whether you''re a socialist or libertarian, this is an amazing example of this genre. A young man from the late 19th century awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent. First published in 1888, Bellamy''s utopian novel a world of near-perfect cooperation and prosperity. The explanations of the changes in society are sometimes fascinating, and other times horrifying. Bellamy''s perspective of corporations, banks and religion in the new utopian world are different than normally found in utopian fiction and intriguing none the less. Some will find the living, social and sexist perspectives politically incorrect; however, the author definitely lays them out very thoroughly. A thought provoking and entertaining book, it is hard to believe it was written over 100 years ago. A must-read for those interested in utopian and dystopian philosophy, sociology, politics, &amp; religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(5944, 'Looking for Rachel Wallace', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kriminalroman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4035'),
(5945, 'The Looking Glass War', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John le CarrÃ©''s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR Once upon a time the distinction had been clear: the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with matters military. But over the years, power shifted and the Circus elbowed the Department out. Now, suddenly, the Department has a job on its hands. Evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. Vital film is missing and a courier is dead. Lacking active agents, but possessed of an outdated mandate to proceed, the Department has to find an old hand to prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, German-speaking Pole turned Englishman -- once a qualified radio operator, now involved in the motor trade -- must be called back to the colors and sent East....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3037'),
(5946, 'Loose Ends: A Steele Street Novel', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  WHITE-HOT, DOWN-AND-DIRTY PASSION IGNITES WHEN A SEXY SOLDIER ENCOUNTERS AN IRRESISTIBLE THIEF WHO''S CHANGED HER WAYS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Six years ago, the Special Defense Force mourned the loss of J. T. Chronopolous. Now the striking soldier is back with scant memory, a new name--Conroy Farrel--and one single mission: to bring down SDF. But SDF has its own plan: get him back at any cost. And so they''ve set a trap for Con, a trap that Jane Linden accidentally steps into. With darkness falling and the night heating up, Con finds himself on the run in an oddly familiar 1967 Pontiac GTO with a drop-dead-gorgeous brunette named Jane by his side. Who she is he doesn''t know. Or does he? Jane certainly hasn''t forgotten\n  <em>\n   him\n  </em>\n  . When she was a teenager, he caught her picking his pocket. Now the former street thief is all grown up and gone legit--and the effect she has on Con is all too clear: pure, sweet longing. Con''s not sure if Jane is there to save him or to take him down. But one thing''s certain: With desire leading the way, all bets are off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8242'),
(5947, 'Looters of Tharn', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1957'),
(5948, 'Lord Edgware Dies', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ''get rid of'' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn''t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride.  After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5270'),
(5949, 'Lord Foul&#39;s Bane', 'Stephen Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.\n  <br />\n  He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero....\n  <br />\n  THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER\n  <br />\n  Book One: LORD FOUL''S BANE\n  <br />\n  Book Two: THE ILLEARTH WAR\n  <br />\n  Book Three: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These books have never received the recognition they deserve. It''s one of the most powerful and complex fantasy trilogies since Lord of the Rings, but Donaldson is not just another Tolkien wanabee. Each character-driven book introduces unexpected plots, sub-plots, and a host of magical beings so believably rendered you''d believe you might bump into them on your way to the bookstore.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â --Alex Klapwald, Director of Production\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4805'),
(5950, 'Lord Jim (Sparklesoup Classics)', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sparklesoup brings you Joseph Conrad''s classic. This version is printable so you can mark up your copy and link to interesting facts and sites.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10633'),
(5951, 'Lord Loss', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€“When sneaky teenaged Grubbs Grady finds himself mysteriously dumped on his aunt''s doorstep, he can''t help but steal back home to figure out what''s going on. Unfortunately, when he arrives, his parents and sister have been horrifically killed in true Shan form: their bodies ripped to shreds by an evil demon named Lord Loss and his vile henchmen. Grubbs somehow manages to escape the fiends and goes to live with his Uncle Dervish, a peculiar dandy who lives in a creepy country mansion whose secrets may hold the key to the murders. Chock-full of family curses, werewolf lore, and stomach-turning gore,\n <em>\n  Lord Loss\n </em>\n is exactly the kind of horror that Cirque Du Freak (Little, Brown) fans will love. Characterizations may take a backseat to fast pacing, but this first installment in a new series is still guaranteed to gross out anyone aged 12 to 20._â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 9-12. Older fans of Shan''s gory, gripping Cirque du Freak series will welcome this first book in the Demonata series, which features a similar horrific spin, dark humor, and graphic detail. Grubitsch Grady ("Grubbs" for short) walks into his parents'' bedroom to find his mother, father, and older sister torn to pieces by Lord Loss, a powerful demon that feeds on human pain and suffering. Grubbs is attacked by Lord Loss'' familiars, marvelously creepy hybrid creatures, and to his great astonishment, he manages to escape. Not surprisingly, he ends up in a mental institution, completely derailed by the horror he has seen and experienced. Eventually, he is taken in by his uncle Dervish, discovers a cousin he never knew, and, alas, learns that lycanthropy runs in the family. The plot rolls along at high speed, but Shan is still quite adept when it comes to capturing Grubbs'' roller-coaster emotions--loss and grief and, later, trust. A sneak peek at the second book in the series,\n <em>\n  Demon Thief,\n </em>\n shows Shan continuing in the same vein but with different characters.\n <em>\n  Debbie Carton\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4380'),
(5952, 'Lord of chaos', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan''s extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world: On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world; In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand Al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne--and where an unexpected visitor may change the world.... In Emond''s Field, Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, feels the pull ofta''verentota''verenand prepares to march.... Morgase of Caemlyn finds a most unexpected, and quite unwelcome, ally....And south lies Illian, where Sammael holds sway....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3805'),
(5953, 'Lord of Emperors', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Having finally achieved his journey to fabled Sarantium, Crispin the mosaicist wants nothing more than to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny-but in Sarantium no man may easily withdraw from the turmoil of court and city, or forget that the presence of the half-world is always close by.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6049'),
(5954, 'Lord of Light', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3343'),
(5955, 'Lord of Scoundrels', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  They call him many names, but Angelic isn''t one of them . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Bane and Blight of the Ballisters"â€”and\n  <em>\n   he\n  </em>\n  wants nothing to do with respectable women. He''s determined to continue doing what he does bestâ€”sin and sin againâ€”and all that''s going swimmingly, thank you . . . until the day a shop door opens and\n  <em>\n   she\n  </em>\n  walks in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She''s too intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she''s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. If saving himâ€”and with him, her family and futureâ€”means taking on the devil himself, she won''t back down. The trouble is, the devil in question is so shockingly irresistible, and the person who needs the most saving isâ€”herself!\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  To rescue her foolish brother from financial ruin at the hands of an unscrupulous nobleman, Jessica Trent journeys to Paris and confronts Sebastian Ballister, the crafty nobleman. But he creates a scandal when he kisses her at a party. Thus begins the fiery relationship between the callow rake and the strong-willed beauty. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8752'),
(5956, 'Lord of Snow and Shadows', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sara Ash''s\n <em>\n  Lord of Snow and Shadows\n </em>\n is the promising opener to the Tears of Artamon series. The novel sets the stage in grand fashion as Ash deftly introduces the principal players in her well-realized fantasy realm. She begins with Gavril, a carefree portrait painter basking in the sunny climes of an irrelevant island republic. He soon discovers he is heir to a great and terrible legacy in the snowy wasteland of Azhkendir. Kidnapped by his murdered fatherâ€™s personal guard, he is both captive and the Drakhoan--ruler of Azhkendir. His inheritance turns out to be more than just a crown, however. A dark force of immeasurable power is growing inside him while he finds his realm under siege from within and without.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ash masterfully avoids most of the usual fantasy memes--except, of course, the reluctant hero, Gavril--and imports a vast menagerie of technologies and culturally resonant magics into her world. Her conflicting armies wield magic, muskets, and heavy cannon alongside darker forces that are too delicious to mention here. Apart from a few niggling inconsistencies (Gavril''s transformation from foppish artist to deft statesman, for one), Ash''s novel is a frosty infusion of new air into a genre overrun with the usual maidens-with-broadswords clichÃ©s.\n <em>\n  â€“-Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this excellent start to a new fantasy series from British author Ash (Moths to a Flame), Gavril Andar, an idealistic young artist, falls for the nobly born Astasia Orlova, whose portrait he''s been hired to paint. Luckily, he''s attractive enough for Astasia to return the favor. He doesn''t know he''s also Gavril Nagarian, son of the recently assassinated ruler of the wintry kingdom of Azhkendir, and that fate is about to deal him a dreadful blow. Like his father before him, Gavril becomes soul-bound to the Drakhaoul, a creature that grants awesome power at a terrible price. Kidnapped, Gavril finds himself trapped in Kastel Drakhaon, reluctant to draw on his new magical abilities, as their use only makes him more beast-like and less human. But with Prince Eugene of Tielin threatening to reconquer all of the Rossiyan Empire, he may have no choice. Fascinating and unpredictable, Gavril''s tale gains richness from the grand scope of Ash''s narrative, with its echoes of Russian history under the czars. Enhanced by supporting characters who are living, breathing individuals, this book will leave readers drooling to get their hands on the sequel from the moment they turn its final page.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7961'),
(5957, 'Lord of the Fire Lands', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As unwanted, rebellious boys, they found refuge in Ironhall. . .Years later they emerged as the finest swordsmen in the realmâ€” The Kings Blades Once bound, a Blade''s life is no longer his own. Only death can break the gilded chain of enchantment that binds the bodyguard to the man he is sworn to defend. And never in living memory has a candidate refused the honor of serving his king. . .until now. Young Wasp never intended to be a rebel. Yet, at the sacred ceremony of binding, he follows the lead of his friend Raider, and together they spurn the wishes of King Ambrose himself. Now Raider and Wasp are outlaws hunted by the very Blades whose ranks they were a breath away from entering, and joined together by a destiny that binds them more securely than any knot tradition and sorcery might tie. Amid the turmoil their "treachery" has inspired, Wasp and Raider must undertake a desperate journey into the heart of the dreaded Fire Lands. And the outcome of their terrifying confrontation with dark truth and darker magic in this realm of monsters, ghosts, and half-men will ultimately determine the fate of two kingdoms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(5958, 'Lord of the Flies', 'William Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: William Golding''s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph''s chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island''s wild pig population. Soon Ralph''s rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding''s gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3601'),
(5959, 'The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron''s fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2011'),
(5960, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIMEThe dark, fearsome Ringwraiths were searching for a hobbit. Frodo Baggins knew they were seeking him and the Ring he bore -- the Ring of Power that would enable evil Sauron to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it could be destroyed -- Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron''s dark kingdom.THUS BEGINS J.R.R. TOLKIEN''S CLASSIC THE LORD OF THE RINGS, WHICH CONTINUES IN THE TWO TOWERS AND THE RETURN OF THE KING.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2013'),
(5961, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A rare recording featuring Tolkien himself reading exciting selections and singing enchanting songs from the awesome trilogy of books whose literary light will never fade away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2012'),
(5962, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2010'),
(5963, 'Lord of the Silent Kingdom', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Itâ€™s cold. The wells of power are weakening and the forces of Night grow strong. The gods are real, and still have some power, mostly to do harm. The Instrumentalities of the Night are the worst of these. Piper Hecht, born Else Tage, survived a battle with the Instrumentalities. Now heâ€™s Captain-General of the armies fighting a crusade for Patriarch Sublime V. Intrigues swirl around the throne of the Grail Empire, as the imperial familyâ€™s enemy Anne of Menand raises money to help the perpetually indebted Patriarch finance his crusades. To reduce his own vulnerability, sickly young Emperor Lothar assigns his two half-sistersâ€”his immediate heirsâ€”to their own realms. Now Piper Hecht learns that the legendary sorcerer Cloven Februaren, referred to as the Ninth Unknown, is still alive, more than 100 years old, and on Piperâ€™s side. As the dynastic politics of the Empire become even more convoluted, itâ€™s clear that while the old gods may be fading, theyâ€™re determined to do everything they can to bend the doings of men to their own advantage. Sieges, explosions, betrayals, Anti-Patriarchs, and suspicious deaths will ensue as the great chess game plays itself out, with Piper Hecht at the center of it allâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1901'),
(5964, 'Lord of the Silent: A Novel of Suspense', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in this tense time of World War. But nowhere in this desert land is safe -- especially for Amelia''s son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret. Treachery and peril are pursuing the two young lovers across the length and breadth of this strange, exotic world, strengthening a bond of passion and devotion that only death can sever. And the grim discovery of a recent corpse in a tomb where it does not belong is pulling Amelia deeper into a furious desert storm of intrigue, corruption, kidnapping, and murder -- and toward dark revelations that threaten to awaken the past...and alter the family''s destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(5965, 'Lord of the Silver Bow', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared even by his Trojan allies. For there is a darkness at the heart of the Golden One, a savagery that, once awakened, can be appeased only with blood.Argurios the Mykene is a peerless fighter, a man of unbending principles and unbreakable will. Like all of the Mykene warriors, he lives to conquer and to kill. Dispatched by King Agamemnon to scout the defenses of the golden city of Troy, he is Helikaonâ€™s sworn enemy.Andromache is a priestess of Thera betrothed against her will to Hektor, prince of Troy. Scornful of tradition, skilled in the arts of war, and passionate in the ways of her order, Andromache vows to love whom she pleases and to live as she desires.Now fate is about to thrust these three togetherâ€“and, from the sparks of passionate love and hate, ignite a fire that will engulf the world.Readers who know the works of David Gemmell expect nothing less than excellence from this author, whose taut prose, driving plots, and full-bodied characters have won him legions of fans the world over. Now, with this first masterly volume in an epic reimagining of the Trojan War, Gemmell has written an ageless drama of brave deeds and fierce battles, of honor and treachery, of love won and lost.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1517'),
(5966, 'Lord of Thunder', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Relates the events of an uprising on the planet Arzor. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stormâ€™s beast master skills and animal partners are needed to unravel the mystery behind a huge gathering of indigenous Norbies. Only Storm and Logan Quade can penetrate the Norbieâ€™s clan secrets and discover what is behind the threat of an uprising that could destroy the tenuous peace between the colonists and the aliens who share the planet."Thrilling science-fiction." â€” Springfield Republican\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9108'),
(5967, 'Lord, Change My Attitude: Before Its Too Late', 'James MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Negative attitudes scar our hearts, enslave our spirits, and keep us from experiencing abundant life in Christ. These attitudes are pervasive in the Christian church today and, according to James MacDonald, they thrust children of God into a dry, spiritual wilderness. In his new book, Lord, Change My Attitude ... Before It''s Too Late, MacDonald walks readers through how to "put off" five common negative attitudes and "put on" five positive attitudes in their place. Practical instruction will boldly challenge readers to let God transform their attitudes before it''s too late.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<div>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    JAMES MACDONALD\n   </b>\n   is the founding pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.  His radio broadcast\n   <i>\n    Walk in the Word\n   </i>\n   can be heard daily on over 650 stations around the country, and\n   <i>\n    Listen Up\n   </i>\n   , his 1-minute feature, can be heard on nearly 1,100 stations.  He is the author of four books, including\n   <i>\n    Seven Words to Change Your Family, Gripped By the Greatness of God,\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    I Really Want to Change...So Help Me God\n   </i>\n   .\n   <br />\n  </div>\n </div>\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8341'),
(5968, 'Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett''s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.It''s a dreamy midsummer''s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren''t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won''t be only champagne that''s flowing through the streets ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3407'),
(5969, 'Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World', 'Liaquat Ahamed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century** It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one personâ€™s or governmentâ€™s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. In *Lords of Finance*, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic and suspicious Ã‰mile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose faÃ§ade of energy and drive masked a deeply wounded and overburdened man. After the First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of international finance. Despite their differences, they were united by a common fearâ€”that the greatest threat to capitalism was inflationâ€” and by a common vision that the solution was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard. For a brief period in the mid-1920s they appeared to have succeeded. The worldâ€™s currencies were stabilized and capital began flowing freely across the globe. But beneath the veneer of boom-town prosperity, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to be a straitjacket, and the world economy began that terrible downward spiral known as the Great Depression. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, the Great Depression and the year 1929 remain the benchmark for true financial mayhem. Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, *Lords of Finance* is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, of their fallibility, and of the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3009'),
(5970, 'The lords of the crimson river', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1933'),
(5971, 'Lords of the North', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enter a world where bloody battles, and heroic deeds combine in the historic struggle to unite Britain in the face of a common enemy.The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell''s King Alfred series, follows on from the outstanding previous novels The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman.The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings.Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred''s lack of generosity and repelled by the king''s insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan, a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable stronghold of Dunholm.Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion, chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his sword, with which he has made a formidable reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king. He takes him across the Pennines to where a desperate alliance of fanatical Christians and beleaguered Danes form a new army to confront the terrible Viking lords who rule Northumbria.''The Lords of the North'' is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory. Uhtred, a Northumbrian raised as a Viking, a man without lands, a warrior without a country, has become a splendid heroic figure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(5972, 'Lords of the Storm', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Theyâ€™ve been fighting this war for longer than man has been walking upright, and they donâ€™t take prisoners.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has been raging for millennia. Billions have died and whole star systems have been obliterated in the conflict. Now, finally, one side may have victory within its grasp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The human colony world of Raghi is crucial to that victory. When the Doctor and Turlough arrive there, they find a seemingly stable society ruled by a strict caste system. But all is not as it seems. Members of the lower caste are being struck down by a mysterious illness. People are vanishing in their hundreds. And strange objects have been observed orbiting the sun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Why is Raghi so important to the feuding alien empires? And how high a price will the galaxy pay if the conflict comes to an end?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6406'),
(5973, 'Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner&#39;s Daughter', 'Loretta Lynn &amp; George Vecsey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The Queen of country music." --_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Loretta Lynnâ€™s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and singers in modern country music. Here we see the determination and talent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association and the first woman to receive a gold record in country music.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7959'),
(5974, 'The Loser', 'Thomas Bernhard &amp; Jack Dawson &amp; Mark M. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For music lovers, perfectionists, and estheticians, Thomas Bernhard''s\n <em>\n  The Loser\n </em>\n (1983) poses an irresistible drama of failed excellence. In 1953 three friends, among whom is the famed Glenn Gould, study with Horowitz. Rarely sleeping, hardly eating, they burn intensely with the white and ruthless flame of virtuosity. Only Gould ascends. But this is no conventional narrative--neat, action-driven, or linear. It opens with the specter of death--Gould''s at 51, and a suicide. Art exalts even as it destroys, when the aspirant is found wanting. Both Wertheimer, the suicide, and the narrator turn their backs on their musical careers, thus triggering their process of "deterioration." What is the consequence of throwing it all away? And yet, what are the rewards of realized genius? After Gould becomes, indeed,\n <em>\n  Glenn Gould\n </em>\n , the two friends go to visit him in Canada. "He had barricaded himself in his house. For life. All our lives the three of us have shared the desire to barricade ourselves from the world. All three of us were born barricade fanatics."\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernhard fans will recognize the restrained rant, the execution of an idea carried to a logical, caustic extreme. The rant creates, of the novel, a grand philosophical speculation: What is devotion to one''s art? What is it to truly understand one''s art and to not misuse one''s gift? And, alas,\n <em>\n  The Loser\n </em>\n can also be read as the profound consequence of perfectionism, whereby all efforts to create or execute anything of note are squashed in the critical mind''s ruthless self-scrutiny. The narrator works, for example, on his Glenn Gould essay for nine years, grateful, in the end, that he has published nothing. "How good it is that none of these imperfect, incomplete works has ever appeared, I thought, had I published them.... [T]oday I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness." The one regenerative act seems to be that of self-destruction. Destruction, indeed, becomes the flip side of perfectionist rigor. Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was his own unique genius and in\n <em>\n  The Loser\n </em>\n , one of his most acclaimed novels, he creates a chilling portrait of tragic compulsion, teasing and testing our assumptions human behavior. --_Hollis Giamatteo_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Austrian novelist meditates on Glenn Gould, the Canadian virtuoso pianist, in this fictive memoir of an imaginary friendship between Gould and the narrator. (June) Also forthcoming from Vintage International in June is Gathering Evidence ($14 *\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5292'),
(5975, 'Loser&#39;s Town', 'Daniel Depp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Screenwriter Depp''s inspired if uneven debut, the first in a new crime series, introduces Hollywood PI David Spandau, a former stunt man too old and beat up to work for the movies any more. Spandau''s latest job is to protect film star Bobby Dye from the blackmail attempts of Richie Stella, club owner, drug dealer and Mafia player. Like everyone else in Hollywood, Richie has written a movie script, and he makes it clear to Bobby that the actor will star in the project or else a certain dark secret involving a dead underage girl will hit the headlines. As things get nastier, we meet various characters straight out of central castingâ€”the beautiful single mom who works in one of Stella''s clubs and dreams of escape; the career criminal who meets the good woman who will help him go legit. Where Depp shines is his insider''s look at the intricate machinations and sordid players who really run the Hollywood machine.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rising Hollywood star Bobby Dye is being blackmailed by the reptilian, Mob-connected owner of Hollywoodâ€™s hottest nightspot for the rich and beautiful. Private investigator and former movie stuntman David Spandau has little interest in returning to the biz, especially after being insulted by the temperamental star, his pit-bull agent, and an arrogant producer, but he agrees after the star shows signs of humanity. Thereâ€™s little mystery to this promising series debut, but it scarcely matters. So Cal, moviemaking, and the quirkiness of the supporting characters provide the appeal. Spandau prefers rodeoing to detecting. Heâ€™s engaging, but future books need to flesh him out. Dye careens between spoiled man-child and self-awareness. But the novel sparkles when the focus changes to a diminutive Irish lothario, a single mother who manages the hip nightclub, and a thoughtful but doomed hoodlum who hates L.A. Sadly, none of the three gets enough screen time. L.A. and the movies have long been fertile ground for crime fiction. If the author continues to create such vivid characters, this series will draw a loyal following. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7989'),
(5976, 'Losing Charlotte', 'Heather Clay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Raised on their parentsâ€™ Kentucky horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grow up steeped in the cycles of breeding, foaling, weaning, and preparation for sale that the Thoroughbreds around them undergo each year. As sisters, they are as tightly connected within that vast and beautiful landscape as their opposing naturesâ€”and the subtly shifting allegiances within their close familyâ€”allow.When Charlotte leaves Four Corners Farm, marries Bruce, and moves to Manhattanâ€™s West Village, the sistersâ€™ feelings for each other remain as intense and contradictory as ever, despite the distance between them. But nothing will solder their lives more fatefully than Charlotteâ€™s pregnancy and the day on which she delivers twin boys, then dies of complications following their birth.Together, Knox and Bruceâ€”sister- and brother-in-law in name, but strangers in every other respectâ€”take up the work of caring for Charlotteâ€™s two motherless boys. In their mourning, and in the joy and desolation that flood in as their love for the children deepens, Bruce and Knox confront the ways in which their bonds to Charlotte have shaped them and struggle to define the tentative bond they are forming with each other as they navigate their exhausting, emotional daily rounds. A gripping, powerfully affecting debut novel from a stunning new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2174'),
(5977, 'Losing the Peace', 'William Leisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fortune has smiled on Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury, chief of security on the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Enterprise.\n  </em>\n  â„¢ She has survived. But her homeworld, Deneva, one of the planets targeted in the massive Borg invasion, has not. The entire surface has been wiped clean of\n  <em>\n   every\n  </em>\n  thing, killing anyone who did not evacuate and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Choudhury is left to wonder whether her family was one of the displaced. Or are they all gone forever?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is just one ship, and Jasminder Choudhury is just one officer, yet her story is being repeated over and over across the galaxy. Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons haunt the space ways, seeking comfort, looking for someplace safe, somewhere, anywhere to find solace. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is ordered to do everything he can to rescue and if need be to recover the lost souls from the Borg invasion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the first time in generations, citizens of the Federation know want, uncertainty, and fear. Bloodied yet unbowed, the Federation now stands on the edge of a precipice. The captain of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  finds himself in the unenviable position of wondering whether it is true that those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WILLIAM LEISNER i\n  </strong>\n  s the author of the acclaimed novels\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing the Peace\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   A Less Perfect Union\n  </em>\n  (from the\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes\n  </em>\n  collection\n  <em>\n   Infinity''s Prism\n  </em>\n  ). Â He is a three-time winner of the late, lamented\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\n  </em>\n  competition, as contributed tales to the official celebration of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  ''s 40th anniversary in 2006, and\n  <em>\n   TNG\n  </em>\n  ''s 20th Anniversary in 2007. Â A native of Rochester, New York, he currently lives in Minneapolis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4753');
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(5978, 'Loss', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n LOSS concerns a failed writer working as a handyman in an old Manhattan apartment building with a strange history and numerous oddball tenants.  The penthouse is owned by a bestselling novelist and his wife, the nameless narrator''s longtime unrequited love, who soon goes missing. This novella spotlights the fear of missing out on one''s greatest hopes and romantic dreams. AND talking monkeys.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10648'),
(5979, 'The Loss of the SS. Titanic', 'Lawrence Beesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built - the unsinkable lifeboat; - and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8185'),
(5980, 'Lost', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie''s great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens''s childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family''s peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. Byatt''s *Possession,* with dark echoing overtones of *A Christmas Carol,* *Lost* presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2083'),
(5981, 'Lost &amp; Found', 'Jacqueline Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her second novel, Sheehan switches genres from her debut historical about Sojourner Truth to a contemporary tale of grief featuring Rocky Pelligrino, a woman reeling from her husband''s death. After her husband dies of a heart attack, Rocky leaves behind her career as a psychologist in the Berkshire Mountains and moves to Peak''s Island, Maine, taking a job as an Animal Control Warden. Her first catch is a black Lab with an arrow lodged in his shoulder. She takes him in, searches for his owner and tries to solve the mystery behind the arrow''s origin. Rocky makes a few friends-anorexic teenage neighbor Melissa and strangely attractive archery instructor Hill Johnson-and her mission takes a surprisingly dark turn after she learns of Cooper''s original owners. Dog lovers will adore Sheehan''s portrayal of Cooper, who, in contrast to all the human suffering, comprises the bright spot in a melancholy novel.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A poignant and unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on . . . with the help of one not-so-little dog\n</p>\n<p>\n Rocky''s husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor . . . and Rocky''s world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusettsâ€”reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak''s Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she''s lost. She leaves her career as a psychologist behind, only to find friendship with a woman whose brain misfires in the most wonderful way and a young girl who is trying to disappear. Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing process to be agonizingly slow.\n</p>\n<p>\n But then she meets Lloyd.\n</p>\n<p>\n A large black Labrador retriever, Lloyd enters Rocky''s world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, lovable beast. As the unraveling mystery of Lloyd''s accident and missing owner leads Rocky to an archery instructor who draws her in even as she finds every reason to mistrust him, she discovers the life-altering revelation that grief can be transformed . . . and joy\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n exist in unexpected places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6563'),
(5982, 'Lost and Found in Russia', 'Susan Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9788'),
(5983, 'Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in the Deep Heartland', 'Susan Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''A work of great thoughtfulness and enterprise, it sheds a uniquely intimate light behind the facade of the new Russia.'' - Colin Thubron;''A uniquely personal chronicle, and a testament to friendship. Susan Richards''s political fact-finding is set ablaze by her intimacy with the discomforts and dangers of life in these remote regions, where the magic of the natural world challenges urban degradation, and where physical deprivation coexists with a richness of belief-systems as strange as the mountains of the moon.'' - Victoria Glendinning;''Susan Richards has long been one of the very best writers on Russia. Her new book is a remarkable blend of travel and reflection, as she introduces us to the vivid gallery of people she meets in the provinces. The result is a brilliant, poignant evocation of a society in transition.'' - Robert Service;''Once again, Susan Richards gives a rare and wonderful evocation of ordinary lives in Russia. People fall in love, fall ill, make money, lose money; some are nobly defeated, some shamelessly successful. Each one tells us more about the lethal tides of recent Russian history than years of newspaper reports.'' - Philip Marsden;''Russia exerts a peculiar pull for English travellers...Susan Richards''s version shines because she knows her subjects very well. These are stories of friendships across the miles, not just brief encounters plundered for material...This traveller''s tale, with all the absorption and detail of the genre, is also the story of an entire country.'' - Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard;''Lost and Found in Russia is intense reading...bursting with good material...For a rich portrait of the new Russia, grab this off the shelf and skip all those biographies of Vladimir Putin.'' - Thomas de Waal, Sunday Times;''wonderful...Lost and Found in Russia is beautifully written, with arresting images on almost every page... It is a travelogue as rich and compelling as a novel'' - Lesley Chamberlain, Independent\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6192'),
(5984, 'Lost and Found: A Novel', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alien abductions are fast becoming an SF clichÃ©, but bestseller Foster (_Dirge_) puts a fresh spin on the theme in the wacky first book of a new comic SF series about Marcus Walker, a Chicago commodities broker, and George, a talking dog. Both fall victim to the seven-foot Vilenjji, who roam outer space and snatch specimens from various backward planets to sell as novelty pets to wealthy clients. Marc and George are the only Earth samples in the vast traveling zoo en route to an undisclosed alien marketplace. The other oxygen-breathing sentientsâ€”caged in enclosures that imaginatively echo the places where they were capturedâ€”can communicate with each other and their captors, due to implants that have been softwired into their brains. Much mayhem ensues as Marc and the streetwise mutt decide to attempt an escape with fellow zoo allies, the huge, very scary, always hungry poetry-spouting Braouk ("Sorrow is sharing, the abducted are together, many one") and the tiny, bejeweled, hysterically superior Sque ("a female of the K''eremu"). Walker''s enthusiasm in taking stock of the assets at their disposal in their wild bid for freedomâ€”something his work has taught him to do "when faced with a difficult set of circumstances"â€”and George''s doggy determination make this a winner for all ages.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young-turk commodities-trader Marc Walker is camping alone in the California wilderness to win a bet with his hometown Chicago buddies when he''s cold-cocked by buglike purple aliens and whisked into interstellar space. When he comes to, he finds himself isolated in a force field, along with his tent; selected pieces of the surrounding Sierra Nevada scenery; and George, a dog that talks, thanks to a universal translator and canine cranial upgrade. Through his furry friend and a snooty, octopus-like fellow captive, Walker learns that he and a menagerie of colorful extraterrestrials are prisoners on a galactic slave ship and destined to be sold as curios by their enterprising, amoral captors to the highest bidder. The parable of humans plucked for an alien zoo has been told often in sf but never with greater flare and more intrigue. Foster doles out enough wit, suspense, and original alien anthropology to keep readers spellbound from chapter one on. The utterly enchanted may look forward to a pair of sequels filling out a prospective trilogy.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7906'),
(5985, 'The Lost Books of the Odyssey', 'Zachary Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITERZachary Masonâ€™s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homerâ€™s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homerâ€™s original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8327'),
(5986, 'Lost Boys', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A withdrawn eight-year-old in a troubled family invents imaginary friends who bear the names of missing children in this absorbing thriller.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Science fiction writer Card ( Abyss , Pocket, 1989) turns to suspense with this offering. Step Fletcher, his wife DeAnne, and their children have just moved to Steuben, North Carolina, where there has been a rash of mysterious disappearances. Plagued by various problems, the religious Fletcher family slowly adjusts to the community. Eight-year-old son Stevie, however, spends all his spare time with his imaginary friends. Preoccupied with settling into their new home, Step and DeAnne fail to understand the connection between Stevie''s friends and the young boys'' disappearances. Almost too late, Stevie makes the ultimate sacrifice to convince his family that his imaginary friends are real and to reveal the boys'' murderer. Card skillfully uses terror as a background to everyday family life. For Stephen King fans and those who like their suspense mixed with the supernatural.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5842'),
(5987, 'Lost City', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the "Lost City." To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the Lost City is the key to world domination. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it may be their greatest-and deadliest-challenge of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/820'),
(5988, 'The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *New York Times*, *USA Today*, *Wall Street Journal*, *Washington Post*, *Boston Globe*, *San Francisco Chronicle*, *Los Angeles Times*, and *Denver Post* Bestseller** In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called â€œThe Lost City of Z.â€ In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcettâ€™s quest for â€œZâ€ and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(5989, 'The Lost Continent of Mu', 'James Churchward; David Hatcher Childress', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This classic book on the theory of a lost continent in the Pacific. First published in 1931, and imparts the fascinating travel stories and theories of James Churchward. Chapters include: * AlphaThe Beginning; The Lost Continent * The Land of Mans Advent on Earth * Records of this Lost Continent * Mu, the Empire of the Sun * Age of Mus Civilization * North Americas Place Among the Ancient Civilizations * Nivens Mexican Buried Cities * The Geological History of Mu * large firmat edition * all-new introduction by David Hatcher Childress and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1754'),
(5990, 'The Lost Continent', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(5991, 'The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick&#39;s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption', 'Jim Gorant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man''s best friend, in the aftermath of the nation''s most notorious case of animal cruelty. ** Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick''s brutal dog fighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As acclaimed writer Jim Gorant discovered, their story is the truly newsworthy aspect of this case. Expanding on Gorant''s *Sports Illustrated* cover story, *The Lost Dogs* traces the effort to bring Vick to justice and turns the spotlight on these infamous pit bulls, which were saved from euthanasia by an outpouring of public appeals coupled with a court order that Vick pay nearly a million dollars in "restitution" to the dogs. As an ASPCA-led team evaluated each one, they found a few hardened fighters, but many more lovable, friendly creatures desperate for compassion. In *The Lost Dogs*, we meet these amazing animals, a number of which are now living in loving homes, while some even work in therapy programs: Johnny Justice participates in Paws for Tales, which lets kids get comfortable with reading aloud by reading to dogs; Leo spends three hours a week with cancer patients and troubled teens. At the heart of the stories are the rescue workers who transformed the pups from victims of animal cruelty into healing caregivers themselves, unleashing priceless hope. **Includes an 8-page photo insert.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2069'),
(5992, 'Lost Era 05: Deny Thy Father', 'Jeff Mariotte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The Years Are 2355-2357Two men. Both defined by the personal tragedy that drove them apart. Both driven by their desire to serve, and their devotion to duty. Both haunted by the past, and uncertain of the future....And both unable to reach across the chasm that separates father and son. In the wake of the Tholian attack that nearly cost him his life, civilian strategic consultant Kyle Riker becomes the target of an apparent conspiracy within Starfleet Command, forcing him off Earth and beyond Federation territory to evade the attempts on his life. But danger is never far off, even on a backwater world where Kyle''s very name brings the promise of death. At the same time, the Starfleet career of Kyle''s estranged son William Riker is under way in earnest, from his turbulent formative years at the Academy to his first perilous missions as an ensign aboard the Starship Pegasus. And even as Kyle searches for the truth behind the events that have made him a fugitive, Will is pursued as well -- by a family legacy he fears he will never escape."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6393'),
(5993, 'Lost Era 06: Catalyst of Sorrows', 'Margaret Wander Bonanno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "THE YEAR IS 2360 She was trained to be a killing machine. Abandoned as a child, without home or family, past or future, Zetha survived only by her own cunning in the back alleys of Romulus before being taken by the Tal Shiar and remade into one of its deadliest weapons. But Zetha is about to undertake a mission unlike any in her experience. The mysterious return of a virulent scourge thought to be long extinct threatens devastation on a scale almost too horrific to contemplate. Zetha''s only hope of stopping it is across the Neutral Zone -- among the enemies of Romulus. Now Admiral Uhura, centenarian chief of Starfleet Intelligence, must decide what to do with the knowledge Zetha has risked her life to bring to her. In order to stop the spread of the disease that is already ravaging the Romulan Empire, Uhura must assign a hand-picked team of Starfleet officers to covertly trace the contagion to its source -- and do whatever is necessary to contain it. But the world awaiting Lieutenant BenjaminSisko, Lieutenant Tuvok, Dr. Selar, and Zetha herself is a hot zone of secrets, deceptions, and subtle machinations revealing an imminent holoca\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4411'),
(5994, 'The Lost Gate', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card''s newest series opener can''t decide whether it''s a thought experiment featuring a nifty magic system, a YA urban fantasy, or a series of fantasy interludes, so it settles for performing all three tasks satisfactorily, if not spectacularly. Danny North, descendant of exiled mages from another world, is taken aback when he comes into his true powers as a gatemage. He could reconnect his people with their long-lost home world, but gatemages are usually killed to maintain a fragile peace among the exiled clans. Fleeing his home, Danny finds refuge and slowly explores his potential, planning to open the first Great Gate in 14 centuries. Meanwhile, on the far-off world of Westil, a young gatemage named Wad finds love, conspiracies, and betrayal in a remote castle while struggling to recall his hazy past. Though occasionally uneven and meandering, this ambitious tale is well crafted, highly detailed, and pleasantly accessible. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAs always, everyone will be struck by the power of Cardâ€™s children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange.â€--_Publishers Weekly_ starred review on\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThreads from all the other books in the series flow through this narrative,Â which fills gaps, fleshes out familiar characterizations, and introduces well-limned new ones. Enderâ€™s angst, combined with his handling of the intrigue swirling around him, ensures the depth for which the series is famous.â€--\n </em>\n Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Ender in Exile\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5850'),
(5995, 'The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.', 'Jennifer Baggett; Amanda Pressner; Holly C. Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jen, Holly, and Amanda are at a crossroads. They''re feeling the pressure to hit certain milestonesâ€”scoring a big promotion, finding a soul mate, having 2.2 kidsâ€”before they reach their early thirties. When personal challenges force them to reevaluate their lives, they decide it''s now or never to do something daring. Unable to gain perspective in fast-paced Manhattan, the three twentysomethings quit their coveted media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and everything familiar to travel the globe. Dubbing themselves the Lost Girls, they embark on an epic yearlong search for inspiration and direction. As they journey 60,000 miles across four continents and more than a dozen countries, Jen, Holly, and Amanda step far outside of their comfort zones, embracing every adventure and experience the world has to offerâ€”shooting blowguns with Yagua elders in the Amazon, learning capoeira on the beaches of Brazil, volunteering with preteen girls at a school in rural Kenya, hiking with Hmong villagers in Vietnam, and driving through Australia in a psychedelic camper van. Along the way, the Lost Girls find not only themselves but also a lifelong friendship. Ultimately, theirs is a story of true sisterhoodâ€”a bond forged by sharing beds and backpacks, enduring exotic illnesses, fending off aggressive street vendors, trekking across rivers and over mountains, and standing by one another through heartaches, whirlwind romances, and everything in the world in between. This candid and compelling memoir will speak to anyone who has ever felt the desire to spread her wings and discover the world with her best friends by her side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1677'),
(5996, 'The Lost Hero', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11123'),
(5997, 'Lost in a Good Book', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11189'),
(5998, 'Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Mitchell Zuckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoffâ€™s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trioâ€™s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratroopers jumped into the jungle to provide aid and medical care, consequently leaving the survivors and paratroopers alike trapped on the jungle floor. A perilous rescue by plane became their only possible route to freedom. A riveting story of deliverance under the most unlikely circumstances,\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  deserves its place among the great survival stories of World War II.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Hampton Sides Reviews\n   <em>\n    Lost in Shangri-La\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Outside\n   </em>\n   magazine and the author of the international bestseller __, which won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes &amp; Noble, and also served as the basis for the 2005 Miramax film\n   <em>\n    The Great Raid\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Although World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of this planet, many a jaded reader has come to the reluctant conclusion that there arenâ€™t any more World War II stories left to tell. At least not good onesâ€”not tales of the â€œripping good yarnâ€ variety. Yet remarkably, in his new book\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoff has found one, and heâ€™s told it with reportorial verve, narrative skill, and exquisite pacing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What makes this World War II story all the more fascinating is that it isnâ€™t really a war storyâ€”not in a strict military sense. Itâ€™s more of an exotic adventure tale with rich anthropological shadings. In 1945, near the end of the war, an American plane crashes in a hidden jungle valley in New Guinea inhabited by Stone Age cannibals. 21 Americans die in the crash, but three injured survivors soon find themselves stumbling through the jungle without food, nursing terrible wounds and trying to elude Japanese snipers known to be holding out in the mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first contact between the three Americans and the valleyâ€™s Dani tribesmen is both poignant and comical. The Americans, Zuckoff writes, have â€œcrash-landed in a world that time didnâ€™t forget. Time never knew it existed.â€ The tribesmen, who have never encountered metal and have yet to master the concept of the wheel, think the American interlopers are white spirits whoâ€™ve descended on a vine from heaven, fulfilling an ancient legend. Theyâ€™re puzzled and fascinated by the layers of â€œremovable skinâ€ in which these alien visitors are wrapped; the natives, who smear their bodies in pig grease and cover their genitals with gourds, have never seen clothes before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Americans, in turn, are pretty sure their boartusk-bestudded hosts want to skewer them for dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What ensues in Zuckoffâ€™s fine telling is not so much a cultural collision as a pleasing and sometimes hilarious mutual unraveling of assumptions. Though the differences in the two societies are chasmic, the Americans and the Dani becomeâ€”in a guarded, tentative sort of wayâ€”_friends_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when armed American airmen arrive via parachute to rescue the survivors, relations become more tense. The Americans make their camp right in the middle of a no-manâ€™s land between warring Dani tribesâ€”a no-manâ€™s land where for centuries they have fought the battles that are central to their daily culture. Here, Zuckoff notes, the ironies are profoundly rich. The Dani, untouched by and indeed utterly unaware of the great war thatâ€™s been raging all across the globe, become thoroughly discombobulated when their own war is temporarily disrupted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yes, there\n  <em>\n   are\n  </em>\n  still a few good World War II stories left to tell. And yes, this one meets all the requirements of a ripping good yarn. Zuckoff, who teaches journalism at Boston University, is a first-rate reporter who has spared no expense to rescue this tale from obscurity. His story has it all: Tragedy, survival, comedy, an incredibly dangerous eleventh-hour rescue, and an immensely attractive heroine to boot. Itâ€™s extraordinary that Hollywood hasnâ€™t already taken this tale and run wild with it. If it did, the resulting movie would be equal parts\n  <em>\n   Alive\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Cast Away\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Gods Must Be Crazy\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s as though the Americans have arrived in the Stone Age through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The Dani donâ€™t know what to do with themselvesâ€”and life, as any of us know it, will never be the same.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff transforms impressive research into a deft narrative that brings the saga of the survivors to life.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff delivers a remarkable survival story. . . . In this well-crafted book, Zuckoff turns the long-forgotten episode into an unusually exciting narrative. . . . Polished, fast-paced and immensely readableâ€”ready for the big screen.â€ (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] engaging story. . . . This excellent book will be enjoyed by anyone who loves true adventure stories.â€ (Library Journal (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is an absorbing adventure right out of the Saturday-morning serials. . . . LOST IN SHANGRI-LA deserves a spot on the shelf of Greatest Generation nonfiction. It puts the reader smack into the jungle. â€ (Cleveland Plain Dealer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] gripplingly cinematic account. . . . A remarkable cast of characters. . . . Aâ€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6676'),
(5999, 'Lost in the Cosmos', 'Percy, Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9203'),
(6000, 'Lost in the Meritocracy', 'Walter Kirn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Percentile is destiny in America.â€So says Walter Kirn, a peerless observer and interpreter of American life, in this whip-smart memoir of his own long strange trip through American education. Working his way up the ladder of standardized tests, extracurricular activities, and class rankings, Kirn launched himself eastward from his rural Minnesota hometown to the ivy-covered campus of Princeton University. There he found himself not in a temple of higher learning so much as an arena for gamesmanship, snobbery, social climbing, ass-kissing, and recreational drug use, where the point of literature classes was to mirror the instructor''s critical theories and actual reading of the books under consideration was optional. Just on the other side of the â€œbell curve''s leading edgeâ€ loomed a complete psychic collapse.LOST IN THE MERITOCRACY* *reckons up the costs of a system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look backâ€”or within. It''s a remarkable book that suggests the first step toward intellectual fulfillment is getting off the treadmill that is the American meritocracy. Every American who has spent years of his or her life there will experience many shocks of recognition while reading Walter Kirnâ€™s sharp, rueful, and often funny bookâ€”and likely a sense of liberation at its end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8692'),
(6001, 'Lost in Translation', 'Nicole Mones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape. Nicole Mones creates an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of one woman''s struggle to lose herself in a foreign land--only to discover her home, her heart, herself.At dawn in Beijing, Alice Mannegan pedals a bicycle through the deserted streets. An American by birth, a translator by profession, she spends her nights in Beijing''s smoke-filled bars, and the Chinese men she so desires never misunderstand her intentions. All around her rushes the air of China, the scent of history and change, of a world where she has come to escape her father''s love and her own pain. It is a world in which, each night as she slips from her hotel, she hopes to lose herself forever.For Alice, it began with a phone call from an American archaeologist seeking a translator. And it ended in an intoxicating journey of the heart--one that would plunge her into a nation''s past, and into some of the most rarely glimpsed regions of China. Hired by an archaeologist searching for the bones of Peking Man, Alice joins an expedition that penetrates a vast, uncharted land and brings Professor Lin Shiyang into her life. As they draw closer to unearthing the secret of Peking Man, as the group''s every move is followed, their every whisper recorded, Alice and Lin find shelter in each other, slowly putting to rest the ghosts of their pasts. What happens between them becomes one of the most breathtakingly erotic love stories in recent fiction. Indeed, Lost in Translation is a novel about love--between a nation and its past, between a man and a memory, between a father and a daughter. Its powerful impact confirms the extraordinary gifts of a master storyteller, Nicole Mones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2264'),
(6002, 'Lost Light', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses-one that he had been briefly involved in four years before-is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella''s death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella''s violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security. Few will follow every twist and turn of the labyrinthine plot, but no matter. The fun comes in watching Harry slowly and brilliantly separate the seemingly impossibly knotted strands and then knit them back into whole cloth. This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series, and Connelly''s concluding coda has a kicker about Harry''s private life that will draw gasps of astonishment from longtime readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-After more than 25 years with the L.A. Police Department, recently retired Harry Bosch decides to finish the murder investigation of Angella Benton, a case he had been quickly pulled off more than four years earlier. Gaining additional background information from a former colleague, now a quadriplegic as a result of having been shot during the investigation, Harry begins contacting any and all of the people who could have facts pertaining to the crime. He believes that the murder is tied to a film scene and $2 million in cash, and that the entire caper was ingeniously set up well in advance. With dogged determination, he risks his life more than once to prove his theory correct. Connelly expertly weaves the many complex story parts together, resulting in an action-packed ending. As in real life, all aspects of the case must be researched thoroughly, and the bulk of the novel involves the time-consuming, labor-intensive effort that goes into finding answers. Several subplots-including ones involving jazz, Harry''s ex-wife, and another murder-help to round out characters, inject other interests, and relieve the intensity of solving the murder. Young adults who read true crime and forensics, or who are interested in police procedures, will surely pick this one up.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5337'),
(6003, 'The Lost Recipe for Happiness', 'Barbara O&#39;Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sumptuous new novel, Barbara Oâ€™Neal offers readers a celebration of food, family, and love as a woman searches for the elusive ingredient weâ€™re all hoping to findâ€¦.Itâ€™s the opportunity Elena Alvarez has been waiting forâ€“the challenge of running her own kitchen in a world-class restaurant. Haunted by an accident of which she was the lone survivor, Elena knows better than anyone how to survive the odds. With her faithful dog, Alvin, and her grandmotherâ€™s recipes, Elena arrives in Colorado to find a restaurant in as desperate need of a fresh start as she isâ€“and a man whose passionate approach to food and life rivals her own. Owner Julian Liswood is a name many people know but a man few do. Heâ€™s come to Aspen with a troubled teenage daughter and a dream of the kind of stability and love only a family can provide. But for Elena, old ghosts donâ€™t die quietly, yet a chance to find happiness at last is worth the risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(6004, 'Lost River', 'Stephen Booth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old girl in picturesque Dovedale. For Detective Constable Ben Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, the incident is not only traumatic, but leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of the Neilds, the dead girl''s family.As he gets to know them, Cooper begins to suspect that one of them is harbouring a secret - a secret that the whole family might be willing to cover up.Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry has a journey of her own to make - a journey back to her roots. As she finds herself drawn into an investigation of her own among the inner-city streets of Birmingham, Fry realises there is only one person she can rely on to provide the help she needs.But that man is Ben Cooper, and he''s back in Derbyshire, where his suspicions are leading him towards a shocking discovery on the banks of another Peak District river.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5931'),
(6005, 'The Lost Scrolls', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ancient papyrus scrolls recovered among the charred ruins of the Library of Alexandria reveal astonishing texts that detail the wonders of AtlantisÂ—knowledge that could shatter the blueprint of world energy. Archaeologist Annja Creed confronts shadow figures determined to preserve empires built on power, greed and global manipulation, finding unlikely allies in a mysterious American with connections in high places, and a young linguistics prodigy with attitude. Dodging a petroleum conglomerate and their pet killers on a high-speed chase that leads from Egypt to the North Sea oil fields to the urban battlegrounds of China, Annja becomes an unwilling conspirator in a bid for power to control the beating heart of the world''s energy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(6006, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the worldâ€™s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brownâ€™s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdonâ€™s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon--a prominent Mason and philanthropist--is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations--all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels &amp; Demons, Dan Brownâ€™s novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brownâ€™s fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(6007, 'The Lost Throne', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Lost Throne reigns supreme... A reclusive monastery is the scene of a brutal slaughter that sends Richard Byrd on a worldwide race to find a magnificent treasure. But there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent its discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(6008, 'Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization', 'Lars Brownworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In AD 476 the Roman Empire fellâ€“or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empireâ€™s existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors, allies, and enemies: When the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople in 1453, he took the title Caesar of Rome, placing himself in a direct line that led back to Augustus.For far too many otherwise historically savvy people today, the story of the Byzantine civilization is something of a void. Yet for more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. When literacy all but vanished in the West, Byzantium made primary education available to both sexes. Students debated the merits of Plato and Aristotle and commonly committed the entirety of Homerâ€™s Iliad to memory. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture, from fabulous jeweled mosaics and other iconography to the great church known as the Hagia Sophia that was a vision of heaven on earth. The dome of the Great Palace stood nearly two hundred feet high and stretched over four acres, and the cityâ€™s population was more than twenty times that of Londonâ€™s.From Constantine, who founded his eponymous city in the year 330, to Constantine XI, who valiantly fought the empireâ€™s final battle more than a thousand years later, the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. *Lost to the West* is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.Still, it was Byzantium that preserved for us today the great gifts of the classical world. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts in existence today, some 40,000 were transmitted to us by Byzantine scribes. And it was the Byzantine Empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion until it was ready to take its own place at the center of the world stage. Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, *Lost to the West* reveals how much we owe to this empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2313'),
(6009, 'The Lost World', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."--PeopleIt is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED."--New York Daily News"FAST AND GRIPPING."--The Washington Post Book World"A VERY SCARY READ."--Entertainment Weekly"AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE."--St. Petersburg Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2252'),
(6010, 'The Lost Worlds of 2001', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Includes chapters on the making of the film ''2001''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(6011, 'The Lost', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **J. D. Robb''s *Missing in Death*** investigates a female tourist''s disappearance during a ferry ride. Detective Eve Dallas wonders...if she didn''t jump, and she''s not on board, then where in the world is she? ** In Patricia Gaffney''s *The Dog Days of Laurie Summer***, a woman awakens to a familiar yet unsettling world. In **Mary Blayney''s *Lost in Paradise***, a man locked in an island fortress finds hope for freedom in an enigmatic nurse. And **Ruth Ryan Langan''s *Legacy*** belongs to a young woman who unearths a family secret buried on the grounds of a magnificent but imposing Irish castle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2371'),
(6012, 'The lottery winner: Alvirah and Willy stories', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alvirah Meehan, one of Mary Higgins Clark''s most beloved characters, returns in these dazzling, intertwined tales of sleuthing and suspense. Alvirah, the former cleaning lady who struck it rich in the lottery, made her first appearance in Weep No More, My Lady. Now, with her devoted mate, Willy, the ever-resourceful Alvirah delves into crime-solving on a grand scale -- and with her own inimitable style. Among their many adventures, Alvirah and Willy find a dead actress in their Central Park South condominium upon their return from London in "The Body in the Closet." Needing a break from the big city, they escape to Cape Cod -- only to meet a would-be heiress framed for murder in "Death on the Cape." When Alvirah and Willy seek the tranquillity of the Cypress Point Spa, it''s the perfect getaway -- until a jewel thief turns up in "The Lottery Winner." Back in Manhattan, the search for a neighbor''s missing newborn makes for a suspense-filled Christmas in "Bye, Baby Bunting."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3164');
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(6013, 'The Lottery', 'Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."--James Hilton,\n <em>\n  Herald Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique."--_Newsweek_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirley Jackson''s\n <em>\n  The Lottery\n </em>\n is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What''s there to be scared of? The ending is all the more stunning for the social commentary that comes like the slap of a hand and is gone. While\n <em>\n  The Lottery\n </em>\n is probably the darkest story in this collection, the twist, the dig, and the unrelenting insights into human prejudices and frailties are present throughout. Prime targets are self-satisfied matrons, whose racism and elitism are glaringly exposed. Other tales are gentler yet often eerie: a single woman waits expectantly for the man she is to marry that morning, only to find he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed; mild Emily Johnson faces down her kleptomaniac neighbor; Margaret''s dream vacation in New York City begins to feel like a nightmare. Sometimes the stories are downright funny, including a hilarious description of working at Macy''s, yet even in the humorous pieces, there is an unsettling feeling, like looking in a fun-house mirror where nothing is quite as you expected. This is a collection that will make you think while sending big and little chills down your spine.\n <em>\n  -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  From\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7426'),
(6014, 'The Lotus Eaters', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. Carrera''s won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. The Tauran Union is planning an attack. The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet''s premier power. His only living son is under fire among the windswept mountains of Pashtia. An enemy fleet is hunting his submarines. His organization has been infiltrated by spies. One of the two governments of his adopted country, Balboa, is trying to destroy everything he''s built and reinstitute rule by a corrupt oligarchy. Worst of all, perhaps, he, himself, bearing a crushing burden of guilt, isn''t quite the man he once was. Fortunately, the man he once was, was lucky enough to marry the right woman.... The Lotus Eaters is the direct sequel to A Desert Called Peace and Carnifex.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3566'),
(6015, 'The Lotus Eaters: A Novel', 'Tatjana Soli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.Â OnÂ a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll intoÂ Saigon. As the fall of the city begins, two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a war she is addicted to and a devastated country she has come to love. Linh, the Vietnamese man who loves her, must grapple with his own conflicted loyalties of heart and homeland. As they race to leave, they play out a drama of devotion and betrayal that spins them back through twelve war-torn years, beginning in the splendor of Angkor Wat, with their mentor, larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow, once Helen''s infuriating love and fiercest competitor, and Linh''s secret keeper, boss andÂ truest friend. Tatjana Soli paints a searing portrait of an American womanâ€™s struggle and triumph in Vietnam, a stirring canvas contrasting the wrenching horror of war and the treacherous narcotic of obsession with the redemptive power of love. Readers will be transfixed by this stunning novel of passion, duty and ambition among the ruins of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3491'),
(6016, 'The Lotus Sutra', 'Burton Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10761'),
(6017, 'Louise de la Valliere', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Louise de la Valliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set during the reign of Louis XIV and filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, the novel brings the aging Musketeers and d''Artagnan out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. This new edition of the classic English translation is richly annotated and places Dumas''s invigorating tale in its historical and cultural context.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(6018, 'A Love Affair With Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections', 'Jean Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anderson, author of more than 20 cookbooks, dedicated almost four years to creating her latest collection of 300 uniquely Southern recipesâ€”and her hard work, dedication and passion are evident throughout this extensive book. Along with classic dishes, Anderson shares stories about the South''s culinary history (such as the creation of Coca-Cola syrup in Atlanta, and the legend behind Tabasco sauce) and important food figures like Maryland native Frank Perdue and Krispy Kreme Doughnut founder Vernon Rudolph. Appetizer, soup, main course and dessert sections include popular favorites like Shrimp Gumbo, Smothered Pork Chops and Baked Virginia Ham. But the insider recipes like Shirt Tail Pies (fried apple turnovers), Tidewater Peanut Soup, Charcoal-Grilled Shad Roe and East Tennessee Stack Cake made with bourbon are what truly make this book special. Anderson''s instructions are easy to follow and The Language of Southern Cooking section is helpful, giving definitions of commonly used ingredients.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Recipe after delicious recipe will have yâ€™all gathering round the table to celebrate the Southâ€™s rich culinary heritage. (Ben and Karen Barker, authors of Not Afraid of Flavor: Recipes from Magnolia Grill )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jean Andersonâ€™s splendid, entertaining and most useful new book is her truly essential volume to all who enjoy southern cooking. (William C. Friday, President Emeritus, University of North CarolinaWilliam C. Friday, President Emeritus, University of North CarolinaWilliam C. Friday, President Emeritus, University of North CarolinaWilliam C. Friday, President Emeritus, Universit )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her Love Affair with Southern Cooking will have you falling in love, too--and running for your kitchen.â€ (Damon Lee Fowler, author of Classical Southern Cooking )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A tome that will win over workaday cooks and budding food scholars alike. (John T. Edge, author of Southern Belly: the Ultimate Food Lover''s Companion to the South )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A fascinating journey through the rich, complex history of southern foodways. Southern Cooking is a classic. (William Ferris )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders, whether from the South or not, will love the warmly written and carefully researched A Love Affair with Southern Cooking. . . . The 434-page book includes 200 classic and contempoarary recipes, plus anecdotes and personal reminiscences, all smartly told.â€ (4 stars -- Outstanding) (Baton Rouge Advocate )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] charmingly intimate, authoritative, and deeply soul-moving tribute to the peerless cookery of our beloved South. (James Villas, author of THE GLORY OF SOUTHERN COOKING and MY MOTHER''S SOUTHERN COOKING )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Superb...comes as close as I can imagine toward providing a detailed guide for the recreation of an ancient cuisine. (Reynolds Price, author of Kate Vaiden )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFun to read, with nuggets of lore packed into every page. . . . A Love Affair with Southern Cooking is that rarity, a book thatâ€™s as good to read as it is to cook from.â€ (Weight Watchers Magazine )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A New York Times Best Book of 2007 -- â€œThis treasurable book is plentifully studded with capsule essays (on the likes of Dukeâ€™s mayonnaise or RC Cola) and mini-profiles (Mary Randolph, George Washington Carver) as well as a running timeline of historical tidbits.â€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Jean Anderson] has turned her genius to southern cooking and presents us with a classic that will live in southern homes forever and in all American homes that revere great food.â€ (Pat Conroy )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8622'),
(6019, 'Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King', 'Antonia Fraser', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of influential women who orbited the dazzling Sun King. The most important woman in Louis XIV''s life, in Fraser''s telling, was probably the firstâ€”his mother, Anne of Austria. The voluptuous, pleasure-loving but pious and dignified queen regent inculcated Louis with the notion that he was a godlike miracle who was nevertheless accountable to the deity for his sins. As this narrowly focused history suggests, Louis was constantly trying to reconcile his gargantuan sexual appetite with his duty to his people and his God. Louis gave up his first love, the bold and amusing Marie Mancini, to marry his graceless first cousin, the Spanish princess Maria Teresa. A serious flirtation with his charming sister-in-law Henriette-Anne, sister of England''s Charles II, ended when Louis fell for Charles and Henriette''s decoy, the timid virgin Louise de La ValliÃ¨re. In sexual thrall to the intelligent, magnetic AthÃ©naÃ¯s, the Marquise de Montespan, the king intriguingly threw her over for FranÃ§oise Scarron, the puritanical governess to their bastards. Lastly, Louis gave his heart to his spirited granddaughter-in-law AdÃ©laÃ¯de, who died of measles within days of her husband, the Dauphin.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 17)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide of Savoy, a favorite companion of Louis XIV during his dotage, remarked, "Under a king, a country is really ruled by women." Fraser''s history of the court of the Sun King, seen through the lens of the women closest to him, is a highly readable confection, and unfolds as a sequence of cameos. There is Queen Anne of Austria, Louis''s steely moth"r and regent, who carefully molded the infant King into an Apollo adored by the court; and his wife, Marie-Therese of Spain, who gave him no trouble except by dying. Then comes a trio of mistresses: Louise de La Valliere, who became a nun as recompense for her sins; Athenais, voluptuous and fecund; and Madame de Maintenon, the discreet and redoubtable confidante of his later years. With vivid wit, Fraser demonstrates that within the edifice of the monarchy there were deep crannies of ordinary affection.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5428'),
(6020, 'Love at First Flight: One Round Trip That Would Change Everything', 'Marie Force', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What if the guy in the airplane seat next to you turned out to be the love of your life? Juliana, happy in her career as a hair stylist, is on her way to visit her boyfriend of ten years who''s working out of state. She''s wondering why they''re not engaged yet. Michael is going to his fiance''s parents'' home for an engagement party he doesn''t want. A states'' prosecutor, he''s about to try the biggest case of his career, he hates the distraction, and he''s having doubts about the relationship. They sit together on the plane, and discover they''re on the same flight coming back. When the weekend is a disaster for each of them, they bond on the plane ride home. But life is full of complications, including their exes, who don''t want to let go, and when Michael''s trial turns dangerous, the two must confront what they value most in life... Praise for Line of Scrimmage: "I will definitely be reading more Marie Force." -Revisiting the Moon''s Library "It was a book that made me laugh as well as cry. The three-dimensional characters were so vivid... hands down, this is the best romance I''ve read this year." -J. Kaye''s Book Blog "With its humor and endearing characters, Force''s charming novel will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, reaching far beyond sports fans." -Shelley Mosley, Booklist (20090420)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2439'),
(6021, 'Love at First Sight', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(6022, 'Love in Mid Air', 'Kim Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2984'),
(6023, 'Love in the Afternoon', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courtedâ€¦and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary manâ€”just to avoid spinsterhood? Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome, daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrixâ€™s friend, the vivacious flirt Prudence Mercer, when he returns from fighting abroad. But, as he explains in his letters to Pru, life on the battlefield has darkened his soulâ€”and itâ€™s becoming clear that Christopher wonâ€™t come back as the same man. When Beatrix learns of Pruâ€™s disappointment, she decides to help by concocting Pruâ€™s letters to Christopher for her. Soon the correspondence between Beatrix and Christopher develops into something fulfilling and deepâ€¦and when Christopher comes home, heâ€™s determined to claim the woman he loves. What began as Beatrixâ€™s innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled loveâ€”and a passion that canâ€™t be deniedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2327'),
(6024, 'Love in the Time of Cholera', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick. Spurned as a young man, Florentino Ariza has a half century of waiting to fill before a chance to redeclare his love for Fermina Daze comes, when her husband is killed retrieving a parrot from a mango tree. Funny, poignant and heartfelt - enduring and unrequited love have rarely been more movingly expressed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10404'),
(6025, 'Love Invents Us', 'Amy Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this first novel, Amy Bloom spins the tale of one Elizabeth Taube, charting her progress from an unloved adolescent to (alas) an unloved, middle-aged mother. To be sure, Elizabeth has had no shortage of suitors. Yet, one by one, they desert her, leaving nothing but their imprints upon her personality--which, if we are to take the title literally, is almost all the personality we have. The author steers clear of sentimentalizing her heroine''s plight. And Bloom''s eerie ability to convey physical sensation--which also distinguished her story collection __--is on ample and impressive display.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first two thirds of this first novel exhibit many of the excellent qualities seen in Bloom''s highly praised short-story collection, Come to Me. Again, Bloom''s prose combines lyrical imagery with a comfortable vernacular; her protagonist''s vision of the world is distinctive, wry and intense. We meet Elizabeth Taube as a preteen in upper-middle class Great Neck, Long Island. Perceptive enough to know that she is unloved by her mother, a chilly interior decorator, and her father, a remote accountant, she is too innocent to understand the attentions of an elderly furrier, who teaches her about the power of the body to arouse passion. A short while later, she acquires the two lovers who will have the largest impact on her life. One of these, Max Stone, is her junior-high school English teacher and a clear father figure. Max tries and fails to repress the sexual aspect of his love for Elizabeth, and as a result ends up a broken man. While Max is almost entirely unsympathetic, Elizabeth''s other lover, a black high school star athlete named Huddie Lester, is often too good to be true. The sure hand for characterization and plotting that Bloom showed in her stories is not always in evidence here; a blind black woman that Liz befriends is a fully realized and memorable character, yet her parents are especially unpleasant and underdeveloped. The book''s pacing sometimes lags, and the last third of the novel, with Elizabeth a middle-aged mother, lacks credibility. Yet Bloom''s beautifully inflected prose captivates a reader. Her keenly perceptive evocation of a young woman''s burgeoning self-awareness and her sensuous descriptions of erotic passion are fashioned with undeniable intelligence and grace. 40,000 first printing; author tour. (Jan.) FYI: The first chapter of this novel is virtually identical to a story in Come to Me titled "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7934'),
(6026, 'Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time', 'Rob Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Music critic Sheffield''s touching and poignant memoir of love and death will strike a chord in anyone who has used a hand-selected set of songs to try to express something that can''t be put into words. A socially awkward adolescent, Sheffield finds true love as a college student in the late ''80s with RenÃ©e, a "hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl." They''re brought together by their love of music, get married and spend eight years together before RenÃ©e suddenly dies of a pulmonary embolism. Sheffield''s delivery is not that of the typical actor/ reader. We come to know Rob as this geeky, lanky guy, and his reading is characteristically a little bit uncoordinated, yet it is tender and heartfelt enough to win us over. Each chapter opens with a song list from a mix tape made at the time. Listeners may wish that, as with Nick Hornby''s essay collection\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , there had been an audio component that would allow the music to take us back or would introduce us to new songs that helped Sheffield press on into an uncertain but hopeful future.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheffield was a "shy, skinny, Irish Catholic geek from Boston" when he first met Renee. Southern born and bred, "she was warm and loud and impulsive." They had nothing in common except a love of music. Since he made music tapes for all occasions, he and Renee listened together, shared tapes, and though never formally planning to, married. On May 11, 1997, everything changed. He was in the kitchen making lunch. Suddenly, she collapsed, dying instantly of a pulmonary embolism. Devastated, he quickly realized that he couldn''t listen to certain songs again, and that life as he knew it would never be the same. Fun and funny, moving and unbearably sad, Sheffield''s account at its quirkiest, and because of his penchant for lists, is reminiscent of Nick Hornby''s novel\n <em>\n  High Fidelity\n </em>\n (1995). Anyone who loves music and appreciates the unspoken ways that music can bring people together will respond warmly to this gentle, bittersweet reflection on love won and love irrevocably lost.\n <em>\n  June Sawyers\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6582'),
(6027, 'Love Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles', 'Nicholas Trout; Dr. Nick Trout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A book guaranteed to touch anyone who has ever had a beloved petâ€¦ ** From instant *New York Times* bestseller, Dr. Nick Trout comes another touching and heartfelt story from the front lines of veterinary medicineâ€”the story of two dogs who forever changed the way he thought about life, death, fate and love. Helen is an older cocker spaniel found neglected and abandoned in a restaurant parking lot one rainy night. Despite her mangy condition and terrible smell, Ben and Eileen fall in love with the pitiful creature and decide to take her in. But just as Helen is rescued from a sad life on the streets and enveloped in a loving home with all the creature comforts an old dog could ask for, a tumor is discovered and she''s given a devastating prognosis. All Ben and Eileen want is for Helen to beat the odds and survive for one more summer so that she can have one chance to swim in the ocean on the family''s annual trip to Prince Edward Island. In short, they want a miracle. Meanwhile, fourteen-month-old miniature pinscher Cleo keeps breaking one leg after another which devastates her poor owner, Sandi. While Cleo is visiting Sandi''s daughter, Sonja, in Bermuda, she succumbs to yet another fracture. Distraught that the injury happened on her watch, Sonja makes a plan to fly Cleo to Boston to get the specialist care she needs before Sandi even finds out. Enter Dr. Trout who presides over what should be a fairly routine surgery. What happens next forever links two families, their dogs and a beloved veterinarian and teaches them all a lesson about grace that resonates to this day. * Love is the Best Medicine* immerses you in the true life drama of beloved pets whose lives hang in the balance. Every page underscores the profound bond we have with the animals in our lives and the incredible responsibility Nick carries as their healer. Certainly Dr. Trout has an impressive array of fancy equipment, training and skills at his disposable, but his most important tool (as he persuasively illustrates here) is a fundamental belief in the power of hope, humility, and grace. Wry, charming, and intensely affecting,* Love is the Best Medicine* is a one of a kind story only the winsome Dr. Trout could deliver and is destined to become a favorite for animal lovers.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2554'),
(6028, 'Love Letters', 'Katie Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Phillida Horsley might have bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help organize a literary festival and finds herself going to Ireland to persuade the infamous and reclusive author Dermot Flynn to come out of hiding. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2611'),
(6029, 'Love Lies', 'Adele Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(6030, 'The Love of My Youth: A Novel', 'Mary Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thoughtful and moving, Gordon''s latest captures the ardor and vulnerability of young love and the cautious circumspection of middle age. Miranda and Adam began a love affair in high school that endured through college only to end in a painful betrayal. When a mutual friend brings them together in present-day Rome, they haven''t seen each other in more than three decades. Adam''s ambitions to be a concert pianist never came to pass, and Miranda, once convinced that political activism could change the world, is now an epidemiologist. Both have married and raised children, but Rome still holds passionate memories for them. Though wary, they meet for daily walks, and Gordon''s vividly detailed descriptions make Rome a palpable presence. Miranda and Adam tentatively reveal to each other the events of their lives, touching on aspirations, disillusionments, ideals, and desires, and these conversations set the pace of Gordon''s novel. Only when Miranda is about to leave Rome are they able to fully express their emotions and achieve catharsis. Gordon''s (Pearl) restraint is admirable, gradually exposing the differences in character that spelled the inevitable demise of this relationship. An accumulation of detail breathes life into her characters, and the writer''s affection for this beloved, eternal city is endearing. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Miranda and Adam were each otherï¿½s first love, but theyï¿½ve had no contact for 30 years. Their heady reunion takes place in Rome, a city of myths and ghosts Adam knows well, allowing him to show Miranda, there for an environmental health conference, the sights and allowing Gordon to make the most of gorgeous settings redolent with ancient secrets and sorrows. The ensuing intense conversations between Miranda and Adam are so psychologically intricate and complexly metaphysical and aesthetic that they seem impossibly theatrical. And yet, as the novel deepens in extended flashbacks, their intoxicating exchanges become exquisitely involving. We learn that their blissful love bloomed when they were 16 in the mid-1960s and slowly withered during their twenties as Adam devoted himself to becoming a great pianist and Miranda searched for a way to help make the world a better place. The more they talk on their Roman rambles, the more the reader burns to know what finally drove them apart. In her first novel since Pearl (2005), virtuoso and versatile Gordon offers brilliantly fresh takes on family conflicts, womenï¿½s lives, war, and global suffering while ingeniously meshing classic love stories with modern mores, and ecstasy with wisdom, to create an enthralling drama of innocent passion, crushing tragedy, and the careful construction of stable, nurturing lives. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Gordon is a major writer, and her alluring novel will be supported by a big media push and national tour. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6944'),
(6031, 'Love Overboard', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I''m excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. *Love Overboard* is second in the lineup, and it''s presented here in almost original form. I''ve done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around. And I changed the title because I thought the original title (Ivan Takes a Wife) was boring! *Love Overboard* is a romantic tale about a handsome ship''s captain; a wary wench from Jersey City; a hundred-year-old, two-masted schooner; and an entire town of shoemakers. There''s some getting naked, some blueberry pie, more getting naked, and at the end . . . Okay, I won''t tell you about the end, but it''s really good and it''ll make you feel happy. I took my family on the road trip from heck to research this book. When we finally got to Maine it was all worthwhile because we fell in love with the boats and the people who sailed them. Enjoy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2144'),
(6032, 'The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "_The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man_ is no less giddy, but in a dry, snide style. Uppity Wainscott University is caught on Alfred Alcorn''s blade when two antagonistic academics are found on the floor of the genetics lab, victims of an industrial-strength aphrodisiac and done to death by sexual excess. The Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution." â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  Praise for the first Norman de Ratour Mystery,\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An adroit, hilarious send-up." â€”\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A stylish, fiendish detective story." â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers will be choked with laughter." â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A "wonderfully funny and surprisingly suspenseful story." â€”\n  <em>\n   The Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Alcorn''s unexpected hybrid blends academic spoofery . . . and a murder mystery, serving it up with just the right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony." â€” _Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Professor Humberto Ossmann and Dr. Clematis Woodley, who heartily despised each other in life, are found together in a mortal embrace, Norman de Ratour knows that evil once again stalks the hallowed precincts of the Museum of Man. It has been several years since the museum was wracked by what became known as the â€œcannibal murders.â€ Many of the same characters â€“ Malachy Morin, Lieutenant Tracy of the Seaboard Police Department, Constance Brattle of Wainscott University''s Oversight Committee, the Reverend Alfie Lopes, Elsbeth, now Norman''s beloved wife, and Israel Landes, his devoted friend â€“ play their parts as an unseemly conspiracy unfolds: A powerful aphrodisiac under development in the Genetics Lab is being used as a murder weapon.Norman, now director of the museum, figuratively dons his deerstalker hat to help the Seaboard police find and bring the miscreants to justice.\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  takes black comedy to philosophical heights, exploring the human (and inhuman) condition and seeking to redeem it through humor in a novel that combines parody and murder mystery suspense.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4422'),
(6033, 'Love the One You&#39;re With', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof delivers another captivating novel about women and the choices that define them.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is the story for anyone who has ever wondered: How can I truly love the one Iâ€™m with when I canâ€™t forget the one who got away?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ellen and Andyâ€™s first year of marriage doesnâ€™t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other. But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo, the one who brought out the worst in her. Leo, the one who left her heartbroken with no explanation. Leo, the one she could never quite forget. When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life sheâ€™s living is the one sheâ€™s meant to live.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Love the One Youâ€™re With is a powerful story about one woman at the crossroads of true love and real life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9402'),
(6034, 'Love Wins: Telling a New Story About Heaven and Hell. By Rob Bell', 'Rob Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Rob Bell returns with a provocative new book which gets to the heart of questions about life and death. His perspective, encapsulated by his famous slogan ''love wins'', will surprise and challenge both Christians and atheists, and will inspire people of all faiths and none. A recent Gallup survey showed that over half of British people believe in heaven. But what is it? Who is it for? Why does it matter? And how do we know if we''re going there? Rob Bell believes that even the most fervent Christians and the most committed atheists, are still not satisfied with their traditional answers to these questions. Out of respect for their traditions they keep quiet, confiding to a few close, safe friends their doubts and questions about why they are here and where they are going. For many years, on sermons and DVDs and on bumper stickers and t-shirts, bestselling Chrisian author Rob Bell has been saying that ''Love Wins''. But ''Love Wins'' is much more than a pithy slogan. ''Love Wins'' is a philosophy drawn out from deep within religious tradition and writings. It provides answers to the deepest and most difficult questions about life and faith, and about heaven and hell. And it is a call to arms for all of us to live a more meaningful life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7169'),
(6035, 'Love You More: A Novel', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WHO DO YOU LOVE?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood, seeking to understand the inner workings of a trooperâ€™s mind while also unearthing family secrets. Would a trained police officer truly shoot her own husband? And would a mother harm her own child?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   . . . TO SAVE HER?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Tessa Leoni, the worst has not yet happened. She is walking a tightrope, with nowhere to turn, no one to trust, as the clock ticks down to a terrifying deadline. She has one goal in sight, and she will use every ounce of her training, every trick at her disposal, to do what must be done. No sacrifice is too great, no action unthinkable. A mother knows who she loves. And all others will be made to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Love you more . . .\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Lisa Gardner\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  True confession time: for a woman who makes her living writing extremely diabolical suspense novels, I have no stomach for gore. Scary movies? Canâ€™t watch them. Most of the crime shows on prime time? Egads, no way! Haunted houses? My husband has had to carry me out. Itâ€™s embarrassing but true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when I first received the invitation to conduct research at the famed Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I didnâ€™t know what to do with myself. As a forensics aficionado and thriller author, I just had to visit. A chance to learn first-hand how to search for buried remains? Or how to establish time of death for skeletal remains? Or the amount of forensic evidence that can still be retrieved from cremated bones? Sign me up!\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the other hand, this would involve walking the fabled Deathâ€™s Acre, which generally features several hundred decomposing bodies. I had to consider not just what I was going to see, but what I was going to smell, touch, feel. The squeamish mom in me worried I wouldnâ€™t be able to take it. And no one wants to be the one who barfs in front of trained professionals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s a girl gonna do? Of course I went.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Anthropological Research Facility, aka the Body Farm, was founded in the early â€˜80s by Dr. William Bass. Up until then, the discovery of decomposed remains often led to a time of death plus or minus several years. Obviously, this complicated the homicide investigation. Dr. Bassâ€™s solution: bury a body, see how long it took to skelatonize, and scientifically establish a rate of decomp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, many variables immediately came into play: buried or unburied, clothed or clothed, hot humid conditions, cold frosty conditions, animal activity, insect activity, etc., etc. In the end, Dr. Bass couldnâ€™t bury one body, he needed hundreds. Some donations were unclaimed remains from the MEâ€™s office. Hundreds of others are directed donations from people who wanted to contribute to the advancement of science after their death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This kind of generosity makes Deathâ€™s Acre less a macabre wooded plot and more like hallowed ground. Instead of listening to anthropologists merely analyze body parts, I heard stories of people and families, of victims and criminal prosecutions, of crafty murderers and even craftier forensics experts. I learned of stories told in bone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Interestingly enough, the more the head anthropologist Dr. Lee Jantz humanized the remains we studied, the more bearable I found the sights and smells to be. When I cradled the feather-light cranial plate of a newborn infant in my hand, I could both marvel as its rose petal size and feel the weight of one parentâ€™s heart-breaking contribution. I was both mesmerized by the skeleton collection, which took up endless rows of metal shelves, and amazed by how a scientist such as Dr. Jantz could pick up a single piece of cremated bone and tell you the personâ€™s gender, approximate age, chronic health conditions and probable occupation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bones, I learned, arenâ€™t just body parts, but an organic record of who we are, what we did, where we lived, and often, how we died. And in the right hands, bones allow the dead to speak. Think a murderer can cover his tracks with a burn barrel and lighter fluid? Think again. Think you can thwart time of death by freezing remains? Nope. Think you can get away with murder? Thanks to forensic anthropologists such as Dr. Jantz, not likely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I came to the Body Farm expecting to be immersed in death, and instead, found a new appreciation for life. And while my family still refuses to let me tell stories about my research over dinner, I had a great time working with the anthropologists on my March 2011 release Love You More. Just remember, when you come to the key scene in the snowy woodsâ€”youâ€™ll know which one Iâ€™m talking aboutâ€”I worked for that scene.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I walked Deathâ€™s Acre, and I never threw up.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Near the start of Thriller Awardâ€“winner Gardner''s gripping fifth novel featuring Boston PD Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after Live to Tell), D.D.''s former partner and one-time lover, Det. Bobby Dodge, of the Massachusetts State Police, asks her to look into what appears to be a clear-cut homicide case. The evidence suggests that Tessa Leoni, a state trooper colleague of Bobby''s, shot and killed her abusive husband, Brian Darby, who may have kidnapped her six-year-old daughter, Sophie. But Tessa won''t talk about her bruises, her husband, or what might have happened to her child. D.D. examines every detail about the family, while Tessa uses her skills to manipulate the investigation. From Tessa''s point of view, we learn about her and Brian''s courtship, his affection for Sophie, and how the marriage began to disintegrate. Gardner sprinkles plenty of clues and inventive twists to keep readers off-kilter as the suspense builds to a realistic, jaw-dropping finale. Author tour. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4624'),
(6036, 'Love- from His Point of View!', 'Eileen Wilks; Maureen Child; Anne Marie Winston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meeting at Midnight by Eileen WilksSeely Jones had secrets, hidden talents and a shadowed past. In Benâ€™s arms she wasnâ€™t the elusive earth mother she seemed, but a fiery temptress he was determined to keep in his bedâ€¦and in his life forever.Lost in Sensation by Maureen ChildSam Holdenâ€™s isolation was shaken by sexy whirlwind Tricia Wright. And when the proposed sleeping arrangements turned intimate, it was only a matter of time before his resolve to keep the world at a distance melted.For Services Rendered by Anne Marie Winston Theyâ€™d worked together for years, but security expert Sam Deering never knew what was beneath his plain-Jane employeeâ€™s baggy clothing. Then, on the night of Delilah Smithâ€™s twenty-ninth birthday, Sam no longer had to wonder as virginal Del announced she was readyâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(6037, 'Love, Life and Linguine', 'Melissa Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A unique voice, Melissa Jacobs delivers a second funâ€“filled, foodâ€“filled novel. Mimi''s life is an open book, or rather, an open menu. A restaurant consultant, she''s helped launch some of the best restaurants in Philly and around the world. And she even managed to turn her boyfriend Nick into the nation''s hottest celebrity chef. But when she comes home and discovers that Nick''s got a secret tongueâ€“pierced girl on the side, Mimi realizes she doesn''t have the secret to success after all. Needing a change of pace, Mimi heads home to New Jersey. The family restaurant is failing and her brother, unknown to anyone, has made plans to sell. The ultimate Restaurant Diva, Mimi sets out to save the family businessâ€“â€“a decision thatt leads her to two potentially perfect new men. All her life Mimi has believed that everyone has one true Soul Mate, but now she''s thinking that idea should be tossed out with last night''s leftovers. Maybe it''s time to select her men the way she selects pastries and produce and sample all there is to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2266'),
(6038, 'Love, Lust &amp; Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance', 'Jenny McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comedienne McCarthy, who has written more serious books on raising a child with autism in recent years, returns to lighter fare in this fun and funny guide to dating and relationships. McCarthy tackles everything from first loves to STDs, boob jobs to bootie calls, masturbation to abusive relationships. Some chapters are just for laughs, like when McCarthy recounts suiting up in a trash bag to help a roommate confirm she has come down with crabs, while others are more serious in tone, such as when McCarthy interviews author Byron Katie about living a fulfilling life or details the warning signs of an abusive relationship. She shares some personal anecdotes as well, from her experience the first time she posed for Playboy to dating a man who reminded her of a Teletubby because she thought heâ€™d treat her well. Even those who wouldnâ€™t usually pick up a relationship-advice book will find plenty to enjoy in this laugh-out-loud guide to the pitfalls of modern dating. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Jenny McCarthy returns to her comic roots in this candid, wise, and witty look at women, men, sex, romance, heartbreak, love, and how (not) to fake it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Belly Laughs\n </em>\n , Jenny McCarthy told you what you could really expect when you''re expecting. In\n <em>\n  Baby Laughs\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Life Laughs\n </em>\n , she gave you the unfiltered ups and downs of motherhood and marriage. Now, in Love,\n <em>\n  Lust &amp; Faking It\n </em>\n , the inveterate truth teller turns the lights on for a funny, often poignant, and no-holds-barred look at the essence of relationships: love and sex.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny explores the intensity of first love, introducing us to Tony, the boy of her teenage dreams, and Tubby, her dirty, sexy stuffed teddy bear. She takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world of aphrodisiacs and fetishes, explains the importance of playing doctor and other nice and naughty fantasies, and gives thanks for the pleasures of chocolate. And she sets the story straight on STDs, man junk and lady bits, why we\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n cheat, why women are master manipulators, the virtues of sex with the lights off, the power of a "loving no," the satisfaction of the perfect booty call, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with humorous stories about her own out-rageous exploitsâ€”from becoming a\n <em>\n  Playboy\n </em>\n Miss October to the pain of getting a discount boob job to meeting Brad Pittâ€”as well as the lessons she''s learned from family, friends, and fans,\n <em>\n  Love, Lust &amp; Faking It\n </em>\n takes on a subject the sex symbol, mother, television star, comedian, and divorcÃ‰e can be trusted to examine with nothing but unvarnished honesty and earthy humor. Throughout, Jenny reminds us to aim higher, believe in true love, and, most of all, be kind to ourselves. And to have lots of fun and sexâ€”without faking it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4720'),
(6039, 'Love&#39;s Lovely Counterfeit', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ben Grace, a member of the organized crime gang that controls Lake City, leaks evidence implicating the leader in murder and tax evasion, leading to a violent struggle to maintain control of the city in face of a reforming mayoral candidate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4697');
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(6040, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume I, 1905-1925', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl Polaris The Green Meadow Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory Old Bugs The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter The Terrible Old Man The Tree The Cats of Ulthar The Temple Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Street Poetry and the Gods Celephais From Beyond Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House The Crawling Chaos Ex Oblivione The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider The Other Gods The Music OF Erich Zann Herbert West: Reanimator Hypnos What the Moon Brings Azathoth The Horror at MartinÃ†s Beach The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He In The Vault The Loved Dead Under the Pyramids\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1796'),
(6041, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume II, 1926-1928', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Descendant Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Two Black Bottles (with Wilfred Blanch Talman) PickmanÃ†s Model The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Very Old Folk The Thing in the Moonlight (spurious) The Last Test (with Adolphe de Castro) History of the Necronomicon The Curse of Yig (with Zealia Bishop) Ibid\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1794'),
(6042, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume III, 1928-1931', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dunwich Horror The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro) The Mound (with Zealia Bishop) MedusaÃ†s Coil (with Zealia Bishop) The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Trap (with Henry S. Whitehead)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1795'),
(6043, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume IV, 1932-1936', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dreams in the Witch House The Man of Stone (with Hazel Heald) The Horror in the Museum (with Hazel Heald) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price) Winged Death (with Hazel Heald) Out of the Aeons (with Hazel Heald) The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Horror in the Burying-Ground (with Hazel Heald) The Book The Tree on the Hill (with Duane W. Rimel) The Battle that Ended the Century (with R. H. Barlow) The Shadow Out of Time Ã´Till AÃ† the SeasÃ¶ (with R.H. Barlow) Collapsing Cosmoses (with R.H. Barlow) The Challenge from Beyond The Disinterment (with Duane W. Rimel) The Diary of Alonzo Typer (with William Lumley) The Haunter of the Dark Within the Walls of Eryx (with Kenneth S) The Night Ocean (with R.H. Barlow)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1797'),
(6044, 'Lovelock', 'Orson Scott Card &amp; Kathryn H. Kidd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Hugo- and Nebula-winning Card ( The Ships of Earth ) teams up here with a relative newcomer (Kidd has published several non-SF novels with Card''s own publishing company, Hatrack River) to produce a moral fable about freedom, responsibility and the arrogance of human beings in treating other living things as unfeeling property. The narrator, Lovelock, is a genetically enhanced capuchin monkey trained to function as a "witness," recording the life and thoughts of the person to whom he is attached. Lovelock''s master is Carol Jeanne Cocciolone, the world''s leading "gaiologist" and now part of an interstellar colonization effort. As Carol Jeanne''s family (including her overbearing mother-in-law and browbeaten father-in-law) settle into the strange, self-contained world of the interstellar Ark (whose population is divided into small agricultural communities as practice for their future lives on a new world), Lovelock begins to chafe under the bonds of his psychological conditioning. Increasingly unhappy with the injustice of his servitude and the indifference of his master, he plots to break free. Card and Kidd''s passionate depiction of Lovelock''s plight, as well as their insightful portrayal of the various human characters, makes for a gripping read. These very elements, however, tend to drown out any SF interest. In addition, but for Lovelock''s enhancement, the novel might almost have been set in a small American town of a half-century past.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a genetically enhanced "witness," trained to record the daily activities of important people for future generations, Lovelock the monkey accompanies planetologist Carol Jeanne Cocciolone aboard the colony ship Mayflower. Lovelock''s gradual metamorphosis from contented "slave" to secret rebel echoes the conflicts of the humans around him as the enclosed environment of the spaceship exposes freedom''s illusions. Veteran fantasy/sf author Card (Lost Boys, LJ 11/1/92) and sf newcomer Kidd join forces to create a penetrating exploration of inalienable rights in a story that gives "humanistic" beliefs an unusual twist. For most sf collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5902'),
(6045, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Alice Sebold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet ..."The Lovely Bones" is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places. ''Spare, beautiful and brutal prose ..."The Lovely Bones" is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing'' - "The Times". ''Moving and compelling ...It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed'' - Maggie O''Farrell, "Sunday Telegraph".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(6046, 'Lover Avenged', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9862'),
(6047, 'Lover Enshrined', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9864'),
(6048, 'Lover Mine', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9865'),
(6049, 'Lover Revealed', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9861'),
(6050, 'Lover Unbound', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9863'),
(6051, 'Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author J.R. Ward''s thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself-only to face a devastating injury. Manuel Manello, M.D., is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he can-but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet, their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separates them?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  J.R. Ward\n </strong>\n is the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. She lives in the South with her husband.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6407'),
(6052, 'The Lovers', 'Vendela Vida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the acclaimed author of the 2007 *New York Times* Notable Book *Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name* comes a stunning novel about the love between husbands and wives, mothers and children. Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of DatÃ‡a, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier timeâ€”as well as sand and seaâ€”Yvonne returns to DatÃ‡a. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her. Her vacation rental''s landlord and his bold, intriguing wifeâ€”who share a curious marital arrangementâ€”become constant uninvited visitors, in and out of the house. Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. With Ahmet as her guide, Yvonne gains new insight into the lives of her own adult children, and she finally begins to enjoy the shimmering sea and relaxed pace of the Turkish coast. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life into chaosâ€”and her sense of self into turmoil. With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious landscape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3792'),
(6053, 'Loving Jack', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Somehow her own fictional brooding hero had turned up in person right under her own roof, and now all romance writer Jackie MacNamara had to do was convince stubborn Nathan Powell that happily-ever-after began at home -- and in her arms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2580'),
(6054, 'Lowboy', 'John Wray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, heâ€™s convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the policeâ€”unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted motherâ€”Will alone holds the key to the planetâ€™s salvation. To cool down the world, he has to cool down his own overheating body: to cool down his body, he has to find one willing girl. And he already has someone in mind. Â Lowboy, John Wrayâ€™s third novel, tells the story of Willâ€™s fantastic and terrifying odyssey through the cityâ€™s tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily Wallace, his one great hope, and of Violet Hellerâ€™s desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely. She is joined by Ali Lateef, a missing-persons specialist, who gradually comes to discover that more is at stake than the recovery of a runaway teen: Violetâ€”beautiful, enigmatic, and as profoundly at odds with the world as her sonâ€”harbors a secret that Lateef will discover at his own peril. Â Suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful by turns, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boyâ€™s haunting and extraordinary vision. John Wray is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Right Hand of Sleep and Canaanâ€™s Tongue. He was named one of Granta magazineâ€™s Best of Young American NovelistsÂ in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, heâ€™s convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the policeâ€”unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted motherâ€”Will alone holds the key to the planetâ€™s salvation. To cool down the world, he has to cool down his own overheating body: to cool down his body, he has to find one willing girl. And he already has someone in mind.Lowboy, John Wrayâ€™s third novel, tells the story of Willâ€™s fantastic and terrifying odyssey through the cityâ€™s tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily Wallace, his one great hope, and of Violet Hellerâ€™s desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely. She is joined by Ali Lateef, a missing-persons specialist, who gradually comes to discover that more is at stake than the recovery of a runaway teen: Violetâ€”beautiful, enigmatic, and as profoundly at odds with the world as her sonâ€”harbors a secret that Lateef will discover at his own peril.Suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful by turns, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boyâ€™s haunting and extraordinary vision. â€œLowboy is uncompromising, often gripping and generally excellent . . . One of the novelâ€™s many pleasures is just going along: putting yourself fully in the hands of the story and its author, being drawn in, gradually immersed, making the connections, appreciating those seeds as they bloom into the taleâ€™s developing complexity, danger and tragedy. By the time it all falls into place, the reader is long hooked and turning back is not an option . . . This is a meticulously constructed novel, immensely satisfying in the perfect, precise beat of its plot.â€â€”Charles Bock, The New York Times Book Review â€œLowboy is uncompromising, often gripping and generally excellent . . . One of the novelâ€™s many pleasures is just going along: putting yourself fully in the hands of the story and its author, being drawn in, gradually immersed, making the connections, appreciating those seeds as they bloom into the taleâ€™s developing complexity, danger and tragedy. By the time it all falls into place, the reader is long hooked and turning back is not an option . . . This is a meticulously constructed novel, immensely satisfying in the perfect, precise beat of its plot. Wray, however, has larger goals than a thrill ride. The book''s core is a nexus of tragedyâ€”the tragedy of a 17-year-old girl who, though she knows better, might do anything for the boy she loves; the tragedy of a mother whose life has been devoted to her son, yet who is incapable of helping him and who just may have been the source of his troubles; the tragedy of a middle-aged man caught between protecting the public and helping a parent; and finally, ultimately, the tragedy of a bright and beautiful teenager who not only must deal with all the confusions and pressures of being 16, but who, through no fault of his own, is not stable enough to be able to purchase a cupcake without confrontation. I''d be proud to be seen reading this novel on the downtown 6, or anywhere else at all.â€â€”Charles Bock, The New York Times Book Review"What ever happened to the American Man? You know, the one who bullied and swore and drank his way through novels full of cigarette smoke, big cars and red meat? The one who''d abandon his family for a prostitute, or coerce his girlfriend into a threesome, or sleep with the housekeeper after murdering his wife? What happened to all those Rabbits and Portnoys and Rojacks and Wapshots and Herzogs? And does anyone really miss them? Judging from a sampling of recent male-penned fiction, the answer is no, not really . . . Which brings us to a tale told by a schizophrenic teenager, John Wray''s dizzyingly seductive Lowboy. Wray''s protagonist is on the lam from a mental institution, loose among the commuters and winos and rolling thunder of the Manhattan subway. Making your central character deeply insane is, of course, a risky and ambitious trick, but Wray carries it off with a fluid, inventive style that rises at times to a frightening pitch. Lowboy is an amplified hero for our times; despite his violence and craziness and incoherence, he is fundamentally sweet and in search of love."â€”Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post"John Wray is less interested in Lowboyâ€™s picaresque circuits than in his mental circuits, whose damaged condition is brilliantly, compassionately evoked in the novel . . . Wray is never boring, largely because he has an uncanny talent for ventriloquism, and he seems to know, with unerring authority, how to select and make eloquent the details of Lowboyâ€™s illness. He uses a variety of literary techniques . . . What is impressive about the book is its control, and its humane comprehension of radical otherness. In this regard, it ideally justifies itself, as one always hopes novels will. You can imagine replying to someone who was curious about what itâ€™s like to be schizophrenic, ''Well, start with John Wrayâ€™s novel.'' Lowboy may often be lost to himself, but he is not lost to us. Wray knows how to induce and then manage a kind of epistemological schizophrenia in the reader, whereby we can inhabit Lowboyâ€™s groundless visions and still glimpse the ground they negate. There is a brilliant scene, like something out of Pinter, in which Lowboy is at a bakery in the Village, buying cupcakes. Emily waits for him outside. He is at the counter, and all is going reasonably well. But then his attention is caught by the bag . . . Lowboy is exceptionally tender and acute . . .Â  John Wray is a daring young writer, highly praised for his last two novels . . . These scenes are elegantly done, and are often moving."â€”James Wood, The New Yorker â€œ[A] masterful third novel . . . The tone here is a departure for Wray . . . Lowboy is both sharper and more compressed . . . Lowboy is at its best at its most unflinching. Like Ken Kesey, Wray has a keen ear for the language of madnessâ€”the scripts, the shrinks, the straightjackets and the electric shocks.â€â€”Matthew Shaer, San Francisco Chronicle"John Wray, an award-winning writer you''ve likely never heard of and a ''junior partner'' in a poker circle that includes Myla Goldberg, Colson Whitehead, and Jonathan Lethem, has managed to avoid a day job for ten years. This frees him up to pursue his dual occupations. First and foremost, he''s the author, at 37, of three standout novelsâ€”two probing works that have been reductively catalogued under historical fiction, and a new one, Lowboy, about a teenage paranoid schizophrenic at large in the subway system. It may be just suspenseful and familiar enough to promote the Park Sloper to full partnership in Brooklyn''s literary society . . . Lowboy, sort of a police procedural written from the fugitive''s point of view, may just be Wray''s Motherless Brooklynâ€”a long-deserved breakout from a phenomenally versatile writer who wanted to try something a little easier to swallow."â€”Boris Kachka, New York magazineâ€œJohn Wrayâ€™s third novel, one of the most anticipated books of the spring, has the makings of an American classic. Lowboy also represents Wrayâ€™s arrival as a major author, even though the story is in many ways a conventional one in which the hero of modest means sets out into the world with an enormous task, encounters a number of obstacles, comes to some new realization about his condition and finds a degree of redemption in the end . . . Wrayâ€™s genius as a storyteller lies in the fact that he recognizes that schizophrenia may well be the prevailing logic of the Twittered, Facebook-friended, RSS-fed culture around us. We can sympathize with Heller, and even love him, because he is all of us.â€â€”Andrew Ervin, The Miami Herald"Imagine Dostoevsky in New York City, the Underground Man taking the A Train, only not hurrying home to Harlem but sneaking into abandoned stations in midtown Manhattan. That describes Will Heller, a schizophrenic 16-year-old who has gone AWOL from his school, gone off his medsâ€”he was on Clorazilâ€”and is out to save a world that is in the terminal stages of global warming. So radical is the warming that the world is scheduled to fry in just hours . . . Lowboy is his break from the rigors of historical research. It is a darkly introspective book, closeted and disturbing, that sees Wray trading in history for psychology . . . Lowboy is a brilliant and gutsy performance . . . At certain moments the book feels like a runaway subway car; you want it to slow down for you. But with Will Heller being chased by Violet and Ali as well as Skull and Bones, there is no slowing down. Toward the end, Lowboy moves with increasing acceleration toward some apocalyptic rendezvous with greenhouse gasses deep under the sidewalks of New York."â€”Mark Shechner, The Buffalo News "In this brisk read, a schizophrenic 16-year old goes off his meds and descends into the bowels of the New York subway system, convinced the end of the world is near. Meanwhile, his mother and a detective search for him above. Dual plot tracks give Wray the chance to tell noir-inspired mystery with a trippy yet chilling twist."â€”Tim Swift, The Baltimore Sun "Many novelists have tried to portray a character''s madness or confusion, but few succeed in making that experience feel real and convincing. Lowboy, John Wray''s third novel, is one of those few . . . The novel deftly incorporates two narratives, that of Will with his warped, fevered perspective, and a more straightforward one about Will''s mother and Detective Ali Lateef as they try to find him before he does something violent, to himself or to others. That fear stems from an incident 18 months earlier, when Will pushed his girlfriend, Emily, off a subway platform. (She survived.) . . . Lowboy carries the reader along with suspense. The chapters depicting Violet and Detective Lateef''s search for Lowboy read like a police procedural, while the ones presenting Lowboy''s perspective leave one hoping he''ll somehow find healing. Wray''s pacing is superb. Describing mental illness can become labored, even boring, but he captures Lowboy''s confused thoughts without judging or romanticizing him . . . Wray''s writing shines . . . Lowboy moves inexorably toward a conclusion that includes a secret about Violet and an act that brings to mind another Russian novelist. This is a fine novel by a talented writer. I look forward to his next work."â€”Gordon Houser, The Wichita Eagle "The protagonist of John Wray''s daring third novel is on a mission that evokes the plot of Porky''s, but it would be a mistake to conflate Lowboy with the rest of the genre . . . Wray handles this bizarre scenario the only way he can: By explaining as little as possible, and allowing the details of Will''s bizarre mission to emerge slowly over the course of the book. As Lowboy begins, Will is riding the New York Subway, having just been released from the hospitalâ€”but not, as planned, into his mother''s custody. He''s set out on his own to find Emily, and it''s clear off the bat that something''s not right: Will manages to freak out everyone in his train car, with talk like, ''The world''s going to die in 10 hours. Ten hours exactly, Grandfather. By fire.'' By all rights, this book should read as utterly preposterous: Global warming? Schizophrenic sex quest? What? Wray''s writing is so spare and direct, though, that the book only seems odd when you stop to think about it. Meanwhile, narrative tension is established immediately and ratcheted up to a vibrating intensity by the end of the novel, making Lowboy that rarest of books: an utterly new take on a familiar theme."â€”Alison Hallett, The Portland Mercury "The book â€” Wray''s attempt at combining art and accessibility â€” melds his daring narrative flourishes with the fast pace, thrills and chills of a sophisticated page turner. It''s a coming-of-age tale unspooled within a modern-day, 24-hour period: A schizophrenic 16-year-old named Will goes off his meds, escapes his mental ward and finds potentially fatal purpose riding the New York subway; meanwhile, his mother and a police detective embark on a frantic search for the boy before the worst happens."â€”Erin Carlson, The Associated Pressâ€œLowboy is a smart, moving thriller, and a deeply imaginative one, too . . . Wray handles his off-kilter hero with sympathy. Lowboy''s hurtling plot makes it the sort of book you read in a few big gulps, but its complicated teen characterâ€”at once intensely familiar and completely foreignâ€”sticks around for days after you''re done.â€â€”Izzy Grinspan, Time Out New York"John Wray''s character, in his novel Lowboy, is a schizophrenic teenager on the lam. Lowboy sees himself as having a calling, warning folks that the world is about to end in fire, and he evades capture by his mother and a police detective for a good part of a long day while riding the subway. But John Wray captures Lowboy almost immediately and gives him to us in intense, sharp pages. Wray''s really good at fusing physical states and distressed mental states, as in this moment when Lowboy''s companion, the high school girl, is trying to teach him about intense kissing."â€”Alan Cheuse, NPR "William Heller is a 16-year-old that goes by the nickname of Lowboy, mainly because of his fondness for riding the subway. Not the most exciting of hobbies, but then again you''re not a schizophrenic off his meds who believes that the world is going to end in 10 hours. Heller is such a person, so reading Lowboy is a lot more interesting than his chosen hobby might lead you to believe. John Wray, the author of Lowboy''s deceptively simple prose, is giving a reading of his already acclaimed novel at Spike Hill in Williamsburg. The genius of it is that the reading ends in the bar; it begins on the L train. Interested parties should gather at the back end of the platform of the 8th Avenue and 14th Street stop. Get on board, and the reading starts. If enough of you go, you''ll get a car all to yourselves. If not, well, welcome to the world of performance art. You should go."â€”John Coakley, Soho JournalÂ "A breathtaking journey through the subway tunnels of Manhattan and the subterranean fantasies of a schizophrenic teen, the eponymous Lowboy careens toward disaster as the boy, a.k.a. Will Heller, disappears into the urban netherland. A wary detective gives chase, along with ''Violet,'' a mother who harbors disturbing secrets about her son. Lowboy has an apocalyptic obsession with global warming (he believes that only he can save the world), but more immediate perils reside in the twists and turns of the human psyche."â€”Cathleen Medwick, O, The Oprah Magazineâ€œYouâ€™ll tear through the pages . . . A lip-biting thriller to the finish.â€â€”Sarah Z. Wexler, Marie Claire"In his latest, versatile novelist John Wray hauntingly inhabits the paranoid schizophrenic mind of his 16-year-old protagonist, Will Heller (aka Lowboy). Convinced that he can single-handedly save the world from the fatal effects of global warming, Will embarks on a journey through the New York City subway system to find Emily Wallace, the one girl he thinks can help him. Because Will has displayed violent tendencies in the past, the pair is pursued by missing-persons detective Ali Lateef and Willâ€™s mother, Violet. Wray spins out an increasingly suspenseful, psychologically astute narrative, perfectly pitching the voice to accommodate each characterâ€™s particular motivations. As the search heats up, Willâ€™s fractured mind continues to corrode his conception of reality: ''Sourceless revelations sparked and spun behind his eyelids and memories flashed like stoplights in between . . .'' A final revelation about Violet is followed by the disturbing closing paragraphs, which are sure to linger long after the book is closed."â€”Eric Liebetrau, Paste magazine â€œ[Wray] succeeds with a brisk plot and odd moments of humor. The storyâ€™s final grimness is tough, but itâ€™s hard not to admire this bullet train of a book for its chilling power.â€â€”Stacey Levine, Bookforumâ€œJohn Wrayâ€™s Lowboy is a psychotic, subterranean, environmentally conscious, coming-of-age novel.Â  It is also an affecting and affectionate love letter to New York.Â Lowboy is John Wray at his highest.â€â€”Nathan Englander, author of Ministry of Special Casesâ€œThrough the windows of John Wray''s rumbling express, we catch sight of the deep darkness that lives inside the human psyche. Lowboy is aÂ riveting and disturbing ride, illuminating one adolescent boy''s shadowy underground, and giving us glimpses of our own as well.â€â€”Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurtâ€œAmerica''s most original young writer has given us a book for the ages. Compelling, compassionate, and deeply unsettling, Lowboy introduces us to the brilliant sixteen-year-old Will Heller, a hero as three-dimensional as any in recent fiction, a Holden Caulfield for our troubled times.â€â€”Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutanteâ€™s Handbook and Absurdistanâ€œLowboy sucks you into the tunnels under NY and doesn''t let you go until its perfect ending. Wray effortlessly portrays the cracked and distorted mind of his teenage hero. What a beguiling novel.â€â€”Tim Pears, author of In The Place of Fallen Leaves"John Wray''s novel, Lowboy, is about a schizophrenic teenager who has stopped taking his medication and escaped the asylum into the New York subway. The novel follows William Heller, aka ''Lowboy,'' below ground and above, as he pursues what he perceives as his quest to save the world . . . Lowboy''s chapters alternate with those of missing persons detective, Ali Lateef, who over the course of a single November day with the boy''s mother, assembles the pieces of a puzzle that, alongside Lowboy''s own narrative, gradually reveal Wray''s schizophrenic narrator to be both a danger to himself and to others. Much of the novel''s narration is halting and observational, mirroring Lowboy''s own skewed perception of the world and the people around him . . . Lowboy is an intelligent and likable protagonist, but the reader is steadily filled with foreboding as the novel progresses. It is testament to John Wray''s extensive research on mental illness that Lowboy is far more than the caricature of mental illness often presented in books and movies. The other characters in the novel similarly reveal complexities during the novel, keeping the reader surprised throughout. Occasionally comical and consistently tragic, Lowboy is an engaging novel with a difficult subject."â€”Mark Flanagan, About: Contemporary Literature "Lowboy has a plan to save the Earth from global warming: He will cool the planet by losing his virginity on the New York City subway. The idea may seem far-fetched, but not to Lowboy. He is a 16-year-old schizophrenic who has recently escaped from a mental hospital. The novel, by author John Wray, is a psychological thriller that unfolds over the course of a day. Lowboy tries to carry out his plan before his mother and a detective named Ali Lateef can stop him. Vivid scenes of Lowboy''s reality and psychosis play out in subway cars, tunnels and even in the underground chambers that are covered by sidewalk grates. Wray says he researched the novel ''like an overeager method actor.'' He spent nearly a week in a hospital psych ward observing patients. He also did much of his writing on the subway, where he encountered many passengers living with mental illness. Wray says riding the rails and writing was not always the most pleasant experience, but it fostered a ''low-level paranoia'' that helped him capture the thoughts of a schizophrenic teenager. Wray paints a multidimensional portrait of Lowboy. Delusions aside, he is a pretty normal teenager. He''s awkward, funny and full of angst. Wray admits he has what he considers a rather naive hopeâ€”that after readers finish his novel, they''ll have a more ''human perspective'' on schizophrenia."â€”All Things Considered, NPR"Will ''Lowboy'' Heller, blond and blue-eyed and 16 years old, would not seem to be the most intimidating subway passenger. But Will is a paranoid schizophrenic, and on the day ''Lowboy'' takes place, he is on a mission. Will believes that the only way he can stop the world from ending by global warming is to lose his virginity. Months ago, an incident with Will''s best friend, Emily, led to his being institutionalized. Now, Will is determined to reunite with Emily and fulfill his plan for the world''s salvation. Meanwhile, Ali Lateef of the New York Police Department and Violet, Will''s mother, both of whom have troubles of their own, scour the city to find the boy before he harms himselfâ€”or someone else. Much of Lowboy takes place on the New York subway, and John Wray''s kinetic descriptions of the trains'' inevitable rush are the highlights of the book, making up for the relative thinness of the two adult characters. Lowboy is absorbing reading, though perhaps not for the morning commute."â€”Rebeccea Oppenheimer, Howard County TimesÂ  "A teenaged paranoid schizophrenic risks his fragmenting grasp of reality in a quixotic attempt to save a world threatened by global warming, in Whiting Award winner Wrayâ€™s deeply disturbing third novel.Â As in Wrayâ€™s previous books, this one is constructed from several interconnected stories. The narrative is occupied with three searches. The primary one is that of 16-year-old Will Heller, who walks out of a mental hospital and into the New York subway system, en route to a desired reunion with the former schoolmate, Emily Wallace, who was both his prospective lover and a presumably accidental victim of Willâ€™s tendency to succumb to uncontrollable violence. The sources of such instability may lie in undisclosed experiences of sexual abuse or elsewhere in Willâ€™s troubled relationship with his Austrian-born mother Yda (he calls her ''Violet''), whose search through her own past adds both explanatory exposition and subtle misdirection, as the reader struggles to comprehend Willâ€™s belief that ''cooling'' his own virginal body can avert a coming worldwide holocaust. The addled viewpoints of Will and Violet are challenged, and to some extent explained by the investigations of Ali Lateef, a weary SCM (Special Category Missings) police detective who senses that finding Will before he harms himself or others requires understanding the mysteries in Violetâ€™s occluded past. The novel has a thriller-like pace, and Wray keeps us riveted and guessing, finding chilling rhetorical and pictorial equivalents for Willâ€™s uniquely dysfunctional perspective (e.g., as he watches Emily approach: ''A green girl-shaped pillar rose through the veins of his retina like ivy twining through a chain-link fence . . . Her features came apart like knitting''). The suspense is expertly maintained, straight through the novelâ€™s dreamlike climactic encounter and heart-wrenching final paragraph.Â  The opening pages recall Salingerâ€™s Holden Caulfield, but the denouement and haunting aftertaste may make the stunned reader whisper ''Dostoevsky.'' Yes, it really is that good."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)â€œWray is an obviously gifted writer, who treatment of Will is a tour de force of empathy, style, and imagination.â€â€”Booklist"Will Heller, aka Lowboy, is a brilliant but troubled 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic in New York City. Recently escaped from a mental hospital and obsessed with the notion that the world is about to be destroyed by global warming, he boards the subway one morning seeking to save the world in the only way he believes it can beâ€”by having sex with a woman. He attempts to locate former girlfriend Emily Wallace, whom he has not seen since he pushed her onto the subway tracks a year earlier, the act that led to his stay in a mental hospital. Throughout his daylong adventures in the tunnels and streets, he is pursued by police detective Ali Lateef and his mother, Violet, a woman with her own secrets, who seek to bring him home before he harms himself or others. Their growing relationship provides both a parallel and a counterpoint to that of Will and Emily. Wray presents a powerful and vivid portrait of Will''s mental state, believably entering into his apocalyptic vision of the world."â€”Lawrence Rungren, Library Journalâ€œReaders are pulled into the mind of a teenage schizophrenic in this dark and intriguing novel . . . Will [Heller] describes his experiences and the events leading up to them in a kind of organized stream-of-consciousness, revealing the inner workings of a different type of brain. Scenery and emotions alike are described with vivid imagery, allowing readers to truly experience Willâ€™s journey. While the teen is at the center of the novel, the two adults who share his story are equally engaging. They are neither absent nor infallible. Comparisons to J. D. Salingerâ€™s The Catcher in the Rye or Stephen Chboskyâ€™s The Perks of Being a Wallflower are inevitable: those drawn to damaged characters or seeking insight into a disturbed human psyche will be deeply affected by the chilling ending.â€â€”Karen E. Brooks-Reese, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylviania, School Library Journal"Wray''s captivating third novel drifts between psychological realities while exploring the narrative poetics of schizophrenia. The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believing that the world will end within a few hours and that only he can save it. It''s a novel that defies easy categorization, although in one sense it''s a mystery, as a detective, Lateef, is on the case, assisted by Will''s troubled mother, Violet. As Lateef tracks Will and gains some startling insight into Violet, Wray deploys brilliant hallucinatory visuals, including chilling descriptions of the subway system and an imaginary river flowing beneath Manhattan. In his previous works, Wray has shown that he''s not a stranger to dark themes, and with this tightly wound novel, he reaches new heights."â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2259'),
(6055, 'Loyalty in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: National bestselling author J. D. Robb''s phenomenal series has captivated readers nationwide with its tantalizing blend of romance, suspense, and near-future police procedural. New York cop Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe -- a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters... and kills without mercy.An unknown bomber is stalking New York City. He is sending Eve Dallas taunting letters promising to wreak mass terror and destruction among the "corrupt masses". And when his cruel web of deceit and destruction threatens those she cares for most, Eve fights back. It''s her city...it''s her job... and it''s hitting too close to home. Now, in a race against a ticking clock, Eve must make the pieces fit -- before the city falls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2349'),
(6056, 'LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell', 'Adam Haeder; Stephen Addison Schneiter; Bruno Gomes Pessanha; James Stanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you''re seeking a job-based certification from the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), this updated guide will help you prepare thoroughly for the technically challenging Level 1 LPI exams, which test basic knowledge of Linux installation, configuration, and command-line skills. In LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, you''ll find a summary of the core skills you need, as well as sample exercises, test questions, and hints to help you focus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5130'),
(6057, 'Lucifer&#39;s Lottery', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just before heâ€™s about to enter a seminary, a young man learns heâ€™s the winner of Luciferâ€™s Lottery, a lottery held every 666 years, in which the winner receives eternal youth and wealth and a personal tour of Hell.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Â Lee has been published at Zebra, Berkley, Cemetery Dance, and Necro Publications. Dorchester is now his exclusive paperback publisher.Â  Lee was one of the co-founders of the Splatterpunk movement in horror and is one of the most influential writers in the genre today.Â Â  Several of his short stories have been nominated for HWAâ€™s Bram Stoker Award, such as 1994â€™s\n <em>\n  Mr. Torso\n </em>\n .Â  He has also received many preliminary nominations for HWAâ€™s Best Novel Stoker, including both _Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman\n <em>\n  (1998) and\n </em>\n Sacrifice_ (1995).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6424'),
(6058, 'Lucifer&#39;s Shadow', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n   Synopsis\n  </h3>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young womanâ€™s casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the cityâ€™s mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collectorâ€™s library. But when Danielâ€™s employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, a chain reaction of violence and deception ignites. Suddenly Daniel is drawn into a police investigationâ€”and a tempest swirling around a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo, and a lost musical masterpiece dating back centuries. With each step he takes, Daniel unwittingly retraces a journey that began in 1733, when another young man came to Venice. And when, in this realm of intrigue and beauty, two lovers came face-to-face with a killerâ€”and a mystery was born. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide in David Hewsonâ€™s dazzling novel. Sweeping us from the intrigue of Vivaldiâ€™s Venice to the gritty world of a modern cop, from the genius of a prodigy to the greed of a killer,Â \n  <b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Luciferâ€™s Shadow\n  </b>\n  builds to a shattering crescendoâ€”and one last, breathtaking surprise.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </i>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5998'),
(6059, 'Luck Be a Lady', 'Cathie Linz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  You can always count on Cathie Linz to create a feisty, nonstereotypical librarian in her stories, and this bookâ€™s heroine, Megan West, is no exception. Coming from a family who owns the largest private-investigation firm in Chicago, Megan figures she knows all the clanâ€™s secrets. Wrong. At her cousinâ€™s Las Vegas wedding, not only does Megan find out that a supposedly single man is married, she also accidentally discovers that her own mother, whom sheâ€™s been told is dead, is actually very much alive and kicking, and everyone else in the family knows it. Feeling as though sheâ€™s suffered the ultimate betrayal, Megan sets out with Detective Logan Doyle to uncover the whole truth about her mother. Their spur-of-the-moment journey takes them to odd locations, including a Chicken Ranchâ€“like house of ill repute and an almost-ghost town, where they meet up with eccentric characters. Linz (Mad, Bad and Blonde, 2010; Smart Girls Think Twice, 2009; Big Girls Donâ€™t Cry, 2007) has written another fast-paced romantic comedy with just the right amount of heartfelt emotion. --Shelley Mosley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A shocking announcement at her cousin''s Vegas wedding sends retro- loving librarian Megan West on a whirlwind tour across Nevada with brash cop Logan Doyle. It''s the gamble-and perhaps love affair-of a lifetime...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5422'),
(6060, 'Luckey Quarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11126'),
(6061, 'Lucky Jim', 'Kingsley Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Kingsley Amis''s Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable ''girlfriend'' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of all British post-War novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3129');
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(6062, 'The Lucky One', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n U.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he''snever met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with unexpected circumstances surrounding his new love and his shrouded past. Though not Sparkss most original tale, the story flows well and narrator John Bedford Lloyd delivers a solid performance. Lloyds deep bass tone is perfectly suited for Thibault, a manly man if ever there was one. Lloyds supporting characters are rich and interesting in their own right, some speaking in comical Southern drawls, others with a raw reality. The final result is quite touching without much over-the-top sentimentality on Lloyds part.\n <em>\n  A Grand Central hardcover. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks''s new novel believes he''s found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he''s never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8159'),
(6063, 'Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy', 'Sarah Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lucrezia Borgia is legendary as the archetypal villainess who carried out the poisoning plotted by her scheming fatherâ€”Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgiaâ€”and by her ruthlessly ambitious brother Cesare. The facts of Lucrezia''s case are sorted out from fiction by Bradford''s humanizing biography, which presents Lucrezia as an intelligent noblewoman, powerless to defy her family''s patriarchal order, yet an enlightened ruler in her own right as Duchess of Ferrara. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Bradford (_Disraeli_;\n <em>\n  Princess Grace\n </em>\n ) explains how Lucrezia''s first husband, after their marriage was annulled, vengefully tarnished her name with accusations of incest. Bradford discredits the popular belief that Lucrezia helped Cesare assassinate her second husband. Lucrezia emerges as a political realist who participated with her father and brother in a campaign to marry into the powerful Este family, winning the affections of her new husband, Alfonso d''Este, later Duke of Ferrara. Bradford portrays Lucrezia''s extramarital affairs as daring and passionate romances of the heart and describes her cultivated court life and her kindness to artists and poets. Although Bradford''s portrait is not immune to a fictionalizing style, especially when ascribing emotional states to its subject, as a project designed to distinguish the historical Lucrezia Borgia from the legend, Bradford''s readable biography resoundingly succeeds. Maps and illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historians who have attempted to rescue Lucrezia Borgia from her legend as a poisoner who slept with both her father, Pope Alexander VI, and her brother, Cesare Borgia, have mostly described her as a pawn. Indeed, before she was twenty-one she was twice married off to men who were disposed of once their political usefulness expired. (The first had to declare himself impotent and grant her a divorce; the second was strangled in his bed.) Bradford sees Lucrezia neither as a helpless victim nor a femme fatale but as a resourceful individualâ€”an able administrator, a genuinely religious woman, and the equal in political skill, if not in brutality, of her notorious male relatives. When the family of her third husband balked at alliance with a woman described as the "greatest whore there ever was in Rome," she used all her craft and charm to win them overâ€”by, among other things, making her pious prospective father-in-law a gift of several nuns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7328'),
(6064, 'Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Both hilarious and suspenseful this is "Chick lit" at its gossipy best. What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she''ll be married within the year? Her flatmates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out food, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming? Lucy reassures her friends that she''s far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there''s the small matter of not even having a boyfriend. But then Lucy meets gorgeous, unreliable Gus. Could he be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan? Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world''s biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new guy at work? Will Lucy find her soulmate?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9976'),
(6065, 'Luka and the Fire of Life', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, *Luka and the Fire of Life* revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic *Haroun and the Sea of Stories.* This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Harounâ€™s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.  For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Lukaâ€™s fate, and that of his father, will be decided.  Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality,* Luka and the Fire of Life* is a book of wonders for all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6333'),
(6066, 'Lullaby', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n , Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator''s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim''s direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song''s devastating potential.\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona''s vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his previous works, including the cult favorite __, Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen''s possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments,\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n casts a powerful spell.\n <em>\n  --Ross Doll\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I need to rebel against myself. It''s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl''s victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen''s Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk''s conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk''s decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8496'),
(6067, 'Lullaby Town', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lullaby Town is Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole (The Monkey''s Raincoat, 1987--not reviewed) goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who''s since developed deep pockets (courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw) and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It''ll take all of Elvis''s wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser, but without Spenser''s nasty/noble attitudinizing--and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollywood''s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.Â Â His films make billions, but his manners make enemies.Â Â What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America.Â Â It''s the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep -- until it turns out to be a nightmare.Â Â For when Cole finds Nelson''s wife in a small Conneticut town, she''s nothing like what he expects.Â Â The lady has some unwanted -- and very nasty -- mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . .at the bottom of the Hudson River.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6637'),
(6068, 'Lullaby: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever heard of a culling song? Itâ€™s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of **Poems and Rhymes from Around the World**, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.Reporter Carl Streator discovers the songâ€™s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, heâ€™s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistantâ€™s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.Written with a style and imagination that could only come from Chuck Palahniuk, **Lullaby** is the latest outrage from one of our most exciting writers at work today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(6069, 'Lunar Park', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n <br />\n Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after\n <em>\n  American Psycho\n </em>\n your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father''s, his stepdaughter''s doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his sonâ€™s age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss, fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Tale of Two Brets: An Amazon.com Interview with Bret Easton Ellis\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n , Bret Easton Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past. Ellis is at the top of his game in\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n , his first novel since 1999''s\n <em>\n  Glamorama\n </em>\n , delivering a disturbing and delirious novel about celebrity, writers, and fathers and sons (not to mention a cameo from notorious Ellis creation, Patrick Bateman). Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons spoke with Ellis in a Seattle to Los Angeles phone call to\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n , New York versus LA, ''80s music, and the whole "_American Psycho_ thing."\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Less Than Zero\n  </em>\n  (1985)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Published when Ellis was a junior at Bennington,\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on Ellis\n </strong>\n :\n <em>\n  "I don''t think it''s a perfect book by any means, but it''s valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. There''s a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19.\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Rules of Attraction\n  </em>\n  (1987)\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Less than Zero\n </em>\n ''s Clay makes a cameo appearance as well as a passing glimpse of Ellis'' Bennington classmate Donna Tartt''s murderous Classics majors from\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on Ellis\n </strong>\n : "_It might be my favorite book of mine. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It''s kind of all over the place. It''s casual. It''s scruffy. That''s the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for._"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   American Psycho\n  </em>\n  (1991)\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Batman Begins\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on Ellis\n </strong>\n : "_It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as I remember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. I found it really fast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. The violence was... it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn''t believe how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steel myself to re-read those passages._"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Informers\n  </em>\n  (1994)\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Less than Zero\n </em>\n . Sex, drugs, and gratuitous violence take center stage, with characters including an aging, predatory anchorwoman, a debauched rock star tearing through Japan, and a pick-up artist vampire. While some of the vignettes echo better Ellis works, ultimately the stories don''t add to much as a whole. Book critics are less than receptive to Ellis'' post-_American Psycho_ offering.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on Ellis\n </strong>\n : "_Those were written while I was at Bennington. I wrote a lot of short stories between 1981 or 1982 or so..._ The Informers\n <em>\n  more or less kind of represented probably the best of those stories. I wrote a lot of really bad ones, but those are the ones that worked the best together.\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Glamorama\n  </em>\n  (1999)\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Rules of Attraction\n </em>\n ) is the narrator of\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on Ellis\n </strong>\n : "_[T]he book wasn''t necessarily about terrorism to me. It was about a whole bunch of other stuff. It''s definitely the book that I can tell--I don''t know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer--is probably the most divisive that I''ve written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn''t really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It''s an unwieldy book... I like it._"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellis on DVD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Will the Real Bret Easton Ellis Please Stand Up?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Visit the author''s Web site at www.2brets.com.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having ridden to fame as the laureate of Reagan-era excesses, Ellis serves up a self-eviscerating apologia for all the awful things (wanton drug use, reckless promiscuity, serial murder) he worked so hard to glamorize. Narrated faux memoir style by a character named Bret Easton Ellis, author of bestsellers, L.A. native, friend to Jay McInerney, the book seeks to make obvious its autobiographical elements without actually remaining true to the facts. In the novel, Ellis marries B-list actress Jayne Dennis (with whom he''d fathered a child years earlier), moves to the New York City suburbs and begins working on his latest neo-porn shocker,\n <em>\n  Teenage Pussy\n </em>\n , when things start to go awry. His house becomes possessed by strange, threatening spirits intent on attacking his family and transforming their home into the pink stucco green shag disaster of Ellis''s childhood; a well-read stalker begins acting out, victim by victim, the plot of\n <em>\n  American Psycho\n </em>\n ; and the town becomes enthralled by a string of child abductions (oddly, only the boys are disappearing) that may or may not be the work of Ellis''s son. This is a peculiar novel, gothic in tone and supernatural in conceit, whose energy is built from its almost tabloidlike connection to real life. As a spirit haunting Ellis''s house tells him, "I want you to reflect on your life. I want you to be aware of all the terrible things you have done. I want you to face the disaster that is Bret Easton Ellis." Ultimately, though, the book reads less like a roman Ã  clef than as a bizarre type of celebrity penance. The closest contemporary comparison is, perhaps, the work of Philip Roth, who went for such thinly veiled self-criticism earlier in his career, but Roth''s writing succeeded on its own merits, whereas\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n begs a knowledge of Ellis''s celebrity and the casual misanthropy his books espoused. Yet for those familiar with Ellis''s reputation, the book is mesmerizing, easily his best since\n <em>\n  Less than Zero\n </em>\n . Maybe for the first time, Ellis acknowledges that fiction has a truth all its own and consequences all too real. It is\n <em>\n  his\n </em>\n demons who destroy his home, break up his family and scuttle his best chance at happiness and sobriety. As a novel by anyone else,\n <em>\n  Lunar Park\n </em>\n would be hokum, but in context, it is a fascinating look at a once controversial celebrity as a middle-aged man.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7469'),
(6070, 'The lunatic cafe', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: And you don''t fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you''re a preternatural expert, like me. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not ALL of them want to kill me. Take, for instance, the local pack of lycanthropes - they''re werewolves to you. A number of them are missing, and they''ve come to me for help. Maybe because I''m dating the leader of the pack. I''ve survived a lot - from jealous vampires to killer zombies - but this love thing may kill me yet. Look out for information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2778'),
(6071, 'Lunch at the Gotham Cafe', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11144'),
(6072, 'Luring a Lady', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing in Sydney Hayward''s background of wealth and privilege prepared her to take the helm of her family''s corporation. And her new responsibilities left no room for complications. Earthly and entirely masculine, Mikahil came from a world entirely different from her own but the way she felt when he put his strong, work-hardened hands on her was wreaking havoc with Sydney''s resolve...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2588'),
(6073, 'Luscious Craving', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: WHEREâ€™S THEREâ€™S BLOOD, THEREâ€™S PASSION Sexy vampire killer Candace Steele is back on the Las Vegas strip and determined to steer clear of Ash, the seductive vampire whose smoldering allure begs her to surrender to the dark side. But determination may not be enough when Candaceâ€™s job at the glitzy Scheherazade casino drives her right into the center of Ashâ€™s deadly domain, for there are rumors of a New Yearâ€™s Eve vampire assault on the casino, and only Candace can stop it. With the clock ticking down to the fateful night, Candace isnâ€™t sure if she can resist the overwhelming desire she feels for Ash, but she has run out of choices. She must go to Ash for help; even though she knows that the price heâ€™ll expect in return is nothing less than her body and her soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(6074, 'The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturallyâ€”well, to be accurate, artificiallyâ€”business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what''s wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(6075, 'LXC_Dancer', 'Lexxie Couper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11052'),
(6076, 'Lying with the Dead', 'Michael Mewshaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions. The family matriarchâ€“half Medea, half Clytemnestraâ€“calls home her three children, who take turns narrating this story, for a final, bedside reunion. Thereâ€™s the firstborn, Maury, who has Aspergerâ€™s, and whose poetic and offbeat reasoning is both endearing and heartbreaking; Candy, his sister, who takes care of their mother, having renounced marrying the man she loves; and Quinn, the wonder boy who left his white trash background to become a successful actor in London. Mother still lives in the house where she made their lives miserable as children and where their father was murderedâ€“a crime for which Maury went to jail as a teenager. Once the family is reassembled in the childhood home, the pieces of a somber puzzle come together over brilliant and witty exchanges showing Irish humor at its best. Mewshaw invites us into the heart of a family dynamic, at times almost too close for comfort, exploding prejudices about murder and family love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2843'),
(6077, 'Lyon&#39;s Pride', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rowan, her daughter and son-in-law, Damia and Afra, and their children must use their extraordinary telepathic abilities to battle the alien Hivers in outer space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10855'),
(6078, 'Lyra&#39;s Oxford', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exciting new tale set in the world of Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials saga. This collectible hardcover volume includes a short story by Mr. Pullman, plus a fold-out map of Oxford and various "souvenirs" from the past. The book is illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations by John Lawrence.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4177'),
(6079, 'M Is for Magic', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readersâ€”but always embrace the unexpected:   A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party. A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it. A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living. A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman''s many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7369'),
(6080, 'M Is for Malice', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands."M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune--four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them--angry, troubled, and in trouble--went missing."M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother."M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memories of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family''s table. "M" is for malice.And in brutal consequence, "M" is for murder, the all-too-common outcome of familial hatreds."M" is for malice . . . and malice kills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8199'),
(6081, 'M:\\\\upload\\\\txt\\\\Saramago --blindness (1998).rtf', 'Jose Saramago', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10120'),
(6082, '&quot;M&quot; is for malice', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands."M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune--four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them--angry, troubled, and in trouble--went missing."M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother."M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memories of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family''s table. "M" is for malice.And in brutal consequence, "M" is for murder, the all-too-common outcome of familial hatreds."M" is for malice . . . and malice kills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4129'),
(6083, 'Mac OS X for Unix Geeks', 'Ernest E. Rothman &amp; Brian Jepson &amp; Rich Rosen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n If you''ve been lured to Mac OS X because of its Unix roots, this invaluable book serves as a bridge between Apple''s Darwin OS and the more traditional Unix systems. The new edition offers a complete tour of Mac OS X''s Unix shell for Leopard and Tiger, and helps you find the facilities that replace or correspond to standard Unix utilities. Learn how to compile code, link to libraries, and port Unix software to Mac OS X and much more with this concise guide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7430'),
(6084, 'The MacGregor Brides', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this captivating story, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces us to the next generation of one of her most popular and celebrated families, as cousins Laura, Gwendolyn and Julia discover what their parents already know -- that their busybody grandfather has an unerring instinct for love.** **Daniel MacGregor is at it again!** At age ninety, there is nothing the powerful patriarch of the MacGregor clan would like more than to see his three eldest granddaughters happily married -- and he''s handpicked three unsuspecting candidates he believes would make perfect husbands. But this might be his biggest matchmaking challenge yet: his granddaughters are so focused on their careers that marriage is the last thing on their minds. It''s a good thing this meddlesome nonagenarian has a few tricks left up his sleeve . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2606'),
(6085, 'The MacGregor Grooms', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It worked with his granddaughters. Now Daniel MacGregor, powerful patriarch of the MacGregor clan, wants to see his three handsome, eligibleâ€”but stubbornly singleâ€”grandsons married. So he''s found just the women to tempt, tease and torture D.C., Duncan and Ian all the way to the altar. And you can bet Daniel will be sitting by with his feet up, a glass of whiskey in hand, smugly watching his plans unfold.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2641'),
(6086, 'The Machine Crusade', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson''s Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert''s classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction''s classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.. More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius--as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history-a way to "fold" space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy. And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history: the Fremen.Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson on bestseller lists everywhere and earned them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga of Dune continues in Dune: The Machine Crusade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7367'),
(6087, 'Machine of Death', 'Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki ! (Editors)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10002'),
(6088, 'The Machinery of Light', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 22nd century''s WWIII crashes to an unexpected end in this slam-bang conclusion to Williams''s Autumn Rain trilogy (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </em>\n and 2009''s\n <em>\n  The Burning Skies\n </em>\n ). The Russia- and China-led Eurasian Alliance uses two heretofore secret megaspaceships to blast the U.S. and bring the American space fleet to its knees, while the spooky commando triads of Autumn Rain carry out desperate clandestine maneuvers. At the focus of the bloody action is Claire Haskell, the Manilishi, a posthuman supercomputer/cyborg able to implement the theories of her designer Matthew Sinclair, who intends to become God via experiments with teleportation, telepathy, and time travel. Williams''s readers will eagerly devour this cyberpunk feeding frenzy, long on dizzying action and sinister tangled politics, but newcomers to the series will struggle with the shallow characterizations and overdoses of X-rated vocabulary.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With The Machinery of Light,\n </strong>\n David J. Williams completes his furiously paced, stunningly imagined trilogyâ€”a work of vision, beauty, and pulse-pounding futuristic action.\n</p>\n<p>\n September 26, 2110. 10:22 GMT. Following the assassination of the American president, the generals who have seized power initiate World War Three, launching a surprise attack against the Eurasian Coalitionâ€™s forces throughout the Earth-Moon system. Across the orbits, tens of thousands of particle beams and lasers blast away at one another. The goal: crush the other sideâ€™s weaponry, paving the way for nuclear bombardment of the cities.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n As inferno becomes Armageddon, the rogue commando unit Autumn Rain embarks on one last run. Matthew Sinclair, an imprisoned spymaster, plots his escape. And his former protÃ©gÃ© Claire Haskell, capable of hacking into both nets and minds, is realizing that all her powers may merely be playing into Sinclairâ€™s plans. For even as Claire evades the soldiers of East and West amid carnage in the lunar tunnels, the surviving members of the Rain converge upon the Moon, one step ahead of the Eurasian fleets but one step behind the mastermind who created Autumn Rainâ€”and his terrible final secret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8514'),
(6089, 'Mad Enough to Marry', 'Christie Ridgway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(6090, 'Mad ship', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the second breathtaking volume of Robin Hobb''s Liveship Traders trilogy, a new tide of glory and terror sweeps forward the story of the Vestrit clan, their liveship Vivacia, and all who strive to possess her. As the ancient tradition of Bingtown''s Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship--a rare magic ship carved from sentient wizardwood, which bonds the ships mystically with those who sail them. And Althea Vestrit waits even more avidly, living only to reclaim the ship as her lost inheritance and captain her on the high seas. But the Vivacia has been seized by the ruthless pirate captain Kennit, who holds Althea''s nephew and his father hostage. Althea and her onetime sea mate Brashen resolve to liberate the liveship--but their plan may prove more dangerous than leaving the Vivacia in Kennit''s ambitious grasp.... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3469'),
(6091, 'Mad, Bad and Blonde', 'Cathie Linz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Instead of going into seclusion when sheâ€™s stood up at the altar, librarian Faith West takes off by herself to lick her wounds at her would-be honeymoon spot on the Italian coast. She expects to spend her Mediterranean vacation alone, but, as fate would have it, she meets Caine Hunter, the man of every womanâ€™s dream. However, it turns out that fate has nothing to do with their encounter. Caine is a spy working for a sworn enemy of Faithâ€™s father. Should she kiss Caine or kill him? After all, heâ€™s the second man to do her wrong in just a matter of days. And how does Caine feel about this assignment gone awry? For lighthearted contemporary romance, itâ€™s hard to beat Linz. Filled with believable characters and witty dialogue, her books never fail to entertain. And for librarians, a spunky heroine representing that profession is a rare treat. --Shelley Mosley\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After being jilted at the altar, librarian Faith West goes on her Italian honeymoon solo, but doesn''t stay that way too long. And though her sexy rebound man has ulterior motives, feelings surface that neither of them are prepared for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5421'),
(6092, 'Madame Bovary', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctorâ€™s wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads to ruin and self-destruction. Along with Tolstoyâ€™s Anna Karenina, Flaubertâ€™s tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman torn between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail, Madame Bovary not only exposes the emptiness of one womanâ€™s bourgeois existence and failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emmaâ€™s thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1788'),
(6093, 'Maddon&#39;s Rock', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9340'),
(6094, 'Made Men: The True Rise-And-Fall Story of a New Jersey Mob Family', 'Greg B. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on more than 1000 hours of secretly recorded conversations, this book tells the story of New Jersey''s DeCavalcante crime family. Originally dismissed by the large New York City crime organizations, the DeCavalcantes sought the opportunity to move up in the crime world when their big-city counterparts began having legal troubles and when The Sopranos, which recounts the life of a fictional Jersey mob family, became such a hit on HBO. Unfortunately for the DeCavalcantes, they had been infiltrated by an FBI informant. Although the show''s creator has denied it, much of The Sopranos is said to be based on this real-life crime family, and DeCavalcante members were even caught on federal wiretaps bragging about their similarity to the TV mobsters. But while Daily News mob reporter Smith draws many parallels between the DeCavalcantes and the fictional Sopranos, the book does not quite live up to its potential. Much of the writing seems disjointed and repetitious, and a few superfluous anecdotes scattered throughout seem to have little relevance to the rest of the story. Recommended with reservations for large public libraries where there is a strong interest in organized crime books.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sarah Jent, Univ. of Louisville Lib., KY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It wasn''t until the success of "The Sopranos" that New Jersey''s powerful DeCavalcante family became legitimized in the eyes of big city capos. But a higher profile meant higher risk. Member turned against member, and eventually one of them turned to reporter Greg B. Smith to expose the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8694'),
(6095, 'Made of Honor', 'Marilynn Griffith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Once, twice, ten times a bridesmaid!** I, Dana Rose, do solemnly swear to say "I won''t" the next time someone asks me to be in their wedding party. My weak will has gained me a closet full of unflattering bridesmaids'' dresses in various sizes to accommodate my ever-fluctuating waistline. As if that isn''t enough, the past is paying me a most unwelcome visit (my prodigal brother, my back-stabbing sis). Then there''s Mr. Practically Perfect, the ex who not only married someone else, but opened the business of *our* dreams -- right across from my new shop! It''s no wonder I''ve got problems! I''m thankful I''ve got my friends, the Sassy Sisterhood, to rely on . . . **The Sassy Sisterhood: They get by with a little help from their friends.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3059'),
(6096, 'Made to Be Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series returns with her latest novel featuring an exciting heroine with a lethal hidden talent. This time sheâ€™s hot on the trail of a young woman no one else cares aboutâ€”and a killer whoâ€™s bound to strike again.Nadia Stafford isnâ€™t your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, sheâ€™s known only as â€œDeeâ€ to her current employer: a New York crime family that pays her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a vengeance and her old instincts go into overdrive.With her enigmatic mentor, Jack, covering her back, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly darker and deadlier mystery. Now, with her obsession over the case deepening, the only way Nadia can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghostsâ€”and either bury them for good, or die trying. Because in her book everyone deserves a chance. And everyone deserves justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3152');
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(6097, 'The Madman&#39;s Tale: A Novel', 'John Katzenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The conceit of this impossible-to-put-down thrillerâ€”the story of the hunt for a serial killer-rapist who has concealed himself among a psychiatric asylum''s insaneâ€”is that it was written in pencil by a madman on the walls of his apartment. More than 20 years ago, Francis Xavier Petrel, nicknamed C-Bird for the seabird his name evokes, was confined against his will in the Western State Hospital, a run-down residential mental health facility that rivals Kesey''s Cuckoo''s Nest for evil administrators and whacked-out inmates. A shy, frightened 21-year-old who endures a cacophony of disembodied voices, C-Bird is befriended by Peter the Fireman, nicknamed for the church he burned down with a pedophile priest still inside. (C-Bird and Peter appear almost normal amid the hospital''s other catatonics, manic-depressives, psychopaths and psychotics.) Then they discover the raped and mutilated body of nurse Short Blond (nicknamed for her hair) stuffed into a storage closet. All evidence points to paranoid-schizophrenic inmate Lanky, who earlier in the day had identified Short Blond as an agent of evil, but Lanky claims the killing was the work of an invisible Angel of Death who committed the crime to save them from some unspecified devilish fate. C-Bird and Peter, knowing that Lanky has been unjustly accused, set out to find the real killer. They are joined by state prosecutor Lucy Kyoto Jones, who believes the killer is the same man who has committed other savage crimes beyond the walls of the hospital. Katzenbach (author of the bestsellers\n <em>\n  Just Cause\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Analyst\n </em>\n ) delivers an uplifting story of justice, friendship, mystery and, above all, the courage of certain men and women who rise up, no matter the circumstances, to defeat evil, no matter the consequences.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The narrator isn''t exactly a madman but, rather, someone whose madness is quieted by meds. "It is a very hard thing, in this time of ours, to be mad and middle-aged," hero Francis Petrel writes early on. Perhaps the best feature of veteran crime writer Katzenbach''s latest is the way he fleshes out the everyday desperation of someone living on the fringes of society. Petrel receives an invitation to a reunion of former "guests" of the insane asylum his parents consigned him to as a teenager. This not very credible plot starter leads Petrel to investigate what horrors led to the hospital''s closing, his thoughts especially revolving around the unsolved murder of a nurse. Intriguing, but far too long and too encumbered with Petrel''s Byzantine thoughts to generate suspense. Still, the Edgar-nominated Katzenbach has a following, and this introspective tale will interest those who don''t read thrillers for the thrills.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6629'),
(6098, 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York', 'Stephen Crane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Robert Tineâ€™s Introduction to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York Crane was determined to live in the city and to make his living with his pen. Living a bohemian, hand-to-mouth existence, he took to vanishing into the vast netherworld of the city, living among the whores, the drunks, the drug addicts, and the â€œbâ€™hoys,â€ the Irish gangster swells of the Bowery. Emerging from this underworld, Crane would have enough material for a freelance newspaper piece as well as other material that would become Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Occasional newspaper work, a small but providential inheritance, and regular handouts from one of his brothers allowed Crane to cobble together a modest livingâ€”but it was Maggie on which he had pinned his hopes. By 1892 Crane had finished writing Maggie. He approached the editor of Century Magazine, hoping his story would be serialized in the pages of that august publication. Almost immediately his hopes were dashed. The editor found the manuscript â€œcruelâ€ and far too straightforward about the awful details of slum life. At the time there was no shortage of literature about the life of the underclass, but it was always couched in the safe terms of moral disapproval, sugar-coating the misery of the wretched, and suggesting that somehow the poor were responsible for their misery. Craneâ€™s matter-of-fact presentation of life in the gutter was, the editor of the Century felt, too harsh for its middle- and upper-class readership. Crane then began that dispiriting trek, so well known to first-time novelists, traveling from publisher to publisher only to have his manuscript rejected again and again. Many of the editors who read Maggie had the same opinion: While there was much to admire in the book, the squalor of the story, the appalling degradation of virtually all the characters, and the coarseness of the language were bound to outrage the â€œMrs. Grundysâ€ of the world (the fictional Mrs. Grundy, introduced in Thomas Mortonâ€™s play 1798 Speed the Plow, exemplifies the negative influence of conventional wisdom) and bring nothing but opprobrium down on the author and by extension his publisher. Crane then came up with the idea of publishing his book under a pseudonym, and he chose the bland, almost forgettable name of â€œJohnston Smith.â€ â€œYou see,â€ he explained, â€œI was going to wait until the world was pyrotechnic about Johnston Smithâ€™s Maggie and then I was going to flop down like a trapeze performer from a wire, coming forward with all the grace of a consumptive hen, and say â€˜I am he, friendsâ€™â€ (Stallman, Stephen Crane, p. 69; see â€œFor Further Readingâ€). That Crane set out to Ã©pater les bourgeoisâ€”outrage the middle classâ€”there can be little doubt. However, the intentionally scandalous nature of the book still left him with the problem of finding a publisherâ€”a problem that seemed insurmountable. Following rejection after rejection, Crane was forced to suffer the ignominy of publishing the work himself, paying a house best known for medical texts and religious tracts to print the first edition of Maggie. In 1893 he paid $869 for 1,100 copies of a cheap-looking yellow paperback edition of the book. Johnston Smith, however, had ceased to existâ€”Stephen Craneâ€™s name appears on the title page. The publisherâ€™s name appears nowhere. Even under the canopy of anonymity the publisher had insisted that the manuscript be bowdlerized to a degree. Some of the rougher language and more violent scenes were removed or toned down. But Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was still pretty strong meat for its day, and Crane now waited (one senses with a degree of gleeful anticipation) for the hue and cry, the fierce literary arguments, the denunciations from the pulpits of every denomination, that would propel Maggie to best-sellerdom and make the young manâ€™s fortune. Instead, silence. No newsstands or reputable bookshop would take the book on account of its incendiary natureâ€”the only exception was Brentanoâ€™s, which took a dozen copies on consignment and returned ten. In desperation Crane took to giving away copies, dozens and dozens of them, and somehow, miraculously, the book found its way into the literary bloodstream, moving from one man of letters to another. When Craneâ€™s spirits and fortunes were at their lowest ebb, he heard through a friend that his book had found its way into the hands of the well-respected author and critic William Dean Howells, who admired the book and announced that he would review it. The friend who gave Crane this welcome news was Curtis Brown, who would later become a prominent literary agent. Brown remembers: â€œIf Crane had been told that Howells had condemned the book he might have heaved a sigh. But instead, given the welcome news, he seemed dazed. He looked around like a man who did not know where he was. He gulped something down his throat, grinned like a woman in hysterics and then went off to take up his vocation againâ€ (Stallman, p. 71). But even with the enthusiastic support of the powerful Howells, the 1893 edition of Maggie could only be considered a failure. Just the same, the praise of a literary man whose opinion Crane respected seem to strengthen him and was enough, it seems, to make him â€œtake up his vocation again.â€ This vocation led him to write his finest and best-known work, a novel that became an American classic: The Red Badge of Courage. Published in 1895 by the eminently respectable publishing house of Appleton and Company, the novel achieved huge sales and vast acclaim from the critics and reading public. Stephen Crane was suddenly thrust into the limelight he had sought, and had become, overnight, a literary figure to be reckoned with. He was also a rich young author, a guaranteed best-seller. As a result Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was reissued in 1896, and this time the manuscript was returned to its original stateâ€”all of the emendations and coy ellipses were removed. Red Badge of Courage may have made Craneâ€™s reputation, but Maggie was first in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3906'),
(6099, 'Magic for Beginners', 'Kelly Link', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Magic for Beginners* is Kelly Linkâ€™s eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, *Stranger Things Happen*. Â“Cumulatively weirder and wiserâ€ (*The Believer*), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things.Â  Â  Linkâ€™s work is truly unique. *Time Out New York* called her stories Â“cross-genre gems,â€ and her admirers in the literary communityÂ—from Peter Straub and Karen Joy Fowler to Alice Sebold and Michael ChabonÂ—reflect the amazing range that makes her style so special. Call it kitchen sink magical realism: Fantastic and bizarre but funny and down to earth, there is something for everyone in *Magic for Beginners*. Â .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3193'),
(6100, 'Magic in the Shadows', 'Devon Monk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Allison Beckstrom''s magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories â€” including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren''t the only things preying on Allie''s thoughts. Her late father, the prominent businessman â€” and sorcerer â€” Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her very mind. With the help of The Authority, a secret organization of magic users, she hopes to gain better control over her own abilities â€” and find a way to deal with her father.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(6101, 'The Magic Kingdom of Landover , Volume 1', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Capture the fantasy, thrills, and far-flung adventure of the first three novels in Terry Brooksâ€™s enchanting Magic Kingdom of Landover seriesâ€“now for the first time in one gripping volume.Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday canâ€™t fathom what lies ahead when he purchases Landoverâ€“a magical kingdom of chivalry and sorceryâ€“from Meeks, the mysterious seller who placed the ad. Weary and jaded, Ben clings to the adâ€™s promise: â€œEscape into your dreams.â€ But Landover is not the enchanted idyll he expected.The kingdom is in ruin. The barons refuse to recognize Ben as King, a dragon is decimating the countryside, and a demon lord has challenged any prospective ruler to a fatal duel. To make matters worse, the Paladin, renowned champion of the Kings of Landover, seems to be merely a legend.Benâ€™s only allies are a bumbling court magician, a talking dog turned court scribe, and the beautiful Willow, who is part girl, part tree. With his friends in tow, Ben sets out to claim the throne. But when Meeks decides he wants Landover back, Ben will face supernatural foes of every stripe to prove himself worthy of the kingship. The question is: Can he survive?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD!\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   The Black Unicorn\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Wizard at Large\n  </b>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8914'),
(6102, 'The Magic Kingdom of Landover, Volume 2', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Now in one thrilling volume experience the magic, the intrigue, and the exciting escapades of the final two novels in Terry Brooks''s spellbinding Magic Kingdom of Landover series All appears well with Ben Holiday. He''s finally secured for himself the throne of Landover, and he and his wife, the exquisite sylph Willow, are expecting their first child. But their peaceful days are numbered. The conjurer Horris Kews returns to Landover and inadvertently releases an evil sorcerer from the Tangle Box, a magic chest used by the fairy folk to imprison wayward spirits. Now free, the sorcerer traps Ben inside the box''s labyrinthine passages and plots to wreak havoc in Landover using Horris as his pawn. But Ben''s greatest challenge comes when Rydall, a foreign king, issues Ben an ultimatum: defeat seven deadly champions, or Rydall''s armies invade Landover. Complicating matters is the devastating fact that Ben and Willow''s young daughter has been kidnappedand her fate lies in Rydall''s dangerous hands. Relying on his loyal friends, his steadfast wife, and no small amount of endurance and enchantment, Ben risks his life to save everything he loves. But this time, black magic may prove too powerful for even the most devoted heart.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   The Tangle Box\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Witches'' Brew\n  </b>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8913'),
(6103, 'The Magic Kingdom of Landover: Volume 1', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Capture the fantasy, thrills, and far-flung adventure of the first three novels in Terry Brooksâ€™s enchanting Magic Kingdom of Landover seriesâ€“now for the first time in one gripping volume.Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday canâ€™t fathom what lies ahead when he purchases Landoverâ€“a magical kingdom of chivalry and sorceryâ€“from Meeks, the mysterious seller who placed the ad. Weary and jaded, Ben clings to the adâ€™s promise: â€œEscape into your dreams.â€ But Landover is not the enchanted idyll he expected.The kingdom is in ruin. The barons refuse to recognize Ben as King, a dragon is decimating the countryside, and a demon lord has challenged any prospective ruler to a fatal duel. To make matters worse, the Paladin, renowned champion of the Kings of Landover, seems to be merely a legend.Benâ€™s only allies are a bumbling court magician, a talking dog turned court scribe, and the beautiful Willow, who is part girl, part tree. With his friends in tow, Ben sets out to claim the throne. But when Meeks decides he wants Landover back, Ben will face supernatural foes of every stripe to prove himself worthy of the kingship. The question is: Can he survive?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD!\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   The Black Unicorn\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Wizard at Large\n  </b>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4709'),
(6104, 'The Magic Kingdom of Landover: Volume 2', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Now in one thrilling volume experience the magic, the intrigue, and the exciting escapades of the final two novels in Terry Brooks''s spellbinding Magic Kingdom of Landover series All appears well with Ben Holiday. He''s finally secured for himself the throne of Landover, and he and his wife, the exquisite sylph Willow, are expecting their first child. But their peaceful days are numbered. The conjurer Horris Kews returns to Landover and inadvertently releases an evil sorcerer from the Tangle Box, a magic chest used by the fairy folk to imprison wayward spirits. Now free, the sorcerer traps Ben inside the box''s labyrinthine passages and plots to wreak havoc in Landover using Horris as his pawn. But Ben''s greatest challenge comes when Rydall, a foreign king, issues Ben an ultimatum: defeat seven deadly champions, or Rydall''s armies invade Landover. Complicating matters is the devastating fact that Ben and Willow''s young daughter has been kidnappedand her fate lies in Rydall''s dangerous hands. Relying on his loyal friends, his steadfast wife, and no small amount of endurance and enchantment, Ben risks his life to save everything he loves. But this time, black magic may prove too powerful for even the most devoted heart.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   The Tangle Box\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   Witches'' Brew\n  </b>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4708'),
(6105, 'The Magic Kingdom', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA splendid work of fiction.â€ â€”_Newsday_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHysterical and profound . . . Earns its place among the dark voyages that fiction must chronicle.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œAmong Mr. Elkinâ€™s best works of fiction . . . A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eddy Baleâ€™s twelve-year-old son died after a terrible, drawn-out illness. Now, determined to help alleviate the suffering of other sick children, Eddy plans to take a group of seven terminally ill youths on a dream vacation to Disney World. Accompanied by four eccentric chaperones, Eddy and the kids embark on what is meant to be a magical retreat that quickly devolves into a series of disasters when the kids turn out to be more full of life than anyone expected.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written with deadpan humor and poignancy,\n  <em>\n   The Magic Kingdom\n  </em>\n  is a striking and honest portrayal of life and deathâ€”and the trouble that ensues when one attempts to master either.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authorâ€™s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4364'),
(6106, 'The Magic Labyrinth', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10433'),
(6107, 'The Magic Mountain', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAll the characters in Thomas Mannâ€™s masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woodsâ€™s version . . . Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor.â€ â€“_New York Times Book Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Woodsâ€™s translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Mannâ€™s] ironically elegant prose.â€ â€“_Washington Post Book World _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_The Magic Mountain_] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing.â€ â€“from the new Introduction by A. S. Byatt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)\n</p>\n<p>\n With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.\n <em>\n  The Magic Mountain\n </em>\n takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alpsâ€“a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an â€œordinary young manâ€ who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.\n</p>\n<p>\n Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mannâ€™s masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment,\n <em>\n  The Magic Mountain\n </em>\n is an enduring classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5132'),
(6108, 'The Magic of Recluce', 'L. E. Modesitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With The Magic of Recluce, L.E. Modesitt made his impressive hardcover debut, breaking out in wide scope and grand scale with a novel in the great tradition of the war between good and evil in a wonderful fantasy world. Modesitt had been producing fast-paced, slickly-written novels of SF adventure, often compared to the work of Keith Laumer and Gordon R. Dickson. Then, in his biggest and best book yet, he broadened his canvas and turned to fantasy and magic, stepping immediately into the front rank of contemporary fantasy writers.The Magic of Recluce is a carefully-plotted fantasy novel of character about the growth and education of a young magician. In it, Modesitt confronts real moral issues with gripping force, builds atmosphere slowly and convincingly and gives his central character, Lerris, real intellectual challenges. This is the kind of highly-rationalized fantasy that Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson write when they write fantasy, colorful and detailed.He is given the standard two options: permanent exile from Recluce or the dangergeld, a complex, rule-laden wanderjahr in the lands beyond Recluce with the aim of learning how the world works and what his place in it might be. Many do not survive. He chooses dangergeld.Though magic is rarely discussed openly in Recluce, it becomes clear, when Lerris is sent into intensive training for his quest, that he has a natural talent for it during his weapons lessons. And he will need magic in the lands beyond, where the power of the Chaos Wizards reigns unchecked. He must learn to use his powers in an orderly way or fall prey to Chaos.Lerris may resent order, but he has no difficulty choosing good over evil. As he begins his lonely journey, he falls into the company of a gray magician, once of Recluce, who tutors him in the use of magic and shows him some of the devastation caused by the Chaos Wizards in the great wars between Chaos and Order of past times.Lerris pursues a quest for knowledge and power that leads him across strange lands, through the ghostly ruins of the old capitol of Chaos, down the white roads of the Chaos Wizards to a final battle with the archenemy of Order, discovering in the end true control of magic, true love, and the beginning of true wisdom. An epic adventure, The Magic of Recluce0, is a triumph of fantasy.The Magic of Recluce is the first book of the saga of Recluce.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6501'),
(6109, 'Magic on the Storm', 'Devon Monk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Allison Beckstrom is committed to her work tracing illegal spells. Now, there''s an apocalyptic storm bearing down on Portland, and when it hits, all the magic in the area will turn unstable and destructive. To stop it from taking out the entire city, Allie and her lover, the mysterious Zayvion Jones, must work with the Authority-the enigmatic arbiters of all things magic-and take a stand against a magical wildstorm that will obliterate all in its path...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(6110, 'Magic Seeds', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. At the end of\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n , Naipaul''s previous novel, Willie, a young Indian in late 1950s London, travels to Africa. At the beginning of his new novel, Willie is in Berlin with his bossy sister, Sarojini. It is 18 years later. Revolution has uprooted Willie''s African existence. Sarojini hooks him up with a guerrilla group in India, and Willie, always ready to be molded to some cause, returns to India. The guerrillas, Willie soon learns, are "absolute maniacs." But caught up, as ever, in the energy of others, Willie stays with them for seven years. He then surrenders and is tossed into the relative comfort of jail. When an old London friend (a lawyer named Roger) gets Willie''s book of short stories republished, Willie''s imprisonment becomes an embarrassment to the authorities. He is now seen as a forerunner of "postcolonial writing." He returns to London, where he alternates between making love to Perdita, Roger''s wife, and looking for a job. One opens up on the staff of an architecture magazine funded by a rich banker (who is also cuckolding Roger). Willie''s continual betweennessâ€”a state that makes him, to the guerrillas, a man "who looks at home everywhere"â€”is the core theme of this novel, and the story is merely the shadow projected by that theme. Sometimes, especially toward the end of the book, as Willie''s story becomes more suburban, there is a penumbral sketchiness to the incidents. At one point, Willie, remarking on the rich London set into which he has been flung, thinks: "These people here don''t understand nullity." Naipaul doesâ€”he is a modern master of the multiple ironies of resentment, the claustrophobia of the margins. In a world in which terrorism continually haunts the headlines, Naipaul''s work is indispensable.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Half A Life\n </em>\n (2001) might have been better been left without this sequel, which ruffles reviewersâ€™ feathers as only a grand old man of literature can. Though his trophy shelf holds a Nobel Prize, his past accomplishments buy him little sympathy. In fact, itâ€™s often difficult to tell if critics are more put off by\n <em>\n  Magic Seeds\n </em>\n or their appraisal of Willie Chandran as a mouthpiece for Naipaulâ€™s politics. For an author whose greatest works have a heavy dose of autobiography, this reaction is not surprising, though it makes one wonder whether critics are reading the novel or dissecting the author. In the end, one hopes the unlikable characters, implausible plotting, and general fog of pessimism are what doom this book, not critical disappointment in Naipaul.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6257'),
(6111, 'Magic Street', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Enderâ€™s Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine. In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to familyâ€“a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyardâ€“and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic. Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the â€œreal worldâ€ of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeareâ€™s Midsummerâ€™s Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mackâ€™s challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists. Both a novel of constantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, Magic Street is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writerâ€“a novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5846'),
(6112, 'Magic Terror: Seven Tales', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Straub is a fine sorcerer of horror whose bag of tricks includes stories of pure, unadulterated horror (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ), as well as more subtle tales of psychological suspense (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ). Now Straub conjures up\n <em>\n  Magic Terror\n </em>\n , a collection of seven deeply disturbing tales that display his entire range.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bunny Is Good Bread" is without a doubt the most haunted tale of all, a harrowing account of a childhood from hell. The scary hero Fee was so traumatized as a 5-year-old by abuse from his father that he disconnects himself from the real world and lives as if in a film. Why? "If you forgot you were in a movie, your own feelings would tear you into bloody rags." Ever since the day Fee watches his mother die a horrible death, he''s been tormented: "He was one-half dead himself; half of him belonged to his dead mother."\n</p>\n<p>\n Fee is not the only character to be struck by a dark epiphany, a life-changing moment. In the lyrical "Porkpie Hat," a famous jazz musician recounts the ghoulish Halloween encounter that charted the course of his destiny, and in the twisted fairy tale "Ashputtle," a fantasy-inclined "princess" seeks retribution for a traumatic incident many years before.\n</p>\n<p>\n In Straub''s world, horror appears in different disguises--the dark mask of child abuse and the bloodied cloak of war ("The Ghost Village"). Regardless of how it shows itself, the effects will haunt long after lights out.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The war-numbed soldier who asks, "Just suppose...,that you were forced to confront extreme experience directly, without any mediation?" speaks for all of the spiritually traumatized souls who navigate the harrowingly rendered hells of these seven tales of suspense and horror. Straub (Mr. X) effortlessly plumbs the hearts and minds of a range of well-developed charactersAincluding a reflective assassin for hire, a five-year-old victim of domestic violence, an aging black jazz musician and a pompous Wall Street financial adviserAto locate epiphanic moments when their lives careened "out of the ordinary" and into the path of deforming private tragedy. In "Ashputtle," an implied murderess blames her crimes on an emotionally deprived childhood in which she imagines herself a modern Cinderella victimized by her cruel stepsisters. "Bunny Is Good Bread," an unnerving portrait of the psychopath as a young boy, follows young Fee Bandolier as he maladjusts to an unbearably gothic home situation in which his father has beaten his mother into a coma. "Porkpie Hat" is related as an alcoholic saxophonist''s confession of a childhood brush with witchcraft, murder and miscegenation that continues to inform his blues-haunted music. In several of the talesAmost notably "The Haunted Village," which links to the novel Koko (1988) and stories from his previous collection, Houses Without Doors (1990)AStraub skillfully evokes the supernatural to suggest the dislocating effect of intense psychological upset. Mixing stark realism with black comedy, and reverberating with echoes of Conrad, Melville and the Brothers Grimm, these excursions to the dark side of life set a high standard for the literature of contemporary magic terror. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5088'),
(6113, 'Magical Thinking', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n   Synopsis\n  </h3>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  Praise for Augusten Burroughs\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Time\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "A great read."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "\n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n  Â is more than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   People\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Laughter on the road to sobriety...for aficionados of outrageous black comedy."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Bawdy, outrageous...insanely funny (quite literally)...a William Burroughs situation comedy."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The Washington Post\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Outrageously amusing...wait until you get a load of this guy''s material.... He can consider this a fan letter. Grade A."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "As funny as it is twisted."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   GQ\n  </i>\n  Â on\n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Â Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  It would be tempting to call these highly personal and uninhibited essays painfully honest, except that Burroughs (Running with Scissors; Dry) is so forthright about his egocentricity that the revelations don''t appear to cause him much pain. He approaches his material with a blithe tone that oozes sarcasm and crocodile tears. But the palpable humor of the writing itself endears listeners to him enough that they won''t be completely repelled by even Burroughs''s ugliest moments (which include his less than gallant reaction to accidentally stepping on a toddler''s fingers in a store). His performance is off the cuff, but even when he''s at his least humane, he still comes across as all too human. He adopts the same openness that made his previous memoirs-dealing with his bizarre upbringing and battle with addiction-so successful; now, however, he''s focusing on less serious subject matter and displaying failings that are more vain. Burroughs excels in his personifications of others, whether portraying a domineering cleaning woman or an overbearing boss. While some may secretly wish for the death of such a boss, though, Burroughs admits openly and proudly that he believes he can will it to happen. That attitude, which is accentuated by his reading, makes this audiobook a true guilty pleasure. Simultaneous release with the St. Martin''s hardcover (Forecasts, July 12). (Oct.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7515'),
(6114, 'Magician', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia... Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3648'),
(6115, 'The Magician King: A Novel', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011\n </strong>\n : This second volume in Lev Grossmanâ€™s  celebrated series picks up just after the events of its 2009 prequel\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n . Quentin, Eliot, Janet, and Julia are now the High Kings and Queens of Fillory, a fantastic realm not unlike Narnia, and they pass their days â€œdeliquescing atom by atom amid a riot of luxury.â€ To ease his royal boredom, Quentin embarks on a quest with Julia. Despite his romantic visions of heroic feats and easy accolades, the quest goes horribly awry, and they find themselves back in the depressingly real world of Chesterton, Massachusetts. With the help of seedy underground magicians, a dragon, and a young boy named Thomas, they undertake a desperate journey back to Fillory. Grossmanâ€™s writing here is sharp and self-aware, and the characters feel like people you actually know, but cooler: they are delightfully profane and dripping with irony, they are arrogant and shallow, they are finding their way in a magically perfect world that somehow still lets them down, and they are learning to fight for the things they love.\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a triumph of (and an homage to) modern fantasy writing, and a must-read for grown-up fans of Narnia and Harry Potter. --_Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed."\n <br />\n -_Kirkus Reviews_ (Starred Review)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fans of\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come."\n <br />\n -_Booklist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8779'),
(6116, 'Magician, apprentice', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3629'),
(6117, 'The Magician', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The *New York Times *bestseller now in paperback!*In the second book in the *New York Times *bestselling series, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Light, home to Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. NiccolÃ² Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, lives in Paris and is working for Dr. John Dee. Heâ€™s in hot pursuit, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. Josh and Sophie Newman are the worldâ€™s only hope. . . . If they donâ€™t turn on each other first.â˜… â€œReaders will be swept up.â€*â€”Kirkus Reviews*, Starredâ€œAn exciting and impeccably thought-out fantasy, well-suited for those left in the lurch by Harry Potterâ€™s recent exeunt.â€*â€”Booklist*â€œFans . . . will certainly find much to love, root for, and fear in this successful second installment.â€*â€”School Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2960'),
(6118, 'Magician: Master', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Totally gripping... A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  He held the fate of two worlds in his hands...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--_Milamber_. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9775');
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(6119, 'The Magician&#39;s Apprentice', 'Trudi Canavan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This prequel to Canavan''s Black Magician trilogy (_The Magicians'' Guild_, etc.) fails to distinguish itself from other magical coming-of-age tales. Tessia treads the well-worn path of a girl in a low-tech monarchy, determined to be a healer like her father but discouraged from pursuing a career. When her insistence on practicing medicine brings her up against the arrogant Sachakan wizard Ashaki Takado, Tessia discovers a natural talent for magic in self-defense. She hires on with magician Lord Dakon, competing with his more experienced apprentice and hoping to combine her powers with her interest in healing. Meanwhile, the encroaching Sachakan army threatens Tessia''s hometown, forcing her thoughts to turn to war. Although the plot is well paced and Tessia is a sympathetic protagonist, Canavan never manages to make the world and other characters distinctive or memorable.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Taking place hundreds of years before the events of\n  <em>\n   The Magicians'' Guild, The Magician''s Apprentice\n  </em>\n  is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan''s Black Magician trilogy.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage get violent, Tessia unconsciously taps unknown reserves of magic to defend herself. Lord Dakon, the local magician, takes Tessia under his wing as an apprentice.\n</p>\n<p>\n The hours are long and the work arduous, but soon an exciting new world opens up to her. There are fine clothes and servants and - to Tessia''s delight - regular trips to the great city of Imardin.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. For a storm is approaching that threatens to tear her world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6321'),
(6120, 'Magician&#39;s Gambit', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Belgariad Book #3 Ce''Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, was confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil God Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion''s aunt and grandfather seem to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath. Even young Garion is learning to do socerey. Garion, a farm boy is totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Yet, for some reason she has the urge to brush back his hair, and comfort him. Now he is going to a strange evil tower to face some horrible, powerful magician, and she cannot be there to watch over him. He might be killed, and she may never see him again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(6121, 'The magician&#39;s nephew', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Narnia. . .where the woods are thick and cool, where Talking Beasts are called to life. . .a new world where the adventure begins. Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory''s Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to. . .somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion''s song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis, before they finally return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(6122, 'The Magicians', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else he assumes that magic isn''t real - until he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. But his childhood dream is a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. (Bestseller)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3006'),
(6123, 'The Magikkers', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10750'),
(6124, 'The Magnificent Ambersons', 'Booth Tarkington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Largely overshadowed by Orson Wellesâ€™s famous 1941 screen version, Booth Tarkingtonâ€™s novel The Magnificent Ambersons was not only a best-seller when it first appeared in 1918â€”it also won the Pulitzer Prize.Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth centuryâ€”the dawn of the automobile ageâ€”the novel begins by introducing the richest family in town, the Ambersons. Exemplifying aristocratic excess, the Ambersons have everything money can buyâ€”and more. But George Amberson Minaferâ€”the spoiled grandson of the family patriarchâ€”is unable to see that great societal changes are taking place, and that business tycoons, industrialists, and real estate developers will soon surpass him in wealth and prestige. Rather than join the new mechanical age, George prefers to remain a gentleman, believing that â€œbeing thingsâ€ is superior to â€œdoing things.â€ But as his town becomes a city, and the family palace is enveloped in a cloud of soot, Georgeâ€™s protectors disappear one by one, and the elegant, cloistered lifestyle of the Ambersons fades from view, and finally vanishes altogether.A brilliant portrayal of the changing landscape of the American dream, The Magnificent Ambersons is a timeless classic that deserves a wider modern audience. Nahma Sandrow has written extensively about theater and cultural history, including the books Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater and Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas. For many years a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, she has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, the Smithsonian, and elsewhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9996'),
(6125, 'The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968', 'Keith William Nolan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nolan augments his reputation as a Vietnam combat chronicler with the story of the two weeks of intense fighting near Dong Ha in 1968. Involving a marine battalion, an army infantry battalion, and their supporting units, the fighting was the most basic and bloody sort of ground combat. For their deeds in it, two men won Medals of Honor, but scores of others won no more than body bags. Nolan has thoroughly researched the battle, largely through primary source documents and interviews with participants, and has produced a book that, though it requires some background knowledge of the Vietnam war in order to be fully appreciated, for serious readers will stand very high among accounts of the infantryman''s war.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marinesâ€™ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as â€œthe Magnificent Bastards,â€ struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet the BLT 2/4\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Marines defy the brutal onslaught. Pressing forward, Americaâ€™s finest warriors rout the NVA from their fortress-hamletsâ€“often in deadly hand-to-hand combat.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n At the end of two weeks of desperate, grinding battles, the Marines and the infantry battalion supporting them are torn to shreds. But against all odds, they beat back their savage adversary.\n <em>\n  The Magnificent Bastards\n </em>\n captures that gripping conflict in all its horror, hell, and heroism.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuperb . . . among the best writing on the Vietnam War . . . Nolan has skillfully woven operational records and oral history into a fascinating narrative that puts the reader in the thick of the action.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jon T. Hoffman, author of\n <em>\n  Chesty\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReal and gripping . . . combat with all the warts on.â€\n <br />\n â€“Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7900'),
(6126, 'The Magnificent Masquerade', 'Elizabeth Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A classic *Regency Romance* from award-winner Elizabeth Mansfield...When Kitty made the journey with her maid, Emily, to meet her husband-to-be, there seemed to be some question as to which lovely young lady was the bride, and which the conspiring domestic...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(6127, 'The main chance', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hot on the heels of his bestsellingBlood Stormcomes Colin Forbes'' dramatic and topical new thriller,The Main ChanceAt the urgent plea of his old friend, Commander Buchanan of Scotland Yard, Tweed, once ace detective, now Deputy Chief SIS, visits Mrs Bella Main, formidable matriarch controlling the Main Chance, the most powerful private bank in Europe. Bella tells Tweed and Paula Grey, his assistant, that she has refused an enormous offer from Calouste Gubenkian, the most ruthless and villainous man in Europe. Within days of their visit Bella is murdered.Tweed and Paula return to investigate the atrocious act. The bank''s HQ is based in a huge Elizabethan manor hidden in The Forest, a vast area in the deep south of England. Tweed has already met members of the two families, run by their forefathers for generations. Was Bella murdered by one of them â€” or is it the work of the vicious Calouste?The movement never stops, changing to Calouste''s Chateau Les Rochers in the Belgian Ardennes. A ferocious battle takes place. Two more murders are committed at the manor. Tweed and Paula race to tiny Seacove on the rugged Cornish coast to prevent another murder. Finally, Tweed proves the Bank, founded in 1912, was based on a brutal crime all those years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(6128, 'Maine', 'J. Courtney Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n "I have never stayed at this cottage in Maine, or any cottage in Maine, but no matter: I now feel I know what it''s like being in a family that comes to the same place summer after summer, unpacking their familiar longings, slights, shorthand conversation, and ways of being together.Â J. Courtney Sullivan''sÂ _Maine_Â is evocative, funny, close-quartered, and highly appealing." â€“Meg Wolitzer, author of _The Uncoupling\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n Maine_ by J. Courtney Sullivan is a powerful novel about the ties that bind families tight, no matter how dysfunctional. Sullivan has created in the Kelleher women a cast of flawed but lovable characters so real, with their shared history of guilt and heartache and secret resentments, that Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™ll be thinking about them for a long time to come." â€“Amy Greene, author of _Bloodroot\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Everyone has dark secrets. Itâ€™s why God invented confession and booze, two balms frequently employed in Sullivanâ€™s well-wrought sophomore effort. Alice Brennan is Irish American through and through, the daughter of a cop, a good Catholic girl so outwardly pure that sheâ€™s a candidate for the papacy. . . . As Sullivanâ€™s tale unfolds, there are plenty of reasons that Alice might wish to avoid taking too close a look at her life: Thereâ€™s tragedy and heartbreak around every corner, as there is in every life. . . .Â Sullivan spins a leisurely yarn that looks into why people do the things they doâ€”particularly when it comes to drinking and churchgoingâ€”and why the best-laid plans are always the ones the devil monkeys with the most thoroughly. The story will be particularly meaningful to Catholic women, though there are no barriers to entry for those who are not of that faith. Mature, thoughtful, even meditative at timesâ€”but also quite entertaining." â€“\n </em>\n Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At the heart of this compelling novel of three generations of women...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her best-selling debut,\n <em>\n  Commencement\n </em>\n , J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, theyâ€™re family.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast, with one tree bearing the initials â€œA.H.â€ At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface.\n</p>\n<p>\n As three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad,\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8741'),
(6129, 'Majestic', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Strieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in this novel, a blend of fact and fiction. Working on a tip from an ex-CIA agent, reporter Nicholas Duke investigates a decades-long cover-up of a 1947 spaceship crash, in what PW termed a "very long, sensationalized story."\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5952'),
(6130, 'Major Pettigrew&#39;s Last Stand', 'Helen Simonson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson''s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother''s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11051'),
(6131, 'Make Me Over: Getting Real', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fresh, surprising story about real people falling in love, not just pretty bodies tumbling into bed. 4 Stars --\n  <em>\n   RT Bookclub\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another keeper that is full of sass, fun and heat. Recommended Read --\n  <em>\n   Fallen Angel Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the back cover:\n </p>\n <p>\n  He never guessed he''d uncover the perfect woman...for him!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professor Drew Bennett is thrilled when he learns he''ll get the chance to promote his latest book, Beyond Eliza Doolittle, on national television...even if it means getting involved in reality TV. But still, how hard can it be? All he has to do is turn five country bumpkins into ladies. Too bad Drew doesn''t know that he''s the prize...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tori Lyons only agreed to embarrass herself in front of a nationwide audience in order to fulfill a not-quite-deathbed promise. But she''s going to be the first to leave--she''ll make sure of it. But that''s before she falls head over heels in love with the sexy professor. And realizes that if she plays the game right, Drew''s heart is the one thing she can''t possibly win...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7773'),
(6132, 'Make Room! Make Room!', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and -if they''re lucky-the odd starving rat. In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.... Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1858'),
(6133, 'Make Your Move', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jodie Patterson''s posh bakery is all about satisfying cravings. Her signature aphrodisiac cookies have been flying off the shelvesâ€¦and giving Jodie some delicious ideas of her own. Behind his owlish glasses, Jodie''s business partner, Dr. Dan Ellison, is the male equivalent of the Naughty Professor. Jodie is more than ready to indulge her fantasies with this wolf-in-geek''s-clothing as long as they set some ground rules: sex is sex, business is business and nothing will change. Yeah, right! After that first addictive kiss, it''s time to see if they can *really *satisfy each other''s appetitesâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3323'),
(6134, 'Making Artisan Cheese: 50 Fine Cheeses That You Can Make in Your Own Kitchen', 'Tim Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cheese making is an art and an absorbing pastime. Geared to the hobbyist, this book will turn anyone into a cheese artist. Most of the equipment you need is already in your kitchen, and with investing more patience than cash, your cheeses will far surpass their commercial counterparts in flavor and freshness. Included are: Inspiring, colorful photographs of artisan cheeses Recipes for gourmet cheeses and everyday favorites, with enticing variations Step by step illustrated techniques for fresh cheeses, molded cheeses, and aged cheeses What can go wrong tips that help you avoid cheese making pitfalls Profiles of master cheese makers who share professional tips and advice Tips on discovering the best fruits, breads, nuts, wine, and beer to complement every kind of cheese, and how to present, serve, and properly store your cheeses\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7438'),
(6135, 'Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectationsâ€”including his own. So it''s somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, "Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some *real* money?" Vetinari isn''t talking about wages, of course. He''s referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, a venerable institution that haas run for centuries on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds and their loyal outworkers, who *do* make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs *more* than a penny to *make* a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counterintuitive. Next door, at the Royal Bank, the Glooper, an "analogy machine," has scientifically established that one never has quite as much money at the end of the week as one thinks one should, and the bank''s chairman, one elderly Topsy (nÃ©e Turvy) Lavish, keeps two loaded crossbows at her desk. Oh, and the chief clerk is probably a vampire. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari''s question, fate answers it for him. Now he''s not only making money, but enemies too; he''s got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face, and, above all, find out where all the gold has goneâ€”otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3439'),
(6136, 'Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat', 'David Dosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey.** They thought he was just a cat. When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute little guy with attitude. He loved to stretch out in a puddle of sunlight and chase his tail until he was dizzy. Occasionally he consented to a scratch behind the ears, but only when it suited him. In other words, he was a typical cat. Or so it seemed. It wasn''t long before Oscar had created something of a stir. Apparently, this ordinary cat possesses an extraordinary gift: he knows instinctively when the end of life is near. Oscar is a welcome distraction for the residents of Steere House, many of whom are living with Alzheimer''s. But he never spends much time with them--until they are in their last hours. Then, as if this were his job, Oscar strides purposely into a patient''s room, curls up on the bed, and begins his vigil. Oscar provides comfort and companionship when people need him most. And his presence lets caregivers and loved ones know that it''s time to say good-bye. Oscar''s gift is a tender mercy. He teaches by example: embracing moments of life that so many of us shy away from. *Making Rounds with Oscar* is the story of an unusual cat, the patients he serves, their caregivers, and of one doctor who learned how to listen. Heartfelt, inspiring, and full of humor and pathos, this book allows readers to take a walk into a world rarely seen from the outside, a world we often misunderstand. **Praise for *Making Rounds With Oscar*** "I love this book -- Oscar has much to teach us about empathy and courage. I couldn''t put it down." -Sarah Gruen, author of *Water for Elephants* "At its heart, Dosa''s search is more about how people cope with death than Oscar''s purported ability to predict it." -*The Associated Press* "Beautifully written, heartwarming [...] Told with profound insight and great respect for all involved, this is more than just a cat story (although it will appeal to fans of Vicki Myron''s Dewey)." -*Library Journal* "You''ll be moved." -*People*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/907'),
(6137, 'Making Toast', 'Roger Rosenblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When his daughter Amy collapsed and died at the age of thirty-eight from an undiagnosed heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on Long Island to move in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. Reeling from Amy''s death, they had to quickly re-accustom themselves to the world of bedtime stories, talking toys and non-stop questions, as they began to reconstruct their family, guiding six-year-old Jessica, four-year-old Sammy and one-year-old James through the pain and confusion of grief. Marvelling at the strength of his son-in-law, Harris, a surgeon, and the patience and skill of his wife, a former nursery school teacher, Roger attended each day to ''the one household duty I have mastered'' - preparing the children''s morning toast. With wit, warmth and insight, Roger Rosenblatt peels back the layers of this most personal of losses to create both a tribute to his late daughter and a moving testament to familial love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3547'),
(6138, 'Making Wild Wines &amp; Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers &amp; More', 'Pattie Vargas &amp; Rich Gulling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes! Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels-there''s no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard! You''ll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including: Apricot Wine, Dry Mead, Marigold Wine, Almond Wine, Cherry Melomel, Cranberry Claret, Pea Pod Wine, Lemon-Thyme Metleglin, Strawberry Wine, and Rose Hip MelomelÂ \n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Go Wild!\n</p>\n<p>\n Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elegant, exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels -- there''s no end to great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard!\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Apricot Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Dry Mead\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Marigold Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Almond Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Cherry Melomel\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Cranberry Claret\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Peapod Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Lemon-Thyme Metheglin\n</p>\n<p>\n --Strawberry Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Rose Hip Melomel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8172'),
(6139, 'Maktub', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Non fiction collection of 110 observational columns written for several Brazillian newspapers on a wide range of topics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3834'),
(6140, 'The Malady of Death', 'Marguerite Duras', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn''t a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe," and of its absence, "the malady of death." "The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras'' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning." - Le Monde; "Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential." - Translation Review.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2884'),
(6141, 'A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 1', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gardens Of The Moon: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, still holds out - and Empress Lasseen-s ambition knows no bounds.However, it seems the empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister forces gather as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand-Conceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect. Acclaimed by writers, critics and readers alike, here is the opening chapter in what has been hailed a landmark of epic fantasy: the awesome -The Malazan Book of the Fallen-. Deadhouse Gates: Malazan: Book Of The Fallen 2Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion ofSeven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha-ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust that will shape destinies and give birth to legends-In the Otataral mines, Felisin, youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran, dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku, where her soul will be reborn and her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners, Fiddler and the assassin Kalam, have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland, and to confront and kill the Empress Laseen, but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile, Coltaine, the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army, will lead his battered, war-weary troops in a last, valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees and, in so doing, secure an illustrious place in the Empire-s chequered history. And into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers, Mappo and his half-Jaghut companion Icarium, bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains-Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy and dark, uncontrollable magic, Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality - a new master of epic fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3496'),
(6142, 'A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 2', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Memories of Ice The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm''s Host and the Bridgeburners each now outlawed by the Empress alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains. But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons, the massed ranks of the undead T''lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker and more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned and rumours abound of the Crippled God, now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge...Marking the return of many favourite characters from GARDENS OF THE MOON and introducing a host of remarkable new players, MEMORIES OF ICE is a thrilling new chapter in Erikson''s magnificent epic fantasy and another triumph of storytelling.The awesome - and acclaimed - fourth instalment in Steven Erikson-s epic fantasy sequence THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN.House of ChainsIn Northern Genabackis, just before the events recounted in GARDENS OF THE MOON, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flat lands. Their intention is to wreak havoc among the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove an extraordinary destiny. Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Coltaine, revered commander of the Malazan 7th Army is dead. And now Tavore, elder sister of Ganoes Paran and Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of the Seven Cities to take charge. Untested and new to command, she must hone a small army of twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits, into a viable fighting force and lead them into battle against the massed hordes of Sha''ik''s Whirlwind. Her only hope lies in resurrecting the shattered faith of the few remaining survivors from Coltaine''s legendary march, veterans one and all.In distant Raraku, in the heart of the Holy Desert, the seer Sha''ik waits with her rebel army. But waiting is never easy. Her disparate collection of warlords - tribal chiefs, High Mages, a renegade Malazan Fist and his sorceror - is locked in a vicious power struggle that threatens to tear the rebellion apart from within. And Sha''ik herself suffers, haunted by the private knowledge of her nemesis, Tavore...her own sister.So begins the awesome new chapter in Steven Erikson''s MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN - an epic novel of war, intrigue, magic and betrayal from a writer regarded as one of the most original, imaginative and exciting storytellers in fantasy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3494'),
(6143, 'A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 3', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Midnight TidesAfter decades of warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the rule of the Warlock King. But peace has been exacted at a terrible price - a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all of its less-civilised neighbours with rapacious hunger. All save one - the Tiste Edur. But Lether is approaching a long-prophesied renaissance - from kingdom and lost colony to Empire reborn - and has fixed its gaze on the rich lands of the Tiste Edur. It seems inevitable that the tribes will surrender, either to the suffocating weight of gold, or to slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so Destiny has decreed.A pivotal treaty between the two sides nears - but unknown ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of an altogether more profound, primal battle - a confrontation with the still-raw wound of betrayal and the craving for vengeance at its heart. War and confrontation, magic and myth collide in this, the stunning fifth chapter in Steven Erikson''s magnificent -Malazan Book of the Fallen- sequence, hailed as an epic of the imagination and a fantasy classic in the making.The BonehuntersThe Seven Cities Rebellion is over, Sha-ik is dead, but a last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y-Ghatan under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire-s greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled... But agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens, sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3495'),
(6144, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention', 'Manning Marable', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins'' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Manning Marable''s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the\n <em>\n  Autobiography, Malcolm X\n </em>\n unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm''s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents'' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.\n <em>\n  Malcolm X\n </em>\n will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manning Marable\n </strong>\n is M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003. Since 2002, he has directed Columbia''s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable is also the editor of the quarterly journal\n <em>\n  Souls\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7099'),
(6145, 'The Male Brain', 'Louann Brizendine; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Â Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility and candor, she reveals that the male brain:Â Â Â Â  *is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution.Â Â Â Â Â  *thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy.Â Â Â Â Â  *has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts.Â Â Â Â  *experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others'' faces to be more aggressive.The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.Praise for The Female Brain:"Louann Brizendine has done a great favor for every man who wants to understand the puzzling women in his life. A breezy and enlightening guide to women and a must-read for men."â€”Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional IntelligenceÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2564'),
(6146, 'Malice', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only veteran author Danielle Steel can make dysfunction this fashionable! In\n <em>\n  Malice\n </em>\n , her 37th potboiler, the gloves come off. Life is no fairy tale for teenager Grace Adams. The preternaturally quiet and dowdy daughter of Watseka''s favorite son, lawyer John Adams, and his lovely, cancer-stricken wife Ellen, Grace has an ugly little secret that she''s kept for four years. When her father brutally rapes her following her mother''s funeral, Grace kills him. Only 17 years old, she faces the death penalty in a town all too willing to perpetrate the fiction of John Adams, even when it means prison for Grace. Upon release two years later, Grace heads for Chicago where life starts looking up when she finds a job as a receptionist in a downtown modeling agency. Unfortunately, Grace encounters an unscrupulous photographer and a slimy parole officer. As soon as her parole is over, Grace escapes again, running to New York City to disappear among the hordes. Working as a secretary in a law firm, she''s asked to work for a partner. After a rocky start, Charles Mackenzie and Grace establish a comfortable routine. But when Grace is brutally beaten by the husband of a woman in the crisis center where she volunteers, Charles is at her side constantly, arranging for the finest medical care and talking her out of her coma. Love blooms as Grace slowly recuperates. Finally whole again, inside and out, Grace and Charles marry and start a family. Life couldn''t get much better as Charles enters politics and Grace tends to their growing family. But when tabloids release the story of Grace''s sordid past and explicit photos of Grace taken while she was drugged, their family is left reeling, with Charles''s campaign in shambles and Grace''s life crumbling around her. Danielle Steel doesn''t even pretend that\n <em>\n  Malice\n </em>\n is a piece of romantic fiction, but loyal fans will happily make the transition as she charts a new course!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sexual abuse in myriad forms imbues Steel''s new novel with uncharacteristically dark tones. The narrative covers more than 20 painful years in the life of Grace Adams, an incest victim who, at age 17, shoots dead her abusive father. Sent to prison, Grace is rescued from a lesbian gang-rape by a pair of women who provide protection during her two-year sentence. Once released, she heads to Chicago, where she lands a job in a modeling agency, only to be sexually harassed by a series of men, including her parole officer, her boss and a wicked photographer. After her probation ends, Grace moves to New York; there, she works as secretary in a major law firm and volunteers in a shelter for abused women. Steel is careful not to let the nearly fatal beating that follows mar her heroine''s good looks, or future. Grace emerges from a coma to find handsome Charles Mackenzie, her high-powered lawyer boss, at her bedside. A happy ending?which follows some satisfying vengeance on Grace''s part?doesn''t minimize the aura of victimization that surrounds this heroine. Only in a Danielle Steel novel would a 19-year-old ex-con show up at her first job interview in a "little Chanel knockoff" suit?but neither pseudo-high fashion nor the high-handed conclusion keep this yarn from being, ultimately, a big downer that earns its title in more ways than one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5983'),
(6147, 'Mallory Hates Boys (And Gym)', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9702'),
(6148, 'Mallory On Strike', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9690'),
(6149, 'Mallory Pike, Number One Fan', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9717'),
(6150, 'Mallory,The Mystery Diary', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9691'),
(6151, 'Mallory,the Trouble,Twins', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9704'),
(6152, 'Mallow', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Ship has travelled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. Larger than many planets, it houses thousands of alien races and just as many secrets. Now one has been discovered: at the centre of the Ship is a planet: Marrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4105');
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(6153, 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett''s archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more\n  <em>\n   noir\n  </em>\n  than __ and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler''s Marlowe. In\n  <em>\n   The Maltese Falcon\n  </em>\n  , the best known of Hammett''s Sam Spade novels (including\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  ), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spade''s partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can''t provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade''s solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the\n  <strong>\n   , and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy''s perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you''re riveted by\n  </strong>\n  or wonder where Robert B. Parker''s Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master.\n  <em>\n   --Barbara Schlieper\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Dashiell Hammett. . . is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer." --\n  <strong>\n   The Boston Globe\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Maltese Falcon\n  </strong>\n  is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel."--\n  <strong>\n   The Times Literary Supplement\n  </strong>\n  (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hammett''s prose [is] clean and entirely unique.Â Â His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction."--\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7727'),
(6154, 'Mama&#39;s Boy and Other Dark Tales', 'Fran Friel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing good comes of the closest ties in Mama''s Boy and Other Dark Tales, the new collection from Fran Friel and Apex Publications. Things can go especially awry when the tie in question is the one binding mother and son. This collection contains 14 tales, including the Stoker Award nominated novella "Mama''s Boy."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(6155, 'The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF', 'Mike Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories, both pre- and post-apocalyptic, describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself. Many of the stories reflect on humankind_s infinite capacity for self-destruction, but the stories are by no means all downbeat or depressing _ one key theme explores what the aftermath of a cataclysm might be and how humans strive to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5758'),
(6156, 'The Mammoth Book of Monsters', 'Stephen Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Monstrous stories by the top names in horror writing such as Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3538'),
(6157, 'The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF', 'Gardner Dozois', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois_ annual anthology has long been considered the standard by which other best-of-the-year SF collections are judged. After two decades_ worth of superlative science fiction, Dozois now presents a retrospective compilation culling from the last 20 years.Here under one banner is some of the finest work by the genre''s leading authors, with a star-studded list of contributors that features among others: Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, William Gibson, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling , Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe.A number of the selections are now considered classics. Some notable stories include:_Blood Music_, Greg Bear''s Hugo-winning exploration of nanotechnology._Bears Discover Fire_, Terry Bisson''s tongue-in-cheek consideration of future ursine evolution._The Left Hand of Darkness_, Ursula K. Le Guin_s coming-of-age SF tale._The Winter Market_, in which William Gibson returns to the subject that made him a cultural icon, cyberpunk.With work spanning two decades, this is the most significant science fiction short story anthology published in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8585'),
(6158, 'The Mammoth Hunters', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses continue to work their spell in this third installment of Auel''s projected six-volume Earth''s Children saga set in Ice Age Europe. The heroine, 18-year-old Ayla, cursed and pronounced dead by the "flathead" clan that reared her, now takes her chances with the mammoth-hunting Mamutoi, attended by her faithful lover, Jondalar. Gradually overcoming the prejudice aroused by her flathead connection, Ayla wins acceptance into the new clan through her powers as a healer, her shamanistic potential, her skill with spear and slingshot and her way with animals (she rides a horse, domesticates a wolf cub, both "firsts," it would seem, and even rides a lion). She also wins the heart of a bone-carving artist of "sparkling wit" (not much in evidence), which forces her to make a painful choice between the curiously complaisant Jondalar, her first instructor in love''s delights, and this more charismatic fellow. The story is lyric rather than dramatic, and Ayla and her lovers are projections of a romantic rather than a historical imagination, but readers caught up in the charm of Auel''s story probably won''t care. 750,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Bantam; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selections; author tour. Foreign rights: Jean Naggar. December 6\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ayla, the prehistoric heroine of Auel''s immensely popular series, meets a new clan, the mammoth hunters, in this eagerly awaited third installment to the saga. During her sojourn with this clan, Ayla and her lover, Jondalar, encounter a variety of crises triggered by Ayla''s past and her involvement with another man. Auel has created an amazing and fascinating world. Every aspect of society and culture is accounted for; no detail is too small to be included. To enjoy this novel the reader must accept the author''s concepts and cultural descriptions. Despite the sometimes too-modern dialogue and the often fatuous sex, this is a solid tale that will be particularly enjoyed by those who''ve been following Ayla''s fortunes. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selections. Lydia Burruel, Mesa P.L., Ariz.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8122'),
(6159, 'A Man for Amanda', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Multi-New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts has dazzled millions of readers with her riveting stories of mystery and romance. THE CALHOUN WOMEN celebrates that intriguing blend. It''s the stuff that love -- and legends -- are made of.Efficient Amanda Calhoun finds easygoing Sloan O''Riley insufferable -- and irresistible. As she finalizes all the arrangements for her sister C.C.''s storybook wedding to hotel magnate Trenton St. James, and plans for the day she assumes command of The Towers Retreat, her family is racing to solve the generations-old mystery surrounding a priceless hidden emerald necklace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2622'),
(6160, 'Man From Mundania', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there''s nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, not to the sea where the merfolk swim--but to Mundania, a world much like out own (that is, boring). It is here that she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn''t even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth!Does he have a lot to learn.The thrilling climax to the trilogy started in Vale of the Vole and continued in Heaven Cent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3285'),
(6161, 'The Man from St. Petersburg', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2931'),
(6162, 'The Man from the Broken Hills', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasnâ€™t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found himself in the middle of a range war, siding with the man heâ€™d marked for payback. But had Rossiter really changed? And could his daughter be trusted by either of them? For Milo, getting to the truth meant a long hard fight to separate his enemies from his friendsâ€“and forgiveness from revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2827'),
(6163, 'The Man in the Brown Suit', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AGATHA CHRISTIE is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne''s suspicion was when she learned of the doctor''s link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden diamonds, and a crime-lord embroiled in blackmail. And most frightening of all was the attempt made on Anne''s own life. But she is unable to resist the lure of an isolated mansion that could hold the solution to the bizarre mystery -- even if she becomes the next victim...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5206'),
(6164, 'The Man in the High Castle', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3771'),
(6165, 'Man in the Iron Mask', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n <br />\n Biographies of the authors\n <br />\n Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n <br />\n Footnotes and endnotes\n <br />\n Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n <br />\n Comments by other famous authors\n <br />\n Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n <br />\n Bibliographies for further reading\n <br />\n Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n <br />\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <br />\n France in the 1660s is a boiling cauldron of plots and counter-plots as King Louis XIV struggles to extend his power and transform himself into the â€œSun King.â€ Locked within the dreaded Bastille prison may be his enemiesâ€™ ultimate weapon: an anonymous prisoner forced to wear an iron mask so that none may see his faceâ€”and learn his astonishing secret. But soon the famed dâ€™Artagnan and the Three Musketeers are swept into the actionâ€”but not on the same side! Will they actually be forced to fight each other?\n <br />\n As much a tale of mystery and political intrigue as a swashbuckling adventure, The Man in the Iron Mask is the final novel in Alexandre Dumasâ€™s series of dâ€™Artagnan romances. The story follows the heroic young man from the country who, along with his three comrades, becomes a powerful influence on the course of French history. Yet what seems to be the most fantastic aspect of the story is based on fact. During Louis XIVâ€™s reign, a mysterious masked prisoner did dwell in the Bastille and his identity remains a question to this day.\n <br />\n Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. A member of the editorial boards of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Les Cahiers Alexandre Dumas, she specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and in works by Dumas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8432'),
(6166, 'The Man in the Iron Mask', 'Alexandre Dumas; David Coward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l''action et l''amour." The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D''Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(6167, 'Man in the Middle', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For newly promoted Army lieutenant colonel Sean Drummond, his latest assignment starts off simply enough: find out if the death of one of D.C.''s most influential defense officials was murder or suicide. Most investigators would call it a cut-and-dried case, but nothing is ever that simple. Teamed with Bian Tran, the attractive Army Military Police officer investigating the case, Drummond is about to embark on a journey that takes him from the labyrinthine channels of American intelligence to the killing rooms of Iraq. None of it will be more difficult than navigating the shadowy minds and motivations of his enemies and so-called colleagues. What Drummond uncovers will make him question everything he believes in. Because the more he digs, the more he learns about the key players-American and Middle Eastern-in a war that rages bloodier every day. A war where betrayal is a daily occurrence and makes him ask: Are my loyalties to my superiors or to the American soldiers battling for their lives?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/801'),
(6168, 'The Man in the Velvet Mask', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The triumph of virtue. The misfortunes of vice. Who said the play had to be like the book?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  24 Messidor, XXII: the TARDIS has landed in post-revolutionary France, or so it appears. But the futuristic structure of the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris. And First Deputy Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade, presides over a reign of terror that has yet to end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Revolutionary soldiers arrest an ailing Doctor as a curfew breaker. Dodo is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, Prisoner 6 tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a gathering of aliens watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6198'),
(6169, 'Man on a leash', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(6170, 'Man on the run', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(6171, 'The Man Tamer', 'Cindi Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s not a man Rachel Westover can''t tame. Or at least transform from a sloppy, sports-loving, self-absorbed male into the perfect mate. Then she meets Garret Kelly, aka The Wild Man. Talk about a challenge-- in a gorgeous package, no less. Can her behavior-modification techniques take on a guy this set in his rumpled-- and surprisingly irresistible-- ways? Rachel''s hormones, er, "ambitions," are jumping at the chance. If she succeeds in domesticating Garret, she gets her own TV show. If she fails... Well, failure isn''t an option. Sure, he''s more resistant than she expected. And withholding pleasure as punishment affects "her" so much, she''s abandoned that strategy. But she''s determined one of them is going to their knees. She just hopes it isn''t her!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8382'),
(6172, 'The Man Who Ate the 747', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: J.J. Smith is an official keeper of world records. Wherever he goes, would-be record holders vie for his attention. But J.J.''s boss says his records are dull. Either he comes up with something special for The Book, or he''s fired. So when J.J. hears about someone who is rumoured to be eating a 747, he has to check it out. Soon he finds himself in Superior, Nebraska, where Walter Chubb is, indeed, in the process of consuming an entire airplane, hoping to impress Willa Wyatt, the editor of the local newspaper, whom he has loved ever since she was the only guest who turned up to his tenth birthday party. Richly romantic, joyful and tender, "The Man Who Ate the 747" stretches the imagination, bends the laws of physics and takes you on a whimsical flight of fancy. ''Ben Sherwood is a modern-day Mark Twain who writes of small-town America with love, affection and with a definite twincle in his eye. A delightful and surprising book from start to finish'' - Fannie Flagg. ''A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed ...a genuine, old-fashioned tale of romance'' - "Daily Mirror".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1530'),
(6173, 'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz', 'Denis Avey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labour camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain where no one took his story seriously. For decades he couldn''t bring himself to revisit the past that haunted his dreams. Now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story ''a tale as gripping as it is moving '' which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10013'),
(6174, 'The Man Who Japed', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Man Who Japed is Dick''s mesmerizing and terrifying tale of a society so eager for order that it will sacrifice anything, including its freedom. Newer York is a post-holocaust city governed by the laws of an oppressively rigid morality. Highly mobile and miniature robots monitor the behavior of every citizen, and the slightest transgression can spell personal doom. Allen Purcell is one of the few people who has the capacity to literally change the way of the world, and once he''s offered a high-profile job that acts as guardian of public ethics, he sets out to do precisely that. But first he must deal with the head in his closet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9908'),
(6175, 'The Man Who Lost Red', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10759'),
(6176, 'The Man Who Lost the Sea', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10469'),
(6177, 'The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lysander Hawkley Combined Breathtaking Good Looks With The Kindest Of Hearts. He Couldn''T Pass A Stray Dog, An Ill-Treated Horse, Or A Neglected Wife Without Rushing To The Rescue. And With Neglected Wives The Rescue Invariably Led To Ecstatic Bonking, Which Didn''T Please Their Erring Husbands One Bit. Lysander''S Mid-Life Crisis Had Begun At Twenty-Two. Reeling From The Death Of His Beautiful Mother, He Was Out Of Work, Drinking Too Much And Desperately In Debt. The Solution Came From Ferdie, His Fat, Fast-Operating Friend: If Lysander Was So Good At Making Husbands Jealous, Why Shouldn''T He Get Paid For It? So Ferdie Moved Him Into The Idyllic Rutshire Village Of Paradise, Which Teemed With Underserviced Wives Whose Husbands Were Whooping It Up In London. Not Only Did Lysander Cause Absolute Havoc, But As The Husbands Came Roaring Home To Protect Their Property He Was Soon Awash With Cash, Polo Ponies, Yachts And Ferraris Given Him By Grateful Wives. But Husband Rattling Has Its Complications. The Undisputed King Rat Of Rutshire Was A Fiendishly Temperamental, World-Famous Conductor Called Rannaldini, Who Lived In A Huge Haunted Abbey Overlooking Paradise With A Rottweiler Called Tabloid And A String Of Racehorses And Glamorous Groupies. Indeed, The Only Unglamorous Woman Around Rannaldini Was The One Who Ran His Life Like Clockwork, His Plump Young Wife Kitty. Soon Lysander Was Seriously Convinced That Kitty Must Be Rescued At All Costs From Rannaldini''S Sadistic Promiscuity. Frantic To Prove He Was Not Just A Far-From-Cheap Wife-Enhancer, Lysander Enlisted The Help Of Old Blue-Eyed Havoc Maker Rupert Campbell-Black, Who As A Successful Trainer Had His Own Reasons For Wanting To Bury Rannaldini - And The Battle Of The Giants Was On.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1560'),
(6178, 'The Man Who Smiled (1994)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted in this adventure from the pen of Sweden''s master of crime and mystery. Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander''s help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn''t want to know. But when the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. A rookie female detective has joined the force is his absence, and he adopts the role of mentor to her as they fight to unravel the mystery. An enigmatic big-business tycoon, who hides behind an entourage of brusque secretaries and tight security, seems to be the common denominator in the two deaths. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9495'),
(6179, 'The Man Who Smiled', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting Henning Mankell thriller, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a deep personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. After almost a year of sick leave, he hits rock bottom and resolves to quit the police force for good. Against his better judgment Wallander stays on the force when unforeseen circumstances compel him to investigate the murder of a friend. While working closely with Ann-Britt Hoglund, the departmentâ€™s first female detective, he stumbles on a horrific world where human body parts are traded like stock, and just as he comes close to uncovering the truth, the same shadowy threats responsible for the murders close in on Wallander himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1746'),
(6180, 'The Man With the Golden Arm', 'Nelson Algren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren''s most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work. The Man with the Golden Arm is the classic American novel of the post-war period. Algren himself had wanted this relentlessly dark novel to be titled "Night Without Mercy," although he finally relented and allowed his publisher, Doubleday, to use their preferred title. Algren would name his cat Doubleday. Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. "The finest American novel published since the war."-Washington Post Book World "A true novelist''s triumph." TimestrongChicago Sun Times/em\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6201'),
(6181, 'The Man With the Golden Gun: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brainwashed James Bond has tried--and failed--to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his license to kill, 007 is no assassin, and on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killer''s criminal cooperative--and realizes that he will have to take him out as swiftly as possible. Otherwise 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers retired by the Man with the Golden Gun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7656'),
(6182, 'The Man With the Golden Torc', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers who recognize the pun on Ian Fleming''s James Bond title, The Man with the Golden Gun, will find the secret agent in question has more up his sleeve than a fancy car and some high-tech gadgets in this first of a new fantasy series from bestseller Green (Deathstalker). Meet Shaman Bond, aka Eddie Drood, scion of the ancient Drood family, devoted to protecting humanity from the forces of darkness. Protected by the secret weapon received at birth by all members of the Drood familyâ€”a magical gold torc (i.e., a neck ring) that turns into a suit of nearly impervious golden armorâ€”Eddie faces arcane dangers with healthy doses of wry self-confidence and sarcasm. Then the family matriarch sends him on a mission that turns out to be a deadly setup. Declared a rogue, Eddie teams up with short-tempered witch Molly Metcalf to find out why he''s been betrayed. This spy yarn is packed with enough humor, action and plot twists to satisfy fans who prefer their adventure shaken, not stirred.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Green pulls out all the parodic stops to introduce supernatural field agent Shaman Bond, aka Eddie Drood, black sheep of an ancient, superpowerful family that protects humanity from its nightmares. And a good secret agent he is, partly because he has the best toys, from the golden torc that becomes impenetrable armor to a souped-up classic car. Called home for the first time in years, he comes to suspect there''s a traitor within the family and discovers he has been declared a rogue. Fortunately, he has bolt-holes his family never suspected and tricks to stay alive while he investigates. He goes to former enemies, who know him as Bond, for help and discovers possible common ground with a few. For there''s a bigger enemy to deal with, amid the truth behind the Droods'' power, the family traitor, and the nasty things the Droods'' major opponents do. Green sustains a good spy thriller''s breakneck action with lots of magic, strange creatures, and even some character growth and romance. His new series star is one fun character. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5832'),
(6183, 'The Man With the Iron Heart', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if V-E Day didnâ€™t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germanyâ€™s flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS ObergruppenfÃ¼hrer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might todayâ€™s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945?In this imagined world, Nazi forces resort to unconventional warfare, using the quick and dirty tactics of terrorismâ€“booby traps, time bombs, mortar and rocket strikes in the night, assassinations, even kamikaze-style suicide attacksâ€“to overturn what seemed to be a decisive Allied victory. In November 1945, a truck bomb blows up the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where high-ranking Nazi officials are about to stand trial for war crimes. None of the accused are there when the bomb goes off, but their judges, all of them present and accounted for, are annihilated. Worse acts of terrorism follow all over Europe.Suddenly the Alliesâ€“especially the United Statesâ€“must battle an invisible enemy and sacrifice countless lives in a long, seemingly pointless, unwinnable conflict. On the home front, patriotism corrodes, political fortunes are made and lost in the face of an antiwar backlash, and a once-proud country wonders how the righteous fight for freedom overseas has collapsed into a hopeless quagmire. At once a novel of thrilling military suspense, intriguing alternate history, and profound insight into contemporary affairs, The Man with the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4949'),
(6184, 'The Man with the Twisted Lip', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9374'),
(6185, 'A Man Without a Country', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first book since 1999, it''s just like old times as Vonnegut (now 82) makes with the deeply black humor in this collection of articles written over the last five years, many from the alternative magazine\n <em>\n  In These Times\n </em>\n . But the pessimistic wisecracks may be wearing thin; the conversational tone of the pieces is like Garrison Keillor with a savage undercurrent. Still, the schtick works fine most of the time, underscored by hand-lettered aphorisms between chapters. Some essays suffer from authorial self-indulgence, however, like taking a dull story about mailing a manuscript and stretching it to interminable lengths. Vonnegut reserves special bile for the "psychopathic personalities" (i.e., "smart, personable people who have no consciences") in the Bush administration, which he accuses of invading Iraq so America can score more of the oil to which we have become addicted. People, he says, are just "chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power." Of course, that''s exactly the sort of misanthropy hardcore Vonnegut fans will lap upâ€”the online versions of these pieces are already described as the most popular Web pages in the history of\n <em>\n  In These Times. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s hilarious and razor-sharp look at life (â€œIf I dieâ€”God forbidâ€”I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, â€˜Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?â€™â€), art (â€œTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.â€), politics (â€œI asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, â€˜Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.â€™â€), and the condition of the soul of America today (â€œWhat has happened to us?â€). Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout,\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut\n </strong>\n is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, without whom the very term â€œAmerican literatureâ€ would mean less than it does. His novels include\n <em>\n  Catâ€™s Cradle\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse Five\n </em>\n , among so many others. Projects with Seven Stories Press in recent years include\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian\n </em>\n and, with Lee Stringer,\n <em>\n  Like Shaking Hands with God\n </em>\n , a book about writing. His most recent novel is\n <em>\n  Timequake\n </em>\n (1997). In addition to his writing, Vonnegut is a visual artist of note. His paintings and prints can be seen at\n <em>\n  www.vonnegut.com\n </em>\n . He lives with his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, in New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Daniel Simon\n </strong>\n is the founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press and served as editor on two previous books by Kurt Vonnegut,\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian\n </em>\n and, with Lee Stringer,\n <em>\n  Like Shaking Hands God\n </em>\n . Simon is also co-author of a biography of Abbie Hoffman,\n <em>\n  Run, Run, Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7706'),
(6186, 'Man-Kzin Wars - Destiny&#39;s Forge', 'Chafe Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10250'),
(6187, 'Man-Kzin Wars IX', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10223'),
(6188, 'The Man', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *''I* would rather be an angel than God!'' The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention. The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking. The scene would have gladdened a painter''s heart. An old churchyard. The church low and square-towered, with long mullioned windows, the yellow-grey stone roughened by age and tender-hued with lichens. Round it clustered many tombstones tilted in all directions. Behind the church a line of gnarled and twisted yews. The churchyard was full of fine trees. On one side a magnificent cedar; on the other a great copper beech. Here and there among the tombs and headstones many beautiful blossoming trees rose from the long green grass. The laburnum glowed in the June afternoon sunlight; the lilac, the hawthorn and the clustering meadowsweet which fringed the edge of the lazy stream mingled their heavy sweetness in sleepy fragrance. The yellow-grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts-tongues, and were topped with sweet-williams and spreading house-leek and stone-crop and wild- flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer. But amid all that mass of glowing colour the two young figures seated on the grey old tomb stood out conspicuously. The man was in conventional hunting-dress: red coat, white stock, black hat, white breeches, and top-boots. The girl was one of the richest, most glowing, and yet withal daintiest figures the eye of man could linger on. She was in riding-habit of hunting scarlet cloth; her black hat was tipped forward by piled-up masses red-golden hair. Round her neck was a white lawn scarf in the fashion of a man''s hunting-stock, close fitting, and sinking into a gold-buttoned waistcoat of snowy twill. As she sat with the long skirt across her left arm her tiny black top-boots appeared underneath. Her gauntleted gloves were of white buckskin; her riding-whip was plaited of white leather, topped with ivory and banded with gold. Even in her fourteenth year Miss Stephen Norman gave promise of striking beauty; beauty of a rarely composite character. In her the various elements of her race seemed to have cropped out. The firm- set jaw, with chin broader and more square than is usual in a woman, and the wide fine forehead and aquiline nose marked the high descent from Saxon through Norman. The glorious mass of red hair, of the true flame colour, showed the blood of another ancient ancestor of Northern race, and suited well with the voluptuous curves of the full, crimson lips. The purple-black eyes, the raven eyebrows and eyelashes, and the fine curve of the nostrils spoke of the Eastern blood of the far-back wife of the Crusader. Already she was tall for her age, with something of that lankiness which marks the early development of a really fine figure. Long-legged, long-necked, as straight as a lance, with head poised on the proud neck like a lily on its stem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(6189, 'A Man&#39;s Guide to Pregnancy: How to Live With a Pregnant Person', 'John Zakour', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Man''s Guide to Pregnancy is a fun look at pregnancy from the man''s point of view. It makes an especially good gift book for the expecting father as it is full of humorous helpful hints to guide a man through this sometimes confusing, always hectic time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10005'),
(6190, 'Managing Projects With GNU Make, 3rd Edition', 'Robert Mecklenburg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Managing Projects with GNU make\n </i>\n , 3rd Edition provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. This edition focuses on the GNU version of\n <i>\n  make\n </i>\n , which has deservedly become the industry standard. GNU''s powerful extensions are explored in this book, including a number of interesting advanced topics such as portability, parallelism, and use with Java.\n <i>\n  make\n </i>\n is popular because it is free software and provides a version for almost every platform, including a version for Microsoft Windows as part of the free Cygwin project.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6255'),
(6191, 'Managra', 'Stephen Marley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Based on the widely acclaimed television show of the 1970s, which still boasts a tremendous following today, this collection of the missing adventures of Dr. Who Time Lord, promises to enthrall fans of the popular series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4395'),
(6192, 'The mandala of Sherlock Holmes: the missing years : based on the reminiscences of Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, C.I.E., F.R.S., Rai Bahadur, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, and recipient of Founder&#39;s Medal, corresponding member of the Imperial Archaeological Society of St. Petersburg, associate member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, life member of Brahmo Somaj, Calcutta', 'Jamyang Norbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Recording the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as he travelled in Tibet with Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, this novel follows Holmes''s brush with the Great Game, with Colonel Creighton, Lurgan Sahib and the world of Kim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2110'),
(6193, 'The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years', 'Jamyang Norbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Recording the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as he travelled in Tibet with Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, this novel follows Holmes''s brush with the Great Game, with Colonel Creighton, Lurgan Sahib and the world of Kim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8145'),
(6194, 'Mandibles', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8864'),
(6195, 'The Mango Season', 'Amulya Malladi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the acclaimed author of *A Breath of Fresh Air*, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summerâ€™s mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition.**Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their parents: Donâ€™t eat any cow (Itâ€™s still sacred!), donâ€™t go out too much, save (and save, and save) your money, and most important, do *not* marry a foreigner. Priya Rao left India when she was twenty to study in the U.S., and sheâ€™s never been back. Now, seven years later, sheâ€™s out of excuses. She has to return and give her family the news: Sheâ€™s engaged to Nick Collins, a kind, loving American man. Itâ€™s going to break their hearts.Returning to India is an overwhelming experience for Priya. When she was growing up, summer was all about mangoesâ€”ripe, sweet mangoes, bursting with juices that dripped down your chin, hands, and neck. But after years away, she sweats as if sheâ€™s never been through an Indian summer before. Everything looks dirtier than she remembered. And things that used to seem natural (a buffalo strolling down a newly laid asphalt road, for example) now feel totally chaotic.But Priyaâ€™s relatives remain the same. Her mother and father insist that itâ€™s time they arranged her marriage to a â€œnice Indian boy.â€ Her extended family talks of nothing *but* marriageâ€”particularly the marriage of her uncle Anand, which still has them reeling. Not only did Anand marry a woman from another Indian state, but he also married for love. Happiness and love are not the point of her grandparentsâ€™ or her parentsâ€™ union. In her familyâ€™s rule book, duty is at the top of the list.Just as Priya begins to feel she canâ€™t possibly tell her family that sheâ€™s engaged to an American, a secret is revealed that leaves her stunned and off-balance. Now she is forced to choose between the love of her family and Nick, the love of her life.As sharp and intoxicating as sugarcane juice bought fresh from a market cart, *The Mango Season* is a delightful trip into the heart and soul of both contemporary India and a woman on the edge of a profound life change.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/70');
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(6196, 'The Manhattan Hunt Club', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Manhattan Hunt Club\n </em>\n John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless denizens of the city have created their own society. It''s a world Jeff Converse, a young college student convicted of a crime he didn''t commit, never knew existed until he is plunged into it after an "accident" that occurs while he is being transported to prison. He soon realizes that it''s no accident, but the opening move in a deadly game being played by some of the city''s most powerful men and women, a game in which he is the prey and they are the hunters. Jeff''s only chance to make it to the surface and survive lies in allying himself with a homicidal maniac who''s appointed himself the young man''s protector, but whose designs on Jeff are almost as lethal as those of his enemies in the Manhattan Hunt Club.\n</p>\n<p>\n Saul made his reputation in the horror genre, but he now focuses on psychological terrors rather than things that go bump in the night. His narrative gifts are displayed to great advantage in this heart-stopping thriller; the pacing is flawless and the central characters are very well developed. What keeps this from living up to its fullest potential is the inadequate motivation of the villains, who are largely one-dimensional cardboard cutouts. But that won''t keep this otherwise topnotch thriller off the bestseller lists, where Saul (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ), like Stephen King, is a perennial contender for the number one spot.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why mess with success? Twenty-four novels and 24 years down the road, Saul continues to deliver the same sleek pulp entertainment that he''s been selling in high numbers since his debut with Suffer the Children in 1977. This time out, Saul sets his melodramatics mostly below the surface of Manhattan, in the tunnels populated by the homeless. Because of mistaken eyewitness testimony, Columbia University architecture student Jeff Converse has been convicted of attempted rape and attempted murder. En route to Rikers Island, the police van carrying Jeff is rammed, and Jeff is taken by a homeless man into the tunnels, only to be locked in a room with another prisoner, homicidal maniac Francis Jagger. Days later, Jeff and Jagger are released into the tunnels, told that if they make it to the outside world, they live; if they don''t, they die. Eventually we learn that an elite group of Manhattan power brokers has created a club devoted to hunting convicted malefactors and having their bodies stuffed in the manner of big game trophies, using the underground homeless as beaters in the hunt. Meanwhile, Jeff''s fiancâ€še and father search desperately for Jeff, first above ground, then below. The novel builds suspense steadily, but reaches full steam only when Saul plunges his principals mercilessly into the stygian underworld of Manhattan. The premise of a Manhattan Hunt Club skirts absurdity, as do the villainous members of the club, but Saul scores points about society''s treatment of the homeless. The prose is serviceable, the action rough, intense and often distasteful in other words, this is vintage Saul. (Aug.)Forecast: With major ad/promo, including a sample chapter in the mass market edition (June) of Saul''s Nightshade, this will reach the author''s fans. Expect many to travel with Saul into the nasty depths, only to breathe deeply as they look up from the book to a sandy beach and clean ocean waves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4522'),
(6197, 'Manhunt', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She''s now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn''t long before she finds exactly what she''s looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman''s crosshairs -- especially a hunter as appealing as Alex. It''ll take skill, determination, and a little romantic persuasion for this big-game hunter to bag her prey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2166'),
(6198, 'Manifold: Space (Manifold (Paperback))', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space. What lies on the other side of the gateway? Malenfant decides to find out. Yet he will soon be faced with an impossible choice that will push him beyond terror, beyond sanity, beyond humanity itself. Meanwhile on Earth the Japanese scientist Nemoto fears her worst nightmares are coming true. Startling discoveries reveal that the Moon, Venus, even Mars once thrived with life?life that was snuffed out not just once but many times, in cycles of birth and destruction. And the next chilling cycle is set to begin again . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11092'),
(6199, 'Manifold: time', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hailed by Arthur C. Clarke as "a major new talent," Stephen Baxter is one of the most gifted writers to appear in the last decade. His stunning novels combine state-of-the-art scientific speculation with nonstop adventure on a cosmic scale, continuing the grand tradition of science fiction pioneered by such giants as Isaac Asimov and Robert E. Heinlein. Now the multi-award-winning author gives us his most ambitious and accomplished novel yet. Audaciously conceived, brilliantly executed, it is nothing less than a masterpiece--an unforgettable race through and against time itself, with the fate of the universe and all mankind hanging in the balance. The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. But as the world''s governments turn inward, one man dares to gamble on a bolder, brighter future. That man--Reid Malenfant--has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, Malenfant''s bootstrap company builds a spacecraft, plots its course, and trains the genetically enhanced Sheena 5 for her one-way journey. As apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, Malenfant launches the rocket. But Sheena has plans of her own. And even as she sets them in motion, the situation on Earth grows more desperate and violent. Now Malenfant--together with a brilliant but disturbed mathematician, a child prodigy, and his ex-wife--must gamble the very existence of time and space on a single desperate throw of the dice. The odds are a trillion to one against him . . . Or are they?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11089'),
(6200, 'The Manning Grooms: Bride On The Loose\\\\Same Time, Next Year', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother, Charlotte. To his relief, Charlotte is as averse to marriage as he is. But Jason''s feelings start to change once he gets to know his Bride on the Loose.James Wilkens was almost a Manning groomâ€”because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year''s Eve in Las Vegasâ€¦where he meets Summer Lawton. She''s just suffered a painful betrayal, and James promises her that in a year, she''ll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas Same Time, Next Year. Except it turns out to be more than a dateâ€”it''s a wedding!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1485'),
(6201, 'Mansfield Park', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fanny''s arrival at her wealthy relatives'' estate creates a conflict of class and virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2096'),
(6202, 'A Manual Of Buddhism', 'Venerable Narada Maha Thera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10679'),
(6203, 'The Manual of Detection', 'Jedediah Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through peopleâ€™s dreams** In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency. All he knows about solving mysteries comes from the reports heâ€™s filed for the illustrious detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor turns up murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted to detective, a rank for which he lacks both the skills and the stomach. His only guidance comes from his new assistant, who would be perfect if she werenâ€™t so sleepy, and from the pithy yet profound *Manual of Detection* (think *The Art of War* as told to Damon Runyon). Unwin mounts his search for Sivart, but is soon framed for murder, pursued by goons and gunmen, and confounded by the infamous femme fatale Cleo Greenwood. Meanwhile, strange and troubling questions proliferate: why does the mummy at the Municipal Museum have modern- day dental work? Where have all the cityâ€™s alarm clocks gone? Why is Unwinâ€™s copy of the manual missing Chapter 18? When he discovers that Sivartâ€™s greatest casesâ€” including the Three Deaths of Colonel Baker and the Man Who Stole November 12thâ€”were solved incorrectly, Unwin must enter the dreams of a murdered man and face a criminal mastermind bent on total control of a slumbering city. *The Manual of Detection* will draw comparison to every work of imaginative fiction that ever blew a readerâ€™s mindâ€”from Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n to Jorge Luis Borges, from *The Big Sleep* to *The Yiddish Policemanâ€™s Union*. But, ultimately, it defies comparison; it is a brilliantly conceived, meticulously realized novel that will change what you think about how you think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1645'),
(6204, 'The Manual of Detection: A Novel', 'Jedediah Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in an unnamed city, Berry''s ambitious debut reverberates with echoes of Kafka and Paul Auster. Charles Unwin, a clerk who''s toiled for years for the Pinkerton-like Agency, has meticulously catalogued the legendary cases of sleuth Travis Sivart. When Sivart disappears, Unwin, who''s inexplicably promoted to the rank of detective, goes in search of him. While exploring the upper reaches of the Agency''s labyrinthine headquarters, the paper pusher stumbles on a corpse. Aided by a narcoleptic assistant, he enters a surreal landscape where all the alarm clocks have been stolen. In the course of his inquiries, Unwin is shattered to realize that some of Sivart''s greatest triumphs were empty ones, that his hero didn''t always come up with the correct solution. Even if the intriguing conceit doesn''t fully work, this cerebral novel, with its sly winks at traditional whodunits and inspired portrait of the bureaucratic and paranoid Agency, will appeal to mystery readers and nongenre fans alike.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The comparisons used by critics in describing The Manual of Detectionâ€”Borges! Chesterton! Bradbury! Kafka! Lynch! Gilliam!â€”may seem overblown. But this list of literary (and cinematic) heavy hitters may not be hyperbolic praise so much as the only means available to explain how a book that initially seems to be a private eye novel can also be a work of absurdist art, â€œa surreal transmogrification of a genreâ€ (Wall Street Journal). The critics might not have been able to categorize it, but they were also unable to put it down. However, as more than one reviewer pointed out, this may not be the best book for those who like their gumshoes straight, no chaser.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5051'),
(6205, 'Manual of the Warrior of Light', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The Manual of the Warrior of Light'' is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, recommended books if you liked this one, and much more.''The Manual of the Warrior of Light'' is an invitation to each of us to live our dream, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps us to discover the warrior of light within each of us.With inspiring short passages, we are invited to embark upon the way of the warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3843'),
(6206, 'Manual of Zen Buddhism', 'Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the recorded conversations of the great Buddhist monks â€” intimate dialogues on subjects of momentous importance. In addition to the written selections, all of them translated by Dr. Suzuki, there are reproductions of many Buddhist drawings and paintings, including religious statues found in Zen temples, each with an explanation of its significance, and the great series of allegorical paintings â€œThe Ten Oxherding Pictures."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1405'),
(6207, 'The Manual: A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate--And What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top', 'Steve Santagati; Arianne Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Santagati, a former model and admitted bad boy who has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The View, has expanded on his relationship advice enterprise, AskSteveSantagati.com, to make this guidebook to dating and taming the wild male. Dissecting all aspects of the bad boy lifestyle, including lessons like "How Bad Boys Bring Out the Best in Women" and "Porn Explained," Santagati takes women through every step of the bad boy''s process, from hunt to sex to relationship to "endgame." Despite some tough love ("The Myth of the Nice Guy") and blatant boorishness ("How to Clothe Your Chest"), Santagati doesn''t grate or insult, coming off as no more than an experienced, confident man who loves women. Indeed, he''s the guy "who you won''t even know is trying to pick you up until you''re leaving his apartment the next morning," and he provides brief lessons in spotting and avoiding the players and misogynists among the populace. Often direct, but never above goofy humor or cheesy sentiment, Santagi may not "reveal everything that you need to know to successfully date and have relationships with men," but his short, easy-to-digest chapters make a perfect way to browse away an afternoon, gain some perspective and try narrowing the age-old gap between the sexes.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œSteve Santagati has done it again! He brilliantly shares the secrets men don''t want women to know about them. It''s like having a cool, best guy friend in your back pocket. This book is a\n <strong>\n  MUST\n </strong>\n have for any woman who wants to know how men think, and, more importantly, have the upper hand in winning over the man of their dreams.â€\n <br />\n â€”Dr. Robi Ludwig, author, psychological commentator, and host of TLC''s\n <em>\n  One Week to Save Your Marriage\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSteve is definitely a man''s man! I''ve seen him in action, and he knows what he''s talking about when it comes to dating and relationships. Iâ€™m sure The MANUAL will become every woman''s\n <em>\n  mible\n </em>\n (a Bible on men)!â€\n <br />\n â€”Rachael Ray, #1 New York Times bestselling author and TV personality\n <br />\n â€œSteve has opened a real can of worms with The MANual. It''s going to be much easier for women to traverse the dating world after they read this...and much tougher out there for the bad boys!â€\n <br />\n â€”Molly Sims, star of the hit show â€œLas Vegasâ€\n <br />\n "[Santagati''s] short, easy-to-digest chapters make a perfect way to browse away an afternoon, gain some perspective and try narrowing the age-old gap between the sexes."\n <br />\n â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9401'),
(6208, 'Many Waters', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sandy and Dennys interrupt their father''s experiment and find themselves in the middle of a desert. They discover that they must not only find the way home, but must also reunite a man and his son--a boy named Noah. The first book in the Time Quartet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10153'),
(6209, 'Map of Bones', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mysterious biblical object, nefarious Vatican spies and a deadly centuries-old religious cabalâ€”sound familiar? Sacramento veterinarian Rollins offers more\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n â€“style thrills for the seriously addicted. In this seventh outing, hooded men invade midnight mass at the Cologne Cathedral and slaughter almost everyone present, then break open a gold sarcophagus and steal... the bones of the Three Wise Men. Grayson Pierce, top agent in the Department of Defense''s covert Sigma Force, takes a team to Rome, joins up with love-interest Rachel Verona, a\n <em>\n  carabinieri\n </em>\n corps lieutenant, and her Vatican official uncle, Vigot. It seems that the Dragon Court, a medieval alchemical cult-cell that still operates within the Catholic Church, is to blame, and it also seems that the bones of the Magi aren''t really bones, but the highly reactive Monatomic gold that the group plans to use to accomplish its ultimate goalâ€”Armegeddon. Rollins has few peers in the research department, which makes the historical material fascinating, and he keeps the dialogue believably colloquial and the incidental elements motivatedâ€”and plausible for at least short stretches. Clumsy romance is mostly overcome by lots of action. Dan Brown-ers looking for methadone will add to Rollins''s usual solid numbers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This novel about an ancient secret society and the race to find priceless antiquities is sure to be compared to Dan Brown''s\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code,\n </em>\n but, in every way, it''s a much better book. Where Brown''s best-seller was predictable despite its compelling premise, this tale is clever and suspenseful. Where\n <em>\n  Code\n </em>\n featured ropey dialogue and assembly-line characters, this one offers (mostly) real people engaging in (mostly) real discourse. Like Brown, Rollins makes the most of a moderately implausible premise, this one requiring that the reader accept the literal truth of a certain allegorical aspect of the Bible. But, as both books prove, a thriller can be as implausible as it likes as long as it is entertainingly developed. Fans of\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n will obviously want to read\n <em>\n  Map of Bones,\n </em>\n but even those who found Brown''s opus unpalatable will thoroughly enjoy the taste of this one.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7300'),
(6210, 'A Map of Glass', 'Jane Urquhart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jane Urquhart''s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario. Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents'' house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their subsequent marriage has nourished her, but ultimately her husband''s care has formed a kind of prison. When she meets Andrew Woodman, a historical geographer, her world changes. A year after Andrew''s death, Sylvia makes an unlikely connection with Jerome McNaughton, a young Toronto artist whose discovery of Andrew''s body on a small island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River unlocks a secret in his own past. After Sylvia finds Jerome in Toronto, she shares with him the story of her unusual childhood and of her devastating and ecstatic affair with Andrew, a man whose life was irrevocably affected by the decisions of the past. At the breathtaking centre of the novel is the compelling tale of Andrew''s forebears. We meet his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Woodman, whose ambitions brought him from England to the northeastern shores of Lake Ontario, during the days of the flourishing timber and shipbuilding industries; Joseph''s practical, independent and isolated daughter, Annabel; and his son, Branwell, an innkeeper and a painter. It is Branwell''s eventual liaison with an orphaned French-Canadian woman that begins the family''s new generation and sets the stage for future events. A novel about loss and the transitory nature of place, "A Map of Glass" is vivid with evocative prose and haunting imagery -- a lake of light on a wooden table; a hotel graduallyburied by sand; a fully clothed man frozen in an iceberg; a blind woman tracing her fingers over a tactile map. Containing all of the elements for which Jane Urquhart''s writing is celebrated, it stands as her richest, most accomplished novel to date. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2057'),
(6211, 'The Maples stories', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updikeâ€™s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.In 1956, Updike published a story, â€œSnowing in Greenwich Village,â€ about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled *Too Far to Go, *prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, â€œGrandparenting,â€ which returns us to the Maplesâ€™s lives long after their wrenching divorce.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3141'),
(6212, 'Maps in a Mirror', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card''s short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9588'),
(6213, 'The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological; History / Ancient / Rome; Literary Criticism / American / General; True Crime / Murder / General; Travel / Europe / Italy;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10659'),
(6214, 'The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological; History / Ancient / Rome; Literary Criticism / American / General; True Crime / Murder / General; Travel / Europe / Italy;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10656'),
(6215, 'March', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Brooks''s luminous second novel, after 2001''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Year of Wonders\n </em>\n , imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott''s\n <em>\n  Little Women\n </em>\n . An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. In between, we learn of March''s earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his family''s genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm lands March in a Washington hospital, sick with fever and guilt, the first-person narrative switches to Marmee, who describes a different version of the years past and an agonized reaction to the truth she uncovers about her husband''s life. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott''s transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March, the passion and rage of Marmee and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks''s affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-In Brooks''s well-researched interpretation of Louisa May Alcott''s\n <em>\n  Little Women\n </em>\n , Mr. March also remains a shadowy figure for the girls who wait patiently for his letters. They keep a stiff upper lip, answering his stiff, evasive, flowery letters with cheering accounts of the plays they perform and the charity they provide, hiding their own civilian privations. Readers, however, are treated to the real March, based loosely upon the character of Alcott''s own father. March is a clergyman influenced by Thoreau, Emerson, and especially John Brown (to whom he loses a fortune). His high-minded ideals are continually thwarted not only by the culture of the times, but by his own ineptitude as well. A staunch abolitionist, he is amazingly naive about human nature. He joins the Union army and soon becomes attached to a hospital unit. His radical politics are an embarrassment to the less ideological men, and he is appalled by their lack of abolitionist sentiments and their cruelty. When it appears that he has committed a sexual indiscretion with a nurse, a former slave and an old acquaintance, March is sent to a plantation where the recently freed slaves earn wages but continue to experience cruelty and indignities. Here his faith in himself and in his religious and political convictions are tested. Sick and discouraged, he returns to his little women, who have grown strong in his absence. March, on the other hand, has experienced the horrors of war, serious illness, guilt, regret, and utter disillusionment._-Jackie Gropman, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4656'),
(6216, 'March Upcountry', 'John Ringo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Royal Brat is in Trouble** Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock didn''t understand. He was young, handsome, athletic, an *excellent* dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man...so why wouldn''t anyone at Court *trust* him? Why wouldn''t even his own mother, the Empress, explain *why* they didn''t trust him? Or why the very mention of his father''s name was forbidden at Court? Or why his mother had decided to pack him off to a backwater planet aboard what was little more than a tramp freighter to represent her at a local political event better suited to a third assistant undersecretarv of state? It probably wasn''t too surprising that someone in his position should react by becoming spoiled, selfcentered and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life? But that was before a saboteur tried to blow up his transport. Then warships of the Empire of Man''s worst rivals shot the crippled vessel out of space. Then Roger found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, whose jungles were full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, torrential rain, and barbarian hordes with really *bad* dispositions. Now all Roger has to do is hike halfway around the entire planet, then capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, somehow commandeer a starship, and then go home to Mother for explanations. Fortunately, Roger has an ace in the hole: Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of The Empress'' Own Regiment. If anyone can get him off Marduk alive, it''s the Bronze Barbarians. Assuming that Prince Roger manages to grow up before he gets all of them killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2475'),
(6217, 'March: a novel', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man (Sue Monk Kidd). With pitch-perfect writing (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brookss place as a renowned author of historical fiction. A very great book... It breathes new life into the historical fiction genre [and] honors the best of the imagination. Chicago Tribune A beautifully wrought story about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainties and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between husband and wife. Los Angeles Times Book Review Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased. The Economist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(6218, 'Mariel of Redwall', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9000'),
(6219, 'Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of novelist Clancy''s previous nonfiction works, such as Fighter Wing (Berkley, 1995), comes an in-depth look at the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Clancy presents an insider''s look at the most hallowed branch of the U.S. armed forces and those who serve on the front lines. First he offers an interview with Gen. Charles "Chuck" Cruller, 31st commandant of the Marine Corps. Clancy''s main focus, however, is the Marine Expeditionary Unit-Special Operations Capable, or MEU (SOC). Currently, the USMC maintains seven MEU (SOC)s: three on each coast and one in Okinawa. Two or three of these units are deployed aboard ship into forward areas at any one time. These rapid-response units patrol a dangerous world while waiting for the president of the United States to get a "911" call for armed intervention. Clancy also offers a fascinating look at Marine Corps recruitment and training. Highly recommended for all libraries.?Michael Coleman, Regional Lib. for Blind &amp; Physically Handicapped, Montgomery\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since Clancy''s fictional hero Jack Ryan began his career as a marine officer, few fans will be surprised that his creator now turns his attention to the corps and treats an aspect of it as effectively as he did the subjects of his three previous nonfiction military studies:\n <em>\n  Submarine\n </em>\n (1993),\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n (1994), and\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n (1995). After summarizing the marines'' history, unique ethos, and weaponry--both specialized and borrowed, including the formidable ships of the amphibious navy--Clancy focuses on "the most `Marine'' unit left in the Corps today," a Marine Expeditionary Unit--Special Operations Capable. Such a unit is one of the corps'' and the country''s seaborne emergency response teams, each with infantry, armor, air, and logistical components adding up to about 2,000 men and each able to carry out an astonishing variety of war-fighting and peacekeeping activities. Clancy amasses the information, writes clearly, provides an invaluable bibliography, and generally takes the lay reader where it would be very difficult to go without Clancy''s guidance. Highly recommended.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6487'),
(6220, 'Mark Bittman&#39;s Kitchen Express: 404 Inspired Seasonal Dishes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bittman here offers a sampling of 404 inspiring recipes. But don''t expect another\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n . This newest is of a different kindâ€”simple and snappy, and rarely calls for measuring spoons. The no-sweat recipes are divided into four sections: summer, fall, winter and spring, capitalizing on the freshest ingredients of each season while whittling down the prep time of ordinarily elaborate dishes like coq au vin and ricotta cheesecake to 10 minutes or less. The book includes a drill-down of how best to stock your kitchen, and given the impromptu nature of the book, the substitution grid proves indispensable. While many dishes are sandwiches, dips or salads, Bittman offers a handful of innovative gems like figs in a blanket and pasta jambalaya, drawing from a diverse gastronomical panorama including Latin, Asian, Mediterranean and Creole flavors. And while quick, Bittman''s recipes don''t lack his signature creative punch. Lavender-thyme braised chicken, scallop and peach ceviche and a five-spice lobster sandwich will make most readers both salivate and appreciate the ease of his recipes.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cooking can be one of life''s essential pleasures, even when you have to put dinner on the table every night. Now, with Mark Bittman''s trusted voice as your guide, quick, easy, and fresh meals are always a realistic option.\n</p>\n<p>\n Presented here are 404 dishes -- 101 for each season -- that will get you in and out of the kitchen in 20 minutes or less. Mark Bittman''s recipe sketches provide exactly the directions a home cook needs to prepare a repertoire of eggs, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetables, sandwiches, and even desserts. Add a salad here, a loaf of bread there, and these dishes become full meals that are better than takeout and far less expensive.\n</p>\n<p>\n These 404 recipes are as delicious and sophisticated as they are simple: Make the most of summer produce with Scallop and Peach Ceviche or Apricot Cream Upside-Down Pie. When the air starts to cool, try Salmon and Sweet Potato with Coconut Curry Sauce or Broiled Brussels Sprouts with Hazelnuts. On a cold winter night, warm up with White Bean Stew served over crusty slices of olive oil-brushed baguette. Or welcome spring with Shrimp with Asparagus, Dill, and Spice or Poached Eggs and Truffled Arugula Prosciutto Salad.\n</p>\n<p>\n Because good ingredients are the backbone of delicious home cooking, Bittman includes a guide to the foods you''ll want on hand to cook the Kitchen Express way, as well as suggestions for seasonal menus and lists of recipes for specific uses, like brown-bag lunches or the best dishes for reheating. With\n <em>\n  Mark Bittman''s Kitchen Express\n </em>\n , you can have dinner on the table in not much more time than it takes to read a traditional recipe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4923'),
(6221, 'The Mark on the Door', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A trunk that Nancy receives from her father for a trip to Buenos Aires becomes the center of a mystery.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10307'),
(6222, 'The Mark-2 Wife', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "It''s like gadgets in shops.You buy a gadget and you develop an affection for it... but all of a sudden there are newer and better gadgets in the shops.More up-to-date models."William Trevor has been acclaimed as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language, likened to Chekhov for his insights into human nature. These three tales of obsession, heartbreak, silent sorrow and the small tragedies of ordinary lives are profound, immaculate and beautiful.This book includes The Mark-2 Wife, The Time of Year and Cheating at Canasta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5495'),
(6223, 'Marked', 'Elisabeth Naughton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Theron, the leader of an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from the Underworld--and who also is the 200-year-old descendant of Hercules--must find the woman who, bearing a special mark, must be sacrificed to save his people, but when he finds her, he cannot bring himself to let her go. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(6224, 'The Marks of Cain', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him.Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them.Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees, to the mysterious castles of the SS, to the arid and frightening wastes of Namibia, Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture and contemporary science to create an unputdownable thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3248'),
(6225, 'Marley &amp; me: life and love with the world&#39;s worst dog', 'John Grogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and thewondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on guests, stole women''s undergarments, and ate nearly everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and fine jewelry. Obedience school did no goodâ€”Marley was expelled. Neither did the tranquilizers the veterinarian prescribed for him with the admonishment, "Don''t hesitate to use these." And yet Marley''s heart was pure. Just as he joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley shared the couple''s joy at their first pregnancy, and their heartbreak over the miscarriage. He was there when babies finally arrived and when the screams of a seventeen-year-old stabbing victim pierced the night. Marley shut down a public beach and managed to land a role in a feature-length movie, always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. Through it all, he remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit''s end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1732'),
(6226, 'Marmodesse', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10751');
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(6227, 'The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World', 'Holger H. Herwig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Chapter OneWar: "Now or Never"War is . . . an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.â€”carl von clausewitzSince i have been at the foreign office," arthur nicolson noted at Whitehall in May 1914, "I have not seen such calm waters."1 Europe had, in fact, refused to tear itself to pieces over troubles in faraway lands: Morocco in 1905-06 and in 1911; Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908-09; Libya in 1911-12; and the Balkans in 1912-13. The Anglo- German naval arms race had subsided, as had the fears about the Berlin- to-Baghdad Railway, since Berlin had run out of money for such gargantuan enterprises. Russia had overcome its war with Japan (1904-05), albeit at a heavy price in terms of men and ships lost and domestic discontent. Few desolate strips of African or Asian lands remained to be contested, and Berlin and London were preparing to negotiate a "settlement" of the Portuguese colonies. France and Germany had not been at war for forty-three years and Britain and Russia for fifty-eight.Partition of the Continent by 1907 into two nearly equal camps-the Triple Alliance of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy, and the Triple Entente of Britain, France, and Russia-seemed to militate against metropolitan Europe being dragged into petty wars on its periphery. Kurt Riezler, foreign-policy adviser to German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, cagily argued that given this model of great-power balance, future wars "would no longer be fought but calculated."2 Guns would no longer fire, "but have a voice in the negotiations." In other words, no power would risk escalating minor conflicts into a continental war; instead, each would "bluff" the adversary up the escalatory ladder, stopping just short of war in favor of diplomatic settlement. Peace seemed assured.Domestically, for most well-off and law-abiding Europeans, the period prior to 1914 was a golden age of prosperity and decency. The "red specter" of Socialism had lost much of its threat. Real wages had shot up almost 50 percent between 1890 and 1913. Trade unions had largely won the right to collective bargaining, if not to striking, and their leaders sat in parliaments. Many workers had embraced social imperialism, believing that overseas trade and naval building translated into high-paying jobs at home. Germany had paved the path toward social welfare with state-sponsored health insurance, accident insurance, and old-age pensions. Others followed. Women were on the march for the vote. To be sure, there was trouble over Ireland, but then official London hardly viewed Ireland as a European matter.Paris, as usual, was the exception. The capital had been seething with political excitement since January 1914, when Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, had launched a public campaign to discredit Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux-ostensibly over a new taxation bill.3 When Calmette published several letters from Caillaux''s personal correspondence, Henriette Caillaux became alarmed. First, that correspondence could make public her husband''s pacifist stance vis-Ã - vis Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911; second, she knew that it included love letters from her to Joseph that showed she had conducted an affair with him at a time when he was still married. The elegant Madame Caillaux took matters into her own hands: On 16 March she walked into Calmette''s office, drew a revolver from her muff, and shot the editor four times at point-blank range. Her trial on charges of murder dominated Paris in the summer of 1914. Two shots fired by a Serbian youth at Sarajevo on 28 June paled in comparison.Gavrilo Princip''s murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Habsburg throne, and his morganatic wife, Sophie Chotek, caused no immediate crisis in the major capitals. The dog days of summer were upon Europe. There ensued a mad rush to escape urban heat for cooler climes.4 French president Raymond PoincarÃ© and prime minister RenÃ© Viviani were preparing to board the battleship France for a leisurely cruise through the Baltic Sea to meet Tsar Nicholas II at St. Petersburg. Kaiser Franz Joseph took the waters at Bad Ischl. Wilhelm II was about to board the royal yacht Hohenzollern for his annual cruise of the Norwegian fjords. Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg was off to the family estate at Hohenfinow to play Beethoven on the grand piano and to read Plato (in the original Greek). Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow saw no need to curtail his honeymoon at Lucerne.Nor were military men much concerned. German chief of the General Staff Helmuth von Moltke struck out for Karlsbad, Bohemia, to meet his Austro-Hungarian counterpart, Franz Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf. War Minister Erich von Falkenhayn was off to vacation in the East Frisian Islands. Navy Secretary Alfred von Tirpitz left Berlin for St. Blasien, in the Black Forest. Habsburg war minister Alexander von Krobatin took the cure at Bad Gastein.Even the less prominent escaped the July heat. Sigmund and Martha Freud, like Moltke and Conrad, vacationed at Karlsbad. V. I. Lenin left Cracow to hike in the Tatra Mountains. Leon Trotsky took solace in a small apartment in the Vienna Woods. Adolf Hitler was back in Munich after a military court-martial at Salzburg had found the draft dodger unfit for military service ("too weak; incapable of bearing arms").5But had the exodus of European leaders been all that innocent? Or had some deeper design lain at its root? The first move in what is popularly called the July Crisis rested with Vienna. Few in power lamented the passing of Franz Ferdinand. He was too Catholic; he detested the Czechs, Magyars, and Poles within the empire; and he distrusted the ally in Rome. But the spilling of royal blood demanded an official response.for more than half a dozen years prior to 1914, Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf had pressed war on his government as the only solution to the perceived decline of the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire. Daily, the frail, thin, crew-cut chief of the General Staff had stood at his desk and drafted contingency war plans against "Austria''s congenital foes" Italy and Serbia as well as against Albania, Montenegro, and Russia, or against combinations of these states. Each year, he had submitted them to Kaiser Franz Joseph and to Foreign Minister Aloys Lexa Count Aehrenthal. And each year, these two had steadfastly refused to act.Why, then, was July 1914 different?6 Conrad saw the murders at Sarajevo as a Serbian declaration of war. He cared little about the high school lads who had carried out the plot and about the secret organization "Union or Death," or the "Black Hand," that had planned it; his real enemy was Belgrade. He was determined not to let the last opportunity pass by "to settle accounts" with Serbia. He was haunted by the empire''s failure to use the annexationist crisis over Bosnia- Herzegovina in 1908-09 to crush Serbian annexationist aspirations. There was also a personal motive: He informed his mistress Virginie "Gina" von Reininghaus that he was anxious to return from a war "crowned with success" so that he could "claim" her "as my dearest wife." Honor was at stake as well. While the war might be a "hopeless struggle" against overwhelming odds, Conrad informed Gina on the day of the Sarajevo killings, it had to be fought "because such an ancient monarchy and such an ancient army cannot perish ingloriously."7 In a nutshell, Conrad''s position in July 1914, in the words of the new foreign minister, Leopold Count Berchtold, was simply: "War, war, war."8By 1914, Franz Joseph shared Conrad''s "war at any price" mind-set. Serbian arrogance had to be rooted out, by force if necessary. The kaiser was plagued by nightmares-of Solferino, where in 1859 he had led Austrian armies to defeat at the hands of France and Piedmont- Sardinia; and of KÃ¶niggrÃ¤tz, where in 1866 his forces had been routed by those of King Wilhelm I of Prussia. Thus in July 1914, Franz Joseph was prepared to draw the sword. Honor demanded no less. "If we must go under," he confided to Conrad, "we better go under decently."9That left the foreign minister. In the past, Berchtold, like Aehrenthal, had resisted Conrad''s demands for war. But diplomacy had brought no security. Thus, Berchtold, emboldened by the hard-line stance of a small cohort of hawks at the Foreign Office, endorsed military measures. Just two days after the Sarajevo murders, he spoke of the need for a "final and fundamental reckoning" with Serbia.10 And he worked out a set of assumptions to underpin his decision: Early and decisive action by Berlin would deter possible Russian intervention and "localize" the war in the Balkans.But would Berlin play the role of gallant second? During past Balkan crises, Wilhelm II and his advisers had refused to back Habsburg initiatives with military force. Would July 1914 confirm that pattern? Berchtold, knowing that he needed diplomatic and military backing from Berlin, on 4 July dispatched Alexander Count Hoyos, his chef de cabinet, to sound out what the German position would be in the event that Vienna took actions to "eliminate" Serbia as a "political power factor in the Balkans."11 It was a clever move, given the kaiser''s well-known propensity for personal diplomacy. In meetings the next two days with Wilhelm II, Bethmann Hollweg, Falkenhayn, and Undersecretary of the Foreign Office Arthur Zimmermann, Hoyos and Habsburg ambassador LÃ¡szlÃ³ Count SzÃ¶gyÃ©ny-Marich obtained promises of "full German backing" for whatever action Vienna took against Belgrade. There was no time to lose. "The present situation," the kaiser noted, "is so favorable to us." Diplomats and soldiers "considered the question of Russian intervention and accepted the risk of a general war."12 Austria-Hungary could count on "Germany''s full support" even if "serious European complications"-war-resulted. And in the apparent interest of "localizing the war" in the Balkans, Berlin was ready to point to the soon-to-be-vacationing Wilhelm II, Moltke, and Falkenhayn as "evidence" that Germany would be "as surprised as the other powers" by any aggressive Austro-Hungarian action against Serbia.13Having obtained what is often referred to as a blank check from Germany, Austria-Hungary was free to plot its actions. On 7 July, Berchtold convened a Common Council of Ministers at Vienna and apprised those present of Berlin''s staunch support, "even though our operations against Serbia should bring about the great war."14 War Minister von Krobatin favored war "now better than later." Austrian premier Karl Count StÃ¼rgkh demanded "a military reckoning with Serbia." Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf as always was set on war. Only Hungarian premier IstvÃ¡n Tisza demurred. He desired no more Slavic subjects, given that his Magyars were already a minority within their half of the empire. And he feared that an attack on Serbia would bring on "the dreadful calamity of a European war." But within a week he joined the majority view-on condition that Belgrade be handed a stringent ultimatum that would allow Habsburg officials to enter Serbia to hunt down the assassins.The final decision for war was made at a special Common Council of Ministers convened at Berchtold''s residence on 19 July. It was quickly decided to hand the ultimatum, carefully crafted by the foreign minister''s staff to assure rejection, to Belgrade on 23 July and to demand acceptance within forty-eight hours. The day after the Common Council, Berchtold advised Conrad and Krobatin to begin their planned summer holidays "to preserve the appearance that nothing is being planned."15 Tisza''s countryman IstvÃ¡n Count BuriÃ¡n laconically noted: "The wheel of history rolls."16 Serbia rejected the ultimatum on 25 July. Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Britain''s envoy to Vienna, informed Whitehall: "Vienna bursts into a frenzy of delight, vast crowds parading the streets and singing patriotic songs till the small hours of the morning."17Berchtold visited Franz Joseph at Bad Ischl. He informed the kaiser that Serbian gunboats had fired on Habsburg troops near Temes-Kubin (Kovin). It was a lie, but it served its purpose. "Hollow eyed," the aged Franz Joseph signed the order for mobilization. His only recorded comment, delivered "in a muffled, choked voice," was "Also, doch!" ("So, after all!") Was it said in conviction? Or in relief? The next day, mobilization began and civil liberties were suspended. Vienna, in the words of historian Samuel R. Williamson Jr., "clearly initiated the violence in July 1914" and "plunged Europe into war."18 It had set the tempo, defined the moves, and closed off all other options. In doing so, it was motivated by fear-of Pan-Slavic nationalism, of losing the military advantage to Serbia (and Russia), and of forfeiting Germany''s promised support.why war in 1914? Why had Germany not drawn the sword during crises in 1905, 1908, 1911, 1912, or 1913? What made 1914 different? The answer lies in the seriousness of the Austro-Hungarian request for backing and in the changed mind-set at Berlin. First, a few myths need to be dispelled. Germany did not go to war in 1914 as part of a "grab for world power" as historian Fritz Fischer19 argued in 1961, but rather to defend (and expand) the borders of 1871. Second, the decision for war was made in late July 1914 and not at a much-publicized "war council" at Potsdam on 8 December 1912.20 Third, no one planned for a European war before 1914; the absence of financial or economic blueprints for such an eventuality speaks for itself. And Germany did not go to war with plans for continental hegemony; its infamous shopping list of war aims was not drawn up by Bethmann Hollweg21 until 9 September, when French and German forces had squared off for their titanic encounter at the Marne River.This having been said, Berlin issued Vienna the famous blank check on 5 July. Why? Neither treaty obligations nor military algebra demanded this offer. But civilian as well as military planners were dominated by a strike-now-better-than-later mentality. Time seemed to be running against them. Russia was launching its Big Program of rearmament, scheduled to be completed by 1917. Could one wait until then? Wilhelm II mused on the eve of the Sarajevo murders.22 The Anglo-French- Russian Entente Cordiale encircled Germany with what it perceived to be an iron ring of enemies. More, there circulated in public and official circles dire prognostications of what Bethmann Hollweg summarized for the Reichstag in April 1913 as the "inevitable struggle" between Slavs and Teutons-what historian Wolfgang J. Mommsen called the classical rhetoric of "inevitable war."23On 3 July, when Ambassador Heinrich von Tschirschky cabledVienna''s decision to avenge the Sarajevo killings, Wilhelm II noted "now or never" on the report.24 Three days later, the kaiser promised Austria-Hungary "Germany''s full support" even if "serious European complications" resulted from this-and advised Vienna not to "delay the action" against Belgrade. Pilloried in the press for having been too "timid" and for having postured like a "valiant chicken" during past crises, Wilhelm on 6 July three times assured his dinner guest, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, that this time he would not "cave in."From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1546'),
(6228, 'Marooned in Realtime', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity''s fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it''s obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It''s up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge''s tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10147'),
(6229, 'The Marrowbone Marble Company', 'Glenn Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart*, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression, faith and deception, over the course of three defining american decades. 1941. Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss''s daughter, a company nurse with spike-straight posture and coal-black hair. But when Pearl Harbor is attacked, Ledford, like so many young men of his time, sets his life on a new course. Upon his return from service in the war, Ledford starts a family with Rachel, but he chafes under the authority at Mann Glass. He is a lost man, disconnected from the present and haunted by his violent past, until he meets his cousins, the Bonecutter brothers. Their land, mysterious, elemental Marrowbone Cut, calls to Ledford, and it is there, with help from an unlikely bunch, that the Marrowbone Marble Company is slowly forged. Over the next two decades, the factory grounds become a vanguard of the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, a home for those intent on change. Such a home inevitably invites trouble, and Ledford must fight for his family. Returning to the West Virginia territory of the critically acclaimed *The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart*, Glenn Taylor recounts the transformative journey of a man and his community. Told in clean and powerful prose in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and John Irving, *The Marrowbone Marble Company* takes a harrowing look at the issues of race and class throughout the tumultuous 1950s and ''60s. It is a story of struggle and loss, righteousness and redemption, and it can only be found in the hills of Marrowbone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(6230, 'Marrying Mozart', 'Stephanie Cowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musicalâ€”until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowellâ€™s richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figureâ€”and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3259'),
(6231, 'Marrying the Playboy Doctor', 'Laura Iding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From playboy doctor to dad Moving to the small town of Cedar Bluff is a fresh start for paramedic Kylie Germaine and her young son Ben. She-ll forget the past to focus on her job - and raising Ben. But gorgeous emergency doctor Seth Taylor has other ideas- Seth appreciates beautiful women, and he can-t wait to get to know his new colleague better! He soon discovers that, as a single mum, her priorities lie elsewhere. But for the first time Seth-s smitten - and Cedar Bluff-s most eligible bachelor finds himself wanting to put a ring on Kylie-s finger and become a father to her little boy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3116'),
(6232, 'Mars', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty-five astronauts of the international Mars mission set down on the harsh and unforgiving planet and soon face deadly meteor showers, subzero temperatures, and a mysterious virus. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(6233, 'The Martian Chronicles', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Martian Chronicles**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America''s most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes;* essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; *The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country,* and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth''s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bradbury''s Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered *by* it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ray Bradbury''s *The Martian Chronicles* is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time''s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3849'),
(6234, 'Martian Time Slip', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker''s union--suspect that Manfred''s disorderÂ Â may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3727'),
(6235, 'The Martian Way and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov''s ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9506'),
(6236, 'Martin Eden', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Martin Eden, written by legendary author Jack London is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Martin Eden is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Jack London is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, Martin Eden would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone''s personal library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2203'),
(6237, 'Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Speeches: &quot;Beyond Vietnam&quot;', 'Martin Luther King, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2476'),
(6238, 'Martyr', 'Rory Clements', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England''s most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England''s most famous sea w\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3641'),
(6239, 'The Marvelous Land of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Marvelous Land of Oz, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum''s books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is the only book in the series in which Dorothy Gale does not appear. This and the next 34 Oz books of the famous forty were illustrated by John R. Neill. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Author** Lyman Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children''s literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, into a devout Methodist family of German (father''s side) and Scots-Irish (mother''s side) origin, the fifth of six children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only three of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father''s brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Publisher** Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mytholo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3168'),
(6240, 'The Marx Sisters: A Kathy Kolla and David Brock Mystery', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kathy Kolla''s first case is one for the books. Something isn''t quite right about the death of Meredith Winterbottom, an elderly woman who was living with her two sisters. The sistersâ€”who happen to be the great-granddaughters of Karl Marxâ€”reside in a charming Dickensian section of London called Jerusalem Lane, surrounded by a collection of old books and odd neighborsâ€”mainly refugees who fled war-torn Central Europe during the tumultuous 1930s.The case initially appears to be routine. While her superiors see it as merely a test of her relatively green investigative skills, Kathy senses an opportunity to prove her mettle. She''s surprised when Detective Chief Inspector David Brock unexpectedly joins her examination of what had been an unexciting "suspicious death." But the motives for murder proliferate. Was the septuagenarian Winterbottom "liquidated" by a property developer hoping to gentrify the area? Or have some of the ghosts of the World War I remained unexorcised, leaving neighbors who aren''t so neighborly? Would a scholar of Marxiania kill for Meredith''s collection of unpublished Marx correspondence? Or did her unhappily married son wish to receive his inheritance sooner rather than later? And what exactly is Brock investigating: Winterbottom''s death or Kathy herself?When a second Marx sister is found slain, Kathy and Brock delve even deeper into the Lane''s eccentric melting pot and hidden past. They uncover clues pointing to an unsuspected fourth volume of Das Kapital, a laundry list of suspects, and a plan to make Kathy history. Tightly plotted, The Marx Sisters bristles with the intelligence and nuance of a modem British who-dun-it and adds an unforgettable team to the ranks of great fictional detectivesâ€”Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(6241, 'Mary and O&#39;Neil', 'Justin Cronin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mary and Oâ€™Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where theyâ€™d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again? Justin Croninâ€™s poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and Oâ€™Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in stories illuminates the moments of grace that enable Mary and Oâ€™Neil to make peace with the deep emotional legacies that haunt them: the sudden, mysterious death of Oâ€™Neilâ€™s parents, Maryâ€™s long-ago decision to end a pregnancy, Oâ€™Neilâ€™s sisterâ€™s battle with illness and a troubled marriage. Alive with magical nuance and unexpected encounters, Mary and Oâ€™Neil celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2662'),
(6242, 'Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel', 'Armistead Maupin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  In the sure-to-please follow-up to Michael Tolliver Lives, the bestselling Tales of the City reboot, it''s been 20 years since series anchor Mary Ann Singleton left her family and headed to New York. Maupin''s San Francisco is comforting in its familiarity, and the gang is (mostly) all here, older, wiser, and settled in: Michael "Mouse" Tolliver is married to Ben; Shawna, Mary Ann''s estranged daughter, is a popular sex blogger who is dating Otto, an enigmatic professional clown; and grand dame Anna Madrigal, once landlady to Michael and Mary Ann, is still kicking in her late 80s. Into this milieu returns Mary Ann, who ditched her husband and the young Shawna for a career in television. Now, nearing 60, she''s back with news she can''t bear to tell anyone but Michael. From the haven of his tiny garden cottage, Mary Ann regroups and confronts some uncomfortable chapters in her past. As ever, Maupin''s edgy wit energizes the layered story lines. His keen eye for irony and human foible is balanced by an innate compassion in this examination of the life of a woman of a certain age.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  â€œSure-to-please...Maupinâ€™s edgy wit energizes the layered story lines. His keen eye for irony and human foible is balanced by an innate compassion in this examination of the life of a woman of a certain age.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œEven more satisfying than Michael Tolliver Lives, [Mary Ann in Autumn] is a juicy, twisty tale thatâ€™s of the moment (Facebook plays an essential role) as it takes us back to the heady days of our beloved San Francisco fantasyland.â€ (Modern Tonic )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œThis novel shows the beloved characters of Barbary Lane approaching middle age and beyond with grace and thoughtfulness. . . . The charm of the Tales has not waned. . . . A must for fans, but new readers will find it an accessible entry point.â€ (Library Journal )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œThe graying of the Tales of the City cast wonâ€™t sadden readers. This affectionate novel, with its carefully unfolding story line (and perfect ending), will work its warmth and charm.â€ (Booklist )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œYou donâ€™t review a new installment of Armistead Maupinâ€™s Tales of the City seriesâ€”you rejoice in it...[These] are not fictional characters but dear friends and soul mates, as permanently a part of this townâ€™s heart as cable cars, the Folsom Street Fair, and Maupin himself...â€ (San Francisco magazine )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œMaupinâ€™s chronicle of interconnected lives and tangled personal relations is as engaging and warmhearted as ever.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4827'),
(6243, 'Mary Anne Saves The Day', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9711'),
(6244, 'Mary Anne vs. Logan', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9701'),
(6245, 'Mary Anne,Camp BSC', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9739'),
(6246, 'Mary Anne,the Search for Tigger', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9730'),
(6247, 'Mary Anne,The Secret In The Attic', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9744'),
(6248, 'Mary Anne,The Zoo Mystery', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9687'),
(6249, 'Mary Anne,Too Many Babies', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9757'),
(6250, 'Mary Anne,Too Many Boys', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9689'),
(6251, 'Mary Anne&#39;s Book', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9679'),
(6252, 'Mary Anne&#39;s Makeover', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9722'),
(6253, 'Mary Barton', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGaskellâ€™s shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Sunday Telegraph_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10636'),
(6254, 'Mary Russell 03 - A Letter of Mary', 'King, Laurie R', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9304'),
(6255, 'Mary Russell 04 - The Moor', 'King, Laurie R', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9303'),
(6256, 'Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen', 'Anna Whitelock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britainâ€™s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname â€œBloody Mary.â€ Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock offers a modern perspective on Mary Tudor and sets the record straight once and for all on one of historyâ€™s most compelling and maligned rulers.Â Â Â  Though often overshadowed by her long-reigning sister, Elizabeth I, Mary lived a life full of defiance, despair, and triumph. Born the daughter of the notorious King Henry VIII and the Spanish Katherine of Aragon, young Mary was a princess in every sense of the wordâ€”schooled in regal customs, educated by the best scholars, coveted by European royalty, and betrothed before she had reached the age of three. Yet in a decadeâ€™s time, in the wake of King Henryâ€™s break with the pope, she was declared a bastard, disinherited, and demoted from â€œprincessâ€ to â€œlady.â€ Ever her deeply devout motherâ€™s daughter, Mary refused to accept her new status or to recognize Henryâ€™s new wife, Anne Boleyn, as queen. The fallout with her father and his counselors nearly destroyed the teenage Mary, who faced imprisonment and even death.Â It would be an outright battle for Mary to work herself back into the kingâ€™s favor, claim her rightful place in the Tudor line, and ultimately become queen of England, but her coronation would not end her struggles. She flouted the opposition and married Philip of Spain, sought to restore Catholicism to the nation, and fiercely punished the resistance. But beneath her brave and regal exterior was a dependent woman prone to anxiety, whose private traumas of phantom pregnancies, debilitating illnesses, and unrequited love played out in the public glare of the fickle court.Â Â Â Â  Anna Whitelock, an acclaimed young British historian, chronicles this unique womanâ€™s life from her beginnings as a heralded princess to her rivalry with her sister to her ascent as ruler. In brilliant detail, Whitelock reveals that Mary Tudor was not the weak-willed failure as so often rendered by traditional narratives but a complex figure of immense courage, determination, and humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8728'),
(6257, 'Mary, Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the eleventh book in the Alex Cross series Somebody is intent on murdering Hollywood''s A-list. A well-known actress has been shot outside her Beverly Hills home. Shortly afterwards, the Los Angeles Times receives an email describing the murder in vivid detail. It is signed Mary Smith. More killings and emails follow '' the victims are all major Hollywood players. Is it the work of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something far more terrifying? As the case grows to blockbuster proportions, Washington, DC, FBI agent Alex Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send another chilling update. Filled with the ruthless and shocking twists that make his fans hunger for more, MARY, MARY is James Patterson''s most sophisticated thriller yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2023'),
(6258, 'The Mask', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Thunder and Hideaway. She appeared out of nowhere. And Paul and Carol were drawn to her immediately--the child they had never had. It was a dream come true--until the young girl''s mask fell away to reveal the face of terrifying evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1429'),
(6259, 'Masked', 'Lou Anders', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **WELCOME TO THE SECOND â€œGOLDEN AGEâ€ OF SUPERHEROES AND HEROINES **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Superheroes have come a long way since the â€œMan of Steelâ€ was introduced in 1938. This brilliant new collection features original stories and novellas from some of todayâ€™s most exciting voices in comics, science fiction, and fantasy. Each marvelously inventive tale shows us just how far our classic crusaders have evolvedâ€”and how the greatest of heroes are, much like ourselves, all too human.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In â€œCall Her Savage,â€ **MARJORIE M. LIU **enters the dark heart of a fierce mythic heroine who is forced, by war, to live up to her own terrible legend.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In â€œA to Z in the Ultimate Big Company Superhero Universe (Villains Too),â€ **BILL WILLINGHAM **presents a fully-realized vision of a universe where epic feats and tragic flaws have transformed the human race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In â€œVacuum Lad,â€ **STEPHEN BAXTER **unveils the secret origins of the first true child of the space ageâ€”and disproves the theory that â€œnothing exists in a vacuum.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In â€œHead Cases,â€ **PETER DAVID **and **KATHLEEN DAVID **blast through the blogosphere to expose the secret longings of a Lonely Superhero Wife.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In â€œThe Non-Event,â€ **MIKE CAREY **removes the gag order on a super-thief named Lockjaw . . . and pries out a confession of life-altering events.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also includes stories by Mike Baron â€¢ Mark Chadbourn â€¢ Paul Cornell â€¢ Daryl Gregory â€¢ Joseph Mallozzi â€¢ James Maxey â€¢ Ian McDonald â€¢ Chris Roberson â€¢ Gail Simone â€¢ Matthew Sturges . . . and an introduction by Lou Anders, â€œone of the brightest and best of the new generation of science fiction editorsâ€ (Jonathan Strahan, *The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year*).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7716'),
(6260, 'The Masked Man', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n His face was concealed by a mask...yet piercing blue eyes inexorably drew Jill Lawson into his arms. What came over her, she''d never know -- but a case of mistaken identity landed her in more than a little hot water, because now she was being framed for murder. Not to mention she''d made mad, passionate love with a stranger! Trying to establish her innocence proved a lot harder than Jill imagined, especially when she was so distracted by the memory of the mystery man''s kisses -- kisses that were suspiciously similar to investigator Mac Cooper''s. But was Mac set up, just as Jill was? In a race against time and a cunning adversary, could Mac and Jill unmask the real killer before it was too late...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(6261, 'Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts the Ankh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice. Perdita''s expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it''s an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks. Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it''s difficult -- and often hazardous -- to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they''ve seen Ankh-Morpork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3400'),
(6262, 'Masks', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Enterprise journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. There, Captain Picard and an away team begin a quest for the planet''s ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission: establish diplomatic relations. But Picard and his party lose contact with the ship, and Commander Riker leads a search party down to the planet to find them. Both men are unaware that their searchs are part of a madman''s plan. A madman who is setting a trap that will ensnare both landing parties, and leave him poised to seize control of the awesome Wisdom Mask... And the planet Lorca itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7249'),
(6263, 'Mason &amp; Dixon', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country''s most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors,\n <em>\n  Mason &amp; Dixon\n </em>\n is Thomas Pynchon''s Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon''s personality in the novel''s first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer''s masterpiece Gravity''s Rainbow.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publication of Pynchon''s fifth novel is certain to be a highlight of the literary year. To try and summarize it would be an exercise in futility. Like his previous works, this one is complex?much more than a simple, rollicking tale of 18th-century surveyors as they wend their way south (to the Cape of Good Hope) and west (to America, where they drew the line for which they will ever be famous?the boundary that came to define North and South). Indeed, it is this line, this artificial border, that lies at the heart of the novel. When Mason confides to Captain Zhang that the unremitting forest disturbs him, his exotic companion replies that given that Adam and Eve, Buddha and Newton were all enlightened while sitting beneath trees, "A quick review would suggest that Trees produce Enlightenment. Trees are not the Problem. The Forest is not an Agent of Darkness. But it may be your Visto [line] is. ...Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a line." This belief in the danger of artificial boundaries?be they political, literary, or philosophical?is reflected in the very structure of Pynchon''s novels, in his efforts not to let "rules" get in the way of what it is he is trying to say. His novel is often poetic, sometimes tedious, and occasionally arcane. The digressions may temporarily confuse, but the humor is sure to amuse (even Star Trek gets a nod). More accessible than Gravity''s Rainbow, this is still not a novel to be read quickly. It is a work that grows on one, and as the reader follows from tree to tree, a forest truly does begin to emerge?with an important message for our "scientific" age. From one of the most unique, thoughtful, and challenging of contemporary authors, a work that is essential for every public and academic library.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10363');
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(6264, 'The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like all of V. S. Naipaulâ€™s â€œtravelâ€ books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.From V. S. Naipaul:For my travel books I travel on a theme. And the theme of The Masque of Africa is African belief. I begin in Uganda, at the center of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa. My theme is belief, not political or economical life; and yet at the bottom of the continent the political realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account.Perhaps an unspoken aspect of my inquiry was the possibility of the subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world. The theme held until I got to the South, when the clash of the two ways of thinking and believing became far too one-sided. The skyscrapers of Johannesburg didnâ€™t rest on sand. The older world of magic felt fragile, but at the same time had an enduring quality. You felt that they would survive any calamity.I had expected that over the great size of Africa the practices of magic would significantly vary. But they didnâ€™t. The diviners everywhere wanted to â€œthrow the bones,â€ to read the future and the idea of â€œenergyâ€ remained a constant, to be tapped into by the ritual sacrifice of body parts. In South Africa body parts, mainly of animals, but also of men and women, made a mixture of â€œbattle medicine.â€ To witness this, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things.To reach that beginning was the purpose of my book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6259'),
(6265, 'The Masqueraders', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I love the characters of this novel over anything else. (Katrina Hall\n <em>\n  Bloody Bad Books\n </em>\n 20100203)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer! You are a fount of easy, fabulous reads! (Raych\n <em>\n  Books I Done Read\n </em>\n 20100208)\n</p>\n<p>\n A delightful romp from beginning to end. (_Jane Austen''s World_ 20100208)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sword fighting, cross dressing, secret identities, abductions, people being thrown out of carriages - this book had it all. Good, good fun! (Christy Babinksi\n <em>\n  Christy''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20100210)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer is a comedy master... Funny yet plausible at the same time. (Grace Loiacono\n <em>\n  Books Like Breathing\n </em>\n 20100210)\n</p>\n<p>\n A fun escape. (Gaby Lupus\n <em>\n  Starting Fresh\n </em>\n 20100210)\n</p>\n<p>\n Witty, sparkling, laugh-out-loud funny and romantic. (Jaime Huff\n <em>\n  Revenge of the Book Nerds\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A fun tale of adventurers that is filled with romance, disguises, swash buckling duels, and highwaymen. (Laura Gerold\n <em>\n  Laura''s Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer is quite the proficient when it comes to historical fiction and romantic romps. (Meredith Esparza\n <em>\n  Austenesque Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot twists are great fun and the story is full of action. (Martha Eskuchen\n <em>\n  Martha''s Bookshelf\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"A treasure beyond price. The Masqueraders is a wicked delight, worth more than its weight in gold."\n <br />\n â€”Anne Stuart_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Such a daring escape...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Their infamous adventurer father has taught Prudence Tremaine and her brother Robin to be masters of disguise. Ending up on the wrong side of the Jacobite rebellion, brother and sister flee to London, Prudence pretending to be a dashing young buck, and Robin a lovely young lady.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Could cost them both their hearts...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Prudence meets the elegant Sir Anthony Fanshawe, and Robin becomes the mysterious hero of the charming Letitia Grayson, and in order to have what they truly want, the two masqueraders must find a way to unmask themselves without losing their lives...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "What with elopements, rescues, duels, and cards, the story goes excitingly; and finally the magnificent but dubious father proves himself a Viscount. It is a picturesque and engaging story."\n <br />\n â€”THE SPECTATOR\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."\n <br />\n Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."\n <br />\n Katie Fforde\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  WHAT READERS SAY:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heyer manages to make us believe in this entertaining masquerade of the siblings posing each as a member of the opposite sex. Very true to the period indeed. Strongly recommended."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Such a great book-the ultimate romantic, swashbuckling, identity-swapping fantasy."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read for Heyer fans."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anyone who loves Shakespeare''s Viola (and who thinks Shakespeare didn''t give her enough to do in Twelfth Night) will enjoy Georgette Heyer''s heroine Prudence."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wore the cover out on this one almost forty years ago. Believe me, Ms Heyer stands the test of time!"\n</p>\n<p>\n (20100128)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10218'),
(6266, 'Masques', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. Her latest mission involves spying on the increasingly powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae''Magi. But in a war against an enemy armed with the powers of illusion, how do you know who the true enemy is-or where he will strike next?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Briggs is the author of the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. She lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5920'),
(6267, 'Mass Casualties: A Young Medic&#39;s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq', 'Michael Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the Introduction: ""Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can''t stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there."It was Week 7 of Basic Training . . . 18 years old and I was preparing myself to die."They say the Army makes a man out of you--but for 18-year-old SPC Michael Anthony, that fabled rite of passage proved a very dark journey. After soliciting his parents'' approval to enlist at only 17, Anthony began his journey with an unshakeable faith in the military born of his family''s long tradition of service. But when thrust into a medical unit of misfits as lost as he was, SPC Anthony not only witnessed the unspeakable horror of war--but the undeniable misconduct of the military--firsthand. Everything he ever believed in dissolved, forcing Anthony to rethink his loyalties, and ultimately risk his career--and his freedom--to challenge the military he had so firmly believed in.This searing memoir chronicles the iconic experiences that changed one young soldier forever. A seasoned veteran before the age of twenty-one, he faced the truth about the war--and himself--in this shocking and unprecedented eyewitness account.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2974'),
(6268, 'Massie', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After Massie Block gets kicked off her high horse and out of her ultra exclusive Westchester riding camp, her parents force her to do the unthinkable-find a summer job. Not one for dog-walking or brat-sitting, Massie comes up with the ah-bvious solution: She''ll be a sales rep for the cosmetics brand Be Pretty. Massie fully hearts her new role as fairy gawdmother of makeup-until she discovers transforming LBRs into glam-girls takes more than a swish of her royal purple mascara wand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2212'),
(6269, 'Master and Commander', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Aubrey-Maturin - book 1'' Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O''Brian''s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship''s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O''Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O''Brian''s portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as ''the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell''s A Dance to the Music of Time''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4297'),
(6270, 'The Master and Margarita', 'Mikhail Bulgakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov''s works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book''s chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey''s cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz''s apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch''s Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection. Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland''s visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors'' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate''s story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov''s novel: as a manuscript read by the Master''s indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master''s novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?" Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov''s masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3107'),
(6271, 'Master Georgie', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beryl Bainbridge seems drawn to disaster. First she tackled the unfortunate Scott expedition to the South Pole in The Birthday Boys; later (but emphatically pre-DiCaprio) came the sinking of the Titanic, in Every Man for Himself. Now, in her 3rd historical novel (and her 16th overall), she takes on the Crimean War, and the result is a slim, gripping volume with all of the doomed intensity of the Light Brigade''s charge--but, thankfully, without the Tennysonian bombast. "Some pictures," a character confides, "would only cause alarm to ordinary folk." There''s a warning concealed here, and one that easily disturbed readers would do well to heed: Master Georgie is intense, disturbing, revelatory--and not always pretty to look at. Bainbridge''s narrative circles round the enigmatic figure of George Hardy, a surgeon, amateur photographer, alcoholic, and repressed homosexual who counters the dissipation of his prosperous Liverpool life by heading for the Crimean Peninsula in 1854. His journey and subsequent tour of duty are told in three very different voices: Myrtle, an orphan whose lifelong loyalty to her "Master Georgie" becomes an overriding obsession; Pompey Jones, street urchin, fire-eater, photographer, and George''s sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, George''s scholarly brother-in-law, whose retreat from the war''s carnage and into books takes on a tinge of madness. United by a sudden death in a Liverpool brothel in 1846, these characters plumb the curious workings of love, war, class, and fate. In between, Bainbridge frames an unforgettable series of tableaux morts: a dying soldier, one lens of his glasses "fractured into a spider''s web"; a decapitated leg, toes "poking through the shreds of a cavalry boot"; two dead men "on their knees, facing one another, propped up by the pat-a-cake thrust of their hands." Glimpsed as if sidewise and then passed over in language that is as understated as it is lovely, these are images that sear into the brain. Master Georgie is full of such moments, horrors painted with an exquisite brush. --Mary Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1379'),
(6272, 'The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter&#39;s Tale ... With ... Illustrations by W. Hole ... Eighteenth Thousand.', 'Professor Robert Louis Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Title: The Master of Ballantrae. A winter''s tale ... With ... illustrations by W. Hole ... Eighteenth thousand.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world''s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION &amp; PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century''s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Stevenson, Robert Louis; 1897. vi. 332 p.; 8 . 12618.ccc.24.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9429'),
(6273, 'The Master of Barracuda Isle', 'Hilary Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was with the best and kindest of intentions that Jan was here on Barracuda Island, off Australia''s Great Barrier Reef, posing as her sister Felicity. She wanted to help Felicity and her boyfriend Jarvis against opposition to their marriage from Jarvis''s guardian, his arrogant, intolerant uncle Ludovic Fairlie, who decreed Jarvis was too young to marry. Although at first Jan told herself she hated Ludovic, it was not long before she was feeling rather differently, so what could she do, now that he had apparently changed his mind and was making enthusiastic plans for her marriage to his nephew?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1940'),
(6274, 'The Master of Rain', 'Tom Bradby; Adam Mansbach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by his past and recently appointed to the international police. Heâ€™s not there long before called to the flat of a Russian prostitute, former daughter of privilege found sadistically murdered, handcuffed to her bed. When he discovers among her possessions a cryptic shipping log, he senses that this murder is more than a random crime of perverse passion. What unfolds is a searing story that propels Field into a confrontation with the cityâ€™s most ruthless and powerful gangster, and a dangerous attraction to another salacious Russian whose sordid connections seem destined to make her the next victim. Scintillating and subtle,The Master of Rainis a marvelous debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3908'),
(6275, 'Master of the Crossroads', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1995 Madison Smartt Bell published __, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti''s 18th-century slave rebellion. Now he continues the saga with\n <em>\n  Master of the Crossroads\n </em>\n , the second volume of a projected trilogy. Even in his earlier narratives of contemporary America, the author has always been attuned to the byzantine politics of color. But by focusing on the figure of Toussaint Louverture--the black general who led the Haitians to independence only to be jailed for treason against the French Republic--Bell allows the politics of race to point him in unexpected and rewarding narrative directions. This is a big, muscular book, which derives much of its strength from the author''s willingness to paint his tumultuous political and physical landscapes with broadly sweeping strokes. But it is also a work of surprising delicacy, whose finely drawn characters come to life with the minutest gesture or softly whispered word.\n</p>\n<p>\n The crossroads herein are not merely literal but metaphorical. Yes, the former slaves and their courageous leader are pinned down in the island''s remote interior, caught between the English forces and the Spanish army (their nominal yet treacherous ally). But more to the point, Haiti''s intricate progress from slavery to freedom brings each of the characters to a crucial, defining moment of energy or introspection. And finally, swirling through the book like an island mist, is the voodoo figure of MÃ¢it'' Kalfou, or the "Master of the Crossroads." Straddling the worlds of the dead and the living, this ecstatic spirit may at any time inhabit the body of a believer:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Between Legba and Kalfou the crossroads stood open now, and now Guiaou could feel that opened pathway rushing up his spine--passage from the Island Below Sea inhabited by\n  <em>\n   les Morts et les MystÃ¨res\n  </em>\n  . His hips melted into the movement of the drums, and the tails of the red coat swirled around his legs like feathers of a bird. With the other dancers he closed the small, tight circle around Legba and Kalfou, who faced each other as in a mirror: the shining surface of the waters, which divides the living from the dead.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Throughout, Bell''s captivating vision of the battlefield bears witness to his rigorous research. Still, the voodoo celebrations, and the author''s sly evocation of their unexpected resonance, remain the novel''s strongest moments. Why? They speak, perhaps, to the apocalyptic nature of the Haitian rebellion. And more intriguingly, they permit Bell to play with the deceptive nature of belief and reality--a move that, in an avowedly historical novel, hints at the ironic fluidity of history itself.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bell manages the bravura feat of bringing coherence and novelistic focus to the intrinsically complex history of Haiti''s national liberator in this second installment in his brutal, sweeping trilogy. The first volume, All Souls'' Rising, a National Book Award finalist, took the slave revolt in Haiti up to 1793, when the great leader Toussaint Louverture was consolidating power. Continuing his stunning historical fresco, Bell traces the intricate weave of Toussaint''s campaigns with an intelligence and verve reminiscent of Shelby Foote''s classic military histories, braiding his rich character studies into the larger scheme. Racial classification was a science in Haiti in the 18th century, and the subtlest variations in skin color determined the treatment each person received. Riau, Toussaint''s godson, is an ex-slave. For him, the desire of the white planters to reintroduce slavery, and their fundamental racism, is evident, but Riau''s hatred doesn''t vitiate his humanity. Riau does trust Toussaint''s secretary, a white doctor, Antoine H bert. A subplot running like a silver thread in the shadow of the war is H bert''s quest for his mulatto mistress, Nanon, after she runs away from H bert''s plantation with Choufleur, a sadistic mulatto planter and Nanon''s former lover, who exploits the psychodynamics of slavery in a frightening erotic context. The faltering planter aristocracy is represented by Michel Arnaud, who returns to the island although his house and lands were torched in the first phase of the revolt. Arnaud''s past is one of murderous cruelty. Now, he is slowly rehabilitating himself, thanks to Claudine, his wife, who suffers from possession by the darkest Vodou spirit, Baron Samedi. Bell continually integrates his history with the sacred Vodou landscape, and as events channel between crossroads, trances, dreams and bloodshed, this mesmerizing, disturbing saga of a half-forgotten war takes on the ominous outlines and biblical proportions of a prophetic vision. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7336'),
(6276, 'Master of the Hashomi', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1925'),
(6277, 'The MasterHarper of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10831'),
(6278, 'Mastering the Grill: The Owner&#39;s Manual for Outdoor Cooking', 'Andrew Schloss &amp; David Joachim &amp; Alison Miksch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grilling is a science, and it''s only when you understand the science of grilling that you can transform it into an art. That''s what makes\n <em>\n  Mastering the Grill\n </em>\n a standout on the cookbook shelf. From equipment (grill types and tools) to fire (wood, charcoal, or gas) to ingredients (meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables), the authors have shared their impressive grilling know-how to explain the whys and the hows and guarantee the wows clearly and comprehensively. In addition to hundreds of tips and techniques, this ultimate guide is packed with how-to illustrations and mouthwatering photographs plus 350 surefire recipes everything from rubs and marinades to appetizers, entrees, side dishes, and desserts.\n <em>\n  Mastering the Grill\n </em>\n is a master class in cooking, destined to become a sauce-stained, well-thumbed classic.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andrew Schloss is a well-known teacher, food writer, cookbook author, and food industry consultant. He lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n<p>\n David Joachim has authored, edited, or collaborated on more than 25 cookbooks. He lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4826'),
(6279, 'Masters of Noir: Volume Four', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume four of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE PICKPOCKET by MICKEY SPILLANE, I DON''T FOOL AROUND by LAWRENCE BLOCK, MAN WITH A SHIV by RICHARD WORMSER, THE FLOATER by JONATHAN CRAIG, SWAMP SEARCH by HARRY WHITTINGTON, FACE OF EVIL by DAVID ALEXANDER, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF by WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT, THE FAST LINE by ART CROCKETT, CRIME OF PASSION by RICHARD S. PRATHER, and LUST SONG by STUART FRIEDMAN\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5362'),
(6280, 'Masters of Noir: Volume One', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   A walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, youâ€™ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their prime. The following stories are included in this first volume of Masters of Noir: IDENTITY UNKNOWN by JONATHAN CRAIG, THE GIRL BEHIND THE HEDGE by MICKEY SPILLANE, CARRERA''S WOMAN by ED McBAIN writing as RICHARD MARSTEN, BUTCHER by RICHARD S. PRATHER, LOOK DEATH IN THE EYE by LAWRENCE BLOCK, ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON by GIL BREWER, FRAME by FRANK KANE, DOUBLE by BRUNO FISCHER, and AS I LIE DEAD by FLETCHER FLORA.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5368'),
(6281, 'Masters of Noir: Volume Three', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div class="bucket" id="productDescription" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0em; ">\n   <div class="content" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 25px; ">\n    <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n     Product Description\n    </h3>\n    <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n     This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume three of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE KILLERS by JOHN D. MACDONALD, ATTACK by ED McBAIN, JUST WINDOW SHOPPING by LAWRENCE BLOCK, SIX FINGERS by HAL ELLSON, STRANGER IN THE HOUSE by THEODORE PRATT, MAY I COME IN? by FLETCHER FLORA, COP FOR A DAY by HENRY SLESAR, PRECISE MOMENT by HENRY KANE, GRAVEYARD SHIFT by STEVE FRAZEE, BAIT FOR THE RED-HEAD by EUGENE PAWLEY\n     <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <br />\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <a name="productDetails" id="productDetails">\n  </a>\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5370'),
(6282, 'Masters of Noir: Volume Two', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div class="content" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 25px; ">\n   <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n    Product Description\n   </h3>\n   <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n    Another walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, you''ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their prime. The following stories are included in this second volume of Masters of Noir: GREEN EYES by HAL ELLSON, BIG STEAL by FRANK KANE, NECKTIE PARTY by ROBERT TURNER, THE PURPLE COLLAR by JONATHAN CRAIG, I DON''T FOOL AROUND by CHARLES JACKSON, NICE BUNCH OF GUYS by MICHAEL FESSIER, FLOWERS TO THE FAIR by CRAIG RICE, DIE LIKE A DOG by DAVID ALEXANDER, BUILD ANOTHER COFFIN by HAROLD Q. MASUR, SOMEBODY''S GOING TO DIE by TALMAGE POWELL.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5364'),
(6283, 'Masters of Space', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jarvis Hilton is in charge of a handpicked team of scientists -- and a navy warship on a deep space mission, dubbed Project Theta Orionis. On the outbound journey, automatic sensors drop their ship -- the\n  <em>\n   Perseus\n  </em>\n  -- into normal space for an encounter with a mysterious skeletal object. The encounter leaves them baffled, and leads them to a view an epic space battle. But strange as that is, it''s nowhere near as mysterious as finding a planet covered in radioactive fuel ore -- and populated with humanoid robots who have been expecting their arrival and greet them as returning masters. . . !\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10790'),
(6284, 'The Matarese Circle', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Only two rival spiesâ€”and one mysterious womanâ€”can stop them: Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius for espionageâ€”and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, they have vowed to terminate each otherâ€”yet now they must become allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle of killers, the Matarese.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3589'),
(6285, 'The Matarese countdown', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....CIA case officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless activities is to follow the trail of blood money and stone-cold killers right to the heart of its deadly conspiracy.From the Hamptons to London''s Belgrave Square, Matarese assassins have already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all who stand in their way. Their chain of violence is impossible to stop--until Pryce gets a rare break. One of the Matarese''s victims survives long enough to whisper dying words that will blow the case wide open: the top secret code name for legendary retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield--the only man who has ever infiltrated the Matarese inner circle and lived to tell about it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3590'),
(6286, 'A Match Made in Texas', 'Arlene James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Kaylie Chatam is a pediatric nurse--she cares for babies and children. But her new patient is a very handsome man. One with a harrowing secret. Why is Stephen Gallow recuperating from a serious injury at her family home in Texas? And why has Kaylie been asked to nurse him back to health? Her dear maiden aunts seem to be playing matchmaker. But Kaylie isn''t expected to find true love and marry--everyone knows that. Except Stephen...who just may hold the cure for them both!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(6287, 'Match Me if You Can', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy. . .don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''Witty, moving, passionate and tender...pure up-to-the-minute entertainment...well-written, funny, sexy, and altogether satisfying.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4642'),
(6288, 'Matchless: A Christmas Story', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences. When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid-nineteenth century, audiences likely interpreted the Little Match Girlâ€²s dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven as metaphors of religious salvation. Maguireâ€²s new piece, entitled "Matchless," reilluminates Andersenâ€²s classic, using his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersenâ€²s original intentions, and to suggest transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2066'),
(6289, 'Maternal-Fetal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation', 'Michael E. Symonds Md; Margaret M. Ramsay Ma Md Mrcp Mrcog', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Improving clinicians'' understanding of effects nutrition can have on maternal health and fetal and neonatal development can have considerable impact on achieving a healthy pregnancy and reducing childhood morbidity. This book defines the nutritional requirements with regard to each stage of fetal development and growth, placing scientific developments into a clinical context. Clinicians and scientists discuss: how the fetus grows and what macro- and micronutrients it requires; what happens when there is nutrient deficiency and when placental development is abnormal; aspects of infant feeding, both with breast milk and formula milk. Specific problems encountered in pregnancy that pose a nutritional challenge are also considered, including pregnancy in teenagers, multiple pregnancies and pregnancy in those who are vegetarians or vegans. All doctors, health-care workers or scientists who either care for women, their newborn and growing infants, or who are involved in research in these areas, will find this to be essential reading.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the aim to improve clinicians'' understanding of the important effects nutrition can have on maternal health and fetal and neonatal development, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation defines the nutritional requirements with regard to the stage of development and growth, placing scientific developments into clinical context.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10096'),
(6290, 'Matilda', 'Dahl, Roald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9797'),
(6291, 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature', 'Geoffrey Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evolutionary psychology has been called the "new black" of science fashion, though at its most controversial, it more resembles the emperor''s new clothes. Geoffrey Miller is one of the Young Turks trying to give the phenomenon a better spin. In\n <em>\n  The Mating Mind\n </em>\n , he takes Darwin''s "other" evolutionary theory--of sexual rather than natural selection--and uses it to build a theory about how the human mind has developed the sophistication of a peacock''s tail to encourage sexual choice and the refining of art, morality, music, and literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Where many evolutionary psychologists see the mind as a Swiss army knife, and cognitive science sees it as a computer, Miller compares it to an entertainment system, evolved to stimulate other brains. Taking up the baton from studies such as Richard Dawkins''\n <em>\n  The Selfish Gene\n </em>\n , it''s a dizzyingly ambitious project, which would be impossibly vague without the ingenuity and irreverence that Miller brings to bear on it. Steeped in popular culture, the book mixes theories of runaway selection, fitness indicators, and sensory bias with explanations of why men tip more than women and how female choice shaped (quite literally) the penis. It also extols the sagacity of Mary Poppins. Indeed, Miller allows ideas to cascade at such a torrent that the steam given off can run the risk of being mistaken for hot air).\n</p>\n<p>\n That large personalities can be as sexually enticing as oversize breasts or biceps may indeed prove comforting, but denuding sexual chemistry can be a curiously unsexy business, akin to analyzing humor. As a courting display of Miller''s intellectual plumage, though,\n <em>\n  The Mating Mind\n </em>\n is formidable, its agent-provocateur chest swelled with ideas and articulate conjecture. While occasionally his magpie instinct may loot fool''s gold, overall it provides an accessible and attractive insight into modern Darwinism and the survival of the sexiest.\n <em>\n  --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The booming but controversial field of evolutionary psychology attempts to explain human feelings and behaviors as consequences of natural selection, using plausible analogies from the animal kingdom to show (for example) why we have the capacity to enjoy music, or why men commit violent crimes. Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at University College-London, argues that much of human character and culture arose for the same reason peacocks have beautiful tails: mating purposes. A peacock that can find enough to eat and avoid being eaten despite such an enormous appendage must have very good genes; by displaying its tail, then, a peacock displays its potential to be a good mate. Miller looks at several kinds of sexual selection. "Romantic" behavior like the making of complex art wouldn''t have helped our ancestors find more food or avoid predators. It might, however, have helped display the fitness of proto-men for the proto-women with whom they wanted to mate--and vice versa. If we like to show off our large vocabularies, it''s at least in part because our ancestors sought smart partners. Miller''s enjoyable book also surveys animal kingdom parallels and recent theoretical arguments about sexual selection. Like most popular evolutionary psychologists, however, Miller doesn''t always distinguish between a plausible story and a scientifically testable hypothesis. And some of his arguments seem covertly circular, or self-serving: Do we really need Darwin to explain why men publish more books than women? Still, picturing "the human brain as an entertainment system that evolved to stimulate other brains," Miller provides an articulate and memorable case for the role of sexual selection in determining human behaviors. Agent, John Brockman.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8912'),
(6292, 'Matt Browning 1 - Greed', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8950'),
(6293, 'Matt Browning 2 - The Increment', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8936'),
(6294, 'Matter', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name.  For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder.  And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she''d thought abandoned forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture''s Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else''s war is never a simple matter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6689'),
(6295, 'A Matter for Men', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the human population ravaged by a series of devastating plagues, the alien Chtorr arrive to begin the final phase of their invasion. Even as many on Earth deny their existence, the giant wormlike carnivores prepare the world for the ultimate violation--the enslavement of humanity for food!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4348'),
(6296, 'A Matter of Perspective', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(6297, 'A Matter of Time', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n May 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It''s still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret. As past, present, and future collide, one man holds the key to the puzzle. And if he doesn''t fit it together, the world he knows will fall to pieces. It''s just A Matter of Time!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6902'),
(6298, 'Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War', 'Karl Marlantes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailerâ€™s The Naked and the Dead and James Jonesâ€™s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire worldâ€”both its horrors and its thrillsâ€”and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2354');
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(6299, 'Matters of the Heart', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one womanâ€™s journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrallâ€¦.Hope Dunne has carved out a name for herself as a top photographer, known the joys of marriage and motherhood, and the heartbreak of loss. In her chic SoHo loft, Hope is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isnâ€™t looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she accepts a last- minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writersâ€”an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness. To Hopeâ€™s surprise, Finn Oâ€™Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hopeâ€™s quiet, steady graceâ€”and heâ€™s taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible. Finnâ€™s magnetism and brilliance are undeniable. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: gaps in his history, a few innocent lies, and bouts of jealousy unnerve her. Suddenly Hope is both in love and suspicious, caring and deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves. Alone, thousands of miles from home, her mind is reeling. Is she just being paranoid? How many lies has he told? Are there more secrets to come? Is it possible that this adoring, attentive manâ€”like the characters in his novelsâ€”is hiding something even worse? The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape as he continues to tighten his grip on her. With razor-sharp insight, Danielle Steel delivers an unforgettable tale of danger and obsessive love. Fearlessly telling the truth, refusing to look away, Steel proves once again that as an American storyteller she has no peer when she explores the dark secrets that sometimes lurk just below the surface of ordinary lives, writing about men and women and their courage to prevail, in this case, even in the face of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/895'),
(6300, 'The Mauritius Command', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourth book in the series. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command -- until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore''s pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains -- Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny. Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean, O''Brian''s attention to detail of eighteenth-century life ashore and at sea is meticulous. This tale is as beautifully written and as gripping as any in the series; it also stands on its own as a superlative work of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4246'),
(6301, 'The Maverick', 'Jan Hudson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cassidy Outlaw left her high-powered legal job-and the unscrupulous lawyer fiance who broke her heart- to return to Texas. Here, life is simpler and the people more authentic. Managing her family''s Chili Witches Cafe and protecting the charm of old Austin''s landmarks keeps her too busy to care about spending time with Griff Mitchell, the new hottie in town with the Paul Newman blue eyes.When Cass literally stumbles over him on the jogging trail, Griff falls for her in turn-hard. Too bad she''s got a problem with big New York City lawyershellip;because he''s here to convince her family to sell their historic property. No one told him Cass was the kind of woman who could stand up to any man-a maverick who could break his heart. Will she forgive him when she discovers his secret?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1847'),
(6302, 'Max: The Greatest Air and Sea Battle is about to Commence', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nobody said saving the world would be easy. Until now, Max and the flock have lived a lonely existence: hunted down, tortured and pushed to the fringe of society; always on the run they have never been able to live a normal life. But things are changing. The flock have finally found acceptance for their unusual skills. Together, they have taken on new challenges and used their extraordinary powers to fight for the greater good on a global scale. The avian hybrids don t have to hide away any longer, far from it, now everyone wants to see just what they can do. But fame and fortune always come at a price and Max isn t ready for all the glitz and glamour just yet. The action figures and memorabilia can wait, they have more important tasks at hand. Will the flock be able to survive the trappings of a Hollywood lifestyle? When tensions start to run high can the group stick together? Meanwhile sinister forces are plotting their attack, putting more than just the flock in danger. Something deadly is lurking in the depths of the ocean. As the flock uncover a terrible secret set to threaten the world can they save the day or is this a disaster too tough to tackle, even for them? Max must also come to terms with the fact that none of them is invincible. With her new-found vulnerability comes the realisation of emotions that have been buried deep. The lives of those she holds close to her have been threatened many times before and although they have survived everything that has been thrown at them so far, Max knows that her time will come and her days are numbered. The greatest air and sea battle is about to commence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2014'),
(6303, 'Maximum Bob', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator''s tail. And a good number of his illwishers are probation officer Kathy Baker''s clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Now, Kathy''s got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG''s horny hands off her: keeping "Maximum Bob" alive. Because Gibbs''s many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths -- be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method -- to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who''s more interested in scoring than in saving his own red neck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(6304, 'Maximum Warp 01: Maximum Warp', 'Dave Galanter &amp; Greg Brodeur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Interstellar civilization depends on the twin blessings of warp travel and subspace communications. But now an unknown force is disrupting subspace throughout the galaxy, creating "dead zones" in which advanced technology will not function. Ships are stranded in space, unable to communicate. Colonies are losing life support. Governments can no longer negotiate with their allies -- or their enemies. Worse yet, the dead zones are proliferating at a geometric rate. Unless a solution is found, the entire Alpha Quadrant may be doomed to a new dark age!\n </p>\n <p>\n  in the wake of the Dominion War, a tenuous peace exists between the Federation and the Romulan Empire. The uneasy alliance is strained to the breaking point, however, by the enigma that is destroying subspace. Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Ambassador Spock must join forces with an infamous Romulan war criminal in a desperate attempt to find the source of the disruption -- even if it means sacrificing the very peace they hope to save!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur are a writing team whose successful collaborations include Star Trek novels set both in the Voyager and the Next Generation universes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5326'),
(6305, 'Maximum Warp 02: Forever Dark', 'Dave Galanter &amp; Greg Brodeur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mysterious cosmic force is destroying the very fabric of subspace, rendering warp travel and interstellar communication impossible throughout scattered regions of the galaxy. Even worse, these "dead zones" are spreading rapidly, bringing the entire Alpha Quadrant to the brink of a new dark age. Only Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ stand a chance of reversing the decay by tracking the disruption to its ultimate origin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beyond the boundaries of the Federation, deep in uncharted space, Picard and his treacherous Romulan allies have discovered the source of the crisis: a vast alien mechanism suspended between a black hole and a nearby inhabited planet. The ancient device is all that prevents the imperiled planet from disappearing into the voracious black hole, but its cataclysmic effects are eroding subspace at speeds faster than light. Now Picard faces a wrenching dilemma: must he sacriÃžce an entire world to save the galaxy?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur are a writing team whose successful collaborations include Star Trek novels set both in the Voyager and the Next Generation universes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5324'),
(6306, 'Mayday', 'Nelson DeMille &amp; Thomas Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page....the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever. Like a growing tidal wave, the escaping air was gathering momentum. A teenaged girl in aisle 18, seat D, near the port-side aisle, her seat dislocated by the original impact, suddenly found herself gripping her seat track on the floor, her overturned seat still strapped to her body. The seatbelt failed and the seat shot down the aisle. She lost her grip and was dragged after it. Her eyes were filled with horror as she dug her nails into the carpet, as the racing air pulled her toward the yawning hole that led outside. Her cries were unheard by even those passengers who sat barely inches away from her struggle. The noise of the escaping air was so loud that it was no longer decipherable as sound, but seemed instead a solid thing pounding at the people in their seats......\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7116'),
(6307, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Featuring a stunning Introduction by popular author of The Ice Storm and Demonology Rick Moody, this special edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge is a tie-in to the A&amp;E Television Network adaptation of Thomas Hardy''s critically acclaimed novel. In a surprisingly personal essay, Moody names the saga "the first great novel about alcoholism," and delivers penetrating insight into the character of Michael Henchard and the crippling deficiencies that foretell his ruin. The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with an act of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act sets in the following morning, the wretched Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. Eighteen years pass before Henchard''s fateful oath comes back to claim its due. Upon the return to Casterbridge of his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, Henchard''s fortunes steadily decline. He clashes with his business assistant, Donald Farfrae, who soon becomes his major rival. He ruins his business through impulsive speculations and takes to drinking again. One by one he forfeits his possessions and relationships to Farfrae. Soon Farfrae owns Henchard''s business and his house, has gained the affection of his lover Lucetta, and has even become the mayor of Casterbridge. In a final insult, Farfrae marries Elizabeth-Jane. Having lost everything he once possessed, Henchard is forced to face himself in his most tragic and desperate moment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10683'),
(6308, 'A maze of death', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3726'),
(6309, 'The Maze Runner', 'James Dashner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But heâ€™s not alone. When the liftâ€™s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Gladeâ€”a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.Just like Thomas, the Gladers donâ€™t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night theyâ€™ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent upâ€”the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1829'),
(6310, 'MB_TakeMe', 'Michele Bardsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8859'),
(6311, 'MB_Trap', 'Michele Bardsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8860'),
(6312, 'McGillivray&#39;s Mistress', 'Anne McAllister', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(6313, 'McSweeney&#39;s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chabon teams up with the editors of Dave Eggers''s McSweeney''s magazine to create a fiction anthology with an innovative, simple concept: the stories are driven by adventurous plots and narrative action, in contrast to the current trend toward stories that are "plotless and sparkling with epiphanic dew," as Chabon writes in his introduction. The roster includes such heavyweights as Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Nick Hornby and Harlan Ellison. As the retro title might suggest, the collection is heavy on sci-fi and detective stories, often updated with contemporary twists. Crichton offers a detective yarn called "Blood Doesn''t Come Out," in which a disgruntled PI takes out his frustration on his wife in a cheeky spin on the domestic violence that punctuates the pulp fiction of Jim Thompson and James A. Cain. Hornby''s contribution is an entertaining sci-fi story called "Otherwise Pandemonium," about a man who buys a VCR that fast-forwards into an apocalyptic future. In Rick Moody''s "The Albertine Notes," a debilitating drug called Albertine wreaks havoc by sending users back in time to relive their memories. Dave Eggers''s "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" is a thoughtful story in which a woman climbs Kilimanjaro to bolster her self-confidence after experiencing a personal crisis, but proves oblivious to the deaths of three porters when the weather on the mountain turns ugly. Half a dozen or so stories are markedly slight, but overall this is a strong collection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A Vintage Contemporaries Original\n </p>\n <p>\n  Includes:\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Jim Shepard''s "Tedford and the Megalodon"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Glen David Gold''s "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dan Chaon''s "The Bees"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly Link''s "Catskin"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elmore Leonard''s "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Emshwiller''s "The General"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Neil Gaiman''s "Closing Time"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nick Hornby''s "Otherwise Pandemonium"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stephen King''s "The Tale of Gray Dick"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Crichton''s "Blood Doesnâ€™t Come Out"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laurie King''s "Weaving the Dark"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chris Offutt''s "Chuckâ€™s Bucket"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dave Eggers''s "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Moorcock''s "The Case of the Nazi Canary"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aimee Bender''s "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harlan Ellison''s "Goodbye to All That"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karen Joy Fowler''s "Private Grave 9"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rick Moody''s "The Albertine Notes"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Chabon''s "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sherman Alexie''s "Ghost Dance"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4492'),
(6314, 'Me', 'Ricky Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4442'),
(6315, 'Me and Kaminski', 'Daniel Kehlmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable menone an artist and the other a journalist, who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results. Sebastian Zollner''s failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures: his girlfriend is moving in a new lover before Sebastian even knows he''s been dumped. Searching for the break that will redeem him in the eyes of his peers, he heads off on a wild goose chase into the mountains to interview the eccentric, legendary painter Manuel Kaminski, with the hope of writing his biography. Kaminski is going blind and is living in seclusion with his daughter. He could be working on his next masterpiece or easing into his final days, and his inconsistent career raises the question of whether he has been a fraud or a genius. His artistic reputation hinges on any number of factors but most prominently on a definitive biography. Enter Zollnerwho has no intention of writing a puff piece. He''s out to dig dirt and to force Kaminski to confront the legacy of his work. But the secrets he uncovers will lead Kaminski, and Zollner himself, to places neither of them ever expected to go. With edgy wit and intelligence, Daniel Kehlmann dives into the problems of what is "truth" in our celebrity-crazed times and embraces the energy and humanity that lie beneath the pretensions of the art and journalistic worlds. A firecracker of a novel. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8687'),
(6316, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n David Sedaris''s new collection tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech therapy classes and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist to writing teacher in Chicago, his career leads him to New York and eventually, of all places, France. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he is led ever deeper into cultural confusion. Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other -- "Original, acid, and wild". said the L.A. Times -- to every unforgettable encounter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(6317, 'The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World', 'Adam Jacot De Boinod', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A divine gift for the word-obsessedâ€”a deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent** The countless language freaks whoâ€™ve worn out their copies of *Eats, Shoots and Leaves* will find inexhaustible distraction in *The Meaning of Tingo*. Where else will they discover that Bolivians have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and itâ€™s all their fault"? As for *tingo*, on Easter Island it means "to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them." Organized by themes such as food, the human body, and sex and love, this irresistible book combs through more than 254 languages in search of those gorgeous oddities that have no direct English counterpartâ€”words so strange and apt that if they didnâ€™t exist, they would have to be invented. Highlights from *The Meaning of Tingo*: â€¢ **mencomet** (Indonesian): stealing things of small value such as food or drinks, partly for fun â€¢ **scheissbedauern** (German): the disappointment one feels when something turns out not nearly as badly as one had hoped â€¢ **mono-no-aware** (Japanese): appreciating the sadness of existence â€¢ **mahj** (Persian): looking beautiful after disease â€¢ **plimpplamppletteren** (Dutch): the skimming of a flat stone as many times as possible across the surface of the water â€¢ **koshatnik** (Russian): a dealer in stolen cats â€¢ **ava** (Tahitian): wife (but also means whisky)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(6318, 'Measuring the World', 'Daniel Kehlmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann''s novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and measure "every river, every mountain and every lake in his path." Gauss is the hedgehog to Humboldt''s fox, leaping out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a formula and rarely leaving his hometown of GÃ¶ttingen. The two meet at a scientific congress in 1828, when Germany is in turmoil after the fall of Napoleon. Other luminaries appear throughout the novel, including a senile Immanuel Kant, Louis Daguerre and Thomas Jefferson. The narrative is notable for its brisk pacing, lively prose and wry humor (curmudgeonly Gauss laments, for instance, how "every idiot would be able to... invent the most complete nonsense" about him 200 years hence), which keenly complements Kehlmann''s intelligent, if not especially deep, treatment of science, mathematics and reason at the end of the Enlightenment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8686'),
(6319, 'MECH', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bio-tech aliens battle Mechs built by humans! After centuries in stasis, a lost task force returns home. Arriving from the infinite void the surviving ships discover that the Imperium lies in ruin. The Homeworld itself is destroyed, and nothing lives in the Ancestral System except an infestation of unknown bipedal beingsâ€”creatures soft, red of blood and warm of fleshâ€¦ When you colonize a planet, make sure the owners aren''t coming back... MECH is the story of a new Earth colony built upon the ancient Homeworld of a civilization presumed (incorrectly) to be long dead. MECH is a full novel, 90,000 words in length, by award winning author B. V. Larson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(6320, 'Medal of Honor', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8948'),
(6321, 'The Medici Dagger', 'Cameron West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 1491: Leonardo looked upon his invention, understood its powers, and knew he must hide it from the men of his age. Thus, a profound treasure was lost for five centuries. Now the race to find it begins. Hurtling across the Atlantic, a plane goes down -- taking with it a page from the journals of Leonardo da Vinci. In Georgetown, the home of museum curator Rollo Barnett burns to the ground. Only his young son, Reb, escapes alive. Are the tragedies connected? Are they merely accidents or acts of murder? Twenty years later, Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett, an educated, art-loving, high-risk-addicted daredevil on the run from his nightmares, refuses to believe so. Until a phone call rips him from his world of cinematic illusion, and sends him to Italy on a desperate quest where danger and violence are chillingly real. Reb seeks da Vinci''s Circles of Truth, a coded fifteenth-century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, a weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today''s arms manufacturers. To Reb, it is worth even more -- it is his only link to finding the truth about his father''s death, and to laying bare the dark demons of his own heart. But finding the Circles of Truth is only the first step. Breaking their complex code means matching wits with Leonardo himself. And staying alive means keeping one jump ahead of a shadowy adversary: the killer who haunts Reb''s dreams. From the brilliant Tuscan landscape to the lush California coast, *The Medici Dagger* sweeps readers into an intriguing intellectual puzzle that delivers shattering suspense and fiery romance with the velocity of a 9mm bullet. Cameron West generates the roller-coaster thrills of the great classic adventure stories -- with the adrenaline rush of walking on a knife''s edge between excitement and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(6322, 'Meditation Master', 'Phra Acharn Mun Bhuridatta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9571'),
(6323, 'Meditations', 'Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) &amp; Gregory Hays', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One measure, perhaps, of a book''s worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The\n  <em>\n   Meditations\n  </em>\n  of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is not only valid, but may be close to the author''s intent. The book, which Hays calls, fondly, a "haphazard set of notes," is indicative of the role of philosophy among the ancients in that it is "expected to provide a ''design for living.''" And it does, both aphoristically ("Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what''s left and live it properly.") and rhetorically ("What is it in ourselves that we should prize?"). Whether these, and other entries ("Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life.") sound life-changing or like entries in a teenager''s diary is up to the individual reader, as it should be. Hays''s introduction, which sketches the life of Marcus Aurelius (emperor of Rome A.D. 161-180) as well as the basic tenets of stoicism, is accessible and jaunty.\n  <em>\n   --H. O''Billovich\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ?The emperor Marcus Aurelius, the proverbial philosopher-king, produced in Greek a Roman manual of piety, the Meditations, whose impact has been felt for ages since. Here, for our age, is his great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated by Gregory Hays for the Modern Library.?\n  <br />\n  ?Robert Fagles --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6122'),
(6324, 'The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler. On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(6325, 'Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential- for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant businessand for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author''s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he''s seen and what he''s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: ''Why cook?'' Or the harder one to answer: ''Why cook well?'' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(6326, 'Medusa', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the "spine-tingling adventures" (*Chicago Tribune*) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team, but in *Medusa* the NUMA(r) team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all. In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government- sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers-including Zavala-left to die. Only Kurt Austin''s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA(r) team on the case. He has no idea what he''s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it''s not just their own skins they''re trying to save-it''s the lives of millions. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, *Medusa* is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/825'),
(6327, 'Meg', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler were to combine their talents to create the ultimate summer read, MEG would be the result--a jaw-dropping and terrifying page-turner of the deep. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean''s deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom.  The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he''s sure he saw but still can''t prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark.  The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life.  With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea.  But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he''s never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time. Steve Alten holds a master''s degree in sports medicine and has a Ph.D.  from Temple University.  An avid amateur oceanographer, Alten has been studying Megalodons for over ten years.  He lives with his wife and three children in South Florida.  MEGis his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3610'),
(6328, 'Meg: Hell&#39;s Aquarium', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most fearsome predators in history...are no longer history.The Philippine Sea Plate: The most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its primordial crust lies the remains of the "Panthalassa," an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the "Panthalassa "is inhabited by nightmarish sea creatures long believed extinct.Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA: Four years have passed since Angel, the 76-foot, 100,000 pound Megalodon, birthed a litter of pups far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. Fortunately, a Dubai royal prince who is building the largest aquarium in the world seeks to purchase two of the "runts"--if Jonas Taylor''s twenty-one year-old son, David, will be their handler. Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life, not realizing that he is being set up to lead an expedition that will hunt down and capture the most dangerous creatures ever to inhabit the Earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3609'),
(6329, 'Meg: Primal Waters', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the apex predator of all time, the most fearsome creature that ever lived - a 70-foot, 70,000 pound Great White shark. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart, and if you ever came close enough to see the monster...it was already too late. Eighteen years have passed since Jonas Taylor last crossed paths with carcharodon Megalodon. Now a middle-aged father of two, he is overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. But life is about to change. A Hollywood television producer wants Jonas to join his new survival series: Daredevils. For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras. Jonas needs the money, and the job of doing the color commentary seems easy enough. But behind the scenes, someone else is pulling the strings. And before it''s over, Jonas will again come face to face with the most dangerous creatures ever to stalk the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3612'),
(6330, 'Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Merline Lovelace; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 5 in *The Calhoun Women* series **A New York Times Bestseller** The four Calhoun sisters and a special sister-by-marriage are all united by a decades-old legend and the determination to save the Towers, their magnificent family mansion on the rocky coast of Maine. Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O''Riley had buried her passions and vowed never to let her heart control her life. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, the practical lady was swept away by his charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3134'),
(6331, 'Meltdown', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the Canadian lakes, eighteen-year-old Danny and his grandfather, ex-SAS hero Fergus Watts, are once again sucked into a deadly undercover operation and a race against time. Their search for the mastermind behind a pair of murderous gangland twins takes them from the clubs of Manchester to Spain and Germany, and Danny needs all his newly learned expertise when he comes up against an old adversary someone he hoped never to encounter again. And this time, when the battle is joined, it is a battle to the end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5538'),
(6332, 'Memnoch the Devil', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH''S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice''s most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture''s legends and as modern as today''s religious strife."--Rolling Stone"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."--USA Today"Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."--The Washington Post Book World"MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."--Playboy"[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice''s most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."--The Seattle Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(6333, 'Memoirs of a geisha: a novel', 'Arthur Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan''s most celebrated geisha.Â Â Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl''s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion.Â Â Sayuri''s story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Through her eyes, we see the decadent heart of Gion--the geisha district of Kyoto--with its marvelous teahouses and theaters, narrow back alleys, ornate temples, and artists'' streets. And we witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men''s solicitude and the money that goes with it. But as World War II erupts and the geisha houses are forced to close, Sayuri, with little money and even less food, must reinvent herself all over again to find a rare kind of freedom on her own terms.Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos. And though the story is rich with detail and a vast knowledge of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri that the reader remembers. A dazzling literary achievement of empathy and grace by an extraordinary new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(6334, 'The Memoirs of a Survivor', 'Doris Lessing', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." -- Philadelphia Bulletin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The most fluid and suggestive of all her books."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing''s previous work." -- Houston Chronicle\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." -- Cleveland Free Press -- Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n "One of her profoundest visionary excursions." --Gail Godwin, Chicago Tribune Book World\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility." --Time\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A brilliant fable." --Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." --Philadelphia Bulletin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The most fluid and suggestive of all her books." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing''s previous work." --Houston Chronicle\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." --Cleveland Free Press\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7924'),
(6335, 'Memoirs of Cleopatra', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9445'),
(6336, 'Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9370'),
(6337, 'Memorial Day', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is called upon to fight against the world''s most deadly terrorists in this harrowing political thriller by *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn. It''s just seven days before Memorial Day, and the nation''s capital is buzzing with last-minute preparations for the unveiling of the magnificent new memorial honoring the men and women who fought in World War II. Despite the hopeful energy of the city, Mitch Rapp senses trouble. A spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. Now it''s up to Rapp to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan, where he leads a special forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into a remote Pakistani village. Their target: an al Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files, and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to U.S. ports -- all pointing to plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency support team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and disarmed and the danger has been averted. Or has it? Despite all the backslapping and congratulations, Mitch Rapp can''t shake the feeling that the operation seemed just a bit too easy. Rapp follows his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth. What he finds is truly terrifying, and with Memorial Day closing fast, Rapp must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Packed with the heartstopping action and political intrigue that Vince Flynn''s fans love, here is a stylish thriller exalting America''s past battles for freedom as well as its continued fight for peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4187');
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(6338, 'Memories of Ice &amp; House of Chains', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Memories of Ice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm''s Host and the Bridgeburners  each now outlawed by the Empress  alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains. But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons, the massed ranks of the undead T''lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker and more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned and rumours abound of the Crippled God, now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge...Marking the return of many favourite characters from GARDENS OF THE MOON and introducing a host of remarkable new players, MEMORIES OF ICE is a thrilling new chapter in Erikson''s magnificent epic fantasy and another triumph of storytelling.The awesome - and acclaimed - fourth instalment in Steven Erikson-s epic fantasy sequence THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN.House of ChainsIn Northern Genabackis, just before the events recounted in GARDENS OF THE MOON, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flat lands. Their intention is to wreak havoc among the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove an extraordinary destiny. Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Coltaine, revered commander of the Malazan 7th Army is dead. And now Tavore, elder sister of Ganoes Paran and Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of the Seven Cities to take charge. Untested and new to command, she must hone a small army of twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits, into a viable fighting force and lead them into battle against the massed hordes of Sha''ik''s Whirlwind. Her only hope lies in resurrecting the shattered faith of the few remaining survivors from Coltaine''s legendary march, veterans one and all.In distant Raraku, in the heart of the Holy Desert, the seer Sha''ik waits with her rebel army. But waiting is never easy. Her disparate collection of warlords - tribal chiefs, High Mages, a renegade Malazan Fist and his sorceror - is locked in a vicious power struggle that threatens to tear the rebellion apart from within. And Sha''ik herself suffers, haunted by the private knowledge of her nemesis, Tavore...her own sister.So begins the awesome new chapter in Steven Erikson''s MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN - an epic novel of war, intrigue, magic and betrayal from a writer regarded as one of the most original, imaginative and exciting storytellers in fantasy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5474'),
(6339, 'Memory', 'Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that''s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already.Thanks to his quick thinking staff and the specialist who revived him, his first death won''t be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he''s willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, "Who shall guard the guardians?" becomes a more-than-rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer.Things look bad, but Miles'' worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don''t compare to Illyan''s worst nightmares -- or are they memories?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9026'),
(6340, 'The Memory Artists', 'Jeffrey Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories ofThe Arabian Nightsto the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer''s disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion.The Memory Artistsfollows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother''s affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship. Jeffrey Moorewas educated at the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne. He works as a translator and also lectures at the University of Montreal. His first novel,Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain,won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in 2000. Jeff divides his time between Montreal and Val-Morin, Quebec. Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel ADaily TelegraphBook of the Year Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories ofThe Arabian Nightsto the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer''s disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion.The Memory Artistsfollows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother''s affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship. "Combines smartness with wisdom . . . Almost absurdly inventive."David Mitchell, author ofCloud Atlas "Rich and humane, a repository of culture worth remembering, and a moving elaboration on the simple truth that we should do good for others."Colin McAdam, author ofSome Great Thing "A model of inventiveness . . . very moving. Jeffrey Moore shows great skill in his depictions of people''s feelings. The decadent affectations of Norval, the immaturity of JJ and the feminine insecurities of Samira are all drawn with elegance."LondonTimes Literary Supplement "Canadian novelist Jeffrey Moore''s finely honed wit had me barking with laughter . . . engaging characters, and a fine balance of warmth, insight, and eviscerating humour."The Independent "An exceptionally fine example of crossword-puzzle postmodernism: a game to savour, a half-equation to be completed with utter delight. Yet the story is unforgettably human . . . exhilaratingly riskyleaves the reader spellbound."Scotlandon Sunday\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6061'),
(6341, 'The Memory Game', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On an autumn morning the body of a sixteen - year - old girl is found buried in the garden of a country house in Shropshire. She is Natalie Martello and she has been missing for a quarter of a century. The Memory Game is a highly sophisticated psychological thriller based around the controversial theme of recovered memory syndrome. It provides a deeply disturbing and original portrayal of how family secrets can tear the most successful lives apart. It is a thriller of rare power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5149'),
(6342, 'Memory in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Survivor in Death* has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She''s got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it''s all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she''s thrown back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling. Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eve''s husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise-and his suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office, demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wife''s childhood a secret. Barely restraining himself, Roarke shows her the door-and makes it clear that she''d be wise to get out of New York and never bother him or his wife again. But just a few days later, Trudy''s found on the floor of her hotel room, a mess of bruises and blood. A cop to the core, Eve is determined to solve the case, if only for the sake of Trudy''s bereaved son. Unfortunately, Eve is not the only one to have suffered at this woman''s hands, and she and Roarke will follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned this victimizer into a victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2373'),
(6343, 'The memory keeper&#39;s daughter', 'Kim Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kim Edwards''s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother''s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper''s Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. BACKCOVER: â€œEdwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection.â€ â€”Chicago Tribune â€œUnfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.â€ â€”Sue Monk Kidd â€œAnyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper''s Daughter.â€ â€”The Washington Post â€œKim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keeper''s Daughter has it all.â€ â€”Sena Jeter Naslund â€œKim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simply a beautiful book.â€ â€”Jodi Picoult SUMMARY: Kim Edwards''s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother''s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper''s Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. BACKCOVER: â€œEdwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection.â€ â€”Chicago Tribune â€œUnfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.â€ â€”Sue Monk Kidd â€œAnyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper''s Daughter.â€ â€”The Washington Post â€œKim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keeper''s Daughter has it all.â€ â€”Sena Jeter Naslund â€œKim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simply a beautiful book.â€ â€”Jodi Picoult\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2231'),
(6344, 'The Memory of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves.The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission.But now there is a problem. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the planet, men are beginning to think about power, wealth, and conquest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5849'),
(6345, 'The memory of running: a novel', 'Ron McLarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once in a great while, a story comes along that has everything: plot, setting, and, most important of all, the kind of characters that sweep readers up and take them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Well, get ready for Ron McLarty?s The Memory of Runningbecause, as Stephen King wrote in Entertainment Weekly(Stephen King?s ?The Pop of King? column for Entertainment Weekly), ?Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians.?Meet Smithson ?Smithy? Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action-figure factory in Rhode Island. By all accounts, including Smithy?s own, he?s a loser. But when Smithy?s life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be. As he pedals across America?with stops in New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few?he encounters humanity at its best and worst and adventures that are by turns hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary. Along the way, Smithy falls in love and back into life.McLarty?s novel has already received significant attention for its unusual genesis as an audiobook. Now, in a major publishing event, Viking heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction with his stunning debut, The Memory of Running.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3382'),
(6346, 'A Memory of Wind', 'Rachel Swirsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon''s daughter Iphigeniaâ€”and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky''s Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award. Rachel Swirsky''s short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year''s Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3345'),
(6347, 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus', 'John Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1635'),
(6348, 'Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Young Dwarf''s Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted!He''s now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld''s greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It''s a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrott... And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city--indeed of the universe itself!--depends on a young man''s courage, an ancient sword''s magic, and a three-legged poodle''s bladder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3392'),
(6349, 'Men in Blue', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A cop has been shot--cold-bloodedly gunned down while trying to prevent a holdup. Regulations say the investigation is to be handled like any other homicide. But when a cop is killed in the line of dutyï¼Œ it is different. And the brotherhood in blue will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6084'),
(6350, 'Men in Blue (Badge of Honor Novels (Paperback))', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: W.E.B. Griffin''s bestselling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama and action in MEN IN BLUE, first in his new Badge of Honor series. Here are the brave men and women behind the badge as you''ve never seen them before -- their hopes and fears, their courage and heroism, sparked by a single, shocking event: the killing of a cop in the line of duty. "He captivates you with characters the way few authors can!" --Tom Clancy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9226'),
(6351, 'The Men of Medicine Ridge', 'Diana Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Diana Palmer commemorates the bliss of courtship with two romances set in a rollicking Montana setting!\n</p>\n<p>\n THE MEN OF MEDICINE RIDGE\n</p>\n<p>\n For rugged ranchers Mack Killain and Gil Callister, setting pulses aflutter is all in a day''s work. But these towering, tenacious men of Medicine Ridge Ranch won''t be sweet-talked into marriage. Or will they...? Sparks fly when two beguilingly innocent bachelorettes pull out all the stops to charm their surly cowboys into trading in a life of stubborn solitude for love on the range!\n</p>\n<p>\n THE WEDDING IN WHITE\n</p>\n<p>\n From the moment Mack Killain branded her with his slow, sensual kisses, schoolteacher Natalie Brock knew the dynamic cattleman was her destiny. Now she just had to convince him of that!\n</p>\n<p>\n CIRCLE OF GOLD\n</p>\n<p>\n Never in her wildest dreams had Kasie Mayfield believed that her formidable boss could sweep her off her feet. Why then was it on the tip of her tongue to passionately profess her love to the ornery Gil Callister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7074'),
(6352, 'Men of Men', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an epic clash of cultures, New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith chronicles love and war at the heart of a vast, wondrous continent.Â Â FROM THE SOUND OF A THOUSAND SPEARS AND SHIELDSIt was called The Devils''s Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels.Â TO ONE MAN''S CRY FOR FREEDOM...Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil''s Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fledgling Boer Free State sets the course for Ballantyne and a cast of comrades, enemies, and lovers--and for the continent itself.Â THE PASSIONS OF A LAND WERE UNLEASHED.From the visions of imperialists to the fury between a father and a son, from the lengths a man will go for a woman and a woman for her convictions, a tragic clash of generations and civilizations was shaking 19th century Africa, where some warriors fought for their gods--and others for the men who came before them...Â Â "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."--The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9147'),
(6353, 'Men of the Otherworld', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has captivated readers with her spellbinding Women of the Otherworld series. Now, for the first time, in this collection of four tales she gives center stage to the men who love these sexy, supernatural women--the men who live on the other side of humanity...the "wild" side. As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn''t resist the bite--he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage--until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home...and introduced him to the Pack. So begins this tantalizing volume, featuring three of the most intriguing members of the American Pack--a hierarchical founding family where bloodlines mean everything and each day presents a new, thrilling, and often deadly challenge. For as Clayton grows from a wild child to a clever teen who tests his beloved mentor at every turn, he must learn not only to control his animal instincts but to navigate Pack politics--including showing his brutal archnemesis, Malcolm, who the real Alpha is.... From the nature of fear, weakness, and courage, to the triumph of belonging and the complications of love and loyalty, these mesmerizing tales reveal the trials of a werewolf coming-of-age, and lay bare the hearts and minds of the men strong enough for the women of the Otherworld--and adept enough to take on two worlds. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3149'),
(6354, 'Men Without Women', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n First published in 1927,\n <em>\n  Men Without Women\n </em>\n represents some of Hemingway''s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple''s subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America''s finest short story writer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella\n <em>\n  The Old Man and the Sea\n </em>\n won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8982'),
(6355, 'The Menace From Earth', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Short Story Collection\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In gigantic caves on the Moon, the low gravity allows the colonists to achieve the age-old dream of strapping wings to their arms and flying like birds. But Holly Jones''s other dreams are threatened by the arrival from Earth of a beautiful woman who has mesmerized her boyfriend. Back on Earth, a mathematician charts an upsurge in strange events to predict the most incredible event of all. Elsewhere, a man travels through a time gate into the future, seeking free will and finding something very different. A showcase for the talents of a master storyteller. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3952'),
(6356, 'Menagerie', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A primitive city built on the foundations of a ruined high tech civilisation forms the backdrop to this adventure featuring the second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8491'),
(6357, 'The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America', 'Erik Sass &amp; Will Pearson &amp; Mangesh Hattikudur', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA cavalcade of delicious facts, surprising trivia and refreshingly honest, hilariously smart-alecky insight that finally sets the wayward historical record straight.â€ (AmericanProfile.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[M]anages to educate and entertain simultaneously, which is a win-win for everybody!â€ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[B]reezy, bullet-pointed and well illustrated.â€ (Financial Times )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smarter than a history teacher, funnier than the Founding Fathers, and more American than Alaska, an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff)\n</p>\n<p>\n In trademark smart aleck style, this is history according to mental_floss, an insightfully accurate and incisively humorous exploration of little-known truths and widely believed falsehoods, which simultaneously exposes some of America''s oddest moments, strangest citizens, most egregious frauds, and much, much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten meaty chapters, peppered with fun trivia, entertainingly cover the essential timeline of the social, political, and cultural happenings of American history and mythbust all the lies teachers told us along the way. Was Abraham Lincoln really a heroic defender of liberty and freedom? Were the Sixties actually a groovy time of peace and love? Has the U.S. always been dependent on foreign oil? mental_floss sets the record straight and shares the fascinating stories behind politics, literature, fashion, televangelism, serial killers, genetic engineering, Yuppies, SPAM, the original Swine Flu, potato chips, rollerskating, mobsters, rum, communists, beaver wars, the rise and fall of irony, and everything else made in the U.S.A.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7813'),
(6358, 'The Mental Floss History of the World', 'Erik Sass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10691'),
(6359, 'Mental Floss Presents Instant Knowledge', 'Will Pearson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mental_floss is proud to present a full-bodied jolt of inspiration for thirsty minds on the go. Blended with titillating facts, startling revelations, and head-scratching theories collected from around the world, Instant Knowledge will jumpstart riveting exchanges at cocktail parties, the watercooler, or any powwow. To experience the clean, rich flavor at home, just tear into a topic of your choice, and add conversation. It''s that simple!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4192'),
(6360, 'The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently', 'Nathan Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œYour only job is to help your players be better.â€ That single idea had a huge impact on Tony Dungy when he heard it from one of his earliest mentors, and it led him to develop the successful leadership style so admired by players and coaches throughout the NFL. Now, a storied career and a Super Bowl victory later, Tony Dungy is sharing his unique leadership philosophy with you. In\n <em>\n  The Mentor Leader\n </em>\n , Tony reveals what propelled him to the top of his profession and shows how you can apply the same approach to virtually any area of your life. In the process, youâ€™ll learn the seven keys of mentoring leadershipâ€”and why theyâ€™re so effective; why mentor leadership brings out the best in people; how a mentor leader recovers from mistakes and handles team discipline; and the secret to getting people to follow you and do their best for you without intimidation tactics. As a son, a football player, and a winning coach, Tony has always learned from others on his path to success. Now you can learn to succeed for your team, family, or organization while living out your valuesâ€”by becoming a mentor leader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8449'),
(6361, 'Mercenary', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a favor to a CIA officer, SBS operative Stratton carries out what appears to be an inconsequential task in Central America. But Strattonâ€™s actions push him into the midst of a national rebellion, and against his own principles he becomes emotionally involved and decides to join the popular uprising. Unknown to him, however, the revolt is a fight not just against the local government, as the CIA is very much involved. As events spiral disastrously out of control, Stratton must face up to his biggest and most treacherous challenge to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(6362, 'The Merchant of Venice', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the citizens of Venice compete for advantageous marriages, wealth, and status, a moneylender is intent on deadly revenge. Mistrust and resentment thrive in Shakespearers"s dark comedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todayrs"s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespearers"s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespearers"s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3456'),
(6363, 'Merchanter&#39;s Luck', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station--and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10885'),
(6364, 'Mercurial: The Definitive Guide', 'Bryan O&#39;Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control, ideal whether you''re a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files. This book offers concrete suggestions to get you started.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7546'),
(6365, 'Mercury Falls', 'Robert Kroese', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10391'),
(6366, 'Mercy Kill: A Mystery', 'Lori Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Armstrong''s sharp second mystery to feature former army sniper Mercy Gunderson (after 2010''s No Mercy), Mercy stumbles late one night on the shot and slashed body of Maj. Jason "J-Hawk" Hawley, who once saved her life in Indonesia, outside Clementine''s, the bar where she''s been stuck for months in a dead-end temporary job. When her boyfriend, Eagle River County (S.Dak.) sheriff Mason Dawson, doesn''t do enough to investigate, Mercy goes into action. Concerned that J-Hawk''s murder may have been related to his job as a front man for Titan Oil''s controversial project to run a pipeline through the county, Mercy uncovers some disturbing information about her old army buddy. While the flashbacks to Mercy''s military career slow the action in places, an intriguing new character, FBI agent Shay Turnbull of the Indian County Special Crimes Unit, will leave readers eager to see how their relationship plays out in the next installment. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This tough-mouth novel begins with a hymn to the beauties of the outdoors, all primrose and yarrow. Then Mercy Gunderson, belly down, adjusts her rifle and blows away prairie dogs. â€œBye-bye, Theodore.â€ Well, farmers know theyâ€™re destructive, and Mercy is a South Dakota farmer. Sheâ€™s also retired military, back home again. She tends bar, and one night in walks another destroyer, an oil company man. Heâ€™s also Mercyâ€™s army buddyâ€”saved her life once. All these contradictions become the vehicle for the great message of crime fiction: things are not as they seem. The baddies seem more sad than bad. The sheriffâ€™s foot-dragging inspires Mercy to go after his job, but he has reasons for his inaction, and we donâ€™t learn them until nearly the end. And the gorgeous man who breaks hearts just by showing up? Heâ€™s not what you think, either. This is country-western land, beer and Beam, music by George Strait and Dwight Yoakam. Readers easy with that side of America will enjoy Mercyâ€”tough, funny, and hardly a girl in a guy suit. --Don Crinklaw\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5760'),
(6367, 'Mercy Thompson 01 - Moon Called', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9627'),
(6368, 'Mercy Thompson 02 - Blood Bound', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9629'),
(6369, 'Mercy Thompson 03 - Iron Kissed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9630'),
(6370, 'Mercy Thompson 04 - Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9628'),
(6371, 'Mercy Thompson 05 - Silver Borne', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9631'),
(6372, 'A Mercy', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Nobel laureate Morrison returns more explicitly to the net of pain cast by slavery, a theme she detailed so memorably in\n <em>\n  Beloved\n </em>\n . Set at the close of the 17th century, the book details America''s untoward foundation: dominion over Native Americans, indentured workers, women and slaves. A slave at a plantation in Maryland offers up her daughter, Florens, to a relatively humane Northern farmer, Jacob, as debt payment from their owner. The ripples of this choice spread to the inhabitants of Jacob''s farm, populated by women with intersecting and conflicting desires. Jacob''s wife, Rebekka, struggles with her faith as she loses one child after another to the harsh New World. A Native servant, Lina, survivor of a smallpox outbreak, craves Florens''s love to replace the family taken from her, and distrusts the other servant, a peculiar girl named Sorrow. When Jacob falls ill, all these women are threatened. Morrison''s lyricism infuses the shifting voices of her characters as they describe a brutal society being forged in the wilderness. Morrison''s unflinching narrative is all the more powerful for its relative brevity; it takes hold of the reader and doesn''t let go until the wrenching final-page crescendo.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Several reviewers ranked\n <em>\n  A Mercy\n </em>\n near the top of Toni Morrison''s catalogueâ€”an impressive feat. Given the subject of slavery, comparisons with\n <em>\n  Beloved\n </em>\n are inevitable; critics tended to think of\n <em>\n  A Mercy\n </em>\n as a more compact companion piece to that work. Many reviewers also noted that\n <em>\n  A Mercy\n </em>\n is more accessible than Morrison''s other novels that were written since she won the Nobel Prize, showing that the award does not, in fact, curse its recipients with literary decline. But a few reviewers also noted the inevitable deference given to an author like Morrison. Some sections of\n <em>\n  A Mercy\n </em>\n may seem obscure, they suggested, but that obscurity simply indicates that those sections deserve another read. The reviewer from the\n <em>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n summed it up nicely: this novel is more accessible than Morrison''s recent work, and is all the better for it. But there is still plenty of allusion and poetry so that you won''t forget who you''re readingâ€”or why there may be a few passages that you''re rereading.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10740'),
(6373, 'Mere Christianity', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis''s books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together. "Excellent for Homeschool Use"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(6374, 'Merlin&#39;s Mirror', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Endowed with the power granted by an alien intelligence, Merlin--with the help of King Arthur--is charged with revitalizing the human race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9121'),
(6375, 'The Mermaid&#39;s Madness', 'Hines, Jim C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9063'),
(6376, 'Merriam-Webster&#39;s Dictionary &amp; Thesaurus', 'Merriam-Webster Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10870'),
(6377, 'Merriam-Webster&#39;s Dictionary and Thesaurus', 'Merriam-Webster &amp; Inc', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two essential language references integrated into one handy trade paperback volume. â€¢ Nearly 60,000 alphabetical dictionary entries. â€¢ More than 13,000 thesaurus entries including extensive synonym lists. â€¢ Clear and concise word guidance including abundant example phrases â€¢ Based on the best-selling Merriam-Websterâ€™s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Les Hewitt, coauthor of The Power of Focus is an international workshop facilitator and popular motivational speaker. He founded The Achievers Coaching Program in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which now includes 450 training programs operating in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. He is an active member of the North Calgary Community Church.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5128'),
(6378, 'Merrick', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch, Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the Great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she inherits the power and magical knowledge of a Circe.Into this exotic New Orleans realm comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick''s haunting tale--a tale that takes us from the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, from the Mayan ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet explored.Anne Rice''s richly told novel weaves an irresistible story of two worlds: the witches'' world and the vampires'' world, where magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(6379, 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood', 'Howard Pyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The adventures of the outlaw Robin Hood and his merry men as they evade the king and overcome many a foe in Sherwood Forest\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1730'),
(6380, 'Message in a Bottle', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn''t fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3087'),
(6381, 'The message of the Sphinx: a quest for the hidden legacy of mankind', 'Graham Hancock; Robert Bauval', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy between the Egyptology establishment and various confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a modern-day detective story. of photos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2115'),
(6382, 'The Messenger', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer-photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever. To Allon, there is something terribly familiar about the information, something horrifyingly close--but even he does not realize how close. Urgently, he throws himself into the hunt, but there may simply not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. An extraordinary enemy walks among them . . . and he''s just getting started. Filled with remarkable characters and breathtaking double and triple turns of plot, The Messenger solidifies Silva''s reputation as his generations'' finest writer of international thrillers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6920'),
(6383, 'Messiah', 'S. Andrew Swann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The last stand against the self-proclaimed God, Adam, has retreated to the anarchic planet Bakunin-a world besieged by civil war. Humanity''s last hope lies with Nickolai Rajasthan, a Moreau who believes that the human race that created his kind is already damned beyond redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7238');
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(6384, 'The Messiah Secret', 'James Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Becker gathers many familiar elements of the religious artifact subgenre and reshuffles them into an entertaining, hunt-and-chase thriller that races from the English countryside to a hidden valley in the Middle East. Angela Lewis, a British Museum ceramics conservator, persuades her ex-husband with whom she remains friendly, police detective Chris Bronson, to join her at Carfax Hall, the Suffolk estate of recently murdered minor aristocrat Oliver Wendell-Carfax, who has willed his collection of antiques and ancient relics to the museum. At the hall, the pair uncover clues that point to an ancient treasure, one that Angela and Bronson have searched for in two earlier books, The First Apostle and The Moses Stone. A mad priest, who doesn''t want the treasure to be found, and a greedy industrialist, who desires it for economic gain, make trouble. Appealing and clever protagonists coupled with intriguing history set this above the average Dan Brown clone. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Assessing the contents of a lavish English estate, museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a crate full of sealed pottery jars-one of which holds a parchment which describes the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Angela, the find is a miracle-a written reference to Jesus outside of the New Testament. But her discovery draws her and her husband, Chris, into a centuries-old race for the truth that they may not win...or survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5930'),
(6385, 'Metagame', 'Sam Landstrom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n Speculative science fiction at its finest,\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n by Sam Landstrom is a â€˜future gamersâ€™ field guide and a philosophical cyberpunk adventure. In this original and disturbingly irreverent prospective world, gaming is more than a diversionâ€”and gamers are, literally, in it for life. The OverSoul, an enigmatic, unifying force, offers winners points that add up to currency. Reigning champs are given the gift of immortalityâ€”while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light is one of the best players in his Family and will do anything to win, even if it means committing murder. When heâ€™s invited to a MetaGameâ€”an exclusive, high-stakes competitionâ€”he jumps at the chance. But after the first quest, D_Lightâ€™s overly ambitious ways brand him a renegade. With a warped sense of freewill that is needed to prevail, D_Light must either kill someone heâ€™s grown to loveâ€”or lose everything.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Sam Landstrom\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n takes place in a futuristic world where biotech, nanotech, gaming, and "religion" merge to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. How did you dream up the story line?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Funny you should say "dream," because thatâ€™s literally how it started. One night I had a vivid dream in which I was a devil in a ghetto apartment complex and was being hunted by the police. The whole idea took off from there. Gradually, I built a world around that single scene. For months, I fleshed out the world in a private blog with over 60 posts with titles like "Fashion," "Economics," "Religion," "Lingo," "Work," etc. I continually worked to hook these together logically, keeping in mind that one aspect of this futuristic society would influence the others. Once I felt I had a reasonable world, I hung a plot outline on it (including my dream scene). As I wrote the book, the world continued to evolve; in fact, the present book has only a slight resemblance to those early blog posts I created two years ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve previously worked in a lab programming robots to help sequence the human genome. Did this experience and background knowledge play a role in the story?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n At a high level, yes. Back in the lab, before I got interested in software, I wanted to be a genetic engineer. I felt then, as I do now, that biotechnology will eventually become ubiquitous in our lives and so I wanted to help design that future. At the same time, I wondered what exactly that future would look like. To me, being able to engineer the living is an incredibly powerful technology that can do wonderful things for humanity, but, at the same time, elicits in me a primal dread... just the sort of stew I like for fiction! Obviously, Iâ€™m not the only one with such an outlook, since biotech is a sci-fi staple.\n</p>\n<p>\n I donâ€™t include lab techniques or techs from that job because they would be far obsolete in the future. Heck, theyâ€™re completely obsolete now, and itâ€™s only been 10 years! Given this, the technology I wrote about is a wild extrapolation, an entertaining guess, really. About all I tried to convey in the book from my time at the lab, in a literal sense, was the genuine passion and intelligence I observed in those who work in this field.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What research did you do while writing\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Most of the research I did was related to confirming that the future technologies presented in the book are even theoretically possible and how they might be implemented. For example, how can a machine read and write to a personâ€™s mind? With difficulty, as it turns out! Luckily for my readers, I only used this research to color my descriptions and confine the scope of these future technologies, not to provide in-depth specifications. Thanks to this balance, I think\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n gets to stay in the hard sci-fi category while remaining, first and foremost, an entertaining book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What authors or books have influenced your writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Lucky for me, the public school system forced me to read\n <em>\n  1984\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Brave New World\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Fahrenheit 451\n </em>\n . These books were more about sociology and philosophy than technology, and they taught me that sci-fi did not necessarily require aliens or spaceships.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to these stand-alone books, I really enjoyed the Dune series by Frank Herbert because he built up a fully realized universe that included components of religion, politics, economics, and even ecology. Dune had a big influence on\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I have heard from several readers that\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n shares elements with Neal Stephensonâ€™s work. This might not be a coincidence since I read\n <em>\n  The Diamond Age\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n before writing\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n . Good stuff.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n fits solidly in the sci-fi/cyberpunk genre, but also weaves in philosophy and thriller writing. Have you considered trying your hand at other genres in the future?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Yes, in fact Iâ€™m writing a fantasy novel now. Magic, monsters, infinite dimensions, a high school kegger.. You get the idea--not hard sci-fi, but entertaining and, hopefully, a bit thought provoking.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Have you always wanted to write? What other careers have you pursued?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve wanted to write off and on over the years. When I was really young (like 8-9 years old) I pumped out books; however, these quick reads emphasized pictures over writing. The art sported a lot of guns blazing, swords swinging, blood spraying, heads flying through the air, etc. I went to a hippie school that wasnâ€™t big into formal education. I remember my older cousin reading one of my books, after which he told me, "You need to start a sentence with a capital letter and end with a period." First of all, I didnâ€™t know what he was talking about and second, who cares? I didnâ€™t understand why he wasnâ€™t praising me for the awesome action scenes. I mean, you just didnâ€™t see that kind of stuff in books I found in the library, much less at school! I like to think my writing has improved since those days, although my grammar could still use some work. Thank God for good editors.\n</p>\n<p>\n As an adult, Iâ€™ve had many different career interests I considered pursuing, including underwater archaeology and neurology. When I started college, I actually went in with the intention of becoming a doctor, but quickly discovered I was more into the science of medicine than the actual application of it, hence the degree in molecular biology. Aside from working in software (my current career) and in biotech, I spent a lot of time on the water as a deck hand, first on a passenger ferry, and then on a small cruise ship in Alaska. I was really considering a life at sea. However, it turns out I was ill suited to the regimen of a sailorâ€™s job. Captains were not impressed with what I thought were creative solutions to problems, nor with me setting my own priorities.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What''s next for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m sort of writing three books at once--the fantasy novel I mentioned earlier, as well as a prequel and sequel to\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n . Iâ€™ve made the most progress on the fantasy, so thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ll likely finish first. On the side, I also started developing a smart-phone application that is a virtual boyfriend for young women. I hope to make him handsome and charming, even as he speaks in a computer-generated Stephen Hawking voice. Iâ€™ve heard you can get a long way with flattery, so Iâ€™m hoping a phone can successfully use the same strategy. Iâ€™m not sure when Iâ€™ll finish that, if ever. By the way, Iâ€™d make a virtual girlfriend too, but giving men what they want through a phone (or any media) is too easy.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life is a game, literally. Winners earn immortality, while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light, a gifted player, knows this all too well and heâ€™s willing to do anything to winâ€”even kill. It is no wonder then that when given the chance to enter a MetaGameâ€”an exclusive, high-stakes, anything goes contestâ€”heâ€™s quick to jump at the opportunity. The MetaGame starts out well enough for D_Light, the first quest being to hunt down a dangerous fugitive, but through his own ambition, the tables turn and D_Light finds himself the renegade. Now, D_Light pits himself against his world to find the truth behind â€œThe Gameâ€ and must decide between winning it and saving whatâ€™s left of his humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n This 122,000 word (~400 page) novel blends emerging political and cultural trends, such as gaming culture, globalization, and the ever-increasing hegemony of corporations, with technological trends, such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Emerging from this stew is an original world for you to explore through the point of view of its many "players".\n</p>\n<p>\n Author''s Note\n <br />\n I welcome any feedback you have! Here are a few options:\n <br />\n - Post a review\n <br />\n - Post a discussion thread on this page\n <br />\n - email me at snoutholder at yahoo.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7290'),
(6386, 'Metal Swarm', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anderson''s super-size mosaic of intergalactic, Darwinian conflict has been compared to some of the genre''s grandest epics with good reason, but the breakneck sixth book (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Of Fire and Night\n </em>\n ) of this shelf-bending space opera fails to satisfy on its own merits. The quickly deteriorating Terran Hanseatic League (Hansa), the formidable Ildiran Empire and the newly created Confederation of Hansa''s ex-colonies and rivals are in a fight for their very existence, battling not only each other but rogue robots, sentient fire entities and an ancient insectoid race, thought long extinct, which plans to eradicate all life on the planets it claims to own. Although Anderson brings all of his considerable skill to bear, much of the action-packed conflict remains relatively predictable, perhaps due to the unwieldy cast of characters, tapestry of intertwining subplots and eon-spanning backstory. A sparse conclusion leaves readers hanging in anticipation of book seven.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity''s friends, but their seeming "help" allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Horse throughout the Earth Defense Forces. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient robots built by the Klikiss continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships.\n</p>\n<p>\n Among the humans, the Hansa''s brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence.\n</p>\n<p>\n And meanwhile, the original, voracious Klikiss race, long thought to be extinct, has returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone in the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7205'),
(6387, 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII', 'Ovid .', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Ovid is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Ovid then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10058'),
(6388, 'Metamorphosis', 'Jean Lorrah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unexplained gravitational disturbances summon Captain Picard and the "Starship Enterprise"TM to the planet Elysia, and the android Lieutenant Commander Data to a date with destiny. For on this alien world, he is drawn into an impossible quest, leading him to consequences both heartwarming and disastrous, as he finally dares to pursue his fondest desire: to become human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7990'),
(6389, 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories', 'Franz Kafka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A timeless depiction of the nightmare world of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(6390, 'Metaphysics - Aristotle', 'Aristotle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Metaphysics is Aristotle''s version of philosophy examining the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. Aristotle argues that there are a handful of universal truths. Aristotle''s works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: "There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses." He wrote that everything that is learned in life is learned through sensory perception. Aristotle was the first to establish the founding principle of logic. The great writer Dante called Aristotle "The Master of those who know."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9621'),
(6391, 'The Metrical History of Tom Thumb the Little, as Issued Early in the 18th Century', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(6392, 'Metro 2033', 'Dmitry Glukhovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man''s time is over.A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity''s last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro''s best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(6393, 'Metro Girl', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver whoâ€™s good at revving a woman''s engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker''s sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he''ll attach himself to Barney and maybe run into scumbag Bill. And better yet, maybe he''ll get lucky in love with Bill''s sweetie pie sister. The pedal will have to go to metal if Barney and Hooker want to be the first to cross the finish line, save Bill, Hooker''s boat...and maybe the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2145'),
(6394, 'Metropolis', 'Thea von Harbou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bring The Classics To Life Series - Reading Level 5.0-6.0 This novel has been adapted into 10 short reading chapters. Ages 7+ and English Language Learners of all ages. 8.5""x11"" ""worktext"". Abridged with excersice acitivities built in along with answer keys.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This science fiction classic needs a "big screen," even on audio. The dazzling music, sound and special effects bring the listener to the pulsing, eerie center of the machine-dominated year 2027. With earphones the listener wants more space to hear and experience the fanatsy and eerie reality. Metropolis, a Hugo Award-winner, is best known as the 1930''s film prophesying the decay of humanism and self-control. Ziggurat has gone back to the original novel and adapted it to a spectacular radio play. A cast of at least a dozen actors contributes voices of varying ages and styles. The program rivets the listener. This program belongs with Welles''s War of the Worlds and other well-loved futurist classics. R.F.W. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7479'),
(6395, 'The Metropolis Case: A Novel', 'Matthew Gallaway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his ambitious debut, Gallaway jumps backward and forward in time between two cities, spiraling in on four characters connected by music: Lucien, an opera singer coming-of-age in mid-19th-century Paris; Anna, an opera singer reaching the height of her career in 1960s New York; Maria, an extraordinarily promising young singer but a difficult student; and Martin, an aging lawyer whose love of music might save his life. The ties between them are at first so tenuous that readers may wonder when, how, or if their narratives will converge. But Wagner''s Tristan and Isolde touches each in some way, as does, eventually, eternal life, a device that allows Gallaway to chronicle 1860s Paris and 1960s New York through the eyes of one character. Gallaway, a former musician, gives music a literary presence, intertwining opera and punk by illuminating their shared passion and chaos. But ambition sometimes gives way to pretension (particularly with chapter titles such as "Fashion Is a Canon for this Dialect Also") and purple prose, but the story remains grounded by characters grappling with love, in some cases for eternity. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Author Matthew Gallaway has taken a great risk with his first novel by creating an intricate, multilayered tale that slides from past to present, from Europe to New York, from opera to pop. But despite the complexity,\n <em>\n  The Metropolis Case\n </em>\n engages the reader emotionally on every page."--_The Washington Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œItâ€™s to the credit of Matthew Gallawayâ€™s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesnâ€™t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well written â€” thereâ€™s hardly a lazy sentence here â€” and filled with such memorable lead and supporting players that it quickly absorbs you into its worlds.â€â€”_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "An absorbing and intricately plotted first novel. Gallaway excels at the long form, producing a dense, well-structured puzzle. Like the opera that ultimately binds his characters together, CASE lingers beyond the final note."--\n </em>\n Out Magazine_ (Critic''s Pick)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Matthew Gallaway''s epic debut novel, intimately intertwined with Wagner''s "Tristan and isolde," is itself an operatic masterpiece. Gallaway''s wonderful prose leaves you hungry for more."--_AM New York_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gallaway is a perceptive and graceful author in his own right whose moving story will appeal to Wagnerian experts and neophytes alike."--_LosÂ AngelesÂ Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œGallawayâ€™s novel, is not just an intricate, complex, and multilayered novel, but also a rewarding read, that leaves the audience looking forward to Gallawayâ€™s next work.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n <em>\n  The Manhattan Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œMr. Gallaway writes epically, with multiple points of view, multiple stories. Historical and profound, he handles everything beautifully. He is a rich storyteller, and an evocative writer; the complexity of his characters, the rich scenes and the lyrical prose all make it hard to believe that this is his first novel.â€_\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ_A cerebral novel_.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Historical Novels Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Matthew Gallawayâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Metropolis Case\n </em>\n is an ambitious, heady, intelligent and engaging first novel about the healing powers of artâ€¦it solidifies into a page turner, and better still, delivers on a wide range of concerns that go far beyond the musical interests that center the bookâ€™s narrative.â€_\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Lambda Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œAs ambitious a debut as they come, this sweeping first novel travels across not\n <br />\n only continents but centuries as well.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEven for a reader unacquainted with opera,\n <em>\n  The Metropolis Case\n </em>\n enthralls.\n <br />\n Theatrical history, training at Julliard, opening night at the Metropolitanâ€”this is an engaging and unusual subject matter. _The Metropolis Case\n <em>\n  is an intriguing debut from a fresh, unique voice.â€â€”\n </em>\n Bookpage\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Gallaway, a former musician, gives music a literary presence, intertwining opera and punk by illuminating their shared passion and chaos."--_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A pleasingly intricate puzzle."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Matthew Gallaway''s fascinating and erudite debut novel is aÂ portrait of the passion of several singers across the ages for a single opera, and turns into its own kind of novelistic chorus.Â LikeÂ _Tristan und Isolde,_Â the opera at its center, it is complete with wrong love, sacrifice and even a potion. An original new talent has arrived."--Â \n <br />\n Alexander Chee, author of\n <em>\n  Edinburgh\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Queen of the Night\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know next to nothing about opera and I\n <em>\n  loved\n </em>\n this book. Let me go further: I actually (don''t tell anyone) find opera a bit dull, but now consider me a big buff -- if no other reason than it gave us this powerful, beautiful, wondrous novel."--Darin Strauss, author of\n <em>\n  Chang and Eng\n </em>\n and _Half a Life\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Matthew Gallaway possesses a massive vision and a wizard-like ability to weave story lines.\n <em>\n  The Metropolis Case\n </em>\n is an ambitious and beautiful book sure to find a devoted following."--Shane Jones, author of _Light Boxes\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "_The Metropolis Case_ is a terrifically engaging and elegantly panoramic novel that is sure to appeal to fans of majestic fiction such as Kostova''s\n <em>\n  The Historian\n </em>\n ."--Katharine Weber, author of\n <em>\n  True Confections\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Triangle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4941'),
(6396, 'Miami Massacre', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan is informed that Mafia overlords are meeting in Florida toomake arrangements to wipe him out - permanently! He penetrates their inner council, only to encounter the guns of the dreaded Talifero brothers. They are skilled "enforcers" whose cold-blooded modus operandi makes them powerful foes to be feared and respected - even by THE EXECUTIONER! Overcoming near insurmountable odds, Bolan strikes with devastating force - once more catching the Mafia big shots off guard. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(6397, 'Micah', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Vampire hunter extraordinaire Anita Blake arrives in Philadelphia to raise a witness from the dead so that his testimony can be taken with the help of Micah, the king of the wereleopards, but she is more fearful of spending time alone with Micah, her former lover, than dealing with a zombie. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2794'),
(6398, 'Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958-2009', 'J. Randy Taraborrelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A top 10 bestseller, this definitive biography of Michael Jackson is now completely updated to include the events leading to the untimely death of the star. J. Randy Taraborrelli is "the" expert on Michael Jackson, having known him since they were both teenagers and having interviewed the singer and his family many times. So much has been written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. J. Randy Taraborrelli cuts through the tabloid rumours and innuendo, the conflicting stories and lurid accusations, to reveal the real man. From his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent, from his ever-changing personal appearance to his marriages, from his addictions to his love for his children, we see what motivated one of the greatest performers of all time. Objective and revealing, this book combines impeccable research, brilliant story-telling and a clear-sighted understanding of the forces that shaped Michael''s life and his death. ''The most authoritative book ever written about Michael Jackson'' "Daily Mail " " " ''A superbly researched investigation'' "heat"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1679'),
(6399, 'Michael Symon&#39;s Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen', 'Michael Symon &amp; Michael Ruhlman &amp; Bobby Flay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Michael Symonâ€™s Live to Cook\n  </em>\n  : Veal Chop Milanese with Arugula Salad\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a very simple dish to make and is also one that works with all sorts of different meats, such as chicken, pork, beef, and most game. It makes a great late lunch or early dinner in the summertime when tomatoes and arugula are bountiful. The thing I love about it is you get some great texture from the standard breading, and the arugula salad keeps things light and flavorful.\n <em>\n  -- Michael Symon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ingredients\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  4 bone-in veal chops, each 12 ounces\n </li>\n <li>\n  2 cups all-purpose flour\n </li>\n <li>\n  4 large eggs\n </li>\n <li>\n  2 cups panko bread crumbs\n </li>\n <li>\n  1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese\n </li>\n <li>\n  Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper\n </li>\n <li>\n  1/4 cup olive oil\n </li>\n <li>\n  2 tablespoons unsalted butter\n </li>\n <li>\n  1 garlic clove, minced\n </li>\n <li>\n  Juice of 1 lemon\n </li>\n <li>\n  1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil\n </li>\n <li>\n  1 red onion, thinly sliced\n </li>\n <li>\n  3 cups arugula\n </li>\n <li>\n  1 cup grape tomatoes, halved\n </li>\n <li>\n  12 fresh basil leaves\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n (Serves four)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Directions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Put the veal chops on a cutting board and cover them with a large piece of plastic wrap. With a meat mallet, pound the meat to 1/4 inch thick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set up a breading station: In three separate bowls put the flour, eggs, and bread crumbs. Lightly whisk the eggs. Stir the Parmesan into the bread crumbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Season the veal chops liberally with salt and pepper. Dredge them in flour and shake off the excess, then dip them in egg, and then in bread crumbs to coat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heat a large sautÃ© pan over medium heat and add the olive oil and butter. When the fat is hot add the veal chops and cook until golden brown, 4 to 6 minutes per side. Remove to paper towels to drain until ready to serve.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a large mixing bowl combine the garlic, lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon salt. Whisk in the extra-virgin olive oil. Add the onion, toss to coat evenly, and let marinate for 10 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add the arugula, tomatoes, and basil to the dressing and gently toss together.\n</p>\n<p>\n To serve, place a veal chop in the center of each plate and top with salad.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cleveland''s most famous restaurateur, Symon is an iron chef on the Food Network, and he''s got the personality to hang with Mario Batali and Bobby Flay. His fun, brash appeal often shines through in this collection of bold and surprisingly simple to master recipes. He doesn''t hold back with the flavorings: a simple linguine with heirloom tomatoes is spiced with capers, anchovies and chili, and even veggie side dishesâ€”peas and pancetta; Ohio creamed corn with bacon; crispy cauliflower with anchovy aioliâ€”are decadent. Chapters on pickling and charcuterie are evidence that this is a legit chef''s cookbook, but he makes such recipes as lamb bresaola, duck confit, and pickled ramps completely approachable. Though the prose feels dashed off (one paragraph says Symon''s food is reliant on good technique and a few lines later claims it uses almost no technique whatsoever) and the design is occasionally forced (chapter contents and some headings are displayed in a font apparently meant to evoke Symon''s many tattoos, but they''re barely legible), the recipes are very strong. This volume is excellent for anyone who wants to cook like a chef without a lot of stress._ (Nov.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6597'),
(6400, 'Michael&#39;s Discovery', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE SAILOR WAS EDGY, STUBBORN...AND THE LOVE OF HER LIFE. For years, Kelly Andrews had waited for her big brother''s best friend to notice her. Now navy SEAL Michael Devaney was back in Boston--as her bitter physical therapy patient...but still every inch her hero. She vowed he could be whole again--with a little help from his family and her healing touch. Broken in body and spirit, Michael seemed determined to defy Kelly and his reunited kin. Although he finally gazed at her with the passion she''d always craved, Michael held himself back, saying he was only half a man. How could Kelly convince her lifelong beloved that he was all the man she would ever need?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4156'),
(6401, 'Microcosmic God', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10476'),
(6402, 'Microsoft Word - A Love For All Nights EBOOK', 'andemur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9318'),
(6403, 'Microsoft Word - LX_BountyHunter.htm', 'Margaret Riley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11057'),
(6404, 'Microsoft Word - White Witch.doc', 'me', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9635'),
(6405, 'The Midden', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Timothy Brights doesn''t exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can''t understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds'' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it''s the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable''s wife. The Chief Constable has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not too concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering, and a spot of GBH. It is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, hat things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3884'),
(6406, 'Middlemarch', 'George Eliot; Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Megan Mcdaniel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  George Eliot\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist,\n <strong>\n  George Eliot\n </strong>\n (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the storyâ€™s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brookeâ€”a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equally idealistic, falls in love with the pretty but vain and superficial Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s. But Dorotheaâ€™s and Lydgateâ€™s struggles to retain their moral integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy remind us that their world is very much like our own. Strikingly modern in its painful ironies and psychological insight,\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n was pivotal in the shaping of twentieth-century literary realism.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lynne Sharon Schwartz\n </strong>\n is the author of fourteen books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including the novels\n <em>\n  Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  In the Family Way\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Ruined by Reading\n </em>\n . Her poetry collection\n <em>\n  In Solitary\n </em>\n and her translation of\n <em>\n  A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg\n </em>\n appeared in 2002.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Lynn Sharon Schwartz''s Introduction to\n  <em>\n   Middlemarch\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eliot is not one for indirection or delay, or for obscurity. If anything, she makes things uncomfortably lucid, like a too-bright light that permits no mitigating shadows. On the very first page, Dorothea is likened to Saint Theresa, whose "passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life, . . . some illimitable satisfaction . . . which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self"-an arresting comparison, which is immediately qualified. Many Theresas are born, Eliot says, and then doomed to "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." Dorothea Brooke, luckily, does not suffer a lifetime of mistakes, but on the brink of adulthood- she''s not quite twenty-she makes just one, and a terrible mistake it is. Against the urging of her uncle and guardian, the foolish and nonchalant Mr. Brooke, her shrewd younger sister Celia, and her would-be suitor, the unimaginative but decent Sir James Chettam, she marries the wrong man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Victorian novels often turn on choices in marriage, and here\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n follows suit. Eliot hints that if Dorothea had had a mother to advise her, she might not have leaped so hastily into error. But as in so many novels of the time (a stunning example is George Meredith''s\n <em>\n  The Egoist\n </em>\n , which turns on a young woman''s being coerced into a disastrous match), no such mother-figure exists. No doubt this is partly a practical choice: Any marriage plot would be stymied from the start if the heroine avoided her mistake. Besides, readers loved (and still do) watching young women in sexual and emotional peril. But more important, no serious role existed in fiction for sensible, mature women. Until fairly recently, interesting women characters were required to be young, on the threshold of their one momentous decision. Older women in positions of authority tend either to be superannuated or ridiculous and useless-witness Mrs. Bennet, mother of five marriageable daughters in Jane Austen''s much earlier\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n In any case,\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n , unlike so many notable works of its period, does not end at the altar with the prospect of a settled, if unsatisfying, future; it begins with the marriage and traces the course of its agonies to the final death rattle.\n</p>\n<p>\n One could hardly imagine a worse choice for a young woman of brimming energy and "a certain spiritual grandeur." Edward Casaubon is devoid of grandeur of any kind. The chapter in which Dorothea meets him opens aptly with an epigraph from Don Quixote: The bemused knight sees a cavalier with a golden helmet approaching on a dapple-gray steed, while the down-to-earth Sancho Panza sees "a man on a gray ass . . . who carries something shiny on his head." A dry, pompous pedant engaged in a huge and hopeless research project on mythology, Casaubon is more than twice Dorothea''s age and singularly unappealing, as Celia-playing Sancho Panza to Dorothea''s Quixote-points out with sisterly bluntness: "Can''t you hear how he scrapes his spoon? And he always blinks before he speaks." Right from the start, then, the situation offers one of those tortured yet delicious moments in fiction when the reader wants to pluck the heroine back from her impetuous rush to folly but at the same time can''t wait to see the folly play itself out.\n</p>\n<p>\n However grotesque it appears, the choice is implicit in Dorothea''s nature. In the first chapter, she shows a taste for righteous self-denial, a streak of ascetic Puritanism. When she and Celia divide up their late mother''s jewelry, Dorothea tries to "justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy." She loves riding horses but "felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it." Obviously she is avoiding the sensual, and by implication, the erotic; in that regard, her choice is uncannily protective. Marriage to Casaubon would certainly keep her safe from physical passion. Beyond that, Dorothea is awed by what she takes to be Casaubon''s learning; assisting him in his research, she imagines, will be the ideal goal for her restless energies. She goes so far as to envision his estate, Lowick, as the testing ground for her schemes to improve the tenant farmers'' living conditions. In a cunningly ironic moment, she is disappointed to discover Lowick in such good order that little remains to be done. Her reforming zeal is so abstract that she would enjoy finding the farmers ground down by miseries she might then alleviate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dorothea''s notions of married life are comically naive: She views it as an initiation into ideas. But from the first moment, Casaubon''s gloomy house, full of "anterooms and winding passages," and Casaubon himself, with his pigeonhole mind, are more stifling than stimulating. Despite her mighty efforts to make allowances, despite her self-deceptions (Eliot''s characters are masters of self-deception), in no time at all Dorothea is sunk in a "nightmare of a life in which every energy was arrested by dread." Her limited education abroad is as nothing compared to this schooling in reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Casaubon is no less disillusioned. In a grimly humorous passage, Eliot outlines his motives for marrying-entirely willed, painfully rational-and his dismay at the outcome. He had "determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling, and perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was." If "the quality and breadth of our emotion" is of supreme value to Eliot, then the shallowness of Casaubon''s feelings is her supreme censure. Still, it is a measure of her even-handed sympathies that Casaubon is not made wholly monstrous. However unattractive, he is human, and granted human complexity. In the remarkable chapter 29, Eliot reveals his rankling disappointments and self-doubts, his secret awareness of his own failure, with an acuteness that compels a grudging compassion. When his bitterness finally turns against Dorothea, its source is all too clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Into this dour nightmare of a marriage steps Casaubon''s maverick nephew Will Ladislaw, an unconventional outsider by birth as well as by inclination. Like Dorothea, Will is driven by feeling, not logic. "The bow of a violin drawn near him cleverly, would at one stroke change the aspect of the world for him, and his point of view shifted as easily as his mood." In such volatile natures-maybe even in all natures-ideas are rooted in temperament rather than reason, a notion more congenial to our postmodern sensibility than to a Victorian. Will''s feelings do not arise from some vaguely religious morality, like Dorothea''s, but from an equally vague aestheticized view of the world. He seems a harbinger of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood of Eliot''s own era, those poets, painters and critics (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, William Morris, and John Ruskin, among others) who indulged in a cult of beauty steeped in nostalgia for the preindustrial simplicities of the Middle Ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will and Dorothea meet, fittingly, in an art gallery in Rome. They show their true-and contrasting-colors in one of their first exchanges. Dorothea declares she believes in doing good. If that proves impossible, simply desiring what is good will succeed in "widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower." Will counters this sweet but hopelessly ingenuous outlook with his own philosophy: "To love what is good and beautiful when I see it. . . . But I am a rebel: I don''t feel bound, as you do, to submit to what I don''t like."\n</p>\n<p>\n Some readers, especially those who idealize Dorothea and overlook her naÃ¯vetÃ©, have found Will an inadequate match for her, a comedown from her high-minded dreams. On the contrary, the pairing perfectly suits Eliot''s design. Dorothea is never meant to realize her fantasies of mystical transcendence, of transforming the world; detached as they are from anything practical, they may be impossible in any event. Virginia Woolf, in a 1925 essay in\n <em>\n  The Common Reader\n </em>\n (see "For Further Reading"), illuminates the nature of such longings in Eliot''s heroines: "The ancient consciousness of woman, charged with suffering and sensibility, overflowed and uttered a demand for something-they scarcely know what-for something that is perhaps incompatible with the facts of human existence. . . . Save for the supreme courage of their endeavour, the struggle ends, for her heroines, in tragedy, or in a compromise that is even more melancholy" (p. 241).\n</p>\n<p>\n Only in fantasy can Dorothea ever be a Saint Theresa. "The medium in which [her] ardent deeds took shape is for ever gone"-Eliot''s sober acknowledgment, at the very end, of the unheroic tenor of the times. But besides the narrow opportunities at hand, the unfocused nature of Dorothea''s ardor precludes any secular sainthood. Her fate, like most fates, is one of compromise, though not especially melancholy. Will isn''t a bad bargain. Their passionate, wayward, ineffectual natures complement each other and perhaps grow more effectual in the bargain. Will''s carelessness serves as a check to Dorothea''s overblown (even self-aggrandizing) sense of responsibility. His lightness balances her gravity. His aestheticism makes him a more congenial partner than Casaubon''s suffocating pedantry. In the end, theirs is a marriage of the moral and the aesthetic-unworldly, yes, but benign and enlivening, and definitely sustained by breadth of emotion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10664');
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(6407, 'Middlesex', 'Jeffrey Eugenides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ""I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver''s license...records my first name simply as Cal."" So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, "Middlesex "is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, graduated from Brown University, and received an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was published in 1993. Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA "New York Times" Editors'' ChoiceA "Los Angeles Times" Best BookNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeLambda Literary Award Nominee In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls'' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie''s failure to develop physically--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation--and a guilty secret--that have followed Callie''s grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family''s second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene''s epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence--Jeffrey Eugenides'' long-awaited second novel is a grand, original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."--Jeff Turrentine, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Jeffrey Eugenides is a big and big-hearted talent, and "Middlesex" is a weird, wonderful novel that will sweep you off your feet."--Jonathan Franzen "Impressive [and] wonderfully engaging . . . A Buddenbrooks-like saga that traces three generations'' efforts to grapple with America and with their own versions of the American Dream . . . [Eugenides] has not only followed up on a precocious debut with a broader and more ambitious book, but in doing so, he has also delivered a deeply affecting portrait of one family''s tumultuous engagement with the American 20th century . . . It is a novel that employs all its author''s rich storytelling talents to give us one Greek-American family''s idiosyncratic journey from the not-so-pearly gates of Ellis Island to the suburban vistas of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, while at the same time tracing the rise and fall in fortunes of Detroit, from its apotheosis as the Motor City in the 40''s and 50''s through the race riots of 1967 and its subsequent decline. It is also a novel that invokes ancient myths and contemporary pop songs to show how family traits and inclinations are passed down generation to generation, a novel that uses musical leitmotifs to show the unexpected ways in which chance and fate weave their improvisations into the loom of family life."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "One of the delights of "Middlesex" is how soundly it''s constructed, with motifs and characters weaving through the novel''s episodes, pulling it tight . . . His narrator is a soul who inhabits a liminal realm, a creature able to bridge the divisions that plague humanity, endowed with ''the ability to communicate between the genders, to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both. That utopian reach makes "Middlesex" deliriously American; the novel''s patron saint is Walt Whitman, and it has some of the shagginess of that poet''s verse to go along with the exuberance. But mostly it is a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love."--Laura Miller, "The New York Times Book Review" "At last Detroit has its great novel. What Dublin got from James Joyce--a sprawling, ambitious, loving exasperated, and playful chronicle of all its good and bad parts--Detroit has from native son Eugenides."--"Detroit Free Press" "A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."--Jeff Turrentine, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Whatever you might be expecting, "Middlesex" will surprise you . . . a rolling epic . . . the kind of book that urges you to be read in one day, then reread."--Jonathan Safran Foer, "Bomb" "Rollicking, gleefully inventive . . . "Middlesex" serves as a tribute to Nabokovian themes . . . Eugenides recounts the revelation of Callie''s genetic abnormality through a series of near-discoveries that are amazingly, comically missed."--"The Washington Post" "A big, cheeky, splendid novel, and its confidence is part of its success, because it goes places few narrators would dare to tread . . . Because Eugenides has imbued his second novel with transcontinental range and historical depth, he has thrown open the gates of Ithaca and sent his narrator on the road. And because he has remembered that the human experience of it is the sine qua non of any adventure, he has given us something lyrical and fine."--Gail Caldwell, "The Boston Globe" ""Middlesex" is a novel about discovery, one man''s discovery of his place in the world and acceptance of his singularity, his uniqueness. In the process, it is a novel that challenges our preconceptions about gender and our understanding of the universal truths of growing up and growing old."--Michael Pearson, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" ""Middlesex" sweeps the reader along with easy grace and charm, tactfully concealing intelligence, sophistication, and the ache of earned wisdom beneath bushels of inventive storytelling . . . the novel''s carefully studied casual look . . . [is] a little like Callie''s mismatched features-''taken all together, something captivating emerged. An inadvertent harmony.''"--"The New York Observer" "An Epic . . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness."--"People " "["Middlesex" is] one of the most impressive American novels . . . Eugenides has created a spirited, high-energy comic epic. At once remarkably readable, intelligent, and moving, Middlesex becomes that rare cultural hybrid, a page-turner that wows the critics."--"Newsday" "A big book so wildly imagined . . . and yet so warm-hearted that it''s hard to resist . . . it is frequently hilarious and touching."--"USA Today " "An often affecting, funny, and deeply human book . . . a charming writer . . . "Middlesex" is enormously ambitious book, whose many stories do indeed gather to present a broad swath of Greek-American life."--"The New Republic " "The verbal energy and narrative range of Saul Bellow''s early fiction (say, " The Adventures of Augie March") are born again in this dazzling novel . . . A virtuosic combination of elegy, sociohistorical study, and picaresque adventure: altogether irresistible."--"Kirkus Reviews" "In his second novel, the author once again proves himself to be a wildly imaginative writer . . . Likely to hold readers in thrall with its affecting characterizations of a brave and lonely soul and its vivid depiction of exactly what it means to be both male and female."--Joanne Wilkinson, "Booklist" "Eugenides proves that he is not only a unique voice in modern literature but also well versed in the nature of the human heart. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal" "From the opening paragraph, in which the narrator explains that he was ''born twice, '' first as a baby girl in 1960, then as a teenage boy in 1974, readers are aware that Calliope Stephanides is a hermaphrodite. To explain his situation, Cal starts in 1922, when his grandparents came to America. In his role as the ''prenatal narrator, '' he tells the love story of this couple, who are brother and sister; his parents are blood relatives as well. Then he tells his own story, which is that of a female child growing up in suburban Detroit with typical adolescent concerns. Callie, as he is know then, worries because she hasn''t developed breasts or started menstruating; her facial hair is blamed on her ethnicity, and she and her mother go to get waxed together. She develops a passionate crush on her best girlfriend, ''the Object, '' and consummates it in a manner both detached and steamy. Then an accident causes Callie to find out what she''s been suspecting--she''s not actually a girl. The story questions what it is that makes us who we are and concludes that one''s inner essence stays the same, even in light of drastic outer changes. Mostly, the novel remains a universal narrative of a girl who''s happy to grow up but hates having to leave her old self behind. Readers will love watching the narrator go from Callie to Cal, and witnessing all of the life experiences that get her there."--"School Library Journal"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2080'),
(6408, 'Midnight', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified--if not brutally murdered in the dead of night...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1453'),
(6409, 'Midnight at the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A Big, bold book that takes traditional science fiction and turns it upside down!"-- Leigh Brackett --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid -- all once as human as he.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Nathan Brazil''s metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those...and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived -- and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were...lucky?...enough to find it!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5624'),
(6410, 'Midnight Caller', 'Diane Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three deaths, one connection-the anonymous calls all three women reported in the weeks before they died. Detective Tony Marino wants to close this case before another woman disappears. Especially when he meets a fatherless little boy whose mother is being stalked. Single mom Erin O''Malley tells Tony about her anonymous caller''s heavy breathing and unnerving silences. And the feeling of being watched-constantly. Now, after years of thinking he had nothing to offer a wife and child, Tony will do anything to protect the family that feels like his own. Because Erinisnext on the killer''s list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(6411, 'Midnight come again', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow''s evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (*Seattle Times*).Now in *Midnight Come Again*, all these elements come together for Stabenow''s most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate''s best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska''s western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate''s last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they''re up to their eyes in Jim''s case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.A magnificent crime novel about life in America''s last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, *Midnight Come Again* is Dana Stabenow''s best novel to date. SUMMARY: Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow''s evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (Seattle Times).Now in Midnight Come Again, all these elements come together for Stabenow''s most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate''s best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska''s western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate''s last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they''re up to their eyes in Jim''s case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.A magnificent crime novel about life in America''s last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, Midnight Come Again is Dana Stabenow''s best novel to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(6412, 'Midnight Hero', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book-loving Bailey Chambers yearned to give herself, body and soul, to sexy SWAT cop Conall O''Rourke. His passionate kisses torched a four-alarm blaze in her body, but her growing fears of losing him to the hazards of his job led to a New Year''s Eve breakup. Then fate intervened.... Trying to convince Bailey to give them a second chance put Con and his lover in the line of fire, fighting deadly enemies with only a few short hours to save innocent hostages--and themselves. As the deadline ticked closer and the danger mounted, Bailey risked losing much more than just her heart....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(6413, 'The Midnight Hour', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this taut, over-the-top romantic thriller, Jackson revisits her popular Madaris Family and Friends series (_Surrender_, etc.). For five years, ex-Marine turned CIA agent Sir Drake Warren has been haunted by recollections of his former fiancee, fellow Marine Sandy Carroll, who was killed in an explosion during a mission in Haiti. The only thing that has kept Drake going is his desire to annihilate Solomon Cross, the psychopathic drug lord who orchestrated Sandy''s death. When Drake is paired with beautiful CIA agent Tori Green on an assignment to rescue the President''s niece from kidnappers, he finally begins to heal. Although he notices eerie similarities between his new love interest and Sandy, he never suspects that the two women are one and the same. This plot twist is more than a little far-fetched, but Jackson smoothly alternates between several points of view and throws in a number of plot twists. Although readers new to this series may be daunted by the complexity of the family trees detailed in the first few pages, Jackson''s knack for creating characters with emotional depth and distinct voices helps readers untangle the relationships in this tension-packed read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n CIA agent Warren Drake is the epitome of a military man in physical stature and personality. After he loses the love of his life, Sandy Carroll, during a military mission in Haiti, he spends the next five years alone, bitter and eager to avenge her death. His senses are awakened when he is ordered to work with a new partner, Victoria Green. Her physical beauty and military skills are enticing, and he falls for the first time since Sandy. Only two people know that Sandy didn''t die, and after her extensive surgeries to change her looks and identity, Sandy is now CIA agent Victoria Green. She senses that Drake is attracted to her yet, she''s unable to tell him she''s Sandy. After an enemy from their past forces them to protect themselves, they team up to put an end to his madness. The suspense and danger of their mission is heightened by their love for and protectiveness of one another. Jackson has written another compelling drama about the Madaris family and their friends.\n <em>\n  Lillian Lewis\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7982'),
(6414, 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story', 'John Berendt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Berendt''s\n <em>\n  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil\n </em>\n has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book''s extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia''s most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt''s depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After discovering in the early 1980s that a super-saver fare to Savannah, Ga., cost the same as an entree in a nouvelle Manhattan restaurant, Esquire columnist Berendt spent the next eight years flitting between Savannah and New York City. The result is this collection of smart, sympathetic observations about his colorful Southern neighbors, including a jazz-playing real estate shark; a sexually adventurous art student; the Lady Chablis ('' "What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.'' "); the gossipy Married Woman''s Card Club; and an assortment of aging Southern belles. The book is also about the wealthy international antiques dealer Jim Williams, who played an active role in the historic city''s restoration--and would also be tried four times for the 1981 shooting death of 21-year-old Danny Handsford, his high-energy, self-destructive house helper. The Williams trials--he died in 1990 of a heart attack at age 59--are lively matches between dueling attorneys fought with shifting evidence, and they serve as both theme and anchor to Berendt''s illuminating and captivating travelogue.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4487'),
(6415, 'Midnight Kiss', 'Robyn Carr; Jean Brashear; Victoria Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   These are New Year''s resolutions worth keeping!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Take a risk.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the inaugural New Year''s Eve party at Jack''s Bar, two lonely revelers decide the best balm for their broken hearts might just be each other.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Find the perfect workâ€“life balance.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a flinty lawyer with a bad-boy addiction meets the quintessential nice guy, sparks fly that consume their expectations of life and love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Get those finances in order.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Working over the holidays on a messy bank takeover is made worse for two federal specialists by an ill-advised kiss that will never happen againâ€¦right?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sunny Archer was seriously considering a legal name change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Come on, Sunny," her uncle Nathaniel said. "Let''s go out on the town and see if we can''t put a little of that legendary sunshine back into your disposition!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Out on the town? she thought. In\n  <em>\n   Virgin River?\n  </em>\n  A town of about six hundred?"Ah, I think I''ll passâ€¦"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "C''mon, sunshine, you gotta be more flexible! Optimistic! You can''t lick this wound forever."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe it was cute when she was four or even fourteen to say things like "Sunny isn''t too sunny today!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this was December 31 and she had come to Virgin River to spend a few quiet days with her uncle Nate and his fiancee Annie, to try to escape the reality of a heart that wouldn''t heal. And if the hurt wasn''t bad enough, her heart had gone cold and hard, too. She looked at her watchâ€”4:00 p.m. Exactly one year ago at this time she was having her hair and makeup done right before slipping into a Vera Wang wedding gown, excited, blushing and oblivious to the fact that her fiance Glen was getting blitzed and ready to run for his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m not really in the mood for a New Year''s Eve bash, Uncle Nate," she said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aw, sweetheart, I can''t bear to think of you home alone, brooding, feeling sad," Nathaniel said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   And feeling like a big loser who was left at the altar on her wedding day?\n  </em>\n  she wondered. But that''s what had happened. How was she supposed to feel?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nate," Annie said under her breath, "this might be a bad night to push the party idea.. "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ya think?" Sunny said sarcastically, noting to herself that she hadn''t been so irritable and sarcastic before becoming an abandoned bride. "Listen, you guys, please go. Party like rock stars. I actually have plans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You do?" they both asked hopefully.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I do. I''m planning a ceremonial burning of last year''s calendar. I should probably burn three years'' worth of themâ€”that''s how much time and energy I invested in the scumbucket."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nate and Annie were speechless for a moment; they exchanged dubious looks. When Nate recovered he said, "Well all-righty then! We''ll stay home and help with the ceremonial burning. Then we''ll make some popcorn, play some monopoly, make some positive resolutions or something and ring in a much better new year than the last."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And that was how Sunny, who wasn''t feeling at all accommodating, ended up going to the big Virgin River blast at Jack''s Bar on New Year''s Eveâ€”because she just couldn''t let her uncle Nate and sweet, funny Annie stay home to watch her sulk and whimper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There had been a long history in Sunny''s family of returning to the Jensen stables for a little rest and rejuvenation. Sunny and her cousins had spent countless vacations around the barn and pastures and trails, riding, playing, inhaling the fresh clean air and getting a regular new lease on life. It had been Sunny''s mother''s idea that she come to Virgin River for a post-Christmas revival. Sunny''s mom was one of Nate''s three older sisters, and Sunny''s grandpa had been the original owner and veterinarian of Jensen''s Clinic and Stable. Now Uncle Nate was the vet and Grandpa was retired and living in Arizona.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sunny was her mama''s only child, age twenty-five; she had one female cousin, Maryâ€”who it just so happened had managed to get\n  <em>\n   her\n  </em>\n  groom to the church. Since Uncle Nate was only ten years older than Sunny at thirty-five, she and her cousin had had tragic crushes on him. Nate, on the other hand, who had grown up with three older sisters, thought he was cursed with females.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until he was thirty, anyway. Then he became a little more avuncular, patient and even protective. Nathaniel had been sitting in the church on New Year''s Eve a year ago. Waiting, like everyone else, for the groom to show, for the wedding to begin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The past year had passed in an angry, unhappy blur for Sunny. Her rather new and growing photography business had taken offâ€”a combination of her kick-ass website and word of mouthâ€”and rather than take a break after her personal disaster, she went right back to work. She had scheduled shoots, after all. The catastrophic twist was that she specialized in engagement, wedding, anniversary, belly and baby shotsâ€”five phases of a couple''s life worth capturing for posterity. Her work, as well as her emotional well-being, was suffering. Although she couldn''t focus, and she was either unable to sleep or hardly able to pull herself out of bed, she pressed on the best she could. The only major change she''d made in her life was to move out of the town house she had shared with Glen and back into her mom and dad''s house until she could afford something of her own. She had her workroom in the basement of her parents'' place anyway, so it was just a minor shift in geography.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During the past year at her parents'', Sunny had a revelation. The driving reason behind most young women her age wanting their own space, their independence and privacy, was their being involved in a serious relationship. Since she was determined not to repeat past mistakes by allowing another man into her life, there was no need to leave the comfort, security and economy of her parents'' house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She was trying her hand at photographing sunrises, sunsets, landscapes, seascapes and pets. It wasn''t workingâ€”her images were flat and uninteresting. If it wasn''t bad enough that her heart was broken, so was her spirit. It was as if her gift was lost. She''d been brilliant with couples, inspired by weddingsâ€”stills, slideshows, videos. She saw the promise in their eyes, the potential for their lives. She''d brought romance to the fat bellies of pregnant women and was a veritable Anne Geddes with babies! But now that she was a mere observer who would never experience any of those things firsthand, everything had changed. Not only had it changed, it pierced her heart each time she did a shoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When she confessed this to Annie, Annie had said, "Oh, darling, but you''re so young! Only twenty-five! The possibilities ahead are endless if you''re open to them!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Sunny had said, "I''m not upset because I didn''t make the cheerleading squad, Annie. My fiance dumped me on our wedding dayâ€”and my age doesn''t matter a damn."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The town was carpeted in a fresh blanket of pretty white snow, the thirty-foot tree was lit and sparkling as gentle flakes continued to fall, and the porch at Jack''s Bar, strung with lights and garlands, was welcoming. There was a friendly curl of smoke rising from the chimney and light shone from the windows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nate, Annie and Sunny walked into the bar at 8:00 p.m. and found the place packed with locals. Jack, the owner, and Preacher, the cook, were behind the bar. There was a festive table set up along one whole wall of the room, covered with food, to which Annie added a big plate of her special deviled eggs and a dill-speckled salmon loaf surrounded by crackers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hey, looks like the whole town is here," Nate said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A good plenty," Jack said. "But I hope you don''t see anyone here you want to kiss at midnight. Most of these folks won''t make it that long. We have a strong skeleton crew that will stay late, however. They''re busy getting all the kids settled back at Preacher''s house with a sitterâ€”it''s going to be a dormitory. Vanessa and Paul''s two are bunking in with Preacher''s little Dana, my kids are sleeping in Preacher''s room, Cameron''s twins are in the guest room, Brie and Mike''s little one is borrowing Christopher''s room because he''s planning on sitting up until midnight with the sitter. Oh, and to be very clear, the sitter is there for all the\n  <em>\n   little\n  </em>\n  kidsâ€”not for Chris," Jack added with a smile. "He''s eight now. All man."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jack, Preach, meet my niece Sunny. Sunny, this is Jack and Preacher, the guys who run this place."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She gave them a weak smile, a nod and a mumbled nice to meet you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hop up here, you three. As soon as you contribute your New Year''s resolution, you get service," Jack said. "The price of admission is a food item and a resolution."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sunny jumped up on a bar stool, hanging the strap of her large bag on the backrest. Jack leaned over the bar and eyed the big, leather shoulder bag. He peered at her with one brow lifted. "Going on a long trip right after the party?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She laughed a little. "Camera equipment. I never leave it behind. Never know when I might need it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well, by all means, the first annual New Year''s Eve party is your canvas," Jack said. He slid a piece of paper and pen toward her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sunny hovered over it as if giving it careful thought. She knew if she said her resolution was to get this over with as soon as possible, it would open up the conversation as to why she now and would forever more find New Year''s Eve the most reprehensible of holidays.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Make it a good one, Sunny," Jack said. "Keep it generic and don''t sign itâ€”it''s anonymous. There''s a surprise coming right after midnight."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sunny glanced at her watch. God, she thought. At least four hours of this? I''ll never make it! She wrote on her slip of paper. "Give up men."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drew Foley was a second-year orthopedic resident at UCLA Medical and had somehow scored ten days off over Christmas, which he''d spent in Chico with his two sisters, Marcie and Erin, their guys Ian and Aiden and his new nephew. The three previous Christmases he''d spent with his family, and also his former fiancee, Penny. That somehow seemed so long ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When surgical residents get days off, they aren''t\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  days off. They''re merely days on which you''re not required in surgery, clinic, class, writing reports or being verbally beaten to death by senior residents and attending physicians. But there was still plenty of studying to do. He''d been hitting the books straight through Christmas even with the distraction of family all around, including Marcie''s new baby who was really starting to assert himself. With only a few days left before he had to head back to Southern California, he borrowed the family''s isolate...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9134'),
(6416, 'Midnight Kiss: Midnight Confessions\\\\Midnight Surrender\\\\Midnight Assignment', 'Robyn Carr &amp; Jean Brashear &amp; Victoria Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  These are New Year''s resolutions worth keeping!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take a risk.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n At the inaugural New Year''s Eve party at Jack''s Bar, two lonely revelers decide the best balm for their broken hearts might just be each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the perfect workâ€“life balance.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When a flinty lawyer with a bad-boy addiction meets the quintessential nice guy, sparks fly that consume their expectations of life and love.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get those finances in order.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Working over the holidays on a messy bank takeover is made worse for two federal specialists by an ill-advised kiss that will never happen againâ€¦right?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sunny Archer was seriously considering a legal name change.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Come on, Sunny," her uncle Nathaniel said. "Let''s go out on the town and see if we can''t put a little of that legendary sunshine back into your disposition!"\n</p>\n<p>\n Out on the town? she thought. In\n <em>\n  Virgin River?\n </em>\n A town of about six hundred?"Ah, I think I''ll passâ€¦"\n</p>\n<p>\n "C''mon, sunshine, you gotta be more flexible! Optimistic! You can''t lick this wound forever."\n</p>\n<p>\n Maybe it was cute when she was four or even fourteen to say things like "Sunny isn''t too sunny today!"\n</p>\n<p>\n But this was December 31 and she had come to Virgin River to spend a few quiet days with her uncle Nate and his fiancee Annie, to try to escape the reality of a heart that wouldn''t heal. And if the hurt wasn''t bad enough, her heart had gone cold and hard, too. She looked at her watchâ€”4:00 p.m. Exactly one year ago at this time she was having her hair and makeup done right before slipping into a Vera Wang wedding gown, excited, blushing and oblivious to the fact that her fiance Glen was getting blitzed and ready to run for his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''m not really in the mood for a New Year''s Eve bash, Uncle Nate," she said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Aw, sweetheart, I can''t bear to think of you home alone, brooding, feeling sad," Nathaniel said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  And feeling like a big loser who was left at the altar on her wedding day?\n </em>\n she wondered. But that''s what had happened. How was she supposed to feel?\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nate," Annie said under her breath, "this might be a bad night to push the party idea.. "\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ya think?" Sunny said sarcastically, noting to herself that she hadn''t been so irritable and sarcastic before becoming an abandoned bride. "Listen, you guys, please go. Party like rock stars. I actually have plans."\n</p>\n<p>\n "You do?" they both asked hopefully.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I do. I''m planning a ceremonial burning of last year''s calendar. I should probably burn three years'' worth of themâ€”that''s how much time and energy I invested in the scumbucket."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nate and Annie were speechless for a moment; they exchanged dubious looks. When Nate recovered he said, "Well all-righty then! We''ll stay home and help with the ceremonial burning. Then we''ll make some popcorn, play some monopoly, make some positive resolutions or something and ring in a much better new year than the last."\n</p>\n<p>\n And that was how Sunny, who wasn''t feeling at all accommodating, ended up going to the big Virgin River blast at Jack''s Bar on New Year''s Eveâ€”because she just couldn''t let her uncle Nate and sweet, funny Annie stay home to watch her sulk and whimper.\n</p>\n<p>\n There had been a long history in Sunny''s family of returning to the Jensen stables for a little rest and rejuvenation. Sunny and her cousins had spent countless vacations around the barn and pastures and trails, riding, playing, inhaling the fresh clean air and getting a regular new lease on life. It had been Sunny''s mother''s idea that she come to Virgin River for a post-Christmas revival. Sunny''s mom was one of Nate''s three older sisters, and Sunny''s grandpa had been the original owner and veterinarian of Jensen''s Clinic and Stable. Now Uncle Nate was the vet and Grandpa was retired and living in Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunny was her mama''s only child, age twenty-five; she had one female cousin, Maryâ€”who it just so happened had managed to get\n <em>\n  her\n </em>\n groom to the church. Since Uncle Nate was only ten years older than Sunny at thirty-five, she and her cousin had had tragic crushes on him. Nate, on the other hand, who had grown up with three older sisters, thought he was cursed with females.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until he was thirty, anyway. Then he became a little more avuncular, patient and even protective. Nathaniel had been sitting in the church on New Year''s Eve a year ago. Waiting, like everyone else, for the groom to show, for the wedding to begin.\n</p>\n<p>\n The past year had passed in an angry, unhappy blur for Sunny. Her rather new and growing photography business had taken offâ€”a combination of her kick-ass website and word of mouthâ€”and rather than take a break after her personal disaster, she went right back to work. She had scheduled shoots, after all. The catastrophic twist was that she specialized in engagement, wedding, anniversary, belly and baby shotsâ€”five phases of a couple''s life worth capturing for posterity. Her work, as well as her emotional well-being, was suffering. Although she couldn''t focus, and she was either unable to sleep or hardly able to pull herself out of bed, she pressed on the best she could. The only major change she''d made in her life was to move out of the town house she had shared with Glen and back into her mom and dad''s house until she could afford something of her own. She had her workroom in the basement of her parents'' place anyway, so it was just a minor shift in geography.\n</p>\n<p>\n During the past year at her parents'', Sunny had a revelation. The driving reason behind most young women her age wanting their own space, their independence and privacy, was their being involved in a serious relationship. Since she was determined not to repeat past mistakes by allowing another man into her life, there was no need to leave the comfort, security and economy of her parents'' house.\n</p>\n<p>\n She was trying her hand at photographing sunrises, sunsets, landscapes, seascapes and pets. It wasn''t workingâ€”her images were flat and uninteresting. If it wasn''t bad enough that her heart was broken, so was her spirit. It was as if her gift was lost. She''d been brilliant with couples, inspired by weddingsâ€”stills, slideshows, videos. She saw the promise in their eyes, the potential for their lives. She''d brought romance to the fat bellies of pregnant women and was a veritable Anne Geddes with babies! But now that she was a mere observer who would never experience any of those things firsthand, everything had changed. Not only had it changed, it pierced her heart each time she did a shoot.\n</p>\n<p>\n When she confessed this to Annie, Annie had said, "Oh, darling, but you''re so young! Only twenty-five! The possibilities ahead are endless if you''re open to them!"\n</p>\n<p>\n And Sunny had said, "I''m not upset because I didn''t make the cheerleading squad, Annie. My fiance dumped me on our wedding dayâ€”and my age doesn''t matter a damn."\n</p>\n<p>\n The town was carpeted in a fresh blanket of pretty white snow, the thirty-foot tree was lit and sparkling as gentle flakes continued to fall, and the porch at Jack''s Bar, strung with lights and garlands, was welcoming. There was a friendly curl of smoke rising from the chimney and light shone from the windows.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nate, Annie and Sunny walked into the bar at 8:00 p.m. and found the place packed with locals. Jack, the owner, and Preacher, the cook, were behind the bar. There was a festive table set up along one whole wall of the room, covered with food, to which Annie added a big plate of her special deviled eggs and a dill-speckled salmon loaf surrounded by crackers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, looks like the whole town is here," Nate said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "A good plenty," Jack said. "But I hope you don''t see anyone here you want to kiss at midnight. Most of these folks won''t make it that long. We have a strong skeleton crew that will stay late, however. They''re busy getting all the kids settled back at Preacher''s house with a sitterâ€”it''s going to be a dormitory. Vanessa and Paul''s two are bunking in with Preacher''s little Dana, my kids are sleeping in Preacher''s room, Cameron''s twins are in the guest room, Brie and Mike''s little one is borrowing Christopher''s room because he''s planning on sitting up until midnight with the sitter. Oh, and to be very clear, the sitter is there for all the\n <em>\n  little\n </em>\n kidsâ€”not for Chris," Jack added with a smile. "He''s eight now. All man."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jack, Preach, meet my niece Sunny. Sunny, this is Jack and Preacher, the guys who run this place."\n</p>\n<p>\n She gave them a weak smile, a nod and a mumbled nice to meet you.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hop up here, you three. As soon as you contribute your New Year''s resolution, you get service," Jack said. "The price of admission is a food item and a resolution."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunny jumped up on a bar stool, hanging the strap of her large bag on the backrest. Jack leaned over the bar and eyed the big, leather shoulder bag. He peered at her with one brow lifted. "Going on a long trip right after the party?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She laughed a little. "Camera equipment. I never leave it behind. Never know when I might need it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, by all means, the first annual New Year''s Eve party is your canvas," Jack said. He slid a piece of paper and pen toward her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunny hovered over it as if giving it careful thought. She knew if she said her resolution was to get this over with as soon as possible, it would open up the conversation as to why she now and would forever more find New Year''s Eve the most reprehensible of holidays.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Make it a good one, Sunny," Jack said. "Keep it generic and don''t sign itâ€”it''s anonymous. There''s a surprise coming right after midnight."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunny glanced at her watch. God, she thought. At least four hours of this? I''ll never make it! She wrote on her slip of paper. "Give up men."\n</p>\n<p>\n Drew Foley was a second-year orthopedic resident at UCLA Medical and had somehow scored ten days off over Christmas, which he''d spent in Chico with his two sisters, Marcie and Erin, their guys Ian and Aiden and his new nephew. The three previous Christmases he''d spent with his family, and also his former fiancee, Penny. That somehow seemed so long ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n When surgical residents get days off, they aren''t\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n days off. They''re merely days on which you''re not required in surgery, clinic, class, writing reports or being verbally beaten to death by senior residents and attending physicians. But there was still plenty of studying to do. He''d been hitting the books straight through Christmas even with the distraction of family all around, including Marcie''s new baby who was really starting to assert himself. With only a few days left before he had to head back to Southern California, he borrowed the family''s isolate...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5039'),
(6417, 'Midnight Mass', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires--or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the countryside to consolidate their conquest.In a town on the New Jersey shore, the vampires have just arrived, along with their human henchmen, the cowboys, who round up human cattle for the overlords in return for the promise of eternal life---later. For the vampires wish only a few of their own kind to rule, and feed. The rest of humanity are to be helpless herds, the source of the blood of life. Falsely accused of abuse, Father Dan is drunk in a basement waiting for the end. His superior has betrayed the local Catholic congregation and become a vampire. Sister Carolyn has become a formidable killer of cowboys and vampires. Dan''s niece, escaped from the conquest of New York, has made her way south to find him. Brought together by Rabbi Zev Wolpin, who is shaken by the vampires'' fear of the cross and holy water, they plan their resistance. Against all odds, they discover that there just might be a way for humanity to really fight back. But first they will have to kill the vampire king of New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(6418, 'The Midnight Mayor', 'Kate Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London, then the Tower will crumble and the kingdom will fall. Resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to discover that this isn''t so far from the truth... One by one, the protective magical wards that guard the city are falling. This is not good news. This array of supernatural defenses - a mix of international tourist attractions and forgotten urban legends - formed a formidable shield that protects the city of London from threats that are known to no one. But what could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Matthew Swift is about to find out. And if he''s lucky, he might just live long enough to do something about it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2224'),
(6419, 'Midnight Rambler: A Novel of Suspense', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Swain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (_Grift Sense_, etc.), avoids many of the clichÃ©s of the antisocial ex-cop novel in this chilling stand-alone. A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he''s living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter is frozen out by the cop on the case, but help comes from an FBI agent whose daughter vanished years earlier. The tension rises as the investigation widens far beyond Skell. Well-defined characters and intricately woven subplots, one involving a nail-biting scene at Disney World, make this a page-turner.\n <em>\n  12-city author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for James Swain and Midnight Rambler\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight Rambler is a heavy hitter, fast and spare. Travis McGee meets Philip Marlow.â€\n <br />\n â€“Randy Wayne White, author of Hunterâ€™s Moon\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMoves like a bullet train on overdrive . . . I tore through this one without putting on the brakes. I guarantee you will, too!â€\n <br />\n â€“Michael Connelly\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight Rambler kept me up all night long, and Jack Carpenter is as appealing a hero as Iâ€™ve ever met. The only problem with Swainâ€™s riveting thrillers is they end.â€\n <br />\n â€“Tess Gerritsen, author of The Bone Garden\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSwain is one terrific writer.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6371');
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(6420, 'Midnight Tides &amp; the Bonehunters', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Midnight TidesAfter decades of warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the rule of the Warlock King. But peace has been exacted at a terrible price - a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all of its less-civilised neighbours with rapacious hunger. All save one - the Tiste Edur. But Lether is approaching a long-prophesied renaissance - from kingdom and lost colony to Empire reborn - and has fixed its gaze on the rich lands of the Tiste Edur. It seems inevitable that the tribes will surrender, either to the suffocating weight of gold, or to slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so Destiny has decreed.A pivotal treaty between the two sides nears - but unknown ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of an altogether more profound, primal battle - a confrontation with the still-raw wound of betrayal and the craving for vengeance at its heart. War and confrontation, magic and myth collide in this, the stunning fifth chapter in Steven Erikson''s magnificent -Malazan Book of the Fallen- sequence, hailed as an epic of the imagination and a fantasy classic in the making.The BonehuntersThe Seven Cities Rebellion is over, Sha-ik is dead, but a last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y-Ghatan under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire-s greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled... But agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens, sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5477'),
(6421, 'Midnight&#39;s Children: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay''s claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie''s novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Midnight''s Children\n  </em>\n  : two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters'' rights to his unlucky hospital mate''s luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can''t help but feel that Rushdie''s world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre,\n  <em>\n   Midnight''s Children\n  </em>\n  is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rushdie''s narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India''s, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India''s independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem''s gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another''s place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem''s dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We''ve seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of GÃ¼nter Grass and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author''s outrage lends his language wings.\n  <em>\n   Midnight''s Children\n  </em>\n  is Salman Rushdie''s irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExtraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“The New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnightâ€™s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelistâ€“ one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous epic . . . Rushdieâ€™s prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Newsweek\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBurgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“The Washington Post Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPure storyâ€“an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Chicago Sun-Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6330'),
(6422, 'The Midwich Cuckoos', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cuckoos lay eggs in other birds'' nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. Imt promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2719'),
(6423, 'The Miernik Dossier', 'Charles McCarry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€˜\n  <strong>\n   Arguably the finest modern American spy story\n  </strong>\n  â€™\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€˜\n  <strong>\n   Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure\n  </strong>\n  â€™\n  <br />\n  â€” P.J. Oâ€™Rourke\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€˜\n  <strong>\n   Intelligent and enthralling... superbly constructed... wholly convincing\n  </strong>\n  â€™\n  <br />\n  â€” Eric Ambler\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€˜\n  <strong>\n   Absorbing, intelligent... True entertainment\n  </strong>\n  â€™\n  <br />\n  â€” New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€˜\n  <strong>\n   McCarryâ€™s thrillers really thrill, his political insight is praised by senior politicians and his erudition, experience and good writing turn spy stories into literature. McCarry and his dynamic alter-egos wipe the floor with the opposition\n  </strong>\n  â€™\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Miernik Dossier, five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them is Tadeusz Miernik, the shy and bumbling Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8264'),
(6424, 'Might as Well Laugh about It Now', 'Marie Osmond; Marcia Wilkie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Recollections, wisdom, and advice from the beloved entertainer, American icon, mother of eight children, and *New York Times* bestselling author.** When the *Donny and Marie* show ended its award-winning run on ABC in 1979, 19-year-old Marie was ready to leave the stage lights for a secretaryâ€™s lifeâ€”she had prepared to say â€œgoodbyeâ€ to fleeting fame by studying shorthand and typing! Clearly, life took a different turn. Now, decades later and still a beloved superstar, Marie opens the door to her thoughts on many of her milestones and missteps, both the public and the personal. In a life brimming with a mixture of charm and chaos, blessings and hilarious bungles, victory and vulnerability, Marie recounts for her â€œfamily of fansâ€ her greatest successes as well as her most crushing disappointments, career pressures and expectations, marriage and divorce, depression, weight issues, tough choices, honors and awards, and the incredible joys and challenges of raising children. Through it all, Marie has bounced back time and again with unstoppable enthusiasm, resilience, and an unbeatably healthy and positive outlook on life. In *Might as Well Laugh About It Now*, she imparts her insights on surviving all of lifeâ€™s roadblocks and detours in a collection of friendly musings and heartening advice about learning to surviveâ€” and moving forwardâ€”with humor and optimism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2735'),
(6425, 'The mighty Quinns: Liam', 'Kate Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2255'),
(6426, 'Migration: Species Imperative #2', 'Julie E. Czerneda', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After encountering the alien Dhyrn on earth and later nearly dying on the Dhyrn home world in Czerneda''s\n <em>\n  Survival\n </em>\n (2004), biologist Mackenzie "Mac" Connor returns to her job at Norcoast Salmon Research Facility in the Pacific Northwest in this action-filled sequel, which likewise explores the complexities of interspecies culture and understanding with humor and dash. When the Interspecies Union discovers that the formerly peaceful Dhryn have abandoned their world and set off across space, destroying every life form in their path, Mac leads the effort to find a way to stop them. Her Dhryn experience and knowledge of biological drives and animal instinct may provide the keyâ€”but her expertise also makes her a target for a hidden enemy, who may have already infiltrated the Interspecies Union. Czerneda''s characterizations, both human and alien, are as intricate and entertaining as the twisty plot. Fans of SF adventure and intrigueâ€”and of C.J. Cherryh''s masterfully drawn alien cultures, in particularâ€”are in for a treat.\n <em>\n  (May 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brilliant world building, action-packed creative space opera that will become imperative for fans to read. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5114'),
(6427, 'Miguel Street', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow,\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad?s Port of Spain?its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos and tragedy. . . . Naipaul is at his best in these swift caricatures of human depravity.? ?_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Amusing and poignant. . . . Excellent reading.? ?_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Naipaul does not tell stories. By some miraculous sleight-of-hand he takes you to Port of Spain and shows you the rich, bawdy, consequential lives of the Trinidadians, as though there were no intervening veil of words. . . . I rather suspect the mantle of Chekhov has fallen on Mr. Naipaul?s shoulders.? ?Robert Payne,\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say â€˜Slum!â€™ because he could see no more.â€ But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidadâ€™s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. Thereâ€™s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build â€œthe thing without a name.â€ Thereâ€™s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. Thereâ€™s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.\n <br />\n Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamedâ€“but precociously observantâ€“neighborhood boy,\n <strong>\n  Miguel Street\n </strong>\n is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6256'),
(6428, 'The Mike Hammer Collection', 'Mickey Spillane &amp; Max Allan Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (_USA Today_).\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (_New York Times_), and it''s in full force in this collection of three of his greatest Mike Hammer novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Girl Hunters\n  </em>\n  : Hammer''s voluptuous, long-lost love is targeted by the mastermind assassin known as the Dragon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Snake\n  </em>\n  : Protecting a runaway blonde, Hammer trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and sex-hungry females.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Twisted Thing\n  </em>\n  : A kidnapping case links Hammer to a fourteen year-old mystery and the most venomous killer the private eye has ever faced.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mickey Spillane\n  </strong>\n  was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918. Spillane won several awards including the Edgar Allen Poe Grand Master Award. He died in 2006, at his home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7317'),
(6429, 'Mildred Pierce', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn''t prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her. This is James M. Cain''s most substantial novel and a classic of the Depression years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4698'),
(6430, 'Mile 81', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  MILE 81\n  <br />\n  A Stephen King e-book original,\n  <br />\n  coming from Scribner on September 1, 2011\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the heart of\n  <em>\n   Stand By Me\n  </em>\n  and the genius horror of\n  <em>\n   Christine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mile 81\n  </em>\n  is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It''s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It''s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who''s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn''t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver''s door opens but nobody gets out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn''t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton''s cracked cell phone near the wagon door Â— and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids Â— Rachel and Blake Lussier Â— and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11204'),
(6431, 'Miles Vorkosigan 2 - the Vor Game', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unlike many Sci-Fi authors, Bujold does not burden her readers with complex societal histories or baffle them with technobabble. Set in the indeterminately distant future where Earth seems to have been abandoned and humans inhabit a range of differing worlds (some inhabited by non-humans) linked by wormholes, Bujold''s Miles Vorkosigan series are simple and accessible without detracting from sophisticated plotting and excellent characterisation. In this particular novel, Miles, by now in the Imperial Service (though soon to be disgraced), becomes caught up in an increasingly dangerous heightening of interstellar tensions. Quite where the pressure is coming from, or rather, who is planning to attack who, remains unclear, and Bujold''s plotting is first-rate as the reader is kept guessing along with Miles. Characters carry over from her previous Vorkosigan tale, The Warrior''s Apprentice, which adds extra depth to the already well-portrayed characters, but, as I''ve said before, part of the beauty her writing is that you could quite happily read her novels as one-offs, without losing a great deal; conversely, to read them in order is a real treat. Intriguing and exciting stuff.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9041'),
(6432, 'The military philosophers', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(6433, 'The Mill on the Floss', 'Helen Edmundson; George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)In "The Mill on the Floss," George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics. Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in "The Mill on the Floss" she shows us once again how thoroughly the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8796'),
(6434, 'The Mill River Recluse', 'Darcie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chan''s sweet novel displays her talent." ~ _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a real page-turner." ~ _\n <strong>\n  IndieReader.com\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller!\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, and suffering her entire life with severe social anxiety disorder, the widow Mary McAllister spends almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, the media, an elderly priest with a guilty habit of pilfering spoons, and a bedroom window with a view of the town below.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most longtime residents of Mill River consider the marble house and its occupant peculiar, though insignificant, fixtures. An arsonist, a covetous nurse, and the endearing village idiot are among the few who have ever seen Mary. Newcomers to Mill River--a police officer and his daughter and a new fourth grade teacher--are also curious about the reclusive old woman. But only Father Michael O''Brien knows Mary and the secret she keeps--one that, once revealed, will change all of their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Mill River Recluse\n </strong>\n _ is a story of triumph over tragedy, one that reminds us of the value of friendship and the ability of love to come from the most unexpected of places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11209'),
(6435, 'Millennial Rites', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s New Year''s Eve, 1999. The world is waiting to launch into the greatest celebrations it has ever known. The sixth Doctor and Mel are keen to join in - but someone wants to spoil the party\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6150'),
(6436, 'A Million Little Pieces', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œThe most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughsâ€™ Junky.â€ â€”The Boston Globeâ€œAgain and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Freyâ€™s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicleâ€œA brutal, beautifully written memoir.â€â€”The Denver Postâ€œGripping . . . A great story . . . You canâ€™t help but cheer his victory.â€ â€”Los Angeles Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8888'),
(6437, 'Million-Dollar Marriage Merger', 'Charlene Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He''d kept a promise to marry his best friend''s widow. But even an obligatory marriage could not diminish the hunger vintner Tony Carlino still felt for Rena Montgomery. Foolishly, he''d walked away from her once beforeâ€¦and she had never forgiven him. As far as she was concerned, no one would be toasting this arrangement anytime soon. She had married Tony only for the safety his nameâ€”and moneyâ€”would give her, her wineryâ€¦and her unborn child. Never could she allow herself to reveal the desire she felt for her new husband. For their marriage was meant to be only about business. Neither dared speak one word about love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1400'),
(6438, 'Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance', 'Janet Gleeson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the wake of Louis XIV''s death, France''s government teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Enter the reformer in the unlikely guise of John Law -- a supremely charming and attractive Scot whose brilliant financial mind had thus far served only to make himself rich at the gaming tables. In one of the great image makeovers of all time, John Law recharged a devastated French economy, making him one of the most successful men in Europe. When Law founded a New World trading company, the synergistic combination of faith in his ideas and wild reports of the riches to be made in France''s vast holdings in America sent the price of its shares through the roof. Investors drunk on dreams of instant wealth gave birth to the first boom-and-bust cycle -- one that created such vast wealth for shareholders that a new term was coined to describe them...millionaires.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2176'),
(6439, 'The Millionaire&#39;s Rebellious Mistress', 'Catherine George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Merrick is rich, handsome and one of the most successful property developers in the country. But to Sarah Carver the arrogant multimillionaire is her worst enemy: his business destroyed her family!When Sarah gets the chance to take one of Alex''s business deals away from him, she relishes her moment of triumph. But the glory doesn''t last long-because the gorgeous Alex has an ace up his sleeve. He''ll propose a deal Sarah just can''t refuse-and make her his mistress as part of the bargain!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/795'),
(6440, 'Millionaire&#39;s women', 'Helen Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2114'),
(6441, 'The Millionaires', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would you steal if you couldn''t get caught? That''s the tag line of Brad Meltzer''s new thriller, which pits an ambitious young money manager against a corporate villain, whose intricate financial shenanigans accidentally put a huge chunk of dough right in front of a man who desperately needs it. Of course Oliver Caruso''s conscience troubles him, but that doesn''t keep him from letting his somewhat looser and less ethical brother convince him this is too good an opportunity to pass up. Meltzer''s in interesting territory here, but in order to buy his premise, you have to believe that it''s OK to steal if you have a good enough reason. This makes his protagonist, who narrates the novel, hard to root for and less than sympathetic. Despite this hollow ring, the book is nicely plotted and should please the author''s enthusiastic fan club.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This giddy fourth thriller by Meltzer (The First Counsel) mixes up banking, cyber-theft and Disney World in a fast-paced, fresh-scrubbed tale of financial adventure. Oliver Caruso is sweating out some scut work for Henry Lapidus, bigwig at Greene &amp; Greene, a private bank so exclusive clients require $2 million just to open an account. When Oliver and his younger brother, Charlie, find proof that Lapidus has been sabotaging Oliver''s career plans, the brothers conspire to rip off the lingering balance from a deceased client''s account. Silly boys! Not only is the local security goon Shep (formerly Secret Service) already chiseling in on their scam, the real Secret Service thugs are on the case almost immediately. The $3 million the Carusos swiped has somehow cybernetically blossomed overnight to over $300 million. Desperate to clear their names, the boys escape to Florida, following the money to the daughter of the deceased millionaire, a former tech wizard for Disney with a secret invention everyone in this book would happily kill for. The ins and outs of how to steal money that isn''t really there makes for an interesting premise if you don''t think about it too much, but two flaws detract from the action. First, the narrative POV jumps too often from one character to the next and from present tense to past, making for a choppy read. Second, the novel''s juvenile flavor from the PI who bluffs her way into a building by claiming to be searching for her mother''s favorite sock to the hapless schoolboy dialogue ("You touched her cookies, didn''t you?") loudly proclaims its Hardy Boys heritage. (Jan. 8)Forecast: Meltzer''s legion of fans will jump-start sales of his latest, prompted by massive television, print, radio and transit advertising campaigns and a 12-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7163'),
(6442, 'Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help', 'Douglas Anthony Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one except Milrose Munce knows that ghosts of former students live in his school. Not only is Milrose aware of these ghouls â€“ heâ€™s on a first-name basis with all of them. Of course, some are more likeable than others: the third floor is the home to nearly all of his good friends. Most of them â€“ like Imploded Ig, Deeply Damaged Dave, and Toasted Theresa â€“ were the victims of science experiments gone wrong though they do manage to maintain a sense of humour about their demise. Then there are the ghost athletes who lurk in the basement â€“ a pretty disagreeable group, the majority of them having died after a particularly clumsy manoeuvre on the schoolâ€™s sports field.After Milrose is given yet another detention for offering his teacher an answer that was just a bit too clever, his life takes an unexpected turn. He is sent to a hidden den in the schoolâ€™s basement to receive Professional Help. Here, he and the quick-witted Arabella, a fellow captive, are put under round-the-clock supervision of the maniacal Massimo Natica. Fortunately for Milrose and Arabella, once they join forces with their ghostly friends, Massimo Natica doesnâ€™t stand a chance.In the tradition of Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl, the dark comedy and imaginative brilliance of Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help will appeal to adults as much as it will to younger readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(6443, 'Mimi and Toutou go forth: the bizarre battle of Lake Tanganyika', 'Giles Foden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon ''Tanganjikasee'', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it, they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo.The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret ''supership'' the Graf von Gotzen . . .Unearthing new German and African records, the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style.Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darkness, this is rich, vivid and flashmanesque in its appeal - military history at its most absorbing and entertaining\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1581'),
(6444, 'The Mimic Men', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.??John Updike, _The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Ambitious and successful.??\n </em>\n The Times _(London) --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A profound novel of cultural displacement,\n <strong>\n  The Mimic Men\n </strong>\n masterfully evokes a colonial manâ€™s experience in a postcolonial world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6264'),
(6445, 'A Mind for Trade', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9109'),
(6446, 'Mind Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Lucas Davenport knows he has met his match. For his newest nemesis is more intelligent--and more deadly--than any he has tracked before. A kidnapper. A violator. A pure, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself. "His seventh, and best, outing in the acclaimed Prey suspense series".--People.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2760'),
(6447, 'Mindbridge', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jacque Le Favre is a tamer, a member of one of the exploration teams that humankind has been able to send to the stars. His first world is the second planet out from Groombridge 1618, a rather unpromising place until they encounter the alien L''vrai, with its awesome and appalling gift of telepathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1836'),
(6448, 'Minding Frankie', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend. In vintage Binchy style, a cast of colorfully eccentric characters living in a snug Dublin neighborhood seamlessly weave in and out of each otherâ€™s lives, united by family, faith, friendship, and community. When a young alcoholic learns he has fathered a child with a dying woman, he must step into the role of father, protector, and provider to his infant daughter, Frankie, in a matter of weeks. Determined to succeed, though totally unprepared for his new responsibilities, Noel gets an essential assist from his visiting American cousin. Exercising her tremendous gifts of organization and insight, Emily cobbles together a neighborhood support system, featuring a few familiar faces from previous Binchy books. As everybody begins to mind Frankie, a suspicious social worker pokes her nose in where it doesnâ€™t belong, attempting to dredge up any dirt she can on Noel and his slightly unorthodox network of babysitters. Readers will need a box of tissues handy as the good-hearted residents of St. Jarlathâ€™s Crescent prove that it does indeed take a village to raise a child. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of Binchyâ€™s best works. She harmoniously handles a diverse group of characters, the good deeds that characterize life in Ireland are believable, and the ending is sweet. One hopes to find Frankie in one of Binchyâ€™s future novels.â€ â€”Susan Rogers,\n  <em>\n   Newark Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBinchyâ€™s world view is a large, benevolent one, and the reader is happier for it . . . bless her big Irish heart.â€ â€”Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis\n  <em>\n   Star-Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaeve Binchy has done it again [with] yet another warm tale of individual growth and human community, [in which] she assembles a large cast of characters and deploys them with her characteristic playfulness . . . Binchy specializes in exploring human foibles without spelling them out in tiresome detail . . . Thereâ€™s a good chance that many readers, like this one, will consider Minding Frankie one of Binchyâ€™s best novels yet.â€ â€”Maude McDaniel, _BookPage\n  <br />\n  _Â \n  <br />\n  â€œJoyful, quintessential Binchy.â€ â€”Karen Holt,\n  <em>\n   O, The Oprah Magazine\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n â€œAll across America, Maeve Binchy fans will be kicking off their shoes, making a nice cup of tea, and curling up on the couch as they re-enter Binchyâ€™s cozy world. The Irish author returns here to a charming Dublin milieu of favorite characters from past novels, with some important new ones.â€ â€”Melinda Bargreen,\n <em>\n  The Seattle Times\n </em>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBinchy is a national treasure in her homeland of Ireland, and her latest novel is a perfect illustration of why.â€¦Your heart will have no trouble recognizing the landscape [of this] touching saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend.Â  In vintage Binchy style, a cast of colorfully eccentric characters living in a snug Dublin neighborhood seamlessly weave in and out of each otherâ€™s lives, united by family, faith, friendship and community....Readers will need a box of tissues handy as the good-hearted residents of St. Jarlathâ€™s Crescent prove that it does indeed take a â€˜village to raise a child.â€™â€ â€”Margaret Flanagan,\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7340'),
(6449, 'Mine', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robert McCammon captivates readers and stretches the boundaries of imagination with every new book he writes. There are now over 5 million copies of his books in print, and his last three novels, The Wolf''s Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song, were New York Times bestsellers, earning him accolades as one of the most innovative storytellers of our time. In Mine, McCammon takes the reader beyond terror . . . into one woman''s shocking world of madness and obsesion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3557'),
(6450, 'Mine Is the Night: A Novel', 'Liz Curtis Higgs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _Mine Is the Night\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Mine Is the Night_ was everything I hoped it would beâ€”the crown of the series! I loved the historical setting, the details, the love stories, the characters who change and grow. The pace and storylines kept me turning pages; I couldnâ€™t put it down.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Francine Rivers, best-selling author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Redeeming Love\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFew authors stir my emotions more deeply than Liz Curtis Higgs. One does not merely read her novels; one forges a bond so deep with her characters that reader and story become one, embarking on a journey that both inspires and transforms. But be warnedâ€”_Mine Is the Night_ will steal your night from the first page to the last, and never will hours be better spent. It was an absolute pleasure to read.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Julie Lessman, author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  A Hope Undaunted\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œLiz Curtis Higgs has once again combined her extraordinary skill as a storyteller with her elegant writing style to weave a grand Scottish tale, one that transports us back to the past in an emotional and unforgettable journey. Beautifully crafted and clearly written from the heart,\n <em>\n  Mine Is the Night\n </em>\n just took its place among my other favorite novels from one of our most gifted historical authors. I was reluctant to see the story of the Kerr women endâ€”but what an ending it is!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”BJ Hoff, author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Emerald Ballad\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œLiz Curtis Higgs brings the book of Ruth to life in Jacobite Scotland with_ Mine Is the Night,_ a page-turning, emotionally intense, gloriously researched, and soul-stirring read. I was in eighteenth-century Scotland with characters I did not want to leave. Simply brilliant.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Linda Windsor, author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Healer\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œLiz Curtis Higgs does it again!\n <em>\n  Mine Is the Night\n </em>\n delivers a compelling story of intrigue, adventure, and love. With extreme attention to detail and historical accuracy, Liz creates a love story to last the ages. Her ability to weave Bible\n <em>\n </em>\n story, historical culture, and fiction into a rich tapestry is sure to delight you and leave you longing for more.â€\n <br />\n â€”Tracie Peterson, best-selling author of\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <strong>\n  Embers of Love\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStunning from start to finish! Sharply witty, charming, romantic, captivating. Liz Curtis Higgs delivers a finale that satisfies in every way. Her best yet!â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Tamera Alexander, author of\n <em>\n  Beyond This Moment\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED.\n <br />\n HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED.\n <br />\n BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will mend her heart, torn asunder by betrayal and deception?\n <br />\n Â Â Â Elisabeth has not come to Selkirk alone. Her mother-in-law, Marjory Kerr, is a woman undone, having buried her husband, her sons, and any promise of grandchildren. Dependent upon a distant cousin with meager resources, Marjory dreads the future almost as much as she regrets the past. Yet joy still comes knocking, and hope is often found in unexpected places.\n <br />\n Â Â Then a worthy hero steps forward, rekindling a spark of hope. Will he risk his reputation to defend two women labeled as traitors to the Crown? Or will a wealthy beauty, untainted by scandal, capture his affections?\n <br />\n Â Â Â The heartrending journey of the Kerr women comes to a glorious finish in\n <em>\n  Mine Is the Night\n </em>\n , a sparkling gem of redemption and restoration set in eighteenth-century Scotland.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4457'),
(6451, 'The Ministry of Special Cases', 'Nathan Englander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander''s debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina''s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won''t accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence. When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, a terrifying, byzantine refuge of last resort. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander brilliantly captures the grief of a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3050'),
(6452, 'The Minority Report', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"â€“people with the power to see into the futureâ€“to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a thing, and this knowledge proves the precogs are fallible. Now, whichever way he turns, Anderton is doomedâ€“unless he can find the precogs''s "minority report"â€“the dissenting voice that represents his one hope of getting at the truth in time to save himself from his own system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3776'),
(6453, 'The Minotauress', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Atop the moon-drenched hillock sits the leaning manse, surrounded by ancient graves rich with the bones of witches, and amid the dense cricket-choruses of these ghastly twilight deeps, it stalks, thrashes and prowls, its nipples gorged with evil, its loins a frenzy of Luciferic lust... THE MINOTAURESS. A sequel to the classic Edward Lee novella THE HORN-CRANKER which is also in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9879'),
(6454, 'The Minutes of the Lazarus Club', 'Tony Pollard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Some of our ideas are not of the most orthodox nature. They would be frowned upon in anbsp;more traditional scientific environment, perhaps even laughed at.'' London, 1857 - the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most unconventional minds in Victorian Britain - including Charles Darwin, Joseph Bazalgette, Charles Babage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel - are members. Meetings take place behind closed doors: their discussions are revolutionary and their conclusions are sometimes forbidden... Knowing nothing of this secret society, Dr George Phillips, a young and ambitious surgeon, is intrigued to encounter Brunel over a well-used cadaver in the gory pit of his dissection theatre. It soon becomes apparent that the great engineer has mysterious plans for the good doctor. And so Phillips becomes emboiled in the enigmatic machinations of the Lazarus Club, and in its midst encounters a dark conspiracy. Not only is his own life in jeopardy, but as the first mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames so the very foundations of Victorian society are set to be rocked to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8722');
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(6455, 'Miracle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Miraculous? Indeed. Miraculous that Steel ekes 200 pages of book out of 50 pages of recycled plot. Quinn Thompson, a 61-year-old recent widower, has just bought the boat of his dreamsâ€”an 80-meter beauty capable of sailing around the world. Because that''s all Quinn wants to do besides read his late wife Jane''s old journals and poetry, which offer an outpouring of love and forgiveness for a man so obsessed with "building his empire" that he ignored his wife and family completely. Less forgiving is Quinn''s daughter, Alex, who wants nothing to do with him. Sure that he is alone in the world, Quinn finds himself having regular Friday dinners with an unlikely San Francisco pair: smart but illiterate carpenter Jack Adams and lonely divorcÃ©e Maggie Hartman. Full of self-loathing, Quinn refuses to give in to his desire for Maggie; instead he decides to teach Jack to read. Readers follow the two through a 150-page rapturous description of the respect and admiration they have for each other, while Quinn attempts to forgive himself enough to allow himself to love Maggie. Steel ignores the old "show, don''t tell" saw entirely here, and the slim plot and repetitive, drab writing may stymie even the most devoted of her fans.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is New Yearâ€™s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the stormâ€™s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wifeâ€™s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinnâ€™s and Maggieâ€™ s homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happenâ€¦Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive againâ€“and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choiceâ€“between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journeyâ€“and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him dangerâ€¦or deliverance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and smallâ€“the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtle hand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5988'),
(6456, 'Miracles', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiration." --\n  <em>\n   John Updike\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6967'),
(6457, 'Miranda&#39;s Big Mistake', 'Jill Mansell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Taking a position as a trainee in a posh London hair salon may not seem the ideal situation for finding Mr. Right, but this breezy, whimsical novel from best-selling British chick-lit author Mansell (An Offer You Can''t Refuse) introduces just such a heroine, Miranda, to a wide range of men, from panhandler to racecar driver, on her way to true love (and true retaliation). In a series of escapades too over-the-top even for Bridget Jones, feisty but accident-prone Miranda joins forces with other unlucky-in-love ladies, including a pregnant woman abandoned by her no-good husband and an aging but still-game landlady with a terminally greedy son. Plotlines and characters interweave with unexpected but satisfying results, including delicious comeuppance for the offending males. Summarizing the girl-power revenge plot, however, fails to do justice to the shenanigans that fill it out, making this a winning read. While Mansell''s British humor doesn''t always translate, Miranda''s got more than enough irresistible transoceanic charm to promise that this, the first of several Mansell novels Sourcebooks is introducing to the U.S., should net a passionate new audience eager for the more.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you are on your way to the beach, Miranda''s Big Mistake is a must-bring and will keep you reading long after the sun goes down. (_ForeWord_ 20090601)\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a fun, quirky read, that had my toes curling right up until the last sentence. (Bella McGuire\n  <em>\n   A Bibliophile''s Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  20090601)\n </p>\n <p>\n  What a fun, flirty, fabulous summer read.\n  <em>\n   Miranda''s Big Mistake\n  </em>\n  I can assure you will not be a mistake to read. (Cheryl Koch\n  <em>\n   Cheryl''s Book Nook\n  </em>\n  20090601)\n </p>\n <p>\n  [F]ull of witty dialog. You get drawn right into the book. (Gabrielle Pantera\n  <em>\n   Hollywood Today\n  </em>\n  20090602)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I highly recommend this book for light, entertaining reading. It''s a great pick for the beach bag and will be available just in time for summer! (Jani\n  <em>\n   I Just Finished\n  </em>\n  20090602)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jill Mansel''s writing style, with its many levels of humor, its multiple plots, and intriguing characters, makes\n  <em>\n   Miranda''s Big Mistake\n  </em>\n  splendid reading. It is funny, sassy, and it lifts the spirit. GOOD READING! (Camellia\n  <em>\n   The Long and Short of It Reviews\n  </em>\n  20090602)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I couldn''t get enough of MIRANDA''S BIG MISTAKE and characters; and I didn''t want the book to end. (Julie Peterson\n  <em>\n   Booking Mama\n  </em>\n  20090603)\n </p>\n <p>\n  ou''ll get a warm feeling from\n  <em>\n   Miranda''s Big Mistake\n  </em>\n  ... an absolute romp of a read! (Luanne Olliver\n  <em>\n   A Bookworm''s World\n  </em>\n  20090603)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story-lines that unexpectedly criss-cross, interconnect and zig-zag are what make them so delightful. Mansell knows how to create characters... (Jill Hart\n  <em>\n   Blog Critics\n  </em>\n  20090601)\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the characters are fleshed out completely and the humour just dances off the pages. I can''t wait to read more books by Jill Mansell whose style is reminiscent of Marion Keyes and Sophie Kinsella but she also has a voice that is all her own... Bravo Jill Mansell. (Tamara Baff\n  <em>\n   Books by TJ Baff\n  </em>\n  20090603)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perfect for this summer to read at the beach, or anywhere for that matter. A fantastic fun read! (Wendy Hines\n  <em>\n   Wendy''s Minding Spot\n  </em>\n  20090603)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mansell''s novel\n </p>\n <p>\n  proves the maxims that love is blind and there''s someone for everyone, topped with a satisfying revenge\n </p>\n <p>\n  plot that every jilted woman will relish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Booklist_ 20090605)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a great summer read... I would recommend this book and think the author is a lot of fun. (Tracee Gleichner\n  <em>\n   The Review From Here\n  </em>\n  20090605)\n </p>\n <p>\n  [T[he quirky characters come to life and get themselves involved in all sorts of crazy situations. I found myself laughing out loud... (Sheri Stock\n  <em>\n   Bookopolis\n  </em>\n  20090605)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Miranda''s Big Mistake\n  </em>\n  not only oozes modern romance, but also sarcasm and wit (Serena Cox-Augusto\n  <em>\n   Savvy Verse &amp; Wit\n  </em>\n  20090608)\n </p>\n <p>\n  highly recommend it to any fans of chick lit, especially those who love Brit chick lit. I can''t wait to read more of Jill Mansell''s work! (Swapna Krishna\n  <em>\n   S. Krishna''s Books\n  </em>\n  20090611)\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s no doubt that Jill Mansell''s books can be categorized as chick lit, but in my opinion, they''re among the best written books in the genre... I absolutely loved Miranda''s Big Mistake. (Anna Horner\n  <em>\n   Diary of an Eccentric\n  </em>\n  20090611)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I loved how all of the characters had their own small side story and I liked the ending for all of them! This would be a perfect summer beach read! (Andrea Mason\n  <em>\n   So Many Books, So Little Time\n  </em>\n  20090623)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miranda''s Big Mistake by Jill Mansell is a delightful example of chick lit. (Kathy Roberts\n  <em>\n   Bermuda Onion\n  </em>\n  20090626)\n </p>\n <p>\n  [H]er cast of characters are so lovable that you want them to be your friends! (Kristi Herbrand\n  <em>\n   Books and Needlepoint\n  </em>\n  20090601)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lots of situational humor, tragedy, and foresight that you wish the characters could see. Mansell does a wonderful job of keeping me reading the book. (Zarabeth\n  <em>\n   Love Romance Passion\n  </em>\n  20090917)\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a full cast of entertaining characters, interesting secondary storylines, a few tears and more than a few smiles and laugh out loud moments, this is definitely a book that I would recommend to anyone who likes chick lit, or who just wants a fun beach read. (Margaret Bates\n  <em>\n   Reading Adventures\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are on your way to the beach, Mirandas Big Mistake is a must-bring and will keep you reading long after the sun goes down. (_ForeWord_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ms. Mansell''s books are easy reading books, that pull you in to the lives of the characters and don''t let go until you finish the story... Jill Mansell''s books will turn you in to a chick -lit reader!! (Allison King\n  <em>\n   Allison''s Attic of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8519'),
(6458, 'Mirkwood: A Novel About J.R.R. Tolkien', 'Steve Hillard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Enter Mirkwood, the Great Forest of Doubt Bold new author Steve Hillard''s wildly original debut, Mirkwood, re-invents J.R.R. Tolkien as a man haunted by the very myths he rewove into his famous works. As much literary criticism as boisterous epic, this episodically-driven plot explores the blurred borderlands where ancient tales, lost heroines, and epic journeys are stalked by dim monsters that will not be still. In 1970, Professor Tolkien makes a little-known visit to America-and sets in motion elvish powers embodied in a cache of archaic documents. Destinies are altered, legends become real, and two heroines must race for their lives in vastly different worlds.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   After graduating from Colorado State University, Steve Hillard earned a degree in philosophy at Columbia University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado. Before settling into his current career as a private equity entrepeneur, Hillard was a teacher at Rikers Island Prison, a welder, a carpenter, and a practicing lawyer. He is the founder and head of a private equity fund involved in the entertainment and telecom industries. Steve resides with his wife, Rosita, in Austin.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6906'),
(6459, 'The Mirror Crack&#39;d From Side to Side', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?  Marina''s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation -- into human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5182'),
(6460, 'Mirror Dance', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Injured in his mother''s womb, Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, born a dwarf with brittle bones, faces off against his brother, a cloned stranger created to murder Miles and replace him. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9029'),
(6461, 'Mirror Mirror', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2064'),
(6462, 'The Mirrored Heavens', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A crackling cyberthriller. This is Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling. David Williams has hacked into the future."â€”Stephen Baxter, author of the Manifold series\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n presents an action-jammed and audacious look at a terrifyingly plausible future. By comparison to Williams'' future, the present mess surrounding the Iraq conflict seems almost benign. Highly recommended for politicians, not that most would wish to see where their actions could easily lead."â€”L. E. Modesitt, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n Â is a complex view of global politics in time of crisis.Â  Williams understands that future wars will be fought as much on-line as off.Â  It''s also rousing adventure with breathless, non-stop actionâ€”Tom Clancy on speed.Â  And you willÂ NOT be able to guess the ending.â€â€”Nancy Kress, author of the Probability trilogyÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Explodes out the gate like a sonic boom and never stops. Adrenaline bleeds from Williams'' fingers with every word he hammers into the keyboard. The razors of\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n would eat cyberpunk''s old-guard hackers and cowboys as a light snack."â€”Peter Watts, author of\n <em>\n  Blindsight\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n presents an action-jammed and audacious look at a terrifyingly plausible future. By comparison to Williams'' future, the present mess surrounding the Iraq conflict seems almost benign. Highly recommended for politicians, not that most would wish to see where their actions could easily lead.â€â€”L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of the Saga of Recluse series, the Spellsong Cycle series, and the Corean Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n is a 21st century\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n set in a dark, dystopian future where nothing and no one can be trusted, the razors who rule cyberspace are predators and prey, and ordinary human life is cheap. It starts out at full throttle and accelerates all the way to the end." â€”Jack Campbell, author of _The Lost Fleet: Courageous\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œCalling to mind Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry more than Humphrey Bogart and Philip Marlowe,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens''\n </strong>\n action is wild and relentlessâ€¦. In a welcome respite from noir stereotyping, Williams'' female protagonist is neither killed nor kidnapped. A subject, not an object, Claire Haskell moves and shakes her dystopic world.â€â€”_Seattle Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _"Non-stop action propels the reader forward. Like William Styron''s\n <em>\n  Sophie''s Choice\n </em>\n , characters face horrific decisions involving mass destruction of innocents and murder of close friends and allies.â€â€”Sfrevu.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA powerful, rapid-fire sf adventure/intrigue story with echoes of cyberpunk.â€â€”_Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator, designed to give mankind greater access to the frontier beyond Earth. Built by the U.S./Pan-Asian Coalition, the Elevator is also a grand symbol of superpower alliance following a second cold war. And itâ€™s just been destroyed.\n</p>\n<p>\n The South American insurgent group Autumn Rain claims responsibility for the attack, but with suspicions rampant, armies and espionage teams are mobilized across the globe and beyond. Enter Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe, U.S. counterintelligence agents, and former loversâ€”though their memories may only be constructs implanted by their spymaster. Forced to set aside the enigma of their past, their agenda is to trust no one. For in a time of shifting loyalties, the enemy could be anyoneâ€”from a shadowy assassin working a questionable mission on the dark side of the moon, to a Euro data thief working under deep cover and wooed into a dangerous pact.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the crisis mounts, and the search for Autumn Rain spans both Earth and Moon, the lives of all those involved will converge in one explosive finaleâ€”and a startling aftermath that will rewrite everything theyâ€™ve ever knownâ€”about their mission, their world, and themselves\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8516'),
(6463, 'A Mischief in the Snow', 'Margaret Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A winter of discontent...January 1766. A dangerous mishap brings young widow Charlotte Willett unexpectedly to bleak and marshy Boar Island, a few miles from the village of Bracebridge and home to two eccentric elderly women. Some say that arrogant, unpopular Alexander Godwin â€” the only villager to regularly call upon the island''s two residents â€” hopes to inherit the cavernous house when its owner finally passes on. But when Alexander is brutally murdered after the town''s annual winter fÃªte, Charlotte and her neighbor Richard Longfellow can''t help but wonder who among Alexander''s detractors might be responsible. Is his death connected to his activities on Boar Island â€” or to the unearthly trickery rumored to take place there? Could the rivalry over a beautiful young woman have sparked a more dangerous passion? And will the answers reveal themselves before death strikes Boar Island again?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2238'),
(6464, 'The miserable mill', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dear Reader,* I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, *The Miserable Mill* might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. The pages of this book, I''m sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven''t, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. *With all due respect,* Lemony Snicket EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dear Reader,* I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, *The Miserable Mill* might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. The pages of this book, I''m sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven''t, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. *With all due respect,* Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2553'),
(6465, 'Misery', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. Annie Wilkes is his nurse-and captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work-just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don''t work, she can get really nasty...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4284'),
(6466, 'Misery Doesn&#39;t Always Love Company', 'Mark A. McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3042'),
(6467, 'Misfit in Middle America', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3578'),
(6468, 'Miss Marple&#39;s Final Cases', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories!  First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound! then, the riddle of a dead man''s buried treasure! the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident! the corpse and a tape-measure! the girl framed for theft! and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger.  Six gripping cases with one thing in common -- the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.  Also includes two non-Marple mysteries, ''The Dressmaker''s Doll'' and ''In a Glass Darkly''.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5242'),
(6469, 'The Missing Chums', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two of the Hardy boys'' chums take a motor trip down the coast. They disappear and are almost rescued by their friends when all are captured.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10268'),
(6470, 'The Missing', 'Chris Mooney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this competent but unoriginal thriller from Mooney (_Deviant Ways_), it''s 1984 and teenager Darby McCormick is hanging out in the woods with her friends Melanie Cruz and Stacey Stephens when they stumble across a man killing a woman. Darby calls the police, which sets in motion events that lead to Stacey being murdered and Melanie abducted. Fast forward to 2007: Darby, with a doctorate in criminal psychology, is working as a crime scene investigator for the Boston Crime Lab. When Darby finds herself investigating another missing girl, Carol Cranmore, she vows to find the perpetrator and save Carol. The fiendishly clever killer is always two steps ahead, while Darby and her handsome partner, Jackson "Coop" Cooper, must struggle with the usual bureaucratic snafus, disbelieving supervisors and obstructive FBI agents. There are twists and turns aplenty, but they''re all based on familiar formulas, including the final, de rigueur chase through the killer''s basement torture chamber.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Scary story. Scary talent.I love this book." -- Lee Child\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6068'),
(6471, 'Mission Road', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan''s relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Southtown\n </em>\n ) when Navarre''s boyhood friend, reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, appears on his doorstep wearing a blood-soaked_ guayabera_ barely one step ahead of the San Antonio police. The cops believe Arguello''s wife, cold case detective Ana DeLeon, is about to name her husband as the prime suspect in the 18-year-old unsolved murder of Franklin White, son of a local organized crime bossâ€”and, more incredibly, that Arguello shot her to slow down the investigation. Arguello convinces Navarre he''s being set up, and the two of them struggle to evade a citywide manhunt and discover the real killer''s identity. Riordan jump-cuts between the present and the mid-1980s to tell the story of White''s murder and to provide background for the main characters, including Ana''s mother Lucia, one of the city''s first female cops. While the parallel narrative adds much needed depth, it dampens the pace and momentum. But the book''s biggest flaw is the sitcom-like familiarity of the characters, including Navarre himselfâ€”the self-deprecating, wise-cracking PI who could only exist as a fictional trope.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tres Navarre might get top billing, but Riordan''s latest San Antonio crime story really stars Maia Lee, the PI''s cool, compassionate girlfriend. When the wisecracking Navarre''s best friend is wrongly accused of shooting his cop wife, Tres goes on the lam with him to track down the real killer. But because Maia''s not a police target, she has a much freer hand to crack the case. So she employs her own considerable investigative skills to work through a cold-case murder file involving the shot officer''s mother, who happened to be the SAPD''s first decorated woman officer. Between brief calls to Maia, Tres and his pal flee from one dangerous situation to another as the dragnet tightens. A satisfying exploration of passion''s dark powers, the story moves along at a cracking pace. And although Riordan seems to telegraph the plot payoff almost from the outset, he ends up delivering several nifty twists. What had seemed to be merely an entertaining crime novel reveals itself as a clever mystery, too.\n <em>\n  Frank Sennett\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8506'),
(6472, 'The Mission Song', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller le CarrÃ© (_The Constant Gardener_) brings a light touch to his 20th novel, the engrossing tale of an idealistic and naÃ¯ve British interpreter, Bruno "Salvo" Salvador. The 29-year-old Congo native''s mixed parentage puts him in a tentative position in society, despite his being married to an attractive upper-class white Englishwoman, who''s a celebrity journalist. Salvo''s genius with languages has led to steady work from a variety of employers, including covert assignments from shadowy government entities. One such job enmeshes the interpreter in an ambitious scheme to finally bring stability to the much victimized Congo, and Salvo''s personal stake in the outcome tests his professionalism and ethics. Amid the bursts of humor, le CarrÃ© convincingly conveys his empathy for the African nation and his cynicism at its would-be saviors, both home-grown patriots and global powers seeking to impose democracy on a failed state. Especially impressive is the character of Salvo, who''s a far cry from the author''s typical protagonist but is just as plausible.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Mission Song\n </em>\n , John le CarrÃ©''s 20th novel in a career spanning nearly half a century, most famously in\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold\n </em>\n (1964), receives mixed marks. Critics who enjoy the novel praise le CarrÃ©''s intricate plotting, atmospheric settings, and his ear for dialogueâ€”all the trademark riffs of the undisputed master of the Cold War thriller now setting his sights on new enemies. Those who detect a misfire here focus on the torturous complexity of the story and a confusing structure. Bottom line: Readers of le CarrÃ© will recall why they gravitated to his work in the first place; first-timers might have difficulty with the sometimes improbable twists and turns that impede a good spy story.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11065'),
(6473, 'The Mist', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King suspends a small town in a haze of terror-as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4292'),
(6474, 'Mistborn: The Final Empire', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brandon Sanderson, fantasy''s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris," dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mistborn." For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler''s most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld''s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel''s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she''s a half-Skaa orphan, but she''s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. Readers of "Elantris" thought they''d discovered someone special in Brandon Sanderson. "Mistborn "proves they were right. Brandon Sanderson is an instructor at Brigham Young University. For fascinating behind-the-scenes information, visit him at www.brandonsanderson.com. Brandon Sanderson, fantasy''s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris," dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mistborn."For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler''s most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld''s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel''s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she''s a half-Skaa orphan, but she''s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. "A fascinating world . . . one that deserves a sequel."--"The Washington Post""An enjoyable, adventurous read that . . . should satisfy even easily-bored teens."--"Locus""Sanderson''s eerie . . . fantasy, set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler''s 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike "skaa." Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler''s most hellish prison, Kelsier can "burn" 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses'' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin''s coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. Fast-paced action . . . the characters . . . have a raw stereotypic appeal."--"Publishers Weekly""The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler''s most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler''s power. Beforehand, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she''s useful because she brings good luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior''s crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters."--Regina Schroeder, " Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(6475, 'Mister Monday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8-Arthur Penhaligon''s school year is not off to a good start. On his first day, he suffers an asthma attack while running cross country and dreams that a mysterious figure hands him a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock. However, when he wakes up, he still has the key. That''s when strange things begin to happen. Mister Monday dispatches terrifying, dog-faced Fetchers to retrieve it, a bizarre sleeping illness sweeps the city, and only Arthur can see the weird new house that appears in his neighborhood. The seventh grader knows it all has something to do with the key, one of seven elusive fragments of the Will to which he has become heir apparent, and a mysterious atlas. When he ventures inside the house, he meets more strange characters than he could have imagined, none of whom are what they seem. And, of course, he must battle Monday, who will do anything to get the key back. With the help of the key, Arthur must fight his way out. The first in a seven part series for middle graders is every bit as exciting and suspenseful as the author''s previous young adult novels. Readers will eagerly anticipate the sequels.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Ginny Collier, Dekalb County Public Library, Chamblee, GA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I just loved Mister Monday, which is an amazing, no-holds-barred fantasy by Garth Nix. This is destined to be a cult series. Every chapter seems to bring something new and wonderful and ends with another surprise. In all honesty, I''ve never read anything quite like it and I simply can''t wait for Tuesday." Anthony Horowitz "[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground." Amanda Craig "Magic splashes across every page! With a likeable unlikely hero, fast-paced plotting and a plethora of mystical oddities, this series is sure to garner a host of fans." Publishers Weekly starred review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9669'),
(6476, 'Mister Slaughter', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the reader on an unforgettable journey of horror, violence, and personal discovery.The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely tempting--offer. Their response to this offer will alter the course of the novel, setting in motion a series of astonishing, ultimately catastrophic events.Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation still in the process of inventing itself. Suspenseful, illuminating, never less than compulsively readable, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, the largest accomplishment to date from one of our most gifted--and necessary--writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3560'),
(6477, 'Mister X', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A page-turner to the nail-biting end, the fifth Frank Quinn investigation (after 2009''s Urge to Kill) will leave readers breathless. After leaving the NYPD, Frank Quinn created his own investigation agency, joined by his former partner, Larry Fedderman, and his former lover, Pearl. Five years before, the notorious serial killer called the Carver claimed his last victim, Tiffany Keller. The cops have given up on catching the murderer, so Tiffany''s twin, Chrissie, begs Quinn to reopen the case. Then Chrissie disappears, and the Carver starts killing again. Slimy police commissioner Harley Renz warns Quinn to back off of his investigation, but Quinn, Fedderman, and Pearl know they may be the only ones who can stop the killer. Misleading clues and dramatic suspense will keep readers pondering the intricacies of this twisty, creepy whodunit long after the last page is turned.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Their throats are sliced. An X is carved into their torsos, among other mutilations. Frank Quinn is a retired NYPD homicide detective who specialized in serial killers, so heâ€™s not surprised when the identical twin of the last victim hires him to investigate. Police Chief Harley Renz, Quinnâ€™s former and very ambitious partner, thinks Quinn and his associatesâ€”Pearl Kasner and Larry Fedderman, also former detectivesâ€”would make good additions to the task force charged with solving the crimes. Renz also assigns a renowned profiler to the case, the stunningly sexy and media-savvy Addie Price. The initial hurdle: Quinn must separate reality from fiction. His original client disappears; Quinn then learns sheâ€™s not the victimâ€™s twin sister. There are twins, but sheâ€™s not one of them. Whatâ€™s her angle? Oh, and the real twins were abused by their father, whoâ€™s started a new life as a midwestern politician. Addie Priceâ€™s background is fiction, and thereâ€™s a mystery woman stalking the investigators. A lesser writer would lose readers in this ever-evolving plot with shifting identities and motives, but this is John Lutz, winner of multiple Edgar and Shamus awards. By the very satisfying conclusion, it all makes perfect sense. Lutz has produced another procedural masterpiece. --Wes Lukowsky\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8632'),
(6478, 'Mistral&#39;s Kiss', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation.My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerieâ€“trapped here with some of the realmâ€™s most beautiful men to serve as my bodyguards . . . and my lovers. For I am compelled to conceive a child: an heir to succeed me on the throne. Yet after months of amazing sex with my consorts, there is still no baby. And no baby means no throne. The only certainty is death at the hands of my cousin Cel, or his followers, if I fail to conceive.Now Mistral, Queen Andaisâ€™s new captain of the guard, has come to my bedâ€“defying her and risking her terrible wrath in doing so. But even she will hesitate to punish him in jealous rage, because our joining has reawakened old magic, mystical power so ancient that no one stands against it and survives. Not even my strongest and most favored: my Darkness and my Killing Frost. Not even Mistral himself, my Storm Lord. But because Mistral has helped to bring this magic forth, he may live another day.If I can reclaim control of the fey power that once was, there may be hope for me and my reign in faerie. I might yet quell the dark schemes and subterfuges surrounding me. Though shadows of obsession and conspiracy gather, I may survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2787'),
(6479, 'Mistress of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world on the other side of the rift: Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies. Following the opulent panoply of Daughter Of The Empire and the dazzling pageantry of Servant Of The Empire comes the resounding conclusion to the Empire trilogy.Besieged by spies and rival houses, stalked by a secret and merciless brotherhood of assassins, the brilliant Lady Mara of the Acoma faces the most deadly challenge she has ever known. The fearsome Black Robes see Mara as the ultimate threat to their ancient power. In search of allies who will join her against them, Mara must travel beyond civilization''s borders and even into the hives of the alien cho-ja. As those near and dear to her fall victim to many enemies, Mara cries out for vengeance. Drawing on all of her courage and guile she prepares to fight her greatest battle of all--for her life, her home, and the Empire itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3381');
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(6480, 'Mistress of the Game', 'Sidney Sheldon; Tilly Bagshawe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sidney Sheldon introduced the glamorous Blackwell family in his book ''Master of the Game''. Yet the intervening years have not lessened the Blackwells'' drama or talent for manipulation, domination, and passion. Though Kate is long gone, the children of her beloved granddaughters, Eve and Alexandra, battle to carry on her powerful legacy. Each is determined to control Kruger-Brent, Ltd., the multibillion-dollar international corporation with holdings in diverse industries around the globe. But only one can reign supreme. Lexi Templeton is a ruthless competitor with the brains and beauty to match. Raised by her psychiatrist father, Lexi burns to follow in her great-grandmother''s footsteps and become her own Mistress of the Game. She is not alone in her ambitions. Her handsome and nefarious cousin, Max Webster, the son of Eve, will stop at nothing to own the prize of Kruger-Brent. Driven by hatred, jealousy, and blinding devotion to his bitter and twisted mother, he will seduce, betray, and even kill to succeed. And there is another player with plans of his own - a little-known descendant of Kate''s great-grandfather. Growing up in poverty in Aberdeen, Scotland, handsome and cunning Gabriel McGregor is determined to fulfill his destiny, a quest that will lead him deep into the heart of the Kruger-Brent empire. In a family rife with secrets - murder, hidden identities, perversions - and a depraved sense of honor, the player who wins the game may be the only one who will survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3938'),
(6481, 'Mistress Shakespeare', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare''s secret wife by New York Times bestselling author, Karen Harper. In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will just days before he is forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. The clandestine Whateley/Shakespeare match is a meeting of hearts and heads that no one - not even Queen Elizabeth or her spymasters - can destroy. From rural Stratford-upon- Avon to teeming London, the passionate pair struggles to stay solvent and remain safe from Elizabeth I''s campaign to hunt down secret Catholics, of whom Shakespeare is rumored to be a part. Often at odds, always in love, the couple sells Will''s first plays and, as he climbs to theatrical power in Elizabeth''s England, they fend off fierce competition from rival London dramatists, ones as treacherous as they are talented. Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, even executions of those they hold dear, bring Anne''s heartrending story to life. Spanning half a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean history and sweeping from the lowest reaches of society to the royal court, this richly textured novel tells the real story of Shakespeare in love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3091'),
(6482, 'The Mists of Avalon', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, whom she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of Avalon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9539'),
(6483, 'The Mists of Sorrow: Book Seven of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian S. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The quest to find a friend whose life hangs by a thread leads James and Jiron back into the heart of the Empire. The impetus behind the hunt is not as it would seem however. For the life of their friend is but a lure used to draw James to the appointed place at the appointed time. James is ultimately maneuvered to face the power behind the Empire, a dark being whose orchestration of peoples and powers has brought the world to the brink of annihilation. He discovers that he, too, has been manipulated in furthering the dark plans of this sinister being. Can James defeat a being that has walked this world for over a millennia? Or will he face defeat and the destruction of all that he has come to hold dear?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why did I decide to write The Morcyth Saga? I suppose the main reason was due to the many series which were currently popular at the time. Series that in the beginning grabbed hold of me and wouldn''t let go, but then over time began to lose momentum in a mire of subplots and overlong descriptive paragraphs which I found myself skipping. When I realized I was skipping pages at a time to pass through a subplot that didn''t really move the story along to get to the what I would consider the `good points'' (action, adventure, actually seeing the main characters) I figured I could do better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I set out to write a series in which the reader followed the main character 90% of the time, action or points of interest were in every chapter, and descriptive content was down to a minimum. As a reader I knew I could create my own visualization of surroundings and figured others could to. I mean, do you really need me to go in depth as to what a teenage boy''s room looks like? Doesn''t `messy boy''s room'' bring up an instant visual? Stuff like that is what I mean. Certainly there are those who prefer grand descriptive content and a myriad of plots that takes a notepad to keep track of. To them I would say The Morcyth Saga is not for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to the story itself, I was a role player decades ago in high school. And I got to thinking about how interesting it would be should a gamer be thrust into a world in which his gaming experiences could help him thrive. After all, if you take a person from our world and thrust them into a world of magic, wouldn''t it be helpful to select someone who would be more amenable to the prospect of magic? Perhaps one whose very interests were along those lines? That was how James came into being, a high school senior who loves creating and then running his friends through his creation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Morcyth Saga and The Broken Key Trilogy are both written along gaming lines. The Morcyth Saga is about a gamer that is thrust into a world of magic while The Broken Key is written in role playing style.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can check out excerpts, maps, and other information about both series at my website. If you have never read one of my books before, I would suggest checking out the excerpts before you buy so you can make sure you like it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5291'),
(6484, 'Mixed Signals', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10944'),
(6485, 'MK_Pirate', 'Marteeka Karland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9814'),
(6486, 'MK_Warrior', 'Marteeka Karland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9815'),
(6487, 'Mob Rules', 'Cameron Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: I''m Domino Riley, an enforcer for Shanar Rashan. Like most mob bosses in L.A., he''s a powerful sorcerer, battling for control of the city, gathering up the magic of violent and powerful emotions and storing it for his own use. Back in the day, Rashan saved me from the streets and made me his lieutenant. You could say I''m his go-to girl. When a fellow gangster is ritually executed, I have to find out which of Rashan''s enemies was behind itâ€”and why. The cryptic messages I''m getting from the *Beyond* tell me it wasn''t a simple hit. With the bodies piling up, I need to win an occult gang war, take out the supernatural traitor within our outfit and, oh yeah, deal with the mixed messages I''m getting from the boss''s sonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(6488, 'Mob star: the story of John Gotti', 'Gene Mustain; Jerry Capeci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: -- Jerry Capeci''s The Complete Idiot''s Guide "RM" to the Mafia has already netted close to 12,000 copies since its publication in December 2001, making it one of Alpha''s strongest new titles.-- Jerry Capeci is one of America''s most respected experts on the Mafia and organized crime. His Web site, Ganglandnews.com, gets more than 5,000 hits per day. He has appeared twice on Fox-TV promoting The Complete Idiot''s Guide "RM" to the Mafia and is much in demand on local TV and radio shows. He has been profiled in People magazine, the New York Daily News (for which he was a longtime columnist), and dozens of other magazines and newspapers.-- John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book.As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in the news. Once Mr. Gotti ascends to Mafia heaven, he will be worldwide news-and Alpha will have the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on the subject.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/882'),
(6489, 'Moby Dick', 'Herman Melville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Killing a sixty-ton sperm whale that could destroy a boat with a flick of its massive tail was no easy task. Whalemen of the early nineteenth century were not just hunters, they were also explorersâ€”sailing on the uncharted sea in search of some of the largest creatures on earth. The most famous whale of all? Moby Dick. Here are Ishmael, Queequeq, Ahab, and of course, Moby Dick, rendered anew in a dynamic comic book adaptation of one of the greatest American novels ever written. The book also includes information about Herman Melville, facts about whales, and the history of the whaling industry. With all the flare and blaze of Melvilleâ€™s original story, Moby Dick is sure to intrigue a new generation of readers with this fast-paced and electric portrayal of the famous battle between man and beast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2179'),
(6490, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3355'),
(6491, 'The Model Wife', 'Julia Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How to be The Model Wife:1) Your Husband''s happiness is your happiness2) Should you be His second wife, befriend His first wife3) Never ask Him when He''ll be home4) Never ask Him where He''s been Twentysomething Poppy became a cliche when an accidental pregnancy presented her with a forty-nine-year-old husband. But Luke Norton isn''t any old husband - he''s the anchorman for television''s Seven O''Clock News and his ruggedly handsome face is beloved by the nation. Life isn''t coming up roses thanks to the first Mrs Norton''s popular column, ''My Husband, The Bimbo and Me''. Luke''s having a mid-life crisis and going AWOL, his former lovers are circling like sharks and Poppy''s left holding the baby, her once glitzy modelling career a horribly dim memory. It''s time for her to fight back and show the world exactly what she''s made of. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3202'),
(6492, 'The Modigliani Scandal', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ken Follett is the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Jackdaws, Hornet Flight, Code to Zero, Triple, Eye of the Needle, Pillars of the Earth, and A Dangerous Fortune. He lives in England.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael York is Principal Lecturer, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, and Director of the Bath Archive for Contemporary Religious Affairs, Bath Spa University College, UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7380'),
(6493, 'Moll Flanders', 'Daniel Defoe; Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoeâ€™s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoeâ€™s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(6494, 'Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking', 'Mario Batali &amp; Mark Ladner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Recipes from\n  <em>\n   Molto Gusto\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Summer Caprese Salad\n  <br />\n  Serves 6\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  10 ounces fresh mozzarella\n  <br />\n  1Â½ pounds assorted ripe tomatoes (choose a combination of colors, types, and sizes), such as Brandywine, purple Cherokee, cherry, pear, peach, and/or Green Zebra\n  <br />\n  2 tablespoons champagne vinegar\n  <br />\n  6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil\n  <br />\n  1 small bunch basil (Genovese, lemon, Thai, or fino verde), leaves removed, or about 1 cup mixed fresh basil leaves\n  <br />\n  Maldon or other flaky sea salt\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a sharp knife, cut the mozzarella into Â½-inch-thick slices. Transfer to a serving platter, reserving any milky liquid from the cheese in a small cup.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If using cherry or grape tomatoes, cut them in half; reserve the juices. Core the remaining tomatoes and slice them, reserving the juices. Arrange the tomatoes on the cheese.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whisk the vinegar, reserved tomato juices, any liquid from the mozzarella, and the olive oil together in a small bowl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tear the basil leaves over the salad. Pour the vinaigrette over it, sprinkle with salt, and serve.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Spaghetti alla Carbonara\n  <br />\n  Serves 6\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kosher salt\n  <br />\n  5 ounces sliced pancetta, cut into Â½-inch-wide strips\n  <br />\n  Â¼ cup extra virgin olive oil\n  <br />\n  1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper\n  <br />\n  6 fresh large eggs\n  <br />\n  1 pound spaghetti\n  <br />\n  Â½ cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, plus extra for serving\n  <br />\n  Â¼ cup grated pecorino romano\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bring 6 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot and add 3 tablespoons kosher salt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, combine the pancetta and oil in another large pot and cook over medium-high heat until the pancetta has rendered some of its fat and is lightly browned, about 7 minutes. Stir in the pepper and remove from the heat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Separate the eggs, being careful to keep the yolks intact, putting the whites in a small bowl and the yolks in a shallow dish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drop the pasta into the boiling water and cook until just al dente. Drain, reserving cup of the pasta water.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Add the reserved pasta water to the panÂ¬cetta and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Add the egg whites and cook, whisking furiously, until they are frothy but not set, about 1 minute. Add the pasta, stirring and tossing well to coat. Stir in the cheeses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Divide the pasta among six bowls, making a nest in the center of each portion. Gently drop an egg yolk into each nest and serve immediately, advising your guests to stir the yolk into the pasta so it will cook. Pass additional grated Parmigiano on the side.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe breadth of vegetable preparations in â€œMolto Gustoâ€ is infectious. Armed with Bataliâ€™s suggestions, it seems, readers could tackle almost any vegetable they bring home.â€ (Buffalo News (NY) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you could eat with your eyes, youâ€™d swoon while reading Mario Bataliâ€™s MOLTO GUSTO.â€ (San Francisco Book Review )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8504'),
(6495, 'Mom Over Miami', 'Annie Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *What does it say about me that the thing that has finally made me "cool" among my foster son''s pals is my ability to portion corn chips out of a warehouse-club monster bag, then drown said corn chips in pasteurized melted cheese product? I''ll tell you what it says. It says welcome to Nacho Mama''s House . . . Soccer mom, budding journalist, dutiful doctor''s wife and mother of two -- Hannah Bartlett feels she''s suddenly been handed a full plate from the buffet of life. A new baby alone could overwhelm, but add a nine-year-old foster son, meddling neighbors and Hannah''s nagging self-doubt, and you''ve got a recipe for disaster. What else can a mom do . . . but go AWOL?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(6496, 'Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable\n </em>\n Elmore Leonard\n <em>\n  wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n There is a moment when obsession, rage, and destiny come together at the end of a shotgun barrelâ€”when wrongs, actual or perceived, are addressed with violence, and the awesome power of life or death rests in a trigger finger. In seven magnificent stories of sins, crimes, conscience, and savage retribution, the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling master carries us back to an untamed time and place where a simple transgression most often proved fatal . . . and the only true justice lived in the hands of the gunman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9184'),
(6497, 'Mona Lisa Overdrive', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  Enter Gibson''s unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.  Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.  Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.  Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.  And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4175'),
(6498, 'The Monastery', 'Sir Walter Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The land that held the monastery was quiet and forbidding -- ". . . As our Glendearg did not abound in mortal visitants, superstition had peopled its recesses with beings belonging to another world. The savage and capricious Brown Man of the Moors, a being which seems the genuine descendant of the northern dwarfs, was supposed to be seen there frequently, especially after the autumnal equinox, when the fogs were thick, and objects not easily distinguished. The Scottish fairies, too, a whimsical, irritable, and mischievous tribe, who, though at times capriciously benevolent, were more frequently adverse to mortals, were also supposed to have formed a residence in a particularly wild recess of the glen. . . ."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10989'),
(6499, 'Monday Mourning', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic scientist Tempe Brennan isn''t happy: it''s freezing in Montreal, her detective boyfriend is giving her the cold shoulder and her macho colleagues won''t take her seriously. When Reichs''s heroine is called in to examine three skeletons discovered in the basement of a pizza parlor at the start of the seventh installment in this popular series, her instincts tell her a crime was recently committed. Chauvinistic homicide detective Luc Claudel doesn''t agree, but Tempe forges ahead and soon discovers that the victims are young women, probably teenagers killed sometime in the 1980s. Already feeling vulnerable because she''s left her beloved daughter, Katy, back home in North Carolina, Tempe is further troubled by the indifference of formerly avid lover Andrew Ryan (another Montreal detective). Meanwhile, new developments lead Tempe and her reluctant colleagues to suspect a creepy former pawn store owner of serial kidnappings, torture and grisly murder. What''s best about Reichs, and often unappreciated in reviews, is not the informative detail that she brings to Tempe''s forensic sleuthing, though that''s certainly engrossing. It''s the same well-observed detail and incisive analysis applied to other aspects of the story. Tempe deconstructs Ryan''s every evasive gesture and casual comment and describes an ominously darkened room, the glow from a UV light and an armada of snow plows with vivid precision. Here, as previously, readers will be as invested in Tempe''s life as in her case.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Montreal to testify as an expert witness in a murder trial, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is called to the basement of a pizza parlor where three bodies have been found buried in shallow graves. Her examination reveals that the victims, young women, were recently killed, and she convinces police to investigate the deaths as murders. Puzzled when the bodies don''t physically match any of the missing-person reports from past years, Temperance delves deeper and uncovers a horrifying secret. Meanwhile, boyfriend troubles and a friend''s marital woes add to Temperance''s problems. Fans of Patricia Cornwell will relish the forensic detail-- determining the physical characteristics of the women from their skeletons, dating the remains, and performing tests to discover where the victims grew up and then spent the last years of their lives. A fast-paced and suspenseful mystery in a deservedly popular series.\n  <em>\n   Sue O''Brien\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11161'),
(6500, 'The Monday Night Cooking School', 'Erica Bauermeister', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian''s restaurant for a cooking class. There''s Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; bachelor Ian, who exists on Chinese takeaways; Chloe, the distracted waitress who is forever dropping things; Carl and Helen, getting past a betrayal in their marriage; and Tom, mourning the tragic loss of his wife. Plus Lillian, who taught herself to cook to reach out to her unhappy mother.From delicious feasts to dining disasters, will the cooks find what they are looking for? And among the utensils and mouth-watering ingredients, will some of them even fall in love?The Monday Night Cooking School is a gorgeous novel about possibilities and the magic of food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1137'),
(6501, 'Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World', 'William D. Cohan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ""_Destined to be a runaway bestseller...There''s no shortage of Goldman clients, rivals, and former employees willing to explain how greed and recklessness led Goldman to become too big, too powerful, and even too conflicted to fail_. As one Goldman alum puts it, ''I saw what they did to their customers...They''d steal from them, rape them, anything they could do.'' It worked like a charm...[Cohan] has produced the frankest, most detailed, most human assessment of the bank to date. Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large and hungry that it''s no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that''s the wonder -- and horror -- of Goldman Sachs."\n  <br />\n  -- _Businessweek\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   _[\n  </em>\n  Money and Power_] offers the best analysis yet of Goldman''s increasingly tangled web of conflicts_...The writing is crisp and the research meticulous, drawing on reams of documents made publicly available by congressional committees and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[E]xhaustive,\n  <em>\n   revelatory account of the rise and rise of Goldman Sachs....engrossing....penetrating\n  </em>\n  ....Cohan revels in a good bust-up and lingers over anecdotes involving intrigue....All the senior partners still living spoke to him, often very candidly, and only a few from the next ranks seem to have refuse....a vast trove of material"\n  <br />\n  --_The Financial Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A former Lazard Freres &amp; Co. banker and newspaper reporter,\n  <em>\n   Cohan brings the bank''s sometimes ''schizophrenic'' behavior to vivid life\n  </em>\n  ...Drawing on more than 100 interviews with clients, competitors and Goldman leaders including Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein, Cohan evinces an eye for telling images and an ear for deadpan quotations."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Bloomberg\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In MONEY &amp; POWER, journalist and former investment banker William D. Cohan launches a quixotic quest to show that Mr. Blankfein and his peers are money-sucking evil-doers that came to their riches mostly by nefarious means...(\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    _full disclosure: I was once a Goldman Sachs employee myself\n   </em>\n   )._\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Cohan''s complaints against Goldman seem to be that it is ''ruthless'' in pursuit of profit; doesn''t do enough to protect its instutitional clients from making bad decisions; works too closely with government; too often advises clients on both sides of a deal; and skirts close to the line of ''insider trading''."\n  <br />\n  -- Mary Kissel, _The Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for HOUSE OF CARDS\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like Michael Lewisâ€™s â€˜Liarâ€™s Pokerâ€™ and Bryan Burrough and John Helyarâ€™s â€˜Barbarians at the Gate,â€™ this volume turns complex Wall Street maneuverings into high drama that is gripping .... [His] account of its death spiral not only makes for riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading, but it also stands as a chilling cautionary tale about how greed and hubris and high-risk gambling wrecked one company."--Michiko Kakutani,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating.â€--_The Wall Street Journal_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "A riveting blow-by-blow account." --_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Masterfully reported....[Cohan] has turned into one of our most able financial journalists....he deploys not only his hands-on experience of this exotic corner of the financial industry but also a remarkable gift for plain-spoken explanation... It''s impossible to do justice to his reportorial detail in a brief review..." --_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for THE LAST TYCOONS\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCohanâ€™s portrayal of the firm''s dominant partnersâ€”whose gargantuan appetites and mercurial habits provide the unifying force behind the bookâ€™s operatic melodramasâ€” makes this an epic . . . In fact,_ The Last Tycoons_ bears a striking resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgeraldâ€™s_ The Last Tycoon_.â€_â€”New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œBreezy and highly readable . . . For those of us who enjoy high-level gossip (most people) and an inside look at the machinations, triumphs, failures, and foibles of some of Wall Streetâ€™s and Americaâ€™s most exalted personages, Cohanâ€™s book is entertaining and seductively engrossing.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCohan not only knows where the bodies are buried but got a guided tour of the graveyard.â€_â€”Financial Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œRips the roof off of one of Wall Streetâ€™s most storied investment banks.â€_â€”Vanity Fair_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the bestselling, prize-winning author of THE LAST TYCOONS and HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most dominant, feared, and controversial investment bankÂ in the world\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  For much of its storied 142-year history, Goldman Sachs has projected an image of being better than its competitors--smarter, more collegial, more ethical, and far more profitable. The firm--buttressed by the most aggressive and sophisticated p.r. machine in the financial industry--often boasts of "The Goldman Way," a business model predicated on hiring the most talented people, indoctrinating them in a corporate culture where partners stifle their egos for the greater good, and honoring the "14 Principles," the first of which is "Our clients'' interests always come first."\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there is another way of viewing Goldman--a secretive money-making machine that has straddled the line between conflict-of-interest and legitimate deal-making for decades; a firm that has exerted undue influence over government since the early part of the 20th century; a company composed of "cyborgs" who are kept in line by an internal "reputational risk department" staffed by former CIA operatives and private investigators; a workplace rife with brutal power struggles; a Wall Street titan whose clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007--a bet not revealed to its clients--may have made the financial ruin of the Great RecessionÂ worse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As William D. Cohan shows in his riveting chronicle of Goldman''s rise to the summit of world capitalism, the firm has shown a remarkable ability to weather financial crises, congressional, federal and SEC investigations, and numerous lawsuits, all with its reputation and its enormous profits intact.Â ByÂ reading thousands of pages of government documents, court cases, SEC filings, Freedom of Information ActÂ papersÂ and other sources, and conducting over 100 interviews, including interviews with clients, competitors, regulators, current and former Goldman employees (including theÂ sixÂ living men who have run Goldman), Cohan has constructed a vivid narrative that looks behind the veil of secrecy to reveal\n  <em>\n   how\n  </em>\n  Goldman has become so profitable, and so powerful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part of the answer is the firm''s assiduous cultivation of people in power--dating back to 1913, when Henry Goldman advised the government on how the new Federal Reserve, designed to oversee Wall Street, should be constituted.Â Sidney Weinberg, who ran the firm for four decades, advised presidents from Roosevelt to Kennedy and was nicknamed "The Politician" for his behind-the-scenes friendships with government officials.Â  Goldman executives ran fundraising efforts for Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush.Â  The firm showered lucrative consultingÂ or speaking fees on figures like Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Summers. Famously, and fatefully, two Goldman leaders-- Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson--became Secretaries of the Treasury, where theirÂ actions both before andÂ during the financial crisis of 2008Â became the stuff of controversy and conspiracy theories.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Another major strand in the firm''s DNA is its eagerness to deal on both sides of a transaction, eliding questions of conflict of interest by the mere assertion of their innate honesty and nobility, a refrain repeated many times in its history, most notoriously by current Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein''s jesting assertion that he was doing "God''s work."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Michiko Kakutani''s\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  review of HOUSE OF CARDS said, "Cohan writes with an insider''s knowledge of the workings of Wall Street, a reporter''s investigative instincts and a natural storyteller''s narrative command." In MONEY &amp; POWER, Cohan has marshaled all these gifts in a powerful and definitive account of an institution whose public claims of virtue look very much like ruthlessness when exposed to the light of day.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7030'),
(6502, 'The Money Class', 'Suze Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What does it take to create your New American Dream? Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, says itâ€™s time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dreamâ€”what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have faith that our hard work will pay off and that a secure and hopeful future is within our reach.Â In nine electrifying chapters, Orman delivers a master class on personal finance for this pivotal moment in time. She addresses every aspect of the American Dreamâ€”home, family, career, retirement. She teaches us that in order to create lasting security we must learn to stand in our truth. We must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for us today and allow that understanding to inform the choices we make.Â  The New American Dream is not the things we accumulate, says Orman, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which weâ€™ve worked so hard for cannot be taken away from us. In THE MONEY CLASS, Orman teaches us how to take control over our presentâ€”right here, right nowâ€”in order to build the future of our dreams. Â Whether navigating the complicated mix of money and family, offering the most comprehensive retirement resource available today, or delivering a bracing dose of reality when it comes to recalibrating our expectations and our goals, Orman educates us with her signature no-nonsense approach and laser-like clarity. She empowers us to live a life of integrity and honesty that will create an enduring legacy for future generationsâ€”a New American Dream that lies in truth, security, financial freedom, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4517'),
(6503, 'Money to Burn: A Novel of Suspense', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, *New York Times* bestselling author James Grippando, whom the *Wall Street Journal* calls "a writer to watch," explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hoursâ€”perhaps even minutes. At thirty-one, Michael Cantella is a rising star at Wall Street''s premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Fast-forward four years. It''s the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, and Michael is still on track: successful career, beautiful new wife, piles of money. Reveling in his good fortune, Michael logs in to his computer, enters his password, and pulls up his biggest investment account: *Zero balance*. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message: *Just as planned. xo xo.* With these three words Michael''s life as he knows it is liquidated, along with his investment portfolio. Saxton Silvers is suddenly on the brink of bankruptcy, and he''s the leading suspect in its ruin. Michael is left alone, framed, and facing divorce, with undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he''s desperate to clear his name and realizes that several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But what if Ivy has come back from the dead, only to visit on Michael a fate worse than death? With echoes of *The Firm*, James Grippando''s newest thriller takes readers to the inner circle of Wall Street, illustrating the very real dangers of what Warren Buffett called "financial weapons of mass destruction."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1690'),
(6504, 'Money: A Suicide Note', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the ''80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in\n  <strong>\n   Money\n  </strong>\n  musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (_The New Republic_) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (_The Times Literary Supplement_) when it made its first appearance in the mid- 1980s,\n  <em>\n   Money\n  </em>\n  is Martin Amis''s hilarious portrait of one man''s relentless pursuit of pleasure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7215'),
(6505, 'Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can''t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities - his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission - but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers - numbers! - collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors." "What these geek numbers show - no, prove - is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base on balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics." Billy paid attention to those numbers - with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to - and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride : before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11235'),
(6506, 'The Monk', 'Matthew Gregory Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe whole work is distinguished by the variety and impressiveness of its incidents; and the author every-where discovers an imagination rich, powerful, and fervid.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Samuel Taylor Coleridge\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Matthew Lewisâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Monk\n </em>\n was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewisâ€™s story, which drove the House of Commonsâ€”of which he was a memberâ€”to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio as he is tempted into a world of incest, murder, and torture by a young girl who has concealed herself in his monastery disguised as a boy. As Ambrosio spirals into hell, the reader encounters an array of haunting characters: the innocent virgin, the Bleeding Nun, the Wandering Jew, an evil prioress, and Lucifer himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n This Modern Library Paperback Classic, set from the unexpurgated first edition of 1796, brings to a new generation of readers a timeless classic of gothic fiction that has influenced writers from Byron and Emily BrontÃ« to Poe and Hawthorne.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4758'),
(6507, 'Monk&#39;s-Hood', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man''s bedside, only to be confronted by two very different surprises. In Master Bonel''s wife, the good monk recognises Richildis, whom he loved many years ago before he took his vows. And Master Bonel has been fatally poisoned by a dose of deadly monk''s-hood oil from Cadfael''s herbarium. The Sheriff is convinced that the murderer is Richildis'' son Edwin, who had reasons aplenty to hate his stepfather. But Cadfael, guided in part by his tender concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son''s innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(6508, 'Monkey Sonatas', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of science fiction and fantasy tales by the acclaimed author offers readers ten excursions into the realm of the fantastic and the mythic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5857'),
(6509, 'The Monkey&#39;s Paw', 'W. W. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The White family are delighted when a friend gives them a monkey''s paw that will grant them three wishes. They gain a little but at what cost? The paw turns happiness to fear and despair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3817'),
(6510, 'the Monkey&#39;s Raincoat (1987)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9953'),
(6511, 'Monsoon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South Africa''s master storyteller Wilbur Smith has been writing his exotic historical sagas for so long that he''s in danger of being taken for granted and typecast as an author of adventure stories for and about overgrown boys. But there''s a lot more to Smith''s books than mere blood, thunder, swash, and buckle. He might not be as thoughtful or as philosophical as Patrick O''Brian, but his stories have a wider geographical and chronological range and lots more action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  is the latest chronicle in Smith''s Courteney series. In it, Hal Courteney is sent by the East India Trading Company to attack Arab pirates who are harassing trade off the East African coast. He takes three of his four sons, but one of them absconds to Bombay and another is taken prisoner by the Arabs. Although the mission is an eventual success, Hal himself is seriously injured and returns to England. His son Tom becomes the real hero of the story, gallantly rescuing his captured brother from the infidel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like his heroes, Smith''s prose pulls no punches: "Aboli swung the axe in a wide, flashing arc. It took the man full in the side of his neck, severing it cleanly. His head toppled forward and rolled down his chest, while his trunk stood erect before it slumped to the deck. The air escaped from his lungs in a whistling blast of frothy blood from the open windpipe." It may not be pretty, but it certainly grabs your attention.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenth in the swashbuckling saga of the bold and adventuresome Courtneys, this epic sequel to Birds of Prey finds Sir Hal Courtney and his sons up to their bloody sword arms in piracy, intrigue, treachery and civil war in late 17th and early 18th century East Africa and Arabia. Once again the veteran author creates a masterful tale of action and suspense set on the high seas, arid deserts and steaming jungles. Wealthy English landowner Sir Hal earned his fortune as a sea captain with the East India Company. To protect his overseas investments, he becomes a privateer to combat Arab pirates attacking company ships from bases in Zanzibar and Madagascar. Accompanied by three of his four sons, Sir Hal embarks on a desperate voyage that will bring either glory and treasure or ruin. Sir Hal is a skilled leader and a good father, but his sons are a mixed lot, bitter rivals in love and war. William, the eldest son, left in charge of the English estate, is a greedy blackguard and a brutal poltroon. Tom is a fearless leader while his twin brother, Guy, is a bitter and vengeful schemer. Young Dorian, captured by the Arabs and raised as a Muslim, is resourceful and cunning. Sir Hals voyage brings the Courtney family both wealth and catastrophe. One son is murdered, another becomes a fugitive, a third an abusive betrayer and the fourth is abandoned and forlorn. Clever plot twists and lavish historical detail attend the siblings adventures as they battle pirates, slavers, assassins, their own government and each other. A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9158');
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(6512, 'Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power', 'Robert D. Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Â Â  An inveterate traveler and author, Kaplan recently toured the rim of the Indian Ocean to inspect its geopolitics. Perspectives on the balance of power vary from country to country and speaker to speaker, but most agree that India and China are the ascending powers in the region. As Kaplanâ€™s passages about Indian Ocean history reflect, the two countries can refer to tradition (to the fifteenth-century fleets of Zheng He, in Chinaâ€™s case) for their contemporary activities in the Indian Ocean, but the plain fact is they are busy for one reason: access to resources. As Kaplan journeys from Oman to Pakistan to Burma and Indonesia, the specific raw material comes into focus, as does the geopolitical angle of safely shipping it to the interested country. Touching on what could threaten maritime traffic, such as piracy, ethnic conflicts, or hostile control of choke points like the Strait of Malacca, Kaplan is guardedly optimistic that interested powers, including the U.S., can benignly manage their Indian Ocean affairs. A better-informed world-affairs reader will be the result of Kaplanâ€™s latest title. --Gilbert Taylor\n </div>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  <b>\n   <u>\n    Praise for MONSOON\n   </u>\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œAn intellectual treat: Beautiful writing is not incompatible with geopolitical imagination and historical flair!â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, former national security advisorÂ Â \n   <br />\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <i>\n   Monsoon\n  </i>\n  is a shining example of Robert Kaplanâ€™s ability to combine the most intrepid travel with scrupulous research and scholarship. He has been proven right many times before, in other ambitious books; given his conclusions about the future of South Asia, I do hope he is wrong this time.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”PAUL THEROUX, author of\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    Ghost Train to the Eastern Star\n   </b>\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œFor much of the postâ€“Cold War era, Robert D. Kaplan has been an indispensable voice in our search for order in a time of chaos. This book on the inescapable new role of the Indian Ocean and its influence on America is another enlightening and engaging contribution to our understanding of what matters most as the twenty-first century takes shape.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”JON MEACHAM, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    American Lion\n   </b>\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œThe audacity of Robert Kaplanâ€™s approach to geography as fate is spellbinding. Whether you agree or disagree with his analysis and forecast that the Indian Ocean will occupy the center of global change and international politics in the coming decades, you will find this erudite study gripping and informative. It is a welcome and important addition to the debate about Americaâ€™s role in a rapidly changing world.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”JIM HOAGLAND, contributing editor,\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    The Washington Post\n   </b>\n   <br />\n   Â \n  </i>\n  <br />\n  â€œKaplan . . . inculcates a paradigm shift when he suggests that the site of twenty-first-century geopolitical significance will be the Indian Ocean, not the northern Atlantic. . . . The bookâ€™s political and economic focus and forecasts are smart and brim with aperÃ§us on the intersection of power, politics, and resource consumption (especially water), and give full weight to the impact of colonialism. An ambitious and prescient study.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”\n   <i>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </i>\n   (starred review)\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œKaplan is a landscape artist who covers the world with extraordinary perception and insight and paints brilliant portraits of people, places, history, geopolitics, religion, and big ideas. As usual, Kaplan is one step ahead of everyone else as he explores how global power is shifting.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”AHMED RASHID, author of\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    Descent into Chaos\n   </b>\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <i>\n   Monsoon\n  </i>\n  is another masterpiece by one of the most compelling writers of our day. Anyone interested in the balance of power in our world needs to read this book, and fast.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”AMY CHUA, Yale University, author of\n   <i>\n    World on Fire\n   </i>\n   and\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    Day of Empire\n   </b>\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <i>\n   Monsoon\n  </i>\n  captures vividly what many have believed for some timeâ€”that the twenty-first-century balance of power in the world will rest, more than anywhere else, on the fortunes of China, India, and the United States in the Indian Ocean. This is a superb book with important lessons for Americans.â€\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   â€”NICHOLAS BURNS, Harvard University, former undersecretary of state\n  </b>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8375'),
(6513, 'Monster High', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Lisi Harrison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Clique and Alphas, comes a new series with a fresh twist on high school, romance, and the horrors of trying to fit in. They prefer to call themselves RADs, but some call them monsters. So far, the "monster" community has kept a low profile in Salem, Oregon, but this year two new girls enroll at Merston High School, and the town will never be the same.Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father''s lonely formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and friends. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her. She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a normi be trusted with her big secret?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4371'),
(6514, 'Monster Hunter International', 'Larry Correia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Monsters are real.And some people kill them for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business, and Owen Zastava Pitt -- CPA, average guy, and survivor of a brutal supernatural attack -- is the company?s newest employee. When MHI takes on a new contract, Owen and the girl of his dreams unwittingly find themselves in the path of an ancient evil. A creature known as the Cursed One has returned to fulfill a centuries old vendetta. And when he does, it?s the end of the world. And that would be bad for business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2892'),
(6515, 'Monster Hunter Vendetta', 'Larry Correia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old Oneâ€™s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Â The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. The government wants to capture the Shadow Man and has assigned the enigmatic Agent Franks to be Owenâ€™s full time bodyguard, which is a polite way of saying that Owen is monster bait. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  With supernatural assassins targeting his family, a spy in their midst, and horrific beasties lurking around every corner, Owen and the staff of Monster Hunter International donâ€™t need to go hunting, because this time the monsters are hunting them. Fortunately, this bait is armed and *very *dangerous . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2891'),
(6516, 'The Monster of Florence', 'Douglas Preston; Mario Spezi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2000, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston fulfilled a long-held dream to move his family to Italy. But after settling in an idyllic village just outside Florence, he discovered that the olive grove in front of his family''s new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. The killer had never been found. Preston, intrigued, met Italian journalist Mario Spezi, who has followed the case since the first murders in 1974, to learn more. This is the true story of their search for - and identification of - the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. It''s also the story of how Preston and Spezi themselves became part of the story. Preston had his phone tapped, was interrogated, and forced to leave the country. Spezi fared even worse: he was accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston''s bestselling thrillers, The Monster of Florence tells a gripping and harrowing story of murder, mutilation, suspicion and ruined lives - and at the centre of it, two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(6517, 'Monster of the Maze', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1964'),
(6518, 'Monster Republic', 'Ben Horton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An explosion in a nuclear power plant. Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants. A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction. "No," whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. "That''s not me. You''re not me." As commercial and compelling as a computer game, this is the first book in a major new series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1367'),
(6519, 'A Monster&#39;s Notes', 'Laurie Sheck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein''s monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother''s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being whom she had discovered at a time of need? What if he were still alive in the twenty-first century? This bold, genre-defying book brings us the "monster" in his own words. He recalls how he was "made" and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him. He ponders the tragic tale of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his life with that of Mary (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates) in this riveting mix of fact and poetic license. He takes notes on all aspects of human striving--from the music of John Cage to robotics to the Northern explorers whose lonely quest mirrors his own--as he tries to understand the strange race that made yet shuns him, and to find his own freedom of mind. In the course of the monster''s musings, we also see Mary Shelley''s life from her childhood through her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, her writing of "Frankenstein, " the births and deaths of her children, Shelley''s famous drowning, her widowhood, her subsequent travels and life''s work, and finally her death from a brain tumor at age fifty-four. The monster''s fierce bond with Mary and the tale of how he ended up in her fiction is a haunted, intense love story, a story of two beings who can never forget each other. "A Monster''s Notes" is Sheck''s most thrilling work to date, a luminous meditation on creativity and technology, on alienation and otherness, on ugliness and beauty, and on our need to be understood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5409'),
(6520, 'Monsters of Men', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immediately and is told from two and then three viewpoints with no backstory that might bring readers new to the series up to speed. Todd and Viola attempt to persuade Mayor Prentiss and Mistress Coyle, respectively, that peace is the better path to the future, peace with one another and with the vast army of Spackles that looms above the valley. Unfortunately, the Mayor and Mistress only want peace that comes with victory for their faction. A scout ship arrives from the approaching convoy of colonists, changing the balance of power. The Mayor uses his "Noise," the ability that male humans and all of the Spackle have to communicate mentally, to control his army and to influence Todd. Mistress Coyle and the other mistresses shelter under the protection of the scout ship and work to cure the infection of the bands that threaten the lives of many of the women, including Viola. Ness distinguishes his various narrators by the use of different fonts, further distinguishing Todd with a select few words misspelled. This is a complex and engrossing work that series fans will devour but which may be impenetrable to those who haven''t read the earlier volumes._Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Ness, a forceful writer who chews through ideas at a blistering clip, takes on war, the heftiest of human follies, in the conclusion to his Chaos Walking trilogy. The genocidal tyrant Mayor Prentiss leads an army on one side, the terrorist healer Mistress Coyle heads a band of revolutionaries on another, and a massive legion of native Spackle threatens from a third. All three sides see only the complete annihilation of the others as the sole option for victory and survival, and they might be right, no matter how Todd and Viola use their formidable wills to advance peace as an influx of new colonists nears. Itâ€™s a thick book, approaching Russian-novel territory, but it rarely feels bloated; and readers invested in the story will likely concede that Ness has earned the space. His rapid-fire litany of impossible choices makes for captivating thought fodder, and what has already been a potent display of the power of voice to drive, amplify, and transform a story gets a third, unexpected soloist. And in so doing he shows just how deep and complex, as well as how versatile, a symbolic narrative device like Noise can be. For all the huge themes mauling at each other, though, itâ€™s the characters that ultimately stand out in this final actâ€”the connections that bind them and change them and ruin them and redeem them. This is science fiction at its best, and is a singular fusion of brutality and idealism that is, at last, perfectly human. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7942'),
(6521, 'Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one''s great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks''s brother marched off to battle, and Polly''s willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join this man''s army. Since a nation in such dire need of cannon fodder can''t afford to be too picky, Polly is eagerly welcomed into the fighting foldâ€”along with a vampire, a troll, an Igor, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close "friends." It would appear that Polly "Ozzer" Perks isn''t the only grunt with a secret. But duty calls, the battlefield beckons. And now is the time for all good ... er ... "men" to come to the aid of their country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3397'),
(6522, 'A Monstrous Regiment of Women', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell''s adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called "The New Temple of God." It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement''s wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary''s search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5354'),
(6523, 'Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger', 'Jonas Hassen Khemiri &amp; Rachel Willson-Broyles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abbas Khemiriâ€™s friends include Bono, Kofi Annan, and Salman Rushdie. Heâ€™s the greatest photojournalist of his time, illuminating the plight of the worldâ€™s poor and powerless, but he began life as an orphan in Tunisia. His â€œantiqueâ€ (i.e., oldest) friend, Kadir, emails Jonas, Khemiriâ€™s Tunisian-Swedish son, a novelist, to propose that they collaborate on a biography of Jonasâ€™ famous father. Kadir is insistent, but Jonas is reluctantâ€”he hasnâ€™t seen his father in nine years. Jonas and Kadir begin a correspondence that conflicts in both substance and style. Kadirâ€™s accounts of Abbas are admiring, and his writing is buoyant and often funny. Jonasâ€™ memories are critical and laced with irony and rage. But both ultimately focus on racism and nativism, the â€œsmothering set of prejudicesâ€ in Sweden that defied Abbasâ€™ efforts to fit into Swedish society, support his family, and keep Jonas from feeling that heâ€™s an outsider. Montecore will startle many American readers who know little of the anti-immigrant sentiments that have been fomenting in Sweden since the 1990s. An illuminating and involving novel. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[_Montecore_ is] funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworksâ€¦a potent chemical mix." â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter,\n <em>\n  Montecore\n </em>\n arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant accountâ€¦the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identityâ€¦[A] rollicking tale." â€”Barnes &amp; Noble\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Montecore\n <em>\n  is brilliant. Like its titleâ€”an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried &amp; Roy, and Dungeons &amp; Dragonsâ€”Jonas Hassen Khemiri''s novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I''ve read in a long time." â€”Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of\n </em>\n Sightseeing\n <br />\n _Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiriâ€™s subtle wit and voice."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voiceâ€”actually several of themâ€”to contemporary literature." â€”_Kirkus_ (starred)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5041'),
(6524, 'Montessori Madness!', 'Eissler, Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10987'),
(6525, 'Montessori Madness!: A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education', 'Trevor Eissler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Just what the wider educational community needs a book written with passion and understanding by a Montessori parent to other parents. Trevor Eissler is a rare parent who can put into writing his enthusiasm and first-hand experience as a Montessori advocate to other parents. ---Barbara Gordon, President, Montessori Institute of Texas; Founder, Barbara Gordon Montessori School\n </p>\n <p>\n  I am excited that our faculty will be reading Montessori Madness! this summer for our summer reading selection. It is a very practical perspective from a parent that gives great insight and answers to the questions that our parent body seems to be seeking. This book gives us very tangible topics to discuss with parents in the upcoming years. ---Michele Shane, Head of School, The Children''s House\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s great about this book is that it is written by a Montessori parent for other parents who may or may not have already discovered Montessori education for their children. It''s easy reading and passionately makes the case for choosing Montessori. ---Nirvair Khalsa, Head of School, Khalsa Montessori School\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We know we need to improve our traditional school system, both public and private. But how? More homework? Better-qualified teachers? Longer school days or school years? More testing? More funding? No, no, no, no, and no.\n  <em>\n   Montessori Madness!\n  </em>\n  explains why the incremental steps politicians and administrators continue to propose are incremental steps in the wrong direction. The entire system must be turned on its head. This book asks parents to take a look one thirty-minute observation at a Montessori school. Your picture of what education should look like will never be the same.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Montessori Madness![HTML_REMOVED] follows one family with young children on their journey of determination, discovery, and delight. Learn the who, what, when, where, why, and how of Montessori education. _\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book makes an aggressive, humorous, and passionate case for a brilliant method of education that has received too little attention, very likely because it is based on a revolutionary, dangerous, and shocking concept: children love to learn!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8265'),
(6526, 'Monty, his part in my victory', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Britain''s looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron...up there in Valhalla, Monty''s laughing fit to burst.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3486'),
(6527, 'The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History', 'Robert M. Edsel &amp; Bret Witter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n WWII was the most destructive war in history and caused the greatest dislocation of cultural artifacts. Hundreds of thousands of items remain missing. The main burden fell to a few hundred men and women, curators and archivists, artists and art historians from 13 nations. Their task was to save and preserve what they could of Europe''s great art, and they were called the Monuments Men. (Coincidentally or not, this book appears only briefly after Ilaria Dagnini Brey''s\n <em>\n  The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy''s Art During World War II\n </em>\n , Reviews, June 1.) Edsel has presented their achievements in documentaries and photographs. He and Witter (coauthor of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Dewey\n </em>\n ) are no less successful here. Focusing on the organization''s role in northwest Europe, they describe the Monuments Men from their initial mission to limit combat damage to structures and artifacts to their changed focus of locating missing items. Most had been stolen by the Nazis. In southern Germany alone, over a thousand caches emerged, containing everything from church bells to insect collections. The story is both engaging and inspiring. In the midst of a total war, armies systematically sought to mitigate cultural loss.\n <em>\n  (Sept. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.\n <br />\n In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.\n <br />\n Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world''s great art from the Nazis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7239'),
(6528, 'Mooch', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten months after the death of his famous father, Dan Fante''s antihero, Bruno Dante is back. He has cleaned himself up, straightened out, is attending AA and back on the mooch, selling computer-printer supplies for a militaristic disciplinarian and straight guy in a company staffed by a motley crew of ex-addicts. Then he meets Mexican femme fatale, Jimmi Valiente, a mesmerizingly beautiful new employee at Orbit Computer Supplies. Valiente is a former gangbanger, lap-dancer, crackhead, and once again Dante''s world begins to go into free fall. The second novel in the Bruno Dante trilogy is a brutal satire of contemporary America by a writer of immense power and beauty "The Fantes, father and son, have been a major new discovery for me in these last few years." -- John Fowles "Dark and bleak, dirty and real ... Dan Fante''s style is raw, insightful, and deftly realized." -- Time Out (New York)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/600'),
(6529, 'Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum', 'Lee S. Cohen; Ruta Nonacs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum earns its important place in the literature by detailing our current understanding of the course, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric illness during pregnancy and postpartum, including breast-feedingAa top priority today because we now know that active maternal psychiatric illness during pregnancy and postpartum can exert long-term negative effects on child development and cause significant morbidity for the mother. In just five concise richly informative chapters, the nine distinguished contributors to Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum dispel prevailing beliefs and offer invaluable guidance in treating women during pregnancy and postpartum: -Course of Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum PeriodADespite the enduring belief that pregnancy is a time of emotional well-being for women, emerging data show that pregnancy is instead a time of increased vulnerability to psychiatric illness. -Diagnosis and Treatment of Mood and Anxiety Disorders During PregnancyAThough the use of psychotropic medications during pregnancy and postpartum raises concerns, the accumulating data support the use of certain SSRIs/tricyclic antidepressants, especially when balanced against the risk to both mother and child of depression during pregnancy. -Management of Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Weighing the Risks and BenefitsAAlthough the onset of bipolar disorder (BP) tends to occur during women''s reproductive years, surprisingly little is known about the impact of the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum, breast-feeding, and menopause on the course and treatment of bipolar disorder. -Postpartum Mood DisordersAWomen experience a dramatic increase in their risk of developing severe psychiatric illness during postpartum for a full year after delivery. Often overlooked, postpartum disorders must be identified and treated as early as possible to reduce the mother''s risk for recurrent and treatment-refractory illness and the child''s risk for long-term development problems due to the detrimental effect of maternal depression. -Use of Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers in Breast-feeding WomenAThis expanded clinical appraisal of the literature on antidepressant and mood stabilizer use in breast-feeding women shows that additional detailed pharmacokinetic investigations are urgently needed to enhance our understanding of nursing infant exposure and the role(s) of pharmacogenomics in determining infant exposure. Meticulously referenced and remarkably succinct, Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum provides critical information about the course of illness during pregnancy and postpartum to help guide effective individualized treatment decisions-decisions that are ultimately based on the patient''s wishes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee S. Cohen, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Ruta M. Nonacs, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Associate Director, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10921'),
(6530, 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work. It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement''s leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution''s ultimate success. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom. Robert Anson Heinlein was educated at the University of Missouri and the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving as a naval officer for five years, he retired for health reasons and began publishing SF in 1939. Considered the dean of American SF writers, Heinlein was loved and emulated during the half century that he wrote SF. He wrote dozens of novels and short stories, including "Double Star, Stranger in a Strange Land," and" The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, " all of which won Hugo Awards. Heinlein was the recipient of the First Grand Master Nebula in 1975, and he was the guest of honor at three World SF Conventions: in 1941, 1961, and 1976. He has repeatedly been voted "best all-time author" in readers'' polls. Robert A. Heinlein passed away in 1988. The Hugo Award-winning classic that helped launch modern libertarianism, "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" is Heinlein''s unforgettable tale of a Lunar revolution in 2076. Led by a one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient, all-knowing computer, the revolution''s proclamation--"TANSTAAFL" (There Ain''t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)--remains a slogan of the libertarian movement today. "He presided over American Science Fiction."--Joe Haldeman "He was admired and envied for more than a century by the brightest human beings on Earth."--Larry Niven\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3953'),
(6531, 'The Moon Is Down', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books *East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven*, and *Tortilla Flat*. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2980'),
(6532, 'Moon of Three Rings', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Krip, the Free Trader, is changed into an animal by the strange Moon Singer maiden in an effort to save him from the evil power seekers; but now he faces a more serious danger - that of not being able to return to his human form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9080'),
(6533, 'Moon Over Manifest', 'Clare Vanderpool', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 5-8â€“History and fiction marry beautifully in this lively debut novel. It''s as if readers jump off the train in Manifest, KS, in 1936 with Abilene Tucker, 12, the feisty, likable, and perceptive narrator. She is there to live with Pastor Shady Howard, her father''s friend, while her father works on the railroad back in Iowa. An equally important story set during World War I is artfully intertwined. Since her mother went off on her own 10 years earlier, Abilene and Gideon have been alone. Though their life together is unsettled, their bond is strong. Shady''s place is shabby, but he is welcoming. The mystery about Manifest and Gideon unfolds after Abilene finds a box filled with intriguing keepsakes. It includes a letter dated 1917 to someone named Jinx from Ned Gillen that has a warning, â€œTHE RATTLER is watching.â€ This starts Abilene, with the help of new friends Ruthanne and Lettie, on a search to learn the identity of the pair. The story cleverly shifts back and forth between the two eras. Abilene becomes connected to Miss Sadie, a â€œdivinerâ€ who slowly leads her through the story of Ned and Jinx. Though the girl is lonely, she adjusts to her new life, feeling sure that her father will come for her at summer''s end. The Ku Klux Klan and its campaign against the many immigrants working in the coal mines and the deplorable conditions and exploitation of these men provide important background. This thoroughly enjoyable, unique page-turner is a definite winner.â€“Renee Steinberg, formerly at Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  After a life of riding the rails with her father, 12-year-old Abilene canâ€™t understand why he has sent her away to stay with Pastor Shady Howard in Manifest, Missouri, a town he left years earlier; but over the summer she pieces together his story. In 1936, Manifest is a town worn down by sadness, drought, and the Depression, but it is more welcoming to newcomers than it was in 1918, when it was a conglomeration of coal-mining immigrants who were kept apart by habit, company practice, and prejudice. Abilene quickly finds friends and uncovers a local mystery. Their summerlong â€œspy huntâ€ reveals deep-seated secrets and helps restore residentsâ€™ faith in the bright future once promised on the townâ€™s sign. Abileneâ€™s first-person narrative is intertwined with newspaper columns from 1917 to 1918 and stories told by a diviner, Miss Sadie, while letters home from a soldier fighting in WWI add yet another narrative layer. Vanderpool weaves humor and sorrow into a complex tale involving murders, orphans, bootlegging, and a mother in hiding. With believable dialogue, vocabulary and imagery appropriate to time and place, and well-developed characters, this rich and rewarding first novel is â€œlike sucking on a butterscotch. Smooth and sweet.â€ Grades 5-8. --Kathleen Isaacs\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8426'),
(6534, 'Moon Six - a novellette', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â© Stephen Baxter 1997, 1998. This story first appeared in Science Fiction Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11091'),
(6535, 'The Moon Tunnel', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Crawling on elbows and knees, a man slowly inches forward, making his way through a cramped space and suffocating darkness. He doesnâ€™t know that someone is watching, and in a flash of light, his journey is over. Now, fifty years later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is on-site at a former World War II POW camp observing an archeological dig. The archeologists are looking for buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, but the excavators have found something even more interesting---the skeletal remains of a man trapped in an underground tunnel. The dead manâ€™s intent seems obvious, but there are two things no one can explain: The bullet hole in his forehead and the direction of the body. This prisoner was crawling in, not out.Itâ€™s a puzzle that intrigues Dryden far more than it does the archeologists or the police. Meanwhile, he continues his nightly visits to the hospital where his wife, Laura, is emerging from five years in a coma. Laura can sometimes communicate through a computer now, though the process is painfully slow and erratic. When it turns out that Lauraâ€™s father was involved with the POWs during the war, Dryden begins to wonder if the key may lie in long-buried family secrets. And then a second, more recent, body is discoveredâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1845'),
(6536, 'Moon&#39;s Fury', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cara Salinas, the new Sheriff of Tedford County, Texas, has led her small pack of Mexican red wolves since she was thirteen. Adam Mueller, a beat cop from Minneapolis, violated the Saziâ€™s single greatest ruleâ€”he allowed humans to see their kind, and must now lead his exiled timber wolves to start a new life with Caraâ€™s pack. Cara and Adam harbor secrets that could either make them fated mates or deadly enemies. Yet they must find a way to cooperate when a flock of vicious Sazi raptors begin feeding on humans. Can they embrace their future together to save the town, or will they begin a war that could destroy them all? Hailed as â€œpremiere authors of paranormal romanceâ€ and â€œtrue genre luminariesâ€ by Romantic Times BOOKreviews and winner of the 2005 Reviewerâ€™s Choice Award for Best Werewolf Romance for Moonâ€™s Web, C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp are back with another tale of shapeshifters, passion and politics in Moonâ€™s Fury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1391'),
(6537, 'Moon&#39;s Web', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tony Giodone made his living as an assassinâ€”until one of his marks ripped his throat out and turned him into a werewolf. Now heâ€™s the best hired killer there is. When a curvy woman in an expensive suit tries to hire him to kill her, his wolf senses insist that she is his mate. One kidnapping, a plethora of gunfights, a psychic coma, and two faked deaths later, Tony and Sue have new identities and are hiding in a community of Sazi shapeshifters. All seems well, until Sue begins to pull away from Tony and he realizes that if he canâ€™t be more open with her, heâ€™s going to lose her. To add to his problems, Tony is getting flashes of other peoplesâ€™ livesâ€”but he wants it to stop, because heâ€™s learning things he shouldnâ€™t. Whatâ€™s more dangerous than a psychic-powered werewolf assassin? Whatever it is, itâ€™s kidnapping and killing female Sazi . . . after it sucks out their powers. Its latest captive is the girlfriend of Carmine, the Mafia don who used to be Tonyâ€™s boss. To get her back, Carmine will make war on all the Saziâ€”and while the Sazi would win, they canâ€™t afford to be exposed to the humans. Now itâ€™s up to Tony &amp; Sue to save Carmineâ€™s girlfriendâ€” and possibly all of humanity! They could really use the help of Bobby, the python member of the Sazi police force Wolven. But Bobby is a bit preoccupied. It seems that Chicagoâ€™s Indonesian pack enforcer, Asri Kho, a deadly Komodo Dragon on the full moon, makes his knees weak whenever sheâ€™s not trying to kill him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1389'),
(6538, 'Moonburn', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some instincts are too powerful to deny.In the past year, veterinarian Abra Barrow has gone through some major changes: Sheâ€™s left Manhattan for the deceptively quiet small town of Northside, ditched her cheating husband, and discovered that he has infected her with the rare werewolf virus. Now Abra is finally beginning to feel as if she has her life under controlâ€“except when the moon is full.But then, all of a sudden, Abra starts losing her temperâ€“and her inhibitionsâ€“even when the sun is shining. Her new man, shape-shifting wildlife expert Red Mallin, seems to know more about her condition than heâ€™s letting on, but heâ€™s a little preoccupied with strange creatures that have been crossing the dimensional border. With her hormones in overdrive, Abra finds herself releasing the beast in all the men around her. As life in Northside becomes increasingly more peculiarâ€“and more perilousâ€“she must decide whom she can trust . . . when sheâ€™s not even sure she can trust herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/345');
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(6539, 'Moondogs', 'Alexander Yates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yates''s flamboyantly overstuffed debut brings a colorful panoply of characters to the Philippines, where corruption, hedonism, culture clashes, and a touch of magic lead to massive misadventure. Reeling from the death of his mom, Benicio ditches a burgeoning romance to head to Manila, where his long-estranged dad, Howard, is ostensibly living the high life. But when Benicio arrives, Howard is nowhere to be found, and Benicio eventually learns that Howard has been kidnapped by a gang that hopes to exploit the war on terror to make bank with their American hostage. Meanwhile, American embassy worker Monique is carrying on an affair and letting her family life deteriorate until the Howard situation upends her life. Rounding out the cast of those involved, in one way or another, with the kidnapping are an elite group of soldiers with rough manners and superpowers; Howard''s local associates; a vengeful prostitute; Reynato Ocampo, a badass cop who''s inspired a series of hit films; and the star of the Ocampo movies, who sees politics in his future. The explosive array of personalities and coincidences moves at a breakneck pace, but the massive cast and jumble of (sometimes brutally violent) plots threaten to smother the heart of this unruly adventure: a surprisingly touching story of a son and his parents. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dazzling....engaging....Mr. Yate''s most impressive feat is to synchronize a sort of gradual reconciliation between the father and son without the two even meeting. But that is only half of the action....[and] Mr. Yates attacks this twist with shoot-''em-up verve.....readers will be gratified by the ambition and raw energy on the display in this particularly promising debut"--_\n <strong>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weird and weirdly affecting Philippines-set novel. The multiple story lines â€” involving an American businessman, his bumbling kidnappers, his estranged son, an embassy worker having an affair with a Filipino national hero, and an A-Team of supernaturally enhanced soldiers â€” languorously intertwine, thankfully without the soulless Swiss-watch efficiency that often governs books with such large casts. Yates, who spent part of his youth on the archipelago, caulks the cracks with local detail, but leaves enough room for Moondogs'' narrative to breathe."\n <strong>\n  --_Entertainment Weekly_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] debut novel that combines magical realism, geopolitics, and comic book-style superheroics with shoot-â€™em-up action, domestic drama, and daddy issues.....Â fizzy, funny, and tone-perfect....highly entertaining....Â Yates achieves an extraordinary synthesis of tenderness and brutality, making us question our own sympathies"--\n <em>\n </em>\n The Boston Globe\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The kidnapping of an American businessman in the Philippines sets in motion an odd series of events involving his estranged son, a hard-boiled cop who inspired a hugely popular film series and a ragtag strike force with special powers. Yates'' accomplished debut is an unlikely mix of folktale, Tarantino-esque pulp fiction, island adventure and geopolitical novel. Howard Bridgewater, a high-rolling ugly American whose firm services resorts, has been living in the Philippines for five years. Prompted by his ex-wife''s death in Chicago, he convinces his grudge-ridden son Benicio, who lives in Virginia, to come over for a visit. By the time Benicio arrives, Howard has been abducted by a hapless, meth-addicted cab driver named Ignacio who plans on selling him to Moro terrorists. Problem is, he can''t find any buyers. The bigger problem is that shady supercop Reynato Ocampo is after him, backed by an impressionable kid who can shoot anyone or anything at any distance (he''s a devout fan of the "Ocampo Justice" movies) and a soldier who can turn into a dog or horse or spider. (Ignacio''s nasty sidekick is a rooster who smokes.) Reynato is having an affair with Monique, a stressed U.S. Embassy officer who recently relocated to her native soil from America with her insomniac husband and kids; Solita, the prostitute, is demanding support money for the boy who may or may not be Howard''s, and Charlie, the actor who plays Ocampo, is shamelessly running for political office. Yates handles the multiple points of view and fragmented narrative flawlessly. As outrageous as the action gets, he keeps his distinctive voice consistent and his tone measured, masterfully modulating the comic and violent effects. There''s unexpected depth of emotion in the relationships and in the characters'' connection to the land. The author lived in the Philippines when he was a teenager, and later returned to work at the U.S. Embassy. His feeling for and physical descriptions of the islands strongly reflect that experience. An unusual and unusually involving first novel with strong characters and nifty supernatural effects."\n <br />\n --_Kirkus Reviews,_ starred reviewÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "[G]ritty, ambitious.... entertaining....Yates develops considerable narrative momentum....The vibrant and convincing setting coupled with the well-drawn major characters make for..... much to enjoy here."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like one of his own characters, Yates is a\n <em>\n  bruho\n </em>\n , endowed with magical vision thatÂ allows him toÂ see the invisible strands of fate and luck that bind people to each other.Â Â He is also a sharpshooter, able to survey an entire city of millions, and then, in an instant, train his sights onÂ an individual target, focusing with great precisionÂ onÂ delicate movements ofÂ the head and the heart."Â \n <br />\n â€“Charles Yu, author of _How To Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n Â "MOONDOGS is the thrillaâ€™ in Manila, a rollicking mash-up of magic and mayhem that grabs you by the collar and won''t let go.Â  Alexander Yates sizzles."\n <br />\n â€”Keith Donohue, author of _The Stolen Child\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Angels of Destruction\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n Â "An electric and fierce debut novel where strangers share a world with the estranged, and their hidden secrets and open hostilities are equally combustible.Â  Yates writes with a sense of color and heat that crackles in the voices of his star-crossed characters and adds a vivid glow to the streets of Manila and waters of the Philippines.Â  MOONDOGS beckons, drawing readers onward with a vibrant intensity that is both lyrical and thrilling. -Ravi Howard, author of _Like Trees, Walking\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n "Yates is the real thing; a unique literary voice and natural storyteller with indelible characters, thrill-ride geopolitics and narrative mastery"â€”Arthur Flowers, author of\n <em>\n  Another Good Loving Blue\n </em>\n s\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest of Yates'' many talents is his ability to make us feel like insiders in so many different worlds and minds. He has Elmore Leonard''s logistical chops and Charles Portis'' sense of humor but the juggling act of MOONDOGS is entirely his ownâ€”and nothing ever touches the ground."â€”Roy Kesey, author of _All Over\n <em>\n  and the upcoming\n </em>\n Pacazo\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8399'),
(6540, 'Moonfall', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Over the last few years, Jack McDevitt has quietly been producing an outstanding collection of science fiction novels. Earlier works such as\n <em>\n  Moonfall\n </em>\n he takes off the gloves to create a splashy, near-future science fiction thriller with a big cast of characters and a do-or-die attitude. At the center of the story is Charlie Haskell, the U.S. vice president, who in 2024--an election year--has arrived at the American Moonbase to cut the ribbon and declare it operational. But there''s a problem, and it''s a doozy: a "sun-grazer" comet, with immense mass and speed, is on a collision course with the moon. Haskell, with an eye to his public image, puts himself at the bottom of the evacuation list. But time grows critically short, and soon more than his political future is in jeopardy--broken chunks of moon will begin exploding outwards. If they reach Earth, some of the chunks are big enough to cause an extinction event. McDevitt pays attention to his science while revving the action, and the stakes couldn''t be higher: Haskell''s choices will decide who lives and who dies--if anyone survives at all.\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Racing neck and neck with doomsday, this breathless near-future thriller pits young, single and politically hopeful U.S. V.P. Charlie Haskell and a gigantic international cast of heroic helpers against an interstellar comet that blows the Moon to lethal smithereens and threatens to wipe out life on Earth. Just before the comet is spotted, cancer-riddled President Kolladner dispatches Charlie to the ceremonial opening of the U.S.-led commercial Moonbase, setting Charlie up for a spacewalk into destiny. Loaded with flaming action and fortified with characters from today''s headlines, the novel hurtles cinematically from one point of view to another so rapidly that the characters, except for Charlie, tend to blur into one another. After McDevitt explodes the Moon midway through the novel, fearsome tsunamis wreak havoc on both American coasts. With a murderous gang of rocket-hating backwoods militants thrown in for a whisker too much good measure, U.S. know-how and rough-riding true American grit save the day on the ground. In space, Charlie faces more perils than Pauline did?and loses some of his credibility as a result. Overall, though, McDevitt''s scrupulous research and ability to bring the arcane intricacies of space engineering within the grasp of the earthbound make this a fine-tuned disaster to remember.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4929'),
(6541, 'Moonlight Cove', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jess O''Brien has overcome a lotâ€”the challenges of attention deficit disorder, the near bankruptcy of her beloved Inn at Eagle Point and her self-perception as a screwup in a family of overachievers. Now she''s ready to share the future with a man. Her friends persuade her to join a dating serviceâ€”but she gets no takers! Which is fine with her childhood friend, psychologist Will Lincoln, who''s already chosen the perfect man for Jess: himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will has loved Jess practically forever. He knows her faults and her strengths. But for all Will''s sincerity\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n charm, Jess fears he views her as some psychological case study. With her family and the town of Chesapeake Shores behind him, Will finally makes his case. But is it enough to convince Jess to take the risk of a lifetime?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8266'),
(6542, 'Moonlight Mile', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nov 2010 An old case takes on new dimensions in Lehane''s sixth crime novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, last seen in 1999''s Prayers for Rain. Twelve years earlier, in 1998''s Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick and Angie investigated the kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The case drove a temporary wedge between the pair after Patrick returned Amanda to her mother''s neglectful care. Now Patrick and Angie are married, the parents of four-year-old Gabriella, and barely making ends meet with Patrick''s PI gigs while Angie finishes graduate school. But when Amanda''s aunt comes to Patrick and tells him that Amanda, now a 16-year-old honor student, is once again missing, he vows to find the girl, even if it means confronting the consequences of choices he made that have haunted him for years. While Lehane addresses much of the moral ambiguity from Gone, this entry lacks some of the gritty rawness of the early Kenzie and Gennaro books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10520'),
(6543, 'Moonraker', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Moonraker, Britain''s new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something''s not quite right. At M''s request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M''s club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they appear to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7654'),
(6544, 'Moonrise', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The development of the first permanent human settlement on the Moon is overseen by the family of brilliant visionary Paul Stavenger, who through subsequent generations must prevent the project from falling into the wrong hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1204'),
(6545, 'Moonseed', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It Eats Planets. And It''s Here. It starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo mission fall upon a lava crag in Scotland. That''s all it takes . . . Suddenly, the ground itself begins melting into pools of dust that grow larger every day. For what has demolished Venus, and now threatens Earth itself, is part machine, part life-form: a nano-virus, dubbed Moonseed, that attacks planets. Four scientists are all that stand between Moonseed and Earth''s extinction, four brilliant minds that must race to cut off the virus and save what''s left of Earth--a pulse-stopping battle for discovery that will lead them from the Earth''s inner core to a daredevil Moon voyage that could save, or damn, us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11101'),
(6546, 'Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind&#39;s Greatest Adventure', 'Dan Parry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On July 20, 1969 more than 500 million people across the globe watched as the first man in history stepped onto the face of another planet. The triumph of the Apollo 11 mission was a momentous pinacle that followed years of construction, planning, and training, all of which is conveyed in this captivating history that uses official accounts to tell the real, untold story. The background of the space race is retold in full detail, including the role of the Cold War and Americaâ€™s desire to flex its international muscle. The fraught and often bitter relationships between the three men destined to make historyâ€”hot-headed Buzz Aldrin, easygoing Michael Collins, and the inscrutable Neil Armstrongâ€”are also addressed, as is the nail-biting moment when, just minutes before Armstrong and Aldrin were about to reach the surface of the moon, their equipment failed. This is an engaging account of a mission that could easily have gone terribly wrong, but instead turned into an American triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(6547, 'The Moonstone', 'Wilkie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPerfect for long, cold winter evenings.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.'' Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol. Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins'' tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10692'),
(6548, 'Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything', 'Joshua Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  follows Joshua Foer''s compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly uniqueâ€”from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Brains remember visual imagery but have a harder time with other information, like lists, and so with the help of experts, Foer learned how to transform the kinds of memories he forgot into the kind his brain remembered naturally. The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer''s story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Miriam Landis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Author Q&amp;A with Joshua Foer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  First, can you explain the title of you book,\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championshipâ€”specifically it''s a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it''s such a goofy image. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that''s pretty much unforgettable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are the U.S. Memory Championships? How did you become involved?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The U.S. Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. They weren''t savants. And they didn''t have photographic memories. Rather, they''d trained their memories using ancient techniques. They said anyone could do it. I was skeptical. Frankly, I didn''t believe them. I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. A year later I came back to the contest, this time to try and compete, as a sort of exercise in participatory journalism. I was curious simply to see how well I''d do, but I ended up winning the contest. That really wasn''t supposed to happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What was the most surprising thing you found out about yourself competing in the Memory Championships?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  In the process of studying these techniques, I learned something remarkable: that there''s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for. I''m not just talking about the fact that it''s possible to memorize lots of information using memory techniques. I''m talking about a lesson that is more general, and in a way much bigger: that it''s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Can you explain the "OK Plateau?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The OK Plateau is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just never get appreciably faster at it. That''s because it''s become automatic. You''ve moved it to the back of your mind''s filing cabinet. If you want to become a faster typer, it''s possible, of course. But you''ve got to bring the task back under your conscious control. You''ve got to push yourself past where you''re comfortable. You have to watch yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. That''s the way to get better at anything. And it''s how I improved my memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you mean by saying there an "art" to memory?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The "art of memory" refers to a set of techniques that were invented in ancient Greece. These are the same techniques that Cicero used to memorize his speeches, and that medieval scholars used to memorize entire books. The "art" is in creating imagery in your mind that is so unusual, so colorful, so unlike anything you''ve ever seen before that it''s unlikely to be forgotten. That''s why mnemonists like to say that their skills are as much about creativity as memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How do you think technology has affected how and what we remember?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Once upon a time people invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously furnished their minds. They remembered. Today, of course, we''ve got books, and computers and smart phones to hold our memories for us. We''ve outsourced our memories to external devices. The result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they''re failing us altogether. We''ve forgotten how to remember.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the connection between memory and our sense of time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That''s because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday''s lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it''ll end up being forgotten. That''s why it''s so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you''re not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday''s lunch. That''s why it''s so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How is your memory now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Ironically, not much better than when I started this whole journey. The techniques I learned, and used in the memory contest, are great for remembering structured information like shopping lists or phone numbers, but they don''t improve any sort of underlying, generalizable memory ability. Unfortunately, I still misplace my car keys.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Joshua Foer Â© Emil Salman Haaretz)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you sometimes canï¿½t remember where you put your car keys or, like Foer, the car itself, donï¿½t panic. Youï¿½re not alone, and you can do something about it. In this intriguing look at the nature of memory, Foer reassures us that we donï¿½t need to acquire a better memory; we just need to use the one we have more effectively. Foer introduces us to people whose memories are both astonishing, like the man who could memorize 1,528 random digits in order, and frightening, such as a man with such an extreme case of amnesia that he doesnï¿½t know his own age and canï¿½t remember that he has a memory problem. He explores various ways in which we test our memories, such as the extensive training British cabbies must undergo. He also discusses ways we can train ourselves to have better memories, like the PAO system, in which, for example, every card in a deck is associated with an image of a specific person, action, or object. An engaging, informative, and for the forgetful, encouraging book. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6060'),
(6549, 'Moonwar', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Moonbase rose up like the Phoenix out of the lunar dust-- a new society thriving on an inhospitable world battling the bitter enmity of powerful Earthside foes for the right to exist. Now it''s total war. MOONWAR This is our future. Ben Bova sees it as dearly as if it were outside his window. A Hugo Award-winning extrapolator--the best-selling explorer of Mars--Bova thrills us with the astounding possibilities of science and technology. But it''s his humanism that sets Ben Bova''s SF uniquely apart. His characters live and breathe, captivating us with their dreams, their foibles and their distinctly human crises. Armed with these potent weapons, he leads us into MOONWAR--the second book in his monumental Moonbase Saga for a life-or-death confrontation in the magnificent desolation of a harsh and airless world. Seven years after the remarkable Stavenger family made Moonbase a reality, a substantial community lives, labors and flourishes under the leadership of Doug Stavenger, thanks to the wonders of nanotechnology--virus-size machines that can build, refine, cure, create. . .and destroy. But the science that sustains and supports the young off Earth colony has been declared illegal and immoral by the home planet''s rulers. And one man with the power to dictate policy is launching war''s madness across the heavens--determined to lay claim to Stavenger''s peaceful city or obliterate it if necessary--forcing an isolated society with no arms or military to defend itself with nothing but ingenuity and the tools that built and maintain the settlement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(6550, 'The Moor', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Longtime fans of Arthur Conan Doyle''s fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, might think that their favorite sleuth met his fate at the hands of Dr. Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Anyone who believes that, however, obviously hasn''t read Laurie R. King''s delightful series featuring Holmes and his wife(!), Mary Russell. In The Beekeeper''s Apprentice, Holmes succumbs to the Oxford scholar''s charms; now, in The Moor, fourth in the series, Holmes and Russell are summoned to Devonshire to solve a tin miner''s mysterious death. Lonely Dartmoor provides plenty of opportunities for King to both relate the haunting legends of that part of the world and offer some amusing revisions to one of Holmes''s most famous cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Though Holmes purists might resent the liberties taken with their hero, readers in search of a strong female protagonist, some fascinating local history, and spooky ambience will enjoy The Moor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5350'),
(6551, 'The Moral Landscape', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8915'),
(6552, 'The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richard Dawkins on\n   <em>\n    The Moral Landscape\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beautifully written as they were (the elegance of his prose is a distilled blend of honesty and clarity) there was little in Sam Harris''s previous books that couldn''t have been written by any of his fellow "horsemen" of the "new atheism." This book is different, though every bit as readable as the other two. I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. To my surprise,\n  <em>\n   The Moral Landscape\n  </em>\n  has changed all that for me. It should change it for philosophers too. Philosophers of mind have already discovered that they can''t duck the study of neuroscience, and the best of them have raised their game as a result. Sam Harris shows that the same should be true of moral philosophers, and it will turn their world exhilaratingly upside down. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.\n  <em>\n   --Richard Dawkins\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Q &amp; A â€“ Sam Harris\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are there right and wrong answers to moral questions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this worldâ€”and there clearly areâ€”then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you saying that science can answer such questions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, in principle. Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factorsâ€”ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can act so as to have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  But canâ€™t moral claims be in conflict? Arenâ€™t there many situations in which one personâ€™s happiness means anotherâ€™s suffering?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  There as some circumstances like this, and we call these contests ?zero-sum.? Generally speaking, however, the most important moral occasions are not like this. If we could eliminate war, nuclear proliferation, malaria, chronic hunger, child abuse, etc.â€”these changes would be good, on balance, for everyone. There are surely neurobiological, psychological, and sociological reasons why this is soâ€”which is to say that science could potentially tell us exactly why a phenomenon like child abuse diminishes human well-being.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But we donâ€™t have to wait for science to do this. We already have very good reasons to believe that mistreating children is bad for everyone. I think it is important for us to admit that this is not a claim about our personal preferences, or merely something our culture has conditioned us to believe. It is a claim about the architecture of our minds and the social architecture of our world. Moral truths of this kind must find their place in any scientific understanding of human experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What if some people simply have different notions about what is truly important in life? How could science tell us that the actions of the Taliban are in fact immoral, when the Taliban think they are behaving morally?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  As I discuss in my book, there may be different ways for people to thrive, but there are clearly many more ways for them not to thrive. The Taliban are a perfect example of a group of people who are struggling to build a society that is obviously less good than many of the other societies on offer. Afghan women have a 12% literacy rate and a life expectancy of 44 years. Afghanistan has nearly the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. It also has one of the highest birthrates. Consequently, it is one of the best places on earth to watch women and infants die. And Afghanistanâ€™s GDP is currently lower than the worldâ€™s average was in the year 1820. It is safe to say that the optimal response to this dire situationâ€”that is to say, the most moral responseâ€”is not to throw battery acid in the faces of little girls for the crime of learning to read. This may seem like common sense to usâ€”and it isâ€”but I am saying that it is also, at bottom, a claim about biology, psychology, sociology, and economics. It is not, therefore, unscientific to say that the Taliban are wrong about morality. In fact, we must say this, the moment we admit that we know anything at all about human well-being.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  But what if the Taliban simply have different goals in life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  Well, the short answer isâ€”they donâ€™t. They are clearly seeking happiness in this life, and, more importantly, they imagine that they are securing it in a life to come. They believe that they will enjoy an eternity of happiness after death by following the strictest interpretation of Islamic law here on earth. This is also a claim about which science should have an opinionâ€”as it is almost certainly untrue. There is no question, however, that the Taliban are seeking well-being, in some senseâ€”they just have some very strange beliefs about how to attain it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In my book, I try to spell out why moral disagreements do not put the concept of moral truth in jeopardy. In the moral sphere, as in all others, some people donâ€™t know what they are missing. In fact, I suspect that most of us donâ€™t know what we are missing: It must be possible to change human experience in ways that would uncover levels of human flourishing that most of us cannot imagine. In every area of genuine discovery, there are horizons past which we cannot see.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you mean when you talk about a moral landscape?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  This is the phrase I use to describe the space of all possible experienceâ€”where the peaks correspond to the heights of well-being and valleys represent the worst possible suffering. We are all someplace on this landscape, faced with the prospect of moving up or down. Given that our experience is fully constrained by the laws of the universe, there must be scientific answers to the question of how best to move upwards, toward greater happiness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is not to say that there is only one right way for human beings to live. There might be many peaks on this landscapeâ€”but there are clearly many ways not to be on a peak.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How could science guide us on the moral landscape?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  Insofar as we can understand human wellbeing, we will understand the conditions that best secure it. Some are obvious, of course. Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? Iâ€™m not sure we do. Are there genes that make certain people more compassionate than others? What social systems and institutions could maximize our sense of connectedness to the rest of humanity? These questions have answers, and only a science of morality could deliver them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Why is it taboo for a scientist to attempt to answer moral questions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  I think there are two primary reasons why scientists hesitate to do this. The first, and most defensible, is borne of their appreciation for how difficult it is to understand complex systems. Our investigation of the human mind is in its infancy, even after nearly two centuries of studying the brain. So scientists fear that answers to specific questions about human well-being may be very difficult to come by, and confidence on many points is surely premature. This is true. But, as I argue in my book, mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a huge mistake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second reason is that many scientists have been misled by a combination of bad philosophy and political correctness. This leads them to feel that the only intellectually defensible position to take when in the presence of moral disagreement is to consider all opinions equally valid or equally nonsensical. On one level, this is an understandable and even noble over-correction for our history of racism, ethnocentrism, and imperialism. But it is an over-correction nonetheless. As I try to show in my book, it is not a sign of intolerance for us to notice that some cultures and sub-cultures do a terrible job of producing human lives worth living.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the difference between there being no answers in practice and no answers in principle, and why is this distinction important in understanding the relationship between human knowledge and human values?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  There are an infinite number of questions that we will never answer, but which clearly have answers. How many fish are there in the worldâ€™s oceans at this moment? We will never know. And yet, we know that this question, along with an infinite number of questions like it, have correct answers. We simply canâ€™t get access to the data in any practical way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are many questions about human subjectivityâ€”and about the experience of conscious creatures generallyâ€”that have this same structure. Which causes more human suffering, stealing or lying? Questions like this are not at all meaningless, in that they must have answers, but it could be hopeless to try to answer them with any precision. Still, once we admit that any discussion of human values must relate to a larger reality in which actual answers exist, we can then reject many answers as obviously wrong. If, in response to the question about the worldâ€™s fish, someone were to say, ?There are exactly a thousand fish in the sea.? We know that this person is not worth listening to. And many people who have strong opinions on moral questions have no more credibility than this. Anyone who thinks that gay marriage is the greatest problem of the 21st century, or that women should be forced to live in burqas, is not worth listening to on the subject of morality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you think the role of religion is in determining human morality?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  I think it is generally an unhelpful one. Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but in so far as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious. You do not need to believe that the Bible was dictated by the Creator of the Universe, or that Jesus Christ was his son, to see the wisdom and utility of following the Golden Rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The problem with religious morality is that it often causes people to care about the wrong things, leading them to make choices that needlessly perpetuate human suffering. Consider the Catholic Church: This is an institution that excommunicates women who want to become priests, but it does not excommunicate male priests who rape children. The Church is more concerned about stopping contraception than stopping genocide. It is more worried about gay marriage than about nuclear proliferation. When we realize that morality relates to questions of human and animal well-being, we can see that the Catholic Church is as confused about morality as it is about cosmology. It is not offering an alternative moral framework; it is offering a false one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  So people donâ€™t need religion to live an ethical life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  No. And a glance at the lives of most atheists, and at the most atheistic societies on earthâ€”Denmark, Sweden, etc.â€”proves that this is so. Even the faithful canâ€™t really get their deepest moral principles from religionâ€”because books like the Bible and the Qurâ€™an are full of barbaric injunctions that all decent and sane people must now reinterpret or ignore. How is it that most Jews, Christians, and Muslims are opposed to slavery? You donâ€™t get this moral insight from scripture, because the God of Abraham expects us to keep slaves. Consequently, even religious fundamentalists draw many of their moral positions from a wider conversation about human values that is not, in principle, religious. We are the guarantors of the wisdom we find in scripture, such as it is. And we are the ones who must ignore God when he tells us to kill people for working on the Sabbath.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How will admitting that there are right and wrong answers to issues of human and animal flourishing transform the way we think and talk about morality?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harris:\n  </strong>\n  What Iâ€™ve tried to do in my book is give a framework in which we can think about human values in universal terms. Currently, the most important questions in human lifeâ€”questions about what constitutes a good life, which wars we should fight or not fight, which diseases should be cured first, etc.â€”are thought to lie outside the purview of science, in principle. Therefore, we have divorced the most important questions in human life from the context in which our most rigorous and intellectually honest thinking gets done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moral truth entirely depends on actual and potential changes in the well-being of conscious creatures. As such, there are things to be discovered about it through careful observation and honest reasoning. It seems to me that the only way we are going to build a global civilization based on shared valuesâ€”allowing us to converge on the same political, economic, and environmental goalsâ€”is to admit that questions about right and wrong and good and evil have answers, in the same way the questions about human health do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSam Harris breathes intellectual fire into an ancient debate. Reading this thrilling, audacious book, you feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. Reason has never had a more passionate advocate.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Ian McEwan\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beautifully written as they were (the elegance of his prose is a distilled blend of honesty and clarity) there was little in Sam Harris''s previous books that couldn''t have been written by any of his fellow ''horsemen'' of the ''new atheism''. This book is different, though every bit as readable as the other two. I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. To my surprise,\n  <em>\n   The Moral Landscape\n  </em>\n  has changed all that for me. It should change it for philosophers too. Philosophers of mind have already discovered that they can''t duck the study of neuroscience, and the best of them have raised their game as a result. Sam Harris shows that the same should be true of moral philosophers, and it will turn their world exhilaratingly upside down. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Richard Dawkins\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReading Sam Harris is like drinking water from a cool stream on a hot day. He has the rare ability to frame arguments that are not only stimulating, they are downright nourishing, even if you donâ€™t always agree with him! In this new book he argues from a philosophical and a neurobiological perspective that science can and should determine morality. His discussions will provoke secular liberals and religious conservatives alike, who jointly argue from different perspectives that there always will be an unbridgeable chasm between merely knowing what is and discerning what should be. As was the case with Harrisâ€™ previous books, readers are bound to come away with previously firm convictions about the world challenged, and a vital new awareness about the nature and value of science and reason in our lives.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”\n  </em>\n  Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the ASU Origins Project at Arizona State University_,\n  <em>\n   author of\n  </em>\n  The Physics of Star Trek,_ and_, Quantum Man: Richard Feynmanâ€™s Life in Science _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively, provocative, and timely new look at one of the deepest problems in the world of ideas. Harris makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality. It is a tremendously appealing vision, and one that no thinking person can afford to ignore.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4727'),
(6553, 'A morbid taste for bones', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man''s daughter needs Cadfael''s help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(6554, 'More About Boy: Roald Dahl&#39;s Tales From Childhood', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  More About Boy\n </em>\n is the story of Roald Dahlâ€™s very own boyhood, as told in Boy, featuring never-before-seen material from behind the scenes, and some of the secrets he left out. Enjoy tales of sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plotâ€”the inspiration for some of his most marvelous stories in the years to come. This stunning new edition includes some wonderful and strange things that have NEVER been seen before! Some funny, some frighteningâ€”all true.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roald Dahl (1916â€“1990) is one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. He wrote many award-winning books for children, including\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Fantastic Mr. Fox\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  James and the Giant Peach\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Matilda\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Quentin Blake is a well-known artist who has illustrated almost three hundred books, including most of Roald Dahlâ€™s childrenâ€™s books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6272');
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(6555, 'More Bitter Than Death: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s a deadly winter for archaeologist Emma Fielding as she tracks a killer in an old New Hampshire hotel, in this fifth mystery from real-life archaeologist Dana Cameron. Archaeologist Emma Fielding should be on top of the world. Her teaching job secure and home life stable, she arrives at an archaeological conference at a famous old New Hampshire hotel, having outrun the winter storm that''s paralysing the East Coast. A rising star in the field, she''s in the midst of friends she''s known all her life, celebrating the work of Professor Garrison, a venerable legend in the field. When Garrison is found dead on the iced-over lake outside the snow-bound hotel, however, Emma realizes that everyone has something to hide, including herself. While the police determine whether Garrison''s death was an accident, suicide, or murder, Emma''s intimate knowledge of her colleagues hasn''t prepared her for what they''re concealing, even from themselves. Emma is also forced to face the fact that the dead man was no friend of hers (or her grandfather Oscar) and that everyone-colleagues, police, and herself included-wonders why her view of him is so very different. The presence of Emma''s old flame Duncan brings up bitter memories she''d rather were left buried deep in the past: Duncan wants something from her and Emma can''t tell whether it is an opportunity to rekindle their relationship or a way to ensure her silence permanently. Professional jealousies and infighting would be enough added to Garrison''s mysterious death, but a series of thefts and attacks in the isolated hotel make the stranded archaeologists ask whether a vengeful ghost has returned, practiced criminals are targeting the conference, or one of their own number has finally succumbed to an array of deadly temptations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(6556, 'More Blazing Bedtime Stories: Once Upon a Mattress', 'Julie Leto &amp; Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Into the Woods\n  </em>\n  by Julie Leto\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tatiana Starlingham is a frustrated fairy godmother. She grants sexy wishes for others--but all that hot loving is off-limits for her. Until she meets hunky Jack St. Cloud and finally has mind-blowing sex! But can Tatiana wish it into lasting forever?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Once Upon a Mattress\n  </em>\n  by Leslie Kelly\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who''s afraid of the big bad werewolf? Not long-lost princess Penelope Mayfair... Because dark, sexy Lucas Wolf is giving her the best sex of her life! Unfortunately, she''s intended for another. But that''s not about to stop Lucas. After all, everybody knows wolves mate for life....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With twenty novels under her belt,\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  bestselling author\n  <strong>\n   Julie Leto\n  </strong>\n  has established a reputation for writing ultra-sexy, edgy stories. A Florida native, Julie lives in her hometown of Tampa with her husband, daughter, a very spoiled dachshund, and a large and beloved extended family. She''s currently writing the next installment in her Marisela Morales series for\n  <em>\n   Downtown Press,\n  </em>\n  tentatively titled\n  <em>\n   Dirty Little Lies.\n  </em>\n  For more information about Julie''s upcoming releases, visit her website at www.julieleto.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5334'),
(6557, 'More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: 200 Brand New Recipes for Slow Cooker Meals on a Budget', 'Stephanie O&#39;Dea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of slow-cooker cookbook\n  <em>\n   Make It Fast, Cook It Slow\n  </em>\n  returns with budget (and gluten-free!) meals that will satisfy the entire family. Stephanie O''Dea''s 200 delicious recipes include\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Baked Herbed Feta\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Smoky Bean and Corn Soup\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maple-Glazed Pork Chops\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Moroccan Chicken with Lentils\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Apple-Pecan Bread Pudding\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Orange and Honey Tilapia\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chocolate Pot de CrÃ¨me with Ganache\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  --and many more.\n  <em>\n   More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow\n  </em>\n  is the perfect cookbook for easy-to-prepare meals that don''t take a toll on the family budget.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephanie O''Dea\n  </strong>\n  is the founder of the hugely popular slow cooking website, crockpot365.blogspot.com, and author of\n  <em>\n   Make it Fast, Cook It Slow\n  </em>\n  . She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5082'),
(6558, 'More Than Great Riches', 'Jan Washburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tracy Dixon is an unwitting suspect in a high-profile jewelry theft. The NYPD warns her not to leave town. But Tracy gets word that her beloved brother, Jeff, is barely clinging to life, seriously burned in an automobile accident. Although she had vowed never again to set foot in her hometown, Tracy throws caution to the wind and rushes back to Allerton. Leif Ericson, Allerton''s chief of police, can''t forget that he was lured into a trap by a pretty woman. His bad knee is a constant reminder of his moment of weakness. How can he trust this beautiful stranger who claims to be Jeff Dixon''s sister? The gossips in Allerton warn him about her shady reputation. Tracy faces a tough battle to prove her innocence, earn Leif''s trust, and reclaim her good name.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2062'),
(6559, 'More Than Human', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10475'),
(6560, 'Morning, Noon &amp; Night', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously -- and fatally -- plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford''s long-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate. Now, flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorous preserves of the world''s super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, for stakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine -- in master novelist Sidney Sheldon''s most breathtaking and surprising creation ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3240'),
(6561, 'Mornings in Jenin', 'Susan Abulhawa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mornings in Jeninis a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Amidst the loss and fear, hatred and pain, as their tents are replaced by more forebodingly permanent cinderblock huts, there is always the waiting, waiting to return to a lost home. The novel''s voice is that of Amal, the granddaughter of the old village patriarch, a bright, sensitive girl who makes it out of the camps, only to return years later, to marry and bear a child. Through her eyes, with her evolving vision, we get the story of her brothers, one who is kidnapped to be raised Jewish, one who will end with bombs strapped to his middle. But of the many interwoven stories, stretching backward and forward in time, none is more important than Amal''s own. Her story is one of love and loss, of childhood and marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Set against one of the twentieth century''s most intractable political conflicts, Mornings in Jenin is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of our lifetimes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5069'),
(6562, 'Morrigan&#39;s cross', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a storm rages, the tale of a powerful vampire''s lust for destruction-and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her-begins. One of the chosen is a medieval sorcerer whose quest will take him through time-and into the arms of a woman courageous enough to link her destiny to his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2616'),
(6563, 'Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can''t refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn''t compulsory. As Death''s apprentice, he''ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won''t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he''d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3393'),
(6564, 'Mortal Allies', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: JAG lawyer Sean Drummond has gotten himself in way over his head-with a case that challenges his deepest fears and a co-counselor who challenges just about everything else. Assigned to South Korea as an advocate for a gay officer accused of brutally killing the son of a South Korean war hero, Drummond is teamed up with an old law-school nemesis. Katherine Carson is a curvy, liberal, William Kunstler-like attorney with a reputation for manipulating the media on behalf of her mostly gay clients. Drummond is as distraught to be working with a woman who knows how to push all his buttons as he is to be defending this client. However, it''s just this lack of political correctness that makes him the one man the CIA can trust with its disturbing secrets, and Drummond quickly learns that what appears to be an open-and-shut case is really just the top layer of a deep conspiracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(6565, 'Mortal Stakes', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn''t take long for Spenser to link Marty''s performance with Linda''s past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America''s favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4033'),
(6566, 'The Mosaic of Shadows', 'Tom Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Byzantium, 1096. A mysterious assassin releases an arrow aimed at the emperor---but he has more than just a man in his sights. A keystone of a crumbling empire, the emperor is the solitary figure holding all the enemies in check. And if he falls, the mightiest power in Christendom will be torn apart. Demetrios Askiates, unveiler of mysteries, is hired to catch the would-be-killer. But he is entering an unknown world; a babbling cauldron of princes, slaves, mercenaries, pimps, and eunuchs. Not all enemies are within the city walls, however, and with the Turks running rampant across Asia, the emperor has sent to the west for mercenaries to reinforce his position. When a great army, tens of thousands strong, appears before the city gates---the emperor gets more than he bargained for. From the depths of the slums to the golden towers of the city palace; from the sands of the hippodrome to the soaring domes of Ayia Sophia; Demetrios must edge his way through a glittering maze of treachery and deceit before time runs out. Intent on making their fortunes in war, and with no allegiance to this empire, the first crusaders have arrived with eyes full of jealousy and suspicion. As the armies of the east and west confront each other, and with the assassin creeping ever closer to his prey, Demetrios must untangle this golden web of intrigue that surrounds the emperor---before the city, and the empire, are drowned in blood. nbsp; â€œHis portrayal of the Byzantine city and the intrigues that threaten its destruction is vivid and convincing.â€ ---The Sunday Times(UK) nbsp; â€œItâ€™s a world that Harper brings exuberantly to life, clearly revelling in its teeming, tumultuous extravagance. But he also has a sharp eye for an intriguing mystery.â€ ---Yorkshire Post(UK) nbsp; â€œTom Harper writes with strident clarity in this epic tale of murder and betrayal, bloodshed and romance. Gripping from the first page, the reader is swept up.... Well researched and cinematic in its imagery, this is a fast-paced and exciting debut.â€ ---INK (UK) nbsp; â€œA gripping tale...I look forward to Demetriosâ€™s further adventures.â€ ---Elizabeth Hawksley,Historical Novels Review nbsp; â€œA lively adventure.... The imperial palace, with all its splendor and intrigue, is brought vividly to life.â€ ---Good Book Review(UK) nbsp; â€œAn engaging romp---Byzantine not only in time and location but the ins and outs of the plot.â€ ---The Advertiser(Australia)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3424'),
(6567, 'Moscow Rules', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the â€œgold standardâ€ (*The Dallas Morning News*) of thriller writers**.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the worldâ€™s finest writers of international intrigue and espionageâ€” â€œa worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le CarrÃ©â€ (*Chicago Sun-Times*)â€”and Gabriel Allon as â€œone of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller seriesâ€ (*The Philadelphia Inquirer*).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. Heâ€™s playing by Moscow rules now.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealerâ€”and he is about to deliver Russiaâ€™s most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11â€”and the clock is ticking fast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, *Moscow Rules* is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the Eastâ€”and Silvaâ€™s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6922'),
(6568, 'The Moses Stone', 'James Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ancient code. A sinister secret. A deadly chase for the truth... ** In Morocco, an English couple discovers a clay tablet covered in ancient writing. One day later, they are dead. Called to North Africa to investigate, detective Chris Bronson follows a trail of clues that plunge him into a mystery that has gone unsolved since biblical times. For the stone he must find is older and far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1751'),
(6569, 'The Most Dangerous Game', 'Richard Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell''s best known story and has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3832'),
(6570, 'The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive', 'Brian Christian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In a fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in which judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with unidentified partners, and must then decide whether each interlocutor was a human or a machine. The program receiving the most "human" votes is dubbed the "most human computer," while the person receiving the most votes earns the title of "most human human." Poet and science writer Christian sets out to win the latter title and through his quest, investigates the nature of human interactions, the meaning of language, and the essence of what sets us apart from machines that can process information far faster than we can. Ranging from philosophy through the construction of pickup lines to poetry, Christian examines what it means to be human and how we interact with one another, and with computers as equalsâ€”via automated telephone menus and within the medical establishment, for example. This fabulous book demonstrates that we are capable of experiencing and sharing far deeper thoughts than even the best computersâ€”and that too often we fail to achieve the highest level of humanness. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Each year humans and computers square off for the Turing test, which Christian describes as a kind of speed dating via instant messaging, with five minutes to prove which is human. In 2009, Christian traveled to Brighton, England, to compete in a contest matching four humans and four computers. Christian chronicles his preparation and time spent devising strategies to trump the chatbot computers that can imitate humans. Along the way, he draws on philosophy, neurology, linguistics, and computer science, recalling chess master Garry Kasparov losing a match to IBMï¿½s Deep Blue computer and more recent developments in artificial intelligence. He explores how computers have challenged our bias toward the left hemisphere of the brain (logic) versus the right hemisphere (emotions) and how he and others have come to a deeper appreciation of emotional intelligence. He laments how so many jobs have trained employees with limited scripts that render them human chatbots. Christian intersperses interviews and musings on poetry and literature, observations on computer science, and excerpts from post-Turing test conversations for a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human. This book will surely change the way readers think about their conversations. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6994'),
(6571, 'A Most Wanted Man', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le CarrÃ© (_The Mission Song_), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa''s attorney seeks to claim these assets. The book works best in its depiction of the rivalries besetting even post-9/11 intelligence agencies that should be allies, but none of the characters is as memorable as George Smiley or Magnus Pym. Still, even a lesser le CarrÃ© effort is far above the common run of thrillers.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n While this novel may be le Carre''s first take on espionage in Europe after the Cold War, critics could not be more divided over its quality. Alan Furst, himself one of the greats of the genre, opines that\n <em>\n  A Most Wanted Man\n </em>\n might be one of the author''s best, not for its content so much as for its technical brilliance. But other reviewers panned the work, arguing that le Carre''s outrage over recent American intelligence practices distorts the plot and renders many of the characters as mere cliches. Perhaps the consensus is that\n <em>\n  A Most Wanted Man\n </em>\n is an enjoyable le Carre novel (and therefore much better than most thrillers)â€”but far from his best.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11062'),
(6572, 'Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This title celebrates the thirty years of comic genius of Douglas Adams. Arthur Dent hadn''t had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There''s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" in their hands. When she runs away - Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he''s encountered most of them before. This title is volume five in the trilogy of five.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(6573, 'Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms', 'Marion Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sunny Hathaway--introvert, entrepreneur, inventor, poet, dog lover, and lateral thinker--has a lot on her plate. She''s moving to a new house, dealing with step-siblings, and starting a dog entertainment business too. Sunny and her expertly blended, thoroughly modern family are moving into her grandmother''s old mansion, Windermere. Sunny wins the turret bedroom from her step-siblings (using her powers of reverse psychology), but is soon tangled up in mischief involving bored dogs, a cranky old gardener, an angel sighting, a match-making mission, and a boy who knits. To make matters worse, over at her dad''s house, Sunny''s baby half-sister Flora has turned the world upside-down, and Steph can''t seem to find a way to turn it right-side-up again. Even with a sunny disposition, storm clouds can gather on the horizon, and this winter Sunny must find ways to offer warmth and shelter to those she cares for most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2741'),
(6574, 'The Mote in God&#39;s Eye', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7009'),
(6575, 'Mother', 'Maksim Gorky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9328'),
(6576, 'Mother night', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured Americaâ€™s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a â€œtrue artistâ€* with Catâ€™s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, â€œone of the best living American writers.â€Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.*The New York Timesâ€œA great artist.â€â€”Cincinnati Enquirerâ€œVonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writerâ€¦a zany but moral mad scientist.â€â€”Time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2966'),
(6577, 'Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam', 'Kamran Pasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deep in the heart of seventh-century Arabia, a new prophet named Muhammad has arisen. As his message of enlightenment sweeps through Arabia and unifies the warring tribes, his young wife Aisha recounts Muhammad''s astonishing transformation from prophet to warrior to statesman. But just after the moment of her husband''s greatest triumph -- the conquest of the holy city of Mecca -- Muhammad falls ill and dies in Aisha''s arms. A young widow, Aisha finds herself at the center of the new Muslim empire and becomes by turns a teacher, political leader, and warrior.Written in beautiful prose and meticulously researched, Mother of the Believer is the story of an extraordinary woman who was destined to help usher Islam into the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2823'),
(6578, 'Mother, Please!', 'Brenda Novak; Jill Shalvis; Alison Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What''s a daughter to do? *Three brand-new stories . . .three **exasperating** moms.* Abby Ashton''s roommate-from-hell . . .her mother. If she doesn''t get her parents back together, she''ll go crazy. So Abby schemes to get them to Mexico with her, hoping the vacation will lead to romance. And it does -- for Abby and race-car driver "Gunner" Stevens! Tall, dark and charming Jason Lawrence keeps visiting Mel Anders''s veterinary clinic -- with everything from a drooling St. Bernard to a potbelly pig. And the man doesn''t even seem to like animals. Hmm . . .Mel is mighty suspicious -- but she never suspects her mom . . . Avery Rice is way too overprotective of her widowed mother. So when Mom gets a new man in her life, she enlists her cute tenant, David Marks, to keep Avery off the trail. And of course she''s matchmaking. She''s Mom! *When it comes to love, mothers know best.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1207'),
(6579, 'Motherhood Is Murder', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The author of Bundle of Trouble delivers a new Maternal Instincts mystery. Nights out are hard to come by for new mommy Kate Connelly. So when Kate and her husband are invited to a dinner cruise hosted by her new mommy club, Roo &amp; You, they jump at it. But when the president of the club takes a deadly spill, everyone becomes suspect-and Kate''s on deck to solve the mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1024'),
(6580, 'Motherless Brooklyn', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n 1999\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10765'),
(6581, 'Motor Mouth', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miami is still freakin'' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there''s a body on ice. And that''s just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she''s convinced one of the competitors is up to no good on the track. Snooping to find evidence, Hooker and Barney "borrow" a NASCAR hauler. Turns out, the hauler is carrying two race cars and a dead guy. It looks like Barney and Hooker are facing multiple counts of grand theft auto and homicide. So buckle up as Barney, Hooker, a 150-pound bundle of Saint Bernard love named Beans, and the Super Cigar Ladies Felicia and Rosa shift into gear on a wild race around South Florida and Concord, North Carolina. Everything you always wanted to know about righteous indignation, stealing an eighteen-wheeler, and sex in the fast lane.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2129'),
(6582, 'Motorworld', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jeremy Clarkson gets under the skin of 12 countries by looking at the cars people drive and how they drive them. This book presents hilarious travel writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1708'),
(6583, 'Mount Dragon', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mount Dragon:an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9181'),
(6584, 'Mountain Girl River Girl', 'Ye Ting-Xing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6284'),
(6585, 'The Mountain of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A peaceful vacation in the Welsh mountains seems sure to keep the children out of trouble, but the mystery of a rumbling mountain soon has them thirsty for more adventure. Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack are determined to explore the mountain and uncover its secret, but first they must escape from a pack of ravenous wolves and a mad genius who plans to rule the world!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(6586, 'Mountain Sheriff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n TROUBLE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED THE RAINY SEASON Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner -- the most eligible bachelor in the county -- would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happenings he could handle...but he wasn''t prepared for murder. With a killer on the loose, he''d have to keep a tight grip on the investigation and a close eye on the mounting list of suspects. Unfortunately, the person causing the most trouble to his male senses was none other than the town''s biggest gossip and the one woman he''d do anything to avoid: Charity Jenkins. Sure enough, she''d whittled away at his confirmed-single status with her annoying questions and all-American-girl good looks and had him thinking about something more permanent. Except a killer had other plans for Charity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(6587, 'Mountains of Brega', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1959'),
(6588, 'Mourning Raga', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa''s beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjili is no sinecure -- and the task of delivering her back to her family proves less than easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country -- remote, mysterious -- and often shatteringly brutal...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellis Peters gained worldwide praise and recognition for her crime fiction and for her meticulous recreations of monastic life in the twelfth century in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4866'),
(6589, 'Move to Strike', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Defense attorney Nina Reilly has bad luck with men: one marriage ended abruptly, and another ended in tragedy. Still, her misfortunes with the opposite sex are nothing compared to the trouble she has finding a decent client. In her sixth outing,\n <em>\n  Move to Strike\n </em>\n , Nina''s defending a minor who''s a major pain: Nikki Zack, a mouthy, rebellious teenager who''s being tried as an adult in the murder of her uncle, a wealthy plastic surgeon. Like a lot of people in Lake Tahoe, Nikki disliked Bill Sykes, who showed both greed and snobbery to Nikki and her scatterbrained mother, Daria. He discouraged their familial overtures except when he cheated them in a land deal. Nevertheless, Nikki claims she didn''t kill him, even though she was spotted sneaking around his pool on the night of the murder, and the prosecution''s case against her is based on a blood sample that indicates she wielded the murder weapon. Nina is particularly struck by two strange facts: Sykes''s son Chris was killed in a plane crash at almost the same time Sykes died, and Sykes''s widow, Beth, is almost abnormally quick to front the money for her niece''s defense, no questions asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nina knows Nikki saw something or someone at Sykes''s house, but she''s not sure whether Nikki''s protecting her sleazy, housebreaking boyfriend or Daria, whose vagueness is almost too extreme to believe. Nikki is placed under house arrest, but that''s not enough to keep her--or Nina and her son Bob--safe when a stranger starts calling. When the treasure trove of unimpressive-looking rocks that Nikki took from Sykes''s underwater hiding place turns out to be something completely unexpected, the ring of suspects widens and danger creeps closer. Nina teams with Paul van Wagoner, the investigator (familiar from __ and previous Nina Reilly mysteries) she can''t quite seem to disentangle herself from, to help sort the loose ends from the dead ends. And there are plenty of both.\n</p>\n<p>\n The O''Shaughnessy sisters (Perri is a pen name for Pamela and Mary) are taking new risks and increasing the stakes with every book, and\n <em>\n  Move to Strike\n </em>\n shows they can pull it off. The characters are deftly drawn and the plotting masterfully complex. The pacing falls a bit short of heart-stopping; the courtroom scenes serve to up the stakes for Nikki, yet don''t really add much tension. But this series is still young and keeps getting better and better. Grisham and Turow, check your rear-view mirrors: there''s a new writer in the fast lane.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Crime knocks at lawyer Nina Reilly''s door once again in this breathy legal drama, the sixth in a series, set in the resort community of Lake Tahoe, Nev. This time it is single mother Reilly''s 13-year-old son, Bob, who steers her toward a new case, begging her to defend his friend, 16-year-old Nikki Zack. Nikki is accused of killing her rich uncle, plastic surgeon Bill Sykes, with a 16th-century samurai sword. She says she didn''t do it, but the evidence suggests otherwise. Nikki was on the scene at the time of the killing and was known to hold a grudge against her selfish and stingy uncle. Even Reilly, a softie for the underdog, has to admit it doesn''t look good for Nikki, until several other suspects pop upAdisgruntled patients of Sykes, a lecherous business partner, other bitter family members. The case is confused by the death of Sykes''s 19-year-old son the same day in a plane crash while returning to Lake Tahoe from L.A. Complicating matters further is a mining claim in northern Nevada that''s yielding lots of high-grade opals. The claim used to belong to Nikki''s family until Sykes convinced Nikki''s ditzy mom, Daria, to sell it to him at a steep discount. O''Shaughnessy, the pseudonym for sisters Mary and Pamela O''Shaughnessy, splits the action between Reilly''s courtroom maneuvering and the detective work of her longtime investigator, Paul van Wagoner, whose role is greatly expanded this time around. Van Wagoner lacks the requisite magnetism for co-star status, and the plot swivels in a few unlikely directions, leading up to a far-fetched finale. Nevertheless, Reilly fans should enjoy this latest entry in a thriving series. Agent, Nancy Yost. Major ad/promo; BOMC and Mystery Guild main selections; Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4734'),
(6590, 'A Moveable Feast', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8979'),
(6591, 'The Moving Finger', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When small-town gossip spreads as fast-and as deadly-as venom, someone''s bound to end up dead. And of course, they do. Calling Miss Marple! This is one of Agatha Christie''s personal favorites.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5241'),
(6592, 'Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they''ve discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can''t sing, he can''t dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingÃ©nue from a little town (where else?) you''ve probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn''t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood''s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It''s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they''re definitely not ready for their close-up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3405'),
(6593, 'The Mozart Conspiracy', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  British author Miriani makes his U.S. debut with the second in his series featuring ex-SAS warrior Ben Hope, a fast, exciting read in The Da Vinci Code tradition. Ben is on his way home from a mission when he receives a message from Leigh Llewellyn, an old flame and international opera star, saying she needs his help. Leigh is the sister of Ben''s late friend, Oliver, who was at work on a book on Mozart when he died under mysterious circumstances. When Ben takes Leigh to the English countryside to guard her, deadly thugs attempt to kill them both. A lost Mozart letter, written in 1791 shortly before the composer''s death and first discovered by Leigh''s father, implicates a shadowy European group known as the Order of Ra, which remains a powerful secret force in Europe today. None of this matters much to either Ben or the reader as he singlehandedly kills his way to the top of the evil cabal. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First-time author Mariani channels Dan Brown on steroids in this exciting (and violent) historical puzzle thriller that postulates a link between the secret order of Freemasons and the mysterious death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Former British SAS officer Ben Hope travels the globe as a crisis-response consultant (aka ''a hero for hire'') performing good deeds like rescuing kidnapped children from pedophiles and protecting famous politicos from assassins. Fifteen years after Hope dumped her, ex-flame (and now famous opera star) Leigh Llwewllyn calls him out of the blue and asks for his help. Her brother, Oliver, who had been in Austria researching the death of Mozart, recently died under mysterious circumstances, and now she fears for her own life. The reunited couple attempt to complete Oliver''s research but find they have aroused the malevolent interest of a sinister group of power brokers whose origins date back to the eighteenth century. Persistently under attack by murderous agents of the cabal as they get closer to solving the riddle of Mozart''s death, Ben uses every weapon at his disposal to dispatch his assailants, including an iron skillet, a nail gun, a pool cue, and even his bare hands. Racing along at breakneck speed and promising more in a series, this action read will excite fans of Brown, James Rollins, and Robert Ludlum. --Michael Gannon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6742'),
(6594, 'Mr Almost Right', 'Eleanor Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happens when you meet Mr Right, then find out that someone else has got there first? Do you: a) bury your feelings, convince yourself that nothing can ever happen between the two of you and try to move on? Or b) fail miserably to bury your feelings and repeatedly act like an incompetent fool in front of said Mr Right? In Lulu''s case, it''s a bit of both. When she meets Charles, a handsome and sophisticated actor, he seems like the perfect catch until she finds out about the wife and children. But when Lulu and Charles end up away on location together, sparks fly and suddenly everything gets complicated... Lulu tries to confide in Alice, her twin sister and best friend, but she''s too distracted by her new relationship with gorgeous but rage-filled Richard. When will she learn that sexy bad boys do not make good boyfriends? And for Lulu, can love conquer all, or is she just a walk-on part in the oldest story in the book?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(6595, 'Mr Nice: An Autobiography', 'Howard Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A racy yarn with plenty of globe trotting colour. The Independent Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal GQ A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric with sleeping sickness Loaded A folk legend-Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone Daily Mail Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction FHM Magazine\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n During the mid-''80s Howard Marks had forty-three aliases and eighty-nine phone lines, and he owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks -- all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core business: dope dealing. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the DEA, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. With pages of photographs, and told with humor, charm, and candor, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story. Mr Nice has been one of the biggest-selling memoirs in Britain in recent memory, topping both the Sunday Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists. Also translated into eight languages, this edition offers American readers the first-ever opportunity to read this riveting book. "Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal." -- GQ "Only the Welsh could have produced ... Howard Marks.... In or out of handcuffs, he is always welcome in my home." -- Robert Sabbag, author of Snowblind "A folk legend ... Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." -- Daily Mail (London) "Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction." -- FHM\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4688'),
(6596, 'Mr. Majestyk', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands -- and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man''s refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman. But his tormentors never realized something about their mark: this is not his first war. Vince Majestyk knows more than they''ll ever know about survival . . . and everything about revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(6597, 'Mr. Murder', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into author Martin Stillwater''s house, accusing Martin of stealing his wife, his children-and his life. Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the intruder threatens to take what is rightfully his. The police think he''s a figment of Martin''s imagination. But Martin and his family have no choice but to believe the stranger''s threat. And run for their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1420');
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(6598, 'Mr. Paradise', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria''s Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise. Evenings at Mr. Paradise''s house, there''s always an old Michigan football game on TV. And when Chloe''s around, there''s a cheerleader, too, complete with pleated skirt and blue-and-gold pompoms. One night Chloe convinces Kelly to join in the fun, along with Montez Taylor, Tony''s smooth-talking right-hand man. But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs, and, fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa, who now has a double homicide -- and a beautiful, willful witness -- to add to his already heavy caseload. With a cool cast, snappy dialogue, and all the twists and turns fans crave, Mr. Paradise is Elmore Leonard at home in Detroit and sharper than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(6599, 'Mr. Rosenblum&#39;s List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman', 'Natasha Solomons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He''s writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An Englishman buys his marmalade from Fortnum and Mason. It''s 1952, and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend in is fraught with unexpected hurdles - including his wife. Sadie doesn''t want to forget where they came from or the family they''ve lost. And she shows no interest in getting a purple rinse. List item 112: An Englishman keeps his head in a crisis, even when he''s risking everything. Jack leads a reluctant Sadie deep into the English countryside in pursuit of a dream. Here, in a land of woolly pigs, bluebells and jitterbug cider, they embark on an impossible task...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2609'),
(6600, 'Mr. Strangelove : A Biography of Peter Sellers', 'Ed Sikov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How do you write the biography of a cipher? That''s the daunting challenge veteran Hollywood biographer Ed Sikov tackles in exploring the life of one of the 20th century''s most acclaimed comic actors. Peter Sellers'' uncanny talents as a mimic would inform everything from English radio''s\n  <em>\n   Goon Show\n  </em>\n  and the highly profitable--if increasingly broad--cycle of Inspector Clouseau\n  <em>\n   Pink Panther\n  </em>\n  films to his brilliant turn as Chauncey Gardiner in\n  <em>\n   Being There\n  </em>\n  , a role that had all too many discomforting parallels to Sellers'' own cryptic personality. Sikov reveals that the man long hailed as comedy''s greatest chameleon was in fact a tragic, troubled personal vacuum, the only child of a literal stage mother who indulged his every whim, yet left him a distinct void for a soul. Sikov interviews many of the relatives, intimates, and survivors of Sellers that filled his alternately strange and spectacular life, while thoroughly chronicling every professional triumph and more than a few missteps. Sikov''s straightforward reporting, seasoned by his own dry wit, details the parts that made up the man, but the sum remains an ever compelling enigma. As\n  <em>\n   Lolita\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dr. Strangelove\n  </em>\n  director Stanley Kubrick, no slouch in the personal riddle sweepstakes himself, once said of Sellers: "There is no such person."\n  <em>\n   --Jerry McCulley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sellers was undoubtedly one of the 20th century''s funniest people. From his first star-making turns in Lolita and Dr. Strangelove (in which he played three different characters), to the bumbling but strangely dignified Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther movies, Sellers never failed to send audiences rolling in the aisles. But as Sikov shows in this hip, unblinking biography, there was a downside to his genius. Sellers abused drugs, beat his wives and neglected his children. On set, he was a nightmare prima donna, insisting on special treatment and embroiling himself in ridiculous feuds with costars and directors. Moreover, his compulsive need to do impressions verged at times on multiple personality disorder (his first wife said, "It''s like being married to the United Nations"). Sikov shows that no one, not even his friends, really knew Sellers. The actor was, in Sikov''s estimation, a comic tabula rasa on which he could inscribe any character or personality. This mutability gave Sellers his first break, as he bluffed his way onto radio by impersonating a BBC star on the telephone. He later became the star of the hugely influential radio program The Goon Show, whose eccentric, Dadaist humor predated Monty Python by a decade. An avid party-goer (jet-setting friends included Roman Polanski and the Beatles), Sellers enjoyed a go-go lifestyle finally that caught up with him in 1980, when he suffered a massive heart attack. Sikov, whose previous work includes a Billy Wilder biography, treats Sellers with just the right mix of awe, irritation and sympathy, giving readers a clear-headed, respectful tribute to a disturbed genius.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11056'),
(6601, 'Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers', 'Ed Sikov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n How do you write the biography of a cipher? That''s the daunting challenge veteran Hollywood biographer Ed Sikov tackles in exploring the life of one of the 20th century''s most acclaimed comic actors. Peter Sellers'' uncanny talents as a mimic would inform everything from English radio''s\n <em>\n  Goon Show\n </em>\n and the highly profitable--if increasingly broad--cycle of Inspector Clouseau\n <em>\n  Pink Panther\n </em>\n films to his brilliant turn as Chauncey Gardiner in\n <em>\n  Being There\n </em>\n , a role that had all too many discomforting parallels to Sellers'' own cryptic personality. Sikov reveals that the man long hailed as comedy''s greatest chameleon was in fact a tragic, troubled personal vacuum, the only child of a literal stage mother who indulged his every whim, yet left him a distinct void for a soul. Sikov interviews many of the relatives, intimates, and survivors of Sellers that filled his alternately strange and spectacular life, while thoroughly chronicling every professional triumph and more than a few missteps. Sikov''s straightforward reporting, seasoned by his own dry wit, details the parts that made up the man, but the sum remains an ever compelling enigma. As\n <em>\n  Lolita\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n director Stanley Kubrick, no slouch in the personal riddle sweepstakes himself, once said of Sellers: "There is no such person."\n <em>\n  --Jerry McCulley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sellers was undoubtedly one of the 20th century''s funniest people. From his first star-making turns in Lolita and Dr. Strangelove (in which he played three different characters), to the bumbling but strangely dignified Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther movies, Sellers never failed to send audiences rolling in the aisles. But as Sikov shows in this hip, unblinking biography, there was a downside to his genius. Sellers abused drugs, beat his wives and neglected his children. On set, he was a nightmare prima donna, insisting on special treatment and embroiling himself in ridiculous feuds with costars and directors. Moreover, his compulsive need to do impressions verged at times on multiple personality disorder (his first wife said, "It''s like being married to the United Nations"). Sikov shows that no one, not even his friends, really knew Sellers. The actor was, in Sikov''s estimation, a comic tabula rasa on which he could inscribe any character or personality. This mutability gave Sellers his first break, as he bluffed his way onto radio by impersonating a BBC star on the telephone. He later became the star of the hugely influential radio program The Goon Show, whose eccentric, Dadaist humor predated Monty Python by a decade. An avid party-goer (jet-setting friends included Roman Polanski and the Beatles), Sellers enjoyed a go-go lifestyle finally that caught up with him in 1980, when he suffered a massive heart attack. Sikov, whose previous work includes a Billy Wilder biography, treats Sellers with just the right mix of awe, irritation and sympathy, giving readers a clear-headed, respectful tribute to a disturbed genius.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8345'),
(6602, 'Mr. X', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Straub''s\n <em>\n  Mr. X\n </em>\n is an enthralling, complex tale of a decent young man troubled since childhood by barely understood flashes of precognition and an awareness of a shadowy "other."\n</p>\n<p>\n Ned Dunstan returns home to Edgerton, Illinois, a raffish and atmospheric Mississippi River city, as his mother, Star Dunstan, lies dying. Impelled to trace his tangled paternal lineage after Star''s death, Ned finds himself caught up in a web of murder and other heinous crimes, not only in the present but also in a past that his elderly great aunts Nettie, May, and Joy would prefer remained undisturbed. The aunts, whose remarkable gifts include teleportation and telekinesis, frustrate his search for knowledge, partly to protect their own secrets and also to shield Ned from the mysterious and omnipresent force that seems to dodge his every step. He is aided in his efforts to discover the mysteries of his birth by a doppleganger who may or may not be his twin, and also by a lovely young woman, Laurie Hatch. She is the estranged wife of Stewart Hatch, an Edgerton scion whose own history is inexorably linked with Ned''s and with the entire Dunstan family.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secondary characters, from the elderly aunts to a lawyer named Creech who is the essence of the small-town "fixer," are deftly drawn.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the publication of Koko in 1988, Straub has specialized in macabre mysteries dense with the details of small-town life and cast with ordinary people who find that the extraordinary crimes they investigate raise doubts about their own moral integrity. In this bravura new outing, he returns to his horror roots, lacing an ingenious whodunit with an intoxicating shot of the supernatural. From childhood, Ned Dunstan has experienced precognitive visions, a recurring dream of being tethered to a shadow and "the sense that something crucially significant, something without which I could never be whole, was missing." Summoned home to Edgerton, Ill., by a premonition of his mother''s death on the eve of his 35th birthday, Ned finds himself implicated in a tangle of felonies and murders, all of which point to someone strenuously manipulating events to frame him. Digging into local history, he finds reason to believe that the mysterious father he never knew, or possibly a malignant doppelg?nger, are pulling the strings. Meanwhile, Mr. X, a homicidal misanthrope who reads H.P. Lovecraft''s otherworldly horror fiction as gospel, cuts a swath of supernatural destruction across the country, en route to a showdown with his son, the "shadow-self" whom he must annihilate. Discerning readers will recognize this surprise-filled tale of tortuous family relationships as a modern variation on Lovecraft''s classic shocker "The Dunwich Horror." But Straub turns his pulp model inside out, transforming its vast cosmic mystery into an ingrown odyssey of self-discovery and a probing study of human nature. His evocative prose, a seamless splice of clipped hard-boiled banter and poetic reflection, contributes to the thick atmosphere of apprehension that makes this one of the most invigorating horror reads of the year. BOMC main selection. (Aug.) FYI: This spring, Subterranean Press published a chapbook, Peter and PTR: Two Discarded Prefaces and an Introduction, that includes framing material that Straub wrote for, and then cut from, Mr. X.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5090'),
(6603, 'MR1 The First Man in Rome (1990)', 'Colleen McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9674'),
(6604, 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and Mrs Harris Goes to New York: The Adventures of Mrs Harris', 'Paul Gallico', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A very popular and sentimental tale about a charwoman''s jaunts in Paris.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant''s wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she''s never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she''s never wanted anything as much before. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs Harris scrimps, saves and slaves away until one day, after three long, uncomplaining years, she finally has enough money to go to Paris. When she arrives at the House of Dior, Mrs Harris has little idea of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other lives she will transform forever. Always kind, always cheery and always winsome, the indomitable Mrs Harris takes Paris by storm and learns one of life''s greatest lessons along the way. This treasure from the 1950s introduces the irrepressible Mrs Harris, part charlady, part fairy-godmother, whose adventures take her from her humble London roots to the heights of glamour.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4355'),
(6605, 'Mrs. Dalloway', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf''s writing. We''ve commissioned the best-known Woolf scholars in the field to provide invaluable introductions, editing, critical analysis, and suggestions for further reading. These much-awaited volumes are the first of many annotated Woolf editions Harcourt plans on publishing in the coming years. This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman''s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway''s preparations for a party she is to give that evening,Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more; for it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Annotated and with an introduction by Bonnie Scott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3966'),
(6606, 'Mrs. McGinty&#39;s Dead', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim''s blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn''t look like a murderer.  Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows -- what he didn''t realise was that his own life was now in great danger!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5196'),
(6607, 'MS-Where The Wild Things Are', 'Maurice Sendak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10452'),
(6608, 'MT_RebelEscape', 'Marie Treanor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9057'),
(6609, 'Much Ado about Nothing', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3455'),
(6610, 'The Mummy Case', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia''s curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(6611, 'Munro &amp; Carter 1 - Night of the Fox', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11031'),
(6612, 'Munro &amp; Carter 2 - Cold Harbour', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11001'),
(6613, 'Murder and Salutations', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jennifer Shane is stunned when she''s named Businessperson of the Year, but she''s even more shocked when, at the presentation ceremony. Chamber of Commerce President Eliza Glade, over-dressed, over-made-up, and over-the-top, is killed. Jen and her sister Sara Lynn were among her worst enemies, so they''ll have to bend over backwards to clear their names. And an easy resolution is not in the cards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(6614, 'Murder at Mansfield Park', 'Lynn Shepherd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Murder at Mansfield Park is a witty and clever reimagining of Jane Austen''s much-loved novel Mansfield Park. But in this Mansfield Park, things have changed ... Formerly Austen''s meekest heroine, Fanny Price has become not only an heiress to an extensive fortune but also a heartless, scheming minx. Hiding her true character behind a demure facade, Fanny is indeed betrothed to Edmund, now Mrs Norris''s stepson; but do the couple really love each other? Henry and Mary Crawford arrive in the country ready to wreak havoc with their fast city ways, but this time Henry Crawford is troubled by a suspicious past while his sister, Mary, steps forward in the best Austen style to become an unexpected heroine. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the safe and solid grand house as it becomes the scene of violence. Every member of the family falls under suspicion and the race begins to halt a ruthless murderer. Funny and sharp, Murder at Mansfield Park is simply a delight to read.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Mary Crawford, a minor character in Mansfield Park, takes center stage in Shepherd''s debut, a clever reworking of the Austen novel that''s strong on plot, character, and historical accuracy. Shepherd has altered Austen''s characters, some beyond recognition. Most notably, meek and unassuming Fanny Price has become "a monster of complacency and pride" in Kingsley Amis''s phrase borrowed from his essay on Jane Austen. Mary, whose cheerful disposition and wit ensure her acceptance at Mansfield Park, suffers much at Fanny''s hands. When Fanny turns up dead in a trench on the park grounds, an apparent victim of foul play, a horrified Mary winds up playing detective. While mystery fans will find much to like, it is Austenites who will be most gratified, particularly by how well Shepherd has captured the tone of Austen''s original. For anyone who thought Henry Crawford deserved Fanny or who has a problem with vampires and ghouls invading Jane Austen''s world, this will be a delight.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Fanny Price is] a monster of complacency and pride...under a cloak of cringing self-abasement." --Kingsley Amis, author ofÂ _What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6135'),
(6615, 'Murder at the Vicarage', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The classic mystery that introduced Miss Jane Marple Miss Jane Marple''s passion for gossip leads to the investigation of the murder of a local man not liked in the least. The victim''s death isn''t raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5177'),
(6616, 'Murder Checks Inn', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Trask family comes to the Hatteras West Inn to settle their late father''s will. Innkeeper Alex Winston''s Uncle Jase is murdered before it can be read, and the document is missing. Alex has a personal stake in solving the crime, but he has to wade through a family''s secrets before he can find the killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3982'),
(6617, 'Murder for Christ&#39;s Mass', 'Maureen Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The town of Lincoln is covered in snow-concealing the mortal remains of a clerk who worked in the local mint. The only clue is a pristine coin stamped with the visage of King Stephen. But Templar Bascot de Marins soon discovers that the motive goes beyond money-and beyond mere murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2207'),
(6618, 'Murder Has a Sweet Tooth', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie Capshaw has found that the way to a man''s heart is through his cooking class. But just as she and her best friend, Eve, are planning Annie''s big day with Jim, her former cooking instructor turned boss, murder takes the cake. Make that the wedding cake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2689'),
(6619, 'Murder in LaMut', 'Raymond E. Feist; Joel Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Midkemia, there are no easy roads . . . For twenty years the mercenaries Durine, Kethol, and Pirojil have fought other people''s battles. Having already defeated the Tsurani, the Bugs, and the goblins, it seems there are no more enemies for them to vanquishâ€”even as the Riftwar rages on in the west. What lies ahead for the able trio are a few welcomed months of restful garrison duty. When ordered to accompany the promiscuous Lady Mondegreen, her aging husband, and her current lover to a summit in the city of LaMut, the Three Swords willingly comply, expecting an uncomplicated and undemanding assignment. But nothing is straightforward in this land of violence and treachery. And when the fury of a winter''s storm traps them inside a castle teeming with ambitious, plotting lords and ladies, the mercenaries suddenly find themselves with a series of cold-blooded murders to solve . . . and the political future of Midkemia resting in their hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4104'),
(6620, 'Murder in Mesopotamia', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after American archaeologist Dr Leidnerâ€™s wife Louise at a dig near Hassanieh she finds herself taking on more than just nursing duties â€“ she also has to help solve murders. Fortunately for Amy, Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5229'),
(6621, 'Murder in Tarsis', 'John Maddox Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who killed Ambassador Bloodarrow?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Lord of Tarsis finds himself with a politically volatile murder on his hands, he turns to the three most expendable inhabitants of the city of a solution. A mercenary, a poet-assassin, and a thief might not be everyone''s first choice for detectives. But they find they''re quite good at bringing murderers to justice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perhaps a little too good . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10443'),
(6622, 'Murder in the Mews', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death and a menage a trois - four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot!  How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And who destroyed the ''eternal triangle'' of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?  Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases -- Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man''s Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes -- each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident and suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5256'),
(6623, 'A Murder Is Announced', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s most ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ''A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.'' A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5253'),
(6624, 'Murder Is Easy', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...MURDER IS EASYIt was just Luke Fitzwilliam''s luck to be stuck next to a dotty old woman like Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train-although he found himself quite entertained with her tall tales about a series of perfect murders in the quaint village of Wychwood. But when he reads the next day of the freak accident that killed her, too, Fitzwilliam''s amusement turns to grave concern. A visit to the isolated village confirms his worst fears. For Wychwood seems to divided by an eccentric lot of locals: those who are in on a dark and dangerous secret-and those who don''t live long enough to share it.AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world''s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.  Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.  Agatha Christie died in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5185'),
(6625, 'Murder List', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Regan Hamilton Madison is perfect. Sheâ€™s gorgeous ("a knockout with those full, luscious lips, to say nothing about the soft curves and long legs") but doesnâ€™t seem to be aware of it. Sheâ€™s rich (her family owns a hotel empire), but as head of her familyâ€™s foundation, she spends her time giving money away. She even drives an old car. She doesnâ€™t have a boyfriend, but she does have a stalker, a psychopath bent on killing her. Enter Alec Buchanan, a smart detective who just happens to be perfect himself. Heâ€™s gorgeous, "scruffyâ€¦sexyâ€¦he had impeccable manners, was obviously well-educated, and had a sense of humor." And he doesnâ€™t have a lover either. Regan draws up the titular murder list at the request of a guru/messiah who preys on "rich but lonely vulnerable women" (itâ€™s supposed to be cathartic) and who is the villain of a subplot. Although Regan is much too nice to want to murder anybody, she whimsically makes a list of the people sheâ€™d like to remove from her radar screen. When the people on Reganâ€™s list begin to die, though, the plot moves into high gear. By that time the reader is pages ahead of the clearly telegraphed plot developments, and even the real mysteriesâ€”why Regan? who is the psycho killer?â€”are solved by the reader long before the characters see the light. Bestseller Garwood (Killjoy, etc.) has her shining moments, but she serves up a predictable woman-in-peril suspense novel this time around.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills, edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully as Julie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with\n <em>\n  Murder List\n </em>\n , in which evil is on the huntâ€“ and proves to be methodically organized and chillingly successful.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothersâ€™ footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is not too happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photoâ€“and the victim is no stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, which was ruled a suicide. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little â€œcleansingâ€ exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, posing the question:\n <em>\n  Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist?\n </em>\n Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. After ten minutes, Shields instructs the participants to bring their sheets of paper to the fireplace and throw them into the flames. But Regan misses this part of the program when she exits the room to take a callâ€“and barely escapes a menacing individual in the parking lot.\n</p>\n<p>\n The experience is all but forgottenâ€“until the first person on Reganâ€™s list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other bodies from the list start to surface, as a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk her every moveâ€“and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6294'),
(6626, 'Murder Most Frothy', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clare Cosi-s new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she-ll relax, soak up the sun, and, oh yes, train the staff of his new restaurant. So Clare packs up her daughter, her former mother-in-law, and her special recipe for iced coffee-for what she hopes will be one de-latte-ful summer- Soon, Clare tends the coffee bar at her first Hamptons gala. But the festivities come to a bitter end when an employee turns up dead in David-s bathroom-a botched attempt on the millionaire-s life. Thanks to the Fourth of July fireworks no one heard any gunshots, and the police are stuck in holiday traffic. Concerned for everyone-s safety, Clare begins to investigate. What she finds will keep her up at night-and it-s not the java jitters-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1510'),
(6627, 'A Murder of Quality', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Daily Telegraph\n </em>\n (U.K.) Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sunday Telegraph\n </em>\n (U.K.) Vastly entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John le CarrÃ©''s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international esionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.\n</p>\n<p>\n George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, and old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I''m not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: it''s scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11072'),
(6628, 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Considered to be one of Agatha Christieâ€™s most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widowâ€™s suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5184'),
(6629, 'Murder on Ice', 'Ted Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Reid Bennett, the newest addition to Murphyâ€™s Harbor, Ontario, has embarked on his second case. During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact sheâ€™s been kidnapped! Members of a feminist anti-pageant group are suspected, but Reid suspects something fishy. He must expose the organizer of the kidnapping -- and try not to get himself killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3530'),
(6630, 'Murder on the Links', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back...An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son''s overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5238'),
(6631, 'Murder on the Menu', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie, Eve, and their former cooking teacher are in the trenches, trying to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher''s, from going belly up. Everything''s simmering along just fine until Annie and Eve find their friend Sarah, staffer to a powerful congressman, lying dead in her tub. The cops want to write it off as a suicide, but the facts just don''t add up. Then, after a series of suspicious "accidents," Annie and Eve realize that this kitchen fire isn''t about to put itself out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2686'),
(6632, 'Murder on the Moor', 'C. S. Challinor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When barrister Rex Graves invites a group of friends to Gleneagle Lodge, he doesn''t anticipate the arrival of an old flameâ€”much less a dead body or serial killer. Rex''s houseguest and colleague Alistair, who recently made an unsuccessful attempt to convict a man for the notorious Moor Murders, now finds himself under the same roof as the killer. Rex must use his skills of intellect, observation, and logic to save Alistair''s career and bring the murderer to justice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Praise:\n  </b>\n </p>\n <b>\n </b>\n <p>\n  "Traditional mystery fans will appreciate the retro Agatha Christie style."â€”\n  <i>\n   PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n  </i>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4655'),
(6633, 'Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of Agatha Christieâ€™s most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the authorâ€™s own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5271'),
(6634, 'The Murder Room', 'Michael Capuzzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world''s finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders ** Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as "the living Sherlock Holmes"-were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian eugÃ¨ne FranÃ§ois Vidocq-the flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes-the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch. *The Murder Room* draws the reader into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a millionaire''s son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy. Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo''s brilliant storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3031'),
(6635, 'The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World&#39;s Most Perplexing Cold Cases', 'Michael Capuzzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world''s finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as "the living Sherlock Holmes"-were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian eugÃ¨ne FranÃ§ois Vidocq-the flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes-the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Murder Room* draws the reader into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a millionaire''s son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo''s brilliant storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7855'),
(6636, 'The Murderers', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A vice cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner and his wife are gunned down during a robbery. And in a mansion, a young woman dies of a heroine overdose. The crimes seem unconnected. But these deaths are about to trigger a convergence of corruption, cops, and the mob that could tear the Philadelphia Police Department apart from the inside out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6071'),
(6637, 'The Musketeer&#39;s Seamstress', 'Sarah D&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Second in the swashbuckling Musketeers mystery series. Aramis''s lover-a Spanish noblewoman and childhood friend of the Queen-has been murdered, and the Musketeer has been accused of the crime. Now it''s up to Athos, Porthos, and D''Artagnan to clear their friend''s name.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3537'),
(6638, 'Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious sage of World War II - from the long remembered outbreak of crabs in monkey to the unfortunate ack-acking of and American killyhawk. Dio mio, is war is a game of cards, someone was cheating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3489'),
(6639, 'Mutiny', 'Julian Stockwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master''s mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home after many years'' absence is soon forgotten when he finds himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events in English history -" the Mutiny at the Nore. Ten thousand men, one thousand guns and scores of ships hold the country to ransom: the government is near collapse; the economy on the brink of ruin. And Kydd is faced with a terrible choice. Abandon his friends and shipmates? Or join the rebellion and put his career -" and even his life -" on the line?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2835'),
(6640, 'MW_Hero', 'Mary Winter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10389'),
(6641, 'MW_Smile', 'Mary Winter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10390'),
(6642, 'My Antonia', 'Willa Cather', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3269');
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(6643, 'My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N&#39; Roses', 'Steven Adler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGreat for the die-hard GNR fanâ€¦This is a cautionary tale, all the way.â€ (Penthouse )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  No secret is too dark.\n  <br />\n  No revelation too sick. But you must have the appetite for it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in\n <em>\n  My Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n When Adler was eleven years old he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world''s greatest band. Along with four uniquely talentedâ€”but very complicated and demandingâ€”musicians, Adler helped form Guns N'' Roses. They rose from the streetsâ€”primal rockers who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rock''s truer blues roots.\n</p>\n<p>\n They were relentless rock stars, onstage and off, taking "sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll" to obscene levels of reckless abandon. By the late 1980s, GNR was the biggest rock band in the world, demanding headlines, awards, and sold-out shows, with one of the greatest rock albums of all time:\n <em>\n  Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n . But there was a price to pay. For Adler, it was his health and his sanity, culminating in a brutal banishment by his once-beloved musical brothers. Adler digs deep, revealing the last secrets, not only his own but GNR''s as well: Slash''s betrayal, Axl''s unpredictable temper, and Duff''s revenge. He bares it all with this shocking fuck-the-fates exposÃ‰ that charts his meteoric rise and devastating collapse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adler was humiliated and disgraced when Axl Rose kicked him out of GNR in front of an MTV audience of millions. Adler plunged into the dark side, spending most of the next twenty years in a drug-fueled hell. But he finally beat his epic addiction to crack and heroin under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Adler''s newfound clarity comes a fierce determination to tell it all. Revelatory, heartbreaking, hilarious, and ultimately inspirational, you will never read anything more jaw-droppingly honest than\n <em>\n  My Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5154'),
(6644, 'My Best Friends Have Hairy Legs', 'Cierra Rantoul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "My Best Friends have Hairy Legs" is the story of my dog, Trooper, and me overcoming abusive relationships. It is a story about his growth from a fearful puppy into a confident adult dog - and mine - from a psychologically abused wife into a confident woman who can look back at my past with laughter and no regrets. I don''t believe my story is unique. Our stories might differ, the details change, but the emotions and feelings are the same. I wanted to tell our story because we have survived. I wanted to tell it to give hope to others who are struggling to find their way. There is a light out there. There aren''t any bras burnt at the end of this book - or dog collars - but the metaphor is the same. We are happy with who we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(6645, 'My Bondage and My Freedom', 'Frederick Douglass &amp; Brent Hayes Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Professor John S. Wright\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  is Frederick Douglass''s most accomplished rendering of his life on literary and philosophical terms. It is also his most acutely romanticist and ''transcendental autobiography''...can provide yet another chance for us readers to think more closely with a dedicated thinking man about how we might grapple with the complexly interwoven meanings of his life and our own. --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Frederick Douglass\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   <em>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </em>\n   pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Born a slave,\n  <strong>\n   Frederick Douglas\n  </strong>\n  educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest social leaders in American history. Although usually identified with the monumental\n  <em>\n   Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave\n  </em>\n  , Douglass produced two additional autobiographies, the second of which he called\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  A richer, deeper, and far more ambiguous work than the earlier\n  <em>\n   Narrative\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  reveals Douglassâ€™s increased intellectual sophistication and maturity. In the decade that had elapsed since Douglass wrote_ Narrative_, he had broken away from his antislavery mentors, successfully toured England, and established himself as an inspired speaker and writer. With the publication of\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  in 1855, Douglass became the countryâ€™s foremost spokesman for American blacksâ€”free and enslavedâ€”during the tense and politically charged years preceding the Civil War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the highlights of\n  <em>\n   My Bondage and My Freedom\n  </em>\n  is the appendix, which contains excerpts from several of Douglassâ€™s speeches, including perhaps his most famous, â€œWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brent Hayes Edwards\n  </strong>\n  is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism\n  </em>\n  (Harvard University Press, 2003) and of numerous articles on twentieth-century African-American literature, contemporary poetry, Francophone Caribbean literature, surrealism, and jazz.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4436'),
(6646, 'My Dark Places', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''ELLROY IS A UNIQUE VOICE IN AMERICAN FICTION''-JONATHAN KELLERMAN On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her 10 year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring legacy on her son - he spent his teen and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother''s murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his ground-breaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non-fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America''s underbelly and one man''s tortured soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2160'),
(6647, 'My Darling Caroline', 'Adele Ashworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No man''s darling . . . One by one, Lady Caroline Grayson watched her four sisters celebrate their betrothals, truly sure that marriage was not in her futureâ€”and perfectly pleased with that fact. Or so she thought. Brent Ravenscroft, Earl of Weymerth, nearly gave his life for the Crown. He returned to England a hero with no intention of taking a bride, certain his brusque demeanor would intimidate any young ladies drawn to his good looksâ€”or so he thought. Bound by a business transaction, Caroline and Brent begin life as husband and wife. Utterly determined not to fall for each other, they stubbornly ignore the sparks flying between them and keep secrets at every turn. They would resist the lure of loveâ€”and the pleasures of the marriage bedâ€”forever . . . or so they thought.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(6648, 'My Dead Body', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nobody lives forever ... not even a Vampyre. Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan''s Vampyres, he''s definitely a dead man walking. He''s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he''s just a target with legs.For a year he''s sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What''s it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who''s carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What''s the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What''s the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What''s he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(6649, 'My Deadly Valentine', 'Valerie Hansen; Lynette Eason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dangerous Admirer by Valerie HansenSomeone''s stalking Rachel Hollister. With suspects at every turn, it''s deputy Jase Morgan''s job to halt the menace shadowing her steps. As the most romantic holiday of the year approaches, can she trust this charming officer with her lifeâ€¦and her heart?Dark Obsession by Lynette EasonHang-up calls, graffiti, break-ins at her shop right before Valentine''s Dayâ€¦ Someone wants to scare Holly Maddoxâ€”and it''s working. Her high school sweetheart, Eli Brody, comes to the rescue, but surely the handsome detective doesn''t really plan to stay. There''s nowhere for Holly to turn as dangerâ€”and heartbreakâ€”start closing in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3857'),
(6650, 'My Father&#39;s Tears: And Other Stories', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Updike compresses the strata of a life in his delicately rendered, tremendously moving posthumous collection. In Free, the memory of a life-affirming affair buckles against a man''s loyalty to his deceased wife: he recognizes that becoming a well-bred stick offers more consolation in old age than the sluggish arousal of his sensuality. In The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe, the retired protagonist, depressed by what he perceives as the universe''s indifference to human affairs, is done in by the accumulated detritus of his life. Many characters are haunted by a sense of isolation, such as the protagonist of Personal Archaeology, who roams his Massachusetts estate, searching for traces of previous ownership while sifting through his own petty contribution, or the emotionally stranded absentee landlord of an Alton, Pa., family farm in The Road Home, who returns after 50 years and finds himself lost in his hometown. From Kinderszenen, which depicts the anxious time of smalltown late 1930s, to Varieties of Religious Experience, in which a grandfather watches the twin towers fall, time ushers in brutal changes. With masterly assurance, Updike transforms the familiar into the mysterious.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In the title story of this miraculous final collection, the aging narrator admits, "I have never really left Pennsylvania, that is where the self I value is stored, no matter how infrequently I check on its condition." Most of these stories evoke Updike''s Olinger and environs at least in passing, nicely complementing the 2003 retrospective collection\n  <em>\n   The Early Stories, 1953â€“1975\n  </em>\n  , with its tantalizing hints of autobiography. In "Personal Archaeology," a restless retiree uncovers several distinct strata of rusty junk on his small piece of suburban land and realizes that his own lost golf balls will form yet another such layer. In "The Full Glass," an elderly man takes pride in his efficient bedroom routines, such as filling a glass with water before opening the pill bottles. In "Free," a recent widower starts to miss the wife from whom he had longed to escape. A few of the stories take place at high school reunions, where conversations resume midstream after 50 years. Like his ancient characters, Updike rambles on at times, but no one will complain. Recommended for all collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n  <em>\n   LJ\n  </em>\n  2/1/09.]â€”Edward B. St John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8356'),
(6651, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/955'),
(6652, 'My Inventions', 'Nickola Tessla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2765'),
(6653, 'My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian', 'Brian Patrick O&#39;Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mushing is an odd sport for anybody. First you take a dozen-plus slightly tamed dogs ("damned wolves with collars," one rancher calls them), strap them to a sled that, with little enough provocation, will send you rocketing into the tundra and start out for the 1000-mile race accompanied by chunks of frozen liver and the occasional whole reporter?this after forking over $1249. O''Donoghue, who moved to Alaska from the lower 48 to work for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, decided to start mushing after just two winters. He soon entered Iditarod XIX while writing a column for the paper titled "Off to the Races." Perhaps because his own mishaps (shredded doggie booties, sled falls, lack of sleep, poor visibility, missed shelters, tangled, bruised, grouchy and, as the title implies, polymorphously perverse, dogs) don''t really change over the course of the race (they just accumulate), O''Donoghue introduces a large cast of other mushers. These do bring new misadventures, but the account can be a little confusing. O''Donoghue''s style is amusing but rarely laugh-out-loud. Instead, what really keeps this book going is the same thing that keeps the racers going, a kind of bloody-minded doggedness that thinks, when faced with frostbitten fingers, not about the possibility of amputation but the possibility of scratching.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  O''Donoghue tells what happened when he entered the 1991 Iditarod, along with 17 sled dogs with names like Rainy, Harley and Screech. O''Donoghue braved snowstorms, sickening wipeouts, and endured the contempt of more experienced racers. Narrated with icy elan and self deprecating wit, this is a true story of heroism, cussedness, and astonishing dumb luck.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7140'),
(6654, 'My lead dog was a lesbian: mushing across Alaska in the Iditarod, the world&#39;s most grueling race', 'Brian Patrick O&#39;Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mushing is an odd sport for anybody. First you take a dozen-plus slightly tamed dogs ("damned wolves with collars," one rancher calls them), strap them to a sled that, with little enough provocation, will send you rocketing into the tundra and start out for the 1000-mile race accompanied by chunks of frozen liver and the occasional whole reporter?this after forking over $1249. O''Donoghue, who moved to Alaska from the lower 48 to work for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, decided to start mushing after just two winters. He soon entered Iditarod XIX while writing a column for the paper titled "Off to the Races." Perhaps because his own mishaps (shredded doggie booties, sled falls, lack of sleep, poor visibility, missed shelters, tangled, bruised, grouchy and, as the title implies, polymorphously perverse, dogs) don''t really change over the course of the race (they just accumulate), O''Donoghue introduces a large cast of other mushers. These do bring new misadventures, but the account can be a little confusing. O''Donoghue''s style is amusing but rarely laugh-out-loud. Instead, what really keeps this book going is the same thing that keeps the racers going, a kind of bloody-minded doggedness that thinks, when faced with frostbitten fingers, not about the possibility of amputation but the possibility of scratching.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n O''Donoghue tells what happened when he entered the 1991 Iditarod, along with 17 sled dogs with names like Rainy, Harley and Screech. O''Donoghue braved snowstorms, sickening wipeouts, and endured the contempt of more experienced racers. Narrated with icy elan and self deprecating wit, this is a true story of heroism, cussedness, and astonishing dumb luck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10344'),
(6655, 'My life', 'Bill Clinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: President Bill Clintonâ€™s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White Houseâ€”a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil rights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youthâ€”born after his fatherâ€™s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; drawn to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, Chelsea, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.President Clintonâ€™s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever writtenâ€”encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.It is a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.It is the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far Right, and how he survived and prevailed. It is a treasury of moments caught alive, among them:â€¢ The ten-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his familyâ€™s new (and first) television set.â€¢ The young candidate looking for votes in the Arkansas hills and the local seer who tells him, â€œAnybody who would campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to carry one box. . . . Youâ€™ll win here. But itâ€™ll be the only damn place you win in this county.â€ (He was right on both counts.)â€¢ The roller-coaster ride of the 1992 campaign.â€¢ The extraordinarily frank exchanges with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.â€¢ The delicate manipulation needed to convince Rabin and Arafat to shake hands for the camera while keeping Arafat from kissing Rabin.â€¢ The cost, both public and private, of the scandal that threatened the presidency.Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions, told openly, directly, in his own completely recognizable voice. A unique book by a unique American.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1304'),
(6656, 'My Life as a Fake: A Novel', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _ _is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling." â€“John Updike,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIngenious . . . Carey is as diabolical as the hoaxes that his book includes.â€\n <em>\n  â€” The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brisk, relentlessly prankish. . . . A virtuoso amalgam of styles, simultaneously a literary conundrum of the Borges variety, an exotic adventure tale evocative of both the settings and the narrative methods of Conrad, and a horror story derived from Mary Shelley''s\n <strong>\n  Frankenstein\n </strong>\n ." â€“_The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A wholly absorbing, bizarrely madcap comedy and a telling commentary on the sometimes baffling sources of art. . . . Though fiction, the book is anything but fake. It''s truth, beauty and comedy wrapped in one sprightly package." â€“\n </em>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWe have a great novelist living on the planet with us, and his name is Peter Carey."\n <br />\n _â€“Los Angeles Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Circling from the real to the imaginary and back is as happily perplexing as a drawing by M.C. Escher. . . . Carey can bring a character to life, give him a voice and a history and a psychological topography, in a single paragraph." â€“\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "No other Australian writer in our time has succeeded as well as Peter Carey in writing novels that compel the attention of a world-wide audience. His work . . . occupies a high plane of literary brilliance." â€“\n </em>\n The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œPeter Careyâ€™s new novel comes like a monsoon after drought. It is a magnificent, poetic contemplation of the lying, fakery and insincerity inherent in the act of artistic creation. . . . Itâ€™s a charismatically furious piece of work, brilliantly meshing its ethical and artistic debate with a rich human drama.â€ â€“\n </em>\n The Times _(UK)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œReads like the impossible offspring of a fictional mÃ©nage-Ã -trois involving\n <strong>\n  Pale Fire\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n <strong>\n  Lord Jim\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n and\n <strong>\n  Our Man in Havana\n </strong>\n . . . . A fabulous book in the original sense of the term--and in the other one, too." â€“_The Atlantic Monthly\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n â€œIn book after book, Peter Carey has proven that he''s incapable of writing a dull page. . . . Heâ€™s one of the greatest storytellers alive. . . . A dazzling narrative.â€\n <em>\n  â€“The Christian Science Monitor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFast, furious and fantastical. . . . Carey is Australia''s finest living novelist.â€\n <em>\n  â€“The Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Carey is that rare artist brave enough to flee success, a tactic that underlies his dazzling track record. Each of his novels sets him a different challenge; in each, he excels. A triumph in its own right,\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _\n <em>\n  leaves us wondering how he''s going to delight and disconcert us in his next book." â€“\n </em>\n St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p>\n _"\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _\n <em>\n  is the real thing." â€“\n </em>\n Time\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Complex and masterful. . . . A haunting story whose surreal events are as captivating and memorable as the misguided aspirations of its characters." â€“\n </em>\n Minneapolis Star-Tribune_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _"In\n <strong>\n  _ _My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _,\n <em>\n  Peter Carey has created a novel that is captivating and haunting, and, in the end, sinfully delightful. For both longtime readers and those coming to his work for the first time, it''s a book not to miss." â€“\n </em>\n Richmond Times-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Great rollicking fun. . . . A dazzling, beautifully detailed, intellectually energetic book." â€“\n </em>\n The News &amp; Observer _(Raleigh)\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _"\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _ _dazzles the reader with heady ideas and literary reference points (Ã  la\n <strong>\n  Frankenstein\n </strong>\n _ _and\n <strong>\n  Pale Fire\n </strong>\n ), then catapults us into madcap action. . . . [Carey] exudes a hallucinatory realism that makes imaginary universes feel concrete and believable." â€“_The Village Voice\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A devilishly engrossing meditation on illusion. . . .\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n _\n <em>\n  [is] an ingenious homage to the power of the imagination and to Carey''s ability to createâ€“and connectâ€“worlds within worlds." â€“\n </em>\n The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Careyâ€™s\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exileâ€“a story that couldnâ€™t be true unless its teller were mad.\n <strong>\n  My Life as a Fake\n </strong>\n is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5160'),
(6657, 'My Little Serrated Security Blanket', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11152'),
(6658, 'My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business: A Memoir', 'Dick Van Dyke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van Dyke Show (produced by Carl Reiner, who has written the foreword to this memoir), was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and introduced another major television star, Mary Tyler Moore. But Dick Van Dyke was also an enormously engaging movie star whose films, including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, have been discovered by a new generation of fans and are as beloved today as they were when they first appeared. Who doesnâ€™t know the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A colorful, loving, richly detailed look at the decades of a multilayered life, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, will enthrall every generation of reader, from baby-boomers who recall when Rob Petrie became a household name, to all those still enchanted by Bertâ€™s â€œChim Chim Cher-ee.â€ This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a â€œsimple song-and-dance man,â€ but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6109'),
(6659, 'My Man Jeeves', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Wodehouse , P.G."My Man Jeeves" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2657'),
(6660, 'My Name Is Memory', 'Ann Brashares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants* and *The Last Summer (of You and Me)* comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime. ** Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he''s previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short. Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel''s unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together. A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love, *My Name is Memory* proves the power and endurance of a union that was meant to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(6661, 'My Shit Life So Far', 'Frankie Boyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''If you like Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code, why are you even looking at this, you retard?'' Jimmy Carr ''If you are suffocating in cosy Christmas cheer, this abrasively cynical, relentlessly misanthropic book might feel like a welcome faceful of ice-cold water straight out of the Clyde.'' The Sunday Times ''Quite triumphantly, this is the most abusive, obscene, insulting memoir yet published!Many, many funny lines here. A difficult book to read sedately in public.'' The Evening Standard ''He has a shocking, acid-tongued wit and his sharp observations make this one of the funniest autobiographies I''ve read.'' The Sun ''an original mix of confession and stand-up monologue ! it''s rather gratifying that it''s outselling most of the books by more famous figures.'' The Guardian ''a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars.'' The Independent ''My Shit Life So Far, showcases that cruel and unusual comedy that''s become Frankie''s trademark, and should probably be enjoyed far away from hot liquids! bizarre, intelligent and abusively hilarious.''\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  The List ''frequently funny.'' Heat ''biting wit.'' Independent on Sunday ''Fans of Boyle''s dark style will hope this book provides laughs-a-plenty and an antidote to the play-it-safe, sickly sweet autobiographies of other so-called celebrities. They will not be disappointed.'' Dave TV ''Only read this book in public if you have no qualms about blowing coffee through your nose in spurts of guilty laughter ! Punchier than a cage fighter, with more disclosures than an episode of Parky ! Addictive and expertly brutal.'' Hotline\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frankie''s outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it is presented here in all its outrageous glory. From growing up in Pollockshaws, Glasgowâ€”â€œit was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to childhood, and for the family it was a step upâ€â€”to his rampant teenage sex driveâ€”â€œin those days if you glimpsed a nipple on T.V. it was like porn Christmasâ€â€”and first job working in a mental hospital, nothing is out of bounds. Outspoken, cynical, and always outrageous, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of\n  <em>\n   Mock the Week\n  </em>\n  , says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programs he would like to see made (â€œ_Celebrities On Acid On Ice_â€”just like\n  <em>\n   Celebrities Dancing On Ice\n  </em>\n  , but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSDâ€), to his native Scotland and the Mayor of London, nothing and no one is safe from Frankie''s fearless, sharp-tongued assault. Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn''t-be-laughing-at-this humor,\n  <em>\n   My Shit Life So Far\n  </em>\n  shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6373'),
(6662, 'My Sister&#39;s Keeper', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A major decision about me is being made, and no one''s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can''t help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister''s veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1650'),
(6663, 'My Spiritual Journey', 'Dalai Lama &amp; Sofia Stril-Rever', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the worldâ€™s greatest spiritual leaders reflects on his commitments as a human being, a Buddhist monk, and the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Stril-Rever, the Dalai Lamaâ€™s longtime translator, has collected his autobiographical musings, dharma talks, and public speeches, and provided informative commentary, to create a book of clarion essays shaped by the Dalai Lamaâ€™s wisdom, intellect, kindness, and humor, as well as his experiences of persecution, exile, and world travels. Readers both well versed in and new to the Dalai Lamaâ€™s teachings will make invaluable discoveries as the Dalai Lama emphasizes our common humanity, our interdependence, and the need for us to â€œcultivate a greater sense of universal responsibility.â€ The Dalai Lama calls for religious harmony and expresses his support for secular democracy and his hope for a peaceful resolution of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Most forcefully, and poetically, the Dalai Lama voices his growing concern over global environmental degradation. We must act together to protect nature, the source of our survival, the Dalai Lama writes, assuring us that if the Buddha returned, â€œHe would be an ecologist!â€ --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAn important record of the mind and heart of one of the great figures of our times.â€ (New Age Retailer )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis gathering of insights on a variety of topics should ...please the Dalai Lamaâ€™s English-speaking adherents.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€™Spiritualityâ€™â€ may be the most nebulous word in the English language, but My Spiritual Journey provides a definition that both devotee and atheist might approve: â€˜the full blossoming of human values that is essential for the good of all.â€™â€ (The Washington Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders both well versed in and new to the Dalai Lamaâ€™s teachings will make invaluable discoveries as the Dalai Lama emphasizes our common humanity, our interdependence, and the need for us to â€˜cultivate a greater sense of universal responsibility.â€™â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn intriguing portrait of the Tibetan spiritual leader.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn his moving new memoir, My Spiritual Journey,â€¦ the Dalai Lamaâ€™s immense hope and good humor shine throughout.â€ (Organic Spa Magazine )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7464'),
(6664, 'My Uncle Oswald', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3660'),
(6665, 'My Word Is My Bond: A Memoir', 'Roger Moore &amp; Gareth Owen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like his James Bond movies, Roger Mooreâ€™s autobiography is full of unbelievable scenes, corny dialogue and a lead character who doesnâ€™t take himself too seriously...full of humor, in praise of many and offensive to few (New York Post )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  From the saint to maverick to James Bond, Roger Mooreâ€™s story is one of the last of the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until now.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half century, Sir Roger Moore played the role of James Bond longer than any other actor. Still, Bond was only one in a lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywoodâ€™s studio era. Moore has seen and heard it all. He has hobnobbed with the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his contemporaries and friends. He has outrageous stories about foulmouthed Milton Berle, surly Richard Burton, and kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous as Bond enemy Jaws. The stories in\n <em>\n  My Word Is My Bond\n </em>\n are priceless, a treasure trove of Hollywood history. Sir Roger Moore has left nothing outâ€”especially the naughty bits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6855'),
(6666, 'My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir', 'Daveed Gartenstein-Ross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born into a spiritually ambiguous family (his parents are nonpracticing Jews who follow the "Infinite Way"), Gartenstein-Ross grew up in the 1980s, in Ashland, Ore., a bucolic, posthippie paradise with a live-and-let-live ethic. Spiritually adrift through his teens, he discovers Islam through a classmate at Wake Forest University. Gartenstein-Rossâ€”young and searching, like so many Americans of his socioeconomic classâ€”quickly falls under the spell of fiercely committed Muslims. He begins working for al Harman, a radical Islamic charity that would eventually be linked to al-Qaeda, and soon starts a simultaneous process of being drawn deeper into the world of radical Islam and being repulsed by its brutal realities. Gartenstein-Ross fights an inner battle between his idealism, shaped by his socially conscious if somewhat scattered liberal upbringing, and his sense of the growing gap between his personal notion of Islam and the mounting list of rules and limitations its practice entails. This would seem compelling stuff, but throughout the story seems blunted. Even the chapters near the end that deal with Gartenstein-Ross''s role as an informer for the FBI after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, lack tension and real insight into the dilemma faced by so many cut adrift in Western secular culture.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gartenstein-Ross reveals how widening doctrinal tensions are dividing twenty-first-century expressions of Islam in this memoir of his journey into and out of the faith. Raised by freethinking Jewish parents in a world of former hippies, Gartenstein-Ross finds himself pondering ultimate questions after two brushes with death. Friendship with a progressive Shiite Muslim offers answers. Gartenstein-Ross therefore converts. But both he and his Shiite friend subsequently encounter--and then cross over--the chasm separating moderates from radical orthodoxy. Gartenstein-Ross even works for a Muslim charity diverting funds to terrorists. After eventually turning away from the group hatreds and anti-intellectualism of radical Islam, Gartenstein-Ross embraces Christianity--and becomes an FBI informant. To his great joy, he subsequently discovers that his Shiite friend has likewise turned away from radicalism and has returned to moderate Islam. For readers trying to understand Muslims on both sides of the radical-moderate divide, Gartenstein-Ross'' story will be an eye-opener.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6677');
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(6667, 'Myriad Universes 01: Infinity&#39;s Prism', 'Christopher L. Bennett &amp; William Leisner &amp; James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism -- broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been...is what actually happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Less Perfect Union\n  </strong>\n  : More than a hundred years after the Terra Prime movement achieved its dream of an isolationist Earth, humanity is once again at a fork in the river of history...and the path it follows may ultimately be determined by the voice of a single individual: the sole surviving crewmember of the first\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .â„¢\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Places of Exile\n  </strong>\n  : Midway through\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  ''s journey across the galaxy, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay must choose whether to brave a deadly war zone or abandon their quest for home. But an attack by Species 8472 cripples the ship, and the stranded crew must make new choices that will reshape their destinies...and that of the Delta Quadrant itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Seeds of Dissent\n  </strong>\n  : Khan victorious! Almost four centuries after conquering their world, genetically enhanced humans dominate a ruthless interstellar empire. But the warship\n  <em>\n   Defiance\n  </em>\n  , under its augmented commander, Princeps Julian Bashir, makes a discovery that could shake the pillars of his proud civilization: an ancient sleeper ship from Earth named the\n  <em>\n   Botany Bay\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christopher L. Bennett\n  </strong>\n  is the author of two previous works of\n  <em>\n   Titan\n  </em>\n  fiction, the novel\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Titan: Orionâ€™s Hounds\n  </em>\n  and the short story "Empathy" in the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows\n  </em>\n  anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum\n  </em>\n  , as well as the alternate\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  tale\n  <em>\n   Places of Exile\n  </em>\n  in\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes: Infinityâ€™s Prism\n  </em>\n  . Shorter works include\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: SCE\n  </em>\n  #29:\n  <em>\n   Aftermath\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again\n  </em>\n  , as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies\n  <em>\n   Constellations\n  </em>\n  (original series),\n  <em>\n   The Skyâ€™s The Limit\n  </em>\n  (TNG),\n  <em>\n   Prophecy and Change\n  </em>\n  (DS9), and\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  (VGR). Beyond\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  , he has penned the novels\n  <em>\n   X-Men: Watchers on the Walls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder\n  </em>\n  , and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WILLIAM LEISNER i\n  </strong>\n  s the author of the acclaimed novels\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing the Peace\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   A Less Perfect Union\n  </em>\n  (from the\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes\n  </em>\n  collection\n  <em>\n   Infinity''s Prism\n  </em>\n  ). Â He is a three-time winner of the late, lamented\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\n  </em>\n  competition, as contributed tales to the official celebration of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  ''s 40th anniversary in 2006, and\n  <em>\n   TNG\n  </em>\n  ''s 20th Anniversary in 2007. Â A native of Rochester, New York, he currently lives in Minneapolis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Swallow has written several books, including\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Seeds of Dissent\n  </em>\n  (from\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity''s Prism\n  </em>\n  ); the\n  <em>\n   Sundowners\n  </em>\n  quartet of â€˜steampunkâ€™ science fiction Westerns (_Ghost Town, Underworld_,\n  <em>\n   Iron Dragon\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Showdown\n  </em>\n  ); the best-selling novelization of_ The Butterfly Effect_;\n  <em>\n   The Flight of the Eisenstein\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Faith and Fire\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Jade Dragon\n  </em>\n  ; the\n  <em>\n   2000AD\n  </em>\n  tie-ins Eclipse,\n  <em>\n   Blood Relative\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Whiteout\n  </em>\n  ; Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon; and the\n  <em>\n   Blood Angels\n  </em>\n  duology\n  <em>\n   Deus Encarmine\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Deus Sanguinius.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition, Swallowâ€™s short fiction has appeared in_ Inferno!_ and\n  <em>\n   Stargate\n  </em>\n  magazine, the anthologies\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who Short Trips\n  </em>\n  collections\n  <em>\n   Dalek Empire\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Destination Prague\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Something Changed, Collected Works, What Price Victory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Silent Night\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  His non-fiction includes\n  <em>\n   Dark Eye: The Films of David Finche\n  </em>\n  r and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Voyager\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Space 1889\n  </em>\n  , along with several scripts for audio and videogames.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7091'),
(6668, 'Myriad Universes 02: Echoes and Refractions', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido &amp; Chris Roberson &amp; Geoff Trowbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen\n  <em>\n   do\n  </em>\n  happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism -- broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been...is what actually happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT:\n  </strong>\n  In a continuum where Spock died during childhood, an Andorian named Thelin became Captain Kirk''s stalwart friend and first officer. But at the moment of Khan''s final defeat, history takes an even stranger turn, and the emerging potential of Project Genesis is revealed as the galaxy''s greatest hope...and its most ominous threat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A GUTTED WORLD:\n  </strong>\n  Terrorist Kira Nerys -- from a Bajor that was never liberated -- may hold the key to winning a war that has engulfed half the galaxy. But with the Romulans and the Klingons at each other''s throats, and the Federation pulled into the conflict, even victory may not bring salvation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BRAVE NEW WORLD:\n  </strong>\n  Dr. Noonien Soong''s dream has been realized: androids are now woven inextricably into the fabric of the Federation, revolutionizing Starfleet and transforming the quality of humanoid life. But when Soong''s long-missing breakthrough creation, Data, mysteriously resurfaces, civilization reaches a crossroads that could lead to a bright new future, or to ruin.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Keith R.A. DeCandido\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them\n  <em>\n   Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry''s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  . His original novel\n  <em>\n   Dragon Precinct\n  </em>\n  was published in 2004, and he''s also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated\n  <em>\n   Imaginings\n  </em>\n  and two\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don''t Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices\n  <em>\n   kenshikai\n  </em>\n  karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8675'),
(6669, 'MySQL High Availability', 'Charles Bell &amp; Mats Kindahl &amp; Lars Thalmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don''t have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL provides several features that can protect you from outages, whether you''re running directly on the hardware, on virtual machines, or in the cloud. This book shows you how to use these features effectively, and helps you determine which combination of features will give you the most reliable system for a price you can afford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7446'),
(6670, 'MySQL Stored Procedure Programming', 'Guy Harrison &amp; Steven Feuerstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  MySQL Stored Procedure Programming\n </i>\n covers a lot of ground. The book starts with a thorough introduction to stored procedures programming and functions, covering the fundamentals of data types, operators, and using SQL in stored procedures. You''ll learn how to build and maintain stored programs -- covering transactions, stored functions, and triggers -- and how to call and use MySQL-based stored procedures in a variety of languages, including PHP, Perl, Python, .NET, and Java. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer can afford to do without.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7518'),
(6671, 'The Myst Reader', 'Rand Miller &amp; Robyn Miller &amp; David Wingrove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This omnibus edition of the hugely popular\n  <em>\n   Myst\n  </em>\n  trilogy is published to coincide with the release of\n  <em>\n   Myst Revelations\n  </em>\n  , the latest in the line of the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Myst\n  </em>\n  interactive CD-ROM games.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The award-winning\n <em>\n  Myst\n </em>\n series is one of the most successful interactive CD-ROM computer games in history with sales of more than 12 million copies worldwide.\n <em>\n  Myst\n </em>\n captivated the world when it was first conceived and created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller. Its extraordinary success has gone on to spawn\n <em>\n  Riven, Myst III Exile\n </em>\n , and most recently,\n <em>\n  Uru: The Ages Beyond Myst\n </em>\n . Devoted fans of these surreal adventure games gather yearly at "Mysterium" (whose event sites are spreading to other countries) to exchange game strategies, share stories, and meet up with old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Myst Reader\n </em>\n is a literary companion to the CD-ROM games and a compendium of the bestselling official\n <em>\n  Myst\n </em>\n trilogy:\n <em>\n  The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti''ana\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Book of D''ni\n </em>\n . Devoted fans and new players alike will be delighted to have three books in this mythic saga together for the first time in one value-priced volume, which will be published in time to coincide with the long-awaited release of\n <em>\n  Myst Revelations\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robyn Miller\n </strong>\n , best known for his work on Myst, currently lives in Spokane, Washington.\n <strong>\n  Rand Miller\n </strong>\n is the CEO of Cyan Worlds, which is currently working on Uru. When not at work, Miller enjoys photography, guitar, and computer tinkering. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, Debbie, and three daughters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8050'),
(6672, 'The Mysteries of Udolpho (Part II) (Dodo Press)', 'Ann Ward Radcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Mysteries of Udolpho follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and the machinations of an Italian brigand. The author, Ann Ward (1764-1823) was born in Holborn. She married William Radcliffe, an editor for the English Chronicle, at Bath in 1788. The couple were childless. To amuse herself, she began to write fiction, which her husband encouraged. Her works were extremely popular among the upper class and the growing middle class, especially among young women. Her works included The Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1796). The success of The Romance of the Forest established Radcliffe as the leading exponent of the historical Gothic romance. Her later novels met with even greater attention, and produced many imitators, and famously, Jane Austen''s burlesque of The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey, as well as influencing the works of Sir Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8959'),
(6673, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This first mystery by Dame Agatha Christie introduces dapper, brilliant Hercule Poirot. Retired as the Chief of Belgian police, he is summoned to a magnificent country estate to solve a murder. The victim: a wealthy heiress. The suspects: her fortune-hunting husband, her jealous relatives, her hired companion. The solution: a deadly scheme that is revealed by the master detective himself. Named a 1996 "Best Mystery Audio" by Publishers Weekly, this complete and unabridged edition is read by David Suchet, the distinguished British actor recognized as Poirot from the PBS-TV Mystery Theater. 5 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5268'),
(6674, 'The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey', 'Trenton Lee Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3781'),
(6675, 'The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner&#39;s Dilemma', 'Trenton Lee Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before. Filled with page-turning action and mind-bending brain teasers, this wildly inventive journey is sure to delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3782'),
(6676, 'The Mysterious Benedict Society', 'Trenton Lee Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before. Filled with page-turning action and mind-bending brain teasers, this wildly inventive journey is sure to delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3780'),
(6677, 'The Mysterious Island', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Five castaways, having landed from a balloon on an island in the Pacific, begin their struggle for survival and the adventures that will lead them to the mysterious Captain Nemo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9491'),
(6678, 'The Mysterious Mr. Quin', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUINA conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year''s Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history? With fantastic intrigue, uncanny procedure, and Agatha Christie''s most charismatic creation, these dazzling stories remain personal favorites for the queen of crime.AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world''s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.  Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.  Agatha Christie died in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5209'),
(6679, 'Mysterious Skin', 'Scott Heim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life"?so runs the catchy opening to Heim''s impressive first novel. The speaker is Brian Lackey, now a troubled teenager, once an introverted kid growing up scared in the small town of Hutchinson, Kans. The reason for his memory lapse and his fear, as we and Brian learn during the course of the novel, turns out not to be the space aliens that he first suspects, but his molestation at the hands of his Little League coach. The key to Brian''s reclamation of those lost hours is homosexual hustler Neil McCormick?the slugger on that Little League team and an accomplice to Brian''s sexual abuse. Working its way over the course of a decade toward Brian and Neil''s reunion, the narrative unfolds through chapters whose points of view alternate among Brian, Neil and a handful of their siblings and confidants. Heim makes numerous freshman mistakes, including a relatively static narrative, prominent characters who outlive their usefulness and occasional lapses in the writing. He also creates scenes of genuine beauty, however, and handles his complicated characters and delicate subject matter with calm assurance.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brian Lackey and Neil McCormick are so different by nature that they might never have met except for a shared incident at age eight. One summer afternoon, a storm forces the cancellation of a Little League game, and Brian catches a ride home with his coach and Neil. Ten years later, Brian still can''t remember that afternoon, although he suspects that it was a turning point in his life. His search for answers eventually leads to Neil, who helps re-create the afternoon of seduction and sexual abuse that Brian has blocked from his mind. Told from a variety of perspectives, this novel looks at the long-term effects of sexual abuse and the coping mechanisms employed by abused children. First novelist Heim deals frankly with a controversial topic without becoming accusatory or maudlin. The result is powerful stuff that every public library should have.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6831'),
(6680, 'Mystery', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a meaty tribute to mystery sub-genres, Straub ( Ghost Story ) serves up a coming-of-age tale, a country-manor murder mystery and a twisted knot of governmental corruption and cover-up. Ten-year-old Tom Pasmore, a rich resident of the Caribbean island of Mill Walk, is hit by a car and, in a near-death experience, sees visions of himself in the future. During his long recuperation, Tom reads mystery stories brought to him by Lamont von Heilitz, an eccentric neighbor, once a famous detective. Action resumes when Tom, now aged 17 and possessed of sharpened deductive skills, gives the police an anonymous tip to help them solve the murder of a government official''s sister. Tom''s tip backfires, motivating him to join Lamont in trying to solve a murder that took place 20 years earlier in the Wisconsin resort town where Mill Walk''s privileged citizens spend their summers. That layered, complex case reveals a long history of corruption, leads to more murders, to realization of the meaning of Tom''s early visions and his discovery of his true identity. While evocative of place and time (the early ''60s) and peopled with memorable characters, the story tries to fit into too many subgenres to succeed completely at any one. $200,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA dark, labyrinthian tale of murder and family relationships. . . . Mesmerizing.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSensational. . . . A terrific page-turner, superbly plotted, unforgettable characters.â€ â€”_Kansas City Star_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing, immensely readable. . . . Engages the mind.â€ â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe near perfect mystery. . . . Has everything a classic whodunit should. . . . Full of intricate, engrossing, flesh-and-blood suspects and heroes. . . . Unexpected curves and potholes. . . . The title says it all.â€ â€”_Milwaukee Sentinel_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMurder, mayhem, mystery. . . . A complex and satisfying tale. . . . Compelling characters. . . . A pulse-pounding climax.â€ â€”_Cleveland Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tightly woven-tale, crisply rendered, populated with well-drawn characters.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous. . . . Enormously satisfying. . . . Unashamedly designed to fascinate.â€ â€”_Sacramento Bee_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe best of Peter Straubâ€™s writing.â€ â€”_Houston Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe characters are outstanding. . . . They are the story, enshrouded by a nightmare that never lifts. Peter Straub takes bold risks and he succeeds.â€ â€”_San Jose Mercury News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnomously entertaining and scary. . . . Rich, complex, dark, and tough to put down.â€ â€”_New York Daily News_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5086'),
(6681, 'The Mystery At Claudia&#39;s House', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9746'),
(6682, 'Mystery at Devil&#39;s Paw', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they journey to Alaska to help a friend who feels his life is in danger, the Hardy brothers find their own lives threatened.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10295'),
(6683, 'Mystery Bride', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE WANTED...OR WAS SHE? The moment Will Sheridan met Samantha Murphy at a party, he knew she was the woman he''d been waiting for. Then a kiss, and suddenly she had disappeared. But Will hadn''t given up looking for her, for he vowed to make her his bride--once he discovered who she was, that is.... Samantha Murphy''s identity was something the female private investigator was trying very hard to hide. She had a job to do and Will, sexy and gorgeous as he was, was in the way. When her latest case took a dangerous turn, Will was caught in the middle of the chase and became her accidental partner. Now on the run to save an innocent life, can they fight their attraction long enough to stay alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(6684, 'The Mystery Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From George R. R. Martinâ€™s Introduction to *Warriors: *Â“People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. *All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, *and *The Red Badge of Courage *have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thingÂ—a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre theyâ€™re best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat.â€ Included are a long novella from the world of Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, a new tale of Lord John by Diana Gabaldon, and an epic of humanity at bay by David Weber. Also present are original tales by David Ball, Peter S. Beagle, Lawrence Block, Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Robin Hobb, Cecelia Holland, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Naomi Novik, James Rollins, Steven Saylor, Robert Silverberg, S.M. Stirling, Carrie Vaughn, Howard Waldrop, and Tad Williams. Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(6685, 'Mystery of Crocodile Island', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10935'),
(6686, 'The Mystery of Ireta: Dinosaur Planet &amp; Dinosaur Planet Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ?Few are better at mixing elements of high fantasy and hard science fiction.?\n  <br />\n  _?The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crew of shipbred technicians sent to the planet Ireta were prepared for a routine mission to catalog flora and fauna and search for new energy sources. Kai and his beautiful coleader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the standard procedures, but the result of their investigations was totally unexpected.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When their rescue ship mysteriously disappears, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by giant swamp creatures, deadly predators, and terrifying dinosaurs. And a curious change begins to come over many of the crew membersâ€”a mutinous change that will lead all of them, in one way or another, into the primitive darkness of a future world that holds many mysteries yet to be revealed. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _So begins Anne McCaffreyâ€™s exciting adventures\n  <em>\n   Dinosaur Planet\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dinosaur Planet Survivors\n  </em>\n  â€”together in one thrilling volume for the first time!\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8148'),
(6687, 'The Mystery of Sinister Scarecrow', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The theft of some mutant army ants by a scarecrow leads the Three Investigators to the solution of two daring crimes in the art world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4770'),
(6688, 'The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior', 'Franklin W. Dixon; R. H. Tandy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The handwritten will of a deceased world-traveler is strange and mysterious. Its cryptic instructions are to deliver ''the valuable Aztec warrior to the rightful owner, a descendant of an Aztec warrior.'' What is the valuable object and where is it? What is the name of the owner and where is he? Frank and Joe Hardy have only one slim clue to work with: the name of a complete stranger who can help find the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10286'),
(6689, 'The Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sighting of a UFO leads the Three Investigators to uncover a bizarre confidence game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4774'),
(6690, 'The Mystery of the Blue Train', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A BBC full-cast radio drama starring Maurice Denham as the great Belgian detective. A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and gives to his heartsick daughter, Ruth Kettering, the "Heart of Fire," one of the world''s legendary jewels. Legend has it that the possession of the jewel leads to death - but despite her father''s protests, young Ruth decides to take it with her on the Blue Train to the French Riviera, where she has planned a reunion with her former lover. A few days into the journey, Ruth is found dead and her priceless rubies stolen. The suspects line up: could the murderer be Derek, her weak and greedy husband; Ruth''s former lover, the Comte de la Roche; or the beautiful but tempestuous dancer Mirelle? Only master sleuth Hercule Poirot can unravel the mystery and find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5262'),
(6691, 'The Mystery of the Chinese Junk', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES- featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10312'),
(6692, 'The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon', 'Nick West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When five dogs disappear from a seaside town and a dragon is sighted off-shore, the Three Investigators look into the situation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4392'),
(6693, 'The Mystery of the Dancing Devil', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Three Investigators search for a stolen statue only to find that it has mysteriously come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7525'),
(6694, 'The Mystery of the Dead Man&#39;s Riddle', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three young detectives go on a high-stakes treasure hunt in order to restore a fortune to the rightful heirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7522'),
(6695, 'The Mystery of the Deadly Double', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Three Investigators foil a plot to kidnap the son of a political leader in an African colony.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7519'),
(6696, 'The Mystery of the Death Trap Mine', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Three Investigators, aided by their friend Allie, try to untangle the unusual circumstances surrounding an abandoned mine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4766'),
(6697, 'Mystery of the Desert Giant', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy boys travel to Mexico to solve the mystery of a missing plane and its passengers. Their only clues are giant desert drawings made by Native Americans hundreds of years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10291'),
(6698, 'The Mystery of the Fiery Eye', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three junior detectives solve a mystery involving a collection of antique busts, a legacy, a strange letter, and a red ruby.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators must solve an old man''s riddle to uncover a great fortune for their friend, Gus. But they''re racing against a sinister bunch of treasure hunters who are also hot on the trail. Who will arrive first at the mysterious Fiery Eye?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5583'),
(6699, 'The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an eccentric local artist disappears suddenly, the three investigators look into the matter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4769'),
(6700, 'Mystery of the Flying Express', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the new hydrofoil they are guarding is stolen, the Hardy boys face frequent danger in solving a mystery involving criminals who operate by signs of the zodiac.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10294'),
(6701, 'The Mystery of the Green Ghost', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A green ghost oozes through the walls of a crumbling old mansion, leading The Three Investigators to an open coffin and a grinning skeleton wearing a string of priceless Chinese Ghost Pearls.Â Â When the ghost disappears--along with the pearls--the sleuths are off on their strangest case ever!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5587'),
(6702, 'The Mystery of the Headless Horse', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When three junior detectives search for a valuable old Spanish sword lost since the Mexican War, the headless statue of a horse yields a clue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7528'),
(6703, 'The Mystery of the Invisible Dog', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators are hounded by supernatural forces as they attempt to recover a stolen sculpture of a legendary wolf-dog.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4765'),
(6704, 'The Mystery of the Kidnapped Whale', 'Marc Brandel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The three investigators, attempting to rescue a beached whale, end up searching for sunken treasure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5819'),
(6705, 'The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The three investigators try to solve a mystery involving a gold Indian amulet and a weird laughing shadow that appeared to them in the night.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7524'),
(6706, 'The Mystery of the Magic Circle', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three young sleuths uncover a coven of witches when they search for the missing memoirs of a movie star.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4771'),
(6707, 'The Mystery of the Moaning Cave', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While vacationing on a California ranch, three boys decide to investigate strange wails that come from a mysterious cave where a famous outlaw disappeared.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many years ago, the young bandit El Diablo disappeared into a cave, never to be seen again.Â Â Now an eerie moaning sound is coming from his old hideout, and the ranchers who live nearby think he may still be alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators set out to explore the moaning cave--and soon wish they had come armed with more than a flashlight!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7521'),
(6708, 'The Mystery of the Monster Mountain', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The three young sleuths solve a case of double identity while investigating the legend of Monster Mountain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4764'),
(6709, 'The Mystery of the Nervous Lion', 'Nick West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm''s tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4393'),
(6710, 'The Mystery of the Purple Pirate', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Searching for a legendary pirate treasure, the Three Investigators find a band of modern day pirates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7520'),
(6711, 'The Mystery of the Rogues&#39; Reunion', 'Marc Brandel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The reunion of a group of child movie stars plunges the three young detectives into a case of theft, kidnapping, and false identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5820'),
(6712, 'The Mystery of the Scar-Faced Beggar', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wallet dropped by a scar-faced beggar sets the three investigators on the trail of bank robbers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4767'),
(6713, 'The Mystery of the Screaming Clock', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The high pitched scream produced by an alarm clock sets the three investigators on the complicated and dangerous trail of art thieves.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The alarm clock went off with the bloodcurdling scream of a woman in mortal terror!Â Â Who could have made such a clock--and why?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators immediately set out to discover where the mysterious clock came from.Â Â When they come across a run-down house in Hollywood, they find an entire room full of dreadful clocks--and time is running out!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5589'),
(6714, 'The Mystery of the Shrinking House', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators solve a case involving an international gang of art forgers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7523'),
(6715, 'The Mystery of the Silver Spider', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three junior detectives travel abroad to solve a mystery involving a silver spider and a political plot that endangers the life of a young prince.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prince of Varania must find the royal badge of office, a jeweled silver spider, in order to be crowned. There''s just one problem--the silver spider has been stolen! It''s up to the Three Investigators to find the spider and save the prince from his deadly political enemies!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5588'),
(6716, 'The Mystery of the Singing Serpent', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The three investigators become involved in witchcraft when they try to rescue a woman from the influence of snake worshippers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4768'),
(6717, 'The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge', 'Franklin W. Dixon; R. H. Tandy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES - featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice. Be a part of the fun! Start your collection of original hardcover Hardy Boys Mysteries today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10277'),
(6718, 'The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators'' new detective agency. But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the place got its name!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in hardcover beginning in 1964, these classic\n </p>\n <p>\n  mystery/adventure stories feature three boys--Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bob Andrews--who establish a detective firm with the motto "We Investigate\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anything!" Perfect for summer reading, these suspenseful action stories will\n </p>\n <p>\n  appeal to both boys and girls.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5584'),
(6719, 'The Mystery of the Talking Skull', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An old trunk involves the three investigators with dangerous criminals seeking a cache of stolen money.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It all started with a dollar. One dollar paid at auction by Jupiter Jones for a dusty old trunk that once belonged to The Great Gulliver, a magician who vanished as mysteriously as one of his tricks. The trunk attracts a host of bizarre characters, like Zelda the Gypsy, Three-Finger Munger, and Maximilian the Mystic. But what''s inside the trunk is even _ more_ bizarre--a skull that talks!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5582'),
(6720, 'The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Missing: One fabulous, jewel-encrusted belt, once owned by the ancient emperors of Japan. The Three Investigators are ready to jump into action, but officials at the Peterson Museum turn them away for being too young. Then a strange twist of fate brings Jupe, Pete, and Bob on the case, and the boys are soon surrounded by master criminals--who will stop at nothing to hold on to their stolen fortune! Is the priceless belt lost for good, or will the Three Investigators be able to save the day?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Missing: One fabulous, jewel-encrusted belt, once owned by the ancient emperors of Japan. The Three Investigators are ready to jump into action, but officials at the Peterson Museum turn them away for being too young. Then a strange twist of fate brings Jupe, Pete, and Bob on the case, and the boys are soon surrounded by master criminals--who will stop at nothing to hold on to their stolen fortune! Is the priceless belt lost for good, or will the Three Investigators be able to save the day?Â Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5590'),
(6721, 'Mystery of the Whale Tattoo', 'Franklin W. Dixon; R H Tandy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Helping in a case their father is working on, the Hardy brothers try to find an informer who has telephoned from a booth in their home town, and are hired by a carnival owner to spot pickpockets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10275'),
(6722, 'The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a 3,000-year-old mummy begins to whisper strange words in an ancient Egyptian tongue, the Three Investigators are determined to find out is an ancient curse is about to be fulfilled.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Ra-Orkon, a 3,000-year-old mummy, begins to whisper strange words in an ancient Egyptian tongue, the Three Investigators are determined to find out the facts: Why is he speaking? What is he saying? And how is the horrible curse of Ra-Orkon about to be fulfilled?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5581'),
(6723, 'The Mystery of Wandering Caveman', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three young sleuths investigate the disappearance of a caveman''s bones from a museum and uncover skulduggery at a science foundation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4773');
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(6724, 'Mystery: An Alex Delaware Novel', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Lt. Milo Sturgis of LAPD homicide asks psychologist Alex Delaware to view the faceless corpse of a young woman in Kellerman''s enjoyable if only average 26th Alex Delaware novel (after Deception), Alex is shocked to recognize the gunshot victim as someone he and wife, Robin, saw the night before in a restaurant bar. A link turns out to exist between the dead woman and a sinister-looking man Alex and Robin observed outside the bar that night. An anonymous tip leads to an online service that matches "sugar daddies" with "star-quality sweeties." The victim, who called herself "Mystery," had a "daddy," Markham McReynolds, whose wealthy, anything-goes family offers plenty of suspects, including McReynolds''s wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law. Kellerman''s bantering detectives make it look almost too easy as they put together the clues and possible scenarios, despite the unusual solution to the crime. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Delaware, the L.A. psychologist and crime-solver, returns to tackle another tricky case. A woman has been murdered, her body mutilated. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis, Delawareâ€™s frequent partner, brings Alex into the case, hoping for some insight into the psychology of the killer. Alex is surprised to discover that the victim is familiar to him; Alex and his girlfriend saw her at a restaurant only hours before her death. But how can Alex and Milo expect to find any usable clues when the restaurant is now out of business? The Delaware series has been going since 1985, and itâ€™s long since settled into a comfortable formula, which is just fine as far as fans are concerned. The books star a pair of engaging protagonists and, for the most part, are well plotted. In addition, Kellerman usually tosses in a couple of twists to keep readers on their toes. This installment is nothing out of the ordinary for the series, but itâ€™s a solid entry that will please the established audience. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5116'),
(6725, 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n  </em>\n  . The best thing about reading a Huston novel is that you never see it coming--laughter, tears, the passing urge to vomit--everything is a surprise, creating a wholly unsettling and exciting reading experience.\n  <em>\n   The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n  </em>\n  has all the makings of a perfect Charlie Huston novel--the down-but-not-out antihero, the outrageous supporting characters (each of whom deserves their own spin-off), the very bad situation involving money and violence, and the hilariously inappropriate dialogue that is Huston''s signature--but with one surprising addition, hope. It does little good to break down the plot of a book this bizarre and brilliant. You''re just going to have to trust us (and our Guest Reviewer, Stephen King), and read it. --_Daphne Durham_\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Stephen King Reviews\n   <em>\n    The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Stephen King is the author of too many bestselling books to name here, but some of our favorites include:\n  <em>\n   The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n  </em>\n  below.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more from Charlie Huston, check out his "true stories about messes I''ve seen, helped clean up, and made" on Amazon''s books blog,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are some things you never wonder about until someone--usually someone whose mind lives on Weird Street--brings them to your attention. Who cuts the barberâ€™s hair? How does a guy wind up with the job of test-smelling armpits for a deoderant company? Or de-wrinkling dress shoes before theyâ€™re put on sale? Why does one kid become a college dean while another grows up to be a key grip? And just what is a key grip, anyway?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hereâ€™s another one. Who scrubs down the scene after a spectacularly messy death--a guy who shoots himself in the head, letâ€™s say, or dies of natural causes in a hot back room and then goes undiscovered for a couple of weeks? What sort of janitorial problems would such work entail? It turns out there are firms that specialize in those problems, and in the Weird Street world of Charlie Huston, a couple of these companies might even do battle over the smelly, maggoty spoils of war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTrauma scene and waste cleaning is a growth industry,â€ remarks Po Sin, the owner/operator of Clean Team. The observation comes early in Charlie Hustonâ€™s terrific new novel, which is about just what the title suggests: getting rid of the messy stuff after the deal goes down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When\n  <em>\n   The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n  </em>\n  opens, Webster Fillmore Goodhue--another in a long line of likeably slack Huston protagonists--is sponging off his friend Chev, who runs a sleazier-than-thou tattoo parlor. Enter the proprietor of Clean Team, who knows Web from Webâ€™s previous life as an elementary school teacher (a career that ended badly). Po Sin needs help in his particular growth-industry. Web agrees to a little blood- and brain-scrubbing not because he particularly wants a job but because heâ€™s suffered his own trauma and finds cleaning up other peopleâ€™s end-of-life messes strangely soothing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Soledad, a beautiful young girl whose father just aired out his brains with a 9mm. Also enter Jaime, her half-bright half-brother who imagines himself a Hollywood playa but canâ€™t get out of his own way. There are many things to love about Charlie Hustonâ€™s fiction--heâ€™s a brilliant storyteller, and writes the best dialogue since George V. Higgins--but what pushes my personal happy-button is his morbid sense of humor and seemingly effortless ability to create scary/funny bad guys who make Beavis and Butthead look like Rhodes Scholars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are a lot of those in this book, and several I-canâ€™t-believe-I-laughed-at-that scenes of grue (I canâ€™t even talk about the pipe-bomb thing, not on a family website), but the best thing about\n  <em>\n   Mystic Arts\n  </em>\n  is how decency and heroism rise to the top in spite of everyoneâ€™s best efforts to crush them under heel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Web wanders from the nightmarish underworld of body clean-up into the equally nightmarish worlds of hijacking and smuggling; he endures cross, double-cross, and triple-cross; he pees his pants while trying to shield his girlfriend from a bullet. Heâ€™s scared but never cowardly, down but never completely out. He is, in short, a guy worth watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soâ€™s Charlie Huston. Heâ€™s written several very good books (including the\n  <em>\n   Caught Stealing\n  </em>\n  trilogy and the Joe Pitt novels, which concern a PI whoâ€™s also a vampire), but this is the first authentically great one, a runaway freight that feels like a combination of William Burroughs and James Ellroy.\n  <em>\n   Mystic Arts\n  </em>\n  is, however, fiercely original--very much its own thing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Besides, admit it: youâ€™ve always wanted to know how to get blood out of a deep-pile carpet.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Noir master Huston (_The Shotgun Rule_) should win himself a whole new audience with this bizarre and utterly grotesque stand-alone, told mostly through dialogue that highlights the author''s uncanny ear for the spoken word. Former Los Angeles grade school teacher Web Goodhue, now a full-time slacker suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, falls into a job on a crime scene cleanup crew, scrubbing up the remains of the recently deceased. After the crew has finished cleaning up a messy suicide scene in Malibu, Web gets a phone call from the dead man''s daughter, Soledad. She and her thug half-brother have another big mess on their hands that needs cleaning, on the QT. Unable to resist the beautiful Soledad, Web soon finds himself in way over his head. Huston, one of his generation''s finest and hippest talents, shows in grisly detail what cleaning up after the dead entails. This one should appeal to Chuck Palahniuk fans as well as hard-boiled crime readers.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6849'),
(6726, 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10032'),
(6727, 'The Mystic Masseur', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.??Mel Gussow,\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ?For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul.??_The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Naipaul?s writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.??\n </em>\n The Atlantic Monthly\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?No one else around today?seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.??\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novelâ€“his firstâ€“V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the islandâ€™s medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, â€œI know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Ganeshâ€™s ascent is variously aided and impeded by a Dickensian cast of rogues and eccentrics. Thereâ€™s his skeptical wife, Leela, whose schooling has made her excessively, fond. of; punctuation: marks!; and Leelaâ€™s father, Ramlogan, a man of startling mood changes and an ever-ready cutlass. Thereâ€™s the aunt known as The Great Belcher. There are patients pursued by malign clouds or afflicted with an amorous fascination with bicycles. Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidadâ€™s dusty Indian villages,\n <strong>\n  The Mystic Masseur\n </strong>\n is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6265'),
(6728, 'Mystic River', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.   Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy''s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy''s daughter died covered in someone else''s blood.   A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(6729, 'Myth 01 - Another Fine Myth', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10090'),
(6730, 'Myth 02 - Myth Conceptions', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10077'),
(6731, 'Myth 03 - Myth Directions', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10053'),
(6732, 'Myth 03.5 - Myth-Ion Improbable', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10073'),
(6733, 'Myth 04 - Hit or Myth', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10046'),
(6734, 'Myth 05 - Myth-Ing Persons', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10084'),
(6735, 'Myth 06 - Little Myth Marker', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10075'),
(6736, 'Myth 07 - M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10045'),
(6737, 'Myth 08 - Myth-Nomers &amp; Im-Pervections', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10047'),
(6738, 'Myth 09 - M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10049'),
(6739, 'Myth 10 - Sweet Myth-Tery of Life', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10083'),
(6740, 'The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church', 'Gregory A. Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get -- political power -- it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. The church is to have a political voice, but we are to have it the way Jesus had it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, ''power over,'' way of doing life. We are to transform the world by being willing to suffer for others -- exercising ''power under,'' not by getting our way in society -- exercising ''power over.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2002'),
(6741, 'The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution', 'Gregory A. Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The kingdom of God is a beautiful revolution. Marked by the radical life, love, servanthood, and humility of Jesus, it stands in stark contrast to the values and ways of the world. Regrettably, many who profess to follow Christ have bought into the world''s methods, seeking to impose a sort of Christianized ethical kingdom through politics and control. In this illuminating sequel to his bestselling book The Myth of a Christian Nation, Dr. Gregory Boyd points us to a better way-a way of seeing and living that is consistent with the gospel of Jesus and his kingdom. Between the extremes of passivity on the one hand and political holy war on the other lies the radical, revolutionary path of imitating Jesus. In twelve areas ranging from racial and social issues to stewardship of the planet, this book will convince and inspire you to live a Christlike life of revolt and beauty-and it will help you attain a practical lifestyle of kingdom impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2001'),
(6742, 'The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People', 'David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shattering deeply held beliefs about sexual relationships in humans and other animals, The Myth of Monogamy is a much needed treatment of a sensitive issue. Written by the husband and wife team of behavioral scientist David P. Barash and psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton, it glows with wit and warmth even as it explores decades of research undermining traditional precepts of mating rituals. Evidence from genetic testing has been devastating to those seeking monogamy in the animal kingdom; even many birds, long prized as examples of fidelity, turn out to have a high incidence of extra-pair couplings. Furthermore, now that researchers have turned their attention to female sexual behavior, they are finding more and more examples of aggressive adultery-seeking in "the fairer sex." Writing about humans in the context of parental involvement, the authors find complexity and humor: Baby people are more like baby birds than baby mammals. To be sure, newborn cats and dogs are helpless, but this helplessness doesn''t last for long. By contrast, infant Homo sapiens remain helpless for months ... and then they become helpless toddlers! Who in turn graduate to being virtually helpless youngsters. (And then? Clueless adolescents.) So there may be some payoff to women in being mated to a monogamous man, after all. Careful to separate scientific description from moral prescription, Barash and Lipton still poke a little fun at our conceptions of monogamy and other kinds of relationships as "natural" or "unnatural." Shoring themselves up against the inevitable charges that their reporting will weaken the institution of marriage, they make sure to note that monogamy works well for most of those who desire it and that one of our uniquely human traits is our ability to overcome biology in some instances. If, as some claim, monogamy has been a tool used by men to assert property rights over women, then perhaps one day The Myth of Monogamy will be seen as a milestone for women''s liberation. --Rob Lightner\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9058'),
(6743, 'Myths to live by', 'Joseph Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2278'),
(6744, 'N Is for Noose', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff''s office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townfolk were sad but not surprised. Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, drank too much, and exercised too little.Newquist''s widow, Selma, didn''t doubt the coroner''s report. But still, she couldn''t help wondering what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night and brood constantly? Determined to help Selma find the answer, Kinsey Millhone sets up shop in Nota Lake, where she finds that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood--very likely, her own. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8209'),
(6745, 'N or M?', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Volume 38 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1941) Limited edition of 800 copies worldwide  It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ''the enemy within'' -- Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.  With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade. After all, N and M have just murdered Britain''s finest agent...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5240'),
(6746, '&quot;N&quot; is for noose', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kinsey Millhone should have done something else--she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff''s office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist''s widow didn''t doubt the coroner''s report. But what Selma couldn''t accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night, that had him brooding constantly? Selma Newquist wanted closure, and the only way she''d get it was if she found out what it was that had so bedeviled her husband. Kinsey should have dumped the case. It was vague and hopeless, like looking for a needle in a haystack. Instead, she set up shop in Nota Lake, where she found that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood. Very likely, her own."N" Is for Noose: a novel in which Kinsey Millhone becomes the target and an entire town seems in for the kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4140'),
(6747, 'Naamah&#39;s Curse', 'Jacqueline Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to 2009''s\n <em>\n  Naamah''s Kiss\n </em>\n , Moirin, the devoted servant of a sex goddess, journeys across half of a fantasy version of Asia in search of her soulmate, Bao. In Tatar territory, she finds Bao... and his wife. His father-in-law, the Great Khan, is willing to go to great extremes to keep Bao and Moirin apart. Captured by the fanatic Patriarch of Riva, Moirin escapes to find that Bao has vanished again, this time headed toward the distant lair of the Spider Queen and her army of assassins. The romantic tale is marred by Moirin''s narcissistic awareness that she is destined for a glorious fate that lesser mortals like Bao''s jealous wife may only envy. Carey''s storytelling ability is top-notch, however, and readers will applaud her willingness to resolve major plot threads in the middle book of a trilogy.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still chasing her destiny in the sequel to Naamah''s Kiss (2009), Moirin follows the urging of her diadh-anam across Tatar territory, looking for Bao, her Ch''in lover, who holds the other half of her divine soul-spark. She finds him married to the Great Khan''s daughter, and their plans to smooth this wrinkle go disastrously wrong when the Great Khan arranges to have Moirin kidnapped by fanatical, pious Vralians, while Bao is led into the lands of the Spider Queen. Though this book is packed with new people, new lands, and new gods, the pacing is slow and the tone reflective. Carey''s involving depictions of several religions also grow rather pointed. While Bao is never present long enough to gain depth, Moirin grows in strength and compassion, confronting several interesting crossroads in her faith and her way of life. Despite a â€œmiddle bookâ€ feel, series fans will love it, and an ominous warning about Raphael de Merliot, whom Moirin must â€œreckon with,â€ gives us something to look forward to in the next book. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4344'),
(6748, 'Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition', 'Wolfgang Barth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Nagios is a host and service monitoring tool designed to inform systems administrators of network problems before clients or managers notice. Nagios makes it possible to continuously monitor network services (like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING), host resources (such as processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, and log files), and environmental factors (like temperature).\n <i>\n  Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition\n </i>\n is completely revised and expanded with over 200 pages of new material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8326'),
(6749, 'Naive and Sentimental Lover', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Splendid, original ... le Carre shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling'' -- The Times ''Comic and touching ... this novel is brilliant and marvellously good reading'' -- Book World ''Sad, funny, captivating and stunningly fertile'' -- Sunday Express\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11064'),
(6750, 'Naked', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in ''A Plague of Tics'' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he brushes cigarette ashes from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving himself both under suspicion and over dressed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(6751, 'The naked and the dead', 'Norman Mailer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 50th-anniversary edition of Mailer''s World War II epic contains a new introduction by the author. If your current copy is falling apart, now is the time to replace it.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The best novel to come out of the . . . war, perhaps the best book to come out of any war."â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Best novel yet about World War II."â€”_Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brutal, agonizing, astonishingly thoughtful."â€”_Newsweek_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nightmarish masterpiece of realism."â€”_Cleveland News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Vibrant with life, abundant with real people, full of memorable scenes. To call it merely a great book about the war would be to minimize its total achievement."â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The most important American novel since\n  <em>\n   Moby-Dick\n  </em>\n  ."â€”_Providence Journal_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9782'),
(6752, 'Naked Empire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beginning with Wizard''s First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy. Beginning with Wizard''s First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3522'),
(6753, 'Naked Heat', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The best-selling mystery author of Heat Wave continues the story of tough and sexy NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook on the trail of a murderer in Manhattan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9988'),
(6754, 'Naked in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In hardcover for the first time, here is the novel that started it all-the first book in J. D. Robb''s number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. When a senator''s daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she''d been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washing-ton politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve''s growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome . . . and the leading suspect in the investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2378'),
(6755, 'The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist&#39;s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases', 'Gary Small &amp; Gigi Vorgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Psychiatrists, counselors, and the like are in a unique position. They are in possession of incredibly interesting stories, yet the constraints of confidentiality and ethical concerns make sharing them difficult. Balancing the maintenance of privacy with the urge to tellâ€”what are stories for, if not for sharing?â€”is a tricky matter. Small achieves that feat in this collection of â€œhis most bizarre cases.â€ This is not a metaphor. While working a psychiatric ward shift as a new doctor, he is faced with an unresponsive client who is naked and standing on her head. Another client seems obsessed with having an arm amputated. A couple faces conflicting dreams and nightmares of a Disneyland wedding. Smallâ€™s stories cover the entire range of his more than 20-year career, from his fumbling attempts at looking professional with a client who is certain heâ€™s trying to seduce her, to a recent encounter with a mentor who feels that his career has been a fraud. The stories are witty; the clients are treated respectfully, and the reader reaps the reward. --Matthew Tiffany\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it allâ€”now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head\n </em>\n is a spellbinding record of the doctor''s most bewildering cases, from naked headstands and hysterical blindness to fainting schoolgirls and self-amputations. It is an illuminating journey into the mind of a practicing psychiatrist and his life in medicine as it evolves over timeâ€”a behind-the-scenes look at the field and a variety of mental diseases as they''ve never been seen or diagnosed before. You''ll find yourself exploring the puzzling eccentricities that make us human.\n</p>\n<p>\n Often funny, sometimes tragic, and always compelling, Dr. Small takes you on a tour of his career that moves from the halls of a crowded inner-city Boston emergency room to the multimillion-dollar ski lodges of the nation''s elite. In between, Dr. Small introduces a strange cast of true-life characters and conditions, while dealing with mysterious hysterical blindness, a man convinced that his penis is shrinking, secret double lives, and frighteningly psychotic romantic desires. His career and personal life come full circle when his own mentor becomes his patient, making Small realize that no one is beyond mental explorationâ€”not even himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7498'),
(6756, 'Naked Lunch', 'William S. Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3872'),
(6757, 'Naked Lunch: The Restored Text', 'William S. Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "He was," as\n <em>\n  Salon\n </em>\n ''s Gary Kamyia notes, "20th-century drug culture''s Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake''s."\n</p>\n<p>\n Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroin addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.\n</p>\n<p>\n Burroughs''s literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie''s brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n William S. Burroughs''s classic tale has been fully restored by his longtime editors, Grauerholz and Miles, and is invigorated by this enthusiastic reading. Mark Bramhall offers a professional performance peppered with every trick of the actor''s trade to make it a resonating effort. He approaches the work with such energy that the story seems like a new entity, freshly relevant and timely. Listeners will lose themselves in the journey of junkie William Lee as he makes his way from bizarre destination to even more bizarre destination in this unforgettable novel.\n <em>\n  A Grove paperback. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6997'),
(6758, 'Naked Pictures of Famous People', 'Jon Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just\n <em>\n  has\n </em>\n to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart''s book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he''s writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don''t know ... I was a very angry guy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  KING: And this ... new Hitler?\n </p>\n <p>\n  HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it''s very freeing.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it''s wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup.\n <em>\n  Naked Pictures of Famous People\n </em>\n proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brutally witty... On a par with Woody Allen''s Without Feathers and Steve Martin''s Cruel Shoes..." --\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Terrific night table reading for lovers of intelligent satire... smart... refreshingly offensive... unapologetically un-PC... a gift for just about anyone." --\n <em>\n  Austin Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7841'),
(6759, 'The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer', 'Christina Perozzi; Hallie Beaune', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Move over, Merlot. Craft beer has finally found a place at the fine dining table.** Renowned beer sommeliers Hallie Beaune and Christina Perozzi offer a down-to-earth guide to craft and artisanal brews that celebrates beer for what it truly is: sophisticated, complex, and flavorful. Beaune and Perozzi cover everything from beer basics to the science behind beer, food and beer pairings, home brewing, and tips for perfecting one''s palate. This edgy, no-nonsense guide exposes hidden truths, debunks every misconception, and reveals the power that comes with knowing an ale from a lager.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1163'),
(6760, 'The Naked Sun', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Earth will be destroyed by Solaria''s robot army if Elijah Baley fails to find the murderer of an eminent scientist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9512'),
(6761, 'The name of the rose', 'Umberto Eco; William Weaver; David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of medieval philosophy, history, theology, and logic.In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate a wealthy Italian abbey whose monks are suspected of heresy. When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbeyâ€™s labyrinthine secrets, the subversive effects of laughter, and the medieval Inquisition. Caught in a power struggle between the emperor he serves and the pope who rules the Church, Brother William comes to see that what is at stake is larger than any mere political disputeâ€“that his investigation is being blocked by those who fear imagination, curiosity, and the power of ideas. The Name of the Rose offers the reader not only an ingeniously constructed mysteryâ€”complete with secret symbols and coded manuscriptsâ€”but also an unparalleled portrait of the medieval world on the brink of profound transformation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3247'),
(6762, 'The Name of the Wind', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling novel.** This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, *The Name of the Wind* is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3788'),
(6763, 'A Nameless Witch', 'A. Lee Martinez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A tale of vengeance, true love, and cannibalism Being born undead can have its disadvantages, such as eternal youth and flawless beauty ---things most unsuitable for a witch. Hiding behind the guise of a grimy old crone, the witch is content living outside Fort Stalwart with her unlikely band of allies: a troll named Gwurm, an enchanted broom, and a demonic duck named Newt. She leads a simple life filled with spells, potions, and the occasional curse. So when a White Knight arrives at Fort Stalwart, the witch knows her days of peace are at an end. The Knight is just days in front of a horde of ravenous goblings, and Fort Stalwart lies right in the hordeâ€™s path. But the goblings are just the first wave of danger, and soon the witch and the Knight must combine forces on a perilous quest to stop a mad sorcerer from destroying the world. Filled with menace, monsters, and magic, *A Nameless Witch* is a properly witchly read by the award-winning author of *Gilâ€™s All Fright Diner* and *In the Company of Ogres*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(6764, 'The Nameless', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9999');
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(6765, 'Nana', 'Emile Zola; Burton Rascoe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n French realism''s most beguiling femme fatale, Nana crawled from the gutter to ascend the heights of Parisian society, devouring men and squandering fortunes along the way. Her corruption reflects the degenerate state of the Second Empire and her story â€” a classic of French literature â€” is among the first modern novels.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Luc Santeâ€™s\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Introduction to\n  <em>\n   Nana\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zolaâ€™s star has risen and fallen since his death. In the first half of the twentieth century he was one of the most widely read authors in the world, his name virtually synonymous with the struggle for social progress. He was translated into all languages and was a staple, especially, in the Soviet Union. His role in the Dreyfus affair doubly assured his statureâ€”because of it he was even the subject of a Hollywood film,\n <em>\n  The Life of Ã‰mile Zola\n </em>\n (1937), with Paul Muni in the part. But the 1930s were probably the peak of his posthumous career. After World War II, especially, his work acquired a reputation as turgid, well-meaning gruel. The New Left more or less consigned him to the dustbin of history, and litterateurs everywhere decided he was clumsy, laborious, didactic. It is true that even in his lifetime and among his supporters he was never considered a particularly subtle author, and his most fervent disciples would have found it hard to make a case for him as a prose stylistâ€”a fatal deficiency in France, where style reigns supreme, where his older colleague Flaubert, the model of the stylist, sometimes hesitated for weeks over a choice of words.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nana\n </em>\n , however, shows how wrongheaded all such approaches were in regard to Zola, and effects a demonstration of his unparalleled strengths. Zola may not have parsed ambiguities or dealt in fugitive emotionsâ€”he did not work close up, with a single-hair brush, but on a large scale, with a palette knife (perhaps, actually, like his old friend CÃ©zanne, he could be said to have worked with a brush in one hand and a knife in the other). The analogy to painting is not idly chosen, and it is not simply because of his close connection to the Impressionists, although in many ways he resembles less the starkly graphic Manet or the dreamily approximative Monet or even the dramatically essentialist CÃ©zanne than he does Gustave Caillebotte, the Impressionist most devoted to depicting the flotsam and jetsam of urban life, which he framed as radically as with a camera lens. For that matter, while it has become a terrible clichÃ© to say of a writer of the past that had he lived in our time, he would surely have become a filmmaker, with Zola it might actually be true.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zola is at his best when staging crowd scenes and major conflicts. This is no small feat, especially when you consider how often great writers have avoided such thingsâ€”in how many classic war novels, for example, the principal action is set offstage or viewed through a narrow and subjective focus. And while most nineteenth-century novels begin and end with a major set pieceâ€”one to introduce the characters and set them in motion against the backdrop, the other to tie up loose ends and release us and the characters from our mutual contractâ€”each of\n <em>\n  Nana\n </em>\n â€™s chapters is a set piece. The chapters pass in succession, like so many acts of a tragedy: the theater, the dinner, the country house, the horse race. The chapters immediately call up a visual analogy: They are wide-screen affairs, like movies shot in Cinerama or like the panoramic photographs Zola himself took around 1900. Although in truth there are plenty of closeups and flurries of montaged action, we are given the illusion that the camera, as it were, takes in the whole scene, all at once and unmovingly, while characters pass across its unblinking aperture. Zola excels at directing his charactersâ€™ points of view, listening to them talk while they take in the setting and the peripheral action surrounding them, and then following their gaze to some other characters some distance away. Upon being introduced by the commentary of the first set of characters, these become in their turn the focus of the authorâ€™s attention for a while before passing the baton to yet more people in some other corner of the setting. This provides for a powerful spatial illusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zolaâ€™s method appears to all but eliminate the omniscient narratorâ€”he is present at all times, of course, but Zola is so clever at inserting exposition into casual dialogue that it feels as though we are witnessing eeverything for ourselves without mediation. The direct authorial commentary, meanwhile, discreetly dissolves into the scene setting, since almost all of it is parenthetical, the most significant observations being either delivered by the characters in the course of apparently banal chitchat or else built into the fabric of the plot. The final chapter, for example, tells us everything we need to know about Zolaâ€™s attitude toward the Franco-Prussian War, but it does so incidentally, in hubbub rising up from the street while our attention is focused on Nanaâ€™s plight as she lies in bed in her hotel room. Like a great documentary painter (anyone from Bruegel to Courbet to Seurat) or filmmaker (perhaps Jean Renoir, who was the son of the Impressionist painter Auguste, an acquaintance of Zolaâ€™s, and who made a spectacular silent adaptation of\n <em>\n  Nana\n </em>\n in 1926), Zola unfolds for his audience the entire social fabric of his setting, in lavish detail, and conveys exactly what he thinks about it all while pretending to be no more than passively subjected to it, as if it were weather, and keeping his eye on a few central figures, as if their actions were not crucially interwoven with and wholly dependent upon their background.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story of\n <em>\n  Nana\n </em>\n is simplicity itselfâ€”thanks largely to the movies, it has become a thumping clichÃ© in the intervening century and a quarter, although it wasnâ€™t yet one at the time. It is, classically, the story of the poor girl who uses her body to advance through society, nearly to the very top, before being finally betrayed by her fate, or her genes, or her hubris, or her lack of education, so that she falls back down, metaphorically or otherwise, to the muck of her origins. Meanwhile men of all shapes, sizes, ages, and stations have become besotted with her, all of them at some cost, whether to their money or their marriages or their dignity or their lives. Besides the obvious titillation factor, the story is so potent and durable because, like all the most mythopoetic stories (consider\n <em>\n  Don Quixote\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Moby-Dick\n </em>\n , for instance), its plot and its central metaphor are one and the same. Nana herself is a perfectly rounded, three-dimensional character, whose strength and generosity are as apparent by the end as her vanity and cruelty and selfishness, but she is also a metaphorical linchpin, the embodiment of the vapid decadence and dull hypocrisy of the Second Empire, whose fall she enacts in boudoir scale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10313'),
(6766, 'The Nanny Diaries', 'Emma McLaughlin;Nicola Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy.  Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic.  Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler.  Must love geting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family.  Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay.  Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employer''s Hermes bag.  Those who take it personally need not apply.\n </blockquote>\n <p class="description">\n  Who wouldn''t want this job?  Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family.  She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved to ensure that a Park Avenue wife, who doesn''t work, cook, clean, or raise her own child, has a smooth day.When the X''s marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny ends up involved way beyond the bounds of human decency or good taste.  Her tenure with the X family becomes a nearly impossible mission to maintain the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and, most important, her sense of humor.  Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9287'),
(6767, 'Nanny McPhee and the big bang', 'Emma Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nanny McPhee embarks on a brand new adventure in this brilliant, funny and captivating novel based on the new Nanny McPhee film.The Green family is trying to survive the war in their house in the country, but unfortunately they are not out of harm''s way. A wicked uncle is intent on getting his hands on the family fortune and the children miss their father who is away fighting who knows where, and then their horrible cousins arrive! Life is not easy in the Green household . . .Thank heavens for Nanny McPhee!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(6768, 'The Nanny Murders', 'Merry Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ********SHE NEVER REALIZED JUST HOW PERFECTâ€¦**Single parenthood is challenging enough for Zoe Hayes, raising a young daughter in Queen Village, a Philadelphia suburb whose homes--like its residents--have seen better days. Then comes the blustery afternoon when little Molly makes a shocking discovery while playing outdoors: a dismembered finger. **HER IMPERFECT LIFE REALLY WASâ€¦**What Zoe longs to believe is a gruesome fluke quickly takes on unsettling significance. One by one, young nannies are vanishing from the neighborhood, falling victim to a shadowy killer. Uneasily drawn into the chilling case--and an unexpected relationship--by enigmatic Detective Nick Stiles, Zoe assumes she and Molly are safe. But then terror strikes close to home. **UNTIL SHE FOUND IT IN JEOPARDYâ€¦ **Now, Zoe must accept that nobody in Queen Village is protected. A bloodthirsty predator lurks nearby, perhaps concealed behind a passing stranger''s friendly smile, a longtime neighbor''s front door--or, as Zoe fears most, perhaps even nearer than that...**"Absolutely fantastic."****--*****Midwest****** Book Review*************"A page-turning successâ€¦hard to put down."****--*****Dallas****** Morning News***** **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2319'),
(6769, 'Napalm &amp; Silly Putty', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller __ with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it''s just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don''t have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he''s a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it''s a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying ''Raw sewage''? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes, Carlin''s got a point.\n</p>\n<p>\n He can do an extended bit too, most memorably the transcript of Jesus on a talk show plugging his new tell-all memoir about the Trinity,\n <em>\n  Three''s a Crowd\n </em>\n . Carlin is funny, but genuinely angry and poignant at times: "You live 80 years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic," he says. Sad, but about right.\n</p>\n<p>\n And how did Carlin get into his line of business, "thinking up goofy s---," as he puts it? There''s a clue in one entry in this book: "As of 1995 the number of people who had lived on earth was 105,472,380,169 ... it means that at this point there have been almost 1 quadrillion human bowel movements and most of them occurred before people had anything to read. These are the kind of thoughts that kept me from moving quickly up the corporate ladder."\n</p>\n<p>\n Thank god Carlin stayed low on the corporate food chain and high on his own utterly idiosyncratic ideas!\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Politically incorrect comic and Grammy winner Carlin has shown no signs of burnout during a four-decade career arc as solo stand-up, TV writer and sitcom actor (That Girl; The George Carlin Show), with 18 hit recordings and 10 solo HBO specials, plus film roles (Dogma; The Prince of Tides). Living in L.A. and Vegas, he continues to take his act to stages across the country. Four years ago, Carlin''s huge fan following kept his Brain Droppings on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks, so it''s no surprise he''s back for another round of acrid and oblique observations on modern mores. He covers a wide range of issues from rape and religion to the homeless: "There''s no war on homelessness... it''s because there''s no money in it." And any topic is fair game: abortion, airport security, cars, funerals, language, organ donors, sports, technology, TV and war. On the latter, he says, "Men, insecure about the size of their penises, choose to kill one another." Over 100 scintillating short pieces are interrupted by loony lists and hundreds of clever one-liners. The fragmented format and colloquial style of writing suggest that much of this laugh-out-loud book is drawn directly from Carlin''s stage act. Several satires here ("A day in the life of Henry VIII," a nine-page interview with Jesus, an avant-garde play program) indicate a different direction Carlin might consider for future books. (May 1)Forecast: HighBridge''s abridged audiocassette and CD might lead some to peruse the book, which splashes in the wake of a massive Carlin retrospective ("From Class Clown to Social Critic") two months ago at the Museum of Television &amp; Radio (N.Y./L.A.). With a 10-city author tour and national publicity, sales could equal those of Brain Droppings (700,000 copies).\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9866'),
(6770, 'Napalm and Silly Putty', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller __ with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it''s just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don''t have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he''s a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it''s a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying ''Raw sewage''? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes, Carlin''s got a point.\n</p>\n<p>\n He can do an extended bit too, most memorably the transcript of Jesus on a talk show plugging his new tell-all memoir about the Trinity,\n <em>\n  Three''s a Crowd\n </em>\n . Carlin is funny, but genuinely angry and poignant at times: "You live 80 years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic," he says. Sad, but about right.\n</p>\n<p>\n And how did Carlin get into his line of business, "thinking up goofy s---," as he puts it? There''s a clue in one entry in this book: "As of 1995 the number of people who had lived on earth was 105,472,380,169 ... it means that at this point there have been almost 1 quadrillion human bowel movements and most of them occurred before people had anything to read. These are the kind of thoughts that kept me from moving quickly up the corporate ladder."\n</p>\n<p>\n Thank god Carlin stayed low on the corporate food chain and high on his own utterly idiosyncratic ideas!\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Politically incorrect comic and Grammy winner Carlin has shown no signs of burnout during a four-decade career arc as solo stand-up, TV writer and sitcom actor (That Girl; The George Carlin Show), with 18 hit recordings and 10 solo HBO specials, plus film roles (Dogma; The Prince of Tides). Living in L.A. and Vegas, he continues to take his act to stages across the country. Four years ago, Carlin''s huge fan following kept his Brain Droppings on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks, so it''s no surprise he''s back for another round of acrid and oblique observations on modern mores. He covers a wide range of issues from rape and religion to the homeless: "There''s no war on homelessness... it''s because there''s no money in it." And any topic is fair game: abortion, airport security, cars, funerals, language, organ donors, sports, technology, TV and war. On the latter, he says, "Men, insecure about the size of their penises, choose to kill one another." Over 100 scintillating short pieces are interrupted by loony lists and hundreds of clever one-liners. The fragmented format and colloquial style of writing suggest that much of this laugh-out-loud book is drawn directly from Carlin''s stage act. Several satires here ("A day in the life of Henry VIII," a nine-page interview with Jesus, an avant-garde play program) indicate a different direction Carlin might consider for future books. (May 1)Forecast: HighBridge''s abridged audiocassette and CD might lead some to peruse the book, which splashes in the wake of a massive Carlin retrospective ("From Class Clown to Social Critic") two months ago at the Museum of Television &amp; Radio (N.Y./L.A.). With a 10-city author tour and national publicity, sales could equal those of Brain Droppings (700,000 copies).\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6408'),
(6771, 'Narcissus in chains', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I''ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination - and fewer inhibitions about using it." (Diana Gabaldon) Six months of celibacy have made Anita crave the two men in her life like never before. But merging their powers together will give this mortal woman a taste of immortal hunger that she''ll never be able to forget...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2795'),
(6772, 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth', 'Sojourner Truth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The subject of this biography- SOJOURNER TRUTH- as she now calls herself-but whose name originally was Isabella-was born- as near as she can now calculate between the years 1797 and 1800.'' (Excerpt)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3911'),
(6773, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave', 'Frederick Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass'' life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. The following will give a brief summary of his text. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Author** Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) Frederick Douglass (February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African American history and a formidable public presence. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Publisher** Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. http://www.forgottenbooks.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(6774, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call shes dreaded for years. The Poet has returned. Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the Poetand apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call too, from an old friend whose husband has recently died. The death appeared natural, but this mans ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep. What he finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered. So begins the most deeply compelling, frightening, and masterful novel Michael Connelly has ever written, placing Harry Bosch squarely in the path of the most ruthless and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles history. SUMMARY: FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call shes dreaded for years. The Poet has returned. Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the Poetand apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call too, from an old friend whose husband has recently died. The death appeared natural, but this mans ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep. What he finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered. So begins the most deeply compelling, frightening, and masterful novel Michael Connelly has ever written, placing Harry Bosch squarely in the path of the most ruthless and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9324'),
(6775, 'Natasha&#39;s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia', 'Orlando Figes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world''s most vibrant civilizationsA People''s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha''s Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes''s characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera''s first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner''s wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy''s War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state. Orlando Figes is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, and A People''s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which received the Wolfson Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other distinctions. A regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, and The London Review of Books, Figes is professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London. He lives in Cambridge, England, with his wife and two daughters. A New York Times Notable BookShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeOrlando Figes''s A People''s Tragedy, Eric Hobsbawm wrote, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha''s Dance, he does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburgâ€”a "window on the West"â€”and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself: its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. What did it mean to be Russianâ€”an illiterate serf or an imperial courtier? Figes interweaves the great works, by Dostoevsky and Chekhov, Stravinsky and Chagall, with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. His characters range high and low: Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God; the serf girl Praskovya, who became the Russian opera''s first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner''s wife; Stravinsky, who returned to Russia after fifty years in the West and discovered that the homeland he had left had never left his heart. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianess" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictoryâ€”a powerful force that unified a vast, riven country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state. â€œAbsolutely brimming with ideas, full of unforgettable stories and characters, Natasha''s Dance tells a most remarkable story: How a backward country, obsessed with its backwardness, managed in a single century to produce the most passionate, innovative, searching art and literature of any Western society, in the process transforming Western culture as a whole. In the telling, Orlando Figes displays his gift for narrative power, his love of telling detail, and his great compassion for the lunatics and geniuses who fill his pages. Extraordinary.â€â€”Michael Ignatieff "Masterly."â€”John Bayley, The New York Review of Books"Absolutely brimming with ideas, full of unforgettable stories and characters, Natasha''s Dance tells a most remarkable story: How a backward country, obsessed with its backwardness, managed in a single century to produce the most passionate, innovative, searching art and literature of any Western society, in the process transforming Western culture as a whole. In the telling, Orlando Figes displays his gift for narrative power, his love of telling detail, and his great compassion for the lunatics and geniuses who fill his pages. Extraordinary."â€”Michael Ignatieff"Stunning and ambitious . . . Its thematic chapters examine such subjects as art, customs, folklore, religion, cuisine, education, andâ€”most importantâ€”the works of novelists, poets, composers, historians, philosophers, and choreographers. Figes captures nothing less than Russians'' complex and protean notions regarding their national identity, and their tortured and not infrequently violent efforts to define and determine it."â€”The Atlantic Monthly"An immensely learned, ambitious effort to view Russian history through the lens of its arts, music, and literature . . . A superb, enlightening work."â€”Kirkus Reviews"Figes'' new work goes far more deeply and profoundly into that aggregation of feelings, attitudes, and hopes than any political or social approach could. A revealing and stimulating effort."â€”Robert Conquest, author of The Harvest of Sorrow and The Great Terror"A most welcome sequel to Figes''s much-praised history of the Russian Revolution . . . Figes succeeds in describing the extraordinary scope and power of Russian cultureâ€”and in outlining its great themes and issuesâ€”in a way that gives the reader a far better understanding of Russia than any history focusing solely on the progress of autocrats, wars and conquests . . . One welcome feature is that it draws much of its material directly from original Russian sources, giving a firsthand taste of the richness and variety of Russian art that scholarly works often exclude . . . Natasha''s Dance covers enormous ground, ranging across the impact of the Mongol occupation, the influence of Russian Orthodoxy, the ravages of Stalinism and its attempt to harness art to its ideological agenda through the doctrine of Socialist Realism and the Russians in exile."â€”Serge Schmemann, The New York Times Book Review"A tour de force by the great scholarly storyteller of modern Russian historians . . . Just as all things Russian require the hyperbolic superlative, so do Figesâ€™ Russian histories: he has done it again. Written beautifully, with striking wit, joie de vivre and learning worn lightly, magnificently and broadly researched, with brilliant but simple analysis, this superb, flamboyant, and masterful tour dâ€™horizon is fun, anecdotal, and fascinating, colorful and playful."â€”Simon Seba-Montefiore, Financial Times"Figesâ€™ description of the evolution of the Russian national identity is so successful and so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much about it, for fear of spoiling the pleasures and surprises of the book for its potential audience . . . The themes are in some sense obvious: the national obsession with the â€˜Russian soul''; the split between the Europeanised culture of the aristocrats and the native culture of the peasants; the influence (and the reaction against) the Westâ€”yet Figes has written about them in fresh and unusual ways."â€”Anne Applebaum, The Sunday Telegraph"Magnificent . . . This book examines the tangled roots of nationhood and culture . . . A joy to read."â€”Robert Service, The Guardian"Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it''s impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes relates about Russia''s artists, writers, musicians, intellectuals and courtiers as he traces the cultural movements of the last three centuries. He shares Ilya Repin''s recollection of how peasants reacted to his friend Leo Tolstoy''s fumbling attempts to join them in manual labor (''Never in my life have I seen a clearer expression of irony on a simple peasant''s face'') . . . Full of resounding moments like these, Figes''s book focuses on the ideas that have preoccupied Russian artists in the modern era: Just what is ''Russianness,'' and does the quality come from its peasants or its nobility, from Europe or from Asia? He examines canonical works of art and literature as well as the lives of their creators: Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Chagall, Stanislavsky, Eisenstein and many others. Figes also shows how the fine arts have been influenced by the Orthodox liturgy, peasant songs and crafts, and myriad social and economic factors from Russian noblemen''s unusual attachments to their peasant nannies to the 19th-century growth of vodka production. The book''s thematically organized chapters are devoted to subjects like the cultural influence of Moscow or the legacy of the Mongol invasion, and with each chapter Figes moves toward the 1917 revolution and the Soviet era, deftly integrating strands of political and social history into his narrative. This is a treat for Russophiles and a unique introduction to Russian history."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6380'),
(6776, 'Nathan&#39;s Child', 'Anne McAllister', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **He''s back to claim his child...and his bride!** When Nathan Wolfe discovers that he''s a father, he decides that marriage is the only way to mend the past. Carin Campbell had good reasons for keeping Nathan''s child a secret. But now he''s demanding that they marry. Carin knows he''s proposed out of duty, not love. Besides, he isn''t the type to settle down. That was then, Nathan says. Now he''s determined to prove her wrong....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(6777, 'Native son', 'Richard Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With an introduction by Arnold Rampersad "The Library of America has insured that most of Wright''s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read." --Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright''s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. "This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what it means to live in a multi-racial society in which power splits among racial lines." --Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3845'),
(6778, 'The Native Star', 'M. K. Hobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell, this brilliant first novel fuses history, fantasy, and romance. Prepare to be enchanted by M. K. Hobson''s captivating take on the Wild, Wild West. The year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics. Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily only makes things worse. But before she can undo the damage, an enchanted artifact falls into her possession--and suddenly Emily must flee for her life, pursued by evil warlocks who want the object for themselves. Dreadnought Stanton, a warlock from New York City whose personality is as pompous and abrasive as his name, has been exiled to Lost Pine for mysterious reasons. Now he finds himself involuntarily allied with Emily in a race against time--and across the United States by horse, train, and biomechanical flying machine--in quest of the great Professor Mirabilis, who alone can unlock the secret of the coveted artifact. But along the way, Emily and Stanton will be forced to contend with the most powerful and unpredictable magic of all--the magic of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8374'),
(6779, 'Natural Born Charmer', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest installment in Phillips''s romance series starring the Chicago Stars football players (_This Heart of Mine_;\n <em>\n  Nobody''s Baby but Mine\n </em>\n ), the bestselling novelist delivers a love story wrought with delicious sexual tension and charged banter. When debonair starting quarterback Dean Robillard, on a soul-searching road trip after a serious shoulder injury, happens across Blue Bailey, walking alongside the road wearing a beaver costume, he stops to help her. Blue is far from a Barbie-esque football groupie, but broke and stranded, she needs both a ride and a job, and the football all-star (driving a sexy Aston Martin) poses an interesting opportunity. As the two travel from Colorado to Dean''s new farmhouse in east Tennessee, Blue resists his advances, and both athlete and vagabond struggle with deeply rooted trust and familial issues that are soon exacerbated by the unexpected presence of Dean''s mother at the farm. While the verbal sparring in this textbook case of opposites attracting feels stagy at first, the rough edges come together in an alluring way.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After her ex-boyfriend Monty insists that she is the only person he ever loved, Blue Bailey packs up everything she has (which isn''t much) and moves from Seattle to Colorado to be with him. But once Blue arrives, she discovers Monty has found love again with a younger, blonder new girlfriend. With few job options and practically no money, Blue thought she might be stuck in Colorado for a long time, until Dean Robillard drives through on his way to Tennessee. The last person Blue wants to ask for a favor is a way-too-gorgeous-for-his-own-good stranger who annoys her to no end. And who turns out to be the quarterback for the Chicago Stars. But Dean is Blue''s only ticket out, even if it means she is stuck with him all the way to Tennessee. RITA Award-winner Phillips creates yet another classic romance in her loosely connected Chicago Stars series with this splendidly satisfying tale of love, family, and redemption. Generously seasoned with plenty of tart humor and snappy dialogue, and graced with a delightfully amusing pair of protagonists trying desperately not to fall in love,\n <em>\n  Natural\n </em>\n <em>\n  Born\n </em>\n <em>\n  Charmer\n </em>\n is simply irresistible.\n <em>\n  John Charles\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4630'),
(6780, 'Naturally Naughty', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just when I thought it couldnâ€™t possibly get any hotter, Leslie Kelly turned up the thermostat!" 4 1/2 Plugs --\n  <em>\n   The Romance Readers Connection, November 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  4 1/2--TOP PICK! NATURALLY NAUGHTY...explores soulmates you''ll dream about; open honest sex; and a hero to die for. --\n  <em>\n   RT Bookclub, November, 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  She''s looking for satisfaction...any way she can get it!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kate Jones: This sexy, successful businesswoman has getting even on her mind--and a target in her sights...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jack Winfield: He has a dysfunctional family, a demanding career...and a bad case of the hots for the gorgeous new stranger in town....\n </p>\n <p>\n  This place isn''t big enough for both of them. Kate Jones, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, is home--and she''s got an agenda. To get revenge on the man who humiliated her mother, Kate''s going to seduce that man''s son, the town''s golden boy, John Winfield, Jr.--and then leave him drooling in a puddle of lust. Only, little does she guess when she finds herself seduced by a sexy stranger named Jack that the tables have just been turned...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bare Essentials--Revenge has never been this good!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7771'),
(6781, 'The Naughtiest Girl in the School', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elizabeth Allen is spoilt and selfish. When''s she''s sent away to boarding school she makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there''s ever been! But Elizabeth soon finds out that being bad isn''t as simple as it seems ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/703'),
(6782, 'Naughty Neighbor', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Louisa Brannigan''s neighbor is a handsome hell-raiserâ€”and he''s driving Louisa crazy. He makes terrible coffee, steals her newspaper, and listens through her walls. But when she''s fired from her government job, Louisa is persuaded to join his undercover investigation. Sneaking around in the shadows is more fun than she ever imagined, especially when the getaway car is a Porsche. Pete Streeter never figured on finding such an attractive partner in crime. Louisa is all he ever wanted in a woman, and more. But once he''s taught her to enjoy living on the edge, will she finally feel safe in his love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2143'),
(6783, 'Nausea', 'Jean-Paul Sartre; Lloyd Alexander; Richard Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is the most enjoyable book Sartre has ever written. (_The New Yorker_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n The best-written and most interesting of Sartre''s novels. (_Atlantic Monthly_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Nausea\n </em>\n Sartre has succeeded magnificentlyâ€”and horriblyâ€”in extending the realm of the novel to the outermost reaches of naked self-examination. (_The New York Post_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The classic Existentialist novel, with a new introduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre''s work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel,\n <em>\n  La NausÃ©e\n </em>\n (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nausea\n </em>\n is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our timeâ€”the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin''s efforts to come to terms with life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10515'),
(6784, 'The Nautical Chart', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte''s new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailor happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the Dei Gloria. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it''s no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he''s sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who''ve been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but The Nautical Chart manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(6785, 'Navarro&#39;s Promise', 'Lora Leigh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bold new novel of the Breeds from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Leigh. The Breed have guaranteed Micah no harm will come to her, but they haven''t allowed for her sensual fascination with Navarro, or his unstoppable need to claim her as his mate, in both body and soul. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5826'),
(6786, 'Navigator', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Navigator (The third book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter In 1492, as men of vision, weary of the strife of war, are drawn to the unknown West, an explorer seeks the funding for his voyagewhile a mysterious Weaver plots to unravel the strands of time and stop him. As William the Conqueror''s men attempt to stamp out the flames of rebellion, a prophecy is uttered. A bedraggled woman in a ruined chapel speaks of civilizations in conflict, armed by the engines of God... And that prophecy proves to be true as the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land. In Spain, a rogue priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage- while a mysterious Weaver plots to unravel the strands of time and stop him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11106'),
(6787, 'The navigator', 'Eoin McNamee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (The Navigator Trilogy, Book 1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Owen turned to Cat but she was staring into the woods, her face a mast of fear. Far off, but moving closer, were two figures, both white, both faceless, seeming to glide between the trees. "The Harsh" whispered Cati."They''re here."*One day the world around Owen shifts oddly: Time flows backwards, and the world and family he knew disappear. Time can only be set right when the Resisters vanquish their ancient enemies, the Harsh. Unless they are stopped, everything Owen knows will vanish as if it has never been...And Owen discovers he has a terrifying role to play in this battle: he is the Navigator.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(6788, 'The navigator: a novel from the NUMA files', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the *Navigator* was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave. What''s so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top secret scientific project that could change the world forever. And that''s before the surprises really begin . . . Rich with all the hair-raising action and endless invention that have become Cussler''s hallmarks, *The Navigator* is Clive''s best yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(6789, 'Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 01: The Years of Persecution', 'Saul Friedlander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8994'),
(6790, 'Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2: The Years of Extermination', 'Saul Friedlander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8993');
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(6791, 'Nebula Awards Showcase 2010', 'Bill Fawcett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The year''s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. ** An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re-define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The *Nebula Awards Showcase* represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year''s compilation includes stories by: â€¢Ursula K. LeGuin â€¢Catherine Asaro â€¢John Kessel â€¢Nina Kiriki Hoffman â€¢Harry Harrison, this year''s Grandmaster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1292'),
(6792, 'A Necessary Evil', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Someone is killing Catholic priests across America -- ritualized murders that speak of vengeance and hatred.** As the killing spree continues unabated, it quickly becomes very clear to Maggie O''Dell -- the FBI profiler assigned to the case -- that more than one perpetrator is responsible. As she begins to drill down into the facts, Maggie discovers a disturbing Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures -- including Catholic priests. With the first real lead in the investigation, Maggie wonders if this group has turned cyberspace justice into reality by dispensing their own brand of vengeance. As the ritualistic killings leave America''s heartland reeling, Maggie gets a second lead -- one that leaves her stunned. For the past four years she has been driven by blind determination to find Father Michael Keller, the human monster whose acts of brutality continue to haunt her to this day. Sick and twisted, the priest seems to have vanished without a trace. But with an irony that only life can offer, now *he* has become a target. When Keller offers to help Maggie solve the crimes in exchange for protection, she has no choice but to ally herself with the elusive child killer -- the person she despises with a conviction that''s almost religious in its fervor. Maggie must cross a dangerous line into a world of malevolence and evil from which she may not return unscathed. Maggie knows the bargain is a necessary evil . . . one that may be made in blood . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(6793, 'The Necromancer', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamel-The Necromancer San Francisco:After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they''ve seen and learned in the past week, they''re both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they''ll need to protect themselves from the Dark Elders, they''ve lost Scatty, and they''re still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone? Alcatraz:Dr. Dee underestimated Perenelle Flamel''s power. Alcatraz could not hold her, Nereus was no match for her, and she was able to align herself with the most unlikely of allies. But she wasn''t the only one being held on the island. Behind the prison''s bars and protective sigils were a menagerie of monsters-an army for Dee to use in the final battle. And now Machiavelli has come to Alcatraz to loose those monsters on San Francisco.Perenelle might be powerful, but each day she weakens, and even with Nicholas back at her side, a battle of this size could be too much for her. Nicholas and Perenelle must fight to protect the city, but the effort will probably kill them both. London:Having been unable to regain the two final pages of the Codex, Dee has failed his Elder and is now an outlaw-and the new prey of all the creatures formerly sent to hunt down Flamel.But Dee has a plan. With the Codex and the creatures on Alcatraz, he can control the world. All he needs is the help of the Archons. But for his plan to work, he must raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. For that, he''ll have to train a necromancer. And the twins of legend will make the perfect pupils. . . . The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamelâ€”The Necromancer San Francisco:After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they''ve seen and learned in the past week, they''re both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they''ll need to protect themselves from the Dark Elders, they''ve lost Scatty, and they''re still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone? Alcatraz:Dr. Dee underestimated Perenelle Flamel''s power. Alcatraz could not hold her, Nereus was no match for her, and she was able to align herself with the most unlikely of allies. But she wasn''t the only one being held on the island. Behind the prison''s bars and protective sigils were a menagerie of monstersâ€”an army for Dee to use in the final battle. And now Machiavelli has come to Alcatraz to loose those monsters on San Francisco.Perenelle might be powerful, but each day she weakens, and even with Nicholas back at her side, a battle of this size could be too much for her. Nicholas and Perenelle must fight to protect the city, but the effort will probably kill them both. London:Having been unable to regain the two final pages of the Codex, Dee has failed his Elder and is now an outlawâ€”and the new prey of all the creatures formerly sent to hunt down Flamel.But Dee has a plan. With the Codex and the creatures on Alcatraz, he can control the world. All he needs is the help of the Archons. But for his plan to work, he must raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. For that, he''ll have to train a necromancer. And the twins of legend will make the perfect pupils. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2961'),
(6794, 'Necropolis Rising', 'Dave Jeffery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It took thirty minutes for the city to die. But their hunger would last forever. The military has sealed the city. No one is getting in. No one is getting out. But a team of cyber-criminals have a job to do. A job that will see them receiving a huge payout if they succeed. Or a bullet if they don''t. Once inside the city Kevin O''Connell and his team find that staying alive proves to be just as difficult as staying dead ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8105'),
(6795, 'Necroscope', 'Brian Lumley[1]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9792'),
(6796, 'Necroscope II Vamphyri!', 'Brian Lumley[1]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9791'),
(6797, 'Necroscope III The Source', 'Brian Lumley[1]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9793'),
(6798, 'Necroscope IV: Deadspeak', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The silence of the grave is not silent at all. In their millions, the dead are screaming...but no one can hear them! Atop a perilous cliff, deep in the Balkan mountains, rises the castle of the Ferenczy. Once it was a stronghold of the Vamphyri...and now it will be so again, for Janos Ferenczy, vampire and black magician, has risen from his ages-long sleep. Powerful and evil, Janos conjures dead men and women into a semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish tortures. But the shrieks of the dead do not satisfy Janos''s lust for blood--for that he needs living humans. His terrifying armies of the risen dead will soon overwhelm a helpless, defenseless mankind... Helpless and defenseless because a terrible battle against the vampires has destroyed Harry Keogh''s deadspeak, leaving the Necroscope deaf to the teeming dead...and to their warnings of Janos''s reign of terror. To save the world, Harry must join forces and link minds with the most powerful, and deadliest, vampire of all!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9794'),
(6799, 'Needful Things', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Leland Gaunt is a stranger in Castle Rock--and he calls his new shop Needful Things, where there is something for everyone. Mr. Gaunt takes pleasure in seeing how much people will pay for their most secret dreams and desires, and he knows that almost everything is for sale: love, hope, even the human soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4263'),
(6800, 'Needles of stone', 'Tom Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This book takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Using his skills as a dowser, the author explores the realm of Earth mysteries -- megaliths, ley-lines, barrows, beacon hills, and other ancient features -- and puts forward some startling, but nonetheless highly plausible ideas. He reveals a view of our world that links past and present, a world that hints at a magical technology linking people and place; a world whose energies could perhaps have been harnessed in the past to improve the quality of life. It is also a plea for us to rediscover the profound connection with place that our ancestors knew, and to begin to heal a relationship with land that has been badly ravaged by the values and assumptions of the modem world. "Needles of Stone" has long and rightly been considered a classic. With the addition of new chapters, this 30th Anniversary edition allows the author to bring the work up-to-date and gives him an opportunity to reflect on what has happened since the book was first written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3335'),
(6801, 'Nefertiti', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This fictionalized life of the notorious queen is told from the point of view of her younger sister, Mutnodjmet. In 1351 B.C., Prince Amunhotep secretly kills his older brother and becomes next in line to Egypt''s throne: he''s 17, and the 15-year-old Nefertiti soon becomes his chief wife. He already has a wife, but Kiya''s blood is not as royal, nor is she as bewitching as Nefertiti. As Mutnodjmet, two years younger than her sister, looks on (and falls in love), Amunhotep and the equally ambitious Nefertiti worship a different main god, displace the priests who control Egypt''s wealth and begin building a city that boasts the royal likenesses chiseled in stone. Things get tense when Kiya has sons and the popular Nefertiti has only daughters, and they come to a boil when the army is used to build temples to the pharaoh and his queen instead of protecting Egypt''s borders. Though sometimes big events are telegraphed, Moran, who lives in California and is making her U.S. debut, gets the details just right, and there are still plenty of surprises in an epic that brings an ancient world to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3002'),
(6802, 'Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After 20 years as a London-based reporter, American journalist Bryson ( The Mother Tongue ) set out to retrace a youthful European backpacking trip, from arctic Norway''s northern lights to romantic Capri and the "collective delirium" of Istanbul. Descriptions of historic and artistic sights in the Continent''s capitals are cursory; Bryson prefers lesser-known locales, whose peculiar flavor he skillfully conveys in anecdotes that don''t scant the seamy side and often portray eccentric characters encountered during untoward adventures of the road. He enlivens the narrative with keen, sometimes acerbic observations of national quirks like the timed light switches in French hallways, but tends to strive too hard for comic effects, some in dubious taste. He also joins other travelers in deploring the growing hordes of peddlers who overrun major tourist meccas.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Iowa, Bryson (A Walk in the Clouds) backpacked through Europe as a young man. While living in England some 20 years later, he revisited many of the same places, and here he jumps back and forth between old memories and new experiences. He begins with rather negative incidents and throughout spends a great deal of time on his woes, often due to hangovers, missed opportunities with young women, and difficulties with transportation and hotel personnel. Bryson is a rather talented, opinionated writer who obviously has spent a fair amount of time walking and traveling by bus and train in Europe. Since he is given to serious profanity at times and brushes upon topics such as sex with animals and prostitutes, this is definitely not family entertainment. His descriptive ability is considerable, and his commentary, while rambling, is generally interesting. His enunciation and inflection are good, but an affected British accent creeps in at times. It''s like a self-indulgent memoir of which few will care and some will be offended. Only libraries willing to risk patron indignation at his profanity, some of his topics, and his repeated generalizations about nations and their people should consider.ACarolyn Alexander, Brigadoon Lib., Salinas, CA\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6132'),
(6803, 'Nemesis', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The request sounds simple: solve a crime. Except there are no clues as to what happened, when it occurred, where it was committed, or for that matter, to whom. For Miss Jane Marple, it''s the most baffling-and final-case of her illustrious career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5183'),
(6804, 'Neonatal Formulary 4: Drugs in Pregnancy and the First Year of Life A Pharmacopoeia', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9314'),
(6805, 'Neptune&#39;s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal', 'James D. Hornfischer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hornfischerâ€™s third outstanding book on the U.S. Navyâ€™s surface forces in WWII will have a ready-made audience because its subject is the naval side of the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942. The campaign began when marines landed on that deservedly unfrequented island to halt the creation of a Japanese airbase that might threaten U.S. communications with Australia. The Japanese riposte inflicted a disaster on the U.S. Navy second only to Pearl Harbor, called the Battle of Savo Island. Over the next few months, the two navies went at each other hammer and tongs in what was probably the most intense naval campaign of the war. The Japanese had an ace up their sleeve in the Long Lance torpedo, the best in the world. The U.S. eventually counterbalanced the Japanese by learning (all too slowly) to use radar-directed gunfire to take back the night seas. The author offers balanced assessments of the leaders on both sides, but the real heroes are the American bluejackets, who too often paid with suffering and death for those leadersâ€™ slowness to learn. And as in his first two books, the authorâ€™s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance praise for\n  <em>\n   Neptuneâ€™s Inferno\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Boston Globe bestseller\n</p>\n<p>\n A main selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith the publication of\n <em>\n  Neptune''s Inferno\n </em>\n , a masterpiece of 20th century naval history, it''s time to declare James Hornfischer a national treasure, a member of the distinguished band of brothers--Stephen Ambrose, Shelby Foote, Ken Burns, Spielberg and Hanks--whose sacred mission has been vital to America''s journey, preserving the stories of our fathers and grandfathers for future generations, before those stories fade forever out of our consciousness into the shadows of time.â€\n <br />\n Bob Shacochis, National Book Award winner, author of\n <em>\n  The Immaculate Invasion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hornfischer has produced an account that is visceral, yet technical; sweeping, yet personal. Itâ€™s a terrific read, and an important new addition to the literature on this most important naval campaign in the Pacific."\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Parshall, co-author of _Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hornfischerâ€™s accounts of naval combat in the Pacific are simply the best in the business."\n <br />\n â€”Ian W. Toll, author of\n <em>\n  Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With this grand, sweeping, history-correcting book, James Hornfischer takes his place among the elite historians of the United States war in the Pacific during World War II. Like a Curtiss Helldiver,\n <em>\n  Neptuneâ€™s Inferno\n </em>\n catapults the reader high into the skies for a clear perspective on the vast oceanic conflict, then dives relentlessly to propel us right into the smoke and fire and human valor of the brutal inferno known as Guadalcanal. Along the way, and drawing on newly available papers, Hornfischer clears up lingering misconceptions about this battle, including the full extent of the U.S. Navyâ€™s role in victory. And in his character portraits of the brilliant, quirky top admirals and generals of the fractious Army-Navy command, Hornfischer offers a worthy counterpart to Doris Kearns Goodwinâ€™s\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n â€”Ron Powers, author of\n <em>\n  Mark Twain: A Life\n </em>\n and co-writer, _Flags of Our Fathers\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n "_Neptuneâ€™s Inferno_ is a superb portrait of the U.S. Navyâ€™s critical role in the Guadalcanal campaign, both the surface and aerial combat. Comprehensive with much that is new, yet immensely readable, it covers not only the admirals, but the junior officers and bluejackets as well. Highly recommended."\n <br />\n â€•John B. Lundstrom, author of _The First Team\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œAn epic workâ€¦In Neptune''s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific warâ€¦Compiling interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and previously unavailable documents, [he] skillfully re-creates the bravery displayed by sailors who opposed the Japanese in what could be called America''s finest hour of the Pacific campaign. The book is richly supported by meticulous source notes, a concise bibliography, rare photos and campaign mapsâ€¦With Neptune''s Inferno, Hornfischerâ€¦has earned his place among the hallowed ranks of military historians. [It] is a literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the most definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal. It deserves a place of honor on every military bookshelf.â€ â€“ San Antonio Express-News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmbitiousâ€¦entertainingâ€¦insightfulâ€¦judiciousâ€¦A vivid and engaging accountâ€¦of war at sea in 1942.â€ â€”Ronald Spector, The Wall Street Journal\n <br />\n â€œNeptuneâ€™s Inferno is well written, packed with scene-setting details and clearly the product of extensive research, including interviews with some of the battleâ€™s now-aged survivorsâ€¦ The authorâ€™s two previous WWII books, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, thrust him into the major leagues of American military history writers. Neptuneâ€™s Inferno is solid proof he deserves to be there.â€ â€“Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHornfischer (Ship of Ghosts) understands the human dynamics of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific warâ€¦[he] gives an empathetic but balanced accountâ€¦[reconstructing] the fighting in a masterful synthesis of technical analysis, operational narrative, and tales of courage.â€ â€“Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOutstandingâ€¦ The author offers balanced assessments of the leaders on both sides, but the real heroes are the American bluejackets, who too often paid with suffering and death for those leadersâ€™ slowness to learn. And as in his first two books, the authorâ€™s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans.â€ â€“Booklist (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis work''s major strengths are its careful organization, readable prose, and...well-reasoned conclusions. Depictions of battles and ships are enlivened with...apt comments from participants and relevant character sketches of the key figures.â€ â€“Proceedings Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeptuneâ€™s Inferno is an exceptional piece of military history. Hornfischer has broadened and deepened our understanding of the U.S. Navyâ€™s role in the Solomons campaign in this eminently readable account of the bloody naval battles of attrition in the fall of 1942 that doomed the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat and irrevocably shifted the strategic initiative in the Pacific War.â€ â€”Dr. Peter R. Mansoor, colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, The Ohio State University\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6229'),
(6806, 'Nerve', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10968'),
(6807, 'Nessun Dove', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2920'),
(6808, 'A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home', 'Henry Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her friendship with Audubon''s apprentice, and her search for home. Beneath the crackled and faded painting of a horse, underneath the worn and dusty floorboards of the dining room, lives Celeste, a mouse who spends her days weaving baskets, until one day she is thrust into the world above. Here Celeste encounters dangerâ€”and loveâ€”unlike any she''s ever imagined. She dodges a hungry cat and witnesses the brutality of hunting for the first time. She makes friends with a singing thrush named Cornelius, a talkative osprey named Lafayette, and Joseph, Audubon''s young apprentice. All the while, Celeste is looking for a new home. Is her home in the toe of a worn boot? Nestled in Joseph''s pocket? Or in the dollhouse in the attic, complete with mouse-size furniture perfect for Celeste? In the end, Celeste discovers that home is really the place deep inside her heart, where friendships live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(6809, 'Net Force', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just in time for the ABC television event! Here comes a first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--that knows more about cutting-edge technology than its teachers! The year is 2010, computers are superpowers. Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force. When the director of Net Force is assassinated, Deputy Director Alex Michaels is thrust into one of the most powerful and dangerous positions in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6469'),
(6810, 'Netherland', 'Joseph O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Joseph O''Neill\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Oâ€™Neill was born in Ireland and raised in Holland. He received a law degree from Cambridge University and worked as a barrister in London. He writes regularly for\n   <em>\n    The Atlantic Monthly\n   </em>\n   and is the author of two previous novels,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   Notable Book. O''Neill received the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his third novel,\n   <em>\n    Netherland\n   </em>\n   . He lives with his family in New York City.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  President Obama mentioned in a\n  <em>\n   New York Times Magazine\n  </em>\n  profile that heâ€™s reading\n  <em>\n   Netherland\n  </em>\n  . How do you feel about the President reading your book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph O''Neill:\n  </strong>\n  I''m very honored, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  How is the world of\n  <em>\n   Netherland\n  </em>\n  particular to the United States after 9/11?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph O''Neill:\n  </strong>\n  The story takes place in the aftermath of 9/11. One of the things it does is try to evoke the disorientation and darkness of that time, which we only emerged from with the election of President Obama.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What is the importance of the sport of cricket in this book? Do you play?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph O''Neill:\n  </strong>\n  I love sport and play cricket and golf myself. Sport is a wonderful way to bring together people who would otherwise have no connection to each other.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  One of your reviewers calls\n  <em>\n   Netherland\n  </em>\n  an answer to\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph O''Neill:\n  </strong>\n  Halfway through the book I realized with a slightly sinking feeling that the plot of\n  <em>\n   Netherland\n  </em>\n  was eerily reminiscent of the\n  <em>\n   Gatsby\n  </em>\n  plot: dreamer drowns, bystander remembers. But there are only about 5 plots in existence, so I didn''t let it bother me too much. Fitzgerald thankfully steered clear of cricket.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many reviewers have commented on the â€œvoiceâ€ of this novel. How it is more a novel of voice than of plot? Do you agree with this?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph O''Neill:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, I would agree with that comment. This is not a novel of eventful twists and turns. It is more like a long-form international cricket match (which can last for 5 days without a winner emerging), about nuance and ambiguity and small slippages of insight. And about language, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Lisa Acherman)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O''Neill''s dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing entrepreneur-gangster, that he never quite believed that people would sooner not have their understanding of the world blown up, even by Chuck Ramkissoon. The image of one''s understanding of the world being blown up is poignantâ€”this is Hans''s fate after 9/11. He and wife Rachel abandon their downtown loft, and, soon, Rachel leaves him behind at their temporary residence, the Chelsea Hotel, taking their son, Jake, back to London. Hans, an equities analyst, is at loose ends without Rachel, and in the two years he remains Rachel-less in New York City, he gets swept up by Chuck, a Trinidadian expatriate Hans meets at a cricket match. Chuck''s dream is to build a cricket stadium in Brooklyn; in the meantime, he operates as a factotum for a Russian gangster. The unlikely (and doomed from the novel''s outset) friendship rises and falls in tandem with Hans''s marriage, which falls and then, gradually, rises again. O''Neill (_This Is the Life_) offers an outsider''s view of New York bursting with wisdom, authenticity and a sobering jolt of realism.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8470'),
(6811, 'The Network', 'Jason Elliot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This intriguing first novel takes another look at the world of espionage in Afghanistan. A travel writer with firsthand knowledge of the area, Elliot effectively combines action and landscape in a thriller set prior to 9/11. Anthony Taverner, a recent recruit to MI6, the British Secret Service, is sent to Afghanistan to destroy several Stinger missiles before al-Qaeda can get its hands on them. With the help of a veteran and friend, Taverner undergoes extensive training to prepare himself for the deadly mission and the forbidding terrain. He quickly learns that the success of the mission will depend on cunning as well as conditioning: secrets abound in the spy world, and nothing is what it seems. The Afghan setting is vividly rendered, but the slow pace of the story will make it a hard sell for readers expecting something in the Vince Flynn or Brad Thor vein. For those wanting a realistic look behind the news, however, Elliot delivers the goods. --Jeff Ayers\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fast-paced and strikingly authentic'' Stella Rimington ''As sharp as Frederick Forsyth - as exotic as Wilbur Smith'' Jason Goodwin ''A terrific spy thriller'' Guardian ''The ideal thriller for the age of C.S.I'' New York Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7316'),
(6812, 'Neuromancer', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the most important and influential novels of our time.*Neuromancer* is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind''s digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.Now, for the first time, Ace Books is proud to present this groundbreaking literary achievement in a new trade paperback edition. Winner of science fiction''s ''Triple Crown''--the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Includes the special afterword Gibson wrote for the 10th anniversary hardcover edition published by Ace"A mind-bender of a read." --*The Village Voice*"Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications." --*New York Times*"Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy and decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance." --*Washington Post*"It made me want to live in its world." --*San Francisco Chronicle*"A revolutionary novel." --*Publishers Weekly*"Gibson is tapped straight into our collective cultural mainline and shows no sign of stopping." --*Spin*"Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation." --*Rolling Stone*"Epic in scale." --*Wall Street Journal*"The quintessence of cyberpunk." --*Washington Post Book World*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4176'),
(6813, 'Never Let Me Go', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the Booker Prize-winning author of **The Remains of the Day** and **When We Were Orphans**, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but itâ€™s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.**Never Let Me Go** breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2450'),
(6814, 'Never Look Away (2010)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9426'),
(6815, 'Never Sound Retreat', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race. But even though they are far from home, the members of the Union 35th Main regiment still embody the radical ideas of democracy and freedom--and they''re willing to lay down their lives rather than sound retreat! Ads in "Locus".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4832'),
(6816, 'Never Underestimate', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10474'),
(6817, 'The Neverending Story', 'MICHAEL ENDE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9486'),
(6818, 'Nevermore', 'Kelly Creagh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon''s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o''er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore! * -- from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is dueâ€”so unfairâ€”on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear heâ€™d rather not have anything to do with her either.Â But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she canâ€™t help but give this enigmatic boy with the piercing eyes another look. Soon, Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life. As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined, and that theÂ most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares. His life depends on it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2464'),
(6819, 'Neverwhere: A Novel', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won''t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals andabandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere. For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family''s slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door''s entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest. For the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard''s final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute. If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman''s NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2945'),
(6820, 'The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great', 'Eric C. Westman &amp; Stephen D. Phinney &amp; Dr. Jeff S. Volek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **THINK YOU KNOW THE ATKINS DIET? THINK AGAIN. THE NEW ATKINS IS...   POWERFUL** Learn how to eat the wholesome foods that will turn your body into an amazing fat-burning machine.   **EASY** The updated and simplified program was created with you and your goals in mind.   **HEALTHY** Atkins is about eating delicious and healthy food -- a variety of protein, leafy greens and other vegetables, nuts, fruits, and whole grains.   **FLEXIBLE** Perfect for busy lifestyles: you can stick with Atkins at work, at home, on vacation, when you''re eating out -- wherever you are.   **BACKED BY SCIENCE** More than 50 studies support the low-carb science behind Atkins.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Atkins is more than just a diet. This healthy lifestyle focuses on maintenance from Day 1, ensuring that you''ll not only take the weight off -- you''ll keep it off for good. Featuring inspiring success stories, all-new recipes, and 24 weeks'' worth of meal plans, *The New Atkins for a New You* offers the proven low-carb plan that has worked for millions, now totally updated and even easier than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5104'),
(6821, 'The New Book of Middle Eastern Food', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Claudia Roden has updated and expanded her popular 1968 cookbook for a more savvy and knowledgeable audience. While still filled with old favorites, the third edition acknowledges food processors and other handy kitchen tools, as well as this generation''s preference for lower-fat recipes. Not that every recipe is changed; many are not, but Roden does attempt not to rely too much on butter and oils.\n</p>\n<p>\n Begin your meal with\n <em>\n  mezze\n </em>\n , derived from the Arabic\n <em>\n  t''mazza\n </em>\n , meaning "to savor in little bites." Try\n <em>\n  Cevisli Biber\n </em>\n (Roasted Pepper and Walnut Paste) spread on warm pita bread. Serve with\n <em>\n  Salata Horiatiki\n </em>\n (Greek Country Salad) and then move on to a main dish of Roast Fish with Lemon and Honeyed Onions or Lamb Tagine with Artichokes and Fava Beans. The cookbook wouldn''t be complete without sections on rice, couscous, and bulgur--try\n <em>\n  Addis Polow\n </em>\n (Rice with Lentils and Dates) or\n <em>\n  Kesksou Bidaoui bel Khodra\n </em>\n (Beber Couscous with Seven Vegetables). Finish with a traditional dessert like\n <em>\n  Orass bi Loz\n </em>\n (Almond Balls).\n</p>\n<p>\n Mixed in with the recipes are Roden''s personal experiences as a cook and recipe archivist, and Middle Eastern tales that illustrate the history of a particular recipe or food group. "It was once believed olive oil could cure any illness except the one by which a person was fated to die," Roden writes. "People still believe in its beneficial qualities and sometimes drink it neat when they feel anemic of tired." She also includes a detailed introduction to the terrain, history, politics, and society of the Middle East so her readers can more fully understand why the cuisine has evolved the way it has. "Cooking in the Middle East is deeply traditional and nonintellectual," she says, "an inherited art." It''s our good fortune to inherit such a rich tradition.\n <em>\n  --Dana Van Nest\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Roden published The Book of Middle Eastern Food in 1972, the cuisines of Morocco, Turkey, Greece, Egypt and their neighbors were mysteries in this country. Today, their fresh flavors are better known, and much loved, and Roden has expanded and updated her classic to meet modern needs. The new version includes more than 800 recipes, as well as folk tales, tips, anecdotes and just about all the information anyone needs to reproduce foods from that part of the world. Miraculously, Roden manages to be this thorough while never sacrificing her personal toneDthis is a book that is both encyclopedic and intimate. Much of Middle Eastern food is light tasting and vegetable-based, and the recipes reflect these qualities without neglecting more complex and unusual preparations. A chapter on appetizers and salads includes a Moroccan Lettuce and Orange Salad, Tabbouleh, Lemony Chicken Jelly and even a Brain Salad. While Roden is no stickler for starting from scratch, she always provides plenty of options for those who wish to do so. In a section on yogurtDa key ingredient in many recipes, such as Tagliatelle with Yogurt and Fried Onions, and Chickpeas with Yogurt and Soaked BreadDshe gives both guidelines for buying yogurt and instructions for making your own. A sub-section on Persian sauces for rice is outstanding, as is another on stuffed eggplants. Desserts include Egyptian "Bread-and-Butter" Pudding and Arab Pancakes with various filings. Roden won a James Beard award for The Book of Jewish Food in 1997. She will certainly be in the running once more with this impressive work. 24 pages of color photos. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5668'),
(6822, 'The New Centurions', 'Joseph Wambaugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In A Class Of New Police Recruits, Augustus Plebesly Is Fast And Scared. Roy Fehler Is Full Of Ideals. And Serge Duran Is An Ex-Marine Running Away From His Chicano Childhood. In A Few Weeks, They''Ll Put On The Blue Uniform Of The Lapd. In The Months To Come, They''Ll Learn That Right And Wrong Aren''T Always Clearly Black And White. Bad Guys Populate Both Sides Of The Law. Rules Are Subject To Interpretation. Justice Is Slow And Convoluted. And Life Is Not Fair. But For These Men, These New Centurions, Time Is An Enemy. The Year Is 1960. The Streets Are Burning With Rage. And Before They Can Grow Old On This Job, They''Ll Have To Fight For Their Lives...  &amp;Nbsp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4919'),
(6823, 'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life&#39;s Purpose', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Building on the astonishing success of *The Power of Now*, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly areâ€”which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we areâ€”and learn to live and breathe freely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1358'),
(6824, 'New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestseller is available for the first time in a mass market paperback edition, featuring a striking movie tie-in cover. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy''s reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4336'),
(6825, 'New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4338'),
(6826, 'New Orleans Knockout', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intermob War! And Mack Bolan jumps right in the middle. On target in the center of the deadliest battle since the Mafia was destroyed in Boston. Now the Executioner hits New Orleans, and it will never be the same. The odds are long, but the time is right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/771');
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(6827, 'The New Portuguese Table: Exciting Flavors From Europe&#39;s Western Coast', 'David Leite &amp; Nuno Correia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This is the perfect cookbook for lovers of salt cod, and it just might be the perfect cookbook for those who dislike the mild, Atlantic fish. Leite, a three-time James Beardâ€“award winner and proprietor of the Web site LeitesCulinaria.com, offers a wealth of recipes for the brackish dried fish, including a traditional version of\n <em>\n  pastÃ©is de bacalhau\n </em>\n (salt cod fritters). But cod is but one of the amaazing dishes offered here. By highlighting the eclectic ingredients and modern techniques that define the country today, Leite brings the often-overlooked foods of Portugal center stage. This fully illustrated book begins with an extensive glossary of Portuguese staples, plus a port primer and an introduction to Madeira, and ends with a chapter devoted to workhorse sundries such as fiery piri-piri paste and smoked paprika oil. Along the way home cooks are introduced to a delectable jumble of dishes that range from classic to contemporary. A comforting adaptation of the fabled stone soup is enlivened with spicy\n <em>\n  chouriÃ§o\n </em>\n sausage; simple-yet-elegant duck breasts are sauced with white port and black olives; and a dip made with anchovies, green olives, cilantro, and whole milk is surprisingly harmonious. The desserts are comparatively docileâ€”molasses cookies, baked custard tartsâ€”but the recipe variation for\n <em>\n  fatias douradas\n </em>\n (Portuguese sweet bread French toast) is truly over-the-top.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A modern classic cookbook."\n <br />\n â€”BlackBook.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Three-time James Beard Award winner Leite has written a foodie love letter to a European nation. The culinary profile of the 13 historic provinces, along with a shopping guide to the Portuguese pantry, are great, but the real payoff is the 130-plus recipes that range from the veggie-richÂ caldo verdeÂ to such new classics as scrambled eggs with asparagus and fresh cod."\n <br />\n â€”Dana Dickey,\n <em>\n  Bon AppÃ©tit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Iberian gem.\n <em>\n  The New Portuguese Table\n </em>\n by David Leite, a prolific food journalist who founded the website LeitesCulinaria.com, is the best book on the subject of Portuguese cooking in years. Leite, whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Portugal, is captivated by the way cooks there have pointed their under appreciated cuisine in new directions. He dutifully catalogs Portugal''s iconic wines and traditional foods--we learn how to make clams and chouriÃ§o in a copper cataplana--but we also get decidedly new-school preparations like cheese-stuffed pork tenderloins and Filet-o-Fish-inspired salt cod sandwiches. Trad or mod, this is some winning home cooking."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Saveur_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Beautifully illustrated,Â _The New Portuguese Table_Â is a smart, delicious and highly personal travelogue through both memory and terrain."\n <br />\n â€”Maricel E. Presilla, MiamiHerald.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "In Leite''s\n <em>\n  The New Portuguese Table\n </em>\n , the author performs a multitude Â of feats: first, he provides [a] culinary travel guide to the country of his ancestors...introduces, with great Â specificity, a multitude of regional delicacies...and finallyÂ presents recipes Â ranging from the most remarkably parsimonious...to the more extravagant and modern.Â Leite''s book is a stunning passport to a food and a people virtually unknown to most Americans, even though they are only five hours away from our mainland."\n <br />\n â€”Elissa Altman, The Huffington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the perfect cookbook for lovers of salt cod, and it just might be the perfect cookbook for those who dislike the mild, Atlantic fish. Leite, a three-time James Beard award winner and proprietor of the Web site LeitesCulinaria.com, offers a wealth of recipes for the brackish dried fish, including a traditional version of pastÃ©is de bacalhau (salt cod fritters) and a newfangled mini salt cod sandwich that is the Portuguese equivalent of McDonald''s Filet-O-Fish. By highlighting the eclectic ingredients and modern techniques that define the country today, Leite brings the often-overlooked foods of Portugal center stage. This fully illustrated book begins with an extensive glossary of Portuguese staples, plus a port primer and an introduction to Madeira, and ends with a chapter devoted to workhorse sundries such as fiery piri-piri paste and smoked paprika oil. Along the way home cooks are introduced to a delectable jumble of dishes that range from classic to contemporary. A comforting adaptation of the fabled stone soup is enlivened with spicy chouriÃ§o sausage; simple-yet-elegant duck breasts are sauced with white port and black olives; and a dip made with anchovies, green olives, cilantro, and whole milk is surprisingly harmonious. The desserts are comparatively docileâ€“molasses cookies, baked custard tartsâ€“but the recipe variation for fatias douradas (Portuguese sweet bread French toast) is truly over-the-top.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly _(Starred Review)\n</p>\n<p>\n "If your finances don''t permit a trip abroad this year, perhaps this cookbook will provide some comfortâ€“though it might just reinforce your urge to hit the sunny beaches of the Algarve. Leite, a noted Portuguese American food writer and publisher of the James Beard Award-winning web site Leite''s Culinaria (www.leitesculinaria.com), begins by outlining Portugal''s diverse regional cuisines and then describes traditional ingredients. From there it is a straightforward listing of appetizers, soups, fish, meat, poultry, vegetable/egg/rice dishes, breads, sweets, liqueurs, and condiments, with approximately 150 recipes overall. Each recipe begins with a paragraph relating its background, which adds to the book''s homey feel. The recipes, many inspired by Leite''s memories of his grandmother''s cooking, are designed for the home cook and generally don''t require exotic ingredients, although a supplier for salt cod may be necessary. A list of sources is provided for the few hard-to-find items, and color photos add to the presentation. Full of delicious-sounding recipes, this title is sure to appeal to adventurous cooks wanting to try a new ethnic cuisine and will also be popular with Portuguese American communities."\n <br />\n â€”Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OH (_Library Review_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Leite''s\n <em>\n  The New Portuguese Table\n </em>\n is in fact three superb books in one volume: a thrilling travelogue, a thorough guide to Portuguese regional dishes and ingredients, and a transporting kitchen companion. The recipes in it will not only spirit you to an exotic, alluring place, they''ll change the way you cook. We''ll wager that after making Potato Skin Curls with Herbs, you will never look at potato peelings the same way again!"\n <br />\n â€”Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of\n <em>\n  The Lee Bros. Simple, Fresh, Southern\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "David Leite takes you right to the heart of the good stuff,Â scrupulouslyÂ (and appetizingly) exploring and explainingÂ an egregiously overlooked and unappreciated range of flavors and ingredients. Portugal once ruled the known world, and the recipes in this book areâ€“in many waysâ€“the history of the worldâ€“on your plate."\n <br />\n â€”Anthony Bourdain\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book begs the question why, in heaven''s name, have we ignoredÂ PortugalÂ for so long?Â David Leite''s Portuguese dishes practically stand up and salute with flavor. And he is smart about theÂ PortugalÂ he portrays.Â The temptation is to look only to the past and the traditional, but David knows cuisines are restless, ever shifting beings. He gifts us with the land of his family as it was and as it is now.Â We''ll be cooking from this book for a long time."\n <br />\n â€”Lynne Rosetto Kasper and Sally Swift, authors of _The Splendid Table''s How to Eat Supper\n</p>\n<p>\n _"I amÂ veryÂ impressed with\n <em>\n  The New Portuguese Table.\n </em>\n It is a welcoming, wonderful, satisfying, and passionate cookbook, an enticing viewÂ of PortugalÂ through the lens of its food.Â David Leite is a terrific writer and he has a lot to teach us about one of Europe''s most extraordinary and diverse cuisines. Bravo!"\n <br />\n Â â€”Paula Wolfert\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Long overlooked in our culinary literature, Portugal''sÂ rich, historic cuisine finally has a passionate and knowledgeable ambassadorÂ in David Leite. Keenly aware of what modern AmericanÂ cooks want these days, LeiteÂ has compiledÂ an incomparable collection in which every recipe isÂ as rewarding to eat as it is simple to make.Â Bravo David!"\n <br />\n Â â€”Anya von Bremzen, author of_ The New Spanish Table_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4916'),
(6828, 'The New Science of Intimate Relationships', 'Garth Fletcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With impeccable scholarship, sharp wit, and a beautiful writing style, Garth Fletcher showcases, explores, and debates some of the most important principles, ideas, and assumptions that define the new science of intimate relationships. Both experts and laypersons alike can glean important, new insights from each thought-provoking chapter. This wonderful book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multifaceted reasons for how and why sexual relationships are initiated, developed, maintained, and sometimes terminated across the lifespan."\n <em>\n  Jeffrey Simpson, Professor of Psychology at Texas A&amp;M University, and co-editor of Attachment Theory and Close Relationships and Evolutionary Social Psychology\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is an important, fascinating, and delightful book. Garth Fletcher offers the reader an up-to-date summary of the most interesting and important work on human sexual relationships, and he pulls these pieces together with a grand and profound understanding of how -- and why -- people carry on intimate relationships. The book is so beautifully written that one moves easily from chapter to chapter, learning something new on almost every page."\n <em>\n  Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, and author of The Social Dimension of Sex and Evil and Inside Human Violence and Cruelty\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this lively new book, Garth Fletcher has provided a much needed interdisciplinary integration of the diverse scientific fields that study intimate relationships. Researchers will find their work ably presented in a volume that is scholarly, fiercely intelligent, and even-handed. Students and lay readers will also enjoy the many insights and discoveries so engagingly presented in this fascinating book."\n <em>\n  Letitia Anne Peplau, Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and co-author of Social Psychology (10th. Edition) and co-editor of Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity: Current Research about Men and Women\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGarth Fletcher succeeds brilliantly at reaching just the right balance of rigorous scholarship and great storytelling... What I enjoyed most about this book was not only the fascinating tour of current research and theory, but also the sheer joy of science that underlies each chapter...a delightful and important book.â€\n <em>\n  Associate Professor Nancy Collins, University of California at Santa Barbara, ISSPR Bulletin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A superb book...engagingly written, insightful, richly detailed, and admirably comprehensive. It is a joy to read.\n <em>\n  Choice\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The New Science of Intimate Relationships_ is a bold attempt to cover the landscape in a way that will appeal to lay readers, students, and researchers alike. Overall, Fletcher does a good job walking the fine line among these audiences... all readers will gain insights into their intimate relationship minds."\n <em>\n  Mark R. Leary, Wake Forest University, The Human Nature Review, Volume 3, 2003\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With impeccable scholarship, sharp wit, and a beautiful writing style, Garth Fletcher showcases, explores, and debates some of the most important principles, ideas, and assumptions that define the new science of intimate relationships. Both experts and laypersons alike can glean important, new insights from each thought-provoking chapter. This wonderful book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multifaceted reasons for how and why sexual relationships are initiated, developed, maintained, and sometimes terminated across the lifespan."\n <em>\n  Jeffrey Simpson, Professor of Psychology at Texas A&amp;M University, and co-editor of Attachment Theory and Close Relationships and Evolutionary Social Psychology\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is an important, fascinating, and delightful book. Garth Fletcher offers the reader an up-to-date summary of the most interesting and important work on human sexual relationships, and he pulls these pieces together with a grand and profound understanding of how -- and why -- people carry on intimate relationships. The book is so beautifully written that one moves easily from chapter to chapter, learning something new on almost every page."\n <em>\n  Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, and author of The Social Dimension of Sex and Evil and Inside Human Violence and Cruelty\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this lively new book, Garth Fletcher has provided a much needed interdisciplinary integration of the diverse scientific fields that study intimate relationships. Researchers will find their work ably presented in a volume that is scholarly, fiercely intelligent, and even-handed. Students and lay readers will also enjoy the many insights and discoveries so engagingly presented in this fascinating book."\n <em>\n  Letitia Anne Peplau, Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and co-author of Social Psychology (10th. Edition) and co-editor of Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity: Current Research about Men and Women\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGarth Fletcher succeeds brilliantly at reaching just the right balance of rigorous scholarship and great storytelling... What I enjoyed most about this book was not only the fascinating tour of current research and theory, but also the sheer joy of science that underlies each chapter...a delightful and important book.â€\n <em>\n  Associate Professor Nancy Collins, University of California at Santa Barbara, ISSPR Bulletin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A superb book...engagingly written, insightful, richly detailed, and admirably comprehensive. It is a joy to read.\n <em>\n  Choice\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The New Science of Intimate Relationships_ is a bold attempt to cover the landscape in a way that will appeal to lay readers, students, and researchers alike. Overall, Fletcher does a good job walking the fine line among these audiences... all readers will gain insights into their intimate relationship minds."\n <em>\n  Mark R. Leary, Wake Forest University, The Human Nature Review, Volume 3, 2003\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10001'),
(6829, 'New Spring: The Novel', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: rom America''s premier fantasy writer-the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight-comes New Spring: The Novel. Robert Jordan''s Wheel of Time has captured the imagination of millions of readers who eagerly await each new volume of the saga. Now, Jordan gives us a glimpse of the events leading up to the first book of the Wheel of Time. New Spring: The Novel is a perfect introduction to the Wheel of Time. For three days, battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a young soldier fighting in the battle, are set on paths that will bind their lives together. But those paths are filled with complications and dangers, for Moiraine, of the Royal House of Cairhien, whose King has just died, and Lan, considered the uncrowned king of a nation long dead, find their lives threatened by the plots of those seeking power. ''New Spring,'' the novella first published in Legends, related some of these events, in compressed form. New Spring: The Novel tells the whole story. Robert Jordan is a graduate of The Citadel. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3813'),
(6830, 'New Tricks', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attorney Andy Carpenter is about to represent an adorable Bernese mountain dog puppy, whose owner was brutally murdered, in a custody fight. Few can rival Andy''s affection for dogs, and he''s determined to keep Waggy from falling into the wrong hands. But this playful pup possesses a valuable secret that some people will resort to violence to obtain. It will take more than Andy''s usual courtroom theatrics to save Waggy, including help from the lawyer''s golden retriever, Tara. Andy soon discovers that everyone around him is in danger, including his longtime girlfriend, Laurie--and only some high-risk new tricks will save those he cherishes most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/940'),
(6831, 'The New Weird', 'Ann VanderMeer &amp; Jeff Vandermeer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The VanderMeers (_Best American Fantasy_) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the New Weird fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of short fiction and critical essays. Highlights include strong fiction by authors such as M. John Harrison, Clive Barker, Kathe Koja and Michael Moorcock whose work pointed the way to such definitive New Weird tales as Jeffrey Ford''s At Reparata and K.J. Bishop''s The Art of Dying. Lingering somewhere between dark fantasy and supernatural horror, New Weird authors often seek to create unease rather than full-fledged terror. The subgenre''s roots in the British New Wave of the 1960s and the Victorian Decadents can lend a self-consciously literary and experimental aura, as illustrated by the laboratory, where more mainstream fantasy and horror authors, including Sarah Monette and Conrad Williams, try their hands at creating New Weird stories. This extremely ambitious anthology will define the New Weird much as Bruce Sterling''s landmark\n <em>\n  Mirrorshades\n </em>\n anthology defined cyberpunk.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of stories, essays, and online discussion threads refers to a subgenre of modern horror that has roots in New Wave literature and the off-kilter fantasy spawned by Weird Tales. In contrast to the eerie nostalgia of Bradbury or the haunting supernaturalism of Lovecraft, the New Weird more often leans toward grotesque urban noir and cross-genre experimentation. The contributors here constitute a multitalented lineup ranging from such veterans as Clive Barker and Michael Moorcock to rising stars, such as Jay Lake and Alistair Rennie. Kathe Kojeâ€™s â€œThe Neglected Gardenâ€ follows the transformation of a spurned lover who takes revenge by crucifying herself on her exâ€™s wire fence. China MiÃ©velle, whose celebrated Perdido Street Station (2000) epitomizes the subcategoryâ€™s visceral blend of fantasy and realism, contributes a gritty tale about the veneration and inevitable capture of an outlaw cyborg. In the anthologyâ€™s final section, an experimental collaboration between seven authors embellishing a plot hatched by Paul DiFillipo exemplifies the New Weirdâ€™s propensity for pushing the boundaries of literary invention. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7137'),
(6832, 'The New World', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New World is a prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy, setting the stage for the world we discover in The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men. The story was written while the author served as writer in residence for the Booktrust an independent UK-wide charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to enjoy books. The New World tells of Violaâ€™s journey to the New World, brilliantly capturing the hope and fear of settlers in search of a new life. Patrick Ness told Amazon exclusively that he wrote it â€œas a huge and deeply-felt thank you to readers. Iâ€™ve had so many questions about Viola and what her life was like before that I couldnâ€™t resist the opportunity to reveal just a little bit extra. I knew these things â€“ theyâ€™re vitally important to her as a character, even if theyâ€™re not directly in the novels â€“ so it felt like a secret trip I could take readers on. The challenge was to make it work on its own, too, so anyone could read it. That was really, really good fun, and I hope the final result is an exciting one.â€ The New World can be read before or after the trilogy â€“ and some readers may choose to do both. The story works as a standalone piece, but readers already familiar with The Knife of Never Letting Go will learn more about Violaâ€™s life and the events leading to her arrival and first encounter with Todd, while newcomers to the trilogy will discover a white-knuckle ride of an introduction to the series. Whether youâ€™re a new or faithful reader, though, itâ€™s a welcome chance to immerse yourself in the world of Chaos Walking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7940'),
(6833, 'New Year&#39;s Eve Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After finally arriving at the offices of Jolie, meeting their fellow makeover candidates, and being treated to a fashion show, Elizabeth is enamored of the extreme outfits and stick-thin models-while Lucy''s having some misgivings. The pampering is nice (never underestimate the transformative powers of a $500 haircut) and the glitz and glamour of haute couture is bizarrely fascinating, but bitterness and aggression lurk behind the Jolie''s hipper-than-thou faÃ§ade. And things turn downright ugly when self-absorbed fashion editor Nadine Nelson falls mysteriously ill and then dies. Lucy saw first-hand some of the backstabbing going on at Jolie. And the red-hot rumor mill soon reveals that the cliquish connection among the magazine''s cabal of high-style executives-fierce tempered fashionistas Camilla Keith, Elise Frazier, and Nadine herself-has stirred up plenty of bad blood over the years. Numerous staffers, from workaholic assistant Phyllis Finch to oft-maligned photo editor Pablo Prinz, have found themselves at the other end of the trio''s sharp claws. To say suspects abound would be an understatement. But this Manhattan murder mystery hits too close to home when Elizabeth gets rushed to the hospital with symptoms that are disturbingly similar to Nadine''s. Now, it''s up to Lucy to dress down a killer before the ball drops in Times Square...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3212'),
(6834, 'New York to Dallas', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The new novel from the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The number-one\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days-escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  J. D. Robb\n </strong>\n is the pseudonym for a number-one\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 400 million copies of her books in print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11239'),
(6835, 'New York, New York!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9713'),
(6836, 'New York: the novel', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city''s founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America''s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the ''90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd''s American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation''s history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(6837, 'The New Yorker Stories', 'Ann Beattie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Gathered in chronological order from 1974 to 1986, these early stories elucidate tension, suspicion, and the uneasy truces between married and divorced couples. Women are in flux and a general malaise settles over the urban dwellers or small town transplants, with notable departures. Though readers may be tempted to regard Beattie''s characters as emblematic of their time, even as uniquely "American" in their self-involved, luxurious problems, they have weathered well and transcend easy classification. Beattie has mastered the tango between intelligent, sometimes perplexed individuals, allowing gradual, believable erosions to stand in place of high drama. "The Cinderella Waltz" draws an empathetic triangulation between the narrator, her ex-husband, and his current partner; "Home to Marie" offers a cruel take on unfulfilled expectations. Taken in full, these stories are taut evocations of separation and resignation, even as they reveal tenderness, and the best of them portray love and hatred not as intense polarities, but as tempered forces with fine gradations. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While all critics professed respect for Ann Beattieâ€™s significant influence on the American short story, how they reviewed her\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  collection depended on how much they really liked her minimalist styleâ€”one often devoid of tone, emotion, and cultural signposts. The\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  categorized reaction to her work in three ways: â€œmasterful,â€ â€œresistant and chilly,â€ or perhaps â€œboth.â€ Appreciation, it seems, is a matter of literary taste. Certainly, thereâ€™s much to admire, even if only rarely do the stories tie together neatly. The earlier ones, those that made Beattieâ€™s name, are more spartan; the later ones more nuanced, though they bear similarities to their predecessors. Whether or not one embraces her style, few writers capture the American psyche like Beattie.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5143'),
(6838, 'The Newly Non-Drinking Girl&#39;s Guide to Pregnancy', 'Jackie Rose; Caroline Angel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilarious-and sound-advice on surviving 40 weeks without a drop!\n</p>\n<p>\n When you find out you[HTML_REMOVED]re pregnant, you[HTML_REMOVED]ve officially crossed the line from "Drinking for One" to "Eating for Two." Yes, the prospect of 40 long, long weeks without a single cocktail is enough to strike dread into the heart and fear into the belly of even the most moderate of drinkers.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Newly Non-Drinking Girl[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy is a hilarious and honest look at how to survive pregnancy without alcohol. From practical information on alcohol and pregnancy to fun advice on surviving birthdays, bachelorettes and barbecues sans cocktails and finding sobriety support at home, this is the perfect book for any party girl who finds herself pregnant.\n</p>\n<p>\n By including 50 fun recipes for mocktails to complete every month along the way, authors Jackie Rose and Dr. Caroline Angel give newly pregnant women insight into how to survive-if not thrive-while going the full 40 without alcohol.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilarious-And Sound-Advice On Surviving 40 Weeks Without A Drop!\n</p>\n<p>\n When you find out youâ€™re pregnant, the prospect of 40 long, long weeks without a single cocktail is enough to strike fear into you. But hold that glass of water-the Newly Non-Drinking Girlâ€™s Guide to Pregnancy is a hilarious and honest look at how to get through pregnancy without alcohol. From practical information on alcohol and gestating, to fun advice on how to enjoy birthdays and BBQs sans cocktails, this is the perfect book for anyone-from occasional beer-drinkers to martini addicts-who finds herself pregnant.\n</p>\n<p>\n By including 50 fun recipes for mocktails to counteract every pain and indignity nine months can offer, Jackie Rose and Caroline Angel, RN, PhD, give newly pregnant women insight into how to survive-if not thrive-while staying dry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Including 50 â€œmocktailâ€ recipes for your enjoyment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jackie Rose, the author of two popular novels, is a celebrity fashion analyst for Us Weekly magazine. She holds among her greatest lifetime achievements going cold turkey during her pregnancy-the longest 40 weeks of her life. She lives in Montreal with her husband, daughter and son.\n</p>\n<p>\n Caroline Angel, RN, PhD, is a certified mixologist and cosmopolitan aficionado. She holds a doctorate of philosophy in Nursing and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania (where she now teaches) and lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9608'),
(6839, 'Next', 'James Hynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity. Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility. As his relationship with his girlfriend approaches a turning point, and his career seems increasingly pointless, he decides to secretly fly to a job interview in Austin, Texas. Aboard the plane, Kevin is simultaneously attracted to the young woman in the seat next to him and panicked by a new wave of terrorism in Europe and the UK. He lands safely with neuroses intact and full of hope that the job, the expansive city, and the girl from the plane might yet be his chance for reinvention. His next eight hours make up this novel, a tour-de-force of mordant humor, brilliant observation, and page-turning storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2113'),
(6840, 'The Next Best Thing', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lucy Lang isn''t looking for fireworks. She''s looking for a nice, decent man. Someone who''ll mow the lawn, flip chicken on the barbecue, teach their future children to play soccer. But most important: someone who won''t inspire the slightest stirring in her heart . . . or anywhere else. A young widow, Lucy can''t risk that kind of loss again. But sharing her life with a cat named Fat Mikey and the Black Widows at the family bakery isn''t enough either. So it''s goodbye to Ethan, her hot but entirely inappropriate ''friend with privileges'' and hello to a man she can marry. Too bad Ethan Mirabelli isn''t going anywhere. As far as he''s concerned, what she needs might be right under her nose. But can he convince her that the next best thing can really be forever?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2900'),
(6841, 'The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like', 'George Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Whereas Friedman''s last book, The Next 100 Years, focused on "the impersonal forces that shape history in the long run," now the geopolitical intelligence expert examines the impact of current decision making, especially of the United States government, on the world. Friedman suggests that problems currently affecting us significantly may not actually matter in the long run. He compares the position of the United States today to that of Britain in 1910, and argues that the U.S. is an "unintended empire" and that its president is a "global emperor," in part due to the size of the country''s economy. Throughout, Friedman argues for an end to the reluctance, as he sees it, to entangle the country in global affairs. He examines the past strategies of Presidents Bush and Clinton and stresses what President Obama and his successor must do about terrorism and technology to foster relations with the Middle East, Europe, the Western Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Israel, Iran, and Russia. When it comes to Bush and Obama he doesn''t play favorites, criticizing their policies and comparing them with presidents who possessed more Machiavellian attributes, in his view. While his ideas are well-researched and compelling, Friedman makes the occasional leap that casual readers might find confusing.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR GEORGE FRIEDMAN:\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œThere is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.â€³ â€”_New York Times Magazine_\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5532'),
(6842, 'The Next Great Bull Market: How to Pick Winning Stocks and Sectors in the New Global Economy', 'Matthew McCall &amp; Tobin Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Active investing strategies to profit from world-changing trends\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Next Great Bull Market\n </em>\n , Matthew McCall advocates an approach he calls, "Conversification," meaning concentrating your investments in specific areas that are poised to benefit from global change. The areas of change addressed throughout this book include the green movement, infrastructure expansion, commodities, peak oil, the next great commodity-water-aging baby boomers, a growing global middle class, geopolitical upheavals, and the explosion of exchange-traded funds. With today''s world characterized by rapid change on many different levels, McCall''s approach holds even greater promise in the years ahead. Page by page, he provides strategies for both conservative investors interested in long-term growth and aggressive investors interested in generating fast profits.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Describes the dynamics driving each major change and provide specific strategies to take advantage of them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to profit from short-term swings in fast-moving sectors of the world economy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Highlights how to use various investment vehicles, including ETFs, stocks, and options\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Investors who understand and anticipate the changes ahead stand to profit handsomely. With\n <em>\n  The Next Great Bull Market\n </em>\n as your guide, you''ll quickly discover how the trends that are changing the world can be used to enhance the performance of your portfolio.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world is rapidly changing from the forces of globalization, resource depletion, population growth, and geopolitical uncertainty. Finite supplies of resources are running headlong into a growing global middle classâ€”creating potential shortages in oil, water, and other commoditiesâ€”while, at the same time, concerns over planetary constraints have sparked a resurgent environmental movement. This fast-changing world is turning investment truisms upside down. But, says Matthew McCall, investors who understand and anticipate these trends stand to profit handsomely in the years ahead.\n</p>\n<p>\n Savvy investors made a great deal of money anticipating major trends of the past twenty yearsâ€”such as the Internet boom of the 1990s, the rise of China and Brazil, and the jump in oil pricesâ€”and the rapid change on many different levels in today''s world holds even greater promise in the years ahead.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Next Great Bull Market\n </em>\n , McCall shows how world-changing trends are creating pockets of investment opportunity within a largely bearish investment environmentâ€”and he introduces a number of major investment themes that will take advantage of the new global economy. With traditional diversification across asset classes now producing anemic returns, he points out, the days of buying the stock of the biggest names on Wall Street and riding the ups and downs is over. McCall offers a new, hands-on approach that adapts to the changing market environment with a combination of concentration and diversification that he calls "conversification." By concentrating on the sectors of the market that are outperforming, but at the same time diversifying across those same sectors, his approach will produce results that are much greater than that of a portfolio that is diversified and offers less risk than a portfolio that is concentrated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Covering the full spectrum of change, McCall offers specific advice for profiting from trends such as the green movement, global infrastructure expansion, the new bull market for commodities, health care and aging baby boomers, a growing global middle class, geopolitical upheavals, and more.\n <em>\n  The Next Great Bull Market\n </em>\n is a blueprint for profiting in today''s swiftly changing world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8479'),
(6843, 'The Next to Die', 'Kevin O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: - Special low price of $4.99 - Includes a teaser of his next thriller, The Last Victim (Pinnacle 9/05) - The Next To Die and Make Them Cry both spent three weeks on the USA Today bestseller list. - Watch Them Die was a selection of the Doubleday Book Club, the Literary Guild and the Mystery Guild. - Make Them Cry was a selection of the Doubleday Book Club, the Literary Guild, the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the Mystery Guild. - Will appeal to fans of John Sandford and David Baldacci.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3068'),
(6844, 'Next: a novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There''s a new genetic cure for drug addictionâ€”is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it''s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes . . . Devilishly clever, *Next* blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, *Next* shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2242'),
(6845, 'The Nice and the Good', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10915'),
(6846, 'A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4859'),
(6847, 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'Guy R. Williams; Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A dramatic adaptation of early scenes from the Dickens novel, in which Nicholas witnesses schoolmaster Squeers mistreating the boys in his care and escapes for London with his new friend Smike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10945'),
(6848, 'Nicholas Sparks', 'At First Sight (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10955'),
(6849, 'The Nick Adams Stories', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella\n <em>\n  The Old Man and the Sea\n </em>\n won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8977'),
(6850, 'Nick Stone 07: Deep Black', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9433'),
(6851, 'Nick Stone 09: Recoil', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9434'),
(6852, 'Nickel and Dimed', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10394'),
(6853, 'The Nicomachean ethics', 'Aristotle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9623'),
(6854, 'Night', 'Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel "Night" is Elie Wiesel''s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie''s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author''s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man''s capacity for inhumanity to man. """Night" offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(6855, 'Night and Day', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf''s best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World''s Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.'' Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May ''94\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women''s rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine''s mother, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her father''s life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf''s light, delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman''s role and the very nature of experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7285'),
(6856, 'Night and Day (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10441'),
(6857, 'A night at the movies, or, You must remember this: fictions', 'Robert Coover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, *A Night at the Movies* invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover''s riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover''s Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4061');
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(6858, 'The Night Before The Christmas Before I Was Married &amp; other festive tales', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Charles Dickens has dominated the Christmas short story market for too long and he''s so bloody depressing... wouldn''t you rather read something that was funny, had comedy misunderstandings, people accidentally getting engaged and generally was a lot more entertaining and less depressing? Then you''re in luck...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Let''s be honest, Christmas can be a pain in the arse (or a pain in the ''ass'' if you''re from the other side of the pond) and this collection features some stories that I think we can all relate to...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whether it''s becoming accidentally engaged to your ex when your fiancee is coming home for Christmas...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Or perhaps you''re spending Christmas with the in-laws, your wife is stupifyingly drunk and you destroy the presents...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In that case you''ll want to see what happens when two master hypnotists clash over an argument concerning a Christmas tree...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All these things and literally two others are dealt with in this collection of Adam Maxwell''s Christmas stories.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He has asked me to tell you that he hopes these things don''t happen to you this Christmas. And he also hopes they don''t happen to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(6859, 'Night Betrayed', 'Joss Ware', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The world they knew is ashes.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The world that remains is in peril.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   And five extraordinary survivors are humankind''s last, best hope.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  The Change that devastated the earth did not destroy Theo Waxnicki. It made him something more than humanâ€”eternally young, eternally beautiful . . . but not immortal. When he dies on a mission against the Strangers, he is lost to the darkness . . . until a miracle lady brings him back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born during the apocalyptic storms and earthquakes that left the world in ruins, Selena has dedicated her life to easing the pain of others. But Theo is the first in her care to survive. Responding to Selena''s tender touch, Theo starts to live again, to feel and desire again. But joined in a world of terrors, the secrets they can never share make them targets. And love could be the ultimate betrayal.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joss Ware has an English degree and an MBA from the University of Michigan. After more than fifteen years in sales and marketing, she owned her own business and worked in a variety of roles for two startup companies. She''s traveled to London, Paris, and Tahiti, and currently resides with her family near Ann Arbor, where she writes full-time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joss loves to hear from her readers, and encourages them to visit her website for updates and sneak peeks of future Envy books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5630'),
(6860, 'The Night Boat', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Nazi Sub rises to the surface after 40 years with the crew mummified and still living due to a VOODOO curse. The towns people, (thinking they have a historical find), tow it into the local harbor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3553'),
(6861, 'Night Chills', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a strange disease escapes from a scientific lab as a result   of a deadly conspiracy, the citizens of Black River are overcome by its   unusual symptom, a night chill that causes them to perform unspeakable   acts. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1491'),
(6862, 'The Night Church', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient Satanic cult takes over a neighborhood church in Queens each evening with the goal of breeding monstrously evil creatures\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5947'),
(6863, 'The Night Crew', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed "Prey" novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A.--where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets for news to sell to the highest network bidder. Murders. Robberies. High-speed chases. For them, it is an exhilarating life. But tonight, two deaths will change everything.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2763'),
(6864, 'Night Fall', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90''s, makes a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to the government''s "official" position on what really happened to TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of 1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year anniversary of the crash, Corey''s curiosity is aroused by what appears to be a concerted effort by Kate''s fellow federal agents to keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be closed. Corey''s detecting skills lead him to two witnesses to the crash, who were enjoying an adulterous interlude on the beach at the time the plane went down--and videotaping their sexual escapades while what appears to be a terrorist missile attack takes place in the background. What ratchets up the tension in this capably written thriller is what the reader knows but Corey doesn''t as he heads for a showdown with those responsible for the official cover-up as the clock ticks down to the morning of September 11, 2001. DeMille''s deft touch with a riddle wrapped in an enigma--what really happened to Flight 800--makes his "what if" scenario a more than plausible theory; you don''t have to believe in conspiracies or government cover-ups to find his latest engrossing, entertaining, and enlightening.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nelson DeMille on\n   <em>\n    Night Fall\n   </em>\n   : An Exclusive Essay\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Night Fall\n  </em>\n  . Read this Amazon.com\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Demille''s latest is sure to be a #1 bestsellerâ€”but it''s also sure to be controversial. The book is centered on an investigation of the July 1996 crash of flight TWA 800, "when... a big Boeing 747 bound for Paris with 230 passengers and crew on board, exploded off the Atlantic coast of Long Island, sending all 230 souls to their deaths." In July 2001, Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force detective John Corey, a brilliant, smart-ass detective last seen in\n  <em>\n   Plum Island\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Lion''s Game\n  </em>\n  , accompanies his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, to the fifth anniversary of the disaster. John, whose wife worked the crash in 1996, understands that Kate has brought him along because she doesn''t buy the official finding of "mechanical failure" and wants him to mount his own investigation. There are 200 eyewitnesses who swear they saw a missile lift into the clear night sky and bring down the airplane, a charge dismissed by the CIA as an optical illusion. Though Corey is warned away from the investigation, like any good fictional detective, this only serves to spur him on. He uncovers evidence that a man and a woman, on the beach that fateful night videotaping their adulterous affair, inadvertently caught on tape the missile hitting the plane. The book is primarily about John tracking down the couple, but as the end nears, readers will begin to understand the perilous direction in which Demille is leading them. The pages will turn in a blur as a feeling of dread grows, until the end comes and one''s worst fears are confirmed. Readers will think about this one for a long time.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7112'),
(6865, 'Night Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While the local police succumb to a flu epidemic and the unsolved crimes pile up, a tired and demoralized Jack Frost tries to cope with inadequate backup as he tackles a spate of vicious killings. Contending with a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison pen letters and his comander looking over his shoulder, Frost has to cut corners and take risks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3445'),
(6866, 'Night Gate', 'Isobelle Carmody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rage Winnowayâ€™s closest friends have always been her four dogs: Bear, Billy Thunder, Elle, and Mr. Walker. When Rage sets off for the hospital where her mother lies in a coma, the dogs and the neighborâ€™s goat tag along. On the way, they run into the firecat, who talks them into going through a magical gate. And something wonderful happens! Each of Rageâ€™s friends is transformed. Bear becomes a real bear; Billy Thunder, a teenage boy; Elle, a warrior woman; Mr. Walker, a small, large-eared gentleman; and the goat, a satyr with an inferiority complex. Together, Rage and her companions embark on a quest to save the world of Valley, a journey that is somehow tied to Rageâ€™s family. In this brilliant tale of courage and transformation, Isobelle Carmody captures the magic of Narnia and the whimsy of Wonderland without losing sight of the real world and all its difficulties.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5425'),
(6867, 'Night Haven', 'Fiona Jayde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Desire cuts both waysâ€¦ Nothing gives Dina more pleasure than leaving the vampires she hunts to the mercy of the dawn. And yet most humans she is sworn to protect seem all too happy to offer up their necks. She has vowed never to be like those needy creatures yet, three months ago, she allowed a vampire to kiss her. The memory still makes her body burnâ€”and her skin heat with humiliation. For over twenty empty years, Luke has lived in a world of dead pleasure and burning sunrise, feeding off those who long for immortality and taboo thrills. Only his art makes him feel half-alive. Until one night in a dark, moody nightclub, where a reckless, amber-eyed bloodwolf left behind her clean, sharp scentâ€”and an ache in his blood nothing but another taste can ease. Finally, with the chance to purge Luke out of her system, Dina moves in for the kill. But she comes to a horrifying realization. She can no longer shift, and the desire to taste himâ€”body, soul and bloodâ€”is making her crazy. As an enraged bloodwolf threatens to rip them both apart, she may just be crazy enough to trust Luke with her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1023'),
(6868, 'Night Huntress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dâ€™Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Delilah, a werecat whoâ€™s one of the Autumn Lordâ€™s Death Maidens, has to fight off the demon general who stole the third Spirit Seal and is now out for blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8012'),
(6869, 'A Night in the Lonesome October', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9010'),
(6870, 'The Night Killer', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An errand to deliver rare Indian artefacts turns into a deadly game for forensic archaeologist Diane Fallon when a tree slams into her car, with a human skeleton sticking from the trunk. Then, leaving the car to investigate, she''s ambushed by a shadowy stranger. Stumbling blindly through the woods, Diane plans to take refuge at a friend''s house, but there she finds h and his wife seated at their kitchen table, their throats cut from ear to ear.Just who does the skeleton belong to, why are her friends dead, and who is the killer hot on her tail? It''s up to Diane to uncover a deadly secret hidden away in the mountains by time and distance ? before it''s too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(6871, 'Night Life', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in a thrilling, addictive new series by a talented new voice in dark fantasy. Welcome to Nocturne City, where werewolves, black magicians, and witches prowl the streets at night''Â¦ Among them is Luna Wilder, a tough-as-nails police officer whose job is to keep the peace. As an Insoli werewolf, Luna travels without a pack and must rely on instinct alone. And she''s just been assigned to find the ruthless killer behind a string of ritualistic murders''a killer with ties to an escaped demon found only in legend''Â¦until now. But when she investigates prime suspect Dmitri Sandovsky, she can''t resist his wolfish charms. Pack leader of a dangerous clan of Redbacks, Dimitri sends her animal instincts into overdrive and threatens her fiercely-guarded independence. But Luna and Dimiri will need to rely on each other as they''re plunged into an ancient demon underworld and pitted against an expert black magician with the power to enslave them for eternity''Â¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1537'),
(6872, 'Night Manager', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Le Carrâ€š returns to the same subject as his disappointingly episodic The Secret Pilgrim--the fate of espionage in the new world order--but now looks forward instead of backward, showing a not-quite innocent mangled between that new order and the old one, whose course le Carrâ€š has so peerlessly chronicled for 30 years. Jonathan Pine, night manager at a Cairo hotel, helps Arab playboy Freddie Hamid''s mistress Madame Sophie photocopy papers linking him to arms mogul Richard Roper and, while he''s at it, makes an extra copy to send to a friend in the Secret Service--only to find that the leak has gotten back to Freddie and that Jonathan''s belated, guilty devotion to Sophie can''t protect her from a fatal beating. Six months later, Jonathan, now working in Geneva, meets Roper in person and, vowing revenge, volunteers for Leonard Burr''s fledgling government agency as the inside man who can supply actionable details of Roper''s next arms- for-drugs deal. With the help of Whitehall mandarin Rex Goodhew, Burr sets up a plausibly shady dossier for Jonathan and stages the kidnapping of Roper''s son so that Jonathan can foil the snatch and get invited aboard Roper''s yacht. But even as Jonathan, still grieving for Sophie, finds himself attracted to Roper''s bedmate Jed Marshall and overriding Burr''s orders to stay out of Roper''s papers, the boys in Whitehall--divided between independents like Goodhew, who want the old agencies broken up, and his cold-warrior nemesis Geoffrey Darker, who insists on maintaining centralized authority--are squabbling over control of the mission, with dire results for Jonathan, whose most dangerous enemies turn out to be his well-meaning masters back home. Despite the familiarity of the story''s outlines, le Carrâ€š shows his customary mastery in the details--from Jonathan''s self-lacerating momentum to the intricacies of interagency turf wars--and reveals once again why nobody writes espionage fiction with his kind of authority. (First printing of 450,000; Book-of-the-Month Dual Selection for August) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliant performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWonderful . . . beautifully done . . . compelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA beautifully polished, utterly knowing, and palpitating book.â€\n <br />\n â€“Time\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntrigue of the highest order.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Sun-Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11063'),
(6873, 'Night Mare', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3287'),
(6874, 'The Night Monster: A Novel of Suspense', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The shadowy side of the Sunshine State, where blood runs cold even in the tropical heat, is the tantalizing, terrifying territory few know better than James Swain. His razor-sharp tales of criminals, cops, and South Florida--style suspense bite like a hungry gator and never let go. The past has come back to haunt P.I. Jack Carpenter, former head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit. As a young cop he failed to stop the kidnapping of a college coed by a shockingly large assailant-and neither of them was ever seen again. The abduction has remained Carpenter''s most chilling cold case, and even now the mystery of the missing girl lurks in his darkest dreams. But after eighteen years, it''s about to become terrifying reality once more. When his daughter, Jessie, asks him to bird-dog a camera-toting creep who''s been shadowing her college basketball team, Carpenter''s hot pursuit of the video voyeur leads him smack into another run-in with his old hulking nemesis, who abducts one of Jessie''s teammates. While the Broward County cops are determined to pin the rap on a convenient suspect, Carpenter isn''t about to let grim history repeat itself-especially when he discovers a pattern of unsolved kidnappings involving the same massive perp. With the eager assistance of the kidnap victim''s high-powered tycoon father, the uneasy cooperation of his old unit''s new commander, and precious little time before the trail goes cold, Jack and his trusty dog, Buster, hit the ground running. And they''ll need all the help they can get-including backup from an FBI man with a personal stake in the hunt-as they follow a twisted trail from the ruins of a shuttered mental asylum with an infamous past to the streets of a sinister small town with a ghastly secret. With smooth-talking, uncompromising hero Jack Carpenter as guide, The Night Monster is an exhilarating journey into the heart of the American underworld. Bestselling author James Swain''s fiendish plotting and energetic pacing will keep you electrified straight through till morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6370'),
(6875, 'Night Moves', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. A Union Jack appearing on computer screens all over the world is just a harbinger of the danger to come. As cyberspace is thrown into chaos, several computer experts suffer strokes while hunting the deadly hacker in virtual reality. One of them is the Net Force''s own Jay Gridley. And now the Net Force operatives must track down a man capable of cracking every computer code in the world -- and pitting nation against nation. Read by Edward Herrmann\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6483'),
(6876, 'Night Myst', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n <strong>\n  Yasmine Galenorn\n </strong>\n writes urban fantasy, mystery, and metaphysical nonfiction. A graduate of Evergreen State College, she majored in theater and creative writing. Yasmine has been in the Craft for more than twenty-nine years and is a shamanic witch. She describes her life as a blend of teacups and tattoos and lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her husband, Samwise, and their cats. Yasmine can be reached via her website at www.galenorn.com, via Twitter: www.twitter.com/yasminegalenorn, and via her publisher. If you send her snail mail, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you want a reply.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eons ago, vampires tried to turn the Dark Fae in order to harness their magic, only to create a demonic enemy more powerful than they imagined. Now Myst, the Vampiric Fae Queen of the Indigo Court, has enough power to begin a long prophesied supernatural war. And Cicely Waters, a witch who can control the wind, may be the only one who can stop her-and save her beloved Fae prince from the Queen''s enslavement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8074'),
(6877, 'Night of January 16th', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10041'),
(6878, 'Night of January 16th: a play', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Night of January 16th leaves the answers to the mystery of an international magnate''s death up to the reader. The play is a gripping drama about the rise and destruction of a brilliant and ruthless man, the suspense never letting up for a moment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(6879, 'Night of Knives', 'Jon Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veronica Kelly came to Africa to start her life over. Still reeling from her divorce, she is grateful when a handsome stranger invites her to join a tour to visit gorillas in Uganda''s wild Impenetrable Forest. A trip that goes desperately wrong when their group is captured by brutal gunmen. Then one tourist is executed. And then another. This is no random kidnapping: their abduction is only the first move in a deadly strategic game. A game in which Veronica''s ex-husband is somehow involved. Now she must embark on a wild journey across Africa to unveil a malignant conspiracy before it consumes entire nations - and hundreds of lives . . .nbsp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2359'),
(6880, 'Night of Knives: A Novel of the Malazan Empire', 'Ian C. Esslemont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name, but now it is little more than a sleepy, backwater port. Tonight, however, things are different. Tonight the city is on edge, a hive of hurried, sometimes violent activity; its citizens bustle about, barring doors, shuttering windows, avoiding any strangerâ€™s stare. Because tonight there is to be a convergence, the once-in-a-generation appearance of a Shadow Moon â€“ an occasion that threatens the good people of Malaz with demon hounds and other, darker things â€¦ It was also prophesied that this night would witness the return of Emperor Kellanved, and there are those prepared to do anything to prevent this happening. As factions within the greater Empire draw up battle lines over the imperial throne, the Shadow Moon summons a far more ancient and potent presence for an all-out assault upon the island. Witnessing these cataclysmic events are Kiska, a young girl who yearns to flee the constraints of the city, and Temper, a grizzled, battle-weary veteran who seeks simply to escape his past. Each is to play a part in a conflict that will not only determine the fate of Malaz City, but also of the world beyond â€¦ Drawing on events touched on in the prologue of Steven Eriksonâ€™s landmark fantasy Gardens of the Moon, Night of Knives is a momentous chapter in the unfolding story of the extraordinarily imagined world of Malaz.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7470'),
(6881, 'Night of Masks', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9102'),
(6882, 'Night of Power', 'Spider Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The place: a future New York City torn by racial tension and ripe for rebellion. The revolutionaries have high technology and careful planning on their side, their soldiers are well trained and sworn to secrecy, and their plans are unsuspected . . . until the Night of Power. Caught in the middle of the insurrection are Russell and Dena Grant and their daughter Jennifer, a 13-year-old whose genius-level intelligence saves her lifer more than once after insurrection breaks out. As an interracial couple, the Grants face the problems every couple does-but the Night of Power becomes the ultimate test, of their loyalty to each other and to their separate races.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10037'),
(6883, 'Night of the Living Trekkies', 'Kevin David Anderson;Sam Stall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This sci-fi /zombie/comedy/adventure follows a group of rag-tag Trekkies getting together for the fifth annual FedCon (billed as the "largest Starfleet Convention in the western Gulf Coast region").  Our heroes are dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers but soon find themselves defending their hotel and convention center against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Suddenly, all of their useless knowledge about particle physics and old Star Trek episodes has genuine real-world applications! And while hotel employees and regular civilians are dying left and right, our Trekkies summon strength and courage by emulating their favorite starship-voyaging characters.  Packed with hundreds of gags referencing Star Trek, comic books, and fan conventions, Night of the Living Trekkies reads like the strange lovechild of Galaxy Quest and Dawn of the Dead. Journey to the final frontier of zombie science-fiction mash-ups!  *This is an original work of parody and is not officially sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the owners of the Star Trek brand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2413'),
(6884, 'Night of the Wolves', 'S. D. Perry; Britta Dennison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the Dominion War and the decimation of Cardassia...before the coming of the Emissary and the discovery of the wormhole...before space station Terok Nor became Deep Space 9(TM)...there was the Occupation: the military takeover of an alien planet and the violent insurgency that fought against it. Now that fifty-year tale of warring ideologies, terrorism, greed, secret intelligence, moral compromises, and embattled faiths is at last given its due in the three-book saga of "Star Trek"''s Lost Era...Eighteen years into the Occupation, a new star rises in Bajor''s sky. It is the seat of power in this system, a place of slave labor and harsh summary judgments, the symbol of Cardassian might and the futility of resisting it. But even as the gray metal crown of Terok Nor ascends to its zenith, ragtag pockets of Bajoran rebels -- including a fierce young fighter named Kira Nerys -- have begun to strike back at their world''s oppressors, and they intend to show the Cardassians that the night belongs to them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4077'),
(6885, 'Night Over Water', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The opulent interior of the first airliner, the Pan American Clipper, on a transatlantic flight from Southampton, England, to New York in war-darkened 1939, is the setting for Follett''s high-flying caper, guaranteed to hold the reader in his seat. Recalling a time when air travel was an exotic adventure, master of epic suspense Follett ( Pillars of the Earth ) spins an excruciatingly taut drama on the aerial equivalent of the Orient Express. Persons unknown kidnap the wife of Clipper engineer Eddie Deakin from their home in Maine in order to force Deakin to maneuver an emergency landing in the choppy waters off Bangor. Apparently the shadowy conspirators plan to remove one of the passengers, an intriguing group who include an FBI agent transporting an extradited mafioso; a Russian princess; a British industrialist chasing his wife and her lover; an American movie star; an Oswald Mosely-like aristocrat turned fascist, his daughter and her lover, a young jewel thief. Details of early aviation firmly establish the cast in their era and a tantalizing mosaic of subplots whisks the reader through a whirlwind of romance and intrigue. Follet soars to a thoroughly satisfying ending with aeronautical precision. This is his best since The Eye of the Needle. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the Dark Ages (The Pillars of the Earth, 1989) out of his system, Ken Follett returns to the spies, sex, and Nazis that did so well for him in Eye of the Needle. Fascinated by the huge flying boats launched by Pan Am in the late 1930''s to fly the north Atlantic route, Follett has cooked up a sort of Airship of Fools or Flying Grand Hotel about a Clipper load of rich folks and lowlifes fleeing England after the declaration of war. The passengers include a fascist marquess and his family--so much like the Mitfords as to include a Nazi daughter and her socialist sister; a cuckolded industrialist chasing his pretty wife; an aging movie star; a Jewish refugee physicist; a suspected mafioso; a rich, powerful, but unloved American widow; the widow''s weak, treacherous brother; and the handsome young jewel-thief without whom no such epic is complete. The danger that hangs over all these worthies is sabotage of the flight plan by an otherwise trustworthy flight engineer whose wife is being held captive in Maine by nameless rotten scoundrels. The merciless kidnappers want the plane set down early in order to remove a nameless someone before it reaches New York. Since the plane flies rather slowly and since there are three refueling stops, and since the beds make up into comfortable little berths, there is plenty of time for the passengers to search for the marchioness''s priceless rubies, counterplot against the bad guys, stretch the legs in Irish pubs, quarrel, have reconciliations and indulge in a fair amount of good, healthy sex. No technothrills. No psychodrama. No fine writing. Hours of good storytelling. (Book-of-the-Month Split Main Selection for November) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7443'),
(6886, 'Night Passage (1997)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10553'),
(6887, 'Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Cussler''s most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt''s most dangerous adventure.****Dirk Pitt proved invincible in *Raise the Titanic!* Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yetâ€”the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, itâ€™s worth a war. Pittâ€™s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britianâ€™s most cunning secret agentâ€”and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever createdâ€”the breathtaking climax of **Night Probe!****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(6888, 'Night Road', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   For a mother, life comes down to a series of choices.Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   To hold onâ€¦\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   To let go..\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   To forgetâ€¦\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   To forgiveâ€¦\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Which road will you take?\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Night Road\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her childrenâ€™s needs above her own, and it showsâ€”her twins, Mia and Zachâ€”are bright and happy teenagers.Â  When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude.Â  Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Miaâ€™s best friend.Â  Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable.Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harmâ€™s way.Â  It has always been easy-- until senior year of high school.Â  Suddenly she is at a loss.Â  Nothing feels safe anymore; every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n On a hot summerâ€™s night her worst fears come true. One decision will change the course of their lives.Â  In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything.Â  In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forgetâ€¦or the courage to forgive.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, NIGHT ROAD raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness.Â  It is a luminous, heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope.Â  This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n <em>\n  Heart of the Matter\n </em>\n , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily Giffin:\n </strong>\n It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n <em>\n  Night Road\n </em>\n , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifying--especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of it--the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" question--what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)--and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily:\n </strong>\n I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah follows up Winter Garden with a strained story of friendship, social pressures, love, and forgiveness. After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Despite financial problems, the two are glad to have found each other, and though Lexi resolves to stay safely on the periphery at her new high school, she soon meets Mia, unhappy and awkward despite a solid family life, a loving twin brother, Zach, and a closetful of clothes. The friendship flourishes, and Mia''s mother, Jude, relieved and pleased for her daughter, draws Lexi into the family circle. But trouble begins in senior year with a slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi, who take great pains to make Mia comfortable with the change in the dynamics. This familiar story takes an unfortunate turn deep into after-school-special territory when Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with extreme repercussions. Even readers who like their melodrama thick will have problems as Hannah pushes credibility to the breaking point, and more than once. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7388'),
(6889, 'Night Shadow', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Passion. Power. Suspense. It''s time to fall under the spell of Nora Roberts. He walked the night, a shadow among shadows. They called him Nemesis and he was everywhere. But the night he saved Deborah O''Roarke from an attacker he rediscovered the sweet ache of longing. As Gage Guthrie he could woo her. But the idealistic prosecutor abhorred his vigilante approach to crime fighting. So how could he reveal he was the phantom who lurked in the Night Shadow?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2579'),
(6890, 'Night Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4285'),
(6891, 'Night shift: Night shadow', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her voice was like whiskey, smooth and potent, but it was her contradictions that fascinated Detective Boyd Fletcherâ€”the vulnerability beneath her tough-as-nails facade. Late-night radio announcer Cilla O''Roarke was being threatened by a caller, and it was Boyd''s job to protect her no matter what. But the sultry deejay was getting under his skin, and the undeniable attraction that sizzled between them concerned the detectiveâ€¦because anything could happen on the *Night Shift.* They called him Nemesis. He walked the dark alleyways alone, a shadow among shadowsâ€”and that''s the way he liked it. Until the night he saved Deborah O''Roarke from an attacker and rediscovered the quiet ache of yearning lodged in his heart. It had been a long time since he had wanted to reach out to someoneâ€¦. But Deborah was an idealistic prosecutor who played by the rules and abhorred the vigilantism of her mysterious defender. Could she come to love the phantom who lurked in the *Night Shadow*?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2599'),
(6892, 'Night Smoke', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2644'),
(6893, 'The Night Stalker: A Novel of Suspense', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What crime fiction fan can resist a guy who isn''t afraid to knock a few slime-bag heads when no one is watching? In Swain''s fine second suspense novel to feature South Florida PI Jack Carpenter (after\n <em>\n  Midnight Rambler\n </em>\n ), imprisoned serial killer Abb Grimes hires the tough, unrelenting ex-cop to find his kidnapped grandson, Sampson Grimes. The chief suspect is the child''s father, Jed Grimes, but Jack thinks Jed is innocent, even though the evidence suggests otherwise. There''s plenty of action and intelligent sleuthing, but it''s Jack''s uncompromising character and Swain''s equally uncompromising writing that will keep readers turning pages and eager for the next installment: I''d visited many prisons, and the smell was always the same: a choking mixture of piss, shit, fear, and desperation, wiped down by harsh antiseptics. The winner of France''s Prix Calibre 38, Swain is also the author of\n <em>\n  Deadman''s Bluff\n </em>\n and six other books in his Tony Valentine gambling series.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What crime fiction fan can resist a guy who isn''t afraid to knock a few slime-bag heads when no one is watching? In Swain''s fine second suspense novel to feature South Florida PI Jack Carpenter (after\n <em>\n  Midnight Rambler\n </em>\n ), imprisoned serial killer Abb Grimes hires the tough, unrelenting ex-cop to find his kidnapped grandson, Sampson Grimes. The chief suspect is the child''s father, Jed Grimes, but Jack thinks Jed is innocent, even though the evidence suggests otherwise. There''s plenty of action and intelligent sleuthing, but it''s Jack''s uncompromising character and Swain''s equally uncompromising writing that will keep readers turning pages and eager for the next installment: â€œI''d visited many prisons, and the smell was always the same: a choking mixture of piss, shit, fear, and desperation, wiped down by harsh antiseptics.â€ The winner of France''s Prix Calibre 38, Swain is also the author of\n <em>\n  Deadman''s Bluff\n </em>\n and six other books in his Tony Valentine gambling series." _ - Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for James Swainâ€™s Midnight Rambler\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight Rambler kept me up all night long. . . . The only problem with Swainâ€™s riveting thrillers is they end.â€\n <br />\n â€“Tess Gerritsen, author of The Keepsake\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA sturdy thriller . . . [Swain] uses language with such blunt force he could be hammering in nails.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmensely satisfying . . . [Hero Jack Carpenter evokes] memories of Will Graham, the FBI profiler in Thomas Harrisâ€™ brilliant Red Dragon.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEasily one of the best thrillers of the year, Swainâ€™s tense, gritty tale is virtually impossible to put down.â€\n <br />\n â€“Lansing State Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMoves like a bullet train on overdrive.â€\n <br />\n â€“Michael Connelly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6367'),
(6894, 'Night Tides', 'Alex Prentiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One by one they go missing. And in the lake a voice cries out: "Save them. . . ." In the darkness, in a lake in the middle of a prosperous college town, Rachel Matre feels the water caressing her bare skin, teasing her senses, drawing her body into a lush erotic embrace. For twenty years she has communed with the lake spirits this way-and told no one. The price is simple: She must help those in need. But now a series of young women have gone missing. The police don''t have any bodies, or even a single suspect. Only the spirits seem to sense the truth. Through them, Rachel finds herself drawn into a madman''s web. She alone can save the missing women. But who can save her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/40');
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(6895, 'Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he''s lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won''t leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he''s pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it''s the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks -- though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there''s a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3413'),
(6896, 'The Night Watchman', 'Mark Mynheir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleven months ago, Ray Quinn was a tough, quick-witted Orlando homicide detective at the top of his game-until a barrage of bullets ended his career...and his partner''s life. Now medically retired with a painful handicap, Ray battles the haunting guilt for his partner''s death. Numbing the pain with alcohol and attitude, Ray takes a job as a night watchman at a swanky Orlando condo. But when a pastor and an exotic dancer are found dead in one of the condos in an apparent murder-suicide, Ray can no longer linger in the shadows. The pastor''s sister is convinced her brother was framed and begs Ray to take on an impossible case-to challenge the evidence and clear her brother''s name. Ray reluctantly pulls the threads of this supposedly dead-end case only to unravel a murder investigation so deep that it threatens to turn the Orlando political landscape upside down and transform old friends into new enemies. As Ray chases down leads and interrogates suspects, someone is watching his every move, someone determined to keep him from ever finding out the truth-at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2502'),
(6897, 'Night Whispers', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Debut author Leslie Kelly has written a hot, steamy romance that fits the Temptation category perfectly. Very Highly Recommended." -- _Robin Peek,\n  <em>\n   _Under The Covers Book Reviews\n  </em>\n  , May 99\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From the first sentence I knew Leslie Kelly had created a book that I could not put down until I had read the last sensuous, heart-stopping word. 5 Stars, Reviewer''s Choice" --\n  <em>\n   Cherri Munoz, Romance Writers at Sime~gen.com, August, 99\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Leslie Kelly has written a witty, sizzling hot romance...Filled with humor, sensuality and tenderness." --\n  <em>\n   Lisa Hamilton, The Booknook &amp; Compuserve, August 99\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "New author Leslie Kelly has written a funny, sensual, and totally enchanting romance. 4 1/2 stars" --\n  <em>\n   Sharon Llaird, Bookbug on the Web, August, 99\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With this book as her first example, Leslie Kelly will be going far in the romance market." -- _Bea Sheftel,\n  <em>\n   _Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n  , May, 99\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thanks to her sexy radio talk show, Night Whispers, DJ Kelsey Logan has become infamous! Suddenly, men all over Baltimore are desperate to discover the true identity of Lady Love, the sultry siren who keeps them up all night. But the only man Kelsey is desperate to have is stuffy Mitch Wymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mitch is having a hard time believing that his bratty childhood nemesis has grown into the temptress the whole city''s lusting after. A woman he''s lusting after. He might have been able to keep his libido under control if Kelsey hadn''t made it clear that she wanted to seduce him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But could Mitch make love to her knowing their desire might end up on the air?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7774'),
(6898, 'Night without end', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Admirably written -- one gasps and freezes and burns with the frightful cold'' Sunday Times ''Hair-raising! MacLean had done it again'' Manchester Evening News\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive. But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer -- the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9285'),
(6899, 'Nightfall', 'Isaac Asimov;Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth--that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9541'),
(6900, 'Nightfall: and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty science fiction stories cover a diversity of subjects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9514'),
(6901, 'Nightingale&#39;s Lament', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor has just solved the mystery of two friends'' deaths when he is called to another case. Charles Chabron wants Taylor to contact his daughter, Rossignol (French for\n <em>\n  nightingale)\n </em>\n , a young singer who has fallen under the sway of the ruthless Cavendishes, a husband-and-wife management team. Rossignol used to sing upbeat, happy songs, but now her set is so melancholy that people leave her show and commit suicide. After visiting Rossignol at the Goth club Caliban''s Cavern, where she performs nightly, Taylor knows something is wrong. When he goes to the Cavendishes'' management company, a pair of somnambulists beat him mercilessly, leaving him near death and with no one to turn to but Pew, an old enemy. With the help of Dead Boy, a deceased mugging victim who now fights criminals, Taylor tries to locate the Cavendishes'' former protege, Sylvia Sin, and find a way to rescue Rossignol from the couple''s clutches. The latest installment in Green''s Nightshade series is a delight--exciting, action packed, truly suspenseful.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London where it''s always 3 AM, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he''ll have to hear the deadly music--and survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5777'),
(6902, 'Nightjack', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pace is released from a mental institution, only to be kidnapped by three other escapees, all suffering from multiple personality disorder.  What ensues is a wild, surreal adventure leading finally to a Greek island, where everyone may wind up dead unless Pace willingly releases the darkest persona of all...Nightjack.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10643'),
(6903, 'Nightlife', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10352'),
(6904, 'Nightlife: A Novel', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Serial killer Charlene Bucknerâ€”aka Tanya Starling, Rachel Sturbridge, Nancy Mills, and several other monikersâ€”changes her identity each time she commits a murder. By the end of Perry''s mesmerizing novel (_Pursuit_;\n <em>\n  The Butcher''s Boy\n </em>\n ), Charlene has racked up an impressive body count and her own personal Rolodex of bogus names. Yes, as a child she had a slutty mom, and yes, she was abandoned in her late teens, but her life story is hardly the horror show of most fictional serial killers. Perry patiently shows that it doesn''t necessarily take child molestation and brutality to create a murderer. "She was just a regular person who had always wanted what everybody else wantedâ€”to be happy." Portland police detective Sgt. Catherine Hobbes investigates Charlene''s first kill, Dennis Poole, and follows close behind her, always just a little too late to catch Charlene or save her latest victim, as Charlene moves on to San Francisco, L.A., Las Vegas and other locales, where she pauses just long enough to commit another murder. Hobbes has her own issues, and by the end the two women have grown close not only in proximity but in identity as well. Reinterpreting conventions and confounding readers'' expectations with fascinating characters, this is Perry at his best.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Perry, author of the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Butcher''s Boy\n </em>\n , the five-volume Jane Whitefield series, and other best-selling novels, has taken typical elements of an ordinary crime thriller and given them an unusual, erotic twist. The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n compares\n <em>\n  Nightlife\n </em>\n ''s psychological impact to that of\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Mystic River\n </em>\n : we''re not dealing with a stock killer but a rather ordinary young woman turned bad. Critics agree that Perry successfully delves deep inside the female psyche with chapters narrated from both Hobbes''s and the murderer''s perspectives. A little haphazard storytelling, with characters flitting in and out of chapters, confused some critics, but overall,\n <em>\n  Nightlife\n </em>\n is a smart, engaging read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7130'),
(6905, 'Nightlight: A Parody', 'The Harvard Lampoon Inc. Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When you like, live forever, what''s there to live for?''About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him which I assumed was wildly out of his control that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.''And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in this hilarious send-up of Twilight. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events Edwart leaves his hash browns untouched at lunch! - he saves her from a flying snowball and Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behaviour, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the hysterical tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4122'),
(6906, 'Nightmare', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8612'),
(6907, 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson''s most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, including:"Duel," the nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg''s first film;"Prey," in which a terrified woman is stalked by a malevolent Tiki doll, as chillingly captured in yet another legendary TV moment;"Blood Son," a disturbing portrait of a strange little boy who dreams of being a vampire;"Dress of White Silk," a seductively sinister tale of evil and innocence.Personally selected by Richard Matheson, the bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, these and many other stories, more than demonstrate why he is rightfully regarded as one of the finest and most influential horror writers of our generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4078'),
(6908, 'Nightmare in New York', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan continues his war against the Mafia. Back in America after crippling the French and British Syndicates, he discovers the five families of the New York Mafia have plans in the political scene. Its strictly winner-take-all with the biggest stakes yet! Hounded by the Mafias bloodhounds, and the police as well, Bolan must single-handedly foil an assassination plot, which, if it succeeds, would throw the country into panic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(6909, 'Nightmare Journey', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One hundred thousand years in the future, after man has been fatally humbled by his exploration of the stars and discovery of far more intelligent beings, civilization is struggling to return to the planet''s surface.  After man fled the stars, he tried to explore his own genetic frontier, creating horrible races of deformed beings - some scaled, some furred, tiny, winged and huge. Now Jask, a Pure who retains the original human genetic code, and Tedesco, a great bear with a human brain, are thrown together by their one shared and fatal trait - telepath. Hunted like animals by the fearful populace, they go in search of The Black Presence - which may be the key to mankind''s place in the cosmos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8297'),
(6910, 'Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The haunting collection that comes from the unique place where Ripley''s Believe It or Not! Â® meets The Twilight Zone: Stephen King''s unparalleled imagination....Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes includes the tale "Dolan''s Cadillac," soon to be a feature film starring Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, and Emmanuelle Vaugier\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4306'),
(6911, 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n King''s third collection, after Night Shift (1978) and Skeleton Crew (1985), offers 23 formerly uncollected works, with King as bizarre as ever. A handful of the stories have been rewritten or dressed up for this occasion. King''s introduction (a defense against the ivory tower opinions of his critics) and endnotes mentions several sources, including The New Yorker, which printed the lengthy ``Heads Down''''--about Little League teams up in Maine--that King calls ``the best nonfiction writing of my life.'''' Other oddities are a nostalgic baseball poem and a downbeat teleplay, ``Sorry, Right Number,'''' which appeared on Tales from the Darkside. Some pieces display King''s charging, looser, richly vulgar style (``Dolan''s Cadillac,'''' a revenge tale in which the narrator gets even with a Mafia chieftain who killed the hero''s wife, and buries him alive in his Caddie), while others occasionally show an unusually neat style hardly different from any other journeyman writer''s, aside from the magical King touches (``The Moving Finger''''--perhaps the best in the collection, about a man haunted by a live finger that keeps climbing out of the drain of his bathroom sink and finally grows to seven feet). Still others strive for human feeling (``Dedication''''--about a longtime black cleaning maid in a fancy hotel who gets whammied by a voodoo lady and made pregnant by sperm on the bedsheets of a white novelist whose writing style gets passed on to her son)--and then some are just the King ticket readers expect: ``The End of the Whole Mess''''-- about a polymathic genius who discovers the way to end man''s inhumanity to man by altering his drinking water. Addicts, fear not: the King lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8533'),
(6912, 'The Nightmarys', 'Dan Poblocki', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Timothy doesnâ€™t really know what to make of Abigail, the new girl in his seventh-grade class. After she is humiliated before her classmates, bad things start happening. Timothyâ€™s best friend sees the clawed monster from his favorite video game at the bottom of a pool. Their teacher begins to get paranoid about the creepy specimen jars surrounding his classroom. But itâ€™s not Abigailâ€™s fault; in fact, she is seeing visions of the Nightmarysâ€”two sinister little girls who beckon her to come play with them. Itâ€™s a marvelously disorienting setup, and Poblocki has a knack for cornering his characters in the most unlikely of vulnerable places: a laundry room, a changing room, a hospital bed. As the plot begins to hammer sense into the horrific happeningsâ€”it all has to do with a mystical jawbone, an insane professor, and a demon called the Daughter of Chaosâ€”the scares get bigger, though often less impactful. More than anything, this is a mystery, complete with clues and secret codes, and Poblockiâ€™s deft handling of the multiple threads makes this a devilish delight. Grades 6-10. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Timothy July has been having nightmares. About his brother, who is in a coma after being wounded in Iraq; about his best friend, Stuart, who is behaving like a jerk; about the old biology specimens in jars lining the walls of his classroom; and about Abigail, the new girl who seems to be a magnet for trouble. Or perhaps she is the cause.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly Timothyâ€™s nightmares are coming true. His brother, his face decaying, approaches Timothy on the street. Stuart ends up in the hospital, terrified that monsters are stalking him. And the specimen jars are tormenting not only Timothy but his teacher as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n What is the secret in Abigailâ€™s past that is the key to these horrors? And can Timothy figure it out before his nightmares become a deadly reality?\n</p>\n<p>\n A follow-up to the well-received\n <em>\n  Stone Child\n </em>\n , Dan Poblockiâ€™s second novel will have his readers mesmerized until the last pageâ€”and sleeping with the lights on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8430'),
(6913, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend''s inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne''s perfect getaway will be ruined-until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort-and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3088'),
(6914, 'Nights of Villjamur', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Newton opens a complex epic fantasy series with this impressive debut. The ancient fortress city of Villjamur is filled with human and nonhuman inhabitants, many of them refugees seeking shelter from a predicted decades-long ice age. The untimely death of the mad emperor Jamur Johynn forces his unworldly elder daughter, Rika, to assume the throne as her sister, Eir, gains a perspective beyond her palace walls and the members of the council make their own power plays. War and religious conflicts as well as more personal matters of desires for power and immortality set the scene for acts of compassion and betrayal. Newton handles his multilayered world and diverse cast of characters with the assurance of an experienced author and balances his fantasy tropes with elements of horror and political commentary in vividly descriptive, compelling prose.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Newtonâ€™s debut is the first in an epic fantasy series, Legends of the Red Sun, and it adds a murder mystery to the usual epic-fantasy mix. The inhabitants of the city of Villjamur are preparing for an upcoming ice age when a member of the ruling Council is gruesomely murdered. Jeryd, a nonhuman Rumel, is the cityâ€™s senior investigator, and after nearly 200 years, he thinks he has seen it all. Meanwhile, island boy Randur has come to the city in hopes of persuading the magic-wielding cultists to extend his motherâ€™s life. As the ice tightens its grip on the island empire, enemies strike and an unknown force kills most of the Night Guard, an elite force led by Brynd, the kingâ€™s most trusted advisor and fighter. Because the mystery isnâ€™t the only plotline, this is best recommended to fantasy fans who also enjoy mysteries; there may be too much fantasy for most mystery readers. Unusual characters, including those from nonhuman races and a compelling gay protagonist, give this genre-bender plenty of appeal for a variety of readers. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7854'),
(6915, 'Nightshade', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearlyy unbreathable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Captian Picard and the U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  are sent ot help them negotiate a settlement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard, Lt. Worf, and Counsellor Troi beam down to Oriana, just as the Starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is called away on another urgent mission. Alone on the planet, the U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  team learns that htere are people that would rather finish the devastating conflict than talk peace. Suddenly, Picard is accused of murder nad the delicate negotiations have fallen into the hands of Lt. Worf.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Worf and Troi must unravel the truth and prevent planet-wide disaster, before time runs out for the people of Oriana and the crew of the Starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreathable, and the people themselves are wasting away. With hope nearly gone, the two warring factions have at last settled down to talk peace, and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to help them negotiate. Just after Picard, Worf, and Troi beam down, however, the ship is called away on another urgent mission, leaving them stranded alone with the Orianans, some of whom would rather not see a peace agreement reached. Picard is framed in a case of murder, and the negotiations fall to Worf.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6811'),
(6916, 'Nightshade: Night smoke', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The moment her eyes locked on Colt Nightshade, she knew he was trouble. But Lieutenant Althea Grayson prided herself on being in control, and she wouldn''t let her new partner ruin that. The man was a renegade, no respect for rulesâ€”and the worst part was he got to her. The way he challenged Althea''s thinking, stared right into her eyesâ€¦and held her in his arms. What defense could her heart have when *Nightshade* didn''t play fair? Arson investigator Ryan Piasecki was a man who got the job done no matter what the obstacleâ€¦or how beautiful she was. Ambitious executive Natalie Fletcher''s new business was going up in smoke, literally, and she needed Ryan''s help to catch the arsonist. But if he wasn''t careful, the sparks flying between him and this hothouse rose would erupt into a five-alarm blazeâ€”and they''d both be engulfed by the *Night Smoke.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2602'),
(6917, 'Nightwalker', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she''s collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the table.Hired to investigate the murder, private detective Dillon Wolf finds himself fascinated by the gorgeous redhead who''d been trapped beneath the victim--and by the single word the dying man had whispered in her ear. "Indigo."One murder leads to another as Dillon and Jessy realize that the nightmare is only just beginning--and that the dead still have a hand left to play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1578'),
(6918, 'The Nightwatch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10440'),
(6919, 'The Nightwatchman&#39;s Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?V. S. Naipaul is the world?s writer, a master of language and perception.? ?_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.? ?_The New York Review of Books_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer. . . . This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.? ?Kingsley Amis,\n <em>\n  The Spectator\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. S. Naipaulâ€™s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fictionâ€“two novels and a collection of storiesâ€“that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Suffrage of Elvira\n </em>\n is Naipaulâ€™s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidatesâ€™ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of\n <em>\n  Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion\n </em>\n is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in\n <em>\n  A Flag on the Island\n </em>\n take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidadâ€“whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese nameâ€“to a rooming house in Londonâ€“where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6258'),
(6920, 'Nimisha&#39;s Ship', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On Vega III, Lady Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense loves the challenging world of her father, Lord Tionel, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense Ship Yards. Precociously gifted, Nimisha becomes his secret assistant--and, in the aftermath of a shocking tragedy, his chosen successor at the helm of the Ship Yards.When Nimisha takes an experimental ship on a solo test flight, something goes horribly awry, marooning her light-years from home on a planet as deadly as it is beautiful. Now the ruthless members of a rival branch of the Rondymense family are given the chance they''ve been waiting for: to reclaim the Ship Yards by any means necessary.Only Nimisha''s ingenious child, Cuiva, stands in their way. But for how long? For just when her daughter needs her most, Nimisha is in a precarious situation herself--and unable to help. But Nimisha has never given up in her life--and she''s not about to start now . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10853'),
(6921, 'Nine Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.Joined by members of the department''s Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing.Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9323'),
(6922, 'Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Partsof Desire" "is the story of Brooks'' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shapetheir lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks'' acute analysis of the world''s fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam''s holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, andhow male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4658'),
(6923, 'Nine Princes in Amber', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9053'),
(6924, 'Nine Tomorrows', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of this master''s finest. Also use The Currents of Space (1985), End of Eternity (1986), and Casebook of the Black Widowers (1985).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9507'),
(6925, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century''s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith''s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4470'),
(6926, 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister''s Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state''s best witness, but she can''t remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1654'),
(6927, 'The Ninth Configuration', 'William Peter Blatty &amp; Mark Kermode', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1967 and then extensively revised in 1978,\n <em>\n  The Ninth Configuration\n </em>\n is a fascinating look at madness, philosophy, and the nature of religious belief. Both\n <em>\n  The Ninth Configuration\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Twinkle, Twinkle ''Killer'' Kane\n </em>\n have been out of print for decades, but this new edition combines both novels with a long essay by Mark Kermode.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n William Peter Blatty is most wel-known for his novel The Exorcist, and his Academy-award winning screenplay for the movie. He also wrote a sequel to The Exorcist, Legion, and directed Exorcist III as well as the film version of The Ninth Configuration. Mark Kermode is a well-known film scholar and expert on William Peter Blatty''s fiction and films.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8443'),
(6928, 'The Ninth Daughter', 'Barbara Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 1773: The Massachusetts Colony is torn between patriots who want independence and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams -- wife of John Adams, the leader of the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization opposing the Crown. When a murder occurs in the home of their friend and fellow patriot, John is accused and Abby must uncover a conspiracy that could cost them their freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(6929, 'Niubi!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School', 'Eveline Chao; Chris Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **How to talk dirty and influence people-in Chinese! ** You can study Chinese for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume''s foreign language slang series, *Niubi!* will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases used by Chinese people of all ages in a variety of situations, including flirting and dating, wheeling and dealing, and even specific Internet slang-not to mention plenty of Chinese words that are . . . well, best not to mention. Accessible and useful to complete novices (*Niubi!* newbies), intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese, or just anyone who enjoys cursing in other languages, this irreverent guide is packed with hilarious anecdotes and illustrations, mini cultural lessons, and contextual explanations. So whether you''re planning a trip to Beijing, flirting with an online acquaintance from Shanghai, or just want to start a fight in Chinatown-*Niubi!* will ensure that nothing you say is lost in translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(6930, 'Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America', 'Rick Perlstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Nixonland\n  </em>\n  Rick Perlstein tells a more familiar story than the one he unearthed in his influential previous book,\n  <em>\n   Before the Storm\n  </em>\n  , which argued that the stunning success of modern conservatism was founded in Goldwater''s massive 1964 defeat. But he makes it fresh and relentlessly compelling, with obsessive original research and a gleefully slashing style--equal parts Walter Winchell and Hunter S. Thompson--that''s true to the times. Perlstein is well known as a writer on the left, but his historian''s empathies are intense and unpredictable: he convincingly channels the resentment and rage on both sides of the battle lines and lets neither Nixon''s cynicism nor the naivete of liberals like New York mayor John Lindsay off the hook. And while election-year readers will be reminded of how much tamer our times are, they''ll also find that the echoes of the era, and its persistent national divisions, still ring loud and clear.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perlstein, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for\n  <em>\n   Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus\n  </em>\n  , provides a compelling account of Richard Nixon as a masterful harvester of negative energy, turning the turmoil of the 1960s into a ladder to political notoriety. Perlstein''s key narrative begins at about the time of the Watts riots, in the shadow of Lyndon Johnson''s overwhelming 1964 victory at the polls against Goldwater, which left America''s conservative movement broken. Through shrewdly selected anecdotes, Perlstein demonstrates the many ways Nixon used riots, antiâ€“Vietnam War protests, the drug culture and other displays of unrest as an easy relief against which to frame his pitch for his narrow win of 1968 and landslide victory of 1972. Nixon spoke of solid, old-fashioned American values, law and order and respect for the traditional hierarchy. In this way, says Perlstein, Nixon created a new dividing line in the rhetoric of American political life that remains with us today. At the same time, Perlstein illuminates the many demons that haunted Nixon, especially how he came to view his political adversaries as enemies of both himself and the nation and brought about his own downfall. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8857'),
(6931, 'No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels', 'Jay Dobyns &amp; Nils Johnson-Shelton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this white-knuckler, ATF agent Dobyns infiltrates a chapter of the Hells Angels to show that, aside from much of the romance surrounding the group, it is indeed a violent gang. His investigations lead him through a fascinating cast of crystal meth-heads, gun runners, gang rapists and frauds. Dobyns and co-writer Johnson-Shelton tell a bracing story in straightforward prose that doesn''t dilute any aspect of the toll his undercover act (a sprawling long-term investigation that penetrated deeper into the gang than any other) took on his life. A family guy who frequently finds himself taking calls from his worried wife while in the middle of an operation, Dobyns is brutally honest about how far his assignment takes him into the dark side and leaves the impression at the end that it''s highly unlikely he will ever be able to totally return to undercover work (Hunter S. Thompson was beaten up while writing his 1967 take on the gang in\n <em>\n  Hell''s Angels\n </em>\n ). From the medieval desert clan gatherings to breakneck-paced highway odysseys and high-noon showdowns, this is the real deal from an agent whose knack for the job and ability to transform it into elucidating reading recalls the story of Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This story of a two-year undercover investigation of the Arizona Hells Angels begins at the end and then backs up to tell the whole story. Dobyns, an officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, developed an addiction for the adrenaline rush after being shot and nearly killedÂ during an arrest.Â In a harrowing first-person account, Dobyns describes his double life as family man and gun trader during theÂ two years he spent undercover investigatingÂ the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. As he advanced within the club, eventually earning a â€œfull patch,â€ he became more estranged from his family and more enmeshed in the violence of his persona, â€œBird.â€ Feared and respected, the Angels were granted free drinks, sex, and drugs but held to a high level of conformity within the club. Dobyns details the â€œtime, commitment, trust, risk, and moneyâ€ it took for the ATF to penetrate a highly closed group populated by violent felonsâ€”some, like him, with families and day jobs. A fascinating look at the Hells Angels and theÂ price one man paid for infiltrating the gang. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6861'),
(6932, 'No Country for Old Men', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash during a hunting trip near the Rio Grande, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation in which their only hope of survival is local sheriff Ed Tom Bell. Reader''s Guide available. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(6933, 'No Cure for Cancer', 'Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An uproarious and lacerating meditation on life--and death--by a celebrated new voice on the comedy scene. Leary employs his ferocious wit and sharp intellect to confront society and its ills and forces us to face the issues we are all most afraid of. "Absolutely brilliant . . . the real cutting edge of American comedy".--The Boston Globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(6934, 'No Dominion', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Pittâ€™s life sucks. He hasnâ€™t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, itâ€™s that or your neckâ€“you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joeâ€™s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is. So itâ€™s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It wonâ€™t be long before heâ€™s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someoneâ€™s pulling Joeâ€™s strings, and now heâ€™s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. Heâ€™s gonna cut them when he finds themâ€“the strings and the hands that hold them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(6935, 'No Doors, No Windows', 'Joe Schreiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got awayâ€“first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scottâ€™s mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstancesâ€“the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful dayâ€“are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscriptâ€“an unfinished ghost story written in his fatherâ€™s own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hiddenâ€“and perhaps finish his fatherâ€™s unspeakable work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1846');
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(6936, 'No Graves as Yet: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This absorbing mystery/spy thriller, set in tranquil Cambridge just before the onset of the Great War, marks a powerful start to bestseller Perry''s much anticipated new series. In a lush and deceptively peaceful opening scene, college professor and chaplain Joseph Reavley is interrupted while watching a cricket game by his intelligence officer brother, Matthew, who reports the sudden death of their parents in a car crash. This horrifying news sets off a long but compelling investigation by the brothers that takes them across verdant summertime England, looking for a secret document that their father was trying to deliver to Matthew at the time of his death. Against a backdrop of ominous news from the continent, Perry artfully weaves connections between pacifist students at Cambridge, one of whom is also murdered, and German agents who may be planning "a conspiracy to ruin England and everything we stand for." The intrigue is further complicated by jilted lovers and jealous spouses at the university, all with grudges against an alleged blackmailer in their midst who may also be privy to exam cribbing and other illicit goings-on. Perry''s title, a quotation from G.K. Chesterton, is a portent of the carnage that soon awaits the youth of England, yet by the final resolution of this gripping case, many graves have regrettably already been filled in Cambridge''s serene churchyards.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRY AND HER VICTORIAN NOVELS\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œIntelligently written and historically fascinating.â€\n <br />\n _â€”The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œYou can count on a Perry tale to be superior.â€\n <br />\n _â€”The San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œ[A] master of crime fiction who rarely fails to deliver a strong story and a colorful cast of characters.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Baltimore Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n _The Reavley Chronicles\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8581'),
(6937, 'No Humans Involved', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Readers around the world have fallen for Kelley Armstrongâ€™s intoxicating, sensual and wicked tales of the paranormal, in which demons and witches, werewolves and vampires collide â€“ often hilariously, sometimes violently â€“ with everyday life. In Armstrongâ€™s first six novels, Elena, Paige and Eve have had their way with us. Now get ready for Jaime Vegas, the luscious, lovelorn and haunted necromancer. . .Jaime, who knows a thing or two about showbiz, is on a television shoot in Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. As a woman whose special talent is raising the dead, her threshold for weirdness is pretty high: sheâ€™s used to not only seeing dead people but hearing them speak to her in very emphatic terms. But for the first time in her life â€“ as invisible hands brush her skin, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered into her ears, and beings move just at the corner of her eyeâ€“she knows what humans mean when they talk about being haunted.She is determined to get to the bottom of these manifestations, but as she sets out to solve the mystery she has no idea how scary her investigation will get, or to what depths ordinary humans will sink in their attempts to gain supernatural powers. As she digs into the dark underside of Los Angeles, sheâ€™ll need as much Otherworld help as she can get in order to survive, calling on her personal angel, Eve, and Hope, the well-meaning chaos demon. Jeremy, the alpha werewolf, is also by her side offering protection. And, Jaime hopes, maybe a little more than that.â€œAs I knelt on the cobblestones to begin the ritual, I opened not some ancient leather pouch, but a Gucci make-up bag. . . .I know little about the geography and theology of the afterlife, but I do know that the worst spirits are kept secured, and my risk of â€œaccidentallyâ€ tapping into a hell dimension is next to nil. Even if I do bring back some depraved killerâ€™s spirit, what can it do to me? When you deprive someone of the ability to act in the living world, heâ€™s pretty darned helpless. In death, even the worst killer plummets from lethal to merely annoying.Yet whatever had been trying to contact me apparently could cross that barrier, could act in the living world. . .at least on me. I added an extra helping of vervain to the censer.â€â€”from No Humans InvolvedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3153'),
(6938, 'No Logo', 'Naomi Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tenth anniversary edition of the international bestseller with an updated introduction by Naomi Klein. In the last decadeNo Logohas become an international phenomenon. Equal parts journalistic expose, mall-rat memoir, and political and cultural analysis, it vividly documents the invasive economic practices and damaging social effects of the ruthless corporatism that characterizes many of our powerful institutions. As the world faces another depression, Naomi Klein''s analysis of the branded world we all live in proves not only astonishingly prescient but more vital and timely than ever. No Logobecame "the movement bible" that put the new grassroots resistance to corporate manipulation into clear perspective. It tells a story of rebellious rage and self-determination in the face of our branded world, calling for a more just, sustainable economic model and a new kind of proactive internationalism. Since her bookThe Shock Doctrinewas published last year, Klein, now thirty-eight, has become the most visible and influential figure on the American left-what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8125'),
(6939, 'No Mercy', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that there''s a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than she''s ever faced before. Shapeshifter Dev Peltier has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years and in that time, he''s seen it all. Or so he thought. Now their enemies have discovered a new source of power- one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date. The war is on and Dev and Sam are guarding ground zero. But in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules and pray it doesn''t unravel the universe as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3758'),
(6940, 'No More Misbehavin&#39;: 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them', 'Michele Borba Ed.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This will be the only discipline book you''ll ever need to raise good kids."\n <br />\n -from the Foreword by Jack Canfield, coauthor,\n <em>\n  Chicken Soup for the Soul\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Chicken Soup for the Parent''s Soul\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michele Borba offers insightful, realistic, and straightforward advice that is sure to get immediate results."\n <br />\n -Editor-in-Chief,\n <em>\n  Parents Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sensitive, thoughtful, eminently practical book that will help parents help their children change behaviors that will improve the child''s, and the entire family''s, well being and happiness. A wonderful contribution!"\n <br />\n -Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., child psychiatrist and coauthor,\n <em>\n  Over-Scheduled Child\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Anger, Anxiety, Biting, Bossy, Bullied, Bullying, Chore Wars, Cynical, Defiant, Doesn''t Listen, Fighting, Gives Up Easily, Hitting, Homework Battles, Hooked on Rewards, Impulsivity, Intolerant, Lying and Cheating, Materialistic, Mean, Negative Peer Pressure, No Friends, Over-Perfectionism, Poor Sportsmanship, Put-Downs, Rude, Selfish, Sibling Battles, Short Attention Span, Shy, Stealing, Swearing, Talking Back, Tattling, Teased, Temper Tantrums, Whining, Yelling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba tackles the most common bad behaviors that kids ages 3 to 12 repeat over and over behaviors that drive parents crazy. In this enormously useful, simple-to-use book she shows how to change these behaviors for good. For each negative behavior Dr. Borba offers a series of key tips and guidelines and outlines a step-by-step plan for a customized makeover that really works! Using the steps outlined in\n <em>\n  No More Misbehavin''\n </em>\n will give you the help you need to raise kids with strong values and good character.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This will be the only discipline book you''ll ever need to raise good kids."\n <br />\n â€” from the Foreword by Jack Canfield, coauthor,\n <em>\n  Chicken Soup for the Soul\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Chicken Soup for the Parent''s Soul\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michele Borba offers insightful, realistic, and straightforward advice that is sure to get immediate results."\n <br />\n â€” Editor-in-Chief,\n <em>\n  Parents Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sensitive, thoughtful, eminently practical book that will help parents help their children change behaviors that will improve the child''s, and the entire family''s, well being and happiness. A wonderful contribution!"\n <br />\n â€” Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., child psychiatrist and coauthor,\n <em>\n  Over-Scheduled Child\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Anger, Anxiety, Biting, Bossy, Bullied, Bullying, Chore Wars, Cynical, Defiant, Doesnt Listen, Fighting, Gives Up Easily, Hitting, Homework Battles, Hooked on Rewards, Impulsivity, Intolerant, Lying and Cheating, Materialistic, Mean, Negative Peer Pressure, No Friends, Over-Perfectionism, Poor Sportsmanship, Put-Downs, Rude, Selfish, Sibling Battles, Short Attention Span, Shy, Stealing, Swearing, Talking Back, Tattling, Teased, Temper Tantrums, Whining, Yelling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba tackles the most common bad behaviors that kids ages 3 to 12 repeat over and overâ€” behaviors that drive parents crazy. In this enormously useful, simple-to-use book she shows how to change these behaviors for good. For each negative behavior Dr. Borba offers a series of key tips and guidelines and outlines a step-by-step plan for a customized makeover that really works! Using the steps outlined in\n <em>\n  No More Misbehavin''\n </em>\n will give you the help you need to raise kids with strong values and good character.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10450'),
(6941, 'No one belongs here more than you: stories', 'Miranda July', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2904'),
(6942, 'No One Noticed the Cat', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A best-selling fantasist presents the tale of Jamas Tighe, an embattled young king with a foolish heart, and his right-hand cat, Niffy, an extraordinary feline who tries to save Jamas from his circle of enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10852'),
(6943, 'No Reservations', 'Megan Hart &amp; Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four days in Vegas. Two sexy and determined men. One penthouse suite... And No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Christmas isn''t so merry for Kate and Leah. Kate''s romantic winter holiday is destroyed by the sudden and uninvited presence of Dix''s annoying ex-wife while Brandon''s super-perfect family and a diamond ring sends Leah running for the refuge of a girl''s holiday in Sin City with Kate in tow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dix and Brandon both know what they want. Hopping a plane in hot pursuit, the men show up in Vegas, ready to use every sensual trick they have to convince Kate and Leah to take a gamble on forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Megan Hart and Lauren Dane spend way too many hours chatting via IM and giggling, but between them they''ve written 39 books across several genres.\n  <em>\n   Taking Care of Business\n  </em>\n  was their first joint project. Learn more about them at their websites.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6329'),
(6944, 'No Rest for Biggles', 'W. E. Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10137'),
(6945, 'No Second Chance (2003)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9594'),
(6946, 'No Time for Goodbye', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Barclay (_Bad Guys_) tugs hard on the heartstrings with the tragic tale of Cynthia Bigge, whose parents and brother vanished without a trace the day after she had a tempestuous teenage argument with her father. Twenty-five years later, raising a daughter with her husband, Terrence Archer, in Milford, Conn., but still haunted by her family''s disappearance, Cynthia goes on TV to talk about what happened and plead for clues. A mysterious phone call leads her to believe her father, at least, may still be alive, but as her excitement grows, so do Terrence''s worries. It soon appears that someone is playing a unexpectedly vicious game with Cynthia''s emotions, and that her family held secrets she never suspected. Though some plot twists require significant suspension of disbelief, skilled characterization and convincing dialogue more than compensate.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AfterÂ turning out fourÂ mystery novels featuring science-fiction author Zack Walker (the most recent isÂ Stone Rain, 2007), Toronto Star columnist BarclayÂ pens a stand-alone thriller that carriesÂ his signature blend of humor and suspense. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge wakes up one morning to find her entire family gone. Twenty-five years later, their unexplained disappearance still haunts her. She agrees to appear on theÂ reenactment showÂ Deadline, hoping the TV exposureÂ might provide her with some answers, although her husband, English teacher Terry Archer, is considerably more skeptical. Indeed, not long after the show airs, theÂ two areÂ shaken down by a psychic, receive a series of bizarre phone calls, andÂ become the victims ofÂ a break-in, although nothing is taken; instead, something is leftâ€”a hat that Cynthia is convinced belonged to her father. As Cynthia''s paranoia escalates, Terry''s patience wears thin, and the two decide to hire a private detective. That''s when the mayhem starts. Despite a few implausible plot turns,Â thisÂ fast-paced readÂ is bound to please, offering an especially intriguing premise andÂ plenty of irreverentÂ humor. Wilkinson, Joanne\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5550'),
(6947, 'No Time for Goodbye (2007)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9427'),
(6948, 'No Time Left', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8370'),
(6949, 'No Way Down: Life and Death on K2', 'Graham Bowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history, vividly taking readers through the tragic 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers, severely injured two others, and made headlines around the world. With its near-perfect pyramid shape, the 28,251-foot K2â€”the world''s second-highest mountain, some 800 feet shorter than the legendary Everest hundreds of miles to the southâ€”has lured serious climbers for decades. In 2008, near the end of a brief climbing season cut even shorter by bad weather, no fewer than ten international teamsâ€”some experienced, others less preparedâ€”crowded the mountain''s dangerous slopes with their Sherpas and porters, waiting to ascend. Finally, on August 1, they were able to set off. But hindered by poor judgment, lack of equipment, and overcrowded conditions, the last group did not summit until nearly 8 p.m., hours later than planned. Then disaster struck when a huge ice chunk from above the Bottleneck, a deadly 300-foot avalanche-prone gulley just below the summit, came loose and destroyed the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers and porters still above the Bottleneckâ€”many without oxygen and some with no headlampsâ€”faced the near impossibility of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not. Based on in-depth interviews with surviving climbers and many Sherpas, porters, and family and friends of the deceased, No Way Down reveals for the first time the full dimensions of this harrowing drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2091'),
(6950, 'No Way to Say Goodbye', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five lost souls in search of redemption . . .To outsiders it looks as if Mary was born unlucky, but deep down she believes in a happy ending. She just needs someone to remind her.And Sam looks like a waster and a disappointment the man who had it all and then threw it all away. He needs a fresh start.Penny is the life and soul of every party. Shes also a drunk and some would say a home wrecker. She needs someone to understand her.Ivans a sucker a man who still cares about the woman who broke his heart and took his children from him. He needs to be brave.And Adam is in a loveless marriage and cheating on his wife, though only he knows why he married the wrong woman. He needs a wake-up call.For these five souls change is going to come, and, when it does, they all get more than they bargained for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5432'),
(6951, 'The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night', 'Elizabeth Pantley; William Sears', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A breakthrough approach for a good night''s sleep--with no tears\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don''t believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley''s sanity-saving book\n <em>\n  The No-Cry Sleep Solution\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Pantley''s successful solution has been tested and proven effective by scores of mothers and their babies from across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Based on her research, Pantley''s guide provides you with effective strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems.\n <em>\n  The No-Cry Sleep Solution\n </em>\n offers clearly explained, step-by-step ideas that steer your little ones toward a good night''s sleep--all with no crying.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips from The No-Cry Sleep Solution:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Uncover the stumbling blocks that prevent baby from sleeping through the night\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine--and work with--baby''s biological sleep rhythms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a customized, step-by-step plan to get baby to sleep through the night\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Persistent Gentle Removal System to teach baby to fall asleep without breast-feeding, bottlefeeding, or using a pacifier\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "At long last, I''ve found a book that I can hand to weary parents with the confidence that they can learn to help their baby sleep through the night--without the baby crying it out."\n <br />\n --William Sears, M.D., Author of\n <em>\n  The Baby Book\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "When I followed the steps in this book, it only took a few nights to see a HUGE improvement. Now every night I''m getting more sleep than I''ve gotten in years! The best part is, there has been NO crying!"\n <br />\n --Becky, mother of 13-month-old Melissa\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A breakthrough approach that offers hope to exhausted parents looking for gentle ways to help their baby sleep without the heart-wrenching tears\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you suffering through sleepless nights and having to fend off a barrage of heartless advice about letting your baby "cry it out"?\n <em>\n  The No-Cry Sleep Solution\n </em>\n will show you how it is entirely possible and within your grasp to help your baby fall asleep peacefully--and stay asleep all night long.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep-deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn. At last, there is a practical and effective third way, thanks to Elizabeth Pantley, a parent educator and mother of four. Pantley is like a best friend who''s been there and is full of caring advice to help you and your baby get a good night''s sleep_._ Her ten-step will lead you through the process one day at a time by:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shedding new light on your baby''s sleep patterns and helping you set realistic goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Showing you how to analyze, assess, and improve your baby''s sleep patterns using sleep logs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offering a variety of sleep solutions that fit every parenting style, whether you cosleep with your baby or she sleeps in a crib or whether you breastfeed or bottlefeed\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating a tear-free customized sleep plan that works for both you and your baby\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Don''t let sleep deprivation keep you from enjoying your baby.\n <em>\n  The No-Cry Sleep Solution\n </em>\n is full of reassuring advice and words of wisdom from other parents who have had success with the program. It will give you the tools you need to effectively and gently reach your goal--a good night''s sleep for\n <em>\n  everyone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10244'),
(6952, 'The No. 1 Ladies&#39; Detective Agency', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This first novel in Alexander McCall Smithâ€™s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to â€œhelp people with problems in their lives.â€ Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.The No. 1 Ladiesâ€™ Detective Agency received two Booker Judgesâ€™ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(6953, 'Noah&#39;s Compass', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesnâ€™t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets isâ€”well, something quite different.We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tylerâ€™s lovely novel resonates so deeply.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(6954, 'A noble radiance', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In A Noble Radiance a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice''s most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(6955, 'The Nobodies Album', 'Carolyn Parkhurst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest bookâ€”a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, especially a horrific tragedy that befell her family years ago. On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo havenâ€™t spoken in yearsâ€”an estrangement stemming from that tragic dayâ€”she drops everything to go to him. The â€œlast chaptersâ€ of Octaviaâ€™s novel are layered throughout The NobodiesÂ  Albumâ€”the scattered puzzle pieces to her and Miloâ€™s dark and troubled past. Did she drive her son to murder? Did Milo murder anyone at all? And what exactly happened all those years ago? As the novel builds to a stunning reveal, Octavia must consider how this story will come to a close. Universally praised for her candid explorations of the human psyche, Parkhurst delivers an emotionally gripping and resonant mystery about a mother and her son, and about the possibility that one can never truly know another person.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1568'),
(6956, 'Nobody Runs Forever', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. You just can''t get good criminal help these days. That''s what Stark''s heist-meister Parker quickly discovers as he tries to make a score to repair his sagging financesâ€”no doubt wounded by recent economic ills. First, the plan of would-be hijackers of dental gold in Cincinnati turns to rubbish when one of the conspirators is found wearing a wire. Then a genial idiot with a workable plan for a robbery during a bank merger is found to be carrying too much emotional baggage, especially in his sexual connection to the wife of one of the bankers. And finally, a coldhearted bounty hunter who''s almost as good at his job as Parker is threatens everything when he stumbles across the bank robbery scheme while looking for the wire-wearer. Stark (aka MWA Grandmaster Donald Westlake) offers lots of bleak fun as well as intriguing physical details of the illegal variety and righteously sharp descriptions of people we pass every day on the street. A sentence like "She wasn''t slender; she was bone thin, and inside the stylish clothes she walked with a graceless jitteriness, like someone whose medicine had been cut off too soon" nails the banker''s wife in an instant. This stellar series just gets better and better.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“When a game of seven-card stud among a group of criminals produces a potential police informer with a communications device taped to his chest, Parker loses no time in strangling him. The group cancels its heist plans and breaks up, but Parker and three others soon reconvene. With inside information from the wife of a local bank president, they plan on robbing an armored car. Parker and his cohorts manage to pull off the job and stash the cash, but the cops are hot on their trail. Action scenes provide motion and movement. Characters often seem sketchy at first, but they round out as the story unfolds. Even the secondary figures stand out as clearly defined individuals, and their roles, which may be small, remain key elements in the plot. The tension builds with the thieves'' reactions as the story winds tightly toward the ending. Stark''s careful control over every element results in a fascinating novel, a look at the true price of crime, and an opportunity to enjoy another book by this master writer (aka Donald Westlake)._â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6554'),
(6957, 'The Nobody', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cryer came home to find his wife and young daughter brutalized.  He can''t quite catch the killer, who slips out a window, stabbing Cryer in the forehead with a 3 blade.  As his memories slowly return, Cryer sets out to recreate enough of his life to find and confront the killer, led by a series of encounters with his past, and a string of unintelligible words.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10646'),
(6958, 'Nobody&#39;s Baby but Mine', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4641'),
(6959, 'Nobody&#39;s Fool', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10753'),
(6960, 'Nocturnal', 'Jacquelyn Frank; Kate Douglas; Jess Haines; Clare Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The Phoenix Project'' by Jacquelyn Frank. Held captive, Amara is subjected to bizarre experiments that test the limits of her sanity. But nothing prepares her for being locked away - naked - with a sexy ex-cop...after they''ve been pumped full of drugs that increase their sexual appetites to animalistic intensity...''Crystal Dreams'' by Kate Douglas - When Lemurian Guard Darius chases a demon spirit to Earth, he faces a lethal battle between good and evil. His ally is Mari, a breathtakingly beautiful human who unknowingly holds the key to victory. But before the war is over, Darius'' desire for his mortal companion threatens to erupt - and could cost Mari her life...''Spark of Temptation'' by Jess Haines - Blackmailed into taking a treacherous case, P.I. Sara Halloway is thrust into a demon war. Sara seeks guidance from a charismatic mage, but their hunger for one another soon becomes a deadly distraction...and the danger surrounding them only makes their urges more powerful...''My Soul to Take'' by Clare Willis - New Orleans native Dr. Maggie Dillon thought she left her past behind her - until she''s enraptured by a handsome patient who has been possessed by a malevolent spirit. To find a cure, Colby revisits her magical roots - and unleashes a primal lust too vital to ignore...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1552'),
(6961, 'Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro''s signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American singer, goes sloshing through the canals of Venice to serenade his trophy wife, Lindy. The narrator, Jan, is a hired guitar player whose mother was a huge fan of Tony, but Jan''s experience playing for Tony fractures his romantic ideals. Lindy returns in the title story, which finds her in a luxury hotel reserved for celebrity patients recovering from cosmetic surgery. The narrator this time is Steve, a saxophonist who could never get a break because of his loser ugly looks. Lindy idly strikes up a friendship with Steve as they wait for their bandages to come off and their new lives to begin. In the final story, Cellists, an unnamed saxophonist narrator who, like Jan, plays in Venice''s San Marco square, observes the evolving relationship of a Hungarian cello prodigy after he meets an American woman. The stories are superbly crafted, though they lack the gravity of Ishiguro''s longer works (_Never Let Me Go_;\n  <em>\n   Remains of the Day\n  </em>\n  ), which may leave readers anticipating a crescendo that never hits.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ishiguro blends musical concepts with their literary counterparts in his latest work, and\n  <em>\n   Nocturnes\n  </em>\n  has the ephemeral quality of a song cycle with recurring themes and motifs developed in different prose keys. Though critics admired Ishiguro''s lovely writing, "unassuming to the point of near-invisibility, like a lake whose still surface belies the turbulent currents beneath" (_Los Angeles Times_), they took issue with his charactersâ€”insubstantial and unconvincing when compared to the haunting creations found in his novelsâ€”and his implausible plot developments. Perhaps\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  summed it up best by stating that\n  <em>\n   Nocturnes\n  </em>\n  , by any other writer, would be praiseworthy; by a celebrated author like Ishiguro, it can best be likened to a minor work from a master composer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5564'),
(6962, 'Noir', 'Robert Coover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of Americas pioneering postmodernists, has turned the classic detective story inside-out. Here Coover is at the top of his form; and Noir is a true page-turnerwry, absurd, and desolate. You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husbands killerif he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappearsif she was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from jazz bars to a rich sex kittens bedroom, from yachts to the morgue. The Case of the Vanishing Black Widow unfolds over five days aboveground and three or four in smugglers tunnels, though flashback and anecdote, and expands time into something much larger. You dont always get the joke, though most people think whats happening is pretty funny.Praise for the work of Robert Coover As his dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force. The New York Times At age 75, Coover is still a brilliant mythmaker, a potty-mouthed Svengali, and an evil technician of metaphors. He is among our languages most important inventors. Ben Marcus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4060'),
(6963, 'Noise', 'Darin Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This haunting debut from a brilliant new voice is sure to be as captivating as it is controversial, a shocking look at the imminent collapse of American civilizationâ€”and what will succeed it. In the aftermath of the switch from analog to digital TV, an anarchic movement known as Salvage hijacks the unused airwaves. Mixed in with the staticâ€™s random noise are dire warnings of the imminent economic, political, and social collapse of civilizationâ€”and cold-blooded lessons on how to survive the fall and prosper in the harsh new order that will inevitably arise from the ashes of the old.Hiram and Levi are two young men, former Scouts and veterans of countless Dungeons &amp; Dragons campaigns. Now, on the blood-drenched battlefields of university campuses, shopping malls, and gated communities, they will find themselves taking on new identities and new moralities as they lead a ragtag band of hackers and misfits to an all-but-mythical place called Amaranth, where a fragile future waits to be born.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(6964, 'Nolo&#39;s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions', 'Shae Irving &amp; Nolo (Firm)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here is a practical book for non-lawyers, providing clear answers to frequently asked questions in 74 different areas of the law. "What do I do about my noisy neighbors?" "What are my rights if I''m fired from my job?" "Do I really need to make a will?" In lieu of going to law school, this book gives a good, basic grounding on the legal matters most likely to touch your life--your home, your car, your money, and your job, among others. It''s an excellent reference book for any home library.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book digests information offered in many other Nolo Press titles. Chapters answer basic legal questions pertaining to estate planing, domestic relations, landlords and tenants, employment, small businesses, money management and debt, neighbor conflicts, elder law, and automobiles. Nolo''s trademark style is present?plain English writing with useful lists of additional resources. The question-and-answer format forms the backbone of the book, and practical examples, explanations of legal principles, and useful tips appear throughout. Any library with a substantial collection of Nolo materials will find this to be redundant, but small collections looking for a general legal guide may want to add this latest offering.?Joan Pedzich, Harris Beach &amp; Wilcox LLP, Rochester, N.Y.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7001'),
(6965, 'Nolo&#39;s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home', 'Ilona Bray &amp; Alayna Schroeder &amp; Marcia Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Any first-time homebuyer owes it to him or herself to get this book. It''s packed with information you won''t find anywhere else, yet is remarkably accessible, even when covering complex financial issues." --\n <em>\n  Elisabeth DeMarse, CEO, Creditcards.com, former CEO, Bankrate.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n " Coming from a gal that knows tools, this book is a must-have tool for any home buyer. It offers so much essential information, purchasing a home without it would be like trying to drive a nail without a hammer!" --\n <em>\n  Norma Vally, host of Toolbelt Diva (Discovery Home) and author of Chix Can Fix: 100 Home Improvement Projects and True Tales From the Diva of Do-It-Yourself\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n " Enthusiasm, hints and tips all rolled into a great read for first-timers." --\n <em>\n  Pat Lashinsky, President of ZipRealty\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Takes the guesswork out of home buying... two thumbs up!" --\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Weintraub, Home Buying &amp; Selling Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A must-have for any new homebuyer. Empower yourself by informing yourself!" --\n <em>\n  Heidi Baker &amp; Eden Jarrin, co-founders of BeJane.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Like having over a dozen real estate experts over for dinner. --\n <em>\n  Steve Kropper, president of Bank on Real Estate, founder of Domania.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Insider tips and advice to help you get the right place at the right price!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re ready to say goodbye to landlords and laundromats, Nolo''s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home will help you find the right place to invest in -- and have fun doing it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with interesting facts and real-life stories, this book provides everything you need to select the right house, the right mortgage, the right agent, the right inspections -- and much more. Get the inside scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  deciding between a house, condo, co-op or townhouse\n </li>\n <li>\n  exploring the market for the best value\n </li>\n <li>\n  lining up financing\n </li>\n <li>\n  getting inspections and insurance\n </li>\n <li>\n  negotiating with sellers or new home builders\n </li>\n <li>\n  successfully closing the deal\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Read the real-life stories of over 20 first-time homebuyers, as well as the insights from a team of 13 real estate professionals, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  brokers\n </li>\n <li>\n  attorneys who specialize in real estate\n </li>\n <li>\n  a home inspector\n </li>\n <li>\n  a neighborhood researcher\n </li>\n <li>\n  a mortgage specialist\n </li>\n <li>\n  and more PLUS: You''ll get the The Homebuyer''s Toolkit, a CD-ROM that includes dozens of forms and MP3s which will help you find the right place, crunch the numbers, interview real estate professionals, borrow down payment money from your parents -- and more.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6947'),
(6966, 'Nolo&#39;s Essential Guide to Divorce', 'Emily Doskow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most practical -- and legal -- companion through divorce ever published. Like most people who are going through a separation or divorce, you''re probably wondering "What''s next?" at every turn. So turn to Nolo''s Essential Guide to Divorce for clear answers that can help make your divorce as simple and inexpensive as humanly possible. With compassion and understanding, Nolo''s Essential Guide to Divorce will help you understand the divorce process, work with mediators or lawyers, avoid expensive and painful court battles, figure out alimony, establish child custody and visitation, determine child support, divide money and property fairly, draft a marital settlement agreement, deal with divorce emergencies, address post-divorce issues, find helpful resources and much more. On every page, this book stresses the importance of minimizing conflict, explains complex legal problems concisely, and provides advice on how to protect your interests. Plus, easy-to-use charts make it easy to find the divorce laws of your state. Plenty of books out there claim to cover divorce thoroughly, but only Nolo has the reputation of consistently delivering clear legal expertise and invaluable insights. Trust Nolo''s Essential Guide to Divorce to help you through every step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8176'),
(6967, 'The Nomad', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Armed with Galdra, the fabled sword of elven kings, Sorak has forged his way across the forbidding wilds of Athas, from the peaks of the Ringing Mountains to the shores of the Great Silt Sea. Now, along with his villichi companion Ryana, he closes in on the goal of his quest, a natal avangion who holds the secret of Sorak''s past and the promise of Athas''s future. Unfortunately, Sorak is not the only one pursuing the Sage. The sorcerer-king Nibenay seeks to destroy the avangion before he can fully form. For all his power, Nibenay has been unable to track down the Sage, but he knows Sorak will head right to him...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3761');
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(6968, 'The Nonesuch', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer is a highly gifted writer who creates amazing characters, witty dialogue, and fabulous intrigue that is combined with well-researched Regency cant, dress, food and behavior as no one else can. For any fan of Jane Austen''s wonderful writing, Georgette Heyer is a wonderful continuation. (Danya\n <em>\n  Night Owl Romance\n </em>\n 20090528)\n</p>\n<p>\n [I]it is so charming with the style of writing it becomes amusing and witty... The book made me smile. (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20090528)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love Heyer''s voice and style of writing. Her characters a lovely and the situations they find themselves in are hilarious. (Carrie Zimmerman\n <em>\n  The Book Girl\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters are fun and alive. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090605)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love the witty dialogue, the characters, the storyline, the setting, the action... It was a tremendously fun, light-hearted read. (Nancy Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed this book and Heyer''s characterizations... The folks at Sourcebooks [are] doing a remarkable job in bringing back the magic that is Georgette Heyer''s Regency novels. (Sharon Goforth\n <em>\n  Ex Libris\n </em>\n 20090821)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Nonesuch\n </em>\n looks like a typical Regency romance, but as Georgette Heyer always provides, there is much more between the covers. (Lady Anne\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n There is no doubt that Georgette Heyer is the queen of witty banter and sparkling repartee. Her wonderful use of language leads to a light and frothy novel that is so enjoyable that it is impossible to read it without smiling. (Carey Andereson\n <em>\n  The Tome Traveller''s Weblog\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n The details in Georgette Heyer''s books are amazing. They make you feel like you are really there in that time and location. A great read for those that just can''t get enough of those sorts of details. (Nicole Heffernan\n <em>\n  A Blog of Bokos\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n The biggest delight is the picturesque way that Georgette Heyer describes the period. (Christine Plaisted\n <em>\n  Books 4 Moms\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  "Triumphantly good...Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." â€” India Knight, Sunday Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  An impetuous flight\n </em>\n ...\n <br />\n Tiffany Wield''s bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf " at twenty-eight, Ancilla Trent strives to be a calming influence on her tempestuous charge, but then Tiffany runs off to London alone and Ancilla is faced with a devastating scandal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A gallant rescue\n </em>\n ...\n <br />\n Sir Waldo Hawkridge, confirmed bachelor and one of the wealthiest men in London, comes instantly to the aid of the intrepid Ancilla to stop Tiffany''s flight, and in the process discovers that it''s never too late for the first bloom of love.\n</p>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds."\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT THE NONESUCH:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A lovely, entertaining read, full of deliciously entertaining character studies, witty dialogue, a gentle secondary romance and, of course, the main love story. This is another of Heyer''s ''older heroine'' novels, subtle, romantic, and very enjoyable. Highly recommended!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the wittiest stories Heyer has concocted, that will have you chuckling to yourself."\n</p>\n<p>\n "The same flashes of wit, the wonderful dialogue, and the ridiculous intrigue that are all the ingredients of a first-rate Georgette Heyer."\n</p>\n<p>\n "No other novelist recreates the manners, dress, behaviour, and language of the Regency period as well as [Georgette Heyer] did."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heyer moves into Austen territoryâ€”delightfully!"\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090505)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10157'),
(6969, 'North and South (Dodo Press)', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Perhaps the most well known of the novels from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10637'),
(6970, 'North of Beautiful', 'Justina Chen Headley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Terra''s body is very nearly perfect, except for the port-wine birthmark on her left cheek, which several surgeries have failed to remove. It is the teen''s final semester of high school and she looks forward to college where she can study art and escape from her bullying, verbally abusive father. Over the Christmas holidays, Terra and her mother get into a car accident and meet Jacob, a Goth Chinese boy with a cleft lip, and his adoptive mother. The women immediately strike up a supportive friendship, while Terra and Jacob grow close. When Terra''s brother, who lives in Shanghai, sends her and her mother tickets to visit, and Jacob''s mother wants to try to track down Jacob''s birth mother, they decide to travel together. But what about Erik, Terra''s enamored but slightly clueless boyfriend? Headley''s ambitious novel is written in a beautifully crafted style that flows seamlessly. The pace is somewhat bogged down in the first half but it quickens when the characters travel to China, where Jacob, Terra, and their mothers begin to confront their insecurities. Terra and Jacob are flawed, complex, and memorable characters. The message that true beauty and strength come from within is dominant, but this is also a moving and satisfying story in its own right.â€”_Amy J. Chow, The Brearley School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sixteen-year-old Terra seems to be a typical high-achieving high-school student. Under her heavy makeup, though, she hides a port-wine colored birthmark on her cheek that makes her feel like an outsider. During yet another attempt to remove the birthmark, Terra runs into Jacob, a gorgeous Goth with a cleft-palette scar. That encounter initiates a transformation in both Terra and her subservient mother. Headley has written an exquisite book that explores the difference between physical and true beauty as Terra and her mother travel from Washington state to China, and from the home of a shame-faced, cruel cartographer into the presence of an adventurous, strong woman and her insightful teenage son. Headley uses map metaphors throughout, even in the activity, geocaching, which helps bond Terra and Jacob in both Washington and China. She also uses Terraâ€™s artistic medium, collage, as a literary device to create layer upon layer of experiences and insights into a artfully written journey of self-discovery, self-actualization, and love. With every carefully chosen word, well-crafted sentence, and fully developed character, Headley maps out a wholly satisfying reading experience that takes readers from terra nullis to terra firma. Grades 9-12. --Frances Bradburn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5965'),
(6971, 'North Star', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9337'),
(6972, 'Northanger Abbey', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you are either learning Italian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Italian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Northanger Abbey. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Italian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Italian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader''s exposure to the subtleties of both languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2100'),
(6973, 'Northfield', 'Johnny D. Boggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On September 7, 1876, the James-Younger gang attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, with disastrous consequences. In a unique, compelling approach, author Johnny D. Boggs shifts perspectives from one first-person account to another to describe the bloody robbery, as well as the events leading to it and its aftermath.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2532'),
(6974, 'Norway to Hide: A Passport to Peril Mystery', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sure, Jackie Thum''s newly published novel might not be Hemingway, but bad reviews from her fellow travelers have Emily Andrew''s transgender ex-husband (Jackie was formerly Jack) steaming like a sauna. It''s a dismal start to their Scandinavian tour, and group leader Emily is getting that sinking feeling in Helsinki: something fishy this way comes. When Jackie''s most outspoken critic, a Floridian from a picture-perfect gated community called The Hamlets, is found dead, suspicion falls on Jackie -- who surprises everyone with an airtight alibi. But when another guest turns up dead, Emily realizes there is a killer hiding among them. Herrings, both red and pickled, abound on a Norwegian fjord cruise -- and Jackie is suddenly nowhere to be found. With her mother arranging a wedding disaster for Emily back home in Iowa, Emily must somehow salvage her nuptials from overseas while icing a killer -- before someone else meets a nasty Finnish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2303'),
(6975, 'Norwegian Wood', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  First American Publication\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.  It is sure to be a literary event.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.  Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A poignant story of one college student''s romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man''s first, hopeless, and heroic love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9994'),
(6976, 'A Nose for Justice', 'Rita Mae Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred-year-old skeleton on a Nevada ranch thrillingly start off this debut novel in a tail-wagging new series from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. With the ruins of her high-powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty-two-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeepâ€™s sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat, with his suspicious nose to a cracked window, is Magsâ€™s beloved wirehaired dachshund, the urbane Baxter. Mags was named for her great-aunt, Magdalenaâ€”though everyone calls the spry octogenarian rancher Jeep. From piloting planes in World War II to discovering one of Americaâ€™s largest gold deposits, Jeep has enjoyed a lifetime jam-packed with love and adventure, and sheâ€™s not done yet. At her sideâ€”to Baxterâ€™s low-down distressâ€”is Jeepâ€™s loyal German Shepherd mix, King. The growlings are mutual: King sniffs that Baxter is a â€œfuzzy sausage.â€Meanwhile, someone pipe-bombs Red Rock Valleyâ€™s pumping station, endangering the water supply near and far. Deputy Pete Meadows links the sabotage to a string of local murders, but he doesnâ€™t yet know if itâ€™s a corporate plot or twisted eco-terrorism. Heâ€™s also called out to Wings Ranch when human bones are dug up in Jeepâ€™s barn; the dead manâ€™s ring identifies him as an elite Russian military officer from the late 1800s, apparently knifed to death. In her search to find out whodunit, Mags uncovers fascinating history about Jeepâ€™s ranch, including an intriguing connection to Buffalo Bill. Mags and Pete have mysteries to solve, among them why they are so drawn to each other. Baxter and King team up when it comes time to protect their humans. And all the while, Jeep Reed, the sassiest wit in the West, has a bold plan for Red Rock Valley in which they all will play a part.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3565'),
(6977, 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard', 'Joseph Conrad; Veronique Pauly; J. H. Stape', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This involved, philosophical novel is not for the casual listener, especially one who is supposed to be concentrating on the road ahead. Writing in 1904, Conrad invented a complex South American country with a turbulent history and a potentially explosive population, ranging from the wealthy gringo running the Sulaco silver mine to the poorest worker loading cargo on the docks. Although the story teems with lively characters, the dazzling figure of Nostromo eclipses them all. A natural leader?brave, handsome, and incorruptible?he naturally becomes the epicenter of the revolution that soon devastates Sulaco. With characteristic eloquence, Conrad has focused on the dramatic action of the revolution to explore challenging themes: capitalism, imperialism, revolution, and social justice. Unfortunately, this audio program, read by Frederick Davidson, is disappointing. Despite fine dramatic characterizations, the narrator''s posh British accent is so pronounced that it often detracts from the text. Since Nostromo has also been narrated by Frank Muller (Recorded Books) and Wolfram Kandinsky (Books on TapeR), perhaps this version may not be the best choice.?Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n `I had always thought that there were books you read to entertain yourself and classic books to educate you, but with Nostromo I realised a book could be both.'' Billy Ivory, Nottingham Evening Post\n</p>\n<p>\n `one of the greatest, if least frequently read, of 20th-century classics ... epic in scope, with its large cast of characters and numerous political upheavals'' Times Educational Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10632'),
(6978, 'Not &quot;Just Friends&quot;: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity', 'Shirley P. Glass &amp; Jean Coppock Staeheli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Refusing to pander to audiences expecting Dr. Phil-type quick fixes, Glass (who has appeared on Oprah herself) chooses "a new, fact-based, scientifically and therapeutically responsible approach" to a subject she contends is fraught with public and professional misconceptions. Drawing on research studies (her own and others'') and clinical cases from her 25 years as a psychotherapist, she explores "the new crisis of infidelity" resulting from platonic relationships that become progressively intense. Personal and professional friendships between men and women have become so prevalent and accepted that, according to Glass, even "good" people in "good" marriages can be swept away in a riptide of emotional intimacy more potent than sheer sexual attraction. Glass scrutinizes affairs and offers well-defined guidelines, including tips for determining how vulnerable individuals and relationships are to temptation, and prescriptions for keeping relationships "safe," repairing betrayal-induced damages and recovering from the trauma. Glass''s credentials and commitment lend this book credence as a valuable resource; Staeheli''s easy, personable style and the well-organized format make it user-friendly, too.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n MicheleWeiner-Davis Author of\n <em>\n  The Divorce Remedy\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Sex-Starved Marriage\n </em>\n Every once in a while a book comes along that is so illuminating, instructive, down-to-earth, and inspiring that it truly transforms lives. Since no marriage -- including yours -- is immune to infidelity,\n <em>\n  NOT "Just Friends"\n </em>\n is a godsend for couples.\n</p>\n<p>\n John M. Gottman, Ph.D. Author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Relationship Cure\n </em>\n In this long-awaited, breakthrough book, Dr. Glass has provided practical advice with a scientific basis and profoundly sensitive clinical experience about the highly destructive problem of infidelity. She alerts us to the new crisis of infidelity and shows us how to safeguard our most precious relationships from this danger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pat Love, Ed.D. Author of\n <em>\n  The Truth about Love\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hot Monogamy\n </em>\n I love this book and loaned it to a friend whose husband was "not just friends" with a coworker. They believe it prevented a serious breach from forming in their marriage. A must-read for anyone who ever hopes to be happy in a long-term relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., Author of\n <em>\n  Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples\n </em>\n <em>\n  NOT "Just Friends"\n </em>\n puts a new face on infidelity using clinical experience and current research. I recommend it for anyone considering an affair, in an affair, or recovering from an affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Pittman, M.D. Author of\n <em>\n  Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy\n </em>\n I treasure Dr. Shirley Glass, and I treasure this book. No one understands affairs better than she does. She offers her traumatized readers compassion, wisdom, and unshakeable common sense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peggy Vaughan Host of DearPeggy.com and author of\n <em>\n  The Monogamy Myth\n </em>\n This is the most comprehensive book on affairs that I have ever read and the only one that completely reflects the reality of affairs. No matter how many other books you have read on this subject, read this one. It is absolutely wonderful!\n</p>\n<p>\n Ira Glass Host of National Public Radio''s\n <em>\n  This American Life\n </em>\n It''s a relief my mom wrote a great book so I can be totally honest on the jacket cover.\n <em>\n  NOT "Just Friends"\n </em>\n offers one surprising, radical insight after another, including: Infidelity doesn''t start the first time your partner sleeps with someone else; it begins when your partner becomes closer to someone else than to you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5633'),
(6979, 'Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life''s fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man. With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together-each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. It''s called revenge-and they were taught by a master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8806'),
(6980, 'Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">\n  In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby, revelations are at hand.\n </span>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">\n  In Not a Star, Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a porn video at her house, with a note telling her to watch it. Turns out, Mark is rather remarkable in one specific area of his life (and anatomy). Lynn and her husband, Dave, donâ€™t quite know what to think. The revelation of their sonâ€™s talent ripples through Lynnâ€™s life as she alternately encounters humor, horror, and unexpected emotional reactions.\n </p>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">\n  What do you do in the face of impending doom? In Otherwise, Pandemonium, you lose your virginity with the hottest girl in the Little Berkeley Big Bandâ€¦ Here, the world is a different place; the future is uncertain; the choices one makes are the only thing standing between a semblance of order or utter chaos. And the TVâ€™s been acting funny. This is a story that makes you think and feel, and reminds us of the fleeting nature of time.\n </p>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">\n </p>\n <a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7014617-not-a-star-and-otherwise-pandemonium#" style="color: rgb(33, 86, 37); text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">\n </a>\n <a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7014617-not-a-star-and-otherwise-pandemonium#" style="color: rgb(33, 86, 37); text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">\n </a>\n <a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7014617-not-a-star-and-otherwise-pandemonium#" style="color: rgb(33, 86, 37); text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">\n </a>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8028'),
(6981, 'Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating', 'Daniel Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-two acclaimed writers celebrate the art of eating   Wendell Berry â€¢ Colette â€¢ William Corbett â€¢ Michael Dorris â€¢ Alexandre Dumas â€¢ M. F .K. Fisher â€¢ Michael Frank â€¢ Betty Fussell â€¢ Evan Jones â€¢ Judith B. Jones â€¢ Barbara Kafka â€¢ Madeline Kamman â€¢ Charles Lamb â€¢ Rose Macaulay â€¢ Henry Matthews â€¢ Joyce Carol Oates â€¢ Francine Prose â€¢ Paul Schmidt â€¢ James Seay â€¢ Charles Simic â€¢ Edward Steinberg â€¢ Alice Waters   There is more to be gained from our daily bread than mere sustenance. Curiosity, romance, ritual, and insight can be as much a part of a meal as any of its edible ingredients. In this delectable collection of essays on fine food and drink, twenty-two renowned writers capture the gestures, the celebrations, and the moments in which food, wine, and the act of eating transcend their initial purposes to become something far greater. A window into the eating lives of a handful of our finest literary artists, Not for Bread Alone is a tasty and most satisfying delightâ€”a true culinary classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6595'),
(6982, 'Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel', 'Ruth Rendell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In addition to solving two long-ago murders, Chief Inspector Wexford is troubled by female genital mutilation in the local Somali community. The temptation would be to cut the subplot, but this abridgment retains the richness of the novel. Tim Curry''s performance is splendid, even better than Daniel Gerroll''s excellent performance of Rendell''s\n <em>\n  End in Tears\n </em>\n . Curry does a particularly marvelous job with the minor characters, such as the two wives-in-law of a local author, who cackle at the sexual innuendos of their own jokes. Then there''s 84-year-old Irene McNeil, alternately supercilious and weepy. Throw in the obsessive Grimbles, on whose land the bodies were found; some migrant fruit-picking Roma; Wexford''s family; Somali immigrants; and Curry somehow sounds like a full-cast audio. If only Wexford sounded less like his assistant Burden, the performance would be absolutely perfect.\n <em>\n  A Crown hardcover (reviewed online). (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rendell, winner of three Edgar Awards, has two primary approaches in her acclaimed crime fiction: edgy novels of psychological suspense and more traditional police procedurals starring Chief Inspector Wexford of Kingsmarkham, Sussex. Where Rendellâ€™s suspense can leave the reader deliciously unsettled, the Wexford novels place the reader on solid, sometimes overly familiar, ground. For example, Rendell overrelies on the old â€œsee who cracks when the police visitâ€ convention, using the questioning of witnesses/suspects in their homes as a launch pad for scathing comments on home decor and the occupantsâ€™ physical attributesâ€”after the fourth or fifth visit, the formula starts to creak. But Rendell works feverishly within the form to deliver some surprises, starting here with the discovery of a human hand by a dog trained to hunt for truffles in the woods. The remains, according to the pathologist, have been buried for almost a decade. Wexford centers his investigation on the owners of the land where the hand was found, a contentious couple, greatly caught up in land disputes. When a second body is found in a basement wood pile, the action takes off. Rendell keeps the suspense going nicely, even if Wexford remains something of a cardboard character, and the procedure is mostly rooted in the past. For devoted fans of the series, of whom there are many, this will be much anticipated and, as always, satisfying; for others, only so-so. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5109'),
(6983, 'Not One Clue: A Mystery', 'Lois Greiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n L.A. psychologist Christina McMullenâ€™s relationship with Detective Jack Rivera is heating upâ€”until a client threatens to put a damper on their sparks. Chrissy has been counseling Micky Goldenstone to face the secrets from his past, but she had no idea that they would lead to a dangerous confrontation with a criminal even the police canâ€™t protect her from. To make matters worse, Chrissyâ€™s best friend, Hollywood starlet Laney Butterfield, has started getting creepy mail thatâ€™s turning stalker-ugly. And Chrissyâ€™s neighbor desperately needs her help to rescue her runaway sister from an abusive husband. When it comes to swimming in a sea of crazy, Chrissy is a pro, but sheâ€™ll need more than a few clues to keep her head above water.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born on a North Dakota cattle ranch, Lois Greiman graduated from a high school class of sixty students before moving to Minnesota where she professionally trained and showed Arabian Horses for several years. Since that time she''s been a high fashion model, a fitness instructor, and a veterinary assistant. She currently lives on a small farm in Minnesota with her husband, three children, fifteen horses, and a menagerie of pets, where she is at work on her next mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7384'),
(6984, 'The Notebook', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3081'),
(6985, 'Notebooks', 'Leonardo da Vinci; Irma Anne Richter; Thereza Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist''s eye and a scientist''s curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement ofwater and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo''s thoughts, andhis approach to work and life. This selection, organized in seven themed sections, offers a fascinating and informative sample of his writings. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world''s leading authorities on Leonardo, whoexplores the artist''s genius and the contents and legacy of his manuscripts. The book also features new notes and a chronology of Leonardo''s life.Irma A. Richter was an artist, translator, and Leonardo scholar.Thereza Wells is Head of Scientific Analysis at Universal Leonardo.Martin Kemp is University Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford (Trinity College) and the author of The Oxford History of Western Art and Leonardo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2504'),
(6986, 'Notes From a Small Island', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(6987, 'Notes From the Dog', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œSometimes having company is not all itâ€™s cracked up to be.â€ Fifteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer heâ€™s hoping for a job where he doesnâ€™t have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. Sheâ€™s 10 years older, cool, funny, and she treats Finn as an equal. Dylan loves her, too. Johannaâ€™s dealing with breast cancer, and Matthew and Finn learn to care for her, emotionally and physically. When she hires Finn to create a garden, his gardening ideas backfire comically. But Johanna and the garden help Finn discover his talents for connecting with people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7145'),
(6988, 'Notes From the Midnight Driver', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€“After drinking some vodka and taking his mom''s car for a spin to his father''s girlfriend''s house, who just happens to be his former third-grade teacher, 16-year-old Alex Gregory finds himself on his neighbors'' lawn with police yelling at him and a broken gnome under his car. It is hard to believe that Alex would do anything like this; most of the time he hangs out with his friend Laurie, a sassy petite karate expert, and plays guitar in the school jazz band. He is also trying to get over his parents'' recent split. For drinking and driving, Alex is sentenced to 100 hours of community service at a nursing home with Solomon Lewis. Sol is a difficult, crotchety, eccentric old man with emphysema who lashes out at Alex in strange Yiddish phrases. Soon Alex grows found of Sol, who teaches him something about the guitar, respecting the elderly, and taking responsibility for his actions. Alex''s voice is fresh and funny, but doesn''t downplay the serious situations. The other characters in the book are well defined and add interesting touches to the story. Fans of Sonnenblick''s\n <em>\n  Drums, Girls &amp; Dangerous Pie\n </em>\n (Turning Tide, 2004) will be pleased with this follow-up book in which Steven and Annette make a few brief appearances._â€“Shannon Seglin, Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n While his mother is out on a first date, 16-year-old Alex decides to get drunk, steal her car, and drive to his father''s home, hoping to catch him romancing one of Alex''s former teachers. His goal? Revenge. Reality? A damaged car, a decapitated gnome, a drunk driving charge, and community service. He is ordered to serve his 100 hours visiting Solomon Lewis, the meanest, crankiest resident at Egbert P. Johnson Memorial Home for the Aged. Alex discovers that Solomon is also witty, intelligent, and a fighter--an old man who has lived all the joys, sorrows, and regrets of a long life. Sonnenblick has created a memorable cast of characters: acerbic Sol, a former famous jazz guitarist who is now dying of emphysema; narrator Alex, a budding guitarist with a tendency to make excuses rather than assume responsibility; and Alex''s best friend Laurie, a tiny, pixielike karate master whom Sol refers to as Alex''s "wife." Even minor characters, such as Alex''s parents and the judge, take on a heft and weight uncommon in YA literature, and teens will easily connect with Alex''s epiphanies: "You can''t just throw someone out of your life when they displease you," and, "We''re all free to choose some people to love, and then do it." It all adds up to a funny, bittersweet tour de force.\n <em>\n  Frances Bradburn\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5686'),
(6989, 'The Notes', 'Ronald Reagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From his early days living in small-town poverty, young Dutch Reagan''s thoughts were always on the future. Whether helping his family through financial hard times or doggedly pursuing opportunities reserved for the few, Dutch knew that all the knowledge that he had absorbed over the years was waiting inside of him for a chance to come out. Achieving success as an athlete, sports announcer, and actor, Ronald Reagan discovered his greatest role late in life, as the fortieth president of the United States and The Great Communicator, a man with the ability to reach out to the American people and leave a lasting legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5454'),
(6990, 'Nothing but Money: How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street', 'Greg B. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n True financial crimefrom the author of Mob Cops and Made Men. The eye-opening, untold story of one of the most elaborate conspiracies to rock Wall Streeta scheme involving the Mafia, murder, and millions of dollars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8693'),
(6991, 'Nothing But Trouble', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble . . . Chelsea Ross''s acting career has been a total bust. The closest she ever came to stardom was her brilliant performance as "Pretty Dead Girl #1." But leaving Hollywood to become the personal assistant to a famous hockey player could be her stupidest career move ever. More trouble . . . Injured superstar Mark Bressler''s glory days are over. The bad-boy ex-jock could at least be civil to the pint-sized, pink-haired bombshell who the Seattle Chinooks hired to be his P.A. If Chelsea didn''t need the money, she''d be running from the world''s biggest jerk as fast as her feet could carry her. Big trouble! Chelsea can deal with Mark''s rotten attitude and dark moods. The problem is those biceps and that red-hot bod! And when the bad boy starts to put the moves on her, Chelsea knows it''s time she banished him to the penalty box . . . if only she could resist the kind of trouble he has in mind!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4074'),
(6992, 'Nothing but Trouble: A Kevin Kerney Novel', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Returning from 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Slow Kill\n  </em>\n  , stoic Sante Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected visit from Johnny Jordan, a childhood friend and now cantankerous former rodeo pro, who convinces Kerney to serve as a technical adviser in the shooting of a local western film. Eager for a break, Kerney heads to the location in southwestern Bootheel with his lovely wife, Army Lt. Col. Sara Brannon, and his young son, Patrick, in tow. But what starts out as a working vacation in this seventh Kerney outing quickly detours into a bloody crime scene when the body of an undercover Border Patrol agent is dumped onto Highway 81. In no time, U.S. Customs joins Kerney''s investigation into a possible illegal immigrant and drug smuggling operation. Meanwhile, Sara''s army job unexpectedly takes her to Ireland where she must track down and seize the notorious George Spalding, a gemstone smuggler and wartime deserter. McGarrity focuses on the details of the settings and on the characters'' tactical maneuvers career- and parenting-wise. The result is slightly amplified sleuthing, deftly swapped out at surprising moments to the POV of the bad guys, and with fine but low-grade intensity.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title of this latest in the Kevin Kerney series misses the point entirely. Yes, many cop novels, especially those veering toward noir, are about nothing but trouble, but McGarrity''s series--at least since Kerney became Santa Fe chief of police and married career army officer Sarah--has been about all sorts of things besides trouble: domestic life in a long-distance marriage and the joys and frustrations of middle-age parenting, for example. McGarrity''s remarkable eye for detail, always the hallmark of his series, remains so, whether the hero is choosing a day-care facility or working a stakeout. This time the action is split between Sarah tracking an army defector in Ireland--a story begun in\n  <em>\n   Slow Kill\n  </em>\n  (2004)--and Kerney serving as a consultant on a movie about rodeo competitors. There''s plenty of trouble on both fronts, of course, but McGarrity never loses sight of the everyday, even in the heat of battle. Longtime fans of the series may yearn for some of the edginess of the early installments, but that''s how it goes with life--either too much excitement or not enough.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7935'),
(6993, 'Nothing gold can stay', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "An accomplished writer... Stabenow places you right in this lonely, breathtaking country...so beautifully evoked it serves as another character." (*Publishers Weekly*) Shocked by a series of brutal, unexplainable murders, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell embarks on a desperate journey into the heart of the Alaskan Bush country-in search of the terrible, earth-shattering truth... SUMMARY: Described as "an accomplished writer whose books...are always entertaining",* Dana Stabenow once again captures the icy essence of the Alaskan bush country -- a place haunted by loneliness, mystery, and soul-chilling fear. . . .Banished to a remote posting on the shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell has just started to get his life -- and his career -- back on track. His new assistant is proving herself an apt, able investigator, and his perpetually rocky relationship with pilot Wyanet Chouinard is finally going smoothly -- until Wy finds a dead body on one of her frequent mail runs. Was it merely a robbery gone wrong? Liam has his doubts -- the evidence is sketchy, at best. And when more bodies turn up, he must embark on a desperate journey into the heart of this wild, ravaged country -- in search of the terrible, earth-shattering truth....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1037'),
(6994, 'Nothing in Her Way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, and crooked down to her slightly round heels, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in suspense fiction, as portrayed by one of the classic masters of the form--Charles Williams. Welcome to the roller-coaster world of professional con men - and the one wild beauty who can out-swindle and outwit them all. Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in modern suspense fiction. Her name is Cathy Dunbar - all soft and warm and ready for the taking, until one by one her men find out who is really being taken . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(6995, 'The Nothing Man', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it. " --Washington Post Clinton Brown is smart, good-looking, and the best rewrite man on the Pacific City Courier. The wife he divorced is still in love with him, as is the alluring and well-heeled widow who will do anything to make him happy. But Brown is missing something, and without that one thing there''s no possibility of happiness--no possibility of anything but knocking back the booze and punishing anyone foolish enough to try to take away his loneliness. What Clinton Brown lacks may be enough to make him murder.Is Brown a killer or the victim of a sadistic frame-up? And if he''s innocent, why is he so intent on being caught? Deviously plotted, fearfully acquainted with the psychology of rage and guilt, The Nothing Man is further proof of Jim Thompson''s mastery of the crime genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2201'),
(6996, 'Nothing More Than Murder', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sometimes a man and woman love and hate each other in equal measure that they can neither stay together nor break apart.  Some marriages can only end in murder and some murders only make the ties of love and hatred stronger.  This book proves just that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2191'),
(6997, 'Nothing to Envy', 'Barbara Demick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9825'),
(6998, 'Nothing to Lose', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It''s not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Childâ€™s electrifying new novel, Reacherâ€”a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to loseâ€”goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasnâ€™t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military copsâ€”the kind of soldiers Reacher once commandedâ€”waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despairâ€”against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare himâ€”and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war thatâ€™s killing Americans by the thousand.Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2812'),
(6999, 'Nothing was the same: a memoir', 'Kay Redfield Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the internationally acclaimed author of *An Unquiet Mind,* an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamisonâ€”who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passionâ€”could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and lovingâ€”if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illnessâ€”as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, *Nothing Was the Same* is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2236');
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(7000, 'The Notorious Scoundrel', 'Alexandra Benedict', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Like an irresistible siren, the veiled dancer with the bewitching green eyes lures dukes and earls down into London''s underworld to see her danceâ€”and succumb to her spell. Some say she''s a princess, but only one man knows her darkest secret. She is Amy Peel, an orphan from the city''s rookeries, and she believes the bold rogue who unmasks her to be nothing but a scoundrelâ€”albeit a dangerously handsome one. He may have rescued her from an attempted kidnapping, but she will not give in to his sensual seduction or to the wicked desire she begins to feel . . . He is Edmund Hawkins, swashbuckling pirate turned reluctant gentleman, and he will not let the lovely Amy slip through his grasp, especially when he learns she''s in greater peril than she could possibly know. He will do everything in his power to protect herâ€”for this notorious scoundrel has truly, unbelievably, lost his heart . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(7001, 'Nova War', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Stealing Light, Dakota discovered the Shoal''s dark and dangerous secret, now she works towards stopping not only the spread of this knowledge, but also the onset of the Nova war. Found adrift near a Bandati colony world far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso find themselves prisoners of the Bandati. It becomes rapidly clear to them, that the humanity''s limited knowledge of the rest of the galaxy '' filtered through the Shoal '' is direly inaccurate. The Shoal have been fighting a frontier war with a rival species, the Emissaries, with their own FTL technology for over fifteen thousand years. Realising that the Shoal may be the Galaxy''s one chance at sustained peace, Dakota is forced to work with Trader to prevent the spread of deadly knowledge carried on board the Magi ships. But it seems that the Nova War is inevitable''Åš\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(7002, 'Novelties &amp; Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable,\n <em>\n  Little, Big\n </em>\n , to his\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Notable Book,\n <em>\n  The Translator\n </em>\n . Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one volume, demonstrating the scope, the vision, and the wonder of one of America''s greatest storytellers. Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging fromthe fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, ora dead woman''s ambiguous legacy, each story in\n <em>\n  Novelties &amp; Souvenirs\n </em>\n is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8368'),
(7003, 'Now and On Earth', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An underaged bellboy thrust into an awful intimacy with grown-up vice. An alcoholic writer trying to postpone a crack-up just long enough to finish his next book. A wildly dysfunctional Okie family floundering on the edge of mutual destruction amid the deceptive plenty of wartime California. These are the ingredients of Jim Thompson''s devastating and eerily autobiographical first novel. InNow and On Earth, America''s hard-boiled Dante ushers readers into his own personal hell and limns its suffering inhabitants with bleak humor and compassion. With an introduction by Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2200'),
(7004, 'Now and then', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a simple case turns into a treacherous and politically charged investigation, Spenser faces his most difficult challenge yet-keeping his cool while his beloved Susan Silverman is in danger. Spenser knows something''s amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy''s aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan''s abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job''s a job, after all. Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another man, tells Dennis what he''s found out, and considers the case closed. But a couple of days later, all hell breaks loose, and three people are dead. This isn''t just a marital affair gone bad. Spenser is in the middle of hornet''s nest of trouble, and he''s got to get out of it without getting stung. With Hawk watching his back, and gun-for-hire Vinnie Morris providing extra cover, Spenser delves into a complicated and far-reaching operation: Jordan''s former lover, Perry Alderson, is the leader of a group that helps sponsor terrorists. But Perry doesn''t like Spenser poking around his business, so he decides to get to Spenser through Susan. The Boston P.I. will use all his connections both above and below the law to uncover the truth behind Perry''s antigovernment organization. But what Alderson doesn''t realize is that Spenser will stop at absolutely nothing to keep Susan out of harm''s way; nothing will keep him from the woman he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4004'),
(7005, 'Now Eat This!', 'Rocco DiSpirito', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FRIED CHICKEN, MACARONI AND CHEESE, BROWNIES, AND 147 OTHER FAVORITE RECIPES UNDER 350 CALORIES In this delectable cookbook, award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito transforms Americaâ€™s favorite comfort foods into deliciously healthy dishesâ€”all with zero bad carbs, zero bad fats, zero sugar, and maximum flavor. Whatâ€™s more, Rocco provides time-saving shortcuts, helpful personal advice, and nutritional breakdowns for each recipe from a board-certified nutritionist. So prepare your favorite foods without the guilt. Finally, a world-class chef has made healthy food taste great!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3534'),
(7006, 'Now Wait for Last Year', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent''s newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death. Now Wait for Last fear bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3777'),
(7007, 'Now You See Her', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fielding (The Wild Zone) delivers another emotional blitz in this story about Marcy Taggart, who, at 50, is newly divorced and mourning her daughter, Devon, who two years ago disappeared in a boating accident and is presumed dead. On what was to be her 25th wedding anniversary, Marcy travels to Ireland for a vacation and spots a girl she believes to be Devon, and her sightseeing quickly turns into a quest. For better or worse, she meets two strangers who offer to help her in her search, but she can''t determine whether their kindness is sincere. The stakes are raised when Marcy''s hotel room is ransacked, and the carefully drawn plot twists toward a dramatic conclusion. Though some of the coincidences and developments stretch believability, Fielding succeeds in creating a winning heroine; indeed, Marcy''s need for emotional release ends up being a more compelling plot driver than the unlikely craziness involving her charismatic new friends and the hunt for her daughter. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifty-year-old Marcy Taggart is in Ireland celebrating her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with one notable absence, that of her husband, who recently left her for the female golf pro at their country club. Ever since the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, Devon, two years ago, Marcy has been suffering one long nervous breakdown. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband and her sister are convinced that Devon, who had bipolar disorder, committed suicide. But Marcy believes Devon ran away to start a new life. When Marcy takes a break from her relentless sightseeing in Cork, she catches sight of Devon through a window, and so begins her reckless odyssey to reclaim her missing daughter. A handsome tourist, a charming bartender, and a lonely nanny add spice to the mix. Despite Fieldingâ€™s weakness at creating dialogue and her rote attempts to add local color and history, which read like theyâ€™ve been cut and pasted from a Fodorâ€™s guide, Marcy is one appealing character. Blunt, grief-stricken, and, finally, sick and tired of acting the good girl, she gives vent to her emotions and comes into her own. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6234'),
(7008, 'Nowhere to Run (A Joe Pickett Novel)', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author.** "Box''s series is the gold standard," wrote *Library Journal* about *Below Zero*, but never has he written a novel as harrowing as Nowhere to Run. Joe Pickett''s in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won''t let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there''s the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn''t mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he''s ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he''d first saddled up, he''d thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn''t known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(7009, 'The Numa Files 1. Serpent.', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler, the author of sixteen consecutive *New York Times *bestsellers, unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new series of unrelenting action and edge-of-your-seat thrills. When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon''s scheme hinges on Nina''s recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner *Andrea Doria.* Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the *Andrea Doria''s* silent steel hull -- and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(7010, 'The Number of the Beast', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10418'),
(7011, 'Number9dream', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Number9Dream** is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energyâ€”an intoxicating ride through Tokyoâ€™s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, *Ghostwritten*, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, **Number9Dream** is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sisterâ€™s death and his motherâ€™s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crossesâ€”through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luckâ€”a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his fatherâ€™s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1148'),
(7012, 'The Numbers Game', 'Michael Blastland; Andrew Dilnot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <b>\n    The Strunk and White of statistics team up to help the average person navigate the numbers in the newsÂ \n   </b>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 showÂ \n   <i>\n    More or Less\n   </i>\n   , journalist Michael Blastland and internationally known economist Andrew Dilnot delight, amuse, and convert American mathphobes by showing how our everyday experiences make sense of numbers.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The radical premise of The Numbers Game is to show how much we already know and give practical ways to use our knowledge to become cannier consumers of the media. If you''ve ever wondered what "average" really means, whether the scare stories about cancer risk should convince you to change your behavior, or whether a story you read in the paper is biased (and how), you need this book. Blastland and Dilnot show how to survive and thrive on the torrent of numbers that pours through everyday life.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5112'),
(7013, 'Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do', 'Kaiser Fung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU''LL WIN THE LOTTERY?\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World?\n</p>\n<p>\n Who decides that â€œstandardized testsâ€ are fair?\n</p>\n<p>\n Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps?\n</p>\n<p>\n What does it mean, statistically, to be an â€œAverage Joeâ€?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. This is how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your needs, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never think about-even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life.\n</p>\n<p>\n What you learn may surprise you, amuse you, or even enrage you. But there''s one thing you won''t be able to deny:\n <em>\n  Numbers Rule Your Worldâ€¦\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "An easy read with a big benefit."\n <br />\n --Fareed Zakaria, CNN\n</p>\n<p>\n "For those who have anxiety about how organization data-mining is impacting their world, Kaiser Fung pulls back the curtain to reveal the good and the bad of predictive analytics."\n <br />\n --Ian Ayres,Yale professor and author of\n <em>\n  Super Crunchers: Why Thinking By Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book that engages us with stories that a journalist would write, the compelling stories behind the stories as illuminated by the numbers, and the dynamics that the numbers reveal."\n <br />\n --John Sall, Executive Vice President, SAS Institute\n</p>\n<p>\n "Little did I suspect, when I picked up Kaiser Fung''s book, that I would become so entranced by it - an illuminating and accessible exploration of the power of statistical analysis for those of us who have no prior training in a field that he explores so ably."\n <br />\n --Peter Clarke, author of _ Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century''s Most Influential Economist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius XM Radio that is responsible for gleaning insight into customers and operational best practices. His blog, "Junk Charts," pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from\n <em>\n  Science\n </em>\n magazine, the\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n , Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7753'),
(7014, 'NurtureShock: new thinking about children', 'Po Bronson; Ashley Merryman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What''s the single most important thing that helps infants learn language? NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. They argue that when it comes to children, we''ve mistaken good intentions for good ideas. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, they demonstrate that many of modern society''s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, the authors'' work is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that transcend children''s (and adults'') lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3694'),
(7015, 'The Nutmeg Of Consolation', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of O''Brian''s Thirteen Gun Salute, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked by a typhoon on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies. After they are rescued, Aubrey and crew continue their interrupted mission aboard a new vessel, the Nutmeg. The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourteenth book in the series. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4255'),
(7016, 'Nuts in the Kitchen: More Than 100 Recipes for Every Taste and Occasion', 'Susan Herrmann Loomis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Renowned cookbook author Susan Herrmann Loomis has traveled extensively to collect recipes that incorporate every kind of nutâ€”from almonds to Brazil nuts, and everything in between. In these delectable recipes, you''ll see nuts as much more than a tempting snack. Loomis shows how they complement, and can be the centerpiece of, every single meal of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Included in this imaginative collection are more than 100 easy-to-make recipes for small plates, salads, main courses, side dishes, and desserts. Start with breakfast and serve Waffles with Walnut Whipped Cream or Apricot and Pine Nut Compote. Share an evening with friends by serving Anise- and Fennel-Spiced Walnuts or Brazil Pesto with Pasta; next, move on to a main course of Gingered Fish on Spiced Macadamia Butter; and finish with refreshing Lemon Poppy Seed Ice Cream or Coconut Sticky Rice with Peanuts. Loomis provides an invaluable collection of The Basicsâ€”including recipes for Almond Milk, Lemony Hazelnut Butter, Poppy Seed Dressing, and Macadamia and Coconut Sprinkleâ€”for stocking every pantry and adding a new dimension to daily meals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along with the wonderfully diverse recipes in this book, you''ll find nutritional information, menu ideas, and different kinds of foodâ€”simple, exciting, flavorful, unusual, easy, and good for you, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nuts in the Kitchen\n </em>\n is the ultimate culinary guide for using these wonderful, healthful ingredients in inventive, sophisticated, and astonishing ways. Whether you are a vegetarian, a vegan, or a meat eater, you''ll find yourself turning to this book over and over as you prepare meals large or small.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Susan Herrmann Loomis is the author of eight books, including six cookbooks. She is a regular contributor to\n <em>\n  Bon AppÃ‰tit\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Cooking Light\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Food &amp; Wine\n </em>\n , and the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n . She owns and operates On Rue Tatin, a cooking school in Normandy, France.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6290'),
(7017, 'O Is for Outlaw', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton''s gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her. Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey''s self-disclosure--something she''s infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey''s character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart. A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton''s clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what''s evident forever affected by the gravity of what''s concealed." --Rebekah Warren\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8202'),
(7018, 'O Jerusalem', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmesâ€™s enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities and seems unrelated to the growing tensions in the area among Jew, Moslem, and Christian. Still, no one is too pleased at Holmesâ€™s insistence on reconstructing the most recent homicide in the desert gully where it occurred. What they unexpectedly uncover will lead Russell and Holmes through an exotic gauntlet of labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteriesâ€”and into mortal danger. In the jewel-like city of Jerusalem, they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for power could reduce the cityâ€™s most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite a tinderbox of hostilities just waiting for a spark.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5357'),
(7019, 'O, Juliet', 'Robin Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maxwell (_Signora da Vinci_) tries in vain to flesh out one of the most famous love stories ever told. Her Renaissance Juliet is an 18-year-old Florentine, the educated daughter of Capello Capelletti, a silk trader whose business foibles have led him to promise his daughter to his would-be partner, Jacopo Strozzi. At a party celebrating her best friend Lucrezia''s betrothal, Juliet meets Romeo Monticecco, who reveals that he snuck in hoping to smooth over an old feud. The two are immediately smitten with one another, and their secret courtship ensures. Shakespeare is a tough act to follow, and Maxwell falters with both her flowery writing style (This woman, this earthly angelâ€”perhaps ''Goddess'' suited her more) and her hyperbolic, black-and-white characters. Jacopo, for instance, is not only boring and physically grotesque, he''s also the embodiment of evil. In contrast, Romeo is respectful and appreciative of women, great in the sack, and wise beyond his years. The story unfolds as the play does, but Maxwell''s tweaks amount to a disappointing attempt to fix what isn''t broken.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Maxwell delivers a mesmerizing retelling of the famous star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, in her latest novel, set in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance. Juliet Capelletti is a headstrong, intelligent young lady who is facing an arranged marriage to Jacopo Strozzi, her father''s new business partner. She does not look forward to her match but knows that it will make her parents happy. Juliet''s entire future is forever changed one night at the engagement party of her best friend, Lucrezia, when she meets the handsome Romeo Monticecco. Romeo is at the party to seek reconciliation between his family and the Capelettis, who have been feuding and retaliating against each other for years.\n  <br />\n  Juliet and Romeo find a chance to talk together alone under the stars, and their destiny unfolds. Both are surprised by the other''s passion for poetry and shared interest in Dante Alighieri''s\n  <em>\n   Vita Nuova\n  </em>\n  . After their first meeting, Juliet is determined to find a way out of her upcoming marriage to Jacopo, even though this means defying her family''s wishes for her and possibly destroying the business between her father and her betrothed.\n  <br />\n  What unfolds is a beautiful love story between the soul mates Romeo and Juliet. Maxwell realistically portrays the torment with which Juliet is faced as she wonders what her future holds. The things I enjoyed the most about the novel were how Maxwell drew parallels between Dante and his love, Beatrice, and Romeo and Juliet, and her use of poetry and quotes from Dante throughout the novel. Readers will savor this exquisite and magical love story."\n  <br />\n  -_The Historical Novels Review_ [Editor''s Choice]\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not many writers would dare to compete with William Shakespeare. But Robin Maxwell pulls it off. Her star-crossed young lovers are just as unforgettable as the Bard''s, and now readers get to see what happens off-stage."\n  <br />\n  -Sharon Kay Penman,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Devil''s Brood\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner that will leave you breathless."\n  <br />\n  -Lalita Tademy, Oprah''s Book Club Pick and\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Cane River\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A reigning queen of historical fiction takes on the treasured tale of\n  <em>\n   Romeo and Juliet\n  </em>\n  in a tribute that would make Shakespeare stand up and cheer...I love this book!"\n  <br />\n  -Michelle Moran, National bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Cleopatra''s Daughter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Maxwell conjures up an intimate historical re-telling of the timeless classic, evoking the world''s most famous lovers with breathtaking passion and literary elegance."\n  <br />\n  -C.W. Gortner, author of\n  <em>\n   The Last Queen\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5575'),
(7020, 'O&#39; Artful Death', 'Sarah Stewart Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Taylor does a lovely job of setting an atmospheric scene and luring us inside."\n <br />\n -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A strikingly atmospheric debut. The writing is crisp and the characters all quite forcefully alive, especially Sweeney." -Denver Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "[O'' Artful Death] rings subtle--and enormously satisfying--changes on the venerable tried-and-true." -Newsday\n</p>\n<p>\n "An elegantly wrought first mystery with layers within layers like carved ivory balls...Rich and rewarding reading."-Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A nicely puzzled plot, a closely confined rural setting, remarkable characterizations, and eminently readable prose." -Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Taylor) has an eye for the details of rural New England . . . Pull up an overstuffed chair and drift away." -The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n "A compelling mystery about a dark subject. One can hope she''ll bring Sweeney for more sleuthing."-Sunday Oklahoman"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An academic cozy set in rural Vermont''s Byzantium, a bygone artists colony replete with a Victorian mansion, rumors of murder plots past and present and a surfeit of oddballs marooned there for the winter."-Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pithy assessments of the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson, and Victorian mores, along with Christmas-card pretty scenes of winter in Vermont."-Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n "I could not put it down . . . Sweeney is a very human and appealing protagonist, and Sarah Stewart Taylor has a lovely, lyrical style. O'' Artful Death will be one of the year''s best first novels." -Deborah Crombie, author of And Justice There Is None\n</p>\n<p>\n "Literate and lyrical, O'' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor is a stunning debut novel. Art Historian Sweeney St. George, Taylor''s protagonist, is quirky, appealing, and intelligent. O'' Artful Death vaults Sarah Stewart Taylor into the select company of Amanda Cross and Jane Langton."-Carolyn Hart, author of Engaged to Die\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sarah Stewart Taylor''s debut mystery is an absolute delight. Sweeney St. George is the most intelligent, erudite, and sympathetic narrator to grace the academic mystery genre since Amanda Cross''s Kate Fansler, and Taylor''s complicated and multilayered plot is the perfect vehicle for her."-Ayelet Waldman, author of A Playdate with Death\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate interest in cemetery art. And now Sweeney is intrigued with a macabre graveyard statue of a beautiful woman-a carving that is at once astonishing, sinister, and perhaps hiding a one-hundred-year-old murder...\n</p>\n<p>\n Dying to find out more about the strange monument, Sweeney heads for a winter holiday among friends at a mansion in Vermont''s historic Byzantium Art Colony. Her plan is to snoop in dusty archives and tromp through the tiny cemetery where the statue still stands. But what Sweeney finds in this isolated rural community is an emotional awakening, a chilling link between old and new crimes...and a clever killer reaching for her with deadly hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6427'),
(7021, 'O&#39; Hara&#39;s Choice', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10106'),
(7022, 'O&#39;hara&#39;s Choice', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this story of a heroic 19th-century Irish-American Marine, the long career of recently deceased bestselling author Uris (Mila 18; Exodus) concludes. Zachary O''Hara, son of a legendary Civil War hero, is the protagonist of Uris''s epic adventure, which ranges from Washington, D.C., to Newport, R.I., and from the Civil War to the end of the 19th century. O''Hara grows up on Marine lore and joins the corps as soon as he can, earning a reputation in his own right with hard work and natural ability. When Major Boone affords him the opportunity of a lifetime a chance to save the corps and gain a prominent role in its future he jumps on it. Zach''s career takes off and so does his love life, as he falls for the beautiful and headstrong Amanda Kerr. From the outset, though, the relationship is opposed by Zach''s Marine superiors and Amanda''s stubborn industrialist father, who has other plans for her future. But Amanda suddenly and inexplicably metamorphoses into a cunning businesswoman and pragmatically decides to abandon Zach (whom she continues to pine after). From here, the plot turns aren''t plausible. Uris usually connects the many layers of his stories seamlessly; as this novel draws to a conclusion, however, the hasty revelation of family secrets leads to a forced, emotionally unsatisfying ending. Anyone seeking a compelling read should look to Uris''s previous works, as this one is certainly the exception to the rule in a prodigious career marked by phenomenal storytelling.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This new work by the author of, most famously among his previous novels, the popular and filmed\n  <em>\n   Exodus\n  </em>\n  (1958), which focused on the founding years of Israel, turns out to be Uris'' posthumous novel, for he died in late June of this year. Characteristically for him, it is a visit to historical times; and characteristically\n  <em>\n   of\n  </em>\n  him, historical facts are not seamlessly, fluidly integrated into the story, but, rather, give the narrative a patchwork feel. But there is certainly a compelling quality to the story itself. In general terms, the novel concerns a vital period in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Specifically, its characters are the men whom Sergeant Paddy O''Hara saved from the jaws of death during various battles of the Civil War. Sergeant O''Hara was the second marine to be awarded the newly created Congressional Medal of Honor, and every year the men he saved hold a reunion. The year now is 1888, and the group meets with an important item on their agenda: the very future of the corps appears to be in jeopardy. They turn to Paddy O''Hara''s son for the corps'' salvation, and the plot takes off from there. Despite a leaden prose style, Uris achieves an effective level of urgency in his storytelling to maintain the interest of readers who will seek out the latest (and, presumably, last) work of a popular writer.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6934'),
(7023, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s Return: Skin Deep', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York Times Bestseller Chantel O''Hurley has parlayed talent, breathtaking beauty - and indomitable will - into stardom. But though she needs Quinn Doran''s protection now, the sexy, cynical P.I. utterly infuriates her . . . threatening to melt her icy faÃ§ade and ignite her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2604'),
(7024, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s Return: Without A Trace', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** A life of adventure and intrigue has left Trace O''Hurley bitter and world-weary. But in the innocent arms of spirited damsel-in-distress Gillian Fitzpatrick, Trace finds himself longing for the life - and family - he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2632'),
(7025, '&quot;O&quot; is for outlaw', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Once Mickey Magruder was a cop with a wild streak. And Kinsey Millhone was a younger cop who adored and married him. Then Mickey was implicated in a fatal beating, and Kinsey walked out. Now, fourteen years later, she comes face-to-face with those tragic years and Mickey''s harrowing downward spiral after he lost the job he loved--and the marriage he loved a little less.Mickey lies dying in an L.A. hospital. Trying to find out how Mickey got there, Kinsey uncovers evidence that he was innocent of the beating charge. But as she searches through the lives that swirled around Mickey''s--lives gone wrong and lives gone well--Kinsey must also search the blind spots of her own life, including one that hides a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4147'),
(7026, 'The Oath and the Measure', 'Michael Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10039'),
(7027, 'Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation', 'Jason Mattera', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a generation. For an entire year, otherwise clear-thinking members of the most affluent, over-educated, information-drenched generation in American history fell prey to the most expensive, hi-tech, laser-focused marketing assault in presidential campaign history. Twitter messages were machine-gunned to cell phones at mach speed. Facebook and MySpace groups spread across the Internet like digital fire. YouTube videos featuring celebrities ricocheted across the globe and into college studentsâ€™ in-boxes with devastating regularity. All the while, the mega-money-raising engine whirred like a slot machine stuck on jackpot. The result: an unthinking mass of young voters marched forward to elect the most radical and untested president in U.S. history. Recognized as one of the countryâ€™s top young conservative activists by *Human Events, *Jason Mattera created an internet sensation with ambush video interviews that exposed clueless young liberals and cunning Democratic officials. Now he reveals the jaw-dropping lengths Barack Obama and his allies in Hollywood, Washington, and Academia went to in order to transform a legion of iPod-listening, MTV-watching followers into a winning coalition that threatens to become a long-lasting political realignment. *Obama Zombies *uncovers the true, behind-the-scenes story of the methods and tactics the Obama campaign unleashed on youth culture. Through personal interviews and meticulous original research, Mattera explains why conservatismâ€™s future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left. The lesson from 2008 is crystal clear: When true conservatives run away, Obama zombies come out to play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2081'),
(7028, 'Obama&#39;s Wars', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In Obama''s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.At the core of Obama''s Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War."So what''s my option?" the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander''s request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. "You have essentially given me one option.... It''s unacceptable.""Well," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, "Mr. President, I think we owe you that option."It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision.President Obama''s ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing.General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. "I don''t think you win this war," Petraeus said privately. "This is the kind of fight we''re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids'' lives."Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city--which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time.Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessions--and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generals--reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes.Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president.Obama''s Wars offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.From the Washington PostBy Steve Luxenberg, September 22, 2010:President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page "terms sheet" that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in Obama''s Wars.According to Woodward''s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives."This needs to be a plan about how we''re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan," Obama is quoted as telling White House aides as he laid out his reasons for adding 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation. "Everything we''re doing has to be focused on how we''re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It''s in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room."Read the full Post news report on Obama''s Wars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1362');
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(7029, 'The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family', 'Peter Firstbrook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The most famous family in Kenyaâ€”and, indeed, the worldâ€”provides the context for exploring the broader history of that nation as documentary filmmaker Firstbrook explores the Obama family legacy. He draws on academic historical research as well as oral history and interviews to trace Barack Obamaâ€™s family history back 23 generations. Part of the Luo, the second largest tribe in Kenya (following the Kikuyu), the Obama family traversed through several ancestral lands before religion (some were Seventh-Day Adventists, and others were Muslims) and distance separated them into the towns of Kendu Bay and Kâ€™ogelo. He highlights Obamaâ€™s paternal grandfather, Onyango, who traveled beyond the ancestral lands, prospered, fought in two world wars, and witnessed bloody revolt against British colonialism as well as Kenyan independence. His son, Barack, similarly restless and ambitious, was educated in Hawaii (where he met President Obamaâ€™s mother) and the continental U.S. before returning home to continue straddling tribal tradition and the demands of modern Western culture. Obama senior was critical of the government and friendly with Tom Mboya, an activist, who was killed during the Jomo Kenyatta administration, adding to suspicion later when Obama was killed in a car accident. Enhanced with maps and photographs, this is an epic look at the history of a nation and a family. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The story of Barack Obamaâ€™s Kenyan roots, this title is the product of dozens of interviews with Obamaâ€™s African relatives, presented by the first person to trace Obamaâ€™s family history back 400 years and 23 generations. --Vanessa Bush\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at Kâ€™obama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obamaâ€™s rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this gathering took a special pride in the swearing in of Americaâ€™s first black president, for they were all Obamas, all the presidentâ€™s direct African family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the first in-depth history of the Obama family, Peter Firstbrook recounts a journey that starts in a mud hut by the White Nile and ends seven centuries later in the White House. Interweaving oral history and tribal lore, interviews with Obama family members and other Kenyans, the writings of Kenyan historians, and original genealogical research, Firstbrook sets the fascinating story of the presidentâ€™s family against the background of Kenyaâ€™s rich culture and complex history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He tells the story of farmers and fishermen, of healers and hunters, of families lost and found, establishing for the first time the early ancestry of the Obamas. From the tribeâ€™s cradleland in southern Sudan, he follows the family generation by generation, tracing the paths of the famous Luo warriorsâ€”Obamaâ€™s direct ancestorsâ€”and vividly illuminating Luo politics, society, and traditions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Firstbrook also brings to life the impact of English colonization in Africa through the eyes of President Obamaâ€™s grandfather Onyango. An ambitious and disciplined man who fought in two world wars, witnessed the bloody Mau Mau insurrection, and saw his country gain independence from white rule, Onyango was also hot-tempered and autocratic: family lore has it that President Obamaâ€™s grandmother abandoned the family after Onyango attempted to murder her. And Firstbrook delves into the troubled life of Obamaâ€™s father, a promising young man whose aspirations were stymied by post-independence tribal politics and a rash tendency toward self-destructionâ€”two factors that his family believes contributed to his death in 1982. They say it was no accident, as described in the presidentâ€™s memoirs, but rather a politically motivated hit job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More than a tale of love and war, hardship and hard-won success,\n  <em>\n   The Obamas\n  </em>\n  reveals a family historyâ€”epic in scope yet intimate in feelâ€”that is truly without precedent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6318'),
(7030, 'Object lessons', 'Anna Quindlen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."THE NEW YORK TIMESIt is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(7031, 'An Object of Beauty', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Martin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale. Lacey Yeager is an ambitious young art dealer who uses everything at her disposal to advance in the world of the high-end art trade in New York City. After cutting her teeth at Sotheby''s, she manipulates her way up through Barton Talley''s gallery of "Very Expensive Paintings," sleeping with patrons, and dodging and indulging in questionable deals, possible felonies, and general skeeviness until she opens her own gallery in Chelsea. Narrated by Lacey''s journalist friend, Daniel Franks, whose droll voice is a remarkable stand-in for Martin''s own, the world is ordered and knowable, blindly barreling onward until 9/11. And while Lacey and the art she peddles survive, the wealth and prestige garnered by greed do not. Martin (an art collector himself) is an astute miniaturist as he exposes the sound and fury of the rarified Manhattan art world. If Shopgirl was about the absence of purpose, this book is about the absence of a moral compass, not just in the life of an adventuress but for an entire era. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This thoroughly engaging primer on the art world is unusual on a number of levels. Although the lead characters are unlikable, the novel is hard to put down, offers an enlightening explication of how the market for art is created, and includes photos and absorbing detail on many of the artworks under discussion. The narrator, Daniel Franks, is an arts journalist who relates the story of avaricious, amoral Lacey Yeager, who is willing to do almost anything to move ahead in the art world. After landing an entry-level job at Sothebyâ€™s, where her stint cataloging dusty works in the basement helps develop her eye for good art, Lacey moves on to working in a gallery, where she makes many important connections among collectors and dealers before opening her own gallery in Chelsea. Along the way, she sleeps with artists, collectors, and, finally, an FBI agent who investigates malfeasance in the art world. This page-turner is likely to make readers feel like they have been given a backstage pass to an elite world few are privileged to observe. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The best-selling author draws on his experience as a renowned art collector for this clever, convincingly detailed depiction of NYCâ€™s art scene. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6773'),
(7032, 'The Object of His Protection', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a body as solid as his reputation, private investigator Drey St. John never dreamed helping the Braddocks discover the truth behind their father''s fatal crash would lead to his own mother''s shocking confession: Senator Braddock was Drey''s biological father. Determined to solve the case, Drey enlisted all-work-and-no-play Charlene Anderson''s help. But the more time he spent with the beautiful forensic scientist, the more he realized their sharp banter fronted a simmering mutual attraction that wouldn''t be denied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlene''s career left no time for exotic playboys. Then she found herself under Drey''s roof, in need of his protectionâ€”and a victim of his seductive charms. But when the late senator''s secretsâ€”and Drey''s true identityâ€”were uncovered, would Drey face the betrayals in his past, and his future as a Braddock, with Charlene by his side?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I might as well come in since it doesn''t appear that you''re busy."\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlene Anderson didn''t need to look up to know who the deep, husky voice belonged to.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drey St. John.\n</p>\n<p>\n She did, however, glance over at the small heart-shaped ceramic clock sitting on her desk, the only part of her work area that wasn''t buried under paperwork. Drey was early although his visit wasn''t unexpected. He was a private investigator and she was a forensic scientist in Houston''s coroner''s office. It wasn''t unusual for him to drop by occasionally to harass her for forensic information that would help with the investigation of his current case.\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you think I''m not busy, St. John, look again," she said, not taking her eyes off the document she was reading. "Now get lost."\n</p>\n<p>\n She knew he wouldn''t go away. He never did. That didn''t bother her since she had a weak spot for the rebel private investigator and actually looked forward to seeing him, although she would never admit such a thing to him. His visits were the only high point in her rather dull life. At twenty-seven, she was focused on work, and no matter how you looked at it, dead bodies didn''t equate to great dates. Her social life was practically nonexistent, and of all things, she was still a virgin.\n</p>\n<p>\n While attending Oklahoma State University, she had been too busy making the grades to get involved with anyone and had figured things would change once she finished school and got her career off the ground. She had been convinced, since she looked decent enough, that she would eventually meet some nice guy and get serious. That never happened. For her it always seemed to be all work and no play.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Don''t you ever get tired of messing around with the dead?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She glanced up. Speaking of deadâ€¦ Drey was drop-dead gorgeous. Definitely a living-breathing specimen of a sexy male. Tall, dark and ultrahand-some. There was no doubt about the fact that at thirty-three he was every woman''s fantasy.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had skin the color of creamy rich chocolate, and had dark hair and slanted dark eyes. All she knew about him was the tidbit she''d overhead from a group of women discussing him one day at lunch. According to them, his mother was half Chinese. If that was the case, she had passed a strikingly exotic look on to her son. Charlene had also heard that his middle name of Longwei meant "dragon strength" in Chinese. The name suited him because of his well-defined muscular physique.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Not really," she finally said, taking her eyes off him and attempting to return her focus to the document in front of her. "At least I don''t have to worry about the dead giving me a hard time."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yeah, I would imagine they wouldn''t."\n</p>\n<p>\n She didn''t have to glance up to know he was no longer standing in the doorway but had come into her office. Her heart began beating twice as fast. The man had a way of getting to her. In addition to her erratic heartbeat, there was this unexplainable flush of heat that always overtook her whenever he was near, not to mention the way the air surrounding them always felt charged. He apparently didn''t pick up on such vibes, nor did he notice she did. He was too busy trying to pump her for information.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he halted before her desk, blocking her sunlight, she decided to glance up, but took a deep breath before doing so. "And what got you out of bed so early this morning?" she asked, and immediately she wished she hadn''t when a vision of him getting out of bedâ€”half nakedâ€” filtered through her mind. It was a nice vision but dangerous ground for her mind to tread on. "I need your help with something." She rolled her eyes. "What else is new?" "You''re the best there is," he said, smiling. She wished he wouldn''t do that. He was sexy enough without the megawatt smile. "Flattery will get you nowhere, Drey."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about dinner tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She placed her pen down and leaned back in her chair. "This must be some case if you''re willing to spring for dinner."\n</p>\n<p>\n She watched the emotions that crossed his face, emotions he rarely let show. He was angry and upset but was holding it in. Something about the case he was working on was bothering him. She could feel it.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is," he finally said. "And the answers may very well come from a stiff brought here last week by the name of Joe Dennis."\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlene turned toward her computer and typed in the name. "Nothing has been done with him yet. He''s on Nate''s list to do later today." Nathaniel Ganders was her boss. "What exactly do you need to know?"\n</p>\n<p>\n His tensed features relaxed somewhat when he said, "Anything you can tell me."\n</p>\n<p>\n She nodded. He understood there were limitations as to what she could share, and she appreciated the fact that he had never asked her to cross the line in doing anything unethical. Not that she would. "In other words, anything out of the ordinary."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay. I''ll take a look at the report when Nate''s finished. As you know, my boss is very thorough." She cleared her computer screen and turned back to him. "I''ll let you know if I notice anything."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, and I''m serious about dinner."\n</p>\n<p>\n "But I''m not." It hadn''t been the first time he had hinted at the two of them going somewhere to grab something to eat. She could barely handle her reaction to him now; she didn''t want to think how things would be if she had to share a meal with him. Besides, she considered him business and she didn''t mix business with pleasure. "Maybe some other time, Drey," she said, knowing it wouldn''t happen.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You said that before."\n</p>\n<p>\n Not that she was foolish enough to think that it mattered to him. "And I''m saying it again. I''ll call you if I learn anything."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Charlie. I would appreciate it."\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlene glared at him, something she always did whenever he called her that. "Do I look like a Charlie to you?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He smiled. "Hard to say. That lab jacket''s all I''ve ever seen you wear."\n</p>\n<p>\n Before she could give him a blazing retort, he turned and left.\n</p>\n<p>\n The smile remained in place on Drey''s lips as he got into his car. For some reason he enjoyed getting a rise out of Charlene. In fact, the thought of seeing her today had pretty much kept his anger at bay, although it was creeping back on him now. He was discovering that being lied to all his life was something he was having a hard time dealing with.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before starting the engine, he sat still a moment and stared out of the windshield, thinking about the conversation he''d had with his mother, Daiyu Longwei, a few days ago. The conversation had practically shattered his world when she had told him that Ronald St. John was not his father. Instead, the man whom Drey had considered his mentor, Congressman Harmon Braddock, was actually his biological father.\n</p>\n<p>\n His hands tightened on the steering wheel as his mother''s words flowed through his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sighing deeply, Drey started the engine, thinking that in essence, he was investigating his own father''s death. His own father''s\n <em>\n  murder,\n </em>\n he immediately corrected, since he was convinced Harmon Braddock''s fatal car accident had been deliberate. Someone had wanted him dead and Drey was determined to find out who.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something else he couldn''t put out of his mind was that the very people who had hired him to find the truth were Harmon Braddock''s offspringâ€” and his siblings. He shook his head knowing they didn''t have a clue as to what his relationship was to them. At some point he would have to tell them, but not now. He wasn''t ready to go there yet. It was bad enough that he had to deal with it. Besides, how his own mother played into the investigation was still a mystery since it was well documented that less than an hour before his death, Harmon had tried contacting Daiyu. Hell, Drey hadn''t known the two knew each other and none of the Braddocks knew that Daiyu was his mother. He didn''t like withholding information of any kind from clients, yet that was exactly what he was doing.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had known the congressman for a number of years. When Ronald St. John, the man Drey had adored as a father, had gotten killed in the line of duty as a police officer when Drey was fifteen, Drey had taken it hard since the two of them had always been close.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was during that time that Congressman Braddock took an interest in him. And later on in life when Drey had felt himself getting tired of his own career as a police officer, it had been the congressman who had encouraged him to start his own private investigating firm and had gone so far as to keep him on retainer during those times he''d been trying to make ends meet. He would be the first to admit that over the years, Harmon had become the father figure that he''d lost.\n</p>\n<p>\n To be quite honest, at first when he''d heard of Harmon''s car accident he had no reason to suspect foul play, even when the other Braddocks had. But now Joe Dennis''s death was raising his suspicions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drey brought the car to a stop at the next traffic light as he replayed the facts of the case over and over in his mind. Congressman Braddock had gotten killed in a car accident. The skid marks on the road had been consistent with a car losing control. It seemed Harmon was heading for the airport, which was another mystery since Gloria Kingsley, the congressman''s executive assistant, who''d known Harmon''s every move, hadn''t known about any planned trip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Another thing that baffled everyone was why the congressman was behind the wheel when his personal driver, Joe Dennis, usually drove Harmon everywhere he went.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now Joe was dead and according to the police report there didn''t appear to be any foul play. Someone just wanted him dead. Why? And exactly what had been the cause of death?\n</p>\n<p>\n Drey had a lot of unanswered questions but at least he felt fairly confident the latter question would get answered soon enough, once he heard from Charlene. With that certainty, his thoughts couldn''t help shift to the efficient forensic scientist. They might bicker every chance they got, but they understood each other. He was as dedicated to his profession as she was to hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the two years he''d known her, he''d never met another no-nonsense woman quite like her, and he found her to be sharp, intelligentâ€¦and definitely beautiful. The latter he tried not to dwell on too m...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7979'),
(7033, 'Oblivion: Stories', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as ''the most significant writer of his generation'' (TLS). Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7012'),
(7034, 'Obnoxious Librarian from Hades', 'Dennie Heye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Satire from a librarian in a large bureaucracy, trying to survive boring meetings, clueless managers, reorganisations, offshored helpdesks and l-users (library users).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New - updated version contains 8 months worth of new episodes!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New episodes via http://olfh.blogspot.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/983'),
(7035, 'Obsidian Butterfly', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''I was covered in blood, but it wasn''t mine, so it was okay.'' Edward is a hit man. He specialises in monsters. Vampires, shape-shifters, anything and everything. There are people like me, Anita Blake, who do it legally, but Edward doesn''t sweat the legalities or, hell, the ethics. He is an equal opportunity killer. I may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it''s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2783'),
(7036, 'The Occult: A History', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11172'),
(7037, 'Occupied City', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post-World War II Occupied Japan in a "Rashomon"-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime. On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the "official" has fled . . . Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an "occult detective," a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. "Occupied City" immerses us in an extreme time and place with a brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5688'),
(7038, 'An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (sometimes called "An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge") is a famous short story by Ambrose Bierce. It was originally published in 1890, and first anthologized in Bierce''s 1891 collection, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The story is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to die by hanging upon the Owl Creek Bridge of the title. The main character finds himself already bound at the bridge''s edge at the beginning of the story. It is later revealed that a disguised Union scout enlisted him to attempt to demolish the bridge, and subsequently he was caught in the act. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **About the Author**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (24 June 1842 - 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Devil''s Dictionary.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce". Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer''s career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **About the Publisher**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n http://www.forgottenbooks.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(7039, 'October Skies', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 2008: Deep in the mountain forests of Wyoming, Julian Cooke stumbles across the rotting remains of a wooden wagon. He''s discovered what''s left of the Preston Group, a convoy of settlers that vanished in the winter of 1856. It''s clear that something horrific happened here all those years ago, but Cooke can only find a few tantalising clues.1856: as early snows descend, the eclectic group of settlers that form the Preston wagon train are forced to dig in. Miles from any kind of civilisation, they see the group of Native Americans also trapped nearby as their greatest threat. But they soon realise what true danger is. When a woman is found murdered, one of the Indian party struggles wounded back to camp, whispering of unspeakable evil as he dies. United by fear, the settlers and the Indians must protect themselves against whatever is lurking in the woods. But as suspicion and panic grow, perhaps their own terror will be just as dangerous. Or maybe, whatever''s out there is worse than anything they can imagine.Back in the present day, as Cooke unravels the mystery, he must question if the horror he is uncovering was in fact only the start of something much worse...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(7040, 'Octopussy', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10626'),
(7041, 'Odd and the Frost Giants', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he''s had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy. Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagleâ€”three creatures with a strange story to tell. Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imaginedâ€”a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it. It''s going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter. Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . . Someone just like Odd .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2921'),
(7042, 'Odd Hours', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontzâ€™s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readersâ€™ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places where the perils he will face and the stakes for which he fights will eclipse all that he has known. The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomasâ€™s gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friendsâ€”and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the worldâ€”not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas. After grappling with the very essence of reality itself, after finding the veil that separates him from his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, tantalizingly thin yet impenetrable, Odd longed only to return to a life of quiet anonymity with his two otherworldly sidekicksâ€”his dog Boo and a new companion, one of the few who might rival his old pal Elvis. But a true hero, however humble, must persevere. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authorityâ€¦and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.Burnishing Dean Koontzâ€™s stature as a master of suspense and one of our most innovative and gifted storytellers, Odd Hours illuminates a legacy of mystery and hope that will shine on long after the final page.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(7043, 'Odd Thomas', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThe dead don''t talk. I don''t know why.â€ But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe itâ€™s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Oddâ€™s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo''s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it''s different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world''s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Oddâ€™s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ''n'' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmaresâ€”and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.From the Hardcover edition. SUMMARY: â€œThe dead don''t talk. I don''t know why.â€ But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe itâ€™s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Oddâ€™s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo''s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it''s different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world''s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Oddâ€™s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ''n'' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmaresâ€”and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1430'),
(7044, 'Odds Against', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [The] master of crime fiction and equine thrills. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Newsday_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest living suspense wirters."\n <br />\n CBS RADIO''''\n <br />\n After a fall from a racehorse that permanently crippled a hand, Sid Halley joined a detective agency. But it wasn''t until some two-bit hoodlum drilled a slug into his side that he was sent out on a case of his own. That was where he met Zanna Martin, a woman who just might make life worth living again. But it was even-money that he''d be killed before she had the chance....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8218'),
(7045, 'The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it. â€”Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teacher invited the class to "respond" to a poem. In The Ode Less Travelled, Fry sets out to correct this problem by giving aspiring poets the tools and confidence they need to write poetry for pleasure. Fry is a wonderfully engaging teacher and writer of poetry himself, and he explains the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. His enjoyable exercises and witty insights introduce the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Aspiring poets will learn to write a sonnet, on ode, a villanelle, a ballad, and a haiku, among others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we''ve heard of, but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. BACKCOVER: Advanced Praise: â€œDelightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form... Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly â€œA smart, sane and entertaining return to the basics... If you like Fryâ€™s comic manner... this book has a lot of charm... People entirely fresh to the subject could do worse than stick with his cheerful leadership.â€ â€”The Telegraph (UK) â€œ...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.â€ â€”Observer (UK) "If you learn how to write a sonnet, and Fry shows you how, you may or may not make a poem. But you will unlock the stored wisdom of the form itself." â€”Grey Gowrie, The Spectator (UK) â€œ...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.â€ â€”Observer (UK)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3802'),
(7046, 'Ode to a Banker', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the long, hot Roman summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco''s work a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder, so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is forced to accept.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7189'),
(7047, 'The Odyssey', 'Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Odyssey*, by **Homer**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Long before *The Lord of the Rings*, *Star Wars*, and Harry Potter, the ancient Greek poet **Homer** established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with *The Odyssey*. Crowded with characters, both human and non-human, and bursting with action, *The Odyssey* details the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope. Along the way he encounters the seductive Circe, who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph, Calypso, who keeps him a â€œprisoner of loveâ€ for seven years; the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cyclops; and a host of other ogres, wizards, sirens, and gods. But when he finally reaches Ithaca after ten years of travel, his trials have only begun. There he must battle the scheming noblemen who, thinking him dead, have demanded that Penelope choose one of them to be her new husbandâ€”and Ithacaâ€™s new king. Often called the â€œsecond work of Western literatureâ€ (The Iliad, also by Homer, being the first), *The Odyssey* is not only a rousing adventure drama, but also a profound meditation on courage, loyalty, family, fate, and undying love. More than three thousand years old, it was the first story to delineate carefully and exhaustively a single character arc â€” a narrative structure that serves as the foundation and heart of the modern novel. Robert Squillaceâ€™s revision of George Herbert Palmerâ€™s classic prose translation captures the drama and vitality of adventure, while remaining true to the original Homeric language.**Robert Squillace** teaches in the Cultural Foundations division of New York Universityâ€™s General Studies Program. He has published numerous essays on literature and the book Modernism, Modernity and Arnold Bennett.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1865'),
(7048, 'Of Fire and Night', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Anderson''s fabulous fifth volume in his Seven Suns saga (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Scattered Suns\n </em>\n ) combines glitzy space-opera flash with witty, character-driven action on a cosmic scale. In retaliation for the destruction of a gas planet''s hydrogue inhabitants, the surviving hydrogues join forces with human-hating Klikiss-created robots to exterminate all Terrans, including Hansa colonists, gypsy Roamers and Therons of Theroc, the forested planet that''s home to sentient verdani. Vast verdani organic battleships unite with fiery, star-dwelling faeros, Earth Defense Forces and humanoid Ildirans in "elemental synergy" to fight the hydrogues. Expertly juggling a huge cast and multiple story lines, Anderson unleashes major firepower as he sets the scene for the sixth and final chapter in an SF series more entertaining than a 3-D superstar game of outerspace Twister.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ruler of Earth, Basil Wenceslas, is not so slowly going mad, and in trying to suppress all opposition to his rule, he is alienating both other factions of humanity and nonhuman races. Throughout human-inhabited space, opponents are rallying to equip themselves with bioengineered weapons (e.g., spacefaring trees) to fend off Wenceslas and the nonhumans he may be making willing to annihilate humanity in general. The fifth volume of the Saga of Seven Suns (after\n <em>\n  Hidden Empire\n </em>\n , 2002;\n <em>\n  A Forest of Stars,\n </em>\n 2003;\n <em>\n  Horizon Storms\n </em>\n , 2004; and\n <em>\n  Scattered Suns\n </em>\n , 2005) has the same distinct flavor of space opera about it. No surprise, that, since Anderson cut his literary teeth on Star Wars fiction. But his collaborations with Brian Herbert on the extension of\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n and, perhaps, the passage of years and books have given him more sophistication in characterization and world building. Seven Suns is a large canvas being filled with notable skill, sure to please lovers of action sf, even though by now the appended glossary is definitely necessary.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7208'),
(7049, 'Of Human Bondage (1915)', 'W. Somerset Maugham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4070'),
(7050, 'Of Love and Evil', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Rice''s slim second Songs of the Seraphim novel (after Angel Time), the angel Malchiah whisks ex-contract killer Toby O''Dare back to 16th-century Rome, where Toby must save Vitale de Leone, a young Jewish physician who''s been implicated in the poisoning of his gentile master and accused of bringing a poltergeist-like dybbuk into the household. Toby resolves both problems efficiently, but tragedy ensues, shaking his faith and leaving him vulnerable to powers of evil lying in wait to exploit his weakness. Toby''s life back in modern times also grows complicated with the sudden appearance of an ex-lover and the son he never knew, neither of whom he can share his angelic interventions with. Though the plot is surprisingly similar to that of its predecessor, Rice''s fans will easily succumb to the charm of her lapidary prose and a cliffhanger ending that sets up the next book in the series. 200,000 first printing. (Dec.) (c)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Toby Oâ€™Dare, the assassin who started on the path to redemption in Angel Time (2009), continues his quest for salvation. He has just learned that heâ€™s the father of a 10-year-old boy and is nervously awaiting the arrival of his former lover, Liona, and their son at the Mission Inn in California. He longs to be a part of the boyâ€™s life and to rekindle his relationship with Liona, but he is summoned on another time-traveling errand of mercy by the angel Malchiah. This time Toby is transported to fifteenth-century Rome to respond to the prayer of a Jewish physician named Vitale, whose best friend and patient, NiccolÃ², has clearly been poisoned. Given the cityâ€™s virulent anti-Semitism, Vitale is at risk if the real culprit isnâ€™t discovered. In addition to helping Vitale save NiccolÃ², Toby must discover the origins of an angry spirit that is haunting the house Vitale lives in. Toby is surprised by the dangers he faces in a story shaped by Catholic doctrine. Readers who enjoy Riceâ€™s larger-than-life tales and elegant writing will find much to appreciate here, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave fans eager for the next installment. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4999'),
(7051, 'Of Masques and Martyrs', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the Shadows, nothing can ever be the same again. Their existence revealed to the world in Of Saints and Shadows, the truth of their divided heritage revealed to themselves in Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, they must now fight the hardest battle of all -- against others of their own kind. The fragile alliance of human and vampire was shattered forever by Hannibal, among the most ancient of Shadows, who turned on them both in their hour of greatest need. Driven by blood, he thirsts for dominion, and humankind to him will always be prey. For those Shadows who walk a different path there is only one choice to be made. Hannibal must be destroyed before he destroys them all. But his followers are many, and those who oppose him are few...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4491'),
(7052, 'Of Mice and Men', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3014');
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(7053, 'Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters', 'Barack Obama &amp; Loren Long', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take a Look Inside\n  <em>\n   Of Thee I Sing\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the photos below to view the full spreads from the book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 2â€“5â€”In characteristically measured prose, the 44th President introduces 13 American icons and heroes as exemplars of personal virtues, from Georgia O''Keeffe (creativity) and Jackie Robinson (courage) to Helen Keller (strength) and Cesar Chavez (inspiration). Though he includes Billie Holiday in his gallery (a gifted singer, but an iffy role model) along with a free translation of Chavez''s\n <em>\n  !Si se puede!\n </em>\n as "Yes, you can!" (which was his campaign slogan: the official UFW version is a more accurate but stiffer "Yes, it can be done!"), Obama offers general but cogent summations of why each figure merits admirationâ€”Martin Luther King Jr., for instance, "taught us unyielding compassion," and Helen Keller, "never waiting for life to get easier," "gave others courage to face their challenges." Long''s superb technical gifts and gentle sense of humor shine in the pictures. Posed nobly and, usually, hard at work in full-page scenes, each man or woman also appears as a willowy but recognizable child on the facing and following pages, joining a growing crowd of young observers gazing across the center stitching and exchanging symbolic tools of their various trades. Their ranks swelled with more children, these younger versions turn to face viewers on the penultimate spread, followed by a closing painting of the author walking with his daughters and a page of reasonably accurate historical notes. As well as offering thought-provoking choices and commentary, this stately outing leads naturally to Lynne Cheney''s more populous\n <em>\n  America: A Patriotic Primer\n </em>\n (S &amp; S, 2002) as first introductions to our country''s great ones.â€”_John Peters, formerly at New York Public Library_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7366'),
(7054, 'Of Time &amp; Stars', 'Clarke, Arthur C - SS Collection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8987'),
(7055, 'Off on a Comet', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction, prose\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9490'),
(7056, 'Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin', 'Kathy Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Conversation with Kathy Griffin: Q: State your name and profession.KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber. Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children''s story?KG: I had not considered it, because I''d always been told by the nuns at St. Bernadine''s that my cursive was poor. A children'' s story is an interesting idea. How''s this for a title: "Waterboarding Pre-Teens: The Debate is Back On." I have a political side as well. Q: You seem fairly obsessed with Oprah. Is this something you''ll ever outgrow?KG: I will never outgrow my obsession with Oprah. Just as she will never outgrow her cardigan sweaters. Oops, she already has. Now look, that sounds like a dig, but it''s not. It''s called a struggle, and I''m on it with her. I support her. (Not as much as she needs those underwire bras to support her, because she''s got some serious ropes and pulleys going on there.) The point is, I worship her, and fear her at the same time. And believe me, that'' s how she wants it. Don''t be fooled. Q: Did I miss something? Where''s Celine Dion in this book?KG: I didn''t write about Celine Dion, only because of my fear of her husband Rene Angelil. I have an unfounded but constant fear that he could be in the French-Canadian mafia. Or have French-Canadian mafia ties, and by ties I don''t mean les cravats. And I fear that I may be abducted, whisked away and held prisoner at a charming little brasserie in Montreal, forced to eat multiple Croque Monsieur sandwiches until I confess to knowing the lyrics to every single one of her songs. Q: What do you think gays should take away from reading this book?KG: I think the gays should be happy with this book. It talks a lot about being who you are, and I certainly mention a lot of gay people. I would say it definitely has strong gay themes, and the gay community should know that frankly it has been a moral struggle for me to even acknowledge the heterosexual community in this book at all. But I am slowly reaching out an olive branch to the heterosexual community, even though I believe everything they do goes against the teachings of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But I''m trying not to judge them. Q: Describe your ideal, make-a-wish day of personal experiences with bats**t celebrities.KG: Well, it would start with some sort of a fit in the hair-and-makeup trailer on a set. I heard a story that when Sharon Stone was working on "Casino," she got into such a fight with her hairdresser, that after he spent four hours doing this beautiful bouffant hairdo for her, she got up and walked in the sink and put her head underwater. I have no idea if that''s true, but I hope it is, cause that''s some awesome s**t I would love to see. Then it would go right to lunch, where I could witness an eating disorder. Maybe a Lohan is purging in a bush somewhere with her finger down her throat. Or perhaps there''s an Olsen twin on a scale crying because she finally tipped 100. Any outburst over weight I would cherish. Also, it would be great to see an actress have a workload meltdown. So maybe at 2:00 some A-lister saying, "I can''t handle this s**t anymore." Because I love when actors can''t deal with a normal workday, and they think two in the afternoon is like midnight, so I would love to see somebody storming to their car, exhausted because they''ve put in a grueling four-hour workday of saying three lines and texting their nanny. Then it''s maybe off to an illicit affair. At the top of my wish list would be following a rapper or a football player over to his baby mama''s house where a screaming match ensues to the point where someone, maybe me, has to anonymously dial 911, and then I take a couple pictures, and I become an unannounced star witness later at the trial, entering Joan Collins-style in a smashing hat. And then at the end of the day it''s a healthy round of clubbing with Janice Dickinson, and then on the way home we go to the Beverly Glen pharmacy and run into Paula Abdul. All three of us secretly take our small white-paper pharmacy bags and put them behind our backs and make uncomfortable small talk. Official Book Club Selection is Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (It''s also her big chance to score that coveted book club endorsement she''s always wanted. Are you there, Oprah? It''s me, Kathy.) Kathy Griffin has won Emmys for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, been nominated for a Grammy, worked and walked every red carpet known to man, and rung in the New Year with Anderson Cooper. But the legions of fans who pack Kathy''s sold-out comedy shows have heard only part of her remarkable story. Writing with her trademark wit, the feisty comic settles a few old scores, celebrates the friends and mentors who helped her claw her way to the top, and shares insider gossip about celebrity behavior-the good, the bad, and the very ugly. She recounts the crazy ups and downs of her own career and introduces us to some of the supertalented people she encountered before they got famous (or, in some cases, after fame went to their heads). Word to the wise: If you''ve ever crossed Kathy Griffin at some point in your life, check the index for your name. Along the way, Kathy reveals intimate details about her life before and after she made the big time. She opens up about everything from growing up with a dysfunctional family in suburban Illinois to bombing as a young comedian in L.A., from her well-publicized plastic surgery disasters to her highly publicized divorce, and more. Only in this book will you learn how the dinner table is the best training ground for a career in stand-up, how speaking your mind can bite you on the ass and buy you a house, and which people in Kathy''s life have taught her the most valuable lessons-both inside and outside the entertainment industry. And as if all that wasn''t enough, there are also dozens of exclusive and somewhat embarrassing photos from Kathy''s own collection-featuring the diva of the D List herself, with her old nose as well as her new one, plus celebrity friends, foes, frenemies, and hangers-on for you to gawk at. Refreshingly candid, unflinchingly honest, and full of hilarious "Did she really say that?" moments, Official Book Club Selection will make you laugh until you cry, or just puke up a little bit. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2899'),
(7057, 'The Official Patient&#39;s Sourcebook on Hodgkin&#39;s Disease During Pregnancy', 'James N. Parker MD', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10913'),
(7058, 'Offspring', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dream was a telepathic place of existence where a psychic race known as the Silent could twist the laws of reality. But a madman''s lust for power has torn the Dream asunder. Now, only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them. And it is up to him to protect it as political and personal enemies line up against him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8610'),
(7059, 'Ogre, Ogre', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Smash, himself, was part ogre. Although ogres were considered so stupid they coud hardly speak, and spent their time eating young girls, seven assorted females had suddenly turned to him for guidance and saftety? In Xanth, one visit to the Good Magician Humfrey worked wonders....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3289'),
(7060, 'Oh Lord, Help Me Keep My Panties on', 'Lynda Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2837'),
(7061, 'Oh. My. Gods.', 'Tera Lynn Childs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Phoebeâ€™s mom returns from Greece with a new husband and plans to move to an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebeâ€™s well-plotted senior year becomes ancient history. Now, instead of enjoying a triumphant track season and planning for college with her best friends, Phoebe is trying to keep her head above water at the Ã¼berexclusive Academy. If it isnâ€™t hard enough being the new kid in school, Phoebeâ€™s classmates are all descendents of the Greek gods! When youâ€™re running against teammates with superpowers, dealing with a stepsister from Hades, and nursing a crush on a boy who is quite literally a god, the drama takes on mythic proportions!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3341'),
(7062, 'Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marine and Pacific war veteran Robert Leckie retells the epic story of the battle of Okinawa from both sides. Strikingly intimate portraits of the Japanese generals, the American soldiers, and their commanding officers brilliantly illuminate those individuals who fought in this bloody confrontation. of photos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3896'),
(7063, 'The old curiosity shop: a tale', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens''s creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne''er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp''s brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell''s purity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(7064, 'The old devils: a novel', 'Kingsley Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3130'),
(7065, 'Old Earth Stories', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11111'),
(7066, 'Old Hat, New Hat', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. "Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. Offers slapstick humor and simple concepts of sizes and shape."--_School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. "Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. Offers slapstick humor and simple concepts of sizes and shape."--_School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5785'),
(7067, 'The Old Man and the Sea', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This teaching guide includes focusing on the background of the novel, elements of the novel, vocabulary from the novel, plot synopsis and literary focus, reading guide questions, testing on the novel with answer key.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(7068, 'Old Man&#39;s War', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **John Scalzi** is a prolific journalist, columnist, and non-fiction writer whose books include *The Rough Guide to the Universe* and *The Book of the Dumb*. His web journal The Whatever is one of the longest-established and most widely-read weblogs on the net.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Solid . . . [Scalzi] sidesteps most of the clichÃ©s of military science fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays attention to the science underpinning his premise."â€”***San Francisco Chronicle***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Scalzi''s imagined interstellar arena is coherently and compellingly delineated . . . His speculative elements are top-notch. His combat scenes are blood-roiling. His dialogue is suitably snappy and profane. And the moral and philosophical issues he raises . . . insert useful ethical burrs under the military saddle of the story."â€”**Paul Di Filippo, *The Washington Post***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Thought-provoking!"â€”***Entertainment Weekly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, Old Manâ€™s War is a splendid novel."â€“***Cleveland Plain Dealer***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "When humanity reaches the stars, it discovers that it must defend its claim to new planets against alien races with similar expansionist tendencies. To ensure the expertise of its soldiers, Earth creates the Colonial Defense Force, an army of men and women otherwise classified as senior citizens, who give up their lives on Earth for an uncertain and perilous future among the stars. Scalzi''s first novel presents a new approach to military sf, boasting an unusual cast of senior citizens as heroes. A good choice for most libraries."â€”***Library Journal***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalziâ€™s astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master . . . This virtuoso debut pays tribute to SFâ€™s past while showing that well-worn tropes still can have real zip when theyâ€™re approached with ingenuity."â€”**Publishers Weekly *(starred review)***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Gripping and surpassingly original. It''s *Starship Troopers* without the lectures. It''s *The Forever War* with better sex. It''s funny, it''s sad, and it''s true."â€”**Cory Doctorow**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and *Old Man''s War* is classic SF seen from a modern perspectiveâ€”a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe."â€”**Robert Charles Wilson**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I enjoyed *Old Man''s War *immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don''t live in already."â€”**Ken MacLeod**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2749'),
(7069, 'Old tin sorrows', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Old Tin Sorrows, hard-boiled private eye Garrett is back in action--trying to help out an old Army buddy, Blake Peters. Apparently, there is an unearthly plot on the life of Blake''s boss, the wealthy General Stantnor. It is a tough case, but Garrett always gets his man, gnome or elf!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1890'),
(7070, 'Olive Kitteridge', 'Elizabeth Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout''s fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar detailsâ€”the mother-of-the-groom''s wedding dress, a grandmother''s disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raisedâ€”the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than Incoming Tide, where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all three struggling with their own misgivings about life. Like this story, the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  â€œHell. Weâ€™re always alone. Born alone. Die alone,â€Â says Olive Kitteridge, redoubtable seventh-grade math teacher in Crosby, Maine. Anyone who gets in Oliveâ€™s wayÂ had better watch out, for she crashes unapologetically through life like an emotional storm trooper. SheÂ forces her husband, Henry, the town pharmacist, into tactical retreat; and she drives her beloved son,Â Christopher, across the country and into therapy. ButÂ appalling thoughÂ Olive can be, StroutÂ Â manages to make her deeply human and even sympathetic, as areÂ all of the characters in this â€œnovel in stories.â€ Covering a period of 30-odd years, most of the storiesÂ (several of which were previously published in the New Yorker and other magazines) feature Olive asÂ  theirÂ focus, but in some she isÂ bitÂ player orÂ even a footnote while other charactersÂ take center stage to sort through their own fears and insecurities. Though loneliness and loss haunt these pages,Â Strout also suppliesÂ gentle humor andÂ a nourishing dose of hope. People are sustained by the rhythms of ordinary life and the natural wondersÂ of coastalÂ Maine,Â and even Olive is sometimesÂ caught off guardÂ by lifeâ€™s baffling beauty. Strout is also the author of the well-received Amy and Isabelle (1999) and Abide with Me (2006). --Mary Ellen Quinn\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6909'),
(7071, 'Oliver Twist', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nine-year-old Oliver has spent his life in a workhouse orphanage, where he becomes notorious for daring to ask for more food. Frustrated and hungry, he runs away to London, where he falls into the company of a gang of clever pickpockets, including Fagin, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger. Oliverâ€™s future looks uncertain, until a mysterious plot against him is unraveled by the kind Mr. Brownlow. What will become of poor Oliver Twist?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(7072, 'Olympos', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare''s __ get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused mere mortals with their classically trained robot allies (from Jupiter no less) race across time and space to keep from getting squashed as the various Titans of the Western Canon square off.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confused? It''s all part of Dan Simmons''s\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n , a novel one part fun-with-quantum-physics and two parts through-the-looking-glass survey of Western Literature. Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act __, Simmons doesn''t disappoint. Not only is\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n excellent hard science fiction and grand space opera, it''s a riveting and fast-paced book that is alternately shocking, thrilling, and often deftly hilarious as his hapless human creations wrestle the forces of literary history itself. Be sure to read\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n first though. That and a more-than passing familiarity with\n <em>\n  _ might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium''s far-off shores, and the Earth that might be. --\n </em>\n Jeremy Pugh_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Master of the Universes\n  </em>\n  : An Exclusive Interview with Dan Simmons\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n , a tale of Mars, the Greek gods, and survival in a post-human world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Drawing from Homer''s\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n , Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Tempest\n </em>\n and the work of several 19th-century poets, Simmons achieves another triumph in this majestic, if convoluted, sequel to his much-praised\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n (2003). Posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods and living on Mars travel back and forth through time and alternate universes to interfere in the real Trojan War, employing a resurrected late 20th-century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, as their tool. Meanwhile, the last remaining old-style human beings on a far-future Earth must struggle for survival against a variety of hostile forces. Superhuman entities with names like Prospero, Caliban and Ariel lay complex plots, using human beings as game pieces. From the outer solar system, an advanced race of semiorganic Artificial Intelligences, called moravecs, observe Earth and Mars in consternation, trying to make sense of the situation, hoping to shift the balance of power before out-of-control quantum forces destroy everything. This is powerful stuff, rich in both high-tech sense of wonder and literary allusions, but Simmons is in complete control of his material as half a dozen baroque plot lines smoothly converge on a rousing and highly satisfying conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7452'),
(7073, 'The Omega Expedition', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Madoc Tamlin is a man with an unusual problem. He wakes to find himself a thousand years in the future, in a space station on the far side of the sun. Or so he is told by the mysterious, sexless human who greets him. Madoc assures himself that he''s still in his own time, trapped in advanced virtual reality by one of his foes, because if he isn''t, he has no idea why he was cryogenically frozen--which would mean that he was a dangerous criminal. And he doesn''t remember that either! Plus, the notorious serial killer Christine Caine has been defrosted to join him, and they, along with their strange rescuer, have just been captured in an impossible space battle by an unknown enemy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Omega Expedition\n </em>\n is the sixth and concluding volume of Brian Stableford''s grand future history, which explores the possibilities and perils of emortality (near-immortality). This is one of the most thoughtful, complex, and ambitious series ever produced in science fiction, and its final novel, a standalone work, masterfully orchestrates the numerous characters, themes, plot lines, and ideas to a bold conclusion. But newcomers to the series really shouldn''t start with\n <em>\n  The Omega Expedition\n </em>\n . Read the novels of this future history in the author''s intended order, detailed in his informative introduction to\n <em>\n  The Omega Expedition\n </em>\n . Start with\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this cerebral novel, the capstone to British author Stableford''s (Inherit the Earth, etc.) much praised six-volume future history concerning the search for "emortality" (technologically assisted near-immortality), Madoc Tamlin, a 22nd-century shyster with a heart of gold, is defrosted after more than 1,000 years in suspended animation, only to discover that his awakening has been nothing more than a trial run for a more important revival. The posthuman emortals of the 35th century are preparing to bring back Adam Zimmerman, aka the Man Who Stole the World. Zimmerman, whose takeover of Earth actually saved the planet from environmental collapse in the 21st century, is the near-mythic founder of the movement that led to the emortal, posthuman culture that now inhabits our solar system. As Tamlin learns more about the society into which he has newly awakened, he discovers that it contains a number of rival factions, each of which espouses a different sort of emortality. Stableford does a fine job of pulling together an enormous number of loose threads. If his characters are sometimes flat, his presentation of the possible marvels of posthumanity is quite compelling, as is his thoughtful examination of the potential involved in near immortality. Readers who stick with this complex, intellectually challenging series to the end will find their tenacity well rewarded.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4849'),
(7074, 'The Omega Point', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solar system''s entry in 2020 into a supernova''s atmosphere threatens the future of life on Earth in Strieber''s over-the-top sequel to\n <em>\n  2012: The War for Souls\n </em>\n . On arrival at West Virginia''s Acton Clinic, Dr. David Ford, the clinic''s new chief psychiatrist, learns from the woman who hired him, Aubrey Denman, that the job involves more than being a medical administrator. He must also protect the clinic''s secret mission from its enemies, who include the members of the Seven Families who control the wealth of this planet. When Denman dies shortly thereafter in a car bomb explosion, Ford has to fend for himself. Ford''s later researches in the Acton library lead him to conclude that Osiris, Moses, and Jesus, among others, were time travelers from a lost civilization. Ponderous prose (No doubt Goliath is many things, but one of them must be that violet lightâ€”the highest color of alchemical growth and also the color of ultimate death) does little to help the nonsensical plot.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a thriller about the end of the world as we know it, Strieber takes us on a journey through the horrors of apocalypse and into the promise of hope in a future changed beyond all recognition. Since 2012, radiation from a supernova has been wreaking increasing havoc with technology. Eventually, the ferocity of the solar storms threatens to burn life on Earth to a crisp. Enter David Ford, a psychologist hired to work at the exclusive Acton Clinic. Of course, nothing is as it appears on the surface. Though he has no recollection of it, David was once a student at the center that preceded the clinic, at which Herbert Acton and others taught a science so ancient it had passed into the realm of mysticism. Many of the present-day patients were David''s classmates, and they hold the only hope for the survival of humanity in their command of the science they learned there. Strieber regards the popular theme of apocalypse from a New Agey angle not unusual for him and sometimes rather dull. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5949'),
(7075, 'Ominous Parallels', 'Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism.Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial ?truth,? the public good, doing one?s duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now prevalent in the United States.Here is a frightening look at where America may be heading, a clarion call for all who are concerned about preserving our right to individual freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2941'),
(7076, 'Omnitopia Dawn', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A near-future techno-thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Diane Duane. ** It''s the first quarter of the twenty-first century, and "massively multiplayer" on-line games have been around for a couple of decades. In an increasingly wired and computer-friendly world they''ve become a form of entertainment so popular they''re giving television and films a run for the money. And the most popular gaming universe of all is Omnitopia, created by genius programmer Dev Logan. For millions of people around the world, Omnitopia is an obsession, a passionate pastime, almost a way of life. Omnitopia is a virtual place where dreams come true-players can create their own universes within the game''s structure, and participate in the profits if their piece of the universe is a hit. Ten million players routinely play in Omnitopia, and at any given time, nearly a million of them are on-line, living in a world more real to them then their own. Worldwide, Omnitopia is now as much a culture as a game. Participants can become involved in it in a hundred different ways. Some game as if their lives depended on it, spending thousands of hours, or thousands of dollars, or both, on quests in search of "game glory" among their fellow players. Some game only to acquire sufficient in-game "value" to become entitled to become subcreators themselves, able to build new levels and start raking in the so-called "one percent of infinity" which is the leveler''s share of the profits. But there are also people who don''t game at all, preferring to use the massive platform simply to explore its worlds, or to interact with other participants. Some people do nothing but design on-line weapons and other items for Omnitopia gamers, and sell them-or act as brokers, buying and selling game artifacts to order. Some subcreators do the same kind of design and creation, but for tailored Microcosms or slices of them: these are the "unreal estate" dealers. Some players speculate in game "gold" on the success or popularity of Microcosms, rather than actually playing in them. And of course there are thieves and swindlers, cheaters who live to find the loophole in the game that will outside it in the real world. Now Dev and his people are preparing to rollout a major new expansion to the Omnitopia system. And even as players, staff, the media, and the heavy hitters on the world financial scene wait eagerly for this fast-approaching and momentous event, there are others preparing to play a very different game-one that is meant to strike at the heart of Omnitopia and bring the entire system crashing down....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(7077, 'The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma, Young Readers Edition: The Secrets Behind What You Eat', 'Michael Pollan &amp; Richie Chevat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this   revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What   should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain usâ€”  whether industrial or organic, alternative or processedâ€”he develops a portrait of the American   way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped   our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species   and the future of our planet.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  [Signature]Reviewed by\n  <em>\n   Pamela Kaufman\n  </em>\n  Pollan (_The Botany of Desire_) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It''s a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label on a frozen dinner, dig into a steak or decide whether to buy organic eggs. You''ll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: "The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world." All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and fungi. "[E]ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out of... well, precisely\n  <em>\n   what\n  </em>\n  I don''t know offhand, but ultimately some sort of formerly living creature, i.e., a\n  <em>\n   species\n  </em>\n  . We haven''t yet begun to synthesize our foods from petroleum, at least not directly."Pollan''s narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species. He starts with a McDonald''s lunch, which he and his family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a cornfield in Iowa. Corn feeds the steer that turns into the burgers, becomes the oil that cooks the fries and the syrup that sweetens the shakes and the sodas, and makes up 13 of the 38 ingredients (yikes) in the Chicken McNuggets.Indeed, one of the many eye-openers in the book is the prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn. Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.Later, Pollan prepares a dinner with items from Whole Foods, investigating the flaws in the world of "big organic"; cooks a meal with ingredients from a small, utopian Virginia farm; and assembles a feast from things he''s foraged and hunted.This may sound earnest, but Pollan isn''t preachy: he''s too thoughtful a writer, and too dogged a researcher, to let ideology take over. He''s also funny and adventurous. He bounces around on an old International Harvester tractor, gets down on his belly to examine a pasture from a cow''s-eye view, shoots a wild pig and otherwise throws himself into the making of his meals. I''m not convinced I''d want to go hunting with Pollan, but I''m sure I''d enjoy having dinner with him. Just as long as we could eat at a table, not in a Toyota.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Pamela Kaufman is executive editor at\n  </em>\n  Food &amp; Wine\n  <em>\n   magazine.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Botany of Desire\n  </em>\n  (2001), about how people and plants coevolve, Michael Pollan teased greater issues from speciously small phenomena.\n  <em>\n   The Omnivore''s Dilemma\n  </em>\n  exhibits this same gift; a Chicken McNugget, for example, illustrates our consumption of corn and, in turn, agribusiness''s oil dependency. In a journey that takes us from an "organic" California chicken farm to Vermont, Pollan asks basic questions about the moral and ecological consequences of our food. Critics agree it''s a wake-up call and, written in clear, informative prose, also entertaining. Most found Pollan''s quest for his foraged meal the highlight, though the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  faulted Pollan''s hypocritical method of "living off the land." Many also voiced a desire for a more concrete vision for the future. But if the book doesn''t outline a diet plan, it''s nonetheless a loud, convincing call for change.[HTML_REMOVED]\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5029'),
(7078, 'The omnivore&#39;s dilemma: a natural history of four meals', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain usâ€” whether industrial or organic, alternative or processedâ€”he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2402'),
(7079, 'On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen', 'Harold McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Harold McGee''s On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they''re made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. Now, for its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee has prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment. On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped give birth to the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have now been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Among the major themes addressed throughout this new edition are: Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully The particular substances that give foods their flavors and that give us pleasure Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1600'),
(7080, 'On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n High in the Swiss Alps, a man hunts respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe''s most ruthless criminal. Nothing is to stand in Ernst Stavro Blofeld''s way, certainly not 007.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7648'),
(7081, 'On Mystic Lake', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Kristin Hannah makes her hardcover debut with this poignant, tender, and true story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together.Annie Colwater''s only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he''s in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman she is now desperate to become again.In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, Annie learns that she can love without losing herself. But just when she has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again, and Annie must make a choice no woman should have to make. . . .**On Mystic Lake** is the story of one seemingly ordinary woman, but the novel speaks to all of us, to anyone who has ever had to choose between what is . . . and what could be.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2938'),
(7082, 'On Sophistical Refutations', 'Aristotle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First we must grasp the number of aims entertained by those who argue as competitors and rivals to the death. These are five in number, refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism, and fifthly to reduce the opponent in the discussion to babbling-i.e. to constrain him to repeat himself a number of times: or it is to produce the appearance of each of these things without the reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9622'),
(7083, 'On Target', 'Mark Greaney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Four years ago, assassin Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. Now, an old comrade returns to haunt him-and to force him on a mission against his will.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With his ruthless employers on one side, his former friends on the other and a doomed mission ahead, Court Gentry would kill to get out of this one alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7121'),
(7084, 'On The Beach', 'Nevil Shute', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8805');
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(7085, 'On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System', 'Henry M. Paulson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the pivotal meetings with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Paulson''s personal recollections of and conversations with President Bush, President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. As well as detailing the major decisions taken during the crisis, Paulson also puts forth the policies he believes need to be implemented to take us securely into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2089'),
(7086, 'On the Nature of Things', 'Carus Lucretius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is an English verse translation of Lucretius''s philosophical poem De rerum natura.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1368'),
(7087, 'On the oceans of eternity', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten years ago, inhabitants of the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victor in a battle to lead this strange new world.Praise for Against the Tide of Years: "S. M. Stirling concocts another exciting and explosive tale of ambition, ingenuity, intrigue, and discovery."--Jane Lindskold, author of *When the Gods Are Silent*"Confirms what readers of the first book already knew: S.M. Stirling is writing some of the best straight-ahead science fiction the genre has ever seen."--*Amazing Magazine*Praise for *Island in the Sea of Time*: "One of the best time travel/alternate history stories I''ve ever read, period. An outstanding piece of work."--Harry Turtledove"A page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new fans."--George R.R. Martin"Compelling."--*Science Fiction Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3680'),
(7088, 'On the Orion Line', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11108'),
(7089, 'On The Road', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouacs classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouacs classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be beat and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that set them free. Based on Kerouacs adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naÃ¯vetÃ© and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouacs love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and will be a must-have for any literature lover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1835'),
(7090, 'On the Steamy Side', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Firing his New York publicist is the first thing Devon Sparks has done in a long time that feels right. The second thing is flirting outrageously with a gorgeous stranger, who politely reprimands Devon for splashing his drink all over her back. Unlike the hordes of females who are more than happy to keep celebrity chef Devon and his money company, tart-tongued, sweetly southern Lilah Jane Tunkle has no idea of the extent of Devonâ€™s fame and wealth. One night of no-strings, no-regrets sex with Lilah is all Devon wants, and that is exactly what Devon believes he has enjoyed until he arrives at work the next day and discovers that one of his new employees is none other than Lilah. In her second hot and spicy culinary romance, following Canâ€™t Stand the Heat (2009)â€”which stars food critic Miranda Wake and chef Adam Templeâ€”Edwards cooks up the perfect combination of compelling characters and an intriguing plot that delivers a marvelous confection of irresistible details about the fascinating world inside the kitchen of a gourmet restaurant. --John Charles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for ON THE STEAMY SIDE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEdwards cooks up the perfect combination of compelling characters and an intriguing plot that delivers a marvelous confection of irresistible details about the fascinating world inside the kitchen of a gourmet restaurant.â€â€”_Booklist _(Starred Review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€_On the Steamy Side_ is an instant re-read, a fresh, emotions-first take on the food-infused romance and, quite simply, a stellar example of the health and vibrancy of the American contemporary romance.Â  Iâ€™m betting it ends up on any number of Best of 2010 lists.â€ --_ _Michelle Buonfiglio, Barnes &amp; Nobleâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Heart to Heart\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA delight from cover to coverâ€¦My favorite aspect is how skillfully Ms. Edwards weaves emotional subjects throughout the novelâ€¦_On the Steamy Side_ is much more than a sexy romance. It [has] depth and humanity. This series is headed for my keeper shelves. â€œ â€“_A Romance Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe snappy, fun loving dialogue and overall comradery with this cast of character makes for great reading.â€ â€“_Babbling About Books_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteam up your reading with\n  <em>\n   On The Steamy Side\n  </em>\n  by mega-talented Louisa Edwards.â€â€”SingleTitles.com\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFast paced and scintillatingâ€¦Boiling and searing love scenes aside, the complex relationships and self-discovery shared with the unique backdrop of the cut-throat and competitive culinary arts forces the reader to consume page after page as voraciously as the chefs can dish it up.â€Â  --_Romance Readers Choice_Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLouisa Edwardsâ€™ fast-paced, sparkling\n  <em>\n   On The Steamy Side\n  </em>\n  has sizzling sex scenes, complicated relationships, and unique settings, with an undercurrent of humor.â€ â€“_Long and Short Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you need a real feel-good, make your heart sing, and your body tingle kind of afternoon this is the perfect recipe for successâ€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for CANâ€™T STAND THE HEAT\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  Exceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen I tried to figure out why I liked the book so much, two things came to mind. One, when it was over I didnâ€™t really feel like I had read a book; I felt as if Iâ€™d been a part of the story. Thatâ€™s very difficult to achieve.Â  Two, I realized what Edwardsâ€™ style reminded me ofâ€¦Several times reading this one I thought to myself,\n  <em>\n   â€˜This woman could be the next Susan Elizabeth Phillips.â€™\n  </em>\n  And I donâ€™t write that lightly.â€ â€“ColumbusDispatch.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSophisticated, romantic, mouth watering and sizzling hot.â€ â€“The Three Tomatoes Book Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance_\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt\n  <br />\n  of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLouisa Edwards has cooked up a sassy and sexy contemporary romance. With the popularity of the Food Network so high these days, this novel has arrived just in time to delight foodies and readers both. The food descriptions alone in this book are enough to set your mouth wateringâ€¦I predict a delicious future for this new writerâ€ â€“_Review Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMs. Louisa Edwards is definitely an author to watch!Â  Her descriptions make you feel like you can almost smell the food Adamâ€™s cooking!Â  CANâ€™T STAND THE HEAT has what it takes to affect all of your emotions--joy, sorrow, fear, hate, and love.â€ â€“The Romance Readers Connection\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5078'),
(7091, 'On the Trail of the Space Pirates: A Tom Corbett Space Cadet Adventure', 'Carey Rockwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the Trail of the Space Pirates is the third in a series first published in the 1950''s and was the inspiration for many science fiction movies and television shows of the period. Filled with action, intrigue and good old fashioned values, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Adventures still hold the page turning power they did when they were originally published.In this adventure, pirates have cracked the security of the Solar Alliance and war has broken out in space. Tom, Roger and Astro are trapped tight in the center of all the action when Tom goes undercover on the pirate leader''s spaceship. In their most dangerous and action-packed adventure, yet, the cadets must save the Solar Alliance and themselves. Remember when rockets were shaped like javelins with fins and being a "space cadet" was a good thing?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4777'),
(7092, 'On the Yankee Station: Stories', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A skilled narrator with great powers of witty invention.... William Boyd has established himself as an accomplished and adventurous writer."?_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life''s inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in "The Coup." In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew. With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd''s enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction''s finest storytellers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6995'),
(7093, 'On Venus Death', 'Ben Bova - Death On Venus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10453'),
(7094, 'On Wings of Magic', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9091'),
(7095, 'On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells', 'Leigh Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michaels is a RITA Award-nominated author of more than 75 romance novels, and she distills everything she has learned over the years into this useful writers'' guide. After a short summary of the genre and a survey of the different kinds of romances, Michaels explores the process involved in writing a captivating love story. From creating convincing characters and understanding conflict to writing good dialogue and crafting an entertaining plot,\n <em>\n  On\n </em>\n <em>\n  Writing\n </em>\n <em>\n  Romance\n </em>\n provides plenty of practical details and useful examples to help aspiring writers get started. Michaels even includes a concise guide to submitting a manuscript to a publisher and to marketing one''s own work. A good basic introduction to a potentially gratifying pursuit suitable for most public library collections.\n <em>\n  John Charles\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book gives comprehensive how-to information for novice romance writers. For those new to the genre and/or to writing, this book provides a starting point for developing the skill set essential to writing a best-selling romance novel. "On Writing Romance" is a thorough reference that will provide readers with detailed descriptions of more than 20 sub-categories within the romance genre, tips for avoiding cliches, specific instruction for creating the perfect romantic couple, guidelines for drafting those all-important love scene, submission information for breaking into the genre, and much, much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6244'),
(7096, 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   On Writing\n  </em>\n  really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You''re right there with the young author as he''s tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London''s. It''s a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from\n  <em>\n   Attack of the Giant Leeches\n  </em>\n  , not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with __. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  , the mind-possessing monsters in\n  <em>\n   The Tommyknockers\n  </em>\n  , and the haunting of the blocked writer in\n  <em>\n   The Shining\n  </em>\n  symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife''s intervention, which he describes). "There''s one novel,\n  <em>\n   Cujo\n  </em>\n  , that I barely remember writing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer''s "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft''s arcane vocabulary, Hemingway''s leanness, Grisham''s authenticity, Richard Dooling''s artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman''s sentence fragments. He explains why\n  <strong>\n   is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard''s\n  </strong>\n  could be the antidote.\n </p>\n <p>\n  King isn''t just a writer, he''s a true teacher.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As his diehard fans know, King is a member of a writers-only rock ''n'' roll band (Amy Tan is also a member), and this recording starts off with a sampling of their music. It may sound unsettling to some, but King quickly puts listeners at ease with his confident, candid and breezy tone. Here, King tells the story of his childhood and early influences, describes his development as a writer, offers extensive advice on technique (read: write tight and no bullshit) and finally recounts his well-known experience of being hit by a drunk driver while walking on a country road in 1999 and the role that his work has played in his rehabilitation. While some of his guidance is not exactly revolutionary (he recommends The Elements of Style as a must-have reference), other revelations that vindicate authors of popular fiction, like himself, as writers, such as his preference for stressing character and situation over plot, are engrossing. He also offers plenty of commonsense advice on how to organize a workspace and structure one''s day. While King''s comical childhood anecdotes and sober reflections on his accident may be appreciated while driving to work or burning calories on a treadmill, the book''s main exercise does not work as well in the audio format. King''s strongest recommendation, after all, is that writers must be readers, and despite his adept performance, aspiring authors might find that they would absorb more by picking up the book. Based on the Scribner hardcover (Forecasts, July 31, 2000).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8561'),
(7097, 'Once A Spy', 'Keith Thomson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer''s disease has taken its toll and he''s just a confused old man who''s wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky high-and then bullets start flying in every direction. At first, Charlie thinks his Russian "creditors" are employing aggressive collection tactics. But once Drummond effortlessly hot-wires a car as their escape vehicle, Charlie begins to suspect there''s much more to his father than meets the eye. He soon discovers that Drummond''s unremarkable career as an appliance salesman was actually a clever cover for an elaborate plan to sell would-be terrorists faulty nuclear detonators. Drummond''s intricate knowledge of the "device" is extremely dangerous information to have rattling around in an Alzheimer''s-addled brain. The CIA wants to "contain" him--and so do some other shady characters who send Charlie and Drummond on a wild chase that gives "father and son quality time" a whole new meaning. With Once a Spy, Keith Thomson makes his debut on the thriller stage with energy, wit, and style to spare. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3192'),
(7098, 'The once and future king', 'T. H. White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Quartet of novels by T.H. White, published in a single volume in 1958. The quartet comprises The Sword in the Stone (1938), The Queen of Air and Darkness--first published as The Witch in the Wood (1939)--The Ill-Made Knight (1940), and The Candle in the Wind (published in the composite volume, 1958). The series is a retelling of the Arthurian legend, from Arthur''s birth to the end of his reign, and is based largely on Sir Thomas Malory''s Le Morte Darthur. After White''s death, a conclusion to The Once and Future King was found among his papers; it was published in 1977 as The Book of Merlyn. -- __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes King Arthur''s life from childhood to coronation, creation of the Round Table, and search for the Holy Grail.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9008'),
(7099, 'Once Around the Track', 'Sharyn McCrumb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller McCrumb (_St. Dale_;\n <em>\n  Ghost Riders\n </em>\n ) returns to the world of NASCAR in this middling tale of modern celebrity. Badger Jenkins, a shy, good old boy from Marengo, Ga., whose days of racing stardom have come and gone, is recruited by a syndicate of women investors to drive their new car. The car''s primary sponsor is Vagenya (sounds like Virginia), a Viagra-like product for women, and the team will field an all-female crew. Besides the inscrutable but lovable Badger, there''s Grace Tuggle, the gruff crew chief; Melodie Albigre, Jenkins''s predatory agent; and Melanie Sark, a duplicitous publicist who''s secretly planning to write an exposÃ© of NASCAR. Add the competing agendas to an inexperienced pit crew, and Team Vagenya seems to be headed for a pileup long before it gets to victory lane. NASCAR fans will enjoy the time spent at the track, but the pedestrian plotting and unsurprising outcome hinder the novel like sugar in a gas tank.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s almost a giant step for womankind--an all-female NASCAR pit crew sponsored by the female equivalent of Viagra. But they still need a driver. Enter pretty boy Badger Jenkins, the poster child for passive aggression. With his polite, Southern, laid-back manner, Badger will agree to anything but never follow through. Once he puts on his fire suit, however, he morphs into the dangerously handsome, daredevil race-car driver who has stolen the hearts of females everywhere. McCrumb, who canonized NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt in her novel\n <em>\n  St. Dale\n </em>\n (2006), imagines yet another contemporary racing legend. This book is populated with strong female characters, from the tough, competent crew chief to the determined attorney to Badger''s ruthless manager. And McCrumb''s detailed descriptions of the pit crew at work are so strong you can almost smell the motor oil. Readers who can''t get enough of Pamela Britton''s NASCAR series, including\n <em>\n  On the Edge\n </em>\n (2006) and\n <em>\n  To the Limit\n </em>\n (2007), will be happy to add McCrumb to their list of must-reads.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4366'),
(7100, 'Once Bitten, Twice Dead', 'Bianca D&#39;Arc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thrills, chills, and a smoldering sexy hero combine to unforgettable effect in Bianca D''Arc''s irresistible new novel of paranormal romance. . .When police officer Sarah Petit investigates a disturbance in an abandoned building, she expects to find a few underage drinkers. Instead, she''s attacked by creatures straight out of a horror movie. Waking a week later in a hospital, Sarah is visited by Special Forces soldier Captain Xavier Beauvoir. The zombies who attacked Sarah are the result of military research gone terrifyingly wrong, and Sarah''s immunity to the virus makes her the perfect person to help Xavier eradicate them. But his smooth Cajun accent, whiskey-colored eyes, and dizzying kiss are risky to her in a very different way. Sarah attracts danger like a magnet--and the smart, fearless cop attracts Xavier too, instilling a bone-deep need that''s undermining his steady faÃ§ade. Enlisting her aid is a necessary gamble, but vicious undead creatures are not the only enemy they face. And the only way to keep each other safe is to trust in an instant connection that could be their greatest strength--or the perfect way to destroy them both. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/505'),
(7101, 'Once Dead, Twice Shy', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A seasoned author of supernatural tales, Harrison makes her YA debut with the story of 17-year-old Madison Avery, who is killed by a "dark reaper" named Kairos on her prom night. But by stealing Kairos''s amulet in the process, Madison manages to retain her soul. Along with Barnabas, a beautiful "light reaper," and Grace, her guardian angel, Madison plots to repossess her body and protect her prom date from Kairos and from the dark reapers'' attempts to control time and fate. Having been content as an outsider ("I was happier being myself-purple hair, loud music, dead, and everything-than trying to fit in"), Madison must build her trust in others in order to save her life and discover her fate-whether or not she even believes in fate. Though rules and explanations seem at times a little too convenient, Harrison weaves an exciting battle, not between good and evil, but between free will and destiny. A compelling blend of mysticism, suspense and surprise make for a quick and pleasurable read. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7-10â€“With her purple-tipped hair and Goth style, Madison didn''t fit in when she was alive, and she has real problems now that she is dead. She went to the prom with popular and handsome Josh, but when she found out that her dad had arranged the fix-up, she ran off with the dangerously charming Kairos. This was a bad idea. Kairos is a dark timekeeper who needed to strike down Madison because his own time was about to run out and when he tried, she stole his amulet. This event sets off a unique adventure in which Madison is stuck somewhere between life and death. Caught up in a world of dark and light reapers, seraphs, and guardian angels, she has to fight to get the correct amulet and to reunite her body and soul so that she can live out a life cut short. The characters and their specific jobs and places in the hierarchy of heaven and earth are hard to follow, perhaps because this first book in the series is the setup for those that follow. The final chapters are by far the best as readers finally get a handle on all of the intricacies of the story and become attached to some of the characters, such as Grace, a funny and charming guardian angel who often speaks in limericks._â€“Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5926'),
(7102, 'Once on a Moonless Night', 'Dai Sijie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra-once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China-is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul drs"Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text. A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls in love with both teller and tale, but when drs"Ampere is killed in prison, Toomchooq disappears, and she, pregnant with his child, embarks on a search for her lost love and the scroll that begins, "Once on a moonless night . . ."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/892'),
(7103, 'Once There Was a War', 'John Steinbeck; Mark Bowden (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Nobel laureate John Steinbeckâ€™s bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War IIâ€”now with a new cover and introduction** In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for *The New York Herald Tribune*, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2711'),
(7104, 'Once upon a dream: In Dreams', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The authors of Once Upon a Star return with a new collection of romantic stories of enchantment, passion, and vision, including Jill Gregory''s "The Sorcerer''s Daughter," Ruth Ryan Langan''s "The Enchantment," "The Bridge of Sighs" by Marianne Willman, and Nora Roberts''s "In Dreams," about a young woman who holds the key to rescuing a handsome stranger from a curse. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2649'),
(7105, 'Once upon a kiss: A World Apart', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **New York Times Bestseller** All-new stories from the authors of the New York Times bestseller "Once Upon a Rose", including "A World Apart" from bestselling author Nora Roberts, "Impossible" by Jill Gregory, "Sealed with a Kiss" by Ruth Ryan Langan, and "Kiss Me, Kate" by Marianne Willman. Love, passion, and desire . . . it all begins with a kiss. **Explicit content**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2568'),
(7106, 'Once upon a rose: Winter Rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Love blossoms like the luscious petals of spring-s very first rose- **Winter Rose**#1 **New York Times** bestselling author Nora RobertsOn a remote island cursed with eternal winter, a young queen heals a wounded soldier-**and warms her heart with the joys of true love- **The Rose and the Sword** Jill GregoryAn exiled princess-s last hope for recovering her lost kingdom lies with the embittered prince she is pledged to marry-**a man as impossible as he is irresistible- **The Roses of Glenross**Ruth Ryan LanganSheltered in an abbey in war-torn Scotland, a lonely lass tends a haunted rose garden-**while a heroic soldier basks in the pure glow of her love- **The Fairest Rose**Award-winning author Marianne WillmanEmbarking on a dangerous quest to win the hand of a princess, a bold Irish warrior falls for the one woman who has the power to save his life-**and hold his heart-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2600'),
(7107, 'Once Upon a Time in the North', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”In this prequel to the "His Dark Materials" trilogy (Knopf), Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby meets armored bear Iorek Byrnison for the first time. In this short, fantastic adventure, young Scoresby finds himself on the Arctic island of Novy Odense, a community set in an alternate past world. The rich mining company Lars Manganese is trying to control the town, Ivan Dimitrovich Poliakov is a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Captain van Breda is prevented from unloading his cargo unjustly. Scoresby takes on the captain''s cause, resulting in an Old West-style shootout. Many readers will likely enjoy this book because of its quick pace and action-filled plot, but some Pullman fans may be disappointed when comparing this short text to the trilogy. Characters are less developed, and events sometimes happen a bit too quickly. The ending is neat and tidy, though it does leave the door open for future adventures. The inclusion of documents and black-and-white engraved illustrations add a nice touch, and the board game Peril of the Pole is tucked into the back inside cover as a bonus.â€”_Jennifer D. Montgomery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n AsÂ he did inÂ Lyraâ€™s Oxford (2004), Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials trilogy in this story of how aeronaut Lee Scoresby meets and befriends bearÂ Iorke Byrnison. Pullman is as fine a writer as there is for young people,Â and thisÂ book is a small gemâ€”literallyâ€”itâ€™sÂ 112 pages and the size of a paperback.Â The storyÂ begins asÂ Leeâ€™s cargo balloon drifts into the Arctic, landing in the icy environs ofÂ Novy Odense. The town is about to elect a new mayor, Ivan Poliakov, who wants to rid theÂ place ofÂ bears, and Lee (along with daemonÂ rabbit Hester) finds himself embroiled in localÂ controversies. When Lee learns one of Poliakovâ€™s allies is a vicious criminal with whom he once had a run-in, he knows he must choose sides. Beautifully crafted and spilling over with action, the novel has the feel of an old western (one can almost see Gary Cooper as Lee). Matching Pullmanâ€™s carefully calibrated prose is the bookâ€™s thoughtfulÂ design. Everything worksÂ togetherâ€”from the sturdy,Â blue cloth cover to theÂ the back matter, which features a miniature board game. Lawrenceâ€™s stamp-sizedÂ ink engravingsÂ  set the tale somewhere between fantasy and history. Grades 7-10. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8310'),
(7108, 'One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy''s clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expose a murderer''s black heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(7109, 'One Day', 'David Nicholls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate livesâ€”lives very different from the people they once dreamed they''d become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayâ€”July 15thâ€”of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11229'),
(7110, 'One Day at a Time', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling new novelâ€”a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take lifeâ€¦Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowersâ€”and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywoodâ€™s top producers. Theyâ€™re not your typical family by any means.â€¦Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for ten years, in a solid, loving relationship. Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior. And Coco, a law school dropout and the family black sheep, works as a dog walker, having fled life in the spotlight for the artsy northern California beach town of Bolinas.But when Coco reluctantly agrees to dog-sit in Janeâ€™s luxurious home, she soon discovers how much things can change in just a matter of days.â€¦It turns out Janeâ€™s house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor whoâ€™s fleeing a psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldnâ€™t be more different. The attraction couldnâ€™t be more immediate. Suddenly Coco is seeing things differently: Leslie is not just a celebrity, heâ€™s a single dad to an adorable six-year-old girl. Her mother is not just a self-centered walking advertisement for great cosmetic surgery, sheâ€™s a woman in love, with vulnerability and new insight. And Jane and Liz are about to take the bravest plunge of allâ€”into parenthood. As Coco contemplates a future with one of Hollywoodâ€™s hottest stars, as her mother and sister settle into their lives, old wounds are healed and new familes are formedâ€”some traditional, some not so traditional, but all bonded by love.With wit and intelligence, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel explores love in all its guises, taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. Funny, sexy, and wise, One Day at a Time is at once moving, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/817'),
(7111, 'One Day in May', 'Catherine Alliott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One fine day in May, Hattie''s life changes for ever...Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at boarding school and shes enjoying a fling with a younger, very sexy man. But when her job takes her back to the idyllic village of Little Crandon, painful memories of her first love - Dominic Forbes, the married politician she worked for years ago, the man who changed the course of her life come flooding back...Things come to a head when Hattie bumps into Dominics widow and his gorgeous younger brother, Hal, in the village and she finds her world turned upside down. Will Hattie come clean about what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? And, if she does, is she ready to face the consequences? Whatever happens, Hattie comes to realize that you cant keep running from your mistakes. Its time to move on and maybe, just maybe, let herself fall in love again\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5720'),
(7112, 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', 'Aleksander Solzhenitsyn; Max Hayward; Ronald Hingley; Leopold Labedz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10529'),
(7113, 'One Day on Mars', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s 24 on Mars: a nonstop futuristic thrill-ride, all in one day, through the critical events which were the breaking point for the underclass of Martian citizens and precipitated a revolution to break the Martian colonists free from the formidable Sol System government. The formerly red planetâ€”now in danger of again becoming red, blood redâ€”would never be the same, nor would the human race. It was one day that changed the course of history for the Solar System, raging from hand-to-hand combat to piloted armored mecha suits clashing to an enormous space battle, with dedicated heroes on both sides of the conflict wondering if they were doing the right thingâ€”and if they would live to see another day. And wondering, as well, if the spark of this new war, that would eventually reach across whole star systems, would bring them peace One Day on Mars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4200');
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(7114, 'One Door Away from Heaven', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hailed as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€ (*Rolling Stone*) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writing career that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, and popular work yet.At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won the acclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fans the world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of our time into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotional resonance.Now, with the stunning depth and virtuosity of his storytelling, he brings to readers one of his most gripping and richly imagined novels to dateâ€”an intoxicating story of adventure and suspense, mystery and revelation, told with humor, heart, and high art. **One Door Away From Heaven**In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but canâ€™t find her wayâ€”until a new family settles into the rental trailer next door and she meets the young girl who will lead her on a remarkable quest that will change Micky herself and everything she knowsâ€”or thinks she knowsâ€”forever. Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires Micky. Beneath Leilaniâ€™s effervescence, however, Micky comes to sense a quiet desperation that the girl dares not express.Leilaniâ€™s mother is little more than a child herself. And the girlâ€™s stepfather, Preston Maddoc, is educated but threatening. He has moved the family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, striving to make contact, claiming to have had a vision that by Leilaniâ€™s tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world.Slowly, ever more troubling details emerge in Leilaniâ€™s conversations with Micky. Most chilling is Mickyâ€™s discovery that Leilani had an older brother, also disabled, who vanished after Maddoc took him into the woods one night and is now â€œgone to the stars.â€Leilaniâ€™s tenth birthday is approaching. Micky is convinced the girl will be dead by that day. While the child-protection bureaucracy gives Micky the runaround, the Maddoc family slips away into the night. Micky sets out across America to track and find them, alone and afraid but for the first time living for something bigger than herself.She finds herself pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. The passion and disregard for danger with which Micky pursues her quest bring to her side a burned-out detective who joins her on a journey of incredible peril and startling discoveries, a journey through terrible darkness to unexpected light. **One Door Away From Heaven** is an incandescent mix of suspense and humor, fear and wonder, a story of redemption and timeless wisdom that will have readers cheering. Filled with tragedy and joy, with terror and hope, it solidifies Dean Koontzâ€™s reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of our time. This is Dean Koontz at his very bestâ€”and it doesnâ€™t get any better than that.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(7115, 'One Door From Heaven', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hailed as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€ (*Rolling Stone*) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writing career that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, and popular work yet.At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won the acclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fans the world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of our time into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotional resonance.Now, with the stunning depth and virtuosity of his storytelling, he brings to readers one of his most gripping and richly imagined novels to dateâ€”an intoxicating story of adventure and suspense, mystery and revelation, told with humor, heart, and high art. **One Door Away From Heaven**In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but canâ€™t find her wayâ€”until a new family settles into the rental trailer next door and she meets the young girl who will lead her on a remarkable quest that will change Micky herself and everything she knowsâ€”or thinks she knowsâ€”forever. Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires Micky. Beneath Leilaniâ€™s effervescence, however, Micky comes to sense a quiet desperation that the girl dares not express.Leilaniâ€™s mother is little more than a child herself. And the girlâ€™s stepfather, Preston Maddoc, is educated but threatening. He has moved the family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, striving to make contact, claiming to have had a vision that by Leilaniâ€™s tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world.Slowly, ever more troubling details emerge in Leilaniâ€™s conversations with Micky. Most chilling is Mickyâ€™s discovery that Leilani had an older brother, also disabled, who vanished after Maddoc took him into the woods one night and is now â€œgone to the stars.â€Leilaniâ€™s tenth birthday is approaching. Micky is convinced the girl will be dead by that day. While the child-protection bureaucracy gives Micky the runaround, the Maddoc family slips away into the night. Micky sets out across America to track and find them, alone and afraid but for the first time living for something bigger than herself.She finds herself pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. The passion and disregard for danger with which Micky pursues her quest bring to her side a burned-out detective who joins her on a journey of incredible peril and startling discoveries, a journey through terrible darkness to unexpected light. **One Door Away From Heaven** is an incandescent mix of suspense and humor, fear and wonder, a story of redemption and timeless wisdom that will have readers cheering. Filled with tragedy and joy, with terror and hope, it solidifies Dean Koontzâ€™s reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of our time. This is Dean Koontz at his very bestâ€”and it doesnâ€™t get any better than that.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8298'),
(7116, 'One False Move (1998)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9581'),
(7117, 'One Fifth Avenue', 'Candace Bushnell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sex in the City\n </em>\n goes middle-aged, mordant and slapstick in Bushnell''s chronicle of writers, actors and Wall Street whizzes clashing at One Fifth Avenue, a Greenwich Village art deco jewel crammed with regal rich, tarty upstarts and misguided lovers. When a Queen of Society dies, a vicious scramble for her penthouse apartment ensues, and it''s attorney Annalisa and her hedge-funder husband, Paul Rice, who land the palatial pad, roiling the building''s rivalries. There''s Billy Litchfield, an art dealer who slobbers over the wealthy; strivers Mindy and James Gooch, and their tech-savvy 13-year-old Sam, the most hilariously bitter (and strangely successful) family in the building; gossip columnist Enid Merle and her screenwriter nephew, Philip Oakland, who struggle to uphold traditions and their souls; actress Schiffer Diamond, who lands a hit TV series, and her old love; and Lola Fabrikant, a cunning Atlanta gold digger whose greatest ambition is to become Carrie Bradshaw. Here are bloggers and bullies, misfits and misanthropes, dear hearts and black-hearts, dogfights and catty squalls spun into a darkly humorous chick-lit saga.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIt was part of the pain of living in Manhattan, this overwhelming ache for prime real estate,â€ writes Bushnell in her firstÂ novelÂ since Lipstick Jungle (2005). Two events throw the inhabitants of One Fifth Avenue, Manhattanâ€™s ritziest address,Â into a tizzy: the return of beautiful actress Schiffer Diamond, and the death ofÂ Louise Houghton, who owned the buildingâ€™s swankiest apartment. Gossip columnist Enid Merle and her dashing nephew Philip Oakland think Louiseâ€™s now-availableÂ three-story apartment should be divided up,Â while ambitious Mindy Gooch, whose husbandÂ is on the cusp of literary stardom, wants it sold to a high bidder. Mindy gets her way, and nouveau riche couple Paul and AnnalisaÂ snap it upÂ for $15 million. But when Mindy refuses to let Paul install a wall-unit air conditioner, he declares war, inciting a conflict that draws in all the residents of the building. Other charactersÂ include a schemingÂ Lolita type who tries to sleep her way into One Fifth and a penniless male socialite who has aspired to One Fifth for decades. Devotees of Bushnellâ€™s megahitÂ Sex in the CityÂ andÂ fans of New Yorkâ€“aimed satireÂ will enjoy this scathing allâ€™s-fair-in-real-estate novel. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5214'),
(7118, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest', 'Ken Kesey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The imaginative characters and innovative story structure made Ken Kesey?s debut novel ripe for commentary. Take a closer look at One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, which also enjoyed critical success as a play and a film. The title, Ken KeseyÂ’s One Flew Over Cuckoo''s Nest, part of Chelsea House PublishersÂ’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ken KeseyÂ’s One Flew Over Cuckoo''s Nest through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ken Kesey, a chronology of the authorÂ’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2366'),
(7119, 'One for the Money', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie''s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She''s a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six. Now Stephanie''s all grown up and out on her own, living five miles from Mom and Dad''s, doing her best to sever the world''s longest umbilical cord. Her mother is a meddler, and her grandmother is a few cans short of a case. Out of work and out of money, with her Miata repossessed and her refrigerator empty, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, fearless bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli is also the irresistible macho pig who took Stephanie''s virginity at age sixteen and then wrote the details on the bathroom wall of Mario''s Sub Shop. There''s still powerful chemistry between these two, so the chase should be interesting. It could also be extremely dangerous, especially when Stephanie encounters a heavyweight title contender who likes to play rough. Benito Ramirez is known for his brutality to women. At the very least, his obsession with Stephanie complicates her manhunt and brings terror and uncertainty into her life. At worst, it could lead to murder. Witty, fresh, and full of surprises, "One for the Money" is among the most eagerly awaited crime novels of the season.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2136'),
(7120, 'One Good Soldier', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *One Good Soldier* is the third book in the rapid-fire hard science military SF series of *One Day on Mars* and *The Tau* *Ceti Agenda*.Â  In another *24*-like narrative set six years after the events in *The Tau Ceti Agenda*,* *this exciting action story unfolds in a single critical day in the history of the United States of the Sol System, the extra-solar colonies, the Separatist Revolutionaries of the Tau Ceti system, and all of mankind. Â  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As another of Earthâ€™s colonies, Ross 128, secedes from the union, the President of the United States, former marine major Alexander Moore, takes swift action to prevent a second American Civil War, this time on an interstellar scale. He sends the flagship of the U.S. Naval fleet through the Quauntum Membrane Teleporter based in the Oort Cloud to the seceding colony.Â  But the Tau Ceti Separatists have stationed their own teleporter there and the flagship will be met with heavy resistance from the Separatist Navy. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  And, unknown to the president and first lady, their eighteen year old military school cadet daughter has been kidnapped and whisked away to the Separatist leader''s house on Tau Ceti. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Only the heroics and sacrifices of ***one good soidier*** after another can save the flagship, the Union, and the first daughter in an all-out winner-take-all showdown thatÂ reaches its final climaxÂ with frenzied hand-to-hand combat in the Oval Office itself. Â  *Praise for Travis S. Taylor:* â€œ[*Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won''t want to put it down.Â Â FLUBELLS AWAY!â€ â€”**John Ringo** Â  â€œIn the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . [*The Quantum Connection*, sequel to *Warp Speed*] explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .â€ â€”*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4196'),
(7121, 'One Good Turn', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8946'),
(7122, 'One Grave Too Many', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With spot-on details, a smart new voice, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor has been compared to the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense with a brand new series featuring one of today''s most cunning and complex sleuths: forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. Her new job as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia takes Diane out of the game-until a former love and a murdered family bring her back in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(7123, 'One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy', 'Stephen Tunney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Two thousand years in the future, the Moon has become a run-down experiment in terraforming and colonization with a dusty patina and a bright red sky. To sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, it is the only world he has ever known until he meets a girl from Earth called Windows Falling on Sparrows, who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special--some say dangerous--condition. Hieronymus is a One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy who can see the fourth primary color, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter. To look into his eyes will cause madness or even death, authorities say, so he is forced to wear goggles at all times. The color of his eyes is against Lunar law, and some say against nature. After breaking the Moon s most serious law and exposing his eyes to the curious young Earth girl, Hieronymus embarks on a tremendous misadventure to protect his friends and save his family, and to escape exile and imprisonment on the far side of the moon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4065'),
(7124, 'One Man&#39;s Art', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: bA New York Times Bestselling Author /b PHer car had stalled on an isolated road in Maine, and Genevieve Grandeau found herself pounding on the door of an old lighthouse. But the man who answered wasn''t the old seafaring gent she''d expected. . . . Grant Campbell was a loner - rude, surly and impossible. But Gennie was no pushover, and she found that combination irresistible. Of course, Grant was also intelligent, sarcastic, tender, secretive . . . and extremely good-looking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2593'),
(7125, 'One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War', 'Michael Dobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review.\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n reporter Dobbs (_Saboteurs_) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs combines visits to Cuba, discussions with Russian participants and fingertip command of archival and printed U.S. sources to describe a wild ride thatâ€”contrary to the myth of Kennedy''s steel-nerved crisis managementâ€”was shaped by improvisation, guesswork and blind luck. Dobbs''s protagonists act not out of malevolence, incompetence or machismo. Kennedy, Khrushchev and their advisers emerge as men desperately seeking a handle on a situation no one wanted and no one could resolve. In a densely packed, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative, Dobbs presents the crisis from its early stages through the decision to blockade Cuba and Kennedy''s ordering of DEFCON 2, the last step before an attack, to the final resolution on October 27 and 28. The work''s climax is a detailed reconstruction of the dry-mouthed, sweaty-armpits environment of those final hours before both sides backed down. From first to last, this sustains Dobbs''s case that crisis management is a contradiction in terms.\n <em>\n  (June 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1962 Cuban missile crisis is probably the single most analyzed episode of the cold war. In the past decade, declassified American and Russian documents have proved that a nuclear exchange was even closer than most scholars had previously realized. Dobbs, a reporter for the Washington Post, has used those sources as well as numerous new ones gleaned from two years of research in the U.S., Cuba, and Russia. Although nothing presented here will change the overall view of the crisis, Dobbs presents new and often startling information that again confirms that the thirteen days in October brought the world to the edge of an unprecedented cataclysm. Dobbs spends little time describing the characters of the key players, but he does convey a sense of men under immense stress as events threaten to outstrip their ability to cope with them. This is a well-written effort to explain and understand our closest brush with nuclear war. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7031'),
(7126, 'One Night Stands &amp; Lost Weekends', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Kellerâ€”and years before his first Edgar Awardâ€”a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can''t Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history.   One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Masterâ€”an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8663'),
(7127, 'One of Our Thursdays Is Missing', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Department, in Fforde''s wild and wacky sixth BookWorld novel (after Thursday Next: First Among Sequels). As written Thursday Next finds herself playing roles intended for her real counterpart, BookWorld''s elite try to deal with a border dispute between Racy Novel and Women''s Fiction. It''s not always possible to know where one is in BookWorld, which has been drastically remade, or in Fforde''s book, which shares the madcap makeup of Alice in Wonderland, even borrowing Alice''s dodo. Outrageous puns (e.g., a restaurant called Inn Uendo) and clever observations relating to the real book world (e.g., the inhabitants of "Vanity" island now prefer Self-Published or Collaborative) abound. Fforde''s diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a "mimefield" both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that''s a minefield of unexpected and amusing twists. 10-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The newest tour de force from\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Thursday Next\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shades of Grey\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jasper Fforde''s exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once again\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8690'),
(7128, 'One Rough Man', 'Brad Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first novel, Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander, introduces Pike Logan, a member of a supersecret, off-the-grid unit of commandos authorized to work outside the law. Logan was the star of the team, called the Taskforce, until a personal tragedy left him unable to work and nearly destitute. A chance encounter with a woman puts him back in the game, however, and he discovers how much he missed the action. Working without the help of his former team, he attempts to track two rogue terrorists in possession of a powerful weapon. Unfortunately, the enemyâ€™s agenda is vast, and their resources give them easy access to Logan and his former team. Taylorâ€™s debut flows like the best of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor. An intense and intriguing character, Logan is definitely an action hero to watch. --Jeff Ayers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, move over: introducing a pulse-pounding new international thriller series by a former Delta Force commander.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n They call it the Taskforce. Their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government. Protected from the prying eyes of Congress and the media. Built around the top operators from across the clandestine, intelligence, and special forces landscape. Designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law. Trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pike Logan was the most successful operator on the Taskforce, his instincts and talents unrivaled-until personal tragedy permanently altered his outlook on the world. Pike knows what the rest of the country might not want to admit: The real threat isn''t from any nation, any government, any terrorist group. The real threat is one or two men, controlled by ideology, operating independently, in possession of a powerful weapon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Buried in a stack of intercepted chatter is evidence of two such men. The transcripts are scheduled for analysis in three months. The attack is mere days away. It is their bad luck that they''re about to cross paths with Pike Logan. And Pike Logan has nothing left to lose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5693'),
(7129, 'One Shot: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, exmilitary investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shootera trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not rightand soon the slam-dunk case explodes. Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunningand then beat him shot for shot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2818'),
(7130, 'One Special Moment', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Outrageous Offer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n To help her brother''s struggling cosmetics company, schoolteacher Colby Wingate travels to Los Angeles for one last, desperate gambleâ€”to have superstar actor Sterling Hamilton endorse her brother''s new perfume. But Sterling thinks Colby has come to answer his want ad for a woman who would bear his child. When she realizes what Sterling is looking for, Colby is shocked that he expects any woman, let alone her, to comply no matter how much money he''s willing to pay.â€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Passionate Bargain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A childhood loss has made Sterling determined not to get too close to anyoneâ€”even the strikingly beautiful Colby. But somehow, he has to convince Colby to become the mother of his childâ€¦with no strings attached. What he doesn''t expect is for his carefully laid plans to explode into restless, fiery desire. Now, Sterling knows he needs Colby for much moreâ€”if only he can prove his intentions are for real and that he''ll cherish and love herâ€¦forever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n This would be the biggest gamble of her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n That was Colby Wingate''s very thought as she glanced up at the tall, impressive structure that housed the law firm of Stewart, Heard and Mathers. Summoning up much-needed courage, she entered the building determined to go through with her plan. She couldn''t get cold feet now. The future of her brother''s company depended on her.\n</p>\n<p>\n The main lobby of the huge building contained a spectacular eighty-foot atrium populated with numerous flowers and plants, and a huge breathtaking, tinkling waterfall. She couldn''t help admiring a painting on a wall that showed a stunning scene of turquoise waters and snow-capped mountains.\n</p>\n<p>\n She stepped into the elevator, the doors slid shut and it carried her to the twenty-ninth floor. The door of the elevator opened, and a smiling secretary seated in the spacious and elaborately decorated foyer eyed her curiously when she gave her name.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Stewart''s on the phone right now, Ms. Wingate. Please have a seat. He''ll be with you shortly."\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby nodded and sat in the leather chair offered. To pass the time, she picked up the latest issue of People magazine from a nearby table. There on its cover, bigger than life, was the one man who could save Wingate Cosmeticsâ€”movie actor Sterling Hamilton.\n</p>\n<p>\n She studied his features and decided that although Denzel Washington was her favorite actor, Sterling Hamilton was definitely a good-looking man. His eyes, the color of rich, dark chocolate and fringed by thick ebony lashes, appeared to be staring right at her. His face, sable in color, contained full sensual lips and a blunt jaw. His slightly arched nose appeared to have been broken at one time. That wouldn''t have surprised her.According to her sister-in-law, Cynthia, who was probably one of Sterling Hamilton''s biggest fans, he performed most of his own stunts. Instead of blemishing his features, the slight indentation in his nose somehow enhanced his looks. Centuries of African heritage were etched in his features, and his prominent cheekbones hinted at the possibility of Indian ancestry as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n As she catalogued his explosively attractive looks, she knew that this was a man who had a masculine force about him. He had a quality of male assurance not many women could easily ignore, or forget. There was no doubt about it, the man definitely had appeal. And she hoped he would agree to use that appeal and endorse Wingate Cosmetics'' newest masculine cologne called Awesome. His endorsement would guarantee the cologne''s success and the survival of the company.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby was grateful Mr. Hamilton''s attorney, Edward Stewart, had agreed to meet with her, and she had been delighted at the expedience with which he had done so. She understood Sterling Hamilton was out of the country filming a movie and was not due back in the States for another month or so. Edward Stewart handled all of his business affairs while he was away.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Wingate, Mr. Stewart will see you now." The secretary''s words snapped Colby out of her thoughts. She stood, refusing to think anything but positive thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door to the office opened. Taking a deep breath to settle the feeling of butterflies in her stomach, she walked inside the spacious room. The first thing she noticed was that Mr. Stewart hadn''t completely opened the window blinds in his office to allow the California sun to shine through.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby looked up into the face of the older gentleman who stood when she entered the plush office. He was a little on the heavy side, slightly bald and had a square wall of a forehead with heavy brows for a base. His face, although firmly set in deep thought, was friendly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat, Ms. Wingate, and thank you for coming," he stated, coming forward to shake her hand. "Thank you for agreeing to see me, Mr. Stewart," she said, smiling and taking the chair he offered.\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded. "How was your flight to L.A.?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fine."\n</p>\n<p>\n "And your hotel accommodations?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "They''re excellent. I didn''t expect you to take care of my flight nor my lodging."\n</p>\n<p>\n He gave a warm chuckle. "Of course we took care of them. We sent for you to come to California, didn''t we?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby drew in a deep breath of excitement. "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, then," he said, placing a folder in front of her. "The proposal is ready. I''ll cover all the specifics with you in detail before you leave my office."\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby''s head came up. "It''s ready? But I haven''t given you all the information you''ll need to make a sound decision."\n</p>\n<p>\n Edward Stewart smiled, waving off her words with his hand. "There''s really no need. Sterling was quite taken with the history and background investigation that was done."\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby was surprised. "You did an investigation?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Of course. Under the circumstances, such measures had to be taken. This is very important to Sterling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby was stunned. It was a known fact that on numerous occasions Sterling Hamilton had refused to endorse or have his name linked to any products. She''d been prepared to vigorously plead her case. Why was this endorsement very important to him? Why did he suddenly have a change of heart about doing them?\n</p>\n<p>\n She was assaulted with a satisfying sense of relief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whatever his reasons, she was grateful for them and glad Wingate Cosmetics would ultimately benefit.\n</p>\n<p>\n "After our meeting, I''ll give you a copy of the proposal. I suggest you look it over carefully. Although, I''m sure you''ll find everything satisfactory and in order. When Sterling decides to do something, he doesn''t do it half-measure. And I do hope you understand that due to the nature of this matter, you''re not to disclose this business arrangement between you and Sterling with anyone. That stipulation is included in the proposal and will be outlined in the final contract."\n</p>\n<p>\n "But what about my brother? I''m sure you''ll want to meet with him."\n</p>\n<p>\n A confused frown covered the older man''s face. "I don''t understand. Why would we?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Before Colby could answer the door behind her opened.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sterling? This is a pleasant surprise," Edward Stewart said, smiling at the man. "I didn''t know you were back."\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby glanced over her shoulder to look at the bearded man who entered the room. She took a deep breath as her eyes collided with Sterling Hamilton''s. Even with the window blinds slightly closed, his very presence in the room radiated lightâ€¦and something else she couldn''t help but notice, sensuous heat. The very idea that she could think such a thing surprised and fascinated her.\n</p>\n<p>\n He was distinctively dressed in a pair of charcoal-gray, triple-pleated slacks, a colorful printed shirt and a double-breasted navy blue blazer. Tall and masculine, his clothes fit his body well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Their eyes held.Apprehension touched Colby''s body. An emotion she couldn''t put a name to flooded through her with a force that left her speechless. For the first time in her life, a man had evoked an immediate and tangible response from her. She was vaguely aware of Edward Stewart making introductions and found herself getting to her feet on wobbly knees.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Colby Wingate, how are you?" Sterling Hamilton''s deep masculine voice seemed to radiate through the room.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby suddenly found her soft, fragile hand encompassed in the strong firmness of his. His eyes held her spellbound and seemed to probe deeply into hers. She didn''t miss the look of pure masculine appreciation in them. For an intensifying moment, her heart thumped against her rib cage.\n</p>\n<p>\n She took a deep breath. Nothing could have prepared her for this meeting. Because of her sister-in-law, Cynthia, she had seen many of his movies, but seeing him in the flesh was very unnerving. The man was bigger than life and just as sexy. She found her voice and replied shakily. "I''m fine, Mr. Hamilton, thank you."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please, call me Sterling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Edward Stewart took a quick glance at the both of them. He cleared his throat. "Iâ€¦erâ€¦think it would be a good idea if I left the two of you alone awhile to discuss the finer details of the contract. I''m sure Sterling will be able to answer any questions you might have, Ms. Wingate. I''ll return later and make any modifications to the final contract the two of you deem necessary." Then he left the room.\n</p>\n<p>\n An irresistibly devastating smile tugged at the corners of Sterling''s mouth. "Please have a seat, Ms. Wingate."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, and please call me Colby."\n</p>\n<p>\n "All right, Colby." He took a quick glance around the room. "Edward isn''t one for a lot of light," he said, opening the window blinds some more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colby sat down, staring at him. If she thought he was one fine brother in the dimly lit room, in the bright sunlight he was undeniably awesome. Never had a man radiated so much sensuality. It wasn''t just in his looks, but in his walk, his stance, his stare and even his smell. The fresh, clean scent of him flowed through the room.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sterling Hamilton turned from opening the blinds and stared at Colby in a way that went deeper than just casual observation. He leaned against the desk, enjoying the way the sunlight slanted through the windows and highlighted her nut-brown coloring. The stunning two-piece navy suit she wore gave her a look of sheer sophistication. Her thick mass of brownish-black hair flowed past her shoulders. Its glossy strands cascaded around her face like silk, softly framing her delicate features of almond-shaped dark eyes, high cheekbones, straight nose and succulent red lips that belonged in a Fashion Fair lipstick ad.\n</p>\n<p>\n He couldn''t help but notice her perfume was totally alluring. It was a fragrance he wasn''t familiar with but one he definitely enjoyed inhaling. His nose had picked up the luscious scent of her the moment he''d walked into the room.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sensing her nervousness from his open scrutiny, Sterling took the seat across from her. He couldn''t remember the last time a woman had completely captured his full attention. He found it incredible that any woman could do that. He was accustomed to beautiful women, but the one sitting across from him not only had captured his attention, she was holding it tight.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Stewart indicated you would cover the specifics of the contract," Colby said nervously, breaking the silence that had enveloped them. She felt...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8034'),
(7131, 'One Step Behind (1997)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In his fifth U.S. appearance in this taut, intricately plotted series (The Fifth Woman, etc.), Swedish detective Kurt Wallander pursues a long, complex case sure to please those who like weighty police procedurals. Six weeks after three college students are murdered during a Midsummer''s Eve party, their bodies hidden to prevent discovery, Wallander''s secretive colleague Svedberg is found at home with half his head blown off. Wallander''s persistent, occasionally brilliant, investigation points to a connection between Svedberg and the disappearance of the three young people. Soon after their bodies surface, a fourth friend, who was too sick to attend the party, is killed. More murders follow, with the exhausted, understaffed detectives just too late each time to prevent the next crime. Eventually the reader meets the killer, whose bizarre motive and methods the author gradually reveals. The dyspeptic Wallander, whose frazzled personal life is further impaired by the diabetes he ignores, works himself to exhaustion, sidestepping official procedure and making intuitive leaps to find the cold-blooded killer. The glum tone of the book, despite the setting during a warm and luxuriant late summer, reflects a crumbling Swedish society: government corruption is widespread; honest cops are disillusioned by abuses in high officialdom; rifts among social classes and between Swedes and recent immigrants abound. Mankell''s writing is deadpan and stark, the plotting meticulous and exacting.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though a bestseller in Europe with both film and TV adaptations to his credit, Mankell has so far failed to take off here. Alas, Scandinavian dreariness just doesn''t seem to have broad appeal to American readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9493'),
(7132, 'One Summer', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.\n <strong>\n  ONE SUMMER\n </strong>\n It''s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie''s death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie''s childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8747'),
(7133, 'One Summer in Santa Fe', 'Molly Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: People say that Dr. Taylor Jenkins is the best there is. Devoted to his patients, he has given his life to the hospital. But any free time he has is spent searching out his latest high-adrenaline adventure--and successfully shielding his heart!So now he''s in a fix. Not only has he been left in charge of his nephew, he''s also been thrown for a loop by the new nurse who''s arrived in Santa Fe. Beautiful, talented Piper is a natural with kids, but she''s also only temporary. They have one summer and the clock is ticking. The adventure is only just beginning....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2286'),
(7134, 'The One That Got Away', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8944'),
(7135, 'One Thing About the Night', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10754'),
(7136, 'One Virgin Too Many', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marcus Didius Falco is back in another lively first-century historical mystery. The Roman investigator, informer, and imperial spy''s snappy patter, romantic leanings, strong sense of irony, and penchant for getting into interesting situations have won Lindsey Davis a growing number of fans. Flush with his earnings from an African adventure (__), Falco''s just been rewarded for his service to the empire with an unusual bit of political patronage: he''s been appointed to the largely ceremonial position of Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, meaning he''s in charge of the care and feeding of a gaggle of sacred geese. This un-Falco-like upward mobility is an opportunity for Marcus to move his patrician wife, Helena Justina, and their toddler out of a tenement and into a home of their own. As much as Marcus scoffs at middle-class pretensions, he''s not above leaving his seedy surroundings and providing his family with some of the finer things, if only to show his in-laws that he can. But when Helena''s brother falls over a corpse that disappears before it can be identified, Falco tosses the geese some food and gets busy finding the connection between the dead man and a 6-year-old girl who''s in line to be chosen as the new vestal virgin. That leads him into intrigue, danger, and a confrontation with a former vestal virgin that almost costs him his life. Well paced, with good dialogue, excellent plotting, and a cast of terrific characters surrounding Falco and Helena, including some familiar from earlier stories,\n <em>\n  One Virgin Too Many\n </em>\n shows Davis in top form. Falco the family man is better company than ever.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I seem to be hearing about nothing but religious cults this week," says Marcus Didius FalcoAthe Spenser of Ancient RomeAearly on in this 12th entry in Davis''s popular series. And indeed details of the weirder practices of Roman worship take up much (some might say too much) of the book''s story. Falco himself has been rewarded for his lucrative work as a census taker with the dubious honor of looking after the Emperor''s sacred geeseAincluding cleaning up their droppings. Aulus, the younger brother of Falco''s highborn lover, Helena, is trying to join a prestigious agricultural/fertility sect called the Arval Brothers. And several young girls, including Falco''s own niece, are caught up in the selection of a new Vestal VirginAwhich sounds in Davis''s version like a children''s beauty pageant straight out of the JonBenet Ramsey case. Falco has to put aside his goose-watching and reclaim his day job as private informer when (1) Aulus discovers a mutilated corpse at the Arval Brothers'' bucolic retreat and (2) one of the leading VirginsAwho tried to hire Marcus because she thought her family was trying to kill herAdisappears. As usual, Davis shows us many ways in which Ancient Rome was both the same as and different from our own timesAalthough the research isn''t as seamlessly integrated as before. And Falco, while still an interesting mix of ambition and democracy, doesn''t have that true ring of a real Roman coin he once had. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7176'),
(7137, 'One Wild Wedding Night: All the Way', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is one super-sexy wedding night these five women will never forget! Meet the lucky bridesmaids: A totally hot FBI agent offers his full-body protection to very willing witness Bridget Donahue... Stripper Leah Muldoon bares it all for a sexy stranger in a limo, much to their mutual satisfaction! Wild big-city attorney Mia Natale is in for the best sex of her life. But who is that other guy? When dancer Vanessa McKee unexpectedly sees a man from her past, they rediscover their insatiable lust! A breathless night in the arms of a seductive European lover should definitely spice up Gloria Santori''s marriage....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7770'),
(7138, 'One Wild Wedding Night: Getaway', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is one super-sexy wedding night these five women will never forget! Meet the lucky bridesmaids: A totally hot FBI agent offers his full-body protection to very willing witness Bridget Donahue... Stripper Leah Muldoon bares it all for a sexy stranger in a limo, much to their mutual satisfaction! Wild big-city attorney Mia Natale is in for the best sex of her life. But who is that other guy? When dancer Vanessa McKee unexpectedly sees a man from her past, they rediscover their insatiable lust! A breathless night in the arms of a seductive European lover should definitely spice up Gloria Santori''s marriage....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7775');
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(7139, 'One Wild Wedding Night: No Way Out', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is one super-sexy wedding night these five women will never forget! Meet the lucky bridesmaids: A totally hot FBI agent offers his full-body protection to very willing witness Bridget Donahue... Stripper Leah Muldoon bares it all for a sexy stranger in a limo, much to their mutual satisfaction! Wild big-city attorney Mia Natale is in for the best sex of her life. But who is that other guy? When dancer Vanessa McKee unexpectedly sees a man from her past, they rediscover their insatiable lust! A breathless night in the arms of a seductive European lover should definitely spice up Gloria Santori''s marriage....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7777'),
(7140, 'One Wild Wedding Night: Runaway', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is one super-sexy wedding night these five women will never forget! Meet the lucky bridesmaids: A totally hot FBI agent offers his full-body protection to very willing witness Bridget Donahue... Stripper Leah Muldoon bares it all for a sexy stranger in a limo, much to their mutual satisfaction! Wild big-city attorney Mia Natale is in for the best sex of her life. But who is that other guy? When dancer Vanessa McKee unexpectedly sees a man from her past, they rediscover their insatiable lust! A breathless night in the arms of a seductive European lover should definitely spice up Gloria Santori''s marriage....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7776'),
(7141, 'One Wild Wedding Night: Three-Way', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is one super-sexy wedding night these five women will never forget! Meet the lucky bridesmaids: A totally hot FBI agent offers his full-body protection to very willing witness Bridget Donahue... Stripper Leah Muldoon bares it all for a sexy stranger in a limo, much to their mutual satisfaction! Wild big-city attorney Mia Natale is in for the best sex of her life. But who is that other guy? When dancer Vanessa McKee unexpectedly sees a man from her past, they rediscover their insatiable lust! A breathless night in the arms of a seductive European lover should definitely spice up Gloria Santori''s marriage....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7767'),
(7142, 'The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming', 'Masanobu Fukuoka &amp; Larry Korn &amp; Wendell Berry &amp; Frances Moore Lappe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_The One-Straw Revolution_ is one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture."â€”Michael Pollan\n</p>\n<p>\n "Only the ignorant could write off Fukuoka, who died two years ago at the age of 95, as a deluded or nostalgic dreamer...Fukuoka developed ideas that went against the conventional grain....Long before the American Michael Pollan, he was making the connections between intensive agriculture, unhealthy eating habits and a whole destructive economy based on oil." --Harry Eyres,\n <em>\n  The Financial Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fukuoka''s do-nothing approach to farming is not only revolutionary in terms of growing food, but it is also applicable to other aspects of living, (creativity, child-rearing, activism, career, etc.) His holistic message is needed now more than ever as we search for new ways of approaching the environment, our community and life. It is time for us all to join his ''non-movement.''"â€”Keri Smith author of\n <em>\n  How to be an Explorer of the World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJapanâ€™s most celebrated alternative farmer...Fukuokaâ€™s vision offers a beacon, a goal, an ideal to strive for.â€ â€”Tom Philpott,\n <em>\n  Grist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The One-Straw Revolution_ shows the critical role of locally based agroecological knowledge in developing sustainable farming systems.â€ â€”_Sustainable Architecture_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith no ploughing, weeding, fertilizers, external compost, pruning or chemicals, his minimalist approach reduces labour time to a fifth of more conventional practices. Yet his success in yields is comparable to more resource-intensive methodsâ€¦The method is now being widely adopted to vegetate arid areas. His books, such as\n <em>\n  The One-Straw Revolution\n </em>\n , have been inspirational to cultivators the world over.â€ â€”_New Internationalist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Call it â€œZen and the Art of Farmingâ€ or a â€œLittle Green Book,â€ Masanobu Fukuokaâ€™s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book â€œis valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror natureâ€™s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called â€œdo-nothingâ€ technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something hereâ€”you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5328'),
(7143, 'The One-Week Job Project: One Man, One Year, 52 Jobs', 'Sean Aiken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After graduating from college with a business administration degreeâ€”and very uncertain about his career pathâ€”Aiken embarked on a yearlong journey throughout Canada and the U.S., trying out new jobs for one week at a time and donating all his wages to a charity. It''s a bit contrived and by now familiar (A.J. Jacobs has written a shelf of such books), but Aiken is an appealing guinea pig. Readers expecting a meditation on work (or working at all during a recession, let alone finding 52 jobs) should look elsewhere; this is a lark and Aiken tests a variety of unusual jobs (NHL mascot, snowshoe guide, tattooist/piercer, bungee jumping instructor, cattail picker) and more traditional career paths (research assistant, park ranger, and mayor). The takeaway isn''t particularly profound (Traveling taught me a lot about myself. I experienced new cultures, met all sorts of people, and was forced outside my comfort zone on a daily basis), but it''s a lighthearted read and a pleasantâ€”if unmemorableâ€”vicarious journey to take.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It started as a simple idea: work a different job every week for a year.Â  But as Sean put his plan into action, it quickly became a life-changing, cross-continental, action-packed adventure.Â  After reading\n <strong>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n you''ll know how to bring the most extraordinary things out of life, and how to score some choice jobs along the way!"â€”Kyle MacDonald, author of\n <em>\n  One Red Paperclip\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With 52 jobs, 52 experiences and 52 lessons learned, Sean Aiken has done all the dirty work for young individuals who are looking to embark on their own career journey.Â \n <strong>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </strong>\n is eye-opening, entertaining and will help answer the question on any young individualâ€™s mind: what do I do when I graduate?Â  Sean has done it all in less time than it takes to graduate from college and has pulled all of his knowledge into one book that can and will change your life for the better."â€”Dan Schawbel, author of\n <em>\n  Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </strong>\n _ _is a terrific read for young people wondering what to do with their lives, and for anyone looking to change his or her life for the better. Sean Aikenâ€™s audacious, inspiring book packs a good dose of humor and reminds us that the only thing standing between you and your dreams is yourself!" â€”Keith Ferrazzi, author of\n <em>\n  Never Eat Alone\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Whoâ€™s Got Your Back\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "At a time when the traditional path to success is fading from view, Sean Aiken has emerged as a role model for making the best of the inherently unstable life of today''s workforce. Most people will likely work a number of different jobs in a variety of different fields over the course of their lifetimes, and most people will feel uneasy during transition. Aikenâ€™s book shows 52 transitions, and they add up to a vital message that job hopping is productive and can help you find a better career, and build a better life."â€”Penelope Trunk, nationally syndicated career columnist and author of _Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Who says job hopping is a bad thing? Sean Aiken worked 52 jobs in one very busy year and documented the life-changing experience in his wonderful new book,\n <strong>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </strong>\n . Sean takes you on a rollicking journey across the U.S. and Canada to gigs as an astronomer, brewmaster, cowboy, and deejay (among many others). Â He shares hilarious stories and valuable advice from mentors in pubs and tattoo parlors, on\n <strong>\n  dairy farms and movie sets,\n </strong>\n and in kitchens and cubicles. I loved the opportunity to tag along on Sean''s year of career enlightenment without having to sleep on 55 couches and trek more than 46,000 miles. I think you will too.\n <em>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </em>\n is a great read and a terrific resource for anyone looking for inspiration on the job."â€”Pamela Skillings, career coach and author of _Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The One-Week Job Project\n </strong>\n is a remarkably original idea that will inspire a new generation of young people to stay true to themselves, shed the noise around them, and set out to define their own roads in life. This book will help you to take a critical look at your own future, and all the possibilities that lie waiting."â€”Mike Marriner, co-founder, Roadtrip Nation and author of _Roadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life\n</p>\n<p>\n _"The long-held idea of â€˜trying onâ€™ jobs before you â€˜buyâ€™ them now gets a fresh approach,Â as the author â€˜tries onâ€™ fifty-two jobs within the space of fifty-two weeks."â€”Richard N. Bolles, author of\n <em>\n  What Color Is Your Parachute\n </em>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t say whether Sean Aiken was a good aquarium host or tattoo artist, but I do think he''s very good at one job: Writing."â€”A. J. Jacobs, author of _The Year of Living Biblically\n</p>\n<p>\n _"What is it like to work 52 jobs in as many weeks?Â  Sean Aiken took it upon himself to find out, and he shares his discoveries with us in\n <strong>\n  The One Week Job Project\n </strong>\n .Â  A fantastic concept, and a fascinating book!"â€”Marshall Goldsmith,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Mojo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What Got You Here Wonâ€™t Get You There\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4477'),
(7144, 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice!  The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?  A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5205'),
(7145, 'The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the &#39;70s, and the Fight for America&#39;s Soul', 'Chad Millman &amp; Shawn Coyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stirring portrait of the decade when the Steelers became the greatest team in NFL history, even as Pittsburgh was crumbling around them. In the 1970s, the city of Pittsburgh was in need of heroes. In that decade the steel industry, long the lifeblood of the city, went into massive decline, putting 150,000 steelworkers out of work. And then the unthinkable happened: The Pittsburgh Steelers, perennial also-rans in the NFL, rose up to become the most feared team in the league, dominating opponents with their famed "Steel Curtain" defense, winning four Super Bowls in six years, and lifting the spirits of a city on the brink. In The Ones Who Hit the Hardest, Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne trace the rise of the Steelers amidst the backdrop of the fading city they fought for, bringing to life characters such as: Art Rooney, the owner of the team so beloved by Pittsburgh that he was known simply as "The Chief"; Chuck Noll, the headstrong coach who used the ethos of steelworkers to motivate his players; Terry Bradshaw, the strong-armed and underestimated QB; Joe Green, the defensive tackle whose fighting nature lifted the franchise; and Jack Lambert, the linebacker whose snarling, toothless grin embodied the Pittsburgh defense. Every story needs a villain, and in this one it''s played by the Dallas Cowboys. As Pittsburgh rusted, the new and glittering metropolis of Dallas, rich from the capital infusion of oil revenue, signaled the future of America. Indeed, the town brimmed with such confidence that the Cowboys felt comfortable nicknaming themselves "America''s Team." Throughout the 1970s, the teams jostled for control of the NFL-the Cowboys doing it with finesse and the Steelers doing it with brawn-culminating in Super Bowl XIII in 1979, when the aging Steelers attempted to hold off the Cowboys one last time. Thoroughly researched and grippingly written, The Ones Who Hit the Hardestis a stirring tribute to a city, a team, and an era.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7053'),
(7146, 'Only Children', 'Rafael Yglesias', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With insight and candor, Yglesias recounts five years in the lives of two yuppie couples, to whom parenthood occasions typical tribulations and discouraging self-assessments. Byron''s birth exacerbates the problems between Diane and Peter Hummel (she''s a Yale-educated corporate lawyer, he''s a wealthy fundraiser for the arts). While she foolishly tries to be super-mom, wife and professional, she also puts pressure on Byron to excel, attempting to enroll him in an elite school and forcing him to play the violin. Peter withdraws from them both after Byron''s presence activates long-dormant memories of his icily aloof mother. Investment counselor Eric Gold, obsessed by the humiliation of his father''s business failures, frantically pushes himself to produce substantial earnings for his wife Nina and their son Luke. Her imagined inadequacies torment Nina, especially when she cannot soothe Luke, whose colic makes him infuriatingly uncontrollable. This is a vivid description of how rearing a first child can conjure up neurotic fears, which must be resolved before parents can nurture their offspring. Yglesias has abandoned the cynicism that infused Hot Properties; this new novel is deeply felt and thought-provoking. $75,000 ad/promo; Doubleday Book Club main selection; Literary Guild featured alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The joys of Motherhood. Are they all one great lie?" In carefully orchestrated, parallel stories of two New York couples and their sons from birth through age five, Yglesias explores this and other contemporary parenting issues. The story moves carefully between the Golds and the Hummels in a sort of literary counterpoint that becomes more staccato in the second half of the book. Educated professionals with good incomes, both sets of parents have excellent intentions but are crippled by emotional "baggage": they are adult children ("only children") themselves. The children are unusually bright, but their development, like their parents'', is impeded by complex psychological issues. Yglesias writes with insight, showing how true adulthood comes with self-awareness, pain, and understanding. Definitely recommended.Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5900'),
(7147, 'Only Mine', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Warm, funny, and sexy, this lighthearted yet touching page-turner is a satisfying, rewarding read and the â€˜ perfect'' beginning for Mallery''s Fool''s Gold series." - Library JournalÂ  on Chasing Perfect\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book brims with quick-witted, good-natured characters... [the] romance grows poignantly and with chemistry to spare."\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Publishers Weekly on Chasing Perfect\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "...an abundance of warmth, caring and romantic passion. Guaranteed to touch your heart!" - RT Book Reviews on Almost Perfect\n</p>\n<p>\n Best Books of 2010! Finding Perfect was selected by Amazon editors as one of the Top Ten Romance Novels of 2010.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t win if you don''t play...\n</p>\n<p>\n Her town''s lack of men may make headlines, but it isn''t news to Dakota Hendrix. The beautiful blonde has bigger problems to deal with, such as overseeing the romance reality competition filming in Fool''s Gold. Screening eligible bachelors is a difficult enough task, but Dakota hits an unexpected snag when a sexy stranger comes to town.\n</p>\n<p>\n Finn Anderssen will do anything to keep his twin brothersâ€” the perfect contestantsâ€” off the show. Despite Dakota''s better judgment, she finds herself drawn to the mysterious outsider. Like her, Finn knows about heartbreak and how a family can fall apart, so she doesn''t dare to hope for anything more than a fling. After all, even in the Land of Happy Endings, finding true love is never as easy as it looks on TV.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8750'),
(7148, 'Op-center', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Edward HerrmannThe first blockbuster novel in the thrilling Op Center series.Op-Center is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology. It is run by a crack team of operatives both within its won walls and out in the field. And when a job is too dirty, or too dangerous, Op-Center is the only place out government can turn.Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik--inspiring this audio cassette, as well as the special NBC Television presentation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3747'),
(7149, 'Opal Deception, The', 'Colfer, Eoin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10957'),
(7150, 'The Opal-Eyed Fan', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9131'),
(7151, 'Open and Shut', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "There is nothing like a golden retriever. I know, I know, it''s a big planet with a lot of wonderful things, but golden retrievers are the absolute best. Mine is named Tara . . . The only problem she has ever caused is that I spend so much time with her in the mornings that I am almost invariably late for work." Whether dueling with new forensics or the local old boys'' network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. But Andy prefers the company of his best friend, Tara, to the people he encounters in the courtroom. Tara, a golden retriever, is clearly smarter than half the lawyers who clog the courts of PassaicCounty. However, just as it seems Andy has everything figured out, his dad, New Jersey''s legendary ex-D.A., drops dead in front of him at a game in Yankee Stadium. The shocks pile on as he discovers his dad left him with two unexpected legacies: a fortune of $22 million that Andy never knew existed . . . and a murder case with enough racial tinder to burn down City Hall. Struggling to serve justice and bring honor to his father, Andy must dig up some explosive political skeletons-and an astonishing family secret that can close his case (and his mouth) for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(7152, 'Open City: A Novel', 'Teju Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Possibly the only negative thing to say about Cole''s intelligent and panoramic first novel is that it is a more generous account of the recent past than the era deserves. America''s standing in the world is never far from the restless thoughts of psychiatry resident Julius, a Nigerian immigrant who wanders Manhattan, pondering everything from Goya and the novels of J.M. Coetzee to the bankruptcy of Tower Records and the rise of the bedbug epidemic. In other words, it is an ongoing reverie in the tradition of W.G. Sebald or Nicholson Baker, but with the welcome interruptions of the friends and strangers Julius meets as he wanders Penn Station, the Upper West Side, and Brussels during a short holiday, and amid discussions of Alexander Hamilton, black identity, and the far left--a truly American novel emerges. Julius pines over a recent ex, mourns the death of a friend, goes to movies, concerts, and museums, but above all he ruminates, and the picture of a mind that emerges in lieu of a plot is fascinating, as it is engaged with the world in a rare and refreshing way. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nigerian immigrant Julius, a young graduate student studying psychiatry in New York City, has recently broken up with his girlfriend and spends most of his time dreamily walking around Manhattan. The majority of Open City centers on Juliusâ€™ inner thoughts as he rambles throughout the city, painting scenes of both what occurs around him and past events that he canâ€™t help but dwell on. For reasons not altogether clear, Juliusâ€™ walks turn into worldwide travel, and he flies first to Europe, where he has an unplanned one-night stand and makes some interesting friends, then to Nigeria, and finally back to New York City. Along the way, he meets many people and often has long discussions with them about philosophy and politics. Brought up in a military school, he seems to welcome these conversations. Upon returning to New York, he meets a young Nigerian woman who profoundly changes the way he sees himself. Readers who enjoy stream-of-consciousness narratives and fiction infused with politics will find this unique and pensive book a charming read. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7867'),
(7153, 'Open House', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11117'),
(7154, 'Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy', 'Staff of the New York Times &amp; Edited by Alexander Star', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4546'),
(7155, 'Operation Barracuda', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8603'),
(7156, 'Operation Hell Gate', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within twenty-four hours a nightmare will be unleashed that could cause the death of untold millions and devastate a great nation. It''s a plot being carried out by the unlikeliest of allies. A powerful mole within the deepest reaches of U.S. Intelligence has secretly conscripted the very criminals he''s been charged with investigating -- former IRA terrorists, Latino and Asian gang members, Middle Eastern assassins and others -- creating one of the most insidious terrorist networks law enforcement has yet to take down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One man stands between the destroyers and the death tide: Jack Bauer, lone wolf operative for America''s brand-new elite Counter Terrorist Unit. But he''s three thousand miles from the CTU command center without backup in a strange city, New York. He''s been artfully set up and is being hunted by the FBI for the murder of two of its agents. And time''s almost up . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n  <em>\n   The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n  </em>\n  and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n  <em>\n   The Ultimate Escape\n  </em>\n  for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n  <em>\n   The Tom Clancy Companion\n  </em>\n  . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n  <em>\n   Wolverine: Weapon X\n  </em>\n  , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n  </em>\n  , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n  <em>\n   The Official Godzilla Compendium\n  </em>\n  . Marc''s other credits include the book\n  <em>\n   24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n  </em>\n  , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n  <em>\n   24 Declassified\n  </em>\n  novels\n  <em>\n   Operation Hell Gate\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Trojan Horse\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanishing Point\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6823'),
(7157, 'Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory', 'Ben Macintyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ben Macintyreâ€™s Agent Zigzag was hailed as â€œrollicking, spellbindingâ€ (New York Times), â€œwildly improbable but entirely trueâ€ (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, â€œthe best book ever writtenâ€ (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicatedâ€” Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.Â Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were the perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it with secret (but false and misleading) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would, they hoped, take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis and help bring victory to the Allies.Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.Unveiling never-before-released material, Ben Macintyre brings the reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered the â€œtwin frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship.â€ He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and Montagu and their near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only saved thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily and, ultimately, Allied success in the war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(7158, 'Operation Time Search', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While on assignment to photograph a burial mound in Ohio, a photographer finds himself suddenly catapulted back in time to an era when Atlantis was a powerful force in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9066'),
(7159, 'Operator B', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science fiction, Lee-style. A U.S. Air Force test pilot recruited for a very special mission: to fly an operational recovered UFO. Any test pilotâ€™s dream, right? Wrong. Special disfiguring surgery is required for anyone human who wants to fly the craft. This brilliant novella proves to detractors that Lee can write in many arenas, not just horror, and doesnâ€™t have to rely on the â€œgross-out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9875'),
(7160, 'The Opposite of Invisible', 'Liz Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8â€“10â€”Alice has never been part of the in-crowd at school. She hangs with the artsies, as well as her best friend, a boy named Jewel whom she has known since grade school. Then one day something weird happensâ€”a popular football player named Simon starts noticing her. Jewel starts noticing her too. In the course of one week, both boys kiss her and she likes both kisses equally. Initially, she dates Simon, and, as a result, her friendship with Jewel is shattered, and she must make a decision about what''s really important to her. The story is upbeat, but the pacing is slow, and the plot is a bit obvious. However, the mood of reflection is sustained throughout, the characters are fully fleshed out, and high school life is accurately portrayed.â€”_Jennifer-Lynn Draper, Children''s Literature Consultant, Aurora, ON, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGallagherâ€™s debutâ€”like Aliceâ€”shines.â€â€”\n </em>\n VOYA\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and Jewel have been best friends since grade school. Together, they donâ€™t need anyone else, and together they blend into the background of high school. Invisible. To Alice, Jewel is the opposite of invisible. Jewel is her best friend who goes to indie concerts and art shows with her. Jewel scoffs at school dances with her. Alice is so comfortable around Jewel that she can talk to him about almost anything.\n</p>\n<p>\n But she canâ€™t tell him that she likes the cool, popular Simon. Simon asks her to the school dance the same day that Jewel kisses her for the first time. Still, she canâ€™t say no to Simon. He seems like the easy choice, the one sheâ€™s attracted to, the one sheâ€™s ready for. But will it mean losing Jewel?\n</p>\n<p>\n In a bright debut novel set against the lively backdrop of Seattle, Alice must learn the difference between love and a crush and what it means to be yourself when youâ€™re not sure who that is yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5388'),
(7161, 'Oprah: A Biography', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influæž¸ntial show in television history, she has gotten her guests--often the biggest celebrities in the world--to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world. After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match. Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fearæŸessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the world''s most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, England''s Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufacæ°Ÿured facades. Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprah''s told and the life she''s led. Kelley has talked to Oprah''s closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprah''s legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfrey''s life, and it is as if she''s written the most extraordinary segment of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" ever filmed--one in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed. There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2712'),
(7162, 'The Optimist&#39;s Daughter', 'Eudora Welty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This story of a young woman''s confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6419'),
(7163, 'The Options Trading Body of Knowledge: The Definitive Source for Information About the Options Industry', 'Michael C. Thomsett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œThe author has written a truly complete reference book on options trading, from basics to strategies to taxes and theory. Newcomers to options can quickly find a clear explanation of terms or strategies they arenâ€™t familiar with, and experienced traders can expand their understanding of how complex strategies are created.â€ --**Jim Bittman, **author, *Trade Options Like a Professional* Â  â€œFor a new perspective about options, I recommend Michael Thomsettâ€™s comprehensive *The Options Trading Body of Knowledge*. Traders at all levels will enjoy his easy-to-read style as he explains options from A to Z. The options industry has needed a reference like this for a long time.â€ --**Marty Kearney, **Senior Staff Instructor, The Options Institute Â  **The Comprehensive, Up-to-Date Reference for Every Options Trader** By Michael C. Thomsett, author of the global best-seller *Getting Started in Options* Illuminates virtually every technique and form of options trading--including options on futures and ETFs Helps you consistently choose the right options strategies and understand your true risks Â  Options offer investors multiple opportunities to enhance their profits. However, options trading is complex, and the sheer scope of available strategies can overwhelm traders. Today, options can support a wide range of strategies, from high risk to conservative. Moreover, options are available not only for stock equities but also for futures, indices, and mutual funds. To trade successfully, traders need an authoritative, up-to-date guide to all the strategies available to them. Now, renowned options expert and best-selling author Michael C. Thomsett has created the definitive reference for options traders at all levels of experience. Â  Thomsett systematically illuminates each key technique and strategy: how trades are structured, how to assess risk, and when each strategy is most applicable. For most strategies, Thomsett presents detailed tables and illustrations identifying profit zones, loss zones, and breakeven points. Â  This book thoroughly explains how option premium develops based on various elements of value, walks through the calculation of returns on options trading, discusses how federal taxation works in the options market, shows how stocks are picked for options trading, and provides a complete glossary and additional resources for traders. **Thoroughly Comprehend Options Trading Risks** *Systematically evaluate risks associated with markets, volatility, inflation, taxation, portfolios, and knowledge* **Understand All the Elements of Value in an Options Trade ***Master concepts ranging from time-to-expiration to implied volatility* **Use the Right Strategies at the Right Time ***Know when to use covered calls, spreads, straddles, combinations, and synthetic positions* **The Options Marketplace: History, Evolution, and Trends ***Understand both the â€œforestâ€ and the â€œtreesâ€ *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2560'),
(7164, 'Oracle', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since she was a little girl, all humanity has been frightened by Penelope Bailey''s awesome psychic talent and her ability to bend eventsâ€”and menâ€”to her will. Now a grown woman and living on the planet Hades, Penelope is caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a bounty hunter, a government agent, and an out-for-profit, outlaw cyborgâ€”none of who suspect the true depths of her power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11011'),
(7165, 'The Oracle of Stamboul: A Novel', 'Michael David Lukas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire''s history Late in the summer of 1877, a ?ock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive just minutes before her birth. "They had read the signs, they said: a sea of horses, a conference of birds, the North Star in alignment with the moon. It was a prophecy that their last king had given on his deathwatch." But joy is mixed with tragedy, for Eleonora''s mother dies soon after the birth. Raised by her doting father, Yakob, a carpet merchant, and her stern, resentful stepmother, Ruxandra, Eleonora spends her early years daydreaming and doing houseworkâ€”until the moment she teaches herself to read, and her father recognizes that she is an extraordinarily gifted child, a prodigy. When Yakob sets off by boat for Stamboul on business, eight-year-old Eleonora, unable to bear the separation, stows away in one of his trunks. On the shores of the Bosporus, in the house of her father''s business partner, Moncef Bey, a new life awaits. Books, backgammon, beautiful dresses and shoes, markets swarming with color and lifeâ€”the imperial capital overflows with elegance, and mystery. For in the narrow streets of Stamboulâ€”a city at the crossroads of the worldâ€”intrigue and gossip are currency, and people are not always what they seem. Eleonora''s tutor, an American minister and educator, may be a spy. The kindly though elusive Moncef Bey has a past history of secret societies and political maneuvering. And what is to be made of the eccentric, charming Sultan Abdulhamid II himself, beleaguered by friend and foe alike as his unwieldy, multiethnic empire crumbles? The Oracle of Stamboul is a marvelously evocative, magical historical novel that will transport readers to another time and placeâ€”romantic, exotic, yet remarkably similar to our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11060'),
(7166, 'Oracles of Delphi Keep', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ian Wigby is about to find out that he is a very special boy. Along the southern coast of England, atop the White Cliffs of Dover, stands a castle. And at that castle''s old keep is an orphanage. Delphi Keep has seen many youngsters come and go through its gates, and Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, are happy to call it home. Life has always been simple at the Keep, and the orphanage safe, until one day, Ian and Theo find a silver treasure box. And within the box, a prophesy. Three thousand years ago a great Greek oracle wrote of a quest. A quest on which the fate of the world depends. A quest that names two childrenIan and Theodosia. Suddenly Delphi Keep is no longer safe. And Ian and Theo, along with a very special group of friends, realize they must unravel the meaning behind the scroll of Dover cavern before darkness falls on the world. And before an unfathomable evil catches up with them. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3263'),
(7167, 'The Orchard Keeper', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America''s finest, most celebrated novelists.Â Â Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy''s father.Â Â Together with Rattner''s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself.Â Â All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5724'),
(7168, 'Orchid Beach', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about a bad first day. Major Holly Barker thought she was getting out of a mess when she left the army. She''d been sexually harassed by her superior, but the exigencies of the military legal system wound up wrecking\n <em>\n  her\n </em>\n career. Orchid Beach seemed like the perfect place to start over. Though Chief Marley, an old family friend, was worried about some local increases in the drug trade, the Florida barrier island was not a crime mecca. As the new deputy police chief, Holly would be stepping on the toes of a few Orchid Beach P.D. regulars who were being overlooked for the job, but she would prove her worth in short order. After installing her trailer in Riverview, though, the bad news started to flood the Beach. The chief was found along the side of highway A1A with a bullet through the head, and his closest friend just had his skull blown apart with the chief''s shotgun. Now, Holly is the acting chief in a town she hardly knows and with a police force that''s full of animosity towards its newly minted leader. Just about the only consolation is that Holly has inherited Daisy, a Doberman who''s about the best and most faithful friend a troubled gal could ask for; Daisy''s a fierce defender of her master and she knows how to retrieve a beer on command.\n</p>\n<p>\n Holly is a new character for Stuart Woods, and the author wastes no time getting readers into the thick of the mystery. This means that character takes a bit of a back seat to plotting in\n <em>\n  Orchid Beach\n </em>\n , but with a mystery this fast-paced, the tradeoff is worthwhile.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a string of successes based on the escapades of the redoubtable Stone Barrington, Woods (Swimming to Catalina) shifts to a female protagonist in this police procedural, with mostly smooth and satisfying results. Woods''s new heroine is Holly Barker, a 37-year-old MP supervisor whose army career comes to a halt when she loses a sexual harassment suit against her superior officer. A friend of her father''s offers her a position as a deputy in the small Florida town of the title, but life becomes even more problematic when she gets there and finds that her benefactor is in a coma after having been shot. The body of his best friend is discovered next. The clues quickly lead to an exclusive community for the ultra-rich within Orchid Beach that bears a suspicious resemblance to a military installation, and the trail gets hotter when several corrupt Miami ex-cops turn up on the community''s roster of security workers. Aided by local defense attorney Jackson Oxenhandler, Barker gathers a raft of evidence that she turns over to the FBI, which organizes a well-planned assault on the fortress. The climactic raid is somewhat lacking in suspense, but Woods compensates by introducing a charming romantic subplot between Holly and Jackson, and the story gets extra bite from Holly''s intriguing relationship with an inherited canine named Daisy, the clairvoyant Doberman that belonged to her mentor. Agent, Anne Sibbald.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7149');
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(7169, 'Orchid Blues', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This second thriller in the series Woods inaugurated with Orchid Beach starts with a bang a literal one. While series heroine Holly Barker, a former military police commander turned police chief of smalltown Orchid Beach, Fla., waits at the local courthouse to marry lawyer Jackson Oxenhandler, her fiancâ€š gets himself killed in a shoot-out at Orchid Beach''s bank. Once past this shocker of an opening, the thrills quickly deflate. Holly stifles a few sobs, gets back into uniform and sets off to track down the gunmen, a gang of highly organized robbers who planned to heist $4 million in payroll cash. It soon becomes clear that they aren''t ordinary robbers, however, appearing to have some connection to a weird little town in a neighboring county, where the average resident is white, male and a gun nut. In the course of his meandering tale, Woods deepens his portraits of Holly and her father, Ham, a retired army noncom, and dog lovers should enjoy the antics of Daisy, the Doberman diva who is Holly''s constant companion. Stone Barrington, the cop-turned-lawyer from such Woods bestsellers as L.A. Dead, makes a couple of important cameo appearances. But pages of lifeless dialogue and too much dead air in an already thin narrative eventually stifle most of the book''s energy. Woods knows how law enforcement agencies from local cop shops to the Secret Service work, and his action scenes are clean and sharp. But in between there are a lot of empty spaces. 16-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Orchid blues," indeed: Holly''s wedding day is ruined by a nearby bank robbery that leaves no clues but one unfortunate corpse, and when she investigates she finds that the robbery has political trimmings.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7151'),
(7170, 'Ordeal by Innocence', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Throughout the trial Jack had maintained his innocence, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and he had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. Unable to locate this mystery man the police viewed Jack''s as a lie. Calgary was the stranger in question, but he arrives to late for Jack -- who succumbs to pneumonia after serving just six months of his sentence. Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelation has a disturbing effect on the family -- it means one of the family is a murderer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5237'),
(7171, 'An Ordinary Decent Criminal', 'Michael Van Rooy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Not since Jack Reacher has there been such a quickthinking, hard-edged antihero who readers will root for against all odds All recovering drug addict and reformed thief Montgomery Haaviko wants to do is settle down with his wife and baby in their new home and work on building a straight life, one free of the day-to-day hustle and danger of being a career criminal. But for a man whoâ€™s never held down a legitimate job it isnâ€™t going to be easy. When Monty foils a robbery in his new home, killing the intruders, he soon finds he has both a small-time crime boss and a star police sergeant looking for ways to ruin him, run him out of town, or kill him. Itâ€™s going to take all of the tricks this streetwise ex-con has up his sleeves to prove his innocence, protect his family, and avoid the temptation of the life he left behind. **Montgomery Haavikoâ€™s Tricks of the Trade: **Â• Be nice. Nice is good. Nice sets a standard. Then, when you get mean, the shock is strongest. Â• Armored cars are owned by people with guns. Â• When burglarizing a house move slowly. Then slow down. Now cut it by half. And youâ€™ve got it. Â• A couple of drops of crazy glue on the tips of your fingers will eliminate fingerprints.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2326'),
(7172, 'An Ordinary Man', 'Paul Rusesabagina; Tom Zoellner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The remarkable life story of the man who inspired the film *Hotel Rwanda*** Readers who were moved and horrified by *Hotel Rwanda* will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabaginaâ€™s unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In *An Ordinary Man*, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his "guests" and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3935'),
(7173, 'Oregon Files 01 - Golden Buddha', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10339'),
(7174, 'Oregon Files 02 - Sacred Stone', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10323'),
(7175, 'Oregon Files 03 - Dark Watch', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10322'),
(7176, 'Oregon Files 04 - Skeleton Coast', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10321'),
(7177, 'Oregon Files 05 - Plague Ship', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler, writing with Du Brul, offers the fifth installment of his Oregon series, which follows the exploits of a covert ship that does the government''s dirty work as long as the price is right. Scott Brick reads with a flare of the theatrical, at times sending his voice soaring, up, up, up in an attempt to create tension and excitement. Brick''s characters are over-the-top and his pronunciation is slightly unbelievable. His reading is certainly entertaining but at odds with Cussler''s staid prose that is layered with rich detail and deeply researched information. The story flows well and draws the audience in, but Brick''s theatrical performance distracts.\n  <em>\n   A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 14). (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler returns with a new novel in his\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  Files, as Captain Juan Cabrillo and the motley crew of his high-tech spy ship take on their most extraordinaryâ€”and lethalâ€”mission yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10335'),
(7178, 'Origin (Manifold)', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11102'),
(7179, 'Origin in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in 2059 in New York City, the number-one bestselling *In Death* series has given fans a searing glimpse into near-future law and order. Now, as scientists work to expand the limits of technology, Detective Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son. A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office-murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building-the good doctor''s final appointment. Known as "Dr. Perfect," the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is clean. Too clean for Dallas. She knows he was hiding something and suspects that his son-and successor-knows what it is. Then, like father, like son, the young Dr. Icove is killed . . . with the same deadly precision. But who is the mystery woman-and what was her relationship with the good doctors? While her husband, Roarke, works behind the scenes, Dallas follows her darkest instincts into the Icoves'' pasts. What she discovers are men driven to create perfection-playing fast and loose with the laws of nature, the limits of science, and the morals of humanity. *Origin in Death* proves once again the incredible appeal of Eve Dallas and the bestselling popularity of her creator. Whether writing as herself or as J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts continues to push the boundaries of suspense-and she takes delighted fans along for the ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2347'),
(7180, 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street." Yet, after reading it, Darwin''s friend and colleague T. H. Huxley had a different reaction: "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that."Based largely on Darwin''s experience as a naturalist while on a five-year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of evolution and natural selection that challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the immutability of species. A landmark contribution to philosophical and scientific thought, this edition also includes an introductory historical sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text.Charles Darwin grew up considered, by his own account, "a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." A quirk of fate kept him from the career his father had deemed appropriate--that of a country parson--when a botanist recommended Darwin for an appointment as a naturalist aboard H.M.S. Beagle from 1831 to 1836. Darwin is also the author of the five-volume work Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle (1839) and The Descent of Man (1871).From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7321'),
(7181, 'The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth&#39;s Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?', 'Sean Deveney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF    *EIGHT MEN OUT* . . .    the untold story of baseballâ€™s ORIGINAL SCANDAL**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World    Series in 1918â€”and get away with it?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who were the players involvedâ€”and why did they do it?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than    previously believed?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Were the players and teams â€œcursedâ€ by their actions?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball history?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With exclusive access to surprising new evidence, Sporting News reporter    Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseballâ€™s greatest    folkloreâ€”in a golden era as exciting and controversial as our sports world    today. This inside look at  the pivotal year of 1918 proves that baseball    has always been a game overrun with colorful characters, intense human    drama, and explosive controversy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*The Original Curse* is not just about baseball. It is a sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end, the proper question is not, â€˜How could a player from that era fix the World Series?â€™ Itâ€™s, â€˜How could he not?â€™â€                                         â€”Ken Rosenthal, FOX Sports, from the    Introduction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Sean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly researched and well written, *The Original Curse* is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and let''s readers decide if the fix was in."                                         â€”Paul Sullivan, Cubs beat writer, *Chicago Tribune*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as it used to be-- the good guys, the gamblers, the cheaters, the drunks, the inept leaders. But, more than that, it puts those characters into the context of Chicago, Boston and America at the time of World War I, and you wind up with a unique way to explain the motivations of those characters."                                         â€”David Kaplan, host, *Chicago Tribune Live* and *WGN''s Sports Central*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œDeveneyâ€™s painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveneyâ€™s scholarship does not detract from his ability to spin a good tale: his tendency to imagine playersâ€™ conversations will remind readers of Leigh Montvilleâ€™s *The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth*â€¦. A welcome companion to Susan Dellingerâ€™s *Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series*, Deveneyâ€™s book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive period in baseball and American morals."                                         â€”*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6678'),
(7182, 'The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution', 'Francis Fukuyama', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10500'),
(7183, 'Orion', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10459'),
(7184, 'Orion Among the Stars', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10464'),
(7185, 'Orion in the Dying Time', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10466'),
(7186, 'Orphan star', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinxâ€™s pastâ€“and that man is trying to kill him!It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years ago. In fact, his birth has always been shrouded in mystery. But Flinx eventually discovers that his unknown parents have left him a curious legacyâ€“extraordinary mental powers that are both a marvelous gift and a dreaded curse.This double-edged legacy will lead Flinx, along with his loyal protector, the mini-dragon Pip, on a harrowing journey in search of the truth . . . about who he is and where he comes from. It is a daring adventure that brings him to another worldâ€“and into the clutches of one of the most evil and powerful men in the galaxy. . . .Orphan Star is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in fantasy and science fiction for readers twelve and up.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(7187, 'Orphans of the Sky', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy. But that was far in the mythic past. The original purpose of the Ship''s epic voyage has long been forgotten, and gor generations the ginat spaceship, lost between the stars, is the only world that the people aboard have known. A strange civilization has evolved, with its own superstitions, savage religion, rigid class structure and mutant outcasts. Then, one young man discovers the truth about the Ship and changes everything, for ever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10417'),
(7188, 'Oryx and Crake: A Novel', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  , a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool''s paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichÃ©d landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book''s most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake''s experiments in bioengineering cause humanity''s shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman''s broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world''s destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor.\n  <em>\n   --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid''s Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed. Jimmy grew up in a world split between corporate compounds (gated communities metastasized into city-states) and pleeblands (unsafe, populous and polluted urban centers). His best friend was "Crake," the name originally his handle in an interactive Net game, Extinctathon. Even Jimmy''s mother-who ran off and joined an ecology guerrilla group when Jimmy was an adolescent-respected Crake, already a budding genius. The two friends first encountered Oryx on the Net; she was the eight-year-old star of a pedophilic film on a site called HottTotts. Oryx''s story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crake''s affluent adolescence. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex "pixie" in some distant country. Jimmy meets Oryx much later-after college, after Crake gets Jimmy a job with ReJoovenEsence. Crake is designing the Crakers-a new, multicolored placid race of human beings, smelling vaguely of citron. He''s procured Oryx to be his personal assistant. She teaches the Crakers how to cope in the world and goes out on secret missions. The mystery on which this riveting, disturbing tale hinges is how Crake and Oryx and civilization vanished, and how Jimmy-who also calls himself "the Snowman," after that other rare, hunted specimen, the Abominable Snowman-survived. Chesterton once wrote of the "thousand romances that lie secreted in The Origin of Species." Atwood has extracted one of the most hair-raising of them, and one of the most brilliant.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6189'),
(7189, 'Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders', 'Gyles Brandreth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde''s unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde''s growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard.... Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde''s trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2079'),
(7190, 'Osprey Island', 'Thisbe Nissen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island''s one and only hotel are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there''s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge''s owners, who''s looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingeringsometimes fleetingjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3324'),
(7191, 'Othello', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Each edition includes:â€¢ Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playâ€¢ Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playâ€¢ Scene-by-scene plot summariesâ€¢ A key to famous lines and phrasesâ€¢ An introduction to reading Shakespeare''s languageâ€¢ An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the playâ€¢ Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library''s vast holdings of rare booksEssay by Susan SnyderThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world''s largest collection of Shakespeare''s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3457'),
(7192, 'The Other Boleyn Girl', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her familys ambitious plots as the kings interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king, and take her fate into her own hands.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A rich and compelling tale of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, "The Other Boleyn Girl" introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe and survived by following her own heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9783'),
(7193, 'Other Earths', 'Nick Gevers &amp; Jay Lake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn''t occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one that exists? Or are there many parallel worlds and societies, some very similar to ours, some barely recognizable? What if Lincoln had never become president, and the Civil War had never taken place? What if Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologically advanced empire? What if magic was real and a half-faery queen ruled England? What if Hitler and Germany won the war because America never got involved? What if many of the world''s religions were totally commercialized, their temples run like casinos, religions designed purely for profit? What if an author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself? These are just some of the possible pathways the reader can take to explore the ''Other Earths'' that may be waiting just one event away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7401'),
(7194, 'Other Kingdoms', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Genre veteran Matheson (I Am Legend) frames this bittersweet blend of fantasy and romantic suspense as the "true" reminiscences of 82-year-old Alex White, the author of such novels as Midnight Blood Thirst and Midnight Flesh Hunger under the name Alex Black. In the spring of 1918, the then 18-year-old Alex, a wounded soldier who''s been discharged from the American Army, settles in the isolated English town of Gatford, where he soon finds himself caught between two supernaturally empowered women: Magda, an alluring witch, and Ruthana, a charming faerie. Alex, himself powerless, is willing to make great sacrifices to be with his one true love, whichever one she might be, but their different natures and disapproving relatives may doom the relationship. Which of the two women Alex will choose is never really in doubt; the loser is clearly unsuitable and conveniently malicious in defeat. The self-pitying Alex may ramble in telling his straightforward tale, but Matheson remains as ever a competent craftsman. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps no other author living is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7844'),
(7195, 'The Other Side of the Story', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jojo Harvey is a dead ringer for Jessica Rabbit and the most ferocious literary agent in town. A former NYPD cop, she now lives in London making million-dollar book deals while trying to make partner at her firm . . . all the while sleeping with the boss man.   Lily Wright is an author who believes in karma, and is waiting for the sky to fall after stealing her former best friend''s man. Though her first book failed to sell, her life turns upside down when her most recent book becomes a huge bestseller.   Gemma Hogan is an event designer extraordinaire, but her personal life is nonexistent after losing the love of her life and her best friend in one fell swoop. To make matters worse, her father has just left her mother. While taking care of her mother, she e-mails a close colleague about her frustrations, who in turn forwards the hilarious e-mails to a famous literary agent named Jojo Harvey, who just happens to represent her former friend, now enemy, Lily Wright.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9977'),
(7196, 'Other Than Murder', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   [A short story.]\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   A dark, compelling suspense story that reveals a surprising insight intoÂ the background ofÂ Homicide Detective Frank Quinn, the popular continuing character of John Lutz''s serial-killer thrillers.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8633'),
(7197, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms', 'Truman Capote &amp; John Berendt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."\n <br />\n â€“NORMAN MAILER\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old,\n <em>\n  Other Voices, Other Rooms\n </em>\n is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skullyâ€™s Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capoteâ€™s tender age, this novel tempers its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.\n</p>\n<p>\n This new edition, featuring an enlightening Introduction by John Berendt, offers readers a fresh look at Capoteâ€™s emerging brilliance as a writer of protean power and effortless grace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7125'),
(7198, 'The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates', 'Wes Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.** In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun* *ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.  Wes just couldnâ€™t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; theyâ€™d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, *The Other Wes Moore* tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3333'),
(7199, 'The Other Wind', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10736'),
(7200, 'Otherwise: Three Novels by John Crowley', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Deep\n</p>\n<p>\n In a twilight land, two warring powers â€” the Reds and the Blacks â€” play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark and bloody pageant. From the moment he is found by two women who tend to the dead in the wake of battles, it is clear that the great game is to change at last.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Beasts\n</h4>\n<p>\n It is the day after tomorrow, and society has been altered dramatically by experimentation that enables scientists to combine the genetic material of different species, mixing DNA of humans with animals. Loren Casaubon is an ethologist drawn into the political and social vortex that results with Leo â€” a creature both man and lion â€” at its center.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Engine Summer\n</h4>\n<p>\n A young man named Rush That Speaks is growing up in a far distant world â€” one that only dimly remembers our own age, the wondrous age of the Angels, when men could fly. Now it is the "engine summer of the world," and Rush goes in search of the Saints who can teach him to speak truthfully, and be immortal in the stories he tells. The immortality that awaits him, though, is one he could not have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8367'),
(7201, 'Our Friends from Frolix 8', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanityâ€™s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale that ultimately addresses our salvation both as individuals and a whole.Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolutionâ€™s leader, Thors Provoni, returns from ten years of intergalactic hiding with a ninety-ton protoplasmic slime that is bent on creating a new world order. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3725'),
(7202, 'Our Game', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Le Carre''s latest-which revolves around a breakaway attempt by Chechnya and a former British agent''s attempt to track down his double-crossing old protege-was a PW bestseller for 13 weeks.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Another tautly written, well-researched spy novel from LeCarre. The Cold War is over. The Russians are our friends. Consequently, spy handler Tim "Timbo" Cranmer and his specially groomed double agent, Larry Pettifer, are put out to pasture. Tim, a somewhat stolid and unimaginative civil-servant type, has removed himself and his much younger mistress, Emma, to his late uncle''s vineyard in Somerset, while the idealistic Larry is uncomfortably ensconced as a professor at Bath University. Then Larry and Emma disappear. They have apparently run off together. They have also apparently relieved the Russians of more than 30 million pounds. The British police, guessing at Tim''s previous occupation, and the Russians, knowing it, suspect Tim''s active participation in, or at least knowledge of, the scheme. All parties concerned attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of the fugitives, which he honestly does not know. He does, however, still possess some of the skills of his former profession, and in a suspenseful journey through England, France, and finally Russia, he tracks down his friends while eluding his followers. In the process, readers learn much about the dissident Russian regions and some pre-and post-Stalinist history. An engrossing, exciting spy story.?Susan H. Woodcock, King''s Park Library, Burke, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11076'),
(7203, 'Our Lady of the Fishnet Stockings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(7204, 'Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril', 'King Abdullah II &amp; King Abdullah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan''s Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world''s most passionate advocate of women''s rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran''s nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan''s Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world''s most passionate advocate of women''s rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran''s nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8027'),
(7205, 'Our Little Secret', 'Starr Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lauren Sutherland tries to set a good example for her twin sister, from her practical job to her dependable, if boring, fiancÃ©. So when impulsive Meg elopes with her boss, a U.S. senator twice her age, Lauren hops on a plane to talk her into an annulment...but comes face-to-face with the senator''s handsome son, Drew, instead.Demanding to know what she''s done with his father, Drew is as infuriating as he is annoyingly irresistible. But he''s not the only one who mistakes Lauren''s identity. A relentless foe is on a deadly hunt for the missing newlyweds -- unless Lauren and Drew can find them first.Venturing into the elite Washington social scene, they discover an elaborate web of explicit photos and blackmail, but the biggest surprise is the fiery attraction they can barely control. The clock is ticking, and while the sparks between Lauren and Drew burn hot, the trail of clues is growing cold....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3718'),
(7206, 'Our mutual friend', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heapâ€™s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights â€œNoddyâ€ Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes â€œthe Golden Dustman.â€ Charles Dickensâ€™s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickensâ€™s most complexâ€”and satisfyingâ€”novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(7207, 'Out of Phaze', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of print no longer: Book Four of the Apprentice Adept series--from the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two worlds--the scientific Proton, and the magical Phaze--exist side-by-side. Now, Mach has crossed from Proton to Phaze, switching places with his counterpart Bane. And both must learn to survive in environments alien to their own nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4594'),
(7208, 'Out of Sight', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Foley was busting out of Florida''s Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshalâ€”whose Chanel suit cost more than the take from Foley''s last bank jobâ€”and the chemistry was working overtime. Here''s a lady Jack could fall for in a big way, if she weren''t a dedicated representative of the law that he breaks for a living. And as soon as she escapes, he''s already missing her. But there are some seriously bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And there''s a good chance that when his path crosses Karen''s again, she''s going to be there for business, not pleasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/589');
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(7209, 'Out of the Black', 'Lee Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is the end of a nearly perfect society. Beautiful, happy people still drive electric cars to fulfilling jobs like any other day, but no one noticed that the Apocalypse began a few weeks ago.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now the perfect society''s misfits are its only hope for salvation, but they''re barely keeping it together on a normal day: A detective burdened by an unforgivable failure investigates an impossible murder. An overweight nurse comes out of her shell exactly long enough to be attacked by a dead man. An introverted genius and his insecure girlfriend are marked for death by a conspiracy they didn''t know existed. Each of these damaged strangers holds a piece of the puzzle, but as they begin to find each other, they realize they are being stalked by a methodical killer with the pure heart of a child.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they must piece together the mystery and find the courage to stand together against impossible odds before the world goes dark forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes destiny falls unexpected into the most broken lives, like a stone fallen out of the clear black sky.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reviews:\n <br />\n "Doty''s razor-sharp prose and impeccable sense of timing make this book difficult to put down... A fast-paced, highly entertaining thriller." -- Kirkus DiscoveriesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n Awards:Â \n <br />\n 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) thriller semifinalist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7749'),
(7210, 'Out of the Dark', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called "sentients"â€”"humans," they called themselvesâ€”were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better. Now, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanityâ€™s cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died. Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize scattered survivors without getting killed. And in the southeastern US, firearms instructor and former Marine Dave Dvorak finds himself at the center of a growing network of resistanceâ€”putting his extended family at lethal risk, but what else can you do? On the face of it, Buchevskyâ€™s and Dvorakâ€™s chances look bleak, as do prospects for the rest of the surviving human race. But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earthâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1141'),
(7211, 'Out of the Silent Planet', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1131'),
(7212, 'Out of Whack', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8862'),
(7213, 'Outcast', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisisâ€“and in need. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order, negotiate differences, and determine the future of their unified worlds. But even more critical, and far more uncertain, is the future of the Jedi.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a shocking move, Chief of State Natasi Daala orders the arrest of Luke Skywalker for failing to prevent Jacen Soloâ€™s turn to the dark side and his subsequent reign of terror as a Sith Lord. But itâ€™s only the first blow in an anti-Jedi backlash fueled by a hostile government and suspicious public. When Jedi Knight Valin Horn, scion of a politically influential family, suffers a mysterious psychotic break and becomes a dangerous fugitive, the Jedi become the target of a media-driven witch hunt. Facing conviction on the damning charges, Luke must strike a bargain with the calculating Daala: his freedom in exchange for his exile from Coruscant and from the Jedi Order.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is determined to keep history from being repeated. With his son, Ben, at his side, Luke sets out to unravel the shocking truth behind Jacen Soloâ€™s corruption and downfall. But the secrets he uncovers among the enigmatic Force mystics of the distant world Dorin may bring his questâ€“and life as he knows itâ€“to a sudden end. And all the while, another Jedi Knight, consumed by the same madness as Valin Horn, is headed for Coruscant on a fearsome mission that could doom the Jedi Order . . . and devastate the entire galaxy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5617'),
(7214, 'The outcast', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cast out to die in the Athasian desert, a half-breed child is rescued by a wandering druid and brought to a hidden temple in the Ringing Mountains. Raised by the mystical villichi, Sorak learns the Way of the Druid and the Path of the Preserver, but his ordeal in the desert has fragmented his personality. He has become a "tribe of one," possessing multiple identities within one body, each with its own voice and hidden attributes. As he struggles to resolve his inner conflict, Sorak embarks on a quest to find his origins and seek out a powerful preserver known only as the Sage, who has been marked for death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3759'),
(7215, 'The Outcasts of Heaven Belt', 'Joan D. Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10248'),
(7216, 'Outer Dark', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.Â Â A woman bears her brother''s child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes.Â Â Discovering her brother''s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.Â Â Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5725'),
(7217, 'The Outfit: The Role of Chicago&#39;s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America', 'Gus Russo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, surprisingly well hidden. This is the story of the Outfit: the secret organised crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition era Chicago before becoming the puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Washington DC. Moving with purpose and panache, the Outfit blended effortlessly with underworld corporate heads, Hollywood moguls, and national political icons. It was only after a fifty-year run that their world started to crumble in the 1970s. With extensive research including recently released FBI files, original interviews with Outfit associates and members of the Fourth Estate (who pursued the Outfit for over forty years) and first ever access to the journals of Humphreys'' long-in-hiding widow, veteran investigative journalist Gus Russo uncovers sixty years of corruption and influence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1771'),
(7218, 'Outlander', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenachâ€”an "outlander"â€”in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire''s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5894'),
(7219, 'The Outlaws: A Presidential Agent Novel', 'W.E.B. Griffin &amp; William E. Butterworth IV', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </u>\n </b>\n <br />\n The #1 New York Times-bestselling series returns-and the stakes have never been higher.   Charlie Castillo''s secret unit has been disbanded-but that doesn''t mean he''s out of business. As experience has painfully shown him, there are many things the intelligence community can''t do, won''t do, or doesn''t do well, and he has the men and assets to help set things straight.  But the first opportunity, when it comes, is shocking: A FedEx package arrives, bearing photos of barrels containing some of the most dangerous biohazard materials on earth, all of which were supposed to have been destroyed during a raid on a secret Russian factory in the Congo. Who has them, and what do they want? Castillo has a feeling he''s not going to like the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6082'),
(7220, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.  Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2282'),
(7221, 'Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory.\n</p>\n<p>\n His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling, often funny reading and tell a story most of us had thought was over: a tale of the last outposts in Britain''s imperial career and those who keep the flag flying.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a new introduction, this updated edition tells us what has happened to these extraordinary places while the author''s been away.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simon Winchester was a geologist at Oxford and worked in Africa and on offshore oil rigs before becoming a full-time globe-trotting foreign correspondent and writer. He currently lives on a small farm in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, an apartment in New York''s West Village and in the Western Isles of Scotland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6008'),
(7222, 'The Outsiders', 'Neil Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Outsiders is a collection of 13 dark fantasy stories from some of the best names and bright new names in dark fiction. An eclectic mix of styles and genres lurk within these pages...so uncork a glass of wine, dim the lights, sit back in a comfy chair...and enjoy this offering from Ghostwriter Publications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3058'),
(7223, 'Over Sea, Under Stone (dark 1)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Gr 5-7-The charming beginning to Susan Cooper''s series of five books, which comprise The Dark Is Rising, belie a series of sinister adventures. The Drew children Simon, Jane, and Barney find an old map in a hidden room while summering at the Grey House in Cornwall. Along with their Great-Uncle Merry, they become embroiled in a web of intrigue that surrounds an Arthurian legend. True to the original story (Harcourt, 1965), this audio version adds a dynamic vocal element from narrator, Alex Jennings. In the beginning the story seems a bit slow and tedious as the plot and setting are given their due, and the voices may be difficult to distinguish. After the first side of tape 1, they become more well defined. Jennings gives each child a distinct voice, yet keeps each connected to one another. Barney has the youthful vulnerability of the youngest sibling, Jane, the sensible and soft-spoken middle child, and Simon speaks with the assurance and bravado of the "older" brother. The rising tension created between the fight of good and evil gives strength and vitality to each character''s voice. Listeners understand Mr. Hasting''s loathing and fear of Great-Uncle Merry when hearing the deep tone and resonance of every utterance. Jennings'' ability is outstanding as he slips in and out of the numerous voices with the rapid dialogue as it approaches the climax. His training and experience as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre give this story a vitality. This is an outstanding reading of a classic tale that all young listeners and adults will thoroughly enjoy.\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Tina Hudak, St. Bernard''s School, Riverdale, MD\n   </i>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  "Beautifully told...superbly written." --\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  on The Dark Is Rising Sequence\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10577'),
(7224, 'Over the Edge', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her passion is flying. As one of the best helicopter pilots in the navalreserves, Lieutenant Teri Howe is strong, dedicated, and highly skilled-- until a past mistake surfaces, jeopardizing everything she''s workedfor.Rock steady Senior Chief Stan Wolchonok has made a career of tacklingdifficult challenges. So it''s no surprise when he comes to Teri''s aid, knowing that his personal code of honor -- and perhaps his heart -- willbe at risk. But when a jet carrying an American senator''s daughter ishijacked, Stan''s unflinching determination and Teri''s steadfast courageare put to the ultimate test. The rescue mission will be daring anddangerous. But somewhere between peril and resolution, the line betweenfriends and lovers begins to blur, pushing both their lives "over theedge."Suzanne Brockmann has taken romantic suspense by storm with heraction-packed thrillers. Now she has written the most gripping novel ofher career -- an unforgettable story of an explosive hostage situationin which two people are caught between the call of duty and the lure ofdestiny."A taut, edgy thriller." LINDA HOWARD"Thanks to Suzanne Brockmann''s glorious pen, we all get to revel inheartstopping adventure and blistering romance." "ROMANTIC TIMES"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3830'),
(7225, 'Overkill', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1853'),
(7226, 'The Overlook', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with F.B.I. Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. In his first case since he left the LAPD''s Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor''s death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry''s one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch''s job to prove them all wrong. The Overlook was originally serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. This novel includes material that was not published in the magazine, including new characters and more obstacles in Harry Bosch''s path.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2425'),
(7227, 'The Overnight', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bookstore''s shelves are put in order every night, but every morning, books are found lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store''s computers keep acting up, and even when the machines are off, they seem to glow with a spectral gray light. Things soon go from bad to worse. A salesclerk abruptly loses his ability to read. One employee accuses another of making sexual advances. A hit-and-run in the parking lot claims a life. The security monitors display half-seen things crawling between the stacks. Desperate to pass a company inspection, the manager musters his staff for an overnight inventory. When the last customers reluctantly depart, leaving almost-visible trails of slime shining behind them, the doors are locked, sealing the staff inside for a final orgy of shelving. The damp, grey, silent things that have been lurking in the basement and hiding in the fog may move slowly, but they are inexorable. This bookstore is the doorway to a hell unlike any other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9997'),
(7228, 'Overtime: A Tor.Com Original', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in "Overtime," the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmasâ€”leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. Written especially for Tor.com''s holiday season, Charles Stross''s novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award. Charles Stross is the Hugo-winning author of some of the most acclaimed novels and stories of the last ten years, including Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Halting State, the "Merchant Princes" series beginning with The Family Trade, and the story collections Toast and Wireless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(7229, 'The Owl Killers', 'Karen Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1321, the English town of Ulewic teeters between survival and destruction, faith and doubt, God and demons. Against this intense backdrop, a group of women have formed a beguinage, a self-sustaining community of women. Led by the strong-willed Servant Martha, these women are committed to a code of celibacy and prayer, hard work and charity that is unsanctioned by the all-powerful church. Still, the villagers have come to rely on this remarkable group of women for their very lives. And seeking shelter among them now is the youngest daughter of Ulewic''s lord, a man who holds power over them all. But when a series of natural calamities strikes, the beguinage''s enemies make their move, stirring the superstitious villagers with dark rumors of unspeakable depravities and unleashing upon the defiant all-female community the full force of their vengeance in the terrifying form of the Owl Killers. Men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence and intimidation--the Owl Killers draw battle lines. In this village ravaged by flood and disease, the women of the beguinage must draw upon their deepest strength if they are to overcome the raging storm of long-held secrets and shattering lies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2260'),
(7230, 'Oxford Dictionary of English', 'Oxford Dictionaries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9135'),
(7231, 'Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd Edition)', 'Oxford Dictionaries', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The foremost single volume authority on the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today. It is informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus. This new edition includes thousands of brand-new words and senses, as well as up-to-date encyclopedic information, and extensive appendices covering topics such as countries, heads of state, and chemical elements.New features include Word Trends which showcase language research based on the Oxford English Corpus and illuminate the extraordinary stories behind fast-changing words of everyday English. 12 months'' access to Oxford''s premium online dictionary and thesaurus service is included with this book, so you can get accurate definitions and synonyms wherever you are.Find out more about our living language using Oxford Dictionaries Online - updated regularly with the latest changes to words and meanings, so you have the most accurate picture of English available. Use the thousands of audio pronunciations to hear how words are spoken. Improve your confidence in writing with helpful grammar and punctuation guides, full thesaurus information, style and usage help, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5046'),
(7232, 'The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations', 'Tony Augarde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Louis Armstrong and Mae West, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker--these are but a few of the figures who have given voice to our century''s most memorable quotations. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, A.J. Augarde gathers together 6,000 of the best known quotes from our time, drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films, radio and television, songs, and even advertisements. Here readers will find the history-making quotes, from Churchill''s stirring wartime speeches ("Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"), to Neville Chamberlain''s infamous "Peace for our time," to Spiro T. Agnew''s outrageous "If you''ve seen one city slum you''ve seen them all." On the lighter side, readers will enjoy such wits as Woody Allen ("It''s not that I''m afraid to die. I just don''t want to be there when it happens"), Fran Lebowitz ("Food is an important part of a balanced diet"), and Dorothy Parker ("This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"). There are generous excerpts from literature, from the novels of Hemingway and Joyce, the poetry of Auden, Eliot, and Pound, the plays of Lillian Hellman and Anita Loos, and the lyrics of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter ("In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes"). Augarde also includes famous book titles (such as Shepherd Mead''s "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), song titles (Larry Morey''s "Whistle While You Work"), even cartoon captions (Bill Maudlin''s wartime "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages"). And of course, the book brims with wisdom, from Count Ciano''s "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan," to Lord Morley''s "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him," to Alfred Adler''s "It is always easier to fight for one''s principles than to live up to them." Designed both for reference and for browsing, the Dictionary arranges quotations in alphabetical order by author, with attributions after each quote so that readers can, if they wish, return to the original sources. In addition, the index helps the reader trace quotations from their most important keywords, so that if you know the quote but not the author, you can still find it easily. Whether you want to find out who first used the expression "a walk on the wild side" (it was Nelson Algren) or simply enjoy discovering fine turns of phrase or witty remarks (such as Beatrice Lillie''s off-the-cuff comment to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress: "Never darken my Dior again"), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations offers a unique view of the twentieth century through some of its most memorable bon mots.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4242'),
(7233, 'The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children&#39;s Literature', 'Jack Zipes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€“The 3200 signed articles in this set include brief discussions of the work of major writers, important trends, genres, characters, organizations, and noteworthy publications and people in the field. All of the alphabetical articles are clearly written and most include cross-references. Many of them, particularly those on genres, trends, countries, or regions, also include a bibliography. Interspersed throughout are appropriately placed black-and-white illustrations (more than 400, according to the introduction). The first volume begins with a list of all of the entries. Volume four ends with a selected bibliography, lists of many (but not all) of the major childrens literature awards and the books and authors who have won them, a topical outline of the entries, a comprehensive index, and more. While thorough, the encyclopedia is by no means exhaustive. There are omissions both in the entries and within the discussions. However, there is no comparable single work that brings together all aspects of the topic, making this a valuable resource._â€“Linda Greengrass, Bank Street College Library, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children''s Literature\n </em>\n "endeavours to account for all the most significant . . . works that have played a role in the history of children''s literature in the world." That said, it does have a stated focus on the Anglo-American tradition, with the inclusion of entries on English-language authors from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and African countries as well as those from other countries whose works have been translated to English. The scope of the set is impressive and ambitious, as shown by the topical outline in the last volume: it covers 39 countries and regions (for example,\n <em>\n  Arab world; China; South America\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Spanish-speaking\n </em>\n ); 105 "Special Subjects and Terms" (_Critical approaches to children''s literature_,\n <em>\n  Mad magazine\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Publishers and publishing\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Witches\n </em>\n ); 106 genres or types of literature (_Crossover books, Graphic novels, Horse and pony stories_,\n <em>\n  Television and children\n </em>\n ); more than 150 individual titles and characters (_Cinderella; Hardy Boys series; Nutcracker, The; Paul Bunyan_;\n <em>\n  Ring-a-ring-a-rosy\n </em>\n ); and more than 2,700 entries on authors, illustrators, librarians, and other important people (_Arbuthnot, May Hill; Blackman, Malorie; Hoffmann, Heinrich_;\n <em>\n  Opie, Iona\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Peter Opie\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Peet, Bill\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Rowling, J. K.\n </em>\n ). The chronological span encompasses medieval times through the present. A brief, readable introduction provides background for the mutable concept of "children''s literature."\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor Zipes (a highly regarded author of works on folktales and fairy tales, for whom there should have been an entry!) touts the "breadth and depth" of content, and these are indeed what set this publication apart as a must-have for any library with reference works on literature in English. Signed entries from more than 800 international scholars range in length from a paragraph or two to essays of one or more pages, with a brief bibliography (for example,\n <em>\n  Germany\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Multiculturalism; Tolkien, J. R. R.\n </em>\n ). Articles are written in a clear and consistent style. Biographies highlight the subject''s unique contribution or approach: Oodgeroo Noonuccal''s work in the early 1970s was an impetus for "increasing production for children by Aboriginal authors and artists," Arthur C. Clarke''s work balances "science and a sense of wonder," and Robert Sabuda''s pop-ups have "raised the profile . . and expanded the age range" for this art form. Longer entries on countries and other topics are often nicely divided into sections on historical periods, influential factors, or types of literature, such as "The Old Stories" and "Bridges between Two Worlds" in\n <em>\n  Asian American literature\n </em>\n . Black-and-white graphics, such as examples of illustrations or author photos, occasionally punctuate the attractive page design.\n</p>\n<p>\n The last volume includes additional resources: a selected bibliography; lists of winners for 25 major awards from the U.S., UK, Canada, and other countries; a directory of major world collections of children''s literature with contact data and Web sites; the topical outline; a directory of contributors, their affiliations, and entries; and an excellent, detailed index that seems to cover each and every person or title mentioned in the text. Some typographical errors were noted in passing, such as "Oliver B. Miller" in\n <em>\n  Watty Piper;\n </em>\n "Eeyore''s tale" in\n <em>\n  Milne, A. A.;\n </em>\n and the mutation of the final letter diacritic to a "2" on several entries in the index (for example,\n <em>\n  Filopovic2, Zlata\n </em>\n ), though not the entry text.\n</p>\n<p>\n The impossibility of being an all-inclusive reference is admitted in the preface and evident in the omission of entries for Olive Beaupre Miller, who started a publishing company in Chicago and produced the very successful and beloved My Book House multivolume collection of children''s stories for most of the twentieth century; Meg Cabot, American author of\n <em>\n  The Princess Diaries\n </em>\n and its follow-ups, popular in both Britain and the U.S.; and\n <em>\n  Horn Book Magazine.\n </em>\n There is a good deal of unique biographical and topical content remaining in other Oxford reference books on children''s literature, as well as in many other titles found in larger collections, among them\n <em>\n  The Cambridge Guide to Children''s Books in English\n </em>\n (2001) and Gale''s Something About the Author series (with access to more than 10,000 author biobibliographies). Still, librarians and users will head for the authoritative volumes of\n <em>\n  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children''s Literature\n </em>\n more often than not as an excellent starting point for queries. Recommended for most libraries.\n <em>\n  Deborah Rollins\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8961'),
(7234, 'The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition', 'Shakespeare, William', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9247'),
(7235, 'Ozma of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is *never* satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man. Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it''s up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King''s enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas? Ozma of Oz has delighted children and adults for over eighty years, and now new generations can enjoy the unforgettable characters and the surprising and funny story in this deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Neill''s full-color plates and twenty-one two- color illustrations, as well as a colorful pictorial binding.Afterword by Peter Glassman. New generations can enjoy this surprising and funny story of the rescue of the royal family of Ev from the evil Nome King in a deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3172'),
(7236, 'P Is for Peril', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current oneâ€“a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secretâ€“and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8207'),
(7237, 'P.s. I Loathe You', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee''s alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Massie lays out a New Year-New Pretty Committee rule: Anyone caught crushing on a boy will be thrown out of the NPC-forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2214'),
(7238, '&quot;P&quot; Is for Peril', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current oneâ€“a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secretâ€“and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4134'),
(7239, 'Pacific Vortex!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt''s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America''s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt''s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt''s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(7240, 'The Pacific', 'Hugh Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** In this companion to the HBO(r) miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. ** Between America''s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur''s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. In *The Pacific*, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of the five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean of enmity known as The Pacific and the brave men who fought. Some considered war a profession, others enlisted as citizen soldiers. Each man served in a different part of the war, but their respective duties required every ounce of their courage and their strength to defeat an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender. The medals for valor which were pinned on three of them came at a shocking price-a price paid in full by all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1693'),
(7241, 'Pack Animals', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seventh novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Shopping for wedding gifts with your fiance is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping centre. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it''s no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population. Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3320'),
(7242, 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you canâ€™t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, itâ€™s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASAâ€™s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2852'),
(7243, 'The Pact', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult''s extraordinary tale of love, friendship and family dares to explore the terrifying secrets that lurk in the hearts of the people we think we know inside and out. Emily Gold and Chris Harte are soul mates. They have lived next door since they were born, sharing everything from chicken pox to Chinese food, and in high school their friendship blossoms into something more. Then a midnight call from the hospital changes everything: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There''s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father''s cabinet - a bullet Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a detective has doubts about the suicide pact theory and slowly Chris''s and Emily''s closely guarded secrets are revealed as the real truth about the lead up to that night unfolds. The Pact is a compelling story of friendship and family, betrayal and anguish, and the unforeseen consequences of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1657'),
(7244, 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha', 'Roddy Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Roddy Doyle''s Booker Prize-winning novel\n  <em>\n   Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\n  </em>\n  , an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete, and setting fires. Roddy Doyle has captured the sensations and speech patterns of preadolescents with consummate skill, and managed to do so without resorting to sentimentality. Paddy Clarke and his friends are not bad boys; they''re just a little bit restless. They''re always taking sides, bullying each other, and secretly wishing they didn''t have to. All they want is for something--_anything_--to happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout the novel, Paddy teeters on the nervous verge of adolescence. In one scene, Paddy tries to make his little brother''s hot water bottle explode, but gives up after stomping on it just one time: "I jumped on Sinbad''s bottle. Nothing happened. I didn''t do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Paddy Clarke senses that his world is about to change forever--and not necessarily for the better. When he realizes that his parents'' marriage is falling apart, Paddy stays up all night listening, half-believing that his vigil will ward off further fighting. It doesn''t work, but it is sweet and sad that he believes it might. Paddy''s logic may be fuzzy, but his heart is in the right place.\n  <em>\n   --Jill Marquis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doyle''s Booker Prize-winning novel, told from the perspective of Irish, working-class 10-year-old Paddy Clarke, was a seven-week PW bestseller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4536'),
(7245, 'Pagan Babies', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five CD''s,6 hoursRead by Steve BuschemiIn Rwanda during the genocide, Hutu thugs storm into a church and kill everyone except Father Terry Dunn, on the alter saying his first mass. He''s powerless to do anything about it--until one day he faces several of the killers and exacts a chilling penance.But is Terry Dunn really a priest?He doesn''t always appear to act like one. He comes home to Detroit and runs into Debbie Dewey who''s doing standup at a comedy club. In her set, Debbie tells what it was like in prison, down for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Terry and Debie hit it off; they have the same sense of humor and similar goals in that both are out to raise money. Terry says for the Little Orphans of Rwanda; Debbie to score off a guy who conned her out of sixty-seven thousand dollars. This is Randy, now wealthy, who runs a fashionable restaurant and is connected to the Detroit Mafia.It''s Debbie who keeps prying until she learns the bizarre truth about Terry; Debbie who sells him on going in together for a much bigger payoff than either could manage alone.What happened in Rwanda remains alive through the unexpected twists and turns of the plot. But even with this tragic background. PAGAN BABIES comes off as Leonard''s funniest straight-faced novel to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9210'),
(7246, 'The Pagan Stone', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of Blood Brothers And The Hollow The Conclusion To The Electrifying Trilogy Of Three Men And Three Women Who Join Forces And Hearts To Battle The Ultimate Evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2586');
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(7247, 'The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering', 'Melanie Thernstrom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas that prevent proper treatment, to devastating effect. In *The Pain Chronicles*, a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the agesâ€”from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imagingâ€”to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplinesâ€”science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and artâ€”Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear. Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, *The Pain Chronicles *illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of painâ€”and confronts with extraordinary grace and empathy its peculiar traits, its harrowing effects, and its various antidotes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2268'),
(7248, 'The Painted Bird', 'Jerzy Kosinski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski''s first novel,\n <strong>\n  The Painted Bird\n </strong>\n , for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Semiautobiographical novel by Jerzy Kosinski, published in 1965 and revised in 1976. The ordeals of the central character parallel Kosinski''s own experiences during World War II. A dark-haired Polish child who is taken for either a Gypsy or a Jew loses his parents in the mayhem of war and wanders through the countryside at the mercy of the brutal, thickheaded peasants he meets in the villages. He learns how to stay alive at any cost, turning survival into a moral imperative. Full of graphic scenes depicting rape, torture, and bestiality, the novel portrays evil in all its manifestations and speaks of human isolation as inevitable. -- __\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6522'),
(7249, 'A Painted House', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers â€” and two very dangerous men â€” came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Lukeâ€™s world.A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives â€” and change his family and his town forever....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1993'),
(7250, 'Painted Ladies (2010)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 38', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10564'),
(7251, 'The painted man', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Voted one of the top ten fantasy novels of 2008 by amazon.co.uk.Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the darkÄÂ¦Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day''s ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet''s Brook. As dusk falls each evening, a mist rises from the ground promising death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness. For hungry demons materialize from the vapours to feed, and as the shadows lengthen, all of humanity is forced to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the dawn.But when Arlen''s world is shattered by the demon plague, he realizes that it is fear, rather than the monsters, which truly cripples humanity. Only by conquering their own terror can they ever hope to defeat the demons. Now Arlen must risk leaving the safety of his wards to discover a different path, and offer humanity a last, fleeting chance of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3531'),
(7252, 'The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Comprehensive collection of nonfiction by the bestselling horror and dark fantasy author Clive Barker, with 100 essays and articles from the past 25 years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(7253, 'Paladin of Souls', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family''s castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion. Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods. Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista''s retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion''s castle cannot ease Ista''s mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods'' own weaving. In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9042'),
(7254, 'Pale Blue Dot', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN''S BOOKS."--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race."TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity''s future in the stars."--Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(7255, 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a tour of our solar system, galaxy and beyond, Cornell astronomer Sagan meshes a history of astronomical discovery, a cogent brief for space exploration and an overview of life-from its origins in the oceans to humanity''s first emergence to a projected future where humans "terraform" and settle other planets and asteroids, Earth having long been swallowed by the sun. Maintaining that such relocation is inevitable, the author further argues that planetary science is of practical utility, fostering an interdisciplinary approach to looming environmental catastrophes such as "nuclear winter" (lethal cooling of Earth after a nuclear war, a widely accepted prediction first calculated by Sagan in 1982). His exploration of our place in the universe is illustrated with photographs, relief maps and paintings, including high-resolution images made by Voyager 1 and 2, as well as photos taken by the Galileo spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and satellites orbiting Earth, which show our planet as a pale blue dot. A worthy sequel to Sagan''s Cosmos. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sagan''s great appeal as a popular-science writer, beyond his prodigious knowledge, is his optimism and sense of wonder. A visualizer and a visionary, he fires our imagination and turns science into high drama. After writing about our origins in\n  <em>\n   Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors\n  </em>\n  (1992), Sagan turns his attention to outer space and takes up where\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  left off 14 years ago. An astonishing amount of information was amassed during that productive era, and Sagan, of course, is up on all of it. A passionate and eloquent advocate of space exploration, he believes that the urge to wander, and the need for a frontier, is intrinsic to our nature, and that this trait is linked to our survival as a species. Throughout this beautifully illustrated, revelatory, and compelling volume, Sagan returns again and again to our need for journeys and quests as well as our unending curiosity about our place in the universe. Such philosophical musings are interwoven with precise and enthusiastic accounts of the triumphs of interplanetary exploration, from the\n  <em>\n   Apollo\n  </em>\n  moon landings to the spectacular findings of robotic missions, especially the\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  spacecraft. Sagan describes one exciting discovery after another regarding the four giants--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--and their many moons, mysterious and exquisite rings, and volatile atmospheres. He argues, convincingly, that planetary exploration is of immense value. It not only teaches us about our celestial neighbors, but helps us understand and protect Earth. Yes, we have seemingly insurmountable problems on this pale blue dot, but we have always reached for the stars, and we mustn''t stop now.\n  <em>\n   Donna Seaman\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8549'),
(7256, 'The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel', 'Louis Bayard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: So begins the chilling last testament of Gus Landor, a retired New York City police constable, whose numerous talents include code-breaking, riot control and the ''gloveless interrogation''. A young cadet has been found hanged at a military academy on the shores of the Hudson River. Before his body could be buried, however, it was stolen and his heart brutally carved out. Fearing a scandal, the top brass at West Point have summoned Landor to help catch the culprit, and keep his discoveries away from prying eyes. As Landor embarks on a thrilling adventure to solve the case, he uncovers a series of dark secrets and finds unlikely assistance in the form of a mischievous young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. THE PALE BLUE EYE is a brilliantly atmospheric historical mystery, full of drama and unexpected twists. From the events of one seemingly ordinary afternoon, Louis Bayard conjures a tale as haunting as it is entertaining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2433'),
(7257, 'Pale Demon', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9637'),
(7258, 'A Pale Horse', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The exemplary 10th Inspector Ian Rutledge historical whodunit (after\n <em>\n  A False Mirror\n </em>\n ) offers tight plotting and rich characterization amid understated but convincing evocations of postâ€“WWI England. Haunted by memories of battle, unable to find a safe haven after his discharge from a psychiatric hospital and the abrupt departure of his fiancÃ©e, shell-shocked veteran Rutledge has returned to his prewar life as a Scotland Yard inspector. This time out, the War Office wants him to locate a mysterious person of interest, connected with (and perhaps the same as) an unidentified corpse found at a Yorkshire abbey. Rutledge toils diligently to uncover personal secrets and shames that may have motivated someone to kill, and their connection to a long-ago romance between the suspected killer''s wife and the local inspector investigating the case. The mother and son writing as Charles Todd show no evidence of running out of ideas for murder mysteries that illuminate new aspects of their compelling protagonist and the horrors of the Great War.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he''s dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose war work is so secret even Rutledge cannot know its true nature. Meanwhile, miles away, an unidentified body has been discovered in the ruins of a Yorkshire abbey, clothed in a monk''s robe and wearing a gas mask.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the shadow of a great white horse cut into the chalk hillsideâ€”where cottages once built to house the sick and untouchable now shelter outcasts like himselfâ€”Rutledge must extract a terrible truth from those who hide from the past. For death is never quite finished with anyone, least of all the men who fought in the bloody trenches of France.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5679'),
(7259, 'The Pale Horse', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A priest''s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?  Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman''s head? Or was it when the priest''s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman''s cassock? Or could it have been the priest''s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed?  Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?  Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they''d never found it!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5269'),
(7260, 'The Pale King', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE PALE KING remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace''s death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life''s meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace''s unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for a writer who dared to take on the most daunting subjects the human spirit can imagine.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Foster Wallace wrote the novels\n  <em>\n   Infinite Jest\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Broom of the System\n  </em>\n  and the story collections\n  <em>\n   Oblivion\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Brief Interviews with Hideous Men\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Girl With Curious Hair\n  </em>\n  . His nonfiction includes _Consider the Lobster\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again_,\n  <em>\n   Everything and More\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   This Is Water\n  </em>\n  . He died in 2008.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7010'),
(7261, 'Pale kings and princes', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The bestselling author of Pastime and Double Deuce presents a "taut thriller . . . (that will) keep the reader''s adrenaline pumping overtime" (Publishers Weekly). Caught in a snowstorm of drugs, passion, and hate, Spenser investigates a cocaine-related murder. Part of Dell''s ongoing Robert B. Parker reissue program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4025'),
(7262, 'The Paleo Diet', 'Loren Cordain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to author Loren Cordain, modern health and diet problems didn''t start with the advent of packaged snack food, but much earlier--back at the dawn of the agricultural age many thousands of years ago. As humans became less nomadic and more dependent on high-carbohydrate diets, we left behind the diet we had evolved with, which is based on low-fat proteins and plenty of fruits and vegetables. Sugars, fats, and carbs were rare, if they were present at all, and survival required a steady, if low-key, level of activity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordain''s book\n <em>\n  The Paleo Diet\n </em>\n blends medical research with a healthy sprinkle of individual anecdotes, practical tips, and recipes designed to make his suggestions into a sustainable lifestyle, rather than a simple month-long diet; he even includes cooking recommendations and nationwide sources for wild game.\n</p>\n<p>\n Claims of improving diseases from diabetes to acne to polycystic ovary disease may be a little overstated, but in general the advice seems sound. Can any of us really go wrong by adding lots more vegetables and fruits to our daily regimen? One recommendation on safe tanning with a gradual reduction in sunscreen is surprising and not much detail is provided for safety issues that can accompany increased sun exposure. Still, Cordain''s assertions have helped many people, and could provide exactly the changes you''ve been looking for to improve your health.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like Ray Audette''s Neanderthin (St. Martin''s, 1999), this is another "if you can''t find it in the wild, don''t eat it" diet that takes the germ of a useful idea and runs with it. According to Cordain (health and exercise science, Colorado State Univ.), Paleolithic humans were fit and lean because, as hunter-gatherers, they ate what was available: meats low in saturated fats, fresh fruits, and nonstarchy vegetables. Nor did they suffer from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, the byproducts of our poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Then again, the average Paleolithic life span was about 30 years, not long enough to develop most chronic illnesses. Still, the author asserts that by eliminating grains, dairy, refined sugars, and processed foods from our diets, we, too, can thrive as our ancestors did. Three levels of diet and six weeks of sample menus, with recipes, are included.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7400'),
(7263, 'The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet', 'Robb Wolf &amp; Loren Cordain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Asserting that "modern life causes diabetes, autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration, and infertility," the first-time author Wolf, a former student of The Paleo Diet''s Lauren Cordain, takes on grains, carbs, vegetarians, misinformation, and other aspects of modern life with a casual, conversational tone ("Keep your poop where it belongs") that makes even topics like the components of total cholesterol engaging. Wolf''s scientific background allows him to fully explain hormones, fats, and the digestive process, and helps him put the fundamentals of evolutionary biology into accessible context. He argues that, in addition to dietary changes, a focus on the quality and duration of sleep and a fitness routine is needed, and photographs accompanied by detailed instructions guide readers through simple exercises. Recognizing the time crunch of modern life, Wolf''s program is created to require minimum time and expense. While a grain-free, dairy-free diet may sound difficult to implement, he suggests a commitment-light 30-day trial and provides a four-week menu with simple recipes like Slow Cooker Pork Loin, Chicken Alfredo, and Pizza with a nut-based crust. An extensive list of references, primarily from peer-reviewed journals, lends credence to an intriguing argument.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I am a firm believer in\n  <em>\n   The Paleo Solution\n  </em>\n  . I maintain a hectic schedule that starts early and finishes late. Filming a television series, maintaining my fitness, and being a mom can be harrowing some days. Since adopting a Paleo way of eating I look and feel better, and I know that I am setting a good example for my daughter."â€”Eva La Rue, star of ''CSI: Miami''\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ve watched as\n  <em>\n   The Paleo Solution\n  </em>\n  healed people after medical professionals had given up. Whether you''re an athlete, or simply uninterested in becoming a health care statisticâ€”there are no more excuses! Now you will finally look, feel, and perform as well as your genes will allow. Robb Wolf changed my life, and heÃ†s about to change yours too."â€”Kyle Maynard, author of\n  <em>\n   No Excuses\n  </em>\n  and 2004 ESPY Award winner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Robb Wolf and\n  <em>\n   The Paleo Solution\n  </em>\n  have changed the way I look at diet and nutrition. He''s helped me understand just how critical diet and sleep can be to your overall health and life."â€”Forrest Griffin, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and author of the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Got Fight?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They say the worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.\n  <em>\n   The Paleo Solution\n  </em>\n  ''s value is far reaching for the knowledge that it offers. Robb has taken a unique approach to health and lifestyle that will help countless people."â€”John Welbourn, 10-Year NFL Veteran\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6172'),
(7264, 'Palimpsest', 'Catherynne Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hugo Novella Winner 2010 EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the Cities of Coin and Spice** and **In the Night Garden** introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a strangerâ€™s kiss.â€¦****Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curseâ€”a voyage permitted only to those whoâ€™ve always believed thereâ€™s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. Theyâ€™ve each lost something importantâ€”a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in lifeâ€”and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(7265, 'Palindrome', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Palindrome When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgiaâ€™s coast to find solitudeâ€”and herself. As she becomes increasingly involved with the strange and handsome twin scions of the powerful Drummond family, she feels her traumatic memories begin to fade. But when a killer launches a series of gruesome murders, Liz discovers that there is no place to hideâ€”not even in her lover''s arms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3910'),
(7266, 'Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut''s singular voice: the magic sound of a born-story teller mesmerizing us with truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7699'),
(7267, 'Panama fever: the epic story of one of the greatest human achievements of all time--the building of the Panama Canal', 'Matthew Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicineThe Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. Begun by the French in 1880, its successful completion in 1914 by the Americans marked the end of the Victorian Age and the beginning of the â€œAmerican Century.â€ The building of the Panama Canal was a project whose gestation spanned hundreds of years. Columbus himself searched for a way to get to the Pacific across the narrow isthmus of Central America. For centuries, monarchs, presidents, businessmen, and explorers all struggled to find such a passage, knowing that whoever controlled it would exert unsurpassed control over global trade, and therefore the fate of nations.The first history of this mighty achievement in nearly thirty years, Panama Fever draws on diaries, memoirs, letters, and other contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. The massive project riveted public attention: â€œPanama Feverâ€ spread throughout the Western world. Politicians and businessmen engaged in high-stakes international diplomacy in order to influence its location, path, ownership, and construction. Meanwhile, ditch-diggers, machinists, drivers, engineers, and foremen from all over the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. But the grim reality of Panama â€“ searing heat, torrential rains, fatal mud slides, and malarial mosquitoes â€“ soon caught up with them. More than 25,000 of those who enthusiastically signed on as workers succumbed to dysentery, yellow fever, and malaria, giving a fatal twist to the meaning of â€œPanama Fever.â€ The truly horrific toll unleashed a second race to find a cure so the canal could be completed. The discoveries of the heroic doctors who battled these diseases would lead to a sea change in the way infectious diseases were treated, thus paving the way for the tremendous medical advances of the twentieth century.Filled with remarkable characters, including Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, and Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French genius who built the Suez Canal and almost snatched Panama out from under American control, Panama Fever is an epic historical adventure that shows how a small but fiercely contested strip of land in a largely unknown Central American nation suddenly made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3074'),
(7268, 'Pandaemonium', 'Christopher Brookmyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The senior pupils of St Peter''s High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer ? not to mention booze, drugs, clandestine liaisons and as much partying as they can get away with. Not so far away, the commanders of a top-secret military experiment, long-since spiralled out of control, fear they may have literally unleashed the forces of Hell.Two very different worlds are on a collision course, and will clash in an earthly battle between science and the supernatural, philosophy and faith, civilisation and savagery.The bookies are offering evens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(7269, 'Pandemonium', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a world like our own in every respect . . . save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. There''s the Truth, implacable avenger of falsehood. The Captain, brave and self-sacrificing soldier. The Little Angel, whose kiss brings death, whether desired or not. And a string of others, ranging from the bizarre to the benign to the horrific. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del''s family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon is exorcised . . . or is it? Years later, following a car accident, the Hellion is back, trapped inside Del''s head and clamoring to get out. Del''s quest for help leads him to Valis, an entity possessing the science fiction writer formerly known as Philip K. Dick; to Mother Mariette, a nun who inspires decidedly unchaste feelings; and to the Human League, a secret society devoted to the extermination of demons. All believe that Del holds the key to the plague of possessionand its solution. But for Del, the cure may be worse than the disease. "Look out, Lethem! Daryl Gregory mixes pop culture and pathos, flavoring it with Philip K. Dick. Pandemonium possesses every quality you want in a great novel, and the good news is it''s only his debut." Charles Coleman Finlay, Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author of The Prodigal Troll From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(7270, 'Pandora', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Rice fans will greet\n <em>\n  Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires\n </em>\n , the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator''s daughter in Augustus Caesar''s day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law."\n</p>\n<p>\n Pandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice''s famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Roman girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates the sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical world.\n <em>\n  Pandora\n </em>\n is more like Robert Graves''s sublime\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet\n <em>\n  Pandora\n </em>\n is a logical extension of Rice''s work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice''s 1997 novel\n <em>\n  Violin\n </em>\n is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain."\n <em>\n  Pandora\n </em>\n is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irrational!" (To hear how close Pandora''s voice is to her passionate creator, listen to the 1997 audiocassette\n</p>\n<p>\n Rice''s research gives fresh blood to her storytelling. Even her chronic third-act problem scarcely slows down this brisk romp of a novel. Pandora has intellectual thirst as well as blood lust, and she conveys the high old time Rice obviously had imbibing historical lore. "It is fun to read these mad Gnostics!" exults Pandora in the early Christian era. It is also fun to read this mad Pandora. Anne Rice hasn''t been this fun to read in years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Rice bid goodbye to the vampire Lestat in Memnoch the Devil, her fifth novel in The Vampire Chronicles, she has not abandoned vampires altogether. Two installments are planned this year in her New Tales of the Vampires series, and in the first of these, the ancient vampire Pandora tells her story. Urged on by David Talbot?fledgling vampire, self-appointed chronicler and former psychic detective?Pandora documents in sophisticated detail her pre-vampire existence as the privileged daughter of a Roman senator. She''s a curious character, first introduced in The Queen of the Damned, in which Marius described her as the Greek courtesan who seduced him into making her a vampire and helped him care for the vampire progenitors until strife forced them apart. Here, Pandora herself sets the record straight. Born early in Augustus''s reign, the educated, spirited Pandora was no courtesan?though we do see her challenge the sexual mores of her moment. When Tiberius brings chaos to Rome, and dishonor and death to Pandora''s family, she goes to Antioch and tries to solve the mystery of her compelling blood dreams about Egypt. There, she reunites with her childhood crush, Marius, and learns from him what it means to be a vampire. Along the way, we find little of Rice''s trademark eroticism, but Pandora has long been one of her more elusive characters, so fans will relish this vivid rendering of her life and times. Random House audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5000'),
(7271, 'Pandora&#39;s Box', 'Natale Stenzel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Hope remains . . .*** All Pandemina Dorothy Avery ever wanted was to be beautifully, blessedly normal, with a stable career and a love life leading to a white picket fence and a happily-ever-after. That seems impossible now. Penniless and parted from her unfaithful boyfriend, unfairly shunned by her coworkers, not even Mina''s recent inheritance can help -- especially not when it amounts to a ten-pound rock box and guardianship of the horny, devious puca she released from inside. His name''s Riordan, and he ain''t no Harvey. What''s a puca, you ask? A tricky faery-type, whose magic not only includes shape-shifting into a magnificent black stallion and a snarky mutt, but the ability to manipulate human perceptions. And Riordan is hardly shy of manipulations: Wasn''t that why he was imprisoned in the first place? He seems set upon making Mina''s life harder than ever, whether it be with Jonathon Teague, the handsome contractor who wants to work on more than her house, or Mina''s penitent ex-boyfriend. But as Riordan''s very existence proves, things are not always what they seem, and what stepped out of that box might be the key to her dreams. ***First book in a new series of funny paranormal romances by Natale Stenzel!***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2557'),
(7272, 'Panic in Philly', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Special Operator! Thats the word that goes out from the Philadelphia mob. The Philly underground is in danger of coming apart at the seams, rocked from within by a succession of power plays by ambitious lieutenants of aging capo Stafano Angeletti. Through an unknown private arrangement, the special operator sent in is none other than Mack Bolan, who assumes the character of Johnny "Faces" Cavaretta, and international "security" enforcer reputed to be a man of a thousand faces. Bolan knows the real Cavaretta and knows, too, that this ploy means they must for the last time face each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(7273, 'The Panic Zone', 'Rick Mofina', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A car crashes in Wyoming:** A young mother is thrown clear of the devastating car crash. Dazed, she sees a figure pull her infant son from the flames. Or does she? The police believe it''s a case of trauma playing cruel tricks on the mind, until the night the grief-stricken woman hears a voice through the phone: "Your baby is alive."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A bomb explodes in a Rio de Janeiro cafÃ©:** The heinous act kills ten people, including two journalists with the World Press Alliance news agency. Jack Gannon''s first international assignment is to find out whether his colleagues were innocent victims or targets who got too close to a huge story.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Caribbean cruise ends in horror:** Doctors are desperate to identify the mysterious cause of a cruise ship passenger''s agonizing death. They turn to the world''s top scientists, who fear that someone has resurrected their long-buried secret research. Research that is now being used as a deadly weapon.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of lives at stake, experts work frantically against time. And as an anguished mother searches for her child and Jack Gannon pursues the truth, an unstoppable force hurls them all into the panic zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6388'),
(7274, 'Paper doll', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Olivia Nelson appears to be the perfect wife and mother. So why was the socialite bludgeoned to death with a hammer? The police say it was random violence; Olivia''s husband hires Spenser to prove otherwise. But the truth turns out to be as elusive as needles in a haystack. It''s a case where nothing is what it seems--not even the victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4024'),
(7275, 'Paper Doll (1993)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 20', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10571'),
(7276, 'Paper Money', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It would make a powerful government official risk his reputation -- and career -- in one unforgettable night....It would set the stock market spinning in a bold move to take over a giant corporation....And it was worth any gamble for a corporate raider who used illicit information as his tool -- and deadly violence as his weapon....An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2927'),
(7277, 'The Paperboy', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moat County, Fla., is located where the St. John''s River flows north-a geographical rarity and, in literature, a signal that we''ve entered the strange and violent world of National Book Award-winner Dexter (Paris Trout). Narrator Jack James is the son of the Moat County Tribune''s editor and publisher. While Jack''s older brother, Ward, reports for the Miami Times, Jack has settled for a job delivering papers for the Tribune. But when Ward and his partner, evil dandy Yardley Acheman, come to Moat County to investigate the four-year-old murder of the local sheriff, Jack assists them in the inquiry. After a vicious beating by two sailors lands Ward in the intensive care unit, Yardley finishes the story without Ward and Jack, fabricating evidence to do so. Accompanying his traumatized brother Ward back to Miami, Jack takes a job as a copyboy at the Times. It isn''t long, however, before Yardley''s wrongdoing comes to light, generating more trouble for the Jameses. Dexter''s writing is rock-solid, he offers acute observations about the nature of reporting and his grip on the Southern male psyche is unquestionable. The powerful thematic drive of Paris Trout is missing here, however, and the story line is so complicated that it loses focus and then almost peters out. But if this isn''t Dexter''s best, it''s still a provocative offering from one of the most exciting novelists around. Major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  W.W. ("World War") James is editor of the Moat County (Florida) Tribune and the father of two boys. Ward, the elder, is a reporter for the Miami Times. Jack is a college dropout who delivers papers for his father. With his reporting partner Yardley Acheman, Ward returns to Moat County to investigate the murder of the sheriff and the subsequent trial of Hillary Van Wetter, who was imprisoned for the murder. The investigation calls Van Wetter''s guilt into question, and he is freed from death row. But at what price? Dexter (Brotherly Love, LJ 10/1/91) is a taut storyteller who keeps the pages turning. Though he offers a cast of characters recalling the best of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard, his chillingly satisfactory new work should not be relegated to the ranks of genre writing. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --David Dodd, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6382'),
(7278, 'Paradise Lost (1667)', 'John Milton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction, verse\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10615'),
(7279, 'Paradox', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the truth about what is thought to be the remains of Noah''s Ark. But while she doubts the massive anomaly is really the Ark, she can''t help but wonder what is up there. Annja must escort a group of militant fundamentalists through civil unrest in eastern Turkey, but the impending war is nothing compared to the danger that lies hidden within the team. With lives at stake, Annja has no choice but to protect the innocent...and get them out of there alive. Legend says the Ark once saved mankind, but this time it could kill them all. SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the truth about what is thought to be the remains of Noahâ€™s Ark. But while she doubts the massive anomaly is really the Ark, she canâ€™t help but wonder what is up there. Annja must escort a group of militant fundamentalists through civil unrest in eastern Turkey, but the impending war is nothing compared to the danger that lies hidden within the team. With lives at stake, Annja has no choice but to protect the innocentâ€¦and get them out of there alive. Legend says the Ark once saved mankind, but this time it could kill them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(7280, 'Paranormality: Why We See What Isn&#39;t There', 'Richard Wiseman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, guardian angels, mediums, ghosts, and more... Scientists and psychologists have always been interested in the supernatural. Over the last few centuries, some have hoped to use science to prove the existence of ghosts, or clairvoyance, or guardian angels, while others have sought to discredit such phenomena. Just as he did in his bestselling 59 Seconds, Professor Richard Wiseman cuts through the hype and takes us on a breathtaking tour of the simple everyday truths behind extraordinary claims; and along the way shows us some really rather remarkable things about the way our brains work... Discover why there are fewer people than usual on trains that crash. Come face to face with talking mongooses, poltergeists and the cleverest horse in the world. Learns how a psychic dog revealed the invisible influences that pervade our everyday lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5929');
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(7281, 'Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children', 'James Delisle Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children\n </em>\n by teacher, counselor, college professor, and parent James R. Delisle is an expert collection of tactful and educated approaches to children. Deftly examining and exploring the findings of child-psychology and his experiences of over thirty years of working with children, Professor Delisle offers his readers a cogent understanding of giftedness in children, how to work with the school system, dealing with perfectionism in gifted children, being an adult role model for children, building a child''s character, and helping kids achieve their goals and dreams. For its clear, concise, and incalcuable practical information,\n <em>\n  Parenting Gifted Kids\n </em>\n is very highly recommended for all parents, counselors, and teachers of a gifted child.\n</p>\n<p>\n --James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children\n </em>\n provides a humorous, engaging, and encouraging look at raising gifted children in our world today. Jim Delisle, well-known for his experience in the area of social and emotional needs of gifted children, once again comes to the rescue of parents by offering practical, down-to-earth advice that is very likely to challenge parents to reexamine the ways they perceive and relate to their children.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Gifted Child Today, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9014'),
(7282, 'The pariah', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1601'),
(7283, 'The Paris Option', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A fiery explosion shatters a laboratory building in Paris. Among the dead is Emile Chambord, one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular - or DNA - computer. Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes and there''s no explanation; utilities cease to function; and all telecommunications abruptly stop, with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker - only the enormous power and speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc.Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to investigate. Following a trail that leads him across two continents, he uncovers a web of deception that threatens to re-shape the world for ever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3594'),
(7284, 'The Paris Wife: A Novel', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Paula McLain on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one weâ€™ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea to write in Hadleyâ€™s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingwayâ€™s memoir,\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, â€œI wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.â€ That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!\n</p>\n<p>\n I couldnâ€™t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20â€™s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, Chamby, Switzerland, winter 1922\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway on their wedding day, 1921\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby, Schruns, Austria, 1925\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hemingways and friends at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Helen Simonson on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Helen Simonson\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _. She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLainâ€™s voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingwayâ€™s own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadleyâ€™s father committing suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her motherâ€™s declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadleyâ€™s eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadleyâ€™s voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of\n <em>\n  The Sun also Rises\n </em>\n , even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadleyâ€™s trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLainâ€™s sure talent.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n History is sadly neglectful of the supporting players in the lives of great artists. Fortunately, fiction provides ample opportunity to bring these often fascinating personalities out into the limelight. Gaynor Arnold successfully resurrected the much-maligned Mrs. Charles Dickens in Girl in a Blue Dress (2009), now Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Hadley and Ernest traveled in heady company during this gin-soaked and jazz-infused time, and readers are treated to intimate glimpses of many of the literary giants of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the real star of the story is Hadley, as this time around, Ernest is firmly relegated to the background as he almost never was during their years together. Though eventually a woman scorned, Hadley is able to acknowledge without rancor or bitterness that ï¿½Hemï¿½ had ï¿½helped me to see what I really was and what I could do.ï¿½ Much more than a ï¿½woman-behind-the-manï¿½ homage, this beautifully crafted tale is an unsentimental tribute to a woman who acted with grace and strength as her marriage crumbled. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11219'),
(7285, 'Parker Pyne Investigates', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read....PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATESThe personal ad posed a simple question: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne. The answer is a resounding no for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity....for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity....for a distraught mother whose son has been kidnapped....and for the fianc of a strangely reclusive bride-to-be. But what sort of detective would solicit in the personals? The sort who has a knack for investigating affairs of the heart. For therein lie the darkest motives for murder. And they are proving most lucrative for the hopelessly romantic-and highly suspicious Inspector Parker Pyne.AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world''s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie died in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5190'),
(7286, 'Partisans', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Major Peter Petersen leads an international group of men and women on a dangerous, clandestine operation into Yugoslavia during World War II\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Major Peter Petersen leads an international group of men and women on a dangerous, clandestine operation into Yugoslavia during World War II\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Major Peter Petersen leads an international group of men and women on a dangerous, clandestine operation into Yugoslavia during World War II\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9281'),
(7287, 'The Partner', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm''s offshore account. And Patrick fled some more.But they found him.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2910'),
(7288, 'Partners in Crime', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie_s complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt_s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance.After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5211'),
(7289, 'Partnership', 'Anne McCaffrey; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10865'),
(7290, 'Passage', 'Judy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9039'),
(7291, 'A Passage to India', 'E. M. Forster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10258'),
(7292, 'The Passage', 'Justin Cronin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œIt happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.â€* First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fearâ€”of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what heâ€™s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odysseyâ€”spanning miles and decadesâ€”towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.With **The Passage**, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2663'),
(7293, 'Passenger to Frankfurt', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...Passenger To FrankfurtIt was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye-to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford''s troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5235'),
(7294, 'Passion&#39;s Promise', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshestÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dicated journalist committed to justice and her profession.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the two worlds are pulling her apart, leaving her conflicted about her identity and the lies she tells to every man she meets. Then she meets Lucas Johns, a bold, dynamic crusader for social change -- and an ex-con. Their attraction is immediate, but their love may be just one step from tragedy at any time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dedicated journalist committed to justice and her profession. But the two worlds are pulling her apart, leaving her conflicted about her identity and the lies she tells to every man she meets. Then she meets Lucas Johns, a bold, dynamic crusader for social change -- and an ex-con. Their attraction is immediate, but their love may be just one step from tragedy at any time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6029'),
(7295, 'Passionate Thirst', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN SIN CITYCandace Steele is as tough as she is alluring. For her, killing vampires isnâ€™t just a jobâ€“itâ€™s personal: Sheâ€™s still haunted by erotic memories of an all-consuming affair with Ash, a seductive vampire who thrilled herâ€“and then nearly destroyed her. Now, working undercover in a Las Vegas casino, she seduces the most powerful undeadâ€“right before she drives a stake through their unbeating hearts. When hot-ticket singer Temptation McCoy sweeps into town for a major concert, Candace is tapped for security. But after meeting Temptation, Candace feels the cold, tingling sensation that can mean only one thing: Thereâ€™s a vampire in the divaâ€™s entourage. To complicate matters, Ash suddenly appears in Sin City, vowing to do anything and everything to draw Candace back into his arms. Overwhelmed by desire and suspicion, she lets down her guard . . . a move that could cost Candace her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(7296, 'Past Malice: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What bones are buried in the shadows of the past? Asked to join in a dig at the site of the eighteenthâ€“century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student crew have descended upon Stone Harbor, Massachusetts. But certain residents of the tiny coastal community are none too happy about Emma''s arrival -- especially when her excavation uncovers a pair of freshly slain corpses. There are dark forces at play in this dangerously divided town, where a distrust of strangers wars with a desire for tourist dollars. And when a young local''s life is snuffed out, Emma is determined to get to the twisted roots of the strange secrets buried in this killing ground. But a mystery that lies among the tumbled ruins of a once grand manor could change Stone Harbor forever. And for some murderous someone, one more death -- Emma''s -- would be a small price to pay to keep it hidden.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/984'),
(7297, 'Past Redemption', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s a lethal new recreational drug out on the party circuit. To stop its spread, Team Darkwing must immerse themselves in New York City''s nightlife, where they discover ties between the drug''s revenue and the country''s most powerful dynasty. To infiltrate the family, Daphne flirts with its weakest link, a party boy whom she''d love to sink her teeth into. But even as their dalliance leads her deeper into the case, Daphne can''t stop thinking about Darius, the darkly sexy human she claimed with a passionate bite. He''s the bad boy she knows she must forget-if she doesn''t, she''ll be risking not only the mission but her own heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3932'),
(7298, 'The Past Through Tomorrow', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10411'),
(7299, 'Pasta Imperfect', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN''T REFUSE.... The discount travel package to Italy seemed like a great deal: Emily Andrew could lead her globe-trotting Iowans on the trip of a lifetime and bring her family to boot. Maybe she should have read the fine print....Sharing their itinerary with a group of hyper-competitive aspiring romance writers is just a prelude to more Machiavellian drama than an Italian opera. First, their hotel burns to the ground. Then, when Emily''s lost luggage turns up found, the disgruntled literary ladies raid her clothing supply like she''s a one-woman Gucci outlet. But the real killer is a contest sponsored by a publishing house -- and the depths to which the dime-novel divas will plunge to win a book contract. Amid backstabbing and catcalling, bodies start turning up -- in Emily''s favorite outfits! Now, Emily will need more than a phrasebook to say ciao to someone with a hot and spicy passion for murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2300'),
(7300, 'Pasta Perfect', 'Joe Bastianich', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4662'),
(7301, 'Pastime', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Certain that his mother''s shady boyfriend is behind her disappearance, Paul Giacomin calls upon the skills of Spencer to help him find his missing mother. Reprint. AB. PW.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4000'),
(7302, 'Pastime (1991)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 18', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10547'),
(7303, 'The pastures of heaven', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books *East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven*, and *Tortilla Flat*. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2983'),
(7304, 'Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anyone who''s read  knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus''s voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Playing with the time stream isn''t new to science fiction, but Card (Ender''s Game), who''s won both a Hugo and a Nebula, gives the concept a new twist here-with mixed results. His angle is to make the temporal interference not accidental but intentional, as a group of scientists go back in time to alter Columbus''s journey. Sponsored by the organization Pastwatch, which uses a machine called TruSite II to view the past in remarkable detail, the "Columbus Project" is headed by Tagiri, whose TruSite viewing of the horrors of slavery has prompted her to revise the famed explorer''s agenda. Tagiri sends into the past her daughter, Diko, a Mayan descendent named Hunahpu and a man named Kemal, a prickly sort whose initial skepticism is transformed into a fierce commitment to change the past. Armed with devices from the future, the three return to 1492, determined to transform Columbus from a gold-seeking pirate into a proponent of world peace and global unity. Uniformly well-meaning, the trio is just too sanctified to believe, and in their hands, the complexities of temporal mechanics are boiled down to simplistic cause and effect. Some sparks are generated when the Pastwatchers finally meet Columbus, but even that encounter produces fewer surprises than you''d expect from a master like Card.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5853'),
(7305, 'The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life', 'Pat Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: chapter oneNathalie DupreeThe first actual cooking teacher who took both my money and my grief for imparting culinary secrets to me was the inimitable, unclassifiable queen of the Southern kitchen, Nathalie Dupree. Though Nathalie does not know this, she is one of the few people in my life who seems more like a fictional character than a flesh-and-blood person.When my novel Beach Music came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book, and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome. Several journalists who write about food for newspapers interviewed me about the food angle in the novel, curious about the fact that the book''s protagonist, Jack McCall, wrote cookbooks and restaurant reviews. A woman from the Washington Post conducted a delightful interview over the phone, and during our conversation, I mentioned that I had taken Nathalie''s course in the cooking school she ran in the old Rich''s department store in downtown Atlanta. The woman called Nathalie after our interview, and Nathalie tracked me down to report on the nature of their conversation.Nathalie''s voice is deep and musical and seductive. She possesses the rare ability to be both maddening and hilarious in the course of a single sentence. Her character is a shifting, ever-changing thing, and she reinvents herself all over again every couple of years. In one way, she seems the same, yet you are aware she is in the process of a complete transformation. When she tells about her life, you could swear she was speaking of a hundred women, not just one."Pat, darling," Nathalie said on the phone, "all my working life I''ve been scheming and plotting and dreaming of ways to get an interview with the food editor of the Washington Post. You can imagine my joy when I heard that the food editor of the Post had left a message on my answering machine. And I thought, Yes, it''s finally happening; your prayers have been answered, Nathalie.""That''s great, Nathalie," I said, not quite knowing where she was going with this. You never know where Nathalie is going with a train of thought; you simply know that the train will not be on time, will carry many passengers, and will eventually collide with a food truck stalled somewhere down the line on damaged tracks."Can you imagine my disappointment when I found out that they wanted to interview me about you, instead of about me. I admit, Pat, that after I got over the initial shock, it turned suddenly to bitterness. After all, what do I possibly get out of talking about you when I could be talking about my own cookbooks? Naturally, I did not let on a word about what I was really thinking, but I did suggest, very subtly I might add, that she might want to do a feature on me and my work sometime in the future. When were you in my class, Pat?""In 1980," I said."I don''t remember that. Did you really take my class? Who else was in it?""My wife Lenore. Jim Landon. George Lanier. A nice woman who lived on the same floor as my dad in the Darlington Apartments.""It doesn''t ring a bell for me," she said. "Was I good?""You were wonderful," I said."All my ex-students say that. It must be a gift.""You were a great teacher.""And sexy. I won''t be happy until you tell me I was also extraordinarily sexy.""I could barely cook I was so aroused. All the other men in the class felt the same way. It''s hard to make a perfect souffle when you''re rutting.""Pat, you know the way to a young girl''s heart," Nathalie said. "But I want you to know that I''ll always be perfectly furious at you for getting into the Washington Post food world before I did. That''s my bailiwick, not yours.""It will never happen again, Nathalie," I promised. "All your bailiwicks will be safe from poor Conroy."When Nathalie taught her cooking class at Rich''s, I learned new lessons about insouciance, style, and lack of preparation. Always, at the last minute, Nathalie''s worthy assistant, Kate Almand, would move in to provide a missing utensil or bag of flour or loin of veal that Nathalie had misplaced or left in her car. The joy of watching Nathalie''s cooking shows on television has always come from her artless displays of confusion and disorganization, and her sheer bravado when she actually makes a mistake. Unlike Martha Stewart, Nathalie often looks beaten up when she completes a segment of her show. She can be covered with flour up to her elbows after baking a loaf of bread, can drop her perfectly roasted capon on the kitchen floor, or can garnish her pumpkin pie with cooked rice that she meant to put in her delicious cream of carrot soup. On her television show, Nathalie has turned the culinary mistake or misstep into her signature moment.Nathalie is always worth the price of admission and I love cooking with her. Disorder follows her around like a spaniel. There is no hum of quiet efficiency in her kitchen to intimidate me as I caramelize the onions or beat the egg whites to a stiff peak. She prides herself on being a hands-on cook, and I have seen her hands dripping with batter, red with blood, and crimson from handling baby beets. Like most good cooks, she is absolutely fearless, taking on each task with gusto. And her conversation mixes well with the mouthwatering aromas rising out of her kitchen as the meal takes shape around us. I personally do not believe Nathalie has ever enjoyed a quiet meal at home with her equally hospitable husband, the writer Jack Bass. When I knew her in Atlanta, the whole city in all its shapes, races, and classes seemed to pass by her dining room table. She attracts friends like a magnet does iron filings. Her desire to entertain and feed people seems insatiable to me, a mark of her character as striking as her beautiful almond-shaped eyes.On the night our class made a crown roast of pork, orange and fennel salad, turnip greens and grits, and crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e for dessert, she told a story in fits and starts that ended only after she poured the dessert wine. I soon found myself looking forward to Nathalie''s stories as much as I did her recipes. They ranged the world and involved famous chefs, cookbook writers of note, lovers and husbands and boyfriends of both the charming and monstrous varieties. I preferred the stories of her lovers because her voice could turn smoky and catlike as we, her students, chopped and shredded and prepared our meals according to her instructions. The story and the food comingled and exchanged properties.I can taste neither fennel nor crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e without thinking of the story she told that night. I tell it from memory, but I will try to use Nathalie''s ineffable voice. She could say the word "lover" and infuse it with all the savor and forbiddenness of a Frenchwoman recalling an affair with an Italian count. "I was living in Greenwich Village in New York," she told us. "I had taken up with a dashing, utterly charming man. He turned out to be a perfect cad, but didn''t they all in those days, darling? Jim, I''d slice that fennel a little thinner. It looks too much like celery when you slice it that way. Yes, perfect. He was, by far, the most sophisticated, demanding lover I had ever been involved with up to that time. He was the consummate gourmet who had eaten in the finest restaurants in the world since he was a child. Well. I decided I was going to cook him a meal that he would never forget, one that would prove my love for him, yet honor his amazing sophistication."I went next door to get advice from the two gay men who lived in the most spectacular apartment. They knew everybody and everything, but they were of no help that day. Greenwich Village was astir, at least the gay portion of the Village--no small share, I assure you--with the news of a gay serial killer who would not only murder his poor victims, but would then mutilate them in ghastly ways. My neighbors'' hysteria rendered them useless and I heard them turn all six locks in their door as soon as I left their apartment and began the search for the most unusual meal for my lover."There was a little butcher shop in the East Village that sold specialty meats and could usually come up with a surprise. Pat, use a whisk to beat your eggs for the crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e. You''re not scrambling eggs for a country brunch. This is a French dish, dearie. Oh, where was I? Yes. The butcher had a surprise for me. He had two things in his shop he had never carried before: live escargots and testicles freshly cut from yearling calves in upper New York State. ''Mountain oysters!'' I shouted in triumph, and I was sure that every snail my lover had eaten had come from a can. I paid cash for everything. I spent a fortune. But that''s what you do when you''re in love. You''re never yourself. You are possessed. You''ll do anything. George, you need to get your pork into the oven. Less fanaticism with the presentation. It''s lovely, but it''s still pork. And trichinosis is a fact of life. I took the mountain oysters and snails back to my apartment, then left them in the sink and ran down to buy the wine for the meal. I threw some ice on the calves'' testicles because organ meat is very perishable. But I got delayed when I asked the French chef who ran a restaurant on my street about the preparation of the escargots. He had a certain dark frisson and I soon realized he was flirting with me. This made me late in my return. My lover would be arriving with roses in a few hours. I opened the door of my apartment and I''ll never forget what I saw there! I''ve had nightmares about it more than once. The snails had conspired to effect a vast breakout. They were everywhere. On the walls, on the ceiling, trailing their slimy bodies across my copper pans, and my cookbooks. My screams of repulsion and terror resounded throughout my apartment building."The two dear gay men next door were the first neighbors to arrive. But the escargots did not interest them. They were transfixed by the sight of a whole bucket of male genitalia in my sink. You could not blame them. They had never seen mountain oysters, nor did they know that anyone would cook and eat them. They thought they had stumbled into the lair of the serial killer who was preying on and mutilating gay males. The snails on the walls simply added a note of horror to it all. They fled screaming down the stairs and out into the streets. The police were called. It was an affair to remember. Pat, are you burning your greens? Good; it''s sinful to burn greens. There''s always a point of no return, you know."Did I fix my lover dinner that night? But of course. All the commotion simply made the evening more special. I served the escargots in their own shells with garlic, butter, and parsley--after I boiled and cleaned them, of course. I fried the mountain oysters, and they were superb. After dinner and cognac, my lover and I--ah, but that is personal, part of the night''s mystery. There are parts of some stories that should never be told. Ah. Class, take a deep breath. Dinner is almost ready. Smell it. Breathe deeply. Now. Now."Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. Either was good alone, but in communion with each other, they could rise to the level of ecstasy.Three of Nathalie''s recipes.MELON RING WITH MINT AND HONEY-LIME DRESSINGThe last time Nathalie Dupree invited me to dinner, she met me at the front door and told me with her most theatrical flourish that she felt "worse than a rabid dog or the parakeet that the proverbial cat dragged in." She is a woman of great entrances and exits, and said to me, "Pat, you must play the part of the gentleman and rescue this damsel in distress. You were my student, and you must cook the meal and save this night for me. If my guests realized I was about to begin projectile vomiting across the room, they''d just die.""I will fix the meal gladly, Nathalie," I said, moving toward the kitchen as she moved out to the living room and the sounds of her guests in conversation. I made the meal: a standing rib roast, a simple green salad, steamed asparagus, and fresh peaches with cream and a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream. To begin the meal, Nathalie asked, "I got a call from our good mutual friend from Atlanta, the one who''s been married six times. Do you have any theories about why all her husbands have turned out to be gay?"â€¢ Serves 6 to 82 envelopes unflavored gelatin2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup fresh lemon juice1/4 cup finely chopped mint leaves1 cup melon balls (preferably a mix of cantaloupe, honeydew, and/or similar kinds), plus additional (optional)For the dressing1 cup yogurt1/4 cup honey1/4 cup fresh lime juice1. Place the gelatin, 1 cup of the orange juice, and the sugar in a small pan and heat until the gelatin and sugar are dissolved. Do not let the mixture come to a boil.2. Remove the gelatin mixture from the heat and add the lemon juice, the remaining 1 cup orange juice, and the mint.3. Put the pan over a bowl of ice water and stir for a few minutes until the gelatin begins to thicken. Fold in the melon balls. Pour into a 4-cup ring mold and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.4. Unmold and fill the center with additional melon balls, if desired. To make the dressing: Mix all the ingredients together and serve with the ring and melon balls.*****From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4164'),
(7306, 'The Patchwork Girl', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Naomi Mitchison is the most beautiful woman on the moon--and the one who sent a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker of Asteroids. But investigator Gil Hamilton is sure she is not a murderer--and is determined to prove it before Naomi becomes a sack of spare parts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10230'),
(7307, 'The path of daggers', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal."--The New York Times The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: The Eye of the World Book Two: The Great Hunt Book Three: The Dragon Reborn Book Four: The Shadow Rising Book Five: The Fires of Heaven Book Six: Lord of Chaos Book Seven: A Crown of Swords Book Eight: The Path of Daggers Book Nine: Winter''s Heart Book Ten: Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3815'),
(7308, 'Pathfinder', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The implications of the boys'' power to manipulate the past unfold cleverlyâ€¦, feeding into the Machiavellian political intrigue for a pulse-pounding climaxâ€¦.Card''s many fans will be thrilled by this return to his literary roots.â€ --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "Fast paced and thoroughly engrossing, the 650-plus pages fly by, challenging readers to care about and grasp sophisticated, confusing, and captivating ideas." --_Booklist_, starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "Card entwines two stories in this fascinatingly complex series opener....The result is an amalgamation of adventure, politics, and time travel that invokes issues of class and the right to control one''s own life. Yet despite its complexity, the book is never less than page-turning. While Card delves deeply into his story''s knotted twists and turns, readers should have no trouble following the philosophical and scientific mysteries, which the characters are parsing right along with them. An epic in the best sense." --_PW_, starred review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A powerful secret. A dangerous path.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg''s strange talent for seeing the paths of people''s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from\n <em>\n  him\n </em>\n --secrets about Rigg''s own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.\n</p>\n<p>\n Riggâ€™s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talentâ€¦or forfeit control of his destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5854'),
(7309, 'Paths Not Taken', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The follow-up to\n <em>\n  Nightingale''s Lament\n </em>\n (2004) finds John Taylor reeling from the discovery that his mother is the legendary Lilith of biblical times and that she is responsible for the creation of the Nightside. Before he can begin his investigation into the Nightside''s origins, a man named Eamonn Mitchell, who is being attacked by versions of himself from the past, approaches him for help. Taylor traces the problem to Eamonn''s shady company, and after he solves Eamonn''s problem, he is inspired to manipulate time himself by seeking out Father Time and asking to be sent to the era when Lilith created the Nightside. Along with his friends Suzie Shooter and Tommy Oblivion, Taylor takes the plunge, but they end up 500 years later than intended, thanks to Lilith''s machinations. They persist making their way through time, leading to a showdown with Lilith in the past that could cost Taylor his future. Fans of the Nightside series will enjoy the journey into the past of London''s underworld.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside--the dark heart of London--and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very distant--and probably deadly--past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5778'),
(7310, 'Paths of Glory', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and once heâ€™d fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? Jeffrey Archerâ€™s latest book, *Paths of Glory*, is the story of such a man---George Mallory. Mallory once told an American reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, â€œbecause itâ€™s there.â€ On his third attempt in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen six hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it still remains a mystery whether he ever reached the summit. But only after youâ€™ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, inspired by a true story, will you be able to decide if George Malloryâ€™s name should be added to the list of legends, in which case another name would have to be removed. *Paths of Glory* is truly a triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1567');
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(7311, 'Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there''s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there''s nothing wrong with Joe Ledger''s skills. And that''s both a good, and a bad thing. It''s good because he''s a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can''t handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It''s bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.... Visit www.stmartins.com/jonathanmaberry to download the free short story COUNTDOWN "I had a fine old time reading PATIENT ZERO. Jonathan Maberry has found a delightful voice for this adventure of Joe Ledger and his crew: while the action is heated, violent, and furious, the writing remains cool, steady, and low-key, framing all the wildness and exuberance in a calm rationality (given an almost comic edge) that renders it as palatable as your favorite flavor of ice cream. This is a lovely feat, and Maberry has written a memorable book." - Peter Straub "Patient Zero is high-octane excitement from beginning to end, and the start of a fabulous new series. Joe Ledger and the DMS have my vote as the team to beat when combatting terrorist threats on a grand scale." - David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of FIRST BLOOD and CREEPERS "Scary, creepy, and gripping--PATIENT ZERO is ''Night of the Living Dead'' meets Michael Crichton."--Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play "A fast-paced, creepy thriller that as prickly as a hospital needle and sounds a little too convincing. This guy is good." --Joe R. Lansdale "Brutal action, insanely intelligent, and so real that the hair on the back of your neck stands up!" -- L.A. Banks, The Vampire Huntress Legends Series, New York Times Best-selling Author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2747'),
(7312, 'Patrick&#39;s Destiny', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4157'),
(7313, 'Patriot Games', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps CIA analyst Jack Ryan and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA has targeted Ryan for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. Now Ryan must pay--with his life. HC: G.P. Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3753'),
(7314, 'The Patriots Club', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Bolden, successful 32-year-old investment banker and Harlem Boys Club Foundation trustee, has come a long way from his turbulent childhood on the mean streets of Chicago. But his street smarts surface at the start of Reich''s action-packed but convoluted latest (after\n <em>\n  Numbered Account\n </em>\n ), when Bolden chases a pair of muggers through Manhattan''s financial district after they rob his girlfriend, Jenny Dance. They abduct him at gunpoint, but after a perplexing interrogation by members of a mysterious clan, a narrow escape reunites him with Jenny. Bolden already knows too much, though, and the organization of the novel''s titleâ€”a centuries-old secretive order of powerful lawyers, businessmen and politicians convened to preserve political special interest initiatives that the country''s founding fathers defendedâ€”soon systematically dismantle Bolden''s life. He and a newly pregnant Jenny run for their lives, tracked at every turn by the well-connected "club," which is headed by retired detective Francois Guilfoyle. While they each investigate the clandestine group, a flurry of politically fueled machinations unfolds, setting the stage for the obligatory showdown. Reich''s conspiracy thriller eventually loses the momentum needed to deliver on the tight suspense it promises.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who would have thought that Thomas Bolden would become a successful Wall Street businessman, living the high life and about to become engaged to the perfect woman? Having grown up as "Tommy B from the wrong side of the tracks," Bolden is a bootstraps guy who managed to leave the past behind and carve out a nice life for himself--or so he thought. His world turns upside down when he is inexplicably kidnapped. His captors apparently think he has valuable information about something--but Bolden has no idea what. He''s released, but his problems are far from over. Soon he becomes mired in a manhunt that forces him to tap into the street skills he learned as an orphan. As he runs for his life--literally--he uncovers secrets involving a bizarre club of corrupt politicos with roots extending back to the Founding Fathers. Bolden makes a captivating hero, as Reich uses the ordinary-man premise to good effect, engendering sympathy for a financier who never forgets his past. A first-rate, high-concept thriller that will leave readers breathless and cheering for Bolden to pull through.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5378'),
(7315, 'Pattern Recognition', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce''s client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there''s more to this project than she had expected.    Still, Cayce is her father''s daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father''s life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4169'),
(7316, 'Patti Callahan Henry', 'When Light Breaks (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3722'),
(7317, 'Patti LaBelle&#39;s Lite Cuisine: Over 100 Dishes With To-Die-For Taste Made With To-Live-For Recipes', 'Patti LaBelle &amp; Laura Randolph Lancaster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Legendary singer and *New York Times* bestselling author Patti  LaBelle reveals her mouth-watering culinary secrets for eating your way to a long and healthy life.  "Treat your body like a temple, not an amusement park."     This is the sage advice Patti LaBelle lives by, and in her new book she shares more than 100 original recipes for meals that are not only good for you but taste great, too. She also shares her own personal story of a lifetime of struggling with body image and tells the heartbreaking story of how she lost her mother to diabetes and learned recently that she, too, had the disease.    In her first cookbook, *LaBelle Cuisine*, LaBelle featured the high-style, down-home cooking she learned from the great Southern cooks in her family. But after she was diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle had to radically change her dietary habits and food choices. With diabetic exchanges developed and approved by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association, *Patti LaBelle''s Lite Cuisine* is chock-full of the kind of recipes that made her earlier cookbook a bestselling sensation. Readers will love the wide array of healthful and heavenly dishes like "Awesome Oven-Fried Chicken," "Sensational Sloppy Joes," "Company''s-Coming Crab Imperial," and "Luscious Lobster Salad." Delectable desserts include everything from "Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies" to "Tastes-Like-Grandma-Made-It Banana Pudding."    One of America''s most beloved performers once again creates her special brand of culinary magic. Her new, healthy, and delicious recipes are destined to make Patti''s latest cookbook a staple in kitchens all across America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4691'),
(7318, 'Paul Chavasse 1 - The Bormann Testament', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11034'),
(7319, 'Paul Chavasse 2 - Year of the Tiger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11028'),
(7320, 'Paul Chavasse 3 - The Keys Of Hell', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11035'),
(7321, 'Paul Chavasse 4 - Dark Side Of The Island', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11017'),
(7322, 'Paul Chavasse 5 - Dark Side of the Street', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10993'),
(7323, 'Paul of Dune', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This epic science fiction tale fills in the time gap between Frank Herberts\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n . Told by modern-day sci-fi legends Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son), this story packs all the punch that the originals did and then some. Relating the life of Paul MuadDib, leader of Dune at the climax of the original novel, this novel explores the events of the MuadDib jihad that subsequently led to Pauls conquering the galaxy. Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show. Bricks voice is ideally suited to this extraordinary tale; no doubt he studied the prose of each novel to capture the dialect perfectly. This is a superb, solid reading that will appeal to fans and newcomers alike.\n <em>\n  A Tor Books hardcover. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paul Muad''Dib and his army of Fremen desert warriors have succeeded in their overthrow of the Emperor Shaddam IV, but holding onto a universe of fractious planets proves a challenge even for a man revered by his followers as a god. Set in the years following the late Frank Herbert''s classic\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n and its sequel,\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n , the latest joint effort by Herbert''s son Brian and noted sf author Anderson fills in the missing years of empire building and looks into the formative years of Paul''s childhood as well as the histories of those closest to him. Drawing on Frank Herbert''s massive body of notes, the coauthors of the new Dune series (_Dune: The Battle of Corrin_;\n <em>\n  The Road to Dune; Hunters of Dune\n </em>\n ) continue their expansion and illumination of the unexplored pieces of one of the genre''s most significant and powerful stories. A priority purchase for libraries of all sizes. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7408'),
(7324, 'Pawn of Prophecy', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Selected as a 2003 Popular Paperback for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association Long ago, so the storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion over all and drove the world to war. Now the one talisman keeping this sinister force from seizing power has been disturbedâ€”and no one will be safe. . . . Raised on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, Garion spends his days lounging in his auntâ€™s warm kitchen and playing in the surrounding fields with his friends. He has never believed in magic, despite the presence of a cloaked, shadowless stranger who has haunted him from a distance for years. But one afternoon, the wise storyteller Wolf appears and urges Garion and his aunt to leave the farm that very night. Without understanding why, Garion is whisked away from the only home he has ever knownâ€”and thrown into dark and unfamiliar lands. Thus begins an extraordinary quest to stop a reawakened evil from devouring all that is good. It is a journey that will lead Garion to discover his heritage and his future. For the magic that once seemed impossible to Garion is now his destiny. The first exciting adventure in David Eddingsâ€™s The Belgariad Pawn of Prophecyis the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in fantasy and science fiction for readers twelve and up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1187'),
(7325, 'Payback', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7-10â€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  Traitor\n </em>\n (Putnam, 2005), Danny and his ex-SAS grandfather, Fergus Watts, survive an attempt on their lives while hiding out in Spain. They stop running and return to the UK with the hope of clearing their names and resuming a normal life, and are recruited to help uncover a corrupt MI5 agent who, at the same time, is trying to have them killed. Danny enlists the help of his friend Elena so that he and Fergus can accomplish the impossible: breaking into the heavily secured British Ministry of Defense in order to get official proof of Fergus''s background and save their lives. The police are on high alert because of a series of suicide bombings carried out by teenagers, and MI5 tries to frame Danny as a terrorist. Adventure and suspense drive this plot. Despite some weak character development, the book will find a ready audience._â€“Michael Giller, South Carolina Governor''s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sequel to\n <em>\n  Traitor\n </em>\n (2005) opens with Danny Watts and his former secret-service-agent grandfather, Fergus, hiding out in Spain. An attempt on their lives, however, sends them back to England, where the country is in turmoil after a series of suicide bombings. After Fergus is seriously wounded, he and Danny enlist Danny''s friend Elena to help unravel the mystery of the attackers'' identities. Despite many loose ends, young spy-fiction fans will enjoy entering Danny''s murky world, where things are not as they initially seem. Teens will also enjoy the fast-paced, action-laden plot and the wealth of details about tricks of the spy trade. Some may find the thicket of English phrases and place-names a little dense, but a glossary at the front of the book will help them sort out vocabulary questions. This second book in the Danny Watts series will pull in plenty of new fans.\n <em>\n  Todd Morning\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5544'),
(7326, 'Paycheck', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The moral and the atmosphere of the recent Paramount Pictures film\n  <em>\n   Paycheck\n  </em>\n  differ significantly from those in the original short story performed hereâ€”a fact obscured by the movie-poster packaging and one that might confuse listeners. Jennings, a mechanic, signs on at Retherick Construction, agreeing to be paid richly on the condition that his memory will be wiped clean of everything he did after he completes his two years of service. When he awakes, his memory erased, he discovers that he had declined the money in favor of seven seemingly random items which he must use to avoid the Special Police, who are investigating Retherick Construction. Narrator Dullea does a fine job of evoking the story''s tension as well as Jennings''s puzzlement over his situation. However, he lends the story''s one female character a saccharine, whispery voice that detracts from the narration. Although this audio adaptation may please fans of the movie who are interested in seeing how the original story has been altered for the silver screen, those looking for an introduction to the author''s works would do better to pick up the collection on which this audio is based,\n  <em>\n   Paycheck: And Other Classic Stories\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PAYCHECK, originally written as a short story by Philip K. Dick and first published in 1953, centres on an electrician who wakes up to discover his employer has erased his memory of the past two years -- as a security measure. When he tries to collect his paycheck, he finds he has previously signed a release replacing the money with a bag of random objects. Previous film adaptations of Dick''s short stories have included the box office smash hits MINORITY REPORT, TOTAL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER, released shortly after Dick died in 1982.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6505'),
(7327, 'Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives', 'Thich Nhat Hanh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his travels around the country and the world, Zen master and international best selling author Thich Nhat Hanh witnessed a growing unhappiness among the many people he encountered. He saw the hectic pace of our day-to-day lives taking a toll on our health and well-being. In response, the renowned teacher sat down to write\n  <em>\n   Peace Is Every Breath\n  </em>\n  , a book that makes the core teachings of Buddha accessible for everyone. In this jewel of a book, Thich Nhat Hanh does not suggest that we escape from reality and put our busy lives on hold. Far from it. Instead, he provides the insight and tools we need to incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our every waking moment. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how we can transcend the mad rush of our days and discover within the here and now our own innate ability to experience inner peace and happiness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Offering personal anecdotes, meditations, and advice for mindfully connecting with our present experience, Thich Nhat Hanh guides us around potential pitfalls along the way. We do not need to escape reality to harness the joy and peace that is possible with every breath we takeâ€”the power of mindfulness can heal us from the suffering caused by the many stresses that surround us. Including original calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh,\n  <em>\n   Peace Is Every Breath\n  </em>\n  is a timely book filled with timeless wisdom and practical advice that is destined to become a classic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, scholar, and peace activist. He is the author of many books, including such important classics as\n  <em>\n   Peace Is Every Step\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Art of Power\n  </em>\n  . Hanh lives in Plum Village, his meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on the art of mindful living.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7785'),
(7328, 'The Peace War', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they''ve never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he''s needed for so long, he will shake the world, in the fast-paced hard-science thriller that garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10145'),
(7329, 'The Peacekeepers', 'Gene DeWeese', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lt. Commander Data and Lt. Geordi LaForge suddenly find themselves transported light-years away -- into the middle of a deadly conflict!\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Captain Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  search feverishly for the missing crewmen, Data and LaForge discover they are in a station almost identical to the one they were exploring, high in orbit around an earth-type world. Years before, the occupants of that planet accidentally stumbled onto the ship and its advanced technology -- and since then have used its weapons to keep the nations on the planet below disarmed, and at peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now their own arrival has precipitated a crisis on the station. Somehow, data and LaForge must find a way to restore trust between the planet below and the station''s guardians up above -- before a final, destructive war breaks out!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5489'),
(7330, 'The Peach Keeper: A Novel', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Sarah Addison Allen\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   She put a penny on her windowsill and cracked the window, because her grandmother once said that ghosts often forget theyâ€™re ghosts and will go after money, but if they get close enough to an open window, the night air will suck them out.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --Chapter Eight,\n  <em>\n   The Peach Keeper\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The original title of\n  <em>\n   The Peach Keeper\n  </em>\n  was\n  <em>\n   God Eats Peaches\n  </em>\n  , which I took from the old saying, â€œWhen God eats peaches, He saves the pit.â€ I had a cousin who would never throw away a peach pit based on that saying. She thought it was bad luck. My family is full of strange Southern superstitions. My great-aunt never liked for company to come in through one door and leave through another because she said that meant the preacher would visit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How many of us grew up seeing our mothers throw a pinch of salt over their shoulders when salt was spilled? How many of us remember when our grandmothers whispered that a bird tapping on a window meant someone was going to die? We took these things on trembling faith as children, believing them to be real because\n  <em>\n   everything\n  </em>\n  was real back then. Everything had possibilities. So how do we explain, with our skeptical grown-up natures, why we still make an X in the air when a black cat passes. Why we still have to eat something in the morning before we will tell someone about our bad dreams. Why we still worry about umbrellas being opened indoors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is it about superstitions that stay with us, that encourage us to pass them on? Flights of fancy, maybe. Or nostalgia. Or maybe the power of the unknown is just that strong. We canâ€™t help but think: What if itâ€™s true?\n  <em>\n   What if it just might be true?\n  </em>\n  So we take an ounce of prevention instead of a pound of cure. We knock on wood and avoid ladders and never break mirrors. Just in case.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise forÂ  _The Peach Keeper\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Allen juggles smalltown history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama. The underlying tension will please and unnerve readers, as well as leave them eager for Allen''s next.\n  <br />\n  -_Publisher''s Weekly_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for Sarah Addison Allenâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Girl Who Chased the Moon\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCaptivating . . . Sarah Addison Allen produces tantalizing fiction.â€â€”_The Roanoke Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA dusting of magic, the aroma of sugary cakes swirling through the breeze, and a girl who unwittingly brings change to a town of misfits make for a sweet summer story filled with hope and forgiveness.â€â€”Beth Hoffman, author of\n  <em>\n   Saving CeeCee Honeycutt\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCharming and entertaining . . . Donâ€™t miss this spellbinding tale.â€â€”_Asheville Citizen Times__ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAllen clearly knows that all the fun is in the journey. . . . Sit back, open this book and join her.â€â€”Greensboro _News &amp; Record\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn enjoyable read [with] doses of magical realism and romance.â€â€”Associated Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEasy to devour in one sitting.â€ â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6600'),
(7331, 'Pearl of Patmos', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1934'),
(7332, 'Pebble in the Sky', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next heâ€™s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim itâ€™s the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soilâ€”so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.This is young Isaac Asimovâ€™s first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9503'),
(7333, 'Pegasus', 'Robin McKinley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s been almost 1,000 years since the forming of the Allianceâ€”an agreement between humans and pegasi that they will live in peace and harmony. But as breathtaking and majestic as the pegasi are, a language barrier, only somewhat ameliorated by magicians, keeps them distant. That is, until 12-year-old princess Sylvi has her â€œbindingâ€ ritual with Ebon, her black, winged pegasus counterpart, and the two find themselves able to enjoy perfect telepathy. Their closeness shakes the foundations of the kingdom, and soon Sylvi is not only enjoying forbidden rides atop her pegasus but is also extended an invite of historic import: a trip to the pegasiâ€™s mysterious Caves. McKinleyâ€™s storytelling is to be savored. She lavishes page after page upon rituals and ceremonies, basks in the awe of her intricately constructed world, and displays a masterful sense of pegasi physicality and mannerisms. The plot is very short on dramaâ€”a villain, established early, vanishes until the final pages, and with him goes the suspenseâ€”but an apparent sequel may add balance to the overall arc. Grades 8-11. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A gorgeously written fantasy about the friendship between a princess and her Pegasus.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pagasi, Princess Sylviianel is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own Pegasus, on her twelfth birthday. The two species coexist peacefully, despite the language barriers separating them. Humans and pegasi both rely on specially-trained Speaker magicians as the only means of real communication.\n</p>\n<p>\n But its different for Sylvi and Ebon. They can understand each other. They quickly grow close-so close that their bond becomes a threat to the status quo-and possibly to the future safety of their two nations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Robin McKinley weaves an unforgettable tale of unbreakable friendship, mythical creatures and courtly drama destined to become a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5096'),
(7334, 'Pegasus 1-2 - The wings of Pegasus', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10801'),
(7335, 'Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality -- the stuff of all great adventures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4238'),
(7336, 'Pegasus in Space', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a triumphant career spanning more than thirty years, Anne McCaffrey has won the acclaim of critics, the devotion of millions of fans, and awards too numerous to mention. Her bestselling Dragonriders of PernÂ® series is counted among the masterpieces of modern science fiction, a work whose popularity continues to grow as new generations of readers discover the literary magic only Anne McCaffrey can provide. Now that magic is back, displayed as breathtakingly as ever in the exciting and long-awaited addition to McCaffrey''s classic Pegasus seriesâ€”and the perfect link to her bestselling Tower and Hive saga . . . PEGASUS IN SPACE For an overpopulated Earth whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up. With the successful completion of the Padrugoi Space Station, humanity has at last achieved its first large-scale permanent presence in space. Additional bases are feverishly being built on the Moon and on Mars, stepping stones to the greatest adventure in all history: the colonization of alien worlds. Already long-range telescopes have identified a number of habitable planets orbiting the stars of distant galaxies. Now it''s just a question of getting there. But there are those who, for selfish motives of their own, want Padrugoi and the other outposts to fail. People who will stop at nothing to maintain their power or to revenge its loss. Standing in their way are the Talented, men and women gifted with extraordinary mental powers that have made them as feared as they are respectedâ€”and utterly indispensable to the colonization effort. There is Peter Reidinger, a teenage paraplegic who happens to be the strongest telekinetic ever, his mind capable of teleporting objects and people thousands of miles in the blink of an eye. Yet all his power cannot repair his damaged spine or allow him to feel the gentle touch of a loved one . . . Rhyssa Owen, the powerful telepath and mother hen to Peter and the rest of her "children"â€”and a fierce, unrelenting fighter against the prejudice that would deny the Talented the right to lead happy and productive lives . . . and Amariyah, an orphan girl who loves two things in the world above all others: gardening and Peter Reidinger. And woe to anyone who harms either one of themâ€”for the young girl''s talent may prove to be the most amazing of all. Now, as sabotage and attempted murder strike the Station, it''s up to the Talented to save the day. Only who''s going to save the Talented?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10839'),
(7337, 'The Pelican Brief', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In suburban Georgetown, a killerâ€™s Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment itâ€™s political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murderâ€“a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one personâ€“an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergateâ€“she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White Houseâ€™s inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darbyâ€™s briefâ€“someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2911'),
(7338, 'Pendragon Cycle 1 - Taliesin', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10193'),
(7339, 'Pendragon Cycle 2 - Merlin', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10239'),
(7340, 'Pendragon Cycle 3 - Arthur', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10241'),
(7341, 'Pendragon Cycle 4 - Pendragon', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10240'),
(7342, 'Pendragon Cycle 5 - Grail', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10194'),
(7343, 'Pendragon Cycle 6 - Avalon', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10192'),
(7344, 'The Penelopiad', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on a range of sources, in addition to The Odyssey, Atwood scripts the narrative of Penelope, the faithful and devoted wife of Odysseus and her 12 maids, who were killed upon the master''s return. Atwood proposes striking interpretations of her characters that challenge the patriarchal nature of Greek mythology. The chapters transition between the firsthand account of Penelope and the chorus of maids as listeners are taken from Penelope''s early life to her afterlife. Laural Merlington charmingly delivers the witty and perceptive Penelope with realistic inflection and emphasis. Some of her vocal caricatures seem over the top, but most voices maintain a resemblance to our perceptions of these mythic people. The maids are presented as a saddened chorus by a cloning of Merlington''s voice. These dark figures speak straightforwardly in their accusations of Penelope and Odysseus, while, at other times, they make use of rhyming. This format works well, though sometimes the cadence and rhyming scheme are off beat. This benefits the production by creating an eerie resonance and haunting demeanor that enhances this engaging tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n National Bestseller\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Penelopiad\n </strong>\n _ _is a brilliant tour de force that takes an aspect of\n <strong>\n  The Odyssey\n </strong>\n _ _and opens up new vistas. . . . Atwood takes Penelopeâ€™s braininess and puts her at the centre. . . . Odysseusâ€™s 20-year absence leaves lots of room for development; this is just the kind of thing that a retelling of a myth should do. . . . [Atwood] turns a gruesome, barbaric episode into an ironic tragedy of double agents.â€\n <br />\n â€“_National Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTwo things are apparent when you begin reading\n <strong>\n  The Penelopiad\n </strong>\n . First, this is a writer who is confidently at the height of her powers. And, second, sheâ€™s having fun.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Vancouver Sun\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œAtwoodâ€™s putting Penelope in the starring role is a fine and fresh revisioning. . . . Somehow (it is a measure of her genius that one cannot quite say how), she makes us hear the voice of Penelope, reflecting in Hades on her life, as if it were the voice of the most interesting gossip you have ever had coffee with. . . . This is a wonderful book.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Globe and Mail _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeels like a breath of fresh air blown in from the Mediterranean Sea. . . .\n <strong>\n  The Penelopiad\n </strong>\n _ _is Atwood in top form. The woman who wrote\n <strong>\n  The Handmaidâ€™s Tale\n </strong>\n _ _hasnâ€™t lost her acerbic touch.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Gazette _(Montreal)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat . . . emerge[s] is a startling commentary on the responsibility of power, and of how privilege can shade into complicity.\n <strong>\n  The Penelopiad\n </strong>\n _\n <em>\n  is anything but a woe-is-woman discourse. . . .\n </em>\n _adds Atwoodâ€™s sly, compassionate voice to the myth of Odysseus and Penelope and, in doing so, increases its already great depth.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Calgary Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this exquisitely poised book, Atwood blends intimate humour with a finely tempered outrage at the terrible injustice of the maids, phrasing both in language as potent as a curse.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Sunday Times _(UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPenelope flies with the help of the sardonic, dead-pan voice Atwood lends her, a tone â€” half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate housewives.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Independent _(UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€˜Spryâ€™ is a word that could almost have been invented to describe Margaret Atwood, who beadily and wittily retells the events surrounding\n <strong>\n  The Odyssey\n </strong>\n _ _through the voice of Penelope. Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Spectator _(UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlter[s] oneâ€™s point of view toward [the story], imbuing it with a modern sensibility yet revealing some eternal truths about men, women, and the issue of power, including the power to shape a narrative. . . . Atwood shows with intelligence and wit just how complicated and unpretty love can be.â€\n <br />\n â€“_O, The Oprah Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlong with her presentation of the hallucinatory maids and Penelopeâ€™s straight talk about her husband, her girly laments about the ferocious competition of Helen and her queenly worries about fending off the suitors, Atwoodâ€™s brilliance emerges in the skillful way she has woven her own research on the anthropological underpinnings of Homerâ€™s epic into the patterns of her own stylized version of the poem. . . . A fascinating and rather attractive version of this old, old story, a creation tale about the founding of our civilization meant to be heard over and over and over.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œAtwood paints a shrewdly insightful picture of what life in those days might actually have been like. . . . By turns slyly funny and fiercely indignant, Ms. Atwoodâ€™s imaginative, ingeniously-constructed â€˜deconstructionâ€™ of the old tale reveals it in a newâ€“and refreshingly differentâ€“light.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Washington Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œAtwoodâ€™s 17th work of fiction is a gemâ€¦flaunts an acid wit and a generous dose of lyricismâ€¦In Atwoodâ€™s imagination, Penelope and her handmaids are remarkably complex: They are simultaneously ancient and modern, lighthearted and grief-stricken, disenfranchised and powerful.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6191'),
(7345, 'The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes From the Time of Sherlock Holmes', 'Michael Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime   It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn''t like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder.  In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era''s great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7685'),
(7346, 'Pentecost Alley', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 16th Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery demonstrates Perry''s trademark skill for enhancing well-designed mystery plots with convincing historical settings and cleverly drawn relationships among characters. In this outing, Pitt, last seen in Traitors Gate, tackles a case that could cost him his career. As it has been only two years since the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders, the Home Office anxiously anticipates the speedy arrest of the person who has murdered a Whitechapel prostitute with her own stocking. Finlay FitzJames, a young diplomat who is the son of a powerful merchant banker, is the prime suspect, even though the evidence against him is circumstantial: an old Hellfire Club badge, inscribed with Finlay''s name, was found under the prostitute in bed, and cufflinks with his initials were discovered in the room. While Pitt grapples with this politically sensitive case, his sister-in-law, Emily Radley, makes friends with Finlay''s younger sister, a social butterfly named Tallulah. Thanks to Pitt''s diligence (and Emily''s and Tallulah''s meddling), the case is closed. Or so it seems until another very similar murder occurs. Whitechapel residents are terrified anew, Parliament is filled with grumblings, the Queen conveys her displeasure and newspaper reporters are turning the investigation into a case study in police incompetence and corruption. As Perry edges toward her surprise ending, she crafts her tale with elegance, narrative depth and gratifying scope. BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas and Charlotte Pitt take on Jack the Ripper in this latest in Perry''s best-selling Victorian mystery series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8568'),
(7347, 'People of Darkness', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "He makes the desert come, alive." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Denver Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman deserves to be included in any list of the best living mystery writers." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman gets better with every book." -- _--\n <em>\n  _San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is an expert puzzle-maker." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Atlantic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsmen at work in the genre today." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s mysteries are unique in American crime fiction." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers who have not discovered Hillerman should not waste one minute more." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Oklahoma City Oklahoman\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The only mysteries I read are Hillerman''s." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ursula K. Le Guin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This series of Southwestern mysteries from Tony Hillerman is superb." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whatever your pleasure, you can''t go wrong with this gifted, skillful and . . . unique writer." -- _--\n <em>\n  _San Diego Union\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5437'),
(7348, 'A people&#39;s history of the United States: 1492-present', 'Howard Zinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People''s History of the United States is the only volume to tell America''s story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America''s women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1733');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(7349, 'The People&#39;s Queen', 'Vanora Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set in late fourteenth century England, Vanora Bennett''s rich, dramatic new novel presents an England uncannily like our own.The country is in turmoil, The King is in debt to the City, and the old order had broken down - a time of opportunity indeed, for those who can seize the moment.The king''s mistress, Alice Perrers, becomes the virtual ruler of the country from his sickbed. Disliked and despised by the Black Prince and his cronies, her strong connections to the merchants make her a natural ally for the king''s ambitious second son, John of Gaunt.Together they create a powerful position in the city for one of his henchmen, Geoffrey Chaucer.In this moment of opportunity, Alice throws herself into her new role and the riches that lay before her, but Chaucer, even though her lover and friend, is uneasy over what he can foresee of the conspiracies around them.At the centre of these troubled times and political unrest stands the remarkable figure of a woman who, having escaped the plague which killed her whole family, is certain she is untouchable, and a man who learns that cleverness and ambition may for him sit too uneasily with decency and honesty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3994'),
(7350, 'Perchance to Dream', 'Howard Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a routine mission to survey Domarus IV -- a class M world with no intelligent life -- a U.S.S. "Enterprise"(TM) shuttle crewed by Data, Troi and Wesley Crusher is captured by a race called the Tenirans who claim the world for themselves. As Captain Picard tries to negotiate with the captain of the Teniran ship, the shuttle suddenly disappears in a blaze of color and light.  Picard demands to know what''s happened to the shuttle and its crew, but the Tenarins deny any part in their disappearance. Suddenly, Captain Picard vanishes from the bridge and finds himself alone on the planet''s surface with the Tenarin captain. As the two captains begin to work together, they realize that they are not alone on Domarus IV as they confront an incredible alien force with the power to transform a world -- or to destroy it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6701'),
(7351, 'Perchance to Dream: Theatre Illuminata #2', 'Lisa Mantchev', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Beatrice Shakespeare Smith, Mistress of Revels, takes her show on the road in this rousing sequel to\n <em>\n  Eyes Like Stars\n </em>\n (Feiwel &amp; Friends, 2009). Abandoning the enchanted ThÃ©Ã¢tre Illuminata to rescue her beloved pirate Nate from watery doom in the lair of Sedna the Sea Goddess, the 17-year-old embarks on the journey accompanied by four feisty fairies and seductive Ariel, air spirit from\n <em>\n  The Tempest\n </em>\n and Nate''s rival for Bertie''s heart. By turns perilous and comedic, the tale rolls along at breakneck speed as the troupe encounters danger and delight, negotiating predicaments with magic and wit. The fairies'' constant clamor for pie adds hilarity as Bertie explores the extent of her magical powers, untangles her origins, and meets her father, the brooding bird-man Scrimshander. Mantchev''s highly imaginative prose bursts with lush imagery and literary riffs, and the party''s encounter with the Innamorati, a traveling circus inspired by Cirque du Soleil, enhances the book''s surrealism. Although the lack of backstory may leave readers new to Bertie in the dust of confusion, fans of the first book will cry "Encore!" as the ending sets up the third in the series.â€”_Joyce Adams Burner, National Archives at Kansas City, MO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sequel to Eyes like Stars (2009) returns to the fantastical ThÃ©Ã¢tre Illuminata, where 17-year-old Bertie Shakespeare Smith continues her wild, swashbuckling, genre-twisting adventures through magical, theatrical worlds. As in the previous volume, romance (more steamy suggestion than actual bodice-ripping) drives the girl-power plot, but the humorous allusions to famous literature, the breakneck banter among the magical cast, and, most of all, Bertie''s astonishing ability to influence the course of actions with her written words will captivate readers. Fans of the first title will be equally enchanted and will hope for a third act from Bertie. Grades 9-12. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7055'),
(7352, 'Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The film version of Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth will be in Australian cinemas February 2010 The greatest monster of all, the storm giant Typhon, is on the loose, wreaking havoc and destruction across the U.S. - while Kronos''s army lays siege to Manhattan. Soon Percy Jackson must make the hardest choice of his life - a choice that will save or destroy the world. ''RIORDAN TAKES THE READER BACK TO THE STORIES WE LOVE, THEN SHAKES THE COBWEBS OUT OF THEM'' - EOIN COLFER, AUTHOR OF ARTEMIS FOWL SUMMARY: AllÂ year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos''s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan''s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus standsÂ virtually unguarded.Â  Now it''s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.Â In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy''s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4232'),
(7353, 'Perelandra', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The second book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom''s mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(7354, 'Perfect', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren''t nearly as perfect as they seem. Aria can''t resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer can''t keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister. Lucky me. I know these pretty little liars better than they know themselves. But it''s hard keeping all of their secrets to myself. They better do as I say . . . or else!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3707'),
(7355, 'The Perfect Assassin', 'Ward Larsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Larsen''s competent debut has many of the right ingredients for a successful spy thriller: plenty of action, technical detail that would do Tom Clancy proud, and a hero with almost superhuman skills. When Christine Palmer, an American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, retrieves the almost lifeless body of David Slaton in the middle of the ocean, Slaton commandeers her small boat and demands she deliver him to England. A member of Kidon (Mossad''s special assassination team), Slaton is the sole survivor of a ship that sank with a super-secret cargo-a pair of unaccounted for nuclear weapons. Double agents within Mossad want to kill Slaton before he uncovers their convoluted plot to use the weapons to undermine Israel''s international support. Needless to say, they''re soon after Palmer as well. What''s missing is that no character, except for Palmer, has an inner life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One perfect shot will change the course of history. Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye.David Slaton is a Kidon - a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in grave danger. Will they win in this race against time?With the precision of a sharpshooter, author Ward Larsen weaves an intricate tale of espionage and intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8154'),
(7356, 'A Perfect Evi', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nick Morrelli is the Platte City, Nebraska, sheriff who must be smarter than he appears, since there''s a framed Harvard law degree hanging on his wall. Not that appearances don''t count. The reader is treated to a number of descriptions of his sexy, lady-killer looks and his charismatic effect on even the most hard-bitten woman character in this somewhat muddled, serial-killer thriller. Nick is investigating the kidnap-murders of two young Platte City boys when FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell shows up and all but takes over the investigation. Several years earlier, the former sheriff--Nick''s father--capped his own career with the arrest of the last serial killer in the neighborhood, who abducted and tortured three boys in an eerily similar crime spree. When Antonio Morrelli returns from retirement to meddle in the investigation, and when Nick''s own sister uses her connections to advance his career, Nick hardly raises an objection. And that''s the central weakness of what would otherwise be a good, first effort. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(7357, 'Perfect Grave', 'Rick Mofina', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9860'),
(7358, 'A Perfect Grave', 'Rick Mofina', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A lightning-paced thriller with lean, tense writing... Mofina really knows how to make the story fly." - Tess Gerritsen on A Perfect Grave"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sins of the past shall not be forgiven. ''A Murdered Nun'' - The face Sister Anne sees behind her in the mirror belongs to a man she knew years ago; the cold blade against her throat guarantees her silence. The story of his career - The shocking murder of this local ''saint'' draws the attention of reporter Jason Wade. He is sure the police are hunting the wrong man - and that it is up to him to track down the real killer. Secrets from the past - His father''s demons tell Jason more about this murder than the police investigation ever could - revealing a story so twisted Jason will need all his wits to untangle the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6390'),
(7359, 'The Perfect Host', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10477'),
(7360, 'The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation', 'Ian Mortimer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father''s throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7015'),
(7361, 'Perfect Match', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?* **Perfect Match** In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina''s absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1652'),
(7362, 'The Perfect Murder', 'Peter James', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fed up with his job at the local egg-box factory -as well as distracted by his visits to his favourite prostitute, Kamila- that he hardly notices his wife''s constant ridicule. Joan has resigned herself to the fact that Victor will never see beyond her double-chin to a new hair cut or outfit. She even puts up with his constant snoring which keeps her up night after night. Just. For unbeknownst to Victor, Joan is taking her sweet revenge: spending large amounts of money on his credit card, kitting herself out in a sexy new wardrobe, to impress her secret lover, Don. But then, as the bills mount, Victor loses his job. Soon he realises that the only way he can achieve his dream of setting up home with Kamila is to get Joan out of the picture. But Victor is about to get a nasty surprise. For he''s not the only one with murder on his mind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter James was educated at Charterhouse then at film school. He lived in North America for a number of years, working as a screenwriter and film producer before returning to England. His novels, including the number one bestseller Possession, have been translated into thirty languages and three have been filmed. All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police, with whom he does in-depth research, as well as science, medicine and the paranormal. He has produced numerous films, including the The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes. He divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill in London and near Brighton in Sussex.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6926'),
(7363, 'The Perfect Neighbor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brooding loner Preston McQuinn''s new apartment, like his life, was just the way he wanted it--dark and empty. But when sunny Cybil Campbell came barging into his well-ordered gloom, he couldn''t deny a grudging fascination with his bright, bubbly neighbor. And then she tried to hire him--as her date! Preston thought he''d closed the door on love for good, so why was he suddenly longing to open up his heart to his incredibly perfect neighbor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2615'),
(7364, 'Perfect Nightmare', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul''s latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall family prepares to move from Long Island to Manhattan, unaware that a menace edges ever closer to kidnapping their teenage daughter, Lindsay. Eerie first-person chapters from the stalker''s close-call perspective effectively counterpoint parents Kara and Steve Marshall''s stressful relocation hurdles, as intuitive Kara begins sensing the imminence of the threat, but meets with resistance from harried family members. After the anonymous menace snatches Lindsay, Saul broadens the scope to encompass four likely male suspects, including a pair of real estate agents (one dour and one impossibly chipper). Steve Marshall conveniently dies in a car accident; police sergeant Andrew Grant is cautious and unconvinced of foul play. Lindsay''s attempts to escape and the criminal''s master plan keep the tension high and the plot accelerating, making this solid suspense from the veteran author of\n <em>\n  Suffer the Children\n </em>\n and the Blackstone Chronicles series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Saul''s take on the sexual-psychopath thriller, whose grand master is surely Thomas Harris in\n <em>\n  Red Dragon\n </em>\n (1981) and\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n (1988), and whose unacknowledged master is Whitley Strieber in\n <em>\n  Billy\n </em>\n (1990), is a more disquieting book than Saul may have intended. As a literary performance, it doesn''t give Harris and Strieber much competition, for its Long Island setting and relentlessly middle-class characters lead Saul into bland prose and shallow psychology. And the mainspring of its plot--who has snatched two pretty teen girls and a twentysomething young mother?--is unexceptional and generically shopworn. Fortunately, by interspersing the thoughts of the perverted perp throughout a third-person text otherwise following either the mother of the second girl kidnapped or the girl herself, Saul adds considerable nasty fascination, though that fascination affords the kind of pleasure that many may think they damn well ought to feel guilty about. What is genuinely upsetting about the book is its depressing implication that hands held out in loving compassion are precisely what shouldn''t be trusted. That rather flies in the face of the mother''s love that drives the main character (who is eminently trustworthy), and it makes for a brackish, disturbing ending.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4524'),
(7365, 'Perfect Personality Profiles', 'Helen Baron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Penned by a leading expert in the field of psychometrics, this guidebook is vital for anyone who needs to know more about psychometric profiling. From advice on preparation to a thorough breakdown of the personality traits that questionnaires typically examine, it walks the reader through every aspect of the test-taking process. Information is also included on how employers typically use personality profiles, and how personality exams are best approached and completed. This is an ideal resource for those looking to stay a step ahead of their competitors and fellow job seekers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1634'),
(7366, 'Perfect Reader', 'Maggie Pouncey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis Dempsey, a beloved former college president and famous literary critic in the league of Harold Bloom. At the news of her fatherâ€™s death, Flora quits her big-city magazine job and returns to Darwin, the quaint New England town where she grew up, to retreat into the house he has left her, filled as it is with reminders of him. Even weightier is her appointment as her fatherâ€™s literary executor. It seems he was secretly writing poems at the end of his lifeâ€”love poems to a girlfriend Flora didnâ€™t know he had. Flora soon discovers that this woman has her own claims on Lewisâ€™s poetry and his memory, and in the righteousness of her loss and bafflement at her fatherâ€™s secretsâ€”his life so richly separate from her own in ways she never guessedâ€”Flora is highly suspicious of her. Meanwhile, Flora is besieged by well-wishers and literary bloggers alike as she tries to figure out how to navigate it all: the fate of the poems, the girlfriend who wants a place in her life, her memories of her parentsâ€™ divorce, and her own uncertain future. At once comic and profound, *Perfect Reader* is a heady, uplifting story of loneliness and of the spur to growth that grief can be. Brimming with energy and with the elbow-patchy wisdom of her still-vivid father, Floraâ€™s story will set her free to be the â€œperfect readerâ€ not just of her fatherâ€™s life but of her own as well.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3041'),
(7367, 'The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea', 'Sebastian Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor''easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4123'),
(7368, 'The Perfect Woman', 'James Andrus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One Man''s Obsession. . . Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked--on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he packs his victims in luggage--a nod to the cops that he works alone. Dremmel''s no fool, he''s also a college professor. He just likes using his intellect for darker purposes. . .. Is Another Man''s Anguish. . . Haunted by his own daughter''s unsolved disappearance, Detective John Stallings is committed to finding runaways and busting their abductors. When a series of girls is found dead and stuffed into duffle bags, he''s consumed with capturing "The Bagman"--at the risk of his marriage, his career, and possibly his tough-as-nails partner, Patty Levine. . . And Neither Intends To Give Up As The Bagman grows more brazen in his crimes, the clues line up. But when he draws terrifyingly close to Patty, Stallings is determined to play by his own rules--and they won''t be pretty--or quiet. . . "One of the best cop novels to come along in years. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, yet heart-felt, *Perfect Woman* gives us a portrayal of policing as gritty and realistic as the best nonfiction. And what a great hero, Det. John Stallings. . . . We need more cops (and thriller characters) like him!" --Jeffery Deaver, *New York Times *bestselling author "This book moves with deadly speed and the assured hand of a writer who knows his stuff." --Michael Connelly, *New York Times* bestselling author "An insider''s view of how a true police investigation unfolds. It''s as close a look at police work as you can get." --Elmore Leonard, *New York Times* bestselling author "A perfect thriller for Hollywood to grab. The author''s police experience and knowledge of the turf keeps the police action highly visual and at a boiling point throughout." --Joseph Wambaugh *"The Perfect Woman* delivers perfect suspense. You won''t be able to put this book down!" --Kevin O''Brien, *New York Times* bestselling author "One of the best cop novels to come along in years. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, yet heart-felt, *Perfect Woman* gives us a portrayal of policing as gritty and realistic as the best nonfiction. And what a great hero, Det. John Stallings. . . . We need more cops (and thriller characters) like him!" --Jeffery Deaver, *New York Times* bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1857'),
(7369, 'The Perfumed Sleeve', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: November 1694. The streets of Edo are erupting in violence as two factions struggle for control over the ruling Tokugawa regime. One is led by the shogun''s cousin, Lord Matsudaira, and the other by the shogun''s second-in-command, Chamberlain Yanagisawa. Each side pressures Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s most honorable investigator, to join its ranks.When one of the shogun''s most trusted advisers is found dead, Sano is forced to honor a posthumous request for a murder investigation. Senior Elder Makino believed that his death would be the result of assassination rather than natural causes. Although he and Sano were bitter enemies, Makino knew that the incorruptible Sano would be duty-bound to oblige his final wish.Under the watchful eyes and thinly veiled threats of both Lord Matsudaira and Chamberlain Yanagisawa, Sano moves with caution. Each is eager to implicate the other in Makino''s death. Sano must discover whether the death was indeed murder, and if so, whether it was motivated by politics, love, or sex. The discovery of secret alliances, both romantic and military, further complicates matters. Sano''s investigation has barely begun when violent death claims another of the shogun''s favorites. With his wife, Reiko, working undercover, Sano and his chief retainer, Hirata, must not only investigate multiple deaths, but stem the tide of an impending civil war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2673'),
(7370, 'Peril at End House', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckly. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.   Poirot has taken a particular interest in the young woman who has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5181'),
(7371, 'Perilous Fight: America&#39;s Intrepid War With Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815', 'Stephen Budiansky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The deservedly overshadowed War of 1812 was redeemed by heroics at sea, according to this rousing military history. Journalist and military historian Budiansky (The Bloody Shirt) follows the tiny United States Navy, led by a handful of superfrigates, including the U.S.S. Constitution, in its oceanic struggle against the vastly larger, stronger, and haughtier British fleet, whose bullying practice of seizing American merchant ships and sailors provoked the war. Budiansky makes it a classic David and Goliath story, as the plucky Yanks, with better ships, sailing, and gunnery, win a string of resounding victories that wipe the smirks from their adversaries'' faces. The author''s colorful narrative is full of gory sea battles, chivalrous flourishes, mutinous tars, and charismatic performances by Stephen Decatur, David Porter, and other American naval legends; it becomes grayer and grimmer as the British blockade tightens and the Americans turn from pitched battles to prosaic commerce raiding. Budiansky''s well-researched and skillfully written account extracts a gripping true-life naval saga from an otherwise inglorious conflict. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of b&amp;w photos; 11 photos in text; 8 maps. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bedeviled on land, U.S. forces were more effective at sea in the War of 1812. Continuing a venerable tradition of historians (Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, Alfred Mahan) drawn to this topic, Budiansky narrates events and ventures explanations for successes of the U.S. Navy against Britainâ€™s Royal Navy. The prerequisite was the pre-existence of an American navy, whose establishment Ian Toll recounted in Six Frigates (2006). Those frigates scored initial victories in warship-on-warship combat (the Constitutionâ€™s sinking of the Guerriere) that exhilarated Americans and made U.S. captains (e.g., Stephen Decatur) famous. But naval war in the chivalric style did not strike the historically unsung William Jones as a sensible strategy. Secretary of the navy during the war, Jones is the most important character in Budianskyâ€™s account. Jones thought that attacking Britainâ€™s merchant marine would hamper her superior fleet far more than would destruction of her warships, and so it turned out, as Budianskyâ€™s analysis of the forces tied to convoy and blockade duties verifies. Conversant in nautical technicalities of the age of sail, Budiansky will absorb the avid naval history audience. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6979'),
(7372, 'Personal Demon', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Now Armstrong tells the captivating tale of a young woman with an insatiable lust for danger. She canâ€™t help it. Itâ€™s in her blood. Tabloid reporter Hope Adams appears to live the life of an ordinary working girl. But in addition to possessing the beauty of a Bollywood princess, Hope has other unique traits. For she is a half demonâ€”a human fathered by a demon. And sheâ€™s inherited not only a gift for seeing the past but a hunger for chaosâ€”along with a talent for finding it wherever she can. Naturally, when sheâ€™s chosen by a very dangerous group for a very dangerous mission, she jumps at the chanceâ€¦. The head of the powerful Cortez Cabalâ€”a family that makes the mob look like amateursâ€”has a little problem in Miami: a gang of wealthy, bored offspring of supernaturals is getting out of hand, and Hope is needed to infiltrate. As spells, astral projections, and pheromones soar across South Beach, Hope weaves her way through its elite hot spots, posing as upscale eye candy and reading the auras of the clienteleâ€”and potential marks. As it turns out, Hope is a little too good at this job. And soon sheâ€™s in a little too deep, needing to be bailed out by her jewel-thief werewolf ex-boyfriend and by the Cortez heir himself. And when a killer goes to work, Hope is among many targets at the pinnacle of Cabal rule. For a woman who didnâ€™t know what she was getting into, thereâ€™s only one way out: itâ€™s time for Hope to unleash her most potent primal instinctsâ€”and open herself, mind and body, to everything she most fears . . . and desires. Sexy and suspenseful, Personal Demon is a thrill ride through a world on the wild side of our own. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3156'),
(7373, 'Personal injuries', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A gripping, suspenseful, deeply satisfying new novel about corruption, deceit, and love.Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a charismatic personal injury lawyer with a high profile practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves), who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds that make their way into the pockets of the judges who decide Robbie''s cases.Robbie is caught by the Feds, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to "wear a wire" as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie''s charms. And she carries secrets of her own.As the law tightens its net, Robbie''s and Evon''s stories converge thrillingly. Scott Turow takes us into, the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and The Laws of Our Fathers, all published by FSG. He also shows us enduring love and quiet, unexpected heroism. Personal Injuries is Turow''s most reverberant, most moving novel-a powerful drama of individuals trying to escape their characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3460'),
(7374, 'Persuader: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, heâ€™s moved from place to placeâ€¦without familyâ€¦without possessionsâ€¦without commitments.And without fear. Which is good, because troubleâ€”big, violent, complicated troubleâ€”finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not onceâ€¦not ever.But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call itâ€¦justice.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2810'),
(7375, 'Persuasion', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man''s family connections and lack of wealth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2098'),
(7376, 'Pet Peeve', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A relentless horde of renegade robots has plunged the fate of Xanth in dire peril. All that stands between the enchanted land and destruction is a most unlikely hero, a moody, mild-mannered Goblin named Goody, who must summon all of his courage and determination to overcome this abominable army of automatons. Brimming with heart-stopping adventure and heart-warming delight, overflowing with wicked wit and wanton wordplay, Pet Peeve is Piers Anthony in rare form, an exceptional new chapter in the continuing chronicles of Xanth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3313'),
(7377, 'Pet Sematary', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From horror''s master storyteller, Stephen King, comes the classic tale--PET SEMETARY. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they''ve got it all ... right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously more powerful. Annotation. "Sometimes dead is better ..." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they''ve got it all ... right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself ... and hideously more powerful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4283'),
(7378, 'Petals from the Sky', 'Mingmei Yip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun''s life means only deprivation - ''no freedom, no love, no meat''. But to Meng Ning, it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents'' unhappy union. With an enigmatic nun known as Yi Kong, ''Depending on Emptiness'', as her mentor, Meng Ning spends the next ten years studying abroad, disdaining men, and preparing to enter the nunnery. Then, a fire breaks out at her Buddhist retreat, and Meng Ning is carried to safety by Michael Fuller, a young American doctor. The unprecedented physical contact stirs her curiosity. And as their tentative friendship grows intimate, Meng Ning realizes she must choose between the sensual and the spiritual life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2331'),
(7379, 'Peter Pan', 'James M. Barrie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A stunning edition of J.M. Barrie''s classic tale, illustrated by two-time Kate Greenaway Medalist, Michael Foreman. Ever since Peter Pan first flew through Wendy''s window, taking her and her two brothers off to Neverland, J.M. Barrie''s enchanting fantasy has thrilled and delighted children. Here are all the elements that appeal to the imaginations of young readers-high adventure, children who can fly, pirates who need defeating, and fairies with magical powers. From Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys to the ominously ticking crocodile and the devilish Captain Hook, unforgettable characters burst from every page. In this edition, Michael Foreman''s gorgeous illustrations breathe new life into this timeless tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1554'),
(7380, 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy', 'James M. Barrie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance, with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, in Peter and Wendy. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie''s only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. This is the first edition to include both texts in one volume and the first to a present an extensively annotated text for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1555'),
(7381, 'Peter Reinhart&#39;s Artisan Breads Every Day: Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With "no-knead" bread recipes all the rage now, expert baker Reinhart (_Whole Grain Breads_) has come back with a process that is slightly more involved but much more productive than the limited classic no-knead method, yielding all manner of sweet, savory and sandwich breads. He introduces a "stretch and fold" technique that, combined with a slow rise and without the lengthy prefermentation that his and other artisan bakers'' recipes usually require, means more freedom and less active work time, but still a very flavorful product. To make French baguettes, for example, only one brief knead is required; then, after an overnight or multiday rise, the dough is ready for shapingâ€”much better than being shackled to the kitchen for an entire morning for multiple rises, as is usually the case in baguette making. Other great breads, such as focaccia, soft cheese bread and even panettone, get similar preparation makeovers. Reinhart occasionally calls for a starter, but his carefully constructed, nonintimidating mother starter method should encourage the wary. For bakers who have come to bread through the no-knead route, Reinhart''s thorough, detailed recipes offer a perfect way to expand their repertoire without getting their hands too sticky or giving up too much of their time, while those who are already fans will appreciate having a little more room in their schedule while still producing terrific breads.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPeter Reinhart is the Leonardo da Vinci of bread; his recipes are foolproof, his research exhaustive and yet a delight to read and follow, and his hunger for knowledge and technique is boundless and infinite. He is without a doubt the definitive source of true style and information when it comes to all things baked and delicious, and my go-to guy for all things leavened and sandwichableâ€\n <br />\n --Mario Batali, author of\n <em>\n  Molto Italiano\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ve been using Peterâ€™s overnight pizza dough technique religiously for years--mix, knead, chill overnight, shape, bake. So simple, and minimal planning is required. In this book, many of the recipes use a similar approachâ€“no poolish or pre-fermenting. From pain au levain and pretzels to panettone and pizza dough, all the greatest hits and every day favorites are covered.â€\n <br />\n --Heidi Swanson, author of\n <em>\n  Super Natural Cooking\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPeter Reinhartâ€™s thoughtful, steadying presence combined with his matchless teaching skills and down-to-earth approach make reading and using\n <em>\n  Artisan Breads Every Day\n </em>\n a great pleasure. His information demystifying the preparation and use of sourdough starters is both much needed and superb.â€\n <br />\n --Nancy Baggett, author of\n <em>\n  Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor most cooks, artisan bread baking is close to metaphysics. And each succeeding book about it only tends to deepen the mysteries and make trying it even more unlikely.\n <em>\n  Peter Reinhartâ€™s Artisan Breads Every Day\n </em>\n is one of the first books of its kind that actually made me want to stop reading and start baking.â€\n <br />\n --Russ Parsons, author of\n <em>\n  How to Peel a Peach\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7124'),
(7382, 'Peter the Great', 'Robert K. Massie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3831'),
(7383, 'The Petrified Ants', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post-World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Vonnegut explores the relationship between science''s pursuit of truth and the stateâ€™s need to control it in ""The Petrified Ants,"" a darkly whimsical story about two Soviet researchers who stumble upon an amazing discovery, only to learn that natural history is also written by the hand that wields the power. ""The Petrified Ants"" and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut''s unique voice had been stilled forever-and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius. Other stories from Look at the Birdie available as single-story e-books: On sale August 25, 2009"Hello, Red" On sale October 20, 2009: "Confido""FUBAR""Shout About It from the Housetops""Ed Luby''s Key Club""A Song for Selma""Hall of Mirrors""The Nice Little People""Little Drops of Water""The Honor of a Newsboy""Look at the Birdie" (Short Story)"King and Queen of the Universe""The Good Explainer"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2964'),
(7384, 'PETTICOAT INFLUENCE: (A FOOTBALL STORY)', 'Petticoat Influence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3868'),
(7385, 'Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker', 'Camille DeAngelis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers who endure the extensive Lake Wobegonâ€“style exposition that launches DeAngelis''s second novel (where every witch is above average) will be rewarded with a moving and witty love story. Evelyn is a randy old witch who uses her powers to appear young and pick up men at bars. When she meets Justin, the new proprietor of a local antique shop, she believes that he may be the reincarnation of her long-lost love, Jonah. Eve''s narration alternates between the present-day romance and WWII spy stories as members of her coven come out with a shocking accusation against her sister, Helena. DeAngelis (Mary Modern) gives Eve an engaging narrative voice, though the frequent use of British terms like "loo," "gent," and "mobile" is jarring given Eve''s supposed American origins. These minor flaws detract only slightly from the core stories of love and deceit, enhanced by DeAngelis''s charming prose.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evelyn Harbinger is a witch, but not one of those sinister ones with gnarled fingers and warts on her nose. She uses her extraordinary powers for good, healing the injured and helping people fall in love. At age 149, she has enjoyed a life span nearly twice that of mere mortals. Though her typical appearance is grandmotherly and sweet, if Evelyn is attracted to a man, she can transform herself, albeit temporarily, into a voluptuous, thirtysomething siren. Thatâ€™s just what she does when she meets Justin, who works at an antique shop near her sisterâ€™s bed-and-breakfast in upstate New York. Bright, handsome Justin bears an eerie resemblance to Jonah, Evelynâ€™s partner in espionage (and romance) when the two served the Allies during WWII. Evelyn begins to wonder whether Justin may be an incarnation of her late beau, who was killed during a raid. Critics have compared novelist DeAngelis (whose works include the acclaimed Mary Modern, 2007) to a modern-day Mary Shelley, but this latest entry, while an amusing romp, is only mildly bewitching. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7020'),
(7386, 'Petty Pewter Gods', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Garet , P. I., is on the case There are some new gods in the town of TunFaire, but temple real estate on the Street of Dreams is at a premium. So the big gods on the block issued a challenge-find the "key" to the one temple still available. When two rival pantheons try to hire Garrett, he knows he is in for it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1897');
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(7387, 'Phantom', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. Â For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. Â But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. Â What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3514'),
(7388, 'The Phantom Freighter', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy brothers embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10270'),
(7389, 'The Phantom of Manhattan', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera.In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux''s brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera....More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soon thereafter, his intense, unrequited love for a beautiful chorus girl set in motion a tragic string of events, forcing him to flee Paris forever. Now, as she lies dying in a convent, Madam Giry tells the untold story of the Phantom and his clandestine journey to New York City to start anew, where he would become a wealthy entrepreneur and build the glorious Manhattan Opera House....all so he could see his beloved, now a famous diva, once again. But the outcome of her visit would prove even more devastating than before-- and yet, would allow the Phantom to know, for the first time in his brutal life, the true meaning of love....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4372'),
(7390, 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Gaston Leroux', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantome de l''Opera) is a French novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Some believe it to have been inspired by George du Maurier''s Trilby. Trilby is based on real events related to the Paris Opera House which Leroux investigated, initiated by stories of an opera house ghost. Initially, the novel sold very poorly and was even out of print several times during the twentieth century. Today, it is considered to be a classic of French literature, though it is overshadowed by its many subsequent adaptations. The novel was translated into English in 1911. It has since been adapted many times into film and stage productions, the most notable of which were the 1925 film depiction and Andrew Lloyd Webber''s 1986 musical, starring Michael Crawford as the Phantom, Steve Barton as Raoul, and Sarah Brightman as Christine, which is now the longest running Broadway show in history and the most lucrative entertainment enterprise of all time, its worldwide box office over the past 20 years out-grossing even the highest grossing film in history, Titanic. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Author** Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868, Paris, France - 15 April 1927) was a French journalist, detective and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantome de l''Opera, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber''s 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited mil\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1519'),
(7391, 'Phantom Prospect', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Intrepid treasure hunters believe they have discovered the final resting place of Fantome, a legendary warship that wrecked off Nova Scotia almost two hundred years ago. She was rumored to have gone down with an extraordinary treasure. But circling beneath the ocean''s surface waits something unbelievableâ€¦ and terrifying. Some unfortunate divers have encountered a massive, thought-to-be-extinct shark known as the megalodon.Archaeologist Annja Creed has always had a healthy respect for sharks. But when a researcher friend asks for her help, Annja braves the deep, cold waters of the Atlantic, determined to discover the truth. Instead she finds herself hunting an unknown traitor on a sabotaged ship. With death waiting both above and below the ocean''s surface, Annja must battle her most dangerous enemy yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4978'),
(7392, 'The Phantom Tollbooth', 'Norton Juster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here''s nothing for me to do, nowhere I''d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored,\n  <em>\n   bored\n  </em>\n  young protagonist who can''t see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Tollbooth\n  </em>\n  leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it''s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or\n  <em>\n   (Ages 8 and up)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  " I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began ''This is the best book ever.''"\n  <br />\n  --Anna Quindlen,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."\n  <br />\n  --_The New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8142'),
(7393, 'Phaze Doubt', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The now-merged worlds of magical Phaze and technological Proton face a new threat from an invading force known as the Hectare. While Citizens and Adepts alike wait helplessly on the sidelines, the task of turning defeat into victory falls to two special children--and an enemy agent. This conclusion of the "seven-novel Adept trilogy" features more of Anthony''s best: sparkling wordplay, endless permutations of plot and characters, and light-hearted entertainment. Recommended where the series--or the author--is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sparkling wordplay, endless permutations of plot and characters, and light-hearted entertainment. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4597'),
(7394, 'Philosophy: who needs it', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand''s Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(7395, 'Phoenix in the Ashes', 'Joan D. Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10249'),
(7396, 'Phoenix Noir', 'Patrick Millikin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œ**Patrick Millikin**...as if to prove his witty claim that ''sunshine is the new noir,'' offers one superb specimen, ''Whiteout on Van Buren,'' in which [author] Don Winslow makes skillful use of a city street at high noon to provide the perfect metaphor for life and death.â€â€”*New York Times Book Review* Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte. Â  **Patrick Millikin** is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in *Publishers Weekly*, *Firsts Magazine*, *Paradoxa*, *Yourflesh Quarterly*, and other publications. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3462'),
(7397, 'Phule 01 - Phule&#39;s Company', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10081'),
(7398, 'Phule 02 - Phule&#39;s Paradise', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10085'),
(7399, 'Phule 03 - a Phule &amp; His Money', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10078'),
(7400, 'Phule 04 - Phule Me Twice', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10089'),
(7401, 'Phylogenesis', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Humanx Commonwealth is Alan Dean Foster''s signature fictional universe, the setting of, among others, his Adventures of Flinx series (which begins with __) and the Icerigger trilogy. But how did the Commonwealth come to be? How did two seemingly dissimilar races--the gregarious, warm-blooded humans and the reserved, insectile thranx--form a union that would become so strong and prosperous as to eventually dominate our part of the galaxy?\n</p>\n<p>\n The actual first contact between the humans and the thranx takes place in the quite exciting __, but you don''t have to have read that novel to follow what happens in\n <em>\n  Phylogenesis\n </em>\n . In this book, which takes place soon after the first contact, the races have embarked on a program of slow, careful cultural exchange. If all goes well, the planners feel, in some decades a few tentative agreements might be reached. But they never planned on the chance meeting of a rogue thranx poet and a human thief who''s hiding in the Amazon jungle. The events that surround the friendship of these two, each an outcast from his own society, will force scientists and politicians of both races to alter not only their plans but also their beliefs about human/thranx compatibility.\n</p>\n<p>\n Foster makes excellent use of his knowledge of Latin American culture to paint a picture of a vibrant yet realistic future South America. The Amazon jungle is presented in such vivid detail it seems almost an alien world itself. Fans of the Commonwealth novels won''t want to miss this crucial chapter in its history.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some centuries in the future come the earliest days of contact between humans and the insect-like thranx. Both species carefully try to keep contact in the hands of approved experts, but the thranx have slipped a covert base into the Amazon rain forest. Desvendapur, a thranx poet obsessed with finding new sources of inspiration through contact with humans, escapes from this base into the jungle. There he encounters Cheelo Montoya, a small-time gangster fleeing a mugging that turned into a murder, a man with no poetry in his soul but abundant street smarts. Their initial misunderstandings and suspicion give way to cooperation, and then to friendship after the two survive an encounter with deadly poachers. The author of more than 40 novels, Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters (such as the reptilian AAnn). He shows his usual mastery of narrative pacing and slips in a great deal of wry wit (the sexiness of a female thranx depends on the slenderness of her ovipositors). The novel will be a treat for those who have followed Foster''s tales of the Humanx Commonwealth, to which this is a kind of prelude and which began way back in 1972 with The Tar-Aiym Krang, and can also serve as a splendid introduction to both the Commonwealth and its creator.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7847'),
(7402, 'Physical Activities for Improving Children&#39;s Learning and Behavior', 'Billye Ann Cheatum; Allison Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10641'),
(7403, 'The physics of Star Trek', 'Lawrence Maxwell Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Explaining the intricacies of warp speed and showing the difference between a holodeck and a hologram, an easy-to-understand introduction to the arcane world of physics from a renowned physicist uses Star Trek to build and frame his discussion. 125,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3105'),
(7404, 'Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100', 'Michio Kaku', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kaku (Physics of the Impossible), a professor of physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, gathers ideas from more than 300 experts, scientists, and researchers at the cutting edge of their fields, to offer a glimpse of what the next 100 years may bring. The predictions all conform to certain ground rules (e.g., "Prototypes of all technologies mentioned... already exist"), and some seem obvious (computer chips will continue to get faster and smaller). Others seem less far-fetched than they might have a decade ago: for instance, space tourism will be popular, especially once a permanent base is established on the moon. Other predictions may come trueâ€”downloading the Internet right into a pair of contact lensesâ€”but whether they''re desirable is another matter. Some of the predictions are familiar but still startling: robots will develop emotions by mid-century, and we will start merging mind and body with them. Despite the familiarity of many of the predictions to readers of popular science and science fiction, Kaku''s book should capture the imagination of everyday readers. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Following in the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne, Kaku, author of a handful of books about science, looks into the not-so-distant future and envisions what the world will look like. It should be an exciting place, with driverless cars, Internet glasses, universal translators, robot surgeons, the resurrection of extinct life forms, designer children, space tourism, a manned mission to Mars, none of which turn out to be as science-fictiony as they sound. In fact, the most exciting thing about the book is the fact that most of the developments Kaku discusses can be directly extrapolated from existing technologies. Robot surgeons and driverless cars, for example, already exist in rudimentary forms. Kaku, a physics professor and one of the originators of the string field theory (an offshoot of the more general string theory), draws on current research to show how, in a very real sense, our future has already been written. The bookï¿½s lively, user-friendly style should appeal equally to fans of science fiction and popular science. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6245'),
(7405, 'Physics of the Impossible', 'Kaku, Michio', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9807'),
(7406, 'The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy', 'Jean Anthelme Brillat-savarin &amp; M. F. K. Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t properly call yourself a gourmand (or even a minor foodie) until you''ve digested Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin''s delectable 1825 treatise,\n <em>\n  The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy\n </em>\n . Brilliantly and lovingly translated in 1949 by\n</p>\n<p>\n Chocoholics will be satisfied to know that "carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work...." He examines the erotic properties of the truffle ("the truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac; but it can, in certain situations, make women tenderer and men more agreeable"), the financial influence of the turkey (apparently quite a prize in 19th-century Paris), and the level of\n <em>\n  gourmandise\n </em>\n among the various professions (bankers, doctors, writers, and men of faith are all predestined to love food). Just as engrossing as the text itself are M.F.K. Fisher''s lively, personal glosses at the end of every chapter, which make up almost a quarter of the book. These two are soulmates separated by centuries, and Fisher''s fondness for the Professor comes through on every page. As she notes at the end, "I have yet to be bored or offended, which is more than most women can say of any relationship, either ghostly or corporeal."\n <em>\n  --Rebecca A. Staffel\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to a very pricey limited edition published\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4537'),
(7407, 'The Piano Teacher', 'Janice Y. K. Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** "A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert ** In the sweeping tradition of *The English Patient*, Janice Y.K. Lee''s debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1731'),
(7408, 'Piccadilly Jim', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€˜You donâ€™t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.â€™ Stephen Fry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2660'),
(7409, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Oscar Wilde''s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde''s characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray''s moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde''s homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book''s value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2527'),
(7410, 'Pieces of My Heart: A Life', 'Robert J. Wagner &amp; Scott Eyman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actor and producer Wagner begins this engaging memoir by recalling his childhood fascination with movies and the Hollywood community. Determined to become a part of that world, in 1942, at age 12, he worked as a golf caddy, struggling to make contact with those who could help him. As an 18-year-old Fox contract player, he got a foothold with minor roles: I wasn''t very good in this period, but I was diligent. Soon he scored with\n <em>\n  Prince Valiant\n </em>\n in 1954, and\n <em>\n  A Kiss Before Dying\n </em>\n , thus beginning a six-decade career in theater, television series and more than 100 movies. His rule of thumb: Find smart people and listen to them. Along the way, he realized friends and family were equally as important as show business, and he writes with fondness and humor about his close friendships with David Niven and others while painting a backdrop of Hollywood in transition. As for the women in Wagner''s life, he details one-night stands, his four-year affair with Barbara Stanwyck (who was twice his age) and his four marriages (twice to Natalie Wood). His love for Wood threads throughout, and his memory of her last night is chilling as he leads the reader step-by-step through her 1981 disappearance from their boat and the search for her body.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPieces of My Heart is a treasure. . . . Wagnerâ€™s portrait of [Natalie] Wood is adoring and poignant. . . . With admirable strength and honest self-awareness, Wagner makes plain that thereâ€™s much more to him than his handsome face.â€ (Washington Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEngagingâ€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMesmerizingâ€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4503'),
(7411, 'The Pied Piper of Hamlin', 'Robert Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Greenwaway (1846-1901) is one of the most popular children''s book illustrators of all time. Edmund Evans produced her first book in 1879, which sold out resulting in triumph and gaining Greenaway her reputation. She has enchanted people, young and old, for over one hundred years with her watercolour illustrations of sweet, charming eighteenth century children with their quaint costumes and idyllic scenes. This book ''The Pied Piper Of Hamelin'', written by Robert Browning and illustrated by Kate Greenaway was originally published in 1888. Many of the earliest children''s books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3510'),
(7412, 'Pierre and Jean (Webster&#39;s Portuguese Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Portuguese thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant was edited for three audiences. The first includes Portuguese-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Portuguese speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Portuguese in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Portuguese Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Portuguese or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Portuguese, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch.Having the reader decipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previou\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9451'),
(7413, 'Pilate&#39;s Wife', 'Antoinette May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala''s confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visionsâ€”horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala''s confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visionsâ€”horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6723'),
(7414, 'Pilate&#39;s Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire', 'Antoinette May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala''s confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visionsâ€”horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(7415, 'The Pilgrim of Hate', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Preparing to celebrate an important anniversary for the Abbey at Shrewsbury, medieval herbalist and Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael finds himself trying to solve the murder of a Winchester knight believed to have treasonous loyalties. Reprint."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(7416, 'The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo''s international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companionsâ€”to truly comprehend one, you must read the other. Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo''s pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one''s own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3844'),
(7417, 'The Pillars of Creation', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sequel to the New York Times bestselling Faith of the Fallen New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. Meanwhile, Lauren finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real. Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation. Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit. Find out why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3519'),
(7418, 'The Pillars of the Earth', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2928'),
(7419, 'The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In feudal Japan, passion and secrets lead to murder. . .From A Remote, Exotic World. . . Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, awakens from a turbulent dream into a real-life nightmare. Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi, the shogun''s cousin and heir, has been murdered after a night of debauchery in the city''s pleasure quarter... Comes A Danger All Too Close To Home. . .The matter requires Sano''s personal attention-more personal than Sano at first imagines. For he soon discovers that Mitsuyoshi''s companion for the evening was none other than the alluring Lady Wisteria, a woman whom Sano himself once knew intimately before he was married to his beloved wife, Reiko. But the memory of Wisteria still stirs him, and it is with both dismay and relief that he learns she has vanished along with her pillow book, a diary that may contain valuable clues. The circumstances trouble him, as does the possibility that he and Wisteria might meet again with dangerous consequences. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2670'),
(7420, 'The Pilot&#39;s Wife: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed\n  <em>\n   The Pilot''s Wife\n  </em>\n  . News of Jack Lyons''s fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: "Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form." The situation becomes even more dire when the plane''s black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn''t know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve''s complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn''s dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes\n  <em>\n   The Pilot''s Wife\n  </em>\n  really take off.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reading Anita Shreve''s novel, The Pilot''s Wife, is like unraveling a thread. From the moment Kathryn Lyons answers the late-night knock at her door, she and the reader set upon a course that leads to a surprising revelation - that Kathryn''s life is not what she thought it was....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her search leads her not only to some answers, but to a realization - that the possibility is slim of ever fully knowing those we love, even those we love the most. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  BookPage_, Laura Wexler, May 1998\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shreve has written an oddly gripping popular novel (meaning that it is not experimental; it has a conventional plot and pace) about the wife of an airplane pilot who discovers, after he is killed in a crash in Northern Ireland, that her husband had another life for several years. --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7693'),
(7421, 'Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama', 'Bill O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Bill O''Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation''s future. Since that time, America has changed rapidlyâ€”some would even say seismically. And many believe these shifts are doing more than just rocking the political and social climate; they''re rocking the American core. What are these changes? Who, in addition to President Obama, have been the biggest forces behind them? What exactly do they mean for you, the everyday American citizen? How are they affecting your money, health, safety, freedom, and standing in this nation? Which are Pinheaded moves and which are truly Patriotic? In his latest spirited book, O''Reilly prompts further debate with the President and the American people on the current state of the union. After five consecutive, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is megabestsellers, you can count on Bill to offer blunt and constructive political commentary. And as he did in his popular memoir, he offers some introspection too, looking back at his own actions and those of past Pinheads and Patriots who have inspired a code of conduct for such taxing times. As always, O''Reilly is fair, balanced, and uncompromisingly tough when guarding the American way. Only Pinheads would fail to fight for what they love most about this country or to embrace some measure of change to make it better. The rest of us Patriots will read this book to discover the difference between the two.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(7422, 'Pinocchio', 'Carlo Collodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Geppetto''s new puppet can not only dance and turn somersaults, but also talks and misbehaves--and longs to be a real boy. This newly redesigned Puffin Classics edition is just in time for the Memorial Day release of the major motion picture directed by Steve Barron (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Home Improvement) as Pinnocchio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(7423, 'Pinocchio in Venice', 'Robert Coover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4059'),
(7424, 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl', 'Ree Drummond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My name is Ree.   Some folks know me as The Pioneer Woman.   After years of living in Los Angeles, I made a pit stop in my hometown in Oklahoma on the way to a new, exciting life in Chicago. It was during my stay at home that I met Marlboro Man, a mysterious cowboy with steely blue eyes and a muscular, work-honed body. A strict vegetarian, I fell hard and fast, and before I knew it we were married and living on his ranch in the middle of nowhere, taking care of animals, and managing a brood of four young children. I had no idea how I''d wound up there, but I knew it was exactly where I belonged.   The Pioneer Woman Cooks is a homespun collection of photography, rural stories, and scrumptious recipes that have defined my experience in the country. I share many of the delicious cowboy-tested recipes I''ve learned to make during my years as an accidental ranch wifeâ€”including Rib-Eye Steak with Whiskey Cream Sauce, Lasagna, Fried Chicken, Patsy''s Blackberry Cobbler, and Cinnamon Rollsâ€”not to mention several "cowgirl-friendly" dishes, such as Sherried Tomato Soup, Olive Cheese Bread, and CrÃˆme BrÃ›lÃ‰e. I show my recipes in full color, step-by-step detail, so it''s as easy as pie to follow along.   You''ll also find colorful images of rural life: cows, horses, country kids, and plenty of chaps-wearing cowboys.   I hope you get a kick out of this book of mine. I hope it makes you smile. I hope the recipes bring you recognition, accolades, and marriage proposals. And I hope it encourages even the most harried urban cook to slow down, relish the joys of family, nature, and great food, and enjoy life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8708'),
(7425, 'The Piper on the Mountain', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is the verdict. Then his step-daughter Tossa receives a note suggesting Terrell was murdered--turning Tossa''s long-planned European holiday with college friends into a hunt for the killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4868'),
(7426, 'Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates', 'Adrian Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The recording industry''s panic over illegal downloads is nothing new; a century ago, London publishers faced a similar crisis when pirate editions of sheet music were widely available at significantly less cost. Similarly, the debate over pharmaceutical patents echoes an 18th-century dispute over the origins of Epsom salt. These are just two of the historical examples that Johns (_The Nature of the Book_) draws upon as he traces the tensions between authorized and unauthorized producers and distributors of books, music, and other intellectual property in British and American culture from the 17th century to the present. Johns''s history is liveliest when it is rooted in the personalâ€”the 19th-century renegade bibliographer Samuel Egerton Brydges, for example, or the jazz and opera lovers who created a thriving network of bootleg recordings in the 1950sâ€”but the shifting theoretical arguments about copyright and authorial property are presented in a cogent and accessible manner. Johns''s research stands as an important reminder that today''s intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution. 40 b&amp;w illus.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In his invaluable book\n <em>\n  Piracy\n </em>\n , Adrian Johns argues that the tendency of intellectual property battles to undermine privacy is not new. On the contrary, Johns . . . argues that ever since the medieval and Enlightenment eras, corporations have tried to defend their economic interests by searching for intellectual piracy in the private sphere of people''''s homes. He says that all of our current debates about intellectual piracyâ€”from Google''''s efforts to create a universal digital library to the fight over how vigorous patents should beâ€”have antecedents in the copyright wars of earlier eras."â€”Jeffrey Rosen,\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Jeffrey Rosen\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s easy to assume, amid all the brouhaha about intellectual property, illegal downloading, and the internet in general, that the question of piracy was born with the web browser. But as long as there have been ideas, people have been accused of stealing them. In this detail-packed biography of fakery, science historian Adrian Johns describes one of the earliest attempts to protect authorsâ€™ rightsâ€”a vellum-bound book registry in the Stationerâ€™s Hall in 17th century Londonâ€”and examines everything from the Victorian crusade against the patent, to the radio pirates of the 1920s, to the telephone phreakers of the 1970s and the computer hackers of today. Piracy is not new, he concludes, but we are due for a revolution in intellectual property, and science may be its ideal breeding ground.â€â€”_Seed_\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Seed_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhile the rise of the Internet has given it new dimensions, the concept of intellectual piracy has existed for centuries, and the disputes of previous eras have much in common with those of our own time. In a new book, _Piracy,\n <em>\n  Adrian Johns details the long history of the term and its battles, arguing that those who would shape the future of intellectual property should first understand its past.â€â€”\n </em>\n Inside Higher Education_\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Inside Higher Education_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohns makes a bold claim: disputes over intellectual piracy have touched on so many crucial issues of creativity and commerce, identity and invention, science and society, that tracing them amounts to â€˜a history of modernity from askance.â€™ . . . More generally,\n <em>\n  Piracy\n </em>\n shows us how the very notion of intellectual propertyâ€”and its sharp division into the fields of patent and copyrightâ€”was created in response to specific pressures and so could be modified dramatically or even abolished. . . . â€˜We are constantly trying to shoehorn problems into an intellectual framework designed 150 years ago in a different world.â€™â€â€”Matthew Reisz,\n <em>\n  Times Higher Education\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Times Higher Education_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Adrian Johns argues that piracy is a cultural force that has driven the development of intellectual-property law, politics, and practices. As copying technologies have advanced, from the invention of printing in the sixteenth century to the present, acts of piracy have shaped endeavours from scientific publishing to pharmaceuticals and software. . . . Johns suggests, counter-intuitively, that piracy can promote the development of technology. The resulting competition forces legitimate innovators to manoeuvre for advantageâ€”by moving quickly, using technical countermeasures or banding together and promoting reputation as an indicator of quality, such as through trademarks. . . . The exclusive rights granted by intellectual-property laws are always being reshaped by public opinion, and accused pirates have lobbied against these laws for centuries."â€”Michael Gollin,\n <em>\n  Nature\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Michael Gollin\n <em>\n  Nature\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4467'),
(7427, 'Pirate Latitudes', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8800');
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(7428, 'Pirates of Gohar', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1915'),
(7429, 'PJF-Riverworld 1-To Your Scattered Bodies Go', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Onbekend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10438'),
(7430, 'A Place Called Freedom', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautiful, willful young aristocratic woman who yearns for independence in a male-dominated society. Mack''s hunger for freedom brings him into conflict again and again with the harsh rulers of eighteenth-century Britain. Accused of riot--a capital crime--Mack becomes one of the thousands of convicts who are shipped to the American colonies, to work as slaves for seven long years. With its vivid, fascinating portrayal of the colorful streets of London and the endless landscapes of the New World, plus an unforgettable cast of heroes and villains, lovers, and rebels, hypocrites, hell-raisers, and whores, A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM is a magnificent epic of love, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7379'),
(7431, 'A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A room of one''s own: is there anybody who hasn''t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn''t turned those soft words over until they''d assumed a habitable shape?" When writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property--a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands. Invoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of "houseness" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative and enormously entertaining, A Place of My Own is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shape--and how we might shape them ourselves. A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building--from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry--with reflections on everything form the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes "real work" in a technologicalsociety. A book about craft that is itself beautifully crafted, linking the world of the body and material things with the realm of mind, heart, and spirit, "A Place of My Own has received extraordinary praise: --&gt; "From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2388'),
(7432, 'Plague Bomb', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1854'),
(7433, 'Plague of the Dead: The Morningstar Saga', 'Z.A. Recht &amp; Bowie Ibarra', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An awesome zombie novel." -- David Moody, author of\n  <em>\n   Hater\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hypnotically readable." -- R. Thomas Riley, author of\n  <em>\n   Through the Glass Darkly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An action-packed zombie extravaganza." -- Ryan C. Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The Summer I Died\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE END BEGINS WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED VIRAL OUTBREAK:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morningstar. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, violent behavior...and a one hundred percent mortality rate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BUT THE END IS ONLY THE BEGINNING:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead, it escalates into a worldwide pandemic.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  NOW, A SINGLE LAW OF NATURE DOMINATES THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPE:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Live or die, kill or be killed. On one side of the world, thousands of miles from home, a battle-hardened general surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash private, and dozens of refugees -- all are his responsibility. While in the United States, an army colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar and collaborates with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6904'),
(7434, 'Plague Ship', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rip''s dark fingers halted their circular motion. "Dane " he warned, "don''t you go talking against this venture. We got it soft and we''re going to be credit-happy-if it works out-"'' (Excerpt)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9093'),
(7435, 'Plain Truth', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1653'),
(7436, 'The Plains of Passage', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth''s Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters'' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our "memory" were as instinctual as that of the Clan.) The saga continues the cross-continental journey of Ayla, her mate Jondalar and their menagerie to his homeland. En route, they encounter a variety of problems, yet manage to find panaceas for each. Their enlightened compilation of skills, inventions, therapies and recipes transforms the voyagers into spirit-like personas providing The Others with constant awe. A brief encounter with the Neanderthal Clan rekindles the unique charm of the first (and strongest) book. Such locutions as "out of the cooking skin into the coals" or "Mother''s path of milk" for the Milky Way are coyly anachronistic. Nonetheless, this volume is as welcome as letters from a long-lost friend. A novel 1.25 million first printing; major ad/promo; first serial to Ladies'' Home Journal; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Auel follows the successful formula of the other books in this series--man''s emergence from primitivism to civilization. Ayla and Jondalar continue their journey, accompanied by Whinny, Racer, and Wolf, closely observing the terrain and prudently, even inventively, developing "modern" techniques to deal with danger and evil. Perhaps most interesting is Ayla''s triumph over the matriarchal despot Attaroa; the reverberating echoes of the women''s movement''s attendant strengths and weaknesses lend a nice touch of irony. The love scenes are not quite as steamy as in the other books. The conclusion is too abrupt, coming just as the characters reach their destination, but The Plains of Passage is still satisfying.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Joan L. Reynolds, West Potomac High School, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8118'),
(7437, 'Plan of Attack', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward''s latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history revealing precise details and the evolution of the Top Secret war planning under the restricted codeword Polo Step; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war. This team recruited 87 Iraqi spies designated with the cryptonym DB/ROCKSTARS, one of whom turned over the personnel files of all 6,000 men in Saddam Hussein''s personal security organization. What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings in the White House Situation Room and the Oval Office, and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin.Plan of Attack provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq''s alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war''s aftermath.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1361'),
(7438, 'Planet Of The Apes', 'Pierre Boulle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4055'),
(7439, 'Planet Pirates 2 - The Death of Sleep', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10799'),
(7440, 'Planet Pirates Omnibus', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10863'),
(7441, 'Planet X', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dispatched to cope with the growing crisis, Captain Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  receive some unexpected visitors from another reality -- in the form of the group of mutant heroes known as the uncanny X-MenÂ®. Storm, leader of the X-Men, offers their help in resolving a situation that is agonizingly similar to the human/mutant conflicts of their own time and space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when hostile aliens appear in orbit around Xhaldia to try and abduct the transformed for use as a superpowered force in an attack on the Federation, even the combined forces of the crew of Starfleet and the X-Men may be unable to prevent an inferno of death and destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starfleet''s finest crew and Earth''s greatest mutant heroes will need all their powers and abilities to save the Xhaldian people and stop a deadly threat to the Federation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: VoyagerÂ®\n  </em>\n  episode "Resistance" prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4742'),
(7442, 'The Plant', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Plant is a serial novel published in 2000 as an e-book by Stephen King.\n <br />\n The American author Stephen King wrote a few parts of a story by the same name and sent out as chapbooks to his friends instead of Christmas cards in 1982, 1983, and 1985. Only three installments were produced by Philtrum Press before the story was shelved, and the original editions are hotly sought-after collector''s items today.\n <br />\n In 2000, King picked up The Plant again and started to publish it as an electronic serial. The first part (matching the 1982 story) was put on his own web site for anyone to download. He also said that he wanted everyone that downloaded the story to pay him $1 either before or after reading it.\n <br />\n The idea was that if enough people paid up, more parts would be published in the same way. The limit was set at 75% of payers versus downloaders. The rate of paying customers decreased over time, but at least the first parts were over the set limit. As of mid-2001, six parts have been published (making up the first somewhat self-contained part of the novel). King has said that there will be more, but that some other projects will be finished first. To date there has been no further mention of the story.\n <br />\n The story tells of a person working as editor on a paperback publishing house. One day he gets a manuscript from what seems like a crackpot. It''s about magic, but it also contains photographs that seem very real. He writes a rejection slip about the book, but on grounds of the photographs, he also notifies the police where the author lives. This enrages the author who sends a mysterious plant to the editor''s office.\n <br />\n The story is told in epistolary format, consisting entirely of letters, memos, and so on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8536'),
(7443, 'The Plantation', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first to disappear is a ski instructor, out for a morning jog in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Hours later, a pregnant woman is abducted from a crowded hospital and smuggled past security without a hitch. Two places, two incidents, a single motive. One by one, in cities across America, people of all ages are being taken from their homes, their cars, their lives. But these aren''t random kidnappings. They''re crimes of passion, planned and researched several months in advance, then executed with a singular objective in mind. Ariane Walker is one of the victims, dragged from her apartment with no obvious signs of a struggle. The cops said there is little they can do for her. There isn''t enough evidence to go on. Not enough time has passed. But that isn''t good enough for Jonathon Payne. He loves Ariane and isn''t about to sit around while her trail runs cold. Using the skills that he learned in the Maniacs, a special branch of the U.S. military, Payne and his best friend, David Jones, give chase, trekking to New Orleans on little more than a whim, hoping that Payne''s gut instinct pays off. It does. With the help of several locals, the duo slowly begin to uncover the mystery of Walker''s abduction and the shocking truth behind Louisiana''s best-kept secret; The Plantation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(7444, 'Play Dead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter''s affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another golden''s death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years before. Andy pushes the boundaries of the law even further as he struggles to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take canine testimony seriously. It will take all the tricks Andy''s fertile mind can conceive to get to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder, and save a dog''s life--and his own--in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/859'),
(7445, 'Play with fire', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Detective Kate Shugak''s discovery of a decomposed body in a burned Alaskan woods leads her to a cultic community where outsiders are not welcome. By the Edgar Award-winning author of *A Cold Day for Murder*. SUMMARY: Formerly the star investigator in the Anchorage D.A''s office, Kate Shugak now tracks down criminals from her Aleut homestead. But she and her wolf-dog Mutt are taking a June break to pick wild morel mushrooms among the charred trees left by a devastating forest fire. In the ashes Kate also uncovers the mysterious corpse of a naked man. And when she is "hired" by a ten-year-old to locate his missing dad, she fears she has already found him. The reason how and why he died, however, is buried deeper than his body. Finding it will lead Kate to the remains of a woolly mammoth in a Fairbanks museum, back to her old lover Jack Morgan, and far afield to an isolated settlement of religious fundamentalists ... as she follows a twisted road toward a smoldering evil and the flash point for a macabre murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(7446, 'Playback', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.â€ --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œChandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.â€ --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œPhilip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.â€ --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œNobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.â€ â€”_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œRaymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandlerâ€™s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.â€ --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.â€ --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œChandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.â€ â€”Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.â€ --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.â€ --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Chandler]â€™s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world thatâ€™s like ours, but isnâ€™t. â€ --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7345'),
(7447, 'The Player of Games', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. It''s a playground society of sports, stellar cruises, parties, and festivals. Jernau Gurgeh, a famed master game player, is looking for something more and finds it when he''s invited to a game tournament at a small alien empire. Abruptly Banks veers into different territory. The Empire of Azad is exotic, sensual, and vibrant. It has space battle cruisers, a glowing court--all the stuff of good old science fiction--which appears old-fashioned in contrast to Gurgeh''s home. At first it''s a relief, but further exploration reveals the empire to be depraved and terrifically unjust. Its defects are gross exaggerations of our own, yet they indict us all the same. Clearly Banks is interested in the idea of a future where everyone can be mature and happy. Yet it''s interesting to note that in order to give us this compelling adventure story, he has to return to a more traditional setting. Thoughtful science fiction readers will appreciate the cultural comparisons, and fans of big ideas and action will also be rewarded. --Brooks Peck\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6691'),
(7448, 'Player piano', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Vonnegutâ€™s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paulâ€™s rebellion is vintage Vonnegutâ€“wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2963'),
(7449, 'The Player', 'Rhonda Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There''s nothing like a man in uniform...or out of it! Especially when he''s as hot as former Ranger Jamie Flanagan. After their last assignment went horribly wrong, he and his buddies needed to get out of the military for good. There was only one catch--that he and his pals promise their commanding officer one favor. *Any* favor. Now tall, dark and sexy Jamie is a top security specialist...and the ultimate ladies'' man. So he''s more than a little surprised when he learns the colonel has set him up to protect his granddaughter. Who would trust a player like Jamie with a gorgeous woman like Audrey? Then he learns his "mission" is to seduce her away from another man....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3617'),
(7450, 'Playing for Pizza', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstockâ€”and was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds, Rick finally gets a jobâ€”as the *starting *quarterback for the Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL playerâ€”any former NFL playerâ€”at their helm. And now theyâ€™ve got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesnâ€™t speak a word of Italian. To say that Italyâ€”the land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and *football americano*â€”holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1991'),
(7451, 'Playing the odds', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: bA #1 New York Times Bestselling Author /b PSerena MacGregor''s father knew she''d never settle down and produce a grandchild while working as a blackjack dealer on a luxury cruise ship. But he knew he could stack the odds in his favor by sending unsuspecting Justin Blade - part Comanche and all gambler - to see that his daughter was lucky in love . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2573'),
(7452, 'Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)', 'Derek Landy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Skulduggery Pleasant #2) SUMMARY: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend. Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet. But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home? Look for Scepter of the Ancients\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(7453, 'Playmates', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Spenser, America''s favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye, smells corruption in college town. Taft University''s hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash, and if Spenser doesn''t watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life. HC: Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4028'),
(7454, 'Playmates (1989)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 16', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10551'),
(7455, 'Please Look After Mom', 'Kyung-Sook Shin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Please Look After Mom\n  </em>\n  , where the bookâ€™s title character visits her adult son in Seoul.Â  He lives in a duty office in the building where he works, because he can''t afford an apartment. At night, they sleep on the floor and she offers to lie next to the wall to shield him from a draft.Â  â€œI can fall asleep better if Iâ€™m next to the wall,â€ she says.Â  And with this gesture, we catch a glimpse of the depth of love she has for her first-born and the duty-bound sacrifices sheâ€™s made on behalf her family.\n  <em>\n   Please Look After Mom\n  </em>\n  is the story of a mother, and her familyâ€™s search for her after she goes missing in a crowded train station, told through four richly imagined voices:Â  her daughterâ€™s, her oldest sonâ€™s, her husbandâ€™s, and finally her own.Â  Each chapter adds a layer to the storyâ€™s depth and complexity, until we are left with an indelible portrait of a woman whose entire identity, despite her secret desires, is tied up in her children and the heartbreaking loss that is felt when family bonds loosen over time. Kyung-sook Shinâ€™s elegantly spare prose is a joy to read, but it is the quiet interstitial space between her words, where our own remembrances and regrets are allowed to seep in, that convicts each one of us to our core._--Shane Hansanuwat_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Guest Reviewer: Jamie Ford\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jamie Ford\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some books change us. They change the way we look at ourselves, the way we interact with those closest to our hearts--the way weâ€™ve loved those people, or the way weâ€™ve missed them or honored them or taken them hopelessly for granted. This is one of those books. This is a book that alters the way we\n  <em>\n   remember\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™m an author, so this is where my own writerly fail-safes kick-in, warning of hype and hyperbole..._but even in reflection_...Iâ€™m not speaking falsely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Please Look After Mom\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a story of familial loss and longing, of the many veils of shame and surrender beneath one roof. This tale is a door, and once you cross its threshold, youâ€™ll never be able to go back to that comfortable place you came from. Your perceptions will be transformed. Permanently.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Park So-nyo, an elderly mother from a rural town visiting her children on her birthday, vanishes over the event horizon of a crowded Seoul train station, four narratives unfold--four dimensions of loss, anger, blame, and sacrifice--four angles of persistence. (Perhaps itâ€™s no mere coincidence that the number four in Korean is a homonym for â€œdeath.â€)\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as the four pillars of one family are shaken by this mysterious disappearance, we are also enriched as we learn about the wealth of emotional currency that has been exchanged over one lifetime--tender payments, and the debts owed, from children to parent, from husband to wife, from an aged mother to...herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is four stories, four echoes, four promises, and four lamentations--that make a whole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is your gentle warning, dear reader.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And an invitation, to the kind of book I wish I could read again for the first time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Conversation with Author Kyung-Sook Shin\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Please Look After Mom\n   </em>\n   is written in four distinct voices: a daughter, a son, a father, and finally â€œMomâ€ herself. Why did you decide to structure the novel in this way? Which voice came to you first?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Human beings are multi-dimensional. But what we know about our mothers doesnâ€™t always tell the whole story of who they are. I wanted to show a â€˜Momâ€™ who was a complex and profound human being. As it was impossible to do this in a single personâ€™s voice, I needed multiple narrators. In the novel, the voices of the daughter, son and father are narrated in the second person, â€œyouâ€ and the third person, â€œherâ€. Itâ€™s only the mother who uses the first person. I had in mind the fact that, when a woman becomes a mother, she no longer gets to speak or sometimes even think in terms of that â€œIâ€. Of the four different voices in the book, the motherâ€™s is perhaps the most vivid and powerful. When I was writing it, it felt as though my motherâ€™s hand had heldâ€”even grippedâ€”my authorial hand, so that she could tell her own story.\n  <strong>\n   This is an extremely personal novel, and readers will undoubtedly think about their relationship with their own mothers while reading. Did you draw on your relationship with your own family while writing the book?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  My own family relationships do in fact make up the background, but the episodes in the novel were invented, or altered from reality. My own mother for example, thankfully, has never gone missing. But, speaking at a symbolic level, many mothers of our generation, I believe, have gone missing or remain neglected.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Has your mother read this novel? If so, what did she think/say to you about it?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  That she was proud of me for having written it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In\n   <em>\n    Please Look After Mom\n   </em>\n   , you beautifully describe many elements of Korean cultureâ€”the Full Moon Harvest, the food, clothing, etc.â€”that most Americans may not be familiar with. Are there any traditions that you are particularly excited to share with readers here?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The novelâ€™s various aspects of Korean culture came up naturally as I was describing the everyday life of the â€˜Momâ€™ character. The Chuseok holiday, or the Full Moon Harvest, in Korea is similar to Thanksgiving in America. On that day, family members all over the country return to their hometowns. In order to show gratitude to our ancestors, offerings are prepared from the seasonâ€™s harvest. We also pay our respects at their gravesites. On a clear night, you can see the full moon on Chuseok. Thereâ€™s a popular saying that translates roughly to, â€œMay your life be as plentiful and full of joy as a Chuseok night.â€ It expresses the sentiment that the personâ€™s life will be as bright as the full moon during the harvest festival. Last year, I got to spend my first American Thanksgiving in New York. I was invited to have dinner by a friend whoâ€™d been living in New York for a long time. Turkey was served, of course, and I had a wonderful time sharing the meal with my hostâ€™s family. Just as Americans celebrate the day over turkey, Koreans spend Chuseok sharing songpyeon, or half-moon shaped rice cakes, with their families. I was delighted by the similarities between the two holidays. Dining with someone, especially these days, isnâ€™t simply a matter of sating oneâ€™s hungerâ€”preparing a meal with someone and dining under the same roof is of course a way of connecting. You can drink tea with just anyone, but to dine with someone shows how close you are to that person. In my book, â€˜Momâ€™ is always preparing warm meals, often to send them to family members living out in the city. I wanted food to play an important role in my bookâ€”a symbol of warmth that canâ€™t be expressed with words. I wish I could prepare for my American readers the many Korean dishes that appear in\n  <em>\n   Please Look After Mom\n  </em>\n  , so that we could share them together!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But, moving beyond food, Korea has a number of beautifully elegant Buddhist temples, such as Hwaeomsa, Pusoksa and Haeinsa, and\n  <em>\n   seowon\n  </em>\n  (a kind of Confucian academy) such as Dosanseowon and Byungsanseowon. These are sacred and quiet spaces, containing the spirit and culture of the country. You should definitely pay them a visit if you are ever in Korea. If you have an interest in music, try listening to\n  <em>\n   pansori\n  </em>\n  , Korean traditional music, which contains a different resonance than Western harmonics, and expresses a distinctly Korean sorrow and humor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Your novel is being published in many countries and people around the world are identifying with the characters you have depicted. What are some of the universal truths of the relationship between mothers and children that you explore in the novel?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The line by Mom when she finds her motherâ€™s soul (â€œDid Mom know? That I, too, needed her my entire life?â€) expresses, I believe, a universal truth. When Iâ€™d written that sentence, I felt that the work was complete. We all need mothers, regardless of who we are. Even those who are currently mothers!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One theme that runs throughout the novel is that of personal dreams versus sacrifice for family. Do you feel that this struggle is different for older and younger generations?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Thereâ€™s that old saying that God couldnâ€™t do everything himself, so he created mothers. No matter how much society advances, thereâ€™s bound to be some gap between a womanâ€™s desire for self-actualization and her need to give of herself for her family. Of course, the situation has improved a great deal, but the dilemma persists. It still holds that one personâ€™s development comes from someone elseâ€™s care and sacrifice: nothing and no one can replace a mother. I think humankind has been able to sustain itself because, at its center, thereâ€™s this entity called, â€œMom.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   You are now an extremely well-known and widely respected author in Korea. Has this fame dramatically changed your life, and your experience of being a writer? What kind of responses did the novel receive in Korea?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I published my first work of fiction in a Korean literary journal at twenty-two. From age sixteen to thirty, I was always working. I went to high school at night and worked during the day for a company that made stereo systems. When I was in college, I would tutor children, write and do research for the school newspaper, and read to those whoâ€™d suddenly gone blind. Even after my first book was published, I worked all sorts of jobs, any really, that would allow me to write: an editor at a publishing house, a writer for a classical radio station or for magazines, etc. My experience at these jobs provided vivid material for when it came time to write. But it was when I was about to turn thirty, when I published my second book, that people began to really pay attention. It was totally unexpected. The book was a collection of nine stories, and within six-months after it was published, 300,000 copies had been sold. It was the first time that a short-story collection had done so well in Korea. Everyone was surprised. For the next twenty years, my readers have stayed with me for every book I published. Thanks to their support, I have been able to live a life of great freedom, and to devote all of my time to writing. This was a dramatic shift for me. Writing and my personal life became like two sides of the same coin. Whatever I was experiencing at a personal level in Korean society, I tried novelizing to the most truthful and powerful extent possible, and my readers seemed to actively engage with my work and sympathize with it. Even today, I write a little every day without being tied down to anything else. I only feel free when Iâ€™m writing, and the best way I know how to give back for this invaluable freedom is to write in a way that engages peopleâ€”and will make readers curious about what the next work will be like!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Although this is your first book to be published in English, youâ€™ve written numerous other works of fiction. When did you first begin to write and what topics were you drawn to?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Iâ€™m the product of my motherâ€™s influence. My mother would look so happy when she saw me reading a book. I started out reading to bring more happiness to my mother, who always looked so tired. Even before I was ten, it was my dream to become a writer. I began writing fiction on my own when I was in high school. Of course, it was an exercise more than anything. I wrote in any form I wantedâ€”stories, essays, poemsâ€”pieces where often, the beginning didnâ€™t even fit with the end. I was a young girl whoâ€™d moved to Seoul from the countryside. I lied about my age to get a job at a company. Back then, South Korea was an industrial society and not yet a democracy, and there were disputes between the workers and the company, demonstrations almost every day. Hearing cries of protest from outside, I would lay out my notebook on the conveyor belt and write. Writing was what got me through those years; five years later, I formally made my debut as a writer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I wrote, wanting to produce a work that expressed human beauty and its almost magical strength even when confronted with the most tragic situations. I wanted, too, to write about respect and compassion for life. Now that I am older I have these same hopes. But I also hope that after they read my works, readers will be seized by the longing to remember and see again someone theyâ€™d forgotten, or some aspect of life they may have overlooked. Whenever I see people drowning in suffering and sadness, I feel a strong compulsion to return to my writing. I would like for my work to in a way play a maternal role, of standing by those who feel sorrow, whether it is of social or personal origin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tell us more about your writing habits. When and where do you like to write?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I like best to write from 3 in the morning till 9 in the morning. I like the feeling of writing in darkness and working myself, little by little, towards light. One of my habits as I write is that I often wash my hands in cold water.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Is there a message that you hope readers take away from\n   <em>\n    Please Look After Mom\n   </em>\n   ?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Iâ€™ll point you to the novelâ€™s epigraph, by Franz Liszt: â€œLove, so long as you can love.â€ And Iâ€™d hope youâ€™d remember, and realize again the plain truth that your mother was not born that way, that she too had to become a mother. Taking the time to think about your mother might also mean taking the time to think about yourself. If anyone wants to call his or her mother after reading this book, it would please me very much.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lastly, you are living here in the U.S. this year, studying at Columbia. What have you enjoyed most about living in New York?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Iâ€™m very much enjoying the tremendous variety of culture New York has to offer: MoMA, The Guggenheim, The Met, The Frick, The Morgan Library, The Whitney. Iâ€™m also visiting small galleries in Chelsea. Iâ€™ve been going to the opera, theater, musicals, the ballet and the cinema. Iâ€™m also trying all sorts of cuisines. Restaurants from all of the world seem to be gathered in New York. The beauty, spectacle and drama that echoes at the Metropolitan Opera, especially, is something you canâ€™t get in Korea, so I have acquired season tickets. But, â€œcultureâ€ is everywhere here; the streets of Manhattan themselves feel like theater. When Iâ€™m strolling around, I always have the pleasure of finding something new that I didnâ€™t notice the day before.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This novel from widely acclaimed Korean author Shin focuses on motherhood and family guilt. Park So-nyo, mother of four now-adult children, has gone missing in a Seoul train station on the way to visit them. The novel is told in four parts, from the perspectives of, first, her daughter, and then, her firstborn son, her husband, and finally, So-nyo herself. Composed almost entirely in second-person narration, the writing is sharp, biting, and intensely moving. So-nyoâ€™s children continually battle with their own guilt for not taking better care of her while reminiscing about the times when they were young, growing up in incredible poverty in the countryside. The children come to terms with their motherâ€™s absence in their own ways, and their father repents for a lifetime of neglect. When So-nyoâ€™s voice enters the narrative, the portrait of a troubled but loving family is complete. Secrets are revealed, and the heart of a mother is beautifully exposed. This Korean million-plus-copy best-seller is an impressive exploration of family love, poverty, and triumphing over hardship. --Julie Hunt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4469'),
(7456, 'The pleasure instinct: why we crave adventure, chocolate, pheromones, and music', 'Gene Wallenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An intriguing look at the evolutionary origins and purpose of human pleasure "Wallenstein shows that pleasure is an evolutionary tactic, a means whereby natural selection gets us to do certain things--often for better, sometimes for worse. Either way, it behooves us to understand our own ''pleasure instinct, '' and this insightful, important book helps point the way." --David P. Barash, professor of psychology, University of Washington, and author of "How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories" Call it bliss, elation, cheer, thrills, spice, titillation, glee, exuberance, mirth, joy, jubilation, or just plain fun--we all desire it, but what is pleasure, exactly? Why do we spend so much of our time, money, and energy in pursuit of it? How does one person''s relaxing glass of wine with dinner become another person''s nightmare of alcoholism? And how is it that human beings can find pleasure in such a huge variety of experiences? In the past, these questions have come mainly from the realms of moral philosophy, religion, and psychology. "The Pleasure Instinct" finds convincing answers in a place where few have thought to look before--human evolution. From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love of family and friends to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(7457, 'The Pleasure of My Company', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the bestselling author of *Shopgirl* comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he exists. He passes the time idly filling out contest applications, counting ceiling tiles, and estimating the wattage of light bulbs.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is through Daniel''s growing attachment to Clarissa, and to Teddy, that he finally gains the courage to begin to engage the world outside, and in doing so, he discovers love, and life, in the most surprising places.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with his trademark humor, tenderness, and out and out hilarious wordplay, *The Pleasure of My Company* is a tour de force sure to delight all of Steve Martin''s fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3824'),
(7458, 'The Plotters', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki find themselves at a crucial moment in British history: London, November 1605. When they uncover a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, they think they know what to expect. But they''re in for a very unpleasant surprise.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4797');
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(7459, 'Plum Island', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Taking the best elements from two of his most outstanding bestsellers, The Gold Coast and The General''s Daughter, Nelson DeMille combines the breathless suspense of an expertly wrought murder mystery with his wry perspective on a peculiarly American social scene to deliver an enthralling and compelling story. Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey''s big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for. The early signs point to a burglary gone wrong. But because the Gordons were biologists at Plum Island, the offshore animal disease research site rumored to be involved in germ warfare, it isn''t long before the media is suggesting that the Gordons stole something very deadly. Suddenly a local double murder becomes a crime with national and worldwide implications. John Corey doesn''t like mysteries, which is why he likes to solve them. His investigations lead him into the lore, legends, and ancient secrets of northern Long Island -- more deadly and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. During his journey of discovery, he meets two remarkable women, Detective Beth Penrose and Mayflower descendant Emma Whitestone, both of whom change his life irrevocably. Ultimately, through his understanding of the murders, John Corey comes to understand himself. Fast-paced and atmospheric, marked by entrancing characters, incandescent storytelling, and brilliant comic touches, Plum Island is Nelson DeMille at his thrill-inducing best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7110'),
(7460, 'Plum lovin&#39;', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From #1 blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes a Stephanie Plum novel that takes adventure, action, suspense (and maybe even true love?) to new heights. WATCH YOUR BACK . . . LOOK BOTH WAYS . . . BECAUSE LOVE IS IN THE AIR . . . AND THAT MEANS BIG TROUBLE! Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum s apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie--and he s not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a relationship expert who is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie needs to find her, fast. Diesel knows where she is. So they make a deal: He ll help her get Annie if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie s most difficult clients. But someone wants to find Annie even more than Diesel and Stephanie. Someone with a nasty temper. And someone with unmentionable skills. Does Diesel know more than he s saying about Annie Hart? Does Diesel have secrets he s keeping from Stephanie and the two men in her life--Ranger and Morelli? With Stephanie Plum in over her head, things are sure to get a little dicey and a little explosive, Jersey style!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2139'),
(7461, 'Plum Lucky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephanie has a way of attracting danger, lunatics, oddballs, bad luckâ€¦and mystery men. And no one is more mysterious than Diesel. Heâ€™s hot on the trail of a little man in green pants whoâ€™s lost a giant bag of money. Problem is, the money isnâ€™t exactly lost. Stephanieâ€™s Grandma Mazur has found it, and like any good Jersey senior citizen, sheâ€™s hightailed it in a Winnebago to Atlantic City and hit the slots. With Lula and Connie in tow, Stephanie attempts to bring Grandma home. But the luck of the Irish is rubbing off on everyone: Lulaâ€™s found a job modeling plus-size lingerie. Connieâ€™s found a guy. Dieselâ€™s found Stephanie. And Stephanie has found herself in over her head in this all-you-can-eat buffet of thrills, chills, shrimp cocktail, plus-size underwear, and scorching hot men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2138'),
(7462, 'Plum Punch: Four Short Tales', 'David Moynihan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(7463, 'Plum Spooky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The First Full Length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich. Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey. According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys. Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. Heâ€™s chosen Martin Munch, boy genius, as his new business partner, and heâ€™s chosen the Barrens as his new playground. Munch received his doctorate degree in quantum physics when he was twenty-two. Heâ€™s now twenty-four, and while his brain is large, his body hasnâ€™t made it out of the boysâ€™ department at Macyâ€™s. Anyone who says good things come in small packages hasnâ€™t met Munch. Wulf Grimoire is looking for world domination. Martin Munch would be happy if he could just get a woman naked and tied to a tree. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has Munch on her most-wanted list for failure to appear in court. Plum is the all-American girl stuck in an uncomfortable job, succeeding on luck and tenacity. Usually she gets her man. This time she gets a monkey. She also gets a big guy named Diesel. Diesel pops in and out of Plumâ€™s life like birthday cake â€“ delicious to look at and taste, not especially healthy as a steady diet, gone by the end of the week if not sooner. Heâ€™s an Ã¼ber bounty hunter with special skills when it comes to tracking men and pleasing women. Heâ€™s after Grimoire, and now heâ€™s also after Munch. And if truth were told, he wouldnâ€™t mind setting Stephanie Plum in his crosshairs. Diesel and Plum hunt down Munch and Grimoire, following them into the Barrens, surviving cranberry bogs, the Jersey Devil, a hair-raising experience, sand in their underwear, and, of course . . . monkeys.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2150'),
(7464, 'A Pocketful of Rye', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ''counting house'' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.  Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Miss Marple''s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5200'),
(7465, 'Podkayne of Mars', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10409'),
(7466, 'Poe&#39;s Children: The New Horror : An Anthology', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Anyone concerned about the future of horror will find plenty of reassurance in this outstanding reprint anthology showcasing short fiction by today''s best writers in the genre. Straub (_The Throat_) skillfully varies tempo and style, mixing stories of psychological terror with more traditional ghostly tales. Thomas Tessier puts a fresh spin on the empty old house theme in the memorable In Praise of Folly, in which the lonely protagonist pursues his fascination with bizarre structures to the Adirondacks. Tessier subtly raises chills even as the tale proceeds to its inevitable and dark conclusion. Another winner is Dan Chaon''s The Bees, a powerful account of a man haunted by mistakes of the past. Ramsey Campbell''s terrifying The Voice of the Beach echoes Algernon Blackwood''s classic The Willows, with its account of two friends'' fateful encounter with a remote beach that may be an entry point to another dimension. Aimed at a general audience, this volume also includes works by Stephen King, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link and Joe Hill.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n With an introduction by the much honored Straub (_Ghost Story_), this collection can be dubbed New Wave horror, considering that most of its 24 stories were published fairly recently and it includes contributions by celebrity horror writers. The tales mostly eschew buckets of blood, instead employing mood and suggestion in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe. "Little Red''s Tango," Straub''s lengthy quasigospel of a record-collecting obsessive, complete with beatitudes and a seductive demon, ably represents the editor''s definition of New Wave horror. All the stories honor Poe, like the moody, contagious delusions of Stephen King''s "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet." The genre can be literary, as exemplified by Tia V. Travis''s vengeful "The Kiss," Thomas Tessier''s surprising "In Praise of Folly," and, probably the most demonstrably Poe-like, Ramsey Campbell''s "The Voice of the Beach," featuring a neurasthenic narrator, suffocating suggestibility, and nearly palpable imagery. Brian Evenson''s creepy "Body" and Dan Chaon''s touching "The Bees" culminate in the horror of bad deeds catching up. The other stories included are without exception excellent. Recommended for all libraries.â€”Jonathan Pearce, California State Univ.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Stanislaus, Stockton\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5085'),
(7467, 'The poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A special promotional edition of The Poet including a first chapter of the new Michael Connelly thriller, The Narrows to be published in May 2004. With a new introduction by Stephen King."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2419'),
(7468, 'Point of Impact', 'Steve Perry &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New World Order.\n</p>\n<p>\n A New Global Threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beyond the Point of No Return.\n</p>\n<h1>\n 5 in series.\n</h1>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n <em>\n  Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Debt of Honor.\n </em>\n Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n <em>\n  State of Emergency\n </em>\n and co-creator of\n <em>\n  Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n </em>\n series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7874'),
(7469, 'Point of origin', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The nearly surreal opening scene of Unnatural Exposure makes Cornwell''s latest Kay Scarpetta immediately gripping and quite possibly literary", declared Patricia Holt in her front-page San Francisco Chronicle review of the author''s most recent instant #1 bestseller. "Patricia Cornwell retains that finer Dickensian indignation with the ways of the world that has been neglected by the small landscapes of much so-called serious writing", observed Mary Lee Settle in The Washington Post. "Cornwell is the class act", wrote Mary Cantwell in Vogue.Now America''s leading crime writer combines that literary talent and style with a fierce commitment to justice in her thrilling and complex new Scarpetta novel. Point of Origin will stand as one of Cornwell''s best, a gripping story that transcends the genre to examine the dark side of the human soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4109'),
(7470, 'Pointblank', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A BOLD NEW CONTINGENTâ€“FORCE RECONâ€“JOINS THE EXPLOSIVE STARFIST SPACE EPIC OF MARINES AT WAR.A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition worlds arrayed against it. The outnumbered and outgunned forces cling precariously to their foothold, dubbed â€œBataanâ€ by the desperate men in their fighting bunkers. Reinforcements are on the way, but will they arrive in time? And even if they do, can they match the well-led, highly motivated enemy determined to destroy them in battle?But the Confederation commander holds a wild card, an elite force armed only with what they carry on their backs and in their heads: a small detachment of Marines who lightly go where others fear to tread, the Fourth Force Recon Company. For anyone else this mission would be suicide, but for these Marines, itâ€™s just another day in the maelstrom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(7471, 'Poirot Investigates', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The colorful Belgian detective with the waxed mustache and the egg-shaped head uses his little gray cells to solve 14 of his most baffling cases, ranging from country house murders to an adventure in an Egyptian tomb. Ageless, timeless mystery from the "Queen of Crime." **MASS MARKET PAPER**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5272'),
(7472, 'Poirot Loses a Client', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hercule Poirot has a hard time finding a single suspect in the murder of an old lady everyone loved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5212'),
(7473, 'The Poison Belt', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9380'),
(7474, 'The Poison Eaters: And Other Stories', 'Holly Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her debut collection, "New York Times" best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of "Tithe" in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. These stories have been published in anthologies such as "21 Proms," "The Faery Reel," and "The Restless Dead," and have been reprinted in many "Best of" anthologies. "The Poison Eater"s is Holly Black''s much-anticipated first collection of stories, and her ability to stare into the void--and to find humanity and humor there--will speak to young adult and adult readers alike. Illustrated by Theo Black. Holly Black is the author of "Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale" (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults) and two related novels, "Valiant" (Norton Award winner, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, CCBC Choices) and "Ironside." Her latest novel, "White Cat" is the first of a new series, The Curseworkers. She and Tony DiTerlizzi created the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. She is working on a graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors, with artist Ted Naifeh. She and her husband, Theo, live in Massachusetts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1976'),
(7475, 'Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance', 'Sara Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness.Determined to avenge the killing of her father, Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy. She becomes the confidante of Lucrezia Borgia and the lover of Cesare Borgia. At the same time, she is drawn to the young renegade monk who yearns to save her life and her soul.Navigating a web of treachery and deceit, Francesca pursues her fatherâ€™s killer from the depths of Romeâ€™s Jewish ghetto to the heights of the Vatican itself. In so doing, she sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation with ancient forces that will seek to use her darkest desires to achieve their own catastrophic ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3915'),
(7476, 'The Poisonwood Bible', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family''s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(7477, 'Poker Face', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10473'),
(7478, 'Polar Quest', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he''s gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting three snakes. He claims it''s over forty thousand years oldâ€”and that it may not have earthly origins.As the pair conduct their research, Annja soon realizes she has more to worry about than being caught in snowslides. Because everyone is hiding somethingâ€”from her friend, to the U.S. military personnel guarding the site. With no one to trust and someone out to kill her, Annja has nowhere to turn. And everything to lose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(7479, 'Polar Shift', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a jolt before reversing the effect, the NUMA Special Assignments Team must stop him. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/821'),
(7480, 'Politika', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Martin Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Actor Jay O. Sanders provides an acceptable narration of best-selling author Clancy''s (Debt of Honor, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/15/94) reactivation of hostilities between the United States and Russia. With widespread crop failures and the sudden death of Boris Yeltsin, the Russian situation is dire at best. Old-school communists see the opportunity to scuttle American relief efforts by launching a terrorist attack in Times Square. Roger Gordian, a U.S. businessman, finds his multinational corporation in peril and takes the initiative to prevent escalation to full-scale war. Sanders''s Russian accents are shaky and seem more appropriate to a Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure. Clancy''s abridged story is subject to frequent character shifts, and the action is difficult to follow. Libraries may skip this disjointed effort. Not recommended.?Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., IA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sudden death of Russia''s president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. The country is in the grip of famine and an uprising is inevitable. One of the provisional leaders asks the American president for help, but the whole world is watching when a deadly terrorist attack stuns the USA.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6495'),
(7481, 'Polly Shulman', 'The Grimm Legacy (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual libraryA- a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. ThatA''s where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow WhiteA''s stepmotherA''s sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crimeA-or captured by the thief. Polly Shulman has created a contemporary fantasy with a fascinating setting and premise, starring an ordinary girl whose after-school job is far from ordinaryA- and leads to a world of excitement, romance and magical intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9568'),
(7482, 'Polo', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Jilly Cooper''S Third Rutshire Chronicle We Meet Ricky France-Lynch, Who Is Moody, Macho, And Magnificent. He Had A Large Crumbling Estate, A Nine-Goal Polo Handicap, And A Beautiful Wife Who Was Fair Game For Anyone With A Cheque Book. He Also Had The Adoration Of Fourteen-Year-Old Perdita Macleod. Perdita Couldn''T Wait To Leave Her Dreary School And Become A Polo Player.The Polo Set Were Ritzy, Wild, And Gloriously Promiscuous.Perdita Thought She''D Get Along With Them Very Well.But Before She Had Time To Grow Up, Ricky''S Life Exploded Into Tragedy, And Perdita Turned Into A Brat Who Loved Only Her Horses - And Ricky France-Lynch.Ricky''S Obsession To Win Back His Wife, And Perdita''S To Win Both Ricky And A Place As A Top Class Polo Player, Take The Reader On A Wildly Exciting Journey - To The Estancias Of Argentina, To Palm Beach And Deauville, And On To The Royal Polo Fields Of England And The Glamorous Pitches Of California Where The Most Heroic Battle Of All Is Destined To Be Fought - A Match That Is About Far More Than Just The Winning Of A Huge Silver Cup...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1561'),
(7483, 'Pomes penyeach', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1773'),
(7484, 'Pontypool Changes Everything', 'Tony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exquisite writer . . . [B]lissfully overarching descriptions and deadpan humour that ensure Burgess won''t be filed as a horror writer." --\n  <em>\n   Uptown Magazine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Buy all his books." --\n  <em>\n   ow Magazine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It may be one of the most important novels published this year." --\n  <em>\n   Toronto Star\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pontypool Changes Everything is, quite literally, a hell of a read, enough to satisfy the most jaded appetite." --\n  <em>\n   eye Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dark side of humanity is explored in this electrifying science fiction thrillerÂ in whichÂ an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. Causing its inhabitants to strike out on murderous rampages,Â the virusÂ is caught through conversation and, once contracted, leads its host on a strange journeyâ€”into another world where the undead roam the streets of the smallest towns and largest cities, hungry for human flesh. Describing in chilling detail what it would be like if thousands suddenly caught such a virus and struck out on a mass, never-ending, cannibalistic spree, this terrifying narrative is perfect for those who are ready to explore their darkest secret imaginings through a sinister and compelling literary work of art. This new edition includes a new afterword on the making of the new motion picture.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6440'),
(7485, 'The pool of fire', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Will has escaped from the City of the Tripods to deliver terrifying information to the colony of free people: The Masters are planning to change the earth''s atmosphere to that of their own planet, exterminating the human race. There isn''t much time to stop them, but Will and the others have no alternative but to try. Will they succeed in freeing the world from the control of the Tripods? And if they do, what will a free world be like after centuries of domination? Thirty-five years after its original publication, we are proud to offer this anniversary edition of *The Pool of Fire,* featuring a new preface from John Christopher, as well as the author''s fully revised text, available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1608'),
(7486, 'Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high ''It''s all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You''re a very lucky girl '' I''m the best player of all.'' Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC, homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2045'),
(7487, 'Pop. 1280', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law--would stop pushing him around. Because when Nick is pushed, he begins to kill . . . or to make others do his killing for him!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2186'),
(7488, 'Poppy done to death', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small-town Southern librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister-in-law Poppy lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door. Poppy had her flaws, certainly-she and her husband were having trouble staying faithful to each other-but she didn''t deserve to be so brutally murdered.Investigating a case like this is never easy, of course, given the gossipy atmosphere of any small town, what with Poppy and her husband''s extramarital affairs, the local police detective (who also happens to be a former boyfriend of Roe''s) and his seemingly unresolved feelings for Poppy, and the need to protect Poppy''s family. But Roe is also coping with a burgeoning romantic relationship as well as the sudden appearance of her teenaged half brother. All in all, it''s a lot for one woman to have on her plate, even one as together as Roe.Longtime readers and new fans alike will delight in Roe''s exploits as she employs her impeccable knowledge of small town politics and enchanting Southern charm to solve the crime in this wonderful installment of Charlaine Harris'' terrific cozy series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(7489, 'Popular Hits of the Showa Era', 'Ryu Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Violence aficionado Murakami (Audition) drops a motley cast into a late 20th-century Japan that''s all decadence and social ineptitude. Though six young men have nothing in common except for having "given up on committing positively to anything in life," and are incapable of sustaining meaningful conversations, they get together often to drink, peep on an unsuspecting neighbor, and put on extravagant karaoke shows at a deserted spot on the coast. But when one of them impulsively slits a woman''s throat, he places his gang in opposition to the friends of his victim, a bevy of divorcÃ©es known as the Midori Society. The women exact revenge, the men respond with another blow, and the cycle of vengeance continues with ever-increasing gore and giddy nihilism. As it turns out, murderous revenge is just the thing to bring meaning back into life, and nothing nourishes friendship like a common cause. Murakami''s crackling prose makes the sickest human instincts seem fun. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakamiâ€™s deviously captivating novel about class and gender roles in twentieth-century Tokyo recounts the tale of six disaffected teenage boys and their attempt to satisfy an incomprehensible inner longing. Seemingly innocent, charmingly aloof, the boys spend evenings laughing uncontrollably for indeterminate reasons, belting karaoke tunes, and settling important matters with paper-rock-scissors tournaments. But their detachment turns disturbingly real when one of the boys dispassionately murders a member of the Midori Society, a group of six middle-aged women, all divorced mothers who canâ€™t seem to find love or happiness without one another. Once the Midoris seek their revenge, one of the funniest and strangest gang wars in recent literature ensues. As the battle becomes increasingly violent and the body count rises, the surprisingly optimistic opponents seem incapable of distinguishing the difference between defending a friendâ€™s honor and satisfying a lust for vengeance. Murakamiâ€™s characters can seem unfeeling, nihilistic, and self-indulgent, but the moral weight of this darkly comic tale is rooted in a crucial era in Japanâ€™s history, characterized by alternating periods of peace and extreme violence. --Jonathan Fullmer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6224'),
(7490, 'Port Mortuary', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell''s 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta''s past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy--a procedure the White House has mandated that she introduce in the private sector.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta''s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the Center''s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover who and why before more people die.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell brings Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in an intimate way that is reminiscent of the early novels, and we welcome a voice we haven''t heard in years. The point of view is Scarpetta''s, and this is her story.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10747'),
(7491, 'The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the #1 *New York Times* best-selling author of *God Is Not Great*, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you''ll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they''re all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--"political and literary journalist extraordinaire" (*Los Angeles Times*)--can.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: *The Portable Atheist* will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(7492, 'The Portable Pediatrician for Parents', 'Laura Nathanson Walther', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some parents in the post-Spock generation may think that when it comes to basic childcare instruction, Heidi Murkoff''s What to Expect series is the only game in town. But there are alternatives, and this one has a considerable advantage--especially from the viewpoint of parents with more than one small child--in that it covers birth-to-5 in a single, manageable volume. Laura Walther Nathanson, M.D., FAAP, also serves up loads of useful information--everything from breastfeeding to the impact of divorce on a child--in a writing style that''s authoritative without being pompous. She sounds less like a medical expert who happens to deal with children, and more like a fellow-parent who happens to be a medical expert. She refers to 3 and 4 year olds simply as Threes and Fours, pee is pee, and poo is poo. There are a couple of drawbacks, however. A minor complaint is the shockingly poor quality of the line illustrations, which manage to make smiling toddlers look deranged at best and demonic at worst. A more major issue is the book''s bland layout--there is lots and lots of plain gray text and very little has been done to make the most important information leap to the eye. Nonetheless, this is such an excellent source of information that it is a must for every parent''s shelf.\n <em>\n  --Richard Farr\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nathanson, a practicing pediatrician, has written a delightful, informative guide for parents of children from birth to age five. She divides her text into three basic sections: the well child, the sick child, and pediatric controversies and concerns. The section on the well child, which is the longest, is divided by age; Nathanson here discusses what to expect developmentally and behaviorally at each age and how to handle common problems. The section on the sick child focuses on common illnesses and what symptoms to look for, while the section on pediatric controversies and concerns treats everything from allergies to baby shots. Two smaller sections feature handouts for potentially awkward situations and a glossary of medical terms. Nathanson''s well-placed touches of humor throughout the book make even the dry parts interesting. An excellent complement to Fitzhugh Dodson and Ann Alexander''s Your Child: Birth to Age 6 (LJ 11/1/86), this book is recommended for patient education/consumer health collections.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Mary J. Jarvis, Methodist Hosp. Medical Lib., Lubbock, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11120'),
(7493, 'Porterhouse Blue', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, Porterhouse Blue is one of the best-loved, classic comic novels of our times Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter -with hilarious and catastrophic results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3883'),
(7494, 'Porthouse Blue', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10300'),
(7495, 'Portnoy&#39;s Complaint', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Portnoy''s Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: ''Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient''s "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.'' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift fÃ¼r Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6623'),
(7496, 'Portobello', 'Ruth Rendell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From crime fictionâ€™s reigning queen comes a diabolically intricate tale that weaves together the lives of very different people in the vibrant part of London known as Portobello.Fifty-year-old Eugene Wren inherited from his father an art gallery near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps, and childrenâ€™s clothing. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site. Eugene was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he had cut back radically on his alcohol consumption, and had given up cigarettes. Which was just as well, considering he was dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there was something he didnâ€™t want her to know.One day, Eugene comes across an envelope containing a sum of money. Rather than report the matter to the police, he writes a note and sticks it up on a lamppost near his house. This note would link a number of very different peopleâ€“each with their own obsessions, problems, dreams, and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello bustles on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3430'),
(7497, 'Portrait in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A serial killer takes his dead victims'' portraits and sends them to the media. Lieutenant Eve Dallas counts on her husband''s help to crack the case, but he''s just learned a devastating truth about his past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2343'),
(7498, 'Portrait of a Lady', 'Henry James; Anita Brookner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Portrait of a Lady_ is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  Rebecca West\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, â€œaffront her destiny.â€ James began\n <em>\n  The Portrait of a Lady\n </em>\n without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establishâ€”and then protectâ€”her independence. But Isabelâ€™s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. â€œJamesâ€™s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved,â€ writes Hortense Calisher, â€œmake him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8852'),
(7499, 'Portrait of a Spy: A Novel', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond (Rocky Mountain News). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him. In a dangerous world, one extraordinary woman can mean the difference between life and death. . . . For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London-a visit to a gallery in St. James''s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds. Haunted by his failure to stop the massacre of innocents, Gabriel returns to his isolated cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, until a summons brings him to Washington and he is drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen to whom Allah has granted a beautiful and seductive tongue. A gifted deceiver, who was once a paid CIA asset, the mastermind is plotting a new wave of attacks. Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there-a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood. . . .Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence, Portrait of a Spy moves swiftly from the corridors of power in Washington to the glamorous auction houses of New York and London to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert. Featuring a climax that will leave readers haunted long after they turn the final page, this deeply entertaining story is also a breathtaking portrait of courage in the face of unspeakable evil-and Daniel Silva''s most extraordinary novel to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8753'),
(7500, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joyce''s semi-autobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1776'),
(7501, 'Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychopath: She shackles them to the bed. She glues their eyes closed. She punctures their eardrums. She sews their lips shut. Torturess: They can''t move. They can''t see or hear. They can''t scream. All they can do is feel. And with her tools -- her scalpels and needles, her bonesaws and her knives -- She gives them a lot to feel. A full-force, hardcore psycho thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9876'),
(7502, 'Poseidon&#39;s Gold', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rome, AD 72: Marcus Didius Falco has returned home from a six-month mission to the German legions. When an ex-legionary friend of his is found viciously stabbed to death, Falco is the prime suspect. Now, he has only three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence and win a fortune.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFast-moving, funny and full of atmosphere; if you havenâ€™t met Marcus Didius Falco before, start here.â€â€“_Mail on Sunday_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "GREAT STUFF...A classic hard-boiled, smart-mouth detective who happens to work in ancient Rome."\n <br />\n --Molly Ivins\n <br />\n Los Angeles Daily News\n <br />\n After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.\n <br />\n Then the chief tarnisher of Festus''s good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor''s hungry lions...\n <br />\n "AN INTRIGUING TALE...COMPULSIVE READING."\n <br />\n --Roanoke Times &amp; World-News\n <br />\n "A VIVIDLY REALIZED IMPERIAL ROME--NOISY, DENSE AND DANGEROUS."\n <br />\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7173'),
(7503, 'The Positronic Man', 'Isaac Asimov;Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Andrew Martin, a standard housekeeping robot, allows the unique capabilities of his experimental brain to lead him to become an artist, businessman, and crusader, in a novel based on Asimov''s short story, "The Bicentennial Man." 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9516');
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(7504, 'Possession', 'J.M. Dillard &amp; Kathleen O&#39;Malley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eighty years ago, bodiless entities brought a plague of violence and bloodshed to the planet Vulcan. The nightmare ended only when the entities were trapped inside special containers.  Now, on the eve of a galaxy-scale scientific exposition, the containers have been opened, freeing the malevolent entities to possess the minds and bodies of all they encounter, including the crew of the "Starship Enterprise"(TM). Friends turn into foes, and no one can be trusted as Captain Picard faces a deadly and insidious threat. Unless the entities can be stopped once more, they will spread their madness throughout the entire federation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7330'),
(7505, 'Post Captain', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: ''Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.'' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey''s adventures in escaping from France and the debtors'' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4249'),
(7506, 'The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration&#39;s War on America', 'Pamela Geller; Robert Spencer; John Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and *New York Times *bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come. America is being tested in a way that she has never been tested before. Since taking the oath of office in January 2009, President Barack Obama has cheered our enemies and demoralized our allies. He is hard at work "remaking" America by destroying the free-market system and nationalizing major segments of our economy, demonizing dissent and restricting freedom of speech, turning against our longtime friends, and above all, subjecting us to the determinations of foreign authorities. In this timely and urgent battle cry, Pamela Geller, founder of the widely popular website www.AtlasShrugs.com, and *New York Times *bestselling author Robert Spencer team up to expose the Obama administrationâ€™s destructive agendaâ€”largely ignored by the mainstream mediaâ€”and rally Americans to protect the sovereignty of a country that is under siege by the highest levels of its own government. As Americans see their paychecks shrinking every day, Obama ignores our forefathersâ€™ founding principle: individual rights. Instead, he seeks to level the playing fieldâ€”to transform both the global and national landscape in favor of our enemiesâ€”even if it means cutting America off at the knees. He envisions himself as more than just a president of the United States, but as a shaper of the new world order, an internationalist energetically laying the groundwork for global government: the president of the world. A vital guide to helping conservatives prepare for the tough battles ahead, *The Post-American Presidency *critically examines the Obama administrationâ€™s ominous and revealing moves against our basic freedoms, particularly as he seizes control of the three engines of the American economy: health care, energy, and education. The Shining City on a Hill has gone dark. But America is not dead. The time is NOW to stand up and fight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3226'),
(7507, 'Postern of Fate', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The Beresfords are wonderfully revived. Smooth, beautifully paced, and effortlessly convincing.'' New York Times ''Past and present interlock impressively! this is a genuine tour de force.'' Observer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all...Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y -- J o r d a n -- d i d -- n o t -- d i e -- n a t u r a l l y! And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan''s enemies are still ready to kill!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9254'),
(7508, 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, **The Postman Always Rings Twice** is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America''s bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for **The Stranger**. Performed by Stanley Tucci\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1632'),
(7509, 'The Postman', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin''s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter''s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(7510, 'Postmarked the Stars', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9101'),
(7511, 'The Postmistress', 'Sarah Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Kathryn Stockett Interviews Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Postmistress\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : I should start by saying that I am honored to be on the same page with youâ€”I loved\n  <em>\n   The Postmistress\n  </em>\n  . The book is so complex, it gives you so much to think about and discuss. My first question to you is, how did the book come about? What made you start writing it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : Thanks so much, Kathrynâ€”and I''d like to lob those kind words right back at you; it''s a tremendous thrill for me to be in conversation with the author of\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Postmistress\n  </em>\n  began with a picture that sprang into my head one day, of a woman sorting the mail in the back of a post office, quietly slipping a letter into her pocket instead of delivering it. Immediately, questions flooded forward: Whose letter was it? Why on earth would she choose to pocket it? What havoc would be wreaked by not delivering a letter? As I answered those questions, Emma and Will and their love story, and the workings of the small town in which Iris was the center, came to life. One hundred pages into that draft, Frankie Bard arrived on the bus, out of the blue. I had no idea who she was or why she was there, except that one character referred to her as a war correspondent without a war. That was interesting, I thought. By this time I had decided to set the novel in the late thirties, early forties. It was 2001 and I was living in Washington, D.C., after the attacks of 9/11, and I was very preoccupied with trying to make sense of what was happening around me. Were we in danger? Would we go to war? The parallels between that uncertain time and the time before the United States entered World War II resonated with me, and what was a novel about accident and fate and the overlapping of lives deepened into a novel with war as its backdrop, which asked questions about how we understand ourselves to be in a historical moment and what we do when we are called to it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : Your book features three different women. From a logistical standpoint, did you find it hard to pull off the different points of view? I know this is something I spend a lot of time on in my workâ€”making sure the voices are distinct and also very much true to the different characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : To be honest, with this novel, the challenge was trying to keep each of these women in line, since each one threatened at some point or another to run away with the story! It took eight years for this story to become the novel you have in your hands, and in large part that''s because with the introduction of each character, I found myself going off and following an individual story, traveling further and further from a workable plot. By the time I had finished, I had written three separate novels, one for each of the three womenâ€”complete with love affairs, whole families, other townsâ€”and the challenge came not in trying to keep them distinct, but in trying to figure out how to weave their stories together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : Who is your favorite character, and why?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : I''m not sure I can answer that, since there are parts of each of these women I admire, and parts of each of them I don''t like. They are all broken in an essential wayâ€”a way I find incredibly interesting. When a reporter finds she cannot tell a story and a postmaster finds herself unable to pass along a letter, the moments they have arrived at as characters are compelling. Mrs. Cripps was certainly the most fun to writeâ€”she didnâ€™t have to carry too much weight in the telling of the story, and she was such a nosy parker it was fun to write her lines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : Is there a character in\n  <em>\n   The Postmistress\n  </em>\n  with whom you identify most? (And if you have been having trysts with good-looking soldiers in dark alleyways, please share!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : Oh, there are bits of me in all three women: certainly Frankie''s rage and sorrow, the desire to get the story (something I despaired of often in the eight years of writing); Iris''s love of order; and Emma''s feeling of invisibility, her longing for the sense that someone would watch over her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : The most haunting scenes for meâ€”and there were manyâ€”were those of Frankie on the train with Thomas and of the mother and child on the train platform. How did these scenes come about? Were they difficult to write?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : Much of the drive to write the book had to do with my own attempt to write my way toward understanding the sudden, final breaks that crack into our lives, in the form of accidents, death, other irrevocable events. I have two sons, and while it is impossible for me to imagine putting them on a train by themselves, with nothing but paper to send them to safety, it was easy to conjure feelings of despair and heartbreak. The book is full of mothers and sons being torn apart by childbirth, bombs, and visas; but the last partingâ€”the mother embracing her boy in the train car with Frankieâ€”was probably the most difficult to write. It''s the hardest to comprehend, and yet it happened all the time, saying good-bye, knowingly, possibly forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kathryn Stockett\n  </strong>\n  : What research did you do for historical accuracy? You seem to have really nailed the time period.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sarah Blake\n  </strong>\n  : Thank you. I''m glad it feels credible. I read many books on the history of World War II, pored through\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazines from 1939 to 1945 for a sense of how much things cost and what they looked like, read Federal Writers Project interviews with all types of people living on Cape Cod in the 1930s, watched movies made in 1940 and 1941 (my favorite is\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Kathryn Stockett Â© Kem Lee)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weaving together the stories of three very different women loosely tied to each other, debut novelist Blake takes readers back and forth between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940. Single, 40-year-old postmistress Iris James and young newlywed Emma Trask are both new arrivals to Franklin, Mass., on Cape Cod. While Iris and Emma go about their daily lives, they follow American reporter Frankie Bard on the radio as she delivers powerful and personal accounts from the London Blitz and elsewhere in Europe. While Trask waits for the return of her husbandâ€”a volunteer doctor stationed in Englandâ€”James comes across a letter with valuable information that she chooses to hide. Blake captures two different worldsâ€”a naÃ¯ve nation in denial and, across the ocean, a continent wracked with terrorâ€”with a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions, such as the merits of truth and truth-telling in wartime.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7995'),
(7512, 'Postmortem', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first novel featuring Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta from the #1 bestselling author of Black Notice and Point of OriginWinner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for best first mysteryFour women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobody," moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examiner - Kay Scarpetta - is determined to unmask a maniac. But someone is trying to sabotage Kay''s investigation from the inside. And worse yet, someone wants her dead . . . SUMMARY: The novel that launched the Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell is back and better than ever in a premium edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4095'),
(7513, 'Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945', 'Tony Judt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict''s epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 "an interim age," Judt examines what happened on each side of the Iron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the "peace of the prison yard" until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt''s massive work covers the broad strokes as well as the fine details of the years 1945 to 2005. No one book (even at nearly a thousand pages) could fully encompass this complex period, but\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  comes close, and is impressive for its scope, synthesis, clarity, and narrative cohesion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Judt treats the entire continent as a whole, providing equal coverage of social changes, economic forces, and cultural shifts in western and eastern Europe. He offers a county-by-county analysis of how each Eastern nation shed Communism and traces the rise of the European Union, looking at what it represents both economically and ideologically. Along with the dealings between European nations, he also covers Europe''s conflicted relationship with the United States, which learned much different lessons from World War II than did Europe. In particular, he studies the success of the Marshall Plan and the way the West both appreciated and resented the help, for acceptance of it reminded them of their diminished place in the world. No impartial observer, Judt offers his judgments and opinions throughout the book in an attempt to instruct as well as inform. If a moral lesson is to come from World War II, Judt writes, "then it will have to be\n  <em>\n   taught\n  </em>\n  afresh with each passing generation. ''European Union'' may be an answer to history, but it can never be a substitute." This book would be an excellent place to start that lesson. --_Shawn Carkonen_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  This is the best history we have of Europe in the postwar period and not likely to be surpassed for many years. Judt, director of New York University''s Remarque Institute, is an academic historian of repute and, more recently, a keen observer of European affairs whose powerfully written articles have appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  and elsewhere. Here he combines deep knowledge with a sharply honed style and an eye for the expressive detail.\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  is a hefty volume, and there are places where the details might overwhelm some readers. But the reward is always there: after pages on cabinet shuffles in some small country, or endless diplomatic negotiations concerning the fate of Germany or moves toward the European Union, the reader is snapped back to attention by insightful analysis and excellent writing. Judt shows that the dire human and economic costs of WWII shadowed Europe for a very long time afterward. Europeans and Americans recall the economic miracle, but it didn''t really transform people''s lives until the late 1950s, when a new, more individualized, consumer-oriented society began to appear in the West. But\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  is not just a history of Western Europe. One of its great virtues is that it fully integrates the history of Eastern and Western Europe, and covers the small countries as well as the large and powerful ones. Judt is judicious, even a bit uncritical, in his appraisal of American involvement in Europe in the early postwar years, and he''s scathing about Western intellectuals'' accommodation to communism. His book focuses on cultural and intellectual life rather than the social experiences of factory workers or peasants, but it would probably be impossible to encompass all of it in one volume. Overall, this is history writing at its very best.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5310'),
(7514, 'Potshot', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Boston private detective Spenser and his cohorts head west to Potshot, Arizona, a haven for California millionaires seeking an escape from their high-pressure lives, when the idyllic retreat is threatened by a vicious local gang, under the command of its charismatic leader The Preacher, which is systematically robbing the town''s wealthy inhabitants. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4031'),
(7515, 'Potshot (2001)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 28', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10565'),
(7516, 'The Potters Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Paul at Shrewsbury', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In October of 1142, a local landlord gives the Potter''s Field to the local clergy. The monks begin to plow it, and the blades turn up the long tresses of a young woman, dead over a year. Then the arrival of a novice who fled from an abbey ravaged by civil war in East Anglia complicates life even further for Brother Cadfael. HC: Mysterious Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(7517, 'Powder and Patch', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable!"\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”SUNDAY TELEGRAPH\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For her, he would do anything...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Plainspoken country gentleman Philip Jettan won''t bother with a powdered wig, high heels, and fashionable lace cuffs, until he discovers that his lovely neighbor is enamored with a sophisticated man-about-town...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  But what is it that she really wants?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Cleone Charteris sends her suitor Philip away to get some town polish, and he comes back with powder, patches, and all the manners of a seasoned rake. Does Cleone now have exactly the kind of man she''s always wanted, or was her insistence on Philip''s remarkable transformation a terrible mistake?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What readers say:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Charming, charming, charming. And highly readable!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Witty dialogue and well-developed storylinesâ€”even Jane Austen could do no better."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Scintillating and very human love story by an author of exceptional talents."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms Heyer''s effervescent wit and obvious ability to tell a good and humorous story is already evident, making\n <em>\n  Powder and Patch\n </em>\n an enjoyable and worthwhile read."\n</p>\n<p>\n "This story sparkles with witty dialogue and wonderful descriptions of costumes and festivities of the 1700s. I re-read it at least once a year and I enjoy it as much as the first time, again and again!"\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10167'),
(7518, 'Powder Burn', 'Carl Hiaasen &amp; Bill Montalbano', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1984, 1981, and 1982, respectively, these novels feature action, intrigue, violence, and murder. In the Hitchcock vein, they also portray protagonists who are just ordinary people?a professor, an architect, and a fishing-boat captain?who are dragged into extraordinary circumstances. LJ''s reviewer found Death in China "tautly written," adding that Montalbano and Hiaasen have a "fine flair for characters and settings" (LJ 4/1/84).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn expertly plotted novel.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Explosive . . . authentic, compelling, and frightening." â€”_The_\n  <em>\n   Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7061'),
(7519, 'The Power and the Glory', 'Graham Greene; John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n How does\n <em>\n  good\n </em>\n spoil, and how can\n <em>\n  bad\n </em>\n be redeemed? In his penetrating novel\n <em>\n  The Power and the Glory\n </em>\n , Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn''t it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"\n</p>\n<p>\n As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said\n <em>\n  The Power and the Glory\n </em>\n was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties.\n <em>\n  --Joannie Kervran Stangeland\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Greene''s masterpiece.'''' --John Updike\n</p>\n<p>\n [A]s brilliantly written as it is magnificently conceived.'''' --\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The book should attract . . . not only those who read for diversion and excitement, but those, too, who read for the pleasure of superb writing and shrewd contriving of story.'''' --_Chicago Daily Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Greene has drawn this man -- and all he encounters -- vividly and viscerally . . . this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries -- and troubling ideals -- than certainties.'''' --Amazon.com Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9235'),
(7520, 'The Power Broker', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murder, global conspiracy, treason, blackmail, sexual infidelity and perversity propel bestseller Frey''s entertaining, if highly implausible, third financial thriller starring Christian Gillette (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The ProtÃ©gÃ©\n </em>\n ). Christian, the CEO of Everest Capital, a hugely successful Manhattan-based investment firm, faces a host of adversaries, chief among them the Order, a secret society made up of nine white American businessmen and government leaders whose predecessors have been manipulating financial and historical events since the society''s inception in 1839. Led by Jackson Prescott Hewitt, chairman of U.S. Oil, the Order fears that America is falling under the control of minorities whose agendas include statehood for Puerto Rico and Mexico and the election of the nation''s first African-American president. Christian comes to the attention of this cabal and, aided by series regulars Allison Wallace and Quentin Stiles, is soon fighting for his very life. The action roars along like a small tsunami, sweeping logic aside and carrying aloft those readers willing to suspend a substantial amount of disbelief.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christian Gillette, chairman of the largest private equity fund in the country, is poised for even greater things when he becomes the running mate for the Democratic presidential candidate. Although his late father was a Republican senator, Gillette shirked politics in favor of adventure, but being part of a history-making ticket (the presidential candidate is African American) qualifies as adventure. But someone is out to get him. Could it be his managing partner? Or is there really a conservative secret society determined to discredit the Democrats? Although veteran thriller author Frey gives in to some over-the-top plot elements, he still manages to generate enough tension to please action-oriented thriller fans.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6566'),
(7521, 'Power Hungry', 'Howard Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa -- the Federation''s only allies in a critically important sector of space -- the crew finds a brutal dictatorship -- one more concerned with preserving its own powers than protecting its citizens, or the world they all share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to the corrupt goernment: he fears they may never reach their intended destination. But can he convince the ruling council to change their ways, before it is too late -- for the government, and Thiopa itself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6702'),
(7522, 'Power Lines', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The spellbinding sequel to "Powers That Be," by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. The natives of Petaybee claimed their planet was sentient, but the officials of Intergal did not believe them . . . or want to believe them. The planet was rich in valuable ore, and Intergal was determined to mine that ore no matter what the cost. Yanaba Maddock, once a company spy, was adopted by the planet and its people as one of their own. Now her loyalties are to Petaybee, not Intergal, and she is dedicated to keeping Intergal from killing the world she has come to love. But without proof of the planet''s sentience, Intergal will proceed with its mining operations. Can Yana find a way to convince Intergal of Petaybee''s sentience before it is too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10845'),
(7523, 'The Power of Labelling', 'Edited by Joy Moncrieffe &amp; Rosalind Eyben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9625'),
(7524, 'The Power of Labelling: How People Are Categorized and Why It Matters', 'Joy Moncrieffe; Rosalind Eyben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling''s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.'' DES GASPER, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES, THE HAGUE ''The authors convincingly and often vividly explain how the unavoidable framings and labellings of the objects of policy secrete relations of power which can obscure as much as they reveal and often lead, in policy itself, to perverse outcomes. Their detail is riveting, their analyses persuasive, what they suggest realistic and deeply sensible. This immensely readable collection is indispensable for anyone who wants to think about how they think about ''development'', and should be forced on all who don''t.'' GEOFFREY HAWTHORN, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ''This is an essential book not only for those interested in understanding the development industry but also for development practitioners. It discusses key questions concerning the ways in which knowledge is generated by development agencies and reaffirms the importance of understanding who categorizes people, why and how.'' R. L. STIRRAT, PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX ''Very important.'' Martin Kalungu-Banda, Oxfam GB What does it mean to be part of the mass known as ''The Poor''? What visions are conjured up in our minds when someone is labelled ''Muslim''? What assumptions do we make about their needs, values and politics? How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops the labels, what power do they carry and how do such labels affect how people are treated? This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labelled and categorized, and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast international experience and current theory, the authors examine how labels are constituted and applied by a variety of actors, including development policy makers, practitioners and researchers. The book exposes the intense and complex politics involved in processes of labelling, and highlights how the outcomes of labelling can undermine stated development goals. Importantly, one of the book''s principal objectives is to suggest how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labelling and encourage processes of ''counter-labelling'', to enhance poverty reduction and human rights, and to tackle issues of race relations and global security. The Afterword encapsulates these ideas ands provides a good basis for reflection, further debate and action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Joy Moncrieffe is a political sociologist and Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, UK), who is working on issues of accountability, citizenship and power, with special interest in children growing up in violent contexts in Africa and the Caribbean. Rosalind Eyben, is a development social scientist at IDS with a career in international development policy and practice, and editor of Relationships for Aid (2006).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10538'),
(7525, 'The Power of Myth', 'Joseph Campbell w/ Bill Moyers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2704'),
(7526, 'The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ekhart Tolle''s message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle''s clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who''s ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness. Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence, and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he''s added markers that symbolize "break time." This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1359'),
(7527, 'The Power of the Legendary Greek', 'Catherine George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can''t believe she''s come to Greece on her *own*, but she had to escape the wedding fever that''s gripped her best friends. When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she''s another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction. Now Isobel''s struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding feverâ€”a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greekâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(7528, 'Power of the Sword', 'Wilbur A. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sequel to Smith''s The Burning Shore , this novel continues to trace the lives of Lothar de la Rey and Centaine Courtney. Their love/hate unfolds in the South Africa of the 1930s. Centaine''s son by Lothar and her son by an English gentleman also become bitter enemies. Diamonds stolen by Lothar are a pivotal element in the story, which ranges from Bushman country to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Even without the first book, this is an exciting story. Smith makes us sympathize with both the Afrikaners and the British South Africans. His details and historical setting seem authentic. Recommended for historical fiction collections. A third novel is clearly intended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smithâ€¦with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9155'),
(7529, 'Power Play', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petaybee was growing up. Day by day, the sentient planet--like any child--was learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech.Yanaba Maddock had appointed herself defender of her adopted planet, and she had even succeeded in proving its sentience to all the nonbelievers. But despite all her efforts, few outsiders truly cared for the feelings and intelligence of what they perceived to be a giant hunk of rock--or a mere oddity to be gawked at. Then Yana was kidnapped. The price of her freedom--the planet itself. But the only one who could speak for Petaybee was Petaybee--and no one knew what a living planet could do once it found its voice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8076'),
(7530, 'Power Slide: A Darcy Lott Mystery', 'Susan Dunlap', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Dunlap''s subdued fourth mystery to feature San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott (after 2009''s Civil Twilight), Darcy''s on-again/off-again boyfriend and fellow stuntman, Damon Guthrie, confesses part of a shameful secret about his past. Before revealing more, he asks the definitely alarmed Darcy to bring John, her cop brother, to a meeting at the Palace of the Fine Arts. En route to the meeting, Damon dies in a suspicious car accident, and once again Darcy turns sleuth. Darcy also resumes her overdue search for her brother, Mike, who''s been missing for more than 20 years. As she nimbly juggles both investigations, Darcy''s snooping puts her in the crosshairs of those responsible for Damon''s murder. While Dunlap''s appealing Zen detective retains her cool, some readers may find it hard to believe that the astute Darcy would date a man for six or seven years without knowing more about him than she does. A far-fetched subplot about collectible movie memorabilia adds some local color.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fourth mystery starring Darcy Lott, a Buddhist stuntwoman working in San Francisco, the heroineâ€™s sometime boyfriend, stunt driver Damon Guthrie, almost messes up a dangerous stunt at the Port of Oakland and then winds up dead in San Francisco. Darcy investigates Damonâ€™s murder and quickly discovers that he had a life and home unknown to her. Meanwhile, Darcyâ€™s family, including lawyer brother Gary and cop brother John, want her to search for Mike, their long-missing brother, which means trying to learn why he disappeared in the first place. The truth of what happened to Damon lies in the past, in a long-ago burglary in San Francisco, at a stunt ranch hidden in the Southern California desert, and in the words to a mysterious koan. Dunlap melds the two plots with the drama of Darcy continuing to work on rebuilding shattered relationships with her siblings, with information about stunt work, and with interesting bits of Zen Buddhist lore. An entertaining outing from tough yet vulnerable Darcy. --Kat Kan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6699'),
(7531, 'Power to the People', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10396'),
(7532, 'Power: Why Some People Have Itand Others Don&#39;t', 'Jeffrey Pfeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Although much has been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing. The big problem facing managers and their organizations today is one of implementation--how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Stanford Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer argues that problems of implementation are really issues of how to influence behavior, change the course of events, overcome resistance, and get people to do things they would not otherwise do. In a word, power. Managing with Power provides an in-depth look at the role of power and influence in organizations. Power is often disparaged, yet Pfeffer shows convincingly that its effective use is an essential component of strong leadership. With vivid examples from Lyndon Johnson and Henry Kissinger to John Sculley and Henry Ford, he makes a compelling case for the necessity of power in mobilizing the political support and resources to get things done in any organization. And he provides a fascinating look at the personal attributes--such as flexibility, stamina, and a high tolerance for conflict--and the structural factors--such as control of resources, access to information, and formal authority--that can help managers advance organizational goals and achieve individual success. Pfeffer begins his comprehensive evaluation of power by helping managers recognize situations that involve the use of power, and shows how to identify the principal actors and their likely points of view. He then looks at the different sources of power, and explains why some organizations and people use power more effectively than others. Next, he explores the specific strategies and tactics through which power and influence are used--how they help managers achieve tangible results. And finally, he considers issues of power dynamics: how power is lost, the role of power in the process of organizational change, and the positive and negative consequences of power for organizations. Politics and influence, the mechanisms by which power is realized, are unavoidable components of any business--indeed, any organization. Pfeffer shows that by understanding where power comes from and how it can be used effectively, managers can help their organizations, and themselves, "achieve great things."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pfeffer (The External Control of Organizations), professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, posits that intelligence, performance, and likeability alone are not the key to moving up in an organization; instead, he asserts, self promotion, building relationships, cultivating a reputation for control and authority, and perfecting a powerful demeanor are vital drivers of advancement and success. The book has a realpolitik analysis of human behavior that isn''t for everyone but its candor, crisp prose, and forthrightness are fresh and appealing. Case studies feature the careers of such leaders as G.E. CEO Jack Welch, General George Patton, Time CEO and Chairman Ann Moore, Lt. Colonel Oliver North, and President Bill Clinton; and Pfeffer dispenses advice on how to overcome obstacles like "the self-promotion" dilemma, how to sharpen one''s "acting" skills on the job, and use tactics like interruption to appear more powerful. Brimming with frank, realistic insights on paths to the top, this book offers unexpected--and aggressive--directions on how to advance and flourish in an ever-more competitive workplace.Â \n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Is the need for power an evil motivation driven by greed and lust, or is it a worthy goal that produces wealth, longevity, and leadership? Pfeffer asks us to consider the more positive reasons that we reach for power in our professional lives in order to feel in control, get wealthy, and achieve our goals. The desire for power is a topic that is often overlooked or disparaged in most inspirational leadership books because leaders presenting their own careers as models tend to portray themselves as noble and good, and omit discussing the power plays that they used to get to the top. According to Pfeffer, we need to stop seeing the world as a just and fair place, and actively develop those qualities needed to achieve power. He offers advice on how to obtain the initial position on the first rung of the ladder to power, how to take advantage of social networks, build a reputation, and overcome setbacks. Pfeffer never answers the question as to whether power leads to happiness, but he insists that having it will ultimately put you in a better place. --David Siegfried\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6654'),
(7533, 'Powers That Be', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talking to the company, so the company sent disabled combat veteran Yanaba Maddock to spy. But a strange thing happened. With her relocation to the arctic planet came a return of Yana''s health and strength. And the more she got to know the people of Petaybee, the more determined she became to protect her new home....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10798'),
(7534, 'Pox', 'Willrich, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10706');
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(7535, 'Pox: An American History', 'Michael Willrich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Today''s controversies over vaccinations pale beside the pitched battles fought at the turn of the 20th century, to judge by this probing work. Historian Willrich (City of Courts) revisits the smallpox epidemic that ravaged the United States from 1898 to 1904 and sparked a showdown between the burgeoning Progressive-era regulatory regime and Americans fearful of the new Leviathan state and the specter of "state medicine." Anxious to stamp out the contagion, public health officials in the South quarantined African-Americans in detention camps if they were suspected of carrying the disease and vaccinated others at gunpoint; in New York "paramilitary vaccination squads" raided immigrant tenements, forcibly inoculating residents and dragging infected children off to pesthouses; their coercive methods sparked occasional riots and lawsuits that helped remake constitutional law. Willrich sees merit on both sides: draconian public health measures saved thousands of lives, but resisters did have legitimate concerns about vaccine safety and side effects, racial targeting and bodily integrity. He does tend to romanticize anti-vaccine activists, whose movement he associates with feminism, free speech, and abolitionism, styling them as "libertarian radicals" engaging in "intimate acts of civil disobedience." Still, his lucid, well-written, empathetic study of a fascinating episode shows why the vaccine issue still pricks the American conscience. Photos. (Apr. 4)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The untold story of how America''s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  , award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation''s continentwide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the twentieth century.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the dawn of the activist Progressive era and during a moment of great optimism about modern medicine, the government responded to the deadly epidemic by calling for universal compulsory vaccination. To enforce the law, public health authorities relied on quarantines, pesthouses, and "virus squads"-corps of doctors and club-wielding police. Though these measures eventually contained the disease, they also sparked a wave of popular resistance among Americans who perceived them as a threat to their health and to their rights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the time, anti-vaccinationists were often dismissed as misguided cranks, but Willrich argues that they belonged to a wider legacy of American dissent that attended the rise of an increasingly powerful government. While a well-organized anti-vaccination movement sprang up during these years, many Americans resisted in subtler ways-by concealing sick family members or forging immunization certificates.\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  introduces us to memorable characters on both sides of the debate, from Henning Jacobson, a Swedish Lutheran minister whose battle against vaccination went all the way to the Supreme Court, to C. P. Wertenbaker, a federal surgeon who saw himself as a medical missionary combating a deadly-and preventable-disease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Willrich suggests, many of the questions first raised by the Progressive-era antivaccination movement are still with us: How far should the government go to protect us from peril? What happens when the interests of public health collide with religious beliefs and personal conscience? In\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  , Willrich delivers a riveting tale about the clash of modern medicine, civil liberties, and government power at the turn of the last century that resonates powerfully today.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7923'),
(7536, 'Practical Demonkeeping', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Christopher Moore''s ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O''Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor faÃ§ade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(7537, 'The Practical Distiller', 'Samuel McHarry &amp; Joe Henry Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AN INTRODUCTION TO MAKING WHISKEY, GIN, BRANDY, SPIRITS, &amp;c. &amp;c. OF BETTER QUALITY, AND IN LARGER QUANTITIES, THAN PRODUCED BY THE PRESENT MODE OF DISTILLING, FROM THE PRODUCE OF THE UNITED STATES:SUCH AS RYE, CORN, BUCK-WHEAT, APPLES, PEACHES, POTATOES, PUMPIONS AND TURNIPS. WITH DIRECTIONS HOW TO CONDUCT AND IMPROVE THE PRACTICAL PART OF DISTILLING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. TOGETHER WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PURIFYING, CLEARING AND COLOURING WHISKEY, MAKING SPIRITS SIMILAR TO FRENCH BRANDY, &amp;c. FROM THE SPIRITS OF RYE, CORN, APPLES, POTATOES, &amp;c. &amp;c. AND SUNDRY EXTRACTS OF APPROVED RECEIPTSFOR MAKING CIDER, DOMESTIC WINES, AND BEER.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SAMUEL McHARRY\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5967'),
(7538, 'A Practical Guide to Racism', 'C. H. Dalton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A hilarious look at the races of the worldâ€”capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet â€œC. H. Dalton,â€ a professor of racialist studies and a leading authority on inferior people of all ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual preferences. In the grand tradition of *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion* and *Birth of a Nation*, he is on a mission to clarify the truth about self-supremacy, drawing on eminent scholarship to enlighten a new generation of hate-mongers. Presenting evidence that everyone should be hated (even white people), *A Practical Guide to Racism* contains sparkling bits of wisdom on such subjects as:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ The good life enjoyed by blacks, who shuffle through life unhindered by the white manâ€™s burdens, such as reverse racism and white slavery, to become accomplished athletes, rhymesmiths, and dominoes champions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ The sad story of the industrious, intelligent Jews, whose entire reputation is sullied by their unfortunate taste for the blood of Christian babies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A close look at the bizarre, sweet-smelling race known as â€œwomen,â€ who are not good at anythingâ€” especially ruling the free world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A crucial manual to Arabs, a people so sensitive they are liable to blow up at any time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A country-by-country breakdown of the â€œYellow Peril,â€ with pointers for telling apart a race of people who all look the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also included is a comprehensive glossary of timeless epithets, with hundreds of pejorative words for everyone from Phoenicians to Jews. *A Practical Guide to Racism* is sure to spark honest, instructive discourse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1528'),
(7539, 'Practical Guide to Self Hypnosis', 'Melvin Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: from the FOREWORD: All of us like to think that our actions and reactions are a result of logical thought processes, but the fact is that suggestion influences our thinking a great deal more than logic. Consciously or unconsciously, our feelings about almost everything are largely molded by ready-made opinions and attitudes fostered by our mass methods of communication. We cannot buy a bar of soap or a filtered cigarette without paying tribute to the impact of suggestion. Right or wrong, most of us place more confidence in what "they" say than we do in our own powers of reason. This is the basic reason why psychiatrists are in short supply. We distrust our own mental processes and want an expert to tell us what to think and feel. Despite this tendency to adopt our attitudes from others, man has always been dimly aware that he can influence his own destiny by directing his thoughts and actions into constructive channels. He has always, to some extent, known that his mind exerts a powerful influence on his body, and that thoughts can have harmful or helpful effects on his emotional and physical health. The ancient Egyptian sleep temples and the attempts by early physicians to drive evil spirits out of the body were both attempts to influence the body through the mind. The unprecedented sale of *The Power of Positive Thinking* by Norman Vincent Peale and other inspirational literature proves that millions of modern people recognize the efficacy of constructive thoughts. What most of them do not recognize is that they are capable of implanting these beneficial thoughts in their own minds without reference to any outside agencies. This can be done through self-hypnosis. In modern society we have many cults, religions and methodologies which have mental discipline as their goal. The best example of a methodology is psychosomatic medicine which deals with the interrelationship of the mind and body in the production of mental or physical illness. The rapid growth of hypnosis in the last few years is another example, and it is gratifying to see that the emphasis in this field is now shifting from hetero-hypnosis to self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis is a highly suggestible state wherein the individual- can direct suggestions to himself. It is a powerful tool in any therapeutic process, and highly motivated subjects can parallel the success of hetero-hypnosis through their own efforts. Self-hypnosis can be used as a palliative agent and can even afford lasting results in many areas of the organism. Self-hypnosis can alleviate distressing symptoms, substitute strong responses for weak responses, help overcome bad habits, create good habits and help one''s power of concentration. The total personality is eventually changed to the point where it can function adequately in an increasingly difficult environment. In learning self-hypnosis, the subject does not relinquish control of himself as is commonly believed. Actually, more control is gained. Self-sufficiency and self-confidence are inevitable results. It is well to remember, however, that even good things may be overdone, and good judgment is necessary for favorable results. Neither hypnosis nor self-hypnosis should ever be used indiscriminately. The effectiveness of self-hypnosis depends upon many factors. Strong motivation, intelligent application of suggestions and diligence are prerequisites. We are not suggesting that self-hypnosis can take the place of all forms of psychotherapy. We do recommend it as an adjunct to therapy when indicated. Used judiciously, it can contribute a great deal to the individual''s physical and emotional well-being and happiness. ... It is the author''s hope that you will, through the selective use of self-hypnosis, arrive at a more rewarding, well-adjusted and fuller life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9582'),
(7540, 'A practical guide to witchcraft and magic spells', 'Cassandra Eason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(7541, 'Practical Magic', 'Alice Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we''ve put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently.\n <em>\n  Practical Magic\n </em>\n starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who''d been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who''s all too responsible. But when one of the aunts'' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman''s world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It''s difficult to catch the author''s power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural.\n <em>\n  Practical Magic\n </em>\n again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..."\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Her 11th novel is Hoffman''s best since Illumination Night. Again a scrim of magic lies gently over her fictional world, in which lilacs bloom riotously in July, a lovesick boy''s elbows sizzle on a diner countertop and a toad expectorates a silver ring. The real and the magical worlds are almost seamlessly mixed here, the humor is sharper than in previous books, the characters'' eccentricities grow credibly out of their past experiences and the poignant lessons they learn reverberate against the reader''s heartstrings, stroked by Hoffman''s lyrical prose. The Owens women have been witches for several generations. Orphaned Sally and Gillian Owens, raised by their spinster aunts in a spooky old house, grow up observing desperate women buying love potions in the kitchen and vow never to commit their hearts to passion. Fate, of course, intervenes. Steady, conscientious Sally marries, has two daughters and is widowed early. Impulsive, seductive Gillian goes through three divorces before she arrives at Sally''s house with a dead body in her car. Meanwhile, Sally''s daughters, replicas of their mother and their aunt, experience their own sexual awakenings. The inevitability of love and the torment and bliss of men and women gripped by desire is Hoffman''s theme here, and she plays those variations with a new emphasis on sex scenes?there''s plenty of steamy detail and a pervasive use of the f-word. The dialogue is always on target, particularly the squabbling between siblings, and, as usual, weather plays a portentous role. Readers will relish this magical tale. BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5284'),
(7542, 'Practical Packet Analysis', 'Chris Sanders; Chris Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Wireshark (formerly called Ethereal) is the world''s most powerful "packet sniffer", allowing its users to uncover valuable information about computer networks (whether theirs or others''). Rather than simply take readers through Wireshark''s tools\n <i>\n  Practical Packet Analysis\n </i>\n shows how to use the software to monitor their own networks. The book is aimed at network engineers and system administrators, but it''s clear enough for even Wireshark newbies. Includes a bonus CD with trace file examples as well as videos that show packet analysis in action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7326'),
(7543, 'Practice Makes Perfect', 'Julie James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When it comes to the laws of attraction, there are no rules The battle between the sexes is about to make these two lawyers hot under the collar. Opposites collide when two lawyers try to make partner at the same firm. Payton Kendall is a feminist to the bone. Cocky J.D. Jameson was born privileged. But when theyâ€™re asked to join forces on a major case, they gain a newfound awareness of each otherâ€™s personal assets. The partnership spot will be offered to only one of them, though. The competition heats up. Sparks fly. Let the games begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2770'),
(7544, 'Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here is the latest installment in Bloomsbury''s fascinating Writer in the City series, which matches well-known writers with cities with which they are intimately familiar. Banville has not written a guidebook but rather, in his own words, "a handful of recollections, variations on a theme"--snapshots, if you like, of the city''s past and present. The book begins with the author''s first visit to Prague, during the cold war, but as we go deeper into the book, we also go deeper into the city''s history. Banville flicks so effortlessly between past and present that Prague soon appears as a collage, effectively lifting the city''s rich and visible past out of time and bringing it to life once again, as the author visits the birthplace of Franz Kafka or steps inside a cathedral whose construction was begun in 1344. While most travel memoirs clearly distinguish between the way a place is today and the way it used to be, Banville''s perspective is somewhat different. This, he says, is Prague, past and present, the way it has always been.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckettt notwithstanding." --\n <em>\n  ,San Francisco Chronicle,\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ireland''s finest contemporary novelist." --\n <em>\n  ,The Economist,\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarattive sentence." --\n <em>\n  ,Wall Street Journal,\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville.iss the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory." --\n <em>\n  ,New York Review of Books,\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for John Banville:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ireland''s finest contemporary novelist."-_The Economist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."\n <br />\n -_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."-_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville...is the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory."-_New York Review of Books_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6514'),
(7545, 'The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (2nd Edition)', 'Translated by Master Hsuan Tsang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9972'),
(7546, 'A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boysâ€”best friendsâ€”are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boyâ€™s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesnâ€™t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is Godâ€™s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying. A Prayer for Owen Meany was first published in 1989. This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1972'),
(7547, 'A Prayer for the Dying', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10998'),
(7548, 'Prayers for Rain', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Bostonâ€™s gritty blue-collar streets. Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmarkâ€”the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law canâ€™t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(7549, 'The Precipice', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10463'),
(7550, 'Precursor', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of science fiction''s most highly respected writers, C.J. Cherryh impressed critics and fans alike with the Foreigner trilogy--the epic story of a lost human colony struggling to survive on the world of the alien atevi. Now, in Precursor, both human and atevi return to space to rebuild and rearm the ancient human space station and starship, and make a dsperate bid to defend their planet against alien attack. "A large new Cherryh novel is always welcome." --*Chicago Sun-Times* Praise for the Foreigner series: "Cherryh''s gift for conjuring believable alien cultures is in full force here." --*Publishers Weekly* "A seriously probing, thoughtful, intelligent piece of work." --*Kirkus Reviews* "Close-grained and carefully constructed...a book that will stick in the mind." --*Locus* "An incisive study-in-contrast of what it means to be human..."--*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10878'),
(7551, 'Pregnancy &amp; Parenting After 35', 'Michele C. Moore M.D.; Caroline M. de Costa M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10301'),
(7552, 'Pregnancy and Birth Sourcebook', 'Amy L. Sutton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10512'),
(7553, 'Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Cochrane Pocketbook', 'G. Justus Hofmeyr; James P. Neilson; Zarko Alfirevic; Caroline A. Crowther; Lelia Duley; Metin Gulmezoglu; Gillian M. L. Gyte; Ellen D. Hodnett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Pregnancy and Childbirth_ presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents." (_Doody''s Reviews_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Pregnancy and Childbirth\n </em>\n presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on the Cochrane Library.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Cochrane Library is published by John Wiley on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.thecochranelibrary.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10531'),
(7554, 'Prelude to Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n To Emperor Cleon I, the science of psychohistory seems to offer the opportunity to predict and direct the course of his Galactic Empire. To Hari Seldon, discoverer of the still theoretical science, it becomes a nightmare as the young historian becomes the most wanted man in the colonized universe. An intricately twisted plot, uncomplicated but amiable characters, and an abundance of leisurely explication mark Asimov''s latest addition to his classic Foundation novels. While familiarity with earlier titles is not necessary, series followers will particularly enjoy this prequel. Recommended.JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time. "Asimov''s storytelling skills have never been keener."--Denver Post. HC: Doubleday.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5767'),
(7555, 'Premeditated Marriage', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FORBIDDEN LOVER? Charlotte "Charlie" Larkin believed she''d been cursed when it came to matters of the heart, especially since every man she''d ever been involved with had met with an untimely end. To add insult to injury, to-die-for true-crime writer Gus Riley had come to the remote Montana town to research her for his next book! Following an attempt on Charlie''s life, Gus insisted the two join forces to pursue the investigation. Charlie was unwittingly drawn to her sexy protector, but she knew she should keep her distance. Except when Gus insisted they pretend to be involved to draw out the killer, her defenses crumbled at his all-too-real advances. And being in close proximity to Gus made Charlie forget that the arrangement was supposed to be temporary -- which was dangerous while the real killer lurked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(7556, 'Prentice Alvin', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2491'),
(7557, 'Prepared for rage', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Following *A Deeper Sleep,* her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date, the Edgar Award winner and *New York Times* bestselling thriller writer Dana Stabenow delivers a nail-biting, all-too-real novel of international suspense. A terrorist with a most personal grudge, an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence, a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water, an astronaut who takes her job very seriouslyâ€”the paths of all of these characters converge on one clear morning in Florida. NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle, this time with a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and the FBI and the Coast Guard are doing everything they can to help the launch go off without a hitch. But one Pakistani man with a bottomless personal grudge and the commitment of many zealous men behind him is determined to strike back at the most visible target he can find. Once again Dana Stabenow, who researched this gripping scenario by spending weeks living on board a Coast Guard cutter as it conducted its mission in the eastern Pacific, delivers an action-driven thriller with an ingenious, frightening, straight-from-the-headlines plot, certain to be her next bestseller. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Following *A Deeper Sleep,* her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date, the Edgar Award winner and *New York Times* bestselling thriller writer Dana Stabenow delivers a nail-biting, all-too-real novel of international suspense. A terrorist with a most personal grudge, an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence, a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water, an astronaut who takes her job very seriouslyâ€”the paths of all of these characters converge on one clear morning in Florida. NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle, this time with a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and the FBI and the Coast Guard are doing everything they can to help the launch go off without a hitch. But one Pakistani man with a bottomless personal grudge and the commitment of many zealous men behind him is determined to strike back at the most visible target he can find. Once again Dana Stabenow, who researched this gripping scenario by spending weeks living on board a Coast Guard cutter as it conducted its mission in the eastern Pacific, delivers an action-driven thriller with an ingenious, frightening, straight-from-the-headlines plot, certain to be her next bestseller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(7558, 'Prescription Alternatives: Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health', 'Earl Mindell &amp; Virginia Hopkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œFor those who need to know what doctors and pharmaceutical companies are doing to people''s health . . . this belongs in the library of every home.â€*          -- Lendon H. Smith, M.D., author of *Feed Your Body Right *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Prescription Alternatives* is an easy-to-use, immediate reference for all the information you need about how medications affect your body, what you can do to counteract imbalances, and what alternative treatments work best.        ***â€œFDA approvedâ€ doesn''t mean it''s safe!**        Prescription drugs can deplete the body of essential vitamins and minerals    Studies show that H2 blockers for heartburn can cause bone loss    Drugs to treat diabetes can increase risk of heart disease and death\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Covering the major prescription drugs in use today and their dangerous side effects, natural health expert Dr. Earl Mindell lays the foundation for a sound body with safer alternatives to these medicines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New drugs and natural alternatives for:    Heart disease    Diabetes     Obesity-related ailments    Asthma    ADD\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6195'),
(7559, 'The Presence', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Dr. Katharine Sundquist is hired to work on a short term archaeology project in beautiful Maui. It seems to be an ideal situation for her and her 16-year-old son, Michael, who suffers from asthma as well as the recent death of his father. She soon learns, however, that all is not well in paradise. There is a restricted wing in her high-tech laboratory where secret deliveries arrive at midnight and she discovers that deadly medical experiments are being performed. Then Michael and three friends sneak into a dive shop and help themselves to some equipment. During their night dive, they come upon a contaminated area in the ocean. Back on land, they find that their lungs cannot tolerate oxygen and they can survive only by breathing poisonous fumes. One by one, the boys are killed or simply vanish. When Michael is the only one left alive, Katharine must act quickly to save him. YAs will be engrossed in the computer search for DNA codes, the strange prehistoric or not so prehistoric bones that Katharine unearths, and a mysterious underwater geode from outer space. There is enough adventure and suspense in this thriller to capture the interest of even the most reluctant readers.?Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Middle School, Burke, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Saul, who recently took a cue from Stephen King with the release of a serialized novel, The Blackstone Chronicles, here tells of a young archaeologist''s encounter with horror in Hawaii.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4585'),
(7560, 'The President&#39;s Assassin', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "YOU CAN''T STOP US. THERE WILL BE OTHERS, AND THE PRESIDENT WILL BE HISTORY IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS." It''s a mass execution: six people shot and killed in a Virginia mansion, one of them the White House Chief of Staff. But that isn''t the reason Sean Drummond is called in. Newly enlisted in a CIA cell called the Office of Special Projects, the Army lawyer knows the bodies are just a warning. Because the killer left a note. Now the hunt begins for the ultimate hitman: brilliant, coldhearted, with an insider''s knowledge of D.C. If Drummond fails, the world will never be the same--and someone will collect the $100 million bounty on the President''s head.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(7561, 'The President&#39;s Daughter', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While writing a biography of Graham Hayward, the upright and highly regarded former president of the United States, journalist Simon Keller, the books rather colorless protagonist, comes across landscape designer Dina McDermott, who may be Hayward''s illegitimate daughter. The latter has grown up believing that Jude McDermott is her mother. Jude, torn between telling her daughter the truth and protecting her from it, is afraid that revealing her parentage may prove dangerous, especially since Dina''s real mother, Blythe, was killed in a suspicious, unsolved hit-and-run years earlier. As Simon pieces together the events of the past, both he and Dina become the targets of people who will do anything to keep her true parentage a secret and the president''s reputation intact. Stewart (Voices Carry) occasionally interrupts her narrative with mundane details, describing everything from how Dina enters a room to the music preferences of her hired help. For the most part, however, the novel swings from one surprising twist and turn to another at a breath-catching clip. A satisfying political thriller marked by believable intrigue and a touch of romance, this book, though not on par with those of Lisa Gardner or Linda Howard, is a worthwhile read.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n With good friends, a growing business she adores, and a mother who has always been there for her, landscape designer Dina McDermott thinks things are just about perfect until journalist Simon Keller uncovers a 30-year-old secret that could totally rearrange her life and possibly that of the country as well. But scandal isn''t the only thing looming. A murderer has become active once again, and this time Dina''s world is being targeted. Featuring careful plotting, especially good character descriptions, and enough red herrings to keep readers off balance, this engrossing contemporary romantic mystery provides an occasionally disconcerting glimpse into the lives and resources of the politically powerful and their obsession with public image and the destructive lengths some will go to maintain it. It will appeal to Stewart''s growing fan base and readers who enjoy women-in-jeopardy tales. Stewart lives in the Philadelphia area.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5640'),
(7562, 'Pressure', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadnâ€™t seen in years... -Children- They met first in boarding school at age twelve. AlexFletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal. It was not an immediate friendship, but then one night Darren convinced his roommate to sneak off school grounds to see something glorious. There was a sleazy strip club, you see, and every once in a while the back door opened just long enough to maybe catch a quick glimpse... Though a bond was formed from their pre-pubescent interest in naked women, Darren had another interest. A morbid curiosity about death. A curiosity that turned into something much more sinister. -Friends- They crossed paths again in college and became the best of friends. But Darren wasnâ€™t just looking for a friend. He had dark, ghastly urges squirming around in his head, and he believed he saw the same things â€” the urge to hurt, the urge to kill â€” in Alex. He was looking for somebody who understood. A partner. But Alex could never become a monster. Not even when Darren tried to bring out his friendâ€™s most deeply buried feelings of rage. Not even when Darren tried to show him the euphoria of having that much power over another human being. It just couldnâ€™t happen...right? -Enemies- Now Alex has a wife and a daughter. And Darren is back. Heâ€™s hiding. Heâ€™s patient. His mind is twisted in the worst possible way. And heâ€™s seeking a soul mate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1613'),
(7563, 'The Prestige', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent sÃ©ance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other''s ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians'' craft can command-the highest misdirection and the darkest science. Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity''s sake, untangle the puzzle left to them. Soon to be a major motion picture starring HUGH JACKMAN, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, CHRISTIAN BALE, DAVID BOWIE, MICHAEL CAINE, ANDY SERKIS and directed by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1476'),
(7564, 'The Pretender&#39;s Crown', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(7565, 'Pretties', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10905'),
(7566, 'The Pretty Committee Strikes Back', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet The Clique, the five girls who rule Octavian Country Day School . . .There''s Massie, with her glossy bob and laser-whitened smile, uncontested leader of the Clique. Dylan, second in command, spends her time sucking up to Massie. Alicia, as sneaky as she is beautiful, wants to be leader of the group one day ? and she just might. Then there''s Kristen, smart, hardworking, who doesn''t suffer fools gladly. And Claire, in by the skin of her teeth, is the newest member of The Clique ? but has swapping her hand-me-down clothes for Chanel No. 19 really solved all her problems?Apparently not. When the girls at pack up their warmest cashmere coats for a trip to Lake Placid, they discover that bears aren''t the only scary things in the woods. The Briarwood boys are staying in a cabin way to close for comfort ? and it''s up to Massie''s Underground Clinic for Kissing (MUCK) to save immaculately-made-up face . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2208'),
(7567, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone has something to hideâ€”especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister''s boyfriend. Aria''s fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily''s crushing on the new girl at school. And Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they''ve all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished. How do I know? Because I know everything about the bad girls they were and the naughty girls they are now. And guess what? I''m telling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3755'),
(7568, 'Pretty Little Things', 'Jilliane Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a household that police are already familiar with: her mother works too much and her step-father favors his own blood over another man''s problems--namely, Lainey and her wild older sister, Liza. So when Lainey does not come home from a Friday night out with her friends, it is dismissed by the Coral Springs Police Department as just another disillusioned South Florida teen running away from suburban drama and an unhappy home life.But Special Agent Bobby Dees, who has headed up the department''s di4cult Crimes Against Children (CAC) Squad in Miami for more than a decade, is not quite so sure. Nicknamed "The Shepherd" by colleagues, he has an uncanny ability to find the missing and bring them back home--dead or alive. Haunted by the still unsolved disappearance of his own daughter, Bobby recognizes the all too familiar up-swell inside him, the gut feeling that Lainey Emerson is no runaway.A search of Lainey''s computer and a talk with her best friend reveal Lainey was involved in a secret Internet relationship, spawned over a chat room, and nurtured through untraceable instant messages. Bobby fears she may be the victim of an on-line predator, and he fears she may not be the only one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(7569, 'Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers, and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment, and Humiliation', 'Susan Lipkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Easy-to-Use Methods for Preventing Hazing Written with clarity and passion, "Preventing Hazing" uncovers the deep roots of hazing, how and why it permeates schools, colleges, and communities, and what parents, teachers, and coaches can do to prevent it. The author shows how to recognize the warning signs, what to do if a student has been involved in a hazing (either as a victim, bystander, or perpetrator), how to deal with the moral, legal, and emotional aspects of hazing, and, ultimately, how to heal and move forward both as an individual and a community. Praise for "Preventing Hazing" "Author Susan Lipkins has written a long-needed book that takes parents, educators, and other interested readers into the minds of hazer and hazed alike. Highly recommended and most readable." --Hank Nuwer, author, "Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing" """This book is a wake-up call for coaches, parents, and school personnel. Susan Lipkins has taken the issue of hazing out of the closet." --Alane Fagin, M.S., executive director, Child Abuse Prevention Services "As a parent of a hazing victim, I had many questions after my son''s incident. "Preventing Hazing" not only answers the many questions but also gives hope for a positive future." --Karen Savoy, executive director, Mothers Against School Hazing (MASH) "This book is phenomenal!...how to deal with a hazing situation, support the hazer, victim, and bystander, and how as a community to prevent the hazing from occurring." --B. Elliot Hopkins, CAA, director, educational services, National Federation of State High School Associations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10027'),
(7570, 'Prey', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. As fresh as today''s headlines, Michael Crichton''s most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Read by Robert Sean Leonard Introduction read by Michael Crichton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2246'),
(7571, 'Priceless', 'Nicole Richie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A spoiled brat finds her backbone when fate kicks her to the curb in tabloid staple Richie''s decent follow-up to The Truth About Diamonds. Charlotte Williams goes from pampered princess to outcast after her adored father pleads guilty to a massive Wall Street fraud. To escape the wrath of cheated investors, an Internet smear campaign, and a creepy stalker, Charlotte heads to the New Orleans home of Millie, her beloved former nanny and the only mom she''s known. What Charlotte finds, however, is far more than a safe harbor: a best friend in fashion maven Kat (their friendship may give readers Simple Life flashbacks); a handsome love interest in Millie''s musician son, Jackson; and a chance to unleash the sensational singing voice inherited from a mom she only knows from a heartbreaking home movie. Richie, no stranger to celebrity and tabloid gossip, proves she''s been there/done that in this celeb-savvy and disarmingly charming defense of the power of love and good genes.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The protagonist of celebrity author Richieâ€™s follow-up to The Truth about Diamonds (2006) is New York socialite Charlotte Williams, whose life is ruined when her father is sent to federal prison for embezzlement. She escapes the media and publicâ€™s prying eyes in New Orleans, where Miss Millie, the woman who raised her after her motherâ€™s death, takes her in. Charlotte then meets Kat, the daughter of an influential New Orleans family, takes a job in her fatherâ€™s restaurant, and learns to live under the radar. She even finds romance with Miss Millieâ€™s son Jackson, and fulfillment singing in his jazz band. But her sweet new life is disrupted by a stalker who has set up a disturbing Web site about her. Things soon take a dangerous turn when Charlotte lets her stalker get too close. What skills Richie lacks in her attempt at suspense is balanced by her fluency in romance and fashion. --Aleksandra Walker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4825');
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(7572, 'Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World&#39;s Stolen Treasures', 'Robert K. Wittman &amp; John Shiffman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former FBI agent Wittman, who created the agency''s Art Crime Team and pursued a lifelong interest in antiques and collectibles, goes undercover to hobnob with infamous art thieves. The ineffective, the stupid, the clever, and the dangerous; Wittman befriends them all, in order to betray them, a fact that causes him a certain amount of angst. Among other challenges are bumbling agency bureaucrats and government turf wars when attempting to recover stolen art abroad. A fatal car accident that Wittman was involved in early in his career shaped his perspective: "I understood that because someone made a mistake in judgment, it didn''t make him evil. My newfound ability to see both sides of a situation-to think and feel like the accused-was invaluable." Wittman keeps the narrative interesting, and reveals himself as something of a renegade: "Under the FBI''s strict undercover rules, you''re only supposed to work one case at a time. I never followed that rule." Keep the lies to a minimum, he advises, and avoid working in your home town.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAlmost every case he recounts has enough intrigue and suspense for a Hollywood screenplay.â€--The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "Genius... Riveting.... Should be a TV series."--Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "A rollicking memoir... investigative details dazzle... PRICELESS can read at times, not unpleasantly, as if an art history textbook got mixed up at the printer with a screenplay for THE WIRE."--The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting... superbly crafted... absolutely, hands down the best book ever written on art crime."--Associated Press\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI canâ€™t think of a better title for a book than this one, PRICELESS.Â  Because this non-fiction story is priceless, a spellbinding narrative of an FBI agentâ€™s journey into the crazy murk of what is perhaps the most fascinating criminal activity of all, high-stakes art theft into the millions upon millions.â€--Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and coauthor of SHOOTING STARS\n</p>\n<p>\n "Entertaining...crime buffs will receive a painless education while they enjoy a lively account of art thieves and the man who pursued them."--Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wittman''s memoir, PRICELESS, is a fast-paced, gripping narrative of stolen national treasures and those who traffic in them. An undercover lawman armed with wit and adrenalin, Wittman exposes the darkest corners of the art world and brings to justice the dangerous criminals who lurk there."--Laney Salisbury, co-author of PROVENANCE: HOW A CONÂ  MAN AND A FORGER REWROTE THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART\n</p>\n<p>\n "In one riveting sequence after another, Robert Wittman reveals the art worldâ€™s underbelly as it has never been seen, through the eyes of an undercover agent whose investigative acumen is matched only by his art-history chops. A true page-turner."--Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestseller author of THE BILLIONAIREâ€™S VINEGAR\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith suspense, intrigue, and candor, FBI agent Robert Wittman takes us inside the secret world of stolen art as he goes undercover to solve some of the most notorious art thefts of our time.â€â€”Ronald Kessler, New York Times bestselling author of THE BUREAU and IN THE PRESIDENTâ€™S SECRET SERVICE\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPRICELESS is a gem of a story, part James Bond, part art history.Â  If Robert Wittman didnâ€™t already exist, Dan Brown would have made him up.â€--George Anastasia, New York Times bestselling author BLOOD AND HONOR, THE LAST GANGSTER and THE SUMMER WIND\n</p>\n<p>\n "More realistic than THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, more entertaining than CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.Â  It''s hard to believe one undercover FBI Agent rescued so many cultural and national treasures......but it''s all true.â€--Jack Garcia, former FBI undercover agent and New York Times bestselling author of MAKING JACK FALCONE\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n PRICELESS is a rare and riveting journey into the little-understood world of art crime.Â Â AÂ brilliant professional who sees both the big picture and all of its nuances, WittmanÂ fascinates with tales of his daring adventures as an FBI undercover agent.Â  Demonstrating candor, humor, integrity, and sensitivity,Â Wittman strips away the myths, bares the truth, and tells it like it is.Â  HeÂ and PRICELESS are both precisely that--priceless!â€--Andrea Kane,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  DRAWN IN BLOOD\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4357'),
(7573, 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This retelling of ''Pride and Prejudice'', by Hilary Burningham, is a simplified version of the novel, accompanied by key passages from the original. Illustrations emphasize both character and plot. It is suitable as an introduction and revision aid for younger school children and GCSE students.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2101'),
(7574, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - a fiendishly clever mash-up of Jane Austen''s beloved classic with all-new scenes of zombie mayhem - is "A New York Times" bestseller and a major pop culture phenomenon. This graphic novel adaptation, featuring all-original art, will bring this sensational tale to a whole new audience. ''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains''. So begins "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - Jane Austen''s immortal classic, now brought to glorious, gory new life with original, all-new scenes of zombie mayhem. Seth Grahame-Smith''s irreverent and witty reworking of this novel immediately struck a nerve: The book quickly became "A New York Times" bestseller - and one of the most buzzworthy and blogged-about pop culture sensations of the year. Now "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is a graphic novel - the perfect format to bring this remixed masterpiece to zombie-loving pop-culture fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3340'),
(7575, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls', 'Steve Hockensmith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Journey Back to Regency Englandâ€”Land of the Undead! Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. As our story opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English country side. They idle away the days reading, gardening, and daydreaming about future husbands until a funeral at the local parish goes strangely and horribly awry. Suddenly corpses are springing from the soft earth and only one family can stop them. As the bodies pile up, we watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. Along the way, two men vie for her affections: Master Hawksworth is a powerful warrior who trains her to kill, while thoughtful Dr. Keckilpenny seeks to conquer the walking dead using science instead of strength. Will either man win the prize of Elizabeth''s heart? Or will their hearts be feasted upon by hordes of marauding zombies? Complete with romance, action, comedy, and an army of shambling corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls will have Jane Austen rolling in her grave and just might inspire her to crawl out of it!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3493'),
(7576, 'Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!', 'Jane Austen; Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'' So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she''s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you''d actually want to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1566'),
(7577, 'The Pride of Chanur', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station. Cover art by Michael Whelan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10884'),
(7578, 'The pride of Jared MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author** The MacKade brothers are back, once again stirring the hearts of every female that crosses their path. Now attorney Jared MacKade, who has his pick of women, is finding it hard to keep his dealings with Savannah Morningstar strictly business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2614'),
(7579, 'Primal Pleasure', 'Sydney Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3337'),
(7580, 'Primal Threat', 'Earl Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Emerson (_Firetrap_) takes a page from James Dickey''s\n <em>\n  Deliverance\n </em>\n in this rousing survival yarn that pits a group of mountain bikers against gun-toting, vengeance-obsessed adversaries and the unleashed fury of Mother Nature. Zak Polanski, a 28-year-old firefighter, is looking forward to a long weekend in the wilds of western Washington with his buddies. Their goal to traverse the Cascade Mountains, however, is almost derailed when authorities declare all backwoods areas in the state off limits due to wildfires. Deciding to risk it, the bikers set off into the pristine wilderness only to run into a raucous group of affluent adventurers. Polanski is shocked to find his former girlfriend''s fiancÃ©, William Scooter Potter III, leading the drunken crew. Equal parts reckless brats and self-satisfied billionaires, Potter and his accomplices begin to antagonize Polanski. As tensions rise, so does Polanski''s willingness to murder the man who, in his mind, stole away his future wife. While the pacing is consistently pedal-to-the-metal and the intense description of the approaching wildfires memorable, too many two-dimensional characters undermine the thrills.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On a late August day in the foothills of the Cascades, five bicyclists climb into the hot, dry air, the breeze of their movement cooling their overheated bodies, the stress of a workweek slipstreaming behind them. But another group has entered the park, too. Theyâ€™re in cars, for pleasure and for vengeance. In Earl Emersonâ€™s gripping new novel, a grudge turns an idyllic setting into a terrifying landscape of men and nature at their most dangerous.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zak Polanski doesnâ€™t do long-term relationships, doesnâ€™t like rich people, and, after saving Nadine Newcastle from an accident scene, isnâ€™t ready to be loved back. When the improbable affair sours, Zak returns to his old ways. But Nadineâ€™s former boyfriend, William Potter III, canâ€™t let it go. Potter knows that Zak is one of five mountain bikers at an isolated camping ground at Panther Creek, and has come for a little payback.\n</p>\n<p>\n What starts as a nasty prank soon escalates. Someone has a gun. Someone makes a move. And a spark ignites amid a volatile mix of anger and alcohol, pride and betrayal. Now, men and women cut off from their urban environment are making choices, choosing sides, facing one anotherâ€™s demons and their own. And when human hatred merges with natureâ€™s fury, the only goal is to get out alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n A mesmerizing novel that weaves the story of a charged love affair with a drama of sheer survival, Primal Threat is a thriller delivered with the brawny, vivid, and lyrical style that makes Earl Emerson one of the most compelling storytellers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7451'),
(7581, 'The Prince and the Pauper', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. When Mark Twainâ€™s The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881, the Atlanta Constitution sang its praises in no uncertain terms: â€œThe book comes upon the reading public in the shape of a revelation.â€ A timeless tale of switched identities, Twainâ€™s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty â€œof Offal Court,â€ who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of Englandâ€™s prince, Edward Tudor. As each boy is mistaken for the other, Tom enters a realm of privilege and pleasure beyond his most delirious dreams, while Edward plunges into a cruel, dangerous world of beggars and thieves, cutthroats and killers. Befriended by the heroic Miles Hendon, Edward struggles to survive on the squalid streets of London, in the process learning about the underside of life in â€œMerry England.â€With its mixing of high adventure, raucous comedy, and scathing social criticism, presented in a hilarious faux-sixteenth-century vernacular that only Mark Twain could fashion, The Prince and the Pauper remains one of this incomparable humoristâ€™s most popular and oft-dramatized tales.Robert Tine is the author of six novels, including State of Grace and Black Market. He has written for a variety of periodicals and magazines, from the New York Times to Newsweek.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3181'),
(7582, 'Prince Caspian', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Caspian''s father is dead, and Narnia is ruled by his wicked uncle Miraz. Hearing tales of the old Narnia and of Talking Beasts from his tutor, a dwarf, Caspian escapes from the palace to find it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(7583, 'Prince of Chaos', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the brink of achieving the crown of Chaos, Merlin, aka Merle Corey, is challenged with silencing a murderous discord between Amber and Chaos and freeing a captive royal father who is under a villain''s spell. Reprint. *PW. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9045'),
(7584, 'The Prince of Dreams', 'Benjamin Curt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is Volume Two of Seven Brothers-a magnificent fantasy saga of kingdoms lost, nobles enslaved, families reunited, and gods reborn. Llesho has succeeded in finding several of his brothers and winning the aid of allies such as the trickster god, the emperor, two gladiators, a young witch and a goddess. But can he discover the truth about his own identity? Can he harness his powers? And can he survive the ultimate masters of evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(7585, 'Prince of Fire', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in the hands of terrorists that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken, Gabriel Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched in generations of blood, along a trail that keeps turning in upon itself, until, finally, he can no longer be certain who is stalking whom. And when at last the inevitable showdown comes, it''s not Gabriel alone who is threatened with destruction-for it is not his history alone that has been laid bare. A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6918'),
(7586, 'The Prince of Frogtown', 'Rick Bragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began withAll Over but the Shoutin''and continued withAva''s Man,Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, unsuited to fathering this boy in particular, a boy who does not know how to throw a punch and doesn''t need to; a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect; in short, a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was, and who longs for a relationship with Rick that Rick hasn''t the first inkling of how to embark on. With the weight of this new boy tugging at his clothes, Rick sets out to understand his father, his son, and himself. The Prince of Frogtowndocuments a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick''s youth, to Jacksonville''s one-hundred-year-old mill, the town''s blight and salvation; and to a troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow, Rick''s father, a man bound to bring harm even to those he truly loves. And the book documents the unexpected corollary to it, the marvelous journey of Rick''s later life: a journey into fatherhood, and toward a child for whom he comes to feel a devotion that staggers him. With candor, insight, tremendous humor, and the remarkable gift for descriptive storytelling on which he made his name, Rick Bragg delivers a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys and men, a poignant reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8388'),
(7587, 'The Prince of Shadow', 'Benjamin Curt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This first novel in the *Seven Brothers* series draws upon the rich legends, cultures, and traditions of the East to create an epic tale. Llesho was only seven years old when the Harn invaded Thebin, slaying his father and selling the boy into slavery. On Pearl Island, he was trained as a diver-until a vision changed his life completely. The spirit of his long-dead teacher revealed the truth about Llesho''s royal family-his brothers were alive, but enslaved, living in distant lands. Now, to free his brothers-and himself-Llesho must become a gladiator. He must go face to face with sorcerers. And gods. And more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(7588, 'Prince of the Blood', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This Authorâ€™s Preferred Edition of Raymond E. Feistâ€™s bestselling coming-of-age saga celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of its publication. Feist introduces a new generation of readers to his riveting novel of adventure and intrigue, revised and updated as he always meant it to be written. It is a work that explores strength and weakness, hope and fear, and what it means to be a manâ€”in a kingdom where peace is the most precious commodity of all.If there were two more impetuous and carefree men in the Kingdom of the Isles, they had yet to be found. Twins Borric and Erland wore that mantle proudly, much to the chagrin of their father, Prince Arutha of Krondor. But their blissful youth has come to an end. Their uncle, the King, has produced no male children. Bypassing himself, Arutha names Borric, the eldest twin by seconds, the Royal Heir. As his brother, Erland will have his own great responsibilities to shoulder. To drive home their future roles, Arutha sends them as ambassadors to Kesh, the most feared nation in the world. Borric and Erland will be presented to the Queen of Keshâ€”the single most powerful ruler in the known worldâ€”at her Seventy-fifth Jubilee Anniversary. But they have not even left Krondor when an assassination attempt on Borric is thwarted. Aware that he is being provoked into war, Arutha does not rise to the bait. His sonsâ€™ journey will not be deterred, for nothing less than peace is riding on it. Yet there is to be no peace for the young princes. When their traveling party is ambushed, Borric disappears and is presumed deadâ€”sending Erland into spirals of rage and grief as he is forced to navigate alone the court intrigues at Kesh. But unbeknownst to anyone, Borric lives and has escaped his captors. In a strange land, with a price on his head, Borric must use all his wits and stamina to find his way back to his brother. On separate paths, the two menâ€”one a fugitive and one a future kingâ€”make their journey toward maturity, honor, and duty. For every step they take could sway the fragile peace of the land, as those who crave war rally against themâ€”and become ever more daring.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3647'),
(7589, 'Prince of Thieves', 'Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man''s heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves... Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood, produces more bank robbers and armored car thieves than any square mile in the world. In this gripping, intricately plotted thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank and one of an influx of young professionals chipping away at the neighborhood''s insularity, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can''t get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without his mask and gun, Doug introduces himself, and as soon as he and Claire meet, their mutual attraction is undeniable -- as are the risks of a relationship. Meanwhile, Doug''s crew pulls off another audacious, meticulously planned job. Frustrated by their ingenuity and brazen ambition, FBI Agent Adam Frawley begins to zero in on Doug and his pals -- and against his own better judgment, he, too, develops more than a professional interest in Claire. Under pressure from Frawley''s ever-closer investigation, Doug imagines a life for himself away from bank robberies and Charlestown. But before that can happen, the crew learns that there may be a way to rob Boston''s venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. It''s a magnificently dangerous and utterly irresistible opportunity -- yet for Doug, pursuing his former hostage may be the most dangerous act of all... Chuck Hogan''s brash tale of four men -- thieves, rivals, friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent, and the woman who may destroy them all, is a spectacular, stylish, heart-pounding thriller. "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/777'),
(7590, 'Princeps&#39; fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Captainâ€™s Fury* and the Dresden Files novels.** Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Aleraâ€™s oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized. The dreaded Vordâ€”the enemy of Aleran and Cane alikeâ€”have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland. And when the Alerans are cut off from their ships, they find themselves with no choice but to fight shoulder to shoulder if they are to survive. For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe. The thousand years are overâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1716'),
(7591, 'The princes in the tower', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A SURPRISINGLY FRESH AND TREMENDOUSLY THOROUGH CONTRIBUTION to the debate...Weir''s book is, no doubt, not the last on this subject, but it might be the best....[She] constructs a devastating case...[and] brilliantly illuminates the nature of late-medieval political power." --The Boston Globe Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower," as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, English historian Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of the prince and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard''s claim to the throne as Richard III. A masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle. "Weir takes on this delicious mystery with a fearsome vengeance. The result is a fascinating and completely credible account." --Milwaukee Journal "Did Richard III do in his nephews or didn''t he? How much of the evil-uncle legend was later Tudor propaganda and how much was true?...This is exciting reading." --The Denver Post "A fascinating historical whodunit in which truth is more sordid than fiction." --Kirkus Reviews A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(7592, 'The Princess and the Bear', 'Mette Ivie Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”This stand-alone sequel to\n <em>\n  The Princess and the Hound\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2007) examines and critiques humanity by contrasting animals and people. Here, in what the author calls a parallel novel, the legend of King Richon is told. Because of his cruelty to those with magic, he was transformed into a bear 200 years earlier. The hound Chala, from the previous volume, gradually becomes his constant companion. Meanwhile, "unmagic" is spreading, and they must travel back in time in order to save the kingdom. King Richon, who returns to his human form, aims to make amends for his tyrannical rule. Chala, choosing to give up her hound state, must reconcile herself to her human limitations as she wonders if she sacrificed too much. Their mutual respect and deep friendship subtly and convincingly grow into love while they explore their magical shape-shifting powers and restore peace to the kingdom. Told in third person, the chapters alternate between the points of view of the bear and the hound. The plot pacing is even and taught. Deep exploration of the main characters'' flaws and values blends smoothly with an exploration of good versus evil. Some well-drawn descriptions of bloody battles between animals and humans may be too intense for some readers, but the love story is as compelling as the characters are strong and complex. The message of ecological responsibility is slightly heavy-handed but readers will find the relationship between independent Chala and pensive Richon appealing.â€”_Amy J. Chow, The Brearley School, New York City_ END\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe relationships between animal and human, and the magic in being both, are exquisitely delineated, and the love story between the two strong protagonists is all the more powerful for being intensely restrained....absorbing.â€ (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5574'),
(7593, 'The Princess Bride', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William Goldman''s beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father says, "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions. Miracles." And the little boy, though he doesn''t know it, is about to change forever. As Goldman says, "What happened was just this. I got hooked on the story." And coming generations of readers will, too. And coming generations of readers will too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3383'),
(7594, 'The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern&#39;s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Princess Bride\n  </em>\n  is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern''s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern''s original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern''s mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Is\n  <em>\n   The Princess Bride\n  </em>\n  a critique of classics like\n  <em>\n   Ivanhoe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Three Musketeers\n  </em>\n  , that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you''ll put it on your "keeper" shelf.\n  <em>\n   --Nona Vero\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   THE PRINCESS BRIDE\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Goldman''s] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny . . . A ''classic'' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." --_Newsweek_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." --_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5028'),
(7595, 'The Princess of Burundi', 'Kjell Eriksson &amp; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n When the badly mutilated body of John Harald Jonssonâ€”a working-class family man and an expert on the tropical fish known as cichlidsâ€”is found in the snow in the provincial Swedish town of Libro, homicide detective Ola Haver and his colleague, Ann Lindell, quickly identify a suspect, an embittered sociopath. The brilliance of Eriksson''s richly detailed crime novel, his second (after\n <em>\n  The Illuminated Path\n </em>\n ) but his first to be translated into English, lies in its psychological and even sociological insights. Eriksson not only reveals a deep, sympathetic understanding for his large cast of characters but also evokes a pervasive sense of despair, reminiscent of Henning Mankell''s, in the face of the violent, amoral nature of contemporary society and the challenges it places on the police. The title derives from the common name of one of Jonsson''s beloved cichlids, and the aquarium is a neat metaphor for the dynamics of smalltown life. This suspenseful, intelligent and perceptive book is terrific.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School An ordinary crime novel is made extraordinary through Eriksson''s exquisite character descriptions and circuitous plot. Former small-time crook Little John Jonsson is found brutally murdered, with clear evidence of torture. The Uppsala police force investigates and eventually identifies the killer. The author skillfully constructs the personality of each character, revealing, for example, the weaknesses inherent in policeman Ola Haver and Ann Liddell versus the hidden strengths of the victim''s brother, Lennart Jonsson, and son, Justus. Haver leads the investigation while managing a strained relationship with his wife and an attraction to his former boss, Liddell. Lennart Jonsson''s guilt and grief over his brother''s death eventually destroys him, but not before he exacts his revenge (albeit unrecognized) and becomes a hero. Justus had a secret pact with his father that may have saved Little John''s life had he shared it with his mother or the police. The likely suspect is a demented, pathetic person who knew his victim as one of his tormentors in school a period that haunts him in his adult life. The entangled relationships among the police, the victim, and the victim''s family are compelling. Teens will be drawn to deconstruct the intelligent puzzle created by Eriksson, right down to the book''s title._ Claudia C. Holland, Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8024'),
(7596, 'Princess of Glass', 'Jessica Day George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The engrossing companion novel to Princess of the Midnight Ball, with a wicked twist on Cinderella Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each otherâ€™s countries in the name of better political alliancesâ€”and potential marriages. Itâ€™s got the makings of a fairy taleâ€”until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1684'),
(7597, 'A Princess of Landover', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new adventure featuring a dazzling cast of characters and creatures.Ben Holiday, Chicago lawyer and mere mortal turned monarch of enchanted Landover, has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengersâ€“a teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girlsâ€™ prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit. And when her latest rebellious antics get her indefinitely suspended, sheâ€™s determined to resume her real educationâ€“learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thewsâ€“whether her parents like it or not. But back home in Landover, Mistayaâ€™s frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library. Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a kingâ€™s ransom in moldy booksâ€“and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry herâ€“Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home. So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landoverâ€™s intrepid princess to the last place she expected to go, and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the testâ€“and might bring the kingdom to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4653'),
(7598, 'Prison Planet', 'William Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10651'),
(7599, 'A Prisoner of Birth', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss''s daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen''s Counsel of his generation.  Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums.  Their lives will never be the same again.  For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution''s chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8808'),
(7600, 'Prisoner of the Iron Tower', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the second installment of British author Ashâ€™s Tears of Artamon trilogy, a skillful mix of horror and romantic fantasy, vampiric dragons soar against a wonderfully gothic backdrop straight out of Tolstoy by way of Stoker, Dumas and Tolkien. At the conclusion of Lord of Snow and Shadows (2003), Gavril Nagarian, Lord Drakhaon of Azhkendir (a princedom in the Rossiyan Empire), succeeded in casting off the Drakhaoul, the dragon-daemon that possessed him. Now Gavril; his mother, Elysia; and his new love, Kiukiu, a gifted "spirit singer," face the wrath of Prince Eugene of Tielen, whose forces Gavril prevented from taking Ashkendir in book one. Eugene returns to defeat Gavril and send the former portrait painter to a mental institution where his brain becomes the subject of mad experimentation (shades of Shelley!). Ashâ€™s playful, tongue-in-cheek brew of Russian history, folklore and myth explores age-old moral dilemmas in a plot as tricky and unpredictable as a Gypsy tarot reading. Fans will look forward to the ultimate confrontation between blood-sucking firebirds and humans in book three.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After nearly killing the woman he loves, Gavril Nagarian succeeds in extricating himself from the bond that has tied him, body and soul, to a dragon-daemon. But in so doing, he betrays his countrymen, for without the daemon, Gavril is just an ordinary man, lacking magical powers and unable to defend his small holding against Eugene, would-be emperor of the five princedoms. Eugene wants more than a crown, however; he wants power and revenge, and when he unlocks the fabled Serpent''s Gate, he gets all that he desires and, perhaps, a bit more than he can handle. He quickly learns that the power of the Drakhaoul can destroy not only his enemies but also his new empress and unborn child, his adored and badly crippled daughter--in short, everything he cares for. Even his own life is imperiled. But as the daemon gains strength and power, becoming one with its host, Eugene begins to lose sight of his most precious gift, his own human heart. Solid, wonderful fantasy, sparkling and imaginative!\n <em>\n  Paula Luedtke\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7962'),
(7601, 'Private', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Jack Morgan is a war hero. Returning home from Afghanistan after being wounded, Jack is called into California State Prison to visit his father, Tom, who is serving a life sentence for extortion and murder. Before being incarcerated, Tom ran a private investigation firm called ''Private''. Tom wants Jack to re-start the company, to make it great again, and gives him access to a $15 million dollar account in the Cayman Islands to do it with. Five years later and Jack has set up offices spanning the globe. Private''s services are much sort after and Jack has clients ranging from movie stars to politicians. Jack is keen to keep the business legal and not fall into the same traps as his father. But when the mob come calling, they are not easy to refuse. On a rare night off accompanying a client to the Golden Globe awards, Jack receives a phone call from school friend Abbie Cushman. Abbie''s wife has been murdered and he desperately needs Jack''s help. The murder is brutal and with no apparent motive; fingers begin pointing towards Abbie. Jack is certain that Abbie didn''t kill his wife, but he will have to work night and day to prove it. Meanwhile, Jack''s second-in-command at Private, Justine Smith, is helping the L.A.P.D. in a serial killer investigation. Over the past two years, twelve school girls from the same area in L.A. have been murdered. The killings are highly professional and so far the Police have no leads whatsoever. Justine has been called in to make use of her experience and Private''s resources. A breakthrough is desperately needed, because these killings show no signs of stopping."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7376'),
(7602, 'Private Eyes', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3055'),
(7603, 'Private Life', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman''s life, from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He''s the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer--a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret''s mother calls the match "a piece of luck." Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrew''s obsessions take a different, darker turn, and Margaret is forced to reconsider the life she has so carefully constructed."Private Life "is a beautiful evocation of a woman''s inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, a masterly, unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1753'),
(7604, 'Private Lives', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The techno-teens of the Net Force Explorers are just as smart as their adult counterparts when it comes to 21st century crimes and misdemeanors.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, the Explorers must delve into cyberspace--and the secrets of the past--to prove their commander innocent of murder....\n</p>\n<p>\n 9th in the exciting young adult series\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6527');
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(7605, 'Private Sector', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling author of Secret Sanction returns--and this time, Army lawyer Sean Drummond is loaned out to a law firm whose #1 client may have ties to a vicious serial killer and a massive international crime ring.Wherever Sean Drummond goes, it seems that the JAG officer leaves a trail of political fallout in his wake. So when his superiors get an opportunity to loan him to a prestigious law firm, they jump on it, hoping he''ll soak up the nuances of civilian lawyering. But almost immediately, dark clouds appear when Sean''s predecessor in the loan-out program is murdered. Then Sean begins to sense something amiss with the firm''s biggest client, a telecom behemoth with large defense contracts. Now, he must survive in D.C.''s buttoned-down lawyer culture long enough to stop the killer, and long enough to discover why his firm and its top client are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(7606, 'Privateer&#39;s Moon', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10755'),
(7607, 'The Privileges: A Novel', 'Jonathan Dee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jonathan Dee is the author of four novels, most recently Palladio. He is a staff writer for "The New York Times Magazine," a frequent contributor to "Harper''s," and a former senior editor of "The Paris Review." He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2297'),
(7608, 'Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A collectionof short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie''s best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin!  All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction.  Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge of human nature to solve the Problem at Pollensa Bay. Or Mr Satterthwaite, who seeks inspiration through his collaboration with the enigmatic Mr Quin in The Harlequin Tea Set mystery. Then, of course, there''s Poirot, whose measured analysis of motive and opportunity is tested to the full in Yellow Iris, when he receives an anonymous call about a matter of life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5258'),
(7609, 'Procession of the Dead (The City)', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Shan''s dystopic thriller, the first in a trilogy already published in the U.K., is an excellent, twisting foray into a world of deceit, murder, and mystery. Capac Raimi arrives in an unnamed city, a place ruled by a man known as the Cardinal, and quickly realizes that he has no memory of his life elsewhere. When the Cardinal kills Capac''s uncle and offers Capac a job based on a dream and Capac''s Incan name, the young man''s life takes a turn for the fantastical. While training to serve the Cardinal, Capac embarks on a strange, gripping search for clues to both the disappearances of his friends and his own past. The dialogue is realistic, the characters and settings are vivid, and the plotting is tight, complemented perfectly by a bleak, desolate tone. Any fan of postapocalyptic fiction will find it absolutely riveting.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Popular YA author Darren Shan''s first adult novel is a combination of horror and near-future thriller set in â€œThe City,â€ which is the center of Capac Raimi''s world. Moving into the city to work with his small-time gangster uncle, Capac soon finds himself at the service of the Cardinal, the leader of all the criminal gangs and the ruler of the city. Capac enjoys his new life except for a few small details, including the enigmatic blind and mute monks who have a way of appearing at significant moments in Capac''s life, and the fact that he can''t really remember any of his life before he came to the City. Then he meets and immediately falls in love with a young woman who is determined to dig out the Cardinal''s secrets. Fast-paced and exciting, Procession of the Dead is a gritty, creepy, and completely successful story with an ending that leaves openings for future series entries. Suggest to readers who enjoyed MiÃ©ville''s The City and the City (2009) for its slightly fantastical setting combined with a thrilling story. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4385'),
(7610, 'Prodigal Son', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion''s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O''Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire raceof killers who are much moreand lessthan human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Heliosonce known as Frankenstein.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1490'),
(7611, 'the Professional (2009)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 37', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10560'),
(7612, 'The Professional', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women. But when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit that they look like trouble.For a private eye of Spenser_s abilities and contacts, tracking down Gary Eisenhower, the blackmailer and serial adulterer, isn_t too difficult _ but almost in spite of himself Spenser finds that he quite likes the guy. Certainly the women, with their loose purse-strings and looser morals, and their loveless marriages to rich, powerful, corrupt men, are hard to feel sorry for.But a killing soon changes the complexion of the case, and draws Spenser into the world of Boston_s monied aristocracy: a world of corruption, vice and murder. As the bodies start to pile up, Spenser must decide which of his friends he can trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4011'),
(7613, 'The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths', 'Pat Brown &amp; Bob Andelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him--but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life''s work.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pat Brown is now one of the nation''s few female criminal profilers--a sleuth who assists police departments and victims'' families by analyzing both physical and behavioral evidence to make the most scientific determination possible about who committed a crime. Brown has analyzed many dozens of seemingly hopeless cases and brought new investigative avenues to light.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Profiler*, Brown opens her case files to take readers behind the scenes of bizarre sex crimes, domestic murders, and mysterious deaths, going face-to-face with killers, rapists, and brutalized victims. It''s a rare, up-close, first-person look at the real world of police and profilers as they investigate crimes--the good and bad, the cover-ups and the successes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Praise for The Profiler**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Pat Brown takes us into the very minds of cold-blooded killers. Most people can''t comprehend the `why'' behind murder. Pat, utilizing her background as one of the country''s leading criminal profilers, coaches the reader as to how a killer thinks, reacts, and kills! Incredible!"  --Nancy Grace, host of *Nancy Grace* on HLN and bestselling author of *The Eleventh Victim*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I''ve been in law enforcement for almost 18 years now, and after reading *The Profiler*, I realize how little I understood the mind of the criminal. Pat Brown exposes the methods and the means, the hows and the whys, and exactly what it is that makes a criminal tick--fascinating!"  --Stacy Dittrich, author of *Murder Behind the Badge: True Stories of Cops Who Kill* and veteran police officer and law enforcement media consultant\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Anyone who has ever had a passion burning inside them to make a difference should read this book. Pat takes her life experience and brings it to the forefront to make a difference in the lives of crime victims and their families. Her insight into these cases takes profiling of criminals to a whole new level. From her work and wisdom comes the hope we all need to end the viciousness of killers who prey on the innocent.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "In her new book, Pat Brown takes the reader along with her as she works to solve grisly crimes that have baffled others. In her relentless pursuit to illuminate what seem to be hopeless cases, she shows just how deep an investigator must dig and all the details that must be absorbed and interpreted."  --Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D., author of *Inside the Criminal Mind*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "In *The Profiler*, Pat Brown finally explains the sometimes spooky world of criminal profiling in a way that even an old-school, ex-flatfoot cop like me can understand. This book is a great insight into the mind of a serial killer hunter."  --Chuck Hustmyre, retired ATF agent and author of the true crime books *Killer with a Badge* and *An Act of Kindness*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7018'),
(7614, 'Prometheus Rising', 'Aaron Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(7615, 'Promise Bridge', 'Eileen Clymer Schwab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A powerful debut novel of friendship, love, and family set in the segregated pre-Civil War South. ** *"This is a promise bridge, and it bridges a promise flowing from your heart to mine. It can''t never be broken...the promise is part of you now, understand." * Thus begins an unlikely friendship between Hannelore Blessing, a plantation mistress, and a slave girl named Livie. As the young women are launched on a harrowing journey of awakening filled with shared risks and nurtured promises amid whispers of the Underground Railroad and the rising tension preceding the Civil War, they discover their ability to trust, love, and ultimately take action. Aided by Colt, a devoted suitor hoping to win her heart, Hannah comes to understand that true friendship means letting go, so that Livie can be free to find a life and destiny all her own. However, a vicious slave catcher stalks the two women-and his unseemly motives and relentless pursuit threaten all that Hannah holds dear, as well as put her loved ones in unimaginable danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(7616, 'Promise Me (2006)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 08', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9580'),
(7617, 'Promise of the Wolves: A Novel', 'Dorothy Hearst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **WHAT ISTHE PROMISE OF THE WOLF?NEVER CONSORT WITH HUMANS.NEVER KILL AHUMAN UNPROVOKED.NEVER ALLOW A MIXED-BLOOD WOLF TO LIVE.** At least that''s what the wolves of the Wide Valley believe. Until a young wolf dares to break the rules -- and forever alters the relationship between wolves and the humans who share their world. This is the story of such a wolf. Born of a forbidden mixed-blood litter and an outcast after her mother is banished, Kaala is determined to earn a place in the Swift River pack. But her world is turned upside down when she saves a human girl from drowning. Risking expulsion from their pack and exile from the Wide Valley, Kaala and her young packmates begin to hunt with the humans and thus discover the long-hidden bond between the two clans. But when war between wolves and humans threatens, Kaala learns the lies behind the wolf ''s promise. Lies that force her to choose between safety for herself and her friends and the survival of her pack -- and perhaps of all wolf- and humankind. Set 14,000 years ago, *Promise of the Wolves* takes us to a land where time is counted in phases of the moon, distance is measured in wolflengths, and direction by the scent of the nearest trail. Years of research into the world of wolves combines with mythical tale-telling to present a fantastical adventure set in a world filled with lore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(7618, 'The Promise', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Determined to get married despite parental disapproval, young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are separated just before their wedding by a cruel deception, and each pursues a new life, until they are reunited by fate. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother''s disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy -- perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life -- Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing -- and no one -- can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5975'),
(7619, 'Promised Land', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4027'),
(7620, 'Promised Land (1976)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10568'),
(7621, 'Promises in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **#1 *New York Times*â€“ bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer.** A Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but sheâ€™s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When sheâ€™s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isnâ€™t just â€œone of us.â€ Dallasâ€™s friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Coltraine had started a serious relationship, and from all accounts the two were headed for a happy future together. But someone has put an end to all that. After breaking the news to Morris, Eve starts questioning everyone from Coltraineâ€™s squad, informants, and neighbors, while Eveâ€™s husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on Coltraineâ€™s life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. The truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve containing Coltraineâ€™s guns, badge, and a note from her killer: â€œYou can have them back. Maybe someday soon, Iâ€™ll be sending yours to somebody else.â€ But Eve Dallas doesnâ€™t take too kindly to personal threats, and she is going to break this case, whatever it takes. And thatâ€™s a promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2344'),
(7622, 'Pronto', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they''re putting word out on the street that Arno''s skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotortoâ€”which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now''s a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry''s trickyâ€”the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal''s custodyâ€”but not careful. So Raylan''s determined to find the fugitive''s Italian hideaway before a cold-blooded Sicilian "Zip" does and whacks Arno for fun. After all, it''s a "pride thing"...and it might even put Raylan in good stead with Harry''s sexy ex-stripper girlfriend Joyce.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(7623, 'Proof', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The narrator of Francis''s 26th mystery is Tony Beach, a young widower who fights his grief by keeping busy at his wine shop and by socializing. Eventually he teams up with private detective Gerard McGregor to find the hijackers of several trucks of spirits; the pair then take on a case involving the adulteration of whiskey and wine at a cafe. In rapid order the cafe''s steward is brutally murdered, and Tony and Gerard just miss being killed. Tony''s severest test occurs at the "stunning climax of what may be judged the best of Francis''s bestsellers so far; it''s a corker," PW commented.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun''s over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery that''s an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8217'),
(7624, 'The Prophecy', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The next exciting, action-packed thriller from the national bestselling author. ** Michel de Nostredame, the French apothecary commonly known as Nostradamus, has gained a cult-like following, a loyal band of enthusiasts who credit him with predicting numerous world events-the Great Fire of London, the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima. However, his most important collection of prophetic verses has remained hidden...until now. In the year 2009, a letter was mailed to a woman who does not understand why she has received the puzzling correspondence, written in a series of codes and ancient languages. She enlists the help of Jonathon Payne and David Jones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(7625, 'Prophet', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since Penelope Bailey was a little girl, all humanity has been frightened by her awesome psychic talent, and worried that she can bend eventsâ€”and menâ€”to her will. Many have called her a monster, but she has chosen a different name for herself: Prophet. Twice, Penelope has managed to escape the "Iceman", a hired assassin, but he''s been sent after her again, with higher stakes. This time, the Prophet has hidden herself in plain sight on a planet so obscure most don''t know its name, and what''s most surprising of all is that she wants to be found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11010'),
(7626, 'Prophets', 'S. Andrew Swann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s been nearly 200 years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim humanityâ€™s colonies. So when signals come in revealing lost human colonies that could shift the power balance, the race is on between the Caliphate ships and a small team of scientists and mercenarys. But what awaits them all is a threat far beyond the scope of any human government.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7237'),
(7627, 'Protect and Defend', 'Richard North Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard North Patterson, whose legal thrillers have won him legions of devoted mystery fans, shows off his superb pacing and narrative gifts as well as his ability to create vividly realized characters in this compelling novel of late-term abortion, parental consent, and the battle over a nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court. Unlike Patterson''s typical courtroom dramas, the name of this game isn''t murder; it''s the body politic that''s bleeding. When newly elected Democratic president Kerry Kilcannon nominates appeals court judge Caroline Masters to the top spot on the court, he knows he''ll have a fight on his hands. Leading the opposition is his political rival, MacDonald Gage, the GOP majority leader who owes his soul and career to the Christian right wing. They''re suspicious of Masters even before a politically charged case involving a teenager whose parents refuse to allow her to terminate a disastrous pregnancy ends up in her court. More principled than Gage, but equally adamant, is Republican senator Chad Palmer, who, like Masters, harbors his own potentially career-destroying secret.\n</p>\n<p>\n Masters is an intriguing character, a woman whose judicial integrity, personal privacy, and political ambitions collide when she casts a tie-breaking vote on the constitutionality of the recently enacted Protection of Life bill. Not only young Mary Anne Tierney''s future is at stake: so are the reproductive rights of all women, the resilience of the judicial system, and the personal lives of innocent bystanders who will be sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment--the public''s right to know, and the media''s right to tell. Moving swiftly between the courts of public opinion and the federal judiciary, from San Francisco to the nation''s capital, Patterson tells a mesmerizing story that''s been praised by political and legal luminaries such as Mario Cuomo, Barbara Boxer, and Alan Dershowitz. But don''t let that stop you. This up-to-date version of\n <em>\n  Advise and Consent\n </em>\n is a provocative read that will resonate with political junkies as well as those who''ve made bestsellers out of Patterson''s more typical genre thrillers.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n U.S. President Kerry Kilcannon, introduced by Patterson in 1998''s No Safe Place, returns for another political dogfight in this meticulously researched, sharply observed tension builder about a Supreme Court nominee mired in the abortion debate. Kilcannon, seeking to counter the court''s conservative leanings, has nominated another Patterson heroine, Caroline Masters (Degree of Guilt; The Final Judgment), an appellate court judge of impeccable legal pedigree, yet one vulnerable to attack from the right. The single San Francisco judge harbors a secret: she had a child out of wedlock 27 years ago, a painful ordeal that her critics soon uncover. Masters''s struggle for confirmation by the U.S. Senate plays out against the backdrop of another court caseDthat of Mary Ann Tierney, a 15-year-old six months pregnant with a hydrocephalic baby. Citing a new federal law, Tierney''s parents, both prolife activists, refuse to allow their daughter to abort. When Tierney''s suit seeking to overturn the law reaches the appellate court, Masters''s foes work out a backroom deal that requires Masters to hear the case and issue an opinion that could doom her nomination and possibly Kilcannon''s presidency. Excelling as both a political novel and a tale of suspense, Patterson''s latest takes a provocative look at the ethics of abortion and the power plays endemic to American politics, skewering the Christian Right, the gun lobby and campaign financing along the way. In lesser hands, the book''s exhaustive recitation of abortion pros and cons might have spelled polemical tedium, but Patterson''s strong characterizations and sensitivity to both sides (though he leans prochoice) illuminate one of society''s most bitter and divisive issues. Agent, Fred Hill. (Dec.) Forecast: With the future of the Supreme Court at stake in this last election, the reach of this perfectly timed novel could extend beyond Patterson''s usual fans. A 500,000-copy first printing has been announced; the book is also a dual main selection of the Literary Guild, a featured alternate selection of BOMC and a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Mystery Guild, and will be a simultaneous Random House Audiobook and available in a large print edition from Random. We''re talking major bestseller here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4545'),
(7628, 'Protect and defend: a thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true heavyweight in the political thriller arena (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Vince Flynn has created a flesh-and-blood hero that readers can cheer for and a finger-blistering page-turner they won t dare put down.In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran s second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran s bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.Enter Mitch Rapp, America s top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead. Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. As part of the plan, CIA director Irene Kennedy is dispatched to the region for a clandestine meeting with Azad Ashani, her Iranian counterpart.But Rapp isn t the only one hatching plans. Iranian President Amatullah, has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond. When Kennedy s meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4189'),
(7629, 'Protector', 'Laurel Dewey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the gut-wrenching, heartrending story of hard-bitten Denver homicide detective Jane Perry and nine-year-old Emily Lawrence. Emily has witnessed the murder of her parents â€” murders authorities believe have ties to a larger wave of crime. But Emily canâ€™t recall a thing about the killings. When the murderers come after Emily, Janeâ€™s boss sends the two of them to a remote town in Colorado. There, Jane, who doesnâ€™t have a maternal bone in her body, must pose as Emilyâ€™s mother and serve as her protector. At the same time, she needs to help Emily slowly remember the devastating event without traumatizing her further. And while she does so, the killer is closing in . . . .Protector marks the debut of Jane Perry, an immensely flawed, utterly sympathetic character. She will shock you, confound you, astonish you, and ultimately grip your soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5384'),
(7630, 'Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health--In Just Weeks!', 'Michael R. Eades &amp; Mary Dan Eades', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautÃ©ed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the\n  <em>\n   Protein Power\n  </em>\n  diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins''s __, the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in\n  <em>\n   Protein Power\n  </em>\n  is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we aren''t what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to burn the excess fat stored in their bodies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Protein Power\n  </em>\n  is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you''ve been starving yourself for years and just can''t seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you.\n  <em>\n   --Jhana Bach\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Eades, who share a weight-loss and family-medicine practice in Arkansas, have each written a popular medical book?his is Thin So Fast; hers, The Doctor''s Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals. In their first shared volume, they turn popular weight-management beliefs?and the latest FDA food-guide pyramid?upside down. For years, overweight Americans have been counseled to turn away from meat and fat and embrace a high-carbohydrate diet. Joining a growing band of researchers that includes Barry Sears (The Zone), the Eades discuss the biochemical roles of hormones in the metabolic process to demonstrate why low-fat, high-carb programs don''t always result in weight loss and present a convincing case for their high-protein, low-carb alternative. The key is preventing, through diet, overproduction of insulin, which itself "controls the storage of fat" and is triggered by the ingestion of carbohydrates. Their eating plan?which is bolstered by lists of protein and carbohydrate counts for common foods, a collection of about 75 appealing recipes and discussion of the necessity of exercise?will lead, they aver, to the body''s more efficent burning of fat, leading in turn to reduction in one''s percentage of body fat. Cholesterol, vitamins, minerals and various risk factors are also discussed. Chapters end with fairly complete summaries that will be appreciated by readers who are not willing or able to work through the fairly extensive scientific data cited by the Eades in this iconoclastic program.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5037'),
(7631, 'Proven Guilty', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elevated "into the front rank of urban fantasy heroes" (SF Site), professional wizard Harry Dresden is pledged to fight crime, banish evil, and outwit the masters of dark arts in the shadowy corners of Chicago. Harry, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, is drafted to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. And if that wasn''t enough, he must help the daughter of an old friend, whose boyfriend was the only one in a room where an old man was attacked. He insists he didn''t do it. And what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film turns out to be-well, something quite close to that, as Harry discovers that malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1718'),
(7632, 'Provenance', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a mysterious man orchestrates an attack on archaeologist Annja Creed and then offers her an assignment, Annja is baffl ed. But the mission is too intriguing for her to refuse. She must fi nd an object that possesses a sacred and powerful secret offering atonement to anyone who uncovers itâ€”or wreaking havoc on the world.Stolen from an ancient order of knights, the relic is now in the clutches of a band of pirates sailing the South China Sea. When a government leader threatens to destroy the pirate shipâ€”along with the artifactâ€”rather than let it get into the wrong hands, Annja must decide at what cost the sacred prize should be protected. Destroying it would defi le history. But saving it could bring about apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(7633, 'Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art', 'Laney Salisbury &amp; Aly Sujo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A decade-long art scam that sullied the integrity of museum archives and experts alike is elegantly recounted by husband-and-wife journalists Salisbury and Sujo. In 1986, when struggling painter and single father John Myatt advertised copies of famous paintings, he never imagined he''d become a key player in one of Britain''s biggest art frauds. Myatt soon met John Drewe, who claimed to be a physicist and avid art collector. Soon Drewe, a silver-tongued con man, was passing off Myatt''s work as genuine, including paintings in the style of artists like Giacometti and Ben Nicholson. When buyers expressed concern about the works'' provenance, Drewe began the painstaking process of falsifying records of ownership. Posing as a benefactor, Drewe even planted false documents in the archives of London''s Tate Gallery, but suspicious historians and archivists eventually assisted Scotland Yard in bringing him to justice. Salisbury and Sujo (who died in 2008) evoke with flair the plush art world and its penetration by the seductive Drewe as well as the other players in this fascinating art drama.\n <em>\n  (July 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The true story of one of the twentieth century''s most audacious art frauds\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with extraordinary characters and told at breakneck speed,\n <em>\n  Provenance\n </em>\n reads like a well-plotted thriller. But this is most certainly not fiction. It is the astonishing narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate cons in the history of art forgery. Stretching from London to Paris to New York, investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo recount the tale of infamous con man and unforgettable villain John Drewe and his accomplice, the affable artist John Myatt. Together they exploited the archives of British art institutions to irrevocably legitimize the hundreds of pieces they forged, many of which are still considered genuine and hang in prominent museums and private collections today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6285'),
(7634, 'PStraub - the Throat', 'User', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9207'),
(7635, 'The Psychedelic Children', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/649'),
(7636, 'Public Marriage, Private Secrets', 'Helen Bianchin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1852'),
(7637, 'Public Secrets', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts deftly blends the perfect formula of romance and suspense in this addictively compelling novel of a woman whose career, marriage, and very life may depend on her never learning the truth about her past. . . . Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it''s the past that is about to catch her from behind. For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale - until the tragic night that changed her family forever. But what Emma thinks she knows about that terrible night and the man she''s about to marry is only half the truth. The other half is locked away in the last place she''d ever think to look: her own memories. It''s a mystery a handsome and relentlessly driven homicide detective needs to solve in a case that''s haunted him for years . . . and a secret someone will kill to keep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6222'),
(7638, 'The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century', 'Alan Brinkley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of *Time*, *Fortune, *and *Life *magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of *Time*: a â€œnews-magazineâ€ that would condense the weekâ€™s events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after *Time*â€™s unexpected successâ€”and Haddenâ€™s early deathâ€”Luce published the first issue of *Life,* to which millions soon subscribed.Brinkley shows how Luce reinvented the magazine industry in just a decade. The appeal of *Life* seemingly cut across the lines of race, class, and gender. Luce himself wielded influence hitherto unknown among journalists. By the early 1940s, he had come to see his magazines as vehicles to advocate for Americaâ€™s involvement in the escalating international crisis, in the process popularizing the phrase â€œWorld War II.â€ In spite of Luceâ€™s great success, happiness eluded him. His second marriageâ€”to the glamorous playwright, politician, and diplomat Clare Bootheâ€”was a shambles. Luce spent his later years in isolation, consumed at times with conspiracy theories and peculiar vendettas. *The Publisher* tells a great American story of spectacular achievementâ€”yet it never loses sight of the public and private costs at which that achievement came.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(7639, 'The Puffin Book of Horror Stories', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A collection of contemporary and classic horror stories by authors such as Pete Johnson, Robert Westall, Roald Dahl and Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(7640, 'The Pull of the Moon: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elizabeth Berg has published fiction and nonfiction and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She lives in Massachusetts. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1505'),
(7641, 'Pump Six and Other Stories', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The eleven stories in Pump Six chart the evolution of Paolo Bacigalupi''s work, including the Hugo nominated "Yellow Card Man" and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man," both set in the world of his novel The Windup Girl.This collection also demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Bacigalupi''s work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.Paolo Bacigalupi has won the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Compton Crook Award, the Locus Award, and the Hugo Award. Between his award-winning debut novel and this landmark collection of short fiction, Paolo Bacigalupi demonstrates why he is one of the most celebrated science fiction writers of the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3607'),
(7642, 'Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant', 'Paul Clemens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born and raised in Detroit, Clemens has witnessed firsthand the decline and death of manufacturing in that city. So when he pondered writing about the decline of the American working class, he figured a good place to start was the closing of Budd Detroit Automotive Plant, built in 1919 and employing 10,000 workers at its peak. He captures the sights, sounds, emotions, and economics of closing the plant, which made the roofs, doors, and other body parts of cars, trucks, and sports utility vehicles, offering an intimate portrait of what happens to people and a manufacturing town when the doors are closed. Clemens details the nuts and bolts, including how machinery is disassembled and shipped for reassembly in Mexico and elsewhere, as well as the human element of union reps fighting for worker benefits and former workers pondering a grim future. Clemens looks beyond the dire statistics of tens to hundreds of thousands of plant closings each year to portray the individuals involved and the loss of jobs and social bearings in the community. --Vanessa Bush\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   PUNCHING OUT\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œRewarding. . . . [Clemens] is a lovely, mournful observer of Detroitâ€™s people. . . . [_Punching Out_] is a lament for a dying city and a dying way of being a man in America.â€\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€”Dwight Garner,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œClemens . . . paints the definitive portrait of a strange, resonant feature of the contemporary American landscape: the defunct factory . . . [this book] is an elegiac reminder of a scary truth lurking behind those abstract-sounding business headlines.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Carlo Rotella,\n  <em>\n   The Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€œOut of the painstaking job of dismantling industrial America, a story emerges. Clemens closes the book on one venerable factory, but leaves us wondering about the future of American work.â€\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€œClemens has the street cred and old-school journalism chops to deliver a first-rate piece of deep reportage.â€\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€”_Minneapolis Star Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œSuperb practitioners of immersion journalism older than Clemens include John McPhee, Gay Talese, Madeleine Blais, Susan Orlean, Walt Harrington, Mike Sager, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Tracy Kidder. Based on\n  <em>\n   Punching Out\n  </em>\n  , Clemens is a worthy addition to the list and an example for journalists not just in the United States, but around the globe. His story of another closed auto factory is sadly familiar. But it has never been told this well.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Steve Weinberg, author of\n  <em>\n   Taking on The Trust\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5483'),
(7643, 'Punish the Sinners', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear.Â Â Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins realÂ Â and imagined in the flames of the burning stake.Â Â Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to thisÂ Â sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds aÂ Â mystery of mounting horror. Something is happeningÂ Â to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier HighÂ Â School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror aÂ Â suicide contagion has swept the two... while a darkÂ Â order of its holy men enacts a secret medievalÂ Â ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent childrenÂ Â into violent self-destruction? Or has supernaturalÂ Â force, a thirteenth-century madness, returnedÂ Â to...\n <em>\n  Punish The Sinners\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to...\n <em>\n  Punish The Sinners\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4521'),
(7644, 'The Puppet Masters', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Earth was being invaded by aliens and the top security agencies were helpless: the aliens were controlling the mind of every person they encountered. So it was up to Sam Cavanaugh, secret agent for a powerful and deadly spy network, to find a way to stop them--which meant he had to be invaded himself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3951');
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(7645, 'Puppet on a Chain', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''With this book Alistair MacLean will make another killing'' Sunday Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Paul Sherman of Interpol''s Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king. With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; women in distress and above all -- murder.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9271'),
(7646, 'Puppyhood: How to Raise the Perfect Dog', 'Cesar Millan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel''s *Dog Whisperer*, the only resource youâ€™ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. **For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their livesâ€“as well as those who have already brought a dog homeâ€“Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, "Yes, you *can *raise the perfect dog!" It all starts with the proper foundation in the early years. Here, Cesar tells you everything you need to know to create the best environment for a well-balanced dog in order to avoid behavior issues in the future, and shows you how to correct the most common behavior issues for young dogs. Based on Cesarâ€™s own detailed experiences raising individual puppies from some of the most popular breeds, *How to Raise the Perfect Dog* is like having Cesar right beside you, as your own personal expert, coaching you and your dog from the first day of your life together. Packed with new information aimed specifically at the particular needs of puppies and adolescents, and written in Cesar''s friendly, accessible style, *How to Raise the Perfect Dog* answers all the most commonly asked questions and guides you towards a loving, satisfying life-long relationship with your best friend. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author, Cesar Millan shows you how to raise the perfect dog and prevent behavior issues before they start, including:â€¢ what to expect from each stage of your puppy''s developmentâ€¢ quick and easy housebreakingâ€¢ the essentials of proper nutritionâ€¢ the importance of vaccinatingâ€“and of not over-vaccinatingâ€¢ creating perfect obedience from day one through rules, boundaries, and calm-assertive leadershipâ€¢ how to avoid the most common mistakes owners make raising puppies and young dogsâ€¢ how to correct any issue *before* it becomes a problemâ€¢ unique exercises and play to bring out the best in every breed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(7647, 'Pure Blood', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peace--while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: "We see with empty eyes...""PURE BLOOD"""To make matters worse for Luna, she can''t get wolfishly handsome Dmitri Sandovsky out of her mind. The last time he helped her with a case, Dmitri suffered a demon bite that infected him with a mysterious illness...and now his pack elders have forbidden him from associating with Luna. But she''ll need his help when high-level witches start turning up slaughtered. Because a war is brewing between rival clans of blood witches and caster witches--a magical gang war with the power to burn Nocturne City to the ground. Praise for the Nocturne City series: ""Pure Blood" pounds along hard on the heels of "Night Life," and is every bit as much fun as the first in the series. With a gutsy, likable protagonist and a well-made fantasy world, "Pure Blood" is real enough to make you think twice about locking your doors at night. A swiftly-paced plot, a growing cast of solid supporting characters, and a lead character you can actually care about--Kittredge is a winner." --Jim Butcher"Dark and cutting edge" --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced...I couldn''t put it down"--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1536'),
(7648, 'Pure Blood: A Nocturne City Novel', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peaceâ€”while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: "We see with empty eyesâ€¦""PURE BLOOD"""To make matters worse for Luna, she canâ€™t get wolfishly handsome Dmitri Sandovsky out of her mind. The last time he helped her with a case, Dmitri suffered a demon bite that infected him with a mysterious illnessâ€¦and now his pack elders have forbidden him from associating with Luna. But sheâ€™ll need his help when high-level witches start turning up slaughtered. Because a war is brewing between rival clans of blood witches and caster witchesâ€”a magical gang war with the power to burn Nocturne City to the ground.Â Praise for the Nocturne City series: ""Pure Blood" pounds along hard on the heels of "Night Life," and is every bit as much fun as the first in the series.Â  With a gutsy, likable protagonist and a well-made fantasy world, "Pure Blood" is real enough to make you think twice about locking your doors at night.Â  A swiftly-paced plot, a growing cast of solid supporting characters, and a lead character you can actually care about--Kittredge is a winner."Â  --Jim Butcherâ€œDark and cutting edgeâ€ â€”"Romantic Times"â€œI loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine.â€â€”Karen Chance""Â â€œHot, hip, and fast-pacedâ€¦I couldnâ€™t put it downâ€â€”Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8390'),
(7649, 'Pure Drivel', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steve Martins talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From a wildly imaginative meditation on who Lolita would be at age fifty to a send-up of the warning labels on medicine bottles, these pieces, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, hilariously and intelligently skewer the topic at hand. Pure Drivel will have readers crying with laughterand marveling that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer. Like the fuzzy little puff of marabou on the instep of a coquettes satin bedroom slipper... Martins book of diminutive, often hilarious essays [is]... effortless and silly even as its subtly erudite. ~ Salon Martin is a gorgeous writer capable of being at once melancholy and tart, achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic. He is a master at revealing the surreal poetry in pure drivel. ~ Elle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3823'),
(7650, 'The Purging of Kadillus', 'Gav Thorpe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Faced with an ork invasion of Piscina IV, the 3rd Company of the Dark Angels believes the threat to be minimal. As enemy numbers continue to increase, their commander, Captain Belial, insists that his Company are strong enough to resist. But Scout-Sergeant Naaman knows just how dangerous this foe can be, and when a renewed greenskin offensive takes the Dark Angels by surprise, the orks swarm towards Kadillus Harbour. Little do the Dark Angels know of the technological power available to the xenos, and the true scale of the threat they face. Belial, Naaman and their fellow Astartes fight a desperate siege at Kadillus, knowing that they must hold out until Imperial reinforcements arrive or the planet will be lost.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gav Thorpe has been rampaging across the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 fro many years as both an author and games developer. His works include the hugely popular\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Angels of Darkness\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  , the\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Last Chancers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  series and the ongoing epic tale of\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Sundering\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9602'),
(7651, 'Purity in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eve Dallas must face the impossible: someone has unleashed a computer virus that may be able to spread from machine to man...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2374'),
(7652, 'Purple Heart', 'Patricia McCormick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he''s honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn''t feel like a hero. There''s a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can''t shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can''t quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squadâ€”Justin, Wolf, and Charleneâ€”the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick has written a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone, where loyalty is valued above all, and death is terrifyingly commonplace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3895'),
(7653, 'The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?', 'Rick Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 international bestseller! This 40-day spiritual journey will help you understand why you are alive and God''s amazing plan for you both now and for eternity. Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award and Christian Book of the Year Award. "Excellent for Homeschool Use"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4217'),
(7654, 'Pursuit of Honor', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING TALE OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT INTELLIGENCE, AND COUNTERTERRORISM.The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy''s bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences. Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed.Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it''s too late. Once again, Rapp proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" (The Salt Lake Tribune) for our country''s safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8378'),
(7655, 'Push', 'Sapphire', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious'' diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Told with tremendous power, vitality and wit; this is an uncompromising and hugely enjoyable novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9806'),
(7656, 'Push Comes to Shove', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oasis (Duplicity) delivers a cookie-cutter urban drama that, while long on crime, violence, betrayals, and melodrama, is unfortunately short on coherence and logic. Greg "GP" Patterson is a family man and aspiring comic book artist who struggles to get by and isn''t opposed to the occasional light crime to help make ends meet, but with his comic book dreams going nowhere and his luck getting harderâ€”including a repo man who repossesses just about everything he owns and a trumped-up assault case that has his family separatedâ€”he hooks up with a friend to hustle money quickly to get his family back, only to unwittingly put them further in danger. Genre staples abound, but the characters are far from consistent or believable, while implausibilities (what are the odds of stumbling upon the mayor smoking crack with hookers?) and an unruly structure that ping-pongs between points of view and various overheated plot lines overpower the potentially entertaining cautionary tale at the center. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A fast-paced tale of greedâ€”_Push Comes to Shove _examines the pitfalls and struggles that an honest family faces to survive the perils of financial woes.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The bills are due again for Greg â€œGPâ€ Patterson, but this time, they wonâ€™t get paid. He and his wife are facing robbery charges when a simple assault they committed goes bad. After a few days in jail, the Pattersons lose everything they own and risk losing their children forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Luckily Aunty Jewels bails the Pattersons out, but GP must make some serious moves if he is to provide decent shelter for his family again. A visit to Squeeze, a villainous loan shark, leads to killer interest rates and a murderous default penalty. Nevertheless, GP accepts the terms.\n</p>\n<p>\n When GP gives Jewels the loan money to flip in a high-stakes credit card scheme, she gets robbed for every single dime. Now GP has to figure out how to pay his debt and gain the respect of his family again, but in the meantime, Jewels has already figured out how to make everybody pay.\n</p>\n<p>\n An entertaining, multicultural drama,\n <em>\n  Push Comes to Shove\n </em>\n is a cautionary tale for todayâ€™s economically fraught times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8597'),
(7657, 'Pygmalion and three other plays', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Hailed as â€œa Tolstoy with jokesâ€ by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic filmâ€”which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplayâ€”and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady. Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shawâ€™s work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctorâ€™s Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I.John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics edition of Shawâ€™s Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1006'),
(7658, 'Pygmy', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The Manchurian Candidate* meets *South Park*â€”Chuck Palahniukâ€™s finest novel since the generation-defining *Fight Club*.***â€œBegins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.â€*Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.Itâ€™s a comedy. And a romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(7659, 'Pym: A Novel', 'Mat Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chris Jaynes, professor of African American studies, has been denied tenure for his refusal to sit on the Diversity Committee at his university and for his intense interest in Edgar Allan Poe. Enraged, he nearly implodes before discovering a lost manuscript proving that Poeï¿½s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is a factual account. Jaynes devises a mission to find the lost, black-inhabited island near Antarctica described in Poeï¿½s narrative, setting off with an all-black crew that includes his seafaring cousin; his obese friend Garth; his ex-fiancï¿½e, Angela, and her husband, Nathaniel; and two flamboyant mechanics. They discover that something else described in Poeï¿½s narrative is also real: giant, yeti-like, albino humanoids living in large colonies below the ice in Antarctica. This extension of Poeï¿½s adventure is a romp that surprises on every page. Funny, insightful, racially important, Pym is a death-defying adventure and a probing examination of notions of race, even at the farthest ends of the earth. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n BLISTERINGLY FUNNY\n <em>\n </em>\n ...a full-fledged and fiendishly inventive inversion of Poe''s [_Pym_], a series of bizarre encounters I can''t bring myself to spoil, each one more deliciously pointed than the last." â€“ Laura Miller,\n <em>\n  Salon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SCREAMINGLY FUNNY\n <em>\n </em>\n ...there''s no shortage of thought and scholarship and experience underpinningÂ _Pym,_Â but Johnson doesn''t let any of it bog him down. On the contrary, reading Pym is like openingÂ \n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n A BIG CAN OF WHOOP-ASS\n <em>\n </em>\n and then marveling -- gleefully -- at all the mayhem that ensues."Â â€“ Maggie Galehouse,\n <em>\n  Houston Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n "RELENTLESSLY ENTERTAINING\n <em>\n </em>\n ...Itâ€™s no easy task to balance social satire against life-threatening adventure, the allegory against the gory, but Johnsonâ€™s hand is steady and his ability to play against Poeâ€™s text masterly.Â  The book is polyphonous and incisive, an uproarious and hard-driving journey." â€“\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n "RIOTOUS\n <em>\n </em>\n ...Jaynes never learns much about the white pathology and mindset, but Mr. Johnson knows plenty about the character types he skewers." â€“\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  LOONY\n </strong>\n , disrespectful, and sharp,Â Johnson''sÂ ___Pym_Â is a welcome riff on the surrealistic shudder-fest that is Poe''s originalâ€¦I''ll stop there, but Johnson''s inventiveness never does.â€œ â€“ NPRâ€™s â€œFresh Airâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mat Johnson''s new novel is nothing short of fantastic, in every sense. Â I fell in love with the voice, the tone and the world of\n <em>\n  Pym.\n </em>\n Â This is an adventure novel, a work of historical and social commentary, a rumination on identity. Â The only problem I could find with this novel is that I didn''t write it. Â It''s a beautiful piece of work."\n <br />\n --Percival Everett, author of\n <em>\n  I Am Not Sidney Poitier\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mat Johnson has come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and he''s all out of bubble. gum.\n <em>\n  Pym\n </em>\n is an adventure, a satire, and a bracing political debate all rolled into one brilliant novel. Edgar Allen Poe has inspired many authors but Mat Johnson has the inspired audacity to both honor\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n discredit the man, often in the same sentence. I imagine Poe choking on half the things Johnson writes in this novel, and tipping his tiny hat in admiration to the rest."\n <br />\n --Victor LaValle, author of\n <em>\n  Big Machine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPYM reframes far more than Poe â€“ it reframes\n <em>\n  everything\n </em>\n American, from the whiteness of Ahabâ€™s whale to Detroit bus drivers; from DNA testing to tenure review; from the Gatsbyesque dream of romantic love to the dream of Utopia; from our fear of life to our love of death.Â Â  No one today writes inside the brilliant black mind better.â€\n <br />\n --Alice Randall, author of\n <em>\n  The Wind Done Gone\n </em>\n and _Rebel Yell\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSocial criticism rubs shoulders with cutting satire in this high-concept adventureâ€¦ [PYM] is caustically hilarious as it offers a memorable take on America''s â€˜racial pathologyâ€™ and â€˜the whole ugly story of our world.â€™â€\n <br />\n Â --_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n You can trust the veracity of this account: Mat Johnsonâ€™s Pym is a spectacularly sly and nimble-footed send-up of this world, the next world, and all points in between. A satire with heart, as courageous as it is cunning.â€ --Colson Whitehead, author of\n <em>\n  Sag Harbor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn acutely humorous, very original story that will delight lovers of literature and fantasy alike.â€\n <br />\n Â --_Kirkus_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThis extension of Poeâ€™s adventure is a romp that surprises on every page. Funny, insightful...Pym is a death-defying adventure.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  â€œMat Johnson writes with all the probing intelligence of James Baldwin, the scalding satire of Dany Laferriere and the technique of a master craftsman, all of which make him one of the most exciting, important and gifted writers of his generation.\n  <em>\n   Pym\n  </em>\n  is a moving and accomplished novel.â€ -- Chris Abani, author of\n  <em>\n   GraceLand\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Virgin of Flames\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7292'),
(7660, 'The Pyramid (2008)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander''s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "What happened to Wallander before the series began?...Several years ago, right when I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked, I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series." - from Henning Mankell''s foreword\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, the newly separated Wallander investigating the murder of a local photographer, and Wallander the veteran detective discovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. Over the course of these five mysteries, he comes into his own as a murder detective, defined by his simultaneously methodical and instinctive work, and is increasingly haunted from witnessing the worst aspects of an atomized society.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back upon his own creation to discover his origins, these mysteries are vintage Mankell. Essential reading for all Wallander fans, The Pyramid is also a wonderful showcase for Mankell''s powers as a writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9494'),
(7661, 'Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention aheadstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3396'),
(7662, 'Python for Unix and Linux System Administration', 'Noah Gift &amp; Jeremy M. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially for Linux and Unix. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient way to handle them. Once you finish this book, you''ll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8333'),
(7663, 'Q &amp; A', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nearly two decades ago, Jean-Luc Picard took command of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  NCC-1701-D. The captain knew it was an honor without equal. His new command bore the name of\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n  The people who had commanded other like-named starships had gone down in Starfleet''s annals. Some officers would be intimidated, but they would not have been given command of\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  On her first mission, the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  was sent to Farpoint Station. A simple, straightforward investigation. Perfect for a crew that had never served together. Then there was Q. An omnipotent lifeform that seemed bent on placing obstacle after obstacle in the ship''s -- and in particular in Picard''s -- way. And it hadn''t ended with that first mission. When he was least expected, Q would appear. Pushing, prodding, testing. At times needling captain and crew with seemingly silly, pointless, and maddening trifles. Then it would turn all too serious, and the survival of Picard''s crew was in Q''s hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why was it today that Picard was remembering the day he took command of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  -D? Now he commanded a new ship, the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  -E. His crew was different. There was nothing about Gorsach that in the least resembled Farpoint. But Picard couldn''t shake the feeling that something all too familiar was going on. All too awful. All too Q.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Keith R.A. DeCandido\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them\n  <em>\n   Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry''s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  . His original novel\n  <em>\n   Dragon Precinct\n  </em>\n  was published in 2004, and he''s also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated\n  <em>\n   Imaginings\n  </em>\n  and two\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don''t Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices\n  <em>\n   kenshikai\n  </em>\n  karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8677'),
(7664, 'The Q Continuum 01: Q-Space', 'Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ since their very first voyage together. But little is known of Q''s mysterious past or that of the unearthly realm from which he hails. Now Picard must learn Q''s secrets -- or all of reality may perish!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ever since its discovery, the great galactic barrier has impeded humanity''s exploration of the universe beyond the Milky Way. Now a brilliant Federation scientist may have found a way to breach the barrier, and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is going to put it to the test. The last thing Picard needs is a return visit from an omnipotent troublemaker so, naturally, Q appears.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Q has more in mind than his usual pranks, and while the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  struggles to defeat a powerful inhuman foe, Captain Picard must embark on a fantastic odyssey into the history of the Q Continuum itself, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4721'),
(7665, 'The Q Continuum 02: Q-Zone', 'Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The puckish super-being called Q has bedeviled Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ since their first encounter at Farpoint Station. But little was known of Q''s enigmatic past or that of the transcendent plane where he sometimes dwells. Now Picard must discover Q''s secrets -- for the sake of all that exists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  struggles to survive an alien onslaught, Captain Picard has been kidnapped by Q and taken on an astounding journey back through time to that immeasurably distant moment when the Continuum faced its greatest threat. But far more is at stake than simply the mysteries of the past, for an ancient menace is stirring once more, endangering the future of the galaxy, and neither Q nor Starfleet may be able to stop it!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4723'),
(7666, 'The Q Continuum 03: Q-Strike', 'Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The mischievous creature who calls himself Q has subjected Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ to many of their strangest experiences. But little had been known of Q''s curious existence or that of the advanced dimension from which he comes. But now Picard knows more than he ever dreamed about an ancient conflict whose consequences might spell the doom of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The galactic barrier has fallen and Q''s oldest enemy is free once more. Captain Picard and his crew find themselves in the middle of a cosmic war between vastly powerful entities. The future of the Federation may be at stake, but how can mere mortals turn the tide in such a superhuman battle? Picard has to find a way, or neither the Q Continuum nor the galaxy will survive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4722'),
(7667, 'Q Is for Quarry', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California''s Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff''s Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Kinsey is intrigued and agrees to the job. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe''s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer. Q is for Quarry is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, and Grafton''s interest in the case has generated renewed police efforts. During the past year, the body was exhumed and a nationally known forensic artist did the facial reconstruction that appears in the closing pages of Q is for Quarry. Both Grafton and the dedicated members of the Santa Barbara Sheriff''s Department are hoping the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification. On the day Jane Doe was reburied, many officers were at the gravesite. "It''s eerie," Grafton writes, "to think about the power this woman still has. Here we are, thirty-three years later, and she still wants to go home."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8151'),
(7668, 'Q-In-Law', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the_U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢_ is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed: Lwaxana Troi -- the mother of ship''s counsellor, Deanna Troi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite Lwaxana Troi''s romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems to go smoothly until the situation is further complicated by the arrival of the notorious and all powerful being called Q -- who has come to examine and challenge the human concept of love. Suddenly, the festivities are in turmoil, the powerful Tizarin families are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is determined to teach Q a lesson in love that he will never forget...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is chosen as the site for the wedding. Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, but his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed, Lwaxana Troi, the mother of ship''s counsellor, Deanna Troi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite Lwaxana Troi''s romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems to go smoothly until the situation is further complicated by the arrival of the notorious and all powerful being called Q, who has come to examine and challenge the human concept of love. The festivities are thrown into turmoil, the powerful Tizarin families are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is determined to teach Q a lesson in love that he will never forget.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6755'),
(7669, 'Q-Squared', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s deja vu all over again in this predictable entry. Star Trek fans will delight in identifying "obscure" references to episodes and characters from the TV series: they will cheer not only the rapacious Q from The Next Generation but also Trelane (the eponymous "Squire of Gothos" from The Original Series). The story involves the Enterprise crew through three alternative timelines with, of course, The Fate of the Universe hanging in the balance. David ( Imzadi ) limns a Trek-enamored multiverse in which Tasha Yar''s "bad haircut" is as important as the massacre of Klingons at Narendra Three. The novel is fast-paced and the prose sloppy. Characters from the first two TV series appear exactly as they were: David scrupulously adds nothing to extant characterizations as he juggles several subplots and intrigues. Certain to delight the converted are appearances by Jack Crusher and all the myriad Wesleys, among others, as well as relationships between Beverly and Picard, Troi and Riker. While the pulpy action makes this is a Trek-lovers paradise, anyone else will wonder what all the fuss is about.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David''s previous Star Trek novels include the best-selling Imzadi (Pocket Bks., 1992). In his latest, the crew of the Starship Enterprise have another go-round with the redoubtable being known as Q.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6762'),
(7670, '&quot;Q&quot; is for quarry', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Timesbestseller is back featuring Kinsey Millhone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4139');
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(7671, 'Quade&#39;s Babies', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Quade Westmoreland''s one-night love affair with Cheyenne had branded him body and soul, but he''d never even learned her last name. Almost a year later, driven by memories and one incriminating photo, the sexy operative had finally tracked her downâ€”and discovered three little babies bearing his features. Learning he was a father made Quade even more determined: he would claim Cheyenne Steele in every way. Shockingly, the irresistible beauty seemed intent on resisting him. But the Westmoreland destiny was at stake, and Quade would fight for what was his.â€¦\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Sir, the plane is about ready to take off. Please shut down your laptop and fasten your seat belt."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quade Westmoreland followed the flight attendant''s instructions while thinking just how many times he''d heard such a request while flying aboard a commercial aircraft. Over the past eight years he had grown accustomed to the luxury of Air Force One where using a laptop during takeoff was not only welcomed but necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He glanced around. At least he was in first class, which wasn''t a bad deal, and no one was sitting in the seat beside him, which made things even better. He didn''t like the feel of being crowded or cramped. He liked having his space. That was the reason he''d enjoyed his job with the PSF, Presidential Security Forces, dual branches of the Secret Service and CIA.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if the truth be knownâ€”and there were only a few key individuals who actually knew the truthâ€” his particular position entailed a lot more than protecting the president. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the PSF was created and he''d become a part of the elite team. His job was to keep tabs on the president''s travels abroad and make sure everything associated with the trips, especially the security, was dealt with prior to the president''s visit. It was his responsibility to protect the commander and chief from behind the scenes at all cost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That was the reason he had been in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, the night he had met Cheyenne Steele.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cheyenne Steele.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just thinking about her brought an automatic tightening in his chest, as well as a stirring in another part of his body. The woman had gotten that sort of response from him from the first time he had encountered her that night walking on the beach. He had actually felt her presence before seeing her. And when he had gazed into her face, a deep physical attraction had unleashed fierce desire in him, a degree to which he had never felt toward any other woman in all his thirty-six years. It had been hot. Unex-plainable. And luckily for him, the attraction had been mutual.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It didn''t take long to discover that she was just as physically attracted to him as he was to her, and after a few brief moments of small talk, she accepted his offer to share a drinkâ€¦ in his hotel room.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although he had known she would be safe with him, he had initially questioned her decision until they''d gotten up to his room. Before going inside with him she had made a smart move by using her cell phone to contact the female friend she was traveling with to let her know where she would be; specifically which room and at which hotel on the beach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cheyenne was the only part of her name she had exchanged with him that night and, considering how they''d met and the activities that had followed afterward, he hadn''t been sure if Cheyenne had even been her real name. She had been pretty secretive, but then so had he. And like her, he had only shared his first name.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He had constantly thought about her since that night and then a few days ago, while visiting his relatives in Montana, he had seen her face on the cover of a magazine. And it was pretty damn obvious that she was pregnant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In fact, she looked ready to deliver at any moment. Since the magazine had been October''s issue and it was now the first of December, a million questions had been going through his mind. The first of which was whether or not he was the man responsible for her condition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had used protection that night, but he would be the first to admit his passion for her, his desire to mate with her, had been uncontrollable. And somewhere in the back of his mind he seemed to recall at least one of the times in which there had not been a barrier. Whether it was true or just a figment of his imagination, he wasn''t certain. Even if he had used a condom each time they had made love, condoms weren''t without flaws, and when you made love as many times as they had, anything was possible. Even an unplanned pregnancy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She was the only one who could put his mind to rest by telling him whether or not the childâ€”which should have been born by nowâ€”was his. If it wasn''t, she must have slept with someone else around the same time she had slept with him. That was something he didn''t want to think about. And if the child was his, he would do the right thingâ€”the only thing a Westmoreland could do if they were foolish enough to get caught in such a situation. He would ask her to marry him to give their child his name. After a reasonable amount of time they could file for a divorce and part ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He could tolerate a short-term wife if he had to. He had recently retired and was about to embark on another career. He had joined a partnership with a few of his cousins to open a chain of security offices around the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He refused to be reminded that a marriage of convenience was how things had started out between his brother Durango and his wife, Savannah, and that they were now a happily married couple. Quade was glad things worked out the way they had for them; however, the situation with him and Cheyenne was different.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Durango had fallen hard for Savannah from the first time he had seen her at their cousin Chase''s wedding. But it had been lust and only lust that had driven his desire for Cheyenne that night. If it had been more than that, he would have taken the time to get to know her. He''d only had one goal in mind after meeting Cheyenne and that was finding a way to get her into his bed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the downsides of his former job was the long periods he''d had to put his social life on hold. It had been during one of those times, when his testosterone had been totally out of whack, that he met Cheyenne. He''d gone a long time without a woman and Cheyenne had been a prime target for a one-night stand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he hadn''t meant to get her pregnant if that''s what he''d actually done. So here he was on his way to Charlotte, North Carolina, to find out if he was the father of her baby. He had contacted the ad agency and discovered not only that Cheyenne was her real name, but that she was also a model, which was the reason she had been on the cover of that magazine. He shouldn''t have been surprised to learn of her profession since she had to have been the most beautiful woman he''d ever met. On the cover of that magazine with her pregnancy proudly displayed for the camera, she had still looked radiant and breathtakingly beautiful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quade felt the plane tilt upward as it took off. He leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes, deciding now was a perfect time to relive those long and passionate hours he had spent in bed with Cheyenne nearly ten months ago.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Quade felt hot, edgy and he couldn''t sleep.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Muttering a curse, he eased out of bed and looked around the hotel room.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The president was to arrive in two days and Quade and his men had checked out everything, especially the route the motorcade would be taking. There had been rumblings of a planned protest, but a spokesman for the Egyptian government had contacted him earlier to say the matter had been taken care of.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   He wondered if the bar downstairs was still open. He could definitely use a drink to take the edge off. For some reason this place and sleeping alone in this bed was reminding him just how long it had been since he''d had any sort of intimate physical contact with a woman. Too long.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Instead of getting a drink, Quade decided to take a walk on the beach. He eased into a pair of jeans and pulled a T-shirt over his head. After sliding his feet into a pair of sandals he checked the clock on the nightstand. It was almost one in the morning.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   As he left his room, closing the door shut behind him, he thought about the phone conversation he''d had with his mother earlier. She had surprised the hell out of him by saying his cousin Clint had gotten married.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   He had just seen his cousin a few months before at his brother Spencer''s wedding. They had talked. Clint had been excited. He had just retired as a Texas Ranger to become a partner with Durango and a childhood friend, McKinnon Quinn, in their horse-breeding business. Not once had Clint mentioned anything about a woman. And now he was married? There had to be more to it than the romantic tale his mother had weaved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Within no time at all Quade had caught the designated elevator, the one that would take him six levels down to a patio that led to the beach. Most of the hotel was empty. The majority of the rooms were already reserved for the president''s visit. The first lady would be present on this trip, along with a number of other dignitaries. The visit would last three days and Quade would be working nonstop behind the scenes the entire time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   He inhaled deeply as the scent of the ocean filled his nostrils, and after taking a few steps his sandals hit the soft sand, making him feel as if he was walking on marshmallows. Sharm al-Sheikh was a beautiful place, a developed tourist resort on the Sinai Peninsula that catered to the rich and famous. Even in the moonlit night, he could make out the large five-star hotels that dotted the shoreline.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A number of his men had made plans to hang around after the president''s visit to relax\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   and unwind. Unfortunately, he wouldn''t be one of them. He had promised his mother that he would be returning to the States in time to make an appearance at the christening of his cousin Thorn''s son.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Quade had to admit that he always looked forward to returning home to Atlanta whenever he could. TheWestmorelands were a large group and getting even larger with all the recent marriages and births. And then there was the possibility that they might find even more West-morelands if the genealogy search his father was conducting proved out. It seemed that their great-grandfather had a twin everyone assumed had died while in his early twenties. It appeared the black sheep Raphel Westmoreland, who had run off with a still-married preacher''s wife at the age of 22, was still alive. Both Quade''s father and his father''s twin brother, James, were eager to find any descendants of their long, lost wife-stealing, great-grand uncle Raphel.\n  </em>\n  &lt;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8035'),
(7672, 'Quantico', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This thought-provoking near-future thriller from bestseller Bear (_Dead Lines_) focuses on two young FBI agents: William Griffin, the son of a legendary FBI lawman, struggles through training; Fouad Al-Husam, who expects suspicion for his heritage and Muslim faith, finds himself instead sent on super-secret missions to the Middle East. Playing a minor supporting role is their Quantico classmate, Jane Rowland. When a quiet man with mismatched eyes starts telling certain fanatics that he can make gene-keyed anthrax to destroy their hereditary enemies, Griffin and Al-Husam form an unlikely team, headed by veteran agent Rebecca Rose, to handle the threat. Bear''s near-future science is, as always, eerily plausible, and while he doesn''t stint on sharp criticism of political infighting and its potential to hinder antiterrorism efforts, his would-be terrorists become surprisingly sympathetic as the complex details of their true plan are slowly (sometimes too slowly) revealed.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran science-fiction author Bear proves here that he is as comfortable in the near future as he is centuries or millennia down the road. Just a handful of years from today, global terrorism has escalated out of control. In Jerusalem, a sacred religious site is destroyed. Another attack on U.S. soil has taken the lives of thousands. New killing technologies are being developed in secret labs around the world. America is losing the war on terror. Enter three young FBI agents, raw recruits whose hunt for an American terrorist could either save the world or destroy it. This chillingly plausible story displays Bear''s storytelling gifts to their fullest: his ability to extrapolate from current technologies and political trends; his knack for creating flesh-and-bone characters; his capacity for keeping us on the edges of our seats. His legion of fans will be lining up for this one, and the novel''s cross-genre appeal should guarantee it an even wider readership than usual.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5797'),
(7673, 'The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It', 'Scott Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œBeware of geeks bearing formulas.â€ --Warren Buffett Â  In March of 2006, the worldâ€™s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. Â They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. Â They were accustomed to risking *billions.* Â  Â  At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid whoâ€™d studied theoretical mathematics at Princeton and now managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDTâ€¦when he wasnâ€™t playing his keyboard for morning commuters on the New York subway. Â With him was Ken Griffin, who as an undergraduate trading convertible bonds out of his Harvard dorm room had outsmarted the Wall Street pros and made money in one of the worst bear markets of all time. Â Now he was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group, one of the most powerful money machines on earth. There too were Cliff Asness, the sharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR, a man as famous for his computer-smashing rages as for his brilliance, and Boaz Weinstein, chess life-master and king of the credit default swap, who while juggling $30 billion worth of positions for Deutsche Bank found time for frequent visits to Las Vegas with the famed MIT card-counting team. Â  Â  On that night in 2006, these four men and their cohorts were the new kings of Wall Street. Â Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a Â new breed, the *quants*. Â Over the prior twenty years, this species of math whiz --technocrats who make billions not with gut calls or fundamental analysis but with formulas and high-speed computers-- had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers whoâ€™d long been the alpha males the worldâ€™s largest casino. Â The quants believed that a dizzying, indecipherable-to-mere-mortals cocktail of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry held the key to reaping riches from the financial markets. Â And they helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Â  Â  Few realized that night, though, that in creating this unprecedented machine, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness and Weinstein had sowed the seeds for historyâ€™s greatest financial disaster. Â  Â  Drawing on unprecedented access to these four number-crunching titans, *The Quants *tells the inside story of what they thought and felt in the days and weeks when they helplessly watched much of their net worth vaporize â€“ and wondered just how their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQâ€™s had led them so wrong, so fast. Â Had their years of success been dumb luck, foolâ€™s gold, a good run that could come to an end on any given day? Â What if The Truth they sought -- the secret of the markets -- wasnâ€™t knowable? Worse, what if there wasnâ€™t any Truth? Â  In *The Quants*, Scott Patterson tells the story not just of these men, but of Jim Simons, the reclusive founder of the most successful hedge fund in history; Aaron Brown, the quant who used his math skills to humiliate Wall Streetâ€™s old guard at their trademark game of Liarâ€™s Poker, and years later found himself with a front-row seat to the rapid emergence of mortgage-backed securities; and gadflies and dissenters such as Paul Wilmott, Nassim Taleb, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Â  Â  With the immediacy of todayâ€™s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, *The Quants* is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubrisâ€¦and an ominous warning about Wall Streetâ€™s future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3691'),
(7674, 'The Quantum Connection', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular on Steven''s home town in California. In an instant, his family and all his friends were gone. Suffering fits of deep depression, he dropped out of college and ended up working as a repairman in a video games store, where he did an brilliant job of repairing a 30-year-old video game. That caught the attention of the game''s owner in, who happened to be in a position to get Steven a government job, cracking computer codes, and reverse engineering unusual hardware. When he was given a tiny piece of hardware to examine as a "test," he worked out its functions so well that he and his boss were called to Washington for a top secret meeting. They asked him countless questions, yet declined to answer his; but he would soon learn all the answers. The "meteor" onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still secret war between the U.S and its enemies (as told in Warp Speed) using a new warp drive technology that was more secret than top secret. Another secret was that U.S. had been sending faster-than-light ships to other star systems. Most secret of all was that unfriendly aliens were observing the Earth, and while U.S. spaceships were not quite in a war with the unknown aliens, they were shooting at the intruders. Whether any of these answers would do Steven any good was an open question because he learned them only after his was abducted by those very same aliens and was held prisoner on one of their ships orbiting Saturn. At first, he was one of three human prisoners, but he had just seen the aliens completely dissect one of the three, and it looked like either Steven, or the Russian girl who was his fellow prisoner, were scheduled to be the next alien lab experiment. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4197'),
(7675, 'Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe', 'Marcus Chown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einsteins general theory of relativity. But, almost a century after their advent, most people havent the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that theres so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? Get set for the most entertaining science book of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6155'),
(7676, 'Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality', 'Manjit Kumar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. With vigor and elegance, Kumar describes the clash of titans that took place in the world of physics in the early 20th century, between physicists who did and those who did not believe in the quantumâ€”the strange concept that we now know to be the underpinning of reality. The titans in Kumar''s account of the conflict are Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. In 1900, Max Planck discovered that electromagnetic radiation and the energy of light are transmitted not in a continuous flow but in small packets called quanta (singular, quantum). Bohr applied the idea of quantum to electrons, leading to the development of quantum mechanics. Bohr''s theory explained experimental results that were inexplicable in classical theory. Einstein rejected Bohr''s theory overturning reality in dangerous but also thrilling ways. The clash culminated at the 1927 Solway conference. Kumar, founding editor of\n <em>\n  Prometheus\n </em>\n and a consulting science editor for\n <em>\n  Wired UK\n </em>\n , recounts this meaty, dense, exciting story, filled with vivid characters and sharp insights. With physics undergoing another revolution today, Kumar reminds us of a time when science turned the universe upside down. 16 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n â€œA first rate mind, extremely critical and far-seeing.â€ Einstein quickly sizes up the mental powers of Danish scientist Neils Bohr. How ironic that Bohr will demonstrate his farseeing vision most compellingly by discrediting Einsteinâ€™s own myopia! Kumar recounts Bohrâ€™s astounding triumph over the great German theorist in their debate over quantum physics, thus illuminating a pivotal episode in modern physics. In that episode readers see how quantum mechanics integrates a range of promising but puzzling and seemingly disconnected subatomic discoveries. Readers see, for instance, how a cautious Max Planck reluctantly parcels light into discrete packets and how a befuddled Ernest Rutherford recognizes that only a radically new model of the atom can explain alpha-particle deflections. Though only specialists will understand the technical issues, Kumar keeps the main thread of his narrative accessible to the intelligent general reader, particularly clarifying how Einsteinâ€™s belief in objective reality pits him against the daringly agnostic Bohr, who leaves the mysteries of wave-particle duality veiled in statistical probabilities and abstract formulas. Intellectual exhilaration runs high as Einstein repeatedly presses Bohrâ€”posing daunting questions about how to weigh an imaginary box of light and how to explain eerily â€œentangledâ€ particles. The future of science hangs in the balance: physics becomes high drama. --Bryce Christensen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6316'),
(7677, 'Quarry in the Middle', 'Max Allan Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Addictive as a jar of salted nuts --Pulp Fiction Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  A lightning-fast-can''t-put-it-down read --Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s sex, violence, humor, and plenty of little twists before you get to the end... --Bill Crider''s Pop Culture Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FIRSTâ€¦THERE WAS\n  <em>\n   THE LAST QUARRY\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  THENâ€¦THERE WAS\n  <em>\n   THE FIRST QUARRY.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  NOWâ€¦LOOK WHOâ€™S CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The enigmatic hitman Quarry -- star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (_The Last Lullaby_) -- is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contractsâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7726'),
(7678, 'Quarter Share: A Trader&#39;s Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper', 'Nathan Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Golden Age of Sail has Returned -- in the Year 2352** When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn''t hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Neris Orbital, and has never been off-planet alone before, finds himself part of an eclectic crew sailing a deep space leviathan between the stars. Join the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, a Manchester built clipper as she sets solar sails in search of profit for her company and a crew each entitled to a share equal to their rating. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 2008 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction for Full Share 2008 Podiobooks Founder''s Choice Award for Double Share 2008 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction for South Coast 2009 Podiobooks Founder''s Choice Award for Captain''s Share 2009 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction for Double Share 4 out of 10 Books on Podiobooks.com Top Overall Rated by Votes (2. Double Share, 3. Quarter Share, 5. Full Share, 8. Half Share) -- as of Jan 2010 6 out of 10 Books on Podiobooks.com Top Overall Rating (1. Ravenwood, 2. Quarter Share, 3. Double share, 4. Captain''s Share, 5. Full Share, 7. South Coast) -- as of Jan 2010 GOLDEN AGE OF THE SOLAR CLIPPER SERIES**Trader''s Tales**Quarter ShareHalf ShareFull ShareDouble Share Captain''s ShareOwner''s Share* **Shaman Tales**South Coast Cape Grace*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2742'),
(7679, 'The Queen of Bedlam', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3563'),
(7680, 'Queen of Sorcery', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."PIERS ANTHONYThe master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain its saving power before the final disaster prophesized by the legends. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1188'),
(7681, 'The Queen of Stone', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the land of monsters, you''ll want her by your side.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nyrielle Tam--better known by her code name, Thorn--is a Dark Lantern sent undercover to a summit in the monstrous kingdom of Droaam. The beasts of Droaam have organized and want recognition from the kingdoms of Khorvaire. Breland attends to gauge its neighbors'' reaction to the new state''s demands of equality . . . and to take the opportunity to recover something long ago stolen by the mysterious Sheshka, Queen of the Medusas. It''s up to Thorn to accomplish both, while keeping her King and Country out of war.\n</p>\n<p>\n The creator of the world of\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n returns with a series that shows off\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n ''s cross-genre capabilities--all the smarts and action of a spy thriller, with the magic and depth of world only fantasy can create. There''s something here for every fan!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keith Baker discovered\n <strong>\n  Dungeons &amp; Dragons\n </strong>\n in elementary school, and this was the beginning of a lifelong interest in games of all sorts. In 2002, he quit his job to become a full-time freelance writer. Much to his surprise, in 2003 his world\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n was selected as the finalist in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. He is the author of the Dreaming Dark Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8811'),
(7682, 'The Queen of Stone: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the land of monsters, you''ll want her by your side.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nyrielle Tam--better known by her code name, Thorn--is a Dark Lantern sent undercover to a summit in the monstrous kingdom of Droaam. The beasts of Droaam have organized and want recognition from the kingdoms of Khorvaire. Breland attends to gauge its neighbors'' reaction to the new state''s demands of equality . . . and to take the opportunity to recover something long ago stolen by the mysterious Sheshka, Queen of the Medusas. It''s up to Thorn to accomplish both, while keeping her King and Country out of war.\n</p>\n<p>\n The creator of the world of\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n returns with a series that shows off\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n ''s cross-genre capabilities--all the smarts and action of a spy thriller, with the magic and depth of world only fantasy can create. There''s something here for every fan!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keith Baker discovered\n <strong>\n  Dungeons &amp; Dragons\n </strong>\n in elementary school, and this was the beginning of a lifelong interest in games of all sorts. In 2002, he quit his job to become a full-time freelance writer. Much to his surprise, in 2003 his world\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n was selected as the finalist in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. He is the author of the Dreaming Dark Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4394'),
(7683, 'The Queen of Swords', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9844'),
(7684, 'Queen of the Damned', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic **Interview with the Vampire** . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of **The Vampire Lestat**.  In **The Queen of the Damned**, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat''s power and who are determined to destroy him . . . - The sleep of certain men and women--vampires *and* mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey''s end . . . - Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and make "all myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause" . . . These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(7685, 'The queen of the damned', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. SUMMARY: "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(7686, 'Queen of the South', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte; Andrew Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œJohn Le Carre meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez...PÃ©rez-Reverte has a huge following...and itâ€™s spreading.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journal Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverteâ€™s latest novel has him poised for true breakout bestsellerdom: The Queen of the South hit multiple bestseller lists and garnered stunning reviews, with raves describing it as his greatest achievement to date. An extraordinary novel, it captivated booksellers, critics and readers almost without exception. The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain. Set to the irresistible beat of outlaw ballads, this sweeping story encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroineâ€™s story unfolds. â€œA modern-day epic...bearing the unmistakable ring of authenticity and a slam-bang narrative sure to resonate with legions of appreciative readers...All the core elements, after all, are here: love, violence, betrayal and honor.â€ â€”Los Angeles Times â€œThe Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four ...pale in comparison with PÃ©rez-Reverte novels...PÃ©rez-Reverte shines in some white-knuckles action sequences...but his greatest triumph is [his] heroine.â€ â€”Time Out New York â€œPÃ©rez-Reverteâ€™s literary thriller explodes with history, heartbreak [and] determination....An epic suspense story of heart and grit.â€ â€”Entertainment Weekly (Editorâ€™s Choice)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(7687, 'The Queen&#39;s Bastard', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/848'),
(7688, 'The Queen&#39;s Pawn', 'Christy English', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A historical novel of the legendary Eleanor of Aquitaine and the one person she loved more than power-her rival for the throne.  At only nine, Princess Alais of France is sent to live in England until she is of age to wed Prince Richard, son of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Alais is an innocent pawn on the chessboard of dynastic marriage, her betrothal intended to broker an uneasy truce between the nations.  Estranged from her husband, Eleanor sees a kindred spirit in this determined young girl. She embraces Alais as a daughter, teaching the princess what it takes to be a woman of power in a world of men. But as Alais grows to maturity and develops ambitions of her own, Eleanor begins to see her as a threat-and their love for each other becomes overshadowed by their bitter rivalry, dark betrayals, conflicting passions, and a battle for revenge over the throne of England itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8699'),
(7689, 'The Queen&#39;s Witch', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Queen''s Witch is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab series of urban fantasy novels. It features Kit Marlowe in a supernatural thriller set in Elizabethan England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2723'),
(7690, 'Quest Crosstime', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9088'),
(7691, 'Quest for Honour', 'Sam Barone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the dawn of history, an epic war is about to begin in the deadly quest for honour. The city of Sumer, ruled by a brutal murderer and his vicious, power hungry sister, is poised to give birth to the mightiest empire in history. No one stands a chance as it brings a bloody war to all those who stand in its way, determined to crush and enslave those on its borders. The little city state of Akkad must prepare its fledgling nation to fight for its very survival. Akkad''s warriors are a loyal and courageous brotherhood, but this is not a battle of villages or of roving warrior bands; it is a battle for Empire and a fight to the death...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3330'),
(7692, 'The Quest for Meaning', 'Tariq Ramadan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In "The Quest for Meaning", Tariq Ramadan, philosopher and Islamic scholar, invites the reader to join him on a journey to the deep ocean of religious, secular, and indigenous spiritual traditions to explore the most pressing contemporary issues. Along the way, Ramadan interrogates the concepts that frame current debates including: faith and reason, emotions and spirituality, tradition and modernity, freedom, equality, universality, and civilization. He acknowledges the greatest flashpoints and attempts to bridge divergent paths to a common ground between these religious and intellectual traditions. He calls urgently for a deep and meaningful dialogue that leads us to go beyond tolerant co-existence to mutual respect and enrichment. Written in a both direct and meditative style this is an important, timely and intelligent book that aims to direct and shape debate around the most important questions of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5381'),
(7693, 'The Quest for Tanelorn', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9840'),
(7694, 'Quest for the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker &amp; James P. Baen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mavra Chang had been a master criminal, notorious throughout the galaxy, but for years she has been trapped in a no-longer human body on the Well World - the Master Control planet for the universe. A supercomputer can restore her form, if only she can obtain a spaceship to reach it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imprisoned in alien bodies, sentenced to subhuman destinies, Mavra Chang and her cohorts plotted an impossible escape from a world with no exits . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5627'),
(7695, 'The Quest of the Sacred Slipper (Webster&#39;s Spanish Thesaurus Edition)', 'Sax Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer was edited for three audiences. The first includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Spanish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Spanish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Spanish or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Spanish, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having thereader decipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3365'),
(7696, 'The Quest', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of bestseller Smith''s ancient Egyptian series will welcome the fourth book in the saga, which picks up where\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001) left off. The powerful magus Taita and his loyal ally, Col. Meren Cambyses, have returned to Egypt after a journey of many years only to find the country beset by a series of plagues that include giant flesh-eating toads and river water turned to blood. Pharaoh Nefer Seti asks the pair to findâ€”and eliminateâ€”the source of his country''s torment, a mission that sends Taita and Meren on a perilous quest in which they must contend with fierce creatures both natural and supernatural. Once again Smith deftly blends history, fantasy and mythology, but newcomers should be prepared for grisly deaths and mutilations.\n  <em>\n   225,000 printing.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest book by best-selling adventure novelist Smith is the fourth volume in his series of historical novels set in pharaonic Egypt, tracing the adventures of eunuch and mystic Taita. Its immediate predecessor was\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001). The quest of the title is just as much a spiritual one as an actual one as Taita, out of a deep devotion to his country and his pharaoh, seeks the identity and the quashing of the "menacing force" that is threatening the very existence of the kingdom; the "land of Egypt quailed, and the population gave in to despair." The Nile has refused to rise and bring fresh, fertile soil to the river valley; the shrunken river runs with blood; and huge, poisonous toads arise from the bloody water and overrun the land. Taita must go deep upriver, far into Africa''s interior, to discover the reason. Ancient mysticism and mythology swirl through the narrative as swiftly as the Nile waters when in full flood. Smith has always been long on action, and his new novel won''t disappoint his fans in that regard; he''s always been graphic in depicting violence and death, and his new novel certainly fits the mold.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9166'),
(7697, 'A Question of Belief', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind; it appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. This unofficial investigation leads them to the flat of Stefano Gorini. But who is this man? And why is Vianellos aunt giving him large amounts of money?Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving Judge Luisa Coltellini and Araldo Fontana, an usher with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elletra to find out what she can while he is away on his family holiday.When news reaches Brunetti that Araldo Fontana has been murdered in a violent attack, he returns to the city to head up the investigation. But why would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to do with the discrepancies at the Courthouse? It soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem, and as suspicions arise Brunetti has to dig ever deeper to uncover the truth behind the faYade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(7698, 'A question of death: an illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury', 'Kerry Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid''s Bow lips and diamante garters - is the 1920''s most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including Phryne''s favourite shoes and hats, decadent cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwanted admirers - is a gorgeously collectable treat for all Phryne fans. Lavishly illustrated with divine colour illustrations by Beth Norling, A Question of Deathwill bring joy to the hearts of Phryne Fisher fans everywhere.''With Phryne Fisher, the indefatigable Greenwood has invented the character-you-fall-in-love-with genre.'' The Australian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2978');
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(7699, 'A Question of Upbringing', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who is Widmerpool? The question that is to dog Nicholas Jenkins crystallizes as he sees the gawky figure of his schoolmate huffing through the mists on a solitary cross-country run. So unexceptional, unsmart -- even unpopular -- Widmerpool continues to drop in and out of Jenkins life through school, university and London in the 1920''s. A Question of Upbringing is the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time -- recently a successful television series starring Simon Russell Beale. James Purefoy, Alan Bennett, Sir John Gielgud and Claire Skinner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(7700, 'Question Quest', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Youth is Wasted on the Young Being grown up is a drag . . . or so thinks Lacuna, one of the michievous Castle Zombie twins. So she makes the Good Magician Grey an an offer he can''t refuse. Thirsty for a taste of the Elixir of Youth, she''ll help him outwit the evil Com-Pewter if he''ll send her to Hell (in a handbasket, no less) to find Humphrey, the missing sorcerer. And while there, she''ll learn the True History of Xanth (simplified) and help rescue a blushing Rose from the demon X(A/N) . . . with the help of a gorgon or two.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3283'),
(7701, 'Questions and Answers', 'Thich Nhat Hanh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10677'),
(7702, 'Quick &amp; Easy Chinese: 70 Everyday Recipes', 'Nancie McDermott &amp; Maren Caruso', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Throw away that take-out menu and turn to one of the recipes in this wonderful new cookbook. Using readily available ingredients and a few simple techniques, Quick &amp; Easy Chinese brings the delicious flavors of Asia into anyone''s kitchen. Included are many familiar restaurant classics like Cashew Chicken, Hot and Sour Soup, and even Fortune Cookiesâ€”all simplified for easy home cooking. With a wide range of appetizers, soups, entrees, drinks, and desserts, Quick &amp; Easy Chinese will bring everyone good fortune and good eating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7871'),
(7703, 'The Quick and the Dead', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Con Vallina knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger''s campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie--fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2832'),
(7704, 'The Quickening Maze', 'Adam Foulds', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Foulds''s erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson--as their fates intertwine at the High Beach mental institution outside of 1837 London. Worried over the cost of the wedding for his eldest daughter, Matthew invents a machine to mass-produce filigreed wood furniture. Ignoring the asylum for his business pursuits, Matthew seeks investors, including the Tennyson family, of whom Alfred''s brother, Septimus, is a patient at High Beach. John, meanwhile, spirals into a fantasy world fueled by his obsession with a dead childhood sweetheart, Mary. Things become complicated when John deludes himself into thinking a fellow patient is his dead love. All the while, Alfred, who is at the asylum to be near his brother, is fruitlessly pursued by Matthew''s adolescent daughter, Hannah. While Alfred, unfortunately, is the least convincing character, John''s madness is richly imagined, and Matthew comes off as powerfully sympathetic as he grows ever more desperate to raise funds for his business gamble. There''s a manneredness to the storytelling that devotees of 19th-century British literature will appreciate.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Fouldsâ€™ novel is grounded in fact. Its setting is High Beach, a licensed lunatic asylum run along enlightened principles by Dr. Matthew Allen. One way Allen intersects with literary history is through the delusional laboring-class poet John Clare, who was his patient for several years. Another intersection is through Alfred Tennyson, whose family had a history of mental illness and who took up residence nearby. Allenâ€™s boundless energy was not confined to the treatment of the insane. He became involved in a scheme for the mass production of ecclesiastical wood carvings, and his need for investors led to the Tennyson familyâ€™s ruin. More focus on one or two characters would have given the reader something to hold on to; instead we get multiple points of viewâ€”those of not just Allen, but several of his daughters; not just John Clare, but other patientsâ€”resulting in episodes rather than sustained narrative. Still, Foulds fashions his intriguing premise into fiction with a sure sense of time and place and often lyrical prose. --Mary Ellen Quinn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5719'),
(7705, 'Quicker Than the Eye', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his first new collection of short stories in nearly a decade, Ray Bradbury, America''s preeminent storyteller, tells all--celebrating life and dreams in the unique, incomparable voice that has favored him across six decades, winning him millions of fans the world over. This is a master magician at the height of his powers: 21 remarkable tales that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic; from high noon to long after midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10026'),
(7706, 'The Quickie', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE #1 BESTSELLING SENSATION #1 New York Times #1 Chicago Tribune #1 Washington Post #1 Entertainment Weekly #1 USA Today #1 Wall Street Journal America''s most popular thriller writer, James Patterson, presents his most daring-and astonishing-novel ever. With the perfect marriage and a great job, Lauren Stillman loves her wonderful life . . . until she sees her husband with another woman. Devastated and lusting for revenge, Lauren has her own affair. It''s supposed to be a quickie, but Lauren''s night of passion takes a shocking turn when she witnesses an unbelievable and deadly crime. Now her horrifying secret threatens to tear her life apart, pitting her need to uncover the truth against her fear that the truth may be too horrible to bear. And whichever choice she makes may cost her dearly-her job, her marriage . . . or even her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2020'),
(7707, 'Quicksilver', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it''s just the beginning ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8772'),
(7708, 'Quidditch through the Ages', 'Whisp, Kennilworthy &amp; Rowling, J.K.; Whisp, Kennilworthy &amp; Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4125'),
(7709, 'The Quiet American', 'Graham Greene; Robert Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene''s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle''s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler''s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler''s beautiful Vietnamese mistress. Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9234'),
(7710, 'The Quiet Gentleman', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "* "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to." - Katie Fforde * "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." - Margaret Drabble * "A writer of great wit and style - I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph * "Sparkling" - Independent on Sunday * "Geogrette Heyer is unbeatable" - India Knight"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fascinating reading...authentic atmosphere in a delightful Enlgish tale"\n <br />\n -Chicago Sunday Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n Less than a hero''s welcome...\n</p>\n<p>\n Returning to his family seat from Waterloo, Gervase Frant, seventh Earl of St Erth, could have expected more enthusiasm for his homecoming. His quiet cousin, stepmother, and young half-brother seem openly disappointed that he survived the wars. And when he begins to fall for his half-brother''s sweetheart, his chilly reception goes from unfriendly to positively murderous.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of Heyer''s most suspenseful Regency romances, The Quiet Gentleman combines an ingenious mystery plot with her signature witty style and effervescently engaging characters.\n</p>\n<p>\n What Readers Say:\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must read. You will love the quirky characters, the great suspense plot, and the incredible wit."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A breath of fresh air... Heyer''s witty dialog, engaging and sparkling characters, and humorous repartee make this an engaging and wonderful read."\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of my favourites; it is a mystery as well as a lighthearted comedy of manners."\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10213'),
(7711, 'A Quiet Vendetta', 'R. J. Ellory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react rapidly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kidnapper calls he doesn''t want money: he wants time alone with Ray Hartmann, who works for a Washington-based organised crime task force.All Ray wants to do is get this over with quickly, and go home to try and repair his broken marriage. Instead he must listen to the mysterious kidnapper, an elderly Cuban named Ernesto Perez, who wants to tell him his life story. It''s only when he realises that Ernesto has been a brutal hitman for the Mob since the 1950s that things start to come together. But by the time the pieces fall into place, it''s already too late...A QUIET VENDETTA is both the epic novel of one man''s life in the Italian Mafia - a story that ranges from Cuba to Las Vegas and from L.A. to Chicago - and equally a powerful thriller of rage, love and loss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5932'),
(7712, 'R Is for Ricochet', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee''s father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee''s past starts coming back to haunt her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8153'),
(7713, '&quot;R&quot; is for ricochet', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee''s father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee''s past starts coming back to haunt her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4138'),
(7714, 'Rabbit at rest', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Rabbit at Rest", the delightful last novel in the rabbit sequence, is both comic and moving. Rabbit, now in his middle fifties, is living in a condo in Florida. Nelson and his wife and children come to stay and disaster ensues; Rabbit has a serious heart attack after a boating attack with his granddaughter and Nelson is discovered to have been embezzling the family firm to feed his cocaine habit. The resolution of the Angstrom Family''s conflicts is brilliantly described and draws a fascinatingly detailed picture of America at the beginning of the 1990s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3139'),
(7715, 'Rabbit is rich', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry''s doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3138'),
(7716, 'Rabbit Redux', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren''t as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair''s fragile harmony soon begins to fail ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3143'),
(7717, 'Rabbit, Run', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s 1959 and Harry ''Rabbit'' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, ''after you''ve been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3140'),
(7718, 'The Race', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Justin Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Detective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that''s where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Frost''s violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows that Frost won''t be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case . . . Frost will be after him, too.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   Crescent Dawn, The Jungle\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11210'),
(7719, 'Rach Ray 365: No Repeats', 'Rachael Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Even your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when itâ€™s in constant rotation, so mix it up! With her largest collection of recipes yet, Food Networkâ€™s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees youâ€™ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year... without a single repeat! Based on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you donâ€™t have to reinvent the wheel every night. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and youâ€™ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Try your hand at Spring Chicken with Leeks and Peas and youâ€™re all set to turn out a rib-sticking Rice and Chicken Stoup that looks and tastes like an entirely different dish. As a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows, Rachael Ray believes that both cooking and eating should be fun. Drawing from her own favorite dishes as well as those of her family, friends, and celebrities, she covers the flavor spectrum from Asian to Italian and dozens of delicious stops in between. Best of all, these flavor-packed dishes will satisfy your every craving and renew your taste for cooking. With so many delicious entrees to choose from youâ€™ll never have an excuse for being in a cooking rut again.How about a brand-new 30-minute dinner every night for an entire year? Tired of making the same old same old, week after week after week? With Rachaelâ€™s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, youâ€™ll have everyone at your table saying â€œYummo!â€ all year long. Itâ€™s amazing what a half hour can do for your tastebuds â€¦ 365 days a year!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3582'),
(7720, 'Rachael Ray&#39;s Look + Cook', 'Rachael Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fall into Cooking Featured Recipe: Midwinter Minestrone from\n  <em>\n   Rachael Rayâ€™s Look + Cook\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Serves 4\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ingredients\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 2 tablespoons EVOO (extra-virgin olive oil)\n <br />\n 1/4 pound sliced pancetta, cut into 1/4 -inch dice (optional)\n <br />\n 2 carrots, peeled and chopped into 1/4-inch dice\n <br />\n 3 celery stalks, chopped into 1/4-inch dice\n <br />\n 2 bay leaves, fresh or dried\n <br />\n 3 to 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped or grated\n <br />\n 1 large or 2 medium red onions, chopped\n <br />\n Salt and pepper\n <br />\n 1 ounce dried porcini or mixed wild mushrooms, chopped\n <br />\n 1/2 cup soft sun-dried tomatoes, thinly sliced\n <br />\n 1 quart chicken or vegetable stock\n <br />\n 1 small bunch of purple or green kale, washed and dried\n <br />\n 1 cup semolina or whole-wheat ditalini or other short cut pasta\n <br />\n 1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas\n <br />\n Pecorino Romano cheese, grated or shredded, to pass at the table\n</p>\n<p>\n Place a heavy-bottomed soup pot over medium-high heat with the EVOO. Add the pancetta to the pot (if using) and cook until crispy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the carrots, celery, bay leaves, garlic, and onions to the pot, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the veggies are tender, 7 to 8 minutes more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add the mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, stock, and 2 cups water to the pot, and bring up to a boil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hold the kale by the stems and curl up your opposite hand around the greens at the base of the stem. With a quick jerking motion strip the greens off and away from the stems and chop the greens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add the kale, pasta, and chickpeas to the soup pot, and cook until the pasta is al dente. Season the soup with salt and pepper to taste. Discard the bay leaves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ladle the soup into shallow bowls, top with the Pecorino Romano, and serve.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just when you thought Rachael Ray couldn''t make preparing dinner any easier, she offers a book of 100 simple main courses, all illustrated with step-by-step photos. Cooks who aren''t quite sure what dishes are supposed to look like along the way will gain confidence from the six images that accompany each entry, highlighting ingredients, techniques, and in-progress recipes. As You Like It citrus soy stir-fry calls for shelled edamame and a seeded and thinly sliced bell pepper; photos show just how these should appear when they''re ready to go into the skillet. One photo supporting the individual Florentine frying-pan pizza depicts dough pressed into a skillet and being filled before baking--so there''s no question about whether the reader is doing it correctly. All recipes include a photo of the finished product, too. Chapters are quintessential Ray: "Cozy Food" (cherry tomato and ravioli soup with store-bought ravioli; shepherd''s pie stuffed potatoes), "Make Your Own Takeout" (Real-Deal rellenos), "Fancy Fake-Outs" (Moroccan Lemon-Olive Chicken), "Â Ã¿Yes, The Kids Will Eat It''Â " (chicken &amp; broccolini with orange sauce), and, of course, "30-Minute Meals." Ray fans should find more of what they love in this book: easy meals that will please most crowds. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5912'),
(7721, 'Rachel&#39;s Holiday', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But Rachel''s love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend she adores. When her loving family hustles her back home and checks her into Ireland''s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic, Rachel is hopeful. Perhaps it will be lovely-spa treatments, celebrities, that kind of thing. Instead, she finds a lot of group therapy, which leads her, against her will, to some important self-knowledge. She will also find something that all women like herself fear: a man who might actually be good for her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9978'),
(7722, 'Radio Free Albemuth', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The praise is fantastic! Radio Free Albemuth is more than a fascina ting introduction (and key) to Dick''s classic Valis trilogy. It also stands on its own as a complete--and completely unforgettable--work representing Dick at his best--eerie, elevating, and extraordinary. HC:Arbor House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9906'),
(7723, 'Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth', 'Lisa Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public radio''s Marketplace) researched the country about which he spoke so enthusiastically, she became entranced with Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan kingdom that sits between India and China. This country--dubbed "the happiest on earth" because of its focus on environmental and social progress--is hard to get to, with its remote location and governmental deterrents to tourism, like a per-person, per-day tourist tax. But a friend of Sebastian''s needs help with startup radio station Kuzoo FM, so Napoli leaves L.A. and goes to Bhutan for six weeks. She writes, "After more than two decades of reducing even the most complex issues to 1,000 words or less, I was tired of observing life from a distance." While the author turns an eye on her own motivations (nothing further developed with Sebastian), she refrains from tortured navel-gazing and instead shares and reflects on Bhutan''s people, history, and customs (from painting phalluses on houses to repel evil spirits to Buddhism''s role in daily life). Napoli''s adventures at home and abroad, in nature and career and spirit, will delight readers. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A successful journalist working for public radio in Los Angeles, Napoli hit a wall. Burned out and overwhelmed by regret, she wondered how to recharge her life. Enter a friend of a friend with connections to the tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan. In 2006, this Buddhist kingdom, long cocooned against the outside world, launched a new youth radio station, Kuzoo FM (kuzoo zampo means hello). Would Napoli like to volunteer as a consultant? So begins a love affair with a land unlike any other, a bond that lifts Napoli out of her blues and enriches the lives of the young people with whom she works. The stories of the wildly popular station are charming and gracefully revealing as Napoli shares her experiences of Bhutanï¿½s magnificent landscape, fiery cuisine, and openhanded daily life in a society that measures its achievements not with a Gross National Product but, rather, with Gross National Happiness. Napoliï¿½s engaging, keenly observed, and informative chronicle captures Bhutan midmetamorphosis as it transforms itself into a democracy and as media and the Internet redefine the Bhutanese concept of contentment. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6534'),
(7724, 'Rafa', 'Rafael Nadal &amp; John Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest players in the history of tennis, has the answers. In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, he reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success. It begins in Mallorca, a small island on the Mediterranean Sea, where the tight-knit Nadal family has lived for generations. Coached by his uncle Toni from the age of four, taught humility and respect by his parents, cherished by his exceptionally close extended family, Nadal has managed the uncommon feat of becoming an acclaimed global celebrity while remaining an unfailingly gracious, relentlessly hardworking role model for people in all walks of life.Since he embarked on his tennis career ten years ago, the twenty-five-year-old Nadal has had a meteoric rise, becoming the youngest professional tennis player ever to win all four Grand Slam titles. He collected his first one, the French Open, in 2005 at age nineteen, and from there went on to win Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and, most difficult of all, the U.S. Open in 2010. His memoir takes us behind the scenes, sharing the highs and lows of his career, from winning the Wimbledon 2008 final, described by John McEnroe as â€œ the greatest game of tennisâ€ he had ever seen, to the family problems that brought him low in 2009 and the numerous injuries that have threatened his career.With candor, heart, and intelligence, Rafael Nadal takes readers on his lifeâ€™ s dramatic and triumphant journey, never losing sight along the way of the prize he values above all others: the unity and love of his family. From RAFA:"During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. The more bottled up they are, the greater your chances of winning, so long as youâ€™ ve trained as hard as you play and the gap in talent is not too wide between you and your rival. The gap in talent with Federer existed, but it was not impossibly wide. It was narrow enough, even on his favorite surface in the tournament he played best, for me to know that if I silenced the doubts and fears, and exaggerated hopes, inside my head better than he did, I could beat him. You have to cage yourself in protective armor, turn yourself into a bloodless warrior. Itâ€™ s a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11232'),
(7725, 'Raft', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen Baxter''s highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree -- just one of the many strange local lifeforms -- carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. Accepted as an apprentice scientist, he learns that their world is dying, and that in order to live these survivors must contemplate a journey even more perilous and fantastic than that of their ancestors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4224'),
(7726, 'Rage', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written by Richard Bachman. In quiet Placerville, Maine, a slightly twisted boy named Charles Decker holds the 24 other students of his algebra class at gunpoint after shooting 2 teachers. Abused by his father as a child, he describes the important parts of his life, and in the process, lets a lot of the students he holds hostage tell the rest of the class their "Dirty Secrets". Things almost come to an early end when Charles is shot by a sniper, but the bullet hits a padlock he had placed in his pocket earlier. As things progress, the students become more and more responsive to their captor, all except Ted Jones. The students get their own back, and play one last nasty trick on another student before being released unharmed. But Charles is out of luck... This was initially titled "Getting it On" (After Deckers favourite saying) but was later renamed Rage, and released under Bachman''s name. It has not been reprinted in the last few years as Stephen King thought it too violent, and similar to many killings in some American Schools. This is a pity as it is an excellent insight into the mind of someone that it walking the thin edge of sanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4309'),
(7727, 'Rage', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this latest epic, popular novelist Smith (The Leopard Hunts in Darkness) takes on a difficult challenge, telling of post-World War II South Africa. What he has created is a hybrid. His narrative seriously addresses the conflicts of whites and blacks, the differences between British and Afrikaners, and the tribes and personalities vying for control of the African National Congress. But it''s also a soap opera, one of those conventional generational sagas with a contrived forbidden love affair between a white and a black, adultery and the rivalry between two men who do not realize they are half-brothers. The combination is simultaneously thrilling and embarrassing. Shasa Courtney is a wealthy United Party minister to the South African Parliament. A moderate of English heritage, he is often opposed to the Nationalist Party''s Manfred De La Rey, an Afrikaner. Their mother, the matriarchal Centaine Courtney-Malcomess, is able to mediate their conflicts but not to control Shasa''s wife, Tara, who sympathizes with the black cause. It is Tara who falls in love with the black Moses Gama, an advocate of violent opposition to apartheid. All their stories intermingle with the history of South Africa in the ''50s and ''60s. Smith''s account of some of the worst racial riots is terrifying and his storytelling powers are strong, but readers of Rage will likely come away wondering whether turgid sub-plots really enhance a novel about one of the world''s most troubled countries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the family saga set in South Africa which he began in The Burning Shore and The Power of the Sword. This new novel focuses on the half brothers, Shasa Courtney and Manfred De La Rey, now high officials in the Nationalist government. During the mounting protest and violence brought on by apartheid in the 1950s and early 1960s, these former enemies find themselves working together to save the land they both love. Other family members are involved too. Michael, one of Shasa''s sons, becomes a reporter who opposes apartheid, while Lothar, Manfred''s son, is a policeman who enforces it. The interlocking stories of these and many others, set against the authentic African historical and cultural background that Smith so effectively provides, produces both a compelling tale and some real insights into South Africa. Recommended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Lib., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9142'),
(7728, 'A Rage for Revenge', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lieutenant James McCarthy has grown to manhood under the shadow of the terrifying invasion of the Chtorr. As a student, he learned all he could to understand them. As a Special Forces commando, he made violent first contact. Now he must infiltrate a band of renegade humans who worship the Chtorr!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4351'),
(7729, 'Rage of a Demon King', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A loyal soldier and a wealthy merchant have served bravely in the flames of an enduring war that is ravaging their land. But swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the scourge that is descending upon their home. For a foul and terrible thing has escaped from a world already devoured to feed on one consumed by chaosâ€”an insatiable nightmare creature of dark and murderous nature which seeks to own and corrupt the very source of life itselfThe final conflict is joined, pitting serpent against man and magician against demon. For those who battle in the cause of good, there will be victory . . . or there will be doom for all.There can be no other outcome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3654'),
(7730, 'Rage of angels', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer -- brilliant, beautiful, an attorney on the way up until the Mafia''s schemes win her the hatred of an implacable enemy -- and a love more destructive than hate. A dangerous, dramatic world The Dark Arena of organized crime and flashbulb lit courtrooms where ambitious prosecutors begin their climb to political power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3241'),
(7731, 'The Ragged Man', 'Tom Lloyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Continuing the powerful epic that started with THE STORMCALLER; theLord Isak is dead, his armies and entire tribe in disarray. It falls to King Emin to continue the war alone, and the Menin are only too happy to meet his challenge. In Byora, Ruhen is developing his ''Saviour'' persona. The Harlequins start preaching in his name and many of the pilgrims who flock to him are recruited to be ''Children'', disciples who spread Ruhen''s message. All over the Land people are starting to see Ruhen as the answer to their troubles. A showdown is coming: battle lines are finally drawn and the atrocities quickly mount. The spectre of the Great War looms, but in this age the Gods cannot and will not come to King Emin''s aid. With the peoples of the Land turning against Emin and his few remaining allies, their only chance for survival lies in the hands of a dead man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3997'),
(7732, 'The Rags of Time', 'Maureen Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The magnificent conclusion of Maureen Howard''s ambitious quartet of novels. Maureen Howard is one of America''s most esteemed authors, beloved both for the lyricism of her writing and her dazzling intellect. The Rags of Timeis a moving meditation on memory and imagination that, in its interplay of history, politics, art and life, explores the very necessity of telling stories. Focusing on a New York writer with an ailing heart as she reviews her own history and the lives she imagined in her fiction, the novel interlaces the sorrows and consolations of private moments with the undeniable memory of the public record. The result is nothing less than a deeply profound exploration of American life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2257'),
(7733, 'Ragtime', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow''s imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.\n <br />\n Â Â  The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home\n <br />\n of an affluent American family.\n <br />\n One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-\n <br />\n pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow''s imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.\n <br />\n The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-\n <br />\n able hardbound editions of impor-\n <br />\n tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-\n <br />\n fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring\n <br />\n as its emblem the running torch-\n <br />\n bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-\n <br />\n gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6752'),
(7734, 'Rain Gods', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he''d hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won''t escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs attempt to untangle the threads of this complex and grisly case, a damaged young Iraq veteran, Pete Flores, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives, hoping to outwit the bloodthirsty criminals who want to kill Pete for his involvement in the murders. The only trouble is, Pete doesn''t know who he''s running from: drunk and terrified, he fled the scene of the crime when the shooting began. And there''s a long list of people who want Pete and Vikki dead: crime boss Hugo Cistranos, who hired Pete for the operation; Nick Dolan, a strip club owner and small-time gangster with revenge on his mind; and a mysterious God-fearing serial-killer-for-hire known as Preacher Jack Collins, with enigmatic motives of his own. With the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a host of cold-blooded killers on Pete and Vikki''s trail, it''s up to Sheriff Holland to find them first and figure out who''s behind the mass murder before anyone else ends up dead. In this thrilling and intricate work, James Lee Burke has once again proven himself a master storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of the darkest corners of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(7735, 'Rainbow Six', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3743'),
(7736, 'The Rainbow', 'D. H. Lawrence; Rachel Cusk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Prosecuted in an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frank treatment of sexuality, this novel chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Set between the 1840s and the early years of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage, and defiance, Lawrence explores love and the conflicts it brings.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  D.H. Lawrence\n </strong>\n (1885â€“1930) was as a pioneer of English modernism and is best known for his novels\n <em>\n  Lady Chatterley''s Lover\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Women in Love\n </em>\n .\n <strong>\n  Rachel Cusk\n </strong>\n is the author of\n <em>\n  Arlington Park\n </em>\n , for which she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize;\n <em>\n  The Country Life\n </em>\n , for which she won the Somerset Maugham Award;\n <em>\n  The Last Supper\n </em>\n ; and _Saving Agnes_, for which she won the Whitbread First Novel Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9236'),
(7737, 'Rainbow&#39;s End', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When someone pushes a troublesome newcomer from the steeple of St. Eata''s church, Superintendent George Felse is charged with sifting through a long list of suspects to catch the killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4860');
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(7738, 'Rainbows End', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Winner of the Hugo Award** Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels *A Fire Upon the Deep* and *A Deepness in the Sky*. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer''s patient, cured by modern medicine after years of a near-fatal decline. As he struggles to make his was in a much-changed world, where a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum has taken over the world, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. With one foot in the present, and the other one sliding into an uncertain future, Vinge offers a story of the potential joys and hazzards that accompany our rapidly changing relationship to technology and the world. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10146'),
(7739, 'The Rainmaker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: John Grisham''s five novels -- *A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client*, and *The Chamber* -- have been number one best-sellers, and have a combined total of 47 million copies in print. Now, in*The Rainmaker*, Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since *A Time To Kill*, and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed. Combining suspense, narrative momentum, and humor as only John Grisham can, this is another spellbinding read from the most popular author of our time.Grisham''s sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting, fast-paced action, humor, and suspense that have made him the most popular author of our time. In his first courtroom thriller since A *Time To Kill*, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In hs final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone''s ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy''s flat broke, has no job, hasn''t even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys -- and powerful industries -- in America.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2909'),
(7740, 'Raise the Titanic!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The President''s secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(7741, 'Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief', 'Dale McGowan; Molleen Matsumura; Amanda Metskas; Jan Devor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A practical, hands-on guide for raising independent, caring kids without religion.Praised by Newsweek as "a compelling read" and Library Journal as "accessible and down-to-earth," Dale McGowan''s Parenting Beyond Belief offered freethinking parents everywhere a compassionate introduction to raising caring, ethical children without religious guidance. Now, for the over 40 million people in North America who identify themselves as nonreligious, Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. This book covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development, including advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more.Complete with reviews of books, DVDs, curricula, educational toys and online resources relevant to each chapter topic, Raising Freethinkers helps parents raise their children with confidence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10069'),
(7742, 'Raising Jake', 'Charlie Carillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In Charlie Carillo''s funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old son in a tale that rewrites the book on quality time together...Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and pushing fifty, his relationships have the longevity of a fruit fly. But how many men can get themselves fired and have their only son expelled from prep school all in one day? Now, after almost eighteen years, he and Jake may finally get to know each other. (That''s if his ex-wife - the super-achiever Sammy can only dream of being - doesn''t find out.) Jake knows virtually nothing about his roots. So, Sammy shows him the old neighborhood in the far reaches of Queens. But it''s been thirty years. The older woman Sammy lost his virginity to now uses a walker to get around. Most of his hangouts are long gone. It''s dreary, born-to-lose stuff. But Jake is on a mission. Wise beyond his (and his dad''s) years, he doesn''t want his father to miss out the second time around on the good things he blew the first time. And they''ve got a whole weekend together - a journey where Sammy will confront his, dysfunctional childhood and Jake will face a past he never knew he had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/498'),
(7743, 'Raising Kids in the 21st Century: The Science of Psychological Health for Children', 'Sharon K. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?The blood vessels feeding the substance of the book flow copiously with a nourishing abundance of information pertaining to psychological health and children.? (_Metapsychology_, September 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Informative and practical, _ Raising Kids in the21st Century_ proves an invaluable guidebook and resource for parents, educators, students and clinicians.? (_ Change, Houston Edition_, August 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n Well written and geared to a broad audience, this straightforward, jargon-free book offers a detailed, step-by-step guide to promoting good psychological health in children from infancy to late adolescence. Many researchers that Hall (Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake) cites will be familiar to those well versed in developmental psychology. The author grounds her advice on commonsense values and reinforces them with relevant research. Vignettes of real-life family situations at the beginning of each chapter are charming. This will be an excellent introductory resource both for those beginning their studies in developmental psychology and for new parents anxious to do the right thing for their child.\n <strong>\n  Summing Up\n </strong>\n : Highly recommended. All readers, all levels. --\n <em>\n  D. J. Winchester, Yeshiva University\n </em>\n ?(_Choice,_ February 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What does psychological science have to tell us about raising children? Quite a lot, actually, although converting the science to everyday practice is more easily said than done. This is what Sharon Hall does so wonderfully in\n <em>\n  Raising Kids in the 21st Century.\n </em>\n Hall translates theory and research in child development into everyday language for parents, showing them how to promote good "Ph" (psychological health) in their children, starting at birth and continuing through adolescence."\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  David F. Bjorklund,\n </strong>\n Florida Atlantic University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this timely, important, and engagingly written book, Hall presents cutting-edge information about how to promote positive development among children and adolescents. This book is a vital resource for parents, practitioners, and students of human development."\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Richard M. Lerner,\n </strong>\n Tufts University\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10242'),
(7744, 'Rakes and Radishes', 'Susanna Ives', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4300'),
(7745, 'Ralestone Luck', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9090'),
(7746, 'Rama II', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind - but most of its mysteries remained unsolved . . . Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected; four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. But this time, Earth is ready. And maybe now, with the arrival of Rama II, some of the questions posed by Rama will at last be answered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(7747, 'Rama Revealed', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the long-awaited conclusion to one of the most heralded science fiction series ever, Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee reveal the ultimate Raman plan for humanity. The Hugo and Nebula award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, the bestselling Rama II, and The Garden of Rama were only the prelude to this stunning conclusion to an epic journey. On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. For the great experiment conceived by the Ramans has failed. Rama III, with its carefully designed Earth habitat, as well as environments to house other intelligent species, has become a battleground. Instead of creating a utopia, the human contingent has brought forth a tyrant who seeks to conquer the other sectors of the vast Raman ark. Cosmonaut Nicole des Jardins, a lone voice for reason who is now jailed and awaiting execution, is aided in a daring escape by two tiny robots. On New York Island, the dark, brood deserted city in the midst of Rama III''s cylindrical sea, Nicole is reunited with her long-lost husband, Richard Wakefield, whom she''d given up for dead. Joined by their children and other rebels from the Earth sector, Nicole and Richard enter New York''s labyrinthine underground aboard a ghostly subway hoping to find the ship''s secret inner workings. What they find instead is the emerald-domed lair of the technologically advanced species that rules this fabulous subraman world: the octospiders. These arachnidlike creatures are luring Nicole and the rebels into their domain, but the Earth group is divided as to whether the octospiders are allies or enemies - and anxious to discover the fate of two oftheir group abducted by the enigmatic aliens. Yet even as this drama unfolds, Rama III continues its inexorable course to its final destination: the Node. To some, the Node is a vast engineering station; to others, it is a place of wonder and miracles. From here a powerful force ha\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(7748, 'The Ramayana: a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic', 'R. K. Narayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, *The Ramayana* is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in the original. A luminous saga made accessible to new generations of readers, *The Ramayana* can be enjoyed for its spiritual wisdom, or as a thrilling tale of ancient conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4064'),
(7749, 'The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life', 'Andy Raskin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For three days in January 2007, the most-emailed article in The New York Times was "Appreciations: Mr. Noodle," an editorial noting the passing, at age 96, of billionaire Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen. The very existence of the noodle inventor came as a shock to many, but not to Andy Raskin, who had spent nearly three years trying to meet Ando. Why? To fix the problems that plagued his love life. *The Ramen King and I* is Raskin''s memoir about how despair-and a series of bizarre adventures at Japanese restaurants-led him to confront the truth of his romantic past, and how Ando became his unlikely spiritual guide. Through letters ostensibly penned to the culinary sage, Raskin reveals a relationship history plagued by infidelity, jealousy, and betrayal. After devouring Ando''s essays (with titles such as "Peace Follows from a Full Stomach" and "Mankind is Noodlekind"), he sets out to meet the food pioneer-and to discover the secret to a committed relationship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(7750, 'The Ranch', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her 39th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life the story of three women, old roommates from college, who come together after twenty years, one summer at The Ranch.They had been inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives, settled in different cities, and found successful careers and new roles as mothers and wives. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling with the present and the past. At a sprawling ranch in the foothills of Wyoming''s Grand Teton Range, the three women come together and find courage, healing, and truth, and reach out to each other once again.Despite the honesty they once shared, now pretense between them runs high. Mary Stuart Walker, married for twenty-two years to a Manhattan lawyer, kept herself busy with volunteer work, and now masks the loneliness that consumes her life. A year has past, and Mary Stuart still hasn''t gotten over the guilt, or the fear that her husband will never forgive her for their son''s death... Tanya Thomas, an award winning singer and rock star, enjoys all the trappings of fame and success--a mansion in Bel Air, legions of fans, and a broken heart. All the Grammy awards in the world can''t make up for the children she wanted but never had, the men who have taken advantage of her, and just gone along for the ride, and still are... Dr. Zoe Phillips has her hands full as a single mother to an adopted two-year-old, and as a doctor at an AIDS clinic in San Francisco. Predictably, as they all know, she is as liberal as she ever was, and marriage was never a dream she coveted or shared with them. Tending to her patients is a full-time job that leaves Zoe little time for herself--until unexpected news forces her to reevaluate both her future, and her current life.But despite the changes in their lives, their friendship is still a bond they all treasure and share. For each of the women, a few weeks at the ranch will bring healing and release, as old hurts are buried, ancient secrets revealed, and love replaced or renewed. In The Ranch, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel brings reality to the meaning of friendship, with dramas whose truths we all share.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6030'),
(7751, 'Ranger&#39;s Apprentice 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8967'),
(7752, 'Rangers 1872: The Gallant Pioneers', 'Gary Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h2 style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h2>\n  <div class="content" style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 25px; ">\n   <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n    Product Description\n   </h3>\n   <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n    The harrowing and heartbreaking stories behind the founding fathers of Rangers are sympathetically revealed and told for the first time. This is the first in-depth study of the club''s early years'' history for almost a century. Rangers are one of the most famous teams in world football, but the scale of their success is astonishing set against the backdrop of their formation in 1872. Back then, four young men gathered in a park in the west end of Glasgow and decided to set up a team that would do justice to the new craze of association football. Amazingly, William McBeath and Peter Campbell were just 15-years-old, Moses McNeil was only 16 and his brother Peter the elder statesman at 17. Soon they were joined by Tom Vallance, another 16-year-old who quickly rose to become captain of the famed club. None of those gallant pioneers was a native of Glasgow and yet within five years they were Scottish Cup finalists, set up in their spiritual home on the south side of the burgeoning industrial city and attracting a working class audience they have never since lost. But what became of the men who formed a club that''s loved and cherished by so many? Rangers may have scaled great heights, but the personal lives of almost all the founding fathers were touched with terrible tragedy. Journalist Gary Ralston has used fresh research and uncovered hitherto unseen documents, records and transcripts to sympathetically recount the heartbreaking stories behind the men who created a great institution. He reveals the torrid tales of death through insanity, a drowning that denied a birthright as a steamship entrepreneur and the sad passing of a pioneer who lies buried in a pauper''s grave in the forgotten fringes of an English cemetery, cast as a certified imbecile, tried as a fraudster and left to live out his life in the poorhouse. This fascinating insight into the earliest years of Rangers, the first in-depth analysis for almost a century, also tells of happier times, the links with royalty and football aristocracy such as Sir Stanley Matthews and the club''s relationship with the city in which it was born and grew in the tumultuous Victorian era. It also traces the only two known surviving grandchildren of the founders and tells how they knew nothing about their grandfather''s most famous achievement. "Rangers 1872: The Gallant Pioneers" tells one of football''s most romantic tales - and also one of its saddest.\n    <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n    About the Author\n   </h3>\n   <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n    Gary Ralston, 39, works with the Daily Record in Glasgow and has covered sport extensively for the paper, including the Beijing Olympics, World Cup final, Champions League final, Six Nations and Super Bowl. A journalist for 20 years, he has reported on Scottish football extensively at home and abroad at club and international level for papers including the Daily Express and The Sun. He started his full-time career at the Rangers News, the official club publication. He lives in Stirling with wife Laura, son Lewis and daughter Jennifer.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4358'),
(7753, 'Ransom', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A reformed drug dealer, a desperate widow, a bigtime crook and a compassionate cop are the players in this perfunctory kidnapping yarn set in San Francisco. Peter Morgan, a privileged young man, lost everything in a personal war with drugs, including his wife and two daughters. When he is released from prison, he is determined to go straight, but hard times force him to seek out Phillip Addison, a business mogul with many shady operations on the side. Addison makes Morgan an offer he can''t refuse: either recruit some fellow ex-cons to kidnap the children of recently deceased dot-com multimillionaire Allan Barnes, or his own kids will suffer. Against his will, Morgan hatches a plan. Meanwhile, Allan''s widow, Fernanda, is struggling to make ends meet, since unknown to nearly everyone, Allan lost all his money in bad investments before committing suicide. The San Francisco cops, led by Insp. Det. Ted Lee, find files suggesting that Addison is plotting something, but even heavy police protection can''t prevent Fernanda''s youngest son, Sam, from being snatched. Lee moves into the Barnes mansion to oversee the search for the kidnappers and watch over Fernanda, but in the end Morgan plays the crucial role in saving Sam. The novel begins slowly, with lengthy introductions to all the principal characters, and never picks up speed, with Steel narrating as if from a distance, glossing over critical scenes and skimping on dialogue. Reluctant villain Morgan is a sympathetic bad guy, and Steel engineers the requisite romance between Ted and Fernanda, but this is thin fare.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Four seemingly unconnected people intersect during one completely heinous crime in Steel''s latest. Peter and Carl are released from the same California prison on the same day. Morgan is a Harvard MBA convicted of drug dealing; Waters has been in prison for 24 years for murder. The two never spoke, but each knows the other. Morgan has a hard time adjusting to civilian life, and as a last resort seeks out a powerful business associate who sets him on the road to addiction, and back on the criminal path. He recruits Carl and two other men to pull off the allegedly lucrative kidnapping of Fernanda Barnes and her children. Her husband recently died, and she should be worth half a billion, but her husband actually left her broke. San Francisco detective Ted Lee is the man who pieces together the crime and tries to protect the family while hiding his interest in the noble Fernanda, to whom is he is attracted. Morgan is also attracted to Fernanda, seeing her as the embodiment of the life he could have had. This lackluster suspense novel and its plastic characters will have automatic appeal for Steel fans, but other readers may find it wanting.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5991'),
(7754, 'Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *Rant Limited Edition*** **is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet, speckled edges; and an exclusive 1300-word "Automotive Afterword" entitled "Recipes for Disasters" which is not available in print anywhere but only in this limited edition. **â€œLike most people I didnâ€™t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. Thatâ€™s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodesâ€¦â€***Rant* is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster â€œRantâ€ Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. **â€œWhat â€˜Typhoid Maryâ€™ Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian Lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies.â€ **A high-school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize each other by such designated car markings as â€œJust Marriedâ€ toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear timeâ€¦**â€œThe future you have, tomorrow, wonâ€™t be the same future you had, yesterday.â€â€“Rant Casey**Expect hilarity, horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He''s the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the visionary to watch to learn what''sâ€“uh-ohâ€“coming next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(7755, 'Rapture in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the wake of three supposed suicides--including a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician--police lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers evidence that links the three victims, and she suspects they may have been murdered. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2370'),
(7756, 'A Rare Benedictine', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. Here, her chronicles continue with a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a narrative of Brother Cadfael''s early years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(7757, 'Rasputin&#39;s Daughter', 'Robert Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the national bestseller *The Kitchen Boy* comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russiaâ€™s most notorious figure** Called "brilliant" by *USA Today*, Robert Alexanderâ€™s historical novel *The Kitchen Boy* swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputinâ€”eldest of the Rasputin childrenâ€”recounts her infamous fatherâ€™s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her fatherâ€™s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of historyâ€™s most legendary episodes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3860'),
(7758, 'Rat Race', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this newly repackaged novel from the master of crime fiction and equine thrills, pilot Matt Shore is hired to fly four racing buffs to the track-and then forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before his plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn''t long before Matt realizes that he''s caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are dead-set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dick Francis has written more than forty international bestsellers and is widely acclaimed as one of the world''s finest thriller writers. His awards include the Crime Writers'' Association''s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University of Boston. In 1996 Dick Francis was made a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master for a lifetime''s achievement and in 2000 he was awarded the CBE in the Queen''s Birthday Honours list. Sadly he died in 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8227'),
(7759, 'Rats: A Year With New York&#39;s Most Unwanted Inhabitants', 'Robert Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A funny and revealing look at the hidden underside of urban life in New York: a rat-eye view of the city\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6101'),
(7760, 'The Raven in the Foregate', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest''s train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael''s garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(7761, 'The Raven&#39;s Gift', 'Don Rearden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  John Morgan and his wife can barely contain their excitement upon arriving as new teachers in a Yupik Inuit village on the windswept Alaskan tundra. Lured north in search of adventure, the idealistic couple hope to immerse themselves in the ancient Arctic culture. Their move proves disastrous when a deadly epidemic strikes and the isolated community descends into total chaos. When outside help fails to arrive, John''s only hope lies in escaping the snowcovered tundra and the hunger of the other survivors. His thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan wilderness grows more improbable when he encounters a blind Inuit girl and an elderly woman. The two need his protection from those who would harm them, and he needs their knowledge of the terrain and their companionship to survive. The harsh journey and constant danger push him beyond his limits as he discovers a new sense of hope and the possibility of loving again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you''re not scared, be scared: Don Rearden''s The Raven''s Gift...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7938'),
(7762, 'Ravens', 'George Dawes Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Boatwrights just won 318 million dollars in the GeorgiaState lottery. It''s going to be the worst day of their lives.When Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-95 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire and be on their way again to Florida-away from their dull Ohio tech-support jobs. But this happens to be the store from which a 318,000,000 million dollar Jackpot ticket has just been sold -- and when a pretty clerk accidentally reveals to Shaw the identity of the winning family, he hatches a ferociously audacious scheme: He and Romeo will squeeze the family for half their prize. That night, he visits the Boatwright home and takes the family hostage, while Romeo patrols the streets nearby, prepared to murder the Boatwrights'' loved ones at any sign of resistance. At first, the family offers none. But Shaw''s plot depends on maintaining constant fear-merciless, unfaltering terror-and soon, under the pressure, everyone''s sanity begins to unravel . . . At once frightening, comic, and suspenseful, RAVENS is a wholly original and utterly compelling novel from one of our most talented writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(7763, 'Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An innocent beauty, trapped in sleep . . . Sheltered from society, Aurora Jacquard has yet to feel the sweet release of physical love. Then, on the night she is about to give in to temptation, she inexplicably falls into a deep coma. Jacob White is one of the best neurologists in the world, and he intends to awaken Aurora from her virginal slumber. But when she begins to invade his dreams every night, beckoning him into a sensuous place of lust and danger, Jacob realizes there''s more to this woman than meets the eye. Trapped in a world of erotic dreams, Aurora and Jacob must surrender to their deepest darkest desires . . but how far are they willing to go?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(7764, 'Raw Family: A True Story of Awakening', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  People of all ages can benefit from this book! --\n  <em>\n   Robyn Lee, e-zine VegetarianTeen.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Raw Family book has such amount of depth, sincerity ,and heart... This is the stuff that films are made of! --\n  <em>\n   Karen Knowler, Get Fresh! Magazine, U.K.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is no knowledge more important than the knowledge of listening to our body for the sake of our own health. We have an illusion that someone from the outside can heal us. If anybody can heal us, it is only ourselves. It will take centuries for science to learn the hopelessness of the attempt to push the everchanging human body into frames of scientific theories. But it is possible to know what we need to do here and now for our health. It is possible to learn to listen to our body''s voice.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6577'),
(7765, 'Rawhide Down', 'Wilber, Del Quentin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10019'),
(7766, 'Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan', 'Del Quentin Wilber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For the first time, a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was shot by a would-be assassin. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one has ever written a detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on exclusive new interviews, Del Quentin Wilber tells the electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a terrifying crisis. With cinematic clarity, we see the Secret Service agent whose fast reflexes saved the president''s life; the brilliant surgeons who operated on Reagan as he was losing half his blood; and the small group of White House officials frantically trying to determine whether the country was under attack. Most especially, we encounter the man code-named Rawhide, a leader of uncommon grace who inspired affection and awe in everyone who worked with him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ronald Reagan was the only serving U.S. president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt. In\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  , the story of that perilous dayâ€”a day of chaos, crisis, prayer, heroism, and hopeâ€”is brought to life as never before.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Bill O''Reilly Reviews\n   <em>\n    Rawhide Down\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For more than 13 years,\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  is enthralling because of the tremendous detail that Del Quentin Wilber provides to the reader. We learn about President Ronald Reagan''s daily habits, his grooming, his demeanor on the job, as well as how he reacted after being shot. We also see how the would-be assassin, John Hinckley, conducted himself in the days leading up to the shooting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is fascinating stuff and, as a history buff, I couldn''t get enough of it. Most Americans have nearly forgotten that Mr. Reagan was on the verge of death after being shot by the unstable Hinckley, and the drama of how the president''s life was saved is intense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a page-turner from beginning to end and I believe you will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever and certainly altered the presidency of Mr. Reagan. Rich in detail with reporting I have never heard before,\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  rewards the reader on just about every page. Trust me on this.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The chapters that detail the assassination attempt and its immediate aftermath read like a thriller. In clear prose, we learn that Reagan was far closer to death than was previously thought."â€”David Baldacci,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner from beginning to endâ€¦ You will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever."â€”Bill Oâ€™Reilly, author of the forthcoming\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln: The Assassination that Changed America Forever\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Newly revealingâ€¦ A fast-paced book that captures many points of view."â€”Janet Maslin,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A harrowing story, more so than it seemed at the time, and Wilber, a reporter for the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , has tracked down virtually everyone who had anything to do with protecting the President or with saving his life at the hospital."â€”_The New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In this eye-opening book of solid journalism, we learn just how close Ronald Reagan, code-named ''Rawhide'' by the Secret Service, came to being the president with the second shortest time in office."â€”Bob Hoover,\n  <em>\n   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tense, riveting account of that day."â€”\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Detailed and dramaticâ€¦ Mr. Wilber, a\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  crime reporter who writes clear, crisp prose, fleshes out his gripping narrative with a number of well-told side stories."â€”_The Washington Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A riveting minute-by-minute account of the shooting and reveals that Reagan came closer to death than the public knew."â€”_New York Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This intensely researched account yields an almost moment-by-moment account of the crisis."â€”_New York Daily News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fast-paced read that draws well-crafted characters and gives a vivid sense of the history that brought the storyâ€™s heroes and Hinckley together that day."â€”_The Washingtonian_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping â€¦ A fascinating glimpse of a pivotal moment in history."â€”_Publishers Weekly_ (Starred Review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This mesmerizing rendition of the event can be read in one sitting, as Wilberâ€™s accuracy and craft provoke rapt interest."â€”_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Del Quentin Wilber has written a compelling and multi-layered examination of the near-assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. As a biographer of Reagan who was at the Washington Hilton Hotel that fateful day, I was fascinated by Wilberâ€™s meticulous reconstruction. He properly credits the valor and judgment of the Secret Service agents who saved Reaganâ€™s life but also analyzes the security deficiencies that made the assassination attempt possible. Wilber reminds us of how close we were to losing Reagan little more than two months into his presidency. His detailed and readable accounts of the surgeries performed on Reagan and Press Secretary James Brady are of particular historical value."â€”Lou Cannon, author of\n  <em>\n   President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Rawhide Down_ is full of spectacular, original reporting."â€”Bob Woodward\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The 96 months of Ronald Reaganâ€™s presidency changed the nation and the world. Del Quentin Wilberâ€™s gripping account of the â€˜near assassinationâ€™ of the 40th president shows how close the countryâ€”and the worldâ€”came to missing more than 93 of those months."â€”George F. Will\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Rawhide Down_ is a stunning work. Del Quentin Wilber, with the world-class reporting skills he honed on the police beat and a fine sense of narrative, has taken a story we thought we knew and rendered it wholly fresh, vibrant, and revealing."â€”David Maraniss, author of\n  <em>\n   When Pride Still Mattered\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6837'),
(7767, 'The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen', 'Michael Ruhlman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michael Ruhlman has long enjoyed a love affair with cooking, food, and the work of the chef. His previous exploration of the restaurant kitchen and the men and women who call it home led Anthony Bourdain to call him "the greatest living writer on the subject of chefs - and on the business of preparing food." But even his broad experience couldn''t have prepared him for the profound shift in American culture that has raised restaurant cooking to the level of performance art and the status of the chef to celebrity CEO." "Beginning at Per Se, one of the most recent, exclusive, and expensive of Manhattan''s four-star restaurants, Ruhlman takes readers into some of America''s most illustrious - and most frenetic - kitchens. Throughout his travels, he seeks out and explains new trends and phenomena, like Las Vegas''s recent elevation to the country''s food Gomorrah, and returns to previous haunts to see what''s changed. A dispatch from a new world where chefs are stars and culinary school classes are burgeoning, The Reach of a Chef looks at the state of professional cooking in the post-Child, Food Network era via the heavy hitters in the industry such as Thomas Keller and Masa Takayama, Grant Achatz and Melissa Kelly, Emeril Lagasse and a new breed of cooking celebrity: girl next door Rachael Ray." "In the end, readers get an in-the-trenches look at professionals whose very life''s work had once been to feed us in order to feed themselves - but is now increasingly a type of work that delivers them to corporate boardrooms and television studios."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2449'),
(7768, 'Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat&#39;s Jewel Box', 'Madeleine Albright &amp; Madeleine Korbel Albright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n It would never have happened if not for Saddam Hussein. When U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright criticized the dictator, his poet in residence responded by calling her "an unparalleled serpent." Shortly thereafter, while preparing to meet with Iraqi officials, Albright pondered:\n <em>\n  What to wear?\n </em>\n She decided to make a diplomatic statement by choosing a snake pin. Although her method of communication was new, her message was as old as the American Revolutionâ€”Don''t Tread on Me.\n</p>\n<p>\n From that day forward, pins became part of Albright''s diplomatic signature. International leaders were pleased to see her with a shimmering sun on her jacket or a cheerful ladybug; less so with a crab or a menacing wasp. Albright used pins to emphasize the importance of a negotiation, signify high hopes, protest the absence of progress, and show pride in representing America, among other purposes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Part illustrated memoir, part social history,\n <em>\n  Read My Pins\n </em>\n provides an intimate look at Albright''s life through the brooches she wore. Her collection is both international and democraticâ€”dime-store pins share pride of place with designer creations and family heirlooms. Included are the antique eagle purchased to celebrate Albright''s appointment as secretary of state, the zebra pin she wore when meeting Nelson Mandela, and the Valentine''s Day heart forged by Albright''s five-year-old daughter.\n <em>\n  Read My Pins\n </em>\n features more than 200 photographs, along with compelling and often humorous stories about jewelry, global politics, and the life of one of America''s most accomplished and fascinating diplomats.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Madeleine Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. She is the author of three\n <strong>\n  New York Times\n </strong>\n bestselling books:\n <em>\n  Madam Secretary\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs\n </em>\n ; and\n <em>\n  Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America''s Reputation and Leadership\n </em>\n . She is founder of The Albright Group LLC and Albright Capital Management LLC.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8113');
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(7769, 'Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books', 'William Kuhn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside\n   <em>\n    Reading Jackie\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jackie and ICP director Cornell Capa\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of the International Center of Photography\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  JFK and Jackie at their wedding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of Toni Frissell--Sidney Frissell Stafford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957. She told her Doubleday colleague Ray Roberts that she remembered the picture being taken at â€œ10 a.m. in full evening dress and he scared me to death!â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of Yousuf Karsh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  During the last two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked on nearly 100 books with varying degrees of responsibility as an editor, first at Viking--she resigned after being castigated by the New York Times about a Viking thriller with a Ted Kennedyâ€“like protagonist as an assassination target--and then at Doubleday, which promised to avoid any similar embarrassments. Her love of dance led to Onassis publishing a biography of Fred Astaire and autobiographies of Martha Graham, Judith Jamison, and Gelsey Kirkland. Kuhn (The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli) is particularly dismissive of Kirkland and her then-husband/collaborator Greg Lawrence''s bestselling tell-all accusing George Balanchine of cruelties; not coincidentally, Lawrence is the author of a competing book, Jackie as Editor. With biographies of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow, the quietly feminist Onassis insisted on getting beyond publicity photo images to tell a woman''s true story, says Kuhn. Being seen as royalty herself as the widow of JFK, the often imperious Onassis commissioned more than a dozen books on the royalty of India, ancient Egypt, Versailles, and Romanov Russia. Although this lucid, amply detailed catalogue of Onassis''s publishing projects offers a window into her passions and opaque personality, it is far from what Kuhn dubs "the only autobiography she ever wrote"--most readers will not find it revelatory. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6606'),
(7770, 'Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them', 'FRANCINE PROSE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The trick to writing, Prose writes, is readingâ€”carefully, deliberately and slowly. While this might seem like a no-brainer, Prose (_Blue Angel_;\n <em>\n  A Changed Man\n </em>\n ) masterfully meditates on how quality reading informs great writing, which will warm the cold, jaded hearts of even the most frustrated, unappreciated and unpublished writers. Chapters treat the nuts and bolts of writing (words, sentences, paragraphs) as well as issues of craft (narration, character, dialogue), all of which Prose discusses using story or novel excerpts. This is where the book truly shines; Prose is remarkably egalitarian in choosing exemplars of fiction: David Gates, Denis Johnson, John le CarrÃ© and ZZ Packer, for instance, are considered as seriously as Chekhov, Melville, Flaubert or Babel. Prose insists that "literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there\n <em>\n  are none\n </em>\n ," and urges writers to re-read the classics (Chekhov, especially) and view "reading as something that might move or delight you." Prose''s guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer''s bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster''s\n <em>\n  Aspects of the Novel\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Life is precious, and much of that preciousness lies in the details: the sights, the sounds, the scents we too often ignore in our busy lives. Prose makes a superb application of that concept for readers of fiction. To know how the great writers create their magic, one needs to engage in a close reading of the masters, for that is precisely what successful writers have done for thousands of years. College programs in creative writing and summer workshops serve a purpose, but they can never replace a careful reading of the likes of Austen, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Salinger, Tolstoy, and Woolf. In this excellent guide, Prose explains exactly what she means by close reading, drawing attention to the brick and mortar of outstanding narratives: words, sentences, paragraphs, character, dialogue, details, and more. In the process, she does no less than escort readers to a heightened level of appreciation of great literature. Many will want to go to the shelves to read again, or for the first time, the books she discusses. And to aid them, she thoughtfully adds a list at the end: Books to Be Read Immediately._â€“Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6518'),
(7771, 'The Real Charlotte', 'Edith Somerville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="caption">\n   <em>\n    The Real Charlotte\n   </em>\n   is the masterpiece ofÂ Â \n  </span>\n  Somerville and Ross (the pen names of Edith Somerville and her second cousin, Violet Martin)Â in which our antiheroine reveals her terrible nature when her marriage plans for her orphaned and beautiful cousin, Francie, go badly wrong. Insanity, sexual jealousy and a decaying Anglo-Irish country estate: the novel has them all. Truly creepy classic.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For some critics,\n  <i>\n   The Real Charlotte\n  </i>\n  isÂ the best Irish novel of the nineteenthcentury. Â The novelÂ had a less auspicious criticalbeginning becaue some English popular magazines were disturbed by thenovelâ€™s use of the grotesque. They disliked the powerful andconniving heroine of the text, Charlotte Mullen. They could notunderstand why her pretty, younger cousin, Francie Fitzpatrick, didnot marry the hero in the end of it all but, instead, was killedoff with startling and horrifying abruptness. The novel subvertsromantic conventions and details the bleak conditions of the Irishlandscape with grim humour.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7686'),
(7772, 'Real Happiness', 'Sharon Salzberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meditation helps us defuse stress, experience greater tranquility, find a sense of wholeness, strengthen our relationships, and face our fears. Meditation helps sharpen focus, lower blood pressure, and reduce chronic pain. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. And itâ€™s as easy as sitting down and taking a breath.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5791'),
(7773, 'Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation', 'Sharon Salzberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meditation helps us defuse stress, experience greater tranquility, find a sense of wholeness, strengthen our relationships, and face our fears. Meditation helps sharpen focus, lower blood pressure, and reduce chronic pain. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. And itâ€™s as easy as sitting down and taking a breath.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9572'),
(7774, 'The Real Hard Sell', 'William W. Stuart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery. Naturally it was the most important task in all the world â€¦ or was it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6269'),
(7775, 'Real Life &amp; Liars', 'Kristina Riggle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski''s children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age. On the weekend of their parents'' anniversary party, lies will be revealed, hearts will be broken...but love will also be found. And the biggest shock may come from Mirabelle herself, because she has a secret that will change everything.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2849'),
(7776, 'Real Murders', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It''s a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potential victims.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(7777, 'The Real Story: The Gap Into Conflict', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Real Story\n </em>\n is a short but intense tale set in a future in which humans travel between the stars using "gap drives," controllable brain implants are punishable by death, and a private company called the United Mining Company runs law enforcement for all of known space. Ensign Morn Hyland lives aboard a police ship with most of her family, chasing down pirates and other illegals who prey on the weak or smuggle goods into forbidden space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through a strange turn of events, one particularly nasty perpetrator ends up with Morn as his companion--or at least that''s the way it appears to the folks at the space station''s bar. Why would a young, strong, beautiful police officer associate with a crusty, murdering pirate? People watch with interest as Morn appears to fall in lust with another racy illegal, Captain Nick Succorso. Morn and Nick must have plotted together to frame Angus and escape together, right? But the\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n story was quite different.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donaldson ( The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ) launches his new five-book series with a short futurist novel of almost no substance. The plot is presented in its entirety in the first chapter: Robin Hoodish space pirate Nick Succorso cleverly steals the beautiful female prisoner Morn Hyland from the brute space pirate Angus Thermopyle, and has him thrown in jail. The rest of the book retells the same story in more detail. But it is mightily dull detail--Donaldson imparts neither warmth or humanity to his characters; it is all but impossible to care what befalls them. Information about their backgrounds serves as mere padding; their pasts rarely bear a relationship to their current actions, which often seem rash or out-of-character. Nor does the author delve far into the technology or culture of the society in which faster-than-light travel afflicts some with irreparable brain damage. A Zone Implant can turn such a person into a zombie, to protect his shipmates, but is otherwise illegal. From high technicalities to simple human truths, Donaldson has much to develop in sequels.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8007'),
(7778, 'Reality Is Broken', 'McGonigal, Jane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9982'),
(7779, 'Reality sandwiches', 'Allen Ginsberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg''s most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this last night in Paris, back on Times square dreaming of Times Square, bombed in NY again, loony tunes in the dentist chair, screaming at old poets in South America, aethereal zigzag Poesy in blue hotel room in Peru-a wind-up book of dreams, psalms, journal enigmas &amp; nude minutes from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines here collected.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(7780, 'Realm of Light', 'Deborah Chester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The death of Emperor Kostimon has unleashed the dark gods upon the kingdom of Imperia--and only the Lady Elandra and the warrior Caelan have the power to save their land and people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8314'),
(7781, 'Reamde', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson, author of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n , returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Diamond Age\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. He also created TÂ’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n But TÂ’RainÂ’s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing\n <em>\n  REAMDE\n </em>\n , a virus that encrypts all of a playerÂ’s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the gameÂ’s virtual universeÂ—and Richard is at ground zero.\n</p>\n<p>\n Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between,\n <em>\n  Reamde\n </em>\n is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists. Above all,\n <em>\n  Reamde\n </em>\n is an enthralling human storyÂ—an entertaining and epic page-turner from the extraordinary Neal Stephenson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11243'),
(7782, 'Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH''s demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3412'),
(7783, 'Reaper&#39;s Gate &amp; Toll the Hounds', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, arial, verdana; font-size: 12px; ">\n  Reapers Gale The Letherii Empire is in turmoil. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, while the Errant, once a farseeing god, appears suddenly blind to the future. Driven by the corruption and self-interest, the empire edges ever-closer to all-out war with its neighbouring kingdoms. And the great Edur fleet draws ominously ever closer. With Karsa Orlong and Icarium Lifestealer among its warriors, that blood will be spilled is certain. But a band of fugitives look to escape from Lether. One of them, Fear Sengar, seeks the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye, for he hopes that with its help, they might halt the Tiste Edur and so save the emperor, his brother. But another is Scabandari''s old enemy: Silchas Ruin, brother of Anomander Rake. He carries scars inflicted by Scabandari, and such bloodshed cannot go unanswered. There is to be a reckoning and it will be on an unimaginable scale... Toll the Hounds It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the Lord of Death is there at the beginning? Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K?rul?s Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen: for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer ? an honourable, one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his followers. So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5479'),
(7784, 'Reapers, Inc.- Brigit&#39;s Cross', 'B. L. Newport', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Reapers, Inc.- Brigit''s Cross is the beginning episode of Brigit Malone, a thirty-something lesbian, that is accidently killed on the eve of her ten-year anniversary to her partner, Maggie Devon. When Brigit is offered a position with Reapers, Incorporated-- the firm that actually handles the business of passing souls to their final judgments-- she takes the position in order to keep her promise to Maggie to always be with her, thus, beginning her new career and adventures of being a Grim Reaper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(7785, 'Rebel', 'Zoe Archer &amp; Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He''s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he''s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed...Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world''s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she''s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan''s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life - and perhaps even for love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5220'),
(7786, 'Rebel Fay', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Desperate to free his mother from a caste of ruthless elven assassins, Leesil joins his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn, and their canine protector, Chap, on a difficult journey through mountains and harsh winter. Should they survive the hardships of wilderness, they still face the perils of the mysterious Elven Territories. Unbeknownst to them, they''ve been united at the command of Chap''s Fay kin to forge an alliance against the forces of dark magic. But now Chap must guard his companions from enemies and allies-not always certain which is which. And as they uncover the truth, they discover just how close the enemy has always been.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(7787, 'Rebel Island', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Edgar-winner Riordan''s entertaining seventh crime novel to feature San Antonio, Tex., PI Tres Navarre (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Mission Road\n </em>\n ), Tres has just retired and married his longtime girlfriend Maia, who''s eight-plusâ€“months pregnant. Tres''s wheelchair-bound older brother, Garret, has persuaded the couple to honeymoon together with him and other old friends on the Texas Gulf''s Rebel Island, where Tres and Garret spent vacations with their dysfunctional parents. When U.S. Marshal Jesse Longoria, a character from earlier books, is killed, Tres gets a chance to work out some unfinished business. As the bodies begin piling up, a lethal hurricane approaches. Fans will enjoy the update on Tres''s life as he prowls through secret passageways hunting down the ghostlike killer while the roof of the island''s old hotel begins to shred and the seas begin to rise. (_Sept.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of the old William Powellâ€“Myrna Loy Thin Man movies will like what Riordan has done with Tres Navarre and his retinue. Garrett, the hand-walking amputee brother, surprises Tres and his eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant bride, Maia, with a honeymoon to a once-luxurious hotel on a subtropical island. The fly in the ointment is the hotel''s owner, Garrett''s old chum and Tres'' nemesis, Alex Huff. Actually, there are two flies in the ointment. The second is a series of mysterious goings-on that Garrett thinks Tres may be able to unravel. They have hardly arrived when a Texas lawman of the take-em-out-to-the-chapparal-and-let-em-try-to-get-away school is murdered, and the desk clerk goes missing. Naturally, a supposedly harmless tropical depression morphs into a Category 4 storm, and the hunt for the murderer is complicated still further. Riordan''s strong narrative voice, reminiscent of Randy Wayne White and James Lee Burke, is alive and well in this thriller, as he attempts to enlarge the genre by going back to something the early Dashiell Hammett might have tried. Glassman, Steve\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8510'),
(7788, 'Rebellion', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Scotland, 1745. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love." Scottish beauty Serena MacGregor''s hatred of all English began as a child when she watched as a band of Englishmen attacked her mother. Her brother''s friend Brigham Langston was no exception to Serena''s loathing--despite his supposed loyalty to the Scottish cause... and his good looks. Although Brigham eventually proves himself worthy of the MacGregor family''s respect, Serena is still reluctant to abandon her hatred for him and his heritage. But Brigham has other plans. Serena has captivated him with her beauty, her passion for life and commitment to her beliefs--and he refuses to let her antagonistic attitude keep him from winning her. And Serena must learn to open her mind--as Brigham opens his heart--to see the true love awaiting her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2566'),
(7789, 'The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.* *The Princes of Ireland*, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurdâ€™s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. *The Rebels of Ireland* opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest. Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their childrenâ€™s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Irelandâ€™s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic. His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the â€œFlight of the Earls,â€ when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwellâ€™s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the â€œWild Geese.â€ In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattanâ€™s Parliament, Wolfe Tone''s attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel Oâ€™Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England. A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, *The Rebels of Ireland* brings the story begun in *The Princes of Ireland* to a stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1306'),
(7790, 'Recipes From the Root Cellar: 270 Fresh Ways to Enjoy Winter Vegetables', 'Andrea Chesman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran food writer Chesman (The Garden Fresh Vegetable Cookbook) gives root vegetables a much-needed redemption in this thorough guide. Readers will learn how to buy, prep, and use Brussels sprouts, collard greens, the often overlooked rutabaga and salsify, and more. Beginning with toothsome sides like a simple Beet and Napa Cabbage salad with goat cheese dressed with an orange vinaigrette, and Cider-Braised Sweet Potatoes with Apples, Chesman gives readers a bounty of produce and plenty of options. Yes, some expected mains make an appearance: roast chicken, pork, salmon, pot pies. But inventive riffs like White Lasagna with Leeks and Butternut Squash, Mustard-Molasses Roasted Salmon and Vegetables, and Spicy Meat Lo Mein will keep cooks and their guests from getting bored. The vast majority of the many recipes are within the reach of even the most novice cook and require few, if any, hard-to-source ingredients. Whether readers are looking for a new riff on summertime classics like coleslaw (8 variations) or a hearty pot roast to take the chill off a bracing winter day, they''ll find plenty of inspiration in Chesman''s cellar.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nothing tastes better than the seasonal bounty of local farms. Everyone loves the spring-is-here excitement of peas and asparagus and the summer sweetness of tomatoes and corn. Now itâ€™s time to give the hearty, long-lasting bounty of the autumn garden its due. Whether these vegetables are eaten straight from the garden, out of a well-tended root cellar, or straight from the market, their flavors reward the home cook, and their nutritional benefits pack a powerful punch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweet winter squashes, robust hardy greens, jewel-toned root vegetables, and potatoes of every variety are the staples that make eating locally so delicious and satisfying during the cold months of late autumn and winter.\n</p>\n<p>\n These cold-weather treasures work wonderfully well in soups (Celery Root Bisque, Creamy Leek and Root Vegetable Soup, Portuguese Kale Soup) and baked entrees (White Lasagna with Winter Squash, Chicken Pot Pie with Root Vegetables, Winter Vegetable Pot Roast), but they also shine in winter salads. Warm Goat Cheese and Beet Salad; Endive, Pear, and Walnut Salad; and Thai Cabbage Salad can be the centerpieces of light winter dinners or delicious preludes to the main event.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this collection of more than 250 recipes, veteran cookbook author and gardening enthusiast Andrea Chesman deliciously demonstrates how locavores in all parts of North America can eat seasonal produce year-round. Whether theyâ€™re eaten in soups or salads, side dishes or entrees, root-cellar vegetables can be a delicious part of every cooks winter kitchen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recipes include:\n</p>\n<p>\n Split Pea Soup with Winter VegetablesÂ  Roasted Beet and Blue Cheese SaladÂ  Deep-Fried Root Vegetable Chips with Garlic AioliÂ  SautÃ©ed Brussels Sprouts with CranberriesÂ  Cashew CarrotsÂ  Braised Collards with BaconÂ  Deep-Fried Onion RingsÂ  Root Vegetable Bread PuddingÂ  White Lasagna with Winter SquashÂ  Ravioli with Smoky GreensÂ  Winter Vegetable Lamb StewÂ  Red-Cooked Pork and CabbageÂ  Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables, and hundreds more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5607'),
(7791, 'Reckless', 'Cornelia Funke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7-10â€“Funke takes readers on a new adventure into a magical place where the dark side of fairy tales holds sway. Jacob Reckless, like his father before him, escapes into the Mirrorworld, and all is well until his younger brother, Will, follows him in and falls under the enchantment of the Dark Fairy. Through an injury, she turns him slowly into a Goyl, a person made of stone. Jacob is determined to rescue his brother and restore him to himself. Accompanied by his companion, a shape-shifter girl/vixen named Fox, and Will''s girlfriend, Clara, Jacob journeys with Will to find the antidote to the spell. With a large cast, including a dwarf, powerful fairies born from water, deadly moths, man-eating sirens, unicorns, and the terrifying Tailor with fingers ending in blades and needles, the story includes multiple fairy-tale motifs as the characters grapple with fear and despair while on their seemingly hopeless quest. The action picks up midway through the book and races to an exciting climax. Despite some loose plotting and broadly drawn characters, readers are pulled into the thrill of the story. The themes of guilt, responsibility, abandonment, and love, in the context of the many dangers in the Mirrorworld, contribute to a serious tone. Ultimately the characters keep faith with what matters most to each of them. The fact that the main characters are in their 20s will help to extend its potential readership to older students. Reckless will be enjoyed by Funke''s fans, who will be pleased that she has left the door open for a sequel._Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jacob, whose father has been missing for more than a year, is 12 when he discovers how to use the mirror in his dadâ€™s study as a portal to an alternate reality. Chapter 2 picks up the story 12 years later, when his younger brother Will follows him into the mirrorâ€™s world, where Jacob has carved out an adventurous life for himself and Fox, his companion. Willâ€™s experience is different: he begins a slow, painful, relentless transformation into a goyl, a living stone man, though his girlfriend, Clara, works with Jacob and Fox to save him. The alternate world is a largely recognizable, European-fairy-tale land, while the goyls add a new element and are used creatively in ways that serve the story well. Itâ€™s hard to connect with the main characters, though, perhaps because they are unwilling or unable to communicate well with each other or simply because the author withholds information. Jacob is so enigmatic that some may find him unsympathetic. Story is king here, however, and this adventure-driven fantasy, the first in a series, will have readers turning pages. Grades 7-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5969'),
(7792, 'Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon', 'Gretchen Morgenson &amp; Joshua Rosner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Gretchen Morgenson is a national treasure. Year after year, she has dragged Wall Street miscreants out of the shadows, exposing their dirty secrets to the public that they bamboozled with schemes and deceits. Now, working with Joshua Rosner, she has trained her expert eye on the mortgage mess that pushed the American economy to the brink.Â In stunning detail, Morgenson exposes the truth behind the worst financial calamity of modern times, weaving a tale that is as mesmerizing as it is horrifying.\n  <em>\n   Reckless Endangerment\n  </em>\n  names the names and reveals the secrets of the plutocrats and politicians whose greed and recklessness threatened the foundations of capitalism.Â  It is essential reading for anyone struggling to understand how AmericaÂ entered the new era of financial chaos."â€”\n  <strong>\n   K\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   urt Eichenwald,\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_\n  <strong>\n   bestselling author of\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Conspiracy of Fools\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Informant\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Even before _Reckless Endangerment,\n  <em>\n   Gretchen Morgenson was my nominee for Reporter of the Decade for herÂ forensic and propheticÂ coverage ofÂ Wall Street. Now,Â she and the equally talentedÂ sleuthÂ Joshua Rosner, like Holmes and Dr. Watson, have pieced togetherÂ the clues to a seminal mystery ofÂ the financial debacle: how American taxpayers were suckered by theÂ shenanigans, greed, egos, back scratching, and guile ofÂ financial and political elites who swarmed like vultures aroundÂ Fannie Mae,Â pickingÂ it clean of oversight and accountability while its executives gorged themselves on the spoils. Naming names and taking no prisoners, they drillÂ deep into one of theÂ most disturbing scandals ofÂ our time,Â perpetrated in the name of helping "the little guy."Â Â Read it and weep. Read it and vow\n  </em>\n  : Never Again_\n  <strong>\n   !â€”Bill Moyers, journalist, and President, Schumann Media Center\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morgenson and Rosner have written the long-awaited volume that gets to the heart of theÂ mortgage crisis. The fearlessness and breadth of reporting makeÂ the book as compellingly readableÂ as it is exhaustive.Â _Reckless Endangerment_Â is a remarkableÂ achievementâ€”and should be required reading for all Americans."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Bryan Burrough,\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   special correspondent and bestselling author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Barbarians at the Gate\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Big Rich\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner show us how, over the last fifteen years, the mortgage lending industry used money and political influence to escape regulation, enrich itself, and create a catastrophe. Â Particularly in its dissection of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and their enablers, this book is unmatched in its depth and invaluable to anyone interested in the causes and lessons of the financial crisis."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Charles Ferguson, Academy award-winning director of\n   <em>\n    Inside Job\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A chilling account of the reckless disregard for ethical or civilized values at the heart of our financial system.Â  If this compelling history does not completely turn your stomach, that''s good - because by bailing out these individuals, their attitudes, and their way of life, we have set ourselves up for another nauseating turn of the Financial Wheel."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Simon Johnson, co-author of\n   <em>\n    13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Next Financial Meltdown\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times''s\n  </em>\n  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Reckless Endangerment\n  </em>\n  , Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of\n  <em>\n   The New York Times,\n  </em>\n  exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosnerâ€”who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed recordsâ€”Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8763'),
(7793, 'The Reckoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The nail-biting climax to Kelley Armstrong''s bestselling Darkest Powers trilogyChloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be ''cursed''?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them. As if that''s not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she''s leaning towards the werewolf...Definitely not normal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3150'),
(7794, 'Recoil', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Swift, silent, and deadlyâ€“they strike where no one else dares.Fear is the fastest-growing crop on Haulover, a newly colonized planet where someoneâ€“or somethingâ€“is destroying isolated farmhouses. The unseen enemy strikes without warning, then disappears, leaving no stone standing, no trace of families or farm animals. When the Confederation receives a desperate plea for help, itâ€™s time to send in the Marines. Impossible missions are a matter of course for Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon squads, and the situation at Hauloverâ€“with no witnesses and few cluesâ€“is no exception. But this assignment turns out to be even tougher and bloodier than usual because the devastation is a ployâ€“to lure the nine Marines into a trap, and to force them to bust the Confederationâ€™s terrible secret wide open. And as for the Skinks lying in ambush on Haulover, they have no idea what trouble is . . . until they go up against a few good Marines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(7795, 'Red', 'Sammy Hagar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  Loud rock, fast cars, and Cabo.\n  <p>\n   This is the life of Sammy Hagar.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  For almost forty years, Sammy Hagar has been a fixture in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career to his ride as the front man of Van Halen, Sammy''s powerful and unforgettable voice has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever writtenâ€”songs like "I Can''t Drive 55," "Right Now," and "Why Can''t This Be Love."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <i>\n   Red\n  </i>\n  , Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock ''n'' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring that have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in the blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he lovedâ€”fast cars, loud parties, and\n  <i>\n   lots\n  </i>\n  of good times.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But solo success was just the start,...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7046'),
(7796, 'Red Alert', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A magnificent storyteller'' Sunday Mirror ''The most successful British novelist of his time'' Jack Higgins ''Alistar MacLean is one of the few people writing today who has a story to tell.'' Daily Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A deadly virus has been stolen, and the thieves plan to use the hundred million pound ransom to fund terrorist armies. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO. The Italian Red Brigades raid the US-owned Neo Chem laboratory between Rome and Tivoli and steal a vial of deadly DNA virus. They plan to trade the vial - which if opened could kill millions - for a hundred million pounds, to be paid to the terrorist armies of five European countries. The deadline approaches: a summit conference in Switzerland, at which the terrorists threaten to release the virus into the atmosphere if their demands are not met. UNACO agents Mike Graham, C.W. Whitlock and Sabrina Carver are summoned back urgently from leave. Their mission is to find and secure the vial before a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions takes place!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9619'),
(7797, 'The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction', 'Stephen Crane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction*, by **Stephen Crane**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin. Fighting the enemy without and the terror within, Fleming must prove himself and find his own meaning of valor. Unbelievable as it may seem, **Stephen Crane** had never been a member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrote *The Red Badge of Courage*. But upon its publication in 1895, when Crane was only twenty-four, Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of men under fire. Along with the seminal short stories included in this volumeâ€”â€œThe Open Boat,â€ â€œThe Veteran,â€ and â€œThe Men in the Stormâ€â€”*The Red Badge of Courage* unleashed Craneâ€™s deeply influential impressionistic style. **Richard Fusco** has been an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and in short-story narrative theory, he has published on a variety of American, British, and Continental literary figures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3905');
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(7798, 'Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China&#39;s Extraordinary Rise', 'Carl E. Walter &amp; Fraser J. T. Howie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For many years now China''s economy has seemed unstoppable. A slow appreciation of the renminbi in 2007 brought wave upon wave of liquidity into China and allowed its companies and banks to raise hundreds of billions in dollars via stock market listings. State banks that had started the new century as bankrupt relics of a communist past became the darlings of international investors.Â Even the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the ensuing global financial crisis seemed to have little impact on China as the government quickly responded with a huge stimulus package. But the Lehman collapse was a dramatic wake up call to the Chinese leadership. This model of bank and capital market reform had been studiously emulated for more than a decade and had brought great benefits to China. But now, although they believed it to be bankrupt, the Chinese government were bereft of new ideas. In the face of the global financial crisis the government returned to what it knows best, massive state intervention via the banking system. Ten years of banking and capital market reforms were dead.In Red Capitalism, Carl Walter and Fraser Howie detail how the Chinese government reformed and modeled its financial system in the 30 years since it began its policy of engagement with the west. Instead of a stable series of policies producing steady growth, China''s financial sector has boomed and gone bust with regularity in each decade. The latest decade is little different. Chinese banks have become objects of political struggle while they totter under balance sheets bloated by the excessive state-directed lending and bond issuance of 2009.Looking forward, the government''s response to the global financial crisis has created a banking system the stability of which can be maintained only behind the walls of a non-convertible currency, a myriad of off-balance sheet arrangements with non-public state entities and the strong support of its best borrowers--the politically potent National Champions--who are the greatest beneficiaries of the financial status quo.China''s financial system is not a model for the west and, indeed, is not a sustainable arrangement for China itself as it seeks increasingly to assert its influence internationally. This is not a story of impending collapse, but of frustrated reforms that suggests that any full opening and meaningful reform of the financial sector is not, indeed cannot be, on the government''s agenda anytime soon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7547'),
(7799, 'Red Chrysanthemum', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tokyo, 1698:** **Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun''s second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. But conspiracy theories travel far too close to home when Sano discovers that Lord Mori, heir to the shogun, has been found murdered in his own bedâ€¦with Sano''s pregnant wife, Reiko, lying naked beside him. Was Reiko Lord Mori''s scorned mistress, and vengeful assassin, as Lady Mori alleges? Or is she involved in a stunning hoax with her husband--as the *ghost* of Lord Mori* *has charged? Now, in a desperate race against time, Sano must find the real killer or face execution for treason. . .unless he can solve the mystery of the*** RED CHRYSANTHEMUM***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2666'),
(7800, 'The Red Door', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd brings back Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge in another riveting mystery set in post-World War I England Lancashire, England, June 1920. In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has been bludgeoned to death. Rumor has it that two years earlier, she''d painted that door to welcome her husband back from the Front. Only he never came home. Meanwhile, in London, a man suffering from a mysterious illness first goes missing and then just as suddenly reappears. He is unable to explain his recovery. His family, supposedly searching for him, give conflicting accounts of where they were and why. What is the secret that nearly drove one man mad and turned his brothers and sister against one another with such unexpected savagery? Inspector Ian Rutledge, drawn into both cases and facing a wall of silence, must solve two mysteries before he can bring a ruthless killer to justice: Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? Who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he might never have gone? And what have they to do with a man who cannot break the seal of his own guilt without damning those he loves most?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(7801, 'Red Dragon', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened The Tooth Fairy. Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigationWill Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement. Now, Graham must turn to Lecter for help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3448'),
(7802, 'The Red Garden', 'Alice Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of the first settlers, among them a pragmatic English woman, Hallie, and her profligate, braggart husband, William. Hallie makes an immediate and intense connection to the wilderness, and the tragic severing of that connection results in the creation of the red garden, a small, sorrowful plot of land that takes on an air of the sacred. The novel moves forward in linked stories, each building on (but not following from) the previous and focusing on a wide range of characters, including placid bears, a band of nomadic horse traders, a woman who finds a new beginning in Blackwell, and the ghost of a young girl drowned in the river who stays in the town''s consciousness long after her name has been forgotten. The result is a certain ethereal detachment as Hoffman''s deft magical realism ties one woman''s story to the next even when they themselves are not aware of the connection. The prose is beautiful, the characters drawn sparsely but with great compassion. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The lush and haunted wildlands of Massachusetts provide fertile ground for Hoffmanâ€™s endlessly flowering imagination. Like The Probable Future (2003) and Blackbird House (2004), The Red Garden, a sequence of beguiling, linked stories, is rooted in colonial times and reaches into the present. The first foolhardy white folksâ€”the Motts, Partridges, Starrs, and Bradysâ€”to settle in this land of blackflies, bears, eels, and harsh winters in 1750 only survive because Hallie Brady, the first of a line of determined and adept women in what becomes the small town of Blackwell in Berkshire County, goes out into the snowy wilderness to find sustenance. As spring allows the founding families to cultivate the strange red soil in the villageâ€™s first garden, Johnny Appleseed stays for a spell, and, later, Emily Dickinson happens by. Generation by generation, humans and animals form profound bonds; womenâ€™s lives change, somewhat; men go to war; people are poor and in despair; illness and violence rage; strangers find refuge; and love blossoms impossibly, extravagantly, inevitably. In gloriously sensuous, suspenseful, mystical, tragic, and redemptive episodes, Hoffman subtly alters her language, from an almost biblical voice to increasingly nuanced and intricate prose reflecting the burgeoning social and psychological complexities her passionate and searching characters face in an ever-changing world. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5283'),
(7803, 'Red Harvest', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(7804, 'Red Hood&#39;s Revenge', 'Hines, Jim C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9064'),
(7805, 'Red Inferno: 1945', 'Robert Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this turning point in history, another war is about to explode. To win World War II, the Allies dealt with the devil. Joseph Stalin helped FDR, Churchill, and Truman crush Hitler. But what if â€œUncle Joeâ€ had given in to his desire to possess Germany and all of Europe? In this stunning novel, Robert Conroy picks up the history of the war just as American troops cross the Elbe into Germany. Then Stalin slams them with the brute force of his enormous Soviet army.From American soldiers and German civilians trapped in the ruins of Potsdam to U.S. military men fighting behind enemy lines, from a scholarly Russia expert who becomes a secret player in a new war to Stalinâ€™s cult of killers in Moscow, this saga captures the human face of international conflict. With the Soviets vastly outnumbering the Americansâ€”but undercut by chronic fuel shortages and mistrustâ€”Eisenhower employs a brilliant strategy of retreat to buy critical time for air superiority. Soon, Truman makes a series of controversial decisions, enlisting German help and planning to devastate the massive Red Army by using Americaâ€™s ultimate and most secret weapon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3779'),
(7806, 'Red Iron Nights', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1891'),
(7807, 'Red Lily', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three women learn that the heart of their historic home holds a mystery of years gone by, as number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts brings her *In the Garden* trilogy to a captivating conclusion, following *Blue Dahlia* and *Black Rose*. A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn''t looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded by beauty and the best friends she''s ever had-including Roz''s son Harper. To Hayley''s delight, her new daughter Lily has really taken to him. To Hayley''s chagrin, she has begun to dream about Harper-as much more than a friend... If Hayley gives in to her desire, she''s afraid the foundation she''s built with Harper will come tumbling down. Especially since she''s begun to suspect that her feelings are no longer completely her own. Flashes of the past and erratic behavior make Hayley believe that the Harper Bride has found a way inside of her mind and body. It''s time to put the Bride to rest once and for all, so Hayley can know her own heart again-and whether she''s willing to risk it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2613'),
(7808, 'Red Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to __ and\n <strong>\n  , or 1998''s\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --L. Blunt Jackson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first installment in Robinson''s ( Blind Geometer ) new trilogy is an action-packed and thoughtful tale of the exploration and settlement of Mars--riven by both personal and ideological conflicts--in the early 21st century. The official leaders of the "first hundred" (initial party of settlers) are American Frank Chalmers and Russian Maya Katarina Toitova, but subgroups break out under the informal guidance of popular favorites like the ebullient Arkady Nikoleyevich Bogdanov, who sets up a base on one of Mars''s moons, and the enigmatic Hiroko, who establishes the planet''s farm. As the group struggles to secure a foothold on the frigid, barren landscape, friction develops both on Mars and on Earth between those who advocate terraforming, or immediately altering Mars''s natural environment to make it more habitable, and those who favor more study of the planet before changes are introduced. The success of the pioneers'' venture brings additional settlers to Mars. All too soon, the first hundred find themselves outnumbered by newcomers and caught up in political problems as complex as any found on Earth.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5134'),
(7809, 'Red Phoenix', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The demon threat closes around mortals and gods alike''Åš When Emma became nanny to John Chen''s daughter, she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god, or that all the demons in hell would want him dead.Now she''s in love with John, and they are hunted from China to Europe by a race of demons. But who are the real pawns in this deadly celestial game?Kylie Chan''s Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author''s native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2446'),
(7810, 'Red Planet', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all!From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10383'),
(7811, 'The red pony', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tells a story of a young boy and life on his father''s California ranch, raising a sorrel colt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2981'),
(7812, 'Red prophet', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Red Prophet" Volume II of the Tales of Alvin Maker "Suddenly the saga of Alvin Maker begins to thrill."--"Washington Post Book World" ""Red Prophet" is but a section of a vast American fantasy epic. It is vividly written, and the principal actors--Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and Alvin''s Gandalfesque mentor Taleswapper--are all complete and memorable characters."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people. "Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than" Seventh Son," this novel superbly demonstrates Card''s solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling."--"Booklist "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2492'),
(7813, 'The Red Pyramid', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since their mother''s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. Sadie lived with her grandparents in London while her brother traveled the world with their father, Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right with his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8508'),
(7814, 'The Red Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The second book in Philippa''s stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses. The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England. Through collaboration with the dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret agrees a betrothal between Henry and Elizabeth''s daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the Cousins War once and for all by founding of the Tudor dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3642'),
(7815, 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature', 'Matt Ridley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people "keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites," thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics. Called the "Red Queen Theory" by biologists after the chess piece in Lewis Carroll''s Through the Looking-Glass which runs but stays in the same place, this hypothesis is just one of the controversial ideas put forth in this witty, elegantly written inquiry. Ridley, a London-based science writer and a former editor of the Economist , argues that men are polygamous for the obvious reason that whichever gender has to spend the most time and energy creating and rearing offspring tends to avoid extra mating. Women, though far less interested in multiple partners, will commit adultery if stuck with a mediocre mate. In Ridley''s not wholly convincing conclusion, even human intellect is chalked up to sex: virtuosity, individuality, inventiveness and related traits are what make people sexually attractive. Photos. BOMC and QPB alternates.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a fascinating book filled with lucid prose and seductive reasoning. Freelance science writer Ridley reaches into the literature of genetics; molecular, theoretical and evolutionary biology; ecology; sociology; and anthropology to weave an extraordinary tale of the evolution of human nature, beginning with the evolution of sex. Using Lewis Carroll''s Red Queen (who runs as fast as she can to stay in the same place) as a metaphor for evolution, Ridley shows how sex was the result of an evolutionary arms race between hosts and their disease-causing parasites. Ridley covers so much ground that transitions may be abrupt or unclear, particularly in the last two chapters; also, his review of human homosexuality is thin. His occasionally pompous style (including his immediate dismissal of those who do not believe in evolution) may offend some readers. However, Ridley clearly explains many complex and remarkable concepts for a wide audience. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, N.H.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10151'),
(7816, 'Red Rabbit', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Early in his career, Jack Ryan accepts his first assignment as a freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3746'),
(7817, 'Red Seas Under Red Skies', 'Lynch, Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9816'),
(7818, 'Red Serpent: The Falsifier', 'Delson Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <span>\n   "A sprawling epic...action packed and romantic...twists through vast swathes of time, space and metaphysics. A great read for sci-fi lovers everywhere."\n  </span>\n  --award winning filmmaker and author Martin Simpson\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "This is a really interesting novel that touches on a number of subjects, including very ancient history, religion and racial prejudice. Yes, it''s very much worth reading." --Dead Trees Review\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  In the far future, the last free humans have fled to a massive space station in Earth''s orbit. On the planet below lurk their oppressors: a race of vampires who seek to breed and harvest them like animals. Orphaned as a child, Alex grows to manhood in the shadow of his legendary father who united the scattered remnants of humanity. But as he takes up his father''s banner, he uncovers a frightening secret about himself: he is the Falsifier, fated to bring down the Vampire Empire. As he struggles with his destiny, the vampires abduct him in a surprise raid. With humanity''s survival at stake, Alex must find and fight his way back and take his place in history.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7903'),
(7819, 'Red storm rising', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of The Hunt For Red October, a New York Times bestseller for over 40 weeks, comes his greatest performance yet. Red Storm Rising is an alarmingly authentic portrait of escalating aggression between superpowers on all fronts--land, sea, air and space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3751'),
(7820, 'The Red Tent', 'Anita Diamant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *New York Times *Bestseller** A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of *The Red Tent*. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah''s voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah''s story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, *The Red Tent* combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women''s lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(7821, 'Red Tide', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ford hits the ground running with his fourth solid Frank Corso novel (_Fury_;\n <em>\n  Black River\n </em>\n ; etc.). Someone has sprayed a modified\n <em>\n  Ebola\n </em>\n virus into a Seattle bus tunnel, killing more than 100 people. Journalist Corso promptly descends into the deadly tunnels to see what''s going onâ€”because that''s the kind of guy he is. The masterminds behind the plot have a pretty good reason for the destruction and are a welcome change from the genre''s familiar wild-eyed Arab terrorists. It''s all very straightforward, especially after a note warns that the next round of virus will become airborne in 30 hours and will live for 30 daysâ€”which makes the bus tunnel business look like child''s play. Scientific modeling points to a doomsday scenario, with the death of virtually every human on the planet the probable result. From then on it''s a race against the clock as Corso teams up with courageous Seattle cop Charly Hart to stop the terrorists. Ford creates likable characters, whom he has the nerve to subject to the worst, no matter how attached the reader has become to them. There''s not a lot of flash, and the twists and turns are easily negotiated, which keeps the pace fast and the characters in the foreground, making this an entertaining read in a dependable series. FYI:_ Ford also writes the successful Leo Waterman series_.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso would be way better off if he could only mind his own business, but mystery lovers would be very much the poorer. In this fourth installment of the series, the disgraced journalist turned successful crime novelist and inveterate snoop finds himself in the neighborhood when terrorists strike the Seattle bus tunnel with a ghastly mutation of the Ebola virus. Does he sensibly scamper away to safety, or does he somehow manage to purloin a haz-mat suit and masquerade as a member of the team investigating the scene of the carnage only to end up as the prime suspect? Readers of Ford''s prior Corso novels will know the answer to that one, and they will also know to expect a great deal of mayhem to ensue as Corso pursues the terrorists while eluding the cops in an attempt to save his beloved Seattle from an infinitely more devastating attack. They won''t be disappointed, either. Ford''s intelligently constructed story, peopled with convincingly three-dimensional characters, gathers momentum like a runaway monorail car. You simply can''t get off until the ride is over.\n <em>\n  Dennis Dodge\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7619'),
(7822, 'The Red Wolf Conspiracy', 'Robert V. S. Redick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Terry Brooks Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Red Wolf Conspiracy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Terry Brooks is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the Genesis of Shannara novel\n  <em>\n   Armageddonâ€™s Children\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   The Sword of Shannara\n  </em>\n  ; the High Druid of Shannara trilogy:\n  <em>\n   Jarka Ruus\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Tanequil\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Straken\n  </em>\n  ; and the nonfiction book\n  <em>\n   Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life\n  </em>\n  . His novels\n  <em>\n   Running with the Demon\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Knight of the Word\n  </em>\n  were selected by the\n  <em>\n   Rocky Mountain News\n  </em>\n  as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the twentieth century. Read his guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Red Wolf Conspiracy\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert V. S. Redick has accomplished something rather extraordinary in his new fantasy adventure novel,\n <em>\n  The Red Wolf Conspiracy,\n </em>\n the first in what I predict will be an eagerly awaited series. His accomplishment is in crafting a story that is a throwback to the days of the European Adventure story writers--Stevenson, Dumas, Scott and the like--a tale that is a gripping page-turner accessible to all ages. I seek stories like this constantly and seldom find them. Here we have a good one. The characters are memorable and fully realized, from the lowly tarboy Pazel Pashkendle to the unwilling young bride Thasha to the half-mad captain Nilus Rose to the powerful sorcerer Ramachni. As the story proceeds, we come to know and care about all of them, the good and the bad, the high and the low. We want to know their fates, and we will follow the writer to wherever we need to go to learn what they are.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is a spirited and exciting journey. By crafting the bulk of the tale aboard the mega-ship Chathrand, the author has created what is essentially a seafaring tale that reminded me of every good seafaring tale from\n <em>\n  Moby Dick\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Treasure Island\n </em>\n to everything by Patrick O''Brian. All the necessary elements are there, and you can practically taste the salt water on your lips and feel the grit of it on the pages. I look for and expect a feeling of honesty and reality in my fiction choices, no less so in fantasy than in other forms, and I was not disappointed here. From the description of the ship and its component pieces to the intricate and dangerous relationships between the characters aboard her, it all rang true.\n</p>\n<p>\n I don''t find many books that I wish I had written, but every so often one comes along. I think the last one was Philip Pullman''s\n <em>\n  The Golden Compass\n </em>\n . Here is another. I admire this book for its scope and its power, its language and its imagery, and its fine tight-rope plotting. I could not put it down. I am betting a lot of other readers won''t be able to put it down either.\n</p>\n<p>\n So trust me on this one; you won''t be disappointed. Except, of course, like me you have to sit by patiently waiting for the next book. The anticipation is akin to what I experienced growing up with chapter books, when it seemed that every single installment ended in a cliffhanger, and the characters and I were all left hanging together. In an effort to minimize the damage to our fingernails, I will use whatever magic I can conjure up to prod Mr. Redick onward towards completion of book two. You have my promise._--Terry Brooks_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Insane god-kings, miniature warriors and sentient animals fight over a powerful ancient artifact in Redick''s dramatic, complex debut. The Mzithrin and Arquali Empires have been locked in a 40-year cold war over the resources and riches of the Crownless Lands on their common frontier. Now the\n <em>\n  Chathrand\n </em>\n , a floating city built as much by sorcerer as shipwright, bears young Thasha, an unwilling bride to an enemy prince. No one seems sure whether this is a sincere attempt to bind the two empires together in peace or merely a gambit in their political games. The tense atmosphere soon erupts as various factions struggle to find and control the myth-wrapped Red Wolf. Both adult and young adult readers will find much to enjoy in this tale of sea-faring and bloody diplomacy.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5809'),
(7823, 'Red Wolf: A Novel', 'Liza Marklund', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "Pick up a Liza Marklund book, read it until dawn, wait until the stores open, buy another one."\n  <br />\n  â€” James Patterson\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautifully structured and tautly written. Dynamic plots with suspense throughout."\n  <br />\n  â€” Kathy Reichs\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Liza Marklund is the next great Nordic export for fans of crime fiction to discover...Edge-of-your-seat suspense, sophisticated plotting, complex characterisation and unique locales."\n  <br />\n  â€” Harlan Coben\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of the death, which is soon followed by a series of shocking murders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annika quickly finds herself drawn into a spiral of terrorism and violence centered around a small communist group called The Beasts. Meanwhile, her marriage starts to slide, and in the end she is not only determined to find out the truth, but also forced to question her own husband''s honesty.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5064'),
(7824, 'The Red-headed League', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9386'),
(7825, 'Redline the Stars', 'Andre Norton; P. M. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first new Solar Queen novel in 23 years. This fast-paced adventure launches Captain Jellico and the crew of the Solar Queen--whose previous thrilling exploits include such sf classics as Postmarked the Stars and Sargasso of Space--on their most treacherous expedition yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9130'),
(7826, 'The Reef', 'Edith Wharton; Ken Mattern, eBook creation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(7827, 'Reenlistment', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The satirical military space saga continues ... Decorated war hero, or war criminal guilty of atrocities? It depends on whoâ€™s passing judgment on ex-legionnaire Joey Czerinski. This lucky gambler turned soldier turned casino boss finds his businesses destroyed by continued alien insurgency. Desperate, he turns to his old friend the Galactic Foreign Legion ATM for a loan and ends up reenlisted!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8653'),
(7828, 'Reflections in a Golden Eye', 'Carson McCullers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest prose writer that the South producedâ€ -- Tennessee Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAgain [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in menâ€™s hearts and minds.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  The New York Herald-Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The novel is a masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James''s THE TURN OF THE SCREW." Time Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new trade paperback edition of McCullers'' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston.\n  <br />\n  Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton''s tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel''s publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers''s own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7948'),
(7829, 'Reflex', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Davy thinks he''s alone...what if he isn''t?When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of teleportation. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible danger. Later, he learned to control his ability, and went to work for a secret government agency.Now, a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don''t want to hire him, and they don''t have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him, and they have found a way to keep a teleport captive.But there''s one thing that they don''t know. No one knows it, not even Davy. The secret is that experiencing teleportation, over and over again, can teach a person how to do it. Davy''s wife Millie is the only person on Earth who has teleported nearly as often as he has. She discovered her new talent the same way Davy did -- in mortal danger, facing imminent death, she suddenly found herself in her own apartment.Now, if she can learn to control this ability, and fast, she may be able to rescue Davy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3376'),
(7830, 'The Reformed Vampire Support Group', 'Catherine Jinks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves.Nina Harrison, fanged at fifteen and still living with her mother, hates the Reformed Vampire Support Group meetings every Tuesday night. Even if she does appreciate Dave, who was in a punk band when he was alive, nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until one of group members is mysteriously destroyed by a silver bullet. With Nina (determined to prove that vamps aren''t useless or weak) and Dave (secretly in love with Nina) at the helm, the misfit vampires soon band together to track down the hunter, save a werewolf, and keep the world safe from the likes of themselves.The perfect anecdote to slick vampire novels, this murder-mystery comedy of errors will thrill fans of Evil Genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(7831, 'The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A collection of classic stories featuring multiple   victims, multiple mysteries, multiple suspects, and a multitude of talent to solve it all: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Mr. Parker Pyne.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5195'),
(7832, 'Regency Buck', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Judith Taverner and her brother, Peregrine, are orphans. The death of their eccentric father left them well provided for but consigned to the guardianship of a man they have never met, Julian St. John Audley, Lord Worth. When repeated requests for an introduction to him go unanswered, they set off to London to force a meeting. En route, they spend the night in the village of Grantham, where they make the acquaintance of their Uncle Bernard. Judith and Perry, knowing that their father had disowned his brother many years ago are reluctant to acknowledge the relationship, but Bernard proves to be polite and charming. They also run afoul of an arrogant aristocrat when Perry mishandles a borrowed gig on the road and causes a near-accident. On reaching London, Judith and Perry are amazed and horrified to discover that the insufferable nobleman who made their lives a misery in Grantham is none other than Lord Worth himself. The plot is sufficiently clever and complicated to keep the listener guessing, but the characters are not as appealing as those in some of Heyer''s other Regencies. Worth never really becomes human; he is annoyingly arrogant and omniscient, keeping his feelings, as well as a couple of vital facts, hidden from the heroine and the listener alike. Judith, not allowed to overcome the conventions of her romance heroine role, never becomes a decisive character. June Barrie handles the various voices and accents well but unremarkably. A secondary purchase in libraries where Heyer''s works (e.g., Cotillion) are popular and the budget allows. Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a perfect read for a cold and rainy day--a romance with a little mystery thrown in... I thoroughly enjoyed this and can''t wait to read more of Heyer''s works. (Patricia Seguine\n <em>\n  Library Queue\n </em>\n 20081215)\n</p>\n<p>\n [A]s always, somehow Heyer''s heroine manages to time and again smash those pre-conceived notions and blaze a unique trail of her own. This is, by far, my favorite part of her books. Judith''s character is one of the best representations of this Heyer trait. (Rashmi\n <em>\n  A Book Blogger''s Diary\n </em>\n 20110512)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love Worth and Judith. I love the rich-layers of\n <em>\n  Regency Buck\n </em>\n ... (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Blog\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Regency Buck\n </em>\n is certainly worth adding to your Heyer library. (Helen Hancox\n <em>\n  Curled Up With a Good Book\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n I love it for its amazingly accurate historical detail and for its hero and heroine. I love Worth and Judith both. (_DearAuthor.com_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10203'),
(7833, 'Regenesis', 'Cherryh, C. J', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10894'),
(7834, 'The Regulators', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There s a place in Wentworthï¼Œ Ohioï¼Œ where summer is in full swing. It s called Poplar Street. Up until now it s been a nice place to live.The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against evil begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4273'),
(7835, 'Reign of Shadows', 'Deborah Chester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over nine hundred years, the Emperor Kostimon has sat upon the Ruby Throne. He bargained with the dark gods for his immortality-and now he and his kingdom will have to pay the price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8312'),
(7836, 'Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits "the forgotten miracle"â€“the body''s infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to a dynamic, flowing process. "Your physical body is a fiction," Chopra contends. Every cell is made up of two invisible ingredients: awareness and energy.Using Chopra''s ten steps to wholeness, you can harness those basic elements to change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease.Transformation can''t stop with the body, however; it must involve the soul. The soulâ€“seemingly invisible, aloof, and apart from the material worldâ€“actually creates the body. Only by going to the level of the soul will you access your full potential, bringing more intelligence, creativity, and awareness into every aspect of your life.Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul delivers ten breakthroughsâ€“five for the body, five for the soulâ€“that lead to self-transformation. In clear, accessible terms, Chopra shows us how to commit ourselves to deeper awareness, focus on relationships instead of consumption, embrace every day as a new world, and transcend the obstacles that afflict body and mind.Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound teachings over the years. His bestselling books have explored the mind/body connection and the power of spirit. With his latest book, he invites you to experience with him the miracles that unfold when we connect the body directly to the awesome mysteries that give life meaningâ€“directly to the soul. When you have completed this journey, after reinventing your body and resurrecting your soul, the ecstasy of true wholeness becomes possible for the very first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(7837, 'Relentless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human natureand the anarchy simmering just beneath society''s surfaceas a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice.... Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children''s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed "Spooky," and a non-collie named Lassie, who''s all but part of the family. So Cubby knows he shouldn''t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to himeven if it does appear in the nation''s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she''d tell Cubby to ignore them, too. Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a careeror a life. But Shearman Waxx isn''t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn''t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life. Fearless, funny, utterly compelling,Relentlessis Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherishand of those who would tear those bonds asunder. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1455');
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(7838, 'The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism', 'Joyce Appleby &amp; Joyce Oldham Appleby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arguing that capitalism is a culturalâ€”rather than purely economicâ€”phenomenon, Appleby (_Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination_) traces its trajectory through European, American, and Asian successes and setbacks, its unhappy experiments in colonization, the world wars, and into contemporary India and China. She narrates the rise of capitalism as a process of accretion, starting with Dutch agricultural innovations that were adopted and improved upon by the British. This set England on the path to controlling famine and, ultimately, freed capital and labor for trade. Appleby turns Marxism on its head as she proposes that the new social relations introduced in England as a result of converting common land into freeholds were the consequence, not the cause, of the transformation in English farming. If this sounds like breathless global time travel, it is still a laudable effort at demonstrating that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of capitalism. Both scholarly and accessible, this book unpacks a complex web of seemingly unrelated events; its dazzling achievements are tarnished only by multiple misnomers: there is no city called Calico in India (there''s a Calicut) and no language called Hindu (it''s Hindi).\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historian Appleby traces capitalism (a system based on individual investments in the production of marketable goods) from early industrialization to the present global economy. She explores the benchmarks in capitalismâ€™s ascent, looking at how this system transformed politics while churning up practices, thoughts, values and ideals that had long prevailed within the cocoon of custom. It changed the way people thought and planned, and the author shows how different societies respond to its challenges up to the twenty-first century and the world recession of 2008â€“09. She explains that the 2008 financial crisis was caused by the era of deregulation from the late 1970s to 1999, while vast sums of money circulated through global markets and the growth in financial assets outpaced real economic activity. Appleby concludes that since capitalism is a set of practices and institutions that permits billions of people to pursue their interests in the marketplace, it is highly likely that panics and bubbles will occur again. This is an excellent book. --Mary Whaley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6809'),
(7839, 'A Reliable Wife', 'Robert Goolrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she''s not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man''s devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt - a passionate man with his own dark secrets -has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways. With echoes of "Wuthering Heights" and "Rebecca," Robert Goolrick''s intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4211'),
(7840, 'Relic', 'Douglas Preston;Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum''s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human.... But the museum''s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(7841, 'Relics', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the tradition of UNIFICATION, here is the story that fans of the original STAR TREK series and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION have been clamoring for -- Montgomery Scott''s return to the Star Trek universe and his encounter with the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢ NCC 1701-D.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Missing in space for seventy-five years, Scotty manages to survive against incredible odds, only to be found by the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢.\n  </em>\n  Though rescued, Scotty soon finds himself lost in a world that he barely recognizes, a world that has passed him by...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the adventure is not over for Captain Scott who must do the impossible when the new\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  faces a very old danger in a remote sector of space. This time, Captain Picard and his crew will need more than all of their courage and all of their skills to save the great Starship from destruction. This time, they will need a miracle worker.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM discovers the wreckage of a starship upon the monstrous surface of a Dyson sphere, an artificially-constructed habitat built around a star; and preserved in a weak transporter pattern is Starfleet engineering legend Montgomery "Scotty" Scott. Mr. Scott boards the Enterprise to find himself lost in a world that he barely recognizes, a world that has passed him by.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But soon the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  finds itself trapped within the Dyson sphere and pulled into the star, and Scotty must work with Lt. Geordi La Forge to rescue the Enterprise.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4743'),
(7842, 'Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy: How Women Can Heal Chronic Pelvic Instability', 'Cecile Rost', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Pregnant women or new mothers may experience pelvic instability, or pain in their pelvic region, owing to a weakening of the ligaments. This English translation of Dutch physiotherapist and orthopedic-manual therapist RÃ¶st''s 1998 book is based on techniques the author claims have helped more than 90 percent of her patients overcome pelvic pain and related symptoms and led to relief from her own pelvic instability following her third pregnancy. The book''s first four parts, geared toward the patient, explain what pelvic instability is, present exercises to help relieve pain, offer advice on how to go about daily activities, and more. Part 5, written for physiotherapists and health-care professionals, contains analysis of RÃ¶st''s research and discusses risk factors and issues relating to consultation and therapy. RÃ¶st''s personal anecdotes about women with this condition whose pain was relieved within days or weeks of performing the exercises are inspiring. Although the illustrated exercises are easy to follow at home, RÃ¶st also encourages readers to perform them with a health-care professional. Offering relief to women suffering from this condition, this book is recommended for libraries with consumer health and health sciences collections."\n <strong>\n  - Library Journal, Rebecca Raszewski, Drexel University Health Sciences Libraries, Philadelphia\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "As a healthcare provider I am very excited about a book addressing pregnancy related pelvic pain! It is very frustrating to have a woman in your office tearful and in pain at just the time she should be anticipating the joyous arrival of her new baby and feel that there are very few tools at your disposal to help her...I found the information in the book to be good and useful.â€\n <strong>\n  - PortiaLong LibraryThing.com Early Reviewer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a physical therapist who has experienced pregnancy-related pelvic pain firsthand, Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy provides a practical blend of traditional and novel treatment approaches that will help women regain control over their bodies and their lives. Cecile RÃ¶st draws upon personal experience, patient interaction, and her own research to deliver a fresh look at this frequently misunderstood condition in a way that benefits both patients and therapists alike."\n <strong>\n  - Anne Ahlman, MPT\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pregnancy weakens the ligaments that keep the pelvic bones together. If those weakened ligaments become overloaded or injured, it results in pelvic instability â€” pain around the joints that can be brief or last for years after the birth. In 1996, Cecile RÃ¶st, who suffered from this condition herself, devised a treatment program that is simple, home based, and proven to work. Her book, with over 100 illustrations and detailed testimonials, is divided into two parts. The first part shows simple exercises for symmetry and stabilization, and the proper way to lie, sit, and get out of a car in order to prevent pelvic instability during pregnancy. Patients can practice these exercises and positions with or without a care providerâ€™s help. Part two, aimed at care providers, shows the results of a survey carried out among 200 women suffering from pelvic complaints. Here the author also presents a theoretical treatise of pelvic pain, the protocol of the first consult, and the contents of the therapy, including a sports program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9827'),
(7843, 'Reliquary', 'Douglas Preston;Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D''Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1273'),
(7844, 'The Reluctant Nude', 'Meg Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chipping away at her resistance, one touch at a time...Fallon Frost''s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practical, ordered life Fallon has built for herself is threatened.Then he makes a twisted proposal. He''ll leave the land alone if she poses nude for a sculpture that''ll end up in his collection. Seeing no other choice, she heads for Nova Scotia--only to find something totally unexpected. A sexy, hot-blooded, infuriating sculptor.Guarded, sexually detached Fallon is a challenge Max Emery can''t wait to tackle. Yet with each tap of his chisel, he uncovers a woman who rekindles a dream he thought lost. Home, family...love. And the closer he gets to her core, the harder it becomes to accept that he''s carving her naked body for another man''s eyes.As progress on the sculpture almost grinds to a halt, their fragile fantasy world collapses under the weight of reality. Threatening Fallon''s one chance to save her foster mother''s land...and any chance she and Max have to find love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6121'),
(7845, 'The Reluctant Widow', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer is best known for her witty and charming Regency romances, but she is also responsible for a handful of mystery novels. On occasion, mystery would find its way into her romances, embroiling her well-born heroes and heroines in adventures that were alternately chilling and hilarious. In\n <em>\n  The Reluctant Widow\n </em>\n , Eleanor Rochdale, a young woman of good birth but straitened circumstances, sets out to accept a position as a governess and ends up plunged into a tangle of foreign intrigue instead.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eleanor''s adventure begins when she inadvertently mistakes the carriage waiting at the coach stop for one sent by her prospective employer, Mrs. Macclesfield. She finds herself carried to the estate of one Ned Carlyon, whom Eleanor mistakes for Mr. Macclesfield. Carlyon, meanwhile, believes Eleanor to be the young woman he hired to marry his dying cousin, Eustace Cheviot, in order to avoid inheriting Cheviot''s estate himself. Somehow, Eleanor is talked into marrying Eustace on his deathbed and thus becomes a wealthy widow almost as soon as the ring is on her finger. What starts out as a simple business arrangement soon becomes much more complicated as housebreakers, uninvited guests, a shocking murder, missing government papers, and a dog named Bouncer all contribute to this lively, frequently hilarious tale of mistaken identities, foreign espionage, and unexpected love set during the Napoleonic Wars.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Lively, amusing ... done to a turn!"\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  - Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A fateful mistake...\n</p>\n<p>\n When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer''s home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.\n</p>\n<p>\n A momentous decision...\n</p>\n<p>\n His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr Carlyon won''t let her leave ...\n</p>\n<p>\n WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT THE RELUCTANT WIDOW:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Delightful and purely entertaining. The plot involves comedy, intrigue, espionage, cloaks and daggers, and things going bump in the night - served with a sauce of witty repartee that is the Heyer hallmark. Unforgettable."\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of my favorites!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "A delightfully funny and mysterious romp."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  - Publisher''s Weekly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (20081006)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10164'),
(7846, 'Remainder', 'Tom McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he canâ€™t quite place.How he goes about bringing his visions to lifeâ€“and what happens afterwardâ€“makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory. Remainder is about the secret world each of us harbors within, and what might happen if we were granted the power to make it real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3827'),
(7847, 'The Remains of the Day', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The novel''s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens'' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Greeted with high praise in England, where it seems certain to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Ishiguro''s third novel (after An Artist of the Floating World ) is a tour de force-- both a compelling psychological study and a portrait of a vanished social order. Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates on the past and inadvertently slackens his rigid grip on his emotions to confront the central issues of his life. Glacially reserved, snobbish and humorless, Stevens has devoted his life to his concept of duty and responsibility, hoping to reach the pinnacle of his profession through totally selfless dedication and a ruthless suppression of sentiment. Having made a virtue of stoic dignity, he is proud of his impassive response to his father''s death and his "correct" behavior with the spunky former housekeeper, Miss Kenton. Ishiguro builds Stevens''s character with precisely controlled details, creating irony as the butler unwittingly reveals his pathetic self-deception. In the poignant denouement, Stevens belatedly realizes that he has wasted his life in blind service to a foolish man and that he has never discovered "the key to human warmth." While it is not likely to provoke the same shocks of recognition as it did in Britain, this insightful, often humorous and moving novel should significantly enhance Ishiguro''s reputation here.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9447'),
(7848, 'The Rembrandt Affair', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gabriel Allon returns in the spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for... It has been six months since Gabriel''s showdown with Ivan Kharkov. Now, having severed his ties with the Office, Gabriel has retreated to the Cornish coast with only one thing in mind: healing his wife, Chiara, after her encounter with evil. But an unspeakable act of violence once again draws Gabriel into a world of danger when an art restorer is brutally murdered and the newly discovered Rembrandt on which he is working taken. Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to trace the painting and those responsible for the crimes; but, as he investigates, he discovers there are terrible secrets connected to the painting, and terrible men behind them. Before he is done, he will have undertaken a journey through some of the twentieth century''s darkest history-and come face-to-face with some of the same darkness within himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6917'),
(7849, 'Remember Me?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, sheâ€™s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accidentâ€”in a Mercedes no lessâ€”Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and sheâ€™s about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husbandâ€”who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person sheâ€¦well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3734'),
(7850, 'Remembrance', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel produces another yarn that defies the imagination in\n <em>\n  Remembrance\n </em>\n . Impoverished by World War II, Principessa Serena di San Tibaldo is working as a servant in the Italian palazzo once owned by her family when the Americans liberate the country. Beautiful blonde Serena captures the attention of U.S. Army Major Bradford J. Fullerton, member of a wealthy and powerful Manhattan family. Following a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Serena and Brad return stateside to continue his military career. Life seems even more perfect with the birth of their daughter Vanessa, but then Brad is killed during the early days of the Korean conflict, leaving Serena with a young child to provide for, and no means of support. Drawing on the core of strength developed during World War II, Serena parlays her beauty into a modeling career. It is her beauty that makes Serena the object of obsession for a brilliant but unstable photographer. Steel spans two generations of women who learn to cope with the hand life has dealt them and to prevail in spite of the odds. A fast-paced ride!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But not even Brad''s ringâ€”or his childâ€”can protect her from the calculating wrath of the powerful Fullerton dynasty, and the woman who will become Serena''s bitter enemy. Sweeping from the war-torn palazzos of Rome to the glittering avenues of Manhattan and the glamorous world of high fashion. Here is the vibrant story of one woman''s triumphant yet bittersweet journey of the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6038'),
(7851, 'Remote Control', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After his mission is suddenly terminated in Washington, D.C., British Intelligence agent Nick Stone decides to visit an old colleague, Kev Brown. But when Stone arrives at his friend''s eerily quiet suburban home, he discovers a chilling scene of carnage. Every member of the Brown family has been brutally slaughtered except one: seven-year-old Kelly Brown. Stone grabs the girl and runs--with anonymous assassins in hot pursuit. Racing from Washington to Florida and finally across the Atlantic, Stone begins to piece together a shocking global conspiracy. Thrust into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse, Stone is certain of two things. No one can be trusted. He and Kelly are on their own. Now his darkest fears about the shadowy link between politics, money, and terrorism are about to be realized. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(7852, 'Renaissance', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\nI will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. I am an Assassin Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, a young man embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family''s honour, he will learn the art of the assassins. Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli ? knowing that survival is bound to the skills by which he must live.To his allies, he will become a force for change - fighting for freedom and justice. To his enemies, he will become a threat dedicated to the destruction of the tyrants abusing the people of Italy. So begins an epic story of power, revenge and conspiracy. TRUTH WILL BE WRITTEN IN BLOOD\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4776'),
(7853, 'Rendezvous with Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the year 2130, a huge alien artifact approaches the Earth from outer space. Commander Norton and his crew take their ship to meet it, and, once inside, discover the wonders that go to make up Rama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(7854, 'Renegade&#39;s Magic: Book Three of The Soldier Son Trilogy', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Loyal, privileged, and brave--a soldier in the service of the King of Gernia--Nevare Burvelle survived a devastating plague of enemy sorcery, but at a terrible cost to his soul, body, and heart. Now he stands wrongly accused of unspeakable crimes, including murder, the most heinous of them all. Suddenly an outcast and a fugitive, he remains a hostage to the Speck magic that shackles him to a savage alter ego who would destroy everything Nevare holds dear. Perhaps, however, this curse that has long abused him can be used by him instead--a mighty weapon he can learn to wield for his own purposes. But down what perilous road will this desperate new quest lead him? And what will be the ultimate incarnation of Nevare Burvelle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3504'),
(7855, 'The Renegade&#39;s Woman', 'Nikita Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3112'),
(7856, 'The Renegades of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern''s greatest weapon against Thread.But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. And there were some, like Jayge''s trader clan, who simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina''s family, had lost their holds through injustice and cruelty. For all the holdless, life was a constant struggle for survival.Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades, led by the Lady Thella. No one was safe from Thella''s depredations, and now her quarry was Aramina, reputed to have a telepathic link with dragons. But when Thella mistakenly vented her rage on Jayge''s family, she made a dangerous mistake. For Jayge was bent on revenge . . . and he would never let her have the girl who heard dragons!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10904'),
(7857, 'The Replacement Child', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Late on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the *Capital Tribune* newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with gossip from her police scanner. The old woman tells Lucy she heard two Santa Fe cops discussing a dead body. But when Lucy checks out the tip, she discovers Scanner Lady has been killed. She tries to enlist the help of Detective Gil Montoya, but his mind is on another death. He has just been handed the case of Melissa Baca, a seventh-grade teacher whose body was thrown off the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Over the course of the next few days, as Lucy and Gil hunt down the culprits in each murder, they discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways. Rich with details of New Mexico and the people who live there, *The Replacement Child* is the perfect novel for anyone who has fallen in love with the Southwest that Tony Hillerman described so artfully in his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(7858, 'The Replacement', 'Brenna Yovanoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie comes from a world of tunnels and black, murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattoed princess. He is a replacement - left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago when it was stolen away by the fey. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything just to be normal, to live quietly amongst humans, practice his bass guitar and spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate''s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem, where he must face down the dark creatures and find his rightful place - in our world, or theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1543'),
(7859, 'Replicant Night', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2977'),
(7860, 'Repo Men', 'Eric Garcia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a brave new world, you''ll never have to die . . . as long as you keep up with the payments. Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with--and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their product back. This is the story of the making--and unmaking--of one of the best Repo Men in the extraction business, who finds his soul when he loses his heart . . . and then he has to run.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(7861, 'The Reptile Room', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2546'),
(7862, 'The Republic', 'Plato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Plato''S Republic Is Widely Acknowledged As The Cornerstone Of Western Philosophy. Presented In The Form Of A Dialogue Between Socrates And Three Different Interlocutors, It Is An Enquiry Into The Notion Of A Perfect Community And The Ideal Individual Within It. During The Conversation Other Questions Are Raised: What Is Goodness; What Is Reality; What Is Knowledge? The Republic Also Addresses The Purpose Of Education And The Role Of Both Women And Men As ''Guardians'' Of The People. With Remarkable Lucidity And Deft Use Of Allegory, Plato Arrives At A Depiction Of A State Bound By Harmony And Ruled By ''Philosopher Kings''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3274'),
(7863, 'Requiem', 'Michael Jan Friedman &amp; Kevin Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-five years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard conducted breakthrough negotiations with an aggressive race called the Gorn. Now, on the anniversary of that achievement, Captain Picard and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  are headed for the Gorn Homeworld to continue that important work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when the ship stops to investigate a mysterious alien artifact, Captain Picard is suddenly hurled through time and space. Just as Commander Riker and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  crew begin an impossible search for their captain, the Gorn summit goes terribly wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As war looms over the galaxy and Picard is desperately needed on the Gorn Homeworld, the captain finds himself stranded in the past on a planet called Cestus III at a crucial turning point in Federation history. Now, caught in a deadly situation that challenges Picard''s most cherished beliefs, he must weigh the fate of a world against the future of the entire Federation...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-five years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard conducted breakthrough negotiations with an aggressive race called the Gorn. On the anniversary of that achievement, Captain Picard and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM are headed for the Gorn Homeworld to continue that important work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the ship stops to investigate a mysterious alien artifact, Captain Picard is suddenly hurled through time and space. Just as Commander Riker and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  crew begin an impossible search for their captain, the Gorn summit goes terribly wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As war looms over the galaxy and Picard is desperately needed on the Gorn Homeworld, the captain finds himself stranded in the past on a planet called Cestus III at a crucial turning point in Federation history. Caught in a deadly situation that challenges Picard''s most cherished beliefs, he must weigh the fate of a world against the future of the entire Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4746'),
(7864, 'Requiem for a Dream', 'Hubert Selby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby''s place is in the front rank of American novelists. His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky''s....To understand Selby''s work is to understand the anguish of America." -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10015'),
(7865, 'Rescue', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Shreve''s smooth if unsurprising latest (after A Change in Altitude), EMT Peter Webster is drawn to a woman he rescues at the scene of a one-car drunk driving accident. Webster is well intentioned, but alcoholic Sheila, with her dangerous history, could prove beyond his efforts to save her, though the two embark on an affair that evolves into marriage and parenthood with the birth of their daughter, Rowan. Sheila''s drinking, meanwhile, escalates until she causes another accident, this time with young Rowan in the car, causing Webster to send Sheila away to avoid jail time. Years later, with not a word from long-gone Sheila, Rowan is a typically turmoil-ridden high school senior--moody, her grades slipping, drinking--and her tribulations prompt Webster to reach out to Sheila to help his daughter. Webster and Sheila are more type than character--good-hearted man, damaged woman incapable of love--and the paramedic rescue scenes feel mostly like opportunities for Shreve to show off her research. Still, the story runs like a well-oiled machine and should sate the author''s fans. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramedic Pete Webster is worried sick about his daughter, Rowan, a high-school senior whom he has raised single-handedly ever since she was two. Rowan has adopted very untypical behavior, ignoring her studies and drinking heavily. It brings back bad memories of his ex-wife, Sheila. He pulled her from a car wreck while on the job and soon fell madly in love with her both for her beauty and her irreverent sense of humor. When she became pregnant, he married her though he was only 21. They were very happy until Sheila began drinking all day, every day. Now Pete is worried that their daughter believes she is doomed to repeat her motherâ€™s mistakes; he decides to contact Sheila, whom he has not seen or heard from for 16 years. The prolific Shreve brings her customary care to this thoroughly absorbing, perfectly paced domestic drama. Alternating between the life-and-death scenarios Pete encounters on the job and the fraught family tension between father and daughter, Shreve pulls readers right into her story. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Since 2001, Shreveâ€™s books have spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller lists; her sixteenth novel will no doubt follow suit. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7691'),
(7866, 'The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick''s account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch''s iconic painting\n <em>\n  The Scream.\n </em>\n The theft was carried out with almost comical ease at Norway''s National Gallery in Oslo on the very morning that the Winter Olympics began in that city. Despite the low-tech nature of the crime, the local police were baffled, and Dolnick (_Down the Great Unknown_;_ Madness on the Couch_) makes a convincing case that the fortunate resolution of the investigation was almost exclusively due to the expertise, ingenuity and daring of the "rescue artist" of the title: Charley Hill, a Scotland Yard undercover officer and former Fulbright scholar who has made recovering stolen art treasures his life''s work. Hill is a larger-than-life figure who seems lifted from the pages of Elmore Leonard, although his adversaries in this inquiry are fairly pedestrian. While the path to the painting''s retrieval is relatively straightforward once some shady characters put the word out that they can get their hands on it, the narrative''s frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades from Hill''s past elevate this work above last year''s similar\n <em>\n  The Irish Game\n </em>\n by Matthew Hart. 16 pages of b&amp;w and 8 pages of color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“A compelling account of the 1994 theft of one of the world''s most famous paintings,\n <em>\n  The Scream\n </em>\n . Dolnick focuses on the hero of the case, Scotland Yard''s Art Squad specialist Charley Hill. Because of Hill''s earlier success in retrieving stolen art treasures, he was charged with the difficult job of locating the painting and successfully retrieving it in its original condition. While the author keeps readers in suspense as he digresses frequently to tell the story of other notorious art thefts and art thieves, diligent readers will be treated to a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat account of the painting''s rescue. Along the way, Dolnick imparts a great deal of information not only about Edvard Munch, but also about the art world''s surprisingly lax security measures and the lack of motivation on the part of authorities charged with retrieving art treasures. In spite of the asides, this is a tightly woven, fast-paced story. Teens interested in art and/or investigative journalism will enjoy this real-life whodunit._â€“Catherine Gilbride, Farifax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6802'),
(7867, 'The Rescue', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scene of adventurous undertakings.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7744'),
(7868, 'Researching Pregnancy', 'Harriet Goss; Helen Pattison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9206'),
(7869, 'Reservations for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this second Lighthouse Inn Mystery, innkeeper Alex Winston discovers a new attraction at the county fair: a corpse. "Myers cultivates the North Carolina scenery with aplomb and shows a flair for character." (Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3977'),
(7870, 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse', 'Keith R.A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation''s most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path. Jill Valentine of the RCPD and several others are determined to get out of Raccoon alive, but only if they can escape the city''s hordes of undead, Umbrella''s unleashed creatures, and the relentless pursuit of Nemesis itself. Their one chance is with one of the only survivors of the Hive -- a young woman named Alice, who learns a terrifying secret behind her connection to Umbrella.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11185'),
(7871, 'Resident Evil: Extinction', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the events of the first two films, Resident Evil and Resident Evil Apocalypse, the genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella Corporation has failed to contain the horrifying T-virus...leaving the streets of Raccoon City swarming with the living dead before the metropolis is eventually and utterly destroyed. Now the survivors of the catastrophe, including the mysterious Alice, must fight their way across the Nevada desert and to safety, even as Umbrella''s conspires to bring about their complete annihilation...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keith R.A. DeCandido\n </strong>\n was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them\n <em>\n  Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry''s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Doctor Who\n </em>\n . His original novel\n <em>\n  Dragon Precinct\n </em>\n was published in 2004, and he''s also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated\n <em>\n  Imaginings\n </em>\n and two\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don''t Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices\n <em>\n  kenshikai\n </em>\n karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8679'),
(7872, 'Resident Evil: Genesis', 'Keith R.A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes. But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11195'),
(7873, 'Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life&#39;s Adversities', 'Elizabeth Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The bestselling author of *Saving Graces* shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.**Sheâ€™s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But sheâ€™s no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husband''s infidelity became public fodder. And her own life has been on the line. Days before the 2004 presidential electionâ€”when her husband John was running for vice presidentâ€”she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After rounds of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation the cancer went awayâ€”only to reoccur in 2007. While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in *Resilience*, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among lifeâ€™s biggest challenges. This short, powerful, pocket-sized inspirational book makes an ideal gift for anyone dealing with difficulties in their life, who can find peace in knowing they are not alone, and promise that things can get better.***From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(7874, 'Resistance', 'J.M. Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Captain Jean-Luc Picard, his ship repaired, must now reassemble his crew. With the departure of both William Riker and ship''s counsellor Deannna Troi, the captain must replace his two most trusted advisors. He chooses a Vulcan, a logical choice, and for his new first officer, Worf. But the Klingon refuses the promotion and the new ship''s counsellor appears to actively dislike Worf. A simple shake-down mission should settle everything. Except that once again, the captain hears the song of the Borg collective. Admiral Janeway is convinced that the Borg have been crushed and are no longer a threat. Picard believes she is wrong, and that if the Enterprise doesn''t act the entire Federation will be under the domination of its most oppressive enemy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  J.M. Dillard is the author of numerous Star Trek novels, including the movie novelisations GENERATIONS, FIRST CONTACT, INSURRECTION and NEMESIS, and the bestselling non-fiction pictorial history WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7331');
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(7875, 'Resistance: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in her earlier novels, Shreve (Eden Close) affectingly explores themes of love and loss with piercing clarity, once again capturing the fragile emotions of those in pain. Here, however, she moves from her customary domestic, contemporary milieu to WWII Europe?to the Belgian village of Delahaut, where young Claire Daussois and her husband, Henri, are members of an underground resistance movement. When a British plane goes down outside the town in December 1943, the plucky 10-year-old Jean Benoit finds a survivor, Ted Brice, hides him in his father''s barn and then summons the aid of Mme. Daussois. As she has done with other refugees, Claire shelters the 22-year-old captain in her attic. When it becomes necessary for Henri to go into hiding, Claire and Ted embark on a brief affair, a passionate liaison made more poignant by its simultaneous inevitability and futility. With deceptive simplicity and superb control, Shreve evokes the impersonal horrors of wartime and its heartbreaking personal tragedies?often combining those elements to almost overwhelming effect, as when Jean witnesses the execution of several townspeople as reprisal for their resistance activities.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?In December 1943, an American fighter plane is downed near a small village in Belgium. The pilot, Lt. Ted Brice, is rescued by a member of the local resistance movement. As he is hidden in the small attic at the home of Claire Daussois, he becomes acutely aware of the danger to himself as well as his hostess and her husband. A bond develops between Claire and Ted during his 20-day stay that changes both of their lives forever. Through this fast-paced novel, YAs will gain insight into the unthinkable horrors of World War II-German retribution, village collaborators, and local resistance workers. Shreve describes the landscape and the local residents in such detail that readers will quickly become involved in the lives of the characters.?Roberta Lisker, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7689'),
(7876, 'Resistance: The Gathering Storm', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great Britain. July 1951.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three years ago, Russia went dark. Nothing got in. Nothing got out. The world assumed it was political strife. But it was the Chimera: voracious extraterrestrial invaders. And in December 1949, they burst across the Russian border and poured into Europe. The luckiest humans died. The less fortunate succumbed to an alien virusâ€“and changed.\n <br />\n Within a year, most of Europe had fallen. Only Great Britain, after struggling desperately, had kept the conquerors at bay. But as the Chimera were repelled, they were evolving. Building. Planning.\n</p>\n<p>\n America. November 1952.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Chimera have crossed the Atlantic. Their lightning strikes on American borders are devastating. Cities are lost. Small towns overrun. Citizens transformed into monstrosities. Enter Lieutenant Nathan Hale, U.S. Ranger. A veteran of the Chimeran conflict, he is uniquely immune to the alien virus. And when regular troops canâ€™t stem the Chimeran onslaught, Hale and his special-operations team meet the menace head-on.\n</p>\n<p>\n But while they battle the relentless Chimera, deadly power games rage in the White House. And when Hale discovers a far-reaching conspiracy, one with deadly consequences for the human race, his allegiance to country and mankind is stretched to the breaking point.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n William C. Dietz is the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  HALO: The Flood and Hitman: Enemy Within\n </em>\n , plus thirty other science fiction novels, some of which have been translated into German, Russian, and Japanese. He grew up in the Seattle area, served as a medic with the navy and the Marine Corps, and graduatedÂ from the University of Washington. Dietz worked as a surgical technician, news writer, college instructor, television producer, and director of public relations for an international telephone company prior to embarking on a full-time writing career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7766'),
(7877, 'Resplendent', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11113'),
(7878, 'The Rest of the Robots', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of 8 short stories and 2 novels about robots by the 20th century American science fiction writer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9502'),
(7879, 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(7880, 'Restless Soul', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A vacation spot picked at random, Thailand is intended to provide relaxation for archaeologist Annja Creed. Yet the irresistible pull of the country''s legendary Spirit Cave lures Annja and her companions deep within a network of underground chambers. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4977'),
(7881, 'Resurrecting Pompeii', 'Estelle Lazer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were seduced by the wealth of artefacts and wall paintings yielded by the site. This meant that the less visually attractive evidence, such as human skeletal remains, were largely ignored.Recognizing the important contribution of the human skeletal evidence to the archaeology of Pompeii, Resurrecting Pompeii remedies that misdemeanour, and provides students of archaeology and history with an essential resource in the study of this fascinating historical event.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(7882, 'Retreat, Hell!', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3433'),
(7883, 'Retribution', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] publishing phenomenonâ€¦[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene. . .Just one example of arguably the most in-demand and prolific authors in America these days.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKenyonâ€™s writing is brisk, ironic and relentlessly imaginative. These are not your motherâ€™s vampire novels.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”BOSTON GLOBE\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] engaging read.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    From #1\n   </em>\n   New York Times\n   <em>\n    bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the next thrilling installment in her blockbuster Dark-HunterÂ® series\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harm no humanâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore heâ€™d spend eternity protecting the humans heâ€™d once considered prey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one beliefâ€”Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meeting the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A gun in the hand is worth two in the holsterâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature whoâ€™s assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows heâ€™s not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races theyâ€™ve sworn to protect.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8784'),
(7884, 'Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45', 'Max Hastings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition . . . He is equally adept at analyzing the broad sweep of strategy and creating thrilling set pieces that put the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane or the conning tower of a submarine."\n <br />\n --Evan Thomas, _The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Compelling . . . To the broad sweep of military events Mr. Hastings adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer his own keen analysis along the way."\n <br />\n --Peter R. Kann,\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The great merit of Max Hastings''s many books on war is his skill at bringing the numbers, as it were, down to earth. Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one''s way up a cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo."\n <br />\n --Ian Buruma, _New York Review of Books\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hastings has another winner . . . This book is first-rate popular history, stiffened with a strongly stated point of view . . . A close-up and personal look at war as it affected real people, and how it felt to them at the time."--Harry Levins,\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched . . . Demands to be read. A book of stunning disclosures."--Tom Mackin,\n <em>\n  Sunday Star-Ledger\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] masterful interpretive narrative . . . Hastings is both comprehensive and finely acute."\n <br />\n --_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard."\n <br />\n --Andrew Roberts,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Telegraph\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A triumph . . . The key to the book''s success lies not in its accessibility, nor in its vivid portraits of the key figures in the drama--although it has both--but in something else entirely: the author''s supremely confident ambition."\n <br />\n --Laurence Rees, _The Sunday Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Extraordinary . . . Anyone who believes that we''re all living through a uniquely troubled time should read this . . . book."\n <br />\n --Georgie Rose, _The Sunday Herald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century."\n <br />\n --_The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Highly readable . . . An admirably balanced re-examination of the last phases of a conflict that it is not fashionable to remember."\n <br />\n --Dan van der Vat, _The Guardian\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Engrossing . . . Its originality lies in the meticulousness of the author''s research and the amazing witnesses he has found."\n <br />\n --Murray Sayle, _The Evening Standard\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hastings is . . . a master of the sort of detail that illuminates the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes him such a readable historian."--_Mail on Sunday\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hailed in Britain as â€œSpectacular . . . Searingly powerfulâ€ (Andrew Roberts,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Telegraph\n </em>\n ), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  Armageddon\n </em>\n , Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japanâ€™s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing dramaâ€”that ended in Japanâ€™s utter devastationâ€”was acted out across the vast stage of Asia, with massive clashes of naval and air forces, fighting through jungles, and barbarities by an apparently incomprehensible foe. In recounting the saga of this time and place, Max Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the theaterâ€™s key figuresâ€”MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailorsâ€”American, British, Russian, Chinese, and Japaneseâ€”caught in some of the warâ€™s bloodiest campaigns.\n</p>\n<p>\n With unprecedented insight, Hastings discusses Japanâ€™s war against China, now all but forgotten in the West, MacArthurâ€™s follies in the Philippines, the Marines at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria. He analyzes the decision-making process that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ€”which, he convincingly argues, ultimately saved lives. Finally, he delves into the Japanese wartime mind-set, which caused an otherwise civilized society to carry out atrocities that haunt the nation to this day.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Retribution\n </em>\n is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8238'),
(7885, 'The Return of Nathan Brazil', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Dreel was a hive-mind, composed of trillions upon trillions of virus-sized units, which infected intelligent beings like a disease and took over the mind of an occupied being, utterly. It had occupied planets throughout the galaxy, making their entire population its mind-slaves, and was on its way to conquering the entire galaxy-until a cop on the frontier planet of Parkatin discovered the truth. Those whose minds were still free fought back, using a weapon so powerful that it wrought havoc with the control of the Well World, the ancient planet-sized supercomputer that a vanished super-race called the Markovians built to recreate the entire universe, and maintain it in its present form. If the Well World''s control of time and space could not be restored, the universe could vanish like a blown-out candle flame. Only a Markovian could go to the Well World and repair the damage, but only one Markovian was still known to survive. He had last been seen in human form, going by the name of Nathan Brazil. No one knew where he was now, what name he was using, or even if he still appeared human. Finding him, somewhere in the immensity of the galaxy, seemed an impossible task. So the task fell to someone who had done the impossible over and over: Mavra Chang, one of the few beings ever to escape from the Well World. And on that occasion, she had brought back with her a computer named Obie, who just might be the second most powerful computer in the universe, after the Well World itself. With those two on his trail, Nathan Brazil could run-but could he hide?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5625'),
(7886, 'The Return of Rafe Mackade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestselling Author** The MacKade brothers - the embodiment of tall, dark, and dangerous - are back by popular demand. The irresistible brothers are once again stirring the hearts of every female that crosses their path. The bad boy of the bunch has returned home after ten years, appealing as ever. Not even lovely Regan Jones, the town''s reserved antiques dealer, is immune to Rafe MacKade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2631'),
(7887, 'The Return Of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9412'),
(7888, 'The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1968'),
(7889, 'The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- now in the foul hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom. EDITORIAL REVIEW: This special 50th anniversary hardback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien''s classic masterpiece includes the complete revised and reset text, two-fold out maps printed in red and black and, unique to this edition, a full-colour fold-out reproduction of Tolkien''s own facsimile pages from the Book of Mazarbul that the Fellowship discover in Moria. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Over 100 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors'' editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. This one-volume hardback edition contains the complete text, fully corrected and reset, and features for the very first time the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, illustrations done by Tolkien and intended for inclusion in the famous ''Bridge of Khazad-dum'' chapter. Also appearing are previously unpublished family trees and two, full-size fold-out maps. Sympathetically packaged to reflect the classic look of the original, this revised edition of the bestselling hardback will prove irresistible to collectors and new fans alike. SUMMARY: Celebrating the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien, this centenary edition of the classic volume is illustrated with fifty specially commissioned paintings by an artist whose vision matches Tolkien''s own. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron''s power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest --- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. SUMMARY: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien''s peerless fantasy has accumulatedworldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, completewith its own geography, history, languages, and legends. Andno one has created characters as endearing as Tolkien''s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings continues toseize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volumepaperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it withhis own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring wastaken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, stillit remained lost to him . . . SUMMARY: The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- now in the foul hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom. SUMMARY: As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- now in the foul hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1971'),
(7890, 'Return of the Native', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you are either learning Spanish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Spanish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Return of the Native. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Spanish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Spanish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader''s exposure to the subtleties of both languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10684'),
(7891, 'Return of the primitive: the anti-industrial revolution', 'Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. Editor Peter Schwartz, in this new, expanded version of The New Left, has reorganized Rand''s essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(7892, 'Return to Kaldak', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1932'),
(7893, 'Return to Sender', 'Julia Alvarez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Tyler''s father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isnâ€™t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5420'),
(7894, 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood', 'David Benedictus; Mark Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eighty years ago, at the end of The House at Pooh Corner, Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; now they are back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties, in this companion volume that truly captures the style of the A. A. Milne classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(7895, 'Return to the Whorl', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Gene Wolfe''''s "Return to the Whorl" is the third volume, after"On Blue''s Waters" and "In Green''s Jungles", of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn''s identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. *Return to the Whorl* brings Wolfe''s major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8906'),
(7896, 'Reunion', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before he commanded the Starship Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard was the captain of the deep space exploration vessel, the "U.S.S. Stargazer," on an incredible twenty-two year voyage. Now Picard is reunited with his old crew for the first time in over a decade, on a mission to see his former first officer installed as ruler of the Daa''Vit Empire. The reunion turns deadly when a ruthless assassin begins eliminating the "U.S.S. Stargazer" crew one by one. Picard''s present and former shipmates must join forces to solve the mystery of the Captain''s past, before the killer strikes again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4745'),
(7897, 'Reunion in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 14th installment of Robb''s (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, celebrate their first anniversary--which will be one they, nor fans of this series, never forget!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2340'),
(7898, 'Reunited...With Child', 'Katherine Garbera', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It had been more than two years since Cam Stern''s memorable affair with Becca Tuntenstall. And upon seeing her again, the club owner realized the heat still burned between them. He had to pursue her. This time, he would get to know her better...perhaps even take things beyond the bedroom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Becca had been keeping a secretâ€”they had a son. Suddenly Cam''s plan was no longer clear. He wanted to be part of his child''s life. But was he prepared to forge a relationship with the woman who had deceived him?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9174'),
(7899, 'Revenge of the Wannabes', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: pr`es Thanksgiving. Weeks before Christmas. Alicia and Olivia are on their way to Manhattan so the Teen People editors can do a story on them about winning the Octavian Country Day uniform design contest. When Massie finally processes that the girls who hijacked her victory are also modeling for Teen People, she is livid. It should have been her. ''Ehmagod, what will everyone think when they find out it wasn''t me who was asked to model? I will be SO over.'' Massie decides it''s time to get revenge. This snake can not lay idle in the weeds for one more second. Kristen and Dylan throw out terrible ''revenge'' suggestions and Massie vetoes them all. She will think of something! But first she has to go home and exfoliate. The social minefields of Westchester County''s most privileged middle school girls drive the page-turning action of this addictive series, set in New York City''s most elite suburban county. The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2213'),
(7900, 'The Reversal', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Connelly may be our most versatile crime writer. His Harry Bosch series has taken the hard-boiled cop novel to a new level of complexity, both in its portrayal of the heroâ€™s inner life and in Connellyâ€™s ability to intertwine landscape and meaning. His Mickey Haller novels, on the other hand, starring the maverick lawyer who uses his Lincoln Town Car as an office, are testaments to the sublime architecture of plot. With the crime novel now commonly rubbing elbows with literary fiction, it sometimes seems that pure story has become a forgotten stepchild. In his Haller novels, Connelly reminds us how satisfying it can be to follow the path of a well-constructed plot. So it is here, in the third Haller novel, which finds the antiestablishment attorney accepting an unlikely offer: a one-time gig as a prosecutor, retrying a case in which a killerâ€™s 24-year-old conviction has been overturned on the basis of DNA. Taking second chair will be Hallerâ€™s ex-wife, the formidable Maggie, with Harry Bosch (identified in The Brass Verdict, 2008, as Hallerâ€™s half brother) serving as special investigator. The table is set for a straightforward legal thriller, albeit one starring three superbly multidimensional characters. And, yet, Connelly bobs and weaves around all our expectations. There is suspense, of course, and there are plenty of surprises, both in the courtroom and outside of it, but this is a plot that wonâ€™t be pigeonholed. Reading this book is like watching a master craftsman, slowly and carefully, brick by brick, build something that holds together exquisitely, form and function in perfect alignment. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11226'),
(7901, 'The Reverse Of The Medal', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Returning from his duties protecting whalers off South America, Jack Aubrey is persuaded to make investments in the city. It is the first step into the half-worlds of the London criminal underworld and of government espionage. EDITORIAL REVIEW: "An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"Ã¢Â€Â”Irish Times Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionageÃ¢Â€Â”the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey''s humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O''Brian''s readers have come to expect. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4294'),
(7902, 'Revision &amp; Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel', 'James Scott Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won''t be able to forget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Write Great Fiction: Revision &amp; Self-Editing, James Scott Bell draws on his experience as a novelist and instructor to provide specific revision tips geared toward the first read-through, as well as targeted self-editing instruction focusing on the individual elements of a novel like plot, structure, characters, theme, voice, style, setting, and endings. You''ll learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Write a cleaner first draft right out of the gate using Bell''s plotting principles\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get the most out of revision and self-editing techniques by honing your skills with detailed exercises\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Systematically revise a completed draft using the ultimate revision checklist that talks you through the core story elements\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Whether you''re in the process of writing a novel, have a finished draft you don''t know what to do with, or have a rejected manuscript you don''t know how to fix, Revision &amp; Self-Editing gives you the guidance you need to write and revise like a pro.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Scott Bell is the author of the Write Great Fiction: Plot &amp; Structure and a contributing editor to Writer?s Digest magazine. He is also the author of more than fifteen novels currently teaches fiction writing courses at Pepperdine University and is a regular speaker at writers conferences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.jamesscottbell.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5959'),
(7903, 'Revolting rhymes', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An off-beat retelling of six popular fairy tales features zany twists by the author of *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, *and includes ""Cinderella,"" ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,"" and ""The Three Little Pigs."" Reprint. *C. PW. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3659'),
(7904, 'Revolution', 'Jennifer Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Revolution\n </em>\n , Jennifer Donnelly''s remarkable new novel, weaves together the lives of Andi Alpers, a depressed modern-day teenager, and Alexandrine Paradis, a brave young woman caught up in the French Revolution. While in Paris with her estranged father, a Nobel geneticist hired to match the DNA of a heart said to belong to the last dauphin of France, Andi discovers a diary hidden within a guitar case--and so begins the story of Alexandrine, who herself had close ties to the dauphin. Redemption and the will to change are powerful themes of the novel, and music is ever present--Andi and Alex have a passion for the guitar, and the playlist running through\n <em>\n  Revolution\n </em>\n is a who''s who of classic and contemporary influences. Danger, intrigue, music, and impeccably researched history fill the pages of\n <em>\n  Revolution\n </em>\n , as both young women learn that, "it is love, not death, that undoes us."--_Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donnelly (A Northern Light) melds contemporary teen drama with well-researched historical fiction and a dollop of time travel for a hefty read that mostly succeeds. Andi Alpers is popping antidepressants and flunking out of her Brooklyn prep school, grieving over her younger brother''s death. She finds solace only when playing guitar. When the school notifies her mostly absent scientist father that she''s flirting with expulsion, he takes Andi to Paris for Christmas break, where he''s testing DNA to see if a preserved heart really belonged to the doomed son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Andi is ordered to work on her senior thesis about a (fictional) French composer. Bunking at the home of a renowned historian, Andi finds a diary that relates the last days of Alexandrine, companion to (you guessed it) the doomed prince. The story then alternates between Andi''s suicidal urges and Alexandrine''s efforts to save the prince. Donnelly''s story goes on too long, but packs in worthy stuff. Musicians, especially, will appreciate the thread about the debt rock owes to the classics. Ages 14â€“up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8237'),
(7905, 'The Revolution', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Available in paperback for the first time.This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn''t want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . . In THE REVOLUTION,**Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the *real *reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our precious civil liberties. In this book, Ron Paul provides answers to questions that few even dare to ask. Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious. Candidates across America are already running as "Ron Paul Republicans." "Dr. Paul cured my apathy," says a popular campaign sign. THE REVOLUTION may cure yours as well.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3483'),
(7906, 'Revolutionary Road', 'Richard Yates', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." â€”William Styron\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10709'),
(7907, 'Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology', 'James Patrick Kelly &amp; John Kessel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arranged loosely in order of publication, the 16 diverse selections in this decade-spanning anthology add up to a plausible snapshot of cyberpunk''s short-form evolution. Kelly and Kessel (_Feeling Very Strange_) clearly describe cyberpunk counterculture in a cogent introduction, yet draw only one story from a nongenre source (Greg Egan''s Yeyuka) and greatly undervalue the subgenre''s ability, at its most popular, to reach beyond SF''s core audience. While some entries (Charles Stross''s Lobsters; Cory Doctorow''s When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth) focus strongly on techno-geek culture, others apply high-tech ideas in more down-to-earth contexts (Mary Rosenblum''s Search Engine; Paolo Bacigalupi''s The Calorie Man). The critical matter is too scant for academic readers and too intrusive for genre fans; discussion of specific stories is extremely sparse, and excerpts from correspondence between Kessel and Bruce Sterling distract rather than enlighten. Readers seeking a thorough critical study should look elsewhere, but those looking for well-told stories will be satisfied.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cyberpunk is dead. Long live post-cyberpunk!"Â  â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[The] strange, cinematically atmospheric story, ''Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City,'' fits perfectly in\n <em>\n  Rewired\n </em>\n ."Â  â€”William Gibson, author,\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A short story collection filled with very good stories by very good science fiction writers offering very engaging ideas."Â  â€”PopMatters\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sixteen inspiring, mind-altering stories . . . and every story in the bunch is a knockout."Â  â€”BoingBoing.net\n</p>\n<p>\n "An excellent collection and a reminder that the short story is often the best venue for new ideas in the field."Â  â€”SF Crowsnest.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cyberpunk has grown past its rebel stage and is now not only capable of dazzling us with surfaces but also of speaking of the human condition."Â Â  â€”_Tangent_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mind-altering . . . every story in the bunch is a knockout."Â  â€”Monstrous.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8403'),
(7908, 'Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens: The Secrets About Money--That You Don&#39;t Learn in School!', 'Robert T. Kiyosaki; Sharon L. Lechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the blockbuster Rich Dad Poor Dad series reveal their groundbreaking financial advice to teens. This special just-for-teens edition based on Rich Dad Poor Dad builds a foundation of self-confidence from which readers can realize their dreams of financial security in an increasingly challenging and unreliable job market. Teen-friendly advice, examples, sidebars, and straight talk will supplement all of Rich Dad''s core advice: Work to learn, not to earn. Don''t say ''I can''t afford it''-instead, say ''How can I afford it?'' And, don''t work for money-make money work for you! No matter how confident or ''good in school'' readers consider themselves to be, RICH DAD POOR DAD FOR TEENS makes financial intelligence available to all young people with its streamlined structure, clean design, and accessible voice. Here''s a book that teaches teens what they don''t learn in school-and what many of their parents have yet to learn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3909'),
(7909, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', 'Kiyosaki, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10117'),
(7910, 'Rich in Russia', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncularreminiscent of his neglected Jewish past.In these two short stories, Updikes brilliant observational acuity is matched by a light, comic touch. The writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything from his meals to his bugged hotel room is already paid for, and then to Rumania.This book includes Rich In Russia, Foreword, Bech in Rumania, Appendix A and Appendix B.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8357'),
(7911, 'Richter 10', 'Arthur C. Clarke; Mike McQuay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8984');
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(7912, 'The Riddle-Master of Hed: Fantasy', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9707'),
(7913, 'Riders', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the queen of the British bestseller lists comes the classic hit every Englishwoman remembers with a sigh -- Riders, the steamy, scandalous tale of sexual and equestrian competition within the heroic world of international show jumping.Welcome to a world of cutthroat competition populated by fearless athletes, wealthy sponsors, and beautiful starlets and set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world. Within this arena we meet the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, who is driven by his hatred of Rupert Campbell-Black, the handsome and supremely confident star of the show ring. They steal each other''s horses and love each other''s women as they push themselves and their mounts to impossible extremes, until their feud erupts, with devastating consequences, at the Los Angeles Olympics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1565'),
(7914, 'Riders of the Purple Sage (Retro Reads)', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There had long been a feud between the gentiles and the Mormons in Utah, a feud that Jane Withersteen, daughter of a prominent Mormon leader, chooses to ignore. When Elder Tull discovers that the woman he meant to make one of his wives has offered hospitality to an outsider, he vows vengeance. But Tull underestimates Janeâ€™s courage and the determination of the riders of the beautifulâ€”and dangerousâ€”plains of the old west.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3713'),
(7915, 'Rides a Dread Legion', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The last remnants of an ancient advanced race, the Clan of the Seven Stars, are returning at long last to their lost homeworld, Midkemiaâ€”not as friends, but as would-be conquerors. Led by the conjurer Laromendis, they are fleeing the relentless demon hordes that are sweeping through their galaxy and destroying the elves'' vast empire planet by planet. Only by escaping to Midkemia and brutally overtaking the war-weary world can the last remnants of a mighty civilization hope to survive . . . if the Dread Legion does not pursue them through the rift. The magician Pug, Midkemia''s brave and constant defender, is all too familiar with the Demon King Maarg and his minions and their foul capacity for savagery and horror, and he recognizes the even graver threat that is following on the heels of the elven invasion. The onslaught to come will dwarf every dire catastrophe his imperiled world has previously withstood, and there is no magical champion in all of Midkemia powerful enough to prevent it. Only one path remains for Pug and Midkemia''s clandestine protectors, the Conclave of Shadows: forging an alliance of formidable magical talents, from the demon-dealing warlock Amirantha, brother of Pug''s hated foe, and the demon-taming cleric Sandreena, to the elven Queen Miranda, to the warrior Tomas. However, uniting enemies and bitter, vengeful former lovers will be no easy task, and even together they may ultimately be unable to turn the death tide. But a failure to do so will most certainly ensure Midkemia''s doom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3646'),
(7916, 'Riding Rockets', 'Mike Mullane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are -- human.Mullane''s tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often comical, and always entertaining. He vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experience, from telling a female technician which urine-collection condom size is a fit to hearing "Taps" played over a friend''s grave. He is also brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster -- killing four members of his group. A hilarious, heartfelt story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, Riding Rockets will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4512'),
(7917, 'Riding the Bullet', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11168'),
(7918, 'Riding the Rap', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to __, Harry Arno has retired from bookmaking but is still closing out some of his outstanding debts. But then his collection agent, an ex-con by the name of Bobby Deo, goes to pick up $1,800 from Chip Ganz and ends up getting hired for a hostage-taking operation (like kidnapping "in a way," Chip tells him, "only different. A lot different.") When Harry''s taken by his own man, it''s up to United States Marshal Raylan Givens to track him down, in the same methodically relentless fashion he tracked Harry that time he ran off to Italy. Throw in a henchman named Louis Lewis with plans of his own and an attractive young psychic named Reverend Dawn, and you''ve got yet another crime story that''ll keep you on the edge of your seat--occasionally chuckling to yourself--straight through to the finish. (And bonus points to loyal Leonard fans who can spot the crossover elements from\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .)\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simple scams usually turn complex in Leonard land, where the author can doubtless choreograph his scammers'' moves in his sleep by now; indeed, much of Rap appears to be riding on automatic pilot. Nevertheless, even middling Leonard is as good as anyone else gets on a good day. This darkly witty page-turner returns to the vexed, triangular relationship of Florida marshal Raylan Givens, his girlfriend, Joyce, and her ex-lover, the aging bookie Harry Arno (all seen previously in Pronto). When Harry disappears while chasing down a tardy debtor named Chip Ganz, Joyce admonishes Raylan to investigate. It turns out Chip is a middle-aged pothead living in his mother''s seedy beach mansion, whose stoned analysis of televised hostage situations has fueled a baroque kidnapping scheme, into which Harry has stumbled. Like many a Leonard bad guy, Ganz only talks a good game. It falls upon an ex-con and his preening psychotic cohort to execute the caper, with help from an alluring psychic. Raylan''s probe takes him into a shadowy New Age subculture of Tarot readings and Hugger conventions, which Leonard limns with characteristic grit and black humor. Ultimately, however, the story lacks the high voltage of Leonard''s best work.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9195'),
(7919, 'Riding the storm', 'Julie Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town of Turning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay Emergency Services rush to the townÅ¼s aid. Their lives will never be the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2715'),
(7920, 'Rifles', 'Mark Urban', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.'' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail ''A brilliant warts-and-all depiction of Wellington''s famous riflemen.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington''s army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6700'),
(7921, 'Right as Rain: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n George Pelecanos''s Washington, D.C., is a far cry from the upwardly mobile, tourist-attraction-speckled enclave of Margaret Truman (_Murder at the National Cathedral_,\n <em>\n  Murder in Georgetown\n </em>\n ). Pelecanos''s capital is a haunting terrain of drugs and death, a no man''s land of posturing dealers and skeletal warehouses that shelter their buyers:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  A rat scurried into a dim side room, and a withered black face receded into the darkness. The face belonged to a junkie named Tonio Morris. He was one of the many bottom-of-the-food-chain junkies, near death and too weak to cut out a space of their own on the second floor; later, when the packets were delivered to those with cash, they''d trade anything they had, anything they''d stolen that day, or any orifice on their bodies for some rock or powder.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n When PI Derek Strange is hired by Chris Wilson''s mother to find out why her son, a black cop, was killed by a white cop, Terry Quinn, on a dark night in that no man''s land, Strange figures that the answer is painfully clear: a typical case of mistaken identity, fueled by the assumptions and preconceptions of Quinn''s innate racism. But what Strange finds is a tentative kinship with Quinn, who is desperate to proclaim himself "color-blind." Kicked off the force and convinced that there''s more to his own story, Quinn asks to join Strange in his investigation. As the two pry into the past, drifting through the neighborhoods both men have known all their lives, they find themselves enmeshed in a tangle of cold-blooded competition and heated personal enmity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos generally has a light touch with the treacherous quagmire of -isms, veering only occasionally into sententious meanderings about the consequences of an economically and racially divided society. His wry humor, particularly in his descriptions of Earl and Ray, the heroin middlemen who bring the concept of white trash to a depressingly low level, leavens the novel''s noir bleakness. And Strange himself is a compelling character: a middle-aged black man who has seen more of life''s callousness than he cares to admit, and whose jitteriness about personal commitment speaks volumes about his own expectations for happiness. A strong character and a good read--Pelecanos fans can settle in and look forward to Strange''s next appearance.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nearly a decade after Pelecanos (Shame the Devil; Nick''s Trip) introduced Nick Stefanos to the private eye scene, the hard-boiled specialist has come up with a new urban gumshoe who''s just as tantalizing to watch in action. Derek Strange, a black ex-cop in his mid-50s, walks the same Washington, D.C., streets as Stefanos, yet does so with far more experience under his belt. In his debut, Strange is hired to answer nagging questions about the death of black police officer Chris Wilson, who was killed by another cop in a shootout. Police investigators cleared Terry Quinn, the white cop who killed Wilson, but Strange soon discovers several hidden issues that may put a different spin on the case. Quinn confirms that he shot Wilson in self-defense, but admits he remains disturbed by the actions of the other people present at the scene of the conflict. Strange enlists his aid in the investigation and the case takes both men deep into the worlds of drug dealing, police corruption and racism. The plot rolls along in a workmanlike, almost predictable fashion. Yet as is usually the case with Pelecanos, it''s the characters who give the story the gritty, dark twists that have become the author''s trademark. The cast is wonderfully varied, yet Pelecanos also manages to capture the essence of most of his characters with just a few descriptive licks. It''s Strange, however, who steals the show. He''s a mature man with a highly defined sense of who he is--an aging private eye who knows that his best weapons these days are his wits and wisdom. (Feb. 6)Forecast: A new Pelecanos series hero is big news in the noir world. British, Italian, French and Japanese rights have already been sold, and a five-city author tour will start sales rolling in the U.S.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7968'),
(7922, 'The Right Hand of Sleep', 'John Wray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ghost hovering over this assured and astonishingly mature first novel is that of Joseph Roth, the great interwar Austrian novelist. Perhaps this reflects Wray''s own double origin, as the son of an Austrian father and an American mother. Oskar Voxlauer, Wray''s Austrian protagonist, was a teenage deserter from the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI. As the novel begins, he is returning to his native village, Niessen bei Villach, in 1938, after a 19-year stay in the Ukraine. His Russian lover''s death has released him, and he is coming back in the middle of Hitler''s Anschluss to see his lonely mother. To escape the tensions in Niessen, Oskar goes to work as a gamekeeper on a stretch of forest his Jewish tavernkeeper friend Ryslavy owns outside town. There he meets the old gamekeeper''s daughter, Else Bauer, who lives under a vague cloud, having borne a daughter out of wedlock. The two are briefly happy together, but then Else''s cousin, Kurt, returns to Austria from exile in Germany, as the head of the Nazis in Niessen. Kurt is also, Oskar quickly discovers, more to Else than a cousin. Oskar publicly opposes the Nazis; Kurt ambiguously patronizes him. Soon the triangle between Else, Oskar and Kurt becomes fraught with menace. The gloom of the dark days of late ''30s Austria is heightened by Oskar''s recollections of personal trauma: his wartime experiences; the suicide of his father, a famous opera composer; and the brutal collectivization of the Ukrainian countryside. Wray''s first novel displays psychological acuity, a mastery of dialogue and an unfailing historical empathy, and should garner deserved raves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A disillusioned Austrian soldier returns home from World War I after 20 years only to face a new moral and social dilemma. Oskar Voxlauer, son of a well-regarded family in his town, deserts his unit soon after arriving at the Italian front in 1917. He makes his way to the Ukraine in the days following the Russian Revolution, taking up with Anna, a Ukrainian widow. After her death, he returns home, finding work as a gamekeeper. History, in the form of the German annexation of Austria in 1938, soon intrudes on his solitude, however. Complicating matters, he becomes involved with Else, whose cousin is the local Nazi commander. The delicate d tente among the threesome disintegrates after hooligans vandalize a bar owned by Paul, a Jewish friend of Oskar, forcing him, in his own way, to take a stand. More a character study than a moral tale, this is a quietly memorable first novel. For most libraries.DLawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4473'),
(7923, 'The Right Stuff', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4068'),
(7924, 'Rights of Man', 'Thomas Paine; Mark Philp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was vilified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. This new edition contains the complete texts of both Rights of Man and Common Sense, as well as six other powerfully political writings--American Crisis I, American Crisis XIII, Agrarian Justice, Letter to Jefferson, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, and Dissertation on the First Principles of Government--all of which illustrate why Paine''s ideas still resonate in the modern welfare states of today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3663'),
(7925, 'Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages', 'Diane Duane &amp; Peter Morwood &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  THE HISTORIC SAGA BEGINS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Born in the twilight years of Vulcan''s violent and passionate past, those who declared themselves\n <em>\n  Rihannsu\n </em>\n chose to reign free in the unknown reaches of space rather than to serve under the new tyranny of logic. Having severed themselves from their homeworld, they survived the perilous voyage across the stars to wash ashore on a distant planet, there to begin the civilization that would one day flower into the Romulan Star Empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, after millennia of wars and conquests, that empire is decaying from within, surrendering its noble heritage to reckless ambition, abandoning honor for kidnapping and murder. The corruption is so great that the Rihannsu''s finest military officer -- Commander Ael t''Rllaillieu of the warbird\n <em>\n  Bloodwing\n </em>\n -- believes she can save her people only by joining forces with her greatest enemy: Captain James T. Kirk of the\n <em>\n  Starship Enterprise\n </em>\n â„¢.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on the Romulan homeworld, a Federation deep-cover agent has been posing as a household servant named Arrhae i-Khellian -- but her operation takes a strange turn when a captured Starfleet officer is brought to her home . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n The lives of Ael, Arrhae, and the crew of the\n <em>\n  Enterprise\n </em>\n come together in these astonishing adventures -- originally published in four volumes:\n <em>\n  My Enemy, My Ally; The Romulan Way; Swordhunt\n </em>\n ; and\n <em>\n  Honor Blade\n </em>\n -- that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the Romulans.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diane Duane is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, amongst them the fan-favourite Star Trek titles DARK MIRROR and the 5-volume Rihannsu series of novels exploring the world of the Romulans (the first four volumes of which are now available as the omnibus THE BLOODWING VOYAGES 1416525777) released together with the fifth volume (THE EMPTY CHAIR 1416508910) in January 2007.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5012'),
(7926, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge', 'Coleridge, Samuel Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS TITLE IS AN OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT BOOK. THE QUALITY OF THE CONVERTED EBOOK WILL VARY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9643'),
(7927, 'Ring', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ring tells the story of the end of the universe and the saving of mankind from its destruction. Two parallel plots are followed throughout the novel: that of Lieserl, an AI exploring the interior of the sun for millions of years, and that of the Great Northern, a generation ship of humans sent on a five-million-year journey (though only a thousand years will elapse onboard, due to relativistic time dilation effects).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4225'),
(7928, 'The Ring of Earth', 'Chris Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home...But the Shogun''s samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the mountains, Jack has no means of escape. The only question is who will kill him first - the ninja or samurai?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chris Bradford has trained in karate, kickboxing and samurai swordsmanship. He earned his black belt in Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter and has performed for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. You can learn more about Chris Bradford and his books at www.youngsamurai.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8350'),
(7929, 'The Ring of Water', 'Chris Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AUGUST 1613Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened.Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings his precious swords, his friend Akiko''s black pearl and, most important of all, his father''s prize possession.Relying on his samurai and ninja training, Jack realizes The Ring of Water is the key to his survival.But with only a washed up ronin a masterless samurai for help, what will Jack manage to find? What will he lose? And what will he have to sacrifice?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8352'),
(7930, 'Ringmaster&#39;s Secret', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10940'),
(7931, 'Ringworld', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2856'),
(7932, 'The Ringworld engineers', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2858'),
(7933, 'The Ringworld Throne', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne? "Niven''s work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe." --San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2857'),
(7934, 'Ringworld&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous in order to save Ringworld''s population, and the stability of Ringworld itself. Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld''s Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven''s Ringworld. (20040916)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2859'),
(7935, 'Riotous Assembly', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Miss Hazelstone Of Jacaranda Park Kills Her Zulu Cook In A Sensational Crime Passionel, The Gallant Members Of The South African Police Force Are Soon On The Scene: Kommandant Van Heerden, Whose Secret Longing For The Heart Of An English Gentleman Leads To The Most Memorable Transplant Operation Yet Recorded; Luitenant Verkramp Of The Security Branch, Ever Active In The Pursuit Of Communist Cells; Konstabel Els, With His Propensity For Shooting First And Not Thinking Later - And Also For Forcing Himself Upon African Women In A Manner Legally Reserved For Male Members Of Their Own Race. In The Course Of The Strange Events Which Follow, We Encounter Some Very Esoteric Perversions When The Kommandant Is Held Captive In Miss Hazelstone''S Remarkable Rubber Room; And Some Even More Amazing Perversions Of Justice When Miss Hazelstone''S Brother, The Bishop Of Barotseland, Is Sentenced To Be Hanged On The Ancient Gallows In The Local Prison. Not A ''Political'' Novel In Any Previously Imagined Sense, Riotous Assembly Provides A Completely Fresh Approach To The South African Scene - An Approach At Once Startling In Its Deadpan Savagery And Outrageously Funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3893'),
(7936, 'The Rip-Off', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is Manuela Aloe a gift from heaven or the girlfriend from hell? From the moment Britt Rainstar starts seeing the curvaceous heiress, he finds himself menaced by vicious dogs, stalked by pistol-packing skeletons, and attacked by an unseen assailant in a hospital lobby. Couldn''t Manny just send flowers?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2190'),
(7937, 'The Rise and Fall of a Dragonking', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The much-feared sorcerer-king of Urik, Hamanu joins a plot to force a transmutation that will allow him to avoid his own corruption but that will destroy all of Urik in the process. Original. 65,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2262'),
(7938, 'The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt', 'Toby A. H. Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Cambridge University Egyptologist Wilkinson (Lives of the Ancient Egyptians) offers a revisionist view of the ugly life hidden by the splendors and dazzling treasures of pharaonic Egypt. He shows in rich detail that it was a brutal society where life was cheap, royal power absolute and established through fear and coercion. Wilkinson finds unequivocal evidence in royal tombs like that of First Dynasty king Djer (c. 2900 B.C.E.), surrounded by 318 buried retainers, probably victims of human sacrifice. Even if construction workers for Khufu''s Great Pyramid at Giza ("the ultimate projection of absolute power") were reasonably fed and housed, they were virtual, if not literal, slaves, drafted to perform the perilous work. Later the fanatical, heretic king Akhenaten built a new model city with grand temples where mountains of food were offered to a sun god while his people were starving and severely overworked. The Ptolemies'' punitive economic policies unleashed a peasants'' revolt that fatally weakened their empire. This is a penetrating and authoritative overview of a violent ancient civilization often revered by contemporary scholars and enthusiasts. 24 pages of color photos; 44 b&amp;w photos; 12 maps. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Egyptologists constitute a relatively small subspecialty among professional historians. Perhaps that is why many express an almost fanatical devotion to and admiration for the culture of ancient Egypt. Wilkinson, an award-winning Egyptologist who teaches at Oxford, provides a fine single-volume history of ancient Egypt that covers more than 3,000 years, from prehistory to the Roman conquest. He uses a conventional chronological approach that inevitably uses archaeological sources to provide examples. Like his colleagues, Wilkinson expresses admiration for the continuity, stability, and relative harmony of pharaonic Egypt. Yet he is strikingly at odds with other Egyptologists in his efforts to present the darker side of Egyptian life. Egyptian rulers created and maintained the first true nation-state. As Wilkinson shows, however, the price of this stability was regimes based on fear, coercion, and, when deemed necessary, violent military suppression. This superbly written survey is ideal for general readers and likely to engender controversy among specialists. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6292'),
(7939, 'Rise of a Merchant Prince', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The second book in Raymond Feist''s super-selling quartet: The Serpentwar Saga. Triumphant but overconfident after his defeat of the reptilian Sauur army, Roo must resist a beguiling seductress who threatens to undo him and all of Midkemia. Roo Avery, recently returned from a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, is now free to choose his own destiny and his ultimate ambition is to become one of the richest and most powerful merchants in Midkemia. But nothing can prepare him for the dangers of the new life he has chosen, where the repayment of a debt can be as deadly as a knife in the shadows. Even those closest to him are suspect and as Roo struggles to build his financial empire, betrayal is always close at hand. But while Roo works towards achieving his goal, memories of the invasion haunt him still. For the war with the Emerald Queen is far from over and the inevitable confrontation will pose the biggest threat yet to his new found wealth and power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3627'),
(7940, 'Rise of Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our timeThe time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10526'),
(7941, 'The Rise of Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This conclusion of the Hyperion saga (\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest episode (following last year''s\n <em>\n  Endymion\n </em>\n ) of Simmons'' Foundation-like saga of the far future tells of the struggle for dominance between humanity and its siblings, one of which is a highly evolved race with artificial intelligence and another of which has experimented upon its own DNA until it is no longer quite human. What might be called classical humankind is under the rule of a newly established, dominant Catholic Church, which undertakes to exterminate one of its rivals, the Ousters, and also seeks the girl Aenea, part-human and part-machine and a messiah for whom the adventurer Endymion is guardian. But Endymion and Aenea part as their destinies begin to fulfill themselves, and before they meet again, Endymion leaps through time portals from world to world. These worlds, including a gas giant with jellyfishlike lifeforms in its upper atmosphere and an ice kingdom carved among mountain peaks, are brilliantly realized. Thus Simmons pushes his vast entertainment along unfalteringly.\n <em>\n  John Mort\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7456'),
(7942, 'The Rise of the Iron Moon', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for THE RISE OF THE IRON MOON: ''All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'' Daily Mail ''Hunt''s imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers. This is Philip Pullman with a dose of benzedrine. Hold on to your hat and let yourself get carried away.'' Tom Holt, SFX Praise for Stephen Hunt: ''A ripping yarn ! the story pounds along ! constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked ! the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun'' SFX ''An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels'' Lisa Tuttle, The Times ''The characters are convincing and colourful, but the real achievement is the setting, a hellish take on Victorian London ! the depth and complexity of Hunt''s vision makes it compulsive reading for all ages'' Guardian ''Wonderfully assured ! Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension'' Time Out ''Studded with invention'' Independent ''Rich and colourful !keeps you engrossed !a confident, audacious novel'' SFX ''Like a magpie, Stephen Hunt has plucked colourful events from history and politics and used them for inspiration ! Hunts tells his full-blooded tale with lip-smacking relish, revealing a vivid, often gruesome imagination ! [it] brims with originality and, from the first, its chase-filled plot never lets up'' Starburst ''To say this book is action packed is almost and understatement ! a wonderful escapist yarn! Definitely a book to take with you on a long flight'' Interzone\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke. Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant after accidentally killing one of her guards. Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from Jackals'' neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, marching across the continent and sweeping all before them. But there''s more to Purity than meets the eye. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4541'),
(7943, 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Praise for the rise of\n  <strong>\n   Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume.?\n  <br />\n  -W. A. Swanberg,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.?\n  <br />\n  -Robert Kirsch,\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence.?\n  <br />\n  -_The Atlantic Monthly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Morris?s book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris?s second volume.?\n  <br />\n  -Kenneth S. Davis,\n  <em>\n   Worcester Sunday Telegram\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Described by the\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n  as "a classic,"\n  <strong>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n  stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of\n  <strong>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n  on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4914'),
(7944, 'Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938', 'Stephen E. Ambrose &amp; Douglas Brinkley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this eighth revised edition of "Rise to Globalism" now in paperback offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present. Ambrose also wrote bestsellers "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8472'),
(7945, 'The Risen Empire', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10948'),
(7946, 'Rising Sun', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2247'),
(7947, 'Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America', 'John M. Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in\n <em>\n  Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America,\n </em>\n some calamities transform much more than the landscape.\n</p>\n<p>\n While tracing the history of the nation''s most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history,\n <em>\n  Rising Tide\n </em>\n reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region''s social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work supplants Pete Daniel''s Deep''n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi Flood (1977) as the standard work on the subject. Recommended for public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Charles C. Hay III, Eastern Kentucky Univ. Libs., Richmond\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6085'),
(7948, 'Rising tides', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the second volume of a trilogy set on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Ethan Quinn works to make the family boatbuilding business a success while struggling with his dark and painful past to find happiness with the woman whom he has always loved. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2643'),
(7949, 'Risk Assessment', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?'' Agnes Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it''s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they''re losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it''s down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they''ll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2060');
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(7950, 'Risky Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although frustrated in his attempt to acquire Steele Corporation, arrogant millionaire Cameron Cody will not be denied the firm''s most attractive asset, Vanessa Steele. So when Cameron learns that Vanessa is house-sitting for her sister in Jamaica, he buys the adjoining property and makes her an offer she can''t refuseâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron is determined to prove to Vanessa that he is the one temptation she cannot resist, but she is equally determined to prove him wrong. What Vanessa doesn''t suspect is that Cameron intends to brand her so deeply with his island passion, that once they''re back in the States, she''ll be the one in hot pursuit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is paradise,\n </em>\n Vanessa thought as she stood on the shore of the white-sand beach that overlooked the deep blue waters of the Caribbean Sea. Cheyenne''s two-story home was located on a secluded cove in Montero Bay, on a private street with one other house.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other than the pool workers, who arrived at nine and left by five, Vanessa was alone, except for the two days a week that the housekeeper showed up.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cheyenne had already left for Italy by the time Vanessa had arrived so her first days were spent unpacking and shopping.\n</p>\n<p>\n This was day three and she had decided just to do nothing. Since weather reports had predicted it would be another scorcher of a late-July day, she stayed inside working crossword puzzles and sipping lemonade while reading a book she had picked up yesterday. Later that day, after the workers had left, she gathered up her large straw hat, her beach bag, which was stuffed with a bottle of wine and a glass, and a huge towel to head down to the beach.\n</p>\n<p>\n When she reached what she considered a good spot, she casually glanced around. This stretch of private beach was shared only by whoever was living in the house next door and so far the place appeared empty. According to Helen, Cheyenne''s housekeeper, the house had changed ownership several times, and rumor had it someone had recently purchased it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Helen had gone on to say that a few years ago, the house had been owned by some gorgeous Italian jet-setting playboy by the name of Chardon Argentina. And if you went along with what everyone believed, a number of seductions had taken place in that house. It was even rumored that many of Hollywood''s leading ladies had been overnight guests.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa shrugged as she spread the huge towel on the sand and sat down. She was glad she didn''t believe everything she heard. Besides, what had happened in that house was not her business. After placing the huge straw hat on her head and situating the brim in such a way as to block what was left of the sun, she glanced toward the ocean, thinking she could definitely get used to this. She''d never had an entire beach to herself. She was glad that Cheyenne had invited her to stay.\n</p>\n<p>\n She, Taylor and Cheyenne had always been close, but it was Vanessa who had decided to stick with the family business instead of pursuing other careers as her sisters had. She had returned home to Charlotte and the Steele Corporation after getting a grad degree from Tennessee State.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor, who was twenty-four, had graduated from Georgetown with a degree in business and a grad degree in finance. After college, she''d moved to New York to work at a major bank as a wealth asset manager and was doing quite well for herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n After obtaining a degree in communications from Boston University, Cheyenne, who was twenty-two, had taken a reporter position at a television station in Philly and in less than a year, her looks, personality and keen intelligence had gotten her a promotion to the position of anchorwoman on the morning news. That job was short-lived as she had suddenly realized she wanted to do something different and had become a model. Modeling meant a lot of traveling and living in some of the most beautiful and exotic places in the world. A year ago, Cheyenne had been doing a photo shoot in Jamaica when she''d stumbled across this particular house, fallen in love with it and purchased it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa leaned back on her arms with her legs stretched out in front of her. She tilted her head back to enjoy the feel of the evening sun on her face, as well as the salty spray from the ocean on her cheeks and lips. She couldn''t help wondering what was happening back in Charlotte. Had Cameron arrived yet? Had he discovered her gone? Was he upset about it? Why did she even care?\n</p>\n<p>\n She was deep into her thoughts when a movement caught her eye, and she turned her head. In the distance, in front of the property next door, she could see a man standing close to shore.With the palm trees partially blocking her view, she couldn''t make out his features, but she could tell he wore only a pair of swimming trunks.And he was overpoweringly male.\n</p>\n<p>\n She sat up as her heart began pumping wildly in her chest, and she wondered what on earth was wrong with her. It wasn''t as though she hadn''t seen good-looking men before. So what was there about this tall, broad-shouldered, long-legged, fine-as-they-come brother whose aura was seeping out to her over stretches of sand? And what was there about him that seemed so oddly familiar?\n</p>\n<p>\n Biting down on her lip, she fought against one particular ultra-sexy male image that tried forcing its way into her mind. She simply refused to go there. She would not let Cameron creep into her thoughts. Tilting her head, she refocused her attention as she continued to gaze at the man, not seeing as much as she would like due to the shade cast by the palm trees, the fading evening sun and the emergence of dusk.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since this was a private beach she quickly assumed he was the owner of the house next door and wondered who he was. A celebrity perhaps? Was he married, single or in between lovers like she was?\n</p>\n<p>\n A lump caught in her throat when the man eased down his swimming trunks. It suddenly occurred to her that he was about to go swimming in the nude. Although their properties were separated only by a few palm trees, she wondered if he hadn''t noticed her sitting hereâ€”if he had, evidently he didn''t care.\n</p>\n<p>\n She knew the decent thing to do was to ignore him, but she couldn''t pull her gaze away. When he had completely removed the trunks, she held her breath and wished like hell that she had a pair of binoculars.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reaching into her beach bag, she pulled out the bottle of wine and wineglass she had packed. By the time the man had dived into the ocean water she had not only poured a glassful but had quickly tossed back the contents, liking how the soothing liquid had flowed down her throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n She decided to pour another glass, taking her eyes off the man for just a second. When she looked back, pausing with the wineglass halfway to her lips, he was gone. She sighed, wondering if she''d really seen him or if he''d been a mirage, a cruel trick of her imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n As she took a sip of her wine to calm her racing heart, a part of her knew that what she''d seen earlier had been the real thing. * * *\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron Cody stood at the window and watched as the woman he intended to marry gathered up her belongings to walk back to the house where she would be staying for two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t want to think what her reaction would be once she discovered he was her neighbor and that her flight from Charlotte had been for nothing. As soon as he had gotten wordâ€”thanks to her cousin and his loyal friend Morgan Steeleâ€” that she intended to leave the country for a few weeks to house-sit her sister''s home in Jamaica, he had changed his plans. No big deal. Where she went, he intended to follow. Her time for avoiding him had run out. At thirty-five, he was no longer interested in playing games. He was ready to make his move.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was sure Vanessa was safely inside the house, he moved away from the window toward the wet bar to pour himself a drink. He glanced around the home he had recently purchased, wanting to believe that luck was still on his side. It had been easy enough to buy this house within a matter of hours, his first move to gain what he considered the most valuable asset of his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n As he sipped his brandy, he recalled the exact moment a little over three years ago when he had first laid eyes on Vanessa Steele. He had arrived at a very important Steele Corporation board meeting, one he''d assumed would give him total control of the Charlotte-based manufacturing company.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had walked into the conference room, confident in his abilities and pretty damn positive that one of the Steeles would defect and throw their voting shares his way. After all, past experience had shown him that if offered the right price, family members had a tendency to prove that blood might be thicker than water but not thicker than the mighty dollar.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Steeles had proved him wrong that day. In less than an hour he had walked away after encountering the first defeat of his career as a corporate raider. But that afternoon hadn''t been a complete waste, since he had sat across the table from the most beautiful woman he''d ever seen. He could admit now that he had focused his attention more on Vanessa Steele than on taking over her family''s company.\n</p>\n<p>\n The memory of that day would forever be etched in his mind. Something about Vanessa had immediately captured his attention. The moment he had gazed into her eyes he had suffered an instant jolt in his gut. he''d been mesmerized, awe-struck and captivated all at the same time. The other two Steele women had been just as good-looking, but it had been Vanessa who had caused his body and mind to react in all sorts of ways. Everything about her had turned him on, even when she had glared at him, which she''d spent most of her time doing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7971'),
(7951, 'Rites of Passage', 'William Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now reissued with a new jacket the first volume of Golding''s sea trilogy, which follows the trials and fortunes of a warship captain bound for Australia. Whilst at sea he writes a journal to send back to England in which he records the mounting tensions onboard ship. From the author of LORD OF THE FLIES.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9647'),
(7952, 'Ritual in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** #1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb headlines a hot new anthology of paranormal romance. FEATURING A NEW EVE DALLAS NOVELLA.** **J.D. Robb** plunges Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder. **Mary Blayney,** investigates a deception that has kept two lovers apart for years. **Ruth Ryan Langan** brings a lost man out of a storm to face a breathtaking twist of fate. And** Mary Kay McComas** follows a mother, her son, and a wizard lost through the threads of time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2338'),
(7953, 'Rival Rails: The Race to Build America&#39;s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad', 'Walter R. Borneman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Railroads might seem outmoded today, but they were originally dynamic, cutthroat enterprises, according to this byzantine business history of track laying in the American West. Independent historian Borneman (Polk) chronicles the postâ€“Civil War scramble to build a web of transcontinental railroads, lavish land grants, and government subsidies. Dozens of railroads and their executives are featured, but the melee eventually gels into a showdown between the Southern Pacific, intent on monopolizing the routes into California, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, determined to reach the Pacific by a prized snow-free southerly route. The regionÃ–s rugged topography forces railroads to compete for a handful of one-track-wide mountain passes and river crossings; rivals throw down miles of track per day to reach strategic junctions and occasionally send armed gangs to seize choke points. BornemanÃ–s evocations of railroad culture--the construction feats, boom-and-bust railhead towns, train robbers, and luxury cars--add color but are skimpy. He centers the story instead on boardroom maneuverings, and while railroad tycoons are a colorful lot, their deal-making begins to blur. As empire-building bequeaths corporate consolidation, BornemanÃ–s narrative runs out of steam before reaching the terminal. 16 pages of photos, 30 maps.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, the most logical route for the planned transcontinental railroad was across the southern plains and the deserts of the southwest. Instead, for reasons more political than economic, the more northerly route was selected, and the two strands were joined at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1868. Almost immediately, the competition began for the rights to build a web of lines across the southern route. Borneman, a historian and attorney, has written an interesting, if uneven, chronicle of the political as well as physical struggles to complete these tasks. He profiles numerous competing companies and their sponsors, and he describes their often cutthroat tactics and greed. Eventually, two large companies, the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, squeezed out or absorbed other competitors. When he sticks to the actual process of construction, Bornemanâ€™s narrative is brisk, colorful, and exciting. It drags and confuses when it deals with the machinations in corporate board rooms. Still, this is a worthy look at a less-publicized aspect of railroad construction. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8001'),
(7954, 'Rivals', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the glorious Rutshire Chronicles.Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan Oâ€™Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realize that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declanâ€™s programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1562'),
(7955, 'Riven', 'Jerry B. Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this painfully slow story, Jenkins (Left Behind) builds two protagonists'' story lines-each from different generations and different walks of life, yet destined to cross paths through God''s providence. When readers meet young Brady Wayne Darby, he is still struggling to make it through high school, barely weaseling his way out of troubles that often come his way. With the Rev. Thomas Carey, Jenkins introduces an elder pastor, down on his luck and trying to find a new flock-eventually landing himself a prison chaplaincy on death row. Though the story ends with a predictable redemption, along the way, readers are assaulted with a heavy dose of despair, with women who cause the men in their lives endless trials and a plot that takes its sweet time. Since the novel is a complete departure from Jenkins''s high-octane Left Behind series, longtime fans may be surprised by his versatility even as they grow impatient with the story''s lugubrious development.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n You would never expect the paths of Brady Darby and Thomas Carey to cross. The teenage Brady is an outsider from the wrong side of the tracks whoâ€™s trying to find his place in life while still somehow protecting his little brother fromÂ their negligent mother. Thomas is a preacher without a flock, as he and his devoted wife, Grace, are forced to move townsÂ once againÂ after allowing membership at yet another church to dwindle under their watch. At every turn, Bradyâ€™s decisions seem to backfire, even when he triesÂ change by participating in the high school musical. At the same time, Thomas and Grace are immediately rejected by their latest congregation for refusing to give in to politics, and their only childÂ seems to reject them and their lifestyle.Â Several years later,Â the worldsÂ of Brady and Thomas collide at a juvenile halfway house. TheyÂ act asÂ life forces for each other even as their individual worlds sink deeper into misery. Christian fiction author Jenkins covers much ground in this weighty book, and while heroes are made out of those who come to God, Jenkins avoidsÂ preachiness and, instead, lets goodness shine. Expect demand as Jenkinsâ€™ following grows with every outing. --Mary Frances Wilkens\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7987'),
(7956, 'Riven Rock', 'T. Coraghessan Boyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him schizophrenic, incapable of being around women--right down to his wife, Katherine, "a newlywed who might as well have been a widow." Not even the dawn of modern psychiatry can save him. Instead, he''s barred and carefully cosseted in Riven Rock, the California estate he helped design for his sister, the first of the McCormicks to crack. Will the 31-year-old patient be cured? His wife, the first female graduate of MIT, believes that he will. So, too, does his loyal head nurse, Eddie O''Kane, a preternaturally articulate, handsome Boston Irishman. Indeed, Eddie thinks himself blessed with good luck. Going to Montecito to care for Mr. McCormick will, he is convinced, enable him to take center stage in the drama of his own life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the next 20 years, Stanley will go from catatonia to a semblance of normality (so long as there''s no woman in sight and no sharp cutlery on the table). Eddie, however, will never play the leading role he''d envisioned, instead taking refuge in alcohol and recollections of the one woman he thinks he has let get away, the plainspoken, explosive Giovannella Dimucci. When Eddie first describes his patient''s violent response to women, "he wondered if he''d gone too far, if he''d shocked her, but the mask dissolved and she leaned in close, her hand on his elbow. ''Sounds like the average man to me.''" As for Katherine McCormick, she will still visit every Christmas, hoping to at least see her husband if she can''t see him get better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on a true story,\n  <em>\n   Riven Rock\n  </em>\n  is unclassifiable, a discomforting and often hilarious mix of tragedy and comedy. (Only\n </p>\n <p>\n  Boyle has great empathy, but there is no avoiding his novel''s comic energy. Stanley''s first psychiatrist-jailer, Dr. Hamilton, is obsessed with primate sexuality and will go to Riven Rock only if Katherine funds a large living laboratory. He spends all of his time watching the imprisoned creatures copulate, a pathetic counterpoint to his patient''s plight. The sight of the disheveled doctor following one animal encounter amuses even the suspicious Katherine. "To his credit, the doctor laughed too. And O''Kane, the bruiser, who''d gone absolutely pale at the tiny hominoids that couldn''t have weighed a twentieth of what he did, joined in, albeit belatedly and with a laugh that trailed off into a whinny." Alas, all goes awry when Hamilton takes the joke too far and declares his chimps "the very devils--they''re even worse than my patients."\n  <em>\n   Riven Rock\n  </em>\n  is a maximum-velocity study of love, primal energy, and what is sacrosanct in society: control. It is also about loyalty, absurdity, domesticity, and depravity, all of which, Boyle knows, coexist within the best of souls.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Stanley McCormick, the brilliant but highly strung son of the inventor of the Reaper, marries Boston socialite and MIT graduate Katherine Dexter, the papers call it the wedding of the century. But the marriage is never consummated, and after a disastrous honeymoon, a catatonic Stanley is moved to Riven Rock, a prisonlike mission in Santa Barbara. Diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac, Stanley is to be kept entirely separate from women, including Katherine, who may speak to him only by telephone. Katherine goes on to become a major figure in the burgeoning suffrage movement and even smuggles a steamer trunk full of contraceptives into the country in support of Margaret Sanger, but she never divorces her husband or gives up hoping for a cure. Riven Rock resembles The Road to Wellville (LJ 3/15/93) in its send-up of medical quackery in the early years of the century, but here the fact-based love story takes precedence over satire. This affecting and surprisingly mature novel is Boyle''s best book since Water Music (1981). Recommended for most fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8116'),
(7957, 'River Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now here is Charles Williams'' River Girl, in every way a giant of a book--the story of a man and a woman who met and knew instantly that not all the world would tear them apart. River Girl, first published in 1951 as "The Catfish Triangle," is a book that shares some similarities with Cain''s The Postman Always Rings Twice. Down in swamp country a deputy sheriff meets and falls in love with a young lass, but her husband stands in the way... for a time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(7958, 'River god', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt''s army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom''s shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle''s glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man.International bestselling author Wilbur Smith, creator of two dozen highly acclaimed novels, draws readers into a magnificent, richly imagined saga. Exploding with all the drama, mystery and rage of a bygone time, *River God* is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9164'),
(7959, 'A River in the Sky', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire and the Holy Land of three religions. Hearing that Morley, an English adventurer, has raised money to mount an expedition to search for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem, Emerson and Amelia are persuaded to go after him in order to prevent a catastrophically inept excavation and the possibility of armed protest by the infuriated members of all three religions who view the Dome of the Rock as sacred. The War Office is concerned about increasing German influence in Palestine and insists that Morley is secretly working for German intelligence. Emerson doesnt believe it, but could he be mistaken?In the meantime, their son Ramses has been working on a dig at Samaria, north of Jerusalem, where he encounters an unusual party of travellers. One is a female German archaeologist, and the other a mysterious man of unknown nationality and unknown past. Ramsess insatiable curiosity leads him to a startling discovery about the pair. He must now pass the information on to his parents in Jerusalem but only if he can get there alivePraise for the Amelia Peabody series:I cant wait for the next Peabody story I really do think [Elizabeth Peters] books are great entertainment. Angela RipponA writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key. Washington Post Book WorldThe most potent female force to hit Egypt since Cleopatra. Philadelphia EnquirerThink Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones accomplished entertainment Guardian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(7960, 'The River Kings&#39; Road', 'Liane Merciel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe River Kingsâ€™ Road is the intriguingly twisted tale of treachery and magic behind a brutal massacre and the impacts this unspeakable act has on the two survivors, on those who perpetrated it, on those who investigated it, and on those who tried to turn it to even more evil ends. Itâ€™s also a tale that examines unsparingly the issue of to what degree the ends justify the means . . . or not.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”L. E. Modesitt, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Saga of Recluce\n </em>\n series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe River Kingsâ€™ Road drew me in with the characters, all of whom felt real and reacted realistically for the setting. . . . The heroes are heroic because of the choices they make on their journey, choices that would test the very best . . . and worst . . . in all of us. . . . Itâ€™s a story where the simplest choice could have drastic consequences, and where the lowliest of peasants can change the fate of a kingdom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Joshua Palmatier, author of\n <em>\n  The Vacant Throne\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A thrilling new voice in fantasy makes an unforgettable debut with this "intriguingly twisted tale of treachery and magic" (_New York Times _bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.). Liane Mercielâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The River Kingsâ€™ Road\n  </em>\n  takes us to a world of bitter enmity between kingdoms, divided loyalties between comrades, and an insidious magic that destroys everything it touches. . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The wounded maidservant thrust the knotted blankets at him; instinctively, Brys stepped forward and caught the bundle before it fell. Then he glimpsed what lay inside and nearly dropped it himself.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  There was a baby in the blankets. A baby with a tear-swollen face red and round as a midsummer plum. A baby he knew, even without seeing the lacquered medallion tucked into the swaddlingâ€”a medallion far too heavy, on a chain far too cold for an infant who had not yet seen a year.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A fragile period of peace between the eternally warring kingdoms of Oakharn and Langmyr is shattered when a surprise massacre fueled by bloodmagic ravages the Langmyrne border village of Willowfield, killing its inhabitantsâ€”including a visiting Oakharne lord and his familyâ€”and leaving behind a scene so grisly that even the carrion eaters avoid its desecrated earth. But the dead lordâ€™s infant heir has survived the carnageâ€”a discovery that entwines the destinies of\n <strong>\n  Brys Tarnell\n </strong>\n , a mercenary who rescues the helpless and ailing babe, and who enlists a Langmyr peasant, a young mother herself, to nourish and nurture the child of her enemies as they travel a dark, perilous road . . .\n <strong>\n  Odosse\n </strong>\n , the peasant woman whose only weapons are wit, courage, and her fierce maternal loveâ€”and who risks everything she holds dear to protect her new charge . . .\n <strong>\n  Sir Kelland\n </strong>\n , a divinely blessed Knight of the Sun, called upon to unmask the architects behind the slaughter and avert war between ancestral enemies . . .\n <strong>\n  Bitharn\n </strong>\n , Kellandâ€™s companion on his journey, who conceals her lifelong love for the Knight behind her flawless archery skillsâ€”and whose feelings may ultimately be Kellandâ€™s undoing . . . and\n <strong>\n  Leferic\n </strong>\n , an Oakharne Lordâ€™s bitter youngest son, whose dark ambitions fuel the most horrific acts of violence. As one infantâ€™s life hangs in the balance, so too does the fate of thousands, while deep in the forest, a Maimed Witch practices an evil bloodmagic that could doom them all. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4725'),
(7961, 'The River Kings&#39; Road: A Novel of Ithelas', 'Liane Merciel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A thrilling new voice in fantasy makes an unforgettable debut with this "intriguingly twisted tale of treachery and magic" (*New York Times *bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.). Liane Mercielâ€™s *The River Kingsâ€™ Road *takes us to a world of bitter enmity between kingdoms, divided loyalties between comrades, and an insidious magic that destroys everything it touches. . . . ** *The wounded maidservant thrust the knotted blankets at him; instinctively, Brys stepped forward and caught the bundle before it fell. Then he glimpsed what lay inside and nearly dropped it himself. * *There was a baby in the blankets. A baby with a tear-swollen face red and round as a midsummer plum. A baby he knew, even without seeing the lacquered medallion tucked into the swaddlingâ€”a medallion far too heavy, on a chain far too cold for an infant who had not yet seen a year. * A fragile period of peace between the eternally warring kingdoms of Oakharn and Langmyr is shattered when a surprise massacre fueled by bloodmagic ravages the Langmyrne border village of Willowfield, killing its inhabitantsâ€”including a visiting Oakharne lord and his familyâ€”and leaving behind a scene so grisly that even the carrion eaters avoid its desecrated earth. But the dead lordâ€™s infant heir has survived the carnageâ€”a discovery that entwines the destinies of **Brys Tarnell**, a mercenary who rescues the helpless and ailing babe, and who enlists a Langmyr peasant, a young mother herself, to nourish and nurture the child of her enemies as they travel a dark, perilous road . . . **Odosse**, the peasant woman whose only weapons are wit, courage, and her fierce maternal loveâ€”and who risks everything she holds dear to protect her new charge . . . **Sir Kelland**, a divinely blessed Knight of the Sun, called upon to unmask the architects behind the slaughter and avert war between ancestral enemies . . . **Bitharn**, Kellandâ€™s companion on his journey, who conceals her lifelong love for the Knight behind her flawless archery skillsâ€”and whose feelings may ultimately be Kellandâ€™s undoing . . . and **Leferic**, an Oakharne Lordâ€™s bitter youngest son, whose dark ambitions fuel the most horrific acts of violence. As one infantâ€™s life hangs in the balance, so too does the fate of thousands, while deep in the forest, a Maimed Witch practices an evil bloodmagic that could doom them all. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2328'),
(7962, 'River Marked', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She''s never known any others of her kind. Until now.\n</p>\n<p>\n An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-one that her father''s people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will need their help...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patricia Briggs\n </strong>\n lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5923'),
(7963, 'The River of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A river cruise through ancient desert lands quickly turns into an adventure for Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack. Bill disappears and the children, along with Kiki the parrot, are trapped beneath a forgotten temple where no one has set foot for 7,000 years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(7964, 'River of Death', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE LOST CITYHamilton knows the way to the ruins deep in the Brazilian jungle - and the secret they hold.The millionaire who calls himself Smith seeks the lost city to avenge a wrong from his hidden past.Their journey down the River of Death is an epic of violence and danger. But the secret that awaits them in the lost city is more dangerous still - as a legacy of theft, treachery and murder stretching back to war-torn Europe comes to a deadly climax beneath the ancient walls.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9276'),
(7965, 'The River of Shadows', 'Robert V. S. Redick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR ROBERT V. S. REDICK\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobert Redick is an extraordinary talent.â€_â€”New York Times_ bestselling author Karen Miller\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Red Wolf Conspiracy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one terrific read. . . . I canâ€™t remember when Iâ€™ve been more enthralled.â€â€”Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMasterful storytelling . . . a delight.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith comparisons to George R. R. Martin and Philip Pullman, this is highly recommended for all fantasy collections.â€â€”_Library Journal _(starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Ruling Sea\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExciting . . . enough plot twists and double-crosses to satisfy the most demanding lovers of suspense . . . Redickâ€™s brilliant depiction of the microcosmic world aboard the\n <em>\n  Chathrand\n </em>\n will captivate readers.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis high-seas adventure has all the ingredients for a good read: a large and diverse cast of characters, magic, deceit, betrayal and unexpected twists.â€â€”_RT Book Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEasily one of the best fantasy novels of the year.â€â€”Fantasy Book Critic\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the gripping sequel to Robert V. S. Redickâ€™s acclaimed epic fantasy novels\n <em>\n  The Red Wolf Conspiracy\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Ruling Sea,\n </em>\n the crew of the vast, ancient ship\n <em>\n  Chathrand\n </em>\n have reached the shores of the legendary southern empire of Bali Adro. Many have died in the crossing, and the alliance of rebels, led by the tarboy Pazel Pathkendle and the warrior Thasha Isiq, has faced death, betrayal, and darkest magic. But nothing has prepared them for the radically altered face of humanity in the South.\n</p>\n<p>\n They have little time to recover from the shock, however. For with landfall, the battle between the rebels and centuries-old sorcerer Arunis enters its final phase. At stake is control of the Nilstone, a cursed relic that promises unlimited power to whoever unlocks the secrets of its useâ€”but death to those who fail. And no one is closer to mastering the Stone than Arunis.\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperate to stop him, Pazel and Thasha must join forces with their enemies, including the depraved Captain Rose and the imperial assassin Sandor Ott. But when a suspicious young crewmember turns his attentions to Thasha, it is the young lovers themselves who are dividedâ€”most conveniently for Arunis. As the mageâ€™s triumph draws near, the allies face a terrible choice: to break their oaths and run for safety, or to hunt the worldâ€™s most dangerous sorcerer through the strange and deadly dream kingdom known as the River of Shadows, and to face him a last time among the traps and horrors of his lair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brimming with high adventure, dark enchantment, and unforgettable characters,\n <em>\n  The River of Shadows\n </em>\n deftly secures Redickâ€™s place in the ranks of epic fantasyâ€™s most original and enthralling storytellers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5808'),
(7966, 'River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China''s Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In\n <em>\n  River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze\n </em>\n , Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students'' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don''t admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels,\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  You couldn''t have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn''t simply say: I don''t like Hamlet because I think he''s a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hessler''s writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It''s a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading\n <em>\n  River Town\n </em>\n , you''ll have one, too.\n <em>\n  --Dana Van Nest\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In China, the year 1997 was marked by two momentous events: the death of Deng Xiaoping, the country''s leader for two decades, and the return of Hong Kong after a century and a half of British rule. A young American who spent two years teaching English literature in a small town on the Yangtze, Hessler observed these events through two sets of eyes: his own and those of his alter ego, Ho Wei. Hessler sees China''s politics and ceremony with the detachment of a foreigner, noting how grand political events affect the lives of ordinary people. The passing of Deng, for example, provokes a handful of thoughtful and unexpected essays from Hessler''s students. The departure of the British from Hong Kong sparks a conversational "Opium War" between him and his nationalist Chinese tutor. Meanwhile, Ho Wei, as Hessler is known to most of the townspeople, adopts a friendly and unsophisticated persona that allows him to learn the language and culture of his surroundings even as Hessler''s Western self remains estranged. The author conceives this memoir of his time in China as the collaborative effort of his double identity. "Ho Wei," he writes, "left his notebooks on the desk of Peter Hessler, who typed everything into his computer. The notebooks were the only thing they truly shared." Yet it''s clear that, for Hessler, Ho Wei is more than a literary device: to live in China, he felt compelled to subjugate his real identity to a character role. Hessler has already been assured the approval of a select audience thanks to the New Yorker''s recent publication of an excerpt. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6323'),
(7967, 'The River', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a boxed review, PW praised the "terse, heart-stopping prose" of this follow-up to Hatchet : "The new adventure is as riveting as its predecessor . . . the psychological terrain of the sequel is fresh and distinct." Ages 10-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sequel to the most popular of Paulsen''s three Newbery Honor books (Hatchet, 1987), based on an unlikely premise-- government researchers want Brian to reenact his northwoods survival so that his strategies can be observed and taught to others. Derek, a young psychologist, and Brian are dropped off at another Canadian lake, near the first one, equipped only with knives and a radio that Derek has promised not to use except in a dire emergency. Everything goes all too smoothly until their camp is struck by lightning, zapping the radio and leaving Derek in a coma. Brian manages to float Derek 100 miles down a river to a trading post, thus saving his life. The lyrically described details of Brian''s adventure-- building a fire, making a raft--are of most interest here; for all its graphically evoked perils (rapids, the craft''s unwieldiness, exhaustion), the journey''s successful outcome seems less in doubt than did the outcome of the compelling autobiographical wilderness experiences described in Woodsong (1990). In Hatchet, Brian discovered his own strength, adding depth, complexity, and tension to the story; here, that strength is a given--as he himself points out. Perfunctory in design but vividly written, a book that will, as intended, please the readers who hoped that Paulsen, like Brian, would\n <code>\n </code>\n do it again.'''' (Fiction. 11-14) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7142'),
(7968, 'Rivers of London', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An engaging mix of magic and police procedural, this is a great kick off to a very promising series as well as the most satisfying fantasy thriller to hit bookshelves in quite some time. Witty, imaginative and gripping." -- Saxon Bullock SFX Rivers of London is highly recommended for anyone looking for some urban fantasy fun with a real life spin, the sights and smells of London just ooze out from between the pages. This book should be essential reading for anyone who has ever seen anything inexplicable or strange on the streets of London - which would be just about everybody who''s ever been there, really. LOVEVAMPIRES.COM "Anyone who has enjoyed Neil Gaiman''s Neverwhere, Kate Griffin''s Matthew Swift novels, Mike Carey''s Felix Castor series - anyone in those shoes will adore Rivers of London. Assured, witty and great fun to read." -- Amanda Rutter FLOOR TO CEILING BOOKS "Rivers of London comfortably fills out its engaging premise." -- Sophia McDougall "Ben Aaronovitch has put together an enjoyable and exciting story that is easy to read. " BOOK MONKEYS "This is a terrific urban fantasy police procedural in which the two cops make the unbelievable believable; especially the inexperienced Grant. The fast-paced yet meandering story line is loaded with action from the onset as the mentor and mentee work a challenging investigation in which an ancient has arisen to stir the troubled waters. Sub-genre fans will enjoy Ben Aaronovitch''s view of London in this witty well written riot." ALTERNATIVE-WORLDS\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don''t have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I''m a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden ...and there''s something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it''s falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4719');
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(7969, 'Road Dogs: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Be Cool\n </em>\n . If Elmore Leonard hadn''t already used it for the\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n ended, Foley was headed back to the clink to finish a 30-year bid.\n <em>\n  Road Dogs\n </em>\n opens with Foley on the van to prison with Cundo Rey, a pint-size Cuban who soon engineers their early release--legally, this time. Jack''s happy to be out and enjoying the California hospitality of Cundo and his wife Dawn (both Leonard veterans too, from\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Elmore Leonard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:Where did the inspiration for the title\n  <em>\n   Road Dogs\n  </em>\n  come from?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Road Dogs\n </em>\n was on a list of prison expressions my researcher Gregg Sutter got for me: inmates who watch each otherâ€™s back. I liked the sound of the words together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What made you decide to bring back Jack Foley, Cundo Rey, and Dawn Navarro now? What is it about these three characters that stuck with you through the years?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Foley was played by George Clooney in\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n . I imagined George in the scenes I wrote and it worked. Dawn Navarro was the psychic in\n <em>\n  Riding the Rap\n </em>\n , a supporting character ready for a leading role. Cundo Rey from\n <em>\n  LaBrava\n </em>\n , another favorite of mine, also deserved a bigger role, so I brought him back..\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Any chance Foley and the woman he loves, Federal Marshal Karen Sisco, will be back in the near future?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m not sure Foley is up to robbing another bank. But Karen Sisco, the federal marshal in\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n , could show up again; maybe working for her dad, a private investigator.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: One of the hallmarks of your writing is your gift for the telling detail. When Foley is offering Cundo Reyâ€™s money man, Jimmy, some advice about his skimming, he tells him that Cundo wonâ€™t kill him, but he might â€œbreak your legs with a JosÃ© Canseco bat.â€ Thatâ€™s one of those small yet wonderfully deft touches that adds color without slowing the pace. How do you do this so well?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Realism is the key to my style of writing and dialogue is what keeps it moving, always in live scenes. Rather than use my voice, my language, to describe whatâ€™s going on, I let the characters tell who they are and what theyâ€™re up to by the way they talk. Scenes are written from a characterâ€™s point of view, never mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Many of your characters are working class stiffs and tough, intelligent broads. What draws you to these kind of characters? What do you think accounts for their popularity?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n My women often upstage the guys; theyâ€™re natural, their own person, while my cops and criminals talk the way Iâ€™ve observed them through research and being on the scene.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Whatâ€™s next for Elmore Leonard?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Next comes\n <em>\n  Djibouti\n </em>\n , with Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker with the Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard launches three characters from previous novels on a collision course in this seemingly effortless performance. After prison buddy Cundo Rey (last seen in\n <em>\n  LaBrava\n </em>\n ) drops a bundle on a shark attorney, celebrity bank robber Jack Foley (from\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n ) gets his 30-year prison sentence reduced to 30 months. Jack''s quickly back in the world, living large in one of Cundo''s two multimillion-dollar houses in Venice, Calif., juggling a fast seduction with fortune-teller (from\n <em>\n  Riding the Rap\n </em>\n ) Dawn Navarro (who is now Cundo''s lady) and the untoward attention of rogue FBI agent Lou Adams, who''s waiting for Foley to rob another bank. While Dawn tries to enlist Foley in a scheme to steal Cundo''s off-the-books fortune, Cundo surprises them with an early release. Betrayal simmers while Foley considers going semi-straightâ€”with the help of a widowed starletâ€”Dawn hatches a plan that could get her rich and rid her of all her problems, and Cundo''s associates and neighborhood toughs get sucked into the fray. The plot isn''t as tight as it could be, but Leonard''s singular way with words is reason enough to read it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9187'),
(7970, 'The road not taken: a selection of Robert Frost&#39;s poems', 'Robert Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The best-loved poems from one of American literature''s most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost''s most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers. In this brilliant selection of Frost''s classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9239'),
(7971, 'The Road to Dune', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This companion volume to Frank Herbert''s 1965 science fiction classic collects manuscript material, correspondence and cut chapters related to Dune as well as previously published Dune-related short stories coauthored by his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson. Particularly interesting are texts related to Dune''s publication, including letters, reviews and press releases that acknowledge the dizzying scope of the ambitious novel. Its length meant that Herbert had a hard time placing it, and he ended up selling it to automotive-guide publisher Chilton, but its publication-and the awards it won-ushered in a new era for science fiction publishing. The sheer novelty of Dune stands in contrast to B. Herbert and Anderson''s Spice Planet, an alternate Dune novelette constructed from Herbert''s original notes and a by-the-numbers action-adventure of interest only in contrast to the book Herbert ultimately wrote. Three of B. Herbert and Anderson''s short stories bridge some of the events in their coauthored novel prequels; the fourth takes place during one of the battles in Dune and provides an interesting point-of-view switch. Although this miscellany of material fails to cohere, the glimpse it provides into Herbert''s thoughts and the difficulty of writing and publishing illuminate one of the most important SF novels ever published.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collection of essays, stories, and selections from Herbert''s papers will certainly be high-priority reading for\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  fans. It includes two versions of\n  <em>\n   Spice Planet,\n  </em>\n  an unpublished novel containing many elements that later appeared in\n  <em>\n   Dune,\n  </em>\n  but that is a separate story. Of particular interest are the communications between Herbert, John Campbell, and others during and after the release of\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and unpublished sequences from\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah.\n  </em>\n  The collection also includes four short stories laid in the Butlerian Jihad era.\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  was a social and publishing phenomenon; it moved sf into general publishing (and marketing) awareness and spurred a wide public awareness of ecological balance. This account of its genesis should interest fans and students of popular culture.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5308'),
(7972, 'The road to Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dorothy and Toto are off again on an exciting adventure down *The Road to Oz!* In order to help the lovable, ever-wandering Shaggy Man, Dorothy and Toto must journey through magical and mysterious lands. Soon the three are joined by a lost lad named Button-Bright and the beautiful young Polychromethe Rainbow''s Daughter. With magic at work and danger about, these new friends must journey through cities of talking beasts, across the Deadly Desert into the Truth Pond, and through many other strange and incredible places before they can reach the Emerald City. Along the way, Dorothy and her companions encounter a whole new assortment of fantastic and funny characters--the crafty King Dox of Foxville, the magical donkey King Kik-a-bray, the terrible bigheaded Scoodlers, and Johnny Dooit (who can do anything)--along with old friends Jack Pumpkinhead, Tik-tok, Billina, and, of course, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the wonderful Wizard himself. *The Road to Oz* is the fifth adventure in the magical Land of Oz. For the first time since the original 1909 edition, this stunning new facsimile edition illustrates Dorothy''s fantastic adventures on different colors of paper reflecting where she and her friends are on the road to Oz. Featuring all of John R. Neill''s 126 striking pen-and-ink drawings, this handsome deluxe edition is one to be treasured for years to come.Afterword by Peter Glassman. This deluxe facsimile of the fifth Oz adventure reunites Dorothy and her friends for Princess Ozma''s glorious birthday party. For the first time since the original 1909 edition, the 126 masterful illustrations are printed on colored papers, exactly as the author intended. A Books of Wonder Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3170'),
(7973, 'The Road to Rome: A Forgotten Legion Chronicle', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third novel in The Forgotten Legion trilogy takes the main protagonists from North Africa back to Rome in the build-up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus'' twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Back in Egypt, Romulus fights at Zela, the vicious battle where Caesar famously said, ''Veni, vidi, vici''. Tarquinius, separated from Romulus in the chaos of war, hides in Alexandria, searching for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both. From the battlefields of North Africa and Spain, to the lawless streets of Rome and the gladiator arena, they face death daily, until on the Ides of March, the twins are reunited and must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day of destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1209'),
(7974, 'The Road to the Rim', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5510'),
(7975, 'The Road Virus Heads North', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4320'),
(7976, 'The Road', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **NATIONAL BESTSELLER****PULITZER PRIZE WINNER****National Book Critic''s Circle Award Finalist****A *New York Times* Notable Book****One of the Best Books of the Year*****The Boston Globe*, *The Christian Science Monitor*, *The Denver Post*, *The Kansas City Star*, *Los Angeles Times*, *New York*, *People*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Time*, *The Village Voice*, *The Washington Post***The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy''s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don''t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged foodâ€”and each other.**The Road** is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other''s world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(7977, 'Roadside Sisters', 'Wendy Harmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nina, Meredith and Annie have been friends for a long, long time. Like most old friends, they can''t quite remember, any more, what initially drew them together. Elegant Meredith, motherly Nina and the determinedly single Annie are as unlikely companions as you could find. But like a matched set of 1950''s kitchen canisters of Flour, Sugar and Tea, they always seem to end up together. Now each are facing the various trials of middle age: divorces, less than satisfactory marriages, teenage kids, careers going nowhere and unexpected bouts of tears. One night, over one too many Flaming Sambuccas during a reunion dinner, they somehow find themselves agreeing to take a road trip to Byron Bay in a RoadMaster Royale mobile home, to attend Meredith''s daughter''s wedding. Fights and friendship, tears and laughter - not to mention the possibility of finding Mr Right in a caravan park in Ulladulla - this trip might tear them apart or it might just save their lives.An effervescent, uproarious story of female friendship, Byron or Bustis the hugely appealing new novel from Australia''s favourite comedienne, Wendy Harmer. as warm and light and as welcome as a doona.'' The Agea racy read chick lit meets stand-up.'' The Weekend Australian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6697'),
(7978, 'Roadwork', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They''re tearing down Bart Dawes''s home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4307'),
(7979, 'Roald Dahl&#39;s Fantastic Mr Fox: a play', 'Roald Dahl; Sally Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This excellent adaptation of Roald Dahl''s best - selling story tells you everything you need to know to stage the play. Whether you want to be as mean as farmer Bean or as heroic as Mr Fox, here is your chance to bring these wonderful characters to life, in any way you choose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3970'),
(7980, 'Roast Mortem', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The national bestselling author brews up another mystery-and this time, it''s New York''s Bravest that get burned ** After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing cafÃ©, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching cafes around the city and firefighters begin to die in suspicious ways... Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake sale and sniffing out clues in the pizza ovens of Brooklyn. When her detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation, Clare is desperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike''s rescue before someone tries to extinguish her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1514'),
(7981, 'Rob Roy', 'Sir Walter Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description,\n <strong>\n  Rob Roy\n </strong>\n follows the adventures of a businessman''s son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland''s glorious past.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?When I think of\n <em>\n  Rob Roy\n </em>\n I am impatient with all other novels.??\n <strong>\n  Robert Louis Stevenson\n </strong>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10988'),
(7982, 'The Robber Bride', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of Cat''s Eye depicts a femme fatale''s malevolent role in the lives of three women; a seven-week PW bestseller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Petite Tony teaches the agressively male subject of military history and has a talent for speaking backwards; actually, she''s Ynot. Charis eats only vegetarian fare and consults crystals. Boisterous, stylish Roz runs her own company and drives a BMW. These three women would seem to have little in common, but they''re held together by a single thread: Zenia, a lying, charismatic femme fatale who at one time or other stole the men in their lives. But Zenia is dead, blown to bits in Beirut, and can hurt them no more. Or so they think until the day a still-seductive Zenia walks into the restaurant where they are having lunch. As in Cat''s Eye ( LJ 2/1/89), Atwood takes feminism one step further, showing women as victims not only of society but of themselves. Her book is daring, richly detailed, and compulsively readable. Indeed, some readers might find it too readable; at times it feels a bit trashier than something you would expect from Atwood. In addition, while Zenia is a fascinating absence at the novel''s center, she seems too bad to be true. Nevertheless, Atwood is always good reading. For most collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/93.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9787'),
(7983, 'Robert Redford', 'Michael Feeney Callan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.\n</p>\n<p>\n Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the arts. His Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking; his films defined a generation. America has come to know him as the Sundance Kid, Bob Woodward, Johnny Hooker, Jay Gatsby, and Roy Hobbs. But only now, with this revelatory biography, do we see the surprising and complex man beneath the Hollywood faÃ§ade.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Redford''s personal papers--journals, script notes, correspondence--and hundreds of hours of taped interviews, Michael Feeney Callan brings the legendary star into focus. Here is his scattered family background and restless childhood, his rocky start in acting, the death of his son, his star-making relationship with director Sydney Pollack, the creation of Sundance, his political activism, his artistic successes and failures, his friendships and romances. This is a candid, surprising portrait of a man whose iconic roles on-screen\n <em>\n  (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President''s Men, The Natural)\n </em>\n and directorial brilliance_ (Ordinary People, Quiz Show)_ have both defined and obscured one of the most celebrated, and, until now, least understood, public figures of our time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6959'),
(7984, 'Robin and Ruby', 'K. M. Soehnlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In his award-winning bestseller *The World of Normal Boys,* K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In *Robin and Ruby,* he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s--and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend. At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he''s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he''ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real. Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who''s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin''s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted. Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn''t love--not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen. As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all--when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3032'),
(7985, 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of South America -- a story of survival, self-reliance, adventure, and faith. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: â€¢ A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context â€¢ An outline of key themes to guide the reader''s own interpretations â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(7986, 'Robot Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony''s Apprentice Adept series takes place on a world inhabited simultaneously by two separate spheres of being: the science fictional Proton''s technological Earth colonists and the fantasy Phaze''s magical natives including dragons, demons and goblins. An imbalance that has developed between the aspects now threatens both and wreaks particular havoc with the lives of robotic Mach of Proton and human Bane of Phaze, who are the only contact between realms. For that reason, the zealous Adverse Adepts seek to control the pair by kidnapping their lovers, the alien Agape and the unicorn Fleta. This tepid reworking of A Midsummer Night''s Dream from the usually boisterous Anthony becomes a series of contests, from a lovers'' bakeoffcomplete with brownie recipeto an Olympics whose events include storytelling and word games.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Anthony''s Out of Phaze , two pairs of star-crossed lovers hold the fates of magic-based Phaze and its sister-world Proton in their hands as Adverse Adepts and Contrary Citizens plot to gain control of an all-knowing computer and its magical analog. Fans of games, logic problems, and mental conundrums will appreciate the plot permutations that highlight the adventures of four feisty heroes in this sf/fantasy blend. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4595'),
(7987, 'Robot Dreams', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 24-copy mixed floor display with special riser (4 each of Neuromancer, Forever Peace, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune, Robot Dreams, and The Left Hand of Darkness) 0-441-01140-3 @ $175.76/$239.76 Can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9515'),
(7988, 'The Robot Is Running Away From the Trees', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10756'),
(7989, 'Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa&#39;s Twin', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bob is back in this rip-snorting sequel to "Santa''s Twin." It''s been exactly one year since Bob kidnapped Santa. After his defeat by two brave sisters, Bob has tried to redeem himself with Santa. But the Claus family''s bad seed has secretly built a robot Santa that soon wreaks havoc on Christmas. Full color.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(7990, 'Robot Visions', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Launching Roc Books'' new science fiction/fantasy line is this collection from the undisputed grandmaster".d capture the essence of an extraordinary life''s work.er of a 1986 Oscar for his special effects for Cocoon--provides 15 line drawings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9509'),
(7991, 'Robots &amp; Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth.  But even after his death, Baley''s vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9546'),
(7992, 'The Robots of Dawn', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov''s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There''s only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there''s more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley''s career, his life, and Earth''s right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9552'),
(7993, 'Roc and a Hard Place', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the delectable Demoness Metria asks for help from the wise Magician Humfrey. But before he will help her, she must perform a perilous mission: Rove the length and breadth of Xanth in search of a suitable jury for the trial of Roxanne Roc-a notably noble and virtuous bird charged with a most improbable offense.Exciting, exhilarating, and brimming with hilarious high jinks, Roc and a Hard Place is Xanth at its most enchanting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3301'),
(7994, 'A Rock and a Hard Place', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paradise fall behind schedule, commander Riker is given temporary leave from the U.S.S. "Enterprise"(TM) and sent to assist.  Riker''s replacement on the Starship "Enterprise" is a volatile officer named Stone whose behavior soon raises questions about his ability and his judgment. Meanwhile, Commander Riker has become enmeshed in a life and struggle with Paradise''s brutal landscape. However, he soon learns that not all of the planet''s dangers are natural in origin -- as he comes face to face with Paradise''s greatest danger and most hideous secret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6760'),
(7995, 'Rock and Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows', 'Andrew Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Andrew Mueller couldn''t decide between being a rock journalist, travel writer or foreign correspondent so he hit upon the novel, if time consuming, idea of trying to be all three at the same time. ROCK AND HARD PLACES is a retrospective of the backstages, front lines and assorted side shows he''s encountered over the past 20 years. Among his adventures, he cracks America with Radiohead, wanders all over the shop with U2, and tunes into the music scene in bombed out Sarajevo. He accidentally goes to war in Bosnia, watches Def Leppard play in a Moroccan cave, and tries to make sense of Gallipoli on Anzac Day. He''s funny, unpredictable and occasionally makes a point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7260'),
(7996, 'Rock my world', 'Cindi Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A three-day bed-in is the perfect way for aspiring DJ Erica Gibson to get on air. This promotional stunt could even lead to her having her own show on the radio. Too bad she''s cohosting with the station Lothario rather than hottie Adam "the Hawk" Hawkins. Her wish is granted when Adam shows up on location. Dream job *and* dream guy...does life get any better? After everyone leaves and the lights go out, Erica seduces him. While their steamy after-dark activities go against the station''s rules, they agree that what happens in the bed stays in the bed. Back at work those forbidden adventures still tempt them. Then again, there''s nothing like the thrill of the forbidden....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1532'),
(7997, 'The Rock of Chickamauga (Webster&#39;s Korean Thesaurus Edition)', 'Joseph A. Altsheler &amp; Icon Group International &amp; Inc. Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Rock of Chickamauga by Joseph A. Altsheler was edited for three audiences. The first includes Korean-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Korean speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Korean in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Korean Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Korean or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Korean, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3025'),
(7998, 'Rocket Boys', 'Homer Hickam', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny''s father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam''s smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner''s kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents'' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father''s respect is equally affecting.\n  <em>\n   --Wendy Smith\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Great memoirs must balance the universal and the particular. Too much of the former makes it overly familiar; too much of the latter makes readers ask what the story has to do with them. In his debut, Hickam, a retired NASA engineer, walks that line beautifully. On one level, it''s the story of a teenage boy who learns about dedication, responsibility, thermodynamics and girls. On the other hand, it''s about a dying way of life in a coal town where the days are determined by the rhythms of the mine and the company that controls everything and everybody. Hickam''s father is Coalwood, W.Va.''s mine superintendent, whose devotion to the mine is matched only by his wife''s loathing for it. When Sputnik inspires "Sonny" with an interest in rockets, she sees it not as a hobby but as a way to escape the mines. After an initial, destructive try involving 12 cherry bombs, Sonny and his cronies set up the Big Creek Missile Agency (BCMA). From Auk I (top altitude, six feet), through Auk XXXI (top altitude, 31,000 feet), the boys experiment with nozzles, fins and, most of all, fuel, graduating from a basic black powder to "rocket candy" (melted potassium chlorate and sugar) to "Zincoshine" (zinc, sulfur, moonshine). But Coalwood is the real star, here. Teachers, clergy, machinists, town gossips, union, management, everyone become co-conspirators in the BCMA''s explosive three-year project. Hickam admits to taking poetic license in combining characters and with the sequence of events, and if there is any flaw, it''s that the people and the narrative seem a little too perfect. But no matter how jaded readers have become by the onslaught of memoirs, none will want to miss the fantastic voyage of BCMA, Auk and Coalwood. First serial to Life. 10-city author tour. (Sept.) FYI: Rocket Boys is currently in production at Universal, which plans to release it later this year.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4663'),
(7999, 'Rocket Ship Galileo', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10414'),
(8000, 'The Rocky Road to Romance', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ offered to take on the temporary job of traffic reporter, handsome program director Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn Daisy Adams down. Perhaps he knew that, sharing close quarters with her for hours, he''d find her quirky charms hard to resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2148'),
(8001, 'Rogue', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the . . . ***Rogue** Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husbandâ€”first his work and then his never-ending quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyleâ€”dating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young womenâ€”while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changesâ€¦. For Maxine it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is notâ€”mature, grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life againâ€”as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But Blakeâ€™ s sudden transformationâ€”from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible *grown-upâ€”*raises questions sheâ€™s never managed to answer . . . and some sheâ€™s afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anythingâ€”except changeâ€¦. An unforgettable story of two people pursuing happiness from opposite directions, **Rogue **is a journey of choices and the amazing opportunities that come togetherâ€”just when life seems to have been successfully rearranged at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/900'),
(8002, 'Rogue Saucer', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "ROUGE SAUCER"  While its own saucer section receives needed repairs, the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)" tests a new experimental saucer. In theory, the new saucer can survive a planetary crash landing, but will it come through intact under genuine test conditions? Riker, Data, Worf, and La Forge risk their lives to find out, and so does Admiral nechayev of Starfleet.  But a dangerous test turns even more deadly when hostile forces seize control of the saucer --and turn it against the "Enterprise."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7245'),
(8003, 'The Rogue', 'Trudi Canavan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover the magic of Trudi Canavan with her brand new novel in the Traitor Spy Trilogy...\n</p>\n<p>\n Living among the Sachakan rebels, Lorkin does his best to learn about their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their secrets for the Healing they so desperately want.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Sonea searches for the rogue, knowing that Cery cannot avoid assassination forever. The rogue''s influence over the city''s underworld, however, is far greater than she feared.\n</p>\n<p>\n And in the University, two female novices are about to remind the Guild that sometimes their greatest enemy is found within...\n</p>\n<p>\n The Traitor Spy Trilogy, which began with\n <em>\n  The Ambassador''s Mission\n </em>\n , is the new series set in the world of the international bestselling Black Magician Trilogy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trudi Canavan published her first story in 1999 and it received an Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story. Her debut series, The Black Magician Trilogy, made her an international success and her last five novels have been\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n bestsellers in the UK. Trudi Canavan lives with her partner in Melbourne, Australia, and spends her time knitting, painting and writing. You can visit her website at www.trudicanavan.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6322'),
(8004, 'Rogues&#39; Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum', 'Michael Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œBehind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.â€ With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nationâ€™s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper classâ€™s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And he paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power.The Metropolitan, Gross writes, â€œis a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of manâ€™s attributesâ€”extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and prideâ€”into the very best, transmuting deadly sins into priceless treasure.â€ The book covers the entire 138-year history of the Met, focusing on the museumâ€™s most colorful characters. Opening with the lame-duck director Philippe de Montebello, the museumâ€™s longest-serving leader who finally stepped down in 2008, Roguesâ€™ Gallery then goes back to the very beginning, highlighting, among many others: the first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-born epic phony, whose legacy is a trove of plundered ancient relics, some of which remain on display today; John Pierpont Morgan, the greatest capitalist and art collector of his day, who turned the museum from the plaything of a handful of rich amateurs into a professional operation dedicated, sort of, to the public good; John D. Rockefeller Jr., who never served the Met in any official capacity but who, during the Great Depression, proved the only man willing and rich enough to be its benefactor, which made him its behind-the-scenes puppeteer; the controversial Thomas Hoving, whose tenure as director during the sixties and seventies revolutionized museums around the world but left the Met in chaos; and Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta, a mother-daughter trustee tag team whose stories will astonish you (think Casablanca rewritten by Edith Wharton).With a supporting cast that includes artists, forgers, and looters, financial geniuses and scoundrels, museum officers (like its chairman Arthur Amory Houghton, head of Corning Glass, who once ripped apart a priceless and ancient Islamic book in order to sell it off piecemeal), trustees (like Jayne Wrightsman, the Hollywood party girl turned society grand dame), curators (like the aging Dietrich von Bothmer, a refugee from Nazi Germany with a Bronze Star for heroism whose greatest acquisitions turned out to be looted), and donors (like Irwin Untermyer, whose collecting obsession drove his wife and children to suicide), and with cameo appearances by everyone from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland to Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten, Roguesâ€™ Gallery is a rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at Americaâ€™s upper class, and what is perhaps its greatest creation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6313'),
(8005, 'The Rolling Stone Interviews', 'Jann Wenner &amp; Joe Levy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars, and cultural icons--uncensored and unfiltered--are published together in one remarkable volume in celebration of "Rolling Stones" 40th anniversary.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jann Wenner is the founder, owner and editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He is also the head of Wenner Media, which includes such magazines as US Weekly and Men''s Journal. He lives in Manhattan.\n</p>\n<p>\n Joe Levy is the Executive Editor of Rolling Stone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5513'),
(8006, 'The Rolling Stones', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn''t planned on having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones were not your ordinary Lunar family -- no way! -- and their voyage through the solar system sure proved it. What began as a simple business expedition to Mars soon mushroomed into a dangerous situation when Grandma Stone was lost in space. Then, just when everything seemed to be getting better, a Martian flatcat came aboard and fouled up the works. But the real trouble didn''t get underway until the Stones headed for the asteroid belt to take up a mining proposition they, somehow, couldn''t refuse . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10406'),
(8007, 'Roma - The Novel of Ancient Rome', 'Steven Saylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9659');
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(8008, 'The Romance of Crime', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki find themselves at a crucial moment in British history: London, November 1605. When they uncover a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, they think they know what to expect. But they''re in for a very unpleasant surprise.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4796'),
(8009, 'The Romance of Decline The Historiography of Appeasement', 'Patrick Finney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3528'),
(8010, 'Romancing Miss Bronte: A Novel', 'Juliet Gael', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Juliet Gael was raised in the Midwest and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. She has lived abroad for more than fifteen years, primarily in Paris, where she worked as a screenwriter. She now makes her home in Florence, Italy. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2992'),
(8011, 'The Romanov Bride', 'Robert Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The next in the bestselling trilogy â€”the drama of a grand duchess and the peasant who determines her fate** As the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra rushes toward catastrophe, the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta is ensconced in the lavish and magnificent Romanov court. In the same city, but worlds apart, Pavel is a simple village man in search of a better life. When his young wife, Shura, is shot and killed by tsarist soldiers during a political demonstration, Pavel dedicates his life to overthrowing the Romanovs. Pavelâ€™s underground group assassinates Elisavyetaâ€™s husband, the grand duke, changing her life forever. Grief-stricken, the grand duchess gives up her wealth and becomes a nun dedicated to the poor people of Russia. When revolution finally sweeps in, Elisavyeta is the last Romanov captured, ripped from her abbey in the middle of the night and shuttled to Siberia. It is here, in a distant wood on a moonlit night, that Pavel is left to decide her fate. *The Romanov Bride* is Alexanderâ€™s fullest and most engaging book yet. Combining stunning writing with a keen talent for storytelling, Alexander uncovers more compelling Romanov drama and intrigue for his many readers and all fans of historical fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3861'),
(8012, 'The Romanov Prophecy', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this second Russian suspense novel, which focuses on the restoration of the Romanov dynasty, Berry shows he''s honed his craft since his somewhat shaky debut,\n <em>\n  The Amber Room\n </em>\n (2003). Miles Lord, a workaholic African-American lawyer from Atlanta, is in Moscow to help Stefan Baklanov, the Romanov claimant his high-powered firm is backing. Since the new tsar will reign as an autocrat like his ancestors, both big rubles and big bucks are at stakeâ€”not to mention access to nuclear weapons. Lord soon discerns that Baklanov is corrupt, a tool of the\n <em>\n  mafiya\n </em>\n . While digging through old files on the Russian Revolution, Lord comes to believe Baklanov is the "raven" Rasputin predicted would help save the royal house in 1916. Teaming with a beautiful acrobat, Akilina Petrov of the Moscow Circus, Lord attempts to discover whether any children of Nicholas II escaped Lenin''s executioners. A series of exotic clues propel the pair on an international scavenger hunt. Berry uses Russiaâ€”past and presentâ€”to excellent effect and makes sharp observations about the contemporary Russian scene, such as the racism Lord encounters throughout the country. The book''s villain needs a bit more development, but this doesn''t detract much from a solid tale a cut aboveâ€”and then someâ€”many thrillers on the market.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for Steve Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n _The Romanov Prophecy\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œREADERS WHO ENJOY THE BOOKS OF DAN BROWN AND DANIEL SILVA WILL ENJOY\n <em>\n  THE ROMANOV PROPHECY\n </em>\n , TOO. This is a wild roller-coaster ride, with explosive action and compelling suspense, delving into one of the great mysteries of our time.â€\n <br />\n â€“SHARON KAY PENMAN, author of\n <em>\n  Time and Chance\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _The Amber Room\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œSEXY, ILLUMINATING, AND CONFIDENT . . . a globe-trotting treasure hunt packed with exotic locales, sumptuous art, and ruthless villains.\n <br />\n Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran.â€\n <br />\n â€“DAN BROWN, author of\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCOMPELLING . . . ADVENTURE-FILLED . . . a fast-moving, globe-hopping tale of long-lost treasure and shadowy bad guys.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMAGNIFICENTLY ENGROSSING, with wonderful characters and a plot that speeds, twists, and turns. Pure intrigue, pure fun.â€\n <br />\n â€“CLIVE CUSSLER\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6461'),
(8013, 'The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand''s voice, delivering the novelist''s passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne''s clear conveyance of Rand''s essays is important because her ideas are quite controversial. Dunne''s voice has an empirical and authoritative tone that demands a full and concise hearing. . . a thought-provoking listen. . .'''' --AudioFile\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Underlying this treatise is the objectivist philosophy which has placed Ayn Rand in the mainstream of American thought.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6852'),
(8014, 'Romeo and Juliet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it''s love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together? William Shakespeare''s masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for a modern teen audience with both the original play and a prose retelling of the beloved story, this is the must-have edition of a timeless classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3453'),
(8015, 'Romeo, Romeo', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A sparkling new voice! If you love witty dialogue, great characters and a lot of fun in your books, this is the writer for you!" *- Maureen Child, USA Today bestselling author* **Rosalie Ronaldi doesn''t have a domestic bone in her body ... ** All she cares about is her career, so she survives on take-out and dirty martinis, keeps her shoes under the dining room table, her bras on the shower curtain rod, and her clothes on the couch ... **Nick Romeo is every woman''s fantasy - tall, dark, handsome, rich, really good in bed, AND he loves to cook and clean ... ** He says he wants an independent woman, but when he meets Rosalie, all he wants to do is take care of her. Before too long, he''s cleaned up her apartment, stocked her refrigerator, and adopted her dog ... So what''s the problem? Just a little matter of mistaken identity, corporate theft, a hidden past in juvenile detention and one big nosy Italian family too close for comfort ... (20080903)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3993'),
(8016, 'Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the second volume of Mr Milligan''s reminiscences of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3488'),
(8017, 'The Romulan Prize', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hermeticus 2 -- a planet so shrouded in secrecy that few in the Federation even know of its existence. When a Romulan spy learns of the world, it becomes the centerpiece of a far-reaching Romulan plan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On routine patrol neat the border of the Neutral Zone, the Starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ discovers an advanced Romulan Warbird prototype drifing lifeless in space. Investigating the vessel, Captain Picard isa dreawn into a plaot that threatens the very foundation of the Federation. Now, with time running out, Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  must stop the Romulans before the deadly secret of Hermeticus 2 overwhelms them all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hermeticus 2 is a planet so shrouded in secrecy that few in the Federation even know of its existence. When a Romulan spy learns of the world, it becomes the centerpiece of a far-reaching Romulan plan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On routine patrol near the border of the Neutral Zone, the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM discovers an advanced Romulan Warbird prototype drifting lifeless in space. Investigating the vessel, Captain Picard is drawn into a plot that threatens the very foundation of the Federation. Now, with time running out, Captain Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  must stop the Romulans before the deadly secret of Hermeticus 2 overwhelms them all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6593'),
(8018, 'The Romulan Stratagem', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a mission to an unexplored planet near the Klingon/Romulan border, the "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) travels to the planet Eloh to negotiate Federation memebership. But upon arrival, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his diplomatic team find themselves face to face with Commander Sela, an old Romulan enemy -- who''s there to convince the Elohsians to join the Romulan Empire.  When a series of fatal indidents casts suspicion on both delegations, Data must form an uneasy alliance with Sela to prove the innocence of the "Starship Enterprise"(TM) crew -- or lose a sprategic stronghold to the Federation''s greatest enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7477'),
(8019, 'Ronald Reagan', 'Benge, Geoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From his early days living in small-town poverty, young Dutch Reagan''s thoughts were always on the future. Whether helping his family through financial hard times or doggedly pursuing opportunities reserved for the few, Dutch knew that all the knowledge that he had absorbed over the years was waiting inside of him for a chance to come out. Achieving success as an athlete, sports announcer, and actor, Ronald Reagan discovered his greatest role late in life, as the fortieth president of the United States and The Great Communicator, a man with the ability to reach out to the American people and leave a lasting legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9404'),
(8020, 'Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House', 'Bob Colacello', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Six years in the making--with unprecedented access to Nancy Reagan and the couple''s closest friends--here is the first volume in the definitive portrait of the remarkable, career-building partnership between Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis. 16-page photo insert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6643'),
(8021, 'Room for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Innkeeper Alex Winston''s best friend is about to get married, and Alex couldn''t be happier that Mor Pendleton wants to hold the nuptials at the Hatteras West Lighthouse. The only problem is that before the ceremony can begin, the bride''s ex husband is found murdered on the grounds, and Alex must solve the crime, or risk losing his friend forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3983'),
(8022, 'A Room with a View', 'E. M. Forster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: British/ Italy/ Fiction; Young women/ Fiction; Florence (Italy); England; British; Young women; Humorous stories; England - Fiction; British - Italy; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Literary; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Foreign Language Study / Japanese; History / Europe / Italy; Language Arts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1113'),
(8023, 'Room: A Novel', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010\n </strong>\n : In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue''s\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room--an 11Ã—11-foot space that is their prison--captives of the terrifying man Jack calls Old Nick. But as Jack grows older and more curious, it becomes clear that the room will not be able to hold him and Ma forever. Michal Friedman shines as Jack; her narration is haunting and compelling in its every inflection and tone. The voice she creates for Jack is so convincing, listeners may even mistake her for an actual child. Her powerful performance is complemented by Robert Petcoff''s sinister Old Nick, and Ellen Archer''s portrayal of resourceful Ma, whose gentle voice is infused with patience, terror, and hope. The chemistry between the players creates a gem of an audiobook that will haunt listeners long after the story''s end. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, July 12). (Sept.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11227'),
(8024, 'Rooms: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-five-year-old letter from a great uncle he never knew. It claims a home awaits him on the Oregon coast that will turn his world inside out. Suspecting a prank, Micah arrives at Cannon Beach to discover a stunning brand new nine-thousand square foot house. And after meeting Sarah Sabin at a nearby ice cream shop, he has two reasons to visit the beach every weekend. When bizarre things start happening in the rooms of the home, Micah suspects they have some connection to his enigmatic new friend, Rick, the town mechanic. But Rick will only say the house is spiritual. This unnerves Micah because his faith slipped away like the tide years ago, and he wants to keep it that way. But as he slowly discovers, the home isnâ€™t just spiritual, itâ€™s a physical manifestation of his soul, which God uses to heal Micahâ€™s darkest wounds and lead him into an astonishing new destiny. "An extraordinary read. Part *The Screwtape Letters*, part *The Shack*." --Robert Liparulo, best-selling author of *Comes a Horseman* "A profound spiritual tale spun with imaginative flair. I''m looking forward to more from Jim Rubart." --James Scott Bell, best-selling author of *Try Fear* "Unforgettable. The kind of book that is talked about long after the last page has been turned. The universe of readers is richer because of this debut novel." --Alton Gansky, author of *Enoch* and *Certain Jeopardy* "Two words about *Rooms*: blown away. It''s been a long time since I read anything this unique and truly creative, and even longer since a book held me in such rapt attention during the moments I was reading it--and long after." --Deborah Raney, author of the Clayburn novels\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2061'),
(8025, 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family', 'Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  One of the most important books and television series ever to appear,Â Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadnâ€™t been seen since the publication ofÂ Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Â RootsÂ opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of Americaâ€™s past.Â   Over the years, bothÂ RootsÂ and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whetherÂ RootsÂ is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs inÂ RootsÂ were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.Â   But none of the controversy affects the basic issue.Â RootsÂ fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed inÂ Roots. Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publishÂ Roots: The 30th Anniversary EditionÂ to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time ofÂ Roots. Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  It''s hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Alex Haley''s groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family''s history) was first published and became a worldwide phenomenon. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late 1700s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte''s family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning 200 years. Avery Brooks proves to be the perfect choice to bring Haley''s devastatingly powerful piece of American literature to audio. Brooks''s rich, deep baritone brings a deliberate, dignified, at times almost reverential interpretation to his reading, but never so reserved as to forget that at its heart this is a story about people and family. His multiple characterizations manage, with a smooth and accomplished ease, to capture the true essence of each individual in the book. Michael Eric Dyson offers an informative introduction to Haley''s book, but it is Brooks''s performance that brings the author''s words and history to life.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most important books and television series ever to appear,Â _Roots_, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadnâ€™t been seen since the publication ofÂ _Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin_. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Â _Roots_Â opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of Americaâ€™s past.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the years, bothÂ _Roots_Â and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whetherÂ _Roots_Â is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs inÂ _Roots_Â were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  But none of the controversy affects the basic issue.Â _Roots_Â fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed inÂ _Roots_. Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publishÂ _Roots: The 30th Anniversary Edition_Â to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time ofÂ _Roots_.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6988'),
(8026, 'Rose in a Storm', 'Jon Katz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Katz, best-selling author of the anecdotal Bedlam Farm books, returns to his fiction roots with this gently appealing tale of a sheepdog named Rose. Fully immersing himself inside the mind and the soul of his furry protagonist, he conjures up a believably canine view of the joys and sorrows of life on a small farm. Spinning the narrative from Roseâ€™s point of view, he paints a portrait of a close-knit community, where animals and humans rely on one another for comfort and protection. With her master injured and a ferocious storm swirling around at the height of lambing season, it is up to Rose to call upon all her instinctive resources to battle the elements of nature in order to save the lives of her sheep and rescue her farmer. Heartwarming fodder for the pet set. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From\n <em>\n  New York Times bestselling\n </em>\n author Jon Katz comes a moving and powerful novel, the first one inspired by life on his celebrated Bedlam Farmâ€”and perceptively told from the point of view of Rose, a dedicated working dog.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those sheâ€™s looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Samâ€™s wife disappeared one day. She senses something else in the air as well: A storm is coming, but not like any of the ones sheâ€™s seen over the years. This storm feels different, bigger, more foreboding.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n When an epic blizzard hits the region, it will take all of Roseâ€™s resolve, resourcefulness, and courage to help Sam save the farm and the creatures who live there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jon Katz consulted with animal behavior scientists to create his unique and convincing vision of the world as seen through the eyes of a dog. Poignant, thrilling, and beautifully wrought, Rose in a Storm is a wonderfully original and powerful tale from a gifted storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6696'),
(8027, 'Rose Madder', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Rose Daniels sees the drop of blood on the bedsheet, she knows she must escape her marriage and her savage husband before it''s too late. But escape is not that easy. Norman isn''t willing to let her go without a fight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4280'),
(8028, 'The rose rent: the thirteenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Judith Perle, a young widow who had greatly loved her husband, has conveyed one of her properties to the Abbey of Shrewsbury in return for the annual rent of one white rose from the bush growing on the property''s north wall. A few years later, in 1142, the delivery of the rose became an issue, since there were men in Shrewsbury who desired Judith for her beauty or her substantial dowry. The first crisis appears to have been averted by the handling of the monks of the Benedictine Abbey, among them Brother Cadfael. But a sudden brutal murder cries out for investigation and punishment...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(8029, 'Rosemary and Rue', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: October ''Toby'' Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a ''normal'' life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas...The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening''s dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening''s killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3264'),
(8030, 'Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE SPECTACULAR EIGHTH #1 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF POP GOES THE WEASEL#1 Washington Post#1 Publishers Weekly#1 Wall Street Journal#1 Chicago Tribune#1 Entertainment Weekly#1 Philadelphia InquirerIn this heart-pounding new thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most brilliant killer he''s ever confronted, a mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been killing bank employees and their families if the robbers'' instructions are not followed to the letter. Alex Cross knows this is no ordinary criminal -- the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a crisis at home -- but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2031'),
(8031, 'Rosie Little&#39;s Cautionary Tales for Girls', 'Daniel Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Linked anecdotes about the perils of young womanhood from Australian author Wood trendily play off of antediluvian diction and antiquated women''s advice columns, but actually possesses some hard-won wisdom. Divided into themes such as virginity, truth, art, commitment, marriage and loss, the tales treat the predictable muddle of female experience, though in the feisty literary persona of not such a "good girl." Indeed, the first story, "The Deflowering of Rosie Little," finds the narrator, at 14, eager to look up Latin words in the dictionary used in sexual relations, losing her virginity in the most demeaning fashion at a party to a coarse lager lout who offers her a popular cocktail for girls called "Rene Pogel" (read it backward). In another wacky tale that goes off the rails into reality, "Rosie Little in the Mother Country," the narrator, now 17, is sent for a long visit to her childless godparents'' house back in England, where the joyless, emotionally numbed couple finds Rosie''s sexual vivacity unnerving and finally insupportable. Despite corny sidebars on penis sizes, pubic hairstyling, and "Nominative Determinism" (you are what you''re named), Wood addresses real issues: domestic violence, abortion and the desire to be married with children, among others. What emerges is a sense of destiny for Rosie, a woman who works hard-as a newspaper reporter and an assistant purser on an American cruise ship, among other things-and senses intuitively that a life of heartstrings'' unraveling is surely worth a pull or two.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Rosie, a Little Red Riding hood type with lace-up Doc Martens instead of scones, narrates this story collection for the smart, strong female who can''t help getting into trouble... Wood''s prose reads as powerful, funny, and real... Rosie may have ''a difficult relationship with the word eclectic,'' but that''s what this book is. In a good way. Grade: A-" --Entertainment Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...emotionally pitch-perfect...[The stories] are funny and moving, and original enough to cover long-trampled territory like virginity and domestic abuse and seem new...get it and you''ll have the smartes book at the beach." --Santa Cruz Sentinel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wood''s collection of linked short stories makes a delightful trek through the life of bad girl Rosie Little...A clever and wickedly amusing character...Wood''s writing is succinct, elegant, witty, and wonderfully suited to the form. Highly recommended." --Library Journal STARRED review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...emotionally pitch-perfect...[The stories] are funny and moving, and original enough to cover long-trampled territory like virginity and domestic abuse and seem new...get it and you''ll have the smartes book at the beach." --Santa Cruz Sentinel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wood''s collection of linked short stories makes a delightful trek through the life of bad girl Rosie Little...A clever and wickedly amusing character...Wood''s writing is succinct, elegant, witty, and wonderfully suited to the form. Highly recommended." --Library Journal STARRED review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6305'),
(8032, 'Rot &amp; Ruin', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn''t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2746'),
(8033, 'Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series', 'David Pietrusza', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A colorfully written account of a crime genius. Rothstein follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The book follows his tempestuous career throughout, as an underworld figure, and introduces readers to thegrimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a barnacle. The model for The Great Gatsby''s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was much more than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Transporting readers onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the racetracks, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and sports stars, here is the biography of the devilishly beloved gangland dandy who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. David Pietrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series, playing all sides off one another so that he alone could not lose, and unravels the mystery ofhis November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room. A masterful portrait of a Roaring ''20s legend filled with fascinating photographs, Pietrusza''s award-nominated Rothstein cements the place of "The Big Bankroll" as the godfather of organized crime inAmerica.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6975'),
(8034, 'The Rough Guide to Amsterdam', 'Martin Dunford &amp; Phil Lee &amp; Karoline Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you''re looking for the restroom in The Rijksmuseum, free beer at the Heineken Brewery, information at The Prostitution Information Centre, yellow corduroy flares at the Waterlooplein market, a canal bike to cruise the waterways, a primer on Dutch cheese, or where to dial for BBC World Service broadcasts--look no further.\n <em>\n  Amsterdam: The Rough Guide\n </em>\n can help you fulfill these and thousands of other needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are many reasons to visit Amsterdam, not the least of which could be its breath-of-fresh-air qualities compared to the rush of other cities. As the authors explain, "With its tree-lined canals, cobbled streets, tinkling bicycle bells and stately architecture, Amsterdam is a world away from the traffic and noise of other European city centres--clean, modern and quiet, while still retaining a perfectly preserved 400-year-old centre."\n</p>\n<p>\n The Rough Guide''s maps include sights, bars, hotels, restaurants, clubs, and public transport routes. They''re easy to read and well-marked and are accompanied by choice-provoking tidbits about places to stay and nearby eateries and drinkeries: "Well-worn but clean rooms awaiting imminent renovation, friendly and helpful staff," "Small, homely and serving delicious pancakes," "Tiny place that looks and feels like an African mud hut, except for the hip-hop beats. Grass specialists."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Rough Guide to Amsterdam" is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the unforgettable attractions of this compact and instantly likeable city. From the Anne Frankhuis to the Reijksmuseum, the Rough Guide will steer you via outstanding art galleries, elegant canal-side architecture and all the unmissable city sites. The guide provides comprehensive coverage of the best restaurants, stylish bars, intimate cafes, vibrant markets and hottest nightlife in Amsterdam for all budgets. "The Rough Guide to Amsterdam" includes a chapter devoted to day-trips featuring places you can comfortably get to and back from in a day including Haarlem, Alkmaar and Edam. Explore all corners of the city with authoritative background on evrything from the city''s canal houses to the art of the Golden Age, relying on the clearest maps of any guide and practical language tips. Whether you''re sipping a beer in an old cafe, or dodging the trams on Dam Square, this guide is indispensable. Make the most of your holiday with "The Rough Guide to Amsterdam".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6205'),
(8035, 'Rough Justice', 'Stephen Leather', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To some, revenge is the only law â€¦ Dan â€˜Spiderâ€™ Shepherd returns in a new finger-on-the-pulse action adventure: if you like Andy McNab, youâ€™ll love Leather.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8287'),
(8036, 'Rough Weather', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsibleâ€” the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past**. Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected â€”and she needs Spenserâ€™s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits the Boston P.I. to accompany her to her private island, Tashtego. The reason? To attend her daughterâ€™s wedding as a sort of stand-in husband and protector. Spenser consents, but only after it is established that his beloved Susan Silverman will also be in attendance. It should be a straightforward job for Spenser: show up for appearances, have some drinks, and spend some quality time with Susan. But when Spenserâ€™s old nemesis Rugarâ€”the Gray Manâ€”arrives, Spenser realizes that something is amiss. A storm, a kidnapping, and murder tear apart what should be a joyous occasion, and Rugar is seemingly at the center of it all. The only thing is that the sloppy kidnapping is not Rugarâ€™s styleâ€”as Spenser knows from past encounters. With six dead bodies and more questions than he can process, Spenser begins a search for answersâ€”and the Gray Man. With its razor-sharp dialogue, crisply etched characters, and high-wire narrative tension, *Rough Weather* once again proves that â€œRobert B. Parker is a force of natureâ€ (*The Boston Globe*).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4021'),
(8037, 'Rough Weather (2008)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 36', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10533'),
(8038, 'Roughneck', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Incorrigible author Jim Thompson retraces his wild swath across America during the great Depression and World War II. Whether he''s getting drunk in a funeral home or drafting a manuscript with the help of a big-hearted prostitute, Thompson is a mesmerizing guide to hard times--his country''s and his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2196'),
(8039, 'The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today', 'Ted Conover', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]_Reviewed by_ Jeb BrugmannIn\n <em>\n  The Routes of Man\n </em>\n , Conover, author of the NBCC awardâ€“winning\n <em>\n  Newjack\n </em>\n , reveals globalization''s neural system growing along the world''s expanding and connecting road systems. Governments and smugglers, armies and insurgents, and the local poor and international NGOs negotiate their ambitions at border crossings, checkpoints, and dives. Tracing the route of rare mahogany from Peru''s illegal jungle logging camps to Manhattan''s brownstones, he examines how highways connect the fates of forests, untouched tribes, and finicky antique collectors. In the Himalayan frontier of Kashmir, highways are ventures of national territorial control, and in China a growing superhighway system underscores the disparity between the haves and have-nots. Conover''s voice is that of a sobered Kerouac, tamed by a bigger conscience, and on an open road increasingly controlled by corporate, government, and military interests. His acclaimed narrative gifts are on full display in a wonderfully evenhanded treatment of the roadway in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Highways have been co-opted for Israeli settlements, and Palestinian professors, engineers, and migrant laborers construct ever-shifting back-road routes and taxi-hops to earn their living. With Conover as our guide, we move through Israeli checkpoints in Palestine''s West Bank and witness the daily indignities faced by corralled Palestinian commuters and the psychological angst of Israeli soldiers. There is no open road here, just a gritty, fractured infrastructure of hatred that strangles both nations.More subtly, Conover reveals the highway as common social territory, particularly as the meeting place between men and women. His treatment of east African truck driversâ€”whose travels are suspected to be linked with the global spread of AIDSâ€”avoids stereotype and sensationalism. He is as attentive to and interested by the drudgery of transporting goods as with the truckers'' polygamy or encounters with sex workers and police bribery. We meet truck drivers who are true gentlemen and tough, articulate women fully capable of negotiating roadside life. Conover maintains a commitment to accurate portrayal and embraces the whole world, not only its dramatic aspects.\n <em>\n  The Routes of Man\n </em>\n seeks to describe more than to explain this ever-connecting world. It does the former with an agility that leaves the reader anticipating the next adventure. But the narrative fails to build the argument posed in its subtitle: that roads themselves have become a source of change in the world, independent of the nations, armies, and cities that build, control, and fill them with trade and traffic. But this many-textured journey is not to be missed. Conover deftly navigates the romance and harsh reality of a world intent on a real and not just a virtual connectedness._Jeb Brugmann is author of_ Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World_._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reviewers were generally happy to follow Conover as he brought to life some of the world''s most interesting and dangerous routes while managing to steer clear of the thousand "road-as-life" metaphors that could have congested the work. But they tended to criticize him with their own transit analogy: Routes of Man, many wrote, lacks the promised path connecting Conover''s adventures perhaps because many of the essays originated as magazine articles in National Geographic, the Atlantic, and other publications. For some critics, this was no issue; the [hardcover''s] subtitle, they argued, was clearly an imposition by the marketing department and shouldn''t detract from the book. But others wanted more reflection from an author whom they respected for traveling so far and learning so much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8019'),
(8040, 'The Rowan', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10841'),
(8041, 'Royal assassin', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored him in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering mission, and returns to the court where he is thrown headfirst into the tumult of royal life. With the King near death, and Fitz''s only ally off on a seemingly hopeless quest, the throne itself is threatened. Meanwhile, the treacherous Red Ship Raiders have renewed their attacks on the Six Duchies, slaughtering the inhabitants of entire seaside towns. In this time of great peril, it soon becomes clear that the fate of the kingdom may rest in Fitz''s hands--and his role in its salvation may require the ultimate sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3471'),
(8042, 'Royal Blood', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The Royal Spyness series continues with an all-new mystery of "the British monarchy...a wedding in Transylvania...[and] wonderful characters." (#1 *New York Times* bestselling author Charlaine Harris). ** Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre- looking castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest is poisoned. Now it''s up to Georgie to save the nuptial festivities before the couple''s vows become: to love and to cherish, till *undeath* do them part...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3928'),
(8043, 'The Royals', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography,\n <em>\n  The Royals\n </em>\n . Fans of the 1992 book Diana used to bash her in-laws--\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are a few of the nasty allegations Kelley collects in a history of Britain''s top dogs: though the royals may love their corgis more than their children and spouses, they pinch the poor pooches'' posteriors to make them bark into the phone to amuse the royals at the other end of the line. Also, the Queen Mother may have been born out of wedlock, and her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, may have been conceived by artificial insemination.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are dozens of other stinky zingers in Kelley''s book, mostly from anonymous sources. The late Princess Diana comes off the best, even though Kelley suggests that she may have shoved her 58-year-old stepmother down the stairs. Diana met her last lover, Dodi, after\n <em>\n  The Royals\n </em>\n went to press, so there''s nothing in it about them--though Kelley does relate previous 100 m.p.h. chases and press encounters ending in gore. It was a long, sad story leading up to the last crash, and Kelley tells the family''s worst enemies'' account of it in a tone colder than the royals themselves.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gossipmonger Kelly narrates her latest unauthorized biography, this time targeting Britain''s royal family. She has included some interesting factual information about the royals, describing the early-20th-century history of the family and its ties to Germany. But the biography is a mix of fact and tawdry, unsubstantiated innuendo (Phillip may be bisexual, one son may not be his, etc.). Wherever possible, Kelley''s inflections as narrator make events seem naughtier still. There are two obvious flaws: not once are sources cited clearly, and most of the slurs are based on what someone says without scrutiny of motives. Of the family, the Queen comes out of the fray best, and Charles definitely gets the worst of it. Throughout, schlock rules over scholarship. Not recommended.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, N.C.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6452'),
(8044, 'The Ruby Knight', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ehlanda, Queen of Elenia, has been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustains her life, but it will end soon. Then Sparhawk, Knight of the Queen''s Champion, learns where to get to cure for the poison. He and his companions set forth on a dangerous quest to find the antidote before the queen should perish and the peace ends....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10506');
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(8045, 'The Ruin', 'Richard Lee Byers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The climactic conclusion of The Year of Rogue Dragons! Madness takes hold, Sammaster draws closer to victory, and forgotten secrets are revealed at last. Dorn and the rogue dragons will have to find the source of a millennia-old curse, then find some way to destroy it, before the Rage overcomes the world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8315'),
(8046, 'The Ruins of Gorlan (Book 1)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He had always wanted to be a warrior. The Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways, made him nervous. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now fifteen year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Rangerâ€™s apprentice. What he doesnâ€™t realize yet is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1620'),
(8047, 'The Ruins of Gorlan', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He had always wanted to be a warrior. The Rangers, with their  dark cloaks and shadowy ways, made him nervous. The villagers  believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to  ordinary people. And now fifteen year-old Will, always small for  his age, has been chosen as a Rangerâ€™s apprentice. What he  doesnâ€™t realize yet is that the Rangers are the protectors of the  kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance,  they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as  Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled  Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering  his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will  not be denied . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4809'),
(8048, 'The ruins of Kaldac', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1939'),
(8049, 'The Rules of Attraction', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, TheRules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plansfor the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. BretEaston Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden Collegeand treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassionwhile exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split forEurope months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bedwith half the campus, and Paul, Lauren''s ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks ashrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hoursto Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. TheRules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(8050, 'Rules of Deception', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee Child on\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n _Lee Child has crafted one of literature''s most popular anti-heroes in the form of Jack Reacher, the iconic ex-military policeman of his\n <em>\n  _Nothing to Lose\n </em>\n talks about what makes a good thriller -- and why Christopher Reich is a novelist worthy of a gold medal.\n</p>\n<p>\n I discovered Christopher Reich exactly ten years ago. His first book came out around the same time my second book was published. The modest prosperity that oneâ€™s first book deal brings allowed me to pick up hardcovers that caught my eye. And\n</p>\n<p>\n And then he got better. It was always clear that he had talent to burn, but he chose to accompany it with a real work ethic. His second, third and fourth books built and built until the release of the next one was an event to be anticipated. (And right there is my only complaint: Reich doesnâ€™t write fast enough.)\n</p>\n<p>\n His fifth book -\n</p>\n<p>\n So I was really looking forward to\n <em>\n  Rules of Deception\n </em>\n . I got an advance copy. I cracked it open. I started reading. Mostly I read like any other reader, but a small part of me reads like a writer. I think all writers experience the same thing. We sense things between the lines, especially energy and inspiration.\n</p>\n<p>\n And ambition.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Rules of Deception\n </em>\n starts with a short prologue, and then the first chapter introduces Jonathan Ransom, the main character. Two pages, and then nine pages. The prologue is a teaser. It baits the hook. Itâ€™s a two-page masterpiece. Itâ€™s intriguing, and then itâ€™s really intriguing. It promises big things ahead. Then chapter one introduces the guy whoâ€™s going to have to deal with them. And why, indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eleven pages. The reader in me wanted to race ahead. But the writer in me had to pause a moment. Because between the lines I was sensing something. Maybe because itâ€™s an Olympic year I can only explain it like this: picture the high jump event. Six competitors are still in. Then five, then four. Then three. Then the gold, the silver, and the bronze are settled. But the rules of track and field allow the winner to go on. The bar is raised. A personal best. The Olympic record. The bar is raised again. World record height. The stadium goes quiet. The jumper stills himself on the runway. Intense concentration. The gold medal is already in the bag. Uncharted territory. The jumper rocks from foot to foot, his mind on nothing except jumping higher than he has ever jumped before.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s exactly the between-the-lines feeling I was getting from Reich, eleven pages into\n <em>\n  Rules of Deception\n </em>\n - a world-class writer preparing to accomplish something truly noteworthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are a further 377 pages. They live up to the promise.\n <em>\n  --Lee Child\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive Essay: Christopher Reich on Thrillers\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Name your five favorite books.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n For me theyâ€™re all thrillers.\n</p>\n<p>\n About two years ago, I decided that it was my turn to write the thriller Iâ€™d always wanted to read. I knew exactly where to start. All I had to do was "write what I know." These days, I know a lot about the intelligence community. Not the stuff you read about in the papers -- the stuff you never read about. Over the years, Iâ€™ve made a lot of friends in Washington and overseas. Diplomats, spies, soldiers, politicians â€“ men and women at the highest levels of government. And, I can assure you that what theyâ€™ve taught me about how the world really works is a lot more interesting and a lot more frightening than youâ€™d ever imagine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s where my newest book,\n <em>\n  Rules of Deception\n </em>\n , comes in. Itâ€™s a story about an honest and courageous doctor named Jonathan Ransom. Heâ€™s a surgeon who works for Doctors Without Borders in some of the toughest parts of the world. Heâ€™s a happily married man with a big heart and a beautiful English wife he deeply loves named Emma who works with him. What Jonathan doesnâ€™t know is that nothing about his life is what it seems. In fact, itâ€™s all a web of lies and heâ€™s caught in the middle of something extraordinarily dangerous.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t say more than that, and I shouldnâ€™t have to, because if Iâ€™ve done my job right, when you get to page five youâ€™ll be hooked and you wonâ€™t come up for air until itâ€™s all said and done.\n <em>\n  --Christopher Reich\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In true Hitchcockian tradition, Reich plunges his unsuspecting protagonist, Dr. Jonathan Ransom, into a dangerous world of international intrigue and death. After his wife dies in a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps, Ransom learns she had been leading a double life as a spy. What starts out as a search for answers about his late wife''s past quickly escalates into a frantic life and death chase across northern Europe. Paul Michael proves quite adept at narrating this complicated story. Using just the right emphasis on key words, he keeps the listener involved. With solid conviction in his voice, Michael grounds Reich''s over-the-top prose. Although his no-frills interpretation of Ransom is a little bland, Michael essays a rogues'' gallery of distinctly voiced and accented supporting characters. Reich keeps the action coming, and Michael stays with him chase for chase.\n <em>\n  A Doubleday hardcover (Reviews, May 5). (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5379'),
(8051, 'The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition', 'Templar, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10020'),
(8052, 'The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life', 'Richard Templar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _ _\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life" is a motivational guide from Richard Templar, as he explains how to live life with your head held high, understanding how to live and work with the many different personalities around you. With plenty of common sense and simple wisdom, "The Rules of Life" will motivate and inspire many a reader.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <strong>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some people seem more contented, fulfilled, enthusiastic about life... just plain happier. Is it genes? Money? No. Itâ€™s the choices they make, how they behave, every single day. Now, Richard Templar brings together the rules that happy, successful people follow: small, simple, common-sense, doable rules that can change your life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6862'),
(8053, 'The Rules of Silence', 'David Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lindsey is an efficient thriller author who sometimes (as in Mercy) reaches considerable heights of suspense and terror. The present book, however, is no more than just efficient, despite its smooth prose, a Lindsey trademark. It has a workable plot-Titus Cain, a self-made Texas millionaire software developer, is being bled financially by a Latino thug who threatens to kill Cain''s nearest and dearest if he fails to pay large sums into a series of front companies-but it soon becomes clear that the plot is all there is to the book. Titus; his wife, Rita; and the outlaw techno-whiz they hire to get them out of their horrible situation are not brought to life for an instant, but remain the ciphers of a mindless action movie. It soon becomes clear that the Cains'' would-be savior, Garcia Burden, has his own dark agenda, and that their nemesis is not stockpiling money just for himself but perhaps for a sinister Arab group that could be planning a new terrorist attack. There''s a great deal of planting bugs, scrutinizing laptops, dashing around in SUVs and the occasional burst of mayhem, but it''s basically an unengaging and mechanical exercise. Lindsey can do much better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Multimillionaire Titus Cain is approached with a strange proposition: if he doesn''t give a certain man $64 million, this same man will kill off some (or perhaps all) of Cain''s friends and loved ones. The money has to be given to the extortionist in such a way that no one suspects anything is going on (primarily through deliberately bad investments), and if Cain even tries to seek help, the killings will start instantly. Lindsey''s latest novel is thoroughly exhilarating, even if the premise isn''t completely fresh: Jon Katzenbach''s\n <em>\n  The Analyst\n </em>\n (2001) was also about a man who had to do a specific thing if he didn''t want the villain to kill his loved ones. Titus Cain is a sympathetic protagonist, a man forced to make tough decisions in the face of enormous danger; Cayetano Luquin, the powerful extortionist, who apparently does this sort of thing for a living, is vastly evil without being cartoonish; and Garcia Burden, the ex-CIA counterterrorism expert to whom Titus turns for help, is resourceful and inscrutable. Lindsey''s novels sometimes suffer from lethargy, as though he''s just sort of wandering through his story, but this one moves swiftly to its rousing finale. It''s a definite winner.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5488'),
(8054, 'The Ruling Sea', 'Robert V. S. Redick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In his acclaimed first novel, The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V. S. Redick launched the gargantuan ship Chathrand and its motley crew of misfits, murderers, and monsters toward a landfall that may exist only in legend. Now Redick masterfully ratchets up the suspense with deep intrigue, ancient powers, and shocking new revelations.Though the immediate plans of the dark sorcerer Arunis have been thwarted, the battle for control of the Chathrand, on which the fate of empires hinges, is far from over. On board, a small band of allies bound together less by trust than by desperate need scrambles for a means to defeat the conspiracy, while the nobleborn Thasha Isiq and the lowly deckhand Pazel Pathkendle find themselves unwillingly drawn inward to the plotâ€™s coreâ€”and into a deadly game that will force them to make hard sacrifices.The wizard Ramachni has left the travelers and retreated to his own world to nurse his battle wounds, but Arunis remains at largeâ€”weakened, yet still a terrifying foe. More pressing is the conspiracy of the Arquali Emperor, his chief assassin, Sandor Ott, and the Chathrandâ€™s notorious captain, Nilus Rose, to use the dawn wedding of Thasha and a Mzithrin prince as a signal to launch a war.Â Â Â  With every move they make, Thasha and her compatriots find that they have more to loseâ€”especially the deposed ixchel queen, Diadrelu, and the woken rat, Felthrup, who each harbor terrible secrets they dare not reveal.Worst of all is a hidden, festering horror lurking in the hold of the Chathrand. A danger that not even Ramachni could have foreseen, it is the twisted product of a malevolent power determined to pull down the pillars of the world.Â Â Â Â Â  Now, as the Chathrand sets course through the uncharted waters of the vast and mysterious Ruling Sea, the fragile bonds of trust and love beginning to form between the unlikely allies will be tested to the breaking pointâ€”by unspeakable terrors, magical wonders, and shattering betrayals that dwarf anything that has come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5807'),
(8055, 'The Rum Diary: A Novel', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson''s bestselling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell''s Angels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2106'),
(8056, 'Rum Punch', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell''s profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie -- and now the aging, but still hot, flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime "loose end" that Ordell needs to tie up permanently. Jackie, however, has other options. And with the help of Max Cherry -- an honest but disgruntled bail bondsman looking to get out -- she could even end up with a serious nest egg in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(8057, 'The Runaway Jury', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongsÂ Â to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobaccoÂ Â trial with hundreds of millions of dollars atÂ Â stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously offÂ Â course. The jury is behaving strangely, and atÂ Â least one juroris convinced he''s being watched. SoonÂ Â they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from anÂ Â anonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predictÂ Â the jurors'' increasingly odd behavior. Is the juryÂ Â somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? IfÂ Â so, by whom? And, more important,why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2915'),
(8058, 'Runemarks', 'Joanne Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The major fantasy debut from bestselling author Joanne Harris, now in paperback.Seven o''clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smithâ€™s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magicâ€”all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The â€œruinmarkâ€ she was born with on her palm proves itâ€”and makes the other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.But the mysterious traveler One-Eye sees Maddyâ€™s mark not as a defect, but a destiny. And Maddy will need every scrap that One-Eye can teach her about runes, cantrips, and glamoursâ€”every ounce of magic she can commandâ€”if she is to survive that destiny. * â€œHarris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues.â€â€”Publishers Weekly, Starred\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2072'),
(8059, 'The Runner', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against the backdrop of post-World War II Germany,\n <em>\n  The Runner\n </em>\n is the story of Devlin Judge, an ex-New York City detective turned lawyer on the hunt for Nazi SS soldier Erich Seyss, recently escaped from an American POW camp. Seyss, a former Olympic track star known as "The White Lion," is responsible for myriad heinous war crimes, including the murder of a platoon of unarmed American prisoners--one of whom was Judge''s own brother. Initially a member of the International Legal Tribunal, set to try former Nazis for crimes against humanity, Judge begs for the opportunity to track Seyss down. With only a week in which to do so, his hunt for the cold-blooded killer leads Judge to a race not only for his own life but for the future of Europe itself. Judge is pursuing a killer, but he is also chasing the ghosts of guilt, having decided not to enlist in the hopes of advancing his legal career: "Erich Seyss was his confession and his penance, his expiation and absolution, all tucked into a black-and-silver uniform with a death''s-head embroidered on its collar and his brother''s blood on its cuff."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Runner\n </em>\n lacks the crackling tension of __, Christopher Reich''s first novel. Even the moments of crucial conflict, or of bloody disaster, seem wan and pallid. The novel is, paradoxically, handicapped by Reich''s respect for historical detail: his interest in presenting the grim realities of postwar existence leads him into extensive descriptions of place and time that fail to merge with the story he spins. These "set pieces" stand awkwardly apart, like dour history professors coaxed into supervising the machinations of rambunctious students. Reich''s general fidelity to detail also means that the moments in which he temporarily throws accuracy to the wind are painfully apparent: how on earth would Judge, a well-fed and well-dressed American, manage to look as if he belonged in a German work-group detail? And when would any three-star general ever tolerate the gum-cracking insouciance of Judge''s driver Darren Honey, a sergeant with no regard for military hierarchy? Oddly enough, the authorial liberties Reich takes with General George Patton, saddling him with a megalomaniac''s hatred of the Russians and a schemer''s plot to redraw the boundaries of postwar Europe, are largely successful and add a welcome note of barely contained evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Runner\n </em>\n works best as a moving meditation on personal and social disjunction: Judge, Seyss, Patton, and the rest are desperately engaged in deciphering the proper place for prewar rules in the postwar chaos--and in confronting the uneasy suspicion that perhaps, after all, there is no place for them or for their beliefs. Judge must move past his easy assumption that the Allied victory was not "just a symbol of superior might but of superior morality": "Overnight, he''d become the hunted, not the hunter.... At some point during the last twenty-four hours, he''d crossed over an interior median into unknown waters. He''d abandoned the rigid structure of his previous life, renounced his worship of authority, and forsworn his devotion to rules and regulation. He''d tossed Hoyle to the wind, and he didn''t care."\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reich''s first novel, Numbered Account, did remarkably well for a debut. Unfortunately, Reich has hit upon a stale notion for his follow-up, and although the book moves along smartly, it feels mechanical in both plot and characters. Set in Germany just after the WWII surrender, it stars ace Nazi Olympic runner Erich Seyss, who as an SS man has performed untold atrocities--including the murder, in a massacre of unarmed American soldiers, of hero Devlin Judge''s brother. That motivates Judge, a lawyer who is supposed to be prosecuting G?ring at the War Crimes Tribunal, to drop everything and set off in hot pursuit of Seyss when he escapes from a POW camp. Seyss is no ordinary escapee, but is being groomed by a band of German arms industrialists who want to revive their shattered country by turning the Americans against the Russians. How better to do it than by having an apparent Russian assassinate Churchill, Truman and possibly Eisenhower as well at Potsdam? Seyss throws himself into the role with vigor, energy and an amazing number of hairbreadth escapes. Meanwhile, Judge''s pursuit is hampered by devious OSS operatives who want just what the Nazis want, for their own reasons; even General George Patton is involved, with apparent tacit support from Field Marshal Montgomery. Seyss''s beautiful former lover, Ingrid, further complicates matters. The only remotely believable part of all this is the despairing postwar atmosphere of Germany in smoking ruins, which Reich brings to life with many sharply observant touches. But there''s more to bestsellerdom than swift action and a long man-on-man chase against the clock, and most of The Runner is likely to strike fans of Ludlum and Forsyth as overly familiar. Agent, Richard Pine. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5377'),
(8060, 'Running Blind', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the man they all knew: Jack Reacher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2807'),
(8061, 'Running Linux, 5th Edition', 'Matthias Kalle Dalheimer &amp; Matt Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The fifth edition of\n <i>\n  Running Linux\n </i>\n is greatly expanded, reflecting the maturity of the operating system and the teeming wealth of software available for it. Hot consumer topics such as audio and video playback applications, groupware functionality, and spam filtering are covered, along with the basics in configuration and management that always made the book popular.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7141'),
(8062, 'The Running Man', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality show The year is 2025. The Running Man is America''s favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program''s latest contestant-and the Hunters'' latest target in a rigged game of death...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8530'),
(8063, 'Running Scared', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No Matter How Fast You Run: The newborn baby boy is beautiful, perfect, and hers for the asking. All Kate Summers has to do is agree to one condition, she must disappear from Boston and never breathe a word about the adoption to anyone. Or How Far You Go: Fifteen years later, Kate has built a good life for herself and her son, Jon, in Hopewell, Oregon. Still, she is haunted by the fear that he will somehow be taken away. Then Daegan O''Rourke arrives in town and strikes up a friendship with her and Jon. But Daegan has his own past to hide, one with shocking ties to hers. A Killer Will Always Find You: Someone is watching Kate, watching her son, and is willing to go to any lengths to claim him. And the one man Kate is tempted to trust has dangerous secrets that could change her world forever. Soon the past Kate thought she could outrun will explode, unearthing a legacy of lies and treachery, and a fury powerful enough to kill\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2990'),
(8064, 'Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian', 'Avi Steinberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison that''s an irrepressibly literary place. True, his patrons turn books into weapons (and one robs him while out on parole), but he''s beguiled by the rough poetry of inmate essays and "kites"--contraband notes secreted in library books--and entranced by the "skywriting" with which they semaphore messages letter-by-letter across the courtyard. And there''s always an informal colloquium of prostitutes, thieves, and drug dealers convened at the checkout desk, discussing everything from Steinberg''s love life to the "gangsta" subculture of Hasidic Jews. Gradually, the prison pulls him in and undermines his bemused neutrality. He helps a forlorn female prisoner communicate with her inmate son, develops a dangerous beef with a guard, and finds himself collaborating on the memoir of a charismatic pimp whose seductive rap disguises a nasty rap sheet; he has to choose sides, make queasy compromises, and decide between rules and loyalty. Steinberg writes a stylish prose that blends deadpan wit with an acute moral seriousness. The result is a fine portrait of prison life and the thwarted humanity that courses through it. (Oct. 26) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Steinberg graduated from Harvard, he expected to become a rabbi, but neither his faith nor his chosen lifestyle made that a suitable career choice. As a stopgap, he applied to work in a Boston jail library. There he was responsible not only for the day-to-day functioning of the library but also for teaching inmates creative writing. A dedicated intellectual and instinctively diffident, he was almost too easy prey for tough, aggressive, streetwise, ever-conniving criminals. To his chagrin, the hard-bitten prison staff equally tested his presuppositions about humanityâ€™s benevolence. Caroming instantaneously from profane comedy to abysmal tragedy, Steinberg recounts his struggles to relate humanely to people at the edge of society. Prison librarianship offers some of the professionâ€™s greatest challenges, and Steinberg tells just what itâ€™s like to suddenly recognize that the mugger attacking him in the park was the same guy he had checked out some books to a few months earlier. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6808'),
(8065, 'Running with Scissors', 'Burroughs, Augusten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10578'),
(8066, 'Running With Scissors: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs''s harrowing and highly entertaining memoir,\n <em>\n  Running with Scissors\n </em>\n , that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor''s office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn''t be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist''s eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs''s perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it''s ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there''s always a sense that Burroughs''s survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over your teeth when you give a blowjob," writes Burroughs (Sellevision) about his affair, at age 13, with the 33-year-old son of his mother''s psychiatrist. That his mother sent him to live with her shrink (who felt that the affair was good therapy for Burroughs) shows that this is not just another 1980s coming-of-age story. The son of a poet with a "wild mental imbalance" and a professor with a "pitch-black dark side," Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. While life in the Finch household is often overwhelming (the doctor talks about masturbating to photos of Golda Meir while his wife rages about his adulterous behavior), Burroughs learns "your life [is] your own and no adult should be allowed to shape it for you." There are wonderful moments of paradoxical humor Burroughs, who accepts his homosexuality as a teen, rejects the squeaky-clean pop icon Anita Bryant because she was "tacky and classless" as well as some horrifying moments, as when one of Finch''s daughters has a semi-breakdown and thinks that her cat has come back from the dead. Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit the occasional clichâ€š ("Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal") stands out anomalously this memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively entertaining and tremendously provocative.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7514'),
(8067, 'Running with the Demon', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the "real world" of our present. On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel strike. One is a demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to attain a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he sleeps, lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it?At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl mysteriously linked to both men. And the lives of the people of Hopewell. And the future of the country. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity will be decided . . .A novel that weaves together family drama, fading innocence, cataclysm, and enlightenment, Running with the Demon will forever change the way you think about the fantasy novel. As believable as it is imaginative, as wondrous as it is frightening, it is a rich, exquisitely-written tale to be savored long after the last page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3303'),
(8068, 'Ruso and the Root of All Evils', 'R. S. Downie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gaius Petreius Ruso, doctor to the Legions, is about to return home to Gaul after many years'' absence. Little does he realize the letter summoning him back has been forged, or that the sunny Mediterranean lifestyle conceals a dark threat lurking at every corner. His family are in horrific debt to dangerous men and when the principal creditor, Severus, is poisoned in the Ruso home they become the primary suspects in his murder. But the crimes go far deeper. What role did Severus play in the deliberate sinking of a cargo ship? Who are the brutal investigators sent by Rome? And how worrying is the outbreak of the new religion, Christianity, in the neighbourhood? When Ruso takes a job stitching up gladiators in the local amphitheatre, matters come to a head. He''s literally in the lion''s den and even Tilla, his loyal servant, may not be able to save him from the clutches of a most devious murderer . . . Ruso and the Root of All Evils, is published in the US as Persona Non Grata.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5913'),
(8069, 'The Russia House', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n John le CarrÃ© ''s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist (code name Bluebird) burdened with a secret knowledge; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the source of the document. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, "The Russia House" catches history in the act.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11067'),
(8070, 'The Russian Concubine', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek''s troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot''s wife. The young pair''s all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2434'),
(8071, 'Russian Winter', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Nina Revskaya, former star of the Bolshoi Ballet, decides to auction her remarkable jewelry, she hopes to draw a curtain on her past. Instead, she is overwhelmed by memories of glorious and heartbreaking events that changed her life''s course half a century before. In Russia, she discovered the theater, fell in love with a famed poet, and becameâ€”with her closest friendsâ€”a victim of Stalinist aggression. A terrible discovery led to a deadly act of betrayalâ€”and to Nina''s escape to Boston. Now, an associate at the Boston auction house and a Russian professor are unraveling a mystery surrounding a love letter, a poem, and a necklace of unknown provenance, stirring up revelations that will have life-altering consequences for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(8072, 'Russka: The Novel of Russia', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rutherfurd weaves an expansive tapestry of Russian lore in this sprawling, occasionally soap-operatic historical novel--a seven-week PW bestseller and a Literary Guild selection in cloth--which vividly explores the historical influences on the modern Russian psyche.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his newest novel, Rutherfurd does for Russia what his last novel, Sarum ( LJ 9/15/87), did for England. Focusing on a small farming community in the Russian heartland between the Dnieper and the Don at the edge of the steppes, he traces its growth through its inhabitants from the first Tatar raid on the Slavs through the Cossacks, aristocrats, and an emigre''s recent return. These interconnected lives present a vast panoramic portrait of Russia and its history. However, abundance of historic detail, fascinating though it is, intrudes and overwhelms. Transitions from intertwined stories of succeeding generations are abrupt and the reader longs for more character and plot development. Recommended for devotees of James Michener and Sarum . Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7810'),
(8073, 'Ruthless', 'Anne Stuart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won''t be swayed. And while his dark seduction appalls the pure and impoverished Elinor Harriman, she finds herself intrigued...and secretly drawn to the man behind the desire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(8074, 'RX for Chaos', 'Anvil, Christopher/ Flint, Eric (EDT)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Science and technology have made our lives easier, cured diseases, with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, the law of unintended consequences breaks loose. Christopher Anvil considers the two faces of technological innovation: Sometimes the result is a literal life-saver; but at other times a breakthrough may not break quite the way it was supposed to. Â  Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A new wonder drug has the unexpected side effect of making people happy. Not a problemâ€”everybody should want to be happy, right? But should people be happy *all* of the time? Suppose being happy required you *never* to disappoint anyone, no matter what theyâ€™re requesting. . . . Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Then there was the energy source for every home that would free the country from its dependence on foreign oilâ€”except that the prototype was rushed into production a bit too fast. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Back on the bright side, another device not only couldnâ€™t possibly work by every known law of science, but didnâ€™t have any obvious uses. Then alien invaders landed and suddenly the crackpot device was the worldâ€™s only hope. Â  Â Â Â Â  The upside and downside of marvelous new gadgets, as told by a master of science fiction adventure with a prescription for fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(8075, 'Ryan&#39;s Place', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: FROM LONER TO LOVER... Abandoned by his parents and separated from his brothers, Ryan Devaney never let anyone get too close. Then spunky Maggie O''Brien marched into his Irish pub and declared war on the icy fortress around his heart. Ryan claimed he didn''t believe in love, but Maggie''s bright smile and tender touch soon had him reconsidering. The beautiful redhead warmed his frozen spirit and awakened forgotten dreams--like the desire to search for his long-lost brothers. But did he dare accept her challenge to believe there was a place for him in happily-ever-after?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4159'),
(8076, 'S Is for Silence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton''s ever popular "alphabet" series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet''s impetuous husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before ...Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet simply moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as Serena there aren''t many places to hide when things turn vicious ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4135'),
(8077, 'Sabat 1: The Graveyard Vultures', 'Guy N. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9984'),
(8078, 'The Saboteurs', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin''s Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin and featuring the Office of Strategic Services; its fabled chief, Col. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan; and OSS agent Maj. Richard M. Canidy. Two primary plot lines drive this new adventure: the U.S. preparation for the invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy in 1943, and the tale of four German saboteurs who have landed in America. The authors are heavily invested in their research, meticulously describing almost every element of life in the 1940s, to the detriment of the action. The German saboteurs are eventually dealt with, but the behind-the-lines Sicilian operation led by Canidy is only hastily outlined after a long buildup. One supposes that the Sicilian story that''s promised but never delivered will appear in future installments. This is pretty much all show and no go, but readers who have a strong interest in WWII home-front history should be satisfied.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Griffin''s fans will welcome his thirty-seventh novel, this one the fifth in the Men at War series, which is about the OSS during World War II. (His coauthor here is his son.) The rich plot deals with the Battle of the Atlantic, during which German U-Boats were sinking American supply ships. In this fictionalized account, ships are set on fire in American ports and explosions have sabotaged trains and train stations across the country. As Allied forces prepare to invade Sicily and Italy, enter "Wild Bill" Donovan and three of his agents, assigned to stop the mayhem and help win the war. As always, the locales range worldwide, including Florida, London, Sicily, New York City, Newark, Algiers, and Washington, D.C. Some characters drink a lot, some purportedly "for medicinal purposes." Indelicate language peppers the dialogue, and many close calls threaten lives. From the beginning, readers will surmise that the good guys win, but they will want to read all the way through--just to make sure.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6069');
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(8079, 'Sabriel', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him--and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father''s title and duties--to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities--and her destiny.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Garth Nix delves deep into the mystical underworld of necromancy, magic, and the monstrous undead. This tale is not for the faint of heart; imbedded in the classic good-versus-evil story line are subplots of grisly ghouls hungry for human life to perpetuate their stay in the world of the living, and dark, devastating secrets of betrayal and loss. Just\n  <em>\n   try\n  </em>\n  to put this book down. For more along this line, try Nix''s later novel: __. (Ages 12 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sabriel is her last year at Wyverley College, a private school in Ancelstierre, where Magic does not work, but near the Border with the Old Kingdom, where it does. She and her father are also highly skilled necromancers, who fight the dead who seek to return to Life. But when her father is somehow trapped in Death, she must journey into the Old Kingdom to find him. She does not know that it is wracked by struggle (like that in Ursula LeGuin''s The Farthest Shore)-a magician has brought chaos by refusing to die and hopes to use Sabriel and her father to further consolidate his power. Sabriel goes on a long journey throughout a densely imagined world, learning as she goes, and meeting such strange characters as Mogget, a raging natural force contained in the shape of a cat. She also develops a relationship with Touchstone, a young man who turns out to be as crucially involved as she is. Although Sabriel is possessed of much heavy knowledge ("A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don''t feel young any more"), she is still a teenager and vulnerable where her father and love for Touchstone are concerned, making her a sympathetic heroine. Rich, complex, involving, hard to put down, this first novel, an Australian import, is excellent high fantasy. The suitably climactic ending leaves no loose ends, but readers will hope for a sequel. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6092'),
(8080, 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf', 'Victor Pelevin &amp; Andrew Bromfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russian novelist Pelevin''s chaotic latest examines contemporary Russia as viewed through the eyes of A. Hu-li, a 2,000-year-old werefox who is able to transform into a beautiful nymphet. The opening chapter is both an introduction to werefoxes as well as an account of how werefoxes, working as prostitutes, utilize their stunning looks to absorb a man''s life energy. Hu-li''s experiences are standard for an ancient werefox until she meets Alexander, an attractive Russian intelligence officer who happens to be a werewolf. The two share a whirlwind romance, and after some trouble, shack up in Hu-li''s bomb shelter. While hiding out, Hu-li and Alexander argue about religion, death, truth and the like until they both claim to be the super-werewolf. This argumentâ€”and Hu-li''s disclosure of her true ageâ€”rupture the bliss. Pelevin creates interesting enough characters, but the unexplainable plot twists and the author''s preoccupation with philosophical ramblings are nearly as perilous as a silver bullet.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part science fiction and part AnaÃ¯s Nin erotica, with a hint of Bridget Jonesâ€™s Diary and a whole lot of allegory, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is the tale of A Hu-Li, a 2,000-year-old Taoist werefoxÂ who plies her trade as a prostitute in modern day Moscow. By hypnotizing johns with her magical tail, A Hu-li makes men believe they are having sex with her, earns a living, and maintains her virginity. That is until she encounters and falls in love with Alexander, a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer andâ€”not so coincidentallyâ€”a werewolf. As he has done in his earlier works (including Homo Zapiens, 2002), Pelevin uses satire as a lens through which to view life in the post-Soviet era while at the same time casting new light on Russiaâ€™s classic writing and writersâ€”Nabokov, Gogol, and even Russian fairy tales. Outright strange at moments, the novel holds our interest with unpredictable twists and turns, leaving us stunned, puzzled, and asking for more. --Heather Paulson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4415'),
(8081, 'Sacred Clowns', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Telling his story the Navajo way, Hillerman ( Coyote Waits ) fully develops the background of the cases pursued by Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, so that the resolutions--personal and professional--ring true with gratifying inevitability. A white woodshop teacher at St. Bonaventure''s mission school is bludgeoned to death in his schoolroom; a student, a young boy from Tano Pueblo, is missing. The boy''s uncle, a koshare, or sacred clown, in a kachina dance, is stabbed to death right after the ceremony in which he has symbolically warned of the dangers of selling sacred objects; an old man is killed on the highway in a hit and run. Chee, who is apprehensive about working for Leaphorn, tries to locate the missing boy, whose grandmother is on the Navajo Tribal Council, and to learn who ran down the old man, but he is distracted by his growing attachment to lawyer Janet Pete and by his desire to be a hataalii , or shaman, as well as a cop. Leaphorn searches for clues while simultaneously grieving for his wife who died 18 months earlier and considering his relationship with linguistics professor Louisa Bourebonette. Jurisdictional conflicts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Apache County Sheriff''s Office reflect the cultural differences that obtain among tribes and clans as this first Leaphorn story in three years, steeped in Navajo lore and traditions, draws to its convincing conclusions. 350,000 first printing; major ad/promo; Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates .\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-In Hillerman''s latest mystery set in the Southwest, Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work together with a runaway student as the only link between two seemingly unrelated murders-one of a well-liked art teacher in his classroom on the reservation and the other the uncle of the runaway boy. The author skillfully employs the elements of detection and routine police work while providing readers with an intriguing glimpse of Navajo culture. The relationships between the officers and between the other well-defined characters give depth to the story, which is spiced with both men''s romantic interests. The thought processes of the characters are accessible; the narrative holds interest and moves smoothly; and the themes of good and evil, greed and generosity, ethical considerations and environmental issues provide conflict. Unique and masterful.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Linda Sudduth, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5441'),
(8082, 'Sacred Ground', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a land of subzero temperatures and snow-covered vistas, survival is a challenge. But for the Araktakâ€”an isolated and mysterious Inuit peopleâ€”this harsh tundra is their heritage. Until now. A large mining company has purchased the land, and the sacred Araktak burial site with it. But more than diamond deposits await them under the dark, icy earthâ€¦. Contracted by the mining company, archaeologist Annja Creed is to oversee the proper relocation of the burial site. Her job is to ensure that each ancient relic and all human remains are carefully removed. But the sacred ground harbors a terrible secret. One that a powerful group of men intend to unleash on an unsuspecting worldâ€”unless Annja can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(8083, 'Sacred sins', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, Nora Roberts turns up the heat in this classic tale â€” the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, a search that will plunge them headlong into danger.... In the lazy days of summer, a merciless heat wave is the biggest story in Washington, D.C. But the weather is knocked off the front pages when a young woman is found strangled to death. A note left behind reads Her sins are forgiven her.Two more victims soon follow, and suddenly every headline is devoted to the killer the press has dubbed â€œthe Priest.â€ When the police ask top-notch psychiatrist Dr. Tess Court to help with their investigation, she comes up with a disturbing portrait of a twisted soul.Detective Ben Paris doesnâ€™t give a damn about the killerâ€™s psyche. What he canâ€™t easily dismiss is Tess. Tall, dark, and good-looking, Ben has a legendary reputation with women, but the coolly elegant Tess doesnâ€™t react to him like other women heâ€™s known â€” and he finds the challenge enticing.Now, as the two are thrown together in a perilous quest to stop a serial killer, the flame of white-hot passion flares. But someone also has his eyes on the beautiful blond doctor ... and Ben can only pray that if the madman strikes, he''ll be able to stop him before itâ€™s too late....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2590'),
(8084, 'The Sacred Vault: A Novel', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œNo fan of Indiana Jones, Matthew Reilly or action in general will be able to put it down.â€ â€”_Northern Territory News_, on _The Pyramid of Doom\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œRaises the bar to please adventure junkies who prefer to mainline their action.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _(starred review), on\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Atlantis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A DARING HEIST.\n  <br />\n  A PRICELESS ARTIFACT.\n  <br />\n  A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAYâ€”UNTIL NOW.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Michelangeloâ€™s\n  <em>\n   David\n  </em>\n  is stolen from its museum in Florence, itâ€™s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the worldâ€™s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raidersâ€™ ultimate target when the Talonor Codexâ€”a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantisâ€”is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its mythical contents: the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction himself. From a deadly shootout in San Francisco to a hidden valley in the snowbound Himalayas, Nina and Eddie must run a labyrinthine gauntlet of ruthless killers, corrupted faiths, and twisted ambitions to reach the sacred vault ahead of a cunning billionaire with a plot to remake the worldâ€”after he brings this one crashing down.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8306'),
(8085, 'Sacrifice', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn''t turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed, blindfolded and kidnapped. And to make matters worse, she''s a prisoner of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf, a notorious terrorist group.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Desperate to escape, Annja is able to flee after slaying one of her captors. But she soon gets lost in the hostile jungle, which is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of Moro warriors who fought off conquistadors with their blades. As she tries to stay a step ahead of the terrorists and not-so-dead spirits with a taste for human flesh, Annja''s not sure she''ll leave the jungle alive....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bearers of the swordOn assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn''t turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed, blindfolded and kidnapped. And to make matters worse, she''s a prisoner of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf, a notorious terrorist group. Desperate to escape, Annja is able to flee after slaying one of her captors. But she soon gets lost in the hostile jungle, which is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of Moro warriors who fought off conquistadors with their blades. As she tries to stay a step ahead of the terrorists and not-so-dead spirits with a taste for human flesh, Annja''s not sure she''ll leave the jungle aliveâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(8086, 'Sacrifice of the Widow: Lady Penitent', 'Lisa Smedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goddesses vie for the soul of people...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halisstra Melarn, convert to the cause of the goddess Eilistraee, was sent to the deepest depths of the Outer Planes to kill the demon goddess she once worshiped, but instead was transformed into a hideous creature bent to the vengeful will of her former mistress.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the Queen of the Demonweb Pits not only survived her Silence but evolved into something greater than she was before - something that no longer needs to share the domain she calls her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Could it be that the War of the Spider Queen has just begun?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4360'),
(8087, 'Sad Cypress', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5197'),
(8088, 'The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart', 'Jesse Bullington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the plague-wracked and devil-haunted darkness of Medieval Europe, an elite few enjoy opulent lives while the majority eke out a miserable existence in abject poverty. Hungry creatures stalk the deep woods and desolate mountains, and both sea and sky teem with unspeakable horrors. For those ill-fated masses not born into wealth, life is but a vicious trial to be endured before the end of days.Hegel and Manfried Grossbart could give a toss. Being of low birth means little, after all, when the riches of the mighty wait just inside the next crypt. The grave-robbing twins know enough about crusading to realise that if one is to make a living from the dead, what better destination than the fabled tomb-cities of Egypt?But the Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1763'),
(8089, 'Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism', 'Marion Nestle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods--immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"--only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. How concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides? Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power--and not always in the public interest. Although the debates may appear to be about science, Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides when a food is safe? She demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer protect our food supply. Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone who cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today''s headlines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5528'),
(8090, 'Safe Harbour', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring â€”and keepâ€” families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie''s young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, OphÃ©lie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to drawâ€”and can''t help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, OphÃ©lie is thrown off balance by her daughter''s new companionâ€”until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and OphÃ©lie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, OphÃ©lie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen OphÃ©lie and Matt''s friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, OphÃ©lie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of lossâ€”to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/897'),
(8091, 'Safe Haven', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo''s empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3083'),
(8092, 'Safe House', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government''s agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it''s too late....\n </p>\n <p>\n  10th in the exciting young adult series\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6497'),
(8093, 'The safe house', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2407'),
(8094, 'Sahara Trade Paper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clive Cussler''s breathtaking thriller, SAHARA will now be published in our popular premium format with an exciting new cover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(8095, 'Sahm I Am', 'Meredith Efken', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **For the members of a stay-at-home-moms'' e-mail loop, lunch with friends is a sandwich in front of the computer. But where else could they discuss things like . . .** **S**uccess: Her workaholic husband is driving Dulcie Huckleberry around the bend. It''s hard to love someone in sickness and in health when *he''s never home!* **A**rt: Let the children express themselves, opines artistic Zelia Muzuwa, and then her son''s head gets stuck inside a kitty scratching post . . . **H**ealth: Surely aches and pains are normal in an active little boy, yet those of soccer-mom Jocelyn Millard''s son don''t seem to be going away. **M**otherhood: Teen-mom-turned-farmer''s-wife Brenna Lindberg can deal with the mud and the chickens, but what about her husband''s desire for a child of his own? **I**ndiscretions: However youthful, they can come back to haunt you, learns pastor''s wife Phyllis Lorimer. **Am**ends: These could stand to be made between officious list moderator Rosalyn Ebberly and her pampered sister, Veronica. Perhaps the other SAHM I AMers can teach these two something about sisterhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2500'),
(8096, 'Sail', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE SIZZLING #1 BESTSELLER#1 New York Times #1 Chicago Tribune #1 Washington Post #1 Wall Street Journal #1 USA Today #1 Newsday America''s #1 bestselling thriller writer, James Patterson presents his most suspenseful, explosive tale ever. Only an hour out of port, the Dunne family''s summer getaway to paradise is already turning into the trip from hell. The three children are miserable-and not shy about showing it. Katherine Dunne had hoped this vacation would bring back the togetherness they''d lost when her husband died four years earlier. Maybe if her new husband had joined them it would all have been okay. Suddenly, a disaster hits-and it''s perfect. Faced with this real threat, the Dunnes rediscover the meaning of family. But this catastrophe is just a tiny taste of the true danger that lurks ahead-somewhere out there, someone wants to make sure that the Dunne family never leaves paradise alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2050'),
(8097, 'The sailcloth shroud', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/698'),
(8098, 'The Sailor of the Seas of Fate', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Forced to flee his city of Melnibone, Elric and his sorcerous blade Stormbringer journey through barren hills to the edge of a black sea. Elric finds a dark ship and begins a voyage that will bring him face-to-face with all the champions Time can summon--and more. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2698'),
(8099, 'Saint Maybe', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyler makes things look so easy that she never gets enough credit, yet she portrays everyday Americans with such humor, grace and, ultimately, emotional force that her books are always deeply satisfying. In\n  <strong>\n   Saint Maybe\n  </strong>\n  her protagonist Ian Bedloe, stricken with guilt over the death of his older brother, raises three children unrelated to him by blood. He is strengthened in this Herculean task by the storefront Church of the Second Chance, to which he devotes himself with equal fervor. Someone once said all great writers are comic writers. Among living Americans, Tyler is exhibit A.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although Tyler ( Breathing Lessons ; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ) is again writing about families--the way they cleave together in times of trouble and muddle through with stoic courage--her eminently satisfying new novel breaks her familiar mold, giving us ordinary, not eccentric characters who are shaped by disastrous events into quietly heroic behavior. The Bedloes are cheerful and count their blessings, even if they are far from rich and live on a slightly seedy street in Baltimore. But when 17-year-old Ian rashly informs his older brother Dan that the latter''s wife was undoubtedly pregnant before their marriage, Dan commits suicide, and Ian is left with profound guilt--especially since Dan''s wife dies soon after. Asking God''s forgiveness, he receives spiritual guidance at the endearingly shabby Church of the Second Chance. He drops out of college, becomes a carpenter and helps his parents care for the three orphaned children; as the years pass, that burden falls primarily on Ian''s shoulders. Wondering when God will signal that his atonement can end, Ian has an epiphany: "You could never call it a penance, to have to care for those three." Ian eventually does construct a life for himself, in one of Tyler''s most appealing endings. The narrative also enjoys her whimsical humor (although the group role of the "foreigners" who live in the neighborhood verges on caricature). Since her characters'' foibles never overwhelm their homespun simplicity, the reader is emotionally involved and touched as never before. 250,000 first printing; BOMC main selection; first serial to the New Yorker.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4519'),
(8100, 'The Saint of Dragons', 'Jason Hightman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they''ve moved undercover -- and into human society. Now one lonely schoolboy is about to learn where the dragons have gone ... Educated at boarding schools, Simon St. George has never met his parents. When a ragged-looking man shows up claiming to be his father, Simon is skeptical, and when the man kidnaps him, he''s indignant to say the least. Then the man claims to be a descendant of England''s Saint George and a career dragon fighter. Why should Simon believe any of this nonsense? But what if the man is telling the truth? What if the dragons know he''s out there? Rich with the dragon lore of legend, the saint of dragons continues and enlarges on the tale of the centuries-old conflict between dragons and humans that rages even today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(8101, 'Salaam, Paris', 'Kavita Daswani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in *Sabrina*â€”so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. But once she lands in the city, she shuns the match. A stroke of luck turns Tanaya into a supermodel, and soon the traditional girl is cavorting with rock stars and is disowned by her family. In her new whirlwind life, she is reintroduced to the man she was supposed to marry, the man she now realizes she should have never walked away from, the man who is her only connection to the family she longs to reconcile with, if only itâ€™s not too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2415'),
(8102, 'Salem Falls', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls'' prep school -- until a student''s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his reputation. Now, working for minimum wage washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, Jack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. With ghosts of her own haunting her, Addie Peabody is as cautious around men as Jack St. Bride is around women. But as this unassuming stranger steps smoothly into the diner''s daily routine, she finds him fitting just as comfortably inside her heart -- and slowly, a gentle, healing love takes hold between them. Yet planting roots in Salem Falls may prove fateful for Jack. Amid the white-painted centuries-old churches, a quartet of bored, privileged teenage girls have formed a coven that is crossing the line between amusement and malicious intent. Quick to notice the attractive new employee at Addie''s diner, the girls turn Jack''s world upside down with a shattering allegation that causes history to repeat itself -- and forces Jack to proclaim his innocence once again. Suddenly nothing in Salem Falls is as it seems: a safe haven turns dangerous, an innocent girl meets evil face-to-face, a dishwasher with a Ph.D. is revealed to be an ex-con. As Jack''s hidden past catches up with him, the seams of this tiny town begin to tear, and the emerging truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray. Now Addie, desperate for answers, must look into her heart -- and into Jack''s lies and shadowy secrets -- for evidence that will condemn or redeem the man she has come to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1658'),
(8103, 'Salem&#39;s Lot', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Published a year after his stunning debut novel, Carrie, ''Salem''s Lot firmly cemented Stephen King''s name in the literary lexicon of great American storytellers. His rich and finely crafted tale of a mundane New England town under siege by the forces of darkness is both a homage to Bram Stoker''s classic Dracula and an allegory of our post-Vietnam society. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4318'),
(8104, 'The Salmon of Doubt', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8866'),
(8105, 'Salmonella men on Planet Porno: stories', 'Yasutaka Tsutsui', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories â€“ the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui â€“ portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.In â€œThe Dabba Dabba Treeâ€ Tsutsui describes the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of oneâ€™s bed, creates erotic dreams that metamorphose into communal farce. In â€œCommuter Armyâ€â€“a sly commentary on the ludicrousness of warâ€“a weapons supplier whose rifles cease functioning after just one shot becomes an unwilling conscript in a war zone. â€œThe World is Tiltingâ€ imagines a floating city that slowly begins to sink on one side, causing its citizens to reorient their daily lives to preserve a semblance of normality. In â€œRumors About Meâ€, an ordinary office worker finds himself the subject of intense media scrutiny, his every action documented in the tabloids. And in the title story, we learn just how obscenely absurd the environment on Planet Porno can seem to a group of hapless research scientists.With a sharp eye towards the insanities of contemporary life, Yasutaka Tsutsui crafts in Salmonella Men on Planet Porno an irresistible mix of imagination, satiric fantasy, and truly madcap hilarity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3881'),
(8106, 'Salted: A Manifesto on the World&#39;s Most Essential Mineral, With Recipes', 'Mark Bitterman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bitterman explains that his love of salt began after eating a sublime steak at a relais on a trip to France. After learning about the cooking method and cut of meat, Bitterman concluded it was the "hefty nuggets of opalescent salt" that were responsible for his unforgettable meal, and he set out to meet the family of salt makers responsible. After opening an artisanal-product boutique with his wife, which includes a showcase of salts, Bitterman takes on the role of official "selmelier." In this entertaining and well-researched volume, he profiles 80 varieties of artisan salts, along with a quick reference guide to more than 150 salts for an easy-to-understand crash course on salt. The text-heavy though beautifully photographed title covers the history of salt and all things related. Recipes round out the work, and although pedestrian dishes such as hamburgers, potato chips, and sauerkraut are included, beginners may be intimidated by sophisticated selections like roasted marrowbones with sel gris; salt crustâ€“roasted partridge with figs and chocolate-balsamic syrup; and jal jeer (an Indian lemonade). An informative and easy-to-follow "Cooking on Salt" chapter just may have the more adventurous home cooks and the DIY crowd running out for their very own Himalayan salt block. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you care about salt you will be over the moon about\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n by Mark Bitterman." --6 best food books coming this fall, Christian Science Monitor --csmonitor.com/Books/2010/0916/6-best-food-books-coming-this-fall/Salted-by-Mark-Bitterman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis illustrated volume changed the way I cook.â€\n <br />\n â€”Newsday, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs the FDA considers lower salt standards for Americans, salt has never been a hotter chef''s ingredient. This is part cookbook (Roasted Peaches in Bourbon Syrup with Smoked Salt), part salt tract (positing "Five Rules of Strategic Salting)," part reference tome.â€\n <br />\n â€”Cooking Light, Favorite Cookbooks, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book isn''t really a cookbook, not in the recipe-driven sense of the word. It''s more of a user guide, and an inspiring one at that. From the lively introduction, in which Bitterman recounts his first experience with sea salt, to the geeky chapters on the history and science of the stuff, to the slim selection of recipes broken into categories like "brining," "curing," "salt crust" and "cooking on salt blocks," this book is aimed at inspiring and educating people on the virtues of natural salt.â€\n <br />\n â€”Portland Oregonian, Best of 2010, 12/21/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFlipping through the stellar new\n <em>\n  Salted: A Manifesto on the World''s Most Essential Mineral With Recipes\n </em>\n , we are reminded that the world is made up of so much more than\n <em>\n  fleur de sel\n </em>\n . You could buy a bottle of $15 tequila to gift along with the book, but you get the sense author Mark Bitterman would consider that a margarita sacrilege on par with using kosher salt ("a battery-operated puppy with no hair, trying to comfort you with its soulless antics"). After all, you''re handing over a book written by a man who uses\n <em>\n  sel gris\n </em>\n , three full cups of the pricey French salt, in his preserved lemons recipe.â€\n <br />\n â€”LA Weekly, Squid Ink blog, Top 10 Cookbook And Drink Gift Pairings, 12/14/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMy pick for personal favorite of the season is Salted: A Manifesto on the Worldâ€™s Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes by Mark Bitterman, which Iâ€™ve enthusiastically blurbed. My reverence for salt is bettered only by Bittermanâ€™s who sells salt and chocolate at The Meadow. Bitterman writes well about the history of salt, the amazing array of salts available, and offers numerous recipes and techniques for using these salts.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Ruhlman, Books for the Holidays, 12/13/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a walking salt lick and Mark Bittermanâ€™s\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n more than satisfies. Described as a manifesto, the title contains a useful â€œSalt Reference Guideâ€ of 150 salts, many of which are Asian in provenance.Â  . . . Salt is salty but if you want to explore their subtle differences, get\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n !â€\n <br />\n â€”Andrea Nguyen, Viet World Kitchen, 2010 Cookbook Picks, 12/11/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou might be one of those people who think, â€˜Salt? Whatâ€™s the big deal?â€™ But turn the pages of this major treatise on the various kinds of salts from around the world (including how theyâ€™re harvested and what makes them so special), and youâ€™ll learn what to do with them as well. Mark Bitterman is a\n <em>\n  selmelier\n </em>\n who owns an artisanal-product boutique that specializes in salt. But you donâ€™t need to take a trip there to learn all about salt.\n <strong>\n  Salted\n </strong>\n is going to be my go-to reference when I find a new type of salt and am wondering what to do with it.â€\n <br />\n â€”DavidLebovitz.com, Favorite Cookbooks of 2010, 12/6/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSalt is so essential to cooking that a volume on the topic might seem redundant. Not for Mark Bitterman: His book gets into geeky detail about salt types for flavor academics. However, the "Salting" section, which outlines tips and tricks for coaxing flavor out of your meal with the mineral, is very useful for home cooks.â€\n <br />\n â€”Tasting Table National, 12/3/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the intimidating world of artisan salts,\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n is our new road map and companion. This book is a trove of good information and we will certainly return to its pages again and again.â€\n <br />\n â€”TheKitchn.com, 12/1/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSalt is one of those ingredients that isnâ€™t often dealt with at length, yet is elemental to the craft of cuisine. In his book, Mark Bitterman seeks to educate the cook on the creativity, flavor, and quality that can be enhanced in a dish by using the correct salt. He approaches his subject scientifically, economically, culturally, and nutritionally. . . .After absorbing Salted the reader will understand Cassiodorusâ€™ belief that â€˜man can live without goldâ€¦ but not without salt.â€™â€\n <br />\n â€”StarChefs.com, Top 10 Cookbooks 2010, November 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "Everyone writes about exotic salts but no one says how to use them beyond saying sprinkling them on steak and tomatoes, says [Amy] Sherman, ''but Bitterman does.''"\n <br />\n â€”FoxNews.com, The Fox Foodie: Sixteen Sweet Cookbooks, 11/30/10\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether your only exposure to salt is the box of kosher in your cupboard or youâ€™ve got a gourmet line up,\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n makes an excellent gift for the foodie that has it all."\n <br />\n â€”Guest blogger Kathy Casey, Al Dente, Amazon foodÂ blog, 11/15/10\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Salted_, Mark Bitterman (sommelier at The Meadow in Portland, Oregon) profiles 80 artisan varieties of the magical ingredient. When youâ€™re done geeking out, the recipes â€” popcorn salted six ways, mango salsa with Hawaiian black lava salt â€” satisfy cravings."\n <br />\n â€”DailyCandy, The Best New Fall Cookbooks, 11/12/10\n</p>\n<p>\n "His new book\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n Â lays it all out methodically, but the text is far from dry or academic for such an info-packed tome. Bitterman is a great writer, his conversational is clear and funny and, yes, occasionally salty. Though I''m deliberately taking my time to soak up\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n , especially the history and the particulars of each type of salt, reading this book has already caused a sea change in my kitchen."\n <br />\n â€”Al Dente, Amazon food blog, 11/2/10\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Salted\n  </em>\n </strong>\n is transformative; it will change the way you cook."\n <br />\n â€”The Christian Science Monitor, 6 best food books coming this fall, 9/16/10\n</p>\n<p>\n Bitterman explains that his love of salt began after eating a sublime steak at a relais on a trip to France. After learning about the cooking method and cut of meat, Bitterman concluded it was the "hefty nuggets of opalescent salt" that were responsible for his unforgettable meal, and he set out to meet the family of salt makers responsible. After opening an artisanal-product boutique with his wife, which includes a showcase of salts, Bitterman takes on the role of official "selmelier." In this entertaining and well-researched volume, he profiles 80 varieties of artisan salts, along with a quick reference guide to more than 150 salts for an easy-to-understand crash course on salt. The text-heavy though beautifully photographed title covers the history of salt and all things related. Recipes round out the work, and although pedestrian dishes such as hamburgers, potato chips, and sauerkraut are included, beginners may be intimidated by sophisticated selections like roasted marrowbones with sel gris; salt crustâ€“roasted partridge with figs and chocolate-balsamic syrup; and jal jeer (an Indian lemonade). An informative and easy-to-follow "Cooking on Salt" chapter just may have the more adventurous home cooks and the DIY crowd running out for their very own Himalayan salt block. (Oct.)\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_, 9/20/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Salted_ is a remarkable work. Written with uncommon energy and style and packed with excellent information and recipes, this book should be considered a must-have for any chef worth their salt and anyone who cares about food and cooking. I\n <em>\n  love\n </em>\n this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Ruhlman, author of\n <em>\n  Ratio\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Making of a Chef\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Charcuterie\n </em>\n , and co-author of\n <em>\n  The French Laundry Cookbook\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_Salted_ has a transformative effect. Mark embraces not only those magical crystals but also captures you with his passion for people and exploring the diversity of food and salt. His irrepressible will to learn and share is expressed in his writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Recchiuti, chocolatier, author of\n <em>\n  Chocolate Obsession\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œIn this day and age it is imperative to not only know where our food comes from but also to learn about the very thing that brings out all of the flavors we tirelessly sourceâ€”salt. In\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n , Mark Bitterman takes us on an epic journey, distilling everything from saltâ€™s early formation in the primordial ocean to thoughtful recipes and detailed tasting notes on many of the worldâ€™s finest artisanal salts. A virtual encyclopedia of salt,\n <em>\n  Salted\n </em>\n is a wonderful resource for cooks and lovers of great food everywhere.â€\n <br />\n â€”Naomi Pomeroy, chef-owner of Beast Restaurant, James Beard nominee,\n <em>\n  Food &amp; Wine\n </em>\n Best New Chef\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6706'),
(8107, 'The Saltimbanques', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10748'),
(8108, 'A salty piece of land', 'Jimmy Buffett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jimmy Buffett, bestselling author of "Tales from Margaritaville" and hero to "parrotheads" everywhere, flies back into view with a novel set in the Caribbean, involving a lighthouse, a mystery, a wild cast of characters, and more than a few bottles of tequila. Raucous, wise, and familiar with the world''s wonderful strangeness, "A Salty Piece of Land" is the escapism at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2178');
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(8109, 'Salute the Dark', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality - but Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire. The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must see which of his allies will stand now that the war has finally arrived. This time the Empire will not stop until a black and gold flag waves over Stenwold''s own home city of Collegium. Tisamon the Weaponsmaster is faced with a terrible choice: a path that could lead him to abandon his friends and his daughter, to face degradation and loss, but that might possibly bring him before the Wasp Emperor with a blade in his hand - but is he being driven by Mantis-kinden honour, or manipulated by something more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(8110, 'Salvador Strike', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Federal authorities thought they were about to shut down the American activities of the lethal MS-13 gang for good. But when the star witness and the prosecuting attorney are murdered, the trial of the gang''s leaders is in shambles. With legal avenues exhausted and an undercover agent missing deep within the deadly organization, the situation is critical.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan is called in to fight fire with fire. But MS-13''s leaders have a plan to terrorize suburban America. In order to stop them, Bolan will have to follow their trail deep into the Salvadoran jungle, moving fast and striking hard. Using warrior skills honed in another distant land, the Executioner will show no mercy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5670'),
(8111, 'Salvage in Space', 'Jack Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9869'),
(8112, 'Salvation City', 'Sigrid Nunez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Things come undone with shocking rapidity when a flu pandemic ravages America. Cole, the son of liberal atheists and a smart, self-contained boy who loves to draw and counts explorer among his favorite words, narrates NuÃ±ezâ€™s sixth gripping novel, one of many recent literary postapocalyptic tales. Adept at matching psychological intricacy with edge-of-your-seat plots, the versatile NuÃ±ez gracefully entwines a classic coming-of-age story with a terrifying medical catastrophe and a profound battle between secular and religious viewpoints. The pandemic orphans and nearly kills Cole, who ends up living with a kindhearted Evangelical pastor and his wife in Salvation City, a community preparing for the Rapture. Itâ€™s all bible studies, guns, rapture children, and saved adults, including fiercely tattooed, one-eyed Mason. As Cole emerges from a thicket of grief and the confusion of sexual awakening and recognizes and trusts his hunger for education and the larger world, however damaged and dangerous, NuÃ±ez brilliantly contrasts epic social failure and tragedy with the unfurling of one promising life, reminding us that even in the worst of times, we seek coherence, discovery, and connection. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nunez''s writing is gorgeously spare, and she gets the life and the lingo of a teenage boy just right... In this gorgeously strange and apocalyptic coming-of- age novel, Nunez shows that the end of the world can offer a powerful possibility for a new beginning."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s the near future, and Evangelicals have flocked to the rural Indiana town of the title, a post-apocalyptic haven in a world ravaged by a flu pandemic. Among these sheltered souls is Cole Vining, 13, an orphan who has been taken in by a preacher and his ditzy wife. Brought up by atheist parents in Chicago, Cole is disoriented by small-town life. . . . In this highly recognizable portrait of adolescent angst, Cole learns to define faith and freedom on his own terms as Nunez offers a candid look at both the comforts of religion and the glaring hypocrisy of some of its mosst ardent practicioners."\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nunez tells a fine tale, avoiding clichÃ©s and providing powerful insights. To our surprise, we are equally draw to the Wyatt family and to Cole''s dead parents: being fallible is what they have in common. Through Cole''s eyes, the redemption offered by religion is offset by its hypocrisy; he finds his enlightenment not from dogma but from his own painful experiences. By the end of this satisfying, provocative and very plausible novel, Cole doesn''t believe that the world is about to end. Instead ''he saw himself living a long time and going many places and doing many different things. ''Your whole life ahead of you''- never more than just an expressing before-now came to him with the ring of blessing."\n <br />\n -Abraham Verghese,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole Vining is one of the fortunate few. After a flu pandemic kills tens of thousands, including his parents, he''s taken in by Pastor Wyatt, an evangelical leader in the Indiana town that gives the novel its title... With a cool, evenhanded tone, Nunez conjures a near future dark around the edges."\n <br />\n -_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A flu pandemic kills millions and leaves surviviors to a chaos of shortages, looting, and violence-and that''s just the beginning of Sigrid Nunez''s wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel."\n <br />\n -_O, the Oprah Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Atheists, a flu pandemic and a coming-of-age story collide in Nunez''s sixth-and perhaps best-novel,\n <em>\n  Salvation City\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Salvation City_ is not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat."\n <br />\n -_Vanity Fair_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Things come undone with shocking rapidity when a flu pandemic ravages America. Cole, the son of liberal atheists and a smart, self-contained boy who loves to draw and counts explorer among his favorite words, narrates Nunez''s sixth gripping novel, one of many recent literary postapocalyptic tales. Adept at matching psychological intricacy with edge-of-your-seat plots, the versatile Nunez gracefully entwines a classic coming-of-age story with a terrifying medical catastrophe and a profound battle between secular and religious viewpoints. . . . Nunez brilliantly contrasts epic social failure and tragedy with the unfurling of one promising life, reminding us that even in the worst of times, we seek coherence, discovery, and connection."\n <br />\n -_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Salvation City_ is a wonderful, great-hearted novel that finds love and hope in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Cole Vining is a latter-day Huck Finn, and we grieve and cheer for him as he makes his journey, both physical and spiritual, through a devastated world."\n <br />\n -Ron Rash, author of\n <em>\n  Serena\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sigrid Nunez has long been one of my favorite authors because she writes with the deepest intelligence, the truest heart and the most surprising sense of humor. Salvation City is a tale of an American near-apocalypse that brings out the best of all these qualities. It reads beautifully, at time joyously, and it makes one reconsider the ordering of our world."\n <br />\n -Gary Shteyngart, author of\n <em>\n  Super Sad True Love Story\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6088'),
(8113, 'Salvation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Ancient church rituals meet cutting- edge crime solving in the latest novel in the #1 *New York Times*â€“bestselling series thatâ€™s â€œ*Law &amp; Order: SVU*â€”in the futureâ€ (*Entertainment Weekly*)**. *In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.* Ridley Pearson has praised J. D. Robbâ€™s suspense as â€œtautâ€ and â€œnerve-jangling.â€ Her latest thriller sets a new standard for suspense, as the priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lipsâ€”and falls over dead. When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, sheâ€™s determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. Itâ€™s not the bodegas and pawnshops of East Harlem that bother her, though the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband, Roarke. Itâ€™s all that holiness flying around at St. Christobalâ€™s that makes her uneasy. A search of the victimâ€™s sparsely furnished room reveals littleâ€” except for a carefully hidden religious medal with a mysterious inscription, and a couple of underlined Bible passages. The autopsy reveals more: faint scars of knife wounds, a removed tattooâ€”and evidence of plastic surgery, suggesting that â€œFather Floresâ€ may not have been the man his parishioners had thought. Now, as Eve pieces together clues that hint at gang connections and a deeply personal act of revenge, she believes sheâ€™s making progress on the case. Until a second murderâ€”in front of an even larger crowd of worshippersâ€”knocks the whole investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholy actsâ€”and why.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2348'),
(8114, 'Samurai', 'Jason Hightman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dragons. They masquerade as their victims, unrecognizable to all but a select few. In the West, Simon St. George and his father are the last living descendants of a legendary clan of dragon hunters. In the Far East, fierce Samurai warriors are bound by an oath to defeat the dragons. Now, faced with an apocalyptic dragon plot, East and West must join forces to save mankind. Brimming with unforgettable dragon lore and exotic adventure, Jason Hightman''s riveting sequel to The Saint of Dragons delves deeper into the raging war between humans and dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1647'),
(8115, 'The Samurai&#39;s Wife', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE IMPERIAL CITY OF KYOTO, POWER IS MERELY CEREMONIAL. BUT AN ANCIENT EVIL STILL SURVIVES...Far from the shogun''s court at Edo, Most Honorable Investigator Sano Ichiro begins the most challenging case of his career. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano arrives with her at the emperor''s palace to unmask the murderer-who possesses the secret of kiai-"the spirit cry"-a powerful scream that can kill instantly. A high Kyoto official is the victim. Treading carefully through a web of spies, political intrigue, forbidden passions, and intricate plots, Sano and Reiko must struggle to stay ahead of the palace storms-and outwit a cunning killer. But as they soon discover, solving the case means more than their survival. For if they fail, Japan could be consumed in the bloodiest war it has ever seen...A legendary land comes alive in this compelling murder mystery set in seventeenth-century Japan. Filled with finely drawn characters and suspenseful plot twists, THE SAMURAI''S WIFE is a novel as complex, vivid, and artful as the glorious, lost world it portrays.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND, the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants, grew up in Michigan. She is the author of four previous Sano Ichiro novels, The Concubine''s Tattoo, Shinju, Bundori, and The Way of the Traitor, and lives in New Orleans with her husband and three cats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2668'),
(8116, 'San Andreas', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran adventure and suspense writer MacLean returns to sea in his latest effort, which is set aboard the British hospital ship San Andreas en route from Halifax to Aberdeen during World War II. The first sign of trouble on board occurs when the ship''s lights fail just before dawn. Then the vessel comes under a bombing attack that severely damages its superstructure and sinks its escort frigate. Bo''s''n Archie McKinnon must take charge of the damaged ship and steer it to safety despite German aircraft, submarines, and sabotage. He must also learn the reason for German interest in the San Andreas . A tribute to the men of the British merchant fleet during World War II, this is for fans of the genre. Literary Guild featured alternate. William C. McCully, Park Ridge P.L., Ill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  According to the Geneva Convention, red crosses on a ship guarantee immunity from enemy attack. The San Andreas is a hospital ship, but the members of her crew do not believe that the red crosses on her sides will keep her safe. The author also wrote "Where Eagles Dare".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9277'),
(8117, 'San Diego Siege', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Executioner invades the Mafia encampments in the San Diego area.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(8118, 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass', 'Bruno Schulz &amp; Celina Wieniewska', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Weaving myth, fantasy, and reality, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is, to quote Schulz, "an attempt at eliciting the history of a certain family . . . by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English (translation)\n <br />\n Original Language: Polish\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5644'),
(8119, 'Sanctuary', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: War with their archrival, the evil Ansara clan, is unavoidable. For Mercy Raintree, a war means she must assume her position as guardian of the Sanctuaryâ€”the sacred Raintree home place deep in the Smoky Mountains. But doing so threatens to disclose her most prized secretâ€”one Mercy has kept to herself for six years. As the solstice looms and the battle heats up, Dranir Judah Ansara gathers his forces, intending to wipe every Raintree from the face of the land. Including Mercy, whom he''s claimed as his to kill. Then he comes face-to-face with herâ€”and with her daughter, Eve. Will Mercy''s closely guarded secret change not only the outcome of the battleâ€”but also Judah''s own bitter heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(8120, 'The sanctuary sparrow: the seventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A paperback edition of a novel featuring Brother Cadfael. A young man pursued by a lynching mob seeks sanctuary at the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury. He is accused of robbery and murder, but Cadfael senses his innocence and sets out to prove it. Publication is to coincide with the televising of a new series based on the Cadfael chronicles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(8121, 'Sanders &amp; Bones-The African Adventures: 4-Lieutenant Bones &amp; Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the ''Dark Continent'' In the first years of the twentieth century much of the African continent remained dark, mysterious and still full of strange and exotic possibilities. The British Empire ruled over vast areas of trackless plain and dense equatorial jungle, all had their fragile order maintained by a small cadre of government officials, policemen, soldiers and forces raised from the local populations. To those who only read about these remarkable men it seemed they led a life full of the potential for adventure of the most exciting kind. So it was unsurprising that popular authors of the day-including H. Rider Haggard and the author of these stories, Edgar Wallace, among them, readily chose colonial Africa-with its fierce tribes, witch doctors and magic, its dangerous animals and wild landscapes-as a rich and rewarding stage for their forays into fiction to meet the insatiable demand of the domestic audience. Wallace was a prolific author responsible for several series of popular novels featuring bold adventurers and crime fighters. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as ''Bones''. Sanders was probably based upon the real life character of Frederick Lugard who was the highly regarded creator and administrator of Northern Nigeria and whose incredible career can scarcely be said to have been less remarkable than that of his fictional counterpart. Those who love classic adventure especially set against an African backdrop will discover a rich vein of reading pleasure in the six Leonaur books (which include both short stories and novels) that comprise this special edition of the collected adventures of Sanders and Bones.Volume four includes two books first published as individual volumes-Lieutenant Bones and Bones in London.This series is available in softcover and hardcover with dustjacket for collectors. Leonaur hardcovers are bound in high quality cloth and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and taped head and tail bands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5962'),
(8122, 'Sandkings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amused to find that his tank of Earth piranhas had cannibalized themselves into extinction, and of the two exotic animals that roamed his estate, only one remained. Now, in search of some new pets to satisfy his cruel pursuit of amusement, Simon finds a new shop in the city where he is intrigued by a new lifeform he has never heard of before ... a collection of multi-colored sandkings. The curator explains that the insect-like animals, no larger than Simon''s fingernails, are not insects, but animals with a highly-evolved hive intelligence capable of staging wars between the different colors, and even religion--in the form of worship of their owner. The curator''s warning to Simon about the regularity of their feeding, unfortunately, was not taken seriously.... ["Outer Limits" Episode] Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(8123, 'Sandman Slim', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life sucks, then you die. Period.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unless you''re James Stark, a hitman in Hell for eleven years before escaping back up to Hell-on-earth L.A.â€”looking for revenge, absolution . . . love, maybe.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Hell''s not through with Stark.Heaven''s not either.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7711'),
(8124, 'Sandman Slim with Bonus Content', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10639'),
(8125, 'The Sands of Time', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜If Sutekh had escaped, no power in the universe could have stopped him wreaking havoc and destruction. This time, itâ€™s worse.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Arriving in Victorian London, the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan run straight into trouble: Nyssa is kidnapped in the British Museum by Egyptian religous fanatics; the Doctor and Tegan are greeted by a stranger who knows more about them than he should and invited to a very strange party.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why are rooms already booked for the Doctor at the Savoy? How can Lord Kenilworthâ€™s butler Atkins be in Egypt and London at the same time? What is the history of the ancient mummy to be unwrapped at Kenilworthâ€™s house? And what has all this got to do with Nyssa?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctorâ€™s quest for answers leads him across continents and time as an ancient Egyptian prophecy threatens 1990s England. While the Doctor attempts to unravel the plans of the mysterious Sadan Rassul, mummies stalk the night and an ancient terror stirs in its tomb.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5652'),
(8126, 'Sandworms of Dune', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Longtime collaborators Herbert and Anderson set themselves a steep challengeâ€”and, in the end, fail to meet itâ€”in this much anticipated wrapup of the original Dune cycle (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Hunters of Dune\n  </em>\n  ). A large cast scattered across the cosmos must be brought together so that the final, all-powerful Kwisatz Haderach may be revealed in the ultimate face-off between humankind and the machine empire ruled by the implacable Omnius. Though pacing is brisk and the infrequent action scenes crackle with tension, only two minor charactersâ€”gholas, who are young clones with restored memories, of Suk doctor Wellington Yueh and God-Emperor Leto IIâ€”acquire real depth. Everyone else is too busy reacting to mostly irrelevant subplots like sabotage aboard the no-ship\n  <em>\n   Ithaca\n  </em>\n  , a plague devastating the planet of Chapterhouse and the genetic engineering of marine-dwelling sandworms. The lengthy climax relies on at least four consecutive deus ex machina bailouts, eventually devolving into sheer fairy tale optimism. Series fans will argue the novel''s merits for years; others will be underwhelmed.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By the time of this second volume of the third Dune prequel trilogy, battles and plagues have nearly destroyed humans and their planets. Sheanna revives the ghola cloning project to pit genius against numbers. Almost all the saga principals have been re-createdâ€”Paul, Jessica, Letos I and II, Chani, Stilgar, even Wellington Yueh and Baron Harkonnenâ€”and are hiding on the no-ship. The eleventh ghola of Duncan Idaho keeps an eye on things. Naturally, such a crew generates intrigue, dissension, and many actions unintentionally at cross-purposes. Some of the re-creations learn from the past, some don''t. Meanwhile, Omnius and Erasmus, leaders of the thinking machines, search for the no-ship; failing to find it, they finish the destruction of any planet capable of supporting human life. When the clones and the thinking machines finally confront each other, the conflict proves pretty gripping. Its plot derived from Frank Herbert''s notes, Sandworms should fascinate Dune fans. The series'' long run by now begs the question of whether, since Sandworms ties up so many loose ends, more of what has been learned about the construction and destruction of ecologies, and about thinking machines, in the 42 years since Dune was first published couldn''t figure in the promised ninth prequel volume, Paul of Dune. Murray, Frieda\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7411'),
(8127, 'Santa&#39;s Twin', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A contemporary Christmas classic for children of all ages -- including those who pretend to have grown up!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte and Emily are determined to save Santa from his mischievous twin -- Bob Claus -- who has not only stolen Santa''s sleigh and stuffed his toy bag full of mud pies, cat poop, and broccoli, but has also threatened to turn Donner, Blitzen, and the others into reindeer soup!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How the brave but foolhardy sisters fly to the North Pole and rescue Santa from his "deeply troubled" twin is an utterly charming and unforgettable story sure to add sparkle to your holiday season.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Read it aloud, preferably to someone you love to hear laugh!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This perennial yuletide favorite was written by bestselling novelist Dean Koontz in 1996 at the request of his fans and has been pleasing readers every holiday season since. Winner of an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition while he was just a senior in college, Koontz today is a world-famous author whose books have been published in thirty-eight different languages and have sold more than three hundred million copies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lavishly illustrated with spectacular paintings by Phil Parks, this thoroughly modern masterpiece breathes new life and warmth into the world''s most beloved legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(8128, 'Santaland Diaries', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris''s most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man''s companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back seat of a police car. It should be read with your eyes, felt with your heart, and heard only when spoken to. It should, in short, behave much like a book. And oh, what a book it is!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(8129, 'Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none...has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen world? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11005'),
(8130, 'Santorini', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sailing in the Aegean, NATO spyship HMS Ariadne sights two disasters at once, a bomber crashing into the sea and a large yacht sinking. The plane turns out to have been loaded with nuclear weapons, and the survivors rescued from the yacht appear somehow responsible for the plane''s destruction. With potential saboteurs aboard, the crew of the Ariadne must raise the one activated weapon and carefully dispose of it. MacLean (The Lonely Sea has trumped up so many aspects of this novel that he has taken the fun out of it. Rather than have the spies seized and flown off, he keeps them on the frigate. Instead of bringing in experts to remove the weapons, he leaves the job in the hands of the ship''s captain. He also ups the stakes: if the unstable nearby volcano, Santorini, erupts, the combined explosions would create a nuclear winter. The contrived plot together with MacLean''s stiff writing style make for a lazily composed adventure. Paperback to Fawcett.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Aegean a large airplane crashes at almost the same time a luxurious yacht is sinking. Commander Talbot of the Ariadne , a sophisticated British ship that is part of NATO, picks up the yacht''s survivors, among them a wealthy Greek businessman. The downed plane, it is learned, contains hydrogen bombs and atomic mines, one of which is ticking. If the mine explodes in that spot, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tidal waves, ozone cracking, and possibly the end of the world could ensue. Talbot and his crew piece together a fiendish plot involving the Greek, drugs, terrorism, and international blackmail. While a large portion of the book reads like a field manual for reclaiming submerged atomic devices, the pace is swift and relentless. (The involvement of the U.S. President, and his decision to keep the whole thing quiet to avoid credibility problems, is more than a bit eerie.) Fans of MacLean will enjoy this, as would any reader of thrillers. Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown &amp; Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9275'),
(8131, 'The Sapphire Rose', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhellion, the legendary jewel of magic. With it, he frees Queen Ehalana from the crystalline cocoon that preserves her life, but Bhellion carries dangers of its own. And now Sparkhawk is being stalked by a dark lurking menace that is only the beginning of his troubles....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10505'),
(8132, 'Sarah&#39;s Key', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel'' d''Hiv'' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family''s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel'' d''Hiv''s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France''s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her toSarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl''s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d''Hiv'', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah''s past, she begins toquestion her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11218'),
(8133, 'The Sarantos Secret Baby', 'Olivia Gates', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  He was as tall and dark as the devil...and was her family''s hated adversary. But that didn''t stop Selene Louvardis from wanting Aris Sarantos with her every breath. Or grabbing her one chance for a forbidden night with him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was never supposed to learn she''d borne his child. But when Aris stormed back into Selene''s life and discovered the truth, nothing would stop the ruthless billionaire from claiming his own. Not her family, not the billion-dollar contract at stake and certainly not something as inconvenient as\n  <i>\n   love.\n  </i>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10793'),
(8134, 'Sargasso of Space', 'Andre Norton; Walter Velez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Sargasso of Space" (1955) and "Plague Ship" (1956) were the first two science fiction novels I ever checked out of our local library (I can still close my eyes and see that one dinky little shelf, crammed with some of SFs'' greatest juvenile authors: Norton; Heinlein; Del Rey; Nourse). "Sargasso of Space" is the first of four ''Solar Queen'' adventures, followed by "Plague Ship,""Postmarked the Stars," and the novella, "Voodoo Planet." Norton''s four-book series about the crew of the Solar Queen ended in 1969 with "Postmarked the Stars" but beware! Lesser authors have butted into the series, presumably with Norton''s permission since this remarkable Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and the Nebula Grand Master is still writing (her first novel was published in 1934, her latest fantasy in 2002). One Solar Queen rip-off to avoid at all costs is "Redline: the Stars." Norton''s Solar Queen stories are told from the viewpoint of Dane Thorson, an apprentice-Cargo Master who is introduced to us in "Sargasso of Space" as a "lanky, very young man in an ill-fitting Trader''s tunic." Most of this author''s heroes and heroines are young, uncertain of themselves, shy, with a tendency to trip over their own enthusiasms and load themselves up with guilt at the slightest opportunity. They are very likeable and their adventures are narrated in remarkably lean prose with just the right touch of description. After ten years of schooling, orphan Dane Thorson is assigned via a computer analysis of his psychological profile--not to a safe berth on a sleek Company-run starship that his classmates were vying for--but to a battered tramp of a Free Trader. To say that the ''Solar Queen'' "lacked a great many refinements and luxurious fittings which the Company ships boasted" was an understatement. But she was a tightly-run ship and what she lacked in refinement, she made up for in adventure. Dane soon settles in under Cargo Master Van Rycke and learns "to his dismay what large gaps unfortunately existed in his training."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9128'),
(8135, 'Sarum', 'Brigid O&#39;Donoghue &amp; Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A masterpiece that is breathtaking in its scope, SARUM is an epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapesty weaves a compelling saga of five families who preserve their own particular characteristics over the centuries, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the future.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6319'),
(8136, 'Sassinak', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sassinak was 12 when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different . . . and bided her time to become the fleet captain of a pirate-chasing ship of her own. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10803'),
(8137, 'The Satan Bug', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED...Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world.Yet behind the locked doors of E block, a scientist lies dead, and a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9266'),
(8138, 'Satan Burger', 'Mellick Carlton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring." --**Chuck Palahniuk   **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Satan Burger is the international cult hit that has grown such an enormous following over the past 10 years that it not only launched the career of underground author Carlton Mellick III, but inspired an entire literary movement.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism, and the end of the human race . . .*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossessing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-shaped machine called the Walm--an interdimensional doorway that brings His New Children into the world. He loves these new children, but He doesn''t love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there''s nothing you can do about it ...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring: a narrator who sees his body from a third-person perspective, a man whose flesh is dead but his body parts are alive and running amok, an overweight messiah, the personal life of the Grim Reaper, lots of classy sex and violence, and a motley group of squatter punks that team up with the devil to find their place in a world that doesn''t want them anymore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6644'),
(8139, 'The satanic verses: a novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just before dawn one winter''s morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3703'),
(8140, 'Saturday', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane, like the balloon in the first scene of\n <em>\n  Enduring Love\n </em>\n , turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. His cerebral peregrination records, in turn, the meticulous details of brain surgery, a car accident followed by a confrontation with a hoodlum, a far-from-routine squash game, a visit to Perowne''s mother in a nursing home and a family reunion. It is during the latter event, at the end of the day, that the ominous pall that has hovered over the narrative explodes into violence, and Perowne''s sense that the world has become "a commuity of anxiety" plays out in suspense, delusion, heroism and reconciliation. The tension throughout the novel between science (Perowne''s surgery) and art (his daughter is a poet; his son a musician) culminates in a synthesis of the two, and a grave, hopeful, meaningful, transcendent ending. If this novel is not as complex a work as McEwan''s bestselling\n <em>\n  Atonement\n </em>\n , it is nonetheless a wise and poignant portrait of the way we live now.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 22)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n As McEwan writers, â€œWhen anything can happen, everything matters.â€\n <em>\n  Saturday\n </em>\n magnifies a pivotal moment in history and a day in a manâ€™s life as secure foundations crack and uncertainty rushes in. While critics cited different overriding themes,\n <em>\n  Saturday\n </em>\n explores ideas of fate and purpose, lifeâ€™s fragility, revelation, and terror at all levels of society. McEwan, an enduring talent in Britain combines â€œliterary seriousnessâ€ with a â€œmomentum more commonly associated with genre fiction.â€ The result is an intricate, captivating novel defined by a â€œserene tensionâ€ that erupts into a dark reality despite its heroâ€™s optimism (_New York Times Book Review_).\n</p>\n<p>\n McEwan brilliantly builds many layers of reality from small details. Henry-a sympathetic, if conflicted, character-knows he can examine peopleâ€™s brains, but not understand their minds. His ruminations on surgery, lovemaking, music, war (heâ€™s pro-war), and literature (heâ€™s clueless) rise to a crescendo as he slowly questions his own motives and actions. In dazzling, authoritative prose, McEwan depicts this growing anxiety with a calmness that is soon violated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite its appeal on both sides of the Atlantic, a few reviewers thought McEwanâ€™s intricate plotting and slow, dark suspense was too structured. The novelâ€™s explicit messages deprive the reader of â€œfeeling, rather than coolly registering, the authorâ€™s intentionâ€ (_New York Times Book Review_). Yet, in the end, most critics agree that\n <em>\n  Saturday\n </em>\n is both a substantial work of literature by one of Britainâ€™s greatest minds and a powerful piece of post-9/11 fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9296'),
(8141, 'The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party: The New No. 1 Ladies&#39; Detective Agency Novel', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly charming and compulsively readable.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKindness is paramount . . . Consistently satisfying . . . Genial [and] comforting.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Christian Science Monitor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndearing, amusing . . . Sparkles with African sunshine and wit.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIrresistible.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming, warmly affecting . . . As comfy cozy as can be.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe pleasure of these sweet books lies in the clarity and gravity with which the characters reason through everyday dilemmas.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe best, most charming, honest, hilarious and life-affirming books to appear in years.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest installment in the beloved, best-selling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a profoundly touching tale of the human heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n At a remote cattle post south of Gaborone two cows have been killed, and Precious Ramotswe, Botswanaâ€™s No. 1 Lady Detective, is asked to investigate by a rather frightened and furtive gentleman. It is an intriguing problem with plenty of suspectsâ€”including, surprisingly, her own client.\n</p>\n<p>\n To complicate matters, Mma Ramotswe is haunted by a vision of her dear old white van, and Grace Makutsi witnesses it as well. Is it the ghost of her old friend, or has it risen from the junkyard?Â  In the meantime, one of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoniâ€™s apprentices may have gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious to help sort things out. Add to the mix Violet Sephothoâ€™s newly launched run for the Botswana Parliament and a pair of perfect wedding shoesâ€”will wedding bells finally ring for Phuti Radiphuti and Grace Makutsi?â€”and we have a charming and delightful tale in the inimitable style of Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8053'),
(8142, 'Saturnalia', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skullduggery crowd the pages.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Guardian_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFalco wisecracks his way through the empireâ€™s sleazy underside . . . Davisâ€™s crimes are wickedly convoluted â€” real fun.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. Marcus Didius Falco and Helena have returned from Greece only to find that Helenaâ€™s brother Justinusâ€™s marital problems have exploded. Justinusâ€™s first love, Veleda, a tribal leader and prophetess from Germania, has been brought to Rome and put under house arrest pending a ritual sacrifice at her capturerâ€™s Triumph.\n</p>\n<p>\n Justinus is love-struck once more and his wife, the temperamental Claudia, is enraged. Then Veleda escapes leaving behind a corpse. Justinus disappears too and it is up to Falco and the Chief Spy Anacrites to try to find the missing couple all against the backdrop of the orgiastic holiday period when literally anything goes . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7172'),
(8143, 'The Saucier&#39;s Apprentice: A Modern Guide to Classic French Sauces for the Home', 'Raymond A. Sokolov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is the first book all the great sauces of practical, workable system. Raymond Sokolov, the widely admired former Food Editor of The first to point out that the hitherto mysterious saucier''s art, as practiced by the best restaurant chefs, is based on what amounts to an elegant "fast food" technique. And this is what he demonstrates in his unique, useful, and witty book:-- How to prepare, at your leisure, the three fundamental classic sauces (the "mother" sauces from which all others evolve: Brown, White, and Fish Veloute)...-- How to freeze them in one-meal-size containers, ready for use at a moment''s notice...-- How to transform any of these basic put-away sauces, quickly and easily, into the exact ones that French chefs are famous for and serve in the finest restaurants...-- How to prepare the classic dish for which each sauce is traditionally used, with suggestions for enhancing simpler fare (the recipes run the gamut from Duckling a la Bigarade to Poached Eggs Petit-Duc -- that is, with Chateaubriand Sauce).Mr. Sokolov has conceived, then, a comprehensive collection of recipes -- authoritative, clear, and easy to follow -- as well as an inventive method of cooking for the average kitchen. Peppered with culinary lore and with reassuring accounts of the author''s own experiences as a modern-day Saucier''s Apprentice, here is a book that will appeal to every good amateur cook who wants to produce sumptuous fare at home for occasions great and small.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4429');
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(8144, 'Saul Bellow: Letters', 'Saul Bellow &amp; Benjamin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Best of 2010 Lists\n </strong>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , Michiko Kakutani''s Top Ten of 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n , John Yardley''s Best of 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n  Minneapolis Star Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It comes as no surprise to find that the great novelist was a great correspondent as well. I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I''d stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed."\n <br />\n ?Philip Roth\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the\n <em>\n  Letters\n </em>\n , as in everything he wrote, Saul Bellow never dipped below a certain level?and that level is stratospheric."\n <br />\n ?Martin Amis\n</p>\n<p>\n "These aren''t dashed-off notes, but letters that required considerable care and meant much to the author, as he expresses affection and support for other writers (Ellison, Roth, Malamud, Cheever, Amis et al.), takes critics and journalists to task with well-formed arguments and offers critical commentary on the culture that provides the context for his work (a culture that no longer values the art of writing letters)."\n <br />\n ?_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feisty, smart, but most of all thrillingly intimate, these letters ripen and mature as they go along, just as some people do."\n <br />\n ?_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Benjamin Taylor has done a superb job in both his selection and his introduction to these salient letters from a gone world when literature was all the rage."\n <br />\n ?_Tablet Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Benjamin Taylor''s introduction and frequent brief indentifying notes are models of elegant scholarly restraint."\n <br />\n ?_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Collected and annotated by Benjamin Taylor, these letters reveal in Saul Bellow a rare consistency: From the first letter in 1932 to the last in 2005, Bellow''s ex-wives accrue, his fortunes rise and fall, but his character-as a man generous and preoccupied by literature-remains fixed."\n <br />\n ?_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Vibrant, witty, and revealing, the collection is truly captivating."\n <br />\n -Kiara, Bookseller, Booksmith\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow''s fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these letters reveal the influcences at work in the man, and illuminate his enduring legacy-the novels that earned him a Nobel Prize and the admiration of the world over.\n <em>\n  Saul Bellow: Letters\n </em>\n is a major literary event and an important edition to Bellow''s incomparable body of work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4579'),
(8145, 'Savage', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Relating a gruesome story through the first-person narrative of an ingenuous 15-year-old boy, horror novelist Laymon ( The Stake ) appears to aim at the complex tone of Huckleberry Finn . He doesn''t even come close, although that parallel might explain his London-born narrator''s curiously un-British speech patterns ("gas lamps didn''t give off a whole lot of light"). After witnessing Jack the Ripper''s final murder on the streets of Whitechapel in 1888, Trevor Bentley is pursued by the psychopath into the Thames and ends up as his prisoner on a yacht bound for America. Improbable plot twists take both characters to Arizona, where the Ripper wreaks havoc while Trevor encounters a couple of snake-oil salesmen, rides with a bandit gang, becomes a crack shot and falls in love with pert, 16-year-old Jesse Sue Longley. The young couple survive a gore-splattered encounter with the Ripper in an Arizona cave, going on to marriage and a career in the snake-oil business. The grisly mutilation scenes induce no horror, Trevor''s unrelenting innocence becomes tiresome, and his byplay with Jesse skirts soft-core kiddy-porn.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1888, Following a disturbance at home, Trevor Bentley''s mother sends the 15-year-old to find his uncle, a constable on the London police force. Trevor embarks on a bizarre sequence of adventures, beginning with his witnessing Jack the Ripper at work. Over the next few months, the Ripper and Trevor pursue each other across the Atlantic and on to Arizona, sometimes exchanging roles of hunter and the hunted. Laymon''s other horror novels include The Stake (St. Martin''s, 1992) and, under the pseudonym Richard Kelly, Midnight''s Lair (St Martin''s, 1991). He is an accomplished wordsmith, but Savage ''s plot falters with too many improbabilities and the author''s denigrating peep show presentation of his women characters. Not a necessary puchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8628'),
(8146, 'The Savage Altar', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Innocence will be sacrificed... On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town shers"d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(8147, 'The Savage Day', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11013'),
(8148, 'Savage Nature', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Danger lurks in the shadows and desire shimmers in the sultry heat as leopard shifter Drake Donovan is sent to a Louisiana bayou to investigate a murder. He''s ready for anything except the insatiable hunger that rocks him when he meets Saria Boudreaux, a woman with a compelling motive-and ability-to distract him from the task at hand...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7939'),
(8149, 'Savage Night', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is Carl Bigelow a fresh-faced college kid looking for a room, or is he a poised hit man tracking down his victim? And if Carl is really two people, what about everyone around him? Savage Night is Thompson at his best, with plot reversals and nightmarish shifts of identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2197'),
(8150, 'a Savage Place (1981)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 08', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10557'),
(8151, 'A Savage Place', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.Spenser''s job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser''s skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3999'),
(8152, 'Save Me', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this gut-wrenching stand-alone from bestseller Scottoline (Think Twice), an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of Reesburgh (Pa.) Elementary School. Lunch mother Rose McKenna leads two girls to safety before racing to rescue her own daughter, Melly, but Rose soon learns that she may face both civil and criminal charges for her heroics because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the resulting fire that killed three school staff members. The tension rises as the united front presented by Rose and her lawyer husband, Leo Ingrassia, begins to disintegrate in the face of media demands, legal maneuverings, and social pressures. Rose must also deal with school bullying (Melly has a noticeable facial blemish), difficult legal problems, and her husband''s reaction when a secret from her past is revealed. Scottoline melds it all into a satisfying nail-biting thriller sure to please her growing audience. 400,000 first printing; author tour. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suburban mom [Rose McKenna] is forced to make a split-second decision after an explosion goes off in the school cafeteria in which she volunteers. Should she rescue her own daughter, Melly, trapped in the bathroom, or lead the girls standing in front of her, who constantly bully her daughter, to safety? Her choice reverberates throughout the little town of Reesburgh, Pennsylvania, as she is cast as the villain by the local news anchor, parents, and the school. While her attorney and husband construct a defense plan that includes filing a lawsuit against the school, [Rose] sets out to seek the truth behind this mysterious, accidental fire. With the help of a construction worker who may know the cause of the explosion as well as an incognito visit to a local factory, [Rose] slowly unravels the truth and along with it some hidden secrets in Reesburgh''s dark past, including one horrifying buried memory of her own. At the quick pace of a thriller, Scottoline masterfully fits every detail into a tight plot chock-full of real characters, real issues, and real thrills. A story anchored by the impenetrable power of a mother''s love, it begs the question, just how far would you go to save your child? --Annie McCormick\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8711'),
(8153, 'Save The Cat', 'Blake Snyder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10946'),
(8154, 'Saving Faith', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: BELIEVE THE POWERIn a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she''ll tell too much.BELIEVE THE SUSPENSEFeared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed.BELIEVE THE ASTOUNDING NEW STORY THAT ONLY DAVID BALDACCI COULD WRITE...Now Faith Lockhart must flee for her life -- with her story, with her deadly secret, and with an unknown man she''s forced to trust...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(8155, 'Saving Max', 'Antoinette van Heugten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Max Parkmanâ€”autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressiveâ€”is perfect in his mother[HTML_REMOVED]s eyes. Until he[HTML_REMOVED]s accused of murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max[HTML_REMOVED]s behavior has been getting worseâ€”using drugs and lashing out. But she can[HTML_REMOVED]t accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trapped in a world of doubt and fear, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer?\n</p>\n<p>\n With the justice system bearing down on them, Danielle steels herself to discover the truth, no matter what it is. She[HTML_REMOVED]ll do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being destroyed by a system that[HTML_REMOVED]s all too eager to convict him.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danielle falls gratefully into the leather chair in Dr. Leonard''s waiting room. She has just raced from her law firm''s conference room, where she spent the entire morning with a priggish Brit who couldn''t imagine that his business dealings across the pond could possibly have subjected him to the indignities of a New York lawsuit. Max, her son, sits in his customary place in the corner of the psychiatrist''s waiting roomâ€”as far away from her as possible. He is hunched over his new iPhone, thumbs punching furiously. It''s as if he''s grown a new appendage, so rarely does she see him without it. At his insistence, Danielle also has an identical one in her purse. The faintest shadow of a moustache stains his upper lip, his handsome face marred by a cruel, silver piercing on his eyebrow. His scowl is that of an adult, not a child. He seems to feel her stare. He looks up and then averts his lovely, tenebrous eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n She thinks of all the doctors, the myriad of medications, the countless dead ends, and the dark, seemingly irreversible changes in Max. Yet somehow the ghost of her boy wraps his thin, tanned arms around her neckâ€”his mouth cinnamon-sweet with Red Hotsâ€”and plants a sticky kiss on her cheek. He rests there a moment, his small body breathing rapidly, his heart her metronome. She shakes her head. To her, there is still only one Max. And in the center of this boy lies the tenderest, sweetest middleâ€”her baby, the part she can never give up.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her eyes return to the present Max. He''s a teenager, she tells herself. Even as the hopeful thought flits across her mind, she knows she is lying to herself. Max has Asperger''s Syndrome, high-functioning autism. Although very bright, he is clueless about getting along with people. This has caused him anguish and heartache all his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was very young, Max discovered computers. His teachers were stunned at his aptitude. Now sixteen, Danielle still has no idea of the extent of Max''s abilities, but she knows that he is a virtual geniusâ€”a true savant. While this initially made him fascinating to his peers, none of them could possibly maintain interest in the minutiae Max droned on about. People with Asperger''s often wax rhapsodic about their specific obsessionsâ€”whether or not the listener is even vaguely interested in the topic. Max''s quirky behavior and learning disabilities have made him the object of further ridicule. His response has been to act out or retaliate, although lately it seems that he has just withdrawn further into himself, cinching thicker and tighter coils around his heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sonya, his first real girlfriend, broke up with him a few months ago. Max was devastated. He finally had a relationshipâ€”like everybody elseâ€”and she dumped him in front of all his classmates. Max became so depressed that he refused to go to school; cut off contact with the few friends he had; and started using drugs. The latter she discovered when she walked into his room unannounced to find Max staring at her coollyâ€”a joint in his hand; a blue, redolent cloud over his head; and a rainbow assortment of pills scattered carelessly on his desk. She didn''t say a word, but waited until he took a shower a few hours later and then confiscated the bag of dope and every pill she could find. That afternoon she dragged himâ€”cursing and screamingâ€”to Dr. Leonard''s office. The visits seemed to help. At least he had gone back to school and, in an odd way, seemed happier. He was tender and loving toward Danielleâ€”a young Max, eager to please. As far as the drugs went, her secret forays into his room turned up nothing. That wasn''t to say, of course, that he hadn''t simply moved them to school or a friend''s house.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, she thinks ruefully, recent events pale in comparison to what brings them here today. Yesterday after Max left for school and she performed her daily search-and-seizure reconnaissance, she discovered a soft, leather-bound journal stuffed under his bed. Guiltily, she pried open the metal clasp with a paring knife. The first page so frightened her that she fell into a chair, hands shaking. Twenty pages of his boyish scrawl detailed a plan so intricate, so terrifying, that she only noticed her ragged breathing and stifled sobs when she looked around the room and wondered where the sounds were coming from. Did the blame lie with her? Could she have done something differently? Better? The old shame and humiliation filled her.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door opens and Georgia walks in. A tiny blonde, she sits next to Danielle and gives her a brief, strong hug. Danielle smiles. Georgia is not only her best friendâ€”she is family. As an only child with both parents gone, Danielle has come to rely upon Georgia''s unflagging loyalty and support, not to mention her deep love for Max. Despite her sweet expression, Georgia has the quick mind of a tough lawyer. Their law firm is Blackwood &amp; Price, a multinational firm with four hundred lawyers and offices in New York, Oslo and London. She is typically in her office by nowâ€”seated behind a perfectly ordered desk, a pile of finished work at her elbow. Danielle can''t remember when she has been so glad to see someone. Georgia gives Max a wave and a smile. "Hi, you."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey." The monosyllabic task accomplished, he closes his eyes and slouches lower into his chair.\n</p>\n<p>\n "How is he?" asks Georgia.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Either glued to his laptop or on that damned phone of his," she whispers. "He doesn''t know I found hisâ€¦journal. I''d never have gotten him here otherwise."\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgia squeezes her shoulder. "It''ll be all right. We''ll get through this somehow."\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re so wonderful to come. I can''t tell you how much it means to me." She forces normality into her voice. "So, how did it go this morning?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I barely got to court in time, but I think I did okay."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What happened?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She shrugs. "Jonathan."\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle squeezes her hand. Her husband, Jonathan, although a brilliant plastic surgeon, has an unquenchable thirst that threatens to ruin not only his marriage, but his career. Georgia suspects that he is also addicted to cocaine, but has voiced that fear only to Danielle. No one at their law firm seems to know, despite his boorish behavior at the last Christmas party. The firm, an old-line Manhattan institution, does not look kindly upon spousal comportment that smacks of anything other than the rarified, blue-blooded professionals they believe themselves to be. With a two-year-old daughter, Georgia is reluctant to even consider divorce.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What was it this time?" asks Danielle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her azure eyes are nubilous. "Came in at four; passed out in the bathtub; pissed all over himself."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh, God."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Melissa found him and came crying into the bedroom." Georgia shakes her head. "She thought he was dead."\n</p>\n<p>\n This time it is Danielle who does the hugging.\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgia forces a smile and turns her gaze upon Max, who has sunk even lower into his leather chair and appears to be asleep. "Has the doctor read his journal?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''m sure he has," she says wearily. "I messengered it to him yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Have you heard from the school?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "He''s out." Max''s principal had politely suggested to Danielle that another "environment" might be more "successful" in meeting Max''s "challenges." In other words, they want him the hell out of there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max''s Asperger''s has magnified tenfold since he became a teenager. As his peers have graduated to sophisticated social interaction, Max has struggled at a middle-school level. Saddled with severe learning disabilities, he stands out even more. Danielle understands it. If you are incessantly derided, you cannot risk further social laceration. Isolation at least staunches the pain. And it isn''t as if Danielle hasn''t tried like hell. Max had cut a swath through countless schools in Manhattan. Even the special schools that cater to students with disabilities had kicked him out. For years she had beaten paths to every doctor who might have something new to offer. A different medication. A different dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Georgia," she whispers. "Why is this happening? What am I supposed to do?" She looks at her friend. Sadness is one emotion they mirror perfectly in one another''s eyes. Danielle feels the inevitable pressure at the back of her eyes and fiddles with the hem of her skirt. There''s a thread that won''t stay put.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re here, aren''t you?" Georgia''s voice is a gentle spring rain. "There has to be a solution."\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle clenches her hands as the tears come hard and fast. She glances at Max, but he is still asleep. Georgia pulls a handkerchief from her purse. Danielle wipes her eyes and returns it. Without warning, Georgia reaches over and pushes up the sleeve of Danielle''s blouseâ€”all the way to the elbow. Danielle jerks her arm back, but Georgia grabs her wrist and pulls her arm toward her. Long, red slashes stretch from pulse to elbow.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Don''t!" Danielle yanks her sleeve down, her voice a fierce whisper. "He didn''t mean it. It was just that one timeâ€”when I found his drugs."\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgia''s face is full of alarm. "This can''t go onâ€”not for him and not for you."\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle jerks back her arm and fumbles furiously with her cuff. The scarlet wounds are covered, but her secret is no longer safe. It is hers to know; hers to bear.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Parkman?" The bland, smooth voice is straight from central casting. The short haircut and black glasses that frame Dr. Leonard''s boyish face are cookie-cutter perfectâ€”a walking advertisement for the American Psychiatric Association.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still panicked by Georgia''s discovery, she wills herself to appear normal. "Good morning, Doctor."\n</p>\n<p>\n He regards her carefully. "Would you like to come in?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle nods, hastily gathering her things. She feels hot crimson flush her face.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Max?" asks Dr. Leonard.\n</p>\n<p>\n Barely awake, Max shrugs. "Whatever." He struggles to his feet and reluctantly follows Dr. Leonard down the hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle flin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6454'),
(8156, 'Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them--but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2051'),
(8157, 'Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life', 'Thich Nhat Hanh &amp; Lilian Cheung', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master Nhat Hanh says the same thing over and over, it could be because not enough people have heard him, and those who have need a reminder. He speaks to both groups in this work, coauthored by Harvard nutritionist Cheung, urging mindfulness about what people put in their mouths. It''s a diet book and a meditation book, an unusual hybrid that makes sense for Nhat Hanh because it applies his essential wisdom: pay attention; breathe. If you consistently do that, you''ll eat less, and at least two-thirds of Americans surely need to follow that advice. This book adds a lot of eat-this-and-not-that rules, as well as exercise guidelines, delivering so much information the effect is a little overwhelming. But the core meditation instructions are quintessential Nhat Hanh, steely and loving. This could be the diet-and-exercise book for those who have failed using other methods and need a fresh approach. For Nhat Hanh''s many fans, it is the sole wellness book they''ll need to remind themselves to only pay attention.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  So essential to healthy eating is a healthy perspective that Zen Buddhist master and prolific author Nhat Hanh joins forces with nutritionist Cheung for a truly holistic approach. The duo pairs the latest nutritional information with the age-old Buddhist practice of mindfulnessâ€”that is, of being fully aware of all that is going on within ourselves and all that is happening around usâ€”to draw attention to what and how we eat. Guidance is offered for recognizing what barriersâ€”physical, psychological, cultural, and environmentalâ€”prevent us from controlling our weight, and readers are encouraged to savor food in order to fully nourish both the body and the mind. To that end, Nhat Hanh provides guided meditations on everything from eating an apple to coping with stressful situations, along with advice on selecting and preparing food, staying active, and avoiding self-criticism. Complete with a discussion of why healthy eating is also good for the environment, this is a uniquely insightful and positive program for wellness: a book of tested wisdom; practical action; and intellectual, emotional, and spiritual nutriments. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7786'),
(8158, 'Sax Rohmer&#39;s the Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu', 'Sax Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first of the popular mystery series introduces a pair of English detectives to their archnemesis, the diabolical Dr. Fu-Manchu. Flavorful atmosphere, fast-paced action, &amp; colorful characters enliven this classic of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3366'),
(8159, 'Saxon 01 The Last Kingdom', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10586'),
(8160, 'Saxon 02 The Pale Horseman', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10603'),
(8161, 'Saxon 04 Sword Song', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10588'),
(8162, 'Saxon 05 The Burning Land', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10612'),
(8163, 'Say You&#39;re One of Them', 'Uwem Akpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family''s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle''s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees-a microcosm of today''s Africa-a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear. Uwem Akpan''s debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3373'),
(8164, 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9360'),
(8165, 'Scandal Takes a Holiday', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Rome of Vespasian and Titus comes to life in Davis''s entertaining 16th entry in her popular ancient historical series (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Accuser\n </em>\n ) featuring "finder" Marcus Didius Falco. The staff of the official government newspaper retains Falco when Diocles, the paper''s gossip columnist, disappears while on a visit to Ostia. At the seaport, a cesspool of corruption, Falco follows up on rumors that pirates, supposedly put out of business by Pompey the Great decades earlier, are engaged in smuggling and a kidnapping racket. Utilizing his street smarts and well-earned cynical view of humanity, Falco moves in and out of dives and places of worship on the trail of a mysterious figure who acts as the middleman between the kidnappers and the victims'' families. Disturbingly, some of the clues point to one of the detective''s disreputable relatives. Longtime fans will enjoy the additional background on Falco''s family, but first-timers, aided by a family tree and an introductory cast of characters, will be able to plunge right in. Unlike Steven Saylor in his Roma Sub Rosa series, Davis makes less use of the history of the time. While her deliberately modern colloquialisms ("Go with the flow, man," Falco is told) take a little getting use to, they help maintain the light arch tone that also distinguishes these fun novels from Saylor''s more serious tales.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this 16th mystery set in the Roman Empire (76 A.D.), Falco investigates the disappearance of the official scandal columnist for the\n <em>\n  Roman Daily Gazette\n </em>\n . When last heard from, the scribe had been leaving for vacation at Ostia. The private informer notes with typical irony that at first this assignment "had all the signs of a nice little escapade that I could handle blindfolded," but he soon finds himself pursuing a bewildering and seemingly unconnected variety of leads that involve kidnappings, Mediterranean pirates, local dives, religious customs, a teenager''s romance, and an outrageous funeral celebration. His independent inquiry is complicated somewhat by his helpful wife (a Senator''s daughter) and their children, several other family members, and his best friend, a policeman. Falco and company are kindly, intelligent people who live in a brutal time; they survive with integrity intact through humor, loyalty to one another, and a tough acceptance of the inevitable. Readers might be daunted by lists of characters, maps with strange place names, Briticisms, or Falco''s casually allusive narrative style, but those who persevere will be richly rewarded, becoming immersed in fascinating details of a distant time and place populated by recognizable human beings. Though this story can be read independently, the series is best read in order, beginning with\n <em>\n  Silver Pigs\n </em>\n (Crown, 1991); the novels progress satisfyingly through Falco''s life as they explore many far-flung corners of the Empire._â€“Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7175'),
(8166, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user''s brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn''t realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick''s industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3774'),
(8167, 'The Scarab Path', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease, seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities who refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again. Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(8168, 'The Scarecrow', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he''s got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism''s highest honour - a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo''s so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he''s had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he''s coming...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2420'),
(8169, 'Scaring the Train', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10752'),
(8170, 'The Scarlatti inheritance', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerous man in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has a plan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the world from her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who is working under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stop him, he is about to give Hitler''s Third Reich the most powerful triumph on earth. "Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!"-- "Minneapolis Tribune." "Has that sense of drama and pact that only the best storytellers have."-- "San Francisco Chronicle." "Drive and excitement from first page to last."--Mario Puzo, author of "The Godfather." "Gripping. . .Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority."-- "Baltimore Sun"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3596'),
(8171, 'Scarlet', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest--and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion--Will joins the heroic archer and his men. Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging--unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts. That, of course, he will never do. Wales is slowly falling under the control of the invading Normans, and King William the Red has given his ruthless barons control of the land. In desperation, the people turn to King Raven and his men for justice and survival in the face of the ever-growing onslaught. From deep in the forest they form a daring plan for deliverance, knowing that failure means death for them all. Scarlet continues Stephen R. Lawhead''s riveting saga that began with the novel Hood, which relocated the legend of Robin Hood to the Welsh countryside and its dark forests. Steeped in Celtic mythology and the political intrigue of medival Britain, Lawhead''s trilogy conjures up an ancient past and holds a mirror to contemporary realities. Prepare for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3877'),
(8172, 'The Scarlet Letter', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nancy Stade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Scarlet Letter*, by **Nathaniel Hawthorne**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Americaâ€™s first psychological novel, **Nathaniel Hawthorneâ€™s** *The Scarlet Letter* is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long-hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hesterâ€™s husbandâ€”a man who seethes with an Ahab-like lust for vengeance. The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universalâ€”the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, *The Scarlet Letter* brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart. **Nancy Stade** is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3023'),
(8173, 'Scarlett', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“Since her parents'' divorce two years ago, Scarlett Flynn has been kicked out of five schools. After she ignites a food demonstration in the cafeteria, her mother has had enough. With her pierced tongue, black fingernails, and dyed tomato-soup-red hair, the 12-year-old is unwillingly sent from London to live with her father and his new family in Ireland. Aghast at her new school and new home in rural Connemara, Scarlett is angry. Her outlet is the lough where she meets mysterious gypsy boy Kian and his horse, Midnight. He allows her to express herself and provides the escape and friendship she needs. Her nine-year-old stepsister also sneaks her way into Scarlett''s heart, helping her to adjust. As she grows more penitent about her behavior, she makes the effort to change and becomes an important player in the family. Infused with a bit of fairy-tale magic, this is a fast-paced yet thoughtful story. The heroine is feisty and troublesome, yet quirky and lovable. Her feelings are justified, and readers will sympathize with her. The character develops tremendously as her anger ebbs and flows, transforming into sincere love and acceptance. Cassidy has written a poignant and strong story about love, forgiveness, and resilience._â€“Jennifer Cogan, Bucks County Free Library, Doylestown, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After 12-year-old Scarlett gets into trouble at school again, her fed-up mother sends her off to Ireland to live with Scarlett''s father, his new wife, and his nine-year-old stepdaughter. Scarlett is sure it will be horrible there, and at first it is, as she stubbornly rebuffs their attempts to welcome her. Then a mysterious boy helps Scarlett see herself in a new light, and when a crisis arises, she responds with courage and caring. Cassidy perfectly captures Scarlett''s tough exterior, which hides years of hurt and neglect, and she creates a character who will easily captivate her audience. The idyllic Irish countryside adds to the story''s appeal\n <em>\n  Karen Hutt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5106'),
(8174, 'The Scarpetta Factor', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City''s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley''s. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package ? possibly a bomb ? waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta''s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4098'),
(8175, 'Scarpetta&#39;s winter table', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the intrepid chief medical examiner of Virginia, isn''t busy solving crimes, she is concocting delicious dishes in her kitchen. In Scarpetta''s Winter Table, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers behind the scenes for intimate glimpses of her three major characters as they come together to celebrate the week between December 26, "the biggest letdown day of the year," and New Year''s. On the day after Christmas, Scarpetta make her special pizza pie and Detective Pete Marino creates his "cause-of-death eggnog" (he uses corn liquor), while Lucy Farinelli (a special agent with ATF and Scarpetta''s only niece) goes on a long run in the snowy suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. The next day, Scarpetta flies to Miami to spend a few days with her querulous mother and Sindbad, her Siamese cat. In Richmond, Lucy entertains her friends, all from various federal law enforcement agencies; and Marino first apprehends and then befriends Jimmy Simpson, a ten-year-old boy who had been snowballing his house. In the final scene of the novelette, all the characters (including Jimmy''s mother, who seems to catch Marino''s eye) gather in Scarpetta''s warm house on a cold night to enjoy her famous stew. This book--a special "gift" from Cornwell to her readers--is perfect for the Christmas-present buyer, and gives the reader insights into her best-known characters that cannot be found in any other work. It is illustrated with photographs that suggest the locales and activities of her characters, and it includes the ingredients for all the dishes described in the story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4116'),
(8176, 'Scars of Mirrodin: The Quest for Karn: Scars of Mirrodin Bloc', 'Robert Wintermute', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mirrodinâ€”a world of living metal, an artificial ecosystem created by the Planeswalker Karn to support organic lifeâ€”is on the cusp of cataclysm. When the Planeswalker Venser goes in search of his former mentor, he learns Karnâ€™s life hangs in the balanceâ€”and with him the entire plane of existence. For fans of the mega-selling trading card game,\n  <strong>\n   Magic: the Gathering\n  </strong>\n  Â®, the full story behind Scars of Mirrodin, a revisitation one of\n  <strong>\n   Magicâ€™s\n  </strong>\n  most popular settings.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5818'),
(8177, 'Scattered Graves', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Local politics get nasty when a new mayor is elected and Diane Fallon is replaced with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as she''s adjusting to life without murder, the newly appointed chief of police and the mayor are shot dead. Back on the job, Diane sees, but can''t quite believe, the evidence damning the former chief of detectives as the shooter. Someone with plenty to gain intends to get away with more than murder, and as the investigation reveals an ever-widening web of corruption and treachery, Diane realises that no one is safe - least of all her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/789');
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(8178, 'Scattered Suns', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anderson delivers more on-the-edge-of-your-seat SF thrills in the fourth installment of his Seven Suns saga (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Horizon Storms\n </em>\n ). Moments of extreme tenderness temper the relentless and often graphic descriptions of a brutal, seemingly endless war among the civilizations that populate the Spiral Arm. As before, menacing turncoat Klikiss robots plot to eradicate all humans (and humanoid alien Ildirans), while the delightfully dismayed DD, a captive robot "compy," takes notes in the event he ever escapes the Klikiss and can warn the humans he serves. Meanwhile, the angry hydrogues, who inhabit gas-giant planets, continue their campaign against humans, verdani ("worldforest" dwellers) and faeros (sun dwellers). Anderson handles a huge cast and complicated plot with Ã©lan.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chairman Basil Wenceslas leads a beleaguered human race, and the stress is beginning to tell on him--he views any dissent, of any sort, from his leadership as treason. This, of course, does nothing to calm fears in the human colonies. Meanwhile, the divisions of allegiance among the alien Ildiran increase the pain of their leader, Jora''h, at the disruption of his people''s long-standing psychic network. The question begins to ask itself: Is the war more dangerous to both sides than the victory of either side would be? Anderson''s colossal story of the clash of space empires, Saga of the Seven Suns, has definitely been influenced by his work for the Star Wars franchise and collaboration with Brian Herbert in expanding the universe of Frank Herbert''s_ _Dune novels. Despite all the sweep, scope, and fast action of the saga, Anderson handles the essential conflicts in it so as to enhance characterization as well as keep things moving. A fine continuation of a fine saga.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7192'),
(8179, 'Scavenger Hunt', 'Robert Ferrigno', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ferrigno continues to surprise. In 2001''s darkly mesmeric __, he not only delivered his usual trove of offbeat bad guys, but finally created a protagonist who was equally arresting: Jimmy Gage, a trouble-seeking reporter for the tabloidish\n <em>\n  SLAP\n </em>\n magazine. The sequel,\n <em>\n  Scavenger Hunt\n </em>\n , takes Ferrigno one evolutionary step further, its tale of ambition and guilt in Southern California driven by dense, circuitous plotting, rather than the familiar emotional tension between a flawed male lead and some treacherously captivating femme fatale.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I want you to write an article about me, about what I''m working on. I even have a title for you: ''The Most Dangerous Screenplay in Hollywood,''" says Garrett Walsh, an egotistical, Oscar-winning film director who, after spending seven years in the slammer for killing teenage actress-aspirant Heather Grimm, now tells Gage he was set up, possibly by the husband of an unnamed "good wife" with whom he''d been having an affair. Walsh plans to expose this neat frame in a movie script, and wants Gage to publicize his efforts before anyone can stop him. The reporter is dubious--until Walsh is found dead in a koi pond and his "dangerous screenplay" goes missing. Intent on learning whether the director was murdered, Gage will first have to identify the "good wife," swap body blows with an aging action star, resolve questions surrounding a too-helpful retired cop with a doughnut jones, and determine if Heather Grimm was really as innocent as she appeared. Although there are several throwaway scenes in\n <em>\n  Scavenger Hunt\n </em>\n (including one in which Gage and his cop girlfriend try to nab a "lover''s lane" rapist), they don''t detract seriously from this often edgy, sometimes humorous yarn, composed in a style that''s pleasantly less restrained than several of Ferrigno''s earlier thrillers.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jimmy Gage is a reporter for Slap magazine, a tell-all entertainment rag in Los Angeles. He''s young, curious, and pushy, with a nose for news that gets him close to the "in people" and even closer to real trouble. A party prank scavenger hunt, devised by his publisher, gets Jimmy face time with Garret Walsh, a has-been director fresh out of prison for murdering an ing nue starlet. Needing to "borrow" an Academy Award statue for the scavenger hunt, Jimmy goes to Walsh''s ramshackle trailer and gets caught up in his attempt to break back into the biz with a script he calls "the most dangerous screenplay in Hollywood." Two weeks later, Walsh is floating dead in a nearby koi pond, and Jimmy questions the police report that lists the death as accidental. On the pretext of researching an article on Walsh''s rise and fall, Jimmy tails the police and does quite a bit of investigating on his own. His publisher is indulgent, sensing a tantalizing lead article for his next issue until this "scavenger hunt" turns deadly and Jimmy ends up at the top of someone else''s list. Ranging up and down the sometimes glitzy, sometimes grubby Southern California coast, this latest noir thriller by Ferrigno (Horse Latitudes; Dead Silent) is slender, fast-paced, and populated by colorful characters who run the gamut from high rollers to the dregs of Hollywood wannabes. Edgy and darkly humorous, it will fit nicely into collections alongside Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, and Jonathan Kellerman.\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Susan Clifford Braun, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5964'),
(8180, 'Scend of the Sea', 'Geoffrey Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In 1909, the crack Blue Anchor liner, the Waratah, sinks without trace, or survivors, off the coast of South Africa. In 1967, the Gemsbok, a Viscount airliner of South African Airways disappears in exactly the same place. To some it is merely an uncanny mystery. To others a tragedy. People like Ian Fairlie, captain of the weather ship Walvis Bay--whose father was the pilot of the Gemsbok and whose grandfather was the first officer of the Waratah. Ian Fairlie has sworn that he will resolve the mystery. But to do so, he must face cyclonic winds and mountainous seas, risking his ship, his life and the woman he loves... "Geoffrey Jenkins can write with a rare compelling fervour." Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1408'),
(8181, 'Schaum&#39;s Outline of Latin Grammar', 'Alan Fishbone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This popular study guide helps students master complex Latin morphology and syntax by presenting them in a concise, systematic, and simplified manner.\n  <em>\n   Latin Grammar\n  </em>\n  explains everything students need to understand in order to read the Latin classics, without inundating them with exhaustive lists of minutiae.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Master the fundamentals of Latin grammar with Schaum''sÂ­Â­the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams and projects!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Students love Schaum''s Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum''s!\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you don''t have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Use detailed examples to solve problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Brush up before tests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Find answers fast\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Study quickly and more effectively\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get the big picture without poring over lengthy textbooks\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Schaum''s Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct formatÂ­Â­without overwhelming you with unnecessary jargon. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum''s let you study at your own pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to rememberÂ­Â­fast! And Schaum''s are so complete, they''re perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inside, you will find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Clear, concise explanation of Latin language structure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understandable format for learning parts of speech and syntax\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Structured and simplified approach to Latin morphology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Glossaries of Latin words\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  If you want top grades and a thorough understanding of Latin grammar, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6767'),
(8182, 'Schild&#39;s Ladder', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Greg Egan became the hottest new science-fiction author of the 1990s and won the Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial awards by extrapolating cutting-edge quantum physics and consciousness theory to create rigorous and radical new visions of the posthuman future.\n <em>\n  Schild''s Ladder\n </em>\n affirms Mr. Egan''s place, with\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Schild''s Ladder\n </em>\n , humanity has transcended both death and Earth, and discovered its home world is nearly unique as a cradle of life. As it spreads throughout the galaxy, humanity enjoys an almost utopian existence--until a scientist accidentally creates an impenetrable, steadily expanding vacuum that devours star systems and threatens the entire universe with destruction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tchicaya is a Yielder, member of the faction that believes this "novo-vacuum" deserves study. The opposing Preservationists--among them Mariama, his first love--seek to save worlds and destroy the novo-vacuum. Discord heats to terrorist violence; then enmities and alliances are turned upside-down by a discovery that may mean the novo-vacuum is, instead, a new and very different universe--and one which may contain life.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Australian Egan (Teranesia) writes some of the hardest SF around in terms both of difficulty and cutting-edge scientific content, as shown in his latest challenging novel, set some 20,000 years in the future. Though superhuman by our standards, Egan''s characters often disembodied intelligences who prefer to live as programs in virtual reality or in still stranger, high-tech media are still capable of making mistakes. At the start, an experiment in quantum physics goes badly astray, creating another universe with physical laws that differ from our own. Its border expanding at half the speed of light, this new universe swallows planetary systems whole. Fortunately, humanity is so highly developed that entire populations can be quickly evacuated with little if any loss of life. Soon the scientific community divides into two groups, those who would destroy the new universe, and those who would study it. The debate becomes even more tense when evidence of life is found behind the rapidly expanding border. Characters invariably speak the language of quantum physics fluently, and the author makes little effort to bring their discussion down to the layman''s level. Not until the end, when scientists begin to explore the new universe, does Egan make any real attempt to engage the reader''s senses or emotions. The pleasures of this impressive novel, although considerable, are almost entirely intellectual.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8467'),
(8183, 'School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education?', 'Margaret C. Wang &amp; Herbert J. Walberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This book addresses one of the most urgent questions in American society today, one that is currently in the spotlight and hotly debated on all sides: Who shall rule the schools--parents or educators?  School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education? presents an overview of research and practical applications of innovative--even radical--school reforms being implemented across the United States. These fall along a continuum ranging from "parental choice" to "best systems." At the one extreme are schools of choice, which allow parents to choose and even govern schools for their children. These include charter schools, traditional private and parochial schools, schools that are privately governed but publicly funded through vouchers, and those that are funded by private scholarships provided by both corporations and wealthy individuals. At the other extreme are centralized state or district systems, based on reform initiatives and new systems of education that have been developed in response to views of citizens and legislators that schools can do much better. These schools, which specify uniform goals, policies, and programs for each school, are highly innovative systems based on research or representing advanced thinking about "what works," and have attracted wide interest.  Important questions related to schools of choice and best systems are addressed: How can we choose among schools of choice and best systems? Among the various approaches within each of these alternatives? How can we understand their guiding principles and operational practices? What results do they produce? How can we evaluate their claims? In choosing among the alternatives, how should issues of student achievement, accountability, costs, feasibility, and equity be factored in?  This volume brings together leading researchers and education leaders who have carried out the latest studies and advances in the field, providing a forum for them to set forth the arguments and evidence that will be most helpful in making choices for tomorrow''s schools. It does not provide a single "right" answer--values and preferences differ across parents, schools, districts, and states. However, there are benefits for all from seeing the rigorous research, challenging thinking, and alternate points of view this volume presents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4730'),
(8184, 'School Days', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career. Lily Ellsworth - erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish - is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark''s alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared''s being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson''s innocence. Jared''s parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn''t seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed. Robert B. Parker, the author of more than forty novels, has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction and has been named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen. Parker''s fictional Spenser inspired the ABC-TV series "Spenser: For Hire." More recently, the Spenser novels *Small Vices* and *Thin Air* have been made into television films for the A&amp;E network. Robert B. Parker lives in Boston.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4013'),
(8185, 'School Days (2005)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 33', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10550'),
(8186, 'School of Fire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Combat, betrayal, and murder at the edge of human space . . . Deployed to assist the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in putting down a rebellion that threatens the planet''s political and economic stability, the Marines must fight two wars at the same time . . . one against the resourceful, well-led guerrillas and another with the entrenched police bureaucracy.But who is the real enemy and who can be trusted? On Wanderjahr, nothing is as it seems--not even the animal life--and everyone has his own agenda. Inexorably, the Marines of the 34th FIST are drawn deeper and deeper into the politics of a world where murder, terror, and betrayal are the accepted methods of government . . . and everyone is ripe for an old-fashioned butt-kickin''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/933'),
(8187, 'School&#39;s Out - Forever', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound" (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to the #1 New York Times blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, now available in paperback. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids--led by fourteen-year-old Max--to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they''re taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live "normal" lives. But going to school and making friends doesn''t stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2032'),
(8188, 'Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Richard Hantula', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gareth Stevens is proud to present a completely updated and revised edition of our highly acclaimed Iassc Asimov''s New Library of the Universe. A re-worked text throughout relects the latest discoveries and theories, and the most up-to-the-minute new photographs bring these volumes into the 21st century while mintaining the authority and accessibilty of the original. Asimov''s original work forms the basis for a fascinating mixture of science fact and theory combined with his higly readable prose style. The result is a series capable of answering, in an understandable and truly informative way, the multitude of questions children ask when they gae skyward. The 12 revised volumes already in print will soon be joined by 18 more, covering all aspects of the universe and its exploration.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5769'),
(8189, 'Science-Fiction:Doctor Who', 'Paul Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet''s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6089'),
(8190, 'Scoop to Kill: A Mystery a La Mode', 'Wendy Lyn Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4050'),
(8191, 'Scott Lasser', 'The Year That Follows (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10991'),
(8192, 'Scoundrel', 'Zoe Archer &amp; Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Archer follows 2010''s Warrior with another delightful tale of an intelligent, competent woman sharing adventure and romance with a formidable partner. In this version of 19th-century Europe, rival secret societies battle over ancient sources of magic. Meek linguist London Harcourt is brought to Greece by her controlling, secretive father. After a chance meeting with the charming Bennett Day, London learns that her father and his companions want England to control the world''s magic, while Bennett''s group, the Blades of the Rose, is trying to return the artifacts to the peoples that originally owned them. London, finally ready to make her own choices, becomes an active participant in the race to save the mystery of Greek fire from abuse by her father''s organization, beginning a relationship with Bennett along the way. London''s personal growth paces the adventure story beautifully, and readers will cheer for both the romance and the Blades.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London Harcourt''s father is bent on subjugating the world''s magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn''t bothered to tell her so. He''s said only that he''s leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced widowhood, London jumps at the opportunity - unfortunately, right into the arms of Bennett Day. Bennett is a ladies'' man, when he''s not dodging lethal attacks to protect the powers of the ancients from men like London''s father. Sometimes, he''s a ladies'' man even when he is dodging them. But the minute he sees London he knows she will require his full attention. The woman is lovely, brilliant, and the only known speaker of a dialect of ancient Greek that holds the key to calling down the wrath of the gods. Bennett will be risking his life again - but around London, what really worries him is the danger to his heart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5217'),
(8193, 'Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of to Kill a Mockingbird', 'Mary McDonagh Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Murphyâ€”an Emmy-winning writer, director, and producerâ€”celebrates Harper Lee''s only novel with a documentary,\n  <em>\n   Hey, Boo,\n  </em>\n  and this book, a collection of mostly venerating interviews with writers and celebrities, black and white, from Oprah Winfrey to Tom Brokaw, Rosanne Cash, and Richard Russo. A few incisive remarks emerge. James McBride, for example, takes issue with calling Harper Lee braveâ€”doing so absolve[s] yourself of your own racism. Wally Lamb and Allan Gurganus, among others, reveal Lee''s influence on their writing. Unfortunately, in Part I, Murphy summarizes the most interesting of her subjects'' comments, creating a sense of dÃ©jÃ -vu when the reader gets to the actual interviews. Racism, smalltown America, Lee''s 50-year silence since the book''s publication, her relationship with Truman Capote, and the appeal of the book''s principal characters are touched on by most of the interviewees; such shared themes and opinions result in redundancy. Readers should turn (or return) to\n  <em>\n   To Kill a Mockingbird\n  </em>\n  before bothering to dip into this disappointing collection. 11 b&amp;w photos.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAnd thatâ€™s really what reading this book is like: attending a big book club meeting with 26 lovers of\n  <em>\n   To Kill a Mockingbird\n  </em>\n  .â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou come away from Murphyâ€™s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5274'),
(8194, 'The Scouts of Stonewall', 'Joseph A. Altsheler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A young officer in dingy Confederate gray rode slowly on a powerful bay horse through a forest of oak. It was a noble woodland, clear of undergrowth, the fine trees standing in rows, like those of a park. They were bare of leaves but the winter had been mild so far, and a carpet of short grass, yet green, covered the ground. To the rider''s right flowed a small river of clear water, one of the beautiful streams of the great Virginia valleys. Harry Kenton threw his head back a little and drew deep breaths of the cool, crisp air. The light wind had the touch of life in it. As the cool puffs blew upon him and filled his lungs his chest expanded and his strong pulses beat more strongly. But a boy in years, he had already done a man''s work, and he had been through those deeps of passion and despair which war alone brings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3026'),
(8195, 'Screamfree Parenting', 'Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11046'),
(8196, 'The Screaming Room', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas O''Callaghan drew rave reviews for Bone Thief, chilling debut. Now, in his riveting new thriller, a diabolical killer is terrorizing New York City...\n</p>\n<p>\n The Screaming Room\n</p>\n<p>\n John Driscoll has laid the ghosts of his past to rest. He''s ready to start over--both personally and as a New York City homicide detective. But it seems that a serial killer has other plans for Driscoll.\n</p>\n<p>\n The victims'' bodies are found, brutally mutilated and carefully arranged. Someone has displayed the corpses for the world to see: on a Ferris wheel; in a dinosaur diorama; on a bridge--grotesque visions to all except for the depraved killer, who considers them masterpieces. These blood rituals spell out a message to Driscoll. And they are just the beginning...\n</p>\n<p>\n Driscoll''s investigation will lead him down the darkest of journeys, toward an evil beyond his worst nightmares. In a hellish landscape conceived by the all-too-clever mind of a twisted schemer, Driscoll must play a killer''s deadly game. It''s up to him to save his city--or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6455'),
(8197, 'Screwjack: A Short Story', 'Hunter S Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A searing and unnaturally poignant love story, as only Hunter S. Thompson could write it. "Screwjack" is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting. Never before - and perhaps never since - has modern man''s melancholia been so vividly revealed in all its wanton glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2108'),
(8198, 'Screwtape Letters', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.  "Excellent for Homeschool Use"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6965'),
(8199, 'Screwtape letters ; with, Screwtape proposes a toast', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life. "Excellent for Homeschool Use"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1126'),
(8200, 'Scroll of Saqqara', 'Pauline Gedge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prince Khaemwaset is a powerful man. The son of Ramses II and a revered physician, his wisdom is respected throughout Egypt. But Khaemwaset harbours a strong and secret desireâ€”to find the mysterious Scroll of Thoth and receive the power to raise the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Khaemwaset hears of the discovery of a hidden tomb on the plain of Saqqara, he is quick to break its seal and take its secretsâ€”secrets that he soon learns he should never have disturbed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Richly detailed with the exotic realities of Ancient Egypt, Scroll of Saqqara is a compelling tale of power, lust, and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8239'),
(8201, 'The Sculptor', 'Gregory Funaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Killing Is An Art** In life, they were flawed. In death, they are perfect works of art--killed, preserved, and carefully molded into replicas of Michelangelo''s most celebrated creations. Only The Sculptor can bring forth their true beauty and teach the world to appreciate his gift. **He Is The Master** FBI Special Agent Sam Markham has a reputation for tracking serial killers, but this artful adversary is meticulous, disciplined, and more ruthless than any he''s encountered. The only clue is a note dedicating the latest "statue" to Cathy Hildebrant, an art historian who shares Sam''s fear that the killing has just begun. **And She Is The Perfect Subject** In a quiet Rhode Island town, The Sculptor shapes his latest macabre creation, waiting for Cathy to draw nearer so that his message can be understood at last. And the only way to save her is for Sam to unlock a psychopath''s twisted mind before his final, terrifying masterpiece is revealed. . . "Funaro provides clever plotting and plenty of suspense." --John Lutz, *New York Times* bestselling author "Fast-paced, exciting. . .Funaro delivers gasp-out-loud terror and relentless suspense. A genuine page-turner!" --Kevin O''Brien, *New York Times* bestselling author "It reminded me of why I loved *Silence of the Lambs* so much." --Gregg Olsen "A stone cold thrill ride! Unique and unexpected twists make this one a keeper!" --Lisa Jackson, *New York Times * bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1980'),
(8202, '&#39;Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **YOU CAN''T PICK YOUR FAMILY...** Death by Chocolate is her favorite dessert. And those knitting needles aren''t just for craft projects. To most people, Gin Bombay is an ordinary single mom. Then again, they don''t know she''s from a family of top secret assassins. Somewhere between leading a Girl Scout troop for her kindergartner--would nooses count for a knot badge?--and keeping their puppy from destroying the furniture, Gin now has to take out a new target. **BUT YOU CAN PICK THEM OFF** Except this target has an incredibly hot Australian bodyguard who knows just how to make her weak in the knees. But with a mole threatening to expose everything, Gin doesn''t have much time to let her hormones do the happy dance. She''s got to find the leak and clear her assignment...or she''ll end up next on the Bombay family hit list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2362'),
(8203, 'SD_TieMeUp', 'Sierra Dafoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10699'),
(8204, 'The Sea and Little Fishes', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11139'),
(8205, 'Sea Change (2006)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10535'),
(8206, 'The Sea Fairies', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enchanting fantasy by creator of beloved "Oz" stories whisks young readers away on an exciting underwater adventure! They''ll meet a school of beguiling mermaids and an aristocratic codfish, attend an elegant banquet, confront an awesome sea monster, and much more. Enhanced by 78 of John R. Neill''s original black-and-white illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3167'),
(8207, 'Sea Glass: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From its opening pages, Anita Shreve''s\n <em>\n  Sea Glass\n </em>\n surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression,\n <em>\n  Sea Glass\n </em>\n shifts through the multiple points of view of six principal characters; it''s a skillfully created story of braided lives that bounces easily (even inevitably) from character to character. We learn how these lives come together following the stock market crash of 1929 and about the struggles of mill workers on the starkly beautiful New Hampshire coast during the following year. At the novel''s center is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass along the beach as she collects unexpected friendship in her new beachside community, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the towering character of McDermott, an Irish mill worker, at a time when he most needs direction. Each character finds unexpected new purpose beyond the struggle to survive during that turbulent year among the dunes. First their lives barely touch, then they intersect, and finally they become inextricably bound. By the powerful and unexpected final scenes of the story, every point of view, every brilliant shard of life depends deeply on all the others. It is a very satisfying read--confidently told and deeply felt--with as many subtle colors and reflections as the sea glass that permeates the narrative.\n <em>\n  --Paul Ford\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In addition to spinning one of her most absorbing narratives, Shreve here rewards readers with the third volume in a trilogy set in the large house on the New Hampshire coast that figured in The Pilot''s Wife and Fortune''s Rocks. This time the inhabitants are a newly married couple, Sexton and Honora Beecher, both of humble origins, who rent the now derelict house. In a burst of overconfidence, slick typewriter salesman Sexton lies about his finances and arranges a loan to buy the property. When the 1929 stock market crash occurs soon afterward, Sexton loses his job and finds menial work in the nearby mills. There, he joins a group of desperate mill hands who have endured draconian working conditions for years, and now, facing extortionate production quotas and reduced pay, want to form a union. The lives of the Beechers become entwined with the strikers, particularly a principled 20-year-old loom fixer named McDermott and Francis, the 11-year-old fatherless boy he takes under his wing. A fifth major character is spoiled, dissolute socialite Vivian Burton, who is transformed by her friendship with Honora. As Honora becomes aware that Sexton is untrustworthy, she is drawn to McDermott, who tries to hide his love for her. The plot moves forward via kaleidoscopic vignettes from each character''s point of view, building emotional tension until the violent, rather melodramatic climax when the mill owners'' minions confront the strikers. Shreve is skilled at interpolating historical background, and her descriptions of the different social strata the millworkers, the lower-middle-class Sextons, the idle rich enhance a touching story about loyalty and betrayal, responsibility and dishonor. This is one of Shreve''s best, likely to win her a wider audience. 6-city author tour. (Apr. 9) Forecast: Expectations of brisk sales, indicated by the one-day laydown, will likely be achieved. Readers should find timely resonance in the setting of 1920s economic turbulence.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7692'),
(8208, 'Sea Hunters', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10338'),
(8209, 'The Sea Is Full of Stars', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This exciting, action-packed novel marks Jack Chalker''s triumphant return to his celebrated multivolume saga: The Well World. The Sea Is Full of Stars explores an unknown interstellar civilization, stars an all-new cast of characters, and reveals fresh secrets. But of course, The Well remains . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n After three passengers--Ming, Ari, and Angel--embark on an elite starship journey into the Realm, they unwittingly become ensnared in one man''s bloodthirsty vendetta that will alter their very beings. That man is Jeremiah Wong Kincaid. He vows to destroy Josich Conqueror Hadun, the evil genius who has wreaked unspeakable havoc throughout the universe. It is an obsession that will take him to lands of demons and strange races--and into a deadly new cyberworld where humans are mere pawns of the godlike computers they have created.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is only after Kincaid and his unwitting fellow travelers enter Well World and discover the water hexes that he confronts the mad tyrant--and learns their universe is threatened by something far, far worse . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n This exciting, action-packed novel marks Jack Chalker''s triumphant return to his celebrated multivolume saga: The Well World. The Sea Is Full of Stars explores an unknown interstellar civilization, stars an all-new cast of characters, and reveals fresh secrets. But of course, The Well remains . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n After three passengers--Ming, Ari, and Angel--embark on an elite starship journey into the Realm, they unwittingly become ensnared in one man''s bloodthirsty vendetta that will alter their very beings. That man is Jeremiah Wong Kincaid. He vows to destroy Josich Conqueror Hadun, the evil genius who has wreaked unspeakable havoc throughout the universe. It is an obsession that will take him to lands of demons and strange races--and into a deadly new cyberworld where humans are mere pawns of the godlike computers they have created.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is only after Kincaid and his unwitting fellow travelers enter Well World and discover the water hexes that he confronts the mad tyrant--and learns their universe is threatened by something far, far worse . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5626'),
(8210, 'The Sea of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enid Blytonâ€™s classic adventure series fantastically repackaged for a new generation of readers. When Bill takes Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack on a mysterious trip to the desolate northern isles, everything looks set for an exciting time. But then Bill is kidnapped and the children, marooned far from the mainland, find themselves playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with an unknown enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(8211, 'Sea of Death', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed author Tim Waggoner brings his first\n <strong>\n  Eberron\n </strong>\n trilogy to a stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Diran, once a feared assassin, has turned his back on murder, seeking the life of a wandering priest. But in the seas of the Lhazaar Principalities, peace is rarely found, and even justice must be bought in blood. A new power has risen, hoping to conquer the east with an army of beast men, and only Diran and his companions can stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n The concluding volume in the critically-acclaimed Blade of the Flame series that follows a former assassin trying to change his life and set the world to right.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tim Waggoner''s novels include\n <em>\n  Pandora Drive\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Like Death\n </em>\n (Leisure Books),\n <em>\n  A Nightmare on Elm Street: ProtÃ©gÃ©\n </em>\n (Black Flame),\n <em>\n  Godfire: The Orchard of Dreams\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Godfire: Heart''s Wound\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Necropolis\n </em>\n (Five Star),\n <em>\n  Exalted: A Shadow Over Heaven''s Eye\n </em>\n ,_Dark Ages: Gangrel_ (White Wolf),\n <em>\n  Defender: Hyperswarm\n </em>\n (I-Books), and\n <em>\n  The Harmony Society\n </em>\n (Prime Books). He is also the author of the short story collection\n <em>\n  All Too Surreal\n </em>\n (Prime Books). He is the author of two books in the\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance: The New Adventures\n </strong>\n series,\n <em>\n  Temple of the Dragonslayer\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Return of the Sorceress\n </em>\n (Mirrorstone), as well as many novels and short stories for teens and adults. He''s published close to eighty short stories of horror and fantasy, and his articles on writing have appeared in\n <em>\n  Writer''s Digest\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Writers'' Journal\n </em>\n , and other publications. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Visit him on the web at www.timwaggoner.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8697'),
(8212, 'Sea of Ghosts', 'Alan Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the last of the Gravediggers, an elite imperial infiltration unit, are disbanded and hunted down by the emperor they once served, munitions expert Colonel Thomas Granger takes refuge in the unlikeliest of places. He becomes a jailer in Ethugra a prison city of poison-flooded streets and gaols in which a million enemies of the empire are held captive. But when Granger takes possession of two new prisoners, he realises that he can''t escape his past so readily. Ianthe is a young girl with an extraordinary psychic talent. A gift that makes her unique in a world held to ransom by the powerful Haurstaf the sisterhood of telepaths who are all that stand between the Empire and the threat of the Unmer, the powerful civilization of entropic sorcerers and dragon-mounted warriors. In this war-torn land, she promises to make Granger an extremely wealthy man, if he can only keep her safe from harm. This is what Granger is best at. But when other factions learn about Ianthe''s unique ability, even Granger''s skills of warfare are tested to their limits. While, Ianthe struggles to control the powers that are growing in ways no-one thought were possible. Another threat is surfacing: out there, beyond the bitter seas, an old and familiar enemy is rising one who, if not stopped, will drown the world and all of humanity with it . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6426'),
(8213, 'Sea of Glory: America&#39;s Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its mercurial leader, Charles Wilkes. This despite the numerous accomplishments and lasting legacy of the massive four-year project that involved six ships and hundreds of men. The "Ex. Ex.," as it came to be known, is credited with the discovery of Antarctica, the first accurate charting of what is now Oregon and Washington, the retrieval of thousands of new species of life, and the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Yet when Wilkes returned, instead of being hailed as a great man of science or a national hero, he was shunned by the President, ignored by the press, and was the subject of so much ill will on the part of his men that he was ultimately put on trial for a variety of offenses. In the portrayal presented in Nathaniel Philbrick''s\n <em>\n  Sea of Glory\n </em>\n , Wilkes is a passionate man, brash and enthusiastic, driven by seemingly impossible goals, many of which he actually accomplished. But he''s also a petty, mean-spirited loner, egotistical enough to unilaterally give himself a promotion in the middle of the expedition. Without Wilkes'' singularity of purpose, it''s hard to imagine the mission being as successful as it was, but it''s also hard to conceive a personality more poorly suited to leadership than the near-universally-despised Wilkes. Philbrick also skillfully reveals the insecurity behind the tyranny in excerpts from letters to Wilkes'' wife, Jane. The accounts of the expedition''s adventures are at various times exhilarating and tragic as the crew scales the volcanoes of Hawaii, becomes involved in a bloody war with Fijian natives, and struggles merely to stay alive while at the same time not killing Wilkes. Philbrick''s compelling narrative and meticulous research provide a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships of the exploration age.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After chronicling the sinking of the whaleship Essex in In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick attempts to rescue from obscurity the U.S. Exploring Expedition''s 1838-1842 circumnavigation of the world and its cartographic and scientific accomplishments. With a strong narrative pull but an anticlimactic story arc, he chronicles the six-vessel squadron''s Pacific escapades. Instead of a grisly page-turner, however, Philbrick follows his bestselling tragedy with a drawn-out success story. More than a tale of the Ex. Ex''s journey, the book also profiles the expedition''s egomaniacal commander, Lt. Charles Wilkes; the psychological warfare he waged against his officers; and the near-miraculous survival of the squadron despite Wilkes''s perverse leadership and lack of nautical experience. Wilkes was, however, an accomplished surveyor, and the Ex. Ex. mapped hundreds of Pacific islands, 800 miles of the Oregon coast, 100 miles of the Columbia River and 1,500 miles of Antarctic coast. The expedition''s scientists made groundbreaking contributions in ethnography, biology and geology (their collections formed the basis of the Smithsonian Institution). Particularly noteworthy among Philbrick''s gripping passages are his descriptions of brash navigation in the Antarctic-but too much of the book bogs down in Wilkes''s petty politicking, as he degraded talented men and promoted incompetent ones so as not to be outshone. After four years at sea, he had alienated nearly every officer and returned home to a court-martial. "Instead of a thrilling tale of discovery and incredible achievement, [America] heard more about the flawed personality of the Expedition''s commander than anyone wanted to know," Philbrick writes of Wilkes''s 1842 trial, in which he was acquitted. Unfortunately, this spoils the retelling, too. Maps not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4535'),
(8214, 'The Sea of Monsters', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You can''t tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It''s not easy being a half-blood these days. You mortals can''t even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn''t exactly ask my gym teacher for help. And that was just for starters. This is the one where Camp Half Blood is undernbsp;attack, and unless I get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters. Big ones. Can Percy survive the treacherous Sea of Monstersnbsp;and restore order to Half-Blood Hill?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4235');
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(8215, 'A Sea of Troubles', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Commissario Brunetti finds himself adrift in his tenth investigation-available for the first time in the United States Dona Leon has amased devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. "A Sea of Troubles" offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario''s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra''s offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal to his beloved wife, Paola, he must admit that less-than-platonic emotions underlie his concern for his boss''s beautiful secretary. Suspenseful, provocative, and deeply unsettling, "A Sea of Troubles" is an explosive and irresistible addition to Leon''s marvelous series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/749'),
(8216, 'Sea Swept', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sibling trilogies are fast becoming Nora Roberts''s forte. Sea Swept tells the tale of three brothers--all former juvenile delinquents adopted by Raymond Quinn and his wife, Stella. Cameron, Ethan, and Philip are as different as can be, but they are bound by their love and respect for their adoptive father, who has recently passed away. On his deathbed he asks his sons to look after their most recent brother, 10-year-old Seth, who--if the rumors are to believed--just may be Ray''s biological son. Of course, the brothers don''t know anything about caring for the young boy, and if social worker Anna Spinelli has anything to say about it, they won''t. However, the sparks that fly over the fate of Seth are nothing compared to the romantic sparks that fly between Anna and Cameron. Nora Roberts once again proves why she is the premiere author of 1990s contemporary romance. Her stories have universal appeal, and Sea Swept is no exception.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2633'),
(8217, 'The Sea', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and\n  <em>\n   The Sea\n  </em>\n  is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writerâ€™s most accomplished work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is\n  <em>\n   non pareil\n  </em>\n  , and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masterâ€™s skill. As in such books as\n  <em>\n   Shroud\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Book of Evidence\n  </em>\n  , the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --_Barry Forshaw_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Banville''s magnificent new novel, which won this year''s Man Booker Prize and is being rushed into print by Knopf, presents a man mourning his wife''s recent deathâ€”and his blighted life. "The past beats inside me like a second heart," observes Max Morden early on, and his return to the seaside resort where he lost his innocence gradually yields the objects of his nostalgia. Max''s thoughts glide swiftly between the events of his wife''s final illness and the formative summer, 50 years past, when the Grace familyâ€”father, mother and twins Chloe and Mylesâ€”lived in a villa in the seaside town where Max and his quarreling parents rented a dismal "chalet." Banville seamlessly juxtaposes Max''s youth and age, and each scene is rendered with the intense visual acuity of a photograph ("the mud shone blue as a new bruise"). As in all Banville novels, things are not what they seem. Max''s cruelly capricious complicity in the sad history that unfolds, and the facts kept hidden from the reader until the shocking denouement, brilliantly dramatize the unpredictability of life and the incomprehensibility of death. Like the strange high tide that figures into Max''s visions and remembrances, this novel sweeps the reader into the inexorable waxing and waning of life.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 8)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6513'),
(8218, 'The Sea, the Sea', 'Iris Murdoch; Mary Kinzie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles Arrowby, leading light of England''s theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) taught philosophy at Oxford for many years. She is the author of 26 novels, and also wrote several works of philosophy, criticism, and drama.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mary Kinzie, a poet and critic, founded the writing program at Northwestern University, where she teaches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10918'),
(8219, 'The Seal of Karga Kul: A Dungeons &amp; Dragons Novel', 'Alex Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tale of heroism and exploit in the tradition of Robert E. Howard...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Remy, a quick-witted courier whose dangerous freight leads him into the vanguard of an ancient war between forces of light and the rising tide of shadows that threatens to overwhelm the burgeoning civilizations of the Two Rivers Gulf.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story opens with Remy alone and near death after an encounter with several stormclaw scorpions. His horse dead and poison sapping his strength, Remy collapses with his package at his side, undelivered. When he awakes, he is in the company of a band of adventurers who found him by the side of the road and nursed him back to health.Â  Among them is a grim dragonborn paladin named Biri-Daar, whose wariness of the magical seals on Remyâ€™s freight is outweighed by an overwhelming sense of duty to those in need.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they journey on, the nature of Remyâ€™s package becomes a greater and greater curiosity.Â  Soon the party, which has come to comprise some six-strong adventurers, finds itself to be the lynchpin that holds an army of netherworld forces at bay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Award-winning author and veteran shared-world writer Alex Irvine brings his unique characters and considerable storytelling talents to bear in the world of\n  <strong>\n   Dungeons &amp; Dragons\n  </strong>\n  Â®.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4421'),
(8220, 'SEAL Team Six', 'Howard E. Wasdin &amp; Stephen Templin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n  <strong>\n   When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six\n  </strong>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)â€”the toughest and longest military training in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges. Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: The Marineâ€™s Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the bestâ€”which meant one of the best snipers on the planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life. The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From rooftops, helicopters and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help, and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while engaging the enemy. His dramatic combat tales combined with inside details of becoming one of the worldâ€™s deadliest snipers make this one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Excerpt from\n   <em>\n    SEAL Team Six\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Reach Out and Touch Someone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the U.S. Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six, the navy''s equivalent to the army''s Delta Forceâ€”tasked with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, occasionally working with the CIA. This is the first time a SEAL Team Six sniper''s story has been exposed. My story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Snipers avoid exposure. Although we prefer to act rather than be acted upon, some forces are beyond our control. We rely on our strengths to exploit the enemy''s vulnerabilities; however, during the war in the Persian Gulf I became vulnerable as the lone person on the fantail of an enemy ship filled with a crew working for Saddam Hussein. On yet another occasion, despite being a master of cover and concealment, I lay naked on an aircraft runway in a Third World country with bullet holes in both legs, the right leg nearly blown off by an AK-47 bullet. Sometimes we must face what we try to avoid.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  In the morning darkness of September 18, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Casanova and I crept over the ledge of a retaining wall and climbed to the top of a six-story tower. Even at this early hour there were already people moving around. Men, women, and children relieved themselves in the streets. I smelled the morning fires being lit, fueled by dried animal dung and whatever else people could find to burn. The fires heated any food the Somalis had managed to obtain. Warlord Aidid knew fully the power of controlling the food supply. Every time I saw a starving child, I blamed Aidid for his evil power play that facilitated this devastation of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tower we were on was located in the middle of the Pakistani compound. The Pakistanis were professional and treated us with great respect. When it was teatime, the boy in charge of serving always brought us a cup. I had even developed a taste for the fresh goat milk they used in the tea. The sounds and scents of the goatherd in the compound reached my senses as Casanova and I crawled onto the outer lip at the top of the tower. There we lay prone, watching a large garage, a vehicle body shop that had no roof. Surrounding the garage was a city of despair. Somalis trudged along with their heads and shoulders lowered. Helplessness dimmed their faces, and starvation pulled the skin tight across their bones. Because this was a "better" part of town, multilevel buildings stood in fairly good repair. There were concrete block houses instead of the tin and wooden lean-to sheds that dominated most of the city and countryside. Nevertheless, the smell of human waste and deathâ€”mixed with hopelessnessâ€”filled the air. Yes, hopelessness has a smell. People use the term "developing countries," but that is bullcrap. What developed in Somalia was things such as hunger and fighting. I think "developing countries" is just a term used to make the people who coined it feel better. No matter what you call them, starvation and war are two of the worst events imaginable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I calculated the exact distances to certain buildings. There are two primary considerations when making a sniper shot, windage and elevation. Because there was no significant wind that could throw my shot left or right, I didn''t have to compensate for it. Elevation is the variable considered for range/distance to the target. Since most of my potential targets were between 200 yards (garage) and 650 yards (intersection beyond the target garage), I dialed my scope in at 500 yards. This way I could just hold my rifle higher or lower depending on range. When the shooting began, there would be no time to dial in range corrections on my scope between shots.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We started our surveillance at 0600. While we waited for our agent to give us the signal, I played different scenarios over in my mind: one enemy popping out at one location, then another popping up at another location, and so on. I would acquire, aim, and even do a simulated trigger pull, going through my rehearsed breathing and follow-through routine while picturing the actual engagement. Then I simulated reloading and getting back into my Leupold 10-power scope, continuing to scan for more booger-eaters. I had done this dry firing and actual firing thousands of timesâ€”wet, dry, muddy, snowbound, from a dug-in hole in the ground, from an urban sniper hide through a partially open window, and nearly every which way imaginable. The words they had drilled into our heads since we began SEAL training were true, "The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war." This particular day, I was charged with making sure none of my Delta Force buddies sprang a leak as I covered their insertion into the garage. My buddies'' not bleeding in war was every bit as important as my not bleeding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our target for this mission was Osman Ali Attoâ€”Warlord Aidid''s main financier. Although Casanova and I would''ve been able to recognize the target from our previous surveillance, we were required to have confirmation of his identity from the CIA asset before we gave the launch command.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The irony wasn''t lost on me that we were capturing Atto instead of killing himâ€”despite the fact that he and his boss had killed hundreds of thousands of Somalis. I felt that if we could kill Atto and Aidid, we could stop the fighting, get the food to the people quickly, and go home in one piece.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t until around 0815 that our asset finally gave the predetermined signal. He was doing this because the CIA paid him well. I had learned firsthand while working with the CIA how payoffs could sway loyalty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When we saw the signal, Casanova and I launched the "full package." Little Bird and Black Hawk helicopters filled the sky. During this time, the Delta operators literally had their butts hanging outâ€”the urban environment provided too much cover, too much concealment, and too many escape routes for the enemy. All a hostile had to do was shoot a few rounds at a helo or Humvee, jump back inside a building, and put his weapon down. Even if he reappeared, he was not considered hostile without a weapon. Things happened fast, and the environment was unforgiving.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Delta Force operators fast-roped down inside the garage, Rangers fast-roped around the garage, and Birds flew overhead with Delta snipers giving the assault force protection. Atto''s people scattered like rats. Soon, enemy militia appeared in the neighborhood shooting up at the helicopters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Normally, snipers operate in a spotter-sniper relationship. The spotter identifies, ranges the targets, and relays them to the sniper for execution. There would be no time for that on this opâ€”we were engaged in urban warfare. In this environment, an enemy could appear from anywhere. Even worse, the enemy dressed the same as a civilian. We had to wait and see his intention. Even if he appeared with a gun, there was a chance he was part of a clan on our side. We had to wait until the person pointed the weapon in the direction of our guys. Then we would ensure the enemy ceased to exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There would be no time for makeup or second shots. Both Casanova and I wielded .300 Win Mag sniper rifles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through my Leupold 10-power scope, I saw a militiaman 500 yards away firing through an open window at the helos. I made a mental note to keep my heart rate down and centered the crosshairs on him as my muscle memory took overâ€”stock firmly into the shoulder, cheek positioned behind the scope, eye focused on the center of the crosshairs rather than the enemy, and steady trigger squeezing (even though it was only a light, 2-pound pull). I felt the gratifying recoil of my rifle. The round hit him in the side of the chest, entering his left and exiting his right. He convulsed and buckled, falling backward into the buildingâ€”permanently. I quickly got back into my scope and scanned. Game on now. All other thoughts departed my mind. I was at one with my Win Mag, scanning my sector. Casanova scanned his sector, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another militiaman carrying an AK-47 came out a fire escape door on the side of a building 300 yards away from me and aimed his rifle at the Delta operators assaulting the garage. From his position, I''m sure he thought he was safe from the assaulters, and he probably was. He was not safe from meâ€”300 yards wasn''t even a challenge. I shot him through his left side, and the round exited his right. He slumped down onto the fire escape landing, never knowing what hit him. His AK-47 lay silent next to him. Someone tried to reach out and retrieve the weaponâ€”one round from my Win Mag put a stop to that. Each time I made a shot, I immediately forgot about that target and scanned for another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chaos erupted inside and outside of the garage. People ran everywhere. Little Birds and Black Hawks filled the skies with deafening rotor blasts. I was in my own little world, though. Nothing existed outside my scope and my mission. Let the Unit guys handle their business in the garage. My business was reaching out and touching the enemy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This wasn''t the first time I''d killed for my country. It wouldn''t be the last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few minutes passed as I continued scanning. More than 800 yards away, a guy popped up with an RPG launcher on his shoulder, preparing to fire at the helicopters. If I took him out, it would be the longest killing shot of my career. If I failed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 2011 by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMr. Wasdinâ€™s narrative is visceral and as active as a Tom Clancy novelâ€¦[it] will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled Seal Team Six to pull off the bin Laden raid with such precisionâ€¦adrenaline-laced.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_SEAL Team Six_ pulses with the grit of a Jerry Bruckheimer production...On his journey to becoming a member of the Navy''s best of the best, Wasdin proved his mettle in Operation Desert Storm and endured training that would break the back of most mortal men." --_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_SEAL Team Six_] describes the harrowing ops he undertook as part of the elite Seal Team Six squadron, including the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu that almost killed him....reveals an intimate look at the rigorous training and perilous missions of the best of the Navy''s best." --_Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œSEAL Team Six\n  <em>\n   is a masterful blend of one manâ€™sâ€”\n  </em>\n  Waz-Manâ€™sâ€”_journey from hard knocks to hard corps. Even better, Waz-Man and Templin can actually write as good as they can shoot. They capture your attention at every turnâ€”not knowing if youâ€™re about to take a bullet to the head from a SEAL sniper or get hit in the gut with a punch line.â€ â€”Dalton Fury, former Delta Force Commander and _New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  Kill Bin Laden\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œGreat insights into the training and operations of one of Americaâ€™s premier counterterrorism units. Grabs you on page one and is hard to put down.â€ â€”General Henry H. Shelton, USA(R), former Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command and 14th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWasdin is a true warrior and real hero.\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  is a must read.â€ â€”Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Shooter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8047'),
(8221, 'The Sealed Letter', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British womenâ€™s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helenâ€™s failing marriage and obsessive affair with a young army officer. What begins as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into an intriguing courtroom drama complete with accusations of adultery, counterclaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could destroy more than one life. Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a riveting, provocative drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian-style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(8222, 'The seamstress', 'Frances de Pontes Peebles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: EmÃ­lia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. EmÃ­lia treasures pretty, girlish things and longs to escape from the confines of the little town. Captivated by the romances she reads in magazines, she dreams of finding love in the bustle and glamour of the city. Luzia, scarred by a childhood accident that has left her with a deformed arm, knows that for her, real life can not be romantically embroidered, and so she finds solace in her sewing and in the secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. But when Luzia is abducted by a gang of rebel bandits, the sisters'' lives diverge in ways they never imagined. Whilst Luzia learns to survive in the unforgiving Brazilian outland, discovering love in the most unexpected of places, EmÃ­lia meets the son of a wealthy doctor who seems to offer her everything she has always desired. But for the innocent dreamer, the excitement of her escape to the city is soon overshadowed by disillusion and loneliness. As she learns how to navigate the treacherous waters of Brazilian high society, the bandits'' campaign against the land-owning ''Colonels'' intensifies, and when a price is placed upon Luzia''s head EmÃ­lia realises she must risk everything in order to save her sister.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(8223, 'Sean Dillon 02 - Thunder Point', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10996'),
(8224, 'Sean Dillon 03 - On Dangerous Ground', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11020'),
(8225, 'Sean Dillon 04 - Angel Of Death', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11023'),
(8226, 'Sean Dillon 05 - Drink With The Devil', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11026'),
(8227, 'Sean Dillon 07 - The White House Connection', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11014'),
(8228, 'Sean Dillon 08 - Day of Reckoning', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11000'),
(8229, 'Sean Dillon 09 - Edge of Danger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11036'),
(8230, 'Sean Dillon 10 - Midnight Runner', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11018'),
(8231, 'Sean Dillon 11 - Bad company', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Humdrum company would be a more accurate title. This sequel to Higgins''s last, ripsnorting yarn, Midnight Runner, is mostly a by-the-numbers effort, though the numbers do speed by. The novel, the author''s 35th, begins promisingly, playing to Higgins''s greatest strength, WWII action. Young Baron Max von Berger, entrusted by Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich with his diary as well as the key to a vast fortune in Swiss banks, makes a daring and exciting escape from the FÂhrerbunker. But once the narrative leaps toward the present, it begins to flag, with a second setup (including a nifty Saddam cameo) explaining why and how the baron inherits the wealth and power of the Rashid family, the Arab oil kingpins destroyed by Higgins''s customary antihero, Sean Dillon, in the last book. Problematic is Higgins''s use of von Berger and his thuggish son as villains here; they lack the evil charisma of the Rashids. To avenge the death of the Rashids, von Berger targets Dillon and his master, British black ops commander Gen. Charles Ferguson, who fights back with the help of the usual crew of "hard" men, including computer whiz Major Roper, White House black ops chief Blake Johnson, London tough guys Harry and Billy Salter, et al. Matters pick up a bit when von Berger''s son kidnaps General Ferguson to Germany, but Dillon''s rescue attempt whips by much too quickly, as if Higgins were hurrying to finish this book and get on to number 36. The author''s fans will find enough gnarly action and sentiment here to make them anticipate his next, but this entry is sub par and the series as a whole could use a kick in the spine.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Higgins'' classic novel of World War II espionage,\n  <em>\n   The Eagle Has Landed\n  </em>\n  (1975), was the thriller that brought him fame--and probably fortune.\n  <em>\n   Bad Company\n  </em>\n  , his thirty-fifth novel, also deals with WWII. As the war is drawing to a close in 1945, Hitler gives his diary to an aide for safekeeping. The diary contains an account of a meeting between representatives of Hitler and President Roosevelt at which they discussed ways to negotiate a peace treaty and then to attack Russia. The aide, Max von Berger, is now (in 2003) a billionaire industrialist and a silent partner with an international crime family. Seeking revenge for a killing, Berger vows to reveal the diary''s secret that would destroy the current U.S. president. It''s up to an American and a British agent to get the diary before it falls into the hands of the president''s enemies. Like other Higgins'' novels, the locales in this one are worldwide and include London, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the U.S., and Iraq. (Yes, Saddam Hussein is one of the many characters.) Both the good guys and bad guys talk tough and smoke and drink a lot--Bushmills Irish whiskey, champagne, and schnapps are among their favorites. By a master of espionage novels, and certain to be requested at the circulation desk.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11024'),
(8232, 'Sean Dillon 12 - Dark Justice', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11040'),
(8233, 'Sean Dillon 13 - Without Mercy', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10994'),
(8234, 'Sean Dillon 14 - The Killing Ground', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10995'),
(8235, 'Sean Dillon 15 - Rough Justice', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11019'),
(8236, 'Sean Dillon 16 - A Darker Place', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11021'),
(8237, 'Sean Dillon 18 - Judas Gate', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Treachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Helmand Province, Afghanistan: a lone convoy edges its way towards a deserted mountain village, led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs. Stopping to search the area, the Rangers are hit by a massive roadside bomb, and as half the patrol lie dead or injured, the rest are ambushed with military precision. A nearby British medical team responds to the call for back-up, but all are slaughtered when their Chinook helicopter is blown up. The ambush is bad, but what''s worse is that, amidst the battlefield chatter picked up by Major Giles Roper, not all the Taliban voices are Afghan -- some are English, and the commander bears an Irish accent; he even names himself ''Shamrock''. Why would he commit such an atrocity, but more importantly can he be found before he masterminds another? Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down, with all the resources of the ''Prime Minister''s private army'' at his disposal. The fast and furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan to Algeria to London to Paris to Ireland, with many deaths along the way. The stakes are already high for Dillon and company then a familiar, deadly face makes a dramatic reappearance. This time, Dillon will not only be going to war -- the war will be coming to him, and he will learn that this Judas has al-Qaeda on his side!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11016'),
(8238, 'Sean&#39;s Reckoning', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Son of a shattered family, fireman Sean Devaney knew love never lasted, so he made sure he''d never be in a position to experience that kind of loss again. But then, he never counted on meeting scrappy-but-vulnerable single mom Deanna Blackwell, who had just lost everything in a devastating fire. Despite the warning bells going off in Sean''s head, he felt an immense need to protect this struggling waitress and her spunky kid. How was he to know that mother and child would take chinks out of the armor surrounding his heart; A tower of testosterone, Sean was tough enough to storm burning buildings. But was he brave enough to risk the dangers of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4160'),
(8239, 'The Search for Magic', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9463'),
(8240, 'The Search for the Red Dragon', 'James A. Owen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Owenâ€™s second entry in the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series surpasses his first, delivering a more cohesive story while sustainingÂ the intricate connections among history, mythology, and literature. Nine years after their first adventure, the three Caretakers of the Imaginaruim Geographica return to the Archipelago of Dreams to solve a mystery: all of the children have vanished overnight, along with all of the Dragonships. To succeed, the Caretakers must piece together clues drawn from disparate sources, including Greek mythology, Peter Pan lore, the Pied Piper legend, and the historical Childrenâ€™s Crusade. While the plot sometimes drags under the weight of its exposition, strong mystery elements, lots of action, and an irresistible sense of fun make this compulsively readable. The hitch lies in the question of audience: the allusions and references willÂ mean the most to high school students, but the authorâ€™s writing style seems geared toward somewhat younger readers. Nevertheless, those who appreciate literary scavenger hunts, or those who can read past the allusions to the adventure underneath, will enjoy this standalone sequel. Grades 8-11. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "''The Crusade has begun''...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "There''s an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the\n <em>\n  Imaginarium Geographica.\n </em>\n Now they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the\n <em>\n  Red Dragon\n </em>\n -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie''s Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the\n <em>\n  Geographica\n </em>\n will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing\n <em>\n  up\n </em>\n may be unavoidable...but growing\n <em>\n  old\n </em>\n doesn''t have to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8455'),
(8241, 'The Search for Truth (Erec Rex)', 'Kaza Kingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN BOOK 3 OF THE EREC REX SERIES, Erec is faced with even more daunting tasks, choices, and dangers. Not only does the latest contest to become king appear to be a suicide mission, but it means more than just winning the crown of Alypium; if Erec doesn''t succeed, then Upper Earth could disappear forever. So Erec must set out to retrieve the five Awen from their mystical hiding places and unite them, a herculean undertaking that has laid waste to all those who have attempted it. Before this can be completed, Erec will have to put a great friend in mortal danger and decide if that friend''s life is worth the survival of Upper Earth. To succeed, he must face inner battles, passions, friendships, deadly missions, and daring risks in this breathtaking adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2230'),
(8242, 'Search the Dark', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Search the Dark\n </em>\n , the third entry in Charles Todd''s remarkable series, the walking-wounded survivors of World War I crowd the English landscape. Scotland Yard''s Inspector Rutledge is one of many who suffer from shell shock. He constantly hears--and responds to--the voice of Hamish, a Scottish soldier he shot for cowardice. His latest case does not help his fragile state of mind as it involves another weary and discouraged veteran, Bert Mowbray.\n</p>\n<p>\n On his way to Lyme Regis to search for work, Bert looks out of the train window in a town called Singleton Magna, and sees an unbelievable sight--his wife and two children who he thought were killed in a London bombing raid. He leaps off the train and tries to find his family, racing desperately across fields and country roads, and finally winding up asleep under a tree. Meanwhile, the battered body of a woman is found on the edge of a cornfield, and Mowbray is arrested. Is the woman his wife? Did he kill her? And what happened to the two children who were with her?\n</p>\n<p>\n Everywhere Rutledge looks, he shows us various forms of damage caused by the war--from the hopes of a local girl whose lover returned with a French wife, to the trauma that Mowbray is going through. As in the first two books,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , Todd demonstrates the massive damage done to an entire country by focusing on the small, personal battles of the survivors.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third compelling Ian Rutledge mystery (Wings of Fire; A Test of Wills) takes the sensitive and appealing Scotland Yard inspector, a former WWI officer, to the countryside of Dorset. In 1919, another former soldier is arrested for murder in the town of Singleton Magna after the battered corpse of a young woman is found nearby. Withdrawn and suicidal, the suspect will speak to no one, and the police call Scotland Yard for help in finding the two young children who may have been in the dead woman''s charge. Rutledge arrives, still carrying in his head the voice of Hamish MacLeod, a Scottish deserter whom he executed during the war and whose harsh, conscience-like presence in the inspector''s mind seems to soften as the novel progresses, adding dimension to Todd''s literary device. In his investigation, Rutledge encounters others whose spirits were ravaged in the war: Simon Wyatt, scion of local gentry, who has abandoned his plans to serve in Parliament; his French wife, unaccepted by the townspeople; Wyatt''s former fianc?e, who may not have given up her previous expectations; a young local man whose head wound has left him mentally diminished; and an independent young woman from London. The discovery of a second woman''s battered corpse further knots Rutledge''s task, which is rooted, it evolves in this fine period mystery, as much in love as in war. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5675'),
(8243, 'The Search', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The #1 *New York Times*-bestselling author presents a riveting novel where a canine search and rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. ** To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle''s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare... Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona''s cop fiancÃ© and his K-9 partner. On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He''s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon''s house, and he''s at his wit''s end. To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can''t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he''s a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn''t want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones. As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona''s life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2581'),
(8244, 'Searching for Tina Turner', 'Jacqueline E. Luckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the surface, Lena Spencer appears to have it all. She and her wealthy husband Randall have two wonderful children, and they live a life of luxury. In reality, however, Lena finds that happiness is elusive. Randall is emotionally distant, her son has developed a drug habit, and her daughter is disgusted by her mother''s "overbearing behavior." When Randall decides that he''s had enough of marriage counseling, he offers his wife an ultimatum: "Be grateful for all I''ve done for you or leave." Lena, realizing that money can''t solve her problems and that her husband is no longer the man she married, decides to choose the latter. Drawing strength from Tina Turner''s life story, SEARCHING FOR TINA TURNER is Lena''s struggle to find herself after 25 years of being a wife and mother.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7435'),
(8245, 'A Season for Slaughter', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As tenacious aliens transform the wartorn Earth into a replica of their own terrifying world, a handful of scientists, soldiers, and citizens prepares to fight back. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4350'),
(8246, 'A Season In Hell', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11030'),
(8247, 'Season of the Machete', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FROM THE BESTSELLING, EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JAMES PATTERSON COMES HIS CLASSIC THRILLER.Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with cold-blooded terror. And risks everything only to discover that he alone suspects the hideous truth about...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2047'),
(8248, 'Seawitch', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   SEAWITCHThe massive oil-rig is the hub of a great empire, the pride of its billionaire owner.Lord Worth, predatory and ruthless, has clawed his way to great wealth. Now, he cares for only two things - Seawitch and his two high-spirited daughters. One man knows this:John Cronkite, trouble-shooter for the world''s top oilmen and Worth''s ex-victim, is spoiling for revenge.In one terrifying week, Worth''s world explodes.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SEAWITCHThe massive oil-rig is the hub of a great empire, the pride of its billionaire owner.Lord Worth, predatory and ruthless, has clawed his way to great wealth. Now, he cares for only two things - Seawitch and his two high-spirited daughters. One man knows this:John Cronkite, trouble-shooter for the world''s top oilmen and Worth''s ex-victim, is spoiling for revenge.In one terrifying week, Worth''s world explodes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9298'),
(8249, 'The Second Book of General Ignorance', 'Lloyd, John &amp; Mitchinson, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9671'),
(8250, 'The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Still Wrong', 'John Lloyd &amp; John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI, hosted by Stephen Fry. EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS STILL WRONG: Octopuses have six legs. Oranges aren''t orange. Bats aren''t blind. Napoleon wasn''t short. Vikings didn''t wear horned helmets. Diamond isn''t the hardest substance. Bank notes aren''t made of paper. Testosterone doesn''t make you aggressive. Cheese doesn'' t give you nightmares. There is no such thing as a fish. The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006. It has since been translated into 26 languages and sold over 1.2 million copies. Now, just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the QI team are back with another lorry-load of mistakes and misunderstandings. The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone who''s proud to admit that they do'' t know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6095');
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(8251, 'Second Chance', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fiona Monaghan, 42, lives the high life. With six years under her belt as editor-in-chief of\n <em>\n  Chic Magazine\n </em>\n , a high fashion rag, Fiona is wined and dined around the world, has closets full of fabulous clothes and throws spirited dinner parties. Marriage has never been an option for the self-possessed Fiona; her ancient English bulldog, Sir Winston, is her main companion. Then she meets staid advertising exec John Anderson, head of the new agency handling\n <em>\n  Chic\n </em>\n ''s account. Anderson, a handsome widower with two daughters, is utterly charmed by the phenomenal Fiona and dazzled by her lifestyle. Sparks fly and, after much inner turmoil, Fiona agrees to marry Anderson. The beginning of their relationship is rocky: Anderson''s college-aged girls and housekeeper hate Fiona at first sight, and even the family dog attacks. But it''s Anderson who can''t handle Fiona''s frenetic, glamorous life, and less than a year after their marriage he files for divorce. Devastated, Fiona quits her job and moves to Paris to write a book, finally allowing herself to be wooed again by her chastened ex-husband. Some readers will bridle at the idea that Fiona must give up her career to find happiness, but others will enjoy the usual Steel frills: plenty of gorgeous outfits, fine dining and exquisite real estate.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel never tires of spinning fairy tales for her fans, and this story is no exception. Fiona Monaghan, an eccentric, fiery (and vivacious, lovely, and rich) editor in chief of a New York-based high-fashion magazine is single and lovin'' it (or so she tells herself). What with all the fancy parties, celebrity friends, fashion shoots, and trips to couture shows in Europe, she feels that she doesn''t have the time or interest required to maintain a steady relationship. Enter John Anderson, a handsome, rich, conservative businessman, the exact opposite of the colorful Fiona. Of course, they are madly attracted to each other, but a series of obstacles interferes with their happiness. For one thing, the recently widowed John has conflicted feelings about the relationship; although he''s crazy about Fiona, on some level, he feels unfaithful to his dead wife--a misery that his resentful teenage daughters compound. In addition, Fiona''s crazy life--bohemian friends, flamboyant houseman, constant work, parties, and travel--adds to the problems. Steel''s fans will enjoy the detailed descriptions of privileged lifestyles and the ultimate happy resolution.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6037'),
(8252, 'Second Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One hundred years ago, in the beautiful village of Secret Cove, Maine, on the night of the annual August Moon Ball, a shy and lovely servant girl committed an act so unspeakably violent that its legacy still lives. Now, the blood-drenched past of this small town is about to come to life once more--just in time for this year''s August Moon Ball. HC: Bantam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4588'),
(8253, 'Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Isaac Asimov''s Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.\n</p>\n<p>\n After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsâ€”destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timeâ€”but now he is certain he knows where it lies.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyedâ€¦before it destroys them.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Isaac Asimov''s\n <strong>\n  Foundation\n </strong>\n novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.\n</p>\n<p>\n After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins?destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time?but now he is certain he knows where it lies.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed?before it destroys them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5766'),
(8254, 'Second Glance', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. He''s a desperate drifter who''s taken up ghost hunting in an effort to cross paths again with his fiancee, who died in a car crash eight years ago, but he has yet to experience anything even remotely paranormal. Then Ross meets Lia . . . As a seventy-year-old murder case is reopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed.Jodi Picoult''s eeriest and most engrossing work yet, this is a story about the things that come back to haunt us - literally and metaphorically. Science is pitted against the supernatural, and Picoult examines why we tend to think of science as objective, when it is always at the mercy of those who interpret it. Is fate any more reliable than coincidence? And is love any less real just because it has no scale of measurement?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5044'),
(8255, 'The Second Mouse', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The death of Michelle Fisher strikes Joe Gunther as a little unusual in Mayor''s superb 17th novel to feature the Vermont Bureau of Investigation detective (after 2005''s St. Alban''s Fire). When Joe calls for her autopsy results, he stumbles on a political snarl that threatens both his investigation and his relationship with chief medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom. Meanwhile, small-time criminal Mel Martin is intent on becoming a big-time criminal with the help of his wife, Nancy, and their friend Ellis Robbinson; for their part, Ellis and Nancy are increasingly disenchanted with Mel and enchanted by each other. Spinning out parallel story-lines and then weaving the strands together with deft precision, Mayor crafts not one but several mysteries and gives nothing away until the very last moment. While there''s clearly a lot of history-most notably the recent end of Joe''s 20-year romance with politician Gail Zigman, frequently mentioned despite its near-irrelevance to this particular plot-it''s entirely accessible to new readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Has there been a crime? Joe Gunther, head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, doesn''t know. Michelle Fisher is dead, but her body lies in peaceful repose in her converted nineteenth-century schoolhouse on the outskirts of Bennington. Nothing seems amiss, but Gunther''s decades of experience and intuition nag at him. Natural causes? A suicide? Only medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom will be able to make the call, but Hillstrom is being harassed by her supervisor and can''t do the requisite tests. At the same time, two of Bennington''s smash-and-grab crooks are getting ready to hit the big time. Are they involved in Fisher''s death? As a plot, it sounds thin, but in the hands of Mayor, it''s a wonderful vehicle for a sweet, sad waltz of a crime novel. Mayor''s elegiac tone and his insights into the human condition make\n <em>\n  The Second Mouse\n </em>\n a fine addition to one of the most consistently satisfying mystery series going.\n <em>\n  Thomas Gaughan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4981'),
(8256, 'The Second Siege: Book Two of The Tapestry', 'Henry H. Neff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *A fast-paced, genre-blending adventureâ€”now in paperback! *The Tapestry series continues to weave threads of fantasy, mythology, science fiction, and mystery into a wholly original adventure that appeals to fans of everything from Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings to The X-Men. Genre-blending and fully illustrated, The Tapestry novels have caught the attention of middle-grade and young adult readers alikeâ€”and the series is only getting bigger.In this second book of the series, grave forces are converging to seize control of the Book of Thoth, a hidden artifact whose pages hold the key to creatingâ€”or unravelingâ€”the very threads of existence. Max McDaniels and David Menlo embark on a quest to protect the book from the demon Astaroth, who would exploit its secrets with dire consequence. And with Astaroth free after centuries of imprisonment, the world outside Rowanâ€™s gates has already become hostile. Far from home, cut off behind enemy lines, Max and his allies must journey across Europe, descend into the fabled Frankfurt Workshop, brave the tangled corners of the Black Forest . . . and cross beyond the veils of our very world. â€œAfter devouring this title, young fans will be clamoring for more.â€*â€”Kirkus Reviews*Visit www.rowanacademy.com for original content, exclusive artwork, and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2004'),
(8257, 'Second Skin', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When werewolves from Nocturne City''s oldest packs are found shot through the head at point-blank range, homicide detective Luna Wilder isn''t sure what''s killing them or why...now the killer is determined to make Luna its next victim. To make matters worse, her boyfriend Dmitri''s demon bite is getting worse, weakening him and putting a major strain on their relationship.Luna discovers the murders are linked to the Wendigo, shapeshifting cousins of werewolves made of smoke and shadow who drink the blood of their victims for strength. She doesn''t know whether Wendigo leader Lucas Kennuka is friend or foe, but he''s clearly determined to wrest her heart from Dmitiri. And if Luna doesn''t discover who''s behind the killings, it could destroy her fragile relationship--and cost Luna her life...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1534'),
(8258, 'Second Son: A Reacher Story', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In this new short story from #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Lee Child, available exclusively as an eBook, a young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Okinawa, 1974. Even at thirteen, Jack Reacher knows how to outwit and overpower anyone who stands in his way. And as the new kid in town, thatâ€™s pretty much everyone. His family has come to the Pacific with his father, whoâ€™s preparing for a top-secret Marine Corps operation. After receiving a rude welcome from the local military brats, Reacher and his older brother, Joe, intend to teach them a lesson they wonâ€™t forget. But itâ€™s soon clear that thereâ€™s more at stake than pride. When his familyâ€™s future appears to come crumbling down, itâ€™s the youngest Reacher who rises to the occasion with all the decisive cunning and bravura that will one day be his deadly trademark.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Second Son\n   </em>\n   also includes a thrilling excerpt from Lee Childâ€™s forthcoming novel,\n   <em>\n    The Affair\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11207'),
(8259, 'Second Variety', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick''s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include Second Variety, Foster, You''re Dead and The Father-Thing, and many others."A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." -- Kirkus"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring." -- The Washington Post"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people''s minds." -- Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3730'),
(8260, 'Second Wind', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10967'),
(8261, 'The Secret Adversary', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go anywhere and do anything." Asked by a British Intelligence official to find a woman named Jane Finn, who disappeared with sensitive government documents, they soon find that their whimsical idea has drawn them into a complicated web of intrigue, intelligence agents, dubious identities, missing government papers, false clues Â— and all-too-real danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5199'),
(8262, 'The Secret Agent on Flight 101', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank and Joe, the Hardy boys, solve a mystery involving a magician, American secret agents, and international spy ring, and a Scottish castle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10304'),
(8263, 'The secret agent', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2986'),
(8264, 'The Secret Crown', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bavaria, 1886 King Ludwig II, infamous for his eccentric behavior, is declared insane by his government and removed from his throne. A day later, Ludwig''s corpse washes up in the shallows of Lake Starnberg. Rumours about the cause of the tragedy abound, but few people know why Ludwig was really killed. Or what secret was silenced by his death. Germany, present day . . . Hidden among the crates in a newly discovered Nazi bunker are documents stamped with a black swan, the insignia of the murdered king. As a favour to a friend, Jonathon Payne and David Jones fly to Bavaria to protect the documents, but soon face a life-or-death battle against an unknown enemy. From the depths of the Black Forest to the water canals underneath Ludwig''s castles, the duo must solve the mystery behind the king''s death or share his tragic fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(8265, 'The Secret Fiend', 'Shane Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR EYE OF THE CROW:\n </strong>\n <br />\n "The first intriguing volume in an ambitious new series ... plenty of readers will ... find themselves irresistibly drawn into his thrilling adventures."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n , Starred Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR DEATH IN THE AIR: THE BOY SHERLOCK HOLMES, HIS SECOND CASE:\n </strong>\n <br />\n "This is an exciting mystery, well written and fast paced...."\n <br />\n â€” _School Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This novel is written for the young adult, but adult readers will also find it satisfying.... The fast-paced adventure is a treat."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is 1868, the week that Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the Empire. Sherlock''s beautiful but poor admirer, Beatrice, the hatter''s daughter, appears at the door late at night. She is terrified, claiming that she and her friend have just been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster Bridge and the fiend has made off with her friend. At first Sherlock thinks Beatrice simply wants his attention, and he is reluctant to go back to detective work. He also believes that the Jack everyone fears is a fictional figure. But soon he is suspicious of various individuals, several of them close friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set at a time when many in England were in a state of fear because a Jew was running the country, Shane Peacock presents a compelling story filled with an atmosphere of paranoia and secrets and surprises played out on late-night London streets. Sherlock gets drawn deeper and deeper into the pursuit of the Spring Heeled Jack, whose attacks grow in number until it seems that there are Jacks everywhere.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Secret Fiend\n </strong>\n is the fourth book in Shane Peacock''s award-winning Boy Sherlock Holmes series, combining brilliant storytelling with fascinating historical detail and a mystery worthy of one of the greatest sleuths in English literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4898'),
(8266, 'The Secret Garden', 'Frances Hodgson Burnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spoiled and sickly orphan blossoms into a creature of loving kindness in this unforgettable classic of childhood. At her uncle''s forbidding Yorkshire estate, Mary joins with new friends in the restoration of an abandoned garden and discovers the pleasures of blooming flowers, friendship, good health, and high spirits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/412'),
(8267, 'The Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You&#39;ve Never Heard', 'Roni Sarig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n To amend the "official" history of Rock, the author focuses on the fascinating history and powerful influence that certain innovative, albeit generally under-appreciated, musicians have had on successive generations of bands. 50 illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7217'),
(8268, 'Secret honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series, by the master of the military thriller.As with his three enormously popular series--Brotherhood of War, The Corps, and Badge of Honor--*Honor Bound* and *Blood and Honor*, W. E. B. Griffin''s novels of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina, became immediate bestsellers. These are "immensely entertaining adventures" (*Kirkus Reviews*), "superior war stories" (*Library Journal*) "whose twists and turns keep readers guessing until the last page" (*Publishers Weekly*). Now, in *Secret Honor*, Griffin creates his most rousing novel yet.In Wolf''s Lair, a German general works toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler. In Buenos Aires, the general''s son, codenamed Galahad, falls under suspicion by the SS after a Nazi operation suddenly goes bad. In the middle of it all is OSS agent Cletus Frade, who knows the identity of them both and what they will do nextif they can survive that long. For not only are SS and Abwehr officers hot on their trails in both countries, but the OSS has branded Frade a rogue agent and is determined to shake the truth from him, at whatever cost. If Frade can''t figure out a way to hold them all off, then the futures of all three men may be very short indeed.Written with all the special flair that Griffin''s readers expect, filled with high drama and real heroes, *Secret Honor* is further proof, in Tom Clancy''s words, that "Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3431'),
(8269, 'A Secret Kept', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Sarahâ€™s Key*, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present. It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and sister recapturing their childhood.Â  Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister MÃ©lanieâ€™s birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island, where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing on the beach.Â  It had been too long, Antoine thought, since theyâ€™d returned to the islandâ€”over thirty years, since their mother died and the family holidays ceased.Â  But the islandâ€™s haunting beauty triggers more than happy memories; it reminds MÃ©lanie of something unexpected and deeply disturbing about their last island summer.Â  When, on the drive home to Paris, she finally summons the courage to reveal what she knows to Antoine, her emotions overcome her and she loses control of the car. Recovering from the accident in a nearby hospital, MÃ©lanie tries to recall what caused her to crash.Â  Antoine encounters an unexpected ally: sexy, streetwise AngÃ¨le, a mortician who will teach him new meanings for the words life, love and death.Â  Suddenly, however, the past comes swinging back at both siblings, burdened with a dark truth about their mother, Clarisse. Â  Trapped in the wake of a shocking family secret shrouded by taboo, Antoine must confront his past and also his troubled relationships with his own children.Â  How well does he really know his mother, his children, even himself?Â  Suddenly fragile on all fronts as a son, a husband, a brother and a father, Antoine Rey will learn the truth about his family and himself the hard way. By turns thrilling, seductive and destructive, with a lingering effect that is bittersweet and redeeming, *A Secret Kept *is the story of a modern family, the invisible ties that hold it together, and the impact it has throughout life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3675'),
(8270, 'The Secret Life of Ceecee Wilkes', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she knows what happened to her missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1103'),
(8271, 'The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe', 'J. Randy Taraborrelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Beautiful, damaged, the ultimate sex symbol, publicly celebrated, privately unhappy - Marilyn Monroe''s tumultuous life and untimely death continue to fascinate us. When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very much present in Marilyn''s world and the complex family dynamic that unfolded behind the scenes is a story that has never been told - until now. In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress'' life, including her mother, her foster mother and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn''s own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn''s father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedys - Bobby, Jack and Pat Lawford Kennedy. Explosive, revelatory and surprisingly moving, this is the final word on the life of one of the most fascinating and elusive icons of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1680'),
(8272, 'Secret Lives', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. And the more new scholarship girl Cassie Bell learns about the Academy, the more curious she becomes.What sinister secrets are guarded by the Few Ã¢ the select group of students who keep outsiders away? Who is the dark stranger prowling the corridors at night? And what really happened a year earlier, when the last scholarship girl died in mysterious circumstances?One thing Cassie will discover is that a little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but knowing too much can be deadlyÃ¢Â¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(8273, 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi&#39;s Wives', 'Lola Shoneyin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Baba Segi awoke with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife''s childlessness. Meet Baba Segi . . . A plump, vain, and prosperous middle-aged man of robust appetites, Baba Segi is the patriarch of a large household that includes a quartet of wives and seven children. But his desire to possess more just might be his undoing. And his wives . . . Iya Segiâ€”the bride of Baba Segi''s youth, a powerful, vindictive woman who will stop at nothing to protect her favored position as ruler of her husband''s home. Iya Topeâ€”Baba Segi''s second wife, a shy, timid woman whose decency and lust for life are overshadowed by fear. Iya Femiâ€”the third wife, a scheming woman with crimson lips and expensive tastes who is determined to attain all that she desires, no matter what the cost. Bolanleâ€”Babi Segi''s fourth and youngest wife, an educated woman wise to life''s misfortunes who inspires jealousy in her fellow wives . . . and who harbors a secret that will expose shocking truths about them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2461'),
(8274, 'Secret Love', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Handsome cattle baron Jacob Madaris reluctantly fulfills a poker pal''s request to host beautiful actress Diamond Swain for a three-week respite at his sprawling Texas ranch, Whispering Pines. Worried that the star''s arrival will disrupt the smooth operation of his successful business and distract his workers, Jake decides to keep Diamond''s presence low-key. Although he has vowed to never let a sophisticate like his nasty ex-wife into his heart again, and Diamond''s own bitter divorce from an abusive husband makes a romantic match with Jake unlikely, the requisite relationship develops. Confronted with unwanted media attention after eventually going public with their love, Jake and Diamond rely on the support of his large and loyal family. Jackson''s (Fire and Desire) talent for character development imparts credibility to the otherwise improbable marriage that the couple manages to keep secret for more than a year. (Jan.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazziâ€”a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madarisâ€”a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jake doesn''t have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong enough to overcome the media''s prying eyes? Together Jake and Diamond must discover what''s truly importantâ€¦if they''re to claim a love that lasts a lifetime.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7969'),
(8275, 'The Secret of Chimneys', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AGATHA CHRISTIE is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds more than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail -- and lead to the murder of a stranger who''s been shadowing Anthony''s every move. Discovering the dead man''s identity means retracing his steps -- to the rambling estate of Chimneys where darker secrets, and deadlier threats, await anyone who dares to enter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5191'),
(8276, 'Secret of Haunted Mesa', 'Phyllis A. Whitney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Living in the shadow of her famous sister, Jenny tries to get attention by intruding on the life of a recluse whose growing friendship makes her aware of the cultural conflict of the local Indians.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3984'),
(8277, 'The Secret of Ka', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Author Christopher Pike\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How do you spend your time when youâ€™re not writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n I love to read. I would read all day if I didnâ€™t have to write for a living. I read almost as much nonfiction as novels, which seems to surprise people. I enjoy science and history books. I like biographies. Still, my favorite is a great novel; the genre does not matter so much. The last novels I read were\n <em>\n  The Help\n </em>\n by Kathryn Stockett and\n <em>\n  The Passage\n </em>\n by Justin Cronin. Itâ€™s hard to imagine two books more different, but I loved them both.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What advice do you have for budding authors?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n Write every day, even if itâ€™s only for half an hour. Donâ€™t outline too much, donâ€™t think too much. Just start writing and keep writing. Eventually, if you have talent, your own voice will emerge.\n</p>\n<p>\n Writing involves hard work more than genius. Writing is rewriting. Of course, itâ€™s true: we all read these articles about a person who sits and writes their first book and it sells ten million copies. But in the real world that doesnâ€™t happen too often. And usually those authors who succeed too soon never learn to write. My books were rejected for seven years before I got published, and I consider myself lucky.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Do you have any writing rituals or special practices? Where do you write? When do you write?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n I usually meditate before I write. Iâ€™m not dogmatic when it comes to the subject. I canâ€™t prescribe a specific system. But I can say it helps to sit quietly for half an hour with my eyes closed before I work. For me, my best inspiration seems to emerge in silence.\n</p>\n<p>\n I seldom write before ten at night. Iâ€™m an extraordinary procrastinator. I spend the bulk of each day avoiding my computer. Every day I invent a new excuse why I cannot start writing early in the day. The strange thing is, when I finally do sit to write, Iâ€™m fine. But itâ€™s difficult for me to get in the chair. I usually write until dawn. Then I sleep till noon. What a life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You have a long and illustrious backlist. What makes\n <em>\n  The Secret of Ka\n </em>\n special?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n I had more fun writing\n <em>\n  The Secret of Ka\n </em>\n than any novel Iâ€™ve ever worked on. It was the one novel that swept away my procrastination phobia. Each afternoon that I woke up, I would dive right in.\n <em>\n  Ka\n </em>\n â€™s one of the few stories Iâ€™ve written where I didnâ€™t have a clue what was going to happen next. Usually I know the ending before I write a word. With Ka, I didnâ€™t know what was going to happen on the next page.\n</p>\n<p>\n The main male character in the book, Amesh, heâ€™s missing his right hand. My girlfriend kept asking, â€œWhatâ€™s the deal with his hand? Your female fans wonâ€™t fall in love with him if he canâ€™t hug Sara.â€ I kept telling her, "I donâ€™t know, I have to see. I only know Amesh lost his hand somewhere along the road." I felt like Sara did when she discovered the flying carpet. How cool it would be to jump on it and fly away to a magical island. It probably seems obvious to my readers that my characters would encounter djinn on the island, but I didnâ€™t know that when Sara first got there. Up until then the story had been kind of lighthearted. I had no idea it would get so intense. I loved the first time Sara went head to head against the evil djinn, how it tricked her into almost killing herself.\n <em>\n  The Secret of Ka\n </em>\n was one of those rare books that felt like it was dictated to me. I canâ€™t really take credit for it. For example, when it came to the Three Laws of the Djinn, I didnâ€™t have a clue what they were. I felt like the carpet spelled out the answer to Saraâ€™s question and I simply wrote it down. My favorite books that Iâ€™ve written have been like that.\n <em>\n  The Last Vampire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Remember Me\n </em>\n just came to me. I felt like little more than a typist when I wrote those novels. As I said earlier, thinking is overrated when it comes to writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What was your favorite book as a kid?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Childhoodâ€™s End\n </em>\n by Arthur C. Clarke. I remember I was in seventh grade and I ordered it at school from one of those book club forms they handed out every few months. But before the book could come, I found it in the school library. Only I didnâ€™t want to read it because I had just paid thirty-five cents to buy it. Still, I kept sneaking into the library to read a few pages each day because I was enthralled. I had to know what happened next. I did this for about a week and then broke down and checked the book out and read it all the way through. Then, when the book club delivered it, I read it all over again.\n</p>\n<p>\n I must have read\n <em>\n  Childhoodâ€™s End\n </em>\n twenty times. I read all of Clarkeâ€™s novels.\n <em>\n  The City and the Stars\n </em>\n was another favorite. Then I discovered Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Clifford Simak, and James Blish. Asimovâ€™s\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n trilogy blew me away. I remember thinking at the time that if I could write one book in my life that touched someone else, like\n <em>\n  The Foundation\n </em>\n , then my time on this planet would have been well spent.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you had a whole day free with nothing to do, how would you fill it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pike:\n </strong>\n I would read. Thereâ€™s an old Beach Boys song called "Disney Girls." It has this line that says, "Reality, itâ€™s not for me, and it makes me laugh." That sums up my life. I read to escape. I write to help other people escape. The world is a hard place. Itâ€™s good to get away from it now and then.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "The author ably juggles this central plot, creepy and elegant descriptions of the djinn, and even some juicy family drama to create a freewheeling, suspenseful action novel. Readers who recognize Pike as a key name in teen horror may be initially surprised by this subtly frightening adventure story, but there are still enough gross details mixed in to please even his hardcore fans."--_Bulletin,_ starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "Pikeâ€™s work is about action and twists, both of which are packed into the narrative."--_Kirkus Reviews\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5514'),
(8278, 'The Secret of Phantom Lake', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three junior detectives investigate a mystery involving an Oriental chest, a sunken ship, and a baffling dual identity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7527'),
(8279, 'The Secret of Pirates&#39; Hill', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hired to locate an old Spanish cannon, the Hardy brothers uncover an even greater treasure after perilous underwater adventures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10278'),
(8280, 'The Secret of Red Gate Farm', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10933'),
(8281, 'The Secret of Skeleton Island', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Three Investigators made their way into the old cave.Â Â Jupiter''s flashlight flicked over rocky crevices and ledges.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suddenly the light stopped.Â Â There on the edge of a rocky shelf was a human skull.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It seemed to grin at the boys.Â Â And then it spoke to them.Â Â "Go ''way," it sighed, with a strong accent that sounded Spanish.Â Â "Let me ''ave my rest.Â Â No treasure is here.Â Â Only my tired old bones!"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5586'),
(8282, 'The Secret of Skull Mountain', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a crisis in Bayport. Soon the city will be without water. Every night water strangely disappears from the new reservoir near Skull Mountain. Frank and Joe Hardy join forces with a team of skilled engineers to solve the baffling mystery. Author: Franklin W. Dixon Reading Level: Ages 8 to 14 years Publisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 9780448089270\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10293'),
(8283, 'The Secret of the Caves', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Hardy boys reached the caves, they came unexpectedly upon a queer old hermit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Franklin W. Dixon\n </strong>\n is the author of the ever-popular Hardy BoysÂ© books which have been in print since 1927.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10260'),
(8284, 'The Secret of the Crooked Cat', 'William Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Using a clue provided by an unusual stuffed cat, three young detectives investigate the mysterious troubles of an accident-prone carnival.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7526'),
(8285, 'Secret of the Dragon', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Bones of the Dragon\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the â€œDarkswordâ€ series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following.â€â€”_Library JournalÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman (Dragons of the Highlord Skies) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."_â€”Publishers Weeky _\n</p>\n<p>\n On the Darksword Series\n <br />\n â€œThe authors of the â€˜Dragonlanceâ„¢â€™ series again demonstrate their talent for vivid world-crafting and strong characterization in a novel that will appeal to fans of epic fantasy.â€â€”_Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œAnother smash hit.â€â€”\n </em>\n Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n On the Death Gate Cycle:\n <br />\n â€œWeis and Hickman continue to exercise their unlimited ability to create intriguing fantasy backgrounds filled with colorful personalities.â€ â€”_Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gods that once held control over human existence are in trouble.Â  New gods are challenging the power of the high god, Torval, for rule of the world. Â New religions are giving power to these brash interloping young gods, and the only way to stop them lies with the five bones of the Vektia Dragonsâ€”for these bones hold the primordial power of creation and destruction. Â The hope of the Vindrasi lies in finding the dragon bones before the followers of the new god Aelon can use them to redefine existence. Â But the Vindrasi gods have a traitor in their midstâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n In the land of mortals, Raegar, a Vindraisi turned Aelon warrior-priest, searches for the spirit bones. Â Torval has a champion as wellâ€”Skylan Ivorson, sea-raider and high chief of the Vindrasi clans, cousin and sworn enemy to Raegar. Â But Skylan and his people are captives in Sinaria, where they must fight for survival. The fates of men and gods and are rushing headlong to destruction. Skylan can stop the calamity, but only if he discovers the secret of the dragon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9482'),
(8286, 'The Secret of the Dread Forest', 'Gillian Summers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now that she has (sort of) defeated a diabolical elf, Keelie Heartwood reluctantly joins her father in the Dread Forest. Her "real" friends are gone, her dad is preoccupied with his new responsibilities as Lord of the Forest and now it seems that her budding romance with the hunky Sean is dashed. Except for her impossible guardian cat Knot, and Alora, a demanding and bratty little princess tree, Keelie has no one to hang withâ€”unless you count that nasty elf-girl Elia, who suddenly wants to be Keelie''s frenemy. Meanwhile, an age-old rift in Keelie''s family and among the elves reaches a dangerous climax as humans and dark magical forces alike encroach on the elves'' enchanted realm. The fate of the Dread Forestâ€”and of all who dwell within itâ€”lies in Keelie''s hands. Be on the watch for new adventures with Keelie and the elves as the Faire Folk saga continues in the Scions of Shadow Trilogy...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1984'),
(8287, 'The Secret of the Haunted Mirror', 'M. V. Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three young sleuths discover who is haunting a mysterious old mirror--and why.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4772'),
(8288, 'Secret of the Lost Race', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9061'),
(8289, 'The Secret of the Lost Tunnel', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy brothers accept the challenge of vindicating a Confederate general accused of stealing hidden gold which belonged to a a bank.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10283'),
(8290, 'The Secret Of The Old Clock', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10942'),
(8291, 'The Secret of the Old Mill', 'Franklin W. Dixon; William G. Tapply', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Counterfeit money is in circulation, and the limit is reached when Mrs. Hardy takes some from a stranger. Then the Hardy boys and their high school chums are warned to stay away from the old mill. Their curiosity plunges them into peril of the most unexpected kind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Read by Bill Irwin\n <br />\n approx. 3 hours\n <br />\n 2 cassettes\n</p>\n<p>\n Determined to learn the secret of the old mill, Frank and Joe employ a clever use to gain entrance and become trapped. There they unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other, a national security case their father is working on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10272'),
(8292, 'Secret of the Seventh Son', 'Glenn Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are secrets that must remain buried . . . Nine people have been slain in New York Cityâ€”nine strangers with nothing in commonâ€”the apparent victims of a frighteningly elusive serial killer. Only one thing links the dead: postcards they received, mailed from Las Vegas, announcing the day they would die. Assigned to the case is a legendary FBI profiler with a troubled past, a drinking problem, and nothing left to lose . . . Abandoned to a monastery is an unwanted son born under a curse on the seventh day of the seventh month of the year 777 . . . Unprepared for a momentous discovery is a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a clandestine medieval society . . . . . . but all lead to a secret embroiled in destiny, history, evil, faith, and corruption . . . and one terrifying truth that no one must ever know . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1849');
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(8293, 'Secret of the Slaves', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When archaeologist Annja Creed is hired to find the lost city of Promise in Brazil, she is more than intrigued. Legends abound of a magical place where slaves were rumored to have discovered the secret to eternal youth and life. But strangers are not welcome in Promise. Annja soon learns that the residents have gone to extreme lengths to guard their precious secret. Making her way from the steamy port of BelÃ©m to the brutal slums of Northeast Brazil, Annja faces unexpected peril, from poisoned arrows to Amazonian anacondas. As she navigates through a land where spirituality collides with the material world, Annja must distinguish between what is real and what is imagined for fear of making a wrong move. Because anyone or any*thing* could be her enemy. And she''s getting too closeâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(8294, 'The Secret of the Terror Castle', 'Robert Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hot on the trail of seven talking parrots that have seemingly vanished into\n </p>\n <p>\n  thin air, the Three Investigators are in more trouble than ever. Danger lurks\n </p>\n <p>\n  at every turn as they search for the birds, each of whom can quote part of a\n </p>\n <p>\n  coded message from a mysterious dead man.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in hardcover beginning in 1964, these classic mystery/adventure stories feature three boys--Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews--who establish a detective firm with the motto "We Investigate Anything!" Perfect for summer reading, these suspenseful action stories will appeal to both boys and girls.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5585'),
(8295, 'The Secret Panel', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10280'),
(8296, 'The Secret Pilgrim', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n IntriguingÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.MagisterialÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. Lucidly and elegantly controlled. --New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n Le Carre is writing at the top of his form. --Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n PowerfulÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.RemarkableÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.A grand summation of all John le Carre''s themes. --New York Times\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of "The Russia House" and "Smiley''s People" comes a story about Smiley and the Circus. This book tells of Ned''s career, his triumphs, failures and gradual rise to maturity under the watchful eye of his mentor, George Smiley. The third bestselling hardback novel of 1991 in the UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11071'),
(8297, 'Secret prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Everybody has his secrets. But some of them will get you killed*. John Sandford has long been praised as one of the most gifted thriller writers at work in this country or any other (*Richmond-Times Dispatch*)--but this time he surpasses himself. The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man''s death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech. But it wasn''t going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. He had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it nearly gotten him killed, it had lost him his fiance, who''d never been able to recover from the violence of the encounter. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn''t help but wonder if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own. . . . John Sandford has written extraordinary thrillers before, but nothing to top the startling twists and unrelenting suspense of Secret Prey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2756'),
(8298, 'The Secret River', 'Kate Grenville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. "The Secret River" is the tale of William and Sal''s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William''s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him. Acclaimed around the world, "The Secret River" is a magnificent, transporting work of historical fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2505'),
(8299, 'Secret Sanction', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything. Drummond gets consistently suspicious depositions from all of the Green Berets: Supposedly pursued by Serb soldiers, they left the engagement with wounded Serbs firing at them, and no one can explain the number of deaths. Teamed with a straight-laced prosecutor and a sexy defense attorney, Drummond probes further but forces continue to hide the truth. Soon a reporter is found dead, Drummond suspects that there''s a traitor on his team, and everyone from the CIA to the president may be involved in a cover-up that could threaten the stability of the most powerful nation in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(8300, 'The Secret Servant', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He has been called his generation''s finest writer of international intrigue, one of America''s most gifted spy novelists ever, and the successor to Graham Greene and John le CarrÅ½. But with his follow-up to the 2006 electrifying number one bestseller *The Messenger*, Daniel Silva has written his most compelling and entertaining novel to date.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, he had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst who also happened to be an asset of Israeli intelligence. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers a conspiracy of terror festering in the city''s Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the English Channel, in the middle of London.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The target of this plot is Elizabeth Halton, the daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James''s, who is to be brutally kidnapped. Gabriel arrives seconds too late to save her. And by revealing his face to the plot''s masterminds, his fate is sealed as well. Drawn once more into the service of American intelligence, Gabriel hurls himself into a desperate search for the missing woman as the clock ticks steadily toward the hour of her execution. It will take him from Amsterdam to Germany to the very end of Denmark. It will thrust him into an unlikely alliance with a man who has lost everything because of his devotion to Islam. It will cause him to question the morality of the tactics of his trade. And it might very well cost him his life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot, and a final mind-bending sequence that will leave readers breathless, *The Secret Servant* is not only a work of supreme entertainment, but also an exploration of some of the most daunting issues of our times: the war on terrorism, the weapons the West uses to wage it, and the time bomb now ticking in the heart of Western Europe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6916'),
(8301, 'The Secret Spanish Love-Child', 'Cathy Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New boss-love-child scandal! When plain-Jane Alex McGuire indulged in an innocent flirtation with a staggeringly perfect stranger, she never expected their paths to cross again. Meek and dowdy Alex was the ideal distraction for Gabriel Cruz in his heady playboy days- But, since running the Cruz family business has beckoned, frivolous distractions are a thing of the past- So on Alex-s first day of her new job she not only finds her perfect stranger is her boss-but she must tell him that their short affair left a lasting impression!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(8302, 'The Secret Warriors', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second volume in the Men at War saga, begun with The Last Heroes (1997), a paperback originally published (in 1985) under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin. Griffin has written several popular WWII series, featuring the Marine Corps, the Navy, and now the shadow warriors of the OSS, led by\n <code>\n </code>\n Wild Bill'''' Donovan. The first in this new saga turned on a cache of uranium ore in the Belgian Congo. This time, along with other jobs, the OSS must drop agents into the Belgian Congo and smuggle out ore to use in making atomic bombs. Secrecy is all, since the Germans also may well be devising their own atomic weapons. Shrewd, sharp, rousing entertainment. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling series continues with the second\n <em>\n  Men at War\n </em>\n novel by W.E.B. Griffin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Washington D.C., 1942. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he''s the backup pilot. And though he''s not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will...\n</p>\n<p>\n "Shrewd, sharp, rousing entertainment!"--_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A storyteller in the grand tradition."--Tom Clancy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6073'),
(8303, 'Secret Weapon Spouse', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: WEDDING PLANNER UNDER COVER By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-end wedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outside the Weddings Your Way salon, and Samantha had trouble keeping her two lives separate. Being with Alex brought out Samantha''s protective instincts--and the wild side she tried so hard to keep hidden--when she and Alex became the targets of a dangerous enemy. Samantha had to remain focused, or jeopardize the work and the team. After all, forming attachments to victims was wrong...even if being with Alex felt so right....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(8304, 'Secret Window - Secret Garden', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11151'),
(8305, 'The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife&#39;s Heart Forever', 'Scott Haltzman; Theresa Foy DiGeronimo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haltzman begins this marriage guide for men by emphasizing the biological differences between men and women, arguing that traditional approaches to marriage counseling can devalue men and ignore immutable male qualities. Evolutionary biology along with explanations of the limbic system governing emotions provide the foundation for Haltzman''s argument that much psychological dogma is possibly wrong, buoying married men by suggesting that it might be healthy "to keep your feelings to yourself" or that getting in touch with feelings is not a panacea for a better marriage. Then Haltzman, a psychiatry professor at Brown and operator of a Web site devoted to the "secrets of married men," launches his eight strategies with remarkable vigor. Despite the author''s unorthodox theoretical groundwork, the strategies are commonsensicalâ€”make marriage your job, learn to listen, know your wife, aim to please. More important, they are extraordinarily well fleshed out and convincingly supported with useful "to do" lists and a multitude of examples. They will no doubt prove helpful to many men struggling to build a happy marriage.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haltzman begins this marriage guide for men by emphasizing the biological differences between men and women, arguing that traditional approaches to marriage counseling can devalue men and ignore immutable male qualities. Evolutionary biology along with explanations of the limbic system governing emotions provide the foundation for Haltzman''s argument that much psychological dogma is possibly wrong, buoying married men by suggesting that it might be healthy "to keep your feelings to yourself" or that getting in touch with feelings is not a panacea for a better marriage. Then Haltzman, a psychiatry professor at Brown and operator of a Web site devoted to the "secrets of married men," launches his eight strategies with remarkable vigor. Despite the author''s unorthodox theoretical groundwork, the strategies are commonsensicalâ€”make marriage your job, learn to listen, know your wife, aim to please. More important, they are extraordinarily well fleshed out and convincingly supported with useful "to do" lists and a multitude of examples. They will no doubt prove helpful to many men struggling to build a happy marriage.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n (_Publishers Weekly_, November 7, 2005)\n</p>\n<p>\n Asserting that men have the power to fix their broken marriages because they are men, psychiatrist and marriage counselor Haltzman put together a guidebook that helps men give their wives exactly what they want and receive from them exactly what they hoped for the day they got married. Drawing on years of clinical experience and responses on his web site (secretsofmarriedmen.com), the author cites several "secrets" that differentiate the happily from the unhappily married men. Those who are satisfied have learned to listen to and know their wives; they aim to please and expect conflict and have learned to deal with it. Haltzman writes guy to guy, with anecdotes and humor. While it may be a challenge to get men to check out this book, it is highly recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n MANLY MEN REST assured: You can hope to become a better husband without having to get in touch with your feminine side. Psychiatrist Haltzman doesn''t ask men to change so much as to harness their best masculine strengths. Lively and entertaining, this broad guidebook provides Haltzman''s insights illuminated by anecdotes from his online discussion forum for married men. The upshot: Men would do well to approach their marriages with the same commitment and sense of purpose that they bring to a job. (_Psychology Today_)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10014'),
(8306, 'The Secrets of Jesuit Soupmaking: A Year of Our Soups', 'Rick Curry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brother Curry''s second cookbook is a natural companion volume to his first, The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking. He presents 60 recipes for soups from a variety of cuisines, both simple and more elaborate. But the recipes are only part of the book, as Curry introduces each one with mini-essays whose subjects range from theological questions to religious history to his own 40-plus years of experience in the Jesuit community. A cookbook that intersperses recipes w0not appeal to everyone, but Curry, who is also the founder and director of the National Theater Workshop of the Handicapped, is a natural storyteller, and his text is very readable. For larger collections and others where the first book was popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his early years as a novice, Brother Rick Curry learned that the quickest route to popularity among his peers was to master the art of cooking. Soup is one of the staple foods in a Jesuit community, and there is almost always a pot simmering on the stove. In more than forty years as a Jesuit brother, Brother Curry has traveled the world, lived in many different communities, and prepared many, many pots of soup. This collection includes recipes for sixty of his most popular soups-everything from an exotic Roasted Red Pepper Soup to the classic Minestrone Milanese to a hearty Corn Chowder, from a relatively simple chicken soup to the more complex Mussels Soup Billy-bi. But Brother Curry writes about a great deal more than soup. He includes stories to savor about his life in the community of Jesuits: the people he''s met; the meals he''s enjoyed; and the daily practices of patience, reverence, humility, and care that go into making a good soup and a good life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7025'),
(8307, 'Secrets of Lockpicking', 'Stephen Hampton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3545'),
(8308, 'Secrets of Paris: A Novel', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Passion and friendship get equal billing in this entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer''s stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a cultural exchange program, redesigns a room in the Louvre. Lydie is still reeling from the shock of her father''s recent death in a murder-suicide with the young woman who was his lover. As Lydie is befriended by sophisticated Patrice d''Origny, a young Bostonian married to the owner of a fashionable jewelry store, Michael begins an affair with an eccentric French biographer who is engrossed in her 17th-century subject, Mme de Sevigne. Asked to design the new d''Origny catalogue, Lydie decides to stage a ball in a nearby chateau. While working on their separate projects, she and Michael try to determine whether their once wholehearted love can be recovered. Lively and appealing characters--notably Lydie herself--the Paris setting and themes of betrayal and forgiveness distinguish this spirited romance.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again Rice ( Crazy in Love, LJ 9/1/88; Stone Heart, LJ 4/15/90) weaves a tale of modern-day life that''s hard to put down. This time the heroine is Lydie McBridge and the setting is Paris. Lydie is trying to come to grips with a family tragedy while spending a year in Paris with her husband Michael. While Lydie is developing a friendship with American Patrice d''Origny, Michael is drawn into an affair with a French coworker. Michael''s betrayal rocks the marriage, and Lydie is forced to examine her feelings about her family and her marriage while virtually separated from both in Paris. This is a novel of friendship, love, and betrayal that lets you into the minds of all the participants. It is one of those books that you don''t want to end because you want to know what happens to all of the people in it. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/91.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Kathy Ingels Helmond, Indiana Univ./ Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Lib.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5151'),
(8309, 'Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives', 'Barbara Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAn absolutely wonderful and sometimes hilarious and always soulful book.â€ (Mademoiselle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare.â€ (Smithsonian )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps the best aspect of the book, combined with Hollandâ€™s style, is the appropriately low-grade temperature of the cat/human philosophizingâ€”nicely situated between Sartre and Wild Kingdom.â€ (Trenton NJ Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMay be the most elegantly written, witty, perceptive statement about felines ever published.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming....Will soften the heart of even a certified ailurophobe.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What is really going on behind those luminous feline eyes?\n</p>\n<p>\n Affectionate yet aloof, intelligent and inquisitive yet dangerously careless, the more-or-less domesticated house cat intrigues us as no other animal can. Now Barbara Holland offers cat lovers a fascinating, funny, and refreshingly candid look at their feline companions: their history, lore, and secrets, and their complicated relations with people and with each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Secrets of the Cat\n </em>\n is a lively appreciation of cats as we know and love them, with witty analysis and fresh observations about felines both high and low. Here are Winston Churchillâ€™s ginger tom, who attended cabinet meetings; Teddy Rooseveltâ€™s cat, Slippers, who came to dinner; and even the authorâ€™s own George II, who was bitten by a mouse and adopted by a blue jay. Barbara Hollandâ€™s warm, vivid speculations on catsâ€™ lives and timesâ€”on their social, psychic, and mythological legacy, and their impenetrable mysteriesâ€”will give readers a delightful catâ€™s-eye view of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8714'),
(8310, 'Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brace yourself for a shocking secret. Two hidden artifacts have been found. Three more remain unrecovered. More preserves face destruction as the Society of the Evening Star relentlessly pursues new talismans. Reading in Patton s Journal of Secrets, Kendra learns the location of the key to a vault housing one of the artifacts. In order to retrieve it, the Knights of the Dawn must enter a death trap a dragon sanctuary called Wyrmroost. The mission cannot proceed without stealing a sacred object zealously guarded by the centaurs. Anybody seen Seth? The race is on to acquire all five of the artifact keys to the great demon prison. Will the Knights of the Dawn conquer Wyrmroost? Who can stop the Sphinx? Can Vanessa be trusted to help? What artifact will be found next? Find out in Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(8311, 'Secrets of the Fire Sea', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Stephen Hunt: ''Hunt''s imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers. This is Philip Pullman with a dose of benzedrine. Hold on to your hat and let yourself get carried away.'' Tom Holt ''A ripping yarn ! the story pounds along ! constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked ! the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun'' SFX ''An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels'' Lisa Tuttle, The Times ''The characters are convincing and colourful, but the real achievement is the setting, a hellish take on Victorian London ! the depth and complexity of Hunt''s vision makes it compulsive reading for all ages'' Guardian ''Wonderfully assured ! Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension'' Time Out ''All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'' Daily Mail ''Rich and colourful !keeps you engrossed !a confident, audacious novel'' SFX ''Like a magpie, Stephen Hunt has plucked colourful events from history and politics and used them for inspiration ! Hunts tells his full-blooded tale with lip-smacking relish, revealing a vivid, often gruesome imagination ! [it] brims with originality and, from the first, its chase-filled plot never lets up'' Starburst ''Studded with invention'' Independent\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon. The isolated island of Jago is the only place Hannah Conquest has ever known as home. Encircled by the magma ocean of the Fire Sea, it was once the last bastion of freedom when the world struggled under the tyranny of the Chimecan Empire during the age-long winter of the cold-time. But now this once-shining jewel of civilization faces an uncertain future as its inhabitants emigrate to greener climes, leaving the basalt plains and raging steam storms far behind them. For Hannah and her few friends, the streets of the island''s last occupied underground city form a vast, near-deserted playground. But Hannah''s carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Gray, is brutally murdered in her own cathedral. Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop, and if the attempts on Hannah''s own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it onto her ward before her saintly head was separated from her neck. But it soon becomes clear that there is more at stake than the life of one orphan. A deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago, involving rival factions in the senate and the island''s most powerful trading partner. And it''s beginning to look as if the deaths of Hannah''s archaeologist parents shortly after her birth were very far from accidental. Soon the race is on for Hannah and her friends to unravel a chain of hidden riddles and follow them back to their source to save not just her own life, but her island home itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4543'),
(8312, 'Secrets to the Grave', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with her second thriller in the Deeper than the Dead microseries, exploring the early days of forensic investigation, the characteristics of innocence-and the nature of evil.   Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.  When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother''s bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer, residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered for days had it not been for a chilling 911 call: a small child''s voice saying, "My daddy hurt my mommy."  Sheriff''s detective Tony Mendez faces a puzzle with nothing but pieces that won''t fit. To assist with his witness, Haley, he calls teacher-turned-child advocate Anne Leone. Anne''s life is hectic enough-she''s a newlywed and a part- time student in child psychology, and she''s the star witness in the See-No-Evil trial. But one look at Haley, alone and terrified, and Anne''s heart is stolen.  As Tony and Anne begin to peel back the layers of Marissa Fordham''s life, they find a clue fragment here, another there. And just when it seems Marissa has taken her secrets to the grave, they uncover a fact that puts Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer: Marissa Fordham never existed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6770'),
(8313, 'Section 31: Rogue', 'Andy Mangels &amp; Michael A. Martin &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are the self-appointed protectors of the Federation. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the Federation at any cost.  Six months before their ultimate battle against the Borg for the fate of Earth, Captain Jean-Luc Piccard and the crew of the "USS Enterprise" face a very different kind of crisis. A world in turmoil becomes the focal point of conspiracies and betrayal as an unexpected reunion brings with it startling revelations. Old friends become bitter enemies and one young officer reaches a crossroad when he''s forced to choose between the greater good of the Federation and the ideals for which it stands.  NO LAW. NO CONSCIENCE. NO STOPPING THEM.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7364'),
(8314, 'Sed &amp; Awk, 2nd Edition', 'Dale Dougherty &amp; Arnold Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  sed &amp; awk\n </i>\n describes two text manipulation programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer''s toolbox. This edition covers the\n <i>\n  sed\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  awk\n </i>\n programs as they are mandated by the POSIX standard and includes discussion of the GNU versions of these programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5906'),
(8315, 'Seduced by a Highlander', 'Paula Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: SINS THAT CAN''T BE FORGIVEN Tristan MacGregor is famed throughout the Highlands as a silver-tonged seducer and an unrepentant rogue. Bold and charming, he''s dallied with many women, yet none as mysterious as the lass he steals a kiss from at king''s court. Little does he know this beauty is one of his clan''s greatest enemies. PASSION THAT CAN''T BE DENIED Isobel Fergusson has despised the bloodthirsty MacGregors ever since they murdered her father. She''s horrified to learn that the handsome stranger she kissed is of this clan. But Tristan means to possess her at any cost and Isobel''s body turns traitor at his touch. Can a man she''s sworn to hate be the only one she can ever love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4193'),
(8316, 'Seduced by Moonlight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among me who whisper I am more. They fear me even as they protect me. And who can blame them? Iâ€™ve awakened the dazzling magic thatâ€™s slumbered in them for thousands of years. But the thing is, I canâ€™t figure out why. My aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is no longer distracted by her usual sadistic hobbies. Her obsession has turned unwaveringly to me. The mission to get me pregnant and beat my cousin Prince Cel to the crown is taking longer than expected. Even though I spend each night with the Queenâ€™s Ravens, my immortal guards, no child has come of our decadent pleasures. But something else is happening. My magic courses through me uncontrollably. And as I lock my half-mortal body with their full-Sidhe blooded ones, the power surges like never before. It all began with the chalice. I dreamed of it, and it appeared, cool and hard, beside me when I awoke. My guards know the ancient relic wellâ€”its disappearance ages ago stripped them of their vital powers. But it is here with us now. My touch resonates with its force, and theyâ€™re consumed with it, their Sidhe essences lit up by it. But even as they cherish me for this unexpected gift, there are those who loathe me for it. Me, a mongrel, only half fey and part mortal. The Unseelie court has suffered for so long, and there are some who would not have it weakened further by an impure queen. My enemies grow in number every day. But they do not know what I am capable of. Nor, for that matter, do I. . . . In Seduced by Moonlight, Laurell K. Hamilton brings the dark, erotic reign of the immortal fey to a startling new depth. Full of sensuality and the consuming anticipation of latent powers unleashed, this world of gods, shapeshifters, and immortal souls is unveiled in all of its supreme magnificence and its treacherous deceits. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2780'),
(8317, 'Seduction in death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eve Dallas seeks a killer who uses a poetry chat room to lure victims drawn to his facade of the "perfect man."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1943'),
(8318, 'Seduction, Westmoreland Style', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn savored his "no women on my ranch" rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asked for a job training horses, he turned her down flat. For despite her innocent looks, she tempted him beyond reason.\n</p>\n<p>\n Casey had vowed to get McKinnon to hire her and make him her first--her only--lover. Yet after every steamy encounter, the infuriating man dodged her.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was as if he had a secret he was desperate to keepâ€¦ making Casey just as desperate to uncover it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8040'),
(8319, 'See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Davis''s engaging 17th ancient Roman historical to feature "informer" Marcus Didius Falco (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Scandal Takes a Holiday\n </em>\n ), Falco takes his deductive powers to Greece, where two young women tourists have died under mysterious circumstances. Accompanied by a large entourage, including his independent and sharp-witted wife, Helena, Falco soon finds that one tour, promoted by the shady Seven Sights Travel outfit, has a suspiciously high mortality rate. The long trail of corpses Falco uncovers puts the sleuth in danger of running out of suspects. While the way Falco unmasks the killer may be less than ingenious, the author''s vivid picture of life in A.D. 76 and the sparkling characterizations, particularly the amusing byplay between Falco and Helena, will satisfy most readers. For those new to this popular series, which has a new publisher, Davis provides a short introduction to Falco and his world.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n If Sam Spade traveled back in time to A.D. 76, he''d be Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman sleuth at the center of Davis'' mordant series. In the seventeenth outing, Marcus, who tackles crime on behalf of the emperor (and with the help of his tart-tongued wife, Helena), casts his cynical gaze on the case of two women who met their demise on tours of Olympia, Greece. Both women perished during excursions sponsored by Seven Sights, a dubious travel agency whose slippery host dispenses a litany of lies. Marcus focuses on the more recent victim, Valeria Ventidia, who was found beaten to death with a long-jumper''s hand weight. Although there''s no shortage of suspects among Seven Sights'' colorful clientele, Valeria''s shifty, jealous husband is at the top of the list. Davis provides vibrant period detail, from majestic Greek temples and teeming Roman slums to reprehensible rulers sporting tunics trimmed with gold. Some readers of this series may have difficulty accepting the hard-boiled veneer that Davis lays over ancient Rome, but for those willing to suspend disbelief, it makes a marvelous conceit.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7174'),
(8320, 'See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers', 'Roxanna Elden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n  <em>\n   See Me After Class\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSadly, new teachers are often thrown in to the sea of teaching and are left to ""sink or swim."" All too often, they are swallowed up and lost to the profession forever. This gem of a book (along with an anti-anxiety drug prescription and the film CHALK) will serve as one of those little life-saver ring things - not only will it keep rookieâ€™s heads above water... it will have them swimming with the best in no time.""\n <strong>\n  â€”The filmmakers of Chalk\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ""Covers all the bases for the beginning teacher from a practical, no-nonsense approach."" â€”\n <strong>\n  Nancy Polette, 30-year educator, presenter, and author of over 150 professional books for teachers\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ""This book uses humor to shed light on how to deal with the difficult times of being a rookie teacher. It should be a required read for all pre-service and beginning teachers.""\n <strong>\n  â€”Dr. Lawrence Orihuela, founder of Teaching &amp; Learning Inc\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSarcastic humor mixed with gentle, tangible adviceâ€¦. a quick and easy read by someone who doesnâ€™t take herself too seriously. I wish I could give every teacher I supervise a copy of this book.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Abena Osei, program director (Breakthrough Collaborative)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRoxanna Elden demonstrates great insight into the teaching profession and the many obstacles new teachers encounter. Teachers will find the answers to many of their questions and, most importantly, will find that they are not alone in experiencing this great profession of ours. I especially enjoyed the shared stories from those educators that have been in the profession for the long haul. Great job!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Herminia V. Martinez, lifelong educator and retired Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and Support Services, Edinburg CISD (Edinburg, Texas)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the book that will save rookiesâ€™ souls when they lose the strength to save their classrooms. With tales from more than one hundred veterans from across the country, teachers everywhere will find themselves laughing, maybe crying, and definitely taking notes. Readers at the toughest schools will be relieved to find a resource that deals specifically with their struggles instead of insisting that all teaching situations are the same. This is the book that will keep the great teachers of the future from quitting before they become great.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many new teachers have been waiting for someone to break the â€œstay positive!â€ code and talk about the parts of the job that make teachers question their career choices. While other books cover the eyes of readers to keep from scaring them, this one asks teachers to be brutally honest about how tough teaching truly is and whether the rewards are still worth it. The answer is yes.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the author:\n</p>\n<p>\n I have never understood why so many books for the new teacher show apples and paper airplanes on their covers. In six years of teaching, no one has ever given me an apple. Any snacks students have offered me have come from vending machines, and teachers are not allowed to accept unwrapped food anyway. I have never seen a paper airplane, either. This generation of students knows that crumpled-up-paper balls are faster to make and easier to aim. Some unlucky teachers have had books thrown at them. In at least one case, a teacher was hit in the back with chunks of plaster from her crumbling classroom wall.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even without serious discipline problems, new teachers often feel like failures. Not only do they take on all the issues plaguing the school system, they cause many of their own problems because of their inexperience. As a beginner, I sat through countless workshops listening to the heartwarming success stories of others. Then, carrying home piles of un-graded papers the night before report card day, all I could think was, â€œHow did these poor students get stuck with a teacher like me?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I also remember some generous, experienced coworkers who shared their own first-year horror stories. One described a parent who threatened to â€œf___ (her) upâ€ during class time. Another talked about a hard-working student who was tormented every time he turned in an assignment, and a third confided that she was so overwhelmed she repeatedly turned in the same lesson plan. These stories were not inspirational, but during my first year they kept me sane. These were people who had become top-notch professionals. If their start had been so rocky, maybe there was hope for me.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8311'),
(8321, 'Seeing a Large Cat', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: MysteryLarge Print EditionPeters fans will relish this latest adventure. Publishers WeeklyAs her legions of fans will readily testify, Amelia Peabody Emerson, who wields a mean parasol, is not your usual whodunit heroine. BooklistAmelia Peabody, feisty turn-of-the-century Egyptologist, is in Cairo headed for a dig in the awesome Valley of the Kings. Stay away from tomb Twenty-A, warns an ominous message delivered by an unseen hand. Even though her famous premonitions are telling her that trouble lies ahead, Amelia dreams of a large cat, an Egyptian sign of good luck. And when tomb Twenty-A finally reveals its secret, Amelia will need all the luck she can garner, as the desert produces a macabre puzzle of murder, passion and cruel deceit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(8322, 'Seeing Further: The Story of Science &amp; the Royal Society', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society.On a damp weeknight in November, 350 years ago, a dozen or so men gathered at Gresham College in London. A twenty-eight year old '' and not widely famous '' Christopher Wren was giving a lecture on astronomy. As his audience listened to him speak, they decided that it would be a good idea to create a Society to promote the accumulation of useful knowledge. With that, the Royal Society was born.Since its birth, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific exploration and discovery. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Locke, Alexander Fleming '' all were members. Bill Bryson''s favourite member was Reverend Thomas Bayes, a brilliant mathematician who devised Bayes'' theorem. Whilst it had little practical use in Bayes'' lifetime, today his theorem is used for weather forecasting, astrophysics and stock market analysis. A milestone in mathematical history, it only exists because the Royal Society decided to preserve it '' just in case.The Royal Society continues to do today what it set out to do all those years ago. Its members have split the atom, discovered the double helix, the electron, the computer and the World Wide Web. Truly international in its outlook, it has created modern science. ''Seeing Further'' celebrates its momentous history and achievements, bringing together the very best of science writing. Filled with illustrations of treasures from the Society''s archives, this is a unique, ground-breaking volume that you''ll want to pick up again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6129'),
(8323, 'Seeing Stars', 'Diane Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ruth Rabinowitz believes. She believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth''s husband and Bethany''s father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been left behind in Seattle. Joining Bethany Rabinowitz in Hollywood''s often toxic waters are fellow child actors Quinn Reilly, who has been cast adrift by his family and excels only on Hollywood sets; beautiful Allison Addison, who is misled by her powerful need for love; and Laurel Buehl, who brings a desperate secret to LA that makes the stakes impossibly high. As talent managers, agents, coaches, directors, and teachers nurture--and feed on--their ambitions, stars will be made, hearts will be broken, children will grow up, and dreams will both be realized and die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/521');
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(8324, 'Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization From Trunk to Tail', 'Peter Marber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In\n <em>\n  Seeing the Elephant\n </em>\n , author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of new actors is drastically altering the geopolitical landscape, and offers insights on how the US can maintain a leading role in the 21st century and beyond.\n</p>\n<p>\n While America remains the single most important economy today, rising economic powerhouses â€” China, Russia, India, Brazil and others â€” bring a diverse set of interests to the table that the US cannot afford to ignore, Marber explains. Moreover, globalization has created thousands of non-state actors â€“ corporations, banks, hedge funds, activists and even terrorists â€“ who bring their own concerns to bear on the world system.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the era of globalization, America''s success hinges on the success of its neighbors, too. Yet from its invasion of Iraq to its disregard of major treaties â€” some recent US choices have shown little regard for these new players. As the lines between economic, defense, environmental, immigration, and energy policy become increasingly blurred, having a holistic and coherent approach to cross-border challenges is essential. Yet the forums and institutions that once coordinated these relationships â€“ the UN, World Bank and the G7â€” are losing relevance and no longer adequately represent the world''s expanded power roster. To remain vital, Marber believes all our multilateral institutions will require fresh ideas and revamping.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Seeing the Elephant\n </em>\n demystifies globalization, and analyzes the megatrends and interconnections of the 21st century. With bold suggestions on how America reassert its historic leadership in the new global arena,\n <em>\n  Seeing the Elephant\n </em>\n should be required reading for policy makers, businessmen and informed citizens alike.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the new millennium, it is nearly impossible for us to talk about basic concerns like food or gas prices, without examining global intersections in trade, energy, immigration, the environment, and defense. Many countries once described as "developing" nations now wield greater economic and political influence than some of the so-called "major" powers. Former debtor nations have become creditors of the United States and other developed countries that run budget deficits. Without recognizing and understanding these connections, we cannot even begin to discuss how the United States and other countries can craft and harness effective policies amid this breathtaking progress. In Seeing the Elephant, Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of new actors is drastically altering the geopolitical landscape, and offers insights on how the U.S. can make policy to maintain a leading role in the years to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n The twenty-first century, Marber explains, demands a very different lens for viewing the world. In the era of globalization, America''s success hinges on the success of its neighbors, too. Rising economic powerhousesâ€”China, Russia, India, Brazil, and othersâ€”bring a diverse set of interests to the table that the U.S. cannot afford to ignore. Moreover, globalization has created thousands of non-state actorsâ€”corporations, banks, hedge funds, activists, and even terroristsâ€”who bring their own concerns to bear. Marber underscores the importance of forging strong relationships with pivotal developing nations and America''s need to reaffirm the centricity of global protocols, rules, and institutions after an unfortunate period of neglect. It''s not too late. By focusing on seven key cross-border, interlinking issuesâ€”trade and finance, energy, security, immigration, health, the environment, and povertyâ€”Marber recommends key adjustments in policies that aim to strengthen and modernize our current institutional infrastructure, including NATO, the WHO, the WTO, the World Bank, and the UN, among others. While his strategies do not guarantee that the United States will remain on top economically, they ensure that the global system America helped to create triumphs in the end, protecting against the factionalism that led to two World Wars and destroyed decades of economic progress.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this timely book, Marber demystifies globalization and analyzes new international megatrends and interconnections. With bold suggestions on how America can reassert its historic leadership in the new global arena,\n <em>\n  Seeing the Elephant\n </em>\n will show readers how the U.S. still remains the planet''s best chance at building enduring peace and prosperity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6354'),
(8325, 'The seeker', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trained by the mystical Villichi in the Way of the Druid and the Path of the Preserver, Sorak the elfling sets out to find the mysterious and reclusive wizard known only as the Sage. Guided by a spell scroll and his own tormented inner voices, Sorak must cross a lethal, rock-strewn wasteland no one has ever survived and make his way to Nibenay, where he must seek out the secret Veiled Alliance. Together with Ryana, the beautiful Villichi priestess who has forsworn her vows in order to follow him upon his quest, and the lovely, pampered daughter of a sorcerer-king whom they have stolen from a noble''s caravan, Sorak braves the unknown dangers of the wild, Athasian desert... pursued by a cruel, relentless noble who will stop at nothing to regain the princess who was stolen from him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3760'),
(8326, 'Seeker&#39;s Curse', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enlisted by the Japan Buddhist Federation to catalog a number of ancient shrines dotted across Nepal, archaeologist Annja Creed is honored to help. Political violence has prompted the Federation to protect holy sites from desecration and vandalism, and Annja is their last hope to properly conserve these sites.Where there''s vandalism, there''s plundering, and local police soon become suspicious of Annja''s presence. But she is more concerned about the antiques smugglers and Maoist guerrillas trying to kill her. When she must trek high up in the Himalayas to protect a sacred golden Buddha statue from falling into the hands of her pursuers, she''s told that the place is cursedâ€”and guarded by demons. And Annja has no choice but to face her demonsâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(8327, 'The Seeress of Kell', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is the epic conclusion of David Eddingsâ€™s enthralling series The Malloreonâ€“two magnificent novels in one volume. This monumental fantasy follows the story of two age-old opposing destinies locked in a seven-thousand-year war for control of the world, its gods, and its men. Indeed the victor will determine nothing less than the fate of all creation.Troubles mount as King Garion, Belgarath, and Polgara pursue Zandramas, the Child of Dark, across the known world. The wicked creature has abducted the Kingâ€™s infant son for sinister purposes. If Garion and his companions cannot reach the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell has warned, then Zandramas will use Garionâ€™s son in a rite that will raise the Dark Prophecy to eternal dominion over the universe. Only the Seeress of Kell can reveal the mysterious locale, but first Garion and Polgara must fulfill an ancient prophecy in the mountain fastness of the Seers. Although Kell is closed to Zandramas, her dark magic can forcefully extract the intelligence she needs from one of Garionâ€™s party. Setting traps and dispatching her foul minions, she is determined to claim the world for the Dark Prophecy. But Garion will let nothing stand between himself and his son. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1191'),
(8328, 'Seize the Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night.At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there''s nothing their families can do about it. Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night, their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet of Moonlight Bay....Christopher Snow isn''t afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town''s most carefully kept, most ominous secretâ€”a secret only he can uncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary at one with the most dangerous darkness of all. The darkness inside the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1446'),
(8329, 'Selected Stories of Anton Chekov', 'Anton Chekhov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Death of a ClerkOne fine evening the no less fine office manager Ivan Dmitrich Cherviakov1 was sitting in the second row of the stalls, watching The Bells of Corneville2 through opera glasses. He watched and felt himself at the height of bliss. But suddenly . . . This "but suddenly" occurs often in stories. The authors are right: life is so full of the unexpected! But suddenly his face wrinkled, his eyes rolled, his breath stopped . . . he put down the opera glasses, bent forward, and . . . ah-choo!!! As you see, he sneezed. Sneezing is not prohibited to anyone anywhere. Peasants sneeze, police chiefs sneeze, sometimes even privy councillors sneeze. Everybody sneezes. Cherviakov, not embarrassed in the least, wiped his nose with his handkerchief and, being a polite man, looked around to see whether his sneezing had disturbed anyone. And now he did become embarrassed. He saw that the little old man sitting in front of him in the first row of the stalls was carefully wiping his bald head and neck with his glove and muttering something. Cherviakov recognized the little old man as General Brizzhalov,3 who served in the Department of Transportation."I sprayed him!" thought Cherviakov. "He''s not my superior, he serves elsewhere, but still it''s awkward. I must apologize."Cherviakov coughed, leaned forward, and whispered in the general''s ear:"Excuse me, Yr''xcellency, I sprayed you . . . I accidentally . . .""Never mind, never mind . . .""For God''s sake, excuse me. I . . . I didn''t mean it!""Ah, do sit down, please! Let me listen!"Cherviakov became embarrassed, smiled stupidly, and began looking at the stage. He looked, but felt no more bliss. Anxiety began to torment him. In the intermission he went up to Brizzhalov, walked around him, and, overcoming his timidity, murmured:"I sprayed you, Yr''xcellency . . . Forgive me . . . I . . . it''s not that I . . .""Ah, come now . . . I''ve already forgotten, and you keep at it!" said the general, impatiently twitching his lower lip."Forgotten, but there''s malice in his eyes," thought Cherviakov, glancing suspiciously at the general. "He doesn''t even want to talk. I must explain to him that I really didn''t mean it . . . that it''s a law of nature, otherwise he''ll think I wanted to spit. If he doesn''t think so now, he will later! . . ."On returning home, Cherviakov told his wife about his rudeness. His wife, it seemed to him, treated the incident much too lightly. She merely got frightened, but then, on learning that Brizzhalov served "elsewhere," she calmed down."But all the same you should go and apologize," she said. "He might think you don''t know how to behave in public!""That''s just it! I apologized, but he was somehow strange . . . Didn''t say a single sensible word. And then there was no time to talk."The next day Cherviakov put on a new uniform, had his hair cut, and went to Brizzhalov to explain . . . Going into the general''s reception room, he saw many petitioners there, and among them was the general himself, who had already begun to receive petitions. Having questioned several petitioners, the general raised his eyes to Cherviakov."Yesterday, in the Arcadia, if you recall, Yr''xcellency," the office manager began, "I sneezed, sir, and . . . accidentally sprayed you . . . Forg . . .""Such trifles . . . God knows! Can I be of help to you?" the general addressed the next petitioner."He doesn''t want to talk!" thought Cherviakov, turning pale. "That means he''s angry . . . No, it can''t be left like this . . . I''ll explain to him . . ."When the general finished his discussion with the last petitioner and headed for the inner rooms, Cherviakov followed him and murmured:"Yr''xcellency! If I venture to trouble Yr''xcellency, it''s precisely, I might say, from a feeling of repentance! . . . It wasn''t on purpose, you know that yourself, sir!"The general made a tearful face and waved his hand."You must be joking, my dear sir!" he said, disappearing behind the door."What kind of joke is it?" thought Cherviakov. "This is no kind of joke at all! A general, yet he can''t understand! If that''s the way it is, I won''t apologize to the swaggerer any more! Devil take him! I''ll write him a letter, but I won''t come myself! By God, I won''t!"So Cherviakov thought, walking home. He wrote no letter to the general. He thought and thought, and simply could not think up that letter. So the next day he had to go himself and explain."I came yesterday to trouble Yr''xcellency," he began to murmur, when the general raised his questioning eyes to him, "not for a joke, as you were pleased to say. I was apologizing for having sneezed and sprayed you, sir . . . and I never even thought of joking. Would I dare joke with you? If we start joking, soon there won''t be any respect for persons . . . left . . .""Get out!!" barked the general, suddenly turning blue and shaking."What, sir?" Cherviakov asked in a whisper, sinking with terror."Get out!!" the general repeated, stamping his feet.Something in Cherviakov''s stomach snapped. Seeing nothing, hearing nothing, he backed his way to the door, went out, and plodded off . . . Reaching home mechanically, without taking off his uniform, he lay down on the sofa and . . . died.July 18831. The name Cherviakov comes from the Russian word cherviak ("worm").2. A popular operetta by French composer Robert Planquette (1843-1903).3. The name Brizzhalov suggests a combination of bryzgat ("to spray") and briuzzhat ("to grumble").From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8718'),
(8330, 'Selected stories of O. Henry', 'O. Henry; Victoria Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Selected Stories of O. Henry, by O. Henry, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. O. Henry mastered the art of the humorous, energetic tale that ends with a sudden, ironic twist. In â€œAfter Twenty Years,â€ for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman. Behind the rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation with a fascinating moral dilemmaâ€”all dealt with in a few brief pages. This is just one of the many literary gems in Selected Stories of O. Henry, a collection of 45 of O. Henryâ€™s most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is affected by love, hate, wealth, poverty, gentility, disguise, and crimeâ€”themes that ran through the authorâ€™s own life. Born William Sidney Porter, O. Henry started writing while in prison for embezzlement. Later he moved to New York, and his tales romanticizing the commonplace, particularly the life of ordinary New Yorkers, became highly popular. The most widely read author of his time, O. Henry died penniless but left behind a wealth of short stories that endure as classics of the genre. Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at The Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2951'),
(8331, 'Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick''s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In "The Days of Perky Pat," people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth''s real inhabitants. "Adjustment Team" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In "Autofac," one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon," we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as "The Minority Report," the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," the basis for the film Total Recall. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature''s most searching imaginations. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6504'),
(8332, 'Self-Defense', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3056'),
(8333, 'Self&#39;s Deception', 'Bernhard Schlink &amp; Peter Constantine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In German author Schlink''s meandering second crime novel available in English to feature aging PI Gerhard Self (after\n <em>\n  Self''s\n </em>\n <em>\n  Punishment\n </em>\n ), a man named Salger hires Self to locate his missing daughter, Leonore. With little help from the father, Self tracks the missing girl to an insane asylum outside Heidelberg, where he''s informed by a doctor that Leo has recently died there in an accident. Self quickly learns, among other details, that the death report is untrue, Leo''s father is not really her father and that the case is connected to a top-secret government investigation. Self can be completely off the wall one minuteâ€”he lies outrageously to anyone who might have information and breaks-and-enters without compunctionâ€”and the next he''s as comfortable as an old shoe, having a glass of Riesling and hanging out with his cat, Turbo. The eccentric detective is the big draw, with the less than action-packed investigation coming in a distant second.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sophisticated, chilling and superbly written thriller.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Dibdin, author of\n <em>\n  Back to Bologna\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delightfully unique protagonist, a marvelous complex mystery.â€\n <br />\n â€”Mike Lawson, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Second Perimeter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmensely pleasurable and deeply intriguing. Schlink has crafted a novel rich with the comforts of insight and humanity.â€\n <br />\n â€”Dan Fesperman, author of\n <em>\n  The Prisoner of Guant\n </em>\n Ã¡_namo _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrom this highly gifted writer another delightfully winding crime story, told with bleak and bitter irony.â€\n <br />\n â€”HÃ¥kan Nesser, author of\n <em>\n  The Return\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6162'),
(8334, 'Self&#39;s Punishment', 'Bernhard Schlink &amp; Walter Popp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The successful film adaptation of Schlink''s\n <em>\n  The Reader\n </em>\n should give a boost to his third mystery to feature aging German PI Gerhard Self (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Self''s Deception\n </em>\n ). On his way home to Mannheim during a snow storm, Schlink helps a stranded driver, Bertram Welker, who on learning Self''s profession offers him a job. A partner in the region''s oldest private bank, Welker is writing its history and asks Self to identify a silent partner in the bank. What appears to be a straightforward assignment becomes a double murder inquiry once Self comes to doubt Welker''s account of how his wife perished in a hiking accident the year before and the bank''s unofficial archivist dies in a suspicious car crash after handing Self a briefcase full of money. Crisp prose and some well-handled plot complications, which include the emergence of a man claiming to be Self''s son, will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n This stellar series debut presents former Nazi prosecutor turned private investigator Gerhard Self in an unsettlingly matter-of-fact style. Instead of the brooding and tortured soul readers might expect--or even demand--Gerd (as his many friends call him) comes across as wry and likable as he hustles up cases, flirts with attractive women of all ages, and worries about slipping into old age with only his cat for company. It''s the early 1980s, and Self has been hired by a boyhood friend to smoke out a hacker who''s playing havoc with the computers at Rhineland Chemical Works. But after Self springs a trap that gets the troublemaker murdered, he gradually faces the guilt he still carries for his youthful embrace of National Socialism. His simple refusal to let himself off the hook and step back into his old public prosecutor''s role after the war doesn''t seem like penance enough anymore. "I had planned to live at peace with my past," he muses. "Guilt, atonement, enthusiasm and blindness, pride and anger, morality and resignation--I''d brought it all together in an elaborate balance. The past had achieved abstraction." But Self''s unwitting participation in the new crime drives him to pursue the path of justice wherever it may lead. A fascinating exploration of how people often manage to carve out normal lives even after being complicit in terrible acts.\n <em>\n  Frank Sennett\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6160'),
(8335, 'The selfish gene', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Richard Dawkins'' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk. This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins'' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3664'),
(8336, 'Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids', 'Caplan, Bryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10744'),
(8337, 'Sellevision', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of\n <em>\n  Sellevision\n </em>\n takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy''s hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast. When Peggy fails to respond to the e-mail, but silently waxes her lobe, the cruel notes escalate, until Peggy believes herself to be suffering from a hormonal crisis that has given her a mustache, a gruff voice, and the manner of a lumberjack. Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children''s special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. The book is an unusually smooth read for a first novel, with six or seven truly inspired lines.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A relentless spoof of cable''s home-shopping mania shamelessly borrows from gossip tabloids, TV talk shows and the endlessly loopy world of advertising. This first novel dives behind the scenes of Sellevision, "America''s premier retail broadcasting network," as the channel confronts its first juicy scandal. Much-loved and handsome host Max Andrews has accidentally exposed his private parts during a "Toys for Tots" segment, and the flood of invective from outraged viewers forces the network to fire him. Though Max struggles to find another job, he bounces back nicely by segueing into an adult-film career. Meanwhile, another beloved host, prim and perky Peggy Jean Smythe, receives insulting e-mail from a mysterious fan named Zoe, whose snide commentary about Peggy''s hairy earlobes and clumpy mascara sends Peggy over the edge into Valium addiction and heavy drinking. Peggy Jean''s picture-perfect family is on the rocks, too: her husband, John, is happily seducing the nubile and willing 16-year-old next door. While Peggy Jean seeks solace through the guidance of Debby Boone and rehab, someone else must step in to peddle the Princess Diana memorabilia and the Dazzling Diamonelle merchandise. Either of two lead candidates for the job may also be the creepy e-mail stalker: Trish Mission, the innocent, young newcomer, or Leigh Bushmore, executive producer Howard Toast''s mistress. This kaleidoscope of gleefully salacious intrigue aims to titillate and amuse in a purposefully over-the-top way. Advertising copywriter Burroughs throws in some witty zingers but, overall, the energy of this satire of commercial madness almost peters out before the last FuturePop Popcorn Popper or Moisture-Whik Control Panties are sold. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7513'),
(8338, 'Senor Nice', 'Howard Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The long-awaited and hugely-entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada. He was eventually busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana for marijuana smuggling. He was released in April 1995, after serving seven years. Senor Nice tells the story of what happened next. After release from prison, Marks changed careers: he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate, and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one-man shows. While performing in his home town of Kenfig Hill, Wales, an elderly aunt told him of his outlaw ancestry: William Owen, the legendary Welsh smuggler (who had operated for some time in South America) and his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, the half-brother of Billy the Kid, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia. So, Marks decided to explore South America. His travels took him to Jamaica and Panama in the footsteps of the Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan; to a search for obscure Welsh settlers in Brazil whom he never found; and a search among the thriving Welsh community in Patagonia for signs of Billy the Kid''s half-brother. Richly comic and charged with the sense of adventure that induced this Oxford graduate to become the world''s most notorious marijuana smuggler,Senor Niceis the hugely entertaining sequel toMr. Nice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4689'),
(8339, 'Sense and sensibility', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Playbook.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2097'),
(8340, 'Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters', 'Ben H. Winters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the publisher of *Pride and Prejudice and Zombies* comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem.    *Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters* expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels?  This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austenâ€™s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. Itâ€™s survival of the fittestâ€”and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!            Wallpaper Illustrations from *Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters*          (*Right-click on the image and select "Set As Desktop Background"*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(8341, 'Sense of Evil', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the novels of Kay Hooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?A master storyteller.?\n  <br />\n  --Tami Hoag\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Kay Hooper keeps me guessing until the very end.?\n  <br />\n  --Linda Howard\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Kay Hooper comes through with thrills [and] chills.?\n  <br />\n  --_Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  _?You always know you are in for an outstanding read when you pick up a Kay Hooper novel.?\n  <br />\n  --_Romantic Times _(gold medal review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author whoâ€™s built a reputation for keeping her readersâ€™ pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the sensesâ€”all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...\n  <strong>\n   Sense of Evil\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find answers fast before another woman is lured to her death--but Sullivan literally doesnâ€™t have a clue. And when the FBI sends one of their top profilers to help, heâ€™s more than a little surprised that his new partner is nothing like the straight-by-the-book â€œsuitâ€ he expects.Special Agent Isabel Adams is tough, fearless, determined, and every bit Sullivanâ€™s equal. Sheâ€™s also psychic. And blond.Skeptical of his new partnerâ€™s ability to get inside the mind of a killer, Sullivan canâ€™t deny that Isabel has tuned in to the killerâ€™s wavelength, is following the twisted thoughts of a murderer obsessed with stalking, seduction, and death. But in getting so close, Isabel has set herself up as the next victim. Now, with time running out, she and Rafe will find themselves forced to take the greatest risk of all, because this psychopath is playing for keeps and Isabel is the perfect trophy. Unable to turn back, Isabel may have already gone too far. Smart, savvy, and confident, she may find that the very qualities that have kept her alive could turn out to be her undoing. For Isabel has entered the world of a cold-blooded monster who kills without mercy and eludes every sense but one...the sense of evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5293'),
(8342, 'Sensual Confessions', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prolific Jackson''s 16th book in the Madaris Family and Friends series is a heated tale that fully lives up to all expectations. Construction company co-owner Blade Madaris arrives in Oklahoma City from Houston with two goals in mind: to complete several major projects, and to seduce Italian-African-American attorney Samari Di Meglio. He''s a player who takes pride in his sexual conquests; she''s just as fierce in despising and humiliating Romeos like him. In other words, a match made in romance reader''s Harlequin. It''s full steam ahead as the pair tantalize, fantasize and ultimately take each other to bed. But it isn''t all fun and games, when mysterious stalker sends Sam anonymous bouquets a threat attached. As the danger mounts, what better bodyguard could she find than a man already dedicated to her body? Jackson is a master at writing about the bedroom games people play, and she handles the mystery with enough skill to keep readers guessing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Blade Madaris has watched the men in his family surrender their single status one by one, and he has no plans to join them. But the gorgeous attorney he meets at his cousin''s wedding would make a fine notch on his bedpost. And when circumstances bring them together for six months, Blade formulates a plan to sweep Samari Di Meglio off her feet and into his arms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Blade is the kind of player Sam has spent years avoiding, a no-strings one-night stand is too tempting to resist. But their sizzling night together comes with unforeseen complications. Blade can''t walk away from the most passionate woman he''s ever met. To break through her resistance, the consummate bachelor will have to bare his soul and confess everything that''s in his heartâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7981'),
(8343, 'Sentimental Education', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(8344, 'The Sentinel', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. Clarke, in short stories, in novels, and in films. This collection of his classic stories includes "The Sentinel," the original source for the classic film,\n  <i>\n   2001: A Space Odyssey\n  </i>\n  . This special edition is a collection of Clarke''s highest caliber short fiction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in 1983, the "2001 Anniversary Edition" of Arthur C. Clarke''s\n  <em>\n   The Sentinel\n  </em>\n  offers insight and commentary on 10 of Clarke''s most notable short stories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Clarke''s introduction, he explores why he became the kind of writer he did, and he offers a look at the very first paragraph he ever published--in 1933. This anthology spans three decades, beginning in 1946 with the second story he published, "The Rescue Party," and offers a chance to read some of the short stories that later germinated into his most spectacular works.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s a special treat to be able to see the beginnings of\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , along with Clarke''s thoughts on how each story came about. The truly amazing thing is that Clarke''s short fiction still holds up, by and large. It''s unavoidable that time would catch up with Clarke, though. In fact, he almost apologetically reminds the reader that while "Jupiter V" is dated, Sputnik was still six years in the future when it was written in 1951.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While it would have been wonderful if Clarke had added an additional introduction about the human race''s journey into 2001 and beyond for this special edition, that was not to be. His most recent words in this anthology were written in 1983. But that''s a minor quibble. With exceptional illustrations by Lebbeus Woods,\n  <em>\n   The Sentinel\n  </em>\n  is a must-read, not only for Clarke fans, but for all readers of science fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Kathie Huddleston\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Clarke is one of the greatest imaginative writers of hard science fiction'' New Scientist ''Arthur Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time'' Ray Bradbury ''Arthur C. Clarke is the prophet of the space age'' The Times ''A one-man literary Big Bang, Clarke has originated his own vast and teeming futurist universe'' Sunday Times ''3001 is not just a page-turner, plugged in to the great icons of HAL and the monoliths, but a book of wisdom too, pithy and provocative'' New Scientist ''Arthur C. Clarke is blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print'' New York Times ''One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age! the colossus of science fiction'' New Yorker\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4836'),
(8345, 'The Sentry', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Timesbestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru''s uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem- and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie. A vengeful and murderous force from their past is now catching up to them . . . and only Pike and Cole stand in the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6641'),
(8346, 'A Separate War and Other Stories', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Old pro Haldeman (_Camouflage_) has a gift for seeing issues in a sympathetic but dispassionate perspective, as shown by the 15 tales in this collection. How can we live as human beings in an uncaring universe? he asks. The title story returns to the conclusion of the Hugo- and Nebula-winning novel\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  as seen by another character, discovering uncomfortable but ultimately encouraging things about our capacity to adapt and endure. Other selections, such as "Finding My Shadow" and "Civil Disobedience," are much bleaker, as they angrily extrapolate trends in American politics and our abuse of the environment. Set on a far future Earth, "For White Hill" is one of the most memorable tragic love stories ever written as SF. While the book includes a few minor pieces, notably two early stories that contain the basis for\n  <em>\n   Camouflage\n  </em>\n  , Haldeman''s work is never less than clever and sometimes much more.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Separate War\n  </em>\n  serves both as an introduction to and partial "best-of" collection of the talented Joe Haldeman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Thought provoking, entertaining, witty, and subversive, these storiesâ€”while outlandish in plot and premiseâ€”never fail to focus on humanity''s hopes, dreams, and foibles as they play out during wartime. Critics agree that the best stories in the collection include "Out of Phase," "A Separate War," "For White Hill," and "Finding My Shadow," about racism and germ warfare in Boston. A few, including "Diminished Chord" and "Memento Mori," about nanotechnology, felt lightweight in comparison. If by no means complete, Haldeman''s latest collection, notes the\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  , makes "an ample case for his being considered one of science fiction and fantasies'' stalwarts for years to come."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6709'),
(8347, 'Separation of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn''s high-velocity New York Times bestseller.Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President''s term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- something Israel has vowed to stop. With the haunting specter of World War III looming, the President calls on his secret weapon: top counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp. But with only two weeks to take out the nukes, Rapp is up against a ticking clock -- and impossible odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4191'),
(8348, 'Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fantasy fans on the younger side of Harry Potter will find a good jolt of action, mystery and humor in Corduner''s light and swift reading of this magyk-filled adventure. Infants switched at birth, spell casting, Brownies, boggarts, dastardly villains and wizards add lively scenery and action throughout. Though a broad cast of characters threatens to become unwieldy, Sage''s smooth storytelling pace and Corduner''s assured, inviting voice keep things on track. Sharp listeners will have young Septimus Heap''s fate (and that of Jenna, adopted by his family) figured out before recording''s end, but will still enjoy the ride. And since Septimus is the gifted-by-birthright seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the first in a planned trilogy, listeners are left with the anticipation of more to come. Ages 9-up\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-8â€“A wide cast of characters battle the forces of Darke Magyk in a well-realized world of fantasy. At birth, Septimus Heap is carried away for dead, and his father, Silas Heap, is entrusted with a baby girl. When the villainous Supreme Custodian tries to assassinate the now 10-year-old Jenna, who, it turns out, is the daughter of the murdered queen, the girl flees to the Marram Marshes along with some family members, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and a young army guard known only as "Boy 412." Pursued by the servants of the Necromancer DomDaniel, and aided by an engaging array of magical beings, they finally prevail in a satisfying and fairly exciting conclusion. Despite the hefty length, the novel is quite easy to follow. Many creative magical elements, such as the deliciously repulsive Magogs, add to the fun. Frequent point-of-view shifts give a well-rounded picture of the multiple plot threads and add many opportunities for light humor. On the other hand, with so many characters represented, it''s hard to feel strong empathy for any of them. Jenna, the Queenling, and Boy 412, in particular, nearly emerge as full-blooded individuals at times, but neither quite stands out as an engaging hero. Villains are well drawn and varied, and most are more comical than truly menacing. The ease with which a once-formidable enemy like the Hunter is finally dispatched, however, detracts a bit from the eventual triumph of the protagonists. Overall, this is a fine choice for fantasy readers looking to delve into a new world with lots of magic, plenty of action, and a few neat surprises._â€“Steven Engelfried, Beaverton City Library, OR_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4819');
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(8349, 'Serenade', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920''s. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4699'),
(8350, 'The Serial Killers Club', 'Jeff Povey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When our hero finds himself in the path of a serial killer, he somehow manages to defend himself, and give the blood-thirsty madman a taste of his own medicine. But when he goes through the dead man''s wallet, he finds a mysterious personal ad inviting him to join a party hosted by Errol Flynn. What begins with passing curiosity soon becomes uncontrollable obsession, as our hero becomes acquainted with 18 killers. Their game: to share the thrill of the hunt and to make sure no two members choose the same two victims. To protect their identities, they have all chosen names of old Hollywood stars, and before long, our hero becomes Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. But he has no intention of following the rules. With a government special agent on his trail who will soon become his partner in crim, "Dougie" plans to knock off the killers one by one, from Carole Lombard to Chuck Norris, to Laurence Olivier and Cher. But what happens when the "stars" notice their numbers dropping?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2120'),
(8351, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events # 11: The Grim Grotto', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone or mildew you probably prefer not to be damp. But unfortunately the Beaudelaires encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater. You may wish to delve into some happier book in order to keep your eyes and your spirits from being moistened.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2427'),
(8352, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The bad beginning', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, I''m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune. In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast. It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2429'),
(8353, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Like handshakes, house pets or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately the Baudelaires run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up and down a range of strange and distressing mountains. In order to spare you repulsion it is best not to mention any more regarding a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful trap, a swarm of snow gnats and a scheming villain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2428'),
(8354, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The penultimate peril', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After any harrowing struggle, it is nice to consider checking into a hotel for a rest. In fact, this might be just the break Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire could use after their wearying deep-sea adventure. A hotel can be a good choice for any family vacation. With so many floors, such a variety of rooms, and a curious array of guests, spending time in the safety of the right hotel can be the perfect learning environment for children of any age. A keen researcher like Klaus, an adept inventor like Violet, and a sharp-toothed culinary master like Sunny are all sure to find engaging diversions during their stay. Regardless of how they pass their time while at a hotel, the three siblings will be sure to take in all the interesting sights and sounds -- and write them down -- just in case this episode turns out to be the darkest yet in a series of unfortunate events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2430'),
(8355, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably canÅ¼t stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2431'),
(8356, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale. I''m afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don''t be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery. In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the reappearance of a person they''d hoped never to see again. I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3119'),
(8357, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quickâ€“witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven''t got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair.I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Ages 10+\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3124'),
(8358, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dear Reader,* I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, *The Miserable Mill* might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. The pages of this book, I''m sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven''t, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. *With all due respect,* Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3122'),
(8359, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire arc intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don''t. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night''s sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3120'),
(8360, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #6: The Ersatz Elevator', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by very, very rich people, whose penthouse apartment is located mysteriously close to the place where all their misfortune began. Even though their new home in the city is fancy, and the children are clever and charming, I''m sorry to say that still, the unlucky orphans will encounter more disaster and woe. In fact, in this sixth book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, the children will experience a darkened staircase, a red herring, an auction, parsley soda, some friends in a dire situation, a secret passageway, and pinstripe suits.Both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted, A Series of Unfortunate Events offers an exquisitely dark comedy in the tradition of Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl. Lemon Snicket''s uproariously unhappy books continue to win readers, despite all his warning.Ages 10+\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3121'),
(8361, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader,You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats.It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire childrenâ€²s lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket Ages 10+\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3123'),
(8362, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, Before you throw this awful book to the ground and run as far away from it as possible, you should probably know why. This book is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children''s miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful books in the world. There are many pleasant things to read about, but this books contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as misleading newspaper headlines, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about such things. I have sworn to research this story, and to write it down as best I can, so I should know that this book is something best left on the ground, where you undoubtedly found it. *With all due respect,*Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2432'),
(8363, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival', 'Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at a carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth installment in Lemony Snicket''s serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, an ambidextrous person, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3125'),
(8364, 'The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life', 'Emmet Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Sermon on the Mount\n </em>\n --now passing its 65th birthday--remains a vital and provocative introduction to the ideas at the heart of Christian Science. At heart it means to be entirely practical, as the "Science" of the name would indicate. Denying any interest in theology (there is no theology in the Bible, Fox argues), the author instead suggests that what Jesus was after was results: "Jesus explains to us what the nature of God is, and what our own nature is; tells us the meaning of life and of death; shows us why we make mistakes; why we yield to temptation; why we become sick, and impoverished, and old; and, most important of all, he tells us how all these evils may be overcome, and how we may bring health, happiness, and true prosperity into our lives."\n</p>\n<p>\n And the Spiritual Key? Fox puts it quite simply: "The Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world--whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself--is amenable to man''s thought, and that he has dominion over it when he knows it."\n <em>\n  --Doug Thorpe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œEmmet Fox was one of the worldâ€™s greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA practical handbook of spiritual development . . . [Fox] gives his readers a profound outlook upon life and an absolutely fresh scale of values.â€ (New York Times Book Review )\n</p>\n<p>\n Emmet Fox has been a major spiritual inspiration in my life and a significant intellectual force behind all my work. (Steve Chandler, author of The Story of You )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6930'),
(8365, 'The serpent in the garden: a novel', 'Janet Gleeson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he had not seen for twenty years. The stones were just as he recalled them: a dozen or more, baguette cut and set in gold links, with a single ruby at the center. Flashes of verdigris, orpiment, and Prussian blue sparkled in the candlelight. The form of this necklace was as disturbing as ever. It had nearly cost him his life.It is the summer of 1765. The renowned and exquisitely dressed portrait painter Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint the wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his fiancÃ©e, Sabine Mercer, to whom Bentnick has become engaged less than a year after the death of his first wife. Joshua has barely begun the portrait when a man''s body is found in the conservatory. A few days later, Sabine''s emerald necklace disappears, and Bentnick accuses Joshua of theft. The painter is suddenly fighting not only for his reputation but for his life. With a sure understanding of period detail and character, Janet Gleeson creates a richly nuanced tale of greed and revenge that plays out in the refined landscapes and dark streets of eighteenth-century London.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2177'),
(8366, 'Serpent Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eric Thompson''s wolf howl can ruin electronics and send aircraft tumbling from the sky. Considered dangerous even by his fellow Sazi, Eric has become a lone wolf, living in self-imposed isolation. Yet when the very foundations of Sazi life come under attack, Eric knows he must defend his fellow shapeshifters at any cost. Attacked by a band of vicious Sazi, Holly Sanchez should have died. Instead, she survives, emerging as a powerful Sazi healer. Sent to return Eric to the Sazi world he rejected, Holly finds herself by his side as the lone wolf tracks the monster that is killing the Sazi. Holly soon realizes she must make a choicebetween a Sazi life with Eric, and life as a "normal" human being. But first, she must survive long enough to make that choiceand she must save her people, and the world, from evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(8367, 'The serpent on the crown', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once again the incomparable New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as exciting, mysterious, and powerful as ancient Egypt. A unique treasure obtained by unscrupulous means, the small gold statuette of an unidentified Egyptian king is a priceless relic from a bygone era. But more than history surrounds the remarkable artifact -- for it is said that early death will come to anyone who possesses it. Enjoying a world finally at peace, the Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922. With the lengthy ban on their archaeological activities lifted, Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in Egypt''s ever-shifting sands. But a widow''s strange story -- and even stranger request -- is about to plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, superstition ... and murder. The woman, a well-known author, has come bearing an ill-gotten treasure -- a golden likeness of a forgotten king -- which she claims is cursed. Already, she insists, it has taken the life of her husband, and unless it is returned to the tomb from which it was stolen, more people will die. Intrigued by the mystery, Amelia and her clan resolve to uncover the secrets of the statue''s origins, setting off on a trail that twists and turns in directions they never anticipated -- and, perhaps, toward an old nemesis with unscrupulous new designs. But each step toward the truth seems to reveal another peril, suggesting to the intrepid Amelia that the curse is more than mere superstition. And its next victim might well be her irascible husband, Radcliffe, their beloved son, Ramses, his lovely wife, Nefret ... or Amelia Peabody herself. A novel filled with riveting suspense, pulse-pounding action, and the vibrant life of a fascinating place and time, The Serpent on the Crown is the jewel in the crown of a grand master, the remarkable Elizabeth Peters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(8368, 'Serpent&#39;s Kiss', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: some say they are a cursed people. But those who try to find them will be just as unluckyâ€¦ Working on a dig on the southern coast of India, the last thing Annja Creed expects is to be hit by a tsunami. Or to strike archaeological gold. But that''s exactly what happens when several objects wash ashore in the storm.The relics carry unfamiliar markings that hint at a legendary city. Excited by the prospect of discovering a culture believed lost to civilization, Annja embarks on a perilous journey deep into the heart of danger.She learns of a mysterious artifact that could provide clues to the whereabouts of the lost city, which means trekking through an inhospitable jungle and forbidding terrain. But nature''s denizens and death traps are not the only threats: someone else is also pursuing the prize. Just as Annja''s grail comes into view, she must ward off an even greater evil. Because deep in the Nilgiris mountains is a race of people that the world forgot.And they don''t like strangers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(8369, 'Serpent&#39;s Storm', 'Benson, Amber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9847'),
(8370, 'Servant of a Dark God', 'John Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The launch of a towering new fantasy series introduces an elaborate new world, a strange and dark system of magic, and a cast of compelling characters and monsters. Young Talen lives in a world where the days of a personâ€™s life can be harvested, bought, and stolen. Only the great Divines, who rule every land, and the human soul-eaters, dark ones who steal from man and beast and become twisted by their polluted draws, know the secrets of this power. This landâ€™s Divine has gone missing and soul-eaters are found among Talenâ€™s people.Â The Clans muster a massive hunt, and Talen finds himself a target. Thinking his struggle is against both soul-eaters and their hunters, Talen actually has far larger problems. A being of awesome power has arisen, one whose diet consists of the days of man. Her Mothers once ranched human subjects like cattle. She has emerged to take back what is rightfully hers. Trapped in a web of lies and ancient secrets, Talen must struggle to identify his true enemy before the Mother finds the one whom she will transform into the lord of the human harvest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1545'),
(8371, 'Servant of the Bones', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Her first book since\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neither a vampire nor a witch nor a mummy, but a genie provides the focus of Rice''s latest (after Memnoch the Devil). The queen of high-decadent gothic deviates from her formula of interlacing spirituality and carnality here: only in the novel''s latter pages do lusty sensuousness and brisk pacing leaven a series of cerebral metaphysical struggles. This unusual approach arises from the central dilemma of the story. "Servant of the Bones" Azriel is a "genii" who, until his emergence in 1995 New York, is only a shell filled with spirit, not a corporeal presence ripe for Rice''s usual dark eroticism. In the novel''s first half, Azriel tells his tale: born a Hebrew in Babylon at the time of Cyrus, he is sacrificed in order to free his people, his body boiled down to golden bones. He then is cursed by a necromancer to be bound to the bones. Over the millennia, he is a spirit at the beck and call of a series of "Masters" who possess his casket. When Azriel calls himself into human form in the present day, he encounters plastic, airplanes?and the Temple of the Mind, a cult of computer-created creed that threatens to kill two-thirds of the earth''s population. Azriel''s emergence as a sensual being and the suspense generated by the Temple''s Last Days project will help readers to forget the book''s initial 300 pages, in which they must track Azriel from swirling particles to thickening flesh. Yet Rice''s impeccable research into science, history and Jewish scholarship will probably leave readers impressed and entertained. 1,000,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB main selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4993'),
(8372, 'Servant of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this thrilling sequel to Daughter of the Empire, Lady Mara faces a vengeful blood enemy who doesn''t know Mara has a strategic secret weapon--a rakish Midkemian slave whose real identity will change the rimworld forever. "A tale of love, hate, and sacrifice against the panorama of an alien yet familiar society."--Publishers Weekly. HC: Doubleday.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3380'),
(8373, 'The Servants of Twilight', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A strange old woman descends upon Christine and her six-year-old son in an ordinary southern California parking lot and makes violent threats. Suddenly Christine''s only son is targeted by a group of religious fanatics. They want to kill him . . . and they are everywhere!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(8374, 'Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter', 'Phoebe Damrosch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A charming debut by a former waiter at the New York City restaurant Per Se slips in some high-end tricks of the trade. Vermont-bred foodie Damrosch was a few years out of Barnard College when she landed a job at chef Thomas Keller''s Per Se. Fast-talking and prone to do her homework, in this case assiduously absorbing Keller''s\n  <em>\n   French Laundry Cookbook\n  </em>\n  , Damrosch starts as a backserver, and her training is intensive: attending food seminars, memorizing the acreage of Central Park and learning how not to interrupt dining couples holding hands. In a few months, she''s elevated to captain (a rare job for a woman), which entails navigating guests through the elaborate menus and essentially learning the subtleties of putting the guest at ease. Anticipating desire becomes Damrosch''s role, as well as making sure\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  food critic Frank Bruni has the best meal of his life. (Indeed, the place receives four stars.) She begins a romance with Andre the sommelier. Much of the latter half of this youthful, exuberant memoir is overtaken by their burgeoning affair, although the most delightful chapter, I Can Hear You, is full of vignettes of Damrosch''s real-life waiting, i.e., the delivery of the FabergÃ© egg as a marriage proposal, and the parade of celebrities she meets along the way.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Damrosch details her brief, yet remarkably fulfilling, career as a waiter and lays bare for readers the intimate workings of restaurant table service. Damrosch''s ascent through the ranks at chef Thomas Keller''s Midtown Manhattan''s Per Se offered her a unique glimpse into high-end dining. Demystifying the hierarchy of captains, waiters, and busboys, Damrosch gives the uninitiated a crash course in those management and organizational issues that keep food streaming in perfect synchronization from kitchen to table. Although maintaining perfect service is a good restaurant''s habit, success flows equally from good publicity. So Damrosch describes the frenzy produced in the kitchen by every sighting of a critic in the dining room. Without naming names, Damrosch also offers tales of overbearing, self-involved celebrities and their dining foibles. Tips on how to earn a waiter''s respect (don''t be a no-show; don''t send back an entrÃ©e that you''ve nearly finished) pepper the text. Knoblauch, Mark\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8436'),
(8375, 'Settlement', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(8376, 'Settling Accounts : Return Engagement', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (_American Empire_) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with disturbing results. Confederate President Jake Featherstone has launched an undeclared war of revenge on the U.S.A., with Rebel "barrels" (tanks) cutting the nation in half. U.S. President Al Smith doesn''t sue for peace as expected, causing unreconstructed Canadians to sabotage the now-vital Northern rail system holding the nation together. Mormon separatists have once more revolted against the federal government, and Louis Armstrong, who has defected to the North, brings with him chilling evidence of the Confederate "population reductions" (genocide) of African-Americans. Turtledove''s depiction of how easily the C.S.A. could carry out genocideâ€”and do so with less cost to the conscience than the Germans experienced in the real Holocaustâ€”coupled with the "so what?" reaction of Northerners when this is publicized makes a disturbing commentary on the state of race relations in both parts of our country. While some of the character descriptions are repetitious, the author handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume of Turtledove''s epic variation on American history, which opens the trilogy Settling Accounts, takes us to the opening battles of World War II. The Confederacy is better prepared for war than the U.S., and the conflict''s initial stages develop in favor of the Confederacy; in tandem, Tom Colleton loses his sister but meets a formidable armored commander named Patton. The Quebecois occupy the rest of Canada; in reaction, Mary Pomeroy grimly determines to keep the resistance going, even though the risks of doing so steadily increase. Although Clarence Potter loves Jake Featherston no more than he ever did, he remains just as loyal a head of Confederate intelligence. Meanwhile, this alternate history''s variation on the Holocaust marches forward, with Jefferson Pinkard simultaneously inventing new ways of executing African Americans and courting the widow of one of his guards. Scipio is trying to stay alive despite resistance fighters setting off car bombs too close for comfort, and Cincinnatus Driver is, willy-nilly, joining a resistance movement that promises to give this Holocaust a number of twists away from its model. Turtledove produces yet another absorbing installment of his character-centered alternate-history saga.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4967'),
(8377, 'Settling Accounts: Drive to the East', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Turtledove''s engrossing second book in the alternate history master''s Settling Accounts trilogy (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Return Engagement\n </em>\n ), Confederate forces, in an undeclared war of revenge that coincides with WWII, have split the United States from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, but this only stiffens Yankee resolve. Insurrection breaks out in occupied Canada and in Mormon Utah, resulting in harsh reprisals by U.S. troops against civilians, while Confederate President Jake Featherstone pushes for more "population reductions" of freed slaves. As in the previous volume, Turtledove comes up with convincing analogues to events during WWII, such as the Confederate army''s Stalingrad-like defeat around Pittsburgh. On the other hand, his portrait of the fÃ¼hrer-like Featherstone is less persuasive. The Southern leader shows more courage and flexibility than his model, making intimations of future behavior a procrustean attempt to force him back into a Hitlerian mold. There''s enough back story for the benefit of new readers, while established fans, despite the repetition, will find this latest installment thoroughly satisfying.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The second volume of Turtledove''s third alternate World War II trilogy, Settling Accounts, is in many ways the strongest one in any of them. The Confederacy has given its best shot at cutting the U.S. in two between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, but U.S. production and tenacity are beginning not only to hold the line but also to regain lost ground. Meanwhile, at sea the primary opponents are the U.S and Britain, and "deep in the heart of Texas," nobody is singing as Jake Featherston''s final solution to the Negro problem picks up speed. There is plenty of action, and, of course, characterization remains one of Turtledove''s long suits. But the real strength of the book, and of the whole alternate-history saga of which it is neither least nor last, lies in the juxtaposition of events not usually associated with people who could be readers'' parents or grandparents. Firing squad executions in Canada? Suicide bombers in Utah and the Deep South? A U.S. destroyer escort sinking a British Q-ship? The pacing practically compels one to keep reading, but after a certain point, Turtledove''s not-just-refutation but massacre of "American exceptionalism" may bring some readers to the point of putting the book away and seeking a soothing, cozy novel by Stephen King.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4974'),
(8378, 'Settling Accounts: In at the Death', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate history master Turtledove brings his 10-book saga of a Confederate Civil War victory to a satisfying if predictable conclusion. Outfought by the United States and their German allies (as anticipated in 2006''s\n <em>\n  Settling Accounts: The Grapple\n </em>\n ), the Confederates finally surrender, ending WWII. Now the Southern states must be brought back into the Union after four wars and 80 years of independence. The victorious Northern forces wage a brutal occupation, ruthlessly retaliating against the local population for ambushes and car bombs. While the Union joyously punishes the persecutors of those Negro residents of the Confederacy who survived the Freedom Party''s genocide campaign, it fails to remedy its treatment of its own black citizens. With Canada and the secessionist Mormon territories remaining under martial law, some readers may wish that Turtledove follows this time line into uncharted territory in yet another sequel.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here ends (probably) alternate history''s closest rivalâ€”10 volumes and a prequelâ€”to Robert Jordan''s plethoric fantasy, the 11-volume Wheel of Time. The Confederacy crumbles in ruins, as Jake Featherstone meets the end he richly deserves. Generals Dowling and Morrell end with the high rank and position their efforts deserve, while Michael Pound recovers from burns received in a well-drawn tank battle, and Chester Martin ends his second war successfully, having kept his platoon commander from killing the whole platoon. On the other hand, the saga''s four-contestant nuclear race leaves four nuclear powers still standing at war''s end, and both soldiers and civilians contemplating the spectacle with crossed fingers. Moreover, race relations in the defunct Confederacy are horrible, entailing the murder of at least six million "colored," a genocide that dwarfs this-world Bosnia and Rwanda combined. Meanwhile, Clarence Potter, Cincinnatus Driver, and Flora Blackford will be working to heal the malignant scars in Turtledove''s parallel continuum, so who can say how the U.S. might emerge? Perhaps into a three-cornered cold war (U.S., Germany, Japan)â€”if and when Turtledove obliges reader curiosity A conclusion worthy of a nonpareil saga. Green, Roland\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4969'),
(8379, 'Settling Accounts: The Grapple', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The compelling third volume (after\n <em>\n  Drive to the East\n </em>\n ) in Turtledove''s third alternate history of WWII series opens with the Confederacy reeling after the loss of their forces in the cauldron around Pittsburgh. The United States is trying to suppress the Mormon rebellion in Utah, while Canadian patriots fight the occupying Yanks to a stalemate. Negro guerrillas who escaped being swept up into death camps authorized by C.S.A. President Jake Featherstone disrupt the rural economy. Meanwhile, both sides work feverishly to win the race to build an atomic bomb. One may question the appropriateness of using the Holocaust as a springboard for an entertainment, but Turtledove convincingly depicts how an American holocaust could well have happened. Some Confederates begin to feel pangs of conscience, just as the U.S. troops who execute hostages among the Mormon, Canadian and Confederate civilians feel nothing but repulsion. While somewhat repetitious and a bit preachy in spots, Turtledove''s latest proves that third time is the charm.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume of Settling Accounts, Turtledove''s magisterial saga of an alternate America--and world----ratchets up the levels of violence and tension. Through Franklin Roosevelt, Flora Blackford is keeping apprised of everybody''s nuclear weapons programs as well as Confederate efforts to develop a ballistic missile. In the West, people of all races, colors, and genders die in gruesome numbers as the U.S. Army advances on the Confederate extermination camp, Camp Determination. Jonathan Moss roams Georgia with a band of African American guerrillas, trying to get back into the war. And George Enos now serves aboard Sam Carsten''s\n <em>\n  Josephus Daniels\n </em>\n and confronts a British Swordfish torpedo bomber that seems one entire war out-of-date. Responding with this-world prejudices, purists will complain that the alternative-world British would have built something better, or that the Confederates never could have built a V-2. Readers of broader vision will realize that Turtledove is hanging the notion of American exceptionalism out to dry and underlining how much luck the U.S. has needed to accomplish even as much as it has in preserving democracy, making peace among races, and not having its soldiers slaughtered by the millions and its cities wrecked by the score. A profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4959'),
(8380, 'Seven Ancient Wonders', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it''s 2006 and the coming of a rare solar event means it''s time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it - from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists ...and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining. ''More action, hair-raising stunts and lethal hardware than you''d find in four Bond movies. Reilly is the hottest action writer around'' - "Evening Telegraph".\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matthew Reilly, born and still resident in Sydney, studied law before turning his pen to fiction. His previous novels, Contest, Ice Station, Temple, Area 7 and Scarecrow have been massive bestsellers in every continent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6799'),
(8381, 'The Seven Dials Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the home of Lord Caterham and his daughter, Lady Eileen Brent (aka Bundle), Sir Oswald and Lady Maria Coote throw a party for some weekend guests. But the young guests play a practical joke on someone who turns up murdered the following morning. It''s up to Bundle and her friends to solve the case, which only gets worse with the appearance of a second corpse. The trail of bodies leads to the mysterious Seven Dials Club. Actress Emilia Fox''s exciting reading brings Christie''s vivid mystery, first published in 1929, to scintillating life. Read by Emilia Fox.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5259');
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(8382, 'Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin', 'James Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, stand-up comedian Carlin (1937â€“2008) wrote three bestselling humor books and looked back over his five-decade career in his recent memoir,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n . Now music journalist and culture critic Sullivan, a contributor to\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n , offers an overview, starting with the young Carlin in 1950s New York. The Air Force sent him off to Louisiana, where he began as a Shreveport radio personality. As a DJ in Fort Worth, Tex., he polished a comedy act with Jack Burns, and the two left for the West Coast, performing together for two years before they split in 1962. Going solo, Carlin''s taboo topics and subversive attitude took center stage. In this linear summary of Carlin''s career, Sullivan dissects the comedian''s classic iconoclastic routines, probes his working methods and successfully captures his rocketlike ascent to fame from night clubs and the 1960s comedic cauldron of Greenwich Village to television acclaim, controversy, and creative conflicts. However, those who want to experience a full explosion of the cynical and caustic Carlin blasting off minus the heat shields should instead seek out the finely tuned and wit-saturated\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   La Crosse Tribune\n  </em>\n  , 1/3/2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA critical biography, this is an insightful examination of Carlinâ€™s body of work as it pertained to its cultural times and the man who created it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 3/1/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] well-written and thorough biographyâ€¦A celebration of the life of George Carlin and how his comedy remade stand-up, this is a great companion to Carlinâ€™s recently published autobiography,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n . Highly recommended for readers interested in performing arts, George Carlin, comedy, and celebrity biographies.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , 3/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe author meticulously chronicles Carlinâ€™s career, which intersected with many formative cultural trends of the â€™50s and â€™60sâ€¦Sullivan ably captures a sense of the entertainment industry at the timeâ€”glamorously competitive and fiercely insularâ€¦The author also dutifully covers Carlinâ€™s personal lifeâ€¦This is an apt, detailed memorial to a groundbreaking performer.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , 4/1/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSullivan isnâ€™t interested in padding out his book with stand-up material. His focus is on exploring the man himself, with a sharp critical eye and a good feeling for the sociohistorical context of Carlinâ€™s comedy. An excellent account of the life and work of an important and greatly missed artist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  , 3/29/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIn this linear summary of Carlin''s career, Sullivan dissects the comedian''s classic iconoclastic routines, probes his working methods and successfully captures his rocketlike ascent to fame from night clubs and the 1960s comedic cauldron of Greenwich Village to television acclaim, controversy, and creative conflicts.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , 4/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAlthough volumes have been written about his contemporariesâ€”his predecessor and mentor Lenny Bruce before him and his contemporary Richard Pryor, to name but a fewâ€”relatively little analysis has been done about the late, great George Carlinâ€™s mark on the 20th century. In his new book, journalist James Sullivan delves deep into the seven-decade history of one of Americaâ€™s most daring comics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review\n  </em>\n  , 5/27/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is an impressive effortâ€¦diligently researched, well-constructed, and showing great affection for the subject without ignoring Carlinâ€™s demons, missteps, or low times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Magazine\n  </em>\n  , June 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis biography probes [George Carlinâ€™s] life and works.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Newark Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  , 6/6/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis portrayal, by former San Francisco Chronicle pop culture writer James Sullivan, ought to satisfy anyone who has ever laughed at a Carlin routineâ€”and that takes in a lot of us. From his early days in Greenwich Village clubs through his epic legal battles over words you canâ€™t say on television, which he said anyway, Carlinâ€™s story is inspiring and hilarious. Sullivan correctly nails the reasons for Carlinâ€™s popularityâ€¦His spot-on judgment of Carlinâ€™s achievements is worth the read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The A.V. Club, 6/3/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œOffer[s] a broad overview of the formative American stand-up comicâ€¦Sullivanâ€™s light hand makes\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n a brisk read.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookslut, June 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThere were many iterations of Carlinâ€™s public personality, and Sullivan captures both ends of his life well in his cultural treatise.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , 6/10/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œJames Sullivan has done an outstanding job in his new book\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n positioning the late comedian George Carlin as a counterculture icon whose loathing of hypocrisy and love of language changed comedy foreverâ€¦In his new biography, Sullivan manages to skillfully show us the drama of Carlinâ€™s performing career and how it blended with the larger cultural landscape.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AOLâ€™s Asylum, 6/7/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engrossing tale of one of our greatest comedic minds.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Internet Review of Books\n  </em>\n  , June 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œI can give no reason\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n to read\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n . Sullivanâ€™s book is an authoritative and well-researched chronicle of Carlinâ€™s professional career, with bits and pieces here and there devoted to his upbringing, his family, and other influences.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThe Bookwormâ€ column, June 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan digs deep into American entertainment circa 1950 to 1970, which means that lots of stars from a bygone era are in here: Flip Wilson, Merv Griffin, Danny Kaye, Ed Sullivan, Steve &amp; Eydie, Lenny Bruce, and others you might not recognize if you''re under 40. Still, there''s enough for younger readers in this book to make it worth a peek. Be aware that Sullivan (James, that is) isn''t afraid to liberally use Carlin''s infamous Seven, so if profanity bothers you, pass on it. But if you can handle â€˜_7 Dirty Words_,â€™ the word you want is â€˜Y-E-S.â€™â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gene Lavanchy\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Fox 25 News Boston, 6/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan takes a look at the highs and lows, the up-bringing and occasional downfall of a comedy geniusâ€¦Itâ€™s a brilliant book, and if you love George Carlin you have to read it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bookviews, July 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn inside look at Carlinâ€™s unique views as well as his personal battles with addiction, his scrapes with the law, and comedic routines that pulled back the curtain of political correctness to make audiences confront life as he saw it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Times_\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt fills in and complicates our mental image of Carlinâ€¦This book gets the story toldâ€¦Sullivan convincingly makes the case that for 50 years Carlin â€˜may well have produced more laughs than any other human being.â€™â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Phoenix_, 7/2/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan has exhaustively documented the rise of both blue jeans and James Brown, but perhaps his latest book,\n <em>\n  Seven Dirty Words\n </em>\n , has the most to say about the evolution of American society.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Salon.com, 7/16/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExcellentâ€¦Insightfulâ€¦_7 Dirty Words_ deepens Carlin''s posthumous memoir by putting his evolution in context. Sullivan deftly mixes quotes from Carlin''s friends, rivals, protÃ©gÃ©s, collaborators and employers with impeccably researched overviews of trends in radio, TV, the record industry and the nightclub circuit. The result is at once an engrossing account of Carlin''s life that rarely lapses into hero worship, and a highly readable survey of 20th century popular culture, stretching from the last gasp of vaudeville during the Depression through the rise of premium cable and the Internet. No matter how much you know, or think you know, about American show business, you''ll still learn a lot from this book. The sections dealing with the â€˜dirty wordsâ€™ case are especially good.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ForeWord\n  </em>\n  , July/August 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan does far more than just record a period in American history when free speech was under assault. He tells the story of one of our funniest and sharpest comedic minds.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Buffalo\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ News_, 7/18/10 (Editorâ€™s Choice)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMakes its own key contribution to the history of show businessâ€¦Sullivan is so eloquent and lucidâ€¦A very wise and very good book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Creative Loafing Charlotte\n </em>\n , 7/20/10\n <br />\n â€œLast year, a kind of posthumous autobiography,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n , was publishedâ€¦Now, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan has published a more detailed look at Carlin''s life, which helps fill in some of the gaps in the comedy legend''s own version. Sullivan does a good job of presenting a linear rundown of the various incarnations Carlin went through in his 71 yearsâ€¦He''s smart enough to let Carlin''s story tell itselfâ€”and to put it in the context of how one man''s inner growth matched the changes many people in America were going through at the same timeâ€¦Sullivan''s approach is that of the straightforward journalist. He doesn''t pad the book with Carlin''s comedy material, but instead focuses on how the man changed over the years, and how his influence grewâ€¦The author has a sharp critical eye.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 7/28/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan explores the life and times (crimes) of one of the most popular and controversial stand-up comedians in historyâ€¦While some aspects of Carlinâ€™s material were controversial, Sullivan makes him likableâ€¦This biography is thorough, respectful, sensitive and appropriately funny!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Clark Isaacs (syndicated columnist), 7/22/10\n <br />\n â€œSullivan is an accomplished author who is able to demonstrate how comedy changed when new faces entered the scene in the early l950sâ€¦One of the most outstanding features of this biography is the behind-the-scenes glimpses of the interrelationship between the comedians who were famous and how they would help aspiring hopefuls achieve their day in the spotlightâ€¦Sullivan has written a lasting tribute to this icon of American humor which was well researched, annotated, and most of all, entirely believable. This book is highly recommended for adults who want to have their memories refreshed about comedians of the past and present.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Under the Radar_, July 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFollows C...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8557'),
(8383, 'Seven habits of highly effective people', 'Stephen R. Covey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,* author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3344'),
(8384, 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 'T.E. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9614'),
(8385, 'Seven Sisters', 'Earlene Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Conflicting family loyalties and the burdens of the past lie at the heart of the engrossing seventh novel from four-time Agatha Award nominee Fowler to feature amateur sleuth Benni Harper. Benni''s 19-year-old stepson, Sam Ortiz, confides in her that he and his pregnant girlfriend, Bliss Girard, a rookie cop in the San Celina, Calif., police department, want to marry. Benni fears that her husband, Gabe Ortiz, the town''s police chief, will disapprove--and that so will Bliss''s socially and politically prominent family, the Browns. Benni isn''t certain how to react when Lydia Ortiz, Sam''s mother and Gabe''s first wife, arrives to discuss the domestic crisis. Matters come to a head when the extended families dine together at the Browns'' ancestral stronghold, Seven Sisters Ranch. The murder of Giles Norton, husband of another Brown offshoot and the son of prominent vintners, puts everyone at Seven Sisters at risk. A sheriff''s department newcomer, Ford "Hud" Hudson, investigates the killing, and quickly pegs Benni as an unofficial assistant because of her reputation for nosiness and her connections to the case. The tenacious Hud constantly backs Benni into corners whenever she shows signs of wanting to wash her hands of the whole affair. In the end, Benni''s own instincts drive her to dig out the long-hidden truth behind the deaths of four of the original seven Brown sisters, for whom the ranch was named. How this secret relates to the present tragedy provides the stunning climax to a compelling story of families torn apart by divided loyalties. Agent, Deborah Schneider. 9-city author tour. (Apr.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n On a late summer day in San Celina, California, Sam Ortiz tells his stepmother, cowgirl Benni Harper, that he is engaged to Bliss Girard, daughter of a prominent rancher. Then Bliss'' cousin is murdered. When the Girards clam up, Benni investigates and discovers that the murderer may be in the family, ready to kill again. This seventh Benni Harper mystery may be the best of the series. Fowler''s regular characters all show significant growth; the mystery itself is satisfying both as a puzzle (the art of quiltmaking holds the key) and as a story about secrets buried in a family''s past. In addition, the tantalizing subplot about Benni''s amusing, poignant relationship with her husband''s first wife is as intriguing as the mystery. The emphasis on skeletons in a California family''s closet echoes Ross Macdonald, while the tone and feel of the novel will remind readers of Nevada Barr.\n <em>\n  John Rowen\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5604'),
(8386, 'Seven Summits: The Quest to Reach the Highest Point on Every Continent', 'Steve Bell; Dick Bass; Pat Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tour the globe and witness spectacular feats of human determination, endurance, and strength. Travel with dedicated mountaineers as they climb the "Seven Summits"â€”the highest peak of each of the seven continents. Stunning full-color photographs capture the breathtaking scenery and courageous athleticism of the climbers. Essays and diaries of mountaineers, along with striking photos, capture these harrowing adventures and take readers to each of the Seven Summits: McKinley (North America), Aconcagua (South America), Vinson (Antarctica), Kilmanjaro (Africa), Elbrus (Europe), Kosciuszko (Australia), and Everest (Asia).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3902'),
(8387, 'Seven Troop', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping account of special forces at work . . . a tremendous adventure story.â€â€“_Daily Telegraph_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe best account yet of the SAS in action.â€â€“_Sunday Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Andy McNabâ€™s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men â€” from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life. The links they forged then bound them inextricably together, but the things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point â€” and some beyond â€” in the years that were to follow. He who dares doesnâ€™t always win . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5536'),
(8388, 'Seven Up', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The smash hit No. 1 bestselling author takes you on the ride of your life in the seventh Stephanie Plum adventure. Stephanie thinks she''s going after an easy FTA: a senior citizen charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes. But when she and Lula show up at his house, they get more than they bargained for a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam. Stephanie''s mind is on other matters, however, because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing a single perfect night...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2141'),
(8389, 'The Seventh Sacrament', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The intricate fifth thriller from British author Hewson to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Lizard''s Bite\n </em>\n ) artfully weaves several points-of-view as it shifts between past and present. Fourteen years after seven-year-old Alessio Bramante, the son of an eminent archeology professor, disappeared underneath Rome''s ancient Circus Maximus, someone seeking revenge attacks Costa''s colleague, Insp. Leo Falcone, who worked on the unsolved case of the missing boy. Falcone and Costa start asking questions that should have been asked during the original bungled investigation. High on their list of people to talk to is Alessio''s father, Giorgio, an expert on the tunnels beneath Rome who served time in prison for beating to death one of his students, the chief suspect in his son''s disappearance. The subterranean labyrinths just may hold the answers to a mystery whose poignant resolution few readers will anticipate.\n <em>\n  (July 31)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hewson''s uncompromising trio of antiestablishment Roman copsâ€”Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni, and their boss, Leo Falconeâ€”are back in the Eternal City and up to their necks in another vat of hot water. As with the previous four entries in this always-captivating series, the crime on the front burnerâ€”a dead body discovered in a Roman churchâ€”is merely the entrÃ©e point to a case with tentacles extending deep into ancient history and, in this instance, reaching below the city into the labyrinthian catacombs where a seven-year-old boy, the son of a distinguished archaeologist, disappeared 14 years earlier. Falcone was on that case and still broods over both his failure to find the missing boy and his role in putting the archaeologist behind bars for the murder of one of the young men assumed (but never convicted) of being responsible for the boy''s disappearance. The archaeolgist is out of jail now and intent on settling scores. As the story weaves across multiple time linesâ€”the present, the weeks surrounding the boy''s disappearance, and the fourth century CE, when Constantine won control of the Roman Empireâ€”Hewson keeps his readers securely tethered to a narrative lifeline; like Theseus on the trail of the minotaur, we follow the plot around countless blind corners but never lose our way out of the maze. Also helping to ground us is the flesh-and-blood humanity of the present-day characters. The interplay between Hewson''s three copsâ€”and between them and the especially rich supporting castâ€”lift this novel far above the plot-driven Da Vinci Code and its many imitators. A superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity. Ott, Bill\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5997'),
(8390, 'The Seventh Scroll', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ancient Egyptian scroll leads to a murderous treasure hunt in Smith''s thriller, which was a PW bestseller for two weeks.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted Egyptologist Royan Al Simma escapes an attempt on her life, but her husband, Duraid, is not so lucky. This husband-and-wife archaeological team was immersed in unraveling the secrets of the "seventh scroll." Written in a type of shorthand, the scroll dates back to the Hyksos invasion of Egypt and was recently discovered in the tomb of Queen Lostris, whose story is told in Smith''s River God (St. Martin''s, 1994). Grieving over the loss of her husband, Royan engages Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a wealthy English collector, to assist her in completing the work she and Duraid had begun by locating the tomb of Pharaoh Mamose the Eighth, husband of Lostris. Through collective teamwork, Royan and Nicholas travel to Ethiopia, at great peril to themselves, as they try to uncover a 4000-year-old secret. This well-crafted novel is full of adventure, tension, and intrigue. Recommended for general readers.?Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9157'),
(8391, 'Seventh Son', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of Enderâ€™s Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2483'),
(8392, 'The Seventh Witch', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There''s her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who''s about to celebrate her 100th birthday. But as Ophelia learns, when she and Abby travel to North Carolina for the centennial celebration, their family secrets aren''t just magickalâ€”they''re murderous. Someone in the sweet Southern town wants Abby dead. Could it be a rogue witch in Ophelia''s own family? A vengeful local witch desperate to settle a bitter feud decades in the making? Ophelia must use all her talents to save her loved onesâ€”before the witching hour comes upon them, and bad blood turns deadly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3919'),
(8393, 'Severed', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Simon Kernick:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSimon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!â€\n <br />\n â€“Harlan Coben\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGreat plots, great characters, great action and some spectacular violence. Simon Kernick might just be the best of Britainâ€™s new-wave crime writers.â€\n <br />\n â€“Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A terrifying read-in-one-gulp thriller with a killer premise: what do you do when the woman in bed beside you is a headless corpse . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Straight off I knew it was going to be a bad day. The room was stifling hot; and when I did finally manage to drag open my eyes, all I could see was blood. I thought Iâ€™d stepped into the middle of a nightmare.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I was wrong. The nightmare was only just beginning.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ex-soldier Sean Tyler wakes up in an unfamiliar room next to the headless corpse of a girl heâ€™s met only once. With his memory of the previous twenty-four hours wiped clean, heâ€™s hardly out of bed before the phone rings. A voice tells him to press play on the roomâ€™s DVD machine. The film shows him stabbing someone to death.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tyler is confident that the footage is fake, but will a jury see things the same way? The man on the phone tells him to go to an address in east London, and await instructions. Tyler knows he must do as he is told. He also knows that the phone caller has no intention of keeping him alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n To survive he must recover the missing twenty-four hours of his life and find out whoâ€™s setting him up before his time runs out for good. The clock is ticking...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4432'),
(8394, 'A Severed Head', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10916'),
(8395, 'Sex', 'Madonna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2443'),
(8396, 'The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific', 'J. Maarten Troost', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 26, Troost followed his wife to Kiribati, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. Virtually ignored by the rest of humanity (its erstwhile colonial owners, the Brits, left in 1979), Kiribati is the kind of place where dolphins frolic in lagoons, days end with glorious sunsets and airplanes might have to circle overhead because pigs occupy the island''s sole runway. Troost''s wife was working for an international nonprofit; the author himself planned to hang out and maybe write a literary masterpiece. But Kiribati wasn''t quite paradise. It was polluted, overpopulated and scorchingly sunny (Troost could almost feel his freckles mutating into something "interesting and tumorous"). The villages overflowed with scavengers and recently introduced, nonbiodegradable trash. And the Kiribati people seemed excessively hedonistic. Yet after two years, Troost and his wife felt so comfortable, they were reluctant to return home. Troost is a sharp, funny writer, richly evoking the strange, day-by-day wonder that became his life in the islands. One night, he''s doing his best funky chicken with dancing Kiribati; the next morning, he''s on the high seas contemplating a toilet extending off the boat''s stern (when the ocean was rough, he learns, it was like using a bidet). Troost''s chronicle of his sojourn in a forgotten world is a comic masterwork of travel writing and a revealing look at a culture clash.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although accustomed to globe trotting, Troost and his wife, Sylvia, were truly innocents abroad when they moved to the island of Tarawa in the South Pacific, where Sylvia had accepted a government position. Tarawa is the capital of Kiribati--a republic of tiny atolls located just above the equator--and the place where Troost''s dreams of paradise were shattered. Although Tarawa has much to offer, such as stultifying heat, dogged bureaucracy, toxic water,\n <em>\n  La Macarena\n </em>\n , and the fantastic rituals of the I-Kiribati people, it lacks running water, television, restaurants, air-conditioning, and, the most crucial amenity, beer. Culture shock ensued for Maarten and Sylvia, and he chronicles their two years on Tarawa in a hilarious, sardonic travelogue. Among the more memorable episodes is the time a simple fishing trip turns into a hunt for a giant thresher shark and when Troost blasts a Miles Davis CD to combat the incessant repetition of\n <em>\n  La Macarena\n </em>\n . Troost''s mystified admiration for the I-Kiribati people shines through it all, and readers learn how humor itself can be a necessary tool for survival.\n <em>\n  Jerry Eberle\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7100'),
(8397, 'Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History', 'Ben Mezrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Thad Roberts lead a pretty good life by his estimation. So how did it come about that this NASA employed genius found himself in one of the most dangerous county prisons in the country, sworn to secrecy by NASA and the FBI, and concocting the next step in universal history? Despite his growing up in a strict Mormon household, Thad''s heart was, at a young age, stolen by astronomy. Soon enough he found himself accepted into NASA''s highly competitive Co-op program. Here he stood out both as a bright mind and as a popular figure. After catching a glimpse of moon rocks on a volunteer task within one of the most secure buildings at the NASA space station, Thad''s curiosity was captured. Soon he was strategising over how he could obtain these gems. The security of the vault was insane, the very idea that you could get in there without getting caught was ridiculous. And yet, the fact it seemed impossible spurred Thad to try and figure it out. He became obsessed with the how, and on his third ''tour'' at NASA''s Johnson Space Center Thad, after meticulous planning and at phenomenal risk,did the unthinkableand made off with a six hundred pound safe full of the world''s most precious substance - moon rocks. Illegal to own, given as gifts to heads of state by the President himself, the rocks are a national treasureof unimaginable value, something that had never been stolen before - something that can never, in fact, be replaced. From the unique and exotic locale of NASA''s Johnson Space Center, to the dark, steel cells of the harshest prison in Florida, Sex on the Moon is the compelling story of how a young genius executed one of the biggest and most unique heists ever. Renamed ''moon rock'' by the killers and drug dealers incarcerated along with him, Thad began to think, write and dream again. He began to see a new way oflooking at the world, much more than the stars, the universe and the world he had left behind. Vastly complex in its physics basis, but simple to understand, Thad created what is now being lauded by many scientists as the next step in universal history. Despite NASA''s attempts to cover up the details, Thad Roberts'' spectacular story is finally laid bare - and through his story, a much larger, collective tale is told, ofastronauts and history, of the future that may one day give us Mars - and the awe inspiring past that once truly did give us the moon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8756'),
(8398, 'The Sex Opposite', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10471'),
(8399, 'Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s quite a bit of intelligent analysis and thought-provoking insight packed into the pages of Chuck Klosterman''s\n <em>\n  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs\n </em>\n , which is a little surprising considering how darn stupid most of Klosterman''s subject matter actually is. Klosterman, one of the few members of the so-called "Generation X" to proudly embrace that label and the stereotypical image of disaffected slackers that often accompanies it, takes the reader on a witty and highly entertaining tour through portions of pop culture not usually subjected to analysis and presents his thoughts on\n <em>\n  Saved by the Bell\n </em>\n , Billy Joel, amateur porn, MTV''s\n <em>\n  The Real World\n </em>\n , and much more. It would be easy in dealing with such subject matter to simply pile on some undergraduate level deconstruction, make a few jokes, and have yourself a clever little book. But Klosterman goes deeper than that, often employing his own life spent as a member of the lowbrow target demographic to measure the cultural impact of his subjects. While the book never quite lives up to the use of the word "manifesto" in the title (it''s really more of a survey mixed with elements of memoir), there is much here to entertain and illuminate, particularly passages on the psychoses and motivations of breakfast cereal mascots, the difference between Celtic fans and Laker fans, and\n <em>\n  The Empire Strikes Back\n </em>\n . Sections on a Guns n'' Roses tribute band,\n <em>\n  The Sims\n </em>\n , and soccer feel more like magazine pieces included to fill space than part of a cohesive whole. But when you''re talking about a book based on a section of cultural history so reliant on a lack of attention span, even the incongruities feel somehow appropriate.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a lot more cold cereal than sex or drugs in Klosterman''s nostalgic, patchy collection of pop cultural essays, which, despite sparks of brilliance, fails to cohere. Having graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1994, Klosterman (Fargo Rock City) seems never to have left that time or place behind. He is an ironically self-aware, trivia-theorizing, unreconstructed slacker: "I''m a\n <code>\n  Gen Xer,'' okay? And I buy shit marketed to\n </code>\n Gen Xers.'' And I use air quotes when I talk.... Get over it." The essay topics speak for themselves: the Sims, The Real World, Say Anything, Pamela Anderson, Billy Joel, the Lakers/Celtics rivalry, etc. The closest Klosterman gets to the 21st century is Internet porn and the Dixie Chicks. This is a shame, because he''s is a skilled prose stylist with a witty, twisted brain, a photo-perfect memory for entertainment trivia and has real chops as a memoirist. The book''s best moments arrive when he eschews argumentation for personal history. In "George Will vs. Nick Hornby," a tired screed against soccer suddenly comes to life when Klosterman tells the story of how he was fired from his high school summer job as a Little League baseball coach. The mothers wanted their sons to have equal playing time; Klosterman wanted "a run-manufacturing offensive philosophy modeled after Whitey Herzog''s St. Louis Cardinals." In a chapter on relationships, Klosterman semi-jokes that he only has "three and a half dates worth of material." Remove all the dated pop culture analyses, and Klosterman''s book has enough material for about half a really great memoir.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8098'),
(8400, 'Sh*t My Dad Says', 'Justin Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the 29-year-old author moves in with his 73-year-old dad, whose straightforward, expletive-laden advice and opinions became a hit on Twitter and are now offered in a hilarious collection. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(8401, 'The Shack', 'William P. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Mackenzie Allen Phillips'' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack''s world forever.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10388'),
(8402, 'Shade&#39;s Children', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the brutal world of the future, an unspeakable fate awaits the human children of the Dormitories when they turn fourteen. It is from this Sad Birthday that Shade''s Children''Ella, Drum, Gold-Eye, and Ninde''have escaped. Hunted ceaselessly by savage mutant creatures, they join forces to form a resistance movement. Cunning, clairvoyance, and sheer desperate force of will help them. But ultimately their fate rests with the charismatic Shade, who calls himself their friend . . .This complex, suspenseful, thoroughly absorbing tale of the future fulfills all the promise of Sabriel, Garth Nix''s debut young adult novel.Praise for Sabriel:â€˜Rich, complex, involving, hard to put down, this first novel is excellent high fantasy.'' ''Publishers Weeklyâ€˜The action charges along at a gallop''a page turner for sure.'' ''Starred Review/Booklist 01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.) and 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(8403, 'Shades of Gray', 'Jackie Kessler; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: AFTER THE FALL OF NIGHTÂ Jet and Iridiumâ€”best friends turned bitter enemiesâ€”teamed up to foil the evil plans of the rogue superhero known as Night, but in defeating him they inadvertently destroyed the secret Corp-Co transmitter whose frequency kept the metapowered heroes of the Squadron in line. Now these heroes have turned against New Chicago, ransacking the city they once protected.Even worse, the powerful antisuperhero group known as Everyman has taken advantage of the chaos to fan the flames of prejudice against all superpowered men and women. Just when New Chicago needs them most, Jet and the small band of heroes who have remained on the right side of the law find themselves the targets of suspicion and outright hatred.Things arenâ€™t going much better for Iridium. When she springs her father, a notorious supervillain, from prison to help her fight the marauding ex-superheroes, she finds that Corp-Co still has some nasty tricks up its sleeve.But when the most dangerous man alive, the sociopath known as Doctor Hypnotic, suddenly surfaces, Jet and Iridium will once again be called upon to set aside their differences. Yet in the process, deeply buried secrets will come to light that will change everything the former best friends think they know about each other and themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1661'),
(8404, 'Shades of the Past: Book Six of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian S. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During his expedition to find the lost priests of Morcyth, James learned in part what he was brought to this world to do. But to accomplish what needs to be done, the City of Light must again be free of the Empire. In order for that to happen, however, he must devise a campaign through which that can be made a reality. Once the spring thaw begins, and the passes are once more clear, he leads all but a few from The Ranch over the mountains into Madoc. Beginning at Lythylla, the capitol of Madoc, he sets into motion events which he believes will drive the Empire from Madocs soil. A friends past brings unexpected allies and James stumbles upon a dark secret buried deep beneath the ground for centuries. A secret better left alone. For more aboutThe Morcyth Saga, go to morcythsaga.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5290'),
(8405, 'Shadow', 'Karin Alvtegen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Karin Alvtegen in brilliant shape ... I read without stopping and with mounting excitement to see how Karin Alvtegen will tie it all together in the end. As the pro she is, she manages to to do just that, and the story builds up towards its dramatic and entirely unexpected denouement ... Karin Alvtegen''s new novel offers nearly four hundred pages of pure suspense.'' Jonkopings-Posten\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a life with dignity and respect. Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three days before Marianne is called. When she arrives, she finds the apartment tidy and ordered. Gerda''s life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until Marianne opens the freezer and finds it full of books, neatly stacked and wrapped in clingfilm, a thick layer of ice covering them. They are all by Axel Ragnerfeldt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with handwritten dedications to Gerda from the author. What story do these books have to tell, about Gerda, and more importantly about Ragnerfeldt, a man whose fame is without precedent in the nation''s cultural life, but seldom gives interviews?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7386'),
(8406, 'Shadow Academy', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dark Jedi Brakissâ€”the student Luke Skywalker expelled from his academyâ€”has learned much since he left. Enough to master the dark side of the the Force. And enough to establish his own school for training Jediâ€”the Shadow Academy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now Brakiss has been given an even greater task. Not only must he create a sinister legion of Dark Jedi to serve the Empire, he must undertake a challenge not even Darth Vader and the Emperor could meet: Kidnap the heirs of the Skywalker bloodline, and turn them to the dark side of the Forceâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10378'),
(8407, 'Shadow Account', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frey''s latest pecuniary adventure follows his formula of extremely complicated plots spun around illegal, high-level financial shenanigans. He''s used it with variations before (The Takeover; The Legacy; The Insider; etc.), and despite clunky writing, implausible situations, lucky coincidences and untied threads, it proves perfectly serviceable once again. Investment banker Conner Ashby is checking his e-mail while beautiful girlfriend Liz Shaw lounges nude on his bed when he accidentally intercepts an interoffice memo that refers to improprieties in an entity named Project Delphi. The wayward communication states that this company is engaged in rampant corporate fraud: "Big expense accounts, undocumented loans, and tons of in-the-money option grants. Plus, the senior guys are hiring executive assistants who look like centerfolds but can''t spell their own names." Shortly after Conner receives the message, an intruder breaks into his apartment and starts shooting. Conner is out the window and on the run; Liz is dead. The plot encompasses a mysterious presidential chief of staff who is out to either save his boss or do him in, a secretary of the treasury who has cashed in big time on ill-gotten corporate shares, and quite a few women who either want to be Conner''s girlfriend or want him dead. It''s all very tangled, but Frey has the undeniable ability to explain complex financial transactions while at the same time providing plenty of action and nuggets of insider money lore. Those readers who like their financial fiction fast and furious will be perfectly happy as long as they don''t pay too much attention to the details.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Conner Ashby took a job as an investment banker with Phenix Capital because its founder and president, the now elderly Gavin Smith, is a wonderful mentor and an up-by-his-own-bootstraps man, like Conner himself. So it''s no surprise that Conner turns to Gavin for help after a series of events that seems to defy explanation. During a tryst with Liz, a wealthy heiress engaged to someone else, Conner hears a beep from his computer, signifying the arrival of e-mail. The message alludes to an apparent conspiracy to rip off investors with the bank. Later, returning home after running an errand, he finds his apartment ransacked, Liz dead, the intruder still on the premises. Conner evades the thug, summons the police, and returns to his apartment to find everything in pristine condition--including the spot where Liz''s dead body once lay. Finding the connection between that e-mail message and the disappearance of Liz becomes Conner''s obsession, despite Gavin''s advice to forget the incident and move on. Staying true to the formula that has made his financial thrillers successful, Frey throws his financial-wizard hero into a situation in which he can trust no one and forces him to risk his life while uncovering a bizarre web of corruption and deceit. There are no real surprises here, but Frey does what he does skillfully, and he''s found a large and receptive audience.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6569');
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(8408, 'Shadow and claw', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe''s most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by "Publishers Weekly," and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction." "Shadow &amp; Claw "brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume: "The Shadow of the Torturer" is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim. Ursula K. Le Guin said, "Magic stuff . . . a masterpiece . . . the best science fiction I''ve read in years!" "The Claw of the Conciliator "continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. "Arguably the finest piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced [is] the four-volume Book of the New Sun."--"Chicago Sun-Times" "The Book of the New Sun establishes his preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping.""--The New York Times Book Review" Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by "The Washington Post." A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing. "The Book of the New Sun," a series of four novels, is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe''s most memorable work, hailed by "Publishers Weekly" as a "masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis"--and by "The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction" as "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century." "Shadow &amp; Claw" collects the first two novels in this Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning tetralogy: "The Shadow of the Torturer" and "The Claw of the Conciliator." ""The Book of the New Sun" establishes [Wolfe''s] pre-eminence, pure and simple . . . "The Book of the New Sun" contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness, and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . Once into it, there is no stopping."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Arguably the best piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced."--"Chicago Sun-Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(8409, 'Shadow Bound', 'Erin Kellison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a demon breaches the barrier between death and life, the salvation of the world depends on the passions of a beautiful banshee just coming into her power and the man willing to use her to avenge the destruction of his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(8410, 'Shadow Dance: A Novel', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jordan Buchanan is thrilled that her brother and best friend are tying the knot. The wedding is a lavish affairâ€“for the marriage of Dylan Buchanan and Kate MacKenna is no ordinary occasion. It represents the joining of two family dynasties. The ceremony and reception proceed without a hitchâ€“until a crasher appears claiming to be a MacKenna guest. The disheveled and eccentric professor of medieval history warns that thereâ€™s â€œbad bloodâ€ between the coupleâ€™s clans, stemming from an ancient feud that originated in Scotland, and involving the Buchanan theft of a coveted MacKenna treasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan has always led a cautious life and has used her intelligence and reason to become a successful businesswoman. So she is intrigued but skeptical of the professorâ€™s claims that the feud has been kept alive by the grave injustices the Buchanans have perpetrated over the centuries. But when Noah Clayborne, a close family friend and a man who has never let a good time or a pretty girl pass him by, accuses Jordan of being trapped in her comfort zone, she determines to prove him wrong and sets out on a spontaneous adventure to the small, dusty town of Serenity, Texas, to judge the professorâ€™s research for herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maneuvering through a close-knit community in which everyone knows everyone elseâ€™s business, Jordan never anticipates the danger and intrigue that lie in her path, nor the threat that will shadow her back to Boston, where even in familiar surroundings, her life is at risk.\n</p>\n<p>\n A powerful thug who rules by fear, a man who harbors a simmering secret, and an unexpected romance that pierces all defensesâ€“beloved author Julie Garwood weaves these dazzling elements into a brilliant novel of romantic suspense. Shadow Dance is a searing tango of passion and peril.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Julie Garwood is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Slow Burn, Murder List, Killjoy, Mercy, Heartbreaker, Ransom, and Come the Spring. There are more than thirty-two million copies of her books in print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6297'),
(8411, 'The Shadow Dragons', 'James A. Owen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n War is coming in the fourth entry of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. The Winter Kingâ€™s Shadow is using the Spear of Destiny to make a shadow army in the Archipelago of Dreams, while World War II looms in the real world. As the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica meet with past legendary Caretakers, the Grail Child and her companions search for a mythic sword. The literary allusions are still clever and the story imaginative, but the pacing suffers from heavy exposition, much of it given in endless group conversations, and the conclusion is anticlimactic. This entry is purely for series fans. Grades 8-11. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica are at war. The Imperial Cartological Society, led by Richard Burton, have collected all of the doors from the Keep of Time, and are building a new tower in our world at the request of an old enemy: The Winter Kingâ€™s Shadow. He has a terrible weapon â€“ The Spear of Destiny â€“ that can be used to command the shadows of anyone it touchesâ€¦including the protectors of the Archipelago, the dragons. With a ship called The Iron Dragon, the Shadow King regains passage to the Archipelago where he uses the power of the Spear and the portals of Time to enlist an unstoppable army of Dragon Shadows. And after the Archipelago falls, he intends to betray the Allies in our world â€“ but not to align himself with the opposition. The Shadow King intends to use the turmoil of WWII to take over BOTH worlds.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the legendary Caretakers, past and present, come together on a great island in the northermost part of the Archipelago to decide the ultimate fate of the Imaginarium Geographica, as a terrible battle ravages the lands around them. And their only hope lies with a small group of companions who are on the quest for the broken sword Caliburn: the Grail Child Rose Dyson; her mechanical companion, the owl Archie; a mouse with an attitude; a dead Professor of Ancient Literature; and the mythical knight, Don Quixote.\n</p>\n<p>\n They must sail beyond the ends of the Archipelago in search of the sword, and the only being alive who can repair it: a scholar, who, once upon a time, was called Madoc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8457'),
(8412, 'Shadow Fall', 'Erin Kellison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Custo Santovari is a fallen hero, a man who sacrificed himself for his best friend, an angel whos earned himself a well-deserved place in Heaven. But Custo wasnt cut out for Heaven and hes not going to stay. Especially not when he discovers he can return to earth to continue the fight against the soul-sucking wraiths and rescue a woman even more tempting than his eternal reward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1080'),
(8413, 'Shadow Games: The Fourth Chronicles of the Black Company: First Book of the South', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exists only in legend...the origin of the first Free Companies.Every step of the way the Company is hounded by shadowy figured and carrion-eating crows. As they march every southward, through bug infested jungle, rivers dense with bloodthirsty pirates, and cities, dead and living, haunted by the passage of the Company north, their numbers grow until they are thousands strong.But always they are watched--by the Shadowmasters--a deadly new enemy: twisted creature that deal in darkness and death: powerful, shadowy creatures bent on smothering the world in their foul embrace. This is the first round in a deadly game, a game that the Black Company cannot ea hope to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1900'),
(8414, 'Shadow Hunter (Star Wars: Darth Maul)', 'Michael Reaves; Michael Cumpsty (Narrator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He made your blood run cold in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menaceâ€“Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evil and one of the legendary Sith, a twisted order given over to the dark side of the Force. Darth Maul, champion of the nefarious Sith Lord, Darth Sidiousâ€“a legend sprung to life from the nightmares of history, about to be unleashedâ€¦After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. He meets secretly with his Neimoidian contacts in the Trade Federation to plan the blockade of the planet Naboo. But one member of the delegation is missing, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down.On Coruscant, capital of the Republic, the Neimoidian moves quickly to sell what he knows to the highest bidder. For Lorn Pavan, an information broker, the deal is too good to pass up. He grabs it, unaware that he has now earned a place on Darth Maulâ€™s hit list, right behind the Neimoidian defector himself.Meanwhile, a young Jedi Padawan by the name of Darsha Assant stands on the verge of ascention to Jedi Knighthood. A single mission will be her test. But a greater test awaits her. For in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscantâ€™s own dark side, she will cross paths with Lorn, who is fleeing from the Sith stalker, carrying with him crutial information that must reach the Jedi Council at all costs.The future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hope to triumph over one of the deadliest killers in the galaxy?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2457'),
(8415, 'The Shadow Line: A Confession', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10634'),
(8416, 'Shadow Men', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though moody ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman has found a measure of peace in life, he faces some of the same challenges in King''s third stellar outing as he did in last year''s Visible Darkness. Government types are still trying to evict him from his Everglades hideaway, his love life is tenuous and friend/attorney Billy Manchester has once again piqued his interest with a case. Max, now a fully licensed PI in Florida, agrees to look into the disappearance of a father and two sons who signed on for three weeks of work on the Tamiami Trail 80 years earlier and never made it home. Built across the Everglades, the trail is the stuff of legend, filled with murky water and murkier deeds, snakes and gators and untimely death. The case, of course, is more complicated than it seems, with corporate intrigue, intimidation and the sins of fathers raining unmercifully down on their sons. As usual, Max is aided by a lively cast of characters, including the mysterious Nate Brown, whose knowledge of the Glades and its secrets is part of his being. King strikes a deft balance between his extraordinary South Florida setting and an engrossing tale of inhumanity and greed. This fine novel resonates with the atmosphere and immediacy of the Everglades, as well as with Max''s struggle to define himself in an often hostile world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Welcome to Max Freeman''s world. It centers on an abandoned research shack on a river at the edge of the Florida Everglades. It''s lit by an oil lamp. The furniture? A couple chairs, a table, and a bunk bed, the top bunk of which is loaded with travel and history books. Freeman, introduced in the Edgar-winning\n <em>\n  Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n (2002) and met again in\n <em>\n  A Visible Darkness\n </em>\n [BKL F 1 03], may be the most thoughtful, well-read, and multilayered private-eye hero since Spenser. He''s an ex-cop from Philadelphia with a history that keeps him holed up in the wilds, venturing forth only to do investigations for an old friend, an attorney. The third Freeman novel gets its unlikely impetus from a discovery in an antique hope chest, letters from a worker on the Tamiami Trail, a road project through the Everglades undertaken 80 years ago. The letters detail the brutal conditions under which the men and boys worked. The disappearance of the letter-writer and his two sons points to a triple homicide in 1923. (The stunning first chapter showing the three men being hunted down on the river ranks among the most frightening in crime fiction.) Freeman''s investigation quickly moves from history to present threat, as he discovers that any number of people want what happened on the road project to remain buried. Haunting and evocative.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5695'),
(8417, 'Shadow of a Dark Queen', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A dark queen is gathering armies in remote lands and desperate men are sent on a suicidal mission to confront this evil. Among these men is Nakor the Isalani, a gambler who knows the true nature of the Queen and Miranda whome everyone must wager their lives upon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3649'),
(8418, 'The Shadow of Albion', 'Norton, Andre; Edghill, Rosemary - Carolus Rex 1 - The Shadow of Albion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9069'),
(8419, 'Shadow of an Angel', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After the sudden death of her husband, Minda Hobbs returns to Angel Heights, S.C., the home of her forebears, to seek peace and purpose in her life. Instead, she finds her n''er-do-well cousin Otto as cold and stiff as yesterday''s grits in the ladies'' room at the historic Minerva Academy. Shocked by her cousin''s murder and still grieving over the loss of her husband, Minda has mixed emotions when she''s greeted by her guardian angel, Augusta Goodnight. Shimmering with church window radiance, and smelling of strawberry jam, Augusta is a temp who''s come on a double mission-to help Minda solve Otto''s murder and to take care of unfinished business from an assignment in 1916. Even though Otto could be unbearable at times, an annoying laugh is hardly cause for murder. Minda''s only lead is a tiny gold pin, found wedged in a Minerva Academy bathroom stall, and its connection to a club called the Mystic Six. Together, Minda and Augusta trace the descendents of this secret society, piecing together clues that lead to a special quilt and the mystery behind Cousin Otto''s unfortunate demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2304'),
(8420, 'Shadow of the Giant', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bean, Ender Wiggins'' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender''s defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth. Now he and his wife, Petra, yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known. Yet no such place exists on Earth, a world riddled with Bean''s enemies from the past. Once again he must follow in Ender''s footsteps and look to the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2493'),
(8421, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heros; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender''s Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender''s brother Peter.Peter Wiggin, Ender''s older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean''s help, he will eventually rule the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2490'),
(8422, 'The Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series, Shadow of the Hegemon. This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with Ender''s Shadow, a parallel novel to Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender''s Game. While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven''t known for nearly a decade, someone''s worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender''s brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon. In Shadow of the Hegemon, Card can''t help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--Shadow of the Hegemon does a wonderful job of continuing Bean''s tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with Ender''s Game or Ender''s Shadow. --Kathie Huddleston\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5845'),
(8423, 'The Shadow of the Torturer', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a thoroughly decadent world of the future, Severian the torturer is cast out from the torturer''s guild when he falls in love with one of his victims and allows her to die\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4703'),
(8424, 'The Shadow of Weng-Chiang', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The shadow of Weng-Chiang, an original novel reaturing the fourth Doctor, Romana and K9. The search for the fourth segment of the key to Time brings the Tardis to 1930s Shanghai: a dark and shadowy world, riven by conflict and threatened by the expansion of the Japanese Empire. Meanwhile, the savage Tongs pursue their own mysterous agenda in the city''s illegal clubs and opium dens. Manipulated by an elusive foe, the Doctor is obliged to follow the Dragon Path-the side-effect of a disastrous experiment in the far future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6404'),
(8425, 'Shadow Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2757'),
(8426, 'Shadow Prowler', 'Alexey Pehov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring. An army is gathering: giants, ogres and other creatures joining forces from across the Desolate Lands, united for the first time in history under one black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Nameless One and his forces will be at the walls of the great city of Avendoom. Unless Shadow Harold, master thief, can find some way to stop them. Epic fantasy at its best, Shadow Prowler is the first in a trilogy that follows professional thief Shadow Harold on his quest for a magic Horn that will restore peace to the kingdom of Siala. Accompanied by an elfin princess, ten Wild Hearts - the most experienced and dangerous royal fighters - and the King''s court jester (who may be more than he seems ... or less), Harold must outwit angry demons, escape the clutches of a band of hired murderers, survive ten bloody skirmishes ... and reach the burial grounds before dark. Can he escape a fate worse than death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(8427, 'Shadow Puppets', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Sequel to *The New York Times* Bestselling *Enders''s Shadow***Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender''s Earth.Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin''s victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender''s older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth''s young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender''s Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2481'),
(8428, 'Shadow Queen', 'Deborah Kalin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When powerful enemies threaten to destroy her kingdom, Shadow Queen Matilde must pit herself against her family''s conqueror to survive - will her vision of doom come true, or will she prevail? A breathtaking novel from a brilliant new voice in fantasy fiction. ''I put out a hand to steady myself as the vision took me. The parquetry floor washed to black . . . As if sparked by the hard glare, a fire burst and raged through the room, the flames hot enough to crisp bones and raise the smell of marrow burning to cinders. And me in the middle, wrapped in the black shroud of the dead.'' For Matilde of House of Svanaten, accession to the Turasi throne is long overdue. But her imperious grandmother remains reluctant to hand over power. When Matilde''s mysterious aunt, Helena, turns up for the Turasi''s most important festival, suspicions abound. Why has Helena suddenly appeared - and accompanied by the despised Ilthean? And what of the Ilthean soldiers massed at the southern border? Hard on Helen''s arrival, Matilde is struck by a vision warning of doom. And it isn''t long before a powerful enemy strikes at the very heart of power, leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake. After narrowly surviving the conflagration that shatters her entire world, Matilde must pit herself against her family''s conqueror in a battle not just for the throne, but for her very existence. ''Strong, tense, economical yet poetic writing. . . Gripping. Highly recommended.'' - Sun Herald. ''Shadow Queen has strong narrative drive, a fiery protagonist and, most importantly, moves at a cracking pace. It''s assured writing and well-crafted plot may also win it readers outside the [fantasy] genre.'' - Sunday Age\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(8429, 'The shadow rising', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn.......\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3807'),
(8430, 'Shadow Twin', 'Martin, George RR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11170'),
(8431, 'Shadow War', 'Deborah Chester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The kingdom of Imperia is threatened by an unspeakable evil-and only Caelan E''non, a champion gladiator, possesses the power and courage to combat it. In this second tale in the Ruby Throne trilogy, the Kingdom of Imperia is threatened by an unspeakable evil--and only Caelan E''non, a champion gladiator, possesses the power and courage to combat it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8313'),
(8432, 'Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Carl Stiner &amp; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Shadow Warriors\n </em>\n is the third of Tom Clancy''s commander books, and this time around Clancy teams up with General Carl Stiner, retired, to recount the recent history of U.S. Special Forces. Clancy notes that while Special Forces played important roles in World War II and Vietnam, the U.S. military has always been uncomfortable with "elites" and their unconventional methods and thus tended to view them primarily as a "sideshow." However, in 1980 when 53 Americans became hostages in Tehran, it became painfully clear that the conventional military tactics of the day, aimed at countering the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, simply could not deal with this new kind of threat. Most of the book revolves around Stiner''s military career: its beginning in the late ''50s, his tour in Vietnam as a Green Beret, various assignments in the Middle East, and his final stint as commander of SOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command). Particularly interesting are Stiner''s firsthand accounts of the\n <em>\n  Achille Lauro\n </em>\n hostage rescue, the invasion of Panama, and operations in Desert Storm. Clancy fills in and adds context to Stiner''s career and to the Special Forces themselves, including short stories of the Jedburgh teams in World War II and the formation of the Green Berets in the early ''60s. Though at times disjointed, the result is a fascinating and timely glimpse into the evolution of U.S. Special Forces.\n <em>\n  --Harry C. Edwards\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the third volume in Clancy''s series presenting modern war from the perspective of its commanders. Here the focus is on special warfare: Rangers, SEALs, Delta Force, the Green Berets and other less familiar organizations. Stiner headed the newly created Special Operations Command during the Gulf War. His experiences and Clancy''s investigations combine to describe how the perennial outsider troops became frontline insiders. Many of the book''s anecdotes from the 1950s and ''60s support an image of a special operations community not exactly at war with the army, but trying to establish parameters for what its advocates considered a new approach to war, incorporating military, political and social elements under military control. Following about 40 pages on Vietnam, the second half the book takes us through accounts of the pinpoint strikes on the hijacked cruise ship Achille Lauro, two operations in Panama and Desert Storm activities that included Scud missile takedowns. The book ends with a 10-page chapter on September 11 and its aftermath, and appendixes on Special Ops Command history and "Leadership." Readers looking for an up-to-the-minute account of the ways and means of the war in Afghanistan will not find it here, but the plethora of insider history and firsthand operation specifics from insertion to "exfiltration" up to the early ''90s will please the historically minded. (Feb. 4)Forecast: The Clancy name and events of September 11 have combined to make this a BOMC main selection, but the Gulf War material will have trouble competing with live television reports and newspaper accounts of current systems and teams. Expect a short run as a bestseller on the strength of Clancy alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6481'),
(8433, 'Shadow Watch', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roger Gordian''s troubles, which we heard about in Ruthless.com, continue in this work. Terrorists are out to get him, and this time they have a special microwave weapon. This clean, untraceable device cooks up some very big disasters involving, e.g., a space shuttle on the launch pad and a train in Brazil. The nonstop action in this story takes place in Florida, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. Like in Ruthless.com, the listener is given a great amount of detail concerning the weapons and equipment. Experienced actor J.K. Simmons displays his vocal versatility in this reading; he moves at a steady pace and is especially good with the narrative portions. For all action collections.AMichael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this novel, a near disaster prior to a space shuttle launch provides the first evidence of a global terrorist plan to bring the USA to its knees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6484'),
(8434, 'The Shadow Wife', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Healing, be it psychological, physiological or spiritual, informs this humane but too-familiar novel from veteran writer Chamberlain (The Courage Tree, etc.). The daughter of ''60s free spirits, Joelle D''Angelo is a recently divorced, naturally empathetic social worker at a coastal California hospital. Unfortunately, she''s madly in love with co-worker Liam Sommers, who just happens to be married to her best friend, Mara. Things are particularly tricky because Mara, once a brilliant psychiatrist, suffered brain damage caused by an aneurysm while giving birth to her son, Sam. Liam has remained a dutiful husband to his near-comatose wife, visiting her every opportunity he gets, but that doesn''t stop him from sleeping with (and impregnating) Joelle in a moment of weakness. Into this tangled thicket of guilt, misery and self-abnegation comes Carlynn Shire, an elderly doctor with "mystical" healing powers, whose aid Joelle enlists to resuscitate Mara, for Liam''s sake. Carlynn''s past is revealed through a series of flashbacks: her initial discovery of her preternatural abilities, her romance with husband-to-be Alan Shire and her troubled but loving relationship with her insecure twin sister, Lisbeth. The novel''s two narrative threads, Carlynn''s past and Joelle''s present, flow inexorably toward a "twist" ending that feels contrived and predictable. It''s difficult to dislike Chamberlain''s well-paced tale, especially since its protagonists are such an inherently sympathetic, good-hearted lot. Still, there are few surprises and fewer original insights into love, loss and self-sacrifice to be found here. Agent, Ginger Barber. National advertising; teaser chapter in January paperback edition of The Courage Tree.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life and death seem to go hand in hand in Joelle''s life. When she was born while her parents were living at a commune in Big Sur, California, the cord was wrapped around her neck, and Carolynn, a famous healer, saved her. Thirty-four years later, she''s contemplating asking Carolynn for help again. While giving birth more than a year ago, Joelle''s best friend, Mara, suffered a brain aneurysm and has been left in a semi-vegetative state. As Mara''s husband, Liam, and Joelle visit her in a nursing home, they end up romantically involved until guilt destroys their friendship, leaving Joelle to face the consequences when she discovers that she''s pregnant. Driven by her desire to see Liam and Mara happy, Joelle decides to contact Carolynn and find out if she truly is a healer and will be willing to help. As Chamberlain examines myriad forms of love, her complicated novel will bring tears to her readers, but they won''t regret the experience.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7075'),
(8435, 'The Shadow Year', 'Jeffrey Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In New York''s Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them. Some of his free time is spent in the basement of the family''s modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with clay figurines representing friends and neighbors. And so the time passes with a not-always-reassuring samenessâ€”until the night a prowler is reported stalking the neighborhood. Appointing themselves ad hoc investigators, the brothers set out to aid the policeâ€”while their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her older siblings, moves around the inanimate residents of Botch Town. But ensuing events add a shadowy cast to the boys'' night games: disappearances, deaths, and spectral sightings capped off by the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car trawling the neighborhood after dark. Strangest of all is the inescapable fact that every one of these troubling occurrences seems to correspond directly to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in the basement. Not since Ray Bradbury''s classic Dandelion Wine has a novel so richly evoked the dark magic of small-town boyhood. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery, a masterful re-creation of a unique time and place, a celebration of youth, and a poignant and disquieting portrait of home and familyâ€”all balancing on a razor''s edge separating reality from the unsettlingly remarkableâ€”The Shadow Year is a monumental new work from one of contemporary fiction''s most fearless and inventive artists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10369'),
(8436, 'Shadow Zone', 'Iris Johansen &amp; Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The #1 *New York Times *bestselling author teams up once again with her Edgar award-winning son to bring us a new heart-pounding thriller involving the search for a mysterious Atlantean city\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***While mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth in the Atlantic Ocean, submersible designer Hannah Bryson makes a shocking discovery: she may have finally uncovered the truth about the once-glorious cityâ€™s mysterious demise. Long ago it was a thriving metropolis bursting with culture and lifeÂ—Marinthâ€™s sudden disappearance has plagued scientists for years. But now, with her unexpected new findings, Hannah realizes that the ancient cityâ€™s explosive secret could have dire consequences for the modern-day world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Hannah isnâ€™t the only one who realizes it. When her key artifact is hijacked en route to a research lab, she is thrust into an adventure in which she must match wits against a terrifying enemy who will kill anyone who stands in his way. And when Hannah becomes his target, she knows that her best hope for survival lies with Kirov, a mysterious and deadly man from her past. Together they will race to unravel Marinthâ€™s last great secret in order to prevent a catastrophe of global proportions. Before the lethal game is over, however, Hannah will realize that no one is above suspicion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5860'),
(8437, 'Shadow&#39;s Edge', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You?re the wetboy.? The man cursed. He was sweating, his broad face pasty. His bushy black beard quivered as he trembled. ?Tell me,? Kylar said. ?The Shinga said he pissed off some Cenarian wetboy. We were supposed to kill you if you came here.? ?Where is he?? ?If I tell you, will you let me live?? Kylar looked into the man?s eyes, and curiously didn?t feel or imagine?or whatever it had been the other times?the darkness that demanded death. ?Yes,? he said, though the killing rage was still on him. The man told him of a hideout, another trap, an underground room with only one entrance, and another ten guards. With teeth gritted against the white-cold fury, Kylar said, ?Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/855'),
(8438, 'Shadow&#39;s Son', 'Jon Sprunk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, in the holy city of Othir. It''s the perfect place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and even fewer scruples.Caim makes - or perhaps more accurately, takes - his living on the edge of a blade. Murder is a risky business, but so far he reckons he''s on the right side of it. Or he was . . . because when a short-notice contract job goes south, Caim finds himself thrust into the middle of a sinister plot in which he seems to be one of the primary marks. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers and the darkest kinds of sorcery, it''s going to take more than luck if he''s to get through this alive. He may lack scruples, but he''s still got his knives, and his instincts, to rely on - and a developed sense of revenge, or should that be justice? - to fall back on. But when his path leads him from the hazardous back streets of Othir and into the highest halls of power, will instincts and weapons alone really be enough? If Caim is really going to unravel the plot which has snared him, to unmask a conspiracy at the heart of the empire, he will have to finally claim his birthright as the Shadow''s Son . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2740'),
(8439, 'Shadowbred: The Twilight War', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The Lady has spoken to me.\n</p>\n<p>\n It has already begun_.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia.\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œBe brave, little man,â€ says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. â€œStay with your mother. This will be over soon.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The shadows swallow him and he is gone.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n On the edge of a war that will change the face of FaerÃ»n, the world will find that not all shadows serve Shade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4982'),
(8440, 'Shadowed Summer', 'Saundra Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesnâ€™t have to make up a story. This summer, one falls right in her lap.Years ago, before Iris was born, a local boy named Elijah Landry disappeared. All that remained of him were whispers and hushed gossip in the church pews. Until this summer. A ghost begins to haunt Iris, and sheâ€™s certain itâ€™s the ghost of Elijah. What really happened to him? And why, of all people, has he chosen Iris to come back to?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5148'),
(8441, 'Shadowfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8794'),
(8442, 'Shadowfires', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now with a new afterword by the * NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And a brand-new package.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A womanâ€™s relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Dean Koontz.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1439'),
(8443, 'Shadowglass: The Shadowfae Chronicles', 'Erica Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Welcome to secret world hidden behind shadowy fairy glamour, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, big green trolls kick heads at nightclubs and vampire Mafiosi rule the streets. Here a seductive magic mirror lies hidden deep in a demon''s lair, with a simple warning: don''t stare at the glass...Ice is a light-fingered fairy who can''t resist a look at the powerful mirror. She and her fairy friends run confidence games, pretending to be fortune tellers and bedazzling customers with their glamour. But Ice longs for moreshe wants a real life, a respectable job and something to strive for. The mirror offers her a chance to achieve everything she''s ever dreamed of. But when she pilfers it, she discovers that its power comes with a price: the mirror is a gateway to obsession and madness... and it will take every trick in her arsenal just to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(8444, 'Shadowheart: Volume Four of Shadowmarch', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland. But both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets, and even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home- from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6357'),
(8445, 'Shadowland', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestselling author''s all-time horror classic Now with a new introduction by Peter Straub Few modern horror novels have been able to stand the test of time like Shadowland. Now, with a new introduction from Peter Straub, this classic becomes a collectible for his insatiable fans-and for new readers who have just discovered Straub through the bestselling Black House, co-written with Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3417'),
(8446, 'Shadowlight', 'Lynn Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With just one touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone-s darkest secrets, thanks to whoever tampered with her genes. What she doesn-t know is that a biotech company has discovered her talent and intends to kill her and harvest her priceless DNA.Gaven Matthias is forced to abduct Jessa himself so he can protect her, but Jessa has a hard time believing the one man whose secrets she can-t read. As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally-or her deadliest enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3190');
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(8447, 'Shadowline', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The vendetta in space... had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born ... with his grandfather''s raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived -- the young Norborn heir, the man who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers, in a carefully mapped plot that would take generations to fulfill. Now Mouse''s father Gneaus must fight for an El Dorado of wealth on the burning half of the planet Blackworld. As the great private armies of all space clash on the narrow Shadowline that divides inferno from life-sheltering shade, Gneaus'' half- brother Michael plays his traitorous games, and a man called Death pulls the deadly strings that threaten to entrap them all -- as the Starfishers Trilogy begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1896'),
(8448, 'Shadowmagic', 'John Lenahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Conor is enjoying his life until the day his aunt shows up on horseback and tries to run him through with a spear. He and his father are carried off to Tir na Nog, where he learns that he is a prince and that nearly everybody he meets wants to kill him. With the help of the mother he has never met, the teen and his dad escape captivity, and Conor begins to learn more about the land he has been brought to and about his uncle''s evil plot to destroy it. With the help of two new friends, one who rarely speaks and one who never shuts up, Conor sets out to defeat his uncle and save the ancient Celtic land. Along the way he meets a variety of imps, banshees, leprechauns, and elvesâ€”and one very pretty girl who, like so many others, wants him dead. The story moves quickly with a lot of action and humor, but occasionally background information and characterization are sacrificed to the fast-paced plot. Readers will enjoy Conor''s romp through Tir na Nog but will not pick up a lot of detail about the mythology surrounding that legendary land. This is a fun tale for readers who are looking for another light fantasy.â€”_Misti Tidman, Boyd County Public Library, Ashland, KY_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Conorâ€™s dad is quite eccentricâ€”he speaks in ancient languages and trains Conor in swordplayâ€”but the 17-year-old never dreamed it was because his father was actually from the land of the ancient Celts. Conor is spirited away to Tir Na Nog, and life suddenly moves at a frantic pace. He meets his mother (a sorceress working in Shadowmagic), befriends an imp and a banshee, and must somehow survive the prophecy of his death long enough to help his dad claim his rightly deserved throne. Though some of the rescues and escapes are almost too easy, they still work, and Lenahan throws in some unforeseen twists. The characters are fully developed and the dialogue witty and full of spunk. With the pace and thrill of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, a sense of place worthy of Narnia itself, and Conorâ€™s dryly humorous first-person narration, this novel is a fast read that will engage reluctant readers. A less-than-tidy ending will have readers begging for more. Grades 7-11. --Melissa Moore\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4408'),
(8449, 'Shadows', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a very slow first half, Saul ( Darkness , The God Project ) picks up the pace and delivers aword? tense, high-tech psychological suspense thriller. Ten-year-old genius Josh MacCallum is bored, lonely and almost always angry at his older, teasing classmates. After he attempts suicide, his frantic single mother jumps at the chance to enroll him in the Academy, a school for very gifted kids in Northern California. Run by aloof Dr. Engersol and matronly housemother HildieHildie not Hidie/eed , the school, which occupies an old mansion, offers Josh a friend in another ''fellow genius'' awk when describing a woman genius, Amy Carlson. Trouble surfaces when a 12-year-old kills himself, but calm returns as Hildie dispenses hugs and common sense. Soon after Josh and Amy are picked for an advanced "seminar," Engersol and Hildie are revealed as nasty and the mad-scientist plot hurtles to a violent conclusion featuring dueling brains?? Josh and Amy''s? unclear You''re absolutely right but i''m afraid it will have to stand as is. I can''t reach the reviewer, and altho I have the galley, connected to a mainframe computer. The novel''s padded beginning and only serviceable prose are tolerable ''lesser'' implies comparison w greater flaws, not w virtues flaws in light of Saul''s chilling conceit, Hildie''s jarring comeuppance and a delightful final twist. 150,000 first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donovan''s Brain meets The Lawnmower Man. Bestseller horror novelist Saul (Second Child, Darkness, Creature, etc.) lands on the money again with one of his best--or least offensive--tales of psychological suspense. What''s more, he''s tuned in with Stephen King''s current smash movie The Lawnmower Man, with a plot that turns in part on the novelty of computerized Virtual Reality games. Even more, his ending is\n <code>\n  virtually'''' identical with the film''s. Readers with long memories will recall Curt Siodmak''s once vastly well-known, thrice-filmed story Donovan''s Brain, about a scientist dominated by a dead industrialist''s brain that he keeps alive in his lab. In Saul''s story, a gothicky California genius academy for gifted kids is having trouble with suicide-prone students, and the deaths are piling up. Ten-year-old Josh MacCallum''s best friend at the academy is Amy Carlson, though he''s also buddies with the Aldritch twins, Jeff and Adam, who try to suck him into their Virtual Reality game. Then Adam kills himself, throwing himself in front of a train at night. But did he? Well, his body is crushed. But it seems that the suicides at the academy were also the smartest students, which includes the twins and suggests that IQ chartbusters Josh and Amy are marked for death. But...really? Well, no--because the academy''s president, evil Dr. George Engersol, and his warm-smiling, ice- water housekeeper Hildie Kramer have been faking the suicides after removing the victim''s...well, should we tell you?...and keeping it alive and blooming in a secret lab where the\n </code>\n dead'''' are plugged into the world''s greatest computer, a Croyden, and can operate it by tiny impulses and create...virtual...reality.... Small-scale but a grabber, despite bedrock banality. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4523'),
(8450, 'Shadows in Bronze', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n No caveats for readers of Davis''s second playful, well-plotted mystery featuring imperial agent Marcus Didius Falco and based in first century, C.E., Rome. Nero''s successor Vespasian has squelched an early treasonous plot and assigned Falco to take care of loose ends, which include the body of the uncle of the high-born young widow Helena Justina, whom Falco met and courted stormily in Silver Pigs. Disguised as an idle vacationer in the company of his comrade and captain of the Aventine Watch, Petronius Longus and family, Falco travels south to Neapolis, Capreae and Pompeii (eight years before its destruction) where he uncovers and must thwart a new conspiracy involving the shipment of Egyptian grain to Rome and an unwitting Helena. Like a toga-clad McGee or Spenser, Falco has a modern sensibility that wears its ancient trappings comfortably, whether he''s sneaking down a narrow Roman street or feasting sumptuously at a sunlit coastal villa. A rousing horserace in the Circus Maximus, balanced with a touching romantic resolution, rounds out this action-packed entertainment, enlivened by Davis''s vivid characterization of both major and minor players, and his clear delight in--and easy authority with--the story''s time and place.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- That rascally Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, is back, still pining for the unavailable, upper-class Helen; bumbling through investigations; and dodging his nagging mother. Set in Italy in a.d. 70, the mystery of Helen''s "returned-to-life" husband flows smoothly, accompanied by such historical details as descriptions of prostitutes flourishing in Pompeii, salesmen hawking used chariots, and women dying their hair with the newest shade--Egyptian Russet. It''s great fun to read of Falco''s dubious detecting skills, aided by his sharp eye for noticing and reporting on the world around him. A book that should be required reading for those students who foolishly believe the adage "Latin is a dead language."-- Pam Spencer, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria,\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7185'),
(8451, 'Shadows in the Twilight', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But heâ€™s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he deserved what might have been divine intervention. He thinks up an elaborate scheme, but it doesnâ€™t go as anticipated. Even though his heart is in the right place, feelings are hurt. If he confesses what heâ€™s done and why, will things be put right again? Readers who met Joel Gustafson, his father, and their friends in A Bridge to the Stars will follow, with appreciation, Henning Mankellâ€™s shrewd depiction, in this companion novel, of the surprising changes in Joelâ€™s existence. Mankell deftly explores Joelâ€™s self-discovery, his realization that lives can be altered in a single moment, and his new understanding that a choice between telling the truth and keeping silent can make all the difference.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1628'),
(8452, 'Shadows Linger', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and sheltered is truly the White Rose reborn. Now there may be a path to the light, even for such as they. If they can survive it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1887'),
(8453, 'The Shadows of God', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fourth and final volume in his Age of Unreason series (Newton''s Cannon, etc.), Keyes brings his multi-threaded yarn to a thrilling conclusion. Based on the premise that Sir Isaac Newton devised a theory of alchemy that led to the industrial use of demons, the book builds to a climactic confrontation to see who will reshape the universe. Chief among Newton''s apprentices are wizard/scientist Benjamin Franklin, South Carolina''s ambassador to the court of New Paris (Mobile), and Adrienne de Montchevreuil, sorceress and heir to a secret tradition. Against them is Adrienne''s son, Nicolas (aka the Sun Boy), with his army of Russians, Mongols and Coweta natives that sweeps over the Great Plains. Such imaginative devices as demon-levitated airships and aetherschreibers (wireless sets) lend interest to the author''s alternate 18th-century world, as do revelations behind certain historical events, like the identity of who helped Louis XIV drop a comet on London. Keyes entertains both with details of everyday life and with the conversations of people who may not have met but should have. He produces a fine pastiche of the formal writing of Voltaire (who appears as Franklin''s friend and rival), marred only by a more modern "crash cut" narrative, which occasionally jumps mid-scene or reverses chronology, diffusing the suspense. Still, with the unfolding of secrets and past deeds, Keyes brings a welcome level of character uncertainty to the deterministic Newtonian novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The universe lies on the verge of destruction as demons and angels use mortal wizards and scientists as their agents in a war that pits the forces of a devastated Europe against a handful of American colonists struggling for freedom and survival. In Keyes''s heady conclusion to his epic sf tetralogy (which includes Newton''s Cannon, A Calculus of Angels, and Empire of Unreason) alchemical wizard Benjamin Franklin uses magic and diplomacy to unite warring factions in a grand alliance to save humanity. Spicing his alternate historical fantasy with Swedenborgian metaphysics and Newtonian physics, Keyes peoples his story with a cast of unforgettable fictional and historical characters. Though dependent on the earlier books, this vivid story of a world in the throes of revolution is highly recommended for all collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5060'),
(8454, 'Shadows Return', 'Lynn Flewelling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan.â€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n After their victory in AurÃ«nen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to RhÃ­minee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it is difficult for them to settle in. Hoping for diversion, they accept an assignment that will take them back to Seregilâ€™s homeland. En route, however, they are ambushed and separated, and both are sold into slavery. Clinging to life, Seregil is sustained only by the hope that Alec is alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is not Alecâ€™s life his strange master wantsâ€”it is his blood. For his unique lineage is capable of producing a rare treasure, but only through a harrowing process that will test him body and soul and unwittingly entangle him and Seregil in the realm of alchemists and madmenâ€”and an enigmatic creature that may hold their very destiny in its inhuman handsâ€¦. But will it prove to be savior or monster?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lynn Fleweling was born in Presque Isle, Maine, whichâ€”contrary to common assumptionâ€”is not an island. She received her undergraduate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where she majored in English, minored in History, and received a teaching certificate she had no intention of ever using. Since then, she has studied literature, veterinary medicine, ancient Greek among other things, and worked as a necropsy technician, a house painter, an office worker, a freelance editor, a freelance journalist (www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/OtherWritings.html), and yes, even as a teacher now and then, an instructor of workshopsâ€”on creativity and fiction writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5551'),
(8455, 'Shadowstorm: The Twilight War', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The invasion of the arch-wizards is on!\n</p>\n<p>\n The archwizards of Shade Enclave have come out of the desert with a message of peace, and an act of war. Split by petty disputes and causeless feuds, the merchant realm of Sembia is wide open for invasion, and with no shortage of Sembians more than happy to sell out to the Shadovar, can only one man--even if that man is Erevis Cale--do anything to stop it?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n PAUL S. KEMP is a lawyer who lives in Michigan with his wife and twin sons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4984'),
(8456, 'Shake Hands Forever', 'Ruth Rendell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chief Inspector Wexford is one of the most admirable presences in mystery fiction today." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rendell is a master of the form." --_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell." --_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world." --_The Boston Globe_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.\n</p>\n<p>\n According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in\n <strong>\n  Shake Hands Forever\n </strong>\n . Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall''s bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela''s husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela''s death? Then a neighbor--friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful--offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector''s career--as well as his marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising,\n <strong>\n  Shake Hands Forever\n </strong>\n showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5111'),
(8457, 'Shakespeare&#39;s Champion', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of a local body builder-his neck broken by a barbell-the town''s underlying racial tension begins to boil over. The white victim was somehow connected to two unsolved murders of black residents of Shakespeare-and a dogged policeman is determined to stop the killing. But it is Lily herself who may have to decide whether to stay and fight for justice, or run away one more time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(8458, 'Shakespeare&#39;s Christmas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Determined to move beyonde her violent past, Lily heads to her hometown of Bartley for her estranged sister''s Christmas Eve wedding. But there is something in the air besides holiday cheer - murder. The town''s doctor and nurse have been bludgeoned to death - and Lily''s detective boyfriend has followed an eight-year-old kidnapping case straight to Bartley. It just might have something to do with the murders. And her sister''s widower fiancÃ©. With only three days before the wedding, Lily must work fast to clean up the messy case before her sister promises to love, honor, and obey a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(8459, 'Shakespeare&#39;s Counselor', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to cope with her terrifying memories and horrible nightmares, she decides to join a weekly group therapy session in her hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. At first, Lily can hardly believe the number of her fellow Shakespeareans that share her life experiences. As it turns out, the group members'' feelings aren''t the only things that need sorting out -- they assemble for a session and find a woman dead, killed in bone-chilling fashion and deliberately left on display to send a twisted message. Who would commit such horrendous crime, and who is the intended recipient of the message?Before long, Lily becomes embroiled in this disturbing murder and its aftermath, one in which the brutal killer''s motives are entirely unclear. The truth is, the situation has dredged up more than a few of her own terrible secrets, and she may not be able to rest until she can untangle the who and why of this terrible crime. But can she accomplish this before the killer strikes again, and before her nightmares send her over the edge? Shakespeare''s Counselor is the most complex and absorbing installment yet in Charlaine Harris''s engaging, original, and more than slightly dark mystery series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(8460, 'Shakespeare&#39;s Landlord', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When cleaning lady Lily Bard discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord, her plan of starting a quiet new life may end in her death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(8461, 'Shakespeare&#39;s Trollop', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shakespeare, Arkansas, is home to endless back roads, historic buildings, colorful residents--and the occasional murder. It is also home to Lily Bard, the local karate expert/cleaning woman with a particular knack for finding skeletons in closets. But when the local woman of ill repute is found murdered, being familiar with her dirty laundry could make Lily the next Shakespearean to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(8462, 'Shalimar the Clown: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  [Signature]_Reviewed by William T. Vollmann_The focus of this novel is extremism. It tells the tale of two Kashmiri villages whose inhabitants gradually get caught up in communal violence. As we know from Yugoslavia, hatred takes on especially horrific manifestations when neighbors turn against each other. The neighbors to whom Rushdie introduces us are memorable and emblematic characters, especially his protagonists, the Hindu dancer Boonyi Kaul and her childhood sweetheart, Shalimar the clown, son of a Muslim family. Their passion becomes a marriage solemnized by both Hindu and Muslim rites, but as conflict heats up, Boonyi seduces the American ambassador. The resulting transformation of Shalimar into a terrorist is easily the most impressive achievement of the book, and here one must congratulate Rushdie for having made artistic capital out of his own suffering, for the years he spent under police protection, hunted by zealots, have been poured into the novel in ways which ring hideously true. Bit by bit, Shalimar becomes a figure of supernatural menace.The life of the ambassador, Max Ophuls, is also brilliantly invented. In a series of highly effective set piecesâ€”Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, where he failed to persuade his principled parents to save the books they published, not to mention themselves, from the flames (the family was Jewish); southern France, where his exploits on behalf of the Resistance were so colorful that I would spoil the reader''s pleasure if I betrayed them; England, where a glamorous wartime romance led him into his only marriageâ€”the author builds our sympathy for the man who (with her connivance) ruins Boonyi''s life and sets in motion Shalimar''s destiny.Now for the novel''s defects: Rushdie''s female characters are generally less plausible than the male ones. When he is describing Kashmir''s good old days of communal tolerance, he too frequently takes refuge in slapstick. His depiction of Los Angeles relies so much on references to popular culture that the place becomes a superficial parody of itself. In terms of technique, Rushdie''s most irritating tic is the sermonistic parallelism or repetition, but the novel''s best passages (not to mention his other great work,\n  <em>\n   Shame\n  </em>\n  ) prove him capable of great style.Never mind these flaws. _Shalimar the Clown\n  <em>\n   is a powerful parable about the willing and unwilling subversion of multiculturalism. And for those readers who even in this post-September-eleventh continue to cling to American narcissism, the parable grows more urgently pointed: Ophuls and Boonyi conceive a daughter, who is taken away at birth and in due time becomes a beautiful, troubled, privileged ignoramus in Los Angeles. About Shalimar the clown, her mother''s husband, she doesn''t have a clue. Is that her fault? Is it our fault that we never paid much attention to the rest of the world? But one day, without any warning, two planes smashed into the Twin Towers, and now (wake up and run!) Shalimar the clown has arrived in Los Angeles. (\n  </em>\n  On sale Sept. 6)__Vollmann''s most recent novel is_ Europe Central\n  <em>\n   (Viking).\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like some of the post-9/11 literature,\n  <em>\n   Shalimar\n  </em>\n  delves deep into the roots of terrorism and explores the turmoil generated by different faiths and cultures attempting to coexist. How can nations, Rushdie asks, go from near-peaceful ethnic and religious acceptance to violent conflict within a mere generation? Critics agree that Rushdie has brilliantly unraveled the construction of terrorists: some of them fight for ideas; others fight to fulfill vows or, if they are men, to reclaim their wives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Shalimar\n  </em>\n  is at once a political thriller, folk tale, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, and work of science fiction, pop culture, and magical realism. In shimmering (if sometimes baroque) language, Rushdie invokes clever satire and imaginative wordplay. Yet, despite its diverse genres and styles, Shalimar is, at heart, a story of love, honor, and revengeâ€”and the global consequences of such emotions and actions. Critics particularly praised Rushdieâ€™s shocking description of Shalimarâ€™s transformation into a cold-blooded Islamic terrorist, from his participation in training camps to forced humiliations before Taliban leaders. Similarly, wrenching descriptions of pre- and post-war Kashmir, his homage to a paradise lost, confirm Rushdieâ€™s brilliant powers of observation and keen social insight. Some reviewers felt that some characters lacked psychological depth or complete plausibility, or were too allegorical, but most described Shalimar as convincingly realâ€”too real, even.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the 21st century,\n  <em>\n   Shalimar\n  </em>\n  â€™s painful, terrifying themes are both fantastical and devastatingly real. To evidence otherwise, Rushdie offers a note of cautious optimism: people can work out their differences if left alone by ideologues or fanatics.\n  <em>\n   Shalimar\n  </em>\n  provides a timely, ultimately idealistic, message for our times.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6331'),
(8463, 'Shaman&#39;s Crossing: Book One of The Soldier Son Trilogy', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a newly anointed nobleman, he must endure the rigors of military training at the elite King''s Cavella Academy&amp;#8212and survive the hatred, cruelty, and derision of his aristocratic classmates&amp;#8212before joining the King of Gernia''s brutal campaign of territorial expansion. The life chosen for him will be fraught with hardship, for he must ultimately face a forest-dwelling folk who will not submit easily to a king''s tyranny. And they possess an ancient magic their would-be conquerors have long discounted&amp;#8212a powerful sorcery that threatens to claim Nevare Burvelle''s soul and devastate his world once the Dark Evening brings the carnival to Old Thares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3506'),
(8464, 'Shame', 'Karin Alvtegen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Reminiscent of Ruth Rendall at her best." Herald "Relentless and frightening." Guardian "A compulsive thriller." Metro "Alvtegen keeps up a cracking pace." Uncut"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the story about two women who are trapped by a past that won''t let go. As Maj-Britt festers malevolently in her hermetic apartment, appeased only by an endless supply of food, Monika works ceaselessly to blot out her pain, punishing herself unforgivingly if she fails to meet her own high standards. They have nothing in common but the determination to obliterate their memories and be left alone - but when a letter and a tragic accident force the past back to life, the emotional void at the centre of their lives gapes wide and threatens to engulf them both. Forced into a confrontation, each woman proves the catalyst for the other''s destruction - or salvation. A taut psychological thriller, "Shame" builds inexorably and subtly into a study of the devastating powers of fear, oppressive religion and forbidden sexuality.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7385'),
(8465, 'Shame the Devil: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, February 2000\n </strong>\n : Just as Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane have made Boston their own and Los Angeles has been the distinct province of a lineage leading from Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald to Michael Connelly and Robert Crais, so is George Pelecanos the storyteller who''s put Washington, D.C., on the noir map. Once considered "the best-kept secret in crime fiction" by his peers, he is now fast leaving behind those days of strictly word-of-mouth fame and cult status.\n</p>\n<p>\n Telling it like he sees it, and looking fearlessly into those dark, forgotten alleyways that lay too far beyond the corridors of power to make it into any guidebooks, Pelecanos conjures up a gritty, ghostly Washington of working-class neighborhoods and aging suburbs and shoots it through with chillingly unpredictable menace. Most Washington natives probably wouldn''t recognize the place--but they couldn''t stop trying either, knowing that they''ve at least glimpsed (out of the corners of their eyes) those environs where a Pelecanos character is most at home.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shame the Devil\n </em>\n , we find a society of grieving men and women connected by loss, betrayal, the need for revenge, and the shadowy presence of evil. As in other Pelecanos tales, the heroes are not easily identified, love is a coming together of wounded souls, and answers are found where least expected. In the aftermath of a botched armed robbery, a fair number of lives have been thrown into a downward spiral. The problems, however, come on faster and with more fury once the status quo sustaining the survivors has been breached by an ill-wishing and unwanted addition to their little group.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are two favorite moments. In one, protagonist Dimitri Karras asks the name of a fellow bar patron. Hearing that he''s called Happy, Karras comments that he doesn''t look too happy. The answer: "He''s pacing himself." The other: we hear the thoughts of the sociopathic villain: "Some believed that incarceration was a mark of failure, but Frank disagreed. Prison was an essential element of any career criminal''s education."\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Shame the Devil\n </em>\n , Pelecanos solidifies his position among the elite of the brilliant coterie of young noir writers who are creating the emerging classics of the genre.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the shooting stops on a blistering summer day at May''s Pizza Parlor in Washington, D.C., in 1995, five people lie dead, a policeman is left crippled and robber Frank Farrow speeds off with his loot and not a trace of regret. But Farrow, the main villain in Pelecanos''s fine new addition to his hard-boiled lineup, still isn''t satisfied. He wants to return to finish off the injured cop, who killed Farrow''s brother during the shoot-out. Farrow doesn''t anticipate, however, the burning desire for revenge harbored by the family and friends of those butchered in the notorious pizza bloodbath. Chief among them is 50-ish Dimitri Karras, whose five-year-old son died when he was mowed down by the getaway vehicle Farrow was driving. Now, three years later, Karras is just getting his life back together, much like the other survivors, all of whom meet regularly to share their grief and soothe their torment. By chance, Karras teams up with Nick Stephanos, a freelance investigator who finds out Farrow is back in town to exact his twisted vengeance. Stephanos tries to dissuade Karras from tracking down Farrow, but even he understands the urge for retaliation. Karras and Stephanos, who have starred in several of Pelecanos''s earlier books (King Suckerman; The Sweet Forever), deepen considerably as characters in this hard-driving story of heartache, Stephanos''s adjustment to the new-found maturity of middle age and Dmitri''s search for some small relief in revenge. Set against a backdrop of greasy-spoon diners, church basements, dive bars and sparsely furnished apartments, the narrative is unsettlingly harsh yet captivatingly tender, the gritty back-and-forth of everyday urban life vividly etched. 11-city author tour. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7966'),
(8466, 'Shannon&#39;s Story', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9750'),
(8467, 'The Shape Shifter', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n A picture cut from a glossy magazine,\n <em>\n  Luxury Living\n </em>\n , draws retired Navajo tribal policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn into a hunt for a soulless killer in bestseller Hillerman''s enthralling 18th Leaphorn/Chee whodunit (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Skeleton Man\n </em>\n ). The picture''s sender, Mel Bork, another cop retiree, wonders if the distinctive Navajo rug shown in the picture is the same one Leaphorn described to him long ago, a rug supposedly destroyed in a fire the two officers investigated that took the life of a person identified as among the FBI''s most wanted. Bork''s subsequent disappearance and murder herald the dangers awaiting Leaphorn from a most formidable enemy. As Leaphorn searches for evidence to confirm his suspicions, he enlists the aid of Sgt. Jim Chee and his bride, Bernadette Manuelito, just back from their honeymoon. Only Hillerman could so masterfully connect such disparate elements as an ancient cursed weaving, two stolen buckets of piÃ±on sap and the Vietnam War. The conclusion is sure to startle longtime fans of this acclaimed mystery series.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn''s attention has mysteriously gone missing.\n</p>\n<p>\n With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he''d once thought impossible to untangle. And they''re leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5447'),
(8468, 'Sharae and Melissa', 'Allison McKenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling Erotic Novelist Begins B&amp;D Trilogy! Rod Harden''s "stories weave a powerful erotic spell over the reader," writes Michelle Houston in Sensual Romance Reviews. "Rod Harden brings to life the guilty pleasures that dwell with the dark recesses of the human psyche. Journey with him as he takes you away into a world of pleasure and pain, of domination and submission, treading always the fine line between darkness and light." Rod Harden''s books are "the kind you read when you are all alone, convinced you will only take a peek, but soon finding yourself desiring more, hooked on the need of the characters, awakened to your own inner demons." Now collaborating with Alison McKenna, Harden produces an epic trilogy of bondage and domination, beginning with " Sharae and Melissa," a book that breaks new ground and reaches new heights of achievement. What does it fee like to actually be a slave girl? Harden and McKenna take you inside the minds and hearts of two slave women and show how pain and submission can lead to transcendent pleasure and self-fulfillment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(8469, 'Shardik', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "*Shardik* is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers'' unconscious . . . It is an exciting story, the adventures compelling." (*Los Angeles Times*) "Grips with suspense, haunts with mystery . . . a memorable work, not to be read once only but to be reread as loved books are . . . a human saga." (*The Wall Street Journal*) Richard Adams''s *Watership Down* was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In *Shardik* Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. *Shardik* is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik-Messenger of God-only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear''s divinity. A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance, *Shardik*, on a deeper level, is a remarkable exploration of mankind''s universal desire for divine incarnation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3645'),
(8470, 'Shards of a Broken Crown', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The demon is no more. The enemy has been routed. But all is not well...** Winter''s icy grasp is loosening on the world. The Emerald Queen''s vanquished army has its broken back to the Bitter Sea. And treachery is its only recourse. A lackey has declared himself Lord of the defeated, amassing the still fearsome remnants of a ruthless fighting force together for one final assault on a weakened, vulnerable realm. For the warriors who remained steadfast against terrible numbers, for the courageous souls who barely survived a devastating onslaught upon their homeland, the time to rebuild and renew has not yet come. The war is not over in Midkemia. And Jimmy and Dash--two young noble brothers who stand at the center of a gathering storm--are impelled to action that could secure a tenuous peace...or turn triumph into catastrophe. The demon is no more. The enemy has been routed. But all is not well...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3653'),
(8471, 'Shards of Honor', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The start of the Vorkosigan Saga! It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. And Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force would be forced into a separate peace with her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan ....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9044'),
(8472, 'Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks &amp; the Sea', 'Peter Benchley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley draws on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face to face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family have encountered, almost always on purpose--but sometimes by accident.In direct and accessible prose, Peter sets the record straight about the many types of sharks (including the ones that pose a genuine threat to us), the behavior of sharks and other sea creatures we fear, the odds against an attack, and how to improve them even further. He also teaches us how to swim safely in the ocean by reading the tides and currents and respecting all the inhabitants. Here are the lessons Peter has learned, the mistakes he has made, the danger he has faced--and the spectacular sights he has seen in the world''s largest environment. The book includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4219'),
(8473, 'Sharp Turn', 'Marianne Delacourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tara Sharp is back in a new high octane mystery... This time she''s helping out motor racing mogul Bolo Ignatius whose team is being sabotaged and she''s also coaching the girls the local high class bordello on the finer points of body language reading. Tara Sharp is at it again! Things are finally looking up on the work front, which may just mean she''ll be able to escape living in her parent''s garage. Not only has the owner of a motorcycle racing team put her on retainer to find out who''s sabotaging his bikes, but a wealthy ''madam'' (of the bordello variety) wants her ''girls'' coached on how to read their clients more astutely. But dark clouds are gathering. The word is that local gang lord, Johnny Viaspa, has engaged a hitman known as ''the Finisher'' to clean up some ''unfinished business''. And given her previous history with Viaspa, Tara has reason to be concerned... As if that weren''t bad enough, Wal, her narcoleptic security chief is suddenly homeless and is eyeing off the couch in Tara''s digs while talking about ''keeping an eye on her''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7325'),
(8474, 'Sharpe&#39;s Battle - 12', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10610'),
(8475, 'Sharpe&#39;s Christmas - 19', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10609'),
(8476, 'Sharpe&#39;s Company - 13', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10604'),
(8477, 'Sharpe&#39;s Devil - 24', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10598'),
(8478, 'Sharpe&#39;s Eagle - 08', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10602'),
(8479, 'Sharpe&#39;s Enemy - 16', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10594'),
(8480, 'Sharpe&#39;s Escape - 10', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10622'),
(8481, 'Sharpe&#39;s Fortress - 03', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10608'),
(8482, 'Sharpe&#39;s Fury - 11', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10607'),
(8483, 'Sharpe&#39;s Gold - 09', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10599'),
(8484, 'Sharpe&#39;s Havoc - 07', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10621'),
(8485, 'Sharpe&#39;s Honour - 17', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10623'),
(8486, 'Sharpe&#39;s Prey - 05', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10606'),
(8487, 'Sharpe&#39;s Ransom - 23', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10592'),
(8488, 'Sharpe&#39;s Regiment - 18', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10587'),
(8489, 'Sharpe&#39;s Revenge - 21', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10611'),
(8490, 'Sharpe&#39;s Rifles - 06', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10585'),
(8491, 'Sharpe&#39;s Siege - 20', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10605'),
(8492, 'Sharpe&#39;s Skirmish - 15', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10620'),
(8493, 'Sharpe&#39;s Sword - 14', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10597'),
(8494, 'Sharpe&#39;s Tiger - 01', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10601'),
(8495, 'Sharpe&#39;s Trafalgar - 04', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10595'),
(8496, 'Sharpe&#39;s Triumph - 02', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10596'),
(8497, 'Sharpe&#39;s Waterloo - 22', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10591'),
(8498, 'Sharper Than a Serpent&#39;s Tooth', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private Eye John Taylor is the only thing standing between his not-quite-human mother and the destruction of the magical realm within London known as the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5773'),
(8499, 'Shattered', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As Alex and Colin speed toward their new home in San Francisco where Courtney awaits them, they are pursued by a madman who is also eager to see Courtney.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(8500, 'Shattered (Dick Francis)', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10971');
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(8501, 'The Shattered Land: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second book in the series written by Eberron creator Keith Baker.Author Keith Baker+s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. This is the sixth book in the Eberron line of novels.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Keith Baker\n  </strong>\n  is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of\n  <strong>\n   Eberron\n  </strong>\n  was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4391'),
(8502, 'She', 'H. Rider Haggard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ''crammer'' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, for which he never sat. Haggard''s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best-selling novel King Solomon''s Mines (1885). Amongst his other works are She (1887), Allan Quatermain (1888), Eric Brighteyes (1891) and Ayesha (1895).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1978'),
(8503, 'She Is The Darkness', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1879'),
(8504, 'She Is the Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone: A Novel of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10066'),
(8505, 'She Walks in Beauty: A Woman&#39;s Journey Through Poems', 'Caroline Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n , Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n draws on poetry''s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman''s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life''s journey.\n</p>\n<p>\n The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it''s falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  She walks in beauty\n </strong>\n <br />\n George Gordon, Lord Byron\n</p>\n<p>\n I She walks in beauty, like the night\n <br />\n Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that''s best of dark and bright\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet in her aspect and her eyes:\n <br />\n Thus mellow''d to that tender light\n <br />\n Which heaven to gaudy day denies.\n</p>\n<p>\n II One shade the more, one ray the less,\n <br />\n Had half impair''d the nameless grace\n <br />\n Which waves in every raven tress,\n <br />\n Or softly lightens o''er her face;\n <br />\n Where thoughts serenely sweet express\n <br />\n How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.\n</p>\n<p>\n III And on that cheek, and o''er that brow,\n <br />\n So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,\n <br />\n The smiles that win, the tints that glow,\n <br />\n But tell of days in goodness spent,\n <br />\n A mind at peace with all below,\n <br />\n A heart whose love is innocent!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n CAROLINE KENNEDY is the author and editor of seven bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. She is the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5396'),
(8506, 'She, Myself &amp; I', 'Whitney Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Cassel sisters have little in common besides a pair of wacky parents and a maddening knack for eluding happily-ever-after endings. But when their lives require damage control, only a dose of sisterhood will do.Paige, the oldest, is a go-getter divorce attorney whoâ€™s reeling from her own disastrously failed marriageâ€“and the fact that her ex has suddenly come roaring out of the closet with a cute boyfriend in tow. Middle sister Sophie is having trouble adjusting to life as a wife and expectant mom. With her doubts on the rise along with her weight, sheâ€™s ogling every available baked goodâ€“and every available manâ€“that crosses her path. And up-and-coming medical student Mickey has a racy new plan for her future thatâ€™s sure to shock her entire family. It includes a dangerously handsome, decidedly married chefâ€¦private cooking lessonsâ€¦and spicy lingerie. To top it all off, the parents who dragged them through the Divorce from Hell years ago are acting like teenagers in loveâ€¦with each other! One by one, Paige, Sophie, and Mickey are about to learn just how good it is to have a sisterly shoulderâ€“or twoâ€“to lean on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3418'),
(8507, 'Sheba', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11038'),
(8508, 'Sheltering Hearts', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraqâ€”his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town''s famous welcoming spirit. Dan Brady has a questionable past, and he''s looking for a place to start over. He''d like it to be Virgin Riverâ€¦if he can find a way in. But he never expects to find it in the arms of a woman who was as much an outcast as himself. For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers them a chance to make peace with the men they once wereâ€¦and to find the dreams they thought they''d lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5038'),
(8509, 'The Shelters of Stone', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jean Auel''s fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In\n <em>\n  The Shelters of Stone\n </em>\n , Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar''s mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancÃ©e? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can''t quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn''t just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar''s tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel''s first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It''s an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tiny minority of authors with the power to sell millions of novels each time out are a diverse bunch, but they share a talent for ushering readers into previously closed worlds, whether they''re the top-secret inner sanctums of the American military or the ancient lands of magic. The best of them craft terrific stories that tap into universal topics, primal fears and deep-seated longings. In 1980, Auel became a member of this elite club. Her first novel, Clan of the Cave Bear, the exceptional and absorbing account of a bright Cro-Magnon girl struggling to understand the ways of the Neanderthals who adopted her, became a huge bestseller and launched the Earth''s Children series, which has sold 34 million copies to date. In the next three of an intended six volumes, Ayla the Cro-Magnon girl grew up and put a pretty face on our earliest ancestors, as Auel explored the mother of all human themes: adapt or die. After the fourth bestseller, The Plains of Passage, however, 12 years elapsed, and Auel thereby added the protracted anticipation of her fans to her bestselling mix. Here at last, beautiful Ayla and her tall, gorgeous Cro-Magnon lover, Jondalar, arrive in Jondalar''s Zelandonii homeland, to live with his clan in vast caves of what today is France. Travelling with a pet wolf and two horses, able to speak the strange language of the "flatheads," Ayla is once again an exotic outsider. Pregnant with Jondalar''s child and as zealous in her desire to help as she is resourceful and creative as a medicine woman, Ayla soon wins the respect of the people she wishes to join. Bursting with hard information about ancient days and awash in steamy sex (though lacking the high suspense that marked Ayla''s debut), Auel''s latest will not only please her legions of fans but will hit the top of the list, pronto.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8117'),
(8510, 'The Sheriff of Yrnameer', 'Michael Rubens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett,The Sheriff of Yrnameeris sci-fi comedy at its best-mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling page-turner. Meet Cole: hapless space rogue and part-time smuggler. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxyrs"s most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out to be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans. Cole gathers a misfit crew for a desperate journey to the far reaches of the galaxy: the mysterious world of Yrnameer, the very last of the "your-name-heres"-planets without corporate sponsors. But little does Cole suspect that this legendary utopia is home to a band of outlaws bent on destroying the planetrs"s tiny, peaceful community.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2744'),
(8511, 'Sherlock Holmes and the King&#39;s Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World&#39;s Greatest Detective', 'Donald Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with a supernatural curse placed upon an eccentric aristocrat and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron.  But it is all in a days work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to ratiocinate another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5410'),
(8512, 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Novels', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every one of the immortal Sherlock Holmes novels appears in this single volume, unabridged, embellished with beautiful original illustrations, and reasonably priced. The classic works include: A Study in Scarlet, the very first Holmes adventure; The Sign of Four, where Holmes solves the case of a missing treasure in India; The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which Holmes and Watson find themselves involved in an age-old curse; and The Valley of Fear, with a battle between Holmes and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. â€œRemarkably affordable and complete. Reproductions of old illustrations are enchanting.â€â€”Baltimore Sun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4902'),
(8513, 'Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated', 'Doyle, Arthur Conan Sir', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9388'),
(8514, 'The Sherlockian', 'Graham Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Moore''s debut cleverly sets an accidental investigator on the track of an old document within the world of Sherlock Holmes buffs, though the results may please those with only a superficial knowledge of the great detective. In January 2010, Harold White, "a freelance literary researcher" who helps defend Hollywood studios against claims of copyright infringement, is inducted into the pre-eminent Sherlockian society, the Baker Street Irregulars, at their annual New York City dinner. During the festivities, scholar Alex Cale plans to present a long-lost diary penned by Arthur Conan Doyle that he''s discovered, but someone strangles Cale before he can do so. Doyle''s great-grandson hires White to solve the murder and trace the diary, which is missing from Cale''s hotel room. Chapters alternate between White''s amateur sleuthing in Europe and Doyle''s own account of his search for a serial killer, aided by Dracula creator Bram Stoker. Admirers of similar efforts by Anthony Boucher, H. Paul Jeffers, and Arthur Lewis will find this falls short of their standard. (Dec.) (c)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The problem with Conan Doyleâ€™s Sherlock Holmes stories is that there arenâ€™t enough of them. Fans try to fill the gap with spin-offs, some of which work better than others. This engaging riff on the familiar themes by first-novelist Moore is one of the best. His book alternates two stories and two centuries. The modern hero is twentysomething Harold Whiteâ€”mild, bookish, and smart. Heâ€™s just been initiated into the prestigious Baker Street Irregulars when a premier Holmes expert announces that he has found Conan Doyleâ€™s long-lost 1900 diary. Then the expert is murdered. Maybe. The game is afoot, and soâ€™s Harold. The hero of the alternate chapters is Conan Doyle himself, gleeful after sending that hawkshaw Holmes to his death at Reichenbach Falls and ready to write real literature. But murders intervene, and he and his friend Bram Stoker must investigate. All these gumshoes, past and present, use Holmesâ€™ methods. Moore spins his tale in prose that shifts easily from exposition to pathos to sly comedy. Itâ€™s based on fact: in 2004, a premier Sherlockian was found dead after claiming heâ€™d discovered Conan Doyleâ€™s lost papers. Mystery fans should love the mix of historical fiction and contemporary puzzle-solving. And Sherlockians? Try keeping them away. --Don Crinklaw\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6675'),
(8515, 'The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History', 'Philip Bobbitt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The scope of Philip Bobbitt''s\n  <em>\n   The Shield of Achilles\n  </em>\n  is breathtaking: the interplay, over the last six centuries, among war, jurisprudence, and the reshaping of countries ("states," in Bobbitt''s vocabulary). Bobbitt posits that certain wars should be deemed epochal--that is, seen as composed of many "smaller" wars. For example, according to Bobbitt the epochal war of the 20th century began in 1914 and ended with the collapse of communism in 1990. These military affairs--and their subsequent "ultimate" peace agreements--have caused, each in their own way, revolutionary reconstructions of the idea and actuality of statehood and, following, of relationships between these various new entities. Of these reconstructions (including the princely state, the kingly state, and the nation-state), Bobbitt is most interested in the current incarnation, which he calls the market-state: one whose borders are scuffed and hazy at best (certainly compared to earlier territorial markers) and whose strengths, weaknesses, citizens, and enemies roam across cyberspace rather than plains and valleys.\n  <em>\n   The Shield of Achilles\n  </em>\n  is massive, erudite, and demanding--at once highly abstract and extremely detailed. There is about it an air of detached erudition, one noticeably free of the easy "decline and fall" hysteria too often present in contemporary historical analyses.\n  <em>\n   --H. O''Billovich\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is at a pivotal point, argues Bobbitt, as the nation-state, developed over six centuries as the optimal institution for waging war and organizing peace, gives way to the market-state. Nation-states derive legitimacy from promising to improve the material welfare of their citizens, specifically by providing security and order. Market-states offer to maximize the opportunity of their people. Nation-states use force and law to bring about desired results. Market-states use various forms of market relationships. Bobbitt, who has an endowed chair at the University of Texas and has written five previous books on constitutional law and on nuclear strategy, argues in sprawling fashion that this paradigm shift is essentially a consequence of the "Long War" of 1914-1990, a struggle among communism, fascism and parliamentarism that, through innovation and mimicry, generated a fundamentally new constitutional and strategic dynamic that in turn generated a fundamentally new "society of states." Central to Bobbitt''s thesis is the postulate that international order is a consequence of domestic order. In the work''s most stimulating section, Bobbitt discusses three possible ways of reorganizing the latter. The "Meadow," essentially an extrapolation of socio-political patterns currently dominant in the U.S., features high levels of individualism around the world at the expense of collective behavior at any level. The "Park," based on a European alternate, emphasizes regionalism. The "Garden" predicates successful market states disengaging from international affairs and emphasizing renewed internal community. None of these systems will eliminate war, but the nation-state is declining, Bobbitt argues, essentially because nonstate actors confront the nation-state with threats it cannot effectively respond to. This big book is provocative and richly textured, but too often Bobbitt''s arguments are obscured by his historically digressive presentation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8021'),
(8516, 'Shield of Lies', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Leia must deal with a new threat to the  fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando  becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of  unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable  path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial  forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about  his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every  belief about the use of the Force is about to be  challenged. And while Leia ponders a diplomatic  solution to the aggression of the fierce Yevetha race,  Han pilots a spy ship into the heart of Yevethan  space and finds himself a hostage on one of the  vast fleet of warships under the command of a  ruthless leader.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11183'),
(8517, 'Shield of Thunder', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The second novel in David Gemmellâ€™s bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best.War is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.Into this maelstrom of treachery come three travellers: Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret; Kalliades, a warrior with high ideals and a legendary sword; and his close friend Banokles, who will carve his own legend in the battles to come.Together they journey to the fabled city of Troy, where a darkness is falling that will eclipse the triumphs and personal tragedies of ordinary mortals for centuries to come.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1518'),
(8518, 'Shift', 'Tim Kring; Dale Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of rs"60s counterculture and the rise of dark forces in world government.Heroescreator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if. Set in the crucible of the 1960s,Shiftis the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler deshy;velops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandlerrs"s heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassishy;nate President Kennedy. Propelled to prevent the conspiracy of assassishy;nation and anarchy, Chandler becomes a target for deadly forces in and out of the government and is pursued across a simmering landscape peopled by rogue CIA agents, Cuban killers, Mafia madmen, and ex-Nazi scientistshellip;all the while haunted by a beautiful woman with her own scandalous past to purge, her own score to settle. Chased across America, will Chandler be able to harness his "shift" and rewrite history? Combining the nonstop style of Ludlum with the sinister, tangled conspiracies of DeLillo and Dick, and featuring cameos from Lee Harvey Oswald to Timothy Leary to J. Edgar Hoover,Shiftis a thriller guaranteed to be equal parts heart-stopping and thought-provoking. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4106'),
(8519, 'Shift: A Novel', 'Tim Kring &amp; Dale Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3499'),
(8520, 'The Shifter', 'Janice Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Takerâ€”with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister, Tali, and the other Takers who become Healers'' League apprentices, Nya''s skill is flawed: She can''t push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it into another person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden from forces occupying her city. If discovered, she''d be used as a human weapon against her own people. Rumors of another war make Nya''s life harder, forcing her to take desperate risks just to find work and food. She pushes her luck too far and exposes her secret to a pain merchant eager to use her shifting ability for his own sinister purposes. At first Nya refuses, but when Tali and other League Healers mysteriously disappear, she''s faced with some difficult choices. As her father used to say, principles are a bargain at any price; but how many will Nya have to sell to get Tali back alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2005'),
(8521, 'Shifters', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Captain Jack Cordesman is investigating a series of murders. The victims appear to have been partially eaten. The only evidence linking these murders are the red, female hairs found at the crime scenes and a bar napkin with a poem scribbled on it. With a rundown mansion, priceless cars, and guest houses filled with brutalities you''ll never forget, Shifters is full of fun time gore and monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9877'),
(8522, 'The Shining Ones', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. It rested at the very bottom of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing temptation to mortal men. Now Sparhawk, Knight and Queen''s Champion, must retrieve that Sapphire Rose from its briny sleep. For only with the might of Bhelliom could he hope to thwart the fiendish schemes directed against the Tamul empire, and against his own homeland. Sparhawk''s journey to recover Bhelliom would be fraught with peril. Only with Goddess'' help could he hope to recover the stone. And that would only begin his quest, for the forces of evil sought to capture the gem for their own diabolical ends. Sparhawk and his loyal companions must keep Bhelliom safe from those who sought to steal it, as well as from the horrors which those evildoers had already loosed upon the world. Most feared of all the monsters that terrorized Tamuli were the Shining Ones: dreaded, glowing beings whose merest touch could melt human flesh from bone. All too soon, Sparhawk and his allies found themselves stalked by those fell creatures out of myth. For the Shining Ones, too, had designs on Bhelliom - designs that would change the very shape of the world... David Eddings launches a triumphant new chapter in his bestselling saga, The Tamuli, an astonishing quest ranging across majestic continents and among strange peoples. Once again Eddings weaves his unique and compelling brand of magic into an unforgettable tapestry of men and women and Gods, of sorcery and valor, and of an ancient world on the brink of cataclysm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10504'),
(8523, 'The Shining', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High in the isolated, wintry Rocky Mountains, terror awaits behind every door of the Overlook Hotel--a place where the guests are deceased but not necessarily departed. Now the only hope against the ghastly forces that threaten to claim the hotel''s caretaker and his family is his young son, a boy possessed of a fearsome power he neither knows nor understands. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4261'),
(8524, 'Shinju', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland''s first book in a murder mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Ichiro is a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers.When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in what seems to be a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the cause was their forbidden love. Everyone, that is, but Sano Ichiro.Despite the official verdict and being warned off by his superiors, the shoguns Most Honourable Investigator of Events, Situations and People suspects this double death was not only a tragedy it was murder. Risking his familys good name and his own life, Sano will search for the killer across every level of society, determined to find answers to a mystery no one else seems to want solved . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2665'),
(8525, 'The Ship Avenged', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9826'),
(8526, 'The Ship of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An amazing voyage around the beautiful Greek islands becomes an exciting quest to find the lost treasure of the Andra! Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack are plunged into a search for hidden riches '' with some ruthless villains hot on their trail! Will they find the treasure before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(8527, 'Ship of Destiny', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the powerful conclusion to the Liveship Traders trilogy, Robin Hobb weaves the spellbinding story of a once-thriving city on the brink of ruin, a glorious and mythic species on the edge of extinction, and the Vestrit clan, whose destiny is intertwined with both....As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the cityâ€™s inhabitants together against the Chalcedean threat. Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship Vivacia from the ruthless pirate Kennit. Bold though it is, her scheme may be in vain. For her beloved Vivacia will face the most terrible confrontation of all as the secret of the liveships is revealed. It is a truth so shattering, it may destroy Vivacia and all who love her, including the boy-priest Wintrow Vestrit, whose life already hangs in the balance....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3503'),
(8528, 'Ship of magic', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown''s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea''s young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3470'),
(8529, 'Ship of the Line', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s Captain Picard vs. a rabid Klingon in this latest Trekfest.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Ship Of The Line\n  </em>\n  tells the story of the first voyage of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  NCC-1701-E, under the command of Morgan Bateson. Captain Bateson, a man from the 23rd century now living in the 24th, sees what no one else can see: that the Klingon Empire is building its forces and preparing to strike against the Federation. Seizing his one chance, Bateson takes the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  on a mission to counter the Klingon threat, only to be thwarted by his enemy, a Klingon who has nursed a grudge against Bateson for decades. Standing in the way of Bateson''s scheme and the Klingons'' plan is Captain Jean-Luc Picard who, faced with the toughest decision of his career, must choose whether to take back command of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Enterprise\n  </em>\n  or let the torch pass to yet another next generation!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7276'),
(8530, 'Ship That Returned', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10901'),
(8531, 'The Ship Who Sang', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved and implanted into the titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner, to soar with her through the daring adventures and exhilarating escapades in space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10808'),
(8532, 'The Ship Who Saved the Worlds', 'Anne McCaffrey; Jody Lynn Nye', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10864'),
(8533, 'The Ship Who Searched', 'Anne McCaffrey; Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A tale of courage and adventure, set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang . A precocious seven-year-old girl has been afflicted by a paralyzing alien virus, and cannot survive outside a mechanical support system. She straps on a spaceship and sets out to find what it was that laid her low.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10851'),
(8534, 'The Ship Who Won', 'Anne McCaffrey; Jody Lynn Nye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Like Helva, the Ship who Sang, (and Nancia from "PartnerShip, " Tia from the "The Ship who Searched," and Simeon, who runs "The City Who Fought)." Carialle wsa born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. And again like those others, Carialle decided she would strap on a "spaceship." Her brawn is a guy named Keff. Their mission to search ther galaxy to the galaxy for imtelligent beings to travel where no shellperson and her brave have gone before....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10806'),
(8535, 'The Shipping News', 'E. Annie Proulx', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(8536, 'The Ships of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony''s hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again.But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa''s spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik''s oldest son, Elemak, have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the difficult journey harder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5847'),
(8537, 'Shiver and Spice', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s not alive. She''s not dead. She''s somewhere in between And medium Dax Vicknair wants her desperately! When Dax first met and fell madly in love with teacher Celeste Beauchamp, he knew the attraction was hopeless. But his connection with Celeste was so intense so sexually charged, he couldn''t resist. Their relationship was short, sweet and temporary. Or so he thought...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Celeste is suddenly back and she''s doing everything she can to stay with Dax as long as possible. She''s waited for him, for his touch, her whole life. And nothing, not even her supposed death, is going to stop her from having him. Repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Celeste and Dax are living -- and loving -- on borrowed time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And it might cost them their future...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7782'),
(8538, 'The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism', 'Naomi Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **The bestselling author of *No Logo* shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic shock treatment, losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The Shock Doctrine* retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10911'),
(8539, 'Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...A Devastating New Technology...NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® is investigating the baffling deaths of thousands of Antarctic marine animals when he stumbles on something even more chilling. The passengers and crew of a cruise ship all died simultaneously and instantly, leaving stranded on a remote island whaling station a small party of tourists led by the beautiful Maeve Fletcher. And the carnage is just beginning, as Pitt''s investigation leads him to Maeve''s estranged father and sisters, owners of the global diamond cartel Dorsett Consolidated Mining. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett''s ruthless plans -- before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(8540, 'Shock!: 13 Tales to Thrill and Terrify', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4080'),
(8541, 'Shogun (The Asian Saga Chronology)', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9488'),
(8542, 'Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work', 'Matthew B. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Max Bloomquist brings his considerable talents to Crawford''s meditation on the meaning of work and disparity between blue collar and white collar occupations. Crawford draws on his own experienceâ€”he quit a miserable think tank job and has found joy and meaning working as a motorcycle mechanicâ€”to question the presumed value of the cubicle working world, deplore society''s disconnection from the material world and vividly convey the reward of working with one''s hands. Bloomquist reads with authority and erudition; his steady, everyman narration makes Crawford''s well-founded arguments even more persuasive.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n We note that\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n named\n <em>\n  Shop Class as Soulcraft\n </em>\n one of the top ten books of 2009. Reviewers were clearly intrigued by Crawford''s argument, but only a couple of them seemed fully persuaded. (The\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n critic, for example, admitted to enjoying Crawford''s manual work alongside his academic career.) But most critics, while praising the book''s overall premise, seemed a little hesitant about fully embracing\n <em>\n  Shop Class as Soulcraft\n </em>\n , perhaps because, as the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n reviewer observed, many of the author''s personal preferences and quirks, such as Crawford''s defense of dirty jokes, seem to impede his argument. However, it''s hard not to be interested in a philosopher who, in a nation that privileges intellectual attainment, can also successfully replace a carburetor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5315'),
(8543, 'Shopaholic and Baby', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Becky Brandon is pregnant! She couldn''t be more overjoyed--especially since shopping cures morning sickness. But when the celebrity must-have obstetrician turns out to be her husband''s glamorous ex-girlfriend, Becky''s perfect world starts to crumble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3732'),
(8544, 'Shopaholic and sister', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca Bloomwood is now happily married to Luke Brandon, and all her problems seem to be at an end. But suddenly into her life steps a sister, of whose existence Becky had hitherto been completely unaware. Becky is only too anxious to welcome her into the bosom of the family. But there is only one snag- she HATES shopping. She is the antithesis of the shopaholic. It all makes for some very difficult family relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3736'),
(8545, 'Shopaholic Takes Manhattan', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The irresistible heroine of **Confessions of a Shopaholic **and **Shopaholic Ties the Knot **is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.â€¦With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Beckyâ€™s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces heâ€™s moving to New York for businessâ€”and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say â€œPrada sample sale,â€ Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques. Surely itâ€™s only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Beckyâ€™s bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! **Shopaholic Takes Manhattan**â€”but will she have to return it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3738');
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(8546, 'Shopaholic ties the knot', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thereâ€™s never been a better excuse to buy a new dress...or two. Shopaholic Ties the KnotThe irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!--in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just canâ€™t say no to saying â€œI do.â€Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: Sheâ€™s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattanâ€™s West Village, and her new next door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that sheâ€™s been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything...Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Beckyâ€™s head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Beckyâ€™s overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mumâ€™s frilly old gown. While Lukeâ€™s high-society mother is insisting on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings for the same day. And Becky canâ€™t seem to turn down either one. Can everyoneâ€™s favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels?From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3735'),
(8547, 'Shopgirl', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of our country''s most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin has written a novella that is unexpectedly perceptive about relationships and life. Martin is profoundly wise when it comes to the inner workings of the human heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing. Still there is something about her that is irresistible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love -- with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, *Shopgirl* is a work of disarming tenderness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3825'),
(8548, 'The Shore Road Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy brothers try to find out who is behind a rash of automobile thefts that are occurring on Shore Road just outside of Bayport.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10296'),
(8549, 'A Short History of Myth', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is an pedestrian study from the noted and popular religion scholar, in which Armstrong takes a historical approach to myth, tracing its evolution through a series of periods, from the Paleolithic to the postmyth Great Western Transformation. Each period developed myths reflecting its major concerns: images of hunting and the huntress dominated the myths of the Paleolithic, while the myths of Persephone and Demeter, Isis and Osiris developed in the agricultural Neolithic period. By the Axial Age (200 B.C. through A.D. 1500), myths became internalized, so that they no longer needed to be acted out. Reason, says Armstrong, largely supplanted myth in the Post-Axial Period, which she sees as a source of cultural and spiritual impoverishment; she even appears, simplistically, to attribute genocide to the loss of "the sense of sacredness" myth offers. Armstrong goes on to relate that in the 20th century, a number of writers, such as Eliot, Joyce, Mann and Rushdie, recovered the power of myth for contemporary culture. Although the book offers no new perspectives or information on the history of myth, it does provide a functional survey of mythology''s history. But a more engaging choice would be Kenneth Davis''s\n  <em>\n   Don''t Know Much About Mythology\n  </em>\n  (Reviews, Sept. 5).\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this essay, superpopular religion historian Armstrong (_Islam: A Short History_, 2000) fastens the attributes of myth to the major chronological categories of human history. At each transition from the Paleolithic to scientific eras, she argues that a mythical conception of natural forces has drifted ever further from interpretation in pragmatic and logical terms, such that myth in modern times is a beleaguered species of fiction. To Armstrong this state reflects a profound misunderstanding of what myth is and does. Defining it as an art form that, on the assumption of the existence of an invisible realm of reality, protects one against the despair arising from the limitations of the tactile world (death in particular), Armstrong relates how mythology has historically been reformulated. She traces a theogony, illustrating it with examples from Chinese, Middle Eastern, Egyptian, and Greek cultures, as sky worship phased into anthropomorphic gods and then into ethical systems such as those of Confucius or Jesus. Written with great explanatory clarity, Armstrong''s review of mythology is an efficient, fascinating experience.\n  <em>\n   Gilbert Taylor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4515'),
(8550, 'A short history of nearly everything', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the worldâ€™s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In **A Walk in the Woods**, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In **In A Sunburned Country**, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the worldâ€™s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. **A Short History of Nearly Everything*** *is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/868'),
(8551, 'A Short History of the World.', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1703'),
(8552, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian', 'Marina Lewycka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their fathers intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully. A charming comedy of eros... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty. Los Angeles Times Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past. Chicago Tribune Charming, poignantly funny. The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2395'),
(8553, 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are two sides to every story... Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4335'),
(8554, 'Short Stories', 'Collected Short Stories', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8991'),
(8555, 'Short Story - Equipment', 'Matthew Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9530'),
(8556, 'Short Story Writing', 'Raymond Charles Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  This book is an attempt to put into definite form the principles observed by the masters of the short story in the practice of their art. It is the result of a careful study of their work, of some indifferent attempts to imitate them, and of the critical examination of several thousands of short stories written by amateurs. It is designed to be of practical assistance to the novice in short story writing, from the moment the tale is dimly conceived until it is completed and ready for the editor''s judgment. The rules and principles here presented embody not what I conceive to be right, but what the great masters of the short story have thought to be right, and what they have proved to be at least successful. I speak only as a delver into the secrets of other men; and if I seem arrogant, it is due to the influence of the company I keep. My deductions are made not only from the artifices and triumphs of the successful, but from the struggles and failures of the unfortunate as well; and I have endeavored to make clear both the philosophy and the application of all the principles so deduced. Though in theory these rules are obligatory on all who essay the short story, they are frequently and knowingly evaded or violated by the masters of the art, whose genius is great enough to excuse their disregard of the conventions, or whose skill is sufficient to smooth over their technical lapses; but for the novice the only safe course is a careful observance of all conventions.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8002'),
(8557, 'The Short-Wave Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When thieves hijack a collection of stuffed animals from a country auction, Frank and Joe Hardy pursue the getaway car and are drawn into a thrilling mystery. The recently acquired interest of their best pal, chubby Chet Morton, in taxidermy as a hobby adds fresh twists to the puzzle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10282'),
(8558, 'The Shotgun Rule (2007)', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10031'),
(8559, 'Shottle Bop', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9789'),
(8560, 'Shoulder the Sky: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this excellent sequel to 2003''s\n <em>\n  No Graves As Yet\n </em>\n , bestseller Perry continues the exploits of the Reavley children, who lost their parents in a devastating car crash that proved to be no accident on the eve of WWI. The implications of that double homicide continue to dog Joseph, a military chaplain in the thick of trench warfare at Ypres; his sister, Judith, a volunteer driver/translator for the general in command of that front; and their brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer. While justice of a sort was meted out to the man directly responsible for the murder of their parents, the Reavleys believe a master manipulator and traitor they have dubbed the "Peacemaker," who seeks a radical alliance between king and kaiser to end the bloodshed, was the prime mover. When Joseph finds the corpse of an arrogant, bullying journalist in no-man''s land, he soon realizes that a British hand was responsible, and that even in the midst of war''s savagery, his conscience demands that he seek out the truth. This classic puzzle is nicely paralleled by Matthew''s dogged search for the Peacemaker''s identity. Perry cleverly resolves some plot lines while reserving the solution of others for future mysteries. Though her depiction of the ravages of war is not at the level of a Charles Todd, she does a superb job of bringing the grimness and waste to life, in a nice shift of gears from her two 19th-century historical series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - In the trenches of Flanders, the Reverend Joseph Reavley goes about the task of trying to keep up the morale of the British soldiers, extending his duties to assisting in bringing men back from the barbed-wired and mud-mired "no man''s land." When he retrieves the body of an egotistical correspondent, Eldon Prentice, every person who knew him confesses to being glad he was killed. However, it wasn''t the Germans who murdered him, but one of their own, and Reavley decides to investigate. Perry''s eye for historical detail masterfully places the main characters in settings exactingly correct for the era, whether London, the trenches, or the English countryside. The characters'' emotions and thoughts capture the confusion, frustration, and determination of those fighting the war. Without describing too graphically the horrors of the front, the author presents memorable tableaux of a soldier, an ambulance driver, a doctor, a field nurse, and those in positions of leadership and trust. The murder investigation and espionage greatly enhance the action and interest in the complex plot._ - Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8573'),
(8561, 'Shout at the Devil', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _Wilbur Smith''s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In\n  <em>\n   SHOUT AT THE DEVIL\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization''s war..._\n  <br />\n  __\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A MAN ON HIS OWN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  They couldn''t be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O''Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn''t break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  A WOMAN IN LOVE\n </strong>\n <br />\n From the moment Rosa O''Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love forever--never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where O''Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fear--and everything to lose...\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALL\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival--against nature, man, and the devil himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  --_The _\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _ Post Book World_\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  "[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifyingâ€¦. Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story\n </strong>\n ."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Orlando\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Sentinel_\n </strong>\n _ _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9139'),
(8562, 'Show Me the Sky', 'Nicholas Hogg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  British author Hogg''s elaborate debut centers on the hunt for self-destructive rock star Billy K, who vanished into thin air on a Cornish cliff top. After a year of fruitless searching, Insp. James Dent, a rogue London policeman, isn''t giving up. The last known clue about Billy K is that he was reading\n  <em>\n   Show Me the Sky\n  </em>\n  , the journal of a 19th-century missionary, Nelson Babbage of Whitechapel, London (formerly Naqarase Baba of Lakemba, Fiji). Taking a new approach to the case, Dent travels first to Australia, then to Kenya and finally back to London in his quest to find the missing singer. Extracts from\n  <em>\n   Show Me the Sky\n  </em>\n  , which chronicle Babbage/Naqarase''s return to his homeland with a group of English missionaries, stand out as the most compelling of the various narrative strands, some of which are slow to develop. His vivid adventures at sea will remind many of Poe''s\n  <em>\n   The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This ambitious first novel by BritishÂ writer Hogg moves back and forth in time and across several continents, offering multiple narrative strands and characters.Â The novelâ€™s central arc follows Detective James Dent, who has spent the last year on the hunt for missing British rock star Billy K. Obsessed with the case, Dent abandons his job to track a final, desperate lead in Australia. Intercut with the hunt are passages fromÂ a journal Billy K was reading when he was last spotted. It contains the writing of nineteenth-century Fijian missionary Nelson Babbage, whose vivid rendering of colonial oppression forms the backbone of Hoggâ€™s themes of identity and assimilation. Other narrative strands followÂ motorcycle rider CalÂ and theÂ touching lettersÂ he pens to his girlfriend while slowly dying in the Australian Outback,Â and an exhausted teenage runaway whoÂ appears toÂ be the teenage incarnation of Detective Dent.Â There isÂ so much going onÂ plotwise that theÂ story never quite gels, yetÂ its hybrid natureâ€”itâ€™s part thriller, part historical novelâ€”and confident writing make for an intriguing read. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4474'),
(8563, 'Show No Fear', 'Marliss Melton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FEAR HAS A WAY...Lucy Donovan always gets her man. As a fiercely independent CIA agent, she''s survived hundreds of death-defying missions. But her latest may just get her killed. Weighed down with a secret she''s desperate to keep, the last thing Lucy needs is to be sent undercover with a man who brings out the best--and the worst--in her.OF GETTING YOU KILLEDNavy SEAL Gus Atwater never turns down an assignment, even if it means working with the only woman he''s ever loved and lost. So with a volatile mix of desire and distrust, Lucy and Gus confront their tangled past. Pretending to be man and wife is risky enough, but now the clock is running out. As their mission escalates from desperate to deadly, will Lucy''s secret expose them both?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2235'),
(8564, 'Shrimp', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With Shrimp, pop culture wordsmith Rachel Cohn successfully resurrects Cyd Charisse, the irrepressible punk princess from her breakout hit, Gingerbread. C.C. is back from an emotional summer in NYC where she met her biological father for the first time and nursed her karmic wounds after a messy breakup with her short-statured surfer boyfriend, Shrimp. Now, it is the start of senior year in San Francisco, and C.C. is determined to get the surfer boy of her dreams back. She is aided and abetted by new friends, Helen and Autumn, and "old" girlfriend, sunny octogenarian Sugar Pie. When Cyd''s cool half-sib Danny invites her back to NYC for a long weekend, will C.C.''s turn eastward--away from Shrimp''s surfer dreams? Shrimp''s bright cover belies the frank, sexy narrative within that is definitely not for the tween audience of Cohn''s middle-grade novel, The Steps. But older teen fans are going to love guessing what their unapologetic, espresso- and Nestle Crunch bar-addicted antiheroine will do next. Are Shrimp and C.C. destined to move in together after graduation? Or will Shrimp''s brother''s wedding give them second thoughts? Whatever happens, Cyd Charisse is convinced that "at the end of the road, there will always be a Shrimp." Cohn''s Shrimp is a witty, sparkling sequel that was definitely worth the wait. --Jennifer Hubert Amazon.com Exclusive Content In this exclusive essay, author Rachel Cohn tells Amazon.com readers why she decided to write a sequel to her wildly popular novel, Gingerbread, how she "hears" from Cyd, and what she thinks of Shrimp. Enjoy! Why Shrimp? by Rachel Cohn When authors are lucky (or mildly disturbed--you be the judge), character voices speak to them when they''re least expecting it. This is what Cyd Charisse does to me. She wakes me up from deep sleeps to narrate commune fantasies; she accosts me on the subway to rummage through the deep well of my purse for a notepad and pen to jot down her observations on the Manhattan freak experience; she makes me use up frequent-flyer miles for jaunts to San Francisco to savor her favorite dim sum. I knew when I finished writing her story in Gingerbread that she and I were not finished--it was just a question of when she would decide to kidnap my attention again. She was helped along the way by a bounty of readers writing to me to demand to know if Cyd Charisse and her true love, Shrimp, would find their way back to each other. But C.C., like her author, needed some time and maturity before she could figure that one out. Read more from "Why Shrimp?"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3271'),
(8565, 'The Shroud Codex', 'Jerome R. Corsi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Corsi weaves an intriguing tale of science and religion that is more than a good read--it is about as near to an out-of-body experience as we are bound to witness. Believers and non-believers alike will be attracted to this book, if not for the same reasons."--Bill Donahue, The Catholic league for Religious and Civil Rights\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The priest. . . . Brought back to life on an operating room table after a horrific car crash, Father Paul Bartholomew is haunted by frightening visionsâ€”especially the moments when he seems to inhabit the body of Christ at Golgotha. The skeptics. . . . Dr. Stephen Castle, a New York City psychiatrist and renowned atheist, has built an international reputation for his book arguing that religion is a figment of human imagination. Professor Marco Gabrielli, an Italian religious researcher and chemist, has made a career of debunking supposed miracles, of explaining the unexplainable. The miracle. . . . For centuries, however, the Shroud of Turin has defied scientific explanation. Is this ancient remnant that bears such a vividly detailed pictorial representation truly the burial cloth that wrapped Christ after he was taken down from the cross? Or is it the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the Christian community? As Father Bartholomewâ€”newly returned to his parish, the venerable St. Josephâ€™s Church in upper Manhattanâ€”celebrates Mass, blood starts running down his arm. The horrified congregation watches him collapse to the ground, his vestments soaked with the blood pouring from wounds on his wrists. The phenomenon is known as stigmata, when a person appears to manifest the wounds that Christ suffered upon the cross. But in Father Bartholomewâ€™s case there is a mysterious added dimension: he has been transformed to resemble in almost every physical aspect the Christ-like figure represented on the Shroud of Turin. Worried that Bartholomewâ€™s case could be proved a hoax, the Vatican employs Dr. Castle and Professor Gabrielli to investigate. But for the well-known psychiatrist and the experienced man of science both, Father Bartholomew presents the most perplexing challenge either has ever faced. Dr. Castle watches in person while the priest appears to writhe in agony, blood spurting from wounds identical to those portrayed on the famous shroud, and he wonders if he too can have been sucked into some kind of shared hallucination. Meanwhile, Professor Gabrielliâ€”confident that he can reproduce the shroud by using materials and methods available in the Middle Agesâ€”works frantically to prove that the shroud is a medieval forgery.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when the priestâ€™s uncanny resemblance to the crucified Christ on the Shroud prompts the two men to investigate the famous artifact itself, each is finally forced to face mysteries that cannot be explained by sheer reason alone. It will be the most unsettlingâ€”and eventually soul-wrenchingâ€”journey of discovery they have ever undertaken.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Jerome R. Corsi, author of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  The Obama Nation,\n </em>\n comes a magnificent, thought-provoking first novel. Grounded in the same kind of in-depth, all-encompassing research that has distinguished Corsiâ€™s nonfiction,\n <em>\n  The Shroud Codex\n </em>\n plumbs the farthest reaches of science and the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5762'),
(8566, 'Shutter Island', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1179'),
(8567, 'Sibs', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In an attempt to solve the mystery of her twin sister''s death in a 12-story plunge from a hotel room, Kara Wade uncovers a bizarre world of sex and violence--and worse. Something strange and evil lurks in her sister''s past that Kara must conquer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(8568, 'Sicilian Slaughter', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption have spread to all points of the globe. In the U.S. the Mafias influence has become as sophisticated as it is powerful. . . virtually no city is free of the mobs grip, hardly an industry is untouched by their sinister operations. Now, after a long and bloody wipeout trail across our country, Mack Bolan must lash out at the very root of the Mafia monster. Sicily has seemingly been quite remote from the underworld activities on our shores in recent years, but Bolan has discovered that a top Mafia family in the U.S. has masterminded the formation of a small army of killers in Sicily. They are undergoing intensive training in a small village practically in the shadow of Mount Etna. The purpose of their mission is secret. Bolans initial reconnaissance indicates that they are well into final preparations for what could be a major crime campaign. To strike where? And for whom? There is no time to learn more, or even to warn U.S. authorities. Bolan must go it alone, and face an army of assassins!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(8569, 'The Sicilian: Omerta', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mario Puzo has created masterful stories of evil on an epic scale, mesmerizing us with the terrible magic of the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2232'),
(8570, 'Sick of Shadows', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It would seem that even a pretend engagement cannot keep Lady Rose Summer from trouble. Bored with endless parties, teas and balls, she befriends Dolly Tremaine, a beautiful young girl newly arrived from the country and overwhelmed by the demands of the Season. Their friendship is cut tragically short, however, when Dolly is found dead in the river, with flowers in her hair and blood on her breast.Rose immediately summons her fianc_, investigator Captain Harry Cathcart, to help solve the mystery of Dolly_s death _ and to keep her from becoming the murderer_s next victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6065'),
(8571, 'Sick Puppy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10299'),
(8572, 'Siddhartha', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesseâ€™s Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmnâ€™s quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the extremes of indulgent sensuality to the rigors of ascetism and self-denial. At last he learns that wisdom cannot be taughtâ€“it must come from oneâ€™s own experience and inner struggle. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents a strikingly original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony and peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1907'),
(8573, 'Side Jobs', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Butcher''s long-running and bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden were stunned by the concluding events of the 2010 novel Changes. They''ll probably want to skip ahead to the last of this collection''s 11 stories, "Aftermath," set just hours after the end of that book. With Dresden''s fate uncertain, it''s his longtime ally, Sgt. Karrin Murphy, who must help find a kidnapped werewolf. This entry is the collection''s strongest, full of powerful emotion. The rest of the book is a mixed bag, ranging from Butcher''s first attempt at short fiction--"a novice effort" that "wasn''t up to par for professional publication"--to more recent tales set around and between the novels. First-timers will be lost, and this uneven volume mostly makes the case that Butcher''s talent is best displayed in longer form. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first short story collection in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series-including a brand-new Harry Dresden novella!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover,\n <em>\n  Changes\n </em>\n . This is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan as well as a perfect introduction for readers ready to meet Chicago''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5567'),
(8574, 'Sidetracked', 'Henning Mankell; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Swedenâ€™s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with a handful of obstaclesâ€”a department distracted by the threat of impending cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous long-distance relationship with a murdered policemanâ€™s widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the young girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1637'),
(8575, 'Sidney Sheldon&#39;s After the Darkness', 'Sidney Sheldon &amp; Tilly Bagshawe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Big bad business shenanigans turn a poor little rich girl into a turbocharged avenger in bestseller Bagshawe''s absorbing, if overheated, second Sheldonesque thriller (after\n <em>\n  Sidney Sheldon''s Mistress of the Game\n </em>\n ). Against her family''s wishes, New York socialite Grace Knowles marries Lenny Brookstein, who''s more than 30 years her seniorâ€”and one of the cofounders of Quorum, the most profitable hedge fund of all time. For a while, everything''s utterly fabulous, until Lenny''s investors lose $75 billion. When Lenny disappears after going for a solo sail off Nantucket one summer day (his body surfaces a month later), Grace winds up in prison for securities fraud, among other charges. Determined to clear her name and Lenny''s, Grace pulls off a daring escape. NYPD Det. Mitch Connors sets out to catch the elusive society beauty, but in the course of his hunt provides her some unexpected help. Sheldon fans will find only tenuous links to Sheldon''s own novels.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  What happens when the woman who has everything loses everything . . . and the man who has nothing realizes he has nothing to lose?\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n The young, naÃve wife of a multi-billionaire financial superstar, Grace Brookstein''s life is the stuff of fantasy. In New York, Lenny Brookstein is the King of the Wall Street social scene, both liked and respected in the worlds of high finance and high society.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then one day Lenny vanishes, his yacht discovered abandoned far out at sea. The police believe his death was no accident, that his involvement in a spectacular financial fraud was about to be exposed to the world. But Grace can''t accept the terrible allegations now coming to light, and she\n <em>\n  will\n </em>\n learn the truth . . . even if that truth destroys her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8618'),
(8576, 'Siege of Heaven', 'Tom Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Starred Review. British author Harper brings to life the political and religious passions of the 11th-century in his excellent conclusion to his First Crusade trilogy (after The Mosaic of Shadows and Knights of the Cross). While series hero Demetrios Askiates, a Greek in service to the Byzantine emperor, doesn''t have a mystery to solve as he did in the previous two books, Harper''s gifts as a writer are more than equal to the task of sustaining interest and suspense without that plot device. As various warlords compete to be the first to reach Jerusalem, Askiates attempts to free himself of his obligations to the emperor and return home to Constantinople. A diplomatic mission to gain the ruling Fatimids as allies against the Turks sends Askiates to Egypt instead, where he must endure a harrowing trek through the desert to survive. This first-rate historical makes accessible the prosaic details of everyday life in a distant era. Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. " Tom Harper writes with strident clarity in this epic tale of murder and betrayal, bloodshed and romance. Gripping from the first page, the reader is swept up in this colourful and convincing portrayal of an Emperor and his realm, under siege.Well-researched, and cinematic in its imagery, this is a fast-paced and exciting debut." -- "Ink "" Tom Harper'' s specialty is a hitherto unvisited era in historical crime fiction -- It'' s a world which Harper brings exuberantly to life, cleanly reveling in its teeming, tumultuous extravagance." -- "Yorkshire Evening Post " " Harper effortlessly draws the reader into the court intrigues and conspiracies of eleventh-century Byzantium in his outstanding debut" -- " Publishers'' Weekly " " Scholarly but speedy narrative, steeped in medieval horrors ranging from flogging to famine, all anchored in what feels like a passion for history and spelling out the way things were." -- "Literary Reviews" â€œTom Harper writes with strident clarity in this epic tale of murder and betrayal, bloodshed and romance. Gripping from the first page, the reader is swept up in this colourful and convincing portrayal of an Emperor and his realm, under siege.Well-researched, and cinematic in its imagery, this is a fast-paced and exciting debut.â€ â€” Ink â€œTom Harperâ€™s specialty is a hitherto unvisited era in historical crime fiction â€” Itâ€™s a world which Harper brings exuberantly to life, cleanly reveling in its teeming, tumultuous extravagance.â€ â€” Yorkshire Evening Post â€œHarper effortlessly draws the reader into the court intrigues and conspiracies of eleventh-century Byzantium in his outstanding debutâ€ â€” Publishersâ€™ Weekly â€œScholarly but speedy narrative, steeped in medieval horrors ranging from flogging to famine, all anchored in what feels like a passion for history and spelling out the way things were.â€ â€” Literary Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3425'),
(8577, 'The Siege of Macindaw (Book 6)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After years as a Rangerâ€™s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the Northâ€”poisoning the royal family in the processâ€”and is holding Willâ€™s friend Alyss captive. The situation grows direr when Will uncovers Kerenâ€™s secret alliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Time is of the essence, and Will must recruit a motley crew to rescue Alyss and reclaim Castle Macindawâ€”before the Scotti can make it their own. This New York Times bestselling series maintains its breathless pace in this newest installment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(8578, 'The Siege of MacIndaw', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After years as a Rangerâ€™s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the Northâ€”poisoning the royal family in the processâ€”and is holding Willâ€™s friend Alyss captive. The situation grows direr when Will uncovers Kerenâ€™s secret alliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Time is of the essence, and Will must recruit a motley crew to rescue Alyss and reclaim Castle Macindawâ€”before the Scotti can make it their own. This New York Times bestselling series maintains its breathless pace in this newest installment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4813'),
(8579, 'The Sigma Protocol', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaughâ€”a madman whoâ€™s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartmanâ€™s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmareâ€¦Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, thatâ€™s linked to the CIAâ€”and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma.As Anna follows the connecting threadâ€”and Hartman finds himself on the runâ€”she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of herâ€¦victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselvesâ€”and confirm their very worst fears...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3587'),
(8580, 'Sign of Chaos', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following the cliffhanger ending of Blood of Amber, Merlin is stranded in a surrealistic Alice in Wonderland-esque bar where the Mad Hatter serves cocktails. Managing to escape, Merlin meets new family members -- one of whom is intent on killing him. As events escalate, Merlin finds himself surrounded by his worst enemies including his ex-girlfriend -- back from the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9047'),
(8581, 'The Sign of the Crooked Arrow', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10303'),
(8582, 'Sign of the Cross', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No secret will keep forever. A Vatican priest is found murdered on the shores of Denmark - nailed to a cross in the shadow of Hamlet''s castle. He is the first victim in a vicious killing spree that spans the world. Each horrific murder mirrors the crucifixion of Christ. Meanwhile, deep in the Roman Catacombs of Orvieto, an archaeologist uncovers an ancient scroll dating back two thousand years. The scroll, he knows, holds the key to a dark and treacherous secret that will rock the very foundations of the Church. But only if he can decipher its lost meanings - and only if he can live long enough to reveal them. The enemies of the truth know no law of man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(8583, 'The Sign of the Four', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9381'),
(8584, 'Sign of the Unicorn', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Accepting the responsibilities as ruler to the world of Amber, Corwin finds himself the target of sibling treachery, and must seek guidance in a land of visions, where a sinister prediction foretells his doom. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9050');
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(8585, 'The Sign', 'Raymond Khoury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Another cutting-edge thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history from the bestselling author of *The Last Templar*** *New York Times* bestselling author Raymond Khouryâ€” whose debut novel, *The Last Templar*, has sold more than a million copies in the United States, and whose second, *The Sanctuary*, was also a major national bestsellerâ€”returns with *The Sign*. Like the first two, this new thriller combines gripping contemporary suspense with a high-concept mystery rooted in history, philosophy, religion, and science. And like those novels, it is bound for bestseller lists nationwide. In Antarctica, a scientific expedition drops anchor for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrivedâ€”the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile in a dusty bar in Egypt, a dozen men are lazily discussing the state of the world when the brilliant, glowing symbol on the television stops them cold. One man breaks out in a sweat, crosses himself repeatedly, and rushes out of the bar muttering the same phrase over and over again: *It canâ€™t be*. Across the Internet and around the globe, a stunning controversy threatens to consume the world: Has God finally decided to reveal himself? Or is something more sinister at hand? **Raymond Khoury/Steve Berry interview** STEVE BERRY: Your new thriller, *THE SIGN*â€”Iâ€™m gonna come right out and say it: I think itâ€™s your best one yet. What do you think? RAMOND KHOURY: Tough call. Itâ€™s my new baby, and much as I adore its elder siblings, it does have that newborn magic to it. STEVE: Trust me, it is. Itâ€™s also a bit of a departure from your first two books, in that it doesnâ€™t have the past-and-present storylines. Knowing how stories kind of take on a life of their own, that wasnâ€™t a conscious decision from the get-go, was it? RAYMOND KHOURY: No, it wasnâ€™t premeditated. Itâ€™s just the way the story came out. The whole story happens in the present. It takes place over a few manic daysâ€”I think youâ€™re familiar with that pacing, right?â€”and it deals with the present, itâ€™s about a â€˜what ifâ€™ situation thatâ€™s very today and now, thereâ€™s a mystery, something to figure out, but thereâ€™s no throwback to the past, no long lost secret to uncover. STEVE BERRY: Itâ€™s also very topical. Your editors must be pleased. RAYMOND: I guess it happened that way because the story came out of some very strong feelings I had, feelings about what was going on around the world, in the US and abroad. STEVE: Tell me about that process. Where the story came from. RAYMOND: Itâ€™s where they all come from, isnâ€™t it? That kernel, that one thought or one observation you have that just sticks and triggers a book, the one that bugs you late at night and that you canâ€™t shake. This one came to me while watching the news one day, and every item, one after another, it was all bad news. Not just bad, but it was like a lot of people were behaving so insanely in so many places around the worldâ€”and, sadly, a lot of it was fuelled by the manipulation or distortion of religious faithâ€” STEVE: â€”by intoleranceâ€” RAYMOND: â€”exactly. Intolerance and closed minds. And it got me thinking. About how divided we are, about how so many people all over the world believe in the absolute infallibility of their faith and how it rules every aspect of their livesâ€”you know what I mean, â€˜weâ€™re right, everyone else is wrong,â€™ that medieval mindsetâ€”and wondering if anything could ever unite the planet under a single faith. STEVE: One global religion. RAYMOND: Well, imagine if something did happen that convinced everyone that what we had until now, all these different religions that have grown over the last few thousand yearsâ€”what if something new came along that was so overwhelming that it was impossible to ignore? Would we listen? Would we drop our previous faiths and embrace it? STEVE: But your bookâ€™s about much more than that. Without wanting to give too much away, itâ€™s really a political thriller, isnâ€™t it? RAYMOND: Itâ€™s always so hard to talk about a book without giving too much awayâ€” STEVE: â€”itâ€™s the fine line we walk. RAYMOND: True. But yes, youâ€™re rightâ€”itâ€™s really about the absolute power something like that would bringâ€”and how it could be abused. Cause above all else, itâ€™s a thriller. Thereâ€™s got to be a brilliantly dastardly scheme, right? STEVE: Always. And this one certainly is dastardly. One thing Iâ€™ve noticed, though, in all three of your books so farâ€”theyâ€™re all, essentially, about the big questions that face us: why we believe, whether or not we have to die. Religion, longevity, life and death, science vs. faith ... Big questions. And in this one, you revisitâ€”though in a completely different wayâ€”the power of religion, the good it can bring as well as the bad, something that was also central to *THE LAST TEMPLAR*. Will this always be your signature genreâ€”books that have a big, central â€˜themeâ€™ at their core? RAYMOND: You asked me earlier about where the story came from. For me, in order to get excited about a book, it has to have a big central theme about how we live at its heart, something Iâ€™m interested in exploring. Itâ€™s got to be about something I care about deeply. Thatâ€™s what drives the story and the characters forward for me. Thatâ€™s what I hope makes the books stand out. That theyâ€™re not just page-turnersâ€”which ainâ€™t easy in itselfâ€”but that theyâ€™re also about something. I see it in your books too. A point of view about things, a passion for laying out interesting information about a topic that interests you. Michael Crichton used to do that very successfully. Dan Brown, of course, does it brilliantly. Thatâ€™s what makes the books worth writing, I think. STEVE: And in reading the book, itâ€™s clear you still had tons of research to do, even though there isnâ€™t a historic mysery to unravel? RAYMOND: Absolutely. Some of it was about historyâ€”the monasteries in Egypt, for one. Again, part of the story, organically. Had to be done, and we do love our history, donâ€™t we? STEVE: Guilty as charged. RAYMOND: But for this book, I didnâ€™t need to do that much of itâ€”nothing like what you did for *THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT*, for instance. Which I loved, by the way. Particularly since you beat me to using the Voynich Manuscript in a story! STEVE: We do seem to be spookily in sync with our writingâ€”as further evidenced by THE SIGNâ€™s opening in Antarcticaâ€” RAYMOND: â€”I know! STEVE: So tell meâ€”Matt and Gracie. Are we going to see them again? RAYMOND: I donâ€™t know. On the one hand, I envy your situation with Cotton Malone, youâ€™ve got a solid anchor for your books, youâ€™re building this great world around him, his son and Stephanie and Henrik and Cassiopeiaâ€”who I hope we see again real soonâ€”and itâ€™s meaty and itâ€™s epic and like the rest of your readers, Iâ€™m hooked and I want to know what they do next. Youâ€™ve got that, Lee Child has had it since day one with Reacher, Harlan Coben with Myron Bolitar, the list goes on. Great characters. Iâ€™d love to do that one day, but it has to feel right. I wasnâ€™t in that frame of mind in my first two books, certainly the world after the end of *THE SANCTUARY* would be a very different place from the world Mia started out in at the beginning of that book. Tess and Reilly, I could maybe bring back. A lot of fans have asked for that. But with *THE SIGN, I*initely think Matt and Gracie are characters that I could bring back. Iâ€™d like to put them through another wringer, and it feels like it would come naturally. But before I do that, Iâ€™m writing the next book which introduces a new lead character, so theyâ€™ll be getting a bit of a breather. STEVE: They sure can use it. Good luck with the book. RAYMOND: Thank you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3492'),
(8586, 'Signal Red', 'Robert Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling author Robert Ryan tells the story of the most ambitious robbery of the twentieth century, when seventeen men risked it all in their quest for adventure, success and fame. 1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints. Outraged by the gang''s audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3914'),
(8587, 'Signs and Portents: A Cricket Story', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3689'),
(8588, 'Silas Marner', 'George Eliot; Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work''s main themes and characters, a sketch of the author''s life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10663'),
(8589, 'Silence of the Grave', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik''s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Construction work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. But things are never that simple. While Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever. Alive with tension and atmosphere, and disturbingly real, this is an outstanding continuation of the Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(8590, 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of The Silence of the Lambs--an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3449'),
(8591, 'The Silent Cry', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No author since Dickens has captured the shadow side of Victoria''s England as masterfully as Anne Perry. In The Silent Cry, she once again exposes the particular vices spawned by an age renowned for its virtues and reforms. And our able guide is investigator William Monk, "the dark and brooding hero who infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul" (The New York Times Book Review). Deep in London''s filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys. The police cannot fathom these brutal assaults, until shrewd investigator William Monk uncovers a connection between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. Then it begins to seem shockingly clear that young Rhys Duff must have killed his own father. In a heartstopping courtroom drama, the Crown''s case against Rhys Duff, accused of patricide, begins its inexorable unfolding. With it Anne Perry adds another haunting chapter to her magnificent recreation of a bygone era.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(8592, 'The Silent Girl', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The Silent Girl\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Suspense doesn''t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory."â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time. Â \n <br />\n And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."â€”Lorraine Bracco\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] deft thriller.â€â€”_Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ice Cold\n </em>\n and Tess Gerritsen\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.â€â€”_Salon_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kind of book youâ€™d read in one sitting.â€â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmazing . . . another winner.â€â€”_The Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior do dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.â€â€”_The Providence Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorraine Bracco loves\n <em>\n  The Silent Girl\n </em>\n , saying "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time.Â  And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."\n</p>\n<p>\n No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind\n <em>\n  Ice Cold\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Keepsake\n </em>\n . When New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert handsâ€”and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Bostonâ€™s Chinatown will do both.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the murky shadows of an alley lies a femaleâ€™s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hairâ€”not humanâ€”cling to her body. They are Rizzoliâ€™s only clues, but theyâ€™re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now sheâ€™s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunningâ€”and a swift, avenging blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8748'),
(8593, 'Silent Invasion', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Captain Joey Czerinski of the United States Galactic Foreign Legion faces double-crossing friends and adversaries on both sides as the situation deteriorates for human occupation of planet New Colorado, and the Arthropodan Empire plans to take control. The wolves are literally at the door, and maybe all Czerinski can do is take a dive and throw the fight - literally - to save the day!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8655'),
(8594, 'Silent Killer', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** In A Town Full Of Secrets** To most people, men like Mark Cantrell are fine, upstanding pillars of the community, completely beyond reproach. But their killer knows better. They are sinners of the worst kind, and they must burn on earth before they burn in hell. . . ** Trusting The Wrong Person** Eighteen months after her husband-s unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere-including Jackson Perdue, the town-s deputy sheriff. The spate of recent deaths-each victim burned in the same horrifying manner-leave Jack and Cathy in no doubt that a serial killer is at work, one whose rage grows more vicious each day. . . ** Can Be Fatal. . .** Now as a twisted killer moves in for a final, brutal act of vengeance, buried crimes are coming to light once more. And this time, justice will be swift, merciless, and as silent as the grave. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(8595, 'Silent Night', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A quartet of holiday stories of romance and suspense includes J. D. Robb''s "Midnight in Death"; Susan Plunkett''s "Christmas Promises"; Dee Holmes''s "The Unexpected Gift"; and Claire Cross''s "A Berry Merry Christmas." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2333'),
(8596, 'Silent Run', 'Barbara Freethy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Barbara Freethy, comes an emotionally compelling, romantic and suspenseful story ...A woman wakes in a hospital bed with no idea of who she is. Her memory is gone, her baby missing. All she has is the gripping certainty that she is in mortal danger. Then a handsome, angry stranger barges in and makes a terrible accusation. He was her lover--and her child''s father--until she disappeared seven months ago.Jake Sanders swore he''d never forgive Sarah Tucker, but he isn''t about to let her get away again--especially not with his daughter still missing. If he has any chance of recovering his baby, he must help the woman who betrayed him retrieve the pieces of her shattered memory--without letting his feelings get in the way.Haunted by troubling flashes of memory, Sarah begins to realize she''s lived a life of lies. But what is the truth? And where is her baby? Reviews: "Freethy hits the ground running as she kicks off another winning romantic suspense series...Freethy is at her prime with a superb combo of engaging characters and gripping plot." Publishers'' Weekly"If you love nail-biting suspense and heartbreaking emotion, Silent Run belongs on the top of your to-be-bought list. I could not turn the pages fast enough." Mariah Stewart"Hooked me from the start and kept me turning pages throughout all the twists and turns. Silent Run is powerful romantic intrigue at its best." JoAnn Ross"Freethy''s star continues to gain luster with another stellar romantic thriller. Hang on!" Romantic Time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11244'),
(8597, 'Silent Screams', 'C. E. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In New York not long after 9/11, appealing psychologist-turned-criminal profiler Lee Campbell is traumatized by the unsolved disappearance of his sister in the mid-1990s. Though still recovering from a nervous breakdown, Lee is determined to keep working with the NYPD and find the man who leaves his female victims mutilated in churches throughout Manhattan, even if it means enduring painful reminders of his past. Lawrence (a pseudonym for Carole BuggÃ©, author of the Claire Rawlings mysteries) assembles a quirky group of detectives and experts, all strong characters who can support future books in the series: Chuck Morton, the commander of the Bronx Major Case Unit, who married Lee''s ex; Eddie Pepitone, a hustler who befriended Lee in the hospital; Dr. Katherine Azarian, a forensic pathologist and Lee''s love interest; and brilliant criminal justice professor John Paul Nelson. Fans of Keith Ablow will enjoy this dark, intriguing thriller.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the streets of New York City, the Slasher chooses his victim - and makes his move. As he wraps his fingers around the girl''s pretty throat, his power increases. As he carves into her skin, his words become flesh. As he arranges her lifeless body in a loving tableau, his fantasies demand new, more violent sacrifices...At first, NYPD detectives suspect a jealous boyfriend. But criminal profiler Lee Campbell senses something darker, even ritualistic, about the murder. More chilling, he''s convinced he''s witnessing the genesis of a full-blown serial killer. But time is running out. A new victim has been chosen. Campbell must search the most terrifying recesses of the human mind - and his own past - before the screaming starts again...\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pulse-racing, compelling, first rate. Lawrence knows how to build and hold suspense with the best of them. Once you get into this one, you can''t get out. A wild ride down a dark road."\n  <br />\n  --John Lutz,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Urge to Kill\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "C. E. Lawrence has achieved a rare level of authenticity, not only in character development but also in the realistic use of behavioral science. If you want to read a serial-killer thriller that''s solidly based on frightening reality, this is the one."--Louis B Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor of forensic psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\n </p>\n <p>\n  "C. E. Lawrence delivers finely honed suspense, with unique twists, and accurately captures the logic and intuition of a profiler under pressure."--Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology, De Sales University, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Devil''s Dozen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Criminally compelling,\n  <em>\n   Silent Screams\n  </em>\n  by C.E. Lawrence nails you to your seat with a fascinating NYPD profiler who''s hurled into the case of his lifetime. From the Bronx to Manhattan, Catholic churches to university classrooms, this journey into violence and the soul is unforgettable." --- Gayle Lynds,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Book of Spies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Last Spymaster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Silent Screams is a wickedly brilliant, carefully wrought thriller where the roles of hunter and hunted are skillfully blurred. Team up with a virtuoso profiler and a street-wise Bronx detective as they are thrown into an escalating torrent of murder that threatens to sweep them away. It''s ride that neither they, or you, will soon forget."--Gregg McCrary, author of\n  <em>\n   The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By setting the horror of fictional killings against the background of 9/11, C.E. Lawrence constantly reminds the reader that life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. The deviant perpetrator of grisly murders is described as someone who has a sophisticated knowledge of forensic investigations. The same can be said of the author. Silent Screams beckons C.E. Lawrence to become a repeat offender in this genre."--Marina Staji , Ph.D., President of American Board of Forensic Toxicology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4706'),
(8598, 'The Silent Sea', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack B. Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The seventh Oregon Files adventure thriller begins on December 7, 1941, when five boys encounter tragedy while looking for buried pirate treasure on a small island off the coast of Washington State. Flash-forward to today: Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon (a high-tech vessel posing as a tramp freighter), is in Argentina, trying to recover a downed NASA satellite. Well, donâ€™t you know, Juan stumbles on something he totally didnâ€™t expect to find, and soon heâ€™s chasing after the secrets of an ancient curse that might still be causing trouble. Fast-paced and a lot of fun, the latest Cabrillo novel delivers the wallop Cusslerâ€™s fans have come to expect. Cabrillo himselfâ€”he shares his name with a sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, by the wayâ€”makes a fine protagonist, sharp-witted and two-fisted. Considering the Oregon Files novels involve action, exploration, and high-tech gadgetry, itâ€™s surprising no one has turned them into movies yet. The prolific Cussler, who, like James Patterson, now employs coauthors (Du Brul in this case), is often accused of writing by the numbers, but this time those numbers add up to entertaining fare for high-adventure fans. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ancient curse...\n <br />\n A prize beyond imagination...\n <br />\n Juan Cabrillo will face one to win the other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7083'),
(8599, 'Silent Victim', 'C. E. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At first, they look like suicides. Two bodies within a week - one found floating in New York''s East River, another electrocuted in the bathtub. But forensics show that the victims were drugged, then killed. As the death toll grows, so does the brutality of the murders - and the killer dubbed the Flesh Collector continues to prey. NYPD profiler Lee Campbell joins the frantic pursuit of a murderous madman who delights in taunting police with gruesome messages. Somewhere in the killer''s terrifying handiwork lie the clues to his twisted psyche. But the case is growing disturbingly personal. Getting close enough to stop the monster means getting close enough - to die...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4705'),
(8600, 'A Silken Thread', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Erica Sanders, finding a soul mate was the easy part. Brian Lawson is the man she wants, and everyone agrees they''re the ideal couple.\n  <em>\n   Almost\n  </em>\n  everyone. The one exception is Erica''s mother, Karen, who prefers her daughter marry another man. Karen even hires a private detective to investigate Brian, but the truth he uncovers is the last thing she expectedâ€”a devastating betrayal that rips both families apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Convinced that her relationship can''t be salvaged, Erica ends her engagement. Yet she has lingering doubts over her decision, especially once Brian''s attractive single neighbor starts pursuing him. A chance meeting proves that the passion between Brian and Erica hasn''t dimmedâ€”but neither has the determination of others to keep them apart, or the shocking lengths Karen will go to in order to undermine her daughter''s relationship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As secrets old and new are revealed, Erica and Brian find themselves caught between the bonds of the past and an uncertain future, each making painful discoveries about who to believe and trust. Masterfully told and laced with the sensuality and drama that Brenda Jackson does best, this is an unforgettable story of relationships at their most complex, and how hard it can be to choose between living separate livesâ€”or holding fast when love hangs by a silken threadâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Jo, tell me. Have wedding jitters taken a toll on you yet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Erica Sanders glanced across the table, thinking that only April, her close friend since junior high school, would have the nerve to ask her something like that with a straight face. April North knew her so well. She could tell Erica''s anxiety and stress were mounting, only a couple of weeks from the engagement party at which the couple''s families would officially meet. Erica was so not looking forward to that affairâ€” unless her mother''s attitude changed drastically.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, I''m a\n  <em>\n   little\n  </em>\n  stressed," she admitted. "My sanity is barely holding up. But it''s to be expected of every bride, isn''t it?" She figured if anyone should know, surely April would. After all, her best friend had walked down the aisle three times already.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Umm, a\n  <em>\n   little\n  </em>\n  stress is to be expected of every bride. But in your situationâ€¦" April left the words unsaid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Erica''s mother was driving her crazy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With one breath Karen Sanders would rant and rave about Brian Lawson not being good enough to marry her daughter, and with the next breath she''d give the wedding planner hell because she intended for Erica''s wedding to be the social event of the year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It would be a wedding befitting the great-great-granddaughter of one of the founding fathers of Hattersville, a small town of seven thousand, noted in the history books as one of the first cities for freed blacks in Ohio. Erica had lived in Hattersville all twenty-seven years of her life, except for her college years in Wisconsin. Living in another city those four years had opened her eyes to a lot of things, especially how closed-minded and snobbish some of the residents of her hometown were. But not all of the citizens were privileged. Her friend April had been born on the other side of the tracks, in the Fifth Wardâ€”something Erica''s mother liked to remind her of every chance she got. But to Erica, what side of the tracks someone was born on didn''t matter, and her close friendship with April had always been special. Besides, April, who had always been a beautiful person, had gone from rags to riches and was now a world-famous model. That proved that anyone who put her heart and mind to it could become successful, despite her humble beginnings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Needing to escape the oppressive atmosphere of the town even more than Erica did, April had traveled west to attend UCLA, where she''d met husbands one and two. Husband number three, whom she''d divorced a year ago, was someone she''d met in Great Britain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You know as well as I do," April continued to say while eating her salad, "that Ms. Karen''s idea of a dream marriage is one between you and Griffin."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Erica knew that was true. Griffin Hayes''s family, like hers, represented old money in Hattersville. Naturally some people, especially her mother, assumed she and Griffin would grow up and marry. There were those, again namely her mother, who figured that doing such a thing was not only politically correct, but would destroy some curse reputed to have been placed upon the two families that could only be broken by a marriage between them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, nobody bothered to inform her and Griffin''s hearts, since they just weren''t feeling it. Their families had thrown them together so often when they were growing up that eventually they began thinking of themselves as sister and brother, rather than as a couple whose lives were destined to end in holy matrimony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although they''d tried dating while in high school, the fire was simply not there. Griffin had recognized it and so had she. That was when they''d made the decision to be nothing more than friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mom might as well get used to the idea that I will not be Mrs. Griffin Hayes," Erica said. "I most certainly have. Trust me. Brian is all the man I want and need." She doubted anyone, even April, knew just how much she meant that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will he be flying in this weekend?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A huge smile spread across Erica''s lips and she held up two crossed fingers. "Let''s hope. They''ve hired two more attorneys at his firm but he still has a large caseload."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She and Brian, an attorney at a prestigious law firm in Dallas, had met last summer while vacationing in Myrtle Beach. He had been out fishing on the pier one morning and she had been jogging along the shoreline. They had struck up a conversation, and he had invited her to breakfast the next day. A few weeks later, they had become lovers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the summer ended they decided to keep the affair going and, beating the odds, their long-distance romance had survived. Over the Christmas holidays Brian had asked her to marry him. She had accepted and now looked forward to her August wedding and her move to Texas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her mother had been in an uproar at the thought of her only child marrying someone other than a Hayes and moving away. Even now, months later, there were days Karen Sanders had problems coping with the inevitable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "So how''s your dad holding out?" April asked, breaking in on Erica''s thoughts. "Has your mom convinced him to disown you yet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Erica thought about her dad, with his soft hazel eyes so filled with love and understanding. He had given her his full supportâ€”although he kept it low-key so as not to get her mother riled. But it was the little things he would say and do to let her know he admired the fact that she was doing the very thing he hadn''t done, marrying for love instead of for the sake of preserving some legacy. It was no secret her parents'' marriage had been arranged.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You know as well as I that won''t be happening," she replied. She and her father had a close relationship and things between them would always be that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short while later she and April were walking to their parked cars, promising to get together several more times while April was in town visiting her grandmother. It was the first week of March and there was definitely an Ohio chill in the air, which made Erica tighten her shawl around her shoulders. The shawl, a Giorgio exclusive, had been a birthday gift last year from April.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Up ahead Erica saw the town''s square, brightly lit and rimmed by a well-maintained lawn. The parks in the Fifth Ward might look deteriorated and in need of care, but here the statues of the city''s forefathers were in perfect condition. It almost sickened her when she thought of the good citizens'' priorities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She glanced at her watch. It wasn''t even eight o''clock and already the retail businesses had closed, leaving the area looking like a ghost town. The town had survived what would have been rough economic times when a few wealthy residents had come in and bought out the small, struggling businesses, which made the rich even richer and gave them tighter control and ownership of the town.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even her job as head librarian and accountant at the town''s historical library was nothing more than a cushy position created by her parentsâ€”mainly her motherâ€”to assure the history of Hattersville was well preserved. Erica was constantly reminded that if it hadn''t been for the forefathersâ€”those free blacks who''d come from Canadaâ€”the town wouldn''t exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For generations there had been a distinct line between the two groups of people living in Hattersville, the haves and the have-nots. Those that had moneyâ€”the Hayeses, Delberts, Sanderses, Carters, Heards, Bakers, Cobbs and Stonewellsâ€” were those who owned major manufacturing corporations that employed thousands of people who drove into the city to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After giving April a good-bye hug, Erica slid into her car, a cherry-red Mercedes two-door that had been a birthday gift from her father a couple of years ago. After strapping on her seat belt, she was about to turn the key in the ignition when her cell phone rang. She smiled when she saw the caller was Brian. She wasted no time answering it. "Hi."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hi, sweetheart. Where are you?" he asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "About to leave Ryder''s Steak House. April''s in town so we did dinner." She paused a moment and then asked, "So, do you think you can get away for the weekend?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She heard his chuckle and the sexiness of it carried through the phone. She immediately recalled the first time she''d seen him, shirtless and wearing a pair of cutoff jeans with a fishing pole in his hands. He had given her a flirty smile and she''d turned to mush. She had actually felt that smile in every part of her body, every pore and every single cell. That smile had transformed her into one hot and achy mass and on that day she''d discovered that the whole concept of lust was as real as real could get.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, I think I can get away," he said, interrupting her thoughts. "By the way, there''s something waiting for you at your house."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A smile touched her lips. He had been known to send her thinking-of-you gifts through the mail. "There is?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She wondered what he''d sent her this time. Last week it was a CD on which he''d recorded "Rock-a-bye Baby" in his deep voice like Barry White''s as a way to lull her to sleep each night. "What is it?" she asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He gave her another sexy chuckle before simply saying, "Me. And now that you know, don''t speed getting here."\n </p>\n <p>\n  How could she not, Erica thought after a quick gasp escaped her lips. They hadn''t seen each other in over three weeks and she was filled with a deep longing that she knew would be getting satisfied in a big way when she saw him. Sensual shivers danced up her spine when she envisioned how that would be accomplished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Make yourself comfortable until I get there," she told him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ve done that already and I can''t wait to see you, baby."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She couldn''t wait to see him, either. "I''m on my way."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before Brian could give her a hot response, one that would probably make her detonate, she clicked off the phone, started her engine and pulled out of the parking lot. With Brian in town her plans for the weekend had definitely changed. Everyone would understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everyone but her mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brian Lawson held his mobile phone in his hand a m...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8039'),
(8601, 'Silks', 'Dick Francis; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œJulian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.â€* When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judgeâ€™s ruling at Londonâ€™s Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason realize that heâ€™ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than that. Setting aside his barristerâ€™s gown and wig, Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills his true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murderedâ€”a pitchfork driven through his chestâ€”Masonâ€™s racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchellâ€™s plea for legal helpâ€”but he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and deathâ€¦his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(8602, 'The Silmarillion', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Silmarillion SUMMARY: "Majestic!...readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS...will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own...medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury...it overwhelms the reader."TIME Those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien''s Middle Earth should not be without this grand volume that tells the tragic tale of the struggle for control of the Silmarils, a struggle that would determine the history of the world long before the War of the Ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1966'),
(8603, 'The silver chair', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(8604, 'The Silver Eagle', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The second novel in the Forgotten Legion Chronicles takes Romulus, Brennus, Tarquinius and Fabiola, and places them in ever greater danger.The Forgotten Legion â€” ten thousand legionaries made captive by the Parthians â€” has marched to Margiana on the edge of the known world. In its midst are Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius, all men with good reason to hate Rome. Together the trio must face the savage tribes which constantly threaten the area. But other, more treacherous enemies lurk within the ranks of the Forgotten Legion itself. When all hope is lost, the three friendsâ€™ characters will be tested to the utter limit.Meanwhile in Rome, Fabiola, Romulusâ€™s twin sister, also fights to survive. Beset by enemies on all sides, she must travel to Gaul to find her lover, Caesarâ€™s right-hand man. There, tribal rebellion under the charismatic chieftain, Vercingetorix, threatens not just Caesarâ€™s route to power, but his life and the lives of all who support him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1290'),
(8605, 'The Silver Mage', 'Katharine Kerr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Horsekin are assembling along Prince Dar''s northern border, and the Deverry alliance doesn''t have the men or resources to prevent their enemies from moving into the wilderness areas known as the Ghostlands. But then the Dwrgi folk and the dragons come to Dar''s aid, tipping the balance in their favor and offering Dar''s people a chance to defeat the Horsekin once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8414'),
(8606, 'Silver on the Tree (Dark 5)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition."\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <p align="center">\n   "And Where the Midsummer Tree Grows Tall by Pendragon''s Sword the Dark Shall Fall."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. Six individuals have come together to drive it back for good: Will, the Sign seeker; Bran, the raven boy; Jane, Simon, and Barney, the grail seekers; and Merriman, the wise mentor who unites them all. Together they stand ready to face the Rider and the full force of the Dark.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   But the last object of power must first be found. A sword of legend magically forged of pure crystal remains hidden in the Welsh hills. Without it, the Light has no hope against the Dark. Will and his companions must travel through time and space in an epic clash of magical powers that will decide the fate of us all.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10575'),
(8607, 'The Silver Pigs', 'Paul Davis &amp; Langdon &amp; Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rome. AD 70. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco knows his way around the eternal city. He can handle the muggers, the police and most of the girls. But one fresh sixteen-year-old, Sosia Camillina, finds him a case no Roman should be getting his nose into. Some friends, Romans and countrymen are doing a highly profitable, if highly illegal, trade in silver ingots or pigs. For Falco it''s the start of a murderous trail that leads far beyond the seven hills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7735'),
(8608, 'The Silver spike', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...The Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of lingering evil. But the graveyard that was once the Barrowland contains more secrets than dead. All who would possess the power of the Dominator are drawn to the spike. A foolhardy band of thieves is the first to reach it, and a rapacious and malign spirit is unleashed on an unwary world. The forces gather, sides are drawn, and mortal men can only die as the Dark Lords battle for domination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1880'),
(8609, 'The Silver Swan', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke''s beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and heâ€™s been sober for half a year. When a near-forgotten acquaintance asks him to cover up his beautiful young wifeâ€™s apparent suicide, Quirke knows he should stay clear, for the sake of his sobriety and his peace of mind. But his old itch is irresistible, and before long he is probing further into the circumstances of Deidre Huntâ€™s death, into a web of drugs and illicit sex that may have snared his own daughter, Phoebe. With its vivid, intense evocation of 1950s Dublin, and intricate, psychologically complex storyline, The Silver Swan is "even more engrossing than last yearâ€™s Christine Falls" (Entertainment Weekly).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1410');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8610, 'Silver Zombie: Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator', 'Carole Nelson Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zombies and Witches and Vamps . . . Oh, My!What happens in Vegas stays in Vegasat least that''s Delilah Street''s hope. With Sin City''s vampire and werewolf mobs wanting to cash in her chips once and for all, she''s retreating with her partner Ric Montoya and half-wolfhound Quicksilver to her Kansas birthplace. Unfortunately, when it comes to finding trouble, there''s no place like home. . . .It doesn''t take long before Delilah realizes she''s not in Vegas anymore. Zombie cowboys and spectral cattle drives are kicking up dust, the local weather girls are total witches who forecast perfect storms, and some Hollywood fanatic is recasting zombies as the greatest stars of the silver screen. And speaking of silver, Delilah''s special affinity for the all-purpose monster-repellent leads her posse straight down a silver brick roadand into a notso- fun house of mirrorsputting her face-to-face with her dicey past and a mystery woman named Lilith, who''s a real dead ringer for Delilah. The key word beingdead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7391'),
(8611, 'Silverthorn', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the second volume of Raymond E. Feist''s great epic of heroic fantasy. For nearly a year peace reigned the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. But new challenges awaited Arutha the Prince of Krondor when Jimmy The Hand - youngest thief in the Guild of Mockers - came upon a sinister Nighthawk poised to assassinate him. What evil power raises the dead and makes corpses do battle with the living at the behest of the Guild of Death? And what high magic can defeat it? The new King of Midkemia is threatened - and a life-or-death quest must be undertaken for an antidote to a poison that fells a beautiful Princess on her wedding day! "The best new fantasy concept in years! Has a chance of putting its author firmly on the throne next to Tolkein - and keeping him there" - "Dragon". "Epic scope! vivid imagination!a significant contribution to the growth of the field of fantasy" - "Washington Post".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3623'),
(8612, 'The Simple Art of Murder', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7344'),
(8613, 'Simple Genius', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a world of secrets, human genius is power. And sometimes it is simply deadly... A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world''s most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery--and keep some other secrets underwraps forever... Former secret service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious ina hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the mutder of a scientist just inside the CIA''s razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia. Soon he is uncovering layer after layer of disinformation that shields a stunning world filled with elite mathematics, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid more murder, a seemingly autistic girl''s extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean soon learns enough to put his life at risk. Now more than ever, he needs Michelle--at her best--to help stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself. From Michelle''s courageous struggle to defeat her long-buried personal demons to a centuries-old secret that surfaces in the heat of action, SIMPLE GENIUS pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense. The heroes of Split Second and Hour Game, David Baldacci''s #1 New York Times bestsellers, are back--as you''ve never seen them before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(8614, 'A Simple Government', 'Huckabee, Mike', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8850'),
(8615, 'A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need From Washington (And a Trillion That We Don&#39;t!)', 'Mike Huckabee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We need a simple government. Don''t get me wrong; I know that many of the nation''s problems are highly complex. But I also know that the governing principles that can solve them, if we work together, are simple."\n</p>\n<p>\n Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee surprised the nation by coming in second during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He connected with millions of voters by calling for a smaller, simpler government that would get out of the way when appropriate. (Unfortunately, there weren''t quite enough of those voters to prevent the election of Barack Obama.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Since then, President Obama''s message has morphed from "hope and change" to "tax and spend" and "borrow and spend" and "over-regulate and spend." The stimulus failed to stop the recession, the deficit exploded to unimaginable heights, and the Democrats jammed through Congress a financial "reform" bill that didn''t really reform anything and a healthcare monstrosity that gave the government more power over our personal lives than ever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Huckabee has continued to be the voice of common sense conservatism, through his television talk show, his radio commentaries, and his lectures around the country. Now he''s written a book that sums up the twelve things we\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n need from Washington to get the country back on the right track.\n</p>\n<p>\n These twelve essential truths will have you nodding in agreement, whether you''re a Republican, an Independent, or even an open-minded Democrat. They can help us put aside our differences, tone down the partisan rancor, and return to the simple principles of the Founding Fathers: liberty, justice, personal freedom, and civic virtue. And they can help us tackle even the most seemingly complicated of today''s problems. For instance:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  You can''t spend what you don''t have; you can''t borrow what you can''t pay back. Families, businesses, towns, cities, and states all have to balance their budgets or face dire consequences. Why shouldn''t the federal government be held to the same standard? And if that means making some hard choices now, it''s a far better alternative than saddling our kids and grandkids. *\n  <strong>\n   The further you drift from shore, the more likely you are to be lost at sea.\n  </strong>\n  The Founders expected the federal government to be subordinate to state and local governments. How can politicians in DC know the best way to help farmers in Iowa, autoworkers in Michigan, or teachers in California? They can''t. So every problem should be solved at the most local level capable of solving it.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n *\n <strong>\n  Bullies in the playground only understand one thing.\n </strong>\n There''s a time and place for diplomacy, but we can''t protect the country just by negotiating with our enemies. We need a strong national defense and a counterterrorism policy that focuses on effectiveness, not political correctness.\n</p>\n<p>\n *\n <strong>\n  The most important form of government is the family.\n </strong>\n In the long run, the only way to ensure prosperity, safety, and equal opportunity is to make sure we raise our children to be ethical and productive citizens. No bureaucracy can replace parents in that essential role, so we have to do everything possible to help parents do their job.\n</p>\n<p>\n A Simple Government will inspire any American looking forward to a better future.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mike Huckabee\n </strong>\n served as lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1993 to 1996 and as governor from 1996 to 2007. After coming in second place in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, he became the host of the popular talk show\n <em>\n  Huckabee\n </em>\n on Fox News Channel (where he plays bass guitar with the house band) and\n <em>\n  The Huckabee Report\n </em>\n on Citadel Radio. He''s also the chairman of HuckPAC, a grassroots conservative organization. His books include the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Do the Right Thing\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Simple Christmas\n </em>\n as well as\n <em>\n  Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork\n </em>\n . He and his wife, Janet, have been married for 36 years and have three grown children. Visit www.MikeHuckabee.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4505'),
(8616, 'A Simple Plan', 'Scott Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smith''s remarkably adept debut thriller traces the fates of three people and a wrecked plane with $4.4 million.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-On an afternoon jaunt, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot and a sack containing four million dollars. The men know that they should notify the authorities, but instead they devise a foolproof scheme for keeping the money. They will hide it for one year, tell no one, live normally, and then divide the loot into three equal portions. Nothing can go wrong with such a simple plan-or can it? Smith draws his characters deftly, fully exploring the changes that occur in each of the men after their discovery. The plot is clever, gripping, and full of twists. As Hank narrates the story, the tension builds slowly, but is sustained until the surprise ending. YAs will quickly become caught up in this polished suspense novel.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7291'),
(8617, 'The Simple Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet, after twenty-five hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US army reveals new facts about the night of the murder - and the evil secret shared by some of Washington''s most powerful men. Fearful for his life, Harms seizes his one chance to escape. But within hours the only people who knew about the appeal have been hunted down and eliminated. As the unknown assassins close in on Harms, ex-cop turned criminal attorney John Fiske is drawn into the web. His younger brother is already a victim, the woman he loves is under threat. For the truth and the chance of a future, he will never give up the fight. But for both men time is already running out. Their enemy is buried deep within the system and completely ruthless when protecting the truth ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(8618, 'A Simples Life: My Life and Times', 'Aleksandr Orlov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9895'),
(8619, 'A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov', 'Aleksandr Orlov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase Simples! can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestors Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to Russia, the low-down on his life as entrepreneur and founder of comparethemeerkat.com and his love of grubs and cravats.My name is Aleksandr Orlov. I live and make work in Moscow. I have a success business. I have a mansion decorate with many fine things. I have a naturally majestic posture. But I would have none of these things if it were not for my family. This book is dedicated to them. I also wish to inspire next generation of young businesskats. I am hope that this book will show what can come of courage, hard work and a good fur-care regime. I am also hope that with royalties I will be able to re-marble roof on Orlov family mansion\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6500'),
(8620, 'The Simulacra', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9907'),
(8621, 'The Sinatra files: the secret FBI dossier', 'Tom Kuntz; Phil Kuntz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An American Icon Under Government SurveillanceWhen Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of his life came to light only posthumously: a 1,275-page dossier recording decades of FBI surveillance stemming from J. Edgar Hoover''s belief that Sinatra had mob or Communist ties. This shadow biography, with information never before presented in book form, details:Hoover''s search through Sinatra''s past to see if he got a bogus medical deferment from military service, ultimately yielding the simple fact that Sinatra really had suffered a perforated eardrum as a youthThe FBI''s previously unreported cooperation with journalists looking for dirt on Sinatra, including one who had recently been punched out by the singerNumerous instances of the star''s carousing and intemperate behavior -- including a detailed report alleging that he rampaged through a Las Vegas hotel after he and his wife Mia Farrow lost small fortunes gamblingThe mob''s attempts to curry favor with John F. Kennedy through Sinatra -- and its anger when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy turned up the heat.This fascinating record of governmental scrutiny will captivate every Sinatra fan, as well as anyone who wants to understand the second half of the American century -- the Cold War, popular culture, the cult of celebrity, Camelot, and the FBI''s mania for investigating American citizens -- all personified by the most dominant entertainer of the era.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3573'),
(8622, 'Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre', 'Rod Glenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A winter''s tale with a sting. There''s a newcomer to the small Northumberland village of Haydon . a charming novelist and film buff, researching a crime thriller about a serial killer on a rampage in a remote Northumberland community. The only trouble is, it''s a work in progress and it''s going to be non-fiction. 392 innocent men, women and children stand in his way to achieving a sadistic dream. As the worst winter in more than a century approaches, can two investigating police officers trapped with the terrorised residents stop this monster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5222'),
(8623, 'Sing You Home: A Novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Popular author Picoult tackles the controversial topic of gay rights in her latest powerful tale. When music therapist Zoe Baxterâ€™s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he canâ€™t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brotherâ€™s evangelical church. Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts, and Vanessa offers to carry one of the fertilized embryos Zoe and Max stored. Excited by the prospect of being a mother, Zoe goes to Max to get him to release the embryos to her and is shocked when he instead sues her for custody of them, backed by his church. Told from the perspectives of all three major characters, Picoultâ€™s gripping novel explores all sides of the hot-button issue and offers a CD of folk songs that reflect Zoeâ€™s feelings throughout the novel. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The always topical Picoult plans a multimedia tour to more than two dozen cities with Ellen Wilber, who will perform the songs she and Picoult wrote together. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Every life has a soundtrack.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   All you have to do is listen.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxterâ€™s life. Thereâ€™s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some peopleâ€”even those she loves and trusts mostâ€”donâ€™t want that to happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Sing You Home\n  </em>\n  is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. Itâ€™s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And itâ€™s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts:\n  <em>\n   family.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  INCLUDES A COMPACT DISC OF ORIGINAL SONGS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Music by Ellen Wilber\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyrics by Jodi Picoult\n </p>\n <p>\n  All songs performed by Ellen Wilber\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5043'),
(8624, 'Singin&#39; and Swingin&#39; and Gettin&#39; Merry Like Christmas', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe buoyant, gifted Maya Angelou continues her autobiography. . . . Both her joy and her despair have twice as much impact as most peopleâ€™s.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAngelou may be one of the best hunters of the heart, one of the best to explore the insides of folks, black or white, and find what moves them, what makes them real and tangible to themselves and others.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _â€“The Christian Science Monitor\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œAngelou is a sharp observer and commentator on culture. . . . [Her book is] filled with penetrating observations about the people she encounters.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“Chicago Tribune Book World\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHonest, funny and heartwarming . . . The strength of the book is Angelouâ€™s lyrical writing . . . a God-given gift.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“The Washington Star\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“The New York Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n , Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a gig singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the San Francisco coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of\n <em>\n  Porgy and Bess.\n </em>\n Maya soon finds herself on a joyous and dramatic adventure, touring abroad through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt with spirited cast members, and performing for large, enthusiastic audiences. The exciting experience is dampened only by Mayaâ€™s nagging guilt that she has abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son, whose reentrance into her world reveals to Maya the healing power of devotion and love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charged with Maya Angelouâ€™s remarkable sense of life and love,\n <em>\n  Singinâ€™ and Swinginâ€™ and Gettinâ€™ Merry Like Christmas\n </em>\n is a unique celebration of the human conditionâ€“and an enthralling saga that has touched, inspired, and empowered readers worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4449'),
(8625, 'The Singing of the Dead', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mystery, Thriller &amp; Suspense 8 hours, 43 min 7 CDs EDITORIAL REVIEW: Kate hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fund-raisers. But just as she''s getting started, the campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher. In order to track the killer, Kate will have to retrace the researcher''s steps and delve into the past, in particular the grisly murder of a "good-time girl" during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1915. Little can she guess the impact a ninety-year-old unsolved case could have on a modern-day psychotic killer...AUTHORBIO: DANA STABENOW is the author of ten previous Kate Shugak mysteries as well as three featuring Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell, in addition to three science fiction novels. A graduate of the University of Alaska with a BA in journalism and an MFA, she won the Edgar Award for her first novel, A Cold Day for Murder, and currently writes a monthly column for Alaska Magazine. Stabenow was born and lives in Anchorage, Alaska.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(8626, 'Single &amp; Single: A Novel', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A lawyer from the London finance house of "Single &amp; Single" is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children''s magician in the English countryside is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter''s modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air. In "Single &amp; Single" the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. Le Carre''s finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son. This is territory le Carre knows better than anyone. Masterful and prescient, he is writing at the height of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11069'),
(8627, 'A Singular Hostage', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What''s a Victorian girl to do? Twenty years old, not quite beautiful, more interested in military history than in conventional female doings, Mariana Givens sets off for India with Gov.-Gen. Lord Auckland''s enormous party in hopes of finding a husband. Several eligible British officers are ready to propose, but Mariana would rather study Urdu with wise Munshi Sahib or hang out with the elephants. The officers are weepy or large-eared, except for Harry Fitzgerald, who turns out not to be eligible, after all. It''s the eponymous hostage who steals her heart: Saboor, a luminous infant who was kidnapped by the ailing, one-eyed Maharajah Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Punjab, whom Lord Auckland is on his way to meet. After Saboor''s mother is poisoned, Mariana is readily enlisted to return Saboor to his father, Hassan Sahib. Will she come to love Hassan as much as she loves Saboor? Although the ending is inconclusive, suggesting a sequel (one is in the works; called A Beggar at the Gate, it will be published in 2003), Mariana is unlikely to return to flower-arranging in Sussex. Sometimes lyrical and zippy, sometimes predictable and plodding, this richly populated novel is notable for an odd combination of strengths: a compelling mysticism, a convincing historicity and a flare for slapstick comedy sending up both the Indian and British patriarchies. Old-time Olympia Press readers will warm to the hair-waxing scene as Mariana is prepared for a sham (or is it?) wedding to Hassan.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Mariana Givens is not a proper Victorian young lady; at 20, she is impetuous, outspoken, and inquisitive. Sent to relatives in India in 1838 to find a husband among the eligible suitors in the British officer corps, she is allowed a Muslim munshi, or teacher. An eager, apt pupil of Hindustani language and culture, Mariana becomes a translator for the straitlaced sisters of the Governor-General of India and travels with his entourage to Punjab, where he hopes to persuade the Maharaja to aid the British army in its invasion of Afghanistan. Mariana finally meets a dashing officer, but their romance is cut short. When a charismatic boy held hostage by the ailing Maharaja, who believes the child has curative powers, disappears, his rescuers are led to Mariana, who agrees to hide him. The rest of her adventure, robust and satisfying as a cup of Darjeeling tea, centers on Saboor, her determination to return him to his father, and the lengths to which she will go to protect this child who has so entranced her. The Maharaja, the Governor-General, his sisters, and other players are all historical figures. By contrasting the British view of Indian culture and its people with the view of Punjabis themselves, rich and poor, this mesmerizing tale helps readers better understand a vitally important area of the world.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7816'),
(8628, 'A Singular Man', 'J. P. Donleavy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George Smith appears to be under attack from all quarters. His former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money, and someone is sending him threatening letters. Despite some very elaborate precautions, he remains worried. So he builds a mausoleum in which to live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1860'),
(8629, 'The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology', 'Ray Kurzweil', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Renowned inventor Kurzweil (_The Age of Spiritual Machines_) may be technology''s most credibly hyperbolic optimist. Elsewhere he has argued that eliminating fat intake can prevent cancer; here, his quarry is the future of consciousness and intelligence. Humankind, it runs, is at the threshold of an epoch ("the singularity," a reference to the theoretical limitlessness of exponential expansion) that will see the merging of our biology with the staggering achievements of "GNR" (genetics, nanotechnology and robotics) to create a species of unrecognizably high intelligence, durability, comprehension, memory and so on. The word "unrecognizable" is not chosen lightly: wherever this is heading, it won''t look like us. Kurzweil''s argument is necessarily twofold: it''s not enough to argue that there are virtually no constraints on our capacity; he must also convince readers that such developments are desirable. In essence, he conflates the wholesale transformation of the species with "immortality," for which read a repeal of human limit. In less capable hands, this phantasmagoria of speculative extrapolation, which incorporates a bewildering variety of charts, quotations, playful Socratic dialogues and sidebars, would be easier to dismiss. But Kurzweil is a true scientistâ€”a large-minded one at thatâ€”and gives due space both to "the panoply of existential risks" as he sees them and the many presumed lines of attack others might bring to bear. What''s arresting isn''t the degree to which Kurzweil''s heady and bracing vision fails to convinceâ€”given the scope of his projections, that''s inevitableâ€”but the degree to which it seems downright plausible.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurzweil is one of the worldâ€™s most respected thinkers and entrepreneurs. Yet the thesis he posits in\n  <em>\n   Singularity\n  </em>\n  is so singular that many readers will be astoundedâ€”and perhaps skeptical. Think\n  <em>\n   Blade Runner\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Being John Malkovich\n  </em>\n  magnified trillion-fold. Even if one were to embrace his techno-optimism, which he backs up with fascinating details, Kurzweil leaves some important questions relating to politics, economics, and morality unanswered. If machines in our bodies can rebuild cells, for example, why couldnâ€™t they be reengineered as weapons? Or think of singularity, notes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  , as the "Manhattan Project model of pure science without ethical constraints." Kurzweilâ€™s vision requires technology, which we continue to build. But it also requires mass acceptance and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8438'),
(8630, 'The Sinister Pig', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3498'),
(8631, 'The Sinister Signpost', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1936, this 15th book in the Hardy Boys series continues the Applewood reissues of these nostalgic classics.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10285'),
(8632, 'Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love &amp; Porn', 'Tera Patrick; Carrie Borzillo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Even porn stars have romantic illusions. Just take a stroll through the new\n <em>\n  Sinner Takes All\n </em>\n by Tera Patrick. The fast-reading memoir whips from knowing to naive and back as it tracks its plucky protagonist from ugly-duckling school days to international adult superstardom."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Sinner Takes All_ lets fans and interested parties alike get the down and dirty details on the personal and professional life of one of the biggest names in a multi-billion dollar industry."\n <br />\n -Seattlest\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can think of no one more fascinating than Tera Patrick-porn star, model, and businesswoman-as readers of this book are certain to agree. It''s all here-her passions, triumphs, and defeats-in more detail than we have any right to expect."\n <br />\n -Larry Flynt\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is an inspirational read with a clear message: There are no limits when one is determined, motivated, and driven."\n <br />\n -Dave Navarro\n</p>\n<p>\n "Orgasms, like laughter, can be faked, but it''s better when they''re not. Tera doesn''t fake anything in this revealing and inspiring book."\n <br />\n -Margaret Cho\n</p>\n<p>\n "She''s a girl who knows what she wants and gets it. That''s what''s cool about Tera Patrick."\n <br />\n -Carmen Electra\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How does a girl go from being a shy, awkward bookworm to the biggest porn star in the world? In\n <em>\n  Sinner Takes All\n </em>\n , Tera Patrick reveals all, including: her career as an international model; losing her virginity at fourteen to a thirtysomething photographer; learning oral sex techniques backstage at a Guns N'' Roses concert; having an orgy with a team of firefighters; her unglamorous job in a nursing home; her first forays into the adult movie business; and how, with her husband''s help, she launched her own multimillion-dollar empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way, she dishes on the emotional side of being Tera Patrick, writing candidly about her battles with depression and anxiety. She also discusses finding true love and building a healthy marriage, achievements that many consider to be impossible in the world of porn. Featuring hundreds of photos, plus diary pages and scintillating sidebars,\n <em>\n  Sinner Takes All\n </em>\n takes the tell-all to raunchy new heights.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5739'),
(8633, 'Sins of Commission', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   SINS OF COMMISSION\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  while on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise,\n  </em>\n  the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While on a mission to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM becomes entangled in a web of treachery and murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a member of a strange, emotion-casting race is killed on board the ship, all evidence points to Lieutenant Worf and one of his oldest friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6815'),
(8634, 'The Sins of the Wolf', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the task: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hesterâ€™s simple job takes a grave turn when Mrs. Farraline dies during the night. And when a postmortem examination of the body reveals a lethal dose of medicine, Hester is charged with murderâ€“punishable by execution.This notorious case presents detective William Monk with a daunting task: find a calculating killer among the prominent and coolly unassailable Farraline clanâ€“and try to save Hester from the gallows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(8635, 'Sir Apropos of Nothing', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years later looking to settle the score... The "result''s" unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn''t consider chivalry dead is because he''s not yet through with it. Herewith, Sir Apropos of Nothing -- his story in the words of the knave himself. Apropos, all too aware of his violent and unseemly beginnings, travels to the court of the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father, seek retribution, and line his own pockets. However, Apropos carries the most troublesome burden a would-be harbinger of chaos can bear: He may well be a hero foretold, a young man of destiny. It is not a notion that Apropos finds palatable, having very low regard for such notions as honor, selflessness, or risking one''s neck. Yet when Apropos finds himself assigned as squire to the most senile knight in the court -- Sir Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions, whose squires tend to have a rather short life span -- Apropos is forced to rise to the occasion lest he be dragged under -- permanently. His difficulties are compounded when a routine mission to escort the King''s daughter home after a long absence goes horribly awry. Suddenly Apropos finds himself saddled with trying to survive while dealing with a berserk phoenix, murderous unicorns, mutated harpies, homicidal warrior kings, and -- most problematic of all -- a princess who may or may not be a psychotic arsonist. Featuring a hero cut from cloth similar to that of such entertaining blackguards as Blackadder and Flashman, Sir Apropos of Nothing is a skewed version of classic, mythic adventure that is by turns hilarious and frightening, slapstick and serious, and filled with drop-dead laughs and drop-dead people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3818'),
(8636, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A classic example of medieval literature SUMMARY: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R. Tolken that the language, romance, and power of these great stories comes to life for modern readers, in this masterful and compelling new translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2007'),
(8637, 'Sir Thursday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-8â€“The week just gets longer for Arthur Penhaligon in this fourth book in the series. After Drowned Wednesdays submission of the Will and her subsequent death, he is tricked into joining Sir Thursdays army as they fight a large group of Nithlings in a shifting maze. To complicate matters, Arthur must serve as one of the Pipers children, unable to use his powers as the Heir of the Will. Back on Earth, a Nithlin, disguised as Arthur, is infecting mortals with a plague that controls their minds. Old characters return, including Suzy and Leaf, to help Arthur in the fight against Thursday and his denizens of The House. Nixs new addition to the series is a good continuation of the story, covering two plots at once, with each chapter providing cliff-hangers. While the events move a little slower than in previous installments, there is satisfaction in the resolution, and, of course, a lead-in into the next addition,\n  <em>\n   Lady Friday\n  </em>\n  . Reluctant or hard to fit readers will find this series enjoyable, as Nix is able to create vivid pictures in the minds of his readers. Fans of the fantasy genre will appreciate these books for their strong continuity, believable characters, and edge-of-your-seat-action. This offering complements the series well-established structure._â€“Richard J. Snyder, Inglewood Junior High School, Sammamish, WA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 5-8. In the fourth of a projected seven-book series, young Arthur Penhaligon (also known as Lord Arthur, Rightful Heir of the Architect) wants nothing more than to return to his own world. Instead, he is drafted into Sir Thursday''s army and led into battle. On the home front, his friend Leaf fights against a stealth invasion. The pace lags initially, but picks up considerably along the way. This isn''t for readers unfamiliar with the Keys to the Kingdom series; those kids should begin at the beginning, with\n  <em>\n   Mister Monday\n  </em>\n  (2003).\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9665'),
(8638, 'Sirens of Titan', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan -- one of Saturn''s moons -- is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7702'),
(8639, 'Sister Carrie', 'Theodore Dreiser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle-from sweatshop to stage success-and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7318'),
(8640, 'Sister of the Dead', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Noble Dead saga continues as Magiere and Leesil, the slayers of the undead for DHAMPIR and THIEF OF LIVES, embark on a quest to uncover the secrets of their mysterious origins - and those responsible for orchestrating the events that brought them together.... Magiere is a dhampir - half human, half vampire - sired for the purpose of slaying the undead. Outside the village of ChemestÃºk, where she was born and raised, stands her father''s keep. Within its walls, she hopes to discover the secrets of her past and figure out why a vampire would wish to breed a creature capable of slaughtering his own kind.... But there are those who don''t want Magiere to learn the truthâ€”and when her half-elf partner, Leesil, makes a startling discovery in the keep, he can understand why. Before Leesil can reveal the truth to Magiere, they must vanquish a creature of unimaginable and unlimited power who has damned a small village of people with a horrifying curse...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(8641, 'The Sisterhood', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Terrific, aÂ Â compellingly suspenseful tale." -- Clive Cluser. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One by one, patients at Boston Doctors Hospital survive delicate surgery, only to die shortly thereafter--mysteriously and horribly. No one knows why--except the Sisterhood, nurses bound together by a secret pledge to end human suffering--nurses with warped, deadly intentions. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5458');
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(8642, 'Sisters', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedyâ€”and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. Candyâ€“itâ€™s the only name she needsâ€”is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashionâ€™s latest international supermodel. . . . Her sister Tammy has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.â€™s Hollywood Hills. . . . In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art. . . . On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their familyâ€™s annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own livesâ€”on opposite sides of the worldâ€”reunite to share one New York brownstone, to support each other and their father, and to pick up the pieces while one sister struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. Thus begins an unscripted chapter of their lives, as a bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men . . . and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide. But as the four women settle in, they are forced to confront the direction of their respective lives. As the year passes and another July Fourth approaches, a season of grief and change gives way to new beginningsâ€”as a family comes together to share its blessings and a future filled with surprises and, ultimately, hope. With unerring insight and compassion, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of four sisters who love and laugh, struggle and triumph . . . and are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each otherâ€™s lives. Brilliantly blending humor and heartbreak, she delivers a powerful message about the fragilityâ€”and the wonderâ€”of life.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(8643, 'The Sittaford Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...THE SITTAFORD MYSTERYM-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night.But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn''t it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn''t it? If they''re to discover the answer to this baffling murder, perhaps they should play again. But a journey into the spirit world could prove terribly dangerous-especially when the killer is lurking in this one.AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world''s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie died in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5246'),
(8644, 'Six bad things (2005)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10028'),
(8645, 'The Six Messiahs', 'Mark Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHair-raising.â€ (Orlando Sentinel )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTakes off like a runaway brougham . . . a compulsive puzzler.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n A spooky page-turner . . . barrels through Victorian England with the narrative drive of a runaway train.â€ (People )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPlenty of detail and fast-paced action.â€ (Denver Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA ripping good tale. It effervesces like champagne.â€ (Washington Post Book World )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompelling . . . bizarre.â€ (San Francisco Chronicle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDark, brooding . . . a heart-thumping, bizarre tale.â€ (Buffalo News )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] clever series...classical-style, slam-bang adventure.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA knockout . . . remarkable . . . engrossing . . . strange and terrifying.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDark and compelling entertainment . . . an irresistible page turner.â€ (Clive Barker )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The ancient holy texts are missing.\n <br />\n The death of the world approaches._\n</p>\n<p>\n Six extraordinary men have shared one vision of a black tower and a river of blood. Somewhere in the desert wastelands of America, the ultimate battle will be waged. The greatest experiment in evil since the beginning of time is under way, with all humanity its designated sacrifice.\n</p>\n<p>\n The future is in the hands of the Six.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8347'),
(8646, 'Six Moon Dance', 'Sheri S. Tepper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Six Moon Dance\n </em>\n , veteran fantasy and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper tells the tale of the strange planet Newholme. An intriguing human society occupies the metal-poor planet, a society with gender values quite different from Earth, resulting from a virus that kills 50 percent of baby girls at birth. Newholmians use the best and the worst of dogma, religion, and "patriarchy" to uphold a society where men manage the money but women hold the keys to power through church, reproductive control, and their own short supply. "Family men" pay exorbitant dowries in order to gain a temporary wife, contracted for wifely duties and reproduction for a number of years. When their marriage contracts are finished, the women, relieved of duty, retire to enjoy the sexual services of male "Consorts."\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot here involves an official Questioner who visits Newholme to investigate reports of human rights abuses, the strange native inhabitants whose biology may hold the key to human survival on the planet, and a disastrous lunar alignment. Although quite creative, Tepper''s plot is simply not as gripping as the sociology and society she invents for Newholme. She uses her feminist instincts and knowledge about the sexes and religion to create a world worth taking a look at. James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award judges should be sure to take a look at\n <em>\n  Six Moon Dance\n </em>\n for its unique take on gender roles.\n <em>\n  --Bonnie Bouman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ambitiously choreographed and executed without a misstep, Tepper''s complex new novel follows her acclaimed The Family Tree into a profound ecological and sociological commentary on human individuality. Originally settled by now-vanished immigrants from the testosterone-rich planet of Thor, the matriarchal world of Newholme faces imminent volcanic destruction. To determine whether Newholme''s ruling Hags and their society deserve to be saved, the galactic Council of Worlds dispatches a cybernetic super-grandma, the Great Questioner, who collects a brilliantly conceived multispecies team to probe mysteries deep in Newholme''s past. Tepper courageously tackles touchy issues like gender dominance with grace and wit. Through handsome charmer Mouche, sold by his parents into Hunk toy-boy training, Tepper unveils the Hag-ridden female will-to-power, just as threatening to individual freedom as that of the horrid male supremacist-schemers she depicts. Tepper deftly conjoins a superb awareness of otherness with penetrating insight into selfhood in this shining, bravura performance. (July) FYI: Tepper''s Beauty (1991) was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus magazine.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7219'),
(8647, 'Six Seconds', 'Rick Mofina', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This well-crafted and timely thriller uncovers a terrorist plot stretching from the Middle East to the American West. When recently widowed Mountie Dan Graham pulls a dying girl from a river, her tremulous last words lead Dan to track down the girl''s father, a washed-up conspiracy theorist reporter who has finally stumbled upon a genuine conspiracy. California bookseller Maggie Conlin searches for her husband, traumatized Iraq war contractor Jake, who has kidnapped their young son, Logan, and fled to Montana. Samara Ingram, an Iraqi-British nurse whose husband and son were brutally murdered in Baghdad by renegade Western troops, takes slow steps toward retribution. Mofina (_Every Fear_) shifts smoothly and deftly among their stories until all three are drawn together in the final, suspense-packed rush to prevent a devastating moment of destruction and revenge.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This well-crafted and timely thriller uncovers a terrorist plot stretching from the Middle East to the American West. When recently widowed Mountie Dan Graham pulls a dying girl from a river, her tremulous last words lead Dan to track down the girl''s father, a washed-up conspiracy theorist reporter who has finally stumbled upon a genuine conspiracy. California bookseller Maggie Conlin searches for her husband, traumatized Iraq war contractor Jake, who has kidnapped their young son, Logan, and fled to Montana. Samara Ingram, an Iraqi-British nurse whose husband and son were brutally murdered in Baghdad by renegade Western troops, takes slow steps toward retribution. Mofina (Every Fear) shifts smoothly and deftly among their stories until all three are drawn together in the final, suspense-packed rush to prevent a devastating moment of destruction and revenge. (Jan.) --Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6389'),
(8648, 'Six Short Stories', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3688'),
(8649, 'Six stories', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This collection of (surprise!) six stories was a trade paperback published in a limited number (1000) by King''s own Philtrum Press. The stories are: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" "L.T.''s Theory of Pets" "Luckey Quarter" "Autopsy Room Four" "Blind Willie" "The Man in the Black Suit"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4310'),
(8650, 'Sixkill', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An extraordinary new Spenser novel from the beloved\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. The situation doesn''t look good for Jumbo, whose appetites for food, booze, and sex are as outsized as his name. He was the studio''s biggest star, but he''s become their biggest liability.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo''s bodyguard: a young, former football-playing Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more within the young man. Despite the odd circumstances, the two forge an unlikely alliance, with Spenser serving as mentor for Sixkill. As the case grows darker and secrets about both Jumbo and the dead girl come to light, it''s Spenser-with Sixkill at his side-who must put things right.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert B. Parker\n </strong>\n was the author of more than fifty books. He died in January 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7499'),
(8651, 'The Sixth Man', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts Hitchcock and James Bond, it''s the perfect literary cocktail...One of Baldacci''s best." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Richmond Times-Dispatch\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Deliver Us from Evil\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s his eager, expansive imagination that drives his books . . . Like other thriller writers, Baldacci depends on a mixture of inventive plotting, appealing characters, luck, and consistency. Unlike others, his books rely more on characters'' relationships than whiz-bang technology or procedural twists . . . What he offers is in some ways more unusual." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsweek\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    First Family\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rousing success . . . Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   (starred review) for\n   <em>\n    Divine Justice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "High-stakes action, shadowy government agencies, and [a] neo-Cold War backdrop . . . Baldacci pushes his plot ahead at such a blistering pace." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Washington Post\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    The Whole Truth\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, chilling, and full of surprises." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Stone Cold\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Simple Genius\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   First Family\n  </em>\n  , Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.\n  <strong>\n   THE SIXTH MAN\n  </strong>\n  Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy''s attorney, Sean''s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy''s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11230'),
(8652, 'Sixty Days and Counting', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inside-the-Beltway policy wonks and government scientists strive to save the world from environmental collapse in the well-written third installment (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Fifty Degrees Below\n </em>\n ) of this hyperrealistic, near-future SF series. The Gulf Streamâ€”slowed by global warmingâ€”has been restarted and nuclear-powered naval ships stand by to generate electricity for frigid coastal cities. Phil Chase, an ecologically minded Democrat from California in the Al Gore mold, has won the presidency, due in part to the efforts of NSA scientist Frank Vanderwal and his spook girlfriend, Caroline Barr, who helped foil a right-wing attempt to fix the election. But only time will tell if the world has both the scientific know-how and the political will to reverse the ongoing rush toward an ecological precipice. Combining surprisingly interesting discussions of environmental science with Robinson''s trademark tramps through nature and an exciting espionage subplot, this novel should appeal to both the author''s regular SF audience and anyone concerned with the ecological health of our planet\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the worldâ€™s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesnâ€™t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDRâ€“and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue â€œblack opsâ€ agency not even the president can controlâ€“a task for which neither Frankâ€™s work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the lastâ€“and most terribleâ€“of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5137'),
(8653, 'Sizzling Sixteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a Â“luckyâ€ bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didnâ€™t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs. GOOD LUCK: Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Connie have an advantage in finding Vinnie. If they can rescue him, it will buy them some time to raise the cash. BAD LUCK: Finding a safe place to hide Vinnie turns out to be harder than raising $786,000. Vinnieâ€™s messing up Moonerâ€™s vibe, running up pay-per-view porn charges in Rangerâ€™s apartment, and making Stephanie question genetics. GOOD LUCK: Between a bonds office yard sale that has the entire Burg turning out, Moonerâ€™s Hobbit-Con charity event, and Uncle Pipâ€™s lucky bottle, they just might raise enough money to save the business, and Vinnie, from ruin. BAD LUCK: Saving Vincent Plum Bail Bonds means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles. GOOD LUCK: The job of bounty hunter comes with perks in the guise of Trentonâ€™s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pipâ€™s lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky---the only question is . . . with whom?* *Sizzling Sixteen* . . . so hot, the pages might spontaneously combust!*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2165'),
(8654, 'The Skein of Lament', 'Chris Wooding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Weaversâ€™ grip on Saramyrâ€™s rulers has grown ever more powerful, and all the while, the blight they have brought grows harsher. The land is slipping into civil war. In the mounting chaos, Kaiku and the orphaned heir-Empress must fight for their destiny and their survival, as Saramyr succumbs to the twisting of the Weave and the unknowable ambitions of the secretive Weavers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by young publishing phenomenon Chris Wooding,\n <em>\n  The Braided Path\n </em>\n is a dark, manga-influenced fantasy of a terrifying worldâ€”a world across which plays a spellbinding plot of power, violence, and betrayal. Still in his twenties, Chris Wooding has published 18 books, including the\n <em>\n  Broken Sky\n </em>\n series, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in the U.S. alone. He is also a winner of Britainâ€™s prestigious Silver Smarties Prize for his acclaimed novel,\n <strong>\n  The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray\n </strong>\n , which he is now adapting for a Hollywood film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chris Wooding is 26. He has had more than a dozen novels published including the Silver Smartie Award-winning THE HAUNTING OF ALAIZABEL CRAY and the much praised POISON. HAUNTING has been bought by Hollywood and Chris has been employed to write the screenplay. He lives in North West London.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6212'),
(8655, 'Skeleton Crew', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine....A supermarket becomes the place where humanity takes its last stand against unholy destruction...a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell...a woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise...an idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil...and a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4265'),
(8656, 'Skeleton Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest in the diamond; it could lead her to her father''s remains, from which she hopes to extract enough DNA to establish her birthright. For good measure, Hillerman adds a couple of villains determined to beat her to the site of the crash, a cache of other diamonds long since given up for lost in the Canyon''s watery depths, and a Hopi ritual that''s kept the site secret for years. It''s a good yarn, well but twice told; Hillerman sets it up in a chronologically confusing opening chapter, in which Joe spins the story for a couple of former law-enforcement colleagues--not just to entertain or enlighten them but to demonstrate what he calls his "Navajo belief in universal connections. The cause leads to inevitable effect. The entire cosmos being an infinitely complicated machine all working together."\n</p>\n<p>\n Hillerman is a name-brand writer with a huge and well deserved following. His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is as compelling as it ever was, and many familiar characters from the other 18 novels in this prize-winning series appear here, notably Sergeant Jim Chee and border patrol officer Bernie Manuelito, the woman Chee hopes to marry. Joe Leaphorn remains his most fully-realized protagonist; his perspective on life, destiny, and the sometimes uneasy truce between Native Americans and whites gives this series a unique place in the genre. But as evidenced by his latest, Hillerman''s hero needs more than a retired duffer''s memories to keep him vital and alive, even for his most dedicated fans.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In MWA Grandmaster Hillerman''s sterling 17th Chee/Leaphorn novel, a 1956 collision between passenger planes high above the Grand Canyon leaves a courier''s arm and attached diamond-filled security case unaccounted for after almost half a century. Enter retired Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who must try to connect the dots between an old robbery involving a valuable diamond and a more recent crime involving another diamond, both of which may somehow be related to the plane-crash jewels. The puzzle soon draws in fellow Navajo officer Sgt. Jim Chee and former cop Bernie Manuelito, Chee''s soon-to-be bride. Billy Tuve, a cousin of Chee''s lawman buddy Cowboy Dashee, is arrested after trying to pawn a gem believed to have come from the more recent robbery. Dashee enlists Chee''s help to verify Tuve''s story of a mysterious old man who gave him the jewel during a journey to a canyon-bottom shrine. But the good guys soon learn there are plenty more people in the hunt, and some will stop at nothing to get what they''re after. The stakes are high and the danger escalates clear through to the final pages. Hillerman continues to shine as the best of the West.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5443'),
(8657, 'Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion', 'Chet Raymo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult.Skeptics and True Believersis the culmination of that searcha passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world. Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them. He illustrates his argument with an array of thought-provoking stories, such as the remarkable migratory flight of a small bird called the red knot; the long, glorious glide of the Comet Hyakutake across the night sky; a hilarious alien abduction that didn''t happen. Together, they are compelling evidence that religion should embrace the reliable knowledge of the world that science provides, while at the same time science should respect and nourish humankind''s need for spiritual sustenance. "Miracles are explainable," Raymo paraphrases the writer Tim Robinson, "it is the explanations that are miraculous." For anyone drawn to reflect on life''s meaning and purpose, Chet Raymo''s uncompromising skepticism and reverence for mystery will affirm and inspire. Chet Raymois the author ofThe Dork of Cork,Honey from Stone, andThe Soul of the Night. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult.Skeptics and True Believersis the culmination of that searcha passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world. Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them. He illustrates his argument with an array of thought-provoking stories, such as the remarkable migratory flight of a small bird called the red knot; the long, glorious glide of the Comet Hyakutake across the night sky; a hilarious alien abduction that didn''t happen. Together, they are compelling evidence that religion should embrace the reliable knowledge of the world that science provides, while at the same time science should respect and nourish humankind''s need for spiritual sustenance. "Miracles are explainable," Raymo paraphrases the writer Tim Robinson, "it is the explanations that are miraculous." For anyone drawn to reflect on life''s meaning and purpose, Chet Raymo''s uncompromising skepticism and reverence for mystery will affirm and inspire. "These confessions of a wise religious humanist who also loves, practices, understands, and lives by the ideals and findings of science show us how to heal the false and unnecessary rifts in our intellectual cultures, and to bridge the gap between knowledge and morality."Stephen Jay Gould "His book is engaging, entertaining, and illuminating, filled with intelligence, humor, and refreshing humility."Boston Globe "Declaring himself a ''Skeptic who believes that words like God, soul, sacred, spirituality, sacrament, and grace can retain currency in an age of science,'' noted science writer Raymo argues for a reconciliation between science and religion.Library Journal "Responding in part to the rise of millennial-driven New Age spirituality, Raymo (Honey from Stone: A Naturalist''s Search for God) writes along the tender edges of mystery that bind off objective science from religious faith. Using a light journalistic style, Raymo seeks to find some common ground upon which to construct mutual appre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4852'),
(8658, 'The Skills of Xanadu', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10485'),
(8659, 'Skin and Bones', 'Tom Bale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this brilliant first thriller, in the vein of Peter James, a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness a woman fighting for her life. On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the rampage, shooting everyone in his path before taking his own life. It is a senseless, tragic event, but sadly not an unfamiliar one. At least, that''s what everyone thinks. Only Julia Trent believed to be the sole survivor knows that there was a second man involved. But after being shot and badly injured, her account of the massacre is ignored. But she cannot let it rest there. Together with Craig Walker, the journalist son of one of the victims, Julia sets out to find the truth. As they peel back the layers of a dark and dangerous conspiracy, they discover the slaughter didn''t begin on that bitter day in January. And worst of all, it won''t end there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7487'),
(8660, 'Skin Deep', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The high price of fame meant learning to deal with obsessive fans. But this one was different. He was watching and waiting, and Chantel O''Hurley was afraid. She needed help, and it came with a $500-a-day price tag--Quinn Doran, a P.I. with the kind of tough, go-to-hell looks that made a woman''s pulse race. Chantel didn''t need his arrogant insinuations. She needed to stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2651'),
(8661, 'Skin Game', 'Ava Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kyra''s a con woman and a thief who can steal her target''s strongest skill. But when she becomes the target of a hit man, she won''t be able to hide from the passion that engulfs them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(8662, 'Skin Trade', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A proven series with a hot new look. The #1 bestselling author returns with her most anticipated novel yet.** When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City''s local authorities what they''re dealing with. Only it''s worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where''s she''s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It''s a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses "tiger" too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2789'),
(8663, 'Skinny Cocktails', 'Jaclyn Wilson Foley; Ray Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8826'),
(8664, 'Skinny Cocktails: The Only Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need to Go Out, Have Fun, and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans', 'Jaclyn Wilson Foley &amp; Ray Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n More than 250 Tasty Low-Cal Cocktail Options\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s nothing better than letting loose with friends and a few drinks, but whether you''re planning on kicking back after a hectic day or glamming it up for a night out, the last thing you want to do is obsess about calories.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoy The Low-Cal Frangelini Melt My Heart Mojito Seven Skinny Sparkling Summer Spritzer Dandy Shandy\n</p>\n<p>\n With no-fear recipes, easy-access calorie counts, and minimaldamage mixers, Skinny Cocktails is the must-have companion to a stress-free skinny life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4424'),
(8665, 'Skinny Dip', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10252'),
(8666, 'Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It', 'Teresa Giudice &amp; Heather Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Eat Spaghetti and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To many of us, "diet" is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what''s a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation                Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of *The Real Housewives of New Jersey* credits her knockout figure to her Old World upbringing. And now, in her fun, encouraging, and         budget-friendly cookbook, she skewers the myth that looking fabulous has to be a chore.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Skinny Italian, she reveals how to:   substitute tedious meal plans with simple, flavorful recipes  choose fresh, flavorful ingredients instead of counting calories  slow down and enjoy a faster metabolism  replace starvation with celebration by adopting an Italian attitude to cooking, eating, and entertaining  love food, love eating, and still love your body afterward\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Teresa shows how anyone can master the cornerstones of Italian cuisine. Learn how to make six different tomato sauces from scratch, how to choose and use the right olive oil, and how to prepare over sixty Giudice family recipes straight from Salerno. From Gorgeous Garlic Shrimp to Beautiful Biscotti, you''ll want to make these sumptuous recipes again and again. Discover how easy and economical wholesome, homemade cooking can be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Skinny Italian* is not a diet book. It''s an "eat it and enjoy it" book. Join Teresa and discover how gorgeous can be a sumptuous side effect to living *la bella vita*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4615'),
(8667, 'Skinwalkers', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vibrant with the spirit of the Navajo people of the Southwest, Hillerman''s new story is a spellbinder, like his Edgar Winner Dance Hall of the Dead and other praised novels. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the tribal police work together here, trying to solve crimes that resist logic. There are no clues to three homicides or to the attempted murder of Chee. Leaphorn thinks a "skinwalker," or witch, could have attacked the victims, all adherents of shamanism, as they are otherwise unrelated. The skinwalkers represent a schism between witchcraft and the traditional Navajo Way. A second attempt on Chee bolsters Leaphorn''s suspicion since Chee is an aspiring shaman. The story gathers momentum and tension as the partners get closer to the moment when the murderer comes into the open, and the tragic reason for the crimes becomes painfully clear. 30,000 first printing; BOMC alternate; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHillerman is unique, and Skinwalkers is one of his best works yet.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChoice reading for plot, characters, and superb settingâ€”donâ€™t miss Skinwalkers.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuperb and pure pleasure to read.â€ (Washington Post Book World )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5450'),
(8668, 'Skipped Parts', 'Tim Sandlin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Confirming the promise of Sex and Sunsets and Western Swing , Sandlin has created a lighthearted, amusing and tender story of preteen wisdom, adult immaturity and the fine line between. It''s 1963 when 13-year-old Sam Callahan and his tart-tongued, divorced, misbehaving mother, Lydia, are banished to the hick town of GroVont, Wyo., by Lydia''s Southern-gentleman father, Casper. The only other intelligent sixth-grader in GroVont is spirited, pretty Maurey Pierce. Sharing their books, Sam and Maurey set out to discover what happens in the lost paragraphs between the first kiss and the happily ever after. With some coaching from liberated Lydia, the kids begin practicing for their first real sexual experience. Complications arise when Sam--envisioning romantic futures in the humorous, perceptive short stories he writes--finds himself in love with Maurey. Strong-willed Maurey, however, insists that they pair off with others for "normal" dating, even after she discovers she''s pregnant. Hilarious teenage dating scenes are neatly contrasted with Lydia''s unwise romantic entanglements and the pathetic snobbery of small-town social cliques. Narrated in Sam''s adolescent voice--authentic in its tone and use of the vernacular--this offbeat, engaging novel elicits nonstop chuckles and, sometimes, a tear or two.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sandlin ( Western Swing, LJ 4/1/88) continues his quirky brand of humor in a Western setting, but unfortunately with less originality and freshness. Thirteen- year-old Sam Callahan''s wild mother Lydia has displeased her father (who controls the purse strings) and so is banished from South Carolina to the quiet town of GroVont, Wyoming. She spends most of her time sitting around being disdainfully witty and drinking gin while son Sam writes short stories. Along comes precocious adolescent Maurey Pierce, who decides it''s time she lost her virginity. Sam and Maurey experiment under liberal Lydia''s roof; then Maurey gets pregnant. When she goes for an abortion and finds her mother there, all hell breaks loose. Though wittily told (sometimes to the point of being too cutesy), this is reminiscent of Larry McMurtry''s The Last Pic ture Show , but kinkier, in its depiction of the decay and hypocrisy behind the seemingly benign facade of small-town life. Basically, it''s been done before. A marginal purchase.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Cty. Free Libs., Seaside, Cal.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6827'),
(8669, 'Skipping Christ', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1986'),
(8670, 'Skipping Christmas', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Luther and Nora Krank are fed up with the chaos of Christmas. The endless shopping lists, the frenzied dashes through the mall, the hassle of decorating the tree... where has all the joy gone? This year, celebrating seems like too much effort. With their only child off in Peru, they decide that just this once, they''ll skip the holidays. They spend their Christmas budget on a Caribbean cruise set to sail on December 25, and happily settle in for a restful holiday season free of rooftop snowmen and festive parties. But the Kranks soon learn that their vacation from Christmas isn''t much of a vacation at all, and that skipping the holidays has consequences they didn''t bargain for...A modern Christmas classic, Skipping Christmas is a charming and hilarious look at the mayhem and madness that have become ingrained in our holiday tradition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1995'),
(8671, 'Skippy Dies: A Novel', 'Paul Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublinâ€™s venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippyâ€™s rival in love? Or could Â“the Automatorâ€Â—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the schoolÂ—have something to hide? Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin Â“MC Sexecutionerâ€ Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, *Skippy Dies *is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3332'),
(8672, 'The Skorpion Directive', 'David Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The brilliant new Micah Dalton thriller from the *New York Times* bestselling author. ** In Vienna for a top-secret meeting with ex-Mossad agent Issadore Galan, Micah Dalton senses that something is very wrong on the streets of the Ring District. Dalton''s aggressive response to enemy surveillance makes him the target of a complex plot with the potential to shatter America''s strategic alliances with the rest of the civilized world. Planned by an unknown foreign power and executed by a scarred Serbian killer known only as Smoke, the conspiracy pits Dalton against an ultrasecret U.S. agency and a cadre of trained KGB killers. In a blistering trajectory of events that takes him from Venice to the Balkans and the barren shoreline of North Africa, Dalton pushes himself to the edge of sanity in a desperate attempt to save his honor-and his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1078'),
(8673, 'Skulduggery Pleasant', 'Derek Landy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Skulduggery Pleasant #1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meet Skulduggery Pleasant Ace Detective Snappy Dresser RazorÂ–tongued Wit Crackerjack Sorcerer and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton â€”as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old. These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil. The end of the world? Over his dead body.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/373');
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(8674, 'The Sky Is Falling', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dana Evans, who made her first appearance in Sidney Sheldon''s __, is a spunky, good-looking, young Washington TV journalist who''s recently returned to the nation''s capital from the Balkans, where she adopted a handicapped war orphan who''s having trouble adjusting to life in America. But that doesn''t keep Dana from following a story all over the world, from Washington to Aspen, Nice, Juneau, Dusseldorf, Rome, Brussels, Moscow, and Siberia. Each of these brief visits is like a postcard--a local landmark or two, an interesting local restaurant (at least in the European venues), and another piece of the puzzle, which has to do with why every member of a venerable, old Washington dynasty has died a violent death in the last year. It seems strange that in a media-savvy city like Washington, no one but Dana has noticed there''s a pattern in the rapid extinction of the Winthrops or even whispered the words\n <em>\n  family vendetta\n </em>\n . But that''s why pretty, young girl TV reporters were invented, at least by Sheldon.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Dana sets out to investigate the distinguished career of the Winthrop family patriarch, her lover Jeff, a sports anchor at her station, is called away to administer aid and succor to his former wife, a beautiful model who''s realized, too little and too late, that she never should have dumped him. And Kemal, the 12-year-old orphan, is being drugged by his baby sitter, who''s in cahoots with at least one set of bad guys. Dana hasn''t noticed how tractable the temperamental boy has become recently because she''s been dressing up like a two-bit Russian tramp to infiltrate a secret weapons base in Siberia... Do you hear the words\n <em>\n  movie locations\n </em>\n ? But all''s well that ends well, as it usually does for Sheldon''s heroines, and in the meantime you''ve learned where the five-star hotels are and what to order in a famous restaurant in Rome. A slick, commercial, slightly thin tale told by a craftsman of the genre.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Efficiently brisk and reliably suspenseful, Sheldon''s (Tell Me Your Dreams, etc.) 17th novel demonstrates that this veteran master of commercial fiction has not lost his touch. Freshly returned to Washington, D.C., from a stint reporting in Sarajevo, TV newscaster Dana Evans (introduced in Sheldon''s The Best Laid Plans) struggles to cope with her new adopted son, troubled 12-year-old Kemal, whose parents and sister were killed in the fighting. Back on the job, Dana interviews youngish millionaire Gary Winthrop, the scion of a Kennedyesque clan, only to learn the next day that the prospective Senate candidate and philanthropist has been murdered in his Washington townhouse. Unbelievably, Dana is the only person who finds it odd that five members of the Winthrop family have died violent deaths in the last year. Despite this weakness in the plot, Sheldon crafts a page-turner that takes Dana on a worldwide quest from France, Germany and Italy to Alaska and Moscow as she pursues her hunch that all the Winthrop deaths are related. Deceased family patriarch Taylor Winthrop, she discovers, was a manipulative, unscrupulous businessman, politico and womanizer with many enemies. And the senior Winthrop''s connection to the real-life Siberian underground city of Krasnoyarsk-26 and its production of plutonium proves the source of the family''s wealth and their ill fortune. A love triangle involving Dana, sports anchor Jeff Connors and his ex-wife, internationally known model Rachel Stevens, seems gratuitous, tossed in merely to add plot texture, but it does provide some viable moments of romance and schmaltz. When the villains behind the killings turn against Dana as she comes closer to the truth, the tension builds and holds right through to a seven-alarm finale. Agent, Mort Janklow. 750,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday main selections; Mystery Guild featured alternate; People Book Club alternate; 6-city author tour. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8620'),
(8675, 'Sky island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap&#39;n Bill after their visits to the sea fairies', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Captivating tale by a master of make-believe recounts the further adventures of a little girl named Trot; Cap''n Bill, an old sailor; and their new friend, a boy named Button-Bright. Transported with the help of a magic umbrella to an island in the sky, the travelers meet six snub-nosed princesses, discover the King''s treasure chamber, encounter a blue wolf, and meet Tourmaline the poverty Queen and Rosalie the Witch. Excitement and adventure fill their days in a delightful sequel to Baum''s *The Sea Fairies.* 86 black-and-white illustrations; 12 full-color illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3169'),
(8676, 'Sky of swords', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the king is killed, Princess Malinda realizes that is up to her to protect the heir to the Kingdom, her baby brother Amby, and that the only ones that can help her are the Blades of the Royal Guards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(8677, 'Sky Strike', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1809'),
(8678, 'The Sky&#39;s the Limit', 'Marco Palmieri &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Taking its title from the final words spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the series finale, The Sky''s the Limit is a collection of brand new original stories spanning and celebrating the entire twenty-year history of the most popular and successful Trek series of all. Stories by a variety of authors -- some old favourites, some new -- set during the events of the television series give the authentic feel of a newly discovered ''missing season'' of Star Trek: The Next Generation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Contributors include Christopher L. Bennett, Greg Cox, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Bob Ingersoll &amp; Thomas F. Zahler, David A. McIntee, Scott Pearson, Michael Schuster &amp; Steve Mollmann, Susan Shwartz, Amy Sisson, James Swallow, Geoff Trowbridge, Dayton Ward &amp; Kevin Dilmore, Richard C. White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Meet With Triumph and Disaster\n </p>\n <p>\n  by Michael Schuster &amp; Steve Mollmann\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first time Captain Thomas Halloway saw the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , the starship was nothing more than a simulation displayed on a designer''s terminal. Even back then, he had been impressed by her size, although he had no illusions that a computer model ever would be able to do the real thing justice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The third time he saw the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , she had gone through every preliminary test imaginable, and the first struts of her spaceframe were about to be welded together on the Martian surface, to be lifted into orbit later on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The seventh time he saw the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , construction had progressed far enough to enable people to work inside her without having to depend on space suits. That had been the day the life-support systems had been switched on, only weeks after Thomas had been chosen as the right man to supervise the construction efforts. It was also five years before the ship would leave the orbital dock under its own power, using only maneuvering thrusters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  had been eight years before the commissioning ceremony that was just minutes away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was quite a turnout; Thomas had the feeling that nobody would notice if he suddenly disappeared. This was an event that had drawn hundreds from all over the Federation to this place: the orbital docks of Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars. It was a celebration of Starfleet''s desire to explore the unknown, an affirmation of one of the basic ideals of the Federation: the constant and never-ending quest for more knowledge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What more fitting embodiment of this ideal was there than the\n  <em>\n   Galaxy\n  </em>\n  -class ship itself? So grand and impressive -- swanlike and almost alive. It dwarfed everything else in orbit, with the exception of the spacedock cradling it. "Traveling cities" they had been called by some of their designers, and Thomas was tempted to agree with this assessment. Their purpose was to trawl the regions beyond known space, always on the lookout for interesting and curious new discoveries, be they alive or not.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the other side of a crowd of dignitaries, Thomas caught sight of a familiar figure. "Orfil!" Thomas shouted and waved at his erstwhile colleague. "Try to come over here, will you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A throng of wildly gesticulating Guidons almost prevented Commander Orfil Quinteros from crossing the distance of only a few meters, but eventually he succeeded and shook Thomas''s hand. Orfil had worked with Thomas for almost ten years, serving as his right-hand man on the construction team (not to mention best friend), but he had been gone for two months now, undergoing command training in preparation for his transfer to Starbase 74.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When did you arrive?" Thomas asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Late last night. HQ booked me a flight on a civilian shuttle bound for Pluto, and from there I took the ferry to Titan. I hardly got any sleep." Orfil had relatives in Christopher''s Landing, and he was likely to pay them a visit whenever he had enough time. "Where''s the boss?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Out and about, I suspect. I haven''t actually seen him yet, but I don''t think he''ll pass on the opportunity to celebrate. Do you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nah." Having worked for many years under Admiral Theoderich Patterson, they both knew exactly what he liked, and playing host for such a celebration as today''s was one of the things right at the top of that list. The admiral had started as a lowly engineer at Utopia Planitia and, having managed to stay there his entire career, now ran the place. "Most likely, he''s already mingling."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Most likely," Thomas agreed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Without warning, Orfil slapped him on the shoulder hard enough that Thomas''s knees almost buckled. "So, what news of Solveig and the kids?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They''re doing fine. Rupa''s enjoying elementary school only slightly less than she did kindergarten, but that was to be expected. Matti...well, let''s just say he''s in a difficult phase right now."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ah, puberty." The two men exchanged knowing grins. "Say, why isn''t Solveig here? Or did I just fail to spot her? The kids wouldn''t have had much fun here, but I''m sure that your wife at least would want to celebrate your triumph with you."\n </p>\n <p>\n  What was being celebrated today was not just\n  <em>\n   his\n  </em>\n  triumph, but also the culmination of two decades'' work, if one included in the count the general design and planning efforts for the entire Galaxy class. Twenty years ago, the project had begun, and now the third ship of that class was about to be commissioned. It would not have been such a special occasion if this had been any other ship -- certainly, nobody had made such a fuss about the commissioning of\n  <em>\n   Yamato\n  </em>\n  , for example -- but since this was the first starship in two decades to bear the prestigious name\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , things were different.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Very\n  </em>\n  different.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The people present at this celebration of the past and the future were mostly important figures connected with the Fleet, while others, though few in number, represented the UFP government. It was too much Starfleet top brass, too much pomp and circumstance for Solveig to enjoy herself, and they had talked about it extensively weeks ago, eventually coming to the agreement that they would celebrate on their own, with their relatives and closest friends. It was something Thomas was looking forward to, even as he stood here waiting for the actual start of festivities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Solveig...well, you know how she feels about the Fleet, don''t you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh,\n  <em>\n   yes\n  </em>\n  ," said Orfil emphatically. A few times he had been a guest of the Halloways, eating dinner with them and spending an eventful evening at their house in Central Burroughs. Orfil had experienced Solveig in action often enough to know what she thought of Starfleet, Federation politics, and just about everything else that crossed her mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Movement at the other end of the observation center that doubled as the locale for tonight''s event caught Thomas''s attention -- somebody was mounting the stage. It was Admiral Patterson, about to make the first speech of many that would be delivered tonight. Beyond the transparent wall behind the admiral, the rusty orb of Mars shimmered in the sun...as did the star of today''s ceremony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She hung scarcely a hundred meters away, keeping close company with the station ostensibly in order to give the attendees the best possible view of her, though all they saw was the underside of the saucer section, the neck, and the front part of the secondary hull with its ringed navigational deflector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Still\n  </em>\n  , thought Thomas, she''s a sight to behold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The audience quieted as Patterson took the podium. "Good evening, dear guests. It is a great honor and an even greater pleasure for me to be able to welcome you all here today. Many of you have had to travel long distances to be present on this very special occasion, and for that I thank you. It is not every day that we celebrate the commissioning of a new starship, much less that of a ship with such a prestigious and famous name as that of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , a name that goes back centuries, used long before there was a Starfleet on Earth, long before even there were any spacegoing craft on that planet at all. Now has come the time to make that name part of the Federation''s fleet once again, to lead the way in expanding our knowledge and understanding of the universe and -- most important -- ourselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We celebrate this event not only because we can, but also because we feel that we have an obligation to do so. The previous starship called Enterprise was destroyed with all hands nineteen years ago, and I ask you all to join me now in a minute''s silent remembrance of those who lost their lives that day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thomas still remembered where he had been when he had heard the news. It was such an extraordinary occurrence, the destruction of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise-C\n  </em>\n  , that one could not help but memorize every little detail about it. Such a thing did not happen, especially not with people aboard. Many had died in that Romulan attack over Narendra III, but if any good could come from such a tragedy, it was that the ship''s loss had gone a long way to strengthen deteriorating relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you," Patterson said and gripped the sides of the podium, leaning slightly forward. "Let us never forget the brave souls who gave their lives for our safety throughout Federation history. It is only because of their sacrifice that we have come so far: from belonging to separate, disparate planets to being part of a vast interstellar whole that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Rather than being satisfied with the status quo, we want to know more, about ourselves, about others, about the place we live in. Who better to talk about this ship''s mission" -- he made a sweeping gesture toward the majestic form beyond the windows -- "than our next speaker. My dear friends and supporters of Starfleet''s cause, I am proud to introduce the Respectable Lady Svaath Magodin, Secretary of Science and Space Exploration of the United Federation of Planets!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Applause followed, and a reptilian Xindi ascended the stage. Magodin was slightly smaller than average for her species, and if you didn''t know her, you''d think that she was not very remarkable at all. Months previous, Thomas had made the mistake of assuming her to be just that, and he''d quickly discovered his error: she was distinguished by virtue of the way she interacted with others. She did not beat about the bush; if there was something she wanted, she said so. She reminded him of nothing so much as a Vulcan matriarch.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Admiral. I am glad to be here today," she said. Her voice was at odds with what you would expect from her appearance, as it always reminded Thomas of a little elf. Somehow it did not seem to belong to a woman from New Xindus. "Admiral Patterson has already mentioned the reason for this gathering," she continued, addressing the throng of guests, "but I feel it bears repeating. It is about the pursuit of knowledge, both ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8616'),
(8679, 'Skybar', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11133'),
(8680, 'Skylark 1 The Skylark of Space', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press''''s series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."â€”_Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Times Literary Supplement_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brilliant government scientist Richard Seaton discovers a remarkable faster-than-light fuel that will power his interstellar spaceship,\n  <em>\n   The Skylark\n  </em>\n  . His ruthless rival, Marc DuQuesne, and the sinister World Steel Corporation will do anything to get their hands on the fuel. They kidnap Seaton''s fiancÃ©e and friends, unleashing a furious pursuit and igniting a burning desire for revenge that will propel\n  <em>\n   The Skylark\n  </em>\n  across the galaxy and back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Skylark of Space\n  </em>\n  is the first and one of the best space operas ever written. Breezy dialogue, romantic intrigue, fallible heroes, and complicated villains infuse humanity and believability into a conflict of galactic proportions. The\n  <em>\n   Amazing Stories\n  </em>\n  publication of\n  <em>\n   The Skylark of Space\n  </em>\n  in 1928 heralded the debut of a major new voice in American pulp science fiction and ushered in its golden age. Legions of interstellar epics have been written since that time, but none can match the wonder, dazzle, and sheer fun of the original. This commemorative edition features the author''s preferred version of the story, the original illustrations by O. G. Estes Jr., and a new introduction by acclaimed science fiction writer Vernor Vinge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10781'),
(8681, 'Skylark 2 Skylark Three', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seatonâ€™s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And donâ€™t forget the dastardly machinations of Seatonâ€™s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible? Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than its predecessor, Skylark Three is hailed by many as the imaginative high point of the Skylark series. A pioneer of the space opera, E. E. "Doc" Smith (1890â€“1965) profoundly influenced the development of American science fiction. Smithâ€™s books include the classic Lensman series. Jack Williamson is the author of numerous classic novels, including The Humanoids and Terraforming Earth. He has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seatonâ€™s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And donâ€™t forget the dastardly machinations of Seatonâ€™s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible? Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than its predecessor, Skylark Three is hailed by many as the imaginative high point of the Skylark series. A pioneer of the space opera, E. E. "Doc" Smith (1890â€“1965) profoundly influenced the development of American science fiction. Smithâ€™s books include the classic Lensman series. Jack Williamson is the author of numerous classic novels, including The Humanoids and Terraforming Earth. He has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seatonâ€™s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And donâ€™t forget the dastardly machinations of Seatonâ€™s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible? Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than its predecessor, Skylark Three is hailed by many as the imaginative high point of the Skylark series. A pioneer of the space opera, E. E. "Doc" Smith (1890â€“1965) profoundly influenced the development of American science fiction. Smithâ€™s books include the classic Lensman series. Jack Williamson is the author of numerous classic novels, including The Humanoids and Terraforming Earth. He has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10786'),
(8682, 'Skylark 3 Skylark of Valeron', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The incredible staship Skylark Three has fought the Fenachone Supermen to a standstill, and Richard Seaton has gone back to his first love - exploration. Roaming the galaxy, he discovers a world of disembodied intelligences; a world of four dimensions where time was insanely distorted and matter obeyed no terrestrial laws, where 3-dimensional intellects were barely sufficient to thwart invisible mentalities! Meanwhile, the villainous DuQuesne is allying himself with the remnants of the Fenachrone, and planning his next attack . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10785'),
(8683, 'Skylark 4 Skylark Duquesne', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10783'),
(8684, 'Skypoint', 'Phil Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It''s the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it''s where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint''s latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3632'),
(8685, 'Slade', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11124'),
(8686, 'Slammerkin', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donoghue takes scraps of the intriguing true story of Mary Saunders, a servant girl who murdered her mistress in 1763, and fashions from them an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel. Born to a mother who sews for pennies and a father who died in jail, 14-year-old Mary''s hardened existence in London brings to mind the lives of Dickens''s child characters. Mary has an eye for fine things and ambitions beyond her social station, and her desire for a shiny red ribbon leads her to sell the only thing she owns: her body. Turned out by her mother, Mary is taken in by a local prostitute, Doll Higgins; they live together in Rat''s Castle in the seedy section of town. Doll teaches Mary the tricks of her trade and gives her all the gaudy dresses Mary once coveted. For a year, the term slammerkin meaning a loose gown or a loose woman becomes all too familiar to Mary, until she checks into a charity hospital and attempts to straighten out. Missing the "liberty" of her former life, she leaves the hospital only to encounter more trouble back on the streets. Fleeing to the country village of Monmouth, her parents'' hometown, Mary finds Mrs. Jones, an old friend of her mother''s, and obtains a maid''s position in her household, but Mary can''t shake her dark ambitions: she re-enters the flesh trade, bringing disaster upon herself. Readers may feel both sympathetic to and angry with Mary, who questions whether hers is the lot of all women, but whose anesthetized spirit leads to her rash action. Donoghue''s characterizations are excellent, and her brutal imagery and attention to language capture the spirit of the time with vital precision. Agent, Caroline Davidson. (June)Forecast: The provocative jacket will catch readers'' attention, but attentive handselling, perhaps helped by the author tour, will be required to distinguish this worthy historical novel from similar titles.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Slammerkin," an 18th-century term meaning a loose gown or loose woman, is a fitting title for Irish writer Donoghue''s (Hood) third novel. Mary Saunders''s mother scratches out a meager living as a seamstress in 1760s London, but Mary longs for a more luxurious life with fine ribbons and clothes. At 13, she sneers at her mother''s suggestion that she take up the needle, then makes a fateful mistake that leads her into prostitution. On the street, the young woman indulges her fine tastes and lives an independent life. When illness forces her to seek help, she vows to reform her lifestyle. Mary flees to a tiny hamlet where she finds work as a maid and seamstress. In her new life, she discovers the comforts of a home and family. But she questions whether "honest" women are any freer than prostitutes and is unable to forget her former life and her need for autonomy a need that leads to violence. This eloquent and engrossing novel, rich in historical detail and based on an actual murder, raises numerous issues about a woman''s station in society during this period. An ideal choice for book groups; recommended for all public and academic libraries. Karen T. Bilton, Cedar Mill Community Lib., Portland, OR\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5899'),
(8687, 'The Slap', 'Christos Tsiolkas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although this is Australian author Tsiolkasâ€™ fourth novel, it is the first to be published in the U.S. With its raw style, liberal use of profanity and racial epithets, and laserlike focus on the travails of suburban life, it is a down-and-dirty version of Tom Perrottaâ€™s best-selling Little Children (2004). At a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a man loses his temper and slaps the child of the hostâ€™s friends. This incident unleashes a slew of divisive opinions, pitting friends and families against each other as the childâ€™s parents take the man to court. Told from eight different viewpoints, the novel also deftly fills in disparate backstories encompassing young and old, single and married, gay and straight, as well as depicting how multiculturalism is increasingly impacting the traditional Aussie ethos. For good measure, the author also throws in male vanity, infidelity, and homophobia. Tsiolkasâ€™ in-your-face style is sure to alienate some readersâ€”the childâ€™s parents, for example, are among the bookâ€™s most unlikable charactersâ€”but his novel, which won the 2009 Commonwealth Prize, fairly radiates with vitality as it depicts the messy complications of family life. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A layered, briskly paced story about complex people. Think Tom Wolfe meets Philip Roth. Or ''The Sopranos'' meets ''The Real Housewives of Orange County."\n <br />\n -Oscar Villalon,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and real, this is a novel as big as life built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the human heart. A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece."\n <br />\n -Chris Cleave, author of\n <em>\n  Little Bee\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Slap_ is nothing short of a tour de force, and it confirms Christos Tsiolkas''s reputation as one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today. In his new book, Tsiolkas puts a microscope to family life and presents us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. The luminosity of his prose and the brilliance of his characterisation render the ordinary quite extraordinary. Here is a novel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen''s\n <em>\n  The Corrections\n </em>\n and Don De Lillo''s\n <em>\n  Underworld\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Colm Toibin, author of\n <em>\n  Brooklyn\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Master\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like all Tsiolkas'' work, it is wildly energetic and fearless, thrillingly about our lives now."\n <br />\n - Helen Garner, author of\n <em>\n  The Spare Room\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a rich and engrossing novel, full of vivid incidents and intricate patterns...Tsiolkas''s subtle character drawing, fast-moving narrative, and above all, fierce moral commitment make\n <em>\n  The Slap\n </em>\n a worthy winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers'' Prize."\n <br />\n -_The Telegraph_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting from start to finish."\n <br />\n -Jane Smiley, author of\n <em>\n  A Thousand Acres\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Private Life\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Radiates with vitality as it depicts the messy complications of family life."\n <br />\n -_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Complex and multilayered. ...intertwined lives and slowly revealed connections make for a singular reading experience."\n <br />\n -_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "With\n <em>\n  The Slap\n </em>\n , Christos Tsiolkas secures his place as one of Australia''s most important novelists...It is thrilling to have our life reflected back at us so accurately...Tsiolkas has written an absolute ripper."\n <br />\n -_The Age_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best politicians are those who can instinctively divine the zeitgeist of their country''s centre. For the ones who can''t, I would place\n <em>\n  The Slap\n </em>\n as mandatory bedside table reading. It''s a perfect social document... More importantly, it''s also a hell of a read."\n <br />\n -_The Australian_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strikingly tender...it claws into you with its freshness and truth."\n <br />\n -_Sydney Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A controversial and daring novel,\n <em>\n  The Slap\n </em>\n uses the iconic scene of a suburban Australian barbecue to examine identities and personal relationships in a multicultural society. Offering points of view from eight different characters, it taps into universal tensions and dilemmas around family life and child-rearing. This book is sure to challenge readers and provoke debate."\n <br />\n -Committee for The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8431'),
(8688, 'Slapstick, Or, Lonesome No More!', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. (Super-intelligent, miniaturized Chinese watch the West self-destruct from the sidelines.) Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern, then moved to deserted New York City, where he writes a thoughtful missive before death.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Slapstick\n </em>\n , Vonnegut muses on war, man''s hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse. Absurd, knowing, never depressing,\n <em>\n  Slapstick\n </em>\n kindles hope--for the possibility of wisdom, perhaps; for human resiliency, surely.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s best to end with a quote from the prologue wherein the author discourses on The Meaning of It All, or at least This Book: "Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go off looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.\n <br />\n I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ''Please--a little less love, and a little more common decency.''"\n <br />\n Amen.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œSome of the best and most moving Vonnegut.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œBoth funny and sad . . . just about perfect.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImaginative and hilarious . . . a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out future.â€â€”_Hartford Courant_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7707'),
(8689, 'Slaughterhouse-Five', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Slaughterhouse-Five is one of  the world''s great anti-war books. Centering on the  infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim''s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey  of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning  in what we are afraid to know.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2969'),
(8690, 'Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children&#39;s Crusade, a Duty-Dance With Death', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Launched in November, Dell''s Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world''s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim''s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7698'),
(8691, 'Slave of Sarma', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the fourth book in the Richard Blade series. __________________________________________ Blade''s newest mission: Projection by computer to Dimension X, to track down and kill the russian agent posing as his double.In Sarma, land of weird customs and barbaric punishments, he could survive only by satisfying the cravings of the royal women. Failure ment live burial, or being hurled into the flaming jaws of Bek-Tor. And always the danger from the man who was his double...and might prove to be his final destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1927'),
(8692, 'Slawter', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lights. Camera. Slawter! Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-E are thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants for the newest movie by cult horror producer David A Haym. Shot in a deserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to be Haym''s masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set, Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darren Shan says: I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was Cirque Du Freak. Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two. Darren is currently at work on his fourth book in The Demonata series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4382'),
(8693, 'Slay Ride', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œNobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis.â€\n <br />\n â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A smash hit novel now in tradeâ€”from â€œa rare and magical talentâ€¦ who never writes the same story twice.â€(_San Diego Union-Tribune_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Notable Book\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Slay Ride\n </em>\n finds British investigator David Cleveland betting on foul play when a champion jockey disappearsâ€”right before a big race and the birth of his childâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8234'),
(8694, 'Slayer', 'D. L. Snow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Marriage? No, thanks. Sheâ€™d rather kiss a dragon. An Enchanted story. All Prince Cahill needs to assume the throne is one simple thing: a wife. Except every virgin princess in the kingdom has turned up deflowered before the deal can be sealed. The very next maiden to cross this threshold, he vows, will be his bride. When she appearsâ€”injured, half-frozen and reeking of dragon dungâ€”he holds to his promise and puts her to the final test to prove her worthiness. A test that involves a mattress and a pea. Breanna couldnâ€™t be less interested in marriage, especially to a cocksure royal like Cahill. Since losing her family to a dragon horde, she has become the continentâ€™s finest slayerâ€”a job she doesnâ€™t plan on giving up until the last dragonâ€™s blood drips from her sword. Yet her sleepless nights are plagued with visions of Cahill doing wicked things to her untutored body. And when she fights at his side to repel a dragon attack, her visions become delicious reality. But Queen Eleanor, whose reign is about to end, has no intention of giving up her power. Not to Prince Cahill, and certainly not to some young upstartâ€¦ Warning: This book contains corruption, seduction, conspiracy and magically-induced erotic dreams. And thatâ€™s just the first chapter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1183'),
(8695, 'Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage', 'Ann Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally, a no-worry, no-guilt guide to sleep. There''s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all sleep solution. That''s why\n <em>\n  Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler\n </em>\n provides you with the tools you need to come up with a customized sleep solution that takes into account your child''s temperament, your parenting philosophies, and the rest of your life. You''ll also get the lowdown on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  the physical, emotional and relationship fallout of sleep deprivation â€” along with an action plan for minimizing these effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  what the world''s leading sleep researchers have identified as the best-odds sleep promotion strategies for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers\n </li>\n <li>\n  the science behind each of the major sleep training methods â€” along with the inside scoop on the major pros and cons, according to parents who''ve tried them\n </li>\n <li>\n  co-sleeping, partners in exile (in the spare bedroom), and other hot-button topics in the world of sleep\n </li>\n <li>\n  sleep transitions: from co-sleeping to solo sleeping; from crib to bed; from napping to no more naps\n </li>\n <li>\n  nightmares, night terrors, bedtime refusal, and too-early risers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  checklists, charts, and sleep tools, including a handy sleep log\n </li>\n <li>\n  sleep books, websites, and organizations that every parent should know about\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Finally, a no-worry, no-guilt guide to sleep. Thereâ€™s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all sleep solution. Thatâ€™s why Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler provides you with the tools you need to come up with a customized sleep solution that takes into account your childâ€™s temperament, your parenting philosophies, and the rest of your life. Youâ€™ll also get the lowdown on\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   the physical, emotional and relationship fallout of sleep deprivationâ€”along with an action plan for minimizing these effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   what the worldâ€™s leading sleep researchers have identified as the best-odds sleep promotion strategies for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   the science behind each of the major sleep training methodsâ€”along with the inside scoop on the major pros and cons, according to parents whoâ€™ve tried them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   co-sleeping, partners in exile (in the spare bedroom), and other hot-button topics in the world of sleep\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   sleep transitions: from co-sleeping to solo sleeping; from crib to bed; from napping to no more naps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   nightmares, night terrors, bedtime refusal, and too-early risers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   checklists, charts, and sleep tools, including a handy sleep log\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   sleep books, websites, and organizations that every parent should know about\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10700'),
(8696, 'Sleepers', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra''s controversial memoir of growing up in NYC''s Hell''s Kitchen and as an inmate at a sadistic detention center was a PW bestseller for eight weeks.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A book with a punch equal to its publicity hype! Journalist Carcaterra tells with gripping force of his days growing up in the tough New York City neighborhood of Hell''s Kitchen in the 1960s (the names have been changed to protect the innocent\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n the guilty). He and his three closest buddies engaged in petty crime until the day their tricks got out of hand and escalated into a major offense, for which they were sent to a juvenile home in upstate New York. They were tormented during their months there, not by other young inmates but by their adult guards, who brutalized them relentlessly in a program of horror and torture that included rape. Once out, once grown up, one of the boys became a lawyer, and through a bizarre twist of events worthy of being turned into a movie (in fact, the movie rights have been sold, with Barry Levinson lined up as director), he, Carcaterra, and the other two friends expose the horrible wrongs they suffered in that detention home. Both difficult to read and difficult to put down, this book will garner lots of attention, and as a result, readership demand will be high.\n <em>\n  Brad Hooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5886'),
(8697, 'The Sleeping God', 'Violette Malan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Masters of weapons and martial arts, Mercenaries Dhulyn Wolfshead and Parno Lionsmane have just saved one of the Marked, those gifted with special powers, from a mob that appears to be under the influence of a priest of the Sleeping God. Learning that this is not an isolated incident and realizing that Dhulyn''s own unique gift will make them a target, the two take ship for safer climes. Once ashore the partners take on a seemingly simple mission of escorting a young woman to distant relatives. But not even Dhulyn''s talent can warn them of the threat that awaits at the far end of their journey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5473'),
(8698, 'A Sleeping Life', 'Ruth Rendell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Rendell is a master of the form." --_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "An unusual detective story. . .intelligent, well-written, with a surprising twist." --_The Times Literary Supplement_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ruth Rendell. . .retains her place of highest distinction in the field." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world." --_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell." --_The Christian Science Monitor_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rhoda Comfrey''s death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  A Sleeping Life\n </strong>\n , master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey''s handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted,\n <strong>\n  A Sleeping Life\n </strong>\n evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5108'),
(8699, 'Sleeping Murder', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published the year of Agatha Christie''s death, *Sleeping Murder* is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator...A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it... A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christie''s beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now Sleeping Murder is back in a special trade edition, sure to delight old and new fans alike...."Agatha Christie makes us feel Miss Marple''s shiver."-*New York Times*"Has all the virtues of Agatha Christie''s work; a coherant plot, firm and purposeful narration, and a pleasant style."--*Times Literary Supplement*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5250');
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(8700, 'Sleeping With the Enemy', 'Kaitlyn O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This powerful, moving and well-controlled thriller follows the metamorphosis of Sara Burney, an abused, submissive and battered wife whose daily goal has been to keep her brutish husband Martin from still more violent assaults. Presumed dead when she is swept overboard from a sailboat in Manhasset Bay, Sara seizes the opportunity to escape from her husband and begin a new life. She rides the bus from Boston to the small university town of Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she finds a job as caretaker to Dr. Hazel Channing, a professor who is recovering from an accident that has left her both mute and paralyzed. Sara (now known as Laura Pray) gradually edges into independence. She reads Henry James to Dr. Channing and awakes her to sprightly dialogue. She finds the strength and the wisdom to counsel another woman in crisis. And she begins a tentative but promising relationship with her next-door neighbor, a perceptive professor. But her desire to visit her mother in a nursing home enables her murderously psychotic husband to trace her. Reveries, dreams and images of drowning form an effective counterpoint to chilling scenes of observation and pursuit, and the author of An Accomplished Woman brings the novel to a triumphant conclusion. Major ad/promo; film rights to Leonard Goldberg Productions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2405'),
(8701, 'Sleepless (2010)', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10030'),
(8702, 'Sleepwalk', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Borrego looks like an ordinary New Mexico town: it borders an Indian reservation, its teenagers are bored and restless, and its only industry is the outdated oil refinery. But someone has a plan to shake up Borrego that involves controlling the minds of the local residents. When Judith Sheffield is asked to return to her sleepy hometown to teach high school math, she discovers that the students'' mandatory flu shots don''t really contain flu vaccine. The teacher joins forces with refinery worker Frank Arnold; his teenage son, Jed, whose mother belonged to the neighboring tribe; and Brown Eagle, the boy''s grandfather, to find out what and who is behind the flu-shot edict and an equally mysterious takeover bid for the oil refinery. There are compelling scenes in which Brown Eagle introduces Jed to Native American mysticism, and the novel''s climax involves a spectacular display of man restoring nature to its rightful place--after having almost destroyed everything in the process. Saul''s ( Creature ) suspenseful tale leaves the reader with no doubt on the question of who wins and who loses in the struggle of good against evil.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A peaceful desert town is taken over by a madman with terrifying powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4590'),
(8703, 'Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories', 'Mike Birbiglia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comedian Birbiglia, frequent contributor to public radioâ€™s This American Life and The Moth and author of the blog My Secret Public Journal, has the ability to remember a lot of things most of us would just as soon forget. Lucky for us, in this memoir Birbiglia recalls the events leading up to his earning the childhood nickname â€œTinklesâ€ (though you might be able to guess how it happened), and he tells the story of how, instead of bestowing his first kiss on his middle-school crush, he tossed his cookies at her feet. Heâ€™s now, hopefully, cashing in on the demoralizing dues paid in his youth and early career as a stand-up comicâ€”readers will recognize him from the late-night circuit and Comedy Central specials, and the book itself is an extension of his one-man show. Charming, brainier than heâ€™d probably admit, and frequently poignant in spite of himself, Birbiglia throws together an alternately rollicking and warm handful of stories; the lengthy title story, of his struggle with a sleep disorder, is as fascinating as it is hilarious. --Annie Bostrom\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia was always a very funny guy who told stories onstage. But in the last two years it''s been inspiring to see the stories get bigger and more complicated and emotional as he turned himself into a real storyteller andâ€”with this bookâ€”a real author as well. These are deeply relatable, totally engaging stories. They''re as moving and amusing as they come.â€ â€”Ira Glass, host and producer of â€œThis American Lifeâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia can write an entertaining yet soulful story in his sleepâ€”that and jump out of motel windows.â€ â€”Sarah Vowell, author of\n  <em>\n   The Wordy Shipmates\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Assassination Vacation\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst, know that this book is well written and funny. Now, know that I hate cynicism. Hate it. This book is the opposite of cynicism. I love\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalk With Me\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”Jeff Garlin, Co-creator and Co-star of\n  <em>\n   Curb Your Enthusiasm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a good friend of mine but I''m still really happy when weird, bad things happen to him because I love hearing the stories.â€ â€”Seth Meyers, head writer and host of Weekend Update,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFunny. Very funny. Birbiglia is the child Woody Allen and Bob Newhart never hadâ€”please don''t try to picture that ''encounter.'' Smart and self-aware, with just enough perspective on his quirks and issues that you don''t have to feel too sorry for him...as you laugh at and/or with him.â€ â€”Bob Odenkirk, creator and star of HBO''s\n  <em>\n   Mr. Show with Bob and David\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia has always made me laugh and so did this book. No one explains their insanity as sanely or as honestly or is as funny as Mike. If you think youâ€™re crazy, this is the book for you. Itâ€™s a good thing the kid is a talented writer and comic or heâ€™d be screwed.â€ â€”Lewis Black\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Sleepwalk with Me_ is so funny, inspired, and jealous-makingly well written, I am beginning to suspect that Mike Birbiglia MAY ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN AWAKE WHILE HE WROTE IT. This changes my whole worldview.â€ â€”John Hodgman, author of\n  <em>\n   More Information Than You Require\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œInsightful, heartfelt, and comedicâ€”what more could you want from a book? Mike Birbiglia is a unique and wonderful new voice in American theater and letters.â€ â€”Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO''s "Bored to Death" and author of\n  <em>\n   The Extra Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Wake Up, Sir!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Sleepwalk With Me_ is about the things that keep us all up at night: love, family and growing up. In equal parts hilarious and moving, this book should cement Mike Birbigliaâ€™s status as a national treasure.â€ â€”Andy Borowitz, author of\n  <em>\n   Who Moved My Soap: The CEO''s Guide to Surviving Prison; The Bernie Madoff Edition\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a great storyteller, just as funny on the page as on the stage. These comic gems strung together create a hilarious and touching memoir of growing up awkwardly and finding his way in the cruel world of stand-up. An original wit who raises self-deprecation to an art form, and always leaves you thinking and laughing." â€”Nathan Lane\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8026'),
(8704, 'Slings and Arrows 01: Sea of Troubles', 'J. Steven York &amp; Christina F. York', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new six-part epic covering the first year of service of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, leading up to the events of the hit movie Star Trek: First Contact. The U.S.S. Enterprise-E has launched, with Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command. In addition to many familiar faces, the new ship also has some new crew members-among them, conn officer Sean Hawk and security chief Linda Addison. But soon Picard is devastated to learn that there''s a saboteur on board-in the form of a changeling infiltrator from the Dominion! Picard and his crew must learn who the changeling replaced and stop it before it destroys the fleet''s finest ship... A new eBook from the authors of Enigma Ship and Spin!.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5910'),
(8705, 'Slings and Arrows 02: The Oppressor&#39;s Wrong', 'Phaedra M. Weldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "Enterprise" is assigned to ferry demolition experts from "Deep Space 9" to "Starbase 375," but just as they arrive. Admiral Leyton declares martial law on Earth and the "Federation" is put in a state of emergency. On the starbase, Admiral Hahn has gone missing, and there are several unexplained events -- and one of the demolition experts, Lieutenant Daniels, isn''t convinced that it''s necessarily Dominion treachery. Picard and the "Enterprise" crew must learn the truth -- about the martial law declaration and what happened to Admiral Hahn -- before the "Enterprise" itself becomes the next casualty...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6430'),
(8706, 'Slings and Arrows 03: The Insolence of Office', 'William Leisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 12px; ">\n </span>\n <p align="left" style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  A new six-part epic covering the first year of service of theÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   U.S.S. Enterprise-E\n  </i>\n  , leading up to the events of the hit movieÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   Star Trek: First Contact\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <p align="left" style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  A major turning point in the lives of two of theÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   Enterprise\n  </i>\n  Â crew! Newly promoted Admiral Hayes gives La Forge a shocking ultimatum: his VISOR is a security risk, and he must either have it replaced with ocular implants or be transferred to a less-sensitive post.\n </p>\n <p align="left" style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  Meanwhile, Troi has some issues of her own. Though she knows that her mother, Lwaxana, recently remarried to the Tavnian named Jeyal, she was unaware of the subsequent pregnancy -- and now Lwaxana''s about to give birth. To make matters worse, the Tevnian government has decided that, even though Lwaxana and Jeyal have since divorced, the child still belongs to them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4752'),
(8707, 'Slings and Arrows 04: That Sleep of Death', 'Terri Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 12px; ">\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  THAT SLEEP OF DEATHÂ \n  <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; " />\n  BOOK IV\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  In the wake of increased concern over the Dominion threat, Dr. Beverly Crusher has attempted to improve morale on theÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   Enterprise\n  </i>\n  Â by starting up her theater company -- beginning with a production ofÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   A Christmas Carol.\n  </i>\n  Â But before opening night, a devastating malady starts striking down the crew.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  Forced to rely on a piece of technology she despises -- the Emergency Medical Hologram -- Dr. Crusher must find a cure before it''s too late!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8450'),
(8708, 'Slings and Arrows 05: A Weary Life', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 12px; ">\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  A WEARY LIFEÂ \n  <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; " />\n  BOOK V\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  A team from theÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   Enterprise\n  </i>\n  Â -- Riker, La Forge, and Daniels -- is sent to deal with the latest threat from the Maquis. For La Forge and Daniels, it''s just another mission, but Riker must face the specter of his transporter twin, Tom Riker, who left Starfleet to join the Maquis.\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 1.33em !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1.33em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n  When theÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; ">\n   Enterprise\n  </i>\n  Â team is caught between the Maquis and the Cardassians, Riker finds himself with an important decision to make -- one that may affect his future in Starfleet....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7473'),
(8709, 'Slither', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The trichinosis worm is one of natureâ€™s most revolting parasites. Certain types of this tiny worm alter a hostâ€™s DNA by injecting a virus which mutates the reproductive system. This forces the host to bear the wormâ€™s young. Typically these worms are never longer than a few millimeters. But guess what? Now thereâ€™s a subspecies thatâ€™s thirty feet long...\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Nora and her team arrive at the island, she expects a routine zoological excursion...but it doesnâ€™t take her long to realize theyâ€™re not alone. Are her lurid sexual dreams making her paranoid...or is she being watched? The dead bodies they find are bad enough, but then her own team members begin to disappear, and when they return, theyâ€™ve...changed. Indeed, there are other people on the island...along with something else far worse.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Horror master Edward Lee takes the good old Nature Runs Amok theme and turns it on its ear with a shocking new vision of horror, outrageous but all-too-real characters, and a roundhouse of plot twists, cliffhangers, and big surprises. This is Leeâ€™s 17th mass-market novel, and like all of his stories, he takes every element to the max, to deliver a demented joyride of edgy eroticism, creepy suspense, and scream-in-your-face thrills and chills.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6425'),
(8710, 'Slow Burn: A Novel', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of bestseller Garwoodâ€™s biggest strengths is her marvelous sense of dialogue and humor. When jumping into one of her incomparable romantic thrillers, all you can do is hang on for the wild ride.â€â€”_Romantic Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œA fantastic and exciting romantic thriller.â€â€”_Best Reviews_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Skillfully blending searing suspense, characters with grit and heart, and a dynamic plot, bestselling author Julie Garwood has written another electrifying novel of romantic suspense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kate MacKenna doesnâ€™t have a bad bone in her bodyâ€“or an enemy in the world. A woman who barely knew her father and has just lost her mother, Kate is a loving sister, a savvy business owner, and an unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police detective. The second one sends her into the arms of her best friendâ€™s brotherâ€“a Boston cop whoâ€™s a little too reckless and way too charming for comfort. But Dylan Buchanan wonâ€™t let emotion prevent him from doing his job: Someone is trying to kill Kate, and Dylan is the only one standing between her and the monster who wants her dead. For Kate to understand the danger, she must learn all about desireâ€“desire for pleasure, desire for power, and someoneâ€™s desire to kill.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6295'),
(8711, 'Slow Decay', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. The series stars Captain Jack Harkness, last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11197'),
(8712, 'Slow Kill', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McGarrity''s latest Kevin Kerney procedural, Kerney, police chief of Santa Fe, N.Mex., is drawn into a messy murder investigation while vacationing at a California ranch. A wealthy hotel magnate, Clifford Spalding, dies of poisoning in the guest room next to Kerney''s. Finding himself a suspect, Kerney decides to pursue the case on his own for a few days, uncovering some peculiar circumstances and characters in Spalding''s background. They include an unfaithful trophy wife and her shady boyfriend, a deranged and bitter ex-wife and a missing son who presumably died in Vietnam 30 years ago, as well as a couple of police officials who are not as forthcoming as one would expect. Within a few days, Kerney is cleared by California authorities and returns home to more familiar ground. But because of the case''s Santa Fe connections, he and his stable of detectives continue the pursuit. As in McGarrity''s eight previous Kerney novels (_Everyone Dies; _etc.), the author excels at detailing police procedures as well as creating a homespun, wry tone that suits setting and characters. His action sequences are shakier, however, and several highly dramatic momentsâ€”the arrest of the main suspect, her release and eventual captureâ€”are flat and hurried. A bit more attention to pacing and momentum could give this appealing series a needed shot of adrenaline.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is visiting a Santa Barbara ranch, looking to buy quarter horses, when he stumbles on the dead body of another guest staying at the ranch. Kerney looks like a prime suspect, which prompts him to make a few inquiries of his own. The trail leads Kerney on a crisscrossing journey around the country, with a stop-off at FBI headquarters in Virginia, near where his wife, Sarah, a career army officer, is stationed at the Pentagon. As in past episodes in this long-running series, McGarrity juggles police procedural and domestic story lines effectively, drawing readers into the dynamics of Kerney''s long-distance marriage just as he unerringly charts the painstaking investigative work that defines the lives of real-world cops. Precise realism remains McGarrity''s hallmark; his own experience as a deputy sheriff and as a therapist working with abuse victims informs his fiction on every page. This is not a series for those who hope to find either high-octane excitement or existential angst in their cop novels. McGarrity''s milieu is the quotidian reality of a cop''s life.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7936'),
(8713, 'Slow Sculpture', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10470'),
(8714, 'SM_Moose', 'Shelby Morgen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9243'),
(8715, 'Small as an Elephant', 'Jennifer Richard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I believe in Jack and his ability to understand his mother in shades of gray. I believe in his ability to be fiercely independent: to try and try and try . . . and at the same time to recognize that he needs others. That others are right there, waiting to catch him."\n <br />\n - Jennifer Richard Jacobson â€” Quote\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jack''s mom is gone, leaving him all alone on a campsite in Maine. Can he find his way back to Boston before the authorities realize what happened?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning" wildly until it''s over. But Jack never thought his mom would take off during the night and leave him at a campground in Acadia National Park, with no way to reach her and barely enough money for food. Any other kid would report his mom gone, but Jack knows by now that he needs to figure things out for himself - starting with how to get from the backwoods of Maine to his home in Boston before Social Services catches on. With nothing but a small toy elephant to keep him company, Jack begins the long journey south, a journey that will test his wits and his loyalties - and his trust that he may be part of a larger herd after all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5999'),
(8716, 'Small Favor', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **THE *New York Times* Bestseller** Harry Dresdenâ€™s life finally seems to be calming downâ€”until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harryâ€”one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skillsâ€”and loyaltiesâ€”to their very limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1712'),
(8717, 'Small Gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle--DISCWORLD--a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3385'),
(8718, 'A Small Town in Germany', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n Exciting, compulsively readable, and brilliantly plotted.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New Statesman\n </em>\n Brilliant, unforgettable...a masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (U.K.)John le CarrÃ© is at the peak of his form.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  John le CarrÃ©''s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there''s been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that''s probably not an accident.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alan Turner, London''s security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files as Germany''s past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11075'),
(8719, 'Small Vices', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4006'),
(8720, 'Small Vices (1997)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 24', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10543'),
(8721, 'Small Wars: A Novel', 'Sadie Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The prizewinning author of The Outcast delivers the emotionally searing story of a marriage in crisis, an unflinching look at lives irrevocably altered by one of history''s ""small wars."" Hal Treherne is a major in the British Army, a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. When he is transferred to the British colony of Cyprus in 1956, Hal is joined by Clara, his beautiful and supportive wife, and their baby daughters. The Trehernes quickly learn that the Mediterranean is no ""sunshine posting,"" however, and soon Hal is caught up in the battle to defend the island against Cypriots seeking enosis, union with Greece. Leading his men in difficult and bloody skirmishes, after years of peaceful service, Hal at last tastes triumph. But his confidence and pride quickly fade: traumatized by the brutality he witnesses-and thwarted again in his attempts to do the right thing-Hal finds himself well trained in duty but ill equipped for moral battle. A seasoned army wife, Clara shares her husband''s sense of obligation. She knows to settle in quickly, make no fuss, smile. But as she struggles to trust her own maternal instincts and resist the anxiety that surges with Hal''s frequent absences, Clara grows fearful of her increasingly distant husband. When she needs him most, Clara finds the once-tender Hal a changed man-a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come. What place is there for honor amid cruelty, and what becomes of intimacy in the grinding gears of empire? A passionate and brilliantly researched novel about the effects of war on the men who wage it and the families they leave behind, Small Wars raises important questions that resonate for our own time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7093'),
(8722, 'Smallest Dragonboy', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9307'),
(8723, 'Smart Discipline', 'Larry Koenig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Larry J. Koenig, Ph.D., creator of the hugely popular Smart DisciplineÂ® seminars, explains his simple, dramatically effective system to help children follow the rules at home and at school. It is easily tailoredto differences in age, temperament, and the needs of children with ADD/ADHD. Positive results usually are seen within a few days. Best of all: instead of nagging, parents can use Dr. Koenig''s powerful esteem-building strategies to affirm their children''s strengths.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Smart Discipline system:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gets kids to do what you ask, the first time you ask\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stops fighting, bickering, and disrespectful language\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ends hassles over homework, chores, messy rooms, and bedtime\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instills positive self-image and builds confidence. . . and much more!\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Larry J. Koenig, Ph.D., trained as a family therapist, is the founder of Up with Youth, the nation''s leading self-esteem program for adolescents, which has benefited thousands of teens nationwide. He is also president of the North American Society for Parent Training and Development and creator of Up with Parents, a dynamic program that helps parents effectively gain control of their children''s behaviors and attitudes. At his parenting seminars, he is well known for his delightful ability to pinpoint exactly what is going on in people''s homes and for giving meaningful and practical advice. The parents of five grown children, Dr. Koenig and his wife Nydia live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10110'),
(8724, 'Smashwords Style Guide', 'Mark Coker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Read this before publishing on Smashwords! The Smashwords Style Guide makes it easy to format your manuscript to produce high quality multi-format ebooks. Required if you want your books to earn inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog. This book is updated frequently. Most recent update: August 28, 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2280'),
(8725, 'Smelliest Day at the Zoo', 'Alan Rusbridger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Slap bang in the middle of the hottest day of the year, the zoo''s drains have blocked up and there''s nowhere for the animals'' poo to go! Mr Pickles the zoo keeper (who is looking distinctly green) must decide what to do with it all... before the naughty chimps beat him to it!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(8726, 'Smiley&#39;s People', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''It''s an emergency, George. You remember Vladimir? George, are you awake? You remember the old General?'' The phone call that dragged George Smiley, acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it. ''An old acquaintance shot dead on Hampstead Heath, an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter she''ll never see, a photograph taken in a Hamburg brothel - and George Smiley is called out of retirement ... SMILEY''S PEOPLE has all the le Carregrave; touches'' Sunday Telegraph SUMMARY: ''It''s an emergency, George. You remember Vladimir? George, are you awake? You remember the old General?'' The phone call that dragged George Smiley, acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it. ''An old acquaintance shot dead on Hampstead Heath, an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter she''ll never see, a photograph taken in a Hamburg brothel - and George Smiley is called out of retirement ... SMILEY''S PEOPLE has all the le Carregrave; touches'' Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2991'),
(8727, 'Smiley&#39;s People: A Novel', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman . . . A very junior agent answers Vladimir''s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret Service considers the old spy to be anything except a senile has-been who can''t give up the game-until he''s shot in the face at point-blank range. Although George Smiley (code-name: Max) is officially retired, he''s summoned to identify the body now bearing Moscow Centre''s bloody imprimatur. As he works to unearth his friend''s fatal secrets, Smiley heads inexorably toward one final reckoning with Karla-his "dark grail." In Smiley''s People, master storyteller John le Carr brings his acclaimed Karla trilogy to its unforgettable, spellbinding conclusion. With an Introduction by the Author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11074'),
(8728, 'Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman''s imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wondersâ€”where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality, obscured by smoke and darkness yet brilliantly tangible, in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2947'),
(8729, 'The Smoke Ring', 'Niven, larry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10235'),
(8730, 'The smoke room: a novel of suspense', 'Earl W. Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the terror of a lightless, smoke-clogged building to the secrets kept by the men and women who trust their partners with their lives, Earl Emerson knows the world of firefighting like no other authorâ€“and writes about it with passion and piercing honesty. In his remarkable new thriller, Emerson fuses together a gripping drama with unforgettable scenes of peril that, in this realm, can explode at any second.Jason Gun, a risk-taking rookie firefighter who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, has found in his firehouse the family he never had as a child. Then, in one ill-fated turn of events, it all begins to go wrong.A bizarre accident brings a thrill-seeking woman into Engine Company 29â€“and into Jasonâ€™s life. Suddenly, his future on the job is at risk. Two fellow firefighters know that he missed a call because of some sexual heroics at the wrong time and place. Now, deeply in their debt, he will find out what kind of men his partners really are.When these two firefighters come upon a fortune in missing bearer bondsâ€“money found in a dead manâ€™s houseâ€“Jason is forced to become an accessory to their crime. And when evidence of their greed, foolishness, and thievery begins to emerge, Jason is witness to an even darker deed.Suddenly, the twenty-four-year-old, who only wanted to do the right thing, is trapped behind a wall of silence. Trying to undo his mistake, Jason moves further into the darkness, where a beautiful young woman might just be his emotional rescueâ€“or yet one more very wrong move. Unfortunately for Jason, the worst isnâ€™t behind him. Like a fire hit by wind, the killing has raged out of control.Capturing the thin line that separates a hero from a criminal, and an enemy from a friend, Earl Emersonâ€™s new novel is a gripping tale of a manâ€™s dangerous fall from graceâ€“and of his fierce battle for redemption.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/916'),
(8731, 'Smokescreen', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10956'),
(8732, 'Smokin Seventeen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where thereâ€™s smoke thereâ€™s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanieâ€™s name is on the killerâ€™s list.Short on time to find evidence proving the killerâ€™s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itâ€™s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieâ€™s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoâ€™s just returned to town. Stephanieâ€™s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir â€œbake-off.â€ And Grandma Bella, Morelliâ€™s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts â€œthe eyeâ€ on Stephanie.With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieâ€™s life looks like itâ€™s about to go up in smoke.The hardcover edition of Smokinâ€™ Seventeen contains two smokinâ€™ hot stickers inside!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8745'),
(8733, 'Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The shade of Charlie Chan hovers over Williams''s entertaining supernatural mystery, the first in a new series starring Det. Insp. Wei Chen of Singapore Three''s 13th precinct. In a near future that allows travel between Heaven and Hell and Earth, "snake agent" Chen finds himself in hot pursuit of ghost-girl Pearl Tang and the father who murdered her to protect his business of "supplying the souls of the virtuous to Hell." Chen is not only a crack paranormal crime investigator but also a licensed feng shui practitioner never without his compass. While the plot might have benefited from a few more action scenes and some martial arts, Williams (_The Banquet of the Lords of the Night_) provides a sleuthing feast for those with a taste for the exotic Orient.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In late twenty-first-century Singapore, detective inspector Wei Chen is a snake agent, a detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell. Married to a demon wife and surrounded by wary colleagues, he is nevertheless bored with investigating routine exorcism scams and bogus feng shui licenses. Then the newly deceased ghost of a wealthy industrialist''s daughter fails to make her appointed arrival in Heaven. When it quickly becomes obvious that the industrialist himself is implicated in a netherworldly soul-trafficking scheme and is responsible for his daughter''s death, Chen has to work with an unlikely sidekick, Zhu Irzh, one of Hell''s own vice detectives and a demon cursed with a conscience. Twice nominated for Philip K. Dick awards, Williams should easily qualify for another with this original and stirring blend of futuristic technology and chilling excursions into postmortem landscapes. This first odd-couple pairing of mortal Chen and immortal Zhu Irzh opens a prospective series.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7896'),
(8734, 'Snake Skin', 'CJ Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n I flew through this novel, trying to connect the dots and find the killer along with Lucy. This is another great read from\n <strong>\n  CJ Lyons.\n </strong>\n Women will enjoy the kick ass hero portrayed by Lucy. ~Chicklit Plus --chicklitplus.com/snake-skin-cj-lyons/\n</p>\n<p>\n Not for the faint-hearted! Fast-paced, with characters you can feel for and like, Snakeskin is part crime fiction, part thriller with a strong female protagonist. ~Joanna Penn --mysterythriller.tv/snakeskin-by-cj-lyons/\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _When it comes to "breathtakingly fast-paced thrillers" (Publishers Weekly), CJ Lyons is a "master of the genre." (Pittsburgh Magazine).\n</p>\n<h1>\n 1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has called CJ''s work\n <strong>\n  "Everything a great thriller should be--action packed, authentic, and intense."\n </strong>\n</h1>\n<p>\n Just your average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock...\n</p>\n<p>\n Lucille Teresa Guardino. A woman of many identities. Lucille to her doting mother, Lulu to her devoted husband, Mom to her pre-teen daughter, Lucy to her friends, LT to her co-workers, and Supervisory Special Agent Guardino to the criminals she captures for the FBI''s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement squad.\n</p>\n<p>\n A loving mom and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and kick-ass federal agent, Lucy is living the perfect life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until the day she comes up against a predator more vicious and cunning than any she''s ever tackled before, one who forces Lucy to choose between the life of the young victim she is fighting to save and her own daughter''s....and Lucy''s dream life is shattered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7761'),
(8735, 'The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The delightful seventh adventure for popular heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amarna, where they first fell in love. When Emerson is kidnapped, Amelia must rescue her husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1318');
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(8736, 'The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream', 'Patrick Radden Keefe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the promise of the United States. Many of them lived in a world outside the law, working in a shadow economy overseen by the ruthless gangs that ruled the narrow streets of New Yorkâ€™s Chinatown.\n</p>\n<p>\n The figure who came to dominate this Chinese underworld was a middle-aged grandmother known as Sister Ping. Her path to the American dream began with an unusual business run out of a tiny noodle store on Hester Street. From her perch above the shop, Sister Ping ran a full-service underground bank for illegal Chinese immigrants. But her real businessâ€”a business that earned an estimated $40 millionâ€”was smuggling people.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a â€œsnakehead,â€ she built a complexâ€”and often viciousâ€”global conglomerate, relying heavily on familial ties, and employing one of Chinatown''s most violent gangs to protect her power and profits. Like an underworld CEO, Sister Ping created an intricate smuggling network that stretched from Fujian Province to Hong Kong to Burma to Thailand to Kenya to Guatemala to Mexico. Her ingenuity and drive were awe-inspiring both to the Chinatown communityâ€”where she was revered as a homegrown Don Corleoneâ€”and to the law enforcement officials who could never quite catch her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Indeed, Sister Pingâ€™s empire only came to light in 1993 when the Golden Venture, a ship loaded with 300 undocumented immigrants, ran aground off a Queens beach. It took New Yorkâ€™s fabled â€œJade Squadâ€ and the FBI nearly ten years to untangle the criminal network and hone in on its unusual mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Snakehead\n </em>\n is a panoramic tale of international intrigue and a dramatic portrait of the underground economy in which Americaâ€™s twelve million illegal immigrants live. Based on hundreds of interviews, Patrick Radden Keefeâ€™s sweeping narrative tells the story not only of Sister Ping, but of the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death and braved a 17,000 mile odyssey so that they could realize their own version of the American dream.\n <em>\n  The Snakehead\n </em>\n offers an intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a masterful exploration of the ways in which illegal immigration affects us all.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Patrick Radden Keefe\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Can you tell us a little bit about Sister Ping? She is one of the most unusual "godmothers" in the annals of modern crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Answer:\n </strong>\n Sure. I first found out about Sister Ping in 2006, when she was on trial in New York. It emerged that she was a Chinese woman who had come to the United States in 1981 with no education, didnâ€™t speak English, and started smuggling other peopleâ€”from her home village and then the region in China that she came fromâ€”to the U.S. She did this for the better part of two decades, and made $40 million or so in the process, and then went on the lam. She was the FBIâ€™s most wanted Asian organized crime figure for another five or six years before they finally tracked her down in Hong Kong, extradited her to the U.S., and tried her.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you passed her in the street, or went by her place of work, if you were wandering around Chinatown as a tourist, would you have any idea about what she did?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n You wouldnâ€™t give her a second look. This was a part of what was so fascinating about her; she made an enormous fortune but she made a point of being very humble in her appearance. She worked incredibly long hours, and there was nothing ostentatious about the way she carried herself. And I actually think that this studied anonymity was part of what allowed her to do what she did with impunity for so long. And it also secured her a huge amount of respect within the Chinatown neighborhood, where she was regarded as kind of a humble, hometown heroine who hadnâ€™t let the success sheâ€™d had go to her head.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Sister Ping was clever enough to distance herself from the more violent aspects of human trafficking. How did she outsource the seedier aspects of what she was doing, and how did that ultimately affect her?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, this in some ways was what brought about her downfall, in that she was always a perfectionist, and when she started out as a smuggler in the early 1980s she would transport people herself. By that I mean, she would be there in Hong Kong when she put them on a plane; they would be flown to Guatemala, she would be there in Guatemala when they arrived. They would be escorted up through Mexico; she would meet them in California, then she would fly back with them to New York City. But as her operation grew, and the word spreadâ€”really, around the worldâ€”that this was a woman who could move anyone from point A to point B, it got so large that she could no longer oversee everything herself, and she had to start subcontracting. And this, in some ways, was her great mistake, because she subcontracted to a very violent gang of youths in Chinatown known as the Fuk Ching gang, and the gang, ultimatelyâ€”because they were less scrupulous than she was about issues of safety and things like thatâ€”ended up mismanaging things. There were a number of these journeys that ended in death, and then a number of murders as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Tell us what the title\n <em>\n  The Snakehead\n </em>\n means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The snakehead is the name, the Chinese name, to refer to these human smugglers, who basically emerged in China in the 1960s and 1970s, helping smuggle people out of China. But then in the late 1980s and early 1990sâ€”basically after Tiananmen Squareâ€”it became a massive (many say four- to six-billion-dollar-a-year) industry. These were the snakeheads, and among the snakeheads Sister Ping was the most prolific and certainly the most famous.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the case of The Golden Venture, they would bring these ships to the U.S., and they wouldnâ€™t want to bring them right to the shore in California or Massachusetts or New Yorkâ€”as you can imagine, it would look a little strange to have a freighter coming up, to appear in Brooklyn and drop off hundreds of Chinese people. So they would bring them to about a hundred miles off shore, out in the open ocean, and then they would send out small fishing boats which would offload the ships. This was called offloading and it was actually a kind of niche in the industry. And the gangsters were the ones who occupied this niche. They would take these fishing boats out and bring the passengers back in. Because Sister Ping had outsourced offloading to one of these gangs, the gang happened to have a lot of inner turmoil in the early part of 1993, precisely because they were making so much money in the snakehead business and they didnâ€™t know how to divide it, and so there was a massive shoot-out just weeks before The Golden Venture arrived, and the guys who were supposed to go and offload the ship were all killed in the shootout. All of the guys who had gone to kill them were hoping they could be the ones to go and offload it and collect the money from the passengers, but they were all locked up and put in prison. So when the ship arrived, there was nobody to offload it, and that was why it came inâ€”all the way in, to the Rockaways, in Queens, and actually ran aground right there on the beach in the media capital of the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Of course, the real payoff for the reader is this reading experienceâ€”this is an amazing crime story with incredible twists and turns.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Yeah; itâ€™s funny, I really didnâ€™t anticipate this to be the case when I began the research. As I started digging in and talking to law enforcement sources and finding out about these various underworld figures, in Chinatown but also in places like Bangkok, I began to realize the relationships between them. One of the things thatâ€™s interesting in the book is that you realize that a whole series of people were actually cooperating with American authorities at different times over the years, that weâ€™d never really known about. And in many cases, they were going to American authorities and giving them information about one another. There was an interesting, almost spy-versus-spy game going on between these ruthless, but also very enterprising and business-minded, underworld figures.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Sai Srikandarajah)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Keefe (_Chatter_) examines America''s complicated relationship with immigration in this brilliant account of Cheng Chui Ping, known as Sister Ping, who built a multimillion-dollar empire as a snakehead, smuggling Chinese immigrants into America. Sister Ping herself entered the U.S. legally in 1981 from China''s Fuzhou province, but was soon known among Fujianese immigrants in Manhattan''s Chinatown as the go-to for advice, loans and connections to bring their families to America. Her empire grew so large that she contracted out muscle work to the local gang, the Fuk Ching. Keefe points to the\n <em>\n  Golden Venture\n </em>\n â€”a ship full of Fujianese illegals that ran fatally aground in 1993â€”as the beginning of the end for Sister Ping. She was sentenced in 2000 to 35 years in prison for conspiracy, money laundering and trafficking. Despite an enormous cast of characters in a huge underground web of global crime, Keefe''s account maintains the swift pace of a thriller. With the immigration debate still boiling, this exploration of how far people will go to achieve the American dream is a must-read.\n <em>\n  (July 21)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4486'),
(8737, 'Snakes in Suits : When Psychopaths Go to Work', 'Paul Babiak, Ph.D.; Robert D. Hare, Ph.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10255'),
(8738, 'Snapped', 'Pamela Klaffke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sara B. is losing her cool.Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of wayâ€”though there''s that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the jobâ€”and joyâ€”for the past fifteen years of eviscerating the city''s fashion victims in her legendary DOs and DON''Ts photo spread.But now on the unhip edge of forty, with ambitious hipster kids reinventing the style world, Sara''s being spit out like an old Polaroid picture: blurry, undeveloped and obsolete.Fueled by alcohol, nicotine and self-loathing, Sara launches into a cringeworthy but often comic series of blowupsâ€”personal, professional and privateâ€”that culminate in an epiphany. That she, the arbiter of taste, has made her living by cutting people downâ€¦and somehow she''s got to make amends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3608'),
(8739, 'Snatcher', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(8740, 'Sneakers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11143'),
(8741, 'Sniper: The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp', 'Jon Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Sniper\n  </em>\n  opens in October 1998 near Buffalo, NY. A man is alone in the dark in a forest. He clutches an assault rifle and is thinking about his mission. "You can cut holes in the fences around the death camps," he thinks. "A trickle of relief in the abortion holocaust. It is your duty to do it." He nestles the rifle into his shoulder and shoots atÂ  his target through the back window of a house, then flees. Barnett Sepia, a doctor who provides abortions, is fatally wounded.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The shooter is James Kopp, the son of a Marine, who came to embrace the pro-life cause and ultimately the notion of "justifiable homicide: against abortion providers. Kopp fancies himself a lone wolf in the movement; a celibate man driven to "defend the unborn." He is nicknamed "Atomic Dog" in the movement and helps orchestrate assaults on abortion clinics. As the story unfolds, he becomes the central figure in an international manhunt for multiple shootings in Canada. On the FBI''s Top Ten Most Wanted list, Kopp flees to Mexico, Ireland, and France. Award-winning journalist Jon wells followed Kopp''s footsteps, traveled to his hometown, and interviewed investigators in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and France to tell this gripping detective story and dark psychological drama.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jon Wells\n  </strong>\n  has written six multi-week book-length true crime stories for the\n  <em>\n   Hamilton Spectator\n  </em>\n  . His 2003 story "Poison" won a National Newspaper Award. A graduate of the master''s journalism program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Jon was named Journalist of the Year in 2005 for\n  <em>\n   Sniper.\n  </em>\n  The author''s research for the crime stories has taken him to India, Ireland, France, San Francisco, New York city, and western Canada, and Into prisons where he has interviewed five convicted killers. He has also conducted research in forensic labs and on shooting ranges.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6952'),
(8742, 'Snobbery With Violence', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers_ debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose_s father suspects that her fianc_, Sir Geoffrey Blandon, is a first class scoundrel and calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate.But when a malicious guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Rose becomes far more interested in discovering the truth than in landing a more appropriate suitor. As Harry and Rose begin to unravel this web of lies and rumours, a clever murderer sets out to make Rose_s disastrous first season her last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6067'),
(8743, 'Snow', 'Deborah M. Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When her prince comes, her dream could turn into a nightmare. An Enchanted story. Itâ€™s not that Anais hates her new stepdaughter. She simply has bigger things on her mind, like birthing a son for the aging king. Temptation beckons in the mirror eyes of the kingâ€™s huntsman, leading her down a path of dark desires until, by the time she realizes Ruiâ€™s true nature, it is too late. Her heart is ensnared, and she will do anything to keep him in her arms. Especially when his roving eyes land on the princessâ€¦and Anaisâ€™s indifference turns to hate. Upon her fatherâ€™s death, the painfully shy Snow White quickly learns she can rely on no oneâ€”least of all the stepmother she once hoped would become a friend. Surrounded by undercurrents of treachery she cannot hope to understand, she turns to her seven dwarven guards for guidance. Freed of their magical bindings, these small yet perfectly formed, handsome men vow to open her innocent eyes to the dangers of court politicsâ€¦and the ways of men. Yet lust is a cruel master, and Snow Whiteâ€™s girlish longing for purest love could blind her to the destruction that waits to take a bite out of her dreamsâ€¦ Warning: Contains explicit sex scenes between a queen and her lover, the lover and his male lover, andâ€”yesâ€”proof that size doesnâ€™t matter when it comes to true lust, er, love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1352'),
(8744, 'Snow Blind', 'Lori G. Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The frigid winter months are mighty slow in the PI biz for Julie Collins and her partner, Kevin Wellsâ€”until the duo is hired by a young woman to investigate problems at her grandfatherâ€™s assisted living facility, where they encounter lax security, unqualified healthcare personnel, and a shady senior volunteer organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n Julie barely has time to delve deeper into the puzzling case before she reluctantly finds herself in an isolated cattle shelter on the Collins ranch with her father during a raging blizzard. There is no escape from her father or from the biting cold and bitter memories.\n <br />\n A missing hired ranch hand found dead on the ranch only complicates matters further. In trying to uncover the truth about the man''â€™s death, Julie is forced to wrestle with issues that make her question old wounds and new family loyalties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kevin''â€™s reckless involvement with their new client tests the bounds of professionalism, and Julieâ€™''s relationship with Tony Martinez is strained, as he deals with power struggles within the Hombres organization, putting them both in jeopardy.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the bodies and the snow pile up, Julie seems at odds with everyone, leaving her to wonder if sheâ€™s being blinded to the cold, hard truths in her life by love . . . or by hate.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lori G. Armstrong\n </strong>\n is the author of\n <em>\n  Blood Ties\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hallowed Ground\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Shallow Grave.Â \n </em>\n She lives in Rapid City, South Dakota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4872'),
(8745, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year''s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what''s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8770'),
(8746, 'The Snow Empress: A Thriller', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1699: On a moonlit night on the northern frontier island of Ezogashima, a woman is running through the forest when an arrow strikes her dead. Meanwhile, in the city of Edo, the young son of Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun''s court, vanishes during a moon-watching festival. When one of Sano''s political rivals hints that the boy was kidnapped''and may be in Ezogashima''he and his wife, Reiko, begin a desperate journey to find their son''Åšonly to discover that the local ruler, Lord Matsumae, is holding the entire province hostage for another crime: The murder of his mistress. So Sano strikes a deal: He will solve the mistress''s murder if Matsumae will free the hostages and return his son. Soon, however, Sano and Reiko find themselves caught up in a dangerous scheme that includes clan warfare, bitter jealousy, and murderous betrayal as they race to unravel the mystery of THE SNOW EMPRESS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2677'),
(8747, 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan', 'Lisa See', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lily is haunted by memoriesâ€“of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (â€œwomenâ€™s writingâ€). Some girls were paired with laotongs, â€œold sames,â€ in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become â€œold samesâ€ at the tender age of seven. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2993'),
(8748, 'Snow Melts in Spring', 'Deborah Vogts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Loving her veterinarian job and harboring affection for a gruff rancher who has become a father figure to her, Mattie Evans faces a painful dilemma when the rancher''s estranged son, Gil, plans to sell the ranch and move his father to California, a situation that is further complicated by difficult family secrets. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(8749, 'Snow, glass, apples', 'Neil Gaiman; Charles Vess', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2293'),
(8750, 'Snuff', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone beforeCassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax? SUMMARY: â€œSix hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.â€ Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax? From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(8751, 'Snuffed Out', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a power outage at his candle shop, Harrison Black finds his tenant electrocuted. Now Harrison must burn the candle at both ends to catch a killer when what appears to be an accident may really be murder. Includes candlemaking tips. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3976'),
(8752, 'So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(8753, 'So sure of death', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Fire and Ice*, the first Liam Campbell mystery, was named by *Library Journal* as Best Mystery of 1998. Now Campbell is back to uncover the icy heart of a deadly family secret...."So *Sure of Death* has the vivid descriptions, rich characterization, and compelling plot that distinguish [Stabenow''s] Kate Shugak books, with the added advantage of extra sex appeal."-*Publishers Weekly* "Colorful...vivid and powerful."-*Dallas Morning News*"As good as it gets...Stabenow constructs a challenging, compelling plot. She''s a star on the rise." --*Booklist* â€¢ Stabenow is the Edgar Award-winning author of the acclaimed Kate Shugak seriesâ€¢ 2nd in the acclaimed series-with more to come EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Fire and Ice*, the first Liam Campbell mystery, was named by *Library Journal* as Best Mystery of 1998. Now Campbell is back to uncover the icy heart of a deadly family secret...."So *Sure of Death* has the vivid descriptions, rich characterization, and compelling plot that distinguish [Stabenow''s] Kate Shugak books, with the added advantage of extra sex appeal."-*Publishers Weekly* "Colorful...vivid and powerful."-*Dallas Morning News*"As good as it gets...Stabenow constructs a challenging, compelling plot. She''s a star on the rise." --*Booklist* â€¢ Stabenow is the Edgar Award-winning author of the acclaimed Kate Shugak seriesâ€¢ 2nd in the acclaimed series-with more to come\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(8754, 'The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement', 'David Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Walter Isaacson on\n   <em>\n    The Social Animal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Walter Isaacson\n  </strong>\n  , the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is the author of __ and of\n  <strong>\n   , and the coauthor of\n  </strong>\n  . He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter._\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Brooks has written an absolutely fascinating book about how we form our emotions and character. Standing at the intersection of brain science and sociology, and writing with the wry wit of a James Thurber, he explores the unconscious mind and how it shapes the way we eat, love, live, vacation, and relate to other people. In\n  <em>\n   The Social Animal\n  </em>\n  , he makes the recent revolution in neuroscience understandable, and he applies it to those things we have the most trouble knowing how to teach: What is the best way to build true relationships? How do we instill imaginative thinking? How do we develop our moral intuitions and wisdom and character? Brooks has always been a keen observer of the way we live. Now he takes us one layer down, to why we live that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Walter Isaacson\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author David Brooks\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Josh Haner,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  Several years ago I did some reporting on why so many kids drop out of high school, despite all rational incentives. That took me quickly to studies of early childhood and research on brain formation. Once I started poking around that realm, I found that people who study the mind are giving us an entirely new perspective on who we are and what it takes to flourish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Weâ€™re used to a certain story of success, one that emphasizes getting good grades, getting the right job skills and making the right decisions. But these scientists were peering into the innermost mind and shedding light on the process one level down, in the realm of emotions, intuitions, perceptions, genetic dispositions and unconscious longings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ve spent several years with their work now, and itâ€™s changed my perspective on everything. In this book, I try to take their various findings and weave them together into one story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is not a science book. I donâ€™t answer how the brain does things. I try to answer what it all means. I try to explain how these findings about the deepest recesses of our minds should change the way we see ourselves, raise our kids, conduct business, teach, manage our relationships and practice politics. This story is based on scientific research, but it is really about emotion, character, virtue and love. Weâ€™re not rational animals, or laboring animals; weâ€™re social animals. We emerge out of relationships and live to bond with each other and connect to larger ideas.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times columnist Brooks (Bobos in Paradise) raids Malcolm Gladwell''s pop psychology turf in a wobbly treatise on brain science, human nature, and public policy. Essentially a satirical novel interleaved with disquisitions on mirror neurons and behavioral economics, the narrative chronicles the life cycle of a fictional coupleâ€”Harold, a historian working at a think tank, and Erica, a Chinese-Chicana cable-TV executiveâ€”as a case study of the nonrational roots of social behaviors, from mating and shopping to voting. Their story lets Brooks mock the affluent and trendy while advancing soft neoconservative themes: that genetically ingrained emotions and biases trump reason; that social problems require cultural remedies (charter schools, not welfare payments); that the class divide is about intelligence, deportment, and taste, not money or power. Brooks is an engaging guide to the "cognitive revolution" in psychology, but what he shows us amounts mainly to restating platitudes. (Women like men with money, we learn, while men like women with breasts.) His attempt to inflate recent research on neural mechanisms into a grand worldview yields little except buzz conceptsâ€”"society is a layering of networks"â€”no more persuasive than the rationalist dogmas he derides. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4932'),
(8755, 'Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking', 'Christopher Hadnagy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first book to reveal and dissect the technical aspect of many social engineering maneuvers\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From elicitation, pretexting, influence and manipulation all aspects of social engineering are picked apart, discussed and explained by using real world examples, personal experience and the science behind them to unraveled the mystery in social engineering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kevin Mitnickâ€”one of the most famous social engineers in the worldâ€”popularized the term â€œsocial engineering.â€ He explained that it is much easier to trick someone into revealing a password for a system than to exert the effort of hacking into the system. Mitnick claims that this social engineering tactic was the single-most effective method in his arsenal. This indispensable book examines a variety of maneuvers that are aimed at deceiving unsuspecting victims, while it also addresses ways to prevent social engineering threats.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Examines social engineering, the science of influencing a target to perform a desired task or divulge information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Arms you with invaluable information about the many methods of trickery that hackers use in order to gather information with the intent of executing identity theft, fraud, or gaining computer system access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals vital steps for preventing social engineering threats\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking\n </em>\n does its part to prepare you against nefarious hackersâ€”now you can do your part by putting to good use the critical information within its pages.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the Author: Defining Neuro-Linguistic Hacking (NLH)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Chris Hadnagy    NLH is a combination of the use of key parts of neuro-lingusitic programming, the functionality of microexpressions, body language, gestures and blend it all together to understand how to â€œhackâ€ the human infrastructure. Letâ€™s take a closer at each to see how it applies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Neuro-Lingusitic Programming (NLP): NLP is a controversial approach to psychotherapy and organizational change based on "a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behavior and the subjective experiences underlying them" and "a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behavior"\n</p>\n<p>\n Neuro: This points to our nervous system which we process our five senses:\n <br />\n â€¢ Visual\n <br />\n â€¢ Auditory\n <br />\n â€¢ Kinesthetic\n <br />\n â€¢ Smell\n <br />\n â€¢ Taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Linguistic: This points to how we use language and other nonverbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. This can include things like:\n <br />\n â€¢ Pictures\n <br />\n â€¢ Sounds\n <br />\n â€¢ Feelings\n <br />\n â€¢ Tastes\n <br />\n â€¢ Smells\n <br />\n â€¢ Words\n</p>\n<p>\n Programming: This is our ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In short, NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve, modify and alter our specific and desired outcomes (or that of a target).\n</p>\n<p>\n Microexpressions are the involuntary muscular reactions to emotions we feel. As the brain processes emotions it causes nerves to constrict certain muscle groups in the face. Those reactions can last from 1/25th of a second to 1 second and reveal a personâ€™s true emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much study has been done on microexpressions as well as what is being labeled as subtle microexpressions. A subtle microexpression is an important part of NLH training as a social engineer as many people will display subtle hints of these expressions and give you clues as to their feelings.\n</p>\n<p>\n Check out\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forward written by Paul Wilson from The Real Hustle UK.Â \n <br />\n rpaulwilson.com/\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5416'),
(8756, 'Soft Come the Dragons', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/641'),
(8757, 'Solar', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The literary event of the summer: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prizeâ€“winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michaelâ€™s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her. When Michaelâ€™s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one manâ€™s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the worldâ€™s great writers. SUMMARY: The literary event of the summer: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prizeâ€“winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michaelâ€™s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her. When Michaelâ€™s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one manâ€™s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the worldâ€™s great writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5320'),
(8758, 'Solar lottery', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 2203, and the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game under the control of Quizmaster Verrick. But when Ted Bentley, a research technician recently dismissed from his job, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that Leon Cartwright is about to become the new Quizmaster. Nor does he know that heâ€™s about to play an integral part in the plot to assassinate Cartwright so that Verrick can resume leadership of a universe not nearly as random as it appears. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3768'),
(8759, 'The Soldier King', 'Violette Malan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new novel of high fantasy and adventure featuring martial arts masters Dhulyn and Parno. Fulfilling their Mercenary contract, Dhulyn and Parno have accepted the surrender of Prince Edmir, heir to the Tegriani Realm. The Common Rule of the Mercenary Brothers states that prisoners taken by them go free and unharmed. But when the War Commander who hired them refuses to honor this agreement, the duo break their contract and escape with the prince. And thus they take the first step along a path that might lead Dhulyn to the truth about her pastâ€”or bring them to a magical trap from which there may be no escape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5471'),
(8760, 'Soldiers Live', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook''s hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can''t last. He''s right.For, of course, many of the Company''s old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.Glen Cook is the leading modern writer of epic fantasy noir, and Soldiers Live is Cook at his best. None of his legion of fans will want to miss it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1902'),
(8761, 'Sole Survivor', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death -- a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(8762, 'Solomon&#39;s jar', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rumors of the discovery of Solomon''s Jar--in which the biblical King Solomon bound the world''s demons after using them to build his temple in Jerusalem--are followed with interest by Annja Creed. An archaeologist intrigued by the arcane, Annja pursues the truth about the vessel and its ancient origins. Her search leads her to a confrontation with a London cult driven by visions of a new world order; and a religious zealot fueled by the insatiable desire for glory. Across the sands of the Middle East to the jungles of Brazil, Annja embarks on a relentless chase to stop humanity''s most unfathomable secrets from reshaping the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(8763, 'Solomon&#39;s Oak: A Novel', 'Jo-Ann Mapson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Mapson''s (Hank &amp; Chloe) latest is an emotionally genuine if predictable story of three lonely, damaged people who find solace in one another. A year after the untimely death of her husband, Dan, Glory Solomon is adrift, in financial trouble, and unable to find much meaning in a world without her mate. But when she opens a wedding chapel on her historic California ranch (known for its ancient oak tree), she attracts a variety of couples in search of unconventional nuptials--and two lost souls. Juniper McGuire, an angry teenage girl, is still reeling from the tragedy that put her into the foster care system. And a former crime scene photographer, Joseph Vigil, suffers chronic pain from an on-the-job accident. Together, the three grievers form a tentative support system that could--if they''ll let it--be called love. As in her previous novels, Mapson seems most at ease describing the relationship between human and animal--especially dogs and horses--and in rendering the Western landscape. Her facility with dialogue, however, is less impressive, but most readers will be too involved in the sweep of loss and recovery to stumble for long over awkward talk.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Newly widowed, Glory Solomon is barely holding on to her feelings or her finances when she begins hosting destination weddings in the rustic chapel her late husband built in the shade of their towering, historic white oak. On the day a pirate-themed ceremony takes place, however, Glory embarks on a bigger adventure than any saucy bride or her swashbuckling groom could imagine. Having raised foster sons in the past when Dan was alive, Glory finds herself totally unprepared for the tattooed, pierced, and ill-tempered 14-year-old girl who is put in her care. Juniperâ€™s family fell apart when her older sister disappeared, and her raw emotions at being abandoned by her loved ones prove to be more than fragile Glory can handle. Fortunately, help arrives in the form of Joseph Virgil, a wounded ex-cop with significant emotional baggage of his own. With abundant compassion and soothing humor, three damaged souls are rescued in Mapsonâ€™s delicate tale of renewal and healing. --Carol Haggas\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5152'),
(8764, 'Some Girls: My Life in a Harem', 'Jillian Lauren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The ''casting director'' told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold, and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1977'),
(8765, 'Some of Your Blood', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10472');
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(8766, 'Something about You', 'Julie James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s something about Julie James... Staying overnight in a luxury hotel, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Lynde overhears a high-profile murder involving a U.S. Senator. Special Agent Jack Pallas is assigned to the investigation-the same Jack Pallas who still blames her for nearly ruining his career three years ago. Now the pair will have to put their rocky past behind them, focus on the case at hand-and smother the flame of their sizzling-hot sexual tension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2772'),
(8767, 'Something Blue', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Giffin''s sophomore effort-which tells the story that her bestselling Something Borrowed did from a different character''s point of view-stars such an unsympathetic narrator that it''s a little like reading a Cinderella story featuring one of the wicked stepsisters. Perhaps beautiful Darcy Rhone isn''t really wicked, but she is one of the most shallow, materialistic, self-centered and naÃ¯ve 29-year-olds around. Ostensibly a high-powered PR person in Manhattan (though she never seems to work), Darcy spends most of her time shopping, partying and getting ready for her wedding to perfect guy Dex. But an alcohol-fueled Hamptons fling with one of Dex''s pals, Marcus, starts to break Darcy''s perfect life down; and discovering Dex hiding in her best friend Rachel''s closet really shatters it. Pregnant with Marcus''s baby, Darcy decamps for London, where she crashes in high school pal Ethan''s flat and annoys the heck out of him with her endless shopping and complete disregard for her impending motherhood. But after a good lecture from Ethan, whom Darcy has started to fall for a little, Darcy embarks on a self-improvement plan, thereby demonstrating she can think about someone besides herself. And if readers don''t mind the first 200 pages in which she doesn''t, they''ll enjoy her happy ending and the few surprises along the way. Fans of Something Borrowed, too, may relish the "she said, she said" fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Readers who enjoyed Giffin''s stellar debut,\n  <em>\n   Something Borrowed\n  </em>\n  (2004), might be surprised to find that the villainess of that novel is the heroine of this one. Selfish but beautiful Darcy is reeling from the betrayal of her best friend, Rachel, and her fiance, Dex, even though she cheated on Dex with his friend Marcus. Darcy is carrying Marcus'' child, so she assumes he''ll take care of her. After all, she''s always gotten everything she''s ever wanted. But when Marcus dumps her, she finds herself pregnant and alone. Always the opportunist, Darcy contacts her childhood friend Ethan, now a writer living in London, and gets him to agree to let her visit for awhile. She jets off to the UK envisioning a charmed life where a handsome, rich Englishman will sweep her off her feet. The reality isn''t so blissful--Ethan is critical of her selfish behavior and she finds herself incredibly lonely and unprepared for motherhood. After a confrontation with Ethan, she decides it''s time for radical change. Making an unsympathetic character likable isn''t an easy thing to do, but that''s just what Giffin succeeds at in her second outing. Giffin''s writing is warm and engaging; readers will find themselves cheering for Darcy as she proves people can change in this captivating tale.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5434'),
(8768, 'Something Borrowed', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The smash-hit debut novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy''s fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren''t always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new tie-in edition will coincide with the release of the film, starring Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin Hannah:\n  </strong>\n  Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n  <em>\n   Heart of the Matter\n  </em>\n  , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily Giffin:\n  </strong>\n  It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n  <em>\n   Night Road\n  </em>\n  , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifying--especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of it--the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" question--what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)--and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily:\n  </strong>\n  I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship in this soap operaâ€“like debut from Atlanta ex-lawyer Giffin. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel is the self-confessed good girl, an attorney trapped at a suffocating New York law firm, Darcy is the complete opposite, a stereotypical outgoing publicist, planning a wedding with the handsome Dex. After Rachel''s 30th birthday party, she knocks back one drink too many and winds up in bed with Dex. Instead of feeling guilty about sleeping with her best friend''s fiancÃ©, Rachel realizes that Dex is the only man she''s really loved, and that she''s always resented manipulative Darcy. Rachel and Dex spend a few weekends in the city together "working" while Darcy''s off with friends at a Hamptons beach share, but finally Rachel realizes she''ll have to give Dex an ultimatum. The flip job Giffin pulls offâ€”here it''s the cheaters who''re sympathetic (more or less)â€”gives Dex and Rachel''s otherwise ordinary affair extra edge. Rachel would be a more appealing heroine if she were less whiny about her job and her romantic prospects, and rambling dialogue slows the story''s pace, but this is an enjoyable beach readâ€”one that''ll make readers cast a suspicious eye on best friends and boyfriends who seem to get along just a little too well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5433'),
(8769, 'Something Fresh', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: IA Blandings novel /IThis is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, ''without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself''. In ISomething Fresh/I there are two, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than thisà¹‚à¸†\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3690'),
(8770, 'Something From the Nightside', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor is not a private detective\n <em>\n  per se\n </em>\n , but he has a knack for finding lost things. That''s why he''s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.\n</p>\n<p>\n For John Taylor, there''s no place like home...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5834'),
(8771, 'Something in the Water', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Bob Strong''s GP surgery has being seeing a lot of coughs and colds recently - far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob contacts Owen Harper, an old student friend, who reluctantly agrees to look into it. Meanwhile, Toshiko and Gwen are investigating ghostly apparitions in the marshy areas of South Wales. It''s been a dull month and they''re just about to pack up when they discover a dead body. The Team find that there''s been a massive spike in respiratory infections right across the UK. Captain Jack agrees that it''s worth investigating, but at the moment his priority is Tosh and Gwen''s work: they''ve brought the corpse back for examination. It''s old, in an advanced state of decay...and still able to talk!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3527'),
(8772, 'Something Rotten', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11187'),
(8773, 'Something Wicked', 'Lesley Anne Cowan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Melissaâ€™s most recent troubles stem from a secret: her 28-year-old boyfriend, Michael, has just broken up with her. Melissa clings to the memories, riding a relentless wave of hope and disappointment. Meaningless sexual escapades, drunken nights, and drug-induced blackouts help her cope with heartbreak, but her pain goes much deeper than unrequited teenage love. Her insight, sense of humour, optimism, and sheer determination prove to be saving graces, as is her ability to find solace in the Greek myths sheâ€™s learned about in grade ten English class. And in the end, it is Melissaâ€™s mother who proves to be the real victim, and Melissa who must save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5759'),
(8774, 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger &amp; Dark''s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare.Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury''s unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger &amp; Dark''s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare.Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury''s unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3847'),
(8775, 'Sometime, Never', 'G. Williams &amp; Sir William Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''3 extraordinary tales of fantasy each by a master of the art, and in each there is incident and invention enough to surpass most full-length novels...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7549'),
(8776, 'Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons From a Writing Life', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Sometimes the Magic Works\n </em>\n , author Terry Brooks mixes advice on writing with stories from his personal experience in publishing. A seasoned fantasy writer with 19 books under his belt, including the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller __, Brooks began his second career in middle age when he gave up his law practice to pursue writing full time. His move was fueled by an obsession with writing, ("If I don''t write, I become restless and ill-tempered"), inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien, and constant encouragement from publisher Lester del Rey. Some of Brooks''s advice is specific and useful, such as the chapter he dedicates to the importance of outlining. However, the lessons he tries to tell through his own adventures tend to be self-serving. Still, Brooks''s experiences could be particularly interesting and valuable to fans of his fantasy novels--and aspiring authors of their own.\n <em>\n  --Lacey Fain\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you don''t think there is magic in writing, you probably won''t write anything magical," Brooks asserts in this succinct and warmhearted autobiographical meditation on the writing life. He views his success as a miracle and credits editor Lester del Rey ("What he had given me was the kind of education young writers can only dream about") for his discovery and Tolkien for the inspiration that drove him to choose fantasy adventure as his medium. Brooks, who practiced law before becoming a full-time author, stills finds himself amazed that his The Sword of Shannara "sold in record numbers and changed the face of publishing," becoming the first fiction title to land on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. He still marvels that del Rey chose his first novel to prove that post-Tolkien epic fantasy could sell in vast numbers and that it launched a new generation of fantasy authors. Brooks often refers to his old mentor''s sage advice ("Thinking about a book before you wrote it was as important as the writing itself") and promotes outlines ("You can either do the hard work up front or do it at the end"). He also discusses the disappointments encountered in a 30-plus-year career that has seen struggles with a novelization (Hook) and less than stellar sales for some works not connected to the Shannara empire; yet he keeps a positive attitude about the writer''s never-ending quest, which requires "determination, instinct, and passion."\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4654'),
(8777, 'Sometimes They Come Back', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9651'),
(8778, 'Somewhere in Time', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson''s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1979 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4082'),
(8779, 'Somewhere Inside', 'Laura Ling; Lisa Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chineseâ€“North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il''s notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and eventually a trial before North Korea''s highest court. They were the first Americans ever to be sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea. When news of the arrest reached Laura''s sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get her sister released, one that led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House. *Somewhere Inside* reveals for the first time Laura''s gripping account of what really happened on the river, her treatment at the hands of North Korean guards, and the deprivations and rounds of harrowing interrogations she endured. She speaks movingly about the emotional toll inflicted on her by her incarceration, including the measures she took to protect her sources and her fears that she might never see her family again. Lisa writes about her unrelenting efforts to secure Laura and Euna''s release. Offering insights into the vast media campaign spearheaded on the women''s behalf, Lisa also takes us deep into the drama involving people at the highest levels of government, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Senator John Kerry, and Governor Bill Richardsonâ€”intense discussions that entailed strategically balancing the agendas and good intentions of the various players. She also describes her role in the back-and-forth between North Korea''s demands and the dramatic rescue by former President Bill Clinton. Though they were thousands of miles apart while Laura was in captivity, the Ling sisters'' relationship became a way for the reclusive North Korean government to send messages to the United States government, which helped lead to Laura and Euna''s eventual release. Told in the sisters'' alternating voices, *Somewhere Inside* is a timely, inspiring, and page-turning tale of survival set against the canvas of international politics that goes beyond the headlines to reveal the impact on lives engulfed by forces beyond their control. But it is also a window into the unique bond these two sisters have always shared, a bond that sustained them throughout the most horrifying ordeal of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2739'),
(8780, 'Son of a Witch', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10579'),
(8781, 'Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this captivating "New York Times" bestseller, beloved author Gregory Maguire returns to the land ofOz and introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. At the Cloister of Saint Glinda the silent novice Candle tends to him, willing him back to life with her unusual musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba''s son? He has her broom and her cape--but what of her powers? Can he find his half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard''s departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? For the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire''s "Oz," "Son of a Witch" is the rich reward they have awaited so long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2065'),
(8782, 'Son of Hamas', 'Mosab Hassan Yousef', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Son of Hamas_, written by Mosab Hassan Yousef and journalist Ron Brackin, is . . .  a must-read book and one can only hope it becomes the basis of a major Hollywood motion picture. -\n <strong>\n  Joel Rosenberg\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  __\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n --Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n " . . . a fascinating book. I couldn''t put it down." -\n <strong>\n  Sean Hannity\n </strong>\n --Fox News'' Hannity\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . a book more incendiary than any roadside IED . . ." --GQ Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n " . . . intriguingly detailed . . ." --Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n " . . . one of the most extraordinary spy stories in history . . ."\n <strong>\n  David Asman\n </strong>\n , America''s Nightly Scoreboard, Fox Business Network\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . a Le CarrÃ©esque thriller wrapped in a spiritual coming-of-age story . . .â€ (Matthew Kaminski )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œreads with the page-turning ease of a great thriller.â€ (Claudia Rosett )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence, and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader. In\n <em>\n  Son of Hamas\n </em>\n , Mosab Yousef--now called "Joseph"--reveals new information about the world''s most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and homeland, the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public, and his belief that the Christian mandate to "love your enemies" is the only way to peace in the Middle East.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7126'),
(8783, 'Son of Heaven', 'David Wingrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ''Trebuchet MS'', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">\n  London, 2043. Jake Reed is a young futures broker, trading stock on the datascape, the high-tech virtual stock market, one of the best in his field. When the datascape comes under attack from hackers, Reed is called in to investigate who could be responsible. However, the virtual attack is but the opening move in a struggle years in the planning. Cities burn, riots erupt and armies are neutralised as the long-feared collapse of modern civilisation begins.\n </span>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ''Trebuchet MS'', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">\n   <br />\n  </span>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ''Trebuchet MS'', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">\n   <meta charset="utf-8" />\n   Twenty-two years later, Reed lives in a rural community in Dorset. Millions have died in the post-Collapse years and the UK is now a patchwork of farming communities. Supplies of advanced medicines and high technology are running low, with no infrastructure available to replace them. But strange things are happening. Waves of refugees are appearing out of the east, strange craft with dragons painted on the wings have been seen in the sky and, on the horizon, a vast structure has appeared and is getting closer. The age of Western dominance has ended and the future belongs to the East.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n    Son of Heaven\n   </span>\n   Â is the first novel in the new version of David Wingrove''s\n   <span style="font-weight: bold; ">\n    Chung Kuo\n   </span>\n   Â series, a science fiction epic spanning 200 years of future history. In Wingrove''s series, the entire world has come to be dominated by China, which has constructed vast, continent-spanning cities packed with billions of people and begun to expand into space. Wingrove previously attempted to tell this story in the late 1980s and through the 1990s in eight large volumes, but the series was not completed properly. Now Corvus are republishing the saga inÂ \n   <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n    twenty\n   </span>\n   volumes, with a new beginning and ending and a thorough revising of the previously-published material.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n    Son of Heaven\n   </span>\n   Â starts the story much earlier than the original first volume, depicting exactly how Western civilisation and modern economic system were destroyed and how China survived the aftershocks to rise to dominance. This is an interesting movie: the original first book started with China''s supremacy firmly established and the reasons for its rise consigned to backstory. Here we see it in progress. It also means we are introduced to the world through the eyes of outsiders (Jake and his neighbours and family who are ''incorporated'' into the World of Levels) rather than from inside, which is perhaps a little more forgiving to new readers to the series.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   On the downside, this means that the methods by which China''s dominance was established have to be depicted in a lot of detail, and these methods are somewhat fanciful, requiring a catastrophic and colossal failure of tens of thousands of Western intelligence, military and economic experts across many years whilst still requiring China to have acquired technology far in advance of the rest of the world (particularly the AI and nanotech required start building its massive continent-spanning cities in the space of a few years). Lots of SF is based on far more ludicrous premises, of course, but generally these work by taking place in the distant future with the transition from modern society being a vague or mythological event. Here it''s more central to the story and therefore more open to scrutiny. This isn''t helped by Wingrove having to take into account twenty years of additional real history (such as China''s economic explosion) and then weld it onto the front of his original narrative. Ironically, China''s real-life economic success provides a much more reasonable grounding for it becoming the dominant world culture over the course of decades, but using this as the grounding of the story would have presumably required a much more thorough rewriting of the entire series.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Moving beyond this, Wingrove''s actual writing is pretty solid, depicting both the high-tech world of 21st Century London and the post-Collapse, almost post-apocalyptic agrarian society quite well. The conflict presented by the latter is handled intriguingly: the 21st Century, money-fixated world of haves and have-nots is shown to be comfortable but also shallow. The post-apocalyptic world initially lauds the absence of pointless materialism but then exposes the ugliness of living in a world where people die of cold exposure in the winter or from very minor wounds a modern hospital would sort out in a few minutes, or where girls are encouraged to get pregnant before the age of twenty to increase the chances of propagating the species. This sort of duality was one of the key themes of the original series, with the conflicts between progress and stasis and the state and the individual being key, but with the various options being presented as having their own benefits and disadvantages.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In the latter part of the book the Chinese finally show up and we meet a raft of new characters. General Jiang Lei is leading the subjugation of England and is presented as an effective soldier but also one with a sense of history and a conscience. He is contrasted against Wang Yu-Lai, a savage and ruthless intelligence agent who is all for rape, plunder and genocide. Jiang is an interesting character whose attitudes mirror many of the conflicts inherent in the series in microcosm. Wang is a caricature and a cartoon villain at best, however, lacking convincing motivation or characterisation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The contrast between these two characters is symptomatic of much of the book: some excellent worldbuilding stands contrasted against some highly unconvincing developments needed to make China top dog. Jake and Jiang''s solid depictions stand against some under-developed characters (particularly women) elsewhere. Respect and admiration for Chinese culture is contrasted against stereotypical elements elsewhere (the ''cold, brutal'' Chinese stereotype is played up a bit, even when characters like Jiang are shown to be nothing like this). Overall though, the book is readable and sets up a world intriguing enough to make even the modest wait for the second book,\n   <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n    Daylight on Iron Mountain\n   </span>\n   Â (due in late 2011), feel somewhat disappointing. Whether it''s enough to sustain twenty novels released across five years is another question, but we''ll see.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n    Son of HeavenÂ \n   </span>\n   (***Â½) is a solid opening to a very long epic SF series, overcoming its weaknesses to deliver an unsettling (if implausible) depiction of the future. The novel will be published in the UK onÂ \n   <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Son-Heaven-David-Wingrove/dp/0857890417/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1293367783&amp;sr=8-2" style="color: rgb(68, 85, 102); ">\n    3 February 2011\n   </a>\n   Â as a limited-edition hardcover and ebook and on 1 March asÂ \n   <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Son-Heaven-David-Wingrove/dp/184887524X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1293367783&amp;sr=8-1" style="color: rgb(68, 85, 102); ">\n    a regular hardcover\n   </a>\n   . American imports of the latter should be available viaÂ \n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Son-Heaven-David-Wingrove/dp/184887524X/ref=tmm_hrd_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1293367788&amp;sr=8-2" style="color: rgb(68, 85, 102); ">\n    Amazon\n   </a>\n   Â and theÂ \n   <a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781848875241/Son-of-Heaven" style="color: rgb(68, 85, 102); ">\n    Book Depository\n   </a>\n   .\n  </span>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6840'),
(8784, 'Son of Khyber: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thorn infiltrates a gang of criminals with special powers-aberrant dragonmarks-trying to gain information on their leader, the enigmatic Son of Khyber. But when her orders and her experiences contradict each other, Thorn starts listening to what the Son of Khyber has to say. Featuring characters from Baker''s popular Dreaming Dark Trilogy that return to challenge Thorn.  The creator of the world of Eberron returns with a series that has all the smarts and action of a spy thriller, with the magic and depth of world only fantasy can create. There''s something here for every fan! "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4389'),
(8785, 'Son of Stone', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new addition to the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling Stone Barrington series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he''s looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman &amp; Weld.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stuart Woods\n </strong>\n is the author of more than forty novels. He is a native of Georgia and began his writing career in the advertising industry.\n <em>\n  Chiefs\n </em>\n , his debut in 1981, won the Edgar Award. An avid sailor and pilot, Woods lives in Florida, Maine, and New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11242'),
(8786, 'The Sonderberg Case', 'Elie Wiesel; Catherine Temerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly *Night,* a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.Despite personal success, Yedidyahâ€”a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sonsâ€”finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions heâ€™s made, he longingly reminisces about the relationships he once had with the men in his family (his father, his uncle, his grandfather) and the questions that remain unanswered. Itâ€™s a feeling that is further complicated when Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate named Werner Sonderberg. Sonderberg returned alone from a walk in the Adirondacks with an elderly uncle, whose lifeless body was soon retrieved from the woods. His plea is enigmatic: â€œGuilty . . . and not guilty.â€ These words strike a chord in Yedidyah, plunging him into feelings that bring him harrowingly close to madness. As Sonderbergâ€™s trial moves along a path of dizzying yet revelatory twists and turns, Yedidyah begins to understand his own familyâ€™s hidden past and finally liberates himself from the shadow it has cast over his life.With his signature elegance and thoughtfulness, Elie Wiesel has given us an enthralling psychological mystery, both vividly dramatic and profoundly emotional.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(8787, 'A Song Flung Up to Heaven', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been a long time coming, but\n <em>\n  A Song Flung Up to Heaven\n </em>\n triumphantly completes the six volumes of autobiography that began nearly 30 years ago with Maya Angelou''s astonishingly successful __, a work that changed readers'' perceptions of what autobiographical writing could achieve. The impact of\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n (which evoked the author''s adolescence and sexual abuse in Arkansas) was unprecedented. It combined frankness and emotional force with a nuanced, poetic style--a style that Angelou has perhaps found more elusive recently. But it''s here again, as affecting as ever. The book deals with the years 1964-68, a turbulent period in which Angelou came back to America after her African sojourn. This, of course, was the time of the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; Angelou was on the point of working with the latter in the civil rights movement. Her voice is fresh and exhilarating as she deals with the tragedies and triumphs of a packed life, and there are some set-piece moments, such as her account of the misguided revenge she took on an ex-lover.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many women have become celebrated as writers and poets, but Angelou has also enjoyed a distinguished career as a civil rights activist, producer, performer, actress, and filmmaker. With all of this under her belt, she can be forgiven for the note of self-congratulation that creeps in at times. But for those who''ve followed her unique writing, this is a journey into a fascinating life and a riveting picture of a divided America, always informed with that clear-sighted vision Angelou is famous for.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Far from a textbook account, this final volume in the writer''s series of six memoirs takes readers into the heart of the civil rights movement. Angelou begins in 1964. When she replanted her feet in America to help Malcolm X, she admittedly left a piece of her heart in Ghana with her son. She was also developing artistically during this time, and finding the means by which to express herself to her country and in her community. Any YA who has aimed to accomplish something meaningful and met with personal loss or the disappointment of bad timing, will identify with her. Before she was able to help Malcolm X form the Organization of African-American Unity, he was assassinated. Her mother and protective brother buttressed her spirits, and encouraged her to move forward. From San Francisco to Hawaii and back to California she takes readers into an economically depressed area in Los Angeles before, during, and after it burned. Her next giant step will be appreciated by YAs with an artistic side. She describes performing and writing plays for an African-American theater. Later, after she moved to New York, her pal James Baldwin and others instrumental in changing the view of America in the 1960s are featured prominently. History was in the making and Angelou was in the midst of it as this worthwhile autobiography attests.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Karen Sokol, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4454'),
(8788, 'Song of Slaves in the Desert', 'Alan Cheuse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker''s involvement in his family''s rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to right the wrong he sees at work in his family. Tracing the thread of slavery from 1500s Timbuktu up to the Civil War, Songs of Slaves in the Desert explores one man''s struggle with the legacy of slavery and the loyalty of family, brought into sharp focus as he finds himself attracted to one young slave woman. A masterful writer, Cheuse grapples with the nether parts of our history and the wild nature of love, especially by those held closest in chains. Praise for To Catch the Lightning: "Compelling fiction that digs deep into the mystery and sacrifice and selfishness of creative vision." -Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons "Vivid and poignant...Cheuse''s ambitious historical novel illuminates one man''s heroic obsession and the perpetual dichotomies of duty and dream, discovery, and loss."-Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7545'),
(8789, 'Song of Solomon', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Morrison''s earthy, poetic voice compliments perfectly the fantastical and mythical elements of\n <em>\n  Song Of Soloman.\n </em>\n A world where fathers fly in clouds of rose petals, and women can cast spells. The text is perfectly suited for an audio rendition - as poetry, songs and the spoken word feature so heavily in the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Morrison narrates for three hours and lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate nickname owed to his lengthy nursing period and delayed coming of age. Although a late starter, Milkman develops into a fundamentally strong person, who eventually learns to cherish his family and the importance of his roots.\n</p>\n<p>\n The narrator breathes life into an intriguing and diverse set of characters--from violent criminals to devout parents. Through them Morrison explores complex social and racial issues using luscious lyrical language\n <em>\n  This text refers to the audiobook edition of this title.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA rich, full novel. . . . It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œExuberant. . . . An artistic vision that encompasses both a private and national heritage.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.â€ â€”_The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œStunningly beautiful. . . . Full of magnificent people. . . . They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever.â€ â€”Anne Tyler,\n </em>\n The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIf Ralph Ellisonâ€™s\n <strong>\n  Invisible Man\n </strong>\n went underground, Toni Morrisonâ€™s Milkman flies.â€ â€”John Leonard, _The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œIt places Toni Morrison in the front rank of contemporary American writers. She has written a novel that will endure.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œLovely. . . . A delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness. . . . [An] exceptionally diverse novel.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Atlantic Monthly\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMorrison is a terrific storyteller. . . . Her writing evokes the joyful richness of life.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Newsday\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMorrison dazzles. . . . She creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world. . . . With an ear as sharp as glass she has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Nation\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA marvelous novel, the most moving I have read in ten years of reviewing.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Cleveland Plain Dealer\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œToni Morrison has created a fanciful world here. . . . She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. Sheâ€™s the most sensible lyrical writer around today.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA fine novel exuberantly constructed. . . . So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner . . . it is also extremely funny.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Hudson Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œToni Morrison is an extraordinarily good writer. Two pages into anything she writes one feels the power of her language and the emotional authority behind that language. . . . One closes the book warmed through by the richness of its sympathy, and by its breathtaking feel for the nature of sexual sorrow.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Village Voice\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMorrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8069');
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(8790, 'Song of Susannah', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There''s something about a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a white, pregnant demon from a parallel world that keeps a seven-volume story bracingly strong as it veers toward its Armageddon-like conclusion. When Susannah Dean is transported via a magic door on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the scene of much of The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla) to New York City in the summer of 1999, the "demon-mother" who possesses her, Mia, has only one thing on her mind. She must give birth to her "chap" at a predetermined location in Manhattan''s East 60s, as instructed by the henchmen-or "Low Men"-of the evil Crimson King. Pressed for time, Father Callahan, preteen Jake and talking pet "billy-bumbler" Oy follow Susannah and Mia''s trail in an effort to prevent an act that would quicken the destruction of the Dark Tower and, in turn, of all worlds. Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, who is being hunted down by mobster Enrico Balazar and his gang, who first appeared in Eddie''s version of New York in The Drawing of the Three Avid readers of the series will either be completely enthralled or extremely irritated when, in a gutsy move, the author weaves his own character into this unpredictable saga, but either way there''s no denying the ingenuity with which King paints a candid picture of himself. The sixth installment of this magnum opus stops short with the biggest cliffhanger of King''s career, but readers at the edge of their seats need only wait a few short months (Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower) to find out how-and if-King''s fictional universe will come to an end. 10 full-color illus. not seen by PW.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen KingThe Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel AndersonThe next-to-last novel in Stephen King''s seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense.To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind.Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn''t. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called ''Salem''s Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him.These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer''s journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga''s final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8560'),
(8791, 'Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Stephen King *The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah* with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson** The next-to-last novel in Stephen King''s seven-volume magnum opus, *Song of Susannah* is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- *with* each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term. Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn''t. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called *''Salem''s Lot,* a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer''s journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga''s final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4276'),
(8792, 'Songmaster', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An SF classic from the author of Ender''s Game. Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Ansset''s voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his auidence feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal-or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset''s hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos. Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love-the tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity''s peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5844'),
(8793, 'Songs from the Seashell', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is the first omnibus edition of two very successful Scarborough humorous fantasy novels, Bronwyn''s Bane and The Christening Quest. The saga of the enchanted realm of Argonia continues with the adventures and misadventures of Princess Bronwyn and her hearthwitch cousin, Carole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1541'),
(8794, 'Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love', 'George R. R. Martin &amp; Gardner Dozois', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Award-winning, bestselling author Neil Gaiman demonstrates why heâ€™s one of the hottest stars in literature today with â€œThe Thing About Cassandra,â€ a subtle but chilling story of a man who meets an old girlfriend he had never expected to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n International blockbuster bestselling author Diana Gabaldon sends a World War II RAF pilot through a stone circle to the time of her Outlander series in â€œA Leaf on the Winds of All Hallows.â€ Torn from all he knows, Jerry MacKenzie determinedly survives hardship and danger, intent on his goal of returning home to his wife and babyâ€”no matter the cost.\n</p>\n<p>\n New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher presents â€œLove Hurts,â€ in which Harry Dresden takes on one of his deadliest adversaries and in the process is forced to confront the secret desires of his own heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the smallest sampling promises unearthly delights, but look also for stories by New York Times bestselling romance authors Jo Beverley and Mary Jo Putney, and by such legends of the fantasy genre as Peter S. Beagle and Tanith Lee, as well as many other popular and beloved writers, including Marjorie M. Liu, Jacqueline Carey, Carrie Vaughn, and Robin Hobb. This exquisite anthology, crafted by the peerless editing team of George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, is sure to leave you under its spell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover the many realms of the heart with this extraordinary cast of acclaimed authors:\n</p>\n<p>\n PETER S. BEAGLE\n</p>\n<p>\n JO BEVERLEY\n</p>\n<p>\n JIM BUTCHER\n</p>\n<p>\n JACQUELINE CAREY\n</p>\n<p>\n DIANA GABALDON\n</p>\n<p>\n NEIL GAIMAN\n</p>\n<p>\n YASMINE GALENORN\n</p>\n<p>\n M.L.N. HANOVER\n</p>\n<p>\n ROBIN HOBB\n</p>\n<p>\n CECELIA HOLLAND\n</p>\n<p>\n TANITH LEE\n</p>\n<p>\n MARJORIE M. LIU\n</p>\n<p>\n MARY JO PUTNEY\n</p>\n<p>\n LINNEA SINCLAIR\n</p>\n<p>\n MELINDA SNODGRASS\n</p>\n<p>\n LISA TUTTLE\n</p>\n<p>\n CARRIE VAUGHN\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5916'),
(8795, 'Songsmith', 'Andre Norton; A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Eydrth is a Master Songsmith...who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many--and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from the heart...Andre Norton has been called "one of the most popular writers of our time" (Publishers Weekly) and has for over twenty-five years enchanted readers with the most famous and popular of her works: the enthralling Witch World. With bestseller A.C. Crispin, Norton has woven an eternal love story, filled with magic and wonder. Songsmith is the novel that Witch World fans have been waiting for--a shining jewel in the Witch World cosmos. Eydrth is a Master Songsmith...who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many--and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from the heart...Andre Norton has been called "one of the most popular writers of our time" (Publishers Weekly) and has for over twenty-five years enchanted readers with the most famous and popular of her works: the enthralling Witch World. With bestseller A.C. Crispin, Norton has woven an eternal love story, filled with magic and wonder. Songsmith is the novel that Witch World fans have been waiting for--a shining jewel in the Witch World cosmos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9132'),
(8796, 'Sons and Lovers', 'D. H. Lawrence; Victoria Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Called the most widely-read English novel of the twentieth century, D. H. Lawrenceâ€™s largely autobiographical Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields. His mother Gertrude, unhappily married to Paulâ€™s hard-drinking father, devotes all her energies to her son. They develop a powerful and passionate relationship, but eventually tensions arise when Paul falls in love with a girl and seeks to escape his family ties. Torn between his desire for independence and his abiding attachment to his loving but overbearing mother, Paul struggles to define himself sexually and emotionally through his relationships with two womenâ€”the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers, and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes. Heralding Lawrenceâ€™s mature period, Sons and Lovers vividly evokes the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction. Lushly descriptive and deeply emotional, it is rich in universal truths about human relationships. Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at The Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1503'),
(8797, 'Sons of the Oak', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farland, whose epic Runelords series continues now in *Sons of the Oak*. The story picks up eight years after the events of *Lair of Bones *and begins a new chapter in the Runelords saga focusing on Gaborn''s son, Fallion. Gaborn, the Earth King, has been traveling far from his home, to strange and unknown places. While beyond the edge of the earth, he finally succumbs to the accelerated aging that comes from all of the endowments he has taken. His death is the signal for a revolution, an attack from the supernatural realms by immensely powerful immortal beings. These forces have discovered that Gaborn''s son is the resurrection of an immortal, one whose potential power is so great that he might be able to reorder the entire universe. Fallion''s enemies have decided that they must control him, and failing that, destroy him. He is only a child, but he is the heir to Gaborn''s kingdom, and so must flee to the ends of the earth to avoid the destruction of all that Gaborn accomplished. One of the mightiest of contemporary fantasy epics continues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1525'),
(8798, 'Soon I Will Be Invincible', 'Austin Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Doctor Impossibleâ€”evil genius, would-be world conquerorâ€”languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he''s lost every battle he''s ever fought. But this prison won''t hold him forever. Fataleâ€”half woman, half high-tech warriorâ€”used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she''s a rookie member of the world''s most famous super-team, the Champions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in perilâ€”she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone. Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humorâ€”an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(8799, 'Soothsayer', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mouse, a hard-bitten, cynical woman and professional thief, finds herself in deep trouble when her attempt to rescue a seemingly helpless little girl has potentially deadly consequences in this brilliant and haunting installment of Santiago-inspired adventure. Young Penelope has long had a price on her head, and Carlos Mendoza now knows how she has outwitted her captorsâ€”and the awesome powers behind her success. As Carlos moves in for the kill, Mouse is hard-pressed to preserve her life, defend Penelope, and in so doing, save humanity. For Carlos "Iceman" Mendoza, only one thing becomes clear: in a universe of giant men, ruthless bounty hunters, and interstellar war, his greatest fear is this one girl.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11012'),
(8800, 'Sophie&#39;s Choice', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie''s past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10673'),
(8801, 'Sophie&#39;s Secret', 'Nancy N. Rue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When some of Sophieâ€™s relatives come to town for Thanksgiving and create a whirlwind of sightseeing, including nearby Jamestown, Sophie sees an archeological excavation in progress and pictures herself as a female Indiana Jones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2853'),
(8802, 'Sophie&#39;s World', 'Nancy N. Rue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the first fiction book of the Faithgirlz!â„¢ series, bestselling author Nancy Rue introduces Sophie LaCroix, a creative soul who''s destined to become a great film director someday. When her overactive imagination immerses her in the American Revolution after a school field trip, Sophie quickly learns a real-life lesson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2854'),
(8803, 'Sophie&#39;s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy', 'Jostein Gaarder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn''t the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book''s enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she''s learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author''s native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children''s book--but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox''s lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie''s life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. [...] Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder''s notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it''s occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren''t well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6581'),
(8804, 'The Sorcerer of the North (Book 5)', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepyÄ€-boring, evenÄ€-until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by a mysterious illness. Joined by his friend Alyss, Will is suddenly thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure, investigating fears of sorcery and trying to determine who is loyal to Lord Syron. As Will battles growing hysteria, traitors, and most of all, time, Alyss is taken hostage, and Will is forced to make a desperate choice between his mission and his friend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(8805, 'The Sorcerer of the North', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepyÄ€-boring, evenÄ€-until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by a mysterious illness. Joined by his friend Alyss, Will is suddenly thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure, investigating fears of sorcery and trying to determine who is loyal to Lord Syron. As Will battles growing hysteria, traitors, and most of all, time, Alyss is taken hostage, and Will is forced to make a desperate choice between his mission and his friend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4808'),
(8806, 'Sorceror&#39;s Amulet', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9831'),
(8807, 'The Sorcerer&#39;s House (2010)', 'Wolfe, Gene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The new Gene Wolfe fantasy novel is told entirely in a series of letters. Only Wolfe could have made this so gripping, a surprising page-turner of a book.In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, an educated man recently released from prison is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is the heir to a huge old house, long empty, he moves in, though he is too broke even to buy furniture. He is immediately confronted by supernatural and fantastic creatures and events. In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progressively reveals the intriguing pieces of a strange and fantastic narrative. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is, to his utter surprise, the heir to a huge old house in town, long empty, he moves in. He is immediately confronted by an array of supernatural creatures and events, by love and danger. His life is utterly transformed and we read on, because we must know more. We revise our opinions of him, and of others, with each letter, piecing together more of the story as we go. We learn things about magic, and another world, and about the sorcerer Mr. Black, who originally inhabited the house. And then knowing what we now know only in the end, perhaps we read it again. The main attraction of the novel is the zaniness, the flow of non-stop action that twists and turns and the "what weirdness will come next?" that continues almost to the end. Once the major revelations are done and we seem to achieve closure, the novel takes one more unexpected turn and ends with a superb epilogue that makes one reread at least the last half of the book. "The Sorcerer''s House" is a strong A that will entertain and enchant as long as you do not question it too much, but accept its premise and just turn the pages and get immersed into it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8908'),
(8808, 'Sorceress of Darshiva', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Troubles and delays continued to mount as Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and the company pursued Zandramas across the known world. Possessed by the Dark Destiny, she had stolen Garion''s infant son to use in a ritual that would destroy all that was fair and good. Always the quest led onward, across and beyond the continent of Mallorea, where the Evil God Torak had once been supreme until Garion slew him. And always Zandramas was one step ahead of them. The armies she had raised, led by a Demon Lord, threatened to cut them off on one side: on the other, the forces of the Emperor Zakath were seeking to capture them. Zandramas was taunting them and spying on them, flying over in the form of the great dragon, while the Dark Destiny changed her and etched away the last of her touches of humanity. Somehow, as the Seeress of Kell had warned them, they had to be at the Place Which Is No More for the ritual at the same time as Zandramas, if they were to have a chance to defeat her evil schemes. But where that might be they still had no clue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1186'),
(8809, 'Sorceress of the Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9087'),
(8810, 'The Sorceress', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Book Three in the New York Times bestselling series.Nicholas Flamel''s heart almost broke as he watched his beloved Paris crumble before him. The city was destroyed by Dee and Machiavelli, but Flamel played his own role in the destruction. Sophie and Josh Newman show every sign of being the twins of prophecy, and Flamel had to protect them and the pages from the Dark Elders.But Nicholas grows weaker with each passing day. Perenelle is still trapped in Alcatraz, and now that Scatty has gone missing, the group is without protection. Except for Clarentâ€”the twin sword to Excalibur. But Clarentâ€™s power is unthinkable, its evil making it nearly impossible to use without its darkness seeping into the soul of whoever wields it.If he hopes to defeat Dee, Nicholas must find an Elder who can teach Josh and Sophie the third elemental magicâ€”Water Magic. The problem? The only one who can do that is Gilgamesh, and he is quite, quite insane.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2959'),
(8811, 'The Soul Catcher', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a secluded cabin in rural Massachusetts, six young men stage a deadly standoff with FBI and ATF agents. When dust from the flying bullets finally settles, three agents are wounded, one fatally, and five suspects are dead. In a wooded area near the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the body of a senator''s daughter is discovered. Dead by strangulation, the young woman is left artfully posed, her clothes folded neatly beside her. For FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell, there is nothing routine about being called in to work these two cases. As an expert criminal profiler, Maggie provides psychological insight on cases that involve suspected serial killers. She can''t understand, then, why her boss, Assistant Director Cunningham, has assigned her to these two seemingly unrelated crimes. But as Maggie and her partner, Special Agent R.J. Tully, delve deeper into the two cases, they learn that there is a connection between the crimes: Reverend Joseph Everett. The charismatic leader of a high-profile religious sect, Everett has cultivated a devoted following that is growing in numbers daily. The young men holed up in the cabin were members of Everett''s church, and the murder of the young woman took place following a religious rally Everett held in the capital. The key to unraveling the significance of these two crimes is Everett himself. But he is untouchable, living on a heavily guarded compound the police are unable to penetrate. Maggie realizes, however, that she may have found a way to get to Everett: by using her own mother, a member of his church. Is Everett a psychotic madman who uses his position of power to perform heinous crimes? Or is he merely a scapegoat for a killer more cunning, more disciplined than he? Maggie realizes too late that there is more going on here than the FBI ever imagined . . . and her own mother may be about to pay the price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(8812, 'Soul Dancer', 'Aurora Rose Lynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once they used to dance as children, now Jamar Q''ellan wants to take dancing with Kierra Vonne to another level. As the years have elapsed, the distance between Jamar and Kierra has become insurmountable yet both will become entangled in a dance of desire. On the planet of Manitee-a in 2975 C.E., skin color determines whether you''re of the ruling class or a slave. Sex and love between them is forbidden between the black-skinned Jaquill ruling class and the white kattanee slaves. Kierra, a slave, knows the ultimate penalty if she makes love to Jamar but he is persistent, persuasive, and unwilling to let go of her and consequently the carefree past in which she loved and trusted him without reservation. The one time Kierra is allowed to choose, she must make a life or death decision - walk away from Jamar and true love or give him the passionate nights they both deserve. She just might make the wrong choice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(8813, 'Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A satirical comedy on the subject of death. It begins when Death decides to take a holiday and turns over the shop to his granddaughter, Susan, with the assistance of Death of Rats, a rat skeleton. Unfortunately, Susan does not have the stomach for such a heartless trade and this threatens the success of the establishment. By the author of The Light Fantastic. This 13th novel set in Discworld tells the story of Death''s granddaughter, who inherited the job and grew to enjoy it. Amd of Imp the Bard, who strove to make his fortune in a rock band, and who was so unlucky that all his dreams came true. When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death''s adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang." With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint, Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds that all his dreams are coming true. Well almost. In this finger-snapping, toe-tapping tale of youth, Death, and rocks that roll, Terry Pratchett once again demonstrates the wit and genius that have propelled him to the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3388'),
(8814, 'The Soul Stealer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annja Creed jumps at the chance to join a fellow archaeologist on a quest to find a relic. But she''s not so thrilled about northern Siberia, where they are hoping to discover something buried in the long-undisturbed soil of Russia''s frozen terrain. When they reach the town of Jakutsk, Annja is put off by its gray landscape and highly superstitious inhabitants. They claim they are being hunted. Then one of the villagers goes missing.The locals blame the Khosadam, a ghost of a fallen goddess said to ingest the souls of the departed. But there are no fresh graves. She is now hunting the living. When Annja seeks to destroy the apparition, she discovers an even more horrifying truthâ€”and may have hit a dead end. SUMMARY: Annja Creed jumps at the chance to join a fellow archaeologist on a quest to find a relic. But she''s not so thrilled about northern Siberia, where they are hoping to discover something buried in the long-undisturbed soil of Russia''s frozen terrain. When they reach the town of Jakutsk, Annja is put off by its gray landscape and highly superstitious inhabitants. They claim they are being hunted. Then one of the villagers goes missing.The locals blame the Khosadam, a ghost of a fallen goddess said to ingest the souls of the departed. But there are no fresh graves. She is now hunting the living. When Annja seeks to destroy the apparition, she discovers an even more horrifying truthâ€”and may have hit a dead end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(8815, 'Soulf of the Fire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3520'),
(8816, 'The Souls of Black Folk', 'W. E. B. Du Bois &amp; Farah Jasmine Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois,is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Boisâ€™s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nationâ€™s history from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. In The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, Du Bois argued against the conciliatory position taken by Booker T. Washington, at the time the most influential black leader in America, and called for a more radical form of aggressive protestâ€”a strategy that would anticipate and inspire much of the activism of the 1960s. Du Boisâ€™s essays were the first to articulate many of Black Americaâ€™s thoughts and feelings, including the dilemma posed by the black psycheâ€™s â€œdouble consciousness,â€ which Du Bois described as â€œthis twonessâ€”an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings . . . in one dark body.â€ Every essay in The Souls of Black Folk is a jewel of intellectual prowess, eloquent language, and groundbreaking insight. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the struggle for Civil Rights in America.Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7480'),
(8817, 'The Sound and the Fury', 'William Faulkner; David Minter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minterâ€™s annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of\n <em>\n  The Sound and the Fury\n </em>\n and includes a selection of Faulknerâ€™s letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by FaulknerÃ­s friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner''s 1933 introduction to the novel. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives on the place of the American South in history. Taken together, these worksâ€”by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warrenâ€”provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel. "Criticism" includes seventeen essays on\n <em>\n  The Sound and the Fury\n </em>\n that collectively trace changes in the way we have viewed this novel over the last four decades. The critics are Jean-Paul Sartre, Irving Howe, Ralph Ellison, Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, John T. Irwin, Myra Jehlen, Donald M. Kartiganer, David Minter, Warwick Wadlington, John T. Matthews, Thadious M. Davis, Wesley Morris and Barbara Alverson Morris, Minrose C. Gwin, AndrÃ© Bleikasten, and Philip M. Weinstein. A revised Selected Bibliography is also included.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William Faulkner\n </strong>\n (1897â€“1962) is the Nobel Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sound and the Fury\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  As I Lay Dying\n </em>\n , among other works.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Minter\n </strong>\n is Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University. He is co-editor of\n <em>\n  The Harper American Literature\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Columbia Literary History of the United States\n </em>\n . He is author of\n <em>\n  Heirs of Changing Promise: A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890â€“1940\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  William Faulkner: His Life and Work\n </em>\n ; and\n <em>\n  The Interpreted Design\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10581'),
(8818, 'The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating', 'Elisabeth Tova Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a *Neohelix albolabris* â€”a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater under standing of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snailâ€™s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal.  Told with wit and grace, *The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating* is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7002'),
(8819, 'A Sound of Thunder', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury''s most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3850'),
(8820, 'The Sound of Thunder', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "In this astounding saga of colonial Africa, "New York Times "bestselling author Wilbur Smith captures a clash of nations--and the clamoring of one man''s heart and soul..." IN A WONDROUS LAND, THE CANNONS OF WAR BEGIN TO RAGE...The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army--and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords. WHILE ONE MAN FIGHTS ALONE.Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland--and into the sights of his enemy''s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth Friedman, the only woman Sean can love, even though he shouldn''t. As Sean''s loyalties--to nation, man, and blood--are tested, a saga of duty and betrayal unfolds...." ""THE SOUND OF THUNDER" "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master.""--The Washington Post Book World"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9145'),
(8821, 'The Source of Magic', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ordered by King Trent to determine the source of Xanth''s magic, Bink and his companions were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. When even their protector turned against them, Blink still managed to reach his goal and carry out the King''s orders...but the king did not expect Blink''s next act--to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3296'),
(8822, 'The Source', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict."A sweeping chronology filled with excitement."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(8823, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage. But that''s not all.... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3403'),
(8824, 'The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life', 'Arthur Agatston &amp; Joseph Signorile', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five years ago, with the publication of *The South Beach Diet*, renowned Miami cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston set out to change the way America eats. Now he has an even more ambitious goal: to change the way America lives by helping Americans become fitter as well as thinner and healthier . . . for life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the all-new *The South Beach Diet Supercharged,* Dr. Agatston shows you how to rev up your metabolism and* lose weight faster* while following the proven healthy eating principles of the original diet: choose good carbs, good fats, lean protein, and low-fat dairy. Collaborating with Dr. Joseph Signorile, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Miami, Dr. Agatston presents a cutting-edge, three-phase workout that perfectly complements the three phases of the diet itself. Based on the latest exercise science, this ease-into-it fitness program combines low- and high-intensity interval exercise (with a focus on walking) and functional core body-toning exercises. The result: You''ll look fitter and you''ll burn more fat and calories all dayâ€”even at rest.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also included is the latest nutritional research on how specific foods high in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and a host of phytonutrients help keep you healthy; new and expanded lists of Foods to Enjoy; taste-tempting Meal Plans for phases 1 and 2; and dozens of easy-to-prepare new recipes, including Eggs Frijoles, Chock-Full-of-Veggies Chili, Roasted Tomato Soup, Homestyle Turkey Meatloaf, and South Beach Diet Tiramisu. In every chapter you''ll find inspiring success stories from real-life South Beach dieters and plenty of effective weight loss tips. And as an added bonus, Dr. Agatston answers the questions you''ve most often asked him about the diet since the original book was published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7556');
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(8825, 'South by Java Head', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant Dutch planter, Van Effen? The strangely beautiful Eurasian girl, Gudrun? The slave trader, Siran? The smiling and silent Nicholson who is never without his gun? Only one thing is certain: the rotting tramp steamer is a floating death trap, carrying a cargo of human TNT.Dawn sees them far out to sea but with the first murderous dive bombers already aimed at their ship. Thus begins an ordeal few are to survive, a nightmare succession of disasters wrought by the hell-bent Japanese, the unrelenting tropical sun and by the survivors themselves, whose hatred and bitterness divides them one against the other.Written after the acclaimed and phenomenally successful HMS Ulysses and The Guns of Navarone, this was MacLeanâ€™s third book, and it contains all the hallmarks of those other two classics. Rich with stunning visual imagery, muscular narrative power, brutality, courage and breathtaking excitement, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of South by Java Head offers readers a long-denied chance to enjoy one of the greatest war novels ever written.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9283'),
(8826, 'South of Broad', 'Pat Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship. Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, "South of Broad" gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo''s older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston''s dark legacy of racism and class divisions. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for." South of Broad" is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4163'),
(8827, 'South of Heaven', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call "South of Heaven," and the worst thing you could be doing there was laying a gas pipeline, along with six-hundred other hoboes, juice-heads, and jailbirds. But that''s exactly what Tommy Burwell was doing, even though he wasn''t smart enough to know better. Even though "South of Heaven" is another term for hell.Combining a tale of escalating savagery with a dead-eyed group portrait of men at the edge, Jim Thompson has produced a masterpiece of the American dissolute.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2198'),
(8828, 'South of the Border, West of the Sun', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man''s life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami''s trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets: When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound. Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Romance, accusingly bittersweet but still redemptive, is the theme of this novel written by award-winning novelist Murakami, one of Japan''s most popular authors. Two only children who were schoolmates and best friends meet again after a 25-year separation. Hajime is now married, the father of two little girls and a successful owner of two jazz clubs. Shimamoto has also changed; she has become a very beautiful woman. She is always immaculately and expensively dressed, but she will not talk about her life or anything that has happened to her. Nevertheless, Hajime believes that he loves her more than life itself; he is convinced that he could leave his family and his business to be with her. After they spend a night together, a night filled with raw passion, she vanishes. Hajime is distraught. After much soul searching, he begins to put his life back together and discovers that he has become a stronger man, one who realizes that looking back is often necessary in order to move forward.?Janis Williams, Shaker Heights P.L., OH Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Murakami never fails to surprise, whether he''s mixing genres and creating ambitious alternate worlds, as he did in the magisterial Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , or putting his own spin on a tale of obsessional love, as he does here. Like many of Murakami''s heroes, Hajime is, at least on the surface, a thoroughly conventional man: married with children, the owner of an upscale jazz bar in suburban Tokyo. And yet, there is another Hajime, disconnected from his outer self, drifting in its wake, waiting quietly to be summoned to action. The summons comes in the form of Shimamoto, Hajime''s childhood sweetheart, whom he hasn''t seen for 20 years but who has never been out of his thoughts. She returns one rainy night, walking into Hajime''s bar, and the effect is a little like what happens when Ilse walks into Rick''s in Casablanca ("Of all the gin joints in all the world . . ."). But it is something more, too. As always, Murakami drenches his story in American pop culture, but here he uses those illusions to set us up. What happens with Hajime and Shimamoto lacks the tragic tonic chord that melodramatic love stories give us at the end; instead, there is only mystery and confusion. In Murakami''s world, secret selves and other realities are forever lurking beneath the shifting sands of the everyday. If this examination of one of those selves is less grand than we''ve come to expect from one of the masters of the contemporary novel, it is also more intimate and every bit as unsettling. Bill Ott --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. This latest from the internationally celebrated Japanese author of A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle eschews Murakami''s trademark comic extravagance, offering instead a muted portrayal of dream-driven midlife crisis. Narrator Hajim e, an only child (a condition that obsesses him) whose very conventional upbringing includes a sexless (if emotionally intense) friendship with a crippled girl named Shimamoto, discovers in his mid-30s that his settled bourgeois existence masks an urgent desire to resume and consummate the relationship that dominated his youth. Having endured a frustrating teenage romance (which was ended by his own unfaithfulness) and an unrewarding job as a textbook editor, Hajime later married happily, fathered childre n, andthanks to his wealthy father-in-lawbecame the proprietor of two popular ``jazz bars.'''' One night Shimamoto walks into Hajime''s popular Robin''s Nest, they talk for hours, and the fantasies of adventurous lives and exotic faraway places that had absor bed their earlier years gradually resurface. Persuading himself that ``I was living someone else''s life, not my own,'''' Hajime surrenders to Shimamoto''s spell, accompanying her on an enigmatic ``pilgrimage,'''' then tumbling into an affair terminated only wh en she inexplicably departs again, abandoning Hajime to the workaday world and domestic routine he had imagined escaping. In a slowly moving narrative made even more attenuated by shapeless lengthy conversations, Murakami presents Hajime as a hopeful drea mer chastened, though not changed, by his realization that ``I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover.'''' It seems scant material for a novel, though there are fine moments, including a hilarious anecdotal account of adolescent sexual panic a nd an eerie climactic encounter with Izumi, the girl Hajime had wronged many years earlier. Brief Encounter meets Blue Velvet? Or a book written to exorcize personal demons? Whichever, it''s only middling Murakamiwhat well have to make do with until the ne xt wild sheep or wind-up bird comes along. -- Copyright Â©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "A wise and beautiful book." --The New York Times Book Review "A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other."Â Â --The New York Times "Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami''s deeply original fiction." --The Baltimore Sun "Lovely, deceptively simple. . . . A novel of existential romance."Â Â --San Francisco Chronicle "His most deeply moving novel." --The Boston Globe -- Review â€œA wise and beautiful book.â€ â€“The New York Times Book Review â€œA probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.â€ â€“The New York Times â€œBrilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakamiâ€™s deeply original fiction.â€ â€“The Baltimore Sun â€œLovely, deceptively simple. . . . A novel of existential romance.â€ â€“San Francisco Chronicle â€œHis most deeply moving novel.â€ â€“The Boston Globe â€œMesmerizing. . . . This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.â€ â€“The Baltimore Sun â€œA fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.â€ â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer â€œPortrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular . . . to the surprisingly poetic.â€ â€“San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle â€œHaunting and natural. . . . so smoothly shifts the reader from mundane concerns into latent madness as to challenge oneâ€™s faith in the material world . . . contains passages that are among his finest.â€ â€“The New York Observer â€œHaruki Murakami applies his patented Japanese magic realismâ€“minimalist, smooth and transcendently oddâ€“to a charming tale of childhood love lost.â€ â€“New York\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1864'),
(8829, 'Southampton Row', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. Yet Anne Perry''s\n <em>\n  Southampton Row\n </em>\n again finds him displaced from his police command, this time to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charles Voisey, leader of a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle, was defeated by Pitt when he tried (in __) to abolish the British monarchy. Only months later, though, he''s back on top, running for a seat in Parliament. Under the auspices of the newly created Special Branch, Pitt is charged with learning whether Voisey has any "unguarded vulnerabilities." The odds against Pitt succeeding are high; Voisey may be "shallow, self-important [and] condescending," but he impresses voters as more charismatic and less controversial than his opponent, Aubrey Serracold, who''s also hobbled by his connection to the recent slaying of a popular spiritualist. While Pitt''s wife, Charlotte, and their family are safely out of London on vacation, Pitt, aided by the gruff but dogged Inspector Samuel Tellman, his politically astute sister-in law, and Charlotte''s resourceful great-aunt Vespasia, seeks to solve the medium''s murder before it can derail Aubrey Serracold''s campaign.\n</p>\n<p>\n Perry expertly portrays the volatile British political climate of the 1890s, and by making Pitt and Tellman rivals in their investigation, she further illuminates both men''s characters. However,\n <em>\n  Southampton Row\n </em>\n reduces the usually intrepid Charlotte to a hand-wringing irrelevance, and the novel feels too much like an intermediate and inconclusive chapter in a longer story arc. Like Holmes and Moriarty, Thomas Pitt and Charles Voisey appear destined to grapple once more.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HNewcomers to Perry''s series about Victorian police officer Thomas Pitt might be baffled by all the backstory from 2001''s The Whitechapel Conspiracy in this 22nd entry, but loyal fans should hit the ground reading. Bounced from his beloved job as superintendent at the Bow Street cop shop in the political backlash of the plot against Queen Victoria that he and his aristocratic wife, Charlotte, uncovered in that last book, Pitt not only has to work for the sneaky Victor Narraway of Special Branch but must also give up a much-deserved vacation with his family to look into the murder of a society spiritualist in London''s Southampton Row. It seems that Charles Voisey, head of a secret society called the Inner Circle and the man whom the Pitts stopped from coming this close to turning England into a republic (with himself as president), is now running for Parliament as a Tory against a promising Liberal candidate, Aubrey Serracold. Voisey shouldn''t stand a chance unless Serracold''s wife, one of the murdered medium''s clients, really did knock her off. Since Charlotte spends virtually all of the book on Dartmoor, her place in the investigation is ably filled by her sister, Emily, married to another up-and-coming Liberal. As ever, excellent craftsmanship sets this series in the front rank of historical mysteries. (Mar. 1)Forecast: A 15-city author tour, national print and radio advertising as well as a sample chapter in the mass market edition of The Whitechapel Conspiracy (Jan.) should help ensure another run up bestseller lists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8579'),
(8830, 'Southern Comfort', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Atlanta homicide detective Patrick ''Tick'' Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn''t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favour of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the centre of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger - except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race. Tick finds himself fascinated by Kate''s investigation - and by her inviting mix of courage and kindness. Teaming up, they uncover a web of betrayal, blackmail, and ruthless greed. And as danger mounts, Tick realizes how far he''ll go to protect the rare and surprising gift that''s come his way: a second chance at a happy ending.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n FERN MICHAELS is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood series, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, Up Close and Personal, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is apassionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4754'),
(8831, 'Southern Cross', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In their first appearance (Hornet''s Nest, 1997), Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Virginia West, and reporter-turned-rookie-cop Andy Brazil battled a serial killer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now, in Patricia Cornwell''s Southern Cross, the trio are dispatched to Richmond, Virginia--via an NIJ (National Institute of Justice) grant--to quell the growing gang problem and modernize the beleaguered Richmond PD. They bring with them a sophisticated computer program for tracking criminal activity and a tried-and-true methodology for reforming Richmond''s men and women in blue. Unfortunately, Hammer, Brazil, and West could not have been prepared for the resentment they would confront... or the bizarre cast of characters they would find upon their arrival: Lelia Ehrhart--wealthy (and nosey) chair of the Blue Ribbon Crime Commission--whose heavy European accent renders her English dangerously hilarious; Butner "Bubba" Flunk IV--tobacco industry worker, gun collector, and UFO aficionado; Smoke--the sociopathic leader of the Pikes gang; and Weed Gardener--14-year-old painter turned master graffiti artist. Unlike Cornwell''s usual fare, Southern Cross is driven almost exclusively by an interest in these strange personalities and their surreal hometown, rather than in fast-paced thrills. The novel becomes a satire on city politics, Southern culture, the ever-tense relationship between the police and the public, and the struggles of the average man and woman with computer technology. Cornwell does fall down in a few places. First, her description of the computer virus that somehow infects police department Web sites from Richmond to New York seems a bit far-fetched. Also, her narrative, divided among three major characters, loses its focus and sags at several points. In the end, though, Southern Cross is redeemed by Cornwell''s inimitable renderings of police work and the quotidian life of Richmond''s many odd denizens. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4118'),
(8832, 'Southern Lights: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novelâ€”at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. *** **Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husbandâ€™s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the cityâ€™s toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trialâ€¦until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the lettersâ€”and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of allâ€”and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreakâ€¦her ex-husbandâ€™s world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. Now, while Alexaâ€™s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows--from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together againâ€”strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled. In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattanâ€™ s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughterâ€”and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, **Southern Lights** is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(8833, 'Sovereign', 'C. J. Sansom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. As the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers that holds danger for the King''s throne, and a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(8834, 'Space', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1586'),
(8835, 'Spacehounds Of IPC', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Inter-Planetary Corporation''s crack liner Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a most unexpected and long voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the liner crash-landed on Ganymede. The survivors first had to master that world''s primeval terrors, then construct a new spacecraft, and finally, find a way to deal with the warring intelligences of the Jovian system. Spacehounds can do all these things, given time, resources, and freedom from attack. But . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10791'),
(8836, 'Spade &amp; Archer: the prequel to Dashiell Hammett&#39;s The maltese falcon', 'Joe Gores', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer''s wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don''t know is how Spade became who he is. "Spade &amp; Archer" completes the picture. 1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men''s mistresses, and long-missing money. He''ll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He''ll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should''ve been the perfect crime. And he''ll fall in love--though it won''t turn out for the best. It never does with dames . . . "Spade &amp; Archer "is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel--the work of a master mystery writer--destined to become a classic in its own right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1792'),
(8837, 'The Spanish Bride', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Sparkling" - Independent"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington''s forces fought Napoleon''s army in Spain and Portugal.\n</p>\n<p>\n After marrying Harry Smith when she was 14 years old, Juana Smith "followed the drum," marching at the back of the troops along with the other wives and the officers'' servants. Juana became a camp favorite, charming all with her youthful enthusiasm. In spite of the danger, Juana thrived on military life and her passionate, if somewhat stormy, relationship with Harry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer''s research encompassed every available diary from that time period, including Harry Smith''s, and all of the Duke of Wellington''s writings and dispatches. She brings alive military life during the Regency period, how the armies marched and fought, as well as how the nobility provided for its own comfort with servants, horses, dogs and furniture.\n <br />\n (20081002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10166'),
(8838, 'The Spanish Game', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In exile. In danger. On the run. For six years Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation with the CIA, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid: he has a flat, a job and a relationship with the wrong woman. Older and wiser that the young spy who first caught the eye of British Intelligence, Milius still has a talent for deception and a fatal weakness for secrets. So when a prominent politician disappears in suspicious circumstances he canrs"t resist tracking him down. But the rules have changed. Alec is now working alone outside the boundaries of any official agency. Paranoid and expendable, he soon becomes vulnerable to the ruthless duplicities of the secret world. He can trust no one. But as he comes face to face with the nightmare of modern terror, Alec is given one last chance for redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4845'),
(8839, 'Sparkling Cyanide', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction isunparalleled. Her worldwide popularity isphenomenal, her characters engaging, her plotsspellbinding. No one knows the human heart-orthe dark passions that can stop it-better thanAgatha Christie. She is truly the one and onlyQueen of Crime.Sparlkling Cyanide"Rosemary that''s for remembrance" Six people are thinkingabout beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a yearbefore. There''s the loving sister, the long-suffering husband, thedevoted secretary, the lovers, and the betrayed wife. None ofthem can forget Rosemary But did one of them murder her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5247'),
(8840, 'A Sparrow Falls', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him, and as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead''. From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean''s son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9140'),
(8841, 'Spartacus', 'T. L. Mancour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Answering a distress call, the U.S.S. Enterprise(TM) finds a damaged alien vessel -- the Freedom -- crewed by a race known as the Vemlans. Their captain, Jared asks for assistance in repairing his ship -- assistance Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are only too happy to provide. But once begun, their relief efforts are interrupted by the arrival of an entire fleet from Vemla, who claim that Jared and his crew are escaped slaves -- and their property!  As Jared and his people plea for protection and the right to be free, Captain Picard is caught between the demands of his conscience and the dictates of the Prime Directive. And when the Vemlan fleet threatens to fight if the U.S.S. "Enterprise" doesn''t stand aside, Picard must choose between the safety of his ship...and the annihilation of an entire race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4441'),
(8842, 'Spartan Planet', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5511'),
(8843, 'Speak No Evil: A Novel', 'Allison Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Silence is deadly.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vileâ€“her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity scrawledwas across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victimâ€™s much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina canâ€™t make a collar or a case. She also canâ€™t stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspectâ€™s brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a serial killer, heâ€™s determined to prove his brotherâ€™s innocence. But his confidence is shaken when he learns of Steveâ€™s dark side, and when a friend of the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky woman faces an unspeakable end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evil has spoken. Now see what it can do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her death had not been easy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Homicide detective Carina Kincaid stared at the dead, naked corpse of the young woman, avoiding the wide-eyed terror etched on her face. Her mouth was gagged, but what drew Carinaâ€™s eye was the word slut scrawled in thick black marker across her chest. A small red rose was tattooed on her left breast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The victim lay in a disjointed fetal position, dried blood on her legs and vicious red welts on her breasts, indicating that her murder had followed a sexual assault. In California, that made the killer eligible for the death penalty. One small step toward justice, but it didnâ€™t satisfy Carina. This Jane Doe would still be dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She glanced away from the body, just for a moment, and watched the waves roll up the beach. Back and forth, calming. Her cheeks stung from the early-morning salt air, but in just a few hours sheâ€™d be tugging off her windbreaker as the sun peaked over San Diego.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When she first arrived on the scene with Jim Gage, supervisor of the Forensic Field Services Unit of the San Diego Police Department, they immediately documented that the evidence had been contaminated. Three layers of heavy-duty green garbage bags had been cut away from the body. The park ranger hadnâ€™t been able to lift what he thought was trash, so he sliced it open. What had he been thinking?\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t think there was a body inside,â€ heâ€™d said when Carina questioned him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the tension in Jimâ€™s jaw, it was obvious that he was pissed. But true to form he didnâ€™t say anything. He never said anything, which had been the primary reason Carina had broken up with him last year. She could handle his moodinessâ€”she had four brothers, she could put up with almost anythingâ€”but his refusal to talk about what bugged him, on the job and off, was a relationship breaker.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Or maybe they hadnâ€™t loved each other enough to make it work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina glanced behind them when she heard a car approach. The coronerâ€™s van pulled into the empty parking lot and a short, trim, well-dressed Asian man exited the vehicle. Assistant Coroner Ted Chen, the perfectionist. Carina liked it when he pulled one of her cases, even if he made her a bit self-conscious. She triple-checked her reports when he was the responding coroner, afraid to appear the novice despite her nearly eleven years on the job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDoctor Chen is here,â€ she told Jim.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHmm.â€ Jim finished photographing the body and surrounding area, glancing up as Doctor Chen crossed the sand to where the body lay. â€œHello, Ted.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGage. Detective.â€ Chen nodded toward the victim. â€œWas the body found in this condition?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe bag had been intact. The park ranger opened it.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhy on earth would he do that?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim removed his wire-rim glasses and rubbed his eyes with his forearm. â€œThought it was filled with garbage and planned on taking multiple trips to dispose of the contents.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chen shook his head in disgust, his thin lips a tight line. He knelt in the sand, careful to prevent further granules from rolling into the plastic. â€œShe suffocated,â€ he said quietly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou mean she was put into the bag alive?â€ Carina asked for clarification.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would appear so, but the crime lab will need to go over the bag to confirm it,â€ Chen said. â€œSee her discoloration?â€ The victim appeared bluish, almost purple. â€œNo oxygen. No sign of strangulation, and no blood in her eyes or ears to indicate it, either. I can give you a better answer at the autopsy.â€ He glanced at his watch. â€œI have three autopsies scheduled this morning, but Iâ€™ll postpone the afternoon schedule to fit her in.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThanks, Doctor Chen. I appreciate it.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll have her on the table at two.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina nodded, caught Jim staring at her, his face unreadable. â€œYou going to join us?â€ she asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWeâ€™ll see how far my team can get with the bag. Weâ€™re backlogged as it is.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  No surprise. Contrary to popular television, most evidence wasnâ€™t processed until a suspect was apprehended and a court date set. The wheels of justice also turned the cogs of the laboratory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina forced herself to stare at the victimâ€™s face while Chen and Jim prepared her for transportation to the morgue. She looked so young. Eighteen, maybe. Was she a college student? There were two universities within spitting distance of the beach. Maybe she was still in high school.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She thought about her baby sister. Well, Lucy wasnâ€™t a baby anymore. She was a high school senior and smart enough to go to just about any college she wanted. Their parents wanted her to stay close to home; Lucy desperately wanted to move away. But college campuses were dangerous, and Carina found herself siding with her parents on this one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fourteen years ago she wanted the exact same thing as Lucyâ€”to get out from under her parentsâ€™ thumb. But that was before sheâ€™d decided to become a cop. Before she realized how truly dangerous the city could be. Before she realized that justice wasnâ€™t always swift, and that the system didnâ€™t always work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That some murders would never be solved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She turned away from the death scene and stared again at the Pacific Ocean, unconsciously wrapping her arms around her waist. It would be temperate today, as virtually every day was in San Diego. Here on the coast, the cool morning breeze loosed a few strands of dark hair from the French braid Carina wore when on the job. The tide was receding, the waves small and playful, pulling back. The shells and rocks reflected the sunrise behind her, the ocean still dark and mysterious. A pair of early-morning joggers, a man and woman, ran on the packed sand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Had the girl been murdered here on this quiet, clean beach? Or had Jane Doe been dumped?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina voted for dumped, but asked the experts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDumped is my guess,â€ Jim said. â€œThereâ€™s no sign of struggle, but of course the sceneâ€™s been contaminated.â€ He visually scanned the area to confirm his hypothesis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina followed his gaze to the parking lot adjacent to this stretch of beach. The highway on the other side was beginning to bustle with morning commuter traffic. Dozens of small, outrageously expensive homes lined the opposite side of the road. A few hundred yards north was a beachside shopping area with several popular restaurants and a bar that catered to the college crowd, which, even on a Sunday night, wouldnâ€™t have closed down until the state-mandated two a.m.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That didnâ€™t mean the body hadnâ€™t been dumped before two, but from Carinaâ€™s college days as well as her years on patrol, she knew this beach saw heavy traffic until the wee hours of the morning. Before two a.m. it was more than likely someone would have seen a body-size bag being tossed onto the beach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Usually, body dumps were done when no one was around, to minimize the killerâ€™s chances of being caught.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Carina couldnâ€™t absolutely rule out the possibility that the girl had been left earlier, logic suggested that sheâ€™d been dumped between three and five in the morning. Commuters hit the road early, and by five-thirty traffic steadily passed only a hundred feet away. Sunrise had hit about thirty minutes ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDo you know when she died?â€ she asked Chen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He glanced up at Carina from his position next to the body. â€œLividity isnâ€™t fixed, and itâ€™s obvious sheâ€™s been moved. Her body temperature is 86.3 degrees. But Iâ€™m not sure how being wrapped in the garbage bags would affect the loss of heat.â€ He glanced at Jim.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll do some research on that,â€ Jim said. â€œIâ€™m thinking it would slow it down, but not by much.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chen nodded. â€œThat would mean she died four to twelve hours ago, but Iâ€™d put it closer to four to eight hours because rigor mortis hasnâ€™t completely set in. Thereâ€™s still some movement in her larger muscles.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carina made notes. Ten p.m. to two a.m. Sunday night. He killed the girl somewhere elseâ€”in a car? The woods? Someoneâ€™s house? A secluded stretch of beach? She dismissed the last idea: there were no secluded areas on this part of the coastline, and the police routinely patrolled the area because of the nearby college.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone kills her, puts her in their vehicle, and transports her here, to a public beach, where her body would most certainly be found sooner rather than later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œArrogant,â€ she muttered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExcuse me?â€ Jim asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe killer. Arrogant. Dumped her body where weâ€™d quickly find it. Convinced he wonâ€™t be caught, thinks heâ€™s smart.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDusting off your psych degree, Carina?â€ Jim teased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rolled her eyes and smiled. Jim knew sheâ€™d taken all of one psychology class and had never graduated from college.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She walked over to the uniformed officers and instructed them to canvas the area. â€œStart with the houses across the street. See if someone noticed anything unusual after ten last night up until five this morning. A suspicious car, strange noise. People on the beach. Then hit the shops up the street when they open, focusing on those open past eight p.m., clubs and bars in particular.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  As she walked back to Jim and Chen she heard a car turn into the gravel parking lot. Her partner, Will Hooper, jumped out and strode across the sand toward them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim shook his head. â€œAsshole,â€ he muttered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGive it a rest, Jim,â€ she said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSorry, Kincaid.â€ Will approached with a guilty grin. â€œI didnâ€™t hear my beeper go off.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7550'),
(8844, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2488'),
(8845, 'Speaking in Tongues', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he''s using it against one man for revenge. With former trial lawyer Tate Collier as his target, the brilliant, ruthless Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance, which for Collier is his teenage daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1952'),
(8846, 'Speaks the Nightbird: Judgment of the Witch', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a decade, New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon returns with an epic novel of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe their town is cursed by a witch. What else could explain the sudden fires, crop failures and gruesome murders? Convinced that Rachel Howarth, the beautiful widow of the recently slain minister, is to blame, they throw her into a gaol to await trial and execution.Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew -- who, despite the evidence against Rachel, believes in her innocence. But soon he realizes that there truly is Evil at work in Fount Royal: a malevolent force more powerful than any witch could ever hope to conjure....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3558');
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(8847, 'Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces', 'Tom Clancy &amp; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The seventh in a series of books by Tom Clancy offering in-depth "tours" of the U.S. military,\n  <em>\n   Special Forces\n  </em>\n  surveys the soldiers who "are perhaps America''s most professional and capable warriors." Who are they? They are the men--and only men, for women are not allowed to become SF soldiers--who are "specially selected, specially trained, specially equipped, and given special missions and support." The Army Special Forces--known to much of the public as Green Berets--are often the first troops on the scene in a crisis. They''re also incredibly versatile: "If you''re looking for a Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger, don''t expect to find them in today''s Army Special Forces." That''s because specialized missions--involving anything from psychological operations meant to undermine enemy morale to guerilla warfare in remote jungles--require flexibility. "Specialized missions (paradoxically) require a broad range of general capabilities and skills," which means SF soldiers, "while physically fit, tend to be more balanced (like triathletes) than specialized (like marathoners and weightlifters)."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clancy and his coauthor, John Gresham, describe how SF soldiers are recruited, trained, and assigned. There are plenty of interesting notes about SF culture: They don''t especially like being called "Green Berets," for instance, even though most units carry a copy of the John Wayne movie\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Special Forces\n  </em>\n  is replete with Clancy''s tough-guy prose: "The overall media presentation of the Army Special Forces has generally been one of contrived crap." And the book is essentially a celebration of a premier fighting force, rather than a critical treatment of it. But this is not necessarily a weakness.\n  <em>\n   Special Forces\n  </em>\n  will appeal to anybody interested in the modern military, and it may bring civilians closer than they''ll ever come to these important troops.\n  <em>\n   --John J. Miller\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  His now legendary reputation in military circles gives Clancy as complete access to events and sources as any civilian can expect. This is the seventh in Clancy''s series investigating key institutions of the contemporary U.S. armed forces (Armored Cav; Fighter Wing; etc.), and the most comprehensive overview of the U.S. Army Special Forces available to general readers. Clancy, writing with regular series collaborator John Gresham, begins with a softball-tossing interview of Gen. Hugh Shelton--books like Clancy''s are not written by antagonizing four-star generals--and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman establishes Special Forces evolution from the "snake eaters" of the Vietnam era to the "quiet professionals" described in the rest of Clancy''s mostly first-person narrative. The first person is a big selling point here; discussions of equipment, "extreme" training and what Special Forces detachments actually do in peace, war and the gray areas in between are based on Clancy''s own reportage often enough to maintain the "guided tour" conceit. Special Forces are shown training Venezuelan internal security forces, acting as coordinators for fire-support missions in Kuwait, cooperating with conventional U.S. units and, in a near-future scenario, defeating a nuclear-tipped terrorist revolution in Indonesia. Clancy''s language slips into jargon often enough to confuse the target audience of interested generalists, and others may be disturbed by the implications of a military instrument able to do the things described here. But despite the drawbacks, Clancy remains a consummate storyteller, and this book is no exception to his oeuvre. (Feb.)Forecast: Pluses: It''s a book by Tom Clancy in a series that regularly debuts on paperback bestseller lists. Minuses: It''s not really a start-to-finish narrative, but a collection of field notes, albeit highly detailed and often compelling ones. Nitpick: the repeated phrase from title to subtitle reads badly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6489'),
(8848, 'Special Operations', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A vicious madman is on a kidnapping and rape spree. Inspector Peter Wohl, commander of the new Special Operations task force, is determined to stop the maniacal reign of violence, facing off against a desperate public, a hostile press and reluctant witnesses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6070'),
(8849, 'Special Ops', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment of Special Forces hotshots teams up with presidential counselor Sandy Felter to put a stop to Che Guevara''s attempts to "liberate" the Congo from President Joseph Mobutu''s anticommunist government.\n</p>\n<p>\n Under Felter''s direction, the Green Berets dispatch a special detachment to the Congo. Their mission is to convince Mobutu of the wisdom of the American plan to discredit and humiliate Che and his Cuban troops, rather than martyr him, and thus bring an end to his plan to export Castro-style communism to Africa and South America. Repelling the Simba insurgents with help from forces led by South African mercenary Mike Hoare, Mobutu accepts the plan, along with the Green Beret''s covert assistance, war materiel, and a fighting force manned by many of the characters who peopled\n <em>\n  The Aviators\n </em>\n , Griffin''s last Brotherhood adventure. Yes, fans, the good guys are back--especially flying ace Jack Portet, (a pilot drafted into the army right out of Leopoldville, where he was helping his father run a regional airline), George Washington "Father" Lunsford, and Master Sergeant "Doubting" Thomas. And a lot of them are black, a talented crew of African American airmen and specialists pressed into the Special Forces not just because they''re brave and able but because they can pass as Congolese soldiers and thereby keep the American presence under wraps.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a matter of historical fact Guevara failed badly in the Congo, and after retreating to Cuba, tried the same gambit in Bolivia, where he eventually died under fire and gained the martyrdom the U.S. tried so hard to prevent. But\n <em>\n  Special Ops\n </em>\n offers a close-up look at a little-known piece of military history in a gloriously testosterone-pumped epic, seasoned with a touch of sex and romance. That may seem incongruous, given Griffin''s clipped, terse writing style, which is punctuated with plenty of military dispatches and a few gratuitous growls at the internecine rivalry among American intelligence agencies. It''s even more incongruous when the general''s daughter gets the flying ace, and her father''s highly placed friends not only get Portet an officer''s stripes but fly her to the Congo to stand by her man. But none of that will stop Griffin''s delighted readers from snapping up his latest chronicle of men at war.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Newly initiated readers of Griffin (The Fighting Agents) will find the latest in the Brotherhood of War series strongly reminiscent of modern American military classics From Here to Eternity and The Winds of War. Longtime Griffin faithful, eager since 1988''s The Aviators for the next BOW installment, will deem this ''60s action drama well worth the wait. Fresh from disobeying orders on a rescue mission to the Congo in November 1964 (and receiving two medals for his heroic efforts), former airline pilotDnow Green Beret Sgt.DJack Portet is promoted to lieutenant and assigned to Top Secret Special Operations under Col. Sanford T. Felter, adviser to the president. CIA sources report that Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is going to the Congo to establish a major Communist foothold in Africa, before moving on to South America. LBJ, with counsel from Felter, decides that it would be better politics to humiliate Guevara in the Congo than to elevate him to martyr status by killing him. To that end, Portet, Felton and Maj. George Washington "Father" Lunsford persuade Joseph Mobutu, president of the Republic of the Congo, to allow a crack unit of African-American Green Berets, all fluent in Swahili, to carry out the assignment. The Special Ops manage to chase Che out of Africa only to see him try to gain power in Bolivia. His writing enriched by new, fully developed characters, Griffin also reprises BOW favorites Craig Lowell, Robert Bellmon, Geoff Craig and William "Doubting" Thomas as he renders an intricately layered, epic novel of the fascinating machinations of international politics and the life and passions of the men who make it happen. Given Griffin''s track record with military adventureDhe launched the Lieutenants of the Brotherhood in 1982Dthe audience for this rouser is ready and waiting. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6074'),
(8850, 'Special topics in calamity physics', 'Marisha Pessl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledgeâ€”and is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannahâ€™s friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guideâ€”or misguideâ€”her. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pesslâ€™s debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pesslâ€™s own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3177'),
(8851, 'Specials', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10906'),
(8852, 'A Spectacle of Corruption', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder." Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current "thief-taker," and future master of disguise--begins one of the sorriest days of his life. And things will only get worse, as David Liss reveals in\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n , his exuberant novel of 18th-century political chicanery. Tossed into Londonâ€™s notorious Newgate Prison, Weaver employs his considerable energy and guile (plus tools slipped to him by a mysterious admirer at his trial) to escape--naked--into the city''s filthy streets. But then, he risks recapture by trying to figure out who framed him for slaying labor agitator Walter Yate, and why.\n</p>\n<p>\n How all of this trouble derived from Weaver''s pursuit of the culprit behind a priestâ€™s recent spate of hate mail propels the balance of this yarn--the sequel to Liss''s Edgar Award-winning debut novel, __. It also pushes the Jewish "ruffian-for-hire" into the jeopardous midst of a British power struggle that pits supporters of King George I against the Jacobites, who favor the return of his dethroned Catholic rival, James II. Assisted by his puckish surgeon friend Elias Gordon, Weaver assumes the role of a prosperous plantation owner from Jamaica and penetrates the upper echelons of 1722 London society, hoping to gather information he can use against Dennis Dogmill, a "vicious and unpredictable" tobacco man who may actually have ordained Yate''s killing. As Weaver ranges through London''s fetid pubs and fancy theaters, and attracts the amorous attention of Dogmill''s surprisingly shrewd sister, he also finds himself in the uncomfortable position of backing Griffin Melbury, a Tory candidate for the House of Commons--and the man who stole away his beloved Miriam Lienzo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss has a keen eye for entertaining details of Georgian life, from that periodâ€™s exotic diction ("The men in your gang are nothing but cutpurses and mollies and buggerantos") to its most reprehensible pastimes, including "goose pulling"--about which the less said, the better. And though some readers may bog down in the explained distinctions between Whigs and Tories, the author finds considerable humor in that political rivalry and the parties'' get-out-the-vote efforts. Once you accept the rather dubious notion that fugitive Weaver could hide in plain sight,\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n can be appreciated as the lusty thriller Liss clearly intended it to be.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sequel to Liss''s Edgar Awardwinning A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) brings back ex-pugilist Benjamin Weaver and his 18th-century London environs in all their squalid glory. Benjamin has become a "thieftaker," a sort of bounty hunter/private eye, and is investigating the simple case of a threatening letter when he is caught up in a riot, accused of murder and sentenced to hang. After a gutsy escape, he sets about unraveling the mystery of who framed him and why. Donning the disguise of a wealthy coffee planter from Jamaica, Benjamin infiltrates the upper classes, where he encounters a plot centering on a hotly contested House of Commons election. There is much explanation (perhaps too much) of the history and philosophies of the Whig, Tory and Jacobite parties, but this is nicely balanced with Benjamin''s forays into London''s underbelly, where he has his way with the ladies and dodges dangerous louts looking to kill him. The real fun is the re-creation of the streets of London ("He fell into the alley''s filth-the kennel of emptied chamber pots, bits of dead dogs gnawed on by hungry rats, apple cores and oyster shells") and the colorful denizens thereof. Many hours are spent in innumerable coffeehouses, with Benjamin and company imbibing coffee, chocolate, ale, wine and that great destroyer of the poor, rotgut gin, and employing such useful swear words as "shitten stick," "arse pot" and "bum firking." Mystery and mainstream readers with a taste for gritty historical fiction will relish Liss''s glorious dialogue, lively rogues, fascinating setting and indomitable hero.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8257'),
(8853, 'Speed Math for Kids: The Fast, Fun Way to Do Basic Calculations', 'Bill Handley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn how to easily do quick mental math calculations\n</p>\n<p>\n Speed Math for Kids is your guide to becoming a math genius--even if you have struggled with math in the past. Believe it or not, you have the ability to perform lightning quick calculations that will astonish your friends, family, and teachers. You''ll be able to master your multiplication tables in minutes, and learn basic number facts while doing it. While the other kids in class are still writing down the problems, you can be calling out the answers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Speed Math for Kids is all about playing with mathematics. This fun-filled book will teach you:\n <br />\n * How to multiply and divide large numbers in your head\n <br />\n * What you can do to make addition and subtraction easy\n <br />\n * Tricks for understanding fractions and decimals\n <br />\n * How to quickly check answers every time you make a calculation\n <br />\n * And much more\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re looking for a foolproof way to do multiplication, division, factoring estimating, and more, Speed Math for Kids is the book for you. With enough practice you''ll go straight to the top of the class!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn how to easily do quick mental math calculations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Speed Math for Kids\n </em>\n is your guide to becoming a math geniusâ€”even if you have struggled with math in the past. Believe it or not, you have the ability to perform lightning quick calculations that will astonish your friends, family, and teachers. Youâ€™ll be able to master your multiplication tables in minutes, and learn basic number facts while doing it. While the other kids in class are still writing down the problems, you can be calling out the answers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Speed Math for Kids\n </em>\n is all about playing with mathematics. This fun-filled book will teach you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to multiply and divide large numbers in your head\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you can do to make addition and subtraction easy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tricks for understanding fractions and decimals\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to quickly check answers every time you make a calculation\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re looking for a foolproof way to do multiplication, division, factoring estimating, and more,\n <em>\n  Speed Math for Kids\n </em>\n is the book for you. With enough practice youâ€™ll go straight to the top of the class!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10920'),
(8854, 'Speed of Flight', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS brings the third Doctor, Jo, and Captain Yates to Nooma, a planet in the midst of an industrial revolution. There, they discover that survival of the fittest has become a religion and even the planet appears to be at war with itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6720'),
(8855, 'Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan&#39;s Next Generation', 'Karl Taro Greenfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Greenfeld, the half-Japanese, half-Caucasian American Tokyo correspondent for The Nation, has written about a little-known, seamy subculture in Japan that became more prominent with the collapse of the "bubble" economy of the 1980s. In 12 compelling chapters, Greenfeld covers the grimier aspects of Tokyo''s urban society: organized crime, the nightclub scene, motorcycle gangs (the eponymous bosozoku), computer hackers, ultra-right-wing nationalists, and the porn industry. His focus on individuals brings a sense of immediacy as his high-speed narrative highlights the flaws in Japan''s society without bashing it. Steven Wardell''s forthcoming Rising Sons and Daughters: Life Among Japan''s New Young (Plympton Pr. International) focuses on teens in Kyushu and presents a more positive picture of their lives. These two books show Japan as a complex society much more like ours than people may have realized. The absence of an index makes this more suitable for most public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Katharine L. Kan, Aiea P.L., Hawaii\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Americans duped into believing that Japan has few social problems outside of political corruption, horrendous university entrance exams, and the suppression of women into lifelong menial jobs and unsatisfying lives as caretakers for their husbands will be shocked by some of Greenfeld''s revelations: widespread methamphetamine use among youth, a booming pornographic industry (as a result of Japan''s foray into sexual freedom), and a skyrocketing juvenile larceny rate. Organized crime is a problem also; the Yakuza is being replenished with disillusioned youth from the country''s youth gangs, and its proliferation on the Japanese mainland and its rapid expansion overseas are frightening. The "speed tribes," or\n <em>\n  Bosozoku\n </em>\n , is a catch-all term that refers to the plethora of diverse youth subcultures that have spawned as a result of Japan''s famous "bubble economy." Japan''s obsession with things Western intensified during the boom in the 1980s (now predicted to crash sometime in the 1990s) and is proving disastrous to its social fabric. A day in the life of a computer hacker, the "hostess" industry (with few remnants of the geisha tradition that preceded it), and a motley crew of unconventional Japanese youth as they go about their unconventional and sometimes reckless lives are some of Greenfeld''s other subjects. Fascinating reading, will make many Americans rethink stereotypes they may have about the Japanese.\n <em>\n  Kevin Roddy\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6171'),
(8856, 'A Spell for Chameleon', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Though already developing a successful career in SF with such heady novels as *Chthon* and *Omnivore*, Piers Anthony did not reach brand-name status until he cooked up some fantasy in 1977. And it was cheerful, humorous fantasy at that, as in his first Xanth series novel, *A Spell for Chameleon*. The book''s young hero, Bink, is without magical powers in a world ruled entirely by magic. Worse still, if he doesn''t discover his own magical talent soon, he will be forever banished from his homeland. Naturally, it takes an epic quest for Bink to learn what his unique talent truly is--and perhaps to win the girl of his dreams as well. *A Spell for Chameleon* was the very first of Anthony''s bestselling (and still ongoing) humorous fantasy series. Noteworthy for their outrageous word puns and bizarre characters, the Xanth books are a light yet often satisfying brew, especially when compared with the author''s sometimes nihilistic and ultraviolent hard SF. *--Stanley Wiater*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3314'),
(8857, 'The Spell of Rosette', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Born under the sign of the Twins, Rosette is a child of two worlds: Gaela, steeped in magic, and an Earth choked with failing technology. The key to their survival is literally in her blood - part of her DNA - a spell passed down through her family line to preserve the one they''re sworn to protect. Unaware of her lineage, Rosette runs scared when her family is murdered, narrowly escaping the same fate. Jarrod, a good friend, helps to cover her tracks while Rosette travels to the Dumarkian Woods and takes refuge with Nell, a shape-shifting high priestess of the ancient blood. There she learns the arts of witchcraft, stars and sword. Shadowed by the fabled Kreshkali, queen of the underworld and mistress of the wolf-like Lupins, Rosette and the Temple Cat, Drayco - her familiar - find themselves on the run, hardly ever more than a step ahead of those who will do anything to control the portal that links the many-worlds ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6236'),
(8858, 'Spell of the Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9068'),
(8859, 'Spells', 'Aprilynne Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I can''t just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can''t â€˜steal'' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you''ll ask," Tamani said. "And if I don''t?" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper. "Then I guess I''ll be waiting forever." Although Laurel has come to accept her true identity as a faerie, she refuses to turn her back on her human lifeâ€”and especially her boyfriend, Davidâ€”to return to the faerie world. But when she is summoned to Avalon, Laurel''s feelings for the charismatic faerie sentry Tamani are undeniable. She is forced to make a choiceâ€”a choice that could break her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(8860, 'Spellwright', 'Blake Charlton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text . . . but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting even the simplest of spells. And his misspells could prove dangerous, even deadly, should he make a mistake in an important incantation.Yet he has always felt that he is destined to be something more than a failed wizard. When a powerful, ancient evil begins a campaign of murder and disruption, Nicodemus starts to have disturbing dreams that lead him to believe that his misspelling could be the result of a curse. But before he can discover the truth about himself, he is attacked by an evil which has already claimed the lives of fellow wizards and has cast suspicion on his mentor. He must flee for his own life if heâ€™s to find the true villain.But more is at stake than his abilities. For the evil that has awakened is a power so dread and vast that if unleashed it will destroy Nicodemus... and the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1157'),
(8861, 'Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles', 'Robin Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners. In this book, best-selling author Robin Baker reveals these new facts of life: ten percent of children are not fathered by their "fathers;" less than one percent of a man''s sperm is capable of fertilizing anything (the rest is there to fight off all other men''s sperm); "smart" vaginal mucus encourages some sperm but blocks others; and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner. It''s no wonder that Sperm Wars is a classic of popular science writing that will surprise, entertain, and even shock.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Baker is a bestselling author in the field of sexual biology whose books include SPERM WARS (Basic, 1996), BABY WARS (Ecco, 1999), and SEX IN THE FUTURE (Arcade, 2000). From 1980-96 he was Reader in Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, and he has over a hundred scientific papers and magazine articles to his name. His work and ideas on the evolution of human behavior have been featured in many television and radio programs around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9558'),
(8862, 'Sphere', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir Travels  knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn. Sphere  is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton''s keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton''s fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you''re staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don''t blink first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2250'),
(8863, 'Spider', 'Michael Morley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''For a second she thinks she is dead. Then she opens her eyes and wishes she was.'' The press call him the Black River Killer and his stats are shocking: 16 murders; not captured in 20 years; the FBI''s best profiler - Jack King - burned out and beaten, his career shattered. Jack and his wife now run a hotel in Tuscany. And though he still gets nightmares, rural Italy is a whole world away from BRK''s brutal crime scenes in Southern Carolina. Or so Jack thought... As Italian cops discover the body of a young woman - her remains mutilated like BRK''s victims - a gruesome package arrives at the FBI, twin events that conspire to lure the profiler back into the hunt. But this time, who is the spider and who is the fly?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4888'),
(8864, 'Spider Bones: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kathy Reichs#1New York Timesbestselling author and producer of the FOX television hitBonesreturns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. John Lowery was declared dead in 1968the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off for the answer, exhuming Lowery''s grave in North Carolina and taking the remains to Hawaii for reanalysisto the headquarters of JPAC, the U.S. military''s Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command, which strives to recover Americans who have died in past conflicts. In Hawaii, Tempe is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how "ex" is he?) and by her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. Soon another set of remains is located, with Lowery''s dog tags tangled among them. Three bodiesall identified as Lowery. And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu''s flamboyant medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy found offshore. Was he the victim of a shark attack? Or something much more sinister? A complex and riveting tale of deceit and murder unfolds in this, the thirteenth thrilling novel in Reichs''s "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series" (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hitBonesnow in its fifth season and in full syndicationand her most recent novel,206 Bones,an instantNew York TimesbestsellerKathy Reichs is at the top of her game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3213'),
(8865, 'The Spider Stone', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the crumbling remains of a tunnel that was part of the Underground Railroad, a mysterious artifact reveals one of the darkest secrets of Africa''s ancient past. Intrigued by the strange, encrypted stone, archaeologist Annja Creed opens a door to a world--and a legend--bound by a fierce and terrible force. She is not alone in her pursuit of the impossible. A bloodthirsty African warlord, and an international corporate magnate exploiting a land, a culture and a people, are equally anxious to stake their claim on the relic''s unknown power. Annja''s odyssey deep into the primeval jungles of Senegal becomes a desperate race to stop those eager to unleash the virulence of the Spider Godâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(8866, 'Spider&#39;s Web', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.Clarissa, the young wife of a foreign office diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends by playing a game she calls "supposing"-imagining a difficult situation and finding out how people would respond. But Clarissa''s lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that weren''t bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician. Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the corpse off the premises, a policeman knocks at her front door. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house...AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author of eighty crime novels and collections of stories, nineteen plays, six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott, two volumes of poetry, a volume of Christmas verse and stories, an autobiography, and Come, Tell Me How You Live. She is the creator of some of the most enduring figures of crime literature as well as the author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Christie was awarded the CBE (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1956 and was made a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in 1971. She was president of the Detection Club (1954) and was the first writer to be awarded the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award (1955). Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976.CHARLES OSBORNE is a world authority on theater and opera and has written a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie as well as the novelizations of two of Christie''s plays, the bestselling Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest. He lives in London.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5266'),
(8867, 'Spin', 'Robert Charles Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson (_Blind Lake_, etc._) _builds an astonishingly successful mÃ©lange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres. The narrative time oscillates effortlessly between Tyler Dupree''s early adolescence and his near-future young manhood haunted by the impending death of the sun and the earth. Tyler''s best friends, twins Diane and Jason Lawton, take two divergent paths: Diane into a troubling religious cult of the end, Jason into impassioned scientific research to discover the nature of the galactic Hypotheticals whose "Spin" suddenly sealed Earth in a "cosmic baggie," making one of its days equal to a hundred million years in the universe beyond. As convincing as Wilson''s scientific hypothesizing is--biological, astrophysical, medical--he excels even more dramatically with the infinitely intricate, minutely nuanced relationships among Jason, Diane and Tyler, whose older self tries to save them both with medicines from Mars, terraformed through Jason''s genius into an incubator for new humanity. This brilliant excursion into the deepest inner and farthest outer spaces offers doorways into new worlds--if only humankind strives and seeks and finds and will not yield compassion for our fellow beings.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Shawna McCarthy. (Apr. 14)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Spin\n  </em>\n  is not merely a SF thriller. Itâ€™s also a coming-of-age tale, a love story, a literary triumph, and an ecological and apocalyptic warning. The award-winning Wilson excels at all aspects of his tale, from the human angle to the political, religious, biological, medical, and astrophysical theorizing. The first part elicited "jaw-dropping amazement" from critics; luckily, the pace slows over the remaining pages to recount the next few decades on Earth (_Emerald City_). If the plot involving the terraforming and colonization of Mars seems farfetched, put it in the context of Wilsonâ€™s deep characterization and convincing relationships, and youâ€™ll be OK. After all,\n  <em>\n   Spin\n  </em>\n  is "a book about faith: especially our faith in ourselves" (_Emerald City_).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6867'),
(8868, 'Spin State', 'Chris Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her debut novel, the terrific thriller\n <em>\n  Spin State\n </em>\n , Chris Moriarty melds cutting-edge science with post-cyberpunk fiction and neo-noir suspense to create a complex, believable future inhabited by one of the most intriguing characters in modern science fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Major Catherine Li is a veteran United Nations Peacekeeper in a future of world-nations. Humanity has spread across interstellar space by "jumping": teleportation enabled by quantum physics and a bizarre crystal found only on Compson''s World. The jumps destroy memory, so jumpers back up their memories on computer. Despite this precaution, frequent jumpers still lose some memories, a fact that poses a far greater problem for Catherine Li than it does for other Peacekeepers. For Li has a dangerous, potentially deadly secret: she''s an illegal clone.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a UN mission goes awry, Li finds herself shipped on solo duty to Compson''s World--her home world, to which she''d vowed never to return. Her mission initially seems simple: to determine if the death of brilliant physicist Hannah Sharifi was a crystal-mining accident or cold-blooded murder. Like Li, Sharifi is a clone--in fact, she''s Li''s genetic twin. Li swiftly finds herself enmeshed in the intertangled politics of the UN, the multiplanetary corporations, the miners, and the human-created Artificial Intelligences, who have enigmatic agendas of their own.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite incorporating nearly every well-worn SF theme, Moriarty still manages fresh insights into humanity-and posthumanity-in this highly atmospheric debut, a hefty far-future exploration of AI, human cloning, class conflict and plain old-fashioned murder. Major Catherine Li and her fellow UN Peacekeepers battle hive-minded Syndicate genetic constructs for domination of planets settled through FTL (faster than light) migrations enabled by mysterious crystals, quantum-level anomalies of unimagined substance mined only on Compson''s World. Resembling the Victorian British empire, the UN''s vast interstellar commercial empire runs on the blood and sweat of a few thousand pitifully exploited miners like Li''s father, who died so she could remake herself and escape the miners'' fate. Now wired into "streamspace" with an AI lover who interacts with her through both male and female hosts, Li is tapped to investigate the murder of physicist Hannah Sharifi, her cloned twin who hoped to share the crystals'' power. Based on the short, dangerous life of miners as well as the heady scientific stuff of quantum physics, the book can be heavy slogging for the uninitiated. Moriarty effectively postulates the Faustian price of enhancing humanity with silicon, of playing God through genetic manipulation. Beneath this complex tale ominously simmers Orwell''s question: If all animals are to be equal, what can prevent some from making themselves more equal than the others?\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7820'),
(8869, 'The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess', 'Starhawk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the lifeâ€“affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit. Starhawk''s brilliant, comprehensive overview of the growth, suppression, and modernâ€“day reâ€“emergence of Wicca as a Goddessâ€“worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness. In a new introduction, Starhawk reveals the ways in which Goddess religion and the practice of ritual have adapted and developed over the last twenty years, and she reflects on the ways in which these changes have influenced and enhanced her original ideas. In the face of an everâ€“changing world, this invaluable spiritual guidebook is more relevant than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9915'),
(8870, 'The Spirit Banner', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Genghis Khan carved out a legacy of bloodshed and conquered kingdoms that has lasted almost eight hundred years. But while his name and deeds live on in the annals of history, his tomb has never been locatedâ€¦ until now. Not everyone is convinced that the diary and the map, said to lead to the great warrior''s final resting place, are authentic. Archaeologist Annja Creed is among these doubters. The reality is that the body was lost to history. But despite her skepticism, Annja suddenly finds herself pulled along an increasingly complex trail of clues, each more remote than the last. And as she and her companions race to their final destination, one thing is clearâ€”the only tomb she may find is her *own*â€¦. SUMMARY: Genghis Khan carved out a legacy of bloodshed and conquered kingdoms that has lasted almost eight hundred years. But while his name and deeds live on in the annals of history, his tomb has never been locatedâ€¦ until now.Not everyone is convinced that the diary and the map, said to lead to the great warrior''s final resting place, are authentic. Archaeologist Annja Creed is among these doubters. The reality is that the body was lost to history. But despite her skepticism, Annja suddenly finds herself pulled along an increasingly complex trail of clues, each more remote than the last. And as she and her companions race to their final destination, one thing is clearâ€”the only tomb she may find is her ownâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(8871, 'The Spirit Of The Border', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3709'),
(8872, 'The Spirit Rebellion: The Legend of Eli Monpress: Book 2', 'Rachel Aaron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eli Monpress is brilliant. He''s incorrigible. And he''s a thief.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''s also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she''s been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli''s had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job -- and an opportunity to capture a certain thief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Things are about to get exciting for Eli. He''s picked a winner for his newest heist. His target: the Duke of Gaol''s famous "thief-proof" citadel. Eli knows Gaol is a trap, but what''s life without challenges? Except the Duke is one of the wealthiest men in the world, a wizard who rules his duchy with an iron fist, and an obsessive perfectionist with only one hobby: Eli.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems that everyone is hunting for Eli Monpress.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rachel Aaron was born in Atlanta, GA. After a lovely, geeky childhood full of books and public television, and then an adolesence spent feeling awkward about it, she went to the University of Georgia to pursue English Literature with an eye towards getting her PhD. Upper division coursework cured her of this delusion, and she graduated in 2004 with a BA and a job, which was enough to make her mother happy. She currently lives in a 70s house-of-the-future in Athens, GA with her loving husband, overgrown library, and small, brown dog. Find out more about the author at www.rachelaaron.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5897'),
(8873, 'The Spirit Ring', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When her father, a goldsmith and master mage, dies during the siege of their Italian village, fifteen-year-old Fiametta finds her own fledgling magic tested in the ensuing battle against the evil Lord Ferrante.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9027'),
(8874, 'The Spirit Thief', 'Rachel Aaron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a slow start, debut author Aaron pulls the action together and turns in a romp of a lighthearted fantasy starring an absolutely darling rogue. Eli Monpress is a talented thief with a knack for persuasion and more than his fair share of looks and charisma, and his skill with magic makes him truly formidable. While trying to earn the title of the man with the biggest bounty on his head, Eli kidnaps the king of Mellinor, planning to let him go once the bounty goes up. Then the king''s exiled brother pulls a fast one and takes over the kingdom, and Eli must make things right. Aaron''s breezy style at times tends toward the farcical and absurd, which may not be what she intended but will keep humor-loving readers looking out for subsequent volumes in the planned trilogy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eli Monpress is talented. He''s charming. And he''s a thief.\n</p>\n<p>\n But not just any thief. He''s the greatest thief of the age - and he''s also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he''s going to put his plan into effect.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he''ll need to steal some big things. But he''ll start small for now. He''ll just steal something that no one will miss - at least for a while.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like a king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5896');
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(8875, 'Spitting off tall buildings', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bruno Dante -- aspiring playwright, part-time depressive, and full-time drunk -- has hitchhiked cross-country, escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of L.A. for the more cynical climate of New York. It seems to be his kind of town. But he''s Bruno Dante, and things are always bound to go wrong. He finds himself in the rut of deadbeat temping jobs, but they don''t last. Dante won''t play office politics or kiss ass. Longer stints as the night manager of a run-down hotel, a window cleaner, and, finally, a cabbie are punctuated by a number of meaningless affairs, drinking binges, and the customary bouts of depression. Beautiful and brutal in equal measures, Fante''s insights are once again fiercely compelling, desperately compassionate, and obscenely funny. Unmissable. "As we trawl with him through deadbeat and dead-end jobs, this unsettling novel is haunted by the spectre of Charles Bukowski." -The Times (London) "Fante is a brilliantly economical stylist ... sad, bitter, yet somehow infused with hope." -- The Face\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(8876, 'The Splendid Table&#39;s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions From Public Radio&#39;s Award-Winning Food Show', 'Lynne Rossetto Kasper &amp; Sally Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking, along comes an entirely fresh take on the subject. As they do on their weekly show, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift approach their topic with attitude and originality, making\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table''s How to Eat Supper\n </em>\n one of the most engaging cookbooks of this or any other year.\n</p>\n<p>\n As loyal listeners know, Lynne and Sally share an unrelenting curiosity about everything to do with food. Their show, The Splendid Table, looks at the role food plays in our lives--inspiring us, making us laugh, nourishing us, and opening us up to the world around us. Now they have compiled all the most trenchant tips, never-fail recipes, and everyday culinary know-how from the program in\n <em>\n  How to Eat Supper\n </em>\n , a kitchen companion unlike any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is no mere cookbook. Like the show, this book goes far beyond the recipe, introducing the people and stories that are shaping America''s changing sense of food. We don''t eat, shop, or cook as we used to. Our relationship with food has intensified, become more controversial, richer, more pleasurable, and sometimes more puzzling.\n <em>\n  How to Eat Supper\n </em>\n gives voice to rarely heard perspectives on food--from the quirky to the political, from the grassroots to the scholarly, from the highbrow to the humble--and shows the essential role breaking bread together plays in our world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  How to Eat Supper\n </em>\n takes you through a plethora of inviting recipes simple enough to ensure success even if you''ve never cooked before. And if you are experienced in the kitchen, you''ll find challenging new concepts and dishes to spark your imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6054'),
(8877, 'Split Image (2010)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 09', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10554'),
(8878, 'Split Images', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9219'),
(8879, 'Split Infinity', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Split Infinity\n </em>\n is the first book in Piers Anthony''s Apprentice Adept series. Here two worlds exist side by side: Proton and Phaze. Proton is a science fiction world, where everything works in a logical and scientific manner. Phaze is a fantasy world similar to Anthony''s Xanth in that there''s no such thing as science--it''s all done with magic! The wild plot involves a young adventurer named Stiles who lives in Proton and learns that his "double" in Phaze has been murdered. To solve his own demise, Stiles must travel between the two realities, each abounding with the expected confusions and unexpected plot twists for which Anthony is famous. An artful blending of SF and fantasy clichÃ©s and situations,\n <em>\n  Split Infinity\n </em>\n shows Piers Anthony at the top of his ingenious game(s).\n <em>\n  --Stanley Wiater\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he must master magic to survive. And if he used any magic at all, his friends were determined to kill him at once!\n</p>\n<p>\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book OneSPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n BookTwoBLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book ThreeJUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4596'),
(8880, 'Split Second', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **They dubbed him the Collector -- so named for his ritual of collecting victims before disposing of them in the most heinous ways possible. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell spent two years tracking him down, caught in a game of cat and mouse that left her forever marked by this killer. Now Albert Stucky has escaped from prison. And he is setting up a new game to draw Maggie back into the chase.** Some say Maggie O''Dell has lost it -- lost the professional edge that makes her one of the best criminal profilers, and lost her ability to think clearly. Since capturing Stucky she''s been walking a tightwire, battling nightmares and the guilt over the victims she couldn''t save. Now with news of his escape, she''s been taken out of the field until he''s caught again. But Magge knows the truth: only she can see into the twisted mind of this madman. Only she can catch him. Albert Stucky wouldn''t have it any other way. When it becomes undeniable that Stucky''s trail of victims is leading closer and closer to Maggie, the Bureau puts her back on the case. Under the supervision of Special Agent R.J. Tully, Maggie joins the hunt for a pyschopath who continues to stay one bloody step ahead of them. And, once again under the control of a cunning killer, Maggie finds herself pushed to the very edge. What ultimately, is Maggie O''Dell capable of? Has her desire to stop Albert Stucky -- to make him look into her eyes before she ends the game once and for all -- become a matter of personal vengeance? Has she crossed that line in her need to make him suffer as he''s made others suffer? And is this Stucky''s game -- to turn Special Agent O''Dell into a monster? As *Split Second* races toward its inevitable climax, Alex Kava paints a chilling, unflinching portrait of the human psyche pushed past its limits. A runaway train of riveting suspense and heart-pounding drama, *Split Second* is a provocative, bold look at the nature of good and evil in all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(8881, 'The Split Second', 'John Hulme &amp; Michael Wexler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now thirteen years old and still a Fixer in the parallel universe called the Seems, Becker Drane is called upon to repair the damage caused by an enormous bomb planted in the Department of Time, an act of terrorism perpetrated by the evil members of the T\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6987'),
(8882, 'The spoils of war', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory after a milennia of war, thanks to their new allies from earth. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelang found evidence that Humans might not adapt well to peace. Researching further, she uncovered a secret group of telepathic Humans called the Core, who were on the verge of starting another war, and then eliminating Lalelang. At the last moment, she was saved by a lone Core commander. He took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, and gambled the fate of Humanity on the possibility that together, they could find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(8883, 'Spoken From the Front', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The biggest military author introduces real-life voices from the battlefields of Afghanistan. Spoken from the Frontis the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and other military personnel, Andy McNab has assembled a portrait of modern conflict like never before. This is the full experience of British troops on the ground and in the air. The horrors, cruelties, drudgery, excitement and banter of these soldiers'' lives combine to form a chronological narrative of all the major events in Helmand during the British Army''s time there. From their action-packed, dramatic, moving and often humorous testimonies in interviews, diaries, letters and emails written to family, friends and loved ones, merges a 360-degree picture of guerrilla warfare up close and extremely personal. It is as close to the real thing as you can get.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5543'),
(8884, 'Spoken from the Heart', 'Laura Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Â ** Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland''s brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief. When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women''s movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland''s most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America''s most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband''s decision to give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland. In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and immense gratitude to military families. With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush''s compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady''s memoir ever written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2925'),
(8885, 'Spontaneous', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kimani Cannon knows she''s in trouble the second she lays eyes on 6''4" of luscious male. The best kind of trouble, tooâ€¦mm-mmm! Duan Jeffries turns out to be the perfect manâ€”charming, considerateâ€¦and the best lover she''s ever had. Too bad Mr. Delicious is just a one-night standâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until Kim needs a date to her mother''s (fifth) wedding! Duan''s willing to act the part of her fiancÃ©â€¦ as long as it means full benefits. More amazing sex? No problem!\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Kim finds out that Duan''s got his own private agenda. Suddenly, she doesn''t know what to believe. Her head and heart are telling her to be careful. But the sensual thrumming in her blood is turning out to be much more persuasiveâ€¦.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  My brother has hit gold.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n That thought ran through Duan Jeffries''s mind while he stood on the sidelines and watched Terrence "Holy Terror" Jeffries escort his bride, Sherri Griffin Jeffries, around the huge ballroom as they thanked the numerous guests for attending their wedding.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the moment Duan had met Sherri, he''d known she was the one woman who could make his younger brother happy. Just being in their presence was to feel the love radiating between them. And even though he was a downright cynical bastard when it came to the notion of true love, the two of them had made him somewhat of a believer.\n</p>\n<p>\n The same held true for his sister, Olivia, and the man she''d married last year, Senator Reggie Westmoreland. That was definitely another love match. So okay, two cases weren''t bad. He shifted his glance across the room to his father and the woman by his side and chuckled inwardly. All right, he would make that three cases. His father had finally married his devoted administrative assistant a few months back. Duan didn''t know any man who deserved the love of a good woman more than Orin Jeffries, especially after all the hell the mother of his three offspring put him through.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not wanting to think about the woman who''d given birth to him, the same one who''d deserted her husband and three children when Duan was twelve, Terrence ten and Libby three, he glanced at his watch, feeling tired and edgy. He had arrived in Chicago yesterday and come straight from the airport to the church, just in time to make the rehearsal dinner.\n</p>\n<p>\n A private investigator, for the past three months he''d been working practically around the clock trying to gather enough evidence to hand over to an attorney friend who was convinced a man he was representing had been wrongfully accused of murder. It had been a hard case to crack and even harder to deliver the news that it was the man''s wife who''d set him up. With the evidence needed to clear the man of all charges, Duan had taken off from Atlanta on a direct flight to Chicago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced at his watch. He had another hour or so before the wedded couple headed for O''Hare and a two-week honeymoon in Paris. After they departed he would go up to his hotel room, get out of his tux and change into something more comfortable andâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Do what?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t have any immediate plans. Word had gotten around that some of Reggie''s brothers and cousins were hosting a card game later tonight in one of their rooms. He wasn''t surprised. He had known most of the Westmorelands from his high-school years in Atlanta and had rekindled friendships with them since Reggie had married Libby. The one thing he knew about them was that they liked to gamble, and their game of choice was poker.\n</p>\n<p>\n Duan decided to pass after remembering what happened the last time he''d played with them. When the game ended he''d been three hundred dollars poorer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  If not poker, then what else was there to do?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n He shifted his gaze to the woman standing across the room talking to the bride''s parents. Immediately, he felt a primitive thrumming heat run through him. Kimani Cannon. He would definitely love to\n <em>\n  do\n </em>\n her.\n</p>\n<p>\n She was the best friend of the bride and he had been attracted to her from the first moment they''d been introduced a few months ago at Terrence and Sherri''s engagement party in the Keys. He had immediately picked up on the strong sexual chemistry flowing between them, and the look Kimani had given him promised that they would hook up later to wear out somebody''s sheets. But before they could make that happen, he''d received an important tip on a case he was working and had to leave.\n</p>\n<p>\n She was definitely nice to look at with her dark, sultry eyes, a cute pixie nose and full and shapely lips. He particularly liked the mass of dark brown spiral curls that crowned her creamy cocoa-colored face.\n</p>\n<p>\n She was downright sexy from the top of her head past those shapely curves and gorgeous legs to the soles of her feet. And speaking of feet, he had a weakness when it came to women in high heels, especially if they had the legs for them, which she did. And the strapless satin baby-blue maid-of-honor dress that hit below the knees looked damn good on her, but he''d much prefer seeing her naked. He wanted to find out if his dreams came close to the real thing.\n</p>\n<p>\n He took a sip of his drink and continued to watch her. Lust after her was more like it. And it wasn''t helping matters when all kind of wicked fantasies danced around in his head. He could envision doing something hot, naughty and X-rated with herâ€”like locking himself between her legs and staying there until there wasn''t anything left to give or take.\n</p>\n<p>\n His fingers tightened on the stem of the wineglass, not sure what part of her he enjoyed staring at the most, and quickly decided he liked everything about her. Even from across the room she stirred his blood, fired his senses and made him think about hot sex under silken sheets.\n</p>\n<p>\n He dragged in a deep breath and reached up to loosen his tie, which suddenly felt tight. Hell, even his briefs were restricting. And the rumble deep in his gut, trickling down toward his groin, could only mean one thing. After a six-month abstinence, he needed to get laid. And he wondered if the woman across the room would in any way be accommodating.\n</p>\n<p>\n No sooner had that thought worked its way into his mind then she glanced over in his direction. Their gazes locked and the chemistry flowing between them thickened, stirred and escalated. Heat shimmered in the air and then she broke eye contact with him. Placing her wineglass on the tray of a passing waiter, she headed out of the ballroom. He watched, mesmerized by the sway of her hips and those gorgeous legs in high heels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly, he felt his feet moving to follow her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kim released a deep breath as she walked down the hall that led to the room the bridesmaids had used earlier to dress in. She heard footsteps behind her and didn''t have to turn around to know the identity of the person following her.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Duan Jeffries.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n There was something about him that made her immediately think of sex, sex and plenty more sex. In that brief moment they''d made eye contact in the ballroom, she had detected the raw hunger within him, a need that was both possessive and magnetic, and it had drawn her to him, filled her with a desire to take him on right now.\n</p>\n<p>\n Due to budget cuts at the hospital where she worked as an E.R. nurse, she hadn''t had much of a social life lately. Seeing Duan made her realize just how much she longed for some skin-to-skin contact. Licking him from head to toe would be a good start, but she figured they wouldn''t have enough time for that. A quickie would have to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n She''d known the instant she met him four months ago that they would eventually get together. The vibes had been strong and she was disappointed when he''d left the Keys unexpectedly. The only reason she hadn''t initiated jumping his bones after the rehearsal dinner last night was because she and Sherri had planned to hang out with her cousins one last time in Sherri''s hotel room.\n</p>\n<p>\n A shiver of anticipation flowed through her body when she came to a stop in front of the room. Without looking over her shoulder, she turned the knob, pushed opened the door and stepped inside.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was only when she heard the sound of the door closing and the lock clicking in place behind her that she turned to stare up into what had to be the most gorgeous dark eyes any man could possess. And then there were the perfect angles, seamless planes and sensuous lines that made up an impressive and sinfully handsome face.\n</p>\n<p>\n He took a step closer and she sucked in a quick breath when she felt his erection poke into her belly. She wasn''t sure who made the first move after that. It wasn''t really important. All that mattered was the mouth that swooped down, taking hers with a hunger that she reciprocated.\n</p>\n<p>\n When she met his tongue with her own, he deepened the kiss and then it was on. Something frantic broke within her, within them, and a need as raw as it could get took over.\n</p>\n<p>\n She felt his hand lifting her dress. The sound of silk rustling against silk inflamed her mind, and when those same hands made contact with the apex of her thighs, not even her panties were a barrier against the busy fingers that sought and found an easy opening.\n</p>\n<p>\n And then those fingers were moving through the curls, beyond the folds, stirring her wetness and massaging her clit. She moaned at the invasion as well as the pleasure, and instinctively reached for his fly and eased down the zipper. Quickly inserting her hand beneath the elastic waistband of his briefs, she gripped the engorged hardness of his sex. He pulled his mouth from hers and released a guttural groan, and the primitive sound was something she understood and identified with.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Condom." He said that one word in a ragged breath and she relinquished her hold on him so he could fish into the pockets of his pants for his wallet. He pulled out a square packet.\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted her gaze from the condom to his erection, jutting proudly from a dark thatch of curls. The head of his shaft was big and smooth, and the veins running along the sides were thick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heat burning in every part of her body, she watched as he sheathed himself with such ease and accuracy that she figured he''d done this numerous times. When that task was completed, he glanced up and the eyes that stared at her nearly scorched her skin and made her regret they only had time for a quickie. Leisurely savoring every inch of him was something she would just love doing. But for now she would take what she could get. Leaning up on tiptoe, she pressed her moist lips against his.\n</p>\n<p>\n His mouth immediately captured hers, kissing her hungrily, and she felt him tug her dress up. She had a feeling this mating would be a quickie like nothing she''d ever experienced.\n</p>\n<p>\n He lifted her, cupping her hips in his hands, and she instinctively wrapped her legs around him. Like radar his engorged sex found its mark and he pushed forward, sliding between her wet folds. The size of him stretched her, filled her to capacity. And it seemed his erection got larger as he...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8036'),
(8886, 'Spook Country', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent  Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn''t exist yet, which is fine; she''s used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the  kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It''s odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn''t; she can''t afford to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn''t survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him  from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can''t say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least,  Milgrim''s very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bobby Chombo is a "producer," and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Pattern Recognition* was a bestseller on every list of every major newspaper in the country, reaching #4 on the *New York Times* list. It was also a *BookSense* top ten pick, a *WordStock* bestseller, a best book of the year for *Publishers Weekly*, the *Los Angeles Times*, *Newsday*, and the *Economist*, and a *Washington  Post* "rave."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Spook Country* is the perfect follow-up to *Pattern Recognition*, which was called by *The Washington Post* (among many glowing reviews), "One of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4167'),
(8887, 'A Spot of Bother', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Recent retiree George Hall, convinced that his eczema is cancer, goes into a tailspin in Haddon''s (_Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time_) laugh-out-loud slice of British domestic life. George, 61, is clearly channeling a host of other worries into the discoloration on his hip (the "spot of bother"): daughter Katie, who has a toddler, Jacob, from her disastrous first-marriage to the horrid Graham, is about to marry the equally unlikable Ray; inattentive wife Jean is having an affairâ€”with George''s former co-worker, David Symmonds; and son Jamie doesn''t think George is OK with Jamie''s being queer. Haddon gets into their heads wonderfully, from Jean''s waffling about her affair to Katie''s being overwhelmed (by Jacob, and by her impending marriage) and Jamie''s takes on men (and boyfriend Tony in particular, who wants to come to the wedding). Mild-mannered George, meanwhile, despairing over his health, slinks into a depression; his major coping strategies involve hiding behind furniture on all fours and lowing like a cow. It''s an odd, slight plotâ€”something like the movie\n  <em>\n   Father of the Bride\n  </em>\n  crossed with Poe''s "The Tell-Tale Heart" (as skin rash)â€”but it zips along, and Haddon subtly pulls it all together with sparkling asides and a genuine sympathy for his poor Halls. No bother at all, this comic follow-up to Haddon''s blockbuster (and nicely selling book of poems) is great fun.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s acclaimed debut novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," brilliantly imagined the inner world of an autistic teen-ager. Here the hero is similarly uncommunicative and detached, this time because of a stiff upper lip. George, recently retired, thinks talking is "overrated" and greets the death of a friend with relief "that they would not be playing squash again." Obsessed with his own mortality, he barely registers the dramas around him: his wife is having an affair, his daughter is marrying a man she''s not sure she loves, and his son is afraid to bring his boyfriend to the wedding. Haddon has a deft comic touch, but he pushes his characters too hard toward epiphanies, and in the end this antic farce is merely affable, without surprises.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8271'),
(8888, 'Sprig Muslin', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "You will relish the clever dialogue, the constant action and the skillfully drawn characters . . .." --\n <em>\n  New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  One mischievous girt on a mission . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sir Gareth Ludlow was a sought-after bachelor in London high society -- wealthy, noble, handsome . . . and brokenhearted since the death of his true love many years ago. Resigned to remarry, Sir Gareth solicits the hand of a woman he respects and admires -- Lady Hester Theale. But fate takes an impish turn when, on his way to ask for Lady Hester, Sir Gareth encounters a saucy young lady who identifies herself as "Amanda Smith."\n</p>\n<p>\n Amanda is alone and unchaperoned, and her imaginative tales take on a life of their own, sweeping up Sir Gareth, Lady Hester and several other hapless victims in a series of unexpected adventures. And no one, especially Sir Gareth, will ever be the same again . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10159'),
(8889, 'The Spring Suit', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3687'),
(8890, 'Springboard', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve Piecznik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NEW CENTURY\n <br />\n NEW SUPERPOWERS\n <br />\n A NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Co-creator Tom Clancy is the author of The Hunt for Red October, The Bear and The Dragon and Red Rabbit. He lives in Maryland, USA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6496'),
(8891, 'Spurious', 'Lars Iyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a raucous debut that summons up Britain''s fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "slightly more successful" friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator''s home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about. Before it completely swallows his house, the narrator feels compelled to solve some major philosophical questions (such as "Why?") and the meaning of his urge to write, as well as the source of the fungus ... before it is too late. Or, he has to move.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4426'),
(8892, 'The Spurned Viscountess', 'Shelley Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE SPURNED VISCOUNTESS by Shelley Munro is a historical romance set in 1720 England.It is the revised version of The Second Seduction. It is well written with depth, details and is fast paced. It has betrayal, tragedy, sensuality, romance, suspense,paranormal, secrets, treachery and second chances. The hero, Lucien, is scarred, strong, determined to find the murderer of his first wife, memory lost, is married for convenience, and finds himself falling in love with his beautiful new wife. The heroine, Rosalind, is beautiful, comely to some, has the gift of sight(which people claim she is a witch),a healer, the spurned by others who believe her to be a witch, looking for love, marriage, children, happiness and finds herself married to the scarred, less than happy viscount, Lucien. Together they set out to find the mysterious "Hawk", a smuggler, evil man with secrets of his own.Lucien, although, fights not to love or care about Rosalind, finds he is falling in love with her. Rosalind helps Lucien remember his past, and move on toward his future with her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4121'),
(8893, 'A Spy by Nature', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alec Milius is young, smart, ambitious and comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, Alec thinks he''s landed the perfect job for his talents. But working alone, relying on instinct, he''s soon spinning a web of deception that has him caught between his new masters and powerful opponents. For in his new line of work the difference between the truth and a lie can be the difference between life and death. And Alec is having trouble telling them apart ...;A Spy by Nature is the calling card of a major new talent; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly tense, it will grip you till the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4843'),
(8894, 'The Spy Game', 'Georgina Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna''s mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna''s brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was once she is dead?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(8895, 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11070'),
(8896, 'The Spy Who Loved Me: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A beautiful girl with a sensual past, Vivienne Michell is different from all the women Bond has known before. When she is confronted with two evil killers there is only one man who can save her - Bond himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7650'),
(8897, 'Spycraft', 'Melton &amp; Robert Wallace &amp; Schlesinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Secret instructons written in invisible ink. Cigarettes that fire bullets. Covert communications slipped inside dead rats. Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens. If these sound like the stuff of James Bond''s gadget-master Q''s trade, think again. They are all real-life devices created by the CIA''s Office of Technical Services. Now, in the first book ever written about this ultrasecretive department, the former director of the OTS gives us an unprecedented look at the devices and operations from the history of the CIA - including many deemed ''inappropriate for public disclosure'' by the CIA just two years ago. Spycraft tells amazing life and death stories about this little-known group, much of which has never before been revealed. Against the backdrop of some of the most critical international events of recent years - including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the war on terror - the authors show the real techinical and human story of how the CIA carried out its most secret missions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6796'),
(8898, 'SQL Antipatterns (Amanda Dunlap)', 'Karwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9644'),
(8899, 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring David Sedaris''s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.Once again David Sedaris shows us the most outrageous, tender, absurd sides of ourselves in his "profoundly funny, well-crafted stories that somehow, magically, bring home a major point about fidelity or guilt or love" (Christian Science Monitor).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(8900, 'SSN', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Updated with new material on Seawolf and Virginia "Takes readers deeper than they''ve ever gone inside a nuclear submarine." (Kirkus Reviews) A rare glimpse inside a Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear submarine with Tom Clancy as your guide... Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy''s magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world and experience the drama and excitement of this stunning technological achievement...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves. Submarine includes: * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams * Mock war scenarios and weapons launch procedures * An inside look at life on board, from captain to crew, from training exercises to operations * The fascinating history and evolution of submarines * Tom Clancy''s controversial views on submariner tactics and training methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3749'),
(8901, 'St Lucy&#39;s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves', 'Karen Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to ''Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers'' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection''s poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns. These ten extraordinary stories introduce an audacious new talent, and a world in which weird and wonderful predicaments magically reveal the truth of our own lives. A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a breathtaking discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4493'),
(8902, 'St. Lucy&#39;s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves', 'Russell, Karen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8844'),
(8903, 'St. Peter&#39;s Fair', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a merchant bound for St. Peter''s Fair is found with a slender dagger piercing his heart, Brother Cadfael is on the case. Two murders later, he realizes that no one--least of all the merchant''s lovely niece--is safe. "Colorful, convincing details on the workings of a medieval fair".--Kirkus Reviews.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(8904, 'Stacey Mcgill, Super Sitter', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9700'),
(8905, 'Stacey,The Cheerleaders', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9684'),
(8906, 'Stacey,The Haunted Masquerade', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9703'),
(8907, 'Stacey,The Mystery At The Mall', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9683'),
(8908, 'Stacey,The Mystery Of Stoneybrook', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9681'),
(8909, 'Stacey&#39;s Broken Heart', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9743'),
(8910, 'Stacey&#39;s Choice', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9714'),
(8911, 'Stacey&#39;s Emergency', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9720'),
(8912, 'Stakes &amp; Stilettos', 'Michelle Rowen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Dearly has been a vampire for only a couple of months, and life is returning to normal. Well, as normal as it can be. Sheâ€™s jobless and her master vampire beau, Thierry, is still married to (but separated from) his sire. But things are looking good with a job interview, her high-school reunion, and the chance for annulment. Too good, it turns out, when suddenly her contented, normal life goes very bad. The fourth in Rowenâ€™s series bears the hallmarks of her smartly written chick-lit paranormal romances but takes a pivotal, darker turn as Sarah must finally embrace her inner vampire. --Nina C. Davis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''ve been bitten and smitten by Michelle Rowen." (\n <strong>\n  Sherrilyn Kenyon, New York Times bestselling author\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rowen perfectly balances suspense and wit... A true modern girl''s guide to (vampire) life." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on BITTEN &amp; SMITTEN\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "You can''t put this book down." (\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris on FANGED &amp; FABULOUS\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8501'),
(8913, 'Stalking the Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undoubtedly prompted by the success of recent Crais bestsellers (Demolition Angel; Hostage), his audio publishers have gone back to the second book in his increasingly popular Elvis Cole series, originally published in 1989, for a lively and colorful outing that manages to capture much of the author''s early innocence and freshness. Stuart brings the quirky Cole to life quickly, combining his strengths (tenacity, incorruptibility, frequent flashes of humor) with his oddities (his love of the Disney artifacts that litter his office) to make a credible whole person. Other characters emerge with equal vocal skill: the enigmatic Joe Pike, Cole''s muscular sidekick; a glowering Los Angeles property developer, his alcohol-impaired wife and their fragile adolescent daughter, who winds up being kidnapped by Japanese gangsters. Cole, hired to find a rare Japanese manuscript, discovers that the teenager''s fate is very important to him personally forging a bond between the detective and children in peril that has become a hallmark of the series. For those who have been fans of Elvis since book one, The Monkey''s Raincoat, it''s good to have his early adventures around to listen to. For more recent Crais converts, this could prove an eye-opening revelation of how Cole got to be who he is. Based on the Bantam mass market.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hard-nosed private detective Elvis Cole returns ( The Monkey''s Raincoat ) to do battle for a teenaged girl kidnapped as part of a scheme involving the theft of a priceless Japanese manuscript outlining samurai behavior. While Cole''s wry sarcasm and attempts at "cute" often fall flat, his humanity and integrity carry him through an apparently convoluted but mostly transparent plot. Los Angeles settings, Japanese heavies, wild action, and businesslike prose, however, make this better than many.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6639'),
(8914, 'Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator', 'Gary Noesner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noesner, a former FBI hostage negotiator for 23 years, was the first person to run the bureau''s Crisis Negotiation Unit. Looking back, he recalls some major standoffs along with his efforts to understand and interpret the behavior of hostage takers, sometimes finding negotiations thwarted by the actions of his own colleagues. The compelling centerpiece of the book is Noesner''s analysis of "what went wrong at Waco" with the Branch Davidians when negotiation and tactical teams were working at cross purposes. After opening with a dramatic account of a man who abducted his estranged common-law wife and their son and was holding a gun to her head, Noesner describes his own "quintessentially American childhood," when he got the idea for his life''s work from a segment about the FBI on The Mickey Mouse Club. Drawing on official reports, personal notes, memos, and memories of conversations, he writes with a simple style that nevertheless generates much suspense, recreating past events with a vivid intensity certain to fascinate true crime readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Formerly chief of the FBIâ€™s unit for hostage negotiation, Noesner interlinks principles for talking to cornered desperadoes with cases from his career. Some of those caught nationwide attention, such as the disastrous 1993 siege of religious zealots in Waco, Texas, and here Noesner tells his side of the story. In his discussion of less-well-known incidents, Noesner underlines his core belief that negotiation is more effective in peacefully resolving standoffs than law enforcementâ€™s method of tactical assault. Although professionals are the audience for that debate, true-crime readers have plenty to absorb in Noesnerâ€™s accounts, which include several episodes of the husband-abducting-wife-and-kids scenario, a couple of prison riots, three 1990s showdowns between the law and beleaguered fanatics (the Branch Davidians, the Montana Freemen, and the â€œRepublic of Texasâ€), and a miscellany of terrorism and kidnapping incidents. Working his ideas into the narrative, Noesner reconstructs negotiating dialogue both as a critique of techniques, such as establishing rapport with a hostage taker, and as life-or-death drama. The latter, plus the inside-the-FBI tone, renders Noesnerâ€™s recollections a guaranteed attraction in new-books displays. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4804');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8915, 'Stand By Your Hitman', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missi Bombay invents things--fatal flowers, Jell-O bullets, stroke-inducing panty hose and other ways to kill a target without leaving any kind of evidence. She''s a great asset to her family of assassins. The one thing she can''t invent, though, is a love life. Unfortunately, her mom has decided to handle that for her. Next thing Missi knows, she''s packed off to Costa Rica for a wild reality show where she''s paired with Lex, the hottest contestant on TV. Too bad she also has to scope out a potential victim. But the job becomes tougher when someone starts sabotaging the show...and love-of-her-life Lex thinks she''s the culprit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2363'),
(8916, 'The Stand', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it. The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can''t ignore it. Stephen King''s most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world''s population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil. "I love to burn things up," King says. "It''s the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke." There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. â€“Fiona Webster\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil. Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4268'),
(8917, 'Standing in the Rainbow', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the talented storyteller whose Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe became a beloved bestseller and a successful film comes a sprawling, feel-good novel with an old-fashioned beginning, middle and end. The predominant setting is tiny Elmwood Springs, Mo., and the protagonist is 10-year-old Bobby Smith, an earnest Cub Scout also capable of sneaking earthworms into his big sister''s bed. His father is the town pharmacist and his mother is local radio personality Neighbor Dorothy (whom readers will recognize from Flagg''s Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!). In 1946, Harry Truman presides over a victorious nation anticipating a happy and prosperous future. During the next several decades, the plot expands to include numerous beguiling characters who interact with the Smith family among them, the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers, led by matriarch Minnie, who survive misadventures galore to find fame after an appearance on the Arthur Godfrey show in 1949, the same year Bobby''s self-esteem soars when he wins the annual town bubble gum contest. Also on hand are tractor salesman Ham Sparks, who becomes amazingly successful in politics, despite his marriage to overwhelmingly shy Betty Raye Oatman, and well-liked mortician Cecil Figgs, a sponsor of Neighbor Dorothy, who, as a bachelor in the mid-century South, also enjoys a secret life. The effects of changing social mores are handled deftly; historical events as they impact little Elmwood Springs are duly noted, and everything is infused with the good humor and joie de vivre that are Flagg''s stock-in-trade.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flagg brings her readers back to 1940s Elmwood, MO, when a family of white gospel singers bursts into town.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5692'),
(8918, 'Stanley and the Magic Lamp', 'Jeff Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Lambchop family has just about recovered from Stanleyâ€™s flatness when their peace and quiet is disrupted once again, this time by a very eager-to-please young genie. He does the boysâ€™ homework instantly, produces a hybrid housepet called a liophant, and introduces Stanley and his family to the joys (and pitfalls) of fame, all because they wished for it . . . didnâ€™t they? Long out of print, this high-spirited sequel to Flat Stanley should delight newly independent readers. (Originally published as A Lamp for the Lambchops.)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Brown has worked on the editorial staffs of The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post, and his stories have appeared in these magazines and many others. Mr. Brown is the author of several other books about the Lambchop Family, including STANLEY aND THE MAGIC LAMP and FLAT STANLEY both published by HarperCollins. Jeff Brown lives in New York, NY.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steve BjÅ¡rkman has illustrated many books for young readers including In 1492 by Jean Marzollo, and ALIENS FOR BREAKFAST, ALIENS FOR LUNCH, and ALIENS FOR DINNER. He lives in Irvine, CA, with his wife and three children.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5392'),
(8919, 'Star Born', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The two voyagers were neither of the same race nor of the same species yet they worked together without words as if they had established some bond which gave them a rapport transcending the need for speech.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9094'),
(8920, 'Star Gate', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a result of a battle on Gorth, young Kincar and a small group of Star Lords are stranded in a different plane of time with little hope of getting out\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9103'),
(8921, 'The Star of Gettysburg', 'Joseph A. Altsheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A story of Southern ''high tide'', a ''complete romance'', one in Altsheler''s Civil War series\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3024'),
(8922, 'Star of His Heart', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Drop-dead-gorgeous Ethan Chambers loves his life as Hollywood''s most eligibleâ€”and elusiveâ€”bachelor. Plus, the talented actor has just gotten an offer he can''t refuse: a starring role on TV''s hit medical drama. But it''s the show''s sultry makeup and wardrobe director who''s got his pulse racingâ€”and making him think twice about staying single. Getting the gig on  Paging the Doctor  has thrust Rachel Wellesley into the unwelcome glare of the spotlight. She wants to paint the story, not be the story. But when Rachel starts falling for the show''s sinfully sexy star, she knows it''s time to get her own heart checked. But how can she give up these passionate nights in Ethan''s arms? Now, as the cameras roll and her creative vision comes to life, is Rachel finally ready for her close-upâ€”with the man of her dreams?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8046'),
(8923, 'The Star of Morcyth: Book Five of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian S. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Through the mechinations of an old enemy, James is summoned to appear before the Royal Court of Cardri. While in Cardri, Ellinwyrd the Archive Custodian aids him in deciphering the riddle discovered in the city of Saragon. Unable to bear the message himself, Ellinwyrd sends a scroll upon which is written a single word, Ironhold. The quest in search of Ironhold leads to the mountainous region in northern Madoc. There he discovers ruins built by the last priests of Morcyth when they fled annihilation by the followers of Dmon-Li, as well as a secret that has been hidden away for centuries. An old friend resurfaces from a place of darkness and new allies join to aid him on his quest. Growing in aptitude and versatility, James encounters his most challenging situations yet!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why did I decide to write The Morcyth Saga? I suppose the main reason was due to the many series which were currently popular at the time. Series that in the beginning grabbed hold of me and wouldn''t let go, but then over time began to lose momentum in a mire of subplots and overlong descriptive paragraphs which I found myself skipping. When I realized I was skipping pages at a time to pass through a subplot that didn''t really move the story along to get to the what I would consider the `good points'' (action, adventure, actually seeing the main characters) I figured I could do better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I set out to write a series in which the reader followed the main character 90% of the time, action or points of interest were in every chapter, and descriptive content was down to a minimum. As a reader I knew I could create my own visualization of surroundings and figured others could to. I mean, do you really need me to go in depth as to what a teenage boy''s room looks like? Doesn''t `messy boy''s room'' bring up an instant visual? Stuff like that is what I mean. Certainly there are those who prefer grand descriptive content and a myriad of plots that takes a notepad to keep track of. To them I would say The Morcyth Saga is not for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to the story itself, I was a role player decades ago in high school. And I got to thinking about how interesting it would be should a gamer be thrust into a world in which his gaming experiences could help him thrive. After all, if you take a person from our world and thrust them into a world of magic, wouldn''t it be helpful to select someone who would be more amenable to the prospect of magic? Perhaps one whose very interests were along those lines? That was how James came into being, a high school senior who loves creating and then running his friends through his creation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Morcyth Saga and The Broken Key Trilogy are both written along gaming lines. The Morcyth Saga is about a gamer that is thrust into a world of magic while The Broken Key is written in role playing style.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can check out excerpts, maps, and other information about both series at my website. If you have never read one of my books before, I would suggest checking out the excerpts before you buy so you can make sure you like it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5289'),
(8924, 'Star quest', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1494'),
(8925, 'The Star Scroll', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As High Prince and Princess, Rohan and Sioned must keep both the peace and the secret of the dragons. But the legacy of their evil predecessor remains-and as their son Pol grows up, the kingdom splits in what may become a bloody battle for the crown. To make things worse, a long-vanquished foe vows to destroy the Prince. The only hope of defeating their dark sorcery lies in reclaiming the knowledge so carefully concealed in the long-lost Star Scroll.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2873'),
(8926, 'A Star Shall Fall', 'Marie Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. It has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition and ushering in an age of enlightenment. To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. Magic is losing its place in the worldÂ—and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes. In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused by a great DragonÂ—an elemental beast of flame. Incapable of destroying something so powerful, the fae of London banished it to a comet moments before the cometâ€™s light disappeared from the sky. Now the calculations of Sir Edmond Halley have predicted its return in 1759. So begins their race against time. Soon the Dragonâ€™s gaze will fall upon London and it will return to the city it ravaged once before. The fae will have to answer the question that defeated them a century before: How can they kill a being more powerful than all their magic combined? It will take both magic and science to save LondonÂ—but reconciling the two carries its own danger\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2234'),
(8927, 'Star Soldiers', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *CONTROLLING AUTHORITY* Andre Norton -- Grand Mistress of science fiction -- presents a grand tapestry of the far-flung interstellar future, in which the first starships from Earth have burst out into the universe...only to run straight into the restraining grasp of the stagnant alien federation known as Central Control. Only as interstellar mercenaries can humans go to the stars; the aliens who already dominate the galaxy allow no other recourse. But when Swordsman Third Class Kana Karr and his comrades-in-arms are betrayed and abandoned on a hostile world by their alien masters, the warriors from Earth begin a desperate but glorious march across a planet whose every sword is against them. Their actions may doom humanity''s future...or lead the way to an empire of their own! Four thousand years later, galactic civilization is collapsing, and the underfunded crew of an exploration starship is forced to set down on an uncharted planet: a mysterious, abandoned world that is achingly beautiful -- and hauntingly familiar. Ranger Sergeant Kartr, telepath and stellar Patrolman, searches with his crewmates for the source of a beacon which may mean escape for them all. What he finds is far stranger: the first clue to what may become the greatest revelation in galactic history! The defining events of future history -- as only Andre Norton could tell them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9129'),
(8928, 'Star Surgeon', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1549'),
(8929, 'Star Trek Movie Tie-In', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life? Or do you think you were meant for something better? Something special?" EDITORIAL REVIEW: *"Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life?or do you think you were meant for something better? something special?"* One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence,for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness,and obscurity. *"You will forever be a child of two worlds, capable of choosing your own destiny. the only question you face is, which path will you choose?"* The other grew up on the jagged cliffs of the harsh Vulcan desert, fighting for acceptance, for a way to reconcile the logic he was taught with the emotions he felt. In the far reaches of the galaxy, a machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be. On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet, its half-mad captain seeks the death of every intelligent being, and the annihilation of every civilized world. Kirk and Spock, two completely different and unyielding personalities, must find a way to lead the only crew, aboard the only ship, that canstop him. *"The wait is over."*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(8930, 'Star Trek: DTI: Watching the Clock', 'Christopher L. Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s likely no more of a thankless job in the Federation than temporal investigation. While starship explorers get to live the human adventure of traveling to other times and realities, it''s up to the dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations to deal with the consequences to the timestream that the rest of the Galaxy has to live with day by day. But when history as we know it could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, only the most disciplined, obsessive, and unimaginative government employees have what it takes to face the existential uncertainty of it all on a daily basis . . . and still stay sane enough to complete their assignments. That''s where Agents Lucsly and Dulmur come instalwart and unflappable, these men are the Federation''s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. Together with their colleagues in the DTIand with the help and sometimes hindrance of Starfleet''s finestthey do what they can to keep the timestream, or at least the paperwork, as neat and orderly as they are. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history-spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to stop those who wish to rewrite the past for their own advantage, and to keep the present and the future from devolving into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7089'),
(8931, 'Star Trek: Generations', 'J M. Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Captain Picard and his crew struggle to prevent a catastrophe that could cost millions of lives. As Picard races against time, he receives help from a mysterious figure from the past. Now both generations must fight side by side in a battle against an evil genius who holds the key to the future.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7134'),
(8932, 'Star Trek: Indistinguishable From Magic', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The most talented Starfleet engineers of two generations unite to solve a two-hundred-year-old technological mystery that turns out to be only the beginning of a wider quest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the support of Guinan and Nog, as well as the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Challenger\n  </em>\n  , Geordi La Forge and Montgomery Scott soon find themselves drawn into a larger, deadlier, and far more personal adventure. Helped by old friends and hindered by old enemies, their investigation will come to threaten everything they hold dear. Seeking out the new, and going where no one has gonebefore, Geordi, Scotty, and Guinan find that their pasts are very much of the present, and must determine whether any sufficiently advanced technology is really indistinguishable from magic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6395'),
(8933, 'Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light', 'Michael Schuster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outÂ­comes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a shattered prismâ€”broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been . . . is what actually occurred.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  THE EMBRACE OF COLD ARCHITECTS.\n </strong>\n â€œMister Worfâ€”fire.â€ With thosewords, William T. Riker defeated the Borgâ€”and destroyed Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Now, a heartsore Captain Riker must carry on the legacy of thecommanding officer and friend whose death he ordered. But crises face himat every turn, from Cardassian aggression to the return of Dataâ€™s creator,Noonien Soong. But it is Dataâ€™s creation of a daughter, Lal, that may prove to beeveryoneâ€™s undoing. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  THE TEARS OF ERIDANUS.\n </strong>\n Commander Hikaru Sulu of the\n <em>\n  Kumari\n </em>\n â€”finest ship of the Interstellar Guard, the military arm of the Interstellar Union that includes Andor, Earth, and Tellarâ€”is sent to rescue an observation team on a primitive desert planet. The world has many namesâ€”40 Eridani A-II, Minshara, Tâ€™Khasi, Vulcanâ€”and its savage natives have taken the team hostage, including Suluâ€™s daughter, Demora. Even as Captain Sulu negotiates with the fierce Tâ€™Pau, Demora meets the elderly Sâ€™oval, and with him the only hope for the planetâ€™s future. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  HONOR IN THE NIGHT.\n </strong>\n Former Federation president Nilz Baris has died. After losing Shermanâ€™s Planet to the Klingons thanks to poisoned quadrotriticale, the agriculture undersecretary parlayed that defeat into years of political battles with the Klingon Empire, and eventually the Federationâ€™s highest office. Now, the Federation News Service wants the story of his life, a quest that digs up many secretsâ€”including the mystery of why his final words were â€œArne Darvin.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DAVID R. GEORGE III\n </strong>\n wrote the Crucible trilogy for Star Trek''s 40th anniversary as well as\n <em>\n  Olympus Descending\n </em>\n for Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. He previously visited DS9 in the novels\n <em>\n  The 34th Rule\n </em>\n , set during the timeframe of the series, and in\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n , set after the finale. His other Star Trek contributions include a first season Voyager episode, "Prime Factors," and one of the_ Lost Era _books,\n <em>\n  Serpents Among the Ruins,\n </em>\n which hit the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller list in Fall, 2003. Currently he is writing a novella for\n <em>\n  Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light\n </em>\n , coming in December, 2010, from Gallery Books.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his almost nonexistent spare time, David enjoys trying his hand at new experiences, from skydiving to auditioning--with his lovely wife, Karen--for "The New Newlywed Game", from hiking a glacier in Alaska to belly dancing in Tunisia, from ocean kayaking in Mexico to having dinner at an actual captain''s table somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Recently, he performed his first wedding ceremony--which he and Karen also wrote--marrying their friends Jen and Ryan Van Riper. David believes that the world is a wide, wondrous place, with exciting adventures waiting around just about every corner.\n</p>\n<p>\n He remains free on his own recognizance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  STEVE MOLLMANN\n </strong>\n is studying for a Ph.D. in English at an unknown university at an unknown location in the United States. He is not being coy; at the time this was written, he simply had no idea where he would be by the time you read this. He obtained his M.A. in English at the University of Connecticut, and hopes to pursue a career as a scholar, specializing in British literature, especially its intersection with science and technology. Also in that gap of time, he will have gotten married to his then-fiancÃ‰e, Hayley. He has met Michael Schuster on more than one occasion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL SCHUSTER\n </strong>\n lives in a picturesque Austrian mountain valley, with half a continent and one entire ocean between him and Steve Mollmann. A bank employee by day, he likes to come up with new (or at least relatively unused) ideas that can be turned into stories with loving care and the occasional nudge. With Steve, he is the co-author of two short stories in the anthology\n <em>\n  Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky''s the Limit\n </em>\n . Their first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tears of Eridanus\n </em>\n , will be released as part of the collection\n <em>\n  Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light\n </em>\n this December. Currently, the two are hard at work building their own universe-sized sandbox to play in. More information about them (including annotations for\n <em>\n  The Future Begins\n </em>\n ) can be found at http://www.exploringtheuniverse.net/.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5531'),
(8934, 'Star Trek: Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles', 'S.D. Perry; Britta Dennison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the Dominion War and the decimation of Cardassia...before the coming of the Emissary and the discovery of the wormhole...before space station Terok Nor became Deep Space 9â„¢...there was the Occupation: the military takeover of an alien planet and the violent insurgency that fought against it. Now that fifty-year tale of warring ideologies, terrorism, greed, secret intelligence, moral compromises, and embattled faiths is at last given its due in the three-book saga of Star Trek''s Lost Era...TEROK NORAs violence all across Bajor continues to escalate, Cardassian forces tighten their grip on the captive planet, driving back the resistance at every turn; but on Terok Nor and elsewhere, the winds of change are stirring -- the beginnings of a hurricane that will alter the landscape of the Occupation. And while secret dealings, shifting alliances, and personal demons buoy the wings of revolution, a mysterious shape-shifting life form begins a journey that will decide the fate of worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3267'),
(8935, 'Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers', 'James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the Dominion War and the decimation of Cardassia...before the coming of the Emissary and the discovery of the wormhole...before space station Terok Nor became Deep Space 9â„¢...there was the Occupation: the military takeover of an alien planet and the violent insurgency that fought against it. Now that fifty-year tale of warring ideologies, terrorism, greed, secret intelligence, moral compromises, and embattled faiths is at last given its due in the three-book saga of Star Trek''s Lost Era...A seemingly benign visitation to the bountiful world of Bajor from the resource-poor Cardassian Union is viewed with cautious optimism by some, trepidation by others, and a calculating gleam by unscrupulous opportunists. What begins as a gesture of compassion soon becomes something very different. Seen through the eyes of participants on both sides -- including those of a young officer named Skrain Dukat -- the personal, political, and religious tensions between the Bajorans and the Cardassians quickly spiral out of control, irrevocably shaping the futures of both worlds in an emotionally charged and unforgettable tale of treachery, tragedy, and hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1551'),
(8936, 'Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony', 'Dayton Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On a diplomatic mission to the planet Andor, Captain Picard and the crew of the\n <em>\n  Enterprise-E\n </em>\n bear witness to the rank devastation resulting from the Borg invasion. With the reproductive issues that have long plagued the Andorian people reaching crisis level, avenues of research that at first held great promise have proven largely unhelpful, and may well indeed be worsening the problem.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite the Federation''s seeming inability to provide assistance and growing doubt over its commitment to a staunch, longtime ally, Andorian scientists now offer renewed hope for a solution. However, many segments of Andorian society are protesting this controversial new approach, and more radical sects are beginning to make their displeasure known by any means available. In response, President Nanietta Bacco has sent the\n <em>\n  Enterprise\n </em>\n crew and a team of diplomats and scientists to Andor to convene a summit, in the hope of demonstrating that the Federation''s pledge to helping Andor is sincere.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n But the Typhon Pact is watching, and their interests may very well lead the Andorian people down an even more treacherous path. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dayton Ward served for eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps before discovering the private sector and the piles of cash to be made there as a software engineer. He got his start in professional writing by placing stories in each of Pocket Booksâ€™ first three\n <em>\n  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\n </em>\n anthologies. He is the author of dozens of\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n novels, many written in collaboration with coauthor Kevin Dilmore. He recently penned a tie-in to the cult classic television series\n <em>\n  The 4400\n </em>\n , and is currently at work on a new\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n novel to be released in Fall 2010.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife, Michi, he is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers interested in contacting Dayton or learning more about his writing, or who simply need proof that their website is cooler and better looking, are encouraged to venture to his Internet cobweb collection at www.daytonward.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5451'),
(8937, 'Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire', 'David R. George III', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Still on Romulus in pursuit of his goal of reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans, Spock finds himself in the middle of a massive power struggle. In the wake of the assassination of the Praetor and the Senate, the Romulans have cleaved in two.Â While Empress Donatra has led her nascent Imperial Romulan State to establish relations with the Federation, Praetor Talâ€™aura has guided the original Romulan Star Empire toward joining the newly formed Typhon Pact. But numerous factions within the two Romulan nations vie for power and undivided leadership, and Machiavellian plots unfold as forces within and without the empires conduct high-stakes political maneuvers.Â \n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Meanwhile, four years after Benjamin Sisko returned from the Celestial Temple, circumstances have changed, his hopes for a peaceful life on Bajor with his wife and daughter beginning to slip away.Â After temporarily rejoining Starfleet for an all-hands-on-deck battle against the Borg, he must consider an offer to have him return for a longer stint.Â Beset by troubling events, he seeks spiritual guidance, facing demons new and old, including difficult memories from his time in the last Federation-Tzenkethi war.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    DAVID R. GEORGE III\n   </strong>\n   Â wrote the Crucible trilogy for Star Trek''s 40th anniversary as well as\n   <em>\n    Olympus Descending\n   </em>\n   for Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. He previously visited DS9 in the novels\n   <em>\n    The 34th Rule\n   </em>\n   , set during the timeframe of the series, and in\n   <em>\n    Twilight\n   </em>\n   , set after the finale. His other Star Trek contributions include a first season Voyager episode, "Prime Factors," and one of the_ Lost Era _books,\n   <em>\n    Serpents Among the Ruins,\n   </em>\n   which hit the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller list in Fall, 2003. Currently he is writing a novella for\n   <em>\n    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light\n   </em>\n   ,Â comingÂ in December, 2010, from Gallery Books.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In his almost nonexistent spare time, David enjoys trying his hand at new experiences, from skydiving to auditioning--with his lovely wife, Karen--for "The New Newlywed Game", from hiking a glacier in Alaska to belly dancing in Tunisia, from ocean kayaking in Mexico to having dinner at an actual captain''s table somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Recently, he performed his first wedding ceremony--which he and Karen also wrote--marrying their friends Jen and Ryan Van Riper. David believes that the world is a wide, wondrous place, with exciting adventures waiting around just about every corner.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He remains free on his own recognizance.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Still on Romulus in pursuit of his goal of reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans, Spock finds himself in the middle of a massive power struggle. In the wake of the assassination of the Praetor and the Senate, the Romulans have cleaved in two.Â While Empress Donatra has led her nascent Imperial Romulan State to establish relations with the Federation, Praetor Talâ€™aura has guided the original Romulan Star Empire toward joining the newly formed Typhon Pact. But numerous factions within the two Romulan nations vie for power and undivided leadership, and Machiavellian plots unfold as forces within and without the empires conduct high-stakes political maneuvers.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, four years after Benjamin Sisko returned from the Celestial Temple, circumstances have changed, his hopes for a peaceful life on Bajor with his wife and daughter beginning to slip away.Â After temporarily rejoining Starfleet for an all-hands-on-deck battle against the Borg, he must consider an offer to have him return for a longer stint.Â Beset by troubling events, he seeks spiritual guidance, facing demons new and old, including difficult memories from his time in the last Federation-Tzenkethi war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DAVID R. GEORGE III\n  </strong>\n  Â wrote the Crucible trilogy for Star Trek''s 40th anniversary as well as\n  <em>\n   Olympus Descending\n  </em>\n  for Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. He previously visited DS9 in the novels\n  <em>\n   The 34th Rule\n  </em>\n  , set during the timeframe of the series, and in\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , set after the finale. His other Star Trek contributions include a first season Voyager episode, "Prime Factors," and one of the_ Lost Era _books,\n  <em>\n   Serpents Among the Ruins,\n  </em>\n  which hit the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list in Fall, 2003. Currently he is writing a novella for\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light\n  </em>\n  ,Â comingÂ in December, 2010, from Gallery Books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his almost nonexistent spare time, David enjoys trying his hand at new experiences, from skydiving to auditioning--with his lovely wife, Karen--for "The New Newlywed Game", from hiking a glacier in Alaska to belly dancing in Tunisia, from ocean kayaking in Mexico to having dinner at an actual captain''s table somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Recently, he performed his first wedding ceremony--which he and Karen also wrote--marrying their friends Jen and Ryan Van Riper. David believes that the world is a wide, wondrous place, with exciting adventures waiting around just about every corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He remains free on his own recognizance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6307'),
(8938, 'Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire', 'Michael A. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SEIZE THE FIRE Shortly after revealing its union with the Federation''s newest adversary--a coalition of galactic powers known as the Typhon Pact--the Gorn Hegemony suffers an ecological disaster that destroys the hatchery world of their critically important warrior caste. Fortunately, the Gorn had already been investigating traces of an ancient but powerful "quick terraforming" technology left behind by a long-vanished civilization. This technology, should it prove controllable, promises to restore their delicate biological and social status quo. But when a Gorn soldier prepares to use the technology to reshape the planet Hranrar into a new warrior-caste spawning ground, threatening to extinguish the native Hranrarii, he draws the unwanted attention of a mad Gorn trooper determined to bring the military caste into dominance. Meanwhile, as the "U.S.S. Titan "embarks upon a search for this potent technology in the hope of using it to heal the wounds the Federation sustained during the recent Borg crisis, Captain Riker must balance his responsibility for his crew''s safety against the welfare of the Hranrarii and his duty to the Prime Directive. With a menacing Typhon Pact fleet nipping at his heels, Riker must not only stop the Gorn warriors but also plumb the secrets of an ancient terraforming artifact. But of everyone serving aboard "Titan," Commander Tuvok may be the only one who understands how dangerous such planet-altering technology can be, even when used with the best of intentions. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7168'),
(8939, 'Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  One of the best resources on proven ways to exercise the healing powers of the mind.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A spy for the Typhon Pactâ€”a new political rival of the Federationâ€”steals the plans for Starfleetâ€™s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the driveâ€™s secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bashir and Douglas are sent to infiltrate the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Aventine\n  </em>\n  play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5562'),
(8940, 'Star Wars - 008 - Lost Tribe of the Sith 6 - Sentinel', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cast into slavery by the machinations of the Sith, Ori Kitai believes sheâ€™s found her way back into the Lost Tribeâ€”and perhaps a whole lot more. Oriâ€™s discovery of a second starship gives her the opportunity to avenge the humiliations heaped on her family by the decrepit Grand Lord. Indeed, she could turn their entire society upside downâ€”offering escape from their planetary prison.                But Ori encounters resistance from a surprising person: the seemingly humble farmer who took her in: a man with a secret past and an agenda of his own. He cannot allow Ori Kitai to unleash the Lost Tribe on an unsuspecting galaxy. But how can he stop the woman he loves without destroying them both?              BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sixth episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Sentinel\n  </strong>\n  _ picks up right where where _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #5: Purgatory\n  </strong>\n  _ left off. A castaway on a planet full of Sith castaways, Jelph Marrian is forced to fight the woman he loves in order to save the galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9852'),
(8941, 'Star Wars - 011 - Red Harvest', 'Joe Schreiber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Joe Schreiberâ€™s\n   <em>\n    Star Wars: Death Troopers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  of every horror fanâ€™s dreamsâ€”gory, funny, and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and space-zombies.â€â€”Seth Grahame-Smith, author of _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œBrilliant . . . This book combines two of my favorite things on earth: the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  universe and the undead.â€â€”Tommy Wirkola, director of\n  <em>\n   Dead Snow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The era of the Old Republic is a dark and dangerous time, as Jedi Knights valiantly battle the Sith Lords and their ruthless armies. But the Sith have disturbing plansâ€”and none more so than the fulfillment of Darth Scabrousâ€™s fanatical dream, which is about to become nightmarish reality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corpsâ€”young Jedi whose abilities have not proved up to snuffâ€”Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous. For the rare black orchid that she has nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen virus thatâ€™s worse than fatalâ€”it doesnâ€™t just kill, it transforms. Now the rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a bloodthirsty hunger for all things livingâ€”and commanded by a Sith Master with an insatiable lust for power and the ultimate prize: immortality . . . no matter the cost.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9991'),
(8942, 'Star Wars - 012 - The Old Republic - Fatal Alliance', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n BioWare and LucasArtsâ€”creators of the hugely popular Star Wars:Â® Knights of the Old RepublicÂ® video gameâ€”have combined their storytelling talents and cutting-edge technology for an innovative new massively multiplayer online role-playing game that allows players to create their own personal Star Wars adventure 3,500 years before the rise of Darth Vader. Now #1 New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams brings the world of the game to life in his latest novel, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance.Tassaa Bareesh, a matriarch in the Hutt crime cartel, is holding an auction thatâ€™s drawing attention from across the galaxy. Representatives of both the Republic and the Sith Empire are present, along with a Jedi Padawan sent to investigate, a disenfranchised trooper drummed out of the Republicâ€™s elite  Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian with a private agenda. But the Republicâ€™s envoy is not what he seems, the Empireâ€™s delegate is a ruthless Sith apprentice, the Jedi Padawan is determined to do the right thing and terrified that he canâ€™t, the trooper hopes to redeem her reputation, and the Mandalorian is somehow managing to keep one step ahead of everyone.                                                 None of these guestsâ€”invited or uninvitedâ€”have any intention of participating in the auction. Instead they plan to steal the prize, which is locked inside an impregnable vault: two burned chunks of an exploded star cruiser, one of which may hold the key to the wealth of an entire world.But the truth about the treasure is dangerous and deadly. And in the end, Sith and Jedi, Republic and Empire, must do something theyâ€™ve never done before, something that all the agents of good and evil could never make them do: join together to stop a powerful threat that could destroy the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8892');
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(8943, 'Star Wars - 014 - Knight Errant', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _An original adventure featuring Jedi Kerra Holtâ€”star of the hot new Dark Horse\n  <em>\n   Knight Errant\n  </em>\n  comic series_\n </p>\n <p>\n  A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away . . .\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The Republic is in crisis. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who intends to be its destroyer; the curious siblings Quillan and Dromika; the enigmatic Arkadia. So many warring Sith weaving a patchwork of brutalityâ€”with only Kerra Holt to defend the innocents caught underfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sensing a sinister pattern in the chaos, Kerra embarks on a journey that will take her into fierce battles against even fiercer enemies. With one against so many, her only chance of success lies with forging alliances among those who serve her enemiesâ€”including a mysterious Sith spy and a clever mercenary general. But will they be her adversaries or her salvation?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Includes a special, full-color excerpt from the Dark Horse comic\n   <em>\n    Star Wars: Knight Errant\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Knight Errant\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  follows Kerra Holt, a young Jedi operating in Sith space during a time in which the Republic and Jedi Order have largely abandoned many systems to their fates. The Outer Rim is a crazy-quilt patchwork of mini-empires controlled still crazier Sith Lords, all of whom have their own deranged spins on Sith philosophy and a healthy hatred for their rivals. Hiding among the enslaved citizens, Kerra sees Sith madness up-close -- and acts. But how much can a Jedi alone do -- and can she really trust anyone at all?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kerra Holt also appears in\n  <em>\n   Knight Errant\n  </em>\n  comics from Dark Horse, but the novel stands alone, providing an easy entry into this tumultuous era in\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  history. Depicting a time 1,000 years before\n  <em>\n   Episode I\n  </em>\n  and a place where Sith rule is near-absolute,\n  <em>\n   Knight Errant\n  </em>\n  asks its heroine what it means to be a Jedi when hope is nearly gone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9851'),
(8944, 'Star Wars - 015 - Darth Bane - Path of Destruction', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTwo there should be; no more, no less.\n  <br />\n  One to embody the power, the other to crave it.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There, Desselâ€™s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, a far greater destiny awaits him.\n  <br />\n  As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side, Dessel embraces his new identity: Bane. But the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught. It is a trial by fire in which he must surrender fully to the dark sideâ€“and forge from the ashes a new era of absolute power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA solid space adventure [that] charts the evolution of an antihero almost as chilling as Darth Vader.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drew Karpyshyn is a fantasy and science fiction novelist and an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands of the Great White North with his loving wife, Jen, and their cat.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9320'),
(8945, 'Star Wars - 017 - Darth Bane - Dynasty of Evil', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Baneâ€™s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sithâ€™s immortalityâ€“and his own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding missionâ€“while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Masterâ€™s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentorâ€“and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find himâ€“possibly even rescue himâ€“before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark sideâ€™s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drew Karpyshyn is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <strong>\n   Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction,\n  </strong>\n  and the Mass Effect novels\n  <strong>\n   Revelation\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Ascension\n  </strong>\n  , as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on\n  <em>\n   Mass Effect\n  </em>\n  and the blockbuster\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic\n  </em>\n  video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his wife, Jen, and their cat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9321'),
(8946, 'Star Wars - 018 - Legacy of the Jedi', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4 Masters. 4 Apprentices. Yoda and Dooku. Dooku and Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan (the focus of the best-selling Jedi Apprentice series). Obi-Wan and Anakin (featured in the best-selling Jedi Quest series). One enemy. A Jedi student with a dark streak at the beginning of the book, he becomes a powerful -- and potentially dangerous -- planetary leader whose help Obi-Wan and Anakin will need in the Clone Wars.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8872'),
(8947, 'Star Wars - 019 - Jedi Apprentice 01 - The Rising Force', 'Dave Wolverton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Just before his 13th birthday, Obi-Wan Kenobi left Yoda and the other teachers at the Jedi Temple. But he wasn''t supposed to become a Padawan, a future Jedi Knight, he was assigned to be a farmer!\n  <em>\n   Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force\n  </em>\n  joins the headstrong Obi-Wan a few weeks before he''s to turn 13, when he''ll be too old to begin training as a Jedi Knight. Trying too hard to become Qui-Gon Jinn''s Padawan, Obi-Wan shows his lack of discipline, and that--in addition to Qui-Gon''s mysterious past--keeps them apart. But the Force keeps pulling the two together: Obi-Wan resigns himself to the Jedi Agricultural Corps on barren Bandomeer, only to find that Qui-Gon is on a mission to the same planet. Traveling there on a mining ship, the two must work together to forge a truce between the warring Hutt, Whiphid, and Arconan miners on board. The inexperienced Obi-Wan stirs up trouble but gets plenty of chances to redeem himself later--after the pirates attack and after the ship crash-lands on a hostile planet with the crew still at each other''s throats. Experienced\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  author Dave Wolverton keeps the blasters firing and the lightsabers swinging in this fun, fast-paced adventure. (Ages 9 to 12)\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9405'),
(8948, 'Star Wars - 020 - Jedi Apprentice 02 - The Dark Rival', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the New Republic takes devastating losses in  the ongoingwar with the scattered remnants of the  Empire, the galaxy''s future depends on three small  children -- among them the Jedi twins -- born to  incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary  new saga unfolds...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the New  Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly  Sun Crusher -- a new doomsday weapon stolen from  the Empire by Han Solo -- the renegade Imperial  Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to  conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets.  And now she threatens the watery homeworld of  Admiral Ackbar. But as the battle for a planet rages,  an even greater danger emerges at Luke  Skywalker''s Jedi academy. A brilliant student delves  dangerously into the dark side of the Force and  unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil  order that warped Darth Vader himself. Working  together, they may become an enemy greater than the  New Republic has ever fought... more powerful than  even a Jedi Master can face.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoingwar with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy''s future depends on three small children -- among them the Jedi twins -- born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new saga unfolds...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher -- a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo -- the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets. And now she threatens the watery homeworld of Admiral Ackbar. But as the battle for a planet rages, an even greater danger emerges at Luke Skywalker''s Jedi academy. A brilliant student delves dangerously into the dark side of the Force and unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil order that warped Darth Vader himself. Working together, they may become an enemy greater than the New Republic has ever fought... more powerful than even a Jedi Master can face. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10372'),
(8949, 'Star Wars - 027 - The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Overlooked as a Padawan, he was to become one of the most revered Masters of all. Sworn to serve the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, his own apprentice would bring about their destruction. Powerless to retrieve Darth Vader from the dark side, he would train the only one who could. This is the legendary story of Obi-Wan Kenobi, from his first meeting with Anakin Skywalker to his final meeting with Darth Vaderâ€”and beyond . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10093'),
(8950, 'Star Wars - 039 - Jedi Apprentice Special Edition 02 - The Followers', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ten years earlier, while seeking a Sith Holocron, Sith leader Lundi encountered Jedis Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and now as the Sith are about to make a reappearance, Obi-Wan and his apprentice Anakin are forced to rely on the aid of Lundi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8874'),
(8951, 'Star Wars - 041 - The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The full story of Anakin Skywalker, from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ryder Windham has written many Star Wars books, including junior novelizations of the Star Wars trilogy. His also the author of several nonficton books. He lives with his family in Providence, Rhode Island.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10091'),
(8952, 'Star Wars - 042 - Darth Maul - Saboteur', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A dazzling new short story featuring Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evil . . . On the distant planet Dorvalla, precious ore is mined by two competing companies: InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. Neither rival suspects that they are central to a sinister plot masterminded by Darth Sidious, Lord of the Sith, himself. Dispatched by Sidious on his very first solo mission, Darth Maul infiltrates Lommite Limited. There, his unique gifts of deception and subterfuge will set off an explosive chain of events that could destroy both companies, leaving them ripe for takeover by the Trade Federation. But a vengeful Lommite Limited Manager with his own thirst for retaliation against InterGal could blow Maul''s cover--and all of Sidious''s fiendishly layed plans . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9560'),
(8953, 'Star Wars - 043 - Episode 1 Adventures 01 - Search for the Lost Jedi', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10095'),
(8954, 'Star Wars - 044 - Episode 1 Adventures 02 - The Bartokk Assassins', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A band of Bartokk assassins has gained possession of many unusual Trade Federation starfighters and has kidnapped a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10094'),
(8955, 'Star Wars - 045 - Episode 1 Adventures 03 - The Fury of Darth Maul', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Someone has stolen something that belongs to Darth Sidious, and he wants it back. When a Sith Lord wants something, there''s only one person he can trust to get it--another Sith Lord.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10092'),
(8956, 'Star Wars - 055 - Cloak of Deception', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, what you''ve been waiting for: a prequel to the Star Wars ramble that will explain why Chancellor Valorum fell from power.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _From\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author James Luceno comes an all-new\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n   adventure that reveals the action and intrigue unfolding directly before Episode I_: The Phantom Menace_._\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mired in greed and corruption, tangled in bureaucracy, the Galactic Republic is crumbling. In the outlying systems, where the Trade Federation maintains a stranglehold on shipping routes, tensions are boiling over?while back in the comfort of Coruscant, the hub of civilized space and seat of the Republic government, few senators seem inclined to investigate the problem. And those who suspect Supreme Chancellor Valorum of having a hand in the machinations are baffled?especially when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi foil an assassination attempt on the Chancellor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the crisis escalating, Valorum calls for an emergency trade summit. As humans and aliens gather, conspiracies sealed with large sums of money run rampant, and no one is entirely above suspicion. But the greatest threat of all remains unknown to everyone except three members of the Trade Federation who have entered into a shadowy alliance with a dark overlord. While the trio will be content with more money and fewer problems, Darth Sidious has grander, far more terrifying plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a time that tests the mettle of all those who strive to hold the Republic together?none more so than the Jedi Knights, who have long been the galaxy''s best hope for preserving peace and justice. Yet despite their most valiant efforts, the meeting will explode into fiery chaos beyond everyone?s worst fears . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9561'),
(8957, 'Star Wars - 056 - Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here''s another\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  spinoff novel, a brisk and extremely uncomplicated action-adventure romp set on planet Coruscant immediately before the events of\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  . After a few setting-up exercises, it''s essentially a prolonged chase sequence whose implacable pursuer is Darth Maul--the almost absurdly villainous-looking Sith Lord with the biggest lightsaber and worst makeup job in the entire saga to date.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The plot? Insidiously evil Darth Sidious is poised to launch the Naboo trade blockade featured in\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  . But one of his alien henchmen has sneaked away to betray this scheme and must die. So must the traitor''s contacts, smalltime crook Lorn Pavan and his uppity droid, I-Five. Likewise Darsha Assant, the female Jedi Knight apprentice who gets entangled with Pavan through either mind-boggling coincidence or the mysterious ways of the Force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Reaves makes a reasonably slick job of all this nonsense and is not afraid of clichÃ©s. Plenty of characters have wooden lines like "I''ve got a bad feeling about this," and "Too many questions, and not enough answers." Meanwhile in the Jedi council, Yoda makes characteristic remarks: "A good choice he would be... No accident this was."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, the well-known story line of\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  defuses suspense in\n  <em>\n   Shadow Hunter\n  </em>\n  . That trade blockade has to happen despite the good folks'' doomed heroics, and horrible Darth Maul (already far more powerful and deadly than the puny opposition he faces here) is fated to win out. This novel is for dedicated fans only.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "FULL OF LIGHTSABER BATTLES, THE JEDI PHILOSOPHY, AND LOTS OF NEW LIFE-FORMS."\n  <br />\n  _--Chicago Sun-Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reaves writes with a creative flair, allowing readers to experience an almost cinematic sensation as they move through the story. The language is colorful, the action scenes are dynamic, and the dialogue is realistic....\n  <strong>\n   Shadow Hunter\n  </strong>\n  is a very good\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  novel that reads as easily as a comic book.... Reaves does an excellent job."\n  <br />\n  _--Winston-Salem Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9233'),
(8958, 'Star Wars - 057 - Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''ve seen\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  in a theater--and, judging from the 1999 box-office figures, who hasn''t?--you''ve probably been a bit frustrated by the speed with which the fantastic images and creatures fly past. There''s no such problem with this audiobook. All the excitement of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  prequel is there, but this time there''s breathing room, a chance to meet the characters, let them walk around in your imagination, hear their thoughts. Actor Alexander Adams''s reading of fantasy master Terry Brooks''s novelization is brisk but never rushed, punctuated at chapter breaks by snippets of John Williams''s movie score. Unfortunately, those who hate amphibian pest Jar Jar Binks''s voice probably won''t find Adams''s approximation any less obnoxious than the movie''s. (Running time: 9.5 hours, 6 cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --Lou Schuler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Fans expecting a typical movie novelization--one that simply parrots the screenplay for Episode I--will be pleasantly surprised. Brooks, with Lucas'' cooperation, has created something else altogether; a larger story that includes all of what you''ve seen onscreen, but also delves deeply into the history of the galaxy and the life and mind of Anakin Skywalker."\n  <br />\n  --The Star Wars Insider\n </p>\n <p>\n  "BREATHLESS . . . FILLED WITH ACTION FROM PAGE ONE."\n  <br />\n  --The New York Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8897'),
(8959, 'Star Wars - 066 - Outbound Flight', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another puzzle piece in the Star Wars universe falls into place with this action-packed prequel to Hugo-winner Zahn''s Star Wars: Survivor''s Quest (2004). Familiar characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, young Anakin Skywalker and the evil Lord Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious) make appearances, but the true star is Commander Thrawn, a red-eyed, blue-skinned alien. On the Outbound Flight, a mammoth Jedi exploration and colonization vessel sent to far-off reaches of the cosmos to identify potential Force-users and hunt down a lost knight, Jedi Master Jorus C''baoth struggles with an inappropriate lust for power. Thrawn''s attack on the ship (secretly influenced by Darth Sidious''s agents) insures his own eventual exile from his race and sets other sinister wheels in motion. As these old and new characters wrestle with difficult moral questions, Zahn deftly portrays their inner struggles in fluid prose, while also affirming his status as a skillful creator of dazzling futuristic worlds. Though more time with the doomed Outbound Flight''s passengers, who are the subject of Survivor''s Quest, would round out the story, the book is nonetheless an enthralling page-turner sure to appeal to its target audience.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It began as the ultimate voyage of discoveryâ€“only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkableâ€“and doomedâ€“Outbound Flight Project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus Câ€™baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embarkâ€“aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travelâ€“on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even startâ€“until Master Câ€™baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward . . . and, ultimately, to fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Darth Sidious is not the missionâ€™s most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as â€œThrawn.â€ Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering oddsâ€“and the most diabolical of adversaries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Timothy Zahnâ€™s unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9761'),
(8960, 'Star Wars - 076 - Jedi Quest 10 - The Final Showdown', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are closer than ever to capturing their fiercest rival, the mysterious Granta Omega. But in order to do it, Anakin will have to betray one of his fellow apprentices . . . and Obi-Wan will be pushed farther than he''s ever gone before in his search for justice - and revenge. This is a book every Star Wars fan will have to own.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8871'),
(8961, 'Star Wars - 077 - The Approaching Storm', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œENTERTAINING AND INTELLIGENT . . . This book is pure class all the way. . . . The final page is a great climax.â€â€“StarburstThe Republic is decaying, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was elected to save the galaxy from collapsing under the forces of discontent. On the tiny but strategic planet of Ansion, a powerful faction is on the verge of joining the growing secessionist movement. At the Chancellorâ€™s request, the Jedi Council sends two Jedi Knights, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luminara Unduli, along with their Padawans Anakin Skywalker and Barriss Offee, to stabilize the planetâ€™s population. To succeed, the Jedi will have to fulfill near-impossible tasks, befriend wary strangers, and influence two great armies, stalked all the while by an enemy sworn to see the negotiations collapse and the mission fail. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10694'),
(8962, 'Star Wars - 085 - Republic Commando 01 - Hard Contact', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxyâ€“stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . .\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a mission to sabotage a chemical weapon research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies. The commandos are outnumbered and outgunned, deep behind enemy lines with no backupâ€“and working with strangers instead of trusted teammates. Matters donâ€™t improve when Darman, the squadâ€™s demolitions expert, gets separated from the others during planetfall. Even Darmanâ€™s apparent good luck in meeting an inexperienced Padawan vanishes once Etain admits to her woeful inexperience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the separated clone commandos and stranded Jedi, a long, dangerous journey lies ahead, through hostile territory brimming with Trandoshan slavers, Separatists, and suspicious natives. A single misstep could mean discovery . . . and death. Itâ€™s a virtual suicide mission for anyoneâ€“anyone except Republic Commandos.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, KAREN TRAVISS has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. She has served in both the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. Since her graduation from the Clarion East class of 2000, her short stories have appeared in\n  <em>\n   Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   On Spec.\n  </em>\n  Her first novel,\n  <em>\n   City of Pearl\n  </em>\n  , was published in 2004 to critical acclaim; her second novel is\n  <em>\n   Crossing the Line\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9525'),
(8963, 'Star Wars - 086 - Boba Fett 01 - The Fight to Survive', 'Terry Bisson;Peter Bolinger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Boba Fett is the son (and clone) of Jango Fett, the most dangerous bounty hunter in the galaxy. But when Jango is killed, Boba must fend for himself -- against some very powerful enemies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10101'),
(8964, 'Star Wars - 087 - Boba Fett 02 - Crossfire', 'Terry Bisson;Peter Bollinger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alone in the world, young Boba Fett must go forth on his path to become a bounty hunter -- even if it means escaping from the evil Count Dooku and getting caught in the midst of the famous Clone Wars.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10100'),
(8965, 'Star Wars - 088 - Boba Fett 03 - Maze of Deception', 'Elizabeth Hand;Peter Bolinger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Boba Fett must regain his fortune -- and battle against both other bounty hunters and Jedi foes -- in this action-packed adventure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9930'),
(8966, 'Star Wars - 089 - Boba Fett 04 - Hunted', 'Elizabeth Hand;Peter Bollinger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Classic Star Wars movies, Boba Fett works for the legendary Jabba the Hutt, tracking down bounties (including Han Solo). Fans have never known how this partnership began . . . until now. Young Boba Fett has nowhere to go -- and is being hunted for what he knows about the evil Count Dooku. Before Boba''s father died, he left instructions for his son to find Jabba the Hutt. Now Boba tracks Jabba down -- and must pass the ultimate test in order to prove he is truly a bounty hunter for the ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9932'),
(8967, 'Star Wars - 090 - Short Story - Republic Commando 00 - Omega Squad Targets', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9521'),
(8968, 'Star Wars - 092 - Shatterpoint', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _â€œThe Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”MACE WINDU\n  <br />\n  _ _Star Wars\n  <em>\n   Episode II:\n  </em>\n  Attack of the Clones\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peaceâ€”and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native worldâ€”to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic . . . and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billabaâ€”Maceâ€™s former Padawan and fellow Council memberâ€”to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatists who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depaâ€™s own voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Mace must journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxyâ€”and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _?The Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers.?\n  <br />\n  ?MACE WINDU\n  <br />\n  _ _Star Wars\n  <em>\n   Episode II:\n  </em>\n  Attack of the Clones\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peace?and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native world?to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic . . . and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba?Mace?s former Padawan and fellow Council member?to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatists who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depa?s own voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Mace must journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxy?and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9531'),
(8969, 'Star Wars - 093 - The Cestus Deception', 'Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi stridesâ€”and soars and plots and duelsâ€”again in this stirring new addition to the Star Wars saga. Hugo nominee Barnes (_Zulu Heart_) picks Kenobi up in middle age during the Clone Wars between the good-guy Republic and the dastardly Confederacy, sending Kenobi''s impetuous Jedi Padawan (apprentice) Anakin Skywalker offstage and Kenobi as ambassador to the remote planet Ord Cestus, now producing new bio-droids able to challenge the Jedi in combat. Accompanied by another Jedi Knight, tentacle-haired Nautolan Kit Fisto, five superbly bred and trained military trooper-clones, and a wondrously conceived giant slug who proves an inspired barrister, Kenobi plunges into Cestan intrigues, trying to avoid Cestus''s destruction and sensing a sinister concealed threat in the nick of time. Loaded with exotic offworlders and vicious baddies, mystical insights from the Force and a poignant love affair between Nate, a clone trooper whose Code demands that he die fighting for the Republic, and Sheeka Tull, a brave and brainy female pilot, this splendid adventure yarn offers a gut-wrenching surprise on nearly every page and a knock-the-socks-off ending nearly as thrilling as Luke Skywalker''s original swoop through the Death Star''s trench. Go for broke, Obi-Wan, and may the Force provide more like this one.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set during the Clone Wars, Barnes'' Star Wars novel focuses on a crucial mission by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Surprised when summoned to Coruscant, Obi-Wan finds his surprise becoming concern when he and fellow Jedi Master Kit Fisto witness a demonstration of JK-thirteen droid, known as a "Jedi Killer." Although Kit defeats it, the Jedi Council has received word that the Confederacy is planning to purchase similar droids en masse from the manufacturer on Cestus. Obi-Wan and Kit, along with five clone troopers, travel to Cestus in hopes of getting the government to agree to halt sale of the deadly droids. But intrigue and danger await them on the planet. The regent is under the sway of the company that is constructing the droids; an important contact is playing both sides; and a deadly female warrior with Jedi training has arrived on Cestus, intent on killing Obi-Wan. A thrilling, worthy addition to the Star Wars universe that should help slake the thirst of fans eagerly awaiting the third prequel movie.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11081'),
(8970, 'Star Wars - 096 - Short Story - Republic Commando 00 - Odds', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9524'),
(8971, 'Star Wars - 097 - Republic Commando 03 - True Colors', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the savage Clone Wars rage unchecked, the Republicâ€™s deadliest warriors face the grim truth that the Separatists arenâ€™t their only enemyâ€“or even their worst.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the Grand Armyâ€™s desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more critical . . . or more dangerous. A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a shocking discovery that shakes their very loyalty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the lines continue to blur between friend and enemy, citizensâ€“from civilians and sergeants to Jedi and generalsâ€“find themselves up against a new foe: the doubt in their own hearts and minds. The truth is a fragile, shifting illusionâ€“and only the approaching inferno will reveal both sides in their true colors.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the author of two Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels, Bloodlines and Sacrafice, and two additional Star Wars: Republic Commando novels, Hard Contact and Triple Zero, as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, and Ally. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. Since her graduation from the Clarion East class of 2000, her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9522'),
(8972, 'Star Wars - 098 - The Clone Wars', 'Karen Traviss;Lucasfilm, Ltd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied â€œChosen Oneâ€ destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibilityâ€“and his chances of survival arenâ€™t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash, inexperienced fourteen-year-old Padawan apprenticed to Anakin. But thereâ€™s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders: He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jabba the Huttâ€™s precious infant son has been kidnapped, and when the frantic parent applies to the Jedi for help, it falls to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and their clone troops to track down the evidence and retrieve the missing Huttlet. And more is at stake: For a grateful Jabba just might allow the Republic access to the Hutt-controlled space lanes that the Grand Army desperately needs in order to beat the Separatists into submission.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Republic is not the only power that craves access to those space lanes. Count Dooku, determined to win the prize for the Separatists, has set a trap for the Jedi. When they find the Huttlet, they will also find Dookuâ€™s master assassin, Asajj Ventress, and countless legions of battle droids waiting to spring a trap.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The blazing new animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars takes place in the years preceding Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and sets the stage for the groundbreaking TV series. Both contain all original materialâ€“direct from the brilliant imagination of legendary\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  creator George Lucas. And these exciting new adventures and characters are being brought to life in book form by none other than\n  <em>\n   #\n  </em>\n  1 New York Times bestselling Star Wars author Karen Traviss.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four Star Wars: Republic Commando novels: Order 66, Hard Contact, Triple Zero, and True Colors; three Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels: Bloodlines, Revelation, and Sacrifice; as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally, and Judge. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. Her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9527'),
(8973, 'Star Wars - 103 - The Clone Wars 01 - Wild Space', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Clone Wars have exploded across the galaxy as Republic forces and Separatists struggle to gain the upper hand. But while the Jedi generals work tirelessly to defeat Count Dooku and his rebels, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is hatching his own dark plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Separatists have launched a sneak attack on Coruscant. Obi-Wan Kenobi, wounded in battle, insists that Anakin Skywalker and his rookie Padawan Ahsoka leave on a risky mission against General Grievous. But when Senator Bail Organa reveals explosive intelligence that could turn the tide of war in the Republicâ€™s favor, the Jedi Master agrees to accompany him to an obscure planet on the Outer Rim to verify the facts. What Obi-Wan and Bail donâ€™t realize is that theyâ€™re walking into a deadly trap concocted by Palpatine . . . and that escape may not be an option.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inspired by the full-length animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the brand-new TV series, this thrilling adventure is filled with provocative, never-before-revealed insights into the characters of Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme, Yoda, Count Dooku, and many other Star Wars favorites.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Miller\n  </strong>\n  was born in Vancouver, Canada, but was raised in Sydney, Australia, where she still lives today. She has worked as a public servant, a receptionist, in the horse industry, in local government, in publishing, in telecommunications, as a college lecturer, and she ran her own science fiction/fantasy/mystery bookshop. So far she''s written six mainstream fantasy novels and two Stargate SG-1 tie-ins.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9778');
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(8974, 'Star Wars - 104 - The Clone Wars 02 - No Prisoners', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Torrent Companyâ€™s Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitousâ€“and insatiably curiousâ€“Padawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeonâ€™s newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an activeâ€“and dangerousâ€“rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republicâ€™s methodsâ€“and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeonâ€“sworn to protect the Republic over allâ€“is torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka, sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena, encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify, the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of three previous Star Wars: Republic Commando novels: Hard Contact, Triple Zero, and True Colors; three Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels: Bloodlines, Revelation, and Sacrifice; as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally, and Judge. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. Her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9518'),
(8975, 'Star Wars - 105 - The Clone Wars 03 - Gambit: Steath', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fantasy author Miller joins the Star Wars universe with a two-part adventure featuring Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi. During the Clone Wars (between Episodes II and III), Anakin and Obi Wan, in command of the clone troops, travel across the galaxy to defend the Republic. In Stealth, the pair go undercover to a remote planet where strange rumors hint at a terrible weapon. Not only must they infiltrate the enemy outpost but they must also face down an old enemy and save the Republic from a massively destructive bioweapon. Miller uses her skill at character development to delve into Anakinâ€™s psyche as he struggles with his love for Padme and his extreme sensitivity to the pain of others. In the limited scope provided in this kind of media tie-in book, Miller manages to excel at both creating action scenes and developing fully fleshed characters. The cliff-hanger ending will leave readers clamoring for the sequel. A must-read for Star Wars fans. --Jessica Moyer\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Planet by planet, darkness creeps across the galaxy. Among warriors and generals, among ordinary beings living in far-flung worlds, the fear will not go away: We are losing this war._ . . . _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anakin Skywalker feels it, too. The Separatist Alliance, with ruthlessness and treachery, is beating the Republic to every strategic target. But after a costly clash with General Grievous for the planet Kothlis, Anakin has a mission that will focus his anxious mind. Alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, he is posing as a long-lost native of Lanteeb, an impoverished world on the Outer Rim. This seemingly unimportant planet has drawn the interest of the Sepsâ€”and Anakin and Obi-Wan soon discover the disturbing reason: A scientist enslaved by General Lok Durd is drawing on Lanteebâ€™s one natural resource for a devastating bioweapon. Now Anakin and Obi-Wan have entered the eye of a storm. Their presence has been exposed, Lok Durdâ€™s plans unveiled, and a fight has begun for survival behind enemy linesâ€”and a chance of winning a war that must be fought at any cost.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9776'),
(8976, 'Star Wars - 108 - Medstar 2 - Jedi Healer', 'Michael Reaves;Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . .\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droidsâ€™ durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell â€œUliâ€ Divini know that time is running out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her deathâ€“and that of countless others. For the conflict is growingâ€“and for this obscure mobile med unit, thereâ€™s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, itâ€™s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . .\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids'' durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell "Uli" Divini know that time is running out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her deathâ€“and that of countless others. For the conflict is growingâ€“and for this obscure mobile med unit, there''s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it''s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9232'),
(8977, 'Star Wars - 109 - Jedi Trial', 'David Sherman;Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The successful military-SF team of Sherman and Cragg (the Starfist series) brings new energy to the Star Wars franchise. Because of a shortage of available Jedi knights, the inexperienced Anakin Skywalker and the disgraced Nejaa Halcyon are sent to the planet Praesitlyn, at the head of a small fleet and army of clone warriors. Praesitlyn is under attack by a horde of combat droids under banker-turned-admiral Pors Tonith, and defended by freelance military commander Capt. Zozridor Slayke, who has a personal score to settle with Jedi Halcyon. Meanwhile, the Republic''s original defenders have left some tough survivors behind, such as fighter pilot Erk H''Arman and recon trooper Odie Subu. The Force is definitely with the good guys, particularly Anakin in the climactic moment of a hostage rescue, but so is plain old-fashioned courage. Human, alien or clone, the characters fight and die, go hungry and thirsty, have hopes, fears and dreams, not unlike the troops patrolling the plains of Iraq today. Count Dooku and Senator Palpatine keep watch for their respective sides, but most of the book stands splendidly independent of the usual concerns of the Star Wars universe.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The action of the latest Star Wars novel transpires between events in the movies\n  <em>\n   Attack of the Clones\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Revenge of the Sith\n  </em>\n  , due in theaters next spring. Anakin Skywalker, pre-Darth Vader, is peeved when his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, announces that he is going on a mission sans Anakin. During Obi-Wan''s absence, Anakin takes up sparring with disgraced fellow Jedi knight Nejaa Halcyon, but the two Jedi aren''t idle long. Separatist troops descend upon the planet Praesitlyn, home to the republic''s Intergalactic Communications Center. The republic can''t afford losing Praesitlyn, so Chancellor Palpatine dispatches Halcyon and Anakin to the planet with an army of clone troops. The pair must liberate the planet, with the help of an unusual ally, who happens to be an old rival of Halcyon. With its oddly named heroes and villains and abundant action,\n  <em>\n   Jedi Trial\n  </em>\n  is pretty standard Star Wars fare. Fans anticipating\n  <em>\n   Revenge of the Sith\n  </em>\n  ''s release, however, will relish the piquing of their appetites it affords.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9422'),
(8978, 'Star Wars - 110 - Yoda, Dark Rendezvous', 'Sean Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The spring 2005 release of\n  <em>\n   Revenge of the Sith,\n  </em>\n  latest of the Star Wars movies, inches closer, and the Star Wars novels are building up to it by chronicling events before Anakin Skywalker''s inevitable turn to the dark side. Stewart''s entry focuses on Yoda, who has just received a message from Count Dooku, his former protege, now a powerful player on the dark side. According to his message, Dooku wants to meet with Yoda to talk about cessation of hostilities between the republic and the separatists. Yoda knows Dooku is trying to deceive him but hopes he might be able to reach his old pupil and convince him to turn away from the dark side. Yoda selects two Jedi knights and their young Padawans (Jedis-in-training) to accompany him on the mission. But with the ominous dreams of one of the Padawans foreshadowing disaster, the Jedi master might not have a chance of surviving, let alone succeeding in, his mission. Stewart delivers an exciting, fast-paced tale.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _As the Clone Wars rage, Jedi Master Yoda must once again face one of his greatest adversaries: Count Dooku. . . .\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of the battle, on Jedi Knight escapes the carnage to deliver a message to Yoda on Coruscant. It appears that Dooku wants peace and demands a rendezvous. Chances are slim that the treacherous Count is sincere but, with a million lives at stake, Yoda has no choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The meeting will take place on Djun, a planet steeped in evil. The challenge could not be more difficult. Can Yoda win back his once promising pupil from the dark side or will Count Dooku unleash his sinister forces against his former mentor? Either way, Yoda is sure of one thing: This battle will be one of the fiercest heâ€™ll ever face.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10111'),
(8979, 'Star Wars - 111 - Boba Fett 05 - A New Threat', 'Elizabeth Hand;Peter Bollinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On his first big assignment for Jabba the Hutt, Boba must confront a new galactic villain -- a sinister force who will play a significant role in the upcoming film StarWars: Episode III!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9931'),
(8980, 'Star Wars - 113 - Labyrinth of Evil', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Author James Luceno returns to the prequel biz with\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil\n  </em>\n  , a novel sure to be required reading for die-hard fans of George Lucas''s galaxy far, far away. Written with Lucas''s blessing, Luceno''s tale leads right to the opening sequence of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith\n  </em>\n  , setting the stage for the fiery conclusion of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the action begins, the Republic and Jedi have seemingly pushed the Separatists and Sith back into the outer reaches of the galaxy thanks to the clone army deployed in\n  <em>\n   Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones\n  </em>\n  . But as victory seems near, the ruthless General Grievous--think Darth Vader on steroids--emerges from the shadows. In the battle against Grievous, Anakin Skywalker--who is a little Vader-ish too these days--and Obi Wan Kenobi find themselves in a race to discover the identity of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and unravel the web of duplicity surrounding the Separatist uprising.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While essential for obsessive fans,\n  <em>\n   Labyrinth of Evil\n  </em>\n  is a clunky novel and Luceno struggles with Lucas''s ungainly and Byzantine plotting. Full of cumbersome,\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  technophillia, the novel merely serves its purpose by fleshing out the thin line between Episodes II and III. True believers will revel in the level of technical detail and tantalizing nuggets of trivia while the less zealous could satisfy their Star Wars cravings by checking out Timothy Zahn''s masterful post-Episode VI works.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, now a Jedi Knight, pursue old enemy Viceroy Gunray, who has been oppressing the intelligent beetles on the planet Cato Neimoidia, in bestseller Luceno''s jaunty contribution to the Star Wars franchise. As the pair venture deep into interstellar space, to some well-drawn if unappetizing worlds, they also cross paths with Separatist leaders Count Dooku, Darth Sidious and General Grievous. Meanwhile, intrigues simmer back on the home planet Coruscant, and doubts grow about the loyalties of the Jedi Knights. The action builds smoothly to the climactic attack by the Separatists under General Grievous on Coruscant, where Anakin''s wife, Senator Amidala, finds herself in mortal peril. While the author does a good job of maintaining excitement without revealing any secrets of the forthcoming final Star Wars movie, this tie-in, unlike some other Star Wars novels, has no features to give it interest apart from its link to the popular film series. Agent, Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary Agency. (On sale Jan. 25)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9564'),
(8981, 'Star Wars - 114 - Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith', 'Matthew Woodring Stover;George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand. . . .As combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader, General Grievous. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine continues to strip away constitutional liberties in the name of security while influencing public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin fears that his secret love, Senator PadmÃ© Amidala, will die. Tormented by unspeakable visions, Anakin edges closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious to strike the final staggering blow against the Republicâ€“and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.Based on the screenplay of the final film in George Lucasâ€™s epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stoverâ€™s novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9533'),
(8982, 'Star Wars - 115 - Republic Commando 04 - Order 66', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After the fierce combat of Hard Contact, Triple Zero, and True Colors comes the spectacular culmination of New York Times bestselling author Karen Travissâ€™s gripping Republic Commando series. As a battle-scarred era nears its end, a shattering power play is about to stun the entire galaxy . . . and set in motion events that will alter destinies and resound throughout history. Even as the Clone Wars are about to reach an explosive climax, no one knows if victory will favor the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) or the Separatists. But no matter who wins, the stakes are highest for elite Special Ops clones like the Republic Commandos in Omega and Delta squadsâ€“and the notorious renegade Advance Recon Commando troopers known as Null ARCs.With Republic forces stretched to the max and casualties mounting, the last thing these beleaguered warriors need to hear is that Chancellor Palpatine is keeping vast armies of secret clone troops in reserve. Sergeant Skirata, a mentor to the clone commandos, has no intention of standing idly by while Palpatine sends them into battle like lambs to the slaughter. Skirata begins to plan the clonesâ€™ escape from the GAR, but his heroic effort will be in vain unless he can reverse the clonesâ€™ accelerated aging process. Caught in the treacherous dealings of their leaders, and locked in the battles of their lives, the disillusioned Null ARCs and Commandos nonetheless fight with everything theyâ€™ve got, determined to wrest victory from the Seps and save the galaxy.But even the deadliest weapons may not be powerful enough to defeat the real menace. And nothing will stop the apocalyptic horror unleashed when Palpatine utters the chilling words The time has come. Execute Order 66. Translation: The Jedi have tried to stage a coup, and all must be shot on sight.With their faith in the Republic and their loyalty to their Jedi allies put to the ultimate test, how will the men of Omega and Delta squads react to the most infamous command in galactic history? All the breathtaking action, suspense, and intrigue of Karen Travissâ€™s Republic Commando series comes alive in Star Wars: Order 66.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9519'),
(8983, 'Star Wars - 116 - Dark Lord - The Rise of Darth Vader', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Force is still to be reckoned with, primarily because Darth Vader continues to be one of the most fascinating dark pop icons since Dracula. Picking up where Matthew Stover''s Revenge of the Sith (2005) left off, Luceno (Labyrinth of Evil) delivers exciting battle scenes and brave characters, including the beloved Wookie, Chewbacca. His ease with Star Wars techno-jargon is admirable. What''s needed in this intermittently entertaining installment is a better opponent for Vader. Unfortunately, Yoda, the spiritual heart of the saga, appears to be in hiding. Instead, Luceno focuses on Jedi knight Roan Shryne; his Padawan sidekick, Olee Starstone; and other survivors of Emperor Palpatine''s Jedi extermination. All appear to be earnest, if pale, imitations of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And where''s Han Solo, far older than the Skywalker twins? Why can''t Vader sense his twins'' existence with his vaunted supernatural abilities? Too often the sympathetic Vader wallows in self-pity. Thankfully, exuberantly evil Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious) returns with more power lessons Vader laps up eagerly: "Where the Jedi gained power through understanding, the Sith gain understanding through power."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Picking up where the last Star Wars movie,\n  <em>\n   Revenge of the Sith\n  </em>\n  , ended,_Dark Lord_ chronicles Anakin Skywalker''s emotional transition from angry young Jedi to cold, ruthless Darth Vader. The novel opens on the planet Murkhana, hours before the clone troopers are given the order to turn on the Jedi and slaughter them. Jedi Master Roan Shryne and Padawan Olee Starstone escape death and manage to get off the planet, but not before getting a glimpse of the deadly Darth Vader, the new Sith lord who is the emperor''s new right-hand man. But the former Anakin Skywalker is still filled with anger and resentment over what he perceives as the betrayal of his wife and his former mentor. As Sidious and Vader work to destroy the remains of the republic, Shryne and Starstone set out to rescue the remaining Jedi, who are spread out throughout the galaxy. Now that all three Star Wars prequel movies are out, expect plenty more novels along the lines of this gripping, fast-paced story.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9566'),
(8984, 'Star Wars - 117 - Imperial Commando - 501st', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandosâ€“the galaxyâ€™s finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fettâ€“find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalore with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirataâ€™s ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Othersâ€“including men from Delta and Omega squadsâ€“now serve as Imperial Commandos, a black ops unit within Vaderâ€™s own 501st Legion, tasked to hunt down fugitive Jedi and clone deserters. For Darman, grieving for his Jedi wife and separated from his son, itâ€™s an agonizing test of loyalty. But heâ€™s not the only one whoâ€™ll be forced to test the ties of brotherhood. On Mandalore, clone deserters and the planetâ€™s own natives, who have no love for the Jedi, will have their most cherished beliefs challenged. In the savage new galactic order, old feuds may have to be set aside to unite against a far bigger threat, and nobody can take old loyalties for granted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of three previous Star Wars: Republic Commando novels:\n  <strong>\n   Hard Contact, Triple Zero,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   True Colors\n  </strong>\n  ; three Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels:\n  <strong>\n   Bloodlines, Revelation\n  </strong>\n  , and\n  <strong>\n   Sacrifice\n  </strong>\n  ; as well as\n  <strong>\n   City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Judge\n  </strong>\n  . A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. Her short stories have appeared in\n  <em>\n   Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy, On Spec,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Star Wars Insider\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9526'),
(8985, 'Star Wars - 122 - The Last of the Jedi 03 - Underworld', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Empire has taken over the galaxy. Anakin Skywalker is now Darth Vader. Most of the Jedi are gone . . . . . . but a few remain. And it is up to former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and his streetsmart sidekick Trever to find them. No lead is too big or too small . . . even if it means walking into a trap set by the Empire.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8875'),
(8986, 'Star Wars - 125 - Coruscant Nights 2 - Street of Shadows', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the Jedi all but wiped out in the grim aftermath of Order 66, the Empireâ€™s power seems unchecked. But one lone Knight continues to fight the good fightâ€“against all odds and when all else fails.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deep in the bowels of Coruscant, Jedi Jax Pavan ekes out a living as a private investigator, a go-to, can-do guy for the downtrodden. Now a mysterious Zeltron knockout named Deejah approaches Jax with a case that needs to be cracked: to find out who killed her artist lover Volette, brutally murdered hours after his triumphant unveiling of a dazzling new light sculpture with obvious links to lightsaber pyrotechnics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finding Voletteâ€™s killer wonâ€™t be easyâ€“too many secrets, too many suspects, and all kinds of motives. But with the droid I-5YQâ€™s help, and ex-reporter Den Dhurâ€™s excellent snooping skills, the investigation is soon operating like a well-oiled machine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, thereâ€™s a far more efficient machine hunting Jax. Itâ€™s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the clock starts ticking toward the final explosive showdown . . . to see who strikes first and who will die first.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Reaves received an Emmy Award for his work on the Batman television animated series. He has worked for DreamWorks, among other studios, and has written fantasy novels and supernatural thrillers. Reaves is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight and Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, as well as the co-writer (with Steve Perry) of Star Wars: Death Star and two Star Wars: MedStar novels: Battle Surgeons and Jedi Healer. He lives in the Los Angeles area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9229'),
(8987, 'Star Wars - 126 - The Last of the Jedi 06 - Return of the Dark Side', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ferus Olin''s allegiance is to the Jedi. But when he''s summoned to see the Emperor, the Sith Lord makes him an offer he can''t refuse. If he can manage to prevent a planet from lunging into chaos, the Empire will spare ferus''s capture friends. And if he doesn''t- they''ll die. Another heart-stopping Jedi adventure from bestselling author Jude Watson.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8873'),
(8988, 'Star Wars - 131 - Coruscant Nights 3 - Patterns of the Force', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the Empireâ€™s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that heâ€™s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscantâ€™s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggleâ€“to unlock the secrets of his fatherâ€™s death and his own past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vaderâ€™s relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because thereâ€™s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Reaves received an Emmy Award for his work on the\n  <strong>\n   Batman\n  </strong>\n  television animated series. He has worked for DreamWorks, among other studios, and has written fantasy novels and supernatural thrillers. Reaves is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Star Wars: Coruscant Nights novels\n  <strong>\n   Jedi Twilight\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Street of Shadows\n  </strong>\n  , and\n  <strong>\n   Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter\n  </strong>\n  , as well as the co-writer (with Steve Perry) of\n  <strong>\n   Star Wars: Death Star\n  </strong>\n  and two Star Wars: MedStar novels:\n  <strong>\n   Battle Surgeons\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Jedi Healer\n  </strong>\n  . He lives in the Los Angeles area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9230'),
(8989, 'Star Wars - 135 - Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gambler, rogue, and con-artiste, Lando Calrissian was born with a well-developed taste for the good life. More comfortable at the dealer''s end of a fast shuffle than at the rear end of a blaster, Lando always had his sensors scanning for the chance to pick up easy credits. So when he heard that the planets of the Rafa System were practically buried in ancient alien treasure, he hopped aboard the Millennium Falcon and brushed up on his rusty astrogation. He never stopped to think that someone might be conning the con man!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10869'),
(8990, 'Star Wars - 136 - Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On a gambling trip to Oseon, the wealthy resort star system, Lando discovers that accidents that nearly destroyed his ship were actually murder attempts by an unknown enemy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10867'),
(8991, 'Star Wars - 137 - Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10868'),
(8992, 'Star Wars - 138 - The Force Unleashed', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe Sith always betray one another. . . . Iâ€™m sure youâ€™ll learn that soon enough.â€The overthrow of the Republic is complete. The Separatist forces have been smashed, the Jedi Council nearly decimated, and the rest of the Order all but destroyed. Now absolute power rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidiousâ€“the cunning Sith lord better known as the former Senator, now Emperor, Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperorâ€™s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader. In turn, the Dark Lord has groomed a lethal apprentice entrusted with a top-secret mission: to comb the galaxy and dispatch the last of his mastersâ€™ enemies, thereby punctuating the dark sideâ€™s victory with the Jediâ€™s doom.Since childhood, Vaderâ€™s nameless agent has known only the cold, mercenary creed of the Sith. His past is a void; his present, the carrying out of his deadly orders. But his future beckons like a glistening black jewel with the ultimate promise: to stand beside the only father he has ever known, with the galaxy at their feet. It is a destiny he can realize only by rising to the greatest challenge of his discipleship: destroying Emperor Palpatine. The apprenticeâ€™s journeys will take him across the far reaches of the galaxy, from the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to the junkyard planet of Raxus Prime. On these missions, the young Sith acolyte will forge an unlikely alliance with a ruined Jedi Master seeking redemption and wrestle with forbidden feelings for his beautiful comrade, Juno Eclipse. And he will be tested as never beforeâ€“by shattering revelations that strike at the very heart of all he believes and stir within him long-forgotten hopes of reclaiming his name . . . and changing his destiny.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8891'),
(8993, 'Star Wars - 140 - Han Solo at Stars End', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Han Solo''s need to bring his starship up to required safety standards and to avoid the Authority brings him and Chewbacca to the desolate Stars'' End and face to face with enemies bent on their destruction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8803'),
(8994, 'Star Wars - 141 - Han Solo&#39;s Revenge', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  RISKY BUSINESS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lured by a profitable venture, freighter captain Han Solo took the job--no questions asked. It was after he and Chewbacca made planetfall and picked up their living cargo that they discovered they were committing a capital crime. And the punishment for slave trading was mandatory execution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thanks to quick thinking by Blue Max, the computer-partner to Han''s ''droid Bollux, Solo and Chewbacca rapidly turned the tables on their notorious employers. But that left them out of work--and figuring someone still owed them ten thousand credits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So Han decided to keep his scheduled meeting with the trader''s shadowy leader. But the person he met didn''t fit his idea of a slave trader.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With good reason. And the truth meant real trouble . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8802'),
(8995, 'Star Wars - 142 - Han Solo and the Lost Legacy', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fabled hoard of the mad tyrant Xim is vast. And as far as Han Solo and Chewbacca are concerned, strictly legendary. But when a little misunderstanding sets the deadliest gunman in the galaxy on Han''s trail, a secret expedition to almost any place becomes highly desirable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8801'),
(8996, 'Star Wars - 147 - Death Troopers', 'Joe Schreiber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  of every horror fanâ€™s dreamsâ€”gory, funny, and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and space-zombies.â€â€”Seth Grahame-Smith, author of\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant . . . This book combines two of my favorite things on earth: the Star Wars universe and the undead.â€â€”Tommy Wirkola, director of\n  <em>\n   Dead Snow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Imperial prison barge Purgeâ€”temporary home to five hundred of the galaxyâ€™s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thievesâ€”breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come backâ€”bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And death is only the beginning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Purgeâ€™s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9990'),
(8997, 'Star Wars - 148 - The Force Unleashed II', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As ruthless apprentice to Darth Vader, Starkiller was mercilessly schooled in the ways of the dark side, commanded to exterminate the last of the purged Jedi Order, and groomed for the ultimate Sith power play: assassination of the Emperor. He served without question, killed without remorse, and lost his heart without warning to beautiful Imperial fighter pilot Juno Eclipse, never suspecting that he was just a tool in the schemes of his mastersâ€”until it was too late to escape their lethal betrayal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Juno mourned Starkiller as dead...but now he is back, purged of all memories and programmed to kill. And as fate brings Juno and Starkiller closer to reuniting, with Darth Vader determined not to lose his assassin a second time, they will both have to make a stand. The prize is freedom. The punishment for failing will be eternal enslavement to the dark side of the Force...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sean Williams is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of twenty-nine novels and more than 60 published short stories for readers of all ages, and has been published around the world in numerous languages, online, and in spoken-word\n  <br />\n  editions. He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including being the first author to win both the Ditmar and the Aurealis for a fantasy novel,\n  <em>\n   The Crooked Letter\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8896'),
(8998, 'Star Wars - 149 - Dark Forces 1 - Soldier for the Empire', 'William C. Dietz;Dean Williams;George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  , writer William Dietz and painter Dean Williams have accomplished something rare among the numerous spinoffs of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  films: a story that captures the essence of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  while charting new territory in terms of character development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story is a simple one. Like Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn is a young farm boy who dreams of the stars. But for Kyle, the way off his home world is through the Imperial Military Academy, not through a Jedi mentor. Just as Kyle reaches the end of his training in a vicious firefight on a Rebel-held asteroid, his father, Morgan, is killed in an Imperial attack. As he learns the truth behind his father''s death, Kyle is awakened to a terrifying vision of the Empire that he has grown to respect, and he suddenly finds himself working for the Rebels to steal plans for the newly completed Death Star.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By integrating Kyle''s tale into the actual plot of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , Deitz makes his novel especially relevant for\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fans. But what really drives\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  are the grim details that bring the war to life. Dietz''s vision of the Empire recounts the awesome discipline of Nazi Germany, and his descriptions of Dark Jedi Jerec are reminiscent of the twisted minds that must always stand behind organized evil. At the same time, by going inside the Empire (and into the psyches of Storm Troopers), Dietz reveals the seductive power of that evil. Dean Williams''s award-winning paintings are a perfect complement to the story, creating a cinematic life for the text. Kyle''s tale continues in\n  <em>\n   Rebel Agent\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Jedi Knight\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-After Kyle''s father is killed by an evil Jedi and Kyle has come over to the positive side of the Force, he discovers that his father has left behind the secret to the Valley of the Jedi. Kyle accepts the power of the Force and begins his initiation as a Jedi Knight even as he battles great odds to prevent misuse of the valley. Aided by his female superior officer, he completes his quest for the highly guarded information. As the story ends, they acknowledge their love for one another and as Luke Skywalker arrives, they begin plans for the next great adventure. Dietz moves the story along with plenty of battle scenes and odd space-alien life-forms. There is a seemingly never-ending supply of technological wonders and weapons. Blood flows freely, both humanoid and from the multitude of beings that inhabit that particular space environment. Droids appear frequently and carry the same importance as their humanoid counterparts. Action takes place inside of trees; along narrow passages; across the great expanse of space; and in, under, and through all sorts of buildings. For young adults who enjoy CD-ROM interactive games like Star Wars or reading space adventures, this second part of the trilogy will be of interest. A caveat: the book does differ from the LucasArts Dark Forces game.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10652'),
(8999, 'Star Wars - 150 - Death Star', 'Michael Reaves;Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Action sf (and Star Wars) veterans join forces to tell the story of the first Death Star from the point of view of its imperial builders. We see Grand Moff Tarkin, when he''s not making love to Admiral Dalaa, sweating blood to assemble the materials and manpower necessary for the empire''s superweapon. We see a seasoned gunnery officer slightly daunted by the power of the weapon he controls and eventually horrified by the results of its first full-power test on Alderaan. We see a firm friendship emerging between a civilian cantina bouncer and a martial-arts adept who probably is Force sensitive. We see a young architect imprisoned for her political dissidence arguing about the exhaust port that provided the fatal weakness of the Death Star against the Alliance attack. A fighter pilot defends the imperial construction site and ends up piloting a getaway ship for likeminded fellows for whom the empire has finally gone over the line. And Darth Vader kibitzes, believing his study of the Force outweighs any number of Death Stars in potential value. Dedicated SW readers, on the other hand, won''t kibitz much, if at all, but revel in this splendid job of jacking up the tip of George Lucas'' universe and shoving a well-wrought iceberg under it. Green, Roland\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTHATâ€™S NO MOON.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Obi-Wan Kenobi\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Death Starâ€™s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itselfâ€“equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation of the planet Alderaan, at the merciless command of Grand Moff Tarkin, lives in infamy. And its own ultimate destruction, at the hands of Luke Skywalker, is the stuff of legend. But what is the whole story, and who are the players, behind the creation of this world-killing satellite of doom?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The near extermination of the Jedi order cleared the way for Palpatineâ€“power-hungry Senator and Sith Lordâ€“to seize control of the Republic, declare himself Emperor, and usher in a fearsome, totalitarian regime. But even with the dreaded Darth Vader enforcing Palpatineâ€™s sinister will, the threat of rebellion still looms. And the Emperor knows that only abject fearâ€“and the ability to punish dissent with devastating consequencesâ€“can ensure his unchallenged control of the galaxy. Enter ambitious and ruthless government official Wilhuff Tarkin, architect of the Emperorâ€™s terrifying dream come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From inception to completion, construction of the unprecedented Death Star is awash in the intrigues, hidden agendas, unexpected revelations, and daring gambits of those involved on every level. The brightest minds and boldest egos, the most ambitious and corrupt, the desperate and the devious, all have a stake in the Death Starâ€“and its potential to control the fate of the galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soldiers and slaves, loyalists and Rebels, spies and avengers, the innocent and the evilâ€“all their paths and fates will cross and intertwine as the Death Star moves from its maiden voyage to its final showdown. And a shadowy chapter of Star Wars history is stunningly illuminated in a thrilling, unforgettable adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9231'),
(9000, 'Star Wars - 154 - Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today''s leading writers of science fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jazz riffs in the universe.  But beware your fellow denizens of this pangalactic watering hole, for they are cutthroats and cutpurses, assassins and troopers, humans and aliens, gangsters and thieves....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring original stories by:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson * Doug Beason * M. Shayne Bell * David Bischoff * A.C.\n  <br />\n  Crispin * Kenneth C. Flint * Barbara Hambly * Rebecca Moesta * Daniel Keys\n  <br />\n  Moran * Jerry Oltion * Judith &amp; Garfield Reeves-Stevens * Jennifer Roberson\n  <br />\n  * Kathy Tyers * Tom Veitch &amp; Martha Veitch * Dave Wolverton * Timothy\n  <br />\n  Zahn\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today''s leading writers of science fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jazz riffs in the universe.  But beware your fellow denizens of this pangalactic watering hole, for they are cutthroats and cutpurses, assassins and troopers, humans and aliens, gangsters and thieves....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring original stories by:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson * Doug Beason * M. Shayne Bell * David Bischoff * A.C.\n  <br />\n  Crispin * Kenneth C. Flint * Barbara Hambly * Rebecca Moesta * Daniel Keys\n  <br />\n  Moran * Jerry Oltion * Judith &amp; Garfield Reeves-Stevens * Jennifer Roberson\n  <br />\n  * Kathy Tyers * Tom Veitch &amp; Martha Veitch * Dave Wolverton * Timothy\n  <br />\n  Zahn\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10375'),
(9001, 'Star Wars - 159 - Rebel Force 1 - Target', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars moviesEpisode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI:Return of the Jedicomes to a Scholastic series. Expect new missions, newrevelations, and a whole new side of the saga.It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: TheForce itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend onthe adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and ahost of other heroes....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10672');
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(9002, 'Star Wars - 160 - Rebel Force 2 - Hostage', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars moviesEpisode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI:Return of the Jedicomes to a Scholastic series. Expect new missions, newrevelations, and a whole new side of the saga.It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: TheForce itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend onthe adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and ahost of other heroes....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10671'),
(9003, 'Star Wars - 161 - Rebel Force 3 - Renegade', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: the Force itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a host of other heroes. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10667'),
(9004, 'Star Wars - 162 - Rebel Force 4 - Firefight', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Deadly assassin X-7 has never failed to complete a mission--until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unmasked and unarmed, he narrowly escapes from the Rebels with his life and little else. His cover may be blown, but he''s not returning to Commander Rezi Soresh until his target has been eliminated. This time, he has a new plan. He''ll gather six of the best pilots in the galaxy-all of them roguish mercenaries who care nothing about money-and turn them loose on Red Squadron.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He counts on his pilot''s mercenary instincts to keep them in line. But one of them has a secret that could cost X-7 his victory.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10668'),
(9005, 'Star Wars - 163 - Rebel Force 5 - Trapped', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke has escaped death at the hands of deadly assassin X-7 once again, but the battle isnt over yet.Unless Luke and the Rebels can figure out who X-7 is, and who hes working for, the entire Alliance is in danger. Their investigations lead them to a top-secret Empire project and Rezi Soresh, a commander who will do anything--anything--to ensure Imperial victory.Of course, Soresh isnt the only one looking for Luke Skywalker. Drawn by both the Force and his duties for the Emperor, Darth Vader circles ever closer to our heroes...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10669'),
(9006, 'Star Wars - 164 - Rebel Force 6 - Uprising', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca have been sent to the planet Tessacor, a long-time Rebel sympathizer. In need of some help on that side of the galaxy, Luke is looking forward to a mission that doesn''t involve risking his neck.  That is, until they show up and find that a group of teenage Imperials has staged a coup, overthrowing the capital city''s government and taking control, enacting the Empire''s protocols and ruthlessly suppressing dissent.  Caught off-guard, our heroes must persuade the young leaders to join their cause . . . or find themselves at the mercy of the Empire once more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10670'),
(9007, 'Star Wars - 185 - Galaxy of Fear 01 - Eaten Alive', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enter the Star Wars universe....Zak and Tash Arranda, and their guardian, Uncle Hoole, have landed on the planet D''vouran. Nothing seems out of the ordinary at first. D''vouran is a beautiful planet, rich in natural resources and inhabited by friendly, hospitable creatures. And meeting the famous Rebels Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker in the local cantina is very cool. But something about the planet is not quite right. People seem to be disappearing into thin air. Can Tash find the courage to trust her gut instincts...before it''s too late?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enter the Star Wars universe....Zak and Tash Arranda, and their guardian, Uncle Hoole, have landed on the planet D''vouran. Nothing seems out of the ordinary at first. D''vouran is a beautiful planet, rich in natural resources and inhabited by friendly, hospitable creatures. And meeting the famous Rebels Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker in the local cantina is very cool. But something about the planet is not quite right. People seem to be disappearing into thin air. Can Tash find the courage to trust her gut instincts...before it''s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10810'),
(9008, 'Star Wars - 186 - Galaxy of Fear 02 - City of the Dead', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hoole, Zak, and Tash have come to the planet Necropolos, hoping to buy a new ship to replace the Lightrunner. Necropolos is kind of creepy--it has the biggest cemetery in the galaxy, which doesn''t exactly make it much of a tourist spot. When nefarious bounty hunter Boba Fett comes into town, claiming that people he has killed in Necropolos have come back to life, Zak and Tash know something very weird is going on. Zak accepts a dare to go into the Necropolos cemetery at midnight. But maybe he should have thought twice. Just because the bodies are buried, that doesn''t mean they''re dead.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hoole, Zak, and Tash have come to the planet Necropolos, hoping to buy a new ship to replace the Lightrunner. Necropolos is kind of creepy--it has the biggest cemetery in the galaxy, which doesn''t exactly make it much of a tourist spot. When nefarious bounty hunter Boba Fett comes into town, claiming that people he has killed in Necropolos have come back to life, Zak and Tash know something very weird is going on. Zak accepts a dare to go into the Necropolos cemetery at midnight. But maybe he should have thought twice. Just because the bodies are buried, that doesn''t mean they''re dead.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10817'),
(9009, 'Star Wars - 188 - Galaxy of Fear 04 - The Nightmare Machine', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hologram Fun World. It''s a theme park visited by families from all across the galaxy. It''s a place where Tash and Zak can safely hang out while Hoole continues his work. It''s a place where daytime fun turns into nighttime terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the park''s attractions is called the Nightmare Machine. It scans your brain, then shows you your worst fears in holographic form. Hairy, creepy-crawly insects. Cyborrean battle dogs thirsting for blood. But it''s not real, so it''s fun--right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Zak and Tash will soon find out, nightmares can come true.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hologram Fun World. It''s a theme park visited by families from all across the galaxy. It''s a place where Tash and Zak can safely hang out while Hoole continues his work. It''s a place where daytime fun turns into nighttime terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the park''s attractions is called the Nightmare Machine. It scans your brain, then shows you your worst fears in holographic form. Hairy, creepy-crawly insects. Cyborrean battle dogs thirsting for blood. But it''s not real, so it''s fun--right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Zak and Tash will soon find out, nightmares can come true.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10816'),
(9010, 'Star Wars - 189 - Galaxy of Fear 05 - Ghost of the Jedi', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hoole, Tash, and Zak are in trouble. They''ve ruined one too many of the Empire''s twisted experiments, and they''re on the run from ultra-evil mad scientist Borborygmus Gog.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They go to Nespis 8, an abandoned space station. There are rumors that the space station is cursed and haunted by dead Jedi. But Hoole, Tash, and Zak discover something much scarier than dead Jedi on Nespis 8.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hoole, Tash, and Zak are in trouble. They''ve ruined one too many of the Empire''s twisted experiments, and they''re on the run from ultra-evil mad scientist Borborygmus Gog.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They go to Nespis 8, an abandoned space station. There are rumors that the space station is cursed and haunted by dead Jedi. But Hoole, Tash, and Zak discover something much scarier than dead Jedi on Nespis 8.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10820'),
(9011, 'Star Wars - 190 - Galaxy of Fear 06 - Army of Terror', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hoole, Tash, Zak and Deevee head for Kiva, a dark world on the Outer Rim. Somehow, Hoole knows that is where Gog''s laboratory lies. There, Tash and Zak will finally learn Hoole''s terrible secret. And they''ll come face-to-face with a horrifying new creature, the very first soldier in Gog''s Army of Terror. The creature is a combination of every one of Gog''s horrible experiments, and there is only one way to defeat him. Can Tash and Zak figure out the answer before it''s too late? (Digest)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10813'),
(9012, 'Star Wars - 191 - Galaxy of Fear 07 - The Brain Spiders', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zak and Tash are looking forward to accompanying Hoole on his latest project--studying the B''omarr monks of Tatooine. The only problem is, the monks live in the palace of nefarious crime lord Jabba the Hutt. But Hoole promises Tash and Zak that they''ll be safe there. The monks are weird. The most enlightened ones are just disembodied brains in jars that walk around on spidery, robotic legs. And when one of the monks decides he wants to learn more about the Force, Tash better watch out or she might lose her head. Online promo.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10814'),
(9013, 'Star Wars - 192 - Galaxy of Fear 08 - The Swarm', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Uncle Hoole wants to study the S''krrr--a race of creatures that look like giant bugs. While Hoole works, Zak and Tash visit the S''krrr''s huge garden--it''s the most beautiful place they have ever seen. It''s also full of very strange creatures. When a batlike shreev swoops down at Zak, he panics and accidentally kills it. Suddenly, the garden is overrun by big beetles. When Zak wakes up in the middle of the night covered with creepy crawly bugs, he''s terrified. Did Zak upset the garden''s delicate ecological balance by killing the shreev? Or is something far more sinister at work? (Digest) .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Uncle Hoole wants to study the S''krrr--a race of creatures that look like giant bugs. While Hoole works, Zak and Tash visit the S''krrr''s huge garden--it''s the most beautiful place they have ever seen. It''s also full of very strange creatures. When a batlike shreev swoops down at Zak, he panics and accidentally kills it. Suddenly, the garden is overrun by big beetles. When Zak wakes up in the middle of the night covered with creepy crawly bugs, he''s terrified. Did Zak upset the garden''s delicate ecological balance by killing the shreev? Or is something far more sinister at work?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10815'),
(9014, 'Star Wars - 193 - Galaxy of Fear 09 - Spore', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole stop on the planet Ithor for supplies, including a mineral the Shroud needs for its engines. The mineral isn''t available on Ithor, but one of the Ithorians knows where they can find it--on a mining colony in the middle of a space slug-filled asteroid belt. The journey to the colony is filled with many dangers. But nothing prepares Hoole, Tash, and Zak for what they meet when they reach their destination. An ancient life-form has been released from its tomb. It has lurked there, waiting, for many years. It cannot be seen. It is made from pure evil. And its name is Spore.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole stop on the planet Ithor for supplies, including a mineral the Shroud needs for its engines. The mineral isn''t available on Ithor, but one of the Ithorians knows where they can find it--on a mining colony in the middle of a space slug-filled asteroid belt. The journey to the colony is filled with many dangers. But nothing prepares Hoole, Tash, and Zak for what they meet when they reach their destination. An ancient life-form has been released from its tomb. It has lurked there, waiting, for many years. It cannot be seen. It is made from pure evil. And its name is Spore.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10819'),
(9015, 'Star Wars - 194 - Galaxy of Fear 10 - The Doomsday Ship', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bug swarms, space slugs, brains on legs, mad Imperial scientists--Zak has had enough! He''s glad to be on board the luxury space yacht, Star of Empire, where at last, there''s peace and quiet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until--"Abandon ship! Critical meltdown!" As a blaring siren sounds, panic-stricken passengers rush to get off the ship. Everyone evacuates...except Zak and Tash. But to their relief, nothing happens. There''s no meltdown, no explosion. Everything is fine. Except that the ship''s exits are sealed and all communications have been shut down. Zak and Tash are trapped. And they are not alone.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bug swarms, space slugs, brains on legs, mad Imperial scientists--Zak has had enough! He''s glad to be on board the luxury space yacht, Star of Empire, where at last, there''s peace and quiet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until--"Abandon ship! Critical meltdown!" As a blaring siren sounds, panic-stricken passengers rush to get off the ship. Everyone evacuates...except Zak and Tash. But to their relief, nothing happens. There''s no meltdown, no explosion. Everything is fine. Except that the ship''s exits are sealed and all communications have been shut down. Zak and Tash are trapped. And they are not alone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10818'),
(9016, 'Star Wars - 195 - Galaxy of Fear 11 - Clones', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tash Arranda can''t believe her eyes. Here, in an abandoned Rebel base on the remote planet Dantooine, she has just seen her parents. Her dead parents. Is she losing her mind?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Tash spies the one being in the galaxy she least wants to see--Darth Vader. It seems the Empire has tracked them down at last. But what Tash doesn''t know is that this is only the beginning of a terrifying journey into an evil world, where she''ll be forced to fight her own brother and uncle...to the death!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tash Arranda can''t believe her eyes. Here, in an abandoned Rebel base on the remote planet Dantooine, she has just seen her parents. Her dead parents. Is she losing her mind?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Tash spies the one being in the galaxy she least wants to see--Darth Vader. It seems the Empire has tracked them down at last. But what Tash doesn''t know is that this is only the beginning of a terrifying journey into an evil world, where she''ll be forced to fight her own brother and uncle...to the death!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10811'),
(9017, 'Star Wars - 196 - Galaxy of Fear 12 - The Hunger', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A survey team crash-lands on an unknown planet. The planet is dark, and its fetid swamps are filled with flesh-eating flowers, fearsome swamp slugs, and deadly dragonsnakes. No one hears the survey team''s distress signals. They are stranded. Thirty years later, Zak and Tash and their uncle Hoote, with Boba Fett in pursuit, land on the planet. Descendants of the survey team--half-starved and crazed with fevers--are still alive. They call themselves the Children, and how they have survived is a mystery. Does the strange creature named Yoda have the answer?.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A survey team crash-lands on an unknown planet. The planet is dark, and its fetid swamps are filled with flesh-eating flowers, fearsome swamp slugs, and deadly dragonsnakes. No one hears the survey team''s distress signals. They are stranded.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirty years later, Zak and Tash Arranda and their uncle Hoole, with Boba Fett in hot pursuit, land on the planet. Descendants of the survey team--half-starved and crazed with strange fevers--are still alive. They call themselves the Children, and how they have survived is a mystery. Does the strange creature named Yoda have the answer?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10812'),
(9018, 'Star Wars - 197 - Galaxies - The Ruins of Dantooine', 'Voronica Whitney-robinson;Hayden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Enter the explosive universe of the exciting online game\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   STAR WARS\n  </em>\n  GALAXIES:\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   AN EMPIRE DIVIDED\n  </em>\n  !\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  It is a time of great turmoil. The oppressive Empire is close to seizing complete control of the galaxy. The ragtag guerrilla army of the Rebel Alliance fights on, striking wherever it can, but now something has come to light that could spell certain doom. Hidden in the Jedi ruins of Dantooine is a Holocron containing a list of high-level Rebel sympathizers. If that list were to fall into the hands of Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance would lose its most valued supportâ€”and possibly the war itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As an Imperial bio-engineer who frequently visits other worlds, Dusque Mistflier is the perfect cover for a Rebel who needs to travel far and wide without arousing suspicion. And so she agrees to help Rebel spy Finn Darktrin in his quest to recover the crucial Holocron. Despite help from Han, Luke, and Leia, the mission is fraught with peril. And as their journey takes them into the fiery belly of the beast that is galactic civil war, Dusque and Finn will learn that the hardest part of all is figuring out whose side youâ€™re onâ€”and how far youâ€™re willing to go to win. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Enter the explosive universe of the exciting online game\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   STAR WARS\n  </em>\n  GALAXIES:\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   AN EMPIRE DIVIDED\n  </em>\n  !\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  It is a time of great turmoil. The oppressive Empire is close to seizing complete control of the galaxy. The ragtag guerrilla army of the Rebel Alliance fights on, striking wherever it can, but now something has come to light that could spell certain doom. Hidden in the Jedi ruins of Dantooine is a Holocron containing a list of high-level Rebel sympathizers. If that list were to fall into the hands of Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance would lose its most valued support?and possibly the war itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As an Imperial bio-engineer who frequently visits other worlds, Dusque Mistflier is the perfect cover for a Rebel who needs to travel far and wide without arousing suspicion. And so she agrees to help Rebel spy Finn Darktrin in his quest to recover the crucial Holocron. Despite help from Han, Luke, and Leia, the mission is fraught with peril. And as their journey takes them into the fiery belly of the beast that is galactic civil war, Dusque and Finn will learn that the hardest part of all is figuring out whose side you?re on?and how far you?re willing to go to win. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9473'),
(9019, 'Star Wars - 198 - Splinter of the Mind&#39;s Eye', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to the planet Circarpous. But he discovered that hidden on the planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible. In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10695'),
(9020, 'Star Wars - 199 - Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back', 'Donald F. Glut;George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Rebels'' defeat at the Battle of Hoth to the battle between Luke and Darth Vader,\n  <em>\n   The Empire Strikes Back\n  </em>\n  continues the story of Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and the others as they struggle to overthrow the evil Galactic Empire. This abridgment of the classic story is complemented by nearly 150 two-color illustrations--based on images from the film--drawn by Brandon McKinney in a style reminiscent of comic books from the 1950s.\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fans of all ages will be delighted with this beautiful little gift book.\n  <em>\n   --C.B. Delaney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  1998 Lucasfilm Ltd. STAR WARS , THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK , RETURN OF THE JEDI (TM) and THX and associated elements and logos are property of Lucasfilm Ltd. All content (e.g., clips, stills, designs, artwork, etc.) is protected by intellectual property laws and any use other than for private, non-commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  STAR WARS 1977, 1998 Lucasfilm Ltd.; The Empire Strikes Back 1980, 1998 Lucasfilm Ltd.; Return of the Jedi 1983, 1998 Lucasfilm Ltd.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10445'),
(9021, 'Star Wars - 200 - Tales of the Bounty Hunters', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Stephen Youll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down the scum  of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of  the most successful-and feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life... Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers and Dave Wolverton.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful-and feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life... Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers and Dave Wolverton.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10366'),
(9022, 'Star Wars - 201 - Shadows of the Empire', 'Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Xizor, the Dark Prince and underlord of the criminal organization Black Sun, plots to kill Luke Skywalker to usurp Darth Vader''s position with the Emperor. Perry is the first novelist authorized by George Lucas to reveal what happened to the familiar Star Wars characters between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Highly recommended for fans of the series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yet another prolific action-sf writer has been recruited to labor on the Star Wars series, George Lucas'' stupendous mingled-media creation. The results are something of a mixed bag but, on the whole, more agreeable than not. The story takes place between the events of\n  <em>\n   The Empire Strikes Back\n  </em>\n  and those of\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi\n  </em>\n  , with Luke continuing his self-training as a Jedi knight and everybody else trying to track down and unfreeze Han Solo before Boba Fett delivers him to Jabba the Hutt. Unfortunately, Darth Vader is looking for his son (Luke--remember?), to turn him to the dark side of the Force, and a nonhuman criminal mastermind who makes Jabba look like a shoplifter--Prince Xizor of the Black Sun--is also after Luke, to take vengeance on Darth Vader for killing his family. We see a good deal of Vader''s ambivalence toward both his son and his emperor, which led to the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Return\n  </em>\n  , and Perry handles the multitudinous details of the increasingly complex Star Wars universe as competently as he deals with characters and pacing. A solid rather than an outstanding effort in the reliably popular SW canon.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10690'),
(9023, 'Star Wars - 202 - Tales from the Empire', 'Peter Schweighofer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collection of 13 short stories by nine authors is an outgrowth from the Star Wars Adventure Journal and the Star Wars role-playing games. Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Kathy Tyers, Patricia A. Jackson, Laurie Burns, Charlene Newcomb, Tony Russo, Angela Phillips, and Erin Endom have written engaging tales about the peripheral characters?rather than the stars Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker?who add to the rich tapestry of George Lucas''s space opera. Recommended where demand for Star Wars material is high.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Culled from the pages of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars Adventure Journal,\n  </em>\n  one of the most popular\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  magazines in the field today, comes this exciting new short-story collection.  Here are stories from such award-winning and\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling authors as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole and Kathy Tyers as well as exciting newcomers, including Erin Endom, Laurie Burns, and Patricia A. Jackson.  From the desperate flight of a civilian mail courier carrying vital Rebel intelligence through an Imperial blockade, to a suicidal commando raid on an impregnable Imperial prison, to a Corellian smuggler mysteriously hired by an actor turned Jedi Knight turned Imperial assassin for one final transformation, these tales capture all the high adventure, imaginative genius, and nonstop action that are the hallmarks of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  saga.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s more, the centerpiece of this magnificent collection is the short novel\n  <em>\n   Side Trip,\n  </em>\n  the first-ever collaboration between Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, in which a freighter smuggling arms for the Rebels is commandeered by an Imperial Star Destroyer led by a mysterious helmeted figure who claims to be the notorious bounty hunter Jodo Kast.  It is all part of a devious plan that includes Hal and Corran Horn, who are working undercover to nail the infamous Corellian warlord Zekka Thyne. But one slip-up can get them all killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Collected for the first time,\n  <em>\n   Star Wars(r): Tales from the Empire\n  </em>\n  is one book no fan will want to be without.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (r), TM and (c) 1997 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10872'),
(9024, 'Star Wars - 203 - Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi', 'James Kahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifteen years after the dramatic success of National Public Radio''s adaptation of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , the production team re-formed to create\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama\n  </em>\n  . Though the running time is scaled down to three hours, listeners are still treated to an expanded story line and new scenes. Another fine cast is assembled, with radio series veterans Perry King and Ann Sachs as Han Solo and Leia Organa, and newcomer Joshua Fardon as an excellent Luke Skywalker. While Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) is the only actor from the film, Ed Begley Jr. contributes a gravely voiced Boba Fett, John Lithgow adds a rather somber Yoda, and Edward Asner, hopefully not being typecast, makes a believable Jabba the Hutt--though only an expert would be able to tell if his Huttese pronunciation is correct. The characters of this radio production inhabit a stereo soundscape created by careful blending of sound effects and John Williams''s music from the original films. As with the two previous productions--_Star Wars_ and\n  <em>\n   The Empire Strikes Back\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Jedi\n  </em>\n  is a treat for the ears--and the mind''s eye. Any\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fan will enjoy this production, even though it does mean imagining rather than seeing Anakin with his mask and helmet off or Luke defeating the Rancor. Besides, the Ewoks are much less annoying when you can''t see them. (Running time: 3 hours, 3 cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --C.B. Delaney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stunning production, first heard on National Public Radio, is a must for all fans of science fiction,\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , or radio drama. It''s a truly "cinematic" audio program, with outstanding production values, full stereo sound, vivid sound effects, and dramatic music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The acting is superb....HighBridge previously produced successful NPR productions of the first two part of the trilogy...and this final chapter should prove as phenomenally popular as the first two. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Billboard_, January 11, 1997\n </p>\n <p>\n  Winner of the Audie Award for Best Production of 1997 [brought to you by HighBridge Audio]. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Audio Publishers Association_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Winner of the Listen Up Award for Best Science Fiction of 1996 --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Publishers Weekly_, January 6, 1997\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11054'),
(9025, 'Star Wars - 205 - Tales from Jabba&#39;s Palace', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Stephen Youll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the more prolific--and proficient--_Star Wars_ authors, Kevin J. Anderson, edits and contributes to this anthology of ... well, tales from Jabba''s palace. Each of the 19 short tales focuses on a different personality, from the rancor keeper to Salacious Crumb, putting faces and facts on the internecine intrigue swirling around everyone''s favorite Huttese crime lord. (As it turns out, you\n  <em>\n   can\n  </em>\n  find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.) Find out how Bib Fortuna hoped to overthrow Jabba, or hear the philosophical ramblings of a not-so-bright teenage skiff guard. Or, perhaps best, learn how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Style, mood, and quality vary by author, but these\n  <em>\n   Tales\n  </em>\n  are mostly funny and mostly well done, including those by Anderson,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  author A.C. Crispin, Nebula-winner George Alec Effinger, and Hugo-winner Timothy Zahn.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren''t so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba''s grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring original stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, Dan''l Danehy-Oakes, George Alec Effinger, Kenneth C. Flint, Esther Friesner, Barbara Hambly, Daryl F. Mallett, J.D. Montgomery, Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Deborah Wheeler, Dave Wolverton, William F. Wu, Timothy Zahn.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10377'),
(9026, 'Star Wars - 206 - The Bounty Hunter Wars 01 - The Mandalorian Armor', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This story, book 1 of the\n  <em>\n   Bounty Hunter Wars\n  </em>\n  trilogy, intercuts between the time just after\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  and events that take place during\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi\n  </em>\n  . It''s an intricate tapestry of deceit and backstabbing villainy among those scum of the galaxy, the bounty hunters. Principal scum include: Prince Xizor, a Darth Vader wannabe and leader of the ultrasecret crime syndicate Black Sun; reptilian Cradossk, leader of the Bounty Hunters Guild; his son, Bossk, who makes Oedipus look like an underachiever; and finally Boba Fett--faceless, ruthless, and impossible to kill. Thought the Sarlacc consumed him in\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi\n  </em>\n  ? Guess again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This first novel only kicks off the trilogy''s story, so while there is some action, there''s also much talking and scheming, and the overall plot is only beginning to become clear by the book''s end. Curiously, since everyone is so wretchedly evil, there''s really no hero to root for--a marked contrast to the usually quite romantic\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  tales. This explains, perhaps, why K.W. Jeter was chosen to author the trilogy. Jeter, once Philip K. Dick''s protÃ©gÃ©, tends to avoid anything upbeat or uplifting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tony Award nominee Anthony Heald doesn''t just read the book, he performs it, using countless different voices. He''s backed up by music and sound effects that make\n  <em>\n   The Mandalorian Armor\n  </em>\n  into a full-fledged audio drama. Fans of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fiction and Boba Fett in particular will be pleased with this further exploration of Lucas''s rich universe. Newcomers, though, might want to start with something more traditional.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A ruthless enemy threatens Boba Fett with a fate worse than death. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10619'),
(9027, 'Star Wars - 207 - The Bounty Hunter Wars 02 - Slave Ship', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "How many times, wondered Boba Fett, could he die--and yet not die? Someday it would be all over for him..."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fett fans take note:\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Slave Ship\n  </em>\n  features the (in)famous bounty hunter as he chases after the largest bounty ever offered--by tracking down renegade stormtrooper Trhin Voss''on''t. The story, book 2 in The Bounty Hunter Wars series, jumps back and forth between the time of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: New Hope\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi\n  </em>\n  in a series of convoluted plot twists that involve everyone from Emperor Palatine and Darth Vader to Zuckuss and Bossk. Written by well-known SF writer K.W. Jeter (whose first novel,\n  <em>\n   Dr. Adder\n  </em>\n  , was praised by Philip K. Dick as "stunning"),\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Slave Ship\n  </em>\n  is in many ways a perfect serial novel--it raises as many new questions for the next installment as it solves from the previous one. Neelah''s identity is finally revealed, but how did she end up in Jabba the Hutt''s palace? You''ll have to wait and see.\n  <em>\n   --C.B. Delaney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A ruthless enemy threatens Boba Fett with a fate worse than death. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10618'),
(9028, 'Star Wars - 208 - The Bounty Hunter Wars 03 - Hard Merchandise', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A ruthless enemy threatens Boba Fett with a fate worse than death. . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Boba Fett fears only one enemy--the one he cannot see....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy''s most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies....\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Prince Xizor in the murder of Luke Skywalker''s aunt and uncle, Fett makes himself an enemy even he fears: the unknown mastermind behind a monstrous deception, who will kill to hide his tracks. Fett also finds himself in possession of an amnesiac young woman named Neelah, who may be the key to the mystery--or a decoy leading Fett into a murderous ambush. Fett''s last hope is to run through the list of Xizor''s hidden enemies. And since Xizor''s hidden enemies are almost as legion as Fett''s, the chance of survival is slim--even for someone as skilled and relentless as Boba Fett.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© 1999 Lucasfilm Ltd. and TM.  All rights reserved.  Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10617'),
(9029, 'Star Wars - 208 - Truce at Bakura', 'Kathy Tyers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No sooner has Darth Vader''s funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal: total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura - or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve. Even as the Alliance arrives, the aliens have almost overcome the Bakura Imperial garrison, whose desperate commander will accept help from any quarter - even Rebel - against an insidious foe that enslaves human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction. While marshalling the tattered Imperial forces, Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia must win the trust and cooperation of the Bakurans. For although Imperial Governor Nereus has granted the Rebels temporary amnesty there is the possibility of treachery among those whose first allegiance lies with the Empire. On the eve of the final explosive onslaught, Rebel and Imperial forces must finally come to terms with each other ... or lose the entire galaxy to the hideous servitude promised by a victorious alien enemy. Capturing the sweep and excitement of the original Star Wars saga, The Truce at Bakura plants a seed of hope for peace, sees the formation of a timeless love, and stands witness to a Jedi''s undying sacrifice to defend humanity against analien nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10116'),
(9030, 'Star Wars - 209 - Tales from the New Republic', 'Peter Schweighofer;Craig Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yet another\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  Tales collection,\n  <em>\n   Tales from the New Republic\n  </em>\n  rescues a sheaf of stories that never saw publication in West End''s now-kaput\n  <em>\n   Official Star Wars Adventure Journal\n  </em>\n  , with the addition of a tag-team novella by\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fiction demigods Timothy Zahn (Hugo-winning author of Specter of the Past) and Mike Stackpole (founding member of the Rogue Squadron). This above-average anthology delivers on the same promise as other Tales collections, fleshing out hidden details in the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  universe, with notable appearances by Mara Jade, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, Hal Horn, Talon Karrde, Kyp Durron, and the book''s only true heavy-hitter--Boba Fett, in a fun, comic-book style frontal assault on a not-so-invincible Imperial garrison. The stories prove to be winners for the most part, with a good mix of old-hand authors and new bloods, but the Zahn-Stackpole collaboration is undoubtedly the star of the show.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written by some of today''s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and warriors fight toe to toe, side by side, and behind each other''s backs in the backwaters of a universe ripped apart by war. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Zelos II a man and a woman are held prisoner in a dark cell, each fighting in their own way for survival at the hands of Imperial captors -- and a chance for escape that could cost one of them their life. On the tortured landscape of Ryloth, Fenig Nabon awaits a ship of women warriors to complete a dangerous deal: the smuggling of a troupe of dancers to the homeworld of the Hutts -- only to get more than she bargained for. And in a stunning new novella written especially for this collection by Hugo Award-winning,_ New York Times_ bestselling author Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, believed dead at the hands of an Imperial assassin, teams up with Hal Horn in a duel against the Empire''s most dangerous agent. At stake are the plans for a terrifying new weapon called the Death Star -- and the fate of both the Empire and the New Republic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10871'),
(9031, 'Star Wars - 210 - Jedi Prince 01 - The Glove of Darth Vader', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Soon after Luke, Princess Leia, and Han help restore the ways of the Old Republic, they must face the machinations of the surviving Imperial warlords who have been fighting among themselves for power.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the Rebel Alliance have fought valiantly against the evil Galactic Empire. Together they have kept alive the hopes for freedom, and helped restore the ways of the Old Republic with its wise Senate and noble line of Jedi Knights. But now a new threat awaits the Alliance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Within the evil Empire, the surviving Imperial warlords have been fighting among themselves for power. No one knows who will seize control, but the Prophets of the Dark Side have foretold that soon a new Emperor will arise, and on his right hand he shall wear an indestructible symbol of evil. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10061'),
(9032, 'Star Wars - 211 - Jedi Prince 02 - The Lost City of the Jedi', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having secured the glove of Darth Vader, Trioculus receives a warning that a Jedi Prince will be a threat to his reign and must be destroyed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trioculus, a three-eyed mutant, has arisen as the self-appointed leader of the Empire. The hopes of the Rebel Alliance rest on a young Jedi Prince growing up in an underground city beneath the rain forests of the fourth moon of Yavin. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10059'),
(9033, 'Star Wars - 212 - Jedi Prince 03 - Zorba the Hutts Revenge', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the members of the Rebel Alliance fight to keep alive their hope for freedom and to restore the ways of the Old Republic, Trioculus makes plans to abduct Princess Leia and Zorba makes plans to kill her.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trioculus is determined to steal Princess Leia away from Han Solo and make her his dark queen. But when Zorba the Hutt discovers his son Jabba has been murdered by the princess, he takes off for Cloud City to seek his revenge. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10063'),
(9034, 'Star Wars - 213 - Jedi Prince 04 - Mission from Mount Yoda', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kadann, Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side, arrives at the Rebel fortress located atop Mount Yoda, and plots to capture and destroy the carbonized body of Trioculus and take control of the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dying planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A desperate mission.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And a prophecy of doom for the Rebel Alliance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But now a mysterious visitor comes to the Rebel fortress located atop Mount Yoda, bringing ominous news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kadann, Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side, plots to capture and destroy the carbonized body of Trioculus and take control of the Empire. Meanwhile, the Rebel Alliance races to save the archaeologists of the dying planet Duro, only to discover an incredible mystery in the underground tunnels, a secret that depends on a perilous... Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10062'),
(9035, 'Star Wars - 214 - Jedi Prince 05 - Queen of the Empire', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trioculus kidnaps Princess Leia, with the intentions of making her queen of the Empire, but his plans are foiled by the return of Zorba the Hutt and by the determined struggle of the Rebel Alliance.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But the ultimate defeat of the Imperial forces could come from within the Empire itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Imperial grand moffs are in revolt against the Prophets of the Dark Side. As the Alliance struggles with its latest weapon, project Decoy, Princess Leia is kidnapped by an old enemy, then menaced by the surprise appearance of another evil foe--one obsessed with turning Leia to the Dark Side and making her the... Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10060');
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(9036, 'Star Wars - 215 - Jedi Prince 06 - Prophets of the Dark Side', 'Paul Davids;Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The battle against the evil empire rages on as members of the Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. By rescuing an imperial prisoner, they face possibly disastrous consequences.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But by rescuing an Imperial prisoner, have the Rebels brought disaster upon themselves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  While on a perilous quest in the mushroom forests of Arzid, Luke and Ken are captured by Kadann, Supreme Imperial Prophet. Having tempted the young Jedi Prince into revealing the location of the Lost City of the Jedi, the Supreme Prophet plans to steal the ancient knowledge of the Jedi Knights. Now Kadann will rule over a new tyrannical empire, as foretold by the...\n  <em>\n   Prophets Of The Dark Side\n  </em>\n  Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10064'),
(9037, 'Star Wars - 216 - Dark Forces 2 - Rebel Agent', 'William C. Dietz;Ezra Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  , writer William Dietz and painter Dean Williams have accomplished something rare among the numerous spinoffs of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  films: a story that captures the essence of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  while charting new territory in terms of character development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story is a simple one. Like Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn is a young farm boy who dreams of the stars. But for Kyle, the way off his home world is through the Imperial Military Academy, not through a Jedi mentor. Just as Kyle reaches the end of his training in a vicious firefight on a Rebel-held asteroid, his father, Morgan, is killed in an Imperial attack. As he learns the truth behind his father''s death, Kyle is awakened to a terrifying vision of the Empire that he has grown to respect, and he suddenly finds himself working for the Rebels to steal plans for the newly completed Death Star.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By integrating Kyle''s tale into the actual plot of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , Deitz makes his novel especially relevant for\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fans. But what really drives\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  are the grim details that bring the war to life. Dietz''s vision of the Empire recounts the awesome discipline of Nazi Germany, and his descriptions of Dark Jedi Jerec are reminiscent of the twisted minds that must always stand behind organized evil. At the same time, by going inside the Empire (and into the psyches of Storm Troopers), Dietz reveals the seductive power of that evil. Dean Williams''s award-winning paintings are a perfect complement to the story, creating a cinematic life for the text. Kyle''s tale continues in\n  <em>\n   Rebel Agent\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Jedi Knight\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-After Kyle''s father is killed by an evil Jedi and Kyle has come over to the positive side of the Force, he discovers that his father has left behind the secret to the Valley of the Jedi. Kyle accepts the power of the Force and begins his initiation as a Jedi Knight even as he battles great odds to prevent misuse of the valley. Aided by his female superior officer, he completes his quest for the highly guarded information. As the story ends, they acknowledge their love for one another and as Luke Skywalker arrives, they begin plans for the next great adventure. Dietz moves the story along with plenty of battle scenes and odd space-alien life-forms. There is a seemingly never-ending supply of technological wonders and weapons. Blood flows freely, both humanoid and from the multitude of beings that inhabit that particular space environment. Droids appear frequently and carry the same importance as their humanoid counterparts. Action takes place inside of trees; along narrow passages; across the great expanse of space; and in, under, and through all sorts of buildings. For young adults who enjoy CD-ROM interactive games like Star Wars or reading space adventures, this second part of the trilogy will be of interest. A caveat: the book does differ from the LucasArts Dark Forces game.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10653'),
(9038, 'Star Wars - 217 - Dark Forces 3 - Jedi Knight', 'Various;William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  , writer William Dietz and painter Dean Williams have accomplished something rare among the numerous spinoffs of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  films: a story that captures the essence of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  while charting new territory in terms of character development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story is a simple one. Like Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn is a young farm boy who dreams of the stars. But for Kyle, the way off his home world is through the Imperial Military Academy, not through a Jedi mentor. Just as Kyle reaches the end of his training in a vicious firefight on a Rebel-held asteroid, his father, Morgan, is killed in an Imperial attack. As he learns the truth behind his father''s death, Kyle is awakened to a terrifying vision of the Empire that he has grown to respect, and he suddenly finds himself working for the Rebels to steal plans for the newly completed Death Star.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By integrating Kyle''s tale into the actual plot of\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , Deitz makes his novel especially relevant for\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fans. But what really drives\n  <em>\n   Soldier for the Empire\n  </em>\n  are the grim details that bring the war to life. Dietz''s vision of the Empire recounts the awesome discipline of Nazi Germany, and his descriptions of Dark Jedi Jerec are reminiscent of the twisted minds that must always stand behind organized evil. At the same time, by going inside the Empire (and into the psyches of Storm Troopers), Dietz reveals the seductive power of that evil. Dean Williams''s award-winning paintings are a perfect complement to the story, creating a cinematic life for the text. Kyle''s tale continues in\n  <em>\n   Rebel Agent\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Jedi Knight\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-After Kyle''s father is killed by an evil Jedi and Kyle has come over to the positive side of the Force, he discovers that his father has left behind the secret to the Valley of the Jedi. Kyle accepts the power of the Force and begins his initiation as a Jedi Knight even as he battles great odds to prevent misuse of the valley. Aided by his female superior officer, he completes his quest for the highly guarded information. As the story ends, they acknowledge their love for one another and as Luke Skywalker arrives, they begin plans for the next great adventure. Dietz moves the story along with plenty of battle scenes and odd space-alien life-forms. There is a seemingly never-ending supply of technological wonders and weapons. Blood flows freely, both humanoid and from the multitude of beings that inhabit that particular space environment. Droids appear frequently and carry the same importance as their humanoid counterparts. Action takes place inside of trees; along narrow passages; across the great expanse of space; and in, under, and through all sorts of buildings. For young adults who enjoy CD-ROM interactive games like Star Wars or reading space adventures, this second part of the trilogy will be of interest. A caveat: the book does differ from the LucasArts Dark Forces game.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10654'),
(9039, 'Star Wars - 218 - Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are dead. The Empire has been toppled by the triumphant Rebel Alliance, and the New Republic is ascendant. But the struggle against the dark side and the Sith Order is not over. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and their faithful comrades have had little time to savor victory before being called on to defend the newly liberated galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Powerful remnants of the vanquished Empire, hungry for retaliation, are still at large, committing acts of piracy, terrorism, and wholesale slaughter against the worlds of the fledgling New Republic. The most deadly of these, a ruthless legion of black-armored Stormtroopers, do the brutal bidding of the newly risen warlord Shadowspawn. Striking from a strategically advantageous base on the planet Mindor, they are waging a campaign of plunder and destruction, demolishing order and security across the galaxyâ€“and breeding fears of an Imperial resurgence. Another reign of darkness beneath the boot-heel of Sith despotism is something General Luke Skywalker cannot, and will not, risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mobilizing the ace fighters of Rogue Squadronâ€“along with the trusty Chewbacca, See-Threepio, and Artoo-Detooâ€“Luke, Han, and Leia set out to take the battle to the enemy and neutralize the threat before itâ€™s too late. But their imminent attack on Mindor will be playing directly into the hands of their cunning new adversary. Lord Shadowspawn is no freshly anointed Sith Chieftain but in fact a vicious former Imperial Intelligence officerâ€“and Prophet of the Dark Side. The Emperorâ€™s death has paved the way for Shadowspawnâ€™s return from exile in the Outer Rim, and mastery of ancient Sith knowledge and modern technology has given him the capability to mount the ultimate power play for galaxy wide dominion. Dark prophecy has foretold that only one obstacle stands in his way, and he is readyâ€“even eagerâ€“for the confrontation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the classic heroes, all the explosive action and adventure, all the unparalleled excitement of Star Wars come breathlessly alive as the adventures of Luke Skywalker continue.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matthew Stover\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Star Wars novels\n  <strong>\n   Revenge of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Shatterpoint\n  </strong>\n  , and T\n  <strong>\n   he New Jedi Order: Traitor\n  </strong>\n  , as well as\n  <strong>\n   Caine Black Knife\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   The Blade of Tyshalle\n  </strong>\n  , and\n  <strong>\n   Heroes Die\n  </strong>\n  . He is an expert in several martial arts. Stover lives outside Chicago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9534'),
(9040, 'Star Wars - 219 - X-Wing 01 - Rogue Squadron', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  They are sleek, swift, and deadly. The are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best -- the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  books of the last thirty years!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   You''re good, Corran, but you''re no Luke Skywalker.\n  </em>\n  Corran Horn''s cheek still burned at the memory of Commander Antilles''s evaluation of his last simulator exercise.  The line had been a simple comment, not meant to be cruel nor delivered that way, but it cut deep into Corran.  _I''ve never tried to suggest I''m _that\n  <em>\n   good of a pilot.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shook his head.  _No, you just wanted it to be self-evident and easily recognized by everyone around you.  _Reaching out he flicked the starter switches for the X-wing simulator''s engines.  "Green One has four starts and is go." All around him in the cockpit various switches, buttons, and monitors flashed to life.  "Primary and secondary power is at full."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ooryl Qrygg, his Gand wingman, reported similar start-up success in a high-pitched voice.  "Green Two is operational."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Green Three and Four checked in, then the external screens came alive projecting an empty starfield.  "Whistler, have you finished the navigation\n  <br />\n  calculations?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The green and white R2 unit seated behind Corran hooted, then the navdata spilled out over.  Corran''s main monitor He punched a button sending the same coordinates out to the other pilots in Green Flight.  "Go to light speed and rendezvous on the\n  <em>\n   Redemption."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Corran engaged the X-wing''s hyperdrive, the stars elongated themselves into white cylinders, then snapped back into pinpoints and began to revolve slowly, transforming themselves into a tunnel of white light.  Corran fought the urge to use the stick to compensate for the roll.  In space, and especially hyperspace, up and down were relative.  How his ship moved through hyperspace didn''t really matter--as long as it remained on the course Whistler had calculated and had attained sufficient velocity before entering hyperspace, he''d arrive intact.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flying into a black hole would actually make this run easier.\n  </em>\n  Every pilot dreaded the\n  <em>\n   Redemption\n  </em>\n  run.  The scenario was based on an Imperial attack on evacuation ships back before the first Death Star had been destroyed. While the\n  <em>\n   Redemption\n  </em>\n  waited for three Medevac shuttles and the corvette\n  <em>\n   Korolev\n  </em>\n  to dock and off-load wounded, the Imperial frigate\n  <em>\n   Warspite\n  </em>\n  danced around the system and dumped TIE fighters and bombers out to do as much damage as they could.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bombers, with a full load of missiles, could do a\n  <em>\n   lot\n  </em>\n  of damage. All the pilots called the\n  <em>\n   Redemption\n  </em>\n  scenario by another name: the\n  <em>\n   Requiem\n  </em>\n  scenario.  The\n  <em>\n   Warspite\n  </em>\n  would only deploy four starfighters and a half-dozen bombers--known in pilot slang as "eyeballs" and "dupes" respectively-- but it would do so in a pattern that made it all but impossible for the pilots to save the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.\n  </em>\n  The corvette was just one big target, and the TIE bombers had no trouble unloading all their missiles into it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stellar pinpoints elongated again as the fighter came out of hyperspace.  Off to the port side Corran saw the\n  <em>\n   Redemption.\n  </em>\n  Moments later Whistler reported that the other fighters and all three Medevac shuttles had arrived. The fighters checked in and the first shuttle began its docking maneuver with the\n  <em>\n   Redemption.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green One, this is Green Four."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Go ahead, Four"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the\n  <em>\n   book,\n  </em>\n  or are we doing something fancy? "\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran hesitated before answering.  By\n  <em>\n   book,\n  </em>\n  Nawara Ven had referred to the general wisdom about the scenario.  It stated that one pilot should play\n  <em>\n   fleethund\n  </em>\n  and race out to engage the first TIE flight while the other three fighters remained in close as backup.  As long as three fighters stayed at home, it appeared, the\n  <em>\n   Warspite\n  </em>\n  dropped ships off at a considerable distance from the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.\n  </em>\n  When they didn''t, it got bolder and the whole scenario became very bloody.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The problem with going by the book was that it wasn''t a very good strategy.  It meant one pilot had to deal with five TIEs--two eyeballs and three dupes--all by himself, then turn around and engage five more.  Even with them coming in waves, the chances of being able to succeed against those odds were slim.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Doing it any other way was disastrous.  _Besides, what loyal son of Corellia ever had any use for odds?_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the book.  Keep the home fires burning and pick up after me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Done.  Good luck."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thanks." Corran reached up with his right hand and pressed it against the lucky charm he wore on a chain around his neck.  Though he could barely feel the coin through his gloves and the thick material of his flight suit, the familiar sensation of the metal resting against his breastbone brought a smile to his face.  _It worked for you a lot, Dad, let''s hope all its luck hasn''t run out yet._\n </p>\n <p>\n  Isle openly acknowledged that he''d been depending quite a bit on luck to see him through the difficulties of settling in with the Alliance forces. Learning the slang took some work-- moving from calling TIE starfighters "eyeballs" to calling Interceptors "squints" made a certain amount of sense, but many other terms had been born of logic that escaped him.  Everything about the Rebellion seemed odd in comparison to his previous life and fitting in had not been easy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Nor will be winning this scenario.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Korolev\n  </em>\n  materialized and moved toward the\n  <em>\n   Redemption,\n  </em>\n  prompting Corran to begin his final check.  He''d mulled the scenario over in his mind time and time again.  In previous runs, when he served as a home guard to someone else''s\n  <em>\n   fleethund,\n  </em>\n  he''d had Whistler record traces on the TIE timing patterns, flight styles, and attack vectors.  While different cadets flew the TIE half of the simulations, the craft dictated their performance and a lot of their initial run sequence had been preprogrammed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A sharp squawk from Whistler alerted Corran to the\n  <em>\n   Warspite''s\n  </em>\n  arrival. "Great, eleven kicks aft." Pulling the stick around to the right, Corran brought the X-wing into a wide turn.  At the end of it he punched the throttle up to full power.  Hitting another switch up to the right, he locked the S-foils into attack position.  "Green One engaging."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rhysati''s voice came cool and strong through the radio.  "Be all over them like drool on a Hutt."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll do my best, Green Three." Corran smiled and waggled the X-wing as he flew back through the Alliance formation and out toward the\n  <em>\n   Warspite.\n  </em>\n  Whistler announced the appearance of three TIE bombers with a low tone, then brought the sound up as two TIE fighters joined them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whistler, tag the bombers as targets one, two, and three." As the R2 unit complied with that order, Corran pushed shield power full to front and brought his laser targeting program up on the main monitor. With his left hand he adjusted the sighting calibration knob on the stick and got the two fighters.\n  <em>\n   Good, looks like three klicks between the eyeballs and the bombers.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran''s right hand again brushed the coin beneath his flight suit.  He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, then settled his hand on the stick and let his thumb hover over the firing button.  At two klicks the heads-up display painted a yellow box around the lead TIE fighter.  The box went green as the fighter''s image locked into the HUD''s targeting cross and Whistler''s shrill bleat filled the cockpit.  Corran''s thumb hit the button, sending three bursts of laser bolts at the lead fighter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first set missed but the second and third blasted through the spherical cockpit.  The hexagonal solar panels snapped off and spun forward through space while the ion engines exploded into an expanding ball of incandescent gas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran kicked the X-wing up in a ninety-degree snap-roll and sliced through the center of the explosion.  Laser fire from the second fighter lit up his forward shields, making it impossible for him to get a good visual line on the TIE. Whistler yowled, complaining about being a target.  Corran hurried a shot and knew he hit, but the TIE flashed past and continued on in at the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Time to write a new chapter for the\n  </em>\n  book\n  <em>\n   on the\n  </em>\n  Requiem\n  <em>\n   scenario\n  </em>\n  . _ _Corran throttled hack almost all the way to zero and let the X-wing decelerate.  "Whistler, bring up target one."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of the first TIE bomber filled his monitor.  Corran switched over to proton torpedo target control.  The HUD changed to a larger box and Whistler began beeping as he worked supplying data to the targeting computer for a missile lock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green One, your velocity is down to one percent.  Do you need help?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Negative, Green Two."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Corran, what are you doing?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Making the\n  <em>\n   book\n  </em>\n  a short story."\n  <em>\n   I hope\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The HUD went red and Whistler''s tone became constant.  Corran punched the button and launched the first missile.  "Acquire target two." The HUD flashed yellow, then red, and the pilot launched the second missile.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Numbers scrolled away to zero as the missiles streaked in at their targets. Two kilometers away the first missile hit, shredding the first TIE bomber. Seconds later the second missile hit its target.  A novalike explosion lit the simulator''s cockpit, then melted into the blackness of space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Acquire target three."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even as he gave the order he knew the rate of closure between the bomber and his ship would make the last missile shot all but impossible.  "Cancel three." Corran throttled up again as the third bomber sailed past and brought his ship around.  He switched back to laser targeting and climbed right up on the bomber''s stern\n </p>\n <p>\n  The dupe''s pilot tried to evade him.  He juked the double-hulled ship to the left, then started a long turn to the right, but Corran was of no mind to lose him.  He cut his speed, which kept the bomber in front of him, then followed it in its turn.  As he leveled out again on its tail, he triggered two laser bursts and the targeting computer reported hull damage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bomber''s right wing came up in a roll and Corran did the same thing.  Had he continued to fly level, the X-wing''s lasers would have passed on either side of the bomber''s fuselage, giving the bomber a few seconds more of life. Keeping the bomber centered in his crosshairs, Corran hit twice more and the bulky craft disintegrated before him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pushing his throttle to full, Corran scanned for the fighter he''d missed.  He found it two klicks out and going in toward the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.\n  </em>\n  He also found five more TlEs coming in from the other side of the corvette, eighteen kilometers away.  _Damn, tile bomber took more time than I had to give it._\n </p>\n <p>\n  He brought the torpedo targeting program back up and locked on to the remaining fighter.  The HUD seemed to take forever before it went red and acquired a lock.  Corran fired a missile and watched it blast through the fighter, then turned his attention to the new TlEs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green One, do you want us to engage?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran shook his head.  "Negative, Two.  _Warspite _is still here and could dump another flight." He sighed.  "Move to intercept the fighters, but don''t go beyond a klick from the\n  <em>\n   Korolev."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "On it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Good, they can tie the fighters up while I dust these devils.\n  </em>\n  Corran studied the navigational data Whistler was giving him.  The\n  <em>\n   Korolev,\n  </em>\n  the bombers, and his X-wing formed a shrinking triangle.  If he flew directly at the bombers he would end up flying in an arc, which would take more time than he had and let them get close enough to launch their mis siles at the corvette. That would be less than useless as far as he was concerned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whistler, plot me an intercept point six klicks out from the\n  <em>\n   Korolev."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The R2 whistled blithely, as if that calculation was so simple even Corran should have been able to do it in his head.  Steering toward it, Corran saw he''d have just over a minute to deal with the bombers before they were in firing range on the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.  Not enough time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Flicking two switches, Corran redirected generator energy from recharging his shields and lasers into the engines.  It took the acceleration compensator a second to cycle up, so the ship''s burst of speed pushed Corran back into the padding of his command seat.  _Taxis better work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green One, the\n  <em>\n   Warspite\n  </em>\n  has hyped.  Are we released to engage fighters?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Affirmative, Three.  Go get them." Corran frowned for a second, knowing his fellow pilots would make short work of the TIE fighters.  They would deny him a clean sweep, but he''d willingly trade two TlEs for the corvette.  _Commander Antilles might have gotten them all himself, but then he''s got two Death Stars painted on the side of his X-wing._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whistler, mark each of the bombers four, five, and six." Range to intercept was three Licks and he had added thirty seconds to his fighting time. "Acquire foun"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The targeting computer showed him to be coming in at a forty-five-degree angle to the flight path of his target, which meant he was way off target.  He quickly punched the generator back into recharging lasers and his shields, then pulled even more energy from his quartet of Incom 4L4 fusial thrust engines and shunted it into recharging his weapons and\n </p>\n <p>\n  The resource redirection brought his speed down.  Corran pulled back on the stick, easing the X-wing into a turn that brought him head-on into the bombers. Tapping the stick to the left, he centered the targeting box on the first of the dupes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The HUD started yellow, then quickly went red.  Corran fired a missile. "Acquire five." The HUD started red and Whistler''s keen echoed through the cockpit.  The Corellian fired a second missile.  "Acquire six."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whistler screeched.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran looked down at his display.  Scrolling up the screen, sandwiched between the reports of mlssile hits on the three bombers, he saw a notation about Green Two.  "Green Two, report."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s gone, One."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fighter got him?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No time to chat..." The radio call from the Twi''lek in Green Four ended in a hiss of static.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rhysati? "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Got one, Corran, but this last one is good."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hang on."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll do my best."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whistler, acquire six."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The R2 unit hissed.  The last bomber had already shot past the intercept point and was bearing in on the\n  <em>\n   Korolev.\n  </em>\n  The pilot had the widebodied craft slowly spinning, making it a difficult target for a missile lock.  The\n  <em>\n   Korolev,\n  </em>\n  being as big as it was, would present large enough of a target that even a rolling ship could get a lock on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _And once he has that lock, the\n  <em>\n   Korolev is\n  </em>\n  so much space junk.\n  <em>\n   Corran switched back to lasers and pushed his X-wing forward.  Even though two Licks separated them, he triggered a couple of laser blasts. He knew his chances of hitting were not good at that range, but the light from the bolts wou shoot past the TIE and give the pilot something to think about.\n  </em>\n  And I want him thinking about me, not that _nerf-vette\n  <em>\n   grazing there.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corran redirected all power back into the engines and shot forward.  Two more laser blasts caused the TIE bomber to shy a bit, but it had pushed into target-acquisition range.  The ship''s roll began to slow as the pilot fixated on his target, then as Corran brought his lasers to bear, the bomber jinked and cut away to port.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Corellian''s eyes narrowed.  _Bror Jace has got to _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10962'),
(9041, 'Star Wars - 221 - X-Wing 03 - The Krytos Trap', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population, and fomenting a counter-revolution, at the same time as the treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. And X-wing pilot Corran Horn, given up for dead in "Iceheart"''s inescapable prison, discovers an extraordinary power in himself--the power of the Force!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population, and fomenting a counter-revolution, at the same time as the treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. And X-wing pilot Corran Horn, given up for dead in "Iceheart"''s inescapable prison, discovers an extraordinary power in himself--the power of the Force!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10950'),
(9042, 'Star Wars - 222 - X-Wing 04 - The Bacta War', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Alliance Fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, tyrant Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. Undermanned, deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron must oppose Isard''s plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  books of the last thirty years!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Alliance Fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, tyrant Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. Undermanned, deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron must oppose Isard''s plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10951'),
(9043, 'Star Wars - 225 - X-Wing 07 - Solo Command', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a fast-moving and exciting installment in the X-wing series, the third by Aaron Allston. Once again, Wedge Antilles, "Face" Loran, and the other pilots of Rogue and Wraith squadrons are up against the Warlord Zsinj, who this time is trying to foment mistrust and fear between the human and non-human allies of the New Republic. A series of assassinations by Twi''leks and Gotals has led to the Provisional Council withdrawing all members of these races from active duty. Wedge suspects the aliens have been brainwashed, but it won''t be easy to prove.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To defeat Zsinj, the Rogues must destroy his flagship--the super star destroyer Iron Fist--but first they have to persuade Zsinj to risk it in battle. In an attempt to draw him into the open, they mock up a copy of the Millennium Falcon and use it to attack Zsinj''s many business interests.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring a guest appearance by General Han Solo, this is a well-written addition to the X-wing series. Allston develops excellent camaraderie between the pilots as they play elaborate practical jokes on one another between missions. And there are plenty of missions, with at least half a dozen set-piece engagements, some in space, some planetside, all described in loving and convincing detail.\n  <em>\n   --Elizabeth Sourbut\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Their covert mission has been a success. The enemy has been vanquished. Or so they thought. The Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist somehow escaped destruction and with it the New Republic''s greatest threat, the infamous warlord Zsinj. To defeat him, Wraith Squadron must join a combat task force led by the only man crafty enough to beat Zsinj at his own game: Han Solo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Zsinj knows the X-wing fighters'' indomitable courage is both their greatest strength--and their greatest weakness. For even against the most overwhelming odds, the Rebels will fight to the death. And that will leave Zsinj the galaxy''s unchallenged master!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9469'),
(9044, 'Star Wars - 226 - The Courtship of Princess Leia', 'Dave Wolverton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wolverton ( Serpent Catch ) attempts to add nuance and intrigue to the smash-bang atmosphere that propelled to the stratosphere the Star War movies and Timothy Zahn''s three books set in that universe. Readers of the present installment, whose events occur after the films but before Zahn''s works, likely already know who Princess Leia will marry, so Wolverton deserves high marks just for making the journey along the road to the inevitable interesting. He generally avoids comic book-style action and artificial climaxes such as having a major character appear to die only to be redeemed at the last moment, but his concentration on familiar characters is disappointing. Though there is plenty of graphic violence, true depth is lacking. All in all, the novel raises expectations for Wolverton''s future works once he moves on to other things. 375,000 first printing; TV advertising.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Still at war with the Empire, the fledgling New Republic receives an offer of alliance with the 63 worlds of the Hapes Consortium, provided that Princess Leia will marry its heir, Prince Isolder. As Gen. Han Solo and Isolder fight a cosmic battle for Leia''s heart, the discovery of a conspiracy of dark-force wielders lures Luke, Han, Leia, and Isolder to a rendezvous with danger on the mysterious planet Dathomir. Wolverton ( On My Way to Paradise , LJ 12/89) is a vivid scene builder, capturing the cinematic flavor of the Star Wars universe while expanding on the outer reaches of the galaxy. Regrettably, his characterizations just miss the mark. There will probably be a demand for this title despite its shortcomings. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/94.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9406'),
(9045, 'Star Wars - 228 - Tatooine Ghost', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SPECIAL BONUS INSIDEâ€”the exclusive story "A Forest Apart," previously available in e-book format only!\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Han and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republic. . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian artâ€”lost after the planetâ€™s destructionâ€”has resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secretâ€”the code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would spell disaster. The only option is recoveryâ€”and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence, the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooineâ€™s savage Tusken Raiders, Leiaâ€™s emotional struggle over the specter of her infamous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as long-buried secrets at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny . . . and that of the New Republic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SPECIAL BONUS INSIDE?the exclusive story "A Forest Apart," previously available in e-book format only!\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Han and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republic. . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art?lost after the planet?s destruction?has resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secret?the code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would spell disaster. The only option is recovery?and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence, the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooine?s savage Tusken Raiders, Leia?s emotional struggle over the specter of her infamous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as long-buried secrets at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny . . . and that of the New Republic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9920'),
(9046, 'Star Wars - 229 - Thrawn Trilogy 01 - Heir to the Empire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- This first book in a trilogy takes place five years after Return of the Jedi (Ballantine, 1983) by James Kahn. Han and Leia are now married and expecting twins; Luke is continuing his training as a Jedi, while training Leia. The Republic is at peace, having defeated Darth Vader and the evil Empire. Enter Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, with his rogue Jedi knight. They attack the Republic and attempt to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for their own nefarious purposes. It''s great fun to romp with the\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  Star Wars'''' cast of humans, droids, and aliens again. While it is not on a par with Zahn''s creative, powerful works such as Cascade Point (Baen, 1987), Heir is well written for what it is. Recommended for YA collections needing a Star Wars fix. --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA2-\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s five years after\n  <em>\n   Return of the Jedi:\n  </em>\n  the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the last of the emperor''s warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the new Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build. The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale--in short, a story worthy of the name\n  <em>\n   Star Wars.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9763'),
(9047, 'Star Wars - 231 - Thrawn Trilogy 03 - The Last Command', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Heir to The Empire was a number-one New York Times bestseller and the science-fiction publishing event of the year. Dark Force Rising continued the gripping new adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the other heroes of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now the saga concludes with The Last Command, the climactic volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn. It is five years after the events of Return of The Jedi. The fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has not only rallied the remaining Imperial forces but has driven the rebels back with an abominable new technology: clone soldiers. Hopes are dim as Thrawn mounts a final siege against the Republic. While Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a wary alliance of smugglers in a last-ditch attack against the Empire, Leia keeps the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. But the Empire has too many ships and too many clones to combat. The Republic''s only hope lies in sending a small force, led by Luke, into the very stronghold that houses Thrown''s terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits. The Dark Jedi C''baoth schemes in his secret fortress, directing the battle against the rebels, nursing his insanity and building his strength to finish what he had already started - the destruction of Luke Skywalker. An odyssey of fast-paced action, stunning revelation, and final confrontation, The Last Command spans a galaxy in flames - a tale that will conclude in this third and last installment as Good and Evil battle "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9767'),
(9048, 'Star Wars - 236 - I, Jedi', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Corran Horn, hero of Rogue Squadron and former Corellian Security Force officer, has a problem: his wife, Mirax, has disappeared while on a secret mission. In his struggle to rescue his wife, Horn joins Luke Skywalker''s Jedi academy as a charter recruit, befriends Mara Jade, tangles with a 4,000-year-old Sith lord, and goes undercover to infiltrate a notorious band of pirates. But what will he do when he finds himself faced with a dilemma--surrender to the dark side of the force or risk losing Mirax forever?\n </p>\n <p>\n  This abridgment (though approved by the licensor) causes some serious gaps in the story--major events are merely mentioned in passing, while others are described in great detail--but fans may be placated by sound effects and John Williams''s music from the original\n  <em>\n   Star Wars Trilogy\n  </em>\n  . Tony Award-nominee Anthony Heald performs with his usual aplomb, providing distinctive voices for a wide range of characters and heightening the tension when necessary. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --C.B. Delaney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of the popular Star Wars X-Wing series breaks into hardcover with this lavish novel, which takes place when Han and Leia''s twins are about three years old. Corran Horn, a former Corellian police officer turned Rogue Squadron pilot, learns that he has a Jedi inheritance and Force abilities. He also learns that his wife has been kidnapped while trying to infiltrate the operations of the piratical ex-Imperial Admiral Tavira. So it is not without inner conflicts that he goes to the newly established Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, where he encounters both his own limitations and the ghost of the Dark Jedi Exar Kun. At last he decides to return to use his Force powers in his original profession, to rescue his wife and dissolve Admiral Tavira''s piratical band. By telling two stories between one set of covers, Stackpole has come up with one of the longest Star Wars novels yet, and also one of the best. Corran Horn is a more complex protagonist than many, formidably competent but with believable limitations. He also provides us with a minor player''s perspective on superstars like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo (whom this ex-policeman still thinks of as an ex-criminal). Stackpole adds many engaging details and minor characters of his own to the Star Wars universe and puts his skill at telling a fluid action story on full display here. This novel will play well among the loyal fans and can be enjoyed even by non-fans with a taste for star-faring swashbucklers. Major ad/promo; simultaneous BDD Audio.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10959');
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(9049, 'Star Wars - 237 - Children of the Jedi', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As\n  <em>\n   Children of the Jedi\n  </em>\n  opens, a crazed, drug-addled ex-smuggler named Drub McKumb lunges at Han Solo in the middle of his and Leia''s state visit to Ithor. (Long after the destruction of the second Death Star, Leia is now the New Republic''s work-weary head of state.) Han, Leia, and Luke soon surmise that this isn''t just another of Han''s drinking buddies but rather a weirdly altered man carrying a terrible secret. Piecing together clues from McKumb''s glossolaliac rants, Han and Leia set off in search of the ancient hiding place of the Children of the Jedi, while Luke--using the Force and his former-pupil-and-pal-turned-droid Nichos as a random number generator--decides to head off to a set of coordinates halfway across the galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They all end up finding more than they bargained for: Han and Leia''s search for the Jedi ends on icy, isolated Belsavis; while Luke stumbles onto a humongous but dormant Imperial death machine- -which, not coincidentally, has stirred to life the intent to utterly annihilate Belsavis. Can he possibly stop it in time?\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  authors tend to be either you-love-''em-or-you-hate-''em types, but veteran writer Hambly makes a good go at falling into the former camp in this outing, along with the likes of Michael Stackpole and Kevin J. Anderson.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This latest entry in Bantam''s successful Star Wars series is a transitional novel. Its pace may be slow enough to disappoint some of series''s many loyal readers, but Hambly''s (Those Who Hunt the Night) retreading of familiar ground provides a more variegated perspective than usual on several major characters. She offers several solid, well-wrought adventures as well, but they never cohere into a whole worthy of its parts. The subplots are frequently more interesting than the main story line, in which the ruling houses of the recently fallen Empire attempt to revitalize their way of life with the aid of a new type of Jedi knight. A particularly compelling subplot concerns the effort to determine whether the now machine-based consciousness of Nichos, a Jedi Apprentice whose body has died, is still human. While Hambly creates some fascinating alien life forms and plot complications (fans of Luke Skywalker will be especially delighted by a couple of the plot twists here), what she finally offers is more a promise of things to come than a realization of them. Major ad/promo; audio rights sold to BDD Audio Cassette.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9887'),
(9050, 'Star Wars - 238 - Darksaber', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know what they say: build a better a Death Star and the Hutts will beat a path to your door. Poor Bevel Lemelisk, the inventor of the Empire''s signature moon-size battle station, has done just that, and now he''s in the service of Durga the Hutt (only a marginal improvement over working for Emperor Palpatine, who was in the habit of gruesomely executing Lemelisk, only to recombobulate him into a newly cloned body).\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s eight years after the battle of Endor, and the Hutts are hoping to make a galactic power play using Lemelisk''s latest project, a sort of cylindrical Death Star superlaser-on-steroids, dubbed Darksaber. But the newly empowered Rebels and the recovering Empire aren''t sitting idle. As the book opens, Han and Luke are sneaking their way across Tatooine''s Dune Sea, dressed in Tusken drag. Luke''s looking to commune with Obi-Wan to learn how to save his Jedi squeeze, Callista, recently rescued from the innards of the ship computer on Palpatine''s super-duper Star Destroyer. Meanwhile, the ranks of the Imperial Fleet swell under the charismatic Admiral Daala. Will Luke help Callista touch the Force again? Where will Daala''s fleet strike a blow against the New Republic? Will Lemelisk''s new invention hold together long enough to save his own hide? The skilled Kevin J. Anderson sure makes it fun to find out.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anderson, whose Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars paperbacks were all bestsellers, makes his Star Wars hardcover debut with this novel. Unlike many of the previous series hardcovers, Darksaber often harkens back to the time of the Star Wars movies, invoking familiar scenes and flourishes (Princess Leia being forced to wear a "humiliating costume" after she''s captured by Jabba the Hutt; Han Solo entreating, "It''s not my fault!"). Anderson is careful, though, to include plenty of present-day action. Set just after the events of Barbara Hambly''s Children of the Jedi, this novel follows the quest of Luke Skywalker and Callista to reestablish the latter''s Jedi powers. Meanwhile, Durga the Hutt is using Bevel Lemelisk, co-designer of the original Death Star, to create a similar weapon for his own nefarious purposes, and the still-living Admiral Daala is working to reunite various factions of the Empire to reassert their glory. Anderson manages to keep everything fast-paced, yet the whole never coheres into a properly exciting story. This is probably the most accessible of the Star Wars hardcovers; fans of the movies should experience nostalgic delight, but it often comes off as more of a marketing device than a novel proper, especially with George Lucas''s three-part prequel to the Star Wars movies now in the works.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10365'),
(9051, 'Star Wars - 239 - X-Wing 09 - Starfighters of Adumar', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Book 9 in the exciting series!\n </p>\n <p>\n  The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar, and each camp will be given a chance to plead its government''s case. But there is one small catch: since the Adumari prize military skill above all else, they insist that both delegations be composed exclusively of fighter pilots. For pilot Wedge Antilles and his company, it''s an unfamiliar exercise in diplomacy--and one that''s filled with unexpected peril. For once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar''s fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition. But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent...one who is determined to win Adumar''s allegiance once and for all--even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Book 9 in the exciting series!\n </p>\n <p>\n  The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar, and each camp will be given a chance to plead its government''s case. But there is one small catch: since the Adumari prize military skill above all else, they insist that both delegations be composed exclusively of fighter pilots. For pilot Wedge Antilles and his company, it''s an unfamiliar exercise in diplomacy--and one that''s filled with unexpected peril. For once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar''s fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition. But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent...one who is determined to win Adumar''s allegiance once and for all--even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9472'),
(9052, 'Star Wars - 240 - Planet of Twilight', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It all begins on a barren backwater world called Renat Chorios - once a dreaded prison colony, now home to the Therans, a fanatic religious cult. To this exiled world has come the ruthless warlord Seti Draconis, who seeks to exploit the vast crystalline deserts that cover the planet''s desolate surface. The first step in his plan is to lure Princess Leia to Renat Chorios for a diplomatic meeting, only to hold her hostage in his isolated fortress. His ultimate goal is to destroy the Therans, take over the planet, and sell its valuable crystals to the remnants of the Empire, who will use the crystals to develop unstoppable deep-space missiles that will turn the tide of war against the New Republic. With Leia as his hostage, there is nothing to stop him. Meanwhile, Luke lands on Renat Chorios in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover that any use of the Force has unexpectedly deadly consequences. To make matters worse, a plague is decimating the New Republic fleet as it faces attack from overwhelming imperial forces led by Moff Getelles and his henchman, Admiral Larm. As Han, Chewie, and Lando set out from Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, as Leia seeks to escape the evil Draconis, and as Luke searches through a world torn by plague and riots to find Callista, the planet begins to reveal its unspeakable secret: a long dormant sentient life-form kept in check for centuries is now threatening to gain dominance over the New Republic, the Empire, and the entire galaxy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9888'),
(9053, 'Star Wars - 241 - The Crystal Star', 'Vonda N. McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First Timothy Zahn reopened the door to George Lucas''s dazzling universewith his "New York Times" -bestselling "Star Wars" trilogy. ThenKathy Tyers''s "The Truce at Bakura" took readers back to the fateful daysfollowing the events in "Return of the Jedi." And with "The Courtshipof Princess Leia" Dave Wolverton chronicled Han Solo''s turbulent campaignfor the princess''s hand. Now, award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre continuesthe tradition as the ultimate space adventure unfolds in "The CrystalStar." Princess Leia is dealt a crushing blow when her three children--Anakin and thetwins Jaina and Jacen--are kidnapped. Leia''s advisers counsel her to wait fora ransom note, but waiting is the hardest thing for a mother to do when herchildren are in danger--and worse than waiting is her discovery that she cannotsense her children through the Force.Ultimately, the princess has no choice. She, Chewbacca, and Artoo-Detoo trackthe kidnappers, following their trail to a disabled refugee ship where theanswers provided by Rillao, a mysterious fugitive, only provoke more questions.The refugees'' children are also missing--and Rillao thinks she knows who hasthem: a powerful Imperial officer named Hethrir who has his own twisted plansto restore the Empire to its former glory.Meanwhile, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are on a separate mission to the planetCrseih to investigate a report of a lost group of Jedi. Crseih is at the mercyof strange quantum effects caused by the death of a nearby star that is slowlyfreezing into a uniquely perfect crystal. This crystal star causes adisruption in the Force, blunting Luke''s power and cutting the MillenniumFalcon off from Leia and their homebase.What Han and Luke find on the planet is even stranger than a crystallizing sun: a charismatic alien named Waru who has attracted a following of fanatic devoteethrough his miraculous healing powers. Is Waru a being of benevolence? Or dohis healing arts conceal a darker purpose? As Leia, Chewbacca, and Rillaofollow Hethri trail of treachery across space, Luke and Han draw closer to thetruth behind Waru'' sinister cult. Ultimately they will face anexplosive showdown that could determine not only their own fates and the fateof the New Republic but whether the universeitself will survive.The "New York Times" BestsellerPraise for previous "Star Wars" adventures:  "Heir to the Empire: " "Chock full of all the good stuff you''ve come to expect from a battle ofgood against evil."-- "Daily News," New York "Dark Force Rising: " "Zahn has perfectly captured the pace and flavor of the "Star Wars" movies. This is space opera at its best." "--Sunday Oklahoman"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10114'),
(9054, 'Star Wars - 245 - The New Rebellion', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The action is fast and furious in this new Star Wars novel. The Empire has been defeated and the New Republic established, but internal dissension threatens to tear the newfound stability apart. Over the objections of President Leia Organa Solo, former Imperials have been admitted to the Senate?which is then bombed, killing many of Leia''s old allies and injuring Leia herself. Leia believes that the former Imperials are to blame, but they accuse her husband, Han Solo, of treachery. As tension builds, it''s discovered that another player has entered the game, the mysterious Kueller, a heretofore unknown master of the dark side of the Force. Leia''s brother, Luke Skywalker, goes to investigate and, eventually, he, Han, Leia, Lando, Artoo, Threepio and other longtime Stars Wars characters find themselves fighting desperately to stave off the collapse of the New Republic. Rusch, who has won a John Campbell Award for Best Novel and a Hugo Award as Best Editor, and who has written numerous Star Trek novels, moves her narrative briskly, but at the expense of clear plotting, crisp detail and character.Still, what Star Wars fans want above all is action, and Rusch hurls it at them at warp speed. Major ad/promo. (Nov.).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rusch (The Changling, Spectra, Bantam: 1996) here continues the Star Wars saga. Leia, Han, Luke, and Chewbacca face a new enemy?Kueller, Master of Almania, whose sights are set on destroying the Jedi Knight and his family in retribution for ignoring his planet''s call for help years ago. Rusch introduces two of Luke''s former Jedi students gone bad and the mechanic Cole Fardreamer, who assists C3PO and R2D2 in foiling Kueller''s evil plans. Fast-paced and tightly plotted, this is highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10353'),
(9055, 'Star Wars - 246 - Corellian Trilogy 01 - Ambush at Corellia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back  to the home world he left many years before.  Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children  and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with  agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds  himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even  he understands. One thing is clear: the five  inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil  war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three  leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan --  has come to an end.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan -- has come to an end. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10985'),
(9056, 'Star Wars - 247 - Corellian Trilogy 02 - Assault at Selonia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds  himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken  Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial  system and seize total power -- no matter what the  cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so  he must turn his back on his human cousin and join  forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested  as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human  League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring  escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, Luke  Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken''s plan. But can Han trust  the alien to keep her word?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile,  other questions threaten the New Republic -- and the  lives of millions. Who is behind the deadly  Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to take  possession of Corellia''s powerful planetary repulsors?  And what is the secret behind the mysterious  Centerpoint Station, and ancient, artificial world of  unknown origin that has suddenly -- and  inexplicably -- come alive?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power -- no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his human cousin and join forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken''s plan. But can Han trust the alien to keep her word?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, other questions threaten the New Republic -- and the lives of millions. Who is behind the deadly Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to take possession of Corellia''s powerful planetary repulsors? And what is the secret behind the mysterious Centerpoint Station, and ancient, artificial world of unknown origin that has suddenly -- and inexplicably -- come alive? Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10986'),
(9057, 'Star Wars - 248 - Corellian Trilogy 03 - Showdown at Centerpoint', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this third and final volume of the Corellian  trilogy, Han and Luke lead the Alliance in a mad  scramble against the Selonian rebels for control of  the planetary technology.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this third and final volume of the Corellian trilogy, Han and Luke lead the Alliance in a mad scramble against the Selonian rebels for control of the planetary technology. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10983'),
(9058, 'Star Wars - 249 - Hand of Thrawn 1 - Specter of the Past', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Timothy Zahn is the master of the Star Wars novel. His trilogy (_Heir to the Empire_,\n  <em>\n   Dark Force Rising\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Last Command\n  </em>\n  ) did almost as much as the movie trilogy''s re-release to create new interest in Luke, Leia, and Han Solo.\n  <em>\n   Specter of the Past\n  </em>\n  is the first of a new series, The Hand of Thrawn. Princess Leia is trying desperately to hold the loose coalition of interests known as the New Republic together long enough to see the evil Empire finally vanquished. But in a stunning setback, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker discover that the pirate ships raiding New Republic transports are staffed with clones under the command of someone who claims to be Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Empire''s most powerful warlord, believed dead for 10 years. Thrawn''s plan for destroying the fragile New Republic seems well on the way to completion--unless Han, Leia, and Luke can stop it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the first of two new novels, Zahn (Heir to the Empire, Bantam, 1991) turns in his usual high-caliber performance in the ongoing Star Wars space-opera saga. A few remaining Imperial officials seek to negotiate a peace with the New Republic, but calls for vengeance against the Bothans for their compliance in destroying the Caamasi planet and pirate raids on supply ships threaten to tear apart the New Republic government, with Leia, Han, and Luke trying to maintain the peace. The second novel, Vision of the Future, will be published in 1998. For sf collections with the series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9768'),
(9059, 'Star Wars - 250 - Hand of Thrawn 2 - Vision of the Future', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Timothy Zahn finishes the two-part Hand of Thrawn series with\n  <em>\n   Vision of the Future\n  </em>\n  . In the first book,\n  <em>\n   Specter of the Past\n  </em>\n  , Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo battled the minions of the evil Grand Admiral Thrawn, long presumed dead. In the sequel, our heroes must prevent civil war and ensure that Thrawn''s plans for a triumphant Empire are thwarted. Intergalactic intrigue, space battles, and heart-pounding action will thrill\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  fans in this eagerly awaited novel. Zahn is one of the most popular interpreters of the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  universe with good reason.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Star Wars(r) novels of Timothy Zahn:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Specter Of The Past:\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Zahn returns splendidly to the ranks of Star Wars authors...absorbing reading. Label this one ''not just for Star Wars fans''--for sure!"\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Booklist\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heir To The Empire:\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Moves with a speed-of-light pace that captures the spirit of the movie trilogy so well, you can almost hear John Williams''s soundtrack."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Providence Sunday Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dark Force Rising:\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Zahn has perfectly captured the pace and flavor of the Star Wars movies. This is space opera at its best."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Sunday Oklahoman\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Last Command:\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Filled with characteristic Star Wars technology and cosmic battles...the detail and plot development far exceed what are possible in a two-hour movie."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Indianapolis Star\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9762'),
(9060, 'Star Wars - 251 - Judges Call', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9764'),
(9061, 'Star Wars - 252 - Junior Jedi Knights 01 - The Golden Globe', 'Nancy Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Force is very strong with him--he can feel it. And his Uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his training...On his first day at the Jedi Academy, Anakin makes a new friend named Tahiri. The Force is with her, too. Soon they find out that together they can accomplish feats that surprise even their teachers!But the teachers don''t know what else Anakin and Tahiri do together. Every night, they have the same dream of going down the river by the academy on a raft. In the dream, they are drawn by the Force...but for all they know, it could be the dark side!There is only one way to find out for sure. They have to go down the river all by themselves--for real!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9259'),
(9062, 'Star Wars - 253 - Junior Jedi Knights 02 - Lyric&#39;s World', 'Nancy Richardson;Nancy Ann Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo and his friend Tahiri are in for a surprise when they discover carvings on Yavin 8 that match the ones found in the temple on Yavin 4--carvings that could help break the curse of the mysterious Golden Globe. But something large and deadly is waiting for them in the caves, and it will take more than the Force to defeat it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9260'),
(9063, 'Star Wars - 254 - Junior Jedi Knights 03 - Promises', 'Nancy Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the help of her friend Anakin Solo, Tahiri, a young girl raised by the treacherous Tusken Raiders, sets out to prove herself worthy and to discover the secret of her past and mystery of her real parents. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9258'),
(9064, 'Star Wars - 255 - Junior Jedi Knights 04 - Anakin&#39;s Quest', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Traveling to Dagobah after experiencing recurring nightmares, young Jedi-in-training Anakin is accompanied by R2-D2 and other companions on a trip to a secret cave in the swamps, where he faces a test of his strength with the Force. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11042'),
(9065, 'Star Wars - 256 - Junior Jedi Knights 05 - Vader&#39;s Fortress', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anakin Solo and his friends--including Tionne and the Jedi Master Ikrit--venture into Darth Vader''s abandoned fortress on the planet Vjun to recover Obi-Wan Kenobi''s lightsaber, supposedly hidden within the deadly walls of the stronghold. Original."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11043'),
(9066, 'Star Wars - 258 - Fools Bargain', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Includes an exclusive excerpt from the eagerly anticipated novel STAR WARS: SURVIVOR''S QUEST by Timothy Zahn (Hardcover, on-sale: February 3, 2004) and an interview with the author. THE EMPIRE STRIKES A DEAL The history of the planet Kariek has been one of seemingly endless violenceâ€” thanks to the constantly erupting revolutions among the many divided tribes of the native Eickarie race battling for dominance. Yet none of these tribes has held sway since a mysterious Warlord and his legion of alien mercenaries seized power and began a fifty-year reign of terror. Now, at last, the tide may be turning: the leaders of the warring Eickarie factions have forged an allianceâ€”strong enough to capture a city and corner the Warlord and his minions in their fortress. And the post-Palpatine Empire of the Hand is lending support to this revolt against tyranny by deploying no less a fighting force than the Imperial 501st Legion of stormtroopers. Once infamously known as â€œVaderâ€™s Fist,â€ the legendary 501st are the best men for the dangerous objective at handâ€”capturing the Warlord alive. Itâ€™s a risky mission that might be jeopardized when Imperial unit commander Twister and his comrades, Shadow, Cloud, and Watchman, are waylaid by a band of zealous freedom fighters, armed with their own agenda . . . and plenty of firepower. The Eickarie renegadesâ€”determined to free hundreds of their people from the Warlordâ€™s dungeonsâ€”have an offer to make, and a strategy that could give the Imperials the edge in the bloody showdown to come. But can Twister and his men trust their new allies? Or will they get more than they bargain for?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9769'),
(9067, 'Star Wars - 259 - Survivor&#39;s Quest', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hugo winner Zahn, author of five previous Star Wars novels (Heir to the Empire, etc.), serves up another G-rated crowd-pleaser in the bestselling franchise series. Regulars will recognize the cast, but newcomers may raise an eyebrow to learn that Luke Skywalker, whom they lovingly left as a youth on a screen in a galaxy far away, is now a married man. His wife, Mara Jade, is, however, no simple suburbanite clutching little Skywalkers. Having spent her early years innocently supporting a dictator, she now flies beside her husband, content to swap technological chitchat instead of romantic twaddle. She is, after all, a Jedi Knight, the equal of her Master Jedi husband and just as handy at wielding a blazing light saber. The alien Chiss, inadvertently or otherwise, have shot down Outbound Flight, the fabulous lost group of super dreadnoughts bearing more than 50,000 people into the most distant reaches of space, a scenario reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein''s classic Universe, if without the cosmological wonder. Now, half a century later, many species have assembled to locate the wreckage. To their surprise, when they discover the remains, survivors uninterested in being saved inhabit them. To no one''s surprise, Luke and Mara are up to the situation''s needs. Full of action and more twists than a corkscrew, this stand-alone SF adventure novel is sure to satisfy its target teen audience.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here again we have Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade, the married Jedi, whose quest this time is for remnants of the Outward Bound expedition, launched 50 years before by the Old Republic and subsequently destroyed by pirates, with the help of the late Admiral Thrawn. Of course, the New Republic wants Luke and Mara to represent it on this outing, and Thrawn''s people, the Chiss, want in, too. Moreover, half a dozen other individuals, factions, and polities all have personal or political reasons for finding the remains of the Outward Bounders. So already the situation is complicated, and the fact that, except for Luke and Mara, nobody is what they seem, and that some of the agendas they''re hiding in dusty storage compartments and computer files are flat-out lethal, adds more complications. Everything gets rapidly worse when it turns out that there are survivors on derelict Outward Bound ships, and they are tough, determined, and totally hostile to the Jedi Knights and everything they ever did on behalf of the Old Republic. Finally, one of the not-what-they-seems reveals itself, teeing off half-a-novel''s worth of fast, furious, detailed, and intelligent action, clearly setting up another book; and, oh yes, also developing Luke and Mara''s relationship. Not for beginners with Star Wars fiction, perhaps, but in the hands of tie-in Master Zahn, a thoroughly absorbing story for the seasoned reader.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9765'),
(9068, 'Star Wars - 260 - Young Jedi Knights 01 - Heirs of the Force', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While exploring the jungle outside the academy, the twins make a startling discovery--the remains of a TIE fighter that had crashed years ago during the battle against the first Death Star. Mechanical whiz Jaina thinks she can repair it...if they can sneak the right parts out of the Academy.Meanwhile, their work is being closely watched--but not by Academy eyes. The original pilot, an Imperial trooper, has been living wild in the jungle since his ship went down. Waiting to return to duty. And now his chance has come...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10379'),
(9069, 'Star Wars - 262 - Young Jedi Knights 03 - The Lost Ones', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anja Gallandro planned to destroy the Solo family. But now she fights an intense inner battle--against her increasing spice addiction, and her growing friendship with Jacen and Jaina. In desperation for spice, she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy. The young Jedi Knights follow her from the spice mines of Kessel to the dangerous beauty of Crystal Reef--where an even more sinister plan is hatching...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10367'),
(9070, 'Star Wars - 264 - Young Jedi Knights 05 - Darkest Knight', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Visiting their friend Lowbacca on the Wookie home world to help him prepare his younger sister for a terrifying rite of passage, Jedi twins Jacen and Jaina confront dark Jedi student Zekk, who is raiding the Wookie computer center. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10381'),
(9071, 'Star Wars - 267 - Young Jedi Knights 08 - Diversity Alliance', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everyone is searching for Bornan Thul. Not only is he father to one of Jacen and Jaina''s fellow students, he holds the key to a secret coalition gaining power in the New Republic. The young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him--but they may be too late. For their tru enemy is about to show its treacherous face. And it will be shockingly familiar...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10380'),
(9072, 'Star Wars - 269 - Young Jedi Knights 10 - Jedi Bounty', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lowbacca has left the Jedi academy and traveled to the planet Ryloth, headquarters of the Diversity Alliance, to see what the Alliance is really all about. On Yavin 4, Jacen, Jaina and the other young Jedi Knights have already discovered one truth about the Alliance--once you go to Ryloth, you either join, or you die. Lowie is in great danger, and they must rescue him. But what can a small group of humans do against a planet full of hostile aliens? .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10374'),
(9073, 'Star Wars - 271 - Young Jedi Knights 12 - Return to Ord Mantell', 'Kevin J. Anderson;Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Berkley''s new imprint for young adults is off and running with the first novel in a new trilogy starring the young Jedi Knights!\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the\n  <em>\n   New York TImes\n  </em>\n  bestselling series continues, a devastating secret could mean disaster for the entire Solo family...\n </p>\n <p>\n  STAR WARS is hotter then Ever!\n  <br />\n  Over 3 Million Young Jedi Knight Novels in Print!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10376'),
(9074, 'Star Wars - 274 - Boba Fett - A Practical Man', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Star Wars: Boba Fett: A Practical Manby Karen Traviss brings the reader back to the very beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. This original novella is the latestStar WarseBook publication, from Del Rey Books and will be available at eBook retailers on August 15, 2006. It also includes an exclusive excerpt from the eagerly anticipatedSTAR WARS:LEGACY OF THE FORCE:BLOODLINES(onâ€”sale 8/29/06) and an interview with the author. On the surface, it seems like just another routine contract for Boba Fett and his Mandalorian commandos, but the mystery client who hires them to start a small war is more dangerous than any of them can possibly imagine. When the Yuuzhan Vong invasion force sweeps into the galaxy, the Mandalorians find theyâ€™re on the wrong sideâ€“fighting for an alien culture that will bring about the end of their own. Now Fett has to choose between his honor and the survival of his people. Since heâ€™s a practical man, heâ€™s determined help the resistance beat the Yuuzhan Vongâ€“even if it means working with a Jedi agent. Trouble is, no one trusts a man with Fettâ€™s reputation. So convincing the New Republic that theyâ€™re fighting on the same side is a tall order. Denounced as traitors, Fettâ€™s Mandalorians need to stay one step ahead of their Yuuzhan Vong paymastersâ€“and the Republic who sees them as collaborators with the most destructive enemy the galaxy has ever faced. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9529'),
(9075, 'Star Wars - 276 - New Jedi Order 02 - Dark Tide 01 - Onslaught', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Jedi are back and ready to rumble in\n  <em>\n   Dark Tide 1: Onslaught\n  </em>\n  , the second book to appear in Del Rey''s five-year New Jedi Order story arc, which picks up events 25 years after\n  <em>\n   A New Hope\n  </em>\n  . Reading R.A. Salvatore''s\n  <em>\n   Vector Prime\n  </em>\n  first--while not necessary (and some fans even recommend against it)--will help enormously in understanding the alien threat facing the New Republic, the sinister Yuuzhan Vong. The Jedi, under the now truly formidable Luke, must rise to beat back the biotech-wielding invaders, and we really get to see the Solo kids and good ol'' Corran Horn shine. Lando and especially Han get short shrift (that''s probably just as well in this new series), but Luke and Mara still manage to get a whole lot of lovin'' going on. This is excellent work by the ever popular Stackpole (_Rogue Squadron_).\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this epic of unsurpassed action and imagination, Michael Stackpole helps to launch an exciting new era in Star WarsÂ® history. ONSLAUGHT pits the battle-tested heroes of the past--Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo--along with the next generation of Jedi and droids, against fearsome never-before-encountered enemies from beyond the galactic rim . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke''s leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yunnan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Merciless warriors, the Yunnan Vong glory in torture. Their technology is as strange as it is deadly. Most ominous of all, they are impervious to the Force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Darth Vader. As Leia and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yunnan Vong forces, Mara Jade, Anakin, Jacen, and Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe determined to smother the light of the New Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest evil . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10961'),
(9076, 'Star Wars - 277 - New Jedi Order 03 - Dark Tide 02 - Ruin', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The alien Yuuzhan Vong have launched an attack on the worlds of the Outer Rim.  They are merciless, without regard for life - and they stand utterly outside the Force.  Their ever-changing tactics stump the New Republic military.  Even the Jedi, once the greatest guardians of peace in the galaxy, are rendered helpless by this impervious foe - and their solidarity has begun to unravel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Luke struggles to keep the Jedi together, Knights Jacen Solo and Corran Horn set off on a reconnaissance mission to the planet Garqi, an occupied world.  There, at last, they uncover a secret that might be used to undermine the enemy - if only they can stay alive long enough to use it!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The alien Yuuzhan Vong have launched an attack on the worlds of the Outer Rim.  They are merciless, without regard for life - and they stand utterly outside the Force.  Their ever-changing tactics stump the New Republic military.  Even the Jedi, once the greatest guardians of peace in the galaxy, are rendered helpless by this impervious foe - and their solidarity has begun to unravel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Luke struggles to keep the Jedi together, Knights Jacen Solo and Corran Horn set off on a reconnaissance mission to the planet Garqi, an occupied world.  There, at last, they uncover a secret that might be used to undermine the enemy - if only they can stay alive long enough to use it!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10960'),
(9077, 'Star Wars - 278 - New Jedi Order 04 - Agents of Chaos 01 - Hero&#39;s Trial', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Merciless attacks by an invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the noble Chewbacca is laid to rest, having died as heroically as he lived--and a grief-stricken Han Solo is left to fit the pieces of his shattered soul back together before he loses everything: friends, family, and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Refusing help from Leia or Luke, Han becomes the loner he once was, seeking to escape the pain of his partner''s death in adventure . . . and revenge. When he learns that an old friend from his smuggling days is operating as a mercenary for the enemy, he sets out to expose the traitor. But Han''s investigation uncovers an even greater evil: a sinister conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the New Republic''s will and ability to fight--the Jedi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Han must face down his inner demons and, with the help of a new and unexpected ally, honor Chewbacca''s sacrifice in the only way that matters--by being worthy of it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Merciless attacks by an invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the noble Chewbacca is laid to rest, having died as heroically as he lived--and a grief-stricken Han Solo is left to fit the pieces of his shattered soul back together before he loses everything: friends, family, and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Refusing help from Leia or Luke, Han becomes the loner he once was, seeking to escape the pain of his partner''s death in adventure . . . and revenge. When he learns that an old friend from his smuggling days is operating as a mercenary for the enemy, he sets out to expose the traitor. But Han''s investigation uncovers an even greater evil: a sinister conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the New Republic''s will and ability to fight--the Jedi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Han must face down his inner demons and, with the help of a new and unexpected ally, honor Chewbacca''s sacrifice in the only way that matters--by being worthy of it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9563'),
(9078, 'Star Wars - 279 - New Jedi Order 05 - Agents of Chaos 02 - Jedi Eclipse', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the evacuation of refugees on planets in the path of the merciless invaders. Luke Skywalker struggles to hold the fractious Jedi Knights together, even while one of them undertakes a bold but reckless undercover mission.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Manipulating their alliance with the amoral Hutts, the Yuuzhan Vong leave a cunning trail of vital information where New Republic agents are sure to find it--information the desperate defenders cannot afford to ignore: the location of the aliens'' next target.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Han Solo stumbles into the dark heart of raging battle, thus beginning a furious race against time that will require every skill and trick in his arsenal to win...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Read by Anthony Heald\n  <br />\n  2 cassettes/ 3 hours\n </p>\n <p>\n  A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the evacuation of refugees on planets in the path of the merciless invaders.  Luke Skywalker struggles to hold the fractious Jedi Knights together, even while one of them undertakes a bold but reckless undercover mission.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Manipulating their alliance with the amoral Hutts, the Yuuzhan Vong leave a cunning trail of vital information where New Republic agents are sure to find it--information the desperate defenders cannot afford to ignore: the location of the aliens'' next target.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Han Solo stumbles into the dark heart of a raging battle, thus beginning a furious race against time that will require every skill and trick in his arsenal to win...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9562');
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(9079, 'Star Wars - 280 - New Jedi Order 06 - Balance Point', 'Kathy Tyers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _In the aftermath of one tragedy,\n  <br />\n  will a young Jediâ€™s search for redemption\n  <br />\n  lead to yet another?_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There is no place else to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro, poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal is struck: In exchange for a new home, the refugees will work to restore the planet to health, under the watchful eye of Leia Organa Solo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While tempers flare between the Duros and the New Republic, Han Solo, his son, Jacen, and the Ryn called Droma arrive to keep the peace. They are unaware that Leia is on Duro . . . and that Luke, Mara, and Anakin are on their way, searching for a missing Jedi apprentice. And none realize that the Yuuzhan Vong have chosen this embattled planet as the next target in their brutal coreward thrust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, as the fragile stability on Duro threatens to collapse into violence, Jacen Solo must face his greatest dilemma: At what point does the use of power become aggression? Whatever he decides, his next step could tip the galaxyâ€™s destiny toward the light or toward darknessâ€“with the life of someone he loves hanging in the balance . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Vector Prime, the New York Times bestselling first novel in The New Jedi Order series, boldly ventured into uncharted Star Wars territory, bringing an element of dark tragedy and suspense into the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and the other legendary figures of that galaxy far, far away. With the passing of Chewbacca, the Republic mourned the loss of one of its greatest heroes. Now veteran Star Wars author Kathy Tyers continues the epic struggle between good and evil as the New Republic, led by the battered but still unbroken Jedi, braces for the next onslaught of its merciless alien foe.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poisoned by centuries of technological excess, the planet Duro is an unlivable hell, long abandoned by its own inhabitants, who dwell above their polluted world in orbital habitats. But there is no place else to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong. So a deal is struck: In exchange for a new home, the refugees will work to restore the planet to health, under the watchful eye of Leia Organa Solo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As tempers begin to flare between the Duros and the New Republic, and between groups of refugees, Han Solo, his son, Jacen, and the Ryn called Droma arrive to keep the peace. They are unaware that Leia is on Duro . . . and that Luke, Mara, and Anakin are on their way, searching for a missing Jedi apprentice. And none realize that the Yuuzhan Vong have chosen this embattled planet as the next target in their brutal coreward thrust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The unrest only strengthens Jacen Solo''s growing belief that a true Jedi should not fight, but should lead others to peace through a deeper understanding of the Force. Now, as the fragile stability on Duro threatens to collapse into violence, Jacen Solo must face his greatest dilemma: At what point does the use of power become aggression? Whatever he decides, his next step could tip the galaxy''s destiny toward the light or toward darknessÃ³with the life of someone he loves hanging in the balance . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10115'),
(9080, 'Star Wars - 281 - New Jedi Order - Recovery', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the forces of darkness threaten to engulf the galaxy, one last defiant spark remains.... Though the Yuuzhan Vong were victorious in their savage conquest of the planet Duro, they failed to extract sensitive information from Leia Organa Solo, who now barely clings to life after enduring the enemies'' torture. Unless she receives medical attention soon, the badly wounded Princess and former head of the New Republic will surely die. Pursued by bounty hunters, Han Solo begins a race against time, only to find his urgent pleas for help rejected by planet after planet, as the Jedi are blamed for the continuing fight against the seemingly invincible aliens. Desperate, the Solos decide on a suicide mission. They must reach Coruscant, the New Republic''s strife-ridden capital where traitors, appeasers, and assassins now share the same goal as the fierce Yuuzhan Vong: kill all Jedi...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9923'),
(9081, 'Star Wars - 282 - New Jedi Order 07 - Edge of Victory 01 - Conquest', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _The dazzling\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  space adventure continues in\n  <em>\n   The New Jedi\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Order\n  </em>\n  as Luke Skywalker, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, and others battle their deadliest enemy in a tale of nonstop action, shadowy evil, and spectacular triumph . . .\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown, Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi. Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible dangerâ€“and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin systemâ€“and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Luke Skywalkerâ€™s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dazzling\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  space adventure continues in\n  <em>\n   The New Jedi Order\n  </em>\n  as Luke Skywalker, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, and others battle their deadliest enemy in a tale of nonstop action, shadowy evil, and spectacular triumph?\n </p>\n <p>\n  No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown, Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi. Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible danger?and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin system?and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Luke Skywalker?s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9167'),
(9082, 'Star Wars - 283 - New Jedi Order 08 - Edge of Victory 02 - Rebirth', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  Star Wars _epic continues its dazzling space odyssey in The New Jedi Orderâ€“as Luke and Mara, Leia and Han, and others battle the mighty enemy from beyond the galactic rim.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The brutal Yuuzhan Vong are scouring the universe for Jedi to slaughter. With no help from the divided New Republic, the Jedi stand alone against their seemingly invincible foe. Han and Leia Organa Solo risk deadly consequences with their controversial tactics to bolster the Jedi resistance. After uncovering a new Yuuzhan Vong menace, Anakin and Tahiri find themselves wanted for murder by the Peace Brigade. To avoid capture, they jump into hyperspace . . . and into trouble far graver.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hunted by the Yuuzhan Vong, wanted as criminals by the New Republic, and with unrest stirring within their own ranks, the Jedi find peril everywhere they turn. But even in the midst of despair, while the most fiercest battle of all looms on the horizon, hope arises with the birth of one very special child. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  Star Wars _epic continues its dazzling space odyssey in The New Jedi Order?as Luke and Mara, Leia and Han, and others battle the mighty enemy from beyond the galactic rim.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The brutal Yuuzhan Vong are scouring the universe for Jedi to slaughter. With no help from the divided New Republic, the Jedi stand alone against their seemingly invincible foe. Han and Leia Organa Solo risk deadly consequences with their controversial tactics to bolster the Jedi resistance. After uncovering a new Yuuzhan Vong menace, Anakin and Tahiri find themselves wanted for murder by the Peace Brigade. To avoid capture, they jump into hyperspace . . . and into trouble far graver.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hunted by the Yuuzhan Vong, wanted as criminals by the New Republic, and with unrest stirring within their own ranks, the Jedi find peril everywhere they turn. But even in the midst of despair, while the most fiercest battle of all looms on the horizon, hope arises with the birth of one very special child. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9168'),
(9083, 'Star Wars - 284 - New Jedi Order 09 - Star by Star', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new book in the successful "New Jedi Order" series, created jointly by Del Rey and Lucasfilm, this adventure pits the children of old favorites Luke, Leia, and Han against alien invaders.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The New York Times bestselling Star Wars series The New Jedi Order enthralls readers with its epic drama and thrilling adventure. Now readers will pierce the very heart of darkness. . . .\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a solemn time for the New Republic, as the merciless Yuuzhan Vong continue their campaign of destruction. The brutal enemy has unleashed a savage creature capable of findingâ€”and killingâ€”Jedi Knights. And now Leia Organa Solo faces a terrible ultimatum. If the location of the secret Jedi base is not revealed within one week, the Yuuzhan Vong will blast millions of refugee ships into oblivion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the battered but still unbroken Jedi scramble to deal with the newest onslaught, Leiaâ€™s son Anakin lays out a daring plan. He will lead a Jedi strike force into the heart of enemy territory in order to sabotage the Yuuzhan Vongâ€™s deadliest weapons. There, with his brother and sister at his side, he will come face-to-face with his destinyâ€”as the New Republic, still fighting the good fight, will come face-to-face with theirs. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9921'),
(9084, 'Star Wars - 285 - New Jedi Order 10 - Dark Journey', 'Elaine Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New Jedi Order continues as Jaina Solo struggles with anger and despair after the Jedi Knights'' harrowing adventure behind enemy lines.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though the Jedi strike force completed its deadly mission into Yuuzhan Vong territory, the price of success was tragedy: not everyone made it out alive. In a daring getaway, hotshop pilot Jaina Solo stole an enemy ship, taking along her fellow survivors--and leaving behind a huge piece of her heart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the enemy in hot pursuit, Jaina is forced to seek haven in the unprotected, unfriendly Hapes Cluster, where the Jedi are held responsible for a past tragedy--and where the royal family has grim plans for their famous Jedi guest. Even more sinister are the intentions of the Yuuvhan Vong, desperate to capture Jaina for a hideous sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grief-stricken and obsessed with revenge, Jaina is blind to these threats--and to the overpowering evil dangerously close to consuming her. In the coming conflagration, Jaina will be fighting not for victory or vengeance, but fore her very being . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New Jedi Order continues as Jaina Solo struggles with anger and despair after the Jedi Knights'' harrowing adventure behind enemy lines.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though the Jedi strike force completed its deadly mission into Yuuzhan Vong territory, the price of success was tragedy: not everyone made it out alive. In a daring getaway, hotshop pilot Jaina Solo stole an enemy ship, taking along her fellow survivors--and leaving behind a huge piece of her heart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the enemy in hot pursuit, Jaina is forced to seek haven in the unprotected, unfriendly Hapes Cluster, where the Jedi are held responsible for a past tragedy--and where the royal family has grim plans for their famous Jedi guest. Even more sinister are the intentions of the Yuuvhan Vong, desperate to capture Jaina for a hideous sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grief-stricken and obsessed with revenge, Jaina is blind to these threats--and to the overpowering evil dangerously close to consuming her. In the coming conflagration, Jaina will be fighting not for victory or vengeance, but fore her very being . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8886'),
(9085, 'Star Wars - 286 - New Jedi Order 11 - Enemy Lines 01 - Rebel Dream', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    As the Yuuzhan Vongâ€™s spectacular conquests continue unchecked, Luke Skywalker, Han and Leia Solo , and Wedge Antilles are forced to destroy what they have risked their lives to create. . . .\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattering like rats before the Yuuzhan Vongâ€™s invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of the New Republic Advisoryâ€™s Council pause just long enough to set up a mock defense on nearby Borleiasâ€”a transparent attempt to buy time that fools no one, least of all the Jedi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Leia and Han Solo trek from world to world to foment rebellion against the New Republicâ€™s disastrous appeasement policies. But Luke Skywalker has chosen the most dangerous assignment of all: to sneak into the Yuuzhan Vongâ€™s stronghold on Coruscant. His outrageous scheme to gain entry is either brilliant or suicidal, depending on the outcome. And bearing down swiftly on Borleias is a Vong invasion fleet, determined to destroy the galaxyâ€™s remaining defenders. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aaron Allston is a novelist and game designer whose interests include history, anthropology, mythology, movies, and cats. He lives in Central Texas.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9470'),
(9086, 'Star Wars - 287 - New Jedi Order 12 - Enemy Lines 02 - Rebel Stand', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalkerâ€™s daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vongâ€™s nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan Vong pressure to give up the Jedi rebels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Coruscant, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have made a shocking discovery that is preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from exerting complete control. But when the enemy tracks them down, Luke and Mara are thrust into a fierce battle for their lives. Suddenly, the chances of escaping appear nearly impossible. And in space, another battle rages, one that holds ominous consequences for the New Republicâ€”and for the Jedi themselves. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalker?s daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong?s nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan Vong pressure to give up the Jedi rebels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Coruscant, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have made a shocking discovery that is preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from exerting complete control. But when the enemy tracks them down, Luke and Mara are thrust into a fierce battle for their lives. Suddenly, the chances of escaping appear nearly impossible. And in space, another battle rages, one that holds ominous consequences for the New Republic?and for the Jedi themselves. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9467'),
(9087, 'Star Wars - 288 - New Jedi Order 13 - Traitor', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi . . . for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another levelâ€”dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacenâ€™s process closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacenâ€™s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi . . . for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level?dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen?s process closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen?s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9532'),
(9088, 'Star Wars - 289 - New Jedi Order 14 - Destiny&#39;s Way', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the_ New York Times_ bestselling\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n   The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemyâ€”from without and within.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrenderâ€”Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-armsâ€”are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republicâ€™s favor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jainaâ€™s brother Jacenâ€”liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergereâ€”is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republicâ€™s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight againstâ€”and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the_ New York Times_ bestselling\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n   The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy?from without and within.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrender?Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-arms?are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republic?s favor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jaina?s brother Jacen?liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergere?is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republic?s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight against?and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10688'),
(9089, 'Star Wars - 290 - New Jedi Order - Ylesia', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The adventures of The New Jedi Order continue in YLESIA by Walter Jon Williamsâ€”the latest Star Wars eBook publication, from Del Rey Books. This original novella includes an exclusive excerpt from the eagerly anticipated STAR WARS: THE NEW JEDI ORDER: DESTINY''S WAY (onâ€“sale 10/15/02) and an interview with the author. RIPE FOR THE PLUCKING Thatâ€™s Jedi Knight Kyp Durronâ€™s opinion about the planet Ylesia, home base of the so-called Peace Brigade, a group of traitors dedicated to hindering the war efforts of the New Republic and hastening the ultimate victory of the merciless Yuuzhan Vong. Kypâ€™s plan calls for a lightning-fast strike, backed with overwhelming force, to destroy the Brigadeâ€™s offensive capabilities and teach prospective traitors that betrayal carries a heavy price. But young Jacen Solo, still bearing the scars of his imprisonment by the Yuuzhan Vong, has a better idea: a daring raid into the heart of Ylesiaâ€™s capital, with the objective of capturing the Brigadeâ€™s top leadersâ€”including the newly sworn-in President, Thrackan Sal-Solo, cousin to Jacen and his twin, Jaina. But unknown to the Jedi and the New Republic forces, Supreme Overlord Shimrra of the Yuuzhan Vong has dispatched reinforcements to the Ylesia system. Instead of a swift surgical strike, Jaina, Jacen, Kyp, and their comrades are about to find themselves locked in a desperate battle for survival, with the odds stacked against them and time running out. . . . No Star Wars fan will want to miss this exciting eBook exclusive adventure from Nebula Award-winner Walter Jon Williams, author of the forthcoming Star Wars The New Jedi Order hardcover novel, Destinyâ€™s Way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10689'),
(9090, 'Star Wars - 291 - New Jedi Order 15 - Force Heretic 01 - Remnant', 'Sean Williams;Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    As the bloodied and weary galaxy faces battle once more, the Jedi take on the formidable task of bringing the last of the Empire into the light. . . .\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the ashes of the New Republicâ€”torn to shreds by the savage Yuuzhan Vong forcesâ€”the newly formed Galactic Alliance has risen, determined to bring peace to the entire galaxy. But first the Yuuzhan Vong must be contained once and for all. And so Luke Skywalker seeks a world long lost to legend: Zonama Sekot, a sentient planet believed to have repelled an invasion by the Yuuzhan Vong decades ago. Deciphering the enigmatic secrets of Zonama Sekot just might turn the tides of a relentless war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aboard the Jade Shadow, Luke, his wife Mara, Jacen Solo, and other Jedi head off into the Unknown Regions, where rumors and clues suggest Zonama Sekot might be found. Yet the mission has barely begun when the searchers stumble into a horrific battle. The Imperial Remnant, in retreat from the mighty Yuuzhan Vong, is about to be destroyed. It would seem those aboard the Jade Shadow have little choice but to leave the Empire to its fate. But these are no ordinary space travelers, they are Jedi. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sean Williams\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Shane Dix\n  </strong>\n  are the bestselling and award-winning coauthors of the Evergence series. Their last novels were\n  <em>\n   Echoes of Earth\n  </em>\n  and its sequel\n  <em>\n   Orphans of Earth\n  </em>\n  . Individually, both have numerous short story credits, and Williams is a successful author in his own right. His novels include\n  <em>\n   Metal Fatigue\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Resurrected Man\n  </em>\n  . His fantasy series, The Books of the Change, concluded in December 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Williams and Dix both live in Adelaide, South Australia, a city Salman Rushdie once described as the ideal setting for a horror story. Dix lives with his wife, Nydia, and has two children from a previous relationship. Williams lives with writer Kirsty Brooks and DJs in his spare time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com.au.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8895'),
(9091, 'Star Wars - 292 - New Jedi Order 16 - Force Heretic 02 - Refugee', 'Sean Williams;Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _Swift and deadly, the Yuuzhan Vong have blasted their way across the galaxyâ€”and now stand on the threshold of total victory. Yet a courageous few still dare to oppose them. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Rife with hostile cultures and outright enemies, the Unknown Regions holds many perils for Luke Skywalker and the Jedi, searching for Zonama Sekot, the living planet that may hold the key to dealing once and for all with the Yuuzhan Vong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, on the edge of the galaxy and in the heart of a trusted ally, old enemies are stirring. The Yuuzhan Vong have inflamed long-forgotten vendettas that are even now building up to crisis point. And as Han and Leia journey on their quest to knit the unraveling galaxy back together, betrayal and deception await them. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sean Williams\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Shane Dix\n  </strong>\n  are the bestselling and award-winning coauthors of the Evergence series. Their last novels were\n  <em>\n   Echoes of Earth\n  </em>\n  and its sequel\n  <em>\n   Orphans of Earth\n  </em>\n  . Individually, both have numerous short story credits, and Williams is a successful author in his own right. His novels include\n  <em>\n   Metal Fatigue\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Resurrected Man\n  </em>\n  . His fantasy series, The Books of the Change, concluded in December 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Williams and Dix both live in Adelaide, South Australia, a city Salman Rushdie once described as the ideal setting for a horror story. Dix lives with his wife, Nydia, and has two children from a previous relationship. Williams lives with writer Kirsty Brooks and DJs in his spare time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com.au.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8893'),
(9092, 'Star Wars - 293 - New Jedi Order 17 - Force Heretic 03 - Reunion', 'Sean Williams;Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The Jedi move one step closer to saving the embattled galaxyâ€” only to confront a formidable wall of resistance.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The harrowing search for Zonama Sekot is finally over for Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and the others aboard the Jade Shadow. But joy turns to alarm when the living planet sends a defiant message: it refuses to follow them back to a galaxy full of war, exploitation, and misery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Luke works feverishly to persuade the elusive planet to reconsider, the Yuuzhan Vong launches a full-scale attack aimed at the heart of the new alliance. Sent to defend a major communications base, Han and Leia find themselves hopelessly outnumbered. Reinforcements are just too far away to help before everything is destroyed. So the courageous pair must now fight an unrelenting battle against staggering odds. Whether they actually survive is another matter. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sean Williams\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Shane Dix\n  </strong>\n  are the bestselling and award-winning coauthors of the Evergence series. Their last novels were\n  <em>\n   Echoes of Earth\n  </em>\n  and its sequel\n  <em>\n   Orphans of Earth\n  </em>\n  . Individually, both have numerous short story credits, and Williams is a successful author in his own right. His novels include\n  <em>\n   Metal Fatigue\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Resurrected Man\n  </em>\n  . His fantasy series, The Books of the Change, concluded in December 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Williams and Dix both live in Adelaide, South Australia, a city Salman Rushdie once described as the ideal setting for a horror story. Dix lives with his wife, Nydia, and has two children from a previous relationship. Williams lives with writer Kirsty Brooks and DJs in his spare time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com.au.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8894'),
(9093, 'Star Wars - 294 - New Jedi Order 18 - The Final Prophecy', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from the brink of destruction, the Jediâ€™s most fearsome enemy plots to end the warâ€“and claim victoryâ€“with a final act of domination. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begun. As Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo negotiate its place in the galactic struggle against the Yuuzhan Vong, one of its organic ships is taken by the alien invaders. Scientist Nen Yim is ordered to use the captive to find weak spots in Zonama Sekotâ€™s technology. But what Nen Yim discovers about the planet and its mysteries shocks her to the core. Clearly her people have gone terribly astray. For the peace-loving planet harbors not only the key to its own destruction, but the long-forgotten secrets of the Yuuzhan Vong themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, General Wedge Antilles, commanding one fleet in a three-pronged campaign to retake the Bilbringi system, is suddenly stranded deep in Yuuzhan Vong space, cut off from all contact. Wedge and his ships must rely on trickery and brilliant battle tactics if they are to survive long enough to ensure the success of one of the deadliest and most crucial missions the Galactic Alliance forces\n  <br />\n  have ever seen. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Keyes\n  </strong>\n  was born in Meridian, Mississippi to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State and the University of Georgia before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The Briar King\n  </em>\n  , the Age of Unreason tetrology,\n  <em>\n   The Waterborn\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Blackgod\n  </em>\n  , and the\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Wars\n  </em>\n  New Jedi Order novelsâ€“_Edge of Victory I:_\n  <em>\n   Conquest\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Edge of Victory II: Rebirth\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Savannah, Georgia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9205'),
(9094, 'Star Wars - 295 - New Jedi Order 19 - The Unifying Force', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  At long last, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series that launched the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  saga into the next generation and into thrilling new territory reaches its spectacular finale. Side by side, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, their children, and their comrades in the Galactic Alliance rally for their last stand against the enemy that threatens not only the galaxy, but the Force itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The Galactic Allianceâ€™s hard-won success in countering the Yuuzhan Vong onslaught has proven all too briefâ€”and the tide has turned once more to the invadersâ€™ advantage. Having overcome the sabotage strategies of the Jedi and their allies, the marauding aliens have pushed deeper into the galaxy and subjugated more worlds in their ruthless quest for domination. Coruscant has been remade into a Yuuzhan Vong stronghold. The remnants of the resistance are struggling to form a united front. Luke, Mara, and Jacen are missing in action. Clearly the stage is set for endgame.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, as Han and Leia receive the chilling news that hundreds of high-ranking Galactic Alliance prisoners face slaughter in a sacrifice to the enemyâ€™s bloodthirsty gods, Luke and his team try desperately to convince the living world of Zonama Sekot to join the Jediâ€™s final campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong. Yet even as they speak, a lone space station is all that stands between Alliance headquarters on Mon Calamari . . . and wave after wave of ferocious enemy forces waging their most decisive assault.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, the Jediâ€™s alliances throughout the galaxy are being testedâ€”and the chances of victory jeopardizedâ€”by rogue factions determined to deploy the lethal weapon that will exterminate the Yuuzhan Vong . . . and perhaps countless other species. And among the Yuuzhan Vong themselves, the threat of revolt has reached a boiling pointâ€”as the oppressed underclass and powerful officials alike fear their Supreme Overlordâ€™s mad actions will provoke the wrath of the gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ultimately, for both the forces of invasion and resistance, too much has been sacrificed â€”and too much is at stakeâ€”to ever turn back. And now, nothing can stand in the way of seizing victory . . . or facing annihilation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   CONTAINS A BONUS CD-ROM!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At long last, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series that launched the\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  saga into the next generation and into thrilling new territory reaches its spectacular finale. Side by side, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, their children, and their comrades in the Galactic Alliance rally for their last stand against the enemy that threatens not only the galaxy, but the Force itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The Galactic Alliance?s hard-won success in countering the Yuuzhan Vong onslaught has proven all too brief?and the tide has turned once more to the invaders? advantage. Having overcome the sabotage strategies of the Jedi and their allies, the marauding aliens have pushed deeper into the galaxy and subjugated more worlds in their ruthless quest for domination. Coruscant has been remade into a Yuuzhan Vong stronghold. The remnants of the resistance are struggling to form a united front. Luke, Mara, and Jacen are missing in action. Clearly the stage is set for endgame.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, as Han and Leia receive the chilling news that hundreds of high-ranking Galactic Alliance prisoners face slaughter in a sacrifice to the enemy?s bloodthirsty gods, Luke and his team try desperately to convince the living world of Zonama Sekot to join the Jedi?s final campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong. Yet even as they speak, a lone space station is all that stands between Alliance headquarters on Mon Calamari . . . and wave after wave of ferocious enemy forces waging their most decisive assault.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, the Jedi?s alliances throughout the galaxy are being tested?and the chances of victory jeopardized?by rogue factions determined to deploy the lethal weapon that will exterminate the Yuuzhan Vong . . . and perhaps countless other species. And among the Yuuzhan Vong themselves, the threat of revolt has reached a boiling point?as the oppressed underclass and powerful officials alike fear their Supreme Overlord?s mad actions will provoke the wrath of the gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ultimately, for both the forces of invasion and resistance, too much has been sacrificed ?and too much is at stake?to ever turn back. And now, nothing can stand in the way of seizing victory . . . or facing annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9567'),
(9095, 'Star Wars - 296 - Dark Nest 01 - The Joiner King', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After triumphing in Star Wars: The Unifying Force, the heroes of the New Jedi Order return in a dazzling new adventure!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalker is worried: A handful of Jedi Knights, including his nephew and niece, Jaina and Jacen Solo, have disappeared into the Unknown Regions in response to a strange cry for help that only they could hear. Now the alien Chiss have angrily lodged a formal complaint, accusing the missing Jedi of meddling in a border dispute between the Chiss and an unidentified aggressor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Luke has no choice but to head to the Unknown Regions for serious damage control. Han and Leia follow, intent on protecting their children from what could be grave danger. But none of them are prepared for what they find when they reach their destination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A colony of mysterious aliens is expanding toward the edge of Chiss space. The leader of the alien nest is resolute. Adept in the Force, he is drawing old friends to his side, compelling them to join the colony and meld their Force-abilities with his, even if it leads to all-out war. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  TROY DENNING is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, Star Wars: Dark Nest Trilogy, as well as Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9926'),
(9096, 'Star Wars - 297 - Dark Nest 02 - Unseen Queen', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The epic Star Wars odyssey enters a new frontier as the heroes of the New Jedi Order confront a monstrous evilâ€“insidious, unseen, and insatiable. . . ._\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  Despite being given new worlds to populate, the insectoid Killiks have not found peace. An unknown enemy has been attacking the new nestsâ€“and the Killiks hold the Jedi responsible. Traveling back to the Unknown Regions to unravel the mystery, the Skywalkers and Solos discover an evil far more familiar than they ever expected . . . and even more terrifying. Why does the Dark Nest want to kill Mara? Will Jacenâ€™s apocalyptic vision trigger another galactic war or prevent one? And perhaps most ominous of all, what deadly secret are the Killiks hiding?\n </p>\n <p>\n  To find out, Luke, Mara, Han, and Leia must\n  <strong>\n   _ _\n  </strong>\n  embark on a perilous journey into the uncharted void between right and wrong. The ferocious Unknown Terrors are only the beginning of the awesome challenges that lie ahead in their quest to fathom the unfathomable. For an obscure dispute is about to explode into chaos, pitting Jedi against Jediâ€“and threatening the very galaxy itself.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, and the Star Wars: Dark Nest Trilogy, as well as Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9925'),
(9097, 'Star Wars - 298 - Dark Nest 03 - The Swarm War', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the explosive conclusion to the Dark Nest trilogy, Luke Skywalker summons the heroes of the New Jedi Order from near and far, as the Star Wars galaxy teeters on the edge of eternal war. Yet even the combined powers of the formidable Jedi may not be enough to vanquish the deadly perils confronting them.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The Chiss-Killik border war is threatening to engulf the entire galaxy and raising the awful specter of Killiks sweeping across space to absorb all living creatures into a single hive mind. The only hope for peace lies with the Jediâ€“and only if they can not only end the bloodshed between two fierce enemies but also combat the insidious evil spread by the elusive Dark Nest and its unseen queen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Leiaâ€™s newly acquired Jedi skills will be put to the ultimate test in the coming life-and-death battle. As for Luke, he will have to prove, in a lightning display of Force strength and swordplay, that he isâ€“ beyond a shadow of a doubtâ€“the greatest Jedi Master in the galaxy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, and Star Wars: Dark Nest Trilogy, as well as Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9922');
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(9098, 'Star Wars - 299 - Legacy of the Force 01 - Betrayal', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Following the New Jedi Order series, Allston blasts off a new multi-author nine-book string of adventures starring beloved Star Wars familiars: the Solos (Han, Leia Organa and their adult Jedi children, Jacen and Jaina) and the Skywalkers (Master Jedi Luke, his wife Mara Jade, and their plucky 13-year-old son Ben, Jacen''s apprentice Jedi-in-training). Allston (Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand) follows the Jedi Knights'' ethical dilemmas and intricate battle maneuvers as they set out to diffuse a developing conflict between the Galactic Alliance (GA) and Correllia, Han''s home planetary system. When Ben infiltrates the Correllian Centerpoint Station, a mega-Death Star with the power to move and destroy planets, he must confront an AI that believes it is Anakin Solo (Jacen and Jaina''s late brother). Jacen also faces a grave, shocking choice about his future as a Jedi when he encounters a Sith. Although Han, Leia, Luke and Mara haven''t lost their mystique in middle-age, Ben and Jacen steal the show in this new installment that should please Star Wars fans eager for an update.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new Star Wars adventure begins with this novel in which the Galactic Alliance faces a new and unexpected threat. Luke Skywalker is surprised and dismayed to learn that the Corellians are chafing under GA rule and are preparing to strike for independence by arming a deadly weapon in their star system known as Centerpoint Station. The weapon caused great destruction during a previous war, and Luke is determined that the Corellians don''t harness its power now. He dispatches Jedi Jacen Solo, the son of Han and Leia, and his own son, Ben, who is Jacen''s apprentice, to neutralize the threat. But Han, a native Corellian, is deeply conflicted by the GA''s plans to stop the Corellians'' strike for independence, and he and Leia go to the Corellian government to warn them of the threat. Much of the GA''s plan goes awry, and although Jacen and Ben are successful in their mission, it comes at a price. The leaders of the GA and the Corellian government agree to meet, but a shocking assassination pushes them closer to conflict. Fans of the Star Wars universe will be impressed by Allston''s deft handling of the complicated issues raised in the novel, particularly how yesterday''s rebels fill their roles as leaders. The novel boasts a shocking ending, one guaranteed to hook readers for the duration of the series.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9466'),
(9099, 'Star Wars - 300 - Legacy of the Force 02 - Bloodlines', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new territory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worldsâ€“and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Hanâ€™s homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistance. Their children, Jacen and Jaina, are soldiers in the Galactic Allianceâ€™s campaign to crush the insurgents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jacen, now a complete master of the Force, has his own plans to bring order to the galaxy. Guided by his Sith mentor, Lumiya, and with Lukeâ€™s young son Ben at his side, Jacen embarks on the same path that his grandfather Darth Vader once did. And while Han and Leia watch their only son become a stranger, a secret assassin entangles the couple with a dreaded name from Hanâ€™s past: Boba Fett. In the new galactic order, friends and enemies are no longer what they seem. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the author of two Star Wars: Republic Commando novels, Hard Contact and Triple Zero, as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, and The World Before. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. She has served in both the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. Since her graduation from the Clarion East class of 2000, her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9523'),
(9100, 'Star Wars - 301 - Legacy of the Force 03 - Tempest', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic beginsâ€“the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  As civil war threatens the unity of the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo have enraged their families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. But the Solos draw the line when they discover the rebelsâ€™ plot to make the Hapan Consortium an allyâ€“which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their pro-Alliance queen and her daughter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet the Solosâ€™ selfless determination to save the queen cannot dispel the inescapable consequences of their actions, that will pit mother against son and brother against sister in the battles ahead. For as Jacen Soloâ€™s dark powers grow stronger under the Dark Jedi Lumiya, and his influence over Ben Skywalker becomes more insidious, Lukeâ€™s concern for his nephew forces him into a life-and-death struggle against his fiercest foe, and Han and Leia Solo find themselves at the mercy of their deadliest enemy . . . their son.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, the Star Wars: Dark Nest Trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War, as well as Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9919'),
(9101, 'Star Wars - 302 - Legacy of the Force 04 - Exile', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more admired, more powerful, and more certain of achieving galactic peace. But that peace may come with a price. Despite strained relationships caused by opposing sympathies in the war, Han and Leia Solo and Luke and Mara Skywalker remain united by one frightening suspicion: Someone insidious is manipulating this war, and if he or she isnâ€™t stopped, all efforts at reconciliation may be for naught. And as sinister visions lead Luke to believe that the source of the evil is none other than Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith, the greatest peril revolves around Jacen himself. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aaron Allston is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines novels: Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas. Visit his website at www.AaronAllston.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9468'),
(9102, 'Star Wars - 303 - Legacy of the Force 05 - Sacrifice', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Civil war rages as the Galactic Allianceâ€“led by Cal Omas and the Jedi forces of Luke Skywalkerâ€“battles a confederation of breakaway planets that rally to the side of rebellious Corellia. Suspected of involvement in an assassination plot against Queen Mother Tenel Ka of the Hapes Consortium, Han and Leia Solo are on the run, hunted by none other than their own son, Jacen, whose increasingly authoritarian tactics as head of GA security have led Luke and Mara Skywalker to fear that their nephew may be treading perilously close to the dark side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as his family sees in Jacen the chilling legacy of his Sith grandfather, Darth Vader, many of the frontline troops adore him, and countless citizens see him as a savior. The galaxy has been torn apart by too many wars. All Jacen wants is safety and stability for allâ€“and heâ€™s prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To end the bloodshed and suffering, what sacrifice would be too great? That is the question tormenting Jacen. Already he has sacrificed much, embracing the pitiless teachings of Lumiya, the Dark Lady of the Sith, who has taught him that a strong will and noble purpose can hold the evil excesses of the dark side at bay, bringing peace and order to the galaxyâ€“but at a price.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For there is one final test that Jacen must pass before he can gain the awesome power of a true Sith Lord: He must bring about the death of someone he values dearly. What troubles Jacen isnâ€™t whether he has the strength to commit murder. He has steeled himself for that, and worse if necessary. No, the question that troubles Jacen is who the sacrifice should be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the strands of destiny draw ever more tightly together in a galaxy-spanning web, the shocking answer will shatter two families . . . and cast a grim shadow over the future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the author of Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines and two Star Wars: Republic Commando novels, Hard Contact and Triple Zero, as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, and Ally. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. She has served in both the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. Since her graduation from the Clarion East class of 2000, her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9528'),
(9103, 'Star Wars - 304 - Legacy of the Force 06 - Inferno', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Luke Skywalker wanted to unify the Jedi order and bring peace to the universe. Instead his wife Mara lies dead at the hands of an unknown assassin, his wayward nephew Jacen has seized control of the Galactic Alliance, and the galaxy has exploded in all-out civil war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Luke consumed by grief, Jacen Solo works quickly to consolidate his power and jumpstart his plan to take over the Jedi. Convinced heâ€™s the only one who can save the galaxy, Jacen will do whatever it takes, even ambush his own parents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the Rebel confederacy driving deep into the Core to attack Coruscant and the Jedi under siege, Luke must reassert his position. Only he can lead the Jedi through this crisis, but it means solving the toughest problem Lukeâ€™s ever faced. Does he fight alongside his nephew Jacen, a tyrant whoâ€™s illegally taken over the GA, or does he join the rebels to smash the Galactic Alliance he helped create?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, the Star Wars: Dark Nest Trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War, and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, as well as Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9924'),
(9104, 'Star Wars - 305 - Legacy of the Force 07 - Fury', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacenâ€™s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victoryâ€“whatever the price.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  While Luke grieves the loss of his beloved wife and deals with his guilt over killing the wrong person in retaliation, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk hunt for the real assassin, unaware that the culprit commands Sith powers that can cloud their minds and misdirect their attacksâ€“and even turn them back on themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Luke and Ben Skywalker struggle to find their place among the chaos, Jacen, shunned by friends and family, launches an invasion to rescue the only person still loyal to him. But with the battle raging on, and the galaxy growing more turbulent and riotous, thereâ€™s no question that it is Jacen who is most wanted: dead or alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aaron Allston is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels, Betrayal and Exile; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures: Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas. Visit his website at www.AaronAllston.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9471'),
(9105, 'Star Wars - 306 - Legacy of the Force 08 - Revelation', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Soloâ€™s tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no oneâ€“not even the Solos and the Skywalkersâ€“knows if anything can stop the Sith Lord before his plan to save the galaxy ends up destroying it.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Jacen Soloâ€™s shadow of influence has threatened many, especially those closest to him. Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in, but in order to track him down, she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless, repellent, and dangerous. Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker, still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother, Mara, decides he must know the truth, even if it costs him his life. And as Luke Skywalker contemplates once unthinkable strategies to dethrone his nephew, the hour of reckoning for those on both sides draws near. The galaxy becomes a battlefield where all must face their true nature and darkest secrets, and liveâ€“or dieâ€“with the consequences.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Traviss is the author of two previous Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels, Bloodlines and Sacrifice, three Star Wars: Republic Commando novels, Hard Contact, Triple Zero, and True Colors, as well as City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, and Ally. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, Traviss has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter, and a journalism lecturer. Since her graduation from the Clarion East class of 2000, her short stories have appeared in Asimovâ€™s, Realms of Fantasy,_ _On Spec, and Star Wars Insider. She lives in Devizes, England.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9520'),
(9106, 'Star Wars - 307 - Legacy of the Force 09 - Invincible', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”Although this book is the conclusion to the series, it is engaging for anyone familiar with the original\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  films. Readers become reacquainted with familiar characters such as Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. The story picks up where Karen Traviss''s\n  <em>\n   Revelation\n  </em>\n  (Del Rey, 2008) leaves off, with Jaina Solo, daughter of Han and Leia Solo, training alongside Boba Fett in preparation for the greatest battle of her life; Jaina is being sent to destroy Darth Caedus, the Sith who was once known as Jacen Solo, her twin brother. As she pursues him across the galaxy, Jaina and her family struggle to separate the Jedi warrior they knew as Jacen from the Dark Lord that he has become. The novel follows the battle between the Jedi and the Galactic Alliance from the perspectives of Jaina; Jacen; and their cousin, Ben Skywalker, creating a fusion of plots dealing with political dispute, inner struggles, and warfare. This is an entertaining and quick read, although the ending seems to wrap up prematurely with several plotlines left unanswered, presumably to be explored in a future series.â€”_Kelliann Bogan, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No war can last forever. Now, in the long and punishing battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance, the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lostâ€“and nothing less than the course of the future still at stakeâ€“there can be no turning back. No matter the consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The rebel cause is losing ground under the twin blows of Admiral Gilad Pellaeonâ€™s assassination and the death of Mara Jade Skywalker. At the same time, having gained the support of the Imperial Remnant and its ruthlessly efficient forces, the Galactic Alliance, with the extraordinary power and dark brilliance of newly ascendant Sith Lord Darth Caedus at its helm, may be unstoppable. Tormented and torn between the call of duty and the thirst for vengeance, Luke has searched the Force and beheld an unspeakable vision of the galaxy enslaved under tyranny more monstrous than even Palpatineâ€™s. Now it seems that the last, best hope lies in mobilizing the scattered Jedi for one decisive search-and-destroy mission. The objective: eliminate Darth Caedus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s a plan that will be as difficult and dangerous to execute as it is daring. For Caedus is a scion of both the Skywalker and Solo bloodlines whose command of the Force surpasses even that of his grandfather\n </p>\n <p>\n  Darth Vader. There is only one who is bound by destiny to stand against him in what will surely be a duel to the death, only one with an outside chance of bringing down the dark lord who was once Jacen Solo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Failure is not an option. The furious final moments between power and peace are here, and whoever confronts Darth Caedus will decide the outcomeâ€“and the fate of those left standing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9918'),
(9107, 'Star Wars - 308 - Millenium Falcoln', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Climb aboard, buckle up, and prepare to jump to hyperspace for a dazzling adventure aboard the ship that launched a thousand fates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years have passed since the death of the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedusâ€“once known as Jacen Solo. The galaxy is slowly healing from civil war, while Jacenâ€™s family and friends are left to mourn his loss alone. For Han and Leia, still grieving for their son, the only bright spot is Jacenâ€™s daughter, Allana, who has been given into their care. Now Allana introduces new adventure into her grandparentsâ€™ lives when she discovers a strange device hidden aboard the Millennium Falconâ€“a discovery that sparks a fact-finding expedition to retrace the people, places, and events in the checkered history of the famous spaceship. But the Solos are not alone in their quest: Crime lords, galactic pirates, rogue politicians, and fortune hunters alike will race to a final standoff for a prize some will risk everything to findâ€“and pay any cost to possess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Luceno is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Star Wars novels\n  <strong>\n   Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, Cloak of Deception, Labyrinth of Evil,\n  </strong>\n  as well as the New Jedi Order novels\n  <strong>\n   Agents of Chaos I: Heroâ€™s Trial and Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse, The Unifying Force\n  </strong>\n  , and the eBook\n  <strong>\n   Darth Maul: Saboteur\n  </strong>\n  . He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and youngest child.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9565'),
(9108, 'Star Wars - 314 - Fate of the Jedi 06 - Vortex', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sixth in a nine-part series finds Luke and Ben continuing their uneasy alliance with the Sith as they investigate the mysterious history of Abeloth, hoping to find out how she caused the Jedi to go mad and how she was freed from her prison. On Coruscant, Leia and Han lead a rescue mission to get the two Horns out of their carbonite prison, thus bringing the inevitable confrontation between the Jedi and Admiral Daala ever closer. Out on the Rim, the slave unrest looks like it might become an outright uprising. Denning does an excellent job moving the action forward, working with the multiple plotlines introduced in the previous five books and adding new elements that will excite fans eager for books seven, eight, and nine. As usual, there is plenty of action and excitement, with the drama evenly spread among the major characters. Sure to be a popular addition to all sf collections. --Jessica Moyer\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a stunning turn of events, Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben, joined forces with members of the Sith armada sent to kill themâ€”and turned their combined might against the monstrous being Abeloth. But with one menace dealt with, a new and even more insidious threat looms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Luke and Ben must go on the run, taking along the inscrutableâ€”and ever dangerousâ€”Sith apprentice Vestara Khai. With a host of Sith warriors in hot pursuit, the Skywalkers soon find themselves trapped on the moon Pydyr, caught between their former allies and a mob of angry Fallanassi. A new truce may be their only hope. But can a Sith ever be trusted?\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the Jediâ€™s most famous father-and-son team outnumbered and outgunned, the countdown to galactic disaster has begunâ€”and time is running out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9917'),
(9109, 'Star Wars Darth Bane Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œTwo there should be; no more, no less.One to embody the power, the other to crave it.â€â€“Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the SithOn the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There, Desselâ€™s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, a far greater destiny awaits him. As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side, Dessel embraces his new identity: Bane. But the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught. It is a trial by fire in which he must surrender fully to the dark sideâ€“and forge from the ashes a new era of absolute power. â€œA solid space adventure [that] charts the evolution of an antihero almost as chilling as Darth Vader.â€â€“Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5401'),
(9110, 'Star Wars Lost Tribe of the Sith #1', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donâ€™t miss STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: PRECIPICE a FREE original e-book short story, the first in a series that tell the untold story of the FATE OF THE JEDI''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! PRECIPICE includes an exclusive excerpt from STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: OMEN (Del Rey Hardcover, available June 23rd) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that will begin to unfold in OMEN. SURVIVALâ€”NOT SURRENDER For the ruthless Sith Order, failure is not an option. It is an offense punishable by deathâ€”and a fate to which Commander Yaru Korsin will not succumb. But on a crucial run to deliver troops and precious crystals to a combat hotspot in the Sithâ€™s war against the Republic, Korsin and the crew of the mining ship Omen are ambushed by a Jedi starfighter. And when the Sith craft crash-lands, torn and crippled, on a desolate alien planet, the hard-bitten captain finds himself at odds with desperate survivors on the brink of mutinyâ€”and his own vengeful half brother, whoâ€™s bent on seizing command. No matter the cost, Korsin vows that it will not be his blood and bones left behind on this unknown world. For the way of the Sith leaves little room for compromiseâ€”and none for mercy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2695'),
(9111, 'Star Wars: A Forest Apart', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While on Coruscant, Lumpawarrump catches a burglar stealing a datapad from Han and Leia Solo. Lumpawarrump then pursues the burglar into Coruscant''s dangerous underlevels. Chewbacca follows his son and finds him fighting the burglars and eventually getting kidnapped. When Chewbacca found him again he finds the burglars carrying him into one of the secret detention centers Palpatine kept in the undercity. Chewbacca and Lumpawarrump learn that the burglars were attempting to assassinate the New Republic''s leaders so Chewbacca comms Han to inform him of the plot. Chewbacca and Lumpawarrump invade the enemies'' base to find an advanced IT-3 interrogation droid behind the plot. Chewbacca attacks and destroys the droid. In the end Lumpawarrump heads back to Kashyyyk after learning a lesson about listening to his parents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6540'),
(9112, 'Star Wars: A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hidden away at birth, he would believe himself an orphan. Watched over by a mysterious hermit, he would discover incredible abilities. And by finding hope where others found only evil, he would restore balance to the galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the legendary story of Luke Skywalker, from his childhood on Tatooine to his fierce battle with his toughest enemyâ€”himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6898'),
(9113, 'Star Wars: Agents of Chaos I: Hero&#39;s Trial', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Merciless attacks by an invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the noble Chewbacca is laid to rest, having died as heroically as he livedâ€”and a grief-stricken Han Solo is left to fit the pieces of his shattered life back together before he loses everything: friends, family, and faith.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Refusing help from Leia or Luke, Han becomes the loner he once was, seeking to escape the pain of his partner''s death in adventureâ€¦and revenge. When he learns that an old friend from his smuggling days is operating as a mercenary for the enemy, he sets out to expose the traitor. But Han''s investigation uncovers an even greater evil: a sinister conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the New Republic''s will and ability to fightâ€”the Jedi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Han must face down his inner demons and, with the help of a new and unexpected ally, honor Chewbacca''s sacrifice in the only way that mattersâ€”by being worthy of it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5750'),
(9114, 'Star Wars: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the evacuation of refugees on planets in the path of the merciless invaders. Luke Skywalker struggles to hold the fractious Jedi Knights together, even while one of them undertakes a bold but reckless undercover mission.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manipulating their alliance with the amoral Hutts, the Yuuzhan Vong leave a cunning trail of vital information where New Republic agents are sure to find itâ€”information the desperate defenders cannot afford to ignore: the location of the aliens'' next target.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then Han Solo stumbles into the dark heart of a raging battle, thus beginning a furious race against time that will require every skill and trick in his arsenal to winâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5747'),
(9115, 'Star Wars: Allegiance', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Five idealistic but fed-up Imperial stormtroopers led by Daric LaRone share the stage with young Rebel Alliance crusaders Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca in this politically fraught but still rollicking early years Star Wars adventure from Hugo-winner Zahn (Star Wars: Outbound Flight). Emperor Palpatine''s favorite Sith, Darth Vader, has a new rival, the 18-year-old Countess Mara Jade Claria, whom Palpatine has schooled in the Force to assume the special agent role of "Emperor''s Hand." Zahn depicts the intrepid Rebel quartet and the turbulent development of the Alliance while revealing the Human faces behind the stormtrooper armor of Daric and company, who become unexpected allies of Han and friends once the troopers are on the run after killing a superior officer. The author also underscores Mara Jade''s tough-girl charm and blossoming Imperial clout against the background of Palpatine''s dedication to Imperial domination and his insidious influence on his minions. This episode will please fans wondering about events between the first and second movies in the original Star Wars trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6143'),
(9116, 'Star Wars: Balance Point', 'Kathy Tyers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There is no place to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro, poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal is struck: In exchange for a new home, the refugees will work to restore the planet to health, under the watchful eye of Leia Organa Solo.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While tempers flare between the Duros and the New Republic, Han Solo, his son, Jacen and the Ryn called Droma arrive to keep the peace. They are unaware that Leia is on Duroâ€¦and that Luke, Mara and Anakin are on their way, searching for a missing Jedi apprentice. And none realize that the Yuuzhan Vong have chosen this embattled planet as the next target in their brutal coreward thrust.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, as the fragile stability on Duro threatens to collapse into violence, Jacen Solo must face his greatest dilemma: At what point does the use of power become aggression? Whatever he decides, his next step could tip the galaxy destiny toward the light or toward darknessâ€”with the life of someone he loves hanging in the balanceâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6958'),
(9117, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 1: The Fight to Survive', 'Terry Bisson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Boba Fett is not like other boys. His father, Jango Fett, is a bounty hunter. His planet, Kamino, is home to an army of clones. He has no friends, no school. The one thing he does have is a future as a bounty hunter.\n <br />\n This future comes quickly. Suddenly Boba Fett is all alone in a dangerous galaxy. He must struggle for safetyâ€”and vengeanceâ€”using his strength, his intelligence and his father''s hard lessons.\n <br />\n Boba Fett will grow up to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy.\n <br />\n But first he must survive his childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6912'),
(9118, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 2: Crossfire', 'Terry Bisson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n His most important ally is his greatest enemy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Boba Fett is alone in the world. His father is dead. He''s never had friends. The only thing that keeps him going is his desire to surviveâ€”and become a bounty hunter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aurra Sing has taken him to Count Dooku''s lair on the toxic planet of Raxus Prime. Boba thinks Dooku will help him. But Dooku has other plansâ€¦and the Jedi have their plans as well.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Clone Wars are raging throughout the galaxy, and Boba Fett is caught in a spectacular crossfire on Raxus Prime. What he discovers there will change the course of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6911'),
(9119, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 3: Maze of Deception', 'Elizabeth Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trust no one. Especially a bounty hunter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When he died in the first Clone War battle, Jango Fett left a fortune somewhere on the planet of Aargau. The bounty hunter Aurra Sing is the only person who knows where the fortune is. But Jango''s son, Boba Fett, is the only person who can get to it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aurra Sing needs Boba, and Boba needs Aurra Sing. But there''s no way they can trust each other. Every move could be a deception. Every word could be a lie.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the search for Jango Fett''s legacy becomes dangerously complicated, young Boba Fett must outsmart and outmaneuver enemies of all kindsâ€”even hidden ones. His future as a bounty hunter depends on it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6616'),
(9120, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 4: Hunted', 'Elizabeth Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n His first mission may be his last.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On the barren planet of Tatooine, young Boba Fett is surrounded by criminals, mercenaries, and thieves. In his quest to become a bounty hunter, he is searching out the greatest crime lord of allâ€”Jabba the Hutt.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Jabba the Hutt is not easily foundâ€¦or easily impressed. When Boba finally tracks down the crime lord, Jabba has an offer for him: one assignment, one chance. He must capture a deadly bountyâ€¦or else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is the biggest test Boba Fett has ever facedâ€”one that will determine his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6617'),
(9121, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 5: A New Threat', 'Elizabeth Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A powerful enemy is the greatest danger.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When you work for Jabba the Hutt, you do whatever he wants you to doâ€”no matter what the risk. As Jabba''s newest bounty hunter, Boba Fett has a lot to proveâ€¦and little time to prove it. So when Jabba sends him into the thick of the Clone Wars, there''s no backing down from the fight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n General Grievous is at the heart of the plot to overthrow the Republic. He is fierce, strong, and virtually unstoppable. When his path crosses Boba''s, sparks flyâ€”and many lives are threatened.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6618'),
(9122, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett 6: Pursuit', 'Elizabeth Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A father''s death. A son''s revenge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Boba Fett is emerging as one of the most skilled bounty hunters in the galaxy. After surviving his deadly battle with the fearsome General Grievous, there''s one bounty he wants more than any other: Mace Windu, the Jedi who killed his father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When fate and Anakin Skywalker bring Boba Fett to the city-planet of Coruscant, Boba plunges into the Coruscant underworld and arms himself for the greatest confrontation of his young life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s the bounty hunter vs. the Jedi as Boba Fett takes his one and only chance at revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6615'),
(9123, 'Star Wars: Boba Fett: A Practical Man', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the surface, it seems like just another routine contract for Boba Fett and his Mandalorian commandos, but the mystery client who hires them to start a small war is more dangerous than any of them can possibly imagine. When the Yuuzhan Vong invasion force sweeps into the galaxy, the Mandalorians find theyâ€™re on the wrong sideâ€“fighting for an alien culture that will bring about the end of their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Fett has to choose between his honor and the survival of his people. Since heâ€™s a practical man, heâ€™s determined help the resistance beat the Yuuzhan Vongâ€“even if it means working with a Jedi agent. Trouble is, no one trusts a man with Fettâ€™s reputation. So convincing the New Republic that theyâ€™re fighting on the same side is a tall order. Denounced as traitors, Fettâ€™s Mandalorians need to stay one step ahead of their Yuuzhan Vong paymastersâ€“and the Republic who sees them as collaborators with the most destructive enemy the galaxy has ever faced. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5738'),
(9124, 'Star Wars: Children of the Jedi', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca set out on a mission vital to the survival of the fragile New Republic. They are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi on the frozen world of Belsavis, from whose dark crypts no one has returned alive. Halfway across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker is on an equally dangerous mission. Taken aboard the enemy Dreadnaught Eye of Palpatine, Luke must find a way to destroy the automated ship before it completes the mission encoded into its super-sophisticated artificial intelligence system: the total annihilation of Belsavis. To succeed, Luke will need the help of the spirit of the Jedi Knight Callista, who gave her life to stop the ship once before. The mystery of the crypts, the invincible power of the Dreadnaught, the lost Jedi, and the burgeoning passion between Luke and Callista come together in a stunning climax worthy of the magnificent Star Wars saga.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6443'),
(9125, 'Star Wars: Cloak of Deception', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mired in greed and corruption, tangled in bureaucracy, the Galactic Republic is crumbling. In the outlying systems, where the Trade Federation maintains a stranglehold on shipping routes, tensions are boiling overâ€”and now even the comfort of Coruscant is being invaded, as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi foil an assassination attempt on Supreme Chancellor Valorum.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Humans and aliens gather for an emergency trade summit, conspiracies sealed with large sums of money run rampant, and no one is entirely above suspicion. But the greatest threat of all remains unknown to everyone except three members of the Trade Federation who have entered into a shadowy alliance with a dark overlord. While the trio will be content with more money and fewer problems, Darth Sidious has grander, far more terrifying plans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5745'),
(9126, 'Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Planet by planet, darkness creeps across the galaxy. Among warriors and generals, among ordinary beings living in far-flung worlds, the fear will not go away: We are losing this war. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker feels it, too. The Separatist Alliance, with ruthlessness and treachery, is beating the Republic to every strategic target. But after a costly clash with General Grievous for the planet Kothlis, Anakin has a mission that will focus his anxious mind. Alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, he is posing as a long-lost native of Lanteeb, an impoverished world on the Outer Rim. This seemingly unimportant planet has drawn the interest of the Sepsâ€”and Anakin and Obi-Wan soon discover the disturbing reason: A scientist enslaved by General Lok Durd is drawing on Lanteeb''s one natural resource for a devastating bioweapon. Now Anakin and Obi-Wan have entered the eye of a storm. Their presence has been exposed, Lok Durd''s plans unveiled, and a fight has begun for survival behind enemy linesâ€”and a chance of winning a war that must be fought at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6157'),
(9127, 'Star Wars: Corellian Trilogy 1: Ambush at Corellia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children, and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three leading racesâ€”Human, Selonian and Drallanâ€”has come to an end.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Suddenly all that Han, Leia, and others of the Alliance have fought for is threatened. As jammerships block all communication with Luke Skywalker and the outside universe, Han and Leia find themselves trapped on a world about to explode in violence unless they can meet a fanatical Rebel leader''s impossible demands....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8262'),
(9128, 'Star Wars: Corellian Trilogy 2: Assault at Selonia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thrackan Sal-Solo. Thracken [sic] plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total powerâ€”no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his Human cousin and join forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken''s [sic] plan. But can Han trust the alien to keep her word?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, other questions threaten the New Republicâ€”and the lives of millions. Who is behind the deadly Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to take possession of Corellia''s powerful planetary repulsors? And what is the secret behind the mysterious Centerpoint Station, an ancient, artificial world of unknown origin that has suddenlyâ€”and inexplicablyâ€”come alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8261'),
(9129, 'Star Wars: Corellian Trilogy 3: Showdown at Centerpoint', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors into weapons of immense destruction. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian manage to discover the terrifying secret of Centerpoint Station. It is the infamous Starbuster itself, and its next programmed nova, hard-wired in, is set to annihilate a chosen star, its inhabited worlds, and millions of innocent lives. There''s only one way to stop it: blow up the station. But as a massive rebel fleet closes in on Centerpoint, Han, Luke and their friends will discover time is running out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then the true leaders of the rebellion reveal their identities, and issue their final ultimatum: The New Republic must withdraw all claim to power over the entire Corellian sector. With the future of Corellian freedom at stake, Han and those loyal to the Republic must somehow resist. But how can they possibly stop the deadliest weapon the galaxy has ever known?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8260'),
(9130, 'Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the dark ascension of the Empire, and the Jedi Knights virtually wiped out, one Jedi who escaped the massacre is slated for a date with destinyâ€”and a confrontation with Darth Vader.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jax Pavan is one of the few Jedi Knights who miraculously survived the slaughter that followed Palpatine''s ruthless Order 66. Now, deep in Coruscant''s Blackpit Slums, Jax ekes out a living as a private investigator, trying to help people in need while concealing his Jedi identity and staying one step ahead of the killers out for Jedi blood. Others search for the elusive Jax too. Hard-boiled reporter Den Dhur and his buddy, the highly unorthodox droid I-5YQ, have shocking news to bring Jaxâ€”about the father he never knew.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But when Jax learns that his old Jedi Master has been killed, leaving behind the request that Jax finish a mission critical to the resistance, Jax has no choice but to emerge from hidingâ€”and risk detection by Darth Vader to fulfill his Master''s dying wish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5122');
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(9131, 'Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II Streets of Shadows', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the Jedi all but wiped out in the grim aftermath of Order 66, the Empire''s power seems unchecked. But one lone Knight continues to fight the good fight â€” against all odds and when all else fails.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deep in the bowels of Coruscant, Jedi Jax Pavan seekes out a living as a private investigator; a go-to, can-do guy for the downtrodden. Now a mysterious Zeltron knockout named Deejah approaches Jax with a case that needs to be cracked: to find out who killed her artist lover Volette, brutally murdered hours after his triumphant unveiling of a dazzling new light sculpture with obvious links to lightsaber pyrotechnics.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Finding Volette''s killer won''t be easy â€” too many secrets, too many suspects, and all kinds of motives. But with the droid I-5YQ''s help, and ex-reporter Den Dhur''s excellent snooping skills, the investigation is soon operating like a well-oiled machine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unfortunately, there''s a far more efficient machine hunting Jax. It''s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the clock starts ticking toward the final explosive showdownâ€¦ to see who strikes first and who will die first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5121'),
(9132, 'Star Wars: Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After the Empire''s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that he''s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant''s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle -- to unlock the secrets of his father''s death and his own past.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vader''s relentless search for Jax is about to end... in triumph.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because there''s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader and live to tell the tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5124'),
(9133, 'Star Wars: Crosscurrent', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalkerâ€™s hopes for peace.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”appears to be in distress.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaughtâ€”bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jediâ€”has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The shipâ€™s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul S. Kemp\n <strong>\n </strong>\n is the author of nine Forgotten Realms_ _fantasy novels and many short stories. When heâ€™s not writing, he practices corporate law in Michigan, which has inspired him to write some really believable villains. He digs cigars, single malt scotch, and ales, and tries to hum the theme song to Shaft at least once per day. Paul Kemp lives and works in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with his wife, twin sons, and a couple of cats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4983'),
(9134, 'Star Wars: Dark Forces: Jedi Knight', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kyle Katarn, Rebel agent and novice Jedi, has just returned from his covert operation to find the location of the Valley of the Jedi. But he knows that the evil Jerec, a dark Jedi with designs on the Empire''s throne, knows where the Valley is too. Upon returning to the Alliance, and with the support of Luke Skywalker himself, Kyle offers to find the Valley and stop the oncoming Imperial invasionâ€”and, at last, fulfill his destiny as a Jedi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7764'),
(9135, 'Star Wars: Dark Forces: Rebel Agent', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Secret Rebel Agent Kyle Katarn will do anything to avenge his father''s untimely death at the hands of the Empire. When Kyle is threatened by 8t88 in a Nar Shaddaa bar, he tracks down the droid and secures a mysterious disk that could put him on the path to learning why his father was killed. Kyle soon finds that the disk contains information about a map to the Valley of the Jedi, a place his father had stumbled upon and kept secret. Now it''s a race between Kyle and the Empire to see who can get to the mapâ€”and the Valleyâ€”first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7762'),
(9136, 'Star Wars: Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kyle Katarn is a decorated graduate from the Imperial Military Academy who would forfeit his very life for the Empire. But he wouldn''t forfeit his father''s life, and that''s what the Empire has taken. Kyle is willing to do anything to avenge his father''s death which is what the Rebel Alliance is counting on. Join Kyle Katarn in this brand-new, fast-paced tale of adventure and suspense.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Based on the popular Star Wars: DARK FORCES and Star Wars: JEDI KNIGHT interactive games, this novella-length prose-story is written by acclaimed author William C. Dietz (The Final Battle) and illustrated by award-winning artist Dean Williams (Tarzan: The Lost Adventure).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7763'),
(9137, 'Star Wars: Dark Journey', 'Elaine Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New Jedi Order continues as Jaina Solo struggles with anger and despair after the Jedi Knights'' harrowing adventure behind enemy lines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though the Jedi strike force completed its deadly mission into Yuuzhan Vong territory, the price of success was tragedy: not everyone made it out alive. In a daring getaway, hotshot pilot Jaina Solo stole an enemy ship, taking along her fellow survivorsâ€”and leaving behind a huge piece of her heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the enemy in hot pursuit, Jaina is forced to seek haven in the unprotected, unfriendly Hapes Cluster, where the Jedi are held responsible for a past tragedyâ€”and where the royal family has grim plans for their famous Jedi guest. Even more sinister are the intentions of the Yuuzhan Vong, desperate to capture Jaina for a hideous sacrifice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Grief-stricken and obsessed with revenge, Jaina is blind to these threatsâ€”and to the overpowering evil dangerously close to consuming her. In the coming conflagration, Jaina will be fighting not for victory or vengeance, but for her very beingâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4600'),
(9138, 'Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Force is still to be reckoned with, primarily because Darth Vader continues to be one of the most fascinating dark pop icons since Dracula. Picking up where Matthew Stover''s Revenge of the Sith (2005) left off, Luceno (Labyrinth of Evil) delivers exciting battle scenes and brave characters, including the beloved Wookie, Chewbacca. His ease with Star Wars techno-jargon is admirable. What''s needed in this intermittently entertaining installment is a better opponent for Vader. Unfortunately, Yoda, the spiritual heart of the saga, appears to be in hiding. Instead, Luceno focuses on Jedi knight Roan Shryne; his Padawan sidekick, Olee Starstone; and other survivors of Emperor Palpatine''s Jedi extermination. All appear to be earnest, if pale, imitations of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And where''s Han Solo, far older than the Skywalker twins? Why can''t Vader sense his twins'' existence with his vaunted supernatural abilities? Too often the sympathetic Vader wallows in self-pity. Thankfully, exuberantly evil Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious) returns with more power lessons Vader laps up eagerly: "Where the Jedi gained power through understanding, the Sith gain understanding through power."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5749'),
(9139, 'Star Wars: Dark Nest I: The Joiner King', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After triumphing in Star Wars: The Unifying Force, the heroes of the New Jedi Order return in a dazzling new adventure!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker is worried: A handful of Jedi Knights, including his nephew and niece, Jaina and Jacen Solo, have disappeared into the Unknown Regions in response to a strange cry for help that only they could hear. Now the alien Chiss have angrily lodged a formal complaint, accusing the missing Jedi of meddling in a border dispute between the Chiss and an unidentified aggressor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke has no choice but to head to the Unknown Regions for serious damage control. Han and Leia follow, intent on protecting their children from what could be grave danger. But none of them are prepared for what they find when they reach their destination.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A colony of mysterious aliens is expanding toward the edge of Chiss space. The leader of the alien nest is resolute. Adept in the Force, he is drawing old friends to his side, compelling them to join the colony and meld their Force-abilities with his, even if it leads to all-out warâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6541'),
(9140, 'Star Wars: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The epic Star Wars odyssey enters a new frontier as the heroes of the New Jedi Order confront a monstrous evil-insidious, unseen, and insatiable....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though the insectoid Killiks have been given new worlds, they have not found peace yet. Their new colonies are under attack from a mysterious foe and the furious Killiks blame the Jedi. Racing back to the Unknown Regions to investigate, the Skywalkers and Solos discover a threat more familiar and terrifying than they had ever expected. Worse, the Dark Nest wants to kill Mara Jade. Will Jacen''s apocalyptic vision create yet another galactic war or prevent one? Most mysterious and deadly of all, the Killiks are hiding a deadly secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To find out, Luke, Mara, Han and Leia must embark on a perilous journey into the unknown void between right and wrong. For a strange yet devastating dispute is about to explode into chaos, pitting Jedi against each other and threatening the galaxy itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6542'),
(9141, 'Star Wars: Dark Nest III: The Swarm War', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the explosive conclusion to the Dark Nest trilogy, Luke Skywalker summons the heroes of the New Jedi Order from near and far as the Star Wars galaxy teeters on the edge of eternal war. Yet even the combined powers of the formidable Jedi may not be enough to vanquish the deadly perils confronting them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker summons Jedi Knights from all over the galaxy as war starts. Yet even the combined might of the Jedi Order may not be enough against the deadly perils confronting them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Chiss-Killik border confrontration is threatening to engulf the entire galaxy in yet another galactic war. The Killik have planned to absorb all living creatures into a single hive mind. The only hope for peace lies in the hands of the Jedi, who must not only end the war between the Chiss and the Killik but also confront the new threat of the Dark Nest and its unseen queen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leia''s Jedi skills will be put to the test in the coming conflict, while Luke will have to prove in a brilliant display of Force strength and swordplay, that he is the most powerful Jedi Master in the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6546'),
(9142, 'Star Wars: Dark Tide I: Onslaught', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With unsurpassed action and imagination, New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole continues The New Jedi Order with DARK TIDE I: ONSLAUGHT, testing the heroes of the past along with the next generation of Jedi against fearsome enemies from beyond the galactic rim.â€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke Skywalker''s leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Emperor Palpatine. As Leia Organa Solo and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yuuzhan Vong forces, Mara Jade Skywalker, Jedi apprentices Jacen and Anakin Solo, and Jedi Knight Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe determined to smother the light of the New Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest evil.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8193'),
(9143, 'Star Wars: Dark Tide II: Ruin', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The alien Yuuzhan Vong have launched an attack on the worlds of the Outer Rim. They are merciless, without regard for lifeâ€”and they stand utterly outside the Force. Their ever-changing tactics stump the New Republic military. Even the Jedi, once the greatest guardians of peace in the galaxy, are rendered helpless by this impervious foeâ€”and their solidarity has begun to unravel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While Luke struggles to keep the Jedi together, Knights Jacen Solo and Corran Horn set off on a reconnaissance mission to the planet Garqi, an occupied world. There, at last, they uncover a secret that might be used to undermine the enemyâ€”if only they can stay alive long enough to use it!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8188'),
(9144, 'Star Wars: Darksaber', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke returns home with Han Solo, hoping to make contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Instead, what they find is disturbing news: the Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon, a reconstruction of the original Death Star superlaser, to be called Darksaber. This planet-crushing power will be in the ruthless hands of Durga, a creature without conscience or mercy. And there is trouble on another front: Admiral Daala is very much alive and, in league with Pellaeon, is marshaling forces to destroy the Rebels. Soon they and Luke will face the ultimate test of their powerâ€”one in which all the temptations of the dark side of the Force beckonâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7157'),
(9145, 'Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Baneâ€™s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sithâ€™s immortalityâ€“and his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding missionâ€“while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Masterâ€™s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentorâ€“and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.\n</p>\n<p>\n Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find himâ€“possibly even rescue himâ€“before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark sideâ€™s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drew Karpyshyn is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction,\n </strong>\n and the Mass Effect novels\n <strong>\n  Revelation\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Ascension\n </strong>\n , as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on\n <em>\n  Mass Effect\n </em>\n and the blockbuster\n <em>\n  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic\n </em>\n video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his wife, Jen, and their cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5402'),
(9146, 'Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the New York Times bestseller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping portrait of a young manâ€™s journey from innocence to evil. That man was Darth Bane, a twisted genius whose iron will, fierce ambition, and strength in the dark side of the Force made him a natural leader among the Sithâ€“until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order . . . and create it anew from the ashes. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two there should be; no more, no less.\n <br />\n One to embody the power, the other to crave it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.\n</p>\n<p>\n But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun Othone, Padawan to Jedi Master Lord Hoth, who died at Baneâ€™s hands in the last great Sith War. Though the rest of the Jedi scoff at him, Joshuaâ€™s belief that there are surviving Sith on the loose is unshakeable.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Johun continues his dogged pursuit of the man who killed his master, Zannah, faced unexpectedly with a figure from her past, begins to question her embrace of the dark side. And Darth Bane is led by Force-induced visions to a moon where he will acquire astonishing new knowledge and powerâ€“power that will alter him in ways he could never have imagined. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and Mass Effect: Revelation, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the blockbuster Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his wife, Jen, and their cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5403'),
(9147, 'Star Wars: Darth Maul: Saboteur', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A dazzling new short story featuring Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evilâ€¦\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  On the distant planet Dorvalla, precious ore is mined by two competing companies: InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. Neither rival suspects that they are central to a sinister plot masterminded by Darth Sidious, Lord of the Sith, himself.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Dispatched by Sidious on his very first solo mission, Darth Maul infiltrates Lommite Limited. There, his unique gifts of deception and subterfuge will set off an explosive chain of events that could destroy both companies, leaving them ripe for takeover by the Trade Federation. But a vengeful Lommite Limited Manager with his own thirst for retaliation against InterGal could blow Maul''s cover â€” and all of Sidious''s fiendishly laid plansâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5748'),
(9148, 'Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But he is too late. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right at the top of Darth Maul''s hit list. Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hope to triumph over one of the deadlist killers in the galaxy?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5176'),
(9149, 'Star Wars: Death Star', 'Michael Reaves &amp; Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The untold story of the ultimate weaponâ€”created to annihilate worldsâ€¦and enslave a galaxy!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Death Star''s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itselfâ€”equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation of the planet Alderaan lives in infamy. And its own ultimate destruction, at the hands of Luke Skywalker, is the stuff of legend. But what is the whole story, and who are the players, behind the creation of this world-killing satellite of doom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5175'),
(9150, 'Star Wars: Death Troopers', 'Joe Schreiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Imperial prison barge Purge â€” temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy''s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels and thieves â€” breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back â€” bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge will die in ways too hideous to imagine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And death is only the beginning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Purge''s half-dozen survivors â€” two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board â€” will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting onboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn''t really empty at all. The dead are rising, soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6679'),
(9151, 'Star Wars: Destiny&#39;s Way', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The time of reckoning is close at hand, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemyâ€”from without and withinâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the galaxy on the verge of bowing to conquest. Those who steadfastly refuse to surrenderâ€”Luke, Han, Leia, and their children and comrades-in-armsâ€”are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. But the New Republic is crumbling, divided by internal strife, and intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of Stateâ€¦in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinationsâ€¦and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi whose allegiance is impossible to predict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveils a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. The opposition must be stopped, before dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight againstâ€”and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7869'),
(9152, 'Star Wars: Edge of Victory I: Conquest', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown, Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi. Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible dangerâ€”and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin systemâ€”and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At Luke Skywalker''s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific endsâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5059'),
(9153, 'Star Wars: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The brutal Yuuzhan Vong are scouring the universe for Jedi to slaughter. With no help from the divided New Republic, the Jedi stand alone against their seemingly invincible foe. Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo risk deadly consequences with their controversial tactics to bolster the Jedi resistance. After uncovering a new Yuuzhan Vong menace, Anakin and Tahiri find themselves wanted for murder by the Peace Brigade. To avoid capture, they jump into hyperspaceâ€¦ and into trouble far graver.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hunted by the Yuuzhan Vong, wanted as criminals by the New Republic, and with unrest stirring within their own ranks, the Jedi find peril everywhere they turn. But even in the midst of despair, while the most fiercest battle of all looms on the horizon, hope arises with the birth of one very special childâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5058'),
(9154, 'Star Wars: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the Yuuzhan Vong''s devastating conquests continue unchecked, Luke Skywalker, Han and Leia Solo, and Wedge Antilles are forced to destroy what they have risked their lives to createâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Scattering after the Yuuzhan Vong''s invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of the New Republic Advisory Council pause just long enough to set up a mock defense on nearby Borleiasâ€”an attempt to buy time that fools no one, least of all the Jedi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leia and Han Solo travel from world to world to foment rebellion against the New Republic''s disastrous appeasement policies. But Luke Skywalker has chosen the most dangerous assignment of all: to sneak into the Yuuzhan Vong''s stronghold on Coruscant. His outrageous scheme to gain entry is either brilliant or suicidal, depending on the outcome. Bearing down swiftly on Borleias is a Yuuzhan Vong invasion fleet, determined to destroy the galaxy''s remaining defendersâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5619'),
(9155, 'Star Wars: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker''s daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong''s nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan Vong pressure to give up the Jedi rebels.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Coruscant, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have made a shocking discovery that is preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from exerting complete control. But when the enemy tracks them down, Luke and Mara are thrust into a firece battle for their lives. Suddenly, the chances of escaping appear nearly impossible. And in space, another battle rages, one that holds ominous consequences for the New Republicâ€”and for the Jedi themselvesâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5622'),
(9156, 'Star Wars: Episode I Adventures 04: Jedi Emergency', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young girl has been found who has the power to become a Jedi. But an evil scientist doesn''t want to let her go. And her home is under attack by Bartokk Assassins. Yoda, Mace Windu, and other Jedi must save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6897'),
(9157, 'Star Wars: Episode I Adventures 1: Search for the Lost Jedi', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Jedi Master is missing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She is trapped in a hostile fortress.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and their fellow Jedi are her only hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The rescue has begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6895'),
(9158, 'Star Wars: Episode I Adventures 2: The Bartokk Assassins', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A band of Bartokk assassins is in possession of many unusual Trade Federation starfighters.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They have also kidnapped an innocent child.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Bartokks must be stopped.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More than one life hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6896'),
(9159, 'Star Wars: Episode I Adventures 3: The Fury of Darth Maul', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Someone has stolen something that belongs to Darth Sidious, and he wants it back. When a Sith Lord wants something, there''s only one person he can trust to get it--another Sith Lord.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6894'),
(9160, 'Star Wars: Episode I Journal: Anakin Skywalker', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I am a nine-year-old slave on the planet of Tatooine. I am owned by a creature named Watto. There''s no way to escape. Then one day a Jedi appears. He says I am to be a Jedi, too. But first I must prove myself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First I must survive.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n My name is Anakin Skywalker. This is my story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8528'),
(9161, 'Star Wars: Episode I Journal: Darth Maul', 'Jude Watson &amp; Judy Blundell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I have followed the Sith path to power, drawing strength from hate. My vow is to defeat the Jedi. I have embraced the dark sideâ€¦and the dark side has embraced me.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I have been chosen. My mission is clear.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I will have revenge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n My name is Darth Maul. This is my story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4570'),
(9162, 'Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace', 'Terry Brooks &amp; George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, young Obi-Wan Kenobi, are charged with the protection of Amidala, the young Queen of Naboo, as she seeks to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. This quest brings Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and one of the Queen''s young handmaidens to the sand-swept streets of Tatooine and the shop where the slave boy Anakin Skywalker toils and dreams of finding a way to win freedom from enslavement for himself and his beloved mother. His only hope lies in his extraordinary instincts and his strange gift for understanding the "rightness" of things. It is this unexpected meeting that marks the beginning of the drama that will become legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4710'),
(9163, 'Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Courageous to the point of recklessness, and possessing a wild independent streak, twenty-year-old Anakin Skywalker, apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi, is coming of age in a time of great upheaval. The attempted assassination of Senator PadmÃ© Amidala before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, a low rumble of discontent is building into the roar of thousands of clone soldiers readying for the ultimate fight. The dark side is growing. Masters Yoda and Mace Windu sense enormous uneaseâ€¦for the fiercest battle of dark versus light is fast approaching, threatening to consume them all in a tidal wave of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8734'),
(9164, 'Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith', 'Matthew Woodring Stover &amp; George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at handâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader, General Grievous. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine continues to strip away constitutional liberties in the name of security while influencing public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin fears that his secret love, Senator PadmÃ© Amidala, will die. Tormented by unspeakable visions, Anakin edges closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious to strike the final staggering blow against the Republicâ€”and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6024'),
(9165, 'Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope', 'George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker Challenged the Stormtroopers of a Distant Galaxy on a Daring Missionâ€”Where a Force of Life Became the Power of Death!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle''s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the starsâ€”adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn''t know who she was, but he knew he had to save herâ€”and soon, because time was running out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father''s, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6243'),
(9166, 'Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back', 'Donald F. Glut &amp; George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Although they had won a significant battle, the war between the Rebels and the Empire had really just begun. Soon, Luke, Han, the princess and their faithful companions were forced to flee, scattering in all directionsâ€¦the Dark Lord''s minions in fevered pursuitâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7305'),
(9167, 'Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi', 'James Kahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was a dark time for the Rebel Allianceâ€¦ Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous mission against Jabba''s Tatooine stronghold.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Rebel commanders gathered all the warships of the Rebel fleet into a single giant armada. And Darth Vader and the Emperor, who had ordered construction to begin on a new and even more powerful Death Star, were making plans to crush the Rebel Alliance once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8342'),
(9168, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n <br />\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their direction and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n <br />\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of darkâ€“side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6543'),
(9169, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Allies', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the secrets of the Mind Walkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. And now the death squadâ€™s sole survivor, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, has summoned an entire fleet of Sith frigates to engage the embattled father and son. But the dark warriors come bearing a surprising proposition that will bring Jedi and Sith together in an unprecedented alliance against an evil more ancient and alien than they can imagine.\n <br />\n While the Skywalkers and their Sith allies set off on their joint mission into the treacherous web of black holes that is the Maw, Han and Leia Solo risk arrest and worse to aid the Jedi imprisoned back on Coruscant. Tyrannical Chief of State Natasi Daala has issued orders that will open a permanent schism between her government and the Jedi Orderâ€”a schism that could turn all Jedi into renegades and wanted criminals.\n <br />\n But it is in the depths of the Maw that the future of the galaxy will be decided. For there the Skywalkers and their Sith allies will engage a true monster in battle, and Luke will come face-to-face with a staggering truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6670');
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(9170, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christie Golden\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Allies,\n  </em>\n  and several short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include launching the Ravenloft line in 1991 with\n  <em>\n   Vampire of the Mists,\n  </em>\n  more than a dozen\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, and multiple Warcraft and Starcraft novels, including\n  <em>\n   World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Starcraft II: Devilâ€™s Due\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Council Chambers of the Circle,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Capital City of Tahv, KESH\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sun beating down upon the stained-glass dome of the Circle Chambers painted the forms of all those assembled in a riot of colors. Yet it was not hot in this large room; regulating the temperature was child''s play for such masterful users of the Force as the Sith assembled here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was an emergency meeting. Even so, formalities were strictly observed; the Sith were nothing if not meticulous. Grand Lord Darish Vol, the leader of the Lost Tribe, had summoned the meeting less than a standard hour earlier. He now sat upon a dais in the very center of the room, elevated above all others, enthroned on his traditional metal-and-glass seat. While there had been sufficient time to don his colorful formal robes, he had not had time to sit and permit his attendants to paint his gaunt, aged face with the vor''shandi swirls and decorations appropriate to the meeting. Vol shifted slightly in his throne, displeased by that knowledge, displeased with the entire situation that had necessitated the meeting in the first place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His staff of office was stretched over his lap. His ?claw-?like hands closed about it as his aged but still-sharp eyes flitted about the room, noting who was here and who was not, and observing and anticipating the responses of each.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seated on either side of the Grand Lord were the High Lords. Nine members of the traditional thirteen were here today, a mixture of male and female, Keshiri and human. One, High Lord Sarasu Taalon, would never again be among that number. Taalon was dead, and his death was one of the reasons Vol had called the assembly. Seated in a ring around the dais were the Lords, ranked below the High Lords, and standing behind them were the Sabers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Several of their number were missing, too. Many were dead. Some . . . well, their status remained to be seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol could feel the tension in the room; even a non-Force-sensitive could have read the body language. Anger, worry, anticipation, and apprehension were galloping through the Chambers today, even though most present hid it well. Vol drew upon the Force as naturally as breathing in order to regulate his heart rate and the stress-created chemicals that coursed through his body. This was how the mind remained clear, even though the heart was, as ever, open to emotions and passion. If it were closed, or unmoved by such things, it would no longer be the heart of a true Sith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I tell you, she is a savior!" Lady Sashal was saying. She was petite, her long white hair perfectly coiffed, and her purple skin the most pleasing tone of lavender; her mellifluous voice rang through the room. "Ship obeys her, and was not Ship the-" She stumbled on the choice of words for a moment, then recovered. "-the Sith-created construct who liberated us from the chains of our isolation and ignorance of the galaxy? Ship was the tool we used to further our ? destiny-?to conquer the stars. We are well on our way to doing so!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Lady Sashal, we are," countered High Lord Ivaar Workan. "But it is we who shall rule this galaxy, not this stranger."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the attractive, graying human male had been a Lord for many years, he was new to his rank of High Lord. Taalon''s untimely demise had paved the way for Workan''s promotion. Vol had enjoyed watching Workan step into the role as if he had been born to it. While Sith truly trusted no one but themselves and the Force, Vol nonetheless regarded Workan among those who fell on the side of less likely to betray him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is very strong with the dark side," High Lord Takaris Yur offered. "Stronger than anyone we have ever heard of." That was quite a statement, coming from the Master of the Sith Temple. Few on Kesh had as extensive a knowledge of the Sith''s past-and now their present as they expanded across the stars-as this deceptively mild, ?dark-? skinned, middle-aged human. Yur had ambition, but, oddly for a Sith, it was largely not personal. His ambitions were for his students. He was content to teach them as best he could, then set them loose on an unsuspecting world, turning his attention to the next generation of Tyros. Yur spoke seldom, but when he did, all listened, if they were wise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stronger than I?" said Vol mildly, his face pleasant, as if he were engaged in idle chitchat on a lovely summer''s day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yur was unruffled as he turned ?toward the Grand Lord, bowing as he replied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is an ancient being," he said. "It seems to me foolish not to learn what we can from her." Vol smiled a little; Yur had not actually answered the question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One may learn much about a rukaro by standing in its path," Vol continued. "But one might not survive to benefit from that knowledge."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "True," Yur agreed. "Nonetheless, she is useful. Let us suck her dry before discarding the husk. Reports indicate that she still has much knowledge and skill in manipulating the Force to teach us and future generations of the Lost Tribe."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is not Sith," said Workan. The scorn in his melodious voice indicated that that single, damning observation should be the end of the debate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is!" Sashal protested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not the way we are Sith," Workan continued. "And our ?way-?our culture, our values, our heritage-must be the only way if our destiny is to remain pure and unsullied. We risk dooming ourselves by becoming overly reliant on someone not of the ?Tribe-?no matter how powerful she might be."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sith take what we want," said Sashal, stepping ?toward Workan. Vol watched both of them closely, idly wondering if Sashal was issuing a challenge to her superior. It would be foolish. She was nowhere near as powerful as Workan. But sometimes ambition and wisdom did not go hand in hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her full diminutive height was drawn up, and she projected great confidence in the Force. "We will take her, and use her, and discard her when we are done. But for love of the dark side, let us take her first! Listen to High Lord Yur! Think what we can learn! From all that we have heard, she has powers we cannot imagine!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From all that we have heard, she is unpredictable and dangerous," countered Workan. "Only a fool rides the uvak he cannot control. I''ve no desire to continue to sacrifice Sith Sabers and Lords on the altar of aiding Abeloth and furthering her agenda-whatever it might be. Or have you failed to realize that we don''t even truly know what that is?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol detected a slight sense of worry and urgency from the figure currently approaching the Circle Chambers. It was Saber Yasvan, her attractive features drawn in a frown of concern.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a fool throws away a weapon that still has use," countered Yur. "Something so ancient-we should string her along and unlock her secrets."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Our numbers are finite, Lord Yur," Workan said. "At the rate Sith are dying interacting with her, we won''t be around to learn very much."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol listened as Yasvan whispered in his ear, then nodded and, with a ? liver-?spotted hand, dismissed the Saber.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Entertaining as this debate has been," he said, "it is time for it to conclude. I have just learned that Ship has made contact with our planetary defenses. Abeloth and the Sith I have sent to accompany her will not be far behind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had all known to expect her; it was, indeed, the reason the meeting had been called. All eyes turned to him expectantly. What would their Grand Lord decide?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He let them stew. He was old, and few things amused him these days, so he permitted himself to enjoy the moment. At last, he said, "I have heard the arguments for continuing to work closely with her, and the arguments to sever ties. While I confess I am not overly fond of the former, and have made little secret of my opinion, neither do I think it is time for the latter. The best way to win is to cover all angles of the situation. And so Kesh and the Circle of Lords will invite Abeloth to our world. We shall give her a grand welcome, with feasting, and arts, and displays of our proud and powerful culture. And," he added, eyeing them all intently, "we will watch, and learn, and listen. And then we will make our decision as to what is best for the Lost Tribe of Kesh."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sith Saber Gavar Khai sat in the captain''s chair on the bridge of the Black Wave, the ChaseMaster frigate that had once belonged to Sarasu Taalon. Filling the viewscreen was the spherical shape of his homeworld-green and brown and blue and lavender. Khai regarded the lush planet with heavy-lidded eyes. For so many years, Kesh had been isolated from the events of the galaxy, and Khai found he had decidedly mixed feelings about returning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part of him was glad to be home. As was the case with every member of the Lost Tribe, he had spent his entire life here until a scant two years ago. Deeply embedded in him were love for its beautiful glass sculptures and purple sands, its music and culture, its casual brutality and its orderliness. For more than five thousand standard years, the Tribe had dwelled here, and with no other option, had-as was the Sith way-made the best of it. The ancient vessel Omen had crash-landed, and the survivors had set about not merely to exist in this world, but to dominate it. And so they had. They had managed to both embrace the Keshiri, the beautiful native beings of Kesh, and subjugate them. Those who were deserving-strong in the Force and able to adapt to the Sith way of thinking and being-could, with enough will, carve out a place for themselves in this society.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those who were not Force-users had no such opportunities. They were at the mercy of the ones who ruled. And sometimes, as was the case with Gavar Khai and his wife, there was mercy. Even love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But most often, there was neither.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Too, those who gambled to increase their standing and power and lost seldom lived long enough to make a second attempt. It was a very controlled society, with precise roles. Everyone knew what was expected of him or her, and knew that in order to change their lot, they would need to be bold, clever, and lucky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gavar Kha...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8781'),
(9171, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Repercussions from the dark side''s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers, and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark-side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n <br />\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia Solo have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daala''s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n <br />\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some, it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others, it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude, and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5621'),
(9172, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Solo''s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Order''s influence within the Galactic Alliance.\n <br />\n Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacen''s fall to the dark side -- and to learn what''s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift, and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daala''s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daala''s iron will -- at the expense of the Jedi Order.\n <br />\n But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown, low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way to dominance, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6672'),
(9173, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a violent civil war, and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisisâ€”and in need. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order, negotiate differences, and determine the future of their unified worlds. But even more critical, and far more uncertain, is the future of the Jedi.\n <br />\n In a shocking move, Chief of State Natasi Daala orders the arrest of Luke Skywalker for failing to prevent Jacen Solo''s turn to the dark side and subsequent reign of terror as a Sith Lord. But it''s only the first blow in an anti-Jedi backlash fueled by a hostile government and suspicious public. When Jedi Knight Valin Horn, scion of a politically influential family, suffers a mysterious psychotic break and becomes a dangerous fugitive, the Jedi become the target of a media-driven witch-hunt. Facing conviction on the charges, Luke has only one choice. He must strike a bargain with the calculating Daala-his freedom in exchange for his exile from Coruscant and from the Jedi Order.\n <br />\n Now, though forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is determined to keep grim history from being repeated. With his son, Ben, at his side, Luke sets out to unravel the shocking truth behind Jacen Solo''s corruption and downfall. But the secrets he uncovers among the enigmatic Force mystics of the distant world Dorin may bring his questâ€”and life as he knows itâ€”to a sudden end. And all the while, another Jedi Knight, consumed by the same madness as Valin Horn, is headed for Coruscant on a fearsome mission that could doom the Jedi Order . . . and devastate the entire galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5616'),
(9174, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex', 'Denning Troy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In a stunning turn of events, Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben, joined forces with members of the Sith armada sent to kill themâ€”and turned their combined might against the monstrous being Abeloth. But with one menace dealt with, a new and even more insidious threat looms.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now Luke and Ben must go on the run, taking along the inscrutableâ€”and ever dangerousâ€”Sith apprentice Vestara Khai. With a host of Sith warriors in hot pursuit, the Skywalkers soon find themselves trapped on the moon Pydyr, caught between their former allies and a mob of angry Fallanassi. A new truce may be their only hope. But can a Sith ever be trusted?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With the Jedi''s most famous father-and-son team outnumbered and outgunned, the countdown to galactic disaster has begunâ€”and time is running out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6619'),
(9175, 'Star Wars: Fool&#39;s Bargain', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The 501st Stormtrooper Legion, ''Vader''s Fist'', is sent in to take down a powerful warlord on the planet Eickarie. Many of the troopers meet up with the resistance formed against the warlord, who is hated because he has taken many prisoners. Unfortunately something seems deeply wrong with these new allies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6141'),
(9176, 'Star Wars: Force Heretic I: Remnant', 'Sean Williams &amp; Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the bloodied and weary galaxy faces battle once more, the Jedi take on the formidable task of bringing the last of the Empire into the lightâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the ashes of the New Republicâ€”torn to shreds by the savage Yuuzhan Vong forcesâ€”the newly formed Galactic Alliance has risen, determined to bring peace to the entire galaxy. But first the Yuuzhan Vong must be contained once and for all. And so Luke Skywalker seeks a world long lost to legend: Zonama Sekot, a sentient planet believed to have repelled an invasion by the Yuuzhan Vong decades ago. Deciphering the enigmatic secrets of Zonama Sekot just might turn the tides of this relentless war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aboard the Jade Shadow, Luke, his wife Mara, Jacen Solo, and other Jedi head off into the Unknown Regions, where rumors and clues suggest Zonama Sekot might be found. Yet the mission has barely begun when the searchers stumble into a horrific battle. The Imperial Remnant, in retreat from the mighty Yuuzhan Vong, is about to be destroyed. It would seem those aboard the Jade Shadow have little choice but to leave the Empire to its fate. But these are no ordinary space travelers, they are Jediâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4651'),
(9177, 'Star Wars: Force Heretic II: Refugee', 'Sean Williams &amp; Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Swift and deadly, the Yuuzhan Vong have blasted their way across the galaxyâ€”and now stand on the threshold of total victory. Yet a courageous few still dare to oppose themâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rife with hostile cultures and outright enemies, the Unknown Regions hold many perils for Luke Skywalker and the Jedi searching for Zonama Sekot, the living planet that may hold the key to dealing with the Yuuzhan Vong once and for all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, on the edge of the galaxy and in the heart of a trusted ally, old enemies are stirring. The Yuuzhan Vong have inflamed long-forgotten vendettas that are even now building up to crisis point. And as Han and Leia journey on their quest to knit the unraveling galaxy back together, betrayal and deception await themâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4652'),
(9178, 'Star Wars: Force Heretic III: Reunion', 'Sean Williams &amp; Shane Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi move one step closer to saving the embattled galaxyâ€”only to confront a formidable wall of resistanceâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The harrowing search for Zonama Sekot is finally over for Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and the others aboard the Jade Shadow. But joy turns to alarm when the living planet sends a defiant message: it refuses to follow them back to a galaxy full of war, exploitation, and misery.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While Luke works feverishly to persuade the elusive planet to reconsider, the Yuuzhan Vong launch a full-scale attack aimed at the heart of the new alliance. Sent to defend a major communications base, Han and Leia find themselves hopelessly outnumbered. Reinforcements are just too far away to help before everything is destroyed. So the courageous pair must now fight an unrelenting battle against staggering odds. Whether they actually survive is another matterâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4649'),
(9179, 'Star Wars: Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine', 'Voronica Whitney-Robinson &amp; Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Enter the explosive universe of the exciting online game\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n STAR WARS GALAXIES: AN EMPIRE DIVIDED!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is a time of great turmoil. The oppressive Empire is close to seizing complete control of the galaxy. The ragtag guerrilla army of the Rebel Alliance fights on, striking wherever it can, but now something has come to light that could spell certain doom. Hidden in the Jedi ruins of Dantooine is a Holocron containing a list of high-level Rebel sympathizers. If that list were to fall into the hands of Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance would lose its most valued support, and possibly the war itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As an Imperial bio-engineer who frequently visits other worlds, Dusque Mistflier is the perfect cover for a Rebel who needs to travel far and wide without arousing suspicion. And so she agrees to help Rebel spy Finn Darktrin in his quest to recover the crucial Holocron. Despite help from Han, Luke, and Leia, the mission is fraught with peril. And as their journey takes them into the fiery belly of the beast that is galactic civil war, Dusque and Finn will learn that the hardest part of all is figuring out whose side are you''re on-and how far you''re willing to go to win....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5569'),
(9180, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 01: Eaten Alive', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vanished?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n D''vouran seems like a normal planet. The friendly locals welcome Tash, Zak, and their uncle Hoole with open arms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Tash has a bad feeling about this place.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There''s a madman running around the streets shouting that people are disappearing. He''s saying they''ve just vanished into thin air.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tash knows that''s impossible. But something is really wrong on D''vouran. Will she find the courage to trust her gut instinctsâ€¦before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8084'),
(9181, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 02: City of the Dead', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to the city of the deadâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Hoole, Tash, and Zak stop on Necropolis to look for a new starship, Zak immediately makes friends with the local kids. And he''s willing to pull a crazy stuntâ€”like going into the Necropolitan cemetery at midnightâ€”just to prove he''s as tough as they are.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The cemetery is silent as death and full of white, wriggling boneworms. And maybe Zak should have thought twice before accepting this dare. Just because the bodies are buried doesn''t mean they''re dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8080'),
(9182, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 03: Planet Plague', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Hoole decides to visit the planet Gobindi, even a warning from Tash''s anonymous HoloNet contact isn''t enough to change his mind. He''s determined to study the planet''s ancient ruins. For Tash, it''s a chance to discover what her mysterious uncle is really up to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Gobindi, Tash thinks she''s discovered an Imperial plot to spread a terrible virus across the galaxy. But when Hoole assures her that nothing is wrong, Tash is relieved.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For a little while.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a big brown bump appears on her arm, Tash is scared. Has Hoole lied to her? Is he working with the Empire? Tash knows she must discover the truth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, the bump on her arm is getting biggerâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8092'),
(9183, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 04: The Nightmare Machine', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hologram Fun World. It''s a theme park visited by families from all across the galaxy. It''s a place where Tash and Zak can safely hang out while Hoole continues his work.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s a place where daytime fun turns into nighttime terror.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of the park''s attractions is called the Nightmare Machine. It scans your brain, then shows you your worst fears in holographic form. Hairy, creepy-crawly insects. Cyborrean battle dogs thirsting for blood.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But it''s not real, so it''s funâ€”right?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Zak and Tash will soon find out, nightmares can come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8085'),
(9184, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 05: Ghost of the Jedi', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tash, Zak, and their uncle Hoole are on the run from evil Imperial scientist Borborygmus Gog. The only place to hide is on Nespis 8, an abandoned space station.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There used to be a giant Jedi library on Nespis 8. According to Deevee, the library is still there, but it''s cursedâ€¦and haunted by the ghost of a Jedi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If they can find the library, maybe Tash and Zak can find a way to stop Gog.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But something evil dwells on Nespis 8.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And it''s much scarier than a Jedi ghost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8088'),
(9185, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 06: Army of Terror', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tash, Zak, and their uncle Hoole want to make sure that Borborygmus Gog''s Project Starscream has been destroyed. So they journey to Kiva, a planet on the galaxy''s Outer Rim.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kiva is dark, rocky, and barren.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Except for some strange shadows, the planet is completey lifeless.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And when they find Gog''s laboratory, it''s empty. Or so they thinkâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8083'),
(9186, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 07: The Brain Spiders', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Uncle Hoole''s idea of a vacation is visiting the palace of Jabba the Hutt. Of course, it''s a working vacation. Hoole wants to study the B''omarr monks who live in tunnels beneath the palace. If Jabba isn''t enough to give Zak and Tash nightmares, the monks should do it. The most enlightened monks don''t have bodies. They''re just brains in jars. Brains in jars that walk around on robotic legs. Worst of all, one of the monks is madâ€”not just angry-mad, but out-of-his-mind mad. And if Tash isn''t careful, she might lose her head.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8094'),
(9187, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 08: The Swarm', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Uncle Hoole wants to study the S''krrr--a race of creatures that look like giant bugs. While Hoole works, Zak and Tash visit the S''krrr''s huge garden--it''s the most beautiful place they have ever seen. It''s also full of very strange creatures. When a batlike shreev swoops down at Zak, he panics and accidentally kills it. Suddenly, the garden is overrun by big beetles. When Zak wakes up in the middle of the night covered with creepy crawly bugs, he''s terrified. Did Zak upset the garden''s delicate ecological balance by killing the shreev? Or is something far more sinister at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8089'),
(9188, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 09: Spore', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole stop on the planet Ithor for supplies, including a mineral the Shroud needs for its engines. The mineral isn''t available on Ithor, but one of the Ithorians knows where they can find itâ€”on a mining colony in the middle of a space slug-filled asteroid belt. The journey to the colony is filled with many dangers. But nothing prepares Hoole, Tash, and Zak for what they meet when they reach their destination. An ancient life-form has been released from its tomb. It has lurked there, waiting, for many years. It cannot be seen. It is made from pure evil. And its name is Spore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8090'),
(9189, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 10: The Doomsday Ship', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bug swarms, space slugs, brains on legs, mad Imperial scientistsâ€”Zak has had enough! He''s glad to be on board the luxury space yacht, Star of Empire, where at last, there''s peace and quiet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Untilâ€”"Abandon ship! Critical meltdown!" As a blaring siren sounds, panic-stricken passengers rush to get off the ship. Everyone evacuatesâ€¦except Zak and Tash. But to their relief, nothing happens. There''s no meltdown, no explosion. Everything is fine. Except that the ship''s exits are sealed and all communications have been shut down. Zak and Tash are trapped. And they are not alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8082'),
(9190, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 11: Clones', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the Ruins of an abandoned Jedi Fortress on the remote planet Dantooine, Tash Arranda stands, all alone. At least, she thinks she''s alone. She senses something in the ruins â€” Something Dark.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The darkness is stronger than Tash, and Against her will, she reaches out to it. It makes her feel powerful. And it frightens her. Tash doesn''t know that this is only the beginning of a terrifying journey into an evil world, where she''ll be forced to fight her own brother and uncle .... to the death!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8091'),
(9191, 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 12: The Hunger', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A survey team crash-lands on an unknown planet. The planet is dark, and its fetid swamps are filled with flesh-eating flowers, fearsome swamp slugs, and deadly dragonsnakes. No one hears the survey team''s distress signals. They are stranded.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thirty years later, Zak and Tash Arranda and their uncle Hoole, with Boba Fett in hot pursuit, land on the planet. Descendants of the survey teamâ€”half-starved and crazed with strange feversâ€”are still alive. They call themselves the Children, and how they have survived is a mystery. Does the strange creature named Yoda have the answer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8086'),
(9192, 'Star Wars: Han Solo and the Lost Legacy', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There''s a fabled treasure at stake and a price on Han''s head. So he and Chewbacca head for a planet rumored to hide undreamed-of riches. But once they get there, Han''s beloved spacecraft, the Millennium Falcon, is hijacked by a band of assassins and killer robots. Their chances for survival are so slim, they might as well risk it allâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4375'),
(9193, 'Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars&#39; End', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favors. But when the best illegal ship rebuilder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca agree to go after himâ€”after all, the Millennium Falcon needs some very special repairs. Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and finally leads them to an airless speck of desolate asteroidâ€”the Authority prison planet known as Stars'' End.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4373'),
(9194, 'Star Wars: Han Solo&#39;s Revenge', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For a cool ten thousand credits, Han and Chewbacca will do just about anythingâ€”except transport slaves. For one thing, it means an instant death sentence. So when a high-paying cargo shipment turns out to be a consignment of Lurrian slaves, Han and Chewie have to think fast. But Han forms a plan to turn the tables on the slavers and free the captives. Then, good deed accomplished, he scours the skies for the nasty joker who set him upâ€”because revenge can be so sweet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4374'),
(9195, 'Star Wars: I, Jedi', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Corran Horn has distinguished himself as one of the best and brightest of Rogue Squadron''s elite fighting force. Then his wife, Mirax, vanishes on a covert mission for the New Republic, and Corran vows to find her. To do so, he knows he must develop the latent Force powers inherited from his grandfather, a legendary Jedi hero. He joins Luke Skywalker''s famed Jedi academy to begin training, only to quit in frustration at Skywalker''s methods. Now Corran is on his own. Using his Corellian undercover experience, he must infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy a ruthless organization in order to find his wife. But to succeed, Corran will have to come to terms with his Jedi heritageâ€”and make a terrible choice: surrender to the dark sideâ€¦or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8192'),
(9196, 'Star Wars: Imperial Commando: 501st', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos -- the galaxy''s finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett -- find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalore with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata''s ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others -- including men from Delta and Omega squads -- now serve as Imperial Commandos, a black ops unit within Vader''s own 501st Legion, tasked to hunt down fugitive Jedi and clone deserters.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Darman, grieving for his Jedi wife and separated from his son, it''s an agonizing test of loyalty. But he''s not the only one who''ll be forced to test the ties of brotherhood. On Mandalore, clone deserters and the planet''s own natives, who have no love for the Jedi, will have their most cherished beliefs challenged. In the savage new galactic order, old feuds may have to be set aside to unite against a far bigger threat, and nobody can take old loyalties for granted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5733'),
(9197, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 1: The Rising Force', 'Dave Wolverton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twelve-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi desperately wants to be a Jedi Knight. After years at the Jedi Temple, he knows the power of the lightsaber and the Force. But he cannot control his own anger and fear. Because of this, the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn will not take him on as a Padawan apprentice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Obi-Wan is about to have his first encounter with true evil. He must face off against unexpected enemiesâ€”and face up to his own dark wishes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only then can his education as a Jedi truly begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5459'),
(9198, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 10: The Shattered Peace', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Peace over anger.Honor over hate.Strength over fear.For generations, the firstborn children of the rulers of the planets Rutan and Senali have been exchanged at the age of seven. This was meant to promote peace and understanding between the societies. Now it has led them to the brink of war.Leed, the heir to the Rutan throne, does not want to return to his home planet. His father will stop at nothing to get him back. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi must prevent this rift from turning to bloodshed.It is their hardest challenge yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4571'),
(9199, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 11: The Deadly Hunter', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nobody knows her name or when she will strike. All they know is she is a deadly bounty hunter -- and her latest mission takes her to Coruscant, the home of the Jedi. Her target: an old friend of Qui-Gon Jinn''s. Qui-Gon and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi try to catch her and fail. Now they are her targets, too. Includes a bind-in sticker sheet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4559'),
(9200, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 12: The Evil Experiment', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An evil scientist is imprisoning and torturing Jedi to find the secret behind the Force. She taps their emotions, monitors their actionsâ€¦and then drains them of their blood.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn is now her captive.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi is desperately searching for his Master. Meanwhile, Qui-Gon must match wits with one of the most dangerous enemies he has ever encountered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His survival depends on it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4612'),
(9201, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 13: The Dangerous Rescue', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Murder. Kidnapping. Torture.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jenna Zan Arbor will stop at nothing in her quest to discover the secrets of the Forceâ€”and use them for her own power and greed. One Jedi remains in her dangerous grasp. And a whole planet is being held hostage by her sinister plans.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only a single team of Jedi stands in her wayâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4607'),
(9202, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 14: The Ties That Bind', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Six years ago, Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl helped the people of the planet Apsolon choose their first free leader. It seemed that peace had arrived at last.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now the leader has been killed. His daughters have been kidnapped. And Qui-Gon and Tahl have returned to Apsolon with Qui-Gon''s apprentice Obi-Wanâ€”against the wishes of the Jedi Council.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ties that bind Qui-Gon and Tahl are about to experience their most powerful test yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4574'),
(9203, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 15: The Death of Hope', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I pledge myself to you, Tahl."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I pledge myself to you, Qui-Gon."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With these words, two Jedi Knights acknowledged that their bond had grown beyond friendship and into love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Tahl has been abducted in a trap that Qui-Gon feels he should have foreseen. Consumed by dark visions, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan Kenobi must do everything in their power to get her back before it''s too late. But that won''t be easy in a land where nobody can be trustedâ€¦and everyone has something to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4561'),
(9204, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 16: The Call to Vengeance', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn is a man on the edge. His heart has been shattered. His beliefs have been destroyed. And now he is dangerously close to stepping over a line that no Jedi dares to cross.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He wants revenge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His fellow Jediâ€”his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Jedi Council member Mace Winduâ€”will try to stop him. But when Qui-Gon strikes out on his own, anything can happen. Revenge is not a Jedi traitâ€¦but it is a Human one. Can Qui-Gon separate his personal feelings from his Jedi training?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4560'),
(9205, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 17: The Only Witness', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An evil crime family controls the fate of a planet. Only one witness can bring them downâ€”someone from the inside. In order to make it off the planet to testify, she''s going to need the protection of the Jedi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi take the assignment, thinking it will be easy. But nothing is ever easy when crime is concerned, and soon the two Jedi are entangled in a violent web of power, corruption, and lies. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan know their allegiance is to the witness. But can she be trusted?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4549'),
(9206, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 18: The Threat Within', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Obi-Wan Kenobi started off as Qui-Gon Jinn''s Jedi apprentice, he was just a boy. Now, on the verge of manhood, he is starting on the path that will lead him to become a Jedi Knightâ€¦and the master of his own fate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon investigate a strange wave of planetary sabotages, they find their relationship shiftingâ€”sometimes in a dangerous direction. As events turn deadly, their lives may never be the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4550'),
(9207, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 2: The Dark Rival', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn''s past is not at rest. How can he forge a bond with young Obi-Wan Kenobi while he is haunted by the betrayal of his first apprenticeâ€”Xanatos? Xanatos was also a promising studentâ€”until the dark side of the Force intervened. Qui-Gon thought he was gone forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now Xanatos is back.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And he wants revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4614'),
(9208, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 3: The Hidden Past', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are hijacked to the planet Phindar, they find themselves trapped in a world gone mad. The ruling Syndicat controls the people by erasing their memories. The planet''s only hope lies with a band of thieving rebels.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are caught in a mind war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And if they''re not careful, their own pasts will be wiped out forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4555'),
(9209, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 4: The Mark of the Crown', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A queen is dying. Her angry son is conspiring to thwart his planet''s elections and maintain his rule. But he might not be her only heir. There may be another bearing the elusive Mark of the Crown.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon Jinn and young Obi-Wan Kenobi come to the planet of Gala as guardians of peace. Now they are facing a deadly battle for power and royal position.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The true heir must be found.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi must find the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4566'),
(9210, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 5: The Defenders of the Dead', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peace over Anger\n <br />\n Honor over Hate\n <br />\n Strength over Fear\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Defenders of the Dead live in the past while they destroy the future. They face a revolt of the Youngâ€”a band of rebels led by two teenagers, Cerasi and Nield.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thirteen-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn are not supposed to take sides in any war. But once Obi-Wan meets Cerasi and Nield, he feels he must join their fightâ€¦even though Qui-Gon forbids it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The rebellion has become personal.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are on opposing sides.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4563'),
(9211, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 6: The Uncertain Path', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Because he chose to take part in the revolution on Melida/Daan, Obi-Wan Kenobi is no longer a Jedi. But as the revolution continues and he can no longer tell his friends from his enemies, he grows to regret his choice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4608');
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(9212, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 7: The Captive Temple', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jedi Temple is under attack. An attempt has been made to kill Yoda. A dangerous intruder has infiltrated the Jedi. Everyone is under suspicion, and no one is safe. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jim must get to the heart of the conspiracy or watch the Temple be destroyed from the inside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4547'),
(9213, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 8: The Day of Reckoning', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Qui-Gon Jinn''s evil former apprentice, Xanatos, has set a trap for his old Master. He has lured Qui-Gon and young Obi-Wan Kenobi to his home planet of Telos--and has framed them for a crime they didn''t commit. The penalty is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4548'),
(9214, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 9: The Fight for Truth', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As they visit the strange planet Kegan to inquire about a young potential Jedi, Qui-Gon and Adi find themselves caught in a web of deception, while Obi-Wan and Siri are imprisoned in a boarding school where thought is dictated and detention is permanent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4572'),
(9215, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Deep in Obi-Wan''s past, a dark secret lurks . . . a secret that the Jedi Master thought had been forgotten. But the secret has not been forgotten. Now, twenty years later, Obi-Wan senses that there is something unruly about his young apprentice. Someone is plotting long-awaited revenge, and everything is going to change for Obi-Wan and Anakin! This captivating story, which takes place in the time period between Episode I and Episode II is a must-read!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4613'),
(9216, 'Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.\n <br />\n Obi-Wan and Anakin.\n <br />\n Two Masters. Two Apprentices. One Mystery.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who are the followers of the Sith? Devoted to the study of the dark side of the Force, they live an underground existenceâ€¦but their threat is growing. Although they do not have Sith power, they are on a constant search for it. Nothingâ€”not even the Jedi Knightsâ€”will get in their way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Lundi is the leader of the Sith followers. As he gets closer to attaining a Sith Holocron, he comes face-to-face with Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten years later, when the Sith followers reappear, Obi-Wan and his own apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, must rely on Lundi to help them. But he is to be feared, not trusted.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Sith are on the rise. The Jedi must stop them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4553'),
(9217, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 1: The Glove of Darth Vader', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE DEATH STAR HAS BEEN DESTROYED.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE EMPIRE IS IN RUINS.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BUT THE DARK SIDE LIVES ON.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the Rebel Alliance have fought valiantly against the evil Galactic Empire. Together they have kept alive the hopes for freedom, and helped restore the ways of the Old Republic with its wise Senate and noble line of Jedi Knights. But now a new threat awaits the Alliance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Within the evil Empire, the surviving Imperial warlords have been fighting among themselves for power. No one knows who will seize control, but the Prophets of the Dark Side have foretold that soon a new Emperor will arise, and on his right hand he shall wear an indestructible symbol of evilâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6842'),
(9218, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 2: The Lost City of the Jedi', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n TRIOCULUS HAS ASSUMED POWER.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE EMPIRE HAS BEEN REBORN.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n AND A YOUNG JEDI IS ABOUT TO BE DISCOVERED.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battle to defeat the forces of the evil Galactic Empire rages on. Throughout the vastness of space, heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance fight valiantly to keep alive the hopes for freedom and to restore the ways of the Old Republic with its wise Senate and noble line of Jedi Knights. But now a sinister plot is about to befall the Alliance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Having secured the glove of Darth Vader, Trioculus receives a warning that a Jedi Prince will be a threat to his reign and must be destroyed. Underground, beneath the rain forests of the fourth moon of Yavin, the young Jedi is growing up hidden within...The Lost City of the Jedi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6845'),
(9219, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 3: Zorba the Hutt&#39;s Revenge', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HAN SOLO IS THINKING OF GETTING MARRIED.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n TRIOCULUS HAS FOUND HIS QUEEN.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BUT THE FATHER OF JABBA THE HUTT IS ABOUT TO SHATTER THEIR PLANS.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battle to defeat the forces of the evil Galactic Empire rages on. Throughout the vastness of space, heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance fight valiantly to keep alive the hopes for freedom and to restore the ways of the Old Republic with its wise Senate and noble line of Jedi Knights. But a feud between two powerful villains may prove disastrous for the Alliance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Trioculus is determined to steal away Princess Leia from Han Solo and make her his dark queen. But when Jabba the Hutt''s father, Zorba, returns to Tatooine and learns that his son died by Leia''s hand, Zorba takes off to Cloud City and prepares for... Zorba the Hutt''s Revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6844'),
(9220, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 4: Mission From Mount Yoda', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A DYING PLANET.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A DESPERATE MISSION.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n AND A PROPHECY OF DOOM FOR THE REBEL ALLIANCE.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But now a mysterious visitor comes to the Rebel fortress located atop Mount Yoda, bringing ominous news.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kadann, Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side, plots to capture and destroy the carbonized body of Trioculus and take control of the Empire. Meanwhile, the Rebel Alliance races to save the archaeologists of the dying planet Duro, only to discover an incredible mystery in the underground tunnels, a secret that depends on a perilousâ€¦ Mission from Mount Yoda.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6841'),
(9221, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 5: Queen of the Empire', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A SHOCKING MARRIAGE.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n AND THE REAPPEARANCE OF AN OLD ENEMY.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But the ultimate defeat of the Imperial forces could come from within the Empire itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Imperial grand moffs are in revolt against the Prophets of the Dark Side. As the Alliance struggles with its latest weapon, Project Decoy, Princess Leia is kidnapped by an old enemy, then menaced by the surprise of another evil foe â€“ one obsessed with turning Leia to the Dark Side and making her theâ€¦ Queen of the Empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6843'),
(9222, 'Star Wars: Jedi Prince 6: Prophets of the Dark Side', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A JEDI PRINCE.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A DEVASTATING BETRAYAL.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LOST CITY?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But by rescuing an Imperial prisoner, have the Rebels brought disaster upon themselves?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While on a perilous quest in the mushroom forest of Arzid, Luke and Ken are captured by Kadann, Supreme Imperial Prophet. Having tempted the young Jedi Prince into revealing the location of the Lost City of the Jedi, the Supreme Prophet plans to steal the ancient knowledge of the Jedi Knights. Now Kadann will rule over a new tyrannical empire, as foretold by theâ€¦ Prophets of the Dark Side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6846'),
(9223, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 01: The Way of the Apprentice', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fourteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker is strong in the ways of the Force. His lightsaber skills are exceptional, and his piloting is legendary. He should be an ideal Jedi apprentice. And yet, there is so much he still has to learn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is up to Obi-Wan Kenobi to teach him these things. But on a mission to a planet threatened by toxic disaster, Obi-Wan and Anakin are separated. Anakin and three other apprenticesâ€”one of them his rivalâ€”must work together in order to survive. Anakin''s instincts are clearâ€¦but are they right?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker''s destiny will determine the future of a galaxy. These are the events that form his fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4569'),
(9224, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 02: The Trail of the Jedi', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker knows that Obi-Wan Kenobi did not choose him as an apprentice. Instead, it was the dying wish of Obi-Wan''s own Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, that brought them together. Now, Anakin is beginning to doubt his Master''s commitmentâ€¦and Obi-Wan is starting to wonder if he will ever be as good a Master as Qui-Gon.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With these things in mind, Master and apprentice head out on a training exercise that soon turns into a struggle to survive. A squad of bounty hunters has been hired to capture the Jediâ€”and they will stop at nothing to do it. Anakin and Obi-Wan must avoid the traps and ambushesâ€¦and try to discover who is behind the deadly Jedi hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4564'),
(9225, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 03: The Dangerous Games', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent to the Galactic Games, they are meant to be keepers of the peace. Then they discover an illegal event that Anakin knows all too well: Podracing. Even though Obi-Wan forbids it, Anakin cannot resist the thrill of the raceâ€”and the chance to face off against his childhood rival, the loathsome Sebulba.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As a Jedi, Anakin is supposed to let go of his past. But his past will not let go of him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4610'),
(9226, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 04: The Master of Disguise', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How do you defeat an enemy whose riches buy unlimited power?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How do you defeat an enemy who is a master of disguise?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How do you defeat an enemy you cannot find?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are facing a very real threat from a very elusive adversary, who is as cunning as he is evil. He will stop at nothing to draw others to the dark side and undermine the Republic. If the Jedi do not stop him, it will mean danger for the whole galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4558'),
(9227, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 05: The School of Fear', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Senator''s son has vanished. A secret squad of renegade students exists in the shadows of his elite leadership school. Do they have something to do with the disappearance? Or is it linked to the Senator''s unseen political foes, who are pushing the planet toward war?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The only way to solve the mystery and maintain peace is for two Jedi apprenticesâ€”Anakin Skywalker and his rival, Ferus Olinâ€”to infiltrate one of the fiercest places in the galaxy: school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4573'),
(9228, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 06: The Shadow Trap', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The planet of Mawan has been decimated by war and the resulting chaos. The population has taken refuge underground, while three greedy crimelords battle over food and fuel on the planet''s surface. Only one group has a chance at securing peaceâ€”the Jedi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But what if there''s something even more sinister behind the chaos? What if the planet is really a trap, with many innocent lives held in the balance?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What if, in order to save Mawan, a Jedi must die?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4609'),
(9229, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 07: The Moment of Truth', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is increasing tension between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Anakin still feels responsible for the death of a Jedi Council memberâ€”a guilt he does not think Obi-Wan can help him overcome.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan feels he is a less-than-perfect Masterâ€”trying to teach a less-than-perfect apprentice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is with these feelings that Obi-Wan and Anakin head to the last free planets of the Uziel system to make a daring rescue attempt. When the rescue goes awry and Anakin is taken prisoner, the Master and Padawan must overcome their conflictâ€”or a planet will die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4575'),
(9230, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 08: The Changing of the Guard', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The planet of Romin is a hotbed of villainy and corruption. It is a refuge for criminals from across the galaxyâ€”including evil scientist Jenna Zan Arbor, an arch-enemy of the Republic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In order to foil Zan Arbor''s insidious plans, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and a team of Jedi must infiltrate Rominâ€”disguised as a band of thieves. Where lawlessness is the law, the Jedi will have to master the art of deception to trap a master deceiver.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4611'),
(9231, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 09: The False Peace', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Senate makes the laws that ensure peace and justice in the galaxy. It is meant to keep chaos and lawlessness from taking over.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But what if the Senators are not safe? What if they are about to be attacked by powerful and sinister forces?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the watchful eye of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi must counter the threat to the Senateâ€”or the whole galaxy might be thrown into a violent darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4554'),
(9232, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest 10: The Final Showdown', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.\n <br />\n Master and apprentice.\n <br />\n Chosen by fate. Destined for conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Granta Omega is an evil mastermind who has one goal: to help the Sith destroy the Jedi Order. Now Omega has escaped to the planet of Korribanâ€”home to the tombs of the ancient Sith Lords and their terrible secrets. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stop him before his sinister power grows out of control.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They are not alone on this mission. Anakin''s rival, Ferus, is also searching for Omega, and Anakin sees this as a contest he must win. But as the dark side of the Force becomes stronger and stronger, there is only one guaranteed outcome for any showdown:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4602'),
(9233, 'Star Wars: Jedi Quest: Path to Truth', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CHOSEN TO RISE.\n <br />\n DESTINED TO FALL.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker is no longer a boy, but not yet a man. Almost thirteen, he has begun to travel on the path that will lead him to gloryâ€¦and infamy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the mysterious caves of Ilum, Anakin must create his lightsaber after confronting the demons of his pastâ€”and his future. Once the lightsaber is completed, Anakin joins his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a mission that will cut to the heart of his fear, anger, and power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Anakin was a young slave on Tatooine, everyone lived in terror of a creature named Krayn, who kidnapped slaves for his own profitâ€”and killed anyone who got in his way. Now Krayn''s evil has grown to a dangerous degree, threatening peace and safe passage throughout the galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin and Obi-Wan must stop Krayn. But can Obi-Wan also stop Anakin from seeking vengeance against an old enemy?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The path to truth is a clear one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin''s path is not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4604'),
(9234, 'Star Wars: Jedi Trial', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œWithin twenty-four standard hours we will sit firmly astride the communications link that connects the worlds of the Republicâ€¦. Our control will be a dagger thrust directly at Coruscant. This is the move that will win the war for us.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With these ominous words, Pors Tonith, ruthless minion of Count Dooku, declares the fate of the Republic sealed. Commanding a Separatist invasion force more than one million strong, the cunning financier-turned-warrior lays siege to the planet Praesitlyn, home of the strategic intergalactic communications center that is key to the Republic''s survival in the Clone Wars. Left unchallenged, this decisive strike could indeed pave the way for the toppling of more Republic worldsâ€¦and ultimate victory for the Separatists. Retaliation must be swift and certain.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But engaging the enemy throughout the galaxy has already stretched Supreme Chancellor Palpatine''s armies to the limit. There is no choice but to move against the surging waves of invading battle-droids on Praesitlyn with only a small contingent of clone soldiers. Commanding them will be Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon â€” hand-picked by the Council for the do-or-die mission. And at his side, skilled young starfighter pilot Anakin Skywalker, a promising young Jedi Padawan eager to be freed of the bonds of apprenticeship â€” and to be awarded the title of Jedi Knight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shoulder to shoulder with a rogue Republic army officer and his battle-hardened crew, a hulking Rodian mercenary with an insatiable taste for combat, and a duo of ready-for-anything soldiers, the Jedi generals take to the skies and the punishing desert terrain of occupied Praesitlyn â€” to gain back a vital position in the Republic. Already outnumbered and outgunned, when confronted with an enemy ultimatum that could lead to the massacre of innocents, they may also be out of options. Unless Anakin Skywalker can strike a crucial balance between the wisdom born of the Forceâ€¦and the instincts of a born warrior.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5526'),
(9235, 'Star Wars: Judge&#39;s Call', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke and his wife Mara are on a planet, where Luke is helping to arbitrate many disputes among the natives, who revere Jedi wisdom. Mara grows increasingly frustrated at the amount of Luke''s time being taken by settling these disputes. On a visit to Kei Ras Cirali, an agricultural coordinator, Luke takes Mara to a remote retreat that he has had furnished with things she likes so they can spend some time together alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6138'),
(9236, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 1: The Golden Globe', 'Nancy Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On his first day at the Jedi academy, Anakin makes a new friend named Tahiri. The Force is with her too. Soon they find out that together they can accomplish feats that surprise even their teachers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the teachers don''t know what else Anakin and Tahiri do together. Every night, they both have the same dream of going down the river by the Academy on a raft. In the dream, they are drawn by the Forceâ€¦but for all they know, it could be the dark side!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is only one way to find out for sure. They have to go down the river all by themselvesâ€”for real!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5313'),
(9237, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 2: Lyric&#39;s World', 'Nancy Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin and Tahiri are off on an adventure to the distant moon of Yavin 8! There they will help their alien friend Lyric join the "elders", the adults of her race. To do it, she must go through a strange and wonderful change. And when it is over, Lyric won''t look anything like her old self.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Anakin and Tahiri are in for an even bigger surprise. Deep within the caves of Lyric''s world are carvings that match the ones they back in the temple on Yavin 4. If they can read them, they might be able to break the curse of the mysterious Golden Globe and defeat the dark side of the Force!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But there is something waiting for them down in the caves. Something large and dangerous. And it will take more than the Force to defeat it!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5311'),
(9238, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 3: Promises', 'Nancy Richardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before she joined the academy, Anakin''s friend Tahiri lived with a strange and dangerous tribe. She knows nothing of her real parentsâ€”or how she came to live with the treacherous Tusken Raiders. Tahiri knew the day would come when she''d learn everything about her pastâ€¦and that day has come!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But first, Tahiri must prove she''s worthy. And that means she must complete a deadly task that will test her skills as a warrior and a Jedi Knight. With Anakin by her side, she will have to use the Force like never before.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If Tahiri succeeds, she will learn how her parents livedâ€”and died. But if she fails, she and Anakin may have to pay the ultimate priceâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5312'),
(9239, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 4: Anakin&#39;s Quest', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin has been having terrible dreams of a secret cave on Dagobah. He asks his uncle Luke if he can go there, to see if it''s real. Luke says yesâ€”but only if Tahiri, R2-D2 and the Jedi Master Ikrit go along.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin and his friends find more danger than they bargained for in the swamps of Dagobah. But they do find the cave. What is inside? And will Anakin be strong enough in the Force to face it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8320'),
(9240, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 5: Vader&#39;s Fortress', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin and his friends just heard an incredible secret! Darth Vader may have retrieved Obi-Wan Kenobi''s lightsaber from the original Death Star. The lost weapon may be hidden in Vader''s abandoned fortress on the planet Vjun, and Luke Skywalker agrees that it must be recovered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Anakin and his friendsâ€”along with Tionne and the Jedi Master Ikritâ€”are heading off to Vjun to find the legendary fortress. Untold dangers await them, for no one knows what secrets still lie within those ancient walls. Even abandoned, it is a stronghold of dark power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the biggest danger may not have shown its face. For if they know about Obi-Wan''s saberâ€¦who else does?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8322'),
(9241, 'Star Wars: Junior Jedi Knights 6: Kenobi&#39;s Blade', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Solo is now elevenâ€”and headed for the Jedi academy! The Force is very strong with himâ€”he can feel it. And his uncle Luke thinks it is time for him to start his trainingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Uldir, Anakin''s classmate at the Jedi academy, wants to be a Jedi more than anything. But he can''t even lift a feather with the Force. He thinks he knows how he can learn faster: the Holocron.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Holocron is a cube that holds all the secrets of the ancient Jedi Masters. By "borrowing" it, along with Obi-Wan Kenobi''s lightsaber, Uldir believes he will become a powerful Jedi Knight!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Anakinâ€”along with Tahiri, R2-D2, Tionne and the Jedi Master Ikritâ€”must race across the galaxy to find Uldir. If they don''t, Uldir could be killed. And Kenobi''s blade and the holocron will fall into the hands of a very evil manâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8321'),
(9242, 'Star Wars: Knight Errant', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _An original adventure featuring Jedi Kerra Holtâ€”star of the hot new Dark Horse\n <em>\n  Knight Errant\n </em>\n comic series_\n</p>\n<p>\n A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away . . .\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n The Republic is in crisis. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who intends to be its destroyer; the curious siblings Quillan and Dromika; the enigmatic Arkadia. So many warring Sith weaving a patchwork of brutalityâ€”with only Kerra Holt to defend the innocents caught underfoot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sensing a sinister pattern in the chaos, Kerra embarks on a journey that will take her into fierce battles against even fiercer enemies. With one against so many, her only chance of success lies with forging alliances among those who serve her enemiesâ€”including a mysterious Sith spy and a clever mercenary general. But will they be her adversaries or her salvation?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes a special, full-color excerpt from the Dark Horse comic\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Knight Errant\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Knight Errant\n  </em>\n </strong>\n follows Kerra Holt, a young Jedi operating in Sith space during a time in which the Republic and Jedi Order have largely abandoned many systems to their fates. The Outer Rim is a crazy-quilt patchwork of mini-empires controlled still crazier Sith Lords, all of whom have their own deranged spins on Sith philosophy and a healthy hatred for their rivals. Hiding among the enslaved citizens, Kerra sees Sith madness up-close -- and acts. But how much can a Jedi alone do -- and can she really trust anyone at all?\n</p>\n<p>\n Kerra Holt also appears in\n <em>\n  Knight Errant\n </em>\n comics from Dark Horse, but the novel stands alone, providing an easy entry into this tumultuous era in\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n history. Depicting a time 1,000 years before\n <em>\n  Episode I\n </em>\n and a place where Sith rule is near-absolute,\n <em>\n  Knight Errant\n </em>\n asks its heroine what it means to be a Jedi when hope is nearly gone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6339'),
(9243, 'Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The war that erupted in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is nearing its boiling point. In Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the fates of key players on both sides of the conflict will be sealed. But first, crucial events that pave the way to that time of reckoning unfold in a labyrinth of evil....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On the planet Neimoidia, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set out to capture a treacherous ally of the Sith. Though they come up empty, their daring efforts yield an unexpected prize: intelligence capable of leading the Republic forces to their ultimate quarry, the ever-elusive Darth Sidious, whom they suspect has been manipulating every aspect of the Separatist rebellion. In the escalating galaxy-wide chess game of sabotage and retaliations, Sidious stays one move ahead. Then the trail takes a shocking turn. For Sidious and his minions have set in motion a ruthlessly orchestrated campaign to divide and overwhelm the Jedi forcesâ€”and bring the Republic to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5752'),
(9244, 'Star Wars: Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Oseon was a solar system of luxury hotels catering to the underemployed filthy rich -- every gambler''s dream come true. And so it was for Lando Calrissian and his robot companion until Lando broke the gambler''s cardinal rule: never beat a cop at high-stake games of chance...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8135'),
(9245, 'Star Wars: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gambler, rogue, and con-artiste, Lando Calrissian was more comfortable at the dealer''s end of a fast shuffle than at the rear end of a blaster pistol. So he always had his sensors scanning for the chance to pick up easy credits â€“ and when he heard that the planets of the Rafa System were practically buried in ancient alien treasure, he hopped aboard the Millennium Falcon, never stopping to think that someone might be conning the con man...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8134'),
(9246, 'Star Wars: Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonboka', 'L. Neil Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For a year Lando Calrissian and Vuffi Raa, his five-armed robot astrogator, had roamed space in the Millennium Falcon, seeking or creating opportunities to turn an easy, but not too dishonest, credit.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now their partnership seemed doomedâ€”for Lando''s uncharacteristic impulse to help a race of persecuted aliens had suddenly made him and Vuffi vulnerable to several sets of their own enemiesâ€¦not least of whom was the evil Rokur Gepta, the Sorcerer of Tund!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8136'),
(9247, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Honor and duty collide with friendship and blood ties as the Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of an explosive conflict.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambushâ€”from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protÃ©gÃ© and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape with their livesâ€”it''s the most alarming evidence yet that political unrest is threatening to ignite into total rebellion. The specter of full-scale war looms between a growing cadre of defiant planets and the Galactic Alliance that some fear is becoming a new Empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Determined to root out those behind the mayhem, Jacen follows a trail of cryptic clues to a rendezvous with the most shocking of revelations. Meanwhile Luke grapples with something even more troubling: dream visions of a shadowy figure whose Force power and ruthlessness remind him of Darth Vader. If Luke''s visions come to pass, they will bring untold pain to the Jedi Masterâ€¦and to the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5620'),
(9248, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new territory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds-and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han''s homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistance. Their children, Jacen and Jaina, are soldiers in the Galactic Alliance''s campaign to crush the insurgents.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jacen, now a complete master of the Force, has his own plans to bring order to the galaxy. Guided by his Sith mentor, Lumiya, and with Luke''s young son Ben at his side, Jacen embarks on the same path that his grandfather Darth Vader once did. And while Han and Leia watch their only son become a stranger, a secret assassin entangles the couple with a dreaded name from Han''s past: Boba Fett. In the new galactic order, friends and enemies are no longer what they seem.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5730'),
(9249, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Exile', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the Stars Wars [sic] galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more admired, more powerful, and more certain of achieving galactic peace. But that peace may come with a price. Despite strained relationships caused by opposing sympathies in the war, Han and Leia Solo and Luke and Mara Skywalker remain united by one frightening suspicion: someone insidious is manipulating this war, and if he or she isn''t stopped, all efforts at reconciliation may be for naught. And as sinister visions lead Luke to believe that the source of the evil is none other than Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith, the greatest peril revolves around Jacen himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5618'),
(9250, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Fury', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacenâ€™s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victoryâ€“whatever the price.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While Luke grieves the loss of his beloved wife and deals with his guilt over killing the wrong person in retaliation, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk hunt for the real assassin, unaware that the culprit commands Sith powers that can cloud their minds and misdirect their attacksâ€“and even turn them back on themselves.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Luke and Ben Skywalker struggle to find their place among the chaos, Jacen, shunned by friends and family, launches an invasion to rescue the only person still loyal to him. But with the battle raging on, and the galaxy growing more turbulent and riotous, thereâ€™s no question that it is Jacen who is most wanted: dead or alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5613'),
(9251, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker wanted to unify the Jedi Order and bring peace to the universe. Instead, his wife, Mara, lies dead at the hands of an unknown assassin, his wayward nephew Jacen has seized control of the Galactic Alliance, and the galaxy has exploded in all-out civil war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With Luke consumed with grief, Jacen Solo works quickly to consolidate his power and jumpstart his plan to take over the Jedi. Convinced he''s the only one who can save the galaxy, Jacen will do whatever it takes, even ambush his own parents.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the Rebel confederacy driving deep into the Core to attack Coruscant and the Jedi under siege, Luke must reassert his position. Only he can lead the Jedi through this crisis, but it means solving the toughest problem Luke''s ever faced. Does he fight alongside his nephew Jacen, a tyrant who''s taken over the GA or does he join the rebels to smash the Galactic Alliance he helped create?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6548'),
(9252, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the epic battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance, the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lostâ€”and nothing less that the course or the future at stakeâ€”there can be no turning back. No matter the consequences.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The rebel cause is losing ground under the twin blows of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon''s assassination and the death of Mara Jade Skywalker. The Galactic Alliance, with the extraordinary power of the newly ascendant Sith Lord Darth Caedus at its helm, may be unstoppable. Tormented and torn between the call of duty and the thirst for vengeance, Luke Skywalker has searched the Force and beheld an unspeakable vision of the galaxy enslaved under tyranny more monstrous than even Emperor Palpatine''s. It seems that the last, best hope lies in mobilizing the scattered Jedi for one decisive search-and-destroy mission. The objective: eliminate Darth Caedus. There is only one who is bound by destiny to stand against him in what will surely be a duel to the death, only one with any chance of bringing down the dark lord who was once Jacen Solo...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6538'),
(9253, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Revelation', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Soloâ€™s tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now, with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no oneâ€“not even the Solos and the Skywalkersâ€“knows if anything can stop the Sith Lord before his plan to save the galaxy ends up destroying it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jacen Soloâ€™s shadow of influence has threatened many, especially those closest to him. Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in, but in order to track him down, she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless, repellent, and dangerous. Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker, still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother, Mara, decides he must know the truth, even if it costs him his life. And as Luke Skywalker contemplates once unthinkable strategies to dethrone his nephew, the hour of reckoning for those on both sides draws near. The galaxy becomes a battlefield where all must face their true nature and darkest secrets, and liveâ€“or dieâ€“with the consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5734'),
(9254, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To bring peace and order to a galaxy at war, Jacen Solo will sacrifice anything-or anyone. Now the moment of choice is at hand.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Suspected of treason, Han and Leia Solo are on the run, hunted by none other than their own son, Jacen. But though his family sees in Jacen the chilling legacy of his Sith grandfather, Darth Vader, many of the frontline troops adore him, and countless citizens see him as a savior in a galaxy torn apart by too many wars. All Jacen wants is safety and stability for all-and he''s prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal... even if it means embracing the teachings of Lumiya, the Dark Lady of the Sith. But there is one final test that Jacen must pass before he can gain the awesome power of a true Sith Lord: He must bring about the death of someone he values dearly. What troubles Jacen isn''t whether he has the strength to commit murder, but who the sacrifice should be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5735'),
(9255, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic beginsâ€“the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As civil war threatens the unity of the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo have enraged their families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. But the Solos draw the line when they discover the Corellian''s plot to make the Hapan Consortium an ally - which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their pro-Alliance queen and her daughter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yet the Solos'' selfless determination to save the queen cannot dispel the inescapable consequences of their actions that will pit mother against son and brother against sister in the battles ahead. For as Jacen Solo''s dark powers grow stronger under Dark Lady Lumiya, and his influence over Ben Skywalker becomes more insidious, Luke''s concern for his nephew forces him into a life-and-death struggle against his fiercest foe, and Han and Leia Solo find themselves at the mercy of their deadliest enemy. . . their son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6539'),
(9256, 'Star Wars: Legacy of the Jedi', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 4 Masters. 4 Apprentices. Yoda and Dooku. Dooku and Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan (the focus of the best-selling Jedi Apprentice series). Obi-Wan and Anakin (featured in the best-selling Jedi Quest series). One enemy. A Jedi student with a dark streak at the beginning of the book, he becomes a powerful -- and potentially dangerous -- planetary leader whose help Obi-Wan and Anakin will need in the Clone Wars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4568');
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(9257, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Paragon a FREE original e-book short story, the third in a series that reveals the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! Paragon includes an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (Del Rey Hardcover, available March 9th) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that have begun to unfold in the Fate of the Jedi series. Darkness VisibleThe ruthless cunning of the Sith Order has served the shipwrecked crew of the Omen well on the alien planet Kesh. Subjugating the superstitious Keshiri race by posing as its fabled overlords has ensured the Sith''s survivalâ€”while they struggle in secret to return to the stars. But after fifteen years on their adopted world, some among the lost tribe have grown restless and fearful that assimilation will consume their Sith heritage. Now, as rival factions begin to appear, a shocking disaster throws into doubt the Sith''s future on Kesh. In the distant city of Tetsubal, the entire native populace is suddenly wiped out by a grisly plague of unknown origin. With terrifying speed, more cities succumb to the mysterious contagion. Only the Sith remain unharmedâ€”so far. And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The third episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Paragon\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , takes place well after the events ofÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   . Fifteen years into their exile on Kesh, the crew members of the ill-fated Sith mining vesselÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Omen\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â have created their own Sith empire in microcosm -- along with all the deceit and betrayal that implies...\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6340'),
(9258, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Donâ€™t miss STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: PRECIPICE a FREE original e-book short story, the first in a series that tell the untold story of the FATE OF THE JEDI''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! PRECIPICE includes an exclusive excerpt from STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: OMEN (Del Rey Hardcover, available June 23rd) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that will begin to unfold in OMEN. SURVIVALâ€”NOT SURRENDER For the ruthless Sith Order, failure is not an option. It is an offense punishable by deathâ€”and a fate to which Commander Yaru Korsin will not succumb. But on a crucial run to deliver troops and precious crystals to a combat hotspot in the Sithâ€™s war against the Republic, Korsin and the crew of the mining ship Omen are ambushed by a Jedi starfighter. And when the Sith craft crash-lands, torn and crippled, on a desolate alien planet, the hard-bitten captain finds himself at odds with desperate survivors on the brink of mutinyâ€”and his own vengeful half brother, whoâ€™s bent on seizing command. No matter the cost, Korsin vows that it will not be his blood and bones left behind on this unknown world. For the way of the Sith leaves little room for compromiseâ€”and none for mercy.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The initial castaways begin far removed from the Sith Lords we see in the movies: the starshipÂ \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   Â is, in fact, a mining vessel, carrying specialists. Force-using adherents to Sith beliefs -- but still slaves to another: middle managers in the cause of evil. But on Kesh, their planetary prison, all their dark ambitions emerge. Everyone wants to rule the world -- and tries!Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   How do the children ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   Â survive -- much less thrive for five thousand years? TheÂ \n   <i>\n    Lost Tribe of the SithÂ \n   </i>\n   short stories provide the answer. "Sith society" may be a contradiction in terms, but it''s a fun one to explore!\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6341'),
(9259, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Purgatory', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">\n  The mighty Sith dynasty founded on the planet Kesh by the survivors of the shipwrecked Omen has endured for a thousand years -- and so has the merciless Sith code, which prizes power above all else. Lady Orielle Kitai enjoys power as the scion of a noble family and member of the elite Sith Sabers. But Lillia Venn, as reigning Grand Lord of the Sith, possesses absolute power . . . and is determined to keep it.\n </span>\n <p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.3; ">\n  When a failed regicide sparks a political -- and literal -- bloodbath, and suspicion falls on Orielle, she is swiftly condemned to slavery by the ruthless Grand Lord Venn. But seeing the cunning power play for what it is, Orielle vows to strike back. And at the ramshackle home of a poor dirt farmer with an astounding secret, she discovers the means to make her vengeance a devastating reality.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6343'),
(9260, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savior', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-five years ago the survivors of the marooned Sith ship Omen bloodlessly conquered the native population of the remote planet Kesh, installing themselves as overlords and transforming the primitive Keshiri civilization into a new Sith society. Letting nothing stand in his wayâ€”including his own brother''s lifeâ€”Omen commander-turned-Grand Lord Yaru Korsin has ruled unopposed ever since. But now his days, and those of the ruthless Sith order on Kesh, may be numbered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Revoltâ€”and revengeâ€”have been brewing in the hearts of the two women closest to Korsin. One is Adari Vaal, the once-outcast Keshiri who rescued the stranded Sith, aided their domination of Kesh, and now leads the secret resistance against them. The other is Seelah, wife of Korsin, widow of his murdered brother, and mastermind of the plot to assassinate the Grand Lord and seize power. But have the comforts of a king and his own arrogance blunted Korsin''s cunning Sith instincts? Or is he ready to deal swiftly and mercilessly with treachery from any quarter?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enemies themselves, Adari and Seelah are unaware of each other''s destiny-altering gambits. They only know that there can be no turning backâ€”and no escaping the consequences if they fail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6344'),
(9261, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savor', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Twenty-five years ago the survivors of the marooned Sith ship Omen bloodlessly conquered the native population of the remote planet Kesh, installing themselves as overlords and transforming the primitive Keshiri civilization into a new Sith society. Letting nothing stand in his wayâ€”including his own brotherâ€™s lifeâ€”Omen commander-turned-Grand Lord Yaru Korsin has ruled unopposed ever since. But now his days, and those of the ruthless Sith order on Kesh, may be numbered.Revoltâ€”and revengeâ€”have been brewing in the hearts of the two women closest to Korsin. One is Adari Vaal, the once-outcast Keshiri who rescued the stranded Sith, aided their domination of Kesh, and now leads the secret resistance against them. The other is Seelah, wife of Korsin, widow of his murdered brother, and mastermind of the plot to assassinate the Grand Lord and seize power. But have the comforts of a king and his own arrogance blunted Korsinâ€™s cunning Sith instincts? Or is he ready to deal swiftly and mercilessly with treachery from any quarter? Enemies themselves, Adari and Seelah are unaware of each otherâ€™s destiny-altering gambits. They only know that there can be no turning backâ€”and no escaping the consequences if they fail.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The fourth episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Savior\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , takes place ten years after the events ofÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Paragon\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   . After years of dominating the natives, the only thing that can threaten the Lost Tribe''s hold on Kesh is infighting within the Tribe itself -- and where Sith are involved, there''s always a schism or purge just around the corner. But this time, there''s a wild card in play. Could the Sith be outsmarted at their own deceitful game?\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6337'),
(9262, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Sentinel', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Cast into slavery by the machinations of the Sith, Ori Kitai believes sheâ€™s found her way back into the Lost Tribeâ€”and perhaps a whole lot more. Oriâ€™s discovery of a second starship gives her the opportunity to avenge the humiliations heaped on her family by the decrepit Grand Lord. Indeed, she could turn their entire society upside downâ€”offering escape from their planetary prison. But Ori encounters resistance from a surprising person: the seemingly humble farmer who took her in: a man with a secret past and an agenda of his own. He cannot allow Ori Kitai to unleash the Lost Tribe on an unsuspecting galaxy. But how can he stop the woman he loves without destroying them both?\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6342'),
(9263, 'Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Skyborn a FREE original e-book short story, the second in a series that tell the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! Skyborn includes an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss (Del Rey Hardcover, available August 18th) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that have begun to unfold in the Fate of the Jedi series. DECEIVE AND CONQUERA Jedi ambush leaves the Sith ship Omen marooned on a remote alien world, its survivors at the mercy of their desolate surroundings and facing almost certain death. But Sith will no more bow before the whims of fate than they will yield to the weapons of their enemies. And Omenâ€™s cunning commander Yaru Korsin, will let nothing keep him and his crew from returning to the stars and rejoining the Sith orderâ€™s conquest of the galaxy. Murdering his own brother has proven Korsinâ€™s ruthless resolveâ€”but now an entire race stands in his way.The primitive, superstitious Keshiri worship unseen gods called the Skyborn, shun science, and punish unbelievers with death. Branded a heretic the widowed young geologist Adari Vaal is running for her life. Among the mysterious Sith castaways she finds powerful sanctuaryâ€”and her saviors find the means of survival. With Adari as their willing pawn, the Skyborn as their Trojan horse, and the awesome power of the dark side of the Force at their command, the lost tribe of the Omen set out to subjugate a planet and its peopleâ€”and lay the foundation for a merciless new Sith nation.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The second episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Skyborn\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , introduces the indigenous people of Kesh, and details their first meeting with the crew of the ill-fated Sith mining vessel,Â \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   . A superstitious people, the Keshiri find that the stranded visitors fit well into their legends of deities and demons. But they may not find out which the Sith are until it''s too late...\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6338'),
(9264, 'Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are dead. The Empire has been toppled by the triumphant Rebel Alliance, and the New Republic is ascendant. But the struggle against the dark side and the Sith order is not over. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and their faithful comrades have had little time to savor victory before being called on to defend the newly liberated galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Powerful remnants of the vanquished Empire, hungry for retaliation, are still at large, committing acts of piracy, terrorism, and wholesale slaughter against the worlds of the fledgling Republic. The most deadly of these, a ruthless legion of black-armored stormtroopers, do the brutal bidding of the newly risen warlord Shadowspawn. Striking from a strategically advantageous base at the planet Mindor, they are waging campaigns of plunder and destruction, demolishing order and security across the galaxyâ€”and breeding fears of an Imperial resurgence. And another reign of darkness beneath the boot-heel of Sith despotism is something General Luke Skywalker cannot and will not risk.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mobilizing the ace fighters of Rogue Squadronâ€”along with the trusty Chewbacca, Threepio, and Artoo-Detooâ€”Luke, Han, and Leia set out to take the battle to the enemy at the site of its stronghold, and neutralize the threat before it''s too late. But their imminent onslaught against Mindor will be playing directly into the hands of their cunning new adversary. Lord Shadowspawn is no freshly anointed Sith Chieftain, but in fact a vicious former Imperial Intelligence officerâ€”and Prophet of the Dark Side. The Emperor''s death has paved the way for Shadowspawn''s return from exile in the Outer Rim; and mastery of ancient Sith knowledge and modern technology has given him the capability to mount the ultimate power play for galaxy-wide dominion. Dark prophecy has foretold that only one obstacle stands in his way, and he is readyâ€”even eagerâ€”for the confrontation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All the classic heroes, all the explosive action and adventure, all the unparalleled excitement of Star Wars come breathlessly alive here, as the further adventures of Luke Skywalker continue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6025'),
(9265, 'Star Wars: MedStar I: Battle Surgeons', 'Michael Reaves &amp; Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its ownâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A surgeon who covers his despair with wisecracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music â€¦ A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor â€¦ A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master â€¦ These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dyingâ€”mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the warâ€”either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5123'),
(9266, 'Star Wars: MedStar II: Jedi Healer', 'Michael Reaves &amp; Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatistsâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids in their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids'' durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vondar and Kornell "Uli" Divini know that time is running out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her deathâ€”and that of countless others. The conflict is growingâ€”and for this obscure mobile med unit, there''s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it''s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5174'),
(9267, 'Star Wars: Millennium Falcon', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two years have passed since Jacen Solo, seduced by the dark side and reanointed as the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus, died at the hands of his twin sister Jaina, Sword of the Jedi. For a grieving Han and Leia, the shadow of their son''s tragic downfall still looms large. But Jacen''s own bright and loving daughter, Allana, offers a ray of hope for the future as she thrives in her grandparents'' care. The eager, inquisitive and Force-strong girl makes a curious discovery aboard her grandfather''s beloved spacecraftâ€”the much-overhauled but ever-dependable Millennium Falcon. The Solo family then finds itself at a new turning point, about to set out on an odyssey into uncertain territory, untold adventure, and unexpected rewards.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To Han, who knows every bolt, weld, and sensor of the Falcon as if they were parts of himself, the strange device Allana shows him is utterly alien. But its confounding presenceâ€”and Allana''s infectious desire to unravel its mysteryâ€”are impossible to dismiss. The only answer lies in backtracking into the past on a fact-finding expedition to retrace the people, places, and events in the checkered history of the vessel that''s done everything from making the Kessel Run"in less than twelve parsecs" to helping topple an evil Empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the moment the Falcon broke loose from a Corellian assembly line like an untamed creature with a will of its own, it seemed destined to seek out trouble. It wasn''t long before the feisty YT-1300 freighter went from shuttling cargo to smuggling contraband. But it''s a fateful rendezvous on Coruscant, at the explosive height of the Republic/Separatist uprising, that launches a galaxywide cat-and-mouse game whose newest players are Han, Leia, Allana and C-3PO. And they''re not alone: Crime lords, galactic pirates, rogue politicians and fortune hunters alike loom at every turn of the questâ€”each with his or her own desperate stake in the Millennium Falcon''s most momentous mission.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Through the years and across the stars, from the Rim Worlds to points beyond, the race will lead them all to a final standoff for a prize some will risk everything to findâ€”and pay any cost to possess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5746'),
(9268, 'Star Wars: Outbound Flight', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery, only to become a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkableâ€”and doomedâ€”Outbound Flight Project.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C''baoth petitions the Senate for support of an ambitious mission: to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. But the government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even startâ€”until Master C''baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Or so it would seem. The evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious has his own interests in Outbound Flight. Yet even he is not the mission''s most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind known as "Thrawn." Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6140'),
(9269, 'Star Wars: Paragon', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Paragon a FREE original e-book short story, the third in a series that reveals the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! Paragon includes an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (Del Rey Hardcover, available March 9th) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that have begun to unfold in the Fate of the Jedi series. Darkness VisibleThe ruthless cunning of the Sith Order has served the shipwrecked crew of the Omen well on the alien planet Kesh. Subjugating the superstitious Keshiri race by posing as its fabled overlords has ensured the Sith''s survivalâ€”while they struggle in secret to return to the stars. But after fifteen years on their adopted world, some among the lost tribe have grown restless and fearful that assimilation will consume their Sith heritage. Now, as rival factions begin to appear, a shocking disaster throws into doubt the Sith''s future on Kesh. In the distant city of Tetsubal, the entire native populace is suddenly wiped out by a grisly plague of unknown origin. With terrifying speed, more cities succumb to the mysterious contagion. Only the Sith remain unharmedâ€”so far. And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The third episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Paragon\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , takes place well after the events ofÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   . Fifteen years into their exile on Kesh, the crew members of the ill-fated Sith mining vesselÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Omen\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â have created their own Sith empire in microcosm -- along with all the deceit and betrayal that implies...\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9854'),
(9270, 'Star Wars: Planet of Twilight', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nam Chorios is a barren backwater worldâ€”once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form, unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so malevolent it will destroy everythingâ€”both Empire and New Republicâ€”on its path to domination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6445'),
(9271, 'Star Wars: Precipice', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Donâ€™t miss STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: PRECIPICE a FREE original e-book short story, the first in a series that tell the untold story of the FATE OF THE JEDI''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! PRECIPICE includes an exclusive excerpt from STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: OMEN (Del Rey Hardcover, available June 23rd) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that will begin to unfold in OMEN. SURVIVALâ€”NOT SURRENDER For the ruthless Sith Order, failure is not an option. It is an offense punishable by deathâ€”and a fate to which Commander Yaru Korsin will not succumb. But on a crucial run to deliver troops and precious crystals to a combat hotspot in the Sithâ€™s war against the Republic, Korsin and the crew of the mining ship Omen are ambushed by a Jedi starfighter. And when the Sith craft crash-lands, torn and crippled, on a desolate alien planet, the hard-bitten captain finds himself at odds with desperate survivors on the brink of mutinyâ€”and his own vengeful half brother, whoâ€™s bent on seizing command. No matter the cost, Korsin vows that it will not be his blood and bones left behind on this unknown world. For the way of the Sith leaves little room for compromiseâ€”and none for mercy.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The initial castaways begin far removed from the Sith Lords we see in the movies: the starshipÂ \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   Â is, in fact, a mining vessel, carrying specialists. Force-using adherents to Sith beliefs -- but still slaves to another: middle managers in the cause of evil. But on Kesh, their planetary prison, all their dark ambitions emerge. Everyone wants to rule the world -- and tries!Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   How do the children ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   Â survive -- much less thrive for five thousand years? TheÂ \n   <i>\n    Lost Tribe of the SithÂ \n   </i>\n   short stories provide the answer. "Sith society" may be a contradiction in terms, but it''s a fun one to explore!\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9850'),
(9272, 'Star Wars: Purgatory', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">\n  The mighty Sith dynasty founded on the planet Kesh by the survivors of the shipwrecked Omen has endured for a thousand years -- and so has the merciless Sith code, which prizes power above all else. Lady Orielle Kitai enjoys power as the scion of a noble family and member of the elite Sith Sabers. But Lillia Venn, as reigning Grand Lord of the Sith, possesses absolute power . . . and is determined to keep it.\n </span>\n <p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.3; ">\n  When a failed regicide sparks a political -- and literal -- bloodbath, and suspicion falls on Orielle, she is swiftly condemned to slavery by the ruthless Grand Lord Venn. But seeing the cunning power play for what it is, Orielle vows to strike back. And at the ramshackle home of a poor dirt farmer with an astounding secret, she discovers the means to make her vengeance a devastating reality.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9853'),
(9273, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 1: Target', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Death Star has been destroyed. But back at the Rebel base, the celebration is over. The Alliance has intercepted a coded transmission, indicating that the Empire is determined to discover which pilot was responsible for the destruction of the Death Star. New security protocol is in effect: The details of the Death Star mission are now top secret, and no one is to know that Luke fired the decisive shot.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But that''s hardly the Alliance''s only problem. Almost all their finances were lost with the destruction of Alderaan -- and they are out of money. Their last hope is to access the secret accounts on Muunilinst, the former home of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and the financial heart of the galaxy. So Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and the droids head for Muunilinst.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Empire''s top assassin will be waiting for them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7800'),
(9274, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 2: Hostage', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The deadly assassin contracted by the Empire, X-7, is closer than ever to discovering the identity of his target. He''s already infiltrated the top levels of the Rebel Alliance and gained Leia''s trust. But he still hasn''t been able to get Leia to give up the classified information he needs.\n <br />\n After all, Leia Organa is unbreakable: the youngest, toughest member of the Galactic Senate, and after its dissolution, the fiercest opponent of the Empire. She''s survived kidnapping and torture under Darth Vader, but she''s never had to do anything more difficult than her latest mission. She is going home.\n <br />\n And X-7 knows it will be the perfect opportunity to destroy her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7799'),
(9275, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 3: Renegade', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Deadly assassin X-7 has infiltrated the Rebel Alliance. Trained by ruthless Commander Rezi Soresh, X-7 is the best there is: he feels nothing and sees everything. Now, he''s gunning for the ultimate prize: Luke Skywalker, the pilot that destroyed the Death Star. The seemingly clueless kid from Tatooine proves more resourceful and difficult to eliminate than X-7 could ever have imagined. Surrounded by friends and allies, and with a connection to the Force that grows stronger every day, Luke seems all but impervious to the usual tactics.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But X-7 isn''t done with him yet. This time, he knows how to bring Luke down. He''ll shatter the trust that holds the Rebel Alliance together -- and manufacture the ultimate betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7801'),
(9276, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 4: Firefight', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Deadly assassin X-7 has never failed to complete a mission--until now.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unmasked and unarmed, he narrowly escapes from the Rebels with his life and little else. His cover may be blown, but he''s not returning to Commander Rezi Soresh until his target has been eliminated. This time, he has a new plan. He''ll gather six of the best pilots in the galaxyâ€“all of them roguish mercenaries who care only about moneyâ€“and turn them loose on Red Squadron.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He counts on his pilot''s mercenary instincts to keep them in line. But one of them has a secret that could cost X-7 his victory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7798'),
(9277, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 5: Trapped', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When valuable prisoner Lune Divinian disappears from his cell on Yavin 4, Luke is determined to find him. As the only link to X-7, the assassin sent to kill Luke, Div is the only hope to staying a step ahead of the Empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Across the galaxy, X-7 has escaped from Imperial custody. Caught between the past and the present, X-7 must fight the only battle for which he''s not prepared: the battle with his identity. But his desperate confusion makes him more dangerous than ever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A chance encounter and a figure from the past bring X-7, Luke, and Div together for a final showdown that will reveal everythingâ€”or destroy them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7802'),
(9278, 'Star Wars: Rebel Force 6: Uprising', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was supposed to be a simple mission to the palace of Nyemari. Quick, covert, easy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But before the Rebels can get off the planet, Luke receives a mysteriousâ€”and deadlyâ€”message from former Imperial Commander Rezi Soresh. Though Soresh''s assassin, X-7, didn''t manage to kill Luke, Soresh hasn''t given up on vengeance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke must surrender himself, or Soresh is prepared to kill a ship full of innocent travelers. Luke has no choice. To save the hostages, he must follow Soresh''s directions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even if they lead straight into a trap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7797'),
(9279, 'Star Wars: Recovery', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the forces of darkness threaten to engulf the galaxy, one last defiant spark remainsâ€¦. Though the Yuuzhan Vong were victorious in their savage conquest of the planet Duro, they failed to extract sensitive information from Leia Organa Solo, who now barely clings to life after enduring the enemies'' torture. Unless she receives medical attention soon, the badly wounded Princess and former head of the New Republic will surely die. Pursued by bounty hunters, Han Solo begins a race against time, only to find his urgent pleas for help rejected by planet after planet, as the Jedi are blamed for the continuing fight against the seemingly invincible aliens. Desperate, the Solos decide on a suicide mission. They must reach Coruscant, the New Republic''s strife-ridden capital where traitors, appeasers, and assassins now share the same goal as the fierce Yuuzhan Vong: kill all Jediâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6544'),
(9280, 'Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxyâ€”stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else couldâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On a mission to sabotage a nanovirus research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies. The commandos are outnumbered and outgunned, deep behind enemy lines with no backupâ€”and working with strangers instead of trusted teammates. Matters don''t improve when Darman, the squad''s demolitions expert, gets cut off from the others during planetfall. Even Darman''s apparent good luck in meeting a Jedi Padawan vanishes once she admits to her woeful inexperience.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the isolated clone commandos and stranded Jedi, a long, dangerous journey lies ahead, through hostile territory brimming with Trandoshan slavers, Separatists , and suspicious natives. A single misstep could mean discovery â€¦ and death. It''s a virtual suicide mission for anyoneâ€”anyone except Republic Commandos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5728'),
(9281, 'Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Clone Wars rage to their bloody climax. Treachery reigns. Treason takes courage. Commandos, Jedi, and the entire Galactic Republic must face the end of life as they know itâ€¦and the dreaded dawn of a new empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5729'),
(9282, 'Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following the eruption of the bloody Clone Wars at the battle of Geonosis, both sides remain deadlocked in a stalemate that can be broken only by elite warrior teams like Omega Squad, clone commandos with terrifying combat skills and a lethal arsenalâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Omega Squad, deployed deep behind enemy lines, it''s the same old special ops grind: sabotage, espionage, ambush, and assassination. But when Omega Squad is rushed to Coruscant, the war''s most dangerous new hotspot, the commandos discover they''re not the only ones penetrating the heart of the enemy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A surge in Separatist attacks has been traced to a network of Sep terror cells in the Republic''s capital, masterminded by a mole in Command Headquarters. To identify and destroy a Separatist spy and terror network in a city full of civilians will require special talents and skills. Not even the leadership of Jedi generals, along with the assistance of Delta squad and a certain notorious ARC trooper, can even the odds against the Republic Commandos. And while success may not bring victory in the Clone Wars, failure means certain defeat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5731'),
(9283, 'Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the savage Clone Wars rage unchecked, the Republic''s deadliest warriors face the grim truth that the Separatists aren''t their only enemyâ€”or even their worst.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the Grand Army''s desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more criticalâ€¦or more dangerous. A growing menace threatens Republic victory, and the members of Omega Squad make a shocking discovery that shakes their loyalty.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the lines continue to blur between friend and enemy, citizensâ€”from civilians and sergeants to Jedi and generalsâ€”find themselves up against a new foe: the doubt in their own hearts and minds. The truth is a fragile, shifting illusionâ€”and only the approaching inferno will reveal both sides in their true colors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5737');
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(9284, 'Star Wars: Rise and Fall of Darth Vader', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book begins with Darth Vader dreaming for the first time in years while aboard the Executor shortly before it departs for the second Death Star about his son and his master and wonders if he is having a premonition of the future. He then thinks of the dreams he had as Anakin Skywalker and reminisces about his life. He and Shmi Skywalker are aboard a freighter being taken to Gardulla the Elder as slaves. Watto sees Anakin busy repairing a podracer and he says that he taught himself how to fix it. Watto is intrigued by this and takes Anakin and Shmi as payment for a lost bet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story continues with Anakin''s life on Tatooine, his participation in the Battle of Naboo and his life as a Padawan. Anakin''s motives for turning to the dark side. Eventually, events end with his death during the Battle of Endor and his passing into the netherworld of the Force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6899'),
(9285, 'Star Wars: Rogue Planet', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalkerâ€¦so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wanâ€”like his slain Master Qui-Gonâ€”believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye. But the search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakinâ€¦ and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deepest fearsâ€”and his darkest destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5794'),
(9286, 'Star Wars: Savior', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Twenty-five years ago the survivors of the marooned Sith ship Omen bloodlessly conquered the native population of the remote planet Kesh, installing themselves as overlords and transforming the primitive Keshiri civilization into a new Sith society. Letting nothing stand in his wayâ€”including his own brotherâ€™s lifeâ€”Omen commander-turned-Grand Lord Yaru Korsin has ruled unopposed ever since. But now his days, and those of the ruthless Sith order on Kesh, may be numbered.Revoltâ€”and revengeâ€”have been brewing in the hearts of the two women closest to Korsin. One is Adari Vaal, the once-outcast Keshiri who rescued the stranded Sith, aided their domination of Kesh, and now leads the secret resistance against them. The other is Seelah, wife of Korsin, widow of his murdered brother, and mastermind of the plot to assassinate the Grand Lord and seize power. But have the comforts of a king and his own arrogance blunted Korsinâ€™s cunning Sith instincts? Or is he ready to deal swiftly and mercilessly with treachery from any quarter? Enemies themselves, Adari and Seelah are unaware of each otherâ€™s destiny-altering gambits. They only know that there can be no turning backâ€”and no escaping the consequences if they fail.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The fourth episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Savior\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , takes place ten years after the events ofÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Paragon\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   . After years of dominating the natives, the only thing that can threaten the Lost Tribe''s hold on Kesh is infighting within the Tribe itself -- and where Sith are involved, there''s always a schism or purge just around the corner. But this time, there''s a wild card in play. Could the Sith be outsmarted at their own deceitful game?\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9856'),
(9287, 'Star Wars: Secrets of the Jedi', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To be a Jedi is to safeguard peace in the galaxy. To be a Jedi is to defend justice against tyranny. To be a Jedi is to rely on the Force. To be a Jedi is to not love or live as normal people doâ€¦at whatever the price.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jedi know that love is not meant to be for them. But when Obi-Wan Kenobi and his fellow apprentice Siri Tachi approach a very Human falling, the reverberations are felt for many yearsâ€¦to when Obi-Wan has an apprentice of his own, Anakin Skywalker, whose secrets will draw Obi-Wan and Siri further into the Clone Wars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4552'),
(9288, 'Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire', 'Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is a time of crisis. Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, is being taken to the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. As Princess Leia mounts a rescue mission including Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and a brilliant young pilot, Darth Vader pits himself against a cunning and ruthless rival. Xizor is the leader of a powerful crime syndicate who seeks to supplant Vader for the favor of their mutual master, the dreaded Emperor. Their target: Luke Skywalker. Suddenly Luke finds himself the potential prize of the two most evil entities in the galaxy - one who wants him alive...and one who wants him dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7873'),
(9289, 'Star Wars: Shatterpoint', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, skilled diplomat, and devastating fighter. But he is also a man of peaceâ€”and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground for the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billabaâ€”Mace''s former Padawanâ€”to the planet to train the local tribesmen as a guerrilla resistance force to fight against the Separatists. But Depa has vanished. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording that hints of madness and murderâ€¦a recording in Depa''s own voice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Now Mace must journey alone into one of the most treacherous jungles in the galaxyâ€”and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid when keepers of the peace are forced to make war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6023'),
(9290, 'Star Wars: Skyborn', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Skyborn a FREE original e-book short story, the second in a series that tell the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! Skyborn includes an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss (Del Rey Hardcover, available August 18th) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that have begun to unfold in the Fate of the Jedi series. DECEIVE AND CONQUERA Jedi ambush leaves the Sith ship Omen marooned on a remote alien world, its survivors at the mercy of their desolate surroundings and facing almost certain death. But Sith will no more bow before the whims of fate than they will yield to the weapons of their enemies. And Omenâ€™s cunning commander Yaru Korsin, will let nothing keep him and his crew from returning to the stars and rejoining the Sith orderâ€™s conquest of the galaxy. Murdering his own brother has proven Korsinâ€™s ruthless resolveâ€”but now an entire race stands in his way.The primitive, superstitious Keshiri worship unseen gods called the Skyborn, shun science, and punish unbelievers with death. Branded a heretic the widowed young geologist Adari Vaal is running for her life. Among the mysterious Sith castaways she finds powerful sanctuaryâ€”and her saviors find the means of survival. With Adari as their willing pawn, the Skyborn as their Trojan horse, and the awesome power of the dark side of the Force at their command, the lost tribe of the Omen set out to subjugate a planet and its peopleâ€”and lay the foundation for a merciless new Sith nation.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   From the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   TheÂ \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Fate of the Jedi\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be?Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   Â answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The second episode,Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Skyborn\n    </b>\n   </i>\n   , introduces the indigenous people of Kesh, and details their first meeting with the crew of the ill-fated Sith mining vessel,Â \n   <i>\n    Omen\n   </i>\n   . A superstitious people, the Keshiri find that the stranded visitors fit well into their legends of deities and demons. But they may not find out which the Sith are until it''s too late...\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â Â \n   <i>\n    <b>\n     Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n    </b>\n   </i>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9855'),
(9291, 'Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind&#39;s Eye', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stranded on a jungle planet, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia found themselves desperately racing Imperial Stormtroopers to claim a gem that had mysterious powers over the Force.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to Circarpous to enlist their Rebel underground in the battle against the Empire. But the farm boy from Tatooine hadn''t counted on an unscheduled landing in the swamplands of Mimbanâ€¦hadn''t counted on any of the things they would find on that strange planet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hidden on this planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible. In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Accompanied by Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepioâ€”his two faithful droidsâ€”Luke and the Princess set out for the Temple of Pomojemaâ€¦and a confrontation deep beneath the surface of an alien world with the most fearsome villain in the galaxy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7849'),
(9292, 'Star Wars: Star by Star', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is a solemn time for the New Republic, as the merciless Yuuzhan Vong continue their campaign of destruction. The brutal enemy has unleashed a savage creature capable of findingâ€”and killingâ€”Jedi Knights. Now Leia Organa Solo faces a terrible ultimatum. If the location of the secret Jedi base is not revealed within one week, the Yuuzhan Vong will blast millions of refugee ships into oblivion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the battered but still unbroken Jedi scramble to deal with the newest onslaught, Leia''s son Anakin lays out a daring plan. He will lead a Jedi strike force into the heart of enemy territory in order to sabotage the Yuuzhan Vong''s deadliest weapons. There, with his brother and sister at his side, he will come face-to-face with his destinyâ€”as the New Republic, still fighting the good fight, will come face-to-face with theirsâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6547'),
(9293, 'Star Wars: Survivor&#39;s Quest', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flightâ€”a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”have been found on the planet Nirauan. The beings who reside there wish to turn over to the New Republic the remnants of the doomed mission. Accepting the gesture will mean a long voyage into the treacherous cluster of stars where the thousands of souls aboard the Outbound Flight vessel met their grim fate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Embarking on the strange and solemn journey, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker are unaware that the gravest danger lies within the derelict walls of Outbound Flight itself. As the marooned hulk yields up stunning revelations and unexpected terrors, Luke and Mara find all they stand forâ€”and their very existenceâ€”brutally challenged. The ultimate test will be surviving the deathtrap carefully laid by foes who are legendary for their ruthlessnessâ€¦and determined to complete the job Thrawn began: exterminating the Jedi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6142'),
(9294, 'Star Wars: Tales From Jabba&#39;s Palace', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good jokeâ€”if he werenâ€™t so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabbaâ€™s grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7210'),
(9295, 'Star Wars: Tales From the Empire', 'Peter Schweighofer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Culled from the pages of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, one of the most popular Star Wars magazines in the field today, comes this exciting new short-story collection. Here are stories from such award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, and Kathy Tyers as well as exciting newcomers, including Erin Endom, Laurie Burns, and Patricia A. Jackson. From the desperate flight of a civilian mail courier carrying vital Rebel intelligence through an Imperial blockade, to a suicidal commando raid on an impregnable Imperial prison, to a Corellian smuggler mysteriously hired by an actor turned Jedi Knight turned Imperial assassin for one final transformation, these tales capture all the high adventure, imaginative genius, and nonstop action that are the hallmarks of the Star Wars saga.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What''s more, the centerpiece of this magnificent collection is the short novel Side Trip, the first-ever collaboration between Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, in which a freighter smuggling arms for the Rebels is commandeeered by an Imperial Star Destroyer led by a mysterious helmeted figure who claims to be the notorious bounty hunter Jodo Kast. It is all part of a devious plan that includes Hal and Corran Horn, who are working undercover to nail the infamous Corellian warlord Zekka Thyne. But one slipup can get them all killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8137'),
(9296, 'Star Wars: Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a far off corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jizz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow denizens of this pangalactic watering hole, for they are cutthroats and cutpurses, assassins and troopers, humans and aliens, gangsters and thieves.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7209'),
(9297, 'Star Wars: Tales From the New Republic', 'Peter Schweighofer &amp; Craig Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On Zelos II a man and a woman are held prisoner in a dark cell, each fighting their way for survival at the hands of Imperial captors-and a chance for escape that could cost one of them their life. On the tortured landscape of Ryloth, Fenig Nabon awaits a ship of women warriors to complete a dangerous deal: the smuggling of a troupe of dancers to the homeworld of the Hutts-only to get more than she bargained for. And in a stunning new novella written especially for this collection by Hugo-Award winning, New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, believed dead at the hands of an Imperial assassin, teams up with Hal Horn in a duel against the Empire''s most dangerous agent. At stake are the plans for a terrifying new weapon called the Death Star-and the fate of both the Empire and the New Republic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8138'),
(9298, 'Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty huntersâ€”amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universeâ€¦for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successfulâ€”and fearedâ€”hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7211'),
(9299, 'Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Han and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republicâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian artâ€”lost after the planet''s destructionâ€”has resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secretâ€”the code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would spell disaster. The only option is recoveryâ€”and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence, the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooine''s savage Tusken Raiders, Leia''s emotional struggle over the specter of her infamous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as long-buried secrets at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destinyâ€¦ and that of the New Republic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6537'),
(9300, 'Star Wars: The Approaching Storm', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Republic is decaying, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was elected to save the galaxy from collapsing under the forces of discontent. On the tiny but strategic planet of Ansion, a powerful faction is on the verge of joining the growing secessionst movement. At the Chancellor''s request, the Jedi Council sends two Jedi Knights, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luminara Unduli, along with their Padawans Anakin Skywalker and Barriss Offee, to stabilize the planet''s population. To succeed, the Jedi will have to fulfill near impossible tasks, befriend wary strangers, and influence two great armies, stalked all the while by an enemy sworn to see the negotiations collapse and the mission failâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7911'),
(9301, 'Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the Storm', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the blockbuster bestselling tradition of Heir to the Empire comes this thrilling addition to the Star Wars saga, as peace gives way to a dire new threatâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday''s Rebels have become today''s administrators and diplomats, and the factions that fought against Imperial tyranny seem united in savoring the fruits of peace.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the peace is short-lived. A restless Luke must journey to his mother''s homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quest to find her people. An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive power and an unknown mission. And Leia, a living symbol of the New Republic''s triumph, must face down a ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war that could shatter the fragile unity of the New Republicâ€¦and threaten its very survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8638'),
(9302, 'Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis: Shield of Lies', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New Republic''s triumph grows ever more precarious in the face of an arrogant race bent on war, as the bestselling Star Wars saga continuesâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every belief about the use of the Force is about to be challenged. And while Leia ponders a diplomatic solution to the aggression of the fierce Yevetha race, Han pilots a spy ship into the heart of Yevethan space and faces a vast fleet of warships under the command of a ruthless leaderâ€”a fleet more than a match for the New Republic''s forcesâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8637'),
(9303, 'Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis: Tyrant&#39;s Test', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars sagaâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threatâ€”even at the cost of Han''s life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke''s continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar''s deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weaponâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8636'),
(9304, 'Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars 2: Slave Ship', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s both feared and admired, respected and despised. Boba Fett is the galaxy''s most successful bounty hunter. Now he finds himself hunted in the oldest game of all: survival of the fittest.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The once powerful Bounty Hunter''s Guild has been shattered into warring factions. Now the posting of an enormous bounty on a renegade Imperial stormtrooper is about to start a frenzy of murderous greed. Hoping to fuel rumors of his death, Boba Fett abandons his ship, Slave I, and sets out to claim the prize. Yet his every move leads him closer to a trap set by the cunning Prince Xizor. Fett will die before becoming Xizor''s pawn in the Emperor''s war against the Rebels. And he may have to. For in order to gain his freedom he must outwit a sentient weapon that feeds on Human spirits. Then he must escape a galaxy of deadly enemies who want to make the rumors of his death a reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7613'),
(9305, 'Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars 3: Hard Merchandise', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy''s most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemiesâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Prince Xizor in the murder of Luke Skywalker''s aunt and uncle, Fett makes himself an enemy even he fears: the unknown mastermind behind a monstrous deception, who will kill to hide his tracks. Fett also finds himself in possession of an amnesiac young woman named Neelah, who may be the key to the mysteryâ€”or a decoy leading Fett into a murderous ambush. Fett''s last hope is to run through the list of Xizor''s hidden enemies. And since Xizor''s hidden enemies are almost as legion as Fett''s, the chance of survival is slimâ€”even for someone as skilled and relentless as Boba Fett.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7615'),
(9306, 'Star Wars: The Cestus Deception', 'Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the economically depressed government of Ord Cestus threatens to sell incredibly deadly battle droids to the Separatists, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine dispatches a team led by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet. Their mission: to halt the deal. A peaceful resolution is preferable, but if all else fails, the Republic will not hesitate to demonstrate the consequences of disloyalty by launching a full-scale attackâ€”wiping out not only the means of biodroid production but countless lives as well. The prospect of such a slaughter only fuels Obi-Wan''s growing suspicions about the sinister path the Republic seems to be taking. Facing a crisis of conscience, Obi-Wan must find the wisdom and strength to prevent a bloodbath and safeguard the Republicâ€”while abiding by the ancient code to which he has pledged his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8412'),
(9307, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied "Chosen One" destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibilityâ€”and his chances of survival aren''t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash inexperienced fourteen-year-old Padawan. But there''s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders. He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jabba the Hutt''s precious infant son has been kidnapped, and when the frantic parent applies to the Jedi for help, it falls to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and their clone troops to track down the evidence and retrieve the missing Huttlet. And more is at stake: For a grateful Jabba just might allow the Republic access to the Hutt-controlled space lanes that the Grand Army desperately needs in order to beat the Separatists into submission.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the Republic is not the only power that craves access to those space lanes. Count Dooku, determined to win the prize for the Separatists, has set a trap for the Jedi. When they find the Huttlet, they will also find Dooku''s master assassin, Asajj Ventress, and countless legions of battle droids waiting to spring a trap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5736'),
(9308, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars: No Prisoners', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Torrent Companyâ€™s Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitousâ€”and insatiably curiousâ€”Padawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeonâ€™s newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an activeâ€”and dangerousâ€”rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republicâ€™s methodsâ€“and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeonâ€”sworn to protect the Republic over allâ€”is torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka, sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena, encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify, the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5732'),
(9309, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Wild Space', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The Clone Wars have exploded across the galaxy as Republic forces and Separatists struggle to gain the upper hand. But while the Jedi generals work tirelessly to defeat Count Dooku and his rebels, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is hatching his own dark plans.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Separatists have launched a sneak attack on Coruscant. Obi-Wan Kenobi, wounded in battle, insists that Anakin Skywalker and his rookie Padawan Ahsoka leave on a risky mission against General Grievous. But when Senator Bail Organa reveals explosive intelligence that could turn the tide of war in the Republic''s favor, the Jedi Master agrees to accompany him to an obscure planet in the Outer Rim to verify the facts. What Obi-Wan and Bail don''t realize is that they''re walking into a deadly trap concocted by Palpatine... and escape may not be an option.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Inspired by the full-length animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and brand new TV series, this thrilling adventure is filled with provocative, never-before-revealed insights into the characters of Obi-Wan, Anakin, PadmÃ©, Yoda, Count Dooku and many other Star Wars favorites.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6156'),
(9310, 'Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia', 'Dave Wolverton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n George Lucas brought us the blockbuster Star WarsÂ® film trilogy. Then some of science fiction''s best writersÂ® expanded the adventure in their bestselling Star Wars novels. Now the tradition continues with the culmination of a love story that spans a war-torn galaxyâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though Darth Vader and the Emperor are dead, the Empire lives on and a weakened Alliance must find powerful new help if it is to survive. The answer could lie in the Hapes consortium, a cluster of sixty-three high-tech worlds. There is only one catch: Princess Leia must marry the Queen Mother''s son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Han Solo reacts badly to the news. Tricking Leia, he flees with her to the beautiful but untamed planet of Dathomir, where he hopes to change her mind - and win her heart. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and Artoo form an unlikely partnership with the jilted prince to track down the runaways. But their mission is only the beginning of an adventure that will lead to the discovery of an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained "witches," and a showdown with an invincible foe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5460'),
(9311, 'Star Wars: The Crystal Star', 'Vonda N. McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Princess Leia''s children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers'' trail to a disabled refugee ship, from which children are also missing. Here she learns of a powerful Imperial officer with a twisted plan to restore the Empire. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are cut off from Leia by the death of a nearby star, which has caused a disruption in the Force. They have gone to the planet Crseih to investigate a report of a lost group of Jedi. Instead they find a charismatic alien named Waru whose miraculous healing powers have attracted a fanatic following. As Leia follows the path of her children across space, Luke and Han draw closer to the truth behind Waru''s sinister cult. Together they will face an explosive showdown that will decide the survival of the New Republicâ€¦and the universe itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6955'),
(9312, 'Star Wars: The Final Prophecy', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from the brink of destruction, the Jedi''s most fearsome enemy plots to end the warâ€”and claim victoryâ€”with a final act of dominationâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begun. As Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo negotiate its place in the galactic struggle against the Yuuzhan Vong, one of its organic ships is taken by the alien invaders. Scientist Nen Yim is ordered to use the captive to find weak spots in Zonama Sekot''s technology. But what Nen Yim discovers about the planet and its mysteries shocks her to the core. Clearly her people have gone terribly astray. For the peace-loving planet harbors not only the key to its own destruction, but the long-forgotten secrets of the Yuuzhan Vong themselves.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, General Wedge Antilles, commanding one fleet in a three-pronged campaign to retake the Bilbringi system, is suddenly stranded deep in Yuuzhan Vong space, cut off from all contact. Wedge and his ships must rely on trickery and brilliant battle tactics if they are to survive long enough to ensure the success of one of the deadliest and most crucial missions the Galactic Alliance forces have ever seenâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5055'),
(9313, 'Star Wars: The Force Unleashed', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Along with the comic, it features the storyline of the game and the fate of Darth Vader''s apprentice at the end of the book. Although the game has multiple endings, the book and comic follow the sole canonical ending. Along with the comic, the book''s release was timed around the release of the game.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are differences between the novel and the game. For instance, during Starkiller''s mission to Imperialized Raxus Prime, the plot of the novel diverges from the plot of the video game, in that a giant computer, known only as "The Core", gains control over PROXY, and uses PROXY to attack Starkiller, making PROXY assume the form of Darth Maul (although this plot point was included in the Nintendo DS version of the game). In the game, PROXY attacks Starkiller, sensing the best opportunity to fulfill his primary programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4650'),
(9314, 'Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  As ruthless apprentice to Darth Vader, Starkiller was mercilessly schooled in the ways of the dark side, commanded to exterminate the last of the purged Jedi Order, and groomed for the ultimate Sith power play: assassination of the Emperor. He served without question, killed without remorse, and lost his heart without warning to beautiful Imperial fighter pilot Juno Eclipse, never suspecting that he was just a tool in the schemes of his mastersâ€”until it was too late to escape their lethal betrayal.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Juno mourned Starkiller as dead...but now he is back, purged of all memories and programmed to kill. And as fate brings Juno and Starkiller closer to reuniting, with Darth Vader determined not to lose his assassin a second time, they will both have to make a stand. The prize is freedom. The punishment for failing will be eternal enslavement to the dark side of the Force...\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4648'),
(9315, 'Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy 1: The Paradise Snare', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Han Solo was a child without a past, a Corellian street urchin, abandoned, foraging for scraps of food, when the cruel Garris Shrike whisked him away to a nomadic band of spacefaring criminals. Now, years later, Han fights his way free. His goal: to become an Imperial Navy pilot. But first he needs hand-on experience flying spacecraft, and for that he takes a job on the planet Ylesiaâ€”a steaming world of religious fanaticism, illicit drugs, and alluring sensualityâ€¦where dreams are destroyed and escape is impossible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5146'),
(9316, 'Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy 2: The Hutt Gambit', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once one of the Academy''s brightest stars, Han Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutts. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw alliesâ€¦a battle where even victory means death!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5145'),
(9317, 'Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy 3: Rebel Dawn', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Millennium Falcon is "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy." So when Han Solo wins it in a game of sabacc, he and Chewbacca become kings of the smugglersâ€”uncatchable and unstoppable. But with the Empire clamping down, Han knows his luck can''t last. Still, when an old girlfriend who is now the leader of an insurgent Rebel group offers him a shot at an incredible fortune, Han can''t resist. The plan seems a sure thing. The resistance will be light and the take enormous. Han and his friends will divide it equally with the Rebels. Too bad for Han that the planet of Ylesia is far from a pushover, that the Rebels have an agenda of their own, and that smuggler friends can often turn into enemiesâ€¦quicker than lightspeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5147'),
(9318, 'Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn Duology 1: Specter of the Past', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”the most cunning and ruthless warlord in historyâ€”has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesized victory. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threatsâ€”one from within and one from without. Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Yet, perhaps most dangerous of all, are those who lurk in the shadows, orchestrating a dark plan that will turn the New Republic and the Empire into their playthings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6139'),
(9319, 'Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn Duology 2: Vision of the Future', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Empire''s master plan is under way. The New Republic is on the verge of civil war and the rumor that the legendary Admiral Thrawn has returned from the dead is rallying the Imperial forces. Now, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and their allies face the challenge of their lives. They must infiltrate a hidden fortress filled with Imperial fanatics, rendezvous with a double-dealing Imperial commander, and journey into enemy territory to learn the identity of those responsible for an act of unthinkable genocide. But most important of all is the truth about Thrawn. In his handsâ€”alive or deadâ€”rests the fate of the New Republic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6144'),
(9320, 'Star Wars: The Hive', 'Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched as a Republic envoy to the Outer Rim planet Ord Cestus â€” in a bid to halt the sale of potentially deadly "bio-droids" to the Confederacy â€” Obi-Wan Kenobi finds himself enlisted in a mission more desperate, and dangerous, than diplomatic. The once self-contained world has long since been co-opted by unscrupulous offworlders, whose plunder of a vital natural resource has enabled the rise of a powerful corporation that controls the economy. Ord Cestus''s native population, the X''Ting, are now mere second-class citizens in their own society.\n <br />\n Enter the Jedi Knight, with news that a legal technicality has turned the tablesâ€”and the corrupt forces with a stranglehold on Ord Cestus are now at the mercy of the X''Ting. Circumstances, however, are more dire than the Republic suspected.\n <br />\n In the wake of a devastating plague, the X''Ting''s benevolent rulers are dead, and the once tightly knit race has splintered into battling factions. Reunification can only come with the rise of new royals, whom all X''Ting are bound by blood to serve. But the eggs that will spawn those sovereigns lie out of reach, secured in a secret chamber and booby-trapped by those whose knowledge died with them in the plague. Now, to salvage a people''s destiny, Obi-Wan will risk a veritable descent into hell: braving the unknown horrors in the forgotten depths of an alien world, on a perilous quest from which none who went before have ever returned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8411'),
(9321, 'Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy: Champions of the Force', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the New Republic continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious childrenâ€”among them Han and Leia''s Jedi twinsâ€”who represent the next generation of Jedi Knights, in this third and final novel of the Jedi Academy Trilogyâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in a state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, racing against Imperial agents hoping to steal a third Jedi child â€“ Leia and Han''s baby Anakinâ€”hidden on the planet Anoth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, Luke''s former protÃ©gÃ© Kyp Durron has piloted the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototypeâ€”a battle Han knows they may be unable to winâ€¦ even with Luke Skywalker at their side!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7207');
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(9322, 'Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy: Dark Apprentice', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy''s future depends on three small children â€“ among them the Jedi twinsâ€”born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new Star Wars saga unfoldsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusherâ€”a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Soloâ€”the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets. And now she threatens the watery homeworld of Admiral Ackbar.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But as the battle for a planet rages, an even greater danger arises at Luke Skywalker''s Jedi academy. A brilliant student delves dangerously into the dark side of the Force and unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil order that warped Darth Vader himself. Working together, they may become an enemy greater than any the New Republic has ever foughtâ€¦ more powerful than even a Jedi Master can face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7199'),
(9323, 'Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy: Jedi Search', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two childrenâ€”the Jedi twinsâ€”will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga beginsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holesâ€”and go from one danger to a far greater oneâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7156'),
(9324, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 01: The Desperate Mission', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Empire has risen. The Jedi Order has been destroyed. As far as the Emperor is concerned, the Jedi are all but extinct.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But on the remote planet of Tatooine, one Jedi Master remains: Obi-Wan Kenobi. Devastated by the loss of his fellow Jediâ€”and the betrayal of his former apprentice Anakinâ€”Obi-Wan has been left with one last task: to watch over and protect a young child named Luke.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Obi-Wan finds out that a former Jedi apprentice has survived, he must make a painful decision: whether to stay on Tatooine or go on one last, desperate missionâ€”right into the heart of the Empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4605'),
(9325, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 02: Dark Warning', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Who Are the Last of the Jedi?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Obi-Wan Kenobi is on a mission. Along with the former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and a headstrong kid named Trever, he is trying to keep the Jedi''s most important secret safe from the inquisitive Empire. With Boba Fett on their trail and time running out, Obi-Wan, Ferus, and Trever must make some daring and desperate escapesâ€¦into even more danger.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Along the way, they discover some incredible news: Obi-Wan and Yoda are not the only Jedi to have survived the Emperor''s annihilation of the Order. There is at least one otherâ€¦and he is hiding in the Caves of Ilum, a place where nightmares become reality and dark warnings tell of conflicts yet to come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4551'),
(9326, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 03: Underworld', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A disgraced Padawan returns to the captive Jedi Temple on Coruscant to redeem himself. Ferus Olin has heard rumors that the Empire holds imprisoned Jedi within the desecrated building. Olin and his street-kid partner, Trever Flume, must plunge into the depths of Coruscant''s dark and dangerous underworld in order to free the Jedi Knights. The lower reaches of the city planet have become a perilous sanctuary from those fleeing the Emperor''s wrath, and navigating its alleyways and corridors may be just as dangerous as a foolhardy mission to breach the temple.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Alternate Book Summary\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who are the Last of the Jedi?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As a Jedi apprentice, Ferus Olin had to leave the Jedi Temple in disgrace. Now he must return to redeem himself--and save the future of the Jedi Order. The Empire now controls the Temple and everything inside... including, it is rumored, an impriosned Jedi. Ferus and his street kid partner, Trever, must plunge into the depths of Coruscant in order to free the Jedi, exposing themselves to a dark underworld where both thieves and refugees hide from the Emperor''s wrath. Breaking into the temple isn''t going to be easy... and surviving the underworld is going to be even harder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4606'),
(9327, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 04: Death on Naboo', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Who Are the Last of the Jedi?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ex-Jedi Ferus Olin has been imprisoned by the Empire. His crime? Trying to save the Jedi Order.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The sinister Empire won''t be able to hold Ferus for longâ€”not when he has a friend on the inside. But escaping is only part of the problem. Ferus''s quest is going to take him to the planet of Naboo, where a secret vital to the survival of the Jedi and the entire galaxy is being keptâ€¦and is in danger of being revealed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In order to keep this secret, Ferus will have to face the ruthless Inquisitor Malorum. A battle will be foughtâ€”and lives will be lost.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who will die on Naboo?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4562'),
(9328, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 05: A Tangled Web', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Who Are the Last of the Jedi?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since evil Emperor Palpatine destroyed the Jedi Knights and seized power, his reign has been absolute. He controls the Senate. He controls the Imperial Army. He controls the galaxy. He is a Sith.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And now, for mysterious reasons, he wants to control Ferus Olin, ex-Padawan.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ferus does not want to aid the Empire in any way. But when the Emperor threatens the lives of the people closest to him, Ferus doesn''t have a choice. He agrees to go on a secret mission for Palpatineâ€”to become a double-agentâ€”and somehow keep his allegiance to the fallen Jedi Order.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can he succeed? Or are the Emperor and his henchman Darth Vader too powerful to overcome?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4557'),
(9329, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 06: Return of the Dark Side', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Years ago, when they were both Jedi apprentices, Ferus Olin and Anakin Skywalker were rivals. Now, their paths are about to cross againâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Abandoning the Jedi Order saved Ferus''s life. As a result, he is the only one who can track down and save Jedi who have survived the rise of the Empire. He has rebellion on his mind, and hopes to bring about the fall of the Emperor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only Darth Vader stands in his way. Ferus may not realize it, but his old rival is now his new deadly enemy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4601'),
(9330, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 07: Secret Weapon', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the planet Belassa, parts of a secret new weapon are being built by the Empire. Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin are present to make sure the secret stays a secretâ€”and they are joined by none other than the former Jedi apprentice and Rebel leader Ferus Olin.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But is Ferus Olin really on their side? Or is he a double agent trying to save his planet and steal the Empire''s plans? Ferus must guard the secret of his own allegianceâ€¦ or become yet another victim consumed by the dark side.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4567'),
(9331, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 08: Against the Empire', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the Empire''s power grows, rebels face a choice: give inâ€¦ or fight. Some form pockets of resistance on battleground planets. Some go undercover, trying to fight the Empire from within. Others watch and wait.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Ferus Olin, hatred of the Empire is personal. The things that have been closest to him have been destroyed. The Jedi Order he once belonged to has been decimated. And the future isn''t looking much brighterâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unless a true Rebellion can be born.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4565'),
(9332, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 09: Master of Deception', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The planet of Alderaan is a peaceful oneâ€¦and Senator Bail Organa wants to keep it that way. But the presence of the Empire is starting to cast a shadow over their tranquilityâ€”as spies and traitors infiltrate the corridors of power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Alderaan holds a secretâ€”a secret on which the future existence of the Jedi depends. Under strict instructions from the Emperor, double agent Ferus Olin must both uncover this secret and protect it. What he discovers raises dark questions from his own pastâ€”and puts him in direct conflict with another former Jediâ€¦the sinister Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4603'),
(9333, 'Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi 10: Reckoning', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Ferus Olin was a young Jedi apprentice, his rival was a headstrong student named Anakin Skywalker.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Ferus is older, trying to save the Jedi Order from extinction. His enemy, however, remains the same. Because Anakin Skywalker is now Darth Vaderâ€¦and Darth Vader wants Ferus Olin destroyed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is their final encounter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4556'),
(9334, 'Star Wars: The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Overlooked as a Padawan, he was to become one of the most revered Masters of all. Sworn to serve the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, his own apprentice would bring about their destruction. Powerless to retrieve Darth Vader from the dark side, he would train the only one who could. This is the legendary story of Obi-Wan Kenobi, from his first meeting with Anakin Skywalker to his final meeting with Darth Vaderâ€”and beyond . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6893'),
(9335, 'Star Wars: The New Rebellion', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Somewhere in the galaxy, millions suddenly perishâ€”a disruption of the Force so shocking it is felt by Luke at his Jedi academy and by Leia on Coruscant. While Leia must deal with an assassination attempt, a rumored plot against the New Republic, and allegations that Han Solo is involved, Luke seeks out a former Jedi student who may hold the key to the mass destruction. But Brakiss is only the bait in a deadly trap set by a master of the dark side who is determined to rule as emperor. He''s targeted Luke, Leia, and Leia''s Jedi children to die. Then billions will follow, in a holocaust unequaled in galactic history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7132'),
(9336, 'Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  Â®: The Old Republicâ„¢ ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Orderâ€™s Dark Lordsâ€”Darth Malgus, the mysterious, masked Sith of the wildly popular â€œDeceivedâ€ and â€œHopeâ€ game trailers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace would transform him into something far more heinousâ€”something Malgus would never want to be, but cannot stop, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her name is Aryn Leneerâ€”and the lone Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master. And now sheâ€™s going to find out what happened to him, even if it means breaking every rule in the book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paul S. Kemp\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  _\n  <em>\n   bestselling novel\n  </em>\n  Star Wars: Crosscurrent,\n  <em>\n   as well as nine Forgotten Realms\n  </em>\n  _fantasy novels and many short stories. When heâ€™s not writing, he practices corporate law in Michigan, which has inspired him to write some really believable villains. He digs cigars, single malt scotch, and ales, and tries to hum the theme song to\n  <em>\n   Shaft\n  </em>\n  at least once per day. Paul Kemp lives and works in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with his wife, twin sons, and a couple of cats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4985'),
(9337, 'Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance', 'Sean Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Tassaa Bareesh, a matriarch in the Hutt crime cartel, is holding an auction thatâ€™s drawing attention from across the galaxy. Representatives of both the Republic and the Sith Empire are present, along with a Jedi Padawan sent to investigate, a disenfranchised trooper drummed out of the Republicâ€™s elite Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian with a private agenda. But the Republicâ€™s envoy is not what he seems, the Empireâ€™s delegate is a ruthless Sith apprentice, the Jedi Padawan is determined to do the right thing and terrified that he canâ€™t, the trooper hopes to redeem her reputation, and the Mandalorian is somehow managing to keep one step ahead of everyone.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  None of these guestsâ€”invited or uninvitedâ€”have any intention of participating in the auction. Instead they plan to steal the prize, which is locked inside an impregnable vault: two burned chunks of an exploded star cruiser, one of which may hold the key to the wealth of an entire world.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  But the truth about the treasure is dangerous and deadly. And in the end, Sith and Jedi, Republic and Empire, must do something theyâ€™ve never done before, something that all the agents of good and evil could never make them do: join together to stop a powerful threat that could destroy the galaxyâ€¦\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4647'),
(9338, 'Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura', 'Kathy Tyers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No sooner has Darth Vader''s funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance faces a new challenge at the far-flung Imperial outpost of Bakura. The Ssi-Ruuk, a race of cold-blooded reptilian invaders, plan to enslave human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction. With the hope of turning Bakura''s loyalties toward the fledgling New Republic with defensive aid, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia race to the besieged planet. Yet as the eve of the final onslaught rapidly approaches, Rebel and Imperial forces still must come to terms with each other. And there is already evidence of a traitor hidden in their midstâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6957'),
(9339, 'Star Wars: The Unifying Force', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the spectacular finale of the New Jedi Order series, Luke, Han, and Leia rally for their last stand against the enemy that threatens not only the galaxy but the Force itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Galactic Alliance''s hard-won success in countering the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong onslaught has proven all too briefâ€”and the tide has turned more to the invaders'' advantage. The marauding aliens have pushed deeper into the galaxy in their ruthless quest for domination. The remnants of the resistance are struggling to form a united front. Clearly the stage is set for endgame.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, as Luke and his team try desperately to convince the living world of Zonama Sekot to join the Jedi''s final campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong, a lone space station is all that stands between Alliance headquarters and ferocious enemy forces, which are poised to wage their most decisive assault. For both sides, too much has been sacrificedâ€”and too much is at stakeâ€”to ever turn back. And now nothing can stand in the way of seizing victory...or facing annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5751'),
(9340, 'Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy: Dark Force Rising', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dying Empire''s most cunning and ruthless warlordâ€”Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic''s destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Councilâ€”only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies. Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness...and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9766'),
(9341, 'Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy: The Last Command', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor''s secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn''s command, the Republic has one last hopeâ€”sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn''s terrible cloning machines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C''baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6145'),
(9342, 'Star Wars: Traitor', 'Matthew Woodring Stover', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jediâ€¦ for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another levelâ€”dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen''s process closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen''s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6022'),
(9343, 'Star Wars: Vector Prime', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-one years after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic will face an even darker enemyâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Galactic Empire has ended the war with the New Republic, but the galaxy is far from peace. Unrest is spreading everywhere, and threatens to destroy the New Republic''s tenuous reign.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Into this fragile moment comes Nom Anor, a mysterious and charismatic firebrand who is sowing seeds of mistrust and anger through his call for a simpler time. Little do his followers know the truth which hides behind his words.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When ExGal 4, a scientific outpost on Belkadan, discovers an odd comet-like object coming through the vast distance between the galaxies, astrophysicist Danni Quee takes it upon herself to investigate. She journeys to the Helska system, unaware of the danger which threatens the survival of the entire galaxy: the Yuuzhan Vong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jedi Masters Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker, along with the Solo''s and Chewbacca are thrust into the middle of the danger once more, forced to fight with all they have to save the galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But this time, the Force itself may not be enough.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8738'),
(9344, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Iron Fist', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission. But now they are called upon to cheat death twice. This time Wedge Antilles sends them in to stop the warlord Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer, Iron Fist. If Zsinj joins the Empire, it could turn the tide of war against the Rebels. The Wraith Squadron''s mission: infiltrate the warlord''s fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans. To do so, they must pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj''s forces. And that means first becoming pirates in space lanes teeming with Imperial Navy patrols. If that isn''t enough to get them killed, they''ll have to pass one last testâ€”a suicide mission for Zsinj.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can they survive the test and turn the tables on Zsinj?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Or is this the end for Wraith Squadron?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5615'),
(9345, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Isard&#39;s Revenge', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sleek, swift, and deadly, the famed X-wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force the hard wayâ€”first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must make a deal with the devil herselfâ€”an enemy whose ultimate goal is their total annihilation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to undertake. Against impossible odds they will stage a daring raid into an enemy strongholdâ€”only to be rescued from certain destruction by an unexpected ally. Ysanne Isard, the ruthless Imperial commander, has appeared on the scene seemingly from out of nowhere. Now she proposes a most unusual alliance, offering to help Wedge rescue his captured comrades from Imperial Warlord Admiral Krennel''s sadistic prison camp. But her offer is not without a price. Wedge must lead Rogue Squadron in Isard''s deadly struggle against an enemy made in her own image. It''s an offer Wedge would love to refuse, for Isard is certain to betray them. But how can they leave their comrades at Krennel''s mercy? The answer is: they can''tâ€”even if it means being caught between Krennel''s ruthlessness and Isard''s treachery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8190'),
(9346, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best-the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will surviveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8189'),
(9347, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Their covert mission has been a success. The enemy has been vanquished. Or so they thought. The Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist somehow escaped destruction and with it the New Republic''s greatest threat, the infamous warlord Zsinj. To defeat him, Wraith Squadron must join a combat task force led by the only man crafty enough to beat Zsinj at his own game: Han Solo. But Zsinj knows the X-wing fighters'' indomitable courage is both their greatest strengthâ€”and their greatest weakness. For even against the most overwhelming odds, the Rebels will fight to the death. And that will leave Zsinj the galaxy''s unchallenged master!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5614'),
(9348, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ulitmate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar, and each camp will be given a change to plead its government''s case. But there is one small catch: since the Adumari prize military skill above all else, they insist that both delegations be composed exclusively of fighter pilots. For pilot Wedge Antilles and his company, it''s an unfamiliar exercise in diplomacy - and one that''s filled with unexpected peril. For once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar''s fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition. But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent...one who is determined to win Adumar''s allegiance once and for all - even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5612'),
(9349, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: The Bacta War', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While the Alliance fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, Ysanne Isard has seized control of Thyferra, intending to use its precious supply of bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. It falls to Rogue Squadron - undermanned, deprived of Alliance support and even weapons - to oppose Isard''s dangerous designs, defeat her powerful complement of Star Destroyers, and free Thyferra from her iron rule. But when Isard discovers the Squadron''s secret base, its ragtag group of pilots must scramble for survival in a winner-take-all battle against Isard''s overwhelming and seemingly superior force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8191'),
(9350, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: The Krytos Trap', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Rebels have taken Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is wiping out the indigenous population, and a counter-revolution is exploding. At the center of the storm is the highly charged treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. While agents provocateurs carry out their acts of terrorism, the fledging state can be defended only by the blood and courage of Rogue Squadron. As the X-wing fighters scramble to save the Rebellion, Corran Horn, given up for dead in Ysanne Isard''s inescapable prison, discovers he alone holds the key to freeing Coruscant from the Empire!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8187'),
(9351, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Wedge&#39;s Gamble', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empire to its knees. But first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrate Coruscant to gain vital intelligence information. Capture means death, or worse--enslavement by the vicious leader known as "Iceheart," Ysanne Isard, now Emperor in all but name. And one of Rogue Squadron''s own is already her slave, a traitor hidden behind a mask of innocence, working to betray both colleagues and the Rebellion itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8194'),
(9352, 'Star Wars: X-Wing: Wraith Squadron', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is Wedge Antilles'' boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron''s base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into actionâ€”taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit''s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral''s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron''s ragtag renegades against the Empire''s most brilliant master of guile and deception. Are they up to the challenge? If not, the penalty is instant death...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5623'),
(9353, 'Star Wars: Ylesia', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n RIPE FOR THE PLUCKING\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n That''s Jedi Knight Kyp Durron''s opinion about the planet Ylesia, home base of the so-called Peace Brigade, a group of traitors dedicated to hindering the war efforts of the New Republic and hastening the ultimate victory of the merciless Yuuzhan Vong. Kyp''s plan calls for a lightning-fast strike, backed with overwhelming force, to destroy the Brigade''s offensive capabilities and teach prospective traitors that betrayal carries a heavy price. But young Jacen Solo, still bearing the scars of his imprisonment by the Yuuzhan Vong, has a better idea: a daring raid into the heart of Ylesia''s capital, with the objective of capturing the Brigade''s top leadersâ€”-including the newly sworn-in President, Thrackan Sal-Solo, cousin to Jacen and his twin, Jaina.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But unknown to the Jedi and the New Republic forces, Supreme Overlord Shimrra of the Yuuzhan Vong has dispatched reinforcements to the Ylesia system. Instead of a swift surgical strike, Jaina, Jacen, Kyp, and their comrades are about to find themselves locked in a desperate battle for survival, with the odds stacked against them and time running outâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7870'),
(9354, 'Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous', 'Sean Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the Clone Wars rage, Jedi Master Yoda must once again face one of his greatest adversariesâ€”Count Dookuâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of battle, one Jedi Knight escapes the carnage to deliver a message to Yoda on Coruscant. It appears Dooku wants peace and demands a rendezvous. Chances are slim that the treacherous Count is sincere, but with a million lives at stake, Yoda has no choice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The meeting will take place on Vjun, a planet steeped in evil. The challenge could not be more difficult. Can Yoda win back his once promising pupil from the dark side, or will Count Dooku unleash his sinister forces against his former mentor? Either way, Yoda is sure of one thing: This battle will be one of the fiercest he''ll ever face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6954'),
(9355, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 01: Heirs of the Force', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While exploring the jungle outside the academy, the twins make a startling discoveryâ€”the remains of a TIE Fighter that had crashed years ago during the battle against the first Death Star. Mechanical whiz Jaina thinks she can repair itâ€¦if they can sneak the right parts from the academy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, their work is being closely watchedâ€”but not by academy eyes. The original pilot, an Imperial trooper, has been living wild in the jungle since his ship went down. Waiting to return to duty. And now his chance has comeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7213'),
(9356, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 02: Shadow Academy', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dark Jedi Brakissâ€”the student Luke Skywalker expelled from his academyâ€”has learned much since he left. Enough to master the dark side of the the Force. And enough to establish his own school for training Jediâ€”the Shadow Academy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now Brakiss has been given an even greater task. Not only must he create a sinister legion of Dark Jedi to serve the Empire, he must undertake a challenge not even Darth Vader and the Emperor could meet: Kidnap the heirs of the Skywalker bloodline, and turn them to the dark side of the Forceâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7204'),
(9357, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 03: The Lost Ones', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During a break in training, Jacen and Jaina are reunited with their old friend Zekk, an orphan living in the streets on their home planet of Coruscant. Young, wild, and free, Zekk has never had a care in the worldâ€¦until now. He sees the changes in his friends. Jacen and Jaina have learned so much, have grown in so many ways. Compared to them, he is only a lost little boy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n However, a powerful being has seen his potential. Someone who knows about shame and jealousyâ€”and how to make use of them. Someone who knows that the dark side of the Force is especially attractive when you''ve got nothing to loseâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7155'),
(9358, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 04: Lightsabers', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Luke Skywalker has come to a grim conclusion. With the threat of a new generation of Dark Jedi being trained at the Shadow Academy, he knows the New Republic will need all the fighters it can muster. At last, it is time for the young Jedi Knights to build their lightsabers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But there is more to mastering the ancient weapon than mere swordsmanship. Each student must learn about the mysterious bond between Jedi and lightsaber. For Jacen and Jaina, success will mean growing stronger in the Force. But for one of their friends, failure will mean tragedy...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7152'),
(9359, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 05: Darkest Knight', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jacen, Jaina Solo and their Wookiee companion Lowbacca travel to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk where Lowie''s younger sister Sirrakuk is about to undergo a Wookiee ritual. Since the ritual is dangerous, Lowie wants to assist his sibbling.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n However, the Dark Jedi Zekk has been assigned to lead a raid on the Wookiee city of Thikkiiana, a major exporter of computer technology. By executing this mission, he will fulfill his great potential and win the title of the Darkest Knight of the Second Imperium. However, he must face his former friends Jacen and Jaina in the processâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7200'),
(9360, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 06: Jedi Under Siege', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi Praxeum is under attack from the Second Imperium. The Shadow Academy has arrived on the jungle moon of Yavin 4 along with legions of stormtroopers and Dark Jedi adepts, clouds of TIE Fighters and a fleet of modified warships. In response, the Jedi quickly prepare for war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thus begins the battle! This conflict will pit the Solo twins along with their friends and Luke Skywalker against the Dark Jedi Zekk and his superiors Brakiss and the Nightsister Tamith Kai. Who ever wins the battle will decide the fate of the entire galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7191'),
(9361, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 07: Shards of Alderaan', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following the defeat of the Second Imperium, Jacen and Jaina travel to the Alderaan system to retrieve a shard from Alderaan''s core. However, they are not alone since they are being watched by Ailyn Vel, disguised as her father Boba Fett. In the past, Boba Fett had been an enemy of their father Han Solo and his daughter is continuing his legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7206'),
(9362, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 08: Diversity Alliance', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everyone is searching for Bornan Thul. Not only is he father to one of Jacen''s and Jaina''s fellow students, he holds the key to a secret coalition gaining power in the New Republic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find himâ€”but they may be too late. For their true enemy is about to show its treacherous face. And it will be shockingly familiarâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7212'),
(9363, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 09: Delusions of Grandeur', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the search for Raynar Thul''s father continues, the young Jedi Knights turn for help to a most unusualâ€”and dangerousâ€”source: the reprogrammed assassin droid IG-88. They think they can keep him under control. But can one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy be trusted?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7203'),
(9364, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 10: Jedi Bounty', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lowbacca has left the Jedi academy and traveled to the planet Ryloth, headquarters of the Diversity Alliance, to see what the Diversity Alliance is really all about.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Yavin 4, Jacen, Jaina and the other young Jedi Knights have already discovered one truth about the Allianceâ€”once you go to Ryloth, you either join or you die. Lowie is in great danger, and they must rescue him. But what can a small group of humans do against a planet full of hostile aliens?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7198'),
(9365, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 11: The Emperor&#39;s Plague', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jacen and Jaina\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the Galactic Empire died, they were bornâ€”a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have taken their first steps as Jedi Knights, defeating the evil minions of the Shadow Academy. Now, with their friends Tenel Ka and Lowbacca the Wookiee, the future heroes of an already legendary saga continue their training.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bornan Thul''s secret is out: he''s been protecting a deadly plague that could devastate the galaxy if released. And the evil Nolaa Tarkonaâ€”leader of the Diversity Allianceâ€”knows where it is hidden.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Jacen, Jaina and their allies must race against time. As a massive battle rages between New Republic soldiers and the forces of the Diversity Alliance, the young Jedi Knights must find and destroy the plague before it can be released.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But they first must face Nolaa Tarkona. And her very lethal hired hand, Boba Fett.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7194'),
(9366, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 12: Return to Ord Mantell', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jacen and Jaina\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the Galactic Empire died, they were bornâ€”a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor''s Plague. Now, with their friends Lowbacca the Wookiee and Tenel Ka, the future heroes of an already legendary saga continue their training.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Han Solo''s past is about to catch up with him. When he and the twins take the Millennium Falcon to Ord Mantell for a high-speed race, they meet a battle-hungry woman wielding a lightsaber. Her name is Anja Gallandro, and she knows more about Han''s history than he likes. But Anja Gallandro guards an even more devastating secretâ€”a secret that could mean disaster for the entire Solo family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7153'),
(9367, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 13: Trouble on Cloud City', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jacen and Jaina\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the Empire died, they were bornâ€”a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor''s Plague. Now, with their friends Lowbacca the Wookiee and Tenel Ka, the future heroes of an already legendary saga continue their training.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lando Calrissian offers the young Jedi Knights a rare opportunityâ€”a vacation on Cloud City. They jump at the chanceâ€”as long as their new friend, the mysterious Anja Gallandro, can come along.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anja is happy to be included. But little do the twins know that they are actually helping Anja hatch her sinister plan. A plan that goes far deeper than simple revengeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7202'),
(9368, 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 14: Crisis at Crystal Reef', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Anja Gallandro planned to destroy the Solo family. But now she fights an intense inner battleâ€”against her growing spice addiction, and her growing friendship with Jacen and Jaina. She no longer knows where her loyalties lie. In desperation for spice, she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The young Jedi Knights give chase, following her from the spice mines of Kessel to the dangerous paradise of Crystal Reef. But Anja has been a pawn all along in a game that is much bigger than all of them. And they just landed in the middle of itâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7197');
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(9369, 'Starblood', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Timothy was not human - not if by human you mean a man with two arms, two legs, two eyes. Of the first criteria, he had none at all; of the last, only one. And even that one was misplaced. Timothy was born of human stock, of course - but not of woman. He was the product of the artificial wombs, a strictly military venture, and when he was born the technicians shrugged, and consigned him to custodial care. They expected him to die within five years, like most of the freaks. It was in his third year that they discovered Timothy to be something more than human. Cheated of a normal life through his physical deformities, nature developed his brain - and talents that were peculiarly his. Talents that would help him survive in a world made for the normal people - survive, and perhaps even more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1502'),
(9370, 'Starbound', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The workmanlike sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Marsbound\n </em>\n continues the adventures of red planet colonist Carmen The Mars Girl Dula and her pilot husband, Paul Collins, as they set out on a deep space mission to save humankind from possible annihilation. After barely surviving the first encounter with an alien Other, Earth''s leaders decide to send a ship with seven envoys after the Other''s craft in a possibly suicidal attempt to reach the Other''s home world and forge some kind of understanding. During the 6Â½-year voyage, the crew comes to some startling realizations concerning humankind and its place in the stars. Reminiscent of Asimov''s early work and Heinlein''s juvenile novels, the naÃ¯ve tone, two-dimensional characters, and simplistic story line make for a fast-paced but unremarkable read.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haldemanâ€™s Marsbound (2008) introduced Carmen Dula, an impish teenager who migrated with her family to Mars and stumbled across honest-to-god Martians living under the planetâ€™s surface. By that novelâ€™s end, it was clear that the Martians are pawns of the Others, a remote, alien race that regards humans as a pestilence deserving extermination. As the story continues, Carmen joins a team of five other humans and two Martians on a six-year, interstellar journey to the Othersâ€™ homeworld in a desperate effort to forge a truce. Their spacecraft is a well-stocked minimansion embedded inside a comet harnessed to an engine running on a mysterious, Others-derived energy source. En route, Carmen and company do their best to stave off boredom while speculating whether the Others will offer greetings or simply annihilate them. Yet when they arrive far sooner than expected, the astonishing surprise the Others actually have in store for them is something no one had anticipated. Haldemanâ€™s crisp storytelling and juicy plot twists keep us captivated throughout. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6710'),
(9371, 'Starcraft II: Heaven&#39;s Devils', 'William H. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy''s fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals -- and a few dubious military leaders. Eighteen-year-old Jim Raynor, full of testosterone and eager to make things right at home, ships off to boot camp and finds his footing on the battlefield, but he soon discovers that the official mission is not what he''s really fighting for.For the first time ever, StarCraft enthusiasts will learn the origins of the enduring friendship between the young upstart Jim Raynor and the streetwise soldier Tychus Findlay. Watch as they battle on the front lines of a fierce interplanetary war and bear witness to the Confederacy''s rank corruption -- corruption so reprehensible that it rains immeasurable death and destruction upon the government''s own people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3879'),
(9372, 'Stardust', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Catch a fallen star . . . Tristran thorn promised to bring back a fallen star. So he sets out on a journey to fulfill the request of his beloved, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester--and stumbles into the enchanted realm that lies beyond the wall of his English country town. Rich with adventure and magic, Stardust is one of master storyteller Neil Gaiman''s most beloved tales, and the inspiration for the hit movie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2922'),
(9373, 'The Stardust Lounge: Stories From a Boy&#39;s Adolescence', 'Deborah Digges', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Thanks for a wonderful childhood!" Stephen Digges tells his mother as he hugs her goodbye in front of his New York City college dorm, and it''s a measure of just how persuasive and potent her account of his difficult adolescence is that we know exactly what he means. At 13, Stephen was running away, stealing his mother''s car, carrying guns, doing drugs, and getting into trouble with the law and in school. Already divorced from Stephen''s father, Digges saw her son''s problems break up her second marriage and heard society, her family, and her neighbors tell her she was too easy on her son, that fatherless boys needed "tough love" and discipline. But Digges had the courage to listen to a highly unconventional therapist who urged her, "Join him in his anger at life.... Don''t educate him about what he should have done. Let him figure it out." Together with Digges''s foster son (an African American teen thrown out of his home after a stint in juvenile detention), they create a bohemian household. Three dogs (one of them epileptic) "sleep on the beds no questions asked"; Stephen does his homework with a pet mouse named Frederick in his pocket; there are swarms of kittens "leaping in and out of the windows"; and the pizza delivery for dinner may be interrupted by "phone calls from teachers, more often the cops." Go figure: creative, anti-authoritarian Stephen acquires a sense of responsibility and ambition in this offbeat atmosphere. His mother''s surprisingly funny, unsentimentally tender memoir reminds us that there are no rules about raising children, just countless perils and boundless possibilities.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 14, Stephen was stealing cars, waving guns around his house, and running with a violent gang. But his mother, poet and memoirist Deborah Digges, did not give up on Stephen. Instead, she took extraordinary steps to save him. She "shadowed" him, disguising herself and following Stephen''s nighttime escapades. She invited gang members into her home, where they smoked and played loud rap music. Enduring the disapproval of neighbors and friends, the breakup of her second marriage, and many late nights, Digges refused to abandon her son. Eventually, with the help of an unconventional therapist and the family''s large assortment of pets, Deborah and Stephen grew back together, sharing a level of intimacy that is sure to be the envy of her disapproving neighbors. This is not a book of advice, and Digges doesn''t offer easy answers or suggest her parenting strategy to others. Instead, it is a wrenching memoir about the things that mothers and children will do to, and for, one another, written with a poet''s eye for resonant images.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8111'),
(9374, 'Starfall', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11104'),
(9375, 'Starfarers', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientists is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is thousands of light-years away, the crew will age only a few years while millennia pass on Earth. And though they are ready to face the ramifications of such a voyage, none of the starfarers are prepared for what awaits them at the outer edge of the cosmos--or back at the planet they once called home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9604'),
(9376, 'Starfishers: the starfishers trilogy', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1876'),
(9377, 'Starfist: Wings of Hell', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Sherman is a former U.S. Marine and the author of eight novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is also the author of the military fantasy series Demontech. www.novelier.com Dan Cragg enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. He is the author of Inside the VC and the NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sergeant (with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel, The Soldier''s Prize. He recently retired from his work as an analyst for the Department of Defense. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/920'),
(9378, 'The Stars Are Ours', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On Earth in A.D. 2500, science is blamed for all the evils in the world, and a mass extermination of scientists begins. When his brother is executed, Dard Nordis knows his only chance for freedom is to escape to the stars on the Free Scientists'' secret spaceship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9113'),
(9379, 'The Stars Are the Styx', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10478'),
(9380, 'Stars End', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Starfishers hope to gain control of Stars'' End, an artificial planet which can insure their survival against the Confederation and the forces of the Sangaree\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(9381, 'The stars my destination', 'Alfred Bester; Alex Eisenstein; Phyllis Eisenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(9382, 'Stars Rain Down', 'Chris J. Randolph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sometimes, it takes a crisis to figure out who you really are. In the near future, an irreverent astronomer named Marcus Donovan discovers a strange relic hidden beyond Mars, and he commandeers an exploratory vessel under false pretenses to investigate. While Marcus and his crew venture off into the unknown, a mysterious alien legion appears in Earth orbit and invades. Human civilization is dashed apart in the blink of an eye, and Jack Hernandez, a search and rescue specialist, is one of the lucky few survivors. Along with a handful of friends, Jack joins the scattered resistance and wages a desperate terrorist war against the aliens, striking back any way they can. In the bloody struggle to reclaim their planet, Jack and Marcus are each thrust into roles they never could have imagined, in a conflict as old as time. The fight takes them from China to Africa, and from Earth to Mars, while the secrets they uncover shake their understanding of humanity itself. Stars Rain Down is about the horrors of warfare, and what happens when idealism collides with a savage fight for survival. Dominated by an enemy who shows neither compassion nor regret, the last remnants of mankind discover that every choice leads to unforeseen consequences, and mercy can triumph even in the face of mortal rage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(9383, 'The Stars Shine Down', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine Donald Trump as a drop-dead gorgeous woman and you''ll have an approximate image of Lara Cameron, the heroine of Sheldon''s latest--barely tepid--potboiler. A super-successful real estate developer, Lara has made millions of dollars--and a few enemies--in her ascent from a childhood of deprivation to the upper echelons of the business world. When she falls in love with a renowned concert pianist, she sets about "winning" him as she would a prime piece of waterfront property. But her ties to a lawyer with Mafia connections and her shady way of doing business threaten her happiness and eventually her income and reputation. In settings that vary from Canada to Chicago and New York, bestselling novelist Sheldon ( The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels ) brings real zest to the high-stakes poker game that provides the novel''s backdrop. But his pancake-flat characters are as insubstantial as the paper fortunes that drive the real estate business. Moreover, the characters have an annoying tendency to speak in overwrought cliches; sounding for all the world like Scarlett O''Hara, young Lara laments, "Someday . . . I will have my own land, and no one--no one--will ever take it away from me." Frankly, by the final chapter, readers won''t give a damn. First serial to Cosmopolitan; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n It may conclude in 1992, but Sheldon''s latest is sheer 80''s excess--the compulsively readable, sin-laden saga of a tycooness who''s part Donald Trump, part Leona Helmsley. Though Sheldon''s recent heroines (Memories of Midnight, etc.) have been sexy saints, his earlier leading ladies had a crueler edge--just like young Canadian Lara Cameron here, who in a series of canny real-estate deals uses her body as well as her wits to climb out of backwater poverty. With $3 million in her pocket, Lara moves to Chicago, multiplies her fortune, and, in 1984, takes on N.Y.C. There, even as she puts up a Monopoly board''s worth of hotels and office buildings, including the world''s tallest; battles sexism in the industry; and proves wildly generous to her employees, Lara reveals a darker side--slapping one worker; drugging prospective investors with Valium; harassing tenants by turning their building into a de facto homeless shelter; bedding mob lawyer Paul Martin. Is Sheldon depicting the evolution of a monster? Not at all--for outweighing these flaws, he hammers home, are Lara''s\n <code>\n </code>\n independence and courage, her talent and vision and generosity.'''' And her loneliness, dispelled by marriage to star pianist Philip Adler, the perfect icing on Lara''s cake. So where''s the drama? It comes in spades in the late 80''s, as the market crashes: Lara''s fortune dwindles; her ex-secretary writes a tell- all book; and the law starts poking into the casino that Lara set up with Paul Martin''s crooked help, and into the attack by a thug- -hired by a jealous Lara?--who cut Philip''s wrist and career. Can it be that, like another hotel queen, Lara will end up wearing stripes? Don''t bet on it. Savvy Sheldon knows that nothing becomes the rich and famous like a little scandal, and that a faux-morality tale like Lara''s needs an upbeat ending to play big--as this one will, right to the top. (Literary Guild Dual Selection for November) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8617'),
(9384, 'The Stars, Like Dust', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Biron Farrell was young and naÃ¯ve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin.He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his fatherâ€™s death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue, and espionage.The mystery takes him deep into space where he finds himself in a relentless struggle with the power-mad despots of Tyrann. Now it is not just a case of life or death for Biron, but a question of freedom for the galaxyâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9508'),
(9385, 'Starship Titanic', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9824'),
(9386, 'Starship Troopers', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In one of Robert A. Heinlein''s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe-and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind''s most alarming enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3954'),
(9387, 'Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel&#39;s Economic Miracle', 'Dan Senor; Saul Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A fascinating expert look at Israelâ€™s meteoric rise in the global economy â€” with timely hints for a world reeling from financial crisisStart-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel â€” a country of 7.1 million, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war, with no natural resources â€” produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful nations like Canada, Japan, China, India, and the U.K.? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine Israeli culture and government to reveal the secrets behind the worldâ€™s first ever â€œstart-up nation.â€ As countries across the globe restart their own economies, and as businesses try to re-energize their entrepreneurial spirit, we can all look to Israel for some impressive, surprising clues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(9388, 'Started Early, Took My Dog', 'Kate Atkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories , is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5789'),
(9389, 'Startide Rising', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Brin''s Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin''s tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10425'),
(9390, 'Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey', 'Joel Osteen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen uses his seven successful principles from YOUR BEST LIFE NOW to give readers an edge on new beginnings and to make their faith count most in important moments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2092'),
(9391, 'Stash', 'David Matthew Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Debut Novelist David Klein â€“ A Page-Turning Story of Suburbia and Its Secrets Gwen Raine is a woman readers will instantly recognize: an attractive, thirtyish stay-at-home mom who lives in the kind of tranquil suburban community where the wives spend their days ferrying the kids to and from school and music lessons and nature camps and where the husbands work long, grueling hours at stressful white-collar jobs in order to maintain the upscale standard of living to which the whole family has become all-too-accustomed. Itâ€™s a milieu in which everything seems to be rightâ€”yet so much can go wrong. And it doesâ€”starting with a seemingly minor decision that turns Gwenâ€™s perfect life upside down. Itâ€™s a typical Friday morning in late summer and Gwen is anticipating a long-awaited weekend away at the lake with her overworked husband, Brian, and their two small children. After dropping her daughter off at swim class, Gwen drives across town to purchase a small bag of marijuana from an old flame. Sheâ€™s counting on the pot to help her unwind later that night in those precious private moments with Brian after the kids are asleep. Then, on the way home, Gwen gets into a car accidentâ€”an accident that leaves her bruised and somewhat battered but leaves the other driver (an elderly man who crossed over into her lane) dead. The local police know the accident isnâ€™t her fault, but when they find the marijuana in Gwenâ€™s car, they throw the book at her. There have been problems with drugs in the schools and they want to crack down on abusers, whoever and wherever they are. Before long, Gwen is in legal hot waterâ€”and the temperature keeps rising. Finally, under pressure from the police, her attorney, and her own husband, she reveals her sourceâ€™s name. Meanwhile, Brian is embroiled in a moral and legal dilemma of his own when the big pharmaceutical company he works for markets an anti-anxiety drug for "off-label" use as a weight-loss aid, only to discover that it can have deadly consequences. And Gwenâ€™s former lover Jude, a local restaurateur and the supplier of the stash of the title, has gotten in way over his head with his little side business. Told from multiple perspectives and revolving around a diverse set of vividly imagined characters, this rich, ambitious, and deeply satisfying novel takes a mordant look at our societyâ€™s ambivalent and often hypocritical attitude toward all manner of mood-altering substances, legal and illegal. Paced by psychological suspense and an ever-thickening plot, Stash ultimately is about the moral complications that arise when a modern womanâ€™s fierce determination to do the right thing collides head-on with human fallibility and desire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(9392, 'State of Change', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜In less than 25 years the Romans have invented electricity generation, airships, radio and who knows what else. Is that reasonable?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Ancient Egypt, 41 BC. The Doctor and Peri watch as Cleopatraâ€™s pleasure barge glides up the Nile in preparation for her fateful meeting with Mark Antony. And an alien presence observes the TARDIS, waits for it to dematerialize, then pounces.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the time ship lands, the Doctor and Peri find themselves in ancient Rome, in the tomb of Cleopatra. But something is very wrong. The tomb walls depict steam-driven galleys and other disturbing anachronisms. The Roman Empire is preparing for a devastating war - using weapons from the future capable of destroying the entire world.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7414'),
(9393, 'A state of disobedience', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the long war against terrorism, the US Government had taken on extraordinary powers. And now that the war was won, powerful forces in the government had no intention of relinquishing those powers. As in 1860, the country was on the verge of civil war. And as in 1860, a leader arose to save the country-but it was not the President this time. Instead, the Governor of Texas was the woman of destiny. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3568'),
(9394, 'State of Fear', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2244'),
(9395, 'State of Siege', 'Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers called "Keepers" devises a shocking scheme to get the world''s attention after their tour of duty ends. Op-Center head Paul Hood has to put retirement on hold because the Keepers have taken over the U.N., where his daughter is performing for ambassadors at a gala function. This time the Keepers have made it personal, and the Op-Center forces will strike with deadly vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4057'),
(9396, 'State of War', 'Steve Perry &amp; Larry Segriff &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress has created the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Minor viruses are eating away at the Net Force computers. The e-mial shut-downs and flickering monitors are hardly emergencies -- but they''ve been keeping the tech department hopping. Same with the sudden rash of time-consuming lawsuits. No one in the Net Froce has a moment to spare, which is exactly the way Mitchell Townsend Ames wants it. Because when the shadowy mastermind launches his master plan, he wants Net Force to be looking the other way...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7875'),
(9397, 'State of Wonder', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : In\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n , pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isnâ€™t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungleâ€™s unforgiving humidity and insects, making\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of todayâ€™s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come,\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself.\n <em>\n  --Jessica Schein\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Elizabeth Gilbert Interviews Ann Patchett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller,\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , as well as the short story collection\n <em>\n  Pilgrims\n </em>\n â€”a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Elizabeth Gilbert:\n </strong>\n As your close personal friend, I happen to know that you traveled to the Amazon to conduct research for this novel, and that you sort of hated the Amazon--can you share a little about that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ann Patchett:\n </strong>\n I absolutely loved the Amazon for four days. It was gorgeous and unfamiliar and deeply fascinating. Unfortunately, I stayed there for ten days. There are a lot of insects in the Amazon, a lot of mud, surprisingly few vegetables, too many snakes. You canâ€™t go anywhere by yourself, which makes sense if you donâ€™t know the terrain, but I enjoy going places by myself. I can see how great it would be for a very short visit, and how great it would be if you lived there and had figured out what was and wasnâ€™t going to kill you, but the interim length of time isnâ€™t great.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Didn''t I hear that you have a sort of magical story about a friend who is also a writer, who was also once going to write a book about the Amazon? Can you share this miraculous tale? Also, is your writer friend pretty?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n This friend of mine, who happens to be you, is gorgeous, and much taller in real life. Yes, you were writing a novel about the Amazon, and then you decided not to write a novel about the Amazon, and then I started writing a novel about the Amazon, and later when we compared notes (your book dismissed, mine halfway finished) they had remarkably similar story lines, to the point of being eerie. I thought this must be because it was an incredibly banal idea and we had both come up with a generic Amazon novel, but then you told me that ideas fly around looking for homes, and when the idea hadnâ€™t worked out with you it came to me. If this is true I think your name should be on the cover. It would increase sales significantly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Readers of your prior work--particularly the luminous\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n --will be delighted to see that opera makes an appearance in this novel, as well. In fact, one of the most dramatic scenes in the book takes place at the opera. Is that a wink and a nod to loyal readers, or just an expression of your own deep and abiding musical passions?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s a wink and a nod to Werner Herzog and his brilliant Amazon film â€œFitzcarraldoâ€ which opens at the opera house in Manaus where the aforementioned scene takes place. I had very little experience with opera when I wrote\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n , and since then itâ€™s become a huge part of my life. It was fun to write a scene set at the opera now that I know what Iâ€™m talking about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n _ State of Wonder_ a rollicking adventure story, full of peril and bravery and death-defying action. I personally know you to be a homebody who likes to bake muffins for neighbors. How the heck did you pull off this wildness so convincingly? Was it as invigorating to write as it is to read?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Ah, the life of the mind. All the adventure I need I can dream up in my kitchen. I love writing outside of my own experience, making imaginary worlds. If I wrote novels based on my own life I would not be making a living at this. I also love to write a strong plot. I want things to happen in my books, I want to be thrilled. I always think about Raymond Chandler. Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™m getting the phrasing wrong but the general idea is that when things get slow, bring in a man with a gun. If you canâ€™t find a gun, a poison arrow works just as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n The cover is a work of beauty. Authors are not always so lucky. Tell us how you managed such a miracle?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n When I first started writing this book, I came downstairs one night and found my husband listening to â€œHorowitz at Carnegie Hallâ€. The album cover has a very lush filigreed border. I had two thoughts: first, I have an amazing husband who thankfully held onto his Horowitz LPs; second, that the album cover had the exact the feeling I wanted for my book--half jungle, half Baroque period. When I was finished writing the novel I sent the album to my editor, who sent it to the art department. They understood exactly what I was talking about.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marina Singh gave up a career as a doctor after botching an emergency delivery as an intern, opting instead for the more orderly world of research for a pharmaceutical company. When office colleague Anders Eckman, sent to the Amazon to check on the work of a field team, is reported dead, Marina is asked by her company''s CEO to complete Anders'' task and to locate his body. What Marina finds in the sweltering, insect-infested jungles of the Amazon shakes her to her core. For the team is headed by esteemed scientist Annick Swenson, the woman who oversaw Marina''s residency and who is now intent on keeping the team''s progress on a miracle drug completely under wraps. Marina''s jungle odyssey includes exotic encounters with cannibals and snakes, a knotty ethical dilemma about the basic tenets of scientific research, and joyous interactions with the exuberant people of the Lakashi tribe, who live on the compound. In fluid and remarkably atmospheric prose, Patchett captures not only the sights and sounds of the chaotic jungle environment but also the struggle and sacrifice of dedicated scientists. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The award-winning, New York Times best-selling author''s latest novel is being supported with an author tour, a national advertising campaign, blogger outreach, and a reading-group guide. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8749'),
(9398, 'Stations of the Tide', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From author Michael Swanwickâ€”one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fictionâ€”comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers.A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil imageâ€”and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying andÂ astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence.This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7106'),
(9399, 'Stay Tuned For Danger', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10943'),
(9400, 'Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won&#39;t Tell You About the Internet', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This offbeat, non-technical book looks at what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. The third edition of this bestseller adopts the same informative, irreverent, and entertaining style that made the first two editions a huge success. Thoroughly updated, this edition also covers rootkits, spyware, web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), biometrics, and firewalls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3987'),
(9401, 'Stealing Faces', 'Michael Prescott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now he has a problem. Somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn''t know -- is stalking him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn''t she gone to the police?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cray plans to turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she''s in his power, she will tell him who she is and what she''s after. And then she will die.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even Cray isn''t prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stealing Faces is truly thrilling as well as chilling: I could not put this book down. Reading the first few chapters of this tale is like reading the climax for most thrillers and the excitement just keeps building. Michael Prescott knows how to keep readers'' eyes glued to his pages.... I was completely hooked. Actually, more than completely hooked, I thought the lightning-paced thrills were going to give me a heart attack!" - Judith Flavell, The Mystery Reader\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8778'),
(9402, 'Stealing Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible. Now piloting a civilian cargo ship, she is currently ferrying an exploration team to a star system containing a derelict starship. From its wreckage, her passengers hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of mysteriously non-Shoal origin. But the Shoal are not yet ready to relinquish their monopoly over a technology they acquired through ancient genocide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(9403, 'Steel and Stone', 'Ellen Porath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8985'),
(9404, 'Steel Gauntlet', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marines ain''t supposed to sit. We''re supposed to kill."After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with weaponry three hundred years out of date.For the Confederation''s invasion army to seize the planet, the Marine FISTs first have to secure a planethead against St. Cyr''s much larger forces which are equipped with superior weapons. Together with their outgunned comrades, the Marines of 34th FIST must do the impossible--or die . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(9405, 'The Steel Tsar', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9843'),
(9406, 'Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and Rushdie himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he received on February 14, 1989, from the Ayatollah Khomeini: the fatwa calling for his death. Everyone, it seems, had a script for Rushdie to follow, though none of these fantasies resembled the rather simple one the author fancied (and which seems to have been realized), which is that his problems gradually disappear and he be allowed to resume a more or less normal writerly life. To paraphrase an idea that appears in several of these essays, the problem is that frontiers cross us rather than the other way around: we are going about our business when our country is divided (as happened to Rushdie''s native India in 1947) or we encounter a shocking work of art or our enemies declare they will kill us. Many respond to unnerving changes by embracing religion, but, says Rushdie, "ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses"; in place of sectarian fervor, he recommends intellectual freedom, a simple concept yet a rigorous practice, as this book proves. These essays range over literature, politics and religion, as well as Rushdie''s two private passions, rock music and soccer. They are united by a play of sparkling intelligence seasoned with sly wit, qualities that would serve the world at any time in its long, flawed history. After all, says Rushdie, the story he loved first and still loves best, perhaps the story of all humanity, is The Wizard of Oz, a fable that tells us the grown-up world doesn''t really work, that adults can be good people and still be bad wizards.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thanks to some Iranian ayatollahs, Rushdie is probably the most famous writer still alive. Although he remains under partial protection, he has continued to write since 1989, producing several novels and many articles. This first collection of short nonfiction includes material about his life under the fatwa ("Messages from the Plague Years") but ranges from discussions of The Wizard of Oz and rock music to his February 2002 lectures on human values at Yale. The title is well chosen; Rushdie tends to be confrontational, and the white-hot publicity has not mellowed him-a 1999 piece debates whether Charlton Heston or Austrian writer Peter Handke, a supporter of Slobodan Milosevic, should be dubbed "Moron of the Year." Although some of the pieces themselves are a bit dated, Rushdie has added updates in footnotes, and in any case he always makes his point. For large collections or journalism special collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Shelley Cox, Special Collections, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6336'),
(9407, 'Stephen Booth', 'Lost River (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9618');
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(9408, 'Steppenwolf', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A profoundly memorable and affecting novel, the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man''s soul, and a ''savage indictment of bourgeois society.''" --_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hermann Hesse''s work Steppenwolf was first published in German in 1927, but what it contains is still relevant today. Perhaps it is more important in our current cultural climate than ever before. It is the story of the lone individual, lost in the ironic good fortune and security of bourgeois banality and cultural conformity. The central character, Harry Haller, has all the insight, all the leisure, all the material goods he needs, yet he is not at peace with his life. His physical ailments are but symptoms of his true crisis, that of a lost soul, that of a life without meaning, that of a human without a love of humanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haller, like many of us, is torn in two by his love of comfort and safety, on the one hand, and his deeper drive for a more authentically creative existence on the other. His tragic situation is born out of his inability to translate his blessings into love. Before his magical journey of discovery begins, he is nearly consumed by an almost suicidal paralysis in the face of that added dimension of existence which would bring it spiritual meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Make no mistake, Steppenwolf is not a light read. Yet the escape it provides from the pabulum of today''s entertainment is a welcome reminder of that something more to be found in human experience. We do not all suffer from the same issues that Harry does, over-intellectualization and self-exile from society. But many of us feel a similar need to explore life''s depths in the midst of a culture that rarely sheds light upon the inner path. What Hesse offers us all is a potent combination of eastern and western insights into the human search for meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the themes he successfully weaves together into a universal fabric are Nietzschean philosophy, depth psychology, and Buddhism. Over the course of his narrative, Hesse s main character and alter-ego experiences his over-analyzed but poorly understood self through the lens of life''s great paradoxes. Thus, the storyline swirls through sensuality to find spirit, it dismantles the personality to promote a greater synthesis, and it bridges the divide between the temporal and eternal. For this reason, Steppenwolf is still the kind of literature which can enrich the individual experience by pointing us back toward that added dimension. Read it, and you are invited on journey of renewal, on a quest for meaning in an age in which such is increasingly hard to find.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is our good fortune to have this new translation of the work from Dr. Thomas Wayne. As he shows in his work here, there must be a proper balance of faithfulness to both the style and substance of the original. Basil Creighton s 1929 translation of Steppenwolf into English, and the 1963 revision based upon it, simply omit certain elements. In these earlier, bowdlerized versions, precision has been unduly sacrificed to readability. Dr. Wayne succeeds in giving the reader as much of Hesse s actual language, in both its rhythm and its content, as a translation can allow. Now is the time to either discover or revisit this early twentieth-century classic. --Dr. Russell H. Swanson\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hesse''s classic story, a potent combination of Eastern and Western insights into the human search for meaning, raises issues that are perhaps more important in our current cultural climate than ever before.\n  <em>\n   Steppenwolf,\n  </em>\n  first published in German in 1927, is given new life in this fresh translation.\n  <br />\n  Thomas Wayne presents a contemporary take on the lone individual lost in the ironic good fortune and security of bourgeois banality and cultural conformity. Harry Haller, the hero, has all the insight, all the leisure, all the material goods he needs, yet he is not at peace with his life and decides to commit suicide. Then Hermine and her friends open to him the countless pathways of self-discovery.\n  <br />\n  Basil Creighton''s 1929 translation (revised in 1963 by Joseph Mileck) is the best-known version in English; it skips words, smoothes out long, involved passages, unnecessarily improves the text all things Thomas Wayne refuses to do. He emphasizes a strict adherence and reverence for the literal -- a Hesse for the 21st century, meaningful and faithful to the original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6943'),
(9409, 'Stepping on the Cracks', 'Mary Downing Hahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Most WW II homefront novels are unambiguous in their approach to patriots and traitors, allies and enemies. Hahn''s subtle, thought-provoking work, however, proposes the legitimacy of a variety of ethical responses to critical situations. Margaret''s brother Jimmy is overseas fighting, and Margaret and her parents avidly follow news of Allied advances. She and best friend Elizabeth, united in their dislike of Gordy the bully, slowly uncover several ominous secrets: Gordy is helping his older brother Stuart, an Army deserter, hide in a weatherworn shack in the woods; and Gordy''s father batters his mother, his siblings and Gordy himself. At first Margaret and Elizabeth see their discovery of Stuart''s shack as a way to "blackmail" Gordy into treating them decently, but when Stuart falls dangerously ill, the girls feel obliged to help care for him. Soon they begin to reexamine the standard propaganda about the war. While some of her characters seem anachronistic and certain developments are unlikely, Hahn succeeds in raising questions as valuable as they are vexing. Ages 9-12.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8-- The complex arguments for and against pacifism are woven into this involving story of a girl''s experiences on the home front during World War II. Margaret, 11, and her boisterous friend Elizabeth hate the school bully, Gordy. They discover that a man living in the woods whom they had thought of as crazy is actually Gordy''s gentle brother, who has deserted a war he feels he cannot morally fight. When Stuart nearly dies of pneumonia, the girls join forces with Gordy to get help and they gain insight into Gordy''s difficult life with his alcoholic, abusive father. Well-drawn characters and a satisfying plot keep this from deteriorating into a message novel. The issues raised are presented from diverse points of view, and no easy answers are given. Margaret struggles with her feelings about her brother fighting (and ultimately dying) in a war that Stuart has deserted. She realizes, however, that Stuart''s conscientious objection is not the black-and-white, coward vs. patriot matter her parents believe it to be. Although clearly set in the ''40s with characters that are true to their time, their problems and feelings are not dated and should interest today''s readers. There is plenty of action and page-turning suspense to please those who want a quick read, but there is much to ponder and reflect on as well. --Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4412'),
(9410, 'The Stepsister Scheme', 'Hines, Jim C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9065'),
(9411, 'Stern Men', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (*USA Today*) from the #1 bestselling writer** In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert''s *Stern Men* debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new edition of Gilbert''s wise and charming novel for the millions of readers who devoured *Eat, Pray, Love* and remain hungry for more. Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school-smart as a whip, feisty, and irredeemably unromantic-determined to throw over her education and join the "stern men"working the lobster boats. Gilbert utterly captures the American spirit through an unforgettable heroine who is destined for greatness-and love-despite herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(9412, 'Steven Wright Humor', 'Steven Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Collection of humorous observation from comedian Steven Wright.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3275'),
(9413, 'Stick', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it''s tough staying straight in a crooked town -- and Miami is a pirate''s paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man''s sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it -- and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\nSUMMARY: After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest ''stick'' Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it''s tough staying straight in a crooked town - and Miami is a pirate''s paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance.And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man''s sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it - and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet-revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9189'),
(9414, 'Stieg Larsson, My Friend', 'Kurdo Baksi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''So who was the real Larsson, and what would he have made of his success? His friend, the journalist and fellow activist Kurdo Baksi, goes some way to answering both in this short but powerful memoir. For Larsson geeks such as myself, the unearthed details of his past and the fond recollections of his ceaseless pursuit of justice are gripping ... [A] moving, well-paced and honest account of Larsson''s life'' Rosie Swash, Observer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the anti-facist magazine Expo. Kurdo Baksi first met Larsson in 1992; it was the beginning of an intense friendship, and a fruitful but challenging working relationship. In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson''s fans have already asked, about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism - so evident in his books - and his dogmatism. What was he like as a colleague? Who provided the inspiration for his now-immortal characters (Baksi is one of the few who appears in the trilogy as himself)? Who was Lisbeth Salander?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8466'),
(9415, 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3686'),
(9416, 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."â€”*Entertainment Weekly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Stiff* is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives   of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaversâ€”some willingly, some unwittinglyâ€”have been involved in science''s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They''ve tested France''s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuriesâ€”from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors'' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10246'),
(9417, 'Still Alice', 'Lisa Genova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman''s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer''s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer''s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, "Still Alice" captures in remarkable detail what''s it''s like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind," "Ordinary People" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog" "in the Night-time," Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2683'),
(9418, 'Still Life', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Casey Marshall has it all: a successful interior-design business; a handsome, loving husband; wonderful friends; and a boatload of family money at her disposal. But just as sheâ€™s contemplating starting a family, sheâ€™s the victim of a hit-and-run accident that leaves her in a coma. But sheâ€™s not completely out of it, so sheâ€™s a witness to everything that happens in her hospital room. But is that so bad? Isnâ€™t it everyoneâ€™s dream to be a fly on the wall, to hear what might be said at ourÂ funerals? Even though Casey is privy to everyoneâ€™s â€œprivateâ€ remarks and conversations as they visit, she feels trapped and helpless, especially when it becomes abundantly clear that the incident with the car was no accident. Her frustration mounts as her sister, the wayward but bighearted Drew, becomes a suspect, along with everyone close to her. While not narrated in first person, the actionÂ revolves aroundÂ Caseyâ€™s experiences and perceptions. Fielding makes the most of this intriguing premise without succumbing to gimmicky plot tricks. The moment that Casey solves her own attempted murder is truly riveting, and the anxiety she feels as she tries to avoid the would-be murdererâ€™s completion of his task is palpable. A heart-pounding mainstream thriller. --Mary Frances Wilkens\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFielding is a master of anticipation and knows how to create a labyrinth of tension, never providing an exit until the very last page.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6232'),
(9419, 'Still Life (Three Pines Mysteries)', 'Penny, Louise', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9355'),
(9420, 'Still Waters', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The deepest waters hide the darkest secrets....When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart''s feet, she''s able to wash away the blood--but not the terror. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town''s placid surface for the truthâ€”except the killer.Running from a messy divorce, Elizabeth believed buying a small-town newspaper offered a fresh start for herself and her son. But idyllic Still Creek, nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, hides secrets dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Now Elizabeth must risk everything to save herself and her son, and to unmask the killer...before the current of evil flowing through Still Creek drags her under.When Elizabeth Stuart searched for a quiet, peaceful home for herself and her son, Still Creek seemed perfect. Nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, this small, idyllic Minnesota town would allow her to put a shattering divorce behind her. But the locals were noticeably cool to the newcomerâ€”who was rumored to be a gold-diggerâ€”especially when she started stirring up controversy with her newspaper. And now when a murdered body literally falls at her feet, she has a slight credibility problem...particularly with the arrogant sheriff whose blue eyes seem to know her darkest secrets.An ex-pro athlete who had returned to Still Creek a hero, Sheriff Dane Jantzen doesn''t have much use for the mediaâ€”especially not in the form of this glamorous, gutsy outsider who spells trouble with every word she prints. So when she becomes his suspect in a vicious crime, the last thing Dane expects is the jolt of attraction at their every encounter.Elizabeth would soon challenge Dane''s every assumption, including the one that he''s better off without love. But as they risk everything to uncover the truth, the current of evil that contaminates Still Creek threatens to pull them both under...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6769'),
(9421, 'Stiltsville: A Novel', 'Susanna Daniel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _Stiltsville\n <em>\n  is a story of a marriage that begins with serendipity--that holiest of relationship grails--one warm summer day in Miami. It''s 1969 when girl (Frances, the novel''s clear-eyed, guileless narrator) meets boy (Dennis, who in Frances''s estimation is "careless but lucky") at one of a copse of houses built on stilts in Miami''s Biscayne Bay. That such a place existed is incredible now, and in the scenes that reconstruct its peculiar beauty, Susanna Daniel ushers you into an exotic and unpredictable corner of the country. It''s a perfect place to fall in love, and Frances and Dennis do, without fanfare or pretense. Theirs is a love that almost instantly becomes constant and real, full of simple happiness that makes it possible to weather the storms that come. --\n </em>\n Anne Bartholomew_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Curtis Sittenfeld Interviews Susanna Daniel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n , and\n <em>\n  Stiltsville\n </em>\n , met at the Iowa Writersâ€™ Workshop. Here they talk about friendship and its role inâ€”and beyondâ€”novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Curtis Sittenfeld\n </strong>\n : One of the many things I love about\n <em>\n  Stiltsville\n </em>\n is that it starts with the main character, Frances, making a new friend, Marse, and then pretty much immediately falling for the guy Marse likes. Yet these two women become very close, even though only one of them can get the guy. Were you consciously defying stereotypes about female friendship, or did this just feel like the organic way to depict these characters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susanna Daniel\n </strong>\n : There''s a lot of bad press out there regarding female friendships, which are so much more nuanced than stereotypes would have us believe. When Frances meets Dennis, her friendship with Marse is just beginning, but already they both know there''s potential. Neither woman wants to throw that away. There''s a moment when Frances tells Marse that it''s not like her to flirt with -- not to mention steal -- another woman''s guy, and their future pretty much hinges on Marse believing her. Which she does. To grant your friend permission to pursue what might turn out to be the love of her life -- that''s a sign of trust and humility, which Marse is strong enough to give.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CS\n </strong>\n : So much of\n <em>\n  Stiltsville\n </em>\n is about Frances'' marriage to Dennis. I''m wondering how you think getting married and having children -- or not getting married and not having children when the people around you are -- changes the nature of women''s friendships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SD\n </strong>\n : I think there''s a lot of truth to the idiom that it takes a village -- not only to raise a child, but to support a marriage. Because their lives take such different paths, Frances and Marse must make exceptions for each other that they might not make for other friends. Their differences might have divided them, but instead, Marse becomes a member of Frances'' family in a way that a married friend could never be. Late in the book, Frances says that Marse had been almost like a second wife to Dennis in some ways, over the years. But she loves and trusts Marse like a sister, and when Marse''s life changes unexpectedly, Frances must look outside her own troubles to support her friend the way she''s been supported for so long.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CS\n </strong>\n : Two of Frances'' best friends are her daughter, Margo, and her sister-in-law, Bette. What are the particular pleasures and complications of friendships with family members?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SD\n </strong>\n : Bette, Dennis''s sister, is one of the most complicated characters of the book. In order to forge a friendship early on, Frances must become a confidante of Bette''s, which isn''t an easy thing to do. Unlike Marse, who remains in Frances'' daily life until the end, Bette has to choose between family and love partway through the book -- and the choice she makes breaks Frances'' heart. But later, Frances has to make a similar choice with regards to Margo. Moving away from family, in\n <em>\n  Stiltsville\n </em>\n , is not a choice made lightly or without a lot of heartache, but sometimes it''s the only way for a character to grow.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CS\n </strong>\n : You and I met in 1999, on our first day as graduate students at the Iowa Writers'' Workshop, when we were the only two women in a class of eight. One of the most frequent questions I get about having attended the Workshop is whether it''s competitive and back-stabbing. How do you answer this question?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SD\n </strong>\n : The program is definitely competitive in nature, though not back-stabbing. Writing isn''t a team sport -- ultimately it''s all about you and what you produce. No one can undermine you if you''re focused and ambitious. That said, workshopping material is not for the faint of heart -- not because people are back-stabbing but because they are bright, experienced readers, and devastatingly honest. At the same time, I''m grateful for the Workshop for many reasons, not the least of which is that it''s where I met the woman who continues to be my great reader, advocate, and friend: you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CS\n </strong>\n : You''re the friend I''ve learned the most from because you''re so smart and opinionated, and you also see the world in a really different way than I do. But now that we''re publicly exposing our friendship, do you think it will go the way of Gwyneth and Winona''s? Also, in this scenario, which of us will end up shoplifting from Saks and which of us will dispense frittata recipes on a lifestyle website?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SD\n </strong>\n : I think I''m the boring domestic of the two of us, so it might be me with the web site (I think you probably disagree with this assessment). But then again, you''re staunchly ethical, so I can''t see you going the way of Winona. I think a better model for our friendship, which I''m proud to publish, is that of Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken, two writers who for decades have read for each other and supported each other while living in different cities. What I hope is that we continue to enjoy the differences between us -- as writers, mothers, wives, friends -- and never let them distance us. When we met, we hadn''t yet made the decisions that would root our lives, as we have now. I look forward to a future when maybe we don''t live so far apart, and maybe our kids play independently together while we kick back and read magazines and talk about what Winona and Gwyneth are up to these days. Because who even remembers that they were friends once, except the two of us?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its lush flora and constant sun, South Florida is the true star of Daniel''s exquisite debut, which follows a marriage over the course of 30 years. In 1969, having traveled from Atlanta to Miami for a college friend''s wedding, 26-year-old Frances Ellerby meets glamorous Miami native Marse Heiger, who introduces her to Dennis DuVals and his house on stilts in Biscayne Bay. Though Marse has set her cap for Dennis, he and Frances fall in love and marry within a year. "I had no idea then," Frances says, "what would happen to my love, what nourishment it would receive, how mighty it would grow." Dennis and Frances have a daughter, Margo, buy a house in Coral Gables, and their life together proceeds as a series of ups and downs, beautifully told from Frances''s pensive, sharp perspective. As the years pass and Miami changes, so do Frances, Dennis, and Margo, and the nuances of their relationships shift and realign, drawing inexorably toward a moving resolution.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8328'),
(9422, 'Stinger', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the remote Texas town of Inferno, a creature of evil beyond anything the world has ever encountered descends. He traps the town and ravages the land with grisly executions and horrible mutations . . . until the people rise up in a final, desperate battle. From the author of Swan Song. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3562'),
(9423, 'Stinger: Stinger', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the remote Texas town of Inferno, a creature of evil beyond anything the world has ever encountered descends. He traps the town and ravages the land with grisly executions and horrible mutations . . . until the people rise up in a final, desperate battle. From the author of Swan Song. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3561'),
(9424, 'A Stir of Echoes', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he''s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom''s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!This eerie ghost story, by award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4079'),
(9425, 'Stolen', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: International acclaim for Kelley Armstrong''s sophisticated debut novel, Bitten, is steadily growing. It was in Bitten that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman-and the only living female werewolf. In "Stolen," on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals-witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves-are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he meets his match. Suspenseful, chilling, and witty, "Stolen" is a novel of rich and amazing versatility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3158'),
(9426, 'Stolen Fury', 'Elisabeth Naughton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in a new trilogy, this novel follows archaeologist Dr. Lisa Maxwell, who is looking for three ancient Greek artifacts called the Furies. She''s also on the trail of Rafe Sullivan, a handsome and charming thief who had tried to seduce her to get the Furies for himself. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(9427, 'Stolen Heat', 'Elisabeth Naughton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: His passionate relationship with Egyptologist Katherine Meyer destroyed by his lies, antiquities dealer Peter Kauffman reencounters Kat six years later when they are forced to work together against a vengeful killer. By the Golden Heart-finalist author of Stolen Fury. 175,000 first printing. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(9428, 'A Stolen Life: A Memoir', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Stolen Life\n </em>\n is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.thejaycfoundation.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8757'),
(9429, 'The Stolen', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pinter''s ambitious third Henry Parker novel opens as Daniel Linwood, 11, suddenly reappears on his family''s front porch five years after being kidnapped. Parker, a young but seasoned\n <em>\n  New York Gazette\n </em>\n reporter, snags an exclusive interview with Daniel and his overjoyed mother. But Daniel appears to have no recollection of his missing years, and something he absentmindedly says in the interview deeply rattles Parkerâ€”convincing him there''s a sinister undercurrent to this feel-good story. Working with his ex-girlfriend, Legal Aid Society lawyer Amanda, Parker meets resistance from law enforcement officials, a popular politician and even his own editor. What he gradually uncovers involves seemingly disparate individuals with unexpected motives, desperate to keep their activities a secret. Parker''s first-person voice dominates: it lists between Parker as gritty, desensitized journalist and young romantic who wants little more than to spend the rest of his life with one woman. The emotional dichotomy makes Parker a captivating and complex protagonist, one whose pithy observations about New York are dead on. Pinter''s chunky plot, rapid pacing and credible dialogue do the rest.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Ambitious...Parker is a captivating and complex protagonist...Pinter''s chunky plot, rapid pacing and credible dialogue do the rest." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7038'),
(9430, 'The Stone Child', 'Dan Poblocki', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real?Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. Thatâ€™s why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream come true when Eddie discovers that Olmstead lived there before mysteriously disappearing thirteen years ago. Even better, Eddie finds a handwritten, never-before-seen Nathaniel Olmstead book printed in code and befriends Harris, whoâ€™s as much an Olmsteady as he is. But then the frightening creatures of Olmsteadâ€™s books begin to show up in real life, and Eddieâ€™s dream turns into a nightmare. Eddie, Harris, and their new friend, Maggie, must break Olmsteadâ€™s code, banish all gremlins and monster lake-dogs from the town of Gatesweed, and solve the mystery of the missing author, all before Eddieâ€™s mom finisheswriting her own tale of terror and brings to life the scariest creature of all.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1516'),
(9431, 'Stone Cold (2003)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10548'),
(9432, 'Stone Cold Surrender', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Stone Westmoreland had an eye for the ladies. And charm that never failed. He was an experienced player who played for keeps. So who would have guessed that prim and proper Madison Winters could rattle his nerves without even trying? She had him feeling all protective, and all sexed up, too. Before he knew it, Stone had volunteered to help Madison find her mother, who''d gone missing in the mountains.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stone was willing to play the knight in shining armor, but only if it meant the hard days of trekking through the wilderness would result in the ultimate payoff--passion-filled nights under the Montana starlit sky with the delectable Miss Winters..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7986'),
(9433, 'Stone Kiss', 'Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(9434, 'The Stone Monkey', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protÃ©gÃ©e Amelia Sachs have been recruited by the FBI to capture "the Ghost" -- a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now, he must eliminate the only witnesses -- two families who jumped ship and vanished into Chinatown. Against a ruthless adversary, Lincoln and Amelia race to find the families before the Ghost can silence them...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1950'),
(9435, 'Stone of Tears', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Wizard''s First Rule, Richard Cypher''s world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Richard was forced to become the Seeker of Truth, to save the world from the vile dominance of Darken Rahl, the most viciously savage and powerful wizard the world had ever seen. He was joined on this epic quest by his beloved Kahlan, the only survivor among the Confessors, who brought a powerful but benevolent justice to the land before Rahl''s evil scourge. Aided by Zedd, the last of the wizards who opposed Rahl, they were able to cast him into the underworld, saving the world from the living hell of life under Rahl.But the veil to the underworld has been torn, and Rahl, from beyond the veil, begins to summon a sinister power more dreadful than any he has wielded before. Horrifying creatures escape through the torn veil, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting world above.If Rahl isn''t stopped, he will free the Keeper itself, an evil entity whose power is so vast and foul that once freed, it can never again be contained.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3523'),
(9436, 'Stone Quarry', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bill Smith''s country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city''s savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve''s highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smith''s partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It''s a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the playing field. Now the stench of corruption fills this rural paradise, as Bill and Lydia scour through dangerous secrets and greedy corridors for the stone-cold truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3233'),
(9437, 'Stone Spring', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming, a shifting of continents and, over a few short years, the sea rushed in and our history was set.But what if the sea had been kept at bay? Brythony is a young girl who lives in Northland. Like all her people she is a hunter gatherer, her simple tools fashioned from flint cutting edges lodged in wood and animal bone. When the sea first encroaches on her land her people simply move. Brythony moves further travelling to Asia. Where she sees mankind''s first walled cities. And gets an idea. What if you could build a wall to keep the sea out?And so begins a colossal engineering project that will take decades, a wall that stretches for hundreds of miles, a wall that becomes an act of defiance, and containing the bones of the dead, an act of devotion. A wall that will change the geography of the world. And it''s history.Stephen Baxter has become expert at embedding human stories into the grandest sweeps of history and the most mind-blowing of concepts. STONE SPRING begins a trilogy that will tell the story of a changed world. It begins in 8,000 BC with an idea and ends in 1500 in a world that never saw the Roman Empire, Christianity or Islam. It is an eye-opening look at what history could so easily have been and an inspiring tale of how we control our future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4222'),
(9438, 'Stone&#39;s Fall: A Novel', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. British author Pears matches the brilliance of his bestselling\n <em>\n  An Instance of the Fingerpost\n </em>\n (1998) with this intricate historical novel, which centers on the death of a wealthy financier. In part one, after John Stone falls to his death from a window in his London mansion in 1909, Stone''s seductive, much younger widow, Elizabeth, hires Matthew Braddock, who works as a journalist, to trace a child of her late husband''s she never knew existed until the child is named in his will. Braddock, a novice in the world of finance, uncovers evidence that Stone''s actual net worth was far less than commonly believed, even as he finds himself falling for his client. In part two, set in 1890 Paris, Henry Cort, a shadowy spy, provides another perspective on the bewitching Elizabeth. Stone''s own reminiscences from his time in Venice in 1867 cast further light on the circumstances of his demise. The pages will fly by for most readers, who will lose themselves in the clear prose and compelling plot.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. An aging ex-reporter attends the funeral of an elderly widow. A solicitor approaches him and hands him a packet of papers that were to be delivered to him only after the woman''s death. Reading them, he is transported back to events he has never forgotten. In 1909, industrialist-arms seller John Stone fell to his death from the window of his study. In his will, he left a bequest to an unknown daughter. His widow asked the young reporter to find the daughter, setting him on a search that transforms his life. Back through time the story goesâ€”London 1909, Paris 1890, Venice 1867â€”with startling revelations at every step. This eminently readable tale is like one of those Russian dolls in which a tiny doll nests inside a bigger one and the bigger one inside another one bigger yet. The further you read, the more complicated it is until everything falls together in the final pages. This latest from Pears (_Dream of Scipio_) is in the best sense of the word an old-fashioned novel, populated with vital characters and bursting at the seams with narrative vigor. Highly recommended for all general collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 1/09.]â€”David Keymer, Modesto, CA\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8542'),
(9439, 'Stonehenge', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bernard Cornwell''s new novel, following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer''s day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension, both without from tribal rivalry, and within. The three sons of Ratharryn''s chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest, Lengar, the warrior, harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his tribe. Camaban, the second and an outcast from the tribe, becomes a great visionary and feared wise man, and it is his vision that will force the youngest brother, Saban, to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth. It is Saban who is the builder, the leader and the man of peace. It is his love for a sorceress whose powers rival those of Camaban and for Aurenna, the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods, that finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple, a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. And in the end, when the temple is complete, Saban must choose between the gods and his family. Stonehenge is Britain''s greatest prehistoric monument, a symbol of history; a building, created 4 millenia ago, which still provokes awe and mystery. Stonehenge A novel of 2000 BC is first and foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known and admired for the realism and imagination with which he brings an earlier world to life. And here he uses all these skills to create the world of primitive Britain and to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge and why. ''A circle of chalk, a ring of stone, and a house of arches to call the far gods home''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(9440, 'Stones Into Schools', 'Greg Mortenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1681');
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(9441, 'Stop the Bleeding: How to Save Trillions by Overhauling America&#39;s Healthcare Machine', 'Douglas Perednia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Even after Obama, Americaâ€™s healthcare system is still broken, and itâ€™ll soon bankrupt us all. The solution:\n  <em>\n   radical simplification\n  </em>\n  . Now, leading healthcare expert and entrepreneur Dr. Doug Perednia reveals the systemâ€™s shocking, unnecessary inefficiencies--and outlines a simple, logical, complete solution that offers greater security, enhances competition, and will save\n  <em>\n   trillions\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFinally, a healthcare system that works!\n  <em>\n   Overhauling Americaâ€™s Healthcare Machine\n  </em>\n  is a superbly written book on what it takes to reduce administrative bloat, simplify the system, slash costs, and give all Americans sustainable medical and financial security.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“William Bernstein, Bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   A Splendid Exchange\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Birth of Plenty\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œScholarly both in thinking and writing. A terrific accomplishment.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bureaucratic complexity is smothering Americaâ€™s healthcare systemâ€“pointless, costly, wasteful complexity created by both the government and insurance companies. In\n  <em>\n   Overhauling Americaâ€™s Healthcare Machine\n  </em>\n  , leading physician, healthcare expert, and entrepreneur Douglas A. Perednia, M.D., systematically identifies worthless overhead that is making healthcare inaccessible to millions, driving providers from practice, and bankrupting America. Then, he shows how to design a far simpler system that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both free markets and carefully crafted public initiatives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Obama â€œhealthcare reformâ€ involved more than 2,000 pages of special interest-friendly legislation. It mandates 168 new federal committees and programs, which reflects even higher healthcare spending and billions in new taxes. Yet, the system is still utterly brokenâ€“and unless itâ€™s fixed, it will break us all. Perednia offers a better way: a logical, comprehensive, and nonpartisan approach that gives providers and patients both security and freedom, enhances competition, and will save more than $570 billion each year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Why we spend twice as much on healthcareâ€“without better results\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The real reasons American healthcare costs more without delivering more\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Where does all the money goâ€“and why?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Uncovering the insane waste and bureaucracy pervading American healthcare\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scrubbing the sand out of the gears\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eliminating the worthless tasks, processes, and rules that cause soaring costs\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Focusing spending where it will do the most good\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Getting the greatest medical benefit from limited dollars\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4909'),
(9442, 'Stop the Screaming: How to Turn Angry Conflict With Your Child Into Positive Communication', 'Carl E. Pickhardt Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Connected Father\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "As the father of two teenagers, I found Pickhardt''s book to be an important, supportive, and straightforward look at one of the most challenging stages of fatherhood."--Armin Brott, author of\n <em>\n  The Expectant Father\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Father for Life\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is a must-read for any parent who has an only child." --_Texas Family\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œInsightful and helpful."--_Austin Statesman_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Parenting expert Carl E. Pickhardt brings his considerable experience to tackling the most pervasive and difficult problems parents face in childrearing. Whereas many books on family conflict focus on the prickly teenage years, Pickhardt takes the long view and treats a broad range of ages--starting from the early toddler years all the way through college. He empowers parents to turn conflict into an opportunity to engage with their children on a deeper level. Readers will learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage emotion during a fight so that you can hear the feelings behind the vitriol without taking offense.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Give criticism to children in a way that focuses on the behavior and not the person.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a hook inside silent tension that will let you connect with your children''s feelings and show them a way to empathize with yours.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Consider your children''s point of view during a disagreement and teach them to voice their grievances with respect.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With a distinctive emphasis on how to distinguish types of conflict dependent on age and gender, Pickhardt shows parents how to turn the daily battles into opportunities for growth. This is a practical guide that helps parents confront difficult issues with which all families grapple.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9176'),
(9443, 'Stop This Man!', 'Peter Rabe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Published for the first time in 45 years, this pulp classic tells the story of down-and-out thief Tony Catell, who, after stealing 36 pounds of radioactive gold from a lab, must stay one step ahead of the FBI while desperately trying to find someone to take the hot gold off his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3969'),
(9444, 'Stop Your Divorce and Save Your Marriage', 'ChristianSinglesDating.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9349'),
(9445, 'Stopping Time, Part 1', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Leslie walked away from the Dark Court, determined to reclaim her life and live it on her own terms-even if it meant leaving behind the two faeries who love her. She knows Niall and Irial watch over her, and she would give almost anything to keep them from hurting. But she resists the pull to be with either one of them. Someone knows about Leslie-s past, however, and is intent on using her to reach the fey. And he doesn-t care who gets hurt-.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2693'),
(9446, 'Stopping Time, Part 2', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2692'),
(9447, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--_Vanity Fair_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He looks back at the aberrant highs of his heart-throb days, the changing nature of stardom in Hollywood, the trade-off he has made between high life and home life, and the step-by-step effort behind his show business survival. He looked like the callowest kid in the "Outsiders" crew. Now he looks like the sturdiest of them all"--_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really enjoyed it...Thoroughly entertaining: the Brat Pack years, the Wayne''s World years, the Alcoholic Obscurity, the Glamorous Romances (Princess Stephanie of Monaco!), the Inevitable Rehab, and the Triumphant Comeback on The West Wing."--_Time Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe''s] charming, honest, even affectionate memoir is the story of strong guts behind a strikingly handsome face...A book to recommend widely."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5666'),
(9448, 'Stories of Your Life and Others', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ted Chiang''s first published story, ""Tower of Babylon,"" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov''s SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer''s stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume. What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven''s other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others. The widely celebrated SF author Ted Chiang lives near Seattle, Washington. Ted Chiang''s first published short story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov''s SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. Chiang also won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now--collected here for the first time--are all seven of his extraordinary stories thus far, plus an eighth yarn written especially for this volume. What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven--and broke through to Heaven''s other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous and engrossing questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. These are "Stories of Your Life and Others." "''Hell Is the Absence of God'' is perhaps one of the best fantasy novellas ever written . . . [It] alone would justify the rest of the material in [this book]. But the collection does not need this kind of support. Summarizing these stories does not do justice to Chiang''s talent. Seemingly ordinary ideas are pursued ruthlessly, their tendons flayed, their bones exposed. Chiang derides lazy thinking, weasels it out of its hiding place, and leaves it cowering."--"The Washington Post" "The stakes are high in all of Chiang''s stories, for their social and existential implications concern him as much as their construction . . . He puts the science back in SF--brilliantly."--"Booklist" (starred review) "Essential. You won''t know SF if you don''t read Ted Chiang."--Greg Bear "Chiang is one of the rare contemporary SF writers who has made his considerable reputation without producing one novel. His stories brim with originality and seduce with their complexity."--Ellen Datlow "One of our very best writers . . . Chiang will astonish you."--James Patrick Kelly "The first must-read SF book of the year."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) (This version adds The Lifecycle of Software Objects along with story notes. The EPUB code has also been cleaned up to bring the file size down from 1.09 MB to 775 KB. Version 2 corrected 2 small format errors found in The Merchant and the Alchemist''s Gate) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang in EPUB format containing the following stories: Tower of Babylon, 1990; first appeared in Omni. Understand, 1991; first appeared in Asimov''s. Division by Zero, 1991; first appeared in Full Spectrum 3. Story of Your Life, 1998; first appeared in Starlight 2. Seventy-Two Letters, 2000; first appeared in Vanishing Acts. The Evolution of Human Science, 2000; first appeared in Nature under the title Catching Crumbs from the Table. Hell Is the Absence of God, 2001; first appeared in Starlight 3. Liking What You See: A Documentary, 2002. The following stories have also been added to this ebook: What''s Expected of Us, 2006; first appeared in Nature. The Merchant and the Alchemist''s Gate, 2007; appeared in Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction. Exhalation, 2008; first appeared in Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Lifecycle of Software Objects, 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3318'),
(9449, 'Stories: All-New Tales', 'Neil Gaiman; Al Sarrantonio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ." The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover moreâ€”to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal. *Stories* is a groundbreaking anthology that reinvigorates, expands, and redefines the limits of imaginative fiction and affords some of the best writers in the worldâ€”from Peter Straub and Chuck Palahniuk to Roddy Doyle and Diana Wynne Jones, Stewart O''Nan and Joyce Carol Oates to Walter Mosley and Jodi Picoultâ€”the opportunity to work together, defend their craft, and realign misconceptions. Gaiman, a literary magician whose acclaimed work defies easy categorization and transcends all boundaries, and "master anthologist" (*Booklist*) Sarrantonio personally invited, read, and selected all the stories in this collection, and their standard for this "new literature of the imagination" is high. "We wanted to read stories that used a lightning-flash of magic as a way of showing us something we have already seen a thousand times as if we have never seen it at all." Joe Hill boldly aligns theme and form in his disturbing tale of a man''s descent into evil in "Devil on the Staircase." In "Catch and Release," Lawrence Block tells of a seasoned fisherman with a talent for catching a bite of another sort. Carolyn Parkhurst adds a dark twist to sibling rivalry in "Unwell." Joanne Harris weaves a tale of ancient gods in modern New York in "Wildfire in Manhattan." Vengeance is the heart of Richard Adams''s "The Knife." Jeffery Deaver introduces a dedicated psychologist whose mission in life is to save people in "The Therapist." A chilling punishment befitting an unspeakable crime is at the dark heart of Neil Gaiman''s novelette "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains." As it transforms your view of the world, this brilliant and visionary volumeâ€”sure to become a classicâ€”will ignite a new appreciation for the limitless realm of exceptional fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3097'),
(9450, 'Stork Naked', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Surprise Golem has just lost her brand-new baby. The Stork assigned to deliver her eagerly awaited Bundle of Joy has inexplicably refused to surrender it, flying off instead through a hole in the fabric of reality. Â Now, to track down her offspring, Surprise must lead an ill-assorted assemblage of confederates on a desperate quest through dozens of different Xanths. But sinister, unseen forces are determined to stop her. And in order to find her child, Surprise may have to lose her heart.Â Startling, stimulating, stirring, and surprising, Stork Naked is a rollicking and revealing new fantasy adventure lusciously laced with dozens of dangers and delights, lovingly fashioned with all of Piers Anthonyâ€™s celebrated storytelling skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3300'),
(9451, 'Storm Front', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first novel of the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files-now in a hardcover edition.** **As seen on the Sci Fi channel.** The novels of the *Dresden Files* have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. *Storm Front* is Jim Butcher''s first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire. For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry''s eyes light up with dollar signs. But where there''s black magic, there''s a black mage. Now, that black mage knows Harry''s name. And things are about to get very...interesting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1722'),
(9452, 'A Storm in the Blood', 'Jon Stephen Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Published to coincide with the centenary of the Houndsditch Murders in December 2010, A Storm in the Blood tells the story of the Latvian revolutionaries who killed three officers of the Metropolitan Police. The parallel between the suicide ideologues of the time and contemporary terrorists, willing to die for their ideals, is all too clear. One of the most sensational crimes of the era, the murders were followed by the ''Siege of Stepney Street'', a gunfight that saw then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill sending troops into the streets of London, shooting to kill. After hours of battle, the police broke through into the hideout, to find two corpses, but not the body of the ringleader, the mysterious ''Peter the Painter.'' He had somehow vanished, along with his mistress, Rivka, a young refugee and Yiddish music hall singer. A Storm in the Blood fictionalises the events of 1910 with a dark, atmospheric rendering of pre-war London that explodes into a gripping, violent narrative. Publisher''s Weekly remarked that: "While on the surface, the novel relates events of the present day to the terrorism of the past, Fink''s story goes deeper, creating a compelling and psychologically driven tale of people who have lost their way.'''' Published by Harper Perennial in the US, A Storm in the Blood is both a fascinating study of the psychology of self-sacrifice, and a suspenseful, action-packed thriller many readers consume in one sitting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2294'),
(9453, 'A Storm of Swords', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martinâ€™s magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Clash of Kings**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martinâ€™s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A Storm of Swords**Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at Kingâ€™s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world....But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11220'),
(9454, 'Storm Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Sandford''s superb 20th Lucas Davenport thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  ), the getaway vehicle from a botched early morning robbery, which results in a pharmacy employee''s death, almost collides with the car driven by Lucas''s surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen. Weather, who was on her way to work at the Minnesota Medical Research Center, becomes a key witness. Sandford masterfully handles both sides of the equation as the thievesâ€”planner Lyle Mack, his brother, Joe, and their henchmenâ€”work to cover their crime. The investigation belongs to Minneapolis deputy chief Marcy Sherrill, but Lucas of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension pulls out all the stops to protect his wife. Sandford creates additional drama throughout as Weather and a skilled team of doctors perform an operation to separate twins joined at the skull. Sharply drawn characters, intricate plotting, and smooth dialogue make this a sure-fire winner.\n  <em>\n   500,000 first printing; author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was an inside job, and it should have been easy. Rob the pharmacy at Minneapolisâ€™ largest hospital: in, out, wait till things cool down, and then sell the drugs for a half million or so. But the old man had to be a hero. Who knew heâ€™d be on blood thinners and die after he was kicked? A robbery turned murder means Lucas Davenport and his Bureau of Criminal Apprehension team are called in to assist the investigation. Thereâ€™s another element to the case for Davenport: his wife, Weather, a surgeon at the hospital, may be able to identify one of the killers. The case starts to escalate. An attempt is made on Weatherâ€™s life. The bodies of two motorcycle gang members are found in a rural area. Davenport guesses the gang is imploding from the pressure and murdering its members. Weather, under 24-hour guard, is part of a surgical team working to separate conjoined twins in a procedure thatâ€™s captured the attention of the worldâ€™s media. Meanwhile, Davenport and his team keep finding bodies of likely robbers but canâ€™t seem to isolate either the brains behind the theft or the hospital insider who pointed them at the pharmacy. The twenty-second Prey novel includes most of the elements readers expect: sharp plot, snappy dialogue, and believable action, but the background playfulness and gallows humor that usually fill in the gaps are in short supply. But hey, thatâ€™s nitpicking. On balance, this is another fine entry in a wildly popular series. --Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6634'),
(9455, 'The Storm Witch', 'Violette Malan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The third novel in Violette Malan''s bold fantasy series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mercenary Partners Dhulyn and Parno have returned to their Mercenary House to clear themselves of accusations of kidnapping and murder. But before they can resolve these charges, old friends are taken hostage by the Long Ocean Nomads, and they are forced to come to the rescue, agreeing to trade their services for the release of their friends.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Violette Malan\n </strong>\n has a Ph.D. from York University in 18th-Century English Literature, has been a book reviewer, and has written feature articles on genre writing and literature for the\n <em>\n  Kingston Whig Standard\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5472'),
(9456, 'Stormbringer', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Moorcock is off at full throttle. Every scene has ironic meaning. A couple of minor stories, and we''re into the lush, manic rush to Armageddon that is STORMBRINGER! Still the greatest plot on the planet, build and build until the final, cataclysmic - and said to be the best in all fantasy fiction - ending, which is completely stunning. Long before Pullman won the Whitbread Moorcock was offering this mad, bad and thoroughly humane fantasy to the world. He remains a giant.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2701'),
(9457, 'Stormy Weather', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10251'),
(9458, 'The Story Behind the Foundation Trilogy', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9547'),
(9459, 'Story Nerilka&#39;s', 'Nerilka&#39;s Story', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10807'),
(9460, 'The Story of Cirrus Flux', 'Matthew Skelton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1783 London, the destiny of an orphaned boy and girl becomes intertwined as the boy, Cirrus Flux, is pursued by a sinister woman mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel, all of whom believe that he possesses an orb containing a divine power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2531'),
(9461, 'The story of Doctor Dolittle: being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts', 'Hugh Lofting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Doctor Dolittle prefers his animal patients to his people patients. And one day when a mysterious call beckons him to Africa, he discovers that he can talk to animals. Now the people are talking about Doctor Dolittle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(9462, 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle', 'David Wroblewski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautifully written and elegantly paced,The Story of Edgar Sawtelleis a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father''s sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival - the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1121'),
(9463, 'The Story of Stuff', 'Annie Leonard &amp; Ariane Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Leonard examines conspicuous consumption and its human and environmental costs in an expansion of her short documentary of the same name. The analysis is accessible, and Leonard is skilled at breaking down large and abstruse concepts for the listeners. She''s less winning as a reader, however: her bubbly voice and predilection for overemphasis are gratingâ€”and occasionally, her explanations and prescriptions veer into condescension. These failings aside, here is a wealth of very important information. As a bonus, the MP3 CD includes the original video, but omits the charts and graphics in the book.\n  <em>\n   A Free Press hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 25). (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Why is there so much garbage, and where does it go? A Time magazine Hero of the Environment, Leonard has traveled the world tracking trash and its wake of destruction. Her investigations convinced her that the impossible dream of perpetual economic growth and the rampant consumer culture it engenders are the root causes of todayâ€™s environmental crises. A rigorous thinker in command of a phenomenal amount of information, Leonard believes that we must calculate the full ecological and social cost of our â€œstuff.â€ So she takes us through the extraction of natural resources and the production, distribution, consumption, and disposal of various products, documenting ecohazards and the exploitation of workers along the way. Drawing on her extensive research, gutsy fieldwork, and efforts to live â€œgreen,â€ Leonard condemns the endless barrage of advertisements, the plague of toxic synthetic chemicals, and such covertly deleterious inventions as the aluminum can. Not one to tout simple approaches to complex predicaments, Leonard instead offers hard facts, diligent analysis, and an ambitious vision in this comprehensive critique, calling for strict environmental laws, an end to overconsumption, zero waste, and a new social paradigm based on quality of life, not quantity of stuff. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5411'),
(9464, 'The Story of the Stone', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(9465, 'The Story of Us', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a good girl waiting for her chance to be bad, Grace McAllen felt lost and discontented. But all that changed one day when a gorgeous stranger with ocean blue eyes rode into tiny Edenville, Texas, on a Harley. Grace knew in her heart that the chance meeting was just the beginning of a grand new adventure....Don''t miss this prequel story to bestselling author Susan Wiggs''s novel, "The Ocean Between Us"!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5701'),
(9466, 'Straight', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10980'),
(9467, 'Straight Up', 'Deirdre Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Even a man on the run can enjoy the thrill of the chase... ** Hiding from New York''s Irish mob, Liam O''Brien is in Ireland working as a bartender in his parents'' old village. Hurt once by a man, Aislinn McCafferty is the local ice queen, which the unsuspecting Liam soon learns the hard way. Accepting a wager from the pub''s owner, Liam pursues Aislinn. But neither of them expects this donnybrook of the sexes to turn into an unlikely love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(9468, 'The Strain', 'Guillermo del Toro;Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan''s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.  The Strain  They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.  In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.  In two monthsâ€”the world.  A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.  In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .  So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his cityâ€”a city that includes his wife and sonâ€”before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1755'),
(9469, 'The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack', 'Mark Hodder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A historical figure already larger than life, Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton, pursues a legendary and violent Victorian creature, Spring Heeled Jack, at the behest of the prime minister in this convincingly researched debut. Fans of steampunk will be intrigued by the alternate history setting, in which the queen dies mid-century; they will also enjoy following Burton and his sidekick, poet Algernon Swinburne, as they investigate the dark secrets of 19th-century England and recall Burton''s legendary expedition to find the source of the Nile. Burton is an intriguing character, but the story might have benefited by more than token appearances of his intrepid fiancÃ©e, Isabel Arundell, and better integration of the fantastical elements--werewolves, time travelers--into the narrative before a wild ending that pulls everything together.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The usual superlatives for really clever fantasy (imaginative, mind-bending, phantasmagorical) arenâ€™t nearly big enough for this debut novel. With this one book, Hodder has put himself on the genre map. The time is 1861; the place, London, England. The country is besieged by loups-garous (werewolves), and Spring Heeled Jack, the notorious (and possibly mythical) creature who appears out of nowhere to accost young women, is causing a bit of a ruckus. To deal with these problems, the prime minister recruits Sir Richard Francis Burton, the noted explorer, linguist, and self-promoter. With the help of his friend, the poet Algernon Swinburne, Burton wades in with both feet and uncovers a frightening conspiracy and a (potentially) world-altering technology. And thatâ€™s just the bare-bones story of this wildly inventiveâ€”another insufficient superlativeâ€”novel. Hodder has brilliantly combined various genre staplesâ€”time travel, alternate reality, steampunkâ€”into something youâ€™ve never quite seen before. His mid-nineteenth-century Britain features steam-driven velocipedes, rotorchairs, verbally abusive messenger parrots, a pneumatic rail system, and robotic street cleaners. The bookâ€™s supporting characters include Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the revolutionary civil engineer (although Hodder uses them in excitingly twisted new ways). The book is incredibly ambitious, and the author pulls it off like an old pro: not only is the setting exciting and fresh, the story is thrilling and full of surprises. Hodderâ€™s only problem now is to find a way to follow up this exhilarating debut, which will appeal not only to sf/fantasy readers but also to mystery and historical-fiction fans. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4887'),
(9470, 'Strange Attractors', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set in worlds both technological and fey, scientific and magical, STRANGE ATTRACTORS brings to the events begun in THE SPELL OF ROSETTE to a dramatic and gripping end. Corsanon''s warriors are a vanished race, defeated in the temple wars long ago ... or so Rosette thought. She changes her mind when the portal drops her in the middle of an armed legion. Before she and Drayco can escape, Teg is injured and the Sword Master imprisoned. The glamour she spins to rescue her father sets in motion a series of events that may sunder Earth and Gaela forever. Unknown to all, the corridors hide their greatest threat, weaving magic so tight that even Kreshkali can''t see it. A battle ensues and the fabric of the many-worlds starts to unravel. Only one of the Richter blood can put things right, but which descendant will use the spell?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6237'),
(9471, 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales', 'Robert Louis Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert Louis Stevenson''s short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one of the most original and thrilling in English Literature. This new edition of Stevenson''s most famous work includes three additional short stories, two short essays, and extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorders. The introduction considers the reasons for the book''s popularity, "the double," and psychoanalytic interpretations, as well as crime, sex, class, and urbanism in the 1880s. Appendixes provide contextual historical material by Henry Maudsley, Frederic Myers, and W.T. Stead. This edition also provides an up-to-date bibliography and full notes, including details of the initial responses of Stevenson''s contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Rider Haggard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3243'),
(9472, 'Strange Highways', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the most popular and prolific writers of our time, Dean Koontz has penned many classic New York Times bestsellers, but nothing quite like this. STRANGE HIGHWAYS is Koontz''s spellbinding collection of tales interconnected by the strange highways of human experience-the adventures, terrors, failures, and triumphs encountered on the roads that are chosen, and on those detoured by fate. As profound as it is mesmerizing, STRANGE HIGHWAYS is a remarkable achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1440'),
(9473, 'The Strange Land', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9343');
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(9474, 'A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s', 'Stephanie Coontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nearly 50 years after Betty Friedan transformed the lives of American housewives, Coontz (Marriage, a History, 2005) offers a biography of Friedanâ€™s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Coupling meticulous research with first-person interviews, Coontz challenges a number of Friedanâ€™s assumptions and exaggerations while also revisiting the climate in which the work appeared and giving voice to women for whom The Feminine Mystique was nothing short of a lifesaver. Though critical of the work on a number of fronts, including its omission of working-class and minority women, Coontz lauds other aspects of The Feminine Mystique, such as its condemnation of mainstream psychiatry, which promoted the notion that women had no need to search for meaning in their lives beyond their roles as wives and mothers. As women continue to struggle with the effort to balance life and work, Coontz argues that The Feminine Mystique remains as relevant today as it when it first appeared. In tracing the roots of current discontents, which Coontz dubs the â€œSupermom Mystique,â€ her book is no less required reading than Friedanâ€™s trailblazer. --Patty Wetli\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA sharp revisiting of the generation that was floored by Betty Friedanâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  (1963), and how the book is still relevant todayâ€¦. A valuable education for women\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  men.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Daniel Horowitz, author ofÂ _Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_It Changed My Life _was the title of the book Betty Friedan wrote after her transformative 1963\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  . And change she did the lives of American women. Now in her biography of a classic, Stephanie Coontz imaginatively explores the impact of Friedanâ€™s book. Weaving a rich fabric from what women said in letters and interviews, from articles in popular magazines, current scholarship, and her own astute reading of the 1963 work, Coontz compellingly reveals how generations of womenâ€”from the flappers of the 1920s to the bloggers and helicopter moms of todayâ€”have responded to the challenges modern women face.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christie Hefner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises and longest serving female C.E.O. of a U.S. public company\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs was written about\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  is â€˜a journalistic tour de force, combining scholarship, investigative reporting and a compelling personal voice.â€™ Stephanie Coontz has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the most transformative movement of our lifetimes. Much of what Coontz reports regarding the prevailing ethos of the 1950s as a time of conformity, cultural conservatism and social repressiveness will be fascinating and eye-opening for younger readers. This book is a must read for men as well as for women. And the transformational desire for a work/family balance in life is now reflected not just by gender, but by generation, as both men and women â€˜need to grow and fulfill their potentialities as human beings,â€™ as Friedan wrote almost a half a century ago.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofÂ _Eat, Pray, Love_\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontz is not just one of the most important historians in America, she is also a personal hero of mine and a brilliant writer. This bookâ€”like all her books before itâ€”has been a marvel and education for me to behold. I am awed by the scope of this research, of this thinking, and I am struck once more by how much there is learned (and taught) about the slow, stubborn advancement of women in America over the last one hundred years. I will keep\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  in the forefront of my bookshelf forever.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Library Journal\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œCoontz recaptures the impact of Betty Friedanâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  when it was published in 1963. Although Friedan claimed credit for initiating the modern feminist movement, Coontz places the book more dispassionately in its historical context as one of many factors working against entrenched gender roles. Still, Coontz demonstrates persuasively that women readers from many backgrounds found reliefâ€”some called it life-savingâ€”in knowing that they were not crazy and not alone in their need to find some work independent of their family roles.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Donna L. Franklin, author ofÂ _Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book offers a nuanced perspective on the womenâ€™s movement by ending the invisibility of African-American women.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontzâ€™s new book takes you on an engrossing and enlightening tour of the past, with wisdom and meaning for the future.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Bradshaw, author ofÂ _Reclaiming Virtue_Â and the #1Â _New York Times_Â bestsellers,Â _Homecoming_Â andÂ _Creating Love_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontz continues to amaze me. In her new book,\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  , she chronicles the untold story of some of Americaâ€™s greatest pioneers. This is a must read for all who care about our countryâ€™s growth and maturity. We owe the women described here the same gratitude and respect given to Lewis and Clark and the others who carved out this great nation.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bitch Magazine\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œAs the author of several books that challenge the accepted historical narrative of â€˜traditionalâ€™ families and institutionsâ€¦Coontz soberly checks facts, corrects misinformation, and fills in holes in the record. Most important, she shows how assumptions and misinformation about the past are used not only to paint a distorted picture of how things used to be, but to justify insidious policies and legislation like the Defense of Marriage Act. In her latest workâ€¦Coontz focuses on a book weâ€™ve come to take for granted, arguing that it deserves a closer lookâ€¦. [S]he not only explores the actual content of\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  (going well beyond the usual proclamations about its controversiality and importance), but insists that readers (and, presumably, feminists) figure out how to reconcile our idealized version of history with information that complicates it.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œThis perceptive [and] engrossingâ€¦book provides welcome context and background to a still controversial bestseller that changed how women viewed themselves.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCoupling meticulous research with first-person interviews, Coontz challenges a number of Friedanâ€™s assumptions and exaggerations while also revisiting the climate in which the work appeared and giving voice to women for whom\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  was nothing short of a lifesaverâ€¦. As women continue to struggle with the effort to balance life and work, Coontz argues that\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  remains as relevant today as when it first appeared. In tracing the roots of current discontents, which Coontz dubs the â€˜Supermom Mystique,â€™ her book is no less required reading than Friedanâ€™s trailblazer.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n  , â€œThis Weekâ€™s Hot Readsâ€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA thoughtful reappraisal of Betty Friedanâ€™s 1960s classic â€“ and a meditation on the ever-evolving role of women in American society.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christine Whelan,Â _HuffingtonPost_\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[An] excellent new social history of the impact of Betty Friedanâ€™s landmark book on American womenâ€¦. Coontz is the rare social historian who knows how to weave meticulous research into a compelling narrative of our not-too-distant pastâ€¦.\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  is, in many ways, better than the original. Today the problem has been named, and\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  offers poignant personal reactions, accessible history and present-day comparisons to give voice to the modern quest for gender equality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    BUST\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[E]xcellent, eminently readableâ€¦. Coontzâ€™s â€˜demystifyingâ€™ of both the era and Friedan is an erudite, even-handed look at the explosive feminist undercurrents of the era.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Louis Menand,Â _The New Yorker_\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[A] useful revisiting of Friedanâ€™s book.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times Book Review\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[A] timely contribution to the conversation about what constitutes progress for women (and for which women) in these days of mommy wars and mama grizzliesâ€¦. By considering\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  as one sturdy strand in the complex arguments weâ€™re engaged in to this day, Coontz does Friedan the tremendous favor of pulling her down from heaven and up from hellâ€¦. [I]tâ€™s a relief to have the level-headed Coontz providing perspective and taking Friedanâ€™s work and legacy for what it was: stirring, strange, complicated and crucial.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Salon.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  A Strange Stirring_ gives voice to women whose lives were transformed by Friedanâ€™s book, but most compellingly, it sets the historical record straight as far as its impact on families.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Wall Street Journal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[S]ocial historian Stephanie Coontzâ€¦takes a fresh look at\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  by examining its effect on the bookâ€™s original readersâ€¦. Ms. Coontz usefully debunks some of the myths that have grown up around\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  and Friedanâ€¦. [A]n illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bookforum.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCoontz reconciles Friedanâ€™s flawed text with its seemingly outsized influence, and deftly depicts the social context for the dramatic testimonials uncovered in Coontzâ€™s research, the revelatory proto-feminist experiences shared by women of her motherâ€™s generationâ€¦. [Coontzâ€™s] clear-eyed review of the social data and cultural contradictions of the timeâ€¦comprise a fascinating and important study.\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  â€¦is a book of rigor and undeceiving, one worthy of Friedanâ€™s tradition.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _The Buffalo News\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFor some of us, this is a jolting â€˜remember when;â€™ for others, a slice of history forgotten all too soon. For all of us, there remains relevance.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bookpage\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with fascinating statistics and research on 20th-century American social history, including the effect of â€˜liberationâ€™ on middle-class, working-class and African-American women, Coontz shines new light on a landmark work.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Seattle\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _Â Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis book enriches Coontzâ€™s impressive body of work on American family lifeâ€¦. She continues to deftly make history a personal science, persuading readers to ponder those societal yokes weâ€™ve taken up to wear around our own necksâ€¦.Â _A Strange Stirring_Â reveals the power of two writers; both are able to see beyond the conventional view and the untold history, and enable the reader to look ahead with new eyes and new questions.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _Ladies Home Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA fascinating examination of Friedanâ€™s much-misunderstood classic,Â _A Strange Stirring_Â should be required reading for any young woman today who believes that sheâ€™s â€˜not a feminist.â€™ Not only does Stephanie movingly recount how revelatoryÂ _The Feminine Mystique_Â was to the millions of discontented housewives who read it, but she also details â€“ with examples that had me shaking my head in stupefaction â€“ the unbridled sexism that characterized life circa 1963.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michelle Goldberg,\n   <em>\n    The New Republic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œCoontz recounts the catalytic effect that\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  had on a great many women. Her book is full of stories of desperate, suffering people who realized they werenâ€™t crazy only when they picked up Friedanâ€™s bestsellerâ€¦. But\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  is not just an artifact of a benighted era. It still contains important lessons about one of the most important questions of all, which is how to create a meaningful, autonomous life.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6825'),
(9475, 'Stranger', 'Zoe Archer &amp; Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story - even if the boys in Chicago''s newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she''s sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there''s magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn''t caught her eavesdropping...Catullus Graves knows what it''s like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he''s a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain redheaded scribbler, he''s thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma''s insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus'' inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5219'),
(9476, 'The Stranger House', 'Reginald Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of the witty Dalziel/Pascoe police procedurals (_Good Morning, Midnight_, etc.) by Diamond Daggerâ€“winner Hill may be nonplussed by this stand-alone, a mix of historical mystery, gothic romance, ghost story and tutorial on religion and Norse mythology. Samantha "Sam" Flood, an Australian mathematics whiz, visits the isolated British village of Illthwaite before attending graduate school at Cambridge, hoping to discover the origins of her grandmother who emigrated from the place as a child. Miguel "Mig" Madero, a former novice priest now a history scholar, seeks the link between an ancestor who disappeared during the Spanish Armada defeat and a Catholic Illthwaite family. The villagers, quirky and devious, seem to know more than they''ll reveal. Sam and Mig, initially antagonistic, join forces when their quests intersect. Spanning four centuries and related by several narrators, who slowly clarify the mystery, the book is too long and repetitive and seasoned with wild coincidences. Still, the engrossing historical background, especially Elizabeth I''s campaign to eliminate English Catholicism, more than compensates.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Twentysomething Aussie math whiz Samantha Flood has fiery red hair and a fierce determination to learn the truth about her paternal grandmother, an orphan shipped from her native England to Australia under suspicious circumstances. Sober Spaniard Miguel Madero, who experiences ghostly visions and painful sensations in his feet and hands, has abandoned pursuit of the priesthood to engage in research about English Catholics during the Reformation. The paths of Samantha and Miguel (known to all as "Mig") cross in the tiny English village of Illthwaite, home to the Stranger House, an inn that has hosted weary travelers for more than 500 years. Samantha and Mig, an unlikely duo, are drawn to one another as each discovers secrets simmering beneath the surface of Illthwaite''s deceptively serene facade. Creator of the critically acclaimed suspense series starring Yorkshire policemen Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, Hill has rendered a stellar stand-alone packed with compelling characters, provocative plot twists, and a potent sense of place. "There''s two histories of Illthwaite," says Noddy Melton, a quirky retired copper who regales Samantha with revealing yarns. "The official one, the kind that gets printed in books . . and the true history that only gets written in people''s minds."\n <em>\n  Allison Block\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4946'),
(9477, 'Stranger in a strange land', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Epic, entertaining, Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today, the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the first man from Mars to visit Earth, is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author''s imagination that stretches from Gulliver''s Travels to 1984\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3950'),
(9478, 'Stranger in Paradise (2008)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10549'),
(9479, 'The Stranger', 'Albert Camus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus''s first novel, The Stranger (L''etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Now, in an illuminating new American translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(9480, 'Strangers', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The plot twists ingeniously...chilling." (The New York Times Book Review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1436'),
(9481, 'Strangers in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The new novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others-especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed-and strangled-with cords of black velvet. It doesn''t surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders''s scandalous death is a source of titillation and speculation to the public-and of humiliation to his family. But while people in the city are talking about it, those close to Anders aren''t so anxious to do the same. With some help from her billionaire husband, Roarke, Eve''s soon knocking on doors-or barging through them-to find answers. But the facts don''t add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn''t struggle. The security breach in the apartment indicates that the killer was someone known to the family, but everyone''s alibi checks out. Was this a crime of passion in a kinky game gone wrong-or a meticulously planned execution? It''s up to Dallas to solve a case in which strangers may be connected in unexpected, and deadly, ways.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2369'),
(9482, 'Strangled', 'Brian McGrory', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Newspaper reporter Jack Flynn, last seen in McGrory''s Dead Line (2004), investigates a series of contemporary murders that parallel the terrifying Boston Strangler slayings of the 1960s in the author''s less than convincing fourth thriller. Somewhat improbably, Flynn must begin by probing the older case and the debate over whether the confessed strangler, Albert DeSalvo, was actually guilty. In the novel''s reality, the senior Bay State senator isn''t Ted Kennedy but a prosecutor who made his reputation on the DeSalvo case and who''s among many in law enforcement discouraging Flynn from re-examining the official line that DeSalvo was the murderer. The sympathetic Flynn, with his train wreck of a private life, compensates for the author not probing more deeply serious questions about the real-life strangler case. Those seeking a rich, compelling look at the possible return of a serial killer would do better to turn to Peter Straub''s Blue Rose and its sequels.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Has the Boston Strangler returned, reprising his murder spree of 40 years ago? That question plagues reporter Jack Flynn as he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman that becomes just one in a series, with the killer mailing clues to Jack in the newsroom and at home. What if the man who was convicted of rape, suspected of being the strangler, and murdered in prison wasn''t actually the strangler? The very possibility that the strangler may be on the loose threatens the future of the police commissioner, now on the verge of running for mayor, a man who made his career during the 1960s investigation of the murder cases. Working with colleague Vinny Mongillo and retired police detective Hank Sweeney, Flynn tracks down clues from Boston to Las Vegas, dodging attempts on his own life along the way. For Jack, the story provokes a crisis of trust in the police, the management of his beloved\n <em>\n  Boston Record,\n </em>\n and a close friend. McGrory offers delicious descriptions of Boston''s food, sights, and characters in this taut page-turner with enough suspense to make readers anxiously await the next installment.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4910'),
(9483, 'Strata', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Company builds planets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads ''End Nuclear Testing Now'', doesn''t dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.\n</p>\n<p>\n But then come a discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1981,\n <em>\n  Strata\n </em>\n is an early exploration of the idea that was to become the best-selling\n <em>\n  Discworld\n </em>\n series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5118'),
(9484, 'The Straw Men', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Michael Marshall''s unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy. Sarah tries to struggle, but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her throat. ''Nobody watching,'' the man says with hateful calm. ''I made it this way. I can walk where nobody sees.'' The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people. And soon they''ll get around to you. Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator -- his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago. But the key to Sarah''s whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident, but they leave Ward a very strange message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true. As he begins to investigate his own past Ward finds himself drawn into the shadowy, sinister world of the Straw Men -- and into the desperate race to find Sarah, before her time runs out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3020'),
(9485, 'Street gang: the complete history of Sesame Street', 'Michael Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television-how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo** When the first episode aired on November 10, 1969, *Sesame Street* revolutionized the way education was presented to children on television. It has since become the longest-running children''s show in history, and today reaches 8 million preschoolers on 350 PBS stations and airs in 120 countries. *Street Gang* is the compelling and often comical story of the creation and history of this media masterpiece and pop culture landmark, told with the cooperation of one of the show''s cofounders, Joan Ganz Cooney. *Sesame Street* was born as the result of a discussion at a dinner party at Cooney''s home about the poor quality of children''s programming and hit the air as a big bang of creative fusion from Jim Henson and company, quickly rocketing to success. *Street Gang* traces the evolution of the show from its inspiration in the civil rights movement through its many ups and downs-from Nixon''s trying to cut off its funding to the rise of Elmo-via the remarkable personalities who have contributed to it. Davis reveals how *Sesame Street* has taught millions of children not only their letters and numbers, but also cooperation and fair play, tolerance and self-respect, conflict resolution, and the importance of listening. This is the unforgettable story of five decades of social and cultural change and the miraculous creative efforts, passion, and commitment of the writers, producers, directors, animators, and puppeteers who created one of the most influential programs in the history of television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2654'),
(9486, 'The Street Lawyer', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake &amp; Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who''d been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake &amp; Sweeney.The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.And a thief.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2907'),
(9487, 'Street Magic', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her name is Pete Caldecott. She was just sixteen when she met Jack Winter, a gorgeous, larger-than-life mage who thrilled her with his witchcraft. Then a spirit Jack summoned killed him before Peteâ€™s eyesâ€”or so she thought. Now a detective[MSOffice2] , Pete is investigating the case of a young girl kidnapped from the streets of London. A tipsterâ€™s chilling prediction has led police directly to the childâ€¦but when Pete meets the informant, sheâ€™s shocked to learn he is none other than Jack. Strung out on heroin, Jack a shadow of his former self. But heâ€™s able to tell Pete exactly where Bridgetâ€™s kidnappers are hiding: in the supernatural shadow-world of the fey. Even though sheâ€™s spent years disavowing the supernatural, Pete follows Jack into the invisible fey underworld, where she hopes to discover the truth about what happened to Bridgetâ€”and what happened to Jack on that dark day so long agoâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1533'),
(9488, 'Street of the Five Moons', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she''s a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.* Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich''s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley. Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It''s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she''s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart... *Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously.But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she''s a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.* Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich''s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley. Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It''s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she''s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart...*Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she''s a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.* Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich''s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley. Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It''s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she''s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
(9489, 'The Street Philosopher', 'Matthew Plampin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home Ä the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused Ä and the first on which the media had a major influence. The Street Philosopher Ä the nineteenth-century term for a society writer, a gossip columnist Ä captures this scene brilliantly.Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London CourierÄs man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by artist Robert Styles, he sets about exposing the incompetence of the army generals.Two years later, as Sebastopol burns, Thomas returns to England under mysterious circumstances. Desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he takes a job as a Ästreet philosopherÄ, a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria, ThomasÄs past returns to haunt him in the most horrifying way...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2306'),
(9490, 'Strengths Finder 2.0', 'Tom Rath', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the author of the New York Times bestsellers\n </p>\n <p>\n  How Full Is Your Bucket? (Gallup Press, 2004,\n  <strong>\n   Strengths Based Leadership\n  </strong>\n  (Gallup Press, 2009), and\n  <strong>\n   Wellbeing\n  </strong>\n  (Gallup Press, 2010) a book that features the new\n  <strong>\n   Wellbeing Finder\n  </strong>\n  assessment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0\n </p>\n <p>\n  Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chances are, you don''t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover their top five talents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you''ll use it as a reference for decades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0\n  <br />\n  (using the unique access code included with each book)\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A more customized version of your top five theme report\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  STRENGTHS: THE NEXT GENERATION\n </p>\n <p>\n  Q&amp;A with author Tom Rath\n </p>\n <p>\n  (From the Gallup Management Journal; interviewed by Jennifer Robison)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Last month, StrengthsFinder 2.0 hit the bookstores. Book browsers, no doubt, had many questions, and among them was probably "Didn''t I already read a book about this?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, actually, yes. But the topic was worth revisiting for two reasons. In the six years since the release of Now, Discover Your Strengths, more than 2 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, which means billions of people have not yet had the opportunity. The second reason is that Gallup researchers just haven''t been able to let the topic rest. Over the past decade, they''ve done more surveys, more interviews, and more studies; they''ve prodded and poked and analyzed. And they realized that there''s a lot more to understanding human talent than most people know. Those who are familiar with the StrengthsFinder assessment know that it is designed to uncover certain key talents -- patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that can be productively applied. These patterns are categorized into 34 broad themes -- such as Achiever, Ideation, and Relator -- and those themes indicate and predict one''s innate and unique talents. Those talents, when multiplied by the investment of time spent practicing, developing skills, and building knowledge, can become strengths. Some of this is just common sense; it seems intuitive that your performance will be better if you''re doing what you naturally do well. But some of it seems counterintuitive and runs directly against conventional wisdom: No amount of training will help you excel in your areas of weakness. You can''t do anything you want to do -- or be anything you want to be -- because you''re just not going to be good at everything. But if you work with your talents, you can be extraordinary. StrengthsFinder has resonated with the business community because there''s a direct link between talent development and performance. In this interview, Tom Rath, author of StrengthsFinder 2.0, discusses what Gallup scientists have learned since the publication of the first book, what more there is to discover about your talents, and why it''s bad to focus on your employees'' weaknesses, but simply cruel to ignore them completely. GMJ: Why the new book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tom Rath: StrengthsFinder 2.0 is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers -- it was oriented more toward managers -- or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow. More than two million people have taken the StrengthsFinder assessment, and each month, the number of people learning about their talents goes up. But readers keep asking us: "Now that I know about my strengths, what do I do next?" So we went back and surveyed hundreds of them and asked them how they apply their talents. Then we whittled their suggestions down to the ten best ideas for each theme. We also added more than five thousand Strengths Insights to version 2.0 that allow us to offer more individualized theme descriptions than we could before. So, instead of general descriptions of your top five talent themes, in 2.0, you get a talent profile so unique that you''re unlikely to share even a sentence with someone else. And as I said, the first book was really written for a business audience. People have had trouble retrofitting the theme descriptions if they are in non-management roles, but they''ve tried. This book helps readers apply strengths theory to any type of role and gives them ideas to help them apply their talents in their daily life. GMJ: It''s been six years since the first book was published, and Gallup has done hundreds of thousands more interviews. Have you discovered anything new about talents and strengths? Have you altered your original premise?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: No, but we''ve seen more and more evidence that demonstrates that focusing on your talents is important. We did a survey in 2004 that examined what happens when your manager ignores you, focuses on your strengths, or focuses on your weaknesses. We found that if your manager focuses on your strengths, your chances of being actively disengaged go down to one in one hundred. However, if your manager primarily focuses on your weaknesses, your chances of being actively disengaged are 22%, and if your manager ignores you, that percentage rises to 40%. GMJ: Why such a high rate of disengagement among those who are ignored?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: It basically mirrors the psychology of raising kids -- being completely ignored is the worst possible psychological state. You would actually feel better if your manager went from ignoring you to focusing on what you do wrong all the time, because then at least she''s paying attention to you. GMJ: Did your new research turn up anything that surprised you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: We''ve talked a lot about how strengths can help you be more of who you are, and you get more out of your best players, and all of that. But in the last ten years, we''ve also found that it''s a good strategy just to wipe out the extreme negativity in the workplace. I get this question almost every time I talk to a group: "What do I do about that one person who just drags everyone down every day?" My glib answer was to get rid of the person. I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn''t much they could do with some of those people. But the data from the last five years would suggest that much of that epidemic of disengagement is fixable. More than I ever would have guessed, it helps tremendously if a manager starts by focusing on someone''s strengths. You may not take someone who''s actively disengaged and make him into your most engaged employee, but it will help get him out of that mindset where he''s scaring off colleagues and customers. GMJ: So is that the business case to be made for putting people in roles that play to their strengths? Rath: I think it''s the secondary business case. The main business case is that people have a lot more fun and get a lot more done if they''re able to spend time in areas where they have some natural talent. I think that''s a fundamental principle that hasn''t changed much at all. The one thing that we were clear about in StrengthsFinder 2.0 is that the American dream ideal that "You can be anything you want if you just try hard enough" is detrimental. This is especially true when people buy into it hook, line, and sinker. You may not be able to be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of who you already are. [Taking] StrengthsFinder is just a starting point; it''s step one of a hundred in figuring out the areas where you have the most potential for growth. GMJ: What is the most challenging aspect of your ongoing strengths research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: While hundreds of people in our organization continue to research this topic each year, our greatest challenge might be incorporating the new research while making the message even more succinct and applicable to a wider audience. So while we have hundreds of new case studies and meta-analyses about strengths -- and about employee engagement and business outcomes -- we tried to stay as close as we could to the basics. GMJ: The Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment has always categorized talents into thirty-four themes. Have you ever considered adding or subtracting any, or refining them further?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: Yes, we looked at that extensively as we started to review our plan for the updated version of the assessment. We found that so far, the thirty-four themes have done a good job of describing much of what we''ve learned since releasing the first version of the assessment. If enough people had made a case about a specific theme that didn''t exist, we were open to adding that theme. I think we probably will continue to investigate whether there are themes that emerge that we haven''t yet picked up on. But there wasn''t a real strong case for any additions at this time. GMJ: What would you most like to accomplish with StrengthsFinder 2.0?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rath: Our big goal and mission as a company is to help people do more of what they do well. We''ve topped two million completed StrengthsFinder assessments, and it''s not too hard to imagine that number getting to twenty million soon. An organization that exists to help people has a responsibility to get better and better. By reaching beyond our initial audience, we help people get the latest and greatest research. But we also hope it helps people live better lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6098'),
(9491, 'StrengthsFinder 2.0', 'Rath, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9675'),
(9492, 'Strike Back', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8924'),
(9493, 'Strike Zone', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Klingons--never one of the Federation''s most cooperative members--become engaged in a deadly conflict with a previously peaceful race. This conflict has already claimed several thousand civilian lives. Now a great cry of revenge goes up on both sides, and unless Picard can defuse the lust for battle, millions more will perish!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6761'),
(9494, 'The Strode Venturer', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9335'),
(9495, 'A Stroke of Midnight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2799'),
(9496, 'Strong Kids, Healthy Kids', 'Frederick Hahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9818'),
(9497, 'Strong, Sleek and Sinful', 'Lorie O&#39;Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Special Agent Kylie Donovan knows the evil that men do.  After her sisterâ€™s murder went unsolved, she decided to work undercover for the FBI. Now, posing as a college student, she hopes to track down an Internet predator who is murdering teenage girls.  Using herself as bait, Kylie is sure she can lure the killer out of the shadowsâ€¦until her fascination with a drop-dead gorgeous cop threatens to blow her whole case.With a rock hard body and seductive smile, Lieutenant Perry Flynn is a hard man to ignore.  He makes it very clear that Kylieâ€™s fierce attraction is mutual.  But Kylie canâ€™t afford to let Perry cloud her judgment, especially when she begins to suspect that his dark obsession with the case runs deeper than it should.  Then, when disturbing new evidence points to a cop, Kylie wonders if her sinful thoughts about Perry have thrust her into the strong, sleek arms of a killerâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4359'),
(9498, 'A Study in Scarlet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9385');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9499, 'Stuff White People Like', 'Christian Lander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday *New York Times*, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe theyâ€™re unique, yet somehow theyâ€™re all exactly the same, talking about how they â€œgetâ€ Sarah Silvermanâ€™s â€œsubversiveâ€ comedy and Wes Andersonâ€™s â€œdrollâ€ films. Theyâ€™re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. Theyâ€™re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs. You know who they are: Theyâ€™re white people. And theyâ€™re here, and youâ€™re gonna have to deal. Fortunately, hereâ€™s a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.**Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:****â€œThe best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? â€˜Blonde on Blondeâ€™ on the iPod? The author knows who reads *The New Yorker* and who wears plaid.â€**â€“Janet Maslinâ€™s summer picks, CBS.comâ€œ**The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it''s not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children''s games as adults. Kickball, anyone?â€**â€“Salon.com**â€œA handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.â€***â€“NY Daily News*****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1253'),
(9500, 'Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions', 'Christian Lander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n , and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.\n</p>\n<p>\n They believe theyâ€™re unique, yet somehow theyâ€™re all exactly the same, talking about how they â€œgetâ€ Sarah Silvermanâ€™s â€œsubversiveâ€ comedy and Wes Andersonâ€™s â€œdrollâ€ films. Theyâ€™re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. Theyâ€™re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs.\n</p>\n<p>\n You know who they are: Theyâ€™re white people. And theyâ€™re here, and youâ€™re gonna have to deal. Fortunately, hereâ€™s a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThe best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? â€˜Blonde on Blondeâ€™ on the iPod? The author knows who reads\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  and who wears plaid.â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslinâ€™s summer picks, CBS.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it''s not a bus), their\n  <em>\n   idle threats\n  </em>\n  to move to Canada, and joy in playing\n  <em>\n   children''s games as adults.\n  </em>\n  Kickball, anyone?â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€“Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œA handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“NY Daily News\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7463'),
(9501, 'Stupid White Men', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3007'),
(9502, 'The Stupidest Angel', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. ''Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, after all. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he''s not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn''t run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead. But hold on! There''s an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) It''s none other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, our angel''s not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen. Only Christopher Moore, the man who brought you the outrageous lost gospel Lamb and the hysterical fish tale Fluke could have devised a new holiday classic that tugs at the heartstrings and serves up a healthy slice of fruitcake to boot. Move over, Charles Dickens -- it''s Christopher Moore time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(9503, 'The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. ''Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, after all. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he''s not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn''t run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead. But hold on! There''s an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) It''s none other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, our angel''s not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen. Only Christopher Moore, the man who brought you the outrageous lost gospel Lamb and the hysterical fish tale Fluke could have devised a new holiday classic that tugs at the heartstrings and serves up a healthy slice of fruitcake to boot. Move over, Charles Dickens -- it''s Christopher Moore time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4531'),
(9504, 'Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship', 'Tom Clancy &amp; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Never before seen by the general public: a rare glimpse inside a Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear submarine ... with Tom Clancy as your guide. Only the author of\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Submarine\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photographs, illustration, and diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mock war scenarios and weapons launch procedures\n </li>\n <li>\n  An inside look at life on board, from captain to crew, from training exercises to operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fascinating history and evolution of submarines\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PLUS:\n </strong>\n Tom Clancy''s controversial views on submariner tactics and training methods.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Clancy''s first nonfiction book is a thorough, highly detailed examination of the technology employed by U.S. nuclear attack submarines. After months of lobbying, Clancy was granted security clearance by the navy to board and photograph the nuclear powered USS Miami. Every inch of this state-of-the-art vessel is covered, from the hull, control room, and engine room nuclear reactors to the communications/electronic warfare space and torpedo bays. Clancy shows readers how all the components are made and how they work. Also included is the fascinating history and evolution of submarines and an inside look at life on board, from captain to crew. Much of the information here has only recently been declassified, and Clancy''s insightful views on the future of this type of warship in the post-Cold War era are interesting as well. Recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, R.I.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6491'),
(9505, 'Subspace 1 Subspace explorers', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10778'),
(9506, 'Subspace 2 Subspace Encounter', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10769'),
(9507, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Though ostensibly written for children, this heroic and heart-wrenching His Dark Materials trilogy is beloved by readers of all ages. These three novels unlock the door to parallel universes where demons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universesâ€”if it isn''t destroyed first. Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.Lyra and Will tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of Citt;gazze, where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Their journey is plagued with obstacles, some familiar and some horribly new, but it eventually brings them closer to Will''s father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4181'),
(9508, 'Success to the Brave', 'Alexander Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Richard Bolitho, promoted to ViceAdmiral of the Red, sets out as a peace emissary to fulfill a condition of the Treaty of Amiens, to return the island of San Felipe to the dominion of the former British enemy, the French\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(9509, 'The Successor', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a dayâ€™s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New Yorkâ€™s most renowned private equity firm. Heâ€™s taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailedâ€“all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. Heâ€™s offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one that goes beyond boardrooms, balance sheets, and even Everest itselfâ€“one that will leave its mark on history.Gillette is no stranger to Jesse Wood, the first African American president of the United States, having been Woodâ€™s chosen running mate in his historic bid for the White House. Though still slightly upset over being dropped from the ticket at the eleventh hour, Gilletteâ€™s not about to ignore the chief executiveâ€™s summons to a top-secret meeting at Camp David. There, Wood drops a bombshell: The president of Cuba is dead. Cubaâ€™s communist regime has kept the dictatorâ€™s demise hush while it races to fill the power vacuum. And the United States is poised to support a cabal of Cuban professionals plotting a coup. The President wants Gillette to meet with the conspirators and size up the chances for a successful capitalist revolution. But by no means can his mission be traced back to the White House. If anything goes wrong, Gillette is on his own.And if certain people have their way, something will go wrong. For the conspiracy to liberate Cuba isnâ€™t the only one afoot. Enemies in high places, who will go to any lengths to wreak revenge on Gillette and to unseat President Wood, have set in motion a campaign of deception, sabotage, and murder whose shockwaves will resonate from the streets of Havana to the Oval Office. But for Gillette, who has just named his alluring and ambitious protÃ©gÃ©, Allison Wallace, as his successor at Everest, the greatest peril may lie much closer to home.The Successor is blue-chip Stephen Frey, marshaling his flawless instincts for edgy, provocative, breathtaking suspense with a masterâ€™s touch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6567'),
(9510, 'Succubi', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to Lockwood, a sedate, cozy kind of town...until night falls and the succubi come out to play. Hardcore sex, hardcore violence, and a harrowing ancient prophecy about to come true in spades-finally a supernatural horror novel that militant feminists will love! Sexy attorney Ann Slavik returns to her quiet hometown hoping to find her roots...but what does she find instead: murder, debaucher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9882'),
(9511, 'Succubi Like It Hot', 'Jill Myles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: NOBODY SAID SUCKING WAS EASY.With a hot new figure, her dream job as an archaeologist, and "two" gorgeous boyfriends to scratch her seductive Itch -- an angel and a vampire -- Jackie Brighton is totally getting the hang of life as a succubus. Then she accidentally knocks the pizza guy unconscious with her touch. Great -- she''s "cursed." After striking a deal to get the curse lifted by a crafty demon, Jackie and her best friend Remy take a road trip to deliver a cryptic message to the nation''s oldest succubus. Unfortunately, neither of her jealous lovers is talking to Jackie right now, and due to the curse, she''s desperate to get her Itch scratched very soon. Their journey gets weirder with every mile -- demonic possession, a charming stalker, a cryptic warning -- and when they get to New Orleans, Jackie discovers a dangerous catch to her supernatural bargain. Someone wants her dead -- again. Can a brainy vixen in a miniskirt outsmart the forces of evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1592'),
(9512, 'Succulent Prey by Wrath James White', 'Wrath James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9987'),
(9513, 'Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek', 'Olivia Munn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Today''s hottest geek and host of G4''s ATTACK OF THE SHOW dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything from Star Wars, gadgets, and her love of banana cream pie.  Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network.  She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman.  SUCK IT WONDER WOMAN is her paean to Geeks everywhere.  Using her trademark humor in essays like THOUGHTS ABOUT MY FIRST AGENTâ€™S GIRLFRIENDâ€™S VAGINA she skewers what itâ€™s like to live in Hollywood.  In " SEX: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP YOURSELF HAVE MORE OF IT" she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on. In "WHAT TO DO WHEN THE ROBOTS INVADE (YES, WHEN!)," Olivia offers valuable information on... what to do when the robots invade! And just when you thought she couldnâ€™t get any more Geeky, she can. This book also includes an Olivia Munn timeline of great moments in Geek history and her answers to the Unofficial Geek FAQ. Is it any wonder that Olivia Munn is quickly becoming the most powerful Geek on the planet? SUCK IT WONDER WOMAN is a humorous look at geeks, gadgets, Hollywood, and huge heapings of banana cream pie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2279'),
(9514, 'Sucker Bet', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the mystery genre, there''s always room for a new premise, and Swain has come up with a doozy: his hero, Tony Valentine, is an ex-cop who specializes in catching casino cheats. The downside of the job is that Tony must work for casino owners, which is why, as this third entry in the high-spirited series begins, he is on the lam, enjoying a romance with a lady wrestler and even participating in the odd tag-team match. But when the romance founders and Tony gets a summons from the head of security at Florida''s Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino, he heads for the Everglades. The scam is several layers deep--crooked blackjack dealers and fixed basketball games play roles, along with a couple of nasty alligators eager to test Tony''s wrestling skills. The gambling details are a treat, the banter is worthy of a place at Elmore Leonard''s table, and the Floridian sense of absurdity draws on Hiaasen without seeming derivative. With a new publisher willing to back Tony''s play, Swain''s ship just may have come in.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIngenious entertainment.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN . . . ENDLESS FUN . . .\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   SUCKER BET\n  </em>\n  IS ITS OWN BEST PAYOUT.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_St. Petersburg Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ[Swain is] an entertaining writer whose breezy style and flair for wise-guy dialogue make the story zoom by.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Boston Globe\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œHITS THE JACKPOT . . .\n  <em>\n   SUCKER BET\n  </em>\n  IS A SURE THING.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Chicago Tribune\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _â€œ\n  </strong>\n  WOW, WHAT A DISCOVERY!\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  James Swain is the best new writer I have come across in a long, long time.\n  <em>\n   Sucker Bet\n  </em>\n  is wonderful. It snaps with the gritty feel of the truth. Swain has carefully added all of the ingredients: tragedy, humor, action, and most of all, a cast of characters that would make Elmore Leonardâ€™s mouth water.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”MICHAEL CONNELLY\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRealistic, crisp dialogue spoken by three-dimensional characters . . . Swain moves\n  <em>\n   Sucker Bet\n  </em>\n  from the condos and hotels of Miami Beach to the suburbs of West Broward and the Everglades with a keen eye to the area.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Ft. Lauderdale_ _Sun-Sentinel\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  Sucker Bet_ is sheer magic. Fast and full or surprises, and rich with fascinating insider knowledge of casinos and gambling and world-class con men and bad guys of every denomination. James Swain is the real thing, a writer of pure, athletic prose, capable of bringing alive characters as original and three-dimensional as our best novelists. . . . Sign me up as a charter member of the Swain fan club.â€â€”JAMES W. HALL\n  <br />\n  Author of _Blackwater Sound\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œSwain has come up with a doozy. . . . The gambling details are a treat [and] the banter is worthy of a place at Elmore Leonardâ€™s table. . . . Swainâ€™s ship just JUNE have come in.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Booklist\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6368'),
(9515, 'Sudden Death', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: - David Rosenfelt''s previous novel. "Bury the Lead, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 6/04, and was a "Today show Book Club Pick chosen by Janet Evanovich.- "First Degree (Mysterious Press, 5/03) won raves from national publications, including "Entertainment Weekly, and starred reviews from both "Kirkus Reviews and "Publishers Weekly.- The author''s debut novel. "Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 2002), was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was praised in the "New York Times.- David Rosenfelt''s previous three books were Featured Alternates of The Mystery Guild," with foreign rights sold in Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Japan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(9516, 'Sudden Mischief', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Spenser''s back. And Susan''s ex is quaking in his boots...Susan Silverman''s ex doesn''t call himself "Silverman" anymore--he''s changed his name to "Sterling." And that''s not the only thing that''s phony about him. A do-gooding charity fundraiser, he''s been accused of sexual harassment by no less than four different women. And not long after Spenser starts investigating, Sterling is wanted for a bigger charge: murder... "Sparkling."--*Detroit Free Press*"A highly satisfactory addition to a well-rounded series."-- *Houston Chronicle*"Smooth as silk."-- *Orlando Sentinel*"A corker."-- *Buffalo News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4036'),
(9517, 'Sudden Mischief (1998)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 25', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10552'),
(9518, 'Sudden Sea', 'R.A. Scotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This spellbinding narrative, focusing on the extraordinary human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring a deadly tropical cyclone to the Northeast in the summer of 1938, summons back the most ferocious storm ever to hit the East Coast. It was a natural disaster so intense that it indelibly marked not only the lives of families across seven states but also the land itself, requiring the entire coastline map of New England to be redrawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10497'),
(9519, 'Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938', 'R.A. Scotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Draws on period newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, archival footage, and weather forecasters to provide an in-depth account of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which left a trail of death and destruction across seven communities and obliterated entire communities and families. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7375'),
(9520, 'A sudden, fearful death', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(9521, 'Suffer the Children', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4582'),
(9522, 'Suffer the Little Children', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting new mystery from international bestseller Donna Leon Donna LeonÃ‚â€™s Commissario Brunetti series has made VeniceÃ‚â€”a city thatÃ‚â€™s beautiful and sophisticated, but also secretive and corruptÃ‚â€”one of mystery fansÃ‚â€™ most beloved locales. In this brilliant new book, Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bed of a respected pediatrician, where he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men had burst into the doctorÃ‚â€™s apartment, attacked him, and kidnapped his eighteen-month-old son. What could have motivated an assault so violent that it has left the doctor mute? And could this crime be related to the moneymaking scam run by pharmacists that BrunettiÃ‚â€™s colleague has recently uncovered? As Brunetti delves deeper into the case, a story of infertility, desperation, and illegal dealings begins to unfold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/750'),
(9523, 'The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba&#39;s Last Tycoon', 'John Paul Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island''s haute bourgeoisie.   Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swathes of the island''s sugar interests. Born in 1898, the year of Cuba''s independence, Lobo''s extraordinary life mirrors, in almost lurid technicolor, the many rises and final fall of the troubled Cuban republic.  The details of Lobo''s life are fit for Hollywood. He twice cornered the international sugar market and had the largest collection of Napoleonica outside of France, including the emperor''s back teeth and death mask. He once faced a firing squad only to be pardoned at the last moment, and later survived a gangland shooting. He courted movie stars from Bette Davis to Joan Fontaine and filled the swimming pool at his sprawling estate with perfume when Esther Williams came to visit.  As Rathbone observes, such are the legends of which revolutions are made, and later justified. But Lobo was also a progressive and a philanthropist, and his genius was so widely acknowledged that Che Guevara personally offered him the position of minister of sugar in the Communist regime. When Lobo declined-knowing that their worldviews could never be compatible-his properties were nationalized, most of his fortune vanished overnight, and he left the island, never to return to his beloved Cuba.  Financial Times journalist John Paul Rathbone has been fascinated by this intoxicating, whirligig, and contradictory prerevolutionary period his entire life. His mother was also a member of Havana''s storied haute bourgeoisie and a friend of Lobo''s daughters. Woven into Lobo''s tale is her family''s experience of republic, revolution, and exile, as well as the author''s own struggle to come to grips with Cuba''s, and his family''s, turbulent history.  Prodigiously researched and imaginatively written, The Sugar King of Havana is a captivating portrait of the glittering end of an era, but also of a more hopeful Cuban past, one that might even provide a window into the island''s future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7312'),
(9524, 'The Sugar Queen', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young woman whose family secretsâ€”and secret passionsâ€”are about to change her life forever.\n <br />\n Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, sheâ€™s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her motherâ€™s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each nightâ€¦. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a local waitress who is one part nemesisâ€”and two parts fairy godmother. With Della Leeâ€™s tough love, Joseyâ€™s narrow existence quickly expands. She even bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who is hounded by books that inexplicably appear when she needs themâ€”and who has a close connection to Joseyâ€™s longtime crush. Soon Josey is living in a world where the color red has startling powers, and passion can make eggs fry in their cartons. And thatâ€™s just for starters.\n <br />\n Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, loveâ€”and the enchanting possibilities of every new day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6601'),
(9525, 'A Suitable Boy', 'Vikram Seth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy. Set in the post-colonial India of the 1950s, this sprawling saga involves four families--the Mehras, the Kapoors, the Chatterjis and the Khans--whose domestic crises illuminate the historical and social events of the era. Like an old-fashioned soap opera (or a Bombay talkie), the multi-charactered plot pits mothers against daughters, fathers against sons, Hindus against Muslims and small farmers against greedy landowners facing government-ordered dispossession. The story revolves around independent-minded Lata Mehra: Will she defy the stern order of her widowed upper-caste Hindu mother by marrying the Muslim youth she loves? The search for Lata''s husband expands into a richly detailed and exotically vivid narrative that crisscrosses the fabric of India. Seth''s panoramic scenes take the reader into law courts, religious processions, bloody riots, academia--even the shoe trade. Portraits of actual figures are incisive; the cameo of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, for example, captures his high-minded, well-meaning indecision. Seth''s point of view is both wry and affectionate, and his voluble, palpably atmospheric narrative teems with chaotic, irrepressible life. 100,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; QPB alternate; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Opening and closing with a wedding, this novel is ostensibly the story of a Hindu family trying to find a suitable husband for their younger daughter, Lata. Who will the suitable boy turn out to be? The dashing Kabir, with whom Lata falls in love? The ambitious businessman whom Lata''s mother favors? Or the sophisticated poet her relatives choose? The interwoven stories of four families linked by marriage form the background for this marital quest. It proves slow-moving at first, but the patient reader will inevitably be caught up in the compelling rhythms of a richly complex tale. The setting--India in the 1950s--is vividly realized: the enormity of the subcontinent, its overpowering heat, lush gardens, colorful festivals, and exotic foods. Memorable characters abound; not since Dickens has there been such a lively and idiosyncratic cast crowded into one novel. Drama is provided by the simmering conflict between Hindu and Muslim, which breaks out unexpectedly throughout the novel. This is old-fashioned storytelling at its best; highly recommended. BOMC and Quality Paperback alternates; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/93.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Beth Ann Mills, New Rochelle P.L., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9889'),
(9526, 'Sukkwan Island: A Novella From Legend of a Suicide', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5869'),
(9527, 'Sula', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Toni Morrison''s highly acclaimed novel\n <em>\n  Sula\n </em>\n is as gripping on audiotape as it is on paper. The Nobel Prize-winning writer narrates the unabridged version of the book in a rich, soothing voice that mesmerizes listeners with its relaxed and methodical cadence.\n <em>\n  Sula\n </em>\n revolves around the relationship between two little girls growing up in a poor, black neighborhood nestled high in the hilltops. "The Bottom," as the barrio came to be known, is brimming with eccentric residents but sadly deprived of human warmth. (The town actually takes pride in celebrating National Suicide Day.) However, out of this bitter, abrasive environment grows a beautiful friendship between Sula and Nel. Their shared secrets and dreams blossom through childhood, but their special bond suffers after the two separate. Sula leaves the Bottom to conquer the unknown cities of America, while Nel becomes a homebody, settling down as a wife and mother. When Sula returns to her hometown, she feels like a stranger; she repels everyone, even the only true friend she ever knew. Morrison''s vocal range evokes an extraordinary atmosphere of survival in a harsh and unforgiving world.\n <em>\n  (Four cassettes; running time: aprox. four hours)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hearing an author read her own work creates a special ambiance. To hear Morrison read a short, unabridged novel published 24 years ago, to hear in her voice how much she still values the writing, well, who could ask for more? The only drawback is that Morrison, while very much in tune with her characters, often lets her voice drop to a whisper, making these tapes difficult to listen to while driving and almost impossible on a highway with the window open. On the page, Sula is one of her more clearly defined novels?the friendship and later hatred that envelopes the lives of two black women from "the bottom"?but the imagistic nature of the writing means listeners may have to replay passages if they want to follow the action. A small price to pay for a masterpiece.?Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New York\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8067'),
(9528, 'The Sum of All Fears', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jack Ryan confronts terrorists in the Middle East in Tom Clancy''s spectacular sixth novel -- another Sunday Times No 1 bestseller -- now reissued with a new cover.  As those in power around the globe face up to the challenges of a new world order, in Washington CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan is putting everything into a plan that could finally bring peace to a Middle East still suffering from the ravages of war. But too many groups have invested too much blood to allow the plan to succeed -- the terrorists have one final desperate card to play. With one terrible act the world is plunged into nuclear crisis.  His dreams of peace shattered, Ryan is confronted with a situation he has never dared to imagine: with the world standing on the brink of war, what do you do if the US President is incompetent to deal with the greatest crisis of all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3748'),
(9529, 'The sum of all men', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Runelords* is that rare book that will remind you why you started reading fantasy in the first place. Much of the setting--and even some of the story--is conventional fantasy fare, but David Farland, aside from being a masterful storyteller, has built his world around a complex and thought-provoking social system involving the exchange of "endowments." Attributes such as stamina, grace, and wit are a currency: a vassal may help his lord by endowing him with all of his strength, for instance, and in turn the vassal comes under the lord''s care as his "dedicate," too weak to even walk. A Runelord might have hundreds of such endowments, giving him superhuman senses and abilities, but he then must care for the hundreds that he has deprived of strength, or beauty, or sight. *Runelords* excels because this novel idea is not mere window dressing--Farland uses it to explore fundamental questions of life and morality. The story''s hero, the young Runelord Gaborn, struggles to define his role in this "shameful economy" while keeping his commitments to himself, to his people, to the woman he loves, and to the earth itself. We end up asking ourselves the same questions: Should you choose your friends based on insight or virtue? Is it better to be just or good? Competent fantasy lets you escape to adventure in faraway lands, but exceptional fantasy makes sure you have something to think about when you get back. *Runelords* accomplishes the latter. *--Paul Hughes*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1524'),
(9530, 'Summer (1917)', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill IT was not in the room known at the red house as Mr. Royall''s "office" that he received his infrequent clients. Professional dignity and masculine independence made it necessary that he should have a real office, under a different roof; and his standing as the only lawyer of North Dormer required that the roof should be the same as that which sheltered the Town Hall and the post- office. It was his habit to walk to this office twice a day, morning and afternoon. It was on the ground floor of the building, with a separate entrance, and a weathered name-plate on the door. Before going in he stepped in to the post-office for his mail? usually an empty ceremony?said a word or two to the town-clerk, who sat across the passage in idle state, and then went over to the store on the opposite corner, where Carrick Fry, the storekeeper, always kept a chair for him, and where he was sure to find c tie or two selectmen leaning on the longcounter, in an atmosphere of rope, leather, tar and coffee-beans. Mr. Royall, though monosyllabic at home, was not averse, in certain moods, to imparting his views to his fellow-townsmen; perhaps, also, he was unwilling that his rare clients should surprise him sitting, clerkless and unoccupied, in his dusty office. At any rate, his hours there were not much longer or more regular than Charity''s at the library; the rest of the time he spent either at the store or in driving about the country on business connected with the insurance companies that he represented, or in sitting at home reading Bancroft''s History of the United States and the speeches of Daniel Webster. Since the day when Charity had told him that she wished to succeed to Eudora Skeff''s post their relations had undefinably but definitely changed. Lawyer Royall had kept his word. He ha...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10530'),
(9531, 'A Summer Affair: A Novel', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Claire Danner Crispin, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket''s Children Summer Gala. Claire is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the former high school sweetheart of rock star Max West. Max agrees to play the gala and it looks like smooth sailing for Claire-until she promises a "museum-quality" piece of glass for the auction, offers her best friend the catering job, goes nose-to-nose with her Manhattan socialite co-chair, and begins a "good-hearted" affair with the charity''s Executive Director, Lockhart Dixon. Hearts break and emotions are pushed to the limit in this riveting story of one woman''s attempt to deal with loves past and present, family, business, and high-powered social pressures. Elin Hilderbrand''s unique understanding of the joys and longings that animate women''s lives will make this her newest summer bestseller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(9532, 'The Summer Guest', 'Justin Cronin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and Oâ€™Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Croninâ€™s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promiseâ€”and more. With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying manâ€™s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him.From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people: Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the campâ€™s owner Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime â€œtrying to learn what it means to be braveâ€; Joeâ€™s wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucyâ€™s daughter Kateâ€”the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past.As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itselfâ€”a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape. Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous talent. It is a book to treasure.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2661'),
(9533, 'Summer Knight', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now available in hardcover-the fourth novel in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** Harry Dresden''s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago''s only professional wizard. But in all Harry''s years of supernatural sleuthing, he''s never faced anything like this: the spirit world''s gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble-and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone-or something-is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn''t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
(9534, 'Summer of Night', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in the dark, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the deepest night, the people know it marks the beginning of terror. Now Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a fraternal war of blood against an arcane abomination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1241');
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(9535, 'The Summer of Riley', 'Eve Bunting', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Bunting''s straightforward story about an Oregon boy who learns to accept the loss of loved ones, including a dog, is heartwarming despite some heavy touches," said PW. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6-With the recent death of his grandfather and his parents'' decision to separate, 11-year-old William struggles with his grief and anger until an abandoned Lab comes into his life. Boy and dog bond immediately, but then William takes him to visit a neighbor. Without warning, Riley breaks away and begins to chase Peachie''s old racehorse, causing injury to him. When the dog runs over to her farm again, she calls the animal-control officers and they take Riley away. Determined to save his pet from a possible death sentence, William begins a publicity campaign to vie for the townspeople''s sympathies. Riley is saved when a man offers to take him and train him to keep an airport runway clear of birds. Although William loses the dog he loves, he realizes that he has done his best and begins to accept the changes that are taking place in his life. The interactions among various characters are well developed. This is a thought-provoking story but the resolution, though believable, is not totally satisfying since it gets everyone off the hook without any real change taking place concerning the law or people''s attitudes. It is disturbing how quickly everyone except William gives up on Riley. Everything is great when he appears to be "the perfect dog," but one flaw and immediately he becomes a "throwaway" once again. Bunting has really captured the dilemma of our contemporary society, which wants simple solutions to complex situations, often demands perfection, and rejects anything less.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Carol Schene, Taunton Public Schools, MA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4671'),
(9536, 'The summer of the Danes', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters'' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18th entry in the eminently successful medieval detective series. In the summer of 1144, Brother Cadfael is sent to Wales on church business and is captured by Danes. And when a prisoner is murderer, the clever monk knows he''ll not see Shrewsbury again until the killer is caught.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(9537, 'The summer tree', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five university students--Kimberly, Dave, Jennifer, Kevin, and Paul--meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of all worlds, Fionavar, where they discover who they were truly meant to be. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1784'),
(9538, 'The Summer We Read Gatsby', 'Danielle Ganek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A delightful comedy of manners about two sisters who must set aside their differences when they inherit a house in the Hamptons **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Half-sisters Cassie and Peck could not be more different. Cassie is a newly divorced journalist with her feet firmly planted on the ground; Peck is a vintage-obsessed actress with her head in the clouds. In fact, the only thing they seem to have in common is their inheritance of Fool''s House, a rundown cottage left to them by their beloved Aunt Lydia. But Cassie and Peck can''t afford the house, and they can''t agree on anything, much less what to do with the place. Plus, along with the house, they''ve inherited an artist-inresidence and self-proclaimed genius named Biggsy who seems to bring suspiciously bad luck wherever he goes. As these two likable sisters try to understand their aunt''s puzzling instructions to "seek a thing of utmost value" from within the house, they''re both distracted by romantic entanglements with men from their pasts. *The Summer We Read Gatsby*, set in the end-of-an-era summer of 2008, is filled with fabulous parties, eccentric characters, and insider society details that showcase Ganek''s pitch-perfect sense of style and wit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7633'),
(9539, 'Summer World: A Season of Bounty', 'Bernd Heinrich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Summer World: A Season of Bounty\n </em>\n , Bernd Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. Now he is focusing on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs,\n <em>\n  Summer World\n </em>\n never stops observing the beautifully complex interactions of animals and plants with nature, giving extraordinary depth to the relationships between habitat and the warming of the earth. How can cicadas surviveâ€”and thriveâ€”at temperatures pushing 115Â°F? Do hummingbirds know what they''re up against before they migrate over the Gulf of Mexico? Why do some trees stop growing taller even when three months of warm weather remain? With awe and unmatched expertise, Heinrich explores hundreds of questions like these.\n</p>\n<p>\n Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of the author''s own drawings,\n <em>\n  Summer World\n </em>\n is Bernd Heinrich''s most engaging book to date, a fascinating work from one of our very best science writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Summer World\n  </em>\n  : An Amazon Exclusive Essay by Bernd Heinrich\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Summer, as I experience it, is not just one time. In terms of living, it is a time of courting, birthing, foraging and feeding, avoiding being eaten, growing, and lastly preparing for winter. Furthermore, unlike in winter or life under severe desert conditions, nothing is static. Most of us live in a world where timing is everything. Here in Vermont and Maine where I live, there is about a week to prepare the soil, another to plant the peas, another to put in the tomato plants. There is a week where the bees pollinate the apple trees and a week for us to harvest the fruit, and another to dig the potatoes. All nature is on a tight schedule. The wood frogs mate in mid-April, the robins return late April, the blueberries bloom in May, and the geese migrate north the second week in October. Summer as we know it is not a uniform struggle against excessive heat and lack of water. It is instead a continually shifting schedule of living where the lives of one species adjust to those of others.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, as I set out to write\n <em>\n  Summer World\n </em>\n , my focus changed. One potential approach was to discuss various topics such as mating, nesting, feeding and predator avoidance. Instead, it seemed possibly more engaging to concentrate on conspicuous aspects of the lives of common, every-day animals and plants that we tend to take for granted but that are marvelous because of their hidden agendas and concealed complexities.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems to me that we are in a perpetual crisis mode where attention is rightly focused on what is wrong with the world, although too little appreciation is given to what is right with it. Nature is always right. It always bats last; it is the final arbiter of all things that concern every living thing. So I focused on the first thing I saw that captured my attention: mating wood frogs. This species breeds in large crowds that gather for a one- to several-day orgy in almost every temporary little pool, of which there are more that a dozen within my neighborhood. It was a joy to watch the frogsâ€™ antics, and I tried to trick them to find out what they respond to, and to then contemplate and figure out their various stratagems. The frogs were strange, comical and counter-intuitive. The noisy males were not only competing fiercely to catch any female they could but also unknowingly, I presume, cooperating in attracting them. Nothing that they did was obvious to me without first delving into their detailed life histories.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his pursuit of actively observing his camp in the forests of western Maine and the woods, beaver bog and gardens around his Vermont home, Heinrich (_The Trees in My Forest_) delights with the surprising activities of local flora and faunaâ€”and his own scientific antics: with a pet grackle named Crackle, he raids wasp nests to see what the red-eyed vireo will do with the paper and builds platforms in trees to find out who visits the sapsucker lick (hummingbirds, hawks and warblers). For entertainment, he recommends, There is a solution that beats... a television set with 100 channels, by a mile: watching ants and other critters. The book features such mysteries as the significance of the mating habits of wood frogs and the eating patterns of caterpillars, but Heinrich also takes time to observe\n <em>\n  Homo sapiens\n </em>\n , remarking that, like birds, we live in a perpetual summer, not by strenuous biannual migrations but by creating and retreating into ''climate bubbles,'' reminding readers that they need clear vision and also a spiritual imperative so that we will focus on the ultimate ecology, not the proximate economy.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5481'),
(9540, 'Summer: a novel', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called "Summer" her ''hot Ethan''. In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, "Summer" (1916) and "Ethan Frome" represent a sharp departure from Wharton''s familiar depictions of the urban upper class. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in an isolated village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity''s relation to her father and her lover, Wharton delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(9541, 'Summertime: Scenes From Provincial Life', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Nobel laureate and two-time Booker-winner Coetzee has been shortlisted for the third time for this powerful novel, a semisequel to the fictionalized memoirs\n  <em>\n   Boyhood\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Youth\n  </em>\n  that takes the form of a young biographer''s interviews with colleagues of the late author John Coetzee. To Dr. Julia Frankl, who briefly sought in Coetzee deliverance from her husband, he was not fully human; to his cousin, Margot Jonker, he is boring, ridiculous and misguided; and to Sophie DenoÃ«l, an expert in African literature, Coetzee is an underwhelming writer with no original insight into the human condition. The harshest characterizationâ€”and also the best of the interviewsâ€”comes from Adriana Nascimento, a Brazilian emigrant who met Coetzee when both were teachers in Cape Town; she was repulsed by the intellectual''s attempts at courtship. He is nothing, she says, was nothing... an embarrassment. The biographer''s efforts to describe his subject ultimately result in an examination that reaches through fiction and memoir to grasp what the traditional record leaves out.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is the third instalment of a life so reserved, so repressed, so seething with polite rage and restrained despair that it could only be approached through a third-person voice... it is wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny... Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful."\n  <br />\n  --_Irish Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "The cumulative effect of Coetzee''s unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness, is an understanding of the creation of a great writer."\n  <br />\n  --_Sunday Telegraph_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautifully reflective... reveal a strangely sincere, self-critical and romantic man... an intense outstanding and very enjoyable talent." --Scotland on Sunday "Both an elegant request that the sum of Coetzee''s existence as a public figure be looked for only in his writing, and ample evidence, once again, why that request should be honoured."\n  <br />\n  --_Observer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7665'),
(9542, 'The Summoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After years of frequent moves following her motherâ€™s death, Chloe Saundersâ€™s life is finally settling down. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys. Her biggest concern is that sheâ€™s not developing as fast as her friends are. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges. Chloe starts seeing ghostsâ€“everywhere, demanding her attention. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home. At first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, except for Chloeâ€™s small problem of fearing she might be facing a lifetime of mental illness. But as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the homeâ€“charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek, obnoxious Tori, and Rae, who has a â€œthingâ€ for fireâ€“Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isnâ€™t your usual â€œproblem kidâ€ behaviour. And together they discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3155'),
(9543, 'The summons', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He''s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family''s black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray.And perhaps someone else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2908'),
(9544, 'The sun also rises', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway''s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway''s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(9545, 'The Sun Book of Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called ''Get Britain Reading'' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers.It was judged by Sun columnist and bestselling author Jane Moore.The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries.They may make you smile, laugh or cry but all of them are sure to entertain you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5374'),
(9546, 'Sun-kissed (Au Pairs, The)', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kissed (The Au Pairs #3) EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Be careful or you''ll get burned.** The three hottest au pairs in history are back, and this time they''re ready to rule the Hamptons. Mara has all the VIPs in the hottest clubs hanging on her every word. Eliza''s family is back from financial ruin; and she''s got the platinum charge cards to prove it. Jacqui is newly single and ready for some steamy summer hook-ups. The girls seem to have it all this summer...but looks, as we all know, can be deceiving. Mara''s living every girl''s dream: playing house with her boyfriend, Ryan Perry, on his parents'' luxury yacht while writing a column about night-life in the Hamptons. With a press pass to every hot event, Mara''s ready to hit the red carpet and scoop even the most seasoned journalists. If only she could get a pass from Ryan, who just wants her to stay home and cuddle. Last summer''s "No boys!" mantra is a distant memory for Jacqui. While the new au pair, Shannon, handles the Perry kids, Jacqui searches for some serious fun. And she doesn''t have to look far: Three dot.com boy millionaires have moved in next door and are more than happy to compete for her affections. Thus Jacqui''s new mantra is, "Why have just one when you can have them all?" Eliza and Jeremy are in total relationship bliss. She''s decided to take the next step with Jeremy and nothing''s going to stop her this time. Unfortunately, what she thought would be a cakewalk internship for a famous fashion designer turns out to be more hours of hard labor than she, or her relationship, are ready for. Too bad Jeremy won''t stop questioning her work ethic long enough for Eliza to get back in the mood. *The Au Pairs: Sun-kissed.* Because it''s soooo much more than just a job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2725'),
(9547, 'The Sunbird', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one."--_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend milions--and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a seige of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9141'),
(9548, 'Sundiver', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10428'),
(9549, 'Sunrunner&#39;s fire', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It began with the discovery of The Star Scroll--the last repository of forgotten spells of sorcery. Now, as Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, begins to master this potentially deadly knowledge and Pol, son of High Prince Rohan, seeks to touch the minds of dragons, their enemy is mobilizes to strike with forbidden lore and treachery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2872'),
(9550, 'Sunset and Sawdust', 'Joe R. Lansdale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Whether he''s writing Hap Collins-Leonard Pine mysteries, genre-bending horror novels, or his own blend of historical fiction and gritty country noir, cult-favorite Lansdale rarely hits a wrong note. He''s a superb stylist and a first-rate storyteller, and his sandpaper wit never fails to scratch out a brand of humor that hovers somewhere between knee-slap funny and painfully revelatory. He''s in his country-noir mode here, in what just may be his best novel yet. The tale begins with a hold-your-breath set piece in which red-haired beauty Sunset Jones kills her husband, Pete, who happened to be raping her at the time. Given all that, it comes as a surprise to the residents of Camp Rapture, an ironically named sawmill settlement in Depression-era East Texas, when Sunset''s mother-in-law, majority owner of the mill, arranges to have Sunset replace Pete as the settlement''s constable. Soon enough, Sunset--with the help of two deputies, both with romantic designs on their boss--is investigating the murder of a woman and her unborn child, a crime that may implicate Pete. Lansdale layers the mystery elements skillfully, building to an action-filled climax, but where he really shines is in his evocation of both the desperation and the determination that grew from the dirt of the Depression. Sunset is a marvelous character; you don''t see many feminist heroines in the femme-fatale world of noir, which makes her emergence, her coming-of-age in an age set firmly against her, so exhilarating.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[\n <strong>\n  Sunset and Sawdust\n </strong>\n is] filled with turns and twists, nastiness, broad humor, moments of grace. . . . Lansdale is a storyteller in the great American tradition.â€ â€“_The Boston Globe\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œA wonderfully nasty piece of work [that] inspires I-canâ€™t-believe-this laughter. . . . Very entertaining.â€ â€“_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n The opening . . . will grab unsuspecting readers by the lapels and pull them right in. . . . Lansdale''s prose--laconic and sarcastic--is so thick with slang and regional accent that it''s as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky." --_The Denver Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lansdale is an exceptional storyteller . . . readers will feel the Texas heat and hear the story in the author''s unique East Texas drawl. The vivid characterization will make readers cheer for the protagonist and boo the villain." --_Rocky Mountain News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers the unexpected and bizarre that his fans have come to expect. . . . The narrative is entertaining, but Lansdaleâ€™s patently unvarnished storytellingâ€“backwoods and brash all at onceâ€“is the real reason to crack this cover.â€ --_Texas Monthly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Funny, bloody and bizarre. . . . Another five-star doozy of a tale from an immensely talented and original storyteller." --_The Flint Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSunset Jones is the kind of woman that men who drink in East Texas bars would call a â€˜pistol.â€™ As a tornado rips through the sawmill camp town of Rapture, in the rousing opening scene of Joe R. Lansdaleâ€™s historical barnburner\n <em>\n  Sunset and Sawdust\n </em>\n , Sunset finally puts a stop to her husband Peteâ€™s bloody beatings. . . . Soon Sunset has her own posse, including a wonderful dog whose abject adoration of the fiery gunslinger pretty much sums up this readerâ€™s feelings.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A first-rate whodunnit. . . . [Lansdale] knows how to tell a story." --_The Globe and Mail _(Toronto)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSly, easy-paced and so comfortable in its setting that it becomes almost seductive. This is what good storytelling is all about.â€ --_Arizona Republic\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Lansdale can catch that meandering East Texas twang in his writing, but just as quickly he can tighten the plot and our stomachs with a turn of phrase. . . . Lansdale gives us both atmosphere and action." --_Winston-Salem Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Surrealistic. . . . Unpredictable. . . . A darker kind of storytelling." --_Pittsburg Tribune-Review_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8000'),
(9551, 'Sunset Express (1996)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9952'),
(9552, 'The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly articulated piece, penned by a wildly acclaimed fiction writer. Nothing short of dazzling. So astonishingly effecting, so powerful, so stimulating!â€ â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.\n</p>\n<p>\n In that small apartment, â€œBlackâ€ and â€œWhite,â€ as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the menâ€“though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Deft, spare, and full of artful tension,\n <em>\n  The Sunset Limited\n </em>\n is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5722'),
(9553, 'Sunset Park', 'Paul Auster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.William Wyler''s 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7427'),
(9554, 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town', 'Stephen Leacock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carl Spadoni''s edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delight to peruse... --\n  <em>\n   Michael Peterman, Trent University\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic,\n  <em>\n   Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town\n  </em>\n  is Stephen Leacockâ€™s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912,\n  <em>\n   Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town\n  </em>\n  is Stephen Leacock at his best â€“ colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7403'),
(9555, 'Sunstorm', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarkeâ€™s bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Timeâ€™s Eye. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw their epic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind-blowing as anything in Clarkeâ€™s famous Space Odyssey series.**SUNSTORM**Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earthâ€™s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?Bisesaâ€™s questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sunâ€™s coreâ€“an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation.Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort.And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(9556, 'Super', 'Jim Lehrer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroadâ€™s famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as â€œThe Train of the Stars.â€ And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from the Windy City for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast.Â Â Â Â Climbing aboard is an amazing spectrum of passengers. Thereâ€™s Darwin Rinehart, a once great Hollywood producer whose most recent movie was a total flop and who now faces bankruptcy and shame. In a dark recess of a train car hides a mysterious, disheveled, sickly man who has not paid for a ticket, smuggled inside by an unscrupulous porter. Millionaire Otto Wheeler arrives in a wheelchair; deathly ill, he knows that this will be his last trip on the great train. Clark Gable causes a stir when he steps aboard, and though heâ€™s ridden these rails for years, indulging in booze and women with equal fervor, those around him sense that this time, something is different. And finally thereâ€™s former President Harry Truman, distinguished, congenial, and constantly accompanied, for his protection, by a railroad detective.Â Â Â Â  As the Super Chief pulls out of Dearborn Station, the passengersâ€”famous and infamous, anonymous and enigmaticâ€”canâ€™t possibly imagine what lies ahead. For as the train gains speed, a series of deadly events unfolds.Â Â Â Full of remarkable detail and passion for a lost world of opulence and all its intrigue and delights, Jim Lehrerâ€™s** Super** spins a complex web of suspense. The twists and turns will keep readers turning the pages at top speed to finish one of the most captivating stories of Lehrerâ€™s prolific career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1757'),
(9557, 'Super Freakonomics', 'Steven D. Levitt;Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *New York Times* bestselling *Freakonomics* was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with *Superfreakonomics*, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the *freak*quel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *SuperFreakonomics* challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:   How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really isâ€”good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. *Freakonomics* has been imitated many times overâ€”but only now, with *SuperFreakonomics*, has it met its match.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4205'),
(9558, 'Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel', 'Gary Shteyngart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, **The Russian Debutanteâ€™s Handbook** and **Absurdistan**, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of Americaâ€™s dysfunctional coming yearsâ€”and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near futureâ€”oh, letâ€™s say next Tuesdayâ€”a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But donâ€™t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the worldâ€™s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldnâ€™t it? Lennyâ€™s from a different centuryâ€”he totally loves books (or â€œprinted, bound media artifacts,â€ as theyâ€™re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our â€œancient dorkâ€ effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lennyâ€™s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New Yorkâ€™s Central Park, the cityâ€™s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. Heâ€™s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospectâ€™s â€œhotnessâ€ and â€œsustainabilityâ€ with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, **Super Sad True Love Story** is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/829'),
(9559, 'Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance', 'Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The *New York Times* bestselling *Freakonomics* was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with *Superfreakonomics*, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the *freak*quel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *SuperFreakonomics* challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:   How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really isâ€”good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. *Freakonomics* has been imitated many times overâ€”but only now, with *SuperFreakonomics*, has it met its match.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7294'),
(9560, 'Superior Saturday', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Arthur Penhaligon has wrested five of the Keys from their immortal guardians, the Trustees of the Will. But gaining the Sixth Key poses a greater challenge than any he has ever faced before. Superior Saturday is not just one of the Trustees, she is also the oldest Denizen and the most powerful and knowledgeable sorcerer within the House. She has tens of thousands of sorcerers at her command and she has been preparing her forces all along for the Wills escape and the activities of the Rightful Heir. Everything is all just part of a greater plan she has been hatching for ten thousand years. As Saturdays schemes become evident, Arthur is beset on all sides. Nothing is eroding the House, and only the power of the Keys can hold back the tide of destruction. His mother is still missing. His home city is under attack. His allies are unreliable. He cant even get into the apparently impregnable Upper House and even if he does, finding the Sixth Part of the Will and gaining the Sixth Key might not be enough to counter Saturdays sorcerous hordes or stop her bid for ultimate power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9662'),
(9561, 'Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!', 'Richard P. Feynman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A series of anecdotes shouldn''t by rights add up to an autobiography, but that''s just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It''s possible to enjoy Surely You''re Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3639'),
(9562, 'Surface Detail', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder.And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y''breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it''s about to erupt into reality.It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether. SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks'' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6687'),
(9563, 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED''s" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. THE RIVER AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6006'),
(9564, 'The Surgeon&#39;s Mate', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Aubrey and Maturin are ordered home by desptach vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O''Brian''s nautical adventure a splendid treat."Ã¢Â€Â”Publishers Weekly Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O''Brian has written. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4244'),
(9565, 'Surrender to the Will of the Night', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Piper Hechtâ€™s first and greatest secret is that he knows\n <strong>\n </strong>\n how to kill gods. Whatâ€™s not a secret is that he knowsÂ how to win wars\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Piper Hechtâ€™s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his Â reputation put him in dangerâ€”from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military giftsÂ for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor Â Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part Â of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants Â him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade Â against his old coreligionists the Praman.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The wintersÂ are growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are Â getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are Â going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere, Â keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world. Â As ever, the genius of Glen Cookâ€™s storytelling lies in his common Â touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women Â who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n GLEN COOK, author of the bestselling Black Company series, lives in St. Louis, Missouri.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6863'),
(9566, 'Surrounded', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Black Bat Mystery. A "caper book", the second in a suspense series featuring Mike Tucker, art dealer, heir to a large fortune and professional thief. An early Koontz mystery using one of his pseudonyms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8277'),
(9567, 'Survival of the Fittest', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3052');
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(9568, 'Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease', 'Sharon Moalem &amp; Jonathan Prince', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Ariely on\n   <em>\n    Survival of the Sickest\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  MIT professor Dan Ariely has become one of the leaders in the growing field of behavioral economics, and his bestselling book debut,\n </p>\n <p>\n  _ I have always been puzzled by the way in which genetic diseases have managed to survive throughout the ages. How could it be that these diseases were able to withstand the evolutionary process, where only the most fit survive, and continue to be transferred from one generation to the next?\n  <em>\n   Survival of the Sickest\n  </em>\n  provides a thought provoking yet entertaining explanation to this puzzle. _\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this insightful book Dr. Sharon Moalem demonstrates how conditions that are considered unhealthy (such as hemochromatosis, diabetes, and high cholesterol), or even deadly in extreme cases, might actually put their carriers at an advantage in combating other life-threatening illnesses. For example, he explains that hemochromatosis, a disease that, if left untreated, will kill you, may have actually been a defense against the deadliest pandemic in history--the bubonic plague during the 14th century. It turns out that this genetic mutation, which continues to be passed down through generations, actually helped spare many lives at one point.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout the book, Dr. Moalem draws many connections between seemingly disparate subjects, such as the accidental invention of ice wine and cold diuresis, in order to illustrate the basic mechanisms of genetics and medicine in charming and intuitive ways. He skillfully interweaves his knowledge of history, genetics, and medicine not only as they relate to specific medical conditions but also in a way that addresses important challenges of modern society and our future evolution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the most general terms, Dr. Moalem''s description of the human body and its complexity left me in awe of how far we have come in our understanding of biology and medicine, while also being reminded that the road to understanding ourselves is still wide open with much more to learn in the decades, and even centuries, to come. It is a fantastic journey on which he leads us and Dr. Moalem is a kind, knowledgeable, humorous, and helpful guide.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moalem, a medical student with a Ph.D. in neurogenetics, asks a number of provocative questions, such as why debilitating hereditary diseases persist in humans and why we suffer from the consequences of aging. His approach to these questions is solidly rooted in evolutionary theory, and he capably demonstrates that each disease confers a selective advantage to individuals who carry either one or two alleles for inherited diseases. But very little is new; the principles, if not every particular, that Moalem addresses have been covered in Randolph Nesse and George Williams''s\n  <em>\n   Why We Get Sick\n  </em>\n  , among others. Whether he is discussing hemochromatosis (a disorder that causes massive amounts of iron to accumulate in individuals), diabetes or sickle cell anemia, his conclusion is always the same: each condition offers enough positive evolutionary advantages to offset the negative consequences, and this message is repeated over and over. Additionally, Moalem''s endless puns and simple jokes wear thin, but his light style makes for easy reading for readers new to this subject.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6668'),
(9569, 'Survivalist 01 - Total War', 'Jerry Ahern', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9913'),
(9570, 'Survivalist 02 - The Nightmare Begins', 'Jerry Ahern', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9912'),
(9571, 'Survivalist 03 - The Quest', 'Jerry Ahern', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9911'),
(9572, 'Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive', 'Les Stroud; Laura Bombier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshestâ€”and most remoteâ€”regions on Earth. Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program *Survivorman* transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of *Survive!*, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival. Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to endure in any corner of the globe, along with a wealth of insider information born of his own experiences in the outdoors and unavailable in any other book. Readers will learn: How to make a survival shelter and why a lean-to is largely a waste of time. Why survival kits are important, and why you should make your own. Where to find water and why drinking contaminated water is sometimes warranted. How to locate and trap small animals and why the notion of tracking and hunting large game is largely a pipe dream. Whether seasoned in the outdoor arts or new to adventuring, all readers will learn something from *Survive!*. Stroud''s many colorful anecdotes and cut-to-the-chase philosophy not only make for an entertaining read, but also enhance anyone''s ability to focus on the main goal when everything else has gone wrongâ€”survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2296'),
(9573, 'Surviving Demon Island', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Whatâ€™s Americaâ€™s top female action star doing on a tropical island shrouded in secrecy? To Gina Bliss, competing in a survival-type reality show is a nice change from fending off on-screen villains. Until she meets real-life action hero Derek Marks. A survival specialist in a tight black T and sexy stubble, heâ€™s arousing every bad-boy fantasy sheâ€™s ever had . . . and testing her survival skills to the max.Martial arts, jungle warfareâ€”Derekâ€™s done it all. But his latest mission is more dangerous than a stick of dynamite. Try telling that to the sexy, adrenaline-pumped actress whoâ€™s got his libido racing off the charts. As the heat rises between them and real-life violence erupts, suddenly Derek and Gina are on the run . . . and when they uncover a secret so explosive it could blow the lid off their so-called reality show, these two unlikely heroes are about to discover what survivingâ€™s really about. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1945'),
(9574, 'Survivor in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The newest in the number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb returns to the New York City of 2059-where Dallas will struggle to solve the murder of a seemingly ordinary family and to protect one small, terrified survivor. The members of the Swisher family were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night-vision equipment to find their way through the cozy, middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. It seems the only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the darkened kitchen. Now Nixie Swisher is an orphan-and the sole eyewitness to a seemingly inexplicable crime. Kids are not Dallas''s strong suit. But Nixie needs a safe place to stay, and Dallas needs to solve this case. With her partner, Peabody, back on the job-and her husband, Roarke, providing the kind of help that only he can give-Lieutenant Eve Dallas is running after shadows, and dead-set on finding out who''s behind them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2353'),
(9575, 'Survivor Type', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11148'),
(9576, 'Survivor: a Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club, a   mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.   Tender Branson-last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death   Cult"-is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of   Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the   Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach   terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback. Before it   does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish   child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and   collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography,   Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common   Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The   Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He''ll even share his insight that "the   only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and   deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Landfill-a   20,000-acre repository for the nation''s outdated pornography. Among other   matters both bizarre and trenchant. Not since Kurt Vonnegut''s Mother   Night and Jerzy Kosinski''s Being There has there been as black and   telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the   modern world. Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak, and it   marks him as a blazing talent for the new millennium.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(9577, 'Survivors', 'Jean Lorrah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Treva is an isolated human colony on the fringes of known space on the verge of becoming a true interstellar community, a full fledged menber of the Federation. But now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM has received a distress signal for Treva is in the throes of a violent revolution, a revolution led by a merciless warlord who has committed countless atrocities in the name of freedom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data and Lt. Tasha Yar are dispatched to investigate. Once they reach Treva, they discover the truth, and any possible solution may be far more complex than a simple rebellion. Treva''s president wants more then Starfleet''s good words in her fight against the rebels, she wants their weapons technology. And before the battle is over, she means to get them. Over Data''s and Yar''s dead bodies, if necessary.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Treva is an isolated human colony on the fringes of known space on the verge of becoming a true interstellar community, a full fledged menber of the Federation. But now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM has received a distress signal for Treva is in the throes of a violent revolution, a revolution led by a merciless warlord who has committed countless atrocities in the name of freedom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data and Lt. Tasha Yar are dispatched to investigate. Once they reach Treva, they discover the truth, and any possible solution may be far more complex than a simple rebellion. Treva''s president wants more then Starfleet''s good words in her fight against the rebels, she wants their weapons technology.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7991'),
(9578, 'Susan Wiggs', 'The Story of Us (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9499'),
(9579, 'Sushi for Beginners', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who''s going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&amp;M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a one-horse magazine in Dublin? Or Ashling, so normal she''s weird?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6624'),
(9580, 'Sushi for One?', 'Camy Tang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''Sushi for One? is an entertaining romp into the world of multi-culturalism. I loved learning the idiosyncrasies of Lex''s crazy family---which were completely universal. Enjoy!'' ---Kristen Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants ''In Lex Sakai, Camy Tang gives us a funny, plucky, volleyball-playing heroine with way too many balls in the air. I defy anyone to start reading and not root for Lex all the way to the story''s romantic, super-satisfying end.'' ---Trish Perry, author of The Guy I''m Not Dating Lex Sakai''s family is big, nosy, and marriage-minded. When her cousin Mariko gets married, Lex will become the oldest single cousin in the clan. Lex has used her Bible study class on Ephesians to compile a huge list of traits for the perfect man. But the one man she keeps running into doesn''t seem to have a single quality on her list. It''s only when the always-in-control Lex starts to let God take over that all the pieces of this hilarious romance finally fall into place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(9581, 'The suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective', 'Kate Summerscale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. **In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievableâ€”that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love todayâ€¦from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collinsâ€™s *The Moonstone *to Dashiell Hammettâ€™s Sam Spade. *The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher *is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2355'),
(9582, 'Suzanne&#39;s Diary for Nicholas', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Katie Wilkinson has finally found the perfect man - but one day he suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby, Nicholas. In it she intimately reveals the romance between herself and the child''s father, her hopes for their marriage, and her unparalleled joy in motherhood. As Katie reads on, she realizes that the man she loves is Suzanne''s husband. Now, filled with terror and hope, Katie must struggle to understand what has happened - and find out if her new love has a prayer of surviving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2035'),
(9583, 'SV_ItsAcademic', 'Silvia Violet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10107'),
(9584, 'Swallowing Darkness', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with childâ€“twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my auntâ€™s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Courtâ€“and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible priceâ€“for I am truly my fatherâ€™s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anythingâ€“even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2788'),
(9585, 'Swan Song', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces. Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King''s The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like The Stand, it''s an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it''s the world after a nuclear holocaust. Swan Song  won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It''s a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3555'),
(9586, 'Swann&#39;s Way', 'Marcel Proust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9813'),
(9587, 'The Swap', 'Antony Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever have a moment you wish you could undo? A wickedly brilliant tale of revenge, mystery, and fate, Antony Mooreâ€™s The Swap is at once a gripping thriller and a hilarious black comedyâ€”a book for anyone whoâ€™s ever wondered what could have been. . . .Harvey Briscowâ€”smoker, drinker, comic-shop ownerâ€”is facing another school reunion back in Cornwall. Having spent the last two decades second-guessing himself, Harvey isnâ€™t thrilled at the prospect of showing his classmates the mess heâ€™s made of his life. But this is Harveyâ€™s twentieth reunion, a milestone that all but guarantees that Charles â€œBleederâ€ Oddâ€”the freakish reject who made off with Harveyâ€™s now-priceless Superman One comic in a school-yard swapâ€”will be in attendance. But when Harvey returns to Cornwall, hoping to retrieve his comic, heâ€™s met with more than a few surprises. . . . Bleeder is now dazzlingly successfulâ€”and quite content to watch Harvey squirm, refusing to acknowledge their long-ago trade. And Harveyâ€”fueled by drink and the promise of a beautiful womanâ€”soon makes a fateful choice, one he instantly wishes he could undo. A dead body and an enraged husband further complicate matters . . . but thereâ€™s a silver lining in this strange chain of events: suddenly one bad swap is the least of Harveyâ€™s regrets. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(9588, 'Sweet Ginger Poison', 'Robert Burton Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Virginia ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Gingerï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Lightley is the owner of Coreyville Coffee Cakes, a popular bakery in East Texas. Itï¿½ï¿½ï¿½s a shock to the whole community when a young man drops dead across town after eating one of her famous cakes.  When the newly appointed police chief accuses one of her employees of the murder, Ginger secretly decides to solve the crime herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7796'),
(9589, 'Sweet Land Stories', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As one might expect of Doctorow, the title is ironic. In settings that range across the U.S., most of the alienated characters in the five stories here find life anything but sweet as they struggle to surmount the stigmas of poverty, lack of education and their instincts to gamble against the odds. Three of the male protagonists are passive and amoral; attempting to defend their irrational behavior, each reminds himself that he is not stupid. All of themÃ¢â‚¬"a young grifter who dutifully abets his mother''s murderous greed on a farm near Chicago ("A House on the Plains"); a love-besotted accessory to a kidnapping in California (the slyly humorous "Baby Wilson"); and a cuckolded member of a religious cult commune in Kansas ("Walter John Harmon")Ã¢â‚¬"share a capacity for self-delusion and self-preservation. The two female protagonists attempt to alter fate and find themselves buffeted by the inescapable force of male power. The protagonist of "Jolene: A Life" is forced into a cross-country hegira in pursuit of a sweet land where she won''t be an outsider. Scared and desperate despite her cool facade, Jolene becomes a victim in every relationship. If the story''s denouement veers too close to soap opera, Doctorow''s empathetic character portrayal redeems the plot twists. The most riveting narrative, "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden," describes a presidential administration that is secretive, arrogant and contemptuous of ordinary citizens. In this knowing treatment of the cynical abuse of power, Doctorow uses the spare, laconic style endemic to thrillers and builds suspense with sure strokes. Boring like a laser into the failures of the American dream, he captures the resilience of those who won''t accept defeat.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Each critic professes great respect for Doctorow, who, at age 73 and many awards later, has earned it. However, there the split begins. Many critics hail these stories, four of which were published previously in\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n , as an achievement that perfectly captures the American nationâ€™s mood, its aberrant characters, and dark underbelly. But others dismiss the book as a slim, shallow effort that does not live up to Doctorowâ€™s past work. Common complaints? â€œA House on the Plainsâ€ doesnâ€™t fit in with the other four stories, and â€œChild, Found Dead in the Rose Garden,â€ which could have been a powerful political piece, doesnâ€™t live up to its promise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6751'),
(9590, 'The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World&#39;s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City', 'David Lebovitz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of the fifth book from Lebovitz, celebrated pastry chef and Chez Panisse alum, is a bit of a misnomer: this feisty memoir-with-recipes is just as tart as it is sweet. Writing with the same cheeky tone that has made his blog one of the most popular food sites on the Internet, Lebovitz presents an eclectic collection of vignettes illustrating his experiences living as an expatriate in Paris. After reading accounts of perpetually out-of-service public toilets and hospitals that require patients to BYOB (bring your own bandages), one begins to question what, exactly, Lebovitz finds so intoxicating about the City of Lights. It certainly isn''t something in the water, but it just might be in\n <em>\n  le chocolat chaud\n </em>\n . With this book, for the first time Lebovitz expands beyond his standard repertoire of desserts and includes a smattering of savory recipes. These range from such classic French dishes as a warm goat cheese salad to nostalgic American favorites like oven-roasted pork ribs with ketchup marinade. This is not to say Lebovitz''s legions of sweet-toothed fans will be disappointedâ€”many of the 50 recipes are made with plenty of butter and sugar; a flawless rendition of\n <em>\n  dulce de leche\n </em>\n brownies is sure to become the home baker''s equivalent of that\n <em>\n  trÃ¨s\n </em>\n chic little black dress, returned to again and again.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n American baker Lebovitz, alumnus of Californiaâ€™s famed Chez Panisse, moved to Paris following his partnerâ€™s untimely death. There he found a culture whose rituals and courtesies mystified him. It took him a while to get used to personally greeting every clerk and shopkeeper, to consuming every morsel of food using both fork and knife, and to coping with an uncommonly wily bureaucracy fond of enforcing self-contradictory regulations. He discovered the social necessity of pressing every wrinkle out of his clothes, even from his jeans and his towels. Recipes dominate the text, many of them Lebovitzâ€™s signature chocolate dessert creations. Some of these pastries display their Parisian provenance, an absinthe cake in particular standing out. But he also includes popular Mexican mole and crispy pork carnitas, about as exotic to most Parisians as one could imagine. An annotated list of food and equipment sources brims with good information. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5690'),
(9591, 'Sweet Masterpiece - The First Samantha Sweet Mystery', 'Connie Shelton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New series from bestselling author Connie Shelton! Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living. When she finds an unmarked grave, Sam calls the authorities. A small mural in the abandoned house provides clues--add a fortune in artwork, a bogus will, and a wooden box that gives Sam powers she never dreamed she possessed and it''s a dynamic paranormal mystery. Another winner! The Book Report\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1028'),
(9592, 'Sweet Silver Blues', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn''t sure he''ll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(9593, 'Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson', 'Wil Haygood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Haygood''s book is certainly one of the best biographies of a boxer ever written . . . an important contribution to both sports literature and African American studies."\n <br />\n -Gerald Early,\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . Thoroughly marvelous . . ."\n <br />\n -Tim Rutten,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Haygood captures his grace and power, at many disparate moments, as well as itâ€™s been captured . . . Mr. Haygood . . . is a biographer in his own prime."\n <br />\n <em>\n  -\n </em>\n Dwight Garner_,_\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . an ambitious portrait of an American legend."\n <br />\n -Pete Hamill,\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n ". . . insightful, highly readable . . . A wonderful book that deserves a wide audience."\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Haygood''s excellent account of Robinson''s long, eventful life . . .is packed with anecdotes and lush, pertinent context."\n <br />\n -Katherine Dunn,\n <em>\n  Bookforum\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wil Haygood''s new biography of Robinson . . .is about as fine a book about a boxer as you will find . . . Who is, pound for pound, the best fighter of all time? Robinson is always in that conversation. And should the topic ever pivot to the best writers about the sport, Haygood should be, too."\n <br />\n -Henry C. Jackson,\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . a compelling, often brilliant biography."\n <br />\n -Rege Behe,\n <em>\n  Pittsburg Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Haygood was born to the task . . . a portrayal that resonates with the guts, glitter and gravitas that his subject merits."\n <br />\n -Bijan C. Bayne,\n <em>\n  The Bay State Banner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is a wonderful mix of reporting and grace, inspired by the thunder and speed of a much forgotten champion. Deeply researched, superbly written, thankfully devoid of dripping sentimentality, Wil Haygood takes an old broom to Harlem history and sweeps out the corners. This is the boxer we never knew."\n <br />\n -James McBride, author of\n <strong>\n  The Color of Water\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best is always fragile, Sugar Ray Robinson once said, and it took a writer of Wil Haygood''s magnificence to appreciate what this meant in bringing the great boxer back to life. Sweet Thunder is a jewel from beginning to end."\n <br />\n -David Maraniss, author of\n <em>\n </em>\n When Pride Still Mattered\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n Rome 1960\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Finally, a biography worthy of a great athlete and social force, Sugar Ray Robinson."\n <br />\n -Larry Merchant,_ _\n <strong>\n  HBO World Championship Boxing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of the critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  In Black and White\n </em>\n :\n <em>\n  The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.\n </em>\n , comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.\n</p>\n<p>\n Continuing to set himself apart as one of our canniest cultural historians, Wil Haygood grounds the spectacular story of Robinson''s rise to greatness within the context of the fighter''s life and times. Born Walker Smith, Jr., in 1921, Robinson had an early childhood marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots that infected the Midwest throughout the twenties and thirties. After his mother moved him and his sisters to the relative safety of Harlem, he came of age in the vibrant post-Renaissance years. It was there thatâ€”encouraged to box by his mother, who wanted him off the streetsâ€”he soon became a rising star, cutting an electrifying, glamorous figure, riding around town in his famous pink Cadillac. Beyond the celebrity, though, Robinson would emerge as a powerful, often controversial black symbol in a rapidly changing America. Haygood also weaves in the stories of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis, whose lives not only intersected with Robinson''s but also contribute richly to the scope and soul of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Robinson''s gruesome six-bout war with Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta and his lethal meeting with Jimmy Doyle to his Harlem nightclub years and thwarted show-biz dreams, Haygood brings the champion''s story, in the ring and out, powerfully to life against a vividly painted backdrop of the world he captivated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4780'),
(9594, 'Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later', 'Francine Pascal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise. Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood.Â  WANT MORE SWEET VALLEY RIGHT NOW??Â  Become a fan of Sweet Valley Confidential on Facebook or Twitter.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8114'),
(9595, 'The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love', 'Beth Pattillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œ[Pattillo] creates a sweet story of redemption that will go down well with knitters as well as the knitting-challenged.â€ â€” PUBLISHERS WEEKLYâ€œ*The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society* cries for a sequel.â€ â€” BOOKPAGEOnce a month, the six women of the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society gather to discuss books and share their knitting projects. Inspired by her recently-wedded bliss, group leader Eugenie chooses â€œGreat Love Stories in Literatureâ€ as the theme for the yearâ€™s reading listâ€“a risky selection for a group whose members span the spectrum of age and relationship status.As the Knit Lit ladies read and discus classic romances like *Romeo and Juliet*, *Wuthering Heights*, and *Pride and Prejudice*, each member is confronted with her own perception about love. Camilleâ€™s unexpected reunion with an old crush forces her to confront conflicting desires. Newly widowed Esther finds her role in Sweetgum changing and is surprised by two unlikely friends. Hannah isnâ€™t sure sheâ€™s ready for the trials of first love. Newcomer Maria finds her life turned upside-down by increasing family obligations and a handsome, arrogant lawyer, and Eugenie and Merry are both asked to make sacrifices for their husbands that challenge their principles.Even in a sleepy, southern town like Sweetgum, Tennesee, love isnâ€™t easy. The Knit Lit ladies learn they can find strength and guidance in the novels they read, the love of their family, their communityâ€“and especially in each other.**Beth Pattillo** learned to knit in the second grade. She is the author of the book, *Heavens to Betsy*, the recipient of the Romance Writers of America Best Inspirational Romance Novel in 2006, and its sequel, *Earth to Betsy*. Beth lives with her husband and children in Tennessee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
(9596, 'Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee', 'Hattie Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For anyone who''s wondered about how humans first started eating honeyâ€”after all, bees guard it jealouslyâ€”Ellis''s charming history will be a treat. Apis mellifera is "the most studied creature on the planet after man," she writes, although even so, it turns out that the honeybee''s biological ancestry isn''t quite clear. There is some evidence that their relatives existed 200 million years ago or moreâ€”earlier than the earliest known flower, in other words, which would mean that they were eating something other than nectar. British food writer Ellis (_Tea_) leaves the tedious details of bee taxonomy to the experts, but satisfies readers with the fact that bees probably evolved from an ancestor of the carnivorous wasp. She then reveals the state of modern beekeeping by visiting apiarists and letting them talk about their bees, which they do, quite happily, relating tales of the delightful symbiosis of human and bee. Ultimately, it''s all about the honey, and those who prefer to think of the sweet stuff as something that comes from jars might cringe at Elllis''s description of how bees make it: the phrase "sucked and pumped, sucked and pumped, sucked and pumped" is queasily accurate. Entrancing anecdotes, accurate details and meticulous research add up to a sweetly satisfying read. 20 b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Ellis points out, wherever bees are, whether jungle, tundra, or forest, they find nectar to turn into honey, honey that tastes of mint, or grapes, or oranges, depending on the flowers the bees have visited. Ellis, a columnist and food writer, has created a marvelous combination of natural history and social science as she explores the ways of bees, honey, and humans. The history of bees and flowers are inexorably intertwined--flowers need bees for pollination; bees need flowers for nectar. And as shown in Paleolithic art, humans have stolen honey from bees for millennia, and as early as the ancient Egyptians began to create homes for bees to encourage them to live nearby. Ellis follows the course of beekeeping, even visiting modern beekeepers on Manhattan rooftops.\n <em>\n  Nancy Bent\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5408'),
(9597, 'Sweetness in the Belly', 'Camilla Gibb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibbâ€™s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was â€œborn in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time [they] got to the Algarveâ€¦â€ The familyâ€™s nomadic adventure ends in Tangier when Lillyâ€™s parents are killed in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned at eight, Lilly is left in the care of a Sufi sheikh, who shows her the way of Islam through the Qurâ€™an. When political turmoil erupts, Lilly, now sixteen, is sent to the ancient walled city of Harar, Ethiopia, where she stays in a dirt-floored compound with an impoverished widow named Nouria and her four children. In Harar, Lilly earns her keep by helping with the household chores and teaching local children the Qurâ€™an. Ignoring the cries of â€œfarenjiâ€ (foreigner), she slowly begins to put down roots, learning the language and immersing herself in a culture rich in customs and rituals and lush with glittering bright headscarves, the chorus of muezzins and the scent of incense and coffee. She is drawn to an idealistic half-Sudanese doctor named Aziz, and the two begin to meet every Saturday at a social gathering. As they stay behind to talk, Lilly finds her faith tested for the first time in her life: â€œThe desire to remain in his company overwhelmed common sense; I would pick up my good Muslim self on the way home.â€ Just as their love begins to blossom, they are wrenched apart when the aging emperor Haile Selassie is deposed by the brutal Dergue regime. Lilly seeks exile in London, while Aziz stays to pursue his revolutionary passions.In London, Lillyâ€™s life as a white Muslim is no less complicated. A hospital staff nurse, she befriends a refugee from Ethiopia named Amina, whose daughter she helped to deliver in a back alley. The two women set up a community association to re-unite refugees with lost family members. Their work, however, isnâ€™t entirely altruistic. Both women are looking for someone: Amina, her husband, Yusuf, and Lilly, Aziz, who remains firmly, painfully, implanted in her heart. The first-person narrative alternates seamlessly between England (1981-91) and Ethiopia (1970-74), weaving a rich tapestry of one womanâ€™s quest to maintain faith and love through revolution, upheaval and the alienation of life in exile.**Sweetness in the Belly*** *was universally praised for the tremendous empathy that Gibb brings to an ambitious story. *Kirkus Reviews* writes that the novel "reflect(s) the pain, cultural relocation and uncertainty of tribal, political and religious refugees the world over. Gibb''s territory is urgently modern and controversial but she enters it softly, with grace, integrity and a lovely compassionate story. [It is a] poem to belief and to the displacedâ€“humane, resonant, original, impressive." According to the *Literary Review of Canada, ***Sweetness in the Belly **is â€œâ€¦a novel that is culturally sensitive, consummately researched and deeply compassionateâ€¦richly imagined, full of sensuous detail and arresting imageryâ€¦Gibb has smuggled Western readers into the centre of lives they might never otherwise come into contact with, let alone understand.â€*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(9598, 'Swell Foop', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Do you think the puns will ever run out?" a character asks early in Anthony''s 26th funny Xanth adventure. "If they do, Xanth will dissolve into chaos... It is mostly made of puns," another character sagely replies. And so it goes. This fantasy confection is full of puns,clever mathematical and grammatical lessons and some gratuitous sexual innuendo. Cynthia Centaur and her companions must find the Six Rings ofXanth (Fire, Earth, Idea, Water, Air and Void) in order to rescue the Demon Earth from the thrall of the Swell Foop. These rings are the only artifacts capable of locating the Foop. When they are stacked and aligned, a person who sights through them will be able to see the Foop if the stack is pointing the right way, and if that person is destinedto use it. The rings also control the six known Regions of Xanth. Thering bearers, who include Jaylin, a Mundanian human girl, as well as five Xanth creatures, must use their creativity and sense of humor tofind Demon Earth, or else the gravity needed in Xanth and Earth will disappear forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3281'),
(9599, 'A Swell-Looking Babe', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Manton looks like a respectable hotel. Dusty Rhodes looks like a selfless young man working as a bellhop. And the woman in 1004 looks like an angel. But sometimes looks can kill, as Jim Thompson demonstrates in this vision of the crime novel as gothic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2193'),
(9600, 'Swimming', 'Nicola Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I lovedSwimming. It''s the most original novel I''ve read all year. I can''t get Pip''s voice out of my mind. Give yourself a treat this summerread this book." Judy Blume A spectacular debut about the rise of an Olympic championa novel about competition, obsession, the hunger for victory, and a young girl with an unsinkable spirit struggling to stay afloat in the only way she can. When we first meet Pip, the extraordinary heroine of Nicola Keegan''s first novel, she is landlocked in a small town in the center of Kansas, literally swimming for her life. Pip is tall and flat and smart and funny and supernaturally buoyant. On land, she has her share of troubles: an agoraphobic mother, a lost father, a drug-addled sister, and a Catholic education dominated by a group of high-energy nuns. But in the water, Pip is unstoppable. In the water, her suffering and rage are transmuted into grace and speed and beauty. Swimmingis the story of Pip''s journey from a small Midwestern swim team to her first state meet, her brutal professional training, and the final, record-breaking swims that lead to her dizzying ascent to the Olympic podium in Barcelona. It''s the story of a girl who discovers, in the loneliness of adolescence, in the family tragedies that threaten to engulf her, the resilience of the human spirit and the spectacular power of her own body. A ferociously original novel, sparkling with wit and blazing with emotion, from a gifted new novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2400'),
(9601, 'Swimsuit', 'James Patterson &amp; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A serial killer with an urge to break into print propels this thriller from bestseller Patterson and collaborator Paetro (4th of July). Ben Hawkins, a former L.A. cop turned reporter and author, travels to Hawaii to look into the disappearance of model Kim McDaniels, who has fallen victim to a sadistic fiend who calls himself Henri Benoit. Ben meets with Kim''s distraught parents, but the investigation soon runs into dead ends, even as the body count rises. Back in Los Angeles, Henri gets in touch with Ben, and offers the story of his life and the reasons he continues with his murderous spree. As part of the deal, Henri asks the reporter to write his tell-all book. Ben can''t refuse given the killer''s threat to his life as well as his girlfriend''s. In just one of many clever twists, Henri proves to be the consummate storyteller. Patterson fans will devour this one in a single sitting.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints." (\n <strong>\n  USA TODAY\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Larry King\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "James Patterson is king of the bestseller hill." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Patterson has mastered the art of writing page-turning bestsellers." (\n <strong>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Man Who Can''t Miss." (\n <strong>\n  Time\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Lev Grossman\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When it comes to construction a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right." (\n <strong>\n  New York Daily News\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "America''s #1 storyteller." (\n <strong>\n  Forbes\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7377'),
(9602, 'Swine Not?: A Novel Pig Tale', 'Jimmy Buffett; Helen Bransford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee, to New York City, they wouldn''t dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff--especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast--becomes imperative.Can a talented, sensitive pig survive the claustrophobic, neurotic stresses of life in the Big Apple? Can the McBride twins keep their precious pet from becoming the chef''s favorite entree? Get ready for a wonderful ride as master storyteller Jimmy Buffett takes readers on a brilliantly funny romp through Manhattan and beyond. From spoiled rock stars to highly caffeinated football coaches, Buffett''s satirical view of American culture never ceases to bite and delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1905');
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(9603, 'The Swiss Family Robinson', 'Johann David Wyss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the worldâ€™s best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, *The Swiss Family Robinson* portrays a familyâ€™s struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the familyâ€”a Swiss pastor, his wife, their four young sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestockâ€”must rely on one another in order to adapt to their needs the natural wonders of their exotic new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoeâ€™s *Robinson Crusoe*, this classic story of invention and adventure has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. Freely translated over the years, with major sections excised and new subplots added, the novel is published here in its original English translation, fully restored for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1752'),
(9604, 'Switch', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9211'),
(9605, 'Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition', 'David Pogue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. *New York Times* columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X. Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you''re using Windows XP or Vista, we''ve got you covered. If you''re ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know: **Transferring your stuff --** Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files. **Re-creating your software suite --** Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them. **Learning Leopard --** Once you''ve moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you''re in good hands with the author of *Mac OS X: The Missing Manual*, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh. Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. *Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition* is your ticket to a new computing experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(9606, 'Sword and citadel', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I Master of the House of Chains â€œIt was in my hair, Severian,â€ Dorcas said. â€œSo I stood under the waterfall in the hot stone roomâ€”I donâ€™t know if the menâ€™s side is arranged in the same way. And every time I stepped out, I could hear them talking about me. They called you the black butcher, and other things I donâ€™t want to tell you about.â€â€œThatâ€™s natural enough,â€ I said. â€œYou were probably the first stranger to enter the place in a month, so itâ€™s only to be expected that they would chatter about you, and that the few women who knew who you were would be proud of it and perhaps tell some tales. As for me, Iâ€™m used to it, and you must have heard such expressions on the way here many times; I know I did.â€â€œYes,â€ she admitted, and sat down on the sill of the embrasure. In the city below, the lamps of the swarming shops were beginning to fill the valley of the Acis with a yellow radiance like the petals of a jonquil, but she did not seem to see them.â€œNow you understand why the regulations of the guild forbid me from taking a wifeâ€”although I will break them for you, as I have told you many times, whenever you want me to.â€â€œYou mean that it would be better for me to live somewhere else, and only come to see you once or twice a week, or wait till you came to see me.â€â€œThatâ€™s the way itâ€™s usually done. And eventually the women who talked about us today will realize that sometime they, or their sons or husbands, may find themselves beneath my hand.â€â€œBut donâ€™t you see, this is all beside the point. The thing isâ€¦â€ Here Dorcas fell silent, and then, when neither of us had spoken for some time, she rose and began to pace the room, one arm clasping the other. It was something I had never seen her do before, and I found it disturbing.â€œWhat is the point, then?â€ I asked.â€œThat it wasnâ€™t true then. That it is now.â€â€œI practiced the Art whenever there was work to be had. Hired myself out to towns and country justices. Several times you watched me from a window, though you never liked to stand in the crowdâ€”for which I hardly blame you.â€â€œI didnâ€™t watch,â€ she said.â€œI recall seeing you.â€â€œI didnâ€™t. Not when it was actually going on. You were intent on what you were doing, and didnâ€™t see me when I went inside or covered my eyes. I used to watch, and wave to you, when you first vaulted onto the scaffold. You were so proud then, and stood just as straight as your sword, and looked so fine. You were honest. I remember watching once when there was an official of some sort up there with you, and the condemned man and a hieromonach. And yours was the only honest face.â€â€œYou couldnâ€™t possibly have seen it. I must surely have been wearing my mask.â€â€œSeverian, I didnâ€™t have to see it. I know what you look like.â€â€œDonâ€™t I look the same now?â€â€œYes,â€ she said reluctantly. â€œBut I have been down below. Iâ€™ve seen the people chained in the tunnels. When we sleep tonight, you and I in our soft bed, we will be sleeping on top of them. How many did you say there were when you took me down?â€â€œAbout sixteen hundred. Do you honestly believe those sixteen hundred would be free if I were no longer present to guard them? They were here, remember, when we came.â€Dorcas would not look at me. â€œItâ€™s like a mass grave,â€ she said. I could see her shoulders shake.â€œIt should be,â€ I told her. â€œThe archon could release them, but who could resurrect those theyâ€™ve killed? Youâ€™ve never lost anyone, have you?â€She did not reply.â€œAsk the wives and the mothers and the sisters of the men our prisoners have left rotting in the high country whether Abdiesus should let them go.â€â€œOnly myself,â€ Dorcas said, and blew out the candle.* * *Thrax is a crooked dagger entering the heart of the mountains. It lies in a narrow defile of the valley of the Acis, and extends up it to Acies Castle. The harena, the pantheon, and the other public buildings occupy all the level land between the castle and the wall (called the Capulus) that closes the lower end of the narrow section of the valley. The private buildings of the city climb the cliffs to either side, and many are in large measure dug into the rock itself, from which practice Thrax gains one of its sobriquetsâ€”the City of Windowless Rooms.Its prosperity it owes to its position at the head of the navigable part of the river. At Thrax, all goods shipped north on the Acis (many of which have traversed nine tenths of the length of Gyoll before entering the mouth of the smaller river, which may indeed be Gyollâ€™s true source) must be unloaded and carried on the backs of animals if they are to travel farther. Conversely, the hetmans of the mountain tribes and the landowners of the region who wish to ship their wool and corn to the southern towns bring them to take boat at Thrax, below the cataract that roars through the arched spillway of Acies Castle.As must always be the case when a stronghold imposes the rule of law over a turbulent region, the administration of justice was the chief concern of the archon of the city. To impose his will on those without the walls who might otherwise have opposed it, he could call upon seven squadrons of dimarchi, each under its own commander. Court convened each month, from the first appearance of the new moon to the full, beginning with the second morning watch and continuing as long as necessary to clear the dayâ€™s docket. As chief executor of the archonâ€™s sentences, I was required to attend these sessions, so that he might be assured that the punishments he decreed should be made neither softer nor more severe by those who might otherwise have been charged with transmitting them to me; and to oversee the operation of the Vincula, in which the prisoners were detained, in all its details. It was a responsibility equivalent on a lesser scale to that of Master Gurloes in our Citadel, and during the first few weeks I spent in Thrax it weighed heavily upon me.It was a maxim of Master Gurloesâ€™s that no prison is ideally situated. Like most of the wise tags put forward for the edification of young men, it was inarguable and unhelpful. All escapes fall into three categoriesâ€”that is, they are achieved by stealth, by violence, or by the treachery of those set as guards. A remote place does most to render escapes by stealth difficult, and for that reason has been favored by the majority of those who have thought long upon the subject.Unfortunately, deserts, mountaintops, and lone isles offer the most fertile fields for violent escapeâ€”if they are besieged by the prisonersâ€™ friends, it is difficult to learn of the fact before it is too late, and next to impossible to reinforce their garrisons; and similarly, if the prisoners rise in rebellion, it is highly unlikely that troops can be rushed to the spot before the issue is decided.A facility in a well-populated and well-defended district avoids these difficulties, but incurs even more severe ones. In such places a prisoner needs, not a thousand friends, but one or two; and these need not be fighting menâ€”a scrubwoman and a street vendor will do, if they possess intelligence and resolution. Furthermore, once the prisoner has escaped the walls, he mingles immediately with the faceless mob, so that his reapprehension is not a matter for huntsmen and dogs but for agents and informers.In our own case, a detached prison in a remote location w\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(9607, 'The Sword of Antietam (Webster&#39;s Korean Thesaurus Edition)', 'Joseph A. Altsheler; Icon Group International; Inc. Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Sword of Antietam by Joseph A. Altsheler was edited for three audiences. The first includes Korean-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Korean speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Korean in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Korean Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Korean or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Korean, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2456'),
(9608, 'Sword of God', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Retired soldiers Jonathon Payne and D.J. Jones return to action (after last year''s Sign of the Cross), investigating a secret bunker off the coast of Korea where a gruesome scene and a missing squad from their former unit, an elite counterinsurgency team, indicate that secret interrogation proceedings have gone terribly wrong. Piecing together the facts of the case lead Payne and Jones to Mecca, where a plot to blow up the Grand Mosque suggests a global conspiracy to align forces against the United States. Soon Payne and Jones have to risk their lives to infiltrate Mecca (where non-Muslims can be summarily executed) to save the city and, ultimately, the world. Kuzneski''s novel is taut and largely fast-paced; though occasionally bogged down in historical exposition, it''s a fair trade that gives the book a rich sense of authenticity and plausibility. Though characters are short on depth, Kuzneski knows how to maintain a nuanced moral landscape while wresting maximum thrills from contemporary Western fear of terrorism. This globe-crossing action thriller, like its predecessor, evokes the spirit of Dan Brown, with welcome doses of Lee Child''s ex-military tough-guy grit. (Oct.) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(9609, 'The Sword of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE SWORD OF SHANNARALong ago, the wars of the ancient Evil had ruined the world and forced mankind to compete with many other races--gnomes, trolls, dwarfs, and elves. But in peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knew little of such troubles.Then came the giant, forbidding Allanon, possessed of strange Druidic powers, to reveal that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could be used only by a true heir of Shannara. On Shea, last of the bloodline, rested the hope of all the races.Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him . . .THUS BEGAN THE SEEMINGLY HOPELESS QUEST OF A SIMPLE MAN AGAINST THE GREATEST POWER OF EVIL THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3293'),
(9610, 'The Sword of the Dawn', 'Micheal Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9839'),
(9611, 'Sword Quest', 'Nancy Yi Fan &amp; Jo-Anne Rioux', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4â€“6â€”In this good-versus-evil story, a prequel to\n <em>\n  Swordbird\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2007), readers see a legend taking shape as evil forces attempt to conquer the inhabitants of a bird world. Prophecy says a hero will emerge on Hero''s Day, but no one knows who it will be. Scattered in unknown regions of the world lay strategically placed Leasorn gems that hold clues to where the hero''s sword waits. It is up to the hero to discover where and to retrieve it. The archaeopteryxes, an army of birds intent on cruelty and destruction, support the desires of the villainous leaders. Maldeor, a leader with a batlike wing forged from evil magic, has cast his eye toward claiming the sword. But unlikely birds lay down their lives to uncover the clues so they might save the sword for its true master. Fleydur, eagle prince of the Skythunder tribe, Stormac the mynah, and Ewingerale the woodpecker all play pivotal roles as companions to 013-Unidentified, a dovelike bird trapped as a slave. Readers will find the characters credible and well suited for their roles in this fabled adventure. The tightly crafted story line is nicely executed, but the most important element, and one that truly touches the heart, is the underlying theme of love.â€”_Robyn Gioia, Bolles School, Ponte Vedra, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this good-versus-evil story, a prequel to Swordbird (HarperCollins, 2007), readers see a legend taking shape as evil forces attempt to conquer the inhabitants of a bird world. Prophecy says a hero will emerge on Hero''s Day, but no one knows who it will be. Scattered in unknown regions of the world lay strategically placed Leasorn gems that hold clues to where the hero''s sword waits. It is up to the hero to discover where and to retrieve it. The archaeopteryxes, an army of birds intent on cruelty and destruction, support the desires of the villainous leaders. Maldeor, a leader with a batlike wing forged from evil magic, has cast his eye toward claiming the sword. But unlikely birds lay down their lives to uncover the clues so they might save the sword for its true master. Fleydur, eagle prince of the Skythunder tribe, Stormac the mynah, and Ewingerale the woodpecker all play pivotal roles as companions to 013-Unidentified, a dovelike bird trapped as a slave. Readers will find the characters credible and well suited for their roles in this fabled adventure. The tightly crafted story line is nicely executed, but the most important element, and one that truly touches the heart, is the underlying theme of love.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Robyn Gioia, School Library Journal --School Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7064'),
(9612, 'The Sword-Edged blonde', 'Alex Bledsoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It should have been a case like any other: a missing princess, a king willing to pay in gold for her return. But before he realizes it, private investigator Eddie LaCrosse, a slightly shopworn sword jockey with a talent for discretion and detection, is swept up in a web of mystery and deceit involving a brutally murdered royal heir, a queen accused of an unspeakable crime and the tragic past he thought he''d left behind.First in a series of hard-boiled fantasy detective novels, in the vein of Glen Cook''s Garrett series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(9613, 'The Swordbearer', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young boy''s dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father''s kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and alone in the woods, he finds an ancient sword that promises him the ability to claim his vengeance. As he begins to take that vengeance, he comes to realize the price that the sword will demand of him. Enemies soon become allies and strange bedfellows abound as the prophesies of an age swirl into chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1875'),
(9614, 'Swordbird', 'Nancy Yi Fan &amp; Mark Zug', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yi Fan''s tightly woven story delivers a manifest message promoting peace and freedom. Starring woodland bird characters, the saga pits the tyrannical hawk Turnatt, captor of "slavebirds" whom he shackles and puts to work building his fortress, against the cardinals and blue jays. Though once friendly, these two benign flocks are now at war: Turnatt''s soldiers have stolen eggs and food from each flock (the hawk eats a purloined egg daily, believing this will "keep death away"), and have led each camp to believe the other is responsible for the thefts. One of the slavebirds, a robin named Miltin, escapes to tell Aska, a brave young jay, about Turnatt''s evil doings and his plan to enslave all the local woodbirds. Blue jays and cardinals join forces to vanquish the despot, a mission that entails several diverting twists, including a search for the necessary elements to summon the Swordbird, the "mystical white bird, the son of the Great Spirit." The author occasionally relieves the tale''s ample tension with snippets of humor. While feasting with a traveling troupe of winged thespians, for instance, the cardinals and blue jays drive away Turnatt''s marauding forces by bombarding them with bean soup and raspberry pies. Experienced readers will recognize the familiar allegory here, but the book will likely appeal to Redwall fans, and this young writer is worth watching. Ages 8-12.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4â€“6â€”The Stone-Run Country is in peril. The blue jays'' Bluewingle tribe and their former friends, the cardinals of the Sunrise tribe, have gone to war. Each side believes the other to have stolen its food and eggs, little suspecting the malicious hawk, Turnatt, along with his hoard of crows and ravens. Now he is intent on forcing all of the local woodbirds to work on his magnificent fortress, and it''s up to a variety of brave avians to upset the villain''s plans. Their only hope lies in summoning the great warrior, Swordbird, to assist them in their time of need. Fan wrote the book when she was 11 as a response to a world at war; it goes without saying that she is very talented. However, the book essentially reuses old tropes in a new setting, making the plot, pacing, and characters more than a little predictable and, for all of its charms, the story is overly familiar. Dialogue runs to the clunky with lines like, "I''ll get you, me and my crew will" and "You''ll pay for that, scalawag!" The greatest credit should be given to the illustrator, who took the author''s imagery and made it believable as well as attractive.â€”_Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7065'),
(9615, 'Swords Against Death [Book 2 of the &quot;Fafhrd and Gray Mouser&quot; Series]', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9904'),
(9616, 'Swords and Deviltry [Book 1 of the &quot;Fafhrd and Gray Mouser&quot; Series]', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9903'),
(9617, 'Swords and Ice Magic [Book 6 of the &quot;Fafhrd and Gray Mouser&quot; Series]', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9901'),
(9618, 'Swords in the Mist [Book 3 of the &quot;Fafhrd and Gray Mouser&quot; Series]', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9902'),
(9619, 'The Swordsheath Scroll', 'neetha Napew', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10746'),
(9620, 'Swordsman&#39;s Legacy', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In need of a break from work and some recent near-death adventures, archaeologist Annja Creed visits France to indulge one of her greatest fantasies: finding D''Artagnan''s lost sword. The rapier was a gift from the reigning monarch and has been missing since the seventeenth century.And Ascher Vallois, one of Annja''s treasure-hunting friends, believes he has located the site of the relic.But when Annja meets with Vallois, she learns that he''s made a huge sacrifice to protect the sword and its secret from a relic hunter. Annja discovers that the artifact holds the key to a fortune. And the man won''t stop until he gets everything he wantsâ€”including Annja.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(9621, 'The Sworn Sword', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sequel to The Hedge Knight tells the story of the adventures of Ser Duncan and his squire one year after their initial meeting at the tournament in Ashford. After traveling the land in search of the puppeteer girl Tanselle, Dunk and Egg find themselves in the charge of Ser Eustace, an aged knight who has accepted Dunk as his sworn sword. But Ser Eustace has another knight in his service who is nothing but trouble, and he will make Dunk''s life far more difficult when he rashly attacks a peasant and causes grief to a local noble, the Lady Rohanne Webber. But the Lady Rohanne has problems of her own - and she knows the truth about Ser Eustace and the side he took in the battle of Redgrass Field.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(9622, 'The Sworn', 'Gail Z. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Summoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. Tris seeks new allies from among the living - and the dead - as an untested generation of rulers face their first battle. Meanwhile, the legendary Dread are stirring in their burrows after millennia of silence and no one knows what hand wakes them and whom they will serve when they rise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, Drayke turns to the Sworn, a nomadic clan of warriors bound to protect the Dread. But even the mighty Sworn do not know what will happen when the Dread awake. All are certain, though, that war is coming to the Winter Kingdoms.\n</p>\n<p>\n THE SWORN is the beginning of a new adventure set in the world of The Chronicles of the Necromancer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gail Z. Martin discovered her passion for SF, fantasy and ghost stories in elementary school. The first story she wrote - at age five - was about a vampire. Her favorite TV show as a preschooler was\n <em>\n  Dark Shadows\n </em>\n . At age 14 she decided to become a writer. She enjoys attending SF/Fantasy conventions, Renaissance fairs and living history sites. She is married, and has three children, a Himalayan cat and a golden retriever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8305'),
(9623, 'Sylvester: Or the Wicked Uncle', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although this is an abridged version of Heyer''s work, British actor Richard Armitage makes this exceptionally fun to listen to. The only drawback is that listeners will be disappointed that he didn''t read the full-length version. Armitage is perhaps best known for playing the most appealing John Thornton in the BBC production of Elizabeth Gaskell''s North and South. He also played the dastardly Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and, a spy in Spooks. Armitage''s reading is warm, lively, simply brilliant. He easily voices all characters and regional and class differences with ease and captures the underlying tension and growing romantic interest between Phoebe and Sylvester. The period classical music between chapters adds wonderful, appropriate atmosphere. - Jean Palmer, Soundcommentary.com - Talking of Regency romance, a favourite Georgette Heyer novel is Sylvester, which has a wicked uncle, a feisty heroine, a clash of personalities, a desperately cute child and a daffy mama. It''s also read by the seductive-voiced Richard Armitage, just the pick me up for the end of winter. --Kati Nicholl, Daily Express\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Rank, wealth, and elegance are no match for a young lady who writes novels...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has exacting requirements for a bride. Then he meets Phoebe Marlow, a young lady with literary aspirations, and suddenly life becomes very complicated. She meets none of his criteria, and even worse, she has written a novel that is sweeping through the ton and causing all kinds of gossip... and he''s the main character!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What Readers Say:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A truly brilliant Heyer with an adorable and very real heroine and a hero who is very human!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of Heyer''s most unsung achievements, a classic Pride and Prejudice story. Hilarity and adventure throughout."\n</p>\n<p>\n "The hero may be my all-time favorite. He is so drily funny it takes your breath away. What a wonderful love story."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilariously funny, romantic, even touching in a subtle way."\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10217'),
(9624, 'Sympathy Between Humans', 'Jodi Compton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jodi Comptonâ€™s debut, *The 37th Hour*, was hailed as â€œcompellingâ€ (*San Francisco Chronicle*), â€œintelligentâ€ (*New York Times Book Review*), and â€œthe debut of a world-class mystery writerâ€ (*Denver Post*). Now Compton delivers a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, one of the most singular and complex characters in suspense fiction today.On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A.â€™s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. With her ex-partner half a world away and her husband in prison, only Sarah remains to face the consequences of last fall. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be the suspect in a murder, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. Seventeen-year-old Aidan Hennessy was banished from his family by his father. Now Aidanâ€™s twin sister is desperately searching for the brother she hasnâ€™t seen in years. Although the case is out of Sarahâ€™s jurisdiction, she sees a reflection of herself in the troubled, damaged family, and agrees to investigate.As she probes into their tangled history, Sarah begins to realize that the mystery of the Hennessys runs deeper than it appears. Then Sarahâ€™s lieutenant gives her a simpler assignment: Track down a doctor rumored to be practicing medicine without a license in a housing project. But in Cicero Ruiz, Sarah finds a tough, wounded survivor whose moral code challenges her own ideas about justiceâ€¦and whose hard-won life would be destroyed by an arrest. Now juggling two very different cases, both requiring a delicate balancing act between professional honor and personal feelings, Sarah soon has even more at stake. Caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with the investigator who wants to end her career, crossing one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a misstep on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but in the death of one of those she has promised herself to protect.With its fascinating heroine and its brilliantly interwoven mysteries, **Sympathy Between Humans** is storytelling at its finest from one of the most original and daring writers in suspense fiction today.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1670'),
(9625, 'Sympathy for the Devil', 'Tim Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Stephen King, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, China Mieville, Michael Chabon, and many others, revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his forms. Thirty-five stories, from classics to the cutting edge, exploring the many sides of Satan, Lucifer, the Lord of the Flies, the Father of Lies, the Prince of the Powers of the Air and Darkness, the First of the Fallen... and a Man of Wealth and Taste. Sit down and spend a little time with the Devil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3985'),
(9626, 'The Synthetic Man', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10482'),
(9627, 'The System of the World', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ''Tis done.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England''s shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess''s behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain''s newborn monetary system.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse''s manufactory.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson''s Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8769'),
(9628, 'System Shock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The doctor lands in 1998 London to stop a race of technically advanced alien marauders from controlling the global information superhighway.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5647'),
(9629, 'T Is for Trespass', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n tresÂ¥pass \\\\''trespes\\\\ n: a transgression of law involving one''s obligations to God or to one''s neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin  *-Webster''s New International Dictionary*, Second Edition, Unabridged\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton''s *T is for Trespass* is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though set in the late eighties, *T is for Trespass* could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent. It reveals a terrifying but all-too-real rip in the social fabric. Once again, Grafton opens up new territory with startling results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8200'),
(9630, 'Table for Five', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sometimes it takes a leap of faith in order to soar . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A gifted teacher, Lily Robinson adores her students, but fiercely guards her independent lifestyle. Deep inside, she is afraid of loving too deeply for fear of getting hurt. Only her best friend, Crystal, has ever been able to get close. Now an unthinkable tragedy has drawn Lily into the shattered lives of Crystal''s family -- a family that suddenly needs her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sean McGuire is a rolling stone used to living in the shadow of his famous brother, Derek. He''s made his own way in life, playing by his own rules. Then one April night everything changes when a fatal car crash orphans Derek and Crystal''s three children. In an instant, Sean finds himself in the role of guardian.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sean and Lily are brought together by tragedy, joined in their grief and their mutual love for these children. But raising three kids is a monumental job, and Sean realizes he''s in over his head. And though Lily has been the unofficial aunt to these children since they were born, planting emotional roots means taking risks -- and Lily''s not sure she can.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ups and downs of love and family life can be a roller-coaster ride -- thrilling, unpredictable and downright terrifying, yet filled with incredible delight. and Sean and Lily are about to discover the possibilities that make everything seem worthwhile -- a future filled with hope, happiness and the certainty that trusting love is the best choice of all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Susan Wiggs is the acclaimed, bestselling author of many poignant, unforgettable novels, including *Summer by the Sea*, *The Ocean Between Us* and *Home Before Dark*. she lives with her husband and daughter on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where she is currently at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5700'),
(9631, 'Tai-Pan', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ""It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler...Tai-Pan!"" "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1727'),
(9632, 'The Tailor of Panama', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11061'),
(9633, 'Tails of Wonder and Imagination', 'Ellen Datlow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats from an all-star list of contributors. The Stephen King Story is UNCOLLECTED, and has not been in print since the Horrorstory III anthology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(9634, 'A taint in the blood', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In Dana Stabenow''s latest novel, a woman hires Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak to clear her mother''s name. Twenty years ago, the mother was convicted of arson and murder, of setting fire to the family home while her two sons were inside. One died, and one was maimed. Her daughter has always believed in her innocence, though the mother herself had accepted the verdict and the life sentence without protest. Now the mother is terminally ill, and her daughter wants her free. But as Kate begins the investigation, it seems the mother isn''t the only one who wants to leave the past in the past.In this spell-binding crime novel, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and regret--and murder--in one of Alaska''s most powerful families. SUMMARY: In Dana Stabenow''s latest novel, a woman hires Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak to clear her mother''s name. Twenty years ago, the mother was convicted of arson and murder, of setting fire to the family home while her two sons were inside. One died, and one was maimed. Her daughter has always believed in her innocence, though the mother herself had accepted the verdict and the life sentence without protest. Now the mother is terminally ill, and her daughter wants her free. But as Kate begins the investigation, it seems the mother isn''t the only one who wants to leave the past in the past.In this spell-binding crime novel, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and regret--and murder--in one of Alaska''s most powerful families.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1049'),
(9635, 'Tainted Blood', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Delving into a murdered manâ€™s life, Detective Erlendur discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime. Did his past come back to haunt him? Erlendur uses all the forensic sources available including Icelandâ€™s Genetic Research Centre in order to find the answers.*From the Trade Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(9636, 'Taken at the Flood', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room!  A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.  Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man''s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ''spirits'' that Mrs Underhay''s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman''s true motive for approaching him!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5260'),
(9637, 'Taken by Sin', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He''s the sexy demon hunter who just saved her life. Now she''s about to show him what salvation''s "really" about. It''s a mission that could cost him his career and his life. But the woman he just rescued--his lover for one unforgettable night--has something Dalton desperately needs. That''s why the fearless demon hunter is risking everything to spirit Isabelle to a secret hideaway in the Louisiana bayou. Saving her is one thing. Banishing the demon inside her is another. Especially when this gorgeous seductress brings out the devil in "him." Isabelle can see the passion roaring inside Dalton--and it both frightens and arouses her. Is Dalton her enemy or her savior? All she knows is he''s beyond seductive and igniting all sorts of conflicting feelings. All Dalton knows is that they''re both in big trouble--hunted by demons and demon hunters alike in an all-out war for survival. As their pursuers close in and passion overtakes them both, Dalton must make a stunning choice.... Caught between sin and salvation, between darkness and light, will he make the ultimate sacrifice to save the woman he loves?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(9638, 'Takeover', 'Lisa Black', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When high-level executive Mark Ludlow is discovered beaten to death in front of his house early one morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean and her fiancÃ©, homicide detective Paul Cleary, investigate in Black''s underwhelming debut, a thriller set in Cleveland. Paul immediately heads downtown to interview Ludlow''s co-workers at the Federal Reserve Bank and walks right into a botched robbery attempt and hostage situation. Lucas Parrish and Bobby Moyers want $4 million, but top hostage negotiator Chris Cavanaugh isn''t ready to give in to their demands. When Paul is shot in the leg and becomes a hostage, Theresa breaks protocol and convinces Lucas to let Paul go and take her instead. It''s up to Theresa on the inside and Chris on the outside to uncover the motive behind the robbery and Ludlow''s murder before anyone else gets hurt. Theresa, despite her professional training, devotes little time to scientific deduction. Readers can expect to find richer plots on most TV crime dramas.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAn exciting story that is hard to put down.â€ (Dr. Bill Bass, forensic anthropologist at the Body Farm and coauthor of The Devilâ€™s Bones )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTakeover is a riveting hostage drama packed with surprises. Once Lisa Black gets you inside the bank, youâ€”like the bad guysâ€”wonâ€™t be able to stop.â€ (Peter Abrahams, author of Delusion )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe combination of a credible, likable hero and a bizarre, chilling story is rare in crime fiction....Lisa Black makes the tumblers click perfectly.â€ (Jeremiah Healy, author of Invasion of Privacy )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ...a tautly plotted, relentlessly suspenseful debut. Letâ€™s hope she writes another scorcher-and soon.â€ (Booklist (starred review) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGrab-you-by-the throat suspense, written by someone who has actually walked the disturbing walk of an investigator.â€ (Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Body Double )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTakeover is captivating. Part procedural, part psychological suspense, and every inch a thriller, Takeover succeeds from the opening chapter.â€ (Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of Killer View )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEntertainingâ€ (Chicago Sun-Times )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6308'),
(9639, 'Taking the Leap', 'Chodron, Pema', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9986');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9640, 'The Taking', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the morning that marks the end of the world they have known, Molly and Neil Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. A luminous silvery downpour is drenching their small California mountain town. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now, in the moody purple dawn, the young couple cannot shake the sense of something terribly wrong. As the hours pass, Molly and Neil listen to disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. By nightfall, their little town loses all contact with the outside world. A thick fog transforms the once-friendly village into a ghostly labyrinth. And soon the Sloans and their neighbors will be forced to draw on reserves of courage and humanity they never knew they had. For within the misty gloom they will encounter something that reveals in a shattering instant what is happening to their world-something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1451'),
(9641, 'The Tale of Krispos: Krispos Rising Krispos of Videssos Krispos the Emperor', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The dazzling story of a boy who rises from poverty and hardship to become the greatest leader his world has ever known\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n KRISPOS RISING\n <br />\n Born a ragged peasant, Krispos lives on the family farm until crushing taxes drove him from the land he calls home. With only a single gold piece to his nameâ€“a gift from a nomad chieftain who claimed it carried magicâ€“Krispos heads for the imperial capital, Videssos, and into a world of peril and possibility.\n</p>\n<p>\n KRISPOS OF VIDESSOS\n <br />\n Krisposâ€™ reign as emperor of Videssos shows every sign of being brief and very bloodyâ€“for trouble is brewing. Civil war has erupted, and as rebel troops take the field against the untried emperor, outland raiders are sweeping down from the northlands in a tide of carnage. How long can Krispos hope to keep head and crown together?\n</p>\n<p>\n KRISPOS THE EMPEROR\n <br />\n A strange heresy has taken root in the land and soon dissent flares into open revolt as Krispos faces his greatest challenge: To save his empire from tearing itself apart, he wages an evermore desperate war against an implacable foe, setting brother against brother and father against son.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter 1\n</p>\n<p>\n The thunder of hoofbeats. shouts in a harsh tongue. Krispos opened one eye. It was still dark. It felt like the middle of the night. He shook his head. He did not like noise that woke him up when he should have been asleep. He closed the eye and snuggled down between his mother and father on the straw palliasse he and they and his little sister used for a bed.\n</p>\n<p>\n His parents woke, too, just when he was trying to go back to sleep. Krispos felt their bodies stiffen on either side of him. His sister Evdokia slept on. Some people have all the luck, he thought, though heâ€™d never thought of Evdokia as particularly lucky before. Not only was she threeâ€”half his ageâ€”she was a girl.\n</p>\n<p>\n The shouts turned to screams. One of the screams had words: â€œThe Kubratoi! The Kubratoi are in the village!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n His mother gasped. â€œPhos save us!â€ she said, her voice almost as shrill as the cries of terror in the darkness outside.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe good god saves through what people do,â€ his father said. The farmer sprang to his feet. That woke Evdokia, where nothing else had. She started to cry. â€œKeep her quiet, Tatze!â€ Krisposâ€™ father growled. His mother cuddled Evdokia, softly crooned to her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Krispos wondered whether heâ€™d get cuddled if he started crying. He thought heâ€™d be more likely to get his fatherâ€™s hand on his backside or across his face. Like every farm boy from anywhere near the town of Imbros, he knew who the Kubratoi were: wild men from north of the mountains. â€œWill we fight them, Father?â€ he asked. Just the other day, with a stick for a sword, heâ€™d slain a dozen make-believe robbers.\n</p>\n<p>\n But his father shook his head. â€œReal fighting is for soldiers. The Kubratoi, curse â€™em, are soldiers. We arenâ€™t. Theyâ€™d kill us, and we couldnâ€™t do much in the way of fighting back. This isnâ€™t play, boy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat will we do, Phostis?â€ his mother asked above Evdokiaâ€™s sniffles. She sounded almost ready to cry herself. That frightened Krispos more than all the racket outside. What could be worse than something bad enough to frighten his mother?\n</p>\n<p>\n The answer came in a moment: something bad enough to frighten his father. â€œWe run,â€ Phostis said grimly, â€œunless youâ€™d sooner be dragged north by the two-legged wolves out there. Thatâ€™s why I built close to the forest; thatâ€™s why I built the door facing away from most of the houses: to give us a chance to run, if the Kubratoi ever came down again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n His mother bent, rose again. â€œI have the baby.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n In her arms, Evdokia said indignantly, â€œNot a baby!â€ Then she started to cry again.\n</p>\n<p>\n No one paid any attention to her. Krisposâ€™ father took him by the shoulder, so hard that his flimsy nightshirt might as well not have stood between manâ€™s flesh and boyâ€™s. â€œCan you run to the trees, son, fast as you can, and hide yourself till the bad men go away?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYes, Father.â€ Put that way, it sounded like a game. Krispos had played more games in the forest than he could count.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThen run!â€ His father threw open the door. Out he darted. His mother followed, still holding Evdokia. Last came his father. Krispos knew his father could run faster than he could, but his father didnâ€™t try, not tonight. He stayed between his family and the village.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bare feet skimming across the ground, Krispos looked back over his shoulder. Heâ€™d never seen so many horses or so many torches in his life before. All the horses had strangers on themâ€”the fearsome Kubratoi, he supposed. He could see a lot of villagers, too. The horsemen rounded up more of them every second.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonâ€™t look, boy! Run!â€ his father said. Krispos ran. The blessed trees drew nearer and nearer. But a new shout was up, too, and horses drummed their way. The sound of pursuit grew with horrid quickness. Breath sobbing in his throat, Krispos thought how unfair it was that horses could run so fast.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou stop, or we shoot you!â€ a voice called from behind. Krispos could hardly understand it; he had never heard Videssian spoken with any accent but the country twang of his own village.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeep running!â€ his father said. But riders flashed by Krispos on either side, so close he could feel the wind from their horses, so close he could smell the beasts. They wheeled, blocking him and his family from the safety of the woods.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still with the feeling it was all a game, Krispos wheeled to dash off in some new direction. Then he saw the other horsemen, the pair who had gone after his father. One carried a torch, to give them both light to see by. It also let Krispos clearly see them, see their fur caps, the matted beards that seemed to complement those caps, their boiled-leather armor, the curved swords on their hips, the way they sat their mounts as if part of them. Frozen in time, the moment stayed with Krispos as long as he lived.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second rider, the one without a torch, held a bow. It had an arrow in it, an arrow drawn and pointed at Krisposâ€™ father. That was when it stopped being play for the boy. He knew about bows, and how people were supposed to be careful with them. If these wild men didnâ€™t know that, time someone taught them.\n</p>\n<p>\n He marched straight up to the Kubratoi. â€œYou turn the aim of that arrow aside this instant,â€ he told them. â€œYou might hurt someone with it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Both Kubratoi stared at him. The one with the bow threw back his head and howled laughter. The wild man did sound like a wolf, Krispos thought, shivering. He wished his voice had been big and deep like his fatherâ€™s, not a boyâ€™s squeak. The rider wouldnâ€™t have laughed then.\n</p>\n<p>\n The rider probably would have shot him, but he did not think of that until years later. As it was, the Kubrati, still laughing, set down his bow, made an extravagant salute from the saddle. â€œAnything you say, little khagan, anything you say.â€ He chuckled, wiping his face with the back of his hand. Then he raised his eyes to meet those of Krisposâ€™ father, who had hurried up to do what he could for the boy. â€œNot need to shoot now, eh, farmer-man?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo,â€ Krisposâ€™ father agreed bitterly. â€œYouâ€™ve caught us, all right.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Along with his parents and Evdokia, Krispos walked slowly back to the village. A couple of horsemen stayed with them; the other two rode ahead so they could get back to doing whatever Kubratoi did. That, Krispos already suspected, was nothing good.\n</p>\n<p>\n He remembered the strange word the rider with the bow had used. â€œFather, what does â€˜khaganâ€™ mean?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s what the Kubratoi call their chieftain. If heâ€™d been a Videssian, he would have called you â€˜Avtokratorâ€™ instead.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEmperor? Thatâ€™s silly.â€ Even with his world coming apart, Krispos found he could still laugh.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSo it is, boy,â€ his father said grimly. He paused, then went on in a different tone, as if beginning to enjoy the joke himself: â€œAlthough thereâ€™s said to be Vaspurakaner blood on my side of the family, and the Vaspurs all style themselves â€˜prince.â€™ Bet you didnâ€™t know your father was a prince, eh, son?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStop it, Phostis!â€ Krisposâ€™ mother said. â€œThe priest says that nonsense about princes is heresy and nothing else but. Donâ€™t pass it on to the boy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHeresy is what the priest is supposed to know about,â€ his father agreed, â€œbut I wonâ€™t argue about the nonsense part. Who ever heard of a prince going hungry?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n His mother sniffed, but made no further answer. They were inside the village by then, back where other people could hear themâ€”not good, not if they wanted to talk of heresy. â€œWhat will they do with us?â€ was a safer question to ask, though not one, necessarily, with a surer answer. The villagers stood around under the bows of the Kubratoi, waiting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then more riders came up, these leading not people but the villageâ€™s herds and flocks. â€œAre the animals coming with us, Father?â€ Krispos asked. He had not expected the Kubratoi to be so considerate.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith us, aye, but not for us,â€ was all his father said.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Kubratoi started shouting, both those who spoke Videssian and those who did not. The villagers looked at one another, trying to figure out what the wild men meant. Then they saw the direction in which the cattle and sheep were going. They followed the beasts northward.\n</p>\n<p>\n For krispos, the trek to kubrat was the best adventure heâ€™d ever had. Tramping along all day was no harder than the chores he would have been doing had the raiders not descended on his village, and he always had something new to see. Heâ€™d never imagined, before, how big the world was.\n</p>\n<p>\n That the march was forced hardly entered his mind. He ate better on it than he had at home; the Kubrati heâ€™d defied that first night decided to make a pet of him and brought him chunks of roast lamb and beef. Soon other riders took up the game, so the â€œlittle khaganâ€ sometimes found himself with more than he could eat.\n</p>\n<p>\n At his fatherâ€™s urging, he never let on. Whenever the Kubratoi did not insist on having him eat in front of them, he passed their tidbits on to the rest of the family. The way he made the food disappear earned him a reputation as a bottomless pit, which only brought more his way.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the end of the third day on the road north, the raiders who had descended on his village met with other bands bringing captives and booty back to Kubrat. That took Krispos by surprise. He had never given any thought to the world beyond the fields he knew. Now he saw he and his family were caught up in...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4966'),
(9642, 'The Tale of Oat Cake Crag', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The latest tale in the "charming" (*Publishers Weekly*) Beatrix Potter series! ** In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplane are disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey. Miss Beatrix Potter can barely hear herself think-which she needs to do for the new case she''s just taken up. Her friend Grace Lythecoe has been receiving some anonymous letters, threatening her good name. Now Beatrix must proceed quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip. And while her visit to Near Sawrey has proven to be anything but quiet, there is yet another piece of business for Beatrix to address: that of her own future. When she''s offered a second chance at love, she decides that sometimes causing a disturbance can be well worth the trouble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3277'),
(9643, 'The tale of Peter Rabbit', 'Beatrix Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this retelling with pop-up illustrations, Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor''s garden and almost gets caught.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(9644, 'The tale of the body thief', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction''s most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice''s writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNEFor centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(9645, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleâ€”offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of A Tale of Two Cities includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy in England. Together, their love touched the hearts of even stodgy banker Mr. Lorry and cynical, jaded lawyer Sydney Carton...But in Paris, the fires of revolution exploded in uncontrollable fury. The noble goals of freedom fighters became the crazed bloodbath called the Reign of Terror. And when three exiles returned home on an errand of mercy, they were trapped in a nightmare of mock trials and made rage. Once in Paris, nothing could save Darnay, Lucie, or Manette...Except a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(9646, 'A Talent for Murder', 'R. T. Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Jordan''s bubbly third sleuth-a-thon to feature Hollywood actress Polly Pepper (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Final Curtain\n </em>\n ), Polly becomes a judge on a cheesy reality TV show,\n <em>\n  I''ll Do Anything to Become Famous\n </em>\n . When someone plunges a knife into a fellow judge, nasty Brit Thane Cornwall, Polly flips into Miss Marple mode. The prime suspect? Thane''s ex-lover, Lisa Marrs, the producer''s secretary, found at the crime scene with the murder weapon. Aided by housekeeper Placenta, gay son Tim and her current amour, Beverly Hills detective Randal Archer, Polly uncovers some surprises involving such show contestants as rapper Ped-Xing and Miley Cyrus clone Amy Stout. Dotted with delicious observations on America''s obsession with celebrity, this entry should win new fans for Polly, who, as the body count rises, tells the exasperated Archer that she''s Å“a death magnet. And there''s nothing you can do about it.Â Fans of comic whodunits will be rewarded.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the latest reality TV show, contestants have to prove that they''ll go for one another''s jugulars in order to get their names in the headlines. But someone takes the show''s theme literally when one of the judges is found stabbed to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6609'),
(9647, 'Tales From Earthsea', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10731'),
(9648, 'Tales from Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Return Again to the Warren for the All-New Adventures of Fiver, Hazel, BigWig, Dandelion, andThe Legendary El-Ahrairah.In one of the most enduring classics of contemporary literature, author Richard Adams enthralled millions of readers by creating a glorious world of danger and discovery at once uniquely strange and strikingly similar to our own. Come back now to this remarkable society hidden beneath the tall grasses and open fields; to old friends and new heroes whose courage and tenacity are tested at every turn by predatory nature and the short-sighted cruelties of man. Come back to the excitement and enchantment, to the heartsoaring wonder of a place called Watership Down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3644'),
(9649, 'Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4090'),
(9650, 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''You''ve never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?'' said Ron incredulously. ''You''re kidding, right?'' (From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)  Published by the charity Lumos in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the first new book from J. K. Rowling since the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Tales of Beedle the Bard played a crucial role in assisting Harry, with his friends Ron and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. Fans will be thrilled to have this opportunity to read the tales in full. An exciting addition to the canon of Harry Potter, the tales reveal the wonderful versatility of the author, as she tackles with relish the structure and varying tones of a classic fairy tale. There are five tales: ''The Tale of the Three Brothers'', recounted in Deathly Hallows, plus ''The Fountain of Fair Fortune'', ''The Warlock''s Hairy Heart'', ''The Wizard and the Hopping Pot'', and ''Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump''. Each has its own magical character and will bring delight, laughter and the thrill of mortal peril.  Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, the tales are introduced and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. Also included are notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters'' Archive.  Lumos is a charity founded by J. K. Rowling which aims to make life better for disadvantaged children.  Registered Charity Number: 1112575.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6591'),
(9651, 'Tales of Known Space', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10237'),
(9652, 'The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan', 'Kim Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n War correspondent Barker first started reporting from Afghanistan in 2003, when the war there was lazy and insignificant. She was just learning to navigate Afghan culture, one caught between warring factions, and struggling to get space in her newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. Lulled into complacency, everyone from the U.S. military to the Afghan diplomatic corps to the Pakistani government stumbled as the Taliban regrouped. Very frank and honest, Barker admits a host of mistakes, including gross cultural ignorance that often put her in danger even as she found Afghanistan similar in some ways to Montana, her home state, what with ï¿½bearded men in pickup trucks stocked with guns and hate for the government.ï¿½ She reports a string of characters: an amorous Pakistani former prime minister, a flashy Afghan American diplomat, an assortment of warlords, drug lords, fundamentalists, politicians, and fellow correspondents struck by wanderlust and plagued by messy personal livesï¿½all of them against a backdrop of declining war coverage in declining American newspapers. A personal, insightful look at covering an ambivalent war in a complicated region. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s remarkable aboutÂ _The Taliban Shuffle_Â is that its author, Kim Barker, has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same timeâ€¦ Ms. Barker has discovered a voice in these pages that enables her to capture both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Af-Pak (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and the surreal deal of being a female reporter there, with dating problems ranging from the screwball (a boyfriend competing to cover the same story) to the ridiculous (being romantically pursued by the former prime minister of Pakistan). Black humor, it turns out, is a perfect tool for capturing the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.Â \n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n , in fact, reads like a rollicking and revealing mashup of\n <em>\n  Imperial Life in the Emerald City\n </em>\n (Rajiv Chandrasekaranâ€™s devastating 2006 portrait of the unreal world of Iraqâ€™s Green Zone),\n <em>\n  War Reporting for Cowards\n </em>\n (Chris Ayresâ€™s entertaining 2005 account of being a newbie war reporter for\n <em>\n  The Times of London\n </em>\n ) and Robert Altmanâ€™s darkly satiric 1970 movie\n <em>\n  MASH\n </em>\n , with a bit of Evelyn Waugh-esque satiric verve thrown in for good measure.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Michiko Kakutani,\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n The Taliban Shuffle_ is part war memoir, part tale of self-discovery that, thanks to Barker''s biting honesty and wry wit, manages to be both hilarious and heartbreaking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â Â Â Â â€”The Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant, tender, and unexpectedly hilarious."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Â Â Â Â â€”Marie Claire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "[An] immensely entertaining memoir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â \n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_The Boston Globe\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Politically astute and clearly influenced by Hunter S. Thompson, Barker provides sharp commentary on the impotence of American foreign policy in South Asiaâ€¦ Fierce, funny and unflinchingly honest.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _Â Â Â Â Â \n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â  â€”Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA candid and darkly comic account of her eight years as an international correspondent for the\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n â€¦With self-deprecation and a keen eye for the absurd, Barker describes her evolution from a green, fill-in correspondent to an adrenaline junkieâ€¦ In equal measure, Barker elucidates the deep political ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the U.S.â€™s role in todayâ€™s â€˜whiplash between secularism and extremism,â€™ and blasts Pakistanâ€™s leaders for destroying their nation through endless coups and power jockeying.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reporter Kim Barker immersed herself in Afghanistan and Pakistan for nine years and returned with stories that poignantly reflect her deep love for both countriesâ€”and important insights into what went wrong. With dark, self-deprecating humor and shrewd insight, Barker chronicles her experiences as a rookie foreign reporter and the critical years in which the Taliban resurged amidst the collapse of the Afghan and Pakistani governments."\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kim Barker''s memoir about her five years covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Chicago Tribune is brave, funny and outrageous...._The Taliban Shuffle_ will pull you in so deep that youâ€™ll smell the poppies and quake from the bombs."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n The Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œRead this and try not to hurt yourself laughing. Who knew war could be so funny?\n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n isnâ€™t like any other book out there about Afghanistan and Pakistan. Itâ€™s witty, brilliant, and impossible to put down. Think P. J. Oâ€™Rourke meets Paul Theroux. Kim Barker is a gifted storyteller, and her intrepid, sometimes wacky travels through these two strife-torn nations will leave you informed, amused, andâ€”depending on your sense of adventureâ€”wanting to tag along on her next trip.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of\n <em>\n  Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraqâ€™s Green Zone\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_The Taliban Shuffle_ is\n <em>\n  Scoop\n </em>\n meets\n <em>\n  Dispatches\n </em>\n , remixed with a twenty-first-century Bollywood soundtrack. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is the true story of what it is like to be a female journalist in one of the world''s most exotic war zones, while telling the reader much about what is really going on today in Afghanistan and Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Peter Bergen, author of\n <em>\n  Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden\n </em>\n Â and\n <em>\n  The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œYes, there are bombs. And there is carnage. And all sorts of mayhem. But mostly there are people, human beings even, with appetitesâ€”for life, for adventure, for riches, for love. Ms. Barker offers this worldâ€”the human world caught in the crosshairs of historyâ€”with a vitality rarely seen in accounts of the war. A compelling read that offers readers a glimpse of the goings-on behind the byline.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”J. Maarten Troost, author of\n <em>\n  The Sex Lives of Cannibals\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œKim Barker gives a true and amusing picture of hellholes and the reporters on assignment in them. But she breaks the journo code of silence and reveals a trade secret of the hacks who cover hellholes: The hell of the holes is that theyâ€™re kind of fun.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”P. J. O''RourkeÂ \n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7839'),
(9653, 'The Talisman Ring', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [A] light-hearted romp that promises smiles to the pleasure reader. (Hillary\n <em>\n  Jane Austen Today\n </em>\n 20090519)\n</p>\n<p>\n [I]t was delightful... Lot''s of fun! (Christina MacLean\n <em>\n  Book-a-Rama\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n I really loved this novel. It had it all...comedy, mystery and romance. (Grace Loiacano\n <em>\n  Grace''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n [V]ery good fun! It''s an entertaining read with a fast moving plot and interesting, well formulated characters. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer infuses humor and warmth into the personalities of her heroes and heroines, giving them an endearing quality that will have you rooting for them throughout their escapades and, of course, their romances. (Sharon Goforth\n <em>\n  Ex Libris\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n Delightful and witty... The\n <em>\n  Talisman Ring\n </em>\n is a keeper for Regency Romance readers and readers who enjoy humor and subtle wit. It is splendid reading! (Camellia\n <em>\n  The Long and Short of It\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Talisman Ring\n </em>\n is a clever mixture of both romance and mystery, and it has a wonderful air of humor to it as well!... Fans of mystery, romance and adventure are sure to love this book! (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n This one is silly and fun. A pure delight. It''s just comical. (Becky Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "... A long-lost family heirloom, a young heir falsely accused of murder, a band of smugglers, two utterly delightful Heyer heroines, a taciturn, but highly resourceful older gentleman - all play their parts in a tale funny enough to have you laughing aloud."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  One of Heyer''s funniest Regency romances, and one of readers'' favorites.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  An impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman...\n </em>\n <br />\n When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is delighted to be having an adventure at last. Their leader, young heir Ludovic Lavenham, is in hiding, falsely accused of murder. Pursued by the law, Eustacie and Ludovic find refuge at an unassuming country inn.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  And the delightfully sensible couple who try to keep them out of trouble...\n </em>\n <br />\n The resourceful Miss Sarah Thane and the clear-thinking Sir Tristram Shield gamely endeavor to prevent Ludovic''s arrest and Eustacie''s ruin as the four conspire to recover the missing talisman ring that will clear Ludovic''s name.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WHAT READERS SAY:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A story in the manner of Jane Austen, of domestic comedy and love affairs."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Times Literary Supplement\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sparklingly witty book that had me laughing out loud."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A perfect blend of romance, adventure, and, especially, humor. One couple is young and brash and fun, and the other is older and more mature. Seeing the older couple''s relationship grow is one of the story''s highlights.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a wonderfully rich novel, full of excellent secondary characters with lots of charm and wit."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nonstop laughter from cover to cover... probably because there are two heroes and two heroines, and their chemistry with each other is just sparkling!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious! A hallmark of most of Georgette Heyer''s works is her sense of humor... her wit and comedic timing are at their best."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090514)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10210'),
(9654, 'The Talisman', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across Americaâ€“and into another realm.One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, *The Talisman *is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his motherâ€™s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. *Let the quest begin*. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4269'),
(9655, 'Talk of the town', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/683'),
(9656, 'Talking God', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hillerman''s latest is not quite up to his best standards, but it''s still a wonderfully readable, involving mystery. Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution''s Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn''s interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn''s tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the pivotal role of the Talking God mask comes into play. Leaphorn''s grief over the recent death of his wife, Chee''s sorrow at the end of an impossible love affair, both men''s sense of alienation in the capital city''s urban sophistication suffuse this slim, somewhat contrived, tale with palpable melancholy. 150,000 copy first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Mysterious Book Club dual main selection; BOMC and QPBC alternates; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are three things one can expect from a Hillerman mystery: a story that would make no sense without its rock-solid base of Navaho culture; a tale that moves within the rhythms of real time; and an intricate plot that calls for the particular skills of his two detectives, Jim Chee, shaman and officer of the Navaho Tribal Police, and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, older, slower, and wiser. Talking God has all of these things in a plot that absolutely defies summary. Leaphorn and Chee track different paths for different crimes and both end up in the wilds of Washington, D.C., ostensibly on vacation. Instead of the sweet scent of the Southwest, Hillerman has a good time pitting his detectives against the "City of Navy Blue Suits." Welcome as a returning presence is winsome Navaho attorney Janet Pete, who contributes both to the structure of the mystery and to Chee''s emotional disharmony. In 1970, LJ ''s reviewer described Hillerman''s The Blessing Way as "a mystery with literary value; one you can recommend to people who don''t like mysteries." Indeed; enjoy. For more on Hillerman, see "Contributing Factors" in this issue, p. 00.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Ed. -- GraceAnne A. DeCandido, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5448'),
(9657, 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man&#39;s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut', 'Rob Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Talking to Girls About Duran Duran\n </em>\n may sound like a dream come true to all the women who she-bopped through the 80s, but at heart it''s the Feminine Mystique that every boy-next-door has been waiting for (and will actually read). It''s something like a prequel to\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Rob Sheffield''s Top ''80s Summer Cruising Songs\n</h2>\n<p>\n Reading\n <em>\n  Talking to Girls About Duran Duran\n </em>\n is a nostalgia trip you''ll love taking: add Rob Sheffield''s exclusive playlist to the mix--featured below, with liner notes--and you''ll be ready for some kind of wonderful summer night. You can also sample and download these songs in\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n <em>\n  Scarface\n </em>\n , I got high on my own supply, which means I spent the summer with one hand on the wheel and another one stuffing my face. I was also listening to the radio 18 hours a day, so I got obsessed with this song. I still get choked up at the "heartbreak overload" part.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song always reminds me of a cool girl I hung around with in the summer of 1988. She liked setting things on fire, getting both of us thrown out of bars, and Def Leppard. It''s funny because this is a classic hair-metal ballad, but with all these glossy keyboards, it sounds like impeccable ''80s synth-pop--it could pass for prime New Order or OMD. (Editor''s note: Song is available on album only.)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tuneful coming-of-age memoir, the glamorous New Wave band Duran Duran presides spiritually over the all-consuming teenage male efforts to comprehend the opposite sex. Music journalist Sheffield (_Love Is a Mix Tape_) chronicles his passage through the 1980s in a series of chapters in which period groupsâ€”from headliners like Roxy Music and Prince to one-hit wonders like Haysi Fantayzee of Shiny Shiny semifameâ€”provides musical accompaniment to his adolescent angst. They are the soundtrack to his fumbling attempts to dance or make passes at girls, to weather a winless stint on the high school wrestling team, to survive a summer job as an ice-cream truck driver. The relationship insights he arrives atâ€”chiefly, the imperative of unquestioning submission to female whimsâ€”are no more or less cogent than the song lyrics he gleans them from. The book really shines as a collection of free-form riffs on the glorious foolishness of Reagan-era entertainmentâ€”the movie\n <em>\n  E.T.\n </em>\n , he writes, was about a sad muppet who thought he was David Bowieâ€”and its weirdly resonant emotional impact. The result is a funny, poignant browse from a wonderful pop-culture evocateur.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6583');
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(9658, 'Tall, Dark...Westmoreland!', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n She had longed for a taste of the wild and reckless. And Olivia Jeffries got her chance when she met a handsome stranger at a masquerade ball. The attraction was instant, the electricityâ€¦volatile. But days later she discovered her new lover was none other than Reginald Westmoreland, her father''s most-hated rival. She vowed to resist him further, but Reggie was relentless in his pursuit. He would stop at nothingâ€”not even blackmailâ€”to get Olivia back in his bed. Talk about sleeping with the enemy!\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n There has to be another way for a woman to have fun, Olivia Jeffries thought as she glanced around at everyone attending the Firemen''s Masquerade Ball, an annual charity event held in downtown Atlanta. Already she was gearing up for a boring evening.\n</p>\n<p>\n It wouldn''t have been so bad if she hadn''t arrived from Paris just yesterday, after being summoned home by her father. That meant she had to drop everything, including plans to drive through the countryside of the Seine Valley to complete the painting she had started months ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n Returning to Atlanta had required her to take a leave of absence from her job as an art curator at the Louvre. But when Orin Jeffries called, she hadn''t hesitated to drop everything. After all, he was only the greatest dad in the entire world.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had wanted her home after making the decision to run for public office, saying it was important that she was there not only for his first fund-raiser but also for the duration of his campaign. There would be a number of functions he would need to attend, and he preferred not to go with any particular woman on a regular basis. He didn''t want any of his female friends to get the wrong idea.\n</p>\n<p>\n Olivia could only shake her head and smile. Her divorced father had taken himself off the marriage block years ago. In fact, she doubted he''d ever allowed himself to be there in the first place. He dated on occasion, but he''d never gotten serious about any woman, which was a pity. At fifty-six, Orin Jeffries was without a doubt a very good-looking man. His ex-wife, who was Olivia''s mom in genes only, had left a bad taste in Orin''s mouth. A taste that the past twenty-four years hadn''t erased.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her two older brothers, Duan, who was thirty-six, and Terrence, who was thirty-four, had taken after her father in their good looks. And as in the case of their father, the thought of marriage was the last thing on their minds. In a way, she followed in her dad''s footsteps as well. Finding a husband was the last thing on hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n So there you had it. They were the swinging single Jeffries, although for the moment, nothing was swinging for her, Olivia thought. There were a few people at this ball who seemed to be having fun, but most, like her, were looking at their watches and wondering when proper etiquette dictated it would be okay to leave.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whoever had come up with the idea of everyone wearing masks had really been off their rocker. It made her feel like she was part of the Lone Ranger''s posse. And because all the money raised tonight was for the new wing at the children''s hospital, in addition to the mask, everyone was required to wear a name badge on which was printed the name of a nursery rhyme character, a color of a crayon or a well-known cartoon or comic-book character. How creative.\n</p>\n<p>\n At least the food was good. The first words out of her father''s mouth when he''d seen her at the airport the day before had been, "You look too thin." She figured the least she could do was mosey on over to the buffet table and get herself something to eat. Hopefully, in a little while she could split.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reginald Westmoreland watched the woman as she crossed the room, making her way over to the buffet table. He had been watching her for over twenty minutes now, racking his brain as to who she was. Mask or no mask, he recognized most of the women at the ball tonight. He knew almost every one of them because for years he had been immersed in the science of "lip-tology." In other words, the first thing he noticed about a woman was her lips.\n</p>\n<p>\n He could recognize a woman by her lips alone, without even looking at any other facial feature. Most people wouldn''t agree, but no two pairs of lips were the same. His brothers and cousins had denounced his claim and had quickly put him to the test. He had just as quickly proven them wrong. Whether you considered it a blessing or a curse, the bottom line was that he had the gift.\n</p>\n<p>\n And there were other things besides her lips that caught his attention, like her height. She had to be almost six feet tall. And then he was struck by the way she fit into her elegantly designed black and silver beaded dress, the way the material clung to her shapely curves. He had noticed several men approach her, but she had yet to dance with any of them. In fact, it seemed that she was brushing them off. Reginald smelled a challenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n "So, how is the campaign going, Reggie?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Reginald, known to all his family as Reggie, turned to look at his older brother, divorce attorney extraordinaire, Jared Westmoreland. Just last week Jared had made the national news owing to a high-profile settlement he''d won in favor of a well-known Hollywood actor.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It officially kicks off Monday. But now that Jeffries has decided to throw his hat into the ring, things should be rather interesting," he said, referring to the older man who would be his opponent. "With Brent, I have a good campaign manager, but I still feel it might be a tight race. Jeffries is well-known and well-liked."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, if you need any help, let me know, although I''m not sure how much time I can spare now that Dana''s expecting and all."\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie rolled his eyes. Just last month Jared had found out he was going to be a father. "Dana is going to be carrying the baby, Jared, not you."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know, but I''m the one who''s been getting sick in the morning, and now I''m getting cravings. I never liked pickles until now."\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie couldn''t help but smile over his wineglass. "Sounds like a personal problem to me." At the moment, his attention strayed from whatever Jared was saying. Instead, his gaze focused on the other side of the room. He noticed the woman whom he''d been watching sit down at a table. He had yet to see a man by her side, which meant she had come to the party alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Umm, I wonder who she is?" he asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jared followed Reggie''s gaze and chuckled. "What''s wrong? Don''t you recognize the lips?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie shifted his gaze from the woman to his brother and frowned. "No, she''s someone new. I definitely haven''t met her before. Her lips don''t give her away."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Then I guess the only thing left for you to do is go over there and introduce yourself."\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie grinned. "I know they don''t call you the sharpest attorney in Atlanta for nothing."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Don''t you know sitting alone at a party isn''t good for you?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Olivia swung her head around at the sound of the deep, throaty masculine voice to find a tall, handsome man standing beside her. Like everyone else, he was wearing a mask, but even with it covering half of his face, she knew he had to be extremely good-looking. In the dim lighting, her artist eye was able to capture all his striking features that were exposed.\n</p>\n<p>\n First of all, there was his skin, flawlessly smooth and a shade of color that reminded her of rich, dark maple syrup. Then there was the angular plane of a jaw that supported a pair of sexy lips. The same ones that bestowed a slow smile on her. Apparently, he realized she was checking him out.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In that case, I guess you need to join me," she replied, trying to remember the last time she''d been so outrageously forward with a guy and quickly deciding never. But the way the evening was going, she would have to stir up her own excitement. And now was as good a time as any to start. Maybe it was the fact that the party was so unrelentingly boring that made her long for a taste of the wild and reckless. The other men who had approached her hadn''t even piqued her curiosity. She had no desire to get to know them better. But this man was different.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I don''t mind if I do," he said, easily sliding into the chair beside her while his eyes remained locked with hers. Her nose immediately picked up the scent of his cologne. Expensive. She quickly checked out his left hand. Ringless. Her gaze automatically went back to his face. Beautiful. Now he was smiling in earnest and showing beautiful white teeth.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re amused," she said, taking a sip of her punch but wishing she had something a little stronger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whoever he was, he was certainly someone worth getting to know, even if she was returning to Paris in a few months. That made it all the more plausible. It had taken her two years to get on full-time at the Louvre, and the hard work was just beginning. Once she returned, she would be working long hours, with little time to get her painting done. That was why she had brought her paints to Atlanta with her. She was determined to capture something worthwhile on canvas while she was here. The man sitting beside her would be the perfect subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Flattered more than amused," he said, his voice reaching out and actually touching her, although she barely registered his words in her mind, because she was too busy watching the way his mouth moved. Sensuously slow.\n</p>\n<p>\n She couldn''t help wondering who he was. She had been gone from Atlanta a long time. After high school she had attended Pratt Institute in New York before doing her graduate work at the Art Institute of Boston. From there she had made the move to Paris, after landing a job as a tour professional, a glorified name for a tour guide.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to be around her brother Terrence''s age, or maybe a year or so younger. She wondered if he would give her his real name, or if he would stick to the rules and play this silly little game the coordinators of the ball had come up with. His name badge said Jack Sprat. No wonder he was in such fine shape, she thought. Even in the tuxedo he was wearing, she saw broad, muscular shoulders and a nice solid chest. All muscles. Definitely no fat.\n</p>\n<p>\n "So, Jack," she said, smiling at him the same way he was smiling at her. "What is such a nice guy like you doing at a boring party like this?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He chuckled, and the sound sent goose bumps over her body. "Waiting to meet you so we can start having some fun." He glanced at her name badge. "Wonder Woman."\n</p>\n<p>\n The smile that touched the corners of her mouth widened. She liked him already. "Well, trust me when I say, it''s a\n <em>\n  wonder\n </em>\n that I''m here at all. I really want to be someplace else, but I promised the person who paid for this ticket that I''d come in his place. And since it''s all for charity, and for such a good cause, I decided to at least make an appearance."\n</p>\n<p>\n "...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7984'),
(9659, 'Talon of the Silver Hawk', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko razes village after village, slaughtering men, women, and children without mercy. And when the carnage is done, only one survivor remains: a young boy named Kieli. A youth no longer, there is now but one road for him to travel: the path of vengeance. And he will not be alone. Under the tutelage of the rescuers who discovered him, Kieli will be molded into a sure and pitiless weapon. And he will accept the destiny that has been chosen for him ... as Talon of the Silver Hawk. But the prey he so earnestly stalks is hunting him as well. And Talon must swear allegiance to a shadowy cause that already binds his mysterious benefactors -- or his mission, his honor, and his life will be lost forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3655'),
(9660, 'Taltos', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries in this continuation of Rice''s series of novels about witches and the supernatural. A "taltos" is the superhuman result of the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromosome; almost a monster, the creature is capable of beastly behavior fuelled by an extraordinary sex drive. In Lasher , the eponymous offspring of Michael Curry and Rowan Mayfair of the New Orleans Mayfair witch clan proved to be just such a mutant; before he was slain, he repeatedly raped his own mother, siring a little "goblin" daughter, Emaleth. This new novel features a second taltos, also fathered by Curry, but mothered by a 13-year-old sexpot niece of Rowan''s named Mona, who is herself the most powerful witch of the Mayfair clan. Other plot elements involve renegade members of the secret order of Talamasca, who want to kidnap and crossbreed two taltoses; a 200-year-old taltos from New York named Ashlar, who is posing as a toy-industry magnate specializing in dolls; and a dwarf called Samuel from the witches'' holy glen in Donnelaith, Scotland. Pulsing with a persisent sense of foreboding, the novel is soggy with meandering, atmospheric prose that verges on softcore porn. And, as usual, what happens in the book is clearly less important to the author than the number of chills she can send down readers'' spines. She has not lost her touch. 600,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5001'),
(9661, 'Tambu', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10071'),
(9662, 'Taming a Sea Horse (1986)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 13', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10572'),
(9663, 'Taming a Sea-Horse', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. This phenomenal bestseller, with a million-copy paperback first printing is supported by national TV advertising and a 6-month backlist reissue program. HC:Delacorte.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4032'),
(9664, 'Taming Clint Westmoreland', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In name only?\n <br />\n The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife''s stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint''s boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years before. But this sexy, curvaceous Alyssa was different from the mousy, awestruck rookie agent he remembered. And now her every move had him wondering what it would be like if he really were her man....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7973'),
(9665, 'Taming Natasha', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first time Spencer Kimball set eyes on Natasha Stanislaki, he was floored by her exotic beauty. But the former ballet dancer had a fiery temperament that could keep men safely at bay. Sensing an open wound, Spence and his little girl joined forces to find a way into her closely guarded heart. For Spence realized he''d do anything to tame Natasha''s fears and show her how to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2569'),
(9666, 'Taming of the Screw: Several Million Homeowner&#39;s Problems', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "If you belong to the purple thumb brigade and agree that ''a tool is an object that enables you to take advantage of the laws of physics and mechanics in such a way that you can seriously injure yourself, you will find a kindred spirit in Dave Barry, the author of the hilarious book *The Taming of the Screw*." -*Family Handyman* magazine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1339'),
(9667, 'Tanglefoot: A Story of the Clockwork Century', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">\n  A mechanically inclined orphan who lives in the basement of a sanitarium is urged to â€œmake new friends.â€ A doddering scientist shares his living space, and he encourages the effort â€” providing all the assistance his weakening mind will permit.Â \n  <br />\n  <br />\n  So the orphan makes a friend â€¦ with the materials that lie immediately at hand. Unfortunately, the resulting automaton would rather cause chaos than keep him company.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6740'),
(9668, 'Tantalize', 'Cynthia Leitich Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Quincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her parents are dead, and her hybrid-werewolf boyfriend is threatening to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever. Then as she and her uncle are about to unveil their hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie transform their newly hired chef into a culinary Dark Lord before opening night? Can he wow the crowd in his fake fangs, cheap cape, and red contact lenses - or is there more to this earnest face than meets the eye? As human and preternatural forces clash, a deadly love triangle forms, and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who''s playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything? *Tantalize* marks Cynthia Leitich Smith''s delicious debut as a preeminent author of dark fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/778'),
(9669, 'Tao Te Ching: Annotated &amp; Explained', 'Derek Lin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHits the mark! A native speaker of both Chinese and English, Lin adeptly bridges the gap between translation and interpretation ... applying [2,500-year-old teachings] to our modern world. Donâ€™t miss this book if you want ancient knowledge that can change life for the better today.â€ â€”Edward Monaghan, UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center â€œA magnificent presentation of arguably the most perfect and complete spiritual teaching ever published, the Tao Te Ching. An absolute must in any home library, no matter what tradition one follows.â€ â€”Rabbi David A. Cooper, author of God is a Verb â€œLinâ€™s unique rendering captures the spiritual wisdom, poetic grace and immense practicality of this classic text. Will illuminate your way regardless of the path you follow.â€ â€”Philip Goldberg, author of Roadsigns: On the Spiritual Pathâ€”Living at the Heart of Paradox â€œDerek Linâ€™s fine new translation is as good as any and better than many, and his commentaries help illumine the text.... [The Tao Te Chingâ€™s] sublime little sutras have edified, instructed, encouraged, and entertained millions of people for millennia, and they continue to do so today. Like a veritable treasure trove, this masterful book of wise living and authentic being provides both spiritual sustenance and practical guidance, so necessary for us today and tomorrow.â€ â€”from the Foreword by Lama Surya Das\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct--and yet among the most profound--spiritual texts ever written. Short enough to read in an afternoon, subtle enough to study for a lifetime, the Tao Te Ching distills into razor-sharp poetry centuries of spiritual inquiry into the Tao--the "Way" of the natural world around us that reveals the ultimate organizing principle of the universe.\n</p>\n<p>\n Derek Lin''s insightful commentary, along with his new translation from the original Chinese--a translation that sets a whole new standard for accuracy--will inspire your spiritual journey and enrich your everyday life. It highlights the Tao Te Ching''s insights on simplicity, balance, and learning from the paradoxical truths you can see all around you: finding strength through flexibility (because bamboo bends, it is tough to break); achieving goals by transcending obstacles (water simply flows around rocks on its way to the sea); believing that small changes bring powerful results (a sapling, in time, grows into a towering tree).\n</p>\n<p>\n Now you can experience the wisdom and power of Lao Tzu''s words even if you have no previous knowledge of the Tao Te Ching. SkyLight Illuminations provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that describes helpful historical background, explains the Tao Te Ching''s poetic imagery, and elucidates the ancient Taoist wisdom that will speak to your life today and energize your spiritual quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8066'),
(9670, 'Taoism', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3576'),
(9671, 'Tapestry of Spies', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published as\n <em>\n  The Spanish Gambit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Some came for love. Others for money. In a country ripped apart by war, each will find a way to live--or die...\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant."\n <br />\n --Tom Clancy\n</p>\n<p>\n "Constantly surprising."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Stephen Hunter is the best writer of straight-out thrillers working today."\n <br />\n --_Rocky Mountain News_ (Denver, Colo.)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Hunter has chosen the backdrop of the chaotic and cruel Spanish Civil War to weave a classic tale of espionage and counterespionage. Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was an old school chum to Raines and had every reason to hate him. The British are not alone on Raines'' trail. The ruthless Communist leader in Barcelona believes that the identity of the double agent conceals a powerful and profitable secret. It is a novel that constantly surprises.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5004'),
(9672, 'Tar Baby', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDeeply perceptive. . . . Return[s] risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel.â€ â€”John Irving, _The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œToni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability.â€ â€”\n </em>\n New York\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œArresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrisonâ€™s story.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWrenchingly good. A terrific book.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œHypnotic, stunningly alive.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThat rare commodity, a truly public novel. . . . Morrisonâ€™s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œPowerful. . . . A stunning performance. . . . Morrison is one of the most exciting living American writers.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Kansas City Star\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œIt takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Vogue\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking.â€ â€”\n </em>\n St. Louis Globe-Democrat\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œReminds us again that Toni Morrison is one of the finest writers in America today.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Louisville Courier-Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œ\n <strong>\n  Tar Baby\n </strong>\n _\n <em>\n  is stupendous. Morrison is a writer of amazing skill.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Roanoke Times &amp; World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œIts scope is grand and the interplay complex. But Morrison has the control of a skilled choreographer, with a careful eye pinned on pacing, suspense, grace, and frenzy. . . . She has an awesome lyric flair.â€ â€”\n </em>\n The Charlotte Observer\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary,\n <strong>\n  Tar Baby\n </strong>\n _ _is Toni Morrisonâ€™s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8068'),
(9673, 'Tara Road', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ria Lynch''s ramshackle house is filled with friends and family. Marilyn Vine lives in a college town, absorbed in her career and fiercely independent. Unlikely friends. A chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes for the summer. When they eventually meet, they find their lives have altered together.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10494'),
(9674, 'Taran Wanderer', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since* The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain.Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander''s beautifully written tales not only captured children''s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, *The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain*, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3063'),
(9675, 'Target', 'Robert K. Wilcox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The death of General George S. Patton is shrouded in mystery. While officially the result of an unfortunate car accident, the evidence points to a far more malevolent plot: murder. So says investigative and military journalist Robert K. Wilcox in his book: "Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton." Written like a WWII spy thriller and meticulously researched, "Target: Patton" leads you through that fateful December day in 1945, revealing a chilling plan to assassinate General Patton. Backing up this shocking story with facts, photos, and eyewitness statements, Wilcox reveals long-hidden documents and accounts that explain how secrets Patton knew--and his strong anti-Soviet views--may have cost him his life. Not only does Wilcox reveal how, why, and when, he also names names--exposing little-known stories and secrets of such key players as General "Wild Bill" Donovan, the storied head of the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA); an OSS assassin; an Army intelligence agent; and even Josef Stalin himself. "Target: Patton" challenges readers to look at the evidence and question the conventional wisdom. After reading it, few will think of General Patton--or the circumstances surrounding his death--in the same way again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6108'),
(9676, 'Tarzan of the apes', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1293'),
(9677, 'A Taste of Magic', 'Tracy Madison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young, divorced bakery owner discovers shes inherited her gypsy ancestresss fabulous magical powers, but learns that when seeking true love with her hunky new neighbor, a person has to be careful what she cooks up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3944'),
(9678, 'The Tau Ceti Agenda', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The riveting edge of your seat sequel to One Day On Mars once again takes us on a blindingly fast pace through events from a futuristic Washington D.C. to the Tau Ceti star system. Just days before the presidential election a CIA operative uncovers a plot to overthrow America that reaches deep into the government. To top it off, the forces planning to revolt have somehow developed a technology that allows them to transport across the gulf between the star systems almost instantaneously. The CIA operative braves hand-to-hand combat and even torture in order to get a warning of the coming coup to American officials while at the same time the two most powerful battleships in the U.S. Space Navy are dispatched to overtake the enemy teleportation technology. With armored marines, intense space naval battles, fighter plane, and high technology wizardry perhaps the plot to kill the president can be thwarted. But will that be enough to save the land of the free?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4198'),
(9679, 'The Tax Inspector', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing Country &amp; Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, sixteen and seriously psychopathic, wants to transform a failing auto franchise into an empire-and himself into an angel. Out of the confrontation between the Catchprices and their unwitting nemesis, a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office, Peter Carey, author ofOscar and Lucinda, creates an endlessly surprising and fearfully convincing novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5159'),
(9680, 'Tea Time for the Traditionally Built', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . Mma Ramotswe''s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoniher estimable husband and one of Botswana''s most talented mechanicsis the man to turn to for help. But Precious suspects he might simply condemn the van and replace it with something more modern. Can she find a way to save her old friend? In the meantime, Mma Makutsi discovers that her old rival Violet Sephotho, who could not have gotten more than fifty percent on her typing final at the Botswana Secretarial College, has set her sights on none other than Mma Makutsi''s fiance, Phuti Radiphuti. Can Mma Ramotswe''s intuition save the day? Finally, the proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies'' Detective Agency to help explain its dreadful losing streak. The owner of the team is convinced he as a traitor in his midst. But how is Mma Ramotswe, who has never seen a football match in her life, going to discern who is throwing the game? Help, it turns out, may come from an unexpected quarter. There are few mysteries that can''t be solved and fewer problems that can''t be fixed when the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe puts her mind to them. A good cup of red bush tea might be the best solution of all. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(9681, 'Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir', 'Fred Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a small town but not the smallestâ€”after all, it was the county seat and it did have a courthouse, a couple of movie theaters, and its own Davy Crockett statue. For truly small, you had to travel to nearby Summertown, where the regular Sunday dinner was possum and chocolate gravy. But Lawrenceburg is where Fred got to be a kid, get in his share of trouble and scrapes, get to know folks he didnâ€™t realize were so colorful at the time but sure does now, get married, have a few kids, become a man, and start his career as a country lawyer (pretty much in that order). And as Fred tells it, getting that law degree was something of a surprise for him, since in school heâ€™d been less than stellar as a scholar. â€œTeaching Latin to someone like me,â€ he says, â€œwas like trying to teach a pig to dance. Itâ€™s a waste of the teacherâ€™s time and it irritates the pig.â€ In these reflections, as hilarious as they are honest and warm, Fred touches on the influencesâ€”family, hometown neighbors and teachers, team sports, jobs, romances, and personal crisesâ€”that molded his character, his politics, and the way he looks at life today. We get to know the unforgettable characters who congregated at the Blue Ribbon Caf, like the rotund gentleman called â€œShortyâ€ whose claim to fame was his ability to quickly suck in his stomach and cause his pants to fall to the floor. Or Fredâ€™s Grandma Thompson, who became an early TV adopter for the sole purpose of watching â€œWrestling from Hollywoodâ€ and who once had a â€œgourderâ€ removed from her neck and subsequently walked around town with it in a handkerchief showing it to folks. One day Fred and an accomplice placed small explosive Fourth of July â€œcracker ballsâ€ under the four legs of their teacherâ€™s chair. Mrs. Garner sat down and, despite the racket, didnâ€™t flinch so much as a muscleâ€”but Fred felt a twinge of the one emotion he hated mostâ€”shame. Fred idolized Coach Staggs from his high school football days, even though he was â€œlike Captain Ahab without the humorâ€ and didnâ€™t like smart alecks, comics, or individualists, which put the young Fred at a disadvantage. More than anyone else from those days though, Fred remembers his mom and dad, who taught him that kids are shaped most of all by the love and support they can take for granted. Teaching the Pig to Dance will delight everyone who admires Fred Thompson for his contributions to politics or for his work in movies and on TV, along with all those who just love to hear rollicking but unforgettable stories about growing up in a place where, as one of the local old timers put it, â€œWe werenâ€™t big enough to have a town drunk, so a few of us had to take turns.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(9682, 'The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Forty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.The Teachings of Don Juaninitiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda''s now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9886');
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(9683, 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln', 'Doris Kearns Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The life and times of Abraham Lincoln have been analyzed and dissected in countless books. Do we need another Lincoln biography? In\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n , esteemed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin proves that we do. Though she can''t help but cover some familiar territory, her perspective is focused enough to offer fresh insights into Lincoln''s leadership style and his deep understanding of human behavior and motivation. Goodwin makes the case for Lincoln''s political genius by examining his relationships with three men he selected for his cabinet, all of whom were opponents for the Republican nomination in 1860: William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. These men, all accomplished, nationally known, and presidential, originally disdained Lincoln for his backwoods upbringing and lack of experience, and were shocked and humiliated at losing to this relatively obscure Illinois lawyer. Yet Lincoln not only convinced them to join his administration--Seward as secretary of state, Chase as secretary of the treasury, and Bates as attorney general--he ultimately gained their admiration and respect as well. How he soothed egos, turned rivals into allies, and dealt with many challenges to his leadership, all for the sake of the greater good, is largely what Goodwin''s fine book is about. Had he not possessed the wisdom and confidence to select and work with the best people, she argues, he could not have led the nation through one of its darkest periods.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten years in the making, this engaging work reveals why "Lincoln''s road to success was longer, more tortuous, and far less likely" than the other men, and why, when opportunity beckoned, Lincoln was "the best prepared to answer the call." This multiple biography further provides valuable background and insights into the contributions and talents of Seward, Chase, and Bates. Lincoln may have been "the indispensable ingredient of the Civil War," but these three men were invaluable to Lincoln and they played key roles in keeping the nation intact. --_Shawn Carkonen_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Team of Rivals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n doesn''t just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln. It is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis. Here, Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and all of whom later worked together in Lincoln''s cabinet.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Edwin M. Stanton\n </strong>\n <br />\n Stanton treated Lincoln with utter contempt at their initial acquaintance when the two men were involved in a celebrated law case in the summer of 1855. Unimaginable as it might seem after Stanton''s demeaning behavior, Lincoln offered him "the most powerful civilian post within his gift"--the post of secretary of war--at their next encounter six years later. On his first day in office as Simon Cameron''s replacement, the energetic, hardworking Stanton instituted "an entirely new regime" in the War Department. After nearly a year of disappointment with Cameron, Lincoln had found in Stanton the leader the War Department desperately needed. Lincoln''s choice of Stanton revealed his singular ability to transcend personal vendetta, humiliation, or bitterness. As for Stanton, despite his initial contempt for the man he once described as a "long armed Ape," he not only accepted the offer but came to respect and love Lincoln more than any person outside of his immediate family. He was beside himself with grief for weeks after the president''s death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2. Salmon P. Chase\n </strong>\n <br />\n Chase, an Ohioan, had been both senator and governor, had played a central role in the formation of the national Republican Party, and had shown an unflagging commitment to the cause of the black man. No individual felt he\n <em>\n  deserved\n </em>\n the presidency as a natural result of his past contributions more than Chase himself, but he refused to engage in the practical methods by which nominations are won. He had virtually no campaign and he failed to conciliate his many enemies in Ohio itself. As a result, he alone among the candidates came to the convention without the united support of his own state. Chase never ceased to underestimate Lincoln, nor to resent the fact that he had lost the presidency to a man he considered his inferior. His frustration with his position as secretary of the treasury was alleviated only by his his dogged hope that he, rather than Lincoln, would be the Republican nominee in 1864, and he steadfastly worked to that end. The president put up with Chase''s machinations and haughty yet fundamentally insecure nature because he recognized his superlative accomplishments at treasury. Eventually, however, Chase threatened to split the Republican Party by continuing to fill key positions with partisans who supported his presidential hopes. When Lincoln stepped in, Chase tendered his resignation as he had three times before, but this time Lincoln stunned Chase by calling his bluff and accepting the offer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Abraham Lincoln\n </strong>\n <br />\n When Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination in 1860 he seemed to have come from nowhere--a backwoods lawyer who had served one undistinguished term in the House of Representatives and lost two consecutive contests for the U.S. Senate. Contemporaries attributed his surprising nomination to chance, to his moderate position on slavery, and to the fact that he hailed from the battleground state of Illinois. But Lincoln''s triumph, particularly when viewed against the efforts of his rivals, owed much to a remarkable, unsuspected political acuity and an emotional strength forged in the crucible of hardship and defeat. That Lincoln, after winning the presidency, made the unprecedented decision to incorporate his eminent rivals into his political family, the cabinet, was evidence of an uncanny self-confidence and an indication of what would prove to others a most unexpected greatness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. William H. Seward\n </strong>\n <br />\n A celebrated senator from New York for more than a decade and governor of his state for two terms before going to Washington, Seward was certain he was going to receive his party''s nomination for president in 1860. The weekend before the convention in Chicago opened he had already composed a first draft of the valedictory speech he expected to make to the Senate, assuming that he would resign his position as soon as the decision in Chicago was made. His mortification at not having received the nomination never fully abated, and when he was offered his cabinet post as secretary of state he intended to have a major role in choosing the remaining cabinet members, conferring upon himself a position in the new government more commanding than that of Lincoln himself. He quickly realized the futility of his plan to relegate the president to a figurehead role. Though the feisty New Yorker would continue to debate numerous issues with Lincoln in the years ahead, exactly as Lincoln had hoped and needed him to do, Seward would become his closest friend, advisor, and ally in the administration. More than any other cabinet member Seward appreciated Lincoln''s peerless skill in balancing factions both within his administration and in the country at large.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Edward Bates\n </strong>\n <br />\n A widely respected elder statesman, a delegate to the convention that framed the Missouri Constitution, and a former Missouri congressman whose opinions on national matters were still widely sought, Bates''s ambitions for political success were gradually displaced by love for his wife and large family, and he withdrew from public life in the late 1840s. For the next 20 years he was asked repeatedly to run or once again accept high government posts but he consistently declined. However in early 1860, with letters and newspaper editorials advocating his candidacy crowding in upon him, he decided to try for the highest office in the land. After losing to Lincoln he vowed, in his diary, to decline a cabinet position if one were to be offered, but with the country "in trouble and danger" he felt it was his duty to accept when Lincoln asked him to be attorney general. Though Bates initially viewed Lincoln as a well-meaning but incompetent administrator, he eventually concluded that the president was an unmatched leader, "very near being a ''perfect man.''"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Essential Doris Kearns Goodwin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More New Reading on the Civil War\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Goodwin (_No Ordinary Time_) seeks to illuminate what she interprets as a miraculous event: Lincoln''s smooth (and, in her view, rather sudden) transition from underwhelming one-term congressman and prairie lawyer to robust chief executive during a time of crisis. Goodwin marvels at Lincoln''s ability to co-opt three better-born, better-educated rivalsâ€”each of whom had challenged Lincoln for the 1860 Republican nomination. The three were New York senator William H. Seward, who became secretary of state; Ohio senator Salmon P. Chase, who signed on as secretary of the treasury and later was nominated by Lincoln to be chief justice of the Supreme Court; and Missouri''s "distinguished elder statesman" Edward Bates, who served as attorney general. This is the "team of rivals" Goodwin''s title refers to.The problem with this interpretation is that the metamorphosis of Lincoln to Machiavellian master of men that Goodwin presupposes did not in fact occur overnight only as he approached the grim reality of his presidency. The press had labeled candidate Lincoln "a fourth-rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar." But East Coast railroad executives, who had long employed Lincoln at huge prices to defend their interests as attorney and lobbyist, knew better. Lincoln was a shrewd political operator and insider long before he entered the White Houseâ€”a fact Goodwin underplays. On another front, Goodwin''s spotlighting of the president''s three former rivals tends to undercut that Lincoln''s most essential Cabinet-level contacts were not with Seward, Chase and Bates, but rather with secretaries of war Simon Cameron and Edwin Stanton, and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. These criticisms aside, Goodwin supplies capable biographies of the gentlemen on whom she has chosen to focus, and ably highlights the sometimes tangled dynamics of their "team" within the larger assemblage of Lincoln''s full war cabinet.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7891'),
(9684, 'The Tears of Autumn', 'Charles McCarry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Tears of Autumn, McCarry''s riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, was a major bestseller upon its first publication. Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher, it is a tour de force of action and enigma. Paul Christopher the legendary spy, at the height of his powers, believes he knows who arranged the assassination, and why. But his theory is so destructive of the legend of the dead president, and so dangerous to the survival of foreign policy, that Christopher is ordered to desist from further investigation. Christopher resigns from the Agency and embarks upon a tour of investigation that takes him from Paris to Rome, Zurich, the Congo and Saigon. Pursued by Kennedy''s assassins and by his own government, Christopher follows the scent of his suspicion - one breath behind the truth, one step ahead of discovery and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8263'),
(9685, 'Tears Of The Moon', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2621'),
(9686, 'The Technician', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hit list.Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity has been left uncured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race.The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too.Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3075'),
(9687, 'Technokill', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A terrifying secret, an evil coterie of ruthless masterminds, a murderous battle of cunning and deadly skill--it''s time to send in the Marines!After the Confederation makes a shocking discovery on an alien world, a nefarious band of opportunists from the highest echelons of power plot to steal the vast riches for themselves. Along with the ability to crush any resistance, these moguls possess spacecraft, unlimited resources, and a deadly arsenal of cutting-edge weapons.The only one without a price tag is the Confederation president. Now she is sending Gunnery Sergeant Bass, the men of third platoon, and a single special agent to expose the shadowy figures behind the corruption. And so, on an obscure planet, home to unimaginable treasure and an unsettling species, the toughest fighters in Human Space confront their fiercest battle. For there will be no losers in this war, only the triumphant, the dead, and the vanished . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(9688, 'Technological Singularity', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10149'),
(9689, 'Ted Chiang Compilation', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Compilation of stories:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) (short story collection):\n <br />\n -Tower of Babel\n <br />\n -Understand\n <br />\n -Division by Zero\n <br />\n -Story of Your Life\n <br />\n -Seventy-Two Letters\n <br />\n -The Evolution of Human Science\n <br />\n -Hell is the Absence of God\n <br />\n -Liking What You See: A Documentary\n <br />\n What''s Expected of Us (2006) (short story)\n <br />\n The Merchant and the Alchemist''s Gate (2007) (novelette)\n <br />\n Exhalation (2008) (short story)\n <br />\n The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010) (novella)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4577'),
(9690, 'The Teeth of the Tiger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers. A man named Mohammed sits in a cafe in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous-and the potential for destruction unimaginable. In the Brave New World of terrorism-where anybody with a spare AK-47, a knowledge of kitchen chemistry, or simply the will to die can become a player-the old rules no longer apply. No matter what new governmental organizations come into being, the only truly effective ones are those that are quick and agile, free of oversight and restrictions...and outside the system. Way outside the system. In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies-and three men are about to cross its radar. The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI agent, barely a year out of Quantico, whose decisive actions resolve a particularly brutal kidnap/murder case. The second is Caruso''s brother, Brian, a Marine captain just back from his first combat action in Afghanistan, and already a man to watch. And the third is their cousin...a young man named Jack Ryan, Jr. Jack was raised on intrigue. As his father moved through the ranks of the CIA and then into the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it operates from agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Service men, and black ops specialists such as John Clark and Ding Chavez. He wants to put it all to work now-but when he knocks on the front door of "the Campus," he finds that nothing has prepared him for what he is about to encounter. For it is indeed a different world out there, and in here...and it is about to become far more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3750'),
(9691, 'Teeth: Vampire Tales', 'Ellen Datlow &amp; Terri Windling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fascinated by vampires?\n</p>\n<p>\n Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead.\n</p>\n<p>\n The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleefulâ€”and touch on nearly every emotion in between. The one thing they have in common is their desire for blood. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Stories from\n <br />\n Genevieve Valentine\n <br />\n Steve Berman\n <br />\n Christopher Barzak\n <br />\n Neil Gaiman\n <br />\n Delia Sherman\n <br />\n Garth Nix\n <br />\n Suzy McKee Charnas\n <br />\n Kaaron Warren\n <br />\n Cecil Castellucci\n <br />\n Jeffrey Ford\n <br />\n Nathan Ballingrud\n <br />\n Kathe Koja\n <br />\n Catherynne M. Valente\n <br />\n Melissa Marr\n <br />\n Ellen Kushner\n <br />\n Cassandra Clare\n <br />\n Holly Black\n <br />\n Lucius Shepard\n <br />\n Emma Bull\n <br />\n Tanith Lee\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Experts in the genres of mythic and speculative fiction, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have edited numerous anthologies for readers of all ages. Together and individually they have won abundant honors, including multiple World Fantasy, Hugo, and Bram Stoker Awards.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellen Datlow has also received the British Fantasy Society''s Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre." She lives in New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Terri Windling is the recipient of the Science Fiction Writers Association''s Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field. She lives in Devon, England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5027'),
(9692, 'Tehanu', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10729'),
(9693, 'The Telephone Booth Indian', 'Abbott Joseph Liebling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In its homage to Americaâ€™s most rakish hucksters, Broadwayâ€™s "Library of Larceny" series reissues this collection of irreverent "low-life" pieces penned by Liebling, a mid-century fixture at the New Yorker renowned for his intimacy with con culture. Originally published in 1942, this sinewy compendium opens the door to the gritty underworld of grifters, showmen and hustlers from a bygone era of deadpan humor, decadent bonhomie and vigorous one-upmanship. With affectionate aplomb, Liebling introduces us to the colorful if unscrupulous denizens of Broadwayâ€™s Jollity Building, whose names alone are reminiscent of Garbage Pail Kids: Paddy the Booster, Acid Test Ike, Lotsandlots, Judge Horumph, Count de Pennies and Marty the Clutch (so named for his "custom of mangling peopleâ€™s fingers when he shakes hands with them"). The "telephone booth Indians" moniker refers to promoters so pressed for cash that they must conduct their wheeling and dealing from one of the lobbyâ€™s eight coin-box phone booths. While itâ€™s riveting to learn about the humble, hardscrabble beginnings of the Shubert (yes, as in theater) brothers, whatâ€™s most memorable about this masterpiece is the nostalgia Liebling evokes in his reader for larger-than-life characters such as the sartorial peacock Roy Wilson Howard, a newsman whose self-control on the telephone Liebling irresistibly likens to that "of a fat woman waving away a tray of chocolate eclairs." With a foreword by critic and Low Life author Luc Sante.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œLiebling remains the nonpareil.â€ â€”Anthony Lewis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7101'),
(9694, 'Tell Me Your Dreams', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet Ashley Patterson, the brainy, babelicious "computer whiz" and confused heroine of\n <em>\n  Tell Me Your Dreams\n </em>\n . Although she has a cushy job at Global Computer Graphics, a fast-growing start-up in Silicon Valley, her life falls short of fulfilling. She''s lonely, shy, and absolutely convinced she''s being stalked. What''s worse, the only sympathetic ear around is her father, Dr. Patterson, the heartless heart surgeon, who has the charm of an electric eel and the compassion of a tarantula. Given her options, Ashley looks to the heavens for support and offers up an ultimatum to the Almighty: "I''ll make a deal with you, God. If it doesn''t rain, it means that everything is all right, that I''ve been imagining everything." Of course, it starts raining buckets just paragraphs later, setting off a car alarm of an omen about our computer cutie''s fate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. They both work with Ashley at Global Computer Graphics, but the similarities end there. Toni is a saucy, British vixen with a penchant for Internet dating and discotheques.\n <em>\n  La bella Italiana\n </em>\n Alette, on the other hand, is a wannabe artist who prefers quiet, dreamy weekends with beefcake painters. Reminiscent of junior high school, Toni and Alette do their best to keep Ashley out of their cool clique, but find it difficult when a string of murders irrevocably binds them together. Based on a true story and laden with realistic details--not to mention a whopper of an ending--_Tell Me Your Dreams_ is vintage Sheldon. However, there is one necessary caveat: avoid moviegoer types who insist on telling you the entire plot before you have a chance to see it. You should be doing this anyway, but take extra care with this book. Once the surprise ending is blown, so is the fun in reading it.\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Perennial bestseller Sheldon (The Best Laid Plans) doesn''t get under the reader''s skin here as he does at his best, even though he weaves together many of his time-tested elements?childhood horror and its consequences; lust and murder as bedfellows; a pretty, hapless heroine; good men in the legal and medical professions trying to undo the wrongs done by others. Despite gory crime scene depictions, the old master, uncharacteristically, has left out the suspense and the layers of feeling. We finger the serial murderer all too quickly, just as we know before we know that Ashley''s creepy physician father, Steven, abused her as a child. We never doubt that goodhearted lawyer David Singer will convince hostile judge Tessa Williams that, yes, multiple personality disorder happens, and that, morally and legally, it separates the doer from the deed. Nor is it any surprise that psychiatrist Gilbert Keller, spurred on by personal as well as professional longings, takes Allison apart and puts her back together the right way?or does he? A prefatory sentence says the novel is based on real cases. Maybe so, but one wishes that the authentic details had been told with genuine passion. Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8619'),
(9695, 'Tell Me, Pretty Maiden', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lively and colorful, full of absorbing historical detail and delightful characters, Tell Me, Pretty Maiden is another gem in Rhys Bowenâ€™s multiple award-winning series.TELL ME, PRETTY MAIDENItâ€™s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While sheâ€™s very much in demand by some of Broadwayâ€™s brightest stars and Fifth Avenueâ€™s richest families, Molly must admit that itâ€™s time for her to get some help. Her beau, the recently and wrongly suspended police captain Daniel Sullivan, would makeÂ an ideal associate. But before Molly and he can agree on the terms of his employment,Â they stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in the middle of a snow-covered Central Park. When the woman wakes up, she is disorientated and has and lost her ability to speak. The authorities are about to pack her off to an insane asylumâ€”but Molly canâ€™t help but step in and take on yet another stormy caseâ€¦Â â€œFor readers who love mysteries more for character development than puzzle solving, the seventh Molly Murphy novelâ€¦ does not disappoint.â€ â€”BooklistÂ â€œSharp historical backgrounds and wacky adventures.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3927'),
(9696, 'Tell No One', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Beck has rebuilt his life since his wife''s murder eight years ago, finishing medical school and establishing himself as a pediatrician, but he''s never forgotten the woman he fell in love with in second grade. And when a mysterious e-mail arrives on the anniversary of their first kiss, with a message and an image that leads him to wonder whether Elizabeth might still be alive, Beck will stop at nothing to find the truth that''s eluded him for so many years. A powerful billionaire is equally determined to make sure his role in her disappearance never comes to light, even if it means destroying an innocent man.\n</p>\n<p>\n In David Beck, Harlan Coben, the author of the popular series starring sports agent Myron Bolitar (__ et al.) has created a protagonist who shares many of Bolitar''s best qualities--he''s a decent, generous, gentle guy whose loyalty to those he loves is unquestionable. So when he discovers that people he was close to may be responsible not only for Elizabeth''s murder but also the "accidental" death of his father, Beck''s sense of betrayal is as understandable to the reader as his uncharacteristically violent reaction. Coben is a skillful storyteller with a gift for creating likable characters caught up in circumstances that illuminate their complex emotional lives and deep humanity. This should be the thriller that breaks this talented writer out of the mystery genre and earns him the recognition he deserves.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. He doesn''t quite kick his reputation aside in the process. This thriller, Coben''s first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy enough read, but it''s not up to snuff. It''s got a nifty setup, though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. Or is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails apparently from Elizabeth. His frantic search to find out if she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops to pin Elizabeth''s murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves of a mysterious billionaire an old friend of the Beck family and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder. Beck finds himself a man on the run from the cops his only ally a black drug dealer whose child he''s treating for hemophilia caught in an overcomplicated tangle of lies and vengeance. Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense, but there''s little new here. The narrative style is cloned from James Patterson, alternating first-person with third. The villains, particularly the billionaire and a Chinese martial artist, are as old as mid-Elmore Leonard or even Chandler. The black drug dealer isn''t a character, he''s a plot device, and the climax packs the emotional wallop of a strong episode of The Rockford Files. (June 19)Forecast: Heavy-hitting blurbs from Jeffery Deaver and Phillip Margolin, among others, indicate more about the solidarity of the mystery community than about this book''s excellence, but should attract browsers. The publisher will pitch this as a summer beach read, and it''s not a bad one. In fact, it may outsell Coben''s mysteries, despite its flaws.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5865'),
(9697, 'Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph With the Hidden Power of Story', 'Peter Guber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Tony Hsieh\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Tony Hsieh is the author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Delivering Happiness\n </em>\n and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In less than 10 years, Zappos has grown from no sales in 1999 to over a billion dollars in gross merchandise sales annually. Our philosophy is to take most of the money that we would have otherwise spent on paid advertising or paid marketing and instead invest it into customer service and the customer experience, and let our customers do the marketing for us through word of mouth.\n</p>\n<p>\n In other words, we''re really just in the stories and memories business.\n</p>\n<p>\n From an early age, Peter Guber seems to have intuitively grasped what I slowly learned over my entrepreneurial adventures, which is that the most profitable companies are those that form personal, emotional connections (which we internally refer to as "PEC" at Zappos) with customers. In\n <em>\n  Tell to Win\n </em>\n , Guber shows how the stories we tell -- about our companies, our products, and ourselves -- are what elicit people''s emotional reactions and drive word of mouth.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book includes plenty of examples and guidance for breaking down how a story gets created and delivered. As I read through the book, I repeatedly had to put the book down to think for awhile, because so many stories in the book sparked new ideas on how to improve our business at Zappos.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope this book inspires you to create your own "never-ending story" to help take your business to the next level.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former chairman of Sony Pictures and current CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, Guber illustrates how powerful storytellingâ€”about yourself or your productâ€”can be the ultimate tool to get the meeting, engage the listener, and close the deal. With brisk and readable anecdotes, the author relates what he''s seen and learned in Hollywood, and how his celebrated friendsâ€”Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Arianna Huffington, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatraâ€”impressed upon him the power of a well-crafted story or appeal. The celebrity name-dropping lends some glitter to Guber''s very reasonable precepts: as he urges the reader to harness the power of metaphor in crafting the core narrative of a pitch or advertising campaign, he refers to how Michael Jackson taught him about drama by making him watch a python slowly stalk a helpless mouse, and how KISS frontman Gene Simmons, son of Holocaust survivors, used his backstory to fuel his ambition and his business strategy. This valuable and inspiring book will help readers deliver an authentic and meaningful story to customers, colleagues, or prospective clients. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6111'),
(9698, 'Tell-All', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourettes Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of of Lillian Hellmans habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine Miss Kathie Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathies heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells her death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World War II musical extravaganza Unconditional Surrender, in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.A dark reimagining of All About Eve and an hilarious assault on celebrity, Tell-All is vintage Palahniuk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(9699, 'Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage', 'Paul Ekman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10702'),
(9700, 'The Tempest', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this tale by William Shakespeare, Prospero--the rightful Duke of Milan--has been usurped and, along with his daughter Miranda, has been exiled on an island for twelve years. During this time, Prospero hones his magic, and eventually creates a storm that brings his enemies to the shore of the island he has come to control...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3452'),
(9701, 'The Templar Conspiracy', 'Paul Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Christopher''s cartoonish fourth Templar suspense novel (after The Templar Throne), a sniper assassinates the pope while the Holy Father is giving the Christmas blessing on the balcony of St. Peter''s Basilica. Before easily escaping, the killer also fatally shoots a cardinal, two bishops, and the Vatican''s official photographer. This outrage is merely the prologue to an even greater intended act of political violence, the murder of the U.S. president, who''s sure to attend the pontiff''s funeral. The president''s death will pave the way for the rise to power of right-wing Sen. Richard Sinclair, a story line used far more effectively by Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate. Standing in the way of the bad guys is the clichÃ©d pairing of an older ex-soldier, John "Doc" Holliday, and his attractive younger female protÃ©gÃ©, Peggy Blackstock, who respond to traumatic situations with banter out of one of the weaker James Bond movies. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Rome, the assassination of the Pope on Christmas Day sets off a massive investigation that stretches across the globe. But behind the veil of Rex Deus-the Templar cabal that silently wields power in the twenty-first century-the plot has only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n When retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday uncovers the true motive behind the pontiff''s murder, he must unravel a deadly design to extend the Templar influence to the highest levels of power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7872'),
(9702, 'The Templar Salvation', 'Raymond Khoury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Khoury''s entertaining sequel to The Last Templar (2006) offers characters and plot lines that hew closely to the conventions of the religious thriller subgenre. In 1310, Templar knight Conrad of Tripoli stumbled on a trove of writings documenting the early days and divisions of Christianity. The Catholic Church has kept this material hidden since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, fearful that its release would undermine the church''s authority and rock the foundations of Christian belief. In the present, Mansoor Zahed, an Iranian motivated by revenge for the CIA killing of his family in the 1950s, is bent on finding the trove and releasing it to undermine Western religion and stability. Meanwhile, FBI special agent Sean Reilly visits the Vatican on a quest to find a document that may help in his effort to rescue his love interest, Tess Chaykin, who''s been kidnapped. The constant suspense, ever-mounting body count, and interesting historical lore will keep readers turning the pages.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Khouryâ€™s follow-up to his very popular The Last Templar (2006) begins in the year 1203. Constantinople is under siege; a small band of Knights Templars has snuck into the city and stolen valuable documents from the imperial library. After taking refuge in a monastery, the Templars are murdered, never having learned the contents of the documents. In the present day, an Iranian history professor is given an ultimatum: finish his work on a certain historical artifact, or his family will be killed. Meanwhile, FBI agent Sean Reillyâ€”star of The Last Templarâ€”is compelled to smuggle ancient documents out of the Vatican archives if he wants to see his lover, Tess, again. Are these the same documents we saw in the bookâ€™s opening scene? What is their import? Are Tessâ€™ abduction and the threats against the historianâ€™s family connected? Khoury answers these questions and a handful more in this very well constructed blend of historical mystery and present-day thriller. He doesnâ€™t break any new ground, but thereâ€™s no denying heâ€™s got the storytelling chops and the imagination to spin an exciting yarn. Fans of his earlier novels, especially this oneâ€™s predecessor, will eat this one up. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Khoury may be the best of the Da Vinci Code imitators, and the Templars continue to draw a crowd. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5468'),
(9703, 'Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon&#39;s Temple to the Freemasons', 'Michael Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders were burnt at the stake.Part guide, part history, this book investigates the Templar legends and legacy from the mysteries of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem, via nineteenth century development of the Freemasons, through to Templar appearances in Dan Brown and Indiana Jones.This book explains the whole context of Templar history, including the recent evidence discovered by the Vatican that the Templars were not guilty of heresy. It also features a guide to Templar castles and sites.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3095'),
(9704, 'Temple of the Winds', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the red moon will come the firestorm...Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D''Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.Lightning will find him on that path...But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3517'),
(9705, 'The Temples of Ayocan', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1929'),
(9706, 'temporary kings', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(9707, 'The Temptation of St. Antony or a Revelation of the Soul', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9823'),
(9708, 'Tempted', 'Pamela Britton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alexander Drumming, the Marquis of Warrick, is no saint. Descended from a long line of rakes, he has vowed to stop dallying with the fairer sex. But now he needs a woman-an extraordinary woman to tame his wildcat of a daughter. Intelligent, spirited Mary Callaghan is the perfect nursemaid for the child, but one look at her bedroom eyes and luscious lips and Alexander is tempted to seduce one last woman. For Mary, masquerading as a nanny and enticing the master of the house is all in a day''s work-until stolen kisses and passionate caresses distract her from her perilous game. Soon two people who know the risk of mixing danger and desire find themselves on the brink of a shocking scandal, and Alexander is about to discover what happens when he lets an enemy into his house...and his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3903'),
(9709, 'Tempting Fate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attorney Caine MacGregor had a reputation for being a demon in the courtroom - and in the bedroom. He yearned to break down Diana Blade''s icy wall of control and release the passionate woman within. When he offered Diana a partnership - in both business and pleasure - could he entice her to risk everything for the love of a MacGregor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2596'),
(9710, 'Ten Big Ones', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She''s accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She''s a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. He mother''s convinced she''ll end up dead...or worse, without a man. She''s Stephanie Plum and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thought it would sound good to put it that way...)It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another car. It would be just another day in the life of Stephanie Plum...except that she becomes the target of a gang. And the target of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. With super bounty hunter Ranger out of town (and Stephanie on the outs with vice cop Morelli), she finds herself alone, with a decision to make: how to protect herself and where to hide while on the hunt for a killer known as the Junkman. There''s only one safe place, and it has Ranger''s name all over it-if she can find it. And if the Junkman doesn''t find her first. With Lula riding shotgun and Grandma Mazur on the loose, Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in her most suspenseful novel yet. Ten Big Ones is page-turning entertainment and Janet Evanovich is the best there is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2142');
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(9711, 'Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table', 'Ruth Reichl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n restaurant critic Ruth Reichl reads her (only very slightly abridged) memoir with the same humor, care, and intimacy that she put into its writing. The voices of the chefs, waiters, and gourmands who taught her to love food and its preparation come to life in this audiobook. Particularly compelling is her wonderful tale of "Life on Mars"--boarding school in Montreal might well have been on another planet. We listen as her halting French becomes fluent, as she shares weekend forays for forbidden smoked meat and cream puffs (the cure for all homesickness) with her new friend, Beatrice, and as her encounter with Beatrice''s father, Monsieur du Croix, introduces her to a new level of joy in food. Audiobook listeners are also treated to a handy booklet of recipes included with the tapes that represent a dish from each of the main characters we meet in Ruth''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reichl discovered early on that since she wasn''t "pretty or funny or sexy," she could attract friends with food instead. But that initiative isn''t likely to secure her an audience for her chaotic, self-satisfied memoirs, although her restaurant reviews in the New York Times are popular. Reichl''s knack for describing food gives one a new appreciation for the pleasures of the table, as when she writes here: "There were eggplants the color of amethysts and plates of sliced salami and bresaola that looked like stacks of rose petals left to dry." But when she is recalling her life, she seems unable to judge what''s interesting. Raised in Manhattan and Connecticut by a docile father who was a book designer and a mother who suffered from manic depression, Reichl enjoyed such middle-class perks as a Christmas in Paris when she was 13 and high school in Canada to learn French. But her mother was a blight, whom Reichl disdains to the discomfort of the reader who wonders if she exaggerates. The author studied at the University of Michigan, earned a graduate degree in art history, married a sculptor named Doug, lived in a loft in Manhattan''s Bowery and then with friends bought a 17-room "cottage" in Berkeley, Calif., which turned into a commune so self-consciously offbeat that their Thanksgiving feast one year was prepared from throwaways found in a supermarket dumpster. Seasoning her memoir with recipes, Reichl takes us only through the 1970s, which seems like an arbitrary cutoff, and one hopes the years that followed were more engaging than the era recreated here.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6810'),
(9712, 'The Tender Bar: A Memoir', 'J. R. Moehringer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir\n <em>\n  The Tender Bar\n </em>\n is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather. Desperate for a paternal figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as "talking smoke"). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves, Moehringer turns to his hairless Uncle Charlie, and subsequently, Uncle Charlie''s place of employment--a bar called Dickens that soon takes center stage. While Moehringer may occasionally resort to an overwrought metaphor (the footsteps of his family sound like "storm troopers on stilts"), his writing moves at a quick clip and his tale of a dysfunctional but tightly knit community is warmly told. "While I fear that we''re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we''re defined by what embraces us," Moehringer says, and his story makes us believe it.\n <em>\n  --Brangien Davis\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]_Reviewed by_ Terry GolwayYou needn''t be a writer to appreciate the romance of the corner tavernâ€”or, for that matter, of the local dive in a suburban strip mall. But perhaps it does take a writer to explain the appeal of these places that ought to offend us on any number of levelsâ€”they often smell bad, the decor generally is best viewed through bloodshot eyes and, by night''s end, they usually do not offer an uplifting vision of the human condition.Ah, but what would we do without them, and what would we do without the companionship of fellow pilgrims whose journey through life requires the assistance of a drop or two?J.R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning writer for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n , has written a memoir that explains it all, and then some.\n <em>\n  The Tender Bar\n </em>\n is the story of a young man who knows his father only as "The Voice," of a single mother struggling to make a better life for her son, and of a riotously dysfunctional family from Long Island. But more than anything else, Moehringer''s book is a homage to the culture of the local pub. That''s where young J.R. seeks out the companionship of male role models in place of his absent father, where he receives an education that has served him well in his career and where, inevitably, he looks for love, bemoans its absence and mourns its loss.Moehringer grew up in Manhasset, a place, he writes, that "believed in booze." At a young age, he became a regularâ€”not a drinker, of course, for he was far too young. But while still tender of years, he was introduced to the culture, to the companionship andâ€”yesâ€”to the romance of it all. "Everyone has a holy place, a refuge, where their heart is purer, their mind clearer, where they feel close to God or love or truth or whatever it is they happen to worship," he writes. For young J.R., that place was a gin mill on Plandome Road where his Uncle Charlie was a bartender and a patron._The Tender Bar_''s emotional climax comes after its native son has found success as a journalist for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n . On September 11, 2001, almost 50 souls who lived and loved in Moehringer''s home town of Manhasset were killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. One was a bartender we''ve met along the way. Another was one of the author''s cousins.Moehringer drove from Denver, where he was based as a correspondent for the\n <em>\n  Times\n </em>\n , to New York to mourn and comfort old friends. He describes his cousin''s mother, Charlene Byrne, as she grieved: "Charlene was crying, the kind of crying I could tell would last for years."And so it has, in Manhasset and so many other Long Island commuter towns. Moehringer''s lovely evocation of an ordinary place filled with ordinary people gives dignity and meaning to those lost lives, and to his own.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7128'),
(9713, 'Tender is the night', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Diver''s troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth which springs from the quality of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the book is based.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(9714, 'The Tenth Chamber', 'Glenn Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring.When they discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realise that theyve stumbled across something extraordinary. And at the very core of the labyrinth lies the most astonishing chamber of all, just as the manuscript chronicled. Aware of the significance of their discovery, they set up camp with a team of experts, determined to bring their find to the world. But as they begin to unlock the ancient secrets the cavern holds, they find themselves at the centre of a dangerous game. One accidental death leads to another.And it seems that someone will stop at nothing to protect the enigma of the tenth chamber\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1850'),
(9715, 'The Tenth Circle: A Novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Vanishing Acts, " offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child -- and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She''s also the light of her father''s life -- a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who''s always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence...and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family -- and herself -- seems to be a lie. For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even-tempered, mild-mannered man: a stay-at-home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante''s "Inferno" at a local college. But years ago, he was completely different: growing up as the only white boy in an Eskimo village, he was teased mercilessly for the color of his skin. He learned to fight back: stealing, drinking, robbing, and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself, channeling his rage onto the page and burying his past completely...until now. Could the young boy who once made Trixie''s face fill with light when he came to the door have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a man with a history he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back in order to protect his daughter. "The Tenth Circle" looks at that delicate moment when a child learns that her parents don''t know all of the answers and when being a good parent means letting go of your child. It asks whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime or if your mistakes are carried forever -- if life is, as in any good comic book, a struggle to control good and evil, or if good and evil control you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(9716, 'The Tenth Justice', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA. This story of friendship and betrayal is set in Washington, DC, where four young men who have grown up together become housemates, each with his first big job opportunity. One of them, Ben Addison, is a brand-new clerk for a Supreme Court justice. Ben and his co-clerk Lisa are two of the best and the brightest of the legal community, their intelligence only barely exceeding their egos. But early in the Court session, he is tricked into revealing the confidential outcome of an upcoming decision to a man posing as a former clerk, and one of the parties in the case uses the information to make millions. Ben is in danger of losing his job, his reputation, and any chance for a place on the ladder to legal fame and success. Desperate to find the man who tricked him, he enlists the help of Lisa and his housemates. When the elusive villain tries to blackmail Ben into revealing further Court decisions, the search becomes even more intense, and Ben realizes that one of his friends is leaking the group''s plans to the blackmailer. The story builds to an action-packed and satisfying conclusion, but lives are shattered in the process and the fabric of friendship is torn apart. YAs will be confronted by issues of loyalty, integrity, and trust, and at the same time will learn much about the decision-making process of the Supreme Court.?Molly Connally, Kings Park Library, Fairfax County, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hotshot young lawyer Ben Addison is on top of the world. Just out of Yale Law School, he''s already landed the highly desirable top job of clerk to a Supreme Court justice, experiences instant chemistry with his new co-clerk Lisa, and shares an apartment with three lifelong friends. Then a misplaced trust leads Ben to reveal a confidential court decision, and his world begins to crash. With Ben''s career in jeopardy and a blackmailer on his trail, his friends use their job connections at the State Department, a Washington newspaper, and a senator''s office to aid Ben and Lisa in a plot to apprehend Ben''s blackmailer. But when their own careers are threatened, allegiance fades and distrust sets in, turning Ben and his former allies against one another as events escalate and they find themselves struggling not to save their careers but their lives. The story flows smoothly in this engrossing legal thriller by lawyer Meltzer?and the plot is perfect for a blockbuster movie. A good purchase.?Lori Dunn, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Troy, N.C.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7160'),
(9717, 'Term Limits', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Taking America back...one politician at a time   TERM LIMITS In one bloody nightï¼Œ three of Washington s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No oneï¼Œ they warnï¼Œ is out of their reach -- not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandosï¼Œ but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O Rourkeï¼Œ a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressmanï¼Œ holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country s future.... "Ingenious....Outpaces anything recently publishedï¼Œ including Baldacci and Clancy."  -- Florida Times-Union Includes an excerpt from Memorial Dayï¼Œ Vince Flynn s electrifying new hardcover\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8380'),
(9718, 'Terminal', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of Deadlock, Whirlpool and Double Jeopardy comes the reissue of, Terminal. Each of Colin Forbes'' books have been published worldwide and translated into 30 languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(9719, 'The Terminal Man', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient''s brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. Though the operation is a success, there is an unforseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2248'),
(9720, 'The Terminal State', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army''s new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he''s been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory. Sold to the highest bidder, his visions of escape and revenge quickly come to an end when he realizes who''s bought him - and for what. Because the high bidder is Canny Orel himself. And he wants Cates to do one last job as the System slides into chaos. Cates will have one shot at getting back at Canny - but this time, Canny is holding all the cards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1570'),
(9721, 'Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Foster''s writing style here is much more gritty and no-nonsense. Staccato sentences and down-to-earth dialogue keep the action moving quickly and maintain the suspenseful, all-or-nothing tone." -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eagerly awaited fourth\n <em>\n  Terminator\n </em>\n movie,\n <em>\n  Terminator Salvation\n </em>\n , starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a brand-new chapter in the\n <em>\n  Terminator\n </em>\n chronicles, Judgment Day has come to pass and Skynet has destroyed much of the worldâ€™s population. In this post-apocalyptic world, the resistance, led by John Connor, continues its brutal fight for survival.\n</p>\n<p>\n The official novelisation will provide readers with the full story of this much-anticipated movie - a must for all\n <em>\n  Terminator\n </em>\n fans!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7908'),
(9722, 'A Terrible Beauty', 'Masterton, Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8898'),
(9723, 'Terror Island', 'Maxwell Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2839'),
(9724, 'The Terror of St Trinian&#39;s and Other Drawings', 'Ronald Searle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian''s . In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian''s is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. This book also contains a selection of Ronald Searle''s work from the non-school books, including The Rake''s Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, etc . and their publication in one volumes stakes Searle''s claim to be the greatest and most influential English satirist since the war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3334'),
(9725, 'The Terror: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Hugo-winner Simmons (_Olympos_) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the\n <em>\n  Erebus\n </em>\n , is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the\n <em>\n  Terror\n </em>\n , is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. With their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is a disaster from start to finish. Some men perish from disease, others from the cold, still others from botulism traced to tinned food purchased from the lowest bidder. Madness, mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then there''s the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence. This complex tale should find many devoted readers and add significantly to Simmons''s already considerable reputation.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific and versatile Simmons turns to historical fiction in this fine narrative of the lost Franklin expedition of the 1840s, in which nearly 200 men sailed in search of the Northwest Passage aboard two converted naval vessels,\n <em>\n  Erebus\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Terror\n </em>\n . They seemingly sailed off the face of the earth, until remains of the longest survivors among them were discovered many years later. Simmons makes the\n <em>\n  Terror\n </em>\n ''s Captain Crozier his protagonist, and through his eyes we see history infused with sf, fantasy, and horror elements: sf because the expedition went farther into the then unknown than did the Apollo astronauts; fantasy because the hardships of the grippingly described arctic environment played havoc with their minds; and horror because the men perished in ones and twos, in dozens and scores, from boat accidents, falls, scurvy, hypothermia, exposure, starvation, and parasitic infections. Crozier survives by taking refuge among the Inuit and covering the expedition''s nightmarish trail by burning his ship and vanishing from civilization, by which time readers may be as emotionally drained as he. Outstanding.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7454'),
(9726, 'Terrorist', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qurâ€™an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. Neither the world-weary guidance counselor at his high school nor Ahmadâ€™s mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen succeeds in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him.â€œOne compelling and surprising ride.â€â€“USA Todayâ€œThe startlingly contemporary story of a high school student . . . whose zealous Islamic faith and disaffection with modern life make him a pawn in the larger conflict between Muslim and Christian, East and West. They also make him a powerful voice for Updikeâ€™s ongoing critique of American civilization.â€â€“Timeâ€œA chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from Sept. 11.â€â€“People (Criticâ€™s Choice)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3145'),
(9727, 'Terry Pratchett - Turntables of the Night', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9221'),
(9728, 'Tess of the D&#39;Urbervilles', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Edited with Notes by Tim Dolin and an Introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4086'),
(9729, 'Test of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The last title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy, now available for the first time in hardcover.The third and last title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy will be released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, the new version of this series is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all core Weis &amp; Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3101'),
(9730, 'A Test of Wills', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having just returned from France after World War I with a medal of honor and serious shell shock, Inspector Ian Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties at Scotland Yard. When, despite his tenuous condition, an envious supervisor assigns him to a traumatic case involving the murder of an army colonel and a young captain as the prime suspect, Rutledge must gather all of his strength to not only solve the case, but fight the town people''s prejudice against military personnel. To make matters worse, the prime witness is another veteran--on the brink of insanity--scorned by the villagers for what they perceive to have been less than honorable conduct during his tour of duty.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspector Ian Rutledge, a British veteran of the Great War secretly still suffering from shell-shock, returns to his Scotland Yard job in hopes of exorcizing his private demons. However, a devious higher-up has learned of his Achilles heel and gets Ian assigned to a potentially explosive and career-damaging case?a murder involving a decorated war hero, a beautiful ward, and a shell-shocked witness. Strong, elegant prose; detailed surroundings; and sound plotting characterize this debut historical?the first in a projected series. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5676'),
(9731, 'The Testament', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States.Â Â He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die.Â Â His heirs, to no one''s surprise--especially Troy''s--are circling like vultures.Nate O''Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who''s lived too hard, too fast, for too long.Â Â His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor.Â Â Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it''s going to be murder.Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2912'),
(9732, 'Tetrarch', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Santhenar is on its knees. The war with the alien lyrinx drags on, and humanity is losing it, but there is worse to come. The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible force: a fleet of battle constructs. Cursing humanity for the loss of Aachan and his own clan, the embittered Aachim leader, Vithis, demands half the world in reparation. The council is in no position to resist. But even if they agree to his demands, can anything satisfy his thirst for vengeance?Tiaan is in despair. Her life lies in ruins, and now she is being hunted through the abandoned city of Tirthrax by an implacable Nish, who blames her for the attack.The future of the world rests in the hands of three flawed people: Tiaan, whose geomancy holds the key to the power that can save or destroy them; Nish, who has sworn to bring her to justice; and Irisis, whose great talents are hidden even from herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5167'),
(9733, 'Texas by the Tail', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mitch Corley has a girlfriend with expensive tastes and a ruthless wife who refuses to become an "ex" without major compensation. He needs big money and he needs it fast. Which makes Texas Mitch''s natural destination, since nowhere are rich men more inclined to stake huge sums on a roll of the dice. The only problem is that Texans are sore losers--and they have cruel and ingenious ways of getting back at anyone who cheats them. Texas by the Tailis a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2184'),
(9734, 'Texas Storm', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Texas was hard territory, a giant state with a Mafia operation to match. But Mack Bolan would handle it one number at a time. In order of appearance. A single man against well-armed killers. It was a hell of a way to live. . . or die. The word had come to the Executioner that mobsters were moving in on the tremendously lucrative oil fields. Klingmans Wells, among the most profitable in the midlands, was the first to go out of business. The daughter of the owner had disappeared, too, and Klingman himself was in seclusion in his Dallas apartment. No one knew why. Bolan would have to find out. And that was only the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/763'),
(9735, 'Thank You for Smoking', 'Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. But until now no one had actually compared him to Satan." They might as well have, though. "Gucci Goebbels," "yuppie Mephistopheles," and "death merchant" are just a few endearments Naylor has earned himself as the tobacco lobby''s premier spin doctor. The hero of Thank You for Smoking does of course have his fans. His arguments against the neo-puritanical antismoking trends of the ''90s have made him a repeat guest on Larry King, and the granddaddy of Winston-Salem wants him to be the anointed heir. Still, his newfound notoriety has unleashed a deluge of death threats. Christopher Buckley''s satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you''ll find yourself rooting for smoking''s mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1350'),
(9736, 'Thanksgiving', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Megan Murphy discovers a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she means to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter is too attractive to stay mad at for long. As for Patrick, he wants nothing more than to play house with Maggieâ€”and make Thanksgiving dinner for their families. But Megan has wept over one failed love, and she''s afraid to risk her heart again. Can the good doctor help heal her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2135'),
(9737, 'That Awful Mess on the via Merulana', 'Carlo Emilio Gadda &amp; Italo Calvino &amp; William Weaver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe experimental masterpiece modern Italian literature has long been awaiting.â€¦ There is a kinship to Joyce, especially in Gaddaâ€™s inspired outbursts of comic invective, his ferocious Romantic humor.â€ â€”_The New York Times _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective Ciccio, a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husbandâ€™s, discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case, and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gaddaâ€™s sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth, the impossibility of proof, and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate, showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alberto Moravia all considered\n <em>\n  That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana\n </em>\n to be the great modern Italian novel. Unquestionably, it is a work of universal significance and protean genius: a rich social novel, a comic opera, an act of political resistance, a blazing feat of baroque wordplay, and a haunting story of life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6358'),
(9738, 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11134'),
(9739, 'That Hideous Strength', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The final book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1129'),
(9740, 'That Low', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11178'),
(9741, 'That Summer', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She''s nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister&amp;150the always perfect Ashley&amp;150is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley''s reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3421'),
(9742, 'That&#39;s Amore!', 'Janelle Denison &amp; Tori Carrington &amp; Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A hilarious collection of stories, centering around wedding plans gone awry, includes Leslie Kelly''s "There Goes the Groom," in which a young Italian man falls in love with the woman designing his fiance''s wedding gown. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8283'),
(9743, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', 'Zora Neale Hurston; Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n E-BOOK EXTRA: Janie''s Great Journey: A Reading Group Guide; PLUS: The Comphrehensive Edition: This special e-book is the only edition to include all three essays by Edwidge Danticat, Mary Helen Washington, and Henry Louis Gates.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person â€” no mean feat for a Black woman in the â€˜30s. Zora Neale Hurston''s classic 1937 novel follows Janie''s quest for identity â€” a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life''s joys and sorrows, and comes home to herself in peace. â€œThere is no book more important to me than this one.â€ â€”Alice Walker\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œTheir Eyes belongs in the same category with [the works of] William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, that of enduring American literature.â€ â€”Saturday Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3634'),
(9744, 'Their Finest Hour', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eight uneasy, dangerous months from May to December 1940, as Britain stands isolated and Germany follows its war path.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5423'),
(9745, 'Then Came You', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWeiner has emerged as one of the biggest names in popular fiction.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJennifer Weinerâ€™s bestselling novels twist humor and topical issues into canâ€™t-put-down stories. Her latest follows the lives of four women who explore conflicting notions of family and motherhood.â€ â€”_Houston Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe conflicts enmeshing all these characters...are gripping, and Weinerâ€™s elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever.â€ â€”_Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A savvy taleâ€¦ told with equal parts love and longing--whether it be for a partner, a purpose, or a family." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCompelling...a page-turner. Enjoy this title for its humor mixed with a sympathetic portrayal of real womenâ€™s lives and challenges.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn this warm and winning yarn, Weiner draws readers into the lives of each woman, and brings them together in an unexpected and ultimately rewarding way. Another surefire hit for the popular author." â€”_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Then Came You offers an eye-opening perspective on parenthood in an age where the family is ever evolving." â€”_BookPage_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An unexpected love storyâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family sheâ€™s ashamed to invite to Parentsâ€™ Weekend. With the income sheâ€™ll receive from donating her â€œpedigreeâ€ eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husbandâ€™s salary, she thinks sheâ€™s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcusâ€™ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seemsâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of womenâ€™s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8746'),
(9746, 'Theodore Rex', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In his two terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt forged an American empire, and he behaved as if it was his destiny. In this sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , Morris charts Roosevelt''s accomplishments: the acquisition of the Panama Canal and the Philippines, the creation of national parks and monuments, and more. "Collaring Capital and Labor in either hand," Morris writes, Roosevelt made few friends, but he usually got what he wanted--and earned an enduring place in history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morris combines a fine command of the era''s big issues with an appreciation for the daily minutiae involved in governing a nation. Less controversially inventive, but no less readable, than the Ronald Reagan biography\n  <em>\n   Dutch\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  gives readers new reason both to admire and fault an American phenomenon.\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second entry in Morris''s projected three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt focuses on the presidential years 1901 through early 1909. Impeccably researched and beautifully composed, Morris''s book provides what is arguably the best consideration of Roosevelt''s presidency ever penned. Making good use of TR''s private and presidential papers as well as the archives of such protâ€šgâ€šs as John Hay, William Howard Taft, Owen Wister and John Burroughs Morris marshals a rich array of carefully chosen and beautifully rendered vignettes to create a dazzling portrait of the man (the youngest ever to hold the office of president). Morris proves the perfect guide through TR''s eight breathless, fertile years in the White House: years during which the doting father and prolific author conserved millions of Western acres, swung his "big stick" at trusts and monopolies, advanced progressive agendas on race and labor relations, fostered a revolution in Panama (where he sought to build his canal), won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War and pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act. John Burroughs once wrote that the hypercreative TR "was a many sided man, and every side was like an electric battery." In the end, Morris succeeds brilliantly at capturing all of TR''s many energized sides, producing a book that is every bit as complex, engaging and invigorating as the vibrant president it depicts. Illus. (On-sale: Nov. 20)Forecast: Long-awaited, this volume comes out in the centennial of TR''s rise to the presidency. Morris''s gift for storytelling and his outstanding reputation from volume one (and perhaps his notoriety for the controversial Reagan bio Dutch) should guarantee large sales.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4913'),
(9747, 'Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Theodosia #3) SUMMARY: Being able to detect black magic isnâ€™t all tea and crumpetsâ€”and for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring the Great Awi Bubu, she quickly senses there is more to the magician than he lets on, setting in motion a chain of events she never could have bargained for. Meanwhile, back at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities, Henry is home for the spring holidays and makes an accidental discovery of an artifact that alchemists have been hunting for centuries. Soon, every black-cloaked occultist in London is trying to get their hands on it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3668'),
(9748, 'Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3666'),
(9749, 'Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Theodosia #2) SUMMARY: Theodosia Throckmorton is in a fix. Allowed to attend a reception given by one of the directors of her parentsâ€™ museum, she stumbles across Mr. Tetley of the British Museumâ€”in most unusual circumstances! Since Theo has last seen him in a showdown in an ancient Egyptian tomb, his reappearance could mean only one thing: the Serpents of Chaos are back.Once again Theodosia will have to take on secret societies, evil curses, and dark magic too sinister to imagine, especially if it falls into the wrong hands. Blocked at every turn, Theodosia will have to rely on her own skill and cunningâ€”along with a little help from the most unexpected places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3667');
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(9750, 'The theory of almost everything: the Standard Model, the unsung triumph of modern physics', 'Robert Oerter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: (MOST OF) THE UNIVERSE IS IN YOUR HANDS"There is a theory in physics that explains, at the deepest level, nearly all of the phenomena that rule our daily lives.... This theory bears the unassuming name "The Standard Model of Elementary Particles," or the "Standard Model," for short. It deserves to be better known, and it deserves a better name. I call it "The Theory of Almost Everything."The Standard Model has a surprisingly low profile for such a fundamental and successful theory.... In physics news items, the Standard Model usually plays the whipping boy. Reports of successful experimental tests of the theory have an air of disappointment, and every hint of the theory'' s inadequacy is greeted with glee. It is the Rodney Dangerfield of physical theories, it "don'' t get no respect." But it is, perhaps, the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement to date.--From the IntroductionPraise for "THE THEORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING"In an era when enormous attention is being paid to the promising but highly speculative superstring/M-theory, a great triumph of science has gone nearly unnoticed, except by physicists. Robert Oerter provides here an accessible introduction to the Standard Model--a towering example of human creativity. He outlines how the Standard Model can serve as the launching pad for humanity to--paraphrasing Einstein--see better the secrets of '' the Ancient One.'' "--S. J. Gates Jr., John S. Toll Professor of Physics and director, Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland"We always hear about black holes, the big bang, and the search for life in the universe. But rare is the book that celebrates the Standard Model ofElementary Particles--a triumph of twentieth-century science that underpins nearly all we know about physical reality. Oerter'' s "The Theory of Almost Everything belongs on anyone'' s shelf who cares about how the universe really works."--Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author of "Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic EvolutionThe Standard Model is the most important theory in modern physics. It is the tried-and-true theory of all known physical interactions, with the exception of gravity. Outside of scientific circles it is not nearly as well known as string theory or chaos theory. But it is more important than both, and it is absolutely essential to understanding where we are heading next in physics. Now, in a "tour de force of science writing, physicist Robert Oerter reveals the Standard Model to the general public.Cobbled together by many brilliant minds--including Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann--the Standard Model combines Einstein'' s special relativity with quantum mechanics, revealing a bizarre reality beneath the surface of the mundane world that we all experience. Particles pop into existence from pure energy. Light travels to a given destination on all possible paths at the same time. Solid matter--like light--is neither particle nor wave. Making use of rich analogy and metaphor, Oerter illuminates the quantum world of the Standard Model. He shows that although the theory seems absurd from a common-sense point of view, it nonetheless fully agrees with experiment. Oerter explores the conceptual framework of the Standard Model--what he considers its most fascinating aspect. He shows that different types of symmetry are at the heart ofthe theory. It is these symmetries, which lie deep within the structure of the atom, that give rise to the forces of nature. Oerter reveals that one of these symmetries--or rather, the fact that it was broken only moments after the creation of the universe--is the reason matter as we know it exists. After lucidly explaining the Standard Model'' s implications for the universe as a whole, Oerter takes readers to the edge of physics. He shows how new developments could alter the Standard Model. Experiments now running are searching for neutrino mass and the holy grail of particle physics, the Higgs boson. Grand unified theories, supersymmetry, preon theories, and string theory--although not verified by experiment--could be the next steps in theory. "The Theory of Almost Everything is essential reading for anyone curious about what modern physics tells us about the nature of the universe.(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3957'),
(9751, 'The Theory Of Everything', 'C. Leung', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1030'),
(9752, 'Therapy', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3053'),
(9753, 'There Is No Defense', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10742'),
(9754, 'Theresa&#39;s Punishment', 'Bruce McLachlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(9755, 'These Old Shades', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  _ A gentleman was strolling down a side street in Paris, on his way back from the house of one Madame de Verchoureux. He walked mincingly, for the red heels of his shoes were very high. A long purple cloak, rose-lined, hung from his shoulders and was allowed to fall carelessly back from his dress, revealing a full-skirted coat of purple satin, heavily laced with gold; a waistcoat of flowered silk; faultless small clothes; and a lavish sprinkling of jewels on his cravat and breast. _\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n The gentleman in question is Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, known by friends and enemies alike as Satanas--the devil. On this particular evening, the dangerous rake crosses paths with LÃ©on, a red-headed youth of low birth who is fleeing a certain beating at his brutal brother''s hands. On a whim, Avon buys the boy and makes him his page. It soon becomes clear, however, that LÃ©on is not what he seems, and that Avon has an ulterior motive for bringing him into his household. Set in pre-Revolutionary France,\n <em>\n  These Old Shades\n </em>\n follows a twisting course as young LÃ©on (or is it LÃ©onie?) is swept up in a dangerous mystery: how to account for the page''s amazing resemblance to the sinister Compte de Saint Vire, for example; and why will this man go to any lengths to get the youth in his power?\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer''s historical romances tend to fall into two different camps: later novels such as\n <em>\n  Cotillion\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  False Colours\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Sylvester\n </em>\n feature larger-than-life comic characters and romantic pairings more akin to Beatrice and Benedick than Hero and Claudio. Earlier works such as\n <em>\n  These Old Shades\n </em>\n , however, tend to be darker, tinged with mystery and overshadowed by very real menace. What both types share is Heyer''s fine storytelling and encyclopedic knowledge of Regency mores and manners--her books are the next best thing to a time machine.\n <em>\n  These Old Shades\n </em>\n ''s greatest asset, however, is the charming LÃ©onie: beautiful, brave, and loyal to a fault, with a fondness for swordplay and pistols and a delightfully incomplete grasp of the English language. Heyer herself was so fond of this character that she featured her in two more novels,\n <em>\n  Devil''s Cub\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  An Infamous Army\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, is called "Satanas" by enemy and friend alike. In the aristocratic circles of both London and Paris he has a reputation as a dangerous and debauched rake. He has the occasional odd whim, however, and when a semistarved, ragged child literally falls into his arms on a dark Paris street, Justin purchases the miserable scrap from his abusive guardian and makes the child his page. Cleaned up and properly dressed, Leon proves to be surprisingly comely, with delicate features and flaming red hair. His delicate manners coexist with a personality that combines innocence and arrogance with a fiery temper and a willful stubbornness. Strangest of all, he bears a strong resemblance to the Comte de Saint-Vire, an old enemy of Justin''s. Before long Leon is unmasked as the girl Leonie, but the mystery of her heritage deepens. The strength of the characters rather than the plot fuels this novel. Justin cuts a dark and brooding hero figure; his motives are definitely dubious at the beginning of the story and remain questionable. Even the secondary characters are strongly drawn, distinct, and important to plot development. Narrator Cornelius Garrett does an excellent job, offering a rendition of Justin that is suitably languid. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10219'),
(9756, 'They Came to Baghdad', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she''s vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward''s shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room. And when she discovers that a romantic rival for Edward''s affection has arranged for her kidnapping, Victoria fears that her impetuous nature could be the death of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5255'),
(9757, 'They Do It With Mirrors', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Jane goes to stay with her friend Carrie-Louise at her home she soon begins to realise that all is not well there. Not only is this the family home but it is also a rehabilitation centre for delinquent boys and there are definitely some odd characters living there. Then an attempt is made on the life of Carrie-Louise''s husband, her step-son is murdered and someone tries to poison Carrie-Louise....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5251'),
(9758, 'They Thirst', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Prince Vulkan, master of the vampires, has loosed his army of the undead on Los Angeles in this seamlessly written horror novel by the author of Mine. Vulkan''s plan is to replace humankind, city by city, with the living dead. Four people stand in his way. Homicide detective Andy Palatazin, a Hungarian immigrant who fled this scourge as a child, is determined to stop it now. Young Tommy Chandler, whose parents were killed before his eyes, wants revenge. TV star Wes Richer hopes to save his beloved by tracking Vulkan to his lair. Father Silvera, a dying priest, believes that God has chosen him to destroy the vampire prince. Wreaking death and carnage, Vulkan proceeds to a final confrontation between the forces of good and evil. McCammon delivers terror with skillful ferocity as he pays tribute to masters of the genre and raises the standards for the craft a notch or two.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3554'),
(9759, 'Thicker Than Blood', 'Penny Rudolph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Rachel Chavez, every day is a battle with her demons. She only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. It''s nearly a 24/7 job. Then an executive from the nearby water agency is killed by a hit-and-run driver and Rachel spots the car that did the deed in her garage. A few days later her stand-in employee dies of peculiar causes. And Rachel unknowingly becomes tangled in the conniving cross-purposes of California water politics.When she uncovers evidence of a crime ring, Rachel believes the mystery of the two deaths is solved. But another official is killed, her own father disappears, and it becomes agonizingly clear that the killer is closing in on Rachel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7993'),
(9760, 'Thief Eyes', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest YA fantasy book from Bones of Faerie author Janni Lee Simner!After her mother mysteriously disappears, sixteen-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen. There, amidst the ancient fissures and crevices of that volcanic island, Haley meets gorgeous Ari, a boy with a dangerous side who appoints himself her protector.When Haley picks up a silver coin that entangles her in a spell cast by her ancestor Hallgerd, she discovers that Hallgerd''s spell and her mother''s disappearance are connected to a chain of events that could unleash terrifying powers and consume the world. Haley must find a way to contain the growing fires of the spellâ€”and her growing attraction to Ari.Janni Lee Simner brings the fierce romance and violent passions of Iceland''s medieval sagas into this twenty-first-century novel, with spellbinding results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8349'),
(9761, 'The Thief Lord', 'Cornelia Funke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you''ll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke''s prizewinning novel\n  <em>\n   The Thief Lord\n  </em>\n  , first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective''s office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz''s services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb''s recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Karin Snelson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wacky characters bring energy to this translation of an entertaining German novel about thieving children, a disguise-obsessed detective and a magical merry-go-round. After their mother dies, 12-year-old Prosper and his brother, Bo, five, flee from Hamburg to Venice (an awful aunt plans to adopt only Bo). They live in an abandoned movie theater with several other street children under the care of the Thief Lord, a cocky youth who claims to rob "the city''s most elegant houses." A mysterious man hires the Thief Lord to steal a wooden wing, which the kids later learn has broken off a long-lost merry-go-round said to make "adults out of children and children out of adults," but the plan alters when Victor, the detective Aunt Esther hired to track the brothers, discovers their camp and reveals that the Thief Lord is actually from a wealthy family. There are a lot of story lines to follow, and the pacing is sometimes off (readers may feel that Funke spends too little time on what happens when the children find the carousel, and too much on the ruse they pull on Prosper''s aunt). But between kindhearted Victor and his collection of fake beards, the Thief Lord in his mask and high-heeled boots, and a rascally street kid who loves to steal, Prosper''s new world abounds with colorful characters. The Venetian setting is ripe for mystery and the city''s alleys and canals ratchet up the suspense in the chase scenes. Ages 9-12.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5968'),
(9762, 'The Thief of Always', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mr. Hood''s Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful rounds of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied...There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood''s wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows it''s darker face -- when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadows -- that he comes to doubt Mr. Hood''s philanthropy.The House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr. Hood has ambitious for his new guest, for Harvey''s soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(9763, 'Thief of Light', 'Denise Rossetti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A luminous new erotic fantasy romance from the author of *The Flame and the Shadow*.** In the subtropical city of Caracole, Erik the Golden is widely known as irresistible-his Voice an instrument of incredible pleasure. But the Voice is a curse as much as a blessing, for once Erik used it to steal a soul, and now he must pay. Pruella Takimori McGuire is the business manager for the beautiful courtesans of the Garden of Nocturnal Delights. She deals in numbers, not Magick, and when Erik turns his charms in her direction, she sees only vanity, not a golden gift. If Erik cannot use his power to win Prue''s heart, how can he truly possess her? And all the while, a far darker power corrupts the foundations of Caracole-the Necromancer, who feasts on souls. When the Necromancer''s hired assassin kidnaps Prue, Erik must harness his air Magick to recover the woman he has come to love more than life itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(9764, 'Thief of Lives', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the heels of DHAMPIR, Barb and J.C. Hendee''s acclaimed Fantasy debut, comes THIEF OF LIVES, the new novel featuring Magiere and Leesil, Slayers of the Undead.... Magiere the dhampir thinks that her nights of hunting vampires are over. After settling down in her newly adopted village of Miiska â€” now vampire-free, thanks to her and her half-elf partner, Leesil â€” she looks forward to quiet days tending to her tavern. But far away in the capital city of Bela, a prominent councilman''s daughter has been found dead on her own doorstep... and all signs point to a vampire. Knowing that the battered and burned village of Miiska could use an infusion of cash, Bela''s town council offers a generous bounty to the dhampir if she will slay their vampire. Magiere resists, wanting nothing more than to forget her past and ignore her half-vampire nature. Only Leesil can persuade Magiere to follow her destiny â€” before more innocent lives are claimed by darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(9765, 'Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it''s wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He''s going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world''s first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3406'),
(9766, 'Thieves of Blood', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diran used to make his living as an assassin --- one of the best money could buy. But after a life-altering spiritual experience, he''s turned his back on killing. All he wants is peace. But in a shoddy port city, his past catches up to him, and killing may be the only way to bring peace to a city on the verge of destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8698'),
(9767, 'The Thieves of Manhattan', 'Adam Langer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An aspiring writer with a low-paying day job at a coffee shop becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme to create a fake memoir of his own. Ian quickly realizes that fact and fiction can be dangerously intertwined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(9768, 'Thieves World 01 - Thieves World', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10074'),
(9769, 'Thieves World 02 - Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10044'),
(9770, 'Thieves World 03 - Shadows of Sanctuary', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10070'),
(9771, 'Thieves World 04 - Storm Season', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10043'),
(9772, 'Thieves World 05 - the Face of Chaos', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10086'),
(9773, 'Thieves World 07 - the Dead of Winter', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10079'),
(9774, 'Thieves World 08 - Soul of the City', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10088'),
(9775, 'Thieves World 09 - Blood Ties', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10048'),
(9776, 'Thieves World 10 - Aftermath', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10051'),
(9777, 'Thieves World 11 - Uneasy Alliances', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10082'),
(9778, 'Thin Air', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her name is Lisa St. Claire. Her husband is a cop. Her whereabouts are unknown. Spenser thought he could help a friend find a missing wife. Until he learned the nasty truth about Lisa St. Claire. For starters, it''s not her real name. This New York Times bestseller is a Mystery Guild selection and a LG alternate selection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4015'),
(9779, 'Thin Air (1995)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 22', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10561'),
(9780, 'The Thin Man', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Penzler Pick, December 1999: In the world of literature, there are many famous books that few people have actually read. Do you know anyone who has read Ulysses cover to cover? Tom Jones? The Good Earth? When it comes to mysteries, however, the greatest books are not just titles that rattle around in the head. They have been read and often reread. We know the characters, and we know the stories. Everyone has read The Maltese Falcon and The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Thin Man. What? You haven''t read Dashiell Hammett''s last and funniest book? Sure, you saw the movie--in fact, you''ve seen the whole series--but you somehow never got around to reading the book? You should. All the wit of Nick and Nora is there, and the plot from the book needed no change to make the film one of the greatest American mystery comedies ever. You probably already know that the Thin Man is not actually Nick Charles, but Clyde Wynant, a successful inventor who has disappeared. When his daughter asks for help in finding him, Nick refuses. He''s retired from being a private detective, having married the very wealthy Nora, and he is intent on spending his days and nights drinking, dancing, playing, and looking after his wife''s fortune. Nora persuades him to take the case because she thinks it would be great fun. And it is--especially for the reader. While generally regarded as the most lightweight of Hammett''s five novels (it is), it is also the second most entertaining (after The Maltese Falcon). Try it for a great sense of the good life in the New York of the 1930s. --Otto Penzler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(9781, 'The Thing Around Your Neck', 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adichie (_Half of a Yellow Sun_) stays on familiar turf in her deflated first story collection. The tension between Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans, and the question of what it means to be middle-class in each country, feeds most of these dozen stories. Best known are "Cell One," and "The Headstrong Historian," which have both appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  and are the collection''s finest works. "Cell One," in particular, about the appropriation of American ghetto culture by Nigerian university students, is both emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. Most of the other stories in this collection, while brimming with pathos and rich in character, are limited. The expansive canvas of the novel suits Adichie''s work best; here, she fixates mostly on romantic relationships. Each story''s observations illuminate once; read in succession, they take on a repetitive slice-of-life quality, where assimilation and gender roles become ready stand-ins for what could be more probing work.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A country famously known to the West for its e-mail scams, Nigeria is indebted to Adichie for these graceful and evocative stories that portray it as the rich and diverse nation it truly is. They also demonstrate her keen insight into the rough terrain of human nature beset by external demands and pressures. Adichie, compared to a "hostess" (_San Francisco Chronicle_) who invites her achingly believable characters fully formed into her stories, treats her protagonists -- mostly women -- with respect and compassion. A few minor complaints included less-convincing American characters and some awkward endings, but all critics recognized Adichie as an accomplished storyteller whose careful study of her native land illuminates its foreignness as well as the similarities between us all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4828'),
(9782, 'Things fall apart', 'Chinua Achebe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo''s fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo''s world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(9783, 'Things I&#39;ve Learned From Women Who&#39;ve Dumped Me', 'Ben Karlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Emmy award-winning former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report has assembled a stellar lineup of men who have one thing in common: all have been dumped...and are willing to share their pain and the lessons learned. Relationships end. And in almost all of them, even the most callow among us take something away. This is a book about that something, whether it be major life lessons, like ''If you lie, you will get caught,'' simple truths like, ''Flowers work,'' or something wholly unique like, ''Watch out for the high strung brother in the military.'' This anthology will be comprised of longer and shorter pieces, drawn from an array of impressive celebrities, writers and public figures. Some pieces may be a paragraph in length while others will be full-blown essays. All of them will be about that salient something men take away from a failed relationship. Yes, men learn. This is not a touchy-feely book. This is not a self-help book. This is a book packed with smart, funny and insightful stories from men you probably thought never got dumped, or if they did, would never admit it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1005'),
(9784, 'Think of a Number', 'John Verdon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation.Â Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a simple declaration, â€œThink of any numberâ€¦picture itâ€¦now see how well I know your secrets.â€Â  Amazingly, those who comply find that the letter writer has predicted their random choice exactly.Â  For Dave Gurney, just retired as the NYPDâ€™s top homicide investigator and forging a new life with his wife, Madeleine, in upstate New York, the letters are oddities that begin as a diverting puzzle but quickly ignite a massive serial murder investigation.Â What police are confronted with is a completely baffling killer, one who is fond of rhymes filled with threats and warnings, whose attention to detail is unprecedented, and who has an uncanny knack for disappearing into thin air.Â  Even more disturbing, the scale of his ambition seems to widen as events unfold.Â Brought in as an investigative consultant, Dave Gurney soon accomplishes deductive breakthroughs that leave local police in awe.Â  Yet, even as he matches wits with his seemingly clairvoyant opponent, Gurneyâ€™s tragedy-marred past rises up to haunt him, his marriage approaches a dangerous precipice, and finally, a dark, cold fear builds that heâ€™s met an adversary who canâ€™t be stopped.Â In the end, fighting to keep his bearings amid a whirlwind of menace and destruction, Gurney sees the truth of what heâ€™s become â€“ what we all become when guilty memories fester â€“ and how his wife Madeleineâ€™s clear-eyed advice may be the only answer that makes sense.Â A work that defies easy labels -- at once a propulsive masterpiece of suspense and an absorbing immersion in the lives of characters so real we seem to hear their heartbeats â€“ Think of a Number is a novel youâ€™ll not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2390'),
(9785, 'Think!: Before It&#39;s Too Late', 'Edward De Bono', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, current thinking cannot solve world problems because current thinking is itself the problem. And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. Our minds function like trying to drive a car using only one wheel. There''s nothing wrong with that one wheel--conventional thinking--but we could all get a lot further if we used all four. De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think. If we strengthen our ability and raise our thinking level, other areas of our life--both personal and business success--will improve. De Bono is the master of the original big "concept" book and his enticement to us to use our minds as constructively as possible should appeal to a whole new generation of fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1376'),
(9786, 'Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism', 'Temple Grandin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI hardly know what to say about this remarkable book. . . It provides a way to understand the many kinds of sentience, human and animal, that adorn the earth.â€ â€“Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of\n <em>\n  The Hidden Life of Dogs\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There are innumerable astounding facets to this remarkable book. . . . Displaying uncanny powers of observation . . . [Temple Grandin] charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in words." â€“_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA uniquely fascinating view not just of autism but of animalâ€“and humanâ€“thinking and feeling, [providing] insights that can only be called wisdom.â€\n <br />\n â€“Deborah Tannen, author of\n <em>\n  You Just Donâ€™t Understand\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autismâ€”because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in\n <em>\n  Thinking in Pictures\n </em>\n is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7425'),
(9787, 'Thinner', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy   Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a   nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. Movie tie-in. Book   available.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4327'),
(9788, 'The Third Bear', 'Jeff Vandermeer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. VanderMeer''s seventh collection (after Secret Lives) is a fine introduction to one of our very best contemporary practitioners of the fantastic. In the dark "The Third Bear," an isolated medieval town is beset by a monster that uses the bodies of its victims to create a grisly work of art. "Finding Sonoria" concerns a down-on-his-luck PI hired to find a country that issued a postage stamp but apparently does not exist. The intensely surreal "The Situation" takes place in a company torn by bizarre office politics and dedicated to body modification and the construction of beetles and flying manta rays. "The Goat Variations" is a sophisticated alternate history in which a newly elected U.S. president is briefed on a startling scientific breakthrough with origins not of this world. Fans of slipstream and the interstitial will relish VanderMeer''s superb prose, overwhelmingly odd situations, and fascinating, eccentric characters.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A fine introduction to one of our very best contemporary practitioners of the fantastic."  â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "These 15 elegantly crafted stories ably demonstrate VanderMeer''s skill . . . calls to mind the works of Borges, Kafka, and Lem."  â€”_Library Journal_, Starred Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him."   â€”Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author,\n <em>\n  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the things that sets VanderMeer apart is his embrace of technology and media. His online presence is considerable and includes a number of web sites, frequent blogging, a short film adaptation of his novel Shriek (including collaboration with pop rock band The Church), his Alien Baby photo project and even a project involving animation via Sony Playstation.â€ â€”Wired.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jeff Vandermeer is not to be trusted. He hypnotizes with shiny objects, bizarrely beautiful shapes and phrases, then (more often than not) gently drifts you into very dark places. You won''t know where you''re going till you get there and then, of course, it''s too late."  â€”Mike Mignola, creator, Hellboy\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the hands of a brilliant writer like Jeff VanderMeer, writing fantasy can be a means of serious artistic expression. . . . It is also playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly imaginative."  â€”Peter Straub, author,\n <em>\n  The Talisman\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating . . . the harmonics between the stories cross all sorts of boundaries."\n <em>\n  â€”Locus Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jeff VanderMeer is an extraordinary writer . . . passionate, beautiful, complex, terrifying."  â€”Tamar Yellin, author,_ The Genizah at the House of Shepher_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6652'),
(9789, 'Third Girl', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A desperate woman seeks the aid of Hercule Poirot in a matter of life and death. A near-lethal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who aren''t what they seem all figure in an extraordinary case that takes the celebrated Belgian detective from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5208'),
(9790, 'The Third Option', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders sometimes takeTHE THIRD OPTIONMitch Rapp, the CIA''s most lethal and efficient counterterrorism operative, is putting into play a meticulous plan to take out a notorious sponsor of terrorism -- When he falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own.Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield -- a choice that enrages many inside the world''s most powerful intelligence agency. And her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reins.But what the Washington conspirators and backstabbing insiders do not know is that Mitch Rapp won''t tolerate being their pawn. And he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up.New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn brings this first-rate political thriller to life with authentic detail and action that sizzles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4186'),
(9791, 'The Third Reich at War', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war''s progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of the conflict are here, but just as telling is Evans''s re- creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermiÂ­nation of the Jews. The final book in Richard J. Evans''s three-volume history of Hitler''s Germany, hailed "a masterpiece" by\n  <em>\n   The New York Times, The Third Reich at War\n  </em>\n  lays bare the most momentous and tragic years of the Nazi regime.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Washington Post - Benjamin Carter Hett:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evans is clearly up on all the latest research on Nazi Germany, no mean achievement in a field in which tens of thousands of books have been published. But his goal is to appeal to the general reader rather than the professional historian, and he succeeds brilliantly, producing a book that is beautifully written and, despite its length and grim subject matter, easily digestible, even gripping...This is history in the grand style, the kind of large-scale narrative that few historians dare to write these days. It is difficult to imagine how it could be improved upon, let alone surpassed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richard J. Evans\n  </strong>\n  is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. His previous books include\n  <em>\n   In Defense of History, Lying About Hitler\n  </em>\n  , and the companions to this title,\n  <em>\n   The Coming of the Third Reich\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Third Reich in Power\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9645'),
(9792, 'The Third Reich in Power', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second work in a planned three-volume series (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Coming of the Third Reich\n  </em>\n  ) this book starts with the Nazis'' complete assumption of power and creation of a one-party state in 1933, and goes to September 1939 and the beginning of World War II. In sharp detail, Evans shows how Hitler seized upon his political victory and immediately began his plan for the Nazi infiltration of every aspect of German society. The Nazi propaganda blitz covered everything from local councils to social clubs to all voluntary associations. And when propaganda didn''t work, coercion and fear did. At the behest of Hitler, the brownshirts and SS (secret police) ruthlessly harassed, beat, and murdered the Jews and Communists first, but later targeted anyone who showed even the slightest criticism of Nazi activities. Those Germans who disapproved of the Nazis were mainly confined to acts of passive resistance to Hitler''s totalitarian rule. Nationalism proved to be the one issue capable of galvanizing the nation, as the Nazis'' growing power helped to erase the shame and humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles that closed World War I.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the course of the book, Evans shows how everything Hitler did in this period was designed to prepare the nation for a war--"a life and death struggle"--whose aim was less geographical conquest than racial purity. Hitler''s main objective was "to remould the minds, spirits and bodies of the German people to make them capable and worthy of the role of the new master-race that awaited them." Though Hitler did not work alone, Evans makes it clear that he was the overwhelming driving force behind it all, including policies regarding education, eugenics, and foreign affairs. Well written and logically organized,\n  <em>\n   The Third Reich in Power\n  </em>\n  is an impressive work of meticulous, readable history. --_Shawn Carkonen_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  The second volume of Cambridge historian Evans''s trilogy on the Third Reich (after\n  <em>\n   The Coming of the Third Reich\n  </em>\n  ) is a major achievement. No other recent synthetic history has quite the range and narrative power of Evans''s work. There are no surprises here. Instead, the reader will find careful, detailed analyses of all the major issues relating to the Third Reich between Hitler''s assumption of power on January 31, 1933, and the start of WWII on September 1, 1939: the construction of the dictatorship, the propaganda, the economy, the racial policy and the planning for war. Evans shows just how difficult it was for Hitler to secure his power in Germany (it required unabashed terror to defeat the Nazis'' many opponents), but also how successful was the establishment of the\n  <em>\n   Volksgemeinschaft,\n  </em>\n  the racial community. Once Hitler had successfully consolidated his power, every other aspect of Nazi policy, from education to the economy, became subordinated to the preparation for war. The war, Evans emphasizes, was never simply an effort to redraw the map of Europe. The vast, overarching aim of establishing a racial utopia, a newly modern, German-dominated Europe cleansed of Jews and other undesirables, could only be accomplished through war. When complete, Evans''s trilogy will take its place alongside Ian Kershaw''s monumental two-volume biography of Hitler as the standard works in English. Illus. and maps not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (On sale Oct. 24)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9646');
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(9793, 'The Third Secret: A Novel', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Steve Berry, it''s a fortuitous coincidence that his third novel, a Vatican-centered conspiracy thriller titled\n <em>\n  The Third Secret\n </em>\n , was published in the immediate aftermath of Pope Benedict XVI''s anointment in Rome. While this exuberantly contrived yarn would likely have drawn an audience at any time, it benefits from coming before readers just after they''ve been primed with news reports about papal succession, the relative influence and legacy of pontiffs, and the increasing tug-of-war between Roman Catholic progressives and conservative traditionalists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the near future,\n <em>\n  Secret\n </em>\n introduces Jakob Volkner--Pope Clement XV--a German "caretaker pope" who, nearing the age of 80, was elected as John Paul II''s successor. But three years into his papacy, the thoughtful Clement has begun to quietly express skepticism about papal infallibility and the Church''s restrictive dogma, and to make odd requests of his longtime secretary, Monsignor Colin Michener, an Irish-born but American-reared priest whose vows of celibacy have been tested--and found wanting. Clement has also made repeated visits to a guarded sanctum within the Vatican archives, where sacred and historic documents are stored. And he''s dispatched Michener to Romania to locate an elderly cleric who, in the 1950s, translated three cryptic prophecies, purportedly offered by the Virgin Mary in 1917 to a trio of children in Fatima, Portugal. Those secrets have since been fully disclosed to the world. Or have they? Thatâ€™s the question facing Michener in the wake of Clement''s shocking suicide, as he pursues a twisted trail of clues, crimes, and religious forecasts from Rome to Bosnia to Germany, accompanied by his former lover, journalist Katerina Lew. But making any additional secrets known to the world will put Michener in confrontation with doctrinal reactionaries, led by Cardinal Alberto Valendrea, the Vatican''s Italian secretary of state, who''s determined to follow Clement as the Vicar of Christ--even if that requires inventing a few new sins and flouting a 900-year-old prediction of doom for the next pope.\n</p>\n<p>\n Attorney-author Berry, praised previously for\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , enriches\n <em>\n  The Third Secret\n </em>\n with glimpses behind the locked doors of a papal selection process and knowledge of centuries-old Catholic prognostications that, while employed judiciously in these pages, nonetheless suggest a prodigious amount of research. He''s less successful with his casting. Valendrea is a wincingly unnuanced scoundrel, and Ms. Lew achieves scarce definition beyond being a raven-tressed temptress to powerful prelates. Thankfully, Berry does better by Michener, who finds himself at a crossroads, carrying on in Clement''s name even as he searches for confirmation that his own life of devotion and service has been meaningful. Although the secrets "revealed" in this tale seem more controversial than plausible, and a potentially intriguing subplot about the excommunication of a maverick priest ends up as a throwaway device,\n <em>\n  The Third Secret\n </em>\n builds to a conclusion that is as suspenseful and stunning as it is inevitable. Have faith.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Visions of the Virgin Mary, secret documents and politicking in the highest echelons of the Catholic Churchâ€”Berry (_The Amber Room_) combines combustive elements in this well-researched thriller. In 1917, the Virgin Mary revealed herself to three children in Fatima, Portugal, disclosing three secrets to the eldest, Lucia, who shared the first two secrets soon after their revelation but left the last to be disclosed upon her death. This third secret was released to Pope John XXIII in 1960 and made public by Pope John Paul II in 2000... or was it? The novel''s stolid protagonistâ€”Msgr. Colin Michener, longtime secretary to Clement XV, the novel''s near-future successor to John Paul IIâ€”has reason to doubt the accuracy of the public version of the secret. Beleaguered by radically dogmatic cardinals and bishops, the embattled Clement XV also appears distressed by recent knowledge of secret documents regarding the Fatima messages. Before his inexplicable suicide, Clement sends Michener to Romania in search of a Father Tibor, who translated the third secret for Pope John XXIII and may hold the key to its mystery. Also on the case, if a step behind, is the ambitious and traditionalist Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Valendrea, with an eye on the papal throne.\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n fans hungry for more may want a taste of this.\n <em>\n  Agent, Pam Ahearn. 10-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6462'),
(9794, 'The Third Twin', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart.As Ferrami delves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns with some of the most powerful forces in America, including the university where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon. What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss and mentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, the twin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he''s surrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain: There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chilling conspiracy in the shadows. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2929'),
(9795, 'Third World America', 'Arianna Huffington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin: Author One-to-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin discuss issues raised in Arianna''s new book\n  <em>\n   Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream\n  </em>\n  . Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of 13 books. Mary Matalin is the author of\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary\n  </strong>\n  : In August, thirty thousand Americans stormed government offices for a chance to apply for a few hundred Section 8 housing slots. That same month, a relentlessly "get''er done" kind of guy, Mort Zuckerman, penned an\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  op ed entitled, "The End of American Optimism." All confidence indicators are scraping rock bottom, including the all-powerful political "right track/wrong track." No one in the "ruling class" dares utter the word malaise, but they all wear it like a wet, wool mantle. And now you, my eternally optimistic friend! You and I came to Our Nation''s Capital at the same time--I like to joke when you were a conservative, I was a moderate! Whatever our politics, we have always both been optimists. So when you gave me a copy of your manuscript, I was surprised by the title,\n  <em>\n   Third World America\n  </em>\n  . Thank goodness I was reading your manuscript side-by-side with one of my current favorite new books by Matt Ridley, __, whose ten-thousand-year view gives one space for easier breathing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : I know "Third World America" is a jarring phrase, but I wrote this book as a warning, a way of saying that if we donâ€™t change course--and quickly--that could very well be our future. Growing up in Greece, everyone knew someone who''d left to find a better life in America. That was the phrase everyone associated with America: "a better life." When I came to live here in 1980, I knew that there was no other place I''d rather live. And I still feel that way. But something went wrong--terribly wrong--and put our country on a very dangerous path that threatens to transform us into Third World America. Wherever I looked, and in so many of the stories we covered on The Huffington Post, I kept seeing all the ways the middle class was getting the short end of the stick. It was the way that Washington rushed to the rescue of Wall Street but forgot about Main Street. It was the daily drumbeat of depressing statistics: One in five Americans unemployed or underemployed. One in eight mortgages in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans on food stamps. Upward mobility has always been at the center of the American dream--a promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you''ll do well and your children will have the chance to do even better. But now, that promise has been broken--and America''s middle class is under assault. The American Dream is becoming a nightmare--one of our own making. But the book, at its core, is, in fact, optimistic. It''s partly a critique of the many ways things are broken--but it''s also a practical guide for how to fix them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary\n  </strong>\n  : Not only did we come to Washington together, we came up with the same worldview. My people escaped from (then) Yugoslavia "for a better life." Croatians (Dalmatians) and the Greeks go back to antiquity, characterized by a smart, hard work ethic and sound, ahead-of-the-curve reasoning. It is not accidental we gravitated to this country, where our hopes and dreams could be realized by not just our effort, but through the opportunities available only in the unique American system, which I will get to in a minute. For the millions of Americans like us, your sad chronicling of the dream gone bad is almost unfathomable but for all Americans even more outrageous is the failure of "the system" to anticipate it--and worse--to have tools to alleviate it. In their seminal, bestselling opus,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : Thatâ€™s definitely a beyond left and right conclusion! What became clear while writing this book is that the decline of the middle class was no accident. It was the result of tricks and traps. Tricks in the ways we financed our homes. Traps in the ways credit card companies used hidden fees and fine print and skyrocketing interest rates to get their hands on our money, driving more and more people into debt. So, yes, the game is rigged. Our financial system has become a bad carnival game where the rich always get the grand prize and the average American walks away empty-handed. We''ve gone from an economy where we make things to an economy where we make things up: default credit swaps, derivatives, CDOs and the like have turned Wall Street into a casino. Actually, a casino is fairer: at least you know the odds going in. And for me, the answer to the question of how we got here has to start in Washington, where special interests run the show--and where lobbyists outnumber elected officials 26 to 1. Unfortunately, there are no lobbyists for the American Dream. Now, I know you played a lobbyist on HBO ... so I''m curious what your take on the role special interests now play in Washington. For me, this is one of those questions that is beyond the right vs. left framing the media loves to apply to every issue in Washington. I think both sides are under the influence of a small financial elite.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Hahaha! On the HBO series,\n  <em>\n   K Street\n  </em>\n  , I was terrible playing a lobbyist (overcoming my natural ideologue persona was impossible), but making a fool of oneself is a small price to be in the wake of Steven Soderbergh''s genius (not to mention breathing the same air as George Clooney--who is beautiful on the inside, too). I used to think lobbyists provided an economy-of-scale representation for busy Americans, but when I learned how many hard working, highly productive and profitable industries connected to the oil business did NOT have lobbyists to protect them from the "arbitrary and capricious" moratorium in the aftermath of the BP spill, it was a sad, revelatory moment. These are men and women whose families had lived and prospered on the water for centuries; who turned fishing and shrimping vessels into bigger businesses, providing indispensable services and thousands of jobs in the process, all while preserving a one-of-a-kind American culture. I am still not anti-lobbyist (there are many good and necessary ones), but you and I surely agree on a couple of points: 1) there has to be a more accessible/successful way to petition the national government in a national crisis; 2) taking meetings with lobbyists at the coffee shop so they don''t appear on the White House visitors'' log is hardly transformational transparency; 3) as you note in\n  <em>\n   Third World America\n  </em>\n  , there is no transparency in the legislative process when the work is done, the cake is baked long before the floor debate begins. No transparency, no accountability. No accountability ends in tyranny.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : Exactly, the media like to pretend that something''s at stake when a big bill is being debated in the House or Senate, but by then the game is often over. The real fight happens behind closed doors. And the lobbyists usually win. Let''s talk financial regulation: while we may not agree on how the new rules will effect the economy moving forward, or on what the role of government should be when it comes to regulating the financial system, I think we might find some beyond left and right common ground on the role morality has to play in all this. For me, there will never be enough regulators or government regulations to make a difference if Wall Street doesn''t tap back into the notion that businessmen have responsibilities above and beyond the bottom line. There is a reason Adam Smith''s free-market gospel,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary\n  </strong>\n  : We agree on the shortcomings of the ridiculously heralded Financial Regulations bill ... most glaring for me: the omission of the toxic twins, Fannie and Freddie, the fertile crescent of the housing mess. I think we could also agree that financial instruments are a different free-market animal from goods and services, and therefore, institutionally subject to differing assumptions (excellently analyzed by Anatole Kaletsky in\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : Here''s another thing I think we''ll agree upon: the suffering we are seeing all across America is definitely bipartisan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary\n  </strong>\n  : In his many eloquent works, Michael Novak notes, whatever its sharp and messy edges, no system has better served humanity than capitalism. It raises up the poor, it protects human rights, it is a necessary condition for democracy. It doesn''t know right/left, red/blue. But it does rest absolutely on virtue. As we all know, our founders'' overwhelming concern about staging a representative republic was "are we virtuous enough?" One of the silver linings of this tumultuous time is the astounding back-to-basics effort of millions of Americans: studying their own history; being shocked and awed by their own heritage; reassessing their own virtue of citizenship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : When I was talking to and writing about the people whose stories I tell in the book, politics rarely came up. And while I think it''s essential that we hold our leaders feet to the fire--and point fingers at those who are responsible for creating the policies that are killing the American Dream--I think that the way we are going to keep America from becoming a Third World country is by each of us getting more involved and reaching out to one another. We need to remember that democracy is not a spectator sport--and take action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary\n  </strong>\n  : And this is where we always come together, girlfriend. "Decline" is a choice. An examination of conscience (in the religious or just citizenship way), a commitment to assuming proportionate responsibility to the rights we exalt, a demand for universal virtue must occur concomitant to action.\n  <em>\n   Third World America\n  </em>\n  offers some timely, interesting, and innovative prescriptives for action, even if a few come from left field! Your call to action is certain to get right, left, and center--who aren''t already--in gear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arianna\n  </strong>\n  : In fact, writing this book ultimately did leave me feeling hopeful. And that''s because I was again and again struck by the resilience, creativity, and acts of compassion that I discovered taking place all across America. That''s why the last section of the book is filled with the specific steps we--as individuals, as families, and as a country--need to take to stop our free-fall. So often, our desire to take action gets derailed by our uncertainty over exactly what action to take, and how to best make a difference. I wanted to try to help bridge the gap between intention and involvement--and inspire each of us to do the things we need to do to make sure we never find ourselves living in Third World America.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Could the U.S. be on the brink of becoming a Third World nation? Syndicated columnist Huffington argues that overspending on war at the expense of domestic issues and the alarming decline of the middle class are troubling signals that the U.S. is losing its economic, political, and social stabilityâ€”a stability that has always been maintained by the middle class. She pinpoints the beginning of the decline to the Reagan era, with its denigration of a government safety net. But she is nonpartisan in assigning responsibility to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for supporting monied interests over those of the middle class; she then takes aim at Obama for expending more money to bail out Wall Street than Main Street. She also points to loss of manufacturing jobs, outsourcing, and globalization, all with emphasis on corporate profits at the expense of workers. Although the U.S. has faced similarly fearful times during the late 1800s and the Great Depression, the middle class was not threatened, as it is today. She offers possible solutions for the decline, including creating jobs to rebuild national infrastructure, reforms in home and credit lending, and tighter restrictions on Wall Street. An engaging analysis of troubling economic and political trends. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The Huffington Post founder is sure to get some media traction with her assertion that the American Dream is an outdated concept. --Vanessa Bush\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7610'),
(9796, 'Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream', 'Arianna Huffington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin: Author One-to-One\n </strong>\n <br />\n In this Amazon exclusive, Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin discuss issues raised in Arianna''s new book\n <em>\n  Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream\n </em>\n . Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of 13 books. Mary Matalin is the author of\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary\n </strong>\n : In August, thirty thousand Americans stormed government offices for a chance to apply for a few hundred Section 8 housing slots. That same month, a relentlessly "get''er done" kind of guy, Mort Zuckerman, penned an\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n op ed entitled, "The End of American Optimism." All confidence indicators are scraping rock bottom, including the all-powerful political "right track/wrong track." No one in the "ruling class" dares utter the word malaise, but they all wear it like a wet, wool mantle. And now you, my eternally optimistic friend! You and I came to Our Nation''s Capital at the same time--I like to joke when you were a conservative, I was a moderate! Whatever our politics, we have always both been optimists. So when you gave me a copy of your manuscript, I was surprised by the title,\n <em>\n  Third World America\n </em>\n . Thank goodness I was reading your manuscript side-by-side with one of my current favorite new books by Matt Ridley, __, whose ten-thousand-year view gives one space for easier breathing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : I know "Third World America" is a jarring phrase, but I wrote this book as a warning, a way of saying that if we donâ€™t change course--and quickly--that could very well be our future. Growing up in Greece, everyone knew someone who''d left to find a better life in America. That was the phrase everyone associated with America: "a better life." When I came to live here in 1980, I knew that there was no other place I''d rather live. And I still feel that way. But something went wrong--terribly wrong--and put our country on a very dangerous path that threatens to transform us into Third World America. Wherever I looked, and in so many of the stories we covered on The Huffington Post, I kept seeing all the ways the middle class was getting the short end of the stick. It was the way that Washington rushed to the rescue of Wall Street but forgot about Main Street. It was the daily drumbeat of depressing statistics: One in five Americans unemployed or underemployed. One in eight mortgages in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans on food stamps. Upward mobility has always been at the center of the American dream--a promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you''ll do well and your children will have the chance to do even better. But now, that promise has been broken--and America''s middle class is under assault. The American Dream is becoming a nightmare--one of our own making. But the book, at its core, is, in fact, optimistic. It''s partly a critique of the many ways things are broken--but it''s also a practical guide for how to fix them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary\n </strong>\n : Not only did we come to Washington together, we came up with the same worldview. My people escaped from (then) Yugoslavia "for a better life." Croatians (Dalmatians) and the Greeks go back to antiquity, characterized by a smart, hard work ethic and sound, ahead-of-the-curve reasoning. It is not accidental we gravitated to this country, where our hopes and dreams could be realized by not just our effort, but through the opportunities available only in the unique American system, which I will get to in a minute. For the millions of Americans like us, your sad chronicling of the dream gone bad is almost unfathomable but for all Americans even more outrageous is the failure of "the system" to anticipate it--and worse--to have tools to alleviate it. In their seminal, bestselling opus,\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : Thatâ€™s definitely a beyond left and right conclusion! What became clear while writing this book is that the decline of the middle class was no accident. It was the result of tricks and traps. Tricks in the ways we financed our homes. Traps in the ways credit card companies used hidden fees and fine print and skyrocketing interest rates to get their hands on our money, driving more and more people into debt. So, yes, the game is rigged. Our financial system has become a bad carnival game where the rich always get the grand prize and the average American walks away empty-handed. We''ve gone from an economy where we make things to an economy where we make things up: default credit swaps, derivatives, CDOs and the like have turned Wall Street into a casino. Actually, a casino is fairer: at least you know the odds going in. And for me, the answer to the question of how we got here has to start in Washington, where special interests run the show--and where lobbyists outnumber elected officials 26 to 1. Unfortunately, there are no lobbyists for the American Dream. Now, I know you played a lobbyist on HBO ... so I''m curious what your take on the role special interests now play in Washington. For me, this is one of those questions that is beyond the right vs. left framing the media loves to apply to every issue in Washington. I think both sides are under the influence of a small financial elite.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Evanovich\n </strong>\n : Hahaha! On the HBO series,\n <em>\n  K Street\n </em>\n , I was terrible playing a lobbyist (overcoming my natural ideologue persona was impossible), but making a fool of oneself is a small price to be in the wake of Steven Soderbergh''s genius (not to mention breathing the same air as George Clooney--who is beautiful on the inside, too). I used to think lobbyists provided an economy-of-scale representation for busy Americans, but when I learned how many hard working, highly productive and profitable industries connected to the oil business did NOT have lobbyists to protect them from the "arbitrary and capricious" moratorium in the aftermath of the BP spill, it was a sad, revelatory moment. These are men and women whose families had lived and prospered on the water for centuries; who turned fishing and shrimping vessels into bigger businesses, providing indispensable services and thousands of jobs in the process, all while preserving a one-of-a-kind American culture. I am still not anti-lobbyist (there are many good and necessary ones), but you and I surely agree on a couple of points: 1) there has to be a more accessible/successful way to petition the national government in a national crisis; 2) taking meetings with lobbyists at the coffee shop so they don''t appear on the White House visitors'' log is hardly transformational transparency; 3) as you note in\n <em>\n  Third World America\n </em>\n , there is no transparency in the legislative process when the work is done, the cake is baked long before the floor debate begins. No transparency, no accountability. No accountability ends in tyranny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : Exactly, the media like to pretend that something''s at stake when a big bill is being debated in the House or Senate, but by then the game is often over. The real fight happens behind closed doors. And the lobbyists usually win. Let''s talk financial regulation: while we may not agree on how the new rules will effect the economy moving forward, or on what the role of government should be when it comes to regulating the financial system, I think we might find some beyond left and right common ground on the role morality has to play in all this. For me, there will never be enough regulators or government regulations to make a difference if Wall Street doesn''t tap back into the notion that businessmen have responsibilities above and beyond the bottom line. There is a reason Adam Smith''s free-market gospel,\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary\n </strong>\n : We agree on the shortcomings of the ridiculously heralded Financial Regulations bill ... most glaring for me: the omission of the toxic twins, Fannie and Freddie, the fertile crescent of the housing mess. I think we could also agree that financial instruments are a different free-market animal from goods and services, and therefore, institutionally subject to differing assumptions (excellently analyzed by Anatole Kaletsky in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : Here''s another thing I think we''ll agree upon: the suffering we are seeing all across America is definitely bipartisan.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary\n </strong>\n : In his many eloquent works, Michael Novak notes, whatever its sharp and messy edges, no system has better served humanity than capitalism. It raises up the poor, it protects human rights, it is a necessary condition for democracy. It doesn''t know right/left, red/blue. But it does rest absolutely on virtue. As we all know, our founders'' overwhelming concern about staging a representative republic was "are we virtuous enough?" One of the silver linings of this tumultuous time is the astounding back-to-basics effort of millions of Americans: studying their own history; being shocked and awed by their own heritage; reassessing their own virtue of citizenship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : When I was talking to and writing about the people whose stories I tell in the book, politics rarely came up. And while I think it''s essential that we hold our leaders feet to the fire--and point fingers at those who are responsible for creating the policies that are killing the American Dream--I think that the way we are going to keep America from becoming a Third World country is by each of us getting more involved and reaching out to one another. We need to remember that democracy is not a spectator sport--and take action.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary\n </strong>\n : And this is where we always come together, girlfriend. "Decline" is a choice. An examination of conscience (in the religious or just citizenship way), a commitment to assuming proportionate responsibility to the rights we exalt, a demand for universal virtue must occur concomitant to action.\n <em>\n  Third World America\n </em>\n offers some timely, interesting, and innovative prescriptives for action, even if a few come from left field! Your call to action is certain to get right, left, and center--who aren''t already--in gear.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arianna\n </strong>\n : In fact, writing this book ultimately did leave me feeling hopeful. And that''s because I was again and again struck by the resilience, creativity, and acts of compassion that I discovered taking place all across America. That''s why the last section of the book is filled with the specific steps we--as individuals, as families, and as a country--need to take to stop our free-fall. So often, our desire to take action gets derailed by our uncertainty over exactly what action to take, and how to best make a difference. I wanted to try to help bridge the gap between intention and involvement--and inspire each of us to do the things we need to do to make sure we never find ourselves living in Third World America.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Could the U.S. be on the brink of becoming a Third World nation? Syndicated columnist Huffington argues that overspending on war at the expense of domestic issues and the alarming decline of the middle class are troubling signals that the U.S. is losing its economic, political, and social stabilityâ€”a stability that has always been maintained by the middle class. She pinpoints the beginning of the decline to the Reagan era, with its denigration of a government safety net. But she is nonpartisan in assigning responsibility to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for supporting monied interests over those of the middle class; she then takes aim at Obama for expending more money to bail out Wall Street than Main Street. She also points to loss of manufacturing jobs, outsourcing, and globalization, all with emphasis on corporate profits at the expense of workers. Although the U.S. has faced similarly fearful times during the late 1800s and the Great Depression, the middle class was not threatened, as it is today. She offers possible solutions for the decline, including creating jobs to rebuild national infrastructure, reforms in home and credit lending, and tighter restrictions on Wall Street. An engaging analysis of troubling economic and political trends. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The Huffington Post founder is sure to get some media traction with her assertion that the American Dream is an outdated concept. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10616'),
(9797, 'Thirsty', 'M. T. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Chris finds his teenage lusts becoming the thirst of the undead. Horror fans will find this vampire novel a bloody cut above the usual fare," said PW. Ages 14-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up. Chris has problems?bickering, divorce-bound parents; a domineering older brother; his best friends becoming estranged. Overshadowing everything is the fact that Chris, while churning in adolescent hormonal changes, is becoming a vampire. The good people of his Massachusetts town are almost inured to the murders committed by vampires. Yet violent mobs shortcut justice with stake-through-the-heart lynchings. As Chris''s blood lust grows, he''s increasingly challenged to hide his transformation. "Chet," claiming to be an avatar of the Forces of Light, offers to reverse Chris''s vampirism in exchange for his help in keeping the Vampire Lord imprisoned beneath the local reservoir. The teen agrees and does the deed, then spirals into self-doubt. Has he done the right thing? Who can he trust? If he reveals himself, will his family and friends betray him, kill him? Dark humor runs rampant. The invitation to a vampire gathering is a hoot ("drinks at 12:00"), and the imprisoned "dark god" rages amid the static of late night TV. Sexy Lolli, a vampire vixen, urges Chris to "come out of the coffin." Chris pays the price of making commitments without understanding the consequences. He struggles to the end to stay human and do the right thing, remaining a veritable vampire virgin, inevitably doomed to choose death either by starvation or biological destiny. Entertaining, disturbing, memorable, and sophisticated, this mortality tale will continue to haunt after the last pages are turned.?Joel Shoemaker, Southeast Jr. High School, Iowa City, IA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4623'),
(9798, 'The Thirteen Problems', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Whats better than agatha christie? thirteen Agatha Christies. A bakers dozen of fiendishly told tales in which indomitable sleuth Miss Jane Marple plays host to some of the most clever crimes and criminals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5245'),
(9799, 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin--his friend, ship''s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent--on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan''s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4295'),
(9800, 'The thirteenth tale: a novel', 'Diane Setterfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. *All children mythologize their birth***...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter''s collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter''s story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida''s storytelling but remains suspicious of the author''s sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. *The Thirteenth Tale* is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/953'),
(9801, 'This Child Will Be Great', 'Ellen Johnson Sirleaf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Forbes\n </em>\n lists Sirleaf, the 23rd president of Liberia and the first elected female president on the African continent, among the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008. In and out of government, in and out of exile, but consistent in her commitment to Liberia, Sirleaf in her memoir reveals herself to be among the most resilient, determined and courageous as well. She writes with modesty in a calm and measured tone. While her account includes a happy childhood and an unhappy marriage, the book is politically, not personally, focused as she (and Liberia) go through the disastrous presidencies of Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor. Sirleaf''s training as an economist and her employment (e.g., in banking, as minister of finance in Liberia, and in U.N. development programs) informs the perspective from which she views internal Liberian history (e.g., the tensions between the settler class and the indigenous people) and Liberia''s international relations. Although her focus is thoroughly on Liberia, the content is more widely instructive, particularly her account of the role of the Economic Community of West African States.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Africaâ€™s first elected female president, Sirleaf chronicles her rise from an abused young wife and mother to a woman with a career in government finance and international banking to the president of Liberia since 2006. Sirleaf confronted corruption and incompetence through several Liberian governments and suffered imprisonment and exile for her controversial positions before ultimately returning and challenging the long and troubled history of her nation. Liberia was created by the U.S. to repatriate former slaves, creating a tension between Americo-Liberians and indigenous peoples that continues. She recounts her struggles at home and abroad; she watched dictator Samuel Doe and later Charles Taylor destroy Liberia while she continued to criticize U.S. involvement with corrupt regimes. Having no colonial power to overcome, Sirleaf contends that Liberia has often struggled to develop and maintain a sense of true national integration, something she has sought to achieve as she has worked to bring economic and social stability to her civil-war-torn nation. An inspiring inside look at a nation struggling to rebuild itself and the woman now behind those efforts. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5893'),
(9802, 'This Day All Gods Die', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tough-as-nails Morn Hyland, pirate-turned-cyborg Angus Thermopyle, and the whole crew from the United Mining Company Police are back in the final book of the Gap series,\n <em>\n  This Day All Gods Die\n </em>\n . The Gap plot has raced through the galaxy at breakneck speeds, and the conclusion is no exception.\n</p>\n<p>\n Morn, her alien-grown son Davies, geneticist/engineer Vector Sheed, competent Mikka, and her cabin-boy brother Ciro wait aboard\n <em>\n  Trumpet\n </em>\n . Angus lies unconscious, possibly in permanent stasis. Ciro plots to destroy the ship, driven insane by the knowledge that alien mutagens have been shot into him by Nick Succorso''s sworn enemy, Sorus Chatelaine. Following nearby, Min Donner, faithful head of the UMCP Executive Division, watches the action and grits her teeth aboard Captain Dolph''s battle-fatigued\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n . Will Morn trust her? Will her voice commands over Angus''s programming prevail? Who has survived the strange journey and battles since leaving the Lab? Back at United Mining headquarters, the Dragon and UMCP Chief Warden Dios''s strange, twisted duel of manipulation, assassination, and corruption comes to a head when an Amnion warship sets course for Earth... and that''s just the first few pages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Get set for more of the action, betrayal, characterizataion, intrigue, corruption, and adventure you''ve enjoyed in the previous Gap books. If it has been a few years since you read the last installment, you may have trouble remembering some names and particularly insidious points of plot and government intrigue; you may even be tempted to reread the preceding books. Also troubling is Angus''s continual rumination of a couple phrases, including "We''ve committed a crime against your soul" and "It''s got to stop." However, you may be reading so fast you won''t notice.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on a rich vein of science fiction, Donaldson brings to a resounding, though not triumphant, conclusion his Gap series, begun with The Gap into Conflict (1992) and continued through The Gap into Madness (1994). The struggle between Warden Dios, director of the United Mining Companies Police, and Horst Fasner, CEO of United Mining Companies itself, reaches a climax here. So does the tension between the human race and the alien Amnion, exacerbated by human development of a drug that prevents people from being mutated into the aliens. Meanwhile, much-victimized Morn Hyland and her motley crew are heading for Earth and arrive at the same time as an Amnion warship. The first third of the novel wins no marks for pacing, but later portions pick up speed, with the final battles near Earth satisfying all requirements for logic, excitement and catharsis. Donaldson''s usual weaknesses are in evidence: substitution of scenery-chewing and angst for characterization, and an abundance of prolix passages. Too, this volume may confound those new to the series. But it''s a crowd-pleasing story told on a grand scale, SF adventure with a genuinely galactic feel.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8006'),
(9803, 'This Heart of Mine', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4631'),
(9804, 'This Is a Book', 'Demetri Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this collection of essays, musings, and drawings, Comedy Central host Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin) gently skewers contemporary social trends, conventions, and insecurities, taking on topics from social hotlines to family and relationships. With a gift for describing awkward situations, Martin challenges readers to recognize the human need for connection and recognition. The theme is seen in a panel in which a limousine displaying two flags on its hood is labeled "important"; another displaying seven flags is "very important." He also answers the big questions with essays like "Who I Am" in which he declares: "I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus." Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance that moves easily among surprising topics, like philosophy, to easy targets, like healthy lifestyles. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book embodies the essence of Demetri''s comedy to perfection, which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly smart, it''s exactly what puts me in awe of his work."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <strong>\n   Will Ferrell\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When I first saw\n  <em>\n   Important Things With Demetri Martin\n  </em>\n  , I said to myself, "this is the funniest thing ever." I was wrong.\n  <em>\n   This Is A Book\n  </em>\n  is better." -\n  <strong>\n   Malcolm Gladwell\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Outliers: The Story of Success\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is so funny I forgot to laugh. I know that sounds like a childish criticism, but I mean it literally: This book is so funny, I forgot a whole bunch of things--who I am, what I stand for, large chunks of my childhood, my sense of equilibrium, how to fall asleep, and when I''m supposed to laugh at things."\n  <strong>\n   -Chuck Klosterman\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Demetri Martin has a very funny and original mind. If I could draw a graph explaining how funny and original he is, I would. But I don''t do that. Demetri does that."-\n  <strong>\n   Conan O''Brien\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7017');
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(9805, 'This Is Where We Live', 'Janelle Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Married 30-something artists Claudia and Jeremy Munger are the unlucky anchors of Brown''s shaky sophomore novel, an of-the-moment time capsule in the mold of her well-received\n <em>\n  All We Ever Wanted Was Everything\n </em>\n . Claudia is a filmmaker whose first feature is about to be released; Jeremy is a musician on the brink of mainstream success; together they are living in boho splendor in a newly purchased L.A. bungalow. But when Claudia''s film bombs, Jeremy''s band breaks up, their adjustable rate mortgage balloons, and Jeremy''s famous painter ex-girlfriend, Aoki, comes back on the scene, the Mungers'' sense of themselves is harshly tested. The gauntlets the Mungers face verge on Kafkaesque, yet the novel proceeds with painful earnestness. Particularly detracting are the one-note supporting characters: Jeremy and Claudia''s parents, an annoying roommate, the corpulent potential producer of Claudia''s next film. Aoki, meanwhile, plays a pivotal role but is burdened with a heavy load of temperamental artist clichÃ©s. There are lovely small momentsâ€”Claudia''s awkward run-in with a former student, for instanceâ€”that give hope that the undeniably talented author will find her footing again after this flawed effort.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brown''s skillful follow-up to her well-received debut (All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, 2008) is set in L.A. and opens with a minor earthquake, signaling the fissure that''s about to open up in the marriage between Claudia, an aspiring filmmaker, and Jeremy, an aspiring musician. Career setbacks and the reappearance of Jeremy''s former flame aren''t the only cracks in their foundation. The couple is also saddled with debt, and foreclosure looms. Their differing reactions to this crisis suggest how far both are willing to compromise their dreams to save their home. Alternating between Claudia''s and Jeremy''s perspectives, Brown proves adept at fully inhabiting both male and female characters in her sympathetic portrait of a troubled marriage. She also elevates her material with sharp cultural observations and pointed commentary on the current economy while gamely tackling what it means to be a grown-up and how our idea of who we think we should be gets in the way of who we really are. At once playful and heartbreaking, this novel never feels less than wholly true. --Patty Wetli\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7865'),
(9806, 'This Is Why You&#39;re Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks', 'Jessica Amason &amp; Richard Blakeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIrresistibleâ€ (Boing Boing )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis collection of â€œdeliciously gross foodâ€ from across the blogosphere is simultaneously disgusting, fascinating, and sometimes perversely drool-inducing.â€ (Chow Bella, Phoenix New Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNothing illustrates our nationâ€™s bipolar attitude toward eating more hilariously than this visual coronary. A stomach-turning delight.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWarning: Donâ€™t eat before, during or after youâ€™ve seen this blog.â€ (Time magazine )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you dare to eat any of these, make sure you have a cardiologist on speed dial.â€ (CNN.com )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI love me some This Is Why Youâ€™re Fat. Itâ€™s hardcore, wet and sloppy, extreme, take-no-prisoners, get down and dirty food porn. And I, for one, cannot get enough of it.â€ (The Frisky )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Food was once the providence of celebrated chefs and critical connoisseurs. Cooking shows featured all gourmet creations and web sites displayed artfully photographed delights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then something changed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perhaps it was the desensitizing of web culture or perhaps it was a cry for help from the food-loving public. But by God - there came a day when fancy vegetable towers came crashing down and $50 mushrooms were no longer acceptable. Amason and Blakley wanted see the old stand-bys, the carnival foods of their childhoods, the sticky mess of a deep-fried candy bar, the indulgence of a greasy burger with all the fixins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was the birth of the nasty food web-trend. And it was delicious.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The website This is Why Youâ€²re Fat is an ode to this trend - whether seen as a commentary on North American dietary habits or a celebration of the deliciously bad - Amason and Blakey are devoted to the worldâ€²s newfound obsession with over-the-top food. Within its first month the site pulled in over ten million eye balls, and attracted major nation media including CNN. The world cooked, they listened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.thisiswhyyourefat.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5944'),
(9807, 'This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone', 'Melissa Coleman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. Inspired by the back-to-the-land lifestyle of Scott and Helen Nearing, Coleman''s parents, Sue and Eliot, decided to create their own idyllic reality on 60 acres of land in Maine that was sold to them by the Nearing family for a token sum. While Coleman emphasizes the beauty of growing up in a family culture that valued the bounty of nature and freedom of expression, she does not hesitate to also expose farming''s detrimental effect on family lifeâ€”her own well-being as well as the accidental death of her younger sister. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCombine the sincerity of Walden with the poignancy of The Glass Castle, add dashes of the lush prose found in The Botany of Desire, and you get This Life Is in Your Handsâ€¦. I was engaged and deeply moved by this evocative tale of Paradise found then lost.â€ (Wally Lamb,\n <em>\n  The Hour I First Believed\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMelissa Colemanâ€™s enthralling account of â€˜70s back-to-the-land living is an important cultural\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n emotional document: this is a story about surviving and, eventually, thriving amidst the shadows of loss.â€ (Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA dream, a family, a heartbreaking tragedyâ€”and a book I could not put down. Melissa Colemanâ€™s memoir of a back-to-the-land childhood is fresh, organic, and gorgeously written.â€ (Peter Behrens, author of The Law of Dreams )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColemanâ€™s moving recounting never loses hope of redemption.â€ (_People_, Lead Review "People Pick" )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith beautiful lyrical prose, Coleman shows us what life in a 1970s back-to-nature farm was like, and the dear price her family paid pursuing their dream.â€ (Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread and The Knitting Circle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is In Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesnâ€™t just tell the story of her familyâ€™s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history.â€ (Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntense readability.... haunting power.... as well as lush, vivid atmosphere that is alluring in its own right.... [A] story so nuanced that it would be a disservice to reveal what was in store. If you want to know what happened, read it for yourself.â€ (Janet Maslin,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[This] is a rare breed of book-a memoir that justifies its own existence; that feels like it needs to existâ€¦. Coleman shows that without the essential ingredient of heart, any family-no matter how perfect and revolutionary it seems-is in danger of experiencing real loss.â€ (NPR.org )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6776'),
(9808, 'This Loving Land', 'Dorothy Garlock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the death of their mother Summer Kuykendall and her brother travel to Texas to live under the protection of Sam McLean, a family friend. They arrive to find that Sam has been killed, but his son Slater will honour his father''s promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5800'),
(9809, 'This Lullaby', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When it comes to relationships, Remy doesnâ€™t mess around. After all, sheâ€™s learned all there is to know from her mother, whoâ€™s currently working on husband number five. But thereâ€™s something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remyâ€™s rules. He certainly doesnâ€™t *seem* like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just canâ€™t seem to shake him. Could it be that Remyâ€™s starting to understand what those love songs are all about? From acclaimed author Sarah Dessen, this is a captivating novel about a tough-as-nails girl and the unexpectedly charming boy whoâ€™s determined to soften her up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3422'),
(9810, 'This Side of Evil', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10927'),
(9811, 'This side of paradise', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: AMORY ELAINE inherited from his Brother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a. habit of drowsing over the Encyclopeadia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through .the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatnce''Q''Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For ,many years he hovered in the background of his family''s life, an unasser ... tive figure with a face haJf-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in H taking care" of his wife, continually haxassed by the idea. that he didn''t and couldn''t understand her. But Deatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her fath **Table of Contents** CONTENTS; BOOK ONE: THE ROl-lANTIC EGOTIST; C!IAl''Tn I!ACR r AMORY, SON OF BEATRICE 3; 11 SPIRES AND GARGOYLES ? ? ? ? ? 41; lIT ''!HE EGOTIST CONSIDERS 99; IV NARCISSUS OFF Dtrr''Y 131; [INTEiLUDE: MAY, 1917-FEBRUARY, 1919]; BOOK TWO: THE EDUCATION OF A PERSONAGE; ClJ~R PAC!:; 1 THE D ''''"BUTANTE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 179; II EXPERIMENTS m CONVALESCENCE; -; 212; III YOUNG IRONY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ; IV ThE SUPERCILIOUS SACRIFICE; V TnE EGOTIST BECOMES A PERSONAGE **About the Publisher** Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books'' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the diffic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(9812, 'This united state', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(9813, 'Thomas Covenant 2 - The Ill-Earth War', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10719'),
(9814, 'Thomas Covenant 3 - The Power That Preserves', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10725'),
(9815, 'Thomas Covenant 4 - The Wounded Land', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10720'),
(9816, 'Thomas Covenant 5 - The One Tree', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10726'),
(9817, 'Thomas Covenant 6 - White Gold Wielder', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10722'),
(9818, 'Thomas Covenant 7 - The Runes of Earth', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10724'),
(9819, 'Thomas Covenant 8 - The Fatal Revenant', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10721'),
(9820, 'Thomas the Rhymer', 'Ellen Kushner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushnerâ€™s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic bard whose talents earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift.A minstrel lives by his words, his tunes, and sometimes by his lies. But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate. As the Queen sweeps him far from the people he has known and loved into her realm of magic, opulenceâ€”and captivityâ€”he learns at last what it is to be truly human. When he returns to his home with the Queenâ€™s parting gift, his great task will be to seek out the girl he loved and wronged, and offer her at last the tongue that cannot lie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(9821, 'Thorn&#39;s Challenge', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    A Little Dare\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   When Shelly Brockman walks into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland can almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they''d once shared. Then she informs him that he is the father of her son, the unruly preteen Dare arrested earlier that day, and his fantasies turn to fury. Shelly has returned to her Georgia hometown to get her son away from the mean streets of Los Angeles, and she hopes that getting to know his father will do her child a world of good. But will being so close to Dareâ€”the only man to ever make Shelly''s heartbeat raceâ€”reopen old wounds, or will this be her last chance to secure his love forever?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Thorn''s Challenge\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   One sizzling kiss from Thorn Westmoreland isn''t enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart againâ€¦or is it? The beautiful doctor and the hard-driving motorcycle tycoon mix like oil and water. Why, then, can''t Tara erase the memory of the sexy racer from her head, or thoughts of his passionate caresses from her body? Thorn has wanted Tara since the day they met. His plan is to seduce the prickly doctor and indulge in a casual affair. But before he can savor the success of their passion, she turns the tables on him. Now instead of working her out of his system, Thorn is hell-bent on winning Tara''s loveâ€¦.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Sheriff Dare Westmoreland leaned forward in the chair behind his desk. From the defiant look on the face of the boy standing in front of him he could tell it would be one of those days. "Look, kid, I''m only going to ask you one more time. What is your name?"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The boy crossed his arms over his chest and had the nerve to glare at him and say, "And I''ve told you that I don''t like cops and have no intention of giving you my name or anything else. And if you don''t like it, arrest me."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare stood to his full height of six-feet-four, feeling every bit of his thirty-six years as he came from behind his desk to stare at the boy. He estimated the kid, who he''d caught throwing rocks at passing cars on the highway, to be around twelve or thirteen. It had been a long time since any kid living in his jurisdiction had outright sassed him. None of them would have dared, so it stood to reason that the kid was probably new in town.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "You will get your wish. Since you won''t cooperate and tell me who you are, I''m officially holding you in police custody until someone comes to claim you. And while you''re waiting you may as well make yourself useful. You''ll start by mopping out the bathroom on the first floor, so follow me."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare shook his head, thinking he didn''t envy this kid''s parents one bit.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Shelly had barely brought her car to a complete stop in front of the sheriff''s office before she was out of it. It had taken her a good two hours in Atlanta''s heavy traffic to make it home after receiving word that AJ had not shown up at school, only to discover he wasn''t at home. When it had started getting late she had gotten worried and called the police. After giving the dispatcher a description of AJ, the woman assured her that he was safe in their custody and that the reason she had not been contacted was because AJ had refused to give anyone his name. Without asking for any further details Shelly had jumped into her car and headed for the police station.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   She let out a deep sigh. If AJ hadn''t given anyone his name that meant the sheriff was not aware she was AJ''s mother and for the moment that was a comforting thought. As she pushed open the door, she knew all her excuses for not yet meeting with Dare and telling him the truth had run out, and fate had decided to force her hand.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   She was about to come face-to-face with Sheriff Dare Westmoreland.\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <p>\n   "Sheriff, the parent of John Doe has arrived."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare looked up from the papers he was reading and met his secretary''s gaze. "Only one parent showed up, Holly?"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Yes, just the mother. She''s not wearing a wedding ring so I can only assume there isn''t a father. At least not one that''s around."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare nodded. "What''s the kid doing now?" he asked, pushing the papers he''d been reading aside.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "He''s out back watching Deputy McKade clean up his police motorcycle"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare nodded. "Send the woman in, Holly. I need to have a long talk with her. Her son needs a lot more discipline than he''s evidently getting at home."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare moved away from his desk to stand at the window where he could observe the boy as he watched McKade polish his motorcycle. He inhaled deeply. There was something about the boy that he found oddly familiar. Maybe he reminded him of himself and his four brothers when they''d been younger. Although they had been quite a handful for their parents, headstrong and in some ways stubborn, they had known just how far to take it and just how much they could get away with. And they''d been smart enough to know when to keep their mouths closed. This kid had a lot to learn.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Sheriff Westmoreland, this is Ms. Rochelle Brockman."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare swung his head around and his gaze collided with the woman he''d once loved to distraction. Suddenly his breath caught, his mouth went dry and every muscle in his body froze as memories rushed through his spiraling mind.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He could vividly recall the first time they''d met, their first kiss and the first time they had made love. The last time stood out in his mind now. He dragged his gaze from her face to do a total sweep of her body before returning to her face again. A shiver of desire tore through him, and he was glad that his position, standing behind his desk, blocked a view of his body from the waist down. Otherwise both women would have seen the arousal pressing against the zipper of his pants.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   His gaze moved to her dark brown hair, and he noted that it was shorter and cut in one of those trendy styles that accented the creamy chocolate coloring of her face as well as the warm brandy shade of her eyes.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The casual outfit she wore, a printed skirt and a matching blouse, made her look stylish, comfortable and ultrafemi-nine. Then there were the legs he still considered the most gorgeous pair he''d ever seen. Legs he knew could wrap around his waist while their bodies meshed in pleasure.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   A deep sigh escaped his closed lips as he concluded that at thirty-three she was even more beautiful than he remembered and still epitomized everything feminine. They''d first met when she was sixteen and a sophomore in high school. He''d been nineteen, a few weeks shy of twenty and a sophomore in college, and had come home for a visit to find her working on a school project with his brother Stone. He had walked into the house at the exact moment she''d been leaning over Stone, explaining some scientific formula and wearing the sexiest pair of shorts he had ever seen on a female. He had thought she had a pair of legs that were simply a complete turn-on. When she had glanced up, noticed him staring and smiled, he''d been a goner. Never before had he been so aware of a woman. An immediate attraction had flared between them, holding him hostage to desires he''d never felt before.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   After making sure Stone didn''t have designs on her himself, he had made his move. And it was a move he''d never regretted making. They began seriously dating a few months later and had continued to do so for six long years, until he had made the mistake of ending things between them. Now it seemed the day of reckoning had arrived.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Shelly."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Dare."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   It was as if the years had not passed between them, Dare suddenly thought. That same electrical charge the two of them always generated ignited full force, sending a high voltage searing through the room.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He cleared his throat. "Holly, you can leave me and Ms. Brockman alone now," he thought it best to say.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   His secretary looked at Shelly then back at him. "Sure, Sheriff," she murmured, and walked out of the office, pulling the door shut behind her.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Once the door closed, Dare turned his full attention back to Shelly. His gaze went immediately to her lips; lips he used to enjoy tasting time and time again; lips that were hot, sweet and ultraresponsive. One night he had thrust her into an orgasm just from gnawing on her lips and caressing them with the tip of his tongue.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He swallowed to get his bearings when he felt his body begin responding to just being in the same room with her. He then admitted what he''d known for years. Shelly Brockman would always be the beginning and the end of his most blatant desires and a part of him could not believe she was back in College Park after being gone for so long.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Shelly felt the intensity of Dare''s gaze and struggled to keep her emotions in check, but he was so disturbingly gorgeous that she found it hard to do so. Wearing his blue uniform, he still had that look that left a woman''s mind whirling and her body overheated.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He had changed a lot from the young man she had fallen in love with years ago. He was taller, bigger and more muscular. The few lines he had developed in the corners of his eyes, and the firmness of his jaw made his face more angular, his coffee-colored features stark and disturbingly handsome and still a pleasure to look at.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   She noted there were certain things about him that had remained the same. The shape of his mouth was still a total turn-on, and he still had those sexy dimples he used to flash at her so often. Then there were those dark eyesâ€”deep, penetratingâ€”that at one time had had the ability to read her mind by just looking at her. How else had he known when she''d wanted him to make love to her without her having to utter a single word?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Suddenly Shelly felt nervous, panicky when she remembered the reason she had moved back to town. But there was no way she could tell Dare that he was AJ''s fatherâ€”at least not today. She needed time to pull herself together. Seeing him again had derailed her senses, making it impossible for her to think straight. The only thing she wanted was to get AJ and leave.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I came for my son, Dare," she finally found her voice to say, and even to her own ears it sounded wispy.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Dare let out a deep breath. It seemed she wanted to get right down to business and not dwell on the past. He had no intention of letting her do that, mainly because of what they had once meant to each other. "It''s been a long time, Shelly. How have you been?" he asked raspily, failing to keep his own voice casual. He found the scent of her perfume just as sexy and enticing as the rest of her.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I''ve been fine, Dare. How about you?"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Same here."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   She nodded. "Now may I see my son?"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Her insistence on keeping things nonpersonal was beginning to annoy the hell out of him. His eyes narrowed and his gaze zeroed in on her mouth; bad timing on his part. She nervously swiped her bottom lip with her tongue, causing his body to react immediately. He remembered that tongue and some of the things he had taught her to do with it. He dragged air into his lungs when he felt his muscles tense. "Aren''t you going to ask why he''s here?" he asked, his voice sounding tight, just as tight as his entire body felt.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   She shrugged. "I assumed that since the school called and said he didn''t show up today, one of your officers had picked him up for playing hooky."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "No, that''s not it," he said, thinking that was a reasonable assumption to make. "I''m the one who picked him up, but he was doing something a bit more serious...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Atlanta''s Westmoreland men were notoriously easy on the eyes, but champion motorcycle racer Thorn Westmoreland exuded a heat that could melt metal. Rugged and moody, he was a loner betrayed by love, a man committed to staying in controlâ€”until he met Dr. Tara Matthews.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t every day that the sexiest man on earth appeared at her door, looking like God''s gift in a black leather jacket. And Tara''s chances of playing it cool with a man as hot as Thorn were about as good as a snowball''s in hell. But when Tara reversed roles in their game of seduction, what were the odds of Thornâ€”the ultimate bad boyâ€”coming out on top?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7977'),
(9822, 'Thorns Of Barevi', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10850'),
(9823, 'Those Guys Have All the Fun', 'James Andrew Miller &amp; Tom Shales', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   THOSE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those who work in the business of sport will devour the book...[readers are] granted the kind of behind-the-scenes access that sports media junkies are rarely given..." (\n  <strong>\n   SportsIllustrated.com\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Richard Deitsch\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Packed with entertaining stories of unpleasant people and awful behavior....[_Those Guys Have All the Fun_ is] offers a nuanced look at ESPN, does some top-notch TV-biz reporting on the early days of the cable industry, and offers compelling behind-the-scenes stories...[It is] a serious, impressive, piece of work." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Entertainment Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Rob Brunner\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A revelation: what goes onto the TV screen turns out to be just the glossy tip of an iceberg of ugly backstage drama. Miller and Shales must be extraordinarily talented interviewers, because their subjects are surprisingly uninhibited and frank and willing to dish and slag....[They are] good at zeroing in on a debacle and getting everybody involved to weigh in...by the end of the book you''re amazed at the disconnect between the chaos behind the scenes and the relatively slick end product." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Time\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Lev Grossman\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As highly anticipated by sports junkies as a Chicago Cubs championship, [_Those Guys Have All the Fun_] provides painstaking details on how a nutty idea concocted by a father-son team developed into a brand worth more than the NHL, MLB and NBA combined...Shales and Miller manage to create a page-turning document about the ultimate dysfunctional workplace" (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Minneapolis Star Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Neil Justin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...Perhaps the most anticipated book in sports media history." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsday\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This treat for sports fans has a cast of characters that is huge and varied." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Janet Maslin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What a story: larger-than-life personalities, salacious gossip, backstabbing and corporate intrigue set against the backdrop of the rise of cable television as an economic and cultural force....The quotes flow seamlessly, and the voices are fresh and vibrant...The depth and breadth of the interviews make it not only the definitive account of ESPN''s first three decades but one of the best books yet on how cable shaped American culture." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Hollywood Reporter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Andy Lewis\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rollicking glimpse behind the guys and gals who sport around at ESPN, America''s sports church. Amen." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN''s personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, gambling addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network''s soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent story of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8761'),
(9824, 'Those in Peril', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel''s private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom. The pirates demand a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the civilized major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector Cross to help her rescue her daughter. Hector is the owner and operator of Cross Bow Security, the company which is contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. He is a formidable fighting man. Between them Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5030'),
(9825, 'Those Who Save Us', 'Jenna Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy''s sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother''s life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1678'),
(9826, 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in atmospheric coastal Japan, this epic story centers on an earnest young clerk, Jacob de Zoet, who arrives in the summer of 1799 to make his fortune and return to Holland to wed his fiancÃ©e. But Jacobâ€™s plans are shaken when he meets the daughter of a Samurai. Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds '' or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell''s panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin '' and all the while, unbeknownst to him and his feuding compatriots, the axis of global power is turning... SUMMARY: The author ofCloud Atlas''s most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell. The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire''s single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fianceacute;e. But Jacob''s intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island''s powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetis a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come. SUMMARY: The author ofCloud Atlas''s most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell. The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire''s single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fianceacute;e. But Jacob''s intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island''s powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetis a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(9827, 'A thousand cuts', 'Simon Lelic', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''Find what you were looking for, Inspector''? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted and Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Soon, however, Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered, diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime? Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, Lucia discovers an uglier, more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds, she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened, whatever the consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4051'),
(9828, 'A thousand splendid suns', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After 103 weeks on the *New York Times* bestseller list and with four million copies of *The Kite Runner* shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made *The Kite Runner* a beloved classic, *A Thousand Splendid Suns* is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman''s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, *A Thousand Splendid Suns* is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3136'),
(9829, 'A Thousand Suns', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s early April 1945, deep in the bloodied days of World War II. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the high command have one more throw of the dice to make. An audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the oncoming apocalypse. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured U.S. bomber, and one brave but suicidal pilot to fly it over the Atlantic into the beating heart of America. Half a century later, a rusting plane is discovered, sunk with its crew, off the coast of New Yorka relic from a bygone age. Chris Roland, a brilliant young photographer, is sent to take photos of this time capsule. But it is only when he discovers that the fragments of Nazi uniforms on the decaying corpses that he realizes that he has come across a secret so terrible that even 50 years later it could still kill him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(9830, 'The Thousandfold Thought', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The conclusion to the groundbreaking epic Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Will Kelhus be able to rise to claim his role within the ascendancy, or will he be overtaken by his enemies--both within and without? Will he reach the ancient city of Shimeh and reunite with his father? Upon the apocalypse, will there be survivors left to write the history of the Holy War?\n</p>\n<p>\n The startling and far-reaching answers to these questions, left hanging at the conclusion of The Warrior Prophet, are brought into thrilling focus in The Thousandfold Thought, the conclusion to the Prince of Nothing series. Casting into question all the action that has taken place before, twisting readers'' intuitions in unforeseen directions, remolding the fantasy genre to broaden the scope of intricacy and meaning, R. Scott Bakker has once again written a fantasy novel that defies all expectations and rewards the reader with an experience unlike any to be had in the canon of fantasy literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6727'),
(9831, 'Thr3e', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.Kevin Parson is driving his car late one summer day when, suddenly, his cell phone rings. A man who identifies himself as Slater speaks in a breathy voice: You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you''re driving will blow sky high.Kevin panics. Who would make such a call? What sin? Kevin ditches the car. Precisely three minutes later, a massive explosion sets his world on a collision course with madness.From the #1 best-selling fiction author comes a powerful story of good, evil, and all that lies between.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8788'),
(9832, 'Three Act Tragedy', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A facsimile first edition hardback of one of the best 1930s Poirot books, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance.Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor''s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison - just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive...To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot''s first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family''s own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5264'),
(9833, 'Three Against the Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9086'),
(9834, 'Three Bedrooms, One Corpse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s a simple if shocking question, and former librarian Aurora Teagarden is just the person to find the answer. Basking in an inheritance that makes her financially independent, Roe''s looking for a new occupation. Her days as a librarian are over. Real estate might be fun, she thinks. And who better to teach her the tricks of the trade than her Lauren Bacall look-alike mother, Aida Brattle Teagarden Queensland, who happens to own one of the major real estate firms in town? Signing on as an apprentice, Roe agrees to show an expensive house to some out-of-town clients. The house has its charms, but the clients are not too thrilled with what''s been left behind in the master bedroom: the corpse of real estate woman Tonia Lee Greenhouse. And Tonia''s only the first victim. It quickly becomes clear that the killer is someone familiar with the real estate community in Lawrenceton, someone who has access to the houses that are on the market. Roe''s not too sure she likes real estate, after all. She hadn''t counted on murder. But she definitely likes her well-to-do client, Martin Bartell. In fact, it may be love at first sight. With memorable characters and lots of small-town southern charm, this witty and wise mystery proves that author Charlaine Harris is among the best of the new generation of crime writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(9835, 'Three Blind Mice', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AGATHA CHRISTIE is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...A blinding snowstorm -- and a homicidal maniac -- traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in turn, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases the inimitable Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as "the champion deceiver of our time". (The New York Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5207'),
(9836, 'Three Cups of Tea', 'Greg Mortenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban-s backyard\n <br />\n Anyone who despairs of the individual-s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan-s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools-especially for girls-that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson-s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1682');
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(9837, 'The Three Furies (Erec Rex)', 'Kaza Kingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Erec Rex continues his quest to become king in Kaza Kingsley''s The Three Furies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2229'),
(9838, 'Three Hands for Scorpio', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9106'),
(9839, 'Three Hands in the Fountain', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secret-agent/sleuth Marcus Didius Falco (A Dying Light in Cordoba, etc.) returns with gusto for another case of mystery and intrigueAthis time involving a serial killerAin ancient Rome. As the novel opens, Falco has just come back from a perilous mission to Baetican Spain and is ready to tackle his new role as father to his first-born daughter. But his commitment to paternal responsibilities begins to lag when he and his old friend, Petronius Longus, make a gory discoveryAof a severed human hand in one of Rome''s many fountains. As the inquisitive buddies do some reconnaissance work, encountering similar body parts in the Roman water supply, they learn that there is, in fact, a tradition of corpses circulating in the waterworks. Furthermore, these dead bodies often appear after public festivals. The threat of contaminated aqueducts coupled with the imminent Roman Games brings Falco and Petro to confront the authorities on the matter. Official desire to keep the problem under wraps forces the pair to determine the killer''s identity on their own, with the help of Helena (Falco''s wife), Anacrites (a spy and boarder in Falco''s mother''s home) and other toga-wearing tipsters. Once again, Davis weaves an intricate, irreverent plot filled with wittily imagined characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Set in first-century Rome, this fast-paced mystery is narrated by a cynical, hard-boiled hero with an imperfectly concealed soft spot for his family. Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome after an extended trip to Spain. His mother is trying to get him to take on a new partner: his enemy, the former Chief Spy, Anacrites. Falco''s friend Petronius Longus is on suspension and in danger of becoming an ex-vigile now that his wife has reported his affair with a married woman who has ties to organized crime. Falco is able to dodge Anacrites by taking Petro on as a partner, but their lives become complicated after they discover a decomposed hand in a fountain. More body parts turn up in the water supply, and it soon becomes clear that someone has been murdering and dismembering women at major festivals for years. The authorities have tried to cover it up to prevent a riot over contaminated water, but now Falco has been given the task of finding the killer before he strikes again. Davis vividly describes life during the period, but the story is never overwhelmed by historical detail. Although the book can stand alone, fans of Falco and his wife Helena will be delighted to encounter familiar characters, from Falco''s many sisters and disreputable brothers-in-law to Helena''s supposedly more refined aristocratic relations. A riveting, suspenseful, witty read with lots of historical flavor.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan Salpini, Purcellville Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7186'),
(9840, 'Three Men in a Boat', 'Jerome K. Jerome &amp; K Jerome Jerome', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wonderfully fresh and funny, and among examples of Victorian humor I would place it high in the pantheon, right up there with\n  <em>\n   The Importance of Being Earnest\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Diary of a Nobody\n  </em>\n  . . . triumphantly stands the test of time, with its comic flights of exaggeration, its occasional archness, and its entirely innocent hint of the camp."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I fell out of bed laughing at\n  <em>\n   Three Men in a Boat."Â  â€”Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Three Men in a Boat begins:\n </p>\n <p>\n  THERE were four of us -- George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were -- bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6126'),
(9841, 'The Three Musketeers', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: apartment of the captain of the musketeers, congratulating himself with all his heart at having so narrowly escaped the end of this strange quarrel. CHAPTER III. THE AUDIENCE. M. De Treville was at the moment in rather an ill-humour ; nevertheless, he saluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground, and he smiled on receiving his compliment, the Be"arnese accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country, a double remembrance, which makes a man smile at all ages. But stepping towards the antechamber, and making a sign to d''Artagnan with his hand, as if to ask his permission to finish with others before he began with him, he called three times, with a louder voice at each time, so that he went through all the tones between the imperative accent and the angry accent. " Athos ! Porthos ! Aramis !" The two musketeers, with whom we have already made acquaintance, and who answered to the last two of these three names, immediately quitted the group of which they formed a part, and advanced towards the cabinet, the door of which closed after them as soon as they had entered. Their appearance, although it was not quite at ease, excited by its carelessness, at once full of dignity and submission, the admiration of D''Artagnan, who beheld in these two men demi-gods, and in their leader an Olympian Jupiter, armed with all his thunders. When the two musketeers had entered, when the door was closed behind them, when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to which the summons which had been made had doubtless furnished fresh aliment, had recommenced ; when M. de TreVille had three or four times paced in silence, and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his cabinet, passing each time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and sil...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(9842, 'Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable', 'Samuel Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett''s famous trilogy. "Molloy," the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by "Malone Dies" and two years later by "The Unnamable." All three have been rendered into English by the author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3429'),
(9843, 'Three Philosophies of Life', 'Peter Kreeft', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "I''ve been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs." These are the opening lines of Kreeft''s Three Philosophies of Life. He reflects that there are ultimately only three philosophies of life and each one is represented by one of these books of the Bible-life is vanity; life is suffering; life is love.\n</p>\n<p>\n In these three books Kreeft shows how we have Dante''s great epic The Divine Comedy played out, from Hell to Purgatory to Heaven. But it is an epic played out in our hearts and lives, here and now. Just as there is movement in Dante''s epic, so there is movement in these books, from Ecclesiates to Job, from Job to Song of Songs. Love is the final answer to Ecclesiastes'' quest, the alternative to vanity, and the true meaning of life. Finally, Kreeft sees in these books the epitome of theological virtues of faith, hope and love and "an essential summary of the spiritual history of the world".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8186'),
(9844, 'Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace. **So begins Martin Cruz Smithâ€™s masterful *Three Stations*, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing *Gorky Park*, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well. In *Three Stations*, Renkoâ€™s skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutorâ€™s office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscowâ€™s main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyoneâ€”except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russiaâ€™s premier charity ball, the billionairesâ€™ Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscowâ€™s rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putinâ€™s crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In *Three Stations*, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russiaâ€™s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.* *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2462'),
(9845, 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Godlike--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics wage marketing battles for the human soul in this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make\n  <strong>\n   The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch\n  </strong>\n  moving as well as genuinely visionary.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6503'),
(9846, 'Three to Get Deadly and Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Three to Get Deadly*** A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last... ***Four to Score*** Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2132'),
(9847, 'Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat', 'Chris Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chris Stewart shot to fame with "Driving Over Lemons" in 1999.  Funny, insightful and real, the book told the story of how he bought a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river, with its previous owner still a resident.  It became an international bestseller, along with its sequels â€“ "A Parrot in the Pepper Tree," and "The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society."In an earlier life, Chris was the original drummer in Genesis (he played on the first album), then joined a circus, learned how to shear sheep, went to China to write the Rough Guide, gained a pilotâ€™s license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking.  "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8245'),
(9848, 'Three Weeks With My Brother', 'Nicholas Sparks &amp; Micah Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When bestselling author Sparks (_The Notebook_;\n <em>\n  Message in a Bottle\n </em>\n ; etc.) receives a brochure offering a three-week trip around the world, it''s not hard for him to persuade Micah, his older brother, to join him in touring Guatemala''s Mayan ruins, Peru''s Incan temples, Easter Island, the killing fields in Cambodia, the Taj Mahal and Ethiopian rock cathedrals. His account of the trip is refreshingly honest and perceptive. At each stop, the brothers, both deeply committed to their families, cover the crucial moments in a life full of familial love and tragedy: Nick''s role as the middle child always feeling left out; his marriage in 1989; the loss of Nick and Micah''s mother two months later after a horseback riding accident; the death of Nick''s first baby and the physical problems of his second son; the death of their father in a car accident; and the passing of their younger sister from a brain tumor. As the brothers travel together through these mythical sites and share candid thoughts, they find themselves stunned by fate''s turns, realizing that a peaceful moment may be shattered at any time. Weaving in vignettes of tenderness and loss with travelogue-like observations, Sparks''s account shows how he and his brother both evolved on this voyage. "Somehow there was a chance we could help each other, and in that way, I began to think of the trip less as a journey around the world than a journey to rediscover who I was and how I''? developed the way I did."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who wouldn''t want to go on a trip around the world? When best-selling novelist Sparks receives a travel brochure from his alma mater, Notre Dame, he thinks, "If not now, then when?" and asks his brother to join him. They both have family obligations, but this sounds like the trip of a lifetime, and as the reader soon finds out, they both need to relax. As they journey to faraway places, the brothers reminisce about their unusual childhood. Instead of the idealistic life readers may imagine, their early years were marked by poverty, although redeemed by their mother''s great love. Their father was a graduate student working several jobs to support the family, and the boys, best friends as well as brothers, led an independent life filled with adventure, derring-do, and responsibilities beyond their years. This is a rare opportunity for readers to get to know a favorite author as Nicholas reveals the inspirations for his fiction. A must-read for Sparks fans as well as a treat for those who want to find out what makes a family strong.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8156'),
(9849, 'Three-Ten to Yuma', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9213'),
(9850, 'Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America''s frontierâ€”with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man''s life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(9851, 'Throne of Fire', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11122'),
(9852, 'Through a Dark Mist', 'Marsha Canham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The author of The Blood of Roses presents the dark forests and royal intrigues ues of medieval England. En route to her wedding, Lady Servanne''s party is attacked by notorious Black Wolf and his band. Her kingdom''s future is changed forever when she and Black Wolf submit to their growing passion, and he claims to be the true heir to her future husband''s title.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3199'),
(9853, 'Through a glass, darkly', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello''s friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man''s father-in-law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter shares her fear with Brunetti that he will actually harm her husband. But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the glass foundries, nor he whose body is found lying in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees C. night and day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante and Brunetti must enter an inferno to discover who is poisoning the land and fouling the waters of Venice''s lagoon. A man is dead - but will politics and expedience prevent the killer from striking again?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(9854, 'Through Black Spruce: A Novel', 'Joseph Boyden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following up on the success of\n <em>\n  Three Day Road\n </em>\n , Boyden delivers the powerful story of former bush pilot and Cree native Will Bird. The novel opens with Will in a coma, with his niece Annie, who just returned from an eight-month excursion in search of her sister, by his side. Narrated by Will and Annie, the story backtracks to tell of Will''s fight to keep his bush-country Indian life alive and protected while he suppresses painful childhood memories (and befriends an old bear). Annie, a skillful hunter and animal trapper, dictates her escapades after rushing off to New York City in pursuit of her sister, Suzanne, a model who has shacked up with a member of the narcotics-smuggling Netmakers family. As Will struggles to survive and Annie reintegrates into the isolated bush, the two stories dovetail as the Netmakers cross paths with Will. Though the incongruously melodramatic denouement doesn''t fit with the richly textured narrative preceding it, the novel as a whole is an intelligent, multilayered accomplishment, and well worth reading.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of\n  <em>\n   Three Day Road\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship, and the story that unfolds is rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient blood feuds, mysterious disappearances, fires, plane crashes, murders, and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. As Will and Annie reveal their secretsâ€”the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annieâ€™s desperate search for her missing sister, the famous model Suzanneâ€”a remarkable saga of resilience and destiny takes shape. From the dangerous bush country of upper Canada to the drug-fueled glamour of the Manhattan club scene, Joseph Boyden tracks his characters with a keen eye for the telling detail and a rare empathy for the empty places concealed within the heart. Sure to appeal to readers of Louise Erdrich and Jim Harrison,\n <em>\n  Through Black Spruce\n </em>\n establishes Boyden as a writer of startling originality and uncommon power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6708'),
(9855, 'Through My Eyes', 'Tim Tebow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resumeâ€”winning two BCS national championships, becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy, and in the face of massive public scrutiny, being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in\n  <i>\n   Through My Eyes\n  </i>\n  , Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it, revealing how his faith and family values, combined with his relentless will to succeed, have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries, Tebow has a unique story to tellâ€”from the circumstances of his birth, to his home-schooled roots, to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8760'),
(9856, 'Through Stone and Sea', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The new national bestselling Noble Dead story arc is "another must read series" (*Book Spot Central*). ** Wynn journeys to the mountain stronghold of the dwarves in search of the "Stonewalkers," an unknown sect supposedly in possession of important ancient texts. But in her obsession to understand these writings, she will find more puzzles and questions buried in secrets old and new-along with an enemy she thought destroyed...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(9857, 'Through the Grinder', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Business is booming at Clare Cosi''s Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare''s life. Now Clare will risk her heart - and her life - to follow the killer''s trail to the bitter end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1515'),
(9858, 'The Throwback', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3891'),
(9859, 'Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork''s more diminutive citizensâ€”a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes''s second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where''s My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork''s streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fearâ€”and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3399'),
(9860, 'The Thunder Riders', 'Frank Leslie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A man with no nation will fight for a woman with no hope...\n</p>\n<p>\n Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies, and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach. But what really riles Yakima is the banditos making off with his prized stallion, Wolf, and a pretty saloon girl.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8732'),
(9861, 'Thunderball: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7659'),
(9862, 'Thunderbird Falls', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(9863, 'Thunderhead', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah''s canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9179'),
(9864, 'Thunderstruck', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A true story of love, murder, and the end of the worldâ€™s â€œgreat hushâ€ InThunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two menâ€”Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communicationâ€”whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia,Thunderstruckevokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, â€œthe kindest of men,â€ nearly commits the perfect crime. With his superb narrative skills, Erik Larson guides these parallel narratives toward a relentlessly suspenseful meeting on the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.Thunderstruckpresents a vibrant portrait of an era of sÃ©ances, science, and fog, inhabited by inventors, magicians, and Scotland Yard detectives, all presided over by the amiable and fun-loving Edward VII as the world slid inevitably toward the first great war of the twentieth century. Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us,Thunderstruckis splendid narrative history from a master of the form. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6281'),
(9865, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,--and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent. But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it. Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star! Like thee must I GO DOWN, as men say, to whom I shall descend. Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold even the greatest happiness without envy! Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss! Lo! This cup is again going to empty itself, and Zarathustra is again going to be a man. Thus began Zarathustra''s down-going.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7996'),
(9866, 'Thyla', 'Kate Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My name is Tessa. I am strong. I am brave. I do not cry. These are the only things I know for certain. I was found in the bush, ragged as a wild thing. I have no memory - not even of how I got the long, striping slashes across my back. They make me frightened of what I might remember. The policewoman, Connolly, found me a place in a boarding school and told me about her daughter, Cat, who went missing in the bush. I think there is a connection between Cat, me, and the strange things going on at this school. If I can learn Cat''s story, I might discover my own - and stop it happening again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4924'),
(9867, 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead', 'Karma-glin-pa (Karma Lingpa), W. Y. Evans-Wentz (Editor), Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Translator), Summum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book is the first English language translation of the famous Tibetan death text, The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State. Also known as the Bardo Thodol which means "liberation by hearing on the after death plane" (Bardo: after death plane, Thodol or Thotrol: liberation by hearing), it was originally written in the Tibetan language and is meant to be a guide for those who have died as they transition from their former life to a new destination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5052'),
(9868, 'Tick Tock', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It''s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll''s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan''s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can''t destroy. It wants Tommy''s life and he doesn''t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy''s computer screen: The deadline is dawn.**Ticktock**Time is running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1431'),
(9869, 'A ticket to the circus: a memoir', 'Norris Church Mailer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailerâ€™s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husbandâ€™sâ€”and every bit as engaging.Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the 1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was crowned â€œLittle Miss Little Rockâ€ at the age of three and always knew that life had more to offer her than the comforts of small-town Arkansas. But she could never have guessed that in her early twenties she would date future president Bill Clinton (and predict his national victory even after he lost his first run for Congress), or that the following year she would meet Norman Mailer, who was passing through town giving a lecture at the local college. They fell in love in one nightâ€”and their marriage lasted thirty-three years.Despite her enduring love for the man, Norris found life with the writer full of challengesâ€”from carving out her own niche in the wake of five ex-wives and numerous former girlfriends, to easing her way into the hearts of her seven stepchildren, to negotiating the ferocious world of Mailerâ€™s fame, friends, and literary life. The coupleâ€™s New York parties were legendary, and their social circle included such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Imelda Marcos. Their decades-long obsession with each other, as seen in the intimate letters that Norris reveals here for the first time, was not without tests and infidelities; theirs was a marriage full of friendship, betrayal, doubts, understanding, and deep, complicated, lifelong passion.With southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her life, from her childhood all the way through her intense marriage with Norman and his heartbreaking death. This unforgettable memoir will enchant readers with its honesty and insight into how we grow up and how we love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2534'),
(9870, 'Ticktock', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. Itâ€™s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the dollâ€™s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phanâ€™s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he canâ€™t destroy. It wants Tommyâ€™s life, and he doesnâ€™t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chanceâ€”or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommyâ€™s computer screen:The deadline is dawn.TicktockTime is running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1445'),
(9871, 'Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska', 'Miranda Weiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice''s mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundariesâ€”between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation, conservation and exploitationâ€”are constantly in flux.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the state has also always been a place for reinvention, a refuge as much for those desperate to escape something as for those on a quest for something else. In\n <em>\n  Tide, Feather, Snow\n </em>\n , Miranda Weiss, a young woman who grew up landlocked in well-kept East Coast suburbs, moves with her boyfriend to Homer, Alaska, where the days are quartered by the most extreme tides in the country, where the years are marked by seasons of fish, and where locals carry around the knowledge of fish, tides, boats, and weather as ballast. At first, she struggles to make a place for herself in this unfamiliar country. But ultimately, Weiss learns the skills to survive on her own, from setting a fishing net to befriending the locals, from jarring rosehip butter to skinning a sea otter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Weiss''s keenly observed prose introduces readers to the memorable people and peculiar beauty of Alaska''s vast landscape and takes us on her personal journey of adventure, physical challenge, and culture clash. In the tradition of John McPhee''s\n <em>\n  Coming into the Country\n </em>\n , this elegant and affecting memoir is nature writing at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5126'),
(9872, 'Tigana', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist. Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the warrior sorcerers Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbadior. Brandin''s younger son is slain in a battle with the principality of Tigana, which the grief-stricken sorcerer then destroys. Years later, a small band of survivors, led by Alessan, last prince of Tigana''s royal house, wages psychological warfare, planting seeds for the overthrow of the two tyrants. At the center of these activities are Devin, a gifted young singer; Catriana, a young woman pursued by suspicions of her family''s guilt; and Duke Sandre d''Astibar, a wily resistance leader thought dead. Meanwhile, at Brandin''s court, Dianora, his favorite concubine and--unknown to anyone, another survivor of Tigana--struggles between her growing love for the often gentle tyrant and her desire for vengeance. Gradually the scene is set for both conquerors to destroy each other and free a land. Tolkien protege Kay''s brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil, high and low, will draw readers to this consuming epic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a desperate attempt to revive the memory of a land banished from existence and to restore freedom to a battered world, a wandering musician and his small band of compatriots traverse a countryside bowed under the weight of its sorcerer-conquerors. The author of "The Fionavar Tapestry" trilogy creates a brilliant single-volume epic fantasy, rich in intrigue and subtlety. Memorable characters and cultures add depth to a gracefully plotted story. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6047'),
(9873, 'The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival', 'John Vaillant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itrs"s December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russiars"s Far East. The tiger isnrs"t just killing people, itrs"s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified astonishment it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the story becomes a battle for survival between the two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. As John Vaillant vividly recreates the extraordinary events of that winter, he also gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spectacularly beautiful region where plants and animals exist that are found nowhere else on earth, and where the once great Siberian Tiger - the largest of its species, which can weigh over 600 lbs at more than 10 feet long - ranges daily over vast territories of forest and mountain, its numbers diminished to a fraction of what they once were. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers - even sharing their kills with them - in a natural balance. We witness the first arrival of settlers, soldiers and hunters in the tigerrs"s territory in the 19th century and 20th century, many fleeing Stalinism. And we come to know the Russians of today - such as the poacher Vladimir Markov - who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching for the corrupt, high-paying Chinese markets. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters and how earlyHomo sapiensmay have once fit seamlessly into the tigerrs"s ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator, and the grave threat it faces as logging and poaching reduce its habitat and numbers - and force it to turn at bay. Beautifully written and deeply informative,The Tigeris a gripping tale of man and nature in collision, that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the Siberian forest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2447'),
(9874, 'Til Dice Do Us Part', 'Gail Oust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Bunco Babes are a group of hip retirees who love to play bunco- and addictive game of luck. But someone''s luck is about to run out... For good. ** When Claudia Connors returns from Vegas with a new husband, actor Lance Ledeaux, Kate McCall and the other Bunco Babes are shocked. To make matters worse, Lance has plans to direct, produce, and star in a play he has written-and he wants all the Babes to participate. When he''s killed during rehearsal with a pistol, all eyes are on Claudia, who is literally holding the smoking gun. Anyone could have loaded the real bullets, but its up to Kate to prove Claudia''s innocence-or her newly widowed friend will be throwing dice behind bars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(9875, 'Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At once more human and more mythic than his Perelandra trilogy, Lewis''s short novel of love, faith, and transformation (both good and ill) offers the reader much food for thought in a compact, impressively rich story. Less heavy-handedly Christian-allegorical than Narnia,\n  <strong>\n   Till We Have Faces\n  </strong>\n  gives us characters who remind us of people we know facing choices and difficulties we recognize. This deceptively simple book takes on new depth with each rereading.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is LewisÃ‚â€™s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6966'),
(9876, 'Tim Thornton', 'The Alternative Hero (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this comic, wildly energetic first novel, Clive Beresford is a failed music fanzine writer in his early thirties who fears that his best days are behind him. The turning point came when Lance Webster, the lead singer of Thieving Magpies, the band that Clive is obsessed with, self-destructed on stage right before his eyes. Years later, Clive has discovered that Lance has moved in down the block. Desperate to meet him, but more desperately nervous, Clive concocts an ill-advised, alcohol-fueled scheme to befriend Lance and land an "earth-shattering exclusive" interview that will revive both their careers. With the story shifting between Clivers"s life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, Tim Thornton has written a warmhearted, uproarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9916');
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(9877, 'Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, there''s time enough for love...but who has time enough to get through 281/2 hours of a novel as dull as this? It opens 22 centuries in the future, when the ruler of a remote colony planet tries to keep 2000-year-old Lazarus Long from committing suicide before he passes on what he has learned. What follows is a very talky book, comprised mostly of Long''s reminiscences. Curious about his possible blood ties to almost everyone he encounters, Long talks at length about genetics, but what he says now seems absurdly out-of-date, thanks to recent developments in DNA fingerprinting. When this book first appeared in 1973, it was hailed as one of Heinlein''s masterworks the capstone to his future history cycle. Now it creaks with age, leaving listeners to marvel at how quickly the future can grow stale. Lloyd James''s reading injects some life into the story but not enough to make it a worthwhile acquisition to any but well-funded sf collections. R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As read by James, each tiny emotional nuance is delicately shaded with insight and understanding, bringing the text into an art form verging on theater. --Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n Written as a memoir and narrated with gusto, this saga is both delightful and entertaining. Lloyd James breathes life into Heinlein''s characters with an arsenal of onomatopoeia and vocal ranges from machismo to sultry. . . . James''s talent for dialogue will make a Heinlein fan of anyone. --AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n As read by James, each tiny emotional nuance is delicately shaded with insight and understanding, bringing the text into an art form verging on theater. --Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7218'),
(9878, 'Time for the Stars', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution--human telepathy. Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth, but one of them has to stay behind while the other explores the depths of space.This is one of Heinlein''s triumphs. **Robert Anson Heinlein** was educated at the University of Missouri and the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving as a naval officer for five years, he retired for health reasons and began publishing SF in 1939. Considered the dean of American SF writers, Heinlein was loved and emulated during the half century that he wrote SF. He wrote dozens of novels and short stories, including *Double Star, Stranger in a Strange Land*, and* The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,* all of which won Hugo Awards. Heinlein was the recipient of the First Grand Master Nebula in 1975, and he was the guest of honor at three World SF Conventions: in 1941, 1961, and 1976. He has repeatedly been voted "best all-time author" in readers'' polls. Robert A. Heinlein passed away in 1988. Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solutionâ€”human telepathy. Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth, but one of them has to stay behind while the other explores the depths of space. In *Time for the *Stars*, *the legendary Robert Henlein gives us a rip roaring novel full of space age wonder and classic storytelling. "He rewrote U.S. science fiction as a whole in his own image. Robert A. Heinlein may have been the all-time most important writer of genre science fiction."â€”***The Science Fiction Encyclopedia ***"[Heinlein] made footsteps big enough for a whole country to follow. And it was our country that did it . . . We proceed down a path marked by his ideas. He showed us where the future is."â€”**Tom Clancy **"The word that comes to mind for [Heinlein] is essential. As a writerâ€”eloquent, impassioned, technically innovativeâ€”he reshaped science fiction in a way that defined it for every writer who followed him . . . He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells."â€”**Robert Silverberg**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10382'),
(9879, 'A Time for War, a Time for Peace', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told. UNTIL NOW. Following the scandalous Tezwa affair, the Federation president''s resignation forces an election, with the future of the United Federation of Planets to be determined by who emerges victorious from a hotly contested vote. But it is the fate of the entire galaxy that may actually be decided on Qo''noS, as the Federation embassy is seized by terrorists whose actions expose intrigue reaching the highest levels of Klingon government-and it will take all of Ambassador Worf''s skills to keep the fragile Federation-Klingon alliance from collapsing. And while this potential intergalactic chaos looms, Commander Riker finds his plans for command and marriage soured by a brutal, high-level inspection of the ship from which the crew may not escape unscathed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8673'),
(9880, 'The Time Machine and the Invisible Man', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Time Machine and The Invisible Man*, by **H. G. Wells**, is part of the **Barnes &amp; Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Time Machine*, **H. G. Wells**â€™s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.*The Invisible Man* mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibilityâ€”a secret that drives him mad.Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wellsâ€™s best-loved and most critically acclaimed â€œscientific romances.â€ In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a â€œripping yarn,â€ but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. â€œThe strength of Mr. Wells,â€ wrote Arnold Bennett, â€œlies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemistâ€™s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.â€ **Alfred Mac Adam**** teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8425'),
(9881, 'The time machine', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A time traveller embarks on an astonishing journey into the future. His time machine transports him to a far-distant but dying world where humanity is divided into two classes: the graceful, idle Eloi who inhabit the surface of the world, and the ugly, nocturnal Morlocks who live underground.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1704'),
(9882, 'Time Management for System Administrators', 'Thomas A. Limoncelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This collection of time management tools addresses the very specific needs of embattled system administrators everywhere. Bestselling author Thomas Limoncelli shows you how to manage interruptions, eliminate timewasters, prioritize based on customer expectations, automate processes for faster execution, and much more. It''s the first step to a more productive, happier you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4693'),
(9883, 'Time of My Life: A Novel', 'Allison Winn Scotch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her latest novel, Scotch tackles an oft-asked questionâ€”what if I had held on to the one that got away?â€”with an engaging, fast-moving, high-concept drama. Endearing Jillian Westfield seems to have it all: a loving lawyer husband, a healthy infant daughter, and a lovely home in Westchester County, N.Y. But cleaning spit-up and dealing with her husband''s long office hours have begun to wear on Jill, and it hardly helps that she''s just learned that her post-college boyfriend, Jackson, is getting married. The day after a deep, chi-clearing massage, Jill wakes up and finds herself seven years in the past, giving her the chance to revisit her life with Jack in Manhattan, when she worked as an advertising executive. Hindsight, of course, is anything but 20/20, and Jill''s new choices hold unforeseen consequences for herself and those she loves. As Jill, through trial and error, rethinks her biggest decisionsâ€”such as her choice not to reconcile with her estranged motherâ€”Scotch keeps one dexterous step ahead of page-flipping readers eager to guess the outcome.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jillian has what seems to be a perfect lifeâ€”a beautiful house in the suburbs, a loving husband, and an adorable baby girl. But she also has a nagging feeling that something isn''t quite right. Could it have something to do with Jackson, her past boyfriend, who couldn''t be more different than her solid, stable, and perfectly predictable husband, Henry? One morning, Jillian wakes up seven years in the past, in bed with Jackson, and she has the chance to live her life againâ€”a do over, complete with the knowledge of what her future will become. Will she still quit her job right on the cusp of making it big? Will she run for the hills when she meets Henry or be drawn to him again? Or will Jackson''s easygoing, wild lifestyle pull her back from her future baby, the adorable Katie? So many life choices come at Jillian, and she can go forward as she pleases, knowing the outcome of one direction. If you''ve ever wanted your own do over, this cute, light read by a debut novelist will keep you guessing ''til the end. Recommended for women''s fiction collections.â€”Beth Gibbs, Davidson, NC\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4918'),
(9884, 'A Time of Omens', 'Katharine Kerr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Drawing on Celtic lore, the Deverry series has become a popular staple of the modern fantasy reader''s library. Now A Time of Omens signals the intertwining of the two world of the series: Deverry, the world of humans and elves, and the astral plane, where powerful immortals dwell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8413'),
(9885, 'Time of the Star', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10758'),
(9886, 'Time of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness--to bring it under his control.Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.Made aware of Raistlinâ€™s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlinâ€™s soul.Or so he believes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3104'),
(9887, 'Time of Your Life', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Torrok in the 26th century. The Doctor is sent by the Time Lords to investigate the manipulative TV company and becomes a contestant on a sadistic and fatal game show.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5877'),
(9888, 'Time Out of Joint', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick''s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn''t know that. He thinks it''s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world''s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6559'),
(9889, 'Time Scout 01 - Time Scout', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10076'),
(9890, 'Time Scout 02 - Wages of Sin', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10080'),
(9891, 'Time Scout 03 - Ripping Time', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10087'),
(9892, 'Time Scout 04 - the House That Jack Built', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10042'),
(9893, 'Time Scout 05 - License Invoked', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10050'),
(9894, 'Time Thieves', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(9895, 'A Time to Be Born', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told. Until now. The site of one of the Dominion War''s fiercest battles, the Rashanar Sector now contains a vast interstellar graveyard littered with the lifeless hulks of hundreds of devastated starships. The explosive destruction of so many varied warp drives has severely distorted the space-time continuum in this region, resulting in dangerous unleashed energies and bizarre gravitational anomalies. The Enterprise has been assigned to patrol the perimeter of the danger zone, while other vessels carry out the difficult and highly hazardous task of retrieving the bodies of the dead from the wrecked warships. To some alien races, the former battleground is hallowed space. To others, including the rapacious Androssi, it is a scavenger''s paradise, ripe for salvage. None expect this ship''s graveyard to hold a deadly secret that will force the android Data to make a heart-wrenching decision about the path his life will take -- and that will endanger not only the Enterprise, but Picard''s future in Starfleet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7252'),
(9896, 'A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran', 'Reza Kahili', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Itâ€™s a compelling read, one that not only talks about the true nature of the Iranian regime but also of the Iranian people, who have now twice tried to free themselves from the yoke of lunatic mullahs trying to destroy the entire world for their dreams of eternal power."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Ed Morrissey, Hot Air\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...the story [Kahlili] tellsâ€”of the Iranian revolution and how he came to despise itâ€”is genuinely powerful. It offers a vivid first-person narrative of how the zealots of the Islamic republic created what has become a nightmare for the Iranian people... One of the strengths of this book is that it makes the authorâ€™s decision to betray his country- or, more properly, the people who are running it- seem like a morally correct and laudable action. Indeed, people in the Iranian operations division at the CIA should welcome\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  as a virtual recruitment poster."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --David Ignatius,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  Book world Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is the first inside account by someone so strategically placed. Without embellishing, Khalili manages to convey the horror of Iranâ€™s regime after the downfall of the Shah. Everyone with an interest in the region or in U.S. foreign policy or in real-life espionage will be interested."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., NY,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_A Time to Betray_ provides a riveting account of how the author, who uses the pseudonym Reza Kahlili, worked undercover and sent intelligence reports to his CIA handlers, all while a suspicious counterintelligence officer was chasing him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Ken Timmerman, Newsmax\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts astonishing and disturbing, this perfectly crafted memoir will open your eyes to the heinous past, troubled present and murky future of Iran...Using insider information, Kahlili excels at painting an enthralling portrait of a country impacted by religious and political extremism. What makes â€œA Time to Betrayâ€ so powerful is two fold: First, the story reads like a John Grisham novel. Second, the narrative is refreshingly objective. Throughout his gripping journey, Kahlili ping-pongs between being a devoted son of Iran and a U.S. supporter. The emotion this produces creates an astonishing read that will have you rethinking what you know about the Middle East."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Nicholas Addison Thomas, THE FREE LANCE-STAR\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is one of those rare books that grabs you from the very first pageâ€”from the very first sentence, in factâ€”and will not let you go until it is over."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Michael Totten\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Overall I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it was written in a simple yet sincere and touching manner and brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion (not an easy thing to do.) The revelations in the book are interesting and serve as a remainder of the brutal human rights violations committed by the Islamic Regime against the Iranian people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Sayeh Hassan, Canada Free Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book reads like a spy novel and is riveting. For readers who enjoy that kind of information,\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  is a ''can''t miss.'' Beyond that, it provides a fascinating and crucial window into a world the rest of us cannot access."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --WorldNetDaily.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_A Time To Betray__: The Astonishing double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran_ is a fantastic book and I highly recommend itâ€¦The secrets revealed in the book, the intrigue, the mixed feelings Kahlili has working as a spy, keeping his actions secret from everyone he knows and loves, makes the reader feel like a fly on the wall -- seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling what Kahlili experiencesâ€¦I give this book 5 out of 5 stars and say if you do not read it you are missing out of the book of the year."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --The Right Truth Book Club\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A Time To Betray\n  </em>\n  is certainly a thriller, with Iranian intelligence always only one step behind Kahliliâ€™s next move. But Kahlili also writes about an idyllic childhood and illustrates the Iran that disappeared after Ayatollah Khomeiniâ€™s revolution."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Forbes.com\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as todayâ€™s headlines from the Middle East,Â 2010 National Best Books Award-winning\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  reveals what no other previous CIA operativeâ€™s memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one manâ€™s decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenmentâ€”but instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. But his carefree time in America was cut short with the sudden death of his father, and Reza returned home to find a country on the cusp of change. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeiniâ€™s tyrannies unfolded, as his fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the horror he witnessed inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become â€œWally,â€ a spy for the CIA.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of an Iranian election that sparked global outrage, at a time when Iranâ€™s nuclear program holds the worldâ€™s anxious attention, the revelations inside\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  could not be more powerful or timely. Now resigned from his secretive life to reclaim precious time with his loved ones, Reza Kahlili documents scenes from history with heart-wrenching clarity, as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the Marine barracks bombings in Beirut, the catastrophes of Pan Am Flight 103, the scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, and more . . . a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nationâ€™s fight for freedom that continues to this very day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A TIME TO BETRAY was the winner of The National Best Books 2010 Awards for Non-Fiction Narrative. It was also honored as the â€œFinalistâ€ in the â€œAutobiography/Memoirsâ€ category. ItÂ is now part of JCITAâ€™s (Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy of DOD) Iranian Programâ€™s readings.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6883'),
(9897, 'Time to Depart', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh from Last Act in Palmyra, Marcus Didius Falco, that most modern of ancient Romans, takes on organized crime in this latest installment of Davis''s impeccably executed series. Falco has a job everyone loves to hate: he''s the Emperor Vespasian''s informer, or private detective?and he does his work well. This time, he''s up against Balbinus Pius, perhaps the original John Gotti. Balbinus has finally been convicted of a capital crime, but, in traditional Roman style, he''s been given a chance to flee before his scheduled execution. The power vacuum created by his departure seems to have sucked up every miscreant in Rome: markets are plundered, children are kidnapped, centurions are murdered. While Falco sets out to determine whether the crime wave is the work of a new kingpin or a herd of small-time operators, his private life is also in a bit of a spin. Companion Helena, a senator''s daughter whom Falco is forbidden by law to marry because of their differing rank, is pregnant. And he''s also pitted against his old army buddy and best friend, Petronius, captain of the fourth cohort of the Aventine Watch, in a corruption investigation. The tale gets a bit bumpy, as Davis, compensating for a slightly subpar mystery plot, tosses in lots of action scenes and personal turmoil. But Falco remains as delightfully irreverent and insightful as ever; and Davis, as usual, brings the time to life while handling the eternals?worry, danger, love and in-laws?just as deftly.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Davis (Last Act in Palmyra, LJ 2/1/96) turns her prodigious talents once again to ancient Rome. Marcus Didius Falco, series "secret agent," tracks an infamous criminal supposedly in exile who is exacting murderous revenge on his enemies. Dependable entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7182'),
(9898, 'A Time to Die', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  It was supposed to be a mission of mercy, until the unthinkable occurred: the destruction of the U.S.S. Juno, killing all hands on board. Starfleet Command has unjustly assessed the actions of Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew during that fateful assignment to the Rashanar Battle Site -- the sector that saw one of the fiercest conflicts of the Dominion War, and which is now a hazardous interstellar graveyard filled with hundreds of devastated starships. While the court-ordered medical evaluation that relieved Picard of command is ongoing, there is growing speculation that his illustrious career may be coming to an end.  To clear his former commander, acting captain William Riker and a demoralized skeleton crew agree to conduct a covert operation, and must venture the Starship Enterprise back into Rashanar to track down a mythical menace -- one that may already be responsible for the annihilation of countless fully armed starships. Unbridled hostility and the promise of death lurk at every turn, but they could never imagine that their only chance of survival may lie in the unexpected return of a long-absent friend....  On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  It was supposed to be a mission of mercy, until the unthinkable occurred: the destruction of the U.S.S. Juno, killing all hands on board. Starfleet Command has unjustly assessed the actions of Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew during that fateful assignment to the Rashanar Battle Site -- the sector that saw one of the fiercest conflicts of the Dominion War, and which is now a hazardous interstellar graveyard filled with hundreds of devastated starships. While the court-ordered medical evaluation that relieved Picard of command is ongoing, there is growing speculation that his illustrious career may be coming to an end.  To clear his former commander, acting captain William Riker and a demoralized skeleton crew agree to conduct a covert operation, and must venture the Starship Enterprise back into Rashanar to track down a mythical menace -- one that may already be responsible for the annihilation of countless fully armed starships. Unbridled hostility and the promise of death lurk at every turn, but they could never imagine that their only chance of survival may lie in the unexpected return of a long-absent friend....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7255'),
(9899, 'A Time to Die', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA --Continuing the saga of the South African family begun in When the Legends Die (Lippincott, 1963; o.p.), Smith weaves another compelling tale of high adventure, politics, and romance in the wilds of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. This new novel finds Sean Courtney leading a big game hunting expedition that is caught deep in hostile territory, where two tribal armies are engaged in battle. Courtney''s fighting and survival instincts are constantly being tested throughout this action-packed story. Compassion and love interest temper the characterization of Sean Courtney, a bit of a change from his wild ways of the past. Smith''s fans will not be disappointed in this addition to the Courtney chronicles, as he expertly describes the excitement and beauty of the African veldt. --Nancy Bard, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Sean Courtney, veteran guerrilla fighter and professional warrior, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro it is a time to face the ultimate test in a world where American values count for nothing. And for Ricardo, her father, a rich and ruthless tycoon, it is a time to confront a dangerous obsession.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9146'),
(9900, 'A Time to Harvest', 'Dayton Ward &amp; Kevin Dilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  Still reeling from the disastrous events that have rocked all of Starfleet and tarnished the career of one of the Federation''s most decorated captains, Picard and his crew must now endure the unthinkable: scandal, ostracism, and an uncertain future. But despite all that has occurred, none aboard the Enterprise have forgotten their duty as Starfleet officers....  Assigned to assist the imperiled Dokaalan -- a small colony of refugees who maintain a precarious existence in a rapidly disintegrating asteroid mining complex -- the Enterprise crew must somehow aid this alien race in terraforming a nearby planet so that it might someday provide a new home for their kind. But violent acts of sabotage soon turn a humanitarian crisis into a deadly confrontation. To save the Dokaalan from extinction, Picard must uncover the presence of an old adversary -- and prevent a disaster of catastrophic proportions!  On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  Still reeling from the disastrous events that have rocked all of Starfleet and tarnished the career of one of the Federation''s most decorated captains, Picard and his crew must now endure the unthinkable: scandal, ostracism, and an uncertain future. But despite all that has occurred, none aboard the Enterprise have forgotten their duty as Starfleet officers....  Assigned to assist the imperiled Dokaalan -- a small colony of refugees who maintain a precarious existence in a rapidly disintegrating asteroid mining complex -- the Enterprise crew must somehow aid this alien race in terraforming a nearby planet so that it might someday provide a new home for their kind. But violent acts of sabotage soon turn a humanitarian crisis into a deadly confrontation. To save the Dokaalan from extinction, Picard must uncover the presence of an old adversary -- and prevent a disaster of catastrophic proportions!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5452'),
(9901, 'A Time to Hate', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  The recurring blood feuds between the Bader and the Dorset ended mysteriously a century ago when both races colonized the planet Delta Sigma IV. But, unknown until now, it was a reaction to a naturally occurring gas that led to their harmonious existence...a reaction that would eventually mean certain death for the planet''s inhabitants. What the "Enterprise" crew believed was a cure for the population -- a treatment introduced into Delta Sigma IV''s environment by Kyle Riker, a man at odds with his son, Commander William Riker -- has instead triggered worldwide carnage, as long-suppressed aggression and hostility are suddenly and violently unleashed.  Caught in a world on the brink of self-destruction, Captain Picard -- a man still waging his own personal battle for redemption in the eyes of his commanding officers -- must somehow find a way to resolve this catastrophic event and save his crew, even as the implications of his actions may ultimately doom an entire race....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7475'),
(9902, 'A Time to Heal', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  A cataclysmic war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets still threaten the fragile peace accord.  Rebels still loyal to the old Tezwa regime have captured Commander Riker and are willing to kill to achieve their goals...the Orion Syndicate is interfering in the rebuilding -- and may also be involved in much more than that. But the most devastating revelation of all threatens the very foundations of the Federation itself -- leaving Captain Picard to possibly face the very conflict that he labored so hard to prevent....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5563'),
(9903, 'Time to Hunt', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a literally explosive opening where sniper fire cuts through the chest of an unnamed victim (Swagger?), readers of\n  <em>\n   Time to Hunt\n  </em>\n  are plunged into the final years of the Vietnam War and the struggles of Marine Donny Fenn. Stationed in Washington, D.C., after recovering from a nearly mortal wound, Fenn is asked to spy on Marines who may have ties to the peace movement. What Donny quickly learns, however, is that his Navy superiors are more interested in framing\n  <em>\n   somebody\n  </em>\n  than they are in finding the truth. In this first section, readers waiting to discover the outcome of the assassination and glimpse Bob "The Nailer" Swagger will instead be swept away by Hunter''s vivid painting of the divided loyalties and torn identities that plagued soldiers and citizens in the early 1970s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But all of this action is only a prelude to Donny''s subsequent relationship with Swagger in Vietnam. Hunter fleshes out the mythology that he began to create in\n </p>\n <p>\n  The last two sections cut to contemporary events and find Swagger married to Donny''s former love, Julie. Slowly, the events of the first half of the book begin to merge with Swagger''s present history and stories that readers will recognize from Hunter''s earlier novels. Swagger uncovers a deep connection between the Vietnam demonstrations of the 1970s, the predatory work of the CIA, and the killer who is after him and his family now. Nothing is as it first seems, and readers of\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a sniper shoots a man in the mountains of Idaho and wounds the woman who is with him, it is not an isolated incident but the deliberate culmination of events that began during the Vietnam War. Bob Lee Swagger, who was a Marine sniper in Vietnam known as "Bob for the Nailer" for his lethal shooting, at first believes that he was the gunman''s intended target. The wounded woman is his wife and the widow of his wartime comrade, Donny Fenn. Donny had been killed by a Russian sniper assigned the task of neutralizing Bob, or so Bob had always believed. But now it seems possible that Donny might have been the main target all those years ago and that it is Donny''s widow that the sniper has come to kill, not Bob. Both a gripping war novel and a complex thriller coiled around the convoluted intrigues of the supposedly concluded Cold War, this is page-turning entertainment that will delight action adventure readers.?Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, MA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5007'),
(9904, 'A Time to Kill', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before The Firm andÂ Â The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,Â Â John Grisham wrote this riveting story ofÂ Â retribution and justice -- at last it''s available in aÂ Â Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroomÂ Â drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes theÂ Â savage depths of racial violence...as he deliversÂ Â a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a smallÂ Â southern town...Clanton, Mississippi.Â Â The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by twoÂ Â drunken and remorseless young man. The mostlyÂ Â white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumanÂ Â crime. Until her black father acquires an assaultÂ Â rifle -- and takes justice into his own outragedÂ Â hands.For ten days, as burning crossesÂ Â and the crack of sniper fire spread through theÂ Â streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound asÂ Â young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to saveÂ Â his client''s life...and then his own...From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1994'),
(9905, 'A Time to Love', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told. Until now. One hundred years ago, the recurring conflicts between the Bader and the Dorset ended mysteriously when both races colonized the distant planet Delta Sigma IV-a world located far from the destructive wars of their people-and quickly became the Federation''s perfect example of interspecies cooperation. But there are now rumblings of trouble in paradise, as an investigation led by Kyle Riker-Commander William Riker''s estranged father-into this harmonious society has discovered a shocking, immutable truth: over the next few generations, the reaction to a native gas will spell the extinction of Delta Sigma IV''s inhabitants. Captain Picard and his crew, still recovering from the tragic events that have tarnished the career of one of the Federation''s most decorated captains, must come to the aid of a world that once knew only peace, but now faces emerging violence and chaos... and Commander Riker must confront the reality that his own father may be held responsible for Delta Sigma IV''s almost certain downfall!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7476'),
(9906, 'A Time to Sow', 'Dayton Ward &amp; Kevin Dilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc PicardÅ¼s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William RikerÅ¼s promotion to captain and his new command, RikerÅ¼s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly CrusherÅ¼s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told. Until now. More than two centuries ago, the Dokaalan sent an unmanned probe into the void, bearing a distress call for anyone who could save their doomed world. But the message reached Federation space too late to save the planet or its people. Or so it was believed.... Generations later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E are stunned to discover the last of the Dokaala-Å¼now only a colony fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for their people. But bitter divisions exist among the Dokaalan, sowing the seeds of sabotage and terrorismÅ¼and placing Picard and the Enterprise in the middle of an escalating crisis that can only lead to total destruction!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5453'),
(9907, 'Time Traders', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USAs greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies -- and weapons -- far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition''s ancient source...and take it dawn. When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America''s secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades. Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9105'),
(9908, 'The time traveler&#39;s wife', 'Audrey Niffenegger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare''s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger''s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel''s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler''s Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/207');
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(9909, 'Time Travelers Never Die', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  McDevitt (_Seeker_) avoids flashy action scenes in this tale of two friends using a time machine to take a grand tour of history. When Adrian Shel Shelbourne''s physicist father disappears and leaves behind a time-travel device, Shel and his friend Dave Dryden, a language expert, search for Shel''s father in Galileo''s Italy, Selma during the civil rights marches and other famous times and places. Realizing that time resists paradoxes and history can''t be changed, the two friends seize the opportunity to live enriching, truly humane lives from Thermopylae to a few minutes in the future. As the paradoxes begin to pile up and their luck in dodging some of history''s villains runs out, McDevitt ingeniously handles a tricky denouement that will leave readers satisfied.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When scientist Michael Shelburne vanishes, his son Adrianâ€”Shel to his friendsâ€”suspects unusual circumstances but not that his father has discovered the secret of time travel. Figuring it out, however, Shel and friend David Dryden use Michaelâ€™s devices to find the missing man in a quest that takes them through Depression-era Philadelphia, Renaissance Italy, the bloody civil rights march at Selma, and the as-yet-unburned library of Alexandriaâ€™s collection of the classical Greek dramatists. Eventually they succeed, but Shelâ€™s curiosity spurs him to travel into the future, where he discovers his impending death, and then to search for a way to avoid that fate. That search occupies the bookâ€™s latter half and becomes a masterpiece of storytelling and exploration of the paradoxes of time travel. In fact, the whole book ranks very highly in McDevittâ€™s quarter-century of work distinguished by high intelligence, fine world building, and superb characterization. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4928'),
(9910, 'Time Travelers Strictly Cash', 'Spider Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10035'),
(9911, 'Time Travellers Strictly Cash', 'Spider Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Human or otherwise, regardless of race, creed or dimension of origin, if you''re looking for a good time in a place where the beer is always flowing, and the stories always out of this world, step up to the bar at Callahan''s. There''ll be tales--Oh, are there tales! Like the one about a loud-mouthed time traveler who capitalized on a rip in the space-time continuum; or the one about Ralph the talking, gin-drinking German Shepherd created by a demented genius shrink. But don''t believe us. Ask Ralph. He''ll tell you himself. Also don''t forget to watch out for the deadly toasts--especially the Melba toast! And above all, remember...Time Travelers Strictly Cash.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3859'),
(9912, 'Time&#39;s Eye', 'Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among todayâ€™s science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIMEâ€™S EYE For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankindâ€“ until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037â€“three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistanâ€“have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(9913, 'Timeless Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Josette Monier is one of the Sazi''s most powerful seers. But even her foresight isn''t infallible. She can be fooled, and has been: Fooled into thinking that Rick, her former husband is long dead. Fooled into thinking that her bitter enemy Ahmad al Narmer is behind all of the attempts on her life. But now Rick is back, and the two of them must find out who is behind the plot against all of the Sazi seers, and how it involves a drug reputed to keep Sazi from turning --- while dodging the assassins on their tails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1396'),
(9914, 'Timelike infinity', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Quax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 1500 years ago, intended to establish a link through which time travel is possible. To the humans this is a chance to reverse time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4223'),
(9915, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survivalâ€“six hundred years ago. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2249'),
(9916, 'Timequake', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n O romance gira em torno de um ''tremor de tempo'' que teria feito com que o universo sofresse uma espÃ©cie de soluÃ§o, voltando dez anos em sua trajetÃ³ria. O texto Ã© permeado por auto-referÃªncias. Do massacre da cidade de Dresden, em 1945, que o escritor presenciou, Ã  morte, por cÃ¢ncer, de seus dois irmÃ£os, Bernard e Allie, e da primeira esposa, Jane, os fatos da vida de Vonnegut se misturam com o dia-a-dia dos personagens Trout, Monica, Zoltan Pepper e Dudley Prince. No prÃ³logo, Vonnegut cita ''O velho e o mar'' , de Ernest Hemingway, sugerindo que o peixe enorme deveria ter sido fatiado, permitindo ao anciÃ£o salvar as melhores partes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7705'),
(9917, 'Times Eye', 'Arthur C Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and what appears to be an impossibly advanced piece of Russian technology. And then to a terrifying intervention by a helicopter from 2037. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in, Kipling, his friends and the helicopter crew stumble across Alexander the Great''s army. Mankind''s time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage to China, beating the time-slipped army of Ghenghis Khan in a battle outside the ruins of Babylon in the process. And it will present mankind with two devastating truths. Aliens are amongst us and have been manipulating our past and our future. And that future extends only as far as 2037, for that is the date Earth will be destroyed. This is SF that spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on time travel and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre''s masters at their groundbreaking best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arthur C. Clarke is the visionary grandmaster of 20th and 21st century SF. In a writing career than spans seven decades he has both prophesied key, world changing technologies and written SF that has become a benchmark for the genre. Stephen Baxter is the most significant SF writer of his generation. His books are bestsellers and award-winners the world over. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8971'),
(9918, 'Timescape', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1851'),
(9919, 'Timeshares', 'Jean Rabe; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Sixteen original stories about taking your dream vacation-in any era you desire. ** Take a vacation through time with the help of a Time Travel Agency offering excursions into the past and future. Readers will find themselves in exotic, adventurous locales-and in all manner of trouble and mysteries. And figures from the past will be able to squeak by the other way. Picture Cleopatra in modern-day New York City, or Hannibal searching for elephants at Wisconsin''s Circus World. And that''s just the beginning of the thrills and danger...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1998'),
(9920, 'The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia&#39;s Convict Women', 'Deborah J. Swiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world .\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen''s Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes'' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation."\n  <br />\n  -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women."\n  <br />\n  -MÃ¡irtÃ­n Ã“ FainÃ­n, Ambassador of Ireland\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Birute Regine, author of\n  <em>\n   Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity.\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings."\n  <br />\n  -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide\n </p>\n <p>\n  "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them."\n  <br />\n  -Adam Hochschild, author of\n  <em>\n   King Leopold''s Ghost\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bury the Chains\n  </em>\n  , co-founder of\n  <em>\n   Mother Jones\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women''s necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen''s Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire''s crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women''s rights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes''s best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen''s Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7504'),
(9921, 'Tinker', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: DESCRIPTIONInventor, girl genius, Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what''s really important--her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel-toed boots, and a junk yard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3230'),
(9922, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John le CarrÃ©''s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le CarrÃ© expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley''s chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3038'),
(9923, 'Tinkers', 'Paul Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure. A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring. Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4091'),
(9924, 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous', 'Dawn French', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone hates the perfect family. So youâ€™ll love the Battles. Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent: She doesnâ€™t understand either of her teenage kids, which as a child psychologist, is fairly embarrassing. She has become entirely grey. Inside, and out. Her face has surrendered and is frightening children. Dora is about to hit the big 18 . . . and about to hit anyone who annoys her, especially her precocious younger brother Peter who has a chronic Oscar Wilde fixation. Then thereâ€™s Dad . . . whoâ€™s just, well, dad. A TINY BIT MARVELLOUS is the story of a modern family all living in their own separate bubbles lurching towards meltdown. It is for anyone who has ever shared a home with that weird group of strangers we call relations. Oh and thereâ€™s a dog. Called Poo.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6020'),
(9925, 'Tip It!: The World According to Maggie', 'Maggie Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Readers,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are at   least five good reasons to Tip It! right now.          My daughter Kathy put out *   her*    memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And     it got to be a #1 *    New York     Times* bestseller. Congratulations,     Kathleen! But now it''s my turn. I''ve written my own book. I have things to     say, too, without having to be all controversial like you were. Tip it!        People recognize me on the street a lot now     and come over, nicely, and say "Maggie, you remind me of my own mother." And     they say "Maggie, I love your show"--referring to *Kathy Griffin: My Life on     the D-List *as *    my     *show. Sometimes I correct them, I say,     "Oh, it''s not     my     show." But sometimes . . . I don''t correct     them. It''s kind of fun being a star, isn''t it? Tip it!        If you want to know a few things about my     daughter Kathleen that only a mother could know (How the heck did she get this     way? Did she always swear so much, for Chrissake?), you have come to the right     book. Tip it!         You know how a box of wine is never empty just     because the spigot seems to have run dry? (There''s always a little more if you     just tip it!) This book is like that. There''s so much in     it--never-before-published Griffin family photos!, a love story (me and my dear     departed husband Johnny), a whole guide to good living (including how to     survive on what''s in your purse), and a lot of funny business in this book     from Kathleen (she made comments in this book; readers, I was not able to stop     her!). So take this book and Tip It!         And be sure to get the last drop out of     living. Isn''t it nice that "Tip It" acts as a toast? I''m 90 years old, and I     think "Tip It!" even works pretty well as a motto for living to the fullest.     So, Tip It! today.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yours,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maggie Griffin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A funny thing happened on the   way to Kathy Griffin''s skyrocketing stardom. The more she told stories about her   mother, Maggie, in her stand-up act and on her Emmy-winning television show, *  Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,* the more popular her mother became.   (At the mere mention of Maggie, a stadium full of fans will cheer, "Tip It! Tip   It!")\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shocked by Kathy,   exasperated by Kathy, grudgingly amused by Kathy, and at the end of the day,   always a loving mother to Kathy, Maggie Griffin has become the darling Gracie to   Kathy''s George Burns, the wry Cher to Kathy''s Sonny Bono, the spry, sweet   Roadrunner to Kathy''s Wile E. Coyote.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maggie Griffin   grew up in Chicago, the youngest of sixteen children born to Irish immigrant   parents. She met Johnny, the love of her life, in Chicago, started dating him   after high school (while working at the Form Fit Bra factory in the returns   department), and they fell in love and married during the War. Together they   raised five children, the youngest a cutie named Kathleen, who never gave them a   moment''s trouble throughout her childhood--though it''s been payback time ever   since.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Kathy''s comedy   career took off, more and more stories of Maggie magically worked their way into   Kathy''s routines. And as a regular on *Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,*   Maggie takes more guff from her daughter than any other mom on national   television. Well, after having her life put on comic display by the loudmouthed   redhead she fed, clothed, and cared for well into the comedian''s adulthood,   Maggie finally has the floor, and she has some business to share with you.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So get out your Franzia, stir up some Hamburger Helper, and dive into the world according to   Maggie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5317'),
(9926, 'Tipperary: A Novel', 'Frank Delaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Seventy-five years after the death of Charles O''Brien, an Anglo-Irish itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860, his memoir is discovered in a trunk. The result is this touching novel from\n <em>\n  Ireland\n </em>\n author Delaney, in which the manuscript''s putative discoverer adds his own unreliable commentary to the fictive Charles''s probably embellished perceptionsâ€”making for a glowing composite of a volatile Ireland. Charles claims to treat Oscar Wilde on his deathbed; advise a young James Joyce (When you write... be sure to make it complicated. It will retain people''s attention); tell an appreciative Yeats the story of Finn MacCool; and inadvertently bring down Charles Stewart Parnell. He also meets the founders and leaders of Sinn Fein and the IRA, and will, as will Ireland itself, entwine his fate with theirs. And at 40, never-married Charles meets the love of his life, 18-year-old April Burke, an Englishwoman who repeatedly spurns him and exploits him, but who has a large role to play in his life. The narrator claims that his interest in Charles and April is academic, but he eventually confesses that he suspects their stories have some personal relationship to his own. Delaney''s confident storytelling and quirky characterizations enrich a fascinating and complex period of Irish history.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMy wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.â€ So writes Charles Oâ€™Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaneyâ€™s extraordinary new novelâ€“a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he travels the countryside dispensing traditional cures while soaking up stories and legends of bygone timesâ€“and witnessing the painful, often violent birth of land-reform measures destined to lead to Irish independence.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the age of forty, summoned to Paris to treat his dying countrymanâ€“the infamous Oscar Wildeâ€“Charles experiences the fateful moment of his life. In a chance encounter with a beautiful and determined young Englishwoman, eighteen-year-old April Burke, he is instantly and passionately smittenâ€“but callously rejected. Vowing to improve himself, Charles returns to Ireland, where he undertakes the preservation of the great and abandoned estate of Tipperary, in whose shadow he has lived his whole lifeâ€“and which, he discovers, may belong to April and her father.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Charles pursues his obsession, he writes the â€œHistoryâ€ of his own life and country. While doing so, he meets the great figures of the day, including Charles Parnell, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. And he also falls victim to less well-knownÂ charactersâ€“who prove far more dangerous.\n <em>\n  Tipperary\n </em>\n also features a second â€œhistorian:â€ a present-day commentator, a retired and obscure history teacher who suddenly discovers that he has much at stake in the telling of Charlesâ€™s story.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this gloriously absorbing and utterly satisfying novel, a manâ€™s passion for the woman he loves is twinned with his countryâ€™s emergence as a nation. With storytelling as sweeping and dramatic as the land itself, myth, fact, and fiction are all woven together with the power of the great nineteenth-century novelists.\n <em>\n  Tipperary\n </em>\n once again proves Frank Delaneyâ€™s unrivaled mastery at bringing Irish history to life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Praise for Frank Delaneyâ€™s TIPPERARY:\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[T]he narrative moves swiftly and surelyâ€¦A sort of Irish\n <em>\n  Gone With the Wind\n </em>\n , marked by sly humor, historical awareness and plenty of staying power.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A]nother meticulously researched journeyâ€¦Delaneyâ€™s careful scholarship and compelling storytelling bring it uniquely alive. Highly recommended.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  (starred)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSophisticated and creative.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDelaneyâ€™s confident storytelling and quirky characterizations enrich a fascinating and complex period of Irish history.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œRead just a few sentences of Frank Delaneyâ€™s writing and youâ€™ll see why National Public Radio called him â€˜the worldâ€™s most eloquent man.â€™â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€” Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , â€œBig Book Guide 2007â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6183'),
(9927, 'The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2285'),
(9928, 'Tishomingo blues', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge &amp; Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob execution while atop his diving platform. Robert Taylor saw the hit also. A blues-loving Detroit hustler touring the Southland in a black Jaguar, Taylor''s got his own secret agenda re the "Cornbread Cosa Nostra," and he wants Dennis in on the game. But there''s a lot more in Robert Taylor''s pocket than a photo of his lynched great-grandfather. And high-diver Dennis could be about to take a long, fatal fall -- right into a mess of hoop skirts, Civil War play-acting ... and more trouble than he ever dreamed possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(9929, 'Titan', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Humankind''s greatest--and last--adventure! Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn''s largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASA''s Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a "slingshot" transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a constant struggle to keep the ship and crew functioning. But it is on the icy surface of Titan itself that the true adventure begins. In the orange methane slush the astronauts will discover the secret of life''s origins and reach for a human destiny beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11088'),
(9930, 'Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr', 'Ron Chernow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history''s first billionaire and the patriarch of America''s most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller''s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world''s richest man by creating America''s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation''s history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller''s misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â John D. Rockefeller''s story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller''s life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow''s signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ron Chernow''s first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Award for the year''s best study of American culture. His second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993 and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year''s best nonfiction books. In reviewing his recent collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, The New York Times called the author "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we''ve seen in decadesÂ Â and chose the paperback original as one of the year''s Notable Books.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7398'),
(9931, 'The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it''s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever. EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it''s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?Â  They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4233'),
(9932, 'To a God Unknown', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Robert Demott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel, which occupied Steinbeck for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father''s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificant tree on the farm embodies his father''s spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph''s prosperity, and the farm flourishes - until one brother, frightened by Joseph''s pagan belief, kills the tree, allowing disease and famine to descend on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, "To a God Unknown" is a mystical tale, exploring one man''s attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God and the forces of the unconscious within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7742'),
(9933, 'To a God Unknown (Penguin Modern Classics)', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As his father lies dying, Joseph Wayne decides to trade his Vermont farm for a new life in California. Once established on his ranch, he comes to revere a huge tree as the embodiment of his father''s spirit. Joseph''s brothers and their wives join him, and their farms prosper. Then one of the brothers, repelled by Joseph''s reverence for the tree, cuts it down. Consequences follow -- harsh and severe. In TO A GOD UNKNOWN, one of his earliest novels, Steinbeck uses the Western American experience as a way of exploring man''s relationships to his environment -- a theme that would come to characterize much of his later work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3013'),
(9934, 'To a Mountain in Tibet', 'Colin Thubron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Å“The mountain path is the road of the dead,Â writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that transcends the mere physical journey. In the wake of his motherâ„¢s death, Thubron sets off to Mount Kailas in Tibet, a peak sacred to one-fifth of the worldâ„¢s population and the source of four of Indiaâ„¢s great rivers. Kailas has never been climbed: the slopes are important to Tibetan Buddhists who say the mountainâ„¢s guardian is Demchog (a tantric variant of Shiva). Along with two guides, Thubron embarks on a pilgrimage that begins in Nepal and crosses into Tibet, recounting not only his arduous journey but also the political and cultural history of Tibet and the Westâ„¢s continued fascination with its mysticism. Along the way, he observes pilgrims of various religions converging on Kailas and the myriad monasteries, most of which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt decades later. It is the poignant evocations of his mother and sister (who died at 21), interwoven with his profound respect for the Tibetan culture and landscape that make Thubronâ„¢s memoir an utterly moving read. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Kailas is a sacred, snow-capped mountain of the Himalayas in a remote area of western Tibet. There have been no recorded attempts to climb it, in deference to Buddhist, Hindu, Bï¿½n, and Jainist beliefs. Award-winning British travel writer and novelist Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road, 2007) traveled along the Karnali River (a tributary of the Ganges) by foot with only a guide, a cook, and a horse man on a long and often treacherous trek to visit this mystical peak, considered holy by one-fifth of humankind. The journey is the reward, for both writer and reader, in this rich, beautiful account of the landscape, people, culture, and politics of Tibet. Much more than a travel guide or history lesson, this engrossing and gorgeously written book is also a stirring memoir tinged with the authorï¿½s own grief, reflecting on the joys and losses heï¿½s experienced. Thubron is the steward of his fatherï¿½s legacy and keeper of his motherï¿½s memories, sharing familial recollections on a pilgrimage toward one of natureï¿½s precious jewels, and his own parentless future. --Chris Keech\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8688'),
(9935, 'To Catch a Cheat', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Single thirty-something Marissa, though beautiful and talented, is becoming increasingly skeptical about romance because every man in her life has been a cheater. She creates a website dedicated to exposing serial cheaters, but instead her website ushers back into her life her first boyfriend from adolescence, and he is determined to show her that a man can be true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7781'),
(9936, 'To Catch a Thief', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4154'),
(9937, 'To Defy a King', 'Elizabeth Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A story of huge emotional power set against the road to Magna Carta and the fight to bring a tyrant king to heel.The privileged daughter of one of the most powerful men in England, Mahelt Marshal''s life changes dramatically when her father is suspected by King John. Her brothers become hostages and Mahelt is married to Hugh Bigod, heir to the earldom of Norfolk. Adapting to her new life is hard, but Mahelt comes to love Hugh deeply; however, defying her father-in-law brings disgrace and heartbreak. When King John sets out to subdue the Bigods, Mahelt faces a heartbreaking battle, fearing neither she, nor her marriage, is likely to survive the outcome . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1112');
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(9938, 'To Green Angel Tower, Part 1', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sprawling, spellbinding conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Dragonbone Chair weaves together a multitude of intricate strands, building to a suitably apocalyptic confrontation between good and evil. Prince Josua wins a first victory against the forces of his brother, Elias, who rules as High King in Osten Ard. Elias has the help of the dark priest Pryrates and of Ineluki the Storm King, onetime ruler of the immortal Sithi (the race that preceded humans). But others defy him, including Elias''s own daughter, Princess Miriamele, the scullion turned knight Simon, and Camaris, once one of the greatest knights of Osten Ard and wielder of the sword Thorn, one of the three weapons that may effect a victory over Elias''s hordes. As Josua''s forces-- augmented by those Elias has wronged and by friendly Sithi--approach the king''s stronghold, a secret battle takes place in the underlying caverns. It will affect not only the conflict''s outcome, but also the futures of many races. The main caveat to Williams''s engrossing epic is its length. A tetralogy might have been more easily digested, although that format might have drained some of the extraordinary tension built up in the book''s closing pages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This culmination of the trilogy is incredibly long and carries, besides the story, a dictionary of names, places, and other necessary information. It tells of the final battle between the forces of good and evil in the land of Osten Ard, a mythical place not unlike medieval Europe. Clearly, the author has been influenced not only by Tolkien, but also by Wagner''s "Ring" story. Everything in Williams''s narrative is larger than life-the individuals, the battles, the mysticism and magic. Yet his painstaking detail ensures that the world he creates is as believable and immediate as readers'' everyday lives. The main character, Simon, is a reluctant hero. He is a superior warrior, yet he hates violence. He has been chosen as a seer by mystical beings who wish to aid his human counterparts, but he is never sure of his own worth. He understands cosmic truths, but considers himself ignorant. All action spins around Simon, but the book is replete with many other interesting characters, all fully developed. Enjoying the story''s wealth of entertainment can literally take months, but for the author''s fans it will be a treasure. It can also stand on its own.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jessica Lahr, Edison High School, Fairfax County, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6355'),
(9939, 'To Green Angel Tower, Part 2', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A major event in the annals of Fantasy: the long-awaited conclusion of Tad Williams'' bestselling trilogy Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (which began with The Dragonbone Chair and Stone of Farewell). In Part 2 of To Green Angel Tower, Simon and Miriamele undertake a dangerous quest through the war- and magic-torn lands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6356'),
(9940, 'To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West', 'Mark Lee Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Western historian Gardner (_Wagons for the Santa Fe Trade_) delivers a dual biography documenting Sheriff Pat Garrett''s hunt for the iconic outlaw William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. As Gardner sees it, the battle between the wily Kid and the determined Garrett is perhaps the greatest of our Old West legends. Digging beneath the myths and melodrama, he begins in Las Vegas during Christmas week, 1880, when the capture and confinement of Billy the Kid made national headlines. Gardner then details the Kid''s daring daylight courthouse escape on April 28, 1881, in a hail of gunfire, leaving bloodied bodies behind. I am not going to leave the country, said the Kid, and I am not going to reform, neither am I going to be taken alive again. The chase began, with Garrett finally gunning down the Kid on July 14, 1881. Gardner concludes with a survey of the Kid''s robust mythic afterlife in books and films. Gardner''s extensive research and authoritative approach ground this compelling historical recreation. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 9)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The saga of Billy the Kid and his nemesis, Pat Garrett, has been the subject of numerous fanciful books and several very bad movies. So it is both useful and interesting to read this well-researched and, one hopes, relatively accurate account of the Lincoln County War and the two most famous participants in it. The center of the account is Garrettâ€™s pursuit and execution of the Kid after he escaped from the Lincoln County courthouse jail. Fortunately, Gardner precedes that account with an engrossing examination of the lives of both men and the political and economic milieu of nineteenth-century New Mexico. He effectively uses primary sources, although those sources are often contradictory and reflect the views of competing Lincoln County factions. The portrait of the Kid, surprisingly, conforms to his popular image as a ruthless killer who could also be charming. Garrett is seen as ambitious, laconic, and coldly efficient. This is a fine effort to de-mystify a legendary episode in the history of the American West. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7293'),
(9941, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Harper Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harper Lee''s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1697'),
(9942, 'To Prime the Pump', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5506'),
(9943, 'To Ride Pegasus', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10824'),
(9944, 'To Storm Heaven', 'Esther Friesner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Lelys, ambassador of the plague-ridden colony planet of Orakisa, approaches the Federation seeking help for her dying world, the U.S.S. Enterprise speeds to the rescue. Captain Picard and his crew escort the Orakisan delegation to its long-lost sister-world, Ne''elat, where the ambassador and the Away Team are initially welcomed, but then endangered. As the Enterprise officers make their way through a web of planet-wide intrigue, time is running out the people of Orakisa and the inhabitants of their sister-worlds as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Lelys, ambassador of the plague-ridden colony planet of Orakisa, approaches the Federation seeking help for her dying world, the U.S.S. Enterprise speeds to the rescue. Captain Picard and his crew escort the Orakisan delegation to its long-lost sister-world, Ne''elat, where the ambassador and the Away Team are initially welcomed, but then endangered. As the Enterprise officers make their way through a web of planet-wide intrigue, time is running out the people of Orakisa and the inhabitants of their sister-worlds as well.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5631'),
(9945, 'To Tempt a Saint', 'Kate Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** No romance lover can resist the novels of Kate Moore... First in the Sons of Sin trilogy Introducing the three sons of an infamous London courtesan-and the strong-willed women who love them...* ** Despite being knighted for saving the Prince Regent''s life, Sir Alexander Jones will never truly be accepted by the nobility. But if he''s to find his long lost brother, Xander must win the first willing heiress he can find. Only by marrying can Cleo Spencer access her funds. Making a bargain with Xander is her chance to provide for her younger brother. But when her uncle accuses them of fraud, they discover that love is the best part of their bargain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2768'),
(9946, 'To the Blight: The Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When his village is attacked by Trollocs -- a savage tribe of half-men and half beasts -- Rand al''Thor and his friends are lucky to stay alive. But for Rand there is no time to celebrate. It was not the village the Trollocs were after. It was Rand.In Part One, Rand will come face-to-face with the Dark One: the most formidable force of evil in the universe. His adventures continue in Part Two, when his battle against Aginor brings him face-to-face. . .with the truth behind his own mysterious idenitity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3808'),
(9947, 'To the Death', 'Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Patrick Robinson comes his most provocative international thriller and the much much-anticipated conclusion of his renowned series starring Admiral Arnold Morgan and his terrorist nemesis, General Ravi Rashood. The hunt begins when a bomb explodes in Bostonâ€™s Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, the most trusted advisor to President Bedford, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible for the bloodshed. As Morgan ships the Islamic fanatics to Guantanamo Bay for containment, the Hamas high command hatches a vicious plan to assassinate him once he exits the United States. Leading this attack is chief Hamas assassin General Ravi Rashood. Meanwhile, President Bedford, in a desperate attempt to protect the Admiral at all costs, summons the most advanced and dangerous Navy SEAL team the United States has to offer. And so begins the exhilarating chase that goes beyond the borders of the United States, taking the reader on a terrifying journey through southern Ireland, London, and Scotland. This near-future masterwork is a story of mayhem, intrigue, and wanton murder. *To the Death* is Robinson at his best, always tightening the tension and writing with supreme realism as he works up to a gripping climax to his seriesÂ—an ending in which someone, ultimately, must die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4195'),
(9948, 'To the End of the Land', 'David Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A major, internationally bestselling novel of extraordinary power about the costs of war from one of Israel''s greatest writers. Set in Israel in recent times, this epic yet intimate novel places side by side the trials of war and the challenges of everyday life. Through a series of powerful, overlapping circles backward in time, it tells the story of Ora''s relationship with her husband, from whom she is now separated, as well as the tragedy of their best friend Avram, a former soldier - and her son''s biological father. When her son Ofer rejoins the army for a major offensive, Ora is devastated and decides to hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might deliver the worst news a parent can hear. She phones Avram, whom she has not seen in 21 years, and convinces him to go with her. As they journey together, Ora unfurls the story of her family, and gives Avram the gift of his son - a telling that keeps the boy alive for both his mother and the reader. Never have we seen so vividly the surreality of daily life in Israel, the consequences of living in a society where the burden of war falls on each generation anew. David Grossman''s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great anti-war novels of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1372'),
(9949, 'To the Hilt', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10972'),
(9950, 'To the Lighthouse', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.\n  <br />\n  To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book''s several themes is the ubiquity of transience.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf''s best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World''s Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.'' Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May ''94\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it'' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf''s novels. On completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitable artist at the centre of the novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7284'),
(9951, 'To the Nines', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephanie Plum''s got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.But hey, she''s from Jersey.Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she''s pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way...and she always gets her man. InTo The Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who''s also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an immigrant who becomes an illegal alien by violating his Visa and extending his stay in the United States. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word "hunter..."In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Vegas strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2146'),
(9952, 'Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan', 'Jake Adelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious "Yomiuri Shinbun." For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan''s most infamous "yakuza" boss--and the threat of death for him and his family--Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back. In "Tokyo Vice," Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter--who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor--to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day "yakuza" that even few Japanese ever see, "Tokyo Vice" is a fascination, and an education, from first to last. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1631'),
(9953, 'Tokyo Year Zero', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  British author Peace (_GB84_, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction) bases this riveting novel on a real-life serial-killer case in post-WWII Japan. When the nude body of a young woman turns up in a local park, Inspector Minami of the Tokyo police and his squad of detectives investigate. At the crime scene, Minami finds another woman''s body nearby and begins to suspect there will be more to come. Minami, married and a father of two, is smart, tenacious and experienced; he''s also addicted to sedatives, keeps a mistress, is in the pocket of a local crime lord and not above sampling the wares of prostitutes he encounters while roaming the city at night. Tokyo has been heavily damaged by Allied bombing, the populace is starving, the occupying victors are overbearing and brutal; for the Japanese, there''s only an unrelenting struggle to stay alive in a nightmare world. Peace, whose complex style feels like a cross between Haruki Murakami and James Ellroy, delivers an expressionistic portrait of a harrowing, devastated time and place.\n  <em>\n   50,000 first printing. (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œToo often the mystery today seems ossified. How exhilarating, then, to discover David Peace through his brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic and ambiguous seventh novel,\n  <em>\n   Tokyo Year Zero\n  </em>\n  . . . Peaceâ€™s masters would seem to be Dostoyevsky; postmodern collagists like William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker; and practitioners of the French\n  <em>\n   nouveau roman\n  </em>\n  like Alain Robbe-Grillet . . . Marvelous.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œA writer can be psychologically penetrating, or socially significant, or spooky as hell (Stephen King, Patrick Suskind, Chuck Palahniuk). Noir novelists drench the whole affair in atmosphere. And then there is David Peaceâ€™s methodâ€“which is to be all these things, all at once . . . Once this hellish locomotive of a book hooks onto its tracks it becomes difficult to hop off.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAstounding . . .\n  <em>\n   Tokyo Year Zero\n  </em>\n  is Peaceâ€™s most accessible work, the culmination of years of fine-tuning his idiosyncratic voice to its truest frequency . . . What we have here is not just a novel with voice, but also with rhythm, which must be learned and sharpened by the writer and is extraordinarily difficult to get right.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThe big post-war Japan novel, a fierce marriage of mood and narrative drive.Â David Peace continues to polish and advance his particular brand of literary crime fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“George Pelecanos\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . Peace, whose complex style feels like a cross between Haruki Murakami and James Ellroy, delivers an expressionistic portrait of a harrowing, devastated time and place.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_Publishers Weekly _(starred)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPeace is clearly making something that is absolutely and unquestionably unique . . . His books are doubly exciting, and doubly disturbing, because Peace demonstrates what we instinctively know and fear to be true about the world: that there are, of course, moral absolutes, but that we all live, in our daily lives, as moral relativists. What Peace then adds to this already compelling schema is a vivid and detailed depiction of place and a strong poetic use of language.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_The Guardian_ (UK)_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œOut of the facts [of postwar Tokyo], Peace weaves a thriller that is both a gory psychological whodunit and a meditation on the origins of modern Japan. The result is something dark and bloody, the tone lying somewhere between Kurosawaâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Macbeth\n  </em>\n  and the caricatures of the more violent manga cartoons.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_The Observer\n  <em>\n   (UK)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œA stunning piece of writing, powerful, moving, unsentimental but deeply felt . . . A detective novel? Perhaps. A thriller? Certainly. But its core is more attuned to Dostoevsky than Conan Doyle . . . Peace controls everything with a poise that steals your breath . . . He is a writer whose dark, dramatic gifts have produced some of the most disturbing books of our time. His body of work is stacking up to become a landmark in modern fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  _â€“The Scotsman\n  <em>\n   (UK)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œA triumph, an audacious, dazzling, furiously-paced, admirably intelligent page-turner that both tugs at the heart and chills the blood. This is Peace at the peak of his form . . . It does David Peace a disservice to describe him as a crime writer. He is, quite simply, one of the most compelling and original contemporary authors anywhere, in any context. That he has chosen to write crime fiction is cause for fans of the genre to give thanks. And they should certainly give thanks for\n  <em>\n   Tokyo Year Zero\n  </em>\n  .â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_Yorkshire Post\n  <em>\n   (UK)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œA lyrical tour through the dark, bubbling chaos of postâ€”World War II Japan,\n  <em>\n   Tokyo Year Zero\n  </em>\n  is both an inquiry into a local atrocity and an investigation into the greatest collective identity crisis in modern history. By laying before us the black re-birth of a nation in 1946, Peace provides essential insight into the world of today.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“John Burdett\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Tokyo Year Zero _is part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way. David Peaceâ€™s depiction of a war-torn metropolis both crumbling and ascendant is peerless, and the story itself is beautifully wrought.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“James Ellroy\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5687'),
(9954, 'The Toll-Gate', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "* "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to." - Katie Fforde * "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." - Margaret Drabble * "A writer of great wit and style - I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph * "Sparkling" - Independent on Sunday"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Captain John Staple is bored by the constraints of civilian life. To shake things up, he takes an invigorating ride across the countryside. A storm forces him to take shelter at a tollgate where the gatekeeper has mysteriously disappeared.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Captain stumbles into an adventure more thrilling than his days battling Napoleon. While searching for the missing gatekeeper, he inadvertently uncovers a smuggling operation, and his only recourse is to bring the villains to justice and rescue the enigmatically charming young Lady Nell from her unsavory relatives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10215'),
(9955, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Ghost Recon', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The U.S. Army''s Special Forces are known for their highy specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there''s a group that''s even more stealthy and deadly. Composed of the most feared operators on the face of the earth - they are the soldiers of Ghost Recon. Captain Scott Mitchell and his Ghost Recon team infiltrate China''s eastern coast to seek and destroy the Spring Tiger Group. The small band of renegade Chinese military leaders is poised to execut ''Operation Pouncing Dragon'', a plot to seize Taiwan and trigger a battle for dominance in the Pacific. But when Michell realizes that an old nemesis is assisting the cabal, World War III becomes personal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8604'),
(9956, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-center Balance of Power', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Clancy knows how to build a thriller." - Boston GlobeSpain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in a thousand years. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it.Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret diplomatic meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war -- no matter what the cost.A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy''s Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik - inspiring this and other gripping novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4047'),
(9957, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s op-center: acts of war', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kurdish terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It is not insanity, but the first step in a deceptively simple plan: force all-out war in the Middle East, drawing in the major players in the new world order. What the terrorists don''t know is that a new Regional Op-Center is now on-line in Turkey and is a cutting edge surveillance and information mecca. Its team can see exactly what the Kurdish rebels are trying to do. But the terrorists are more resourceful than anyone thinks. They have ways of obtaining classified information, and the Regional Op-Center is a prize they can t possibly pass up . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4063'),
(9958, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Call to Treason', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jeff Rovin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Op-Center''s budget is cut, General Mike Rodgers finds himself out of a job until he is propositioned by a Senator Donald Orr, who, making a run for president as the head of his own third party, needs a military advisor, but his new position comes with a high price - murder. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6479'),
(9959, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Divide and Conquer', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jeff Rovin &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante -- by deposing the President of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the President that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d''etat is within their reach.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center are pitted against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the President -- and expose the traitors within...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology,* Tom Clancy''s Op-Center *is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6478'),
(9960, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Games of State', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn''t the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy a technology for the new Regional Op-Center, become entangled in the crisis. They uncover a shocking force behind the chaos -- a group that uses cutting-edge technology to promote hate and to influence world events. A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy''s Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6475'),
(9961, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Line of Control', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jeff Rovin &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s a mission that only Striker -- the military arm of Op-Center -- can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America''s most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown -- a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free....\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, *Tom Clancy''s Op-Center* is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6525'),
(9962, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Mirror Image', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The second volume in the bestselling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- repackaged in a stunning new-look cover. In Tom Clancy''s Op-Centre, bestselling author Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, novelist and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, have created an astonishingly popular thriller series, which has already sold over 1 million HarperCollins paperbacks. Now the first three volumes are being repackaged to coincide with the publication of the latest volume in the series, Acts of War. In this second volume, the new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. The Op-Centre team begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart...but this one''s controlled by those same repressive hardliners.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6493'),
(9963, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Op-Center', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Edward HerrmannThe first blockbuster novel in the thrilling Op Center series.Op-Center is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology. It is run by a crack team of operatives both within its won walls and out in the field. And when a job is too dirty, or too dangerous, Op-Center is the only place out government can turn.Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik--inspiring this audio cassette, as well as the special NBC Television presentation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6490'),
(9964, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: Sea of Fire', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Jeff Rovin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A half-dead Singapore pirate is plucked from the Celebes Sea in the Western Pacific, setting off alarms halfway around the world in Washington, D.C. Traces of radiation are found on the man, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Center for a top-secret investigation of nuclear disposal sights. When an empty drum from a recent drop-off is discovered near where the pirate''s ship was destroyed, the Op-Center team comes to a terrifying conclusion: a multi-national corporation that has been hired to dispose of nuclear waste is selling it instead -- to a most unlikely terrorist...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy''s Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping novels.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6498'),
(9965, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Op-Center: State of Siege', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers called "Keepers" devises a shocking scheme to get the world''s attention after their tour of duty ends. Op-Center head Paul Hood has to put retirement on hold because the Keepers have taken over the U.N., where his daughter is performing for ambassadors at a gala function. This time the Keepers have made it personal, and the Op-Center forces will strike with deadly vengeance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6474'),
(9966, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s op-centre: mirror image', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The second volume in the bestselling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- repackaged in a stunning new-look cover. In Tom Clancy''s Op-Centre, bestselling author Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, novelist and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, have created an astonishingly popular thriller series, which has already sold over 1 million HarperCollins paperbacks. Now the first three volumes are being repackaged to coincide with the publication of the latest volume in the series, Acts of War. In this second volume, the new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. The Op-Centre team begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart...but this one''s controlled by those same repressive hardliners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4048'),
(9967, 'Tom Clancy&#39;s Splinter Cell', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s not just a game anymore-read the explosive new book series based on the video game Splinter Cell(tm). In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Its existence denied by the US government, Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, invisible, and deadly. He has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cell(tm). Sam Fisher works alone. But fights for us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8602'),
(9968, 'Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust and Forbidden Fruit', 'Adam Schell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut--a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare''s comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy--at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from love--a forbidden love--between Davido, an "Ebreo" tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl....But it''s not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido''s grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari''s villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter''s virginity and his neighbor''s land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6529'),
(9969, 'Tomb of the Golden Bird', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson''s desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfiresâ€”and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter "discover" the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time. But the Emersons'' own less impressive excavations are interrupted when father and son Ramses are lured into a trap by a strange group of villains ominously demanding answers to a question neither man comprehends. And it will fall to the ever-intrepid Amelia to protect her endangered familyâ€”and perhaps her nemesis as wellâ€”from a devastating truth hidden uncomfortably close to home . . . and from a nefarious plot that threatens the peace of the entire region.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(9970, 'The Tomb', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn''t deal with electronic appliances-he fixes situations for people, often putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Gia''s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(9971, 'The Tombs of Atuan', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10733'),
(9972, 'Tombstoning', 'Doug Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? Well, if you''re David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don''t return. Not for at least fifteen years. Until Nicola Cruickshank - yes, that Nicola, the girl you always fancied but never had the guts to approach - gets in touch and asks - no, demands - that you go back for a school reunion. To the place where it happened. The place you''ve been running from for fifteen years. Of course you go. Not to belatedly lay your mate to rest, but because you still fancy Nicola. The thing is, if you are David Lindsay, then returning to Arbroath isn''t going to lay any ghosts to rest. And when someone else takes a dive off the cliffs - an act the locals have taken to calling tombstoning'' - while David''s there, he has a choice: run away again, or finally find out why people keep dying around him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(9973, 'Tome of the Undergates', 'Sam Sykes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lenk can barely keep control of his mismatched adventurer band at the best of times (Gariath the dragon man sees humans as little more than prey, Kataria the shict despises most humans and the humans in the band are little better). When they''re not insulting each other''s religions they''re arguing about pay and conditions. So when the ship they are travelling on is attacked by pirates things don''t go very well. They go a whole lot worse when an invincible demon joins the fray. The demon steals the Tome of the Undergates - a manuscript that contains all you need to open the undergates. And whichever god you believe in you don''t want the undergates open. On the other side are countless more invincible demons, the manifestation of all the evil of the gods, and they want out. Full of razor-sharp wit, characters who leap off the page (and into trouble) and plunging the reader into a vivid world of adventure this is a fantasy that kicks of a series that could dominate the second decade of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3945'),
(9974, 'Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing', 'John Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first ever intimate portrait of Britain''s best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer, this fully authorized, biographyÂ of comedian Tommy CooperÂ shows the man behind the laughter that few people saw. Until his tragic death on live television in 1984, Tommy Cooper lived in constant fear of the day he would be found out by his audience. He could never accept the accolades that came so thick and fast from every direction, and died to the sounds of laughter that he never really believed. Supplementing his own intimate knowledge with material accessed for the first time from the archives of Cooper''s agent and manager, Miff Ferrie, and with the full co-operation of the Cooper family, John Fisher''s warm, honest, and insightful writing skillfully brings alive the man behind the comedic mask in this definitive biography of a comedy legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5919'),
(9975, 'Tommy&#39;s Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf&#39;s Founding Father and Son', 'Kevin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of twoproud Scotsmen who beat all comers to become the heroesof a golden ageâ€”the dawn of professional golf** Bringing to life golfâ€™s founding father and son, Tommyâ€™s Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary players and a vivid evocation of their colorful, rip-roaring times. The Morrises were towering figures in their day. Old Tom, born in 1821,began life as a nobodyâ€” he was the son of a weaver and a maid. But he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, and the game was in his blood. He became the Champion Golfer of Scotland, a national hero who won tournaments (and huge bets) while his young son looked on. As "Keeper of the Green" at the townâ€™s ancient links, Tom deployed golfâ€™s first lawnmower and banished sheep from the fairways. Then Young Tommyâ€™s career took off. Handsome Tommy Morris, the Tiger Woods of the nineteenth century, was a more daring player than his father. Soon he surpassed Old Tom and dominated the game. But just as he reached his peakâ€”with spectators flocking to see him playâ€” Tommyâ€™s life took a tragic turn, leading to his death at the age of twenty-four. That shock is at the heart of *Tommyâ€™s Honor*. It left Tom to pick up the piecesâ€”to honor his son by keeping Tommyâ€™s memory alive. Like the *New York Times* bestseller *The Greatest Game Ever Played*, *Tommyâ€™s Honor* is both fascinating history and a moving personal saga. Golfers will love it, but this book isnâ€™t only for golfers. Itâ€™s for every son who has fought to escape a fatherâ€™s shadow and for every father who had guided a son toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2442'),
(9976, 'The Tommyknockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in Maine, this story concerns Bobbi who has developed telepathic powers. A spaceship landed at the bottom of her garden and when it is uncovered, the citizens of Haven metamorphose into increasingly bizarre and dangerous creatures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4321'),
(9977, 'The Tomorrow Code', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE END OF THE WORLD started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca Richards. . . .Tane and Rebecca arenâ€™t sure what to make of itâ€”a sequence of 1s and 0s, the message looks like nothing more than a random collection of alternating digits. Working to decode it, however, Tane and Rebecca discover that the message contains lottery numbers . . . lottery numbers that win the next random draw! Suddenly Tane and Rebecca are rich, but who sent the numbers? And why? More messages follow, and slowly it becomes clearâ€”the messages are being sent back in time from Tane and Rebeccaâ€™s future. Something there has gone horribly wrong, and itâ€™s up to them to prevent it from happening. As they follow the messagesâ€™ cryptic instructions, Tane and Rebecca begin to suspect the worstâ€”that the very survival of the human race may be at stake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(9978, 'Tomorrow might be different', 'Mack Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3200');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9979, 'Too Close To Home', 'Maureen Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brooke Tyler knows a thing or two about secrets. Growing up, she''d sworn to keep certain skeletons in the family closet. But her silence came at a heavy price, not the least of which was giving up the love of her life. Today, Brooke is a small-town cop, sworn to uphold the law and uncover the truth. Until her latest investigation unearths another long-buried secret: a dead body. And then others. A virtual killing field. As she delves into these murders, Brooke discovers more than she bargained for--that every secret she''s ever kept was based on a lie... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2714'),
(9980, 'Too Good to Be True', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Grace Emerson''s ex-fianc? starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she''s seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone...exactly *unlike* her renegade neighbor Callahan O''Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart. Whoa. No. Callahan O''Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so...right?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2903'),
(9981, 'Too Hot to Handle', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He sure would love to have someone to take care ofÂ… Dr. Mike Flynn''s single mom taught him early how to cook and clean, and there''s nothing like vacuuming or doing dishes to help a guy relax. Annabelle Ronaldi is an artist without a domestic bone in her body. Since her fiance''s death, she can''t paint, and life looks hopeless. Until the day after her sister''s wedding, when she wakes up with Mike next to her in bed, and then she''s really beside herself - because the handsome stranger is a dead ringer for her dead fiance. After their mind-blowing one night stand, Mike is sure this is the woman he wants to take care of forever, but she acts like she''s seen a ghost. While Mike sets to work wooing Annabelle, she sets to work sniffing out the truth of the convoluted family secret that turns everybody''s lives upside down. PRAISE FOR ROMEO, ROMEO: "The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." The Romantic Times (4 out of 5 star review) "Robin Kaye strikes goldâ€¦ and deserves to have her name added to your favorite new author list." Book Loons "A snappy, funny, vivid, and romantic story." AllAboutRomance.com "Robin Kaye is sure to leave readers looking for a good Italian meal and a man as delicious as the hero." BookPage "Kaye''s debut is a delightfully fun, witty romance, making her a writer to watch." Booklist "Kaye''s portrayal of modern romance against the background of an old-fashioned, gossipy extended family rings true, and Nick''s efforts to wow Rosalie with fabulous home cooking are endlessly entertaining." Publishers Weekly "Kaye''s writing is a refreshing change from the typical contemporary romance. I could see all the characters as real people showing real feelings with an ending that is truly believable..." I Just Finished Reviews (20090302)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3991'),
(9982, 'Too Much Happiness: Stories', 'Alice Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Too Much Happiness\n </em>\n . Real life assaults her central characters rather brutally--in the forms of murder and madness, death, divorce, and all manner of deceptions--but they respond with a poise and clarity of thought that''s disarming--sometimes, even nonchalant--when you consider their circumstances. Her women move through life, wearing their scars but not so much wearied by them, profoundly intelligent, but also inordinately tender and thoughtful. There''s more fact than fiction to these stories, rich in quiet, precise details that make for a beautiful, bewildering read. --_Anne Bartholomew_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Munro''s latest collection is satisfyingly true to form and demonstrates why she continues to garner laurels (such as this year''s Man Booker International Prize). Through carefully crafted situations, Munro breathes arresting life into her characters, their relationships and their traumas. In Wenlock Edge, a college student in London, Ontario, acquires a curious roommate in Nina, who tricks the narrator into a revealing dinner date with Nina''s paramour, the significantly older Mr. Purvis. Child''s Play, a dark story about children''s capacity for cruelty and the longevity of their secrets, introduces two summer camp friends, Marlene and Charlene, who form a pact against the slightly disturbing Verna, whose family used to share Marlene''s duplex. The title, and final, story, the collection''s longest and most ambitious, takes the reader to 19th-century Europe to meet Sophia Kovalevski, a talented mathematician and novelist who grapples with the politics of the age and the consequences of success. While this story lacks some of the effortlessness found in Munro''s finest work, the collection delivers what she''s renowned for: poignancy, flesh and blood characters and a style nothing short of elegant.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4930'),
(9983, 'Too Wicked to Kiss', 'Erica Ridley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **His Touch Holds Her Captive. . .** From the ravens circling its spires to the gargoyles adorning its roof, Blackberry Manor looms ominously over its rambling grounds. And behind its doors, amid the flickering shadows and secret passageways, danger lies in wait. . . **To His Every Dark Desire. . .** Evangeline Pemberton has been invited to a party at the sprawling estate of reclusive Gavin Lioncroft, who is rumored to have murdered his parents. Initially, Gavin''s towering presence and brusque manner instill fear in Evangeline. . .until his rakish features and seductive attentions profoundly arouse her. But when a guest is murdered, Evangeline is torn. Could the man to whom she is so powerfully drawn, also -be a ruthless killer? "A unique gothic romance complete with murder, madness, and mayhem!"--Virginia Henley, *New York Times* bestselling author "A skillful blend of Gothic mystery and steamy romance."--Karen Rose, *New York Times* bestselling author **Erica Ridley** learned to read when she was four, which was about the same time she decided to be a writer when she grew up. Now, Erica writes Regency-set historical romances. Since becoming active in the writing community, all of her manuscripts have finaled in or won various RWA chapter contests. Erica is also the webmistress of her local writing chapter. When not reading or writing romances, Erica can be found riding camels in Africa, zip-lining through rainforests in Costa Rica, or getting hopelessly lost in the middle of Budapest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(9984, 'Tooth and Claw', 'Doranna Durgin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" has just one chance to evacuate the eeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species known as the Tsorans.  To assist in that effort, Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different diplomatic task. As a polite formality and show of good faith, he accompanied a young Tsoran prince to an exclusive hunting preserve. There, technology-damping elds and some of the galaxy''s deadliest predators were supposed to test the untried noble''s ability in the "kaphoora" -- the hunt. But the shuttlecraft didn''t land on Fandre; it crashed.  Now, cut off from Tsora and the "Enterprise, " the survivors of the disaster face the ultimate struggle for survival. Without the aid of tricorders or phasers, Riker, his royal charge, and their would-be rescuers must ght for their lives with the only weapons they can muster -- spears and "bat''leth, " tooth and claw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4410'),
(9985, 'The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask', 'Susan Bartell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Praise for the Top 50 Questions Kids Ask\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dr. Susan is highly gifted at helping parents and kids connect from the heart. This book honors our innate wisdom, supports us in nurturing our kids'' emotional growth and empowers us to be the parents we were meant to be."\n <br />\n -Renee Peterson Trudeau, life balance expert/coach and author of "The Mother''s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life"\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask is an insightful guide on the issues and concerns every parent and child faces. It''s a must- read guide that both moms and dads should keep at their bedside."\n <br />\n -Allison O''Connor, Founder and Editor, SingleMindedWomen.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Finally, a book that answers all those questions we parents go in a cold sweat about! Dr. Susan tackles the tough ones such as money, shyness, siblings and religion. Plus, we get the psychology behind it all to better understand our kids. You''ll find yourself using this book every day."\n <br />\n -Pam Atherton, journalist and host of "A Closer Look" radio talk show\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dr. Susan Bartell is the go-to person for all questions kids ask. No one is better qualified or more in touch with this age group to lend her expertise to a book that aids parents in improving communication with their ever-curious children."\n <br />\n -Renee Raab Whitcombe, author of "Look Who''s Going to be a Big Sister" and "Look Who''s Going to be a Big Brother"\n</p>\n<p>\n Are we rich? Why do I have to go to school? Where do babies come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re the parent of a four- to eight-year-old, there''s no doubt you''ve heard them already-and there are countless more to come. Questions! They come in all types: curious, nagging, touching, annoying, and downright weird. What they all have in common is that parents are often at a total loss for how to answer them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find the concrete responses that will make sense to kids, stop the nagging, reduce your frustration, and begin healthy new conversations that will enrich your child''s view of the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn to talk confidently with your child about the toughest of topics, with advice and support from expert family psychologist Dr. Susan Bartell. Responding to your child''s questions can be a remarkable parenting opportunity-if you just know the right words to say.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dr. Susan Bartell\n </strong>\n is a nationally renowned psychologist and author who has been helping children, teens, and families lead healthier, happier lives for nearly twenty years. Dr. Susan has appeared on\n <em>\n  Good Morning America, 20/20\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Today Show\n </em>\n , and is a frequent contributor to the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Parenting\n </em>\n magazine,\n <em>\n  Family Circle, WebMD, Women''s Day, Nick Jr.\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9584'),
(9986, 'Top O&#39; the Mournin&#39;', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emily Andrew is earning some much-needed green by navigating the twisting roads of Ireland with a group of seniors, including her beloved Nana. But once the hearty troupe from Iowa lands on Irish sod, trouble starts brewing - there''s a death-defying incident with a horse-drawn carriage...and a gender-bending encounter with Emily''s ex-husband Jack, now known as Jackie. No wonder Emily has come down with a smarting case of hives! The plot thickens like Irish stew when the group settles into Ballybantry Castle, where a ghost is said to wander the halls. But it''s no blarney when a very real corpse turns up in one of the guest rooms. While the murderous malarkey has Emily step-dancing as fast as she can, one sure thing emerges from the mists - not even St. Paddy himself could drive out the spiteful serpent that slithers among them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2302'),
(9987, 'Top Secret Recipes Unlocked', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **More than 4 million Top Secret Recipes books sold! **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collection-the first book since his bestselling *Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2*. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes, revealing the key ingredients in some of our favorite foods such as Starbucks'' Peppermint Brownie, Krispy Kreme''s original glazed donuts, Panera Bread''s cranberry walnut bagel and Wendy''s Garden Sensations Manadarin Chicken Salad. The book will feature 115 new recipes, including 40 previously unpublished recipes such as:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Panera Bread French Onion Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Burger King Onion Rings\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Chick-Fil-A Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢McDonald''s Cinnamon Melts\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Stouffer''s Macaroni &amp; Cheese\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢Popeye''s Buttermilk Biscuits.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Forget takeout-with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen for a lot less!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8253'),
(9988, 'Top Secret Recipes: Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits, &amp; Shakes : Creating Cool Kitchen Clones of America&#39;s Favorite Brand-Name Drinks', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Todd Wilbur shares his best-kept secrets for making  knockoffs of your favorite drinks-right in your own kitchen and  without spending a lot of money. Readers can re-create the delicious  taste of America''s best-loved brand-name soft drinks, beverages,  dessert drinks, mixers, and liqueurs by following Todd''s easy,  step-by-step instructions. If it comes in a glass, cup, bottle, or  mug, it''s here for you to clone at home. Discover how to make your own  versions of:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * 7-Up&amp;reg  * Starbuck''sÂ® Frappuccino&amp;reg  * Nestea&amp;reg  * Sunny Delight&amp;reg  * Dairy QueenÂ® Blizzard&amp;reg  * McDonald''sÂ® Shamrock Shake&amp;reg  * 7-ElevenÂ® Cherry Slurpee&amp;reg  * Grand MarnierÂ® &amp; Amaretto\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Plus: Dozens of specialty drinks from T.G.I. Friday''s&amp;reg,  Chili''s&amp;reg, Hard Rock Cafe&amp;reg, Outback Steakhouse&amp;reg,  Applebee''s&amp;reg, House of Blues&amp;reg, Olive Garden&amp;reg, Red  Lobster&amp;reg, Claim Jumper&amp;reg, and many more of your favorite  restaurant chains.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The mission: Decode the secret recipes for America''s favorite junk  foods. Equipment: Standard kitchen appliances. Goal: Leak the  results to a ravenous public." (*USA Today*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8252'),
(9989, 'Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collectionâ€”the   first since his 1997 bestselling *Top Secret Restaurant Recipes*, which has sold over one   million copies. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes of big-name restaurants like Olive Garden,   Applebeeâ€™s, and Outback Steakhouse, revealing the key ingredients and tricks of the trade they   use to keep diners coming back for more. The book will feature 150 recipes, including:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **â€¢ Red LobsterÂ® Cheddar Bay Biscuits\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Cheesecake FactoryÂ® White Chocolate RaspberryTruffleÂ® Cheesecake\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Romanoâ€™s Macaroni GrillÂ® Penne RusticaÂ®\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ California Pizza KitchenÂ® Thai Crunch Salad\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Original Pancake HouseÂ® Apple Pancake\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Chiliâ€™sÂ® Southwestern Eggrolls\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Houstonâ€™sÂ® Chicago-Style Spinach Dip\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Tony Romaâ€™sÂ® Baked Potato Soup**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Forget takeoutâ€”with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your   local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own   kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8251'),
(9990, 'The Torian Pearls', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1919'),
(9991, 'Torment', 'Lauren Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive: Questions for Lauren Kate\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Luce and Daniel''s story is very romantic. What inspired you to write a love story between a human and an angel?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Lauren Kate:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve been writing love stories for as long as Iâ€™ve been writing. To me, the most complicated romances make the most interesting narratives, so Iâ€™m always looking for new obstacles to throw in my loversâ€™ paths. When I was getting my masters degree in fiction, I was studying biblical narratives and came across a line in Genesis (6:1-4), which describes a group of angels who fell in love with mortal women. Putting this reference together with a mention in Isaiah and another in Palsm 82, biblical scholars conclude that these angels were actually cast out of Heaven for their lust. Which means--you could say--that these angels chose love over Heaven. I found this to be an endlessly interesting set up for an incredibly complicated romance. I started thinking about what kind of mortal girl it would take to attract an angelâ€™s attention. And what it would be like for her to find herself in this position. What kind of baggage would an angel have? What would her very over-protective parents think? From there, this whole world unfurled in my head with fallen angels, demons, reincarnation, and the war between good and evil all battling for a piece of the action.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n We''ve been wondering about the "mechanics" of Luce and Daniel''s story (for lack of a better word). Does Daniel age? Or does he stay seventeen forever (while Luce grows older)? And with that said, what does he do while Luce is growing up in each of her lives? What was he doing before he met Luce in this life?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate:\n </strong>\n Whatâ€™s important about angels is not their bodies but their souls. In their purest forms, theyâ€™re actually genderless, but for my story to work--for the angels to come down to earth and interact with mortals--they all assume human bodies and attach themselves to human genders. Daniel is eternal and will live on forever, but the body Luce sees him in (gorgeous as it is) is really just a shell for the soul that she loves. Thereâ€™s not the feeling of a ticking clock in the background as there might be with, say, a vampire story. Right now Iâ€™m writing\n <em>\n  Passion\n </em>\n , the prequel where weâ€™ll see Luce and Daniel in a dozen other lifetimes, so Iâ€™m exploring a lot of these mechanics (a great word for it, by the way) between the angelâ€™s bodies and souls.\n</p>\n<p>\n The way Daniel occupies himself in between Luces varies from life to life. His soul is least at rest just after sheâ€™s died, before sheâ€™s incarnated into another life--when she is â€œin between.â€ During her lives, even when he isnâ€™t with her, he is always aware of her age, what sheâ€™s going through, how sheâ€™s doing. He has a sort of internal Lucinda clock. Sometimes he meets her as a child, sometimes he tries to stay away from her as long as possible, to give her as much of a life outside of him as he can. In the years leading up to the life where they meet at Sword and Cross, Daniel was living on Skid Row in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Torment\n </em>\n talk a lot about the history of Heaven and Hell, the different classes of Angels, and the rules of human-angel interaction. Obviously these themes are explored heavily in religious texts, but were there other sources that informed your story?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s interesting because there is actually very little in the Bible about angels--a few mentions in the Old Testament, a few more in the new. And the mentions that we do have are often vague or contradictory. Most of what we think of when we think of angels today comes from secular or cultural contexts. Seventy-five percent of it might have come from\n</p>\n<p>\n I got so engrossed in all of the research I did for\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n that I had a hard time knowing when to stop reading and when to start writing. I had to realize that it was okay for me to pick and choose things from various accounts, to look past contradictions, and to come up with my own angel mythology. Thatâ€™s what Milton did, after all!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n What is Cam''s deal? We''re not convinced that he''s totally evil--in\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n , he seemed to be trying to protect Luce by keeping her away from Daniel, and in\n <em>\n  Torment\n </em>\n he and Daniel reach a mysterious truce, again to protect Luce. Will we be seeing more of him in book 3?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate:\n </strong>\n Speaking of Milton, isnâ€™t it fascinating that Satan is the most interesting character in\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n and in\n <em>\n  Torment\n </em>\n with Daniel and Camâ€™s truce. The idea that good and evil rely on each other is as old as the oldest dualistic religion, Zoroastrianism (on whose shoulders both Judaism and Christianity stood).\n</p>\n<p>\n So yes, there is more to Cam than pure evil! (Especially since his character--the charming side of his character anyway--was based loosely on my husband.) Weâ€™ll see a lot of him in\n <em>\n  Passion\n </em>\n and will even begin to understand how he got where he is today.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Can you tell us a little bit about book 3? Will we find out more about Luce and Daniel''s past lives?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Passion\n </em>\n is going to be the craziest, coolest book Iâ€™ve ever written! Iâ€™m halfway through the first draft right now and it is so rewarding to finally get to delve into Luce and Danielâ€™s past lives together. The history these two share is the stuff of epics, and I am learning so many new things about them as I write. For any reader out there feeling tortured by the teasing hints of so many thrilling past lives:\n <em>\n  Passion\n </em>\n is your book! Everything--well, almost everything--will be illuminated.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“This sequel to Fallen (Delacorte, 2009) continues they complex tale as Luce tries to uncover the truth and break the cycle of falling in love, dying young, and being reincarnated. Daniel, her lover through the ages and a fallen angel, institutes a truce with Demons to protect her from the Outcasts, who would do her harm. For her safety, Daniel hides her at a boarding school for the Nephilim, children of human and fallen angels, and cautions her to remain on campus and learn all she can. Unfortunately a little knowledge can be dangerous and Luce''s naive attempts to manipulate her powers constantly put her and others in danger. Some of the rescues employ a deus ex machina as is the case when Arriane inexplicably arrives in Vegas and saves the day. At times the story plods along, with a full chapter devoted to a fencing lesson. Daniel regularly returns to check on Luce and there''s lots of swooning, passionate kissing, and playing at being in love, though it often ends with bickering. Interest is piqued with the hint of a love triangle, and the suspense is ratcheted up in the heart-pounding final battle scene. In the end, readers won''t be much closer to unraveling Luce''s mystery and will need to stay tuned for the next installment. It''s unlikely this title will garner new fans for the series, but those already hooked on the epic romance won''t want to miss it._Patricia N. McClune, Conestoga Valley High School, Lancaster, PA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7917'),
(9992, 'The Torso', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œThe scenes in which Huss tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise Welshâ€™s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in *The Cutting Room.*â€â€”*Entertainment Weekly* â€œ[Tursten] is a master at setting the scene, detailing a foreign milieu until it feels familiar. She juggles a large cast of characters with aplomb.â€â€”*Time Out Chicago* â€œOne of the better examples of the Swedish crime fiction invasion.â€â€”*Baltimore Sun* â€œOutstanding.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly* (starred review) â€œSpins a good story . . . this is a solid police procedural.â€â€”*Library Journal* Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near GÃ¶teborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time itâ€™s identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girlâ€™s mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues. **Helene Tursten** has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She lives in GÃ¶teborg, where she was born in 1954.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1694'),
(9993, 'Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Collected here for the first time are all of the tales from the land of Tortall, featuring both previously unknown characters as well as old friends. Filling some gaps of time and interest, these stories, some of which have been published before, will lead Tammy''s fans, and new readers into one of the most intricately constructed worlds of modern fantasy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling writer Tamora Pierce captured the imagination of readers more than 20 years ago with\n <em>\n  Alanna: The First Adventure.\n </em>\n She has written 16 books about the extraordinary kingdom of Tortall, with another to come in fall 2011. She lives in upstate New York, with her husband and an assortment of wildlife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4873'),
(9994, 'Tortilla Flat', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck''s most widely read and beloved novels-*Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row*, and *The Pearl*. From Steinbeck''s tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in *Of Mice and Men*, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in *Cannery Row,* to *The Pearl''*s examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck created stories that were realistic, rugged, and imbued with energy and resilience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2979'),
(9995, 'The Toss of a Lemon', 'Padma Viswanathan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her headÂ is shaved and she puts on widow''s whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children.Â Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband''s house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a closeted gay man who is bound by a different caste''s rules,Â becomes her public face. Their singular relationship holds three generations of the family together throughÂ the turbulent first half of the twentieth century, as India endures great social and political change. But as time passes, the family changes, too;Â Sivakami''s son will question the strictures of the very beliefs that his mother has scrupulously upheld.Â Â The Toss of a Lemon is heartbreaking and exhilarating, profoundly exoticÂ yet utterly recognizable in evoking the tensions that change brings to every family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3604'),
(9996, 'Total Control', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world''s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an aircrash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all. From Seattle to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans to Maine, the hunt for Jason Archer follows a trail as complex as the world he lived and worked in - a world of enormously powerful computers, a multimillion-dollar takeover deal, titanic financial standoffs, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. With brilliant minds colliding, ruthless men waging battles of intimidation, rainmakers going toe-to-toe with killers, and security specialists making a fortune trying to plug the holes, the startling truth behind Jason Archer''s disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country''s single most powerful individual. And soon Archer''s wife, Sidney, aided by the relentless and sharp-eyed FBI agent Lee Sawyer, will plunge straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(9997, 'Touch', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9212'),
(9998, 'Touch of Darkness', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n KNOW YOUR ENEMIES It''s good adviceâ€”and Kate always thought she did. But everything has changed: there''s a new force at the head of the Thrall collective. A force brilliant enough and ruthless enough to hide its sinister plan behind humanitarian workâ€”building and funding halfway houses to ease the victims of drugs and the Thrall back into society. And then Kate discovers that another part of the plan is rescinding the rules of fair play by which the Thrall have always dealt with humans. Kate is no longer Not Prey. Now she is just like everyone else: Prey. Uncovering the plot is a start, but stopping it is another thing entirely. Kate must not only call on all of her own resources, but all of those that belong to her werewolf boyfriend Tom. But the Thrall collective has a brand new way of getting to Kate: a very personal series of attacks designed to tear her from Tom. Kate has to decide: save her relationship with Tom, or save the future from the Thrall?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1388'),
(9999, 'A Touch of Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte''s, a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps, deep in Louisiana. She''s funny and pretty and, thanks to her grandmother, she''s very well-mannered - but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds, the guys haven''t exactly been beating down her door . . . And then along came Bill, tall, dark and handsome - and Sookie couldn''t ''hear'' a word he was thinking. He was exactly the type of guy she''d been waiting all her life for. Of course, Bill had a disability of his own: fussy about his food, not into suntans, bit of a night person: yep, Bill was a vampire. But at least now Sookie nows there *are* guys she can date who won''t worry about her catching them thinking about other women . . . And that''s going to make Sookie''s life really interesting!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(10000, 'A Touch of Death', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While searching for $120,000 in stolen money, Lee Scarborough falls in with a ruthless femme fatale whose schemes threaten to destroy his life in this long-out-of-print classic by the author of "Dead Calm." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(10001, 'Touch of Evil', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kate Reilly has a hard time trusting people. Six years ago, the love of her life turned her over to the vampire parasites who call themselves the Thrall. Katie survives the powerful bite of the master parasite only to discover that the Thrall''s venom, coupled with her own natural psychic ability, has transformed her. Now she is next in line to be the Thrall Queen--and each day might be her last as a human. Tom, a handsome firefighter, arouses all of Katie''s dormant senses, but her heart shies away. After Dylan''s betrayal, how can she trust any manâ€”even a seemingly perfect and terribly sexy werewolf? Tom''s sincerity--and sex appeal--begins to wear down Katie''s defenses. But his increasingly insistent charm hides a potentially deadly secret: his werewolf pack is hiding the one person who can stop the Thrall from completing Katie''s transformation into Queen--and they won''t give her up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1395'),
(10002, 'A Touch of Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sleepy English town of Denton has never known a crime wave like this--a robbery at a notorious strip joint, a hit-and-run whose chief suspect is the pampered son of a local MP, the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman''s daughter and a series of violent rapes. Detective Jack Frost strives to solve his caseload with typical aplomb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5279'),
(10003, 'Touch of Madness', 'C. T. Adams &amp; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kate Reilly is having a bad month\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s on trial for murders she didn''t commit. She''s next on the list of a serial killer. The parasitic vampires known as the Thrall want her to investigate the murder of their young, and will use any means necessary to force her to bow to their demands.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And--possibly worst of all--her boyfriend Tom''s werewolf pack is trying to break them up so Tom can mate with a werewolf to ensure the survival of his pack.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Kate must fight for Tom--and fight for her very survival in this brand new paranormal romance from the unbeatable, bestselling team of C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8739'),
(10004, 'Touching Darkness', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, know that their town is full of secrets. These five teenagers are the only ones who know about the mysterious hour at midnight when the world freezes, except for them and the creatures that inhabit the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n But they do not know why earlier generations of Midnighters all disappeared, or why they are now the only Midnighters in town. As they learn more about the secret hour''s twists and turns, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby''s history, and a conspiracy that touches both the midnight hour and the world of daylight.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, the Midnighters'' own secrets start to emerge, including some that were never meant to come to light, changing the fragile dynamics among the five.\n</p>\n<p>\n This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can''t find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own -- forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n A tale of betrayal, horrifying revelations, and powerful alliances, touching darkness is the second volume of the riveting Midnighters trilogy by acclaimed author\n <strong>\n  Scott Westerfeld\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scott Westerfeld is the author of ten books for young adults, including\n <em>\n  Peeps\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Last Days\n </em>\n , and the Midnighters trilogy. He was born in Texas in 1963, is married to the Hugo-nominated writer Justine Larbalestier, and splits his time between New York and Sydney. His latest book is\n <em>\n  Extras\n </em>\n , the fourth in the bestselling Uglies series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8171'),
(10005, 'The Touchstone (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Touchstone by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is n\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(10006, 'Tough Customer: A Novel', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn''t let rules get in his way in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology. That''s why he''s the first person Caroline King who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their daughter . . . the daughter Dodge has never met. He has a whole bagful of grudging excuses for wishing to ignore Caroline''s call, and one compelling reason to drop everything and fly down to Texas: Dodge''s mind may be a haze of disturbing memories and bad decisions, but he arrives in Houston knowing with perfect clarity that his daughter, Berry, is in danger. She has become the object of desire of a co-worker, a madman and genius with a penchant for puzzles and games who has spent the past year making Berry''s life hell, and who now has vowed to kill her. Dodge joins forces with local deputy sheriff Ski Nyland, but the alarming situation goes from bad to worse when the stalker begins to claim other victims and leaves an ominous trail of clues as he lethally works his way toward Berry. Sensing the killer drawing nearer, Dodge, who''s survived vicious criminals and his own self-destructive impulses, realizes that this time he''s in for the fight of his life.From acclaimed best-selling author Sandra Brown,Tough Customeris a heart-pounding tale about obsession and murder, the fragile nature of relationships, and, possibly, second chances.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3695'),
(10007, 'Tourist Season', 'Carl Hiaason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10298'),
(10008, 'Tourquai: A Novel', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Davys''s third crime spoof to feature stuffed animals who behave just like humans (after Lanceheim) might have benefited from characters the reader can care more about as well as more humor. Insp. Falcon Ãˆcu and his partner, Anna Lynx, accompany Mollisan Town''s Supt. Larry Bloodhound to a crime scene in Tourquai, where Oswald Vulture''s head has been sliced off and apparently carried away by the evildoer. If Larry and his team find the missing head of the deeply disliked "finance vulture," it can be reattached and Oswald resurrected. The pace picks up after Philip Mouse, a PI pal of Larry''s, begins sniffing around in what becomes a standard police procedural. Plush suspects include Jake Golden Retriever, an art forger working for slippery gallery owner Igor Panda; eccentric inventor Oleg Earwig; Oswald''s society wife, Irina Flamingo; and Oswald''s mistress, Jasmine Squirrel; but the "killer" is an eye-winking surprise. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Mollisan Town quartet, of which this is the third installment, is an uneven adventure. The basic conceitâ€”that all the characters are stuffed animalsâ€”worked to wonderful effect in Amberville (2009), a mystery with metaphysical undertones. (Why would factories make stuffed animals when theyâ€™re destined to be destroyed?) But Lanceheim (2010) was a disappointment, a plodding religious allegory whose revelations were mundane. And now we have Tourquai, another mystery, in which a disliked, venture-capitalist vulture is beheaded while sitting at his desk. The policeâ€”Larry Bloodhound, Falcon Ãˆcu, and Anna Lynxâ€”try to determine who had the most to gain: sultry secretary Emanuelle Cobra, the mysterious Jasmine Squirrel, or Igor Panda, trafficker in forged paintings? There is still some pleasure in exploring the pseudonymous Davysâ€™ world and pondering the peculiar biology of its denizens. But does using stuffed animals as characters make for a better book? In Amberville, it did. In Lanceheim, it didnâ€™t disguise a lack of invention. And here itâ€™s mere upholstery on a moderately satisfying mystery. One wonders, mildly, whatâ€™s in store for the finale, Yok. --Keir Graff\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6882'),
(10009, 'Toward the End of Time', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a United States in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China, to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if characters appear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbull''s journal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Ben''s ruthlessness is evenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on every scene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerie ambiance." --The New York Times Book Review "A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER''S WONDER . . . Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chilly backdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eye for detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen." --The Miami Herald "WONDERFUL RUSHES OF NEAR-MELVILLEAN PROSE . . . Toward the End of Time has a force that gets under your skin." --New York Review of Books A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3142');
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(10010, 'Towards Zero', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mystery''s #1 bestseller . . . second to none!A Christie classic, featuring Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard. . . . It''s murder most foul when someone at the Gull''s Point guesthouse kills Mr. Treves, leaving Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard with a number of suspects--and zero evidence...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I like a good detective story, but they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that." So remarks esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer has insinuated himself , with cunning manipulation, into a quiet village on the river Tern. But who is his intended victim? What are his unfathomable motives? And how and when will he reach the point of murder...the zero point? --from publisher description\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5204'),
(10011, 'The Tower and the Hive', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of Human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonization. Of Damia''s children, some were put on the Hiver search, and others, the gifted and valuable T-1 Talents, were worked to the point of exhaustion as planets destroyed by the Hivers were opened up for colonization by the rapidly exploding Mrdini population. And there was dissent within the Star League Worlds - a growing resentment of the power and privileges of the Talents, most especially the dynasty that stemmed from the Rowan and Damia. As a new Talent, Vagrian, a flawed T-2, was shipped in to help Laria''s exhausted team, he brought with him tension and antagonism, an outward sign of the trouble fermenting among the Star Worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10823'),
(10012, 'The Tower Treasure', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grownups will remember Frank and Joe Hardy and their ability to solve even the most baffling of mysteries. The first book was published in 1927, and over the years the series has sold over 50 million copies. But mysteriously, the original books have disappeared. Now, Applewood is pleased to present The Tower Treasure, the very first Hardy Boys mystery ever published.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reader t.b.a.\n  <br />\n  approx. 3 hours\n  <br />\n  2 cassettes\n </p>\n <p>\n  Afer a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower" the Hardy Boys make an astonishing discover.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10266'),
(10013, 'The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise', 'Julia Stuart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Brimming with charm, sparkling prose and undeniably unique characters, this hilarious novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics *Chocolat* and *Amelie*.Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his pet, the oldest living tortoise, for the past eight years. That''s right, he is a Beefeater. It''s no easy job navigating the trials and tribulations that come with living and working in the largest tourist attraction in London. The once white-hot flame of Hebe and Balthazar''s love has been snuffed in the few years since their son Milo died, a death for which Balthazar blames himself.When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen by foreign dignitaries, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, a bearded pig goes missing, giraffes are stolen, the komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives, and canaries suffer fainting fits. As he attempts to cope with this four-legged invasion and his marriage continues to crumble, Balthazar must confront the secret he has been harbouring about his son''s death, if he wants to save his marriage and his sanity.**CAST OF CHARACTERS****Balthazar Jones**: Beefeater, overseer of the Tower''s royal menagerie, father to Milo, and collector of rain **Hebe Jones**: Balthazar''s wife who works at London Underground''s Lost Property Office **Mrs. Cook:** Balthazar and Hebe''s 180 + year-old tortoise - the oldest tortoise in the world **Arthur Catnip**: London Underground ticket inspector of limited height **Rev. Septimus Drew**: Tower chaplain who writes forbidden prose and pines for one of the residents **Ruby Dore**: Barmaid at the Tower''s Rack &amp; Ruin pub who has a secret **Valerie Jennings**: Hebe''s eccentric colleague who falls for someone of limited height **The Ravenmaster**: Philandering Beefeater who looks after the Tower''s ravens **Sir Walter Raleigh**: Former Tower prisoner and its most troublesome ghost **Chief Yeoman Warder**: Suspicious head Beefeater **Oswin Fielding**: Equerry to The Queen **Samuel Crapper**: Lost Property Office''s most frequent customer **Yeoman Gaoler**: Deputy to the Chief Yeoman Warder who is terrorized by ghostly poetry at night\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2887'),
(10014, 'The Towers of Melnon', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1935'),
(10015, 'Towers of Midnight', 'Robert Jordan &amp; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades, just as the experience of the First World War and its aftermath gave its imprint to J. R. R. Tolkienâ€™s work.â€--_The New York Times_ on The Wheel of TimeÂ®\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark Oneâ€™s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in\n  <em>\n   Telâ€™aranâ€™rhiod\n  </em>\n  and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other menâ€™s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This penultimate novel of Robert Jordanâ€™s #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series--the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007--brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dovieâ€™andi se tovya sagain.\n  </em>\n  Itâ€™s time to toss the dice.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6705'),
(10016, 'The Towers of the Sunset', 'L. E. Modesitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; ">\n </span>\n</h3>\n<h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n A ``prequel'''' to The Magic of Recluse (1991), this sometimes engaging, more often frustrating novel details the founding of the island-kingdom of Recluce. Young Creslin, kept ignorant of his powers in both magic and swordcraft, grows unsatisfied with his lot as a male in matriarchal Westwind. Unwillingly betrothed to the ``sub-Tyrant'''' of a neighboring nation, Creslin flees eastward, where he is captured by the White (Chaos) magicians, aided by the Black (Order) wizards, and finally forced by circumstance to wed his less-than-thrilled betrothed Megaera, who has been manipulated by magic into the marriage herself. Together (though constantly bickering), they undertake the regency of the desolate isle of Recluce, hoping to turn it into a prosperous haven free of the White wizards. But the wizards have other plans--and Creslin must master his own powers, make the desert Recluce bloom, and defeat the Chaos magicians if he hopes to survive. Unsatisfying--despite some interesting inversions of typical fantasy elements. The first half moves very slowly, as Creslin wanders purposelessly toward Fairhaven, the lair of the White wizards, and the second section is plagued by Megaera''s shrewish and cruel treatment of Creslin. But the worst flaw is Modesitt''s choice of the present tense throughout the book--very distracting and deadly to any building sense of drama. Disappointing. --Â \n <i>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </i>\n Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6502'),
(10017, 'A Town Like Alice', 'Nevil Shute', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8804'),
(10018, 'Townie: A Memoir', 'Andre Dubus &amp; Iii', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Townie\n </em>\n . You might think that following his father''s trade would have been natural and even obvious for the son and namesake of Andre Dubus, one of the most admired short story writers of his time, but it was anything but. His father left when he was 10, and as his mother worked long hours to keep them fed, her four children mostly raised themselves, stumbling through house parties and street fights in their Massachusetts mill town, so cut off from the larger world that when someone mentioned "Manhattan" when Andre was in college he didn''t know what they were talking about. What he did know, and what he recalls with detailed intensity, were the battles in bars and front yards, brutal to men and women alike, that first gave him discipline, as he built himself from a fearful kid into a first-punch, hair-trigger bruiser, and then empathy, as, miraculously, he pulled himself back from the violence that threatened to define him. And it was out of that empathy that, wanting to understand the stories of the victims of brutality as well as those whose pain drove them to dish it out, he began to write, reconciling with his father and eventually giving us novels like\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of House of Sand and Fog, Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination. Just after he turned 12, Dubus''s family fell rapidly into shambles after his father--the prominent writer Andre Dubus--not only left his wife for a younger woman but also left the family in distressing poverty on the violent and drug-infested side of their Massachusetts mill town. For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic "no-way-out" attitude of his friends. After having his bike stolen, being slapped around by some of the town''s bullies, and watching his brother and mother humiliated by some of the town''s thugs, Dubus started lifting weights at home and boxing at the local gym. Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence with physical violence. Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7478'),
(10019, 'Toxic Bachelors', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When you''ve got three attractive men in a Steel novel, each determined to stay single, you can expect romance, love and marriage vows around the corner, as well as the usual mix of glamour, fashion and wealth. Charles Sumner Harrington, born to affluence, has no family and, following several botched engagements, is, at 46, a perfectionist who will probably never meet the woman of his dreams. Adam Weiss, a Harvard Lawâ€“trained hotshot, was burned by a nasty divorce; at 41, he is a sworn bachelor who parties with the pretty, young and clueless. Gray Hawk, a New York artist living hand-to-mouth at 50, was adopted at birth by globe-trotting, drug-taking rock stars; he''s drawn exclusively to women whose middle name is "victim." The three friends take their annual summer Mediterranean booze cruise on Charles''s luxurious yacht, and in the hubbub there and back in New York, each ends up crossing paths with a woman who turns his life upside down. After the initial bliss, there are confrontations, challenges and threats to promising relationships. Despite relentlessly reiterating her characters'' Freudian backstories, Steel delivers the inevitable happy endings in the usual nontoxic, satisfying manner.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel traces the lives and loves of three confirmed bachelors who are forced to face their worst commitment fears when each, in turn, somehow manages to fall in love. The three 40-something best friends, Charlie Harrington, an independently wealthy philanthropist; Adam Weiss, a celebrity lawyer and voracious playboy; and Gray Hawk, a handsome and talented New York artist, have formed a tight relationship, united in their "love ''em and leave ''em" approach to women and dating. All three have been scarred by some relationship in the past and have taken to living commitment-free lives, cruising the high seas on Harrington''s yacht, partying until dawn, and dating scores of women. That is until, one by one, they find themselves falling deeply in love with (surprise!) women they wouldn''t even have considered dating casually. A breezy read, this contains some of the usual Steel plot mechanisms (Will the handsome, wealthy bachelor successfully woo the beautiful but no-frills social worker?) and happy endings that will keep her fans reading and waiting for more. Librarians may need duplicate copies.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6045'),
(10020, 'The Toynbee Convector', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradbury''s first collection since the quasi-definitive Stories is a very mixed bag, including, along with the charming and the moving stories, some of the author''s weakestfrail conceits feebly decked out in the same stylistic knick-knacks Bradbury has been pulling from his well-used trunk for the past 35 years. Storytelling itself is the theme of a number of these short narratives; Bradbury understands that a primary function of fiction is to act as a guidepost back to the emotional richness of childhood and adolescence. In "On the Orient, North" a ghost, at the point of dissipation, rejuvenates itself by telling scary winter''s tales to a group of children. In "Banshee" a screenwriter and a director tell each other disturbing cautionary talesone narrator, to the other''s misfortune, is not making it up. The fey souls in "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair" find their relationship cannot withstand a little hard reality. The title story concerns a man who claims to have traveled into the future and declares that there the world''s problems have been resolved. He produces documentation of his claims and lives to see the realization of his vision, even though a vision is all it is. The documentation turns out to be fabrications, but the hope it had inspired allows mankind to bring about its own salvation. The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming. 30,000 first printing; BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An old woman learns what it truly means to believe in ghosts in "On the Orient, North"; another woman discovers a mysterious "Trapdoor" in a house she has occupied for years; and an old man attempts to change his own past in "A Touch of Petulance" in this new collection of 23 stories by one of sf''s grand masters. Simplicity and warmth shine through even the weaker stories as the author continues to focus his sights on the elusive human heart. Recommended for sf and fantasy collections. BOMC alternate. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6826'),
(10021, 'Toys', 'James Patterson &amp; Neil McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR JAMES PATTERSON\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Man Who Can''t Miss." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Time\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Lev Grossman\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Daily News\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Patterson''s novels are sleek entertainment machines, the Porsches of commercial fiction, expertly engineered and lightning fast." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it.\n  </strong>\n  Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they''re Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans and their toys!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The one with the most toys--_dies_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the President, and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible--fighting to\n  <em>\n   save\n  </em>\n  humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives--maybe even his own. James Patterson''s\n  <em>\n   Toys\n  </em>\n  is a thriller on a hyper plane--with a hero who rivals both James Bond and Jason Bourne.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7357'),
(10022, 'Trace Memory', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers it explodes, killing all but one; a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini. Fifty-eight years later a radioactive source somewhere inside Torchwood leads the team to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults. As they question the intruder, it becomes apparent that each of them has met him in the past. All of them remember him talking incoherently about terrifying "Men In Bowler Hats" and little more, but it''s Jack who remembers him best of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(10023, 'Tracing the Shadow', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite a rocky start, Ash''s new series, set in the world of her Tears of Artamon trilogy (_Lord of Snow and Shadows_, etc.), promises to grow into a compelling saga. When Alois Visant, Francia''s head Inquisitor, accuses the entire College of Thaumaturgy of practicing magic, only two survive the purge: Linnaius, King Gobain''s trusted alchymist, and his apprentice, Rieuk Mordiern. Rieuk joins a secret band of mages, only to find their leader, Arkhan, intends to turn him into a weapon to drive the Francians out of neighboring Ondhessar by stealing or discharging the four superpowerful aethyr crystals known as the Angelstones. Meanwhile, Linnaius takes the Vox Aethyria, a radiolike invention that uses magical crystals to transmit voices, to rival nation Tielen. With the multitude of characters now in place, Ash may be able to pull things together for the next installment, but the complex plot and political setting will leave some readers struggling.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Homeless denizens of Seattleâ€™s Pioneer Square are turning up dead and sometimes mutilated, but the police have no sense of urgency, given the victimsâ€™ status. Which leaves PI Harper Blaine to investigate. Having returned from the dead, she isnâ€™t quite as human as she once was. Sheâ€™s a Greywalker, with a foot on both sides of an invisible line separating the normal and paranormal worlds. She sees energy auras as easily as she does the zombies now appearing in the Underground, the city beneath the raised roads and sidewalks of modern Seattle. Even the area vampires want no part of Harperâ€™s inquiries into an ancient Native American monster that might be reawakening during such disasters as earthquakes, fires, and the cityâ€™s subsequent reconstructions. Part Indian folklore, part detailed urban history, part PI procedural, part monster-from-the-depths horror story, the third Greywalker caper (after Greywalker, 2006, and Poltergeist, 2007) proceeds gorily and occasionally slowly through various plot twists to an inevitable showdown when forces of the past invade the present. --Whitney Scott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7960'),
(10024, 'Track of the Cat', 'Nevada Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The texture, scents and sounds of the West Texas wilderness permeate this forceful debut, in which the murder of a National Park Service ranger illuminates the conflicts between those who want to place our country''s open spaces and wildlife under government protection and those who want to profit from them. Anna Pigeon has fled New York City after the accidental death of her husband, and she now works as a law enforcement ranger at Guadaloupe Mountains National Park. There she finds the remains of fellow ranger Sheila Drury, who apparently was clawed to death by a mountain lion. Although an autopsy confirms this judgment, Anna becomes convinced that the claw marks have been faked. Her superiors discourage her from probing further, but another supposedly accidental death goads her into investigating Sheila''s activities before her death--her campaign to open up the park to the public and her relationships with a young divorcee and with a powerful rancher opposed to Park Service policies. Anna is sure that clues reside in the thousands of snapshots the dead woman took--photos that show signs of having been rifled through. A park ranger herself, Barr develops a complex, credible and capable heroine who believes in truth and justice while remaining conscious of the ambiguities of human existence.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-On a biannual trek, park rangers check for signs of mountain lions. While climbing along her assigned route, Anna sees a dozen vultures circle above a canyon. Checking on their carrion, she discovers the body of fellow ranger Sheila Drury, apparently killed by a mountain lion. Believing the animal tracks and scratches are a set-up, the young woman conducts her own investigation, putting her life in peril as she encounters ardent hunters. Anna Pigeon is a great new addition to the cadre of female detectives, especially since her job as park ranger involves hiking through the spectacular scenery of the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas. Several dollops of ecology and conservation of resources mingle with the murder clues, making this an exciting, almost "good for you," book.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Spencer, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6927'),
(10025, 'Traffic', 'Vanderbilt, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8834');
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(10026, 'Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)', 'Tom Vanderbilt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   while\n  </em>\n  driving), but I can''t remember the last time I saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. It''s a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt''s\n  <em>\n   Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)\n  </em>\n  has plenty of advice for those shortcut schemers (Vanderbilt may well convince you to become, as he has, a dreaded "Late Merger"), but more than that it''s the sort of wide-ranging contrarian compendium that makes a familiar subject new. I''m not the first or last to call\n  <em>\n   Traffic\n  </em>\n  the\n  <em>\n   Freakonomics\n  </em>\n  of cars, but it''s true that it fits right in with the school of smart and popular recent books by Leavitt, Gladwell, Surowiecki, Ariely, and others that use the latest in economic, sociological, psychological, and in this case civil engineering research to make us rethink a topic we live with every day. Want to know how much city traffic is just people looking for parking? (It''s a lot.) Or why street signs don''t work (but congestion pricing does), why new cars crash more than old cars, and why Saturdays now have the worst traffic of the week? Read\n  <em>\n   Traffic\n  </em>\n  , or better yet, listen to the audio book on your endless commute.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Questions for Tom Vanderbilt, author of\n   <em>\n    Traffic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Was this book really born on a New Jersey highway?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Yes, though it could have been any highway in the world, where countless drivers, driving on a crowded road that is about to lose a lane, have had to make a simple decision: When to merge. For my entire driving life, I had always merged "early," thinking it was the polite and efficient thing to do. I viewed those who kept driving to the merge point, to the front of line, as selfish jerks who were making life miserable for the rest of us. I began to wonder: Were they really making things worse? Was I making things worse? Could merging be made easier? Why were there late mergers and early mergers, and why did people get so worked up about the whole thing? In that everyday moment I seemed to sense a vast, largely under-explored wilderness before me: Traffic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Is it true that the most common cause of stress on the highway is merging? Why of the myriad things to cause stress on the road is this at the top?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Merging is the most stressful single activity we face in everyday driving, according to a survey by the Texas Transportation Institute. People who have done studies at highway construction work zones have also told me of extraordinarily bad behavior, triggered by this simple act of trying to get two lanes of traffic into one. Sometimes, itâ€™s simply the difficult mechanics of driving â€” trying to enter a stream of traffic flowing at a higher speed than you are, for example. Drivers, to quote a physicist who was actually talking about grains, are objects "who do not easily interact." But I also think thereâ€™s something about the forward flow of traffic that makes us register progress only by our own unimpeded movement; as in life, we seem to register losses more powerfully than gains, and registering these losses boosts stress.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You say that, "For most of us who are not brain surgeons, driving is probably the most complex everyday thing we do in our lives." How so?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Researchers have estimated there are anywhere from 1500 to 2500 discrete skills and activities we undertake while driving. Even the simplest thing â€” shifting gears â€” is a decision-making process consuming what is called "cognitive workload." Weâ€™re operating heavy machinery at speeds beyond our long evolutionary history, absorbing (and discarding) huge amounts of information, and having to make snap decisions â€” often based on limited situational awareness, guesses about what others are going to do, or a hazy knowledge of the actual traffic law. It took years of research, for example, by some of the countryâ€™s top robotics researchers, to create expensive, sophisticated self-driving "autonomous vehicles" that are basically mediocre beginning drivers that youâ€™d never want to let loose in everyday traffic. When we forget that driving isnâ€™t necessarily as easy as it seems to be, we get into trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Drivers polled in America say the roads are getting less civil with each passing year. â€˜Road Rageâ€™ is an ever more common term. What is to blame? Hummers? Or are we just getting ruder?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Every year, more people are driving more miles, so one reason for the sense that the roads are getting less civil is simply that there are many more chances for you to have an encounter with an aggressive or rude driver. Itâ€™s tough to put numbers on it, but I happen to feel, like many people, that behavior has gotten qualitatively worse â€” surveys have suggested, for example, that using the turn signal is an increasingly optional activity. Leaving aside the issue that not signaling is illegal (because, letâ€™s face it, weâ€™re never going to be able ticket everyone who doesnâ€™t do it, nor do we probably want to), itâ€™s one of those small things, requiring little effort from the driver, that makes traffic flow more smoothly â€” I myself have honked countless times at "idiots" slowing for no apparent reason, only to seem them eventually make a turn. Itâ€™s antisocial behavior, the equivalent of having the door held open for you and saying nothing in return. So why donâ€™t people signal? My immediate theory is that theyâ€™re using a cell phone and are distracted or physically incapable of signaling. But a deeper reason, I suspect, may be seen in the surveys of psychologists who measure narcissism in American culture. They find, as time goes on, more people are willing to say things like "If I ruled the world, it would be a better place." Traffic is filled with people who think that roads belong only to them â€” itâ€™s "MySpace" â€” that being inside the car absolves them from any obligation to anyone else. People are glad to tell you that their child is a middle school honor student â€” as if anyone cared! â€” but they deem it less important to tell you what theyâ€™re going to do in traffic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: So much of what you uncover about life on the road seems counterintuitive. Like the fact that drivers drive closer to oncoming cars when there is a center line divider then when there is not; that most accidents happen close to home in familiar, not foreign, surroundings; that dangerous roads can be safer; safer cars can be more dangerous; that suburbs are often riskier than the inner city; the roundabout safer than the intersection. When it comes to traffic why are things so different from how we instinctively perceive them?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: I think part of the reason is itâ€™s easy for us to confuse what feels dangerous or safe in the moment and what might be, in a larger sense, safe or dangerous. We have a windshieldâ€™s eye view of driving that sometimes blinds us to larger realities or skews our perception. Roundabouts feel dangerous because of all the work one has to do, like looking for an opening, jockeying for positioning. But itâ€™s precisely because we have to do all that, and because of the way roundabouts are designed, that we have to slow down. By contrast, it feels quite "safe" to sail through a big intersection where the lights are telling you that you have the right to speed through. We can, in essence, put our brain on hold. But those same intersections contain so many more chances for what engineers call "conflict," and at much higher speeds, than roundabouts. So when what seems quite safe suddenly turns quite dangerous â€” will we be as well prepared? Similarly, we might be reassured that that yellow or white dividing line on a road is telling us where we should be, but how does that knowledge then change our behavior, to the point where may actually be driving closer â€” and faster â€” to the stream of oncoming traffic? Accidents are more likely to occur closer to home. Mostly this is because we do most driving closer to home, but studies do show that we pay less attention to signs and signals on local roads, because we "know" them, yet this knowledge actually give us a false sense of security.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: What were some of the things that most surprised you in researching this book?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Things that surprised me the most were those that challenged my own long-held beliefs as a driver, like that "late mergers" simply must be somehow worse for the traffic flow at work-zones, that roundabouts were dangerous places, that warning signs were there because they must be working, that car drivers were more of a contributing factor in truck-car crashes than truck drivers. It was also quite a revelation to learn about the many ways our eyes and our minds deceive us while driving, the ways we "look but donâ€™t see," the way we sometimes believe, to slightly change up the warning our mirrors gives us, that objects are further away than they actually are. Then there were the things I had never really thought about, but were surprising nonetheless â€” that drivers seem to pass closer to cyclists when those cyclists are wearing helmets, how the ways in which drivers honk at each other contain subtle indications of status and demographics, how much traffic on the streets is simply people looking for parking. I was also unpleasantly surprised to learn how far the U.S. had slipped in terms of traffic safety in the world, where it was once the leader.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You write, "The truth is the road itself tells us far more than signs do." So do traffic signs work?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Weâ€™ve probably all had the somewhat absurd moment of driving in the country, past a big red barn, the pungent smell of cow manure on the breeze, and then seeing a yellow traffic sign with a cow on it. Does anyone need that sign to remind them that cows may be nearby? To quote Hans Monderman, the legendary Dutch traffic engineer who was opposed to excessive signing, "if you treat people like idiots, theyâ€™ll act like idiots." Then again, perhaps someone did come blazing along and hit a crossing cow or a tractor, and in response engineers may have been forced to put up a sign. The question is: Would that person have done that regardless of the sign? The bulk of evidence is that people donâ€™t change their behavior in the presence of such signs. Children playing, School zone? People speed through those warnings, faster than they even thought, if you query them later. To take another example, the majority of people killed at railroad crossings in the U.S. are killed at crossings where the gates are down. If this is insufficient warning that they should not cross the tracks then is a sign warning that a train might be coming really going to change behavior? At what point do people need to rely on their own judgment? We as humans seem to act on the message that traffic signs give us in complex ways â€” studies have shown, for example, that people drive faster around curved roads that are marked with signs telling them the road is curved. We tend to behave more cautiously in the face of uncertainty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: What is "psychological traffic calming"?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Traditional "traffic calming" relies on putting big, visually obvious obstructions in the road, like speed bumps, or the wider, flatter speed humps. Unfortunately, since the bulk of drivers, like tantrum-throwing toddlers, really donâ€™t like to be calmed, a lot of these donâ€™t work as well as hoped, or produce negative, unintended consequences, like the fact that people will raise their speed between the bumps to make up for the time lost slowing to traverse the bump. So-called "psychological traffic calming" basically tries to calm traffic without drivers even realizing theyâ€™re being calmed. It does so through things like reducing the width of roads, using pavements of different colors or textures, even removing center-line dividers, which studies have shown is one way to get drivers to slow down. Even creating visual interest along the side of the road, a no-no in traditional traffic engineering because itâ€™s a "distraction," can be used to calm traffic â€” when somethingâ€™s worth seeing, after all, people slow down. The most radical approach is removing any signage at all, and forcing drivers to rely on their own wits, as well as the dynamics of human interaction, as has been seen in some interesting experiments in the Netherlands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You cite 20 miles per hour as the speed at which eye contact becomes impossible. How central to understanding traffic, and human communication generally, is this statistic?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Eye contact is a fundamental human signal â€” all kinds of studies have shown, for example, how people are more likely to cooperate with one another when they can make eye contact. When we donâ€™t have it, when we become anonymous, we not only lose some of that impulse towards cooperation, we seem to become susceptible to all kinds of behavior we might not otherwise engage in. In most driving situations, of course, we lose eye contact, and have to make do with our rather limited vocabulary of traffic signals. At much slower speeds, however, like those seen in the experimental roundabouts in the Netherlands were most signage has been stripped away, it is fascinating to see how intricately all the traffic can interweave â€” exactly because some of those human signals have been restored.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Weâ€™ve all had the experience of the annoying passenger who canâ€™t stop critiquing our driving when we know are driving just perfectly. Then again, weâ€™ve all been the back seat driver to people who think they are driving perfectly when we know for sure they are about to kill us. What accounts for the way drivers vs. passengers experience the same ride?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: First of all, I should stress that passengers, even annoying back-seat drivers, are good for us: Statistics show that people are less likely to crash when they are accompanied in the car (except, interestingly, teen drivers). But thereâ€™s several interesting things going on between drivers and passengers. For one, driving as an activity often lacks regular feedback â€” weâ€™re often not aware in the moment of how close to a crash we almost came, or our own culpability in that. Secondly, drivers tend to self-enhance. They all tend to think they are better than average, or at least average drivers â€” itâ€™s been called the "Lake Woebegone Effect." Passengers are not caught up in this dynamic â€” thereâ€™s no such thing as a "better than average" passenger â€” nor do they feel themselves joined to the mechanics of the car, the way a driver does. Brain scans of people doing simulated driving have even revealed different results from people acting as simulated passengers. In the end, a back-seat driver, like it or not, is providing feedback, the same way someone can view footage of their golf swing to learn what they couldnâ€™t see in the moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You talk about numerous experiments going on around the world to study traffic, what are some of the ones that you found most interesting?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: One of the most fascinating things that is happening, thanks to technology like TiVo style cameras and feedback sensors, is that researchers are becoming increasingly able to study how drivers really behave on the road, learning curious details about, for example, how much time drivers spend looking in certain places â€” forward at the road, in the rear-view mirrors, away from traffic, at the radio, etc. With companies like DriveCam, this information is actually being used to coach drivers â€” beginners but also experienced drivers â€” based on the crashes they narrowly avoided. The work of Hans Monderman, who unfortunately died in January, in the Netherlands was also utterly fascinating. Faced with a visually unappealing, traffic clogged intersection in the heart of the Dutch city of Drachten, Monderman turned it into a roundabout, with fountains and plantings but no traffic lights and virtually no signage â€” the result, more than a year later, is the traffic moves more efficiently through the town, and there have been fewer crashes. It was also quite memorable to be in Los Angelesâ€™ "traffic bunker" on Oscar Night. They set up special traffic patterns so that the starsâ€™ limos can all get to the red carpet at roughly the same time. It was striking to see how one person, sitting alone at a computer screen, can orchestrate the whole cityâ€™s flows, its competing patterns of desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You have been all over the world studying traffic. So, where was it the worst and how does the city in which we live dictate our highway behavior?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: It depends on how you define worst! Iâ€™ve been in nasty jams from Seoul to San Francisco. The places that felt the most chaotic were cities like Hanoi, which currently has the highest level of motorbikes per capita in the world, and where, in many parts of the city, the only way one can cross the street is by simply wading into the flow. New Delhi was also quite unnerving, not just for the hustle and bustle of so many modes of transportation on the road at once, but the chronic disobedience of traffic rules. In Beijing, where "driver" not that long ago was only the title of a job, driving was hectic but I found it quite difficult as well to be a pedestrian â€” drivers were always plunging into the crosswalks when I had the "walk" man, I was always having to climb bridges or submerge into tunnels to cross streets, and the cityâ€™s "super-blocks" are sort of oppressive â€” I walk quickly but it took me nearly an hour to walk around the block on which my hotel was located.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think traffic behavior is dictated by a complicated mix of cultural factors and the traffic engineering measures in place. In Copenhagen, home of the worldâ€™s largest anarchist community, people on foot are astonishingly law-abiding in terms of not crossing against the light. In New York, an arguably more individualistic, ego-driven sort of place, youâ€™re viewed as a tourist if you donâ€™t jaywalk. But in London, for example, studies have shown that the number of pedestrians who violate red lights literally changes with each block; itâ€™s not that those peopleâ€™s culture changed from one block to the next, it was simply that some lights were too punishingly long to wait for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You seem to feel pretty strongly about what constitutes an "accident" on the road. While drugs and alcohol are called out as criminal, cell phone use, texting and general disregard for traffic laws are not. Do you think we are heading toward stricter laws on this front? Should we?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Since the car was invented, drivers have been reluctant to give up what they see as their "rights," even as these supposed rights keep changing. This is why, for example, cars are sold without "speed governors," a device that would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the illegal â€” letâ€™s call it what it is â€” act of speeding, and certainly reduce fatalities and injuries. It took years for people to accept that drinking and then getting behind the wheel was not a good idea, and obviously many still do think itâ€™s acceptable. As the science emerges that cell phone conversations, not simply dialing, can seriously impair a driverâ€™s attention and reaction times, the very reasons we criminalize drunken driving, Iâ€™m not sure what the distinction is that should be made if a driver kills a pedestrian while drunk versus while on their cell phone, or for that matter who kills a pedestrian because they were driving 25 miles over the speed limit. Does one get years in jail and the other a slap on the wrist? Donâ€™t they both show an equal disregard for the law? People are leery of imposing stricter laws on negligent driving because itâ€™s always been viewed as a "folk crime," like fudging your taxes, sort of widespread and not as serious as others. People are reluctant to criminalize what they see as "normal" behavior. But how did it become normal behavior? When I got my driverâ€™s license, the cell phone hadnâ€™t been invented, and somehow as a society we managed to get along. The economy didnâ€™t collapse, and, if you believe surveys, people were no less happy then they are now. No one wants to get into an accident, theyâ€™re certainly not premeditated, but were people doing everything they reasonably could to avoid an "accidental" crash when it later turns out they were talking on a cell phone while driving? Itâ€™s something weâ€™re going to have wrestle with as a society as the science really begins to come in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: What is "a forgiving road"?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: This is a school of thought that says, drivers are only human, theyâ€™re going to make mistakes, so letâ€™s build things so that if they do make a mistake, they wonâ€™t be seriously injured or killed. Sounds good in theory, and in some places, itâ€™s good practice. If youâ€™re cruising along the highway at 75 mph and your tire blows out, wouldnâ€™t you want a guardrail to prevent you from crashing into a tree? The problem is: Where do you draw the line? The early traffic engineers thought the forgiving road was such a good idea they argued it should be extended to every road in the country. Even residential streets, they argued, shouldnâ€™t be lined with trees, and instead should have massive "clear zones" for people to skid off into without killing themselves. The problem, apart from the fact that forgiving roads donâ€™t really make for nice residential or city environments, is that the forgiving road principles, can, in effect, give permission to drivers to drive more recklessly, which is not good for other drivers, pedestrians, or cyclists â€” and often not good for them. Just as the only safe car is the one that never leaves the garage, the only truly safe road is the one thatâ€™s never driven. Trying to make roads "too safe" for drivers leads to all sorts of unintended consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You write that "as the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road, but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are." Can you explain?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: To give you an idea, I took a test on a driving simulator. I was doing a kind of logic exercise via a hands-free phone while I drove on the highway. I smacked into the back of a truck. When I looked at the software that tracked my eye movements, they were locked onto the back of that truck. Did I realize how distracted I was? Not at all. Think of when you zone out as someoneâ€™s talking to you. Youâ€™re only made aware of it when they ask if youâ€™re listening to them. Or take the famous "gorilla video" experiment. Youâ€™re trying to pay attention to people passing the basketball to each other. In the meantime, a guy in a gorilla suit strolls by. Most people donâ€™t see it. Youâ€™re distracted from the gorilla by the act of counting passes, but youâ€™ve no idea. This kind of thing, scarily, happens in driving all the time. There are times we know weâ€™re distracted in some way, like physically dialing a phone, but other times when weâ€™re not aware of the extent of our distraction because we think weâ€™re paying attention.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: You write about the cars and technologies of the future and as you put it, "It is probably no accident that whenever one hears of a "smart" technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control." Are we headed towards the driverless automobile?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Weâ€™re definitely already in the era of "driver-assist" automobiles, with blind-spot warnings and adaptive cruise control and the like. As people who study automation have noted, these "semiautomated" processes come with very particular challenges â€” drivers may relax their vigilance, thinking everything is fine thanks to the carâ€™s technology, but something might happen that actually confounds the carâ€™s systems, and suddenly the driver is "out of the loop." This kind of thing has been seen in airline crashes. That said, were it to be fully achievable, full automated driving would have all kinds of benefits, from smoother traffic flow to a reduction in crashes. But thatâ€™s a ways away â€” the legal issues, for one, are massive â€” but maybe by 2050, like in the film\n  <em>\n   Minority Report\n  </em>\n  , weâ€™ll all have little autonomous pods connected to a gridâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: If you had to choose from the vast array of prescriptions, what would be some of the top things you would recommend to make our roads safer and our traffic less maddening?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: 1. Pay attention to the task at hand. You are operating heavy machinery, not driving a big phone booth or a make-up mirror. Every glance away from the road, every phone call, every fumbling for your last McNugget, not only disrupts traffic flow, it boosts the risk for a crash, which is itself one of the leading causes of congestion. Even though we often read about how much money weâ€™re losing because of traffic congestion, which people often site as reason to build more roads, itâ€™s been estimated that crashes cost us more in economic terms than congestion itself.\n  <br />\n  2. Remember the ants. Army ants are among the worldâ€™s best commuters, for a single reason: Theyâ€™re all cooperating. They move in unison, they help each other out, the individual doesnâ€™t consider his own interests above that of the traffic stream. We all want to assert our individuality, or our sense of superiority on the road, but as everyone does that, it makes it worse for everyone else, and the whole system gets worse.\n  <br />\n  3. Keep in mind youâ€™re not as good a driver as you think you are. On the road, weâ€™re moving faster than our evolutionary history has prepared us. We cope pretty well regardless, but weâ€™re still susceptible to all kinds of flaws and distortions in our sensory and decision-making equipment. Just because your eyes are on the road and your hands upon the wheel doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re actually prepared to deal with an emergency.\n  <br />\n  4. We canâ€™t build our way out of traffic, but we can think our way out. Building more roads when theyâ€™re already under-funded doesnâ€™t seem workable, and given that most roads are only congested part of the time, itâ€™s not really the most efficient solution anyway, for loads of reasons. As a former Disney engineer told me when I asked why they didnâ€™t just build more rides instead of worrying about new ways to manage the long queues, "you donâ€™t build a church for Easter Sunday." But being able to clear a stalled car quickly because sensors detect the traffic flow has changed, knowing which routes are crowded in that moment, and possibly charging accordingly; or, perhaps, making traffic lights adapt to changing demand â€” or getting rid of traffic lights altogether â€” thereâ€™s countless innovative solutions out there that are more sophisticated, and more sustainable,than simply laying more asphalt, and that donâ€™t necessarily involve not driving â€” though that of course is the ultimate traffic solution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Okay so the big question. We know you have learned a lot about traffic but what have you learned about we humans behind the wheels?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: In a word, that weâ€™re â€¦human! We make mistakes, we misjudge our abilities, weâ€™re not as aware of whatâ€™s happening in traffic as we think we are, we act differently in different situations, we get angry over things that matter little in the long run, weâ€™re susceptible to distortions in our sense of time, we have trouble living beyond the moment, of seeing the big picture â€” oh, and also, that everyone has a different opinion on who the worst drivers are and where they liveâ€¦"Los Angeles! L.A. drivers are the worstâ€¦ No, Atlanta has terrible driversâ€¦ No way, Boston drivers are nutsâ€¦" Try this with your friends sometime.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vanderbilt looks at the psychology of driving and the many false impressions drivers use to operate their vehicles. He also looks at other subjects potentially unconsidered by the average driver, such as traffic control centers and smart technology that improves driving decisions. David Slavin''s diverse application of tone and personality make him a great choice for this production. Vanderbilt''s writing is accessible, but it changes in tone depending on the context (ranging from life-and-death issues of accidents to reflecting about traffic controllers protesting during the Academy Awards). Slavin balances these shifting thoughts and maintains an overall energetic personality throughout the production. The big challenge of this audiobook is how much drivers who listen to audiobooks will adjust their habits while listening to it. A Knopf hardcover. (Reviews, May 19).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4476'),
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(10028, 'A Tragic Legacy: How a Good Vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency', 'Glenn Greenwald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacyIn this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing the faulty ideals upon which George W. Bush built his policies. Enlightening and eye-opening, this is a powerful look at the man whose incapability and cowboy logic have left America at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1699'),
(10029, 'Trail of Blood', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A LETHAL INHERITANCE China, 1938. Eighteen-year-old Rosalie Gilder flees Nazi-occupied Austria with her younger brother. Hidden among their belongings are a few precious family heirlooms, their only protection against the hard times that await them as they join Shanghais growing population of Jewish refugees.New York, present day. Chinese-American detective Lydia Chin is hired by an old friend to investigate the recent theft of a cache of holocaust assets, thought to once belong to the Gilders. However, before she makes much headway, her friend is shot dead. Neither Lydia nor her partner, Bill, believe the NYPDs theory that his death was a robbery gone bad. Both fear they are no longer looking for a thief but a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to reclaim the past\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3231'),
(10030, 'Trail of the Apache and other stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This colourful assortment of western tales features seven stories of adventure, betrayal, the clash of cultures, and violence on the Western frontier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9217'),
(10031, 'Trail of the Gods: The Morcyth Saga Book Four', 'Brian S. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Getting some R&amp;R in Trendle, James works to learn more of how to control and harness magic. Also, he and Jiron sneak into the Empire controlled city of Saragon. There they hope to discover where the priests of Morcyth went, and maybe to find out why James had been brought to this world in the first place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5288'),
(10032, 'The Trail to Buddha&#39;s Mirror', 'Don Winslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Don Winslow may be the finest crime writer currently working in America. If you''ve not read the Neal Carey books before, send Busted Flush Press a note of thanks. You''re in for a treat."--Robert Crais, best-selling author of "The Sentry""I look most forward to seeing all of the Neal Carey stories published by Busted Flush."--T. Jefferson Parker, best-selling author of "The Border Lords""Kudos to Busted Flush for bringing back Winslow''s Neal Carey series. . . . Hands-down one of my favorite series, and it should be a ''must read'' for every mystery fan."--Jon Jordan, "CrimeSpree Magazine"Back in print, this is the second novel in the Edgar Award-nominated Neal Carey private eye series by "New York Times" best-seller Don Winslow ("The Dawn Patrol"; "Savages").When chemical genius Robert Pendleton disappears from a conference with all of his research on a new fertilizer, grad student-turned-P.I. Neal Carey follows a dark trail into the heart of China.Don Winslow''s first novel, "A Cool Breeze on the Underground," was nominated for an Edgar Award, and his "California Fire and Life" received the Shamus Award. "The Death and Life of Bobby Z" was made into a feature film in 2007 starring Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne. His latest novel, "Savages," has been purchased by Oliver Stone, who plans to write, produce, and direct the film adaptation. Don lives on an old ranch in the San Diego area with his wife Jean and son Thomas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5713'),
(10033, 'The Train to Lo Wu', 'Jess Row', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one quite understands anyone else in Row''s Hong Kong, a city suffused by a pervasive sense of alienation. In the seven stories of this debut collection, Row''s protagonistsâ€”American expats and locals alikeâ€”flail about, either helplessly or harmfully, as blind as Alice in the first story, "The Secrets of Bats," who wanders around in a blindfold, trying to gain a bat''s sense of orientation. The narrator of the title story, a wealthy man from Hong Kong, falls in love with a Chinese woman named Lin. Political strictures make their situation difficult, but cultural differences ultimately divide them. The narrator (whose family has lived in Hong Kong for five generations) is optimistic and resourceful; Lin (crushed all her life by the Chinese system) cannot abandon her pessimism. In "For You," the marriage of an American couple disintegrates after they move to Hong Kong, and the husband, Lewis, temporarily joins a Buddhist monasteryâ€”just one example of the way personal breakdowns tend to follow political displacement in Row''s stories. At the monastery, Lewis is told: "Mistakes are your mirror.... They reflect your mind. Don''t try to slip away from them." In sharp, lucid prose, Row molds a landscape of human error and uncertainty, territory well-aligned with the eerie topography of his space-age city.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Debuting author Row makes new the archetypal theme of a stranger in a strange land in his seven tales of outsiders struggling to decode the mysteries of Hong Kong. In crystalline prose, Whiting Award winner Row animates intriguing and unpredictable characters and dramatizes subtle yet emblematic conflicts as he traces the vast cultural divides between America and Hong Kong, and cosmopolitan Hong Kong and locked-down mainland China. A young American man teaching English in a Chinese girls'' school is baffled and seduced by a 16-year-old''s potentially dangerous obsession with echolocation in the exquisite "The Secrets of Bats." In "The American Girl," a blind Chinese masseur puts up with the bossy insensitivity of an American graduate student who forces him to recall the brutal violence his family faced during the Cultural Revolution. In the title story, a well-off Hong Kong man becomes involved with a woman from Shenzhen whose life is cruelly proscribed. As Row choreographs thorny negotiations between naive newcomers and guarded insiders, he neatly and devastatingly contrasts dueling visions of faith, art, love, and freedom.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5097'),
(10034, 'The Train Was on Time', 'Heinrich Boll', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Heinrich B&ouml;ll''s taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanized by the thought that he is on the way to his death.\n <br />\n <br />\n As the train hurtles on, he riffs through prayers and memories, talks with other soldiers about what they''ve been through, and gazes desperately out the window at his country racing away. With mounting suspense, Andreas is gripped by one thought over all: Is there a way to defy his fate?\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8716'),
(10035, 'Trainspotting', 'Irvine Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irvine Welsh''s controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Blisteringly funny ... don''t abandon everything for the movie. It''s worth making the effort with\n <em>\n  Trainspotting\n </em>\n not merely because relatively few writers have rummaged through this particular enclave of British youth culture, but because even fewer have dug there so deeply. --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review, Mark Jolly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The best book ever written by man or woman ...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible. --\n <em>\n  Rebel, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6298'),
(10036, 'Traitor', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government''s clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four hours. Or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched and its surveillance team locked down, there is only one option: Stratton and a team of unproven operatives from MI16. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself and he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend. And Stratton intends to save him. But one of Stratton''s team is not what they appear to be. A traitor. With a deadly agenda of their own. And Morpheus is just the beginning. This is the incendiary sixth thriller in the Stratton series by the UK''s leading ex-SF professional.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(10037, 'Traitor to the Blood', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the fourth novel of the Noble Dead saga, following Sister of the Dead, Magiere the dhampir and Leesil the half-elf embark on an odyssey in search of the secrets of their mysterious origins and of those responsible for the events that brought them together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(10038, 'Traitor&#39;s Sun: A Novel of Darkover', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Traitor''s Sun* continues the epic saga of Darkover, the award-winning series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her most brilliant and popular creation, the Darkover books take readers to a planet torn by rebellion--and struggling for freedom... "Darkover is the essence, the quitessence, my most personal and best-loved work."-- Marion Zimmer Bradley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9538'),
(10039, 'Traitors Gate', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Victorian socialites Thomas and Charlotte Pitt investigate the murders of two London aristocrats in this 15th installment in Perry''s popular historical mystery series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recent revelations about Perry''s past--as a young girl in Australia, she was convicted of killing her best friend''s mother--will generate additional hype for her newest book, another entry in her popular Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery series. The book hit stores early--no doubt to capitalize on the "convicted murderess" brouhaha--and has been chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection. But Perry is not just some flash-in-the-pan writer whose publicists decided to take advantage of a media scoop. To fans of the historical mystery, she''s one of the masters of the genre. Her latest story, set as usual in turn-of-the-century London, has Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigating the mysterious death of Thomas'' mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond. The death has been ruled a suicide, but Sir Arthur''s son is convinced his father was murdered for attempting to expose treason in the Colonial Office. Thomas and Charlotte begin to suspect that the nefarious Inner Circle, a group of highly influential but dangerously corrupt men, may be responsible for the killing. Perry''s fascinating details of Victorian social customs, dress, language, politics, and behavior plus her usual engrossing plot virtually guarantee the success of another fine entry in an outstanding series.\n <em>\n  Emily Melton\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8580'),
(10040, 'Trample an empire down', 'Mack Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3201'),
(10041, 'Transcendent', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11112'),
(10042, 'Transcriptions of Dharma Talks', 'Thich Nhat Hanh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10678'),
(10043, 'Transfer of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. Through the quick actions of the Secret Service, the president is evacuated to his underground bunker, but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent in to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the chaotic crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA''s top counterterrorism operative, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington''s power elite had thought. Moving stealthily among the corridors and secret passageways of the White House, stepping terrifyingly close to the enemy, Rapp scrambles to save the hostages before the terrorists can extract the president from the safety of his bunker. In a race against time, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government is maneuvering in hopes that his rescue attempt will fail. With the crackling tension and explosive action that made Term Limits "a roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune), Vince Flynn delivers Transfer of Power -- a blockbuster novel that carries us just beyond today''s headlines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4190'),
(10044, 'Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude', 'Dietrich Von Hildebrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A magnificent treatise by a distinguished philosopher on the pursuit of spiritual perfection." --\n  <em>\n   â€”Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A major contribution to the only important question: the transformation of our soul in Christ." --\n  <em>\n   â€”Archbishop Fulton Sheen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A masterpiece of modern spirituality: eminently practical and highly recommended." --\n  <em>\n   â€”Fr. John Hardon, S.J.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A solid and penetrating analysis of the Christian virtues, and their application in the struggle toward Christian perfection." --\n  <em>\n   â€”Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Recognized as a modern spiritual classic and perhaps Dietrich von Hildebrand''s greatest work, this sublime and practical study gives a penetrating analysis of the true path to holiness for those who love Christ. The first requisite is the person''s desire for change, and with that fundamental attitude in mind, von Hildebrand devotes a chapter to each of the successive spiritual attitudes necessary for those who strive for Christian perfection. The Beatitudes are treated with beauty and depth in an uncompromising challenge to every serious Christian to put into practice these teachings of Christ.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6656');
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(10045, 'Transgression: A Novel of Love and War', 'James W. Nichol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: How can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted fieldâ€”a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secret dating back to the beginning of the turbulent decade. In 1941 in occupied France, Adele Georges''s fruitless attempts to learn the whereabouts of her father, captured by the Nazis, lead her to a lonely young German soldier far from home. A spark between them becomes a fireâ€”and a dangerous love affair blooms across enemy lines, dooming Adele to a grim postwar existence as a despised outcast, one of the infamous "horizontal collaborators." Ostracized, tortured, tormented, she chooses a desperate escape, accompanying a war-damaged yet optimistic Allied soldier across an ocean to a new land. But there is no refuge from the past, as Adele''s broken heart and shameful secret drive her deeper into despair...and toward a shocking outcome. Part mystery and part love storyâ€”an unforgettable and beautifully written novel of secrets, passions, and consequencesâ€”*Transgression* is an exceptional work of power and strange beauty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1664'),
(10046, 'Transit of Earth 2', 'Clarke, Arthur C - SS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8988'),
(10047, 'Transition', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice under snow; Adrian Cubbish, a restlessly greedy City trader; and a nameless, faceless state-sponsored torturer known only as the Philosopher, who moves between time zones with sinister ease. Then there are those who question the Concern: the bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill, roaming the worlds recruiting rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, under sedation and feigning madness in a forgotten hospital ward, in hiding from a dirty past.There is a world that needs help; but whether it needs the Concern is a different matter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6692'),
(10048, 'Transmission', 'Hari Kunzru', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau, in which his alienated characters communicate via e-mail jokes and emote through pop culture, all the while dreaming of frothy lattes and designer labels. Arjun Mehta is an Indian computer programmer and Bollywood buff who comes to the U.S. with big dreams, but finds neither the dashing romance nor the heroic ending of his favorite moviesâ€”just a series of crushing disappointments. When he is told he will lose his job at the global security software company and thus may have to return to India, Arjun develops and secretly releases a nasty computer virus, hoping that he can impress his boss into hiring him back when he "finds" the cure. Arjun''s desperate measures are, of course, far reaching, eventually affecting the lives of Guy Swift, an English new money entrepreneur; his girlfriend, Gabriella; and the young Indian movie star Leela Zahir. Kunzru weaves their narratives adroitly, finding humor and pathos in his misguided characters, all the while nipping savagely at consumer culture and the executives who believe in "the emotional magma that wells from the core of planet brand." While Guy Swift creates a marketing campaign for border police that imagines Europe as an "upscale, exclusive continent," Arjun Mehta is fighting to keep his scrap of the American dream. Kunzru''s first novel,\n <em>\n  The Impressionist\n </em>\n , was received enthusiastically (it was shortlisted for numerous awards, and won quite a few others, including the Somerset Maugham Award), and this follow-up will not disappoint fans of his stirring social commentary.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Arjun Mehta, computer programmer and extreme Bollywood fan, dreams of a different life than his native India offers him. It seems like magic when a placement service in the U.S. offers to fly him to the states and help him find a job. After several weeks in limbo, he takes a position with a software developer specializing in virus protection. He befriends Chris, a heavily tattooed, bisexual rock-and-roll chick who takes pity on him. She exposes clueless Arjun to pieces of U.S. culture that challenge him in ways that are both humorous and thought-provoking. After a sexual interlude that ends his friendship with her, Arjun finds himself on a list of employees to be laid off. In desperation, he creates a computer virus around the image of a popular Bollywood star and unleashes it on the Internet. He plans to present a solution for it, making money for his company, saving his job, and turning himself into a hero. But, of course, things go awry as the virus takes on a life of its own. Kunzru''s details of the technology are thrilling and accessible, bringing to mind William Gibson''s classic cyberpunk novel\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n (Ace, 1984). The point of view switches to other characters to show the effects of the virus on a more personal level. Ultimately, this is a mainstream-style novel with strong characters and situations that has just enough science-fiction elements to satisfy readers of both genres._â€“Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7047'),
(10049, 'Trap Line', 'Carl Hiaasen &amp; William D. Montalbano &amp; Bill Montalbano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conch''s historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler''s paradise. All that''s needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he''s in no mood to become the Machine''s delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Albury''s livelihood. Then it robs him of his freedom. But when the Machine threatens Albury''s son, the washed-out wharf rat turns into a raging, sea-going vigilante. In Trap Line, Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano pit a handful of scruffy Conchs against an armada of drug lords, crooked cops, and homicidal marine lowlife. The result is a crime novel of dizzying velocity, filled with wrenching plot twists, grimily authentic characters, and enough local color for a hundred tropical shirts. It''s the Key West the tourist brochures won''t tell you about: a place as crooked as Al Capone''s Chicago and as irredeemably violent as Wyatt Earp''s Tombstone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7060'),
(10050, 'Trash', 'Andy Mulligan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 7-10â€“Three young teens, trash-picker living in the city dump of an unnamed third-world country, discover a mysterious bag one morning, triggering a chain of events that will change their lives forever. Raphael, Gordo, and Rat take turns nar-rating the story of how they uncover a network of political corruption and abuse of the poor. Each puzzle the boys solve leads to yet a new riddle for them to work out. The chase leads them throughout the city, exposing the great disparity be-tween the â€œhavesâ€ and the â€œhave nots,â€ and the huge injustice this represents. Several run-ins with the police make it clear that getting caught means death for the three boys. They face moral dilemmas throughout and, ultimately, make good deci-sions. Their intelligence and characters make the condition in which they live seem even more unfair. While on the surface the book reads like a fast-paced adventure title, it also makes a larger statement about the horrors of poverty and injustice in the world. Occasionally the alternating viewpoints of the book become confusing, particularly when they switch mid-chapter. In spite of this, Trash is a compelling read. The action is riveting and the secret codes throughout will appeal mys-tery fans. Readers will be drawn to this title, and hopefully learn a little about the world outside their own country. Teens who enjoyed the film Slumdog Millionaire (2008) will find much to enjoy here._Kristin Anderson, Columbus Metropolitan Library System, OH_\n  <br />\n  Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In an unnamed Third World city, Rat, Raphael, and Gardo live with thousands of other kids like them in a garbage dump, where they dig through the detritus looking for anything that could be profitable. When an important person loses something valuable in the refuse, the three boys embark on an engrossing, sobering mystery characterized by stealing, lying, and police brutality as well as generosity, trust, and ingenuity. Multiple characters describe the adventure, and although the switch between narrators may initially seem disorienting (a priest, housemother, and tombstone maker also provide their integral perspectives), the story flows more smoothly as it progresses, bolstered by the young charactersâ€™ well-articulated, authentic thoughts, feelings, and voices. Throughout, the boysâ€™ significant sense of devotion and morality leads them from lives of desperation to miraculous possibilities. The culminating scenes contribute important elements of Day of the Dead celebrations and Robin Hood themes, further increasing the novelâ€™s usefulness for discussion and study. Grades 6-9. --Andrew Medlar\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7851'),
(10051, 'Travels with Myself and Another', 'Martha Gellhorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America''s most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. "Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence". The Times (London) "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt", writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt''s secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2953'),
(10052, 'Travis McGee 01 - The Deep Blue Good-Bye', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When I first arrived at Ballantine, where I am the mass market managing editor, we were just undergoing a daunting task: repackaging all of John D. MacDonald''s Travis McGee novels. We were giving him a brand-new, beautiful look; ingeniously, we used a deep blue color for THE DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY, a gold color for A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD, a lavender hue for THE LONG LAVENDER LOOK, etc. But as I worked on the actual stories themselves, I realized that as colorful as these books now are on the outside, they''re even more colorful on the inside. In order to prepare these books, we had to have them retyped from scratch; some of these books are so old that the plates had died, so we had nothing to print from. So all the books had to be proofread as if they were new books, and what a joy it was working on them. I unexpectedly rediscovered an author and character I knew very little about. Travis McGee is one of the great characters in crime fiction, and John D. MacDonald a fascinating storyteller. You never know what either is going to do next, or say next; what is going on in their minds is as important, if not more so, then what is going on outside Travis''s boat. All of which add up to a heckuva fun series. Mark Rifkin, Managing Editorial\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8820'),
(10053, 'Travis McGee 02 - Nightmare In Pink', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8835'),
(10054, 'Travis McGee 03 - A Purple Place For Dying', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8821'),
(10055, 'Travis McGee 04 - The Quick Red Fox', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8817'),
(10056, 'Travis McGee 05 - A Deadly Shade Of Gold', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8842'),
(10057, 'Travis McGee 06 - Bright Orange For The Shroud', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8815'),
(10058, 'Travis McGee 07 - Darker Than Amber', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8825'),
(10059, 'Travis McGee 08 - One Fearful Yellow Eye', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8836'),
(10060, 'Travis McGee 09 - Pale Gray For Guilt', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8816'),
(10061, 'Travis McGee 10 - The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8843'),
(10062, 'Travis McGee 11 - Dress Her In Indigo', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8819'),
(10063, 'Travis McGee 12 - The Long Lavender Look', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8841'),
(10064, 'Travis McGee 13 - A Tan And Sandy Silence', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8814'),
(10065, 'Travis McGee 14 - The Scarlet Ruse', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8823'),
(10066, 'Travis McGee 15 - The Turquoise Lament', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8824'),
(10067, 'Travis McGee 16 - The Dreadful Lemon Sky', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8818'),
(10068, 'Travis McGee 17 - The Empty Copper Sea', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8838'),
(10069, 'Travis McGee 18 - The Green Ripper', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8839'),
(10070, 'Travis McGee 19 - Free Fall in Crimson', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8837'),
(10071, 'Travis McGee 20 - Cinnamon Skin', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8840'),
(10072, 'Travis McGee 21 - The Lonely Silver Rain', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8822'),
(10073, 'Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic', 'Redmond O&#39;Hanlon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O''Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O''Hanlon joins the commercial fishing crew of the\n <em>\n  Norlantean\n </em>\n , a deep-sea trawler,_ _ to stock a bottomless hull with their catch, even as a hurricane roars around them. Rich in oceanography, marine biology, and uproarious humor,\n <em>\n  Trawle\n </em>\n r is Redmond O''Hanlon at his finest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8128'),
(10074, 'Treachery in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Lt. Eve Dallas and her squad take on corrupt cops in Robb''s 33rd full-length novel featuring the New York Police and Security Dept. homicide detective (after Indulgence in Death), a fast-paced, intricate, and deadly dance of well-matched opponents. When Dallas''s partner, Det. Delia Peabody, overhears an angry exchange between Lt. Rene Oberman and Det. William Garnet that reveals an unlawful killing and ongoing skimming, Dallas''s reaction to this news is decisive: "the blue line breaks for wrong cops." The setting may be slightly futuristic, but the procedures are familiar: Dallas puts together a solid team that meets in her home to avoid leaks as they compile evidence. At the same time, she initiates confrontations with the dangerous Oberman, whom she begins pushing toward a trap. From this pure good guys versus bad guys scenario, Robb (aka Nora Roberts) wrings plenty of exciting strokes and counterstrokes before reaching the satisfying climax. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After her boss, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, suggests that New York policewoman Delia Peabodyâ€™s footwork needs some work, Delia books some time in the gym for what almost becomes a â€œkillerâ€ workout. Rather than visit NYPDâ€™s brand-new, state-of-the-art exercise facilities, Peabody opts for the buildingâ€™s old gym, since fewer of her well-toned, light-on-their-feet co-workers will be there. Upon arriving, Peabody has the place to herself until she hears voices and realizes that sheâ€™s listening to two cops angrily arguing about a deal in which they are both involved. Fortunately, the two leave before they realize Delia has overheard them. Not only does Peabody know the name of one of the corrupt cops, she also knows they are both guilty of murder. Now it will be up to Peabody and Eve to take these crooked cops down. The thirty-second (!) entry in Robbâ€™s gritty, futuristic procedural series is one of the best yet: a sexy, high-stakes, high-adrenaline read that will delight series stalwarts, hook readers new to Eve Dallas, and please both mystery and romance readers. --John Charles\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7036'),
(10075, 'Tread Softly', 'Ann Cristy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6884'),
(10076, 'Treason', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After the success in recent years of his mature work (the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF diptych Ender''s Game and Speaker for the Dead and the excellent fantasy, Seventh Son ), the energetic Card returns to his 1979 second novel originally titled A Planet Called Treason . Limiting his rewriting to presentation rather than plot, Card is left with a good story that looks forward to his better work. Arrogant, sophisticated Lanik Mueller, scion of a clan that can regenerate their bodies, learns humility and much else during his exile in "primitive" lands. With his new powers, including the ability to cause earthquakes and drain lakes, he leads his countrymen in revolt against their conquerors. As in his later, better known work, Card provides a colorful dramatization of ethical issues and questions of identity against a backdrop of bizarrely fascinating races from the tree-dwelling Nkumai to the time-manipulating Ku Kuei.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cursed by the uncontrollable manifestation of his family''s natural gift for self-healing and bodily regeneration, Lanik Mueller begins a planet-wide journey that reveals the mysterious origins of human existence on the planet Treason and leads him to challenge the assumptions of a society based on warfare and greed. This expanded version of A Planet Called Treason exemplifies Card''s talent for creating disturbingly compelling, beautifully written stories. JC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5838'),
(10077, 'Treason&#39;s Harbour', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the ninth book in the series. Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O''Brian allows his characters to develop with experience. The Jack Aubrey of Treason''s Harbour has a record of successes equal to that of the most brilliant of Nelson''s band of brothers, and he is no less formidable or decisive in action or strategy. But he is wiser, kinder, gentler too. Much of the plot of Treason''s Harbour depends on intelligence and counter-intelligence, a field in which Aubrey''s friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clearer insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Nelson''s time than we would ever obtain seeing things through their own eyes. There is plenty of action and excitement in this novel, but it is the atmosphere of a Malta crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are up to, and wondering whether the war will end before their turn comes for prize money and for fame, that is here so freshly and vividly conveyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4247'),
(10078, 'Treasure', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world''s balance of power. Now DIRK PITT discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria -- a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. Suddenly, from East to West, anarchists reach their deadly tentacles into the heart of the United States. And DIRK PITT, the hard-hitting hero of Clive Cussler''s smash bestsellers Sahara and Inca Gold, is up against the most feared assassin known to man. An international band of terrorists is making its play for world power on the high seas -- and Pitt is the only man alive who can stop them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1097'),
(10079, 'Treasure Box', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When naive computer-nerd and millionaire Quentin Fears meets the woman of his dreams at a posh Washington, D.C., party and then marries her, he thinks his life is complete. But in this low-key horror novel, appearances can''t be trusted and people aren''t always in control of their actions. Although Madeleine seems quite sophisticated, there are deficits in her memory and her background is vague. She claims a large, well-to-do family but invites no relatives to the wedding. When Quentin finally meets his in-laws at their palatial Upstate New York mansion, they strike him as eccentric, almost as cartoons of real people. The domineering grandmother, whom Madeleine hates, sits in a trance, eyes closed, refusing to speak. There are hints of past child abuse?and of the possibility that a young boy may have been murdered. Why do so many of Madeleine''s relatives have names identical to those buried in the family cemetery? And why doesn''t Madeleine leave any footprints in the snow? Although the story moves toward a powerful climax, its primary pleasures are more subtle: strong character development and complex motivations, a mystery to solve, the discovery of wheels within wheels.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n At age 11, Quentin Fears is devastated by his older sister Lizzy''s death. Subsequently, he grows up to be a lonely man, obsessed with memories of Lizzy. He becomes extremely wealthy, yet everything he does centers around Lizzy. He even picks a wife who reminds him of her. Madeleine, the woman with whom he falls in love and marries in a matter of weeks, turns out to be an apparition invented by an evil witch. Once the story turns to Quentin''s wife and her family, the plot degenerates into the script of a B-movie, with wild explanations for the comings and goings of ghosts and the mysterious treasure box that Madeleine wants her new husband to open. Card, the author of many highly acclaimed works (e.g., Children of the Mind, Tor, 1996) is more handy with quick and witty dialog than story content. There is not enough humor here it to be funny and not enough horror or fantasy for it to be either.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5856'),
(10080, 'Treasure Island', 'Robert Louis Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many editions of Treasure Island. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Websterâ€™s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSATÂ®, SATÂ®, APÂ® (Advanced PlacementÂ®), GREÂ®, LSATÂ®, GMATÂ® or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of â€œdifficult, and often encounteredâ€ words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordâ€™s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. PSATÂ® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SATÂ® is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GREÂ®, APÂ® and Advanced PlacementÂ® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMATÂ® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSATÂ® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3242'),
(10081, 'Treasure of the Stars', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1912'),
(10082, 'Treasures of Fantasy', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most exciting and popular genre in all literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Known for their bestselling\n <em>\n  Dragonlance Chronicles\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Legends,\n </em>\n noted authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have brought together their own personal favorites--the immortal treasures of fantasy that inspired them--into an authoritative collection of imaginative excellence that is an essential addition to every bookshelf.\n <em>\n  Treasures of Fantasy\n </em>\n also includes a new story by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, original to this edition.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you truly love great fantasy, here''s the one book you must have.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Margaret Weis is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of over thirty books, including the Star of the Guardian series, the Death Gate Cycle, the Darksword Trilogy, and the Dragonlance series. She lives with her husband, Don Perrin, in a converted barn in Wisconsin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5598'),
(10083, 'Treaty at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey; Jody Lynn Nye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thirty-year-old peace between the humans and cat-like aliens on the planet Doona once again is threatened by unrest when the Gringgs, a race of alien visitors, propose both friendship and trade and Doona''s leaders begin to question their motives. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10862'),
(10084, 'A tree grows in Brooklyn', 'Betty Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A novel about a young girl, her family and friends, and their life in the slum section of Brooklyn in the early years of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/944'),
(10085, 'The Tree of Enlightenment - Major Traditions of Buddhism', 'Peter Della Santina', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8827'),
(10086, 'Tree of Life', 'Elita Faith Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wrath, vengeance, hatred, cannot breathe the same atmosphere as love. And so it was that love began to wither and withdraw... Among the ageless quietude of the elves, Deacon, a mortal, suffers the inescapable awareness of mortality. He lived in what many deemed perfection, but a dark uncertainty plagued him that there lay treachery in it all. When secrets of his mysterious heritage are revealed, the young mage is thrown into a revolt of confusion, and in an unwholesome vent of misery, travels a path of unforgivable deeds. One of the few left of his kind - a race whose magical energies are vigorously interwoven with their lifeforce - Deacon is drawn into a world that turns into an involution of evil and death. The fate that awaits him will have immeasurable consequences far beyond his control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1399'),
(10087, 'The Tree Shepherd&#39;s Daughter', 'Gillian Summers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and lord even after closing time! Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girlâ€™s worst nightmare.Keelie has a plan to ditch this medieval geekland ASAP, but while she plots, strange things start happeningâ€”eerie, yet familiar. When Keelie starts seeing fairies and communicating with trees, she uncovers a secret that links her to a community of elves. As Keelie tries to come to grips with her elfin roots, disaster strikes, and Keelieâ€™s identity isnâ€™t the only thing thatâ€™s threatened. One part human determination and one part elfin magic, Keelie Heartwood is a witty new heroine in a world where fantasy and reality mix with extraordinary results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1983'),
(10088, 'The Trench', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey Aquarium. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more. Now, it''s feeding time.On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies the Mariana Trench, where the Megalodon has spawned since the dawn of the time. Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter this perilous cavern. And he wears the painful scars of that deadly encounter. Now, as the body count rises and the horror of a monster''s attack grips the California coast, Jonas must begin the hunt again.But to do it means returning to the dark terror of the trench...where the MEG is waiting. Using himself as a bait, Jonas will enter the ultimate battle -- a fight to the death between man and beast in the darkest recesses of the ocean, and the fight for his sanity from the depths of his own tormented soul.Steve Alten once again unleashes the power of the MEG in a new heart-stopping thriller. "The Trench" takes us into the zone of the unknown and the primal terror of what is "down there". Tense, realistic and action-filled, it will hold you in its grip until the last chilling page...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3611'),
(10089, 'Trespass', 'Rose Tremain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set among the hills and gorges of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge, by the bestselling author of The Road Home, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.**In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he''s become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life.Into this closed CÃ©venol world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London. Now in his sixties, Anthony hopes to remake his life in France, and he begins looking at properties in the region. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.Two worlds and two cultures collide. Ancient boundaries are crossed, taboos are broken, a violent crime is committed. And all the time the CÃ©vennes hills remain, as cruel and seductive as ever, unforgettably captured in this powerful and unsettling novel, which reveals yet another dimension to Rose Tremain''s extraordinary imagination.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3459'),
(10090, 'Trey of Swords', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9073'),
(10091, 'Trial by Fire', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10939'),
(10092, 'Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition', 'Richard Parry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **â€œAn extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.â€â€“*Kirkus Reviews* (starred review)****In the dark years following the Civil War, Americaâ€™s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the *Polaris*, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and* *began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return.What transpired was a tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice. *Trial by Ice *is an incredible adventure that pits men against the natural elements and their own fragile human nature. In this powerful true story of death and survival, courage and intrigue aboard a doomed ship, Richard Parry chronicles one of the most astonishing, little known tragedies at sea in American history.**â€œABSORBING . . . Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hallâ€™s â€˜murder,â€™ then climaxes in horrifying detail.â€*â€“Publishers Weekly*â€œRIVETING.â€*â€“Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3358'),
(10093, 'The Trial', 'Franz Kafka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka''s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka''s prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(10094, 'Triangle', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n none\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1956'),
(10095, 'Tribal Ways', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A frigid spring morning at a Native American archaeological dig erupts into sudden and brutal violence, leaving five people dead and one man gravely wounded. And in a hospital, with archaeologist Annja Creed at his side, the last survivor utters his final words to name his killerâ€”a *skinwalker*. The skinwalker is feared among the Navajo and Apache. It is witchcraft of a most terrible nature that allows a man to take the shape of a wolfâ€”and kill. But as Annja delves into the mystery of the skinwalker, she finds herself pulled into an underworld of violence and vicious radicals, threaded with legendâ€¦and sociopathic intent. In this world, Annja is unwelcome. And in this world, she could be the creature''s next victimâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(10096, 'Trickster', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third novel in Steven Harper''s critically-acclaimed science fiction saga continues ... The telepathic communications net, known as "The Dream; '' has been shattered. And the majority of the Silent who used it are unable to reenter. But Kendi Weaver has more pressing concerns: finding the family that slavers tore from him more than a decade before...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8613'),
(10097, 'Trickster&#39;s Touch', 'Zorha Greenhalgh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bored with his life in the dull state of Speakinghast, Rimble the Trickster, the youngest god of the Greatkin family, decides to perform the ultimate prank, unraveling time and creating his own warped sense of temporal reality called "Shiftime"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6423'),
(10098, 'The Trikon Deception', 'Ben Bova; Bill Pogue', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10455'),
(10099, 'The Trinity Six', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. British author Cumming (Typhoon) revitalizes the moribund cold war spy novel in this stunning stand-alone that centers on the "Cambridge Five" (Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, et al.), who betrayed their country to the Soviet Union during and after WWII. Fifteen years after 76-year-old Edward Crane is pronounced dead at a London hospital in 1992, academic Sam Gaddis learns that Crane was the oft-rumored sixth man in the Cambridge spy ringâ€”and that he''s alive and ready to tell his story. Gaddis, a well-regarded scholar of modern Russia who needs money to support his ex-wife and their daughter, thinks he can turn this bombshell into a bestselling book. But the people who know about it, including one of Gaddis''s best friends, journalist Charlotte Berg, are turning up deadâ€”and the intelligence agencies in Britain and Russia would prefer to squelch the story. Cumming''s knowledge of the spy business, his well-crafted prose, and his intensely engaging plot make this a breakthrough novel. 100,000 first printing. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Books and films almost beyond number have been inspired by the ï¿½Cambridge Spies,ï¿½ five well-bred, brilliant English university students recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Their efforts helped Stalin defeat the Nazis, press the Cold War, and even brought down the government of Harold Macmillan in 1963. They also created a cottage industry of speculation that their number was larger. Playing on that speculation is what Cumming is up to in his latest novel. History professor Sam Gaddis, facing mounting financial problems, learns that there was a sixth Cambridge spy. People with information Sam needs for the book that will get him out of debt begin to die, and Sam must wonder not only if he will be next but whether his assailant will come from Russiaï¿½s FSB or Britainï¿½s MI6. Cummingï¿½s plot is appropriately convoluted, and the convolutions drive the narrative. The characters are well drawn, especially Sam and a sly 91-year-old former spook in a nursing home. Cold War hot spots, including Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest, as well as Cambridge circa 1933, are rendered skillfully. The Trinity Six is a fine successor to Typhoon (2009) for a young author already compared with le Carrï¿½ and Littell. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4846'),
(10100, 'Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery', 'Charlotte Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCharlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Of\n <em>\n  Jackson Park\n </em>\n , the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo Jefferson\n <em>\n  of The New York Times\n </em>\n said, â€œCharlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale.â€ Now Carter returns with another suspenseful novel that brings the black experience to vivid life during one of the most turbulent times in American history.\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n It is December 1968. In the wake of assassinations and the violence of the Democratic convention in Chicago, â€œSummer of Loveâ€ idealism has disintegrated into suspicion and disillusion. On the cityâ€™s North Side, twentyishCassandra Perry longs to be independent. She leaves the overprotective embrace of her granduncle and grandaunt, Woody ans Ivy Lisle, and moves into a multiracial commune dedicated to brotherhood and just causes. But Cassandraâ€™s search for identity plunges her into the dark side of peace, love, and unlimited freedomâ€“even before she discovers the brutally violated bodies of the communeâ€™s most charismatic activist couple.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Cassandra investigates with the help of Woody and Ivy, she begins to see some friendsâ€“especially one of her dearestâ€“in a disturbing, deadly light. But when the three amateur sleuths run afoul of a police cover-up with explosive political ramifications, they face a desperate enemy determined to bury theâ€“along with the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6901'),
(10101, 'Tripoint', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A novel of murderous passions in deep space. Well. What can I say? Cherryh at her best. Had to read the book in a day and half and disregard everyone and everything around me. Once you pick it up it just holds you. Not a book for the first time reader of Cherryh - need to know the history (try Cyteen or Downbelow); the connections that make the whole damm thing so great. Space opera at its very best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10886'),
(10102, 'Tripwire', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Reacher''s anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who''s come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI''s trail back to New York, Reacher''s compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal-and twisted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2809');
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(10103, 'The Tristan Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Moscow-a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalf has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy-an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and to convince him to resist. It''s up to Metcalf to change the course of history. He''s done it before.For Metcalf, returning to Russia is also a personal mission that will stretch across three continents and fifty years into his past where the loyalties of a former love-a woman both impossibly beautiful and possibly treacherous-were tested; where the shadow of a Nazi assassin still haunts; a debauched German aristocrat manipulated the destiny of everyone he touched. Now, as past and present converge, Metcalf braces himself for a new trial of trust and betrayal, one with chilling implications that could threaten what remains of the free world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3597'),
(10104, 'Triumph of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Joram and his wife, Gwendolyn, return from beyond the Border to reclaim their rightful place in Merilon. Rejoined by Saryon, Mosiah and Simkin, Joram must confront the evil sorcerer, Menju, and his army of Technologists in a final apocalyptic battle to fulfill the ancient prophecy of the Darksword--to either save the world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5597'),
(10105, 'Triumph of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in colonial Egypt at the end of Victoria''s reign, this sweeping romantic epic reprises Smith regularsâ€”scions of the Courteneys and Ballantynes. (The two fictional British families have provided character fodder for least half of Smith''s 30 novels.) Bloodthirsty legions of Arab dervish troops under the command of the Mahdi, or ruling successor to the Prophet Muhammad, have surrounded (but not taken) Khartoum, trapping comely 17-year-old Rebecca Benbrook; her consul general father, David; and her younger twin sisters, Saffron and Amber. The appearance of a cargo boat owned by the dashing, entrepreneurial Ryder Courteney, as well as the subsequent appearance of Capt. Penrod Ballantyne of Her Majesty''s 10th Hussars, give hope. NaÃ¯ve Rebecca falls in love with Ballantyne, who deflowers her before racing off to warn the rescue force commander that the commander is outnumbered 25 to one. The dervish, led by the fearsome Emir Osman Atalan, overrun Khartoum, and Rebecca''s father is brutally butchered; the saga continues with Penrod heroically leading troops against Osman. Steamy romance alternates with gore, and it''s all done by-the-numbers in a good wayâ€”like a junky, absorbing miniseries. Fans will not be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As popular as he is prolific, and as masterful a storyteller now as he has ever been, Smith once again visits Africa, the continent where he was born, the source of his inspiration, and the setting for his supremely adventuresome novels that make authentic and riveting use of history. He took readers to ancient Egypt in the marvelously wrought\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  (1994), and now he returns there, this time in the late nineteenth century, at the apex of the British Empire. Smith bases this tightly woven narrative on an actual incident in British colonial history: the holy war conducted by a Sudanese man proclaiming himself the Mahdi, or savior, and his forces'' siege of the British garrison at Khartoum, at the convergence of the White and Blue Nile in the Egyptian-held Sudan. Readers who appreciate World War II-era spy thrillers will enjoy this tale of espionage, disguise, and stabbings in the dark, as Smith deliciously elaborates on all the military and religious issues and events surrounding the siege. He marshals telling detail into a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9160'),
(10106, 'The Troika Dolls', 'Miranda Darling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Stevie Duveen: striking, brilliant, gifted in seven languages and all kinds of combat - and strategic analyst for Hazard Ltd, an international trouble-shooting outfit specialising in discreet and very dangerous missions. Surprise is her most effective weapon, apart from her fierce intellect, unflagging determination and razor-sharp intuition. And something even the most battle-scarred operative lacks: she cares, sometimes too much. Which is why she is nursing a broken heart and telling herself she will never fall in love again. Called to Moscow by an old friend to assess the security risk to the head of the Russian Central Bank, she arrives to find the find the bank regulator''s teenage daughter has been kidnapped. Valery Kozcov has been a fearless crusader against widespread corruption in Russia and organised crime''s infiltration of the government - and now his enemies are retaliating with deadly force. What they are demanding of him is unthinkable - but they have his beloved Anya. And they will stop at nothing to silence him. Stevie uncovers unspeakable evil as she penetrates the very heart of the Russian mafia and finds herself caught up in the terrifying world of people trafficking and sex slavery. From the murky alleys of Moscow to forests blanketed in mid-winter snow to Switzerland''s exclusive alpine resorts, Stevie tries to stay one step ahead of danger as she edges ever closer to Anya and the terrible fate awaiting her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6134'),
(10107, 'Trojan Odyssey', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A daring rescue sends Dirk Pitt on an adventure that will determine the future of the planet ...When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua, a giant floating hotel lies in its path. With no escape for the helpless passengers and crew, it''s left to Dirk Pitt and NUMA to launch a rescue and save the day. But in the storm''s wake, Pitt and his team discover clues that point to an ancient mystery with shocking implications for today. As Pitt investigates further, he uncovers a plot by a mysterious billionaire called Specter to dramatically alter the Earth''s climate, leaving him in control of the only solution. With foes attempting to stop him on every side, Pitt is in a race against time to prevent global catastrophe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(10108, 'Tron Legacy the Junior Novel', 'Alice Alfonsi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his father''s disappearance, he finds himself pulled into the same world of brutal programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for almost 25 years. Along with Kevin''s loyal confidante, Quora, Kevin Flynn and his son Sam must embark on a life-and-death voyage across a visually-stunning cyber universe to put an end to the evil Clu and his reign of this digital world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his fatherâ€™s disappearance, he finds himself pulled into the same world of brutal programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for almost 25 years. Along with Kevinâ€™s loyal confidante, Quora, Kevin Flynn and his son Sam must embark on a life-and-death voyage across a visually-stunning cyber universe to put an end to the evil Clu and his reign of this digital world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8424'),
(10109, 'Tropic of Cancer', 'Henry Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1871'),
(10110, 'Trouble in Paradise', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10544'),
(10111, 'Trouble Is My Business', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7348'),
(10112, 'The Trouble With Eden', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBlock is one of the best!â€ â€”_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A small town with some very big libidos comes to life in this quirky erotic novel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  New Hope, Pennsylvania, offers a quaint country experience that tourists just adore. But whatâ€™s not in the postcards is the townâ€™s web of liberated lovers, who switch bedfellows faster than you can say swinger. When Lindaâ€™s man Marc leaves her, she quickly becomes the new catch in town. Her landlordâ€™s got a few ladies on the side, so whatâ€™s one more? And then thereâ€™s Pete, the sensitive theater guy who hits her up to get high but might be looking for more.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8664'),
(10113, 'The Trouble with J.J.', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this romantic, funny, and heartwarming classic novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag poignantly captures one eventful summer in the life of a woman facing the ultimate relationship dilemma.It took only one look for Genna Hastings to make up her mind about her new next-door neighbor, J. J. Hennessy. She knew his type all too well: Jared Jay Hennessy was tall and handsome, a man who thought he was Godâ€™s gift to women. From the pink flamingos dotting his front yard to the all-night boozy barbecues, he threatened to disrupt Gennaâ€™s peaceful summer off from teaching. But beneath his carefree smile and teasing nature, J.J. was a man as serious about the future as he was about Genna. Heâ€™d come to this quiet Connecticut town to change his life, and he challenged Genna to help him become Mr. Right. It was a challenge she knew sheâ€™d be smart to refuse . . . and one J.J. knew she couldnâ€™t resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3820'),
(10114, 'The Trouble With Witches: An Ophelia And Abby Mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she''s been able to put her paranormal talents to good useâ€”like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her kindly, canny sorceress granny, will be taking to the road to pursue the vanished girl in the wilds of Minnesota. The signs are pointing toward the secluded new age research facility of Jason and Juliet Finch, who live with their troubledâ€”and possibly matricidalâ€”thirteen-year-old niece. And a bizarre local murder that follows their arrivalâ€”plus the appearance of a mysterious Native American shamanâ€”only emphasize the urgency of Ophelia and Abby''s hunt, drawing them into a web of dark secrets and to the last place they''d ever wish to be: a cottage in the woods where true evil quite possibly resides.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3921'),
(10115, 'The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Mystery', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter''s day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as H kan''s son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at H kan''s 75th birthday party, Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When H kan''s wife Louise also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him down dark and unexpected avenues involving espionage, betrayal and new information about events during the Cold War that threatens to cause a political scandal on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigation also forces Kurt to look back over his own past and consider his hopes and regrets, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us. And then an even darker cloud appears on the horizon...The return of Kurt Wallander, for his final case, has already caused a sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man confirms Henning Mankell''s position as the king of crime writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5741'),
(10116, 'Troy: Fall of Kings', 'David Gemmell; Stella Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Outside the golden city of Troy, Prince Hektor leads the Trojan cavalry in daring raids against the forces led by his young rival, the peerless warrior Achilles. Meanwhile, burning for vengeance after the brutal murder of his wife, Helikaon commands the Trojan fleet, sowing misery and death among the Mykene navy and supply ships. But even these mighty efforts are of scant avail against the hordes of battle-hardened Mykene infantry, the Myrmidon soldiers of Achilles, and the cunning strategies of Odysseus, compelled against his heartâ€™s urgings to aid the cause of Agamemnon.Now, before the gates of Troy, Hektor and Achilles will find themselves inexorably drawn into a battle of champions that will decide the fate of the innocents trapped within the city walls. There, as King Priam slips into madness, Andromacheâ€“wife of Hektor, lover of Helikaon, mother, warrior, and priestessâ€“must navigate a maze of treachery and danger to save her children and her city from the massacre about to unfold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1108'),
(10117, 'True Believer', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Marsh is a born skeptic and a science journalist who specializes in debunking the supernatural. When he hears about ghostly apparitions in a cemetery in Boone Creek, North Carolina, he leaves his beloved New York City for this small, rural town-and what his instincts tell him could make a great story. What he doesn''t plan on is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, who is sure of one thing: her future is here in Boone Creek, close to the people she loves. Now, if the young lovers are to be together, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows in New York, or do something he could never do before... take a giant leap of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3085'),
(10118, 'True Blue', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation''s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci''s new, heart-stopping thriller. TRUE BLUE Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she''s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she has to work in the shadows: A vindictive U.S. attorney is looking for any reason to send Mace back behind bars. Then Roy Kingman enters her life. Roy is a young lawyer who aided the poor until he took a high-paying job at a law firm in Washington. Mace and Roy meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation''s capital. Soon, what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn-into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(10119, 'True Compass: A Memoir', 'Edward M. Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.TRUE COMPASSThe youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator.In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals.His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor. At midlife, embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again, he met the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney, Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics, sponsoring major legislation, standing up for liberal principles, and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president.Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys. TRUE COMPASS will endure as the definitive account from a member of America''s most heralded family, an inspiring legacy to readers and to history, and a deeply moving story of a life like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(10120, 'True Confections: A Novel', 'Katharine Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels "Triangle, The Little Women, The Music" "Lesson, "and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than" "They Appear." She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber, and is a thesis adviser in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2728'),
(10121, 'The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole', 'Sue Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF ADRIAN MOLE is the third in the series to be part of Penguin''s Sue Townsend repackaging programme. A chance to sell Sue Townsend to a whole new audience! Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that''s what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit ''Pinky'', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn''t quite what he hoped it would be. Still, intellectual poets can''t always have things their own way...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sue Townsend became Britain''s bestselling author of the 1980s with her books THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 and THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE. She is the author of seven other novels, including THE QUEEN AND I and GHOST CHILDREN, andmost recently her collected journalism, THE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN (AGED 55 3/4), was published in 2001. She is also well known as a playwright, and lives in Leicester.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8071'),
(10122, 'The True Game', 'Sheri S. Tepper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sheri S. Tepper, author of the *New York Times* Notable Book *Grass*, has helped redefine speculative fiction. Award winner, national bestseller, and one of the genre''s most respected and acclaimed talents, she has transcended the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy with her widespread success. Available for the first time in one volume, this is the long out-of-print trilogy that launched her remarkable career: *King''s Blood Four*, *Necromancer Nine*, and *Wizard''s Eleven*. In the lands of the *True Game*, your lifelong identity emerges as you play-Prince or Sorcerer, Demon or Doyen. Raising the dead is the least of the Necromancer''s Talents-he is a wild card who threatens the True Game itself. A giant stalks the mountains. Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon. Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead. And the Wizard''s Eleven sleep trapped in their dreams. Players, take your places. The final Game begins now...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10384'),
(10123, 'True Grit', 'Charles Portis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know What a writer!'' Roald Dahl ''Charles Portis is a writer who - if there''s any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain'' Esquire ''Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America''s legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James'' Washington Post ''One of those rare sweet delights one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year'' San Francisco Chronicle\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pursuing a cunning murderer who has escaped with his band deep into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and a cantankerous youth who is bent on revenge. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5068'),
(10124, 'True History of the Kelly Gang', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey''s\n <em>\n  True History of the Kelly Gang\n </em>\n . "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disraeli? Might not we find someone better to admire than a horse-thief and a murderer?" It''s the author''s sole nod to the contradictory feelings Ned Kelly continues to evoke today, more than a century after his death. A psychopathic killer to some, a crusading folk hero to others, Kelly was a sharpshooting outlaw who eluded a brutal police manhunt for nearly two years. For better or worse, he''s now a part of the Australian national myth. Indeed, the opening ceremonies for the Sydney Olympics featured an army of Ned Kellys dancing about to Irish music, which puts him in the symbolic company of both kangaroos and Olivia Newton-John.\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s to be gained from telling this illiterate bushranger''s story yet again? Quite a lot, as it turns out. For starters, there is the remarkable vernacular poetry of Carey''s narrative voice. Fierce, funny, ungrammatical, steeped in Irish legends and the frontier''s moral code, this voice is the novel''s great achievement--and perhaps the greatest in Carey''s distinguished career. It paints a vivid picture of an Australia where English landowners skim off the country''s best territory while government land grants allow the settlers just enough acreage to starve. Cheated, lied to, and persecuted by the authorities at every opportunity, young Kelly retains no faith in his colonial masters. What he does trust, oddly, is the power of words:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  And here is the thing about them men they was Australians they knew full well the terror of the unyielding law the historic memory of UNFAIRNESS were in their blood and a man might be a bank clerk or an overseer he might never have been lagged for nothing but still he knew in his heart what it were to be forced to wear the white hood in prison he knew what it were to be lashed for looking a warder in the eye ... so the knowledge of unfairness were deep in his bone and in his marrow.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Ned Kelly as literary hero? Strangely enough, that''s what he becomes, at least in Carey''s rendering. Pouring his heart out in a series of letters to the country at large, Kelly wants nothing more than to be\n <em>\n  heard\n </em>\n --and for the dirt-poor son of an Irish convict, that''s an audacious ambition indeed. It''s not so surprising, then, that his story continues to speak to Australians. Like all colonial countries, Australia was built at a steep human price, and the memory of all those silenced voices lives on.\n <em>\n  True History of the Kelly Gang\n </em>\n takes its epigraph from Faulkner: "The past is not dead. It is not even past." And like Faulkner''s own vast chronicle of dispossession, it''s haunted by tragedies as large as history itself.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every Australian grows up hearing the legend of outlaw Ned Kelly, whose exploits are memorialized in the old Melbourne Gaol, where he and his comrades were imprisoned before their execution in 1880. Carey''s inspired "history" of Kelly from his destitute youth until his death at age 26 is as genuine as a diamond in the rough. No reader will be left unmoved by this dramatic tale of an instinctively good-hearted young man whose destiny, in Carey''s revisionist point of view, was determined by heredity on one side and official bigotry and corruption on the other; whose criminal deeds were motivated by gallantry and desperation; and whose exploits in eluding the police for almost two years transfixed a nation and made him a popular hero. The unschooled Kelly narrates through a series of letters he writes to the baby daughter he will never see. Conveyed in run-on sentences, with sparse punctuation and quirky grammar enriched by pungent vernacular and the polite use of euphemisms for what Kelly calls "rough expressions" ("It were eff this and ess that"; "It were too adjectival hot"), Kelly''s voice is mesmerizing as he relates the events that earned him a reputation as a horse thief and murderer. Through Ned''s laconic observations, Carey creates a textured picture of Australian society when the British ruling class despised the Irish, and both the police and the justice system were thoroughly corrupt. Harassed, slandered, provoked and jailed with impunity, the Kellys, led by indomitable, amoral matriarch Ellen, believe they have no recourse but to break the law. Ned is initially reluctant; throughout his life, his criminal activities are an attempt to win his mother''s love and approval. Ellen is a monster of selfishness and treachery. She betrays her son time and again, yet he adores her with Irish sentimentality and forfeits his chance to escape the country by pledging to surrender if the authorities will release her from jail. This is in essence an adventure saga, with numerous descriptions of the wild and forbidding Australian landscape, shocking surprises, coldhearted villains who hail from the top and the bottom of the social ladder and a tender love story. Carey (Booker Prize-winner Oscar and Lucinda) deserves to be lionized in his native land for this triumphant historical recreation, and he will undoubtedly win a worldwide readership for a novel that teems with energy, suspense and the true story of a memorable protagonist. 75,000 first printing. (Jan. 16)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5158'),
(10125, 'Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion', 'Becca Wilcott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One of the coolest and most sheerly enjoyable books of its kind . . . This is a beguiling and elegant debut from a gifted young writer: Brava!"Â  â€”Kevin Jackson, author,\n  <em>\n   Bite: A Vampire Handbook\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For any fan of\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  or just vampire fans who are curious, this is a wonderful guide to add to your collection."Â  â€”_Sacramento Book Review_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This companion to the wildly popular HBO series\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  is at once an introductory guide to the first two seasons of the vampire saga and a treasure trove for the legions of true believers who follow the show. Created by Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning writer of\n  <em>\n   American Beauty\n  </em>\n  and creator of HBO''s cult ensemble sensation\n  <em>\n   Six Feet Under\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  surpassed\n  <em>\n   The Sopranos\n  </em>\n  as the largest-ever audience for a cable show at more than 12.4 million viewers a week. It has revitalized the career of Oscar-winner Anna Paquin and has introduced international audiences to Stephen Moyer, Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd, and Ryan Kwanten and an extensive, award-winning cast. ExclusiveÂ interviews, in-depth biographies of cast members, an episode guide, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes flesh out the fictional characters as well as the actors who inhabit the roles. Some of the underlying themes of the seriesâ€”such as the politics of race, sexuality, and genderâ€”are explored, and chapters on paranormal phenomena and the literary and cinematic histories of vampires are also included. In addition, this analysis offers an introduction to author Charlaine Harris, whose popular Sookie Stackhouse novels were the inspiration for the television series, as well as a discussion of the role of the fan base and social media in the phenomenal rise of this television sensation.Â Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7754'),
(10126, 'Trumps of Doom', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9051'),
(10127, 'Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD Homicide detective Bosch is back from an involuntary administrative leave just in time for the bodies to start turning up. When he finds hints of an mob hit but can''t interest the organized crime unit in the murder, Bosch has to take the investigation into his own hands in a this hard-boiled tale full of sharp turns. Fans of Michael Connelly''s excellent,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening bars, when the body of Tony Aliso is pulled from the trunk of his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on Mulholland Drive, to the final grace note on a Hawaiian beach, Connelly has crafted a jazzy, funky, roller coaster of a book. The return of maverick L.A. homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (from 1995''s The Last Coyote) is cause for rejoicing. The Aliso murder quickly embroils Bosch and his new team (Kizmin Rider, a young black female officer on the rise in the department; veteran Jerry Edgar; and their boss, Lieutenant Grace Billets) in a Byzantine tangle of Las Vegas mob money, Hollywood filmmaking and police politics. The plot rushes headlong into deadends and deadfalls, repeatedly reorients and tears off in a new direction. Never known for tact, the single-minded Bosch is soon hotfooting through an acronymic snakepit: the LAPD''s OCID (Organized Crime Investigation Division); the IAD (Internal Affairs Division); the LVPD''s OCU (Las Vegas Police Department''s Organized Crime Unit); the FBI. Not only does each organization claim a piece of the action, but each also wants a piece of Bosch. Connelly has it all working together here: skillful dialogue, solid plotting, nuances of race and status and a pace that will leave readers gasping to keep up. Connelly''s early promise (The Black Echo earned him the 1993 Edgar for best first novel) has been borne out nicely by succeeding novels. Trunk Music is his best yet. $400,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5346'),
(10128, 'The Trust: A Secret Society Novel', 'Tom Dolby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who can you trust when everything is secrets and lies?   It''s a new semester at the Chadwick School, and even with the ankh tattoos that brand them, Phoebe, Nick, Lauren, and Patch are hoping for a fresh start. Each day, however, they are reminded of their membership as new Conscripts in the Society. The secret group that promised to help them achieve their every dream has instead turned their lives into a nightmare.   Exclusive membership lost its luster as the Society revealed its agenda to them and two of their classmates were found dead. Now they can''t help but wonder: Who''s next? While they search for the elusive truth about the Society, the Conscripts are forced to face their darkest fearâ€”that they truly can''t get out.   Will Nick and Phoebe''s new relationship endure this strain? Can Patch and Nick''s longtime friendship survive the truth that will come to light? The deceptions of the group''s leaders, once trusted friends, and family will test these four as they fight to leave the Society behind.   The Trust, Tom Dolby''s sequel to secret society, is an alluring glimpse behind the facade of a life of entitlement, where secrets aren''t merely funâ€”they''re deadly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6992'),
(10129, 'The Truth About Stacey', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9721'),
(10130, 'The Truth of Valor', 'Tanya Huff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The "rousing military adventure"(*Locus*) continues with a brand-new *Valor* novel. ** Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the *Promise*. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she''d imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to pirates. And when they attack the *Promise*, Craig is taken prisoner and Torin is left for dead. When Torin finds out why the pirates needed Craig, she calls in the Marines to get him back-and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3974'),
(10131, 'The Truth-Teller&#39;s Lie', 'Sophie Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"A superbly creepy, twisty thriller about obsessive love, psychological torture, and the darkest chambers of the human heart."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -*The Times* (UK) **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Naomi Jenkins knows all about secrets: three years ago something so terrible happened to her that she''s never told anyone about it. Now, Naomi has another secret: her relationship with the unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without explanation, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert''s wife insists he is not missing. In desperation, Naomi decides that if she can''t persuade the detectives that Robert is in danger, she''ll convince them that he is a danger to others. Naomi knows how to describe the actions of a psychopath; all she needs to do is dig up her own traumatic past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7127'),
(10132, 'Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet', 'Monica T. Whitty; Adam Joinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "This is an excellent book that thoroughly covers timely issues in emerging society in a comprehensive and profound way. Concepts, issues and controversial topics are very well deliberated, presented in a friendly style and accompanied by numerous examples." -\n </em>\n <strong>\n  Professor Azy Barak, University of Haifa, Israel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "This book may serve as an important reference text in undergraduate courses on the Internet because it is an indispensible and well-structured guide to approaches taken by recent researchers. I will recommend it to my graduate students who intend to conduct research online as a way of considering the pitfalls of such research."\n </em>\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Daniel Keyes, PsycCRITIQUES, April 29th, 2009, vol. 54, Release 17, Article 1.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Internet is often presented as an unsafe or untrustworthy space: where children are preyed upon by paedophiles, cannibals seek out victims, offline relationships are torn apart by online affairs and where individuals are addicted to gambling, love, and cybersex.\n</p>\n<p>\n While many of these stories are grounded in truth, they do paint a rather sensationalized view of the Internet, the types of people who use it, and the interactions that take place online. Simultaneously, researchers claim that the Internet allows individuals to express their true selves, to develop ''hyperpersonal'' relationships characterised by high levels of intimacy and closeness. At the heart of these competing visions of the Internet as a social space are the issues of truth, lies and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a balanced view of the Internet by presenting empirical data conducted by social scientists, with a concentrated focus on psychological studies. It argues that the Internetâ€™s anonymity which can enable, for instance, high levels of self-disclosure in a relationship, is also responsible for many of its more negative outcomes such as deception and flaming. This is the first book to develop a coherent model of the truth-lies paradox, with specific reference to the critical role of trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet\n </em>\n is a useful text for psychology students and academics interested in Internet behaviour, technology, and online deviant behaviour, and related courses in sociology, media studies and information studies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9583'),
(10133, 'The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they''ve seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde''s upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld''s first paper of record.An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would it be?) tabloid that conveniently interchanges what''s real for what sells.But de Worde''s got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh-Morpork''s leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don''t always tell the whole story. There''s that pesky little thing called the truth ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3443'),
(10134, 'Truths Unveiled', 'Kimberly Alan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: How do you deal with someone you can''t avoid and who makes it their business to constantly irk you? And how do you forgive yourself for getting involved with them in the first place? How do you forgive yourself for surviving a fatal accident when deep inside, you believe you were the cause, and then someone unknown to you exploits that belief in order to keep you from discovering the truth? Pam Harrington and Tom Jarrod shared a past that tore them apart fourteen years ago. Since then, they have separately struggled to right the individual wrongs they''d committed. Then an opportunity presents itself which could give them a second chance at love and a life together. But only if they can finally resolve the issues from their pasts. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2452'),
(10135, 'Try Fear', 'James Scott Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there''s nothing routine about it. Because the cops suspect it''s murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl''s brother, for the crime. Now Ty, at the desperate urging of Eric''s mother, agrees to defend him. But it won''t be easy. Because there''s DNA on the gun that matches Eric''s, and a history of conflict between the brothers.Then Ty, assisted by Sister Mary Veritas, begins to uncover tentacles of corruption that reach into the citadels of city power. But he''s being watched. Because somewhere in the dark labyrinth of LA is someone who will do anything to keep from being found out, someone who believes that when warnings don''t work, try fear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1764'),
(10136, 'TT_HotChocolate', 'Tawny Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9416'),
(10137, 'Tuck', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As King Raven, Bran is Lord of the Forest. But his true crown seems out of reach. Bran is still fighting to bring his people justice from the shadows of the green wood. But Abbot Hugo is used to playing the long game and has been watching and learning. Abbot Hugo plans to bring the invading Norman marchogi to the forest in force, heralding the start of a campaign to wipe out King Raven and his band once and for all. Their merciless attack, the first of many, marks a dark day for the realm. And the dream of seeing a true king take the throne of Elfael seems increasingly remote. Bran and his few stalwarts desperately need encouragement and reinforcement if they are to survive. But Friar Tuck, a most unconventional priest, may just have a solution to their dilemma\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3876'),
(10138, 'The Tudor Secret', 'C. W. Gortner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Gortner''s latest riveting historical (after The Last Queen), the influential Dudley family sends orphan servant Brendan Prescott to serve their cruel son, Lord Robert, at King Edward''s court, and the young man is soon caught up in intrigue, suspicion, and shifting loyalties. Young King Edward is under the thumb of the Dudleys, but illness is greatly affecting his influence. Then the lion-eyed Princess Elizabeth, whom the Dudleys view as a threat, arrives and Prescott becomes a spy for her protector, William Cecil. Deeper involvement in the conspiracies surrounding the throne makes Prescott increasingly uncertain of loyalties, including his own, and he begins to question his fate and identity. In Gortner''s capable hands, Prescott is a believable and enjoyable hero, a man of strong loyalties but naÃ¯ve enough to be exploited. And while the Dudleys are mostly broadly drawn villains, Robert has depth, and though readers familiar with the Tudor era will know the key players, they may be surprised by their depiction here. Gortner handles action with aplomb, adding a riveting, fast-paced thriller to the crowded genre of Tudor fiction. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1553, England is a dangerous place to be. King Edward is on his deathbed. Vying for the crown are Elizabeth, her half sister Mary, and their cousin, Lady Jane Grey, who is manipulated by her powerful father-in-law. Into the midst of all this drama rides Brendan Prescott, a 20-year-old orphan raised by the servants at the Duke of Northumberlandâ€™s country home. Sent to court to serve the dukeâ€™s sons, one of his first tasks is to deliver a secret missive to Elizabeth. But Brendan is soon lured by Elizabethâ€™s protector, William Cecil, into working for Elizabeth instead, as Cecil promises to help Brendan decipher the mystery of his parentage. Amid crosses and double crosses, Brendan realizes he has to choose a side, for the issue of succession to the throne quickly becomes a matter of life and deathâ€”and not just for the potential monarch. An exciting, vividly rendered story of intrigue and espionage. --Hilary Hatton\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8376'),
(10139, 'The Tudors', 'G.J. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1132');
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(10140, 'The Tudors: The Complete Story of England&#39;s Most Notorious Dynasty', 'G. J. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality in all its wild excess.In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from France at the head of a ragtag little army and took the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four hundred years. Half a century later his son, Henry VIII, desperate to rid himself of his first wife in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terror aimed at taking powers no previous monarch had even dreamed of possessing. In the process he plunged his kingdom into generations of division and disorder, creating a legacy of blood and betrayal that would blight the lives of his children and the destiny of his country.The boy king Edward VI, a fervent believer in reforming the English church, died before bringing to fruition his dream of a second English Reformation. Mary I, the disgraced daughter of Catherine of Aragon, tried and failed to reestablish the Catholic Church and produce an heir. And finally came Elizabeth I, who devoted her life to creating an image of herself as Gloriana the Virgin Queen but, behind that mask, sacrificed all chance of personal happiness in order to survive.  The Tudors weaves together all the sinners and saints, the tragedies and triumphs, the high dreams and dark crimes, that reveal the Tudor era to be, in its enthralling, notorious truth, as momentous and as fascinating as the fictions audiences have come to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7868'),
(10141, 'Tuesdays With Morrie', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.Â Â Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.Â Â Wouldn''t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?Mitch Albom had that second chance.Â Â He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man''s life.Â Â Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college.Â Â Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live.*Tuesdays with Morrie* is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie''s lasting gift with the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2958'),
(10142, 'Tulipomania: The Story of the World&#39;s Most Coveted Flower &amp; the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For history buffs or gardeners who enjoy more than just digging in the dirt,\n <em>\n  Tulipomania\n </em>\n presents a fascinating look at the tulip frenzy that took place in Holland in the mid-1600s. Beginning as gifts given among the wealthy and educated folk of Europe and Asia, the tulip rapidly became a source of incredible financial gain--similar to today''s Internet start-up companies or Beanie Baby collections. Stories of craftsmen discontinuing their trade and focusing on raising tulips for public auction, where they sold for prices comparable to that of a manor house, are astonishing. Poets, moralists, businessmen--it seems everyone was involved at some level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lack of regulation and poor quality control were just a couple of the details that led to the abrupt crash in February 1637. Tulipomania was the original market bust--people were ruined, debts went unpaid. It was a disaster similar to the stock-market crash of 1929. A brief resurrection of the mania occurred 65 years later in Istanbul, and while it was not the financial obsession Holland experienced, it led to the creation of standards in flower shape and increased the development of new types. You don''t need to be obsessed to enjoy this book--an interest in tulips, history, and the futures market ensures that this will be a remarkable read.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The centerpiece of this story is a stunning two months, December 1636 and January 1637, when fortunes were made and lost in the Netherlands--in tulip bulb futures trading. Stripped to its basics, this would be a dry case study in an economics textbook. But Dash adds depth to the tale by including relevant bits of botany, sociology and history, as well as glimpses of the personalities involved in the creation of the tulip market, such as the orphans who made a fortune selling their late father''s tulip bulbs and the man who owned a dozen extremely rare bulbs and wouldn''t part with them at any price. Occasionally, he provides too much detail--his descriptions of how many guilders changed hands in particular transactions become repetitive, as do his physical descriptions of specific tulip varieties. Dash is fascinated by the contrast between the aesthetic sense of the Ottoman sultans (reflected in their love of tulip-laden gardens) and the ferocity of their rule (evidenced by fratricide, garroting and torture), but his musings on this interesting paradox are too unfocused to be enlightening. Overall, however, Dash (The Limit; Borderlands) effectively brings together a diverse mix of disciplines to illuminate the cultural, financial and psychological elements of an economic bubble--a subject that should be of great interest today. Readers interested in the technical aspects of economic speculation and those attuned to human folly will find this a worthwhile read. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6962'),
(10143, 'Tun-Huang', 'Yasushi Inoue &amp; Jean Oda Moy &amp; Damion Searls', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA true historical imagination is exceedingly rare, and [_Tun-huang_] is a superb example of such an imagination at work.â€Â â€”Robert Payne,\n  <em>\n   ASIA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe unique thing about Inoueâ€™s work, for me . . . is that every story presents a vision, and that unlike the visions in books by other authors, I can always follow the vision as Iâ€™m reading, always believe it; Inoue has lived and felt these images and has the simplest and airiest language for them that I have ever seen. I donâ€™tÂ _need_ to believe his illuminations, they are simply\n  <em>\n   there\n  </em>\n  in the book, as facts.â€Â â€”Peter Handke\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œa work of superb historical imagination. . . â€Â â€”James Kirkup,\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEarly in the 20th century an incredible hoard of Buddhist sutras and other manuscripts was discovered by itinerant monk in Tun-huang. Archaeologists recovered thousands of documents that have been concealed in the Thousand Buddha Caves for 900 years. The authorâ€¦speculated on the reasons for the hiding of such treasures, and this fascinating and exotic novel is the result.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHistorical reconstruction of a very personal and special kind.â€ â€”Donald Richie\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn enthralling tale.â€Â â€”_Oriental Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA unique writer who has managed to escape the often narrow topical bounds of the Japanese novel.â€ â€”_Japan Quarterly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of Japan''s most prolific and respected authors..." â€”_Japan Economic Newswire_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe descriptive passages in Yasushi Inoue''s â€˜Under the Shadow of Mount Bandaiâ€™ are worthy of the longer passages of an Anne Radcliff Gothic tale" â€”_The Japan Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''One of the most respected novelists in Japan.'''' â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? InÂ _Tun-huang_, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures,Â _Tun-huang_Â is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6436'),
(10144, 'Tunnel in the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was just a test . . .But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare.Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth . . . at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own . . . a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!". . . fascinating . . . ingenious . . . this a book in the grand tradition of high literature!"-- The New York Times*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10407'),
(10145, 'Tunnels', 'Brian Williams; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Will and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will''s archaeologist father, who has disappeared, they are led to an underground world full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(10146, 'Turbulence', 'Giles Foden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the highly acclaimed and prizewinning author of The Last King of Scotland (â€œClever, and fluently writtenâ€â€”Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times): a heart-stopping race against time as British and American scientists attempt the impossibleâ€”to get millions of Allied troops secretly across the English Channel for D-day.As the plans for the invasion of Normandy take shape, the fate of 2.5 million men and the future of Europe come to depend on the right weather conditions over the channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics?Wallace Ryman, a reclusive pacifist, has devised a system that comprehends all of this. Henry Meadows, a young prodigy, is sent to Scotland to discover Rymanâ€™s system and apply it to the Normandy landings. But turbulence proves more elusive than anyone has imagined, and, like the weather, events begin to spiral out of control.A gripping blend of fact and fiction in a novel about how human beings perceive and ultimately cope with uncertainty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1582'),
(10147, 'Turkish Gambit', 'Boris Akunin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Bulgarian front resounds with the thunder of cavalry charges, the roar of artillery, and the clash of steel on steel during the worldâ€™s last great horseâ€“andâ€“cannon conflict. Amid the treacherous atmosphere of a nineteenthâ€“century Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin finds his most confounding case.Itâ€™s difficulties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to find her respected comradeâ€“ and fiancÃ©â€“Pyotr Yablokov, an army cryptographer. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a â€œlackey of the throneâ€ for his efforts.But when Yablokov is accused of espionage and faces imprisonment and execution, Varya must turn to Fandorin to find the real culpritâ€¦ a mission that forces her to reconsider his courage, deductive mind, and piercing gaze.Filled with the same delicious detail, ingenious plotting, and subtle satire as The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan, The Turkish Gambit confirms Boris Akuninâ€™s status as a master of the historical thrillerâ€“and Erast Fandorin as a detective for the ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(10148, 'Turn Coat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The new novel in the hit *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Councilâ€”and thereâ€™s only one, final punishment for that crime. Heâ€™s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden... Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his headâ€”someone like Harry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1719'),
(10149, 'A Turn in the Road', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''re driving to Florida for Ruth''s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She''s heard he''s alone, tooâ€¦and, well, she''s curious. Maybe even hopeful.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bethanne herself needs time to reÃ¯ Â¬ â€š ect, to ponder a decision she has to make. Her ex-husband, Grantâ€”her children''s fatherâ€”wants to reconcile now that his second marriage has failed. Bethanne''s considering itâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Annie''s out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a\n <em>\n  brilliant\n </em>\n life without him!\n</p>\n<p>\n So there they are, three women driving across America. They have their maps and their directionsâ€”but even the best-planned journey can take you to a turn in the road. Or lead you to an unexpected encounterâ€”like the day Bethanne meets a man named Max who really\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n a hero on a Harley. That''s when Bethanne''s decision becomes a lot harder. Because Grant wants her back, but now there''s Maxâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Seattle''s Blossom Street to the other end of the country, this is a trip that could change three women''s lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Debbie Macomber, the author of Hannahâ€™s List, 1022 Evergreen Place, Summer on Blossom Street, 92 Pacific Boulevard, and Twenty Wishes, is a leading voice in womenâ€™s fiction. Three of her novels have scored the #1 slot on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Debbie Macomber''s Mrs. Miracle was Hallmark Channel''s top-watched movie for 2009. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Best Romance, the prolific author has more than 140 million copies of her books in print worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8323'),
(10150, 'Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero&#39;s American Odyssey', 'Brad Herzog', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Turn Left at the Trojan Horse*** has been described as *On the Road* meets *Eat, Pray, Love* because it goes well beyond a road trip. More than just a funny and profound narrative of Brad Herzog''s cross-country trek toward a college reunion in Ithaca (New York) and more than another reimagining of Odysseus''s ancient journey (he visits places like Troy, OR... Iliad, MT... Apollo, PA...), it is a memoir exploring the parameters of a heroic existence - by chronicling the lives of people in America''s oft-ignored spaces, by examining the universal truths embedded in ancient myths, and by undertaking a fair bit of self-evaluation. It is the memoir of an Everyman searching for the hero within. *(added by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(10151, 'Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers', 'Henry James; Anthony Curtis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. Obsession of a more worldly variety lies at the heart of The Aspern Papers, the tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet-and prepared to use trickery and deception to achieve his aims.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8851'),
(10152, 'The Turnaround', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In yet another gem of urban noir, bestseller Pelecanos (_The Night Gardener_) explores the possibility of making the turnaround, of starting over and building a new life, regardless of the past. One summer day in 1972, three teenage white boysâ€”Alex Pappas and his friends Billy Cachoris and Pete Whittenâ€”drive into a poor Washington, D.C., neighborhood, high on booze and weed, looking for trouble. They confront three young black men, Billy winds up dead and Alex badly beaten. In 2007, Alex runs the family coffee shop, as did his father, and grieves for his son, recently killed in Iraq. Then, one of the black survivors of the incident contacts Alex, opening a door that may finally put the trauma of the past to rest. At the same time, another survivor, the man who beat Alex, has gotten out of prison and has extortion on his mind. The result is a beautifully written and thought-provoking novel of crime, friendship, aging and redemption.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n While some may see shades of Tom Wolfeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n in Pelecanosâ€™s plotâ€”both deal with the after effects of a racially charged incident in the inner cityâ€”in reality they have little in common. Critics all commended Pelecanosâ€™s ethos and his focus on what it means to be a man in modern America, rich and poor and white and black. Some praised the experience he gained writing for the HBO series\n <em>\n  The Wire\n </em>\n , which focused on the problems of people a lot like those in\n <em>\n  The Turnaround\n </em>\n . There was the occasional hint that the repeated focus on What It Means to Be a Man bordered on annoying, but if anyone can use the mystery novel as a vehicle for introspection and spiritual longing, itâ€™s Pelecanos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7965'),
(10153, 'The Turner Diaries', 'William Luther Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At 9:02 am on Wednesday April 19, 1995, two tons of explosives ripped apart the federal office building in Oklahoma City and the psyche of America. The worst case of domestic terrorism in our history, this explosion killed 169 men, women, and children. The author of this book has written, If [this book] had been available to the general public . . . the Oklahoma bombing would not have come as such a surprise. It has been considered by the Justice Department and other government agencies as the bible of right-wing militia groups, and the FBI believes it provided the blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing. Barricade Books has published it so America can better understand the cause of racism and extremism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7190'),
(10154, 'Turntables Of The Night', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3395'),
(10155, 'Tutankhamun', 'Nick Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Rahotep, chief detective, life is about to get very complicated. On the shadowy city streets the cryptically mutilated bodies of several young people are discovered. These brutal acts are destabilizing a ruthless regime already made precarious by corruption and the appalling divide between rich and poor.Meanwhile, Tutankhamun has inherited an empire that should be at the height of power and glory. But the King, just eighteen, faces only the political conspiracies of the Court, and a bitter struggle for ascendancy. And when his own security is threatened by an intruder in the palace, he needs an outsider he can trust to track down the traitor.Rahotep receives a mysterious invitation to the labyrinthine halls of the Royal Palace. But what he discovers at the dark heart of power will put his life, and his family, in grave danger. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6391'),
(10156, 'The Twelfth Imam', 'Joel C. Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran''s nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints, and without triggering a regional war. At extreme personal risk, Shirazi executes his plan. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn''t be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi for what will happen next. An obscure religious cleric is suddenly hailed throughout the region as the Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam. News of his miracles, healings, signs, and wonders spread like wildfire, as do rumors of a new and horrific war. With the prophecy of the Twelfth Imam seemingly fulfilled, Iran''s military prepares to strike Israel and bring about the End of Days. Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the clock is ticking. And then, a dark secret from his past comes to light and changes the course of his life forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7257'),
(10157, 'Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream', 'William Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (_Blue Clay People_) refers to wildcrafters, people who shape their inner and outer worlds to the flow of nature, as heroes. Among these wildcrafters is Dr. Jackie Benton, a physician who lives in a 12''Ã—12'' dwelling in the midst of 30 acres on No Name Creek in rural North Carolina. Benton lives a sustainable life off the grid by raising honeybees, growing her own vegetables and preserving them, and harvesting what she might need from the woods around her. As Powers points out, Benton seems to have achieved self-mastery in these confusing times, and his initial meeting with her is a search for clues to this self-mastery. After the two meet, Benton''s sobering and often hilarious (taking showers in rain water warmed by the sun, learning that in order to eat chicken for dinner, he himself would have to kill a chicken given to him by his neighbors) narrative of his life in the 12''Ã—12'' offers precious insights into the ways that all individuals living in a fast-paced consumer culture might incorporate different ways of thinking about the natural world into their lives.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take four giant steps forward. Turn right; do it again. Turn right again; repeat. Right; repeat. Now imagine living in a space roughly the size of the area just paced off. Without electricity or running water. In the middle of nowhere. Having recently returned from years in the Bolivian rain forest, environmental activist Powers experienced a nearly debilitating form of culture shock upon his reentry into the heart of American consumerism. His salvation came from ardent permaculturist Dr. Jackie Benton, who offered Powers the use of her spartan cabin in rural North Carolina. Living among other â€œwildcraftersâ€â€”organic farmers, furniture artisans, and eco-developersâ€”Powers learned firsthand what it means to be self-sufficient in the midst of a nation that profligately squanders its resources and looks askance at those who choose to live deliberately. While there are no easy answers to be found in such an extreme experiment, Powersâ€™ eloquent memoir reveals the breadth of this conflict and the depth of one manâ€™s commitment to himself and his community. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7063'),
(10158, 'Twelve Sharp', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As bungling bounty hunter Stephanie Plum deals with the usual bail jumpers and struggles with chaotic relationships, a new twist emerges in the form of a mysterious female stalker. The latest madcap adventure in Janet Evanovich''s Stephanie Plum series, Twelve Sharp will delight both new readers and devoted fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2171'),
(10159, 'Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prolific, well-informed, and passionate Armstrong (The Case for God) writes a somewhat different book this time out, stemming from her winning a ,000 prize in 2007 to promote an idea worth spreading. She always has a thesis in her books as she sweeps over the historical development of world religions, but this is a book with an agenda: you ought to be more compassionate, and hereâ„¢s how. So instead of being her usual somewhat academic teacher of religious history, she is more of a personal spiritual teacher, in the vein of the Dalai Lama. That task, and corresponding tone (Å“Be patient with yourself during this meditationÂ), is not her long suit. Still, this slightly self-help-y book is deeply grounded in what Armstrong knows, and presents, well: the core teachings of all religions that can make us better, more compassionate humans. The former nun pulls ideas and references from religions Eastern and Western with aplomb and respect for all sources. This counter to the religion-is-homicidal-and-superstitious school of invective passing for thought is well-informed, welcome, and practical. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  It takes courage for a religious historian and writer of Armstrongâ€™s stature to step out from behind the scrim of scholarship and analysis to offer guidelines for a spiritual practice designed to make humanity a kinder and saner species. With the boon of the prestigious TED Prize, Armstrong (The Case for God, 2009) worked with â€œleading thinkers from a variety of major faithsâ€ to compose a Charter for Compassion, which calls for the restoration of â€œcompassion to the heart of religious and moral lifeâ€ in a â€œdangerously polarizedâ€ world. Not content with merely stating lofty goals, however, Armstrong, a revered genius of elucidation and synthesis, now tells the full and profound story of altruism throughout human history. She turns to neuroscience and tracks the evolution of our brains and our natural capacity for empathy, and performs her signature mode of beautifully clarifying interpretation in a mind-expanding discussion of the history of the Golden Rule (â€œAlways treat others as you would wish to be treated yourselfâ€), the essence of compassion and the kernel of every religious tradition. Exquisite and affecting explications of Buddhist, Confucian, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic commentary prepare the ground for meditation exercises meant to engender â€œopen-mindednessâ€ and the cultivation of compassion, making for the most sagacious and far-reaching 12-step program ever. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A hefty print run is planned for renowned religious thinker Armstrongâ€™s bold approach to teaching the compassionate ethos. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4516'),
(10160, 'Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth', 'Xiaolu Guo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''So I was the 6787th person in Beijing wanting to act in the film and TV industry. There were 6786 young and beautiful, or ugly and old people before me trying to get a role. I felt the competition, but compared with 1.6 billion people in China, 6786 was only the population of my village. I felt an urge to conquer this new village.'' Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang '' the spirited heroine of Xiaolu Guo''s new novel '' won''t be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pioneer''s movie theatre, falls in love with unsuitable men and keeps her kitchen cupboard stocked with UFO instant noodles. As Fenfang might say, Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, isn''t it about time I got my lucky break?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7088'),
(10161, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic tale of Captain Nemo and the submarine the Nautilus, this is the quintessential translation by the internationally renowned Verne scholar, William Butcher. This edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea reports the very first study of Verne''s manuscript and is packed with detail on artistic and scientific references.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2460'),
(10162, 'Twenty Years After', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(10163, 'Twice a Spy: A Novel', 'Keith Thomson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Razor-sharp writing, laugh-out-loud humor, and a sturdy plot combine to make Thomson''s sequel to Once a Spy a real treat for thriller fans tired of more of the same old same old. Charlie Clark has left his life as an inveterate gambler far behind as he and girlfriend Alice go on the lam in Switzerland from Alice''s employer, the NSA, and a special CIA black ops unit known as Cavalry. The real star of the group is Charlie''s father, Drummond Clark, who after a career as a CIA agent is sinking into the throes of early Alzheimer''s, but who''s able, when the occasion demands, to revive his old skills and save their skins. The plot surrounds the sale to terrorists of a small nuclear bomb disguised as a washing machine. The nonstop action and quirky, engaging characters will leave readers eager for the next installment and the next and the next. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FORÂ _TWICE A SPY_:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "[Thomson] writes fluid, vivid prose, good dialogue and first-rate action scenes."\n <br />\n â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Razor-sharp writing, laugh-out-loud humor, and a sturdy plot combine to make [Twice a Spy] a real treat for thriller fans... The nonstop action and quirky, engaging characters will leave readers eager for the next installment and the next and the next."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly, _starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Buoyant, fast and fun... Thomson again hits a sweet spot in this highly original thriller, balancing gripping action sequences with humor a step or two above what you''d expect from the genre."\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   ONCE A SPY\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt takes a huge talent to blow dust from the corners of todayâ€™s comfortable thriller genre. Keith Thomson has that talent, in spades.â€ â€”Lincoln Child, author of\n <em>\n  Deep Storm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Once a Spy_ is the most enjoyable book Iâ€™ve read this year. Utterly original, it is an adrenaline-fueled concoction of sidesplitting humor and genuine suspense. What a find! I canâ€™t imagine not loving this gem of a novel.â€ â€”Christopher Reich, author of\n <em>\n  Rules of Deception\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFirst-novelist Thomson has his tongue firmly in cheek in this clever, engaging, and frenetic tale . . . His knowledge of spooksâ€™ tools, techniques, and mind-sets builds verisimilitude . . . A terrifically entertaining thriller.â€ â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8439'),
(10164, 'Twice Shy', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10976'),
(10165, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4339'),
(10166, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *About three things I was absolutely positive:First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of himâ€“and I didnâ€™t know how dominant that part might beâ€“that thirsted for my blood.And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.*â€œIâ€™D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIEâ€“ Iâ€™d had reason enough in the last few months â€“but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. . . . Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of something else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.â€When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. What Bella doesnâ€™t realize is the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And, it might be too late to turn back. . . .Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, *Twilight* will have readers riveted right until the very last page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4341'),
(10167, 'Twilight at the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. If the Well World were destroyed, the entire universe would disappear like a blown-out candle. But the squabbling forces on the planet weren''t going to let the impending doomsday stop them from having a serious war. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle. Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them. At best, a difficult mission. At worst, impossible - especially since there was a price on Brazil''s head and many would-be claimants! So Nathan Brazil decided that the simplest way to reach the Well of Souls was to be killed. And his enemies would find that he was far more dangerous dead than he had ever been alive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5691'),
(10168, 'Twilight Eyes', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The carnival is coming to town-and it''s like nothing you''ve ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1499'),
(10169, 'Twilight of the Gods', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Doctor returns to Vortis with his companions Jamie and Victoria. But the Web Planet is not the world he knew, and the peaceful Menoptera are caught up in a bitter interplanetary war between opposing factions of an alien race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7423'),
(10170, 'The Twilight Streets', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There''s a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just... they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something''s not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they''re going to organize street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood''s problem. Except that Tosh recognizes the man sponsoring the street parties when she''s passing one day: Bills Manger!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(10171, 'The Twilight Watch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky''s holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar - his boss and Night Watch head - forces him to return to work. Gesar has received an anonymous note, stating that an Other has revealed the full truth about their kind to a human, and intends to convert the human in an Other. The note has also been sent to the Day Watch, and to the Inquisition - but only the very highest-level Others know the addresses. So the Inquisition orders the cooperation of Night and Day Watch in an effort to unmask the culprit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3965'),
(10172, 'Twist of Faith', 'S. D. Perry &amp; Weddle David &amp; Jeffery Lang &amp; Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Uneasy Peace. Worlds In Flux. Tests Of Faith.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Final Episode Was Only The Beginning.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dominion War is over...or is it? Three months after the Allied victory against the invaders from the Gamma Quadrant, a surprise attack awakens the fear of renewed hostilities. At the same time, a senseless murder sets a space station commander on a path that will test the limits of her faith...while a strange discovery within the plasma storms of the Badlands propels an old soldier toward a rendezvous with destiny. Elsewhere, amidst the ruins of an ancient civilization, a young man is about to embark on a dangerous quest to fill the hole in his life -- one left by the loss of his father.\n</p>\n<p>\n So begins the unprecedented, authorized continuation of\n <em>\n  Star Trek: Deep Space NineÂ®,\n </em>\n springing from the seven-year television odyssey of Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew aboard a Federation starbase at the edge of the final frontier. Following the serial format and evolving character arcs that were the hallmarks of the TV series, the new\n <em>\n  Deep Space Nine\n </em>\n novels pick up where the show left off, daring to imagine what happened after the final episode.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the first five tales of that critically acclaimed storyline are collected in one massive volume. Originally published as the two-part\n <em>\n  Avatar, Abyss, Demons of Air and Darkness,\n </em>\n and the novella "Horn and Ivory,"\n <em>\n  Twist of Faith\n </em>\n revisits the aftermath of the Dominion War, the pivotal planet Bajor, its mysterious connection to the timeless Prophets of the wormhole, as well as the familiar faces, new friends, and uncertain allies whose fates intertwine at the crossroads of the galaxy. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author David R. George III\n <em>\n  (Mission: Gamma -- Twilight; The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins;\n </em>\n the\n <em>\n  Crucible\n </em>\n trilogy),\n <em>\n  Twist of Faith\n </em>\n takes the\n <em>\n  Deep Space Nine\n </em>\n saga to a new level...exploring what was left behind, and what awaits beyond.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  S. D. Perry\n </strong>\n is a novelist living in Portland, Oregon.Â  She is currently lives with her husband, Myk, her two children Cyrus and Myk Jr, and their two dogs. She mostly writes tie-in novels based on works in the fantasy/science-fiction/horror genre, including\n <em>\n  Resident Evil, Star Trek, Aliens\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Predator\n </em>\n . She has also written a handful of short stories and movie novelizations. Her favorite\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n series is the original series, with her favorite characters being "The Big Three" - Kirk, Spock and McCoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keith R.A. DeCandido\n </strong>\n was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them\n <em>\n  Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry''s Andromeda, Farscape, Xena,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Doctor Who\n </em>\n . His original novel\n <em>\n  Dragon Precinct\n </em>\n was published in 2004, and he''s also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated\n <em>\n  Imaginings\n </em>\n and two\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don''t Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices\n <em>\n  kenshikai\n </em>\n karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6737'),
(10173, 'The Twisted Claw', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice. Be a part of the fun! Start your collection of original hardcover Hardy Boys Mysteries today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10279'),
(10174, 'The Twisted Root', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: William Monk would normally hesitate to get involved in marriage cases. However, back from his honeymoon with his new wife, Hester, he has a newfound compassion for the groom, Lucius, and he cannot help to become involved in this one: Miriam Gardiner, the fiancÃ©e of a rich heir, has disappeared leaving behind only an empty car and a dead driver. Miriam eventually reappears, but will she tell what happened seeing that she is the primary suspect of the crime? Description in Spanish: William Monk no suele aceptar casos de derecho matrimonial. Sin embrago, de vuelta de su luna de miel con su nueva esposa, Hester, no puede evitar involucrarse en la resoluciÃ³n de uno de ellos:Miriam Gardiner, la prometida de un rico heredero, ha desaparecido dejando detrÃ¡s un carruaje vacÃ­o y el cadÃ¡ver del conductor del mismo.Miriam reaparece, pero se niega a relatar lo ocurrido pese a ser considerada la principal sospechosa del crimen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(10175, 'The Twits', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6275'),
(10176, 'Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters Or Less', 'Nick Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Magazine proclaims, "Twitter is the hot web company right now...the Next Big Thing;" the New York Times calls it "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet;" Time magazine claims "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app;" and Newsweek notes that "Suddenly, it seems as though all the worldâ€²s a-twitter." Since its creation in March 2006, Twitter has unleashed a torrent of self-expression from its six million members around the world, who send and read each othersâ€² "tweets," messages up to 140 characters in length. Friends use the site to make plans; relatives use it to stay connected; politicians use it to lobby for votes; and humorists use it to perfect their craft. In fact, Twitter users have reinvented the classic medium of the witticism in a site where anyone can be a Dorothy Parker or an Oscar Wilde. Twitter Wit is the first compilation of Twitter aphorisms, with submissions ranging from quotidian vignettes like "I bet in Sweden the Ikea instructions are in English" to bumper sticker-type quips like "I think the bird of love is the dove. My husband thinks itâ€²s the swallow," and contributors ranging from celebrities like Shaquille Oâ€²Neal, Jimmy Fallon, Penn Jillette, John Cleese, and Steven Fry to regular people with previously unappreciated sharp tongues. Featuring a foreword by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, this authorized anthology of the thousand most most clever and memorable "tweets" relates the diversity of human experience in hilarious bite-sized pieces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3220');
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(10177, 'Two caravans', 'Marina Lewycka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the idyll of the English countryside, on a beautiful summer''s evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans, a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to improve her excellent English and find true love with a romantic Englishman; Andriy, the miner''s son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Bob Dylan fan, Tomasz, (whose smelly trainers will soon punish those in the men''s caravan), Yola, the petite, voluptuous gangmistress and her religious niece Marta, who finds the wild mushrooms to cook with the sliced loaf; then there is Vitaly, king of the new mobilfon world of the shiny new Eastern Europe; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi, come to England to look for his sister. And although he can''t exactly help pick strawberries, there''s also the Dog...But these are a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten their existence as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny. Hilarious, gritty, moving, and slapstick by turns, "Two Caravans" has every bit of the extraordinary distinctiveness and wit and heart that made "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" so successful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2394'),
(10178, 'Two down', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers can solve the puzzles--and solve the crime.In this brain-teasing follow-up to the smash-hit debut, *The Crossword Murder*, P.I. Rosco Polycrates returns to discover that--up, down, or across--S.O.S. spells danger...When a famous Hollywood actress and her friend set sail off the coast of Nantucket Island--and never return, it sounds like foul play to P.I. Rosco Polycrates and his paramour/crossword editor Belle Graham. They are sharpening their pencils and their minds to solve this case. But the truth is not so easily spelled out, and it will take all their sleuthing skills to fill in the missing blanks.Includes six crossword puzzles to help readers solve the crime (answers in the back of the book)--the Bantam crossword mystery by Parnell Hall only has one puzzle and the reader is warned not to do it until after reading the book because it gives away the mystery.Praise for Nero Blanc''s *The Crossword Murder*:"A puzzle lover''s delight...a touch of suspense, a pinch of romance, and a whole lot of clever word clues...sure to appeal to crossword addicts and cozy lovers alike. What''s a three-letter word for this book? F-U-N." --Earlene Fowler"Evoe! At last puzzle fans have their revenge...super sleuthing and solving for puzzle lovers and mystery fans." --Charles Preston, Puzzle Editor, *USA Today*"Adroit word play and high society intrigue...an enjoyable, complex solution and likable protagonists....Clever." --*Publishers Weekly*"Good summer entertainment." --*Philadelphia City Paper*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2386'),
(10179, 'Two for the Dough', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s Stephanie Plum, New Jersey''s "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel "One for the Money." Now Stephanie''s back, armed with attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton''s burg. He''s fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he''s just shot his best friend. With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers kneedeep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors. And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie''s irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. Much to the family''s chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights. Fast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the woman who puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli''s not one to object. Low on expertise but learning fast, high on resilience, and despite the help she gets from friends and relatives, Stephanie eventually must face the danger alone when embalmed body parts begin to arrive on her doorstep and she''s targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome adversary she''s ever encountered. Another case like this and she''ll be a real pro. "Two for the Dough" is irresistible fun and powerful suspense entertainment from an acclaimed author who is already a national star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2172'),
(10180, 'Two for the Lions', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis''s clever, ambitious, not-so-holy Roman man about town, is on special assignment for the Emperor Vespacian. This time he''s tracking down tax fraud among the bestiarii, the slaughterers, and the lanistae, the suppliers of the gladiators and animals who provide the executions, spectacles, and entertainment for the Roman masses.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hoisted by his own tarnished petard, Falco is unwillingly partnered with his ex-boss Anacrites, Rome''s chief spy, but that''s the least of his problems; his investigation has hardly begun when he finds himself in the tunnels under the arena with a lion named Leonidas--a man-killer who may or may not have been switched with a tamer beast for a private party meant to impress a wealthy Senator''s mistress.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Leonidas presents no immediate threat to Falco--the king of the jungle is quite dead--the circumstances of the beast''s demise lead Falco to ponder a connection between a murderous feud that seems to have broken out in the ranks of the lanistae and the lucrative contracts soon to be let by the emperor for his magnificent new amphitheater. And when the most popular gladiator in Rome is killed--not in the arena, as might be expected, but while sleeping in his own bed--Falco and his patrician lover Helena take passage to Tripoli to track down the perpetrator. Along the way, they attempt to solve a domestic crisis involving Helena''s youngest brother, who seems to be right in the middle of the African connection between the murders of man and beast, as well as the feud between two powerful lanistae. And there''s still another reason to embark on a journey to the Dark Continent--the search for an extinct variety of wild garlic, which could make Falco a wealthy man and which ends with a hilarious denouement.\n</p>\n<p>\n As usual, Davis serves up a generous helping of history, a raffish band of minor characters, a charming love story, and surprisingly relevant commentary on the nature of the bureaucracy, politics, and chicanery among the rich and famous.\n <em>\n  Two for the Lions\n </em>\n promises--and delivers--a treat for the author''s many fans, and a terrific introduction to his new ones.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about capital punishment: in the Rome of A.D. 73, top criminals are torn to pieces by a specially trained lion. And when that lion is himself found murdered with a spear, who better than Marcus Didius Falco, the Sam Spade of ancient Rome, to handle the case? Davis''s 10th Falco adventure (after last year''s Three Hands in the Fountain) has already won the first Ellis Peters/British Crime Writers award for a historical mystery, and should delight fans of her series. Newcomers, however, might occasionally wish that Falco weren''t quite such a thorny character: like the cops on Law and Order, he seems to go out of his way to crack wise and to alienate partners and suspects alike. Working as a tax investigator with Anarcrites, a former chief spy for the emperor Vespasian, Falco calls his new associate "incompetent, devious and cheap." Falco''s father, an antiquities dealer, is introduced as "the devious miser Didius Favonius"; his mother and sister are treated with equal scorn. Only Helena Justina, a senator''s daughter, gets any respect from the cynical Falco: "She was neat, scathing, intelligent, wondrously unpredictable. I still could not believe my luck that she had even noticed me, let alone that she lived in my apartment, was the mother of my baby daughter, and had taken charge of my disorganized life." When he''s not bad-mouthing most of Rome''s population, Falco follows an increasingly tangled skein of clues to Greece and Tripoli, in search not only of the lion''s killer but also of an elusive herb that sounds very much like garlic. As usual, Davis''s research into the customs of the period is impeccable: it''s only the excessively angst-ridden modernity of her lead character that occasionally rocks the read. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7181'),
(10181, 'Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss &amp; Love', 'Matthew Logelin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Heartbreaking, raw, moving and uplifting at the same time."\n <strong>\n  -_The Hollywood Reporter_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A tender memoir that combines the deep sadness of loss with the joys of parenthood even under incredibly trying circumstances." -_\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "In Matthew Logelin''s honest and poignant story, we learn a great many lessons about the fragility of life, and about the strength we all can summon to move forward. With two kisses and an open heart, he shows how love can sustain us." -\n <strong>\n  Jeffrey Zaslow,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling coauthor of THE LAST LECTURE\n </strong>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n "TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is less a conscious piece of writing than a spontaneous eruption from the heart. It will make you cry but not only out of sadness. Some of your tears will be for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal even the deepest wounds."\n <strong>\n  -John Grogan,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of MARLEY &amp; ME\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "No one wants to read a depressing book. But how can you possibly call\n <em>\n  depressing\n </em>\n what is so filled with love and life and the unstoppable message of how lucky we are to have what we have. Read this book and put your life back in perspective."\n <strong>\n  -Brad Meltzer,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of HEROES FOR MY SON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost unparalleled as a raw and unapologetic portrait of grief, TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is a stunning testimony of the kind of love-- fated, magnificent-- that inspires novels. So vivid, so powerful and pitch-perfect, is his evocation of his beloved Liz that I could hear her laughter and see her face for days after putting the book down."\n <strong>\n  -Claire Fontaine, national bestselling author of COME BACK\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A touching, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant story. It offers hope, humor, and a path toward new life, and a priceless lesson about the value of communication in times of trouble."\n <strong>\n  -Jim Beaver, author of LIFE''S THAT WAY and SAG award nominee for\n  <em>\n   Deadwood\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t feel the slightest bit of pity for this unintended single father. You''ll be cheering Matt Logelin on page after page, laughing and crying with him-- and falling in love with Madeline."\n <strong>\n  -\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Christine Coppa, author of RATTLED!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz''s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-- to make a life for Maddy.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz''s legacy, heartache has become solace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4514'),
(10182, 'Two Lives', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In ''Reading Turgenev'', which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. The second story, ''My House in Umbria'' tells how romantic novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patients.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5492'),
(10183, 'the Two Minute Rule (2006)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9964'),
(10184, 'Two Points to Murder', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10928'),
(10185, 'Two to the Fifth', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. The rest have simply disappeared.So powerful are Ragnaâ€™s sorceries that even the Good Magician Humfrey dares not confront him directly. Instead he enlists Cyrus the Cyborg, a handsome half-human playwright with little knowledge of the world, in a stealthy subterfuge. Cyrus must assemble a troupe of traveling players to attract Ragnaâ€™s interest. And hidden in disguise among the bevy of beautiful young actresses are the young princesses, Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm, whose magics might just be a match for the evil bird.But Ragna has planted a spy in the midst of the troupe, one who knows their deepest secrets, including the true nature of Cyrusâ€™s forbidden love for one of the young princesses. Only a mysterious child called Kadence, and a cryptic clue â€” â€œTwo to the Fifth" â€” may give the companions the edge they need to defeat Ragnaâ€™s dictatorial dreams.Brimming with passion and merriment, drama and deception, Piers Anthonyâ€™s thirty-second Xanth fantasy is a pun-packed performance sure to provoke applause and ovations from the seriesâ€™ myriad fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3329'),
(10186, 'The Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1967'),
(10187, 'Two Trains Running', 'Andrew H. Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the clandestine, powerful forces that will shape America to the present day are about to collide.Walker Dett is a hired gun, known for using the most extreme measures to accomplish his missions. Royal Beaumont is the "hillbilly boss" who turned Locke City from a dying town into a thriving vice capital. But organized crime outsiders are moving in on Beaumont''s turf, so he reaches out for Dett in a high-risk move to maintain his power at all costs. Add a rival Irish political machine, a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi "party", the nascent black power movement, turf-disputing juvenile gangs, a muck-raking journalist who doubles as a blackmailer, the FBI--a covert observer and occasional participant which may itself be under surveillance-- and Locke City is about as stable as a nitroglycerin truck stalled on the railroad tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(10188, 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea', 'Richard Henry Dana; Anne Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. When doctors told Richard Henry Dana that an ocean voyage might halt his impending blindness, the nineteen-year-old Harvard undergraduate dropped out of school and became an ordinary deckhand on the brig Pilgrim. The perilous journey from Boston, begun in 1834, took the ailing yet determined youth past Cape Horn and around the Americas, concluding in the Mexican territory California. This expedition inspired Two Years before the Mast, a first-hand account of â€œthe life of a common sailorâ€ and a work that combines history, philosophy, and personal experience. Published in 1840, the book convincingly re-creates life at seaâ€”the beauty and adventure but also the cold, danger, and backbreaking labor. Danaâ€™s depiction of the inhuman conditions suffered by seamen at the hands of capricious, brutal, and even mad captains and ship owners was so stark that the book fueled urgent cries for reform. It also was deeply admired by Herman Melville, Danaâ€™s most famous literary confidante. Dana eventually became a lawyer, devoting himself to fighting for the rights of sailorsâ€”and slavesâ€”in court. He went on to help form the anti-slavery Free Soil Party, work for the federal government during the Civil War, and serve on the Massachusetts legislature. Anne Spencer is the author of Alone at Sea: The Adventures of Joshua Slocum and three books of sea stories and folklore for young adults. A documentary maker for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she lives in Toronto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4017'),
(10189, 'Tyler Florence&#39;s Real Kitchen: An Indespensible Guide for Anybody Who Likes to Cook', 'Tyler Florence &amp; JoAnn Cianciulli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bold. Unfussy. Irresistible. Real. Thatâ€™s the kind of food that comes out of Tyler Florenceâ€™s kitchen. With a culinary sensibility refined in some of New Yorkâ€™s most high-profile restaurants, and a down-home practicality gained as the cooking guru of Food 911, Tyler cooks food thatâ€™s fresh, flavorful, and totally doable. In Tyler Florenceâ€™s Real Kitchen, heâ€™ll show you how to cook simple meals that taste amazing, from comfort-food to classics to vibrantly new dishes.Tylerâ€™s long-awaited first cookbook stays true to his cooking philosophyâ€”use great, simple ingredients and then let the natural flavors speak for themselves. He offers canâ€™t-miss recipes for all the crowd-pleasing dishes that you craveâ€”cold fried chicken, a perfect meatloaf, or drop-dead lasagna. Tylerâ€™s bold, uncomplicated style even makes sophisticated food easy, with recipes like Pan-Roasted Sirloin with Arugula, Sweet Peppers, and Olive Salad or Steamed Mussels with Saffron and Tomato. Heâ€™ll show you how to get a great meal from the grocery bag to the table with the least fuss and the most flavor, or how to throw a barbecue with the best burgers (spiced up with horseradish and Havarti cheese) that your friends have ever had. From weekend brunch (including Soft Scrambled Eggs with Salmon and Avocado and an assortment of dim sum) to quick weeknight dinners for two (like Hong Kong Crab Cakes with Baby Bok Choy), and a selection of great party food and cocktails, this is a cookbook youâ€™ll use again and again and rely on for every occasion.With helpful notes on essential pantry staples and a list of the kitchen equipment you really need, Tyler Florenceâ€™s Real Kitchen is a fresh, creative exploration of just how fun (and delicious) your cooking can be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6147'),
(10190, 'The Tyranny of Ghosts: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The battle for the kingdom of goblins reaches its peak!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Geth and his allies have fled the city of Rhukaan Draal, after failing to dethrone Lhesh Tariic, and reach out to the Kech Volaar for help. There they seek information on how to destroy the enigmatic Rod of Kings by searching for the secret doom of a third goblin artifact, the Shield of Nobles. Meanwhile, imprisoned, Ashi dâ€™Deneith seeks a chink in Tariicâ€™s armor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The exciting conclusion to the Legacy of Dhakaan!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6828'),
(10191, 'The Tyranny of the Night', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. At the edges of the world stand walls of ice which push slowly forward to reclaim the land for the night. And at the worldâ€™s center, in the Holy Land where two great religions were born, are the Wells of Ihrain, the source of the greatest magics. Over the last century the Patriarchs of the West have demanded crusades to claim the Wells from the Pramans, the followers of the Written. Now an uneasy truce extends between the Pramans and the West, waiting for a spark to start the conflict anew. Then, on a mission in the Holy Land, the young Praman warrior Else is attacked by a creature of the Darkâ€”in effect, a minor god. Too ignorant to know that he can never prevail over such a thing, he fights it and wins, and in so doing, sets the terrors of the night against him. As a reward for his success, Else is sent as a spy to the heart of the Patriarchy to direct their attention away from further ventures into the Holy Lands. Dogged by hidden enemies and faithless allies, Else witnesses senseless butchery and surprising acts of faith as he penetrates to the very heart of the Patriarchy and rides alongside their armies in a new crusade against his own people. But the Night rides with him, too, sending two of its once-human agents from the far north to assassinate him. Submerged in his role, he begins to doubt his faith, his country, even his family. As his mission careens out of control, he faces unanswerable questions about his future. It is said that God will know his own, but can one who has slain gods ever know forgiveness?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1884'),
(10192, 'Tyrant&#39;s Test', 'Michael P. Kube-McDowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  saga...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat--even at the cost of Han''s life.  As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke''s continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar''s deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11182'),
(10193, 'U Is for Undertow', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This title is from Diamond Dagger winner Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone''s latest compelling case. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned...When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh''s body...But Michael''s account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping; and even members of his family try to discredit his evidence. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael''s recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn''t what anyone expected, she can''t quite let go of the case. As Kinsey gradually brings to light the stories of the protagonists involved in the tragedy, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8203'),
(10194, '&quot;U&quot; is for Undertow', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned ...When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh''s body ...But Michael''s account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping; and even members of his family try to discredit his evidence. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael''s recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn''t what anyone expected, she can''t quite let go of the case. As Kinsey gradually brings to light the stories of the protagonists involved in the tragedy, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4127'),
(10195, 'Ubik', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Philip K. Dick''s searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3763'),
(10196, 'Uglies', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10907'),
(10197, 'The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles', 'William Irwin &amp; Gregory Bassham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  series\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron''s quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series special. _The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy\n  <em>\n   covers all seven titles in J.K. Rowling''s groundbreaking\n  </em>\n  _series and takes fans back to Godric''s Hollow to discuss life after death, to consider what moral reasoning drove Harry to choose death, and to debate whether Sirius Black is a man or a dog.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With publication timed to coincide with the release of the movie\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1),\n  </em>\n  this book will be the definitive guide for all fans looking to appreciate the series on a deeper level.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Covers a range of intriguing topics such as the redemption of Severus Snape, the power of love, and destiny in the wizarding world\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Gives you a new perspective on\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter\n   </em>\n   characters, plot lines, and themes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Makes a perfect companion to the\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter\n   </em>\n   books and movies\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Packed with interesting ideas and insights,\n  <em>\n   The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy\n  </em>\n  is an ideal companion for anyone interested in unraveling the subtext and exploring the greater issues at work in the story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Is it always wrong to use a love potion?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Is death something to be feared . . . or "mastered"?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What can Severus Snape teach us about the possibility of redemption?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Is love the most powerful magic of all?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  J. K. Rowling''s wildly popular Harry Potter books may appear to be simple children''s tales on the surface, but like Hogwarts, they conceal many hidden chambers, trapdoors, and perplexing secrets. Drawing on all seven books in the Harry Potter series,\n  <em>\n   The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy\n  </em>\n  offers a powerful brew of insights about good and evil, love, death, power, sacrifice, and hope. Is it true, as Dumbledore says, that our choices reveal far more about us than our abilities do? Is there an afterlife, and what might it be like? Here''s a Pensieve for your thoughts. So take a healthy slug of Baruffio''s Brain Elixir and join Bassham''s Army of talented philosophers in exploring the mind-stretching deeper questions of the Potter books and films.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  BLACKWELL PHILOSOPHY AND POP CULTURE SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book has not been approved, licensed, or sponsored by any entity or person involved in creating or producing Harry Potter, the book series, or films.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7905'),
(10198, 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide - All Six Books', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8867'),
(10199, 'The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, From Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker', 'Beth Hensperger &amp; Julie Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook* proves there''s more to this popular appliance than a convenient way to cook a pot of rice. Complete with tips on buying and using a rice cooker, as well as selecting and preparing every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean, this book includes 250 recipes for everything from hot breakfast cereals and creamy desserts and puddings to classic vegetable, bean, and rice combinations and savory whole meal cuisines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6051'),
(10200, 'Ulysses', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the most important works of modernist literature, James Joyce''s "Ulysses" was originally published in serial format from 1918 to 1920 and then published in a single edition in 1922, which this edition is drawn from. "Ulysses" chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. While the novel appears largely unstructured at first glance it is in fact very closely paralleled to Homer''s "Odyssey," containing eighteen episodes that correspond to various parts of Homer''s work. Filled with experimental forms of prose, stream of consciousness, puns, parodies, and allusions that Joyce himself hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." This expansive work is considered one of the great works of English literature and a must read for fans of the modernist genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(10201, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Scones', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The witty and utterly delightful follow up to the national bestsellerThe World According to Bertie, this fifth instalment of the 44 Scotland Street series, McCall Smith once again brings us an absorbing and entertaining tale of some of Scotland''s most quirky and beloved characters - all set in the beautiful, stoic city of Edinburgh. The Unbearable Lightness of Sconesfinds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old, still troubled by his rather overbearing mother, Irene, but seeking his escape in the Cub Scouts. Matthew is rising to the challenge of married life with newfound strength and resolve, while Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long distance intellectual. Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(10202, 'Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain', 'Portia de Rossi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAnorexia was my first love,â€ de Rossi declares in her memoir of her early Hollywood career and the eating disorders that went along with it. Her unflinching self-portrait depicts a cripplingly self-conscious young Australian in LA overwhelmed by the pressure to be thin. Never comfortable in her own skin, a by-product of her status as a closeted lesbian, de Rossi was sure if she ever gained weight (or came out as being gay), the shooting star sheâ€™d been cultivating would turn to lead. Weight loss was the key that allowed de Rossi to feel powerful and in control, until dieting became a sickness that nearly killed her and devastated her family. De Rossiâ€™s story and words are not revolutionary, but they are frank, brave, and revelatory of the unhealthy trends that stardom can generate. Although more development of de Rossiâ€™s happy ending (her eventual complete recovery, self-acceptance, coming-out, and marriage to Ellen DeGeneres) would be welcome, the book succeeds as itâ€™s intended: a journal of her sickness and a provocatively sad love affair with dieting. --Annie Bostrom\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBreathtakingly honest, brutal and beautiful.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Jonathan Safran Foer\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDe Rossi tells her story with genuine insight and unflinching honesty. You will cheer her on.â€ â€”Jeannette Walls\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPossibly the best book on the subject ever written. De Rossi is the real deal, a fine writer with a sharp mind and substance. This rich, layered book of remarkable courage, power, and significance will serve as life-changing inspiration for many.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Augusten Burroughs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7267'),
(10203, 'Unbegotten Child', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If this was true, there ought to be another edition of What Every Young Girl Should Know!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6311'),
(10204, 'Unbelievable', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Behind Rosewood''s grand faÃ§ades, where the air smells like apples and Chanel No. 5 and infinity pools sparkle in landscaped backyards, nothing is as it seems. It was here, back in seventh grade, that five best friends shared everythingâ€”Seven jeans, MAC makeup, and their deepest, darkest secrets. For Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily, it was a dream come true . . . until Alison, the most beautiful of them all, suddenly vanished. Now someone named A has turned their charmed lives into a living nightmare. Emily has been shipped off to her hyper-conservative cousins in Iowa. Aria is stuck living with her dad and his home-wrecker girlfriend. And Spencer fears she had something to do with Alison''s murder. But Hanna''s fate is far worse than all of thatâ€”she''s clinging to life in the hospital, because *she knew too much*. With A''s threats turning dangerous and Ali''s killer still on the loose, the girls must uncover the truthâ€”about A, about Ali, and about what happened to Hannaâ€”before they become A''s next victims. But as they unravel Rosewood''s mysteries and secrets, will it bring an end to the horror . . . or is this just the beginning?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3705'),
(10205, 'Unbillable Hours: A True Story', 'Ian Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œâ€¦engrossing memoir""\n  <strong>\n   â€” LA MagazineÂ \n  </strong>\n  â€œGrahamâ€™s telling of the overwrought work environment at Latham Watkins brings John Grishamâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Associate\n  </em>\n  to real life.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”New York Journal of Books\n  </strong>\n  Â Â Â  â€œInspiring, crisply written, and gripping, this behind-the-scenes account of one manâ€™s pursuit of justice is highly recommended.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Tucson CitizenÂ \n  </strong>\n  ""This is the story of a first-year law associate juggling a pro bono murder case on top of the long hours and numerous issues going on in the firm where he works. I''m recommending it for anyone who has experienced the legal system from the inside\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  or out.""\n  <strong>\n   â€”IndieBoundÂ \n  </strong>\n  Â â€œDid not expect to enjoy this book as much as I didÂ ...Definitely worth the read.Â  Better than most else in the genre, for sure.â€Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jeremy Blachman, author ofÂ  Anonymous LawyerÂ Â \n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The storyâ€”part memoir, part hard-hitting exposeâ€”of a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good life for Ian Graham. But the harsh reality of life as an associate quickly became evident. The work was grueling and boring, the days were impossibly long, and Grahamâ€™s main goal was to rack up billable hours. But when he took an unpaid pro bono case to escape the drudgery, Graham found the meaning in his work that heâ€™d been looking for. As he worked to free Mario Rocha, a gifted young Latino who had been wrongly convicted at 16 and sentenced to life without parole, the shocking contrast between the quest for money and power and Marioâ€™s desperate struggle for freedom led Graham to look long and hard at his future as a corporate lawyer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clear-eyed and moving, written with the drama and speed of a John Grisham novel and the personal appeal of Scott Turowâ€™s account of his law school years,\n  <em>\n   Unbillable Hours\n  </em>\n  is an arresting personal story with implications for all of us.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6153');
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(10206, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7000'),
(10207, 'Uncharted Territory', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Willis''s short novel could hardly be more different from her last, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book , which dealt with a time-travelling jaunt from the 21st-century back to Europe during the days of the Black Plague. On a rather nondescript alien planet, two hardy planetary surveyors (Findriddy and Carson), a visiting "socioexozoologist" (Evelyn Parker) and their alien guide (Bult) embark on a mapping expedition. To avoid any appearance of imperialistic insensitivity, the government has imposed strict rules on the surveyors and allows indigenous guides to fine them. Willis plays it mainly as a farce: Bult takes full advantage of the situation, coming up with creative fines and spending the proceeds on umbrellas, shower curtains, slot machines and the like. Parker prattles on about the bizarre mating habits of various species, while Fin and Carson bicker like an old married couple. It''s all fairan old married couple. It''s all fairly amusing, though by the end the story hasn''t really gone anywhere--Willis ties up the loose ends and returns to the beginning with Fin and Carson resuming the spat over a lost pair of binoculars which they were having on page one. A pleasant diversion, but there''s little for the reader to take away when she''s done.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Planetary surveyors Fin and Carson battle hostile terrain, bureaucratic red tape, and renegade "planet crashers" in this latest novella by the talented author of Doomsday Book (LJ 5/15/92). Willis continues to demonstrate her endless versatility in this archly written satire, which is both a love story and a shameless expose of the dark side of political correctness. A first-rate purchase for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5753'),
(10208, 'Uncle Tom&#39;s cabin', 'Harriet Beecher Stowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The library of America is dedicated to publishing America''s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1770'),
(10209, 'Unclean: The Haunted Lands', 'Richard Lee Byers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The latest title from popular Forgotten RealmsÂ® author Richard Lee Byers. The dead are restless in the magic-rich realm of Thay, and an evil necromancer begins to gather them to his cause--a cause that will change the face of FaerÃ»n forever. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8317'),
(10210, 'Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World', 'Mark Pendergrast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Uncommon Grounds\n </em>\n tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world''s favorite beverages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4617'),
(10211, 'Uncommon Sense', 'M. Margaret Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cooper Moody is a beautiful woman living a normal life in San Diego, California, until the day that a bullet intended for police officer Alec Arnold hits her, and changes everything. She finds it hard to believe that her injury has given her the extra-sensory ability of empathy. Now lives may depend on her uncommon sense, and she needs to win the trust of gorgeous Alec. But how to convince him she''s for real?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n M. Margaret Neil lives in southern California with her daughter, her cat Meowzer, and her dog Rose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9799'),
(10212, 'Undead: The Haunted Lands', 'Richard Lee Byers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Join heroes fighting the undead hordes!  Undead armies have massed and march to the beat of an evil necromancer''s drum. The living citizens of the magic-rich realm of Thay must unite and mount a defense before they die and join their enemy''s ranks.  The second book in The Haunted Lands series, the events in "Undead" will have tremendous impact on the Forgotten Realms world. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8318'),
(10213, 'Under a Blood Red Sky', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Om haar doodzieke medegevangene midden 20e eeuw te kunnen redden uit een Siberisch werkkamp besluit een vrouw te ontsnappen en een beroep te doen op dier jeugdliefde.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2436'),
(10214, 'Under Darkness', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The terrorist threat to America continues, but this time itâ€™s so top secret that only those in the highest circles of government know about it. As it unfolds, Daphne and the vampire spies, the Darkwings, become the firstâ€”and onlyâ€”line of defense to save a city. Team Darkwingâ€™s assignment: decipher and defuse the terrorist plot. But Daphne gets distracted when vampire hunters storm the city. Is Darius, her hot-and-cold lover, behind their reappearance? This time, will he return to love Daphneâ€”or to commit the ultimate act of betrayal?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3934'),
(10215, 'Under Fire', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having wrapped up World War II with 1999''s __, bestselling military author W.E.B. Griffin now deploys his Marines in Korea with\n <em>\n  Under Fire\n </em>\n , the ninth volume in his\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers who crave nonstop battle action and excitement may find it hard to stick with\n <em>\n  Under Fire\n </em>\n , as Griffin takes the time to detail the background leading up to one of America''s least-remembered modern wars. Griffin writes for the true armed forces aficionado, filling his prose with realistic descriptions of procedure, gear, and materials, an alphabet''s worth of acronyms, and an ex- soldier''s ear for military dialogue. Look for more sharp, authentic writing in this series'' next installment.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After eight books in the popular WWII Corps series, Griffin''s latest kicks off on the Korean peninsula, where forces from the Communist North have just stormed over the 38th Parallel. Within a few weeks, the old team is back together, most under the steady command of Brig. Gen. Fleming Pickering, whom President Truman recalls from the helm of Trans Global Airways to assume the CIA''s top Asian post. As the U.S. Army flounders to contain the North, Pickering struggles to restore Washington''s faith in Comdr. Douglas MacArthur and his daring proposal to invade at Inchon. Meanwhile, as Capt. Ken McCoy and Master Gunner Ernie Zimmerman skulk behind enemy lines, seizing a crucial island in preparation for the invasion, a new calamity breaks out: Pickering''s son, daredevil pilot Malcolm ("Pick"), gets shot down over a North Korean rice paddy. This new entry in the series moves more slowly than previous ones, as Griffin who served in the army in Korea sets up the historical elements of the conflict and positions all his characters. But once he gets going, he writes with even assurance and a keen eye for military camaraderie and nuance, offering galvanizing drama and a respectful yet irreverent treatment of military procedure and attitudes, not to mention plenty of Scotch. As the book ends with U.S. forces digging in for battle and Pick still missing the dean of the American war adventure has left himself room for plenty of action ahead. National television and ad campaign.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6076'),
(10216, 'Under Heaven', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspired by the glory of Tang Dynasty China in the eighth century, Guy Gavriel Kay melds history and the fantastic into something both powerful and emotionally compelling. Under Heaven is a novel on the grandest narrative scale, encompassing the intimate details of individual lives in an unforgettable time and place. Shen Tai is the son of a general who led the forces of imperial Kitai in that empire''s last war against their western enemies from Tagur, twenty years before. Forty thousand men on both sides were slain beside a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself has died recently. To honour his father''s memory, Tai has spent two years of official mourning alone at the battle site among the ghosts of the dead, laying to rest their unburied bones. One spring morning, he learns that others have taken note of his vigil. The White Jade Princess in Tagur is pleased to present him with two hundred and fifty Sardian horses, given, she writes, in recognition of his courage, and honour done to the dead. You gave a man one of the famed Sardians to reward him greatly. You gave him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Tai starts east towards the glittering, dangerous imperial capital and gathers his wits for a return from solitude by a mountain lake to his own forever-altered life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(10217, 'Under Orders', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beloved series character Sid Halley, a champion jockey, makes a welcome return in the latest fast-paced crime novel from bestseller Francis (_Come to Grief_). When a crippling injury forces Halley into retirement, he begins a second career as a PI. Thanks to his doggedness and integrity, he attracts many clients, including a mysterious government figure who asks him to assess the unintended consequences of Britain''s legalization of Internet gambling, and others who wish him to unravel the nest of puzzles surrounding the murder of a jockey, Huw Walker, suspected of throwing races. This time, the sinister forces arrayed against him have an unexpected weaponâ€”threats of violence against Halley''s new significant other. The writing and action are as crisp as ever, though longtime Francis fans may find the plot a little familiar.\n <em>\n  BOMC and Mystery Guild main selection.\n </em>\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After an absence of six years, Dick Francis comes thundering up the track with a thriller that resoundingly demonstrates that the acclaimed author, if anything, may have gained a few steps. Francis re-summons his most popular protagonist, Sid Halley, a champion jockey turned sleuth, whose racing career was shattered when a horse fell on him and then an adversary mangled his left hand. Last seen in\n <em>\n  Come To Grief\n </em>\n (1995), Halley, who brings racing knowledge, spirit, and resilience to whatever case he tackles, remains one of the most exquisitely developed characters in crime fiction. This adventure starts with Cheltenham Gold Cup day, during which one racegoer drops dead, a horse collapses after a stirring win, and the victorious jockey is discovered shot to death in the parking lot. Juggling several sleuthing assignments, Halley finds himself working not only for the father of the slain jockey but also for a Lord who wants to know if the races his horses run in are being fixed. The plot keeps delivering shocks as Halley''s investigation is derailed by threats and violence against his new love. And Francis once again proves himself a master of detail, seamlessly incorporating fascinating facts about DNA technology, myoelectric hands, Internet gambling, and even stitches. Wow.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8232'),
(10218, 'Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jon Krakauerâ€™s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauerâ€™s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of Americaâ€™s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2721'),
(10219, 'Under the Dome: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester''s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener''s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician''s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn''t just short. It''s running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4291'),
(10220, 'Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty', 'Bradley K. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under different circumstances, North Korea could be the subject of a Marx Brothers satire, with the elements of a pompous, ego-driven patriarch, a worshipful population, and a general aura of fantasy and illusion. But North Korea has a superbly equipped million-man army and an expanding nuclear weapons program. So this comprehensive examination of this totalitarian society and the two men who have dominated it is often terrifying. For a quarter century, Martin has covered North Korea while working for the\n <em>\n  Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  Asian Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n . Using newly available material from Russian and Chinese sources, Martin offers surprising insights into the career and character of both Kim Il-Sung and his son, Kim Jong-Il. He strives, albeit with moderate success, to unveil the reality from the mounds of myth and distortions with which both men have surrounded themselves. But Martin''s account is most chilling in his descriptions of contemporary North Korean society. And yet, as Martin eloquently illustrates in this important book, the control of the Kim dynasty may well be tenuous.\n <em>\n  Jay Freeman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader_ is, from all I have read, simply the best book ever written about North Korea. Relying largely on extensive interviews with defectors, Martin portrays North Korean life with a clarity that is stunning, and he captures the paradoxes in North Korean public opinion."--Nicholas D. Kristof,\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Martin''s massive book provides as useful a set of insights into life in North Korea as can be found anywhere."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  L.A. Times Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "As an AP correspondent covering South Korea in the 1970s, I learned quickly how difficult it was to discover any reliable information about that secretive, threatening regime to the north. Brad Martin''s book is testimony to the thoroughness of his work, and the high level of his ability as a journalist and researcher.\n</p>\n<p>\n " North Korea is one of the least known, least understood countries in the world. Its leaders have always been enigmas, both frightening and fascinating, but almost impossible to decipher. Again today, it becomes vitally important that we do both, yet there is almost nothing of importance being written about the subject.\n <em>\n  Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader\n </em>\n is important, as well as fascinating. The research is impeccable, the writing excellent. This is a major and timely contribution, and essential to anyone who hopes to deal sensibly with a vital region of the world."\n <br />\n -Terry Anderson, former AP correspondent and author of\n <em>\n  Den of Lions\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brad Martin''s\n <em>\n  Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader\n </em>\n , a careful, penetrating analysis of North Korea, is more than just a book. Given the levels of secrecy which surround the Pyongyang regime and the danger it poses to its neighbors, Martin has rendered a considerable service to us all."\n <br />\n -bestselling author, David Halbertstam\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brad Martin''s book on North Korea is at once enlightening and frightening. It is lucid in writing, balanced in analysis, and comprehensive in its meticulous research and anecdotal evidence. The detailed exposition of the narrow life of luxury and the devious character of the ''Dear Leader,'' Kim Jong-il, is scary. So is the description of North Korea as a corrupt, secretive, stagnant fief of the Kim family. Brad Martin, with his long years as a Pyongyang-watcher, is eminently qualified to write a book that should strip away any illusions America and the West have about Kim''s dangerous regime."\n <br />\n -Richard Halloran, former correspondent for\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n in Asia and Washington, D.C.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7428'),
(10221, 'Under the Net', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Iris Murdoch''s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookles, and film stariets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man, who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. However, a meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From AudioFile\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Iris Murdoch''s 1954 debut novel, Jake Donaghue is an engaging young writer. In his overintellectualized angst, Jake details a convoluted romantic impossibility--he loves Anna, who loves Hugo, who loves Sadie, who loves Jake. His betrayal of his best friend''s trust, his emotional indifference in most of his relationships, and his failed first book eventually leave Jake in existential hell. Samuel West''s performance is nicely understated. His intelligent reading turns Jake and Hugo''s somber discussions of philosophy and metaphysics into exercises in wit. Jake offers that everything "is made up of moments, which pass and become nothing." West delivers Jake''s discoveries, not as grim, but as the ramblings of a young artist in search of himself. Murdoch fans will be pleased. S.J.H. Â© AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10917'),
(10222, 'Under the Volcano', 'Malcolm Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the towering novels of this century." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book obviously belongs with the most original and creative novels of our time." --\n <em>\n  --Alfred Kazin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico.Here the consul''s debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life.\n <em>\n  Under the Volcano\n </em>\n is set during the most fateful day of the consul''s life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne''s mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul''s half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Under the Volcano\n </em>\n remains one of the most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition and one man''s constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6347'),
(10223, 'Under Western Eyes', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2985'),
(10224, 'Underground', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Alfred Birnbaum &amp; Philip Gabriel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami''s (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction account of this episode. It is riveting. What he mostly does here, however, is listen to and record, in separate sections, the words of both victims, people who "just happened to be gassed on the way to work," and attackers. The victims are ordinary people bankers, businessmen, office workers, subway workers who reflect upon what happened to them, how they reacted at the time and how they have lived since. Some continue to suffer great physical disabilities, nearly all still suffer great psychic trauma. There is a Rashomon-like quality to some of the tales, as victims recount the same episodes in slightly different variations. Cumulatively, their tales fascinate, as small details weave together to create a complex narrative. The attackers are of less interest, for what they say is often similar, and most remain, or at least do not regret having been, members of Aum. As with the work of Studs Terkel, which Murakami acknowledges is a model for this present work, the author''s voice, outside of a few prefatory comments, is seldom heard. He offers no grand explanation, no existential answer to what happened, and the book is better for it. This is, then, a compelling tale of how capriciously and easily tragedy can destroy the ordinary, and how we try to make sense of it all. (May 1)Forecast: Publication coincides with the release of a new novel by Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart, Forecasts, Mar. 19), and several national magazines, including Newsweek and GQ, will be featuring this fine writer. This attention should help Murakami''s growing literary reputation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The deadly Tokyo subway poison gas attack, perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on March 20, 1995, was the fulfillment of every urban straphanger''s nightmare. Through interviews with several dozen survivors and former members of Aum, novelist Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) presents an utterly compelling work of reportage that lays bare the soul of contemporary Japan in all its contradictions. The sarin attack exposed Tokyo authorities'' total lack of preparation to cope with such fiendish urban terrorism. More interesting, however, is the variety of reactions among the survivors, a cross-section of Japanese citizens. Their individual voices remind us of the great diversity within what is too often viewed from afar as a homogeneous society. What binds most of them is their curious lack of anger at Aum. Chilling, too, is the realization that so many Aum members were intelligent, well-educated persons who tried to fill voids in their lives by following Shoko Asahara, a mad guru who promised salvation through total subordination to his will. For all public and academic libraries. Steven I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6736'),
(10225, 'Undersea Prison', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the British military lose an officer to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, a desperate race begins to find his killers. Little do the assailants know that the precious information they have stolen could bring down the entire network of Western intelligence in the Mid-East. But then one of them is captured by U. S. troops and flown to the States for interrogation. And so begins a nail-biting, claustrophobic, and explosive thriller that will ultimately lead British operative John Stratton to the Styx penitentiary, Americaâ€™s undersea prison. How do you break in to a jail below the ocean? Can Stratton get the information back without theÂ government discovering him? And is everyone in the prison really who they seem to be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(10226, 'The Undertaker&#39;s Gift', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They''re suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won''t tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness. It''s been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub''s latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems. But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn''t want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything u but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker''s gift to planet Earth? Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3485'),
(10227, 'Underworld', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com Review While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union''s second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It''s an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca''s pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter-the "shot heard around the world"-and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra''s shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand. "It''s all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story''s pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War''s blend of dread and euphoria. Through fragments and interlaced stories-including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others-DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. *** Starting with a 1951 baseball game and ending with the Internet, "Underworld" is not a book for the faint-hearted. Elegiac in tone and described variously as DeLillo''s Magnum Opus and his attempt to write the Great American Novel, the book weighs in at a hefty 827 pages and zips back and forwards in time, moving in and out of the lives of a plethora of different characters. Following three main themes â€“ the fate of a baseball from the winning game of the 1951 world series, the threat of atomic warfare and the mountains of garbage created by modern society â€“ DeLillo moves forwards and backwards through the decades, introducing characters and situations and gradually showing the way their lives are interconnected. Reading the prose can be uncannily like using a web browser: the narrative focus moves from character to character almost as quickly as we are introduced to them, and the time frame regularly changes to show further connections between the key players. This device â€“ literature as hypertext â€“ is particularly effective in the early parts of the novel and the technique never intrudes on the story itself. The book focuses on Nick Shay, a former hoodlum who now works in the burgeoning waste management industry and owns the baseball from the 1951 game, "the shot heard around the world". In addition to Nick we hear from Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Lenny Bruce and the various people who move in and out of Nick''s life: lovers, family, friends and colleagues. Through these seemingly disconnected narratives DeLillo paints a picture of Cold War paranoia at its peak â€“ the baseball game happened the same day as the USSR ''s first nuclear test â€“ and the changes affecting his characters as a microcosm of American society as a whole. Very few writers, however, can justify over 800 densely-printed pages to tell a story and "Underworld" would have benefited greatly from judicious wielding of the blue pencil. Potentially intriguing plots which feature strongly in the earlier parts of the book â€“ an intriguing serial killer subplot, the stories of each person who possesses the winning baseball â€“ are abandoned halfway through the book in favour of overlong childhood memories or the inane ponderings of a performance artist; other stories are neglected for over 400 pages before reappearing at the end of the novel, causing an unwelcome jolt as the reader tries to remember the pertinent details. In this respect "Underworld" is a victim of its own ambition: by trying to cover such a wide range of characters and situations, DeLillo loses track of some of them and, in the latter parts of the novel in particular, the writing feels as if it is on autopilot while the author works out what to do next. There is still much to recommend in "Underworld", however. Each vignette is lovingly crafted: DeLillo seems as comfortable writing from the perspective of a street missionary as he is inhabiting J Edgar Hoover''s paranoia. The book employs vivid imagery, from painted angels on ghetto walls to the cityscape created by mountains of domestic waste, and the dialogue is usually well-observed and thoroughly believable although it does flag when describing Nick Shay''s hoodlum past. Despite its faults DeLillo has created an ambitious and powerful novel which, due to its size, can also be used to swat annoying children on trains. Highly recommended. Gary Marshall\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10964'),
(10228, 'Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps', 'Chris Jericho &amp; Peter Thomas Fornatale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An entertaining follow-up to their popular book A Lion''s Tale, international wresting superstar Jericho and co-writer Fornatale continue their chronicle of Jericho''s wild ride through the wacky world of professional wrestling. This book picks up where the earlier book endedâ€”with Jericho in 1999 joining Vince McMahon''s World Wrestling Enterprise, the most important venue in wrestingâ€”and ends with Jericho''s return to the ring in 2007 after a two-year retirement. Jericho hilariously details these key years as WWE''s resident bad guy. His feuds with WWE''s colorful (and colorfully profane) cast, including the likes of X-Pac, Ken Shamrock, Chyna, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and Christian, are solidly recounted, although most of this will be old news to hardcore WWE fans. But the most interesting stories involve his battles on- and off-stage with such better-known stars as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Goldbergâ€”whom Jericho once had run over by a limousine during an episode of WWE''s Raw series. It is here that Jericho shines and proves once again that, next to Mick Foley, he is an insightful and funny observer of pro wrestling''s absurd universe. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eagerly awaited follow-up to the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling\n <em>\n  A Lion''s Tale\n </em>\n documents Chris Jericho''s meteoric rise to wrestling glory in the WWE.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Lion''s Tale\n </em>\n gave readers a portrait of Jericho as a young man. Fighting his way through Mexico, rinky-dink leagues and a battery of thieving, sleazy promoters/managers, the book ended with the author''s WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) debut. Never one to leave his fans hanging, as demonstrated by his recent return to wrestling glory, Jericho now tells the story of life in the big leagues. But "making it" in the premier wrestling league in the world comes with its own set of obstacles and hard lessons. Jericho, in his witty, hilarious, and surprisingly endearing manner, lays it all out: the good, the bad, and the spandex.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7459'),
(10229, 'Undying World', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1916'),
(10230, 'Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories (Webster&#39;s Korean Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant was edited for three audiences. The first includes Korean-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Korean speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Korean in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Korean Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Korean or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Korean, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch.Having the reader decipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9450');
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(10231, 'The Unexpected Guest', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Along a mist-shrouded country road in South Wales on a chilly November evening, engineer Michael Starkwedder''s car stands hopelessly stuck in a muddy ditch.Ambling up to the nearest house for help, Starkwedder gets no reply when he knocks on the French doors of the elegant, darkened home.With a push, the doors open, and inside he is witness to a startling scene: a man, slumped over dead in a wheel-chair, and his lovely young wife standing nearby, with smoking-gun in hand.Laura Warwick immediately confesses to the crime.But Starkwedder, a man intrigued by what lay beneath the surface, begins to uncover family ties and chilling motives as twisted as the back roads of rural Wales-and soon discovers that in this seemingly open-and-shut case, nothing is what it appears to be...AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author of eighty crime novels and collections of stories, nineteen plays, six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott, two volumes of poetry, a volume of Christmas verse and stories, an autobiography, and Come, Tell Me How You Live.She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures of crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-as well as the author of The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the history of modern theater.Christie was awarded the CBE in 1956 and made a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in 1971.She was president of the Detection Club (1954) and was the first writer to be awarded the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award (1955). Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976.CHARLES OSBORNE is a world authority on theatre and opera and has written a number of books on musical and literary subjects.He is the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie as well as a novelization of Agatha Christie''s play, the bestselling Black Coffee.Born in Australia in 1927, he has lived in London for many years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5210'),
(10232, 'Unfamiliar Fishes', 'Sarah Vowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell, a public radio star and bestselling author (The Wordy Shipmates), retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. In her usual wry tone, Vowell brings out the ironies of their efforts: while the missionaries tried to prevent prostitution with seamen and the resulting deadly diseases, the natives believed it was the missionaries who would kill them: "they will pray us all to death." Along the way, and with the best of intentions, the missionaries eradicated an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture (although the Hawaiians did have taboos against women sharing a table with men, upon penalty of death, and a reverence for "royal incest"). Freely admitting her own prejudices, Vowell gives contemporary relevance to the past as she weaves in, for instance, Obama''s boyhood memories. Outrageous and wise-cracking, educational but never dry, this book is a thought-provoking and entertaining glimpse into the U.S.''s most unusual state and its unanticipated twists on the familiar story of Americanization. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Wordy Shipmates,\n  </em>\n  an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In\n <em>\n  Unfamiliar Fishes,\n </em>\n Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d''Ã©tat of the missionaries'' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha ''Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.\n</p>\n<p>\n With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6613'),
(10233, 'Unfinished Business', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n COULD HE HEAL HER BROKEN HEART? What was she doing here? Hyattown had changed very little in the years Vanessa Sexton had been away. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hadn''t changed much either - he was still lean, athletic, rugged...But the once reckless boy had become a solid, dependable man. He''d stood her up on the most important night of her life; could she ever trust him again? So Vanessa had finally come home, Brady thought. She could still turn him inside out with one of her sultry looks. He couldn''t believe she hadn''t forgiven him for that night twelve years ago--but he''d had his reasons for not showing up. He''d let her leave town then--but he wasn''t going to let her get away this time. . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11245'),
(10234, 'Unfinished Desires: A Novel', 'Gail Godwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel''s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls'' young teacher and the schoolâ€™s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel. Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried. In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations-and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free. Â  "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(10235, 'The Unfinished Gift', 'Dan Walsh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4.5 Stars, Top Pick - "Walsh paints a wonderful picture of life in America during WW2. The characters are richly developed, and the story about love and forgiveness are not to be missed." --RT Book Reviews Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Unfinished Gift is one for the keeper shelf! Dan''s book is a fabulous story of redemption and forgiveness. Couldn''t put it down and it made me cry which is hard to do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Colleen Coble, Bestselling Author, The Lightkeeper''s Daughter\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patrick Collins is seven years old, and on his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather''s house. And, for reasons even he doesn''t understand, he wants the soldier that''s tucked away in his grandfather''s attic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Set at Christmastime in 1943,\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n  tells in an engaging, simple style the story of a family, and reminds us of the surprising things that affect powerful change in our hearts--like a young boy''s prayers, a shoebox full of love letters, and even an old wooden soldier, long forgotten. This nostalgic story of forgiveness will engage readers everywhere.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6871'),
(10236, 'An Unfinished Score', 'Elise Blackwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied with her marriage to a composer whose music turns emotion into thought. Now, more alone than she s ever been, she must grieve secretly. But as complex as that effort is, it pales with the arrival of Alex s widow, who blackmails her into completing the score for Alex s unfinished viola concerto. As Suzanne struggles to keep her double life a secret from her husband, from her best friend, and from the other members of her quartet, she is consumed by memories of a rich love affair saturated with music. Increasingly manipulated by her lover s widow and tormented by the concerto s many layers, Suzanne realizes she may lose everything she s spent her life working for. A story of love, loss, sex, class, and betrayal, this psychologically compelling novel explores the ways that artists lives and work interact, the nature of relationships among women as friends and competitors, and what it means to make a life of art.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(10237, 'The Ungoverned', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10148'),
(10238, 'Unholy: The Haunted Lands', 'Richard Lee Byers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Join heroes fighting the undead hordes!  A powerful undead sorcerer reigns in Thay over a frightened people and hordes of undead. The mageocracy in exile, masters of no more than their beaten army, watch from distant shores as the new King of Thay prepares a great magical ritual--a ritual they cannot allow him to bring to completion.  The conclusion of The Haunted Lands series, the events in "Unholy" will have tremendous impact on the Forgotten Realms(R) world. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8316'),
(10239, 'Unicorn Point', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The parallel wars of wits and politics on the magical world of Phaze and its technological sister-world Proton take a bizarre twist as the children of the Robot Adept Mach and his Phaze-born counterpart Bane play hide-and-seek for keeps to foil the plans of the Contrary Citizens of Proton and the Adverse Adepts of Phaze. Familiar characters from previous series titles come together for a rousing climax in this "conclusion" to one of Anthony''s most endearing series. Recommended.-- JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Especially with an all-new package.\n</p>\n<p>\n The combined magic and technology between the parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton is not enough to save the planets from a conquering invasion. Only Mach and Bane--robot and wizard, linked between worlds--have any chance of stopping this threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4598'),
(10240, 'Unification', 'Jeri Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Based on the epic two-part television episode, here now is the story STAR TREKâ„¢ fans have awaited for five long years, the story that bring together Spock -- the enigmatic Vulcan who personified the original, classic STAR TREK -- with the crew of the Next Generation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Screenwriter Teri Taylor brings all the excitement and wonder that have captivated fans of the smash television series STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATIONâ„¢ to this story of Spock''s forbidden journey into the heart of the Romulan Empire -- and the U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise''s\n  </em>\n  desperate attempts to discover the reasons for his mission there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Join now with Captain Picard, Lieutenant Commander Data, and the rest of the Next Generation crew on a voyage of unsurpassed adventure, a voyage that brings them to the edge of history -- and forces them to confront a shattering betrayal!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Picard and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM crew are sent to investigate what appears to be the defection of Ambassador Spock to Romulus. Captain Picard and Lt. Cmdr. Data disguise themselves as Romulans and are transported to Romulus. There they discover that Spock is actually attempting the reunification of Vulcan and Romulus, and working with a Romulan underground movement. Picard''s Romulan nemesis, Command Sela, reappears and captures the Starfleet officers and the ambassador, all as part of a plan to conquer Vulcan. The three must escape from their Romulan prison and foil the Sela''s plans for invasion.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8396'),
(10241, 'Uniform Justice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In *Uniform Justice*, a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Veniceâ€™s elite military academy. Brunettiâ€™s sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the truth. The young manâ€™s father is a doctor and former politician. He is a man of an impeccable integrity who inexplicably avoids talking to the police. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(10242, 'The Unincorporated Man', 'Dani Kollin; Eytan Kollin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The Unincorporated Man" is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed. Now the incredible has happened: a billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early twenty-first century, is discovered and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land. Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud. People will be arguing about this novel and this world for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(10243, 'Union Atlantic', 'Adam Haslett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte''s grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company''s struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte''s brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte''s intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread long after it causes a sensation this spring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(10244, 'The Union Club Mysteries', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four elderly gentlemen while away their time at their comfortable club telling pungent tales of mystery and intrigue\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9545'),
(10245, 'The Unit', 'Ninni Holmqvist; Marlaine Delargy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixtyâ€“single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industriesâ€“are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders. In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, andâ€¦well, then what?THE UNIT is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment, in which the â€œdispensableâ€ ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the â€œnecessaryâ€ ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2258'),
(10246, 'The United States Constitution', 'Madison, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the Federal Government of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government. The document defines the three main branches of the government: The legislative branch with a bicameral Congress, an executive branch led by the President, and a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court. Besides providing for the organization of these branches, the Constitution outlines obligations of each office, as well as provides what powers each branch may exercise. It also reserves numerous rights for the individual states, thereby establishing the United States'' federal system of government. It is the shortest and oldest written constitution of any major sovereign state.\n <br />\n The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention (or Constitutional Congress[citation needed]) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People"; it has since been amended twenty-seven times, the first ten amendments being known as the Bill of Rights. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was actually the first constitution of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation as the governing document for the United States after being ratified by nine states. The Constitution has a central place in United States law and political culture. The handwritten, or "engrossed", original document penned by Jacob Shallus is on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8856'),
(10247, 'UNIX Power Tools, 3rd Edition', 'Jerry Peek &amp; Shelley Powers &amp; Tim O&#39;Reilly &amp; Mike Loukides', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The latest edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD.\n <i>\n  Unix Power Tools\n </i>\n 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. Several sections focus on security and Internet access. There is a new chapter on access to Unix from Windows, and expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, as well as basic information on Perl and Python.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5890'),
(10248, 'The Unkindest Cut', 'Honor Hartman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Emma Diamond, a recent widow with a passion for bridge, takes a retreat to the Texas Hill Country with her friends. The trip proves to be quite a thrilling spectacle in ways they never anticipatedbecause its also playing host to two battling bridge instructors. These professional contenders are infamous enemies and only one will survive the weekend...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1604'),
(10249, 'An Unkindness of Ravens', 'Ruth Rendell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Rodney Williams''s disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.Â \n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5110'),
(10250, 'The Unknown Ajax', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Georgette Heyer Regency romance that takes a close look at the smuggling trade of the period, full of humor, and with a scene of family bonding and theatrics that readers will remember forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a Yorkshire cousin becomes heir to the noble Darracott name and fortune, he pretends to be the country bumpkin they''re all expecting. Then a family crisis thrusts Hugo into the role of an unlikely savior, and the family farce begins to unravel. But not before Hugo establishes himself as the undisputed head of the family, and his beautiful cousin Anthea discovers she''s met her match.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. She was born in Wimbledon in August 1902. She wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; it was published in 1921 and became an instant success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a barrister, and they had one son, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10158'),
(10251, 'Unknown Man #89', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the best in the business at finding people who don''t want to be found. Now he''s looking for a missing stockholder known only as "Unknown Man No. 89." But his missing man isn''t "unknown" to everyone: a pretty blonde hates his guts and a very nasty dude named Royal wants him dead in the worst way. Which is very unfortunate for Jack Ryan, who is suddenly caught in the crossfire of a lethal triple-cross and as much a target as his nameless prey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(10252, 'The Unknown Masterpiece', 'Honore De Balzac', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and perhaps of all time.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe hero of\n  <em>\n   The Unknown Masterpiece\n  </em>\n  , Frenhofer, is one of Balzacâ€™s archetypal artists. . .â€ â€”_TheWashington Post_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8373'),
(10253, 'Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership', 'Nancy Ortberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands" is an engaging and insightful look into the qualities, attributes, and practices that turn ordinary leaders into extraordinary ones. Nancy Ortberg''s unique twist on vision casting; managing tensions; nurturing healthy conflict; motivating those around you; fostering creativity, passion, and trust is unlike anything you''ve ever read before! At times challenging, at times candid, but always inspiring, "Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands" will bring out the best in even the most seasoned leaders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2874'),
(10254, 'Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing', 'Roger Rosenblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For more than forty years, distinguished author Roger Rosenblatt has also been a teacher of writing, guiding students with the same intelligence and generosity he brings to the page, answering the difficult questions about what makes a story good, an essay shapely, a novel successful, and the most profound and essential question of them allâ€”why write?   Unless It Moves the Human Heart details one semester in Rosenblatt''s "Writing Everything" class. In a series of funny, intimate conversations, a diverse group of studentsâ€”from Inur, a young woman whose family is from Pakistan, to Sven, an exâ€“fighter pilotâ€”grapples with the questions and subjects most important to narrative craft. Delving into their varied lives, Rosenblatt brings readers closer to them, emotionally investing us in their failures and triumphs.   More than a how-to for writers and aspiring writers, more than a memoir of teaching, Unless It Moves the Human Heart is a deeply felt and impassioned plea for the necessity of writing in our lives. As Rosenblatt wisely reminds us, "Writing is the cure for the disease of living. Doing it may sometimes feel like an escape from the world, but at its best moments it is an act of rescue."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5742'),
(10255, 'The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner&#39;s Semester at America&#39;s Holiest University', 'Kevin Roose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Like most college students, Kevin was eager for a semester abroad-a nice long break from all the beerpong, frat parties, gender-neutral bathrooms, cold pizza and mind-numbing sameness of life at Brown University, one of the most liberal colleges in the country and home to both a sizable chapter of the Young Communists League and the annual orgiastic party called SexPowerGod. Four months in Barcelona perhaps? Paris? Athens? No, everyone goes to those places. So Kevin searched for the most foreign place he could imagine and ended up right in America''s backyard. Liberty University is the late Rev. Jerry Falwell''s fundamentalist Christian version of West Point, a training ground for his coalition of hardcore conservative Christians. Falwell described his mission for Liberty as â€œtraining Champions for Christ.â€ Liberty''s 10,000 undergraduates learn everything-from Anthropology to Zoology-through a strict lens of Biblical literalism. They have majors in Evangelism and Worship Music, every professor is a born-again Christian (and was vetted for faith by Falwell himself), and their student code of conduct, called the Liberty Way, lays out a host of rules and regulations (i.e. no witchcraft allowed, period). Every spring break, they take a bus to Daytona Beach to convert the heathens. But Kevin did not go to poke fun at the students or the way of life there, far from it. He went there to try to get a better understanding of the people who are so similar and yet so different from him, to see if perhaps they have found a way to live that is more rewarding than his own. What begins as a journey to reveal what is actually going on at the nation''s largest Christian fundamentalist school ends up revealing more about Kevin than he could have possibly imagined. SUMMARY: No drinking.No smoking.No cursing.No dancing.No R-rated movies.Kevin Roose wasn''t used to rules like these. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days drinking fair-trade coffee, singing in an a cappella group, and fitting right in with Brown''s free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University, a conservative Baptist school in Lynchburg, Virginia, obedience is no longer optional.Liberty is the late Reverend Jerry Falwell''s "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, his training ground for the next generation of America''s Religious Right. Liberty''s ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101, hear from guest speakers like Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, and follow a forty-six-page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Hoping to connect with his evangelical peers, Roose decides to enroll at Liberty as a new transfer student, leaping across the God Divide and chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front lines of America''s culture war.His journey takes him from an evangelical hip-hop concert to choir practice at Falwell''s legendary Thomas Road Baptist Church. He experiments with prayer, participates in a spring break mission trip to Daytona Beach (where he learns to preach the gospel to partying coeds), and pays a visit to Every Man''s Battle, an on-campus support group for chronic masturbators. He meets pastors'' kids, closet doubters, Christian rebels, and conducts what would be the last print interview of Rev. Falwell''s life. Hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking, THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE will inspire and entertain believers and nonbelievers alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3005'),
(10256, 'The Unlikely Spy', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this debut novel, veteran journalist Silva mines the reliable territory of World War II espionage to produce a gripping, historically detailed thriller. In early 1944 the Allies were preparing their invasion of Normandy; critical to the invasion''s success was an elaborate set of deceptions--from phony radio signals to bogus airfields and barracks--intended to keep Hitler in the dark about when and where the Allied troops would arrive. Catherine Blake is the beautiful, ruthless spy who could bring the whole charade crashing down; Alfred Vicary is the brilliant but bumbling professor Churchill has tapped to protect the operation. Along with a teeming cast of other characters, real and fictional, they bring the chase to a furious and satisfying climax.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Will Nazi spies escape from Britain with Allied plans for the imminent invasion of Normandy? As history tells us, obviously not?so the challenge for veteran journalist and CNN producer Silva in his first novel is to brew up enough intrigue and tension to make readers forget the obvious. While Silva employs multiple characters and settings, his key players are an English counterintelligence officer and a beautiful Nazi spy. Alfred Vicary is an academic recruited to work for MI5. The intelligence reports he fabricates and sends to Germany are designed to persuade the Nazis that their utterly compromised spy network, the Abwehr, is still fully operational. MI5 learns, however, that the Abwehr has been keeping a few sleeper operatives under deep cover throughout the war. Now they pose a serious threat to the invasion plans. One of these operatives is Catherine Blake, a ruthless assassin and spy. Her assignment is to become romantically involved with Peter Jordan, an American engineer working on a top-secret D-Day project. Will Vicary be able to stop her? Silva''s characters are strong; but, despite occasional bursts of high suspense and a body count to remember, his overall pacing is uneven, and most readers won''t forget that D-Day succeeded. The final plot twist, moreover, while unpredictable, seems more logical than shocking. Silva''s debut will find an audience among devoted readers of WWII thrillers, and deservedly so, but he''s not yet on a par with such masters of the genre as Ken Follett, Robert Harris and Jack Higgins. 150,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC alternate selection; Reader''s Digest Condensed Book selection; simultaneous BDD audio; foreign rights to 16 countries; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6921'),
(10257, 'Unlocked', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10247'),
(10258, 'Unmasked', 'Ars Technica', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 20px; ">\n  Anonymous got lucky. When five of its hackers attacked security company HBGary Federal on February 6, 2011, they were doing so in order to defend the group''s privacy. It wasn''t because they hoped to reveal plans to attack WikiLeaks, create surveillance cells targeting pro-union organizations, and sell sophisticated rootkits to the US government for use as offensive cyber weapons--but that''s what they found.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  In the weeks after the attack, the hackers released tens of thousands of e-mail messages and made headlines around the world. Aaron Bar, the CEO of HBGary Federal, eventually resigned; 12 Congressman called for an investigation; an ethics complaint was lodged against a major DC law firm involved with some of the more dubious plans.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Join Ars'' editors as they dig into the secret world of Anonymous and hackers for hire in Unmasked.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7023'),
(10259, 'The Unnamed', 'Joshua Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, ageing with the grace of a matinÃ©e idol. He loves his work. He loves his family. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out on all of it. He cannot stop walking. And, as his body propels him relentlessly forward, deep into the unfamiliar outer reaches of the city, he begins to realise he is moving further and further from his old self, seemingly unable to turn back and retrieve what he has lost.In his extraordinary novel Joshua Ferris delineates with great tenderness and a rare and inimitable wit the devastating story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is torn away without explanation or warning. The Unnamed is no less than a shimmering reflection of our times, of the lives we aspire to and the terrifying realisation of what is beyond our control.''An even more ambitious and provocative novel than . . . Then We Came to the End'' Kirkus starred review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2998'),
(10260, 'Unnatural exposure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Returning home from Ireland, where she had been called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose body was marked by the signature of a cunning serial killer, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is shocked when another body turns up, this time in a Virginia landfill. Lit Guild, Doubleday, &amp; Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4110'),
(10261, 'The Unnatural Inquirer', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The engaging eighth book in Green''s popular offbeat Nightside series (after 2006''s Hell to Pay) drops another paranormal mystery in the lap of series hero John Taylor, a PI in the shadowy realm of Nightside. Pen Donavon, who claims to have a DVD depicting actual footage of the afterlife, has vanished shortly after signing an exclusive deal with the tabloid Unnatural Inquirer. Various factions seeking to control the Nightside are leaving a considerable body count behind as they hunt for him. Accompanied by sexy half-demon reporter Bettie Divine, Taylor navigates the treacherous terrain with his typical skill before tracking down the real force behind Donavon''s disappearance. Green skillfully blends action and humor, and shows no sign of running out of ideas. This installment will undoubtedly rope in new readers who enjoy his blend of dark humor and the supernatural.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor has another one of those days, beginning with a showdown at the defunct Nightside carnival between the Voodoo Apostate, the gods he tried to dominate, and Taylor. Next, a call from the editor of the Unnatural Enquirer asking Taylor to find a man who disappeared en route to deliver an afterlife recording he had just sold the rights to. Teamed with a half-succubus demon-girl reporter, Taylor visits the Nightsideâ€™s key players and politics as people jockey to replace the recently destroyed authorities. Meanwhile, some heavy-duty characters also seek the recording. More fast, fun, adventurous detection in a setting in which nearly anythingâ€™s possible. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5772'),
(10262, 'The Unofficial Harry Potter Encyclopedia: Harry Potter A - Z', 'Kristina Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Ultimate Reference for the Harry Potter Enthusiast! In depth and current overview of the characters in Harry''s World! Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels by English author J. K. Rowling about a teenage boy named Harry Potter. Since the release of her first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone in 1997, the books have gained enormous popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games and assorted merchandise. The Unofficial Harry Potter Encyclopedia: Harry Potter A - Z studies each character in Harry''s World from his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to Lord Voldemort to Professor Dumbledore. No Wizard, Witch or Muggle is to be missed in this encyclopedia of characters. Note: This book is an independent and unauthorized publication. It is not endorsed by J.K Rowling, her publishers, copyright or trademark holders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2972'),
(10263, 'Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader&#39;s Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line', 'Abby Johnson &amp; Cindy Lambert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Johnson quit her job as the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, the media went wild; lawsuits were filed; prolife advocates rejoiced. Now this former clinic director reveals the details of her dramatic move from abortion rights advocate to "the right side of the fence" and the prolife movement. Johnson began as a volunteer, moving through the ranks until becoming director of the Bryan, Tex., clinic. Then she witnessed an ultrasound-guided abortion, and she changed. "I was taking a new stand, beginning a new life," she says of her move to the other side. This emotional account reveals Johnson''s remarkable journey through prochoice thinking, two abortions, her love/hate relationship with prolife advocates outside the clinic, and her eventual understanding of abortion. Prolife advocates will salivate over her story, abortion rights advocates will be skeptical,but those who oppose abortion will find inspiration, education, and emotion. Johnson offers a well-planned, well-written account that will touch nerves on both sides of the issue. (Jan.) --Publishers Weekly Bookline, December 22, 2011\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in her first actual abortion procedure, walked across the road to join the Coalition for Life.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Unplanned\n  </em>\n  is a heartstopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and compassion into the political controversy that surrounds this issue. Telling Abbyâ€™s story from both sides of the abortion clinic property line, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the life versus rights debate and helping women who face crisis pregnancies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8394'),
(10264, 'The Unremembered: Book One of the Vault of Heaven', 'Peter Orullian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fresh, exciting epic fantasy debut, the first of The Vault of Heaven, a six-book series set on a fascinating world where evil creatures long kept at bay have suddenly begun to wreak havoc, and a young man must contend with the godling that commands the monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8474'),
(10265, 'Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they''re in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football u the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3409');
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(10266, 'The Unseen', 'Alexandra Sokoloff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Sokoloff''s serviceable supernatural thriller, two Duke University psychology professors, Laurel MacDonald and Brendan Cody, stumble on suppressed findings of an inquiry into poltergeist activity conducted under the auspices of Duke''s Rhine parapsychology lab nearly half a century earlier. All the participants appear to have died, disappeared or, in the case of Laurel''s enfeebled uncle, gone mad. Determined to advance their academic careers, the pair corral two students with strong paranormal potential to camp out at the spooky Folger House, site of the original experiment. No sooner do they begin their study than they''re confronted with uncanny phenomena that suggest they''ve awakened a malignant presence that pervades the house. Sokoloff (_The Price_) keep her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigators'' psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "THE UNSEEN takes you on a breathless ride you''ll never forget. Atmospheric, spooky, intense. The suspense starts on page one, tightening the noose on every page with increasing velocity to a stunning, fearsome climax. Ms. Sokoloff has created a chilling, fantastic supernatural thriller that will have you fearing what you can''t see." --Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of SUDDEN DEATH\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Price:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.â€\n <em>\n  ---The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning, riveting journey into terror and suspense.â€ ---Michael Palmer,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Second Opinion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s been a long, long time since a book scared, exhilarated, uplifted, frenzied, and made me green with jealousy. This is the book of 2008. It is beyond stunning. It is harrowing in the true sense of real art.â€ ---Ken Bruen, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Once Were Cops\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Harrowing _was immensely creepy and satisfying, a first novel and a wonderful book. Alex Sokoloff''s\n <em>\n  The Price\n </em>\n is another notch in this author''s golden belt---a psychological roller coaster that keeps the reader on edgeÂ with bone-chilling thrills throughout. I couldn''t put it down. Miss Sokoloff is an author not to be missed.â€ ---Heather Graham, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The SÃ©ance\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Sokoloff is simply amazing.â€_---Bookreporter.com_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n A sublime second novel . . . Rest assured that Sokoloff will suffer none of the signs or symptoms of a sophomore slump with this confident follow-up to her Stoker-nominated debut. . . .Â  Her gooseflesh-inducing imagery jumps right off the pages, and her rich, graceful prose calls to mind names like King, Saul, and Levin.â€\n <em>\n  ---Dark Scribe Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Sokoloffâ€™s straightforward writing style perfectly enhances her chilling and mysterious novel, in which she blurs the lines between what is real and what is merely a hallucination.â€\n <em>\n  ---Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5553'),
(10267, 'The Unsung Hero', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a near-fatal head injury, navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings. In a desperate, last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly war veterans, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton-the sweet "girl next door" who has grown into a remarkable woman. The town''s infamous bad boy, Tom has always longed for Kelly. Now he has one final chance for happiness, one last chance to win her heart, and one desperate chance to save the day . . . From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3829'),
(10268, 'The Unsuspecting Mage: The Morcyth Saga Book One', 'Brian S. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James, a high school senior, went looking for a job. But instead, embarks upon an adventure of a lifetime. Whisked unexpectedly to a world where magic works, he must learn to master its power, all the while searching for the meaning behind why he was brought there and what he must do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9256'),
(10269, 'Unsympathetic Magic', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the award-winning author of\n   <em>\n    Doppelgangster\n   </em>\n   comes the newest novel in the popular\n   <em>\n    Esther Diamond\n   </em>\n   series\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acting jobs don''t grow on fire escapes, so struggling actress Esther Diamond is outraged when her guest role as a hooker on controversial TV drama\n  <em>\n   The Dirty Thirty\n  </em>\n  is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse. But will Esther''s courage backfire and end up leading her to become a human sacrifice on the altar of the sinister supernatural powers that are taking over New York City?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5907'),
(10270, 'Untamed', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The House of Night:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just ask Zoey Redbird â€“ sheâ€™s become an undisputed expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a tight-knit group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast.Â  And the worst part is, she knows itâ€™s her own fault. Â Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead, unMarked, and unable to stop bickering with each other.Â  So who can blame her for befriending the House of Nightâ€™s newest transfer student, the majorly hot Olympic archer, James Stark? Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Neferet has declared a war on humans after it appears that the People of the Faith have murdered two vampyres. Â But Aphroditeâ€™s latest visions show a world completely different from the High Priestessâ€™s promises, a world full of violence, hatred, and darkness, all because of Zoeyâ€™s deathâ€”and the only way it seems she can prevent it from happening is to make things right with her friends. Â Zoey knows in her heart that fighting with humans is wrong. But will anyone listen to her?Â  Zoey''s adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast''s spellbinding fourth House of Night novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4496'),
(10271, 'Untamed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for The House of Night:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just ask Zoey Redbird â€“ sheâ€™s become an undisputed expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a tight-knit group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast.Â  And the worst part is, she knows itâ€™s her own fault. Â Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead, unMarked, and unable to stop bickering with each other.Â  So who can blame her for befriending the House of Nightâ€™s newest transfer student, the majorly hot Olympic archer, James Stark? Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Neferet has declared a war on humans after it appears that the People of the Faith have murdered two vampyres. Â But Aphroditeâ€™s latest visions show a world completely different from the High Priestessâ€™s promises, a world full of violence, hatred, and darkness, all because of Zoeyâ€™s deathâ€”and the only way it seems she can prevent it from happening is to make things right with her friends. Â Zoey knows in her heart that fighting with humans is wrong. But will anyone listen to her?Â  Zoey''s adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast''s spellbinding fourth House of Night novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8846'),
(10272, 'Until Dark', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sketch artist Kendra Smith, the heroine of Mariah Stewart''s (The President''s Daughter, etc.) Until Dark, has experienced more than her share of sorrow: her father died of cancer, her brother and cousin are presumed murdered and her mother recently committed suicide. Still, she agrees to lend her skills when her ex-boyfriend, Special Agent Adam Stark, asks for her aid in searching for the Soccer Mom Killer, who targets blonde single mothers. The sexual chemistry between Adam and Kendra simmers on the back burner as they work the case, which may disappoint those looking for more sparks. But when Ian''s watch shows up near one of the murder scenes and victims turn up bearing crosses and butterfly clips identical to the ones Kendra wears, tension of another sort heats up. Savvy readers may immediately suspect who the killer is, but this thriller packs a few extra punches for those who are overconfident in their powers of deduction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Romantic Times_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA heart-pounding book that had me enthralled from the first page to the last.â€\n <br />\n â€“CARLA NEGGERS\n <br />\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Harbor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5643'),
(10273, 'Until Proven Guilty', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œCredible and entertaining.â€ (Orlando Sentinel )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for J.A. Jance:â€œJance delivers a devilish page-turner.â€ (People )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBelievable and intense.â€ (West Coast Review of Books )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJ. P. Beaumont is a star attraction.â€ (Booklist )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSolid entertainment.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJanceâ€™s artistry keeps the reader guessing -- and caring.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJ.A. Jance does not disappoint her fans.â€ (Washington Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful, action-packed.â€ (Dallas Morning News )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTaut . . . entertaining.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The little girl was a treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered. She was only five-too young to die-and Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont of the Seattle Police Department isnâ€²t going to rest until her killer pays dearly. But Beaumontâ€²s own obsessions and demons could prove dangerous companions in a murky world of blind faith and religious fanaticism. And he is about to find out that he himself is the target of a twisted passion . . . and a love that can kill.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8782'),
(10274, 'Untouchable', 'Mulk Raj Anand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India''s caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country''s Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century''s most important Indian writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6998'),
(10275, 'The Untouchable', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville''s\n <em>\n  The Untouchable\n </em>\n concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom is not as important for Maskell as the larger question of who finally he himself really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of such exemplary works as Athena (LJ 5/1/95), Irishman Banville here takes on the juicy challenge of writing a spy novel and handles the assignment with far more grace and intelligence than even the best of that genre''s authors. Double-agent Victor Maskell wakes up one morning to discover that after years of informing on London for Moscow, someone has informed on him. To sort out what has happened, he begins a journal. What follows is the richly detailed account of a man who clearly had convictions but whose behavior remains an enigma throughout. As he recalls his Irish childhood, complete with pastor father, beloved stepmother, and retarded brother; his emotional entanglements with careless golden boy Nick and his sister, Baby, whom Victor quite oddly marries long before he realizes that he is gay; and his relations with a slew of hedonistic, upper-class Englishmen too incisively characterized to be mere types, Victor remains subtle, crusty, and tantalizingly out of reach. His story is so well told that why he spied?and who betrayed him?become secondary. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6509'),
(10276, 'The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carey, known for his quirkily skewed re-creations of Australian culture (Oscar and Lucinda; The Tax Collector), has outdone himself in this bizarre, uncannily strange dystopia about the life of a dwarf, who narrates the tale. Tristan Smith, born to an unmarried woman who runs a radical theater in a land called Effica, suffers from a facial disfigurement so severe that only his mother can look upon him without revulsion. His life as a child is unrelievedly sad until he discovers the various guises that theater can provide, which launches him into the vibrant world of his mother''s professional circle. A consistent theme-political, cultural and historical-is the position of Effica as an "Ootland" state, peripheral to the culture of faraway Voorstand, a kind of Anglo/Dutch hegemony whose world dominance in all things is beyond dispute, though not unchallenged by such underground dissidents as Tristan''s mother. And it is this depiction of an entire world culture-futuristic, in some respects fitted out with unfathomable features, such as a kind of mass-audience shadow play involving live actors and holograms, as well as familiar figures like Rimbaud and Baudelaire-that gives this novel its refreshingly improbable authenticity. When Tristan''s mother dies tragically, he falls in with a motley crew of her colleagues; together they embark on a secret mission to Voorstand, in search of his father, an Ootlander actor who has become famous by selling his soul to the Voorstand theater. The second half of the book details Tristan''s time on the run in Voorstand, where he finds spectacular renown in the guise of a famous folk figure, Bruder Mouse, whose battles with The Hairy Man are somehow central to Voorstander''s understanding of themselves. When he at last is, literally, unmasked, Tristan and his mates are charged with all manner of crimes of mispresentation by the state. Carey''s novel approach to the narrative-the entire tale is in the form of Tristan''s direct testimony to formal authorities of Voorstand culture-is brilliantly maintained throughout, and the fairy-tale quality of its figuration makes for a surpassingly rich feast of metaphors and mercurial meanings-George Orwell and Lewis Carroll wrapped into one. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carey creates a fully realized parallel universe in this unusual novel set in Efica, an island nation under the political and cultural domination of the larger Voorstand. Part Bildungsroman, part political allegory, and part meditation on identity, this novel traces the first 23 years of Tristan, its eponymous narrator, a hideously deformed dwarf and son of actress Felicity Smith (the head of a radical theater company and champion of Efican culture). In the novel''s first half, Tristan tells of his early adventures with the company, culminating with Felicity''s fatal foray into politics. In the second, he recounts his later travels in Voorstand in search of Bill Millefleur, an actor he believes to be his father. This inventive, multilayered work should only add to Carey''s already considerable reputation. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5161'),
(10277, 'The Unwanted', 'Brett Battles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jonathan Quinn, freelance operative and professional ''cleaner'', is on a mission in Ireland - purely as an observer - but things go wrong when a hidden assassin kills four men and suddenly Quinn has bodies to dispose of and a clue which is to lead him on an extraordinary odyssey to Africa and back. Along with his beautiful Vietnamese colleague, Orlando, Quinn is charged with finding a disappeared UN aide worker and the child she is protecting. But as soon as he finds her, she flees - and Quinn and Orlando become involved in a terror plot so insidious that it could change the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(10278, 'Up &amp; Out', 'Ariella Papa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rebecca Cole thought she was on track. As the creator and producer of the children''s television show\n  <em>\n   Esme''s Enlightenments,\n  </em>\n  she was following her dream and plotting new adventures for her beloved character, a 12-year-old girl with spunk and sass. Enter Indiana Mutual, the bank that buys out the television company. Worse yet is Delores, a pint-size boss from hell who micromanages and wrests creative control over\n  <em>\n   Esme\n  </em>\n  from Rebecca, then fires her. Her roommate and best friend, Lauryn, has taken off for Martha''s Vineyard, so Rebecca has no choice but to give up their expensive apartment and move back in with her ex-boyfriend, with whom she still occasionally sleeps. She tries to move on, but the most promising candidate turns out to be a cad. To make matters even worse, Rebecca and her three best friends are drifting apart. Papa''s entertaining second novel is ideal reading for women in their twenties and thirties who are still struggling to find their niches in life.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How long does it take to go from It Girl to on the dole?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  TV producer Rebecca Cole has seen better days. Like the day her cartoon creation, Esme, made her a hit and scored her a promotion.\n  <em>\n   That\n  </em>\n  was a good day. But now that her roommate has decided to heed her therapist and appreciate the simpler things in life -- outside of New York City -- and a corporate takeover at her network has left Rebecca jobless, this food snob has to find a way to afford her rent and her penchant for fine dining. Oh, and she really should start saying no to the break-up sex with her ex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Surely Rebecca will be able to draw herself out of this mess, and maybe even find a way to eat well in the process?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5516'),
(10279, 'Up Against It', 'M. J. Locke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System''s frontier. They''re your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes that are the million eyes of ''Stroiders, a reality-TV show whose Earthside producers have paid handsomely for the privilege of spying on every detail of the Phocaeans'' lives. Life isnâ€™t as good as it seems, though. A mysterious act of sabotage kills Geoff''s brother Carl and puts the entire colony at risk. And in short order, we discover that the whole thing may have been cooked up by the Martian mafia, as a means of executing a coup and turning Phocaea into a client-state. As if that wasn''t bad enough, there''s a rogue AI that was spawned during the industrial emergency and slipped through the distracted safeguards, and a giant x-factor in the form of the Viridians, a transhumanist cult that lives in Phocaea''s bowels.In addition to Geoff, our story revolves around Jane, the colony''s resource manager -- a bureaucrat engineer in charge of keeping the plumbing running on an artificial island of humanity poised on the knife-edge of hard vacuum and unforgiving space. She''s more than a century old, and good at her job, but she is torn between the technical demands of the colony and the political realities of her situation, in which the fishbowl effect of ''Stroiders is compounded by a reputation economy that turns every person into a beauty contest competitor.Â  Her manoeuverings to keep politics and engineering in harmony are the heart of the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6186'),
(10280, 'Up Country', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Up Country\n </em>\n , Nelson DeMille cannily revives the army career of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the cynical, hardworking Criminal Investigation Division man who was forcibly retired after solving the high-profile killing in __. Brenner''s called back to investigate the murder of a young army lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during the heat of the Tet Offensive, and the only living witness was a North Vietnamese soldier who described the incident in a 30-year-old letter that has only recently come to light. Soon Brenner, a Vietnam vet, is on an ostensible nostalgia tour of his old stomping grounds. The trip immediately turns dangerous as he heads "up country" to search for the letter writer, accompanied by a gorgeous American businesswoman, who''s hiding more than even the smartest CID officer could imagine.\n</p>\n<p>\n DeMille, who saw his own tour of duty in Vietnam (and even found a letter on a dead Vietnamese soldier), intersperses historical facts and chilling political possibilities with enough local color to provide some serious flashbacks for his fellow veterans. To non-vets the book may seem very long, but the payoff at the end is worth a couple hundred extra pages.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n That DeMille has written a sequel to The General''s Daughter comes as no surprise; after all, that''s arguably his best-known novel because of the hit film version starring John Travolta. Nor is it surprising that he''s set this sequel in Vietnam; returning hero Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, Ret., served two stints there during the war, and DeMille himself not only saw action in Nam but returned in 1997 for an extended visit. What is curious, and relatively unfortunate, is that the long narrative focuses so much on travelogue instead of intrigue and action; it''s as if DeMille, a wickedly fine thriller writer, has been possessed by the soul of James Michener. Still, the overarching story line captivates, as Brenner agrees to return to Vietnam to track down a Vietnamese witness to a 30-year-old unprosecuted crime, in which a U.S. Army captain murdered an army lieutenant and plundered some treasure. Joined by beautiful Susan Weber, who says she''s an American expat businesswoman doing a favor for the U.S. government, Brenner travels to the little village where the witness may still live; along the way, the pair flirt, sightsee, visit a nude beach, sightsee, have sex, sightsee, and talk a lot. The sightseeing carries serious emotional impact as Brenner processes his wartime past and Vietnam''s present, and it carries serious risk, as Colonel Mang of the secret police tracks Brenner''s and Susan''s movements. There''s some violence as the two Americans elude Mang and his minions, and a melodramatic finale as Brenner realizes just who the murderous captain now is, and some dramatic suspense as Brenner peels away layers of Susan''s identity covers. And then there''s blasted, resilient Vietnam, which DeMille captures expertly, in all its anguished pride. With a film version in development at Paramount and the Warner publicity machine working at top gear, expect this engrossing but not exceptional novel to shoot to the top. 15-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7114'),
(10281, 'Up from Earth&#39;s Center', 'Kenneth Robeson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2989'),
(10282, 'Up in a Heaval', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Spot of Trouble An innocent piece of Mundane Snail Mail has provoked the dreaded Demon Jupiter to hurl his Red Spot at the magical land of Xanth. As the dire Dot draws closer, the unwelcome ordeal of saving the enchanted realm falls to Umlaut, an unlikely lad with an unknown past and an uncertain future. With a handful of colorful companions at his side, Umlaut must unravel a high-stakes intergalactic puzzle, uncover the secret of his mysterious past, and learn to understand the urgings of his own heart. It might have been the merest chance that brought Umlaut to Castle Zombie that morning and launched him on a harrowing adventure. But in the magical land of Xanth, things are seldom left to chance, and adventures lurk around every corner. An unassuming young man with a uncanny knack for attracting lovely young ladies and an uncommon talent for emulating anyone he wished, Umlaut was forced to flee a flock of overly friendly females by disguising himself as a Zombie girl. In his haste to find a hiding place, he found himself face-to-face with a dreadful dragon and feared he would soon meet his end. But in Xanth, things are seldom exactly as they seem, and he soon discovered that the dragon was really a sinuous female sea serpent named Sesame, with a gift similar to his own, who had become accidentally entrapped in the Castle''s dungeon. When the two happen upon a packet of mail from Earth delivered by mischance to the Zombie King, they inadvertently set in motion a sinister scheme that could spell the end of Xanth. A letter they forward to the Demon Jupiter unexpectedly enrages him, causing him to send his own Red Spot hurtling toward Xanth. Soon everything is up in a heaval, for no one knows how to avert this interplanetary peril. Even the Good Magician Humfrey is baffled, for some strange force has obscured the future. In desperation, he instructs Umlaut and Sesame to deliver the remaining letters to their far-flung recipients, in the faint hope that this may somehow stop the Spot. As they set out on their appointed rounds, Umlaut and Sesame are soon joined by two feline friends, Jenny Elf''s companion, Sammy Cat, and a lovely, prescient creature named Claire Voyant who can sometimes see the future. Beguiled and bedeviled by the delicious Demoness Metria, who uses her shapely assets to distract him from his goal, Umlaut leads his allies on an unforgettable odyssey to the farthest reaches of the enchanted realm, from the submicroscopic Nth Moon of Ida, and the home of all dreams and nightmares, to the unmagical land of Euphoria, where he meets a sweet and sprightly young girl named Surprise who captures his heart. But before Umlaut can complete his quest and return to his beloved, he must unravel the unfathomable puzzle of his own existence, which is somehow inextricably entwined with the fate of Xanth. A satisfyingly suspenseful tale filled with mystery, magic, and merriment, Up in a Heaval is exciting and entertaining fantasy adventure from the pen of a master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3280'),
(10283, 'Up in Honey&#39;s Room', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the waning days of WWII, bestseller Leonard''s disappointing 40th novel finds gunslinging U.S. marshal Carl Webster, introduced in 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Hot Kid\n </em>\n , on the trail of Jurgen Schrenk and Otto Penzler, German POWs escaped from their Okmulgee, Okla., detention camp. The pair wind up in Detroit in the care of Walter Schoen, a butcher and Himmler look-alike, with whose ex-wife, wisecracking bottle-blonde Honey Deal, Carl soon finds himself smitten. While married Carl contemplates breaking his marriage vows (Honey does anything but dissuade him), Otto disappears and a dysfunctional German spy ringâ€”led by hard-drinking Vera Mezwa and her cross-dressing manservant, Bohdanâ€”cozies up with Jurgen. Vera and Bohdan, meanwhile, are secretly planning to disappear, but Bohdan wants to put in the ground anyone who could later give them up to the Feds. Leonard''s writingâ€”line by lineâ€”is as sharp as ever, but the plotting is uncharacteristically clunky and the pacing is stuck in low gear. Leonard has written a lot of great books, but this isn''t one of them.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though in his 80s, Elmore Leonard proves, in his 40th-something novel and sequel to\n <em>\n  The Hot Kid\n </em>\n , that he''s still at the top of his game. As in previous novels, character dominates plot: "What happens next is not really the point," notes the\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n . Critics particularly praised the wonderful interaction between Carl and Honey, the crisp dialogue, and the chaotic threads that meld together into a coherent whole. The lack of narration, however, threw off a few critics, as did some exaggerated details and Carl''s relatively uninteresting personality (he''s now married, after all). But in the end, "_Up in Honey''s Room_ is a perfect example of a master storyteller spinning a tall one" (_Philadelphia Inquirer_). And, perhaps, a movie script.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9196'),
(10284, 'Up in the Air', 'Walter Kirn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ryan Binghamâ€™s job as a Career Transition Counselorâ€“he fires peopleâ€“has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls â€œAirworld,â€ finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his bossâ€™s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate. With perception, wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the psychic costs of our rootless existence, and confirms Walter Kirn as one of the most savvy chroniclers of American life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3237'),
(10285, 'The Uplift War', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Brin''s Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin''s tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from one of today''s science fiction greats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10429'),
(10286, 'The Upside Of Irrationality', 'Dan Ariely', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The provocative follow-up to the *New York Times* bestseller *Predictably Irrational* Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we *think* will make us happy and what *really* makes us happy? In his groundbreaking book *Predictably Irrational*, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in *The Upside of Irrationality*, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job, how one unwise action can become a long-term habit, how we learn to love the ones we''re with, and more. Drawing on the same experimental methods that made *Predictably Irrational* one of the most talked-about bestsellers of the past few years, Ariely uses data from his own original and entertaining experiments to draw arresting conclusions about howâ€”and whyâ€”we behave the way we do. From our office attitudes, to our romantic relationships, to our search for purpose in life, Ariely explains how to break through our negative patterns of thought and behavior to make better decisions. *The Upside of Irrationality* will change the way we see ourselves at work and at homeâ€”and cast our irrational behaviors in a more nuanced light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1000'),
(10287, 'UR', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4314'),
(10288, 'Urban Shaman', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/847'),
(10289, 'Use of Weapons', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances'' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.  It had once saved the woman''s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner.  It believed the man to be a lost cause.  But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6685'),
(10290, 'Utopia', 'Isaac Asimov - Caliban3 - Utopia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9550'),
(10291, 'V.', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, "V." remains a popular literary classic by one of America''s great modernists. "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century."-- "Atlantic Review" "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." "--Atlantic Review" "Filled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power." "--Philadelphia Inquirer"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3943'),
(10292, 'Vacuum Diagrams', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov''s classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time.Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed and accomplished of a brilliant new generation of authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking itto a new golden age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4227'),
(10293, 'Vagabonding: an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel', 'Rolf Potts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal lifeâ€”from six weeks to four months to two yearsâ€”to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:â€¢ financing your travel time â€¢ determining your destination â€¢ adjusting to life on the roadâ€¢ working and volunteering overseas â€¢ handling travel adversity â€¢ re-assimilating back into ordinary lifeNot just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding communityâ€™s hub at www.vagabonding.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3360'),
(10294, 'Valdez Is Coming', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man''s woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(10295, 'Vale of the Vole', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions--a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower Called Volney--to search Xanth''s treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious Vale of the Vole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3279'),
(10296, 'Valediction', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn''t afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn''t want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man''s bullet is wearing Spenser''s name. But Boston''s big boys don''t know Spenser''s ready and willing to meet death more than halfway. "Tough, wisecracking, unafraid and unexpectedly literate --in many respects the very exemplar of the species." (The New York Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4008'),
(10297, 'Valediction (1984)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10545'),
(10298, 'Valhalla Rising', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past and the future collide in this "New York Times" bestseller. Confronting an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient, NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt treads upon territory previously known only to legend as he investigates the sinking of a luxury cruise ship, the "Emerald Dolphin." Valhalla Rising, the national bestseller by Clive Cussler, is the 16th entry in the Dirk Pitt series. "Clive Cussler has no equal," writes Publishers Weekly, and he proved it again with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his number-one bestselling Atlantis Found. Fans wanted to know how he could possibly top it-and the answer is Valhalla Rising. It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn''t the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him. Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. And, at the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt''s own life that will be changed forever. . . . Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, Valhalla Rising is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1098');
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(10299, 'The Valiant', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three hundred years ago, the\n  <em>\n   S.S. Valiant\n  </em>\n  was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the\n  <em>\n   Valiant\n  </em>\n  had perished with all hands aboard, until a pair of unusual humanoids arrive at Starbase 209, claiming to be the descendants of a handful of\n  <em>\n   Valiant\n  </em>\n  survivors who found refuge on an M-Class planet beyond the Barrier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even more shocking, the visitors warn that a hostile alien species, the Nuyyad, are preparing to invade our galaxy. Uncertain of how much of the strangers'' story to believe, Starfleet orders the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Stargazer\n  </em>\n  to investigate at once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Commander Jean-Luc Picard is second officer on the\n  <em>\n   Stargazer.\n  </em>\n  A young man who has yet to command a vessel of his own, he soon develops a special bond with one of the visitors, a strikingly beautiful woman who has inherited mysterious psychic abilities from her alleged Starfleet ancestors. But can Picard truly trust her?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His doubts deepen when the\n  <em>\n   Stargazer\n  </em>\n  is ambushed by Nuyyad warships, leaving the captain dead and the first officer incapacitated. Picard suddenly finds himself in command -- and facing immediate danger. Trapped on the wrong side of the Barrier, cut off from Starfleet, he must now rely on questionable allies and a crew uncertain of his abilities. And not only the\n  <em>\n   Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  but perhaps the entire Federation, may depend on the decisions he must make.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Valiant\n  </em>\n  is a gripping saga that explores an untold chapter in the life of Jean-Luc Picard -- and reveals the making of a captain!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of numerous bestselling\n  <em>\n   Star TrekÂ®\n  </em>\n  novels, including\n  <em>\n   Reunion, Kahless, Planet X,\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Brother''s Keeper\n  </em>\n  trilogy. He also recently co-developed the Double Helix miniseries for Pocket Books, and was formerly the writer of DC Comics'' monthly\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next GenerationÂ®\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in Port Washington, New York, with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4686'),
(10300, 'Valis', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of Americaâ€™s history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s &amp; 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dickâ€™s final years, when religious revelation, always important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme. In A Maze of Death (1970), a darkly speculative mystery that foreshadows Dickâ€™s final novels, colonists on the planet Delmak-O try to determine the nature of the Godâ€”or â€œMentufacturerâ€â€”who plots their destiny. The late masterpiece VALIS (1981) is a novelistic reworking of â€œthe events of 2-3-74,â€ when Dickâ€™s life was transformed by what he believed was a mystical revelation. It is a harrowing self-portrait of a man torn between conflicting interpretations of what might be gnostic illumination or psychotic breakdown. The Divine Invasion (1981), a sequel to VALIS, is a powerful exploration of gnostic insight and its human consequences. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Dickâ€™s last novel, is by turns theological thriller, roman Ã  clef, and disenchanted portrait of late 1970s California life, based loosely on the controversial career of Bishop James Pikeâ€”a close friend and kindred spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3772'),
(10301, 'The valkyries: an encounter with angels', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted by a devastating curse, Coelho confesses to J., "I''ve seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them." In response, J. gives Coelho a daunting task: He must find and speak with his guardian angel. "The curse can be broken," he replies, "if you complete the task." Rising to the challenge, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, drop everything, pack their bags, and take off on a forty day adventure into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert -- where they encounter more than they bargained for. A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and magical storytelling, for which Coelho''s fictional works are renowned, this true-life account is at once a modern-day adventure and a metaphysical odyssey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3836'),
(10302, 'The Valley of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing could be more exciting than a night flight on Billâ€™s plane! But Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack soon find themselves flying straight into a truly amazing adventure. What has happened to Bill? Who are the two strange pilots, and what is the secret treasure hidden in the lonely valley where the children land?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(10303, 'The valley of bones', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(10304, 'The Valley Of Fear', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9365'),
(10305, 'The Valley of Horses: A Novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals donâ€™t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8121'),
(10306, 'Valley of silence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The battleground has been chosen for the final showdown between those selected by the gods and the minions of the vampire Lilith. But there is one vampire who dares stand against her. And his love for the scholarly queen of Geall will complete the circle of six-and change the face of eternity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2589'),
(10307, 'The vampire Armand', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classicInterview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood--a ruined city under Mongol dominion--and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today''s New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(10308, 'Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend', 'Mark Collins Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mark Jenkins''s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. In "Vampire Forensics, " Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend to tease out the historical truths enshrined in the tales of terror: sherds of Persian pottery depicting blood-sucking demons; the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic archaeologist Matteo Borrini of a 16th-century Venetian grave of a plague victim and suspected vampire; and the Transylvanian castle of "Vlad the Impaler," whose bloodthirsty cruelty remains unsurpassed. Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, psychology, and science sure to engross everyone from Anne Rice''s countless readers to serious students of archaeology and mythology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2767'),
(10309, 'The Vampire Hunter the Vampire Hunter the Vampire Hunter', 'Lisa Childs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hunter Liam McKiernan would do anything to lure vampire Jennifer Williams into his trap--even use her sister, Eve, against her. It was only fitting since he believed Jennifer killed his brother. But when he finally caught up with her, Jennifer was not the cold-hearted creature he expected. She was beautiful, warm...and lonely. Liam couldn''t resist the urge to protect her--and the desire to make love to her.But a member of the Secret Vampire Society "had" killed Liam''s brother--a vampire who also wanted Jennifer himself....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2530'),
(10310, 'The Vampire Lestat', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in **Interview with the Vampire**, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall.  With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of **Interview with the Vampire** and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.  And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years'' sleep,  and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions.  And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors.  We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent.  We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule.  And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed.  Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat''s vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(10311, 'Vampire Mine', 'Kerrelyn Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nothing on earth can make this vampire fall in love . . .   After 499 years of existence, Connor Buchanan has arrived at an inescapable conclusion: he is a cold-hearted SOB. He''s been watching his friendsâ€”those poor romantic foolsâ€”plummet off the cliff into love like a dazed herd of sheep. But not Connor. He knows that love leads to nothing but heartache.   Until Marielle . . .   She is an angel cast down from heaven for disobedience. Trapped in mortal form, she finds a protector in Connor, a Scottish vampire haunted by a dark past. Marielle hopes to heal his broken heart and earn her way back home, but suddenly she has these . . . feelings. This strange yet pleasant physical yearningâ€”for a vampire! Is this the work of a demon luring her into hell, or has this angel found heavenly bliss?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7819'),
(10312, 'Vampire Trinity', 'Joey W. Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Vampire hunter Gideon Green never intended to become a vampire''s servant. But when Anwyn, a woman with whom he shared an unforgettable night, is turned by a vampire pack, Gideon is forced into an uneasy alliance with one of the most terrifying vampires he''s ever encountered: the mysterious Daegan Rei. Daegan has a vested interest in Anwyn. As Gideon and Daegan shepherd Anwyn through her dangerous validation with the Vampire Council, it''s clear they must learn to trust each other. But as boundaries erode, Gideon realizes he has become irreversibly changed-by a bond with the two people in his life he can''t survive without: vampires.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1705'),
(10313, 'The Vampire&#39;s Assistant', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What if you were an unwilling vampire? You needed to drink human blood to stay alive, but you weren''t some horror-flick villain; you were\n <em>\n  you\n </em>\n , born human--a nice person, even. Thus is the dilemma of the young narrator-protagonist, Darren Shan, in this tremendously suspenseful, oft-sickening sequel to __. In the first book, Darren becomes a vampire''s assistant to save the life of his friend Steve. In order to do so, he has to fake his death, get buried alive, and head out--half-human, homeless, and friendless--into the world.\n <em>\n  The Vampire''s Assistant\n </em>\n chronicles his new lonely life as a half-vampire, pumped with the cursed blood of his vampire guardian, Mr. Crepsley. Darren has much to learn about his freshly supernatural state. He doesn''t grow fangs, for instance, like he thought he might. And he can''t change shape or fly. Garlic just gives vampires bad breath... And they eat bagels. Some of the hardest lessons of all come when he joins the traveling freak show Cirque Du Freak, the show that got him and Steve in trouble in the first place. Readers won''t be disappointed by this fast-paced, gory, but strangely amiable sequel. In fact, the plot is much better paced than the first and the dialogue far more natural. Deadly pythons, a snake boy, Cormac Limbs (bite off his finger and it grows back!), and an entire cast of dreadfully creepy characters offer excitement beyond expectation. Along the way, we come to really like Darren, who will do absolutely anything for a friend. British author Darren Shan promises more adventures in 2002. (Ages 10 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In The Vampire''s Assistant, the second installment of the series begun with Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, the hero returns to the old-fashioned freak show where, thanks to Mr. Crespley, he became a "half-vampire." Darren once again struggles against the urge to feed upon the human blood his health requires.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4384'),
(10314, 'Vampire$', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vampires is about a tightly knit group of professional vampire killers. They may say they''re in it for the money, but their death-defying bravado and warm male friendships are as intense as those in any soldier-hero epic. The irrepressible, foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin'' Jack Crow--decked out in high-tech chain mail and wielding a fearsome crossbow--is the leader of the bunch. He''s the sort of man who screams obscenities at the pope, and then (after a lot of booze) weeps in the pontiff''s lap over the horrors he''s witnessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2382'),
(10315, 'Vanished', 'Joseph Finder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lauren Heller and her husband, Roger, are out to dinner one night when they''re brutally attacked. Twenty-four hours later, Lauren awakes in the hospital to find that Roger has mysteriously "VANISHED"The only one with any chance of finding Roger is his brother, Nick. A private spy trained in the Special Forces, Nick Heller specializes in digging up secrets that those of influence would rather keep hidden. He and Roger have been estranged for years, ever since a bitter scandal tore their family apart. But Nick will do anything to protect Lauren and his nephew--even if it means taking on the most lethal enemy he''s ever faced."An Action-packed, full-throttle...read-it-tonight thriller that you definitely shouldn''t miss."--Lee Child Plunged headlong into a desperate chase, Nick begins making shocking discoveries about Roger''s life--and his own. As he finds himself embroiled in a very personal, high-stakes investigation, Nick must take on a powerful and deadly conspiracy that will stop at nothing--and spare no one--to protect its secrets... "A HUMDINGER...TAUT ACTION SCENES." --"Washington"" Post""""Lots of unpredictable plot twists and a furious pace." --"San Francisco"" Chronicle""""lightning-paced from the first page to the last. "--"Providence"" Journal"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2329'),
(10316, 'The Vanished Man', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protÃ©gÃ©e Amelia Sachs are called in to work the high-profile investigation of a killer who seemingly disappeared into thin air just as the police closed in. As the homicidal illusionist baits them with grisly murders that grow more diabolical with each victim, Rhyme and Sachs must go behind the smoke and mirrors to prevent a horrific act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1953'),
(10317, 'Vanishing Acts', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1656'),
(10318, 'Vanishing Point', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Area 51: America''s top-secret advanced military testing ground, hidden away in the Nevada desert, where the awesome weapons of tomorrow are being developed. But a mole inside the impregnable facility has been leaking highly advanced killing technology to America''s worst enemies . . . who intend to turn its destructive power on an unsuspecting nation before the day is out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Agent Jack Bauer has a mere twenty-four hours to derail a horrific plot, as a deadly endgame takes shape in the neon glare of nearby Las Vegas. But to do so, the rogue CTU operative will have to lead an impossible assault on Area 51 itselfâ€”and expose a lethal string of betrayal and corruption that leads from the terrorists to the underworld and all the way into the heart of the U.S. government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n <em>\n  The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n </em>\n and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n <em>\n  The Ultimate Escape\n </em>\n for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n <em>\n  The Tom Clancy Companion\n </em>\n . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n <em>\n  Wolverine: Weapon X\n </em>\n , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n </em>\n , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n <em>\n  The Official Godzilla Compendium\n </em>\n . Marc''s other credits include the book\n <em>\n  24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n </em>\n , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n <em>\n  24 Declassified\n </em>\n novels\n <em>\n  Operation Hell Gate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trojan Horse\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vanishing Point\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6822'),
(10319, 'The Vanishing Tower', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elric of MelnibonÃ¨, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K''aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World''s Edge, the golden-skinned Kelmain hordes, King Urish the Seven-fingered with his great cleaver Hackmeat, the Burning God, the Sighing Desert, and the terrible stone-age men of Pio. Although Elric holds within him a destiny greater than he could ever know, and controls the hellsword Stormbringer, stealer of souls, his task looks hopeless - until he encounters Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, the sleeping sorceress...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2700'),
(10320, 'Vanity Fair', 'William Makepeace Thackeray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic by William Thackeray. "If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4332'),
(10321, 'The Vaults', 'Toby Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city''s darkest secret.At the height of the most corrupt administration in the Cityâ€™s history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults---a cavernous hall containing all of the municipal criminal justice records of the last seventy years. From here, the story follows: Arthur Puskis, the Vaultâ€™s sole, hermit-like archivist with an almost mystical faith in a system to which he has devoted his life; Frank Frings, a high-profile investigative journalist with a self-medicating reefer habit; and Ethan Poole, a socialist private eye with a penchant for blackmail. All three men will undertake their own investigations into the dark past and uncertain future of the City---calling into question whether their most basic beliefs can be maintained in a climate of overwhelming corruption and conspiracy Toby Ball''s imagined city is a fever dream in which virtue barely survives the corruption all around it." -Justin Evans, author of A GOOD AND HAPPY CHILD "If George Orwell and Dashiell Hammett have ever decided to collaborate on a book, they might have come up with something like The Vaults. A wonderful debut from a writer to watch." -Michael Harvey, The Chicago Way"With a Kafka-esque view filtered through a Jasper Fforde lens, Toby Ball gives us the gray terror of Any City in Any Unnamed Year that could reach from 1930 to today, and reminds us, once again, of the important of vigilance and the danger of Big Boss rule. Masterfully created."-Louise Ure, Shamus Award-winning author of Liars â€œBall has conjured a fully-evoked world in his nameless city that, for all its 1930s trappings, retains that surreal and timeless atmosphere of Gotham, BRAVE NEW WORLD, and 1984. A provocative and dazzling debut.â€ - Blake Crouch, author of Abandon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4126'),
(10322, 'Vector Prime', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifty-seven years have passed since the events of\n  <em>\n   Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  , 25 since\n  <em>\n   A New Hope\n  </em>\n  , and 21 since the Empire''s final defeat over Endor. The still-fragile New Republic, rocked by internal conflict, now faces a potentially overwhelming challenge from beyond the known galaxy: the Yuuzhan Vong, a sinister race of warriors using highly advanced (and creepy) organic "devices" and vehicles, whose immense strength and technological edge lets them fight toe to toe with Jedi. And who better to flesh out these powerful and malevolent aliens, so dismissive and disdainful of humanity, than R.A. Salvatore, the author who almost single-handedly popularized Dungeons and Dragons'' equally awful bad guys, the Drow, with his Drizzt Do''Urden books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In kicking off Del Rey''s five-year\n  <em>\n   New Jedi Order\n  </em>\n  story arc, Salvatore must endure the predictable hazing of any new\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  author. But an accomplished storyteller backed by legions of fans, the Dark Elf author proves to be up to the task and thankfully sensitive to the well-loved characters he''s borrowing time with.\n  <em>\n   Vector Prime\n  </em>\n  sets up the early stages of the covert Praetorite Vong invasion, giving us a closeup glimpse of this nefarious new race and following our heroes'' attempts to combat them. Luke struggles with whether to revive the Jedi Council; Mara still fights her deadly disease; Lando is back helping Han, Chewie, and Leia; and Leia and Solo''s kids finally come into their own. Prepare yourself, though, for when a major, beloved character gets ceremoniously smushed. (Although we''ve seen Boba Fett come back from worse.... )\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-one years have passed since the heroes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, breaking the power of the Emperor. Since then, the New Republic has valiantly struggled to maintain peace and prosperity among the peoples of the galaxy. But unrest has begun to spread and threatens to destroy the Republic''s tenuous reign.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Into this volatile atmosphere comes Nom Anor, a charismatic firebrand who heats passions to the boiling point, sowing seeds of dissent for his own dark motives. And as the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces from beyond the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim--an enemy bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suddenly, Luke Skywalker; his wife, Mara; Han Solo; Leia Organa Solo; and Chewbacca--along with the Solo children--are thrust again into battle, to defend the freedom so many have fought and died for. But this time, the power of the Force itself may not be enough . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11193'),
(10323, 'Veganomicon', 'Moskowitz, Isa Chandra &amp; Romero, Terry Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10432'),
(10324, 'Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz &amp; Terry Hope Romero', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. While most vegan cookbooks are anemic, underfed volumes-some no-brainer pasta recipes, a few things to do with tofu, maybe some oddball desserts-this slam-bang effort from vegan chefs Moskowitz and Romero (Vegan with a Vengeance) is thorough and robust, making admirable use of every fruit and vegetable under the sun, without once asking readers to make do with fake meat products and egg replacements. Instead, the eccentric authors offer dozens of novel, delicious ways to get excited about eating meat-, dairy- and egg-free. Take Southwestern Corn Pudding, a winning casserole rich with coconut milk and an unexpected dash of maple syrup-a likely MVP at your next Thanksgiving (whether it''s centered around turkey or tofu). Almost as addictive are Rustic White Beans and Mushrooms, which get their bite from fresh herbs, and Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions and Spiced Pita Crisps, a transcendent Middle Eastern comfort food. Vegan breakfasts get overdue attention: sitting in front of a hot stack of velvety Blueberry Corn Pancakes and hearty Blue Flannel Hash, who''s going to miss the bacon? Best of all is the wide selection of terrific desserts: everything from Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies to decadent Caramel-Apple-Spice Cupcakes boldy fill the space where most eggless, milkless and butterless cookbooks fear to tread.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    VegNews\n   </em>\n   , December 2010\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Isa Moskowitz names â€œFavorite Cookbook Authorâ€Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    San Francisco Chronicle\n   </em>\n   , 12/12/07\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "[This] unassuming book is full of recipes for which even a carnivore would give up a night of meat."\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Curve\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œEver the clever wits, Moskowitz and Romero make gourmet vegan cooking accessible inÂ _Veganomicon_. Youâ€™ll love the menu suggestions at the back of the book and the massive index rivaling that of theÂ _Joy of Cooking_.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Louisville Courier-Journal\n   </em>\n   , 12/3/08\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œThe tone throughout is upbeat and amusing, especially in the frequent sidebars, which are practical, chatty and engaging without being cutesy.â€\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Washington Times\n   </em>\n   , 9/23\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œ[A] must have.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gwyneth Paltrow on Goop.com, 2/4/10\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œThis cookbook takes the scariness out of veganâ€¦The recipes are easy for new cooks to use and the book is user-friendly.â€Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland Oregonianâ€™s\n   </em>\n   FOODday blog, 2/3/10\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œHighly regarded.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Indianapolis Star\n   </em>\n   , 3/10/10\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œChickpea cutlets, from_Veganomicon_, are unusually satisfying.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DKMommySpot.com, 4/28/10\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œVery likely the mother of all vegan cookbooksâ€¦A vegetarian chefâ€™s idea of perfect reading material. The bookâ€™s nearly 300 pages are filled with hundreds of recipes, cooking advice, ingredient info, and heaps of humor making it a joy to read, as well as to cook withâ€¦Definitely a must-have for the vegan who really loves their food.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Oregonian\n   </em>\n   , 7/13/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you''re considering transitioning to a vegan diet, or even just want to try it a day or two a weekâ€¦[this is a] great introductory title.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] creative recipe collection of tamales, bocadillos, empanadas, ensaladas, and much, much more.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews\n  </em>\n  , Sept/Oct 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œchock-full of not only recipes, but pantry help and cooking advice galore.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornell McClellan, fitness trainer for the President of the United States\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] useful and delicious cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kuali.com, 10/12/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFunny, straight-into-your-face and full of hilarious punchesâ€¦A pleasure to read despite its big sizeâ€¦A good old-fashioned all-purpose cookbook with recipes written for everyday meals. It is suitable for any level of cooking skill.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   November 2010\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA great resource to learn more about smart substitutions for vegan dishes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Portsmouth\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Herald,\n  </em>\n  11/24/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œNo meat, no dairy, no eggs, but still full of flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Auburn Citizen\n  </em>\n  , 12/29/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIt is big, and has many good ideas and recipes developed at a popular New York City restaurant, all without animal products. Lots of innovation here!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Salt Lake Tribune\n   </em>\n   , 2/24/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe only vegan cookbook youâ€™ll ever need.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7268'),
(10325, 'Vegas Vendetta', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man war machine, bets his life against the Mafia forces of glittering Las Vegas. . . and theres no business like show business once The Executioner gets in the act!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(10326, 'Veiled Threats', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She thought she was planning a wedding.What she got was ... Veiled Threats.A wedding to die for....When love is in the air, Carnegie Kincaid is not far behind. A wedding planner who works out of her Seattle houseboat, Carnegie makes magic â€” usually â€” with fractious families, brimming brides, and cantankerous caterers to give loving couples the wedding theyâ€™ve always wanted. So why is her dream job turning into a perfect nightmare?It started when Carnegie agreed to plan the wedding of one of Seattleâ€™s most prominent families â€” who happen to be going through a high-stakes, headline-grabbing legal war. Before she can get her bride-to-be into just the right dress, a murder and a kidnapping plunge Carnegie into a mystery of extortion and violence.With a shadowy figure stalking her, a rich lawyer wooing her, and an annoying reporter pursuing her, Carnegie is putting all wedding plans on hold. In an explosion of sheer terror, she must hunt down a killer â€” till death do her part....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(10327, 'Velocity', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dean Koontzâ€™s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, *Velocity* would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life.**Velocity**Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. *If you donâ€™t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.*It seems like a sick joke, and Billâ€™s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and itâ€™s Billâ€™s fault: he didnâ€™t convince the police to get involved. Now heâ€™s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatumâ€¦and two new lives hanging in the balance.Suddenly Billâ€™s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communicationâ€”until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopathâ€™s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: *The choice is yours*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(10328, 'Velvet, Leather &amp; Lace', 'Suzanne Forster; Donna Kauffman; Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hot new catalogue company, Velvet, Leather and Lace, is launching a revolution in lingerie--and partners Jamie, Samantha, and Mia are coming apart as fast as their wispy new underwear as their global satellite fashion show nears. Includes a bonus travel tale. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3254'),
(10329, 'Vendetta: The Giant Novel', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vendetta\n  </strong>\n  The Borg -- half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet''s mightiest vesels. Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Picard and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation. And now they have returned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   VENDETTA\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the bestselling tradition of\n   <em>\n    Metamorphosis\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Lost Years\n   </em>\n   , here is the newest Star Trek Â® Giant Novel, a story of vengeance and obsession.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Answering a distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the U.S.S. Enterprise crew meets Delcara, the lone survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated. Blinded by hatred, Delcara seeks the ultimate revenge -- the complete destruction of her race''s executioners. But the U.S.S. Enterprise crew learns that Delcara''s vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed, the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but countess innocents as well...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Borg, half organic being and half machine, are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet''s mightiest vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Answering a distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM meets Delcara, the lone survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated. Blinded by hatred, Delcara seeks the ultimate revenge, the complete destruction of her race''s executioners. But the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  crew learns that Delcara''s vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed, the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but countless innocents as well.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6758'),
(10330, 'Venetia', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Venetia\n </em>\n features a remarkably independent heroine who falls deeply in love with the wrong man. Venetia Lanyon lives a quiet life until she meets her notorious neighbor Jasper, Lord Damerel, who would marry her in a heartbeat if he didn''t think it would ruin her. Then she discovers a shocking family secret that changes everything...\n</p>\n<p>\n "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."\n <br />\n -_Sunday Telegraph_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Miss Heyer has done it again in this vivacious story of Regency society..._Venetia _is an amazing woman even for today."\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or personal life. She was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, published when she was 19, was an instant success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Her work included Regency novels, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a barrister, and they had one son, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10208'),
(10331, 'The Venetian Judgement', 'David Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Apr 2009\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  At the start of bestseller Stone''s formulaic third thriller to feature CIA cleaner Micah Dalton (after The Orpheus Deception), Dalton takes revenge late one night outside Venice''s Piazza San Marco on one of the Serbian thugs responsible for the death of his lover, Cora Vasari. Dalton''s actions result in his becoming involved in the search for a high-level traitor in the CIA''s ranks, who''s believed to be behind the brutal murder of elderly Mildred Durant, an unofficial adviser to an NSA decryption team known as the Glass Cutters, in her London home. Durant worked on the Venona Project, the interception of Soviet cable traffic, during the cold war. It appears Stalin had a source close to Roosevelt who was never exposed. While no one will mistake Stone for John le CarrÃ©, series fans are sure to root for the unstoppable Dalton, compared at one point to the newly risen Christ, only blond and not quite so loving, with a bullet scar on one cheek and no intention at all of turning the other.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6872'),
(10332, 'The Venetian Judgment', 'David Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Apr 2009\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  At the start of bestseller Stone''s formulaic third thriller to feature CIA cleaner Micah Dalton (after The Orpheus Deception), Dalton takes revenge late one night outside Venice''s Piazza San Marco on one of the Serbian thugs responsible for the death of his lover, Cora Vasari. Dalton''s actions result in his becoming involved in the search for a high-level traitor in the CIA''s ranks, who''s believed to be behind the brutal murder of elderly Mildred Durant, an unofficial adviser to an NSA decryption team known as the Glass Cutters, in her London home. Durant worked on the Venona Project, the interception of Soviet cable traffic, during the cold war. It appears Stalin had a source close to Roosevelt who was never exposed. While no one will mistake Stone for John le CarrÃ©, series fans are sure to root for the unstoppable Dalton, compared at one point to the newly risen Christ, only blond and not quite so loving, with a bullet scar on one cheek and no intention at all of turning the other.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10108'),
(10333, 'A Venetian reckoning', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a lorry crashes on one of the treacherous hair-pin bends in the Italian Dolomites even Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is appalled when he learns of its terrible cargo. This is Donna Leon''s fourth novel to feature Guido Brunetti.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/742'),
(10334, 'Vengeance in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kriminalroman. Eve Dallas modtager breve fra en seriemorder med mystiske gÃ¥der om de mord, han vil begÃ¥, men altid for sent til at hun kan nÃ¥ at gribe ind, ogsÃ¥ hendes mand bliver blandet ind i sagen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2332'),
(10335, 'Vengeance of Orion', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10465');
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(10336, 'The Venice Conspiracy', 'Jon Trace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Outstanding ... fast, pacy and full of suspense'' - The Sun\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When ex-priest Tom Shaman, jaded from years in the LA ghetto, decides on a last-minute trip to Venice, he gets much more than the break he''d been hoping for. A brutal killer is on the loose and Tom finds himself catapulted into a series of ritualistic killings unlike anything Venice has ever seen. Enlisted by the Italian police, Tom teams up with investigator Valentina Morassi to dig deep into the city''s darkest history, stretching from an ancient civilisation in 700 BC and the sexual decadence of 18th century Italy to the gritty underworld of modern-day Venice. As Valentina and Tom trace the killings through the centuries, they uncover a deadly secret, a secret that generations have killed to protect: a priceless Etruscan mosaic known as the Gates of Hell...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6414'),
(10337, 'Venice: Pure City', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even during the dominance of the Roman Empire, Venice and Venetians were regarded as distinct by their neighbors. They spoke Latin, and later Italian, in an unusual dialect. Their geographic position as an island in a lagoon contributed to their fierce spirit of independence, but it also positioned them to control trade routes to and from the East. Ackroyd, the novelist, biographer, and writer of tributes to great urban centers (London), has captured the rich tradition, beauty, and vibrancy of this magnificent city in a survey that combines political and artistic history with aspects of a travelogue. Ackroyd moves back and forth in time as he examines the growth of Venice, from prehistoric settlement to its place in both the Roman and Byzantine empires to the present time. As he describes the development of the art and architectural treasures, he includes informative and charming diversions on various traditions, events, and personalities. For those who have visited or hope to visit the â€œPearl of the Adriatic,â€ this work will be a treasure. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAckroyd â€” the marvelously erudite and staggeringly industrious English writer â€” [has compiled] an encyclopedic amount of general and arcane factual information and then [arranged] it less chronologically than thematically â€” much as one might encounter it in the course of a long walk over fascinating terrain in the company of a knowledgeable but never pedantic companion. It''s an experience rendered all the more agreeable by the independent turn of Ackroyd''s critical imagination and lapidary quality of his prose.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Peter Ackroyd fully explores one of the worldâ€™s most undeniably glorious cities.... Like his acclaimed\n <em>\n  London\n </em>\n , Ackroydâ€™s account isnâ€™t a chronological history of this charming Italian metropolis. The structure and style of\n <em>\n  Venice\n </em>\n is engagingly impressionistic and digressive.... Magnificently crafted."\n <br />\n â€”_The Boston Globe\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "[_Venice: Pure City_] is aÂ swarm - a storm - of dazzling details that coalesce into an artful picture.... Ackroyd''s is a glittering introduction to Venice. There is not much new that can be said about the city, but Ackroyd says it with ripeness - like those Venetian pears, only now it is the reader''s appetite that is whetted. Godspeed."\n <br />\n â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ackroyd''s marvelous book certainly adds to the allure of this magical metropolis."\n <br />\n â€”_Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Peter Ackroyd understands Venice, perhaps even better than modern Venetians.\n <em>\n  Venice: Pure City\n </em>\n isÂ a grand biography of a subject that is as complicated and labyrinthine as Veniceâ€™s tiny alleyways. It is impossible not to get lost there, and that is why Ackroyd may have been the best person to write such an insightful book.... He approaches Venice the way a scholar would a historical figure, because thatâ€™s what Venice is. Yet he isnâ€™t locked into a timeline: He enjoys pushing the tides of history back and forth. Itâ€™s an engaging technique."\n <br />\n â€”_Newark Star-Ledger_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler''s guide, it''s a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particular spell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it''s aromatic ... Intoxicating."\n <br />\n â€”_Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_\n</p>\n<p>\n "In an effortless style, [Ackroyd] seamlessly stitches the storied city''s crazy quilt of past and present. The watery origins, the architecture that rises and seams to float on a sea of glass, the early settlers and the key players are all rendered with a historian''s curiosity and a novelist''s feel for plot."\n <br />\n â€”_The Free Lance-Star_ (Fredericksburg, VA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAckroyd provides a history of and meditation on the actual and imaginary Venice in a volume as opulent and paradoxical as the city itself. . . . How Ackroyd deftly catalogues the overabundance of the cityâ€™s real and literary tropes and touchstones is itself a kind of tribute to\n <em>\n  La Serenissima\n </em>\n , as Venice is called, and his seductive voice is elegant and elegiac. The resulting book is, like Venice, something rich, labyrinthine and unique that makes itself and its subject both new and necessary.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise from the UK:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than he." â€”John Julius Norwich, _The Telegraph\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and elegance." â€”_The Independent\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Venice tends to provoke extreme reactions. People love it or hate it. Ackroydâ€™s response, however, is pleasingly complex. He observes his subject with a forensic yet morally neutral eye. You can tell he is fascinated by the place; but he is not blind to its many flaws."Â  â€”_The Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Irresistible, entrancing, occasionally weird but undeniably grand." â€”_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6328'),
(10338, 'Venus', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases. This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying. His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son''s remains. To everyone''s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything--our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(10339, 'Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rome, AD 71.Â  Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity...Â Â Â Â  Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers.Â  And, all the while, trying to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorius instability of Roman real estate.Â  In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, this classic tale shows Falco at his very finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7187'),
(10340, 'Venus Plus X', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10479'),
(10341, 'Venusian Lullaby', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS brings the third Doctor, Jo, and Captain Yates to Nooma, a planet in the midst of an industrial revolution. There, they discover that survival of the fittest has become a religion and even the planet appears to be at war with itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6716'),
(10342, 'Vernon God Little', 'DBC Pierre', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre''s debut novel,\n  <em>\n   Vernon God Little\n  </em>\n  , makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she''s begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie\n  <em>\n   Against All Odds\n  </em>\n  . But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Vernon God Little\n  </em>\n  is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read--Pierre''s prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero--but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre''s parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass "learnings" give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pierre takes a freewheeling, irreverent look at teenage Sturm und Drang in his erratic, sometimes darkly comic debut novel about a Texas boy running from the law in the wake of a gory school shooting. Vernon Gregory Little is the 15-year-old protagonist, a nasty, sarcastic teenager accused of being an accessory to the murders committed by his friend Jesus Navarro in tiny Martirio, "the barbecue sauce capital of Texas." Vernon manages to make bail and avoid the media horde that descends on the town after the killings, but he''s unable to get to the other gun-his father''s-which he knows will tie him to the crime, despite his innocence. His flight path takes him first to Houston, where he unsuccessfully tries to hook up with gorgeous former schoolmate Taylor Figueroa; the crafty beauty, promised a media job by the evil Lally, who''s also duped Vernon''s mom, follows him to Mexico and efficiently betrays him. Most of the plotting feels like an excuse for Vernon''s endless, sharply snide riffs on his small town and the unique excesses of America that helped spawn the killings. Unfortunately, Vernon''s voice grows tiresome, his excesses make him rather unlikable and the over-the-top, gross-out humor is hit-or-miss. Pierre''s wild energy offers entertaining satire as well as cringe-provoking scenes, and though he can write with incisive wit, this is a bumpy ride.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9938'),
(10343, 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veronika is young and pretty and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local hospital. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, and much more.Veronika has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. The overdose of sleeping pills she takes does not work, and she wakes up in Villete, the local asylum. There she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live.The story follows Veronika through these intense days as she starts to question all her ideas about life. Soon she comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Against all odds she finds herself falling in love and even wanting to live again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3837'),
(10344, 'Vertical Burn', 'Earl Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fact-based thriller is more facts than thrills, as Earl Emerson, a lieutenant in the Seattle Fire Department who''s penned a series of solid mysteries featuring detective Thomas Black, puts his professional expertise front and center. That may be a plus, as the book''s centerpiece is an arson fire in a skyscraper, a scene that brings the NYFD''s heroism on 9/11 sadly to mind, giving this book in timeliness what it lacks in narrative drama. There''s a plot somewhere here which has to do with a few venal, scheming bad guys in a (fictional) Seattle Fire Department who keep a hero fireman from upsetting their big score by discrediting him, and when that doesn''t work, trying to kill him. But Emerson concentrates less on character, story, and pacing than on the highly technical details of urban firefighting, which, while perhaps widening Emerson''s appeal to a general audience, may make this title less than compelling to the devoted fans of his mysteries.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Seattle fireman Emerson, of Shamus AwardÂ¤winning Thomas Black detective series fame, returns with his 12th novelÂ¢a tale of arson, intrigue and sublimated rivalries among Seattle firefighters. John Finney, son of a retired fire chief and brother of a 21-year veteran, is haunted by the fire that killed one of his colleagues and placed him under departmental suspicion. Finney thinks the fire was arson, but can''t prove itÂ¢until two other fires erupt under even more suspicious circumstances, killing another one of his partners. In short order, the mistrust of Finney''s colleagues flares dangerously close to criminal prosecution, while a mysterious rogue fire engine tries to run him down. Finney starts up his own investigation of the fires, and even manages to spark up a romance with Diana Moore, the department''s only female firefighter. But when Finney''s amateur sleuthing turns up a crooked business tycoon and an arson insurance scam involving Seattle''s tallest tower, Emerson turns up the heat. The novel is, as expected, long on details of firefighting and its incipient hazards, though there is little mention of the real and enduring conflicts between the investigative arm of firefighters and law enforcement. Newcomers to Emerson''s work who enjoy thrillers like Suzanne Chazin''s The Fourth Angel should find little to complain about; as an example of the genre, however, in plotting and dialogue ( I ain''t seen nothing but this goddamn smoke. Thought maybe my first wife was in there cooking dinner. ) this is at best a two-alarmer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7449'),
(10345, 'Veto Power', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The next twenty-four hours will be crucial to America''s survival. A determined band of terrorists holds the key to bringing down the government by plunging the country into darkness, fear, and chaos -- a nightmare born not in a distant enemy land . . . but rather in the heart of America itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a mission gone bad, Counter Terrorist Unit operative Jack Bauer is relegated to infiltrating a dangerous homegrown militia group -- and stumbles upon information about an activated sleeper cell of Middle Eastern terrorists on American soil. But the roots of the insidious threat may go deeper than he suspects, firmly planted in the lies and treacheries of powerful government agencies. And without the trust and support of his CTU superiors, Jack may have to rely on the very fanatics he''s sworn to destroy . . . or face an earth-shattering catastrophe at the end of the day.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n  <em>\n   Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n  </em>\n  , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8093'),
(10346, 'Vicious', 'Kevin O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For more than two years, he held Seattle in a terror grip - a cold-blooded killer who abducted young mothers right in front of their sons and murdered them execution style. Then, as suddenly as the killings began, they seemed to stop. Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend getaway with her fiancee, Allen, and young son, Matthew. But something about the remote lake house doesn''t feel right. A woman vanished from the area a year ago, and now Susan thinks she''s spotted someone lurking around the property. And when Allen disappears, her fear grows. A psychopath has returned, ready to strike again. Someone who can''t resist the urge to kill, who derives pleasure from others'' pain, and who is drawing nearer to Susan as each minute of the weekend ticks by. But she''s just one pawn at the heart of a killer''s deadly game - a killer who is unrelenting, unstoppable, and absolutely vicious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3067'),
(10347, 'Vicious Cycle: An Intervention Novel', 'Terri Blackstock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she''s the newborn daughter of a meth addict he''s been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan---the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent flies to her aid and begins the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting a baby who has no home, and finding help for a teenage mother hiding behind her lies. In this latest novel of suspense and family loyalty, bestselling author Terri Blackstock offers a harrowing look at drug addiction, human trafficking, and the devastating choices that can change lives forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terri Blackstock (www.terriblackstock.com) has sold six million books worldwide and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of Intervention and Double Minds, as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, and the Restoration Series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7814'),
(10348, 'Victim Six', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common--except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture. . . a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. But the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all. . . Praise for Gregg Olsen''s Novels "Grabs you by the throat." --Kay Hooper "Wickedly clever! Genuinely twisted."--Lisa Gardner "As Good As It Gets." --Lee Child "An Irresistible Page-Turner." --Kevin O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1624'),
(10349, 'The Victim', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tony the Zee DeZego is found dead and bleeding on the concreteï¼Œ and it is clear that it was a Mafia hit. But one puzzling fact remains: Penny Detweilerï¼Œ a wealthy debutante involved with DeZegoï¼Œ was also shot. Policeman Matt Payne is a prime suspect--even by the police! Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6077'),
(10350, 'The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys : the Men of World War II', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From America''s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed works about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive *D-Day* and *Citizen Soldiers.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But it is, as always with Stephen Ambrose, the ranks, the ordinary boys and men, who command his attention and his awe. *The Victors* tells their stories, how citizens became soldiers in the best army in the world. Ambrose draws on thousands of interviews and oral histories from government and private archives, from the high command -- Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton -- on down through officers and enlisted men, to re-create the last year of the Second World War when the Allied soldiers pushed the Germans out of France, chased them across Germany, and destroyed the Nazi regime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4237'),
(10351, 'The victors: Eisenhower and his boys: the men of World War II', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11118'),
(10352, 'Victory and Honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin &amp; William E. Butterworth IV', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The spectacular new book in\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin''s Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler''s suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale-the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation, one of great daring-and great danger-but to conduct it and not be discovered, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. One slip, and everyone becomes a casualty of war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  W.E.B. Griffin\n </strong>\n is the author of six bestselling series.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  William E. Butterworth IV\n </strong>\n has worked closely with his father for a decade, and is the coauthor of eight previous books with him, most recently\n <em>\n  The Outlaws\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Spymasters\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8780'),
(10353, 'The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War', 'Stewart O&#39;Nan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O''Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are incisive reader''s questions--useful for educators and book clubs--in a volume that makes an essential contribution to a wider understanding of the Vietnam War.This authoritative and accessible volume is sure to become a classic reference, as well as indispensable and provocative reading for anyone who wants to know more about the war that changed the face of late-twentieth-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5329'),
(10354, 'The Vigilantes (Badge of Honor)', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dramatic new novel in Griffin''s New York Times- bestselling chronicle of the Philadelphia police force. There''s a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be lowlifes. The more Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne investigates, however, the more he gets a bad feeling-one that only gets worse when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the hits, even though Payne knows it can''t be true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can''t figure out who''s behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all. Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line-storytelling at its absolute best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6075'),
(10355, 'The Vigilantes', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9225'),
(10356, 'The Viking Symbol Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES- featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10264'),
(10357, 'The Viking Takes a Knight', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Viking Is a Princess . . .All Ingrith wants is refuge for herself and a group of orphans from a vicious Saxon commander who would harm the children and destroy her honor. At her age, she no longer expects to find a husband, or even a lover, especially not the arrogant Lord of the Bees!John of Hawk''s Lair longs for peace and quiet, not a nagging wife and noisy children. As a knight in the king''s service, he spends his cherished time at home working on his beekeeping experiments. So when an irksome Viking princess comes barging into his castle with a horde of orphans, he does everything he can to get rid of her. But then a sexual attraction sparks between them, despite their differences, one that soon has them making honey, rather than war . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3326'),
(10358, 'The Vile Village', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2549'),
(10359, 'Vintage Stuff', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown, a bumbling British public schoolboy, has a penchant for taking the most innocent commands literally. His adventures whisk him to a French castle, where he commits murder and mayhem. British humor is rarely captured as effectively as this. Fry accomplishes an incredible range of accents and distinctions of age, occupation and sex. If hearing an imitation of a man with a missing lower denture tickles you, then Vintage Stuff is right up your alley. "When Tom Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public schoolâ€¦the result is predictably savage. Hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings, and general mayhem. Wicked, riotous humour.â€ â€”Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3888'),
(10360, 'Vinyl Cafe Unplugged', 'Stuart McLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bestselling author and radio storytelling sensation Stuart McLean revisits the heartwarming and hilarious friends from his iconic Vinyl Cafe.** Dave and his wife Morley would no doubt tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a compilation tape of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings, and muddle. That''s not to say that there is anything particularly unusual about the family and friends at the Vinyl Cafe. After all, who wouldn''t try to toilet-train a cat? Who hasn''t started a small home fix-it job only to set fire to the walls? Created mass hysteria at a school concert? Lost an aging relative while visiting our nation''s capital? *Vinyl Cafe Unplugged* is a warm and delightful collection of stories following the common foibles and everyday absurdities of family life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3535'),
(10361, 'The Violent Enemy', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An imprisoned IRA soldier sets out to make a daring heist-with the fate of Northern Ireland''s Republican cause resting in the balance Seven years ago, Sean Rogan''s dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deliver its payload to IRA leader Colum O''More. But the IRA of years past is long gone, replaced by an organization rife with betrayal and manipulation. With the police hot on Rogan''s trail, he must face down the treachery from all sides that threatens to bring his mission to a bloody end. "Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom Clancy Jack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11037'),
(10362, 'The Violet Keystone', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Garth Nix''s amazing Seventh Tower series is back--now with a great new look!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tal and Milla are only one step away from death. Evil is only one step away from triumph. An old war is made new again. The ultimate power is up for grabs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As shadows rage, ancient spells return, illusion reigns and corruption threatens. The search for hope is the bravest quest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Seventh Tower is the key to it all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Garth Nix, the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed novels Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, as well as the Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series, has had a long and varied career in the publishing world. After receiving his degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, he started working in the publishing industry, steadily moving from the positions of sales rep to publicist. In 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational publisher. After a period in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, he left publishing in 1993 to work as a marketing communications consultant, but came back in 1999 to become a part-time literary agent. Garth Nix currently lives in Sydney with his family and lots of books. For more information about Garth Nix, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9666'),
(10363, 'Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco''s Golden Gate Park - killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles . . as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2041'),
(10364, 'The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop', 'John Marchese', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n How does a simple piece of wood become the king of instruments?\n</p>\n<p>\n The violin does something remarkable, magical, and evocative. It is capable of bringing to life the mathematical marvels of Bach, the moan of a Gypsy melody, the wounded dignity of Beethoven''s Concerto in D Major. No other instrument is steeped in such a rich brew of myth and lore â€” and yet the making of a violin starts with a simple block of wood.\n <em>\n  The Violin Maker\n </em>\n takes the reader on a journey as that block of wood, in the hands of a master craftsman, becomes an instrument to rival one made by the greatest master of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7042'),
(10365, 'Viper', 'Michael Morley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack King is about to learn why people say: ''SEE NAPLES AND DIE'' . . . THE CASE Bones broken, burned and buried in a serial killer''s secret graveyard. THE KILLER Cold, sadistic, sociopathic and somehow always one step ahead of the law. SETTING The Bay of Naples home of pizza, Vesuvius, Pompeii and the world''s most brutal crime mob the Camorra. THE SUSPECTS A gang boss''s son-in-law. A renegade psychologist. A violent twenty-four-year-old infected with a fatal disease. THE DETECTIVE Sylvia Tomms the Carabinieri''s leading female capitano just divorced and heading her first serial murder case. THE PROFILER Jack King the only guy you''d trust if you were hunting a serial killer in a city where the mob rules and murder is just a way of life. VIPER a menacing new thriller from the author of the internationally acclaimed SPIDER.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4889'),
(10366, 'Virals', 'Kathy Reichs &amp; Brendan Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Bones\n  </i>\n  , brings her bestselling blend of science and suspense to teens with the first in a new series,\n  <i>\n   Virals\n  </i>\n  . Tory is the science-obsessed niece of a famous forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan (star of the\n  <i>\n   Bones\n  </i>\n  program and novels), living on a remote island off the coast of South Carolina. An old military ID tag leads Tory and her best friends, Ben, Hi, and Shelton--all self proclaimed â€œsci-philesâ€--to an illegal research lab, where they are exposed to a mutant strain of canine parvovirus. When the teens begin experiencing preternatural physical changes, their search for answers brings them in contact with cold-blooded killers. Reichsâ€™s characters are realistically drawn modern teenagers, and the state-of-the-art forensic details give this thriller an added edge. Short, heart-pounding chapters move the action forward at breakneck speed and the satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next installment (coming in summer of 2011). --\n  <i>\n   Seira Wilson\n  </i>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Tory Brennan, transplanted from New England to South Carolina after her motherâ€™s death, is getting used to life with her hitherto-unknown marine-biologist father when life throws her a curve in the form of an odd virus. Along with her friendsâ€”a multiethnic group of science nerds all living, like her, on a remote barrier islandâ€”Tory finds a set of military ID tags linked to a missing-personâ€™s case. The subsequent sleuthing exposes the gang to a disease, leaving them with heightened senses that flare when theyâ€™re in danger. They get plenty of opportunities to exercise their powers of intense sight, smell, and hearing in this suspenseful, if a bit exaggerated, plot-driven novel by the creator of the Bones TV drama. Despite one-dimensional villains, the book flows and is full of snappy dialogue guaranteed to draw in adventure junkies. Grades 6-9. --Karen Cruze\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8558'),
(10367, 'The Virgin in the Ice: The Sixth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a young nun, they set out for Shrewsbury, but disappear somewhere in the wild countryside. Now, Brother Cadfael embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. Previously out of print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(10368, 'The Virginian', 'Owen Wister', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <i>\n      The Virginian\n     </i>\n     , byÂ \n     <b>\n      Owen Wister\n     </b>\n     , is part of theÂ \n     <i>\n      Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n     </i>\n     <i>\n      Â \n     </i>\n     series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n     <i>\n      Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n     </i>\n     :\n     <div>\n      <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n       <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n       </li>\n      </ul>\n      All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n      </i>\n      pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n     Â \n    </p>\n    <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n     The western is one of Americaâ€™s most important and influential contributions to world culture. And it wasÂ \n     <b>\n      Owen Wister\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      The Virginian\n     </i>\n     , first published in 1902, that created the familiar archetypes of character, setting, and action that still dominate western fiction and film.Â Â \n    </p>\n    <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n     Â \n    </p>\n    <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n     <i>\n      The Virginian\n     </i>\n     ''s characters include: The hero, tall, taciturn, and unflappable, confident in his skills, careful of his honor, mysterious in his background; the heroine, the â€œschoolmarm from the East,â€ dedicated to civilizing the untamed town, but willing to adapt to its waysâ€”up to a point; and the villain, who is a liar, a thief, a killer, and worst of all, a coward beneath his bluster. Its settingâ€”the lonely small town in the midst of the vast, empty, dangerous but overwhelmingly beautiful landscapeâ€”plays so crucial a role that it may be regarded as one of the primary characters. And its actionâ€”the cattle roundup, the capture of the rustlers, the agonizing moral choices demanded by â€œwestern justice,â€ and the climactic shoot-out between hero and villainâ€”shaped the plots of the thousands of books and movies that followed.\n    </p>\n    <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n     Â \n    </p>\n    <div>\n     <b>\n      John G. Cawelti\n     </b>\n     Â has published ten books, includingÂ \n     <i>\n      Apostles of the Self-Made Man\n     </i>\n     ,Â \n     <i>\n      Adventure\n     </i>\n     ,Â \n     <i>\n      Mystery and Romance\n     </i>\n     ,Â \n     <u>\n      The Spy Story\n     </u>\n     ,Â \n     <i>\n      Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations\n     </i>\n     , andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel\n     </i>\n     . He has also published about seventy essays in the fields of American literature, cultural history, and popular culture, and has made oral presentations at more than one hundred universities and scholarly conferences.\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6176'),
(10369, 'Virtual light', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4172'),
(10370, 'Virtual Vandals', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At a holographic "old timer''s" baseball game, Matt Hunter and several other Net Force Explorers are thrilled to see Babe Ruth swing for the fences. But when Ruth does his famous routine of pointing to the stands, four people dressed in 30''s-style outfits stand up and open fire with Tommy guns! Even virtual bullets can kill you. Matt and his friends know that these "virtual vandals" must be stopped. But the stadium stunt is just the beginning. And even the teens of the Net Force might not be able to stop them next time!.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6476'),
(10371, 'The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism', 'Ayn Rand; Nathaniel Branden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man''s life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man''s nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(10372, 'The Viscount and the Virgin', 'Annie Burrows', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a season of secrets, scandal and seduction in high society! Set in Regency England, this continuity sweeps you from glittering ballrooms, to a smuggler''s cove in Cornwall, to the wilds of Scotland, a Romany camp, and back again. Each story has a passionate, intense, central relationship but the thread linking them together is a darkly dangerous, yet sexy stranger, who is out for revenge, delivering a silken rope as his calling card. Through him, a long-forgotten past is stirred to life, and the notorious events of 1794 which saw one man murdered and another hanged for the crime, are brought in to question. Was the right man brought to justice or is there still a treacherous murderer at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/184');
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(10373, 'A Visible Darkness', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s first book about former Philadelphia cop Max Freeman turned loose in the Florida Everglades (The Blue Edge of Midnight) boasted several strengths-a protagonist who shimmered with life in spite of a cliched backstory (he was wounded in a shootout at a robbery scene, where one of his shots killed a 12-year-old boy), a riveting supporting cast of local weirdos and a fully credible subplot about an urban man learning to love the hardships of the natural world. A few traces of those strengths survive in King''s second book about Freeman, but not enough to give the series the feeling of inevitable success it originally enjoyed. For one thing, Freeman has little opportunity to commune with nature this time around. He spends much of his days and nights driving his pickup truck down the seedier streets of West Palm Beach in search of whoever is knocking off a bunch of very old African-American ladies who sold off their insurance policies early. The Florida hermits and con men of the first book have been supplanted by a rather ordinary crew of street thugs and drug dealers. But if the lackluster setting and cast disappoint King''s fans, it''s only because the standard set by his first book was so high-there''s still plenty here to reward the reader: the rapid-fire, gritty dialogue and the charms of our hard-living, earthy hero. Freeman''s lawyer chum, Billy Manchester, a genius who stutters in public, reprises his fascinating role, and a new love interest, a sad-eyed lady cop, adds a pleasing twist. Though not as inspired as its precursor, this still is satisfying fare.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n King, a longtime police and criminal courts reporter in South Florida, proves that the success of his first detective novel,\n <em>\n  The Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n [BKL F 1 02], was no fluke. This one stars the same ex-Philly cop with the shattered psyche dragged into doing some sleuthing; features the same evocative detective digs, a one-room stilt shack hidden in the middle of the Everglades; and is shot through with the same burgeoning suspense and rich, brooding atmosphere. There is one important difference, though. This time detective hero Max Freeman, traumatized from the memory of a shooting that left a 12-year-old dead, takes a few steps toward recovery, moving slowly toward the light and away from what he calls the "dead zone time," when it seems the dark silence will never lift. It begins with a call from Freeman''s oldest friend, an ex-cop who needs help investigating the murders of five elderly women in the Fort Lauderdale area. Freeman uncovers an elaborate insurance scam and a serial killer as the plot moves toward a chilling climax. King sets up a powerful parallel between the primordial feel of the Everglades and the mean streets of South Florida, with civilization seeming much more cutthroat. King seems well on his way to creating a knockout series.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5699'),
(10374, 'Visible Light', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10881'),
(10375, 'Vision in White', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **#1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts invites readers to the wedding event of the year! #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her first trade original-a novel of love, friendship, and family-Book One in the Bride Quartet.** Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be''s brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac''s type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her way to her own happy ending.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2585'),
(10376, 'The Vision', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With more than 200 million copies of his novels sold, Dean Koontz is an undisputed master. And in The Vision, he once again displays the talent that led the Chicago Sun-Times to call him "brilliant" -- and the San Diego Union-Tribune to praise his "always riveting" writing and his "wonderfully fiendish" plots.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1424'),
(10377, 'Visions in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn''t be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it.'' Eve Dallas'' latest homicide case is a particularly vicious case. A young mother, Elisa Maplewood, is found raped and strangled in the park, her body naked but for what appears to be a red ribbon tied around her neck. As Eve starts investigating Elisa''s friends and relations, an offer of help comes from an unlikely source. The only reason Eve agrees to meet with psychic Celina Sanchez is that she is a friend of a friend. But Celina claims to have experienced visions of the killer and can recite precise details of the case - details that the police have kept to themselves. She is also no glory-hunter - she doesn''t want her name released to the media. Haunted by the visions of death that she sees, all she wants to do is help Eve catch the criminal so that she is left in peace. Though Eve remains sceptical of Celina''s abilities, she serves the greater good, and she will use all the resources she can to track down the killer before he strikes again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2351'),
(10378, 'Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra', 'Taigen Dan Leighton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei D?gen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese S?t? Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. Leighton traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from a range of key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, My?e, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ry?kan. But his main focus is Eihei D?gen, the 13th century Japanese S?t? Zen founder who imported Zen from China, and whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. D?gen''s use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahayana vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. Leighton argues that D?gen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of D?gen''s worldview and its implications, says Leighton, can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahayana concepts and practices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3618'),
(10379, 'Visions of Sugar Plums', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn''t got a tree. She hasn''t bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There''s not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment. And there''s a strange man in her kitchen.Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy-and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life. The question is, what does he want with her? Can he help her find a little old toy maker who has skipped out on his bail right before Christmas? Can he survive the Plum family holiday dinner? Can he get Stephanie a tree that doesn''t look like it was grown next to a nuclear power plant? These questions and more are keeping Stephanie awake at night. Not to mention the fact that she needs to find a bunch of nasty elves, her sister Valerie has a Christmas "surprise" for the Plums, her niece Mary Alice doesn''t believe in Santa anymore, and Grandma Mazur has a new stud muffin. So bring out the plastic reindeer, strap on your jingle bells, and get ready to celebrate the holidays-Jersey style. Visions of Sugar Plums-the world of Plum has never been merrier!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2137'),
(10380, 'A Visit From the Goon Squad', 'Jennifer Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jennifer Egan''s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other''s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist''s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city''s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco''s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie''s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou''s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6102'),
(10381, 'Vittorio, the Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice''s new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with __, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires,\n <em>\n  Vittorio\n </em>\n , is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rice has called\n <em>\n  Vittorio\n </em>\n her vampire version of\n <em>\n  Romeo and Juliet\n </em>\n . The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio''s favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to\n <em>\n  Vittorio\n </em>\n what New Orleans is to\n <em>\n  Interview with the Vampire\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n One night, Vittorio''s family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula''s ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to sacrifice its young to Lord Florian''s vampire horde. Vittorio is bent on revenge as he invades the eerie Court of the Ruby Grail (i.e. blood), as angry with the child-sacrificing humans as he is with Florian''s fang gangsters. Torn between lust, murderous rage, and vampire thirst, Vittorio is one interestingly troubled soul.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rice urges readers to enter Vittorio''s world by reading the sources she embroiders, __ and\n <strong>\n  , and to get a feel for the scary communion Vittorio sees in the Court of the Ruby Grail by listening to\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Blood and holy water both run thick through the streets of 15th-century Florence in Rice''s 21st novel of the undead, the second in a series of New Tales that leave New Orleans''s cemeteries behind. While there''s not much plot to this lushly described story of how Vittorio di Riniari became a vampire, there''s plenty of period detail about Italy''s Golden Age. With the courtly arrogance of one who''s to the manor born, Renaissance man Vittorio tells of his seduction into evil immortality. As the 16-year-old scion of a wealthy home, he rubs elbows with Cosimo de Medici and is attracted to the work of Fra Filippo Lippi, whose tormented paintings of angels mirror Vittorio''s own heart. In the year 1450, he witnesses the massacre of his entire family by a band of demons. Fleeing from the primal scene, he follows the fiends in search of vengeance, and instead is overcome by the devastatingly beautiful "strega," the bare-shouldered Ursula. His desire for revenge?and his desire for Ursula?propel him in a dizzy descent to religion''s darkest side, especially after Ursula''s vampire attentions render him able to see and converse with angels. Though the narrative is presented as a tragic tale of doomed love, we know so little of the swooning, inarticulate Ursula that there''s hardly any romance or suspense. And while Vittorio''s particular road to hell is a new entry in Rice''s repertoire of vampirification, much of the material is familiar: the rich, brash young man transformed against his will who agonizes over his new existence. Vittorio''s painstaking narration of his biography takes so long to acquire momentum that when at one point he admits, "This chapter ought to be over," even diehard readers may be tempted to agree that it''s time for a new vampire for a new age. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. (Mar.) FYI: Rice includes a bibliography of readings for greater appreciation of the time period.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4997'),
(10382, 'The Vivisector', 'Patrick White &amp; J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the great magicians of fiction . . . White''s scope is vast and his invention endless."\n <br />\n -_The Observer_ (London)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister''s deformity, a grocer''s moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6713'),
(10383, 'Vixen', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 1954.Vixen 03is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised theTitanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They''re in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(10384, 'The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Peter Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(10385, 'The Voice', 'William L.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   <u>\n    SUMMARY:\n   </u>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   <u>\n   </u>\n  </b>\n  SPECIAL EDITION: Includes two bonus short stories\n </p>\n <p>\n  A man finds himself floating offshore looking back at a destroyed city. He has no memory of what happened, what his name is, who he is. The few survivors he meets also share the same memory loss. Confused, they travel the one undamaged road towards the truth, guided only by The Voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6941'),
(10386, 'Voices', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Following the huge success of\n <i>\n  Silence of the Grave\n </i>\n , another spellbinding thriller from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Detective Erlendur encounters memories of his troubled past in this gripping and award-winning continuation of the ReykjavÃ­k Murder Mysteries.\n</p>\n<p>\n At a grand ReykjavÃ­k hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children''s party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself. Everyone has something to hide. But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man who, many years before, was the most famous child singer in the country: it turns... SUMMARY: The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With the hotel fully booked, the manager is desperate to keep the murder under wraps and his reputation intact.Detectives Erlendur and Sigurdur Oli discover that the dead man had had a childhood brush with fame and that two old 45s on which he had sung have become prized collectorsâ€™ items. Estranged from his family for decades, why had the man continued to pay secret visits to his boyhood home?As Detective Elinborg investigates a separate case of child abuse, and Erlendur continues to struggle both with his troubled family relationships and the ghosts of his own youth, their parallel stories probe deeper into the riddle of this latest Reykjavik Murder Mystery.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(10387, 'Voices in the Dark', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Asking for the truth can be as painful as telling it. . . .*Anselm Andros has clearly defined roles in his family and they are roles he plays very wellâ€”he is confidante to his mother, Maria. He is the confessor to his stepfather, Leo, a man haunted by the secrets of his past. And Anselm is also the patient, caring brother to his precocious sister, Jasmine. When the political landscape of Malonia starts to shift, this unassuming family begins to unravel. Even though theyâ€™ve spent the past fifteen years leading a quiet life, Maria and Leoâ€™s actions are forever linked to the turbulent history of Malonia and its parallel world, modern-day England. With so much uncertainty at home and in his world, it is more important than ever for Anselm to put all the pieces of the past together. He must listen to his own voice and acknowledge his fears and desiresâ€”whatever the cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/781'),
(10388, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cassie Black is an ex-con who needs to make one more score in order to fulfill the dream that sustained her in prison. Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she''s thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything - even her darkest moments - she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself. When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses her new life away like a bad hand of cards and goes back in a sprint to her old line of work. Her trade was robbing casino gamblers, and she was the very best. Now it''s the only way she can make enough money fast to maybe make everything right. Quickly she lines up a mark, a man who has been winning steadily for a week at high-stakes baccarat. The job goes smoothly until she opens his briefcase ... And discovers a world of trouble she never dreamed of. Her superstitious friend who lined up the job says it''s the bad-luck void moon having its malignant way. Cassie knows it''s worse. She''s crossed paths again with her life''s nemesis, the man who destroyed everything six years before. He''s Jack Karch, a private investigator by day who does bloody work for casino owners by night. Walking back into his sights is the worst thing that''s ever happened to Cassie. Getting out alive will take all her skill and luck and faith in that one good thing ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5347'),
(10389, 'Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin', 'Norah Vincent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The journalist who famously lived as a man commits herself- literally** Norah Vincent''s *New York Times* bestselling book, *Self-Made Man*, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution. Out of this raw and overwhelming experience came the idea for her next book. She decided to get healthy and to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane "in the bin," as she calls it. Vincent''s journey takes her from a big city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally to an upscale retreat down south, as she analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. Vincent applies brilliant insight as she exposes her personal struggle with depression and explores the range of people, caregivers, and methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and bizarre environments. Eye opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny, *Voluntary Madness* is a riveting work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3021'),
(10390, 'Voodoo Planet', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dane slid his blade out surreptitiously, setting its point against the palm of his hand and jabbing painfully; but the terrible creature continued to advance... There was no blurring of its lines...Dane Thorson of the space-ship Solar Queen knew there was only one way to win out over this hideous thing-a battle to the end between his rational mind and the hypnotic witchcraft of Lumbrilo, the mental wizard of the planet Khatka.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9100'),
(10391, 'Voodoo River (1995)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9962'),
(10392, 'Voracious', 'Alice Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œHeralds the arrival of a major new talent in the dark fiction field.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”J. A. KONRATH\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA terrific debut.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”SIMON CLARK\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA polished and well-focused novel of raw animal terrorâ€¦A winner!â€\n  <br />\n  â€”WILLIAM D. GAGLIANI\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA combination of awe-inspiring setting and deeply personal terror,\n  <em>\n   Voracious\n  </em>\n  is irresistible.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”RICHARD DANSKY\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hungry for a good read?\n   <em>\n    Voracious\n   </em>\n   is... â€œA GRIPPING, ATAVISTIC SUPERNATURAL THRILLERâ€¦ sexy, sensuous, and terrifyingâ€ (BRAM STOKER AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN).\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Madeline Keyeâ€™s giftâ€”to touch someone and see flashes of the pastâ€”has set her apart from family and friends. She finds sanctuary in the wilderness, until a backcountry hike in Glacier National Park turns into a huntâ€”with her as the prey. Because something thatâ€™s not human is out there. And itâ€™s hungry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6519'),
(10393, 'The Vorkosigan Companion', 'Lillian S Carl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lois McMaster Bujoldâ€™s best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little-known facts about the Vorkosigan saga. Included are an all-new interview with Bujold as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe, articles on the biology, technology and sociology of the planet Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more. Readers canâ€™t get enough of the Vorkosigan series and theyâ€™ll jump at the chance to read this story behind the stories. Baen has a new novel in the Vorkosigan series under contract.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5708'),
(10394, 'A Vote of Confidence', 'Robin Lee Hatcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In A Vote of Confidence, the stage is set for some intriguing insight into what it was like during 1915 to be a woman in a ''man''s world.'' Guinevere Arlington is a beautiful young woman determined to remain in charge of her own life. For seven years, Gwen has carved out a full life in the bustling town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho, where she teaches piano and writes for the local newspaper. Her passion for the town, its people, and the surrounding land prompt Gwen to run for mayor. After all, who says a woman can''t do a man''s job? But stepping outside the boundaries of convention can get messy. A shady lawyer backs Gwen, believing he can control her once she''s in office. A wealthy newcomer throws his hat into the ring in an effort to overcome opposition to the health resort he''s building north of town. When the opponents fall in love, everything changes, forcing Gwen to face what she may have to lose in order to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4101'),
(10395, 'The voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1128'),
(10396, 'The Voyage Out (Barnes &amp; Nobles)', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Textually, these editions of Mrs Dalloway and The Voyage Out are the most immaculate available." (_David Bradshaw, Worcester College_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf''s best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World''s Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.'' Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, (_Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May ''94_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Textually, these editions of _ Mrs Dalloway_ and\n <em>\n  The Voyage Out\n </em>\n are the most immaculate available."\n <em>\n  David Bradshaw, Worcester College\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7283'),
(10397, 'The Voyage Out', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf''s first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf''s beginning as one of the twentieth century''s most brilliant and prolific writers.Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique--with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters'' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound--that are the signature of Woolf''s fiction. Rachel Vinrace, Woolf''s first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel "how to live."Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. E. M. Forster praised The Voyage Out as "a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham, bestselling author of The Hours. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolf''s early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art. Katherine Anne Porter wrote of Woolf: "The world of arts was her native territory; she ranged freely under her own sky, speaking her mother tongue fearlessly."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7282'),
(10398, 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10487'),
(10399, 'Voyager', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9610'),
(10400, 'Voyager in Night', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two voyages, two ships. One had been en route for over a hundred thousand years, was the size of an asteroid, its launch site beyond the trace of any man-made telescope, and its crew an enigma. The other ship had been out of Endeavor Station just a few months, was a tiny ore-prospector with a crew of three: Rafe, Paul, and Paul''s wife Jillan. The two ships were on a collision course which neither could avoid in time. The three humans were the first of their species the masters of the monster had encountered, and now two were already dead and one was dying. But that could be remedied -- and was, multifold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10897'),
(10401, 'Voyagers III: Star Brothers', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner''s body.The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril. The technology now the control of Vanguard Industries has changed the face of the earth. The technology that lives in Stoner''s bloodstream will change mankind forever.There are powerful leaders, both corporate and political, who are becoming aware of Keith Stoner and the power he seems to control. They want that power for themselves, and will do anything to gain it. Nothing Stoner can say or do will convince these ruthless men and women that the power they seek may destroy them utterly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10457'),
(10402, 'The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle', 'Hugh Lofting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: tle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greates mystery of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1642'),
(10403, 'Vrin: Ten Mortal Gods', 'J. Michael Hileman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Tardin is trapped within a virtual world. He is sure of this- because he has seen the program. But if this is a computer generated world, how can he reconcile the complexity of its strange inhabitants, people capable of frustration, joy, and pain? Are they computer simulations- or more? And what about the power which allows him to create or control whatever he wishes? Is he a god, as the people of Vrin believe? Caught up in the politics of this mysterious world, haunted by a conversation with scientists on the outside, and stalked by a mad god, Jason Tardin must unravel the mystery to save a world- that is not his own. Woven with rich characters, and inextricably filled with secrets about dreams and the afterlife, ten mortal gods is a glimpse into the complex nature of human suffering, and the inescapable reality of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1941'),
(10404, 'Wading Home', 'Story, Rosalyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9419'),
(10405, 'Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans', 'Rosalyn Story', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the lyricism she was lauded for in More Than You Know, Story has crafted a post-Katrina New Orleans from a fumy cloud of sad jazz and Creole spices. Though this time out her descriptive lushness meshes uneasily with the patchy, if intense, tone and plot. After the storm, Julian Fortier, a successful trumpeter, returns to look for his missing father and ends up dealing with drama: family land is threatened by developers; a past betrayal is dredged up; he''s confronted with a failed romance. Amidst all this he navigates his devastated city, confronting the emotional and professional mess of his life both present and past and the more immediate problems left by the storm. Everyone he encounters is boldly drawn, and Julian''s father is fantastically sympathetic, but Julian himself, the sulky center of it all, only drags things down. Readers will feel a palpable sense of frustration as plotlines sag after initial tension and the pathos and beauty of the Big Easy becomes abstract, explained more than evoked. Story has created a fine narrative web, peopled it with some skill, and brought her style and grace to the page, but none of these elements feel complete. (Sept.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "New Orleans natives struggle to recover their lives as well as their property after Hurricane Katrina.... Storyâ€™s musical background infuses her novel with a lyrical rhythm...as engaging characters rebuild their relationships and their city. The current oil-spill crisis only makes the hopefulness of this novel more moving, if heart-wrenching."\n  <br />\n  --Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5482'),
(10406, 'The Wailing Siren Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Their SOS ignored in a storm, the Hardy boys find a wallet containing two thousand dollars alongside their boat and are launched into a mystery involving diverse clues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10287'),
(10407, 'The Wailing Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in his 15th novel featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The two Navajo cops, one old and one young--who originally debuted in separate series but have been collaborating for many books now--are among the most engaging, fully human characters in crime fiction. As usual, Hillerman puts them to work in a suspenseful, satisfying tale that integrates a wealth of Navajo lore plus breathtaking evocations of the American Southwest, all delivered in prose as clear, clean, and easy-flowing as a mountain stream. Longtime readers will be delighted by several developments, including a prominent role for the appealing Officer Bernadette Manuelito and a glimpse at the phlegmatic Leaphorn''s testy side. But Hillerman welcomes new arrivals as well, with enough exposition to get you oriented.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many writers have tried to follow Hillerman''s trail, setting murder mysteries in Native American cultural landscapes. Many do a fine job. But, as\n <em>\n  The Wailing Wind\n </em>\n beautifully demonstrates, there''s only one Tony Hillerman. In this book he''s at the top of his game.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 15th Chee/Leaphorn mystery (after 1999''s relatively weak Hunting Badger) finds MWA Grand Master Hillerman back at the top of his form as his two Navajo peace officers look into both a past and present mystery. Religious fervency and single-minded greed become strange but necessary bedfellows in a plot filled, as always, with insights into the lives and beliefs of the "Dineh." When an abandoned pickup truck turns out to contain one very dead white man, Sgt. Jim Chee''s instincts lead him to bring retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn into the case. Leaphorn''s trademark curiosity sends him in search of possible links between this homicide and another two years earlier. The first murder occurred on Halloween day when Wiley Denton supposedly shot Marvin McKay in self-defense after McKay tried to sell him bogus information about an old gold mine. That same day Denton''s wife, Linda, disappeared; she has never been heard from again. Leaphorn''s recollection of what had been shrugged off as a Halloween prank out at old Fort Wingate now becomes the itch he has to scratch. It seems a group of teens shortcutting across the area had endured a close call with La Llorana, a mythical wailing woman. The information he gathers adds yet another piece to the puzzle of the missing Linda. Chee is up to his elbows in not only the investigation but also in sorting through his growing emotional confusion about the beautiful Bernadette Manuelito. The seemingly insignificant turns critical and the loose ends tie up in one tidy conclusion as Hillerman repeatedly shines in this masterfully complex new novel.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5444'),
(10408, 'Wait until spring, Bandini', 'John Fante; Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town. This work tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1671'),
(10409, 'Waiting', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin''s masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale,\n  <em>\n   Waiting\n  </em>\n  uses its slight, deceptively simple framework to encompass a wide range of truths about the human heart. Lin Kong is a Chinese army doctor trapped in an arranged marriage that embarrasses and repels him. (Shuyu has country ways, a withered face, and most humiliating of all, bound feet.) Nevertheless, he''s content with his tidy military life, at least until he falls in love with Manna, a nurse at his hospital. Regulations forbid an army officer to divorce without his wife''s consent--until 18 years have passed, that is, after which he is free to marry again. So, year after year Lin asks his wife for his freedom, and year after year he returns from the provincial courthouse: still married, still unable to consummate his relationship with Manna. Nothing feeds love like obstacles placed in its way--right? But Jin''s novel answers the question of what might have happened to Romeo and Juliet had their romance been stretched out for several decades. In the initial confusion of his chaste love affair, Lin longs for the peace and quiet of his "old rut." Then killing time becomes its own kind of rut, and in the end, he is forced to conclude that he "waited eighteen years just for the sake of waiting."\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s a political allegory here, of course, but it grows naturally from these characters'' hearts. Neither Lin nor Manna is especially ideological, and the tumultuous events occurring around them go mostly unnoticed. They meet during a forced military march, and have their first tender moment during an opera about a naval battle. (While the audience shouts, "Down with Japanese Imperialism!" the couple holds hands and gazes dreamily into each other''s eyes.) When Lin is in Goose Village one summer, a mutual acquaintance rapes Manna; years later, the rapist appears on a TV report titled "To Get Rich Is Glorious," after having made thousands in construction. Jin resists hammering ideological ironies like these home, but totalitarianism''s effects on Lin are clear:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Let me tell you what really happened, the voice said. All those years you waited torpidly, like a sleepwalker, pulled and pushed about by others'' opinions, by external pressure, by your illusions, by the official rules you internalized. You were misled by your own frustration and passivity, believing that what you were not allowed to have was what your heart was destined to embrace.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Ha Jin himself served in the People''s Liberation Army, and in fact left his native country for the U.S. only in 1985. That a non-native speaker can produce English of such translucence and power is truly remarkable--but really, his prose is the least of the miracles here. Improbably, Jin makes an unconsummated 18-year love affair loom as urgent as political terror or war, while history-changing events gain the immediacy of a domestic dilemma. Gracefully phrased, impeccably paced,\n  <em>\n   Waiting\n  </em>\n  is the kind of realist novel you thought was no longer being written.\n  <em>\n   --Mary Park\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jin''s quiet but absorbing second novel (after In the Pond) captures the poignant dilemma of an ordinary man who misses the best opportunities in his life simply by trying to do his dutyâ€”as defined first by his traditional Chinese parents and later by the Communist Party. Reflecting the changes in Chinese communism from the ''60s to the ''80s, the novel focuses on Lin Kong, a military doctor who agrees, as his mother is dying, to an arranged marriage. His bride, Shuyu, turns out to be a country woman who looks far older than her 26 years and who has, to Lin''s great embarrassment, lotus (bound) feet. While Shuyu remains at Lin''s family home in Goose Village, nursing first his mother and then his ailing father, and bearing Lin a daughter, Lin lives far away in an army hospital compound, visiting only once a year. Caught in a loveless marriage, Lin is attacted to a nurse, Manna Wu, an attachment forbidden by communist strictures. According to local Party rules, Lin cannot divorce his wife without her permission until they have been separated for 18 years. Although Jin infuses movement and some suspense into Lin''s and Manna''s sometimes resigned, sometimes impatient waitingâ€”they will not consummate their relationship until Lin is freeâ€”it is only in the novel''s third section, when Lin finally secures a divorce, that the story gathers real force. Though inaction is a risky subject and the thoughts of a cautious man make for a rather deliberate prose style (the first two sections describe the moments the characters choose not to act), the final chapters are moving and deeply ironic, proving again that this poet and award-winning short story writer can deliver powerful long fiction about a world alien to most Western readers. (Oct.) FYI: Jin served six years in the People''s Liberation Army, and came to the U.S. in 1985.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6771');
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(10410, 'Waiting for &quot;Superman&quot;: How We Can Save America&#39;s Failing Public Schools', 'Karl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fillâ€”and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Educators, parents, political leaders, business people, and concerned citizens are determined to save our educational system. Waiting for\n  <em>\n   "Superman"\n  </em>\n  offers powerful insights from some of those at the leading edge of educational innovation, including Bill and Melinda Gates, Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting for\n  <em>\n   "Superman"\n  </em>\n  is an inspiring call for reform and includes special chapters that provide resources, ideas, and hands-on suggestions for improving the schools in your own community as well as throughout the nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For parents, teachers, and concerned citizens alike, Waiting for\n  <em>\n   "Superman"\n  </em>\n  is an essential guide to the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing Americaâ€™s schools.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karl Weber\n  </strong>\n  is a writer and editor based in New York. He collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestseller\n  <em>\n   Creating a World Without Poverty\n  </em>\n  and has edited two previous Participant Media Guides,\n  <em>\n   Food, Inc.\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Davis Guggenheim\n  </strong>\n  is a critically acclaimed, Academy AwardÂ®-winning director and producer, whose work includes\n  <em>\n   It Might Get Loud\n  </em>\n  , the 2009 documentary featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White; and\n  <em>\n   An Inconvenient Truth\n  </em>\n  featuring former Vice President Al Gore, which won the OscarÂ® for Best Documentary in 2007. More recently, Guggenheim directed Barack Obama''s biographical film for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, as well as Obama''s 30-minute primetime infomercial. Guggenheim has also directed many television series including\n  <em>\n   Deadwood\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   NYPD Blue\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   24\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7272'),
(10411, 'Waiting for Godot', 'Samuel Beckett; S. E. Gontarski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences,\n <em>\n  Waiting for Godot\n </em>\n has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett''s birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett''s language and explore the nuances of his creativity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9223'),
(10412, 'Waiting for Nick', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didn''t know what had hit him...sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he''d always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly looking and acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over, but the wanting had just begun!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2620'),
(10413, 'Waiting for Superman', 'Participant Media', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10401'),
(10414, 'The Wake-Up', 'Robert Ferrigno', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A minor matter of airport rudeness sets off a major killing spree in Ferrigno''s seventh novel, an overplotted affair that features a battle between a former espionage agent, a figure from his spooky past and two L.A. drug dealers. When Frank Thorpe sees a hard-charging businessman humiliate a young Latino peddler at LAX airport, he decides to teach the jerk a lesson. And after using his spy skills to find out that the man is an art dealer, Thorpe sets up a forgery scam that gets the dealer accused of selling phony Mayan art to an ambitious, nouveau riche L.A. couple. Unfortunately for Thorpe, the female half of the couple, the delightfully bitchy Missy Riddenhauser, becomes furious after a local gossip columnist embarrasses her by exposing the incident, and she quickly talks her husband, Clark, a former surfer turned designer drug dealer, into going after Thorpe. The plotting and character writing remains sharp and clever through the first half, and the art angle makes the novel read like a cross between a Ludlum thriller and one of Patricia Highsmith''s Ripley novels. But the plotting careens off track when Thorpe needlessly gets involved with the cartoonish thugs who handle the violent end of Clark''s drug business, and those scenes dull the impact of Thorpe''s final showdown with a mysterious, dangerous figure from the agent''s past known as the Engineer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s another hugely entertaining thriller from the underappreciated Ferrigno. Although the plot, at times, is overly convoluted, making it difficult to keep track of who is double-crossing whom, the novel offers outsize villains; supersmart, rapid-fire dialogue; and a streak of the downright bizarre. Special-ops agent Frank Thorpe has just been let go from the independent shop he has worked at for years. A planned sting backfired, leaving several agents dead. Set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation, he spots a hard-charging executive backhand a 10-year-old Mexican vendor, which triggers Frank''s always seething sense of moral outrage. He decides to give the guy a "wake-up . . . to show him how quickly the storm clouds could roll in on his sunny world." Inevitably, the wake-up proves far more complicated and dangerous than even the canny Frank anticipated. He is soon rubbing elbows with a calculating, drug-dealing social climber; her brainy chemist husband; and their ruthless bodyguards, including a childlike victim of Romanian medical experiments. Another riveting, intense read from the always reliable Ferrigno.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5963'),
(10415, 'Waking the Dead', 'Alexa Snow; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(10416, 'Waking the Witch', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Columbus is a small, fading town, untouched by the twenty-first century. But when three young women are found dead - victims of what appear to be ritual murders - things start to get very dark, and very dangerous...Private investigator Savannah Levine can handle ''dark and dangerous''. As the daughter of a black witch, she has a lot of power running through her veins, and she''s not afraid to use it. But her arrival in Columbus has not gone unnoticed. Savannah may think she''s tracking down a murderer, but could she be the killer''s next target?Of course she could always ask her old friend (and half-demon) Adam Vasic for back up. But Savannah has her own - very personal reasons - for keeping Adam well away from Columbus. And in any case, she can rely on her own powers. Can''t she...?A tense, compelling mystery with a supernatural kick, Waking the Witch is the brilliantly imagined and deeply satisfying new book from international bestseller Kelley Armstrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3187'),
(10417, 'Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience', 'Henry David Thoreau', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walden" is a record of his experiment in a simple life and his contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. This book includes the famous essay, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, " a selection of his poetry and a new introduction by W.S. Merwin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1683'),
(10418, 'A Walk in the Woods', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/867'),
(10419, 'A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson''s reading of\n <em>\n  A Walk in the Woods\n </em>\n may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you''ll be hooked.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard\n <em>\n  r\n </em>\n ''s. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He''s even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz''s more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.\n</p>\n<p>\n The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So,\n <em>\n  A Walk in the Woods\n </em>\n is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man''s desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it''s also a plea for the conservation of America''s last wilderness. Bryson''s telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Colleen Preston\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Iowa native Bryson decided to reconnect with his mother country by hiking the length of the 2100-mile Appalachian Trail. Awed by merely the camping section of his local sporting goods store, he nevertheless plunges into the wilderness and emerges with a consistently comical account of a neophyte woodsman learning hard lessons about self-reliance. Bryson (The Lost Continent) carries himself in an irresistibly bewildered manner, accepting each new calamity with wonder and hilarity. He reviews the characters of the AT (as the trail is called), from a pack of incompetent Boy Scouts to a perpetually lost geezer named Chicken John. Most amusing is his cranky, crude and inestimable companion, Katz, a reformed substance abuser who once had single-handedly "become, in effect, Iowa''s drug culture." The uneasy but always entertaining relationship between Bryson and Katz keeps their walk interesting, even during the flat stretches. Bryson completes the trail as planned, and he records the misadventure with insight and elegance. He is a popular author in Britain and his impeccably graceful and witty style deserves a large American audience as well.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6130'),
(10420, 'A Walk to Remember', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he''d been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he''d fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town''s Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks''s sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3089'),
(10421, 'Walking Dead', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For once, Joanne Walker''s not out to save the world. She''s come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she''s been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she''s got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.But it''s Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne''s party. Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there''s no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about itâ€”which they doâ€”no one''s getting out of there alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/851'),
(10422, 'Walking on Broken Glass', 'Christa Allan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a narrator opens her tale by declaring, I lost my sanity buying frozen apple juice, the reader knows she''s in for a witty ride. The narrator is Leah Thornton, a 27-year-old Southerner, English teacher, and middle-stage alcoholic. She''s got her reasons: her only child died of SIDS and her sexual relationship with her husband, Carl, is so troubled their marriage is devolving into a standoff between hostility and frigidity. Leah is steered into rehab by her BFF Molly, which kicks off transformation through growing honesty, self-awareness, and large doses of wry humor. Allan draws many strong, quirky minor characters: Leah''s rehab roomie, Theresa, one of a rehab unit''s worth of addicts of all manner of substances; Leah''s wry obstetrician, Dr. Nolan. A few supporting charactersâ€”Carl''s wealthy parentsâ€”feel more caricatured than characterized, and the largely unsympathetic portrait of Carl makes the reader wonder why the marriage is worth saving at all. A few major developments toward the book''s end cry out for greater resolution. But Leah is fascinating, complicated, and above all funny. This nonformulaic look at the spiritual redemption of a life is a bright start; debut novelist Allan is one to watch.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Leah Thorntonâ€™s life, like her\n  <em>\n   Southern Living\n  </em>\n  home, has great curb appeal. But a paralyzing encounter with a can of frozen apple juice in the supermarket shatters the faÃ§ade, forcing her to admit that all is not as it appears. When her best friend gets in Leahâ€™s face about her refusal to deal with her life, Leah is forced to make an agonizing decision. Can she sacrifice what she wants to get what she needs? Joy, sadness, and pain converge, testing Leahâ€™s commitment to her marriage, her motherhood, and her faith.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7286'),
(10423, 'Walking Shadow', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a shabby waterfront town, an actor is shot dead onstage. As Spenser combs Port City''s underworld for answers, he encounters an unpredictable cast of lovers, liars, killers and clowns--whose multiple motives constitute a master class in distinguishing reality from illusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4002'),
(10424, 'Walking Shadow (1994)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 21', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10570'),
(10425, 'A Wall of Light', 'Edeet Ravel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A powerful and unforgettable story of secrets, family, love, and destiny set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.      Following on the heels of the critically acclaimed  Ten Thousand Lovers  (finalist for the Governor General''s Literary Award) and  Look for Me ,  A Wall of Light  tells the story of three generations of a Tel Aviv family. Meet Anna, whose passionate letters to a lover she left behind in Russia describe the experiences of Israel''s postwar immigrants; her grandson, Noah, who in his diary documents his uncertain sexual identity and his idealism in the face of the tense political climate; and finally, Anna''s daughter, Sonya, who takes us through one momentous day in August, a day on which she "kissed a student, pursued a lover, found her father, and left her brother."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6123'),
(10426, 'The Walls of the Universe', 'Paul Melko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgÃ¤nger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return homeâ€”the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it. Meanwhile, his doppelgÃ¤nger tries to exploit the commercial technology heâ€™s stolen from other Earths: the Rubikâ€™s Cube! Johnâ€™s attempts to lie low in his new universe backfire when he inadvertently introduces pinball. It becomes a huge success. Both actions draw the notice of other, more dangerous travelers, who are exploiting worlds for ominous purposes. Fast-paced and exciting, this is SF adventure at its best from a rising star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3446'),
(10427, 'Walter Kirn', 'Lost in the Meritocracy (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2838'),
(10428, 'The wandering fire', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A mage''s power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies.Praise for *The Fionavar Tapestry*:One of the very best fantasies to have appeared since Tolkien. (Andre Norton)Kay''s intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs. (*Publishers Weekly*)Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes. (*Toronto Star*)This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to The Lord of the Rings. (*Interzone*)A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implications. (*Christian Science Monitor*)The essence of high fantasy...a remarkable achievement. (*Locus*)*The Fionavar Tapestry* is a work that will be read for many years to come. (Charles de Lint)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(10429, 'Wanderlust', 'Mary Kirchoff &amp; Steve Winter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10713'),
(10430, 'Wanted Woman', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: She skidded into town on a bike too powerful for most men, with ten thousand dollars in her saddlebag and a bullet wound in her shoulder. Maggie Randolph was searching for something and running from someone. But she didn''t plan on running into a man she could trust.... Timber Falls'' deputy sheriff Jesse Tanner had to convince the daredevil beauty that he''d protect her. But first he''d have to catch her--before it was too late. Jesse was sexy as sin, and chivalrous to boot. But Maggie wasn''t exactly playing by the books in her search for the truth about her father''s murder and her own adoption. Could she share her secrets with Jesse and find solace in his arms for good?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(10431, 'Wanted, Mail-Order Mistress', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/885'),
(10432, 'The Wapshot Chronicle', 'John Cheever', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses''s adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever''s adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6324'),
(10433, 'War', 'Sebastian Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger''s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ''War on Terror''; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ''hand grenade question'': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4124'),
(10434, 'War Against The Mafia', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No one ever before dared defy THE MAFIA. . . but THE EXECUTIONER not only defies them, he kills, maims, and tries to destroy them piece by piece, with his Vietnam-trained tactics. . . using his knowledge of jungle warfare in his one-man crusade to wipe out the evil web of organized crime in America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(10435, 'War and Peace', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy''s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world''s greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2324'),
(10436, 'War by other means: an insider&#39;s account of the war on terror', 'John Yoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Yoo, the key legal architect of the Bush administrationâ€™s response to 9/11, delivers a fascinating insider account of the War on Terror. While America reeled from the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Yoo and a skeletal staff of the Office of Legal Counsel found themselves on the phone with the White House. In a series of memos, Yoo offered his legal opinions on the presidentâ€™s authority to respond, and in the process had an almost unmatched impact on America''s fight against terrorism. His analysis led to many of the Bush administrationâ€™s most controversial policies, including detention at Guantanamo Bay, coercive interrogation, military trials for terrorists, preemptive attacks, and the National Security Agencyâ€™s wiretapping program. In fascinating detail, Yoo takes us inside the corridors of power and examines specific cases, from John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla to an American al-Qaeda leader assassinated by a CIA pilotless drone in the deserts of Yemen. In a midterm election year, when the controversies over the presidentâ€™s handling of the War on Terror are sure to wage more forcefully than ever before, John Yooâ€™s War by Other Means is set to become one of the fallâ€™s most talked about books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3017'),
(10437, 'War Drums', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The planet Selva -- a lush colony world settled by a hardy group of humans, who found theplanet already inhabited by a small gang of young Klingons. When violence erupts between the two groupas, Captain Picard and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  are sent to reder assistance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worf leads a landing party to the planet while the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  is called away on another urgent mission. On Selva, Worf and his party find that the old hatreds and prejudices between humans and Klingons are revived, and the settlers are out for blood. Now, Worf must prevent a horrible massacre before all of them fall prey to Selva''s deadly secret...and raging fury.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The planet Selva is a lush colony world settled by a hardy group of humans, who found the planet already inhabited by a small gang of young Klingons. When violence erupts between the two groups, Captain Picard and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM are sent to render assistance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worf leads a landing party to the planet while the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is called away on another urgent mission. On Selva, Worf and his party find that the old hatreds and prejudices between humans and Klingons are revived, and the settlers are out for blood. Now, Worf must prevent a horrible massacre before all of them fall prey to Selva''s deadly secret and raging fury.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7248'),
(10438, 'The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy', 'Bill Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC''s calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O''Brien to host the\n <em>\n  Tonight\n </em>\n show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. Leno''s show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC''s affiliates, while ratings for Conan''s new\n <em>\n  Tonight\n </em>\n show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. Conan''s collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. In\n <em>\n  The War for Late Night, New York Times\n </em>\n reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players- performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bill Carter\n </strong>\n joined\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n as a national media reporter in 1989. He is the author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  The Late Shift\n </em>\n , two other books on the television industry,\n <em>\n  Monday Night Mayhem\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Desperate Networks\n </em>\n , and has written numerous articles for The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He has been a guest on\n <em>\n  Nightline, Today\n </em>\n , CNN,\n <em>\n  Charlie Rose, The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams\n </em>\n , and many other shows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6551'),
(10439, 'The War Hound and the World&#39;s Pain', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During the Thirty Years War, Satan, wishing to be reconciled with God, offers a ruthless mercenary salvation if he will solve the mystery of suffering in the world\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9833'),
(10440, 'A War of Gifts: An Ender Story', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card returns to his Hugo and Nebula award-winning Enderverse saga (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Giant\n </em>\n ) with a heartwarming novella for the holidays. When Zeck Morgan, the young son of a puritanical minister, qualifies for admission into the International Fleet''s Battle School, he is brought to the school against his will. Citing his pacifist religious beliefs, Zeck refuses to participate in any simulated war games, but when he sees a Dutch student give a friend a small present in celebration of Sinterklaas Day, he reports the violation of the school''s rules against open religious observation and sparks an uproar over religious freedom and the significance of cultural traditions. Meanwhile, Zeck becomes a pariah until series hero Ender Wiggin finds a way to show him the real meaning of the holidays. Exploring themes of tolerance and compassion, this story about stuffing stockings is, fittingly, a perfect stocking stuffer for science fiction fans of all ages.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An undeniable heavyweight. . . . This book combines Card''s quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits."--_New York Daily News_ on_ Ender''s Game_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power."--_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5855'),
(10441, 'The War of the End of the World', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.  Mario Vargas Llosa is the author of eight novels, most recently The Way to Paradise (FSG, 2003), and was the recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2002. He lives in London. Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradiseâ€”and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost.In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.  â€œA magnificent storyteller . . . [Vargas Llosa] gives us a cast of unforgettable characters swept up in the upheaval . . .Â This is the work of a master, coming into full realization of his powers.â€â€”The Boston Sunday Globe â€œA powerful and haunting historical novel.â€â€”Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œA modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood.â€â€”Salman Rushdie, The New Republicâ€œA vast, fantastic, thunderous novel.â€â€”The Times (London)â€œA magnificent storyteller . . . [Vargas Llosa] gives us a cast of unforgettable characters swept up in the upheaval . . .Â This is the work of a master, coming into full realization of his powers.â€â€”The Boston Sunday Globeâ€œAn extraordinary achievement. The author gives a wonderfully vivid and impartial picture of individuals and communities.â€â€”The Guardian (London)â€œHis masterpiece.â€â€”Madison Smartt Bell\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7670'),
(10442, 'The War of the Roses', 'Warren Adler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Roses met at an auction on Cape Cod. Oliver had just bought a Staffordshire figurine-one of a pair-but Barbara outbid him for its mate. The figurines belonged together, and so did the Roses. Now the two objets d''art sat together on a shelf in the Roses'' home-symbols of the passion their owners shared. A passion that united them and now was about to tear them apart . Sharing, for Oliver and Barbara Rose, was a way of life. Living in the mansion they had restored together, with the antiques they had collected together, their rare wines, their orchids, and their children-all the beautiful things they owned-they were happy. Their latest project had been the kitchen, which was to be the core of Barbara''s new-found career as a caterer of gourmet foods. Though Oliver was a busy and successful attorney, he had shared all the planning chores with her. The tripping point occurred when Oliver collapsed with what seemed to be a heart attack, and Barbara, as he had expected, did not rush to his side. Her indifference to his fate was both galling and an eye-opener about the truth of their marriage, a truth based more on materialism than mutual sharing and love. The War of the Roses is a timeless novel. Yet, this is a story uniquely of our own time, where more and more people measure their happiness and success in terms of the things they possess. This is the book that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Shown somewhere in the world every week, the movie is an excellent adaptation of the book that has been translated in almost every language on the planet. The impact of both the book and the movie have made them both classics and brought the title The War of the Roses into the accepted jargon of divorce, describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in the process. A Major Motion Picture starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner released by Twentieth Century Fox.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3721'),
(10443, 'War of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years have passed since the fiery Cataclysm that changed the face of Krynn forever. For one hundred years, the people of Krynn have struggled to survive. But for some, those one hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.Catapulted forward in time by Raistlinâ€™s powerful magic, Caramon and Crysania find themselves aiding the mageâ€™s unholy quest to master the Queen of Darkness. To his dismay, Raistlin discovers along the way that the annals of Time are not so easily bent to his will. Neither are the longings of his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3100'),
(10444, 'The War of the Worlds', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man''s..."Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth''s comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England''s military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it''s clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1702'),
(10445, 'The War That Came Early: West and East', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having laid out the course of "the war that came early" in 2009''s Hitler''s War, Turtledove focuses on turning his characters from stock military figures into specialists. In this version of WWII, the Nazis fail to take Paris. The German war machine, apparently fed by infinite soldiers, turns not only to the western and eastern fronts but also north to Denmark. The novel most fully shines when the characters are allowed to strive for their full potential: Czech sniper Vaclav Jezek adopts an antitank rifle as his favorite weapon; German pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel ingeniously modifies his aircraft; Soviet soldier Chaim Weinberg becomes a Party propagandist; and the Goldman family tries to achieve a semblance of normal life in Nazi-ruled MÃ¼nster. The war is always present, though, and there''s plenty to satisfy fans of military strategy, tactics, and armaments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Continuing on from Hitlerâ€™s War (2009), it is now 1939, and both Germany and Russia are faced with wars on two fronts. Sergeant Fujita fights to cut off Vladivostok, while Russian pilot Sergei Yaroslavsky fights the Germans and their Polish (!) allies outside Warsaw. British Sergeant Alistair Walsh acquires a pet cat and an unreasonable familiarity with Norwegian weather as the German invasion of Scandinavia leaves the peripatetic Peggy Druce marooned in Sweden. Meanwhile, one of the few real-historical characters, Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel, earns the Knightâ€™s Cross for discovering how to turn the lumbering dive bomber into a lethal tank-buster. In Spain, Chaim Weinberg learns that the dialectic he knows so well can be as effective a weapon as a rifle, and in Shanghai, marine corporal Pete McGill learns that it may be a long, hard road to marrying his beloved, White Russian refugee Vera. And so it whirls on, the suspense building inexorably, thanks to two of Turtledoveâ€™s gifts, in particular. One is for portraying so much of the action from the viewpoint of the grunts, or even civilians, who know little of what the Great Ones are up to until the consequences are all over them. The other proceeds from the first and is for envisioning WWII unraveling like an endless ball of yarn in the paws of an intelligent kitten. Keep reading or miss something exceedingly fine. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4965'),
(10446, 'War Torn', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first in an exciting new series from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set both in Afghanistan and the UK,\n <strong>\n  War Torn\n </strong>\n revolves around a close knit group of soldiers and their friends, families, and loved ones.\n <strong>\n  War Torn\n </strong>\n has been optioned by the BBC for an eight part television series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ANDY MCNAB joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller\n <strong>\n  Bravo Two Zero\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Immediate Action\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Seven Troop\n </strong>\n . He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5542'),
(10447, 'Warbreaker', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, *Elantris,* and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is todayâ€™s leading master of what Tolkien called â€œsecondary creation,â€ the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. *Warbreaker* is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesnâ€™t like his job, and the immortal whoâ€™s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandrenâ€™s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as *breath* that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using *breath* and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9773'),
(10448, 'The Warded Man', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Voted one of the top ten fantasy novels of 2008 by amazon.co.uk.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day''s ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet''s Brook. As dusk falls each evening, a mist rises from the ground promising death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness. For hungry demons materialize from the vapours to feed, and as the shadows lengthen, all of humanity is forced to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the dawn.But when Arlen''s world is shattered by the demon plague, he realizes that it is fear, rather than the monsters, which truly cripples humanity. Only by conquering their own terror can they ever hope to defeat the demons. Now Arlen must risk leaving the safety of his wards to discover a different path, and offer humanity a last, fleeting chance of survival.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9444'),
(10449, 'Ware Hawk', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9115');
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(10450, 'Warhammer 40K: Fall of Damnos', 'Nick Kyme', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; ">\n  When Damnos is hit by cataclysmic earthquakes, an ancient force is awakened. Deep beneath the earth, the necrons rise from their slumber to decimate the human populace. All appears lost until salvation comes from the heavens â€“ the Ultramarines brave an orbital bombardment to deploy their forces on Damnos, led by two legendary warriors â€“ Captain Cato Sicarius and Chief Librarian Tigurius. They are the planets last, great hope against the remorseless alien foes, but tensions within their ranks threaten to derail victory. As battle rages on Damnos, and the Ultramarines seek to defeat their soulless enemies, Tigurius receives a terrible vision â€“ a vision telling of the death of a heroâ€¦\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7710'),
(10451, 'Warhammer 40K: The Purging of Kadillus', 'Gav Thorpe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Faced with an ork invasion of Piscina IV, the 3rd Company of the Dark Angels believes the threat to be minimal. As enemy numbers continue to increase, their commander, Captain Belial, insists that his Company are strong enough to resist. But Scout-Sergeant Naaman knows just how dangerous this foe can be, and when a renewed greenskin offensive takes the Dark Angels by surprise, the orks swarm towards Kadillus Harbour. Little do the Dark Angels know of the technological power available to the xenos, and the true scale of the threat they face. Belial, Naaman and their fellow Astartes fight a desperate siege at Kadillus, knowing that they must hold out until Imperial reinforcements arrive or the planet will be lost.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gav Thorpe has been rampaging across the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 fro many years as both an author and games developer.Â  His works include the hugely popular\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Angels of Darkness\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  , the\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Last Chancers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  series and the ongoing epic tale of\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Sundering\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5888'),
(10452, 'Warlock', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Marika, now a psychic adept in the Maksche Cloister of Silth, faces new challenges as she befriends the tradermale Bagnel, uncovers a renegade Silth sect, and confronts the mysterious, powerful Warlock\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1881'),
(10453, 'Warlock of the Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Classic Fantasy Series. "Kyllan the warrior, Kaththea the untried witch, Kemoc, whose powers could surpass all others- these are the half-Earthling, half witch-brood family menaced by the sorceries of an unknown enemy. The burden of the struggle fell to Kemoc, who was forced to summon his untested powers in the battle to match the alien evil threatening the Witch World."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9075'),
(10454, 'The Warlord of the Air', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9837'),
(10455, 'Warlord: An Alex Hawke Novel', 'Ted Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Counterspy Alexander Hawke races to stop a madman hell-bent on murdering the British royal family in this latest spellbinding action thriller in Ted Bellâ€™s New York Times bestselling series. Alex Hawke has all but given up on life. The British-American MI6 counterterrorism operative lost the woman he loved almost a year ago and has sought refuge at the bottom of a rum bottle ever since. But late one night at his home on Bermuda, he receives a wake-up call . . . literally. His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend, desperately needs his help. The prince has discovered a not-so-subtle threat directed toward the British royal family. Whatâ€™s more, the evidence reveals an ominous connection to Charlesâ€™s god-father, Lord Mountbattenâ€”the beloved family patriarch assassinated by an ingeniously designed bomb thirty years before. A shadowy figure from the past has the British crown in his sights, and has proven once before that his warnings are not to be taken lightly. Several clues point to IRA involvement, but the authorities have little to go on and answers are scarce. This is just the call to duty Hawke needs to get back into actionâ€”if the madman doesnâ€™t strike first. Alex Hawke, one of the most dashing and compelling action heroes in all of thriller fiction, faces his most formidable challenge yet in *Warlord*, a gripping, white-knuckled adventure told with verve and swashbuckling panache by a master of the art.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3364'),
(10456, 'Warlords of Gaikon', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Richard Blade arrives in the Empire of Gaikon - a feudal society - a land much like Japan ruled by the Tokugawa Shoguns. This is the 18th volume in the Richard Blade Heroic Fantasy Series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1911'),
(10457, 'The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America&#39;s Great Migration', 'Isabel Wilkerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, **The Warmth of Other Suns** is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an â€œunrecognized immigrationâ€ within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5273'),
(10458, 'Warp speed', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Neal Anson Clemons, brilliant physicist and martial arts expert, was born at the very moment that men first landed on the moon, and his dream had always been to find a way to travel to the stars. And now he and his team have achieved a breakthrough, both in building a warp drive, and finding a new energy source powerful enough to make the drive more than an interesting theoretical concept. With the help of a beautiful Air Force Major and astronaut, Tabitha Ames, the US Government has funded the project, including assembly in orbit of the first faster-than-light probe. Unfortunately, forces working behind the scenes have much darker dreams, and they do not hesitate to blow up a space shuttle, attempt to kill Neal and Tabitha, and use the stolen warp technology to start what they expect to be a short victorious war with the United States. But Neal has ideas for using warp drive completely unsuspected by America''s enemies, and repelling the all-out attack is only the beginning of a titanic struggle to reach the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4199'),
(10459, 'Warrior', 'Zoe Archer &amp; Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond - where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn''t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress - just what he needs. Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artefact Thalia is after. Huntley''s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn''t easy to deceive...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5218'),
(10460, 'The Warrior Elite: The Forging of Seal Class 228', 'Dick Couch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a pod of good books on the SEALs, but this one is unique. Couch, a Vietnam-era SEAL and retired naval reserve captain, was given the most complete access possible to the demanding BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) course and has recorded his observations, those of one who has been there and done a good deal of that. His account of Hell Week, the culmination of a formidable three-phase course intended to produce men who are physically, psychologically, and technically the best in the world at what they do, may leave the average reader short of breath. Few Hollywood stereotypes are on view; in their stead are a man who passed BUD/S at age 39, a superb swimmer who was disqualified for sinus problems, and a trainee at the low end of the fitness scale who subsequently won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Also on view is much serious thought by serious thinkers on the making of warriors at the dawn of the twenty-first century.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The Warrior Elite is\n </strong>\n the first book that captures how the SEAL spirit is tempered. It reveals all the grit, sweat, mud, and blood of BUID/S training -- real-time, down and dirty. This is a must-read if you want to know what becoming a virtual warrior is all about." -- Governor Jesse Ventura, BUD/S Class 58\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderful, thought-provoking book by Dick Couch and a quick study of human personalities; his conclusions are optimistic and uplifting." -- Vice Admiral James Stockdale (USN. Ret.) Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Warrior Elite\n <em>\n </em>\n offers superb insight into the making of a Navy SEAL. Dick Couch takes the reader through the incredible challenges of basic training and into the minds of these unique warriors who comprise our nation''s highly selective fighting force. Having served extensively with Dick in combat as junior officers in Vietnam, I now understand the "how''s and why''s" of his profession and the SEALs'' commitment to mission.\n <strong>\n  The Warrior Elite\n </strong>\n captures the essence of a Navy SEAL -- the indomitable will to win and steadfast commitment to team." -- Robert J. Natter, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet\n</p>\n<p>\n "An authentic voice that spells out what it takes to become a SEAL--the sheer grit to overcome all obstacles. America is lucky that it continues to attract such men as these to serve." -- Theodore Roosevelt IV, Class 36\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7059'),
(10461, 'Warrior Priest of Dmon-Li', 'Brian Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When James destroyed the Iron Mines at Sorna in a mammoth volcanic eruption after rescuing Miko from his enslavement, massive tsunamis wreaked havoc all along the Empireâ€™s coastland. This brought the attention of certain powers within the Empire to bear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now with a warrior priest of Dmon-Li in pursuit, James must lead the others safely out of the Empire to the relative safety of the kingdom of Cardri. After a disastrous sea voyage leaves them shipwrecked on the coast of an unforgiving swamp full of cannibals and ferocious creatures, they must forge their way north in an attempt to escape the clutches of the Empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Warrior Priest of Dmon-Li\n </em>\n , James is tested to the very limits of his endurance and intelligence. With Miko and Jiron beside him, he faces incredible challenges, both in battle and in reasoning. Their very survival will depend on how well he meets these challenges.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why did I decide to write The Morcyth Saga? I suppose the main reason was due to the many series which were currently popular at the time. Series that in the beginning grabbed hold of me and wouldn''t let go, but then over time began to lose momentum in a mire of subplots and overlong descriptive paragraphs which I found myself skipping. When I realized I was skipping pages at a time to pass through a subplot that didn''t really move the story along to get to the what I would consider the `good points'' (action, adventure, actually seeing the main characters) I figured I could do better.\n</p>\n<p>\n So I set out to write a series in which the reader followed the main character 90% of the time, action or points of interest were in every chapter, and descriptive content was down to a minimum. As a reader I knew I could create my own visualization of surroundings and figured others could to. I mean, do you really need me to go in depth as to what a teenage boy''s room looks like? Doesn''t `messy boy''s room'' bring up an instant visual? Stuff like that is what I mean. Certainly there are those who prefer grand descriptive content and a myriad of plots that takes a notepad to keep track of. To them I would say The Morcyth Saga is not for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n As to the story itself, I was a role player decades ago in high school. And I got to thinking about how interesting it would be should a gamer be thrust into a world in which his gaming experiences could help him thrive. After all, if you take a person from our world and thrust them into a world of magic, wouldn''t it be helpful to select someone who would be more amenable to the prospect of magic? Perhaps one whose very interests were along those lines? That was how James came into being, a high school senior who loves creating and then running his friends through his creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Morcyth Saga and The Broken Key Trilogy are both written along gaming lines. The Morcyth Saga is about a gamer that is thrust into a world of magic while The Broken Key is written in role playing style.\n</p>\n<p>\n You can check out excerpts, maps, and other information about both series at my website. If you have never read one of my books before, I would suggest checking out the excerpts before you buy so you can make sure you like it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6748'),
(10462, 'The Warrior Prophet', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Holy War fomented by the mysterious prophet Maithanet between "the two great faiths of Inrithism and Fanimry" in\n  <em>\n   The Darkness That Comes Before\n  </em>\n  (2004), the critically acclaimed first book in the epic fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Bakker, explodes in this compelling, if overly long, sequel set in the medieval world of EÃ¤rwa. Like many a traditional historical chronicle, the book mentions a plethora of people and places only in passing, but the all-too-human tale of love, hatred and justice, centered on the sorcerer Drusas Achamian and the monk AnasÃ»rimbor Kellhus (aka "the prince of nothing") and their respective harlot lady friends with hearts of gold, Esmenet and SerwÃ«, keeps the pages turning. The final cinematic scene, of a vast landscape filled with enormous armies, nicely sets the stage for book three of this daringly unconventional series in the Tolkien mold.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[R. Scott Bakker is a] class act like George R. R. Martin, or his fellow Canadians Steven Erikson and Guy Gavriel Kay. He gets right away from the ''downtrodden youth becoming king'' aspect of epic fantasy in his very impressive first novel - The Darkness That Comes Before. No clunky analogy of medieval Europe here. Odd, fascinating characters in a world full of trouble and sorcery.'' "10 Authors to Watch," SFX Magazine ''Compelling... Keeps the pages turning. The final cinematic scene, of a vast landscape filled with enormous armies, nicely sets the stage for book three of this daringly unconvetional series in the Tolkien mold.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6728'),
(10463, 'Warrior Spirit', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: a priceless artifact could restore a family''s honor â€” or destroy everything in its wake.While vacationing in Tokyo, archaeologist Annja Creed is approached by a man who desperately needs her help. Kennichi Ogawa, the last descendant of an ancient warrior family, is trying to locate a stolen artifact. Legend has it that the vajra was mystically endowed by a warrior''s spirit to help the Yumegakure-ryu family forever be a source for good. But the vajra could help the forces of evil if it gets into the wrong hands. And now the bloodthirsty Yakuza and a group of hired ninja are after it. As Annja and Kennichi trek through the fog-enshrouded mountains of the Iga province to find the relic, they must also outsmart the vicious Yakuza and ninja who are dangerously close to uncovering the vajra firstâ€¦and to destroying their competition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(10464, 'The Warrior&#39;s Apprentice', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After failing to pass the physicals for the Barrayaran Military Academy, the brittle-boned, dwarfish son of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan uses a clever touch of creativity to finance a shipment of munitions into a war zone. When this simple merchant expedition draws the attention of an unexpected enemy, Miles is forced to masquerade as commander of a fictional fleet of hired guns he names after the mountains near his home--the Dendarii Mercenaries. His original crew of misfits grows into a considerable force as enemies become allies, guided by the delicate political manoeuvrings Miles learned from his father. Miles'' ability to think himself out of a tight spot makes him a natural - if unlikely - leader, but this adventure in deep space is just a warm-up. On his homeworld of Barrayar, a deadly plot has been hatched against his father, Aral. A carefully planned trap is being laid, and only the wiles of the empire''s unlikeliest hero can thwart it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9034'),
(10465, 'A Warrior&#39;s Life: A Biography of Paulo Coelho', 'Fernando Morais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at his life and work, and what makes him the much-loved author he is today.Paulo''s first official biographer, Fernando Morais, provides an exhaustive look at Paulo''s fascinating and varied life, taking several years to research his subject, and interviewing everyone who knows Paulo. He weaves together the strands of Paulo''s life, revealing the man behind the world-famous writer.Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. Before he became internationally known and a worldwide bestseller, he had to overcome many obstacles. As a teenager, he was subjected to the brutality of electric shock treatment in the psychiatric hospital where his parents, who took his rebelliousness as a sign of madness, interned him three times. As a member of the esoteric underworld, he was put in prison for alleged subversive activities against the Brazilian dictatorship and subjected to physical torture.Later, Paulo joined forces with rock star Raul Seixas and together they composed songs that revolutionized Brazilian rock music. Hippie, journalist, rock star, actor, playwright, theatre director and producer of television programs, this whirlwind life came to an end in 1982, during a trip to Europe. In Dachau and later in Amsterdam, Paulo had a mystical meeting with "J", his new mentor, who persuaded him to walk the Road to Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrim''s route between France and Spain.In 1986 Paulo walked the Road to Santiago, and it was there that he reconverted to Christianity and found again the faith bequeathed to him by the Jesuit fathers of his school years. He would later describe this experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage. The following year, The Alchemist, established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Now, for the first time, discover the true story of the man behind some of the world''s most loved books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(10466, 'The Warrior&#39;s Tale', 'Allan Cole; Chris Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Captain Rali Emilie Antero and her elite corps of amazons, the Maranon Guard, must embark on a suicide mission with the wizard Gamelon on a hunt for an evil wizard who possesses a doomsday spell capable of destroying all civilization. Rali''s search takes her to the end of the world and beyond -- but only in the uncharted waters of her own soul would she find the power to defeat the wizard and return home in triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(10467, 'Warriors of Latan', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1921'),
(10468, 'The Warsaw Anagrams', 'Richard Zimler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Warsaw Anagrams\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â³Beautifully written, moving and disturbing, this packs a powerful, emotional punch.Â² --_The Guardian_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Richard ZimlarÂ¹s\n  <em>\n   The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â³ZimlerÂ¹s portrait of the city... enriches his many-layered narrative, in which a suitably complex cast of characters plays a dangerous game with fate.Â²--_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n Â³A literary and historical treat.Â²--_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Â³A riveting literary murder mystery.Â²--_Independent on Sunday_\n</p>\n<p>\n Â³Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco.Â² --_Spectator_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, Adam. One bitterly cold winter''s day, Adam goes missing. The next morning, his body is discovered in the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. The boy''s leg has been cut off, and a tiny piece of string has been left in his mouth. Soon, another body turns up - this time a girl''s, and one of her hands has been taken. Evidence begins to point to a Jewish traitor luring children to their death...In this profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric historical thriller, the reader is taken into the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied Warsaw - as well as into the most heroic places of the heart. Praise for Richard Zimler: ''A riveting literary murder mystery, [The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon] is also a harrowing picture of the persecution of 16th-century Jews and, in passing, an atmospheric introduction to the hermetic Jewish tradition of the Kabbalah'' - "Independent on Sunday". ''Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco'' - "Spectator". ''Zimler has this spark of genius, which critics can''t explain but readers recognise, and which every novelist desires but few achieve'' - "Independent". ''Zimler is an honest, powerful writer'' - "Guardian".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8544'),
(10469, 'Wartime Lies', 'Louis Begley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The "lies" in this haunting, powerful Holocaust novel are not just the Nazis'' monstrous racialist myths, but also the personal fictions adopted by their victims in order to survive. Two such survivors are orphaned nine-year-old Maciek and his sharp-tongued aunt, Tania. Posing as Catholic Poles to hide their Jewish identity, constantly on the move, they witness slaughter in the Warsaw Ghetto from a nearby rooftop and, later, break ranks on a march to cattle cars destined for Auschwitz. As narrator, Maciek speaks in a voice much more mature than his years alone suggest, yet his simple matter-of-factness lends a keen moral edge to his observations on the bestiality and irrationality around him. Just as the war ends, Poles carry out a bloody pogrom, and both nephew and aunt assume new surnames, living under new lies. Scattered italicized passages summoning up Dante and Virgil suggest the enormity of evil, a superfluous device in this searing story of the quest for an authentic self in an insane world.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The teller of this tale reveres the Aeneid because "that is where he first found civil expression for his own shame at being alive, skin intact and virgin of tattoo, when his kinsmen and almost all the others, so many surely more deserving than he, perished in the conflagration." Indeed, this seems a very real attempt on the part of the author to expurgate, or at least come to terms with, a sense of guilt that has haunted him throughout his life and to reflect on the lingering impact of evil on individual lives. Survival in wartime often requires compromise, but for a young Jewish boy and his aunt, survival in wartime Poland requires a total suspension of identity. It is the ultimate act of theater, requiring a careful and constant denial of one''s heritage. For the child, the tragedy is that suspension becomes loss: "He became an embarrassment and slowly died. A man who bears one of the names Maciek used has replaced him. . . . Our man has no childhood he can bear to remember." A moving addition to Holocaust literature and one well recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7306'),
(10470, 'Washington', 'Ron Chernow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10499'),
(10471, 'Washington I.O.U.', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Power Play. . . Thats the Washington game. When Mack Bolan crashes onto the scene he discovers a rats nest of mobsters and so-called political untouchables building a new game in town. Here, at the nerve center of America, the Executioner finds his quarry once again - for the Mafia enforcers have been hard at work in various areas directly linked to the government. Its Bolans toughest and most delicate mission so far. Law and order, the White House itself, are nearly powerless to cope with the insidious threat. Enter the Executioner. A new player. And a whole new game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(10472, 'Washington Rules: America&#39;s Path to Permanent War', 'Andrew J. Bacevich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must changeFor the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America''s military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned gospel.In a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America''s needs and desiresâ€”whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the worldâ€”to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America''s future, and may yet offer the key to the country''s salvation.  Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of The Limits of Power and The New American Militarism. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the recipient of a Lannan Award and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America''s military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned gospel.In a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America''s needs and desiresâ€”whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the worldâ€”to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America''s future, and may yet offer the key to the country''s salvation.  â€œTo say that Washington Rules is a breath of fresh air in the debate over U.S. foreign policy would be like comparing a zephyr to a hurricane. Writing with Force-Five fury, Andrew Bacevich lays bare the dogmas and shibboleths that have animated national security doctrine for the last half century and produced an Orwellian nightmare of permanent war in the name of permanent peace. This passionate, often discomforting book brings rare clarity to a subject of urgent importance for all Americans.â€â€”David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945â€œAgainst a national strategy gone astray, Bacevich offers a unique combination of rigorous analysis and emotion-powered protest. May it be widely read, may it disenthrall us from the academic generals, militant academics, and cynical politicians who insist that we must invest blood and treasure in mud-brick Afghan villages, while China invests in advanced technology.â€â€”Edward N. Luttwak author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine EmpireÂ  â€œâ€˜Washington Rulesâ€™ is the author''s shorthand for the American conviction that we always represent the good and the pure in international affairs. His powerful book clearly demonstrates how threadbare this idea has become.â€â€”Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy and Dismantling the Empireâ€œThe hard-earned insights of this veteran, analyst, insider, and parent will resonate with people across the political spectrum and offer a serious, riveting, and authentically personal critique of U.S. power.â€â€”Amy Goodman, host and executive producer ofÂ Democracy Now!â€œBacevich presents compelling and alarming evidence that our nation is locked into a counterproductive global military presence sustained by power projection and interventionism by military force. A must-read for all those concerned with Americaâ€™s future.â€â€”Lt. General (USA, Ret.) Robert G. Gard, Jr., PhDâ€œWashington Rules dissects the convictions that have turned the United States into a warrior nationâ€”a country devoted to military solutions that do little, if anything, to enhance its security or advance the well-being of its citizens or the foreign peoples on whom we inflict our illusory benevolence. A brilliant historianâ€™s analysis of what ails America, this book should be read by every national officeholder and and by all who care about Americaâ€™s future safety and prosperity.â€â€”Robert Dallek, author of The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953â€œWashington Rules exposes well-entrenched assumptions that for decades have underlain ineffective and costly U.S. policies. Bacevich shines a bright light on the meaning of national security and what it requires, while addressing fundamental but long-ignored questions about America''s place in the world and the role of military power.â€â€”Paul R. Pillar author of Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy"Valiant .Â . . welcome thinking by a former military man who has seen the light."â€”Kirkus Reviews"U.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military policy. These central tenets, the ''Washington rules''â€”such as the belief that the world order depends on America maintaining a massive military capable of rapid and forceful interventions anywhere in the worldâ€”have dominated national security policy since the start of the cold war and have condemned the U.S. to ''insolvency and perpetual war.'' Despite such disasters as America''s defeat in Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis, the self-perpetuating policy is so entrenched that no president or influential critic has been able to alter it. Bacevich argues that while the Washington rules found their most pernicious expression in the Bush doctrine of preventive war, Barack Obama''s expansion of the Afghan War is also cause for pessimism: ''We should be grateful to him for making at least one thing unmistakably clear: to imagine that Washington will ever tolerate second thoughts about the Washington rules is to engage in willful self-deception. Washington itself has too much to lose.''"â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8108'),
(10473, 'Washington Rules: America&#39;s Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project)', 'Andrew Bacevich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n U.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military policy. These central tenets, the "Washington rules"--such as the belief that the world order depends on America maintaining a massive military capable of rapid and forceful interventions anywhere in the world--have dominated national security policy since the start of the cold war and have condemned the U.S. to "insolvency and perpetual war." Despite such disasters as America''s defeat in Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis, the self-perpetuating policy is so entrenched that no president or influential critic has been able to alter it. Bacevich argues that while the Washington rules found their most pernicious expression in the Bush doctrine of preventive war, Barack Obama''s expansion of the Afghan War is also cause for pessimism: "We should be grateful to him for making at least one thing unmistakably clear: to imagine that Washington will ever tolerate second thoughts about the Washington rules is to engage in willful self-deception. Washington itself has too much to lose."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The U.S. spends more on the military than the entire rest of the world combined and maintains 300,000 troops abroad in an â€œempire of bases,â€ all part of a credo of global leadership and a consensus that the U.S. must maintain a state of semiwar. The Washington consensus, across administrations dating back to the cold war, is that the world must be organized in alignment with American principles, even if it means using force. Bacevich, with background in the military at the rank of retired army colonel and the perspective afforded by academia, offers a vivid and critical analysis of the assumptions behind the credo of global leadership and eternal military vigilance that has become increasingly expensive and unsustainable. He details American misadventures from the Bay of Pigs to the invasion in Iraq, and the most prominent figures (â€œsemiwarriors par excellenceâ€) behind the credo, notably Allen Dulles, director of the CIA in the 1950s, and Curtis LeMay, director of the Strategic Air Command during the same period. The credo of global leadership and hyper-militarism is so ingrained and resilient in the U.S. psyche that it survived even the doubts that surfaced after the miserable failure of U.S. military might in Vietnam. Whatever their party or philosophy, all presidents want to project an image of toughness that has made them vulnerable to the credo, at great cost in American dollars and lives. Bacevich challenges Washington (the president, Congress, and the military industrial complex) as well as citizens to rethink the credo that has directed national security for generations. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10792'),
(10474, 'The Wasp Factory', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank''s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric''s escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother''s inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks'' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6688'),
(10475, 'Waste Land and Other Poems', 'T. S. Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "April is the cruelist month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." This is the first line of T. S. Eliot''s most famous poem, "Wasteland". His next offering, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" repeats, "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo." The other poems are as haunting, if not as famous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3789'),
(10476, 'The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King''s epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King''s most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. In November 2003, the fifth installment, Wolves of the Calla, will be published under the imprint of Donald M. Grant, with distribution and major promotion provided by Scribner. Song of Susannah, Book VI, and The Dark Tower, Book VII, will follow under the same arrangement in 2004. With these last three volumes finally on the horizon, readers-countless King readers who have yet to delve into The Dark Tower and a multitude of new and old fantasy fans-can now look forward to reading the series straight through to its stunning conclusion. Viking''s elegant reissue of the first four books ensures that for the first time The Dark Tower will be widely available in hardcover editions for this eager readership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4323'),
(10477, 'The Waste Lands', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8564'),
(10478, 'Wastelands', 'John Joseph Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today''s most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2882'),
(10479, 'Watch Them Die', 'Kevin O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Different Victims - The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist.Different Methods - The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out of an open window.Same Madman - In the city of Seattle, no single woman is safe. From afar he watches the ones he so desperately wants. Willing to do whatever it takes to prove his love. But should his latest obsession betray him, he will have no choice but to punish her. By finding new and brutal ways to teach her a lesson. And by finally loving her - to death...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3069'),
(10480, 'Watchers', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **â€œA superior thrillerâ€(*Oakland Press*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling authorâ€”now in trade paperback for the first time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever, who will let him go no further into the dark woods.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a friendâ€”a dog of alarming intelligenceâ€”and a threat that could only have come from the darkest corners of manâ€™s imaginationâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(10481, 'The Watchers at the Well', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5629');
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(10482, 'Watchers of Time', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his latest novel, bestselling author Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a postwar world. Now a Scotland Yard investigator, Rutledge is called upon to probe a small-town murder â€” and discovers that it may be connected to one of the greatest disasters of all time....Watchers of TimeIn Osterley, a marshy Norfolk backwater, a man lies dying on a rainy autumn night. While natural causes will surely claim Herbert Bakerâ€™s life in a matter of hours, his last request baffles his family and friends. Baker, a devout Anglican, inexplicably demands to see the townâ€™s Catholic priest for a last confession. The old man dies without knowing that the very priest who gave him comfort will follow him to the grave just a few weeks later â€” the victim of an appalling murder.The local police are convinced the evidence points to an interrupted robbery, and have named a suspect, Matthew Walsh. But the dead priestâ€™s bishop insists that Scotland Yard oversee the investigation. A simple task for Rutledge, a man not yet well enough to return to full duty. The Inspector draws on years of experience and a war-honed intuition as he finds himself uncovering secrets that the local authorities would prefer not to see explored. Surely, they reason, it is better to charge an outsider â€” Matthew Walsh â€” with murder than to learn that someone in this tightly knit community would commit such a horrendous crime. And yet there are those, Rutledge soon discovers, who held grudges against the priest that had little to do with God or the Church. No one in Osterley is aware that Rutledge hears voices â€” or, rather, one haunting voice: that of a soldier he was forced to execute during the War. It is with the voice of Hamish MacLeod, by turns second-guessing and taunting him, that Rutledge begins a journey toward the devastating truth that will unlock the secrets of Osterley and pare away its layers of deception. And in piecing together a different story, Rutledge encounters a chain of events that stretches from these brooding marshes to one of the greatest sea disasters in history â€” the sinking of the Titanic. Who is the mysterious woman who may have boarded that ship ... and who is the secretive woman who survived it? Rutledge comes to believe that he alone can stop a killer from striking again. Deftly capturing the anguish of a man haunted by his tragic past, Watchers of Time delves beneath a cast of unforgettable characters to examine a mystery even greater than murder: the mystery of what is right and what is wrong after the world has committed the sin of war.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5680'),
(10483, 'the Watchman (2007)', 'Crais, Robert - Joe Pike 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9956'),
(10484, 'The Water Clock', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Time is running out for Philip Dryden...In the snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire fens, a body is discovered, locked in a block of ice. High on Ely Cathedral a second corpse is found, grotesquely ''riding'' a stone gargoyle. Journalist Philip Dryden knows he''s onto a great story when forensic evidence links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966. But the murders also offer Dryden the key to a very personal mystery. Who saved his life two years ago? And, more importantly, who left his wife to die? The answer will bring Dryden face to face with his own guilt, his own fears - and a cold and ruthless killer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1842'),
(10485, 'The Water Eater', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Most experiments were dropped because they failedâ€”and some because they worked too well!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6310'),
(10486, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea. The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3268'),
(10487, 'The Water Room', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Traditional mystery buffs with a taste for the offbeat will relish British author Fowler''s wonderful second contemporary whodunit featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit and its elderly odd couple, Arthur Bryant and John May (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Full Dark House\n </em>\n ). A former colleague asks the eccentric Bryant, whose lack of polish coupled with a razor-sharp mind will remind many of Carter Dickson''s Sir Henry Merrivale, to investigate his sister''s death. Incredibly, the victim was found dead in her basement, apparently drowned, despite the absence of any moisture on her body or her surroundings. Bryant rapidly loops in his more down-to-earth partner, May, who has also been looking into a mystery with a personal connectionâ€”the unusual nocturnal ramblings of a disgraced academic who has begun probing London''s underground rivers. More strange deaths follow before the unmasking of the surprising murderer. The author''s black humor evokes Peter Lovesey''s Peter Diamond series, and his successful revival of the impossible crime genre is reminiscent of John Sladek''s superb Thackeray Phin novels,\n <em>\n  Invisible Green\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Black Aura\n </em>\n . Best known for his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.), Fowler should win a whole new set of readers with these fair-play puzzlers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Britain''s Fowler seems to be one of those multitalented types who can write anything and do it well. He has written edgy thrillers, wildly imaginative fantasies, and memorable short fiction; now, with the Bryant and May series (of which this is the second installment), he has come up with a clever twist on the traditional police procedural. Arthur Bryant and John May, "both far beyond the statutory retirement age," are members of London''s Peculiar Crimes Unit; they''ve been partners for more than 50 years. You don''t see many senior citizens in mystery fiction who aren''t amateur sleuths, but these guys are pros, and they''re about as far away from your typical kindly old meddler as you can imagine. This time they''re trying to find out how an elderly woman managed to drown in her dry basement, and the plot itself proves perfectly satisfying. But the real thrill here is the delightful duo in the starring roles, two fresh and unusual characters who manage to breathe new life into an established genre in which it''s getting harder and harder to find anything genuinely fresh.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8459'),
(10488, 'Water Sleeps', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1898'),
(10489, 'The Water Wars', 'Cameron Stracher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "THE WATER WARS is a gripping environmental thriller with a too-real message. Cameron Stracher tells a story with quick pacing, compelling characters and a vision of a frightening future." - Howard Gordon, Executive Producer, ''24,'' and author of Gideon''s War (forthcoming 2011).\n  <br />\n  (Howard Gordon )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Let us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in THE WATER WARS is testament solely to his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the future. I was parched just reading it." -- Laurie David, academy award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth, and author of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming\n  <br />\n  (Laurie David )\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the tradition of THE HUNGER GAMES, Cameron Stracher''s WATER WARS is both a trenchant cautionary tale of a world drained of its most precious resource and a rousing adventure-story of the plucky young heroes who set out to save it. Perfect for young readers-but with more than enough substance for mom and dad as well.\n  <br />\n  --Justin Cronin, author of THE PASSAGE (Justin Cronin )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Would you risk everything for someone you just met?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What if he had a secret worth killing for?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Welcome to a future where water is more precious than\n  <strong>\n   oil or gold...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of millions of people have already died, and millions more will soon fall-victims of disease, hunger, and dehydration. It is a time of drought and war. The rivers have dried up, the polar caps have melted, and drinkable water is now in the hands of the powerful few. There are fines for wasting it and prison sentences for exceeding the quotas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Kai didn''t seem to care about any of this. He stood in the open road drinking water from a plastic cup, then spilled the remaining drops into the dirt. He didn''t go to school, and he traveled with armed guards. Kai claimed he knew a secret-something the government is keeping from us...\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then he was gone. Vanished in the middle of the night. Was he kidnapped? Did he flee? Is he alive or dead? There are no clues, only questions. And no one can guess the lengths to which they will go to keep him silent. We have to find him-and the truth-before it is too late for all of us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Let us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in The Water Wars is testament solely to his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the future. I was parched just reading it."\n  <br />\n  -Laurie David, Academy Awardâ€“winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and author of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A gripping environmental thriller with a too-real message."\n  <br />\n  - Howard Gordon, executive producer of 24 and author of Gideon''s War\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20100901)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6878'),
(10490, 'Water, Stone, Heart', 'Will North', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newly divorced, Andrew Stratton lives in his head and not with his heart. He teaches architectural theory but has never built a building. He writes about â€œThe Anatomy of Livable Placesâ€â€“ communities where form and material are in harmonyâ€“but has no sense of where he belongs. He is capable of deep, tender emotions but is unable to express them. When his wife leaves him for another man and excoriates his cautious nature in the process, Andrew is like a house shaken off a faulty foundation. Sifting through the rubble, he must figure out what should be salvaged and what should be scrapped. Escaping from the predictable routine of his university life in Philadelphia, Andrew travels to England and channels his pain into a weeklong course on building stone walls. In the village of Boscastle, he discovers a magical landscape of dizzying cliffs, jagged coastline, lush valleys, and hills lined with stone hedges that have stood the test of time. At the Stone Academy, Andrew immerses himself in the grueling task of piecing together rock into intricate walls. Under the tutelage of his weathered instructor, he learns there is more to laying stone than hard labor. And he soon falls under the spell of Boscastleâ€™s rhythms and quirks, which include a weekly sing-along, a museum devoted to witchcraft, and a colorful group of residents ranging from a precocious nine-year-old girl who communes with nature to an offbeat reverend who has been known to give referrals to the town witch.Moved by the warmth and connectedness of the village, Andrew begins to shed his sheltered self. But his willingness to open his heart is tested when he falls for Nicola Rhys-Jones, an American expatriate seeking to escape a history of abuse. Thorny, sarcastic, and sexy, Nicola is an artist who paints tranquility panels for hospitals. But her life before Boscastle has been anything but peaceful. As their verbal sparring veers into darker territory, Andrew grapples with his status in Boscastle. Is he just a tourist on holiday or does he now have a stake in the village that has welcomed him? Readers new to Will Northâ€™s work as well as fans of The Long Walk Home will be swept away by this bittersweet novel about love, loss, and the power of nature to alter our lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5016'),
(10491, 'Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization', 'Steven Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and the Indus River Valley to the present. Solomon (_The Confidence Game_) advances a persuasive argument: the prosperity of nations and empires has depended on their access to water and their ability to harness water resources. The story he tells is familiar, but his emphasis on water is unique: he shows how the Nile''s flood patterns determined political unity and dynastic collapses in Egypt. He suggests that the construction of China''s Grand Canal made possible a sixth-century reunification that eluded the Roman Empire. Finally, he attributes America''s rise to superpower status to such 20th-century water innovations as the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam. Solomon surveys the current state of the world''s water resources by region, making a compelling case that the U.S. and other leading democracies have untapped strategic advantages that will only become more significant as water becomes scarcer.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Solomonâ€™s unprecedented, all-encompassing, and resounding inquiry into the science and politics of water is predicated on two incontrovertible yet disregarded facts: water is essential to life and civilization. After elucidating waterâ€™s defining role in the planetâ€™s climate and quantifying the earthâ€™s limited supply of freshwater, Solomon describes in vivid detail the water technologies of the ancient river societies of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Assyria. On to Rome and its world-altering aqueducts and advanced sanitation, a crucial subject covered in depth when Solomon turns to nineteenth-century London, after telling the fascinating story of Chinaâ€™s bold and transforming waterworks. By the time Solomon reaches America and its water-powered industrialization, it becomes clear that the technological marvels of one era deliver the environmental challenges of the next. The triumphs of water harnessed, therefore, give way to accounts of water polluted and squandered. Solomon shares sobering revelations about the harsh disparities between the lives of those who have water and those who donâ€™t, reports on the cruel consequences of todayâ€™s water scarcities, and assesses the potential for a nightmarish impending freshwater famine. Seeking to inspire us to place a higher value on water and establish wiser approaches to its use, Solomon has created a brilliantly discursive and compelling epic of humankind and earthâ€™s most vital and precious resource. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8144'),
(10492, 'The Water&#39;s Edge', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Amarried couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristineâ€™s horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell phone. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre begin to make inquiries in the little town of Solberglia. But then another boy disappears, and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile, the Risâ€™s marriage starts to unravel as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them. A riveting portrayal of a communityÂ—its insiders, its outsiders, its fissures, and its secretsÂ—from Norwayâ€™s "Queen of Crime," Karin Fossum. (20090816)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3044'),
(10493, 'Watermelon', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A hilarious and bittersweet tale of baby-blues and fruitless men. At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to tell her that heâ€™s leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. So, in the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of her (albeit quirky) family, she gets better. A lot better. In fact, so much better that when James slithers back into her life, heâ€™s in for a bit of a surprise.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9949'),
(10494, 'The Waters Rising', 'Sheri S. Tepper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10386'),
(10495, 'Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  First published in 1972, Richard Adam''s extraordinary bestseller Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen:  to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests, and riverbanks, far beyond our cities and towns.  It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership, and survival; and epic tale of a hardy band of Berkshire rabbits forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Watership Down\n  </em>\n  has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it''s often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn''t cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams''s bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels,\n  <em>\n   Watership Down\n  </em>\n  is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won''t "get" it, into reading it), but it''s equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates,\n  <em>\n   Watership Down\n  </em>\n  will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Quite Marvelous...A Powerful New Vision of the Great Chain of Being." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spellbinding...Marvelous...A Taut Tale of Suspense, Hot Pursuit, and Derring-Do." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do." --\n  <em>\n   --Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6184'),
(10496, 'The Waterworks', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œAn elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.â€â€“The Washington Post Book WorldOne rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancerâ€™s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorowâ€™s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of *The New York Times*, â€œa dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.â€â€œStartling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the swift, sure vessel of [Doctorowâ€™s] poetic imagination.â€â€“*The New York Times Book Review*â€œHypnotic . . . a dazzling romp, an extraordinary read, given strength and grace by the telling, by the poetic voice and controlled cynical lyricism of its streetwise and world-weary narrator.â€â€“*The Philadelphia Inquirer*â€œA gem of a novel, intimate as chamber music . . . a thriller guaranteed to leave readers with residual chills and shudders.â€â€“*Boston Sunday Herald*â€œEnthralling . . . a story of debauchery and redemption that is spellbinding from first page to last.â€â€“*Chicago Sun-Times*â€œAn immense, extraordinary achievement.â€*â€“San Francisco Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(10497, 'The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean', 'Susan Casey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Casey, O magazine editor-in-chief, travels across the world and into the past to confront the largest waves the oceans have to offer. This dangerous water includes rogue waves south of Africa, storm-born giants near Hawaii, and the biggest wave ever recorded, a 1,740 foot-high wall of wave (taller than one and a third Empire State Buildings) that blasted the Alaska coastline in 1958. Casey follows big-wave surfers in their often suicidal attempts to tackle monsters made of H2O, and also interviews scientists exploring the danger that global warning will bring us more and larger waves. Casey writes compellingly of the threat and beauty of the ocean at its most dangerous. We get vivid historical reconstructions and her firsthand account of being on a jet-ski watching surfers risk their lives. Casey also smoothly translates the science of her subject into engaging prose. This book will fascinate anyone who has even the slightest interest in the oceans that surround us.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part science lesson and part adrenaline rush,\n <em>\n  The Wave\n </em>\n is an intense thrill ride that manages to take a broad look at oversized, potentially devastating waves. The critics praised Casey''s eloquent writing and jaw-droppingly vivid descriptions of chasing--or trying desperately to steer clear of--these aquatic behemoths. Although the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n craved more technical information, and the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n considered the combination of science and surfing a bit odd, most critics brushed such concerns aside. Casey''s entertaining and enlightening exploration of the world''s giant waves will leave readers with "a healthy respect for the power of these waves" (_Los Angeles Times_) and a chilling sense of how little we truly know about the oceans that surround us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7634'),
(10498, 'The Way Home', 'George Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Pelecanos (_The Turnaround_) probes the volatile and fragile relationship between a father, Thomas Flynn, and his son, Chris, in this less than satisfying effort. As a rebellious teen into drugs, Chris had minor brushes with the law and did a stint in juvenile prison. Now 26, he''s working for his father''s D.C.-area carpet installation business and staying clean. Still, Thomas remains disappointed in his son''s lack of achievement or ambition, and Chris remains resentful that he''s not accepted for who he is. A rather tired device, a bag of stolen money found by Chris and a friend and fellow former inmate, serves to set in motion a chain of actions that will lead to critical decisions for both Flynns. Pelecanos adroitly sketches the obstacles and temptations that face juvenile offenders in and after prison, but this novel, with its dispassionate style, never manages to generate high suspense or evoke much sympathy for its characters.\n  <em>\n   Author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Notions of revenge, redemption, and justice fuel this thriller, set in Washington, D.C. After a stint in juvenile hall, Chris Flynn sets out to turn his life around, taking a job as a carpet installer for his father, a flooring supplier, despite their contentious relationship. When Chris and a friend find fifty thousand dollars hidden beneath the floorboards at a job site, they must contend with a pair of sadistic ex-cons eager to reclaim the money, stolen during a jewelry heist years earlier. Despite its hard-charging elements, the story unfolds almost languidly, and it is clear that Pelecanos, a seasoned novelist and a writer for â€œThe Wire,â€ means to provoke more than quickened heartbeats. His passionate advocacy for juvenile-prison reformâ€”and his well-reasoned argument that a poorly run system can punish petty offenders far more severely than their crimes meritâ€”occasionally turns the plot into a polemic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8428'),
(10499, 'The Way of Kings', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the Voidbringers followed . . .They came against man ten thousand times. To help them cope, the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, known as Shardblades. Led by ten angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won.Or so the legends say. Today, the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. The entire world is at war with itself and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne.On a world scoured down to the rock by terrfiying hurricanes that blow through every few day a young spearman forced into the army of a Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesnt understand and doesnt really want to fight. What happened deep in mankinds past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind, and what happened to the magic they used to wield?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/877'),
(10500, 'The Way of Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city''s most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he''s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins'' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/853'),
(10501, 'The Way of the Guilty: A Hope Street Church Mystery', 'Jennifer Stanley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At Hope Street Church, you always know who your friends are. But knowing who your enemies are is a whole ''nother story...Cooper Lee has a new outlook on life, thanks to her friends at Hope Street Church. Spending time with the Sunrise Bible Study Group nourishes her mind and soul. But home is where the heart is--along with Mrs. Lee''s baked treats--and Cooper is indeed happy to have such a great family to come home to when not spending time with Nathan, a friend from the group who just might be (fingers crossed) The One. So when her sister, Ashley, is implicated in a gruesome murder, Cooper snaps into action. Along with Nathan and her friends from Hope Street, Cooper vows to solve this unholy mess--with a wing, a prayer, and a small dose of snooping..."THIS ISN''T YOUR GRANDMA''S SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS. Jennifer Stanley''s engaging new series makes your attendance at Hope Street Church mandatory."--Emilie Richards, author of the "Ministry is Murder" mystery series"Stanley''s faith-based crime detection has plenty of charming appeal."--"Publishers Weekly""A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE, a lovely, never-preachy story of friends."--Donna Andrews, award-winning author of "Swan for the Money""INSPIRED...Stanley never preaches to her readers but lets deeds, not words, accomplish their goal."--"Richmond Times-Dispatch"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1789'),
(10502, 'The Way of the Traitor', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A volatile, corrupt city threatened by toreign invasion and ru by an iron-fisted government, Nagasaki is the last place Sano Ichiro wants to be, Unfortunately, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People has been banished there by a wicked adversary in the shogun''s court. Surrounded by spies, Sano must tread carefully. When the body of a Dutch trader washes ashore, he finds himself leading an investigation that could push Japan into war -- even as it thrusts his life into the hands of powerful enemies. Sano has to unmask a killer and prove his innocence, or his samurai head, and maybe his country, will fall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2667'),
(10503, 'The Way of the Warrior', 'Chris Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan - his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack''s only hope is to become a samurai warrior. and so his training begins. But life at the samurai school is a constant fight for survival. Even with his friend Akiko by his side, Jack is singled out by bullies and treated as an outcast. With courage in his heart and his sword held high, can Jack prove himself and face his deadliest rival yet?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8351'),
(10504, 'Way of the Wizard', 'Beagle, Peter S. &amp; Bradley, Marion Zimmer &amp; Card, Orson Scott &amp; Clarke, Susanna &amp; Gaiman, Neil &amp; Green, Simon R. &amp; LeGuin, Ursula K. &amp; Martin, George RR &amp; Silverberg, Robert &amp; Adams, John Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9119'),
(10505, 'The Way of the Wizard', 'Peter S. Beagle &amp; Neil Gaiman &amp; George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Anthologist extraordinaire Adams (Federations) once again strikes gold with 33 original and reprinted tales of wizardry in a wide variety of settings, from the medieval (Mike Resnick''s "Winter Solstice") to the modern (Jeremiah Tolbert''s "One-Click Banishment"). George R.R. Martin effortlessly creates a convincing mythic world in "In the Lost Lands," wherein a knight tries to discourage his lady''s interest in shape-shifting. Resnick''s contribution movingly depicts Merlin suffering dementia-like effects from living backwards in time. A peasant endures numerous trials at the hands of a wizard king in Susanna Clarke''s humorous "John Uskglass and the Cambrian Charcoal Burner," while Wendy N. Wagner''s "The Secret of Calling Rabbits" is a melancholy and deeply affecting account of the last days of the last dwarf. Adams just keeps getting better and this anthology is no exception. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Power. We all want it, they''ve got it - witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers, those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summon fantastic beasts, and transform lead into gold... or you into a frog. From Gandalf to Harry Potter to the Last Airbender, wizardry has never been more exciting and popular. Enter a world where anything is possible, where imagination becomes reality. Experience the thrill of power, the way of the wizard. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams (The Living Dead) brings you thirty-two of the most spellbinding tales ever written, by some of today''s most magical talents, including Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green, and George R. R. Martin.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5021'),
(10506, 'The Way of the World', 'Ron Suskind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Suskind''s reporting continues to make him an indispensable chronicler of the Bush/Cheney debacle. (Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times )^"Incisive. . . . No journalist has more ably explored the dark crevices of the Bush administration''s foreign policy. . . . Suskind has shown that faith -- the wrong kind of faith, anyway -- can produce disaster." (Salon )^"Suskind is a brilliant reporter and his investigation into the post- 9/11, pre-Iraq war period makes you think you''re reading about it for the first time. . . . It''s damning. Give this man another Pulitzer Prize." (Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast )^"Moving. . . . Mr. Suskind is a prodigiously talented craftsman. . . . It''s all here: a cast of characters that sprawls across class and circumstance to represent the totality of a historical moment. . . . These hard times, Mr. Suskind''s book suggests, call for a nonfiction Dickens." (The New York Observer )^"Ron Suskind does not think small. . . . A sweeping examination of moral authority in a global world and how a post-9/11 America seems to have lost its way." (The Boston Globe )^"A vivid snapshot of a year, 2006-2007, in the life of a nation whose leaders have betrayed its high moral purpose. One of Suskind''s Washington players cries into the darkness, "Can the great beast self-correct?" Can America, Suskind asks, recover its missionary rectitude? He clearly thinks it can." (The Sunday Times (London) )^"A bombshell book." (The Today Show )^"Extraordinary. . . . If Mr Suskind is correct, laws have been broken and President George W. Bush and/or Dick Cheney are implicated. . . . This is-or ought to be-a Watergate-sized scandal." (Clive Crook, The Financial Times )^"An explosive new book." (MSNBC.com )^"Outstanding. . . . A searching, globe-hopping masterpiece of investigative journalism and empathetic prose. Amidst the ''arabesque'' of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration''s irresponsibility and outright lies." (The Huffington Post )^"An ambitious attempt to weave all the strands of our current conflict into a unified whole. . . . Ron Suskind''s new book has earned buzz because of his arresting argument that the Bush administration actually forged evidence to buttress its case for war." (Andrew Sullivan )^"The leading chronicler of the forty-third president." (Esquire )^"There is much more to learn from Suskind''s reporting, including new evidence that Bush and other officials knew there were no WMD in Iraq." (Joe Conason, Salon )^"Ron Suskind has traced the history of the Bush years with a novelist''s ear. Now he looks at the tragedy through the eye of the victims." (The American Prospect )^"Startling. . . . Chilling. . . . A reportorial feat. . . . Suskind skillfully traces several interwoven stories of cultural clashes and cross-pollination, all of them pursuing the questions of whether America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences and find understanding." (Michael Crowley, The New York Times Book Review )^"Complex, ambitious, provocative, risky. . . . In a crowded, highly talented field, Mr. Suskind bids fair to claim the crown as the most perceptive, incisive, dogged chronicler of the inner workings of the Bush administration." (Mark Danner, The New York Times )^"A touching story. . . . Suskind is a skilled reporter. . . The moral of Suskind''s story, in short, is that nothing suceeds like truthfulness." (The Washington Post Book World ) From Pulitzer Prize??winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation??s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of GuantÃ¡namo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today??s shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world. In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Truth, justice, and accountability become more than mere words in this story. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of "The Armageddon Test" ??a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world??s nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons-grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the entire Bush presidency. While the public and political realms struggle, The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters in America and abroad who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate??and often daring??brand of human salvation. They include a striving, twenty-four-year-old Pakistani Ã©migrÃ©, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan teenager, a Holocaust survivor??s son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she??s been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing American values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions??human solutions??to so much that has gone wrong. For anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent and begin the process of restoring the values and hope??along with the moral clarity and earned optimism??at the heart of the American tradition, The Way of the World is a must-read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3465'),
(10507, 'The way to dusty death', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A champion Grand Prix driver becomes the prime suspect when a series of disasters befall those around him\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(10508, 'We are all made of glue', 'Marina Lewycka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From bonding to bondage, from B&amp;Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship. Georgie Sinclair''s husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish eacute;migreacute; neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it''s just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first - Georgie doesn''t like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband - a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie''s surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro''s semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats with agendas of their own, is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants, ''the Uselesses'', are doing more breaking than fixing. And what about the two slimy estate agents (one with a charming taste for bondage) who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home? As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2396'),
(10509, 'We Are All Welcome Here', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her charactersâ€™ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvisâ€™s birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequentlyâ€“and violentlyâ€“across the state. But in Paige Dunnâ€™s small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fitâ€“with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from othersâ€™. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are greatâ€“and relentless. As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Dianaâ€™s mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1506');
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(10510, 'We Can Build You', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there''s the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold. Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of "Bladerunner" and "Barbarians at the Gate." "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3769'),
(10511, 'We Can Remember it for You Wholesale', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick''s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others."A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." -- Kirkus Reviews"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring." -- The Washington Post"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people''s minds." -- Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3770'),
(10512, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', 'Lionel Shriver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry   Eva never really wanted to be a motherâ€”and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin''s horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8141'),
(10513, 'We Shall Not Sleep', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anne Perryâ€™s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the worldâ€™s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perryâ€™s talents â€œhave taken a quantum leapâ€ (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted readers. We Shall Not Sleep, the final book in this epic series featuring the dedicated Reavley family, is perhaps the most memorably enthralling of all Perryâ€™s novels.After four long years, peace is finally in sight. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard pressed than ever. Behind the lines, violence is increasing: soldiers are abusing German prisoners, a nurse has been raped and murdered, and the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker now threatens to undermine the peace just as he did the war.Then Matthew, the third Reavley sibling and an intelligence expert, suddenly arrives at the front with startling news. The Peacemakerâ€™s German counterpart has offered to go to England and expose his co-conspirator as a traitor. But with war still raging and prejudices inflamed, such a journey would be fraught with hazards, especially since the Peacemaker has secret informers everywhere, even on the battlefield.For richness of plot, character, and feeling, We Shall Not Sleep is unmatched. Anne Perryâ€™s brilliantly orchestrated finale is a heartstopping tour de force, mesmerizing and totally satisfying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8575'),
(10514, 'We the Living', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century-available for the first time in trade paperback.** Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel, *We the Living*, "It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not...The specific events of Kira''s life were not mine: her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are." *We the Living* depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman''s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the banners and slogans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(10515, 'We Were Young and Carefree', 'Laurent Fignon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''One of the most charismatic and flamboyant cyclists in recent history'' - "Daily Telegraph". Laurent Fignon is one of the giants of modern cycling. Twice-winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Fignon became the star for a new generation. In 1989 he took part in one of the most fiercely-contested Tours of all time. Over the course of 3,285 kilometres he lost out to his American arch-rival, Greg LeMond, by an agonising eight seconds on the final Parisian time trial. Fignon does not mince his words. In this forthright and unflinching account the former champion spares neither friends nor opponents, nor even his own image. In doing so he gives cycling fans a tantalising glimpse of what really went on behind the scenes of this epic sport - the friendships, the rivalries, the betrayals, the scheming, the parties, the girls, and, of course, the performance-enhancing drugs. Laurent Fignon lived cycling at its peak. He enjoyed a truly exceptional career, winning over eighty titles from 1982 to 1993. The highs were matched by lows of serious injury, periods of self-doubt, and accusations of cheating. Fignon''s story bestrides a golden age in cycling: a time before the scandals and the shadow of doping, a time when cyclists were afraid of nothing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4696'),
(10516, 'We, the Drowned', 'Carsten Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n An epic tale about a small village by the sea\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9966'),
(10517, 'We&#39;ll be here for the rest of our lives: a swingin&#39; show-biz saga', 'Paul Shaffer; David Ritz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman''s band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.**How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on *Letterman*? This book is Paul Shaffer''s answer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to his first legitimate job out of college-which found him working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy-to being first musical director of the nascent *Saturday Night Live* and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave and playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the ultimate showbiz life. Now, in this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir-in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears-Paul gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3249'),
(10518, 'The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet', 'Heidi Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Droughts. Floods. Climate refugees. Global warming isn''t just about polar bears anymore. Let''s assume we do nothing about climate change. Imagine that we just continue to emit carbon at our current levels or even exceed those levels. How would our weather change? What would our forecast be? Welcome to *The Weather of the Future*. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Heidi Cullen, one of the world''s foremost climatologists and environmental journalists, puts a vivid face on climate change, offering a new way of seeing this phenomenon not just as an event set to happen in the distant future but as something happening right now in our own backyards. Arguing that we must connect the weather of today with the climate change of tomorrow, Cullen combines the latest research from scientists on the ground with state-of-the-art climate-model projections to create climate-change scenarios for seven of the most at-risk locations around the world. From the Central Valley of California, where coming droughts will jeopardize the entire state''s water supply, to Greenland, where warmer temperatures will give access to mineral wealth buried beneath ice sheets for millennia, Cullen illustrates how, if left unabated, climate change will transform every corner of the world by midcentury. What emerges is a mosaic of changing weather patterns that collectively spell out the range of risks posed by global warmingâ€”whether it''s New York City, whose infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to even a relatively weak category 3 hurricane, or Bangladesh, a country so low-lying that millions of people could become climate refugees due to rising sea levels. Provocative and convincing, *The Weather of the Future* makes climate change local, showing how no two regions of the country or the world will be affected in quite the same way, and demonstrating that melting ice is just the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2088'),
(10519, 'Weaver', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Weaver (The fourth book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter The Weaver of Time''s Tapestry has finally suceeded in twisting the threads of history into a new shape; the Luftwaffe have pushed the RAF to the brink, and the invasion barges have reached the beaches of Sussex and Kent. Britain wakes up to the nightmare of the Wermacht unleashed in Southern England. As the desperate battle to hold up the invasion rages it is left to a few indivuals caught up in the panic and chaos to piece together what has really happened - is this the culmination of a plan that has taken centuries to play out, a plot from the future to change the past forever? Stephen Baxter''s historical thriller series crashes into the 20th century with a terrfying vision of mechanised war and political atrocity unleashed on English soil. This is the climax of one of the most thoughful and involving series of novels that have brought history alive like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11109'),
(10520, 'Web of the Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9079'),
(10521, 'The Web', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America''s premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten successive New York Times bestsellers. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It''s an invitation Alex Delaware can''t refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk, has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers for publication-- a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoy a romantic interlude with Robin Castagna.Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnal visitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures of deep blue water and whitesand.The cases Moreland chooses to share--a patient driven to madness by a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago to radiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutally murdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach just six months before-- seem unconnected. And yet Alex can''t help wondering what the good doctor is trying to tell him...and what Moreland''s real reason for inviting him to Aruk is.As Alex probes--with a little long-distance help from his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis--he comes to believe the answer lies hidden somewhere on Moreland''s vast estate. Yet when he finally discovers the truth, the revelation will be more shocking than he could have imagined. And it will come too late to stem the tide of violence that threatens guilty and innocent alike on the lovely lost island of Aruk.Once again, with his brilliant characterizations and rapid-fire pace, Jonathan Kellerman has redefined the boundaries of suspense, probing real-life horrors and innermost fears in a novel that transfixes from first page to last.Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3054'),
(10522, 'Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers', 'Michael Schrenk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The internet is bigger and better than what a mere brower allows.\n <i>\n  Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers\n </i>\n is for developers and business managers looking to unlock the competitive advantages of nontraditional online approaches. Readers will learn how to write stealthy webbots that read email, emulate online forms, auto-authenticate, manage cookies, and handle encryption. Sample projects reinforce these new skills so that readers can create more sophisticated webbots and spiders to track online prices, create anonymous browing environments, bid on auctions in their closing moments, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4724'),
(10523, 'Website Optimization', 'Andrew B. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Is your site easy to find, simple to navigate, and enticing enough to convert prospects into buyers?\n <em>\n  Website Optimization\n </em>\n shows you how. It reveals a comprehensive set of techniques to improve your site''s performance by boosting search engine visibility for more traffic, increasing conversion rates to maximize leads and profits, revving up site speed to retain users, and measuring your site''s effectiveness (before and after these changes) with best-practice metrics and tools.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7016'),
(10524, 'A Wedding in December: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A_Big Chill_â€“like group reunites for a 40-something wedding in this melancholy story of missed opportunities, lingering regrets and imagined alternatives by Shreve (_The Last Time They Met_). Bill and Bridget were sweethearts at Maine''s Kidd Academy who rediscovered one another at their 25th reunion. Bridget was already divorced; Bill left his family; the two have now gathered their Kidd coterie to witness their hasty weddingâ€”Bridget has breast cancerâ€”at widow Nora''s western Massachusetts inn. The death of charismatic schoolmate Stephen at a drunken high school party hovers over the event. Stephen''s then-roommate, Harrison, now a married literary publisher, remains particularly tormented by it, especially since he had (and still has) romantic feelings for Nora, who was Stephen''s then-girlfriend. Abrasive Wall Street businessman Jerry, now-out-of-the-closet pianist Rob, single Agnes (who teaches at Kidd and has a secret of her own) and various children round things out. Tensions build as the group gets snowed in, and someone gets drunk enough to say what everyone''s been thinking. Though Shreve''s plot, characters and dialogue are predictable (as are her inevitable 9/11 rehashes), she sure-handedly steers everyone through their inward dramas, and the actions they take (and don''t) are Hollywood satisfying.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 10)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This novel has many of Shreve''s hallmarks: simple and elegant prose; characters who are entirely convincing in their portrayals of human fallibility; and a plot buildup with a twist toward the end that packs a wallop. Set in New England several months after 9/11, it is the story of seven former classmates who have not seen one another in 27 years but have come together for the wedding of Bill and Bridget, who dated during high school and then went their separate ways. They have reunited and are getting married in the face of Bridget''s advanced breast cancer. Nora, who owns the inn where the wedding will be held, is trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. Agnes, Nora''s former roommate, has a secret she is desperate to share. Over all of them hangs the specter of Stephen, whose charismatic life and tragic death they seem unable to address head-on. Paralleling the story of these friends is the one in the novel Agnes is writing about the Halifax explosion of 1917, a little-known disaster that resulted in the deaths of almost 2000 citizens. This story-within-a-story not only provides an eye-opening account of a piece of World War I history, but also allows Agnes to address some of her own issues. An understated and graceful exploration of the choices that people make in their day-to-day interactions and their consequences,\n <em>\n  Wedding\n </em>\n is an excellent piece of American literature to add to any library._â€“Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7688'),
(10525, 'The Wedding', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sparks''s 1996 debut novel, The Notebook, was a fast and easy read that sold millions upon millions of copies. Other bestselling love stories followed (Message in a Bottle; A Walk to Remember; The Guardian), but Sparks''s fans have from the very beginning eagerly anticipated a sequel to the romantic tale of Allie and Noah Calhoun. The wait is now over. Attorney Wilson Lewis has been married to Noah and Allie''s daughter, Jane, for 30 years. Wilson and Jane have raised three children and lived a satisfying and prosperous life in the bucolic town of New Bern, N.C. After forgetting his anniversary, Wilson realizes that the passion and romance have gone out of his marriage and fears his wife no longer loves him. Being a methodical man, he decides to embark on a yearlong program to renew his romantic ties to his wife, seeking out the advice of Noah, who now spends his days in a retirement home feeding a swan he is sure is the reincarnation of his beloved Allie. In the midst of Wilson''s machinations, his daughter Anna announces she is getting married. The upcoming wedding provides Wilson with the opportunity to bring his elaborate plan to fruition. Sparks tells his sweet story competently, without sinking too deeply into the mire of sentiment; a gasp-inducing twist comes at the very end. Satisfied female readers will close the covers with a sigh and a wish that a little of the earnest, too-good-to-be-true Wilson might rub off on their own bedmates.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sparks returns to characters from\n <em>\n  The Notebook\n </em>\n (1996) and writes about Allie and Noah Calhoun''s oldest daughter, Jane, and her husband, Wilson. As their thirtieth anniversary approaches, Wilson realizes that he loves Jane now more than ever and worries that his neglect (he completely forgot their twenty-ninth anniversary) may have finally driven her away. Wilson plans on showing Jane how much he loves her, but then their oldest daughter, Anna, announces that she and her boyfriend are getting married and asks if they can plan a small utilitarian wedding on her parents'' anniversary. Jane agrees to share the date and convinces Anna to have a formal wedding; something that Jane missed. Jane is surprised by Wilson''s willingness to work and ability to come up with truly miraculous arrangements. This sort of involvement is out of character for Wilson, a workaholic estate attorney in New Bern, North Carolina, but he really is determined to change, and Sparks is at his romantic best in this tender love story about a flawed hero trying to right his wrongs.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8155'),
(10526, 'Wedlock', 'Wendy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if ultimately troubled, match that forged the Bowes Lyon name. Yet she stumbled headlong into scandal when, following her husbandâ€™s early death, a charming young army hero flattered his way into the merry widowâ€™s bed. Captain Andrew Robinson Stoney insisted on defending her honor in a duel, and Mary was convinced she had found true love. Judged by doctors to have been mortally wounded in the melee, Stoney persuaded Mary to grant his dying wish; four days later they were married.Sadly, the â€œcaptainâ€ was not what he seemed. Staging a sudden and remarkable recovery, Stoney was revealed as a debt-ridden lieutenant, a fraudster, and a bully. Immediately taking control of Maryâ€™s vast fortune, he squandered her wealth and embarked on a campaign of appalling violence and cruelty against his new bride. Finally, fearing for her life, Mary masterminded an audacious escape and challenged social conventions of the day by launching a suit for divorce. The English public was horrifiedâ€“and enthralled. But Maryâ€™s troubles were far from over . . . Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray was inspired by Stoneyâ€™s villainy to write *The Luck of Barry Lyndon,* which Stanley Kubrick turned into an Oscar-winning film. Based on exhaustive archival research, *Wedlock* is a thrilling and cinematic true story, ripped from the headlines of eighteenth-century England.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3225'),
(10527, 'The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnaped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk''s local Nac Mac Feegle -- aka the Wee Free Men -- a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds -- black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors -- before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3442'),
(10528, 'A Week at the Airport', 'Alain De Botton &amp; Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel writer de Botton sees the airport as the nexus of all that plagues and fascinates us about modern life: environmental destruction, high technology, constant movement, glittering distractions, consumerist temptations, and social interaction and isolation. Having accepted an invitation from British Airways to spend a week at its home, Terminal 5 of Heathrow, he is given unprecedented access to all the parts of the airport that travelers donâ€™t generally see. So, along with the shopping areas and arrival and departure and baggage-claim areas, he wanders into the huge stations for airplane repairs, the vast storage areas for rejected samples for cabin paraphernalia, the behind-the-scene offices, and the massive food-preparation areas. From a desk announcing his position as writer in residence, de Botton engages in conversations with business travelers, parting lovers, vacationing families, and the myriad workersâ€”stationary and passing throughâ€”for whom the airport is workplace. Author of the best-selling The Art of Travel (2002), de Botton is amusing and lyrical in his observations of our modern comings and goings. Photographs add to the allure of this engaging look at air travel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Simultaneously poignant and terribly funny . . . De Botton''s most imaginative work yet." â€”_Spectator_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Funny, charming, and slender enough to pack in your carry-on." â€”_Daily Mail_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Surprising. . . . His observations on airport life are wry and thought-provoking." â€”_Telegraph_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Shrewd, perceptive and gently ironic." â€”_Independent_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7509'),
(10529, 'A Week in December', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of the bestselling "Birdsong" comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe. London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on reality TV and genetically altered pot; and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill and savage humor, "A Week in December" explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life; as the novel moves to its gripping climax, its characters are forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they--and we all--inhabit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3636'),
(10530, 'Weighed in the balance', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones"Scenes [are] described in lush, sensuous strokes by Ms. Perry. . . . Monk, the dark and brooding hero . . . infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul".-- "The New York Times Book Review" When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German principality was murdered by his wife, the woman who was responsible for his exile twenty years before. Though private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly, manage to establish that the prince was indeed murdered, as events unfold the likeliest suspect seems to be Countess Zorah herself. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(10531, 'The Weight of Silence', 'Heather Gudenkauf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two seven-year-old girls go missing, all are under suspicion. Calli Clark is a dreamer. A sweet, gentle girl, Callie suffers from selective mutism, brought on by a tragedy she experienced as a toddler. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli''s best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Now Calli and Petra''s families are bound by the question of what has happened to their children. As support turns to suspicion, it seems the answers lie trapped in the silence of unspoken secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2124'),
(10532, 'The Weight of Water', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean''s private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, Jean, a magazine photographer working on a photoessay about the murders, returns to the Isles with her husband, Thomas, and their five-year-old daughter, Billie, aboard a boat skippered by her brother-in-law, Rich, who has brought along his girlfriend, Adaline. As Jean becomes immersed in the details of the 19th-century murders, Thomas and Adaline find themselves drawn together-with potentially ruinous consequences. Shreve (Where or When; Resistance) perfectly captures the ubiquitous dampness of life on a sailboat, deftly evoking the way in which the weather comes to dictate all actions for those at sea. With the skill of a master shipbuilder, Shreve carefully fits her two stories together, tacking back and forth between the increasingly twisted murder mystery and the escalating tensions unleashed by the threat of a dangerous shipboard romance. Written with assurance and grace, plangent with foreboding and a taut sense of inexorability, The Weight of Water is a powerfully compelling tale of passion, a provocative and disturbing meditation on the nature of love. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7695'),
(10533, 'The Weight', 'Andrew Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this tepid stand-alone from Vachss (Haiku), professional thief Tim "Sugar" Caine finds himself in an interesting dilemma--a rape victim has mistakenly identified him as her attacker, but he hesitates to tell the cops the truth because he was participating in a jewel robbery at the time. The canny ex-con figures that if he does time for the sex crime, he will evade scrutiny for the crime he did commit. Caine ends up serving a five-year sentence for sexual assault before he''s back on the New York City streets, where he reconnects with Solly Vizner, the man who put the jewel heist together. Most of the book concerns Caine''s efforts to track down another member of the crew who Vizner fears could squeal on everyone else, but a less than exciting lead and a slow-moving plot make this one of Vachss''s weaker crime novels. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Andrew Vachss can always be depended on to deliver powerful fiction, and his new novel,\n <em>\n  The Weight\n </em>\n , is no exception."\n <br />\n -Chet Williamson\n</p>\n<p>\n --chetwilliamson.com/2010/09/andrew-vachsss-the-weight-due-in-november-first-review/\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Andrew Vachss''] new book,\n <em>\n  The Weight\n </em>\n , may be his finest hour to date. [It] works on the surface as a stunning mystery. Compulsively readable."\n <br />\n -Ken Bruen --mulhollandbooks.com/2010/11/04/ken-bruen-reviews-the-weight-by-andrew-vachss/\n</p>\n<p>\n "Andrews Vachss at his best" --_Los Angeles Times_ --latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book-20101120,0,7958452.story\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hardest-boiled crime fiction this side of Sing Sing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMany writers try to cover the same ground as Vachss. A handful are as good. None are better.â€\n <br />\n â€”_People_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVachss is red hot and as serious as a punctured lung.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vachss writes] some of the cleanest, meanest, stripped-down-and-sparkling prose ever penned.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Austin Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVachssâ€™s writing is like a dark roller-coaster ride of fear, love, and hate.â€\n <br />\n â€”New Orleans\n <em>\n  Times-Picayune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThereâ€™s no way to put a [Vachss book] down once youâ€™ve begun.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Detroit Free Press_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAndrew Vachss is a contemporary master.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8551'),
(10534, 'The Weird of the White Wolf', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric returns to Imrryr after a long journey and confronts Yyrkoon, who usurped the throne in his absence. Yyrkoon has regained Mournblade through unknown means and uses it to attack. Elric and Stormbringer kill Yyrkoon, and no further mention is made of Mournblade until it is later disclosed that it was recovered by the Seers of Nihrain, to be wielded by Elric''s cousin, Dyvim Slorm. Imrryr is sacked, though the pillagers'' fate is not much better, being pursued by the golden battle barges and the few dragons who were awakened, led by Dyvim Tvar. Only Elric''s ship escapes, propelled by the aid of his sorcery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2702'),
(10535, 'Welcome Back, Stacey!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9751'),
(10536, 'Welcome to the BSC, Abby', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9734'),
(10537, 'The Well and the Mine', 'Gin Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With an introduction by Fannie Flagg Author of *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafÃ© *** A novel of warmth and true feeling, *The Well and the Mine* explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. In a small Alabama coal-mining town during the summer of 1931, nine-year-old Tess Moore sits on her back porch and watches a woman toss a baby into her familyâ€™s well without a word. This shocking act of violence sets in motion a chain of events that forces Tess and her older sister Virgie to look beyond their own door and learn the value of kindness and lending a helping hand. As Tess and Virgie try to solve the mystery of the well, an accident puts their seven-year-old brotherâ€™s life in danger, revealing just what sorts of sacrifices their parents, Albert and Leta, have made in order to give their children a better life, and the power of love and compassion to provide comfort to those we love. â€œGin Phillips has a remarkable ear for dialogue and a tenderhearted eye for detail; you can hear the pecans and hickory nuts falling from the trees and feel the stillness of a hot summer night. A whisper runs through the novelâ€”the ghosts of places and people and luscious peach pies.*â€â€”Los Angeles Times*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2071'),
(10538, 'The Well of Ascension', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows. It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/874'),
(10539, 'The Well of Lost Plots', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11191'),
(10540, 'Well of Shiuan', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes had sealed its fate. The only escape routes were the Gates. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine--whose mission was to seal Shiuan''s Gates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10890'),
(10541, 'The Well-Mannered War', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fourth Doctor, Romana &amp; K-9 arrive on the planet Trangus at a crucial time in it''s history. A war is looming with the Chelonian Empire and political chaos threatens the fabric of society on Trangus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4793'),
(10542, 'Wench: a novel', 'Dolen Perkins-Valdez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses wench \\\\''wench\\\\ *n*. from Middle English "*wenchel*," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. The main building, with its luxurious finishes, is loftier than the white cottages that flank it, but then again, the smaller structures are better positioned to catch any breeze that may come off the pond. And they provide more privacy, which best suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. It''s their open secret. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They have become friends over the years as they reunite and share developments in their own lives and on their respective plantations. They don''t bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territoryâ€“but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change. To run is to leave behind everything these women value mostâ€“friends and families still down Southâ€“and for some it also means escaping from the emotional and psychological bonds that bind them to their masters. When a fire on the resort sets off a string of tragedies, the women of Tawawa House soon learn that triumph and dehumanization are inseparable and that love exists even in the most inhuman, brutal of circumstancesâ€“all while they are bearing witness to the end of an era. An engaging, page-turning, and wholly original novel, *Wench* explores, with an unflinching eye, the moral complexities of slavery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/959'),
(10543, 'A Werewolf Among Us', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(10544, 'West of Here', 'Jonathan Evison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  West of Here\n </em>\n , at the Elwha River dam, where over a hundred years since settlers of the fictional town of Port Bonita tamed the river, their descendants gather in anticipation of the dam''s blasting, and a new era of restoration. Across the next five hundred pages, Evison''s story moves between 2006 and the town''s earliest days at the close of the 19th century, overlaying stories of the people who passed through or dug in at Port Bonita, which swelled from settlement to town on the ragged shoreline of Washington State''s Strait of Juan de Fuca. The past is populated by intrepid folk--an exploration party penetrating the Olympic Mountain range in the depths of winter, Klallam natives sickened by homeland eviction and whiskey, a young feminist at odds with motherhood, a prostitute doing covert battle with her whorehouse''s owner, and an idealistic entrepreneur, blasting the river canyon into submission. In 2006, we meet their softer progeny--an ex-con who flees into the mountains with a stash of Snickers, the lonely parole officer determined to find him, a fish processing plant worker with a Bigfoot fixation, a native woman who rethinks her whole life when her son has a psychic break, and more memorable characters haunted by the past, by their unlived lives, by themselves. Though its themes are weighty,\n <em>\n  West of Here\n </em>\n never bogs down--irreverent humor, lustrous prose, and unexpected moments animate a tale as vast as the land it inhabits. --_Mari Malcolm_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A century after the lateâ€“19th-century settlers of Olympic Peninsula to the west of Seattle set out to build a dam, their descendants want to demolish it to bring back fish runs, providing one of the many plots in this satisfyingly meaty work from Evison (All About Lulu). The scenes of the early settlers track an expedition into the Olympic wilderness and the evolving relations between settlers and the Klallam tribe, provide insights into early feminism, and outline an entrepreneur''s dream to build the all-important dam. By comparison, the contemporary stories are chock-full of modern woe and malaise, including a Bigfoot watcher and seafood plant worker who wishes to relive his glory days as a high school basketball star; an ex-convict who sets out into the wilderness to live off the land; and an environmental scientist who is hit with an unexpected development. Evison does a terrific job at creating a sense of place as he skips back and forth across the century, cutting between short chapters to sustain a propulsive momentum while juggling a sprawling network of plots and a massive cast of characters real enough to walk off the page. A big novel about the discovery and rediscovery of nature, starting over, and the sometimes piercing reverberations of history, this is a damn fine book. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6780'),
(10545, 'Westmoreland&#39;s Way', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mr. November: Dillon Westmoreland, real-estate tycoon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Objective: Pamela Novak, business owner\n </p>\n <p>\n  Strategic Plan: Seduce and rescue\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was a secret to Dillon Westmoreland''s heritageâ€”and Pamela Novak had the key. Though the raven-haired beauty was ensnared by her shifty fiancÃ©, Dillonâ€”eldest of the Denver Westmoreland clanâ€”couldn''t resist a mind-blowing night in her arms. And after that incredible passionâ€¦ Well, once a Westmoreland claimed the woman he wanted, he wouldn''t let anything tear them apart!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8043'),
(10546, 'Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River', 'Gary Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(10547, 'What a Piece of Work Is Man', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(10548, 'What a Westmoreland Wants', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Mr. September:** Callum Austell, sexy Australian ranch owner **His Deepest Desire:** The elusive Gemma Westmoreland **The Seduction Plan:** Get her on his turfâ€”ASAP! He''d been biding his time, and now the perfect opportunity had arrived to pursue the ultimate object of his affections. Offering Gemma a job to decorate his new home meant she had to come to him. And on his territory, the Aussie knew he could easily woo her into his bed. But this Westmoreland woman was no pushover. If Callum was going to get what he wantedâ€”as alwaysâ€”the millionaire just might have to utter three little words first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1349');
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(10549, 'What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James &amp; Jack the Ripper', 'Paula Marantz Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  At the request of Scotland Yard, American philosopher William James, an expert in the science of the mind, travels to London to assist in solving the Jack the Ripper case. Once in London, William has access to the evidence collected at the crime scenes, and he travels with Inspector Abberline to interview witnesses. He then shares the particulars of the case with his brother, novelist Henry, and his sister, Alice, who is bedridden but feels she can still contribute to the identification of the madman. The story is told from multiple points of view, and Cohen seamlessly blends fact and fiction into fascinating looks at late-nineteenth-century London, the Jack the Ripper case, and the lives of the James siblings. In addition, she weaves in provocative details about the philosophy, literature, and art of the era and makes room for cameo appearances by such real-life figures as Oscar Wilde, John Singer Sargent, and Walter Sickert, once thought a suspect in the Ripper killings. For fans of historical fiction as well as historical mysteries. --Sue O''Brien\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   "A marvelously rich and intelligent read, atmospheric, witty, irreverent, and not least a sharply perceptive portrait of those three extraordinary Jameses."\n   <br />\n   -John Banville, author of\n   <i>\n    The Infinities\n   </i>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <b>\n    <i>\n     Under Certain Circumstances, No One Is More Suited to Solving a Crime than a Woman Confined to Her Bed\n    </i>\n   </b>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn''t mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they all find themselves quite unusually involved in the chase for a most vile new murderer-one who goes by the chilling name of Jack the Ripper-Alice is certain of two things:\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   No one could be more suited to gather evidence about the nature of the killer than her brothers. But if anyone is going to correctly examine the evidence and solve the case, it will have to be up to her.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <b>\n    Praise for Paula Marantz Cohen\n   </b>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Cohen''s wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target."\n   <br />\n   <i>\n    -San Francisco Chronicle\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6270'),
(10550, 'What Curiosity Kills', 'Helen Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a new supernatural kid crowding in with the recent surge of teen vampires, fallen angels, and zombies, and this time, she is just as likely to crave milk as blood. The signs that 16-year-old Mary is becoming something not altogether human begin at her elite Manhattan school, where she falls asleep and begins to purr. At home, she finds herself licking spilled milk from the floor and considering a rodent snack before orange fur begins to sprout from her legs. Only dreamy classmate Nick can explain: Mary is experiencing her first â€œturning,â€ during which she shape-shifts into feline form. This first act in a proposed series sets up the fantastical premise, which includes a violent war between New York City''s domestic and stray cats. Shape-shifting involves clothes shedding, and there is an undercurrent of chaste eroticism that Twilight series'' fans will recognize. A few characters, such as Nick''s Greek grandparents, slip into caricature, but the blend of contemporary realism and fantasy, romance, humor, and adrenaline-charged action is sure to hook an eager teen audience. Grades 8-11. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "There is an undercurrent of chaste eroticism that Twilight series'' fans will recognize... The blend of contemporary realism and fantasy, romance, humor, and adrenaline-charged action is sure to hook an eager teen audience." (_Booklist_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6363'),
(10551, 'What Dreams May Come', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *New York Times* bestseller\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Richard Matheson''s powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4085'),
(10552, 'What Family Means', 'Geri Krotow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: To Debra Bradley, marriage is being with the man you''ve always loved--despite the odds. Despite what other people think. And marriage is about family, about protecting your children from a sometimes hostile world. To her husband, Will Bradley, family is about creating a safe haven. Where it doesn''t matter that one of you is white, the other black. Where it''s never mattered... All these years later Will and Debra are still in love, still each other''s best friend. They''ve made a good life for themselves and their children. But their daughter, Angie--pregnant and estranged from the husband she loves--has to discover for herself what family means....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(10553, 'What Happened at Midnight', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank and Joe break up the Taffy Marr jewel smuggling ring.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10267'),
(10554, 'What Happens in Vegas...After Dark: Hot for Revenge\\\\The Promise\\\\Sensual Magic\\\\Divine Desires', 'Jodi Lynn Copeland &amp; Anya Bast &amp; Lauren Dane &amp; Kit Tunstall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Las Vegasâ€¦it''s the town that lives up to the promise of its nickname, Sin City. A gambler''s paradise for innocent tourists, it conceals a darker, sexual world where the ethereal and wraithlike meet to play a different gameâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  If there''s one thing succubus\n  <strong>\n   Deitre\n  </strong>\n  understands it''s revenge. That, and enticing men into arousing, exciting and, okay, perilous sex (for him). Beautiful on the outside, demon on the inside, she''s going to get back at the naughty firefighter in Darknessâ€¦unless he plays his cards rightâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bounty hunter\n  <strong>\n   Nell\n  </strong>\n  is a hell of a tracker. Now she''s in Vegas on the tail of the witch who dared to steal from her clan. She''s going to get to the unsavory harlot through the woman''s ex-fiancÃ©, and nothing about their charged encounters will be shallow, quick or friendly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the half-blood fae male comes to club Darkness,\n  <strong>\n   Elena\n  </strong>\n  can''t resist acting on the mind-blowing heat coursing between them. She might be betrothed to another, but fae culture says sex with other men until marriage is most definitely foretold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tattoo artist\n  <strong>\n   Devi\n  </strong>\n  is the latent vampire the warlocks need to heal all wounds. But taking her power is a sexually exhausting and dangerous task requiring dark deceptionâ€¦and gambling on her life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kit Tunstall\n  </strong>\n  lives in Idaho with her husband, son and dog-children. She started reading at the age of three and hasn''t stopped since. Love of the written word, and a smart marriage to a supportive man, led her to a full-time career in writing. Romances have always intrigued her, and erotic romance is a natural extension because it more completely explores the emotions between the hero and heroine. That, and it sure is fun to write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anya Bast is a multi-published erotic fantasy &amp; paranormal romance author. Primarily, she writes happily-ever-afters with lots of steamy sex. She enjoys the study of Celtic myth, dreaming, and shamanism and incorporates what she learns into her paranormal stories.Â  Anya got her start writing fantasy romance. Since writing a little hotter seemed to come naturally to her, she had no trouble making the move to erotic romance. She loves writing books that are heavy on plot, emotion and character development, and also have spicy, no-holds-barred sex scenes. Exploring the elements of dark sexual fantasy in her writing is what Anya does best.Â  She lives in the country with her husband. They share their lives with eight cats and one perplexed dog.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kit Tunstall\n  </strong>\n  lives in Idaho with her husband, son and dog-children. She started reading at the age of three and hasn''t stopped since. Love of the written word, and a smart marriage to a supportive man, led her to a full-time career in writing. Romances have always intrigued her, and erotic romance is a natural extension because it more completely explores the emotions between the hero and heroine. That, and it sure is fun to write.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7997'),
(10555, 'What I Did for Love', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Phillips (_It Had to Be You_) makes old Hollywood gossip new again in this over-the-top, hot-under-the-sheets rom-com. Sitcom\n  <em>\n   Skip and Scooter\n  </em>\n  co-stars Georgie York, who like her character exudes spunky charm, and Bram Shepard, whose upbringing couldn''t be more different from the nice boy he plays, hate each other even before Bram''s offscreen sexual escapades lead to the sitcom''s cancellation. Flash forward eight years: his career has cratered, and her biggest accomplishment has been briefly marrying hunky star Lance Marks, who abandons her for sex-goddess-turned-international-do-gooder Jade Gentry. So when Bram and Georgie wake up from a Vegas bender and find themselves married to each other, they make the most of it: Georgie aims to undo the damage Lance has done to her heart and her public image, while Bram is gunning for a second chance at life, love and stardom. It''s a blast to watch the hate-each-other-yet-made-for-each-other couple as they duck paparazzi or spar before falling into bed. In this massively entertaining romp, redemption is always possible, and even a fake Hollywood couple trapped in a pretend marriage might find true love.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   How did this happen?\n  </em>\n  Georgie York, once the costar of America''s favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What should a down-on-her-luck actress do?\n  <em>\n   Not\n  </em>\n  go to Vegas . . .\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  run into her detestable former costar, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard . . . and\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  get caught up in an ugly incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake marriage, a fake husband, and maybe (or not) a fake sex life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s a paparazzi free-for-all, and Georgie''s nonsupporting cast doesn''t help. There''s Bram''s punk-nightmare housekeeper, Georgie''s own pushy parent, a suck-up agent, an icy studio head with a private agenda, and her ex-husband''s new wife, who can''t get enough of doing good deeds and saving the worldâ€”the bitch. As for Georgie''s leading man, Bram''s giving the performance of his life, but he''s never cared about anyone except himself, and it''s not exactly clear why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright . . . and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4633'),
(10556, 'What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times Notable Book New York Times Bestseller****What Is the What*** is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children â€”the so-called Lost Boysâ€”was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, **What Is the What** is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(10557, 'What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Information Frontier', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book of previously published essays by the author of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n is an eclectic chronicle of the information revolution''s first 10 years. "The last decade of the twentieth century came as a surprise," writes James Gleick.\n <em>\n  What Just Happened\n </em>\n shows how surprising it was: in the book''s first piece, from 1992, Gleick notes that "a relatively small number of personal computer users use Windows." (He''s a good sport about it, too, poking fun at himself in an introduction for making such an obsolete observation.) A longish piece on Microsoft from 1995 seems to correct the problem when Gleick comments on "the ever-advancing boundary of Microsoft''s Windows package." Then it goes on to get something really right: "Microsoft''s own power poses a threat, too--the threat that comes with the self-fulfilling destiny of any monopolist." That''s a prescient observation, considering the antitrust actions taken against the company since those words were written. The closing chapter of the book is fascinating and forward-looking; it''s not about what just happened but what may happen. Gleick anticipates the appearance of wristwatches containing "biometric information about your loved ones, so you can see how your parents are doing." If that doesn''t sound exciting enough, consider this prediction: "One can even imagine properly functional motor-vehicle offices." Now\n <em>\n  that''s\n </em>\n something to look forward to.\n <em>\n  --John Miller\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The expert science writer who explained Chaos to us now explains what technology has done to our lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7045'),
(10558, 'What Maisie Knew', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of What Maisie Knew by Henry James was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8853'),
(10559, 'What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves:* The Tipping Point*; *Blink*; and *Outliers.* Now, in *What the Dog Saw*, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from *The**New Yorker* over the same period. Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate. "Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else''s head."*What the Dog Saw *is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2283'),
(10560, 'What the Night Knows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Villains and Vegetables\n </strong>\n <br />\n Readers ask certain questions over and over again. Such as, "How often have you been institutionalized?" and "How does your wife sleep at night, knowing what kind of stories spring from your mind?" and "If you could be any kind of vegetable, what vegetable would you be?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Because I found most schoolwork tedious, I felt as if I had been institutionalized for fifteen years--throughout grade school, high school, and college. In the grim institution called high school, as a kid in a small town, my therapy consisted of reading novels and listening to rock-and-roll on tower-of-power radio stations in distant cities. In college, my therapy was all-night pinochle tournaments. I cut more classes than Sweeney Todd cut throats.\n</p>\n<p>\n My wife sleeps peacefully, thank you. She knows I''m basically a pussycat. We have been together since high school, and in all those years, the only living thing she has seen me cut is myself; any time I pick up the simplest tool or kitchen implement to do some minor household task, my blood will inevitably flow. I''ve been known to cut myself accidentally with something as seemingly safe as a rolling pin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sugar snap peas.\n</p>\n<p>\n Another frequently asked question is "How do you create such bizarre yet convincing and terrifying villains." The glib answer is to say I watch the evening news. In fact, however, the antagonists in my novels create themselves, just as do the protagonists. I conceive a character around a seed of truth, some essential fact that lies at the core of him, then I give him free will, and I discover more about him as the story unfolds. Sometimes, when characters surprise me with their revelations, it seems as if they are indeed real, that I am writing in a kind of dream state that allows me to bridge this world with some parallel reality and tap the consciousness of people living\n</p>\n<p>\n Alton Turner Blackwood, the villain of\n <em>\n  Darkness Under the Sun\n </em>\n and of the forthcoming novel\n <em>\n  What the Night Knows\n </em>\n , literally appeared to me in one of those exceedingly vivid dreams that are peculiar to many of us who, suffering allergies, take two or three Benedryl every night for too many weeks. Benedryl dreams are, in my experience, never flat-out nightmares. They generally do not have much in the way of storylines, but the people in them are so dimensional and so exquisitely detailed that they seem as real as anyone you would meet in real life. They are sometimes strange, as well, and menacing, though these are for the most part dreams without action, so their menace is implied.\n</p>\n<p>\n The morning after the Benedryl dream in which Alton Turner Blackwood appeared (though he had no name in the dream), I wrote down a physical description of him, which I used word for word in the finished novel:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  He stood six feet five, scarecrow-thin but strong. His hands were immense, the spatulate fingers as suctorial as the toe discs of a web-foot toad, large bony wrists like robot joints, orangutan-long arms. His shoulder blades were thick and malformed, so that bat wings appeared to be furled under his shirt.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n As for how his face looks and as for the explanation of how and why such a specimen might be born: I''ll let you discover those things in the novella and the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the scores of evil characters I have created, none has so affected me as Alton Turner Blackwood. In spite of all his physical and mental strangenesses, I would not be surprised to see him one evening, walking along a lonely highway or perhaps standing under a lamppost across the street, still and watchful. Of all the eerie characters met in Benedryl dreams--many of them like people you might expect to see in Tim Burton movies--he is the only one who has made a second appearance in my sleep. And he''s appeared three times. I don''t know what to make of that. If his repeated appearance means anything, I guess I''ll find out eventually.\n</p>\n<p>\n Baby carrots are also cool.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating\n <br />\n in detail Blackwoodâ€™s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own familyâ€”his wife and three childrenâ€”will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds\n <em>\n  What the Night Knows\n </em>\n in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8295'),
(10561, 'What To Do When Someone Dies', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ellie Faulkner''s world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash and he wasn''t alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone a woman Ellie''s never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her. Maybe it''s the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was and prove Greg wasn''t having an affair. And soon she is chillingly certain their deaths were no accident. Are Ellie''s accusations of murder her way of avoiding the truth about her marriage? Or does an even more sinister discovery await her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2406'),
(10562, 'What to Expect When You&#39;re Expecting', 'Heidi Murkoff &amp; Sharon Mazel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America''s pregnancy bible.\n <em>\n  What to Expect When You''re Expecting\n </em>\n is a perennial\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller and one of\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n ''s 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It''s read by more than 90% of pregnant women who read a pregnancy book--the most iconic, must-have book for parents-to-be, with over 14.5 million copies in print.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now comes the Fourth Edition, a new book for a new generation of expectant moms--featuring a new look, a fresh perspective, and a friendlier-than-ever voice. It''s filled with the most up-to-date information reflecting not only what''s new in pregnancy, but what''s relevant to pregnant women. Heidi Murkoff has rewritten every section of the book, answering dozens of new questions and including loads of new asked-for material, such as a detailed week-by-week fetal development section in each of the monthly chapters, an expanded chapter on pre-conception, and a brand new one on carrying multiples. More comprehensive, reassuring, and empathetic than ever, the Fourth Edition incorporates the most recent developments in obstetrics and addresses the most current lifestyle trends (from tattooing and belly piercing to Botox and aromatherapy). There''s more than ever on pregnancy matters practical (including an expanded section on workplace concerns), physical (with more symptoms, more solutions), emotional (more advice on riding the mood roller coaster), nutritional (from low-carb to vegan, from junk foodâ€“dependent to caffeine-addicted), and sexual (what''s hot and what''s not in pregnant lovemaking), as well as much more support for that very important partner in parenting, the dad-to-be.\n</p>\n<p>\n Overflowing with tips, helpful hints, and humor (a pregnant woman''s best friend), this new edition is more accessible and easier to use than ever before. It''s everything parents-to-be have come to expect from\n <em>\n  What to Expect\n </em>\n ... only better.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  An Essay from Heidi Murkoff\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  What to Expect\n </em>\n started with information--or, actually, lack of information. In fact, when I found out I was expecting for the first time--I didn''t have the slightest idea of what to expect. And back then, it wasn''t as easy to find out what to expect as you''d think. I created\n <em>\n  What to Expect When You''re Expecting\n </em>\n because I couldn''t find the answers to my questions or the reassurance for my worries that I was searching for in the pregnancy books I read (and believe me, I read plenty). I was a mom on a mission--a mission to help other moms and dads worry less and enjoy their pregnancies (and their babies, and their toddlers) more. And I''ve been on that mission ever since.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what sent me back to recreate\n <em>\n  What to Expect\n </em>\n --for a fourth time? Today, there''s definitely no lack of information on pregnancy. In fact there''s more information than ever before (a quick online search of pregnancy or a glance at pages and pages of pregnancy and parenting options right here on Amazon will clue you in on that). But often what''s still hard to find is the right kind of information. Information that''s accurate yet empathetic, reassuring yet realistic--that empowers you, but doesn''t overwhelm or confuse you, that guides you but doesn''t dictate to you. And it''s not just about the right information, it''s about information that''s presented in the way that''s most helpful--easy to access, easy to digest, easy to use. It''s about information that makes your pregnant life less stressful--more enjoyable, and, well, easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fourth edition is a new\n <em>\n  What To Expect\n </em>\n for a new generation of readers--you!--and I''m excited to say it''s the best\n <em>\n  What To Expect\n </em>\n yet. It''s packed with all new information, of course (since things tend to change quickly in the baby-making and baby-delivering business--something you''re probably all too aware of already if you''ve made more than one trip to the birthing room). But it doesn''t only take into account what''s new in obstetrics and what''s new in pregnancy; it takes into account what''s relevant to pregnant women now. Lifestyle. Working. Eating on the run. Juggling the pregnant life with real life. Keeping up with relationships. Birthing options that are family friendly and pregnancy care that incorporates the best that complimentary and alternative medicine has to offer. Managing multiples (which more and more moms are carrying). Sorting out the information from the misinformation--the reality from the hype, fact from Internet legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fourth edition also takes into account how you likely use books these days, so the format is even more accessible than ever. More geared to in-the-moment, find-it-in-a-flash reading.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most important of all, the fourth edition celebrates pregnancy. I have a passion for pregnancy, and always have. I love moms, I love dads, and I love babies. But everything about this fourth edition from the happy, excited mom-to-be on the cover, proudly caressing her beautiful belly and its even more beautiful contents, to the adorable week-by-week description of the making of your baby, to the positive (yet realistic), mom-to-mom tone throughout--this fourth edition is not just an explanation of those 9 amazing (though often bewildering) months you have ahead of you. It''s a celebration of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What to Expect When You''re Expecting\n </em>\n fourth edition is everything moms and dads have come to expect from\n <em>\n  What to Expect\n </em>\n ... only better. And I can''t wait to start sharing it with you.\n</p>\n<p>\n I guess you can say--I''m a proud mama all over again.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Heidi Murkoff\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More to Explore\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murkoff is back with yet another edition of the indispensable\n <em>\n  What to Expect When You''re Expecting\n </em>\n â€”this time with a largely rewritten and revised edition of the comprehensive guide she introduced 24 years ago. The book has undergone an extensive overhaul, beginning with the cover, which depicts a stylish expectant mom dressed in jeans and a form-fitting shirtâ€”a far cry from the original text''s comfy, frumpy mom seated in a rocking chair. Inside, the author has added a number of new features, including a chapter that draws upon current research to steer parents-to-be to a healthier lifestyle even before conception begins, chapters on healthy eating and giving birth to multiples (a growing trend) and expanded sections on working during pregnancy. While the general layout and appearance of the book will be familiar to readers, Murkoff has successfully broadened and sharpened the material while keeping the overall style and presentation intact.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8404'),
(10563, 'What We Keep', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I don''t like my mother. She''s not a good person." So declares Ginny Young on a trip to California to visit her mother, Marion, whom she hasn''t seen in 35 years. Ginny is only making the trip as a favor to her sister, Sharla, who has called to say she''s awaiting the results of a cancer test. In flashback, Berg (Talk Before Sleep) revisits the events of the girls'' childhood and the moments when their mother''s problems began to reveal themselves. One night, Ginny and Sharla overhear their mother screaming at their father about her unhappiness and telling him that she never wanted children. Then she walks out with no explanations, returning briefly a few months later to explain that she''s not coming back. The following years bring occasional visits that are impossibly painful for all concerned and so full of buried anger that the girls decide to curtail them altogether. When Sharla meets Ginny (now a mother herself) at the airport, and the two see their mother again, there are surprises in store, but not especially shocking ones. The reader, in fact, may feel there is less here than meets the eye: Marion''s flight is never made psychologically credible. Berg''s customary skill in rendering domestic details is intact, but the story seems stitched together. Crucial scenes feel highlighted rather than fleshed out, and Ginny''s bitterness disappears into thin air as she reaches a facile, sentimental conclusion about her mother''s needs. BOMC selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Berg (Joy School, LJ 12/96) excels at writing novels about the close personal relationships between women. As this new work opens, Ginny is flying to California to join her sister in a meeting with their mother, whom neither daughter has seen for 35 years. Ginny uses her travel time to reflect upon her memories of the summer when her mother withdrew from the family and became an outsider in her daughters'' lives. Berg''s precise, evocative descriptions create vivid images of Ginny''s physical world, while Berg''s understanding and perception are an eloquent testimony to Ginny''s emotional turmoil. Berg cleverly examines the roles and relationships of mothers and daughters and reveals how truth, forgiveness, and understanding are possible in healing intergenerational rifts between women. Highly recommended and sure to be popular.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Caroline M. Hallsworth, Cambrian Coll., Ontario\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8453'),
(10564, 'What Would Google Do?', 'Jeff Jarvis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This scattered collection of rambling rants lauding Google''s abilities to harness the power of the Internet Age generally misses the mark. Blog impresario Jarvis uses the company''s success to trace aspects of the new customer-driven, user-generated, niche-market-oriented, customized and collaborative world. While his insights are stimulating, Jarvis''s tone is acerbic and condescending; equally off-putting is his pervasive name-dropping. The book picks up in a section on media, where the author finally launches a fascinating discussion of how businessesâ€”especially media and entertainment industriesâ€”can continue to evolve and profit by using Google''s strategies. Unfortunately, Jarvis may have lost the reader by that point as his attempt to cover too many topics reads more like a series of frenzied blog posts than a manifesto for the Internet age.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jarvis, columnist and blogger about media, presents his ideas for surviving and prospering in the Internet age, with its new set of rules for emerging technologies as well as industries such as retail, manufacturing, and service. We learn that customers are now in charge, people anywhere can find each other and join forces to support a companyâ€™s efforts or oppose them, life and business are more public, conversation has replaced marketing, and openness is the key to success. Jarvisâ€™ other laws include being a platform (help users create products, businesses, communities, and networks of their own); hand over control to anyone; middlemen are doomed; and your worst customer is your best friend, and your best customer is your partner. Jarvis offers thought-provoking observations and valuable examples for individuals and businesses seeking to fully participate in our Internet culture and maximize the opportunities it offers. It is unclear what role Google played, if any, in the preparation of this book, which provides excellent advertising for the company. --Mary Whaley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7315'),
(10565, 'What-The-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ~TWILIGHT~\n</p>\n<p>\n BY EVENING, WHEN THE WINDS ROSE yet again, the power began to stutter at half-strength, and the sirens to fail. From those streetlights whose bulbs hadnâ€™t been stoned, a tea-colored dusk settled in uncertain tides. It fell on the dirty militias of pack dogs, all bullying and foaming against one another, and on the palm fronds twitching in the storm gutter, and on the abandoned cars, and everything â€” everything â€” was flattened, equalized in the gloom of half-light. Like the subjects in a browning photograph in some antique photo album, only these times werenâ€™t antique. They\n <br />\n were now.\n</p>\n<p>\n The air seemed both oily and dry. If you rubbed your fingers together, a miser imagining a coin, your fingers stuck slightly.\n</p>\n<p>\n A fug of smoke lay on the slopes above the deserted freeway. It might have reminded neighbors of campfire hours, but there were few neighbors around to notice. Most of them had gotten out while they still could.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dinah could feel that everything was different, without knowing how or why. She wasnâ€™t old enough to add up this column of facts:\n <br />\n - power cuts\n <br />\n - the smell of wet earth: mudslide surgically opening the hills\n <br />\n - winds like Joshuaâ€™s army battering the walls of Jericho\n <br />\n - massed clouds with poisonous yellow edges\n <br />\n - the evacuation of the downslope neighbors, and the silence\n <br />\n and come up with a grown-up summary, like one or more of the following:\n <br />\n - the collapse of local government and services\n <br />\n - the collapse of public confidence, too\n <br />\n - state of emergency\n <br />\n - end of the world\n <br />\n - business as usual, just a variety of usual not usually seen.\n <br />\n After all, Dinah was only ten.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten, and in some ways, a youngish ten, because her family\n <br />\n lived remotely.\n</p>\n<p>\n For one thing, they kept themselves apart â€” literally. The Ormsbys sequestered themselves in a scrappy bungalow perched at the uphill end of the canyon, where the unpaved county road petered out into ridge rubble and scrub pine.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Ormsbys werenâ€™t rural castaways nor survivalists â€” nothing like that. They were trying the experiment of living by gospel standards, and they hoped to be surer of their faith tomorrow than theyâ€™d been yesterday.\n</p>\n<p>\n A decent task and, around here, a lonely one. The Ormsby family made its home a citadel against the alluring nearby world of the Internet, the malls, the cable networks, and other such temptations.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Ormsby parents called these attractions slick. They sighed and worried: dangerous. They feared cunning snares and delusions. Dinah Ormsby wished she could study such matters close-up and decide for herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dinah and her big brother, Zeke, were homeschooled. This, they were frequently reminded, kept them safe, made them strong, and preserved their goodness. Since most of the time they felt safe, strong, and good, they assumed the strategy was working.\n</p>\n<p>\n But all kids possess a nervy ability to dismay their parents, and the kids of the Ormsby family were no exception. Dinah saw life as a series of miracles with a fervor that even her devout parents considered unseemly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "No, Santa Claus has no website staffed by underground Nordic trolls. No, there is no flight school for the training of apprentice reindeer. No to Santa Claus, period," her mother always said. "Dinah, honey, donâ€™t let your imagination run away with you." Exasperatedly: "Govern yourself!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Think things through," said her dad, ever the peacemaker. "Big heart, big faith: great. But make sure you have a big mind, too. Use the brain God gave you."\n</p>\n<p>\n Dinah took no offense, and she did try to think things through. From the Ormsbyâ€™s bunker, high above the threat of contamination by modern life, she could still love the world. In a hundred ways, a new way every day. Even a crisis could prove thrilling as it unfolded:\n <br />\n - Where, for instance, had her secret downslope friends gone? Just imagining their adventures on the road â€” with their normal, middle-class\n <br />\n families â€” made Dinah happy. Or curious, anyway.\n <br />\n - For another instance: Just now, around the corner of the house, here comes the newcomer, Gage. A distant cousin of Dinahâ€™s mom. A few\n <br />\n days ago he had arrived on the bus for a rare visit and, presto. When the problems began to multiply and the result was a disaster, Gage had\n <br />\n been right there, ready to help out as an emergency babysitter. Talk about timely â€” it was downright providential. How could you deny it?\n</p>\n<p>\n Therefore, Dinah concluded,\n <br />\n - A storm is as good a setting for a miracle as any.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, it would have been a little more miraculous if Gage had proven to be handy in a disaster, but Dinah wasnâ€™t inclined to second-guess the hand of God. She would take any blessing that came along. Even if decent cousin Gage was a bit â€” she tried to face it, to use her good mind with honesty â€” ineffectual.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hopeless at fixing anything. Clumsy with a screwdriver. Skittish with a used diaper. ("As a weather forecaster," Zeke mumbled to Dinah, "Gage is all wet: where is the clear sky, the sunlight heâ€™s been promising?")\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, Gage Tavenner was a tangle of recklessly minor talents. Who needed a mandolin player when the electric power wouldnâ€™t come on anymore?\n</p>\n<p>\n But he was all they had, now. An adequate miracle so far.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Zeke," Gage called, "get down from that shed roof ! Are you insane? We want another medical crisis?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I was trying to see where the power line was down. . . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n "And fry yourself in the process? Power is out all over the county. Up there, if the winds get much stronger, youâ€™ll be flown to your next destination without the benefit of an airplane. Down. Now. . . . "\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n WHAT-THE-DICKENS by Gregory Maguire. Copyright (c) 2007 by Gregory Maguire. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Gregory Maguire does for the dark and stormy night what he did for witches in Wicked." â€” The New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. Itâ€™s thestory of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee working as an Agent of Change â€” trading coins for teeth â€” and learns of a dutiful tribe of tooth fairies to which he hopes to belong. As his tale unfolds, however, both What-the-Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and far less sure than they ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7508'),
(10566, 'What&#39;s a Ghoul to Do?', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family''s lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch''s isn''t the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the answers...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4406'),
(10567, 'What&#39;s Wrong with Eating People?: 33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles', 'Peter Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cave''s brilliant paradoxes and puzzles explain classic conundrums and some of the most exciting problems in Philosophy - with lots of laughs along the way.From encounters with bears (ethical dilemmas) to talking with a turkey (the problem of induction) this is packed with fun problems and dilemmas - a great stocking-stuffer for anyone, of any age, who loves a mental workout!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3367');
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(10568, 'When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge', 'Chanrithy Him', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy''s family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge''s demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5418'),
(10569, 'When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world', 'Martin Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern was synonymous with being western. This original and ground-breaking new book argues that the twenty-first century will be different. With the rise of increasingly powerful non-Western countries, the west will no longer be dominant and there will be many ways of being modern. In this new era of ''contested modernity'' the central player will be China.Far from becoming a western-style society, China will remain highly distinctive. Continental in size and mentality, and accounting for one-fifth of humanity, China is a ''civilization-state'' whose characteristics, attitudes and values long predate its existence as a nation-state. China is already having a far-reaching and much discussed economic impact, but its influence will be far greater than this: China''s rise signals the end of the global dominance of the western nation-state and the rise of a world which it will shape in a host of different ways. As it rapidly reassumes its traditional position at the centre of East Asia, the old tributary system will be resurface in a modern form, contemporary ideas of racial hierarchy will be redrawn and China''s ages-old sense of superiority will reassert itself. China''s rise will change the world as we know it, from one made in the west to one increasingly shaped by China.This profound and far-sighted book explains for the first time the deeper meaning of China''s arrival as a global power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3096'),
(10570, 'When Darkness Comes', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s been a hell of a day for Abby Barlow. In just a few hours, she''s survived an explosion, watched her employer die, had a startling dream, and now she finds herself in a seedy Chicago hotel with the sexy, unearthly Dante, a man she both desires and fears. For 341 years, Dante has stood as guardian to The Chalice, a mortal woman chosen to hold back the darkness. A terrible twist of fate has now made Abby that woman. Three hours ago, Dante would have used all his charms to seduce her. Now she is his to protect. And he will do so until his very death. A terrifying plan has been set in motion, one that will plunge Dante and Abby into an epic battle between good and evil and a desperate race to save their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(10571, 'When Demons Walk', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enough twists and turns to keep readers'' interest. (_Voya_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sorceress. Lady. Mistress. Thief. Just call her an overachiever.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n To survive, Sham has spent most of her young life stealing from Southwoodâ€™s nobility. Now, as the cityâ€™s nobles fall prey to a killer, Sham is called on to helpâ€”and must use all of her magical wisdom to send the demon away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5922'),
(10572, 'When eight bells toll', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  / ''Keeps up its high-wire tension all the way. Not to be missed'' Guardian / ''A cracker-jack opening. Insistently readable'' Evening Standard / ''Breathless action!and a sterling plot'' Financial Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive. The place is the focal point of many mysterious disappearances. Even the unimaginative Highland Police Sergeant seems to be acting a part. But why? This story is Alistair MacLean at his enthralling best. It has all the edge-of-the-seat suspense, and dry humour that millions of readers have devoured for years.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9284'),
(10573, 'When Good Friends Go Bad', 'Ellie Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years Jackie, Georgina, Meg and Rowan were loyal friends. But time, secrets and misunderstandings created a rift that seemed impossible to bridge. Ten years after leaving school they attempt a reunion. But Rowan never appears, Georgina has a surprise none of them could have expected, Meg is typically outlandish and Jackie''s heart just isn''t in it. The evening is a fiasco and Jackie decides it''s time to move on once and for all. And that''s just what she does for the following ten years. That is until yesterday, when out of the blue she''s contacted by Meg. But her timing couldn''t be worse as Jackie''s personal life is in tatters and the last thing she''s ready to do is revisit her past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(10574, 'When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life', 'Saul Frampton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. With deceptive casualness, Frampton, assistant editor of the London Review of Books, renders a rigorous history of ideas in this engaging account of the life and the work of Michel de Montaigne (1533â€“1592). After enduring in short succession the deaths of his daughter; father; best friend; and brother, "killed absurdly, tragically, by the blow from a tennis ball," Montaigne retreated to his tower library, intending to write and prepare himself for his own death. Out of this dismal exercise came Les Essais, his eccentric and invaluable essays on his milieu, philosophy, and preoccupations. Frampton tucks a good deal of biography into his tour of the evolution of the essays and the events that inspired themâ€”but his extraordinary achievement is in conveyingâ€”and inviting the reader to commune withâ€”Montaigne''s unique sensibility and his take on death, sex, travel, friendship, kidney stones, the human thumb, and above all, "the power of the ordinary and the unremarkable, the value of the here-and-now." This scholarly romp through the Renaissance is a jewel. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œExcellent . . . Montaigne celebrates life in all its glorious messiness, while reminding us that nothing matters more than human connectedness and kindness to people and animals. An endlessly digressive writer, Montaigne is as much raconteur as moralist, and his book offers some of the best after-dinner conversation in the world . . . You can never be sure what this French humanist will say next . . . Frampton approaches Montaigne from unexpected tangents . . . Where [he] excels is in his sharply intelligent and sharply phrased insights . . . [An] elegant work.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Dirda,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWinning . . . Perceptive . . . Frampton tells the story of how history, culture, and personal genius conspired to create a new literary genreâ€”and a literary master for the ages . . . Although they were first published more than four centuries ago, Montaigneâ€™s essays can seem as topical as the morning newspaper. As more than one admirer has discovered, Montaigneâ€™s essential giftâ€”the art of conversation rendered on the pageâ€”is a timeless one.â€\n <br />\n â€”Danny Heitman,\n <em>\n  The Christian Science Monitor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMontaigneâ€™s essays delight in human sensuality, uniqueness, even unpredictability. Though [his] early essays were about war, the later essays are playful, uninhibited, and in parts painfully intimate (sexual dysfunction; the passing of kidney stones, etc.). Frampton, in his lighthearted book, explores the shift in Montaigneâ€™s thinking . . . [He] shows how Montaigneâ€™s later essays are full of fascination and observation and how he approaches practical issuesâ€”his health, his political obligations, his role as a winemakerâ€”with an enviable equanimity.â€\n <br />\n â€”Susan Salter Reynolds,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, whose essays went on to have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare, Emerson and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Washington Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] inventive exploration . . . [This book] attest[s] to the enduring fascination of [Montaigneâ€™s] pieces: The sensibility behind them is at once centuries old and curiously modern.â€\n <br />\n â€”Kwame Appiah,\n <em>\n  Slate\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œScholarly, but not pedantic, this is a book to be savored over time. As with Montaigneâ€™s essays, it is one which can be opened and read at any point without interrupting its flow. . . . Framptonâ€™s extensive knowledge of literary history is evident.â€\n <br />\n â€”Rosemary Repeta,\n <em>\n  The Post and Courier\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe skeptical and humane French nobleman has always had his admirers, and Framptonâ€™s learned, subtle, and engaging book shows why.â€\n <br />\n â€”Brian Bethune,\n <em>\n  Macleanâ€™s\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn Montaigneâ€™s intense self-absorption, Frampton discerns the rich literary fruit of a stunning midlife volte-face . . . Frampton underscores the essential humaneness of Montaigneâ€™s life . . . Recognizing the twenty-first centuryâ€™s own need for advocates of life-affirming tolerance, readers will embrace this insightful portrait.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bryce Christensen,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith deceptive casualness, Frampton renders a rigorous history of ideas in this engaging account of the life and the work of Michel de Montaigne . . . His extraordinary achievement is in conveyingâ€”and inviting the reader to commune withâ€”Montaigneâ€™s unique sensibility and his take on death, sex, travel, friendship, kidney stones, the human thumb, and above all, â€˜the power of the ordinary and the unremarkable, the value of the here-and-now.â€™ . . . This scholarly romp through the Renaissance is a jewel.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly _(starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIngenious . . . Passionately written and full to bursting with digressions and anecdotes, Framptonâ€™s book does an excellent job of bringing Montaigne and his historical context to life. It is this vivid evocation of the time that emerges as the bookâ€™s greatest strength. We see how the philosopherâ€™s celebration of daily life . . . went against not only the dominant philosophical currents of the day but also the violent upheavals of 16th-century France. What comes through the strongest is an inspiring sense of the philosopherâ€™s remarkable independence of thought and enduring relevance.â€\n <br />\n â€”Edward King,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the best books I have read on Montaigne . . . Frampton argues that to read Montaigne is â€˜to touch base with oneselfâ€™ and to learn how to act within our capacities, to accept and even to savour them . . . He demonstrates that the more Montaigne observed ordinary life, the more remarkable he found it, and the more he felt impelled to plunge back into its mess . . . Four centuries on, Montaigne still speaks to us.â€\n <br />\n â€”Nicholas Shakespeare,\n <em>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Frampton has] written an introduction to Montaigneâ€™s great work as well as setting it in historical context, showing how it influenced important writers, such as Shakespeare. Framptonâ€™s book stands as a work in its own right and should encourage anyone unfamiliar with Montaigne to read the original.â€\n <br />\n â€”Phil Bloomfield,\n <em>\n  The Oxford Times\n </em>\n (UK)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8445'),
(10575, 'When I Stop Talking, You&#39;ll Know I&#39;m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man', 'Jerry Weintraub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York''s Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: ''Jerry Weintraub Presents.''" In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU''LL KNOW I''M DEAD, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!, The Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean''s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Along the way, we''ll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer . . .well, the list goes on forever. And of course, the story is not yet over . . .as the old-timers say, "The best is yet to come." As Weintraub says, "When I stop talking, you''ll know I''m dead." With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists . . . everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1801'),
(10576, 'When Last I Died', 'Gladys Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a crime writing gem featuring vanished children, haunted mansions and family secrets from one of the masters of the crime-writing genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2090'),
(10577, 'When Light Breaks', 'Patti Callahan Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Garnering comparisons to Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry has woven her lyrical Southern voice throughout the Lowcountry landscape. Now, as two women from opposite sides of the same sea meet, a tale unfolds that will draw readers into the heart''s remembrances-and the tender awakenings of first love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though bogged down in the stress of planning her elaborate wedding to a professional golfer, twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson still makes time to visit ninety-six-year-old Maeve Mahoney at her nursing home. And as Maeve recounts the rambling story of her first love back in Ireland, Kara is driven to remember her own first love: childhood neighbor Jack Sullivan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7232'),
(10578, 'When the Devil Holds the Candle', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infantâ€™s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his switchblade. In the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the infantâ€™s death and the reported disappearance of a local delinquent. And so while the confusion outside mounts, the heart-stopping truth unfolds inside the old womanâ€™s home. Unflappable as ever, Sejer digs below the surface of small- town tranquility in an effort to understand how and why violence destroys everyday lives. (20060901)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3048'),
(10579, 'When the Devil Whistles', 'Rick Acker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allie Whitman is a professional whistleblower with a knack for sniffing out fraud in government contracts. Conner Norman is a gifted litigator and together they form Devil to Pay, Inc., a shell corporation that files lawsuits based on Allie s investigations. They soon find themselves fighting potentially fatal battles in and out of the courtroom, going great lengths to protect secrets that could ruin them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7442'),
(10580, 'When the Lion Feeds', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smithâ€¦a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Tulsa\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TRIUMPH OF THE SUN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Â "_Triumph of the Sun_ is everything [Smith''s] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventureâ€¦chalk up another winner."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the darkâ€¦a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful... fans will not be disappointed."--_Booklist_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Nobody does it better."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  BLUE HORIZON\n </strong>\n <br />\n "The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance."--_Booklist_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Really big retro-fun."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "A swashbuckling, brawling, sprawling historical epic. Rich, exciting, and fascinating."--_Library Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Adventure and danger at every turn."--_New York__ Daily News_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Gripping. The writer''s fans will enjoy the ride."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Master storyteller Smith takes his story into another generation of adventurers battling on the sea and on land in the settling of South Africa."--_Tulsa__ World_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Everything Smith''s fans have come to expect from his epic adventure novels. His consummate skill at crafting vast battle scenes, passionate and wildly romantic characters, cruel and bloodthirsty villains, and larger-than-life heroes make\n <em>\n  Blue Horizon\n </em>\n irresistible."--_Journal _(Flint, MI)\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  WARLOCK\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival. He is a warlock of writers."--_Tulsa__ World_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Filled with enough action, adventure, battles, betrayals, and actual cliffhangers to satisfy Indiana Jones, Wilbur Smith''s new novel\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  is a rousing and worthy sequel to\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  --_The Plain Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seamlessly composed, this epic historical drama by veteran author Smith tracks a power struggle in ancient Egypt between false pharaohs and a true royal heir, evoking the cruel glories and terrible torments of the era. Those willing to brave the blood and gore will be carried away by the sweep and pace of Smith''s tale."-_Publishers Weekly_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one. It''s the same with\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Brilliantâ€¦irresistible and impossible to put down."\n  <br />\n  --_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those of you familiar with Smith''s writingâ€¦can expect more of his signature brand of pulse-pounding, "Perils of Pauline"--style of adventure and excitement, with more blood and guts than a slaughterhouse."--_Tampa__ Tribune Times_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "This summer''s most entertaining readâ€¦another full-blown tale of war, intrigue, murder, lust, and true love set in ancient Egypt [this] is really the book Taita fans have been waiting for."--_Flint__ Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "Smith is at the top of his game in weaving exotic adventures in this work. Very highly recommended."--_Library Journal_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one."--_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A stirring tale, full of chariot battles...Smith has whipped up a heady brew...and undoubtedly deserves his immense popularity far more than most of his rivals."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Evening Standard_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can almost feel the heat and taste the dust as the narrative builds to a cracking pace...[_Warlock_] is a ripping yarn and a classic adventure story."--_Irish News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  RIVER GOD\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand tale of intrigue, deception, true love and exile."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Denver\n  </strong>\n  Post_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Vivid and fascinating...packed with passion, war, intrigue and revenge...sprawling and absorbing...gripping.â€¦ A racy rampage through ancient Egypt that puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifyingâ€¦.The author makes you see it, hear it--even smell it...Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner...few novelists can write action scenes that all but leap off the page the way Smith can...his detailed portrait of ancient Egypt is fascinating."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Anniston__ Star_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith tackles the elevated literary fields of ancient Egypt, and comes up with a full-blooded epic."\n  <br />\n  --_The\n  <strong>\n   London\n  </strong>\n  Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like a good action movie, the book ends with a show-down between the good guys and bad guys on the battlefieldâ€¦well-written and entertaining."--_Lexington__ Herald-Leader_ (KY)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Compulsively readable...contains intrigue, romance, greed, cruelty, and furious action...rewarding and satisfying."--_El Paso__ Herald-Post_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa__ World _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic novel of ancient Egypt, a great adventure with all the right ingredients: victories and defeats, secrets and revelations, life and death, reverence and godlessness, hate and love"--_The Des Moines Register _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s clear Smith knows his subject: his graphic depiction of lust, bloodletting, politics, and, in Taita''s case, honor is firmly grounded in rich details that evoke the period."_--Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_River God_] gallops swiftly through the action and flying blood his fans have come to relish...Brightly colored, sweeping escapism."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  Â MONSOON"[Smith] paces his tale as swiftly as he can with swordplay aplenty and killing strokes that come like lightning out of a sunny blue sky."-_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] non-stop thriller that takes readers on a magical tourâ€¦this is what makes a Smith book worth reading."-_Midwest__ Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smithâ€¦a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."-_Tulsa__ World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wild adventureâ€¦brought flawlessly to life through realistic sword fights and sea battles, vivid stories of piratesâ€¦breathtaking."-_Times Record News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "A masterful tale of action and suspense.... A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith offers plenty of battles and harrowing escapes for adventure fans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Library Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n BIRDS OF PREY"Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--_The\n <strong>\n  Washington\n </strong>\n Post Book World_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. Its bloodiest scenes are vivid and detailed--and so are hero Hal''s romantic encounters. But, as with Smith''s previous two best sellers,\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , this latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Birds of Prey_ is a wonderful novel filled with excitement, pirates, and vivid sea battles...In short, it is vintage Wilbur Smith."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the 1870s and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love...''The world''s leading adventure writer'' - "Daily Express" ''The pace would do credit to a Porsche, and the invention is as bright and explosive as a fireworks display'' - "Sunday Telegraph". '' ...action follows action ...mystery is piled on mystery ...tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gutsy adventure story'' - "Sunday Express". '' ...a natural storyteller who moves confidently and often splendidly in his period and sustains a flow of convincing incident'' - "The Scotsman".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9153'),
(10581, 'When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures', 'Ronald A. Ruden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures\n </em>\n Â  introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory inputâ€”for example, touchâ€”creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1983, Ronald A. Ruden has run an internal medicine practice in Manhattan and dedicated part of the proceeds to follow research interests. His first efforts were described in his book,\n <em>\n  The Craving Brain,\n </em>\n a neurobiological discussion of addictive behaviors. In 2003 he began a new research project involving the understanding of traumatization that has led to three publications in\n <em>\n  Traumatology,\n </em>\n edited by Charles Figley, and to this book. He continues his research on traumatization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4539'),
(10582, 'When the Snow Fell', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Joel Gustafsonâ€™s journey toward becoming a man continues.*As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel Gustafson his very own New Yearâ€™s Eve. So when the snow begins to fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making new resolutionsâ€”three, to be exact. As the winter days pass, life becomes ever more complicated. Joel has questions and the answers donâ€™t necessarily come easily, but he is determined to keep his resolutionsâ€”for his father, for himself, and for their future. In this companion novel to *A Bridge to the Stars *and *Shadows in the Twilight*, readers follow Joelâ€™s journey as he realizes along the way that it will require determination, strength, and valor to truly become a man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1629'),
(10583, 'When the Wind Blows', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frannie O''Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever....Her name is Max.With breathtaking energy, eleven-year-old Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science. When the Wind Blows is as unique a story as has ever been told, filled with suspense and passion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2025'),
(10584, 'When the Women Come Out to Dance', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What a treat! The nine stories in this collection--some never before published, others available only in anthologies or magazines-- demonstrate why Elmore Leonard has achieved both bestsellerdom and critical acclaim. Ranging in length from a four-page trifle to two novellas of 50-plus pages, these are gems of sly humor, suspense, and, above all, character. Most are in the contemporary crime-fiction vein that made Leonard famous, but a few are more contemplative set pieces, and there''s one fine Old West story (Leonard was a Western writer before he became a crime king).\n</p>\n<p>\n Longtime fans will recognize some familiar faces, including the U.S. marshals Raylan Givens, from 1993''s __ and 1995''s\n <strong>\n  , and Karen Sisco, from 1996''s\n </strong>\n (played by J. Lo in the movie). But whether familiar or new, the people in these stories lunge off the page and seize you by the lapels. Nobody writes character and dialogue like Leonard. In fact, several tales feature some rural white-trash bad guys who are so utterly plausible that you''ll look over your shoulder next time you drive a country road.\n</p>\n<p>\n The short story format suits Leonard''s stripped-down style beautifully. While one or two of the slimmer pieces feel a bit disposable, all nine are engaging, and the best are breathtakingly good--the crispest, best- plotted stuff Leonard has published in years.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard''s latest, When the Women Come Out to Dance, is a collection of short sketches that feature strong female characters in trouble. "Sparks" describes a flirtation between an insurance investigator and a widow who has apparently burned down her own mansion in the Hollywood hills. The riveting title piece involves a rich Pakistani surgeon''s wife, a former stripper who''s terrified that her playboy husband will have her killed once he gets bored with her. Hoping to knock him off first, she hires as a maid a Colombian woman rumored to have murdered her own abusive husband. "Fire in the Hole" finds two former co-workers pitted against one another in a deadly showdown: Boyd Crowder is a Bible-quoting neo-Nazi with a penchant for terrorist acts, and Raylan Givens is the U.S. marshal sent to shut him down. Leonard fans may wish for something meatier, but the razor-edged dialogue and brisk storytelling won''t disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9194'),
(10585, 'When Twilight Comes', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He''d waited for this day--this woman--for forever it seemed. Harry Ballantine had been a prisoner of Fernhaven forest and now he found the key to his salvation in Jenna Dante. But would she surrender to him before she left the hidden hamlet? With an angry ex on her tail and rain pouring, the last thing Jenna Dante needed was car trouble and a cranky child. Her only option was to seek refuge in the desolate hotel on the hill in Fernhaven. But the restored walls seemed to hold more than memories. For Jenna they vibrated with life and an all-male seduction she could only see and feel in her mind. But when danger came to call, she would need flesh-and-blood protection--and maybe something more lethal...like transcending love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(10586, 'When We Were Strangers', 'Pamela Schoenewaldt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Introduction  "If you leave Opi, you''ll die with strangers," Irma Vitale''s mother always warned. Even after her beloved mother''s passing, 20-year-old Irma longs to stay in her Abruzzo mountain village, plying her needle. But too poor and plain to marry and subject to growing danger in her own home, she risks rough passage to America and workhouse servitude to achieve her dream of making dresses for gentlewomen.   In the raw immigrant quarters and with the help of an entrepreneurial Irish serving girl, ribbon-decked Polish ragman and austere Alsatian dressmaker, Irma begins to stitch together a new life . . . until her peace and self are shattered in the charred remains of the Great Chicago Fire. Enduring a painful recovery, Irma reaches deep within to find that she has even more to offer the world than her remarkable ability with a needle and thread  Questions for Discussion  1. Irma''s practical skills and world knowledge seem so limited, even compared to those of her brother Carlo. What abilities and traits help her navigate the difficult passages from Opi to Naples and then west?   2. Irma''s mother devoutly believes that "If you leave Opi, you will die with strangers." How does this assertion shape Irma''s experience and how does she ultimately refine it in a way that allows her to move forward in her journey? How does this family assertion compare to others you may have encountered?   3. Opi, real and remembered, is a powerful force for Irma''s self-image and world-view. How does her conception of Opi change through the novel?   4. Unlike many fictional heroines and perhaps many young women, Irma initially has little interest in a romantic union. Why not and what must change for her to have a satisfying intimate relationship?   5. At various times in her journey, Irma makes choices which she herself feels are at odds with the Irma Vitale that she "really is." Is she accurate in this assessment?   6. Irma Vitale is surrounded by immigrants as she makes her passage west. What various ways of relating to "the Old Country" are represented by these other immigrants, her "fellow strangers"?   7. Sofia gives Irma the option to leave Jake and Daisy''s flat. Yet Irma stays. How does this choice reflect her course since first encountering Jake?   8. Irma''s profession evolves from needle worker to dressmaker and finally surgeon. What inner changes parallel this evolution?   9. Today, as in Irma''s time, many people live far from their birthplace for a variety of reasons. What pressures, challenges and supports seem universal about her experience?  About the Author  Pamela Schoenewaldt lived for ten years in a small town outside Naples, Italy. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines in England, France, Italy and the United States. She taught writing for the University of Maryland, European Division and the University of Tennessee and now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her husband, Maurizio Conti, a medical physicist, and their dog Jesse, a philosopher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6993'),
(10587, 'When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** Another riotous journey through the mind of one of America''s premiere comic observers. Ranging from his absurdist side to his unerring ear for American speech to his unsparing views on America and its values, Carlin''s legendary irreverence and iconoclasm are on full display as he vainly scours the American landscape for signs of intelligence. Available only in Core 6 &amp; 7.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/903'),
(10588, 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œDavid Sedarisâ€™s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,â€ (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6805'),
(10589, 'When You Care, When You Love.htm', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10488'),
(10590, 'When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse', 'Ben Yagoda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book_._\n</p>\n<p>\n In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since\n <em>\n  School House Rock\n </em>\n have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. Read _If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It\n <em>\n  and:\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn how to write better with classic advice from writers such as Mark Twain ("If you catch an adjective, kill it"), Stephen King ("I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs"), and Gertrude Stein ("Nouns . . . are completely not interesting").\n</p>\n<p>\n Marvel at how a single word can shift from adverb ("I did okay"), to adjective ("It was an okay movie"), to interjection ("Okay!"), to noun ("I gave my okay"), to verb ("Who okayed this?"), depending on its use.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avoid the pretentious preposition\n <em>\n  at\n </em>\n , a favorite of real estate developers (e.g., "The Shoppes at White Plains").\n</p>\n<p>\n Laugh when Yagoda says he "shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days" who insists on maintaining the distinction between\n <em>\n  shall\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  will\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common sense_ _convey Yagoda''s unique sense of the "beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6712'),
(10591, 'When You Dare', 'Lori Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Professional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he''ll take the mission he''s offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who''d had her kidnappedâ€”and for the first time, Dare''s tempted to combine work with pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she''s uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancÃ© who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of allâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8343'),
(10592, 'When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism', 'Bill Maher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Political provocateur Bill Maher tells it like it is in a useful and hilarious guide for the many Americans who want to do more here at home to help the war effort, but are at a loss as to what. Thirty-three dynamic new posters and several classics from our government''s archive accompanied by text from one of our leading pundits and cutting-edge comedians make this the perfect book for this time in our nation''s history, the zeitgeist of post-9/11 America. This is the book that will help Americans make connections between what we do and how it can help (or hurt) our troops and us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9973'),
(10593, 'When You&#39;re Not Expecting: An Infertility Survival Guide', 'Constance Hoenk Shapiro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Surviving the challenges of infertility\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Often enduring years of heartache, couples with infertility number over 7.3 million. Enduring the daunting difficulties of treatment is something few women are prepared for. Based on the personal stories of 200 women determined to overcome infertility, this surprisingly upbeat survivors'' guide gives the kind of hard-won wisdom essential to making it through the process. Not only does the book detail coping strategies, it also presents tips for strengthening stressed relationships and addresses the unique needs of single women and lesbians.\n</p>\n<p>\n An essential guide for women and couples, friends and family, and health care providers and therapists, this book offers the solace and strength needed to prevail even after years of struggle.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Written by a therapist, consultant, and public speaker dedicated to the study of infertility and its emotional impact\n </li>\n <li>\n  Other titles by Shapiro:\n  <em>\n   When Part of the Self Is Lost\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Infertility and Pregnancy Loss\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n For any woman or couple who feel as if they''re facing infertility alone, _When You''re Not Expecting_ is a must-have book.\n</p>\n<p>\n http://connieshapiro13.blogspot.com/\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sisterhood of support for coping with infertility\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This compelling and insightful book will be much appreciated by women and men experiencing infertility.\n <em>\n  When You''re Not Expecting\n </em>\n is an important antidote to the top-down medical protocols that many have experienced."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Ramona Faith Oswald, Ph.D., 2010 Program Chair of the National Council on Family Relations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Too many women face the unexpected diagnosis of infertility without the support they need to survive and thrive during months (or years) of treatment options, difficult decisions, and emotional turmoil. For more than twenty years, Constance H. Shapiro-celebrated therapist, author, and professor-has dedicated her practice to helping women and couples deal with infertility. In\n <em>\n  When You''re Not Expecting\n </em>\n , she combines her wisdom with the personal stories, creative solutions, and revelations of over 200 women and couples diagnosed with infertility.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This book is for you if\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Your inability to get pregnant is causing you confusion and anxiety.\n </li>\n <li>\n  You can''t figure out who to tell about your infertility (or how much to confide).\n </li>\n <li>\n  You are not getting the support you need.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Your sex life has lost its zing now that you have calendars and ovulation kits on your bedside table.\n </li>\n <li>\n  You are single or in a lesbian relationship and hoping to conceive.\n </li>\n <li>\n  You have experienced pregnancy loss.\n </li>\n <li>\n  More and more, your life and every decision you make seem to revolve around your infertility.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9289');
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(10594, 'Where 45 Ends', 'E. Marie Aldrich-creasy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "DEEP IN THE SOUTH OF TEXASAbout twenty years agoHere on this tiny lilâ€™ islandShe called herself Marie LaveauxArdella and Frank had the Poop DeckShe came in to dry her hairWith the bright sun and the gulf breezeFrank said â€œYouâ€™re the oneâ€Come on aboard and weâ€™ll have some fun!Everyone knowsIt was hard to leaveAnd so the story goesOf the Poop Deck and this girl MarieI remember MarieThe day I first came inShe copped a bad attitudeCause she thought I was rudeWe really got under each otherâ€™s skinNow everybody knowsThe Poop Deck and MarieAnd everybody knowsIt wouldnâ€™t be the same without MarieYeah!Everybody knowsIt was hard to leaveEverybody knowsAbout the Poop Deck and MarieIâ€™ll have another beer if you please!"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(10595, 'Where Angels Fear to Tread', 'E. M. Forster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficul\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10259'),
(10596, 'Where Eagles Dare (Adrenaline Classics Series)', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thrillerâ€”the kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castleâ€”accessible only by aerial gondolaâ€”the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicatedâ€”and the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one. Written by Alistair Maclean, author of the Guns of Navarone, this is the novel that set the pace for the modern action thriller (the film version, with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, also helped), and it still packs twice the punch of most contemporary best-selling thrillers. Whatâ€™s more, the cast of spooks, turncoats, and commandos who drive this story are more relevant than ever in our new era of special forces, black ops, and unpredictable alliances.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eight Allied agents -- seven men and a woman -- parachute onto a mountainside behind enemy lines in wartime Germany. Their mission: to rescue an American general before the Nazis can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9299'),
(10597, 'Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation', 'Steven Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Johnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history. What sparks our great ideas? Johnson breaks down the cultural, biological, and environmental fuel into seven broad "patterns," each packed with diverse, at times almost disjointed anecdotes that Johnson synthesizes into a recipe for success. A section on "slow hunches" captivates, taking readers from the FBI''s work on 9/11 to Google''s development of Google News. A section on error takes us through a litany of accidental innovations, including the one that eventually led to the invention of the computer. "Being right keeps you in place," Johnson reminds us. "eing wrong forces us to explore." It''s eye-opening stuff--although it does require an investment from the reader. But as fans of the author''s previous work know, an investment in Johnson pays off, and those who stick with the author as he meanders through an occasional intellectual digression will come away enlightened and entertained, and with something perhaps even more useful--how to recognize the conditions that could spark their own creativity and innovation. Another mind-opening work from the author of Mind Wide Open. (Oct.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The figure of the lone genius may captivate us, but we intuit that such geniusesâ€™ creations donâ€™t materialize in a vacuum. Johnson supported the intuition in his biography of eighteenth-century scientist Joseph Priestly (The Invention of Air, 2009) and here explores it from different angles using sets of anecdotes from science and art that underscore some social or informational interaction by an inventor or artist. Assuring readers that he is not engaged in â€œintellectual tourism,â€ Johnson recurs to the real-world effects of individuals and organizations operating in a fertile information environment. Citing the development of the Internet and its profusion of applications such as Twitter, the author ascribes its success to â€œexaptationâ€ and â€œstacked platforms.â€ By which he means that curious people used extant stuff or ideas to produce a new bricolage and did so because of their immersion in open networks. With his own lively application of stories about Darwinâ€™s theory of atolls, the failure to thwart 9/11, and musician Miles Davis, Johnson connects with readers promoting hunches and serendipity in themselves and their organizations. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7890'),
(10598, 'Where have all the bullets gone?', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In response to popular demand, folks...the fifth volume of spike''s uniquely amazing military memoirs of life in the ranks during world war 2.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3490'),
(10599, 'Where Heaven Begins', 'Bittner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With rough miners for shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail to search for her brother in Alaska, wild with the 1890s gold rush. When she falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister brotherâ€” Clint Brady, a cynical bounty hunter who shoots to kill. Together, this unlikely couple struggles to survive the rugged dangers of the beautiful Alaskan frontier. Unexpectedly, Clint comes to love her, and proposes. Elizabeth returns his love, but unless she can help Clint see that heaven is no abstraction in the sky, the grip of the past could cost them a future togetherâ€”.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(10600, 'Where I&#39;m Calling From', 'Raymond Carver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The last story collection published during Carver''s life (he died in 1988) contains most of his greatest hits from his earlier books, as well as seven stories that hadn''t been collected up to that point. The breadth of the collection makes these 37 stories an extremely complete map of Carver territory, of a particular area of America and of the specific texture of the people Carver writes about â€” their difficult attempts at survival in a world where happiness does not arrive wrapped up in neat packages but comes in far more peculiar parcels, if it comes at all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  The cool streamlined style of this modern master of the short story has spawned dozens of younger writers who seek to follow in Carver''s footsteps. But where the Brat Pack frequently produces flat, unresonating fiction, Carver has the ability to render graceful prose from dreary, commonplace, scraping-the-bottom human misery. This collection consists of 30 stories selected from four previous volumes, and seven new tales. Appearing in order of original publication, they reflect Carver''s developmentfrom 1963 to the present. We meet many of his characters just as something dear to them is slipping away. Jobs, cars, the affection of a spouse or child, the routine of lifeall can be lost. Even in the more upbeat stories, a narrator recalls a happy occasion that, in retrospect, marked a change for the worse, or a high point in a life since gone sour. In Carver''s world, ashtrays overflow, wives are usually ex-, and drinkers are drunks. Seedy and dishonest characters are glimpsed in the process of once again doing the wrong thing. One of the new stories, "The Errand," which is in part an account of Chekhov''s death, is offered as a tip of the hat to the great short story writer. Even here, with more affecting and finished prose than ever before, Carver''s rendering gives us all the intimacy of a medical chart. Aptly named, he is a carver of flesh from the bone. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10360'),
(10601, 'Where Men Win Glory', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling author of "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man''s haunting journey. ""Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan. Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman''s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman''s wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman''s name to promote his administration''s foreign policy. Long after Tillman''s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had "probably" been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible. In "Where Men Win Glory," Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman''s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account" "of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq--a war he would openly declare was "illegal as hell" --and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Krakauer chronicles Tillman''s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer''s storytelling, "Where Men Win Glory "exposes shattering truths about men and war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2720'),
(10602, 'Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given', 'Duane Dog Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The incredible story of struggle, redemption, and bounty hunting--which has catapulted Duane "Dog" Chapman into the hearts of millions, sparked a #1 rated television show, and inspired a #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling book--continues in\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Who is going to give them the ride, Duane? Who will give them the cigarette and who will give them `the talk''?"\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When the preacher posed those questions to me, I realized he was right. If not me, then who? Whether I had planned it or not, I was leading a backseat ministry, one ride at a time.\n <br />\n --from\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Considered by many to be the world''s greatest bounty hunter, Duane "Dog" Chapman has become famous for capturing fugitives on\n <em>\n  Dog the Bounty Hunter\n </em>\n , his #1 rated show on A&amp;E.\n</p>\n<p>\n But his job doesn''t end when he cuffs his man--or woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having personally struggled against abuse, addition, and a life of crime, Dog knows a thing or two about the path that these fugitives cuffed in the back of his car are on--and he has a good idea of the bad news they''ll find at the end of it. As someone who has succeeded in beating the odds and finding a way to live on the right side of the law, Dog also knows what the person in the backseat needs to hear in order to straighten out his or her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is your wake up call. You either answer it now, or pay for it later and for the rest of your life. You''re being given another shot at things, but only if you take the risk to make the right decision. The choice is yours. What''s it going to be, brotha?"\n</p>\n<p>\n While he is himself a mentor to many, Dog draws strength from the great teachers in his own life to face the surprising and difficult challenges that have come his way. Through hard work, unflinching faith, and the acknowledgment of his own flaws--along with the overwhelming desire to fix those flaws--Dog has been through the fire again and again, and come out the stronger for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Revealing, behind-the-scenes looks at Dog''s most significant challenges, along with seat-of-your-pants accounts of his most breakneck bounty hunting stories, makes\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n a must-read for any fan.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Duane "Dog" Chapman\n </strong>\n is the famed bounty hunter featured on A&amp;E''s\n <em>\n  Dog the Bounty Hunter\n </em>\n . He is considered an expert on fugitive behavior and is called upon frequently by various news services for his opinion on breaking news stories involving crime. He lives with his wife, Beth, and children in Hawaii.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laura Morton\n </strong>\n has collaborated on over thirty books, including multiple\n <em>\n  New York Times bestsellers\n </em>\n . She lives in New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7988'),
(10603, 'Where the Heart Is', 'Billie Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When Novalee Nation is dumped in the small town of Sequoyah, Oklahoma, by her boyfriend Willie Jack, she can''t believe her bad luck is coincidental. Seventeen years old, seven months pregnant and thirty-seven pounds overweight, Novalee is superstitious about the number seven, ever since her mother ran away on her seventh birthday with a baseball umpire named Fred. Fortunately for Novalee, the local Wal-Mart provides a meeting place for most of Sequoyah and Novalee quickly meets three eccentric characters who are to change her life: the blue-haired Sister Thelma Hudson, who hands out photocopied bibles, Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy, and Moses Whitecotton, a black, elderly photographer who is eager to share all he knows. However, Novalee is determined to depend on nobody but herself, and with only ten dollars to her name she secretly lives in the Wal-Mart at night. It isn''t until she goes into labour at the end of closing one day that she learns that sometimes it''s not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  WHERE THE HEART IS introduces an unforgettable and endearing heroine. Funny, fresh and endearing, it will make you laugh and cry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9175'),
(10604, 'Where the Mountain Meets the Moon', 'Grace Lin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life''s questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family''s fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat, returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2121'),
(10605, 'Where the Red Fern Grows', 'Wilson Rawls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs...A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that''s only found...An exciting tale of love and adventure you''ll never forget.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3524'),
(10606, 'Where We Going, Daddy?: Life With Two Sons Unlike Any Other', 'Jean-Louis Fournier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jean-Louis Fournier did not expect to have a disabled child. He certainly did not expect to have two. But that is precisely what happened to this wry French humorist, and his attempts to live and cope with his Mathieu and Thomas, both facing extremely debilitating physical and mental challenges, is the subject of this brave and heartbreaking book. Fournier recalls the life he imagined having with his sons--but his boys will never really grow up, and he mourns the loss of every memory he thought he''d have.\n <br />\n Though a devoted father, he does not shy away from exploring the limits of his love, the countless times he is filled with frustration and disappointment with no relief in sight. Mathieu and Thomas can barely communicate, and each in turn repeats learned phrases, such as "Where we going, Daddy?" (a favorite in the car) in what feels to\n <br />\n Fournier to be an eternal loop.\n <br />\n In\n <em>\n  WhereWe Going, Daddy?\n </em>\n Fournier reveals everything, and that is perhaps his most remarkable quality. He does not hide behind a mask of clichÃ©, but gives voice to the darkness that comes with disability, and the rare moments of light. Through short, powerful vignettes Jean-Louis manages his grief with cynicism and humor. For parents of disabled children, this book will offer some relief from the courage they must garner every day, a chance to let down their guard, laugh at themselves, and embrace even the ugly emotions they feel. For the rest of us, it''s an unsettling and heartfelt glimpse into an otherwise unimaginable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5395'),
(10607, 'Wherever You Are', 'Sharon Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "He''s in the fight of his life for a love that defies the centuries. " The last thing Juliana MacKenzie remembers is sitting in a friend''s kitchen. In Kansas City. In the twenty-first century. How did she wind up on a burning ship in the middle of the ocean-in the eighteenth century? If that wasn''t enough to get her heart started, some dark corner of her memory responds to the ship''s enigmatic captain. A man whose touch ignites her senses even as he stubbornly holds her at arm''s length. It''s almost too late when Morgan realizes his stowaway is not only female, but a woman from a life and a time he''d almost forgotten. Desire resurges like an undeniable tide-but he is not the man Juliana would remember. She has been unwittingly thrust into a dangerous world, and now she, too, is a target for the pirate who once enslaved him, who still hunts him across the seven seas. Kidnapped by Morgan''s worst enemy, Juliana finds herself drawing on inner reserves she never knew she possessed. No way will she let anyone-not even the man she is growing to love-choose her path for her. And no way will she let him offer himself in trade for her freedom. Warning: This book contains hot pirates, a slightly confused modern day woman and an evil villain you''ll love to hate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4824'),
(10608, 'While Galileo Preys', 'Joshua Corin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **If there were a God, he would have stopped me.** That''s the message discovered atop an elementary school in downtown Atlanta. Across the street are the bodies of fourteen innocent men and women, each quickly and cleanly murdered. The sniper Galileo is on the loose. He can end a human life from hundreds of yards away. And he is just getting started. Where others see puzzles, **Esme Stuart sees patterns**, and these outside-the-box inductive skills made her one of the FBI''s top field operatives. But she turned her back on all that eight years ago to start a family and live a normal life. She now has a husband and a daughter and a Long Island home to call her own, far removed from the bloody streets of Atlanta. But **Galileo''s murders escalate** and her beleaguered old boss needs the help of his former protÃ©gÃ©e. But how can she turn her back on her well-earned quiet life? How would she ever be able to justify such a choice to her husband? To her daughter? And what will happen when Galileo turns his scope on them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3065'),
(10609, 'While I&#39;m Falling', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever since her parents announced that they''re getting divorced, Veronica has been falling. Hard. A junior in college, she''s fallen in love. She''s fallen behind in her difficult coursework. She hates her job at the dorm, and she longs for the home that no longer exists. When an attempt to escape the pressure, combined with bad luck, lands her in a terrifying situation, a shaken Veronica calls her mother for help--only to find her former foundation too preoccupied to offer any assistance at all. But Veronica only gets to feel hurt for so long. Her mother shows up at the dorm with a surprising request--and with the elderly family dog in tow. Veronica soon finds herself with a new set of problems, and new questions about love and independence. Darkly humorous, compelling, and filled with crystalline observations, While I''m Falling takes a deep look at a relationship between a mother and a daughter when one is trying to grow up and the other is trying to stay afloat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3204'),
(10610, 'While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 16 previously unpublished short stories of this collection, taken from the beginning of Vonnegut''s career, show a young author already grappling with themes and ideas that would define his work for decades to come. "Girl Pool" features typist Amy Lou Little, employee of the Kafkaesque Montezuma Forge and Foundry Company, who is tasked with transcribing a plea for help she receives on her Dictaphone from an escaped, dying murderer hiding somewhere in the works of the company''s cavernous factory. The tale reveals Vonnegut investigating one of his recurring themes: the isolation brought by technology and the necessity for basic humanity in the workplace. The title story melds a sentimental meditation on the true meaning of Christmas with elements of the mystery genre as a hard-nosed reporter stalks the story of stolen nativity scene characters. While these early stories show an author still testing the boundaries of his craft and obsessions, Vonnegut''s acute moral sense and knack for compelling prose are very much on display. In the foreword, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut "a hippie Mark Twain," which perfectly captures an essential truth about this esteemed author. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in his career, before he fused his satirical wit and world-weary intellect in the distinctive, quasi-sf style of Catâ€™s Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Vonnegut wrote short stories for mainstream publications, such as Collierâ€™s and The Saturday Evening Post. The 16 unpublished stories in this collection were either not submitted or not accepted, although it is easy to imagine them appearing in those contexts. Tightly and crisply written, they concern cynical newspapermen and the spirit of Christmas (â€œWhile Mortals Sleepâ€), practical jokes taken too far (â€œBomarâ€), the self-sacrifice of a pregnant widow (â€œRuthâ€)â€”he had lived through the firebombing of Dresden but had not yet explored it in fiction. There are foreshadowings of Vonnegut the cynical sage, however, in â€œWith His Hand on the Throttle,â€ when a woman dive-bombs her grown sonâ€™s overgrown train layout; in â€œTango,â€ when libidinous dancing disrupts a WASP-y enclave; and in â€œGirl Pool,â€ in which alienation arrives via the Dictaphone. As in Look at the Birdie (2009), these stories, while clearly seminal, constitute a worthwhile contribution to the authorâ€™s oeuvre. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The legendary authorâ€™s death in 2007 means an eventual end to unpublished writings, and Vonnegut fans have read all their old paperbacks to tatters. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7704'),
(10611, 'While the Clock Ticked', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank and Joe solve the mystery of the secret locked room in the spooky Dalrymple Mansion.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10306'),
(10612, 'While the Light Lasts', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Brand New Collection Of Nine Previously Unpublished Stories By The Queen Of Crime Now In Paperback, The Book Of Lost Agatha Christie Stories Written For 1920S Magazines Contains Seven New Stories Which Have Never Been Published Anywhere In The World Since Their Original Appearances, Plus Early Versions Of Two Poirot Stories Which She Later Reworked For Book Publication. The House Of Dreams Is The First Story Agatha Christie Ever Wrote (During The First World War) And Recounts The Effects Of A Macabre Recurring Dream On A Man S Life. The Actress Tells Of A Woman Who Turns The Tables On Her Blackmailer, The Edge Is A Gripping Tale Of Jealousy And Infidelity, The Lonely God Is An Unlikely Love Story About Two Lost Souls Who Meet In The British Museum, And Within A Wall Tells Of A Tragic Love Triangle Between A Portrait Painter, His Wife And His Daughter S Godmother. Christmas Adventure And The Mystery Of The Baghdad Chest See Hercule Poirot Caught Up In Some Unseasonal Mayhem, And In Manx Gold, Commissi Oned From Christie For A Real-Life Treasure Hunt On The Isle Of Man In 1930, Two Young Heroes Race Against Time To Discover Buried Treasure. The Book Concludes With While The Light Lasts, In Which A Rhodesian Tobacco Plantation Is The Setting For An Unexpected Visitor From Beyond The Grave&amp; Also Available From Harpercollinsaudiobooks, Read By Isla Blair\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5226'),
(10613, 'Whip Hand', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10973'),
(10614, 'The Whiskey Rebels', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10982'),
(10615, 'The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in and around Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New York City in the years after the Revolutionary War, this clever thriller from Liss (_The Ethical Assassin_) follows the adventures of Ethan Saunders, once a valiant spy for General Washington, who''s fallen on hard times by war''s end. Suspected of treason, Ethan has lost the love of his life, Cynthia, who''s married the fiendish Jacob Pearson, an entrepreneur who managed to prosper during the British occupation of Philadelphia. At Cynthia''s urging, Ethan agrees to go looking for the missing Jacob, prompted in large part by a desire to redeem his reputation. Meanwhile, the so-called whiskey rebels on the western frontier are trying to bring down the hated Alexander Hamilton and his Bank of the United States. The courageous Ethan is a likable rogue, and even though Ethan spends too much time delving into the complications of 18th-century finance, he can be counted on when the chips are down and the odds against him soar.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Liss has found his niche as a historical novelist, and\n <em>\n  The Whiskey Rebels\n </em>\n is an entertaining, if slightly uneven, slice of Americana. Liss''s strength here lies in the details, particularly in the historical figures who play minor rolesâ€”George Washington, Aaron Burr, Phillip Freneau, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge among them. Those characters add color to the plot and evoke the late 18th-century history that many of us (for shame) have forgotten. Despite some sharp dialogue, though, the story slows in places, and several critics mention a tendency for the complex plot to hinge on predictable or contrived elements. Still, Liss is a master of the genre, and\n <em>\n  The Whiskey Rebels\n </em>\n is good fun.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8256'),
(10616, 'Whisper', 'Phoebe Kitanidis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: I''d love a cup of coffee. . . . I wish she didn''t hide how pretty she is. . . . I hope she didn''t find out what Ben said about her. . . . I wish I knew how many calories were in a bite of muffin. . . . Joy is used to Hearing Whispers. She''s used to walking down the street and instantly knowing people''s deepest, darkest desires. She uses this talent for goodâ€”to make people happy and give them what they want. But for her older sister, Jessica, the family gift is a curse, and she uses it to make people''s livesâ€”especially Joy''sâ€”miserable. Still, when Joy Hears Jessica Whisper *I want to kill my Hearing dead, and kill me too if that''s what it takes*, she knows she has to save her sister, even if it means deserting her friends, stealing a car, and running away with a boy she barely knowsâ€”a boy who may have a dark secret of his own. *Whisper* is an exhilarating debut novel from talented newcomer Phoebe Kitanidis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3633'),
(10617, 'A Whisper in the Dark', 'Louisa May Alcott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This collection represents the best of Alcott''s adult oeuvre SUMMARY: I yearned to go, and when I willed the way so on appeared; so careless of bonnetless head and cambric gown, I stretched my hands to him, saying boldly, "Play young Lochinvar, Guy; I am little and light; take me up before you and show me the sea.."He liked the daring feat, held out his hand, I stepped on his boot toe, sprang up, and away we went over the wide moor, where the sun shone in a cloudless heaven, the lark soared singing from the green grass at our feet, and the September wind blew freshly from the sea. As we paused on the upland slope, that gave us a free view of the country for miles, Guy dismounted, and standing with his arm about the saddle to steady me in my precarious seat, began to talk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2522'),
(10618, 'Whisper on the Wind', 'Maureen Lang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Brussels at the height of WWI, a small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering the occupied city hope-and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisper amid the shouts of the German army, but Edward Kirkland will do anything to keep it in print. Meanwhile, Isa Lassone, a Belgian-American socialite whose parents whisked her to safety at the start of the war, sneaks back into the country to rescue those dearest to her: Edward and his mother. But Edward refuses to go, and soon Isa is drawn into his secret life printing the newspaper . . . And into his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2498'),
(10619, 'Whisper to the Blood', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inside Alaskaâ€™s biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. â€œBut gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounceâ€ is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ hired by the company to improve relations with the locals, and pave the way for the mineâ€™s expansionâ€¦Then, just as Talia is ready to present her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two brutal murders, including that of a long-standing mine opponent. The investigation falls to Trooper Jim Chopin and, as usual, he could use some help from newly elected Niniltna Native Association chairman and part-time P.I. Kate Shugak. But Kate already has her hands full with a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River and the homicide of Park villain Louis Deem. With both cases on the verge of going cold, can Kate take the heat?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(10620, 'Whispering nickel idols: a Garrett, P.I. novel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1878'),
(10621, 'Whispers', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For 35 years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill-and kill again.     Hilary Thomas is one of his intended victims. And she''s about to learn that even death can''t keep a bad man down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(10622, 'White', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8793'),
(10623, 'White Corridor', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Blending humor and brilliant detection, Fowler''s excellent fifth novel to feature the engaging if bizarre exploits of London''s Peculiar Crimes Unit (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Ten Second Staircase\n </em>\n ) offers two challenging mysteries for his pair of eccentric sleuths, Arthur Bryant and John May. While driving to an international spiritualists'' convention, Bryant and May find themselves trapped on the road near Dartmoor in a blizzard. Lurking among the stalled vehicles is a man who may be a multiple murderer. At the same time, the two try to help via cellphone their colleagues back in London, who must solve the locked-room murder of a PCU member, retiring pathologist Oswald Finch, before the unit is finally shut down for good. The fair-play solution will particularly satisfy lovers of golden age mysteries. Once again, Fowler shows himself to be a master of the impossible crime tale.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Senior-citizen sleuths Arthur Bryant and John May have never been ones to play by the rules. As the most distinguished (read oldest) members of London''s peculiar Peculiar Crimes Unit, the men pride themselves on cracking cases no right-minded detectives would attempt. This fifth offering (after\n <em>\n  Ten Second Staircase,\n </em>\n 2006) finds the two stranded in a deadly blizzard en route to a spiritualists'' convention. (Detective Bryant has long been both ridiculed and admired for his obsession with the occult.) In their absence, the unit''s forensic pathologist, who had been having second thoughts about his imminent retirement, is found dead in the morgue. The room was locked from the inside, and only four members of the PCU had keys. Patchy cell-phone reception can''t keep Bryant and May from participating in the investigation. Meanwhile, the snow (and plot) thickens when the duo encounters a young woman and her son seeking protection from a charming French drifter. Sherlock Holmes meets Inspector Clouseau in this mordant, award-winning series in which Fowler gleefully skewers religious zealots and government officials alike. Of one of the latter he writes: "It was . . . as if Countess Bathory and Vlad the Impaler had mated to create the perfect bureaucratic hatchet man."\n <em>\n  Allison Block\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8460'),
(10624, 'White Death', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ruthless corporation is about to take command of the seas. This is a mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA team.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(10625, 'The White Dragon', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen''s stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall. Reissue. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth possessed remarkable qualities. Not only could he communicate with the iridescent, fluttering fire lizards, but he could fly. Back in time to any WHEN with unfailing accuracy. Nearly everyone else on Pern thought Ruth was a runt who would never amount to anything, but Jaxom knew his dragon was special. In secret they trained to fight against the burning threads from the Red Planet, to fly Back in time as well as Between, and finally their close and special union was to result in the most startling and breathtaking discovery of all...THE WHITE DRAGON is one of the most unforgettable episodes in Anne McCaffrey''s world-famous Chronicles of Pern.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10830'),
(10626, 'The White Guard', 'Mikhail Bulgakov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The White Guard\n  </em>\n  is less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov''s comic hit,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fine Bulgakov work, this is a compassionate and gently satirical novel about a likable, feckless White Russian family coping as best they can while all hell breaks loose in Kiev outside their parlor in 1918-19. The play derived from this novel, The Days of the Turbins, was a popular Moscow Art Theatre piece until, under Stalin, it was considered to be too compassionate toward these gentle stumblers in the march of progress. The Turbin family consists of doctor Alexei, sister Elena married to a disappearing opportunist, and young Nikolka. All are as anxious as whippets and cherish their safe harbors of familiar ideals, their home of books, music, conversation and whist. When the shooting flairs up and subsides in Kiev, the White forces are routed by advancing armies and their own impotent confusion. Assuming military postures Alexei and Nikolka attempt to help for they are brave, and they do perform touching acts of kindness amid the brutal mindlessness of mobs. There are marvellously theatrical moments: the Turbins and their White officer friends happily shouting songs and slogans while their timorous landlord is being terrorized by raiding hoodlums; the arrival of an orphan of the storm, an unstrung relative (with bird), whose first definitive act is to crash into the dinner china. An epilogue by Victor Nekrasov from Novy Mir sets forth an affectionate appreciation of the Turbins and the translation is by Michael Glenny. A Russian Heartbreak House in which the Turbins barely survive. (Kirkus Reviews)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8131'),
(10627, 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson', 'Brenda Wineapple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a noted man of letters and radical activist for abolition and women''s rights, asking if he would look at her poems. He did and recognized immediately their strange power. As Wineapple points out in this brilliant study, Dickinson''s letter marked the blossoming of a complicated lifelong friendship. Although the two met face-to-face only twice, Higginson found Dickinson''s explosive poetry seductive. Drawing on 25 years'' worth of Dickinson''s letters (Higginson''s are lost), Wineapple contests the traditional portrait of her as isolated from the world and liking it that way. In her poems and her letters, Wineapple shows, Dickinson was the consummate flirt, a sorceress, a prestidigitator in words. Wineapple resurrects the reputation of Higginson, long viewed as stodgy in his literary tastes (he reviled Whitman) yet who recognized Dickinson''s genius and saw her work as an example of the democratic art he fervently believed in. As Wineapple did previously with Hawthorne (_Hawthorne: A Life_), she elegantly delves into a life and offers rich insights into a little-known relationship between two of the lateâ€“19th century''s most intriguing writers. 32 photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug. 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics embraced this new angle on the life of Emily Dickinson, one of Americaâ€™s best-loved poets but also one of the most difficult to understand. While the subject of the book may seem rather narrow, reviewers claimed that Wineappleâ€™s excellent narrative and literary sensibilities keep\n <em>\n  White Heat\n </em>\n from becoming overly obscure. Only the\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n faulted Wineapple for reading too vaguely between the lines, literally, of Dickson and Wineappleâ€™s correspondence and for rehashing older material. Overall, however, the result is a book that balances literary criticism, biography, and history, while never straying too far from the few available facts about Dickinson and her life.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7500');
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(10628, 'White Jazz', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it''s standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He''s a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.Klein''s been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat''s coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it''s dues time.Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he''s describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It''s a world he created, but now he''ll do anything to get out of it alive.Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2162'),
(10629, 'The White Lioness (1993)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Like his countrymen Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Mankell writes mysteries that connect crimes in Sweden to the rest of the world. Faceless Killers (1997), the first of his books about provincial police inspector Kurt Wallender to appear here, involved Turkish immigrants and Eastern European villains. This novel, written in 1993, links the murder of a real estate agent in Wallender''s town of Ystad to South Africa, where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison, and to Russia, where the KGB is busy planning Mandela''s fate. Wallender is a classically dour but dedicated policeman whose progress through his cases is a combination of hard slogging and lucky breaks. But several factors render this effort less compelling than its predecessor. The first is the Day of the Jackal syndrome: we know that Mandela wasn''t killed by KGB agents or white Afrikaner terrorists, and that knowledge makes the suspense writer''s job even harder. Second is the book''s length 560 pages is a long haul, even with three exotic settings and dozens of important characters. Third might be Thompson''s translation, which unlike Steven T. Murray''s work on Faceless Killers often seems excessively deadpan. But Wallender is still a solid character, whose strengths and weaknesses are utterly credible, and Mankell (who now lives in Mozambique) knows how to make the most of his virtues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9496'),
(10630, 'White Mars', 'Brian Aldiss; Roger Penrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A 21st-Century Utopia Two of England''s most distinguished thinkers have created a bold and startling vision of a new society escaping the ashes of the old. In the not-so-distant future, Man will have begun to colonize our planetary neighbor, Mars. Entrenched corporate and national interests have footed the bill, but a few visionary people attempt to keep Mars free of the hidebound ideologies that have plagued the Earth and turned it into a polluted wasteland of war and hunger. The colony has barely begun to take root in the Martian soil when all communication with EUPACUS--as the industrialized nations of Earth are known--is cut off completely. Environmental and economic stresses have finally spun out of control, and civilization as we know it has collapsed. With no hope of escape or support from Earth, the Martians must overcome the dire obstacles that face them and forge a new alliance for survival. Led by the brave Tom Jefferies, the colonists struggle to build a new way of living based on the search for knowledge, the improvement of human conditions, and the elimination of the hatreds and delusions that lead to misery in the past. Included in an appendix is the complete text of the Charter for an Independent Mars, written by Dr. Laurence Lustgarten, a renowned expert on international law.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9883'),
(10631, 'The White Mountains', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Long Ago, The Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. People no longer understand automation nor machines, and unquestioningly accept the Tripods'' power. But for a time in each person''s life -- in childhood -- he is not a slave. Will still has time to escape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(10632, 'White Night', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A sensational addition to the *Dresden Files* adventures-from a *USA Today* bestselling author. Professional wizard Harry Dresden is investigating a series of deaths in Chicago. Someone is killing practitioners of magic, those incapable of becoming full-fledged wizards. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry''s half-brother, Thomas, as the murderer. Determined to clear his sibling''s name, Harry uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens not only him, but his nearest and dearest, too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1691'),
(10633, 'White Noise', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com Review Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it''s a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future. From Publishers Weekly Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud of noxious chemicals, part of a world of the future that is doomed because of misused technology, artifical products and foods, and overpopulation. PW appreciated DeLillo''s "bleak, ironic" vision, calling it "not so much a tragic view of history as a macabre one."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10965'),
(10634, 'The White Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills.With The White Queen, Philippa Gregory brings the artistry and intellect of a master writer and storyteller to a new era in history and begins what is sure to be another bestselling classic series from this beloved author. Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Philippa Gregory''s The Virgin''s Lover\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3643'),
(10635, 'The White Road', 'Lynn Flewelling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dissolute nobles, master spies, and the unlikeliest of heroes, Alec and Seregil have survived exile, treachery, and black magic. But the road that lies ahead is the most hazardous theyâ€™ve ever traveled. For with enemies on all sides, they must walk a narrow path between good and evil where one misstep might be their last.\n <br />\n <hr />\n Having escaped death and slavery in Plenimar, Alec and Seregil want nothing more than to go back to their nightrunning life in RhÃ­minee. Instead they find themselves saddled with Sebrahn, a strange, alchemically created creatureâ€”the prophesied â€œchild of no woman.â€ Its moon-white skin and frightening powers make Sebrahn a danger to all whom Alec and Seregil come into contact with, leaving them no choice but to learn more about Sebrahnâ€™s true nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the help of trusted friends and Seregilâ€™s clan, the duo set out to discover the truth about this living homunculusâ€”a journey that can lead only to danger or death. For Seregilâ€™s old nemesis Ulan Ã­ Sathil of VirÃ¨sse and Alecâ€™s own long-lost kin are after them, intent on possessing both Alec and Sebrahn. On the run and hunted, Alec and his comrades must fight against time to accomplish their most personal mission ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lynn Flewelling is best known for her Nightrunner series, as well as the Tamir Triad, and her work appears in a dozen languages. She also maintains a lively online presence with her website and her Live Journal, â€œTalk in the Shadows.â€ Born in northern Maine, Flewelling is happily transplanted in Redlands, California, with her husband and too many animals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5552'),
(10636, 'The White Rose: A Novel of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1892'),
(10637, 'The White South', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9331'),
(10638, 'White Tiger', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Emma Donahoe becomes a nanny to John Chen''s daughter Simone, she does not expect to be drawn into a world of martial arts, magic and extreme danger, where both gods and demons can exist in the mortal world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2445'),
(10639, 'The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919', 'Mark Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, *The White War* does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingwayâ€™s *A Farewell to Arms*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2943'),
(10640, 'White Water Terror', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10930'),
(10641, 'The Whitechapel Conspiracy', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a less-than-impressive outing with the more-turgid-than-tense\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n , Anne Perry is back on familiar--and entertaining-- turf with\n <em>\n  The Whitechapel Conspiracy\n </em>\n . As if apologizing for their last efforts, the whole Victorian crew seems thankfully less concerned with respecting social mores than with ratcheting up the pressure in a nicely paced political-conspiracy potboiler.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Inspector Thomas Pitt, doing one''s job can have unpleasant consequences. When his testimony sends distinguished soldier John Adinett to the gallows for the murder of Martin Fetters, traveler and antiquarian, Adinett''s friends (members of the Inner Circle, "those men who had secret loyalties which superseded every other honor or pledge") ensure that Pitt loses his command of the Bow Street station. He is forced to leave his family and take up an undercover existence in the slum district of Spitalfields, chasing anarchists (though he feels he might as well be chasing his own tail). But when his wife, Charlotte, their maid, Gracie, and her would-be suitor, Sergeant Tellman, apply themselves to the task of restoring Pitt''s good name, they uncover an anarchist''s conspiracy that dwarfs even Guy Fawkes''s Gunpowder Plot. The secrets and lies of respected men lurking in the halls of power, who will stop at nothing short of abolishing the monarchy, form the backdrop for the trio''s frantic investigations. To top everything off, Perry throws in a marvelously effective subplot--but to divulge how Jack the Ripper figures into the narrative would be to spoil a highly entertaining read.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novel has its flaws; Charlotte''s great-aunt Vespasia seems less the dynamic character she has been throughout the series than a mouthpiece of mourning for the waves of change. Yes, the reader is tempted to say, the potential downfall of the British monarchy would no doubt be painful and unspeakably unsettling for those who respect Victoria and her forebears--but must one natter endlessly on about it? Better to let the whole shebang go gracefully into that good night. No fears for contemporary Victorian-philes, though; with Thomas and Charlotte around, who could doubt that the monarchy will live to fight another day?\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 21st novel featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, Edgar Award-winner Perry pulls out the stops and delivers one of the finest performances of her career. Four years after the Ripper terrorized London, Thomas''s testimony in a murder case is enough to convince a jury to convict distinguished soldier John Adinett of the murder of his friend, Martin Fetters, despite Adinett''s having no clear motive for the killing. Upon conclusion of the case, Thomas finds himself removed from command of the Bow Street Station and sent to work undercover for the Special Branch in the East End. Somehow, unknowingly, he has offended the powerful members of the sinister Inner Circle, and his banishment to the slums puts him in the middle of alleged anarchist plots and dangerous conspiracies. His only allies are his wife, Charlotte, their servant girl, Gracie, and his subordinate officer, Tellman. As a team, they dig into the puzzle behind the Adinett-Fetters murder, believing that, if they can understand why the murder occurred, they can restore Pitt to his job. What none of them realize, however, is that the murder is only a small part of a terrifying conspiracy, one that threatens the very fabric of English society. That the conspiracy itself is so plausible is a testament to Perry''s knowledge of her period. This is a mesmerizing and suspenseful tale, rich in period detail, rife with articulate and believable characters. (Feb. 1)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8578'),
(10642, 'Whitehorse', 'Katherine Sutcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A vet and single mother of a disabled son returns to her hometown burdened with memories of her childhood sweetheart -- and the cruel deception that forced them apart. The son of an Apache medicine man, he has become one of the most powerful -- and ruthless -- men in the country. But when their reignited love becomes too strong to ignore, both must make the ultimate choice, between obligations of duty -- and of the heart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2392'),
(10643, 'Whiteout', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks-jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries-crackle, desperate secrets are revealed, hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2932'),
(10644, 'Whitethorn Woods', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Annrs"s Well, which is set at the edge of the woods and slated for destruction. People have been coming to St. Annrs"s for generations to share their dreams and fears, and speak their prayers. Some believe it to be a place of true spiritual power, demanding protection; others think itrs"s a mere magnet for superstitions, easily sacrificed. Father Flynn listens to all those caught up in the conflict, as the men and women of Whitethorn Woods must decide between the traditions of the past and the promises of the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10491'),
(10645, 'Who Dares Wins', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two brothers.One mission.And a whole world of troubleSam and Jacob Redman. Two brothers, SAS through and through. They fight alongside each other; they watch each others backs. They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war, fiercely loyal wherever they are. But when Jacob is booted from the Regiment for a moment of madness, he disappears. Not even his family knows where he is, or even if hes still alive.All that is about to change. On his return from a brutal mission in Afghanistan, Sam is ordered to conduct another dangerous operation into an inhospitable part of the world. He soon learns, though, that his unit are not being told everything by their government paymasters; and so he is forced to choose between his duty to the men around him and his loyalty to the brother that he loves. Is Jacob part of a plan that threatens world peace? As the body count rises, only Sam can stop these events from reaching their terrifying conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(10646, 'Who Goes There?', 'John W. Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Basis of the 1951 cult horror film, The Thing From Another World, Campbell''s frightening novelette appeared in ASTOUNDING in early 1938. He had become editor of that magazine five months earlier. A terrifying shape-changing alien at a frozen research station challenges its crew for survival in the most memorable sci-fi story of its decade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2499'),
(10647, 'Who Is Mark Twain?', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don''t want any absurd ''literary remains'' and ''unpublished letters of Mark Twain'' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author.   Here, for the first time in book form, are twenty-four remarkable pieces by the American masterâ€”pieces that have been handpicked by Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley. In "Jane Austen," Twain wonders if Austen''s goal is to "make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters." "The Privilege of the Grave" offers a powerful statement about the freedom of speech while "Happy Memories of the Dental Chair" will make you appreciate modern dentistry. In "Frank Fuller and My First New York Lecture" Twain plasters the city with ads to promote his talk at the Cooper Union (he is terrified no one will attend). Later that day, Twain encounters two men gazing at one of his ads. One man says to the other: "Who is Mark Twain?" The other responds: "God knowsâ€”I don''t."   Wickedly funny and disarmingly relevant, Who Is Mark Twain? shines a new light on one of America''s most beloved literary iconsâ€”a man who was well ahead of his time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8410'),
(10648, 'Who Killed Palomino Molero?', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosaâ€™s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society. This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosaâ€™s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2973'),
(10649, 'Who&#39;s Buried in Grant&#39;s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites', 'Brian Lamb &amp; C-Span', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation''s presidents. As much about the presidents'' lives as it is about their burial sites and how to visit them, this book belongs in the glove box of every traveler and the bedside table of every American history fan. Contributions from presidential historian Richard Norton Smith and an afterword by historian Douglas Brinkley add to this unique look at the American presidency.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7821'),
(10650, 'A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The paperback edition of Daniel H. Pink''s groundbreaking book, *A Whole New Mind*. Described by reviewers as "an audacious and powerful work," "a profound read," "right on the money," and "a miracle," the book reveals the six abilities individuals must master in an outsourced and automated world. Several publications named *A Whole New Mind* one of the best business books of 2005. It is now being translated into 12 languages -- and will appear across Europe and Asia in 2006. For this updated and expanded edition, Pink has added dozens of new tools, tips, and exercises to help individuals and organizations sharpen their right-brain capacities. Find out why Thomas L. Friedman, author of the mega-bestseller *The World is Flat*, calls *A Whole New Mind* his "favorite business book."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1357'),
(10651, 'The whole truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world''s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He''s retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world at peace and safe. Katie James, a journalist who will do anything to get back to the top of her profession, has just gotten the break of a lifetime, the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre that has stunned the world. SUMMARY: Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world''s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He''s retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world at peace and safe. Katie James, a journalist who will do anything to get back to the top of her profession, has just gotten the break of a lifetime, the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre that has stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1460'),
(10652, 'The Whole World: A Novel', 'Emily Winslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At once a sensual and irresistible mystery and a haunting work of psychological insight and emotional depth, The Whole World marks the beginning of a brilliant literary career for Emily Winslow, a superb, limitlessly gifted author. Set in the richly evoked pathways and environs of Cambridge, England, The Whole World unearths the desperate secrets kept by its many complex charactersâ€”students, professors, detectives, husbands, mothersâ€”secrets that lead to explosive consequences.Two Americans studying at Cambridge University, Polly and Liv, both strangers to their new home, both survivors of past mistakes, become quick friends. They find a common interest in Nick, a handsome, charming, seemingly guileless graduate student. For a time, the three engage in harmless flirtation, growing closer while doing research for professor Gretchen Paul, the blind daughter of a famed novelist. But a betrayal, followed by Nickâ€™s inexplicable disappearance, brings long-buried histories to the surface.The investigation raises countless questions, and the newspapers report all the most salacious detailsâ€”from the crime that scars Pollyâ€™s past to the searing truths concealed in photographs Gretchen cannot see. Soon the three young lovers will discover how little they know about one another, and how devastating the ripples of long-ago actions can be.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(10653, 'The Whore of Babylon, a Memoir', 'Katrina Prado', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3114'),
(10654, 'Why Didn&#39;t They Ask Evans?', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you''re invited to read...WHY DIDN''T THEY ASK EVANS?Was it a misstep that sent the handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something more sinister? Fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Francis Derwit''s suspicions are certainly aroused-especially since the man''s dying words were so peculiar: Why didn''t they ask Evans? Bobby and Francis would love to know. Unfortunately, asking it of the wrong people have sent the amateur sleuths running for their lives-on a wild and deadly pursuit to discover who Evans is, what it was he wasn''t asked, and why the mysterious inquiry has put their own lives in mortal danger... AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world''s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.  Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.  Agatha Christie died in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5203'),
(10655, 'Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You&#39;d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini', 'Mark Leyner;Billy Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is There a Doctor in the House?Say youâ€™re at a party. Youâ€™ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly youâ€™re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions youâ€™d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but havenâ€™t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. Youâ€™re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If youâ€™ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .â€¢How do people in wheelchairs have sex?â€¢Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?â€¢Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?â€¢Why does asparagus make my pee smell?â€¢Why do old people grow hair on their ears?â€¢Is the old adage â€œbeer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .â€ really true? . . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10666'),
(10656, 'Why Evolution Is True', 'Jerry A. Coyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact** In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the *evidence*, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution and examining case studies, have not focused on the evidence itself. Yet the proof is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from many different fields of science. Scientists are observing species splitting into two and are finding more and more fossils capturing change in the past-dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs. *Why Evolution Is True* weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the "indelible stamp" of the processes first proposed by Darwin. In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, *Why Evolution Is True* dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms that this amazing process of change has been firmly established as a scientific truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1997'),
(10657, 'Why Good Girls Don&#39;t Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do', 'Kate White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Career women looking to get ahead will find straight answers and nine proven strategies in this guide from one of the most savvy, successful, powerful women in American business. Top magazine executive Kate White shares the systematic plan that took her from being a "good girl" to a "gutsy girl".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4532'),
(10658, 'Why Marx Was Right', 'Terry Eagleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11048'),
(10659, 'Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog', 'Scottoline, Lisa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11199'),
(10660, 'Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time', 'Michael Shermer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print,Why People Believe Weird Thingsdebunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "WhySmartPeople Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes.Why People Believe Strange Thingsis an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them. Michael Shermer, Ph. D., is the founding publisher ofSkepticmagazine (www.skeptic.com), the director of the Skeptics Society, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology, and a contributing editor and monthly columnist forScientific American.He is the author ofHow We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, Denying HistoryandThe Borderlands of Science. Why do so many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, abductions by extraterrestrials, and ghosts? What has led to the rise of "scientific creationism" and the belief that the Holocaust never happened? Why, in this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, do people seem to be more impressionable than ever? With a no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, science historian Michael Shermer debunks these extraordinary claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. But Shermer also reveals the more dangerous side of such thinking, including the recovered memory movement, satanic rituals, modern witch crazes, and ideologies of racial superiority. Shermer concludes by describing his own confrontations with those who take advantage of people''s gullibility to advance their own, often self-serving agendas. In a brand-new chapter to this 2002 edition, he explores the trend among major, respected researchers to corrupt the scientific process in support of their own nonscientific belief systems.Why People Believe Strange Thingsis not only an insightful portrait of our immense capacity for self-delusion but, ultimately, a celebration of the scientific spirit. "Brilliant, informed, and incisive dissections of bogus science and history are a major contribution to what one dares hope is a backlash against the still-rising tide of New Age nonsense and public gullibility."Martin Gardner, author ofScience: Good, Bad, and Bogus "For a very soundly documented and reasoned set of specifics, I know of no better single volume than this one. Give it to everyone you know whose head and heart you respect, but who is flirting with irrationality."The Baltimore Sun "Why People Believe Weird Thingsis a tour de force and a literary delight, and it should be required reading for anyone who celebrates intellectual integrity."Frank Sulloway, author ofBorn to Rebel "Brilliant, informed, and incisive dissections of bogus science and history are a major contribution to what one dares hope is a backlash against the still-rising tide of New Age nonsense and public gullibility."Martin Gardner, author ofScience: Good, Bad, and Bogus "This is a book that\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9238'),
(10661, 'Why Popcorn Costs So Mu', 'Richard B. Mckenzie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9430'),
(10662, 'Why Read the Classics?', 'Italo Calvino', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why read Italo Calvino''s book on the classics? Because it passes his own test for what a classic is, and its brisk prose can blast your concept of the word clean of the dusty associations that cling to it. Calvino gives 14 offbeat definitions of\n <em>\n  classic\n </em>\n , my favorite being "a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off." His sharp essays on Conrad, Dickens, Diderot, Flaubert, Ovid, and others constitute an act of self-criticism too, a novelist''s imaginative autobiography. In 1955, when rave-reviewing __, he called Daniel Defoe the "inventor of modern journalism." In 1954, he overcame his disgust with Hemingway''s life "of violent tourism," coolly assessed his dry heights and sodden depths, and called himself Papa''s apprentice. And the 1984 piece on Borges shows who influenced Calvino most once he''d become a master himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n From both the American and the Argentinian, Calvino learned to be concise, and his quick sketches of books like the "unqualified masterpiece"\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Our Mutual Friend_ provide a contact high--one wants to drop everything and head straight to a library, so infectious is his enthusiasm. "How many young people will be smitten" by Stendhal''s recently, brilliantly retranslated Waterloo-era adventure\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Charterhouse of Parma_, he writes, "recognizing it as the novel they had always wanted to read... the benchmark for all the other novels they will read in later life." Like a great teacher, Italo Calvino distills a writer''s essence in a vivid phrase: money, for instance, serves as "the motive force of Balzac''s narrative, the true test of feeling in Dickens; but in Mark Twain money is a game of mirrors, causing vertigo over a void."\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although the title suggests that this posthumous collection was cobbled together to capitalize on the latest culture wars, the great Italian novelist who died in 1985 had himself planned to compile it. The book remains an uneven hodgepodge of essays and brief introductions. In the outstanding opening essay, Calvino begins with the lighthearted remark that "classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying ''I''m rereading... '' never ''I''m reading,''" then goes on to show a contagious passion for great literature of all types. Reading criticism of classics, he writes, is often a waste of time; reading, savoring, and rereading them is of much greater importance. However, many of these critical studies suffer from too much deference to the texts, and too few flights of critical fancy. The high points of the collection are the title essay and longer pieces presenting overviews of the work of great writers who were Calvino''s contemporaries. He begins an engaging discussion of Hemingway (written in 1954) by remarking that there were times when "Hemingway was a god. And they were good times, which I am happy to remember, without even a hint of that ironic indulgence with which we look back on youthful fashions." His accounts of authors less known to a modern American audience will leave readers eager to sample the otherwise daunting works of Francis Ponge and Eugenio Montale. Still, this collection is on the whole surprisingly lackluster; the beloved postmodernist will ultimately be better remembered for such earlier, more spirited essay collections as The Uses of Literature. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6107');
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(10663, 'Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future', 'Ian Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Only the supremely self-confident put forth all-encompassing theories of world history, and Morris is one such daredevil. An archaeologist by academic specialty, he advances a quasi-deterministic construct that is suitable for nonacademics. From a repeatedly enunciated premise that humans by nature are indolent, avaricious, and fearful, Morris holds that such traits, when combined with sociology and geography, explain history right from the beginning, when humanity trudged out of Africa, through the contemporary rivalry between China and America. Such temporal range leaves scant room for individual human agency: Morris names the names of world history, but in his narrative, leaders and tyrants, at best, muddle through patterns of history that are beyond their power to shape. And those patterns, he claims, can be numerically measured by a â€œsocial development indexâ€ that he applies to every epochal change from agriculture to the industrial revolution. However, the reading is not as heavy as it may sound. His breezy style and what-if imagination for alternative scenarios should maintain audience interest; whether his sweeping perspective convinces is another matter altogether. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rules-for Now\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn an era when cautious academics too often confine themselves to niggling discussions of pipsqueak topics, it is a joy to see a scholar take a bold crack at explaining the vast sweep of human progress. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers of\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rulesâ€”For Now\n  </em>\n  are unlikely to see the history of the world in quite the same way ever again. And that can''t be said of many books on any topic. Morris has penned a tour de force.â€â€”Keith Monroe,\n  <em>\n   The Virginian-Pilot\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you read one history book this year, if you read one this decade, this is the one.â€â€” Tim Oâ€™ Connell,\n  <em>\n   The Florida Times-Union\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA monumental effort...Morris is an engaging writer with deep insights from archaeology and ancient history that offer us compelling visions about how the past influences the future.â€â€”Michael D. Langan,\n  <em>\n   Buffalo News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Morris] has written the first history of the world that really makes use of what modern technology can offer to the interpretation of the historical process. The result is a path-breaking work that lays out what modern history should look like.â€â€”Harold James, Financial Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorris is a lucid thinker and a fine writer. . .possessed of a welcome sense of humor that helps him guide us through this grand game of history as if he were an erudite sportscaster.â€ â€”Orville Schell,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA remarkable book that may come to be as widely read as Paul Kennedyâ€™s 1987 work, â€˜The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.â€™ Like Mr Kennedyâ€™s epic, Mr Morrisâ€™s â€˜Why the West Rulesâ€”For Nowâ€™ uses history and an overarching theory to address the anxieties of the present . . . This is an important bookâ€”one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start here.â€ â€”_The Economist _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorrisâ€™ new book illustrates perfectly why one really scholarly book about the past is worth a hundred fanciful works of futurology. Morris is the worldâ€™s most talented ancient historian, a man as much at home with state-of-the-art archaeology as with the classics as they used to be studied . . . HeÂ has brilliantly pulled off what few modern academics would dare to attempt: a single-volume history of the world that offers a bold and original answer to the question, Why did the societies that make up ''the West'' pull ahead of ''the Rest'' not once but twice, and most spectacularly in the modern era after around 1500? Wearing his impressive erudition lightly â€” indeed, writing with a wit and clarity that will delight the lay reader â€” Morris uses his own ingenious index of social development as the basis for his answer.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n  <em>\n   Foreign Affairs\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA formidable, richly engrossing effort to determine why Western institutions dominate the world . . . Readers will enjoy [Morrisâ€™s] lively prose and impressive combination of scholarship . . . with economics and science. A superior contribution to the grand-theory-of-human-history genre.â€ â€”_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIan Morris has returned history to the position it once held: no longer a series of dusty debates, nor simple storiesâ€”although he has many stories to tell and tells them brilliantlyâ€”but a true\n  <em>\n   magister vitae\n  </em>\n  , â€˜teacher of life.â€™ Morris explains how the shadowy East-West divide came about, why it really does matter, and how one day it might end up. His vision is dazzling, and his prose irresistible. Everyone from Sheffield to Shanghai who wants to know not only how they came to be who and where they are but where their children and their childrenâ€™s children might one day end up must read this book.â€ â€”Anthony Pagden, author of _Worlds and War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThis is an astonishing work by Ian Morris: hundreds of pages of the latest information dealing with every aspect of change. Then, the questions of the future: What will a new distribution bring about? Will Europe undergo a major change? Will the millions of immigrants impose a new set of rules on the rest? There was a time when Europe could absorb any and all newcomers. Now the newcomers may dictate the terms. The West may continue to rule, but the rule may be very different.â€ â€”David S. Landes, author of\n  </em>\n  The Wealth and Poverty of Nations\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œHere you have three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important that happened to any important people in the last ten millennia; and an educated guess about what will happen in the future.Â Read, learn, and enjoy!â€ â€”Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA, and Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , and _Natural Experiments of History\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIan Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian, and a writer whose breathtaking vision and scope make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just dâ€™horizon but de force, taking us on a spectacular journey to and from the two nodal cores of the Euramerican West and the Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again.â€ â€”Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Clare College\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAt lastâ€”a brilliant historian with a light touch. We should all rejoice.â€ â€”John Julius Norwich\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDeeply thought-provoking and engagingly lively, broad in sweep and precise in detail.â€ â€”Jonathan Fenby, author of _Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œMorrisâ€™s history of world dominance sparkles as much with exotic ideas as with extraordinary tales.\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rulesâ€”for Now\n  </em>\n  is both a riveting drama and a major step toward an integrated theory of history.â€ â€”Richard Wrangham, author of _Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThe nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we are ever likely to get. With wit and wisdom, Ian Morris deploys the techniques and insights of the new ancient history to address the biggest of all historical questions: Why on earth did the West beat the Rest? I loved it.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Ascent of Money\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5413'),
(10664, 'Why We Get Fat', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11154'),
(10665, 'Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning science journalist Taubes follows his Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007) with this eminently more reader-friendly explanation of the dangers of dietary carbohydrates. If the USDA dietary guidelinesâ€”recommending that highly caloric grains and carbohydrates comprise 45 to 65 percent of daily caloric intakeâ€”are so healthy, why, he asks, has obesity among Americans been on the upswing? Why has this same diet, endorsed by the American Heart Association, not managed to reduce the incidence of heart disease? And, finally, he asks why mainstream health experts continue to promote the notably unscientific notion of â€œcalories in/calories outâ€ as the single focus of weight management? After explaining in laypersonâ€™s terms the science that debunks the idea that weight control is a matter of burning more calories than one consumes, Taubes offers an alternative viewpoint: no carbs. While his recommendation to eliminate carbohydrates (grains, fruits, sugars, etc.) from oneâ€™s diet is not necessarily a new one, Taubes does present compelling supporting evidence that many, if not all, people should consider at least severely limiting carbohydrates in their diet. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best seller,\n <em>\n  Good Calories, Bad Calories,\n </em>\n Taubes argued that our dietâ€™s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydratesâ€”_not_ fats and\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n simply excess caloriesâ€”has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense,\n <em>\n  Good Calories, Bad Calories\n </em>\n immediately stirred controversy and acclaim among academics, journalists, and writers alike. Michael Pollan heralded it as â€œa vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Building upon this critical work in\n <em>\n  Good Calories, Bad Calories\n </em>\n and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of whatâ€™s making us fatâ€”and how we can changeâ€”in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical,\n <em>\n  Why We Get Fat\n </em>\n makes Taubesâ€™s crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century, none more damaging or misguided than the â€œcalories-in, calories-outâ€ model of why we get fat, and the good science that has been ignored, especially regarding insulinâ€™s regulation of our fat tissue. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid?\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with essential information and concluding with an easy-to-follow diet,\n <em>\n  Why We Get Fat\n </em>\n is an invaluable key in our understanding of an international epidemic and a guide to what each of us can do about it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8552'),
(10666, 'Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel', 'Lisa Zunshine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardsonâ€™s Clarissa, Dostoyevskiâ€™s Crime and Punishment, and Austenâ€™s Pride and Prejudice to Woolfâ€™s Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokovâ€™s Lolita, and Hammettâ€™s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshineâ€™s surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lisa Zunshine teaches English literature at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6418'),
(10667, 'Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid', 'Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves\n <em>\n  Oprah\n </em>\n . The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertains.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of America''s most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long. Sparing no one, Leary zeroes in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it-his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics-with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-man shows\n <em>\n  No Cure for Cancer\n </em>\n &lt; and\n <em>\n  Lock ''n Load\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Proudly Irish-American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are both penetrating social commentary with no holds barred and laugh-out-loud funny. As always, Leary''s impassioned comic perspective in\n <em>\n  Why We Suck\n </em>\n is right on target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6739'),
(10668, 'WhyWeReadFiction', 'Lisa Zunshine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9894'),
(10669, 'Wicked', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can''t help but be bad. . . . Hanna will do "anything" to be Rosewood''s queen bee. Spencer''s digging up her family''s secrets. Emily can''t stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom''s taste in men. Now that Ali''s killer is finally behind bars, the girls think they''re safe. But those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. And they should know by now that I''m "always" watching. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3706'),
(10670, 'Wicked Appetite', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Bostonâ€™s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them downâ€”and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony. Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isnâ€™t always better, as they battle Wulf and the first of the deadly sins. With delectable characters and non-stop thrills that have made Janet Evanovich a household name, Wicked Appetite will leave you hungry for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2147'),
(10671, 'Wicked Enchantment', 'Anya Bast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** First in a new series from the national bestselling author of *Witch Fury*. ** When the Summer Queen of the fae orders Aislinn Finvarra to act as a guide for a half-incubus who is known to possess dark magick and sexual power, she must protect not only her heart, but her very life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(10672, 'Wicked Intentions', 'Elizabeth Hoyt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *To Desire a Devil* comes this thrilling tale of danger, desire, and dark passions.**A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . **Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London''s most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she''s spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . **A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . . **Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance''s help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London''s high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both.**A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(10673, 'Wicked Lovely', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rule #3: Don''t stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their crueltyâ€”especially if they learn of her Sightâ€”and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Rule #2: Don''t speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don''t ever attract their attention. But it''s too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any costâ€”regardless of her plans or desires. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; *everything*. Faerie intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr''s stunning 21st century faery tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2691'),
(10674, 'Wicked Plants', 'Amy Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n They may look sweet and innocent, but anyone who has ever broken out in a rash after picking a hyacinth blossom or burst into violent sneezing after sniffing a chrysanthemum knows that often the most beautiful flowers can pack the nastiest punch. This comes as no secret to mystery writers, who have long taken advantage of the nefarious properties of common garden plants to create the devices by which a deadly dose of poison is administered to an unsuspecting victim. But, as Stewart so entertainingly points out, such fiction is based on pure fact. There are plants that can kill with a drop of nectar, paralyze with the brush of a petal. From bucolic woodland streams choked by invasive purple loosestrife to languid southern fields overrun by kudzu, some plants are just more trouble than theyâ€™re worth. Culling legend and citing science, Stewartâ€™s fact-filled, Aâ€“Z compendium of natureâ€™s worst offenders offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In\n <em>\n  Wicked Plants\n </em>\n , Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Natureâ€™s most appalling creations. Itâ€™s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Youâ€™ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln''s mother).\n</p>\n<p>\n Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4354'),
(10675, 'Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild', 'Lee Sandlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John M. Barry Reviews\n  <em>\n   Wicked River\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John M. Barry is the author of five previous books, including the highly acclaimed and award-winning studies __, and\n  <em>\n   The Creation of the American Soul\n  </em>\n  , about the development of the separation of church and state, will appear in 2011. Read his review of\n  <em>\n   Wicked River:\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are literally thousands of books about the Mississippi River, each of them attempting to capture its majesty. It is a tribute to the river''s complexity and power that so few have succeeded. Lee Sandlin does. He writes elegantly and delivers what he promised--the story of the river in the days before engineers began their efforts to drain it of its mystery and protect us from its power. And by demythologizing both the river itself and the men and women on and along the river, by separating fact from legend, Sandlin actually makes it more majestic still.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s plenty of humor in here, and farce. Perhaps the single story that hits the hardest, though, has nothing about it either humorous or majestic. And it could be farce, something for Mark Twain''s illumination, except for the punch line. It is the story of Virgil Stewart. In a kind of American version of the Protocols of Zion, Stewart peddled a supposed plan for a white-led slave uprising that took hold of much of the lower Mississippi Valley. The beatings, murder, and torture his lies engendered only remind us how fearful and stupid humans can be at their worst.\n</p>\n<p>\n The river today has banks lined with concrete for hundreds of miles, while dams block off tributaries and levees seal the main river in. All that constrains the river. Nonetheless, these very constraints have themselves wreaked havoc on the land the river made--physically made, by the deposit of sediment--along the modern Gulf Coast. And the power and wildness of the river which Sandlin writes about are one great flood away from unleashing. The river is, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "unhonored, unpropitiated / by the worshippers of machine. But waiting, watching and waiting."\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In this lush, exuberant, action-packed and history-drenched book, Sandlin has brought the river back home again. . . . A vivid torrent of facts and passions, in an inspired agitation of water and words. . . .\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n is the best kind of history book. It is organized around people and their fates, not wars and dates and treaty signings. It artfully separates reality from fables, but it recognizes that fables have a story to tell, too, that our tall tales and our songs and our exaggerations and our mythologies can be as revelatory as topographical maps and temperature charts."\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping stuff. . . . Appreciators of what Greil Marcus calls the Old, Weird America will savor\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n . Its many ghastly scenes, vividly rendered by Mr. Sandlin, started showing up in my dreams. . . . I was surprised, upon finishing\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n , to read that this confident and swift-moving book is the author''s first. It makes one eager for the next."-_â€”_John Jeremiah Sullivan, _The Wall Street Journal\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A biography of the river in its pre-Twain period."\n <br />\n _â€”The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Entertaining. . . . Chicago essayist and journalist Lee Sandlin tells tales about the Mississippi in the days when the river and the people who floated on it or lived along it were wild and untamed in the extreme. . . . Sandlin has done an impressive amount of research. For all that, his prose manages to avoid the snags and shoals of academic English. . . . A lot of fun to read."\n <br />\n _â€”St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Remarkable. . . . Told with the same verve and affinity for a good yarn that encomia to the river tend to inspire,\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n looks at life along the Mississippi in the 19th century, before Twain had us thinking it was all Americana adventures. . . . Sandlin may singlehandedly destroy the view that the Midwest is a mellow place."\n <br />\n _â€”Time Out Chicago\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Marvelously captured. . . . A superb book debut. . . . Sandlin writes of a recurring sense of looming catastrophe that gripped many residents. . . . Fascinating."\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Sumptuous writing and fascinating tales of the days when life on the Mississippi was rough and wild. . . . Sandlin transports readers back to a renegade time on the Mississippi, a rollicking ride full of marauders, floating brothels and rough characters spit straight from the pen of Twain himself. Sandlin''s own prose style is a fluvial joy."\n <br />\n _â€”Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A gripping look back at the forgotten history of the river that made America."\n <br />\n _â€”The Daily Beast\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Splendid. . . . Intriguing. . . . Full of great stories. . . . makes for amusing and stimulating reading."\n <br />\n _â€”Columbus Commercial Dispatch (MS)\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "[A] superb book debut. . . . Thoroughly engaging, entertaining and seductively educational history. . . . a grand, clear-eyed look at river towns'' ''semi-barbarism.''"\n <br />\n â€”_The Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Sandlin pulls no punches . . . it''s almost as if he decided Twain was wrong and we need to find out the truth. He tells of pirates, drownings and slavery even uglier than most history books will tell us, of people who fell off boats and had no way of being rescued in a wilderness. . . . if you love the river and its history, read it. It''s fun."\n <br />\n _â€”Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A gripping book that plunges you into a rich dark stretch of visceral history. I read it in two sittings and got up shaken."\n <br />\n â€”Garrison Keillor\n</p>\n<p>\n "Raucous, fascinating and fun. . . . [Lee] Sandlin debuts with a rollicking history of the Mississippi Valley before commerce and technology tamed it. . . . [He] seems to have adopted some of Twainâ€™s technique in\n <em>\n  Life On the Mississippi\n </em>\n â€”i.e., disappearing for pages into long narratives/legends/rumors associated with the valley and its denizens. . . . [He] provides some John McPheeâ€“like detail about geology and riverine history, and also examines the human history of the region. . . . Apart from his generous offering of surprising facts, itâ€™s obvious that Sandlin loves the lore of the river, its narratives, legends and lies. . . . Readers will delight in stories about Annie Christmas (who wrote tales about prostitutes), Marie Laveau (the Voodoo Queen), the Crowâ€™s Nest pirates and John Murrell and his so-called â€œMystic Clan. . . .Gorgeous. â€\n <br />\n â€”Kirkus\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Wicked River _almost makes you feel guilty for enjoying an education so much. I learned things at every S-curve, neck deep in a fine, fine story. I lived a stone''s throw from that river, and though I knew it flowed through eons of meanness and sadness and ribaldry, I didn''t know it was this twisted. "\n <br />\n â€”Rick Bragg, author of _The Prince of Frogtown\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œGreat stuff, essential stuff, and yeah, wicked.â€Â \n <br />\n â€”Roy Blount Jr, author of\n <em>\n  Alphabet Juice\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Long Time Leaving Dispatches From Up South\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Geographically, culturally, and metaphorically, the Mississippi River has been at the center of American reality and imagination for 400 years. In\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n , Lee Sandlin has lived up to his epic subject, taking us into overlooked, if not forgotten, epochs of history and folklore. Through labor and erudition he weaves the incredibly complicated strands of a story that seems too big to contemplate into a coherent tale that is surprising and entertaining on every page. He''s made the river his own, and extends it as a welcome gift to the reader."\n <br />\n â€”Anthony Walton, author of _Mississippi: An American Journey\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "What a wickedly wild ride of a read! I loved this book! It may be nonfiction, but Sandlin tells his stories with a narrative drive that any novelist would envy. The events and characters from the early days along the Mississippi, which he so evocatively recreates, are among the most fascinating youâ€™ll ever encounter anywhere. Honest to god, reading history has never been more fun!".\n <br />\n â€”William Kent Krueger, author of _Heaven''s Keep\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne of the best bookâ€™s ever written about the Mississippi River. Each page rounds a new bend full of delirious missionaries, hell-bent-for-speed steamboat captains, and gaudy traders in â€˜fancy girlâ€™ slave prostitutes. You wonâ€™t put it down till youâ€™ve read every steamy, malarial, fascinating page.â€\n <br />\n â€”Mike Tidwell, author of\n <em>\n  Bayou Farewell\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œToday we think of the Mississippi River as an elder statesman of the American landscape, but for most of the nineteenth century it was pure frontier: unruly, unregulated, and dangerous. Wicked River perfectly captures the great river''s secret history, overflowing with wonderfully chosen and impeccably delivered character sketches, set pieces, and side trips.â€\n <br />\n â€”Scott W. Berg, author of\n <em>\n  Grand Avenues\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a narrative worthy of Mark Twain, Lee Sandlin tells of the Mississippi River when it was not only wild but wicked, home to sharpers and humbuggers, jackanapes, tub thumpers, and naked revelers.Â  This is a grand tale of Americaâ€™s mightiest river and the larger-than-life men and women who rode its waves into history.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sandra Dallas, author of\n <em>\n  Whiter Than Snow\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Prayers for Sale\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating book, rich in detail and lore, the kind of strange object one wants to curl up with for long periods of time and gaze into the past we know much less well than we imagine.Â _Wicked River _is bound to cause a stir among readers who always want to know a little more about some place or some thing than the usual sources allow. Reading it is going to school again, in the best possible way.Â An entrance into a world so magical and unlikely that everyÂ page is a new episode full ofÂ real swashbuckling, nasty critters (human), and the roiling history of the big bad river.â€\n <br />\n â€”Frederick Barthelme, author of\n <em>\n  Waveland\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] superb book debut. . . . Thoroughly engaging, entertaining and seductively educational history. . . . a grand, clear-eyed look at river towns'' ''semi-barbarism.''"\n <br />\n _â€”The Denver Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Sandlin pulls no punches . . . it''s almost as if he decided Twain was wrong and we need to find out the truth. He tells of pirates, drownings and slavery even uglier than most history books will tell us, of people who fell off boats and had no way of being rescued in a wilderness. . . . if you love the river and its history, read it. It''s fun."\n <br />\n _â€”Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6533'),
(10676, 'Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum''s classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2084'),
(10677, 'The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quickâ€“witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven''t got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair.I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Ages 10+ SUMMARY: Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quickâ€“witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven''t got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair.I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Ages 10+\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2547'),
(10678, 'the Widening Gyre (1983)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 10', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10558'),
(10679, 'The Widening Gyre', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i''s" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate''s bandwagon. But getting back the tape of the lady''s X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop express ride to trouble--trouble that is deep, wide and deadly. "A thriller all the way." (Seattle Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4003'),
(10680, 'A Widow&#39;s Story: A Memoir', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early one morning in February 2008, Oates drove her husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was admitted with pneumonia. There, he developed a virulent opportunistic infection and died just one week later. Suddenly and unexpectedly alone, Oates staggered through her days and nights trying desperately just to survive Smith''s death and the terrifying loneliness that his death brought. In her typically probing fashion, Oates navigates her way through the choppy waters of widowhood, at first refusing to accept her new identity as a widow. She wonders if there is a perspective from which the widow''s grief is sheer vanity, this pretense that one''s loss is so very special that there has never been a loss quite like it. In the end, Oates finds meaning, much like many of Tolstoy''s characters, in the small acts that make up and sustain ordinary life. When she finds an earring she thought she''d lost in a garbage can that raccoons have overturned, she reflects, "If I have lost the meaning of my life, and the love of my life, I might still find small treasured things amid the spilled and pilfered trash." At times overly self-conscious, Oates nevertheless shines a bright light in every corner in her soul-searing memoir of widowhood. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Brutal violence and catastrophic loss are often the subjects of Oatesâ€™ powerful novels and stories. But as she reveals in this galvanizing memoir, her creative inferno was sequestered from her joyful life with her husband, Raymond Smith. A revered editor and publisher who did not read her fiction, Smith kept their household humming during their 48-year marriage. After his shocking death from a â€œsecondary infectionâ€ while hospitalized with pneumonia, Oates found herself in the grip of a relentless waking nightmare. She recounts this horrific â€œsiegeâ€ of grief with her signature perception, specificity, and intensity, from epic insomnia and terrifying hallucinations to the torment of â€œdeath-duties,â€ painful recognitions of confidences unshared and secrets harbored, and a chilling evaporation of meaning. But Oates also rallies to offer droll advice on how to be a â€œgood widowâ€ and describes her struggles with mountains of lavish â€œsympathy giftsâ€ and the attendant trash with a â€œwidowâ€™s slapstick-comedy.â€ In a stunning extension of the compelling disclosures found in The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973â€“1982 (2007), protean and unflinching Oates has created an illuminating portrait of a marriage, a searing confrontation with death, an extraordinarily forthright chronicle of mourning, and a profound â€œpilgrimageâ€ from chaos to coherence. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The incomparable, best-selling Oates fascinates readers, and her memoir of sudden widowhood will have an impact similar to Joan Didionâ€™s The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7492'),
(10681, 'Widow&#39;s Walk', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Sometimes you have to wonder how Robert B. Parker keeps his mojo working. . . . There is a trick to keeping the faith with an old hero. In an age of shifty heroes with shaky values, he has created a hero who can still stand up for himself-and us." (*The New York Times Book Review*) When fifty-one-year-old Nathan Smith, a once-confirmed bachelor, is found in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38-caliber slug, it''s hard not to imagine Nathan''s young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she''s guilty. But given that Mary Smith is entitled to the best defense she can afford-and thanks to Nathan''s millions, she can afford plenty-Spenser hires on to investigate Mary''s bona fides. Mary''s alibi is a bit on the flimsy side: She claims she was watching television in the other room when the murder occurred. But the couple was seen fighting at a high-profile cocktail party earlier that evening, and the prosecution has a witness who says Mary once tried to hire him to kill Nathan. What''s more, she''s too pretty, too made-up, too blonde, and sleeps around-just the kind of person a jury loves to hate. Spenser''s up against a wall; leads go nowhere, no one knows a thing. Then a young woman, recently fired from her position at Smith''s bank, turns up dead. Mary''s vacant past suddenly starts looking meaner and darker-and Spenser''s suddenly got to watch his back. With lean, crackling dialogue, crisp action, and razor-sharp characters, *Widow''s Walk* is another triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4023'),
(10682, 'Widow&#39;s Walk (2002)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 29', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10559');
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(10683, 'A Wife for a Westmoreland', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For weeks, Derringer Westmoreland was haunted by memories of a woman whose face he could not recall. But he wantedâ€”he\n <em>\n  needed\n </em>\n â€”to share that intense passion again.\n <em>\n  Now.\n </em>\n When he finally traced his mystery woman, he was met with a surprise. His fantastic one-night stand was Lucia Conyers, his sister-in-law''s best friend. And Lucia wasn''t about to become one of Derringer''s women. For the first time in his charmed life, the ranch owner had some wooing to do. And if he wanted to win Lucia''s heart, he''d better be ready to risk his own.â€¦\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lucia Conyers''s heart was beating like crazy as she made a sharp turn around the curve while the wheels of her SUV barely gripped the road. She knew she should slow down, but couldn''t. The moment she''d heard that Derringer Westmoreland had been taken to the emergency room due to an injury he sustained after being thrown from a horse, a part of her had nearly died inside.\n</p>\n<p>\n It didn''t matter that most of the time Derringer acted as though he didn''t know she existed or that he had a reputation in Denver as a ladies'' manâ€”although she doubted the women he messed around with could really be classified as ladies. Derringer was one of Denver''s heartthrobs, a hottie if ever there was one.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what did matter, although she wished otherwise, was that she loved him and would probably always love him. She''d tried falling out of love with him several times and just couldn''t do it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not even four years of attending a college in Florida had changed her feelings for him. The moment she had returned to Denver and he had walked into her father''s paint store to make a purchase, she''d almost passed out from a mixture of lust and love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Surprisingly, he had remembered her. He''d welcomed her back to town and asked her about school. But he hadn''t asked her out, or offered to share a drink somewhere for old time''s sake. Instead, he had gathered up the merchandise he''d come to the store to buy and left.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her obsession with him had started back in high school when she and his sister Megan had worked on a science project together. Lucia would never forget the day that Megan''s brother had come to pick them up from the library. She''d almost passed out when she first laid eyes on the handsome Derringer Westmoreland.\n</p>\n<p>\n She thought she''d died and gone to heaven, and when they were introduced, he smiled at her, showing a pair of dimples that should be outlawed on anyone, especially a man. Her heart had melted then and there and hadn''t solidified since. That introduction had taken place a few months after her sixteenth birthday. Now she was twenty-nine and she still got goose bumps whenever she thought about that first meeting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since her best friend, Chloe, had married Derringer''s brother Ramsey, she saw more of Derringer, but nothing had changed. Whenever he saw her he was always nice to her. But she knew he really didn''t see her as a woman he would be interested in.\n</p>\n<p>\n So why wasn''t she getting on with her life? Why was she risking it now by taking the roads to his place like a madwoman, needing to see for herself that he was still in one piece? When she''d gotten the news, she''d rushed to the hospital only to receive word from Chloe that he''d been released and was now recuperating at home.\n</p>\n<p>\n He would probably wonder why she, of all people, was showing up at his place to check on him. She wouldn''t be surprised if some woman was already there waiting on him hand and foot. But at the moment it didn''t matter. Nothing mattered but to make sure for herself that Derringer was okay. Even the threat of possible thunderstorms this evening hadn''t kept her away. She hated thunderstorms, and yet she had left her home to check on a man who barely knew she was alive.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a really stupid move, but she continued to speed down the road, deciding she would consider the foolishness of her actions later.\n</p>\n<p>\n The loud sound of thunder blasting across the sky practically shook the house and awakened Derringer. He immediately felt a sharp pain slice through his body, the first since he''d taken his pain medication, which meant it was time to take more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wrenching at the pain, he slowly pulled himself up in bed, reached across the nightstand and grabbed the pills his sister Megan had laid out for him. She''d said not to take more before six, but a quick glance at his clock said that it was only four and he needed the relief now. He was aching all over and his head felt as if it had split in two. He felt sixty-three instead of a mere thirty-three.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had been on Sugar Foot''s back less than three minutes when the mean-spirited animal had sent him flying. More than his ego had gotten bruised, and each and every time he breathed against what felt like broken ribs he was reminded of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Derringer eased back down onto the bed and laid flat on his back. He stared at the ceiling, waiting for the pain pills to kick in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Derringer''s Dungeon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lucia slowed her truck when she came to the huge wooden marker in the road. Any other time she would have found it amusing that each of the Westmorelands had marked their property with such fanciful names. Already she had passed Jason''s Place, Zane''s Hideout, Canyon''s Bluff, Stern''s Stronghold, Riley''s Station and Ramsey''s Web. She''d heard when each Westmoreland reached the age of twenty-five they inherited a one-hundred-acre tract of land in this part of the state. That was why all the Westmorelands lived in proximity to each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n She nervously gnawed on her bottom lip, finally thinking she might have made a mistake in coming here when she pulled into the yard and saw the huge two-story structure. This was her first time at Derringer''s Dungeon and from what she''d heard, most women only came by way of an invite.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  So what was she doing here?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n She brought her car to a stop and cut off the engine and just sat there a moment as reality set in. She had acted on impulse and of course on love, but the truth of the matter was that she had no business being here. Derringer was probably in bed resting. He might even be on medication. Would he be able to come to the door? If he did, he would probably look at her as if she had two heads for wanting to check on him. In his book they were acquaintances, not even friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n She was about to back out and leave, when she noticed the rain had started to come down harder and a huge box that had been left on the steps of the porch was getting wet. The least she could do was to move it to an area on the porch where the rain couldn''t touch it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grabbing her umbrella out the backseat, she hurriedly got out of the truck and ran toward the porch to move the box closer to the door. She jumped at the sound of thunder and drew in a sharp breath when a bolt of lightning barely missed the top of her head.\n</p>\n<p>\n Remembering what Chloe had once told her about how the Westmoreland men were notorious for not locking their doors, she tried the doorknob and saw what her best friend had said was true. The door was not locked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Slowly opening the door, she stuck her head in and called out in a whisper in case he was downstairs sleeping on the sofa instead of upstairs. "Derringer?"\n</p>\n<p>\n When he didn''t answer, she decided she might as well bring the box inside. The moment she entered the house, she glanced around, admiring his sister Gemma''s decorating skills. Derringer''s home was beautiful, and the floor-to-ceiling windows took full advantage of the mountain view. She was about to ease back out the door and lock it behind her when she heard a crash followed by a bump and then a loud curse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Acting on instinct, she took the stairs two at a time and stumbled into several guest bedrooms before entering what had to be the master bedroom. It was decorated in a more masculine theme than all the others. She glanced around and then she saw him lying on the floor as if he''d fallen out of bed.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Derringer!"\n</p>\n<p>\n She raced over to him and knelt down beside him, trying to ignore the fact that the only clothing he had on was a pair of black briefs. "Derringer? Are you all right?" she asked, a degree of panic clearly in her voice. "Derringer?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly opened his eyes and she couldn''t stop the fluttering of her heart when she gazed down into the gorgeous dark depths. The first thing she noticed was they were glassy, as if he''d taken one drink too manyâ€¦or probably one pill too many. She then took a deep breath when a slow smile touched the corners of his lips and those knock-a-girl-off-her-feet dimples appeared in his cheeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, now, aren''t you a pretty thing," he said in slurred speech. "What''s your name?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Puddin'' Tame," she replied smartly. His actions confirmed he''d evidently taken one pill too many since he was acting as if he''d never seen her in his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "That''s a real nice name, sweetheart."\n</p>\n<p>\n She rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, cowboy. Would you like to explain why you''re down here and not up there?" She motioned toward his bed.\n</p>\n<p>\n "That''s easy enough to answer. I went to the bathroom and when I got back, someone moved the bed and I missed it."\n</p>\n<p>\n She tried keeping the smile from her face. "You sure did miss it. Come on and hold on to me while I help you back into it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Someone might move it again."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I doubt it," she said, grinning, while thinking even when he was under the influence of medication, the deep, husky sound of his voice could do things to her. Make the nipples of her breasts strain against her damp shirt. "Come on, you have to be hurting something awful."\n</p>\n<p>\n He chuckled. "No, in fact I feel good. Good enough to try riding Sugar Foot again."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shook her head. "Not tonight you won''t. Come on, Derringer, let me help you up and get you back in bed."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I like it down here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sorry, pal, but you can''t stay down here. You either let me help you up or I''ll call one of your brothers to help you."\n</p>\n<p>\n Now it was he who shook his head. "I don''t want to see any of them again for a while. All they know how to say is, I told you so."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well maybe next time you''ll listen to them. Come on."\n</p>\n<p>\n It took several attempts before she was able to help Derringer to his feet. It wasn''t easy to steer him to the bed, and she suddenly lost her balance and found herself tumbling backward onto his bed with him falling on top of her.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I need you to shift your body a little to get off me, Derringer," she said when she was able to catch her breath.\n</p>\n<p>\n He flashed those sexy dimples again and spoke in a voice throaty with arousal. "Um, why? I like being on top of you, Puddin''. You feel good."\n</p>\n<p>\n She blinked and then realized the extent of her situation. She...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7974'),
(10684, 'Wife for Hire', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hank Mallone knows he''s in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue''s reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look? Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she''s too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped. The deal is strictly business, both agree, until Hank turns out to be every fantasy she ever had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2130'),
(10685, 'Wife of the Gods', 'Kwei Quartey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field-and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, hers"s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and young son in Ghanars"s capital city to lead a murder investigation: In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman-a promising medical student-has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Dawson is fluent in Ketanurs"s indigenous language, so hers"s the right man for the job, but the local police are less than thrilled with an outsiderrs"s interference. For Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own motherrs"s inexplicable disappearance. Armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, Dawson soon finds his cosmopolitan sensibilities clashing with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Delving deeper into the studentrs"s haunting death, Dawson will uncover long-buried secrets that, to his surprise, hit much too close to home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2890'),
(10686, 'The Wild Blue', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who fought the enemy to a standstill -- the band of brothers who endured together.  The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of brothers, and, in "The Wild Blue, " Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with the same vivid detail and affection.  Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and then chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys -- turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s -- who suffered over 50 percent casualties.  With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames.  As "Band of Brothers" and "Citizen Soldiers" portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, "The Wild Blue makes" clear the contribution these young men of the Army Air Forces stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4239'),
(10687, 'The Wild Breed', 'Frank Leslie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Leslie spins a yarn that rivals the very best on western shelves today."\n <br />\n -J. Lee Butts, author of\n <em>\n  Lawdog\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yakima Henry ventures south of the border to save an old flame''s brother from a Mexican prison-only to incur the wrath of deadly Apaches, scalp-hunting Rurales, and zealous revolutionaries...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8731'),
(10688, 'Wild Cards', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II - and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results: death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become super-human "aces" as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque "jokers." It''s a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door. A world of Wild Cards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5972'),
(10689, 'Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The streets of New York have erupted in celebration of Wild Card Day - the annual event held every September 15th to remember the dead and cherish the living. It is a day for fireworks and street fairs and parades, for political rallies and memorial banquets, for drinking and fighting in the alleys. With each passing year, the festivities become larger and more fevered. And this year - 1986, the fortieth anniversary - promises to be the biggest and best Wild Card Day ever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But lurking in the background is a twisted genius who cares nothing for fun and festivity. The Astronomer has only one concern: destruction...\n</p>\n<p>\n <i>\n  The Mobipocket Reader format of this title is not suitable for use on the Palm OS versions of Mobipocket Reader.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5974'),
(10690, 'Wild Cards: Deuces Down', 'George R. R. Martin &amp; Michael Cassutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On September 15, 1946, a biological weapon created by an alien race was accidentally detonated above the streets of New York City, killing countless numbers of men, women, and children. But those who survived the initial explosion soon began to wish they had died also, once they discovered they had been forever mutated by the virus unleashed in the blast. . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When the first volume in the Wild Cards series made its debut in 1986, it caused a sensation in the science fiction and fantasy communities. Here were stories of superpowered beings in a real world setting, detailing the lives of Ã‚Â³AcesÃ‚Â²?those given superhuman powers by the Ã‚Â³Wild CardsÃ‚Â² virus?and Ã‚Â³JokersÃ‚Â²?those whom the virus transformed into freaks and monsters. Over the course of fifteen volumes, the world created by editor George R.R. Martin and some of SFÃ‚Â¹s most talented writers was explored through the eyes of both Aces and Jokers across the globe.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this all-new collection of Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all?the Deuces. As youÃ‚Â¹ll discover in this thrilling collection, their role in the Wild Cards Universe is just as important as that of the Aces and the Jokers. In fact, their actions have affected the course of Wild Cards history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in an alternate, shared-world universe, Deuces Down is the one place youÃ‚Â¹ll find such never-before-told tales as John J. MillerÃ‚Â¹s exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael CassuttÃ‚Â¹s first moon landing, when the whole world wasnÃ‚Â¹t watching; Walton SimonsÃ‚Â¹ Great New York City Blackout of 1977; Melinda M. SnodgrassÃ‚Â¹s account of Grace KellyÃ‚Â¹s mysterious disappearance during the filming of The French LieutenantÃ‚Â¹s Woman. ItÃ‚Â¹s a strange and terrifying world, where anything can happen. A world of Wild Cards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5917'),
(10691, 'The Wild Child', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Dominic Renbourne is visited by his identical twin Kyle, he steels himself for the sort of bitter confrontation that has marked their meetings for years. But when Kyle makes an exceptional request, and offers some family land as a bribe, Dominic feels his defenses failing. Unable to deny the desperation in his brother''s eyes--or the chance to finally inherit some of their family''s wealth--he agrees to an unusual charade. Dominic will temporarily take his brother''s place in the courtship of the beautiful, if possibly mad, Lady Meriel Grahame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The mysterious Lady Meriel is as unpredictable as was rumored. After her recovery from a childhood kidnapping, she turned inside to her secret world of silence and the comfort of her lush garden. Though two elderly relatives and an Indian caretaker have since watched over her, Meriel can not communicate, and flees from the external threat that Dominic presents.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unable to dismiss Meriel''s odd behaviors as insanity, Dominic seeks to uncover the source of her pain and the core of her complex personality. Warmed by his patient compassion and gentle encouragement, Meriel begins to open up to him. But the pressures of society and the growing threat of her commitment to an asylum force Meriel to choose between these two worlds. Helplessly in love with her, Dominic searches for a way to help her find her true identity, while continuing to conceal his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n When switched identities, arranged marriages, and even the mildest case of insanity meet, a novel is bound to be an absolutely entertaining hoot. As well as creating sympathetic characters and their realistic development, Mary Jo Putney has a talent for capturing the complex rivalries of siblings and the conflict between our internal and external lives. Though the arrival of a final plot twist is distracting and unnecessary, Putney has once again written a solid historical novel that should support her reputation as one of the finest romance writers of our time.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Meriel Grahame, the eighth heroine in Putney''s Fallen Angels series, has lived in a world of self-imposed silence since the night of violence in colonial India that claimed her parents'' lives. Deemed mad by her guardian uncles (one good, one evil), looked after by two widows (both good), she lives a life of fey barefoot willfulness, making weedy centerpieces for the mahogany dining table and communing with the animals who roam the gorgeous grounds of her ancestral home, Warfield. Lord Grahame, her evil uncle, would like to see her locked up in a mental asylum (Putney dwells on the horrors of early 19th-century "modern" psychiatry), but her good uncle, Lord Amworth, thinks a wedding and bedding might cure herAand the time is now, while Grahame is out of the country. Since infancy, Meriel has been pledged to Kyle Renbourne, Lord Maxwell, the future earl of Wrexham. Heart-bound to escort his dying mistress home to Spain, Kyle dispatches his twin brother, Dominic, to court Meriel in his place. The novel is most enjoyable precisely where it''s most predictable, and it''s in the all-consuming attraction, body and spirit, between Dominic and Meriel that it reaches its peak. Allowed unthinkable liberties, Meriel paints henna designs on Dominic''s trembling torso, laughs at his morality and offers up an irresistible bargaining chip: if she may have his body, he shall hear her voice. Her words may lack the eloquence of her silence, and the second half of the novel is altogether the weaker, but there''s satisfaction for readers who like to see villains die and everyone else live happily ever after. Author tour. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7958'),
(10692, 'Wild Ginger', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A happy ending is relative to what precedes it in this case, it stands in contrast to a horrific, true-to-life story about two girls growing up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In the late ''60s and early ''70s, Chairman Mao ruled omnipotently, and his followers took up arms in his name. Being a Maoist involved self-sacrifice, and that war between personal wants and the movement''s needs indirectly pits Min''s protagonists against one another. Sweet, naâ€¹ve Maple is saved from her usual beating by class bully Hot Pepper when new kid Wild Ginger stands up for both of them. This is no ordinary blacktop brawl: Hot Pepper and her gang members wield umbrellas like spears, stabbing their victims until they give up or collapse. Since Hot Pepper constantly invokes Maoist principles as rationale for her actions, the teachers dare not interfere for fear of being branded anti-Maoist and taken prisoner by the Red Guard or worse. Opposites in most ways, Maple and Wild Ginger become best friends over their shared ostracism. Their friendship is tested when a boy called Evergreen falls for Wild Ginger, whose extreme devotion to Mao conflicts with her natural impulses. Maple herself can''t decide who she loves best Wild Ginger or Evergreen and her dilemma leads her to put herself in mortal danger. Min (Becoming Madame Mao; Red Azalea) has created a memorable, unsettling love story using the horrors of Maoism which she experienced firsthand as a backdrop. 8-city author tour. (Apr. 8)Forecast: Wild Ginger is a more grueling read than the bestselling Becoming Madame Mao, and doesn''t pack quite the same historical punch (it''s hard to beat Madame Mao as a protagonist), but those who enjoyed Min''s first novel will be satisfied by this one, which should mean strong sales.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In lean, expressive prose, Min recounts the lives of several young people caught up in the Cultural Revolution, which swept China in the mid-Sixties near the end of Mao''s reign. The author, who was born in Shanghai and joined the Red Guards the vanguard of the revolution writes from firsthand experience. As in her excellent novel, Becoming Madame Mao, Min deftly encapsulates world-historical events in the lives of ordinary people without being didactic or resorting to stock figures. Her fully realized characters snag our interest and evoke our sympathy as they engage in acts of bravery or daring that make life barely endurable. She also has a talent for mixing irony with humor, as when Wild Ginger, the outcast protagonist of this moving tale, gains recognition for an act of heroism, after which her deceased parents (her father was foreign-born) are dubbed "international Communists" rather than "French spies." Highly recommended for all literate readers, especially those with a taste for foreign cultures. Edward Cone, New York\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7809'),
(10693, 'Wild Horses', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For his 33rd-and quite splendid-novel, Francis (Decider) adds to his usual horse-racing setting a backdrop involving feature filmmaking. As usual, though, it''s murder most foul and mayhem most brilliant for this English master. In the Suffolk city of Newmarket, Thomas Lyon is for the first time directing a film featuring an American megastar. Based on a bestselling book, the movie concerns a still unexplained, 26-year-old death by hanging of a young horse trainer''s wife. The wife''s sister, niece and nephew are vehemently opposed to the film, while the book''s author, who''s also the screenwriter, is opposed to any changes in his plot. The megastar''s double is attacked, a murder occurs, Thomas gets death threats and finds himself in great peril. How Francis has him solve the assorted mysteries and achieve a satisfactory ending for his film is nothing short of dazzling. Francis puts his novel together in the same way a movie is constructed, with out-of-sequence scenes, dissolves and brilliant images. He offers wonderful set pieces and moves his large and colorful cast with the aplomb of a seasoned director. Even better, in Thomas Lyon he has created a representative of a vanishing, even endangered, fictional species: the thoroughly decent chap we care about. A tip-top thriller, this could make the best movie about movies since The Stunt Man. BOMC main selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA?Francis''s fans will not be disappointed with his latest offering. Thomas Lyon is making a movie based on an event that occurred almost 20 years earlier?the hanging death of a horse trainer''s young wife. Valentine Clark, Thomas''s long-time friend and a prominent figure in the racing world, is dying, and while Thomas is reading to him he makes a death-bed confession. His whispered confidences relate too directly to Thomas''s film to be ignored, especially as the movie set is plagued with suspicious problems and attempted murders. Despite being stabbed himself, Thomas tries to solve the past and present mysteries, produce his movie, and save his own life. Besides providing a many-faceted mystery and the author''s trademark insights into the horse world, this novel offers an in-depth, fascinating behind-the-scenes view of filmmaking.?Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8219'),
(10694, 'Wild Justice', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master." -_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure-codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He''s used to doing battle-and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph''s victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride''s every move- down to what could be his last one...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9149'),
(10695, 'Wild Seed', 'Octavia Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2399'),
(10696, 'The Wild Things', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old, living with his mother and his sister, terrorizing the neighborhood on his bicycle. But Max''s world is changing around him: His father is absent and his mother is increasingly distracted. Max''s teenage sister is outgrowing him, leaving him alone in favor of her friends. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief. Setting off into the night, Max finds a boat and sails away to an island. Here he meets strange and giant creatures. Creatures that rage and break things. Creatures that trample and scream. These monsters do everything Max feels inside! And so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with the creatures, Max can be the wildest thing of all. In this visionary new novel, Eggers brings an imaginary world vividly to life, filling it with monsters, chaos, and one very real little boy. By turns beautiful and joyful, sorrowful and strange,The Wild Thingsis an astonishing literary triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(10697, 'Wild Town', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The place is a frontier boom town where the graft gets collected more regularly than the trash. The hero is Bugs McKenna, slow-witted, hot-tempered man with manslaughter in his past and much worse in his immediate future. The much worse begins the moment McKenna gets promoted from ex-con to hotel detective without bothering to ask why. Because inWild Townnobody does you any favors--and the price of advancement is always a little higher than what you can afford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2189'),
(10698, 'The Wild Zone: A Novel', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Wild Zone, a South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) bar filled with lusty menâ€”specifically, charismatic personal trainer Jeff Rydell; his cute visiting half-brother, Will, a Princeton graduate student; and Jeff''s married best friend, Tom Whitman, a dishonorably discharged Afghanistan war veteran with some serious problemsâ€”provides the starting point for bestseller Fielding''s nonstop thrill ride. A sexy bar patron, Suzy Bigelow, inspires the trio to make a wager on who can bed her first, and they even ask Jeff''s live-in girlfriend, a Wild Zone bartender, for help. Suzy chooses Will for a platonic date, which has some distinctly unpleasant repercussions that involve not only wide-eyed Will but desperate, gun-loving Tom, whose wife takes their children and files for divorce. Fielding (_Still Life_) combines a fast-paced plot with top-notch character development to create an atmosphere of brooding unease that explodes in a wonderfully wild resolution.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wild ride with a life all its own, strewn with surprises and consequences for all parties along the way. Fielding''s characters and plot are strong and well-developed. The story is gripping, always leaving the reader guessing, and culminates in a deliciously untamed twist of a conclusion."\n <br />\n â€” _Winnipeg Free Press\n</p>\n<p>\n _"[Fielding] sucks you in with end-of-chapter cliffhangers, violent results and wild sex....This is a thriller and, as with all thrillers, there is that twist at the end that forces you to read until the very last sentence."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€” The Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6235'),
(10699, 'The Wild', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Bob Duke turns into a wolf and begins to roam the streets of Manhattan, his wife and son vow to find him and restore his humanity. By the author of\n <em>\n  The Wolfen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Communion.\n </em>\n Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5950'),
(10700, 'The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie', 'Wendy McClure', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Gretchen Rubin Interviews Wendy McClure\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n If you had to pick the one scene from all of Laura Ingalls Wilderâ€™s books that makes you the happiest, what would it be? I''d pick the scene where Mr. Edwards brings back the Christmas gifts to Laura and Mary, after he meets Santa Claus in Independence. I cry every time! Or maybe when Laura tells Almanzo that she won''t go buggy-riding with Nellie Oleson again.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n For me itâ€™s when the Ingalls family moves into the â€œwonderful houseâ€ in\n <em>\n  On the Banks of Plum Creek\n </em>\n . The rooms are clean and new, with store-boughten hinges and china knobs on the doors, and everything is in its place. Every time I read it, I swoon over the details, from the calico-edged curtains to the smell of the pine boards. A close second is the scene where Laura gets to see the surveyorsâ€™ house for the first time in\n <em>\n  By the Shores of Silver Lake\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Why do you think the Little House books have meant so much to you for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n I think itâ€™s because the point of view is at once so subtle and vivid that it feels like Iâ€™m in Laura Ingallsâ€™s head, looking with her eyes. I learned so much about how to see from these books, which in turn helped me learn to observe and think like a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Now that you''ve had all those adventures and written your own book about LIW, do you feel differently about Wilder and the books?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n In some ways, yes. Iâ€™m able to separate the real Laura Ingalls Wilder from her fictional counterpart and see her in ways that my childhood vision of her didnâ€™t allow for. I also now see Lauraâ€™s daughter, Rose, as part of the books because she contributed so much to them. At the same time, the world of the books hasnâ€™t changed much in my mind. Even when Iâ€™ve seen the actual sites where the books take place, my imagined version of those places is just as real to me as itâ€™s always been.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Having written\n <em>\n  The Wilder Life\n </em>\n , you must be approached constantly by people who are also ardent Laura Ingalls Wilder fans. Do you feel an instant connection to them, or is it a bit hard to relate to everyone''s strong emotions about her work?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n I feel more connected to other fans much more than I ever did when I was younger. As a kid, my relationship to Laura and the books was so solitaryâ€”I didnâ€™t really know anyone else who loved the books. So when I started to meet and talk to others about the book, it took a little getting used to at first, because everyoneâ€™s fandom is different (some people really love the TV show, others consider it sacrilege); but Iâ€™ve since found that one of the best things about writing this book is being able to take part in this shared passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n How in the world do you come up with those hilarious Twitter comments as @HalfPintIngalls? Brilliant. My favorite so far: "Hey Almanzo, if you liked it then you shouldâ€™ve built a shanty on it."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n It takes longer than youâ€™d think! I try to take advantage of the seasons and think, what would Laura be tweeting about this time of year? (Thanks to\n <em>\n  The Long Winter\n </em>\n , itâ€™s never too early or late in the year to complain about twisting hay!) I also go through the Little House books in search of inspiration. It helps that HalfPintIngalls doesnâ€™t tweet too much...after all, she has to walk two miles into town to send her posts from the Twittergraph office!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family, children''s book editor and memoirist McClure (I''m Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World." Her wacky quest includes hand-grinding wheat for bread, buying an authentic churn, and traveling to sites where the Ingalls family attempted to wrest a living from the prairie. Discovering that butter she churned herself was "just butter," McClure admits she "felt like a genius and a complete idiot at the same time." Viewing a one-room dugout the Ingallses occupied that was "smaller than a freight elevator" prompted McClure to admit that "the actual past and the Little House world had different properties." McClure finally tells her boyfriend, "I''m home," after recognizing that her travels stemmed from her reaction to the recent death of her mother. Readers don''t need to be Wilder fans to enjoy this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6608'),
(10701, 'The Wildwater Walking Club', 'Claire Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Lively and inspiring!"--*Hartford Courant* "A great feel-good story."--*Philadelphia Examiner* *Just one step at a time. * After losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, Noreen finds it hard to know what the next step is--never mind take it. For the first time in a great many years, Noreen has time to herself. So she puts on a new pair of sneakers and a seriously outdated pair of exercise pants, and walks. It isn''t long before she''s joined by neighbors Tess and Rosie, two women as lost as she is. As the Wildwater women walk and talk, and talk and walk, they tally their steps, share their secrets, and begin putting their lives back together. And along the way, they learn what women everywhere are finding out -- time flies, and getting fit is actually fun when you''re walking with friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1482'),
(10702, 'Wilful behaviour', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When one of his wife''s Paola''s students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti''s case, no longer Paola''s student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia''s grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/744'),
(10703, 'Will Grayson, Will Grayson', 'John Green; David Levithan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Will Grayson:What if your oldest, wildest, only best friend started writing a musical about your life...and it made you look like a joke?What if the girl you didn''t think you were interested in started being interested in you?And who is this other guy called Will Grayson? The other Will Grayson: What if you are technically depressed? What if you''re in love with someone you''ve never met?And what''s the story with the guy walking around with your name?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1598'),
(10704, 'Will North', 'Water, Stone, Heart (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9117'),
(10705, 'The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy', 'Martin Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchillâ€™s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life â€“ of his working days and nights â€“ was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service of the people, whose instrument he believed Parliament to be. â€œI am a child of the House of Commons,â€ he told a joint session of the US Congress in December 1941. â€œI was brought up in my fatherâ€™s house to believe in democracy. Trust the people â€“ that was his messageâ€¦.â€Throughout his career, Churchill did his utmost to ensure that Parliament was effective and that it was not undermined by either adversarial party politics or by elected members who sought to manipulate it. Even the defeat of the Conservative Party in the General Election of 1945, which ended his wartime premiership, in no way altered his faith in parliamentary democracy. â€œIt is the will of the people,â€ he told a small gathering of friends and family the day after the results were announced. And he meant it. Reflecting on the importance of the Second World War as a means of restoring democracy, Churchill told the House of Commons: â€œAt the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper â€“ no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.â€Todayâ€™s readers will readily compare Churchillâ€™s regard for democracy and the importance of that â€œlittle manâ€ with the attitudes of contemporary leaders, and of those who seek leadership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5529'),
(10706, 'Will Power', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Fans of 2009''s\n  <i>\n   Act of Will\n  </i>\n  , Hartley''s first tale featuring roguish almost-hero Will Hawthorne, may be disappointed that the adventurers split up early on and two don''t reappear until late in the story. Fortunately, all of the fast pacing, outrageous dilemmas, and sharp, cynical humor are back in full force. Will and his intermittently traitorous friends are about to be captured by soldiers of the Diamond Empire when a mysterious ambassador smuggles them out of the city and possibly the world. They''re almost immediately enmeshed in a war between goblins and the eerily humanlike Fair Folk, where nothing is certain except Will''s ability to make a bad situation worse. Fans will dive in with the gusto of Will quaffing a tankard of beer, and new readers should have no problem keeping up.\n  <i>\n   (Feb.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     While on the run from Empire guards, Will Hawthorne and his band of thieves are transported to a mysterious land that none of them recognize or know how to get home from. Turns out that they''ve landed right in the middle of a battle between goblins and humans. Their human allies are practically storybook counterparts to the rough sorts they knew in Stavis, speaking in high-flown prose, dressed to the height of fashion, and dripping with wealth and social propriety. Will''s companions are quite taken by these fine folks, but the Fair Folk are appalled by Will''s unorthodoxy.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     At first Will does whatever he can to try to squirm into their good graces, but just when his efforts are feeling totally futile, he begins to wonder if these too-perfect courtiers and warriors have anything to offer beyond their glamour and their burning hatred of the goblins. But is there any recourse for Will and his friends once it turns out that the humans who are sheltering them may not be on the right side of their eternal conflict?\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Will Power is a funny and fleet-footed stand-alone fantasy featuring the characters readers grew to love in\n     <i>\n      Act of Will\n     </i>\n     in an all-new adventure about the danger of first impressions.\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6386');
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(10707, 'William and Harry', 'Katie Nicholl &amp; C Nicholl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William and Harry is a fascinating insight into the lives and loves of two extraordinary young men who have captured not only the hearts and minds of not only the British public, but those the world over. This is the definitive book about the princes, bringing their story right up to date. It is the tale of two brothers who have carried the legacy of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, into the twenty-first century and on whom the future of the House of Windsor largely depends.Drawing on her unique set of contacts Katie Nicholl recounts the royal brothers'' extraordinary lives and reveals William and Harry''s real characters as they become front-line soldiers and modern princes. Through her network of sources, some of whome have agreed to speak for the very first time, Katie tells the story of one of Prince William''s earliest romances, and his struggle with his destiny as a future King of England.As a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton seems more probable, Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to the couple who reveal how their love affair really started at St Andrews, the hurdles the pair overcame and the challenges they still face. She recounts the story of Harry''s time at Eton, his relationship with Chelsy Davy, and his three months he spent on the front line in Afghanistan. She analyses William and Harry''s complex relationship with their father, and the woman who will one day become Queen Camilla. She talks to their friends, contemporaries and confidants to paint a unique and revealing portrait of the two most famous brothers in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5456'),
(10708, 'The William Monk Mysteries: The First Three Novels', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œMurder fans who prefer their crimes with a touch of class should heat some scones and nestle back for the afternoon.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_The_\n  <em>\n   Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAnne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickensâ€™s eyes pop.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_The New York Times Book Review_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Few authors have made Victorian London as engaging and lively as Anne Perry has and her rich descriptions and charismatic characters have long captivated fans around the world. Now in one enticing volume, here are Anne Perryâ€™s first three classic novels featuring private investigator William Monk.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  THE FACE OF A STRANGER\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. His memory vanished after a terrible accident, intent on hiding his condition and starting a new life, Monk tackles a grisly murder case in which each new revelation leads him to the answers he seeks but dreads to find. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A DANGEROUS MOURNING\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Called upon to investigate the brutal murder of a blue-blooded young widow, Monk is plagued by his lingering amnesia and an inept supervisor. But nurse Hester Latterly offers her assistance, and together they grope warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the aristocratâ€™s demise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  DEFEND AND BETRAY\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  After a brilliant military career, General Thaddeus Carlyon meets his death not on the battlefield but at a London dinner party, and his wife confesses to the murder. But Monk and Hester Latterly suspect deceit, and with the trial only days away, they feverishly work to unravel the dark heart of the mystery.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8572'),
(10709, 'William Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "State-of-the-art scholarship...has come to stand as the edition of record of Shakespeare''s poems and plays."--San Diego Union-Tribune\n  <br />\n  "Includes stage directions, introductions, and a trove of other scholarly goodies. A beauty."--Library Journal (starred review)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard''s work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published. Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare. This beautiful collection is the product of years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of Shakespeare''s work. The editors reconsidered every detail of the text in the light of modern scholarship and they thoroughly re-examined the earliest printed versions of the plays, firmly establishing the canon and chronological order of composition. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. This superb volume also features a brief introduction to each work as well as an illuminating General Introduction. Finally, the editors have added a wealth of secondary material, including an essay on language, a list of contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, an index of Shakespearean characters, a glossary, a consolidated bibliography, and an index of first lines of the Sonnets. Compiled by the world''s leading authorities, packed with information, and attractively designed, The Oxford Shakespeare is the gold standard of Shakespearean anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5169'),
(10710, 'Willoughby&#39;s Return: A Tale of Almost Irresistible Temptation', 'Jane Odiwe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Odiwe''s sequel to\n  <em>\n   Sense and Sensibility\n  </em>\n  is best at recalling Austen''s descriptive abilities, but falls short in its treatment of Austen''s beloved characters. Three years after Marianne and Col. William Brandon get married, they''re still unable to discuss two critical and intertwined issues: namely, that Marianne feels jealous of William''s ward, Eliza, the illegitimate daughter of his first love; and the reappearance of Eliza''s father, John Willoughby, who was once Marianne''s love. Matters are complicated by the growing affection between Marianne''s sister, Margaret, and William''s nephew Henry, a developing relationship that serves as a stand-in for the original book''s. As their unshared feelings fester, distance grows between Marianne and William; Odiwe nods occasionally to the inequality between marriage partners, which allows the man to carry on much as he did prior to marriage, an issue that Austen herself would likely tackle; unfortunately, it''s hard to maintain suspense when the central plot conflict can be cleared up with a five-minute conversation.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Odiwe follows Lydia Bennetâ€™s Story (2008), her sequel to Pride and Prejudice, with a sequel to Austenâ€™s Sense and Sensibility. Marianne has settled nicely into life as wife and mother, although every so often she indulges in one of her infamous flights of sensibility. She is certain her husband, William, adores her, but has he gotten over his passion for his first love, whose portrait occupies a place of honor in their home? The arrival of Williamâ€™s nephew Henry grants Marianne the opportunity to play matchmaker between Henry and her sister Margaret, but the return of John Willoughby to Dorsetshire is not welcome news because now Marianne faces the difficult decision of whether to remain true to the quietly dependable man who married her, or give in to temptation with the rogue who broke her heart. Odiweâ€™s elegantly stylish writing is seasoned with just the right dash of tart humor, and her latest literary endeavor is certain to delight both Austen devotees and Regency romance readers. --John Charles\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5596'),
(10711, 'Wilson, Robert Charles - Spin', 'Spin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10055'),
(10712, 'Wilt', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm -for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt''s problem -although he''s on the other side of the fence -is the same as Inspector Flint''s: where is Eva Wilt? But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can''t tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3894'),
(10713, 'The Wilt Alternative', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this, the second of Tom Sharpe''s chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts &amp; Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats- in addition to his wife''s enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilt''s problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush, nostalgia, temporary infatuation with a foreign student and the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police anti- terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho- political profile. Bitingly funny and brilliantly written, THE WILT ALTERNATIVE exposes the farcical anomalies, which have become the social norms of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3882'),
(10714, 'Wilt in Nowhere', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Tom Sharpe''s fourth uproarious Wilt novel, the indefatigable Henry Wilt embarks on the voyage of a lifetime a cross-country trip through England, without map or compass, carrying little more than a backpack and the boots on his feet. A week later sees him drunk and unconscious in the back of an arsonist''s pickup truck. His trip goes even further downhill from there until he revives in the hospital, unable to figure out how he could possibly stand accused of arson, assassination and robbery. Meanwhile, Eva has taken the quads to visit Uncle Wally and Aunt Joan in Tennessee. With the four girls leaving their customary trail of insanity and destruction wherever they go, not to mention a mob of embittered drug enforcement agents, Eva''s journey has also spiralled out of control. Bitingly funny,Wilt in Nowherepits Wilt against the intricacies of police persecution and the underbelly of Britain''s medical facilities, brilliantly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3886'),
(10715, 'Wilt on High', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in ''The Pig in a Poke'' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he''s guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt''s talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place- in the middle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3890'),
(10716, 'Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era', 'Gary M. Pomerantz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n On March 2, 1962, in a drafty, half-full, 8,000-seat arena in Hershey, Pa., Wilt Chamberlain (aka the Big Dipper) scored a stunning 100 points in a single game against the New York Knicks-a watershed moment for the fledgling NBA. Drawing on interviews he conducted with various team members, fans, journalists and referees, Pomerantz (Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn) recreates this historic night in startling detail, bringing everyone from Chamberlain, to the Knicks'' defensive player Darrall Imhoff, to the caustic journalist Jack Kiser to vivid life. For Pomerantz, Chamberlain and Imhoff "symbolized pro basketball''s accelerating generational shift writ large: the agile black athlete, swift and strong, moving freely against a white opponent who, though young, earnest, and determined, seemed... a handsome blond shrine to a bygone era when all of the players were white." Pomerantz explores the racial tension of the era through Chamberlain''s experiences, fluidly transitioning from the action on the court to moments in the player''s life and then back again. In one instance, he''s finger-rolling a ball into the basket, and in the next, he''s at Big Wilt''s Smalls Paradise, the Harlem nightclub he part-owned, talking about how many good African-Americans were left out of the league due to its racial quotas. Throughout this surprisingly touching narrative, Pomerantz does a remarkable job of making Chamberlain, the world he inhabited and that mythic night shine all over again. 8-page b&amp;w photo insert.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The game in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, on March 2, 1962, belongs on the short list of modern sports'' defining moments. Robert Allen Cherry discusses the event in his fine biography,\n <em>\n  Wilt: Larger than Life\n </em>\n (2004); but Pomerantz looks in more detail at the accomplishment and places it in its rightful context. He notes, for example, that Chamberlain''s 100 points is 51 percent better than David Thompson''s 1978 second-place total of 73. And the 100-point game was merely consistent with Chamberlain''s unconscious 1961-62 season averages of 50 points, 25.7 rebounds per game. The 100-point game also announced a fundamental change in the style in which basketball would henceforth be played and in the racial makeup of the men who could and would play it. While Pomerantz writes a suspenseful narrative of the game, he also delivers an engaging, full-bodied portrait of one of the great athletes of our time. An excellent companion to Cherry''s biography but also a sports book that can stand on its own.\n <em>\n  Alan Moores\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4917'),
(10717, 'A Wind in the Door', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meg can''t help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He''s getting bullied at school, and is also seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10152'),
(10718, 'The Wind in the Willows', 'Kenneth Grahame', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since 1903, the escapades of Mole, his friend Water Rat, shy Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall have delighted children, and adults, too. Follow the winning foursome through the seasons as they sail the river, get lost in the Wild Wood, take off on a merry adventure in Toadâ€™s colorful carriage, and rescue Toad Hall from a band of nasty marauding weasels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2664'),
(10719, 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle', 'Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.\n</p>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution.\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami''s earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.\n</p>\n<p>\n If it were possible to isolate one theme in\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n , that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amazingly long, incredibly pricey, wildly experimental, often confusing but never boring, Murakami''s most famous novel has been brought to audio life with extreme dedication: by Naxos, a company that regularly wins prizes, and by a reader with an uncommon combination of skills. Degas is already a Murakami veteran, having read the audio version of\n <em>\n  A Wild Sheep Chase\n </em>\n (Naxos), and has worked on radio, stage and even cartoon voice (including\n <em>\n  Mr. Bean\n </em>\n ). He catches the constantly changing mental landscape of Murakami''s fertile imaginationâ€”which moves from detective story to explicit sexual fantasy, heartbreaking Japanese WWII historical flashback, everyday details of married life (cooking, shopping and pet care) and even the occasional burst of satiric humor. Degas treats it all with the clarity and calmness of a very deep, very still pool. Certainly not for everyone''s taste or budget, but anyone interested in this important author will find something to enlighten them.\n <em>\n  Available as a Vintage paperback (Reviews, Aug. 18. 1997). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9995'),
(10720, 'Windmills of the Gods', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest novel by the veteran author ( If Tomorrow Comes, etc.) is a fast-paced thriller. Upon taking office, idealistic President Paul Ellison inaugurates the "people-to-people" program, intended to establish America''s ties with Iron Curtain countries. Instead of naming an experienced diplomat as ambassador to Romania, Ellison selects wholesome Mary Ashley, instructor of Eastern European political science at Kansas State University. Mary initially declines the post, but after her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, she warily accepts Ellison''s offer in an attempt to quell her overwhelming grief. Unwittingly, Mary has placed herself in peril, for a sinister covert organization of right- and left-wing tycoons and politicians called Patriots for Freedom intends to abort Ellison''s project by lethal means. To kill Mary in Romania, these code-named extremiststheir identities aren''t divulged until the novel concludeshire Angel, a terrorist infamous for for barbarity, skill, and dedication. Sheldon''s characterizations are slick but involving, and the action escalates to an electrifying final scene. Adding depth are descriptions of harsh Romanian life, the agony of widowhood and the foreign service initiation process.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of political intrigue and espionage Sheldon''s work is far from Le Carre or even Ludlum. But he can spin a fast-moving tale and give it a few twists. Here an international cabal of politically powerful right- and left-wingers seeks to destroy President Paul Ellison''s plan to strengthen relations with Iron Curtain countries. Ellison''s program is to start in Romania, and for ambassador he selects Mary Ashley, political science professor, wife, and mother who has seldom been outside Kansas in her 35 years, but whose writing has caught Ellison''s eye. Sheldon strains credulity severely along the way, notably in murders masked as accidents, and Ashley''s gaffes on the Washington diplomatic scene are glaringly inconsistent with her shrewd negotiating in Bucharest a few months later. But the story speeds along and the epilogue is a chiller. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8621'),
(10721, 'The Winds of Dune', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set immediately after Frank Herbert''s\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n (1969), this satisfying tale from Herbert''s son and Anderson (_Paul of Dune_) follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desert planet Dune for her son''s funeral. Paul''s suicide after his mistress''s childbed death leaves his sister, the insane and brutal Alia, as regent for his twin children. Alia releases Princess Irulan, Paul''s wife and biographer, from house arrest on the condition that she present Paul as a god, even as Bronso of Ix circulates contrasting writings focusing on Paul''s humanity. Alia, Jessica, Bronso and Irulan can describe aspects of Paul, but no single narrative can capture him. Fans of the original Dune series will love seeing familiar characters, and the narrative voice smoothly evokes the elder Herbert''s style.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Winds of Dune\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fill[s] in the gaps between the late Frank Herbert''s classic\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n and its sequels\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Dune Messiah_ and\n <em>\n  Children of Dune. . . .\n </em>\n This sequel to\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Paul of Dune_ is an important addition to the Dune chronology and will be in demand by Herbert fans.â€\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_ (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Delivers solid action and will certainly satisfy."\n <br />\n _--Booklist\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis satisfying tale from Herbertâ€™s son and Anderson follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides. . . .  Fans of the original Dune series will love seeing familiar characters, and the narrative voice smoothly evokes the elder Herbertâ€™s style.â€\n <br />\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Unquestionably, Herbert &amp; Anderson can spin a great yarn; while technically producing a vivid, mystifying universe, filled with characters that are both endearing, and loathsome. I recommend this one highly, but be warned, if this is the first Dune book you are reading, get ready to hit the bookstore, because I promise you, it will not be the last!"\n <br />\n _--BookSpotCentral\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n <em>\n  _The Winds of Dune\n </em>\n is filled with the same psychological complexities that were a hallmark of Frank Herbertâ€™s books. It twists and turns on matters of trust, loyalty and the meaning of honor. Familiar characters are brought back to life with poignant clarity and the suspense and tension never let up. Even knowing what comes next in\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Children of Dune, _I was hooked by this tale and enjoyed it immensely. It is a worthy addition to the\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Dune_ saga."\n <br />\n _--IN Denver Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Praise for the bestselling novel,\n </em>\n Paul of Dune:\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œThis vital link between the first two books of the Dune saga begins immediately after the close of\n <em>\n  Dune. . . .\n </em>\n This is good reading. . . .  Standing well enough on its own for Dune novices, it goes without saying that itâ€™s must reading for established fans.â€\n <br />\n --_Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œDrawing on Frank Herbertâ€™s massive body of notes, the coauthors of the new Dune series continue their expansion and illumination of the unexplored pieces of one of the genreâ€™s most significant and powerful stories. A priority purchase for libraries of all sizes. Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n , the timeless classic that began the epic story:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the monuments of modern science fiction.â€\n <br />\n --_The Chicago Tribune__\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œI know nothing comparable to it except\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n .â€\n <br />\n --Sir Arthur C. Clarke_\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed . . . a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical vistas. . . . An astonishing science fiction phenomenon.â€\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post__\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œPowerful, convincing, and most ingenious.â€\n <br />\n --Robert A. Heinlein_\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œHerbertâ€™s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction.â€\n <br />\n --_Louisville__ Times_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7406'),
(10722, 'Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather', 'Marq de Villiers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wind is personal for de Villiers, winner of Canada''s Governor General''s Award for\n <em>\n  Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource\n </em>\n . A gust from a ferocious gale in South Africa came close to blowing him over a cliff when he was a child, a fearful experience that invests this articulate study of the history and nature of moving air with notable immediacy. Winds figure in the creation myths of almost all cultures, he notes. But it wasn''t until the mid-18th century that scientists began to develop a cogent theory about wind and its relation to weather. Two centuries later, during WWII, high-altitude flyers discovered the jet stream and "a real understanding of winds was, finally, in place." De Villiers has marshaled an absorbing if daunting array of historical, cultural, environmental and scientific facts to detail that wind, despite its destructive power, makes life on Earth possible. But the book''s grace notes lie in entertaining did-you-know nuggets. Among them: a great storm that lashed London in 1703 caused windmill blades to rotate so fast that friction set them on fire; Cuban meteorologists, more advanced at the turn of the last century than Americans, warned fruitlessly about the path of the hurricane that devastated Galveston. B&amp;w illus.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“A readable, cogent introduction to wind. Woven throughout the text is the story of Hurricane Ivan, which started as a storm in Africa and gained power as it headed west toward the Americas. Chapter by chapter, the author examines the place of wind in mythology, ancient scientific beliefs about air and wind, composition of the atmosphere, wind scales and patterns, historical and modern weather forecasting, the mechanics of hurricanes, how wind moves pollution around the globe, and technology utilizing wind power. The book includes 12 appendixes, each providing statistics about storms or lists of such events as the Beaufort wind, Saffir-Simpson hurricane, or the Fujita tornado scales. The illustrations, reproductions, and graphs are clear and easy to read. This book could lead students to further research, but it is also entertaining on its own.â€“_Susan Salpini, formerly at TASISâ€“The American School in England_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5744'),
(10723, 'The Windup Girl', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel* In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen''s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok''s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history''s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism''s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man; (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions. This title has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. This title was also on the best book lists of the year for Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3621'),
(10724, 'The Wine-Dark Sea', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean water reminds Stephen of Homer''s famous description, but it also portends a spectacular submarine volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader''s imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen''s mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O''Brian''s brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted. This is storytelling without models or equals in recent literature; critics have noted in O''Brian''s great Aubrey/Maturin epic, now sixteen volumes in length, haunting echoes of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Jane Austen. Some readers will respond to the undeniable excitement of the chases, storms, and battles, others to the precision of language, or the humor, or the wealth of erudition in Maturin''s researches and conversations. But the truest mark of O''Brian''s stature as a novelist may be the great number of readers who find fresh delights and deeper resonances in rereading his novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4299'),
(10725, 'Wings', 'Aprilynne Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautifulâ€”too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(10726, 'Wings of Fire', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When\n <em>\n  Wings of Fire\n </em>\n , were "light and warmth and beauty intermingled with such passion that they sang in the heart as you read them.\n <em>\n  Wings of Fire\n </em>\n had touched him in ways that few things had." Olivia''s death, along with that of two members of her family, have brought Rutledge from London to investigate. But, as a sharp local clergyman tells him, "Be sure your own ghosts don''t infringe on your logical mind--don''t rain havoc on Borcombe in search of your own absolution."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a brilliant return after his introduction in A Test of Wills (1996), Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is dispatched to Cornwall to investigate three deaths?seemingly a double-suicide and an accident?that have occurred within weeks in the Trevelyan family. Still recovering from shell shock sustained while serving in France during WWI, Rutledge carries in his head the challenging voice of Hamish MacLeod, a Scottish soldier about whose battlefront death Rutledge experiences profound guilt. In the village of Borcombe, Rutledge learns that one of the apparent suicides, Olivia Marlowe, wrote as O.A. Manning, a poet whose work had uncannily captured both the misery of war and the passion and beauty of love. Olivia Marlowe and her devoted half-brother Nicholas Cheney died of poisoning within hours of each other. Another half-brother, Stephen FitzHugh, the only family member opposed to selling the family estate where Olivia and Nicholas lived, fell down the stairs to his death not long after the funeral. Searching for answers about the deaths and for an understanding of the poet, Rutledge finds himself on a decades-long trail of cleverly disguised murders. Todd''s cast is sometimes hard to keep straight, but readers will find it hard to resist following Rutledge on this emotionally intense quest. Memorable characters, subtle plot twists, the evocative seaside setting and descriptions of architecture, the moors and the sea fully reward the attention this novel commands.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5677'),
(10727, 'The Wings of the Dove', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An incomparable Henry Jamesâ€™s novel in a new edition ** Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. *The Wings of the Dove* is an indelible take on the tragic love triangle in which two poor yet ardent lovers seduce a dying woman in the hope that she will leave them her fortune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1596'),
(10728, 'The Winner Stands Alone', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3840'),
(10729, 'The winner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the phenomenally bestselling "Absolute Power" and "Total Control" comes a thrilling new novel of suspense and excitement. When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later, it all comes back to haunt her Major national media ads &amp; publicity (Espionage/Thriller)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1468'),
(10730, 'The Winning Hand', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''Did you say I won almost two million dollars''? Running away from her former life, and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And in the bright lights of a Las Vegas casino, Darcy gambled and won! Suddenly the small-town girl was big news - and in need of protection. Robert MacGregor Blade, the casino owner, was determined to make sure Darcy could enjoy her good fortune. But Darcy knew what she wanted; a chance with Mac himself. And surely her luck was in?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2587'),
(10731, 'Winston Churchill&#39;s War Leadership', 'Martin Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Invited to lecture at the White House in February 2002, Gilbert, known as Winston Churchill''s official biographer, hopes this commentary "can be of service" to the leaders of the war on terror. Whether George W. Bush and Tony Blair have been consciously imitating Churchill will be left for future historians to discover; Gilbert, for his part, cautions that "Churchill''s war leadership can have no parallel," except during a war conducted on the scale of World War II. Caveat announced, Gilbert proceeds point by point to Churchill''s direction of affairs, of which his celebrated speeches and buoyancy in public (depicted in the author''s photo album\n <em>\n  Churchill at War\n </em>\n [BKL F 15 04]) was only one praiseworthy aspect. Above all, Gilbert credits Churchill''s refusal to deal with Hitler in 1940 and rates highly as well Churchill''s articulation of the war''s aim as the defense of democracy. Beneath the public plane, Churchill''s day-to-day activity (such as attending to intelligence and logistical details) was, according to Gilbert, equally integral to his leadership.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill''s leadership during the Second World War, Gilbert gets to the heart of the trials and struggles that have confronted the world''s most powerful leaders, even up to current politicians such as George Bush and Tony Blair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Basing the book on his intimate knowledge of Churchill''s private and official papers, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchillâ€™s official biographer, looks at the public figure and wartime propaganda, to reveal a very human, sensitive, and often tormented man, who nevertheless found the strength to lead his nation forward from the darkest and most dangerous of times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5530'),
(10732, 'Winter Door', 'Isobelle Carmody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasnâ€™t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rageâ€™s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about looking after her. The school bully, Logan, is increasingly malicious. And her only friend, Billy Thunder, is just a dog again. As if that werenâ€™t enough, thereâ€™s something wild lurking in the woods around the farm. Do Rageâ€™s dreams hint at a sinister threat to two worlds?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5424'),
(10733, 'Winter Garden', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesnâ€™t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller *Firefly Lane *and *True Colors *comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past ***Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last timeâ€”and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anyaâ€™s life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their motherâ€™s life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2939'),
(10734, 'Winter Gatherings: Casual Food to Enjoy with Family and Friends', 'Rick Rodgers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Looking for the perfect recipe to warm up a cold winter''s night? Making use of the hearty seasonal produce from root vegetables to apples, from leafy greens to lush pears, the recipes in Winter Gatherings bring winter''s flavors together perfectly. Award-winning cooking instructor Rick Rodgers brings you purposefully cozy and uncomplicated recipes that highlight the particular flavors and tempting aromas of the winter season. For a dinner with friends after singing carols in the snow, nibble on GruyÃˆre and Rosemary GougÃˆres in front of the fire. Follow those with a main course of Braised Short Ribs with Dark Beer and Root Vegetables and a dessert of Maple CrÃ‰mes BrÃ›lÃ‰es. You''ll find recipes perfect for Hanukkah dinners with loved ones, as they''ll clamor for Latkes with Apple-JalapeÃ‘o Salsa, or a special Valentine''s Day made sweeter with a Chocolate and Orange Tart. Winter Gatherings has a complete selection of recipes for a festive holiday feast, whether you prefer the Rib Roast with Blue Cheese Crust or perhaps a not-so-traditional Baked Ham with Cranberry-Tangerine Glaze. There''s no better way to warm up the hearth this time of year than by sharing a hearty meal with your friends and family. With mouthwatering, soul-satisfying recipes and inspiring color photographs, Winter Gatherings will brighten your holiday table all season long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3939'),
(10735, 'The Winter Ghosts', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **By the author of the *New York Times*-bestselling *Labyrinth*, a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. ** In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic, centuries-old mystery, and discovered his own role in the life of this remote town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3072'),
(10736, 'A Winter Haunting', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1239');
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(10737, 'The Winter House', 'Nicci Gerrard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back into a past from which she has fled but never escaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ralph, Marnie and Oliver once knew each other well and are still inextricably bound by ties of love and betrayal. Now they meet again in Ralph''s secluded cottage in the Scottish highlands, to spend the precious days that Ralph has left with each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n As they reminisce, Marnie is taken back to the summer years ago when everything changed between them and heartbreak and desire broke up their little group. Will Ralph have the chance to say what needs to be said before it''s too late? And can they put the devastating events of twenty years ago to rest and rekindle the intimacy they once shared?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4870'),
(10738, 'The Winter King', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10590'),
(10739, 'Winter Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknownâ€”and unknowable.Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat.Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no oneâ€”living or deadâ€”is safe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1443'),
(10740, 'The Winter Vault', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Profound loss, desolation and rebuilding are the literal and metaphoric themes of Michaels''s exquisite second novel (after\n <em>\n  Fugitive Pieces\n </em>\n ). Avery Escher is a Canadian engineer recently moved to a houseboat on the Nile with his new wife, Jean, in 1964. Avery''s part of a team of engineers trying to salvage Abu Simbel, which is about to be flooded by the new Aswan dam. His wife, Jean, meanwhile, carries with her childhood memories of flooded villages and the heavy absence of her mother, who died when she was young. Now, the sight of the entire Nubian nation being evacuated from their native land before it''s flooded affects both Avery and Jean intensely. Jean''s pregnancy seems a possible redemption, but their daughter is stillborn, and Jean falls into despair, shunning the former intimacy of her marriage. When the couple returns to Canada, they set up separate lives and another man enters the picture. Michaels is especially impressive at making a rundown of construction materials or the contents of a market as evocative as the shared moments between two young lovers. A tender love story set against an intriguing bit of history is handled with uncommon skill.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Michaels has published several acclaimed poetry collections, including The Weight of Oranges and Minerâ€™s Pond. Her background as a poet shines through in The Winter Vault, which awed critics with its many elegant, vibrant, and luminous passages and Michaelsâ€™s endless curiosity about science, engineering, and architecture. Unfortunately, many of these same critics were conflicted in their overall reviews: they reluctantly felt hampered by rolling monologues, pedantic segments, uninspiring characters, and an awkward story structure. The San Francisco Chronicle even remarked: â€œ[T]hese long recitations of memory and conjecture, while exquisite, grow exhausting.â€ Overall, critics cited this latest from Michaels as a beautiful, important novel, but they were skeptical of its widespread appeal.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8599'),
(10741, 'Winter World', 'Heinrich, Bernd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9417'),
(10742, 'Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival', 'Bernd Heinrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions.   Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter land-scape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich''s Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through winter''s harsh, cruel exigencies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5480'),
(10743, 'Winter&#39;s heart', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3809'),
(10744, 'The Winter&#39;s Tale', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winterâ€™s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todayâ€™s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeareâ€™s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeareâ€™s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3454'),
(10745, 'Winterkill', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett returns in this third adventure in C.J. Box''s tough, tender, and engrossing series, which just keeps getting better. When a forest service supervisor is murdered right after a manic shooting spree that slaughtered a herd of elk, a mysterious stranger who trains falcons and carries an unusual weapon is arrested for the slaying. Then a special investigative team headed by a devious, vindictive woman arrives in Saddlestring, bent on a bloody confrontation with a group of government-hating survivalists camped out on federal land. Among then is Jeannie Keeley, who abandoned her daughter April three years earlier. Since then, April has become like a daughter to Joe and his wife Marybeth, and a sister to their own children. Now April is right in the middle of what promises to be the last stand for the ragged band of refugees from the firestorms of Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Montana Freemen, and only Nate the falconer, who owes Joe his life for finding the real killer of the supervisor and freeing him from jail, may be able to save her before the Bighorn Mountains are covered in blood. A tense, taut thriller marked by lyrical renderings of the harsh, beautiful landscape,\n  <em>\n   Winterkill\n  </em>\n  ''s subtext, as in Box''s previous novels, is the conflict between individual rights and freedoms and governmental power that continues to smolder in the towns and valleys of the American west.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett runs into trouble again in Box''s third fast-paced novel (after Open Season and Savage Run), which focuses on the conflict between parental custody and foster care, as well as the growth of "independent nation" cults. As usual, Pickett, though fallible, is the voice of reason and honesty amid a cacophony of greed and evil. During a horrendous blizzard, he finds the body of Lamar Gardiner, "the District Supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest," pinned by arrows to a tree, near seven illegally shot elk. Sheriff "Bud" Barnum suspects a band of misfits, the Sovereign Citizens, which is camping in the forest, among them Jeannie Keeley, the birth mother of the Picketts'' foster daughter, April. Pickett suspects locals killed the combative Gardiner. Soon, the little town of Saddlestring is swarming with press, as well as U.S. Forest Service bureaucrats, including the psychotic Melinda Strickland, and two vicious FBI agents. When Pickett learns of a plan to raid the encampment, he resolves to warn the Sovereigns, especially since Jeannie has April there. Box''s description of the harsh yet splendid Wyoming landscape is vivid and memorable, his handling of complex social issues evenhanded and unsentimental. But most of his characters tend to be either two-dimensional villains or saints, and in each book the life of a member of Pickett''s family is threatened. Box needs to develop more believable characters to realize his potential as an outstanding new talent.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8682'),
(10746, 'Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch â€” now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance â€” the crossover from summer to winter â€” she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of the wintersmith himself.As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions? Even with the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle â€” the fightinâ€™, thievinâ€™ pictsies who are prepared to lay down their lives for their â€œbig wee hag.â€**Wintersmith** is the third title in an exuberant series crackling with energy and humour. It follows **The Wee Free Men**.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3386'),
(10747, 'Wireless', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" (*Denver Post*) in his first major short story collection.** The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as *Accelerando, Halting State*, and *Saturn''s Children* delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction- including a novella original to this volume- brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century''s most daring visionaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(10748, 'The Wisdom of Father Brown', 'G. K. Chesterton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-size: 11px; ">\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">\n  The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton''s conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature.Â The stories included here are:\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The Absence of Mr Glass\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Paradise of Thieves\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Duel of Dr Hirsch\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Man in the Passage\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Mistake of the Machine\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Head of Caesar\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Purple Wig\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Perishing of the Pendragons\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The God of the Gongs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Salad of Colonel Cray\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Strange Crime of John Boulnois\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Fairy Tale of Father Brown\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6848'),
(10749, 'Wise Blood', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wise Blood\n </em>\n is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O''Connor has no truck with such newfangled notions as psychology. Driven by forces outside their control, her characters are as one-dimensional--and mysterious--as figures on a frieze. Hazel Motes, for instance, has the temperament of a martyr, even though he spends most of the book trying to get God to go away. As a child he''s convinced that "the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin." When that doesn''t work, and when he returns from Korea determined "to be converted to nothing instead of evil," he still can''t go anywhere without being mistaken for a preacher. (Not that the hat and shiny glare-blue suit help.) No matter what Hazel does, Jesus moves "from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark..."\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrift after four years in the service, Hazel takes a train to the city of Taulkinham, buys himself a "rat-colored car," and sets about preaching on street corners for the Church Without Christ, "where the blind don''t see and the lame don''t walk and what''s dead stays that way." Along the way he meets Enoch Emery, who''s only 18 years old but already works for the city, as well the blind preacher Asa Hawks and his illegitimate daughter, Sabbath Lily. (Her letter to an advice column: "Dear Mary, I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know, but I have this personality that makes boys follow me. Do you think I should neck or not?") Subsequent events involve a desiccated, centuries-old dwarf--Gonga the Giant Jungle Monarch--and Hazel''s nemesis, Hoover Shoats, who starts the rival Church of Christ Without Christ. If you think these events don''t end happily, you might be right.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wise Blood\n </em>\n is a savage satire of America''s secular, commercial culture, as well as the humanism it holds so dear ("Dear Sabbath," Mary Brittle writes back, "Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world. Perhaps you ought to re-examine your religious values to see if they meet your needs in Life.") But the book''s ultimate purpose is Religious, with a capital R--no metaphors, no allusions, just the thing itself in all its fierce glory. When Hazel whispers "I''m not clean," for instance, O''Connor thinks he is perfectly right. For readers unaccustomed to holding low comedy and high seriousness in their heads at the same time, all this can come as something of a shock. Who else could offer an allegory about free will, redemption, and original sin right alongside the more elemental pleasure of witnessing Enoch Emery dress up in a gorilla suit? Nobody else, that''s who. And that''s OK. More than one Flannery O''Connor in this world might show us more truth than we could bear.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bronson Pinchot turns in a virtuosic performance of O''Connor''s darkly comic classic first novel. After serving a stint in the army, Hazel Motes finds himself adrift, alone, and rent by spiritual confusion. Pinchot''s narration is superb: dynamic, well paced, and infused with a perfect Southern drawl. Instead of simply creating voices for the characters, Pinchot embodies them. His Hazel is nasty, nasally, and angry; his Enoch Emery boasts a congested twang; and the entire cast is likewise brought to life by Pinchot''s precise and perceptive characterizations and his brilliant evocation of O''Conner''s grotesqueries. A Farrar, Straus, and Giroux paperback. (Aug.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6226'),
(10750, 'The Wise Man&#39;s Fear', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Wise Man''s Fear\n </em>\n continues the mesmerizing slow reveal of the story of Kvothe the Bloodless, an orphaned actor who became a fearsome hero before banishing himself to a tiny town in the middle of Newarre. The readers of Patrick Rothfuss''s outstanding first book,\n <em>\n  The Wise Man''s Fear\n </em>\n makes up day two, and uncovers enough to satisfy readers and make them desperate for the full tale, from Kvothe''s rapidly escalating feud with Ambrose to the shockingly brutal events that mark his transformation into a true warrior, and to his encounters with Felurian and the Adem. Rothfuss remains a remarkably adept and inventive storyteller, and Kvothe''s is a riveting tale about a boy who becomes a man who becomes a hero and a killer, spinning his own mythology out of the ether until he traps himself within it. Drop everything and read these books.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author One-on-One: Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Wise Man''s Fear\n </em>\n ) and\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Patrick Rothfuss\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Your first novel,\n  <em>\n   The Name of the Wind\n  </em>\n  introduces the hero (or some may say anti-hero) Kvothe as a larger-than-life living legend.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: I don''t know if I''d call him larger-than-life. His reputation is larger-than-life, certainly. The man himself is remarkably life-sized. I think that''s part of the reason people like him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: How did you create him?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: I got the idea for Kvothe after I finished reading Cyranno De Bergerac for the first time. I was completely knocked over by that character. He was passionate, arrogant, witty, clever, a fighter, a poet, a philosopher. He was compelling and interesting, and a bit of a bastard, but you loved him and felt sorry for him. I remember thinking, "Why haven''t I ever read a fantasy novel with a character this good?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Shortly after that I read Casanova''s memoirs. That''s when I realized that autobiography could be really compelling so long as the person''s life is exciting, and their personality is interesting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Those two things might not have been the seed for the book, they were certainly around when the seed was sprouting....\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What contemporary superhero would you put Kvothe up against?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Batman.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Who would win?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Ah hell. If we''re talking about Kvothe as he appears in the second book. Batman would probably come out on top. I''d say Kvothe would only have about a 30% chance of pulling off the win there.\n</p>\n<p>\n But even if Batman did win, he''d walk away with a limp.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Kvothe leads readers through the entire seriesâ€”from the storytelling, to the action, to the inner monologue. Are there any similarities between Kvothe and yourself?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: A few. But less than people typically think. People are always saying, "Why do you hate poets so much?" I have to remind them that Kvothe is the one with that particular grudge.\n</p>\n<p>\n But yeah. There are a few similarities. We both have the bad habit of expressing ourselves freely and clearly when it would be better to keep our mouths shut.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Fans love the books and are fascinated by the characters, but youâ€™ve also garnered a cult-like following. Can you tell us what thatâ€™s like?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: I''ve got a cult? That''s awesome. Do they have robes and stuff? Do we have baccanals? We better have baccanals. If I have cult it better old-school. Dionysian. Orgiastic. If I find out they''re just drinking tang and handing out pamphlets on streetcorners I''m going to be pissed.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: When did you realize that you wanted to become a writer?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Iâ€™ve known I wanted to be a writer for a long time. Since forever. I started my first fantasy novel when I was 15 or so. It wasnâ€™t very good, of course. In fact, it was horrible. Beyond horrible. It had cat-man samurai in it. I''m not even kidding. But it was a good learning experience. The mistakes I made in that novel taught me a lot about writing. Generally speaking, our failures teach us more than our successes. Part of the reason\n <em>\n  The Name of the Wind\n </em>\n turned out so good is because I made so many rookie mistakes in that first, horrible novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Did any of your experiences in college influence some of the scenes at the University?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: No. Not really. You''re making that whole Pat/Kvothe mistake again. He''s the one with the red hair. I''m the one with the beard.\n</p>\n<p>\n A lot of people assume that because I spent 11 years in college, I based the University off my experiences as a student. It''s a reasonable thought, but it couldn''t be further from the truth. It wouldn''t have taken me nearly so long to write this book I was just stealing things out of the real world.\n</p>\n<p>\n The truth is, I find stories that are thinly-veiled autobiography pretty tiresome. Authors inevitably put something of themselves into a book, but that doesn''t mean you should turn your 3rd grade math teacher into a villain in a desperate attempt to get revenge. I''ve read books like that in the past. They''re terrible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What was the best class you took in all that time?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Basic Critical Thinking. This is usually taught as a philosophy class at most universities, but in my opinion it should be required for every college student.\n</p>\n<p>\n You see, everyone assumes they know how to think rationally, but most people don''t. We are emotional, messy-headed creatures. And even very clever, well-informed people can be very stupid when it comes to dealing with things in a rational, critical way.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve had people try to have arguments with me. They say things like, "What you have to realize is that logically..." and then they spout off the most ridiculous bullshit. They don''t know what logic is. They think that if they feel strongly about something, it''s logic. They think if they grew up believing it, it''s logic.\n</p>\n<p>\n I had a guy try to convince me that ESP was real because he was thinking about his girlfriend before the phone rang. Not only was he sure he was right, but he was absolutely certain that he was providing a crushing argument. He felt unassailable in his reasoning.\n</p>\n<p>\n All I could think was,\n <em>\n  ''Sweet baby Jesus. That''s a post hoc fallacy. You''re trying to convince me using faulty logic that Aristotle was making fun of over 2000 years ago.''\n </em>\n Maybe that shit works in whatever N-sync chatroom you grew up in. But don''t bring it round here. Here we have rational discourse. You want to sit at the grown-up table, you learn the rules.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: The structure of your story is different than most fantasy novels. Why did you choose to write your book that way?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Everyone always seems so surprised by the framed story, but it isn''t anything new.\n <em>\n  The Princess Bride\n </em>\n is a framed tale.\n <em>\n  The Arabian Nights\n </em>\n is a framed tale....\n <em>\n  Taming of the Shrew\n </em>\n is a... well... it''s half a framed tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n As for the first person, itâ€™s the most natural form of storytelling there is. When you tell your friend a story, you say, "I almost got hit by a truck today.â€ You don''t hide behind third person.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yeah. Sure. Most novels are written a different way. Tradition. The Aristotelian unities. Three act structure. What do I care about that? I''m not doing a paint-by-numbers here. I''m not doing a connect-the-dots. Iâ€™m looking to tell a different type of story here. I''ll do it my way.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: The first edition of\n  <em>\n   The Name of the Wind\n  </em>\n  was released in 2007. What kinds of projects have you been involved with over the past 3 years, besides writing\n  <em>\n   The Wise Man''s Fear\n  </em>\n  , the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Let''s seeâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n I started a charity called Worldbuilders. Fantasy authors and publishers donate books that we use to encourage people to donate to Heifer International. In the last three years we''ve raised over half a million dollars for Heifer International.\n</p>\n<p>\n I also wrote a not-for-children picture book illustrated by my friend Nate Taylor. It turned out amazing. I think of it as\n <em>\n  Calvin and Hobbes\n </em>\n meets\n <em>\n  Coraline\n </em>\n meets Edward Gorey.\n</p>\n<p>\n Oh. And I had a baby. Does that count as a project? I think it counts as a project.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Whatâ€™s next for Kvothe and the Kingkiller Chronicle?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Explosions. Gunfights. Moonlit swordfights across rooftops. Johnny Depp. Naked supermodels. Kung-fu. Car chases. A thousand elephants.\n</p>\n<p>\n Actually, that''s all a lie. I don''t believe in spoilers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, I think it''s safe to say that Kvothe grows up a bit in the second book. There''s a big difference between the story of a young boy and the story of a young man. It wouldn''t be realistic to have twelve-year-old Kvothe doing much swashbuckling. But sixteen-year-old Kvothe? Yeah. It''s safe to say that he''ll be buckling a little swash.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. As seamless and lyrical as a song from the lute-playing adventurer and arcanist Kvothe, this mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss''s 2007''s debut, The Name of the Wind, is a towering work of fantasy. As Kvothe, now the unassuming keeper of the Waystone Inn, continues to share his astounding life storyâ€”a history that includes saving an influential lord from treachery, defeating a band of dangerous bandits, and surviving an encounter with a legendary Fae seductressâ€”he also offers glimpses into his life''s true pursuit: figuring out how to vanquish the mythical Chandrian, a group of seven godlike destroyers that brutally murdered his family and left him an orphan. But while Kvothe recalls the events of his past, his future is conspiring just outside the inn''s doors. This breathtakingly epic story is heartrending in its intimacy and masterful in its narrative essence, and will leave fans waiting on tenterhooks for the final installment. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6605'),
(10751, 'Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family', 'Nicholas Pileggi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Wiseguy* is Nicholas Pileggi''s remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. *Wiseguy* is Henry Hill''s story, in fascinating, brutal detail, the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster -- his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistresses, his code of honor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Hill knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. The mob is still hunting him for what he reveals in *Wiseguy*: hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, and the $6 million Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. history, which led to ten murders. A firsthand account of the secret world of the mob,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Wiseguy* is more compelling than any novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2997'),
(10752, 'Wish You Well', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother''s farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love. SUMMARY: Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother''s farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1461'),
(10753, 'The Wishing Garden', 'Christy Yorke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HThere''s magic in Yorke''s second novel, magic in the prose, the details and the exquisite characterizations. Divorced advertising executive and Tarot-card reader Savannah Dawson takes her 15-year-old daughter, Emma, from their San Francisco home to Arizona so that they can spend time with Savannah''s estranged mother, Maggie, and her father, Doug, who is dying of cancer. Then Savannah meets Jake, a secretive stranger who is building a special bench for her father''s garden; at the same time, Emma meets Eli, the local bad boy who works for Jake. Although the relationships between these four characters form the basis for much of the drama in the story, the romantic elements remain secondary to the explorations of each individual''s personality. Readers enter a world where poetry and soil speak for a dying man, where love can create as well as destroy and where all characters are complicit in each other''s pain, either by choice or by chance. Yorke (Magic Spells) even has Jake''s dog, Sasha, narrate some scenes, and those, together with the scenes revealing Maggie and Doug''s difficult, complex, and ultimately loving relationship, are the most poignant in the book. Readers who enjoy contrary characters will especially prize the paradoxes in this well-executed novel. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Savannah Dawson sees magic everywhere, whether at her job in advertising or while reading tarot. Her optimistic view is tested when she reads her own fortune and for the first time turns up a bad card. The cards prove prophetic when her mother calls and tells her to come home to Arizona because her father is dying. With great trepidation, Savannah and her teenage daughter, Emma, leave San Francisco. Although she loves her father, a devoted and gifted gardener, she has never gotten along with her negatively minded mother. When Savannah arrives, Jake, a strange man her mother calls "the psycho," is working on her father''s last request--a carved bench for his beloved garden. But as Savannah''s dad fades away, his garden thrives, projecting love to those who need it most. Yorke''s haunting story is filled with supernatural elements that illuminate the many forms of love that exist in this world, and perhaps in the next.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6838'),
(10754, 'The Wishing Trees', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From "master storyteller"* John Shors, bestselling author of *Beneath a Marble Sky*, comes a remarkable novel about a father and daughter on a life-changing journey they never intended to take.... ** Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate''s final wish-a plea for him to take their ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, on a trip across Asia, through the countries they had planned to visit to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary. Eager to honor the woman they loved, Ian and Mattie embark on an epic journey that retraces the early days of Ian''s relationship with Kate. Along the way, Ian and Mattie leave paper "wishes" in ancient trees as symbols of their connection to Kate and their dreams for the future. Through incredible landscapes and inspiring people, Ian and Mattie are greeted with miracles large and small. And as they celebrate what Kate meant to them, they begin to find their way back to each other, discovering that healing is possible and love endures-lessons that Kate hoped to show them all along...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2478'),
(10755, 'The Wit &amp; Wisdom of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.â€ â€“From,\n <strong>\n  Small Gods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.â€\n <br />\n â€“From,\n <strong>\n  The Fifth Elephant\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld--a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp-as-tacks witches, by tired policemen and devious dictators, by reformed thieves and vampires who have sworn to drink no blood. It is a world that is vastly different from our own . . . except when it isn''t.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in\n <em>\n  The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld\n </em>\n , various nuggets of Pratchett''s witty commentary and sagacious observations have been compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs, a man who, they say, knows even more about Discworld than Terry Pratchett.\n</p>\n<p>\n Within these pages, you''ll find musings on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Interior decorating:\n   </em>\n   "It''s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow, or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage--even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity." (_Equal Rites_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Travel:\n   </em>\n   "Any seasoned traveler soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a ''regional speciality,'' because all the term means is that the dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their own legs rather than eat it. But hosts still press it upon distant guests anyway: ''Go on, have the dog''s head stuffed with macerated cabbage and pork noses--it''s a regional speciality.''" (_The Last Continent_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Young men:\n   </em>\n   "And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self-defense against all those other big boys out there. I''m bad, I''m fierce, I''m cool, I''d like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine." (_Monstrous Regiment_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Class:\n   </em>\n   "''Old money'' meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds that had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that; a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of." (_Making Money_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <ol>\n     <li>\n      and more! Culled from all the Discworld novels,\n      <em>\n       The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld\n      </em>\n      confirms Pratchett''s place in the pantheon of great satirists and proves why the\n      <em>\n       Chicago Tribune\n      </em>\n      has praised his Discworld as "entertaining and gloriously funny . . . an accomplishment nothing short of magical."\n     </li>\n    </ol>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5119'),
(10756, 'The Wit and Wisdom of Ted Kennedy', 'Bill Adler &amp; Bill Adler Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.â€ â€”Democratic National Convention, 1980\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike my brothers before me, I pick up the fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, and to courage that distinguished their lives.â€ â€”Speech given before the start of the 1968 Democratic Convention\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The mantras, witticisms, and philosophies of Ted Kennedy, collected by the editor of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Kennedy Wit\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThe work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.â€\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Democratic National Convention, 1980\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œLike my brothers before me, I pick up the fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, and to courage that distinguished their lives.â€\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Speech given before the start of the 1968 Democratic Convention\n</p>\n<p>\n A collection of quotations and philosophies from Ted Kennedy, grouped thematically in categories (â€œWords of Inspiration,â€ â€œOn the Kennedy Family and its Legacy,â€ â€œPersonal Reflections,â€ â€œOn Religion and Public life,â€ â€œLighter Moments,â€ etc.). Each section will include a brief introduction by the editor to set off the group of quotes, which range from charming little one-liners to Kennedy''s letter to Pope Benedict that President Obama hand-delivered to the Vatican in July 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5763'),
(10757, 'Witch &amp; Wizard: The Gift', 'James Patterson &amp; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Whit &amp; Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and brutally imprisoned by the New Order.But the One has other plans in store for them: He needs Wisty, for she is "The One Who Has the Gift." While trying to figure out what that means, Whit and Wisty''s suspenseful adventures through Overworld and Shadowland lead to a jaw-dropping climax and conclusion: the highly-anticipated fulfillment of the heart-pounding opening prologue of book one... The Execution of the Allgoods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7378'),
(10758, 'Witch and Wizard', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The world is changing the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager. Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents and maybe the world?"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2053'),
(10759, 'Witch Blood', 'Anya Bast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Water witch Isabelle Novak must form an uneasy alliance with earth witch Thomas Monahan to hunt and destroy a demon of tremendous power, even though Thomas''s very presence stirs deeper desires than she ever knew she had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(10760, 'Witch Craft', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Werewolf homicide detective Luna Wilder guards the fine line that separates Nocturne City''s humans from the weres and witches that roam its streets. Now, Luna must thwart a new evil more dangerous than anything she''s ever encountered."WITCH CRAFT Someone, or some"thing," is setting fire to the homes of the city''s most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that''s growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies trolls and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for help. As they work to uncover the source of the bloodshed, Luna''s attraction for Will deepens. But just as she learns Will''s darkest secret, Nocturne City is thrust into total chaos--leaving Luna and Will in a path of destruction they may not be able to stop...or survive.Praise for the Nocturne City series: "A nonstop thriller laced with ferociously deadly menace." --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced."--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1535'),
(10761, 'Witch Fire', 'Anya Bast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskins wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want isn''t always what you need. Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that governs national witches, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with the ability to call the air. And although she is unaware of her talent, a group of renegade witches has discovered her existence and are determined to steal her power--and her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(10762, 'Witch Fury', 'Anya Bast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Witches are taking the nation by storm. With the untapped gift to create fire, witch Sarafina Connell is caught up in a war between good and evil. And she has no choice but to join an infamous playboy in the battle for supremacyâ€”one thatâ€™s getting hotter by the minute.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(10763, 'Witch Heart', 'Anya Bast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Third in the Elemental Witch series from the national bestselling author Claire, a demonâ€™s handmaiden, is rescued from enslavement by a handsome playboy. Now theyâ€™re both in danger of being captured by warlocks who are determined to harness Claireâ€™s powers for evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(10764, 'Witch Hunt: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Small-town librarian Ophelia Jensen is finally starting to embrace her lot as one of the "chosen"â€”a psychic and folk magick practitioner, a.k.a. a witch. Expert loving guidance from her magickally adept grandmother Abby helpsâ€”and adopting Tink, an exceptionally talented teenage medium, has given Ophelia''s life new purpose . . . until a brutal murder clouds the sunshine of their days. Ophelia''s co-worker and best friend, Darci, is distraught when her cousin is implicated in the small Iowa town of Summerset''s most recent murderâ€”the violent death of a biker. Unfortunately for Darci''s cousin, it''s her fingerprints all over the murder weapon. She claims she''s innocent, but it''ll take Ophelia and Abby more than a good incantation or two to get to the bottom of this crimeâ€”what with ghosts, crooked cops, secret identities, and a small army of outlaw bikers thrown into this devil''s brew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3917'),
(10765, 'The Witch Is Dead', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Life is busier than ever for witch Ophelia Jensen. In addition to her day job at the library, sheâ€”with the help of her grandmother Abbyâ€”is preparing to officially adopt Tink, the young medium she''s taken under her wing. So when Ophelia''s elderly Aunt Dot, eager for adventure, wants to investigate the murder of a funeral director in the neighboring town, Ophelia tries to say no. But then Tink''s dog pulls a skull out of the woodsâ€”a skull that may belong to a murder victim. Finding mysterious bones in the woods isn''t the only strange thing that''s happened to Tink lately. She''s been having visions of ghastly ghosts imploring her for help. But before Ophelia can connect the apparitions with the murder, Tink is kidnapped! Ophelia and Abby will have to battle a creepy crematorium owner and an invasion from some modern-day body snatchers to find their protÃ©gÃ© . . . or else they''ll have to hold a sÃ©ance just to speak to her again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3920');
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(10766, 'The Witch of Agnesi', 'Robert Spiller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bonnie Pinkwater is a teacher, a good one. She cares about her students. So when Peyton Newlin, a thirteen-year-old math genius, disappears, Bonnie starts nosing around. One by one, students who were competing with the young genius start turning up dead and Bonnie suspects Peyton may be narrowing the field. Then Peyton himself turns up murdered. Bonnie''s investigation ratchets up.What she discovers is a coven of witches, a teenage comic book magnate, a skinhead Neanderthal with violent propensities, an abusive father, an amorous science teacher, and a mistranslated medieval mathematics manuscript. Somehow, all the pieces have intersected at the tragically brief life of her math protÃ©gÃ©. As the body count mounts, Bonnie realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Because whoever is eliminating her beloved students, has now decided East Plains, Colorado would be better off without one aging math teacher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4216'),
(10767, 'The Witch of Portbello', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10021'),
(10768, 'The Witch of Portobello', 'Paulo Coelho; Margaret Jull Costa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselvesâ€”even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho''s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her wellâ€”or hardly at all. Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy, and sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3224'),
(10769, 'The witch queen', 'Jan Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Jan Siegel has created one of the most compelling fantasy series in recent memory. What began with *Prosperoâ€™s Children* and continued with *The Dragon Charmer* now comes to a dazzling conclusion with *of The Witch Queen*. Magnetically gifted Fern Capel has at last come into her own with her magical powersâ€”and just in time. . . .**It is a fearsome world of witches, dragons, and goblins, where a gnarled tree bears fruit of human heads. Fern Capel believes she has left it all behind. But now that world is seeping into modern day England: The witch-queen Morgus, who had imprisoned Fern in the ghostly Otherworld, has returned from countless years of exile beneath the gruesome Eternal Tree. Stalking the twenty-first century in her Prada stilettos, Morgus has the mind-set of the Dark Ages and vows to rule the ancient kingdom of Logrez, now modern Britain.Most of all, Morgus wants revenge on Fern Capel. Rejuvenated through sorcery, neither charm nor weapon can harm the witch-queen. She has planted a cutting from the Eternal Tree in the real world and awaits with impatience the ripening of its terrifying bounty. When Fern learns that her enemy cannot be defeated through conventional means, she turns for help to her best friend, Gaynor, her brother Will, her old mentor, Ragginbone, and Maldo, the goblin-queen. Together, they track Morgus through Londonâ€™s high-society parties and seedy, sinister contacts, until they finally draw a magic circle in a Soho basement. Fern Capel knows that survival is not enough: This time she must win. But she does not yet understand how high a price she will have to pay.In this thrilling final novel of her acclaimed trilogy, Jan Siegel takes advantage of her greatest strengths as a writerâ€”weaving magic into a modern-day world and bringing vivid life to a host of characters that readers will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1700'),
(10770, 'Witch Way to Murder: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch.Â   Thirty something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She''s created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their daysâ€”along with Ophelia''s dog Lady and cat Queenieâ€”in peace and quiet. But, to Ophelia''s dismay, she and Abby aren''t a typical grandmother/granddaughter duo. She possesses psychic powers, and Abby is a kindly witch. And while Ophelia would do anything to dismiss her giftâ€”harboring terrible guilt after her best friend was killed and she was unable to stop itâ€”threatening events keep popping up, forcing her to tap into her powers of intuition. To make matters worse, a strangeâ€”yet devastatingly attractiveâ€”man is hanging around Ophelia''s library, and no matter how many times she tells him she''s sworn off men forever, he persists. Soon this handsome newcomer reveals he''s following a lead on a local drug ring, and then a dead body shows up right in Abby''s backyard. And much as Ophelia would like to put away her spells forever, she and Abby must use their special powers to keep themselves, and others, out of harm''s way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7166'),
(10771, 'Witch World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9081'),
(10772, 'The Witch&#39;s Daughter', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the bold adventure and brilliant magic that have made him one of fantasy''s bestselling authors, R. A. Salvatore continues the epic series that began with Echoes of the Fourth Magic. Join him for a spellbinding tale of darkness, fantasia, and unbridled imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though many perished in the dark times past, a precious few survivors escaped, fleeing certain doom to find a dazzling, dangerous land of wonder. Here wizards and witches inhabited forests spun from enchantment and towers of celestial beauty. But in this place of promised safety, the Black Warlock was rising from the ashes of defeat--with an insatiable lust to dominate the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Square in the path of peril was Rhiannon, the gently reared daughter of the Emerald Witch. As hamlets from the Crystal Mountains to Avalon fell before the fury of the Black Warlock, the young witch sensed a sudden call; strange, terrifying powers tingled within her body. Now Rhiannon had to summon these new, untested abilities to stop the ancient warlock, an enemy who had long since mastered the forces of the universe and bent them to his diabolical will. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the bold adventure and brilliant magic that have made him one of fantasy''s bestselling authors, R. A. Salvatore continues the epic series that began with Echoes of the Fourth Magic. Join him for a spellbinding tale of darkness, fantasia, and unbridled imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though many perished in the dark times past, a precious few survivors escaped, fleeing certain doom to find a dazzling, dangerous land of wonder. Here wizards and witches inhabited forests spun from enchantment and towers of celestial beauty. But in this place of promised safety, the Black Warlock was rising from the ashes of defeat--with an insatiable lust to dominate the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Square in the path of peril was Rhiannon, the gently reared daughter of the Emerald Witch. As hamlets from the Crystal Mountains to Avalon fell before the fury of the Black Warlock, the young witch sensed a sudden call; strange, terrifying powers tingled within her body. Now Rhiannon had to summon these new, untested abilities to stop the ancient warlock, an enemy who had long since mastered the forces of the universe and bent them to his diabolical will. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8737'),
(10773, 'The Witch&#39;s Grave: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cupid has cast his spell on good witch Ophelia Jensen. The practical, pragmatic, law-abiding librarian has just begun letting down her hair with Stephen Larsen, the author of some of the most scandalous crime exposÃ©s ever written. It''s a match made in the stacksâ€”until the would-be lovers take a quiet countryside stroll, and shots ring out.   A murderer, not magick, made Stephen disappearâ€”and Ophelia might be next. The sheriff warns her and her grandmother Abby not to meddle, but after another shooting leaves them shaken the women can''t help but get involved. A sinister stalker is slowly drawing closer to Ophelia, and she''ll have to summon all her powers to prevent herself from ending up six feet under.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7167'),
(10774, 'Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills--which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it''s up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn''t marry the Prince.But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who''ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"--even if it means destroying a kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3441'),
(10775, 'The Witches of Eastwick', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Home, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3144'),
(10776, 'The Witches', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Would you know a real witch if you saw one?They don''t ride on broomsticks. They don''t wear black capes or pointy hats. In fact, they don''t look like witches at all. But one thing is certain: A real witch is the most dangerous of all living creatures. So you''d better learn to know one when you see one! The young hero of this award-winning story learns that lesson in a hurry when he encouters a whole gruesome gang of them. He''ll need all his wits about him to foil their wicked scheme--a dastardly plot to rid the world of children forever! Jean Marsh is best known for the role of Rose in Upstairs/Downstairs, the popular television series she co-created. "A real witch is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on earth." But, if real witches disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies rather than flying around on broomsticks in pointy hats, how can you tell when you''re face to face with one? Listen to this story and you''ll find out all you need to know. You''ll also meet a real hero, a wise old grandmother, and the most gruesome, grotesque gang of witches imaginable!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3662'),
(10777, 'The Witching Hour', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We watch and we are always here" is the motto of the Talamasca, a saintly group with extrasensory powers which has for centuries chronicled the lives of the Mayfairs--a dynasty of witches that brought down a shower of flames in 17th-century Scotland, fled to the plantations of Haiti and on to the New World, where they settled in the haunted city of New Orleans. Rice ( The Queen of the Damned ) plumbs a rich vein of witchcraft lore, conjuring in her overheated, florid prose the decayed antebellum mansion where incest rules, dolls are made of human bone and hair, and violent storms sweep the skies each time a witch dies and the power passes on. Newly annointed is Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant California neurosurgeon kept in ignorance of her heritage by her adoptive parents. She returns to the fold after bringing back Michael Curry from the dead; he, too, has unwanted extrasensory gifts and, like Rowan and the 12 Mayfairs before her, has beheld Lasher: devil, seducer, spirit. Now Lasher wants to come through to this world forever and Rowan is the Mayfair who can open the door. This massive tome repeatedly slows, then speeds when Rice casts off the Talamasca''s pretentious, scholarly tones and goes for the jugular with morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy. 300,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4996'),
(10778, 'Witchling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet the D''Artigo sisters: half-human, half-faerie, they''re savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But their mixed-blood heritage short-circuits their talents at all the wrong times. Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she''s stressed. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still trying to get the hang of being undead. And Camille is a wicked-good witch, except her magic''s as unpredictable as the weather, as her enemies are about to find out-the hard way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8013'),
(10779, 'With Friends Like These', 'Sally Koslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Have you ever been a less than perfect friend? To whom does your first loyalty belongâ€”your best friend or your husband? With her trademark wit and empathy, Sally Koslow explores the entangled lives of women in this candid, fast-paced novel. Â Quincy, Talia, Chloe, and Jules met in the early nineties after answering a roommate ad for a Manhattan apartment. Despite having little in common, the women became fast friends. A decade later, their lives have diverged, though their ties remain strong.Quincy, a Midwestern introvert, is trying to overcome a set of tragedies by hunting for the perfect home; Talia, a high-energy Brooklyn wife and mom with an outspoken conscience, is growing resentful of her friendsâ€™ greater financial stability and her husbandâ€™s lack of ambition; timid Chloe, also a mother, is trying to deflect pressure from her husband, a hedge fund manager, to play the role of trophy wife; while Jules, a fiercely independent actress/entrepreneur with a wicked set of life rules, is confronting her forties alone.Â When Jules gives her new boyfriend the inside scoop on the real estate gem Quincy is lusting after, and Talia chases a lucrative job earmarked for Chloe, the women are forced to wrestle with the challenges of love andÂ motherhood. Will their friendships and marriages survive? And at what price? Punchy yet tender, a high-five to sisterhood, this book will hit an emotional bullâ€™s-eye for anyone who has hadâ€”or beenâ€”less than a perfect friend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3257'),
(10780, 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa', 'E. B. Sledge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledgeâ€™s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the warâ€™s famous 1st Marine Divisionâ€“3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where â€œthe world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.â€ By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and killâ€“and came to loveâ€“his fellow man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/493'),
(10781, 'Within Arm&#39;s Reach', 'Ann Napolitano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gracie McLaughlin is an advice columnist who finds it difficult to live by the advice she gives.Within Arm''s Reachfollows three generations of the McLaughlins, an Irish Catholic family who is jarred into crisis by Gracie''s unexpected pregnancy. This lyrical first novel is told through six different points of view: the unmarried Gracie, her sister Lila, their parents, their matriarchal grandmother, and a family outsider with a curious connection. As the McLaughlins respond to the profound change in Gracie''s life, their own memories and personal stories begin to emerge. Ann Napolitano creates a family quilt of sorts, each person''s life and actions closely woven throughout the fabric of the past, present, and future.Within Arm''s Reachis a rich and deeply satisfying narrative of guilt, love, betrayal, and the ultimate loyaltythat of blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(10782, 'Without a Trace', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trace O''Hurley had turned his back on responsibility and commitment long ago. Now he lived the way he wanted, did what he wanted when he wanted. But that was all going to change....Gillian Fitzpatrick had responsibilities, commitments -- her brother had disappeared and she was frightened and desperate. Trace was her only hope. He had the connections, the expertise...and the guts. But just what was she going to have to do to convince him to help her...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2592'),
(10783, 'Without a Word: How a Boy&#39;s Unspoken Love Changed Everything', 'Jill Kelly &amp; Tim McGraw &amp; Faith Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WITHOUT A WORD is a riveting memoir that blends remarkable achievement with passion, sacrifice, love, pain, and human interest. It takes the reader into the lives of a celebrity couple, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, and his wife, Jill, to reveal the Kelly family''s private struggle and how seven years with their severely disabled, terminally ill son, Hunter, unfolded in a redemptive and transforming manner. The light of Hunter''s love through his brief and silent life shone into the shadowed corners of Jill and Jim''s lives resulting in Jill believing that Jesus Christ was authentic, her learning to forgive Jim of past indiscretions, and finally resulting in Jim''s seeking and finding God. Lessons gleaned from Hunter''s life and death, and Jim and Jill''s struggle to save their marriage during tumultuous times, make this a compelling and inspiring read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7365'),
(10784, 'Without Fail', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A covert group of assassins has the Vice President of the United States in their sights. They''ve planned well. There''s just one thing they didn''t plan on: Jack Reacher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2811'),
(10785, 'Without Mercy', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. The murder of Julia Jules Farentino''s father creates a bond with her younger half-sister, Shaylee Stillman in this juicy creep-a-thon from bestseller Jackson (_Chosen to Die_). That bond is tested years later when 17-year-old Shaylee is shipped off to Blue Rock Academy, an Oregon school in the middle of no-damned-where for at-risk teens. Run by iron-fisted Rev. Tobias Lynch, Blue Rock recently had a student, Lauren Conway, go missing and a female teacher dismissed for inappropriate behavior with a student. When Jules takes a teaching position at Blue Rock to rescue Shay, she discovers Cooper Trent, her ex-boyfriend, working there as an undercover PI looking into Lauren''s disappearance. The scary suicide strangulation of Shay''s roommate and the murder of her teaching assistant boyfriend throw the school into further uproar. Meanwhile, the Leader, the head of a secret cult at Blue Rock, plots more mayhem. This campy cool thriller builds to a surprising cliffhanger ending.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia â€œJulesâ€ Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sheet for drug use, theft, and vandalism. Still, when Jules learns of her motherâ€™s decision to send Shay to an elite boarding school in Oregon, sheâ€™s skeptical. Blue Rock Academy has a reputation for turning wayward kids around â€” but one of its students went missing a few months earlier and her body has never been found. On impulse, Jules applies for a teaching job at the Academy. Shortly before Jules arrives, a student is found hanged, another near death, and a hysterical Shay believes itâ€™s murder. Then another girl is found dead. Thereâ€™s no doubt something sinister is at hand. And Jules has become the next target of a bloodthirsty killer without limits, without remorse, without mercyâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7723'),
(10786, 'Without prejudice', 'Andrew Rosenheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert, recently returned to live in Chicago, is contacted by a childhood friend who has just completed more than twenty years in prison for a horrific crime.Without Prejudiceis a compulsive story of race and the dangers that can lie in the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(10787, 'Without Remorse', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient, but who is he? In a harrowing tour de force, phenomenally bestselling author Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend known as Mr. Clark. It is an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness, without mercy--without remorse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3740'),
(10788, 'Witness in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lieutenant Eve Dallas is thrust into the spotlight when she becomes the key witness in the brutal murder of a famous actor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1942'),
(10789, 'The Witness', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Officer Matt Payne is assigned to protect a witness to a robbery and murder of an innocent bystander by terrorists. In a deadly confrontationï¼Œ Payne kills one of the terrorists . . . and his hame is added to their hit list. "(Griffin) captivates you with characters the way few authors can."--Tom Clancy. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6081'),
(10790, 'Wives and Daughters', 'Elizabeth Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This book comes with an introduction by Christine Baker. Focusing on two families, the Gibsons and the Hamleys, this novel describes the habits, loyalties, prejudices, petty snobberies, rumours and adjustments of a whole countryside hierarchy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(10791, 'The Wives of Henry Oades', 'Johanna Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives '' and many dilemmas''ÅšIn 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family''s fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast '' although it wasn''t long before disaster struck in the most unexpected of ways.A local Maori tribe, incensed at their treatment at the hands of the settlers, kidnapped Mrs Oades and her four children, and vanished into the rugged hills surrounding the town. Henry searched ceaselessly for his family, but two grief-stricken years later was forced to conclude that they must be dead. In despair he shipped out to San Francisco to start over, eventually falling in love with and marrying a young widow.In the meantime, Margaret Oades and her children were leading a miserable existence, enslaved to the local tribe. When they contracted smallpox they were cast out and, ill and footsore, made their way back to town, five years after they were presumed dead.Discovering that Henry was now half a world away, they were determined to rejoin him. So months later they arrived on his doorstep in America and Henry Oades discovered that he had two wives and many dilemmas ''ÅšThis is a darkly comic but moving historical fiction debut about love and family, based on a controversial court case from the early 1900s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1698'),
(10792, 'Wizard', 'John Varley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the second novel of the Gaean trilogy, human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful . . . and definitely insane. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5098'),
(10793, 'Wizard and Glass', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance of witchery and evil, of the beautiful, unforgettable Susan Delgado, of the Big Coffin Hunters and Reah of the Coos. And when his tale is finished, Roland confronts a man who goes by many names, a man who "darkles and tincts" and who holds perhaps the key to the Dark Tower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8535'),
(10794, 'Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King''s white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series'' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest. It''s a great race, for the mind and pulse. Movies should be this good. Then comes a 567-page flashback about Roland at age 14. It''s a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teen homies must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip). After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we''re back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz. Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King''s most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it''s a page-turner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4303'),
(10795, 'Wizard Knight', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past. A teenager passes from Earth to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is given a hero''s adult body and named Able. Though forced to act as a man, inside he is still a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a knight. In his quest he battles giants, meets gods, heroes and a sorceress (who repeatedly tries to seduce him), and serves the mercurial dragon king Arnthor in a was that could end everything.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born in New York and raised in Texas, Gene Wolfe trained as a mechanical engineer. He began to publish short stories in the 1960s and has gone on to win many prestigious awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. His BOOK OF THE NEW SUN quartet is notable in having won both fantasy and science fiction awards.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8909'),
(10796, 'A Wizard of Earthsea', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10735'),
(10797, 'The Wizard of Karres', 'Mercedes Lackey; Eric Flint; Dave Freer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3070'),
(10798, 'The Wizard of Oz (Puffin Classics)', 'L. Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. Together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion whom she meets on the way, Dorothy embarks on a strange and enchanting adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a charming introduction by award-winning Cornelia Funke, The Wizard of Oz is one of the twelve wonderful classics being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6725'),
(10799, 'Wizard of Rentoro', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1920'),
(10800, 'Wizard of the Winds', 'Allan Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: KING OF KINGS, LORD OVER MEN AND DEMONS ALIKE Only one ruler had ever held that title, and now Iraj Protarus, an orphaned prince exiled to a small village high in the Valley of the Clouds, dreamed of being the next great conqueror. The key to his destiny would be Safar Timura, a youth with an awesome gift for sorcery, whose visions foretold Iraj''s rise to power. And in those visions, Safar stood at Iraj''s side, his soul-blasting spells enabling his friend to attain his dreams. But Safar had other visions with darker portents, and his spellbound knowledge raised secrets better left buried. The road the two men followed would be rich in titles and fortunes, but it would also be rich in death and disaster, in intrigue--and in unforgivable betrayal . . . Let the Wizard of the Winds sweep you away with a tale of such power and passion that you will forget every other fantasy you''ve ever read. Enter a world where humans and demons are deadly enemies, where the destiny of entire dynasties is buffeted mercilessly by the stormy winds of sorcery powerful beyond imagination. Like the masters who have come before him, Allan Cole has created a haunting and unique world peopled with characters you will hate to love and love to hate . . . a unique world whose siren song will be irresistible to fantasy lovers everywhere . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(10801, 'The Wizard', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past. A teenager passes from Earth to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is given a hero''s adult body and named Able. Though forced to act as a man, inside he is still a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a knight. In his quest he battles giants, meets gods, heroes and a sorceress (who repeatedly tries to seduce him), and serves the mercurial dragon king Arnthor in a was that could end everything.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8905'),
(10802, 'Wizard&#39;s First Rule', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The masterpiece that started *The New York Times* bestselling epic Sword of Truth**In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher''s forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can''t imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3516'),
(10803, 'Wizardborn', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Book Three of The RunelordsWizardborn continues the story of the struggle of Gaborn, now the Earth King, who has lost his powers but continues to lead his people. He must contend with the threat of the huge, inhuman Reavers, whose myriads Gaborn and his forces must now pursue across the nation. It has become Gaborn''s fate to follow, even into the depths.Raj Ahten, the great warlord endowed with the strength and qualities of thousands of men, once the primary threat to Gaborn, now struggles to retain his own empire. His war of conquest thwarted, his very life is now threatened by the Reaver thousands. And a young girl, Averan, who has eaten a Reaver and absorbed some of its memories, becomes a keystone in the search for the dark Reaver lair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1526'),
(10804, 'Wizards&#39; World', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9095'),
(10805, 'Woken Furies', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan''s World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmasspoking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn''t just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything.Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan''s World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who''s been in storage\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4206'),
(10806, 'Wolf', 'Cara Carnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One act of kindness cements a destiny she couldnâ€™t fathom. An Enchanted story. As a child, the Lost Woods were Hannahâ€™s passion. A place where she dreamed of mysterious creatures, including one she savedâ€”a man who magically changed into a wolf. Now, twelve years later, the woods are her refuge from a horde of marauders who killed her mother. This time, it is the wolf who saves her. And he is no dream. Stephan canâ€™t help but remember the time Hannah encouraged him to free his injured leg and continue the soul journey required of his kind. The child unwittingly bound herself to him, and now the woman tempts him like no other. Yet if she learns his secret, her fragile trust could be broken for all time. Hannah doesnâ€™t see how she can possibly fit into Stephanâ€™s worldâ€”especially when their overwhelming passion reveals the one reason she should not trust him. Stephan has fought more than his share of battles, but the one for Hannahâ€™s heart is the one that could break his ownâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
(10807, 'The Wolf and the Druidess', 'Cornelia Amiri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n n days of old, deep in the dark woods, Druidess Seren discovers a wolf shape shifting into the bare, muscular Celtic God, Gwydion. Serenâ€™s mind turns from the Samhain feast to wicked thoughts of feasting on Gwydionâ€™s  yummy goodies. Will this new found love last beyond a Samhain tryst to survive the ultimate long distant relationship of a god in the otherworld and a woman on earth? Is the love Gwydion and Seren share strong enough to overcome the social barrier between an immortal god and a mortal woman? Will a warning of danger from beyond the grave destroy the sensual magic brewing between the wolf and the druidess?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8329'),
(10808, 'The Wolf at the Door', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins''Â¦THE LEGEND IS BACKSomeone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as ''the Prime Minister''s private army'' and all those who work with them.On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York a former British soldier takes a short walk when a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand.For Sean Dillon the hunt is on, a very well-connected old nemesis has clearly become tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task, and surviving it the hardest task of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2118'),
(10809, 'Wolf Hall', 'Hilary Mantel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII''s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king''s favor and ascend to the heights of political power. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king''s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(10810, 'Wolf Who Rules', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Tinker\n  </em>\n  (2003) continues the adventures of salvage-yard owner and intuitive mechanic Tinker and Wolf Who Rules Wind, an elflord whose domain now includes most of early-twenty-first-century Pittsburgh, which was transported to Elfhome through a gate. Tinker is now genetically an elf, and she and Wolf are married. Their honeymoon consists, however, of trying to coordinate the mind-sets of humans and elfkind, both between one another and as lord and lady of Wolf''s realm. And they also must stave off the attempts of the\n  <em>\n   oni\n  </em>\n  (Japanese demons) to conquer the realm, fight intrigue that includes assassination plots, and build a gate to return those Pittsburghers who wish to return. All of that keeps them busy and the reader turning pages.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The popular fantasy novel\n  <em>\n   Tinker\n  </em>\n  introduced the inventor-heroine of the same name, who lives in a near-future Pittsburgh, which shares an interdimensional border with the land of the elves. In this sequel, Wolf Who Rules, the elven noble whose destiny is intertwined with Tinker, finds himself besieged from all sides. Viceroy and head of the Wind Clan, he had been able to guarantee the safety of everyone in his realm, but faced with an oni invasion, he has had to call in royal troops and relinquish his monopoly of Pittsburgh, which is now entirely stranded on Elfhome. He now struggles to keep the peace between the humans, the newly arrived Stone Clan, the royal forces, a set of oni dragons, the half-oni children who see themselves as human, and the tengu trying to escape their oni enslavement. Meanwhile, Tinker strives to solve the mystery of a growing discontinuity in Turtle Creek. She''s plagued with inexplicable nightmares that may hold the keys to Pittsburgh''s future. The only clue from the Queen''s oracle to help Tinker is a note with five English words on it: Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Oni, and dragons and tengu ? oh my!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8723'),
(10811, 'The Wolf&#39;s Hour', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1989, The Wolf''s Hour remains one of Robert McCammon''s most indelible creations. Ranging freely and with great authority through realms of history, folklore, and myth, it combines two seemingly disparate genres the World War II action thriller and the paranormal romance into a seamless, irresistible whole.McCammon''s hero is Michael Gallatin, embattled inhabitant of two different worlds. Born into the Russian aristocracy, but ''changed'' and raised by a pack of werewolves, Michael''s journey takes him from the wild regions of his native Russia to the battle-scarred landscapes of a world at war. Offering his unique talents to the Allied cause, Michael becomes a sort of secret weapon aimed at the destruction of Hitler and his ''Thousand Year Reich.'' His adventures take him from the deserts of North Africa to the German-occupied countries of Western Europe. There, with the aid of a vivid assortment of friends, comrades, and lovers, he uncovers a horrific conspiracy known as ''Iron Fist,'' which threatens to disrupt the Allies'' long-planned invasion of Europe and to alter the very outcome of the war.Both a scrupulously researched historical thriller and a brilliant re-imagining of the traditional werewolf tale, The Wolf''s Hour offers pleasure, excitement, and illumination on virtually every page. Exotic, enthralling, and endlessly inventive, it is the work of a master storyteller in full command of his matchless narrative gifts.The Subterranean Press edition of The Wolf''s Hour will feature an original introduction by Robert McCammon, as well as a full-color dust jacket and a number of color plates by Vincent Chong, including a gatefold illustration depicting the novel''s famous ''death train'' scene.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3552'),
(10812, 'The Wolfen', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Wolfen (1978), the debut novel by Whitley Strieber, tells the story of two police detectives  in New York City who, while investigating the violent deaths of two policemen in a junk yard, discover that a pack of intelligent and savage wolf-like creatures are stalking the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3599'),
(10813, 'Wolfsbane', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shapeshifting mercenary Aralorn leads a dangerous existence. Now she must return home for her noble father, the Lyon of Lambshold, has passed away. But when Aralorn and her companion Wolf arrive, they find he''s not dead, but ensorcelled by the ae''Magi, using him as a conduit to destroy Aralorn and Wolf. She must overcome this mysterious mist or fall to the blackest of magic.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Patricia Briggs is the author of the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. She lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5921');
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(10814, 'Wolves of the Calla', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the DARK TOWER series is unlike anything you have ever read.Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller''s magnum opus" (Locus).Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town''s soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will not be enough....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8534'),
(10815, 'Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Roland Deschain and his *ka-tet* are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland''s youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future''s only promise. Readers of Stephen King''s epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland''s world; and Oy, the Billy-Bumbler. In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World''s borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community''s soul. One of the town''s residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie, and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland''s world. As Father Callahan tells the *ka-tet* the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the *Calla-folken* both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4305'),
(10816, 'The Woman in White', 'Wilkie Collins; John Sutherland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright''s mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first to use the original manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins''s contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel''s complicated events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3472'),
(10817, 'The Woman Men Adore...and Never Want to Leave CD Set', 'Bob Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10517'),
(10818, 'The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts', 'Maxine Hong Kingston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Woman Warrior\n  </strong>\n  is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maxine Hong Kingston grew up in two worlds. There was "solid America," the place her parents emigrated to, and the China of her mother''s "talk-stories." In talk-stories women were warriors and her mother was still a doctor in China who could cure the sick and scare away ghosts, not a harried and frustrated woman running a stifling laundromat in California. But what is story and what is truth? In China, a ghost is a supernatural being; in America it is anyone who is not Chinese. In addition, underlying even the most exciting talk-stories of Chinese women warriors is the real oppression of Chinese women: "There is a Chinese word for the female ''I'' - which is ''slave.'' " In an attempt to figure out her world, Maxine Hong Kingston finds herself creating stories of her own, filling in the blanks her mother has not told her because her daughter is, after all, not true Chinese and thus cannot be completely trusted. Can these new stories explain why she had trouble speaking in the American schools? Can they help her understand the aunt who committed adultery and whose existence is denied? The new stories refuse to fall into traditional forms, and the realizations that come from them often bring out a beautiful, passionate anger that practically burns through the pages. This is powerful, experimental writing, a combination of love, hate, frustration, and sheer beauty.\n  <em>\n   -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n  </em>\n  . --\n  <em>\n   From\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8555'),
(10819, 'A woman with a mystery', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A year ago Holly Barrows had raced through a raging snowstorm -- convinced someone was trying to kill her -- into the arms of Slade Rawlins. She''d appeared before him like a beautiful apparition in the dark of night. But she was real, flesh and blood, and his fingers had memorized every curve of her body. Then she''d mysteriously vanished, only to return the following Christmas with an outrageous claim of kidnapping. Monsters, she''d said, had taken her baby. But any baby she''d had would also have been Slade''s. And he was consumed by his need to protect Holly and locate their child before the family he desperately wanted was lost...forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(10820, 'A Woman&#39;s Estate', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fifth in the Heiress series. Abigail Lydden, widow of Francis, Lord Lydden, left America for England in the middle of the war of 1812 because her husband''s father had died and her son was now heir to an earldom. Sir Arthur St. Eyre was also taken by surprise by Lord Lydden''s death, finding himself executor of the earl''s estate. Sir Arthur and Lady Lydden are thrown together and find it an attractive association, which becomes more and more intense when Victor''s and Abigail''s lives are threatened. But those threats are not the only problems. Sir Arthur is a Member of Parliament and eager for a British victory in America. Although British by birth, Abigail''s sympathies are mainly with "poor little America", as a victim of Britain''s armed power. The heat of contention only adds to the heat of attraction, but can Sir Arthur allow Abigail the independence she needs-and can he forgive her when he discovers she has committed treason? Accusation and enlightenment explode family ties, leaving Arthur and Abigail to reorder their lives. . . if they can. Publisher''s Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1984.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3796'),
(10821, 'Women', 'Charles Bukowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.\n</p>\n<p>\n With all of Bukowski''s trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to\n <em>\n  Post Office\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Factotum\n </em>\n is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles Bukowski is one of America''s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel,\n <em>\n  Pulp\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8539'),
(10822, 'Women in Love', 'D. H. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most versatile and influential figures in twentieth-century literature, D. H. Lawrence was a master craftsman and profound thinker whose celebration of sexuality in an over-intellectualized world opened the door to that topic for countless writers after him. Perhaps his finest novel, Women in Love (1920) continues the story of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who first appeared in Lawrenceâ€™s novel The Rainbow (1915). The story contrasts the passionate love affairs of Ursula and Rupert Birkin, a character often seen as a self-portrait of Lawrence, with that of Gudrun and Gerald Crich, an icily handsome mining industrialist. Birkin, an introspective misanthrope, struggles to reconcile his metaphysical drive for self-fulfillment with Ursulaâ€™s practical view of sentimental passion. As they fight their way through to a mutually satisfying relationshipâ€”and eventual marriageâ€”Gudrun and Crichâ€™s sadomasochistic love affair careens toward a disastrous conclusion. A dark, disturbing, yet beautiful exploration of love in an increasingly violent and destructive world, Women in Love nevertheless holds out the hope of individual and collective rebirth through human intensity and passion. Norman Loftis is a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and filmmaker. His works include Exiles and Voyages (poetry, 1969), Black Anima (poetry, 1973), Life Force (novel, 1982), From Barbarism to Decadence (1984), and Condition Zero (1993). His feature films include Schaman (1984), the award-winning Small Time (1989), and Messenger (1995). He is currently Chair of the Department of Literature at the Brooklyn Campus of the College of New Rochelle and is on the faculty at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1970.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/570'),
(10823, 'Women of the Otherworld', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From one of todayâ€™s most original writers comes the mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want.Dime Store MagicPaige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the worldâ€™s most powerful elite organizationsâ€”the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paigeâ€™s wildest antics canâ€™t hold a candle to those of her new chargeâ€”an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil...and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murderâ€”and frame Paige for the crime. Itâ€™s an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3154'),
(10824, 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and 6 More', 'Dahl, Roald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9798'),
(10825, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The treasure that captured a nation''s imagination Everyone''s favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new friends. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this trip down Memory Lane, via the Yellow Brick Road.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3171'),
(10826, 'The Wood', 'Guy N. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9983'),
(10827, 'The Woodlanders: By Thomas Hardy', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, interspersed with apple-orchards. Here the trees, timber or fruit-bearing, as the case may be, make the way- side hedges ragged by their drip and shade, stretching over the road with easeful horizontality, as if they foun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10681'),
(10828, 'Woodrow Wilson: a biography', 'John Milton Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first major biography of Americaâ€™s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of Americaâ€™s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative presidentâ€”he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDRâ€™s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilsonâ€™s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and graciousâ€”not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people.John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilsonâ€™s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidentsâ€”particularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2889'),
(10829, 'the Woods (2007)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9596'),
(10830, 'Woods Runner', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steering his narrative through an unsentimentalized and deglorified depiction of the American Revolution, Paulsenâ€™s latest work of historical fiction provides a stark glimpse of just how awful the war really was for those who suffered through it. Though his parents are city folk trying to hack out a life on the frontier in Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Samuel is entirely at home in the woodland wilderness that surrounds their little settlement. Soon after word arrives of the uprising in Concord and Lexington, Samuel returns home from a jaunt in the forest to find his home burned down, the neighbors slaughtered, and his parents missing. Samuel tracks his captured parents through the countryside to British-held New York, encountering scalping bands of Iroquois, pillaging squads of mercenary Hessians, and a few hardy, helpful rebels along the way. Paulsen alternates chapters of Samuelâ€™s story with historical notes that illuminate the sobering realities of the Revolution and add some context not found in most history books. Paulsenâ€™s rewarding and fast-paced novel offers an honest assessment of heroism writ both small and large. Grades 6-9. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred review,\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n , January 1, 2010: "A superb reflection on the nature of war."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7148'),
(10831, 'Woodsburner', 'John Pipkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin''s novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life of the young nation. The Thoreau ofWoodsburneris a lost soul, resigned to a career designing pencils for his father''s factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path crosses those of three very different people, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a shy Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his followers through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreau''s, will be changed forever by the fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2708'),
(10832, 'Word of Honor', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If fiction can assuage the lingering moral pain of the Vietnam War, it''s through the kind of driving honesty coupled with knowledgeability that DeMille (By the Rivers of Babylon) employs here, in a story which, as riveting as The Caine Mutiny but with wider implications, probes the conflicting concepts of honor, duty and loyalty as they relate to an event of the My Lai varietyand assesses blame. Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government (which has its own "deal" to propose) and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his lawyer''s cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case. The flashbacks to Hue, the pre-trial investigation (involving an attractive female major), the court-martial proceedings, the emotions of the principal characters and the soul-sickness wrought by war (which is the story''s effective subtext)all are depicted with marvelous vividness. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. Foreign rights: Jack Ellison. November 11\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This huge and merciless account follows an ordinary corporate man, Ben Tyson, as his Army commission is reactivated so that he can be court-martialed on charges of murder. The events go back 15 years to a hospital in Vietnam where his platoon took heavy action and many civilians died. Did he wantonly kill enemy and civilian alike? The investigation, intended to restore military honor after My Lai, gives no quarter. All the hostile witnesses are called up while friendly witnesses are lost or silent. Tyson''s own sense of honor lets him give only tiny scraps of information even to his attorney. The courtroom sequences are so powerful that most of the other action is like filler. The dialogue rings true and shows a gift for wit and timing. Apart from its unfortunate length and a slightly over-drawn hero, this succeeds as a mature and compassionate statement about Americans at war in Vietnam. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7117'),
(10833, 'Word of Traitors: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The horror of war, the thrill of adventure, the magic of\n  <strong>\n   Eberron\n  </strong>\n  Â®\n </p>\n <p>\n  While trying to find the assassin who killed the Emperor of Dhakaan, the heroes launch a plan to keep the Rod of Kings out of the hands of his unstable successor. To do so, they must stay one step ahead of political factions; thwart a murderous new cult leader and her lackey, hellbent on killing the heroes; and prevent full-scale war with the Five Nations.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6830'),
(10834, 'The Wordy Shipmates', 'Sarah Vowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America''s Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which our country''s present predicaments are inextricably tied to its past. In a style less colloquial than her previous books, Vowell traces the 1630 journey of several key English colonists and members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Foremost among these men was John Winthrop, who would become governor of Massachusetts. While the Puritans who had earlier sailed to Plymouth on the\n <em>\n  Mayflower\n </em>\n were separatists, Winthrop''s followers remained loyal to England, spurred on by Puritan Reverend John Cotton''s proclamation that they were God''s chosen people. Vowell underscores that the seemingly minute differences between the Plymouth Puritans and the Massachusetts Puritans were as meaningful as the current Sunni/Shia Muslim rift. Gracefully interspersing her history lesson with personal anecdotes, Vowell offers reflections that are both amusing (colonial history lesson via\n <em>\n  The Brady Bunch\n </em>\n ) and tender (watching New Yorkers patiently waiting in line to donate blood after 9/11).\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most reviewers found Vowell to be a lively guide through the frequently misunderstood Puritan period. Several wrote that she will draw in readers who might not otherwise pick up a book on the subject: what could be better than history with the voice of Violet from\n <em>\n  The Incredibles\n </em>\n ? But others found Vowell''s treatment to be less dexterous; she slips in jokes where they don''t make sense and too often explains the past through pop culture references despite her clear understanding of it through original texts. Those who enjoy traditional history books may be dissatisfied. Yet, as one reviewer noted, Vowell''s irreverence frees her to explore the lives of neglected figures such as Anne Hutchinson and to illuminate aspects of the Puritan era that more serious authors might have missed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6612'),
(10835, 'The Working Mother&#39;s Survival Guide: Your Complete Guide to Managing Life and Work With a New Baby', 'Melissa Doyle; Jo Scard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Working Mother''s Survival Guide\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for all new mothers who want or need to continue working after their baby is born. It''s packed with essential information and advice on everything you need to know from pre-conception to returning to work to help you get through this amazing but challenging time. From the mundane (How do you stop colleagues constantly touching your stomach? Are there any tricks to surviving 9 am meetings with morning sickness?), to the crucial (How early do you need to start looking for a daycare place? How can you prevent your pregnancy affecting your chances of promotion? How do you plan for your changing financial status?), to the absolutely essential (Can one woman wear the same pair of stretchy black pants to the office for six months without losing her dignity or her mind?), this book will answer all your questions. Written by two working mothers, TV presenter Melissa Doyle, and communications consultant Jo Scard,\n <em>\n  The Working Mother''s Survival Guide\n </em>\n features advice from experts such as lawyers, health care workers and inspiring working moms, plus ''how-to-do'', ''what-to-have'' and ''where-to-find'' checklists. Loaded with resources and more than a few laughs, this book is packed full of useful information to help new mothers cope and even enjoy juggling the demands of motherhood and work, as well as finding a little "me" time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Melissa Doyle\n </strong>\n is co-presenter of Australia''s highest-rating breakfast program,\n <em>\n  Sunrise\n </em>\n . One of the most popular faces on television, Melissa is also the proud mother of Nicholas, 6 and Talia Grace, 3.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jo Scard\n </strong>\n has over 15 years'' experience in political communication, journalism, government relations and public affairs. A political consultant at global consultancy Gavin Anderson &amp; Company, Jo also has two young children - Marlow, 5 and Frida, 2.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9177'),
(10836, 'Works of Booker T. Washington', 'Booker T. Washington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Features\n  </b>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make bookmarks, notes, highlights\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Searchable and interlinked.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Access the e-book anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Table of Contents\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Future of the American Negro\n  <br />\n  Heroes in Black Skins\n  <br />\n  The Negro Problem (also W.E. Burghardt DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H.T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune)\n  <br />\n  Up from Slavery: an Autobiography\n </p>\n <p>\n  Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz\n  <br />\n  Atlanta Compromise address by African-American leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. Given to a predominantly White audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, the speech has been recognized as one of the most important and influential speeches in American history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Appendix:\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Booker T. Washington Biography\n  <br />\n  About and Navigation\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4851'),
(10837, 'Works of Booker T. Washington: The Future of the American Negro, the Negro Problem, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, Heroes in Black Skins, Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz, Atlanta Compromise (Mobi Collected Works)', 'Booker T. Washington', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.\n</p>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Features\n </b>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make bookmarks, notes, highlights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Searchable and interlinked.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the e-book anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Table of Contents\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Future of the American Negro\n <br />\n Heroes in Black Skins\n <br />\n The Negro Problem (also W.E. Burghardt DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H.T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune)\n <br />\n Up from Slavery: an Autobiography\n</p>\n<p>\n Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz\n <br />\n Atlanta Compromise address by African-American leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. Given to a predominantly White audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, the speech has been recognized as one of the most important and influential speeches in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Appendix:\n </strong>\n <br />\n Booker T. Washington Biography\n <br />\n About and Navigation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8992'),
(10838, 'Works of Charles Dickens', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authorâ€™s biography and free stories in the trial version.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Features\n  </b>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make bookmarks, notes, highlights\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Searchable and interlinked.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Access the e-book anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Table of Contents\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  List of Works by Genre and Title\n  <br />\n  List of Works in Alphabetical Order\n  <br />\n  List of Works in Chronological Order\n  <br />\n  Charles Dickens Biography\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Fiction\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  American Notes\n  <br />\n  Barnaby Rudge\n  <br />\n  The Battle of Life\n  <br />\n  Bleak House\n  <br />\n  The Chimes\n  <br />\n  A Christmas Carol\n  <br />\n  The Cricket on the Hearth\n  <br />\n  David Copperfield\n  <br />\n  Dombey and Son\n  <br />\n  Great Expectations\n  <br />\n  Hard Times\n  <br />\n  The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain\n  <br />\n  Holiday Romance\n  <br />\n  Hunted Down\n  <br />\n  The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices\n  <br />\n  Little Dorrit\n  <br />\n  The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman\n  <br />\n  Martin Chuzzlewit\n  <br />\n  Master Humphrey''s Clock\n  <br />\n  A Message from the Sea\n  <br />\n  Mudfog and Other Sketches\n  <br />\n  The Mystery of Edwin Drood\n  <br />\n  Nicholas Nickleby\n  <br />\n  No Thoroughfare\n  <br />\n  The Old Curiosity Shop\n  <br />\n  Oliver Twist\n  <br />\n  Our Mutual Friend\n  <br />\n  The Pickwick Papers\n  <br />\n  Reprinted Pieces\n  <br />\n  Sketches by Boz\n  <br />\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n  <br />\n  The Uncommercial Traveller\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Short Stories\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Some Christmas Stories:\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  A Christmas Tree\n  <br />\n  The Child''s Story\n  <br />\n  Nobody''s Story\n  <br />\n  The Poor Relation''s Story\n  <br />\n  The Schoolboy''s Story\n  <br />\n  What Christmas is as we Grow Older\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Three Ghost Stories:\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Haunted House\n  <br />\n  The Signal-Man\n  <br />\n  The Trial For Murder\n </p>\n <p>\n  Doctor Marigold\n  <br />\n  George Silverman''s Explanation\n  <br />\n  Going into Society\n  <br />\n  The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn\n  <br />\n  The Holly-Tree\n  <br />\n  A House to Let\n  <br />\n  The Lamplighter\n  <br />\n  Mrs. Lirriper''s Legacy\n  <br />\n  Mrs. Lirriper''s Lodging\n  <br />\n  Mugby Junction\n  <br />\n  Perils of Certain English Prisoners\n  <br />\n  The Seven Poor Travellers\n  <br />\n  Sketches of Young Couples\n  <br />\n  Sketches of Young Gentlemen\n  <br />\n  Somebody''s Luggage\n  <br />\n  Sunday under Three Heads\n  <br />\n  To Be Read at Dusk\n  <br />\n  Tom Tiddler''s Ground\n  <br />\n  Wreck of the Golden Mary\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Non-Fiction\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Child''s History of England\n  <br />\n  Miscellaneous Papers (11 essays)\n  <br />\n  Pictures from Italy\n  <br />\n  Speeches: Literary and Social\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4418'),
(10839, 'Works of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 100+ of Edgar Allan Poe''s works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Author''s biography and free poems in the trial version.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1544'),
(10840, 'The World at the End of Time', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Frederick Pohl succeeds where others wouldn''t even dare..." The Denver Post Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice. The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To''s games when their planet''s stars began to shift, the climate began to cool down, and the colony was forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Viktor Sorricaine was determined to discover what force had suddenly sent his world hurtling toward the ends of the universe. And the answer was something beyond the scope of his imagination -- even if he lived for 4000 years...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10201'),
(10841, 'The World House', 'Guy Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a box. Inside that box is a door. Beyond that door is a house.In some rooms forests grow. In some, prisoners wait.At the top of the house, a prisoner sits behind a locked door waiting for a key to turn. The day that happens, the world will end''åˆŽile under: Modern Fantasy [Worlds within Worlds | Prison Break | Exploring the Unknown | Dark Powers]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6764'),
(10842, 'The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization&#39;s Northern Future', 'Laurence C. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith, a UCLA geography professor, explores megatrends through computer model projections to describe "with reasonable scientific credibility, what our world might look like in forty years'' time, should things continue as they are now." Laying out "ground rules" for himself--including an assumption of incremental advances rather than big technology breakthroughs and no accounting for "hidden genies" such as a decades-long depression or meteorite impact--he identifies four global forces likely to determine our future: human population growth and migration; growing demand for control over such natural resource "services" as photosynthesis and bee pollination; globalization; and climate change. He sees the "New North" as "something like America in 1803, just after the Louisiana Purchase... harsh, dangerous, and ecologically fragile." Aside from his observations of "a profound return of autonomy and dignity to many aboriginal people" through increasing political power and integration into the global economy, Smith''s predictions, limited by his conservative rules, are far from earthshaking, and suspending his rules for a chapter, he admits that "the physics of sliding glaciers and ice sheet collapses" as well as melting permafrost methane release are beyond current models, and that even globalization could reverse, with "political genies even harder to anticipate than permafrost ones."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How will civilization change over the next 40 years if humanity balloons to nine billion, sea level rises by a foot and atmospheric temperature by several degrees, and globalization continues apace? From those assumptions, Smith, a university-employed geophysicist, posits answers with a focus on the Arctic Ocean and its coastline. Familiar with the Far North through scientific field trips, Smith embeds personal observations into his predictions about the effects of boreal warming. Becoming more accessible to ships, Arctic regions in Russia, Alaska, and Canada will experience a raw-materials bonanza, with oil, natural gas, minerals, and water resources likely to be exploited as permafrost melts and summer sea ice recedes. Festooned with data, his discussions of such prospects valuably avoid either environmental or industrial advocacy and lay a factual foundation for his readers to learn how demographic and economic trends in the worldâ€™s southerly population belts might influence development of the Arctic. Concluding with a half-dozen events that could upset his forecast, Smith exhibits trend-spotting skill in this readable account of the Arctic frontier. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4759');
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(10843, 'The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York', 'Joseph Berger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe whole world can be found in this city. . . .â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Preface\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the cityâ€™s five boroughsâ€“and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing alive the sights, smells, tastes, and people of the globe while taking readers on an intimate tour of the worldâ€™s most cosmopolitan city.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For urban enthusiasts and armchair explorers alike, The World in a City is a look at todayâ€™s polyglot and polychrome, cosmopolitan and culturally rich New York and the lessons it holds for the rest of the United States as immigration changes the face of the nation. With three out of five of the cityâ€™s residents either foreign-born or second-generation Americans, New York has become more than ever a collection of villagesâ€“virtually self-reliant hamlets, each exquisitely textured by its particular ethnicities, history, and politics. For the price of a subway ride, you can visit Ghana, the Philippines, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Berger shows us in this absorbing and enlightening tour, New York is an endlessly fascinating crossroads. Naturally, tears exist in this colorful social fabric: the controversy over Korean-language shop signs in tony Douglaston, Queens; the uneasy proximity of traditional cottages and new McMansions built by recently arrived Russian residents of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Yet in spite of the tensions among neighbors, what Berger has found most miraculous about New York is how the city and its more than eight million denizens can adapt toâ€“and even embraceâ€“change like no other place on earth, from the former pushcart knish vendor on the Lower East Side who now caters to his customers via the Internet, to the recent Ã©migrÃ©s from former Soviet republics to Brooklynâ€™s Brighton Beach and Midwood whose arrival saved New Yorkâ€™s furrier trade from certain extinction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like the place it chronicles, The World in a City is an engaging hybrid. Blending elements of sociology, pop culture, and travel writing, this is the rare book that enlightens readers while imbuing them with the hope that even in this increasingly fractious and polarized world, we can indeed co-exist in harmony.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1\n </p>\n <p>\n  So You Thought You Knew Astoria\n </p>\n <p>\n  ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  For half a century, Astoria in Queens has been a neighborhood of cafÃ©s where dark-haired Greek men sip strong coffee and smoke strong cigarettes while talking in Greek late into the night. It is a place of quiet sidewalks lined with tenderly fussed-over brick and shingle row houses, where a solitary widow in black can be glimpsed scurrying homeward as if she were on the island of Rhodes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The cafÃ©s are still teeming, the houses tidy. But the Greek hold on the neighborhood has slowly been weakening. Successful Greeks have been leaving for leafier locales. As a result, there are moments when Astoria has a theme-park feel to it, a cardboard faÃ§ade of a Greek Main Street with cafÃ©s named Athens, Omonia, and Zodiac and Greeceâ€™s blue and white colors splashed everywhere, but a diminishing number of actual Greeks living within.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s because other groups have been rising up to take their place. On a Friday on Steinway Street, one of Astoriaâ€™s commercial spines, several hundred men from North African and Middle Eastern countries were jammed into Al-Iman Mosque, a marble-faced storefront that is one of several Muslim halls of worship that have sprung up in Astoria. Some wore ordinary street clothes, some white robes and knit white skullcaps. There were so many worshipers that thirteen had to pray on the sidewalk, kneeling shoeless on prayer mats and touching their foreheads and palms to the ground. When the prayers were over, El Allel Dahli, a Moroccan immigrant, emerged with his teenage son, Omar, telling of the plate of couscous and lamb he had brought as a gift to the poor to honor the birth that morning of his daughter, Jenine. â€œI am very happy today,â€ he told me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He could also have been happy that, as his visit confirmed, the immediate neighborhood was turning into New York Cityâ€™s casbah. Not only was there his flourishing mosque, but down Steinway Street, as far as his eyes could see, there were Middle Eastern restaurants, groceries, travel agencies, a driving school, a barber shop, a pharmacy, a dried fruit and nuts store, a bookstoreâ€”twenty-five shops in all. In the cafÃ©s,\n </p>\n <p>\n  clusters of Egyptian, Moroccan, or Tunisian men were puffing on hookahsâ€”tall, gaudily embellished water pipes stoked with charcoal to burn sheeshah, the fragrant tobacco that comes in flavors such as molasses and apple. Sometimes these menâ€”taxi drivers, merchants, or just plain idlersâ€”play backgammon or dominoes or watch Arabic television shows beamed in by satellite, but mostly they schmooze about the things Mediterranean men talk about when theyâ€™re togetherâ€” soccer, politics, womenâ€”while waiters fill up their pipes with chunks of charcoal at $4 a smoke. In classic New York fashion, Steinway Street is a slice of Arabic Algiers on Astoriaâ€™s former Main Street, renamed after a German immigrant who a century before assembled the worldâ€™s greatest pianos a few blocks away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And it is not just Middle Easterners and North Africans who are changing the neighborhoodâ€™s personality. Those settling in Astoria in the past decade or two include Bangladeshis, Serbians, Bosnians, Ecuadorians, and, yes, even increasingly young Manhattan professionals drawn by the neighborhoodâ€™s modest rents, cosmopolitan flavors, and short commute to midtown Manhattan. More vibrant than them all seem to be the Brazilians, who have brought samba nightclubs and bikini-waxing salons to streets that once held moussaka joints. When Brazil won the World Cup in 2002, Astoriaâ€™s streets were turned into an all-night party, and when the team lost in 2006, the streets were leaden with mourning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  New York can be viewed as an archipelago, like Indonesia a collection of distinctive islands, in its case its villagelike neighborhoods. Each island has its own way of doing things, its own flavor, fragrance, and indelible characters. But, as a result of the roiling tides of migration and the unquenchable human restlessness and hunger for something better and grander, most of these neighborhoods are in constant, ineluctable flux. Some transform with astonishing swiftness as if hit by a flood; a few suffer erosion that is scarcely detectable until one day its inhabitants realize that what was there is gone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Astoria was an appropriate jumping-off point for my three-year-long ramble around the city because it is a classic New York neighborhood, a place that has long had a sharply defined character and a distinct place in the cityâ€™s landscape, but one that has been turned into a Babel of cultures by the waves of immigration set off by the 1965 law. When New Yorkers dropped the name Astoria, it was understood they were talking about an enclave where Greek was spoken and Greek folkways were observed. So it was striking to me as I walked the streets how much of that accent had faded. Astoriaâ€™s Greek population has been cut by a third in the past two decades, by some unofficial estimates, to 30,000 from 45,000, with official, if undercounted, census figures even gloomier, putting the number of people who claimed Greek ancestry at just 18,217, or 8.6 percent of the neighborhoodâ€™s residents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The decline of the Greeks can be seen as an old New York story, no different from the shrinking of the Jewish population on the Lower East Side or the number of Italians along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. As immigrants of one nationality make it, they forsake the jostling streets, and newer immigrants, hoping to make their fortunes, move in. â€œItâ€™s an upward mobility kind of thing,â€ said Robert Stephanopoulos, dean of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral on East Seventy-fourth Street and father of George (Bill Clintonâ€™s press secretary and now an ABC broadcaster). But the fact that it is an oft- told story is scant consolation for longtime Greek residents who have tried to rekindle the old country in this new one. They find a bittersweet quality to the changeover. On the one hand, it affirms their communityâ€™s upswing; on the other, their village in New York is withering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn New York everything turns around,â€ Peter Figetakis, forty-eight, a Greek-born film director who has lived in Astoria since the 1970s, told me. â€œNow the Hindus and Arabs, itâ€™s their time.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the newer residents, the mood is expansive. On a two-block stretch of Steinway between Twenty-eighth Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, there is a veritable souk, with shops selling halal meat, Syrian pastries, airplane tickets to Morocco, driving lessons in Arabic, Korans and other Muslim books, and robes in styles such as the caftan, the abaya, the hooded djellaba, and the chador, which covers the body from head to toe, including much of the face. Indeed, a common street sight is a woman in ankle-length robe and head scarfâ€” hijabâ€”surrounded by small children. Laziza of New York Pastry, a Jordanian bakery, may have baklava superior to that made by the neighborhoodâ€™s Greeks. With two dozen such Arabic shops, the Steinway strip outpaces the cityâ€™s most famous Middle Eastern thoroughfare, Brooklynâ€™s Atlantic Avenue, which was started by Lebanese and Syrian Christians, not Muslims. In cafÃ©s and restaurants once owned by Greeks and Italians, television shows from Cairo and news from Qatar- based Al Jazeera are beamed in on flat-screen televisions. Some cafÃ©s are open round-the-clock so taxi drivers can stop in and have their sheeshah and an espresso.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Noureddine Daouaou, a taxi driver from Casablanca who has lived in the United States for more than twenty years, said he prefers Astoria to other places in New York where Arabs cluster because the neighborhood has a cosmopolitan mix of peoples. â€œYou donâ€™t feel homesick,â€ he said. â€œYou find peace somehow. You find people try to get along. We can understand each other in one language.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  The number of Arab speakers in the neighborhood the city designates as Queens Community Board 1 (the city is broken into fifty-nine community boards that offer advice on land-use and budget issues) rose from 2,265 in 1990 to 4,097 in 2000, an 80 percent increase, and will be far larger in the next census. For the Middle Easterners, the attraction to Astoria seems to be the congenial Mediterranean accent: foods that overlap with such Greek delicacies as kebab, okra, lentils, and honey-coated pastries, and cultural harmonies such as men idling with one another in cafÃ©s. â€œThey feel more comfortable with Greeks,â€ George Mohamed Oumous, a forty-five-year-old Moroccan computer programmer, said of his fellow Arabs. â€œWeâ€™ve been near each other for centuries. You listen to Greek music, you think you could be listening to Egyptian music.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ali El Sayed, who is Steinwayâ€™s Sidney Greenstreet, the man aware of this mini-Casablancaâ€™s secrets, was a pioneer. A broad-shouldered Alexandrian with a shaved head like a genie, Sayed moved to Steinway Street in the late 1980s to open the Kabab CafÃ©, a narrow six-table cranny filled with Egyptian bric-a-brac, stained glass, and a hookah or two. It sells a tasty hummus and falafel plate. â€œHowâ€™s the food, folks?â€ heâ€™ll sometimes ask, displaying his American slang. â€œIâ€™m just an insecure guy, so I need to ask.â€ He found Astoria congenial because it was easy to shop for foods, such as hummus and okra, that he uses in his cooking. Within a few years the neighborhood had enough Arabs and other Muslims to support its first mosque, which was opened in a onetime pool hall on Twenty-eighth Avenue.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sayed told me that Egyptians in Astoria are proud to be Americans, proud to blend into American society. Indeed, Egyptians and other Arabs and Muslims are assimilating in the United States with as much enthusiasm as earlier immigrant groups. In London, Paris, and Hamburg, there is far more ambivalence. Even two and three generations after t...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7557'),
(10844, 'The World Jones Made', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future -- a power that makes his life a torment -- his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal, even when the dream is indistinguishable from a nightmare. In Philip K. Dick''s unsettling chronicle of the rise and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a novel that is as minutely realistic as it is prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers, and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9909'),
(10845, 'A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance : Portrait of an Age', 'William Manchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts and religious reform that they never quite got around to realizing the possibilities of contemporary innovations in public health, civil engineering, and other peaceful pursuits. Instead, they waged war in faraway lands, created and lost fortunes, and squandered millions of lives. For all the wastefulness of medieval societies, however, Manchester notes, the era created the foundation for the extraordinary creative explosion of the Renaissance. Drawing on a cast of characters numbering in the hundreds, Manchester does a solid job of reconstructing the medieval world, although some scholars may disagree with his interpretations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Using only secondary sources, Manchester plunges readers into the medieval mind-set in a captivating, marvelously vivid popular history that humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the dawn of the Renaissance. He delineates an age when invisible spirits infested the air, when tolerance was seen as treachery and "a mafia of profane popes desecrated Christianity." Besides re-creating the arduous lives of ordinary people, the Wesleyan professor of history peoples his tapestry with such figures as Leonardo, Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Erasmus, Luther, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Manchester ( The Arms of Krupp ) devotes much attention to Magellan, whose globe-straddling voyage shattered Christendom''s implicit belief in Europe as the center of the universe. His portrayal of the Middle Ages as a time when the strong and the shrewd flourished, while the imaginative, the cerebral and the unfortunate suffered, rings true. Illustrations.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8389'),
(10846, 'A World of Hurt', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With its down and dirty depiction of warfare written by men who know what itâ€™s like to be under fire, the Starfist saga is a runaway success across America. Now, in the explosive new Starfist adventure, packed with fierce action and danger, Marines at war in future space find themselves pitted against a faceless, insatiable foe bent on destroying them. And thatâ€™s just for starters.How bad is the upcoming mission facing the battle-hardened Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST), the militaryâ€™s unofficial alien first-contact force? Bad enough to make the brass take the unprecedented step of issuing 34th FIST replacements for combat losses before the Marines even leave their home base.In response to a series of unexplained deaths on a lonely outpost on the frontiers of human space, 34th FIST has been dispatched to investigateâ€“and eradicateâ€“ the problem. Beyond that, the information available to Gunnery Sergeant Charlie Bass and his men is meager even by Marine standards. No one knows what awaits them, for the newly colonized world remains largely unexplored. That means 34th FIST can expect creatures they have never seen, or even heard of, much less trained for. It could be Skink acid shooters, could be anything, for the barren station has several secretsâ€“all of them deadly.But the last thing these Marines expect to find is themselves in the middle of an invasion and a mysterious warâ€“with none other than 34th FIST as Enemy #1. Whatever happens, theyâ€™ll deal with it, because theyâ€™re Marines, determined to be ready . . . and to give worse than they get.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(10847, 'The World of PTAVVS', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10225'),
(10848, 'World of Warcraft: The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change . . . Long ago, Azerothâ€™s destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the titansâ€™ intervention, many elementals have ended up back on Azeroth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Over the ages, shaman like Thrall have communed with these spirits and, through patience and dedication, learned to soothe roaring infernos, bring rain to sun-scorched lands, and otherwise temper the elementalsâ€™ ruinous influence on the world of Azeroth. Now Thrall has discovered that the elementals no longer heed the shamanâ€™s call. The link shared with these spirits has grown thin and frayed, as if Azeroth itself were under great duress. While Thrall seeks answers to what ails the confused elements, he also wrestles with the orcsâ€™ precarious future as his people face dwindling supplies and growing hostility with their night elf neighbors.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, King Varian Wrynn of Stormwind is considering violent action in response to mounting tensions between the Alliance and the Horde, a hard-line approach that threatens to alienate those closest to him, including his son, Anduin. The conflicted young prince has set out to find his own path, but in doing so, he risks becoming entangled in political instability that is setting the world on edge.The fate of Azerothâ€™s great races is shrouded in a fog of uncertainty, and the erratic behavior of the elemental spirits, troubling though it is, may only be the first ominous warning sign of the cataclysm to come.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this follow-up to her NY Times bestseller, ARTHAS, Christie Golden delivers a sensational tie-in to the newest World of Warcraft game expansion!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6671'),
(10849, 'A World Out of Time', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10229'),
(10850, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. *World War Z* is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.Eyewitness reports from the first truly global warâ€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of Chinaâ€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkersâ€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3161'),
(10851, 'World without end', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earthis his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the yearWorld Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you (Chicago Tribune)and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without Endtakes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without Endbreathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. SUMMARY: Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earthis his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the yearWorld Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you (Chicago Tribune)and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without Endtakes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without Endbreathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2933'),
(10852, 'A World Without Heroes', 'Brandon Mull', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A World Without Heroes\n  </em>\n  is an addictive blend of fantasy, humor, and heroic quest. Jason is an ordinary 13-year-old involuntarily transported to Lyrian, a world ruled by the evil wizard Maldor. Jason stumbles across a book bound with human skin and learns of a secret word with the power to unmake Maldor--knowledge that puts Jason in grave danger. Galloran, a blind king who once searched for the word himself, introduces Jason to Rachel, another Beyonder (as people from Earth are called) who had appeared in Lyrian at the same time. Jason and Rachel set out to retrieve the word, and the resulting pages are filled with adventure, drama, loyalty and betrayalâ€”a treat for fans of Mullâ€™s Fablehaven series or those discovering this bestselling author for the first time.--_Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Best known as the author of the popular Fablehaven series, Mull offers a new fantasy adventure, in which Jason and Rachel, two American kids, are separately drawn into an alternate world called Lyrian. They want to return home, but they don''t know how. Aided by Rachel, the Blind King, and other allies, 13-year-old Jason undertakes a quest to discover the magical word needed to overthrow Maldor, Lyrian''s evil emperor. The two teens set out to find the word''s closely guarded syllables while thwarting the maneuvers of Maldor''s crafty, vicious minions. Headlong adventure scenes, inventively conceived creatures, and surprising plot twists all figure into the mix as Jason and Rachel make their way through this treacherous world. The book''s conclusion is not so much an ending as a respite before the beginning of the sequel. Readers seeking character-driven fiction should look elsewhere, but those drawn to long, action-filled fantasies may want to try Mull''s latest. Grades 4-7. --Carolyn Phelan\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6315'),
(10853, 'A World Without Ice', 'H. N. Pollack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet''s imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relationship between people and ice has received little focus-until now. As one of the world''s leading experts on climate change, Henry Pollack provides an accessible, comprehensive survey of ice as a force of nature, and the potential consequences as we face the possibility of a world without ice. "A World Without Ice" traces the effect of mountain glaciers on supplies of drinking water and agricultural irrigation, as well as the current results of melting permafrost and shrinking Arctic sea ice-a situation that has degraded the habitat of numerous animals and sparked an international race for seabed oil and minerals. Catastrophic possibilities loom, including rising sea levels and subsequent flooding of lowlying regions worldwide, and the ultimate displacement of millions of coastal residents. "A World Without Ice" answers our most urgent questions about this pending crisis, laying out the necessary steps for managing the unavoidable and avoiding the unmanageable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1769'),
(10854, 'The World Without Us', 'Alan Weisman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Time* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 *Entertainment Weekly* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award *Salon* Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 Editorsâ€™ Picks of 2007 (#4) Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs *Kansas City Star*â€™s Top 100 Books of the Year 2007 *Mother Jones*â€™ Favorite Books of 2007 *South Florida Sun-Sentinel* Best Books of the Year 2007 *Hudson*â€™s Best Books of 2007 *St. Louis Post-Dispatch* Best Books of 2007 *St. Paul Pioneer Press* Best Books of 2007 If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures--our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments--survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind''s place on this planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(10855, 'World&#39;s End', 'Mark Chadbourn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Although the concept of having mythological creatures in a modern setting isn''t new, Chadbourn brings a unique quality that is rare to come by. Overall, World''s End was an impressive read and a great introduction to Chadbourn''s writing. The flow of the book seemed to fly right by and I was always wondering what was going to happen next. Mark Chadbourn is an author that readers of fantasy will definitely be encountering for a long time. World''s End left a lasting impression and brings just an added uniqueness that is always welcome. I look forward to the second book and what surprises are in store, I''m hoping it''ll be just as action packed as the first." -- Fantasy Book Critic, June 1, 2009 "World''s End is an impressive opening volume to the Age of Misrule trilogy and the conclusion is such that everything that readers would have assumed about the novel series is shockingly thrown out the window. While not perfect, [it] is an impressive achievement." -- Sacramento Book Review, June 15, 2009 "The first book of the Age of Misrule is a terrific urban fantasy thriller that brings Celtic mythology into modern day London. The story line is fast-paced from the opening encounter at the bridge and never slows down as the champions are on the run. Readers will enjoy this fine beginning and look forward to more malice from Mark Chadbourn." -- Reviewed by Harriet Klausner in the July 2009 online issue of the MBR Bookwatch. "Simply put: it completely blew me away. I was sucked into the fascinating tale of Celtic magic in conflict the modern world, where evil seeks the end of the world, where ''good'' may be little better, and those charged with saving us all have their own problems to deal with. Highly recommended" -- Neth Space blog, April 2009.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which portends the end of the world as we know it. All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago. Following in their footsteps are creatures of folklore: fabulous bests, wonders and dark terrors. As technology starts to fail, Jack and Ruth are forced to embark on a desperate quest for four magical items - the last chance for humanity in the face of powers barely comprehended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5398'),
(10856, 'The World&#39;s Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn&#39;t Need to Know - Think Again', 'Noel Botham; Useless Information Society', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless InformationÃ‚â€”a collection of even greater insignificance.More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know. But honestly, how cool is it to find out that... Ã‚â€¢ There is a place in Maryland called MonkeyÃ‚''s Eyebrow Ã‚â€¢ Giving yellow flowers is a sign of bad luck in Russia Ã‚â€¢ One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns Ã‚â€¢ Paper can be made from asparagus This is the book that will also tell youÃ‚... Ã‚â€¢ The meaning of Ã‚''mageirocophobiaÃ‚'' Ã‚â€¢ Where it is illegal to kill a butterfly Ã‚â€¢ Huckleberry FinnÃ‚''s remedy for warts Ã‚â€¢ What bodily fluid the Romans used as a hair treatment And much, much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9591'),
(10857, 'Worldbinder', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The bestselling epic breaks new ground **After the events of *Sons of the Oak*, Fallion and Jaz, theÂ sons of the great Earth King Gaborn,Â are living as fugitives in their own kingdom, newly invaded and secretly controlled by supernatural being of ultimate evil.Â The sonsÂ are hiding until they can regain their rightful places in the land. FallionÂ seems destined to heal the world, and feels the supernatural calling to act.Â When he calls on his powers to do so though, two entire worldsÂ collapse into one,Â and every living thing on both worlds is transformed into an entirely new beingâ€”yet still somehow the same. Evil is certainly still the same, and may have influenced this for a terrible purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1522'),
(10858, 'Worldwar: In the Balance', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This intelligent speculative novel depicts an alternate history in which, at the height of World War II, Earth is attacked by alien beings with weapons far more destructive than any possessed by the Allied or Axis forces. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South ) gives a surprisingly convincing flavor to the time-worn story of warring nations uniting to repel extraterrestrials; his human characters, both actual and invented, ring true as they struggle to trust each other after years of enmity, and although the alien threat has a B-movie feel, he makes an effort to portray the invaders sympathetically as well. The first in a projected series, the book ends where it began: in and around a battle. The smooth writing is marred only by slightly overdone dialogue for real-life figures like General Patton. The historical details, especially those concerning the weapons and methods available in the 1940s to defend Earth, are accurate and well rendered.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1942. In Russia, Hitler''s panzers are fighting a losing battle; in China, Japanese invaders ravage the countryside; in England, the RAF watches the skies for enemy bombers; in Chicago, scientists frantically try to unlock the secrets of the atom--and in the skies overhead, an alien army launches its forces to conquer the Earth. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South , LJ 9/1/92) excels in alternate history, and this panoramic exploration of a world at war with itself and with invaders from beyond the galaxy showcases his fertile imagination. A feast for history buffs as well as sf fans, this title belongs in most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4971'),
(10859, 'Worldwar: In/Tiling the Balance', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This intelligent speculative novel depicts an alternate history in which, at the height of World War II, Earth is attacked by alien beings with weapons far more destructive than any possessed by the Allied or Axis forces. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South ) gives a surprisingly convincing flavor to the time-worn story of warring nations uniting to repel extraterrestrials; his human characters, both actual and invented, ring true as they struggle to trust each other after years of enmity, and although the alien threat has a B-movie feel, he makes an effort to portray the invaders sympathetically as well. The first in a projected series, the book ends where it began: in and around a battle. The smooth writing is marred only by slightly overdone dialogue for real-life figures like General Patton. The historical details, especially those concerning the weapons and methods available in the 1940s to defend Earth, are accurate and well rendered.Â \n   <br />\n   Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The year is 1942. In Russia, Hitler''s panzers are fighting a losing battle; in China, Japanese invaders ravage the countryside; in England, the RAF watches the skies for enemy bombers; in Chicago, scientists frantically try to unlock the secrets of the atom--and in the skies overhead, an alien army launches its forces to conquer the Earth. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South , LJ 9/1/92) excels in alternate history, and this panoramic exploration of a world at war with itself and with invaders from beyond the galaxy showcases his fertile imagination. A feast for history buffs as well as sf fans, this title belongs in most libraries.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4968'),
(10860, 'Worldwar: Striking the Balance', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s grand tetralogy of an alternate WWII interrupted by an alien invasion draws to a satisfactory conclusion in this follow-up to Upsetting the Balance, and with a few surprises to boot. The Chinese woman Liu Han, for example, is seen climbing the hierarchy of the Chinese Communist Party as it comes under the control of Mao Zedong. Moishe Russie helps negotiate the final armed truce between the alien Lizards and the humans, with the Lizards withdrawing from most human territory in return for being allowed to settle many deserts in anticipation of the arrival of their colonists. (Neither side can survive an indefinitely prolonged nuclear exchange, and the Lizard edge in technology has been rapidly vanishing.) Readers will be happy to see Ludmila Gorbunova and Heinrich Jaeger reunited, and to note their roles in the final disposition of the heroic lunatic Otto Skorzeny. Turtledove''s historical scholarship, narrative technique, dry wit and deft characterization distinguish this novel just as they did its predecessors, making it a rousing wrap-up to a monument of alternate history from a master of the genre.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fourth book and conclusion to the alternate World War II history series (the prior installment was Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance, LJ 12/95), Turtledove mixes historical and fictional characters in a war of combined Axis and Allied forces against invading reptilian aliens. Recommended for collections with the earlier books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4954'),
(10861, 'Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never mind victory--was to unite to stop a mighty foe--one whose frightening technology appeared invincible.\n</p>\n<p>\n Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China''s enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed across the land, caches of once-forbidden weapons were unearthed, and unthinkable tactics were employed against the enemy. Brilliantly innovative military strategists confronted challenges unprecedented in the history of warfare.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even as lack of fuel forced people back to horse and carriage, physicists worked feverishly to create the first atomic bombs--with horrifying results. City after city joined the radioactive pyre as the planet erupted in fiery ruins. Yet the crisis continued--on land, sea, and in the air--as humanity writhed in global combat. The tactics of daredevil guerrillas everywhere became increasingly ingenious against a superior foe whose desperate retaliation would grow ever more fearsome.\n</p>\n<p>\n No one had ever put the United States, or the world, in such deadly danger. But if the carnage and annihilation ever stopped, would there be any pieces to pick up?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n What got me about the Worldwar series wasn''t the aliens. It wasn''t the warfare (though Harry''s really good at it--I especially love the tanks). It wasn''t even the fact that he''d turned history on its ear in a big way. No, it was the people.\n</p>\n<p>\n If they were historical figures, like Josef Stalin, or Adolf Hitler, or Omar Bradley, he really brought them back to life. But even they took a back seat to Harry''s original characters--the soldiers, the civilians, the resistance members, the spies. Whether they were American or Russian or British or Chinese, he made me care about them, about their lives and their loves. And he made me care a lot about their deaths--the kind of deaths that happen in war.\n</p>\n<p>\n He made the most out of cultural juxtaposition, when a Polish Jew had to fight alongside a Nazi, or a British officer found himself in a tumultuous affair with a female Russian pilot (and sharpshooter--whoosh). These were the real people, They took a science fiction alternate history and elevated it to a new level. The result is a terrific adventure.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â --Steve Saffel, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4961'),
(10862, 'The Worst Hard Time', 'Timothy Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.\n</p>\n<p>\n Timothy Egan''s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, &#147;the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).\n</p>\n<p>\n In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is &#147;arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9927');
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(10863, 'The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl', 'Timothy Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.\n</p>\n<p>\n Timothy Egan''s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, â€œthe stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).\n</p>\n<p>\n In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is â€œarguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6549'),
(10864, 'The Worst Journey in the World', 'Apsley Cherry-Garrard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. The story he relates is of Scott''s last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lies far to the south.Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott''s party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology.The Worst Journey in the World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of the best and most moving books of travel ever written. Join Scott''s expedition as he and his team venture deep into the frozen unknown. This volume is the second in the continuing series of Explorers Club books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(10865, 'Worth Dying For: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Worth Dying For\n  </em>\n  finds our battered hero hiding in plain sight in a tiny Nebraska town, trying to recover from the catastrophe he left behind in South Dakota (no spoilers here, but readers are still arguing over\n  <em>\n   61 Hours\n  </em>\n  â€™s cliffhanger ending). Fans rarely see such a physically vulnerable Reacher (in the first part of the book he is barely able to lift his arms) but it just adds to the fist-pumping satisfaction of seeing our weary good guy take on the small-town baddies. --_Daphne Durham_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Child''s exciting 15th thriller featuring one-man army Jack Reacher (after 61 Hours), Reacher happens into a situation tailor-made for his blend of morality and against-the-odds heroics. While passing through an isolated Nebraska town, the ex-military cop persuades the alcoholic local doctor to treat Eleanor Duncan, who''s married to the abusive Seth, for a "nosebleed." Reacher later breaking Seth''s nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge. Reacher, who easily disposes of two hit men sent to get him, winds up trying to solve a decades-old case concerning a missing eight-year-old girl. While Child convincingly depicts his hero''s superhuman abilities, he throws in a few lucky breaks to enable the outnumbered Reacher to survive. Crisp, efficient prose and well-rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse-pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6868'),
(10866, 'The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure', 'Storm Constantine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first of a stunning new trilogy that explores the deepest secrets of the androgynous Wraeththu. Fitting chronologically between the novels The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire, Wraiths takes up the tale of many characters from the original trilogy, and what happened to them while Pellaz and Cal were involved in their own destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4202'),
(10867, 'Wrangling the Redhead', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" Horse wrangler Wade Owens treated Lauren Winters like a pretty little interloper who had sashayed onto his turf. Wade''s attitude sparked Lauren''s temper, but she''d never backed down from a challenge. Weary from her high-profile career, Lauren had returned to Wyoming to reunite with her old friends, the Calamity Janes, and to start over--incognito--as a horse trainer. Wade was a refreshing change from the glitterati--*he* treated her like a real person. But the wrangler had made clear his distaste for the rich and powerful...would their stormy love endure the maelstrom when Lauren revealed her true identity?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4158'),
(10868, 'Wrapped in Pleasure', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two Westmoreland novelsâ€”one classic and one newâ€”from\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestselling author Brenda Jackson\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Delaney''s Desert Sheikh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A mix-up in Delaney Westmoreland''s vacation plans forces her to share a cabin with a tall, dark and oh-so-handsome sheikh who is bent on her seduction. Jamal Ari Yasir intends to school Delaney in sensuality for his own pleasure. But instead of loving and leaving her, he becomes enraptured by an irresistible and unforgettable passion for his sexy-as-sin roommate. Can the arrogant sheikh convince his secret lover that they are fated for more than just a summer fling?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Seduced by a Stranger\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Johari Yasir has no interest in returning to her homeland to marry a man she''s never metâ€”at least, not without sowing some wild oats first. And when a handsome charmer offers to whisk her away in his private plane, she impulsively accepts. Rasheed Valdemon is shocked that his bride-to-be would fly off with someone she barely knowsâ€” even though\n <em>\n  he''s\n </em>\n the one doing the asking. More surprising is his hunger for this lovely, rebellious woman. Yet what will happen when she realizes she''s been seduced by the man who''s destined to be her husband?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8041'),
(10869, 'Wrath of a Mad God', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The celebrated *New York Times* bestselling master of fantasy returns with the thrilling conclusion to his enthralling, explosive Darkwar Saga . . . *Wrath of a Mad God* Book three of The Darkwar Saga *"At this very moment, a dome of black energy is being expanded in a vale in the far north. This is not merely an invasion, but the beginning of a colonization, a process that will end with the complete annihilation of every life-form on this world."* The Darkwar rages upon Midkemia and Kelewan, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair. To save the future of both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the secretive Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the bloodthirsty Dasati, there to carry out an audacious mission that has little, if any, chance of succeeding. In Midkemia, young warriors Tad and Zane, and their fellow soldiers, protect the Kingdom from raiders. And Pug''s beloved wife, Miranda, finds herself a prisoner of the Dasati and, even more ominously, of Pug''s nemesis, the evil sorcerer Leso Varen. Salvation may come from a friend thought long dead, an unlikely ally whose remarkable powers will be sorely needed in the momentous battle to come . . . a final, fevered onslaught against the most malevolent agents of evil ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3622'),
(10870, 'Wrath of the Lion', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11029'),
(10871, 'Wreck of the Carl D.', 'Michael Schumacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9262'),
(10872, 'Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea', 'Michael Schumacher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Great Lakes historian Schumacher (_Mighty Fitz: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_) profiles another nautical tragedy. The\n  <em>\n   Carl D. Bradley\n  </em>\n  , a 638-foot limestone carrier, sank to Lake Michigan''s cold bottom 50 years ago this November. Known as the "Queen of the Stone-Carrying Fleet," it was the most expensive wreck in the history of the Great Lakes, totaling $8 million. The human cost was far greater, as many of the 33 deceased lived in one city, the ship''s port of Rogers City, Mich. Schumacher is a rigorous reporter and researcher, covering the ship''s shaky state, the harrowing wreck and risky rescue with assurance and clarity. There are a few missteps, a chapter on the wreck of the\n  <em>\n   Cedarville\n  </em>\n  in 1965 feeling like padding. By profiling the\n  <em>\n   Carl D.\n  </em>\n  ''s crew and detailing their lives in Rogers City, Schumacher gives a human face to the tragedy, infusing the book with dramatic substance to match the riveting narrative.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This chronicle of the November 1958 sinking of the limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley in Lake Michigan is sure to appeal to the many fans of Jungerâ€™s The Perfect Storm (1997). Almost the entire crew of 35 died when the ship was literally torn in half during a fierce storm; the book recounts the incident and its tragic aftermath, including a dramatic search-and-rescue effort. Itâ€™s a poignant story, made even more poignant by the fact that most of the crewâ€™s families lived in the same small town, Rogers City; this isnâ€™t just a story about a tragedy on the water, but about an entire town coming to terms with the sudden loss of so many of its friends and family. Schumacher, the author of several nonfiction books including Mighty Fitz (2005), about the more famous sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, writes with a steady hand, never letting the drama or emotion of the moment overwhelm the storytelling. A solid and sometimes heartbreaking addition to the maritime-tragedy genre. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5275'),
(10873, 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9339'),
(10874, 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger."Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I''ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."A tesseract (in case the reader doesn''t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L''Engle''s unusual book. *A Wrinkle in Time*, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O''Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg''s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2836'),
(10875, 'Writ of Execution', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nina Reilly''s new client ought to be dancing in the streets. She''s just won the biggest slot machine jackpot in Lake Tahoe history. But if Jessie Potter claims it, she''s putting herself and her little boy in harm''s way. Someone''s out to get the young woman, and the only one who seems to be on her side is Kenny Leung, an awkward but likable techno-wizard who''s about to go bankrupt. Nina comes up with a plan to help Jessie collect her jackpot without revealing her identity to the powerful man who believes she killed his son. But her client''s pursuer is already on the sniff. Though he was unable to convince the police to charge her with homicide, he and his sleazy lawyer counter Nina''s maneuver by filing a writ of execution that will deprive Jessie of her rightful winnings. And just to thicken the plot, there''s someone else threatening Jessie--a very angry man who believes she stole the jackpot that should have been his. He will kill anyone who stands in the way of his claim.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nina may be a crafty lawyer, but she''s not quite as deft in juggling her personal and professional lives. Paul van Wagoner, her investigator, isn''t happy with their romantic relationship, and Nina herself, still mourning the death of her husband, is reluctant to commit to more than a casual romance. Perri O''Shaughnessy doesn''t devote a lot of ink to her heroine''s emotional concerns, but she''s good at plotting, excellent on the legal maneuvering, and handles her secondary characters well, particularly Leung, whose computer expertise illuminates the technical aspects of slot machine gaming. This is a series that keeps getting better. O''Shaughnessy fans who''ve stuck with Nina since her somewhat plodding earlier adventures will be glad they stayed the course.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A wild, just-barely-believable scenario jump-starts this serviceably written, well-paced and engaging courtroom thriller, seventh in a series by the bestselling duo (sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy) who write under the pen name Perri. On an ordinary night at a Lake Tahoe casino, a young ex-Marine and Native American widow named Jessie Potter punches a button on a slot machine and winds up hitting the jackpot to the tune of $7 million. Rather than jumping for joy, she flees the casino, dragging computer nerd Kenny Leung, the man at the slot machine next to hers, along with her. Jessie, it is revealed, is being stalked and can''t sign for her check, for fear of publicity. Desperate for a solution, she convinces Kenny to marry her so she can sign as Mrs. Leung, and to protect her interests, she hires lawyer Nina Reilly, back once more after her adventures in Move to Strike. The story takes off when Jessie''s former father-in-law enters the picture with a wrongful death suit, claiming that Jessie killed his son, and a writ of execution that will seize all of Jessie''s assets, including the $7 million. Meanwhile, key witnesses to Jessie''s win keep turning up dead, and Nina and her arch rival, Jeff Riesner, face off in court. Although development of the interpersonal relationships is rushed, making them never quite as believable as they should be, and the language and dialogue are rendered predictably, the suspenseful and well-executed courtroom scenes provide ample payoff. In particular, the book''s final third captivates with its scenes of wily courtroom negotiation. Readers will relish the myriad plot details and the procedural drama, and enjoy the cast of offbeat characters. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4732'),
(10876, 'Write Great Fiction: Dialogue : Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Effective Dialogue', 'Gloria Kempton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How do some writers craft conversation so authentic, it feels like they''ve been eavesdropping? What''s the secret behind getting characters to talk to each other? How can writers make their dialogue sing?\n</p>\n<p>\n Answers to all of these questions and more can be found in Gloria Kempton''s in-depth look at this crucial component of fiction. Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creating dialogue for specific genres\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identifying and fixing common dialogue problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Each chapter features numerous examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises help readers apply the lessons learned. This is one book that will get readers talking!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of several young adult novels, Gloria Kempton conducts workshops each year at some of the most prestigious writing conference in the country, including the Maui Writer''s Conference. She is also a contributing editor to Writer''s Digest magazine. Gloria lives in Seattle, Washington.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6940'),
(10877, 'The Writer and the Witch', 'Robin Sloan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The title doesn''t lie: This is a story about a young writer and an old witch who meet on a lonely road that winds towards the New Capital.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Actually, they meet there twice. The first time, there''s a curse involved. The second time--you''ll have to read and find out.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   It all adds up to about 4,000 words--perfect as a train read or an after-dinner fable. (Didn''t you hear? Doctors recommend after-dinner fables.)\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   == Praise for previous work ==\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Here''s what some Amazon reviewers had to say about my previous story, Mr. Penumbra''s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In my book, 5 stars are reserved for works that you carry around in your mind even when you''ve finished reading them. This short story qualifies."\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Tightly wound mystery/fantasy plot. Wonderful characters given just enough flesh to leave your imagination room to play. An unbroken string of sentences that charm. And it''s drink-snortingly funny."\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "...I was really impressed by the cover art (in the Kindle book itself) and the one drawing featured in the text. Basic stuff, yes, but very stylish and well-done. Pictures sometimes look awful on the Kindle in ''big name'' books, so it was nice to see such a polished presentation here."\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "I enjoyed Robin Sloan''s short story immensely. This story was as well-written as one could hope for. It pulled me right in until I finished it. I certainly hope Sloan will be writing more for us soon!"\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   == About the author ==\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Robin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the internet. You can learn more, and keep in touch, at robinsloan.com.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5171'),
(10878, 'A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army', 'Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor; Luba Vinogradova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century â€“ a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and â€œthe ruthless truth of war.â€When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Armyâ€™s newspaper. **A Writer at War** â€“ based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered raw material for his articles â€“ depicts the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. It also includes some of the earliest reportage on the Holocaust. In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.Historian Antony Beevor has taken Grossmanâ€™s raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions â€“ at once unflinching and sensitive â€“ we have ever had of what he called â€œthe ruthless truth of war.â€*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3784'),
(10879, 'Writing Popular Fiction', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Writer''s Digest Hardcover, 1974 2nd printing with 232 pgs., size: 8 3/4" x 5 3/4 approx. - Fan of popular fiction, professional writer, new writer looking for markets-whoever you are, you''ll enjoy this book. It takes you behind the publishing scene and shows you how popular novels-science fiction, mysteries, suspense thrillers, Gothic-romances, adult fantasy, Westerns, and erotica are created and how you can write them too. This book offers you, whatever you write, the chance to perfect your craft while earning income, building your reputation, and experiencing the encouragement of seeing your work in print. Dean Koontz has sold since 1967, over twenty-four (copyright of this book 1974) popular novels. Before becoming a full-time free-lance writer, he worked as a supermarket check out clerk, a drummer in a rock band, a foredt ranger, a tutor for underprivileged children with the Appalachian Poverty Program, and as a suburban school English teacher, among other things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8278'),
(10880, 'Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed', 'Donald Maass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This powerful book builds on the success of its predecessor - Writing the Breakout Novel - and takes readers to the next level: improving their work with practical, hands-on lessons and exercises. With patented techniques from his popular writing workshops, Donald Maass shows fiction writers exactly how to make their work stand out from the crowd. Readers will learn how to strengthen any novel-in-progress, with sections on: Building Plot Layers; Creating Inner Conflict; Strengthening Point of View and Voice; Discovering Larger Than Life Character Qualities; Developing the Psychology of Place; Every workbook exercise is followed by examples from real-life breakout novels. This is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donald Maass as a leading literary agent, represents more than 100 fiction writers and sells more than 100 novels per year to top publishers in North America and overseas. He is the author of 14 pseudonymous novels and the books The Career Novelist and Writing the Breakout Novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7171'),
(10881, 'Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer', 'Roy Peter Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covering the writing waterfront-from basics on verb tense to the value of forming a "support group"-Poynter Institute vice president Clark offers tips, tricks and techniques for anyone putting fingers to keyboard. The best assets in Clark''s book are in the "workshop" sections that conclude each chapter and list strategies for incorporating the material covered in each lesson (minimize adverbs, use active verbs, read your work aloud). Though some suggestions are classroom campy ("Listen to song lyrics to hear how the language moves on the ladder of abstraction" and "With some friends, take a big piece of chart paper and with colored markers draw a diagram of your writing process"), Clark''s blend of instruction and exercise will prove especially useful for teachers. One exercise, for instance, suggests reading the newspaper and marking the location of subjects and verbs. Another provides a close reading of a passage from The Postman Always Rings Twice to look at the ways word placement and sentence structure can add punch to prose. Clark doesn''t intend his guide to be a replacement for classic style guides like Elements of Style, but as a companion volume, it does the trick.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author, vice president of the Poynter Institute School of Journalism, wants you to understand that a tool isn''t the same thing as a rule. A tool is something designed to help you, not constrict you. The 50 tools discussed here take writers through the process of storytelling in prose, from the basic (construct a sentence with a subject and a verb) to the advanced (make your characters archetypes, not stereotypes). Many of Clark''s rules are technical, having to do with such matters as punctuation and tense, but some of them are more thematically oriented (for example, discussions of the proper uses of foreshadowing and suspense). Use the tools when you like, the author says, and throw them away when it suits you. Just know what it is you''re throwing away and why. This is a useful tool for writers at all levels of experience, and it''s entertainingly written, with plenty of helpful examples.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6907'),
(10882, 'Written in Time', 'Jerry Ahern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a freelance writer, Jack Naile was used to getting an occasional letter from one of his readers, but when one of those readers sent him a clipping from a magazine, it would not only change his life, but could alter the course of history as well. The clipping had a photo, taken in Nevada in 1903, of a street scene, including a story with a sign, "Jack Naile--General Merchandise."Intrigued, Jack phoned the Nevada town''s historian and asked for more information. When the historian sent him a photo of the 19th century Jack Naile, what had seemed like an interesting coincidence immediately became much more bizarre. The four people in the photo, dressed in the style of the time, were unmistakably Jack, his wife, their grown son and teenage daughter. Jack decided he would have to take a trip to that town to investigate further. And if he and his family were somehow going to travel back in time, he was going to be prepared--and be well-armed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6516'),
(10883, 'The Wrong Man', 'John Katzenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Katzenbach (_The Traveler_) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller clichÃ© and using it as the basis for a powerful and complex story. The one-night stand that Ashley Freeman, a Boston art history grad student, has with Michael O''Connell, a determined psychopath, leads to dire consequences. O''Connell quickly moves to obsessively control every aspect of Ashley''s life, coupling a relentless will with ingenuity and computer skills that soon ensnare Ashley''s loved ones as they seek to protect her from him. When their feeble attempts to buy or scare off O''Connell fail, Ashley''s divorced parents, as well as her mother''s lesbian partner, embark on a convoluted but ingenious plot of their own. The author deftly shifts perspective among his central characters, raising this page-turner above the run-of-the-mill by making all of them emotionally credible.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ashley Freeman is a promising art-history student passionate about every aspect of her life. One night, the twentysomething Bostonian meets Michael O''Connell, a handsome, dark-haired stranger whom she readily forgets after a single steamy session between the sheets. But Mike, a street-smart psychopath who stalks women for sport, has no intention of letting Ashley go. He watches her every move from the shadows and sends her countless e-mails professing his love. Ashley''s family and friends shrug it off as a crush, until O''Connell, an ingenious computer hacker, reveals the damage he can do: he sabotages the reputation of Ashley''s professor father with a stinging accusation of plagiarism and nearly gets her mother, a lawyer, disbarred. Bribes and threats do nothing to deter him, and when a private investigator assigned to the case turns up dead, the Freeman family takes extreme measures to quash O''Connell''s relentless pursuit. Although his ending is a bit too contrived, the best-selling Katzenbach (_The Madman''s Tale_, 2004) keeps the pages turning in this unsettling tale of obsessive love.\n <em>\n  Allison Block\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6630'),
(10884, 'The Wrong Man: A Novel', 'John Katzenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Scott Freeman is a man of reasonâ€“a college professor grounded in the rational and practical. But he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughterâ€™s room: â€œNo one could ever love you like I do. No one ever will. We will be together forever. One way or another.â€ But the reality of Ashleyâ€™s plight far exceeds Scottâ€™s worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashley, a beautiful, bright art student, into what she thought was just a fling with a blue-collar bad boy. But now, no amount of pleading or reasoning can discourage his phone calls, ardent e-mails, and constant, watchful gaze. Michael Oâ€™Connell is but a malignant shadow of a man. His brash, handsome features conceal a black and empty soul. Control is his religion. Cunning and criminal skill are his stock-in-trade. Rage is his language. The harder Ashley tries to break free, the deeper Michael burrows into every aspect of her life, so she turns in desperation to her divorced parents and her motherâ€™s new partnerâ€“three people still locked in a coldly civilized triangle of resentment. But their fierce devotion to Ashley is the common bond that will draw them together to face down a predator. For Ashleyâ€™s family, it is a test of primal love that will drive them to the extreme edgeâ€“and beyondâ€“in a battle of wills that escalates into a life-or-death war to protect their own. From the bestselling master of suspense, John Katzenbach, TheWrong Manis an elegantly crafted and breathtakingly intense read that asks the question, â€œHow far would you go to save the child you love?â€ From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2754'),
(10885, 'The wrong Venus', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(10886, 'Wuthering Heights', 'Emily Jane Bronte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte''s only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both themselves and many around them. Now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights'' innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of Matryoshka dolls,[citation needed] met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared. Though Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre was originally considered the best of the Bronte sisters'' works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior. Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor and songs (notably the hit Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush), ballet and opera. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Author** Emily Jane Bronte (July 30, 1818 - December 19, 1848) was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Bronte sisters, being younger than Charlotte and older than Anne. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bronte and the fift\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(10887, 'WWW: Wake', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation"(*SF Site*) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web''s awakening.** Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math-and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin''s brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers something-some *other*-lurking in the background. And it''s getting more and more intelligent with each passing day...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9654'),
(10888, 'WWW: Watch', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9655'),
(10889, 'WWW: Wonder', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (New York Times) concludes his mindbending trilogy. Webmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated. Caitlin Decter-the once-blind sixteen-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind-wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn''t act, everything-Webmind included-may come crashing down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6019'),
(10890, 'Wyrd Sisters', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Witches Are Not By Nature Gregarious, And They Certainly Don T Have Leaders.Granny Weatherwax Was The Most Highly-Regarded Of The Leaders They Didn T Have.But Even She Found That Meddling In Royal Politics Was A Lot More Difficult Than Certain Playwrights Would Have You Believe&amp;Wyrd Sisters Is The Sixth Novel In The Discworld Sequence The Funniest Fantasy Series Ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3391'),
(10891, 'The Wyrmling Horde', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Saga of the Runelords is written in the finest tradition of Tolkien and other works that rise above the fantasy genre to special and individual heights. Now the epic story continues: at the end of Worldbinder, Fallion Orden, son of Gaborn, was imprisoned on a strange and fantastic world that he created by combining two alternate realities. It''s a world brimming with dark magic, ruled by a creature of unrelenting evil who is gathering monstrous armies from a dozen planets in a bid to conquer the universe. Only Fallion has the power to mend the worlds, but at the heart of a city that is a vast prison, he lies in shackles. The forces of evil are growing and will soon rage across the heavens. Now, Fallion''s allies must risk everything in an attempt to free him from the wyrmling horde.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(10892, 'Wyrms', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation . . . or the destruction of the cosmos. Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler''s honor: that duty to one''s race is more important than duty to one''s self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny . . . and her world''s. Wyrms is an Orson Scott Card classic, one of the novels that helped forge his young career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5840'),
(10893, 'X-Treme Latin: Lingua Latina Extrema: All the Latin You Need to Know for Surviving the 21st Century', 'Henry Beard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This book is the perfect gift for the discriminating linguist. Unleash your inner gladiator with hundreds of modern putdowns and comebacks -- all with the superiority and anonymity of the ancient tongue. For example, it features classical kiss-offs such as Å¼You want a part of me? Bring it on!Å¼Å¼: Å¼Visne partem mei capere? Comminus aganus!.Å¼ Spice up your snowboarding speak -- Å¼Super rad! IÅ¼m Stoked!: Å¼Maxime radicitus! Flagro!Å¼ Thanks to this little book, you too can tap the awesome power of Latin to dismay the ignorant multitudes. And, best of all, youÅ¼ll be able to insult and abuse one and all in perfect safety, using a language that everyone respects but practically no one understands. Å¼And have a nice day!Å¼: Å¼Et futue te ipsum!Å¼ Illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2127'),
(10894, 'Xeelee Novellas', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4226'),
(10895, 'The XeeLee Sequence Timeline', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/11105'),
(10896, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2484'),
(10897, 'Xombies: Apocalypse Blues', 'Walter Greatshell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A triumph, both epic in scope and entirely unpredictable, and anchored by one of the most refreshing and unique voices in modern horror fiction.Â  Expect great things from Mr. Greatshell in the future." --Nate Kenyon, Horror World Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The writing is fast paced and keeps you hooked.Â  The book itself is a cross between Night of the Living Dead and an end-of-the-world-type premise like Earth Abides, one of my all-time favorites." --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I loved [this] book." --David Wellington, Author of Frostbite\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Agent X plague struck, it infected women first, turning them into mindless killers intent only on creating an army of "Xombies" by spreading their disease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Running for her life, seventeen-year-old Lulu is rescued by the father she has never known and taken aboard a refitted nuclear submarine that has one mission: to save a little bit of humanity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4440'),
(10898, 'Xombies: Apocalypticon', 'Walter Greatshell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Xombies: Apocalypticon is more exciting, more action-packed, more gory, and more darkly humorous than its predecessor."\n</p>\n<p>\n --BSCreview\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Survivors of a cataclysmic zombie-making plague leave a temporary safety of a refitted nuclear sub to scavenge for food and supplies on land. But they soon find themselves facing new terrors on the surface and mutiny below.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4439'),
(10899, 'Xone of Contention', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author of Zombie Lover A wild and wonderful new magical adventure that leads from Xanth to Earth - and back again! A cataclysmic cloud hangs over the enchanted land of land of Xanth. Three courageous couples must venture into the O-Xone, a cybernetic interface between Xanth and our own world, to rescue the enchanted realm from destruction. A xany new fantasy xaga from the Master of Merriment, Xone of Contention is chock-filled with danger, excitement and xillions of laughs! After a year filled with harrowing adventures, all Breanna of the Black Wave and her newfound love Justin Tree want is a little time to get to know each other better, and explore the wonders of the enchanted land of Xanth. But their incipient idyll is soon shattered by a stunning discovery. A climatic catastrophe is causing a massive meltdown that threatens to inundate the ancient forests of Xanth. The only way to avert this dire disaster is to undertake a voyage into the distant mists of the past, to find the moment when this ghastly greenhouse effect began. And the only people who can safely make that journey are those unaffected by Xanth''s magic - normal, ordinary humans from our own world. So Breanna and Justin turn for help to the Demon X(A/N)th (a.k.a. Nimby) and his lovely consort Chlorine. Together, they devise a daring plan. Making use of the O-Xone, a magical computer network that links the worlds of Xanth and Earth, Nimby and Chlorine make contact with Pia and Edsel, a young couple from Earth who are working on a Xanth game, and arrange to exchange bodies with them. But an unexpected surprise awaits them on their arrival. The Demon Earth has challenged the Demon Xanth to a deadly duel for the highest possible stakes - dominion over both worlds. While Pia and Edsel range through the farthest reaches of time and space to save Xanth from destruction, Nimby must learn to live by the strange rules of our world, and defeat his ancient enemy without the benefit of his own awesome powers. Brimming with magic, merriment, laughter and love, Xone of Contention is a rousing new fantasy saga in the grand Xanth tradition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3291'),
(10900, 'The Yankee Years', 'Joe Torre; Tom Verducci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre''s New York Yankees.Â When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of Americaâ€™s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasonsâ€”with twelve straight playoff appearances, six pennants, and four World Series titlesâ€”Torre left the Yankees as the most beloved manager in baseball. But dealing with players like Jason Giambi, A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson is what managing is all about. Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office, showing what it took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2000');
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(10901, 'The Year of Living Biblically: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers.The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history''s most influential book with new eyes. Jacobs''s quest transforms his life even more radically than the year spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica for The Know-It-All. His beard grows so unruly that he is regularly mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, battles idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife''s chagrin.Throughout the book, Jacobs also embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally. He tours a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pennsylvania Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and does Scripture study with Jehovah''s Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical wisdom of startling relevance. And he wrestles with seemingly archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first-century brain.Jacobs''s extraordinary undertaking yields unexpected epiphanies and challenges. A book that will charm readers both secular and religious, The Year of Living Biblically is part Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(10902, 'The Year of Magical Thinking', 'Joan Didion', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion''s venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of\n <em>\n  Slouching Towards Bethlehem\n </em>\n and 11 other works chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, while the couple''s only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne''s death propelled Didion into a state she calls "magical thinking." "We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss," she writes. "We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes." Didion''s mourning follows a traditional arcâ€”she describes just how precisely it cleaves to the medical descriptions of griefâ€”but her elegant rendition of its stages leads to hard-won insight, particularly into the aftereffects of marriage. "Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John''s eyes. I did not age." In a sense, all of Didion''s fiction, with its themes of loss and bereavement, served as preparation for the writing of this memoir, and there is occasionally a curious hint of repetition, despite the immediacy and intimacy of the subject matter. Still, this is an indispensable addition to Didion''s body of work and a lyrical, disciplined entry in the annals of mourning literature.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Didion''s husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma. This book is a memoir of Dunne''s death, Quintana''s illness, and Didion''s efforts to make sense of a time when nothing made sense. "She''s a pretty cool customer," one hospital worker says of her, and, certainly, coolness was always part of the addictive appeal of Didion''s writing. The other part was the dark side of cool, the hyper-nervous awareness of the tendency of things to go bad. In 2004, Didion had her own disasters to deal with, and she did not, she feels, deal with them coolly, or even sanely. This book is about getting a grip and getting on; it''s also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5049'),
(10903, 'The Year of the Flood', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. *The Year of the Flood* is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. **The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God''s Gardenersâ€”a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal lifeâ€”has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God''s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren''s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo''hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can''t stay locked away . . .By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, *The Year of the Flood* is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2556'),
(10904, 'The Year of the Hare', 'Arto Paasilinna &amp; Pico Iyer &amp; Herbert Lomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1975 at the height of the back-to-nature movement, Paasilinna''s charming, low-key allegory pursues a journalist abandoning his Helsinki life for the companionship of a pet hare. Approaching middle age--"the hopes of youth had not been realized, far from it"--Kaarlo Vatanen takes off after a hare he and his friend have accidentally hit while driving. He tends to the hare''s leg, befriends the critter, deserts his friend, gradually sheds his former life, and eventually refits a cozy cabin in the wilds of Lapland. Paasilinna fashions in each step of Kaarlo''s transformation a test of society''s institutions, and finds each, not surprisingly, wanting, from law enforcement and the construction industry to the army. The hare, meanwhile, is innocently plucky, leaving his droppings on the altar of a church and in the soup of a Swedish lady. It''s cute enough, if baldly obvious in the way that parables often are. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Finnish journalist and a photographer out on assignment one June evening suddenly hit a young hare on a country road. The photographer, ultimately unsympathetic, abandons his journalist companion Vatanen, who sets off to find the wounded hare. Vatanen develops a close bond with the hare and in their adventures together, they witness people''s avarice, inhumaneness, hypocrisy, cruelty, participation in bureaucracy, and mere existence, rather than living, in the world. This last realization in particular is life altering for Vatanen: he quits his job, discards his hopeless marriage, sacrifices financial security, and sells his most prized possession (a boat). All this Vatanen replaces with a life of odd jobs and on-the-road experiences. This picaresque novel could simply depict a middle-age crisis, but it reaches beyond fantasy or fiction, becoming mythic in its universal themes. The story is inventive, satirical, and quite humorous. It is also refreshingly sentimental in the sense that Paasilinna reaffirms our connection with the animal world and our inherent need for happiness and freedom to maintain quality of life.\n <em>\n  Janet St. John\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4750'),
(10905, 'Year of the Unicorn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9104'),
(10906, 'Year of wonders: a novel of the plague', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village", in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar''s maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village''s desperate fight to save itself. Exploring love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of science and religion to interpret the world at the cusp of the modern era, Year of Wonders is at once a story of unconventional love and a richly detailed evocation of a riveting moment in history. Like Arthur Golden''s Memories of a Geisha and A. S. Byatt''s Posession, Yea\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(10907, 'The Year That Follows', 'Scott Lasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story of a womanâ€™s search for her brotherâ€™s lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasserâ€™s riveting new novelâ€”a work of stunning economy and momentum about a womanâ€™s quest and a familyâ€™s longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she sets off in search of his child. Her search is still under way when she gets a call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret he has kept from her all her life. He asks Cat to visit him in California, intending to make his peace.Catâ€™s journeyâ€”toward her father, and her brotherâ€™s infant sonâ€”and Samâ€™s journey toward his daughter, his lost son, and a new relationship to both his future and his past are woven into this superbly realized novel about families and the mysteries and ambiguities that inhere in our most primal relations. The result is a deeply stirring work that explores the complexities of home and heritage, and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8269'),
(10908, 'The Year&#39;s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection', 'Gardner Dozois', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran editor Dozois, 15-time Hugo winner, offers 30 stories, several of them Hugo-nominated. The table of contents is dominated by familiar names like Michael Swanwick and Greg Egan, but occasionally leavened with relative newcomers like Hannu Rajaniemi and more obscure authors like James Alan Gardner. Settings range from the present-day (Nancy Kress''s The Erdmann NexusÂ) to the distant future (Ian McDonald''s The TearÂ) and alternate history (Aliete de Bodard''s Butterfly, Falling at DawnÂ). Similarly the moods range from relatively upbeat (Dominic Green''s Shining ArmourÂ) to pessimistic (Swanwick''s From Babel''s Fallen Glory We FledÂ). In some entries the SF elements appear to be almost an afterthought, but most earn their inclusion. Dozois also provides short biographies, a detailed overview of the year in SF and a lengthy list of honorable mentions. This is a worthy addition to a venerable series.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Gardner Dozois and\n <em>\n  The Yearâ€™s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe 25th installment of editor extraordinaire Dozois''s annual collection packs a wallop.â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "For more than a quarter century, Gardner Dozois''sÂ _THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR_Â has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall." --Charles N. Brown, publisher of\n <em>\n  Locus Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8584'),
(10909, 'Year&#39;s Best SF 15', 'David G. Hartwell; Kathryn Cramer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who knows what awaits us tomorrow? Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year''s magnificent harvest--gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer--offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, "Year''s Best SF 15" offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction''s brightest lights, including: Stephen Baxter - Nancy Kress - Alastair Reynolds - Geoff Ryman - Bruce Sterling - Peter Watts - Robert Charles Wilson - Gene Wolfe - and others\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1122'),
(10910, 'The Yellow Admiral', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighteenth book in the series. The Yellow Admiral -- the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written -- SUMMARY: At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O''Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie''s affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out... Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. The Yellow Admiral is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O''Brian''s fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O''Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren''t some rousing and bloody sea-battles!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4296'),
(10911, 'The Yellow Feather Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10262'),
(10912, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', 'Charlotte Perkins Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a di\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(10913, 'Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive', 'Noah J. Goldstein; Steve J. Martin; Robert B. Cialdini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion** What one word can you start using today to increase your persuasiveness by more than fifty percent? Which item of stationery can dramatically increase people''s responses to your requests? How can you win over your rivals by inconveniencing them? Why does knowing that so many dentists are named Dennis improve your persuasive prowess? Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the psychology of persuasion, *Yes!* reveals fifty simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work and in your personal life, too. Cowritten by the world''s most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, *Yes!* presents dozens of surprising discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more effective persuader. Why did a sign pointing out the problem of vandalism in the Petrified Forest National Park actually *increase* the theft of pieces of petrified wood? Why did sales of jam multiply tenfold when consumers were offered many *fewer* flavors? Why did people prefer a Mercedes immediately after giving reasons why they prefer a BMW? What simple message on cards left in hotel rooms greatly increased the number of people who behaved in environmentally friendly ways? Often counterintuitive, the findings presented in *Yes!* will steer you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little known but proven wisdom. Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life, *Yes!* shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2942'),
(10914, 'Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving', 'Iyanla Vanzant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection?What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love?Just what are the lessons of life''s hard times?Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own personal experiences to show how life''s hardships can be re-languaged and re-visioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have to be today''s reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday''s tears become the seeds of today''s hope, renewal, and strength.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6104'),
(10915, 'Yon Ill Wind', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An All-New Xanth Adventure****First Paperback Edition!**A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurricane to blast into Xanth, stirring up mischief and madness wherever she goes. Trapped in a preposterous form by a cosmic wager, the Demon X(A/N)th must join forces with a vexatious vixen named Chlorine to save Xanth from this terrifying and tempestuous threat.Their companions on this haphazard quest are a hapless human family - Jim and Karen Baldwin and their two teenaged sons, David and Sean - gusted into Xanth from the mundane world beyond. Together they encounters a host of turbulent misadventures as they struggle to keep Xanth from being blown off the map forever.A brisk and breezy adventure in the grand Xanth tradition,* Yon Ill Wind* is sure to bring gales of laughter and excitement to Piers Anthony''s legion of loyal readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3290'),
(10916, 'You belong to me', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this breathtaking new novel from the reigning diva of suspense, a psychopathic killer stalks lonely women aboard cruise ships -- giving grisly new significance to the lyrics of an old sweet song... When psychologist Dr. Susan Chandler uses her call-in radio show to explore the issue of lonesome women who disappear and are later found to have been victims of seductive killers, she has no way of knowing she is exposing herself -- and those closest to her -- to the very horror she is warning others against. After a listener calls in offering information about the mysterious disappearance from a luxury ocean liner of wealthy investment advisor Regina Clausen, the caller meets with a terrible accident. Or so say the police. As Susan begins to investigate, she quickly finds herself in a race against time -- and an assassin who targets not only vulnerable women, but anyone who might offer clues to his identity. Inching closer to the truth, Susan makes shocking dual discoveries: that the killer may be an important figure in her own life, and that she herself is marked for murder. As unpredictable as it is daring, *You Belong To Me* delivers a series of electrifying jolts as Mary Higgins Clark makes yet another brilliant entry in the annals of classic suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3165'),
(10917, 'You Can&#39;t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times', 'Howard Zinn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity.\n  <em>\n   You Can''t Be Neutral on a Moving Train\n  </em>\n  , a title taken from his advice to students about his take on American history and current events, is a powerful testament to that life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta''s Spelman College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the future head of the Children''s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber throughout the 1970s and 1980s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral urgency, but he isn''t above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out at the reader: Zinn''s horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma, Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience."\n  <em>\n   --Ron Hogan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted left-wing historian Zinn ( A People''s History of the United States ) believes that activism and education are inextricable, and his memoir illuminates a well-engaged life. Teaching at Atlanta''s Spelman College in the early days of the civil rights movement, he found allies in principled students like Marian Wright (now Edelman) and budding writer Alice Walker. He advised SNCC in Selma, Ala. He volunteered to fight the Nazis but, after Hiroshima, developed a skeptical pacifism he further exercised as a passionate opponent of the Vietnam War. Zinn''s narrative is oddly disjointed: not until late in the book does he recount his youth in the slums of Brooklyn, his discovery of Dickens, Marx and Steinbeck and his post-WW II years as a laborer and a 27-year-old college freshman. If Zinn is a bit Pollyannish, he''s also inspirational, arguing that, because much has changed in history, "We can be surprised again. Indeed, we can do the surprising."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5577'),
(10918, 'You Can&#39;t Stop Me', 'Max Allan Collins; Matthew Clemens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Small-town sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin - only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV''s smash-hit, "Crime Seen"! But while media star Harrow tracks down dangerous criminals coast to coast - with the help of viewers'' tips - a killer with a twisted agenda is making his own bloody path to fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3183'),
(10919, 'You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters', 'Bill Fawcett &amp; Brian M. Thomsen &amp; Brian Thomsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Okay, itâ€™s not exactly news that Napoleon miscalculated in trying to invade Russia in the dead of winter or that David Caruso hurt his career by leaving NYPD Blue after a mere season and a half. And the authors, publishing veterans, are a bit blithe in describing the battle between Henry VIII and Thomas More as merely a bad personnel decision. (Similarly, poor Anne of Cleves might have felt differently about their saying Henry canâ€™t be faulted for their failed marriage.) Complex historical episodes, such as the rise and fall of Robespierre, are reduced to a quick sketch of blunder, and major historical goof-ups are mixed in with more trivial pop-culture tales of woe, such as Garth Brooksâ€™s worst-selling album and other actors who, like Caruso, bailed out of a TV ship that, far from sinking, was moving full steam ahead. Thereâ€™s an odd mix here, definitely history very-lite, but perhaps readers who savor schadenfreude will find some satisfaction in it.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  History has never been more fun than it is in this fact-filled compendium of historical fiascoes and embarrassingly bad ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout history, the rich and powerful, and even just the dim-witted, have made horrifically bad decisions that have had resounding effects on our world. From kings to corporate leaders, from captains to presidents, no one is immune to bad decisions and their lasting legacy. The fiascoes that litter our history are innumerable ... and fascinating in their foolishness. This witty collection of historical mayhem chronicles unwise decisions from ancient Greece to modern-day Hollywood and everything in between. Learn such lessons as:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Never trust Greeks bearing gifts of large wooden horses.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Avoid building elementary schools on toxic waste dumps, even those with sweet monikers like Love Canal.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Rabbits multiply like rabbits Down Under.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Even if you use brightly colored paint on the boats, it''s quite easy to misplace an entire country''s navy.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  With more than forty-five chapters of mind-boggling flubs and follies, fans of history, trivia, and those who just want a good laugh will adore this intriguing and fun read.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7852'),
(10920, 'You Don&#39;t Love This Man: A Novel', 'Dan Deweese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of DeWeese''s engaging debut, Paul, a bank manager in the Pacific Northwest, loses his three-year-old daughter, Miranda, for a short time while trick-or-treating. After Miranda disappears 22 years later, on the day of her wedding, Paul begins a series of increasingly frustrating attempts to locate and talk with her. Unable to read relationship cues, Paul is often surprised or angered by the actions of those he thinks he knows well, including his now ex-wife, Sandra, and Grant, a friend who became his daughter''s intended without his awareness. Paul''s bank is robbed on the day of the wedding by the same man who robbed it two decades earlier, which adds to the trauma and confusion. Essentially decent, caring, and loyal, Paul is more valued than he suspects. Paul learns some valuable lessons as he retraces and re-evaluates his life in this insightful novel. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With deep compassion and wry humor, DeWeese examines the intricacies of fatherhood, friendship, and happenstance in his stylistically uneven first novel. Hours before Paul''s daughter Miranda is to marry his best friend, Paul receives news that someone has robbed the bank he manages in a Pacific Northwest city. But Paul is more concerned that neither he nor anyone else has been able to contact Miranda all day. To make matters worse, he discovers that the robber is the same man who held him up 25 years earlier at the same bank, an incident that has given Paul the one worthwhile story of his life to tell. As Paul''s day proves increasingly more complicated, he reevaluates his tumultuous past, including the coincidental bank robberies and his relationships with his daughter, ex-wife, current girlfriend, and best friend, who is soon to become his son-in-law. While Paul''s narration is at times heartfelt and wise, DeWeese''s prose is often clunky and distracting, leaving the otherwise admirable story feeling forced. --Jonathan Fullmer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6188'),
(10921, 'You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness', 'Julie Klam', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Klam (Please Excuse My Daughter) recounts the touching, often hilarious tales of life with Boston terriers. She adopts her first pet, Otto, after a "substantial" little dog "came slow-motion scampering through the high grass and wild daisies of sleep." With Otto, the then single Klam learned about compromise and sacrifice. Married and pregnant, the author adopts a little "doglet," Beatrice, and distracted by a newborn, forgets to have the puppy spayed--resulting in a series of hilarious misadventures worth the price of the book. She continues to rescue, foster, and adopt dogs--spirited Hank, adored Moses, chubby Sherlock--each with his or her own special needs, idiosyncrasies, and "teachable moments" in trusting one''s instincts, achieving balance, helping others, finding contentment, loving fiercely, and letting go. This gem of a book is a gift to dog lovers everywhere.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One needn''t be a dog lover to be moved by this charming book. Klam teaches humans how to love and make compromises when necessary through the process of coping with our pets needs, quirks, and demands. Klam s self-deprecating personality is engaging. When we meet her and her first dog, Otto, she''s hilarious as she imagines people thinking she can attract only a four-legged companion. Narrator Karen White''s spirited delivery enhances the lively text. She perfectly differentiates the many personalities that Julie and her dogs meet in their travels. Klam is a splendid observer, and White delivers, especially when portraying Sharon, an Aussie VIP in Boston terrier circles. --AudioFile Earphones Award Winner\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5793'),
(10922, 'You Lost Me There', 'Rosecrans Baldwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A dazzling debut that is at once a lightly erudite novel of ideas and a darkly charming love story set on an island off the coast of Maine-the perfect sophisticated summer read. ** By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin''s debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron, a leading Alzheimer''s researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his days alternating between long hours in the sterile lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He has preserved their marriage as a sort of perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but precisely compatible souls. But one day, in the midst of organizing his already hyperorganized life, Victor discovers a series of index cards covered in Sara''s handwriting. They chronicle the major "changes in direction" of their marriage, written as part of a brief fling with couples counseling. Sara''s version of their great love story is markedly different from his own, which, for the eminent memory specialist, is a startling revelation. Victor is forced to reevaluate and relive each moment of their marriage, never knowing is the revisions will hurt or hearten. Meanwhile, as Victor''s faith in memory itself unravels, so too does his precisely balanced support network, a group of strong women-from his lab assistant to Aunt Betsy, doddering doyenne of the island-that had, so far, allowed him to avoid grieving. Rosecrans Baldwin shows himself here to be a young writer bursting with talent and imagination who deftly handles this aching love story with sensitivity and unexpected maturity. *You Lost Me There* is a treasure of a book filled with beautiful, intelligent prose, a book that wears its smarts lightly and probes its emotions deeply.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4236'),
(10923, 'You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts', 'Writers of Cracked dot Com', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You''re going to wish you never picked up this book. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in: * A zombie apocalypse? It could happen. 50% of humans are infected with a parasite that can take over your brain. * The FDA wouldn''t let you eat bugs, right? Actually, you might want to put down those jelly beans. And that apple. And that strawberry yogurt. * Think dolphins are our friends? Then these sex-crazed thrill killers of the sea have you right where they want you. * The most important discovery in the history of genetics? Francis Crick came up with it while on LSD. * Think you''re going to choosewhether or not to buy this book? Scientists say your brain secretly makes all your decisions10 seconds before you even know what they are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4400'),
(10924, 'You Only Live Twice', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10627'),
(10925, 'You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up', 'Annabelle Gurwitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is loveâ€”and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir. After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found â€œWeâ€™re just not that into us.â€ Instead of giving up, theyâ€™ve held their relationship together by ignoring conventional wisdom and fostering a lack of intimacy, by using parenting as a competitive sport, and by dropping out of couples therapy. The he-said/she-said chronicle of their intense but loving marriage includes an unsentimental account of the medical odyssey that their family embarked upon after their infant son was diagnosed with VACTERL, a very rare series of birth defects. Annabelle and Jeffâ€™s unforgivingly raw, uproariously funny story is sure to strike both laughter and terror in the hearts of all couples (not to mention every single man or woman who is contemplating the connubial state). Serving up equal parts sincerity and cynicism, *You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up *is a laugh-out-loud must-read for everyone who has come to realize that being â€œin loveâ€ can only get you so far.** ****On Cohabitation****He says: **â€œWithin days of Annabelleâ€™s arrival, I became very aware that she demanded solitude and had the housekeeping habits of a feral animal.â€**She says: **â€œThe guy had some sort of nudity radar. When I would take my clothes off for even a second, Jeff would be in front of me cheering as if heâ€™d scored box seats at Fenway Park.â€** ****On Sex****He says: **â€œI want to have sex every day, but Annabelle only wants to do it once a week. So we compromise: we have sex once a week.â€**She says: **â€œJeff says talking about money before you have sex is a turnoff, but itâ€™s only a *turnoff *if youâ€™re talking about not having money. Talking about money before you have sex when you have money is actually a *turn-on*.â€ **On Pregnancy****He says: **â€œFor Godâ€™s sake, all I wanted to do was have sex without a condom for a little while; now we were moments from bringing a new life into the world!â€**She says: **â€œMy ass was expanding so fast it was like a Starbucks franchise. On every corner of my ass there was a new branch of ass opening up.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(10926, 'You Shall Know Our Velocity', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Headlong, heartsick and footsore....Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace....Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." -- _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"\n  <strong>\n   You Shall Know Our Velocity!\n  </strong>\n  is the work of a wildly talented writer... Like Kerouac''s book, Eggers''s could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." -- _LA Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "There''s an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow''s Chinatown bounce, but we''re carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers''s own." --\n  </em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." --\n  </em>\n  Salon\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." --\n  </em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Eggers''s writing really takes off -- his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations." --\n  </em>\n  Newsday\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Often rousing ...achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry." --\n  </em>\n  Newsweek\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel, an entertaining and imaginative tale." --\n  </em>\n  The Boston Globe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "There are some wonderful set-pieces here, and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Powerful.... Eggers''s strengths as a writer are real: his funny pitch-perfect dialog; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will''s thoughts; ... and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions.... There is genius here.... Who is doing more, single-handedly and single-mindedly, for American writing?" --\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss.It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8587'),
(10927, 'You Shall Know Our Velocity!', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(10928, 'You Suck: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he''s ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he''s one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn''t supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy''s erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. And that really sucks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(10929, 'You&#39;d Better Watch Out', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After his brutally violent cop father kills his mother in a heinous fashion on Christmas day, a young boy is raised on the streets of Brooklyn to become the deadliest hitman for the Mob.  But even while he carves out a life and reputation for himself dispatching enemies of the syndicate, the hitter is planning his revenge against those who helped to make him what he is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10647'),
(10930, 'You&#39;re a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice', 'The Believer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A compendium of advice from the producers, writers, and actors of The Office, Saturday Night Live, Itâ€™s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Knocked Up, Flight of the Conchords, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Reno 911!, and The Hangover along with other people who should really never give advice. In these pages Fred Armisen offers help telling your dad youâ€™re a lesbianâ€”give him the phone number and heâ€™ll do it for you. Mindy Kaling provides guidance on ending things with your mistressâ€”dude, you totally have to kill her. Rainn Wilson offers insight on contacting that girl you dreamed about last nightâ€”he has created all-purpose web portal for such interactions. Amy Sedaris identifies the best way to a manâ€™s heartâ€”bone saw through the chest cavity.  Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Fred Armisen, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Samantha Bee, Michael Ian Black, Andy Borowitz, Michael Cera, Vernon Chatman, Rob Corddry, David Cross, Larry Doyle, Paul Feig, Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Handler, Todd Hanson, Tim Heidecker, Ed Helms, Buck Henry, Mindy Kaling, John Lee, Thomas Lennon, Al Madrigal, Aasif Mandvi, Marc Maron, Adam McKay, Eugene Mirman, Morgan Murphy, Bob Odenkirk, John Oliver, Patton Oswalt, Martha Plimpton, Harold Ramis, Amy Sedaris, Michael Showalter, Sarah Silverman, Paul F. Tompkins, Sarah Vowell, David Wain, Eric Wareheim, Rainn Wilson, Lizz Winstead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3245'),
(10931, 'You&#39;re the One That I Don&#39;t Want', 'Alexandra Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if you found your soulmate... and then discovered you couldn''t lose him?When Lucy meets Nate aged 18, it is love at first sight. As far as she''s concerned, he''s The One. Caught up in the whirlwind of first love, they kiss under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at sunset and according to the legend are tied together indefinitely. But ten years later, they ve almost forgotten about each other. That is, until fate starts to bring them together. Again. And again. And again. It doesn''t seem as wonderful as it had before, but if Nate''s not The One then why on earth is it proving so hard to break up with him?A funny and magical romantic comedy about what happens when every girl''s dream of finding her dream man comes very true indeed...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4728');
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(10932, 'You&#39;ve Been Warned', 'James Patterson &amp; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Patterson bestseller factory has turned out another high-drama thriller, this time in collaboration with\n <em>\n  Honeymoon\n </em>\n coauthor Roughan. Kristin Burns, a New York City nanny and aspiring photographer, is devoted to the two children under her care, but her desire for their father, Michael Turnbull, leads her to a risky, torrid affair with him. Kristin''s anxiety about her guilty secret is heightened by a series of frightening nightmares centering on a vision of four body bags being loaded onto gurneys in front of a prominent Manhattan hotel. Her nightmares also feature recurring encounters with dead people, including her father and the pediatrician who abused her as a child. Kristin''s breathless, superficial narration doesn''t generate a lot of reader sympathy or interest in figuring out the source of her macabre experiences.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "You''ve Been Warned will keep yoy spellbound. Kadushin''s haunting voice is spot on, and the echoing numbers set in the skin-crawiling tone for each chapter."... MyShelf.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7354'),
(10933, 'Young Bloods', 'Simon Scarrow &amp; Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A fine tale of romance and conflict'' -- Nottinham Evening Post 20070127 ''Scarrow plunges into the aftermath of the French Revolution for another rip-roaring adventure story'' -- Yorkshire Evening Post 20070127 ''The characters are real, so too the battles... brought vividly to life with the thriller writer''s skill'' -- Nottingham Evening Post 20070127 ''One of the great duels in history, between two of its most fascinating characters. Simon Scarrow brings Wellington and Napoleon to life witha vengeance'' -- Paul Strathern, author of Napoleon in Egypt ''This is a promising start to a series that shows great potential'' -- Good Book Guide ''[YOUNG BLOODS] is well written, researched and a pleasure to read. Recommended'' -- Historical Novels Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the late eighteenth century was a tumultuous place, with war and rebellions breaking out on many fronts. Young Arthur Wesley (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte grow up worlds apart yet immersed from youth in a culture where a military career is a natural choice for men of ambition. While Wellington is blooded in Ireland and Flanders, Napoleon is caught up in the dramas of the French Revolution and war with Prussia, Britain and Holland. None of this is enough to distract Wellington from his pursuit of Kitty Pakenham or Napoleon from his future bride, Josephine, for these men throw themselves into all aspects of life as enthusiastically as they rush to battle. A wonderful, multi-layered introduction to an epic series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7915'),
(10934, 'The Young Forester (Dodo Press)', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pearl) Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. He became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller. It propelled a career writing popular novels about manifest destiny and the [conquest of the Wild West. [ Two years later he produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). He became one of the first millionaire authors. Over the years his habit was to spend part of the year travelling and living an adventurous life and the rest of the year using his adventures as the basis for the stories in his writings. His other works include: Betty Zane (1903), The Young Pitcher (1911), The Border Legion (1916), Wildfire (1917), To the Last Man (1922) and The Day of the Beast (1922).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3716'),
(10935, 'A Young People&#39;s Life of the Buddha', 'Bhikkhu Silacara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9760'),
(10936, 'Young Samurai : The Way of the Dragon', 'Chris Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n June 1613. Japan is threatened with war and Jack is facing his greatest battle yet. Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jack''s warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival and that of his friends depends upon him mastering the Two Heavens, the secret sword technique of the legendary samurai Masamoto Takeshi. But first Jack must recover his father''s prize possession from the deadly ninja Dragon Eye. Can Jack defeat his ruthless enemy? Or will the ninja complete his mission to kill the young samurai . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8354'),
(10937, 'Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword', 'Chris Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-9 Bradford raises the stakes for his blond samurai student in this second installment in the series. Previously shipwrecked after his father was murdered by the ninja leader Dragon Eye, Jack is continuing his training as a samurai at his foster father''s school for young warriors. Dedicated to keeping his father''s navigational log from Dragon Eye, who has tried to steal it before, Jack hides the book at the castle of the daimyo, where he feels it will be safer. In the meantime, he must train to participate in the Circle of Three, a trial that would allow him to learn a double-sword-fighting technique, one he feels he needs to defend himself against the ninja''s treachery. To add to his worries, his friend Akiko is acting strangely, disappearing in the night, and Jack suspects she may be training as a ninja. Bradford combines the structure of a British school story with the flavor of 17th-century Japan, and his descriptions of both swordplay and hand-to-hand martial arts reveal his extensive knowledge of the subject. Young martial artists will be eager to try out sticky-hands drills in their own dojos. Though the secondary cast is often too large to keep track of and only a few of the characters are fully developed, the ongoing struggle between honorable samurai and dastardly ninja will draw both reluctant readers and enthusiasts of Japanese history.\n  <em>\n   Alana Joli Abbott, James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, CT\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Way of the Warrior (2009), shipwrecked Jack began his training as a samurai after watching the vile ninja Dokugan Ryu murder his father. In his second year of training, Jack perfects a few new techniques while dodging his adopted societyâ€™s increasing hostility toward foreigners. Bradford takes special care and pleasure in describing the minutiae of martial arts and other aspects of Japanese culture. With straightforward prose, he has managed to pen lively and exciting fight sequences and is slowly beginning to develop a keen edge to his cast of characters, laying significant groundwork for future installments. Grades 6-9. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8353'),
(10938, 'Young Sherlock Holmes- Death Cloud', 'Andrew Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer''s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education '' the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously ''unwell'', Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder, a kidnap, corruption and a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent...The Death Cloud is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager '' creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10650'),
(10939, 'Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud', 'Andrew Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer''s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education '' the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously ''unwell'', Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder, a kidnap, corruption and a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent...The Death Cloud is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager '' creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7757'),
(10940, 'Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech', 'Andrew Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn''t expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web - where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7756'),
(10941, 'Young Zaphod Plays It Safe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8869'),
(10942, 'Your Best Life Now for Moms', 'Joel Osteen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen revisits his seven core principles from YOUR BEST LIFE NOW to offer a guide to successful living for moms. YOUR BEST LIFE NOW FOR MOMS will help women through the vast parenting responsibilities and teach them how God can pour out "His far and beyond favor" on them and their children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/2093'),
(10943, 'Your Heart Belongs to Me', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . .* One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. Heâ€™s getting back everything he nearly lost foreverâ€”his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles do happen. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arriveâ€”a box of candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all is a graphic heart-surgery video and its chilling message: *Your heart belongs to me.* Ryan is being stalked by someone who feels entitled to everything he has. Sheâ€™s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryanâ€™s own chest. And sheâ€™s come to take it back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(10944, 'Your Money: The Missing Manual', 'J. D. Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you need a book on personal finance,\n <em>\n  Your Money: The Missing Manual\n </em>\n is a solid choice. It gets all the important stuff right, and does a great job of distinguishing between that stuff (that you have to get right) and the peripheral stuff (that you can do any of several different ways, as long as you do it).\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Philip Brewer,\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keeping your financial house in order is more important than ever. But how do you deal with expenses, debt, taxes, and retirement without getting overwhelmed? This book points the way. It''s filled with the kind of practical guidance and sound insights that makes J.D. Roth''s GetRichSlowly.org a critically acclaimed source of personal-finance advice.\n</p>\n<p>\n You won''t find any get-rich-quick schemes here, just sensible advice for getting the most from your money. Even if you have perfect credit and no debt, you''ll learn ways to make your rosy financial situation even better.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get the info you need to make sensible decisions on saving, spending, and investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn the best ways to set\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  achieve financial goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a realistic budget framework and learn how to track expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover proven methods to help you eliminate debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how to use credit wisely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Win big by making smart decisions on your home and other big-ticket items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to get the most from your investments by avoiding rash decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide how -- and how much -- to save for retirement\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Practical Tips for Saving Money from J.D. Roth\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Saving is mental ... and easier if you avoid advertising\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the best ways to win the mental battle to save is to reduce your exposure to advertising. Fight this by ignoring ads, or by learning to question their premises.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2. Customize your saving (or, how to create your own Wii account)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Each of us is different. We have different goals, we have different skills, and we have different mindsets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t think of saving as a chore. Think of it as the golden ticket to getting the things you really want. I set up what I call "targeted savings accounts" at my bank, and I use these to save for my goals. When I wanted a Nintendo Wii, I opened a separate savings account at my credit union and I called it "Nintendo account." The teller laughed at me, but she understood what I was doing. It helped me save.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each person needs to find a savings technique that matches her goals and abilities. If one method doesn''t work, try another. Keep looking until you find a technique that works for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Starter goals: vacations, cars and retirement\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A great way to develop the savings habit is to save for a vacation. We all love to take trips, right? Save for a fishing trip to Alaska. Save for a cruise to Belize. Save for a three-week tour of Paris. Whatever strikes your fancy. And once you''ve developed the saving habit, apply it to more practical things.\n</p>\n<p>\n Another great goal is to save for a car. Too many people allow themselves to be trapped by a lifetime of car payments. It doesn''t have to be that way. Develop a system that allows you to pay cash whenever you go shopping for a new vehicle. Earn interest on your car money instead of paying interest to somebody else.\n</p>\n<p>\n And, of course, you should begin saving for retirement as soon as possible. This can be tough to do, especially if you''re young. You think you''ve got decades to go, so why start today? You could use that money for a ski trip or a new iPad. But the sooner you start, the more time the extraordinary power of compounding has to help your money grow. If you don''t think you can afford to (or want to) set aside 10 percent (or 25 percent, like my wife), then start small. Start with 5 percent. Or even 1 percent. Develop the habit and increase your saving with time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. Limit your long-term goals and keep track of short-term tasks\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I only set a handful of long-term goals at a time. In fact, this year I only have one long-term goal. If we set too many goals, we spread our attention, and we''re less likely to accomplish any of them. But if we concentrate on just a handful of things at once, we''re more likely to do what we dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n But while I don''t have many long-term goals, I have a bunch of stuff I want to accomplish in the short term. To stay focused on these tasks, I use a simple but brilliant system I learned from Erica at erica.biz. I start on the first page of a spiral notebook. I make a brain dump of everything I have to do. Then I put the date at the top of the page. I refer to this list many times throughout the day, crossing things off the list as I go. If something else comes up that needs to be done, I add it to the bottom of the list. Every evening, I copy the list onto a new page and put the next day''s date. This system works like a charm for me, not just for financial tasks, but for all tasks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Memberships/subscriptions you can cancel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It can be difficult to give up things that we might consider "vices." For you, that might be the daily latte. For me, it''s always been comic books. (Sad, but true.) These are constant money drains, but they also bring joy to our lives. Instead of giving these things up, I encourage folks to find ways to reduce them, or to save on them.\n</p>\n<p>\n But to really save money, look for ways to reduce recurring monthly expenses. These are constant drags to your budget, and if you can reduce them, it''s a great way to improve your cash flow. Some examples:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cancel your cable television and start watching shows online at Hulu.com or similar services.\n </strong>\n Or, if that''s too extreme, cut back from your deluxe digital package to bare minimum basic. I did this and saved over $600 a year.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cancel your magazine and newspaper subscriptions.\n </strong>\n Yes, I know these industries are hurting, but so is your own budget.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cancel your gym membership.\n </strong>\n Find cheap ways to exercise at home, including biking and running and yard work. Bodyweight exercises (like pushups and situps) are free and effective.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cancel other monthly memberships.\n </strong>\n I used to pay $15/month to play an online videogame. Not only was this sucking my time away, but it was costing me $180 a year. I know that''s not a lot, but when put together with other expenses, it can add up.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cancel your cell phone contract and move to pay-as-you-go.\n </strong>\n In other countries, prepaid cell contracts are the norm. But for some reason, in the U.S., they''re the exception, not the rule. As a result, folks end up paying through the nose, either because they have more service than they need, or because they don''t have enough. With a prepaid plan, you only pay for what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7929'),
(10945, 'Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth', 'Edeet Ravel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/884'),
(10946, 'Yours for the Taking', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Walsh is a man who has it allâ€”money, good looks, and a great life in New York City. What he does not have is the deed to his parentsâ€™ home in Idaho. They died when he was young and his former home is important to him. His wily Grandpa Joe wants to see him wed, so he tells Ben to get married or he will sell the property. Benâ€™s plan is to get married, then divorced once he has the property. Gina Reyez is a self-made woman who hopes to one day own her own home to make sure that her family is secure after her extremely rough childhood. She avoids marriage and relationships like the plague. When Ben proposes to her and explains his reason for marriage, Gina accepts because she believes that he is gay and will not impose on her family life. But she has yet to meet Grandpa Joe. Charming readers with her wit and style, Kaye creates an extremely sensual romance about two people who do not believe in romantic love. --Patty Engelmann\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charming readers with her wit and style, Kaye creates an extremely sensual romance about two people who do not believe in romantic love.\n <br />\n (Patty Engelmann\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n 20101217)\n</p>\n<p>\n Entertaining and cute... Super sizzling... (_Dreamworld Book Reviews_ 20110103)\n</p>\n<p>\n Wildly entertaining and comical from the start... The love scenes are hot and sexy and the chemistry between Ben and Gina sizzles! (_RT Book Reviews_ 20110103)\n</p>\n<p>\n The writing is fantastic, the characters are wonderfully developed, and the conflicts that exist between the two are very real. (_The Long and Short of It Reviews_ 20110107)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Yours for the Taking\n </em>\n is a treat to read, and a sweet, funny way to start the New Year. (_The Barnes and Noble Review_ 20110107)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Yours for the Taking\n </em>\n is so well written, I found myself thinking about it and smiling long after I was finished. A Night Owl Romance Top Pick! (_Night Owl Romance_ 20110110)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweet, sexy, and smoking'' hot! (_Dark Diva Reviews_ 20110110)\n</p>\n<p>\n Light, funny, and romantic. (_Smexy Books_ 20110113)\n</p>\n<p>\n With characters like an interfering elder statesman and a bunch of strapping singles waiting for their own books, this sexy contemporary will satisfy Kaye''s readers and enlist a whole passel of new ones. (Bette-Lee Fox\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n 20110117)\n</p>\n<p>\n Robin Kaye keeps readers on their toes with twists and turns in this romantic adventure sprinkled with bits of humor in all the right places. (_Thoughts in Progress_ 20110117)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sexy and entertaining... The romance was sweet and the passion was hot! (_Book Addict Patti_ 20110117)\n</p>\n<p>\n [Robin Kaye''s] quirky humor, witty dialog, and gangling, bumbling characters will have readers glued to the pages to the very end. (_Author Kelly Moran''s Blog_ 20110118)\n</p>\n<p>\n A sweet, dramatic and passionate romance. (_Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Robin Kaye has yet again WOWED me with her writing.... funny, emotional and delivers great character development. (_Cindy Read Romance_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n A fun, entertaining, witty ride of a book... Perfect! (_I Loves to Read_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7413'),
(10947, 'Yours To Keep', 'Shannon Stacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/10703'),
(10948, 'Ysabel', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Kay (_The Last Light of the Sun_) departs from his usual historical fantasies to connect the ancient, violent history of France to the present day in this entrancing contemporary fantasy. Fifteen-year-old Canadian Ned Marriner accompanies his famous photographer father, Edward, on a shoot at Aix-en-Provence''s Saint-Saveur Cathedral while his physician mother, Meghan, braves the civil war zone in Sudan with Doctors Without Borders. As Ned explores the old cathedral, he meets Kate Wenger, a geeky but attractive American girl who''s a walking encyclopedia of history. In the ancient baptistry, the pair are surprised by a mysterious, scarred man wielding a knife who warns that they''ve "blundered into a corner of a very old story. It is no place for children." But Ned and Kate can''t avoid becoming dangerously entangled in a 2,500-year-old love triangle among mythic figures. Kay also weaves in a secondary mystery about Ned''s family and his mother''s motivation behind her risky, noble work. The author''s historical detail, evocative writing and fascinating charactersâ€”both ancient and modernâ€”will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers._ (Feb.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Kay''s eagerly awaited new book set mostly in twenty-first-century Aix-en-Provence, 15-year-old Ned Marriner is spending a spring vacation with his celebrated photographer father during a shoot of the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur. His mother, a physician with Doctors without Borders, is in the Sudan, so Ned and Dad are extremely worried. Exploring Saint-Sauveur, Ned meets American exchange-student Kate Wenger, who knows a lot about the history of Aix. The two surprise a knife-carrying, scar-faced stranger in the cathedral, who tells them, "I think you ought to go. . . . You have blundered into the corner of a very old story." Ned and Kate, then the rest of his family, including the aunt and uncle from England and his mother, are drawn into an ancient conflict with the shades of Celtic spirits. Kay characterizes Ned superbly as he matures amid fantastic circumstances until he is able to make the final sacrifice; reader disbelief is unimperiled, and psychobabble unindulged. Outstanding characters, folklore, and action add up to another Kay must-read.\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6048'),
(10949, 'Yurth Burden', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9082'),
(10950, 'The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover. Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn''t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3838'),
(10951, 'The Zap Gun', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ?Dick [was] many authors: a poor man?s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing counterculture.? --_The Village Voice_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Dick?s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.? --_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic,\n  <strong>\n   The Zap Gun\n  </strong>\n  is Dickâ€™s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factionsâ€“Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows sheâ€™s trying to kill him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6556'),
(10952, 'The Zebra-Striped Hearse', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man''s suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law''s--and Archer''s--in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5015'),
(10953, 'Zeitoun', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **National Bestseller **A *New York Times *Notable Book An *O, The Oprah Magazine *Terrific Read of the YearA *Huffington Post *Best Book of the Year A *New Yorker *Favorite Book of the Year A *Chicago Tribune *Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A *Kansas City Star* Best Book of the Year A *San Francisco Chronicle* Best Book of the Year An *Entertainment Weekly* Best Book of the Decade The true story of one family, caught between Americaâ€™s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, **Zeitoun** is a riveting account of one familyâ€™s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(10954, 'Zen and the Art of Faking It', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school for the umpteenth time, he doesn''t try to make new friends or be a loner or play cool. Instead he sits back and devises a plan to be totally different. When he accidentally answers too many questions in World History on Zen (only because he just had Ancient Religions two schools ago) all heads turn and San has his answer: he''s a Zen Master. And just when he thinks everyone (including the cute girl he can''t stop thinking about) is on to him, everyone believes him . . . in a major Zen way.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jordan Sonnenblick has always been fascinated by Zen Buddhism and the practice of meditation. However, he has never actually been able to meditate due to his well-documented lifelong inability to sit still or be quiet. He lives with his serene wife and two half-wiggly, half-calm kids in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5685'),
(10955, 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', 'Robert M. Pirsig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator''s relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3481'),
(10956, 'Zendikar: In the Teeth of Akoum', 'Robert B. Wintermute', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For gamers and fantasy fans alike, a fast-paced, stand-alone adventure that brings the popular trading card game\n  <strong>\n   Magic: the Gathering\n  </strong>\n  Â® to life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lurking in the space between the aether and the physical plane, there is a great evil waiting to emerge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Zendikar is a land of danger and adventure, a world of deadly risks and priceless rewards. It is also a prison to one of the most deadly species known to the Multiverse: the dreaded Eldrazi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When our story opens, part of the mystical containment spell that has kept the Eldrazi captive for millennia has been breached. The brood lineage, the Eldrazi minions, have been released and are poring over the plane, devouring everything in their path, but the swath they cut across the land is nothing next to the destruction that the still-imprisoned Eldrazi Titans will wreck once released.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nissa Revane, a planeswalker and proud elf warrior of the Jorga Nation, is witness to what the brood lineage can do. She sees that they pose a bigger problem than most suppose. Sorin, an ancient vampire planeswalker, knows this as well as anyone because he was among the original jailers of the ancient scourge. He has returned to Zendikar to make sure the Titans do not escape. They both want the Eldarzi threat extinguished but each has their own agenda. Nissa wants the Eldrazi off her plane entirely. Sorin wants to put the lock back on their cell. And there are still others who want the Titans to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together they set out across the land on search of the Eye of Ugin, the source of the Eldrazi uprising, where they will face what could be their final challenge. Will the Eldrazi escape to menace the Multiverse once again?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5957'),
(10957, 'The Zenith Angle', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Zenith Angle\n </em>\n , futurist Bruce Sterling''s first novel since\n <em>\n  Zeitgeist\n </em>\n (2000), tells the story of Derek "Van" Vandeveer. As\n <em>\n  The Zenith Angle\n </em>\n opens, Van sits peacefully at his breakfast table, enjoying life as a new homeowner and happily married man, with a new son and a fortune in stock options. Then the morning news reports a jetliner has crashed in nearby Manhattan--colliding with the World Trade Center. Like many other Americans'' lives, Van''s will never be the same. He leaves his corporate job to work fighting terrorism for the U.S. government. He soon finds himself sequestered at a top-secret undisclosed location while his fortune vanishes, his former company sinks into a morass of lawsuits and arrests, and his wife and son move to the far side of the country. And as Van is transformed from cyber-whiz to spook, he finds himself changing in ways he would never have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n A novel from Bruce Sterling is always cause for celebration, and\n <em>\n  The Zenith Angle\n </em>\n is one of the finest contemporary novels and finest techno-thrillers of 2004. Sterling operates at the cutting edge of both technology and pop culture, and he possesses innumerable literary strengths. However, his strengths don''t usually include deeply-penetrating character development, and that injures the believability of\n <em>\n  The Zenith Angle\n </em>\n , which is the portrait of a man undergoing an enormous and shocking transformation.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The godfather of cyberpunk abandons SF in this satiric look at the high-tech security industry after 9/11. Dr. Derek Vandeveer gives up his high-paying job in private industry in order to try to help the government plug the nation''s most serious computer security leaks. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that many of the worst problems are either too expensive to fix or impossible to deal with for political reasons. Vandeveer finds himself living in a slum in Washington, D.C., up to his ears in red tape and surrounded by a cast of would-be cyber warriors and failed dot-com entrepreneurs. Even worse, he''s paying for the equipment he needs out of his own pocket. Worst of all, Vandeveer''s wife Dottie, a world-class astronomer, is off on a mountaintop in Colorado. Meanwhile, something or someone is playing games with America''s most sophisticated spy satellite and Vandeveer stakes his reputation on solving the mystery. Sterling (_Zeitgeist_) knows the world of cyber-security inside out, and he does a fine job of talking the talk without losing his readers. The Vandeveers have a convincingly believable geek marriage and their scenes together are particularly well done. Sterling has always been more comfortable with satire than action, however, and the shift near the end to techno-thriller mode isn''t entirely successful. Still, this novel should please the author''s fans, many of whom will be interested in the latest innovations in computer security.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8110'),
(10958, 'The Zero Game', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meltzer credits 143 people in his acknowledgments, a testament to massive research involving everything from the smallest details of our government''s inner workings to the scientific complexities of chaos theory and advanced neutrino research. He''s far too seasoned a pro (The Tenth Justice; The Millionaires) to ever let readers bog down in minutiae, though, using his impressive background material as rocket fuel for this rip-roaring novel of government intrigue. Best friends Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler have worked for years as professional Capitol Hill staffers. With boredom and burnout threatening, they''ve joined a secret group of other like-minded workers to play the Zero Game, which uses congressional voting and government administrative procedure as the basis for placing bets. "We don''t change the laws, or pass bad legislation, or stroke our evil goatees and overthrow democracy as we know it. We play at the margins; where it''s safe-and where it''s fun." The two decide to bet their life savings when a seemingly innocent appropriations item, the sale of an abandoned South Dakota gold mine, becomes part of the game. Because of his senior position as an appropriations committee staffer, Matthew is sure he has a lock on this one. Things go horribly wrong, and soon Harris and Viv Parker, a young Senate page, are on the run, fleeing from hired killer Martin Janos. Their flight takes them to the abandoned gold mine, where they find more mystery and near death 8,000 feet below the surface of the earth. Janos, their nemesis, is relentless, as is the action, and readers will be left breathless.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Matthew Mercer confides to his best friend, Harris Sandler, that he''s thinking of leaving his cushy job as a senior staffer on Capitol Hill, Harris convinces him to stay by inviting him to play the Zero Game, an anonymous wagering game where you bet on the likelihood of some piece of legislation passing. It''s a silly game, but the stakes are minimal, so Matthew joins in, enjoying the diversion and finding the anonymity intriguing. The bet in front of them now is a gimme, especially since Matthew can control its outcome, so the pair decides to up the ante and go for broke. Trouble is, there''s another bidder out there (Who else could have such an interest?), and both Matthew and Harris sense that this bet just might be their last. They''ve learned the hard way that there''s no one they can trust and have no choice but to find out who''s behind the now-murderous game. Coming to their aid is an unlikely savior, a teenage Senate page who can duck in and out of private offices without raising suspicion. Packed with plenty of backroom D.C. ambience and lots of action, the novel also boasts improved plotting and character development since Meltzer''s last high-concept best-seller,\n <em>\n  The Millionaires\n </em>\n (2001).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/7165'),
(10959, 'Zero History', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The new novel from William Gibson, "one of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." (*The Boston Globe*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she''s broke, and Bigend never feels it''s beneath him to use whatever power comes his way -- in this case, the power of money to bring Hollis onto his team again. Not that she knows what the "team" is up to, not at first.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He''s worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic - so much so that he spoke Russian with his therapist, in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Most recently he jumped off the highest building in the world, opening his chute at the last moment, and he has a new thighbone made of rattan baked into bone, entirely experimental, to show for it.  Garreth isn''t owned by Bigend at all. Garreth has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that a man like Bigend will find he needs, when things go unexpectedly sideways, in a world a man like Bigend is accustomed to controlling.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As when a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy that even Bigend, whose subtlety and power in the private sector would be hard to overstate, finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift in a seriously dangerous world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/4174'),
(10960, 'Zero Hour', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A code which will jam every item of military hardware from Kabul to WashingtonOn 5 September 2007, Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar supposedly state-of-the-art had failed to warn the target of the incoming assault.A system on the verge of collapseUnknown to anyone but the Israelis and the radars manufacturers, the commercial, off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. A terrorist group who nearly have it in their handsNow British Intelligence has discovered that the same switches are at the heart of every electronic device in the UK and US arsenal. It will take years to replace the components. So they must deactivate the man who controls them instead. And a soldier who wants to go down fightingEx-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find and kill him but this time hes not on receive. For once, his life is under threat for another reason from within. And now he really is a man with nothing to lose...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5546'),
(10961, 'The Zero Stone', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In search of the truth about a mysterious ring stone with phenomenal powers, gem trader Murdoc suddenly finds himself hunted through space by an unscrupulous religious order. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9096'),
(10962, 'The Zinn Reader', 'Howard Zinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historian, leftist activist, author of the popular People''s History of the United States (New Pr., 1995) and other works of history, politics, and drama, retired professor Zinn has compiled 61 previously published essays on various historical topics and illuminates here his passionate commitment to social justice and political and economic democracy. The essays are arranged in six categories: race, class, war, law, history, and "means and ends." Lucid and at times poignant, they convey Zinn''s belief that a historian''s judgment about what should be written reflects her or his values. Some of the riveting events covered include the social revolution of the Civil Rights Movement, Allied atrocities during World War II, the murderous suppression of the Attica, New York, prison rebellion, and the hagiographic persistence of the Christopher Columbus narrative. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A welcome collection of essays and occasional pieces by the dean of radical American historians. This portly tome is primarily intended for the Howard Zinn faithful, of course, of whom there are likely to be many; his People''s History of the United States has sold 400,000 copies, after all. For the uninitiated, this collection offers a useful introduction to Zinn''s idealistic, Marxist-anarchist view of the world, a view he has championed for many decades. Zinn began his career as a historian at Atlanta''s Spelman College, then a school for African-American women; fittingly, a large part of his book is given over to first-hand reports on the civil-rights movement in the South. Rejecting too-easy black-versus-white views of the struggle, Zinn insists that class analysis be brought to bear on the study of inequality:\n <code>\n </code>\n Once the superficiality of the physical is penetrated and seen for what it is,'''' he writes,\n <code>\n  the puzzle of race loses itself in whatever puzzle there is to human behavior in general. Once you begin to look, in human clash, for explanations other than race, they suddenly become visible.'''' Elsewhere Zinn combs through the annals of American history to turn up examples of the evils of capitalism, discussing among other subjects the conduct of the Spanish-American War, the brutal suppression of the Filipino Revolt, the origins of the abolitionist movement, and the ironies of the war in Vietnam (he notes that in 1966 the US was paying $34 in condolence money for each Vietnamese civilian accidentally killed in air strikes--but $87 for every rubber tree thus destroyed). When not looking deep into the past, Zinn cheerfully lampoons such conservative foes as the late Allan Bloom, who\n </code>\n swoons over Plato,'''' and generally has a good time arguing for an equitable, just, and division-free America. A worthy gathering for Zinn fans and fledgling historians alike. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5576'),
(10963, 'Zodiac', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evilâ€”all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylorâ€™s house is bombed, his every move followed, heâ€™s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBIâ€™s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8765');
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(10964, 'Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evilâ€”all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylorâ€™s house is bombed, his every move followed, heâ€™s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBIâ€™s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9586'),
(10965, 'Zoe&#39;s Tale', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9969'),
(10966, 'Zombie Lover', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Piers Anthony''s tales of the magical land of Xanth are among the most popular fantasies ever written, with more than 20 titles on The New York Times bestseller list and millions of devoted fans around the world.Zombie Lover, Anthony''s newest Xanth adventure, is the thrilling tale of Brianna, a beautiful, brassy young black girl with a distressing dilemma. She has unwittingly attracted the affections of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth''s Zombies, who yearns to make her Queen of the Undead!Her quest to preserve her innocence; and escape a fate that is literally worse than death; leads from the regions of Madness to the evanescent Isle of Women, which is ruled by voracious vamps, and on to Xanth''s myriad worlds of maybe orbiting Queen Ida''s head. And it brings the return of many familiar Xanth characters, including King Dor, Prince Dolph, Bink and Chameleon, and Justin Tree, who becomes her spirit guide on this oddest of odysseys.Packed with perils, puzzles and piles of puns, Zombie Lover provides much macabre merriment for Xanth''s many fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3286'),
(10967, 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland', 'Oswalt, Patton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/9424'),
(10968, 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt', 'Patton Oswalt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comedian Oswalt (The King of Queens, Caprica) offers up a collection of colorful essays ranging in topic from his experiences working at a movie theater to sends-ups of eccentric relatives, including a grandmother who gives exceedingly odd birthday gifts. To delve into the book is to take a tour of Oswaltâ€™s delightfully offbeat mind: he shares with readers what he was doing to procrastinate while writing certain chapters, suggests some truly morbid greeting cards, and parodies the vampire craze in comic-book form. The title is a reference to Oswaltâ€™s theory that creative teens gravitate toward three subjects for their early stories: zombies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt found himself drawn toward wastelands, a natural choice for a comedian who likes to poke fun at society. Oswalt is a wonderfully descriptive writer, vividly evoking his zombielike coworker at the theater, a grim Canadian comedy club, and the wanderings of his teen imagination with sharp, sardonic prose. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFurther proof that Patton Oswalt is way funnier than I am, which is either high praise or an insult. Your call.â€ â€”Judd Apatow\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatton Oswalt is a brilliant rarity; a relentlessly creative and original comic who is also a superb writer. If you donâ€™t buy this book you are a fool and I will, I swear, fight you.â€ â€”Conan Oâ€™Brien\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFunny, thoughtful stuff. Patton alternates the spit-take hilarity of a great stand-up with the quiet, mordant insight that clearly helped make him one. Which is amazing, â€˜cause heâ€™s an idiot.â€ â€”Joss Whedon\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFans of Patton Oswaltâ€™s standup comedy have always known he was a born writer at heart, and now hereâ€™s the proof. This is a surprisingly affecting, sincere and daresay vulnerable collection of essays, all keenly observed, always very funny.â€ â€”Dave Eggers\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI donâ€™t know whatâ€™s sharper, Oswaltâ€™s brains or Oswaltâ€™s tongue.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Sarah Vowell\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have impeccable taste, and I only converse with the following three: God, the Devil, and Patton Oswalt. All three have opened for me. This book is a funny tragedy. Youâ€™ll laugh, youâ€™ll cry, youâ€™ll convert to Pattonism. If you do not love this book, remember, I know where you live in your motherâ€™s basement.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Harlan Ellison\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerfectâ€”I can describe Pattonâ€™s book the same way I describe his stand upâ€”brilliant and prolific, I am slackjawed, amazed, and left feeling both inspired and fraudulent.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Sarah Silverman\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatton Oswalt is among the funniest on-stage talking humans I am aware of, so it annoys me deeply that he is also an incredibly talented writer. It annoys me, but it does not surprise me. Every sentence in this book is funny (except for the sad ones), but it also brims with Oswalt-ian smarts and surprising poignancy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  John Hodgman\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5470'),
(10969, 'The Zombie Survival Guide', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades donâ€™t need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Donâ€™t be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetâ€”life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3162'),
(10970, 'The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades donâ€™t need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Donâ€™t be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetâ€”life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8369'),
(10971, 'Zombies vs. Unicorns', 'Holly &amp; Larbalestier Black', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“This highly entertaining anthology contains 12 distinct stories brought together by two well-known YA authors. Though each tale has its own flavor, the snarky dialogue between the coeditors draws them together, in the end creating the feel of one long, continuous story. With Black defending the unicorn side of the debate and Larbalestier advocating voraciously for zombies, each team has six powerful stories to sway readers into joining one side or another. Though there are no weak selections in this amazingly well-put-together anthology, there are several standouts for each side. Queen of the Undead, Carrie Ryan, takes readers once again to the world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Delacorte, 2009) in the commanding â€œBougainvilla.â€ Though there is some graphic language, Alayna Dawn Johnson''s â€œLove Will Tear Us Apartâ€ takes place in another immensely intense and thought-provoking zombie world. Diana Peterfreund wows readers by delving again into the dark world of Rampant (HarperTeen, 2009) with â€œThe Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn,â€ proving Astrid is not the only strong female hunter out there. Conversely, Meg Cabot provides a funnier view of the beasts in â€œPrincess Prettypants,â€ in which a unicorn literally farts rainbows. The debate is wrapped up with Libba Bray''s strong zombie tale, â€œProm Night,â€ leaving readers with both hope and realism battling for dominance. This is a must-have for fantasy collections, though schools must be cautioned that there is strong profanity, a bestiality tale, and graphic scenes of both violence and sexual encounters._Jessica Miller, New Britain Public Library, CT_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Can the chatter of the YA nerdosphere launch a successful book? This imaginative collection answers with a resounding yes. Beginning in February 2007, editors Black and Larbalestier debated zombiesâ€™ and unicornsâ€™ strengths and weaknesses on Larbalestierâ€™s blog, and the resulting interest roped in stories from a number of impressive authors, including Libba Bray, Meg Cabot, and Garth Nix. Handy icons make it easy to choose which stories each camp will want to read, but the bookâ€™s A-plus designâ€”and the desire to know which team wins!â€”will have unicorn die-hards crossing over into flesh-eating territory, and vice versa. The standouts come from the authors who take their gimmicky mission the most seriously: Carrie Ryanâ€™s â€œBougainvillea,â€ in which she continues the mudo mythology she began in The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009); Maureen Johnsonâ€™s highly unsettling â€œThe Children of the Revolutionâ€; Scott Westerfeldâ€™s propulsive â€œInoculataâ€; and Margo Lanaganâ€™s â€œA Thousand Flowers,â€ in which she writes about unicorns with such freshness and fire, youâ€™d think she invented them. Who ultimately wins? To reuse an old joke: everyone. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/8401'),
(10972, 'Zoo City', 'Lauren Beukes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. To save herself, she''s got to find the hardest thing of all: The truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/5484'),
(10973, 'Zoo Station', 'David Downing', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œ*Zoo Station* is a beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending as John Russell learns the personal faces of good and evil. An unforgettable read.â€â€”Charles Todd, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge series Praise for previous books by David Downing: â€œThe author combines his erudition with an excellent political imagination. He writes well, clearly and has a nice wit.â€â€”*The Sunday Times* (London) â€œAn atmospheric thriller . . . furious pacing.â€â€”*Booklist* â€œAn elegant rapid-fire spy story.â€â€”*The Virginian-Pilot* â€œCompulsive reading.â€â€”*The Sunday Telegraph* (London) By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces having to leave his son as well as his girlfriend of several years, a beautiful German starlet. When an acquaintance from his old communist days approaches him to do some work for the Soviets, Russell is reluctant, but he is unable to resist the offer. He becomes involved in other dangerous activities, helping a Jewish family and a determined young American reporter. When the British and the Nazis notice his involvement with the Soviets, Russell is dragged into the murky world of warring intelligence services. **David Downing** grew up in suburban London and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children, including *The Moscow Option, Russian Revolution 1985,* and *The Red Eagles.* He lives with his wife, an American acupuncturist, in Guildford, England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(10974, 'Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives', 'Thomas French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to the savage and surprising world of *Zoo Story*, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa''s Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. *Zoo Story* crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of extinction, humanity''s role in the destruction or survival of other species. More than anything else, though, it''s a dramatic and moving true story of seduction and betrayal, exile and loss, and the limits of freedom on an overcrowded planet--all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the twenty-first century. Thomas French, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, chronicles the action with vivid power: Wild elephants soaring above the Atlantic on their way to captivity. Predators circling each other in a lethal mating dance. Primates plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book''s four-legged characters. Even animal lovers will be startled by the emotional charge of these creatures'' histories, which read as though they were co-written by Dickens and Darwin. *Zoo Story* shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/3856'),
(10975, 'Zoya', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the emotional panache that pleases her devotees, Steel (Kaleidoscope) portrays Zoya Ossupov, a courageous young woman of Imperial Russia who experiences both ecstasy and trauma. Daughter of a count who is a cousin of Tsar Nicholas, Zoya enjoys a privileged, cloistered existence. Zoya, whose name means "life," is on intimate terms with the tsar''s family. All of them, of course, are endangered by the Revolution. The insurgents slaughter the tsar and his kin, and cause the deaths of Zoya''s parents and brother, forcing her to flee to Paris with her aged but indomitable grandmother. Suffering in unaccustomed poverty, they are sustained by Zoya''s wages as a dancer with the Ballet Russe. Romance brightens her life following a chance encounter with an affluent New Yorker, Capt. Clayton Andrews. Enchanted by Zoya, Andrews eventually brings her to Manhattan as his bride, never imagining the tragedies that will befall them both. Steel evokes the final days of Imperial Russia with characteristic bravura. As always, she offers a carefully calculated mix of picturesque locales, remarkable events and appealing characters. Literary Guild and BOMC dual main selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n $19.95. f Most of Steel''s readers have favorites among her stories and while this one may not be destined to be the choice of many, libraries will have difficulty keeping it in stock because of Steel''s reputation. Within weeks of her last visit to the family of her distant cousin Tsar Nicholas II, Zoya and her grandmother flee the Russian Revolution in 1917, taking with them two final royal gifts, a small dog and the measles. The harsh winter in Paris before Zoya meets the handsome American captain she marries is difficult. She loses all but her two children in the stock market crash, but finds work as a fashion coordinator. Throughout, history and romance often seem to bump into each other as they stumble over coincidence. This is not one of Steel''s better sagas, and her fans will be disappointed. Literary Guild Dual Main Selection.Andrea Lee Shuey, Dallas P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://melago.sunglow.feralhosting.com/calibre/get/thumb_90_120/6042'),
(10976, '1022 Evergreen Place', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1022 Evergreen Place, Unit B,\n <br />\n Cedar Cove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Listener,\n <br />\n Guess what? I''m falling in love! With Mack McAfee.\n <br />\n My baby daughter, Noelle, and I have been living next door to Mack since the spring. I''m still a little wary about our relationship, because I haven''t always made good decisions when it comes to men. My baby''s father, David Rhodes, is testament to that. I''m so worried he might sue for custody.\n <br />\n In the meantime, the World War II letters I found are a wonderful distraction. Both Mack and I are trying to learn what happened to the soldier who wrote them and the woman he loved.\n <br />\n Come by sometime for a glass of iced tea and I''ll show you the letters. Plus I''ll tell you the latest about Grace and Olivia, my brother Linc and his wife, Lori (who tied the knot about five minutes after they met!), and all our other mutual friends. Oh, and maybe Mack can join us..\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mary Jo Wyse\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(10977, '1105 Yakima Street', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Macomber''s tenth installment in the Cedar Cove series is every bit as entertaining as her prior nine."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -New York Journal of Books\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber deftly combines sweet romance and a breath of suspense without losing the homespun charm that''s been delighting readers for years."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -RT Book Reviews on 92 Pacific Boulevard\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers new to Macomber''s considerable narrative charms will have no problem picking up the story, while loyal fans are in for a treat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 6 Rainier Drive\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Debbie Macomber is a skilled storyteller."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 50 Harbor Street\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The books in Macomber''s contemporary Cedar Cove series are irresistibly delicious and addictive."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 44 Cranberry Point\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Excellent characterization will keep readers anticipating the next visit to Cedar Cove."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 311 Pelican Court\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber''s endearing characters offer courage and support to one another and find hope and love in the most unexpected places."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 204 Rosewood Lane\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber is known for her honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America, and this tale cements her position as an icon of the genre."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 16 Lighthouse Road\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dear Reader,\n </p>\n <p>\n  You[HTML_REMOVED]ve probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel[HTML_REMOVED]s pregnant, and she says she can[HTML_REMOVED]t handle the stress in our household anymore. My thirteen-year-old daughter, Jolene, is jealous of her. Maybe it[HTML_REMOVED]s my fault. As a widower I spoiled herâ€”\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jolene was reading over my shoulder just now and says\n  <em>\n   that[HTML_REMOVED]s\n  </em>\n  not true. She claims Rachel ruined everything. But\n  <em>\n   that[HTML_REMOVED]s\n  </em>\n  not true. The real question is: How can I get my wife back? I don[HTML_REMOVED]t even know where she is. She[HTML_REMOVED]s not with Teri Polgar or any of her other friends from the salon. The other question isâ€¦when will Jolene grow up and stop acting like such a brat?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, I[HTML_REMOVED]m not the only one in town with problems. Linc Wyse[HTML_REMOVED]s father-in-law is trying to destroy his business. And you know Charlotte Rhodes? Seems she[HTML_REMOVED]s becoming forgetful, and the family[HTML_REMOVED]s worried about her and Ben. Lots of other stuff going onâ€”but Rachel is better at keeping up with it than I am.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have any idea where my wife is, give me a call. Please.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Peyton\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(10978, '1225 Christmas Tree Lane', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "It''s just not Christmas without a Debbie Macomber story..." --Writers Unlimited on A Cedar Cove Christmas\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber deftly combines sweet romance and a breath of suspense without losing the homespun charm that''s been delighting readers for years."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -RT Book Reviews on 92 Pacific Boulevard\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers new to Macomber''s considerable narrative charms will have no problem picking up the story, while loyal fans are in for a treat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 6 Rainier Drive\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Debbie Macomber is a skilled storyteller."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 50 Harbor Street\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The books in Macomber''s contemporary Cedar Cove series are irresistibly delicious and addictive."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 44 Cranberry Point\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Excellent characterization will keep readers anticipating the next visit to Cedar Cove."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 311 Pelican Court\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber''s endearing characters offer courage and support to one another and find hope and love in the most unexpected places."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Booklist on 204 Rosewood Lane\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Macomber is known for her honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America, and this tale cements her position as an icon of the genre."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Publishers Weekly on 16 Lighthouse Road\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects\n  <em>\n   this\n  </em>\n  Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Butâ€¦someone recently left a basket Ã¯ Â¬ Â lled with\n  <em>\n   puppies\n  </em>\n  on her doorstep, puppies she[HTML_REMOVED]s determined to place in good homes. That[HTML_REMOVED]s complication number one. And number two is that her daughters Bailey and Sophie have invited their dad, Beth[HTML_REMOVED]s ex-husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove for Christmas. The girls have visions of a mom-and-dad reunion dancing in their heads.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As always in lifeâ€”and in Cedar Coveâ€”there are surprises, too. More than one family[HTML_REMOVED]s going to have a puppy under the tree. More than one scheme will go awry. And more than one romance will have a happy ending!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(10979, '16 Lighthouse Road', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dear Reader, You don''t know me yet, but in a few hours that''s going to change. You see, I''m inviting you to my home and my town of Cedar Cove because I want you to meet my family, friends and neighbors. Come and hear their storiesâ€”maybe even their secrets!I have to admit that my own secrets are pretty open. My marriage failed some years ago, and I have a ratherâ€¦difficult relationship with my daughter, Justine. Then there''s my mother, Charlotte, who has plenty of opinions and is always willing to share them.  Here''s an example: I''m a family court judge and she likes to drop in on my courtroom. Recently I was hearing a divorce petition. In Charlotte''s view, young Cecilia and Ian Randall hadn''t tried hard enough to make their marriage workâ€”and I agreed. So I rendered my judgment: Divorce Denied.  Well, you wouldn''t believe the reaction! Thanks to an article by Jack Griffin, the editor of our local paper (and a man I wouldn''t mind seeing more of!), everyone''s talking.  Cedar Coveâ€”people love it and sometimes they leave it, but they never forget it!  See you soonâ€¦ Olivia Lockhart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(10980, '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(10981, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sent to unravel the mystery of an enigmatic monolith left on the moon by an unknown alien intelligence, two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Discovery find their journey into space and their very lives jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named Hal. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(10982, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(10983, '204 Rosewood Lane', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Grace Sherman\n <br />\n 204 Rosewood Lane\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cedar Cove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If you''ve been to Cedar Cove before we''ve probably met. You can usually, find me either at home or at the public library, where I work. I''ve lived in this town all my life and raised two daughters here. But my husband and I - well, about six months ago, he disappeared. Just . . . disappeared. Where''s Dan? Why did he go? Who''s he with? Will I ever find out?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n My hometown, my family and friends, bring me comfort during this difficult time. Comfort and a sense of shelter. I''m continually reminded that life can and does go on. For instance, everyone''s been discussing weddings and babies lately. Justine - the only daughter of my best friend, Olivia Lockhart - impulsively got married a little while ago. My own daughter Kelly recently had, a baby. Unfortunately, she refuses to accept that Dan might not return to see his first grandchild. My older daughter, Maryellen, is more realistic. I think she''s seeing a new man, but for some reason she won''t tell me who it is.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then there''s Jack, who''s been pursuing a romance with Olivia, and his son, Eric, and Eric''s girlfriend, Shelly (I think she''s pregnant), and Zach and Rosemary Cox, whose marriage is reputedly on the skids and . . . Well, just come on over and we''ll talk!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Grace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(10984, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Centenarian Heywood Floyd, survivor of two encounters with mysterious monoliths, once again confronts Dave Bowman, an independent HAL, and an unseen alien race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(10985, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book ClubÂ®Selected by the Literary GuildÂ® and Doubleday Book ClubÂ®\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(10986, '311 Pelican Court', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rosie Cox\n <br />\n 311 Pelican Court\n <br />\n Cedar Grove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One ting about Cedar Grove - people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take me, for instance. Everybody in the town knows that my husband, Zach, and I recently got a divorce. Everybody also know that Judge Olivia Lockhard decreed a pretty unusual custody arrangement. It won''t be the kids moving between my place and Zach''s. We''re the ones who''ll be going back and forth!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Olivia isn''t immune to gossip herself. Will she stay with Jack, the guy who runs our local paper, or will she get back with her ex? Inquiring minds want to know!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the really big gossip has to do with the dead guy - the man who died at a local bed-and-breakfast. Who is he and why did he show up there in the middle of the night? Roy McAfee, our local private investigator, is absolutely determined to find out. I hope he does - and then I''ll let you know! See you soon. . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rosie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(10987, '44 Charles Street: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel''s luminous new novel: strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattan''s West Village. The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor-even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her lawyer boyfriend Todd, is desperate. The owner of a struggling art gallery, and suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse, Francesca does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders. Soon her house becomes a whole new world. First comes Eileen, a fresh, pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City schoolteacher. Then there''s Chris, a young father struggling with a troubled ex-wife and the challenge of parenting a seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. The final tenant is Marya, a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in her life after the death of her husband. As Francesca''s art gallery begins to find its footing and Todd moves on to another woman, she discovers that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. As the roommates bond, and the house fills with the aroma of Marya''s exquisite cuisine, there are shadows as well as light. Na ve Eileen explores the precarious boundaries of online dating with a series of strangers. Chris''s custody fight for his son escalates to devastating levels. Marya faces an unexpected choice that will take her into untested waters. And Francesca herself will contemplate what had seemed impossible: opening her heart once more. Over the course of one amazing, unforgettable, ultimately life-changing year, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, heartbreak, and, always, hope. In the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, it''s a place those who visit will never want to leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(10988, '44 Cranberry Point', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Peggy Beldon\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thyme and Tide B and B\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 44 Cranberry Point\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cedar Grove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I love living in Cedar grove, but things haven''t been the same since a man died in our B and B. Turns out his name was Max Russell, and Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam. We still don''t have any idea why he came here and - most important of all - who killed him. Because he now appears that he was poisoned. I sure hope somebody figures it out soon!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not that we''re providing the only news in Cedar Cove these days. I heard that Jon Bowman and Maryellen Sherman are getting married. And Maryellen''s mom, Grace, has more than her share of interested men! The question is: Which one is she going to choose? Olivia - I guess it''s Olivia Griffin now - is back from her honeymoon, and her mother, Charlotte (who''s in her mid-seventies at least), seems to have a man in her life, too. I''m not so sure Olivia''s too pleased. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There''s lots of other gossip I could tell you. Come by for a cup of tea and one of my blueberry muffins and we''ll talk.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peggy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(10989, '50 Harbor Street', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Corrie McAfee\n <br />\n 50 Harbor Street\n <br />\n Cedar Cove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Considering that I''m married to Cedar Cove''s private investigator, you might think I enjoy mysteries. But I don''t -- especially when they involve us! Roy and I have been receiving anonymous postcards and messages asking if we "regret the past." We don''t know what they mean . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On a more positive note, we''re both delighted that our daughter, Linette, has moved to Cedar Cove to work at the new medical clinic. A while ago I attended the humane society''s "Dog and Bachelor Auction," where I bought her a date with Cal Washburn, who works at Cliff Harding''s horse farm. Unfortunately Linette is less enthusiastic about this date than I am.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Speaking of Cliff, the romance between him and Grace Sherman is back on. But that''s only one of the many interesting stories here in Cedar Cove. So why don''t you drop by for a coffee at my husband''s office on Main Street or our House on Harbor and I''ll tell you everything that''s new!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Corrie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(10990, '6 Rainier Drive', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 6 Rainier Drive\n <br />\n Cedar Cove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n <br />\n As you may have heard, we''ve recently had quite a shock. My husband, Seth, and I lost our business, The Lighthouse restaurant -- to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler, who disappeared right after the fire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So Seth and I are trying to sort out our lives. (And let me tell you, this kind of crisis is not good for a marriage.) In the meantime, life goes on for everyone else in Cedar Cove -- with marriages, births, reunions and even the occasional scandal. One of the most interesting pieces of news is that Cal, who works on Cliff Harding''s ranch, is now rescuing wild mustangs from Wyoming.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I have to run -- I''m meeting an old friend, Warren Saget, for lunch. Let''s talk soon, and I''ll fill you in on everything that''s happening in town!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Justine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(10991, '74 Seaside Ave', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 74 Seaside Avenue\n <br />\n Cedar Cove, Washington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n <br />\n I''m living a life I couldn''t even have dreamed of a few years ago. I''m married to Bobby Polgar now (you know, the famous chess champion who just happens to be the man I love!). And we''ve got this beautiful house with a view of Puget Sound.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lately something''s been worrying Bobby, though. When I asked, he said he was "protecting his queen" -- and I got the oddest feeling he wasn''t talking about chess but about me. He wouldn''t say anything else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Do you remember Get Nailed, the beauty salon in Cedar Cove? I still work there. I''ll tell you about my friend Rachel, who''s got two men interested in her (count ''em, two). And I''ll let you in on what I''ve heard about Linnette McAfee, who left town when her love life fell apart. (That kind of trouble I know all about.) Come in soon for a manicure and a chat, okay?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Teri (Miller) Polgar\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(10992, '8 Sandpiper Way', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I have something to confide in you. I think my husband, Dave, might be having an affair. I found an earring in his pocket, and it''s not mine. I''m also worried because some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman - and Dave used to visit her a lot.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You see, he''s a pastor. And a good man. I can''t believe he''s guilty of anything, but why won''t he tell me where he''s been when he comes home so late?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reader, I''d love to hear what you think. I also want to tell you what''s going on with your other friends in Cedar Cove. Like Sheriff Troy Davis, to mention one. His long-ago love, Faith Beckwith, just moved here!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So come on in and join me for a cup of tea.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Emily Flemming\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(10993, '92 Pacific Boulevard', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I''m not much of a letter writer. As the sheriff here, I''m used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. But my daughter, Meganâ€”who''ll be making me a grandfather soonâ€”told me I had to do this. So here goes.  I''ll tell you straight out that I''d hoped to marry Faith Beckwith (my onetime high school girlfriend) but she ended the relationship last month, even though we''re both widowed and available.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There were a few misunderstandings between us, some of them inadvertently caused by Megan.  However, I''ve got plenty to keep me occupied, like the unidentified remains found in a cave outside town. And the fact that my friend Judge Olivia Griffin is fighting cancer. And the break-ins at 204 Rosewood Laneâ€”the house Faith happens to be renting from Grace Hardingâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If you want to hear more, come on over to my place or the sheriff ''s officeâ€”if you can stand the stale coffee!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Troy Davis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(10994, 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation..\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Take a Look Inside this Book\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Following the success of his bestselling\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\n  </em>\n  with another mÃ©lange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln''s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author''s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln''s documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(10995, 'Absolution Gap', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war... but there is still no time for peace and quiet. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest emergent intelligence: mankind. As a ragtag bag of refugees fleeing the first wave of the cull head towards an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, they discover an avenging angel, a girl born in ice. She has the power to lead mankind to safety, and the ability to draw down their darkest enemy. And on a planet where vast travelling cathedrals crawl towards the treacherous fissure known as Absolution Gap, an unsettling truth becomes apparent: to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much, much worse . . . With his first novel Reynolds laid the foundations of a galaxy-spanning future for mankind; with each novel he takes us further into that galaxy, revealing another aspect of a future that has few boundaries. This is the creation of a uniquely talented writer who is making a massive impact on world SF.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(10996, 'Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal children of the Akaran dynasty know little of the world outside their opulent island paradise. But when an assassin strikes at the heart of their power, their lives are changed forever. Forced to flee to distant corners and separated against their will, the children must navigate a web of hidden allegiances, ancient magic, foreign invaders, and illicit trade that will challenge their very notion of who they are. As they come to understand their true purpose in life, the fate of the world lies in their hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(10997, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Furies of Calderon, bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it''s human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(10998, 'Accelerando', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stross explores humanity''s inability to cope with molecular nanotechnology run amok in this teeming near-future SF stand-alone. In part one, "Slow Takeoff," "free enterprise broker" Manfred Macx and his soon-to-be-estranged wife/dominatrix, Pamela, lay the foundation for the next decade''s transhumans. In "Point of Inflection," Amber, their punky maladjusted teenage daughter, and Sadeq Khurasani, a Muslim judge, engineer and scholar, try to escape the social chaos that antiaging treatments have wreaked on Earth by riding a tin can-sized starship via nanocomputerization to a brown dwarf star called Hyundai. The Wunch, trade-delegation aliens evolved from uploaded lobster mentalities, and Macx''s grandson, Sirhan, roister through "Singularity," in which people become cybernetic constructs. Stross''s three-generation experiment in stream-of-artificial-consciousness impresses, but his flat characters and inchoate rapid-fire explosions of often muzzily related ideas, theories, opinions and nightmares too often resemble intellectual pyrotechnics--breathtakingly gaudy but too brief, leaving connections lost somewhere in outer/inner/cyber space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10999, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.\n <br />\n These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(11000, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(11001, 'Agent to the Stars', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this slick, lightweight SF yarn from Scalzi (_Old Man''s War_), Thomas Stein, a hot young Hollywood agent, has just negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal for his friend, starlet Michelle Beck, when his boss, Carl Lupo, foists a space alien called Joshua on him. Joshua and his people, the Yherajk, are intelligent, gelatinous, shape-shifting blobs that communicate telepathically and by sharing odors. They''ve been monitoring Earth''s TV broadcasts and realize that before they can make first contact, they''ll have to deal with their image problem. Tom takes on the job of making the friendly, odiferous creatures palatable to humanity, while keeping Michelle and the rest of his other acting clients happy. Several entertaining trips to the aliens'' spaceship enliven the predictable plot.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With a plot that starts out as the rough life of a young agent in Hollywood and rapidly metamorphoses into B-movie territory as a remarkably intelligent first-contact yarn, this book is absurd, funny, and satirically perceptive. Thomas Stein has just scored a major deal for his biggest client, hot starlet Michelle Beck. Then his boss introduces a new client who is going to require more work than Stein has ever expected. Joshua is an Yjerajk, and Yjerajk communicate via smells, which are often quite unpleasant to humans. Moreover, Yjerajk are formless blobs. But they''ve seen enough human TV to understand that Hollywood has more impact on Earthlings than any government, and that the movies always portray nonhumanoid aliens as evil. It''s going to take a lot of work to introduce Yjerajk to humans so as to emphasize their peaceful intentions and keep people from seeing them as the Blob. Fortunately, Tom is up to the challenge . . . eventually . . . with a little help--and a lot of inspiration.\n  <em>\n   Regina Schroeder\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(11002, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Timesbestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside. A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(11003, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he s barely heard of part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he s ever known. As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, the new science fiction novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(11004, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.\n <br />\n The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson''s friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(11005, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times  reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist  conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(11006, 'All That Remains: A Scarpetta Novel', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell''s heart-stopping thriller featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay ScarpettaIn Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president''s newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(11007, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit, which may involve a power struggle between the vampire queen of Louisiana, weakened by hurricane damage, and some ambitious vamps out to seize control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(11008, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(11009, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(11010, 'American Gods: A Novel', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.   One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(11011, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of fiction''s most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie''s dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can''t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie''s life. Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie''s doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who''s going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie. Because, you see, Charlie''s dad wasn''t just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself. Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King''s glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(11012, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.   Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(11013, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scalzi''s swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Old Man''s War\n  </em>\n  ) stars Harry Creek, a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien ambassadors to Earth who''s also a war hero and a computer genius. When Earth faces destruction over a diplomatic faux pas with the Nidu alien race, Harry must find and deliver the Android''s Dream, an electric-blue breed of sheep, to the Nidu for their coronation ceremony. Dodging Defense Department assassins and Nidu space marines, Harry and Robin Baker, a pet shop owner with sheep DNA in her genes, flee Earth and find their own way to attend the Nidu crowning. Also on the quest for the sheep are disciples of the Church of the Evolved Lambâ€”founded by an early 21st-century SF writer of "modest talents." With plenty of alien gore to satisfy fans of military SF and inventive jabs at pretend patriotism and self-serving civil service, Scalzi delivers an effervescent but intelligent romp.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scalzi''s third ingenious novel in less than two years speeds his transition from rising star to major player in the sf community. An interstellar scandal explodes when a human diplomat assassinates an alien diplomat by farting at him, albeit using a scent-emitting communicator. To forestall interspecies war, the government enlists former war hero and current uberhacker Harry Creek. His mission: to placate the aliens by finding a unique form of sheep used in the aliens'' upcoming coronation ritual. The sheep, in this case, turns out to be unassuming pet-store owner Robin Baker, whose genes improbably incorporate ovine DNA. Before Baker can be secured and summarily dispatched, however, Creek must contend with a succession of meddlesome adversaries ranging from a cult of sheep worshippers to alien thugs itching for interstellar war. Scalzi uses the talent for military sf on view in the Heinleinesque\n  <em>\n   Old Man''s War\n  </em>\n  (2005) and\n  <em>\n   The Ghost Brigades\n  </em>\n  (2006) for laughs this time, though there is also plenty of action and technological gimmickry to satisfy fans of sober sf, too.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(11014, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(11015, 'Angels and Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring more than 200 photos, drawings, and historical images, this official full-colour companion book captures the film''s amazing visuals, and details the complexity of bringing Dan Brown''s bestselling thriller novel to the screen. In Angels &amp; Demons, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to Rome to embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals. What he uncovers is unimaginable. The Illuminati, a secret society whose existence dates back to the 1700s, is alive, well, and murderously active, masterminding a plot to blow up the Vatican. Angels &amp; Demons: The Illustrated Movie offers a behind-the-scenes look at the stunning production design and process of filming the famous locations featured in the movie. Contents include:* Never-before-seen storyboards and drawings used to plan the film''s action scenes* Contributions from all key participants of the movie, including Ron Howard, Tom Hanks and Dan Brown* In-progress shots of the re-creation of the Sistine Chapel and its artifacts * Details on creating intricate sets for St. Peter''s Square, the Pantheon, and the Piazza Navona\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(11016, 'Angels Flight: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A black lawyer is murdered in Los Angeles, bringing cheers from policemen whom he frequently sued for brutality. The case is given to detective Harry Bosch and right away he discovers tampering of evidence. By the author of Trunk Music.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(11017, 'Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It''s a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(11018, 'The Apprentice', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bestselling author of The Surgeon returnsâ€”and so does that chilling novelâ€™s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.THE APPRENTICEIt is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the cityâ€™s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the cityâ€™s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least thatâ€™s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred herâ€”literally and figurativelyâ€”she is determined to finally end Hoytâ€™s awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.But Rizzoli isnâ€™t counting on the U.S. governmentâ€™s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isnâ€™t counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . .Filled with superbly created charactersâ€”and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademarkâ€”The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(11019, 'Around the World in Eighty Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verneâ€™s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(11020, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time.\n <br />\n The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(11021, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(11022, 'At the King&#39;s Command', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign''s capricious and malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenientâ€¦though undeniably fetching.But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thiefâ€”she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the traitorous cabal who slaughtered her family. One day she hopes to return to Muscovy to seek vengeance.What begins as a mockery of a marriage ultimately blossoms into deepest love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(11023, 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature. This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(11024, 'At the Queen&#39;s Summons', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into serious trouble, she throws herself upon the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O''Donoghue.Pippa provides a welcome diversion for Aidan as he awaits an audience with the queen, who holds his people''s fate in her hands. Amused at first, he becomes obsessed with the audacious waif who claims his patronage.Rash and impetuous, their unlikely alliance reverberates with desire and the tantalizing promise of a life each has always wantedâ€”but never dreamed of attaining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(11025, 'The Atrocity Archives', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(11026, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. A compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense - THE LONG WALK, ROADWORK and THE RUNNING MAN - in which Stephen King also explains ''Why I was Richard Bachman''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(11027, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love''s enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra''s struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(11028, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(11029, 'The Best of Me', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Author Nicholas Sparks\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : What was your inspiration for writing\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I suppose the inspiration was two-fold. It had been a long time since Iâ€™d done a â€œreunionâ€ story (like\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  ) so it was time to do another. At the same time, I wanted it to be different than The Notebook in almost every way. At the same time, I wanted to write a novel about characters in their forties. At that age, people are coming to terms with the decisions and choices theyâ€™ve made in the past.\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  was essentially a combination of those two ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : This book deals with falling in love for the first time and how sometimes that love is so strong it can cross the span of time and space no matter what happens. Is that something you believe in?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Yes, I believe itâ€™s possible. First love is always powerful, and for some people, that love really does last forever. The problem with that, however, is that over time, the love often becomes romanticized. I wanted to write a novel that explored that concept as well. Neither Dawson nor Amanda are the same people theyâ€™d been when they were younger, and little by little, that romanticism diminishes over the course of the story. For them, however, the new reality nonetheless left them feeling the same way about each other as they once had. And yet, they fell in love once more. Or maybe, phrasing it differently, they never fell out of love in the first place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Former high school sweethearts Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole reconnect after 25 years when their mentor, Tuck Hostetler, dies and they are summoned back to Oriental, North Carolina for his funeral. One of things that drove Amanda and Dawson apart was that they were from the opposite side of the tracks. Are class differences still a part of everyday life in a town like Oriental, North Carolina?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Class differences arenâ€™t as powerful as they once were, but theyâ€™re still prevalent. I donâ€™t know, however, if itâ€™s limited to places like Oriental, and nor do I see it as entirely and without question a terrible thing. People who intend to spend their lives together should have things in common, and like it or not, class is, and always has been, part of that, because it shapes the people that we are.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Amanda and Dawson--and many others in the real world, of course--the class differences were less important than their similarities. Neither one of them got along with their parents, both were intelligent, both had dreams, and over the years, both of them had disappointments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Today, we can easily reconnect with people from our past via Facebook and other social networking sites. How often do you think people try to find their first love on these sites?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Itâ€™s very common. I know people whoâ€™ve reconnected with someone from their past then later married them, but thatâ€™s probably less common than simply reaching out via social media to an old boyfriend or girlfriend simply to find out whatâ€™s been going on in their lives. I can understand the draw: First love is powerful because itâ€™s a first, and itâ€™s almost impossible to forget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : At the point when Amanda and Dawson reconnect, Amanda has been married almost twenty years and itâ€™s clear she is having problems in her marriage. Having been married for 22 years yourself, what would you say is the key to a successful marriage?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : For every couple, itâ€™s different, because every couple faces different challenges, and every person has differing abilities when it comes to meeting those challenges. The key to any successful marriage is to realize that the commitment you once made to each other is the most important aspect to keep in mind. That simple truth, if truly felt, should be enough to make you realize that you canâ€™t put that commitment at risk. If your partner feels the same way, he or she wouldnâ€™t put that commitment at risk either.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, itâ€™s important to understand that all marriages have challenging periods. No one is perfect, after all. But if the commitment to each other--which sometimes requires a commitment to change--is truly felt, then most likely, that marriage will be successful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : This book has a large, spiritual component to it. Tuck sees Clara, his dead wife, and Dawson sees a man in a blue windbreaker, although he is not sure who he is and the reader does not find out until the end. Do you believe in ghosts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I think I do. I had an experience much like the one Dawson described: at times, I could see unexplainable movement from the corners of my eyes. Quick, instantaneous movements that vanished before I could turn my head. If you talk to the owners of the house where those events occurred, they will swear it was a ghost. Other events occurred in that house as well before the â€œghostâ€--or whatever it was--was finally exorcised from the premises. But thatâ€™s a longer story for another time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : There is an absolutely stunning scene that unfolds when Amanda and Dawson go to Tuckâ€™s country cottage for the first time. Itâ€™s very reminiscent of a scene that happens in\n  <em>\n   The Notebook.\n  </em>\n  Would you say this book, which examines young love versus middle age love, is the book closest in sentiment to\n  <em>\n   The Notebook?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Without question, this is closest in sentiment--at least through the majority of the story â€“ when compared to The Notebook. I wanted to do exactly that. At the same time, I wanted to make everything else about the story completely different as well, and Iâ€™m hopeful I did that as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Tuck writes letters to Amanda and Dawson to be read after he is dead. They are wise and beautifully written. In this day and age of constant, electronic overload, do you lament the lost art of letter writing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I do. I love letters as opposed to e-mail. But Iâ€™m old-fashioned that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Warner Bros. has already bought the film rights to\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  . You will be a producer on this film along with Denise DiNovi. How often is an author also a producer for the movie version of a book he/she has written? Is this unprecedented?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Iâ€™m sure other authors have served as a producer of their work; some have even directed. But it was somewhat unprecedented for Warner to agree to that â€“ and purchase the novel--before Iâ€™d written a single page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Of all the movies based on your novels, which is your favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Iâ€™ve been fortunate in that all the movies have been well-done and all have been successful, so I donâ€™t have a personal favorite. I can say, however, is that, at the current time, The Notebook seems most likely to become a classic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Photo by Nina Subin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She''d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead:\n  <em>\n   Can love truly rewrite the past?\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(11030, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Companyto find her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(11031, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch -- hero, maverick, nighthawk -- the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the tortuous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(11032, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "New York Times" bestselling author''s second novel featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is reissued for the first time in a decade. Harry investigates the case of a missing narcotics officer rumored to have been peddling a new drug called Black Ice. Martin''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(11033, 'Black Notice', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This #1 "New York Times" bestseller finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta on an international mission that will pull her in two opposite directions. Includes a new Introduction by Cornwell. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(11034, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won''t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company''s commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(11035, 'Blindsighted', 'Karin Slaughter &amp; Judith Ivey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it''s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer''s twisted work becomes clear. Sara''s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he''s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county''s sole female detective, Lena Adams -- the first victim''s sister -- want to serve her own justice. But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath .. or mean her death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(11036, 'Blood Brothers', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The vampires have been vanquished! Harry Keogh and the armies of the dead have destroyed the evil that once plagued the world. Nathan and Nestor, secret twin sons of the Necroscope and a proud gypsy woman, were children when their father, his humanity poisoned by his fearsome struggles, sacrificed himself to save mankind.Yet there are vampires still, vampires crueler and stranger than any the Necroscope had faced. When these new, merciless killers swoop out of the sky, Nathan and Nestor are men--but they have few of Harry Keogh''s miraculous powers.Torn from each other by battle, the sons of the Necroscope journey across the vampire world, exploring its mysteries, each seeking the powerful, terrible vampires, his missing brother...and the woman they both love! The vampires have been vanquished! Harry Keogh and the armies of the dead have destroyed the evil that once plagued the world. Nathan and Nestor, secret twin sons of the Necroscope and a proud gypsy woman, were children when their father, his humanity poisoned by his fearsome struggles, sacrificed himself to save mankind.Yet there are vampires still, vampires crueler and stranger than any the Necroscope had faced. When these new, merciless killers swoop out of the sky, Nathan and Nestor are men--but they have few of Harry Keogh''s miraculous powers.Torn from each other by battle, the sons of the Necroscope journey across the vampire world, exploring its mysteries, each seeking the powerful, terrible vampires, his missing brother...and the woman they both love!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/409');
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(11037, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (\n  <i>\n   The Briar King\n  </i>\n  , etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Realms of Fantasy\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Locus\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Briar King\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Terry Brooks\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(11038, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago''s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the ''everyday'' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don''t play well with humans. That''s where Harry comes in.Harry''s had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a plant monster. Still, there''s something troubling about this case. The Producer believes he''s afflicted by an entropy curse - but it''s the women around him who are dying. And Harry only got involved as a favour to Thomas, his flirtatious self-absorbed vampire acquaintance. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t work out, until his investigation leads him straight to Thomas''s oversexed relatives. Harry''s about to discover the skeleton in Thomas''s family closet: a revelation that will change Harry''s life for ever.Magic - it can get a guy killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(11039, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go. When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he''s about to come out of retirement. He''s recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister Gloria was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria''s killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau--as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(11040, 'Bloodwars', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, have taken very different paths. Nathan as his father''s powers--to talk to the dead, to travel instantly through space. Like Harry, this new Necroscope fights evil wherever he finds it.His twin, Nestor, has become the most horrifying evil imaginable: a shape-shifting, blood sucking Wamphyi Lord! Devoid of human feeling, Nestor and his companion, the beautiful, malevolent Wratha the Risen, hunt without mercy.The battle between the brothers mirrors the war between vampires and humans. On mankind''s side: terrible weapons brought from Earth by Nathan''s allies. But the vampires are numerous and powerful, and neither side has a clear advantage...until Nathan and his legions of the dead discover a way to destroy the vampires forever.In the midst of a titanic battle, Nathan makes a desperate move that forever changes millions of lives and two worlds: the vampire world...and earth. The twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, have taken very different paths. Nathan as his father''s powers--to talk to the dead, to travel instantly through space. Like Harry, this new Necroscope fights evil wherever he finds it.His twin, Nestor, has become the most horrifying evil imaginable: a shape-shifting, blood sucking Wamphyi Lord! Devoid of human feeling, Nestor and his companion, the beautiful, malevolent Wratha the Risen, hunt without mercy.The battle between the brothers mirrors the war between vampires and humans. On mankind''s side: terrible weapons brought from Earth by Nathan''s allies. But the vampires are numerous and powerful, and neither side has a clear advantage...until Nathan and his legions of the dead discover a way to destroy the vampires forever.In the midst of a titanic battle, Nathan makes a desperate move that forever changes millions of lives and two worlds: the vampire world...and earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(11041, 'Blow Fly', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Readers are in for the shock of Kay Scarpetta''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(11042, 'Body Double', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen''s edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Islesâ€”divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clockâ€”is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. As the novel begins, Islesâ€”an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parentsâ€”is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn''t convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister''s past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen''s best to date.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Last seen in\n  <em>\n   The Sinner\n  </em>\n  (2003), medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles has just returned from a trip to France to encounter a grisly discovery. A woman has been found shot to death in front of her home, and the woman is a dead ringer for Maura. The woman, whose name is Anna Leoni, turns out to be Maura''s twin; both were given up for adoption 40 years ago. The mystery deepens when Officer Rick Ballard shows up and tells Maura and Detective Jane Rizzoli that Anna was on the run from an abusive boyfriend and under police protection. But that still doesn''t answer the question of what led Anna to Maura''s door, and that question leads Maura to trace her sister''s steps to an old house in Maine. Things get even more perplexing when decades-old human bones are found nearby. The human remains lead Maura to her birth mother, Amalthea Lank, who is now in jail for the brutal murder of two women. Maura is unsure whether and how her mother is connected to Anna''s death, and she''s confused by her growing feelings for Rick, who may have been in love with her sister. Gerritsen''s latest taut thriller is sure to appeal to fans who have followed Rizzoli and Isle''s previous adventures.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(11043, 'The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(11044, 'Body of Evidence', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(11045, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(11046, 'The Book of Five Rings', 'Musashi Miyamoto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Miyamoto Musashi''s Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings,  is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu''s The Art of War and Chanakya''s Arthashastra.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(11047, 'Book of the Dead', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. And the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis star will usher in a string of murders more baffling and terrifying than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(11048, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(11049, 'Brass Man', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Philip K. Dick Awardnominated author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting in this sequel to Gridlinked, which SFRevu.com called brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas. Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected a horrific killing machine named Mr. Crane to assist in a similar hunt, encompassing whole star systems. Mr. Crane, an insane, indestructible, artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(11050, 'The Brass Verdict: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next. Â Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.Bringing together Michael Connelly''s two most popular characters, The Brass Verdictis sure to be his biggest book yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(11051, 'The Briar King', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Briar King\n  </em>\n  , Greg Keyes''s latest elegant entry into the world of high fantasy, lays the groundwork for what promises to be a mesmerizing four-book series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. Keyes spins his tale in a meticulously crafted fantasy realm on the brink of apocalyptic change. The Briar King, a legend cobbled from children''s stories and rural folklore, is waking from his slumber to an unknown but cataclysmic end. Dark agents are afoot in the land, stirring war and edging an ancient prophecy closer to fulfillment. In destiny''s path are a king''s woodsman, his headstrong lover, a bookworm priest, a cocksure swordsman, and the embattled (from within and without) kingdom of Crotheny. Keyes masterfully intertwines far-off courtly intrigue with the personal quest of the woodsman and his brave companions who seek to unravel the secret of the Briar King before all is lost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   The Briar King\n  </em>\n  will suffer the inevitable comparison with George R.R. Martin''s\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of the bestselling Age of Unreason tetralogy (The Waterborn, etc.) inaugurates the Kingdoms of Throne and Bone quartet with this epic high fantasy. The inhabitants of this splendid and dauntingly complex parallel world, Everon, are mostly descended from folk magically transported from our world. This is not quite the land of Faerie, although the Briar King resembles the old Celtic horned god Cernunnos, while Keyes brings his expertise as a fencing teacher to the swordplay, here called dessrata. The Empire of Crotheny faces war with its arch-rival, the Hanzish, and magical intrigues aimed at preventing the land from having a born queen (as opposed to a king''s consort). By book''s end, Princess Anne, the daughter of the Crotheny king, is fleeing for her life with Austra, her maid, and Cazio, a young Vitellian nobleman, having earlier experienced the pains of discipline in a convent and the horrors of having her family butchered. With aplomb, the author employs one of the most classic fantasy plots: the heir(ess) with a destiny and a necessarily huge cast of supporters. Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions and languages with rare skill. The main theme may emerge with formidable slowness, but patient readers will find the rewards enormously worthwhile.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/654'),
(11052, 'The Bridge', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lyng in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn''t be much fun, you''d think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you''ve left behind. And where you are now. The man who wakes up in the extraordinary, surrealistic world of the bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn''t seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted castle under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, The Bridge is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(11053, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Stephen W. Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(11054, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking &amp; Stephen W. Hawking &amp; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In the 17 years since the publication of A Brief History of Time, Dr. Hawking''s bestselling exposition of physics, new data from particle physics and observational astronomy have shed light on efforts to find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything that Hawking and Mlodinow use to enhance and update their answers to basic questions about the universe: where it''s going and how it began. Discussed at length are the mysterious dark matter and dark energy-both of which can only be observed by their gravitational effects and are believed to make up 90 percent of the universe. Another area of research that has exploded in the past 20 years is string theory. Hawking and Mlodinow provide one of the most lucid discussions of this complex topic ever written for a general audience. Readers will come away with an excellent understanding of the apparent contradictions and conundrums at the forefront of contemporary physics. Recognizing that much of their audience will also be science fiction buffs, they include a chapter on the possibility of time travel. "Don''t bet on it," the authors advise. Throughout these discussions, the authors maintain the same wry, lively tone that made the original Brief History such a delight. They close with a discussion of where physics ends and philosophy begins, "Why does the universe exist at all?" They cannot provide the answer, but they do provide an immense amount of food for thought. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Scientific American\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hawking''s A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a surprise best-seller but a tough read for most people who tackled it. Hawking received many requests for a version that would make his discussion of deep questions about the universe more accessible. This book does that. Hawking and Mlodinow, a physicist turned science writer, proceed by small and careful steps from the early history of astronomy to today''s efforts to construct a grand unified theory of the universe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Editors of Scientific American\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(11055, 'Broken', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karin Slaughter on\n   <em>\n    Broken\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, every novel begins with character rather than plot. I know something bad is going to happen, but the central question to every story I write is "how will my characters respond?" Over the years, Iâ€™ve certainly thrown some hard times at my Grant County characters. Jeffrey, Sara and Lena have changed a lot since\n  <em>\n   Blindsighted\n  </em>\n  , my first novel. Theyâ€™ve seen hardship and adversity, grown together and grown apart. They have helped me explore the way crime can change not just people, but entire communities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I started writing about Will Trent in my Atlanta series, I wanted to take that exploration a step farther. As a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Will is generally called in when the local police either canâ€™t handle or donâ€™t want to deal with a case. Not only does he have to find the bad guy, he has to juggle the various egos already involved. This is certainly the situation in\n  <em>\n   Broken\n  </em>\n  , when Will is called into Grant County to investigate a possible suicide in police custody. He butts heads with Lena Adams and Frank Wallace, and uncovers a truth that most in the town do not want to see.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bringing Will Trent into Sara Lintonâ€™s world was a fun challenge for me. With\n  <em>\n   Undone\n  </em>\n  , it was in many ways easy to put Sara in Atlanta. I live in the city, and the landscape is already painted for me. As a writer, I need only draw in the fine lines. Dropping Will into Grant County was a different challenge altogether. To work with an existing world that has developed over the course of eight books, to find new and interesting details for long-time readers, was a thrilling challenge to me. Finding a case that was as gripping as it was challenging was also an exciting rollercoaster ride. I hope my readers enjoy solving the crime--and watching the characters change along with it--as much as I did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Alison Rosa)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Slaughter brings her Grant County and Atlanta characters together for a second time (after Undone) in this superb thriller. When Dr. Sara Linton returns home to Grant County, Ga., for Thanksgiving, she hopes to steer clear of the police, especially Det. Lena Adams, whom she blames for the murder of her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. Yet when college student Allison Spooner is found dead in a lake and a local boy, Tommy Braham, is arrested for the murder, Sara reluctantly agrees to consult. The investigation soon spirals out of control after Tommy dies in custody. When Sara calls in Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Will Trent from Atlanta to take over the case, the local police greet Will''s arrival with suspicion. Will must weigh Sara''s personal vendetta against Detective Adams with the facts of the case, which grow more confusing the deeper he digs into the small county''s secrets. Slaughter keeps the emotional tension high throughout.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/709'),
(11056, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(11057, 'The Broken Kingdoms', 'N. K. Jemisin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The gods have broken free after centuries of slavery, and the world holds its breath, fearing their vengeance. The saga of mortals and immortals continues in THE BROKEN KINGDOMS. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree''s peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger -- but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(11058, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Loop me in, odd one." The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two New York Times bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(11059, 'The Burning Man', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(11060, 'The Burrowers Beneath', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(11061, 'The Business: A Novel', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who Do You Work For?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Business, a nearly omnipotent enterprise, is so infinitely discreet that even its top executives are vague about its actual business. It predates the Christian church and counts among its vast riches dozens of Michelangelo''s pornographic paintings and several sets of Crown jewels. The only thing it lacks is political clout, a problem the Business plans to solve by buying a nation and joining the United Nations. Kate Telman, the Business''s foremost expert on emerging technologies, is chosen to lead the effort. As this beautiful, ambitious American woman pursues the ultimate prize for her highly secretive transglobal employer, Iain Banks -- whom The Times of London calls "the most imaginative British novelist of his generation" -- offers a portrait of today''s ubiquitous multinational corporations. Already a bestseller in England, The Business paints a picture that is at once wickedly satirical and frighteningly familiar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(11062, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A guide to get you up and running with calibre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(11063, 'Call Me Mrs. Miracle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Christmas, Emily Merkle (call her Mrs. Miracle!) is working in the toy department at Finley''s, the last family-owned department store in New York City. And her boss is none other thanâ€¦Jake Finley, the owner''s son.For Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. Now Christmas means just one thing to himâ€”and to his father. Profit. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat.Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Holly''s widowed brother is in the army and won''t be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe that toy robot from Finley''s, the one gift he desperately wants. If she can figure out how to afford itâ€¦Fortunately, it''s Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping othersâ€”and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking!This Christmas will be different. For all of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(11064, 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft''s best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.\n <br />\n It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story''s first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(11065, 'Canal Dreams', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hisako Onoda, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako''s ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as am oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello . . . Canal Dreams is a novel of deceptive simplicity and dark, original power: stark psychological insights mesh with vividly realised scenarios in an ominous projection of global realpolitik. The result is yet another major landmark in the quite remarkable career of an outstanding modern novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(11066, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(11067, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.   Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.  Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."  His latest satiric triumph,  Carpe Jugulum, involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving.  Ever.  Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight.  Go for the throat, or as the  vampyres themselves say... Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(11068, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(11069, 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(11070, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won in defiance of the Capitol and its harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry -- and now it wants revenge. Full of plot twists, this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller is guaranteed to keep young readers on the edge of their seats!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(11071, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband''s death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer''s innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer''s alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer''s next victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(11072, 'Cause of Death', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This New Year''s Eve marks the end of a life-and the beginning of a nightmare for Kay Scarpetta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(11073, 'Cell: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(11074, 'Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.  Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden''s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.  Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry''s not fighting to save the world...  He''s fighting to save his child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(11075, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. In this, the final book in the Dune Chronicles, Herbert again creates a world of breathtakingly evolved characters and the contexts in which to appreciate them. The richness of detail and perspective fascinates, while the multi-layered plot evolves as pages turn. Riveting from end to end, the legend lives on in the greatest science fiction epic of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(11076, 'The Charm School', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An awkward misfit in an accomplished Boston family, Isadora Peabody yearns to escape her social isolation and sneaks aboard the Silver Swan, bound for Rio, leaving it all behind.Ryan Calhoun, too, had a good family name. But he''d purposely walked away from everything it afforded him. Driven by his quest to right an old wrong, the fiery, temperamental sea captain barely registers the meek young woman who comes aboard his ship.To the Swan''s motley crew, the tides of attraction clearly flow between the two. Teaching her the charms of a lady, they hope to build the confidence she needs to attract not only their lonely captain''s attention, but his heart, as well. For everyone knows the greatest charms are not those of the formal lady, but rather the possibilities of a new world built on love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(11077, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   The Charnel Prince\n  </em>\n  , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by\n  <i>\n   The Briar King\n  </i>\n  with a second taut entry in his series The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n  <em>\n   The Briar King\n  </em>\n  . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n  <em>\n   The Briar King\n  </em>\n  may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/589');
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(11078, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The number-one\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(11079, 'Chasing the Dime: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Henry Pierce has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly''s world, and it''s unlike any world he''s ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce''s skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly''s last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly''s past takes Price deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy -- and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(11080, 'Chasm City', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner''s pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. But Chasm City is not what it was. The one-time high-tech utopia has become a Gothic nightmare: a nanotechnological virus has corrupted the city''s inhabitants as thoroughly as it has the buildings and machines. Before the chase is done, Tanner will have to confront truths which reach back centuries, towards deep space and an atrocity history barely remembers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(11081, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A FIRST-RATE TOUR DE FORCE."\n  <br />\n  --The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A FRIGHTENINGLY LOGICAL, BELIEVABLE, AND GRIMLY PROPHETIC TALE . . . CLARKE IS A MASTER."\n  <br />\n  --Los Angeles Times --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(11082, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad''Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities â€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twins'' prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(11083, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender''s children must save her if they are to save themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(11084, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen King''s tale of a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury. Arnie buys an old Plymouth that has mystical powers to possess and destroy. She purrs like a kitten ... but watch out when she roars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(11085, 'City of Bones: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Confronted by his own tragic past when the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch embarks on an investigation to unearth the boy''s identity, which leads to startling discoveries, a romance with a female cop, and the possible destruction of his career. 100,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/636'),
(11086, 'City of Golden Shadow', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young people are having their minds stolen in cyberspace, part of a crooked scheme to create a new virtual reality. A black South African teacher and her brother try to save the children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(11087, 'The Clan Corporate', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade ) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, Miriam has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. She started a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in The Hidden Family). She fell in love with a distant relative, but he died saving her life. Now, however, in The Clan Corporate, Miriam may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is, for instance, the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they''d never make her do that, would they?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(11088, 'The Clock of Dreams', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(11089, 'The Closers: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after the death of a sixteen-year-old girl is ruled a suicide, detective Harry Bosch receives DNA evidence that reopens the case, which involves an investigation into a white supremacist with close ties to the LAPD. By the author of The Narrows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/639'),
(11090, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead--a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she catches him in an act of betrayal, she''s not sure whether to save him or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(11091, 'Cold Dawn', 'Carla Neggers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe againâ€”until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition.\n  <em>\n   Almost.\n  </em>\n  Rose is certain that she knows the victim''s identityâ€¦and that his death was no accident.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist''s deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Now the rugged smoke jumper is determined to follow the killer''s trailâ€¦even if it leads straight to Rose. Nick and Rose haven''t seen each other since they shared a single night of blind passion, but they can''t let memories and unhealed wounds get in the way of their common goalâ€”stopping a merciless killer from taking aim straight at the heart of Black Falls.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carla Neggers is a\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author whose books have been translated into dozens of languages and earned her critical praise and the loyalty of readers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A graduate of Boston University and a former journalist, Carla grew up in rural western Massachusetts, where as a child she used to climb trees to write. She lives with her family in Vermont and travels extensively. www.CarlaNeggers.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(11092, 'Collateral Damage', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Throughout the Sisterhood''s adventures, the bond between the women has remained steadfast. But now for the first time, that bond verges on falling apart when the ladies must choose between two difficult assignments, in the 11th exciting Sisterhood novel by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Michaels. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(11093, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne''s best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." He is best known for his novels A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1864), FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1865), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1869â€“1870), A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1871) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873) and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. A number of his works have been made into feature films and his books remain popular and in print more than a century after his death.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\n   <br />\n   2. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth\n   <br />\n   3. Around The World In Eighty Days\n   <br />\n   4. The Mysterious Island\n   <br />\n   5. From The Earth To The Moon\n   <br />\n   6. Around The Moon\n   <br />\n   7. A Voyage In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   8. Doctor Ox''s Experiment\n   <br />\n   9. Master Zacharius\n   <br />\n   10. A Drama In The Air\n   <br />\n   11. A Winter Amid The Ice\n   <br />\n   12. Ascent Of Mont Blanc\n   <br />\n   13. An Antarctic Mystery\n   <br />\n   14. Dick Sand; Or, A Captain At Fifteen\n   <br />\n   15. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon\n   <br />\n   16. Facing The Flag\n   <br />\n   17. Five Weeks In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   18. Godfrey Morgan\n   <br />\n   19. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras\n   <br />\n   Part I: The English At The North Pole\n   <br />\n   Part Ii: The Field Of Ice\n   <br />\n   21. In Search Of The Castaways\n   <br />\n   22. Michael Strogoff\n   <br />\n   23. Off On A Comet\n   <br />\n   24. Robur The Conqueror\n   <br />\n   25. The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent\n   <br />\n   26. The Blockade Runners\n   <br />\n   27. The Fur Country\n   <br />\n   28. The Master Of The World\n   <br />\n   29. The Pearl Of Lima\n   <br />\n   30. The Secret Of The Island\n   <br />\n   31. The Survivors Of The Chancellor\n   <br />\n   32. The Underground City\n   <br />\n   33. The Waif Of The Cynthia\n   <br />\n   34. Ticket No. 9262\n   <br />\n   35. Topsy Turvy\n   <br />\n   36. In The Year 2889\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/600'),
(11094, 'The Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(11095, 'The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But just because the Disc is different doesn''t mean that some things don''t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Colour of Magic is the first novel in Terry Pratchett''s acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(11096, 'The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Reader (2nd Edition)', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   (N.B.Â  this new edition has corrected the formatting issues that has been voiced by some Lovecraft fans...)\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   CONTENTS:\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Nameless City\n  <br />\n  The Festival\n  <br />\n  The Colour out of Space\n  <br />\n  The Call of Cthulhu\n  <br />\n  The Dunwich Horror\n  <br />\n  The Whisperer in Darkness\n  <br />\n  Dreams in the Witch-house\n  <br />\n  The Haunter of the Dark\n  <br />\n  The Shadow over Innsmouth\n  <br />\n  The Shadow out of Time\n  <br />\n  At the Mountain of Madness\n  <br />\n  The Case of Charles Dexter Ward\n  <br />\n  Azathoth\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Wall of Sleep\n  <br />\n  Celephais\n  <br />\n  Cool Air\n  <br />\n  Dagon\n  <br />\n  Ex Oblivione\n  <br />\n  Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family\n  <br />\n  From Beyond\n  <br />\n  He\n  <br />\n  Herbert West: Reanimator\n  <br />\n  Hypnos\n  <br />\n  Imprisoned with the Pharaohs\n  <br />\n  In the Vault\n  <br />\n  Medusa''s Coil\n  <br />\n  Memory\n  <br />\n  Nyarlathotep\n  <br />\n  Pickman''s Model\n  <br />\n  Poetry of the Gods\n  <br />\n  The Alchemist\n  <br />\n  The Beast in the Cave\n  <br />\n  The Book\n  <br />\n  The Cats of Ulthar\n  <br />\n  The Crawling Chaos\n  <br />\n  The Descendant\n  <br />\n  The Doom That Came to Sarnath\n  <br />\n  The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath\n  <br />\n  The Evil Clergyman\n  <br />\n  The Horror at Martin''s Beach\n  <br />\n  The Horror at Red Hook\n  <br />\n  The Hound\n  <br />\n  The Lurking Fear\n  <br />\n  The Moon Bog\n  <br />\n  The Music of Erich Zann\n  <br />\n  The Other Gods\n  <br />\n  The Outsider\n  <br />\n  The Picture in the House\n  <br />\n  The Quest of Iranon\n  <br />\n  The Rats in the Walls\n  <br />\n  The Shunned House\n  <br />\n  The Silver Key\n  <br />\n  The Statement of Randolph Carter\n  <br />\n  The Strange High House in the Mist\n  <br />\n  The Street\n  <br />\n  The Temple\n  <br />\n  The Terrible Old Man\n  <br />\n  The Thing on the Doorstep\n  <br />\n  The Tomb\n  <br />\n  The Transition of Juan Romero\n  <br />\n  The Tree\n  <br />\n  The Unnamable\n  <br />\n  The White Ship\n  <br />\n  Through the Gates of the Silver Key\n  <br />\n  What the Moon Brings\n  <br />\n  Polaris\n  <br />\n  The Very Old Folk\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(11097, 'The Complete Novels of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Animal Farm\n <br />\n Burmese Days\n <br />\n A Clergyman''s Daughter\n <br />\n Coming Up for Air\n <br />\n Keep the Aspidistra Flying\n <br />\n Nineteen Eighty-Four\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Described by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(11098, 'Complicity', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO -- he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two stories begin to merge, Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the killer. When the arms dealer whom Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before Cameron can even put pen to paper and the brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold out at the expense of his workers finds himself permanently unemployable, the police become convinced of Cameron''s guilt, as do half his friends and colleagues, forcing Cameron to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(11099, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city''s nightmare. But the dead man''s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man - an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. So, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It''s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go - the darkness of his own heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/631'),
(11100, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn''t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn''t care. He just can''t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donte Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donte is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what''s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they''re about to execute an innocent man? From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(11101, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.   Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.   In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(11102, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(11103, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(11104, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The day after they moved in,  Coraline went exploring....\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Coraline''s family''s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Only it''s different.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there''s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to *change* her and never let her go.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(11105, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(11106, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(11107, 'Cross Roads', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE SISTERHOOD WILL NOT BE BROKEN\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price. The impossibly lucrative positions handed out to them by the mysterious Global Securities company have turned out to be golden handcuffs-scattering them around the world, cutting off communication, and leaving them in miserable isolation. But a happy homecoming at the old Virginia farmhouse is marred by the hijacking of Nikki and Kathryn''s private jet. It seems their few fellow passengers are not ordinary travellers - they''re an elite group of Interpol agents who urgently need the Sisterhood''s help. Now the ladies face a stark choice: resume their vigilante status for one of their most hazardous assignments yet, or try to out wit a group of powerful adversaries willing to use truly desperate measures. This time, everything is in the balance-their lives, their friendship, and the freedom they fought so hard to gain.Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels . . . ''Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces . . . fast-paced . . . puts poetic justice first.''-Publishers Weekly on Payback''Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that''s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.''-Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(11108, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(11109, 'Cruel and Unusual', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Killing me won''t kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can''t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell''s fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she''d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(11110, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(11111, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A family''s two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(11112, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(11113, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(11114, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(11115, 'Daemons Are Forever', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times bestselling author of The Man With the Golden Torc delivers... RAPID-FI RE PARANORMAL SUSPENSE. (Monsters and Critics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(11116, 'Damnation Alley', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You''ve gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi''s cinematic canon. But there''s at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it''s prevented the movie''s far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny''s post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy''s most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that''s responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what''s the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren''t much less dangerous. Damnation Alley might not be Zelazny''s best, but for reading on, say, a road trip, you can''t do much better. Throw in some ''60s-style, freak-out closing riffs, and a trip down the Alley becomes pretty hard to pass up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(11117, 'Dangerous', 'Diana Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For years, Palmer''s long, tall Texans have donned white hats and rescued ladies in distress. FBI Special Agent Mac Kilraven, the hunky hero of her bangup latest, is no exception. He reluctantly falls for doe-eyed 22-year-old Winnie Sinclair, but he''s disturbed by a painting she gives him as a Christmas gift. It''s eerily similar to a drawing his child, Melly, gave him before she and her mother were killed seven years ago. Kilraven''s dedicated his life to catching the monster responsible, and now two cold cases converge as a dead body surfaces in the Little Carmichael River. There''s no shortage of suspectsâ€”Winnie''s drug-addicted uncle, the shady brother of a politicianâ€”as the investigation heats up and a development convinces Kilraven to ask Winnie to act as his wife when the trail leads them to the Bahamas. Palmer (_Heartless_) demonstrates, yet again, why she''s the queen of desperado quests for justice and true love.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One night, FBI Agent McKuen Kilraven gets a homicide call and discovers that the victims are his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Melly. Only his constant work and an obsessive desire to catch his familyâ€™s murderer keep him going. Temporarily assigned in Jacobsville, Texas, Kilraven intends to return to San Antonio after the holidays. Jacobsvilleâ€™s 911 operator, Winnie Sinclair, is in love with Kilraven, but he has shut her out. His familyâ€™s brutal murder has caused such emotional damage that thereâ€™s little chance of another relationship. Then Kilraven gets a lead on who might have killed his wife and little girl, and that person is the son of someone so powerful heâ€™s almost untouchable. Kilraven needs someone with an â€œinâ€ to help him get closer to his target. Unfortunately, that person is Winnie, whoâ€™s willing to risk everything for the man she loves, a man who canâ€™t love her back. Readers will be moved by this tale of revenge and justice, grief and healing. --Shelley Mosley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/698'),
(11118, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thad Beaumont comes under suspicion when clues concerning a murder lead to George Stark, the fictional alter ego under whose name Beaumont used to write. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(11119, 'A Darkness More Than Night: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he has known and worked with in the past: Detective Harry Bosch.A Darkness More Than Night is a fresh and lightning-paced excursion into the dark side of Los Angeles and the hidden corners of the human heart, by a writer hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers".-- Connelly''s sales are rising fast -- more than 200,000 copies shipped of Void Moon.-- Connelly has won every major mystery prize -- an Edgar Award, a Nero Wolfe prize, a Macavity Award, and an Anthony Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(11120, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now an HBO original series, True Bloodthe New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues. Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vampsand nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie worksand she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But theres a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beingsolder, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolvesis preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(11121, 'Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(11122, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago''s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the ''everyday'' world isfull of strange and magical things - and most of them don''t play well with humans. That''s where Harry comes in.Luckily, however, he''s not alone. Although most people don''t believe in magic, the Chicago P.D. has a Special Investigations department, headed by his good friend Karrin Murphy. They deal with the . . . stranger cases. It''s down to Karrin that Harry sneaks into Graceland Cemetery to meet a vampire named Mavra. Mavra has evidence that would destroy Karrin''s career, and her demands are simple. She wants the Word of Kemmler - and all the power that comes with it. But first, Harry''s keen to know what he''d be handing over. Before long he''s racing against time, and six necromancers, to get the Word. And to prevent a Halloween that would truly wake the dead.Magic - it can get a guy killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(11123, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/257');
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(11124, 'Dead Men&#39;s Boots', 'Mike Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Vicious Circle\n  </em>\n  ). Felix Fix Castor,Ã‚Â a London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and other paranormal creatures, faces two major challenges. The burial of Fix''s friend John Gittings is disrupted by a lawyer with a court order mandating that the corpse be cremated; Gittings''s widow retains Fix to prevent the body''s exhumation. Meanwhile, a woman asks Fix to clear her husband of rape and murder charges by proving that Myriam Seaforth Kale, a gangster who''s been dead for 40 years, is actually responsible. While looking into how Kale has come back from the dead to resume killing people, Fix finds links to a larger threat from the dark side. Carey has a way with words (a character dresses like someone who''d taken\n  <em>\n   The Matrix\n  </em>\n  a little too seriously) as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Carey transcends his comic roots in this quirky, dark and imaginative tale that compels readers to keep turning pages long after they should have gotten to sleep." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (starred review)\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ingeniously multilayered. Castor''s wisecracking cleverness in the face of weird nemeses makes him the perfect hardboiled hero for a new supernatural noir series." (\n  <strong>\n   Publishers Weekly on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (starred review)\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(11125, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(11126, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(11127, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Smith awakens from an interminable coma with an accursed power-the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in...the dead zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(11128, 'Deadline', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn''t seem as fun when you''ve lost as much as he has.But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(11129, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(11130, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Dresden, Chicago''s only practicing wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen Shroud of Turin. But first, Harry must deal with the Red Court of Vampires'' champion, professional hit men, and the return of his semi-vampire former girlfriend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(11131, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  George W. Bushâ€™s decisions were all correct. It was just the aftermath that sometimes became muddled. That, at least, is the impression one gets after reading this surprisingly robust memoir. For those who have missed â€œ43â€ in the public eye (and for those who havenâ€™t as well), his voice is evident on every page. Cocky, defiant, and, at times (especially when speaking about his family), emotional, this is the George Bush who insists that â€œeverybodyâ€ believed there were weapons of mass destruction, that much of the blame for the post-Katrina fiasco should be put on Louisianaâ€™s local governments, and that Harriet Miers would have made a fine Supreme Court justice, given the chance. He does admit some mistakes (â€œMission Accomplishedâ€), but he stands by his big decisions and backs up his claims, which is simpler to do when the other side isnâ€™t chiming in with their opinions and/or facts. Those who have followed Bush and his presidency will find many of the personal stories here familiar (how he stopped drinking; his whirlwind romance with Laura), but there are some fascinating reveals as well, including his affection for Ted Kennedy, his sometimes-complicated relationship with Dick Cheney, and his read-between-the-lines digs at Colin Powell. Some political memoirs (hello, Bill Clinton) are bloated journeys that devolve into pages and pages of, â€œand then I met . . .â€ Bush, smartly dividing the book into themes rather than telling the story chronologically, offers readers a genuine (and highly readable) look at his thought processes as he made huge decisions that will affect the nation and the world for decades. Many will ridicule his thinking and bemoan those decisions, but being George Bush, he wonâ€™t really care. --Ilene Cooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Decision Points\n  </em>\n  is the extraordinary memoir of Americaâ€™s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governorâ€™s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after Americaâ€™s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.\n </p>\n <p>\n  President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A groundbreaking new brand of memoir,\n  <em>\n   Decision Points\n  </em>\n  will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history â€“ and the man at the center of events.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/702'),
(11132, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific.... A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre.... And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster.... Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(11133, 'Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(11134, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(11135, 'Deja Vu', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Thanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn''s birthday - in the City of Sin, no less - seems like the perfect antidote. But before they can kick up their heels something too big to pass up is dropped into their laps. The time has come to deal with Enemy Number 1, aka, Hank Jellicoe. Wanted by the FBI, the CIA, and Homeland Security for starters, President Connor, herself, has run out of patience with their lack of results. Only the Sisterhood, with their special blend of guts, imagination, and friends in all places are capable of pulling off the impossible - of hunting down this monster and taking him out once and for all.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   FERN MICHAELS is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood series, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, Up Close and Personal, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is apassionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.\n   <em>\n    --This text refers to the\n    <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1441818901/sr=8-4/qid=1293986165/ref=dp_proddesc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;qid=1293986165&amp;sr=8-4" class="product">\n     Audio CD\n    </a>\n    edition.\n   </em>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  CELEBRATE WITH THE SISTERHOODThanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn''s birthday&amp;...in the City of Sin, no less&amp;...seems like the perfect antidote.But before they can kick up their heels something too big to pass up is dropped into their laps. The time has come to deal with Enemy #1, a/k/a Hank Jellicoe. Wanted by the FBI, the CIA, and Homeland Security for starters, President Connor herself has run out of patience with their lack of results. Only the Sisterhood, with their special blend of guts, imagination, and friends in all places are capable of pulling off the impossible&amp;...of hunting down this monster and taking him out once and for all . . .Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels . . .''Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces&amp;...fast-paced&amp;...puts poetic justice first.''&amp;...Publishers Weekly on Payback''Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that''s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.''&amp;...Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(11136, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eminent Cornell astronomer and bestselling author Sagan debunks the paranormal and the unexplained in a study that will reassure hardcore skeptics but may leave others unsatisfied. To him, purported UFO encounters and alien abductions are products of gullibility, hallucination, misidentification, hoax and therapists'' pressure; some alleged encounters, he suggests, may screen memories of sexual abuse. He labels as hoaxes the crop circles, complex pictograms that appear in southern England''s wheat and barley fields, and he dismisses as a natural formation the Sphinx-like humanoid face incised on a mesa on Mars, first photographed by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976 and considered by some scientists to be the engineered artifact of an alien civilization. In a passionate plea for scientific literacy, Sagan deftly debunks the myth of Atlantis, Filipino psychic surgeons and mediums such as J.Z. Knight, who claims to be in touch with a 35,000-year-old entity called Ramtha. He also brands as superstition ghosts, angels, fairies, demons, astrology, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and religious apparitions.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(11137, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thereâ€™s a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. Itâ€™s known as Desperation, Nevada. Itâ€™s not a very nice place to live. Itâ€™s an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(11138, 'The Devil You Know', 'Mike Carey &amp; Michael P. Kramer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Aviolent ghost in a world where spirits are rarely mean-spirited is a clue to a deeper mystery in this engrossing dark fantasy debut from comics-writer Carey. Felix Fix Castor is an itinerant exorcist who (like a certain famous group of Hollywood ghost-evicters) alternates between dispatching spooks and doing stage magic at ungrateful children''s birthday parties. When he''s summoned to end a haunting at London''s prestigious Bonnington Archive, he finds a vengeful specter with a blood-veiled face that resists methods for extirpating the usually docile dead. When Castor begins probing more deeply, he quickly finds himself harassed by a ravenous succubus, a belligerent fellow exorcist and a slimy Eastern European pimp. The resolution of this ingeniously multilayered tale will satisfy fans of both fantasy and detective fiction. Fix Castor''s wisecracking cleverness in the face of weird nemeses makes him the perfect hardboiled hero for a new supernatural noir series.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour. (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle--but there''s a risk: Sooner or later he''s going to take on a spirit that''s too strong for him. While trying to back out of this ill-conceived career, Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London--just to pay the bills, you understand. But what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. That''s OK: Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It''s the living who piss him off...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(11139, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author comes a new edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller, in which New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya investigate the murder of a young nun and uncover a serial killer as devious and depraved as they come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(11140, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Decades into our future, a stone''s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken therigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He''s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer  Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth''s own daughter, the Primer''s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.  It performs its function superbly.  Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes--members of the poor, tribeless class.  Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell.  When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian--John Percival Hackworth--  in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer.Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own.  Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of ProtocolEnforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist.  His quest and Nell''swill ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer-- a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive informationnetwork that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(11141, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Jeff Kinney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The third book in this genre-busting series is certain to enlarge Kinney''s presence on the bestseller lists, where the previous titles have taken up residence for the past two years. Kinney''s spot-on humor and winning formula of deadpan text set against cartoons are back in full force. This time, Greg starts off on New Year''s Day (he resolves to "help other people improve," telling his mother, "I think you should work on chewing your potato chips more quietly") and ends with summer vacation. As he fends off his father''s attempts to make him more of a man (the threat of military school looms), Greg''s hapless adventures include handing out anonymous valentines expressing his true feelings ("Dear James, You smell"), attempting to impress his classmate Holly and single-handedly wrecking his soccer team''s perfect season. Kinney allows himself some insider humor as well, with Greg noting the "racket" children''s book authors have going. "All you have to do is make up a character with a snappy name, and then make sure the character learns a lesson at the end of the book." Greg, self-centered as ever, may be the exception proving that rule. Ages 8-12.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those wondering why tween boys donâ€™t read very much, the answer is that more books arenâ€™t like this. In this third (but not last, despite the subtitleâ€™s implication) series entry, Greg Heffley, the Georgia Nicolson of American middle-school males, is just trying to get through life. In hilarious diary entries, he details his attempts to get along with his brothers; a potential romance; and his dadâ€™s futile efforts to turn him into a jock, which reinforce Kinneyâ€™s well-realized theme that grown-ups just donâ€™t get it. While diary may not be the most macho term, as Greg will be the first to tell you, the format certainly hooks the target audience with its printlike font, straightforward language, and copious cartoons. As the book opens, Greg is eschewing New Yearâ€™s resolutions: â€œItâ€™s not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because Iâ€™m already pretty much one of the best people I know.â€ And while it is clear to all that he is no saint, he is real, and many kids will agree with that self-assessment. Grades 5-8. --Andrew Medlar\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(11142, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson &amp; Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller,\n  <em>\n   The Difference Engine\n  </em>\n  takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a surprising departure from the traditional view of cyberpunk''s bleak future, Gibson ( Mona Lisa Overdrive ) and Sterling ( Islands in the Net ) render with elan and colorful detail a scientifically advanced London, circa 1855, where computers ("Engines") have been developed. Fierce summer heat and pollution have driven out the ruling class, and ensuing anarchy allows the subversive, technology-hating Luddites to surface and battle the intellectual elite. Much of the problem centers on a set of perforated cards, once in the possession of an executed Luddite leader''s daughter, later in the hands of "Queen of Engines" Ada Byron (daughter of prime minister Lord Byron), finally given to Edward Mallory, a scientist. Mallory, who knows the cards are a gambling device that can be read with a specialized Engine, is soon threatened and libeled by the Luddites, and he and his associates confront the scoundrels in a violent showdown. A sometimes listless pace and limp conclusions that defy the plot''s complexity flaw an otherwise visionary, handsomely written, unsentimental tale that convincingly revises the 19th-century Western world. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(11143, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil, and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(11144, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently`s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/649'),
(11145, 'Dockside', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She''s waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she''s beginning to enjoy being on her own, she finds herself falling for Greg Bellamy, owner of the charming Inn at Willow Lake and a single father with two kids of his own. Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he''s determined to make a new start before it''s too late. Juggling work, raising his young son and helping his nearly grown daughter face life''s ultimate challenge, he has no time to fall in love. Still, with Nina Romano, love feels just right this time around.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(11146, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAt turns completely hilarious, surprisingly (perhaps, to some) coherent, poignant and sordid -- a heart-rending read. Once youâ€™ve started it, putting it down is not an option. It would be easier to ignore Tyler from the front row of an Aerosmith concert.â€ (Buffalo News )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler has a way with wordsâ€¦Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? Is 376 pages of pure, unfiltered Tylerâ€¦Noise is compelling stuffâ€¦Tylerâ€™s at times gripping, often hilarious voice keeps things movingâ€¦.â€ (Rolling Stone )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge delivers a no-holds-barred, ripsnorting (and rail-snorting) memoir thatâ€™s a crazy excursion into his entertaining mind.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTylerâ€™s memory for detail makes for good reading.â€ (Detroit News )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTylerâ€™s turbulently high-spirited cheer holds it all together.â€ (New York Times Book Review )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStrewn thought the book â€¦are dozens of patented â€œTylerismsâ€ that can only come from his well-endowed motor-mouth.â€ (Houston Chronicle )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the bookâ€™s charms is Tylerâ€™s lack of guilt or regret for anything in his lifeâ€¦Music fans will enjoy Tylerâ€™s remembrances of the New York scene, dating from clubs like The Scene and Maxâ€™s Kansas City.â€ (New York Daily News )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tyler] delivers the goodsâ€¦[his] surprisingly insightful and entertaining voice brings the familiar contours of this story alive.... What on the surface seems clichÃ©d...manages somehow to rise above that and be a fun ride [and] separates a Rock Star from a merely ordinary pop star.â€ (The Hollywood Reporter )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(11147, 'Dog Days', 'Jeff Kinney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother''s other ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(11148, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.Today''s critics see Dracula as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all. Brooke Allen is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, Twentieth-Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(11149, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(11150, 'The Dragonbone Chair', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The Dragonbone Chair" is the story of Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician''s apprentice whose dreams of great deeds and heroic wars come all too shockingly true when his world is torn apart by a terrifying civil war fueled by ancient hatreds, immortal enemies, and the dark powers of sorcery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(11151, 'Dreamcatcher: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four friends, telepathically linked since childhood, find an alien life-form during their yearly hunting trip in the Maine woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(11152, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Croaker has fallen and, following the Company''s disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals.Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse.Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(11153, 'The Drifter', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Comes a drifter to a windswept island...He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he''d sold his soul for a woman who wasn''t worth the price....But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he was an outlaw, clearly on the run--reason enough for silence.The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a family. And it was dangerous to want such things. Because the past would find him if he stayed--and there could be no future with a woman who would not leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(11154, 'Drood', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.  Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(11155, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Renting a house on an eerily undeveloped stretch of the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle obsessively creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady''s enigmatic family history. 1,500,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(11156, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(11157, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(11158, 'Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A.D. 922', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian Sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandinavia and save his countrymen and family from the monsters of the mist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(11159, 'Echo Park: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn''t crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose b\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(11160, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she''s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She''s tired of creeps, weirdos and stalkers. But just when she thinks she''s out, they pull her back in! So fasten you seatbelt and hang on ? Stephanie''s back in town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(11161, 'Enchanted Afternoon', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful, charming and respected as the wife of an ambitious senator, Helena Cabot Barnes is the leading lady of Saratoga Springs. But beneath the facade lies a terrible deception. Helena married for all the wrong reasons--and discovered too late that her husband is a dangerous man. Fearing for her safety, she ends her marriage and flees to legendary Moon Lake Lodge, where she creates a refuge for other women in need of a safe haven. And there she finds the courage within to become the woman she was meant to be.But Helena can''t outrun her past. In desperation, she turns to Michael Rowan, a man she once loved, a man who broke her heart. A brilliant inventor, Michael is still ruggedly handsome, still defiantly unconventional. For Helena, the road to trusting Michael again is long and hard. And danger lies ahead. But Michael has just discovered a shattering truth...and a reason to stay and fight for the woman he once lost.With a deft hand and a unique voice, acclaimed author Susan Wiggs creates an enchanting story that will take your breath away as it reaffirms the power of love and the magic of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(11162, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut''young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(11163, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follows the life of Ender Wiggin''s comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of Rotterdam, to his student days at the Battle School, and to his role as Ender''s right hand ally, strategist, and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(11164, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(11165, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/70');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11166, 'Espedair Street', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He''s made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he''ll regret forever. Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold on to them both, though not to much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realizes he has only two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(11167, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n EVERYTHING''S EVENTUALFeatures the tale "1408," now a Dimension Films motion picture, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.Also inside is the blockbuster eBook "Riding the Bullet," the original audio story "In the Deathroom," plus eleven more boundary-pushing fiction masterworks that will keep you awake until daybreak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(11168, 'Ex-Heroes', 'Peter Clines', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Combining pop culture, superheroes and zombies... One of the best genre blenders I have ever read. --James Melzer, author of ESCAPE\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilites to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Despite the best efforts of the superheroes, the police, and the military, the hungry corpses rose up and overwhelmed the country. The population was decimated, heroes fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland like so many others. Now, a year later, the Mighty Dragon and his companions must overcome their differences and recover from their own scars to protect the thousands of survivors sheltered in their film studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. The heroes lead teams out to scavenge supplies, keep the peace within the walls of their home, and try to be the symbols the survivors so desperately need. For while the ex-humans walk the streets night and day, they are not the only threat left in the world, and the people of the Mount are not the only survivors left in Los Angeles. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power. And they are not heroes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(11169, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(11170, 'The Eyes of the Dragon: A Story', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter must do battle to claim what is rightfully his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes - like Thomasâ€™s terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(11171, 'A Faint Cold Fear', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the coldly captivating tradition of Cornwell and Reichs, Slaughter (Blindsighted; Kisscut) returns to Grant County, Ga., to offer a third installment in the adventures of smalltown pediatrician and part-time medical examiner Sara Linton. Called in to investigate the apparent suicide of a male Grant Tech student, Sara brings along her pregnant sister, Tessa, who wanders away from the scene and is brutally attacked. The distraught Sara must work side by side with her ex-husband, Det. Jeffrey Tolliver, whom she loves despite his past infidelity, but it''s Lena Adams, formerly a cop and now a campus security guard, whose story the novel follows most closely. Still mourning the murder of her sister and recovering from her own torture and rape by the same man, Lena is looked on with suspicion by her ex-boss, Jeffrey. With reason: she''s hiding a few key facts. The dead boy''s mother is her therapist and Lena is involved with an abusive young man with a shady past. Campus gossip Richard Carter further confuses investigators; meanwhile, police discover the bodies of two more students, their deaths potentially suicides but more likely murder. Slaughter provides grisly variations on the themes of sibling rivalry, sexual abuse and campus politics in a story not for the faint of heart. Readers who can stomach gruesome details and like fitting together multiple stories of physical and psychological abuse will savor the way Slaughter can evoke sympathy for perverse, even criminal, behavior by tracing its origins, and those who make it through the complexities and the gore will be rewarded with a satisfyingly chilling ending.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Slaughter returns with the third riveting entry in her Grant County series, in which her lead characters seem to suffer as much as the victims of the horrific crimes they investigate. County coroner Sara Linton arrives at a crime scene with her sister in tow. She consults with her ex-husband, Detective Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams, a former policewoman who jumped ship rather than undergo psychological counseling and is now employed as part of the security force for the local college. Within minutes, they determine that the victim jumped off a bridge and had recently slashed his wrists and undergone genital piercing. But their investigation is interrupted by a devastating discovery--Sara''s heavily pregnant sister has been stabbed. Jeffrey, Sara, and Lena join forces to determine whether the events are related, but their work is fraught with interpersonal difficulties, and their small town, once a safe haven, starts to seem like a claustrophobic and terrifying place. Slaughter knows how to ratchet up the psychological tension in a compelling plot with an unexpected twist. And Lena is a fascinating character, in thrall to a dark compulsion to play out her fears in unnerving sex games. Chilling and addictive reading.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(11172, 'Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen', 'Hans Christian Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(11173, 'Faithless', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton returns in Slaughter''s Grant County crime thriller series (Indelible ), and this time she''s hot on the trail of a demented killer who buries teenage girls alive. Out in the woods chatting about past infidelities, Sara and ex-husband/lover Jeffrey discover a young girl buried in a grotesque coffin, dead despite a breathing pipe extending to the surface. The victim is soon identified as Abigail Bennett, a member of the Holy Grown soybean farming collective, a group curiously unfazed to learn a daughter was poisoned. Suspicion blooms around Holy Grown''s many farmhands, mostly ex-felons on work release, but then centers on the parishioners who congregate at the Church for the Greater Good, a local congregation run by a shifty minister. Another shallow grave, physical violence and another girl''s disappearance lead Sara, Jeffrey and assisting detective Lena Adams back to the Bible-thumpers and their unholy dealings. Issues of abortion, domestic abuse and forgiveness afford these recurring female characters three-dimensional humanity, nicely offsetting Slaughter''s patented grim forensic detailing. Slaughter''s fifth Grant County case offers tough love, suspenseful spadework and life-affirming vigor.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Slaughter''s dark, forensic-driven Grant County series of crime novels has always drawn a thin line between the members of the law-enforcement team and the victims of the crimes being investigated. The title of the fifth entry in the series reflects both the marital difficulties of coroner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and the label affixed to certain willful members of a religious cult. Jeffrey makes a grisly discovery in the woods when he stumbles over a metal pipe. A young woman was buried alive in a wooden crate for several days and appears to have died of asphyxiation. But Sara''s autopsy reveals a far different scenario. Jeffrey and officer Lena Adams'' investigation leads to a farm owned by the Church of the Greater Good, which appears to have used burial as a form of punishment before. Meanwhile, Lena finds her own sick relationship with an abusive lover mirrored in the marriage of a former cult member who has damning information but is too afraid to disclose it for fear of provoking another vicious beating from her husband. Slaughter cannily incorporates any number of women''s issues--from the difficult work of rebuilding a ruined relationship to finally figuring out when to call it quits--within a compulsively readable narrative.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(11174, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This densely plotted book concludes the futuristic tale begun in Hyperion . Earth has long since been destroyed, and humans now occupy more than 150 worlds linked by the Web, an instantaneous travel system created and operated by artificial intelligences (AIs--self-aware, highly advanced computers). These worlds are about to war with the Ousters, a branch of humanity that has disdained dependency on the AIs. At risk are the planet Hyperion, its mysterious Tombs that travel backward in time, and the Shrike, its god/avatar of pain or retribution. The narrative focuses on the government of the Web and its leader, Meina Gladstone, as observed by Joseph Severn, a cybernetic re-creation of the poet John Keats, and seven Shrike pilgrims, who may affect the war''s outcome. Simmons pits good against evil, with the religions of man and those of the machines battling for supremacy. Despite his grand scale, however, he fashions intensely human individuals whom the reader will take to heart.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(11175, 'Fallen', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for FALLEN\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€œAn amazing effort. This is Slaughter''s best book to date, and readers unfamiliar with her work will find this one a perfect place to begin.â€\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€”_Associated Press_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   The first 16 pages of Karin Slaughterâ€™s new novel are a master class in suspense\n  </strong>\n  â€¦._Fallen_, Slaughterâ€™s 11th novel in 11 years, shows again thatÂ \n  <strong>\n   she is in the first rank of todayâ€™s crime novelists\n  </strong>\n  . Her story is expertly written, exhaustively researched, steeped in police lore, deeply rooted in the authorâ€™s native Georgia and exceedingly violent. Slaughter has a rare ability to balance violence with a compassionate view of her complex and all-too-human characters. Sheâ€™s a supremely tough-minded novelist who often writes with exceptional sensitivityâ€¦.._\n  <strong>\n   Fallen\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Â is a complex, gripping and deadly serious novel that reflects anew Slaughterâ€™s abundant talent. If you havenâ€™t read her, you should\n  </strong>\n  .â€Â Â  â€”_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKarin Slaughter has written a novel that is complex, unsettling, and with one of the meatiest suspense plots of the summer.â€Â Â  â€”Tucson Citizen\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter just keeps getting better!â€ Â \n  <br />\n  â€”Romantic Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHer talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel Hawthorne.â€¦You can''t dismiss the growth of Slaughter''s talent. She has always been a good writer but of late she has become an exemplary storyteller, weaving her words with skill and intelligence. Fallen is a prime example of her talentâ€¦.Sometime in the future, college classes will be devoted to Slaughter''s books and her writing skills will be dissected. She will be recognized as one of the great talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the realm of world literature.â€Â  â€”Huffington Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter has always known how to pace the suspense in her stellar crime novels, but she really outdoes herself hereâ€¦.In what might be her best effort yet, Slaughter reveals the heart and soul of her characters within a highly choreographed, unrelentingly suspenseful plot.â€ Â \n  <br />\n  Â â€”Booklist (starred)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKarin has set a high bar with each of her booksâ€”and she deliversâ€¦.Once you close it, you will need time to think about the story as you finally exhale.â€Â  â€”Bookreporter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrippingâ€¦.a thriller sure to please Slaughterâ€™s many fans.â€Â  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter''s thrillers are always exciting, but it''s her compelling characters that really make them page-turners.â€Â  â€”Minneapolis Star Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is Slaughterâ€™s best thriller yet.â€Â  â€”Bookloons\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n â€œKarin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.â€_â€”The Washington Post _\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrime fiction at its finest.â€â€”Michael Connelly\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter writes like a razor . . . better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.â€_â€”The Plain Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.â€_â€”The Seattle Post-Intelligencer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the boldest thriller writers working today.â€â€”Tess Gerritsen\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMove over, Catherine Coulterâ€”Slaughter may be todayâ€™s top female suspense writer.â€â€”_Library Journal_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thereâ€™s no police training stronger than a copâ€™s instinct. Faith Mitchellâ€™s mother isnâ€™t answering her phone. Her front door is open. Thereâ€™s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her motherâ€™s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesnâ€™t see is her mother. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œYou know what weâ€™re here for. Hand it over, and weâ€™ll let her go.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, sheâ€™ll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and theyâ€™ll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isnâ€™t just a cop anymoreâ€”sheâ€™s a witness. Sheâ€™s also a suspect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The thin blue line hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go up against the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to lightâ€”or bury it forever.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Karin Slaughterâ€™s most exhilarating novel yet is a thrilling journey through the heart and soul, where the personal and the criminal collide, and conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives. It is the work of a master of the thriller at the top of her game, and a whirlwind of unrelenting suspense.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(11176, 'The Family Trade', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny''s Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She''s a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she''s found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she''s fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the day is over, she''s received a locket left by the mother she never knew-the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knotwork pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she''s transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality - a world where her true family runs things.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between the worlds makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently-ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Taken in by her mother''s people, she becomes the star of the story of the century-as Cinderella without a fairy godmother. As her mother''s heir, Miriam is hailed as the prodigal countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, and feted and feasted. Caught up in schemes and plots centuries in the making, Miriam is surrounded by unlikely allies, forbidden loves, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. Her unexpected return will supercede the claims of other clan members to her mother''s fortune and power, and whoever killed her mother will be happy to see her dead, too.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Behind all this lie deeper secrets still, which threaten everyone and everything she has ever known. Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes. But Miriam is no one''s pawn, and is determined to conquer her new home on her own terms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Blending the creativity and humor of Roger Zelazny, the adventure of H. Beam Piper and Philip Jose Farmer, and the rigor and scope of a science-fiction writer on the grandest scale, Charles Stross has set a new standard for fantasy epics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(11177, 'Fast Track', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the ninth installment of the "New York Times"-bestselling Sisterhood series, the women are now back in the United States, ensconced in a home in the North Carolina mountains. The landing of a helicopter brings the Sisterhood its most daunting--and rewarding--mission yet. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(11178, 'Feed', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we had created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives--the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will [come] out, even if it kills them."--P. [4] of cover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(11179, 'Feersum Endjinn', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A cloud of space dust is advancing on Earth, threatening to destroy all life. The task of saving the planet falls to the Chapel Engineers, an organization of scientific consciences, many of whose bodies are dead, plugged into a computer network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(11180, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder in the Discworld.A killer is stalking Ankh-Morpork.A grim reaper who belongs to neither the Assassins'' Guild nor the Thieves'' Guild. A prowling perp who jauntily leaves behind corpses and strange-smelling tracks of curious white clay.Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard is determined to stop this unauthorized assassin, and he has hired a Dwarf to help him. With the assistance of the Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, Vimes and his men (and trolls and such) can get to the, well, bottom of anything.Even when one of the victims is murdered with a loaf of her own Battle Bread (available in convenient throwing slices). Even when the investigation leads to an out-of-work golem, a vampire dragon and a vegetarian werewolf...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(11181, 'The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron''s dark kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(11182, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(11183, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he''s certain he''s on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he "may very well be the best novelist working in the United States today" (San Francisco Chronicle).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(11184, 'Final Justice', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The seven women of the Sisterhood have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But before they can enjoy their prize, they''ll have to tackle a risky new mission in Sin City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(11185, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge''s career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind''s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. Vernor Vinge, author of several SF novels and stories, has twice won the Hugo Award. His novella True Names is widely acknowledged as a seminal cybernovel by general readers and scientists alike. Vinge is also a professor of computer science at San Diego State University. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Hugo AwardIn this popular and widely praised novel, a rescue mission races against time to save a pair of human children being held captive by a medieval lupine raceâ€”and to recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever. As SF author Poul Anderson has written, "A Fire Upon the Deep evokes marvelously the strangeness of the universe, and of the human future as we venture forth into it, in a story that is both exciting and thought-provoking." "Against a background depicting a space-time continuum stratified into ''zones of thought,'' the author has created a rarityâ€”a unique blend of hard science, high drama, and superb storytelling."â€”Library Journal"A tale that burns with the brazen energy of the best space operas of the golden age. Vinge has created a galaxy for [today''s readers] to believe inâ€”immense, ancient, athrum with data webs, dotted with wonders."â€”John Clute, Interzone"Vernor Vinge''s best novel yet."â€”Greg Bear"A vast, riveting, far-future saga . . . The overall concept astonishes; the aliens are developed with memorable skill and insight; the plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension. A masterpiece of universe-building."â€”Kirkus Reviews"The first grand SF I''ve read in ages . . . Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."â€”David Brin, author of Earth"Fiercely original . . . Compelling ideas in [this] book include problems and advantages of group mind, galactic communications turbidity, and the prospect of civilizations aspiring to godhood."â€”Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(11186, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the world''s bestselling author, Stephen King, comes a tale of genetic exploration gone to hellfire! Young Charlie McGee is a very special girl. The result of scientific experimentation on her parents, she has the ability create fires wherever and whenever she chooses, by force of will alone. On the run from sinister government agents with her telekenetic father, she only wants to forget her monstrous abilities, and live a normal life. When the pair are captured, Charlie must decide between saving her father and using her fiery powers at the whim of a government only interested in using her...as a weapon!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(11187, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The next book in the thrilling "New York Times" bestselling series.  For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera.  But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(11188, 'First Meetings in the Enderverse', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the Enderverse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When "Ender''s Game" was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender''s Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. Ender''s Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original "Ender''s Game"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin."The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In "Teacher''s Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor." Ender''s reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also reprinted here is the original landmark novella, "Ender''s Game," which first appeared in 1977. Fully illustrated, First Meetings is Orson Scott Card writing at the height of his considerable power about his most compelling character.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(11189, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(11190, 'For Heaven&#39;s Eyes Only', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The fifth Eddie Drood novel from the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the murder of the Drood Matriarch, the family finds itself vulnerable to evil. This time, it''s a Satanic Conspiracy that could throw humanity directly into the clutches of the Biggest of the Bads...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Simon R. Green\n  </strong>\n  is a\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/680'),
(11191, 'Ford County', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Pat Conroy Reviews\n   <em>\n    Ford County\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Pat Conroy is most recently the author of the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller\n   <em>\n    South of Broad\n   </em>\n   , as well as eight previous books:\n   <em>\n    The Boo\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    The Water Is Wide\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    The Great Santini\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    The Lords of Discipline\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    The Prince of Tides\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Beach Music\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    My Losing Season\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life\n   </em>\n   . He lives on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n   <em>\n    Ford County\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the mail last week, I received a copy of John Grishamâ€™s latest fiction. It surprised me that the book was comprised of seven short stories. From the time I first began publishing at Doubleday, they have always made sure that I received a copy of a Grisham book long before it went on sale in the bookstores. He has written 22 books, and Iâ€™ve read them all as soon as they were available in crisp review copies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I have loved the Grisham books for the same reason that I love the works of John Irving, Richard Russo, or Anne Rivers Siddons: I get hooked by an early page, and pure habit forces me to read until I am issued my walking papers and can return to my normal life. These writers are all wish-bringers who cast spells with the bright enchantment of their stories, and the power of story has retained its glamour and necessity for me. Iâ€™ve always liked it when Grisham took a sabbatical from his impressive fiction to romp in the field of sports or non-fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  John surprised me by entering the ring of danger that the short story represents for all writers. In the world of writing, the poets come first as they finger the language like worry beads and wonder where their next meal is coming from. The art of the short story writer is one of economy, concision, and the genius of trying to craft a whole world inside a mason jar. The modern world punishes the short story writer with inattention. The literary reviews keep the short story alive and finger-popping in America today, while the\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  tries to strangle the form with its bare hands. But a great short story is a source of joy, and the reading of Chekhov, de Maupassant, Flannery Oâ€™Connor and others offer pleasures unmatched by any other form. Since Iâ€™m incapable of writing the short story form, I wanted to see how Grisham fared, knowing the critics would sharpen their swords against him no matter how accomplished his stories might be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n  is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done. One of the many things Iâ€™ve admired about his books is his intimate chronicle of Mississippi life in the generations following William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Grisham writes equally well about the plantation south, the black south, and white-cracker south. Over the years he has used the legal system as an instrument to illuminate the world of mansions and sharecroppers and everything in between as he not only defined Mississippi but also staked it out as his home fictional territory. His short stories were a surprise to me. All of them are very good; three of them, I believe, are great. Grisham has always had a rare gift for breaking hearts when he invokes unforgettable images of the broken, hopeless South. Some of the stories are hilarious, and Grishamâ€™s gift of humor has never found a showcase like this. One of these stories should find its way into the anthologies of the best short stories of 2009. It might not happen, but I for one think the stories in\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n  are that damned good._--Pat Conroy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© David G. Spielman)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Returning to the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, longtime bestseller Grisham presents seven short stories about the residents of Ford County, Miss. Each story explores different themes-mourning, revenge, justice, acceptance, evolution-but all flirt with the legal profession, the staple of (former attorney) Grisham''s oeuvre. Fans will be excited to settle back into Grisham''s world, and these easily digestible stories don''t disappoint, despite their brevity. Full of strong characters, simple but resonant plotlines, and charming Southern accents, this collection is solid throughout; though his literary aspirations may seem quaint, Grisham succeeds admirably in his crowd-pleasing craft while avoiding pat endings or oversimplifying (perhaps best exemplified in "Michael''s Room," which finds a lawyer facing the consequences of successfully defending a doctor against a malpractice suit). As always, Grisham balances his lawyerly preoccupations with a deep respect for his undereducated and overlooked characters.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(11192, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(11193, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga''s dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov''s best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cleon II, the vain and crafty emperor of the Galactic Empire,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(11194, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."\n <br />\n THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(11195, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169');
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(11196, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(11197, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(11198, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(11199, 'The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel', 'Rick Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Montese Crandall, a down-on-his-luck writer with a wife who is gravely ill, pens a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror movie, wherein an animated dismembered arm, missing its middle finger, is the only remanent that returns to Earth from a mission to Mars. By the author of The Ice Storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(11200, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of four stories on the theme of ''midnight'', the moment when the familiar world gives way to an alternative reality, and a new and terrifying world is revealed. By the author of CARRIE, THE SHINING and THE DARK HALF.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(11201, 'Fractured', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Slaughter''s heart-pounding sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Triptych\n  </em>\n  , wealthy housewife Abigail Campano returns home one day to Atlanta''s posh Ansley Park neighborhood to find a dead girl in the mansion''s upstairs hallway, the apparent killer nearby. Thinking that the girl is her teenage daughter, Emma, the distraught Abby kills the alleged attacker only to realize that the murdered girl is not Emma, but Emma''s friend, Kayla Alexander. Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation soon determines that he has a murder and kidnapping on his hands. Paired with Det. Faith Mitchell, Trent scrambles to put the pieces together and find Emma before it''s too late. Slaughter brings the same raw energy and brutal violence that distinguishes her Grant County series (_Beyond Reach_, etc.) to this new series with chilling results, while Trent and Mitchell, a pair of complex and deeply flawed heroes, will leave fans clamoring for the next installment.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Best-selling novelist Slaughter is most well known for her Grant County series, butÂ hereÂ she follows up on the characters introduced in Triptych (2006). Will Trent, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, needs a GPS system to find his way to the crime scene in Ansley Park, one of Atlantaâ€™s oldest and wealthiest suburbs. Once on the scene, however, he is the only one toÂ intuit the true specifics of the case, much to the irritation ofÂ the Atlanta PD.Â Suburban mom Emily Campano, returning home early, finds theÂ severely beaten body of her teenage daughter, Emma,Â and instinctively attacks the seeming perpetrator, strangling him.Â WillÂ soon discovers, however,Â that the dead teen is not Emma but her best friend. He isÂ charged with heading up the investigation intoÂ Emmaâ€™s kidnapping and saddled with a partner from the Atlanta PD, an officer who has her own reasons for hating him.Â Possible motives and suspects abound as theyÂ home in on the girlâ€™s posh private high school, a veritable cauldron that mixes cruel socialÂ climbing with sexual manipulation, among both the faculty and their pupils. As Will makes headway on the case, he must also struggle toÂ compensate forÂ his severe dyslexia, smooth the tensions with his new partner, and hide theÂ emotional scarsÂ of aÂ childhood spent in an orphanage. Slaughter bringsÂ breakneck pacingÂ and emotional intensity to what could wellÂ be a series compelling enoughÂ to rival her Grant County novels. In addition, she ups the ante by starkly revealing the great emotional divide that separates those who have experienced severeÂ trauma fromÂ those untouched by tragedy. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/717'),
(11202, 'Fragile Things', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hot off the critical success of\n  <em>\n   Anansi Boys\n  </em>\n  , Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that have yet to mature. Among the ground covered: an old woman eats her cat alive, slowly; two teenage boys fumble through a house party attended by preternaturally attractive aliens; a raven convinces a writer attempting realism to give way to fantastical inclinations. A few poems, heartfelt or playfully musical, pockmark the collection. At his best, Gaiman has a deft touch for surprise and inventiveness, and there are inspired moments, including one story that brings the months of the year to life and imagines them having a board meeting. (September is an "elegant creature of mock solicitude," while April is sensitive but cruel; they don''t get along), but most of these stories rely too heavily on the stock-in-trade of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Gaiman only once or twice gives himself the space necessary to lock the reader''s attention._150,000 announced first printing.__(Oct.)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”In this collection of stories (and a few poems), storytellers and the act of storytelling have prominent roles. The anthropomorphized months of the year swap tales at their annual board meeting: a half-eaten man recounts how he made the acquaintance of his beloved cannibal; and even Scheherazade, surely the greatest storyteller of all, receives a tribute with a poem. The stories are by turns horrifying and fanciful, often blending the two with a little sex, violence, and humor. An introduction offers the genesis of each selection, itself a stealthy way of initiating teens into the art of writing short stories, and to some of the important authors of the genre. Gaiman cites his influences, and readers may readily see the inflection of H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury in many of the tales. Horror and fantasy are forms of literature wrought with clichÃ©s, but Gaiman usually comes up with an interesting new angle. This collection is more poetic and more restrained than Stephen King''s short stories and more expertly written than China Mieville''s\n  <em>\n   Looking for Jake\n  </em>\n  (Ballantine, 2005). Gaiman skips along the edge of many adolescent fascinations-life, death, the living dead, and the occult-and teens with a taste for the weird will enjoy this bookâ€”_Emma Coleman, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/669'),
(11203, 'Frankenstein', 'Mary Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel''s subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(11204, 'Free Fall', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The bestselling Revenge of the Sisterhood series concludes -Yoko Akia has been hungering for revenge all her life, and now, finally, it is time. Yoko''s mother was just fifteen when a rich American deceived her into a life of degradation in a twisted prostitution ring. She died aged seventeen after bearing her baby girl. Now a great movie star, he is long overdue some justice. Yoko, with the aid of her beloved friends, must punish her father.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(11205, 'Friday', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss''s whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(11206, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there''s a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there''s more power under the hood than anyone can handle....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(11207, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, deathÃ½and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood ceases flowing, her world will be forever altered.Ã½WithÃ½an audacious wink of her eye, Harris creates a world that is both a weird possibility and a wild ride.Ã½ Ã½ANNISTON (AL) STARÃ½[An] increasingly riotous series.Ã½Ã½DALLAS MORNING NEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(11208, 'From Hell With Love', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. They aren''t much liked by the creatures they kill, by ungrateful humans, or even by one another.  Now their Matriarch is dead, and it''s up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. Unpopular opinion is divided: it was either Eddie''s best girl, Molly. Or Eddie himself. And Eddie knows he didn''t do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(11209, 'From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In From Potter''s Field, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia''s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta--and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault''s murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill--Scarpetta herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(11210, 'Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of thirteen horror tales features a story about two boys who learn about fear and death, and a quiet country lane that becomes a trap for an unwary motorist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(11211, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. "Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It''s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage. Like Different Seasonsand Four Past Midnight,which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemptionand Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Starsproves Stephen King a master of the long story form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(11212, 'The Fuller Memorandum', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n National bestselling author Charles Stross brings back Bob Howard-"a British super spy with a long-term girlfriend, no fashion sense, and an aversion to martinis" (San Francisco Chronicle)   Bob Howard is taking a much needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in The Laundry''s archives when a top secret dossier known as The Fuller Memorandum vanishes-along with his boss, who the agency''s executives believe stole the file.  Determined to discover exactly what the memorandum contained, Bob runs afoul of Russian agents, ancient demons, and the apostles of a hideous faith, who have plans to raise a very unpleasant undead entity known as the Eater of Souls...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(11213, 'Furies of Calderon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious High Lords plot and maneuver to place their Houses in positions of power, and a war of succession looms on the horizon. Far from city politics in the Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans'' most savage enemy - the Marat - return to the Valley, he will discover that his destiny is much greater than he could ever imagine. Caught in a storm of deadly wind furies, Tavi saves the life of a runaway slave named Amara. But she is actually a spy for Gaius Sextus, sent to the Valley to gather intelligence on traitors to the Crown, who may be in league with the barbaric Marat horde. And when the Valley erupts in chaos - when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies - Amara will find Tavi''s courage and resourcefulness to be a power greater than any fury - one that could turn the tides of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(11214, 'Fuzzy Nation', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   " Scalzi is not just recycling classic Heinlein. He''s working out new twists, variations that startle even as they satisfy."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Publishers Weekly ,\n  </em>\n  starred review, on\n  <em>\n   Old Man''s War\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   " If Stephen King were to try his hand at science fiction, he''d be lucky to be half as entertaining as John Scalzi."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   The Ghost Brigades\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   " Scalzi''s captivating blend of offworld adventure and political intrigue remains consistently engaging."\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   --Booklist\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   The Last Colony\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn''t care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp''s headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation''s headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that''s not up for discussion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages to lay legal claim just as ZaraCorp is cancelling their contract with him for his part in causing the collapse. Briefly in the catbird seat, legally speaking, Jack pressures ZaraCorp into recognizing his claim, and cuts them in as partners to help extract the wealth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there''s another wrinkle to ZaraCorp''s relationship with the planet Zarathustra. Their entire legal right to exploit the verdant Earth-like planet, the basis of the wealth they derive from extracting its resources, is based on being able to certify to the authorities on Earth that Zarathustra is home to no sentient species.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then a small furry biped--trusting, appealing, and ridiculously cute--shows up at Jack''s outback home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that despite their stature, these are people, he begins to suspect that ZaraCorp''s claim to a planet''s worth of wealth is very flimsy indeed...and that ZaraCorp may stop at nothing to eliminate the "fuzzys" before their existence becomes more widely known.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(11215, 'The Gabble and Other Stories', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Science Fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called ''The Polity'', and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe. No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont. Through these thirteen stories, welcome to a universe of unbridled imagination, each one of them a delight in itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(11216, 'Game Over', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In an attempt to secure the pardon promised to them by the new president, the women of the Sisterhood make plans to evade the Secret Service and infiltrate the White House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(11217, 'Genesis', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlantas Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalised, its clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth Saras patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith each with their own wounds and their own secrets are the only thing to stand between a madman and his next crime\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(11218, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When rough sex between Jessie and Gerald Burlingame turns deadly, leaving Gerald dead and Jessie handcuffed to the bed, it sets in motion a terrifying and psychologically twisted twenty-eight hours. 1,500,000 first printing. $750,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(11219, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF''s toughest operations. They''re young, they''re fast and strong, and they''re totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanityÄ‚--and it''s about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF''s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin''s DNA, Jared''s brain should be able to access Boutin''s electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades. At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin''s memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason''s for Boutin''s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity''s mere military defeatÄ‚''Åš\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(11220, 'Ghost Story', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago''s first (and only) Wizard P. I. Turns out the ''everyday'' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don''t play well with humans. That''s where Harry comes in. But he''s forgotten his own golden rule: magic - it can get a guy killed. Which didn''t help when he clashed with unknown assailants with his murder in mind. And though Harry''s continued existence is now in some doubt, this doesn''t mean he can rest in peace. Trapped in a realm that''s not quite here, yet not quite anywhere else, Harry learns that three of his loved ones are in danger. Only by discovering his assailant''s identity can he save his friends, bring criminal elements to justice, and move on himself. It would just be easier if he knew who''s at risk. And had a (working) crystal ball. And access to magic. Instead, he is unable to interact with the physical world - invisible to all but a select magical few. He''s also not the only silent presence roaming Chicago''s alleys. Heck, he put some there himself. Now, they''re looking for payback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(11221, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when sheâ€™s well enough, sheâ€™ll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence, and to identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse. And, on her own, she will plot her revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(11222, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn''t like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic.The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. When she wanders off to escape their constant bickering, then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut through the woods, Trisha strays deeper into a wilderness full of peril and terror. Especially when night falls.Trisha has only her wits for navigation, only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fear. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games and the gritty performances of her hero, number 36, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio''s reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her -- her key to surviving an enemy known only by the slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.A classic story that engages our emotions at the most primal level, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon explores our deep dread of the unknown and the extent to which faith can conquer it. It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, but aglow with a girl''s indomitable spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(11223, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, " and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of "The Girl Who Played with Fire." As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander''s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(11224, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(11225, 'Glasshouse', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the twenty-seventh century, accelerated technology dictates the memories and personalities of people. With most of his own memories deleted, Robin enters The Glasshouse-an experimental polity where he finds himself at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(11226, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(11227, 'God&#39;s Debris: A Thought Experiment', 'Scott Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," has written a modern-day parable about a young man and an unlikely mentor.\n  <em>\n   God''s Debris\n  </em>\n  starts with a young deliveryman trying to hand over a package to a man with a San Francisco address. But delivering the package to this old man proves to be as difficult as trying to understand the meaning of God.\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "It''s for you," the old man tells the narrator, gesturing to the package.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "What''s in the package?" the narrator asks.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "It''s the answer to your question."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I wasn''t expecting any answers,"\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  the deliveryman admits. About this time, the narrator begins to realize that he''s not dealing with a feeble-minded old man; he''s dealing with a situation that could alter his life. The sincerity and metaphysical complexity of this fable will surprise those who expect comedy, but Adams is following a tradition set by such writers as Dan Millman (_Way of the Peaceful Warrior_) and Richard Bach (_Illusions_). As in many parables that have come before, the deliveryman learns the meaning of life from an illusive mentor who seems to arise from a wrinkle in time. The cleverness of the God''s Debris concept is original and bound to leave readers pondering some altered definitions of God, the universe, and just about everything else.\n  <em>\n   --Gail Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In God''s Debris, best-selling author and creator of Dilbert Scott Adams fashioned a thought-provoking exploration of life''s great mysteries (everything from quantum physics and God to psychic phenomena and dating) that quickly captured the attention and imaginations of readers everywhere. The intriguing story of a deliveryman who meets the world''s smartest person and learns the secret of reality is threaded with a variety of hypnosis techniques that Adams, a certified hypnotist, used to induce a feeling of euphoric enlightenment in readers to mirror the main character''s feelings as he discovers the true nature of the universe.Launched to coincide with the hardcover publication of its sequel, The Religion War (see opposite page), this first paperback edition of God''s Debris will soon make the leap to a broader audience. As Adams designed it, the book will "make your brain spin around inside your skull" and drive readers toward The Religion War as they seek to confirm or deny the dizzying impressions and chaotic memories of reading God''s Debris.The book provides one of the most compelling visions of reality ever experienced on the printed page. Along the way, readers will enjoy the Thought Experiment: Trying to discover what''s wrong with the sage''s explanation of reality. This is a book, as Adams says, to be shared and savored with smart friends.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(11228, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it''s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what''s called for, he''ll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires - hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(11229, 'Gone for Good', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleinsâ€™ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young womanâ€”a girl Will had once lovedâ€”was found brutally murdered in her familyâ€™s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(11230, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.   So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.   And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.   So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.   And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(11231, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Things were going so well for P.I. John Taylor, that it was only a matter of time before everything hit the fan. Walker, the powerful, ever-present, neverÂ­to-be-trusted agent who runs the Nightside on behalf of The Authorities, is dying. And he wants John to be his successor-a job that comes with more baggage, and more enemies, than anyone can possibly imagine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(11232, 'The Goodbye Quilt', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Susan Wiggs paints the details\n </p>\n <p>\n  of human relationships with the\n </p>\n <p>\n  finesse of a master."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Jodi Picoult\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With the ease of a master, Wiggs introduces complicated, flesh-and-blood characters into her idyllic but identifiable small-town setting...." --Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Winter Lodge\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wiggs''s talent is reflected in her thoroughly believable characters as well as the way she recognizes the importance of family by blood or other ties."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wiggs is one of our best observers of stories of the heart. She knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Salem Statesman-Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wiggs'' prose is both compelling and moving...Each and every character is finely detailed, and finishing the book feels like saying goodbye to dear old friends."-RT BookReviews on Summer at Willow Lake\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just Breathe is tender and heartbreaking... It''s a beautiful novel." --Luanne Rice\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wiggs takes serious situations and weaves them into an emotionally wrought story that will have readers reaching for the Kleenex one moment and snickering out loud the next."-Publishers Weekly on Just Breathe\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wiggs explores many aspects of grief, from guilt to anger to regret, imbuing her book with the classic would''ve/could''ve/should''ve emotions, and presenting realistic and sympathetic characters.... another excellent title to her already-outstanding body of work." --Booklist, starred review, on Table for Five\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Linda Davis''s local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: quilts commemorating important events in their lives. Wedding quilts, baby quilts, memorial quiltsâ€”each is bound tight with dreams, hopes and yearnings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, as her only child readies for college, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom? What will become of her days? Of her marriage?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure togetherâ€”a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they wend their way through the heart of the country, Linda stitches together the scraps that make up Molly''s young life. And in the quilting of each bit of fabricâ€”the hem of a christening gown, a snippet from a Halloween costumeâ€”Linda discovers that the memories of a shared journey can come together in a way that will keep them both warm in the years to comeâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(11233, 'Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD\n <br />\n Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry Dresden''s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you''re the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in all Harry''s years of supernatural sleuthing, he''s never faced anything like this: the spirit world''s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble -- and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone -- or something -- is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn''t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(11234, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(11235, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- __\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/613');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11236, 'The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Roger Zelazny''s Chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. Now here are all ten novels, together in one magnificent omnibus volume. Witness the titanic battle for supremacy waged on Earth, in the Courts of Chaos, and on a magical world of mystery, adventure, and romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(11237, 'The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In mass market for the first time, all six installments of Stephen King''s bestselling serial novel. At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen the good, the evil, the innocent, and the guilty, but he''s never seen anything like new prisoner, John Coffey. Tom hanks is currently filming "The Green Mile" for Castle Rock Entertainment, which is slated for release in late 1999.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(11238, 'Gridlinked', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix. Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future where "runcibles" (matter transmitters controlled by AIs) allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity. Unfortunately Cormac is nearly burnt out, "gridlinked" to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net.Now he must do without just as he''s sent to investigate the unique runcible disaster that''s wiped out the entire human colony on planet Samarkand in a thirty-megaton explosion. With the runcible out, Cormac must get there by ship, but he has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Arian Pelter, who now follows him across the galaxy with a terrifying psychotic killer android in tow. And deep beneath Samarkand''s surface there are buried mysteries, fiercely guarded. This is fast-moving, edge-of-the-seat entertainment, and a great introduction to the work of one of the most exciting new SF talents in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(11239, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children''s and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und HausmÃ¤rchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms'' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms MÃ¤rchen).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(11240, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(11241, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(11242, 'Halfway to Heaven', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At a glittering White House gala, Abigail Cabot discovers the man of her dreams. Only, he''s not interested...yet. So the gifted lady astronomer, whose passion for measuring stars has left her woefully lacking in social graces, seeks someone to educate her...someone who is a master at the art of seduction.Jamie Calhoun''s handsome looks and easy charm have made him as popular on the Senate floor as he is with the capital''s most attractive women. But secretly he loathes the cynical, manipulative man he''s become. Initially, he befriends Abigail as a means to a political end. But somewhere along the way the plan goes awry.First laughter and then love take them completely by surprise in this wildly romantic story. For a man convinced he''s incapable of love and a woman who believes she can reach the stars, could this be a match made in heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(11243, 'Halting State', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  This brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller spreads a black humor frosting over the grim prospect of the year 2012, when China, India and the European System are struggling for world economic domination in an infowar, and the U.S. faces bankruptcy over its failing infrastructure. Sgt. Sue Smith of Edinburgh''s finest, London insurance accountant Elaine Barnaby and hapless secret-ridden programmer Jack Reed peel back layer after layer of a scheme to siphon vast assets from Hayek Associates, a firm whose tentacles spread into international economies. The theft is routed through Avalon Four, a virtual reality world complete with supposedly robbery-proof banks. As an electronic intelligence agency trains innocent gamers to do its dirty work, Elaine sets Jack to catch the poacher. Hugo-winner Stross (_Glasshouse_) creates a deeply immersive story, writing all three perspectives in the authoritative second-person style of video game instructions and gleefully spiking the intrigue with virtual Orcs, dragons and swordplay. The effortless transformation of today''s technological frustrations into tomorrow''s nightmare realities is all too real for comfort.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reviewers expressed shock and awe at Charles Strossâ€™s imagined future, because itâ€™s just a bit too probable. Even his minor details, such as clothing with RFID tags that can speak to washing machines, are mind-bending. Overall,\n  <em>\n   Halting State\n  </em>\n  is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, and highly intelligent novel. While some of it may read as gibberish to a less in-the-know crowd (itâ€™s helpful to know such gamer slang as "nerfed"), the tech-savvy will rejoice. One reviewer thought the plot became convoluted at the end with a too-neat resolution. But others, like Cory Doctorow in\n  <em>\n   BoingBoing\n  </em>\n  , commented, "This is a book that will change the way you see the way the world works."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(11244, 'Happy Birthday: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning point in lifeâ€”a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce, sheâ€™s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkâ€™s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canâ€™t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Valerieâ€™s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, Aprilâ€™s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Sheâ€™s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebrationâ€”and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Danielle Steel\n  </strong>\n  has been hailed as one of the worldâ€™s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include\n  <em>\n   44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart,\n  </em>\n  and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of\n  <em>\n   His Bright Light,\n  </em>\n  the story of her son Nick Trainaâ€™s life and death.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/703'),
(11245, 'Happy Ever After (The Bride Quartet)', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the public face of Vows wedding planning company, Parker Brown has an uncanny knack for fulfilling every brideâ€™s vision. She just canâ€™t see where her own life is headed. Mechanic Malcomb Kavanaugh loves figuring out how things work, and Parker is no exception. Both know that moving from minor flirtation to major hook-up is a serious step. Parkerâ€™s business risks have always paid off, but now sheâ€™ll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heartâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(11246, 'A Hard Day&#39;s Knight', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He''s also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he was chosen to wield it, John must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside.  London Proper. It''s been years since John''s been back-and there are good reasons for that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(11247, 'Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! is a collection of eight long short stories featuring Brian Lumley''s most popular characters and includes three brand-new stories of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope! Titus Crow: Psychic detective, master magician, destroyer of the ancient Chthulian gods. In "Inception," we see the infant Titus at the moment his destiny falls upon him. In "Lord of the Worms," a simple secretarial job lands Crow on a sacrificial altar. And in "Name and Number," Henri Laurent de Marigny details a battle between Titus Crow and malevolent, occult winds which can rip living flesh from bone.David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer: once men of the waking world, now agents for King Kuranes of the Dreamlands. Sips of "The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss" send the pair on a tumultuous journey from a buxom beauty''s bed to the depths of a wizard''s dungeon. Then, seeking his missing friend, David Hero boards an ill-fated airship that is home to "The Stealer of Dreams."Harry Keogh, Necroscope: vampire killer without peer, capable of conversing with the dead. A sudden windfall brings Harry to Las Vegas, where he meets "Dead Eddie," a gambler who can''t resist trying for one last big win from beyond the grave. In "Dinosaur Dreams, Harry''s interest in fossils leads him to uncover the truth behind the death of a young amateur paleontologist . . . and to discover that it''s not just dead people he can call on in a crisis . . . . Harry''s undying love for his mother leads him down a dangerous path in "Resurrection."Four of Lumley''s greatest heroes. Three of his most popular worlds. Tales to chill and to delight. Open the book and be swept away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(11248, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second- year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(11249, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort''s remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(11250, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season''s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians'' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders? But Quidditch buffs need not go into mourning- we get our share of this great game at the World Cup. Attempting to go incognito as Muggles, 100,000 witches and wizards converge on a ''nice deserted moor.'' As ever, Rowling magicks up the details that make her world so vivid, and so comic. Several spectators'' tents, for instance, are entirely unquotidian. One is a minipalace, complete with live peacocks; another has three floors and multiple turrets. And the sports paraphernalia on offer includes rosettes ''squealing the names of the players'' as well as ''tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves.'' Needless to say, the two teams are decidedly different, down to their mascots. Bulgaria is supported by the beautiful veela, who instantly enchant everyone--including Ireland''s supporters--over to their side. Until, that is, thousands of tiny cheerleaders engage in some pyrotechnics of their own- ''The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field. Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it''s true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry''s life, the book''s emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor ''Mad-Eye'' Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This Daily Prophet scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(11251, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sixth-year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating losses\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(11252, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(11253, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(11254, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(11255, 'A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(11256, 'Heat Rises', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Fast-paced and full of intrigue, *Heat Rises\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in\n   </em>\n   New York Times *bestselling author Richard Castle''s most thrilling mystery yet.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat''s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York''s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who''s not a cop. Reporter Jameson Rook.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the midst of New York''s coldest winter in a hundred years, there''s one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(11257, 'Heat Wave', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light. Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City''s top homicide squads. She''s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York''s Finest. PulitzerPrize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren''t her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(11258, 'Hell to Pay', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor''s abilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(11259, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn''s new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who''s raised 17 children, and Aibileen''s best friend Minny, who''s found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In writing about such a troubled time in American history, Southern-born Stockett takes a big risk, one that paid off enormously. Critics praised Stockett''s skillful depiction of the ironies and hypocrisies that defined an era, without resorting to depressing or controversial clichâˆšÂ©s. Rather, Stockett focuses on the fascinating and complex relationships between vastly different members of a household. Additionally, reviewers loved (and loathed) Stockett''s three-dimensional charactersâ€”and cheered and hissed their favorites to the end. Several critics questioned Stockett''s decision to use a heavy dialect solely for the black characters. Overall, however,\n  <em>\n   The Help\n  </em>\n  is a compassionate, original story, as well as an excellent choice for book groups.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(11260, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination.The planet Arrakis -- now called Rakis -- is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune''s children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(11261, 'Hex and the City', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it''s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(11262, 'The Hidden Family', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tradition of Roger Zelazny''s classic Amber novels, the second volume of Charles Stross''s thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worlds. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn''t know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists -- with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(11263, 'Hide and Seek', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Sisterhood must defend themselves against Mitch Riley, the assistant director of the FBI, who has set up a special task force to hunt them down and is determined to frame their lawyer and the judge who helped them evade prison.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(11264, 'Hilldiggers', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During a war between two planets in the same solar system '' each occupied by adapted humans '' what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide '' but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers '' giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(11265, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in the United States more than sixty years ago, J. R. R. Tolkien''s The Hobbit has become one of the best-loved books of all time. Tolkien''s fantasy was then adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, which became a classic in its own right...The enchanted prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with dangerâ€”and in the end it is bilbo Baggins alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most dreaded dragon in all Middle-earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(11266, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(11267, 'Hokus Pokus', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the members of the Sisterhood are exiled to a remote mountaintop, they get a call from the Supreme Court Chief Justice Pearl Barnes requesting their help, so they must figure out how to sneak back into the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(11268, 'Hold Tight', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 New York Times BestsellerMike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their son Adam, who has become moody and withdrawn since his friendÃ‚''s suicide. The software they install on his computer exposes every website visited, every e-mail and instant message sent or received. But each keystroke draws them deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(11269, 'Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of the popular Kay Scarpetta series comes a knowing and wry novels of police procedures in Charlotte, North Carolina and the ironic intersection of everyday lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(11270, 'The Horsemaster&#39;s Daughter', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once a privileged son of the South, Hunter Calhoun now stands a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife''s death. Burying himself in his success with breeding Thoroughbred racehorses, he''s left his family to crumble and forgotten how to comfort his grieving children. When a prized stallion arrives from Ireland crazed and unridable, Hunter is forced to seek help for the beast. Removed from the world of wealth and social privilege, Eliza Fylte has inherited her father''s famed gift for gentling horses. And when Hunter arrives with his wild steed, her healing spirit reaches further yet, drawing her to his shattered family and to the intense, bitter man who needs her, just as she needs him.Eliza understands what Hunter refuses to seeâ€”that love is the greatest healer of all. But can her kind, humble being manage to teach such an untethered man what truly matters in life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(11271, 'How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide', 'Howard Mittelmark &amp; Sandra Newman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe teaching of creative writing just entered a whole new era with the publication of How Not to Write a Novel. Heavens, what a joy this book isâ€¦.â€ (Lynne Truss )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark have produced an invaluable guide.â€ (The Independent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide.â€ (The Observer, review by Kate Saunders )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authors and editors Mittlemark and Newman identify writing pitfalls in each aspect of novel writingâ€¦. A great resource, this tongue-in-cheek guide is a fun read with a lot of solid advice for would-be novelists. (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This writing how-to should carry a warning: itâ€™s the kind of book one reads at the expense of other responsibilitiesâ€¦.a surprisingly distinctive approach within the crowded category of novel-writing guides. (Library Journal )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call ''really awful writing.''"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published!" The writer tossed his head about, wildly.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing!"\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoidâ€”at all costsâ€”if you ever want your novel published.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   How Not to Write a Novel\n  </em>\n  , authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they''ll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(11272, 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe', 'Charles Yu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time.  Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time-travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. Thatâ€™s where Charles Yu, time travel technicianâ€”part counselor, part gadget repair manâ€”steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When heâ€™s not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a onehour cycle, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.  With echoes of both Mark Danielewski and Douglas Adams, yet altogether wildly new and adventurous, Yuâ€™s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space-time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(11273, 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms', 'N. K. Jemisin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with a pair of cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother''s death and her family''s bloody history.  With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(11274, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne L. Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review.\n  <em>\n   Reviewed by\n  </em>\n  Megan Whalen Turner\n  <br />\n  If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it''s odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Giver\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The House of the Scorpion\n  </em>\n  â€”and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds,\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . Collins hasn''t tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less\n  <em>\n   1984\n  </em>\n  and rather more\n  <em>\n   Death Race 2000\n  </em>\n  , hers is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one''s humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It''s a credit to Collins''s skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.It''s no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. The State of Panemâ€”which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacentâ€”may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means by which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the right book at the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins''s world, we''ll be obsessed with grooming, we''ll talk funny, and all our sentences will end with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They''re so unlike people that I''m no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn''t just the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not only the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given up to survive, but not whether the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to learn more.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor book\n  </em>\n  The Thief\n  <em>\n   and its sequels,\n  </em>\n  The Queen of Attolia\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The King of Attolia\n  <em>\n   . The next book in the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss''s young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district''s female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. Collins''s characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like ''Survivor'' and ''American Gladiator.'' Book one of a planned trilogy.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(11275, 'Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.  There are those who worship it.  There are those who fear it.  And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.  In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.  On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives.  Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret.  And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(11276, 'I Am Legend', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Mathesonâ€™s classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence (â€œConstantineâ€), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(11277, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It starts with whispers.  Then someone picks up a stone.   Finally, the fires begin.When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . .   Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that arenâ€™t sparkly, arenâ€™t fun, donâ€™t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.   But someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its rootâ€”before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her.   Chilling drama combines with laughout-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(11278, 'I, Robot', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005.\n <br />\n The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed.\n <br />\n The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/468');
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(11279, 'Ice Cold: A Rizzoli &amp; Isles Novel', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unpredictable twists help propel Gerritsen''s winning eighth novel featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (after The Keepsake). While in Wyoming late one fall for a pathologists'' conference, Maura agrees to join an old college acquaintance, his 13-year-old daughter, and two friends of his on a last-minute ski trip. When an accident stalls their SUV on a remote mountain road, the fivesome take refuge in an abandoned village, Kingdom Come, the home of a religious sect led by a charismatic prophet, Jeremiah Goode. But what drove the residents from their 12 identical houses, leaving food on the table and pets behind? When the local police find what they believe to be Maura''s charred body and those of her four companions, Jane; her FBI agent husband, Gabriel Dean; and Fr. Daniel Brophy travel to Wyoming to conduct their own investigation. Gerritsen supplies plenty of depth in both plot and characters. TNT launches a new TV series based on this series in July.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is in Wyoming for a conference. Impulsively, she joins an old friend and his daughter on a ski trip. When their vehicle breaks down, theyâ€™re stranded in the eerily named Kingdom Come, a small community whose residents appear to have vanished. Then Maura vanishes. The announcement of her death shocks homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, Mauraâ€™s close friend. Investigating Kingdom Come, Rizzoli uncovers dark secrets that may explain Mauraâ€™s disappearance. Gerritsen wouldnâ€™t be the first writer to kill off a popular series character, but is that what sheâ€™s doing here? Fans of the novels will no doubt suspect Gerritsen has a few tricks up her sleeve, and surely the upcoming television series based on the Isles-Rizzoli mysteries would seem to suggest that this is a very bad time to kill off Maura. Leaving aside this rather unnecessary subterfuge, the novel is a solid entry in the series, with a compelling mystery and some good, old-fashioned shockers. A solid choice for Gerritsen fans, but probably not the best starting point for those new to the series. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/727'),
(11280, 'Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious ship sealed fast in a giant North Atlantic iceberg becomes the cause and focus of Air Force Major Dirk Pett''s investigation into international conspiracy and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(11281, 'The Ideal Man', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If a book has Julie Garwood''s name on it, it''s guaranteed to be a meticulously written, well-thought-out, and thoroughly engaging story."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Sun Journal\n  </em>\n  (Maine)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Romance writer Julie Garwood attracts readers like beautiful heroines attract dashing heroes."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that''s pulse-pounding in every sense of the word.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter''s face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he''s definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she''s attracted to him in a way she can''t explain.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister''s wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she''ll be called to testify. But they''ve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie''s shadow until the trial, and it isn''t long before sparks fly.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(11282, 'If You Ask Me', 'Betty White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White''s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty''s candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped persuade her to host\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life,\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  is funny, sweet, and to the point-just like Betty White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Betty White\n  </strong>\n  ''s award-winning career in television and film has spanned an impressive seven decades and has included iconic roles on\n  <em>\n   The Mary Tyler Moore Show\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Golden Girls\n  </em>\n  . Widely recognized for her lifelong work for animal welfare, she lives in Brentwood, California, with her golden retriever, Pontiac.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(11283, 'Ilium', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Genre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n . Within, Simmons weaves three astounding story lines into one Earth-, Mars-, and Jupiter-shattering cliffhanger that will leave readers aching for the sequel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, a post-technological group of humans, pampered by servant machines and easy travel via "faxing," begins to question its beginnings. Meanwhile, a team of sentient and Shakespeare-quoting robots from Jupiter''s lunar system embark on a mission to Mars to investigate an increase in dangerous quantum fluctuations. On the Red Planet, they''ll find a race of metahumans living out existence as the pantheon of classic Greek gods. These "gods" have recreated the Trojan War with reconstituted Greeks and Trojans and staffed it with scholars from throughout Earth''s history who observe the events and report on the accuracy of Homer''s\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n . One of these scholars, Thomas Hockenberry, finds himself tangled in the midst of interplay between the gods and their playthings and sends the war reeling in a direction the blind poet could have never imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simmons creates an exciting and thrilling tale set in the thick of the Trojan War as seen through Hockenberry''s 20th-century eyes. At the same time, Simmons''s robots study Shakespeare and Proust and the origin-seeking Earthlings find themselves caught in a murderous retelling of\n <em>\n  The Tempest\n </em>\n . Reading this highly literate novel does take more than a passing familiarity with at least\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n but readers who can dive into these heady waters and swim with the current will be amply rewarded.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo and Stoker winner Simmons (Hyperion) makes a spectacular return to large-scale space opera in this elegant monster of a novel. Many centuries in the future, Earth''s small, more or less human population lives an enjoyable, if drone-like existence. Elsewhere, on some alternate Earth, or perhaps it''s the distant past, the battle for Troy is in its ninth year. Oddly, its combatants, Hector, Achilles and the rest, seem to be following a script, speaking their lines exactly as Homer reported them in The Iliad. The Gods, who live on Olympus Mons on the planet Mars, may be post-humans, or aliens, or, well, Gods; it isn''t entirely clear. Thomas Hockenberry, a late-20th-century professor of the classics from De Pauw University in Indiana, has, along with other scholars from his era, apparently been resurrected by the Gods. His job is to take notes on the war and compare its progress to Homer''s tale, noting even the smallest deviations. Meanwhile, the "moravecs," a civilization of diverse, partially organic AIs clustered on the moons of Jupiter, have been disturbed by the quantum activity they''ve registered from the inner solar system and have sent an expedition to Mars to investigate. It will come as no surprise to the author''s fans that the expedition''s members include specialists in Shakespeare and Proust. Beautifully written, chock full of literary references, grand scenery and fascinating characters, this book represents Simmons at his best.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(11284, 'Imajica', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure as Barker surpasses his previous ground-breaking work (\n  <i>\n   The Great and Secret Show\n  </i>\n  , 1989, etc.) to reconfigure the Fall and to imagine a modern-day attempt to reverse it. A complex cosmology underpins the vigorous, at times horrific, action here: Imajica is the known universe of five Dominions, or parallel worlds, four reconciled but the fifth, Earth, unreconciled -- unaware of the other four, of the tyrannical Autarch who rules them, and of the God Hapeximendios, who oversees all five (and who wrested His power from the Goddesses of old). Periodically, Hapeximendios has sent His sons -- including Christ -- to attempt to unite, by magical rites, the Fifth Dominion to the others. The last attempted Reconciliation ended in catastrophe -- an invasion of Earth by hellish powers -- and today magic has been nearly eradicated from Earth by a Society that alone knows of the Imajica and of the catastrophe. The densely woven story here opens with a jealous man venturing into London''s dankest slum to hire an assassin to kill his estranged wife, Judith; the assassin turns out to be a mystif, a fabulous creature from the Second Dominion, capable of appearing as the erotic ideal of any who behold it. As the mystif hunts Judith, it in turn is hunted by Judith''s former lover, Gentle, who in time learns that he is the new Reconciler -- and the mystif his long-forgotten servant. Undertaking dangerous, splendor-filled journeys through the other Dominions, Gentle and the mystif fall in love, marry, and encounter numerous fantastic creatures and, finally, death; later, Gentle helps dethrone the Autarch, learns the chilling secret of his and Judith''s origin, helps free the Goddesses and slay God, and, back on Earth, inspires the destruction of the Society and undertakes Reconciliation -- with hell-borne, then heaven-sent, results. An astonishing feat of the imagination, immensely engrossing despite its demanding -- at times indulgent -- length, running riot with ideas, fantastical inventions, graphic sex and violence, soul- terrors, and emotional and intellectual resonances. Barker''s best yet. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Moves with tidal force and power'' - William S Burroughs ''The tears of blood and nightmare imagery are passionate and ingenious! Imajica is a ride with remarkable views'' - Times Literary Supplement ''Barker''s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind'' - Mail on Sunday ''A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination! Clive Barker is an outstanding storyteller'' - J G Ballard\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(11285, 'In the President&#39;s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect', 'Ronald Kessler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ronald Kessler on the Updated Paperback Edition of\n   <em>\n    In the Presidentâ€™s Secret Service\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Secret Service agents are like human surveillance cameras: They see everything that goes on behind the scenes involving the president, first lady, vice president, and their families. At the same time, they are a bulwark of democracy. If a president is assassinated, it nullifies democracy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new chapter to the paperback edition of\n  <em>\n   In the Presidentâ€™s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect\n  </em>\n  , I reveal that threats against President Obama have become so disturbing that a secret Presidential Threat Task Force has been created within the FBI to gather, track, and evaluate assassination threats that might be related to domestic or international terrorism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The task force operates within the FBIâ€™s National Security Branch. It consists of twenty representatives from pertinent agencies, including agents from the FBI and Secret Service and operatives from the CIA, the NSA, and the Defense Department, as well as analysts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The hardcover edition reported that threats against Obama rose by as much as 400 percent compared with when President Bush was in office. While threats fluctuate, the level continues to be high enough to call for the threat task force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, the Secret Service, which let party crashers into the White House in November, has been spinelessly acceding to requests of the Obama administration officials for Secret Service protection in instances where there are no threats against them. No one outside of the government has heard of most of these officials, but they have one thing in common: They enjoy being chauffeured free of charge by the Secret Service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This expansion in protection has occurred at the same time that the Secret Service has cut corners because of understaffing and with a management culture that is complacent about potential risks, thus jeopardizing the presidentâ€™s safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those Secret Service deficiencies led to Michaele and Tareq Salahiâ€™s intrusion at the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The breach occurred because of a deliberate, conscious decision by uniformed officers to ignore the fact that the Salahis and Carlos Allen, a third intruder, were not on the guest list. Those decisions are an expected consequence of the agencyâ€™s practice of cutting corners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The corner-cutting also include: not passing crowds through magnetometers or shutting down the devices early at presidential events; cutting back on the size of counter-assault teams and bowing to demands of staff that the teams remain at a great distance from protectees; not keeping up to date with the latest, most powerful firearms used by the FBI and the military; not allowing agents time for regular firearms requalification or physical training, which the Secret Service covers up by asking agents to fill out their own test scores.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Undoubtedly, the uniformed officers who decided to wave the Salahis into the state dinner were aware of the corner-cutting and were overwhelmed by the workload. In part because the Secret Service refuses to demand funds for adequate staffing, the attrition rate is as high as 12 percent a year within the Uniformed Division alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On top of this, the agency bows to political pressure. When agents refused to drive friends of Dick Cheneyâ€™s daughter Mary to restaurants, she got her detail leader removed. The fact that Secret Service management does not back personnel when they are just doing their jobs had to contribute to the uniformed officersâ€™ reluctance to turn away guests at the state dinner and thus potentially face repercussions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In recounting what protectees are like behind the scenes, the book describes as well how difficult Jenna and Barbara Bush were with their agents and how Vice President Joe Biden ignores Secret Service advice about his protection. To make the press think he came to work early, Jimmy Carter would walk into the Oval Office at 5 a.m., then nod off to sleep. Lyndon Johnson would order Secret Service agents to drive on crowded sidewalks so he could make an appointment on time. Johnson would urinate in front of the press corps, which included women reporters. He had a â€œstableâ€ of women with whom he had sex at the White House and at his ranch. In addition, Vice President Spiro Agnew, a champion of family values, had extramarital affairs while in office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the breaches and corner-cutting, President Obama has said he has complete confidence in the Secret Service, indicating that he sees no need for a change in management. Given the clear warning signs, that is just as reckless as Abraham Lincolnâ€™s and John F. Kennedyâ€™s disregard for security.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lincoln resisted efforts of his friends, the police, and the military to safeguard him. Finally, late in the Civil War, he agreed to allow four Washington police officers to act as his bodyguards, but on the night of his assassination, only one D.C. patrolman, John F. Parker, was guarding him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Instead of remaining on guard outside the presidentâ€™s box at Fordâ€™s Theatre on April 14, 1865, Parker went to a nearby saloon for a drink. As a result of Parkerâ€™s negligence, just after 10 p.m., John Wilkes Booth made his way to Lincolnâ€™s box, sneaked in, and shot him in the back of the head. The president died the next morning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kennedy told Secret Service agents he did not want them to ride on the small running boards at the rear of his limousine in Dallas on November 22, 1963.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf agents had been allowed on the rear running boards, they would have pushed the president down and jumped on him to protect him before the fatal shot,â€ Charles â€œChuckâ€ Taylor, who was an agent on the Kennedy detail, tells me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the case of Obama, in the view of many current Secret Service agents interviewed for\n  <em>\n   In the Presidentâ€™s Secret Service\n  </em>\n  , the result of the Secret Serviceâ€™s corner-cutting could be a security breach with deadly consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Secret Service agents are brave and dedicated, the agencyâ€™s management needs to be replaced. On the night of Obamaâ€™s state dinner, it was a pretty blonde. Tomorrow, it could be an assassin.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From USA TODAY, Reviewed By Don Oldenburg, Special for USA TODAY\n </p>\n <p>\n  The recent news report that corner-cutting at the U.S. Secret Service has put President Obama''s life at greater risk may be the most attention-grabbing disclosure emerging from Ron Kessler''s latest book. But there''s a lot more in this fascinating exposÃ©, which penetrates that federal agency''s longstanding mission and tradition of sworn secrecy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Never mind that the book''s title is stiffer than the Secret Service''s public persona â€” dour-faced agents wearing pressed suits, dark sunglasses and earphones, scouring crowds for potential threats. Inside the covers, Kessler''s lively narrative is loaded with details of how the federal agents, authorized to protect the president and other national leaders, get the job done â€” and sometimes don''t.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But what fuels this high-energy read isn''t Kessler''s investigation of the Secret Service''s training, procedures and strategies â€” from guaranteeing the safety of the president''s food to analyzing daily threats. Instead what turns these pages are the amusing, saucy, often disturbing anecdotes about the VIPs the Secret Service has protected and still protects. The secrets, in other words.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some of it would border on tabloid sensationalism if it hadn''t come directly from current and retired agents (most identified by name, to Kessler''s credit). Of course, you''d expect the salacious stories of John Kennedy''s libido, but the less-told tales of an often-drunken and philandering Lyndon Johnson caught with his pants down are shocking. Family-values champion Spiro Agnew had his hotel-room peccadilloes, it seems, and nice Jimmy Carter his animosities. Richard Nixon''s peculiarities? Beyond excess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anecdotes of hard-to-handle members of the first families abound here as well, including Jenna and Barbara Bush''s bar-hopping, Hillary Clinton''s angry clashes with low-level White House employees, and Nancy Reagan''s cold, contro...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/683'),
(11286, 'Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh''s vanished into history. Until NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® dives into an ancient sacrificial pool far into the Andean jungle in order to rescue two archaeologists, and plunges into a vortex of corruption, betrayal, and death. A sinister crime syndicate has traced the long-lost treasure -- worth almost a billion dollars -- from the Andes to the banks of a hidden underground river flowing beneath a Mexican desert. Nothing will stop their ruthless and murderous drive to recover the gold. Nothing, that is, until Pitt and his team place themselves square in the path of danger....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(11287, 'Indelible', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver make their fourth appearance in this riveting new back-and-forth thriller that grounds a brutal attack by two young men on the Grant County, Georgia police department in a twelve-year-old Alabama murder case that occurred while Sara and Jeffrey were just beginning their tumultuous romance. En route to a beach vacation shortly after they meet, the couple takes a detour to the small town where Jeffrey grew up and began his law enforcement career. But their carefree holiday is interrupted when his best friend from childhood, a fellow cop, is charged with murder after killing a man who broke into his house. Despite his subsequent confession, Jeffrey believes thereâ€™s more to the story than Robert is telling him, and when the skeleton of a young woman with whom both Robert and Tolliver were once involved is discovered in a secret cave only they knew about, and Robert admits to her murder too, Tolliver must again confront a past he thought he had long since put behind him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slaughter unravels a convoluted story deftly and smoothly as the action moves between those long-ago events and the siege of the police station by two young men who are determined to make Jeffrey pay for a crime they believe he committed. Threatening to kill whoever stands between them and their target--including eight children on a school field trip at the station house when the bloody siege begins--they execute a deputy they mistakenly believe is Tolliver. Skillfully blending past and present events and illuminating the equally convoluted relationship between Sara and Jeffrey (who have married and divorced in the intervening years) without interrupting the breathtaking pace of the action or dropping a beat, Slaughter takes this series to a new level of excellence.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Complex characters with credible relationships underpin this gripping prequel to Slaughter''s\n  <em>\n   Blindsighted\n  </em>\n  (2001). Georgia pediatrician/medical examiner Sara Linton is visiting her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, when two malevolent strangers, hauntingly familiar to Sara, pull out guns at the station house, where several schoolchildren are on a class trip, and bloody mayhem ensues. The action shifts to the past, when new lovers Sara and Jeffrey detour to his hometown on their way to a beach weekend. A nostalgic tour of Jeffrey''s youth turns sinister as buried secrets and injustices slowly come to light. An ugly midnight encounter with Jeffrey''s sloshed mother sends Sara outside in time to hear gunshots from the neighboring house of Jeffrey''s childhood friend Robert, a cop, who''s found bleeding, gun in hand, across the bedroom from his dead victim. Sara is grateful to perform the autopsy, knowing there''s more than meets the eye in this puzzling crime scene. The couple''s budding romance is put to the test as Sara tries to coax answers from tight-lipped Jeffrey, whose silence and suspicious actions nourish her doubts. Slaughter''s tightly disciplined rhythm and occasional sly humor keep readers hooked right up to the end.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/713'),
(11288, 'The Innocent', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The modern master of the hook-and-twist."?Dan Brown, Author of The Da Vinci CodeYou never meant to kill him?.One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight?and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he?s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia?s phone to shatter Matt?s life a second time?.An electrifying thrill ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, The Innocent is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally charged story and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(11289, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s he who''s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire''s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(11290, 'Inversions', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal. Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(11291, 'The Invisible Man', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells'' novel was originally serialised in Pearson''s Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person''s refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(11292, 'Iron Sunrise', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charles Stross'' follow-up to his critically acclaimed Singularity Sky is the story of Wednesday Shadowmist, a sullen teenager who is humanity''s only hope of stopping interstellar war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(11293, 'Island Time', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(11294, 'Isle of Dogs', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to Hornet''s Nest and Southern Cross. The men and women in blue -- as you''ve never seen them before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(11295, 'It', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the children who saw - and felt - what made the town so horribly different. in the storm drains and sewers It lurked, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one''s deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of It is buried deep - until they are called back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(11296, 'The Jennifer Morgue', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for â€œThe Laundry,â€ must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed â€œJennifer Morgue,â€ from the oceanâ€™s depths for the purpose of ruling the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(11297, 'Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It isn''t much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- which is spark enough to ignite that glorious international pastime called "war." Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes thinks he should be leading his loyal watchmen, female watchdwarf, and lady werewolf into battle against local malefactors rather than against uncomfortably well-armed strangers in the Klatchian desert. But war is, after all, simply the greatest of all crimes -- and it''s Sir Samuel''s sworn duty to seek out criminal masterminds wherever they may be hiding ... and lock them away before they can do any real damage. Even the ones on his own side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(11298, 'Johannes Cabal the Detective', 'Jonathan L. Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for JOHANNES CABAL THE DETECTIVE:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he''s my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective.\n  <strong>\n   The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes -- without the pesky morality.\n  </strong>\n  Seriously though, don''t tell Cabal I so much as mentioned his name."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -- Daniel H. Wilson,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   How to Survive a Robot\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Uprising\n  </em>\n  and the forthcoming\n  <em>\n   Robopacolypse\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œIs there life beyond death? Definitely! That is, if Johannes Cabal is on your sideâ€¦\n  <strong>\n   The mysteries of past and future--science fiction and the occult, Jules Verne and Robert Anton Wilson--are all wrapped up in Jonathan L.Â  Howard''sÂ  fast-paced escapade of esoteric adventure\n  </strong>\n  .â€\n  <br />\n  Â --\n  <strong>\n   Katherine Neville\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Eight\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fire\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cabal, the detective and necromancer, is full of charismatic amorality, making him both a classical, and refreshing antihero." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _ TimeOut\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œNot only does Howard deliver a devilish mystery but he also wraps it all up in a gorgeous â€˜steampunk noirâ€™ atmosphere that had me slowing down, every now and then, to enjoy either skulking in various European alleyways or flying high above them in the â€˜latest flying machineâ€™.â€ --\n  <strong>\n   Graemeâ€™s Fantasy Book Review\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Definitely entertaining, a cut above many books out there." --_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Free Lance-Star\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  "JOHANNES CABAL THE DETECTIVE is simply fun...The characters and their situations are fresh, their turns unexpected. The work gives nods to many of the tropes of detective fiction...The result is a delight." --\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Denver Post\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for JOHANNES CABAL THE NECROMANCER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJonathan Howard has written a delightfully wicked and inventive story on the game of beat the devil. He turns conventions of t...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time heâ€™s on the run from the local government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the\n  <em>\n   Princess Hortense\n  </em>\n  , a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his ownÂ  lifeâ€”and then the gloves come off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cabal and Leonieâ€”the only woman to ever match wits with himâ€”reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen . . . and does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/684');
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(11299, 'Johannes Cabal the Necromancer', 'Jonathan L. Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this uproarious and clever debut, itâ€™s time to give the Devil his due.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul... He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To make the bet even more interesting, Satan throws in that diabolical engine of deceit, seduction, and corruption known as a â€œtraveling circusâ€ to aid in the evil bidding. What better place exists to rob poor sad saps of their souls than the traveling carnivals historically run by hucksters and legendary con men?\n </p>\n <p>\n  With little time to lose, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire (an unfortunate side effect of Johannesâ€™s early experiments with necromancy), to be the carnivalâ€™s barker. On the road through the pastoral English countryside, this team of reprobates wields their black magic with masterful ease, resulting in mayhem at every turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Johannes may have the moral conscience of anthrax, but are his tricks sinful enough to beat the Devil at his own game? Youâ€™ll never guess, and thatâ€™s a promise!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brilliantly written and wickedly funny,\n  <em>\n   Johannes Cabal the Necromancer\n  </em>\n  combines the chills and thrills of old-fashioned gothic tales like\n  <em>\n   The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\n  </em>\n  , the mischievous humor of\n  <em>\n   Wicked\n  </em>\n  , and the sophisticated charms of\n  <em>\n   Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell\n  </em>\n  and spins the Faustian legend into a fresh, irreverent, and irresistible new adventure.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Jonathan L. Howard\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve been working on\n  <em>\n   Johannes Cabal\n  </em>\n  in its various iterations for many years now, how did it feel spending so much time with such nefarious characters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  Itâ€™s something of a clichÃ© to say that villains are more interesting than heroes, nor is it even very true, so I shanâ€™t be trotting that particular phrase out. I would suggest that it is the inner life of the character that makes them interesting, and that is true of the virtuous as much as the vile. Cabal does some rather horrible things, it is true, but he never does them purely to give himself the opportunity to curl his waxed moustacheâ€”heâ€™s clean-shaven, for one thingâ€”and declaim his wickedness. He always has a reason, and itâ€™s usually a good one. I find fictional villains who are evil because they are evil unengaging. Cabal, on the other hand, has motivations and drives that most can sympathise with, even if the actions he commits based on those drives can be loathsome. For him, the ends always justify the means, and damn the consequences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  The carnival in your book is used as a device for collecting souls; was there a real life inspiration for the carnival? Do you find there to be something generally sinister about carnivals?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  Thereâ€™s no real life inspiration for the carnival, really, but plenty in fiction. The obvious inspiration was Bradburyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Something Wicked This Way Comes\n  </em>\n  , which is a deserved classic. I liked the Disney film version, too, and dearly wish that its original incarnation as a screenplay in the fifties produced by Gene Kellyâ€”Gene Kelly!â€”had come to fruition.\n  <em>\n   Something Wicked\n  </em>\n  â€™s Cooger &amp; Darkâ€™s Carnival wasnâ€™t the first threatening carnival in fiction, and it certainly wasnâ€™t the last, but it is probably the best. It was the persnickety question of where such a carnival might come from and how anybody would end up as a proprietor that inspired my novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As for how sinister they are, that is to an extent a fictional conceit on my part too. You have to bear in mind that carnivals like that are unknown in the United Kingdom, and I havenâ€™t heard of the traditional British travelling fair being transported by train either. The Cabal stories take place in a slightly blurry world where things come together because they aesthetically appeal to me, and not because theyâ€™re historically accurate; a magical realism of sorts. I wanted an American-style carnival travelling by train, and thatâ€™s what I got. That said, there are plenty of permanent fairgrounds around the country, and they tended to have a slightly creepy air about them. The real Ghost Trains in Blackpool and Porthcawl, for example, inspired the exterior of the Ghost Train in the novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  In addition to writing you work as a video game designer, how does that work compare to the experience of writing fiction? Are there any surprising similarities?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  There are definite similarities, but I wouldnâ€™t say that they are surprising. The games Iâ€™ve worked on tend to have definite narratives, so itâ€™s exactly the same process of inspiration, development, pacing, and polishing. The main difference is that a novel can have significant sequences in which physically little happens, which is considered heretical in games. In fairness, thereâ€™s good reason for thatâ€”the player wants to be involved, and there isnâ€™t a great deal of opportunity for that in a scene consisting of two people talking over a cup of tea. Thatâ€™s not to say it hasnâ€™t been attempted, and pretty successfully. I remember a game a few years ago based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. It hit all its target, being very atmospheric, true to its source, even thought provoking, and all without\n  <em>\n   Pit and the Pendulum\n  </em>\n  platformer or\n  <em>\n   Fall of the House of Usher\n  </em>\n  first person shooter sections. In commercial terms, however, it was never going to be the next\n  <em>\n   Tomb Raider\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Have you always been a fan or horror and supernatural lore? When did this sort of thing first capture your imagination?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Iâ€™ve always enjoyed the grotesque and the macabre, right from an early age. I recall that I somehow saw Dana Andrews being chased around the woods by a fireball in\n  <em>\n   Night of the Demon\n  </em>\n  when I was about four or five, and being fascinated. I grew up on a diet of black and white\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Avengers\n  </em>\n  , snatched glimpses of the first few minutes of\n  <em>\n   Out of the Unknown\n  </em>\n  episodes before being sent to bed, and any number of slightly disturbing imports like\n  <em>\n   The Tinderbox\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Singing, Ringing Tree\n  </em>\n  . I remember that I got a book for Christmas sometime in the very early seventies called\n  <em>\n   Stranger Than People\n  </em>\n  , which was basically a young personâ€™s guide to Fortean phenomena, interspersed with stories like "The Yellow Monster of Sundra Strait," and Poeâ€™s "Metzengerstein." I loved that book; I read it so many times that the cover fell off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What sort of research did you do for the book? Was there anything you came across in the process that really surprised you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  I actually did very little research for it; it was mostly lurking in my mind already. I can remember little necessary for day to day living, but if you ask me the birth name of Dr. Crippenâ€™s wife, I can tell you off the top of my head. I needed a bit of nomenclature for something or other in the running of a carnival, which a librarian friend found for me, but that was the only real piece of research for it. Even things like the Grand Conjuration to summon a demonâ€”which is an authentic ritual, you may be horrified to hearâ€”was in a book I already had. I have a large collection of books on assorted esoterica to the extent that my wife, a bibliophile herself, rolls her eyes and says, â€œNot more bloody books?â€ whenever I come home with a bookshop bag and a sheepish expression.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  There is a lot of paperwork in your version of Hell. Did you hold an especially bureaucratic job somewhere before working as a game designer?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  No, Iâ€™m very happy to say. I remember as a child considering the inevitability of growing up and wondering what the worst thing about it would be. It all looked pretty good from that perspective: money, going to bed when you liked, being able to go into any certificate film, and so on. Finally, I spotted a bad point, and that bad point was having to fill in forms. And I was right. Thereâ€™s just something about completing a form that fills me with dread in its consideration, and depression during its commission. Which reminds me; I have two to fill in this week. Oh, joy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Johannes is a bit of an anti-hero and his motivations are somewhat mysterious. Do you think that heâ€™s misunderstood by those around him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  Heâ€™s definitely misunderstood, although if he were understood, it still wouldnâ€™t make him popular. The fact that heâ€™s labeled a necromancer gives him a public relations problem, as the vast majority of them are power hungry lunatics. Cabalâ€™s ultimate aim is to defeat death, and to have the ability to bring people back just as they were when they were alive, physically, mentally, and spiritually. No lurking demonic possessions, no uncouth brain gobbling. His researches in that direction, however, have not been conducted in the most advantageous light.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Whatâ€™s next for you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan L. Howard:\n  </strong>\n  I handed in the submission draft of the second Cabal novel\n  <em>\n   Johannes Cabal the Detective\n  </em>\n  just the other week, so that will be going through the editorial process shortly. I also have to decide what the next Cabal novel after that will be; I have a couple of ideas so itâ€™s a case of weighing pros and cons before making a decision. I have a couple of non-Cabal novels, one of which is completed but needs a second draft, and the other is about 80% done. Iâ€™d like to get them polished, and then see if we can get them into print.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Emma L.B.K. Smith)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Johannes Cabal, a haughty sorcerer, finds that the absence of a soul is an impediment to his occult studies, he strikes a bargain with Satan in British author Howard''s darkly funny debut: in one year''s time he''ll deliver the bartered souls of 100 unfortunates so that he might repossess his own. Cabal and his vampire brother, Horst, mount a traveling carnival to scour the countryside for men and women desperate enough to consign their souls to an infernal eternity for whatever will relieve their misery of the moment. Cabal proves marginally competent but maximally amusing in his dealings with a competing necromancer, an asylum of escaped lunatics and a staff of slowly decomposing carnies conjured from the dead. Howard capably synthesizes two classic themes of macabre fictionâ€”the pact with the devil and the dark carnivalâ€”but the book''s episodic structure and unconvincing ending betray it as a freshman effort. Still, Howard''s ear for witty banter and his skill at rendering black comedy bode well for the future.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(11300, 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell', 'Susanna Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The international bestseller, finally in paperback!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Time "magazine''s #1 book of the year - 11 weeks and counting on the "New York Times" bestseller list - Shortlisted for the "Guardian "First Book Award - Longlisted for the Booker prize - A Book Sense pick - "People "Top Ten Books of the year - Salon.com Top Ten of 2004 - "New York Times "Notable Books of the Year - "Christian Science Monitor" Best Fiction 2004 - Nancy Pearl''s Top 12 Books of 2004 - "Washington Post" "Book World "Best of 2004 -" San Francisco Chronicle" Best Books of 2004 - "Chicago Tribune "Best of 2004 - "Seattle Times "25 Best Books of 2004 - "Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Top 12 Books of 2004 -" Village Voice" "Top Shelf" -" Raleigh News &amp; Observer "Best of 2004 - "Rocky Mountain News "critics'' favorites of 2004" "- "Kansas City Star" 100 Noteworthy Books of 2004 -" Fort Worth Star-Telegram" 10 Best Books of 2004 -" Hartford Courant" Best Books of 2004\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Susanna Clarke''s brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two very different magicians who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history. Sold in 21 languages, with a major motion picture from New Line on the way, "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell "is a tour de force that has captured the imagination of readers worldwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham, England, in 1959, the eldest daughter of a Methodist minister. She was educated at St Hilda''s College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of nonfiction publishing. She has published a number of short stories and novellas in American anthologies, including "Mr Simonelli, or the Fairy Widower," which was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001. Susanna lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A New York Times "Notable Book of the YearA "Chicago Tribune" Best Book of 2004.  In "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell" we find a debut novel marked by wonderfully vivid details, enchanting characters, and fantastic yet familiar situations--a grand and engrossing saga that reads, as "Salon.com" has noted, much like "when Harry Potter met Jane Austen." English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while the fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England''s magical past and regained some of the powers of England''s magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French. All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative--the very opposite of Mr. Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington''s army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Norrell, such power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to magic''s wildest, most perilous forms. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange''s heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear. Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke''s magisterial and widely celebrated novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of English history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A gorgeous book of unforgettable images."--"People"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it."--"USA Today"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Combines the dark, wild spirit of English fantasy with the grand wit and high style of the 19th-century social novel . . . A grand performance--and the most sparkling literary debut of the year."--Laura Miller, "Salon"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "This book delivers splendid and unpredictable surprises . . . [It] also contrives witty interactions between its characters and real, renowned figures of the period . . . [Clarke presents] a brand new fantasy world, an intricate and fully imagined universe of bewitching tricks."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I admire Susanna Clarke''s imaginative dexterity and deeply enjoyed "Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell" . . . [This book is] magnificent and original, and that should be enough for any of us."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post Book World"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The drawing-room social comedies of early 19th-century Britain are infused with the powerful forces of English folklore and fantasy in this extraordinary novel of two magicians who attempt to restore English magic in the age of Napoleon. In Clarke''s world, gentlemen scholars pore over the magical history of England, which is dominated by the Raven King, a human who mastered magic from the lands of faerie. The study is purely theoretical until Mr. Norrell, a reclusive, mistrustful bookworm, reveals that he is capable of producing magic and becomes the toast of London society, while an impetuous young aristocrat named Jonathan Strange tumbles into the practice, too, and finds himself quickly mastering it. Though irritated by the reticent Norrell, Strange becomes the magician''s first pupil, and the British government is soon using their skills. Mr. Strange serves under Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars (in a series of wonderful historical scenes), but afterward the younger magician finds himself unable to accept Norrell''s restrictive views of magic''s proper place and sets out to create a new age of magic by himself. Clarke manages to portray magic as both a believably complex and tedious labor, and an eerie world of signs and wonders where every object may have secret meaning. London politics and talking stones are portrayed with equal realism and seem indisputably part of the same England, as signs indicate that the Raven King may return. The chock-full, old-fashioned narrative (supplemented with deft footnotes to fill in the ignorant reader on incidents in magical history) may seem a bit stiff and mannered at first, but immersion in the mesmerizing story reveals its intimacy, humor, and insight, and will enchant readers of fantasy and literary fiction alike."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Rival magicians square off to display and match their powers in an extravagant historical fantasy . . . English author Clarke''s spectacular debut is something far richer than [Harry] Potter: an absorbing tale of vaulting ambition and mortal conflict steeped in folklore and legend, enlivened by subtle characterizations and wittily congenial omniscient authorial presence . . . Clarke sprinkles her radiantly readable text with faux-scholarly (and often hilarious) footnotes while building an elaborate plot that takes Strange through military glory, unsuccessful attempts to cure England''s mad king, travel to Venice and a meeting with Lord Byron, and on a perilous pursuit of the fabled Raven King, former ruler of England, into the world of Faerie, and Hell. There''s nothing in Tolkein, Mervyn Peake, or any of their peers that surpasses the power with which Clarke evokes this fabulous figure''s tangled ''history.'' The climax, in which Strange and Norrell conspire to summon the King, arrives--for all the book''s enormous length--all too soon. An instant classic, one of the finest fantasies ever written."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(11301, 'Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Wonderful...Powerful." --THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(11302, 'The Jury', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tea. Sympathy. Revenge. The Sisterhood Has Their Own Style Of Justice. The women of the Sisterhood know life isn''t fair, but that doesn''t mean they have to like it-or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, heartaches and one collective mission: to right wrongs and bring justice where it is desperately needed. Even reeling from loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington powerbroker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks. The Sisterhood may not be an organization found in any of his memos, but he''s about to take a meeting with them-and they''ll be setting the agenda...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(11303, 'Just After Sunset: Stories', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything''s Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney''s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications.Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn''s character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient''s irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it.Just After Sunset -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it''s a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It''s the perfect time for Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(11304, 'Just Another Judgement Day', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a new sheriff in town, and he''s got the Nightside''s rich and powerful quaking in their boots. He''s The Walking Man, and it''s his mission to exorcise sinnersâ€”with extreme prejudice. Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin and corruption, and The Walking Man makes no distinction between evildoers and those simply indulging themselves. He''ll leave the place a wasteland unless someone stops him, and P.I. John Taylor has been handed the job. No known magic or science can affect The Walking Man, and if John can''t discover his weakness, he''ll be facing the very Wrath of Godâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(11305, 'Just Breathe', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sarah Moon tackles life''s issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn''t scripted her husband''s infidelity.In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in California where she grew up. There, she revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics. But he''s been through some changes himself. And just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She''s pregnant. With her ex''s twins.The winds of change have led Sarah to this surprising new beginning. All she can do is just close her eyesâ€¦and breathe.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she''d skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he''s been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah discovers she is pregnant. With her ex''s twins.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sarah Moon tackles life''s issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn''t scripted her husband''s infidelity.In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in California where she grew up. There, she revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics. But he''s been through some changes himself. And just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She''s pregnant. With her ex''s twins.The winds of change have led Sarah to this surprising new beginning. All she can do is just close her eyesâ€¦and breathe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(11306, 'Just One Look', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn''t belong-a photo from at least 20 years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(11307, 'The Keepsake', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Gerritsen''s at times lackluster series heroines prove they can shine in her solid seventh thriller to feature Det. Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles (after\n  <em>\n   The Mephisto Club\n  </em>\n  ). When medical examiner Isles studies an X-ray scan of Madame X, which everyone assumes is a newly discovered Egyptian mummy, at Boston''s Crispin Museum, she realizes the mummy isn''t a priceless artifact but a recent murder victim, gruesomely preserved. Rizzoli focuses the police investigation on Dr. Josephine Pulcillo, a young archeologist recently hired by the museum who may have something to hide. More victims soon turn up, including a\n  <em>\n   tsantsa\n  </em>\n  (shrunken head) in a hidden museum chamber and a corpse resembling a well-preserved bog body in Pulcillo''s car. After Pulcillo disappears, Rizzoli and Isles must scramble to find her before she becomes another trophy in the killer''s growing collection. As usual, Gerritsen delivers an intricate plot that will keep readers guessing.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA frighteningly effective stunner from one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.â€â€”_Providence Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œDisturbing and intensely mesmerizing . . . Itâ€™s shudder inducing!â€â€”_Romantic Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn intricate plot that will keep readers guessing.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œWraps readers in a web of evil that is hard to shake . . . Once you pick up this novel, thereâ€™s a good chance you wonâ€™t be good for much else till youâ€™ve reached its satisfying conclusion.â€â€”_Nashville Scene\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   The Keepsake\n  </strong>\n  reads at a reckless pace, drawing the reader into a twisted world of well-preserved vengeance.â€â€”_Madison County Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œDark, creepy and a great read.â€â€”_Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   The Keepsake\n  </strong>\n  is a superb suspense novel, with twists galore . . . a beautifully constructed suspense novel with a great story.â€â€”_Toronto Globe and Mail\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(11308, 'Kisscut', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When police chief Jeffrey Tolliver responds to a disturbance at a local skating rink, the last thing he expects is to have to shoot a 13-year-old girl who''s holding a gun on a fellow student. Then Jenny Deaver''s autopsy reveals two stunning facts: she did not bear the murdered newborn discovered in the rink''s restroom, and she had recently been genitally mutilated. With his ex-wife, pediatrician Sara Linton, Jeffrey uncovers a child sex and pornography ring involving Jenny, her classmates, and their mothers--a horrific enterprise that culminated in the killing that Tolliver will never be able to forget. This taut, chilling thriller showcases Karin Slaughter''s skill at plotting, pace, and narrative, and will linger in the reader''s mind long after the stunning denouement. This is a terrific sequel to her debut,\n  <em>\n   Blindsighted\n  </em>\n  , with two protagonists whose complex relationship will no doubt be a featured subplot in her next offering.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly named novelist Slaughter (Blindsighted) brings back her horribly scarred cast of Grant County, Ga., cops and coroners for more murder, mayhem and horrific sexual violence. Pathologist Sara Linton, who has been dating her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, is witness to Tolliver''s fatal shooting of a teenage girl when the girl threatens to shoot a 16-year-old boy in a standoff outside the local skating rink. A search of the rink turns up a dismembered fetus in a toilet; Sara''s postmortem reveals the girl had a long history of abuse most gruesomely, her vagina is sewn shut. Working the case alongside Jeffrey is Det. Lena Adams, herself the victim of a recent abduction and rape, who is also trying, with difficulty, to come to terms with the death of her gay sister. Questioning Mark, the boy who was almost shot, Lena gradually uncovers a true horror show of pedophilia, incest and kiddie porn, an inverted world where parents rape their children before peddling them to strangers for money and blackmail. Slaughter adheres to the traditional mystery format, but turns up the shock factor tenfold, demonstrating that the deepest depravity can be business as usual in small towns as well as big cities. The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments ("Lena was able to pull her hand away, but not before she felt Grace''s thumb brush across the scar.... The touch was tender, almost sexual, and Lena could see the charge Grace got out of it"), amplifying Slaughter''s equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs. (Sept.) Forecast: Slaughter''s much-praised first novel, Blindsighted, put her on the thriller map. Kisscut, a featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and BOMC, could make her a bestseller. 10-city author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(11309, 'The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\\\\Coming Unraveled\\\\Return to Summer Island', 'Debbie Macomber &amp; Susan Mallery &amp; Christina Skye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this uplifting anthology, Macomber (Between Friends), Mallery (Someone Like You), and Skye (Bound by Dreams) spin three yarns related to a passion for knitting and accompanied by appropriate knitting patterns. In "The Twenty-First Wish," 10-year-old knitter Ellen yearns for her birth father to marry her adoptive mother. For Robyn in "Coming Unraveled," knitting had been a way of life until she pursued her dream of starring on Broadway. After the dream fades, Robyn''s return to her grandma''s home and knitting store puts her on a new path toward the handsome and enigmatic T.J. In "Return to Summer Island," a car accident badly damages Caro''s hand and arm. As she recovers, she finds solace in knitting and unexpected romance with a charismatic Marine about to deploy to Afghanistan. These simple and pleasant romances will warm readers'' hearts. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Twenty-First Wish\n  </em>\n  by Debbie Macomber\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anne Marie Roche and her adopted daughter, ten-year-old Ellen, have each written a list of twenty wishesâ€”on which they included\n  <em>\n   learning to knit.\n  </em>\n  But Ellen has quietly added a\n  <em>\n   twenty-first\n  </em>\n  wish: that her mom will fall in love with Tim, Ellen''s birth father, who''s recently entered their livesâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Coming Unraveled\n  </em>\n  by Susan Mallery\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Robyn Mulligan''s dreams of becoming a Broadway star give way to longing for her childhood home, she returns to Texas, running her grandmother''s knitting store. But the handsome, hot-tempered T. J. Passman isn''t making it easy on her. If he can learn to trust Robyn, and overcome his tragic past, they just might discover a passion like no other.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Return to Summer Island\n  </em>\n  by Christina Skye\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a devastating car accident, Caro McNeal is welcomed by a community of knitters on Oregon''s sleepy Summer Island. She also finds meaning and purpose in the letters she exchanges with a marine serving in Afghanistan. But when life takes another unexpected turn, will Caro pick up the threads of hope, opening her heart to wherever it takes her?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(11310, 'The Last Aerie', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father''s awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different! Nathan takes up the struggle against the metamorphic vampires, while Nestor, fascinated by the vampires'' eerie evil, has become his twin''s worst nightmare: a Wamphyri Lord! Harry Keogh''s sons have become the bitterest of enemies, each determined to destroy the other. When next they meet, one will surely die!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(11311, 'The Last Colony', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.That is, until his and Jane''s past reaches out to bring them back into the game â€” as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(11312, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork''s most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing--but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads--even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side. experience the terror as you encounter a Mad Dwarf, the Peach Butt, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater.Feel the passion as the denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls and the rivers fill with water (it spoils regattas, for one thing). Thrill to the promise of next year''s regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It''ll be asolutely gujeroo (no worries).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(11313, 'The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Bosch''s life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He''s drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he''s even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective''s badge. Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he''s spending his time investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to be his own mother. Even after three decades, Harry''s questions generate heat among L.A.''s top politicos. And as the truth begins to emerge, it becomes more and more apparent that someone wants to keep it buried. Someone very powerful... very cunning... and very deadly. Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has created a dark, fast-paced suspense thriller that cuts to the core of Harry Bosch''s character. Once you start it, there''s no turning back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(11314, 'The Last Precinct', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attracting unwanted attentions when she is mandated to research the four-hundred-year-old murder of a Jamestown, Virginia, settler, Kay Scarpetta finds enemies among those she is sworn to protect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(11315, 'The Last Song', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks''s new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(11316, 'The Last Straw', 'Jeff Kinney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The third book in this genre-busting series is certain to enlarge Kinney''s presence on the bestseller lists, where the previous titles have taken up residence for the past two years. Kinney''s spot-on humor and winning formula of deadpan text set against cartoons are back in full force. This time, Greg starts off on New Year''s Day (he resolves to "help other people improve," telling his mother, "I think you should work on chewing your potato chips more quietly") and ends with summer vacation. As he fends off his father''s attempts to make him more of a man (the threat of military school looms), Greg''s hapless adventures include handing out anonymous valentines expressing his true feelings ("Dear James, You smell"), attempting to impress his classmate Holly and single-handedly wrecking his soccer team''s perfect season. Kinney allows himself some insider humor as well, with Greg noting the "racket" children''s book authors have going. "All you have to do is make up a character with a snappy name, and then make sure the character learns a lesson at the end of the book." Greg, self-centered as ever, may be the exception proving that rule. Ages 8-12.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those wondering why tween boys donâ€™t read very much, the answer is that more books arenâ€™t like this. In this third (but not last, despite the subtitleâ€™s implication) series entry, Greg Heffley, the Georgia Nicolson of American middle-school males, is just trying to get through life. In hilarious diary entries, he details his attempts to get along with his brothers; a potential romance; and his dadâ€™s futile efforts to turn him into a jock, which reinforce Kinneyâ€™s well-realized theme that grown-ups just donâ€™t get it. While diary may not be the most macho term, as Greg will be the first to tell you, the format certainly hooks the target audience with its printlike font, straightforward language, and copious cartoons. As the book opens, Greg is eschewing New Yearâ€™s resolutions: â€œItâ€™s not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because Iâ€™m already pretty much one of the best people I know.â€ And while it is clear to all that he is no saint, he is real, and many kids will agree with that self-assessment. Grades 5-8. --Andrew Medlar\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/706'),
(11317, 'Lethal', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A relentless pace and clever plot\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  twists keep the pages turning." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won''t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can''t be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/743'),
(11318, 'Lethal Justice', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Smart Women...Brilliant Choices The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge''s beautiful Virginia home, they''re ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong... Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Now she has her freedom, but she''s left with haunting memories of being hauled from her office in handcuffs...of the cell door clanging shut behind her...of her pleas going unheard. Meanwhile the real criminals--her former employers, Roland Sullivan and his lover Arden Gillespie--continue to make millions by conning the innocent, especially preying on the elderly and taking their life savings. Alexis dreams of getting even. The legal system failed her, but the Sisterhood won''t. They have a delicious plan that can give Sullivan and Gillespie a taste of their own bitter medicine...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31');
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(11319, 'Life Expectancy', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacyâ€”a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers'' waiting room and his dying father''s bedside. It''s a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm''s fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandsonâ€”five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.Rudy is all too ready to discount his father''s last words as a dying man''s delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson''s birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactylyâ€”the unexplained anomal of fused digitsâ€”on his left foot. Suddenly the old man''s predictions take on a chilling significance.What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy''s story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrousâ€”a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(11320, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(11321, 'The Lincoln Lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life." Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life." Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/626'),
(11322, 'The Line of Polity', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Full-scale action SF by one of Britain''s most popular new writers. Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadnought, the Occam Razor, agent Cormac must investigate the disaster. Meanwhile, on the remote planet Masada, the long-term rebellion can never rise above-ground, as the slave population is subjugated by orbital laser arrays controlled by the Theocracy in their cylinder worlds, and by the fact that they cannot safely leave their labour compounds. For the wilderness of Masada lacks breathable air ... and out there roam monstrous predators called hooders and siluroynes, not to mention the weird and terrible gabbleducks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(11323, 'Line War', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Polity is under attack from a ''melded'' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus''s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebus''s attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(11324, 'Little Brother', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marcus, a.k.a â€œw1n5t0n,â€ is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system worksâ€“and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high schoolâ€™s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where theyâ€™re mercilessly interrogated for days.When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(11325, 'Live Wire', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben returns, with a Myron Bolitar thriller unlike any other.   Harlan Coben has risen to the top of bestseller lists worldwide, attracting voracious audiences for his peerless novels of domestic suspense as well as those featuring his fan-favorite sports agent, Myron Bolitar. Now, in Live Wire, he offers a knock-your-socks- off novel that will electrify all his fans: Myron''s family takes center stage.  Myron Bolitar has always dreamed about the voluptuous femme fatale walking into his office and asking for help. The woman standing in his doorway has killer curves, all right: She''s eight months pregnant, which kind of ruins the fantasy. Former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, are both clients, and over the years Myron has negotiated his share of contracts for the power pair. But now Lex has disappeared and a very pregnant Suzze is in tears, fearing the online rumors questioning the baby''s paternity have driven away the man she swears is the child''s father.  For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn''t hit closer to home, as his dad, Al, clings to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago resurfaces-with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze''s past, his family''s mortality-and before Live Wire is over, his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(11326, 'Living Dead in Dallas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living Dead in Dallas is the sequel to Dead Until Dark in the new Southern Vampire series from acclaimed mystery author Charlaine Harris. When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(11327, 'A Local Habitation', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Now comes the second in the series-from a dynamic new fantasy talent! **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Toby Daye-a half-human, half-fae changeling-has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world had other ideas...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now her liege, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills, has asked Toby to go to the Country of Tamed Lightening to make sure all is well with his niece, Countess January O''Leary. It seems like a simple enough assignment-until Toby discovers that someone has begun murdering people close to January, and that if the killer isn''t stopped, January may be the next victim.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(11328, 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The British author of the Hitchhiker trilogy and other immensely popular lunacies, Adams permits no whiff of common sense to spoil his new novel, which combines fantasy, hilarity and creeping horrors," remarked PW . Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin. "The plot''s ramifications are marvelous, bloody and irresistible."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sequel to Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(11329, 'Look to Windward', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its world-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq Orbital, home to the Culture. Major Quilan has supposedly come to take the exiled Composer Ziller back to their war-ravaged home world, Chel. But despite the major''s civilized veneer, his true mission may be the death and destruction of an entire civilization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(11330, 'Lord of Light', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(11331, 'Lord of the Night', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From bestselling, award-winning novelist Susan Wiggs comes this classic tale of danger and romance. Winner of the RITAÂ® Award, the highest honor from Romance Writers of America, it is an enthralling, unforgettable tale of the dark allure of passion and the enduring power of love.   Under cover of night. . .   Sandro Cavalli, Lord of the Night, is legendary for bringing criminals to justice. But in the city''s shadowy alleyways, a new, deadly plot is afootâ€”a sinister threat that even Sandro needs help to uncover.   He enlists the aid of an alluring, sensuous beauty, Laura Bandello. But Laura''s innocent loveliness may hide a dark secret, and Sandro vows to keep his distance. Yet the deeper he delves into the underworld, the harder he falls for Laura. Pursued by unspeakable danger, Sandro risks his honor, his reputation, and even his heartâ€”all for the love of a mysterious beauty he can''t quite trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(11332, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(11333, 'Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett''s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.It''s a dreamy midsummer''s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren''t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won''t be only champagne that''s flowing through the streets ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(11334, 'Lost Light: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Retiring from the LAPD but unable to stay away from law enforcement altogether, Harry Bosch peruses old files and becomes obsessed with an unsolved case that haunts his old precinct and Hollywood. 325,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(11335, 'The Lost World: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "ACTION-PACKED." --New York Daily News\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "FAST AND GRIPPING." --The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A VERY SCARY READ." --Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE." --St. Petersburg Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(11336, 'The Lucky One', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks''s new novel believes he''s found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he''s never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(11337, 'The Maiden&#39;s Hand', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey has always lived lustily: wine, weapons and women are his bywords. Even salvation from the noose by a shadowy society provides no epiphany to mend his debauched ways. Mistress Lark''s sole passion is her secret work with a group of Protestant dissidents thwarting the queen''s executions. She needs no other excitement - until Oliver de Lacey drops through the hangman''s door and into her life. As their fates become inextricably bound together in a struggle against royal persecution, both Oliver and Lark discover a love worth saving... even dying for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(11338, 'Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he''d like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mintâ€”so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny.   Moist doesn''t want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork''s current ruling tyrant isn''t a "request" per se, more like a "once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you''ve-lived-quite-long-enough." So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (nÃ©e Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who''s probably a vampire. But he''ll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can''t figure out where all the gold has gone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(11339, 'The Man With the Golden Torc', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For ages, Eddie Drood and his family have kept humanity safe from the things that go bump in the night. But now one of his own has convinced the rest of the family that Eddieâ€™s become a menace, and that humanity needs to be protected from him. So heâ€™s on the run, using every trick in the book, magical and otherwise, hoping he lives long enough to prove his innocence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(11340, 'Marooned in Realtime', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity''s fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it''s obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It''s up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge''s tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(11341, 'Marrying Daisy Bellamy', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two menâ€”one honorable and steady, one wild and untethered. And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her.\n <br />\n Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she''s chosen for herself and her son. But she still aches for the one thing she can''t have.\n <br />\n Until the man once lost to her reappears, resurrected by a promise of love. And now the choice Daisy thought was behind her is the hardest one she''ll ever faceâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(11342, 'Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts the Ankh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice. Perdita''s expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it''s an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks.  Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it''s difficult -- and often hazardous -- to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they''ve seen Ankh-Morpork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(11343, 'Matter', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name.  For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder.  And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she''d thought abandoned forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture''s Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else''s war is never a simple matter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(11344, 'Maze of Worlds', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alien beings bent on our destruction have seeded the world with horrible machines capable of transforming our planet into a hellhole where only they can live.Our only hope is to solve the puzzle of a four-dimensional maze, an alien thing that is part building, part machine, and part psychological torture chamber. A few brave men and women--and one fearless dog--dare to enter the maze. What they find there will change their lives forever, as the alien machinery creates terrifying worlds based on their worst nightmares. Alien beings bent on our destruction have seeded the world with horrible machines capable of transforming our planet into a hellhole where only they can live.Our only hope is to solve the puzzle of a four-dimensional maze, an alien thing that is part building, part machine, and part psychological torture chamber. A few brave men and women--and one fearless dog--dare to enter the maze. What they find there will change their lives forever, as the alien machinery creates terrifying worlds based on their worst nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(11345, 'The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.  On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(11346, 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(11347, 'Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Young Dwarf''s Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted!He''s now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld''s greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It''s a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrott... And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city--indeed of the universe itself!--depends on a young man''s courage, an ancient sword''s magic, and a three-legged poodle''s bladder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(11348, 'The Mephisto Club: A Novel', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this brisk, deftly plotted thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (_Vanish_), Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and police detective Jane Rizzoli look into the murder of 28-year-old Lori-Ann Tucker, whose body is found Christmas morning in her apartment amid an unholy mess of severed limbs, black candles and satanic symbols rendered in blood. "Peccavi," reads one word scrawled across Tucker''s wallâ€”Latin for "I have sinned." Isles and Rizzoli must sort sinner from innocent among suspects who can be found on several continents and include a group of sophisticatesâ€”scholars, an anthropologist, a psychiatristâ€”who are either cult members or crusaders against evil straight from the pages of Revelation. Other murders follow, all gruesome, all involving apocalyptic messages. On occasion, the action shifts to Europe, to a young woman running from a man she''s convinced is descended from a race of fallen angels. Gerritsen has a knack for stretching believability just short of the breaking pointâ€”and for amassing details that produce an atmosphere in which the most terrible possibilities can and, indeed, should occur.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Mephisto Club\n  </em>\n  , the sixth in the Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series (after\n  <em>\n   Vanish\n  </em>\n  ), contains Tess Gerritsen''s trademark lurid writing, grisly medical/forensic details, and chilling suspense. This time, as a satanically driven killer tortures and dismembers his victims, an esoteric cult considers the existence of a gene for evil. It''s not a tale for the faint of heart; metaphysical inquiries into demonology and evil are matched, page by page, by grisly details. The only major criticism comes from\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  , which cited a total lack of credibility. Otherwise, _The Mephisto Club\n  <em>\n   should provide "hair-raising, demon-hunting good fun" (\n  </em>\n  Los Angeles Times_).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(11349, 'The Merchants&#39; War', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers unfamiliar with Stross''s\n  <em>\n   Clan Corporate\n  </em>\n  (2006) and its predecessors should hunt them down before diving into this breakneck fourth Merchant Princes episode. The clan, a Machiavellian trading dynasty whose members can cross among parallel universes, are losing control of their own affairs, embroiled in a shooting war with local royalty on the Gruinmarkt world and racing modern American black-ops agencies to unravel the secrets behind their world-walking ability. The latter subplot adds science-fictional flavor to a series already rich with economic and political themes and dense action scenes. The cost comes in characterization: familiar figures appear only briefly, and new players acquire little depth. Miriam Beckstein, journalist turned mercantile heiress, is still the nominal protagonist, but she spends most of this episode stuck one universe sideways from the main action. For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFor sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe world-building in this series is simply superb, in other wordsâ€”it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly realâ€¦..\n  </em>\n  The Merchants'' War_ is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.â€\n  <br />\n  --SciFi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Charlie Stross'' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5''s and horsesÂ  and hang-gliders.Â  Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time!"\n  <br />\n  --S.M. Stirling\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series.â€\n  <br />\n  -_-Booklist_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(11350, 'Message in a Bottle', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn''t fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(11351, 'Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life', 'James Patterson &amp; Laura Park &amp; Chris Tebbetts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A keen appreciation of kids'' insecurities and an even more astute understanding of what might propel boy readers through a book.... a perfectly pitched novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Los Angeles Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The book''s... dynamic artwork, and message that ''normal is boring'' should go a long way toward assuring kids who don''t fit the mold that there''s a place for them, too." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Incredibly detailed and imaginative illustrations... add depth and humor.... an enjoyable story that even the most reluctant readers should enjoy." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Library Media Connection\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he''s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school''s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe''s game starts to catch up with him, he''ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he''s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he''s been avoiding.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious-and surprisingly poignant-story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won''t soon forget.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(11352, 'Mile 81', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen King has said it himself: the short story is ailing in America. But with a new story that is part coming-of-age, part paranormal tale, he has helped give the form a boost--and us a reminder of how skillfully he works in a small space. In Kingâ€™s worlds, peril and disaster often hide in the most ordinary things and places, and in\n  <em>\n   Mile 81\n  </em>\n  , danger lurks at an abandoned rest stop in the author''s standard Maine setting. With expert pacing, King allows a short but life-changing journey to unfold for his young protagonist, and the most pedestrian details of the rest stop take on eerie significance with each quickly-turned page: a cut-up chain-link fence surrounding the place, a hollowed-out Burger King left fallow, a door of a filthy car hanging silently â€œopen like an invitation.â€ Fans will recognize nods to\n  <em>\n   Christine\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   From a Buick 8\n  </em>\n  , but the destructive force in\n  <em>\n   Mile 81\n  </em>\n  is even more savage, the horror more faceless and primal. And as one would expect, itâ€™s not just a scary story--it reads, in ways, as parable, his characters at once archetypal and uniquely crafted. Although set in present day,\n  <em>\n   Mile 81\n  </em>\n  feels timeless---it''s a story about good people encountering the terror of the unknowable, and about the courage that innocents must summon in the face of it, when there is no one left to protect them. --\n  <em>\n   Simone Gorrindo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It''s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It''s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who''s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn''t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver''s door opens but nobody gets out.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn''t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton''s cracked cell phone near the wagon door â€” and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids â€” Rachel and Blake Lussier â€” and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(11353, 'Miracle Cure', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were looking for a miracle cure...Sara Lowell and Michael Silverman. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media. She''s TV''s most popular journalist. He''s New York''s hottest basketball star. Their lives would soon be shattered by the most deadly illness of modern times.Dr. Harvey Riker. His clinic has found the miracle cure that millions seek. One-by-one his patients are getting well. One-by-one they are targeted by a serial killer more fatal than their disease.Rev. Earnest Sanders. His ultra-conservative Holy Crusade Church saw the disease as God''s vengeance on a lustful, sin-ridden generation of the damned. And God''s will could not be denied.Lieutenant Bernstein. His true desires make him a perfect choice to track the killer...or a perfect victim.Harlan Coben''s second novel of suspense will earn him a permanent place on mystery lover''s booklists. His lean and gut-wrenching descriptions and brilliantly twisted plot will have you praying with his characters for a...Miracle Cure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(11354, 'The Mist', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A group of neighbors trapped in a grocery store by a supernatural mist--which may have been unintentionally unleashed by a nearby military base--must fight the horrific monsters that live within it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(11355, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Suzanne Collins, Author of *Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You have said from the start that The Hunger Games story was intended as a trilogy. Did it actually end the way you planned it from the beginning?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Very much so. While I didn''t know every detail, of course, the arc of the story from gladiator game, to revolution, to war, to the eventual outcome remained constant throughout the writing process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  We understand you worked on the initial screenplay for a film to be based on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . What is the biggest difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  There were several significant differences. Time, for starters. When you''re adapting a novel into a two-hour movie you can''t take everything with you. The story has to be condensed to fit the new form. Then there''s the question of how best to take a book told in the first person and present tense and transform it into a satisfying dramatic experience. In the novel, you never leave Katniss for a second and are privy to all of her thoughts so you need a way to dramatize her inner world and to make it possible for other characters to exist outside of her company. Finally, there''s the challenge of how to present the violence while still maintaining a PG-13 rating so that your core audience can view it. A lot of things are acceptable on a page that wouldn''t be on a screen. But how certain moments are depicted will ultimately be in the director''s hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you able to consider future projects while working on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , or are you immersed in the world you are currently creating so fully that it is too difficult to think about new ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have a few seeds of ideas floating around in my head but--given that much of my focus is still on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  --it will probably be awhile before one fully emerges and I can begin to develop it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is forced to participate in a fight-to-the-death on live TV. What do you think the appeal of reality television is--to both kids and adults?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Well, they''re often set up as games and, like sporting events, there''s an interest in seeing who wins. The contestants are usually unknown, which makes them relatable. Sometimes they have very talented people performing. Then there''s the voyeuristic thrillâ€”watching people being humiliated, or brought to tears, or suffering physically--which I find very disturbing. There''s also the potential for desensitizing the audience, so that when they see real tragedy playing out on, say, the news, it doesn''t have the impact it should.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you were forced to compete in the Hunger Games, what do you think your special skill would be?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hiding. I''d be scaling those trees like Katniss and Rue. Since I was trained in sword-fighting, I guess my best hope would be to get hold of a rapier if there was one available. But the truth is I''d probably get about a four in Training.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you hope readers will come away with when they read The Hunger Games trilogy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Questions about how elements of the books might be relevant in their own lives. And, if they''re disturbing, what they might do about them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What were some of your favorite novels when you were a teen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  by Betty Smith\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  by Carson McCullers\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty Four\n  </em>\n  by George Orwell\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  by Leo Tolstoy\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  by Kurt Vonnegut\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   A Wrinkle in Time\n  </em>\n  by Madeleine Lâ€™Engle\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  by William Golding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Boris\n  </em>\n  by Jaapter Haar\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Germinal\n  </em>\n  by Emile Zola\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Dandelion Wine\n  </em>\n  by Ray Bradbury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Cap Pryor)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up Following her subversive second victory in the Games, this one composed of winners from past years, Katniss has been adopted by rebel factions as their symbol for freedom and becomes the rallying point for the districts in a desperate bid to take down the Capitol and remove President Snow from power. But being the Mockingjay comes with a price as Katniss must come to terms with how much of her own humanity and sanity she can willingly sacrifice for the cause, her friends, and her family. Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they''ve grown to empathize with and love.\n  <em>\n   Mockingjay\n  </em>\n  is a fitting end of the series that began with\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  (2008) and\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding''s\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  and Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  . However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  (c) Copyright 2010. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/742');
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(11356, 'Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one''s great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks''s brother marched off to battle, and Polly''s willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join this man''s army. Since a nation in such dire need of cannon fodder can''t afford to be too picky, Polly is eagerly welcomed into the fighting foldâ€”along with a vampire, a troll, an Igor, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close "friends." It would appear that Polly "Ozzer" Perks isn''t the only grunt with a secret. But duty calls, the battlefield beckons. And now is the time for all good ... er ... "men" to come to the aid of their country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(11357, 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia OKelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful Wyoming Knott - and Mike, a lonely computer who likes to make up jokes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(11358, 'Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can''t refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn''t compulsory. As Death''s apprentice, he''ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won''t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he''d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(11359, 'The Mote in God&#39;s Eye', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(11360, 'Mountain of Black Glass', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Otherland is a realm of the imagination where anything can happen, a triumph of technology, a virtual world of enormous complexity and possibility. But Otherland is owned and controlled by a secret cartel, The Grail Brotherhood, whose motives remain shrouded in mystery.Trapped in this extraordinary world, the quest of a small band of companions to unlock the secrets of Otherland is running perilously short of time. For the Brotherhood has finally set the date for the Ceremony when they will make their bid for immortality. The journey will lead them through a strangely unfinished land and an endlessly labyrinthine house. They will suffer the ferocity of the siege of Troy and battle against the might of the Egyptian gods on their journey to find the Mountain of Black Glass. But even there, the danger will not be over. Otherland''s darkest secret, an entity known only as the Other, awaits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(11361, 'Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discworld''s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they''ve discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can''t sing, he can''t dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingÃ©nue from a little town (where else?) you''ve probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn''t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood''s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It''s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they''re definitely not ready for their close-up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(11362, 'My One and Only', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Divorce attorney Harper James can''t catch a break. Bad enough that she runs into her ex-hubby, Nick, at her sister''s destination wedding, but now, by a cruel twist of fate, she''s being forced to make a cross-country road trip with him. And her almost-fiancÃ© back at home is not likely to be sympathetic.Harper can''t help that Nick has come blazing back into her life in all of his frustratingly appealing, gorgeous architect glory. But in Nick''s eyes, Harper''s always been the one. If they can only get it right this time, forever might be waitingâ€”just around the bend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(11363, 'Naked City', 'Ellen Datlow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This anthology of short fiction affords a superb sampling of urban fantasy, that popular sf/fantasy subgenre defined in the bookâ€™s introduction (which, in all of three pages, is a welcome and helpful, to say nothing of articulate, definition of this subgenre) as a combination of the â€œoften-dark edge of city living with enticing worlds of magicâ€â€”with an urban landscape being absolutely crucial to the story. To put it another way (as also expressed in the introduction, that is), â€œwhere the story takes place\n  <em>\n   should\n  </em>\n  matter, in some way, to the story.â€ The headliner piece, by virtue of its placement first in the collectionâ€™s presentation and the name recognition of the author, is â€œCurses,â€ by Jim Butcher, creator of the urban-fantasy series Dresden Files. It opens like a noir detective storyâ€”â€œMost of my cases are pretty tameâ€â€”but by page 2, we see this is Dresden Files fiction as well. The premise is a riot: the famous curse upon the Chicago Cubs has supernatural origins here. â€œPriced to Sell,â€ by Naomi Novik, is also very entertaining. Itâ€™s about vampires buying real estate in Manhattan. But you will have fun with all 20 stories."--\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this thrilling collection of original stories some of todayâ€™s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In\n  <strong>\n   Jim Butcherâ€™s\n  </strong>\n  â€Cursesâ€ Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In\n  <strong>\n   Patricia Briggsâ€™\n  </strong>\n  â€œFairy Gifts,â€ a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Marrâ€™s\n  </strong>\n  â€œGuns for the Dead,â€ the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In\n  <strong>\n   Holly Blackâ€™s\n  </strong>\n  â€œNoble Rot,â€ a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is not to be missed!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/735'),
(11364, 'Naked Heat', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The best-selling mystery author of Heat Wave continues the story of tough and sexy NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook on the trail of a murderer in Manhattan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(11365, 'The Name of the Rose', 'Umberto Eco &amp; William Weaver &amp; David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of medieval philosophy, history, theology, and logic.In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate a wealthy Italian abbey whose monks are suspected of heresy. When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbeyâ€™s labyrinthine secrets, the subversive effects of laughter, and the medieval Inquisition. Caught in a power struggle between the emperor he serves and the pope who rules the Church, Brother William comes to see that what is at stake is larger than any mere political disputeâ€“that his investigation is being blocked by those who fear imagination, curiosity, and the power of ideas. The Name of the Rose offers the reader not only an ingeniously constructed mysteryâ€”complete with secret symbols and coded manuscriptsâ€”but also an unparalleled portrait of the medieval world on the brink of profound transformation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(11366, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she''s dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband''s death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/638'),
(11367, 'Necroscope', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dead don''t speak.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying. In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge. The vampire''s human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire''s mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead. Dragosani works not for Ferenczy''s freedom but world domination. he will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead. His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living. To protect Harry, the dead will do anything--even rise from their graves!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(11368, 'Necroscope II: Vamphyri!', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Not the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil of vampires. In a secluded English village, Yulian Bodescu plots his takeover of the world. Imbued with a vampire''s powers before his birth, Bodescu rules men''s minds and bodies with supernatural ease. He is secretly creating an army of vampiric monsters, things that once were men but were now walking masses of destructive hunger! Harry Keogh, Necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragasani--and of Harry''s body! But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe and to speak mind-to-mind with both the living and the dead. Are Harry''s new powers enough to defeat Yulian Bodescu and his legion of monsters--or will the vampire army overrun the living earth?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(11369, 'Necroscope III: The Source', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampire-beasts.Russia''s Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires. Soviet scientists and ESP-powered spies, in a secret military base, study the portal--and the powerfully evil creatures that emerge from it, intent on ravaging mankind.When Jazz Simmons, a British agent sent to infiltrate the base, is captured by the KGB espionage squad and forced through the portal, his last message tells Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, that the vampires are preparing for a mass invasion.Harry has only one option--to strike first. He must carry the human-vampire war to the vampire''s own lands. But his strongest psychic power will be useless there. What good is the power to summon the dead in a country where nothing ever dies, where every man, woman, and child become half-dead servants of the Vamphyri? The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampire-beasts.Russia''s Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires. Soviet scientists and ESP-powered spies, in a secret military base, study the portal--and the powerfully evil creatures that emerge from it, intent on ravaging mankind.When Jazz Simmons, a British agent sent to infiltrate the base, is captured by the KGB espionage squad and forced through the portal, his last message tells Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, that the vampires are preparing for a mass invasion.Harry has only one option--to strike first. He must carry the human-vampire war to the vampire''s own lands. But his strongest psychic power will be useless there. What good is the power to summon the dead in a country where nothing ever dies, where every man, woman, and child become half-dead servants of the Vamphyri?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(11370, 'Necroscope: Avengers', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The packed cruise ship is a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope, Jake Cutter. By the time the ship is reported missing, the few beings still living on board will no longer be human . . . and the Wamphyri will be long fled to their next conquest. Korath, the vampire who lurks in Jake Cutter''s mind, is determined to gain control of Jake''s life, and Jake is equally determined not to let him have it. But to win this struggle Jake must confide in Ben Trask-and Trask, the head of E-Branch, is likely to want Jake dead the minute he learns of Jake''s intrusive passenger! The spore garden planted under London by the third Wamphyri, Lord Swartz, is bearing bitter fruit indeed as a mysterious sleeping sickness-with a vampiric taint-slowly spreads among the population of Great Britain.E-Branch action teams have more on their plates than they can handle. They must locate terrorists who threaten the world with nuclear homicide; permanently close the Gate between the Wamphyri world and Earth; analyze the spore plague; and locate and destroy the three Wamphyri.Even the powers of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope, summoned from the Great Beyond via the combined powers of E-Branch''s strongest agents, may not be enough to defeat the monsters who have brought Earth to the brink of total destruction. The packed cruise ship is a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope, Jake Cutter. By the time the ship is reported missing, the few beings still living on board will no longer be human . . . and the Wamphyri will be long fled to their next conquest. Korath, the vampire who lurks in Jake Cutter''s mind, is determined to gain control of Jake''s life, and Jake is equally determined not to let him have it. But to win this struggle Jake must confide in Ben Trask-and Trask, the head of E-Branch, is likely to want Jake dead the minute he learns of Jake''s intrusive passenger! The spore garden planted under London by the third Wamphyri, Lord Swartz, is bearing bitter fruit indeed as a mysterious sleeping sickness-with a vampiric taint-slowly spreads among the population of Great Britain.E-Branch action teams have more on their plates than they can handle. They must locate terrorists who threaten the world with nuclear homicide; permanently close the Gate between the Wamphyri world and Earth; analyze the spore plague; and locate and destroy the three Wamphyri.Even the powers of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope, summoned from the Great Beyond via the combined powers of E-Branch''s strongest agents, may not be enough to defeat the monsters who have brought Earth to the brink of total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(11371, 'Necroscope: Deadspawn', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brian Lumley''s Necroscope novels are one of the horror genre''s most towering achievements. The adventures of the Necroscopes, Harry Keogh and his successor, Jake Cutter, and the psychically gifted agents of E-Branch, Britain''s super-secret spy organization, as they battle malevolent, shape-shifting Wamphyri have spanned two worlds, thirteen novels, and an infinity of time. The Necroscope novels have sold more than two million copies in English alone. Tor Books is proud to publish Necroscope: Deadspawn in hardcover for the first time. Previously available only in mass market, Necroscope: Deadspawn is the fifth spine-tingling volume in Lumley''s exciting vampire series and marks a turning point in the life and career of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope.After the battles of Deadspeak, Harry has recovered his Necroscopic abilities. He can once again travel instantly between places and times via the marvelous mathematics of the MÃ¶bius Continuum. He can once again hear and speak to the dead and carry messages between the living and those long gone. But the Necroscope''s bargain with Faethor Ferenczy, father of vampires, has sown the seed of Harry''s downfall---a vampire seed! Deep in the recesses of Harry''s mind, a vampire grows, a vampire that might someday be the greatest Wamphyri of all, one with all the Necroscope''s great psychic powers warped to evil use. Harry''s lifetime on earth has just become sharply limited. But until he loses the fight against the vampire thing, the Necroscope still has work to do. The tortured victims of a serial killer and necromancer cry out for justice. Harry Keogh is the only person who can identify and find this vile murderer. And he will do it, fighting the vampire spawn inside him every step of the way.  Brian Lumley''s Necroscope novels are one of the horror genre''s most towering achievements. The adventures of the Necroscopes, Harry Keogh and his successor, Jake Cutter, and the psychically gifted agents of E-Branch, Britain''s super-secret spy organization, as they battle malevolent, shape-shifting Wamphyri have spanned two worlds, thirteen novels, and an infinity of time. The Necroscope novels have sold more than two million copies in English alone. Tor Books is proud to publish Necroscope: Deadspawn in hardcover for the first time. Previously available only in mass market, Necroscope: Deadspawn is the fifth spine-tingling volume in Lumley''s exciting vampire series and marks a turning point in the life and career of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope.After the battles of Deadspeak, Harry has recovered his Necroscopic abilities. He can once again travel instantly between places and times via the marvelous mathematics of the MÃ¶bius Continuum. He can once again hear and speak to the dead and carry messages between the living and those long gone. But the Necroscope''s bargain with Faethor Ferenczy, father of vampires, has sown the seed of Harry''s downfall---a vampire seed! Deep in the recesses of Harry''s mind, a vampire grows, a vampire that might someday be the greatest Wamphyri of all, one with all the Necroscope''s great psychic powers warped to evil use. Harry''s lifetime on earth has just become sharply limited. But until he loses the fight against the vampire thing, the Necroscope still has work to do. The tortured victims of a serial killer and necromancer cry out for justice. Harry Keogh is the only person who can identify and find this vile murderer. And he will do it, fighting the vampire spawn inside him every step of the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(11372, 'Necroscope: Deadspeak', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brian Lumley''s Necroscope novels are one of the horror genre''s most towering achievements. They chronicle the adventures of Necroscope, Harry Keogh, his successor, Jake Cutter, and the psychically gifted agents of E-Branch, Britain''s super-secret spy organization, and their battles against the malevolent, shape-shifting Wamphyri and their spawn. Their exploits have spanned two worlds, thirteen novels, and an infinity of time. The Necroscope novels have sold more than two million copies in English alone.  Tor Books is proud to publish Necroscope: Deadspeak in hardcover for the first time. Previously available only as a mass market, paperback Necroscope: Deadspeak is the fourth volume in Lumley''s exciting vampire series, and marks the beginning of a new phase in the story of the Necroscope.Harry Keogh has triumphed over much adversity in his life, from the death of his mother and the discovery of his amazing powers-to talk to the dead and to travel instantaneously to any place via the MÃ¶bius Continuum-to the fallout from his war against the vampires. He lost his body, though not his life; his wife and infant son disappeared without a trace; and he had to kill a woman he had come to love. What should have been a joyful reunion with his son was tinged with horror when Harry realized that his boy-now a man-was half-Necroscope and half-vampire, and thus a deadly double threat to all mankind. Father faced son in a terrible battle, and when it was over, Harry awoke safe in his own bed, at home . . . but his Necroscope powers were gone, locked away in the depths of his mind! Now, a new evil rears its head in the Balkan Mountains. Janos Ferenczy, master vampire and black magician, has risen from an ages-long sleep. As the first step in his plans of conquest, he conjures dead men and women into a perverse semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish tortures. But the shrieks of the dead barely begin to satisfy Janos''s bloodlusts as he prepares an army of undead warriors to conquer the world. The dead try desperately to attract the Necroscope''s attention, but Harry Keogh is deaf to their pleas and their screams. As Harry searches for a cure, he learns that to save mankind he must ally himself with the crafty father of vampires, the infamous Faethor Ferenczy. Centuries dead, Faethor lies in his grave and schemes. He will help Harry defeat Janos-but his price will be very high indeed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(11373, 'Necroscope: Defilers', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope--how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead--but dead humans don''t like him much. It seems Jake''s got a hitchhiker named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can''t just kick him out . . . though he''s certainly trying.Jake''s not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the supersecret ESP-powered organization that''s dedicated to eradicating the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound--except for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake''s not careful, she''ll find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master , Nephtam Malinari, one of a trio of Great Vampires who came to Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over a holy monastary on a beautiful Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy creature with fearsome appetites for all things carnal.Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the woman he loved and nearly killed him. As far as he''s concerned, E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord Szwart without him until he''s satisfied his own bloodlust. But it seems vampire hunting is truly Jake''s job now--the men he''s trying to kill aren''t men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations in human guise! To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in a Necroscope''s arsenal, including the power to all the unsleeping dead out of their moldering graves. Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope--how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead--but dead humans don''t like him much. It seems Jake''s got a hitchhiker named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can''t just kick him out . . . though he''s certainly trying.Jake''s not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the supersecret ESP-powered organization that''s dedicated to eradicating the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound--except for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake''s not careful, she''ll find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master , Nephtam Malinari, one of a trio of Great Vampires who came to Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over a holy monastary on a beautiful Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy creature with fearsome appetites for all things carnal.Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the woman he loved and nearly killed him. As far as he''s concerned, E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord Szwart without him until he''s satisfied his own bloodlust. But it seems vampire hunting is truly Jake''s job now--the men he''s trying to kill aren''t men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations in human guise! To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in a Necroscope''s arsenal, including the power to all the unsleeping dead out of their moldering graves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(11374, 'Necroscope: Invaders', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation. Jake Cutter is running for his life through the streets of Turin when he vanishes, appearing moments later inside the triply locked "Harry''s room" in E-Branch''s London HQ. Jake''s dreams are very strange, filled with the voices of the dead--the Great majority, the Necroscope, Harry Keogh, even a dead vampire. He hears them all, but he doesn''t truly understand.If Jake is the new Necroscope, he has to learn--fast!--how to control his powers and speak to the dead. E-Branch, with the reluctant Jake along for the ride, is about to go head-to-head with Malinari the Mind, a vampire Lord who psychic abilities are second to none.But the dead don''t trust Jake, not like they trusted Harry. Jake''s got personal revenge on his mind, and he''s spending too much time talking that dead vampire. He''s got to start thinking about the future--or he won''t have one! Three great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation. Jake Cutter is running for his life through the streets of Turin when he vanishes, appearing moments later inside the triply locked "Harry''s room" in E-Branch''s London HQ. Jake''s dreams are very strange, filled with the voices of the dead--the Great majority, the Necroscope, Harry Keogh, even a dead vampire. He hears them all, but he doesn''t truly understand.If Jake is the new Necroscope, he has to learn--fast!--how to control his powers and speak to the dead. E-Branch, with the reluctant Jake along for the ride, is about to go head-to-head with Malinari the Mind, a vampire Lord who psychic abilities are second to none.But the dead don''t trust Jake, not like they trusted Harry. Jake''s got personal revenge on his mind, and he''s spending too much time talking that dead vampire. He''s got to start thinking about the future--or he won''t have one!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(11375, 'Necroscope: Resurgence', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the chilling sequel to Necroscope: The Lost Years, Harry Keogh continues his desperate search for his missing wife and young son, who vanished during his epic struggle with the vampires who sought to control Keogh''s powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(11376, 'Necroscope: The Lost Years', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Vampires never rest, and neither does Harry Keogh, the world''s greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he''s desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry''s war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family.But it''s not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him.Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realizing that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die. Vampires never rest, and neither does Harry Keogh, the world''s greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he''s desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry''s war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family.But it''s not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him.Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realizing that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(11377, 'Necroscope: The Touch', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Malevolent aliens, the Mordri Three decide to become so evil that God himself will have to stop them. They can alter flesh with a simple touch, literally turning people inside out or seeding them with cancer. The Three have already destroyed an entire solar system and most of their own race. Their next targets: mankind and Earth! On Earth, Scott St. John is mourning his beloved wife when he is struck by a golden arrow of lightÃƒ--a fragment of the soul of Harry Keogh, the original NecroscopeÃƒ--and gains powers he does not understand. A mysterious, beautiful woman appears, desperately trying to warn Scott about something . . . then vanishes mid-word. Scott dreams of a very unusual Wolf, who begs himÃƒ--in human speechÃƒ--for rescue. A fledgling Necroscope, a telepathic Wolf, a beautiful woman from beyond the stars, the ghost of Harry Keogh, the best of E-Branch''s psychic fighting forces, and a dead girl who is not yet ready to seek her just reward must defeat three impossibly strong, psychically gifted monsters whose touch literally melts flesh from bone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(11378, 'Needful Things', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Leland Gaunt is a stranger in Castle Rock--and he calls his new shop Needful Things, where there is something for everyone. Mr. Gaunt takes pleasure in seeing how much people will pay for their most secret dreams and desires, and he knows that almost everything is for sale: love, hope, even the human soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(11379, 'Neuromancer', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancerdidn''t just explode onto the science fiction scene--it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology. Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer''s virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson''s gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(11380, 'Neverwhere: A Novel', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(11381, 'Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cussler''s most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt''s most dangerous adventure.Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yetâ€”the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, itâ€™s worth a war. Pittâ€™s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britianâ€™s most cunning secret agentâ€”and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever createdâ€”the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(11382, 'Night Road', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyoneâ€™s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Miaâ€™s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school brings unexpected dangers and one night, Judeâ€™s worst fears are confirmed: there is an accident. In an instant, her idyllic life is shattered and her close-knit community is torn apart. Peopleâ€”and Judeâ€”demand justice, and when the finger of blame is pointed, it lands solely on eighteen-year-old Lexi Baill. In a heartbeat, their love for each other will be shattered, the family broken. Lexi gives up everything that matters to herâ€”the boy she loves, her place in the family, the best friend she ever hadâ€”while Jude loses even more. When Lexi returns, older and wiser, she demands a reckoning. Long buried feelings will rise again, and Jude will finally have to face the woman she has become. She must decide whether to remain broken or try to forgive both Lexiâ€¦and herself. Night Road is a vivid, emotionally complex novel that raises profound questions about motherhood, loss, identity, and forgiveness. It is an exquisite, heartbreaking novel that speaks to women everywhere about the things that matter most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(11383, 'Night Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty excursions into horrorfrom the master.From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/534'),
(11384, 'Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he''s lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won''t leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he''s pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it''s the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks -- though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there''s a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(11385, 'Nightingale&#39;s Lament', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London where it''s always 3 AM, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he''ll have to hear the deadly music--and survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(11386, 'Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The haunting collection that comes from the unique place where Ripley''s Believe It or Not! Â® meets The Twilight Zone: Stephen King''s unparalleled imagination....Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes includes the tale "Dolan''s Cadillac," soon to be a feature film starring Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, and Emmanuelle Vaugier\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/533'),
(11387, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend''s inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne''s perfect getaway will be ruined-until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort-and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(11388, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century''s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith''s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(11389, 'No Second Chance', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter. Dr. Marc Seidman has been shot twice, his wife has been murdered, and his six-month-old daughter has been kidnapped. When he gets the ransom note-he knows he has only one chance to get this right. But there is nowhere he can turn and no one he can trust. Injured by an unknown shooter who has killed his wife and abducted his baby daughter, surgeon Marc Seidman struggles with limited options when he receives a ransom note that he will never see his daughter again if he contacts the police.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(11390, 'The Notebook: A Novel', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(11391, 'Odd Hours', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontzâ€™s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readersâ€™ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places where the perils he will face and the stakes for which he fights will eclipse all that he has known. The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomasâ€™s gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friendsâ€”and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the worldâ€”not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas. After grappling with the very essence of reality itself, after finding the veil that separates him from his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, tantalizingly thin yet impenetrable, Odd longed only to return to a life of quiet anonymity with his two otherworldly sidekicksâ€”his dog Boo and a new companion, one of the few who might rival his old pal Elvis. But a true hero, however humble, must persevere. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authorityâ€¦and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.Burnishing Dean Koontzâ€™s stature as a master of suspense and one of our most innovative and gifted storytellers, Odd Hours illuminates a legacy of mystery and hope that will shine on long after the final page.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/277');
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(11392, 'Odd Thomas', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe dead don''t talk. I don''t know why.â€ But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe itâ€™s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Oddâ€™s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo''s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it''s different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world''s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Oddâ€™s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ''n'' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmaresâ€”and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.From the Hardcover edition. SUMMARY: â€œThe dead don''t talk. I don''t know why.â€ But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe itâ€™s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Oddâ€™s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo''s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it''s different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world''s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Oddâ€™s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ''n'' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmaresâ€”and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(11393, 'Old Man&#39;s War', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger. John Scalzi is a prolific journalist, columnist, and non-fiction writer whose books include The Rough Guide to the Universe and The Book of the Dumb. His web journal The Whatever is one of the longest-established and most widely-read weblogs on the net. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger. "Solid . . . [Scalzi] sidesteps most of the clichÃ©s of military science fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays attention to the science underpinning his premise."â€”San Francisco Chronicle"Scalzi''s imagined interstellar arena is coherently and compellingly delineated . . . His speculative elements are top-notch. His combat scenes are blood-roiling. His dialogue is suitably snappy and profane. And the moral and philosophical issues he raises . . . insert useful ethical burrs under the military saddle of the story."â€”Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post"Thought-provoking!"â€”Entertainment Weekly"Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, Old Manâ€™s War is a splendid novel."â€“Cleveland Plain Dealer"When humanity reaches the stars, it discovers that it must defend its claim to new planets against alien races with similar expansionist tendencies. To ensure the expertise of its soldiers, Earth creates the Colonial Defense Force, an army of men and women otherwise classified as senior citizens, who give up their lives on Earth for an uncertain and perilous future among the stars. Scalzi''s first novel presents a new approach to military sf, boasting an unusual cast of senior citizens as heroes. A good choice for most libraries."â€”Library Journal "Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalziâ€™s astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master . . . This virtuoso debut pays tribute to SFâ€™s past while showing that well-worn tropes still can have real zip when theyâ€™re approached with ingenuity."â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gripping and surpassingly original. It''s Starship Troopers without the lectures. It''s The Forever War with better sex. It''s funny, it''s sad, and it''s true."â€”Cory Doctorow"John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man''s War is classic SF seen from a modern perspectiveâ€”a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe."â€”Robert Charles Wilson"I enjoyed Old Man''s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don''t live in already."â€”Ken MacLeod\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(11394, 'Olympos', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare''s __ get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused mere mortals with their classically trained robot allies (from Jupiter no less) race across time and space to keep from getting squashed as the various Titans of the Western Canon square off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Confused? It''s all part of Dan Simmons''s\n  <em>\n   Olympos\n  </em>\n  , a novel one part fun-with-quantum-physics and two parts through-the-looking-glass survey of Western Literature. Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act __, Simmons doesn''t disappoint. Not only is\n  <em>\n   Olympos\n  </em>\n  excellent hard science fiction and grand space opera, it''s a riveting and fast-paced book that is alternately shocking, thrilling, and often deftly hilarious as his hapless human creations wrestle the forces of literary history itself. Be sure to read\n  <em>\n   Ilium\n  </em>\n  first though. That and a more-than passing familiarity with\n  <em>\n   _ might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium''s far-off shores, and the Earth that might be. --\n  </em>\n  Jeremy Pugh_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Master of the Universes\n   </em>\n   : An Exclusive Interview with Dan Simmons\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Olympos\n  </em>\n  , a tale of Mars, the Greek gods, and survival in a post-human world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Drawing from Homer''s\n  <em>\n   Iliad\n  </em>\n  , Shakespeare''s\n  <em>\n   Tempest\n  </em>\n  and the work of several 19th-century poets, Simmons achieves another triumph in this majestic, if convoluted, sequel to his much-praised\n  <em>\n   Ilium\n  </em>\n  (2003). Posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods and living on Mars travel back and forth through time and alternate universes to interfere in the real Trojan War, employing a resurrected late 20th-century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, as their tool. Meanwhile, the last remaining old-style human beings on a far-future Earth must struggle for survival against a variety of hostile forces. Superhuman entities with names like Prospero, Caliban and Ariel lay complex plots, using human beings as game pieces. From the outer solar system, an advanced race of semiorganic Artificial Intelligences, called moravecs, observe Earth and Mars in consternation, trying to make sense of the situation, hoping to shift the balance of power before out-of-control quantum forces destroy everything. This is powerful stuff, rich in both high-tech sense of wonder and literary allusions, but Simmons is in complete control of his material as half a dozen baroque plot lines smoothly converge on a rousing and highly satisfying conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(11395, 'Orbus', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a follow-up to The Voyage of the Sable Keech tracing the journey of an Old Captain, Orbus, a sadist in charge of a crew of masochists - to a planetary wasteland called The Graveyard, lying between the Polity and the Prador Kingdom. An ancient war drone by the name of Sniper has stowed away aboard his spaceship, and the purpose of the journey is not entirely what the captain expected. Also heading in the same direction is the Prador king and the Prador Vrell. Vrell, having been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into something powerful and dangerous, has seized control of a Prador dreadnought, killing much of its crew, and is intent on heading back to the Prador Third Kingdom to exact vengeance on the King of the Prador, who tried to have him killed. All three ships are heading towards a climatic confrontation to The Graveyard, where underlying truths about the virus are revealed and an ancient menace to civilization reappears''Åš\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(11396, 'The Other Lands: Book Two of the Acacia Trilogy', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The thrilling new installment in the ambitious Acacia trilogy, praised by the Washington Post as â€œgripping and sophisticated.â€A few years have passed since the conquering of the Mein, and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known World-perhaps too firmly. With plans to expand her empire, she sends her brother, Daniel, on an exploratory mission to the Other Lands. There Daniel discovers a lush, exotic mainland ruled by an alliance of tribes that poses a grave danger to the stability of the Known World. Is Queen Corinn strong enough to face this new challenge? Readers of this bold, imaginative sequel will not be disappointed in the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(11397, 'The Overlook', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It''s the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Special Squad. When he discovers that Kent had access to dangerous radioactive substances, what begins as a routine investigation becomes something darker, more deadly, and frighteningly urgent. Bosch is soon in conflict with not only his superiors but the FBI, which thinks the case is too important for just a cop. Complicating his job even more is the presence of Agent Rachel Walling, his onetime lover. Now guarding one slim advantage, Bosch relentlessly follows his own instincts, hoping they are still sharp enough to find the truth--and a killer who can annihilate an entire city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/641'),
(11398, 'Pacific Vortex!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dirk Pitt''s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America''s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt''s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt''s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(11399, 'Paths Not Taken', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside--the dark heart of London--and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very distant--and probably deadly--past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(11400, 'Payback', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seven very close friends, known as the Sisterhood, band together to exact revenge when one of their own, Julia Webster, is betrayed by her husband, an arrogant U.S. Senator who has abused her trust and shattered her dreams. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(11401, 'The Peace War', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they''ve never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he''s needed for so long, he will shake the world, in the fast-paced hard-science thriller that garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(11402, 'Pet Sematary', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From horror''s master storyteller, Stephen King, comes the classic tale--PET SEMETARY. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they''ve got it all ... right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously more powerful. Annotation. "Sometimes dead is better ..." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they''ve got it all ... right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself ... and hideously more powerful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(11403, 'Peter &amp; Max: A Fables Novel', 'Bill Willingham &amp; Steve Leialoha', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Understanding Willingham''s new novel (the first from comics house Vertigo) doesn''t require knowledge of the comic it''s based upon, but it certainly helps;\n  <em>\n   Fables\n  </em>\n  follows a population of fairy tale characters seeking shelter in our world after their enchanted lands were conquered. Familiar figures like Snow White, Rose Red, the Beast and Belle, the Big Bad Wolf (a human PI in the mundane world) and others fill out a cast led by Peter Piper and his brother, Max. Sibling rivalry, magical flutes and, yes, pickled peppers factor in the clever, adventurous plot that sees Peter pursuing Bo Peep. Fans will find all the charm and in-jokes of the\n  <em>\n   Fables\n  </em>\n  universe intact; like Neil Gaiman, another acclaimed comic book author, Willingham writes without the help of thought bubbles and keeps everything clear enough that readers new to the series won''t be confused for long. Though it toys with notions of mythology and its origins, this work still keeps true to the spirit of the Brothers Grimm: dark, fast-paced, moving and entertaining, with a few surprises along the way.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 8 Upâ€“The Fables, a group of folk and fairytale characters, are living as a community in New York after being chased out of their previous lands by an evil conqueror. Some of their story has been told through a series of award-winning graphic novels, but Bill Willingham has written this tale as a novel (Vertigo, 2009) that can stand alone. An author''s note introduces the audiobook, providing backstory to help those new to the series. The cast of characters includes many recognizable figures: Snow White, the (former) Big Bad Wolf, Rose Red, Peter Piper and his brother Max (The Pied Piper), Bo Peep who is married to Peter, and others. Through wonderful pacing, flashbacks, and clever references to the well-known tales of these characters'' former lives, listeners are transported to a world where the storybook fables become real. Wil Wheaton does a wonderful job in timing the drama, humor, and tragedy of this complex tale, only missing the mark with the slow-paced delivery of Bigby Wolf''s lines. Be aware that this is not a Disney-esque vision of the world. The characters curse when appropriate, the sex life of Peter and Bo is called into question, and violence is not sugar-coated. The intense conflict between Peter and Max harkens back to the gritty fairytales of old where blood is shed, evil exists, and things are not always as they seem._Genevieve Gallagher, Charlottesville High School, VA_\n  <br />\n  Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/666'),
(11404, 'Phantoms', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tale of an abandoned town and the unimaginable truth behind its silence...  Now with a new afterword, Dean Koontz explains the impact Phantoms had on his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(11405, 'Play Dead', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia''s Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura''s search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(11406, 'The Player of Games', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.Praise for Iain M. Banks:"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(11407, 'The Poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly has written one explosive thriller after another featuring Detective Harry Bosch. Now, in an electrifying departure, he presents a novel that breaks all the rules and will keep your heart racing and your mind guessing until the very last page. Death is reporter Jack McEvoy''s beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn''t crack. The killer''s calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allen Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy''s own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
(11408, 'Point of Origin', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smokeand only Kay Scarpetta can find them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(11409, 'Polity Agent', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien ''Maker'' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down '' because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes . . . and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(11410, 'The Postman', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin''s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.  Fate touches him one chill winter''s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.  The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(11411, 'Postmortem', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it''s being sabotaged from within and someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(11412, 'Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(11413, 'Predator', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team - Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli - to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(11414, 'The Prefect', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe thatâ€™s â€œsublime entertainmentâ€ and â€œgripping in the extreme.â€( Locus)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerousâ€”a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(11415, 'Prelude to Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(11416, 'Prey', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. As fresh as today''s headlines, Michael Crichton''s most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Read by Robert Sean Leonard Introduction read by Michael Crichton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(11417, 'Princeps&#39; Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Under Tavi of Calderon, heir to the crown, war-torn Alera rebuilds while politicians and nobles vie for power. But from the south comes news: the dreaded Vord have come to Alera. For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy and survived every foe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(11418, 'Proven Guilty', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it''s all in a day''s work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(11419, 'Psychamok', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brian Lumley is an international horror phenomenon, with books published in thirteen countries, including China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Spain. More than two million books have been sold in his Necroscope series alone, but that barely taps the potential of this wildly imaginative author. Lumley''s horror often crosses the dividing lines between fantasy and horror or between science fiction and horror. The Psychomech trilogy, of which Psychamok is the conclusion, is a perfect blend of science fiction, adventure, and horror, combining in a fast-paced whirlwind of a story that leaves the reader doubting the evidence of his or her own senses.  Richard Garrison was once a corporal in the British Military Police, until a terrorist''s bomb destroyed his eyesight and his career. Repaying Garrison for saving his wife and child from the blast, millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder introduced him to the Psychomech, an amazing machine that could either gift its users with astonishing mental powers-or destroy them utterly. Having successfully harnessed the Psychomech, Garrison discovered the Psychosphere, a strange plane of existence where mental abilities were all. Thought became intent, word became deed, and Garrison became like unto a god. Two decades later, Garrison is utilizing his unique powers to explore the universe. On Earth, his son, Richard Stone, is happily in love, until his beloved falls victim to "The Gibbering," a plague of madness that destroys men and women by destroying their minds. There is no obvious cause. There is no cure. There are no survivors.When Richard Stone himself is infected by the Gibbering, the mental powers he inherited from his father enable him to defeat the madness, at least for a while. Then, to his horror, Stone discovers that the Psychomech has run amok and that the Gibbering is the result! Even though the insanity it creates batters his struggling mind, Stone realizes he is the only man with the knowledge and power capable of destroying the berserker mind-machine.The son of Garrison is at war with Psychomech. Who will survive the finalbattle, man or machine? Brian Lumley is an international horror phenomenon, with books published in thirteen countries, including China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Spain. More than two million books have been sold in his Necroscope series alone, but that barely taps the potential of this wildly imaginative author. Lumley''s horror often crosses the dividing lines between fantasy and horror or between science fiction and horror. The Psychomech trilogy, of which Psychamok is the conclusion, is a perfect blend of science fiction, adventure, and horror, combining in a fast-paced whirlwind of a story that leaves the reader doubting the evidence of his or her own senses.  Richard Garrison was once a corporal in the British Military Police, until a terrorist''s bomb destroyed his eyesight and his career. Repaying Garrison for saving his wife and child from the blast, millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder introduced him to the Psychomech, an amazing machine that could either gift its users with astonishing mental powers-or destroy them utterly. Having successfully harnessed the Psychomech, Garrison discovered the Psychosphere, a strange plane of existence where mental abilities were all. Thought became intent, word became deed, and Garrison became like unto a god. Two decades later, Garrison is utilizing his unique powers to explore the universe. On Earth, his son, Richard Stone, is happily in love, until his beloved falls victim to "The Gibbering," a plague of madness that destroys men and women by destroying their minds. There is no obvious cause. There is no cure. There are no survivors.When Richard Stone himself is infected by the Gibbering, the mental powers he inherited from his father enable him to defeat the madness, at least for a while. Then, to his horror, Stone discovers that the Psychomech has run amok and that the Gibbering is the result! Even though the insanity it creates batters his struggling mind, Stone realizes he is the only man with the knowledge and power capable of destroying the berserker mind-machine.The son of Garrison is at war with Psychomech. Who will survive the finalbattle, man or machine?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(11420, 'Psychomech', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Richard Garrison, a Corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse-refuge at Schroeder''s luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison''s blindness and if not cure him at least teach him a new way of life. But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. He is dying and determined not to lose his life. The doctors tell him his body cannot be saved. But about his mind? Garrison''s healthy young body would make an excellent replacement for Schroeder''s failing corpus, if the machines to perform the operation can be perfected in time. Garrison has no secrets of his own. Since the bombing that caused a loss of his sight, Garrison has become aware of new abilities slowly developing in his mind: mental powers he is beginning to master; strengths Schroeder cannot expect. Richard Garrison and Thomas Schroeder, two strong-willed men locked in battle for the greatest prize-life itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(11421, 'Psychosphere', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Richard Garrison lost his sight in a terrorist explosion, he developed vast mental powers that more than compensated for his blindness. He mastered the Psychomech machine, then used it to conquer his enemies and restore his dead love to full and vibrant life. Psychomech also revealed to Garrison the Psychosphere, a startling reality where mental powers reigned supreme and could influence people and events on Earth. Once he was nearly godlike-or demonic, if one dared become his enemy-but now Garrison''s mental abilities grow weaker with each use. He tries desperately to conserve his energies, but he has begun to have strange visions of a mind so different from his own as to be other than human, and knows he must stay alert and strong. Charon Gubwa has invaded the Psychosphere. Twisted and evil, sexually and mentally warped, physically corrupt, Gubwa''s desires are simple: More. More drugs. More sex. More power. More of the Earth under his dominion. Richard Garrison must battle Gubwa in the Psychosphere and on Earth. And he must win, no matter the cost to himself or those he loves, or all mankind will be lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(11422, 'Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention aheadstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(11423, 'Rainbows End', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer''s patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and heâ€™s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his sonâ€™s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless accessâ€”through nodes designed into smart clothesâ€”and to see the digital contextâ€”through smart contact lenses.  With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination.  In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robertâ€™s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot.  As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. Vernor Vinge, author of such acclaimed novels as True Names, The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky, has won four Hugo Awards. A mathematician and computer scientist, he lives in San Diego, California. Winner of the Hugo AwardFour time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025.Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer''s patient, cured by modern medicine after years of a near-fatal decline. As he struggles to make his was in a much-changed world, where a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum has taken over the world, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination.With one foot in the present, and the other one sliding into an uncertain future, Vinge offers a story of the potential joys and hazzards that accompany our rapidly changing relationship to technology and the world. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. "In the near future, the European Center for Defense against Disease discovers a diabolical pseudomimivirus. Rather than set off a panic, secret agents of the EU, Japan, and India work clandestinely to uncover a conspiracy seemingly based in a San Diego lab. Former poet Robert Gu, a recovering Alzheimer''s patient (one of the lucky few who took to all the treatments), returns to school just as agents Braun, Vaz, and Mitsuri put their wheels in motion. Immensely frustrated by simultaneously living with his son''s family and completely reeducating himself, Gu becomes a perfect dupe for the hacker hired by the gang of spooks. Under cover of a library protest, Gu and some old friends get into the lab, trailed by one of Gu''s adolescent classmates and his granddaughter. The conspiracy runs deep and has some terrifying implications on account of YGBM (you gotta believe me) technology, regardless of the conspirators'' intentions. The near future is less alien here than in some of Vinge''s other work, but no less fascinating and well constructed."â€”Regina Schroeder, Booklist"Set in San Diego, Calif., this hard SF novel from Hugo-winner Vinge offers dazzling computer technology . . . Circa 2025, people use high-tech contact lenses to interface with computers in their clothes. "Silent messaging" is so automatic that it feels like telepathy. Robert Gu, a talented Chinese-American poet, has missed much of this revolution due to Alzheimer''s, but now the wonders of modern medicine have rehabilitated his mind. Installed in remedial classes at the local high school, he tries to adjust to this brave new world, but soon finds himself enmeshed in a somewhat quixotic plot by elderly former University of California-San Diego faculty members to protest the destruction of the university library, now rendered superfluous by the ubiquitous online databanks. Unbeknownst to Robert, he''s also a pawn in a dark international conspiracy to perfect a deadly biological weapon."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(11424, 'Raise the Titanic!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The President''s secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(11425, 'Razor Sharp', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The women of the Sisterhood come to the assistance of their loyal ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, who has agreed to defend Lily Flowers, the madam of a high-class bordello that counted some of the richest and most influential men in the country as clients. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(11426, 'Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH''s demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86');
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(11427, 'Redemption Ark', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect life and then suppress it . . . but after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the Amarintin race . . . and awakened the Inhibitors.On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet''s Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not good for Humanity.Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(11428, 'Relic', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum''s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum''s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(11429, 'Reliquary', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D''Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(11430, 'Rendezvous With Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose in 2131? Who is inside it? And why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(11431, 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.\n <br />\n The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips &amp; Co. added another 28,000 to the run.\n <br />\n This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901â€“1902 (although setting it before Holmes'' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(11432, 'Revelation Space', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alastair Reynolds''s critically acclaimed debut has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(11433, 'The Revolution Business', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stross''s disorganized fifth Merchant Princes story (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   The Merchants'' War\n  </em>\n  ) continues the adventures of hapless Boston journalist Miriam Beckstein. Newly free of political imprisonment, pregnant and on the lam, she finds herself at the center of a desperate power grab as political instability rocks the mafia-like Clan Corporate, who are magically able to cross between parallel worlds. When world-walkers steal nukes from a U.S. installation, it''s a race against time to find out who has them, and why, before they can be deployed. The U.S. is also close to discovering a technological method of world-walking, rendering the clan both vulnerable and obsolete. Stross pays heartfelt homage to Roger Zelazny and Lois McMaster Bujold, but with too many characters and too little focus, this novel fails to match their achievements.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the fifth Merchant Princes novel, things are going very badly for the Clan. Civil war rages over control of the kingdom of Niejwein, and the Clanâ€™s army is under siege in two universes. The Clanâ€™s leader has suffered a stroke, and the normal plotting and intrigue have ratcheted up. Miriam, the worldwalking Clan princess raised in our world, has been rescued (again!) and plopped in the center of the Clanâ€™s ostensibly progressive faction. Even as she tries to figure out who wants her as a leader and who is just looking for a figurehead, authorities in our world break the secret of transdimensional travel and are coming through. --Frieda Murray\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(11434, 'Ringworld', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(11435, 'The Ringworld Engineers', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(11436, 'The Ringworld Throne', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered.  A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written!The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld.  Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone dares approach them to learn.Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?"Niven''s work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe."--San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(11437, 'Ringworld&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous in order to save Ringworld''s population, and the stability of Ringworld itself.Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld''s Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven''s Ringworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(11438, 'Rising Sun', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(11439, 'River of Blue Fire', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A small band of adventurers penetrates the veil of secrecy that prevents the uninitiated from entering Otherland. But they become trapped, unable to escape back to their own flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. Their only hope of reuniting lies in returning to the river that flows through all the worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(11440, 'Rodrick Rules', 'Jeff Kinney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Heffley is back, and with him the trappings that made his first outing, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007), such a popular triumph. Once again diarist Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this timeÂ on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. WhetherÂ Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the Kâ€“12Â  school talent show as Magicianâ€™s Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid embarrassment.Â As before, he peppers his journal entries with his own cartoons (in look and tone, a sort of hybrid of The Simpsons and the Timbertoes), using them as any 12-year-old wouldâ€”to add insult to injury. But the real and deeper appeal of Gregâ€™s story is the unapologetic honesty of his adolescence; he comes across asÂ a real kid, and his story is one that will appeal to all those real kids who feelÂ just like him. Grades 5-8. --Thom Barthelmess\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The highly anticipated sequel to the #1\n  <em>\n   NEW YORK TIMES\n  </em>\n  bestselling book!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Secrets have a way of getting out, especially when a diary is involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatever you do, donâ€™t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesnâ€™t want to talk about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Greg enters the new school year, heâ€™s eager to put the past three months behind him . . . and one event in particular.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately for Greg, his older brother, Rodrick, knows all about the incident Greg wants to keep under wraps. But secrets have a way of getting out . . . especially when a diary is involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick\n  </em>\n  Rules chronicles Gregâ€™s attempts to navigate the hazards of middle school, impress the girls, steer clear of the school talent show, and most important, keep his secret safe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  F&amp;P level: T\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(11441, 'Rosemary and Rue', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas... The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening''s dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening''s killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(11442, 'Royal Weddings: An Original Anthology', 'Stephanie Laurens &amp; Gaelen Foley &amp; Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You are cordially invited To help celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton As we present a 77 page original anthology Written by three utterly wonderful authors!   Stephanie Laurens'' The Wedding Planner: Lady Margaret is proud plan the ton''s most important nuptualsâ€”including that of a prince. But it''s Lady Margaret who falls in love . . . with dashing Gaston Devilliers!   Gaelen Foley''s Ever After: How scandalous! Eleanor Monford, Countess of Archer, is in love with her own husband. And as Princess Charlotte of England weds Prince Leopold, Eleanor''s "secret" is about to come out.   Loretta Chase''s The Jilting of Lord Rothwick: On the eve of Queen Victoria''s wedding to Prince Albert, the Marquess of Rothwick learns his fiancÃ‰e, Barbara Findley, has broken their engagement! So he desperately rides out of London to seek her out . . . and to win her back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(11443, 'Rule 34', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The most spectacular science fiction writer of recent years" (Vernor Vinge, author of\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Rainbows End\n  </em>\n  ) presents a near-future thriller.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh is head of the Rule 34 Squad, monitoring the Internet to determine whether people are engaging in harmless fantasies or illegal activities. Three ex-con spammers have been murdered, and Liz must uncover the link between them before these homicides go viral.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Charles Stross\n  </strong>\n  , born in 1964, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella ("The Concrete Jungle"). Stross''s works have been translated into more than twelve languages. He has worked as a pharmacist, software developer, and tech industry journalist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(11444, 'Safe Haven', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(11445, 'Sahara Trade Paper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deadly toxic compound in the middle of the African desert is killing thousands of people and threatening to extinguish marine life in the world''s seas. As Dirk Pitt crosses the Sahara to uncover an unholy conspiracy, he discovers the truth about Kitty Mannock, an Australian pilot missing since 1931, and an incredible secret held in a Confederate ironclad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(11446, 'Saturn&#39;s Children', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sex oozes from every page of this erotic futuristic thriller. In a far-future class-driven android society, most of the populace are slave-chipped and owned by wealthy aristos. When low-caste but unenslaved android Freya offends an aristo and needs to get off-world, she takes a courier position with the mysterious Jeeves Corporation, but the job turns out to have dangers of its own. Designed as a pleasure-module, Freya isn''t quite as obsolete as she could be, as androids have sex with each other incessantly. Hugo-winner Stross (_Halting State_) has a deep message of how android slavery recapitulates humanity''s past mistakes, but he struggles to make it heard over the moans and gunshots. Readers nostalgic for the SF of the ''60s will find much that''s familiar (including Freya''s jumpsuit-clad form on the cover), but that doesn''t quite compensate for the flaws.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charles Stross is a unique voice among todayâ€™s wave of â€œNew British SFâ€ writers, but he also knows his history.\n  <em>\n   Saturnâ€™s Children\n  </em>\n  is dedicated to old lions Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, and the ghosts of both (especially Heinlein) can be felt in the latest effort. Reviews of the novel vary wildly, which may suggest as much about the tastes of particular SF readers as it does about the specific case. The combination of sex and violence clashes a bit with some deep philosophizing on identity and purpose, though Strossâ€™s sense of humor and Freyaâ€™s rollicking adventure transcend what\n  <em>\n   SF Reviews\n  </em>\n  deems â€œsome bizarre cross-genre hybrid.â€ Many SF readers will appreciate the novel, deemed as one of Strossâ€™s more accessible, and revel in the authorâ€™s numerous nods toward his influences; others might want to give it a pass.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(11447, 'Scarpetta', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Americaas #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.  Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospitalas psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talkaand the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.  The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murderedaand more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?  In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the cityaan odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.  Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can provide. Once again, sheproves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(11448, 'Scarpetta&#39;s Winter Table', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the day after Christmas, Scarpetta make her special pizza pie and Detective Pete Marino creates his "cause-of-death eggnog" (he uses corn liquor), while Lucy Farinelli (a special agent with ATF and Scarpetta''s only niece) goes on a long run in the snowy suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. The next day, Scarpetta flies to Miami to spend a few days with her querulous mother and Sindbad, her Siamese cat. In Richmond, Lucy entertains her friends, all from various federal law enforcement agencies; and Marino first apprehends and then befriends Jimmy Simpson, a ten-year-old boy who had been snowballing his house. In the final scene of the novelette, all the characters (including Jimmy''s mother, who seems to catch Marino''s eye) gather in Scarpetta''s warm house on a cold night to enjoy her famous stew.This book -- a special "gift" from Cornwell to her readers -- is the perfect holiday gift, and gives the reader insights into her best-known characters that cannot be found in any other work. It is illustrated with photographs that suggest the locales and activities of her characters, and it includes the ingredients for all the dishes described in the story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(11449, 'Sea of Silver Light', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The epic conclusion of the Otherland saga journeys back to the bizarre world of virtual realities in which the characters discover a multifaceted pathways to immortality, which could be available if one is willing to pay a dangerous price. By the author of City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, and Mountain of Black Glass. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(11450, 'Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Isaac Asimov''s Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsdestroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timebut now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed...before it destroys them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(11451, 'Shadow and Claw', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing. The Book of the New Sun, a series of four novels, is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe''s most memorable work, hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis"â€”and by The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction as "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century".\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shadow &amp; Claw collects the first two novels in this Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning tetralogy: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe''s] pre-eminence, pure and simple . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness, and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . Once into it, there is no stopping."â€”The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Arguably the best piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced."â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(11452, 'Shadow Games: The Fourth Chronicles of the Black Company: First Book of the South', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exists only in legend...the origin of the first Free Companies.Every step of the way the Company is hounded by shadowy figured and carrion-eating crows. As they march every southward, through bug infested jungle, rivers dense with bloodthirsty pirates, and cities, dead and living, haunted by the passage of the Company north, their numbers grow until they are thousands strong.But always they are watched--by the Shadowmasters--a deadly new enemy: twisted creature that deal in darkness and death: powerful, shadowy creatures bent on smothering the world in their foul embrace. This is the first round in a deadly game, a game that the Black Company cannot ea hope to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(11453, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a novel of war between humans and aliens, a child warrior called Bean from the Battle School, becomes the friend, confidant, strategist, and right-hand of Ender Wiggin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(11454, 'Shadow of the Scorpion', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn''t remember.  In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or simply maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment.  There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some of them closer to him than he would like.  Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries merely to stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(11455, 'The Shadow of the Torturer', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a thoroughly decadent world of the future, Severian the torturer is cast out from the torturer''s guild when he falls in love with one of his victims and allows her to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(11456, 'Shadow Puppets', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in Ender''s Game and Ender''s Shadow has dissipated. Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in Shadow of the Hegemon, rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It''s up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth. Shadow Puppets is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(11457, 'Shadowheart', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The long-awaited concluding novel in Tad Williams''s thrilling epic Shadowmarch series.   Southmarch Castle is about to be caught between two implacable enemies, the ancient, immortal Qar and the insane god-king, the Autarch of Xis. Meanwhile, its two young defenders, Princess Briony and Prince Barrick, are both trapped far away from home and fighting for their lives.  And now, something is awakening underneath Southmarch Castle, something powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of years. Can Barrick and Briony, along with a tiny handful of allies, ordinary and extraordinary, find a way to save their world and prevent the rise of a terrible new age-an age of unending darkness?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(11458, 'Shadows Fall', 'Simon R. Green &amp; Donato Giancola', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Considered by the author to be his finest work yet, this is a novel of realistic detail, heartfelt emotion, and dazzling imagination that builds a world readers won''t want to leave and spins a tale they won''t want to end. In a town of amazing magicks, where the real and the imagined live side by side and the Faerie of legend know the automatons of the future, Time sees allâ€”but even he cannot escape the prophecy of James Hart''s return, which can only mean the death of Shadows Fall.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(11459, 'Shadows Linger', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and sheltered is truly the White Rose reborn. Now there may be a path to the light, even for such as they. If they can survive it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(11460, 'Sharper Than a Serpent&#39;s Tooth', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Private Eye John Taylor is the only thing standing between his not-quite-human mother and the destruction of the magical realm within London known as the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(11461, 'She Is the Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone: A Novel of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(11462, 'The Shining', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High in the isolated, wintry Rocky Mountains, terror awaits behind every door of the Overlook Hotel--a place where the guests are deceased but not necessarily departed. Now the only hope against the ghastly forces that threaten to claim the hotel''s caretaker and his family is his young son, a boy possessed of a fearsome power he neither knows nor understands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(11463, 'Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first short story collection in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series-including a brand-new Harry Dresden novella! Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Timesbestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes. This is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan as well as a perfect introduction for readers ready to meet Chicago''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(11464, 'The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli &amp; Isles Novel', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for _The Silent Girl\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Suspense doesn''t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory."â€”Lee Child\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time. Â \n  <br />\n  And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."â€”Lorraine Bracco\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] deft thriller.â€â€”_Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Ice Cold\n  </em>\n  and Tess Gerritsen\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.â€â€”_Salon_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe kind of book youâ€™d read in one sitting.â€â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAmazing . . . another winner.â€â€”_The Plain Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior do dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.â€â€”_The Providence Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lorraine Bracco loves\n  <em>\n   The Silent Girl\n  </em>\n  , saying "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time.Â  And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind\n  <em>\n   Ice Cold\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Keepsake\n  </em>\n  . When New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert handsâ€”and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Bostonâ€™s Chinatown will do both.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the murky shadows of an alley lies a femaleâ€™s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hairâ€”not humanâ€”cling to her body. They are Rizzoliâ€™s only clues, but theyâ€™re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now sheâ€™s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunningâ€”and a swift, avenging blade.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(11465, 'The Silver Boat', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dar McCarthy is expecting her sisters, Delia and Rory, to join her in Martha''s Vineyard for a final visit to the family home before it has to be sold for taxes. Each of the sisters has taken a different path, and Dar is the only one remaining on the island. The house has been in the family for generations, and as the sisters reunite to pack up mementos, they broach the one subject that has haunted them, the disappearance of their father when they were young. Michael was an Irish immigrant shipbuilder, while their mother came from a prestigious New England family. Michael always maintained that his family had a land grant from the king of England on Martha''s Vineyard. Driven by the need to prove his worth, he sailed to Ireland to look for the original deed. After unearthing love letters between her parents, Dar and her sisters go to Ireland on their own quest. Popular Rice, in her mellifluous style, captures the essence of family and sisterhood as each character deals with love and loss. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it''s set.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the beloved\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha''s Vineyard one last time. Their mother''s beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The novel is a season on Martha''s Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they''d never been quite sure they could trust.\n  <em>\n   The Silver Boat\n  </em>\n  is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/700'),
(11466, 'The Silver Spike', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...The Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of lingering evil. But the graveyard that was once the Barrowland contains more secrets than dead. All who would possess the power of the Dominator are drawn to the spike. A foolhardy band of thieves is the first to reach it, and a rapacious and malign spirit is unleashed on an unwary world. The forces gather, sides are drawn, and mortal men can only die as the Dark Lords battle for domination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(11467, 'Singularity Sky', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(11468, 'The Sinner', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman whoâ€™s committed an unholy crime. . . .THE SINNERNot even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nunsâ€”one dead, one critically injuredâ€”victims of an unspeakably savage attacker.The brutal crime appears to be without motive, and the elderly nuns in residence can offer little help in the police investigation. But medical examiner Maura Islesâ€™s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille, the orderâ€™s sole novice, gave birth before she was murdered. Then the disturbing case takes a stunning new turn when another woman is found murdered in an abandoned building, her body mutilated beyond recognition.Together, Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these terrible slaughters. As long-buried secrets come to light, Maura Isles finds herself drawn inexorably toward the heart of an investigation that strikes closer and closer to homeâ€”and toward a dawning revelation about the killerâ€™s identity too shattering to consider.As spine-tingling as it is mind-jolting, The Sinner showcases Tess Gerritsen in peak formâ€”bringing her intimate knowledge of the dark depths of criminal investigation brilliantly to bear. Beneath its layers of startling insight into the souls of its characters, and the richly wrought depiction of the everyday war between good and evil, beats the unstoppable heart of an irresistible thriller.Tess Gerritsen left a successful practice as an internist to raise her children and concentrate on her writing. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of medical suspense, the New York Times bestseller Harvest. She is also the author of the bestsellers Life Support, Bloodstream, Gravity, and The Surgeon and The Apprentice. Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.PRAISE FOR TESS GERRITSENThe Surgeonâ€œA briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax.â€â€”People (Page-Turner of the week)â€œCreepy . . . [The Surgeon] will exert a powerful grip on readers.â€â€”Chicago Tribuneâ€œGrabbed me by the throat and didnâ€™t let go.â€â€”TAMI HOAGThe Apprenticeâ€œSkillful and scary.â€â€”The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œAn adrenaline rush from start to finish.â€â€”IRIS JOHANSENâ€œMasterful . . . Gerritsen moves into the Thomas Harris class, though with a style all her own.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(11469, 'Skeleton Crew', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of horror tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(11470, 'Skin Privilege', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She''s made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect.When Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, Lena''s boss, receives word that his detective has been arrested, he has no choice but to go to Lena''s aid - taking with him his wife, medical examiner Sara Linton. But soon after their arrival, a second victim is found. The town closes ranks. And both Jeffrey and Sara find themselves entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry and rage - a violent world which shocks even them. A world which puts their own lives in jeopardy. Only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies, betrayal and brutality that has trapped her. But can they discover the truth before the killer strikes again?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  n/a\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/715');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11471, 'The Skinner', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to Spatterjay ... where sudden death is the normal way of life. To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome and only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop himself, and monitor Keech cannot rest until he can bring this legendary renegade to justice for atrocious crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars. Keech does not realise that Hoop''s body is running free on an island wilderness, while his living head is confined in a box on an Old Captain''s ships. Nor does he know that the most brutal Prador of all is about to pay a visit, intent on wiping out all evidence of his wartime atrocities. Which means major hell is about to erupt in this chaotic waterscape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(11472, 'Sly Mongoose', 'Tobias S. Buckell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are normal. But to make a living, Timas like many other young men, is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.Timasâ€™s life is turned upside down when a strange man crash lands on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual stormâ€”a secret that could lead to interplanetary war.As the invaded cities fall silent one by one, Chiloâ€™s citizens must race against time to stop the enemy. And Timas will find out what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of Chiloâ€™s surface.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(11473, 'Small Favor', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chicago wizard Harry Dresden''s calm life is interrupted when Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, decides to call in the favor that Harry owes her, sending him on a quest that leaves him trapped between a deadly foe and an untrustworthy ally. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(11474, 'Small Gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle--DISCWORLD--a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(11475, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Recently ''resigned'' from his job as the coolest samurai sword - toting pizza - delivery guy in the world, Hiro has had to fall back on his old hi - tech scavenger ways. Not that he''s a nobody on the virtual street - one of the founders of The Black Sun, he helped write the rule book for the digital Metaverse. Which is why he''s so confused when he''s offered a cyber - drug called Snow Crash - ''cos there are no such things as drugs in their computer - generated world. And yet here it is, complete with devastating side effects. Who could have made it? And what the hell does it actually do?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(11476, 'Snowfall at Willow Lake', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Can a single moment change your entire life?International lawyer Sophie Bellamy has dedicated her life to helping people in war-torn countries. But when she survives a hostage situation, she remembers what matters mostâ€”the children she loves back home. Haunted by regrets, she returns to the idyllic Catskills village of Avalon on the shores of Willow Lake, determined to repair the bonds with her family.There Sophie discovers the surprising rewards of small-town lifeâ€”including an unexpected passion for Noah Shepherd, the local veterinarian. Noah has a healing touch for anything with four legs, but he''s never had any luck with womenâ€”until Sophie.Snowfall at Willow Lake speaks from the heart about all the loves that fill a woman''s life, and all the ways that love is tested and made to grow. It''s the story of what comes after a woman survives an unspeakable horror and finds her way home, to healing and redemption and a new chance at happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(11477, 'Solar', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The literary event of the summer: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prizeâ€“winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michaelâ€™s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her. When Michaelâ€™s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one manâ€™s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the worldâ€™s great writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(11478, 'Soldiers Live', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook''s hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can''t last. He''s right.For, of course, many of the Company''s old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.Glen Cook is the leading modern writer of epic fantasy noir, and Soldiers Live is Cook at his best. None of his legion of fans will want to miss it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(11479, 'Something From the Nightside', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That''s why he''s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.  For John Taylor, there''s no place like home...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/412'),
(11480, 'A Song of Stone: A Novel', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A European nation not unlike Bosnia: armed forces roam the lawless land where dark columns of smoke rise up from the surrounding farms and houses. The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, a young lord and lady, the trouble is just beginning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fearing an invasion of soldiers, the amorous couple takes to the road with the other refugees, disguised in rags. But the brutal female lieutenant of an outlaw band of guerrillas has other ideas. Just hours into their escape, the fleeing aristocrats are delivered back to the castle, where, now prisoners in their own home, they become pawns in the lieutenant''s dangerous game of desire, deceit, and death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Song of Stone demonstrates Iain Banks''s unique ability to combine gripping narrative with a soaring, voyaging imagination. This noir fable confirms his reputation as the master of things dark and debauched. Singular, haunting, and viciously wry, A Song of Stone is a tour de force of contemporary fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(11481, 'Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A satirical comedy on the subject of death. It begins when Death decides to take a holiday and turns over the shop to his granddaughter, Susan, with the assistance of Death of Rats, a rat skeleton. Unfortunately, Susan does not have the stomach for such a heartless trade and this threatens the success of the establishment. By the author of The Light Fantastic. This 13th novel set in Discworld tells the story of Death''s granddaughter, who inherited the job and grew to enjoy it. Amd of Imp the Bard, who strove to make his fortune in a rock band, and who was so unlucky that all his dreams came true. When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death''s adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang." With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint, Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds that all his dreams are coming true. Well almost. In this finger-snapping, toe-tapping tale of youth, Death, and rocks that roll, Terry Pratchett once again demonstrates the wit and genius that have propelled him to the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(11482, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage. But that''s not all.... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(11483, 'Southern Cross', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In "Southern Cross," her follow-up to Hornet''s Nest, Cornwell takes us even closer to the sometimes zany (but always threatening) experiences of big-city police, in a story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. This time, the setting is Richmond, Virginia, where former Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer has been brought, by an NIJ grant, to clean up the police force. Reeling from the recent death of her husband, and resented by the Richmond police force, city manager, and mayor, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief, Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career. In the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, the trio must find the link between the desecration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis''s statue and the brutal murder of an elderly woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(11484, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens'' ways are strange and frightening....again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery....and the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(11485, 'Sphere', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A page-turner...Chichton''s writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn."NEWSWEEKA group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old...."The suspense is real."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(11486, 'Spoken From the Heart', 'Laura Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Â Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland''s brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief.When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women''s movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland''s most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America''s most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband''s decision to give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland.In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and immense gratitude to military families.With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush''s compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady''s memoir ever written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/697'),
(11487, 'The Spy Who Haunted Me', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times bestselling author of Daemons are Forever is back...   Eddie Drood''s clan has been watching mankind''s back for ages. And now he''s in charge of the whole kit and caboodle. But it''s not going to be an easy gig...  Legendary Independent Agent Alexander King is on his deathbed, and he''s looking to bestow all his priceless secrets to a worthy successor. To decide, King has challenged six competitors-including Eddie-to solve five mysteries all around the world, figuring that along the way they''ll backstab each other until only one remains. Eddie has got to win at all costs, because King holds the most important secret of all to the Droods-the identity of the traitor in their midst...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(11488, 'The Stand', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil. Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil. Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(11489, 'Star Wars: A New Hope', 'George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Luke Skywalker Challenged the Stormtroopers of a Distant Galaxy on a Daring Missionâ€”Where a Force of Life Became the Power of Death!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle''s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the starsâ€”adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn''t know who she was, but he knew he had to save herâ€”and soon, because time was running out.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father''s, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever...and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/595'),
(11490, 'Stardust', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Catch a fallen star . . .   Tristran thorn promised to bring back a fallen star. So he sets out on a journey to fulfill the request of his beloved, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Foresterâ€”and stumbles into the enchanted realm that lies beyond the wall of his English country town. Rich with adventure and magic, Stardust is one of master storyteller Neil Gaiman''s most beloved tales, and the inspiration for the hit movie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(11491, 'Starship Troopers', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(11492, 'The State of the Art', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(11493, 'A Stir of Echoes', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he''s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom''s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!This eerie ghost story, by award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(11494, 'A Stolen Life: A Memoir', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Stolen Life\n  </em>\n  is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.thejaycfoundation.org\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/701'),
(11495, 'Stone of Farewell', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Battered remnants of the human army flee the evil forces of Ineluki the Storm King, desperately seeking a mysterious sanctuary called the Stone of Farewell and a solution to their dire peril\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(11496, 'Storm Front', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(11497, 'The Strain', 'Guillermo del Toro &amp; Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan''s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.  The Strain  They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.  In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.  In two monthsâ€”the world.  A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.  In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .  So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his cityâ€”a city that includes his wife and sonâ€”before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(11498, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Stranger in a Strange Land\n  </em>\n  , winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth''s cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention\n  <em>\n   de facto\n  </em>\n  owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The impact of\n  <em>\n   Stranger in a Strange Land\n  </em>\n  was considerable, leading many children of the 60''s to set up households based on Michael''s water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it''s partly her fault."). That aside,\n  <em>\n   Stranger in a Strange Land\n  </em>\n  is one of the master''s best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it?\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1939 Heinlein published his first sf short story and became one of the most prolific and influential authors in the genre. Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) is an international best seller and a landmark in more ways than one: it opened the trade best sellers lists to sf writers, breaking down longstanding barriers that will never be seen again. At the same time Stranger became an emblem of the 1960s generation in its iconoclasm and free-love themes. Telling the story of an Earth baby raised by an existing, ancient Martian civilization, the novel often reads as if it were the "Playboy Philosophy" in dialog form. The man/ Martian comes to Earth and broadcasts his ideas by forming his own Church. Heinlein has been rightly criticized for presenting as facts his opinions, which state that organized religion is a sham, authority is generally stupid, young women are all the same, and the common individual is alternately an independent, Ayn Randian-producing genius and the dull-witted part of an ignorant and will-less mob. Yet the book is hard to put down; in its early pages it is a truly masterful sf story. Every library with a fiction collection should have it. Christopher Hurt reads with authority, nicely drawing the characters via barely perceptible changes in intonation, harshness, and pacing. Highly recommended.?Don Wismer, Office of the Secretary of State, Augusta, Me.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(11499, 'Summer by the Sea', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rose Capoletti, owner of a restaurant voted "best place to propose," finds her life sorely lacking in the romance department, until Alexander Montgomery, a former lover, returns, putting dark secrets from the past to rest and giving them a second chance at love. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(11500, 'The Summer Hideaway', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Never get attachedâ€”Private nurse and protected witness Claire Turner lives by this motto. Fleeing a treacherous past, she knows no other way.Never give upâ€”In the twilight of his life, George Bellamy makes it his final wish to reconcile with an estranged brother. He and Claire journey to Willow Lakeâ€”where it all went wrong for him fifty years ago.Never let goâ€”George''s grandson Ross is ruled by a fierce devotion to family and a deep mistrust of the mysterious Claireâ€¦yet sparks fly whenever she''s near. In the face of a wrenching loss, amid the enchantment of Willow Lake, Ross and Claire dare to risk everything for love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(11501, 'Summer Knight', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago''s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the ''everyday'' world isfull of strange and magical things - and most of them don''t play well with humans. That''s where Harry comes in.Since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry''s been down and out. He can''t pay his rent. He''s alienating his friends. He can''t recall his last shower. Then when things are at their worst, the Winter Queen of Faerie saunters in with an offer Harry can''t refuse. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Knight, the Summer Queen''s right-hand man, and clear the Winter Queen''s name. It seems simple, but Faerie politics seldom work out that way. Then Harry discovers the fate of the entire world rests on this case. So no pressure . . . Magic - it can get a guy killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(11502, 'Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel', 'Gary Shteyngart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutanteâ€™s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of Americaâ€™s dysfunctional coming yearsâ€”and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near futureâ€”oh, letâ€™s say next Tuesdayâ€”a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But donâ€™t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the worldâ€™s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldnâ€™t it? Lennyâ€™s from a different centuryâ€”he totally loves books (or â€œprinted, bound media artifacts,â€ as theyâ€™re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our â€œancient dorkâ€ effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lennyâ€™s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New Yorkâ€™s Central Park, the cityâ€™s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. Heâ€™s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospectâ€™s â€œhotnessâ€ and â€œsustainabilityâ€ with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/493'),
(11503, 'Surface Detail', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y''breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it''s about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether. SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks'' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(11504, 'The Surgeon', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Penzler Pick, August 2001:\n  </strong>\n  Tess Gerritsen left a very successful career as an internist to raise her children and devote more time to writing. After several books that have had moderate success, Gerritsen has now written a gruesome and frightening story that should put her among the top women thriller writers working today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A serial killer is on the loose in Boston. The victims are killed in a particularly nasty way: cut with a scalpel on the stomach, the intestines and uterus removed, and then the throat slashed. The killer obviously has medical knowledge and has been dubbed "the Surgeon" by the media. Detective Thomas Moore and his partner Rizzoli of the Boston Homicide Unit have discovered something that makes this case even more chilling. Years ago in Savannah a serial killer murdered in exactly the same way. He was finally stopped by his last victim, who shot him as he tried to cut her. That last victim is Dr. Catherine Cordell, who now works as a cardiac surgeon at one of Boston''s prestigious hospitals. As the murders continue, it becomes obvious that the killer is drawing closer and closer to Dr. Cordell, who is becoming so frightened that she is virtually unable to function. But she is the only person who can help the police catch this copycat killer. Or is it a copycat? To complicate matters even further, Detective Moore, often referred to as Saint Thomas as he continues to mourn the loss of his wife, is getting emotionally involved with the doctor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The suspense in\n  <em>\n   The Surgeon\n  </em>\n  is almost unbearable. The writing is superb and the stunning twists and turns make it almost impossible to put down.\n  <em>\n   -- Otto Penzler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A creepy cerebral serial killer vaguely reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter pursues a charismatic female doctor in this thoroughly satisfying if somewhat derivative thriller. Skillfully drawn surgical backdrops sizzling with ER intensity balance out the obligatory romantic intrigue and familiar plucky police professionals, attesting to Gerritsen''s authentic medical expertise as a former physician. Dr. Catherine Cordell, the main character in this chilling tale, thought she had shot and killed her rapist and would-be murderer two years earlier in steamy Savannah, where he was a surgery intern at her hospital. Now, in Boston, as another hot summer begins, he appears to have miraculously returned and embarked once again on his grisly mission: he rapes women, then surgically removes their wombs. As two intrepid detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli investigate, Cordell begins to doubt her own memories (or lack of) and discovers that not even her OR is safe. Gliding as smoothly as a scalpel in a confident surgeon''s hand, this tale proves that Gerritsen (Harvest; Life Support; Bloodstream; Gravity), originally a romance writer, has morphed into a dependable suspense novelist whose growing popularity is keeping pace with her ever-finer writing skills. (Sept.)Forecast: National print advertising in People, the New York Times and USA Today, plus a major promotion campaign, will ratchet Gerritsen''s sales up yet another notch.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/720'),
(11505, 'Sweet Revenge', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, her fianc? Bobby, a life she deserved. Until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her clients, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving ? killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal Sisterhood agree: Rosemary has to be punished, along with the conniving Bobby. Isabelle has learned to endure, running, hiking, pushing her body to its limits and working all-out to get her license back. Now it''s time to do more than to endure. It''s time to hand out some justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(11506, 'Sword and Citadel', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe''s most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword &amp; Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Brilliant . . . terrific . . . a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"-Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n "The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe''s] preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(11507, 'Tao Te Ching', 'Laozi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion, not only for Taoism  but Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, aided by hundreds of translations into Western languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(11508, 'The Technician', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hit list.Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity has been left uncured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race.The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too.Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(11509, 'Tell No One', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it''s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible -- that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn''t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.But already Beck is being hunted down. He''s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret -- and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(11510, 'The Terminal Man', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient''s brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. Though the operation is a success, there is an unforseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/569'),
(11511, 'Terminal World', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand-new novel from "the most exciting space opera writer working today" (Locus). In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint''s Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news - to save the angel''s life, Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150');
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(11512, 'The Terror: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Starred Review.\n   </em>\n   Hugo-winner Simmons (_Olympos_) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the\n   <em>\n    Erebus\n   </em>\n   , is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the\n   <em>\n    Terror\n   </em>\n   , is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. With their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is a disaster from start to finish. Some men perish from disease, others from the cold, still others from botulism traced to tinned food purchased from the lowest bidder. Madness, mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then there''s the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence. This complex tale should find many devoted readers and add significantly to Simmons''s already considerable reputation.\n   <em>\n    (Jan.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The prolific and versatile Simmons turns to historical fiction in this fine narrative of the lost Franklin expedition of the 1840s, in which nearly 200 men sailed in search of the Northwest Passage aboard two converted naval vessels,\n   <em>\n    Erebus\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Terror\n   </em>\n   . They seemingly sailed off the face of the earth, until remains of the longest survivors among them were discovered many years later. Simmons makes the\n   <em>\n    Terror\n   </em>\n   ''s Captain Crozier his protagonist, and through his eyes we see history infused with sf, fantasy, and horror elements: sf because the expedition went farther into the then unknown than did the Apollo astronauts; fantasy because the hardships of the grippingly described arctic environment played havoc with their minds; and horror because the men perished in ones and twos, in dozens and scores, from boat accidents, falls, scurvy, hypothermia, exposure, starvation, and parasitic infections. Crozier survives by taking refuge among the Inuit and covering the expedition''s nightmarish trail by burning his ship and vanishing from civilization, by which time readers may be as emotionally drained as he. Outstanding.\n   <em>\n    Roland Green\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n   </em>\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(11513, 'Thicker Than Water', 'Mike Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carey''s fourth supernatural thriller featuring London exorcist Felix Castor (after Dead Men''s Boots) compares favorably with the better known work of Jim Butcher. When the slashed body of Kenneth Seddon, who tried to kill Castor when they were much younger, is found in his car with the words "F Castor" scrawled in blood on his windshield, the police naturally approach the spook hunter for an explanation. The psychic investigator finds a link between the assault on Seddon and an increase in acts of violence centered on a nearby housing project. A touch of dark humor lightens the grimness of the story line, but the high stakes Carey sets for his protagonist insure that not everything could possibly be wrapped up neatly by the conclusion. The author has mastered the challenge of incorporating the paranormal into a modern urban setting, and his refusal to pull punches makes this a harder-hitting genre entry than many others. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Witty, deadpan and shudderingly noir . . . Carey drives this thriller like Chandler at the wheel of a runaway hearse."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Daily Express\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll be up all night finishing this one."Â  â€”Richard Morgan, author_,_\n  <em>\n   Altered Carbon\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(11514, 'Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it''s wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He''s going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world''s first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(11515, 'Thinner', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(11516, 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children''s literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice''s birthday (May 4), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(11517, 'Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork''s more diminutive citizensâ€”a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.   Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes''s second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where''s My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork''s streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fearâ€”and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(11518, 'Tick Tock', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. Itâ€™s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the dollâ€™s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phanâ€™s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he canâ€™t destroy. It wants Tommyâ€™s life, and he doesnâ€™t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chanceâ€”or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommyâ€™s computer screen: The deadline is dawn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tick tock\n <br />\n Time is running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(11519, 'Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinleins famous Future History series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(11520, 'The Time Machine', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book''s protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(11521, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael Crichton''s new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.Imagine the risks of such a journey.Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/570'),
(11522, 'To Green Angel Tower Part 1', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(11523, 'To Green Angel Tower Part 2', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(11524, 'To Sail Beyond the Sunset', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The millions of fans of Lazarus Long--probably Heinlein''s most beloved character--will flock to this new tale, which continues adventures of the characters of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. From the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(11525, 'The Tommyknockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(11526, 'Trace', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak-and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(11527, 'The Trade of Queens', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Merchant Princes novel shows trouble intensifying in all three alternate universes accessible to the worldwalking Clan. A dissident Clan faction has nuked Washington, killing the president, and plans on exterminating the rest of the Clan. Moreover, a dissident U.S. government faction hopes to use the disaster to seize power and destroy the Clanâ€™s world, Gruinmarkt, with more powerful nukes. The few with any sense, including Miriam, who is bearing the heir to Gruinmarktâ€™s throne, seek refuge in the third world, just finished with a nasty war. With lots of action in a very grim plot, this should please Stross fans and anyone else interested in Dr. Strangelove scenarios. --Frieda Murray\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the novels of The Merchant Princes:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[These books] are, first and foremost, great fun.â€\n  <br />\n  --Paul Krugman,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of _The Great Unraveling\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIf imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Times\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA good deal of fun.Â  Fans of this series should find this conclusion satisfying and chilling.â€\n  <br />\n  --_RT Book Reviews_ on _Trade of Queens\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œStross effectively builds tension as the clock ticks down toward a hopeless confrontation between the Clan and its superpower opponent. . . The conclusion brings events in these three universes together successfully. . . This all makes for a more than satisfactory close to [the] series.â€\n  <br />\n  _--Strange Horizons\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other wordsâ€”it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real. . . .Â \n  <em>\n   The Merchants'' War\n  </em>\n  is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.â€\n  <br />\n  _--SciFi Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"These books are immense fun, a sort of 21st-century version of the solid, thought-out costume sword-and-spaceship fiction that provided the enduring spine of science fiction entertainment .â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Locus\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   The Hidden Family\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(11528, 'Transition', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sharing nothing in common except links to an organization committed to protecting the world from itself, an assembly of dubious characters including a torturer, a reluctant assassin, and an amnesiac patient confront challenges beyond their imagining. By the best-selling author of Matter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(11529, 'The Transition of Titus Crow', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE TRANSITION OF TITUS CROW: Continues the exploits of Titus Crow, chronicled in the Burrowers Beneath (-30-6). "Transition" is second in Lumley''s "Cthulhu Mythos" series: five novels originally published in paperback in the seventies, plus the concluding novel. Elysia: the coming of Cthulhu. (HC, - 33-0)** When this project is completed, all six will be available in first edition hard covers. (See THE COMPLEAT CROW (HC, - 22-5)** for associated shorter fiction). Employing some of the characters &amp; locales invented by H. P. Lovecraft, Lumley creates horror-fantasy &amp; adventure stories (with science-fiction overtones), as humans seek the Elder Gods &amp; dare to battle the maligned "Old Ones." These powerful entitites from another universe were imprisoned by the mysterious Elder Gods after a titanic battle aeons ago. But their leader, Great Cthulhu, plots not only to escape but to destroy earth &amp; ravage Elysia, mysterious &amp; hidden place where dwell the Elder Gods. And some have escaped already. Occultists Titus Crow, de Marigny. &amp; others attempt to forestall them if possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(11530, 'Treasure', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rarevolumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits thatcould change the world''s balance of power.Now DIRK PITT discovers the secret trail of thetreasures of Alexandria -- a trail that plunges him into abrutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealotsthreaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico,exposing America to invasion and economic collapse.Suddenly, from East to West, anarchists reach their deadlytentacles into the heart of the United States.And DIRK PITT, the hard-hitting hero of Clive Cussler''ssmash bestsellers Sahara and Inca Gold, is up against themost feared assassin known to man. An international bandof terrorists is making its play for world power on the highseas -- and Pitt is the only man alive who can stop them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(11531, 'Treasure Island', 'Robert Louis Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate''s fortune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(11532, 'Triptych', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Slaughter departs from her Grant County crime series (_Faithless_, etc.) with a stand-alone thriller notable mainly for a jolting mid-book twist similar to one Ira Levin used with more subtlety in\n  <em>\n   A Kiss Before Dying\n  </em>\n  . The case of a prostitute''s brutal murder provides a welcome break for Michael Ormewood, a cynical, world-weary Atlanta cop weighed down by dealing with the city''s underclass and the heartbreak of a mentally impaired son. Since the victim''s tongue was severed, linking the crime to several other recent outrages, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation intervenes. Suspicions focus on a recently paroled sex offender, John Shelley, who viciously butchered a neighbor more than a decade earlier. Slaughter unexpectedly switches the narrative''s perspective, but the shock value garnered by the plot twist isn''t matched by the predictable denouement.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her first stand-alone thriller since she began writing her best-selling Grant County series (the latest is\n  <em>\n   Faithless,\n  </em>\n  2005), Slaughter continues to obsess over her favorite theme--the close link between intimacy and violence. In this intricately plotted page-turner of a novel, there''s a serial killer at work in Atlanta, and he likes his victims young. His telltale m.o.--biting off his victims'' tongues--brings in Will Trent, an agent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but the latest vicious murder doesn''t fit with the previous cases. For one thing, the victim is a drug-addicted black prostitute in her thirties. Will is assigned to work the case with local detective Michael Ormewood, a hard-to-read veteran who resents Will''s presence. Will also calls upon vice-squad undercover agent Angie Polaski, a lifelong friend he first met in an orphanage where they were both placed after suffering severe abuse--their on-again, off-again romantic relationship is a source of comfort and frustration for both of them. Suspicious of authority and severely dyslexic, Will slowly pieces together an investigation that leads to feckless ex-con John Shelley, a man so stunted by his prison stint that he can barely function yet comes roaring back to life when he senses that his newfound freedom is about to be snatched away. Slaughter is keenly interested in the root causes of sexual perversity, and she writes about them so affectingly that her fascinations also become the readers''.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(11533, 'True Believer', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeremy Marsh is a born skeptic and a science journalist who specializes in debunking the supernatural. When he hears about ghostly apparitions in a cemetery in Boone Creek, North Carolina, he leaves his beloved New York City for this small, rural town-and what his instincts tell him could make a great story. What he doesn''t plan on is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, who is sure of one thing: her future is here in Boone Creek, close to the people she loves. Now, if the young lovers are to be together, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows in New York, or do something he could never do before... take a giant leap of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(11534, 'Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When B-grade L.A. movie producer Tony Aliso is found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls Royce, all signs point to â€œtrunk musicâ€: a mob hit. Detective Harry Bosch, just back from an â€œinvoluntary stress leave,â€ is not so sure. And when he finds the money trail, he follows itâ€¦ all the way to Vegas.Â Seems this Tony had his share of enemies, and in no time, so does Harry: Vegas thugs, LAPDâ€™s organized crime unit, a smarmy internal affairs investigator and, of course, Tonyâ€™s killers. Everyone wants a piece of Harry. And somehow, theyâ€™ve found just the way to get it... Turns out that just before his death, Tony was seen at a Vegas poker table with one Eleanor Wish: ex-FBI agent, ex-convict... and ex-love of Harryâ€™s life. Now itâ€™s time for Harry to keep his cards close to the table â€” and his enemies even closer before itâ€™s time to face the Trunk Music.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(11535, 'The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they''ve seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde''s upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld''s first paper of record.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would it be?) tabloid that conveniently interchanges what''s real for what sells.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But de Worde''s got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh-Morpork''s leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don''t always tell the whole story. There''s that pesky little thing called the truth ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(11536, 'Turn Coat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jim Butcher''s Breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller   The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council-and there''s only one final punishment for that crime. He''s on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Like Harry Dresden. Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake could cost Harry his head...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(11537, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Stephenie Meyer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Were you a fan of\n  <em>\n   Buffy the Vampire Slayer\n  </em>\n  ?\n  <em>\n   Angel\n  </em>\n  ? What are you watching now that those shows are off the air?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have never seen an entire episode of\n  <em>\n   Buffy\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Angel\n  </em>\n  . While I was writing\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She''s a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I don''t have a ton of time for TV, and my kids get rowdy when I have on "mommy shows," but I do have a secret fondness for reality shows (the good ones, at least in my opinion). I always TiVo\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Amazing Race\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   America''s Next Top Model\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What inspired you to write\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  ? Is this the beginning of a series? Why write for teens?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are sequels on the way--I''m hard at work editing book two (tentatively titled\n  <em>\n   New Moon\n  </em>\n  ) right now, and book three is waiting in line for its turn.\n  <br />\n  I didn''t mean to write for teens--I didn''t mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It''s a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else''s approval. There''s a lot of scope for a novel in that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is your favorite vampire story? Fave vampire movie?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I guess my favorite vampire story would be\n  <em>\n   The Vampire Lestat\n  </em>\n  , by Anne Rice, simply because it''s one of the only ones I''ve ever read. I keep meaning to pick up Bram Stoker''s\n  <em>\n   Dracula\n  </em>\n  , because I get asked this question so often and I should probably start with the classics, but I haven''t gotten around to it yet. Again, I''m afraid to read other vampire books now, for fear of finding things either too similar, or too different from my own vampire world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ack! I can''t even answer the movie question. I can''t remember ever seeing a single vampire movie, outside of clips from Bela Lugosi movies on TV. I don''t like true horror movies--my favorite scary movies are all Hitchcock''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What other young adult authors do you read?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My favorite young adult author is L.M. Montgomery I also enjoy  J.K. Rowling (but who doesn''t?), and Ann Brashares. As a teen, I skipped straight to adult books (lots of sci-fi and Jane Austen), so I''m rediscovering the world of teen literature now.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephenie Meyer''s List of Books You Should Read\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Romeo and Juliet\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dragonflight\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To Kill a Mockingbird\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Princess Bride\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  See more recommendations from Stephenie Meyer\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q&amp;A with Stephanie Meyer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The book with the most significant impact on my life is\n  <em>\n   The Book of Mormon\n  </em>\n  . The book with the most significant impact on my life as a writer is probably\n  <em>\n   Speaker for the Dead\n  </em>\n  , by Orson Scott Card, with\n  <em>\n   Rebecca\n  </em>\n  by Daphne du Maurier coming in as a close second.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The CD is easy:\n  <em>\n   Absolution\n  </em>\n  by Muse, hands down. It''s harder to give myself just one movie, but the one I watch most frequently is\n  <em>\n   Sense and Sensibility\n  </em>\n  --the one with the screenplay by Emma Thompson. One book is impossible. I''d have to have\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice\n  </em>\n  , but I couldn''t live without something by Orson Scott Card and a nice, thick Maeve Binchy, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My lies are all very, very boring: "No, you really look great in hot pink!" "My children only watch one hour of TV a day." "I didn''t eat the last Swiss Cake Roll--it must have been one of the kids." That''s the best I''ve got.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe the perfect writing environment.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  It''s late at night and the house is silent, but I''m still (miraculously) full of energy. I have my headphones in and I''m listened to a mix of Muse, Coldplay, Travis, My Chemical Romance, and The All-American Rejects. Beside me is a fabulous, and yet mysteriously low in calorie, cheesecake....\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d like it to say that I really tried at the important things. I was never perfect at any of them, but I honestly tried to be a great mom, a loving wife, a good daughter, and a true friend. Under that, I''d want a list of my favorite\n  <em>\n   Simpsons\n  </em>\n  quotes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d love to have a chance to talk to Orson Scott Card--I have a million questions for him. Mostly things like, "How do you come up with this stuff?!" But, if he wasn''t available, I''d settle for Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of Muse).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could have one superpower, what would it be?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d want something offensive, rather than defensive. Like shooting fireballs from my hands. That way, you''re really open to going either way--hero or villain. I like to have choices.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 9 Upâ€“When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isnt expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward Cullen, surprises her. After several strange interactions, his preternatural beauty, strength, and speed have her intrigued. Edward is just as fascinated with Bella, and their attraction to one another grows. As Bella discovers more about Edwards nature and his family, she is thrown headlong into a dangerous adventure that has her making a desperate sacrifice to save her one true love. One of the more original vampire constructs around, this recording of Stephenie Meyers debut novel (Megan Tingley Books, 2005) is narrated with great style by Ilyana Kadushin, who makes the infinitely romantic tale of star-crossed lovers resonate with a bittersweet edge. Although Edward and Bellas romance and subsequent danger develops slowly, the pacing is appropriate for teens who want learn all the details in this suspenseful tale. An excellent purchase for both school and public libraries.â€“_Charli Osborne, Oxford Public Library, MI_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/675'),
(11538, 'The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(11539, 'Under the Dome: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester''s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener''s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician''s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn''t just short. It''s running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(11540, 'Under the Radar', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Members of the Sisterhood are contacted by Judge Pearl Barnes, who has assisted fourteen pregnant teenagers in escaping from a secret polygamist sect and needs the sisters'' help to keep them hidden in a secure place. 500,000 first printing. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(11541, 'Unnatural Exposure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A psychopath with an intimate knowledge of death has an even more intimate knowledge of Kay Scarpetta--and many different plans to kill her. This classic #1 "New York Times" bestseller now includes a new Introduction by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(11542, 'The Unnatural Inquirer', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Taylor, a private detective with a special talent to locate anything or anyone, is hired to find a mysterious DVD purported to contain an actual recording of the afterlife by The Unnatural Inquirer, a notorious gossip rag for the Nightside, a secret area in London that marked by neverending night and populated by monsters and mythical beings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(11543, 'Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The wizards at Ankh-Morpork''s Unseen University are renowned for many thingsâ€”wisdom, magic, their love of teatimeâ€”but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city''s benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staffâ€”or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily mealsâ€”the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport of foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. Then they have to learn how to play it. Oh, and on top of that, they must somehow win a football match without using magic.   And the thing about footballâ€”the most important thing about footballâ€”is that it is never just about football.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(11544, 'Ur', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Editorial Review:\n <br />\n Wesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith''s Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions. However, when the Ur delivers news of terrible events on the way, Smith must decide if he should interfere in fate. While King can certainly spin a good story, the Amazon Kindle focus (the story was written exclusively for and can only be read on an Amazon Kindle) keeps this one feeling like an advertising gimmick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(11545, 'Use of Weapons', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances'' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.  It had once saved the woman''s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner.  It believed the man to be a lost cause.  But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(11546, 'Vanish', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Retired internist Gerritsen serves up another prescription for bad dreams in her latest thriller to feature Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (_Body Double). _The catalogue of terrors this time out includes sexual slavery, hostage-taking and torture; there are also government bad guys, postâ€“9/11 red herrings and a heart-tugging cadre of young Eastern European women known only by their first names. Fierce Olena, thought dead, wakes up in Maura''s morgue, recovers in the hospital, andâ€”with the help of a mysterious colleagueâ€”takes a group of hostages, including Jane, who''s about to give birth. Jane''s husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, tries to reason with the hostage-takers, and learns that Olena wants publicity to bring down the Washington bigwig responsible for sexually enslaving, then murdering, her friends. Maura feels a frisson for\n  <em>\n   Tribune\n  </em>\n  columnist Peter Lukas, and he seems to be the guy to tell the story, but readers will quickly apprehend that he''s playing both sides. As usual, the medical details are vivid and read authentic, while the action is just this side of super-hero comic exaggeration. Does it work? The book clubs say yes: Doubleday, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild have all made it a main selection; the bestseller lists can''t be far behind.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Maura Isles has barely had time to recover from the startling revelations about her family in\n  <em>\n   ody Double\n  </em>\n  (2004) when she discovers one of the corpses in her morgue is very much alive. The young woman is rushed off to the hospital, where the doctors are able to save her life. Maura pays the young woman a visit only to witness the woman grab a security guard''s gun, shoot the man, and take Maura hostage. Maura manages to escape, and the woman flees into the bowels of the hospital, where she takes six other people hostage, including Detective Jane Rizzoli, who is about to give birth. The woman refuses to communicate with the police, but she manages to get a signal out through a local radio station to a man who slips past the police barricade to join her in the hospital. Jane''s husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, becomes very suspicious when the situation attracts the attention of the highest levels of government. Hoping to save his wife, Gabriel begins his own investigation and is startled when he uncovers a shocking conspiracy. Drawing on current events, Gerritsen''s latest novel is a tense, taut thriller that grabs readers from the get-go and never lets up.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(11547, 'Vanishing Act', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WHEN YOU''RE LOST, THE SISTERHOOD WILL FIND YOUFor the women of the Sisterhood, planning a lavish reception for their longtime ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, at their lux mountain retreat is the ideal way to unwind after their latest successful mission. The only cloud over the happy occasion is that their mentor, Charles, is still mysteriously absent.But amid the friendly bickering about floral arrangements, cake tiers, and wedding favors, the ladies of Pinewood receive a frantic phone call from Nikki''s fiance, Jack Emery. Harry Wong - Yoko''s true love and a staunch supporter of the Sisterhood - has become the victim of a ruthless identity theft ring. Harry''s bank accounts have been close out, his beloved dojo is being foreclosed, and he''s being evicted. Distraught, Yoko is about to rush down the mountain to Harry''s aid when the Sister''s intercept her. A situation like Harry''s requires finesse, careful planning, and the Sisterhood''s distinctive brand of vigilante justice . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(11548, 'Vendetta', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vowed to change their lives, empower themselves, and be there for each other, no matter what. Now, they''re ready to answer the call for the woman who started it all, Myra Rutledge.Five years ago, Myra''s pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver - the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. As the air turns crisp the Virginia hills around Myra''s lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/28');
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(11549, 'Vicious Circle', 'Mike Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”This follow-up to Carey''s\n  <em>\n   The Devil You Know\n  </em>\n  (Grand Central, 2007) returns readers to a modern-day London where ghosts and zombies have become part of daily life. The novel revisits the lives of many characters introduced in the first book, including the protagonist, Felix Castor, but it stands alone. Castor has returned to his life as an exorcist and quickly becomes involved in a "missing ghost" case that isn''t as open-and-shut as it first appears. Similar in style and subject matter to Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child''s\n  <em>\n   Brimstone\n  </em>\n  (Grand Central, 2005), the book combines the detective thriller with supernatural elements to create a plot filled with suspense, ghoulish apparitions, and the Catholic Church. The narration provides a nice mix of dialogue and action, with humorous undertones sprinkled throughout, as Castor must rely on the help of zombies, werewolves, and a succubus to solve the mystery. Although the story begins slowly, it quickly picks up and comes to a satisfying end, finishing Castor''s current adventure with a few subplots that are likely to be tied up in the next novel in the series.â€”_Kelliann Bogan, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carey, a noted comics writer and creator, follows up his excellent debut, The Devil You Know (2007), with this even better, and even weirder, sequel. Felix Castor, a freelance exorcist, is hired to find a missing personâ€”well, technically, a missing ghost: a young woman who died last year, and whose spirit returned to her family home but now appears to have vanished. (We told you it was weird.) Little does Felix suspect that this seemingly minor case will lead him into dangers more terrifying than anything he could imagine, or that he will soon be trying to stop the resurrection of a demon of almost limitless evil. Considering its scary subject matter, the novel is relatively light, almost breezy, a traditional first-person detective story with a supernatural twist. The cast of characters is appropriately offbeat (Castorâ€™s old friend is possessed by a demon; the object of Castorâ€™s romantic crush is a succubus), and the story is full of scares, then laughs, then more scares. A treat for fans of supernatural fiction and of private-eye yarns. Genre-bending at its best. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(11550, 'Vixen', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised theTitanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They''re in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(11551, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero''s life history, whatever the author''s literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly''s police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, including The Poet and Blood Work, that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (The Poet was honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book, Angels Flight, with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly''s already impressive body of work into new territory. Void Moon traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It''s not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn''t satisfying, but... well, it isn''t. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail. With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging, Void Moon seems perfectly poised for the New York Times bestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly''s stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for the L.A. Times. What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, the numbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we''re not disappointed with Connelly''s "vacation." --Patrick O''Kelley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(11552, 'The Voyage of the Sable Keech', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the mans last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much more - adulation, power, control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison sprine that is crucial to immortality. If so, maybe Janer must find it and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone shell. Its much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal weapons, thicker armour. Hes going to need them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(11553, 'A Walk to Remember', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he''d been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he''d fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town''s Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks''s sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(11554, 'Walking on Glass', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery to him. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous, if ramshackle, castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him. But he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart. But their seperate courses are set for collision . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(11555, 'The War of the Flowers', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A masterpiece of fairy-tale worldbuilding, with a Faerie land that eerily mirrors the real world. The tone is often dark, but rich, building a wondrous set in a fascinating world, with a classic reluctant hero and a cause worth cheering for."--"Locus."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(11556, 'The War of the Worlds', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(11557, 'The Ware Tetralogy', 'Rudy Rucker &amp; William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  World-class mathematician and two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Rudy Rucker is best known for his groundbreaking Ware series ["Software, Wetware, Freeware," and "Realware"], all collected in this new anthology with an Introduction by William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(11558, 'The Wasp Factory: A Novel', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:  Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I''d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.  That''s my score to date. Three. I haven''t killed anybody for years, and don''t intend to ever again.  It was just a stage I was going through.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(11559, 'Water Sleeps', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(11560, 'The Wedding', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane''s heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(11561, 'The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnaped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk''s local Nac Mac Feegle -- aka the Wee Free Men -- a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds -- black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors -- before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(11562, 'Weekend Warriors', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tradition of "The First Wives Club," the "New York Times" bestselling author delivers a slam-bang, take-no-prisoners tale of survival, sweet revenge, and the healing power of friendship between seven women who call themselves the Sisterhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(11563, 'What Dreams May Come', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "New York Times" bestseller\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair. Richard Matheson''s powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(11564, 'Whit: Or, Isis Amongst the Unsaved', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult, Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian''s four yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(11565, 'White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An initiation story concerning the taming of a wild dog in the Klondike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(11566, 'White Night', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Assigned to investigate a series of deaths of magic practitioners, all of whom lacked the ability to become full-fledged wizards, professional Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is shocked when the evidence points to his half-brother Thomas as the killer, until he uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens both him and his family. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(11567, 'The White Rose: A Novel of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(11568, 'The Windup Girl', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(11569, 'The Winter Lodge', 'Susan Wiggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the longest night of the year, Jenny Majesky loses everything in a devastating house fire. But among the ashes she finds an unusual treasure hidden amid her grandfather''s belongings, one that starts her on a search for the truth, and on a path toward a life that she never imagined. The Winter Lodge, a remote cabin owned by her half sister on the shores of Willow Lake, becomes a safe refuge for Jenny, where she and local police chief Rourke McKnight try to sort out the mysteries revealed by the fire. But when a blizzard traps them together, Jenny, accustomed to the safe predictability of running the family bakery, suddenly doesn''t feel so secure. For even as Rourke shelters her from the storm outside, she knows her heart is at risk. Now, following her dreams might mean walking away from her one chance at love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(11570, 'Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch''s skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. Because if Tiffany doesn''t make it to Springâ€”   â€”Spring won''t come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(11571, 'Wireless', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Science fiction guru Charles Stross sizzles with ideas (Denver Post) in his first major short story collection. The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturns Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction including a novella original to this volume brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first centurys most daring visionaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(11572, 'Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Be careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills -- which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it''s up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn''t marry the Prince.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who''ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"--even if it means destroying a kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(11573, 'Woken Furies', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan''s World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmasspoking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn''t just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything.Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan''s World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who''s been in storage\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(11574, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(11575, 'The Woods', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland''s sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career-a case that will change everything he believes about the past...and the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(11576, 'Works of Edgar Allen Poe. Huge Collection. FREE Author&#39;s Biography and Poems in the Trial Version', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Works of Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of The Red Death, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Raven &amp; more. Table of Contents. Fiction - Longer Works. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall. Collected stories. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe. Short Stories. The Angel of The Odd. The Assignation. The Balloon Hax. Berenice. Bon-Bon. The Black Cat. Business Man. The Cask of Amontillado. Colloquy of Monos And Una. Conversation of Eiros And.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(11577, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.Eyewitness reports from the first truly global warâ€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of Chinaâ€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkersâ€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(11578, 'Wyrd Sisters', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry''s Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don''t get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can''t help it. As Granny Weatherwax is about to discover, though, it''s a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you''ve got a few unexpected spells up your sleeve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(11579, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(11580, 'The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here: he outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. In planning for that catastrophic day when "the dead rise," Brooks urges readers to get to know themselves, their bodies, their weaponry, their surroundings and, just in case, their escape routes. Some of the book''s more amusing aspects are the laughable analyses Brooks proposes on all aspects of zombiehood, and the specificity with which he enumerates the necessary actions for survival-i.e., a member of an anti-zombie team must be sure to have with him at all times two emergency flares, a signaling mirror, daily rations, a personal mess kit and two pairs of socks. Comic, though unnecessarily exhaustive, this is a good bet for Halloween gag gifts and fans of Bored of the Rings-esque humor. 100 line drawings.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   "''So meticulous and well researched that it''s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters'' - Esquire ''A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead'' - Time Out ''A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side'' - New York Post ''Ignorance is the undead''s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades donâ€™t need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Donâ€™t be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetâ€”life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(11581, 'The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here: he outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. In planning for that catastrophic day when "the dead rise," Brooks urges readers to get to know themselves, their bodies, their weaponry, their surroundings and, just in case, their escape routes. Some of the book''s more amusing aspects are the laughable analyses Brooks proposes on all aspects of zombiehood, and the specificity with which he enumerates the necessary actions for survival-i.e., a member of an anti-zombie team must be sure to have with him at all times two emergency flares, a signaling mirror, daily rations, a personal mess kit and two pairs of socks. Comic, though unnecessarily exhaustive, this is a good bet for Halloween gag gifts and fans of Bored of the Rings-esque humor. 100 line drawings.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''So meticulous and well researched that it''s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters'' - Esquire ''A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead'' - Time Out ''A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side'' - New York Post ''Ignorance is the undead''s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://mattburns.dyndns.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(11582, '1634 - The Bavarian Crisis', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(11583, '1634-The Baltic War', 'Eric Flint &amp; David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(11584, '1635: The Eastern Front', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism. *Praise for the *New York Times *Best-Selling Series:* â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”*Publishers Weekly* (in a starred review) â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”*Booklist* (Starred Review) â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”*Library Journal* â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”*The Midwest Book Review*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(11585, '1636: The Saxon Uprising-ARC', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review) â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review) â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library Journal â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(11586, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(11587, 'The American Book of the Dead', 'Henry Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn online and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he wonders if his novel is real as well. Eugene Myers may just be the one to stop the apocalypse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This history of the future covers every conspiracy imaginable: UFOs, secret societies, and World War III, as well as theories on life after death and human evolution by a writer whose last novel was called by Dogmatika, â€œA page-turner and an example of an effective piece of storytelling that should be envied.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson, The American Book of the Dead explores the nature of reality and the human raceâ€™s potential to either disintegrate or evolve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œIf you read Lolita or A Clockwork Orange without drop-kicking the book out into the garden on a rainy day, this novel is for you.â€ Tessa Dick, author of The Owl in Daylight, and widow of Philip K. Dick\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œReminiscent of Philip K. Dick and Haruki Murakami, a book that boldly explores the future and defies genre.â€ Largehearted Boy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Winner: Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Winner: the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(11588, 'A Beautiful Friendship-ARC', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first entry in a new teen series and the origin saga for the incredibly popular, multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling Honor Harrington adult science fiction adventures. Young Stephanie Harrington is none other than the founder of a pioneering family dynasty that is destined to lead the fight for humanity''s freedom in a dangerous galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(11589, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(11590, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(11591, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(11592, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(11593, 'Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(11594, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(11595, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(11596, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(11597, 'Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(11598, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jordan continues his Wheel of Time saga (after The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt ). Three thousand years ago the Dragon led the male mages of the world into entrapping the Dark One, but the cost was high: all male mages, then and thereafter, were driven mad. Now the Dark One is breaking free, and the only salvation may come through Rand al''Thor who may be a reincarnation of the Dragon and who must obtain the sword Callandor, held in the city of Tear. All of Rand''s companions from the previous books find themselves, willing or not, moving toward Tear for a confrontation with evil traps. Jordan''s fast and absorbing adventure novel will keep the reader too entranced to worry about plot inconsistencies, numerous coincidences, lack of character development and Rand''s inexplicably infrequent appearances. As light fantasy, however, it proves an enjoyable diversion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the seals of the Dark One''s prison continue to weaken, Rand al''Thor struggles to master the madness-tainted power that marks him as the Dragon Reborn. At the same time, his friends and companions become caught up in the roles laid out for them by the Web of Destiny. Though it borrows from a multitude of legendary and literary fantasy sources, Jordan''s multivolume series continues to exhibit a freshness that makes it a welcome addition to any library''s fantasy collection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(11599, 'Eagle Against the Stars', 'Steve White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE ALIENS PLAYED BY THE RULES. THEIR RULES.When the Lokaron suddenly appeared in the skies of Earth, America was enjoying victory in the off-and-on war that had occupied most of the 20th century. That''s why they chose America to occupy and use as their puppet in dominating the planet. We were already set up to do it, now we would do it for them.Not that they were evil; they just insisted that we trade with them. By their rules, rules backed up by irresistible weapons. In terms of those rules, they would even play fair -- but in the long run, if they didn''t own something, it would be because they didn''t want it.At first we tried to fight, but just as the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus and all the rest had learned, when the ones with the guns say "Let''s trade!" they really mean "Trade or bleed". And so you trade -- even if you won''t have a country -- or a planet -- left when the last round is played out.But worms turn, and just as had the Europeans a century ago, the Lokaron were going to learn a lesson from their victims, a lesson that they weren''t going to like one bit....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(11600, 'Exodus', 'Steve White &amp; Shirley Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26');
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(11601, 'Extremis-ARC', 'Steve White; Charles E. Gannon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxyâ€”humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormâ€”had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacentâ€”until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova. They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowâ€”or, at least, they believeâ€”that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if thatâ€™s what it takes to occupy the planet. That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxyâ€”unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(11602, 'The Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. "Jordan is able to take ... familiar elements and make them his own, in a powerful novel of wide and complex scope. Open religious and political conflicts add a gritty realism, while the cities and courts provide plenty of drama and splendor. Women have a stronger role than in Tolkien.... Each character in this large cast remains distinct.... Their adventures are varied, and exciting.... "The Eye of the World" stands alone as a fantasy epic."--"Locus" "Robert Jordan has created a fantasy world as tangible and credible as history. He has a fine eye for detail and a vivid sense of drama."--Morgan Llewelyn "Robert Jordan''s "The Eye of the World" proves that there''s still plenty of life in the ancient tradition of epic fantasy. Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evil-- but what strikes me as most pleasurable about "The Eye of the World" is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world."--Orson Scott Card "Jordan''s world is rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended."--"ALA Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(11603, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(11604, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Readers of epic fantasy series are: (1) patient--they are left in suspense between each volume, (2) persistent--they reread or at least review the previous book(s) when a new installment comes out, (3) strong--these 700-page doorstoppers are heavy, and (4) mentally agile--they follow a host of characters through a myriad of subplots. In A Game of Thrones, the first book of a projected six, George R.R. Martin rewards readers with a vividly real world, well-drawn characters, complex but coherent plotting, and beautifully constructed prose, which Locus called "well above the norms of the genre." Martin''s Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. The story of these two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne dominates the foreground; in the background is a huge, ancient wall marking the northern border, beyond which barbarians, ice vampires, and direwolves menace the south as years-long winter advances. Abroad, a dragon princess lives among horse nomads and dreams of fiery reconquest. There is much bloodshed, cruelty, and death, but A Game of Thrones is nevertheless compelling; it garnered a Nebula nomination and won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. So, on to A Clash of Kings! --Nona Vero\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(11605, 'The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Great Hunt (abbreviated as tGH by fans) is the second book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books and released on November 15, 1990. The Great Hunt consists of a prologue and 50 chapters. In 2004 The Great Hunt was re-released as two separate books, The Hunt Begins and New Threads in the Pattern. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chosen by fate to become the Dragon Reborn--savior and destroyer of his world--young Rand al''Thor attempts to outrun his destiny by joining in a mad search for the lost Horn of Valere. Continuing the story begun in The Eye of the World ( LJ 2/15/90), Jordan creates a lush, sprawling tapestry of a novel in the tradition of Tolkien and Eddings. Recommended where fantasy is popular.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(11606, 'The Hot Gate', 'John Ringo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face the ultimate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The galaxy itself must choose to live free or dieâ€”and if the tyrants win, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œ[Ringoâ€™s SF is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.â€ â€”Library Journal\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œ . . . explosive. . . . Fans of strong military SF will appreciate Ringoâ€™s lively narrative and flavorful characters.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œThe interstellar skullduggery is thick, and the final action sequence . . . is practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.â€\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€”Booklist   â€œRingo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military SF subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling.â€ â€”Starlog\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(11607, 'In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V-ARC', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction, but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role. This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane LIndskjold,New York Timesbest-selling author Timothy Zahn, and more-including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, when a mob of space pirates made the mistake of tangling with Commander Harrington. That was a fatal mistake-for the pirates . . . Praise for the hottest series in military science fiction:"Nobody does space opera better than Weber, and his heroine, Honor Harrington . . . like a fusion of Horatio Hornblower, Robert A. Heinlein and Tom Clancy. . . ." -Publishers Weekly(starred review)"[At All Costsis] a fast-paced tale that brings together all the elements developed in previous books, and pushes them a good way along toward an ultimate conclusion. . . ." -Booklist(starred review) "Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! . . . unequivocally superb!" -Anne McCaffreyon Weberrs"sEchoes of Honor "Great stuff . . . compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure." -Locus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(11608, 'In Her Name', 'Michael R. Hicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As one reviewer said, In Her Name is â€œa grand story of love, power, sacrifice and good versus evilâ€ that seamlessly blends together epic fantasy, science fiction, and romance as it chronicles the coming-of-age of a young warrior hero torn between love and honor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The galaxy is at war. The Confederation of Humanity is a democracy fracturing under the strain of nearly a century of war with alien invaders, the warriors of the Kreelan Empire. Humanoids with blue skin, fangs and fingers that end in razor sharp talons, they have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. For the Confederation, there is no negotiation, there is no surrender. There is only the fierce struggle to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On an embattled world, young Reza Gard finds himself face to face with Tesh-Dar, the greatest of the Empireâ€™s warriors. Born to a race whose recorded history spans half a million years, Tesh-Dar - a warrior priestess - is endowed with powers that are supernatural to human eyes. In Rezaâ€™s eyes, the eyes of a boy whose parents she has just slain, she is a monster. Holding him off the ground, face to face, she is slowly strangling him when he lashes out with his dead fatherâ€™s knife, cutting her face across the left eye. Surprised and impressed with this young human animal, she bestows upon him a matching wound, a trophy of sorts, and inexplicably lets him live.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Orphaned and alone, Reza is sent to the planet Hallmark. Supposedly a safe haven for war orphans, in reality it is little more than a slave labor planet. Toiling in grain fields under a burning sun, Reza leads a ragtag band of orphans doing the best they can to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But again, Tesh-Dar intervenes in his life. Leading an attack against Hallmark, she has been sent by her Empress on a special mission: to gather human children and return them to the Empire as part of an experiment to see if they have souls. Reza, along with thousands of others, is captured, with Hallmark left behind in flaming ruin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He awakens to the silver-flecked catâ€™s eyes of Esah-Zhurah, a young warrior tasked with teaching him the language and customs of her people. At first beaten and caged, Reza gradually earns her grudging respect. Over the years that follow he not only survives, but thrives as he learns the warrior ways of the Empire, becoming both more and less than human. As the relationship between the two young warriors deepens, Tesh-Dar and the Empress wonder if Reza may be the One foretold in an ancient prophecy, who will redeem the Kreelan race from an ancient blood curse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Rezaâ€™s final challenge looms, Esah-Zhurah performs an ancient blood ritual that binds them together in body and spirit. For the first time the Bloodsong, the tie that binds every Kreelan soul to the Empress, echoes in his veins, at last making him one with the Children of the Empress.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But his acceptance of the Kreelan Way leaves him with a dreadful choice: he must either make war against the humans, or - if he refuses - leave the Empire and Esah-Zhurah behind forever.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  The path he takes leads him toward a destiny set in motion millennia before, with the fate of both races hanging in the balance...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(11609, 'Into the Hinterlands-ARC', 'David Drake &amp; John Lambshead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 in a new series from a military science fiction master with over 3 million books in print. A young hero comes of age in the crucible of war and galactic struggle.Â When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a â€œwildâ€ star sector where theyâ€™re encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth, improve his familyâ€™s fortunes â€“ and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage.Â Â  But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a â€œrube.â€Â Â Worse, â€œRiders,â€ the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars, are playing their own deadly political games â€“ against the Terrans, against the colonials, and against one young greenhorn commander in particular: naÃf young Allen, whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding.Â  The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen, while young and inexperienced, and much to his own amazement, happens to be a hero in the making.Â Â About David Drakeâ€™s RCN series:â€œ[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera.â€-- Publishers Weekly on the â€œRCNâ€ series.â€œThe fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice.Â  I want more!â€ â€“Philadelphia Weekly Pressâ€œ[S]pace opera is alive and well.Â  This series is getting better as the author goes alongâ€¦character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world designs.â€ â€“SFReader.comAbout David Drake:â€œ[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tankâ€¦rivals Crane and Remarqueâ€¦â€ â€“ Chicago Sun-Timesâ€œDrake couldnâ€™t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.â€â€“ Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(11610, 'Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(11611, 'King&#39;s Sacrifice', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(11612, 'King&#39;s Test', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(11613, 'Living Dead in Dallas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(11614, 'Mission of Honor-ARC', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(11615, 'Revelation Space 1', 'Alastiar Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(11616, 'Revelation Space 2', 'Alastiar Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(11617, 'Revelation Space 3', 'Alastiar Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(11618, 'Revelation Space 4', 'Alastiar Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(11619, 'Revelation Space 5', 'Alastiar Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(11620, 'The Ruins of Gorlan', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(11621, 'The Stars at War II', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(11622, 'The Stars at War', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(11623, 'A Touch of Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.mystaria.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(11624, '01 - Asterix the Gaul', 'Goscinny &amp; Uderzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1791'),
(11625, '01 - Asterix the Gaul', 'Goscinny;Uderzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1814'),
(11626, 'Abductionseduction 01 - The Abduction Of Julia', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(11627, 'Abductionseduction 02 - A Belated Bride', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(11628, 'Abductionseduction 03 - The Seduction Of Sara', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(11629, 'Absolute Power', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with...Absolute Power.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Set in Washington, D.C., this fascinating thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy--a vicious murder involving the president, his mistress, and a coverup orchestrated by his zealously loyal chief of staff and the Secret Service. Unbeknownst to the president and his lackeys, one unlikely witness saw everything. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1818'),
(11630, 'Accidentally 01 Werewolf', 'Dakota Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cassidy, a prolific author of erotica, has ventured into MaryJanice Davidson territory with a humorous, sexy tale ofÂ cosmetics saleswomanÂ Marty Andrews. SheÂ is so obsessed with her career thatÂ she has no friends and no boyfriend. But one eveningÂ her teacup poodle goes berserk and attacks a huge dog, and Marty is bitten. Her color palette is no longer flattering, and her legs start growing hair like crazy. Then hunky Keegan Flaherty shows up and apologizes for turning her into a werewolf while in his wolfish form. Turns out he is CEO of Pack Cosmetics andÂ alpha of his werewolf pack. As Marty tries to come to terms with her bizarre new state, her lust for Keegan, and her derailed career, she finds love, danger, friends, family, and the ability to swear like a drunken sailor. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Serious, laugh-out-loud humor with heart...Snappy dialogue, hilarious situations, and really hot sex. It doesn''t get any better than this."\n  <br />\n  -Kate Douglas\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1796'),
(11631, 'Accidentally 02 Dead', 'Dakota Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA writer to watch!â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Angela Knight\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSerious, laugh-out loud humor.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Kate Douglas\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_The Accidental Werewolf_ is the fictional equivalent of the little black dressâ€”every reader should have one!â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Michele Bardsley\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDakota Cassidy is going on my must read list!â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Joyfully Reviewed_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re looking for some steamy romance with something that will have you smiling, you have to read Dakota Cassidy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Best Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPure escapist fun.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A vampire puts the bite on a dental assistant.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s a lousy first day on the job for Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. At least he was cute. But for real drama she canâ€™t beat the next evening. Nina wakes up with a set of razor-sharp fangs, bionic vision, supersonic hearing, and a taste for blood. But thereâ€™s a good explanation: Itâ€™s her patient, Long Island vampire Greg Statleon. Actually theyâ€™re perfect for each otherâ€”if Ninaâ€™s willing to commit to one man for eternity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1798'),
(11632, 'Accidentally 03 Human', 'Dakota Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Dakota Cassidy is] a writer to watch!"\n  <br />\n  -\n  <strong>\n   Angela Knight\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Immortality bites- new from the author of\n   <em>\n    Accidentally Dead\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Accidental Werewolf\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wanda Schwartz is raking in the dough selling Bobbie-Sue Cosmetics-and she''s a pro at recruiting new sales_women_. So, she''s shocked when a man comes to one of her in-home parties-a very hot man. Heath Jefferson is sure to put some extra spin into a lot of women''s color wheels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Wanda is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it doesn''t have to be a death sentence. With a werewolf and a vampire for best friends, she has options that most ordinary people wouldn''t. As Wanda ponders what to do about her mortality, Heath reveals he has secrets, and one of them is that his former bloodlust has turned into an old-fashioned lust-for Wanda. And he''s already given up too much to lose the love of his lifetimes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1795'),
(11633, 'Accidentally 04 Demonic', 'Dakota Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The devilish new novel from the national bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    The Accidental Human\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When mild-mannered Casey Schwartz wakes up in jail, she has no memory of how she got there. But after her sister, Wanda, bails her out, Casey has more to deal with than a foggy memory-like abrupt mood swings and fireballs shooting from her fingertips. But things really head south when a vampire shows up on her doorstep...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vampire Clayton Gunnersson is seriously hot. And seriously taken-by a demon. In a ritual gone wrong, Clayton tried to get rid of his unwanted bond, but spilled some demonic blood on Casey, getting her possessed in the process. Now, Casey has to share her body and manage to keep her growing attraction to Clayton in check, because falling for her demon''s boyfriend just might get Casey killed-from the inside out.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dakota Cassidy\n  </strong>\n  lives in Texas with her family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1794'),
(11634, 'Accidentally 05 Catty', 'Dakota Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1797'),
(11635, 'Alex Cross 01 - Along Came A Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Washington, D.C., police detective, Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve a schizophrenic psychopath. By the author of Black Market. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild &amp; Doubleday Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1562'),
(11636, 'Alex Cross 02 - Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This time it''s personal for Cross. The most elusive of killers has abducted Cross''s niece, Naomi, a talented law student. Only such a devastating blow could bring the detective back - this time to the Deep South, where old slave prisons are buried in the forests, and houses of horror can disappear as in your worst nightmare. Naomi''s kidnapping rips Alex Cross away from his kids and his jazz piano and sends him south with several questions burning in his mind. Why did the police wait seventy-two hours before beginning their search? And what is the head of the FBI doing at the scene of a small-town crime? Meanwhile, somewhere out there Casanova is living a secret fantasy. In his private hideaway, the world''s greatest lover has assembled seven of the South''s most extraordinary young women for his personal use. It''s an accomplishment he can share with only one other soulmate - and that''s definitely not his wife back in suburbia. But Casanova doesn''t count on the exceptional abilities of one of his harem - or having Alex Cross as a nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1566'),
(11637, 'Alex Cross 03 - Jack &amp; Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D. C., homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten--and desposited in front of the elementary school Cross''s son, Damon, attends. Could there be a connection between the two murders? As Cross tries to put the pieces together, the killer- or killers - strike again. And again. No one in Washington is safe - not children, not politicians, not even the President of the United States. Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case-but will he discover the truth in time? A relentless roller coaster of heart-pounding suspense and jolting plot twists, Jack and Jill proves once again that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson-the master of the nonstop nightmare."James Patterson does everything but stick our finger in a light socket to give us a buzz."-- New York Times Books Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1565'),
(11638, 'Alex Cross 04 - Cat and Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in\n <em>\n  Cat &amp; Mouse\n </em>\n , the fourth book in James Patterson''s series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, but he''s not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of a bad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, a mysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil along the Eastern Seaboard. With\n <em>\n  two\n </em>\n killers to track, Cross has his hands full--and Patterson has another hit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Patterson''s Alex Cross series will be delighted with this latest installment. Reappearing is Christine Johnson, seen in an earlier Cross novel, Jack &amp; Jill (LJ 8/96) and the principal at his children''s school, and Cross has fallen in love with her. Gary Soneji, the creepy kidnapper and murderer from another Cross book, has broken out of jail and embarked on a new killing spree, again taunting Cross that he can''t stop him. And one of his intended targets is Cross and his family. If that isn''t enough, there''s a new serial killer whose murders are so inhuman that the news media are suggesting that he''s an alien from another planet. All story lines connect in this thriller, whose driving plot will distract you from thinking about its implausibilities and keep you turning pages to the last, when you''ll find yourself impatiently awaiting the arrival of the next Cross novel. Recommended for public libraries.?Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(11639, 'Alex Cross 05 - Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Likened to a "young Muhammad Ali," Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving profiler, doctor, detective, and father of two has seen his fair share of vicious killers. From a bloodthirsty butcher who came after his family (\n <strong>\n  ) to a devilish duo working cross-country (\n </strong>\n ), Cross has managed to outmaneuver all of his enemies. Until he meets the Weasel.\n</p>\n<p>\n A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of southeast D.C. has sent Cross and his 6''9" 250-pound partner, John Sampson, in search of the "Jane Doe" killer. However, their racist, tyrannical boss George Pitman orders them to stay out of the southeast and investigate the high-profile murder of a wealthy white man. Cross already has suspicions that the murders are linked, but when Sampson''s ex turns up in an abandoned southeast warehouse kicked to death, the two detectives carry on with their original investigation. Meanwhile, Cross''s longtime love, Christine (_Cat and Mouse_), has taken prominence in his life, and it looks as if the two will finally get hitched--with one glitch: Cross puts everything he loves in jeopardy as he obsessively goes after the Weasel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Akin to a slick Hollywood action flick,\n <em>\n  Pop Goes the Weasel\n </em>\n doesn''t have time for meaningful character development or thoughtful moral analysis. And it doesn''t need to. Its winning formula is based on short scenes (chapters average about 3 pages), addictive plot progression, and mean dialogue: "Sampson sighed and said, ''I think her tongue is stapled inside the other girl. I''m pretty sure that''s it, Alex. The Weasel stapled them together.'' I looked at the two girls and shook my head. ''I don''t think so. A staple, even a surgical one, would come apart on the tongue''s surface.... Crazy glue would work."\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Patterson dedicates his latest (after 1998''s When the Wind Blows) to "the millions of Alex Cross readers who so frequently ask ''Can''t you write faster?''" Those readers won''t be disappointed: the successful formula is in high gear, with the Washington, D.C., psychologist/homicide detective up to his ears in unsolved murders. This tale features a duplicitous villain, a glut of dirty office politics and the inevitable threat to someone Cross just can''t live without. A highly moral character, Cross is now firmly rooted in many imaginations as Morgan Freeman, who played him in the film version of Kiss the Girls. When he''s not caring for Damon and Jannie, his two young children, Cross takes boys to visit their fathers in prison and works in a soup kitchen. After his boss, Chief Pittman, refuses to believe that a serial killer is striking in the neglected Southeast section, Cross and four other officers work extra hours on their own, the only ones who really care. Readers learn early on that the killer is a British diplomat, Geoffrey Shafer, a chilling madman ostensibly holding his sanity together with drugs. Shafer is obsessed with a real-life version of a computer game called the Four Horsemen, during which he masquerades as a taxi driver who kills his unsuspecting passengers. If Shafer is almost too good to be trueAanother fictional psychopath with infinite resourcesAPatterson is shrewd enough to show him making mistakes (like forgetting to wash) as he comes apart at the seams. The killer is caught in the middle of the narrative, setting the scene for a bold courtroom drama. Even the disappearance of Cross''s new lady love (his wife was killed in a previous book) is less of a clich?d device than a ritual sacrifice as Patterson''s well-oiled suspense machine grinds away with solid precision. 1 million first printing; $1 million ad/promo; 14-city author tour; Time Warner audio. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1552'),
(11640, 'Alex Cross 06 - Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE SPECTACULAR EIGHTH #1 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF POP GOES THE WEASEL#1 Washington Post#1 Publishers Weekly#1 Wall Street Journal#1 Chicago Tribune#1 Entertainment Weekly#1 Philadelphia InquirerIn this heart-pounding new thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most brilliant killer he''s ever confronted, a mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been killing bank employees and their families if the robbers'' instructions are not followed to the letter. Alex Cross knows this is no ordinary criminal -- the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a crisis at home -- but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1567'),
(11641, 'Alex Cross 07 - Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco''s Golden Gate Park - killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles . . as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1555'),
(11642, 'Alex Cross 08 - Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., Police Force when his partner shows up at his door with a case he can''t refuse. One of John Sampson''s oldest friends, from their days together in Vietnam, has been arrested for murder. Worse yet, he is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army. The evidence against him is strong enough to send him to the gas chamber. Sampson is certain his friend has been framed, and Alex''s investigation turns up evidence overlooked-or concealed-by the military authorities. Drawing on their years of street training and an almost telepathic mutual trust, Cross and Sampson go deep behind military lines to confront the most terrifying-and deadly-killers they have ever encountered. Behind these three highly skilled killing machines there appears to be an even more threatening controller. Discovering the identity of this lethal genius will prove to be Cross''s most terrifying challenge ever. On his visits home, Alex must confront another, more harrowing mystery: what''s the matter with Nana Mama? As he explores the possibility of a new relationship with a woman who offers him new hope, Alex must also confront the fact that his beloved grandmother is only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1568'),
(11643, 'Alex Cross 09 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1551'),
(11644, 'Alex Cross 10 - London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two of the greatest villains James Patterson has ever created in one book! Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross''s deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger - and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf''s identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1564'),
(11645, 'Alex Cross 11 - Mary, Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last seen in\n <em>\n  London Bridges\n </em>\n (2004) chasing a terrorist, Washington, D.C., PD detective turned FBI agent Alex Cross is enjoying a much-needed vacation at Disneyland with his family when he''s called in by the FBI to consult with the LAPD on a high-profile murder case. A-list actress Antonia Schifman has been slain, her face so badly cut up that she''s almost unrecognizable. The murder isn''t random; an\n <em>\n  L.A. Times\n </em>\n gossip columnist has received a series of e-mails from a woman named Mary Smith, taking responsibility for the killing of Antonia, her chauffeur, and a well-known female movie producer. Cross studies the e-mails, which make reference to Mary''s ordinary appearance and her fixation on the perfect families, particularly the children, of both women. When another prominent woman is slain, Cross is sucked into the case full time, jeopardizing the outcome of the custody battle he''s involved in over his youngest son. As Cross studies the e-mails and patterns of the killer, he realizes he can''t be certain of anything, even the gender of Mary Smith. The thrills in Patterson''s latest lead to a truly unexpected, electrifying climax.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A New York Times Bestselling Author\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Alex Cross travels to Los Angeles to hunt for a killer more brutal and ambitious than he''s ever encountered - a woman who has it in for Hollywood''s hottest players.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1556'),
(11646, 'Alex Cross 12 - Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic psychologist Alex Cross''s storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Mary, Mary\n </em>\n ) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross''s wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he''s drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria''s killer. Cross''s competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan''s sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost?\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Patterson''s departure from the nursery-rhyme titles in his latest Alex Cross yarn is a tip-off that the focus this time is not so much on the case as on the man. For the first time in Patterson''s 13-year-old series, we relive the day in 1993 when Cross'' wife, Maria, was murdered. Alex was a young gun with the D.C. police then, and Maria was a social worker in the poorest and most dangerous section of the city before she became the victim of a drive-by shooting. Cut to the present, and Alex--who has been with the FBI for some time, become a successful crime writer, and started to lose a bit of that "dragon slayer" touch--decides to devote more time to his three kids, much to the delight of Nana Mama, Alex''s nonagenarian three-in-one grandmother, nanny, and guiding light. Alex is nothing if not loyal, so when his former partner John Sampson asks him to help track down a sicko who is serially raping Georgetown coeds, Alex cannot say no. Little does he know, however, that the search for the rapist will have ties to Maria''s death. That her killer was never found is a constant source of frustration for Alex, and this case offers a chance to finally put Maria''s memory to rest. Even as the story whips by with incredible speed, Patterson manages to pack it full of suspense, emotion, and a resolution that, while perfectly satisfying, carries the author''s trademark teaser hinting at the "more" that surely will come.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1558'),
(11647, 'Alex Cross 13 - Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Patterson''s 13th Alex Cross thriller (after 2006''s Cross) pits the legendary profiler, now retired from law enforcement and working as a psychiatrist in private practice, against two serial killers. Kyle Craig, Cross''s former colleague in the FBI (who was revealed to be the Mastermind, a particularly vicious and resourceful murderer, in 2001''s Violets Are Blue), has managed to escape from a Colorado maximum-security prison and is steadily working his way through his list ofÃ‚ those he holds responsible for his capture and incarceration. Cross, who heads the list, is drawn back into police work by his love interest, Maryland homicide detective Brianna Stone, who''s been assigned to the task force focusing on the D.C. Audience Killer (or DCAK), who stages high-profile and sadistic murders to get the most public attention possible. Even newcomers will find themselves turning the pages to see how everything turns out, but significant plot holes and implausibilities make this a far cry from the similar, but far more suspenseful, two-front war waged by Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This novel gives the reader double excitement with not one but two maniacs after Alex Cross...Even if you are not an Alex Cross fan, you will enjoy this thriller by James Patterson. Be sure to add\n <em>\n  Double Cross\n </em>\n to your reading list." (\n <strong>\n  BestsellersWorld.com\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Double Cross is a strong, addictive page turner. It is definitely worth the trip to the book store." (\n <strong>\n  TheMysterySite.com\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "DOUBLE CROSS is one of Patterson''s best works to date, full of action and excitement. One cannot read DOUBLE CROSS without feeling as if there are even bigger things yet to come from Cross and his creator." (\n <strong>\n  Bookreporter.com\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If, like me, you are an Alex Cross fan, run, don''t walk, to your favorite book store and get up to date on the life of Alex Cross. If you enjoy fast paced, well written intrigue, you''ll devour Double Cross, just as I did." (\n <strong>\n  AllThingsGirl.net\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Double Cross is vintage Patterson. It is fast moving and suspenseful and takes the occasional surprise twist. Life for a Patterson fans doesn''t get much better than this." (\n <strong>\n  1340MagBooks.com\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1563'),
(11648, 'Alex Cross 14 - Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Patterson''s 14th Alex Cross thriller doesn''t follow up on the plot threads left dangling in 2007''s\n <em>\n  Double Cross\n </em>\n concerning still-on-the-loose serial killer Kyle Craig. Instead, Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a very different quarryâ€”a human monster known as the Tiger with ties to the African underworld. When the Tiger and his teenage thugs butcher writer Ellie Cox, her husband and children in their Georgetown home, Cross is devastated because Ellie had been his girlfriend in college. The Cox family massacre proves to be just the first in a series. Cross pursues the Tiger to Nigeria, where the profiler finds himself at the mercy of corrupt government officials who may be working with the Tiger. Spending less time than usual exploring his villains psychological backstory, Patterson delivers an atypical tale of James Bondâ€“style revenge. Craig''s brief cameo toward the end suggests the series will resume its usual path in the next book.\n <em>\n  (Nov. 17)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Tame holiday stress with [this] irresistible read!" (\n <strong>\n  Women''s World\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1559'),
(11649, 'Alex Cross 15 - Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Patterson''s serial-killer hunting detective, Alex Cross, expecting another cat-and-mouse thriller based on this book''s title, will find Cross''s appearance limited to a two-page preface in which the fictional character explains why he''s written a book called Trial. Abraham Cross, a relative who lived in Eudora, Miss., at the beginning of the 20th century, helps liberal lawyer Ben Corbett to expose the truth about a wave of lynchings near that town, an assignment undertaken at the request of Corbett''s friend, President Theodore Roosevelt. When Corbett arrives in Eudora, where he was born and raised, he receives a frosty reception from many unhappy with his record of representing African-Americans accused of murder, including a cold shoulder from his father, a judge. Soon, Corbett finds evidence that racism is alive and well, and that brutal murders of blacks, often for the most trivial of reasons, are endemic. Some may be disappointed that Abraham plays a relatively minor role, given the jacket line that "the Cross family had more than one hero."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The Man Who Can''t Miss." (_\n  <strong>\n   TIME\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1554');
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(11650, 'Alex Cross 16 - I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n <br />\n In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : James, your questions were so good, I''m going to ask you similar ones. Let''s start with why you write? Do you love it or love having done it? What motivates you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : I truly love writing. I sometimes think about my grandfather when I reflect on this. When I was a boy, I lived in a town on the Hudson River. During the summers, my grandfather would take me once a week on his frozen food and ice cream delivery route. We''d be up at four in the morning packing up the truck, and by five we''d be on our way. Driving a delivery truck isn''t the most glamorous job in the world, but every morning, my grandfather would drive over the Storm King Mountain toward West Point, and he''d be singing at the top of his voice. And he told me this: "Jim," he said, "when you grow up, I don''t care if you''re a truck driver or a famous surgeonâ€”just remember that when you go over the mountain to work in the morning, you''ve got to be singing." Writing stories keeps me singing. Writing to me isn''t work, and I like that a ton.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : What is your routine when you''re facing your next novel? What is the process like for you, and what is your favorite part of it? Least favorite?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : I like to have a lot of ideas in the air at one time. I''ve got around 20 manuscripts sitting in my office right now, in some degree of completion. It''s a lot of material, a lot of stories. My least favorite part? Hmm. Maybe sharpening pencils? Actually, Iâ€™ve always kind of liked sharpening pencils. I donâ€™t mean to seem too over the top about this, but I really wouldnâ€™t change any of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : What do you and Alex Cross have in common? How are you different?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : We''re both family-oriented guys. I think it''s a real treat to be able to get along with your wife every day, which I do; my wife and I really have trouble being apart for very long. And I think readers will agree Alex is generally doing better in the romance department. One difference between us would be that I''m much more content to sit around and write. I think Alex would get a little bored on a "ride-along" with me.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : What inspired you to create Alex Cross?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : Hardly anyone knows it but when I started the first Alex Cross novel, Alex was a woman named Alexis. After 100 pages or so, I changed the character to Alex. When I was a kid growing up, my grandparents had a small restaurant and the cook was an African-American woman who eventually moved into our house. All through my growing up period I spent a lot of time with this woman''s family. They were funny, wise, the food was great, so was the music, and the family is at least part of the inspiration for the Crosses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : What''s the one thing a reader has said that you''ve never forgotten and perhaps found startling?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : I''m sure you''ve had this, too, Patricia, but the one comment that gets me every time is hearing people say my books have them reading again. I know sometimes you and I get some heat for being as popular as we are, and are saddled with that old equation that says if you''re a bestseller, you must be lowbrow. But I frankly don''t think thereâ€™s anything more meaningful than hearing that I''ve turned a person back into a reader (or in the case of younger readers, got them started).\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cornwell\n </strong>\n : How about you? You''re the one with all the movies! Good experience or not?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patterson\n </strong>\n : Sounds like we''re on the same page there, Patricia. I definitely feel like some past projects didn''t quite live up to their potential. And I likewise have hopes for a couple of movies in the works: the third Alex Cross movie, and the very first\n <em>\n  Maximum Ride\n </em>\n movie, which has Avi Arad (producer of\n <em>\n  Spider Man\n </em>\n ), Catherine Hardwicke (director of\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n ), and Don Payne (writer for\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n ) on board. There''s also a very promising TV series based on a new book I''ve written that''s being developed with CBS and Imagine.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Patterson offers nothing new on a theme he himself has already done to death in his 16th novel featuring detective Alex Cross (after Cross Country), in which Cross takes on yet another barbaric serial killer, this one known as Zeus. Word that an estranged 24-year-old niece, Caroline Cross, has been murdered disturbs Cross''s birthday party. To make that horror even worse, the killer fed Caroline''s body through a wood chipper. Cross soon discovers that Caroline supported herself as a high-price escort for Washington, D.C.''s elite, and that other women who served similar clients have turned up missing. Cross''s investigation soon attracts the attention of the feds, and he concludes that Zeus is better connected than most of the psychopaths he''s brought to justice. A subplot centering on a health threat to another member of Cross''s family adds padding. Readers expecting the killer to be identified through insightful profiling will be disappointed.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1550'),
(11651, 'Alex Cross 17 - Cross Fire', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n READERS LOVE\n <em>\n  I, ALEX CROSS\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Patterson''s] books don''t pussyfoot around when it comes to the villains. These are bad, bad people... [_I, Alex Cross_] is political, with a lot of intrigue in high places." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Today Show\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Al Roker\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "I truly believe that James Patterson has an IV hooked up to his writing arm and Great Ideas, Great Plots, and Great Characters dribble constantly into his bloodstream..._I, Alex Cross_ stuns." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   TheReviewBroads.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "The stakes are higher than ever before...More than a crime thriller, it''s an absorbing family drama." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   NightsandWeekends.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Wedding bells ring\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Detective Alex Cross and Bree''s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.''s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A murderer returns\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims'' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Caught in a lethal cross fire\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense,\n <em>\n  Cross Fire\n </em>\n is James Patterson''s most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1557'),
(11652, 'Alpha &amp; Omega 01 - On The Prowl', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(11653, 'Alpha &amp; Omega 02 - Cry Wolf', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Now Briggs begins an extraordinary new series set in Mercy Thompsonâ€™s worldâ€”but with rules of its own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  INTRODUCING THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS...\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attackâ€¦and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, sheâ€™d learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of werewolf: an Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country will recognize her value as a pack memberâ€”and as his mate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(11654, 'Alpha &amp; Omega 03 - Hunting Ground', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1432'),
(11655, 'The Art of Deception', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1505'),
(11656, 'Ascension Trilogy 01 - The Pirate Prince', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(11657, 'Ascension Trilogy 02 - Princess', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(11658, 'Ascension Trilogy 03 - Prince Charming', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(11659, 'Aurora Teagarden 01 - Real Murders', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1636'),
(11660, 'Aurora Teagarden 02 - A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1637'),
(11661, 'Aurora Teagarden 03 - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(11662, 'Aurora Teagarden 04 - The Julius House', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(11663, 'Aurora Teagarden 05 - Dead Over Heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1639'),
(11664, 'Aurora Teagarden 06 - A Fool and his Honey', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(11665, 'Aurora Teagarden 07 - Last Scene Alive', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1635'),
(11666, 'Aurora Teagarden 08 - Poppy Done to Death', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(11667, 'Back in Action', 'Sarah Key', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Back in Action is an excellent, informative companion to Sarah Key''s widely acclaimed Back Sufferer''s Bible, answering all the most commonly asked questions about back pain. Do you have a back problem? This book will help you put it right. In an easy-to-read question and answer format, Back in Action sets out all the commonly asked questions about back problems and how to treat them. Sarah Key explains that most back problems are caused by the stiffness of a spinal link or vertebra-a totally reversible condition. By starting off with physiotherapy to mobilise the stiff spinal links, and then practising techniques and exercises to keep each vertebra separated and supple, you can have a healthy back. Illustrations throughout Back in Action make the explanations easy to understand, and a daily exercise plan shows you how to strengthen your back and alleviate pain. Back in Action is an excellent, informative companion to Sarah Key''s widely acclaimed Back Sufferers'' Bible. Understanding is half the cure. SARAH KEY trained as a physiotherapist in Australia before establishing her own centre in London in 1976. Today she sees people from all over the world in her Sydney practice, and talks with back-treating professionals and patients through her website, www.sarahkey.com. Sarah Key is physiotherapist to the royal family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1604'),
(11668, 'The Back Sufferers&#39; Pocket Guide', 'Sarah Key', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The pocket sized guide to keeping your back healthy and pain-free with down to earth advice from one of Australia''s leading physiotherapists. Most people will suffer from back pain at some stage of life. This guide describes clearly each stage of back pain, and sets out a logical course of treatment. It explains when you need medication and when you need to rest in bed. It explains all the exercises - how to do them and the common pitfalls with each one. It gives you all the information you need to play an active part in your own treatment. Now you can understand what has gone wrong with your spine, and take steps to keep your back healthy and pain-free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1606'),
(11669, 'Bannion Family 01 &amp; 02 - Reflections', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1707'),
(11670, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Tagger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page, with his byline never again to disgrace the front page. But Jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career . . . James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous pop starlet widow may have had a vested interest in her husband''s untimely death. It all smells a little too fishy. Aided and abetted by his rather sexy (if unnervingly ambitious) young editor, Emma, Jack sets out to in pursuit of the truth - and a nice juicy story. But of course nothing is ever straightforward and with murderous goons on his tail, brutal internal politics at the paper and a paranoia about death, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water. Was Jimmy Stomarti murdered? Is someone trying to kill off the Slut Puppies one by one? And what significance can a dead lizard named Colonel Tom possibly have? This is one book you''ll kill to get your hands on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1852'),
(11671, 'The Beach House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1660'),
(11672, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1656'),
(11673, 'A Bed of Spices', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(11674, 'Belador 01 - Blood Trinity', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon &amp; Dianna Love', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1358'),
(11675, 'The Black Angel', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(11676, 'Black Hills', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1481'),
(11677, 'Blue Skies', 'Fleur McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of Rachael Treasure and from the bestselling author of Red Dust,\n <br />\n \\tBlue Skies tells the inspirational story of a young woman battling to save the family farm no matter what it takes.\n <br />\n \\tArmed with an honours degree in Agribusiness, Amanda Greenfield dreams of employing all the skills she''s learnt at college\n <br />\n \\tto help her father turn the family farm from a debt-ridden, run-down basket case into a thriving enterprise.\n <br />\n \\tThen tragedy strikes with the death of Amanda''s mother in a car accident. Wracked by grief and guilt,\n <br />\n \\tand wearied by the long struggle to keep Kyleena a going concern, Amanda''s father argues that they should sell up\n <br />\n \\tand get on with their lives away from the vagaries of drought and fluctuating stock and crop yields. Having inherited half the farm from her beloved mother,\n <br />\n \\twhom she also grieves for, Amanda determines to summon all her strength, grit and know how to save Kyleena.\n <br />\n \\tAlong the way she faces mixed fortunes in both love and life ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(11678, 'Blue Smoke', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(11679, 'Bow Street Runner 01 - Someone To Watch Over Me', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(11680, 'Bow Street Runner 02 - Lady Sophia&#39;s Lover', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(11681, 'Bow Street Runner 03 - Worth Any Price', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(11682, 'Bride Quartet 01 - Vision in White', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1528'),
(11683, 'Bride Quartet 02 - Bed of Roses', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1470'),
(11684, 'Bride Quartet 03 - Savour the Moment', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(11685, 'Bride Quartet 04 - Happy Ever After', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1516'),
(11686, 'The Bride&#39;s Baby', 'Liz Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1623'),
(11687, 'Bridgerton Series 04 - Romancing Mister Bridgerton', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(11688, 'The Bronzed Hawk', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(11689, 'Brotherhood Of The Sword 01 - A Dark Champion', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1745'),
(11690, 'Brotherhood Of The Sword 02 -  Return Of The Warroir', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1746'),
(11691, 'Brotherhood of the Sword 02 - Return Of The Warrior', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(11692, 'Brotherhood Of The Sword 03 - The Warrior', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1747'),
(11693, 'Calhoun Women 01 - Courting Catherine', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1720'),
(11694, 'Calhoun Women 02 - A Man For Amanda', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1688'),
(11695, 'Calhoun Women 03 - For The Love Of Lilah', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1689'),
(11696, 'Calhoun Women 04 - Suzanna&#39;s Surrender', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1721'),
(11697, 'Calhoun Women 05 - Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1719'),
(11698, 'Carnal Innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(11699, 'Carolina Moon', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1503'),
(11700, 'CC 01 - The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  And as The Camel Club is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1828'),
(11701, 'CC 02 - The Collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Baldacci''s entertaining if overly long sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Camel Club\n  </em>\n  (2005), renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves has set himself up in the business of freelance assassination and selling our country''s secrets to the highest bidder. The Camel Club, a group of four dysfunctional crime solvers headed by ex-CIA assassin Caleb Shaw, becomes involved with Seagraves through a killing at the Library of Congress, where one of the club members works. Meanwhile, an enigmatic young woman, Annabelle Conroy, is assembling a team to engineer a "long con," a $33 million scam targeting Jerry Bagger, the sleazy owner of an Atlantic City casino. This time around, Baldacci wisely tones down the wackiness of the club members, focusing instead on bringing Seagraves to justice while Annabelle works her ingenious scam. The splicing of the two plots is problematic, but Baldacci sacrifices a bit of believability to cobble together a new cast of characters destined to continue fighting the forces of evil in the next installment.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The four disillusioned, aging gentlemen featured in Baldacci''s 2005 best-seller,\n  <em>\n   The Camel Club\n  </em>\n  , are back in this engaging offering. The ringleader of the eccentric Washington, D.C., group (comprising obsessive-compulsive computer-whiz Milton Farb, decorated Vietnam vet Rueben Rhodes, and slightly rumpled library-scholar Caleb Shaw) is an ex-CIA conspiracy theorist who goes by the pseudonym Oliver Stone. All are reunited when Shaw''s boss, the Library of Congress'' director of Rare Books and Special Collections, is found dead. (Might he have been killed for possession of a rare collection of Puritan psalms?) Meanwhile, a few hundred miles away, sexy scam artist Annabelle Conroy avenges her mother''s death with a fiendishly clever con pulled on a nefarious Atlantic City casino magnate. Though his two plots converge in a rather contrived way, Baldacci delivers crisp, economical prose and a cast of spies, misfits, and assassins that would make even the most patriotic citizen question the American political system. The best of the characters include gorgeous, gutsy newcomer Annabelle and the wonderfully idiosyncratic Stone, who spends many a day camped out on the lawn across from the White House with a sign that says, "I want the truth."\n  <em>\n   Allison Block\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1829'),
(11702, 'CC 03 - Stone Cold', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The #1 bestselling author of\n  <strong>\n   The Collectors\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Simple Genius\n  </strong>\n  returns with STONE COLD...an unforgetable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings a band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who''ve crossed his path. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies,\n  <br />\n  but it has also earned formidable enemies-including those in power who will do anything to prevent Stone and his friends from uncovering the hidden, secret work of the government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annabelle Conroy, an honorary member of the Camel Club, is also the greatest con artist of her generation. She has swindled forty million dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger, the man who murdered her mother. Now he''s hot on her trail with only one goal in mind: Annabelle''s death. But as Stone and the Camel Club circle the wagons to protect Annabelle, a new opponent, who makes Bagger''s menace pale by comparison, suddenly arises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One by one, men from Stone''s shadowy past are turning up dead. Behind this slaughter stands one man: Harry Finn. To almost all who know him, Finn is a doting father and loving husband who uses his skills behind the scenes to keep our nation safe. But the other face of Harry Finn is that of an unstoppable killer who inevitably sets his lethal bull''s-eye on Oliver Stone. And with Finn, Stone may well have met his match.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Annabelle and the Camel Club fight for their lives, the twists and turns whipsaw, leading to a finale that is as explosive as it is shattering. And when buried secrets are at last violently resurrected, the members of the Camel Club left standing will be changed forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With unrelenting pacing, stunning reversals, and two of the most compelling characters in modern fiction, STONE COLD is David Baldacci writing at his breathtaking best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(11703, 'CC 04 - Divine Justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Near the start of bestseller Baldacci''s less than compelling fourth Camel Club thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Stone Cold\n  </em>\n  ), former CIA assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) boards a New Orleansâ€“bound train at Washington''s Union Station after shooting to death a well-known U.S. senator and the nation''s intelligence chief, the two men responsible for his wife''s murder. Ever the Good Samaritan, Stone intervenes in a fight on the train, but when the Amtrak conductor asks to see his ID, he gets off at the next station, knowing his fake ID won''t withstand scrutiny. So much for Stone''s vaunted ability as a resourceful planner. This sudden detour takes Stone to Divine, Va., a mining town where he becomes enmeshed in corruption and intrigueâ€”and falls, in just one of several clichÃ©d situations, for an attractive if beleaguered widow. Series fans should be satisfied, but this effort lacks the imagination that distinguished Baldacci''s debut,\n  <em>\n   Absolute Power\n  </em>\n  (1996).\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Readers who have been holding their breath since the end of Stone Cold (2007), the previous Camel Club novel, can inhale: Oliver Stone did survive his plunge into the water. For the uninitiated, Baldacciâ€™s Oliver Stone isnâ€™t the noted film director; heâ€™s a former government assassin who has made a risky living foiling government conspiracies. Now, having eluded capture after committing a pair of necessary assassinations, Stone (or John Carr, if you prefer to use his real name) is on the run, hiding out in rural America, where he discovers that small-town intrigue is at least as intricate and dangerous as anything heâ€™s come up against previously. Combining the Camel Club seriesâ€™ wit and fast pace with a Fugitive-like story (casting Stone as Richard Kimble, the man on the run who risks his life to protect the lives of strangers), Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character. Itâ€™s fascinating to observe how Stone operates when heâ€™s entirely on his own, too. Not only is he evading his pursuers, especially Macklin Hayes, whose obsessive determination to capture Stone may be based more on personal reasons than professional ones, but heâ€™s also cast himself adrift from his comrades, who are working feverishly behind the scenes to find him and keep him safe. A rousing success, although this should come as no surprise to faithful Baldacci readers. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1875'),
(11704, 'CC 05 - Hell&#39;s Corner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci''s implausible fifth Camel Club novel (after Divine Justice) disappoints with cartoonish plotting and characterization. The night after the U.S. president persuades former assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) to re-enter government employment to tackle the growing threat of Russian drug gangs, Stone finds himself in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, when gunfire breaks out and a bomb explodes. Apparently, the intended target was the visiting British prime minister, who was scheduled to walk across the park before an ankle injury modified his plans. Taken off his original mission, Stone seeks to identify the forces behind the assassination attempt. Stone''s old Camel Club allies involve themselves in his search, which includes the de rigueur mole hunt and the McGuffin of choice these days, a lead on Osama bin Laden''s whereabouts. Those who prefer intelligence in their political thrillers will have to look elsewhere. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shortly after the events related in Divine Justice (2008), Oliver Stone, former CIA assassin and now the leader of the shadowy group known as the Camel Club, is whisked away to a top-secret meeting with the president of the U.S. Russian drug cartels are operating on American soil, possibly with the approvalâ€”if not the direct supervisionâ€”of the Russian government. Stoneâ€™s mission is to go to the drugsâ€™ point of entry, Latin America, and find a way to shut the cartels down. But before he can even begin his mission training, Stone finds himself in the middle of what appears to be a terrorist attack on the life of the British prime minister. Teaming up with a British intelligence agent, Stone attempts to determine if the attack is connected to the Russian drug-smuggling operation. The latest Camel Club novel is, as usual, skillfully constructed and very difficult to put down. Baldacci keeps peeling back layers of Stoneâ€™s psyche, revealing him to be a man full of unresolved conflicts and a potentially self-destructive amount of guilt over his past actions. Another winner. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Since Baldacciâ€™s first novel, Absolute Power, appeared in 1996, he has owned a place on most best-seller lists. His latest Camel Club novel wonâ€™t break the string. Author tours and all the attendant hoopla will get the ball rolling. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(11705, 'Celebrity Magazine 01 - Summer Pleasures', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1701'),
(11706, 'Celebrity Magazine 02 - One Summer', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1700'),
(11707, 'Chasing Darkness', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<hr />\n<p>\n Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole''s world upside down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd''s case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole''s eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. Elvis was hailed as a hero.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the discovery of the death album in Byrd''s lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims -- two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can''t help but wonder -- did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives?\n</p>\n<p>\n Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death -- a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chasing Darkness\n </em>\n is a blistering thriller from the bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1884'),
(11708, 'The Christmas Train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington D.C. to L.A in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people''s essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.\n  <em>\n   The Christmas Train\n  </em>\n  is filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief...and shows how we\n  <em>\n   do\n  </em>\n  get second chances to fulfill our deepest hopes and dreams, especially during this season of miracles.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(11709, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1668'),
(11710, 'Circle Of Magic 01 - Sandry&#39;s Book', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1533'),
(11711, 'Circle of Magic 02 - Tris&#39;s Story', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1531'),
(11712, 'Circle of Magic 03 - Daja&#39;s Story', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1530'),
(11713, 'Circle Of Magic 04 - Briar&#39;s Book', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1532'),
(11714, 'The Circle Opens 01 - Magic Steps', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1543'),
(11715, 'The Circle Opens 02 - Street Magic', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1541'),
(11716, 'The Circle Opens 03 - Cold Fire', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1540'),
(11717, 'The Circle Opens 04 - Shatterglass', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1542'),
(11718, 'Circle Trilogy 01 - Morrigan&#39;s Cross', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy - the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith - has had over two thousand years'' experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into her own kind - including Hoyt''s brother, Cian. Now, Hoyt, a sorcerer, must travel across the world and through time to find and train the five others Morrigan has prophesised will join him as a circle and do battle against Lilith''s army of vampires on Samhain in the land of Geall. Fate brings him first to Glenna Ward - a modern witch who can make her own kind of magic. Hoyt and Glenna find themselves drawn together, but is their love strong enough to survive not just the battle ahead but the centuries that separate them...?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1789'),
(11719, 'Circle Trilogy 02 - Dance of the Gods', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roberts''s Circle Trilogy continues with this second installment (following Morrigan''s Cross), in which the circle of six prepare for their battle against the powerful vampire Lilith and her undead army. The six members, culled by the goddess Morrigan from the past and the present, include the wizard Hoyt and his vampire brother Cian, the witch Glenna, ancient Geallian princess Moira and her shape-shifting cousin Larkin, and demon hunter Blair. Preparing for the showdown in modern-day Ireland, the group split their time among training, defending against Lilith''s agents, bickering fitfully among themselves and, for some, doing their best to ignore mounting sexual tension. The relationship between the bigheaded, anachronistic Larkin and the hot-tempered, thoroughly modern lone-wolf Blair gives the proceedings a satisfying emotional core, especially rewarding when their anger turns-finally-to lust. Fulfilling their destiny, the six warriors enter the stone circle to travel backward in time to Geall for the fateful battle with Lilith. Roberts''s latest is a testament to her skill and range, as this richly detailed fantasy-only her second attempt at the genre-hums with wit, humor and sizzling romance. Paranormal fans are assured a good time, as is anyone who enjoys captivating fiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1468'),
(11720, 'Circle Trilogy 02 - Valley of Silence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1716'),
(11721, 'City of Secrets', 'Katie Reus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(11722, 'Concannon Sisters 01 -  Born in Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(11723, 'Concannon Sisters 02 -  Born in Ice', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(11724, 'Concannon Sisters 03 - Born in Shame', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1598'),
(11725, 'Cordina 01 &amp;  02 - Affaire Royale', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1703'),
(11726, 'Cordina 03 - The Playboy Prince', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1705'),
(11727, 'Cordina 04 - Cordina&#39;s Crown Jewel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1702'),
(11728, 'Cradle &amp; All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(11729, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1605'),
(11730, 'Dancing in the Moonlight', 'RaeAnne Thayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1609'),
(11731, 'Dark Hunter 0.5 -  Fantasy Lover', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(11732, 'Dark Hunter 1 - Night Pleasures', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(11733, 'Dark Hunter 10 - The Dream Hunter', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(11734, 'Dark Hunter 10.5 - Winter Born', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(11735, 'Dark Hunter 12 - Upon The Midnight Clear', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(11736, 'Dark Hunter 13 - Devil May Cry', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sin, a Sumerian fertility god turned Vegas casino owner, and Kat, the zealous servant of bossy Greek goddess Artemis, knock boots and kick butt in Kenyon''s juicy 11th Dark-Hunter paranormal love-fest (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Dark Side of the Moon\n  </em>\n  ). Sin''s been on the warpath for thousands of years, since Artemis stole his godhood. Sin''s also upset about the disappearance of his twin brother, Zakar, and the imminent invasion of the vampiric Sumerian gallu, who plan to liberate the Dimme superdemons and destroy all humanity. Kat agrees to kill Sin before he kills Artemis, but instead the two fall in madcap love while trying to prevent Armageddon. It''s just another day''s work for the immortals, who act a lot like ordinary quarrelsome people with way cool superpowers. Though readers may need a scorecard to keep up with the cast, this series puts a contemporary spin on classical mythology that an increasing number of fans have found irresistible.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If revenge is a dish best served cold, Sin figures a few thousand years should make it good and frigid. He can''t wait to kill Artemis for stealing his godhood, but first he has to deal with Earth-destroying gallu demons trying to escape their prison. As a preemptive strike, Artemis sends Katra to kill him. Realizing, though, that the gallu are the bigger threat, she willingly joins her enemy to stop them. Falling for him, however, could be the real problem. Longevity can be a series'' best friend or worst enemy, yet Kenyon manages to find the middle ground in each installment in her Dark-Hunter series (immortal warriors guided by Artemis and pledged to defend humankind against vampires and other enemies), creating the wounded heroes, sarcastic humor, and adventurous romps paranormal-romance readers love while keeping any hint of sagging or self-indulgent plot at bay. As the mastermind behind an internationally popular, massively detailed fictional universe and overarching saga filling a dozen novels, Kenyon has written another fresh tale full to the brim with surprises. Davis, Nina C.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1339'),
(11737, 'Dark Hunter 14 - Dream Chaser', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(11738, 'Dark Hunter 15 -  Acheron', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(11739, 'Dark Hunter 16 - One Silent Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
(11740, 'Dark Hunter 17 - Dream Warrior', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(11741, 'Dark Hunter 2 -  Night Embrace', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(11742, 'Dark Hunter 2.5 - The Beginning', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(11743, 'Dark Hunter 3 - Dance &amp; the Devil', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(11744, 'Dark Hunter 4 - Kiss Of The Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(11745, 'Dark Hunter 5 - Night Play', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(11746, 'Dark Hunter 6 - Seize The Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(11747, 'Dark Hunter 6.5 - Phantom Lover', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1330'),
(11748, 'Dark Hunter 7 -  Sins of the Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(11749, 'Dark Hunter 8 - Unleash the Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(11750, 'Dark Hunter 9 - Dark Side of the Moon', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(11751, 'Daughter of the Lioness 01 - Trickster&#39;s Choice', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1534'),
(11752, 'DC Detectives 01 - Sacred sins', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(11753, 'DC Detectives 02 - Brazen Virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1527');
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(11754, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Penzler Pick, May 2000:\n  </strong>\n  Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n  <em>\n   --Otto Penzler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1885'),
(11755, 'Demonica 01 -Pleasure Unbound', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1904'),
(11756, 'Demonica 02 -Desire Unchained', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1905'),
(11757, 'Demonica 03 - Passion Unleashed', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1906'),
(11758, 'Demonica 04 - Ecstasy Unleashed', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1907'),
(11759, 'Demonica 05 - Sin Undone', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(11760, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ten More Books for Readers of\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elias Ashmole,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Browne,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Owen Davies,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Karlsen,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Moranâ€™s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander Roob,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyndal Roper,\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Sharpe,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bryan Sykes,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Deborah Harkness\n  </em>\n  (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(11761, 'Divine Evil', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1507'),
(11762, 'Donovan 04 - Enchanted', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1601'),
(11763, 'Donovan Legacy 01, 02, 03 - Captivated, Entranced, Charmed (omnibus)', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1725'),
(11764, 'Dream Trilogy 01 - Daring to Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1718'),
(11765, 'Dream Trilogy 02 - Holding The Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(11766, 'Dream Trilogy 03 - Finding the Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eighteen-year-old Laura Templeton, daughter of the rich Templeton hoteliers, cherished the ideal of a happy, loving marriage. Twelve years later, her dream shattered by her husband''s betrayal, Laura is a divorced mother of two, with little time or inclination for romance.A partner in Pretenses, the glamorous second-hand boutique she runs with her friend Margo and adoptive sister Kate, Laura juggles her days with the skill and precision of a conjurer. Then stormy adventurer Michael Fury returns to Big Sur, California to breed horses, and Laura discovers the first stirrings of a passion that defies her to dream again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(11767, 'EC 01 - The Clan of the Cave Bear', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1665'),
(11768, 'EC 02 - The Valley of Horses', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1661'),
(11769, 'EC 03 - The Mammoth Hunters', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1664'),
(11770, 'EC 04 - The Plains of Passage', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1663'),
(11771, 'EC 05 - The Shelters of Stone', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1662'),
(11772, 'EC 06 - The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1666'),
(11773, 'English dictionary and thesaurus', 'Cognitive Science Laboratory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1793'),
(11774, 'The English Witch', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(11775, 'Eternal Highlander', 'Lynsay Sands &amp; Hannah Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(11776, 'Eternal Slave', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/763'),
(11777, 'Eternally Bound', 'Michelle M. Pillow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(11778, 'Eve Dallas 01- Naked in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(11779, 'Eve Dallas 02 - Glory in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(11780, 'Eve Dallas 03 - Immortal in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(11781, 'Eve Dallas 04 - Rapture in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(11782, 'Eve Dallas 05 - Ceremony in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(11783, 'Eve Dallas 06 - Vengeance in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(11784, 'Eve Dallas 07 - Holiday in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(11785, 'Eve Dallas 08 - Conspiracy in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(11786, 'Eve Dallas 09 - Loyalty in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(11787, 'Eve Dallas 10 - Witness in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(11788, 'Eve Dallas 11 - Judgement in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(11789, 'Eve Dallas 12 - Betrayal in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(11790, 'Eve Dallas 12.5 - Interlude in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(11791, 'Eve Dallas 13 - Seduction In Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(11792, 'Eve Dallas 14 - Reunion in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(11793, 'Eve Dallas 15 - Purity in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this frightening installment of J.D. Robbs (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) futuristic series, Eve Dallas must face the impossible: someone has unleashed a computer virus that may be able to spread from machine to man. Abridged. 5 CDs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1774'),
(11794, 'Eve Dallas 16 - Portrait in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(11795, 'Eve Dallas 17 - Imitation in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(11796, 'Eve Dallas 17.5', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(11797, 'Eve Dallas 18 - Divided in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Found alone on the streets as a child, Eve Dallas has built a new identity and a new future as a cop. Now the hard-edged and coolheaded detective fights for truth and justice, but she still has one very human weakness-enigmatic Irish billionaire, Roarke. And when a trusted employee of Roarke Enterprises is a suspect in a double-homicide, Roarke comes to Eve for help. Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and now a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises-until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renouned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage-all of Bissel''s computer files were deliberately corrupted. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists. But this deadly new breed of hackers isn''t afraid to kill to protect their secret-and it''s up to Lieutenant Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(11798, 'Eve Dallas 19 - Visions in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though not as gripping as the previous installments in Robb''s midâ€“21st-century In Death series (_Remember When_, etc.), this new offering showcases her many talents. New York policewoman Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer who strangles his young female victims with a red ribbon and removes their eyes postmortem. Dallas and her longtime partner, Detective Peabody, pursue the criminal with wisecracking vigor and old-fashioned police work, assisted as well by Eve''s handsome husband, billionaire businessman Roarke, and a beautiful psychic who volunteers to share her chilling visions of the murders. Naturally, the determined Dallas gets her man, though her toughness is shaken along the way by memories of her own childhood abuse, the murderer''s vicious attack on Peabody and a surprising 11th-hour revelation. The Thomas Harrisesque mystery resolves rather simply, and the story gets less of an energy boost than usual from the romantic power play between Eve and Roarke and the edgy sci-fi detail that made the earlier books so distinctive. (In fact, the Manhattan of 2059 is oddly old-fashioned, with\n  <em>\n   more\n  </em>\n  homey crafts stores than the New York of 2004.) Nevertheless, the book is a sassy, smart-alecky read, possessing the warm characterizations and witty dialogue that have earned Robb/Roberts her huge and loyal readership.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(11799, 'Eve Dallas 20 - Survivor in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(11800, 'Eve Dallas 21 - Origin In Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(11801, 'Eve Dallas 22 - Memory in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   In December 2059, a mysterious woman shows up in Eve''s office claiming to be her "mama." It''s Trudy Lombard, the cruel foster mom who took nine-year-old Eve in after Eve killed her abusive father. Trudy made Eve take cold baths and locked her in closets, among other torments, and now Trudy wants Eve to pay $2 million to keep her past a secret. Readers of the series will know how Roarke, Eve''s rich, deadly husband, handles the situation; he tosses Trudy out on her ear. When Trudy is found murdered the next day, it''s up to Eve to catch the killer and prove that neither she nor Roarke was behind the bludgeoning. All the action takes place over Christmas, and Eve, being Eve, complains about the foolishness of the holiday, but Roarke et al. continue to slowly teach Eve the virtues of love, family and friendship. This is number 22 in a series that still manages to feel fresh.\n   <em>\n    (Jan.)\n   </em>\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1775'),
(11802, 'Eve Dallas 23 - Born in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1776'),
(11803, 'Eve Dallas 24 - Innocent in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  T\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   he phenomenal series set in a future New York City returns as NYPSD Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Craig Foster''s death devastated his young wife, who''d sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eve soon determines that Foster''s homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster''s colleagues have some startling secrets of their own. It''s Eve''s job to sort it out- and discover why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant . . . so innocent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Magdalena Percell . . . there''s someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eve''s own hands. The slinky blonde-an old flame of her billionaire husband, Roarke-has arrived in New York, and she''s anything but innocent. Roarke seems blind to Magdalena''s manipulation, and he insists that the occasional lunch or business meeting with her is nothing to worry about . . . and none of Eve''s business. Eve''s so unnerved by the situation that she finds it hard to focus on her case. Still, she''ll have to put aside her feelings, for a while at least-because another man has just turned up dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eve knows all too well that innocence can be a facade. Keeping that in mind may help her solve this case at last. But it may also tear apart her marriage.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(11804, 'Eve Dallas 25 - Creation in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At 27 books and counting, Nora Roberts is more prolific under her Robb pseudonym than most authors manage in a single career. Yet the latest in her not-so-near-future detective series featuring New York Police Det. Eve Dallas offers a satisfyingly novel mÃ©lange of suspense, sex, forensics and heroics. It''s 2060, and the serial killer nicknamed The Groom is back in town after an absence of nine years, resuming his horrific run of kidnapping, torturing and killing young women. Dallas, who served as a detective in the frustrating first investigation, assumes lead role in this one. This time, not only do the killer''s chosen victims have ties to Dallas''s husband, Roarke, but Dallas herself may be the killer''s ultimate target. Swiftly paced, the story cuts frequently from the investigation to the killer''s progress with his victims. Dallas works to outplan, outfight and outsmart the killer; to keep her handsome, rich husband happy; and to be ready for the next round after a good night''s sleep. Robb''s latest is bound to please Dallas fans.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(11805, 'Eve Dallas 26 - Strangers in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="blurb">\n <strong>\n  The new novel in the #1\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  -bestselling series.\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others-especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed-and strangled-with cords of black velvet.\n <br />\n <br />\n It doesn''t surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders''s scandalous death is a source of titillation and speculation to the public-and of humiliation to his family. But while people in the city are talking about it, those close to Anders aren''t so anxious to do the same. With some help from her billionaire husband, Roarke, Eve''s soon knocking on doors-or barging through them-to find answers.\n <br />\n <br />\n But the facts don''t add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn''t struggle. The security breach in the apartment indicates that the killer was someone known to the family, but everyone''s alibi checks out. Was this a crime of passion in a kinky game gone wrong-or a meticulously planned execution? It''s up to Dallas to solve a case in which strangers may be connected in unexpected, and deadly, ways.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(11806, 'Eve Dallas 27 - Salvation in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1458'),
(11807, 'Eve Dallas 28 - Promises in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n  NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas always does her best to solve every one of her cases, but her latest assignment just might be her most difficult yet. Not only was the victim, Amarylis Coltraine, a cop who was killed with her own weapon, but the case also takes on an added personal dimension since Amarylis was Chief Medical Examiner Morrisâ€™ lover, and Morris is one of Eveâ€™s best friends. When the killer sends Eve a package containing Coltraineâ€™s badge, weapon, and a taunting note suggesting that she might be next on the list, Eve finds herself trying to untangle a case that may be linked to her own past. All of the familiar ingredients Robbâ€™s millions of readers expect to fall neatly into placeâ€”a cleverly constructed plot, an intriguing cast of secondary characters, and a sexy romance between tough-as-nails Eve and her mysterious billionaire husband Roarkeâ€”do so in the 30th gritty, suspenseful addition to Robbâ€™s best-selling, futuristic police-procedural series. --John Charles\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1780'),
(11808, 'Eve Dallas 29 - Kindred in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York City law officers have more technological weapons at their disposal in bestseller Robb''s snappy near-future series, but so do criminals, including the sadistic rapist killer who strikes down Deena MacMasters, the 16-year-old daughter of police captain Jonah MacMasters, in the 30th full-length novel to feature homicide detective Lt. Eve Dallas (after\n  <em>\n   Promises in Death\n  </em>\n  ). MacMasters specifically asks that Dallas, who has a knack for clever insights and deductions, lead the investigation into his daughter''s murder. An impressive team of professionalsâ€”augmented by Dallas''s husband, Roarke, and his young protÃ©gÃ©, Jaime Lingstromâ€”begins the arduous task of collecting and analyzing data. Clues suggest Deena may not be the only victim targeted by her killer and increase the pressure on Dallas and her cohorts. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) combines sex, horrific crime, forensics and technological wizardry for another winner sure to please her many fans.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1781'),
(11809, 'Eve Dallas 30 -  Fantasy in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n  Even though Fantastical was still in the testing phase, Bart Minnock was certain the virtual-reality game would murder the competition. Instead, Bart is the one found dead. Now Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to come up with a plausible theory as to how someone could bypass the foolproof security in the millionaireâ€™s holo-room and decapitate him. The fact that the popular gaming guru doesnâ€™t seem to have any enemies isnâ€™t making Eveâ€™s job any easier, but the more time Eve spends investigating the case, the more evidence she finds that several people may have had a reason for wanting Bart out of the way. Now, with a little hands-on training from her husband, Roarke, a computer-gaming expert, Eve sets out to write a program for catching a clever killer. In the thirtieth addition to her best-selling Eve Dallas series, Robb successfully mixes a classic locked-room murder with plenty of cutting-edge twenty-first-century technology, and the end result is an ingenious tale of crime that delivers plenty of Robbâ€™s patented dangerous chills and passionate thrills --John Charles\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1782'),
(11810, 'Eve Dallas 31  - Indulgence in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n NYPD lieutenant Eve Dallas might have been on holiday, but as she knows all too well, murder never takes a vacation. No sooner does Eve return from Ireland with her husband, Roarke, than she is back on the job looking into the death of a limousine driver who has been shot with a crossbow. The very next day, a high-priced licensed companion is stabbed to death in an amusement park horror house. The only connection between the two killings is the choice of weapons: the second involved an antique bayonet. As Eve and her team scramble to find more clues, Eve begins to think she is on the track of a thrill killer. When it comes to finding a killer, the smart money is always on Eve Dallas. The latest addictive addition to Robbâ€™s long-running series features spiky humor; a cleverly constructed, adrenaline-raising plot; and the requisite amount of sexy passion between Eve and her soulmate, Roarke. --John Charles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(11811, 'Eve Dallas 32 - Treachery in Death', 'J D Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n  After her boss, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, suggests that New York policewoman Delia Peabodyâ€™s footwork needs some work, Delia books some time in the gym for what almost becomes a â€œkillerâ€ workout. Rather than visit NYPDâ€™s brand-new, state-of-the-art exercise facilities, Peabody opts for the buildingâ€™s old gym, since fewer of her well-toned, light-on-their-feet co-workers will be there. Upon arriving, Peabody has the place to herself until she hears voices and realizes that sheâ€™s listening to two cops angrily arguing about a deal in which they are both involved. Fortunately, the two leave before they realize Delia has overheard them. Not only does Peabody know the name of one of the corrupt cops, she also knows they are both guilty of murder. Now it will be up to Peabody and Eve to take these crooked cops down. The thirty-second (!) entry in Robbâ€™s gritty, futuristic procedural series is one of the best yet: a sexy, high-stakes, high-adrenaline read that will delight series stalwarts, hook readers new to Eve Dallas, and please both mystery and romance readers. --John Charles\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1773'),
(11812, 'Evening Class', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1669'),
(11813, 'Every Breath You Take', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(11814, 'Everything and the moon', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(11815, 'Family Heirloom', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(11816, 'Fanning the Flame', 'Kat Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(11817, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(11818, 'The Fifth Harmonic: A Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1792'),
(11819, 'The Fire Inside', 'Kat Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(11820, 'First Rule', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T. Jefferson Parker and Robert Crais: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors T. Jefferson Parker and Robert Crais and asked them to interview each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T. Jefferson Parker\n </strong>\n is one of only three writers to be awarded the Edgar Award for Best Novel more than once and the bestselling author of numerous novels, including\n <em>\n  Iron River\n </em>\n . Parker lives with his family in Southern California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read on to see T. Jefferson Parker''s questions for Robert Crais, or turn the tables to see what Crais asked Parker.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve got a new novel coming out in January of 2011. I havenâ€™t read it yet, so can you tell me a bit about it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n It''s a Joe Pike novel. Wasn''t supposed to be, so I was taken by surprise, but that''s the way Pike is. I planned to follow my last book,\n <em>\n  The First Rule\n </em>\n , with an Elvis Cole novel, but I saw Pike meet a woman in Venice, California, a few moments after Pike saved her uncle from a robbery. Ideas for books come to me that way--I''ll see an image. The way Pike looked at her, I knew right away I had to follow their story. So it''s a love story, but not your usual love story--it''s a Joe Pike love story. As the Kirkus review said, "Prepare the body bags."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Did you have any surprises as you wrote the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n A character named Daniel. Daniel is a hit man who is after the woman Pike is falling for. He is not your typical hit man. Daniel is very strange dude, and the creepiest character I''ve ever created. When I wrote his first scene, I sat back, and said, whoa, where did this guy come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n You write terrific heroes and terrific villains. How do you get inside their heads, learn their methods and tricks?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n The answer would scare you. Really.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Can you describe a typical work day?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n It''s pretty boring. I get up, go for a hike or work out because I like to get the exercise out of the way, then I sit down to work. The work requires discipline because there are so many distractions. Though, honestly, I can''t think of a better way to spend my time than hanging out with Joe Pike and Elvis Cole and even strange and dangerous characters like Daniel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Okay, when all the work is done (is it ever?) what do you do for plain-old, flat-out fun?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n Anything outside. Hiking, scuba diving, flying. As a writer, I spend most of my time inside, staring at my computer. When the work is finished, I want OUT. It''s like being paroled.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo of T. Jefferson Parker Â© Rebecca Lawson)\n <br />\n (Photo of Robert Crais Â© exleyfotoinc)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When garment importer Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their Los Angeles home at the start of bestseller Crais''s adrenaline-fueled second thriller to feature PI Joe Pike (after\n <em>\n  The Watchman\n </em>\n ), LAPD detectives soon connect Meyer to Pike, who knew each other from their days as military contractors. Pike is convinced that Meyer, who left soldiering to start a family, wasn''t dirty, even though his murder is the seventh in a series of violent robberies where the victims were all professional criminals. Determined to clear his friend''s name, Pike discovers that Frank''s nanny and her family have ties to Eastern European organized crime. With the help of PI partner Elvis Cole (the lead in\n <em>\n  Chasing Darkness\n </em>\n and eight other books), Pike engages in a dangerousâ€”and not always legalâ€”game of cat and mouse with some of the city''s most dangerous crooks. Pike emerges as an enigmatically appealing hero, whose lethal skills never overshadow his unflappable sense of morality.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1886'),
(11821, 'Forever in Your Embrace', 'Kathleen E. Woodiwiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A legend. The queen of historical romance." --\n  <em>\n   Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A phenomenon." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Live and breathe the world Kathleen E. Woodiwiss creates." --\n  <em>\n   Houston Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The First Lady of the genre." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Woodiwiss reigns!" --\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a dark and dangerous road, a daring British adventurer saves the life of a countess of royal blood. In all his travels, Colonel Tyrone Rycroft has never encountered a woman as breathtaking, alluring, and inscrutably mysterious as the bewitching Synnovea. But his selfless bravery has drawn him into peril -- and into an inescapable web of intrigue and seduction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an opulent and treacherous imperial court, the proud, headstrong ladyâ€²s dashing champion has become a pawn in a dangerous game of power and influence -- and only his great courage and wits will enable him to survive it. But Rycroftâ€²s enflamed desire will not let him escape to the safety of his own world -- not until his dream is realized, and the enigmatic, highborn beauty has given herself to him freely, honestly, and forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(11822, 'The Forgotten Man', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Forgotten Man is a 2005 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the tenth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Crais''s latest L.A.-based crime novel featuring super-sleuth Elvis Cole blends high-powered action, a commanding cast and a touch of dark humor to excellent dramatic effect. One morning at four, Cole gets a call from the LAPD informing him that a murdered John Doe has claimed, with his dying breath, to be Cole''s father, a man Cole has never met. Cole immediately gets to work gathering evidence on the dead man - Herbert Faustina, aka George Reinnike - while cramping the style of the assigned detective, Jeff Pardy. Though Cole finds Reinnike''s motel room key at the crime scene, the puzzle pieces are tough to put together, even with the unfailing help of partner Joe Pike and feisty ex-Bomb Squad techie Carol Starkey, who''s so smitten with Cole that she can''t think of him without smiling. Days of smart sleuthing work take the self-proclaimed "World''s Greatest Detective" from a Venice Beach escort service to the California desert, then a hospital in San Diego, where doubts about Reinnike''s true heritage begin to dissipate. Meanwhile, a delusional psychopath named Frederick Conrad, who is convinced that his partner in crime was killed by Cole, stalks and schemes to even the score. There''s lots to digest, but this character-driven series continues to be strong in plot, action and pacing, and Crais (_The Last Detective_) boasts a distinctive knack for a sucker-punch element of surprise.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1894'),
(11823, 'Free Fall', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Elvis Cole is just a detective who can''''t say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer''''s sure he''''s in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Elvis lives . . . Elvis Cole, that is, the hottest, hippest L.A. gumshoe detective from award-winning author Robert Crais. In a roller-coaster of excitement and mystery, a dirty cop''s girlfriend hires Cole to get the goods on the cop. However, the cop swears he''s clean--merely cheating on the girlfriend. Crais''s smart-mouthing detective rivals the best in the genre.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1887'),
(11824, 'funstories_v2', 'Vald, Charles &amp; Vald, Rachael &amp; Lucken, Gary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(11825, 'Gabriel&#39;s Woman', 'Robin Schone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the erotic tour de force\n  <em>\n   The Lover,\n  </em>\n  readers met not only brooding, passionate Michel des Anges, but his lifelong friend--the mysterious Gabriel, a man with a past as dark as the London night. Now, renowned author Robin Schone explores one of her most talked-about characters in a novel that reveals the blackest secrets of a man''s soul...and the explosive heart of a woman''s desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Art Of Seduction\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Destitute and terrorized by a nameless pursuer, thirty-four-year-old Victoria Childers has only one thing of value left--her innocence. Its price will buy her safety. But Gabriel, the dangerously beautiful man who purchases her, doesn''t want her virginity--he wants the man who stalks her. Trapped together in a house where every desire can be fulfilled, Victoria and Gabriel are plunged into a deadly game of passion and pursuit, where the greatest threat is carnal hunger and the only rule is survival.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(11826, 'Gamblers 01 - Then Came You', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(11827, 'Gamblers 02 - Dreaming Of You', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(11828, 'Genuine Lies', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(11829, 'The Gift', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(11830, 'The Glass Lake', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1671'),
(11831, 'The Golden Barbarian', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(11832, 'Great Chefs - Table for Two Omnibus', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(11833, 'Guild Hunter 01 - Angels&#39; Pawn', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1525'),
(11834, 'Guild Hunter 02 - Angels&#39; Blood', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(11835, 'Guild Hunter 03 - Archangel&#39;s Kiss', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1522'),
(11836, 'Guild Hunter 04 - Archangel&#39;s Consort', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1524'),
(11837, 'Guild Hunter 05 - Archangel&#39;s Blade', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n No Description Available\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1882'),
(11838, 'GYPSY LORD', 'Kat Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(11839, 'Harry Potter 01 - Prequel', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(11840, 'Harry Potter 02 and the Philosopher&#39;s Stone', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(11841, 'Harry Potter 03 and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(11842, 'Harry Potter 04 and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(11843, 'Harry Potter 05 and the Goblet of Fire', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(11844, 'Harry Potter 06 and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(11845, 'Harry Potter 07 and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(11846, 'Harry Potter 08 and the Deathly Hallows', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(11847, 'Heart of a Knight', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(11848, 'Heartless', 'Kat Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(11849, 'Heaven Texas', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11850, 'Hidden Riches', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are many riddles to unravel in Nora Roberts''s latest novel before the chain of seemingly random murders and robberies swirling around a lovely Philadelphia antiques dealer can be resolved. There''s no mystery, however, about why Roberts is a bestselling author of romances and mainstream novels: she delivers the goods with panache and wit. This time out, she skillfully blends a stirring love story with nonstop suspense, effortlessly shifting from melodrama to light comedy. Antiques dealer Dora Conroy''s hidden riches start with the painting she bids for at a local auction, unaware of the treasure it conceals. Then there''s her new tenant, handsome, brooding Jed Skimmerhorn, who moves into the apartment above her shop. Though the ex-cop and scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family first appears rude and rough, he surprises Dora with acts of tenderness. And Dora needs plenty of TLC after her shop is broken into, she''s nearly raped and she learns that others who purchased goods from a particular shipment at the auction are turning up dead. Joining forces with Dora to track down the culprits behind the thefts and murders, Jed is drawn into the life of the effervescent Dora and her endearingly eccentric theatrical family. Readers will be too. Reader''s Digest Condensed Book; Literary Guild and Doub le day Book Club alternate .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This latest by Roberts (Private Scandals, Putnam, 1993) will please her established fans and win her new ones. Isadora, a quirky antiques dealer, inadvertently buys a few knickknacks at an auction that were supposed to be in the hands of Edmund Finley. Isadora soon discovers that the heinously evil Finley is completely ruthless in his quest to retrieve his merchandise. Having just rented the empty apartment above her shop to a disillusioned, albeit rich and handsome, ex-cop, Isadora finds herself falling in love and trying to stay alive. Employing a story line that is a bit trickier than expected, a lot of witty sexual dialog, and an endearing assortment of secondary characters-including parents who really care about their adult child''s welfare-this book is a sure winner for aficionados of contemporary romantic suspense. Recommended for public libraries.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1440'),
(11851, 'Hide &amp; Seek', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(11852, 'His She Wolf Warrior', 'Linda Eberharter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(11853, 'The Hob&#39;s Bargain', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(11854, 'Homeport', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(11855, 'Homespun Bride', 'Jillian Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1611'),
(11856, 'Honest Illusions', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roberts ( Hot Ice ; Sacred Sins ) combines conventional elements--sizzling sex, a cunning villain, a captivating story, some tugs at the heartstrings--then adds a twist (the good guys are criminals), and the result is spellbinding. Max Nouvelle is the patriarch of a family of magicians and jewel thieves made up of Lily, his partner in love; Roxanne, his headstrong, beautiful daughter; and Luke, the abused runaway Max had taken in years ago, now a charming young man. They join Max in elaborate performances onstage and in equally elaborate robberies. For years Roxanne and Luke battle constantly, but as young adults they finally realize they are deeply in love. Luke, haunted by the fear that his past will hurt his adopted family, is the target of coldblooded Sam Wyatt, driven by a vow of revenge on the Nouvelles. Luke returns from a forced five-year disappearance for the biggest performance of the Nouvelles'' career--a simultaneously executed grand heist and act of vengeance. Although Roberts''s deft narrative shows occasional excesses (mostly of description and stereotypical characterizations), none of these will deter the reader from taking this diverting journey into a world of magic, passion and mystery. BOMC featured alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Romance, magic, jewel thieves, and revenge combine in this pop novel to provide readers with pure escapism. From love to political intrigue, everything but the kitchen sink appears in a tale that spans three decades. Though a quick read, it features overblown and often flowery prose that may derail readers of Danielle Steel, Janet Dailey, and LaVyrle Spencer. On the other hand, Roberts''s fans will be clamoring at library circulation desks; all the tried and true elements found in Sweet Revenge (Bantam, 1988) and her other paperback romances are also present in her first hardcover. Recommended where Roberts''s works are in demand.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Sue Mevis, Ludlow Memorial Lib., Monroe, Wis.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1444'),
(11857, 'Hostage', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including\n <em>\n  L.A. Requiem\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Voodoo River\n </em>\n ), he produced\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley''s town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley''s back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff''s full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there''s something in Walter Smith''s house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he''ll sacrifice anyone to get it--which puts Talley''s own family in danger. The action speeds to its climax with the velocity of a heat-seeking missile, which makes it almost criminal to slow down long enough to savor the great writing. Take this passage, from a scene when Talley''s face-to-face with the man who''s holding his own wife and daughter hostage:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Talley ... had stepped into the Zone. It was a place of white noise where emotions reigned and reason was meager. Anger and rage were nonstop tickets; panic was an express. He had been all day coming to this, and here he was: the SWAT guys used to talk about it. You went to the Zone, you lost your edge. You''d lose your career; you''d get yourself killed, or, worse, somebody else.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Crais belongs in that tier of writers whose novelistic gifts transcend the thriller category--writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and James Lee Burke.\n <em>\n  Hostage\n </em>\n is a breakout.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of Crais''s fiery third thriller (after L.A. Requiem and Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to the book. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop here, former L.A. SWAT hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay, Calif. plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his demons. The devil clawing Talley''s brain is the dying gaze of a young hostage he failed to save in L.A. Now three outlaws two lowlife brothers and a homicidal maniac have, after botching a robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay. At their mercy are the family''s dad, whom they''ve knocked unconscious, and his teen daughter and preteen son. The whopper of a complication is that the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin, and Benza will do whatever''s necessary to retrieve the incriminatory records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. The narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three outlaws, and as they and the kids they''re holding respond with panic, fear and courage to the escalating tension. It snaps into overdrive as Benza and his goons snatch Talley''s wife and daughter, holding them ransom for the records; the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap turns obviously devised for the silver screen. Thriller vets will have seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered here, has proven himself nothing less. (On-sale date: Aug. 7)Forecast: Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception. A 15-city author tour will enhance his visibility, as will forthcoming film versions of Demolition Angel and of Hostage, which has already been bought for Bruce Willis and MGM; Crais is writing the screenplays for both films.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(11858, 'Hot Dog', 'Molly Coxe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1612'),
(11859, 'How to Marry a Marquis', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(11860, 'Hurog 01 - Dragon Bones', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(11861, 'Hurog 02 - Dragon Blood', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(11862, 'Immortals 01 - The Warlord Wants Forever', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon and rising stars Jaid Black and Kresley Cole unlock the pleasures and perils of embracing the boldest and most powerful of lovers -- 100% alpha males -- in three sensually erotic tales. Discover the physical rapture of his muscular arms.... Become a prisoner of passion, swept away by an encounter with his primal side.... And get lost in the all-consuming thrill of white-hot pursuit by a relentless stranger who may be your most dangerous foe, the best lover you''ve ever had -- or both.Let your fantasies run wild with these unforgettable novellas where bigger is most definitely better -- and playing easy-to-get is the only way to go!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1808'),
(11863, 'The Immortals 01- Wild Magic', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1545'),
(11864, 'Immortals 02 - A Hunger Like No Other', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death.***A mythic warrior who''ll stop at nothing to possess her . . .* After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he''s waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.*A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . .* Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents -- until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae -- and their notorious dark desires -- ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings. *An all-consuming desire . . .* Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?**Includes an excerpt from Kresley Cole''s next romance novel, *No Rest for the Wicked*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(11865, 'The Immortals 02 - Wolf-Speaker', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1544'),
(11866, 'Immortals 03 - No Rest for the Wicked', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this next installment in the *Immortals After Dark Series*, *USA Today* Bestselling author Kresley Cole delivers a scorching tale about a forbidding vampire who lives in the shadows and the beautiful assassin who hunts him there.****A soldier weary of life . . .**Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire -- a nightmare in his mind -- against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead.**A Valkyrie assassin dispatched to destroy him . . .**When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow -- accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters Sebastian, her feelings -- particularly lust -- emerge multiplied. For the first time, she''s unable to complete a kill.**Become competitors in a legendary hunt.**The prize of the month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, and Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win *her*, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity -- as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world -- to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when forced to choose between the vampire she''s falling for and reuniting her family, how can Kaderin live without either?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1806'),
(11867, 'Immortals 04 - Wicked Deeds on a Winter&#39;s Night', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her breathless kiss haunts him...Bowen MacRieve of the Lykae clan was nearly destroyed when he lost the one woman meant for him. The ruthless warrior grew even colder, never taking another to his bed -- until a smoldering encounter with his enemy, Mariketa the Awaited, reawakens his darkest desires. When sinister forces unite against her, the Highlander finds himself using all his strength and skill to keep her alive.His slow, hot touch is irresistible...Temporarily stripped of her powers, Mari is forced to take refuge with her sworn adversary. It''s rumored that no one can tempt Bowen''s hardened heart, but soon passion burns between them. Though a future together is impossible, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.No deed is too wicked for her seduction...If they defeat the evil that surrounds them, can Mari deny Bowen when he demands her body and soul -- or will she risk everything for her fierce protector?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1799'),
(11868, 'Immortals 05 - Dark Needs at Night&#39;s Edge', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her seductive Immortals After Dark series with this tale of a vampire shunned even by his own kind and a beautiful phantom, bound together by a passion they cannot resist.** A RAVEN-HAIRED TEMPTRESS OF THE DARK... NÃ©omi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers -- until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than NÃ©omi herself. A VAMPIRE WARRIOR CONSUMED BY MADNESS... To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth''s brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own. HOW FAR WILL HE GO TO CLAIM HER? Yet even if Conrad can win NÃ©omi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to the dark needs seething inside him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1801'),
(11869, 'Immortals 06 - Dark Desires After Dusk', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: RITA Award-winning author Kresley Cole continues her bestselling Immortals After Dark series with this electrifying tale of a ruthless demon mercenary and the lovely young halfling who enchants him.A seductive beauty he cannever have, yet can''t resist...Cadeon Woede will stop at nothing to atone for the one wrong that will haunt him forever. But once he secures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, Cade finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past.A tormented warrior sheshould fear, but can''t deny...Raised as a human, Holly never knew that some frightening legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the demon''s wicked touch.Surrender to dark desires...Yet just when he earns Holly''s trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs -- and claim his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1800'),
(11870, 'Immortals 07 - Kiss of a Demon King', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this spellbinding story of a demon king trapped by an enchantress for her wanton purposes -- and the scorching aftermath that follows when he turns the tables and claims her as his captive.HIS OBSESSION...Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart.HER DOWNFALL...Rydstrom Woede: the ruthless warrior who vows to keep her at all costs.THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO WANT EACH OTHER THIS MUCH...With each smoldering encounter, their shared hunger only increases. If they can defeat the sinister enemy that stands between them, will Sabine make the ultimate sacrifice for her demon? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to save his sorceress?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(11871, 'Immortals 08 -Deep Kiss of Winter', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1802'),
(11872, 'Immortals 09 - Pleasure of a Dark Prince', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Kresley Cole enraptures again with this seductive tale of a fierce werewolf prince who will stop at nothing to protect the lovely archer he covets from afar. ** A DANGEROUS BEAUTY... ** Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her -- and those she loves. ** AN UNCONTROLLABLE NEED... ** Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own. ** THAT LEAD TO A PLEASURE SO WICKED.... ** From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia''s greatest weakness -- her wanton desire for him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1807'),
(11873, 'Immortals 10 - Demon From The Dark', 'Kresley Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n rom New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch he vows to protect--even from himself. A DANGEROUS DEMON SHE CAN''T RESIST . . . Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he''s pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard. A MADDENING WITCH HE ACHES TO CLAIM . . . Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving. TRAPPED TOGETHER IN A SAVAGE PRISON . . . In order for Malkom and Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When Malkom becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(11874, 'In The Garden 01 - Blue Dahlia', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1713'),
(11875, 'In the Garden 02 - Black Rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1712'),
(11876, 'In the Garden 03 - Red Lily', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Hayley Phillips came to Memphis, all she wanted was a new start for herself and her unborn child, but what she found was a home, the best friends she ever had, and maybe the love of her life. But Harper House is haunted by the ghostly Harper Bride, and Hayley has begun to think that her dreams may not be her own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1439'),
(11877, 'In the Midnight Rain', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1361'),
(11878, 'Indigo Slam', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers who complain that there''s too much wisecracking and cute icon worship in Robert Crais''s books about Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole will be glad to find these traits downplayed (but not totally disappeared) in this story about Cole''s search for a missing printer whose specialty is funny money. The book is centered by the presence of the printer''s three children--especially the motherly 15-year-old Teri and the obnoxious 12-year-old Charles--who hire Elvis from the phone book. Cole, hoping to become the stepfather of the son of his own lady love, gets sucked in by the children''s combination of need and family unity, and soon finds himself in the middle of a shooting war between Russian gangsters, Vietnamese patriots, and ambiguous Federal agents. Previous Elvis outings in paperback:\n  <em>\n   Sunset Express\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Free Fall\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Lullaby Town\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Monkey''s Raincoat\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stalking the Angel\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Voodoo River\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Indigo Slam is a 1997 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the seventh in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(11879, 'Inferno Club 01 - My Wicked Marquess', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1708'),
(11880, 'Inferno Club 02 - My Dangerous Duke', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1709'),
(11881, 'Inferno Club 03 - My Irresistible Earl', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(11882, 'Inheritance 01 - Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1711'),
(11883, 'Inheritance 02 - Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1710'),
(11884, 'Inheritance 03 - Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1673'),
(11885, 'Irish Gallaghers Pub 01 - Jewels Of The Sun', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1599'),
(11886, 'Irish Gallaghers Pub 02 - Tears Of The Moon', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(11887, 'Irish Gallaghers Pub 03 - Heart Of The Sea', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(11888, 'Irish Hearts 01 - Irish Thoroughbred', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1698'),
(11889, 'Irish Hearts 02 - Irish Rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1697'),
(11890, 'Irish Hearts 03 - Irish Rebel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1461'),
(11891, 'It&#39;s In His Kiss', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(11892, 'Ivy Malone 01 - Invisible', 'Lorena McCourtney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1608'),
(11893, 'Jack&#39;s History 01 - Loving Jack', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
(11894, 'Jack&#39;s History 02 - Best Laid Plans', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1714'),
(11895, 'Jack&#39;s History 03 - Lawless', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1511'),
(11896, 'Judge &amp; Jury', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1653'),
(11897, 'Just Ask Reeves 01 - Her Master &amp; Commander', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(11898, 'Just Ask Reeves 02 - Her Officer &amp; Gentleman', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(11899, 'Key Trilogy 01 - Key of Light', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1491'),
(11900, 'Key Trilogy 02 - Key of Knowledge', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1478'),
(11901, 'Key Trilogy 03 - Key of Valor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1482'),
(11902, 'The Key', 'Lynsay Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(11903, 'Kick Ass', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "You just cover a lot of territory and you do it aggressively and you do it fairly and you don''t play favorite sand you don''t take any prisoners. It''s the old school of slash-and-burn metropolitan column writing. You just kick ass. That''s what you do. And that''s what they pay you to do.--Carl Hiaasen Praise for Kick Ass "Readers who know Hiaasen only from his bestselling crime novels will find that this collection of columns from the Miami Herald showcases the same voice singing in a different key . . . He writes with an old-time columnist''s sense of righteous rage and an utterly current and biting wit."--Publishers Weekly "Reveals an angry, alert civic muckraker in the pugilistic vein of Mencken or Royko. . . . Hiaasen cut his teeth as an investigative reporter, and this spirit is strong in both his chosen subjects and his wry attention to unforgiving evidentiary detail. . . . Deeply satisfying."--Kirkus Reviews "Reminiscent of the snarky, opinionated newspaper articles of the great Mark Twain, Hiaasen''s columns are finely crafted little gems."--Booklist "Shows you that Hiaasen''s seemingly implausible fictional premises aren''t really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida."--Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1854'),
(11904, 'A Kingdom Of Dreams', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(11905, 'KM 01 - Split Second', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From #1 bestseller David Baldacci comes a new thriller reminiscent of his phenomenal bestselling debut, Absolute Power.It was only a split second--but that''s all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King''s attention to wander and his "protectee," third-party presidential candidate Clyde Ritter, to die. King retired from the Service in disgrace, and now, eight years later, balances careers as a lawyer and a part-time deputy sheriff in a small Virginia town. Then he hears the news: Once again, a third-party candidate has been taken out of the presidential race--abducted right under the nose of Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell. King and Maxwell form an uneasy alliance, and their search for answers becomes a bid for redemption as they delve into the government''s Witness Protection Program and the mysterious past of Clyde Ritter''s dead assassin. But the truth is never quite what it seems, and these two agents have learned that even one moment looking in the wrong direction can be deadly. Full of shocking twists and turns, and introducing a villian to rival Jackson in Baldacci''s The Winner, SPLIT SECOND is pure, mind-numbing adrenaline to the last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(11906, 'KM 02 - Hour Game', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he''d been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci''s typical terse, fast-paced style in\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  . Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they''re hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco''s Zodiac Killer to Chicago''s infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren''t especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci''s trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn''t quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Why Hour Game\n   </em>\n   : An Exclusive Essay by David Baldacci\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard not to notice that the majority of fictional serial killers are cut from the same mold. When David Baldacci wrote\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  , he went out of his way to create a murderous original. Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay to learn how and why he did it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci''s last book,\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  , was a relatively weak offering from this bestselling author, sunk by a cartoonish villain and absurd plot. But it did introduce two of Baldacci''s (_Absolute Power_, etc.) most memorable characters, former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, in business together as private investigators in smalltown Wrightsburg, Va. Baldacci is back in form, and King and Maxwell reappear in this utterly absorbing, complex mystery-thriller that spins in unexpected directions. The novel starts as a serial-killer thriller, for there''s a murderer at work in Wrightsburg whose selection of victims appears random but whose modus operandi, differing from kill to kill, mimics the work of a notorious serial killerâ€”the Zodiac killer, John Wayne Gacy, etc. The fifth victim is local resident and international tycoon Robert E. Lee Battle. King and Maxwell have already been tangling with the gothic horror show of a dysfunctional Southern family that is the Battles, as they''ve been hired to help prove the innocence of a Battle handyman accused of stealing from the family. Then that handyman is murdered, and the duo (along with a clueless local sheriff and an obnoxious FBI agent) must race to figure out if the same killer is behind all the murders and, if so, why. There are terrific action sequences sprinkled throughout, and plenty of suspense, and the King/Maxwell relationship, while not romantic, emits sparks. It''s Baldacci''s portrayal of smalltown Southern life, however, and his sharp characterizations of the Battles, from the bombastic Bobby and his regal widow to his weird extended family, that give the novel texture and depth: this is Baldacci''s most accomplished tale since his nonthriller\n  <em>\n   Wish You Well\n  </em>\n  , and it rivals that novel in its social commentary. Despite fair clues, few if any readers will ID the villain (villains?) before they''re revealed, and a snappy surprise ending will have Baldacci''s many fans remembering why they love this author so much.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1822'),
(11907, 'KM 03 - Simple Genius', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In a world of secrets, human genius is power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And sometimes it is simply deadly...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world''s most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discoveryÂ—and keep some other secrets underwraps forever...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Former secret service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious ina hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the mutder of a scientist just inside the CIA''s razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon he is uncovering layer after layer of disinformation that shields a stunning world filled with elite mathematics, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid more murder, a seemingly autistic girl''s extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean soon learns enough to put his life at risk. Now more than ever, he needs MichelleÂ—at her bestÂ—to help stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From Michelle''s courageous struggle to defeat her long-buried personal demons to a centuries-old secret that surfaces in the heat of action, SIMPLE GENIUS pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense. The heroes of\n  <strong>\n   Split Second\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Hour Game\n  </strong>\n  , David Baldacci''s #1\n  <strong>\n   New York Times\n  </strong>\n  bestsellers, are backÂ—as you''ve never seen them before.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1825'),
(11908, 'KM 04 - First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Plenty of intense action drives bestseller Baldacci''s stellar fourth novel to feature former Secret Service agents Michelle Maxwell and Sean King (after\n  <em>\n   Simple Genius\n  </em>\n  ). Maxwell and King, D.C. PIs, step on the toes of everyone, including the FBI and the Secret Service. They even manage to bruise the ego of First Lady Jane Cox, who hires them after her 12-year-old niece is kidnapped following a birthday party at Camp David. Baldacci excels at making the improbable believable as one obsessed man, 62-year-old Sam Quarry, takes on the best security the U.S. can muster from his Alabama redoubt. Even more impressive than Quarry''s determined campaign is the ingeniousness with which Baldacci manages to disguise both Quarry''s precise motivation and aims. Meanwhile, Maxwell has to deal with her mother''s death and a host of other personal issues. Baldacci''s careful plotting and confidant depictions of national security procedures make this a thinking man''s thriller.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 21)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Ron McLarty is the perfect choice to present Baldacci''s latest thriller. His clear, strong voice shifts effortlessly among the story''s varying passages of sadness, anger, and irony. His facility with multiple characters of both genders and many ages, races, and regional accents enables the listener easily to keep track of everyone. Music and sound effects, used liberally in the opening sequences, trail off as the story progresses, becoming less frequent and lower in volume with each chapter. Too bad-their use enhances the story." (_\n  <strong>\n   AudioFile\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(11909, 'KM 05 - The Sixth Man', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts Hitchcock and James Bond, it''s the perfect literary cocktail...One of Baldacci''s best." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Richmond Times-Dispatch\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Deliver Us from Evil\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s his eager, expansive imagination that drives his books . . . Like other thriller writers, Baldacci depends on a mixture of inventive plotting, appealing characters, luck, and consistency. Unlike others, his books rely more on characters'' relationships than whiz-bang technology or procedural twists . . . What he offers is in some ways more unusual." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsweek\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    First Family\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rousing success . . . Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   (starred review) for\n   <em>\n    Divine Justice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "High-stakes action, shadowy government agencies, and [a] neo-Cold War backdrop . . . Baldacci pushes his plot ahead at such a blistering pace." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Washington Post\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    The Whole Truth\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, chilling, and full of surprises." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Stone Cold\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Simple Genius\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   First Family\n  </em>\n  , Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.\n  <strong>\n   THE SIXTH MAN\n  </strong>\n  Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy''s attorney, Sean''s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy''s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1831'),
(11910, 'Knight Miscellany 01 - The Duke', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(11911, 'Knight Miscellany 02 - Lord of Fire', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(11912, 'Knight Miscellany 03 - Lord of Ice', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(11913, 'Knight Miscellany 04 - Lady of Desire', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(11914, 'Knight Miscellany 05 - Devil Takes A Bride', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(11915, 'Knight Miscellany 06 - Sin of One Night', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(11916, 'Knight Miscellany 07 - His Wicked Kiss', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(11917, 'L.A. Requiem', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A reckoning has come to the City of Angels... Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn''t trust the cops - he wants someone he knows on the case - so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn''t believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the police at each other''s throats, it''s down to him to find the connection that will reveal the killer. But nailing the murderer means choosing between the two people he cares most about...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1890'),
(11918, 'A Lady in Waiting', 'Samantha Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(11919, 'The Lady of Loyalty House', 'Justin H. McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1624'),
(11920, 'Lady Pirate', 'Lynsay Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(11921, 'A Lady&#39;s Measure', 'Robin Schone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/795'),
(11922, 'The Lake House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(11923, 'Last Call 1 - Kamikaze', 'Moira Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(11924, 'Last Call 2 - Hurricane', 'Moira Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(11925, 'Last Call 3 - Tequila Sunrise', 'Moira Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(11926, 'Last Call 4 - Virgin Daiquiri', 'Moira Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(11927, 'The Last Detective', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t start reading\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n with much on your calendar. This tense, satisfying thriller will glue you to your chair, as private eye Elvis Cole--the star of eight previous Robert Crais novels, prior to the Cole-less\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hostage\n </em>\n --faces his toughest case: the abduction of his girlfriend''s son, 10-year-old Ben Chenier, who was staying with Elvis when he was snatched.\n</p>\n<p>\n Panic at Ben''s disappearance turns to terror when the kidnapper phones to reveal his apparent motive, a dark secret from Elvis''s past. But the plot thickens and twists, and then twists again, as Elvis and his longtime buddy, tough guy Joe Pike, race the clock against a group of villains as sinister as they are capable. The author mixes Elvis''s first-person narration with third-person sections that describe other points of view--a risky technique, but Crais makes it work. He also does a fine job resurrecting the wisecracking Elvis of earlier books while imbuing him with a new depth and darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n This dazzlingly plotted, crisply told story is threaded with real detection (what a rarity!) and peopled by characters you can''t help but care about--including Carol Starkey, the haunted bomb-squad cop from\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , who''s now a juvenile-abduction detective. Crais has long been getting better with each book, and\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n continues the pattern.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Last Detective is a 2003 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the ninth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was a finalist for the Audie award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1895');
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(11928, 'Last Man Standing', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Last Man Standing\n  </em>\n  has the essential elements of a terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero, dirty dealings in the nation''s bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster plot. Web London, a member of the FBI''s Hostage Rescue Team, froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web''s brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He''s certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B. Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage. It may seem as though Baldacci gives away the mastermind too soon, but both the bad guys and the good guys are complex enough that there''s plenty of punch all the way to the last page.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Last year''s Wish You Well, a historical family drama set in rural Virginia, proved that Baldacci, previously known for his thrillers (particularly his debut, Absolute Power), can do much more than supply maximum suspense. His latest is another exciting thriller, but one that hasn''t forsaken the ambitions of Wish You Well, plumbing the emotions and exploring the shadings of human nature in an impressive way. And for the first time, Baldacci has created characters that readers will demand to see back in a sequel. He has chosen an immensely interesting subject: the (real-life) FBI Hostage Rescue Team, a force so elite that many of the Seals, Delta Force grads and other special ops who apply to it don''t make the cut. Baldacci''s hero is hostage rescue team superstar Web London, who inexplicably (to himself and others) freezes during an operation that leaves the rest of his team dead; hence, the book''s title. Web''s investigation into the massacre involves him with several bands of criminals, most notably a white supremacist terrorist cell, a gang of D.C. drug peddlers headed by a charismatic giant, and a secret group involved in both terror and drug activities. At the same time, Web''s exploration into why he froze leads him to psychoanalysis and hypnosis, to budding romance and, ultimately, to revelations that tie together all the strands and questions of the immensely complicated plot. This is Baldacci''s most accomplished thriller. The action, conspiratorial and overt, shifting from urban to rural and back, is nearly nonstop and expertly drawn; heroes and villains alike are believable and equally flawed; and there''s a newfound maturity of tone here, a somber acceptance of the suffering that necessarily attends human life. (On-sale Nov. 6)Forecast: The American flag waving on the book''s cover will draw readers'' eyes; the strong title and the Baldacci name will carry them to the cash register. Expect hefty sales. Simultaneous audio cassette (abridged and unabridged), audio CD (abridged) and large-print editions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1823'),
(11929, 'League 01 - Born of the Night', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1741'),
(11930, 'League 02 - Born of Fire', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1742'),
(11931, 'League 03 -  Paradise City', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1753'),
(11932, 'League 04 - Fire &amp; Ice', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1740'),
(11933, 'Library of the World&#39;s Best Mystery and Detective', 'N/A', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS TITLE IS AN OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT BOOK. THE QUALITY OF THE CONVERTED EBOOK WILL VARY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(11934, 'Lily Bard 1 - Shakespeare&#39;s Landlord', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(11935, 'Lily Bard 2 - Shakespeare&#39;s Champion', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(11936, 'Lily Bard 3 - Shakespeare&#39;s Christmas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(11937, 'Lily Bard 4 - Shakespeare&#39;s Trollop', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(11938, 'Lily Bard 5 - Shakespeare&#39;s Counselor', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(11939, 'Lion&#39;s Bride', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(11940, 'Lord John 01 - and the Private Matter', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1877'),
(11941, 'Lord John 01 - The Private Matter', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1676'),
(11942, 'Lord John 02 - Brotherhood of the Blade', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1677'),
(11943, 'Lord John 02 - Brotherhood of the Blade', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1878'),
(11944, 'Lord John 03 - and the Succubus', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1876'),
(11945, 'Lord John 03 - Lord John and the Succubus', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1675'),
(11946, 'Lord of the Rings 00 - The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(11947, 'Lord of the Rings 01 - The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(11948, 'Lord of the Rings 02 - The Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(11949, 'Lord of the Rings 03 - The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(11950, 'Lords of Avalon 01 - Sword of Darkness', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(11951, 'Lords of Avalon 02 - Knight Of Darkness', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(11952, 'Love With the Proper Husband', 'Victoria Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(11953, 'Lucien&#39;s Fall', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(11954, 'Lucky You', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(11955, 'Lullaby Town', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lullaby Town is a 1992 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the third in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for both the Anthony Award and the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lullaby Town is Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole (The Monkey''s Raincoat, 1987--not reviewed) goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who''s since developed deep pockets (courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw) and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It''ll take all of Elvis''s wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser, but without Spenser''s nasty/noble attitudinizing--and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1891'),
(11956, 'Lycan 01 - A Certain Wolfish Charm', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In Lydia dare''s debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves! He gets crankier and crankier as the moon gets full... The rules of Society can be beastly-especially when you''re a werewolf and it''s that irritating time of the month. Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, is rich, powerful, and sinfully handsome, and has spent his entire life creating scandal and mayhem. It doesn''t help his wolfish temper at all that Miss Lily Rutledge seems not the least bit afraid of him, and in fact, may be as untamable as he is... A woman whose charm is stronger than the moon... When Lily''s beloved nephew''s behavior becomes inexplicably wild, she turns to Simon, the boy''s cousin and guardian, for help. But Simon''s idea of assistance is far different than hers, and Lily finds herself ensconced in his house and engaged to the rogue. They both may have bitten off more than they can chew when each begins to discover the other''s darkest secrets... "A Certain Wolfish Charm has bite! With its sexy hero, engaging heroine, and sizzling sexual tension, you won''t want to put it down even when the moon is full." -Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling Author of Wed Him Before You Bed Him (20100315)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(11957, 'Lycan 02 - Tall, Dark and Wolfish', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(11958, 'Lycan 03 - Wolf Next Door', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(11959, 'Lycan 04 - The Taming of the Wolf', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(11960, 'Lycan 05 - It Happened One Bite (Gentlemen Vampires 01)', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From a castle in the rugged Scottish Highlands to the glittering salons of Edinburgh high society, the playground for the rich, titled and undead will never be the same when ultra-correct gentleman vampire Lord Kettering and feisty witch Blaire Lindsay make sparks fly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1845'),
(11961, 'Lycan 06 -  In the Heat of the Bite (Gentlemen Vampires 02)', 'Lydia Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An amusing, romantic adventure with quirky, likable characters. A remarkably delightful read that will hook you from the first page. 4 1/2 Star Review, Top Pick of the Month (_RT Book Reviews_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Lydia Dare:\n  <br />\n  "Heartwarming romance, engaging characters, and engrossing plot twists...fast becoming ''must buy'' books. I recommend them all."\n  <br />\n  -Star-Crossed Romance\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chivalry is far from undead...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew Halkett, Earl of Blodswell, is one of the few men in the ton who can claim to be a knight in shining armor- because that''s precisely what he was before being turned into a vampyre. When he spies a damsel in distress in the midst of a storm in Hyde Park, his natural instinct is to rush to her aid...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But not every woman needs to be rescued...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Weather-controlling witch Rhiannon Sinclair isn''t caught in a storm-she''s the cause of it. She''s mortified to have been caught making trouble by the imposing earl, but she doesn''t need any man-never has, and is sure she never will...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Rhiannon encounters Matthew again, her powers go awry and his supernatural abilities run amok. Between the two of them, the ton is thrown into an uproar. There''s never been a more tempestuous scandal...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for The Taming of the Wolf:\n  <br />\n  "A truly satisfying read...Ms. Dare, I''m ready for the next book please."\n  <br />\n  -Once Upon a Romance\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A compelling read that left me turning pages."\n  <br />\n  -Fang-tastic Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This series keeps getting better and better...flawless."\n  <br />\n  -The Book Girl 5/5\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20110524)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1846'),
(11962, 'MacAllister 01 - Master Of Desire', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1748'),
(11963, 'MacAllisters 02 - Claiming the Highlander', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1749'),
(11964, 'MacAllisters 03 - Born In Sin', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1750'),
(11965, 'MacAllisters 04 - Taming the Scotsman', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1751'),
(11966, 'MacAllisters 05 - Midsummer&#39;s Knight.doc', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1744'),
(11967, 'MacGregor 01 - Playing the odds', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1498'),
(11968, 'MacGregor 02 - Tempting Fate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1788'),
(11969, 'MacGregor 03 - All the Possibilities', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1729'),
(11970, 'MacGregor 04 - One Man&#39;s Art', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1483'),
(11971, 'MacGregor 05 -  For Now, Forever', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(11972, 'MacGregor 06 - Rebellion', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1499'),
(11973, 'MacGregor 07 - In From The Cold', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(11974, 'MacGregor 08 - The Macgregor Brides', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1597'),
(11975, 'MacGregor 09 - The Winning Hand', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(11976, 'MacGregor 10 - The MacGregor Grooms', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1506'),
(11977, 'MacGregor 11 - The Perfect Neighbor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1492'),
(11978, 'MacKade Brothers 01 - The Pride Of Jared MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1727'),
(11979, 'MacKade Brothers 02 - The Return Of Rafe MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1758'),
(11980, 'MacKade Brothers 03 - The Heart Of Devin MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(11981, 'MacKade Brothers 04 - The Fall Of Shane MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(11982, 'Maclean Curse 01 - How To Abduct A Highland Lord', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(11983, 'Maclean Curse 02 - To Scotland with Love', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(11984, 'The Magnificent Rogue', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kathryn Kentyre has been said to be the illegitimate daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots. For 16 years, Queen Elizabeth has kept her tucked away in the Midlands. With Mary''s execution imminent, Elizabeth hits on a daft plan: she coerces the imprisoned pirate Robert MacDarren into marrying Kathryn and taking her to Craighdhu, his home in--of all places--Scotland. Kathryn, who has endured a wretched life in the home of a sadistic vicar, philosophically toddles off with Robert. En route to Scotland, the reluctant bridegroom establishes a "handfast" marriage, which he can dissolve after one year (thus disposing of his politically dangerous spouse) provided Kathryn does not bear a child. Robert''s insistence on sleeping with Kathryn is illogical in light of the terms of the marriage and his wish to separate after a year. As Johansen''s ( The Tiger Prince ) plot makes its desultory way through increasing romantic and political entanglements toward an ending that is more incredible than surprising, Kathryn establishes herself at Craighdhu, courageously defending her new home and family from one who would use her as a pawn in a plan to seize power.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A princess and a warrior-chief are swept from the glittering courts of Elizabethan England to the storm-tossed cliffs of the Scottish Highlands, in an engrossing tale of peril and desire.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(11985, 'Married to the Viscount', 'Sabrina Jeffries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(11986, 'A MATTER OF CHOICE for EPUB', 'Landon, Laura', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(11987, 'Maximum Ride 01 - The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1589'),
(11988, 'Maximum Ride 02 - School&#39;s Out Forever', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1586'),
(11989, 'Maximum Ride 03 - Saving the World &amp; Other Extreme Sports', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1591'),
(11990, 'Maximum Ride 04 - The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(11991, 'Maximum Ride 05 - Max', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1578'),
(11992, 'Maximum Ride 06 - Fang', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1590'),
(11993, 'McBain&#39;s Bride', 'Tara Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1615'),
(11994, 'Mercy 01 - Moon Called', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(11995, 'Mercy 02 - Blood Bound', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1421'),
(11996, 'Mercy 03 - Iron Kissed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(11997, 'Mercy 03 - Iron Kissed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1596'),
(11998, 'Mercy 04 - Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(11999, 'Mercy 05 - Silver Borne', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1424'),
(12000, 'Mercy 06 - River Marked', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(12001, 'Merriam-Webster&#39;s Crossword Puzzle Dictionary', 'Merriam-Webster Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1812'),
(12002, 'Merriam-Webster&#39;s Dictionary &amp; Thesaurus', 'Merriam-Webster Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1811'),
(12003, 'Michael Bennett 01 - Step on a Crack', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(12004, 'Midnight Breed 01 - Kiss of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  **Was Free at both Amazon and Fictionwise; downloaded at both.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwellâ€™s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this nightâ€”or this manâ€”is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existedâ€”a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kindâ€”and the unwitting humans existing alongside themâ€”from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.Here, in the arms of the Breedâ€™s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwellâ€™s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this nightâ€”or this manâ€”is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existedâ€”a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kindâ€”and the unwitting humans existing alongside themâ€”from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.Here, in the arms of the Breedâ€™s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1687'),
(12005, 'Midnight Breed 02 - Kiss of Crimson', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his worldâ€”a shifting, shadowed place where bands of Rogue vampires stalk the night, cutting a swath of terror.Haunted by visions of a dark future, Dante lives and fights like there is no tomorrow. Tess is a complication he does not needâ€”but now, with his brethren under attack, he must shield Tess from a growing threat that includes Dante himself. For with one reckless, irresistible kiss, she has become an inextricable part of his underworld realmâ€¦and his touch awakens her to hidden gifts, desires, and hungers she never knew she possessed. Bonded by blood, Dante and Tess must work together to thwart deadly enemies, even as they discover a passion that transcends the boundaries of life itselfâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1686'),
(12006, 'Midnight Breed 03 - Midnight Awakening', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Bostonâ€™s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her. She must learn to harness this gift, and for that she can turn to only one manâ€”the deadliest of the Breed warriors, Tegan.No stranger to loss, Tegan knows Eliseâ€™s pain. He knows fury, but when he slays his enemies it is with ice in his veins. He is perfect in his self-control, until Elise seeks his aid in her personal war. An unholy alliance is forgedâ€”a bond that will link them by blood and vowâ€”and plunge them into a tempest of danger, desire, and the darkest passions of the heart. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1681'),
(12007, 'Midnight Breed 04 - Midnight Rising', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(12008, 'Midnight Breed 05 - Veil of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bound by blood, addicted to danger, they''ll enter the darkestâ€”and most eroticâ€”place of all.A warrior trained in bullets and blades, Renata cannot be bested by any manâ€”vampire or mortal. But her most powerful weapon is her extraordinary psychic abilityâ€”a gift both rare and deadly. Now a stranger threatens her hard-won independenceâ€”a golden-haired vampire who lures her into a realm of darknessâ€¦and pleasure beyond imagining. A combat-loving adrenaline junkie, Nikolai dispenses his own justice to enemies of the Breedâ€”and his latest quarry is a ruthless assassin. One woman stands in his way: the seductive, cool-as-ice bodyguard, Renata. But Renataâ€™s powers are put to the test when a loved one, a child, is threatened and sheâ€™s forced to turn to Niko for help. As the two join forces, as desire fans the flames of a deeper hunger, Renataâ€™s life is under siege by a man who offers the exquisite pleasure of a blood bondâ€”and a passion that could save or doom them both forever.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1684'),
(12009, 'Midnight Breed 06 - Ashes of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1685'),
(12010, 'Midnight Breed 07 - Shades of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a frozen wilderness steeped in darkness, the lines between good and evil, lover and enemy, are never black or white but drawn in Shades of Midnight.Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake. For bush pilot Alexandra Maguire, the killings stir memories of a horrific event she witnessed as a child and evoke in her the inexplicable sense of otherness she has long felt within herself but never fully understood . . . until a darkly seductive stranger with secrets of his own enters her world.Sent from Boston on a mission to investigate the savage attacks and stop the slaughter, vampire warrior Kade has his own reasons for returning to the frigid, forbidding place of his birth. Haunted by a secret shame, Kade soon realizes the stunning truth of the threat he facesâ€“a threat that will jeopardize the fragile bond he has formed with the courageous, determined young woman who arouses his deepest passions and most primal hungers. But in bringing Alex into his world of blood and darkness, Kade must confront both his own personal demons and the even greater evil that could destroy all he holds dear.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1682'),
(12011, 'Midnight Breed 08 - Taken by Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1683'),
(12012, 'Millenium 01 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(12013, 'Millenium 02 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(12014, 'Millenium 03 - The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(12015, 'Miss Wonderful', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(12016, 'The Mists of Midnight', 'Michelle M. Pillow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paranormal Romance. 79341 words long. First published by New Concepts Publishing, April 2004\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(12017, 'The Monkey&#39;s Raincoat', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Monkey''s Raincoat is a 1987 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the first in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike. Cole is a tough, wisecracking ex-Ranger with an irresistible urge to do what is morally right. The novel won the 1988 Anthony Award for "Best First Novel" and the 1988 Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for "Best Paperback Original" at Bouchercon XVIV and has since been named one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Explanation of the novel''s title | Plot summary | Trivia | Awards and nominations | Release details | Footnotes | Main character histories\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1896'),
(12018, 'Mr Impossible', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(12019, 'MS 01 - Skin Tight', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But who would want to hurt a former Florida state investigator? The answer is plenty of peopleas Stranahan soon finds himself acquainted with a litter of nefarious players, including a hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook, a lawyer of questionable repute who advertises on billboards, and a TV show host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity. The whole thing gets downright harrowing for the ex-cop in one of Hiaasen''s most breathtaking, madcap romps everwhere even a plastic surgeon with extremely shaky hands waits to wring Stranahan''s neck....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1860'),
(12020, 'MS 02 - Skinny Dip', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can''t tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot-and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer. Now Joey wants to get revenge on Chaz and Mick''s happy to help her.But in swampy South Florida, separating lies from truths and stupidity from brilliance isn''t easy. Especially when you''re after a guy like Chaz-who''s bad at murder, great at fraud, and just terrible at getting caught...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1861'),
(12021, 'My Fair Viking', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(12022, 'Naked Came The Manatee', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida''s most talented writers--including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard--features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(12023, 'Nature Girl', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Honey Santana ''self-proclaimed queen of lost causes '' has a Plan. She''s working on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference and dinner-time telemarketers. She''s also taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress to Dismal Key '' one of the Everglades'' Ten ThousandIslands '' for a gentle lesson in civility. What Honey doesn''t know is that lurking in the island''s undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, half-blood Seminole Indian and wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind; and Honey''s deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with most of his fingers surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles, and intent on revenge. A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen''s extraordinary universe, anything can happen ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1858'),
(12024, 'Night Tales 01 - Night Shift', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(12025, 'Night Tales 02 - Night Shadow', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1526'),
(12026, 'Night Tales 03 - Nightshade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(12027, 'Night Tales 04 - Night Smoke', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(12028, 'Night Tales 05 - Night Shield', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1496'),
(12029, 'No Rest for the Witches', 'Cheyenne McCray, MaryJanice Davidson, Christine Warren, Lori Handeland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(12030, 'Nobodys Baby But Mine', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(12031, 'North Star', 'Karly Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a bitter divorce, Kate and her battle-scarred kids escape to the vast but rundown property of North Star.\n <br />\n \\tIt doesn''t take long for her realise that she''s going to need every ounce of determination to restore the homestead to its former glory and fulfil\n <br />\n \\ther dream of turning it into a bush retreat. Can Kate face her demons and put her past to rest and find happiness and her true destiny?  Since her divorce a year ago,\n <br />\n \\tKate Thurston feels like she''s lurched from one disaster to another. Her teenage daughter, Georgia, seems to have morphed into a monster overnight, and her son Liam breaks\n <br />\n \\ther heart with his sad brown eyes. When Kate receives news that her grandfather has bequeathed her North Star, the vast property that has been in her family for generations,\n <br />\n \\tit feels like the perfect opportunity to flee the hectic pace of city life for a calmer rural existence. As soon as she arrives at North Star, however, Kate realises she''s going\n <br />\n \\tto need every ounce of determination to restore the rundown homestead to its former glory and fulfil her dream of turning it into a bush retreat. And as for the farm,\n <br />\n \\twell it''s in utter disarray. As she starts to make headway with the homestead''s restoration, and falls for a local bloke, Kate finally feels like life is going right for her.\n <br />\n \\tThen her ex-husband comes to town and triggers a series of events that will change her life forever ...In the tradition of Fleur McDonald and Rachael Treasure, with dollops of\n <br />\n \\tmystery and lashing suspense suspense, North Star will have you reading through the night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(12032, 'A Notorious Love', 'Sabrina Jeffries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(12033, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s 01 - The Last Honest Woman', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1501'),
(12034, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s 02 - Dance To The Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1476'),
(12035, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s 03 - Skin Deep', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1466'),
(12036, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s 04 - Without A Trace', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(12037, 'An Offer from A Gentleman', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(12038, 'On the Way to the Wedding', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(12039, 'Once a Cowboy', 'Linda Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1618'),
(12040, 'Once and Always', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(12041, 'Once More With Feeling', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(12042, 'An Outback Marriage', 'A. B. (Banjo) Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1602'),
(12043, 'Outlander 01- Cross Stitch', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(12044, 'Outlander 02 - Dragonfly In Amber', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1646'),
(12045, 'Outlander 03 - Voyager', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(12046, 'Outlander 04 - The Drums of Autumn', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(12047, 'Outlander 05 - The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon''s fifth installment in the __ will thrill to Gabaldon''s trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of\n  <em>\n   The Fiery Cross\n  </em>\n  . In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment!\n  <em>\n   --Alison Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Get ready for Gabaldon. Starting in July, the publisher will set the stage for her latest by actively promoting her backlist titles featuring 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In the new novel, Jamie learns from his 20th-century wife that the American Revolution is coming.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1679'),
(12048, 'Outlander 06 - Breath of Snow and Ashes', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1645'),
(12049, 'Outlander 07 - An Echo in the Bone', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1678'),
(12050, 'Outlaw Viking', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(12051, 'Paradise', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(12052, 'Patricia Amble 01 - Love Me If You Must', 'Nicole Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(12053, 'Pellinor 01 - The Gift', 'Alison Croggon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the classic spirit of epic fantasy comes this glittering saga of a young girl who learns she possesses an uncanny gift â€” and is destined to use it to save her world from a terrifying evil.Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She doesn''t yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble School of Pellinor and enables her to see the world as no other can. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true identity and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now, she and her mysterious teacher must embark on a treacherous, uncertain journey through a time and place where the forces of darkness wield an otherworldly terror.The first book in a projected quartet, Alison Croggon''s epic about Maerad and her remarkable yet dangerous gift is a beautiful, unforgettable tale. Presented as a new translation of an ancient text, THE NAMING evokes the rich and complex landscape of Annar, a legendary world just waiting to be discovered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1871');
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(12054, 'Pellinor 03 - The Crow', 'Alison Croggon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Croggon backtracks along her time line to chronicle Hem''s grueling and poignant struggles during The Riddle (2006). Hem''s in Turbansk, lonely and belligerent, resisting his Bard schooling. The poisonous Dark threatens the Suderain, and the Black Army marches on Turbansk. As battle begins and the city is besieged, Saliman allows Hem to stay rather than fleeing with the other children. Hem''s healing powers emerge, and readers see that he, too, has a predestined role in saving Edil-Amarandh--fully as cryptic as Maerad''s role. Escaping the city, living in caves and training in spy techniques all help Hem when he secretly joins a rank of child-slave warriors. By the end, Hem is scarred and saddened forever, but an Elidhu has given him luminous new knowledge in the form of music that may help Maerad complete the Treesong. Saliman''s love sustains Hem through these oppressively grim times. This serious penultimate epic, filled with Tolkien-like images, is emotionally astute and brimming with vivid detail. (map, pronunciation key, appendices) (Fantasy. YA) --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2007\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroineâ€™s brother discovers his own hidden gift â€” and the role he must play in battling the Dark.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white crow. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and an orphan girl named Zelika to join the Lightâ€™s resistance forces. It is there that Hem has a vision and learns that he, too, has a part to play in Maeradâ€™s quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong. As THE CROW continues the epic tale begun with THE NAMING and THE RIDDLE, Alison Croggon creates a world of astounding beauty overshadowed by a terrifying darkness, a world where Maerad and Hem must prepare to wage their final battle for the Light.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1870'),
(12055, 'Pellinor 04 - The Singing', 'Alison Croggon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 8 Upâ€”In this concluding volume in the quartet, Maerad and her brother Hem face war, flood, and plague as they try to find one other and defeat the Nameless One. Now they have half of the lost Treesong, the powerful magic song known only in legend and prophecy. Both of them have bardic magic, and they are pushed to the limits of their endurance and abilities as they face an enticing and almost overwhelmingly powerful enemy. The grim tone here, particularly as Maerad begins to perceive horrific visions from the past, is consistent with the sense of imminent danger, and Croggon brings together a variety of elements and characters from the previous volumes to build to a compelling confrontation. Her device of presenting the novels as the translation of an epic from a lost civilization allows her to present details about the lives of the characters after the conclusion of the story and provide background information. While not a starting point for new readers, fans of the series will enjoy seeing the final stage of Maerad''s transformation from a slave to her world''s savior, and they will once again be drawn into this complex and gripping tale.â€”_Beth L. Meister, Milwaukee Jewish Day School, WI_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the fourth and final book of the Pellinor quartet, the primary focus shifts back from Hem to his sister, Maerad, the seriesâ€™ heroine. After saving Innail from a desperate attack by the forces of evil, Maerad and her mentor, Cadvan, set out once more on their quest to solve the riddle of the treesong. Maerad and Hem reunite to set their talismans and powers against the increasingly menacing forces of evil. From the refinement of character development to the dramatic portrayal of impending doom, the clearly written narrative creates a fitting conclusion to this epic high-fantasy series. Grades 7-12. --Carolyn Phelan\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1868'),
(12056, 'Pellionor 02 - The Riddle', 'Alison Croggon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second book in the highly acclaimed Pellinor series Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, pursued by both the Light and the Dark, are seeking the Riddle of the Treesong - the key to restoring peace in the ravaged kingdom. But is Maerad herself the greatest riddle of them all? Maerad''s epic quest continues as she travels from terrifying seas to vast stretches of glacial wilderness, drawn ever closer to her enemy the Winterking - the strongest ally of the Nameless One and the greatest tyrant of them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1869'),
(12057, 'Perfect Wife', 'Lynsay Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/493'),
(12058, 'Petals on the River', 'Kathleen E. Woodiwiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Falsely convicted of being a thief, lovely high-born Shemaine O''Hearn arrives in colonial Virginia from London on a convict ship and is sold as an indentured servant to Gage Thornton, a local shipbuilder in need of a nanny for his young son. Shemaine is relieved to have such a handsome and generous master and eagerly undertakes unfamiliar domestic tasks in Gage''s rustic cabin on the edge of the American wilderness. Even persistent rumors that Gage was responsible for his wife''s violent and untimely death don''t trouble her for long. But as Shemaine and Gage struggle to deal honorably with their growing desire in such close quarters, they''re beset by enemies, both nearby and from afar, who are determined to rob them of their newfound happiness. Woodiwiss''s lush, leisurely writing and heartwarming story will fully satisfy many of her loyal fans.\n  <em>\n   --Ellen Edwards\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laural Merlington does a terrific job of characterization in this classic Woodiwiss romance. Although over the past 20 years the romance genre has matured along with changing mores, Woodiwiss has not altered her style. Her prose remains lush and flowery; her characters are extremes: good/evil, beautiful/ugly, wealthy/poor. Her heroines are unrealistic even within the romance-as-fantasy concept. Shemaine O''Hearn hasn''t bathed in three months, has spent the prior four days in a dark, rat-infested closet, and yet every man within sight lusts after her to the point of desperation. Women are vindictive toward her because she''s beautiful. Merlington uses Irish and English accents to capture the characters'' spirits with cadence and lilts, and she is able to move from demure to fiery, vulgar to innocent with barely a breath. Unfortunately, even her expert ministrations can''t overcome the overall tedium of the story. Not recommended except where Woodiwiss has a very strong following.?Jodi L. Israel, Norwood, Mass.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(12059, 'Pine Creek Highlander 01 - Charming the Highlander', 'Janet Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(12060, 'Pine Creek Highlander 02  - Loving The Highlander', 'Janet Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(12061, 'Pine Creek Highlander 03 - Wedding The Highlander', 'Janet Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(12062, 'Pine Creek Highlander 04 - Tempting The Highlander', 'Janet Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(12063, 'Pine Creek Highlander 05 - Only &amp; A Highlander', 'Janet Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(12064, 'THE PIRATE LORD', 'Sabrina Jeffries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(12065, 'Promises', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(12066, 'Protector 01 - First Test', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(12067, 'Protector 02 - Page', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1536'),
(12068, 'Protector 03 - Squire', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1539'),
(12069, 'Protector 04 - Lady Knight', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1537'),
(12070, 'Psy/Changeling 01 - Slave To Sensation', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(12071, 'Psy/Changeling 01.5 - The Cannibal Princess', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(12072, 'Psy/Changeling 02 - Visions of Heat', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(12073, 'Psy/Changeling 03 - Caressed By Ice', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(12074, 'Psy/Changeling 04 - Mine to Possess', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(12075, 'Psy/Changeling 05 - Hostage to Pleasure', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(12076, 'Psy/Changeling 06 - Branded by Fire', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(12077, 'Psy/Changeling 07 - Blaze of Memory', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(12078, 'Psy/Changeling 07.5 - A Gift for Kit', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(12079, 'Psy/Changeling 08 - Bonds of Justice', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(12080, 'Psy/Changeling 09 - Play of Passion', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(12081, 'Psy/Changeling 10 - Kiss of Snow', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The hardcover debut of\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Nalini Singh and her highly acclaimed Psy/Changeling novels.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would''ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Sienna changes the rules-and suddenly, there is no more distance, only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they strip away each other''s secrets in a storm of raw emotion, they must also ready themselves for a far more vicious fight...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A deadly enemy is out to destroy SnowDancer, striking at everything they hold dear, but it is Sienna''s darkest secret that may yet savage the pack that is her home-and the alpha who is its heartbeat.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nalini Singh\n  </strong>\n  is passionate about writing. Though she''s traveled as far afield as the deserts of China, the Highlands of Scotland, and the temples of Japan, it is the journey of the imagination that fascinates her most. She''s beyond delighted to be able to follow her dream as a writer. Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(12082, 'Psy/Changeling 3.5 - Beat Of Temptation', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(12083, 'Psy/Changeling 5.5 - Stroke of Enticement', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(12084, 'Public Secrets', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1460'),
(12085, 'Pure Temptation', 'Connie Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(12086, 'Pure Wildfire 01 - Sunfire', 'Lynne Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(12087, 'Pure Wildfire 02 - Icefire', 'Lynne Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(12088, 'Pure Wildfire 03 - Moonfire', 'Lynne Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(12089, 'Pure Wildfire 04 - Thunderfire', 'Lynne Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(12090, 'The Pursuit Of Marriage', 'Victoria Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(12091, 'The Quentins', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1667'),
(12092, 'The Quickie', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1658'),
(12093, 'Quidditch Through the Ages', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(12094, 'Quinn Brothers 01 - Sea Swept', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1486'),
(12095, 'Quinn Brothers 02 - Rising Tides', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1518'),
(12096, 'Quinn Brothers 03 - Inner Harbor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Inner Harbor\n  </em>\n  , the highly anticipated close to the story of "the lives and loves of three brothers on the windswept shores of the Chesapeake Bay" that began in\n  <em>\n   Sea Swept\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rising Tides\n  </em>\n  , finds Philip, the last unwed Quinn brother, juggling his high-powered advertising job and his newfound family duty of helping to care for his young adopted brother, Seth. When Dr. Sybill Griffin shows up in the sleepy town of St. Christopher, Philip makes room in his hectic schedule for the mysterious woman who stirs his senses and threatens to steal his heart. And while Sybill can''t deny her own growing feelings for the charismatic Quinn, the secret connection to Seth that she hides may destroy any chance that the two young lovers have at happiness. Full of heartwarming familial moments, tender romance, and a touch of tension,\n  <em>\n   Inner Harbor\n  </em>\n  is an outstanding conclusion to a truly stunning trilogy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cam was the speed-chasing playboy and Ethan the taciturn waterman. But former street hustler Philip Quinn was the stylish city dweller who took one look at Dr. Sybill Griffin and fell hard. Sybill made her mark in observational psychology, always ten paces back from the action. This time Philip wont let her avoid the fray. He finds Sybill attractive in ways he refuses to admit. When her relationship to his brother Seth is uncovered, Philip must reconcile his needs and hers with those of Seth. This final novel in the Quinn Brothers trilogy is equally as strong as the prior two (e.g., Rising Tides, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/1/98). Guy Lemonier is terrific at vocalizing Philip and particularly Sybill, whose cold, unemotional facade gives frosty new meaning. Roberts is at her best here, from the multifaceted characterizations to the carefully crafted plot twists. This, and the other titles in the series, are excellent additions to fiction collections.Jodi L. Israel, Jamaica Plain, MA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1446'),
(12097, 'Quinn Brothers 04 - Chesapeake Blue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1510'),
(12098, 'The Quinn&#39;s Christmas', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1445'),
(12099, 'Raven Duology 01 - Raven&#39;s Shadow', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(12100, 'Raven Duology 02 - Raven&#39;s Strike', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(12101, 'Realm Immortal: King of the Unblessed', 'Michelle M. Pillow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Immortality has a way of changing fate. Merrick, dark elfin King of Valdis, had once been heir to all that was good-happiness and pleasure his domain. Now, trapped as the ruler of mischief, king of necessary evil, he stands on a precipice of choice. On one side, his estranged brother, now ruler of what should have been Merrick''s and, on the other, King Lucien of the Damned. Both would sway him. Damnation is winning. Lady Juliana of Bellemare is from a human family, protected by the blessed, coveted by the damned. Betrothed to an old friend of her father''s, Juliana is resigned to living out her days close to her childhood home, longing for an adventure, never dreaming she''d get what she wished for. When her fiancÃ©e is murdered and the children of Bellemare are stolen, Juliana is sent on a quest in a strange realm where appearances are deceiving. Merrick brings more adventure and passion than any woman could want. Can she withstand the temptations of the unblessed king? The spell she weaves over him is more than he can resist and, desperate to be the one to rule her, Merrick offers her a choice; either come with him until he tires of her...or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(12102, 'Reckless', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(12103, 'Red Dust', 'Fleur McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1619'),
(12104, 'The Reef', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Nora Roberts returns to a familiar subject-treasure, the kind of treasure found among the shipwrecks in the balmy waters of the West Indies and the treasure of love--love of family, love between the unlikeliest of partners, love found and lost and found again. Marine archeologist Tate Beaumont finds herself thrown together with salvager Matthew Lassiter, eight years after he brutally crushed her first stirrings of young love, as they again attempt to locate Angelique''s Curse, an amulet heavy with jewels and history, tainted by blood and madness. An earlier expedition ended in betrayal and tragedy, changing both their lives forever and leaving their families inextricably entwined. Matthew has an agenda of his own: to draw out Tate''s former employer, the unscrupulous and mysterious millionaire responsible for killing his father and maiming his uncle--who will stop at nothing to get his hands on Angelique''s Curse. Tate and Matthew find themselves circling each other warily, each unsure of the other''s motives, yet drawn together by passion and danger beneath the azure waves.\n  <em>\n   The Reef\n  </em>\n  is an entertaining read, delighting readers with its meticulous research and detail, but it fails to adequately develop the tension between its lead characters caused by the love neither trusts can overcome the past.\n  <em>\n   --Alison Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Tate, a student of marine archaeology, joins with the mysterious Matthew Lassiter to dive in search of a jeweled amulet called Anguelique''s Curse, she hardly expects the dangerAand the passionAshe encounters.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1455'),
(12105, 'The Reluctant Lark', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(12106, 'The Reluctant Reformer', 'Lynsay Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(12107, 'The Reluctant Suitor', 'Kathleen E. Woodiwiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton''s stubborn refusal to comply with his father''s wishes and by his angry departure. He was too proud and too stubborn to accept a future not of his own choosing. Rather than submit, he fled from his ancestral home for a life of adventure and danger as an officer in the British army.   The years have been immensely kind to Lady Adriana. No longer the plain, thin tomboy Colton had spurned, she has blossomed into an uncommon beauty desired by nearly every eligible bachelor in the land. Yet the only man she desires is the decorated hero who has finally come home to claim his rightful title. Arrogant, unmoved, and seductive as ever, he remains averse to the idea of their betrothal in spite of his growing desire for her.   To demonstrate his belief that love cannot be forced, Colton agrees to court Lady Adriana for ninety days, after which time he will be allowed to keep his precious freedom if he so wishes. But much has changed since he balked at his father''s plans. Forced into a courtship with this stunning, spirited woman, who is as different today from the young chit he left behind as spring is to winter, the heroic heart that was once closed to Adriana is moved by her charm, her grace, and her sensuality ... and begins to yield. But a secret from Colton''s past may doom their burgeoning love ... even as the treacherous schemes of a sinister rival threaten to steal the remarkable lady from his arms forever.   A lush and spellbinding story of passion and betrayal that grandly sweeps the reader into the magnificent ballrooms and intimate boudoirs of Regency England, The Reluctant Suitor is romance as only the incomparable Kathleen Woodiwiss can deliver it -- a love story that will dwell in the reader''s heart and memory forever and stand proudly as one of the author''s very best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(12108, 'THE RELUCTANT VIKING', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(12109, 'Remember When', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(12110, 'Roget&#39;s Thesaurus', 'Peter Mark Roget', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(12111, 'Rogues 1 - The Rogue and the Hellion', 'Connie Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(12112, 'Rogues 2 - Seduced by a Rogue', 'Connie Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(12113, 'Rogues 3 - The Last Rogue', 'Connie Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(12114, 'Rondo a la Byzantine Pendant', 'Rebecca Mojica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1790'),
(12115, 'A Rose in Winter', 'Kathleen E. Woodiwiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Debt-ridden Avery Fleming is determined to find a wealthy husband for his beautiful daughter, Erienne, so he can pay off his mountain of debts. Erienne, however, has refused every one of the old men her father has picked for her consideration. When she meets dashing American merchant Christopher Seton, she cannot deny her attraction to him, despite the fact that he wounded her brother, Farrell, in a duel, crippling him for life. However, when Seton asks for Erienne''s hand in marriage, both she and her father refuse him. Instead, Erienne''s father auctions her off to the highest bidder--the mysterious Lord Saxton, a man whose horrifying scars are hidden by a mask and cloak. Erienne comes to know her husband as a kind and gentle man, but when Christopher Seton returns to town, she cannot fight her attraction to him. She finds herself torn between her duty to the man she has wed and the call of her heart.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king''s fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased herâ€”a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But in the passing days, Saxton''s true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne''s world Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton''s passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn''t yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor . . . between her duty and her heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(12116, 'Running From the Past', 'Katie Reus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(12117, 'S &amp; K James 01 - Whole Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Dick, I need a war."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world''s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Willing to do anything to get back to the top of her profession, Katie James is a journalist who has just gotten the break of a lifetime: the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre that has left every nation stunned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this terrifying, global thriller, these characters'' lives will collide head-on as a series of events is set in motion that could change the world as we know it. An utterly spellbinding story that feels all too real, THE WHOLE TRUTH delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters, and can''t-put-it-down pacing that readers expect from David Baldacci-and still goes beyond anything he''s written before.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1836'),
(12118, 'S &amp; K James 02 - Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Baldacci''s sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Whole Truth\n  </em>\n  (2008) lacks the creative plotting and masterful handling of suspense that marked his earlier thrillers. Evan Waller, outwardly a respectable Canadian businessman but secretly a human trafficker who sells children into prostitution, has expanded into arranging nuclear weapons deals with Islamic fundamentalists. Shaw, the lead of\n  <em>\n   The Whole Truth\n  </em>\n  , sets out to stop Evan, as does Regina Reggie Campion, a British femme fatale, who works for a clandestine group that tracks down and executes war criminals. Reggie and Shaw, both of whom intend to make their move while Evan is on vacation in Provence, cross paths while maintaining their cover stories. Shaw becomes attracted to Reggie, even as he fears that Evan, who''s in fact a sadistic Ukrainian who served the Soviets, will abduct her. Crucial developments come across as contrived rather than clever. The ultimate resolution will surprise few.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ostensibly, Baldacciâ€™s latest is another novel (after The Whole Truth, 2008) about Shaw, the enigmatic agent working for an enigmatic organization. But it feels a lot more like the launch of a brand-new series, as though Baldacci is using a familiar character, Shaw, to segue to a new series lead: Regina â€œReggieâ€ Campion, a beautiful and deadly woman who works for an even-more-enigmatic group dedicated to ridding the world of evil. Both Shaw and Reggie are after the same man, Evan Waller, although each of them is unaware of it. To Shaw, Waller is a dealer in black-market nuclear materials; to Reggie, heâ€™s the former Fedir Kuchin, a Ukrainian mass murderer. Reggie and Shaw both arrive in Provence, where Waller/Kuchin is vacationing. This is a very clever novel, and full marks go to Baldacci for pulling off an especially difficult type of storyâ€”one in which neither of the central characters knows entirely whatâ€™s going on, while the reader is omniscient. Itâ€™s a lot of fun watching the two scope each other out, trying to determine whether the other is a threat (even as their mutual attraction grows). We become intensely involved in the story, wishing we could step inside the book and clue its two protagonists into whatâ€™s going on. The only problemâ€”for fans of Shaw, anywayâ€”is that, in Reggie, Baldacci has created such an interesting and engaging character that he might have made Shaw redundant. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1819'),
(12119, 'Sanctuary', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1490'),
(12120, 'Sapphire', 'Michelle M. Pillow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(12121, 'Savage Thunder', 'Johanna Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(12122, 'Saving Faith', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It sounds like a movie pitch: "The story is like Tom Clancy crossed with John Grisham set in the Washington D.C. political world." But David Baldacci''s\n  <em>\n   Saving Faith\n  </em>\n  successfully fuses elements from both of these chart-busters in this political thriller spiced with techno-wizardry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The villain is a classic spy caricature: cold-war CIA super-patriot Robert Thornhill wants to reclaim the glory days of the Central Intelligence Agency--when money flowed like the Mississippi during a flood, and the FBI watched helplessly from the sidelines. Working from his secret underground bunker, he blackmails Danny Buchanan, one of the great Washington lobbyists, to front an enormous bribery scheme that will force Congress to bend to the CIA''s whims. But Thornhill''s plan springs a leak: Buchanan''s assistant Faith Lockhart discovers her boss''s dirty dealings, and she intends to expose the whole mess to Thornhill''s nemesis, the FBI. Thornhill''s associates attempt to assassinate Faith, but their bullet kills her FBI escort instead. Faith finds herself on the run with Lee Adams, a fit-and-trim PI who had been shadowing her at the behest of Buchanan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If all this sounds a bit confusing, it is at times. Baldacci works hard to keep the tension steadily rising, but it is sometimes difficult to remember why Faith and Lee can''t just stop running and go for help. Nevertheless, they are very likable heroes, and Baldacci''s depiction of the world of lobbyists and the internecine warfare of the FBI and CIA (complete with state-of-the-art spy gadgets and transmission-proof chambers) elevates the novel with details that can come only from careful research.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Saving Faith, written by David Baldacci, is a thriller novel set with backdrop of the political lobbying, political corruption, and blackmail in the US Government. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Main characters | Plot\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(12123, 'Scars', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(12124, 'Scratching Post', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(12125, 'Sea Wolves 01 - A Pirate Of Her Own', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1732'),
(12126, 'Sea Wolves 02 - Master Of Seduction', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1731'),
(12127, 'The Secret', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(12128, 'Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles', 'Freddy Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1813'),
(12129, 'Seduction of the Phoenix', 'Michelle M. Pillow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(12130, 'Seize The Fire', 'Laura Kinsale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(12131, 'Sevenwaters Forest 01- Daughter Of The Forest', 'Juliet Marillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(12132, 'Sevenwaters Forest 02 - Son of the Shadows', 'Juliet Marillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(12133, 'Sevenwaters Forest 03 - Child Of The Prophecy', 'Juliet Marillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(12134, 'Sevenwaters Forest 04 - Heir To Sevenwaters', 'Juliet Marillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(12135, 'Shanna', 'Kathleen E. Woodiwiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A legend . . . The queen of historical romance." -- _--\n  <em>\n   _Alanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A phenomenon." -- _--\n  <em>\n   _New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for a night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress, thereby rescuing her with his name from an impending and abhorred arranged union. But in the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a solemn promise is broken, as a sensuous free spirit takes flight to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the stranger she married to face the gallows unfulfilled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Ruark Beauchamp''s destiny is now eternally intertwined with that of the tempestuous, intoxicating Shanna. He will be free . . . and he\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  find her. For no iron ever forged can imprison his resolute passion. And no hangman''s noose will deny Ruark the ecstasy that is rightfully his.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(12136, 'Sianim 01 - Masques', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(12137, 'Sianim 02 - Wolfsbane', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1680'),
(12138, 'Sianim 03 - Steal The Dragon', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(12139, 'Sianim 04 - When Demons Walk By', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(12140, 'Sign of Seven 01 - Blood Brothers', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal''s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it''s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1521'),
(12141, 'Sign of Seven 02 - The Hollow', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Fox O''Dell and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. A boutique manager from New York, Layla Darnell was drawn to Hawkins Hollow for reasons she can''t explain - but the recent attacks on her life make it clear that it is personal. And though Fox tries to keep his professional distance, his interests in Layla have become personal too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1520'),
(12142, 'Sign of Seven 03 - The Pagan Stone', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Pagan Stone had stood for hundreds of years, long before three boys gathered around it to spill their blood in a bond of brotherhood, unwittingly releasing a force bent on destruction ...Gage Turner has been running from his past for a long time. The son of an abusive drunk, his childhood in the small town of Hawkins Hollow was tough - his only solace his friendship with Fox O''Dell and Caleb Hawkins. But, aged ten, the boys unleashed evil on their town: every seven years murder and mayhem reign, and each cycle is more extreme than the last. Now Gage has returned home to help his friends save Hawkins Hollow, but a lifetime as a loner has made him wary of emotional ties. And who can make plans for the future when their present is so uncertain? For unless they find a way to use the Pagan Stone against the demonic force, everything they know and love will be destroyed ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1519'),
(12143, 'The Simple Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With his New York Times bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Absolute Power\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Total Control\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Winner\n  </em>\n  , David Baldacci proved beyond a doubt that he can break new ground every time out of the box. Now he does it again with his most powerful work yet, a heart-pounding thriller that brings to life two vastly different worlds joined by a deadly secret, and by a man and woman searching for...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Behind the scenes, the U.S. Supreme Court is a battleground of egos, intellects, and power. Here brilliant young attorney Mike Fiske toils as an elite foot soldier. His colleague Sara Evans is clerking for a female Court justice who is powerfully connected to Congress. But Sara, whose career has limitless possibilities, is becoming a key player in a struggle that will link a convicted murderer to the Court.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Far from the imposing facade of the High Court is the world of street crime, prison time, and bare-knuckles criminal courts defense. In a Virginia military prison Rufus Harms is just one more lifer claiming innocence. Convicted of killing a girl on an army base twenty-five years ago, Harms smuggles a desperate letter out of his prison cell. It''s a bombshell-an appeal to the Supreme Court-that claims he was forced to commit murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suddenly everyone who has anything to do with Harms or the appeal mysteriously dies, including Mike Fiske. When his brother, John, an ex-cop, investigates and asks for Sara''s help, they both face a conspiracy that is shaking the very foundations of power in Washington. And the one man who can help them, the one man who knows what really happened twenty-five years ago-and why-has escaped from prison and is running for his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From scenes of swift,savage violence to scenes of the cloistered, intricate workings of the High Court itself, from the heat of a summer night on the Potomac to the cold reality of a lifer''s prison cell, David Baldacci has written a novel that is passionate, brawling, and electrifying-and as vividly courageous as only the truth can be...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1830'),
(12144, 'Skink 01 - Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kriminalroman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1853'),
(12145, 'Skink 02 - Native Tongue', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now reissued--one of the most beloved novels by the "New York Times" bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1857'),
(12146, 'Skink 03 - Stormy Weather', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n NATIVE TONGUE: A hilarious black crime comedy starring PR man Joe Winder, who winds up on the trail of some butter-fingered thugs who''ve stolen his precious blue-tongued mango voles . . . STRIP TEASE: When corrupt and lecherous congressman Dave Dilbeck throws himself at stripper Erin Grant on stage at the tastefully named Eager Beaver, little does he realise that he''s opening himself up to blackmail. Can Malcolm ''Moldy'' Moldowsky save Dilbeck''s face? Erin has other plans . . . STORMY WEATHER: Nine-tenths of the population emerge unscathed from the hurricane that devastates Dade County in southern Florida. But who cares about them? For everyone else, the aftermath of the direct hit - homelessness, looting, destruction - is the second goldrush and the year''s hottest scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1863'),
(12147, 'Skink 04 - Sick Puppy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Da den politisk indflydelsesrige Palmer Stoat forurener Florida''s natur bestemmer miljÃ¸idealisten Twilly Spree sig til at give ham en lÃ¦restreg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(12148, 'Skink 06 - Star Island', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherryâ€™s â€œundercover stunt double,â€ portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherryâ€™s handlers (berâ€“stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped-and-tucked twin publicists; weed-whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence secret from the publicâ€”and from Cherry herself.A further complication: Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink, the unhinged former governor of Florida, and now heâ€™s heading for Miami to find her.Will Bang achieve his fantasy of a private photo session with Cherry? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann before Cherryâ€™s posse does?All will be revealed in Carl Hiaasenâ€™s hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1862'),
(12149, 'Slater Bros 01 - Dark Stranger', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1842'),
(12150, 'Slater Bros 02 - Rides a Hero', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1843'),
(12151, 'Slater Bros 03 - Apache Summer', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(12152, 'Slow Ride: Rough Riders', 'Lorelei James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A\n  <em>\n   Rough Riders\n  </em>\n  free read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Keely McKay Donohue is enduring the longest wedding reception of her life: her own. The only saving grace is that Jack Donohue is finally hers. Usually her hunky man gives her everything she wants, so why is her groom denying her the one thing she wants right now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jack thought his secretive wait-for-the-honeymoon plan was romantic, until he realizes heâ€™s only put Keely in a fighting mood. If he wants to get back on his temperamental brideâ€™s good side, heâ€™d better find a way to sweep his cowgirl off her bootsâ€¦fast.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1613'),
(12153, 'A Small Lesson', 'Terri Pray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/760');
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(12154, 'Snug as a Bug', 'Amy E. Imbody', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1621'),
(12155, 'Something Wonderful', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(12156, 'The Song Of The Lioness Quartet 01 - The First Adventure', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1549'),
(12157, 'The Song Of The Lioness Quartet 02 - In The Hand Of The Goddess', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(12158, 'The Song Of The Lioness Quartet 03 - The Woman Who Rides Like A Man', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1548'),
(12159, 'The Song Of The Lioness Quartet 04 - Lioness Rampant', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1546'),
(12160, 'Southern Vamp 01 - Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(12161, 'Southern Vamp 02 - Living Dead in Dallas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(12162, 'Southern Vamp 03 - Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(12163, 'Southern Vamp 04 - Dead to the world', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1642'),
(12164, 'Southern Vamp 05 - Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1644'),
(12165, 'Southern Vamp 06 - Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1640'),
(12166, 'Southern Vamp 08 - From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(12167, 'Southern Vamp 4.5 - One Word Answer', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1643'),
(12168, 'Speed Dating', 'Nancy Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(12169, 'Spice Trilogy 01 - Her Only Desire', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1672'),
(12170, 'Spice Trilogy 01 - Her Only Desire', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1880'),
(12171, 'Spice Trilogy 02 - Her Secret Fantasy', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1649'),
(12172, 'Spice Trilogy 02 - Her Secret Fantasy', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1881'),
(12173, 'Spice Trilogy 03 - Her Every Pleasure', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(12174, 'Spice Trilogy 03 - Her Every Pleasure', 'Gaelen Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1879'),
(12175, 'Splendid', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(12176, 'St Ives 02 - Night of Fire', 'Barbara Samuel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(12177, 'Stalking the Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stalking the Angel is a 1989 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the second in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undoubtedly prompted by the success of recent Crais bestsellers (Demolition Angel; Hostage), his audio publishers have gone back to the second book in his increasingly popular Elvis Cole series, originally published in 1989, for a lively and colorful outing that manages to capture much of the author''s early innocence and freshness. Stuart brings the quirky Cole to life quickly, combining his strengths (tenacity, incorruptibility, frequent flashes of humor) with his oddities (his love of the Disney artifacts that litter his office) to make a credible whole person. Other characters emerge with equal vocal skill: the enigmatic Joe Pike, Cole''s muscular sidekick; a glowering Los Angeles property developer, his alcohol-impaired wife and their fragile adolescent daughter, who winds up being kidnapped by Japanese gangsters. Cole, hired to find a rare Japanese manuscript, discovers that the teenager''s fate is very important to him personally forging a bond between the detective and children in peril that has become a hallmark of the series. For those who have been fans of Elvis since book one, The Monkey''s Raincoat, it''s good to have his early adventures around to listen to. For more recent Crais converts, this could prove an eye-opening revelation of how Cole got to be who he is. Based on the Bantam mass market.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1892'),
(12178, 'Stanislaski  01 - Taming Natasha', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1724'),
(12179, 'Stanislaski 02 &amp; 04', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1484'),
(12180, 'Stanislaski 03 - Falling for Rachel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1723'),
(12181, 'Stanislaski 05 - Waiting for Nick', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(12182, 'Stanislaski 06 - Considering Kate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kate Stanislaski Kimball turns her back on fame and glamour to build a new life as a dance teacher and finds herself falling for Brody O''Connell, the rugged contractor she hires to renovate her new dance school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(12183, 'Stars of Mithra 01 - Hidden Star', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cade Parris takes one look at the beautiful blond that walks unannounced into his office and falls in love. Unfortunately, the stunning woman is there to hire the handsome private investigator to find a missing person: herself. Fragile and clearly vulnerable, Bailey James doesn''t even know her own name. Nor does she know why she''s carrying a tote bag filled with more than a million dollars in cash, a pistol, and a priceless blue diamond. Fortunately for Cade''s heart, Bailey is as undeniably drawn to him as he is to her. However, neither of them know if she''s free to give her heart. Together they search for clues to her identity in the sweltering heat of Washington, D.C., in July, but unveiling Bailey''s past is hopelessly entwined with the mystery of the diamond, the cash, and the gun. Before Cade can claim Bailey as his own, they must follow a twisted path to a killer and survive a life-threatening attack.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1453'),
(12184, 'Stars of Mithra 02 - Captive star', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1487'),
(12185, 'Stars of Mithra 03 - Secret Star', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1469'),
(12186, 'Stokehursts 2 - Prince Of Dreams', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(12187, 'Stranger In My Arms', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(12188, 'Strip Tease', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to "big money" and "big government."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1864'),
(12189, 'Stroke of Midnight', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, L. A. Banks, Lori Handeland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(12190, 'Sunset Express', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sunset Express is a 1996 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the sixth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It won the Shamus Award and was named as one of the "Best Books of 1996" by Publishers Weekly. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The public''s readiness to believe the worst of its police forces is an undercurrent in the latest case (after Voodoo River) for Southern California PI Elvis Cole. Beginning with the discovery of a corpse off Mulholland Drive in suburban L.A., the plot uncovers high-level venality, advances the romance of the ever-engaging Cole with Louisiana lawyer Lucy Chenier and reveals some of the past of Joe Pike, Cole''s enigmatic, seriously strange sidekick. Soon after the body of Susan Martin is found in a garbage bag, Detective Angela Rossi discovers evidence that implicates the victim''s husband, wealthy mover and shaker Teddy Martin. Unfortunately, Rossi is under a cloud, having been accused of falsifying evidence in a previous case. Martin''s attorney, Jonathan Green, considered one of the country''s top five criminal defense attorneys, hires Cole after arriving at his office with a video and sound crew, to investigate Rossi. Though Cole''s investigation clears Rossi, Green''s subsequent announcement that Cole has proven her guilt, puts the PI at odds with the LAPD, forces him to examine Green''s motives in the case and, finally, puts him on a course to correct the series of wrongs in the case that have prompted Lucy to observe: "The law is not about justice." $150,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1893'),
(12191, 'Sweet Disgrace', 'Cherrie Lynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(12192, 'Taking Instruction', 'Cheyenne McCray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(12193, 'Taking It Personal', 'Cheyenne McCray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(12194, 'Taking on the Law', 'Cheyenne McCray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(12195, 'Taking the Job', 'Cheyenne McCray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(12196, 'A Tale of Two Vikings', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(12197, 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(12198, 'Talisman Ring 01 - An Affair To Remember', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(12199, 'Talisman Ring 02 - Confessions Of A Scoundrel', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(12200, 'Talisman Ring 03 - How To Treat A Lady', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(12201, 'Talisman Ring 04 - And The Bride Wore Plaid', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(12202, 'Talisman Ring 05 - Lady In Red', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(12203, 'Tara Road', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1670'),
(12204, 'The Tarnished Lady', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(12205, 'Temerance Brennan 14 - Flash and Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kathy Reichs\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring Americaâ€™s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennanâ€™s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gambleâ€™s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindiâ€™s? Or Caleâ€™s?\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe canâ€™t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichsâ€™s â€œcleverly plotted and expertly maintained seriesâ€ (_The New York Times Book Review_). With the smash hit\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  about to enter its seventh season and in full syndicationâ€”and her most recent novel,\n  <em>\n   Spider Bones,\n  </em>\n  an instant\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellerâ€”Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q&amp;A with Dr. Kathy Reichs\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In this bonus Q&amp;A, the scribe behind Tempe Brennan takes questions on NASCAR, extremist groups, Tempe''s love life, and the difference between writing a novel and penning a script for the TV show\n   <em>\n    Bones\n   </em>\n   on FOX.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  begins with the discovery of a body in a barrel of asphalt in a dump next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, and characters from the racing world become implicated in the drama. What drew you to NASCAR as a backdrop? Are you yourself a racing fan?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Prior to writing\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  , I had only passing knowledge of auto racing, having attended one event way back in the gray dawn of history. But almost every Charlottean knows a player in the game--be it a team owner, a mechanic, a sponsor, or a driver. It''s hard not to get caught up in the excitement each May and October when hundreds of thousands converge on our burg for big races. Like Daytona or Darlington, Charlotte is an epicenter for the sport. And, as Tempe explains in the book, stock car racing originated with bootlegging in the Carolina mountains during Prohibition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I ended up writing NASCAR into the novel because of my long-time friend Barry Byrd, himself a huge racing enthusiast. Each time I began a new Temperance Brennan novel Barry would suggest that NASCAR would provide a rich background for a story. I finally realized he was right. Barry offered to introduce me to Jimmy Johnson and his team, to take me to the track, to include me with the gang attending the All Star Race and the Coca Cola 600.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Barry followed through on that promise. I met track owners and managers, sports journalists, pit crew chiefs, and fans who had driven their Winnebagos from Portland, Houston, Teaneck, and Nashville. Thanks to Barry and the Smith family I enjoyed a top to bottom tour of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. My fascination with the adjacent landfill was, I fear, a source of some dismay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  takes place entirely in Tempe Brennan''s hometown of Charlotte.\n  <em>\n   Spider Bones\n  </em>\n  , on the other hand, begins in Montreal, where Tempe occasionally works, then moves to Hawaii. Other books have taken Tempe to Chicago, Israel, and Guatemala. How do you decide where to set your next novel? In what city do you spend most of your own time these days?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Setting is a living, breathing part of each story I write. When Tempe travels, her destination is always a place that I know well, one in which I have plied my trade or spent time doing research.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I work and live in Charlotte, so Tempe does too. Like her, I am a commuter, shifting regularly from North Carolina to Quebec, where I consult to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de MÃ©decine LÃ©gale in Montreal. Yep. I have the mother lode of frequent flier miles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Spider Bones\n  </em>\n  Tempe heads to Hawaii to pursue a case for JPAC, the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, the United States military facility dedicated to identifying the remains of servicemen and women who have died far from home. Easy choice. I consulted for this lab for many years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Grave Secrets\n  </em>\n  Tempe exhumes a mass grave in Guatemala. In the year 2000 I was invited to do the same by the Guatemalan Foundation for Forensic Anthropology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bones to Ashes\n  </em>\n  a case takes Tempe to Tracadie, New Brunswick. This setting was suggested by an exhumation and analysis I performed for an Arcadian family living in that province.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   206 Bones\n  </em>\n  Tempe flies to Chicago. Another no-brainer. Thatâ€™s where I was born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You get the idea. Itâ€™s better to observe first hand than to make things up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Another dominant theme of\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  is right-wing extremism, a subject about which you''ve written before. Members of a white supremacist group figure as suspects in the book. How did you become interested in these factions of American society?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Extremist ideas do not offend me. In my view, people are free to believe what they will. Extremism that hurts others offends me greatly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Cross Bones\n  </em>\n  I wrote of religious extremism--belief systems that refuse to accept the legitimacy of differing worldviews. In that story events take Tempe to Israel and bring her into contact with fringe groups who use violence to impose their ideologies and customs on others.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Political extremism can be equally dangerous, whether coming from the left or the right. In recent years hatred and intolerance have led to deadly attacks by domestic terrorists in the United States. Ted Kacyznski, the Unabomber; Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers; Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber. Such individuals choose to kill their fellow citizens based on their own warped definitions of morality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After years on the run, Rudolph was arrested while digging through a dumpster in western North Carolina, about a four hour drive from Charlotte. I wondered who else might be hiding in the woods and back roads of my state. In\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  , I imagine a group of people who come from the extreme mold of Eric Rudolph and his narrow-minded brethren.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Preferring comfort in numbers, some right wing fanatics form clubs or militias. That''s the case in\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  . Tempe is drawn into the world of an extremist group and must learn their philosophy and decipher their code of conduct in order to determine their role in a cold case that disturbs her greatly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Over the course of\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  , Tempe develops a flirtatious relationship with Cotton Galimore, the head of security at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Her old flame, Lieutenant-Detective Andrew Ryan, and sometime suitor and Charlotte attorney Charlie Hunt only make minor appearances in the story. How do you decide what Tempe''s romantic life is going to be like in each novel? Can you give readers any hints about where it might go in the future?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true. Tempe''s love life is in a bit of a muddle. Andrew Ryan is preoccupied with his daughter Lily, who is in drug rehab. And miles away. Charlie Hunt is absorbed in a complex legal case. Miles away in another sense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Cotton Galimore, strong, intelligent, and smoking hot. Sadly, Galimore''s past isnâ€™t exactly spick and span. Joe Hawkins distrusts him. Skinny Slidell loathes him. And the guy is cocky as hell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the heart wants what the heart wants. Inexplicably, Tempe is drawn to the disgraced ex-cop. Is Galimore really as bad as her colleagues say? Should she steer clear as everyone advises?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nope. No spoilers here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  , as with all your books, contains unique forensic twists: the body found at the dump is lodged in a barrel of asphalt, which Tempe must painstakingly dismantle. Later, chemical tests at the CDC reveal the presence of a surprising toxin in the remains. What was the inspiration for these forensic discoveries? Have you seen such corpses in your real-life work, or, in writing your novels, do you imagine the strange possibilities of homicides you haven''t yet encountered?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I am like a scavenger, always on the lookout for a snack. But instead of food, it''s criminal twists Iâ€™m after. I keep my eyes and ears open for interesting characters, bizarre case elements, and cutting edge science. A Temperance Brennan plot may derive from any number of sources.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starting point. I draw ideas from forensic anthropology analyses that I perform myself. My own cases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Move one circle out. The LSJML (my Montreal gig) is a full spectrum medico-legal and crime lab. While there I am able to observe what goes on around me, to learn about the newest thing in ballistics, toxicology, pathology, or DNA.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Continue outward. Forensic scientists love to talk to each other about their cases. Colleagues often suggest ideas for Temperance Brennan stories based on investigations in which they have been involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Occasionally a plot twist is inspired by a presentation I attend at a professional conference. The annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences provides particularly rich fodder. Articles in research journals also get the old brain pumping.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From my own case load, and then from conversing, listening, watching, and reading, I get what I think of as "nugget" ideas, my core story concepts. Then, for both legal and ethical reasons, I change everything--names, dates, places, personal details. I then play the "what if?" game, and spin the nugget off into multilayered fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  In addition to writing the Temperance Brennan novels (and now the young adult novels featuring Tempe''s niece), youâ€™ve also written a script for the FOX series\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , based on your books. How does writing a TV script differ from writing your novels? Is one harder than the other?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I am a producer on\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  . One of many. Just look at our credits. Mainly, I work with the writers, answering questions, providing bone clues, correcting terminology. Over the course of six seasons, I have read more than one hundred and thirty scripts. Though a television script is quite different from a book, there is some commonality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me the similarity between a Temperance Brennan novel and a\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  teleplay lies in structure. My books typically have a lot going on--an A story, a B story, maybe even a C. Ditto a\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  episode.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Flash and Bones\n  </em>\n  Tempe is asked to identify a body found in a barrel. That''s the A story. Simultaneously, she is drawn into the search for a missing teenage couple. The B story. And, all the while, there''s her complicated love life. C story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the season five\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  episode that I wrote, "The Witch in the Wardrobe," two sets of remains are discovered in a burned out house. The witch in the wardrobe turns out to have been dead for quite some time. A story. The witch under the foundation is identified as a recent homicide victim. B story. Angela and Hodgins go to jail (and love rekindles). C story. The structures are very similar, you see.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the other hand, a novel and a script differ in many ways. For example, with film or television there''s no need for detailed description of setting or action. Those features are right there in front of your eyes. A screenplay or teleplay is all about dialogue, character, and story line.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another difference involves the creative experience. When I write a novel, I am the stereotypical loner working at my keyboard in isolation. No one helps me. No one approves or disapproves my work. Not so the television writer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once a story idea (kind of like my "nugget" concept) is accepted, the next step is called "breaking the story." For one to three weeks the entire\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  writing staff brainstorms together, hammering out an outline act by act, scene by scene, working on erasable white boards that cover the walls of the writers'' room. The process is collective, and it is exhilarating.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (The\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  writing team is awesome. Josh Berman, Pat Charles, Carla Kettner, Janet Lin, Dean Lopata, Michael Peterson, Karine Rosenthal, Karyn Usher. Thanks for your patience, guys.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The completed script outline is then "pitched"--in the case of\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  to Hart Hanson, our genius creator and executive producer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once the outline is approved, the writer then "goes to script." That means back to the lonely keyboard to produce what is called the writer''s draft. That stage takes one to three weeks. Unless the show is behind schedule. In that case, well, good luck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then there are re-writes. And more re-writes. Studio draft. Network draft. Production draft.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the end it is amazing to see your episode actually being shot, with all the actors, the director, the gaffers, the grips, and the best boys. Lights! Camera! Action!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Almost as amazing as seeing your baby on the printed page.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kathy Reichs\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring Americaâ€™s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennanâ€™s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gambleâ€™s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindiâ€™s? Or Caleâ€™s?\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe canâ€™t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichsâ€™s â€œcleverly plotted and expertly maintained seriesâ€ (_The New York Times Book Review_). With the smash hit\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  about to enter its seventh season and in full syndicationâ€”and her most recent novel,\n  <em>\n   Spider Bones,\n  </em>\n  an instant\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellerâ€”Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1874'),
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(12208, 'Temperance Brennan 03 - Deadly Decisions', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(12209, 'Temperance Brennan 04 - Fatal Voyage', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(12210, 'Temperance Brennan 05 - Grave Secrets', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(12211, 'Temperance Brennan 06 - Bare Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(12212, 'Temperance Brennan 07 - Monday Mourning', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(12213, 'Temperance Brennan 08 - Cross Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
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(12217, 'Temperance Brennan 12 - 206 BONES', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
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(12222, 'Three Sisters Island 01 - Dance Upon The Air', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(12223, 'Three Sisters Island 02 - Heaven and Earth', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1514'),
(12224, 'Three Sisters Island 03 - Face the Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1497'),
(12225, 'Tiger Prince', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(12226, 'Time and Again', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1452'),
(12227, 'To Catch an Heiress', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hasta que llegue a la mayoria de edad, la bella Caroline Trent vive a merced de Oliver Prewitt, su codicioso tutor, y de su repulsivo hijo Percy. Y justo cuando esta a punto de alcanzar esa tan ansiada libertad, Percy intenta seducirla violentamente. Caroline le dispara y huye. Asustada, decide esconderse hasta la fecha en que pueda tomar legitima posesion de sus bienes. Pero no le sera tan facil; el apuesto Blake Ravenscroft la confunde con una espia de Prewitt y la secuestra. Al darse cuenta de la equivocacion, ofrecera refugio a la joven hasta que ella pueda regresar a su finca. No es facil la convivencia entre una chica con temperamento y un hombre que esta acostumbrado a que sus ordenes se cumplan. Pero las aparentes diferencias no impediran el inevitable surgimiento de la pasion, que tal vez se convierta en un amor para toda la vida. / When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn''t even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she''s been running from unwanted marriage proposals. Yes, Blake believes she''s a notorious spy named Carlotta De Leon, but for six weeks until her twenty-first birthday, when she''ll gain control of her fortune, hiding out in the titillating company of a mysterious captor is awfully convenient -- and maybe just a little romantic, too. Blake Ravenscroft''s mission is to bring ""Carlotta"" to justice, not to fall in love. His heart has been hardened by years of intrigue, but this little temptress proves oddly disarming and thoroughly kissable. And suddenly the unthinkable becomes possible -- that this mismatched Couple might be destined for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(12228, 'Total Control', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world''s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an aircrash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all. From Seattle to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans to Maine, the hunt for Jason Archer follows a trail as complex as the world he lived and worked in - a world of enormously powerful computers, a multimillion-dollar takeover deal, titanic financial standoffs, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. With brilliant minds colliding, ruthless men waging battles of intimidation, rainmakers going toe-to-toe with killers, and security specialists making a fortune trying to plug the holes, the startling truth behind Jason Archer''s disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country''s single most powerful individual. And soon Archer''s wife, Sidney, aided by the relentless and sharp-eyed FBI agent Lee Sawyer, will plunge straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1834'),
(12229, 'Tourist Season', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kriminalroman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1851'),
(12230, 'The Truck Book', 'Harry Mcnaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(12231, 'True Betrayals', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world of championship thoroughbred racing is the milieu for Roberts'' (Born in Fire) latest, a fast-paced, engaging tale of envy, greed and romance. Kelsey Byden, 26, is in the throes of divorcing her unfaithful husband when she suffers a second shock. It is a letter from her mother, whom she has long presumed dead. Her father, it turns out, has been lying to her-at her mother''s request, since Naomi Chadwick was in prison for murder during many of those years. Kelsey travels to Virginia to meet her long-lost parent at her horse farm. As mother and daughter get to know each other, Kelsey falls in love with horses, racing and the gambler next door. Gabe Slater is handsome, virile and unlike anyone the spoiled young woman has ever met. Their attraction is instant and explosive, but their romance triggers a chain of events that includes murder and sabotage, prompting the lovers to risk their lives as they race to clear Naomi''s name and to deal with old enemies and betrayals that threaten their future. Roberts paints her story with a broad brush, but its colorful canvas, easily identifiable heroes and villains and swirling action add up to another winner for this popular author.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although mystery writer Dick Francis probably won''t fret over Roberts''s invasion of his turf?that of big-time horse racing?this romantic thriller about shady goings-on at a Virginia horse farm comes on the heels of a string of best sellers (e.g., Hidden Riches, LJ 6/1/94).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(12232, 'True Blue', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This promising first in a new series from bestseller Baldacci (_First Family_) introduces Beth Perry, chief of the District of Columbia''s Metropolitan Police, and Beth''s younger sister, Mace Perry, a former police officer dubbed the Patty Hearst of the twenty-first century after she was seized by bandits, drugged and taken along on a series of armed robberies around Washington. Mace, who''s just getting out of prison after serving a two-year sentence, is willing to risk everything to clear her name and reclaim her life as a cop by cracking a big case on her own. The rape-murder of a powerful lawyer as well as the killing of a prominent U.S. attorney provide Mace an opportunity to vindicate herself. While Baldacci draws his characters in bright primary colors, and some of the action reaches comic book proportions, he delivers his usual intricate plotting and sets the stage nicely for highly competent Beth and impulsive, streetwise Mace to take on more bad guys.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 27)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Fast-paced and entertaining." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus\n   </em>\n   on TRUE BLUE\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Baldacci] delivers his usual intricate plotting and sets the stage nicely for highly competent Beth and impulsive, streetwise Mace to take on more bad guys."\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   on TRUE BLUE\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Baldacci has proven his ability to write well-paced thrillers that combine crime and politics in locations ranging from mean streets to opulent mansions."\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   on TRUE BLUE\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1835');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12233, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Stephenie Meyer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Were you a fan of\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have never seen an entire episode of\n  <em>\n   Buffy\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Angel\n  </em>\n  . While I was writing\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She''s a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I don''t have a ton of time for TV, and my kids get rowdy when I have on "mommy shows," but I do have a secret fondness for reality shows (the good ones, at least in my opinion). I always TiVo\n  <em>\n   The Amazing Race\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   America''s Next Top Model\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What inspired you to write\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  ? Is this the beginning of a series? Why write for teens?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are sequels on the way--I''m hard at work editing book two (tentatively titled\n  <em>\n   New Moon\n  </em>\n  ) right now, and book three is waiting in line for its turn.\n  <br />\n  I didn''t mean to write for teens--I didn''t mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It''s a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else''s approval. There''s a lot of scope for a novel in that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is your favorite vampire story? Fave vampire movie?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I guess my favorite vampire story would be\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ack! I can''t even answer the movie question. I can''t remember ever seeing a single vampire movie, outside of clips from\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What other young adult authors do you read?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My favorite young adult author is\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephenie Meyer''s List of Books You Should Read\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q&amp;A with Stephanie Meyer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The book with the most significant impact on my life is\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The CD is easy:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My lies are all very, very boring: "No, you really look great in hot pink!" "My children only watch one hour of TV a day." "I didn''t eat the last Swiss Cake Roll--it must have been one of the kids." That''s the best I''ve got.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe the perfect writing environment.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  It''s late at night and the house is silent, but I''m still (miraculously) full of energy. I have my headphones in and I''m listened to a mix of\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d like it to say that I really tried at the important things. I was never perfect at any of them, but I honestly tried to be a great mom, a loving wife, a good daughter, and a true friend. Under that, I''d want a list of my favorite\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d love to have a chance to talk to Orson Scott Card--I have a million questions for him. Mostly things like, "How do you come up with this stuff?!" But, if he wasn''t available, I''d settle for Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of Muse).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could have one superpower, what would it be?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d want something offensive, rather than defensive. Like shooting fireballs from my hands. That way, you''re really open to going either way--hero or villain. I like to have choices.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 9 Upâ€“Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom''s invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad''s cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire. When he reveals that his specific clan hunts wildlife instead of humans, Bella deduces that she is safe from his blood-sucking instincts and therefore free to fall hopelessly in love with him. The feeling is mutual, and the resulting volatile romance smolders as they attempt to hide Edward''s identity from her family and the rest of the school. Meyer adds an eerie new twist to the mismatched, star-crossed lovers theme: predator falls for prey, human falls for vampire. This tension strips away any pretense readers may have about the everyday teen romance novel, and kissing, touching, and talking take on an entirely new meaning when one small mistake could be life-threatening. Bella and Edward''s struggle to make their relationship work becomes a struggle for survival, especially when vampires from an outside clan infiltrate the Cullen territory and head straight for her. As a result, the novel''s danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow,\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it._â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(12234, 'Twilight 02 - New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 New York Times bestseller is available for the first time in a mass market paperback edition, featuring a striking movie tie-in cover. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy''s reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(12235, 'Twilight 03 - Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(12236, 'Twin of Fire', 'Jude Deveraux', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(12237, 'Twin of Ice', 'Jude Deveraux', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(12238, 'The Two Minute Rule', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two minutes, in and out, that''s the rule for robbing banks in this page-turning action ride around L.A. from bestseller Crais (_Hostage_). Break that rule, and you can end up like Marchenko and Parsons, dying in a violent shoot-out on the streets, the fortune from their string of heists deeply hidden. Max Holman certainly knows the time limit better than most. Dubbed the "hero bandit" by the press, he got caught during a robbery after he stopped to perform CPR on a bank customer who had a heart attack. About to leave prison on parole, the 48-year-old Max hopes he can establish contact with the son he never really knew, now a cop. When Max''s son is murdered, suspected of being in a ring of dirty cops seeking the Marchenko and Parsons loot, Max needs to know the truth. The only person he figures can help him is Katherine Pollard, the fed who nabbed him, who''s now ex-FBI and a struggling single mom. The perfect odd couple, they keep this novel personal and real as it builds to an exciting twist on the bank-robbing rule.\n <em>\n  200,000 first printing; 15-city author tour. (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most reviewers are slaphappy with praise for Robert Crais''s 13th novel. While some critics note a preference for his Elvis Cole books, they find that believable, complex characters, the vibrant settings around Los Angelesâ€”from the dive bars to the straitjacketed Los Angeles riverâ€”and heartfelt emotions separate\n <em>\n  The Two Minute Rule\n </em>\n â€”and Craisâ€”from the bulk of crime fiction. The sharp note of dissent from the_ Oregonian_ only serves to reinforce the impression that middle-of-the road Crais is better than many other writers'' best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1897'),
(12239, 'Uncertain Magic', 'Laura Kinsale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(12240, 'Vallerand 01 - When Strangers Marry', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(12241, 'Vallerand 02 - Only With Your Love', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(12242, 'A Very Special Delivery', 'Linda Goodnight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1603'),
(12243, 'The Very Virile Viking', 'Sandra Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(12244, 'The Villa', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1494'),
(12245, 'Viscount Vagabond', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Catherine Pelliston runs away from home and is subjected to an incredible series of events, winding up in a brothel after being abducted, but the greatest danger she faces takes the form of a devastatingly enticing man\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(12246, 'Voodoo River', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole''s assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds out there''s something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor''s parents; and some are ending up dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Elvis Cole returns in his most exciting adventure yet. Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress on a hit TV series, Elvis travels to Louisiana to search for Jodi''s biological parents. Soon he discovers the real reason that he''s been sent there--but not before he has run-ins with a crazed housewife, a Cajun thug and a 100-pound river turtle named Luther.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1883'),
(12247, 'wally meets mozart', 'Isgar Bos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n wally follows the sound of music and meets mozart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1620'),
(12248, 'The Watchman', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation.For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can''t protect her, Larkin''s wealthy family turns to the one man money can''t buy -- Joe Pike.Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He''s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike''s LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike.Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike''s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1898'),
(12249, 'The Wedding', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(12250, 'Weddings by Bella 01 - Fools Rush In', 'Janice Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1610'),
(12251, 'What She Wants', 'Lynsay Sands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(12252, 'When He Was Wicked', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(12253, 'When the Wind Blows', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1652'),
(12254, 'Where Dreams Begin', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(12255, 'Where&#39;s My Hero (A Tale of Two Sisters)', 'Julia Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(12256, 'Wherlocke 01 - If He&#39;s Wicked', 'Hannah Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans will gladly follow Howell (_Highland Sinner_) from the Scottish Highlands to London for her new 18th-century fantasy romance trilogy. After rescuing cuckolded Julian Kenwood from a would-be murderer, his cousins Chloe and Leo Wherlocke reveal that his wife and uncle have it in for him. They also unveil his son, Anthony, long thought to be dead. Aware that he is out of his element, Julian accepts Leo''s help and protection. Like the rest of their prolific family, Chloe and Leo have special gifts such as seeing the future and detecting lies. Julian''s inevitable affair with Chloe is hard to believe and the wait for his uncle''s next attack is tedious, but the Wherlockes'' affectionate teasing and lively banter will have readers picking up the next books just to get to know them better.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  She saves his life...For Chloe Wherlocke, it all begins with a vision - a glimpse into the future that foretells a terrible plot against Lord Julian Kenwood and his newborn son. Chloe''s psychic gift allows her to save the child from certain death, but the earl remains in grave peril...But when he steals her heart...Julian Kenwood knows someone is trying to kill him and he suspects his scheming wife and her lover are behind the plot. But Julian is shocked when Chloe, a captivating, dark-haired stranger, warns him that sinister forces are indeed at hand - and exposes a devastating secret that changes his life forever...Will she resist - or surrender? As Chloe reveals her plan to save Julian, neither can deny the attraction that grows each moment they''re together. Chloe knows the highborn earl could never love her as she loves him. But when danger strikes closer than ever, Chloe must risk everything - or lose Julian forever...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1838'),
(12257, 'Wherlocke 02 - If He&#39;s Sinful', 'Hannah Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Another wonderful story filled with adventure, emotion, and laughter." Romantic Times"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Secrecy and intrigue ignite dangerous passions in "New York Times" bestselling author Hannah Howell''s seductive new novel...It is whispered throughout London that the members of the Wherlocke family are possessed of certain unexplainable gifts. But Lord Ashton Radmoor is skeptical - until he finds an innocent beauty lying drugged and helpless in the bedroom of a brothel. The mystery woman is Penelope Wherlocke, and her special gift of sight is leading her deep into a dangerous world of treachery and betrayal. Ashton knows he should forget her, yet he''s drawn deeper into the vortex of her life, determined to keep her safe. But Penelope is no ordinary woman, and she''s never met the man strong enough to contend with her unusual abilities. Until now...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1839'),
(12258, 'Wherlocke 03 - If He&#39;s Wild', 'Hannah Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Alethea Vaughn Channing is haunted by a vision of a man in danger - the same man who she has seen in dreams time and time again. She doesn''t even know his name, and yet she feels the connection between them, knows she is the only one standing between him and disaster. But rakish Lord Hartley Greville is capable of protecting himself, as he has proven more than once in his perilous work as a spy for the crown. If he''s to carry out his duty, he''ll need to put aside the achingly beautiful woman with the strange gift. And yet, when Alethea''s visions reveal a plot that could endanger children, Hartley will not be able to ignore the destiny that binds them together - or resist the passion burning between them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1837'),
(12259, 'Whistling Tor 01 - Heart&#39;s Blood', 'Juliet Marillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(12260, 'Whitney, My Love', 'Judith McNaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(12261, 'The Whole Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world''s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He''s retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world at peace and safe. Katie James, a journalist who will do anything to get back to the top of her profession, has just gotten the break of a lifetime, the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre that has stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1832'),
(12262, 'Wild Orchids', 'Karen Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(12263, 'The Winner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  LuAnn Tyler is a twenty-year-old unwed mother in Rikersville, Georgia, a woman who can use her fists as well as her wits, a woman striving to escape an abusive relationship and a life of endless poverty. Suddenly, under the pretense of giving her a decent job, a mysterious Mr. Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the next winner of the $100 million national lottery.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But LuAnn won''t do it. At first. Then, less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson''s offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems to be her only hope. She accepts his proposition and the new life the unlimited wealth buys her and her infant daughter. Ten years later, LuAnn disobeys Jackson and secretly returns to the United States, where she is still wanted for murder.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There, she meets Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky and troublesome as her own. LuAnn''s life is shattered when a canny reporter smelling a scam in the national lottery picks up her trail, and Jackson, a seemingly omniscient master of impersonation, comes to punish her for disobeying him. At the same time, the FBI is set on her track when investigators suspect someone may have fixed the lottery.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  While the hunters close in for the kill, LuAnn finds herself turning to Matt Riggs for help, but he may be just another predator in her life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1833'),
(12264, 'Winter Rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1515'),
(12265, 'Wish You Well', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Baldacci has made a name for himself crafting big, burly legal thrillers with larger-than-life plots. However,\n  <em>\n   Wish You Well\n  </em>\n  , set in his native Virginia, is a tale of hope and wonder and "something of a miracle" just itching to happen. This shift from contentious urbanites to homespun hill families may come as a surprise to some of Baldacci''s fans--but they can rest assured: the author''s sense of pacing and exuberant prose have made the leap as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou''s and 7-year-old Oz''s father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa''s farm in Virginia. Louisa''s hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father''s literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God''s little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Baldacci switches deftly between lovingly detailed character description (an area in which his debt to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harper Lee seems evident) and patient development of the novel''s central plot. If that plot is a trifle transparent--no one will be surprised by Amanda''s miraculous recovery or by the children''s eventual battle with the nefarious forces of industry in an attempt to save their great-grandmother''s farm--neither reader nor character is the worse for it. After all, nostalgia is about remembering things one already knows.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wish You Well is a novel written by David Baldacci. First published in 2001, the story starts with the Cardinal family moving from New York to California due to money problems, then shifts to the mountains of Virginia after a car accident leaves the father dead and the mother paralyzed. The time period is in the 1940s. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Characters | Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1817'),
(12266, 'A Wolf At Her Door', 'Kate Willoughby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(12267, 'Womens Murder Club 01 - 1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1570'),
(12268, 'Womens Murder Club 02 - 2nd Chance', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1575'),
(12269, 'Womens Murder Club 03 - 3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1569'),
(12270, 'Womens Murder Club 04 - 4th of July', 'James Patterson (with Maxine Paetro)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1579'),
(12271, 'Womens Murder Club 05 - The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1573'),
(12272, 'Womens Murder Club 06 - The 6th target', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1571'),
(12273, 'Womens Murder Club 07 - 7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://library.gardiner.com.au:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1560'),
(12274, '127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Ralston manages to keep the tension flowing throughout . . . alternating each chapter of angst-ridden, present-tense narrative with a cosier chapter of climbing nostalgia. This lends the book a Hitchcockian rhythm, see-sawing neatly between calm and tension. . . . . He is somehow able to chronicle the ebb and flow of his thoughts and feelings during his ordeal with an exactness that gives his book the emotional pull of a psychological thriller.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Craig Brown, book of the week in the MAIL ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Ralston is a passionate man who has lived his life resolutely pursuing this passion. His fortitude in his dire predicament was, as he would say, awesome, and from this it is possible to learn much about hope in the face of overwhelming odds.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Toby Clements, DAILY TELEGRAPH\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Heroic, searing and compelling'' Benedict Allen ''[This book has] the emotional pull of a psychological thriller''\n</p>\n<p>\n MAIL ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n<p>\n ''A gripping book . . . It not only details his entrapment and escape but tells vivid tales of extreme mountaineering prior to that defining misadventure''\n</p>\n<p>\n Joanna Walters, DAILY EXPRESS\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Ralston is superb at evoking the epic beauty of the land, and his description of his ordeal is riveting: think Touching the Void directed by Tarantino''\n</p>\n<p>\n Sarfraz Manzoor, NEW STATESMAN\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Riveting . . . if you only read one adventure book this year, this is it''\n</p>\n<p>\n THE GREAT OUTDOORS\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Here is one man''s heroic struggle with the infinite, a searing and compelling read. Aron Ralston tells his agonizing, inspiring tale of survival with all the verve and honesty you''d expect of someone who somehow found inspiration even in the face of a lonely death.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Benedict Allen\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE â€œEXTRAORDINARYâ€ (_Booklist_) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERâ€”THE â€œHARROWINGâ€ (_The Washington Post_) SURVIVORâ€™S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET\n</p>\n<p>\n Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a dayâ€™s solitary hike through a remote and narrow Utah canyon when he dislodged an eight-hundred- pound boulder that crushed his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Emerging from the searing pain, Aron found himself completely stuck. No one knew where he was; no one was coming to rescue him. With scant water and food, and a cheap pocketknife his only tool, he eliminated his options one by one. On the fifth night, wracked by delirium and uncontrollable shivers, Aron scratched his epitaph into the rock wall, certain he would not see daylight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rockâ€™s vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeonâ€™s blade. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(12275, '1984', 'Orwell, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(12276, '2001 - A Space Odyssey', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(12277, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(12278, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(12279, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(12280, '4.50 From Paddington', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(12281, '48 Laws of Power', 'Greene, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(12282, 'The A B C Murders', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(12283, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Grahame-Smith, Seth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(12284, 'After the Funeral', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(12285, 'Airframe', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(12286, 'The Alchemist', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(12287, 'Alex Cross 1 - Along Came A Spider', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(12288, 'Alex Cross 10 - London Bridges', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(12289, 'Alex Cross 11 - Mary, Mary', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(12290, 'Alex Cross 12 - Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(12291, 'Alex Cross 13 - Double Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(12292, 'Alex Cross 14 - Cross Country', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(12293, 'Alex Cross 15 - Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(12294, 'Alex Cross 16 - I, Alex Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(12295, 'Alex Cross 2 - Kiss the Girls', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(12296, 'Alex Cross 3 - Jack and Jill', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(12297, 'Alex Cross 4 - Cat and Mouse', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(12298, 'Alex Cross 5 - Pop Goes the Weasel', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(12299, 'Alex Cross 6 - Roses Are Red', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(12300, 'Alex Cross 7 - Violets Are Blue', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(12301, 'Alex Cross 8 - Four Blind Mice', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(12302, 'Alex Cross 9 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(12303, 'Alvin Maker 1 - Seventh Son', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(12304, 'Alvin Maker 2 - Red Prophet', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(12305, 'Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(12306, 'Alvin Maker 4 - Journeyman', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(12307, 'Alvin Maker 5 - Heart Fire', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(12308, 'Alvin Maker 6 - The Crystal City', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(12309, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(12310, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(12311, 'American Gods', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(12312, 'American Psycho', 'Ellis, Bret Easton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(12313, 'Anansi Boys', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(12314, 'Anathem', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(12315, 'And Another Thing', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(12316, 'And Then There Were None', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(12317, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(12318, 'Animal Farm', 'Orwell, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(12319, 'Anna Karenina', 'Tolstoy, Leo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(12320, 'The Apocalypse Watch', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(12321, 'The Appeal', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(12322, 'AppleScript The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(12323, 'Appointment with Death', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(12324, 'Apt Pupil', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(12325, 'The Aquaintaine Progession', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(12326, 'Are You There, Vodka? Is&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(12327, 'The Associate', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(12328, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(12329, 'At First Sight', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
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(12331, 'The Audacity of Hope', 'Obama, Barack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(12332, 'Barrel Fever', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(12333, 'The Beach House', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(12334, 'Beach Road', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(12335, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(12336, 'The Big Four', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(12337, 'Black Coffee', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(12338, 'Black Hawk Down', 'Bowden, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
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(12340, 'The Blind Side', 'Lewis, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(12341, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Gladwell, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(12342, 'The Body in the Library', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(12343, 'Bond 1 - Casino Royale', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(12344, 'Bond 10 - The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(12345, 'Bond 11 - On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(12346, 'Bond 12 - You Only Live Twice', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(12347, 'Bond 13 - The Man With The Golden Gun', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(12348, 'Bond 2 - Live and Let Die', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(12349, 'Bond 3 - Moonraker', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(12350, 'Bond 4 - Diamonds Are Forever', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(12351, 'Bond 5 - From Russia with Love', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
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(12356, 'The Book of Useless Information', 'Botham, Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(12357, 'Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(12358, 'Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(12359, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities of The Plain', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(12360, 'Born To Be Riled', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(12361, 'Bourne Trilogy 1 - The Bourne Identity', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(12362, 'Bourne Trilogy 2 - The Bourne Supremacy', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(12363, 'Bourne Trilogy 3 - The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(12364, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(12365, 'Brave New World', 'Huxley, Aldous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(12366, 'Breathless', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(12367, 'The Brethren', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(12368, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(12369, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/13');
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(12370, 'The Broker', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world''s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(12371, 'By The Pricking of My Thumbs', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(12372, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(12373, 'Cards on the Table', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(12374, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(12375, 'A Case of Conscience', 'MacLeod, Ken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(12376, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(12377, 'Catch-22', 'Heller, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(12378, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'Salinger, J.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
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(12380, 'Cellar Door', 'Mark Petersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Carl finds a dead body while exploring an abandoned house a few days after Halloween.  Convinced he is being haunted by an evil spirit he brings his skeptical roommate along to check it out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/570'),
(12381, 'The Chamber', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(12382, 'Change of Heart', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/571'),
(12383, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***WHAT . . . A RIOT! *** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***WHAT . . . A RIOT! *** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
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(12385, 'The Children Of Hurin', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(12386, 'Children of Men', 'James, P. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(12387, 'Choke', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(12388, 'Christine', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom painted Red and White 1958 Plymouth Fury and the teenage boy, Arnold Cunningham, who buys it from the strange Roland LeBay.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Helped by Arnold''s girlfriend Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder embarks to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: From murder, to suicide, and a strange feeling that surrounds Christine - she gets even with anyone that crosses her! Can Dennis save Arnold from the evil that is Christine?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(12389, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(12390, 'The Client', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(12391, 'The Clocks', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(12392, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Burgess, Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(12393, 'A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'McDonald, G. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(12394, 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(12395, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst', 'Reingold, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(12396, 'Congo', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(12397, 'Coraline', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(12398, 'Covert One 1 - The Hades Factor', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(12399, 'Covert One 2 - The Cassandra Compact', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(12400, 'Covert One 3 - The Paris Option', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(12401, 'Covert One 4 - The Altman Code', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(12402, 'Covert One 5 - The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(12403, 'Covert One 7 - The Arctic Event', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(12404, 'Cradle and All', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
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(12407, 'The Cry Of The Halidon', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(12408, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(12409, 'Cujo', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(12410, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
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(12416, 'Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(12417, 'Darktower 4 - Wizard and Glass', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(12418, 'Darktower 5 - The Wolves of the Calla', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(12419, 'DarkTower 7 - The Dark Tower', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
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(12423, 'Death Comes as the End', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
(12424, 'Death in the Clouds', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(12425, 'Death on the Nile', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(12426, 'Deception Point', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(12427, 'Destination Unknown', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(12428, 'The Devil and Miss Prym', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(12429, 'Dexter 3 - Dexter in the Dark', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(12430, 'Dexter 4 - Dexter by Design', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(12431, 'Diamond Age', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(12432, 'Diary', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(12433, 'Digital fortress', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone''s e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(12434, 'Dirk Gently 1 - Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(12435, 'Dirk Gently 2 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(12436, 'Dirk Pitt 1 - Pacific Vortex', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(12437, 'Dirk Pitt 10 - Dragon', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(12438, 'Dirk Pitt 11 - Sahara', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(12439, 'Dirk Pitt 12 - Inca Gold', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(12440, 'Dirk Pitt 13 - Shock Wave', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(12441, 'Dirk Pitt 14 - Flood Tide', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(12442, 'Dirk Pitt 15 - Atlantis Found', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(12443, 'Dirk Pitt 17 - Trojan Odyssey', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(12444, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Black Wind', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(12445, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Valhalla Rising', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(12446, 'Dirk Pitt 2 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(12447, 'Dirk Pitt 4 - Raise The Titanic', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(12448, 'Dirk Pitt 5 - Vixen 03', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(12449, 'Dirk Pitt 6 - Night Probe!', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(12450, 'Dirk Pitt 7 - Deep Six', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(12451, 'Dirk Pitt 8 - Cyclops', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(12452, 'Dirk Pitt 9 - Treasure', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(12453, 'Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(12454, 'Discworld 02 - The Light Fantastic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(12455, 'Discworld 03 - Equal Rites', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(12456, 'Discworld 04 - Mort', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(12457, 'Discworld 05 - Sourcery', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(12458, 'Discworld 06 - Wyrd Sisters', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(12459, 'Discworld 07 - Pyramids', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(12460, 'Discworld 08 - Guards! Guards!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(12461, 'Discworld 09 - Eric', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(12462, 'Discworld 10 - Moving Pictures', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(12463, 'Discworld 11 - Reaper Man', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/595'),
(12464, 'Discworld 12 - Witches Abroad', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(12465, 'Discworld 13 - Small Gods', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(12466, 'Discworld 14 - Lords and Ladies', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/600'),
(12467, 'Discworld 15 - Men at Arms', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(12468, 'Discworld 16 - Soul Music', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(12469, 'Discworld 17 - Interesting Times', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(12470, 'Discworld 18 - Maskerade', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(12471, 'Discworld 19 - Feet of Clay', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(12472, 'Discworld 20 - Hogfather', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(12473, 'Discworld 21 - Jingo', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(12474, 'Discworld 22 - The Last Continent', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(12475, 'Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(12476, 'Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(12477, 'Discworld 26 - The Thief of Time', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(12478, 'Discworld 27 - The Last Hero', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(12479, 'Discworld 28 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(12480, 'Discworld 29 - Night Watch', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(12481, 'Discworld 30 - Monstrous Regiment', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(12482, 'Discworld 30 - Thud!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(12483, 'Discworld 31 - The Wee Free Men', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(12484, 'Discworld 32 - A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(12485, 'Discworld 33 - Going Postal', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(12486, 'Discworld 35 - Wintersmith', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(12487, 'Discworld 36 - Making Money', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(12488, 'Discworld 37 - Unseen Academicals', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(12489, 'Disworld 25 - The Truth', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(12490, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Dick, Philip K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(12491, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(12492, 'Dragon Tears', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(12493, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother''s wedding. He mops his sister''s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn''t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motivesà¸a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love.\n <i>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </i>\n is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(12494, 'Drive', 'Pink, Daniel H.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(12495, 'Driving Blind', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(12496, 'Duma Key', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(12497, 'Dumb Witness', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(12498, 'Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(12499, 'The Eaters of the Dead', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(12500, 'The Elegant Universe', 'Greene, Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(12501, 'Elephants Can Remember', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(12502, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(12503, 'Ender in Exile', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(12504, 'Enders Game 1 - Ender&#39;s Game', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Game Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From its first publication in January 1985, Ender''s Game quickly became a classic in the science fiction field. It was greeted enthusiastically by the Science Fiction Writers of America, which gave it the Nebula Award for best novel of 1985, and the 1986 World Science Fiction Convention awarded Ender''s Game the best novel Hugo. (What really stunned everyone was the following year, when the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, also won both awards -- something no author had ever done before, still less for a book and its sequel!) While Card has gone on to win other awards (two more Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and in 1996 the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel of the year for his book Alvin Journeyman), Ender''s Game continues to be his most popular novel, capturing the imagination of children, teenagers, and adults. Ender''s Game has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish. Why does the story work so well? Many people call it "the science fiction novel for people who don''t think they like science fiction." While the trappings of science fiction are there -- spaceships, aliens, futuristic machinery -- the reason the book works for so many people is that it''s first and foremost a human story, of a boy who finds the burdens of the world placed on his back. Isolated and alone, his anguish resonates in the hearts of all readers. Yes, kids who read the book really enjoy the whole idea of the Battle School, a three-dimensional playspace where children in special suits have mock combats between armies. Others are intrigued by the military aspects of the book. When the Marine University at Quantico required students in one class to read Ender''s Game, it wasn''t for the strategy -- tactics in 3D space aren''t really a big deal for the Marines. Rather, it was because Ender''s Game is virtually a textbook in how to develop a strong relationship between a commander and his troops -- with plenty of examples also in how to fail as a commander. Other people -- especially in the online community -- love Ender''s Game because of the powerful role it shows for computer networks in the world of the future. The Internet has taken a few steps in the direction shown by Ender''s Game, but we''re still a long way from a time when public discourse takes place primarily on the Internet and e-discussions can influence public policy. So Ender''s Game is still a dream. Yet others find the "Mind Game" most appealing. This is the computer game that students in the Battle School play, allowing their teachers to evaluate their emotional state. Ender, however, forces the computer to reprogram itself to allow him to play the game in new, unpredictable ways. The whole idea of a self-altering game that responds to the needs and desires of the player still intrigues many -- though Card has still not been able to persuade any computer game publishers to develop a self-creating game! Above all, though, Ender''s Game is the story of growing up alone, trying to find independence when none is allowed, trying to find meaning in a life whose meaning has already been defined. Almost everyone has at some time felt himself or herself to be in the same kind of no-win situation as Ender Wiggin, and the triumph of the book is not that Ender Wiggin "wins," but that he grows up along the way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright Â© 1985 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(12505, 'Enders Game 2 - Speaker for the Dead', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Speaker for the Dead Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity''s war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, his books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have become holy writ, and the name of Ender anathema; he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. On Lusitania humans found another race of ramen ... a young race, beings just beginning to lift their eyes to the stars and wonder what might be out there. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. And so the Pequininos, as they were named by the portuguese-speaking settlers, the "Piggies," were placed off-limits to the colony. The only humans allowed to meet them and speak with them are trained xenobiologists, and then only two at a time. This time, there will be no tragic misunderstandings leading to war. This time... This time, again, men die -bizarrely killed by the Piggies. Andrew Wiggin is called to Lusitania to Speak the deaths of the two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. To Speak for these dead, he must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding the lives of the Piggies and those who study them. He must Speak not only for the dead, but for a living alien race. This magnificent sequel to ENDER''S GAME won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best SF Novel of the Year. Orson Scott Card is one of the finest, most innovative writers of the past decade, whose works also include the acclaimed alternate world fantasy series, The Tales of Alvin Maker. Copyright Â© 1986 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(12506, 'Enders Game 3 - Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Xenocide The millennia-long saga of Andrew Wiggin called Ender, called The Speaker For the Dead called The Xenocide continues .... On the world Lusitania there are now three sapient races-the Pequeninos, who evolved there; Humans, who came to colonize; and a Hive Queen and her children brought by Ender long years ago. But on Lusitania there is also the descolada, a virus deadly to human beings which would spread like wildfire throughout the Stairways Congress should it ever escape the planet. The Starways Congress decided that The descolada should be wiped out once and for all, and sent a fleet, armed with a planet-destroying weapon, to do it. A fourth intelligence, loyal to Ender and Lusitania caused that fleet to disappear. On a distant world called Path live a people whose culture owes much to that of ancient China on Earth. They have evolved a caste known as the godspoken, people of superior intellectual abilities who pay a terrible price for their gifts. The godspoken of Path have given their loyalty and service to the Starways Congress. Among the god spoken is a young girl named, in The language of her people, Gloriously Bright. It is to her that the Starways Congress turn with the mystery of the disappearance of the Lusitania Fleet. There is no doubt that Gloriously Bright will discover the answer to the puzzle. The question is, what will she do with the information\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(12507, 'Enders Game 4 - Children of the Mind', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/498'),
(12508, 'Enders Game 5 - Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
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(12510, 'Enders Game 7 - Shadow Puppets', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(12511, 'Enders Game 8 - Shadow of the Giant', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(12512, 'Endless Night', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(12513, 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(12514, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(12515, 'Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(12516, 'A Farewell To Arms', 'Hemingway, Ernest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
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(12518, 'Farseer 2 - Royal Assassin', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
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(12520, 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas', 'Thompson, Hunter S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(12521, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
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(12524, 'First Meetings in the Enderverse', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(12525, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(12526, 'For Crying Out Loud!', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(12527, 'Ford Country', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(12528, 'Foundation 1 - Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(12529, 'Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(12530, 'Foundation 3 - Second Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(12531, 'Foundation 4 - Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(12532, 'Foundation 5 - Foundation and Earth', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(12533, 'Foundation 6 - Prelude to Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(12534, 'Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(12535, 'The Fountainhead', 'Rand, Ayn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(12536, 'The Fountains of Paradise', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(12537, 'Frankenstein 1 - Prodigal Son', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(12538, 'Frankenstein 2 - City of Night', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(12539, 'Frankenstein 3 - Dead and Alive', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(12540, 'FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Levitt, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(12541, 'The Giver', 'Lowry, Lois', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(12542, 'The God Delusion', 'Dawkins, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(12543, 'A God In Ruins', 'Uris, Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(12544, 'The Godfather', 'Puzo, Mario', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(12545, 'The Golden Compass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(12546, 'Gonzo Papers - The Great Shark Hunt', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(12547, 'Good Omens', 'Gaiman, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(12548, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(12549, 'A Graveyard For Lunatics', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(12550, 'The Great Simolean Caper', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(12551, 'The Green Mile', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(12552, 'Guns, Germs and Steel', 'Diamond, Jared', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(12553, 'Hallowe&#39;en Party', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(12554, 'Handle With Care', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/443');
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(12555, 'Hannibal', 'Harris, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
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(12557, 'Harry Potter 2 - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(12558, 'Harry Potter 3 - Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(12559, 'Harry Potter 4 - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(12560, 'Harry Potter 5 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(12561, 'Harry Potter 6 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(12562, 'Harry Potter 7 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(12563, 'Haunted', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(12564, 'Hell&#39;s Angel', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(12565, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(12566, 'HHGTTG 1 - Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(12567, 'HHGTTG 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(12568, 'HHGTTG 3 - Life, the Universe, and Everything', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(12569, 'HHGTTG 4 - So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(12570, 'HHGTTG 5 - Mostly Harmless', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(12571, 'Hickory Dickory Dock', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(12572, 'Hide and Seek', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(12573, 'His Robot Girlfriend', 'Wesley Allison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mike Smith''s life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike''s life is about to change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(12574, 'The Hobbit', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(12575, 'The Hollow', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(12576, 'The Host', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(12577, 'The House On Hope Street', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(12578, 'House Rules', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
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(12580, 'How to Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less', 'Boothman, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(12581, 'How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships', 'Driver, Janine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(12582, 'I Am Legend', 'Matheson, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(12583, 'I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(12584, 'The Icarus Agenda', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(12585, 'If I Did It', 'Simpson, O.J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(12586, 'The Illustrated Man', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(12587, 'The Innocent Man', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(12588, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/505'),
(12589, 'The Iron Man', 'Howard, Robert E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(12590, 'IT', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(12591, 'It&#39;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life', 'Armstrong, Lance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(12592, 'Jack Ryan 1 - Without Remorse', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
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(12594, 'Jack Ryan 11 - Bear And The Dragon', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(12595, 'Jack Ryan 12 - The Teeth of the Tiger', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
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(12597, 'Jack Ryan 3 - Red Rabbit', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(12598, 'Jack Ryan 4 - The Hunt for Red October', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(12599, 'Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(12600, 'Jack Ryan 6 - Clear and Present Danger', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(12601, 'Jack Ryan 7 - The Sum of All Fears', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(12602, 'Jack Ryan 8 - Debt of Honor', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(12603, 'Jack Ryan 9 - Executive Orders', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(12604, 'The Janson Directive', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(12605, 'Joe Pitt 1 - Already Dead', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(12606, 'Joe Pitt 2 - No Dominion', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(12607, 'Joe Pitt 3 - Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(12608, 'Joe Pitt 4 - Every Last Drop', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(12609, 'Joe Pitt 5 - My Dead Body', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(12610, 'Judge and Jury', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(12611, 'Jumper 1 - Jumper', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(12612, 'Jumper 2 - Reflex', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(12613, 'Jumper 3 - Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(12614, 'Jurassic Park', 'Chrichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(12615, 'Kaleidoscope', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(12616, 'Keeping Faith', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(12617, 'The King of Torts', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(12618, 'Kitchen Confidential', 'Bourdain, Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(12619, 'The Lake House', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(12620, 'The Last Juror', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(12621, 'Leap of Faith', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(12622, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me', 'Loewen, James W.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(12623, 'Lightning', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(12624, 'Liveship Traders 1 - Ship of Magic', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(12625, 'Liveship Traders 2 - The Mad Ship', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(12626, 'Liveship Traders 3 - Ship of Destiny', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(12627, 'Lone Eagle', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(12628, 'Lord Edgeware Dies', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(12629, 'Lord Of The Flies', 'Golding, William', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(12630, 'The Lord of the Rings 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(12631, 'The Lord of the Rings 2 - The Two Towers', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(12632, 'The Lord of the Rings 3 - The Return of the King', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(12633, 'Lost', 'Maguire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(12634, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(12635, 'The Lost World', 'Chrichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(12636, 'The Lost Worlds of 2001', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(12637, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Sebold, Alice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(12638, 'Lullaby', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(12639, 'M - Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'X, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(12640, 'Maktub', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(12641, 'The Man in the Brown Suit', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(12642, 'The Manual of the Warrior of Light', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(12643, 'Matarese Circle', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(12644, 'The Matarese Countdown', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(12645, 'Maximum Ride 1 - The Angel Experiment', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/412'),
(12646, 'Maximum Ride 2 - School&#39;s Out - Forever', 'Patterson, Jame', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(12647, 'Maximum Ride 3 - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(12648, 'Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(12649, 'Maximum Ride 5 - Max', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(12650, 'Maximum Ride 6 - Fang', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(12651, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(12652, 'The Memory of Running', 'McLarty, Ron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(12653, 'Mere Christianity', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(12654, 'Message In A Bottle', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(12655, 'The Minority Report', 'Dick, Phillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(12656, 'The Mirror Crack&#39;s From Side to Side', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(12657, 'Mirror Mirror', 'Maquire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(12658, 'Misery', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(12659, 'The Mist', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(12660, 'Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory', 'Lee, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(12661, 'Motorworld', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(12662, 'The Moving Finger', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(12663, 'Mrs McGinty&#39;s Dead', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(12664, 'The Murder at the Vicarage', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(12665, 'Murder in Mesopotamia', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(12666, 'A Murder is Announced', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(12667, 'Murder is Easy', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(12668, 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(12669, 'Murder on the Links', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(12670, 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(12671, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(12672, 'My Sister&#39;s Keeper', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(12673, 'The Mysteries of Free Masonry / Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master&#39;s Lodge', 'William Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(12674, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(12675, 'The Mystery of the Blue Train', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(12676, 'N or M', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(12677, 'Naked', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(12678, 'The Naked Sun', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(12679, 'Napalm and Silly Putty', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(12680, 'Narnia 1 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(12681, 'Narnia 2 - Prince Caspian', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(12682, 'Narnia 3 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(12683, 'Narnia 4 - The Silver Chair', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(12684, 'Narnia 5 - The Horse and His Boy', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(12685, 'Narnia 6 - The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(12686, 'Narnia 7 - The Last Battle', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(12687, 'Nemesis', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(12688, 'Neverwhere', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.\n <br />\n Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won''t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals andabandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.\n <br />\n For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family''s slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door''s entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest.\n <br />\n For the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard''s final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.\n <br />\n If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman''s NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(12689, 'A New Earth', 'Tolle, Eckhart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(12690, 'Next', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(12691, 'Nightfall', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(12692, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(12693, 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(12694, 'No Country For Old Men', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(12695, 'The Notebook', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
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(12807, 'The Stand', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(12808, 'Stardust', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(12809, 'Strangers', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(12810, 'The Street Lawyer', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(12811, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(12812, 'The Summons', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(12813, 'SuperFreakonomics', 'Levitt, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(12814, 'Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!', 'Feynman, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(12815, 'Survivor', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(12816, 'Suzannes Diary for Nicholas', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(12817, 'Taken at the Flood', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(12818, 'The Tawny Man 1 - Fools Errand', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(12819, 'Asimov &amp; Bear - 2nd Foundation 02 - Foundation and Chaos', 'Foundation &amp; Chaos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(12820, 'Asimov &amp; Benford - 2nd Foundation 01 - Foundation&apos;s Fear', 'Foundation&apos;s Fear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(12821, 'Asimov &amp; Brin - 2nd Foundation 03 - Foundation&apos;s Triumph', 'Foundation&apos;s Triumph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(12822, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 4 - Second Foundation', 'Second Foundation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(12823, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 5 - Foundation&apos;s Edge', 'Foundation&apos;s Edge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(12824, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 6 - Foundation and Earth', 'Foundation &amp; Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(12825, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation X - Forward the Foundation', 'Forward the Foundation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(12826, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(12827, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout\n  <em>\n   Romeo and Juliet\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Wuthering Heights\n  </em>\n  --with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In\n  <em>\n   Breaking Dawn\n  </em>\n  , the fourth and final installment in the series, Bellaâ€™s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bellaâ€™s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. Itâ€™s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in\n  <em>\n   New Moon\n  </em>\n  , and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. (Ages 12 and up) --_Heidi Broadhead_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy--but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer''s first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture''s paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. [...] But that''s not the main problem. Essentially, everyone gets everything they want, even if their desires necessitate an about-face in characterization or the messy introduction of some back story. Nobody has to renounce anything or suffer more than temporarily--in other words, grandeur is out. This isn''t about happy endings; it''s about gratification. A sign of the times? Ages 12â€“up. Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(12828, 'De Dartelende Draak', 'Willy Vandersteen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(12829, 'Dirk Gently 1 - Dirk Gently&apos;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(12830, 'Dirk Gently 2 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The British author of the Hitchhiker trilogy and other immensely popular lunacies, Adams permits no whiff of common sense to spoil his new novel, which combines fantasy, hilarity and creeping horrors," remarked PW . Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin. "The plot''s ramifications are marvelous, bloody and irresistible."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sequel to Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(12831, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(12832, 'Hitchhiker 1 - The Hitchhiker&apos;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Join Douglas Adams''s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You''ll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue.\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide\n  </em>\n  is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett''s Discworld series, and British sitcoms.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s science fiction and it''s extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Washington Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves."\n </p>\n <p>\n  School Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As parody, it''s marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it''s, well, hysterical."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(12833, 'Hitchhiker 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Warning! This second volume in the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series is definitely not a standalone book. Enjoying, or even understanding, the continuing adventures of Earthling Arthur Dent, his strange pal Ford Prefect, and the very, very odd Zaphod Beeblebrox requires previous study and preparation. Confusion and possible insanity awaits the poor soul who tries to figure out the second title without having read the first. Arthur and Ford, having survived the destruction of Earth by surreptitiously hitching a ride on a Vogon constructor ship, have been kicked off that ship by its commander. Now they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship commanded by Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Imperial Galactic Government and full-time thief. Narrated by Adams, this production is a treat for fans of the late author and others who enjoy British comedy. Be sure to buy all five parts of the "Hitchhiker" series or your patrons will storm your office. One caveat: this audiobook will need to be repackaged for library circulation.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â€â€”_Washington Post Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWhatâ€™s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ€™s sardonically silly eyes.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  Detroit Free Press\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(12834, 'Hitchhiker 3 - Life, the Universe, and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don''t know it!"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."--The Arizona Daily Star\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(12835, 'Hitchhiker 4 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The looniest of the lot."\n  <br />\n  --Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A MADCAP ADVENTURE . . . ADAMS''S WRITING TEETERS ON THE FRINGE OF INSPIRED LUNACY."\n  <br />\n  --United Press International\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."\n  <br />\n  --The Boston Globe\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth''s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it''s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(12836, 'Hitchhiker 5 - Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this installment of the The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy saga, Ford Prefect of the planet Betelgeuse relies on serendipity and his own quick wits to protect a new edition of the Hitchhiker''s Guide from the loathsome Vogons. A 12-week PW bestseller in cloth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œHitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Hereâ€™s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.â€â€”_New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œIt is Mr. Adamsâ€™s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  Baltimore Sun\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(12837, 'The Koran', 'Mohammed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Qur-an (al-qur-an, literally -the recitation-; also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Qur-an, Koran, Alcoran or Al-Qur-an) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur-an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God. Islam holds that the Qur-an was revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jibril (Gabriel) from 610 CE to his death in 632 CE. The Qur-an was written down by Muhammad''s companions while he was alive, although the prime method of transmission was oral. In 633 CE, the written text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(12838, 'The Last Light of the Sun', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(12839, 'The Lions of Al-Rassan', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan -- poet, diplomat, soldier -- until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites'' most celebrated -- and feared -- military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south. In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve -- for a time -- the same master.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Sharing their interwoven fate -- and increasingly torn by her feelings -- is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond. Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply compelling story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake -- or destroy -- a world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(12840, 'Lord of Emperors', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Having finally achieved his journey to fabled Sarantium, Crispin the mosaicist wants nothing more than to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny-but in Sarantium no man may easily withdraw from the turmoil of court and city, or forget that the presence of the half-world is always close by.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(12841, 'Mistress By Mistake', 'Maggie Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(12842, 'New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(12843, 'The Road to Jerusalem', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Guillou has enjoyed smashing success in Sweden and Europe with his Crusades Trilogy, but American readers may be disappointed in this slow-starting first volume, which, for all its complexity and intriguing premise, doesn''t get anywhere near the Holy Land. The epic kicks off in 1150 Sweden with the birth of Arn Magnusson, the second son of a minor nobleman. Arn is sent to a cloister where monks teach him to read, write and work hard. But Brother Guilbert, a former Knight Templar who fought in the crusades, also teaches Arn horsemanship, archery and swordplay. During Arn''s training, his family is involved with court intrigues, treachery and war. Arn, meanwhile, commits cardinal sins and is excommunicated and ordered to serve as a Knight Templar. However, by the book''s close, he''s no closer to Jerusalem than he was when he was born (though a lot of colorful medieval Swedish history has been presented). Perhaps the next two volumes will be more focused and exciting.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”This novel not only tells one man''s story, but Sweden''s as well. Christianity was still a new religion to this region in the 1100s, and it is through the protagonist''s experiences that readers see how cultures clash, merge, and change. Saved from certain death by the grace of God and the promise of his mother to give him to the Church, young Arn Magnusson is sent to be raised by the monks of Varnhem. He is taught all the monastic skills and learns archery, swordplay, and horsemanship. His exceptional talent in all of these areas makes it clear that Arn''s vocation lies outside the monastery. And so he is sent home. Right from the start he falls prey to the greed, lust, and politics of common people. Every action he takes directs his destiny and creates the circumstances that force him and his true love, Cecilia, into 20 years of penance and sets him literally on the road to Jerusalem as a Knights Templar. The politics are challenging and tribal life is described within the context of its time. Offer this book to students who are interested in big, fat historical novels, who like to ponder big ideas, for whom discussions about Christian theology would be intriguing, or who are interested in military fiction and strategy. The Swedish names can be confusing, but the maps, plus the list of characters, help to sort things out.â€”_Connie Williams, Kenilworth Jr. High, Petaluma, CA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(12844, 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(12845, 'Sailing to Sarantium', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen''s secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to surviveâ€”and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(12846, 'The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edited by Peter Guzzardi and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, this bittersweet collection comprises letters, fragments of ideas for books, films and TV, ruminations on a diverse array of subjects and a good bit of a final unfinished novel by the author of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy series, who died in May of last year. Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy''s magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&amp;a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia''s Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse''s unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress. National advertising.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to classify this cornucopia, selected by Christopher Cerf from Adams''s papers after his untimely death, but Hitchhiker fans will want it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(12847, 'A Song for Arbonne', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The author of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy-hailed by Andre Norton as "one of the very best...since Tolkien"-returns with a critically acclaimed fantasy of two endlessly opposed kingdoms: one ruled by men, the other by women.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(12848, 'Starship Titanic', 'Douglas Adams &amp; Terry Jones &amp; Marie-catherine Caillava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Starship Titanic is a science-fiction adventure set aboard a colossal spaceship (which is named after a fairly well-known cruise ship from the planet Earth). It seems that something has gone horribly wrong aboard the Starship Titanic--a fact that becomes evident as the vessel slams into the cozy confines of your living room. Now, at the request of the ship''s robotic crew, you must go aboard, figure out what went wrong, and fix it. The game uses impressively rendered graphics to depict Starship Titanic''s opulent interior. For the most part, you can make your way through the ship and the game using the mouse as you would in Myst. For conversations with the robot attendants, you use the keyboard and the game''s text parser. This combination of contemporary adventure-game graphics and classic-style text conversations works well. As with any adventure game, this one has a lot of puzzles for you to solve. And like everything else Douglas Adams comes up with, the puzzles in this game are complex, challenging, and often downright silly. You''ll have to disarm a bomb, for example, that has a 20-digit "combination" and that constantly taunts you. (Monty Python''s John Cleese plays the voice of the bomb.) You''ll also have to deal with an annoying, chicken-eating parrot (played by Terry Jones, another Python veteran and author of the Starship Titanic novel).One thing to keep in mind as you play Starship Titanic is that the puzzles will leave you frustrated at times. That''s OK--in fact, that''s probably what Adams had in mind from the start--because most of the solutions to these puzzles are incredibly bizarre and unusual. If you get really stuck, the DoorBot and BellBot can usually be of some assistance. Even with a little help from these automated assistants, however, Starship Titanic will have you puzzling for hours and hours. --Michael Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(12849, 'The Templar Knight', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(12850, 'Tigana', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tigana (1990) is a fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, set in a fictional country, the Peninsula of the Palm, that somewhat resembles medieval Italy as well as the Peloponnese in shape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist. Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the warrior sorcerers Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbadior. Brandin''s younger son is slain in a battle with the principality of Tigana, which the grief-stricken sorcerer then destroys. Years later, a small band of survivors, led by Alessan, last prince of Tigana''s royal house, wages psychological warfare, planting seeds for the overthrow of the two tyrants. At the center of these activities are Devin, a gifted young singer; Catriana, a young woman pursued by suspicions of her family''s guilt; and Duke Sandre d''Astibar, a wily resistance leader thought dead. Meanwhile, at Brandin''s court, Dianora, his favorite concubine and--unknown to anyone, another survivor of Tigana--struggles between her growing love for the often gentle tyrant and her desire for vengeance. Gradually the scene is set for both conquerors to destroy each other and free a land. Tolkien protege Kay''s brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil, high and low, will draw readers to this consuming epic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(12851, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(12852, 'Uncovered Passion', 'Christopher Golliday &amp; Melissa Golliday', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sasha Verochka is an FSB agent assigned to her first mission. Her mission? Uncovering the motives for why a handsome, former Marine is in Moscow. Being telepathic, she never thought it would be so hard to reveal the truth about Garrick Caldwell. But then again, she''d never experienced desire like this.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now time is running out as her superiors want answers she can''t make herself find. For in doing so, she just might lose her one chance at passion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(12853, 'Under Heaven', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(12854, 'War and Peace', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://oatfield.nl/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(12855, 'The Tawny Man 2 - Golden Fool', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(12856, 'The Tawny Man 3 - Fools Fate', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(12857, 'The Tenth Circle', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(12858, 'The Testament', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(12859, 'The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(12860, 'They Came to Baghdad', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(12861, 'They Do It With Mirrors', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(12862, 'Things Fall Apart', 'Achebe, Chinua', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(12863, 'Thinner', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(12864, 'Third Girl', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(12865, 'Three Act Tragedy', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(12866, 'Time Odyssey 1 - Times Eye', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(12867, 'Time Odyssey 2 - Sunstorm', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(12868, 'Time Odyssey 3 - Firstborn', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(12869, 'A Time to Kill', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(12870, 'The Time Traveler&#39;s Wife', 'Scott William Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n n this touching short story, one woman''s simple desire to see her time-traveling husband again changes the world. Originally appeared in the July issue of Analog magazine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(12871, 'Timeline', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(12872, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Gladwell, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(12873, 'Towards Zero', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(12874, 'The Tristan Betrayal', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(12875, 'True Believer', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(12876, 'Twilight 1 - Twilight', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(12877, 'Twilight 2 - New Moon', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(12878, 'Twilight 3 - Eclipse', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(12879, 'Twilight 4 - Breaking dawn', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(12880, 'Under the Dome', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(12881, 'The Unexpected Guest', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(12882, 'The Urantia Book', 'Urantia Foundation staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(12883, 'The Valkyries', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(12884, 'Vampire Chronicles 1: Interview with the vampire', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.It is a novel only Anne Rice could write...."Magnificent, compulsively readable."CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(12885, 'Vampire Chronicles 10: Blood Canticle', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(12886, 'Vampire Chronicles 2: The vampire Lestat', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in **Interview with the Vampire**, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall.  With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of **Interview with the Vampire** and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.  And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years'' sleep,  and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions.  And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors.  We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent.  We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule.  And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed.  Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat''s vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(12887, 'Vampire Chronicles 3: The Queen of the Damned', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(12888, 'Vampire Chronicles 4: The Tale of the Body Thief', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction''s most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice''s writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNEFor centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(12889, 'Vampire Chronicles 5: Memnoch the Devil', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Anne Rice''s extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death.We are in New York.  The city is blanketed in snow.  Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat''s tenderness as no mortal ever has.While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is  confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known.He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation.  He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God.  And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve.In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own.  In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(12890, 'Vampire Chronicles 6: The Vampire Armand', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classicInterview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood--a ruined city under Mongol dominion--and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today''s New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(12891, 'Vampire Chronicles 7: Merrick', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch,  Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast  derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New  Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of  voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the  French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the  Great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she  inherits the power and magical knowledge of a Circe.Into this  exotic New Orleans realm comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller,  adventurer, almost mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It  is he who recounts Merrick''s haunting tale--a tale that takes us from  the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala,  from the Mayan ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet  explored.Anne Rice''s richly told novel weaves an irresistible  story of two worlds: the witches'' world and the vampires'' world, where  magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a  dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(12892, 'Vampire Chronicles 8: Blood and Gold', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/170');
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(12893, 'Vampire Chronicles 9: Blackwood Farm', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(12894, 'Vanishing Acts', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(12895, 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(12896, 'A Walk To Remember', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(12897, 'Watchers', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(12898, 'What Dreams May Come', 'Matheson, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(12899, 'Wheel of Time 00 - New Spring', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(12900, 'Wheel of Time 01 - The Eye of the World', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(12901, 'Wheel of Time 02 - The Great Hunt', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(12902, 'Wheel of Time 03 - The Dragon Reborn', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(12903, 'Wheel of Time 04 - The Shadow Rising', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(12904, 'Wheel of Time 05 - The Fires of Heaven', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://bobisspectacular.com:8843/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
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(13498, 'Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(13499, 'Fundamentals Of RF Circuit Design With Low Noise Oscillators', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(13500, 'Fundamentals of Telecommunications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1128'),
(13501, 'Fundamentals Of Wireless Communication', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(13502, 'Fuzzy Controllers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(13503, 'Game Programming All In One (2002)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(13504, 'Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(13505, 'GDI+ Custom Controls With Visual CSharp 2005 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(13506, 'Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(13507, 'Getting Started with MATLAB 7', 'batserve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(13508, 'Getting.Started.As.a.Financial.Planner.Rev.and.Updated.Ed.eBook-YYePG', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(13509, 'Google Hacking for Penetration Testers', 'Long, Johnny.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(13510, 'Google Talking (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(13511, 'The Great Telecom Meltdown', 'Goldstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(13512, 'GSM And Personal Communications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1135'),
(13513, 'GSM Networks..Protocols Terminology and Implementation', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(13514, 'GSM Switching Services and Protocols', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1138'),
(13515, 'Guide to Assembly Language Programming in Linux', 'Sivarama P. Dandamudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(13516, 'Guide To Budgets And Financial Management', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(13517, 'Guide To Digital Signal Processing', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(13518, 'A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users', 'Brian R.Hunt, Ronald L.Lipsman &amp; Jonathan M.Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(13519, 'A Guide to MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming', 'Andy H. Register', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(13520, 'Guide to RISC Processors : For Programmers and Engineers', 'Sivarama P. Dandamudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(13521, 'Guide to Ship Repair Estimates', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(13522, 'A Guide to the Collision Avoidance Rules 6th Edition', 'A N Cockcroft &amp; J N F Lameijer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(13523, 'Hack Proofing Linux, your guide to open source security', 'James Stanger, Ph.D', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(13524, 'Hack Proofing Your Web Applications (2001)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(13525, 'Hack The Stack', 'Using Snort &amp; Ethereal To Master The 8 Layers Of An Insecure Network (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(13526, 'Hackers Beware', 'Defending Your Network From The Wiley Hacker (2001)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(13527, 'HACKING EXPOSED: NETWORK SECURITY SECRETS &amp; SOLUTIONS SECOND EDITION', 'JOEL SCAMBRAYSTUART MCCLUREGEORGE KURTZ', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(13528, 'Hacking Firefox : More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations', 'Mel Reyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(13529, 'Hacking for Dummies', 'Kevin Beaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(13530, 'Hacking Gmail', 'Ben Hammersley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(13531, 'Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth (ExtremeTech)', 'Martin C. Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(13532, 'Hacking GPS', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(13533, 'Hacking PhotoShop CS2', 'Singh, Shangara.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(13534, 'Hacking RSS and AtomExtremeTech', '0764597582', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(13535, 'Hacking The Cable Modem (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(13536, 'Hacking Windows XPExtremeTech', 'Sinchak, Steve.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(13537, 'Hacking Wireless Networks for Dummies', 'Beaver, Kevin.; Davis, Peter T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(13538, 'Hacknotes', 'Linux &amp; Unix Security Portable Reference (2003)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(13539, 'HackNotes : Network Security Portable Reference', 'MIKE HORTON , CLINTON MUGGE , Enigma Sever', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(13540, 'HackNotes : Web Security Portable Reference', 'MIKE SHEMA', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(13541, 'HackNotes: Windows Security Portable Reference', 'Michael O&#39;Dea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(13542, 'Ham Radio for Dummies', 'Ward Silver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(13543, 'Handbook Medical Imaging Processing Analysis', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(13544, 'Handbook of Image and Video Processing', 'Al Bovik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(13545, 'The Handbook of Optical Communication Networks', 'Mohammad Llyas &amp; Hussein T. Mouftah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(13546, 'Handbook of Production Management Methods', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(13547, 'Handbook Of Time Series Analysis, Signal Processing, And Dynamics', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(13548, 'Handbook on satellite communications (Edition 3)', 'Composition des Publications', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(13549, 'Hardcore Windows XP: The Step-by-step Guide to Ultimate Performance', 'Ballew, Joli.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(13550, 'Hardening Linux (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(13551, 'Hardening Windows, 2nd Edition (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(13552, 'Hardware Hacking', 'Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty (2004)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(13553, 'Harvard Business Review', 'The 5 Stages Of Small Business Growth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(13554, 'Harvard Business Review - What Is Strategy', 'Michael Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(13555, 'Hazardous Chemicals Handbook 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(13556, 'Hazardous Waste Handbook 3E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(13557, 'HBR;01JUL85', 'INO', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/709'),
(13558, 'HDTV for Dummies', 'Briere, Daniel D.; Hurley, Patrick J', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1122'),
(13559, 'Helping Small Business Owners and Self-Employed Professionals Do More With Less', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(13560, 'HF Antenna Cookbook- Technical Application Reports', 'Bob Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(13561, 'HF Filter Design and Computer Simulation', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(13562, 'Hibernate in Action', 'CHRISTIAN BAUER', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(13563, 'High Frequency and Microwave Engineering', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(13564, 'High Performance Audio Power Amplifiers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(13565, 'High Performance Control', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(13566, 'High Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(13567, 'High Voltage Engineering 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(13568, 'High-speed Digital Design', 'Johnson &amp; Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(13569, 'Home Networking Bible 2nd Edition', 'Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(13570, 'hong-fm.qxd', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(13571, 'How To Cheat At Securing A Wireless Network (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(13572, 'How To Cheat At Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(13573, 'How to Cope with Night Shift Work and Jet Lag', 'Kacper M. Postawski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(13574, 'How To Do Everything With Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (2003)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(13575, 'How To Do Everything with Your Digital Camera', 'Dave Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(13576, 'How To Quickly and Easily Increase Your Referral Commissions', 'Preferred Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(13577, 'HTML 4 for Dummies--For Dummies; 5th Ed.', 'Tittel, Ed.; Burmeister, Mary.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(13578, 'HTML in 10 Steps or Less', 'Fuller, Robert.; Ulrich, Laurie Ann.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(13579, 'HTML Mastery', 'Semantics, Standards &amp; Styling (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(13580, 'HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible, 3rd Edition - 2004 - Wiley', 'Bryan Pfaffenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(13581, 'Hydroblasting &amp; Coating of Steel Structures', 'Andreas Momber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(13582, 'The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics', 'Stan Gibilisco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(13583, 'Image Processing in C', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(13584, 'Image Processing Using Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks', 'T. Lindblad &amp; J.M. Kinser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(13585, 'Image Recognition and Classification Algorithms, Systems, and Applications', 'Bahram Javidi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(13586, 'Implementing 802.11, 802.16, and 802.20 Wireless Networks : Planning, Troubleshooting, and Operations', 'Olexa, Ron.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(13587, 'Improving Machinery Reliability Vol. 1', 'Heinz P. Bloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(13588, 'Industrial Control Wiring Guide 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(13589, 'Industrial electronics for engineers, chemists, and technicians', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(13590, 'Inside The Guru Mind', 'Peter Drucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(13591, 'Integrated Electronics', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(13592, 'Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies', 'Ali Zilouchian et al.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/886'),
(13593, 'The Intelligent Investor', 'Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig &amp; Warren E. Buffett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(13594, 'Intermodulation Distortion in Microwave and Wireless Circuits', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(13595, 'Intro Predictive Maintenance 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(13596, 'Intro to Practical Fluid Flow', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(13597, 'Introduction', 'Windows', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(13598, 'Introduction to 3G Mobile Communications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1097'),
(13599, 'Introduction to Airborne Radar', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1111'),
(13600, 'Introduction to Bluetooth - Technology, Market, Operation, Profiles, and Services @Team LiB', 'by Lawrence Harte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2004, 60 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(13601, 'Introduction To Foreign Exchange', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(13602, 'Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using MatLab', 'Sivanandam Sumathi &amp; Deepa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(13603, 'Introduction to Medical Electronics Applications', 'D Jennings, A Flint, BCH Turton, LDM Nokes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(13604, 'An Introduction to Parametric Digital Filters and Oscillators', 'Mikhail Cherniakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1129'),
(13605, 'An Introduction to Pattern Recognition: Statistical, Neural Net and Syntactic methods of getting robots to see and hear.', 'Michael Alder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(13606, 'An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB', 'S.R. Otto &amp; J.P. Denier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(13607, 'Introduction to RF Equipment and System DesignArtech House Radar Library', 'Eskelinen, Pekka.Norwood, MA Artech House, Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(13608, 'Introduction to RF Propagation', 'Seybold, John S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(13609, 'Introduction to Simulink with Engineering Applications', 'Steven T. Karris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(13610, 'Introduction To Sound Processing', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1105'),
(13611, 'Introduction to Space Science and Spacecraft Applications', 'Bruce A. Campbell &amp; Walter McCandless, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(13612, 'Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition Second Edition', 'Keinosuke Fukunaga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(13613, 'An Introduction to the Theory of Microwave Circuits (Kurokawa)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
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(13851, 'PC Magazine Guide Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005', 'Terry Ulick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(13852, 'PC Troubleshooting', 'Howard Anderson &amp; Mike Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(13853, 'PC Upgrade And Repair Bible', 'Desktop Edition (2004)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(13854, 'Peer to Peer', 'Andy Oram (editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(13855, 'Penetration Tester&#39;s Open Source Toolkit (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(13856, 'Performance Modeling and Analysis of Bluetooth Networks Polling, Scheduling, and Traffic Control', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(13857, 'The Personal Finance Calculator[McGrawHill]', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(13858, 'pg-03.pdf', 'saba', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(13859, 'PGP &amp; GPG', 'Email For The Practical Paranoid (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(13860, 'Phase Locked Loops for Wireless Communications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(13861, 'Phased.Array.Antenna.Handbook.Artech.House.Publishers.Second.Edition.eBook-kB', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1000'),
(13862, 'Photodetection and Measurement', 'Maximizing Performance in Optical Systems', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(13863, 'Photoshop CS2 Before &amp; After Makeovers', 'Taz Tally', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(13864, 'Photoshop CS2 for Dummies--For Dummies', 'Bauer, Peter J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(13865, 'Photovoltaics Fundamentals and Applications', 'Tom Markvart &amp; Luis Castaner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(13866, 'PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach', 'Lee Babin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(13867, 'PHP and MySQL for Dummies, Second Edition', 'Janet Valade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(13868, 'PHP Game Programming', 'Matt Rutledge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(13869, 'PHP Programming With PEAR (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(13870, 'PHP Solutions', 'Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(13871, 'PHP5 and MySQL Bible (Bible)', 'Tim Converse, Joyce Park, Clark Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(13872, 'Physical Metallurgy 3', 'Robert W. Cahn &amp; Peter Haasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(13873, 'Pillars of Prosperity: Free Market, Honest Money, Private Property', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(13874, 'Pipeline Risk Management Manual 3E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(13875, 'Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook 5E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(13876, 'Plant Engineering Handbook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(13877, 'Plastics Engineered Product Design', 'Dominick V. Rosato &amp; Donald V. Rosato', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(13878, 'Plastics Engineering Third Edition', 'R J Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(13879, 'Plastics Materials 7E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(13880, 'PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts', 'Bruce Momjian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(13881, 'POUNDER Marine Diesel Engines Gas Turbines 8E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(13882, 'Power Electronic Control in Electrical Systems', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(13883, 'Power Electronic Handbook Third Edition', 'Fraidoon Mazda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(13884, 'Power Supply Cookbook 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(13885, 'PowerBatch', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1107'),
(13886, 'PowerfulSleep', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(13887, 'Powerpoint 2003: Just the steps for Dummies ', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(13888, 'Practical Analog and Digital Filter Design', 'Les Thede', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(13889, 'Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition (1997)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(13890, 'Practical Design of Ships and other Floating Structures', 'You-Sheng Wu, Wei-Cheng Cui &amp; Guo-Jun Zhou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(13891, 'Practical Electronics for Inventors', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(13892, 'Practical FPGA Programming in C', 'By \\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tDavid Pellerin, Scott Thibault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published April 22, 2005, 464 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(13893, 'Practical Optical System Layout- And Use of Stock Lenses', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(13894, 'Practical RF Handbook 3E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(13895, 'Practical rf printed circuit board design - How to Design RF Circuits (Ref. No. 2000/027), IEE Training Course', 'IEEE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(13896, 'Practical Rf System Design', 'Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(13897, 'Practical Ship Design', 'D.G.M. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(13898, 'Practical Ship Hydrodynamics', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(13899, 'Practical Switching Power Supply Design', 'Marty Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(13900, 'Practical VoIP Security', 'Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(13901, 'practical_aspects_of_feedback_control', 'xp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(13902, 'Pragmatic Ajax', 'A Web 2.0 Primer (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(13903, 'Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion, 2nd Edition (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(13904, 'PragmaticBook', 'Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(13905, 'Pratt_FM.fm', 'chandrasekaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(13906, 'preliem 1..25', 'Fourth Edition', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(13907, 'Prelims', 'John Gardiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(13908, 'Prelims', 'John Gardiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(13909, 'Prelims', 'John Gardiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(13910, 'prelims 1..10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(13911, 'Prentice Hall PTR : High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic', 'By                     Howard Johnson, Martin Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published February 24, 2003, 800 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(13912, 'Prentice Hall PTR : Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision', 'By                     Thomas Klinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published June 11, 2003, 368 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(13913, 'Prentice Hall PTR : Mobile Location Servies: The Definitive Guide', 'By                     Andrew Jagoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published December 31, 2002, 480 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(13914, 'Prentice Hall PTR : Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception', 'By                     Xiaodong Wang, H. Vincent Poor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published September 12, 2003, 704 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(13915, 'Pressure Vessel Design Manual 3rd Ed.', 'Dennis Moss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(13916, 'A Primer on Asynchronous Modem Communication', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(13917, 'Principles of Corporate Finance', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(13918, 'Principles of Digital Transmission With Wireless Applications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(13919, 'Principles of Sigma Delta Conversion for Analog to Digital Converters', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(13920, 'PRINCIPLES OF SPREAD-SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS', 'DON TORRIERI', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(13921, 'print-Frontmatter.p65', 'Default', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(13922, 'Pro .NET 2.0 Code And Design Standards In CSharp, 3rd Edition (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(13923, 'Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms And Custom Controls In VB 2005 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(13924, 'Pro Ajax And Java (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(13925, 'Pro Apache Ant (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(13926, 'Pro Apache XML (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(13927, 'Pro ASP.NET 2.0 In CSharp 2005 (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(13928, 'Pro ASP.NET 2.0 In VB 2005, Special Edition (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(13929, 'Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(13930, 'Pro DNS And BIND (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(13931, 'Pro EJB 3', 'Java Persistence API (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(13932, 'Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management And Optimization (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(13933, 'Pro Java ME MMAPI', 'Mobile Media API For Java Micro Edition (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(13934, 'Pro JavaScript Techniques (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(13935, 'Pro JSF And Ajax', 'Building Rich Internet Components (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(13936, 'Pro Nagios 2.0 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(13937, 'Pro OGRE 3D Programming (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(13938, 'Pro OpenSSH (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(13939, 'Pro PHP XML And Web Services (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(13940, 'Pro Scalable .NET 2.0 Application Designs (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(13941, 'Pro SQL Server 2005 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(13942, 'Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(13943, 'Pro VB 2005 And The .NET 2.0 Platform, 2nd Edition (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(13944, 'Pro Visual C++-CLI And The .NET 2.0 Platform (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(13945, 'Pro Wicket (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(13946, 'Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(13947, 'Pro XML Development With Java Technology (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(13948, 'Professional .NET 2.0 Generics', 'Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(13949, 'Professional ADO.NET 2 : Programming With SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL', 'McClure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(13950, 'Professional ASP.NET 2.0 (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(13951, 'Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management', 'Stefan Schackow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(13952, 'Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML', 'Thiru Thangarathinam', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(13953, 'Professional ASP.NET 2.0: Server control and component', 'Dr. Shahram Khosravi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(13954, 'Professional assembly language', 'Richard Blum.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(13955, 'Professional C#, Third Edition', 'Michael Hutchins , Gale Group', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(13956, 'Professional C++', 'Nicholas A.  Solter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(13957, 'Professional Java, JDK 5 Edition (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(13958, 'Professional Java, JDK 6 Edition (2007)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(13959, 'Professional JavaScript for Web Developers', 'Zakas, Nicholas C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(13960, 'Professional LAMP : Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Web Development', 'Gerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(13961, 'Professional Live Communications Server (Paperback)', 'Joe Schurman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(13962, 'Professional Oracle Programming', 'Greenwald, Rick.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(13963, 'Professional Palm OS Programming (2005)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(13964, 'Professional SQL Server 2005 Repoting Services', 'Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, Dave DuVarney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(13965, 'Professional SQL Server 2005 XML', 'Scott Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(13966, 'Professional Visual Studio 2005', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(13967, 'Professional VSTO 2005 - Visual Studio 2005 Tools For Office (2006)', 'Visual Studio 2005 Tools For Office (2006)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(13968, 'Professional Web 2.0 Programming (2006)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(13969, 'profiles.book', 'cathy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/953'),
(13970, 'Programmable Controllers 3E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(13971, 'Programmable Digital Signal Processors Architecture, Programming, and Applications', 'Zhao Wu &amp; Wayne Wolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
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(14001, 'Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis', 'Michael F. Cohen, John R. Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(14002, 'RASHID Power Electronics Handbook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
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(14011, 'Reimpell Prelims', 'Gwyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
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(14014, 'RF &amp; Microwave Radiation Safety Handbook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(14015, 'RF and Microwave Radiation Safety 2E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(14016, 'RF Circuit Design', 'Chris Bowick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/570'),
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(14020, 'RF MEMS Circuit Design for Wireless Communications', 'Hecotr J. De Los Santos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/901'),
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(14023, 'RFID Field Guide - Deploying Radio Frequency Identification Systems @Team LiB', 'By                     Bhuptani Manish, Moradpour Shahram', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published February 08, 2005, 288 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(14024, 'RFID Sourcebook', 'By \\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tSandip Lahiri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published August 31, 2005, 304 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
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(14027, 'Risk.Management.And.Capital.Adequacy.McGraw.Hill.eBook-LiB', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
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(14029, 'ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS', 'R. Keith Mobley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
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(14090, 'Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(14091, 'Statistical Process Control 5E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(14092, 'Statistics and Probability for Engineering Applications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(14093, 'Synthesis And Optimization Of DSP Algorithms', 'George A. Constantinides, Peter Y. K. Cheung, Wayne Luk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(14094, 'TAB.Electronics.Guide.to.Understanding.Electricity.and.Electronics.eBook-EEn', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(14095, 'Tao Te Ching', 'Yang Bai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(14096, 'Tbook.dvi', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(14097, 'tdmc382.tmp', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(14098, 'Techniques for Adaptive Control', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(14099, 'Telecom Crash Course', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(14100, 'Telecommunication Circuits and Technology', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(14101, 'Telecommunication Demystified', 'Default', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/623');
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(14102, 'Telecommunications Essentials (CHM)', 'By Lillian Goleniewski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(14103, 'Telecommunications Network Modelling, Planning and Design @Team LiB', 'by Sharon Evans (ed)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2003, 226 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(14104, 'Telecommunications Performance Engineering @Team LiB', 'by Roger Ackerley (ed)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2004, 288 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(14105, 'Telecommunications Regulation @Team LiB', 'by John Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2003, 240 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(14106, 'Teletraffic Engineering Handbook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/895'),
(14107, 'Thermochemical Processes', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(14108, 'Thermodynamics Systems Containing Flexible Chain Polymers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(14109, 'TheWorks.dvi', 'A Systems Perspective', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(14110, 'Think and Grow Rich', 'Tony Seruga - OpportunityInformer.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(14111, 'third-generation cdma systems for enhanced data services', 'Giridhar Mandyam; Jersey Lai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(14112, 'Title Page.doc', 'Hans Camenzind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(14113, 'Title pages+dedication', 'Gwidon Stachowiak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
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(14115, 'To all those who did not dedicate', 'v-2anges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(14116, 'TPM - A Route to World-Class Performance', 'Peter Willmott &amp; Dennis McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(14117, 'Trading ebook', 'Patterns in Three Centuries of Stock Market Prices', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/677'),
(14118, 'Trading For A Living In The Forex Market', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(14119, 'Trading In Mind', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(14120, 'TranterBook.dvi', 'Prentice Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1024'),
(14121, 'The Tribology Handbook (Second Edition)', 'Michael J. Neale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(14122, 'Troubleshooting Analog Circuits', 'Robert A. Pease', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/626'),
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(14124, 'Tunable Lasers HANDBOOK', 'F.J. Duarte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(14125, 'The Turnover Dilemma A Question to Keep Employees', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(14126, 'Tutorial Meeting on Digital Signal Processing for Radar and Sonar Applications - Digital Signal Processing for Radar and Sonar Applications, Tutorial Meeting on', 'IEEE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(14127, 'Tyre Vehicle Dynamics', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(14128, 'Ultrasound Imaging Using Coded Signals', 'Thanassis Misaridis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(14129, 'Understanding Automotive Electronics 5E', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(14130, 'Understanding Cellular Radio', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(14131, 'Understanding Data Communications', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(14132, 'Understanding Digital Terres trial Broadcasting', 'Seamus O&#39;Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(14133, 'Understanding Microwaves (Scott)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(14134, 'Understanding Telephone Electronics Fourth Edition', 'Stephen J. Bigelow; Joseph J. Carr; Steve Winder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(14135, 'Understanding Telephone Electronics Fourth Edition', 'Stephen J. Bigelow; Joseph J. Carr; Steve Winder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(14136, 'Understanding the Consequences', 'Valued Sony Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(14137, 'untitled', 'Kacper M. Postawski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(14138, 'untitled', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1177'),
(14139, 'Vibration Simulation Using MATLAB and ANSYS', 'MICHAEL R. HATCH', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(14140, 'Video Demystified', 'Keith Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(14141, 'Video Demystified', 'Keith Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(14142, 'Vivid_Dreams', 'Kacper M. Postawski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(14143, 'Voice over 802.11', 'Frank Ohrtman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(14144, 'VSAT Networks', 'Gerard Maral', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(14145, 'W-CDMA and cdma2000 for 3G Mobile Networks', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(14146, 'wang_fm.tex', 'Gosset', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(14147, 'Waveguide Handbook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(14148, 'A wavelet tour of signal processing Mallat S. (draft, 2005)(851s) MNw', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(14149, 'A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing', 'Stephane Mallat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(14150, 'WCDMA Mobile Communications System', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(14151, 'WDM Technologies, Active Optical Components', 'Achyut K. Dutta, Niloy K. Dutta, Masahiko Fujiwara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(14152, 'weber.dvi', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1023'),
(14153, 'Wgathrindex 1..9999', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(14154, 'Wiley', 'Essentials of Financial Analysis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(14155, 'Wiley - Data Networks, IP and the Internet', 'Protocols, Design &amp; Operation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/957'),
(14156, 'Wiley Intermarket Technical Analysis Trading Strategies For The Global Stock, Bond, Commodity, An', 'Patterns in Three Centuries of Stock Market Prices', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(14157, 'Wiley Intermarket Technical Analysis Trading Strategies For The Global Stock, Bond, Commodity, An', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(14158, 'Wiley Modern Receiver Front-Ends: Systems, Circuits, and Integration', 'Joy Laskar (Author), Babak Matinpour (Author), Sudipto Chakraborty (Author)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(14159, 'Wiley.Interscience.Fiber.to.the.Home.The.New.Empowerment.Oct.2005.eBook-LinG', 'TEAM LinG', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(14160, 'Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems @Team LiB', 'by Yichuang Sun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2004, 285 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(14161, 'Wireless Communication Technologies', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(14162, 'Wireless Communication Technology', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(14163, 'The Wireless Data Handbook', 'Fourth Edition', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(14164, 'Wireless Data Technologies', 'Vern Dubendorf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(14165, 'Wireless Foresight--Scenarios of the Mobile World in 2015 @Team LiB', 'by Bo Karlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published 2003, 246 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(14166, 'Wireless Internet Telecommunications', 'K. Daniel Wong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(14167, 'Wireless Mobile Networking with ANSI-41, Second Edition', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/970'),
(14168, 'Wireless Networks first-step @Team DDU', 'By                     Jim Geier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published August 03, 2004, 264 pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(14169, 'Wireless Optical Communication Systems', 'Hranilovic, Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(14170, 'Wireless Security and Privacy: Best Practices and Design Techniques', 'Best Practices &amp; Design Techniques', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(14171, 'Wireless Technology Protocols Standards and Techniques', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(14172, 'Wireless.Data.Demystified.McGraw.Hill.eBook-LiB', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(14173, 'The World is Flat', 'Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(14174, 'Wrox.Beginning.Algorithms.Nov.2005.eBook-LinG', 'TEAM LinG', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(14175, 'Wrox.Beginning.Visual.Basic.2005.Nov.2005.eBook-LinG', 'TEAM LinG', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(14176, 'Wrox.Professional.VB.2005.Nov.2005.eBook-LinG', 'TEAM LinG', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(14177, 'Wrox&#39;s ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit', 'David Sussman &amp; Alex Homer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(14178, 'XML &amp; Java 2nd Edition', 'Asmodeous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(14179, 'Your Personal Sleep Evaluation', 'Kacper M. Postawski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://41.89.128.5:8080/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(14180, '(La Primera Lay 02) Antes de que los cuelguen', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â«Debemos perdonar a nuestros enemigos, pero nunca antes de que los cuelguen.Â»\n <br />\n H. Heine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n El Superior Glokta tiene un problema. Â¿CÃ³mo defender una ciudad rodeada de enemigos y minada por la traiciÃ³n? Los hombres del Norte han cruzado la frontera y han entrado a sangre y fuego en territorio de la UniÃ³n. Para detenerlos no bastarÃ¡ con el ejÃ©rcito del Rey. Bayaz, el Primero de los Magos, conduce a un heterogÃ©neo grupo de aventureros en una peligrosa misiÃ³n por las ruinas del pasado. Antes de que los cuelguen ha sido elegido el libro favorito de los lectores de SFFWorld.com y estuvo entre los finalistas del SFSite en 2007.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(14181, '(La Primera Ley 01) La voz de las espadas', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n El inquisidor Glokta, convertido en un cÃ­nico tullido tras su paso por las cÃ¡rceles de los enemigos de la UniÃ³n, es ahora a su vez un eficaz torturador capaz de extraer informaciÃ³n de cualquiera. A su vez, el capitÃ¡n Jezal dan Luthar no ha hecho otra cosa en su vida que desplumar a sus amigos jugando a las cartas y soÃ±ar con la gloria de vencer en el Certamen de esgrima. Pero se estÃ¡ fraguando una guerra, y en los campos de batalla del Norte la lucha se rige por normas mucho mÃ¡s sangrientas... Logen Nuevededos, infame bÃ¡rbaro de pasado sangriento, acaba de perder a sus amigos y estÃ¡ decidido a abandonar sus tierras y dirigirse al Sur, pero los espÃ­ritus le advierten que le busca un Mago de los Viejos Tiempos... Sus historias se entrelazan en una fantasÃ­a negra repleta de acciÃ³n y personajes memorables.Â«Maravillosamente perversa.Â» Jon Courtney Grimwood (The Guardian)Â«Una larga carrera de este individuo serÃ¡ un regalo para nuestro gÃ©nero.Â» Scott LynchÂ«Una lectura extremadamente entretenida... Un debut literario impresionante.Â» (Sfrevu)Joe Abercrombie vive en Londres. La voz de las espadas, su primera novela, es al mismo tiempo el primer volumen de su trilogÃ­a Â«La Primera LeyÂ», que completan Antes de que los cuelguen y El Ãºltimo argumento de los reyes, publicadas asimismo en Alianza Editorial.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(14182, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition', 'Carroll, Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(14183, 'Azogue I', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(14184, 'A Barlovento', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n Fue uno de los incidentes menos gloriosos de una antigua guerra. ProvocÃ³ la destrucciÃ³n de dos soles y de los miles de millones de vidas que sustentaban. Ahora, ochocientos aÃ±os despuÃ©s, la luz del primero de estos antiguos errores ha llegado al orbital de la Cultura Masadaq. La luz del segundo podrÃ­a no llegar a hacerlo.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(14185, 'Bestias', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Este libro describe una AmÃ©rica futurista y anÃ¡rquica en que el protagonista es una nueva especie , parte leÃ³n, parte hombre. NorteamÃ©rica ha sido destruida por la guerra civil. Los animales han sido transformados biolÃ³gicamente en criaturas hÃ­bridas. Violentas bandas de bÃ¡rbaros combaten contra los agentes de ingenierÃ­a social. Pero unos y otros odian por igual a los leones y a todas las Ãºltimas criaturas depredadoras, que los hombres llaman Bestias.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(14186, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A guide to get you up and running with calibre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(14187, 'Camelot 30K', 'Robert L. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Las sondas espaciales humanas han descubierto vida inteligente en los lejanos lÃ­mites del sistema solar, en la Nube Oort. Ahora los primeros seres humanos se aventuran mÃ¡s allÃ¡ del sistema planetario, enviados para establecer contacto con esta raza increÃ­blemente extraÃ±a y viajar al centro de su civilizaciÃ³n. Lo que descubren es explosivo mÃ¡s allÃ¡ de sus mÃ¡s descabellados sueÃ±os.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Ha creado un rompecabezas intelectual, puro y simple, con una soluciÃ³n maravillosamente astuta que hizo volar por los aires mis propias hipÃ³tesis"\n <br />\n -The New York Times.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Un ejemplo clÃ¡sico de elaboraciÃ³n meticulosa en forma de concepto cientÃ­fico sofisticado, una forma en la que Forward es uno de los mÃ¡s destacados ejemplos. AquÃ­ estÃ¡ en su mejor momento. Altamente recomendado".\n <br />\n -Booklist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(14188, 'Cetaganda', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cetaganda is the latest installment of the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally - apparently a suicide, but there are rumors - Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture. Meanwhile, handsome and lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several women at the same time - all of whom are TROUBLE from the word go. Miles had always wanted to save the Empire - it was just that the Cetagandan wasn''t exactly the empire he''d had in mind..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(14189, 'Choque de reyes', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Un cometa del color de la sangre hiende el cielo, cargado de malos augurios. Y hay razones sobradas para pensar asÃ­: los Siete Reinos se ven sacudidos por las luchas intestinas entre los nobles por la sucesiÃ³n al Trono de Hierro. En la otra orilla del mar Angosto, la princesa Daenerys Targaryen conduce a su pueblo de jinetes salvajes a travÃ©s del desierto. Y en los pÃ¡ramos helados del norte, mÃ¡s allÃ¡ del Muro, un ejÃ©rcito implacable avanza hacia un territorio asolado por el caos y las guerras fratricidas.\n <br />\n George R.R. Martin, con pulso firme y enÃ©rgico, nos deleita con un brillante despliegue de personajes, engranando una trama rica, densa y sorprendente. Nos vuelve testigos de luchas fratricidas, intrigas y traiciones palaciegas en una tierra maldita por la guerra, donde fuerzas ocultas se alzan de nuevo y acechan para reinar en las noches del largo invierno que se avecina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(14190, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(14191, 'Criopolis', 'Lois Mcmaster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  CryoBurn esta protagonizada por Miles Vorkosigan, un aristocrata de 39 anos con discapacidad fisica del planeta Barrayar. Aqui se investigan una serie de acontecimientos sucedidos en el planeta de Kiboudaini/New Esperanza, en el que los muertos son congelados en espera de poder ser revividos algun dia. / Kiboudaini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. When an immortal company whose job it''s to shepherd its frozen patrons, Miles discovers a conflict over money and resources. He finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping; something is rotten on Kiboudaini.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(14192, 'Cuentos de la taberna del Ciervo Blanco', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Este divertido volumen de ARTHUR C. CLARKE recoge quince improbables historias, narradas de viva voz en un pub londinense en el que se reÃºne, los miÃ©rcoles de todas las semanas, un selecto grupo de escritores, cientÃ­ficos, periodistas y editores. El gran protagonista de esta tertulia es Harry Purvis, un jactancioso y ocurrente fabulador que aprovecha cualquier pretexto o alusiÃ³n para abrumar a sus amigos con extraÃ±os sucesos de los que ha sido supuesto testigo o privilegiado conocedor. Todos los relatos se hallan animados por una lÃ³gica disparatada que los hace convincentes precisamente por resultar inverosÃ­miles. No se trata de narraciones de ciencia-ficciÃ³n situadas en el futuro -como las que el propio Clarke reuniÃ³ en "El viento del sol. Relatos de la era espacial'''' (LB 531) o Isaac Asimov en "Estoy en Puertomarte sin Hilda" (LB 366)- sino de aventuras basadas la mayorÃ­a de las veces en la extrapolaciÃ³n hasta el absurdo de las posibilidades tecnolÃ³gicas que encierra el conocimiento cientÃ­fico contemporÃ¡neo. Inventos sorprendentes, situaciones impensadas y experimentos audaces -mÃ¡quinas para producir silencio, reproducir el placer sexual o fabricar melodÃ­as perfectas, buques que aran los ocÃ©anos, computadoras para uso militar que adoptan comportamientos pacifistas, colonias de termitas que incorporan conocimiento humano, etc.- constituyen la trama, ingeniosa e imaginativa, de estos CUENTOS DE LA TABERNA DEL CIERVO BLANCO.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(14193, 'Danza De Espejos', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(14194, 'El Aprendiz De Guerrero', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(14195, 'El cementerio de Praga -', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(99, 94, 85); font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; ">\n Estamos en marzo de 1897, en ParÃ­s, espiando desde las primeras pÃ¡ginas de esta magnÃ­fica novela a un hombre de sesenta y siete aÃ±os que escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitaciÃ³n abarrotada de muebles: he aquÃ­ al capitÃ¡n Simonini, un piamontÃ©s afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedica al noble arte de crear documentos falsos...Hombre de pocas palabras, misÃ³gino y glotÃ³n impenitente, el capitÃ¡n se inspira en los folletines de Dumas y Sue para dar fe de complots inexistentes, fomentar intrigas o difamar a las grandes figuras de la polÃ­tica europea. Caballero sin escrÃºpulos, Simonini trabaja al servicio del mejor postor: si antes fue el gobierno italiano quien pagÃ³ por sus imposturas, luego llegaron los encargos de Francia y Prusia, e incluso Hitler acabarÃ­a aprovechÃ¡ndose de sus malvados oficios...Treinta aÃ±os despuÃ©s de publicar El nombre de la rosa, Umberto Eco vuelve para mostrarnos que en la literatura y en la vida, nada es lo que parece y nadie es quien realmente dice ser: todo es segÃºn convenga, y quien triunfa, ahora y siempre, es el rufiÃ¡n que desconfÃ­a de todos y se mantiene alerta, aunque no se mueva casi de esa mesa donde lo vimos al principio, cuando quizÃ¡ no sabÃ­amos que Simonini y los hombres como Ã©l aun estÃ¡n aquÃ­, entre nosotros, y han venido para quedarse...Una novela donde todos los personajes, excepto el protagonista, existieron realmente. Es mÃ¡s: algunos de ellos estÃ¡n todavÃ­a aquÃ­, entre nosotros.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(14196, 'El Experimento Terminal', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n El doctor Hobson ha creado un monstruo. O mejor dicho, tres.\n <br />\n Para probar sus teorÃ­as sobre la inmortalidad y la posible existencia de vida tras la muerte, Hobson ha ideado tres simulaciones informÃ¡ticas de su propia personalidad. Con la primera, de la que se ha eliminado toda referncia a la existencia fÃ­sica, intenta analizar como serÃ­a una posible vida tras la muerte. Con la segunda, de la que se elimina toda referencia al envejecimiento y a la muerte, Hobson pretende estudiar la inmortalidad. La tercera, sin alteraciones, es el control de referencia del experimento.\n <br />\n Sin embargo, las tres simulaciones escapan del ordenador de Hobson, huyen a la red informÃ¡tica mundial y viven su propia vida.\n <br />\n Una de ellas es un asesino y comete crÃ­menes que tal vez Hobson ha imaginado...\n <hr class="annotations_divider" />\n <br />\n</p>\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <br />\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  <br />\n  2/28/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 5981 (97%)\n  <br />\n </span>\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(14197, 'El Gemelo De La Montana', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Los repiques de la muerte que Kahlan liberÃ³ involuntariamente a fin de salvar la vida de Richard han eliminado la magia. Tan sÃ³lo pervive la del Custodio. Una doble amenaza se cierne sobre el mundo: los repiques y el emperador Jagang. Ã‰ste pretende conquistar Anderith, un paÃ­s de la Tierra Central protegido por un arma excepcional e invencible, la Espada de la Verdad, y atrincherarse allÃ­. Si lo consigue, mÃ¡s pronto o mÃ¡s tarde toda la Tierra Central caerÃ¡ en sus manos. Para ello cuenta con el beneplÃ¡cito de los corruptos gobernantes de Anderith. Richard y Kahlan deben luchar con mÃ©todos tradicionales para ganarse al pueblo de Anderith e impedir que la Orden Imperial se apodere de ese paÃ­s, y al mismo tiempo deben descubrir el enigma de los repiques y desterrarlos de nuevo al inframundo al que pertenecen. Su Ãºnica pista es un libro escrito por el mago Joseph Ander mucho tiempo atrÃ¡s. Ninguno de los aliados mÃ¡gicos de ambos pueden ayudarlos en esta aventura. Â¿ConseguirÃ¡ Richard desentraÃ±ar un misterio que ni siquiera los experimentados magos del AlcÃ¡zar consiguieron resolver?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(14198, 'El Honor De La Reina', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n El reino de MantÃ­cora necesita aliados contra la RepÃºblica de Haven, que considera que la guerra y la conquista son el orden lÃ³gico y natural que deberÃ­a seguir el universo. El planeta Grayson es el perfecto aliado. No obstante, el Ministerio de Exteriores de Su Majestad olvidÃ³ un detalle cuando escogiÃ³ a Honor Harrington como representante: las mujeres de Grayson carecen de derechos y, por tanto, no ocupan puestos de responsabilidad. Lo que, sin duda, convertirÃ¡ su presencia en una afrenta intolerable para todos los varones del planeta.\n</p>\n<hr class="annotations_divider" />\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  1/6/1970\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 7053 (74%)\n </span>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 36 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 80 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 611 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 616 &bull; Note\n </b>\n <br />\n mayusculas\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 1522 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4821 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(14199, 'El Imperio Elevado', 'Westerfeld Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  4/20/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 6613 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(14200, 'El Imperio Final', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Sanderson''s eerie second fantasy (after 2005''s\n   <em>\n    Elantris\n   </em>\n   ), set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler''s 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike "skaa." Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler''s most hellish prison, Kelsier can "burn" 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses'' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin''s coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. The fast-paced action scenes temper Vin''s interminable ballroom intrigues, while the characters, though not profoundly drawn, have a raw stereotypic appeal.\n   <em>\n    (July)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler''s most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler''s power. Beforehand, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she''s useful because she brings good luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior''s crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters.\n   <em>\n    Regina Schroeder\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n   </em>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sanderson''s eerie second fantasy (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Elantris\n  </em>\n  ), set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler''s 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike "skaa." Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler''s most hellish prison, Kelsier can "burn" 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses'' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin''s coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. The fast-paced action scenes temper Vin''s interminable ballroom intrigues, while the characters, though not profoundly drawn, have a raw stereotypic appeal.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler''s most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler''s power. Beforehand, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she''s useful because she brings good luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior''s crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters.\n  <em>\n   Regina Schroeder\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(14201, 'El Libro del Cementerio', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(14202, 'El Pozo De La Ascension', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sanderson''s entertaining second Mistborn novel begins after most fantasy series end, when the team of brave and cunning heroes find that holding on to power is even harder than overthrowing the previous tyrant. Elend Venture, the scholarly new Lord Ruler of Luthadel, clings to power while Luthadel''s aristocrats and merchants grumble and two enemy armiesâ€”one led by Elend''s father, Lord Straffâ€”camp outside the city gates. Fortunately, Elend can rely on help from his lover and unofficial court assassin, the young allomancer Vin, but her magical metal-using ability makes her a target. An orphan of decidedly low origins, Vin is also having trouble adapting to her position as royal consort, especially since the underclass skaa, newly freed by Elend, look to her as their protector. Meanwhile, the ancient evil known as the Deepness is rising once again. This entertaining read will especially please those who always wanted to know what happened after the good guys won.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Mistborn trilogy''s middle book, the great revolution''s leader is dead, his apprentice Vin is overwhelmed by his legacy, and the idealistic new ruler is beset by those who want power themselves. Everyone wants to find the overthrown despot''s Atium supplies, and armies besiege Luthadel. On patrol one night, Vin sees a figure apparently made of mist. The history of Kwaan, who helped the despot to power, emerges, portending a terrible power. The Well of Ascension may furnish resolutions to all these situations, but someone must find it. Vin''s struggles with love and power inject the human element into Sanderson''s engaging epic. Schroeder, Regina\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(14203, 'El protector', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Phssthpok el Pak habÃ­a estado viajando la mayor parte de sus treinta y dos mil aÃ±os. Su misiÃ³n: salvar, desarrollar y proteger al grupo de criadores Pak que enviÃ³ al espacio unos dos millones y medio de aÃ±os antes... Brennan era un minero, el producto de una sociedad muy independiente, un tanto anÃ¡rquica en, sobre y alrededor del cinturÃ³n de asteroides exterior. El habitantes del cinturÃ³n eran todos rebeldes, y Brennan era un contrabandista. Los mundos del cinturÃ³n habÃ­a estado siguiendo la nave Pak por dÃ­as - Brennan se las arregÃ³ para encontrarse con la nave primero... Nunca mÃ¡s se lo volviÃ³ a ver - al menos no aquellos que estÃ¡n vivos actualmente.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(14204, 'El rostro', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kirth Gersen habÃ­a rastreado la galaxia clamando venganza por el genocidio en el que perecieron todos los suyos. De una lista de cinco terrible criminales, habÃ­a tachado ya tres nombres y nada podÃ­a detenerle; los responsables debÃ­an pagar con sus vidas. Una persecuciÃ³n sin cuartel, en la que tanto las presas como el cazador disponen de medios ilimitados para afrontar los acontecimientos que se suceden de un modo implacable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(14205, 'El Sistema del Mundo', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The colossal and impressive third volume (after\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Confusion\n </em>\n ) of Stephenson''s magisterial exploration of the origins of the modern world in the scientific revolution of the baroque era begins in 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, hoping to mediate the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibniz, both of whom claim to have discovered the calculus and neither of whom is showing much scientific rationality in the dispute. This brawl takes place against the background of the imminent death of Queen Anne, which threatens a succession crisis as Jacobite (Stuart, Catholic) sympathizers confront supporters of the Hanoverian succession. Aside from the potential effect of the outcome on the intellectual climate of England, these political maneuverings are notable for the role played by trilogy heroine Eliza de la Zour, who is now wielding her influence over Caroline of Ansbach, consort of the Hanoverian heir. Eliza has risen from the streets to the nobility without losing any of her creativity or her talents as a schemer; nor has outlaw Jack Shaftoe lost any of his wiliness. What he may have lost is discretion, since he oversteps the boundaries of both law and good sense far enough to narrowly escape the hangman. In the end, reluctant hero Waterhouse prevails against the machinations of everybody else, and scientific (if not sweet) reason wins by a nose. The symbol of that victory is the inventor Thomas Newcomen standing (rather like a cock crowing) atop the boiler of one of his first steam engines. This final volume in the cycle is another magnificent portrayal of an era, well worth the long slog it requires of Stephenson''s many devoted readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The conclusion to\n <em>\n  The Baroque Cycle\n </em>\n is a veritable doorstop, but a doorstop perhaps worth its weight in 18th-century gold coinsâ€”especially to those who need a reminder about the dangerous misuses of science and â€œprogress.â€ Critics canâ€™t heap enough praise on Stephensonâ€™s eloquent narration, true-to-life characters, and impeccable plotting (â€œgenerated via Waterhouseâ€™s Logic Mills,â€ says the\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ). Stephenson exquisitely unearths Baroque history, too, from mints to gardens to Jacobites. While compelling, youâ€™ll best appreciate this epic history-romance-science fiction story â€œonce you have a solid liberal arts education under your beltâ€ (_Chronicle_). Stephenson mostly gets away with his philosophical pedantry because heâ€™s so smart and inventive. If you have the courage to delve in, you wonâ€™t be disappointed. And if you canâ€™t bring yourself to start with\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  System\n </em>\n includes a preface relating â€œthe story thus farâ€ that reviewers found helpful enough.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(14206, 'Ender en el Exilio', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â© Valfeodir\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(14207, 'Excesion', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">\n  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n   En la Cultura, una vasta sociedad de dimensiones galÃ¡cticas y protegida y custodiada por las Mentes, la forma mÃ¡s avanzada de inteligencia artificial, nada parece capaz de poner en peligro la placentera existencia de los seres humanos. Ni siquiera los Affront, la Ãºnica especie capaz de rivalizar con la Cultura es una seria amenaza. Sin embargo, nadie habÃ­a contado con el extraÃ±o suceso que tiene lugar en un remoto y olvidado extremo del universo. ExcesiÃ³n, una misteriosa esfera oscura que se resiste a todo estudio, ha aparecido donde dos milenios y medio antes una estrella se desvaneciÃ³ por completo. La humanidad y los Affront se disputan la posesiÃ³n de los secretos tecnolÃ³gicos que Excession guarda en su interior.\n  </span>\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(14208, 'Exodo', 'Uris, Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(14209, 'Fronteras Del Infinito: Aventuras De Miles Vorkosigan', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(14210, 'Hermanos De Armas', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(14211, 'Imperio', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(14212, 'Inversiones', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n En el palacio de invierno, la nueva doctora del Rey tiene mÃ¡s enemigos de los que cree. Pero, por otra parte, tambiÃ©n dispone de remedios insÃ³litos que ellos desconocen. En otro palacio tras las montaÃ±as, el guardaespaldas jefe del Protector General se enfrenta a sus propios adversarios, aunque no lo tiene tan fÃ¡cil: son mÃ¡s rÃ¡pidos y eficaces y Ã©l solo dispone de mÃ©todos tradicionales para hacerles frente...\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(14213, 'Judas Desencadenado', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n DespuÃ©s de cientos de aÃ±os manipulando en secreto a la raza humana, el aviador estelar ha conseguido urdir una guerra capaz de provocar la des-trucciÃ³n de la FederaciÃ³n. Afortunadamente, gracias a la investigadora jefe Paula Myo, la Ã©lite polÃ­tica de la FederaciÃ³n admite la existencia del aviador y monta una insÃ³lita asociaciÃ³n para dar caza a este enigmÃ¡tico alienÃ­gena. Mark Vernon, mecÃ¡nico sin igual, tiene la sensaciÃ³n de haber caÃ­do de pie cuando encuentra el trabajo mÃ¡s seguro en el mundo de la FederaciÃ³n: ayuda a construir las naves estelares que evacuarÃ¡n a los ultraricos si acaso se perdiera la guerra. Pero un dÃ­a llega Nigel Sheldon a pedirle un pequeÃ±o favor. Y al hombre que creÃ³ la FederaciÃ³n no se le dice que no... El problema de los pequeÃ±os favores es que tienen tendencia a hacerse grandes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(14214, 'Juego de Tronos', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tras el largo verano, el invierno se acerca a los Siete Reinos. Lord Eddard Stark, seÃ±or de Invernalia, deja sus dominios para unirse a la corte del rey Robert Baratheon el Usurpador, hombre dÃ­scolo y otrora guerrero audaz cuyas mayores aficiones son comer, beber y engendrar bastardos. Eddard Stark desempeÃ±arÃ¡ el cargo de Mano del Rey e intentarÃ¡ desentraÃ±ar una maraÃ±a de intrigas que pondrÃ¡ en peligro su vidaâ€¦ y la de los suyos. En un mundo cuyas estaciones duran dÃ©cadas y en el que retazos de una magia inmemorial y olvidada surgen en los rincones mÃ¡s sombrios y maravillosos, la traiciÃ³n y la lealtad, la compasiÃ³n y la sed de venganza, el amor y el poder hacen del juego de tronos una poderosa trampa que atrapa en sus fauces a los personajesâ€¦ y al lector.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/95');
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(14215, 'Komarr', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lois McMaster Bujold comes through again with another sharp Miles Vorkosigan novel.\n  <em>\n   Komarr\n  </em>\n  can be read as a standalone, though it is part of a whole series. (_Komarr_ brings the total to 16 books!) Miles is a hugely popular character with fans--and they won''t be disappointed with his latest adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The planet Komarr is undergoing centuries-long terraforming when one of the orbiting mirrors crucial to the effort is smashed by an off-course ship. Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr to investigate the incident; once there, he becomes embroiled in political and scientific battles. To make matters worse, the name Vorkosigan is anathema on Komarr. But our intrepid hero can''t be put down easily. While trying to save Komarr, he manages... maybe... to find true love at last! Bujold''s original and intelligent blend of politics, science, and cliffhanging-good space opera makes this book a satisfying adventure and a charming romance.\n  <em>\n   --Therese Littleton\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rendered unfit for military service by incurable seizures resulting from his having died, been cryofrozen and then revived, Miles Vorkosigan has managed to land on his feet once again, this time as an Imperial Auditor handling top-secret investigations of the most difficult and vital sort. When a gigantic solar-powered satellite necessary to the terraforming of the planet Komarr is damaged in a collision with an ore freighter, Miles and another Auditor are sent to determine whether the collision was an accident or sabotage. Conquered within living memory by the Barrayaran Empire, which Miles represents, Komarr has a history of rebellion. Worse, Miles''s father, Lord Vorkosigan, who put down the last revolt, is hated by many Komarran patriots. Miles eventually uncovers what is apparently a straightforward scheme involving bribery in high places, but a darker and more dangerous plot is brewing below the surface, one that could destroy the Empire. In addition, he falls in love with the unhappily married wife of the government official who is his host. As usual, Bujold (Memory) tells a fast-moving story that combines just the right amount of action and wit as Miles continues to mature in a manner unusually complex for a series protagonist. Breaking new ground, Bujold tells much of her story from the viewpoint of Ekaterin Vorsoisson, the woman Miles falls in love with, and the portrait that emerges of a good woman stuck in a loveless marriage is both believable and intensely painful. Bujold continues to grow as a writer, and her work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF. (June) of the year and was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(14216, 'La Caida Del Dragon', 'Hamilton Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n De niÃ±o, Lawrence Newton solo querÃ­a pilotar naves espaciales y explorar la galaxia. Pero vive en la Ã©poca equivocada: la edad de los vuelos estelares del hombre estÃ¡ tocando a su fin, por lo que se rebela y huye en pos de su sueÃ±o. Veinte aÃ±os despuÃ©s es el sargento de un problemÃ¡tico pelotÃ³n que estÃ¡ invadiendo otro planeta, eufemismo para un acto de piraterÃ­a de una de las grandes corporaciones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(14217, 'La estrella de Pandora', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them. For what if their disappearance indicates some kind of galactic conflict? Since a conventional wormhole cannot be used to reach these vanished stars, for the first time humans need to build a faster-than-light starship, the Second Chance. But it arrives to find each ''vanished'' star encased in a giant force field - and within one of them resides a massive alien civilisation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(14218, 'La Maquina de Matar', 'Vance Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(14219, 'La saga de Cugel', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  4/20/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 1 (0%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(14220, 'La Sexta Lampara', 'Pablo De Santis', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  3/14/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 4235 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(14221, 'La Tierra moribunda', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  4/20/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 20 (0%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(14222, 'La Torre De Cristal', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(14223, 'Los Dones', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€“In this well-realized fantasy, the people of the Uplands have unusual and potentially dangerous abilities that can involve the killing or maiming of others. Gry can communicate with animals, but she refuses to use her gift to call creatures to the hunt, a stance her mother doesn''t understand. The males in Orrec''s line have the power of unmakingâ€“or destroyingâ€“other living things. However, because his mother is a Lowlander, there is concern that this ability will not run true to him. When his gift finally manifests itself, it seems to be uncontrollable. His father blindfolds him so that he will not mistakenly hurt someone, and everyone fears him. Meanwhile, Ogge Drum, a greedy and cruel landowner, causes heartache for Orrec and his family. There is a strong sense of foreboding throughout the novel. The characters, who are well rounded and believable, often fail to understand the extent of the responsibility that comes with great power. In the end, Gry and Orrec come to recognize the true nature of their gifts and how best to use them. Readers can enjoy this story as a suspenseful struggle between good and evil, or they can delve deeper and come away with a better understanding of the choices that all individuals must make if they are to realize their full potential. An excellent choice for discussion and contemplation._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Gr. 6-10. Gifts, in the context of Le Guin''s newest novel, inspire fear more often than gratitude. But this book is a gift in the purest sense, as the renowned fantasist''s admirers have waited 14 years since the release of\n  <em>\n   Tehanu\n  </em>\n  (1990) for another full-length young adult novel. Providing an intriguing counterpoint to the epic third-person voice of Le Guin''s Earthsea novels, this quieter, more intimate tale is narrated by its central character, Orrec. Born into a feud-riven community where the balance of power depends on inherited, extrasensory "gifts," Orrec''s gift of Unmaking (which is wielded at a glance and is as fearsome as it sounds) manifests late and strangely, forcing him to don a blindfold to protect those he loves from his dire abilities. The blindfold becomes a source of escalating tension between Orrec and his stern father, and its eventual removal serves as a powerful metaphor for the transition from dependent youngster to self-possessed, questioning young adult. Although intriguing as a coming-of-age allegory, Orrec''s story is also rich in the earthy magic and intelligent plot twists that made the Earthsea novels classics. One would expect nothing less from the author whose contributions to literature have earned her a World Fantasy Award, a Nebula Award, and, most recently, a Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime achievement.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n<hr class="annotations_divider" />\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  2/15/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 6622 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 41 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(14224, 'Los hijos del paraiso', 'Nick Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Los niÃ±os de Idlewild han sido creados mediante bioingenierÃ­a para aguantar los efectos del apocalipsis microbiano bautizado como la peste negra, que prÃ¡cticamente diezmÃ³ a la humanidad de la faz del globo. Dieciocho aÃ±os mÃ¡s tarde, una generaciÃ³n tanto humana como poshumana dividida en bandos, debido a la ingenierÃ­a genÃ©tica que se utilizÃ³ para crearlos, estÃ¡ preparada para heredar la Tierra.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Pero mientras que uno de los bandos aboga por una evoluciÃ³n natural y el otro se empeÃ±a en perfeccionar a los individuos a travÃ©s de la ciencia, una plaga incluso mÃ¡s letal surge de las cenizas de la peste negra. Su Ãºnico propÃ³sito, el exterminio de la humanidad.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Tras el rotundo Ã©xito de su primera novela, CÃ³digo genÃ©tico, que serÃ¡ prÃ³ximamente llevada al cine, el hijo del cÃ©lebre Carl Sagan demuestra con esta obra que merece haber sido aclamado como uno de los grandes de la nueva ciencia ficciÃ³n estadounidense, y sumerge al lector en una historia trepidante que resonarÃ¡ aÃºn despuÃ©s de haber terminado el libro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(14225, 'Los ojos del sobremundo', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  4/20/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 1 (0%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(14226, 'Los Pilares de la Tierra', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Los Pilares de la Tierra es una novela histÃ³rica del autor britÃ¡nico Ken Follett ambientada en Inglaterra en la Edad Media, en concreto en el siglo XII, durante un periodo de guerra civil conocido como la AnarquÃ­a inglesa, entre el hundimiento del White Ship y el asesinato del arzobispo Thomas Becket. Sin embargo, tambiÃ©n se recrea un viaje de peregrinaciÃ³n a Santiago de Compostela a travÃ©s de Francia y EspaÃ±a.El gran maestro de la narrativa y el suspense nos transporta a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construcciÃ³n de una catedral gÃ³tica. La historia se inicia con el ahorcamiento pÃºblico de un inocente y finaliza con la humillaciÃ³n de un rey.El autor sorprendiÃ³ con esta novela no sÃ³lo a sus lectores, Ã¡vidos de thrillers, sino tambiÃ©n a sus editores con su contenido y longitud (mÃ¡s de 1300 pÃ¡ginas). Fue publicada en 1989, y se convirtiÃ³ en el mayor best seller de Follett. Los Pilares de la Pierra es la obra maestra de Ken Follett y constituye una excepcional evocaciÃ³n de una Ã©poca de violentas pasiones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(14227, 'Materia', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n En uno de los mundos mÃ¡s cÃ©lebres de una galaxia llena de prodigios se produce un crimen en plena guerra. Para un hombre significa una huida desesperada y la bÃºsqueda de la Ãºnica persona (o quizÃ¡ sean dos) que podrÃ­a limpiar su nombre. Para su hermano significa una vida bajo la amenaza constante de la traiciÃ³n y el asesinato. Y para la hermana de ambos, incluso sin saber toda la verdad, significa el regreso a un lugar que creÃ­a haber abandonado para siempre.El problema radica en que la hermana no es lo que en otro tiempo habÃ­a sido: ha cambiado tanto ya nadie la reconocerÃ­a y se ha convertido en agente de la secciÃ³n de Circunstancias Especiales de la Cultura, encargada de realizar intervenciones de alto nivel en civilizaciones de toda la galaxia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(14228, 'Medula', 'Robert Rentoul Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Ship is a rock larger than worlds. The Ship is a world full of vast hollows in which live thousands of alien races. The Ship is a mysterious starship, billions of years old, crewed by the near-immortal humans who discovered it, empty, at the fringes of the galaxy. And, as a select inner circle of the crew is astonished to discover, there is a planet at the center of the Ship. They descend to the surface of the planet, Marrow, hoping to discover the origin of the Ship--only to find themselves trapped on that hellish world and abandoned by their fellow captains, even as tremendous, inexplicable changes in Marrow may doom the Ship and everyone aboard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Reed''s\n  <em>\n   Marrow\n  </em>\n  is high-concept, epoch-spanning SF in the tradition of Olaf Stapledon''s\n  <em>\n   Last and First Men\n  </em>\n  , Camille Flammarion''s\n  <strong>\n   , and Greg Egan''s\n  </strong>\n  . Unlike\n  <em>\n   Last and First Men\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Omega\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Marrow\n  </em>\n  features a continuing cast of well-drawn, believable characters in addition to the brain-busting big ideas and sense of wonder.\n  <em>\n   --Cynthia Ward\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A ship the size of a large planet drifts through space far into the future, setting the stage for Reed''s sweeping allegory dramatizing such cosmological questions as the origins of the universe and the relative nature of size and time. Humans are practically immortal with the improvements of bioceramics and repairing genes, allowing Reed (Beyond the Veil of Stars), a multiple Hugo nominee, to track the lives of the Great Ship''s crew members and passengers through millennia. The Master Captain has directed every aspect of the ship via her implanted nexuses ever since human explorers first boarded the seemingly empty, ancient vessel, finding the enormous, lifeless ship equipped with adjustable environments that would allow them to create oceans and cities. The human colonists turn the ship into a luxury passenger cruiser carrying 100 billion members of various alien species. The Master and her captains administer the journey according to plans made eons into the past, handily neutralizing any threats or disruptions until the Master mysteriously sends over 200 of her brightest captains, including her ambitious first-chair, Miocene, and the talented alien greeter Washen, on an exploratory mission to what was thought to be the ship''s solid iron core. Disaster befalls their mission, unleashing a 5,000-year course of events that will build a new civilization and eventually threaten the existence of the entire ship. The ship itself narrates italicized introductions to each of the book''s five parts with thorny, theatrical language, echoing the ship''s obtuse, unwieldy presence. Clumsy dialogue and melodramatic scenes render the human dramas far less consequential than the monumental construct in which they play. However, Reed''s ambitious, detailed premise and thoughtful manipulations of space and time make for an enjoyable reflection on the size and shape of the universe relative to its human inhabitants. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n<hr class="annotations_divider" />\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  3/11/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 10266 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 9139 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(14229, 'Mendigos y Opulentos', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(14230, 'Metro 2034', 'Dmitry Glukhovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Estamos en el aÃ±o 2034. El mundo ha sido devastado. Apenas si quedan seres humanos con vida. Las ciudades estÃ¡n destruidas y la radiaciÃ³n las ha dejado inhabitables. Se dice que, fuera de ellas, se encuentran solamente interminables desiertos de tierra calcinada, y antiguos bosques que se han transformado en impenetrables espesuras. Pero nadie sabe muy bien lo que se esconde en ellos. La civilizaciÃ³n ha desaparecido. Y el recuerdo que aÃºn se conserva de las pasadas grandezas de la Humanidad se mezcla gradualmente con mitos y leyendas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(14231, 'Microsoft Word - Suzuki, Koji - The Ring.doc', 'The Ring', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(14232, 'Mindscan', 'Sawyer, Robert J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(14233, 'Otros dias, otros ojos', 'Bob Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n El "vidrio lento" es un cristal que abosrbe poco a poco la luz de los sucesos que ocurren delante de Ã©l, los cuales resultan visibles meses o aÃ±os despuÃ©s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A partir de esta idea, BOB SHAW construye una excelente y a la vez original novela. La profÃ©tica visiÃ³n de lo que podrÃ­a ser un invento de estas caracterÃ­sticas y la problemÃ¡tica socila de su uso -desde el crimen casi perfecto hasta la verificaciÃ³n por parte de la justicia al cabo de cinco aÃ±os- hacen de esta novela una obra maestra de ciencia ficicÃ³n en el mÃ¡s puro sentido de la palabra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(14234, 'Playa De Acero', 'John Varley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(14235, 'Por No Mencionar Al Perro', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(14236, 'Principe Demonio 1.El Rey Estelar', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(14237, 'Principe Demonio 2.La Maquina De Matar', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(14238, 'Principe Demonio 3.El Palacio del Amor', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(14239, 'Principe Demonio 4.El Rostro', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(14240, 'Principe Demonio 4.El Rostro - Jack Vance', 'gczobel@gmail.com', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  2/10/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 4734 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 3188 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 3284 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 3382 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 3534 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 3547 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4008 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4035 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4172 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4428 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  Location 4524 &bull; Bookmark\n </b>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(14241, 'Principe Demonio 5.El Libro de los Suenos', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(14242, 'Realidad Aumentada. Bruno Nievas.', 'Bruno Nievas Soriano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una mente prodigiosa\n <br />\n Una obsesiÃ³n de ojos azules\n <br />\n Un proyecto que va a cambiar el mundo\n <br />\n Unos sueÃ±os sin sentido...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Realidad Aumentada es un viaje salvaje a los confines de la tecnologÃ­a y de la mente, narrado con el pulso de un escritor que darÃ¡ mucho que hablar. No se la pierda"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Juan GÃ³mez-Jurado (bestseller con mÃ¡s de tres millones de libros vendidos en 42 paÃ­ses)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Realidad Aumentada es un thriller que te mantendrÃ¡ en vilo de principio a fin, donde un complejo y amargado personaje atraviesa una densa trama en la que la mente, la tecnologÃ­a y las relaciones con una mujer que le tiene obsesionado se mezclan con un proyecto y una historia que enganchan desde la primera palabra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(14243, 'Recuerdos', 'Lois Mcmaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(14244, 'Rhialto, El Prodigioso', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  4/20/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 5 (0%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(14245, 'Sindicato De Policia Yiddish, El', 'Chabon Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Chabon nacido en 1957 se convirtio en joven prodigio literario con sus primeros relatos publicados en la revista New Yorker a mediados de los ochenta antes de cumplir los treinta anos. Poco despues saboreo el exito con su primera novela Los misterios de Pittsburgh. Es tambien autor de las novelas Chicos prodigiosos y Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay con la que obtuvo el premio Pulitzer en 2001 de la La solucion final y de los libros de relatos Un mundo modelo y Jovenes hombres lobo.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(14246, 'SPIN', 'Robert Charles Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â© Valfeodir\n <hr class="annotations_divider" />\n <br />\n</p>\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <br />\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  <br />\n  2/13/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 8067 (99%)\n  <br />\n </span>\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(14247, 'test', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(14248, 'Tierra de nadie: Jormungand', 'Martinez Rodolfo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(14249, 'Tratamiento Invasor', 'Johnston, Aaron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Los ""curadores"", con sus musculosos y fuertes cuerpos escondidos tras negras capas, se mueven sigilosamente por las calles de la ciudad recogiendo indigentes y, sobre todo, curando enfermedades y proporcionando esperanza a los desahuciados. Usan un virus adaptado al genoma de cada paciente para eliminar enfermedades geneticas hasta hoy incurables: la enfermedad de Parkinson, la corea de Huntington, la fibrosis quistica, etc. Pero ese mismo virus, cuando alcanza a otros seres humanos, es el vector de una muerte segura tras escasos minutos de atroces sufrimientos. La Agencia de Riesgos Biologicos (ARB) enfrentada al peor virus conocido, ha de recurrir a la ayuda del doctor Frank Hartman, un brillante virologo que parece haber desarrollado un antivirus eficaz. Los ""curadores"" son tambien seguidores de un nuevo culto religioso y de un nuevo Profeta que promete un futuro sin enfermedades y una mejora de la especie humana gracias a su dominio de la medicina genetica. Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¿Cual ha de ser el mejor futuro para la especie humana: el que propone ese visionario Profeta o el que defiende la ARB?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(14250, 'Tres hombres en una barca (por no mencionar el perro)', 'Jerome K. Jerome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(14251, 'Voces', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="user_annotations">\n <span style="font-weight:bold">\n  2/17/2011\n  <br />\n  Last Page Read: Location 4386 (99%)\n </span>\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(14252, 'Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“Winter must die, and Summer must sink into the ground; it is all part of the Story, and Tiffany Aching has danced into the middle of it. On the last day of autumn, Tiffany travels to the woods to witness the Black Morris, the traditional dance of the gods heralding the arrival of winter. In a moment of heedless excitement, her rollicking feet draw her to the music, and she crashes headlong into the Wintersmith. He is fascinated by the girl and proceeds to court her in his own fashionâ€“all the snowflakes are made in her image and giant Tiffany-shaped icebergs appear in the sea. Meanwhile, Tiffany begins to show characteristics of the goddess Summerâ€“the touch of her bare feet makes things grow. All the attention from the Wintersmith would be quite flattering were it not for the deadly winter that threatens the shepherds of the Chalk. As the situation is very dangerous and death is certain, the Nac Mac Feegles (along with an especially lively cheese named Horace) are directly in the fray protecting their big wee hag along with Annagramma, Granny Weatherwax, Miss Tick, and other favorites from past adventures. All are skillfully characterized; even the Wintersmith elicits sympathy as he joyfully buries the world in snow in his attempt to win Tiffany. Replete with dry and intelligent humor, this latest in the series is sure to delight.\n  <em>\n   â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Here''s the third Discworld story for younger readers in a series that began with\n  <em>\n   The Wee Free Men\n  </em>\n  (2003) and continued in\n  <em>\n   A Hat Full of Sky\n  </em>\n  (2004). Despite a stern warning from Miss Treason, the eccentric witch from whom 13-year-old Tiffany Aching is learning her craft, the girl has gone and danced with the wrong men. Having inserted herself into a dark reverse Morris dance in which summer and winter achieve their seasonal balance, Tiffany has attracted the amorous attentions of the Wintersmith. To express his ardor, he brings his chilly powers to bear, replete with Tiffany-shaped snowflakes burying the world in the rising drifts of his infatuation. While Granny Weatherwax, Miss Perspicacia Tick, and sundry veteran witches work with Tiffany to restrain the Wintersmith''s zeal, the Wee Free Men set off to fetch a Hero to assist Tiffany, along the way adopting a cantankerous blue cheese. Add an assortment of junior witches-in-training, and yet another rollicking, clever, and quite charming adventure is brought to readers, who will find themselves delighted again--or for the first time--by Pratchett''s exuberant storytelling.\n  <em>\n   Holly Koelling\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(14253, 'Zafarrancho en Cambridge', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Porterhouse es un college de Cambridge que, si nunca se ha distinguido por su buen nivel acadÃ©mico, destaca, en cambio, por su excelente cocina y por la sospechosa facilidad con la que "expenden" tÃ­tulos universitarios. De hecho, su decadencia empezÃ³ cuando uno de sus administradores dilapidÃ³ en Montecarlo los bienes de Porterhouse, lo que obliga a que su subsistencia se base en donaciones con las que los padres de los alumnos logran que Ã©stos ingresen y se gradÃºen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://gczobel.no-ip.com/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(14254, '(Ebook) - Hypnosis', 'Seven Success Secrets Of Hypnotism', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(14255, '32 Practical Tips for Increasing your NLP Skills - Intro P.', 'XP User', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(14256, '52 Cards Language Patterns From NLP', '52 Cards &amp; Language Patterns From Nlp &amp; Milton Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(14257, 'Accelerated NLP Master Practitioner Certification Training', 'Tad James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(14258, 'Acres of Diamonds; Our Every-Day Opportunities', 'Russell Herman Conwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Success;\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(14259, 'Advance Learning in Leadership and Communication', 'Florence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(14260, 'Advanced Headline Strategy, Ideas and Questions E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(14261, 'Advanced Hypnotic Writing', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(14262, 'Advanced Language Patterns Mastery', 'Larry McLauchlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(14263, 'Advanced Selling Workshop', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(14264, 'The Adventures of Anybody', 'Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A pure but not so very simple fairy tale that weaves a hypnotic web. Delightfully illustrated and designed for all ages, this story is destined to take a place with great works of fiction, like Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, and other great works. But with one twist: Richard is not only a great story teller, he is one of, if not the greatest, hypnotic communicatiors to have ever lived. And in this story, you may find his skills as an agent of change impactful.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A word from the Richard Bandler. Through hearts of stone and will of vile mush we all weave our life. Until passion''s fire joins with light of love to melt and boil away fools and brutes... or else my children... you just fade away. I began writing this tale in 1975 after writing five books in less than two years, all quote, non fiction. The Adventures of Anybody---Tales of Meta for You was my escape, my passion, my chance to take what I had learned building models of language and unconscious and unconsciously put it to use. However, journeys are never as easy as they appear if they are to be worthwhile. My journey twisted through many people and places and lead to see all change comes to be the right direction when the heart grows tired of the mind not the reverse. So I dedicate this book first to all the illusions along the way. Hopefully their journey will lead them to something more worthwhile. I dedicate this volume mostly to a heart that with mind knows passion can grow beyond what we would never suspect. Remember life gets better when you''re headed in the right direction and you''ll know it''s right because you''re sure enough to be unsure about but never unsure enough to not do it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(14265, 'The Age of Big Business; A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry', 'Burton Jesse Hendrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Industries; United States; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775);\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(14266, 'Amazing New Mind Power Secret.doc', 'None', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(14267, 'Applied Psychology V2: Making Your Own World', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Twelve Volumes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(14268, 'Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement is the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency. Within Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement Hilton addresses the factors in achieving success by utilizing the powers each of us has within us. Subjects addressed include Attainment of Mind Control in which he guides the reader through methods to better utilize his own thoughts, Relationship of Mind Activity to Body activity where he shows how our physical body follows where the mind leads, The Supremacy of Consciousness you latent powers and purpose are exposed. Warren Hilton was the author of: Initiative Psychic Energy, Power of Mental Imagery, The Trained Memory, Applied Psychology (12 volumes). He was the founder of the society of Applied Psychology.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(14269, 'Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No man ever rose very high who did not possess strong reserves of emotional energy. Napoleon said, "I would rather have the ardor of my soldiers, and they half-trained, than have the best fighting machines in Europe without this element." Emotional energy of the right kind makes one fearless and undaunted in the face of any discouragement. It is never at rest. It feeds on its own achievements. -from "Emotional Energy in Business" First published in 1914, this early self-help book is part of a series of inspirational works designed to boost personal and professional effectiveness through the use of the then-new discipline of psychology. Career advisor Warren Hilton offers advice on how to employ the science of mind power to: . develop ideas for business . harness the creative power of thought . use psychology to select employees . and more. While the science of psychology has advanced in the century since this work appeared, much of its advice is still applicable today. And it remains an engaging peek back at the American business culture that was emerging in the beginning of the 20th century. American lawyer and writer WARREN HILTON founded the Society of Applied Psychology in 1914.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(14270, 'Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power', 'Orison Swett Marden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner. Marden supported himself during his college years by working in a hotel and afterward by becoming the owner of several hotels and a resort. Financial reverses ended that career, and in 1893, he was again working as a hotel manager, in Chicago, during the time that the World''s Columbian Exposition was attracting visitors to that city from all over the world. It was during this period that he began to write down his philosophical ideas, with the goal of inspiring others as he had been inspired by Samuel Smiles. Marden''s first book, Pushing to the Front, was published in 1894. He followed this with several more volumes on the subjects of success, the cultivation of will-power, and positive thinking. He founded Success Magazine in 1897 and was also a regular contributor to Elizabeth Towne''s New Thought magazine Nautilus during the first two decades of the 20th century.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(14271, 'Art Gallery Digital Mind Coach', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(14272, 'The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money', 'P. T. Barnum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unabridged edition, to include: Don''t Mistake Your Vocation - Select the Right Location - Avoid Debt - Persevere - Whatever You Do, Do It with All Your Might - Use the Best Tools - Don''t Get Above Your Business - Learn Something Useful - Let Hope Predominate, But Be Not Too Visionary - Do Not Scatter Your Powers - Be Systematic - Read the Newspapers - Beware Of "Outside Operations" - Don''t Indorse Without Security - Advertise Your Business - "Don''t Read the Other Side" - Be Polite and Kind to Your Customers - Be Charitable - Don''t Blab - Preserve Your Integrity\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Legendary American showman, writer, and famed organizer of ?The Greatest Show on Earth?. He bought and rebuilt the American Museum in New York in 1842. His most renowned books are ?Struggles and Triumphs?, and ?Art of Money-Getting?.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(14273, 'The Art of Public Speaking', 'Dale Carnagey &amp; J. Berg Esenwein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Art of Public Speaking is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Dale Carnagey is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Dale Carnagey then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(14274, 'The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language; Word-Study and Composition and Rhetoric', 'Sherwin Cody', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Books and reading; Short story; Journalism; Short stories; Authorship; Language Arts\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(14275, 'As a Man Thinketh and Other Writings', 'James Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "As a Man Thinketh" has long since been regarded as a classic. This short accessible work elucidates the power of positive thinking. As James Allen writes, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." This idea is central to the work and asserts the fact that the impetus to all good things in one''s life begins and ends with the belief that good things can and will happen. Millions of people have discovered the powerful but simple wisdom of James Allen and have used it to change their outlook on life. Also contained within this volume are two other classic works by James Allen, "Above Life''s Turmoil" and "Byways of Blessedness." Begin your journey of self-improvement by putting to work the philosophies within this volume. The power of positive thinking has the potential to truly change one''s life. Before one can make the changes in one''s life that will lead to the happiness that one deserves there must exist the belief that those changes can and will happen. This is the power of the philosophy ofJames Allen. Experience it for yourself with this volume of James Allen''s classic works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(14276, 'The Automatic Millionaire Workbook', 'David Bach', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(14277, 'Basic Arousal An Introduction To High-Impact Communication, Covert Hypnosis &amp; Getting What You Want', 'J.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(14278, 'The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics', 'Vernon Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(14279, 'Beyond Words', 'Neuro-Energetics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(14280, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(14281, 'Can&#39;t Say No.PDF', 'Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(14282, 'Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism--How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use', 'A. Alpheus', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word â€˜hypnotismâ€™ was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the mid-to-late nineteenth century that it became a particularly fashionable way to explore the human mind. Although understanding of the subject has evolved considerably over subsequent years, this book remains a fascinating insight into a technique once thought to be at the forefront of medical science.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(14283, 'THE CONFUSION TECHNIQUE', 'gelkopf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(14284, 'The Constitution of the United States of America', 'Applewood Books &amp; Founding Fathers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The complete text of the United States Constitution, including all of the amendments. This inexpesnive pamphlet edition is sure to be prized by Americans of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(14285, 'The Constitution of the United States of America, With the Bill of Rights and All of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; And the Articles of Confederation', 'Thomas Jefferson &amp; Second Continental Congress &amp; Constitutional Convention', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life. Every citizen should have a copy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THOMAS JEFFERSON (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(14286, 'Creating Irresistible Influence With NLP', 'Charles Faulkner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  6 Compact Discs/Workbook Experience "meaningful influence" and learn how to use it to get what you really want by helping others to get what they really want You will learn how to influence more effectively and obtain more of what you really want. In Creating Irresistible Influence with NLP, you''ll learn: The crucial difference between influence and manipulation. How to hear (and see) what people really want. The five levels of the Pyramid of Influence. The Five Life Purposes that drive all of us. With Creating Irresistible Influence with NLP, you can open up an exciting new dimension in your life. One that can make life a more fulfilling adventure than you have ever imagined. All you have to do is apply this knowledge and make meaningful influence the magic that transforms your life!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(14287, 'The Creative Manager', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(14288, 'The Creative Process in the Individual - Thomas Troward', 'Thomas Troward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author scientifically explains the sequence of creative action, from the first beginnings of life through the development of the race to the need to the present day - the perfect realization of the divine right of creation. The knowledge of oneself, made in the likeness of the great creative power and necessarily sharing in that power to create what is good, will open up a wonderful vista of possibilities to all who follow unerringly the law of their own being.--\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(14289, 'Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Quotes', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(14290, 'The Declaration Of Independence', 'The Project Gutenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(14291, 'Delegating and Supervising', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(14292, 'The Devil&#39;s Dictionary', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A word book, straight up, with a twist, The Devil''s Dictionaryis an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America''s first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocrisy are perfectly complemented by Ralph Steadman''s equally incisive pen-and-ink illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(14293, 'Discover How More Questions and Ideas Make You Money E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/121');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14294, 'Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life', 'Bill O&#39;hanlon &amp; William Hudson O&#39;hanlon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You can move quickly from "stuck" to "smooth sailing" in all aspects of your life using Bill O''Hanlon''s ten easy Solution Keys, Humorous, direct, and effective, they help you change how you view and "do" your problems-from difficult relationships to enhancing sexuality and resolving conflicts of all kinds. The next time you have a problem, try one of these solution Keys:Break Problem Patter: Change any one of what you usually do in the problem situation-i.e. do one thing different! Example: If you usually get angry and defensive, sit quietly and listen.Find and Use Solution Pattern: Import solutions from other situations where you felt competent. Examples: what do you know on the golf course that you forget when you get behind the wheel of your car? What do you say to resolve a problem with an angry customer that you don''t say to your angry partner?Shift Your Attention: Focus what you would like to have happen rather than on what is happening.Grounded in therapeutic practice, this bold and funny book will put you back in control of your emotions and your life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(14295, 'Document5', 'Personal Genius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(14296, 'Dollars and Sense', 'William Crosbie Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dollars and Sense is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by William Crosbie Hunter is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of William Crosbie Hunter then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(14297, 'The Early Bird, a Business Man&#39;s Love Story (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)', 'George Randolph Chester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Early twentieth-century novel by the popular American author. "The youngish-looking man who so vigorously swung off the train at Restview, wore a pair of intensely dark blue eyes which immediately photographed everything within their range of vision."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(14298, 'Emprint Method: A Guide to Reproducing Competence', 'Leslie Cameron-bandler &amp; Michael Lebeau &amp; David Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That I could reproduce competence is a rather large claim, but...to be honest, I found that within a day or two of reading The EMPRINT Method I was happily using the distinctions from it in everyday thinking. --\n  <em>\n   Eric Robbie, The Journal of the National Association of Hypnotists and Psychotherapists\n  </em>\n  [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]The EMPRINT Method...spells out [the authors''] technology for mapping and learning competence. --_Brain/Mind Bulletin_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is intended to change your mind about what is possible for you to achieve. By the time you finish reading the first chapter, you will be aware of the possibility of acquiring a wide range of new skills, talents, and aptitudes. By the time you finish the final chapter, you will have the tools you need to master an accelerated skill acquisition process--the EMPRINT method--that you can use to turn those possibilities into accomplishments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The purpose of this book, then, is to provide you with tools that will enable you to identify and acquire (or transfer to others) desirable human aptitudes. The purpose of this preface is to introduce you to the approach we used to create the EMPRINT method, as well as to create other methods and self-improvement formats that are described in other books by the authors. We call our approach Mental Aptitude Patterning. Knowing at least a little about Mental Aptitude Patterning will enable you to better appreciate both how we created the EMPRINT method, and how the method can be used to enhance the skills of individuals, as well as of large groups of people.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(14299, 'Everybody&#39;s Guide to Money Matters: With a Description of the Various Investments Chiefly Dealt in on the Stock Exchange, and the Mode of Dealing Therein ...', 'William Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(14300, 'The Excellent Manager', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(14301, 'Executive Time Management', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(14302, 'Experiencing Hypnosis Voumel 1', 'Milton H. Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(14303, 'FIND YOUR FREEDOM', 'Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(14304, 'Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle', 'Jim Rohn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Jim Rohn is one of the most profound thinkers and mind-expanding individuals I''ve ever listened to." --\n  <em>\n   Les Brown\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers, with a message everyone should hear." --\n  <em>\n   Brian Tracy\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jim Rohn''s unique delivery and style put him head and shoulders above the rest." --\n  <em>\n   Harvey Mackay\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paperback - The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle by Jim Rohn\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim takes an in-depth look into the reasons certain people succeed and others don''t. He covers the key components to success - philosophy, attitude, activity, results and lifestyle.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(14305, 'A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons From the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece (Dodo Press)', 'Charles Stewart Given', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece is known to old and young the world around. To the latter, perhaps, no other simple narrative in Greek mythology is more fascinating. This lovely book was written by Charles Stewart Given.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(14306, 'Frogs Into Princes', 'Bandler, Richard &amp; Grinder, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(14307, 'Frogs Into Princes and Trance-Formations-Two Book Set', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  two book set ,paper edition copyright 1981\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(14308, 'Frogs Into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(14309, 'Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come', 'Roger W Babson &amp; Richard Stooker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Prosperity.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wealth.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Abundance.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Financial freedom.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   NOTE: This book is new edition of the original classic. It contains new, original commentary.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  We all want these things. We''ve all read books and listened to CDs. We''ve all heard of The Secret and the Law of Attraction. We''ve studied Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We''ve all meditated, repeated affirmations until we were blue in the face and visualized our success, making sure to feel so good we had these things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And we''re still waiting for them to show up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why do they seem so elusive?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These issues are not new. Early in the last century many gifted thinkers grappled with these issues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After all, it was in the late 1890s ("The Gilded Age") and early years of the 20th century that the United States transformed itself from a frontier land into an industrial giant that would soon challenge the traditional world powers of Europe for world supremacy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Robber barons" started up some of the world''s greatest companies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Great inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell were bringing the world such marvels as the electric light bulb, moving pictures and the telephone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andrew Carnegie challenged a young reporter named Napoleon Hill to interview the most successful men of his time to learn the secrets to success.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Yet he wasn''t the only one on this quest.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A businessman, speaker, and author named Roger Ward Babson also interviewed many of the top industrialists of his time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike many prosperity gurus, Babson was\n  <strong>\n   successful in his own right for something besides teaching others how to get rich.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He pioneered the field of economic analysis and forecasting. The statistical organization he founded still exists. He also founded one of the longest running investments newsletters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oh, and two of the colleges he founded still exist, and are still educating students to be successful, practical business people.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He believed\n  <strong>\n   religion was the foundation of wealth\n  </strong>\n  , but not in any airy-fairy mystical sense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He believed first of all in Integrity, without which societies could not establish permanant prosperity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then in Faith, including the imagination and vision to see things not as they are, but as they could be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And he then\n  <strong>\n   he adds a factor missing from The Secret.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He calls it the "woodshed," because so many of the men running America''s industries were the sons of poor preachers and farmers. Not the well-educated children of privilege, but men who''d grown up chopping wood to keep the fire burning.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roger Ward Babson was a successful business person, author, and speaker. He pioneered the field of economic analysis and forecasting. He began one of the longest running investment newsletters. He founded two colleges which still survive. Richard Stooker is the author of Income Investing Secrets, Master Limited Partnerships and Dollar Fortress.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(14310, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(14311, 'Getting Things Done Fast', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(14312, 'Gut Impact', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(14313, 'Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions', 'George Gafner &amp; Sonja Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clear, edifying, and encouraging languageâ€¦In well under 200 pages, the authors present a readily useful handbookâ€¦a useful resource. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter_, Deborah Beckman, M.S.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This useful resource provides over two dozen detailed scripts for inducing trance, deepening, realerting, and debriefing. It covers beginning to advanced hypnotic inductions in four main categories: conversational inductions, embedded-meaning inductions, confusional inductions, and directive inductions.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A separate chapter provides inductions appropriate for use with children._The Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions_ includes numerous clinical vignettes and addresses treatment of depression, anxiety disorders (including PTSD), chronic pain, adjustment disorders, and other problems commonly seen in the office setting. It teaches vital principles and concepts in hypnosis, such as hypnotic language, seeding, amnesia, ideomotor signaling, and Ericksonian utilization. Rich in metaphor and therapeutic stories, this book includes helpful notes for practice and the creation of individually tailored inductions. Without a good induction, there can be no good hypnotherapy. With this ready-to-use manual, therapists can build their confidence and creativity and ensure good hypnotic experiences for their clients.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(14314, 'Having Fun With Agility', 'Margaret H. Bonham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A positive agility training method that''s fun for you and your dog\n </p>\n <p>\n  Designed expressly for dog owners who want the interactive thrill of agility sports without the rigid rules, pressures, and expenses of competition, Having Fun with Agility is a practical, down-to-earth guide to today''s most popular canine sport.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The seasoned trainer and award-winning writer Margaret Bonham explains proven, positive methods--such as clicker training--that will help your dog perform the kinds of fabulous feats you see at competitions. Whether your pet''s a Chihuahua or a Great Dane, a Basset Hound or a mixed breed, Having Fun with Agility will help you and your dog master the basics--and enjoy doing it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A positive agility training method that''s fun for you and your dog\n </p>\n <p>\n  Designed expressly for dog owners who want the interactive thrill of agility sports without the rigid rules, pressures, and expenses of competition, Having Fun with Agility is a practical, down-to-earth guide to today''s most popular canine sport.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The seasoned trainer and award-winning writer Margaret Bonham explains proven, positive methodsâ€”such as clicker trainingâ€”that will help your dog perform the kinds of fabulous feats you see at competitions. Whether your pet''s a Chihuahua or a Great Dane, a Basset Hound or a mixed breed, Having Fun with Agility will help you and your dog master the basicsâ€”and enjoy doing it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(14315, 'Hidden Power and Other Papers Upon Mental Science', 'Thomas Troward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Hidden Power and Other Papers Upon Mental Science, authored by Thomas Troward, and includes many of his important writings from the New Thought movement of the early 20th century. In one of his most important essays ever published, The Hidden Power, Troward seeks to teach readers how to define and find truth in their lives. Other important essays include The Perversion of Truth, The Principle of Guidance, Entering into the Spirit of It and What is Higher Thought?. This is an excellent compilation for those who are interested in key writings from the New Thought movement and also those who are fans of the works by Thomas Troward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(14316, 'Higher Education and Business Standards', 'Willard Eugene Hotchkiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(14317, 'How And Why Hypnosis Works.doc', 'Fam. Judkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(14318, 'How to Achieve Clairvoyance and Occult Power', 'Swami Panchadasi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How to achieve Clairvoyance and Occult Power is an insider''s view into the world of occultism. Teaches extra sensory powers like telepathy and clairvoyance, and then instructs more advanced topics like mind reading, psychometry and crystal-gazing. Explores space/time, second-sight and astral-body traveling. There is full explanation of psychic laws &amp; principles, how one exerts influence over another and magnetic healing. The reader will find stunning revelations about the human body, spirit, and mind. This book would have been banned if it was up to the Church. Contents: Clairvoyance, Clairaudience Premonition and Impressions Clairvoyant Psychometry Clairvoyant Crystal-Gazing Distant Clairvoyance Past Clairvoyance Future Clairvoyance Second-Sight Prevision Clairvoyant Development Astral-Body Traveling Astral-Plane Phenomena Psychic Influence--Personal and Distant Psychic Attraction Psychic Healing Telepathy Mind-Reading Thought Transference and other Psychic Phenomena\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(14319, 'How to Analyze People on Sight', 'Elsie Lincoln Benedict &amp; Ralph Paine Benedict', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What Leading Newspapers Say About Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Her Work\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Over fifty thousand people heard Elsie Lincoln Benedict at the City Auditorium during her six weeks lecture engagement in Milwaukee."â€”_Milwaukee Leader, April 2, 1921._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Elsie Lincoln Benedict has a brilliant record. She is like a fresh breath of Colorado ozone. Her ideas are as stimulating as the health-giving breezes of the Rockies."â€”_New York Evening Mail, April 16, 1914._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Several hundred people were turned away from the Masonic Temple last night where Elsie Lincoln Benedict, famous human analyst, spoke on ''How to Analyze People on Sight.'' Asked how she could draw and hold a crowd of 3,000 for a lecture, she said: ''Because I talk on the one subject on earth in which every individual is most interestedâ€”himself.''"â€”_Seattle Times, June 2, 1920._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Elsie Lincoln Benedict is a woman who has studied deeply under genuine scientists and is demonstrating to thousands at the Auditorium each evening that she knows the connection between an individual''s external characteristics and his inner traits."â€”_Minneapolis News, November 7, 1920._\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Elsie Lincoln Benedict is known nationally, having conducted lecture courses in many of the large Eastern cities. Her work is based upon the practical methods of modern science as worked out in the world''s leading laboratories where exhaustive tests are applied to determine individual types, talents, vocational bents and possibilities."â€”_San Francisco Bulletin, January 25, 1919._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First published in 1921. The authors were popular psychologists who wrote several other books on the subject.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(14320, 'How To Avoide That Trap Of Being Lonely E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(14321, 'How to control your brain at will', 'Dr Roger Vittoz - Christian H. Godefroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(14322, 'How to Develop Your OwnPsychic Abilities', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(14323, 'How to Hire; How to Fire', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(14324, 'How To Hypnotize People And Other Living Things', 'Perkins, Wayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(14325, 'How To Hypnotize Your Lover To Awaken A Sleepy Relationship', 'Perkins, Wayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(14326, 'How To Ideas On Creating and Stimulating Internal Happiness E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(14327, 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: With the Human Machine', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The most famous of the author''s "Pocket Philosophies" and one of theÂ first self-help books, this classic of personal time management has inspired generations. Readers are challenged to leave behind mundane concerns and focus on pursuing their true desires. "Straightforward, vigorous, pungent." â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(14328, 'How to make a living with NLP', 'Olivier Magnan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(14329, 'How to Sell Well', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(14330, 'How to Stay Upbeat and Positive!.PDF', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(14331, 'The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages', 'P. T. Barnum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD. I. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. CHAPTER T. GENERAL A''lEAV OF THE SUBJECT.- HUMBUG UNIVERSAL.- IN RELIGION".- IN POLITICS.-- IX BUSINESS.- IX SLTKNCE.- IN MEDICINE.- HOW 13 IT TO CEASE.- THE GREATEST IIUMHUG OK ALL. A little reflection will show that humbug is an as-tonishingly wide-spread phenomenon - in fact almost universal. And this is true, although wc exclude crimes and arrant swindles from the definition of it, according to the somewhat careful explanation which is given in the beginning of the chapter succeeding this one. I apprehend that there is no sort of object which men seek to attain, whether secular, moral or religiousi in which humbug is not very often an instrumentality. Religion is and has ever been a chief chapter of human life. Folsc religions are the only ones known to two thirds of the human race, even now, after nineteen centuries of Christianity ; and false religions are perhaps the most monstrous, complicated and thorough\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Table of Contents\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CONTENTS; I PERSONAL HEMIXISCENCES; CHATTER I- general view of the subject- humbug universal- in RFXIdlON- in politics- in business- in science- in medicine- how it is to cease- the greatest humbug OF all 11; CHAPT3JR II- definition of the word humbug- warren op; london- gen in the hatter- gosling''s blacking 18; CHAPTER III- monsieur mangin, the french humbug 29; CHAPTER IV- old grizzly adams 37; CHAPTER V-the golden pigeons-grizzly adams- german chemist-happy family- french naturalist 46; CHAPTER VI- the whale, the angel fish, and the golden; PrGEON 68; CHAPTER VH- pease''s iioariiouxd candy- the dure rebellion- the philadelphia alderman 67; CHAPTER VIII- brandreth''s pills - maonificent advertising- power of imagination 66; 11 THE SPI1UTUALISTS; CHAPTER IX- the davenport brothers, their rise and progress- spiritual rope-tying- music pl\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(14332, 'Hypnosis : The Sub conscious Mind the treasure within you', 'the subconscious mind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(14333, 'Hypnosis: A Power Program for Self-Improvement, Changing Your Life, and Helping Others', 'William W. Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here Hewitt provides a step-by-step guide to self-hypnosis and hypnosis. Achieve an "altered state of consciousness" and use it for self-improvement. The author discusses both the basics and professional usage of this art. Complete programs for solving problems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(14334, 'Hypnotherapy - Erickson, Milton', 'an exploratory casebook v1.0 [html]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(14335, 'Hypnotis Your lover', 'www', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(14336, 'Hypnotism &amp; spells (1) (1)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(14337, 'Hypnotism for Beginners', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(14338, 'The Iliad of Homer: In English Hexameter Verse', 'Homer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in 1865. This volume from the Cornell University Library''s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book I\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles --\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Achilles withdraws from the war and sends his mother, Thetis, to ask Jove to help the Trojans --\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sing, O Goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant''s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sons of Atreus," he cried, "and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove."\n </p>\n <p>\n  On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. "Old man," said he, "let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter. Your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing. I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The old man feared him and obeyed. Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea, and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne. "Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me O thou of Sminthe. If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned you thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly -- moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Son of Atreus," said he, "I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once. Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past, present, and to come, rose to speak. He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilius, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him. With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, and to whom all the Achaeans are in subjection. A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it. Consider, therefore, whether or no you will protect me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Achilles answered, "Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Danaan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth -- no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thereon the seer spoke boldly. "The god," he said, "is angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest''s sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others. He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse. Thus we may perhaps appease him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With these words he sat down, and Agamemnon rose in anger. His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, "Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil. You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among the Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses. I have set my heart on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments. Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one. This is not well; for you behold, all of you, that my prize is to go elsewhither."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Agamemnon said, "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persuade me. Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding? Let the Achaeans find me a prize in fair exchange to my liking, or I will come and take your own, or that of Ajax or of Ulysses; and he to whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming. But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the anger of the god."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Achilles scowled at him and answered, "You are steeped in insolence and lust of gain. With what heart can any of the Achaeans do your bidding, either on foray or in open fighting? I came not warring here for any ill the Trojans had done me. I have no quarrel with them. They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea. We have followed you, Sir Insolence! for your pleasure, not ours -- to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus. You forget this, and threaten to rob me of the prize for which I have toiled, and which the sons of the Achaeans have given me. Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting. When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done. Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Agamemnon answered, "Fly if you will, I shall make you no prayers to stay you. I have others here who will do me honour, and above all Jove, the lord of counsel. There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill affected. What though you be brave? Was it not heaven that made you so? Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons. I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger. While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scabbard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her. Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva. "Why are you here," said...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(14339, 'In Tune With the Infinite; Or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty', 'Ralph Waldo Trine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) was an American author who wrote: The Greatest Thing Ever Known (1898), What All The World''s A-Seeking (1899), In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty (1899), In the Fire of the Heart (1906), This Mystical Life of Ours (1907), Thoughts I Met on the Highway (1912), Along the Sunlit Road (1915), The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit (1917) and Every Living Creature. "There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world. There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world''s history, through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lasting power. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done in full accordance with law. What one has done, all may do. "\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kessinger Publishing reprints over 1,500 similar titles all available through Amazon.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(14340, 'Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business', 'Walter Dill Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955) was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising. In 1900, he was appointed instructor of psychology and education and director of the psychological laboratory at Northwestern University. In 1905, Dr. Scott was made professor of psychology and head of the department of psychology. In 1909, he was appointed professor of advertising in the School of Commerce at Northwestern University and in 1912, professor of applied psychology in the School of Commerce. In 1917, he approached the army, offering to help them by applying psychological principles to personnel selection. During 1919-1920, he was president of the American Psychological Association. His works include: The Theory of Advertising (1903), The Psychology of Public Speaking (1907), Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business (1914) and Aids in Selecting Salesmen (1916).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(14341, 'Index of /html2', 'NLP Encyclopedia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(14342, 'Inductions and stuff', 'JMES', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(14343, 'Initial Experiments Investigating the Nature of Hypnosis', 'Milton H. Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(14344, 'Initiative Psychic Energy: Applied Psychology', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Being The Sixth Of A Series Of Twelve Volumes On The Applications Of Psychology To The Problems Of Personal And Business Efficiency.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(14345, 'An Insiders Guide to ub-Modalities', 'Richard Bandler &amp; Will MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(14346, 'Instant Fact', 'John Webster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(14347, 'Interview with Bandler', 'Ronald Amsler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(14348, 'Introduction to NLP', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(14349, 'Leadership Mastery Course', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(14350, 'Leadership The Critical Difference', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(14351, 'Life and Habit', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(14352, 'Links to Internet sites on Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy', 'Therapy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(14353, 'MA Workbook', 'David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(14354, 'MAGICAL STRUCTURES - RICHARD BANDLER', 'nobody', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(14355, 'Major Mark Cunningham - Intro To Hypnosis - Sample Hypnosis Script', 'Put A Dead Halt Stop To Self-Sabotage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(14356, 'Making Friends: Training Your Dog Positively', 'Linda Colflesh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sensitive, user-friendly dog training that works!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A good relationship with a dog is built on realistic expectations. The better you understand your dog''s unique personality and natural behavior, the sooner you will establish a rapport based on two-way communication, mutual respect, and trust--and the easier it will be to train your dog successfully.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the first positive training books, Making Friends is a highly accessible guide to training your dog effectively and humanely. Respected dog obedience trainer Linda Colflesh shows you how to use positive reinforcement through gentle, easy-to-follow methods that get results while respecting your dog''s intelligence and dignity. From housebreaking and teaching everyday commands to grasping the important (but often overlooked) details of dog reaction and interaction, Colflesh outlines a week-by-week training plan that meets your needs and helps you build a strong connection with your furry companion. You''ll discover how to:\n  <br />\n  * Learn to "read" your dog''s body language\n  <br />\n  * Make proper use of collars, leashes, and treats\n  <br />\n  * Handle puppy behavior problems the positive way\n  <br />\n  * Keep your dog mentally stimulated and properly exercised\n  <br />\n  * Join dog clubs and play groups\n </p>\n <p>\n  Highly recommended by satisfied trainers, breeders, and pet owners, Making Friends is a proven, sensible, fun training method that lets you truly be your dog''s best friend.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sensitive, user-friendly dog training that works!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A good relationship with a dog is built on realistic expectations. The better you understand your dog''s unique personality and natural behavior, the sooner you will establish a rapport based on two-way communication, mutual respect, and trustâ€”and the easier it will be to train your dog successfully.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the first positive training books, Making Friends is a highly accessible guide to training your dog effectively and humanely. Respected dog obedience trainer Linda Colflesh shows you how to use positive reinforcement through gentle, easy-to-follow methods that get results while respecting your dog''s intelligence and dignity. From housebreaking and teaching everyday commands to grasping the important (but often overlooked) details of dog reaction and interaction, Colflesh outlines a week-by-week training plan that meets your needs and helps you build a strong connection with your furry companion. You''ll discover how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn to "read" your dog''s body language\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make proper use of collars, leashes, and treats\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Handle puppy behavior problems the positive way\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keep your dog mentally stimulated and properly exercised\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Join dog clubs and play groups\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Highly recommended by satisfied trainers, breeders, and pet owners, Making Friends is a proven, sensible, fun training method that lets you truly be your dog''s best friend.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(14357, 'Making Money', 'Owen Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1915 in 360 pages; Subjects: Business &amp; Economics / Finance; Business &amp; Economics / Investments &amp; Securities; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / General; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / Investing; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / Retirement Planning; History / General;\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(14358, 'Making The Impossible Possible', 'Bob Proctor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(14359, 'A Man and His Money', 'Frederic Stewart Isham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why did not some one rise up to detain him? Surely he was watched. He experienced an uncanny sense of being allowed to proceed just so far, when invisible fingers would pounce upon him, to hurl him back. The soot still lay on his face; he had seen no bucket and water. At the mouth of a tunnel-like aperture, he hesitated, but still no one sprang in front, or glided up from behind to interfere with his progress. He went on; a perpendicular iron ladder enabled him to reach an open space on the deserted lower deck. Another ladder led to the upper deck. Could he mount it and still escape detection? And in that case--to what end.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(14360, 'Managing Meetings That Get Results', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(14361, 'Marketing Strategy for Fast Growth', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(14362, 'Mastering Hypnosis', 'Mastering Hypnosis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(14363, 'Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success', 'Frank Channing Haddock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book brings to a close that portion of MASTERY OF SELF, which deals with the art of Success-Magnetism. Acquiring magnetism is a constructive effort. It is a building process. You are rearing a structure. You rise, from the foundation, through successive stories to the culminating peak. The most pleasing, notable structures men build from granite and steel and wood, tower like a Woolworth Building or a Rheims Cathedral-higher and higher, until they finally reach a gold- tipped crown or spire, high in the sunlit sky. And so, in rearing your invisible shrine of personal Success-Magnetism, we now come to the topmost peak of the structure. This book gives you the crowning inspirations, tipped and topped with the final "Golden Laws of Magnetism in all Applied Life." Master these lessons in the magnetism of success, and you will go forth upon the highways and by-ways of life, endowed with a kingly confidence in your ability to win a measure of success achieved by few. But remember-(should discouragement seek to dog your steps)- every great structure requires the process of time. "The giant trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow lapse of time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts." Just as surely as the absorption of natural forces built the giant redwoods, just as surely can you draw upon nature for GIANT POWERS.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/170');
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(14364, 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume II', 'Charles Mackay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''ve ever wondered where popular catch phrases and slang comes from or why men''s beards go in and out of fashion, then this book is for you. How often do you come across a book that can explain most everything? Much of today''s news has a basis in prior historical events. The internet IPO market shares striking similarities to the Dutch "tulip mania" of the 1600''s. The conflict in the Middle East can trace its roots to the Crusades. The recent satanic child abuse trials are reminiscent of the European witch trials of the 1400s-1600s. This complete two-volume edition demonstrates that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here are astonishing and entertaining tales of thievery, greed and madness. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions from haunted houses and the prophecies of Nostradamus to speculative excess. Charles MacKay explains it all in this classic edition. Enjoy!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(14365, 'Michael Hall', 'Secrets of Personal Mastery (NLP)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(14366, 'Microsoft Word - THINK and GROW RICH experimental.doc', 'Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(14367, 'The Millionare Next Door, Summary', 'MJO', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(14368, 'Milton Erickson - THE CONFUSION TECHNIQUE.rtf', 'Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(14369, 'Mind Changing Techniques For Keeping Change', 'Ken Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(14370, 'Mind Control NLP &amp; Hypnosis', 'USer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(14371, 'Mind Power Seduction Online Manual', 'Jim Esparza', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(14372, 'Mind Powers', 'Christian H. Godefroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(14373, 'Mind-Lines', 'L. Michael Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(14374, 'Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds', 'L. Michael Hall &amp; Bobby G. Bodenhamer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book will teach you how to recognize and use the magic of language. Mind-Lines reworks â€œSleight-of-Mouthâ€ patterns using the â€˜logicalâ€™ level system of Meta-States. In doing so the authors bring order, understanding, and magic to the use of language in influencing, persuading, selling, negotiating, and many other human interactions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(14375, 'Mindworks: An Introduction to Nlp: The Secrets of Your Mind Revealed', 'Anne Linden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a group of psychological techniques developed in the early 1970s, has been a huge influence on today''s motivational writers (particularly Tony Robbins). As its name suggests, NLP is based on the idea that the human mind is a sort of computer; our verbal and body language are the programming that allows us to change our thoughts and influence other people. AnneÃ© Linden, director of an NLP training center in New York City, provides easy-to-understand descriptions of techniques such as mimicking someone''s movements to create an instant sense of rapport and intimacy, or creating a conditioned response in yourself to feel certain emotions on demand. Some might find these techniques uncomfortably manipulative, but Linden says people do them on an unconscious level anyway; NLP is just a new way of coming to terms with what you already know.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anne Linden weaves the instruction into an upbeat, conversational delivery, with sample dialog, examples, and metaphors.\n  <em>\n   Mindworks\n  </em>\n  is a first-rate beginner s guide to NLP. --Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D., author of Weight, Hypnotherapy and You, Licensed Professional Counselor, and certified hypnotherapist and NLP trainer\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a beautiful book. Not only is it full of delightful insights, it is written in the most elegant absorbing way. --Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and International, Consultant, Trainer, and Coach\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(14376, 'MINUTES OF ENJOYMENT', 'Loaner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(14377, 'The Money Master', 'Gilbert Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  INTRODUCTION\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is in a place by itself among the novels I have written. Many\n  <br />\n  critics said that it was a welcome return to Canada, where I had made my\n  <br />\n  first success in the field of fiction. This statement was only meagrely\n  <br />\n  accurate, because since ''The Right of Way'' was published in 1901 I had\n  <br />\n  written, and given to the public, ''Northern Lights'', a book of short\n  <br />\n  stories, ''You Never Know Your Luck'', a short novel, and ''The World for\n  <br />\n  Sale'', though all of these dealt with life in Western Canada, and not\n  <br />\n  with the life of the French Canadians, in which field I had made my first\n  <br />\n  firm impression upon the public. In any case, The Money Master was\n  <br />\n  favourably received by the press and public both in England and America,\n  <br />\n  and my friends were justified in thinking, and in saying, that I was at\n  <br />\n  home in French Canada and gave the impression of mastery of my material.\n  <br />\n  If mastery of material means a knowledge of the life, and a sympathy with\n  <br />\n  it, then my friends are justified; for I have always had an intense\n  <br />\n  sympathy with, and admiration for, French Canadian life. I think the\n  <br />\n  French Canadian one of the most individual, original, and distinctive\n  <br />\n  beings of the modern world. He has kept his place, with his own customs,\n  <br />\n  his own Gallic views of life, and his religious habits, with an assiduity\n  <br />\n  and firmness none too common. He is essentially a man of the home, of the\n  <br />\n  soil, and of the stream; he has by nature instinctive philosophy and\n  <br />\n  temperamental logic. As a lover of the soil of Canada he is not surpassed\n  <br />\n  by any of the other citizens of the country, English or otherwise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It would almost seem as though the pageantry of past French Canadian\n  <br />\n  history, and the beauty and vigour of the topographical surroundings of\n  <br />\n  French Canadian life, had produced an hereditary pride and\n  <br />\n  exaltation--perhaps an excessive pride and a strenuous exaltation, but,\n  <br />\n  in any case, there it was, and is. The French Canadian lives a more\n  <br />\n  secluded life on the whole than any other citizen of Canada, though the\n  <br />\n  native, adventurous spirit has sent him to the Eastern States of the\n  <br />\n  American Union for work in the mills and factories, or up to the farthest\n  <br />\n  reaches of the St. Lawrence, Ottawa, and their tributaries in the wood\n  <br />\n  and timber trade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Domestically he is perhaps the most productive son of the North American\n  <br />\n  continent. Families of twenty, or even twenty-five, are not unknown, and,\n  <br />\n  when a man has had more than one wife, it has even exceeded that. Life\n  <br />\n  itself is full of camaraderie and good spirit, marked by religious traits\n  <br />\n  and sacerdotal influence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The French Canadian is on the whole sober and industrious; but when he\n  <br />\n  breaks away from sobriety and industry he becomes a vicious element in\n  <br />\n  the general organism. Yet his vices are of the surface, and do not\n  <br />\n  destroy the foundations of his social and domestic scheme. A French\n  <br />\n  Canadian pony used to be considered the most virile and lasting stock on\n  <br />\n  the continent, and it is fair to say that the French Canadians themselves\n  <br />\n  are genuinely hardy, long-lived, virile, and enduring......\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(14378, 'The Money Master: Volume 1', 'Gilbert Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Author: "In any case, ''The Money Master'' was favorably received by the press and public both in England and America, and my friends were justified in thinking, and in saying, that I was at home in French Canada and gave the impression of mastery of my material."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(14379, 'More questions and Ideas That Create A Strong Product Promotion Letter E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(14380, 'More Techniques To Write Advertising Headlines That Make You Money E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(14381, 'Motivating People toward Peak Performance', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(14382, 'My Life and Work (The Autobiography of Henry Ford)', 'Henry Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Contents:- WHAT IS THE IDEA? - THE BEGINNING - WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BUSINESS - THE SECRET OF MANUFACTURING AND SERVING - STARTING THE REAL BUSINESS - GETTING INTO PRODUCTION - MACHINES AND MEN - THE TERROR OF THE MACHINE - WAGES - WHY NOT ALWAYS HAVE GOOD BUSINESS? - HOW CHEAPLY CAN THINGS BE MADE? - MONEY AND GOODS - MONEY, MASTER OR SERVANT? - WHY BE POOR? - THE TRACTOR AND POWER FARMING - WHY CHARITY? - THE RAILROADS - THINGS IN GENERAL - DEMOCRACY AND INDUSTRY - WHAT WE MAY EXPECT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(14383, 'My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson', 'Milton H. Erickson &amp; Sidney Rosen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Milton H. Erikson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Closely related to his therapy was his use of "teaching tales." Calling upon shock, surprise, confusionâ€”with generous use of questions, puns, and playful humorâ€”he seeded suggestions indirectly and positively with these tales, here gathered together by Dr. Rosen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(14384, 'Negotiating Strategies', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(14385, 'Neuro Linguistic Programming WorkBook', 'Joseph O&#39;connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(14386, 'NLP - Ross Jeffries - 2002', 'mcohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(14387, 'Odyssey', 'Homer &amp; Robert Squillace &amp; George Herbert Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''This is wonderful, to listen to a singer / Such as this. . . '' So Odysseus on the bard Demodocus. And the singer, the oral poet, the ''aoidos'', is what Lombardo embodies in his Homer. With a line and a language hammered out ''in public performance,'' he has made a verse that can move his audience to tears and even to laughter. At first glance, the simplicity startles - spare syntax, the highest proportion of short word in modern English poetry, colloquialism in the saddle, sudden and direct contact with the matter. But then the wonders of how he works become evident. So much was already to be seen/heard in Lombardo''s version of the Iliad [Hackett, 1997]. But his Odyssey [Hackett, 2000] moves beyond, its verse widening its range to everything in between tears and laughter, able to present a storm, a battle, a chiding, a fable, a tale, and a whine with equal deftness. No version of the Odyssey is more immediate. No version shows better one of Homer''s essentials: the oral poet at work. The persona is there, and it''s real." --\n  <em>\n   Douglass Parker\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "''What could be finer / Than listening to a singer of tales / . . . with a voice like a god''s?'' So Odysseus on the bard Demodocus. And the singer, the oral poet, the ''aoidos'', is what Lombardo embodies in his Homer. With a line and a language hammered out in public performance, he has made a verse that can move his audience to tears and even to laughter. At first glance, the simplicity startles-spare syntax, the highest proportion of short words in modern English poetry, colloquialism in the saddle, sudden and direct contact with the matter. But then the wonders of how he works become evident. So much was already to be seen/heard in Lombardo''s version of the Iliad. But his Odyssey moves beyond, its verse widening its range to everything in between tears and laughter, able to present a storm, a battle, a chiding, a fable, a tale, and a whine with equal deftness. No version of the Odyssey is more immediate. No version shows better one of Homer''s essentials: the oral poet at work. The persona is there, and it''s real." --\n  <em>\n   Douglass Parker, University of Texas at Austin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lombardo has created a Homeric voice for his contemporaries: fresh, quick, and verbally engaging to the modern ear, as the original was to the ancient. His characters come alive as real people expressing real feelings with urgency and verve. I very much like the language and the pace of this version, and would welcome it for classroom use." --\n  <em>\n   Joseph Russo, Haverford College\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lombardo has the simple gift of summoning up a Homeric flavor wherever he turns. He may even blend contemporary colloquialisms with an antique epic grandeur, and the effect remains unimpaired. As Lombardo tells us, he recites and performs, he impersonates the poem as if he were the bard. We follow, we explore, plunging into ''medias res''. Homer arises before him as an encompassing reality. Lombardo moves at ease through this Homeric world, without artifice or rhetoric, attuning his verse to Homer''s composition. Homer is here a vindication of poetry." --\n  <em>\n   Paolo Vivante, McGill University\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald, as well as his clever use of idiomatic American slang, to his version of the\n  <em>\n   Odyssey\n  </em>\n  . --___The New York Times Book Review_, Chris Hedges\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lombardo''s Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. From the translation:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And when the wine had begun to work on his mind,\n </p>\n <p>\n  I spoke these sweet words to him:\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Cyclops\n </p>\n <p>\n  You ask me my name, my glorious name,\n </p>\n <p>\n  And I will tell it to you. Remember now,\n </p>\n <p>\n  To give me the gift just as you promised.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Noman is my name. They call me Noman-\n </p>\n <p>\n  My mother, my father, and all my friends too.''\n </p>\n <p>\n  He answered from his pitiless heart:\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Noman I will eat last after his friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Friends first, him last. That''s my gift to you.''"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(14388, 'One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)', 'C. A. Bogardus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Agesilaus, king of Sparta, being asked what things he thought most proper for boys to learn, replied: [Those things which they should practice when they become men. [ His reply was in perfect harmony with the good judgment of mankind, and cannot fail to be appreciated by all who have good common sense. If Agesilaus lived at the present time, the question would most probably have included both boys and girls, and undoubtedly his reply would be so worded as to apply to men and women. [\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(14389, 'The Origin of Species: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A masterful condensation. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Victorian Studies_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin''s book introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection, and presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose through a branching pattern of evolution and common descent. He included evidence that he had accumulated on the voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s, and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. â€” Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography and book analysis. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter and subchapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99. Search for any title, enter MobileReference and keyword; for example: MobileReference ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 4,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, and other authors Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church''s Sacred Texts Travel Guides, Maps, and Phrasebooks: FREE 25 Language Phrasebook, New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Florence, Prague, Bangkok, Greece, Portugal, Israel - Travel Guides for all major cities and national parks Medicine: Human Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Medical Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry - Quick-Study Guides for most medical/nursing school classes Science: FREE Periodic Table of Elements, FREE Weight and Measures, Physics Formulas and Tables, Math Formulas and Tables, Statistics - Quick-Study Guides for every College class Humanities: English Grammar and Punctuation, Rhetoric and Composition, Philosophy, Psychology, Greek and Roman Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, European History, U.S. History, American Cinema, 100 Most Influential People Health: FREE Hangover Remedy, Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Diabetes Care, Asthma Care Reference: Encyclopedia-the World''s Biggest English Encyclopedia. 1.5 Million Articles; CIA World Factbook-detailed info and maps for over 270 countries Self-Improvement: Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails and Drinking Games, Feng Shui, Astrology, Chess Guide\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(14390, 'Overview of the Keys To Power Persuasion', 'Alan Tutt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(14391, 'Pathways Toward Personal Progress', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(14392, 'Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson Vol 2b', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(14393, 'Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(14394, 'Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 2', 'John Grinder &amp; Judith Delozier &amp; Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume II\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(14395, 'Persuasion Engineering', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John La Valle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Explains how we use our communicating processes to generate behaviours which unconsciously stand out on their own and speak for themselves. Covering everything from the sales process through to the close, the text considers the human communication processes present in a wide range of situations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(14396, 'Philosophy and Fun of Algebra', 'Boole Mary Everest', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHILOSOPHY AND FUN OF ALGEBRA WORKS BY MARY EVEREST BOOLE LOGIC TAUGHT BY LOVE. 35. 6d. net. MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF GRATRY AND BOOLE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. 35. 6d. net. BOOLES PSYCHOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION. 6d. net. THE MESSAGE OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE TO THE WORLD. 35. 6d. net. MISTLETOE AND OLIVE, is. 6d, net. Miss EDUCATION AND HER GARDEN. 6d net. PHILOSOPHY AND FUN OF ALGEBRA. 2s. net. C. W. DANIEL. THE PREPARATION OF THE CHILD FOR SCIENCE. 2s. THE LOGIC OF ARITHMETIC. 2s. CLARENDON PRESS. PHILOSOPHY FUN OF ALGEBRA BY MARY EVEREST BOOLE AUTHOR OF PREPARATION OP THE CHILD FOR SCIENCE, ETC. LONDON C. W. DANIEL , 1 1 CURSITOR STREET, B. C. 909 tco BASIL AND MARGARET MY DEAR CHILDREN, A young monkey named Genius picked a green walnut, and bit, through a bitter rind, down into a hard shell. He then threw the walnut away, saying u How stupid people are They told me walnuts are good to eat. His grandmother, whose name was Wisdom, picked up the walnut peeled off the rind with her fingers, cracked the shell, and shared the kernel with her grandson, saying Those get on best in life who do not trust to first impressions. In some old books the story is told differently the grand mother is called Mrs Cunning-Greed, and she eats all the kernel herself. Fables about the Cunning-Greed family are written to make children laugh. It is good for you to laugh it makes you grow strong, and gives you the habit of understanding jokes and not being made miserable by them. But take care not to believe such fables because, if you believe them, they give you bad dreams. MARY EVEREST BOOLE. January 1909. CONTENTS CHAP. p A GE 1. FROM ARITHMETIC TO ALGEBRA . . 9 2. THE MAKING OF ALGEBRAS . . . 15 3. SIMULTANEOUS PROBLEMS. . . . 1 9 4. PARTIAL SOLUTIONS AND THE PROVISIONAL ELIMINATION OF ELEMENTS OF COM PLEXITY ...... 23 5. MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY AND REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM ..... 26 6. THE FIRST HEBREW ALGEBRA ... 29 7. HOW TO CHOOSE OUR HYPOTHESES . . 37 8. THE LIMITS OF THE TEACHERS FUNCTION . 46 9. THE USE OF SEWING CARDS . . . 5 10. THE STORY OF A WORKING HYPOTHESIS . 55 11. MACBETHS MISTAKE . . . . 61 12. JACOBS LADDER ..... 67 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE 13. THE GREAT X OF THE WORLD. . . 69 14. GO OUT OF MY CLASS-ROOM 73 15. N-I 77 1 6. INFINITY ...... 80 17. FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM ... 84 APPENDIX ...... 89 PHILOSOPHY AND FUN OF ALGEBRA CHAPTER I FROM ARITHMETIC TO ALGEBRA ARITHMETIC means dealing logically with facts which we know about questions of number. Logically that is to say, in accordance with the Logos or hidden wisdom, i. e., the laws of normal action of the human mind. For instance, you are asked what will have to be paid for six pounds of sugar at 3d. a pound. You multiply the six by the three. That is not because of any property of sugar, or of the copper of which the pennies are made. You would have done the same if the thing bought had been starch or apples. You wouM have done just the same 9 PHILOSOPHY AND FUN OF ALGEBRA if the material had been tea at 35. a pound. Moreover, you would have done just the same kind of action if you had been asked the price of seven pounds of tea at 2s. a pound. You do what you do under direction of the Logos or hidden wisdom. And this law of the Logos is made not by any King or Parliament, but by whoever or whatever created the human mind. Suppose that any Parliament passed an act that all the children in the kingdom were to divide the price by th number of pounds the Parliament could not make the answer come right. The only result of a foolish Act of Parliament like that would be that everybodys sums would come wrong, and everybodys accounts be in confusion, and every body would wonder why the trade of the country was going to the bad...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(14397, 'Plain Facts', 'G. A. Bauman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Plain Facts is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by G. A. Bauman is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of G. A. Bauman then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(14398, 'The Power of Clarity', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(14399, 'The Power of Concentration', 'Theron Q. Dumont &amp; William Walker Atkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We all know that in order to accomplish a certain thing we must concentrate. It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make a success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out. -from the "Introductory" As one of 20th century''s first self-help books, THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION has helped generations of readers achieve the near impossible task of showing how to control one''s mind to unleash its utmost creative potential. Organized into 20 no-nonsense lessons, these skillful techniques can be used to bring the mind under control, thereby turning it into an effective instrument to achieve success at any level.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(14400, 'Power of Mental Imagery Vol. IV', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the preceding volume of this Course, entitled â€œThe Trained Memory,â€ you learned that the memory process involves four elements, Retention, Recall, Recognition and Imagination; and the scope and operation of two of these elements, Retention and Recall, were explained to you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There remain Recognition and Imagination, which we shall make the subject of this book. We shall treat of them, however, not only as parts of the memory process, but also as distinct operations, with an individual significance and value.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Recognition and Imagination have to do with mental images.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(14401, 'Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance', 'James B. Maas &amp; Megan L. Wherry &amp; David J. Axelrod &amp; Barbara R. Hogan &amp; Jennifer Bloomin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Do your eyelids feel heavy during afternoon meetings? Do you sleep extra hours on weekend mornings? Do you use caffeine to stay alert? An alarm to get out of bed? These are all symptoms of sleep deficiency--signals that you are operating below your peak performance and beneath your mental capacity. Despite popular perceptions, sleep is not a luxury--it is a necessity. More than seventy million Americans are sleep-deprived, and make crucial business and personal decisions in an impaired state. In Power Sleep, Dr. James B. Maas, a pioneer of sleep research at Cornell University, has created an easy, drug-free program to improve your body and mind for an alert and productive tomorrow. In Power Sleep, you''ll find:  The golden rules of sleep Twenty great sleep strategies Dos and don''ts of sleeping pills and over-the-counter remedies How to combat travel fatigue, including jet lag and drowsy drivingTips for exhausted parents of newborns, infants, and toddlers How to overcome sleep disorders, including insomnia An important and practical book, Power Sleep will help you get the sleep you need to improve your mental and physical well-being quickly and dramatically and to become a peak performer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(14402, 'Practice of Autosuggestion', 'C. Harry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n By the method of Emile Coue. Includes chapters as follows. Coue''s Nancy Practice: clinic of Emile Coue, a few of Coue''s cures, the children''s clinic; Nature of Autosuggestion: thought is a force, thought and the will; Practice of Autosuggestion: general rules, general formula, particular suggestions, how to deal with pain, autosuggestion and the child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(14403, 'The Principles of Hypnotherapy: the theory of how hypnosis and hypnotherapy work', 'Dylan Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(14404, 'Psychic Seduction 5', 'Exceed International', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(14405, 'Psychological Self-Help', 'Clayton Tucker-ladd Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book reviews all aspects of self-improvement. It provides you with a system for analyzing any problem into its manageable parts and for planning self-change. It invites you to first carefully consider what you value and want to accomplish in life. It summarizes science''s best explanations of most human problems. It lists the most promising ways of treating a wide range of unwanted behaviors and emotions. It describes in detail how to use about 100 self-help methods. In short,\n  <br />\n  this book gives you a sound, research-based fund of knowledge about behavior; add to this your own coping experiences and you accumulate a storehouse of general knowledge that will help you understand yourself and gain more control over your life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(14406, 'Psychology of Achievement Course Book', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(14407, 'The Psychology of Achievement', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(14408, 'The Psychology of Selling', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(14409, 'Public Speaking', 'Clarence Stratton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(14410, 'Public Speaking: Principles and Practice', 'Irvah Lester Winter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in 1913. This volume from the Cornell University Library''s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(14411, 'Pushing to the Front', 'Orison Swett Marden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III BOYS WITH NO CHANCE In the blackest soils grow the fairest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks. J. G. Holland. Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within us, but it is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotug dreams.â€”Ouida. Poverty is the sixth sense.â€”German Proverb. It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.â€”Sharpe. There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys.â€”Seth Low. Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition''s ladder! Shakespeare. " I Am a child of the court," said a pretty little girl at a children''s party in Denmark; " my father is Groom of the Chambers, which is a very high office. And those whose names end with '' sen,'' " she added. " can never be anything at all. We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbows quite pointed, so as to keep these '' sen '' people at a great distance." " But my papa can buy a hundred dollars'' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children," angrily exclaimed the daughter of the rich merchant Peterj. " Can your papa do that ? " " Yes," chimed in the daughter of an editor, " my papa can put your papa and everybody''s papa into thenewspaper. All sorts of people are afraid of him, my papa says, for he can do as he likes with the paper." " Oh, if I could be one of them!" thought a little boy peeping through the crack of the door, by permission of the cook for whom he had been turning the spit. But no, his parents had not even a penny to spare, a...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  American writer and editor ORISON SWETT MARDEN (1850-1924) was born in New England and studied at Boston University and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1897, he founded Success Magazine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(14412, 'Questions and Ideas That Create A Strong Product Promotion Letter E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(14413, 'Reframing', 'Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(14414, 'Reframing Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning by Richard Bandler and John Grinder', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(14415, 'Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming [Trade Mark Symbol] and the Transformation of Meaning', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(14416, 'Richard Bandler - Time For A Change _OCR_ v1.00.doc', 'Time For A Change (OCR) v1.00', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(14417, 'Robert Dilts - Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 03of5 Walt Disney', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(14418, 'Robert Dilts-Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 4 Mozart', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(14419, 'Ross Jeffries', 'Unstoppable Confidence (NPL)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(14420, 'The Science of Being Well', 'Wallace Delois Wattles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Science of Being Well is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles, published in 1910. It is the second in a series by Wallace D. Wattles . The first (The Science of Getting Rich) was about how to get wealthy; this one is about how to get healthy. As in his prior work, Wattles advises the reader to think and act in a certain way. The concepts are simple the challenge is having the discipline to apply the concepts with faith and persistence. Follow the certain way and everyone can attain good health. This publication of The Science of Being Well is part of the Qualitas Classics Life Series, where pure, ageless classics are presented in clean, easy to read reprints. For a complete list of titles, see: http: //www.libraryoftheclassics.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(14421, 'Secrets To Finding More Happiness In Retirement e-book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(14422, 'Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion', 'Emile Coue &amp; Cyrus Harry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Cou''s authoritative book on Self Mastery, you get a work of real and unique value. After twenty years of scientific study-experimenting with thousands of persons-Prof. Cou discovered a fundamental principle of life, and developed a "method" of controlling life''s greatest force. Discover the power of that method for yourself in this classic self-help work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(14423, 'Setting Business Strategy', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(14424, 'Sleight of Mouth', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sleight of Mouth is about the magic of words and language. Language is one of the key representational systems from which we build our mental models of the world, and has a tremendous influence upon how we perceive and respond to the world around us.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert B. Dilts has been a developer, author, and consultant in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming since the mid 1970''s. His work has explored the practical applications of cognitive strategies and belief systems to such areas as Creativity, Learning, Health, and Leadership. He has authored or coauthored some of the most definitive books on NLP including "Neuro-Linguistic Programming Vol. 1", "Applications of NLP", "Beliefs: Pathways to Health &amp; Well-Being", and "Tools for Dreamers". Other works include monographs on Albert Einstein, Walt Disney. Mozart, and The Cognitive Patterns of Jesus of Nazareth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(14425, 'Speed Seduction Technical Manual', 'Dave Riker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(14426, 'Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 02of5 Sherlock Holmes', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(14427, 'Strategies Of Genius Vol I - Chapter 03Of5 Walt Disney', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(14428, 'Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 04of5 Mozart', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(14429, 'Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 05of5 Conclusion', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(14430, 'Strategies of Genius Vol I - Chapter 05of5 Conclusion', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(14431, 'Strategies Of Genius Vol I - Chapter 1Of5 Aristotle', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(14432, 'Strategies Of Genius Vol I - Chapter 1Of5 Aristotle', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(14433, 'Strategies of Genius Vol II  Albert Einstein', 'Robertt Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(14434, 'Strategies of Genius Vol III - Chapter 1of3 Sigmund Freud', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(14435, 'Strategies of Genius Vol III - Chapter 2of3 Leonardo da Vi', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(14436, 'Strategies of Genius Vol III - Chapter 3of3 Nikola Tesla', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(14437, 'The Structure of Intelligence', 'Employee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(14438, 'The Structure of Magic 2  Vol. II: A Book About Communication and Change', 'John Grinder &amp; Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two book set: The Structure of Magic, Volumes II and II. VOLUME I: What we have attempted to do in Volume I of The Structure of Magic is not to create a new school of psychotherapy but rather to make understandable and learnable some of the language skills of some of the world''s most talented psychotherapists. We do this in a way which shows both the simplicity and the similarities of the techniques of these seemingly divergent therapists. Our hope is that this work will begin the long overdue process of sharing the resources of all those who are involved in finding ways to help people have better, fuller and richer lives. VOLUME II: In this second volume in the series, the authors bring their special skills as model builders to the area of non-verbal communication. They extend their explicit model of verbal communication created in Volume I of the magic series, using the patterns of verbal form as a way of helping the reader to identify and use the patterns of non-verbal communication.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(14439, 'The Structure of Magic 2 Book Set: Vol I: A Book About Language and Therapy / Vol. II: A Book About Communication and Change', 'John Grinder &amp; Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two book set: The Structure of Magic, Volumes II and II. VOLUME I: What we have attempted to do in Volume I of The Structure of Magic is not to create a new school of psychotherapy but rather to make understandable and learnable some of the language skills of some of the world''s most talented psychotherapists. We do this in a way which shows both the simplicity and the similarities of the techniques of these seemingly divergent therapists. Our hope is that this work will begin the long overdue process of sharing the resources of all those who are involved in finding ways to help people have better, fuller and richer lives. VOLUME II: In this second volume in the series, the authors bring their special skills as model builders to the area of non-verbal communication. They extend their explicit model of verbal communication created in Volume I of the magic series, using the patterns of verbal form as a way of helping the reader to identify and use the patterns of non-verbal communication.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(14440, 'The Structure of Magic Vol I: A Book About Language and Therapy', 'John Grinder &amp; Richard Bandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two book set: The Structure of Magic, Volumes II and II. VOLUME I: What we have attempted to do in Volume I of The Structure of Magic is not to create a new school of psychotherapy but rather to make understandable and learnable some of the language skills of some of the world''s most talented psychotherapists. We do this in a way which shows both the simplicity and the similarities of the techniques of these seemingly divergent therapists. Our hope is that this work will begin the long overdue process of sharing the resources of all those who are involved in finding ways to help people have better, fuller and richer lives. VOLUME II: In this second volume in the series, the authors bring their special skills as model builders to the area of non-verbal communication. They extend their explicit model of verbal communication created in Volume I of the magic series, using the patterns of verbal form as a way of helping the reader to identify and use the patterns of non-verbal communication.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(14441, 'Success', 'Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the affairs of the world it (Success) is the supreme quality. How many men have brilliant schemes and yet are quite unable to execute them, and through their very brilliancy stumble unawares upon ruin? For round judgment there cluster many hundred qualities, like the setting round a jewel: the capacity to read the hearts of men; to draw an inexhaustible fountain of wisdom from every particle of experience in the past, and turn the current of this knowledge into the dynamic action of the future. Genius goes to the heart of a matter like an arrow from a bow, but judgment is the quality which learns from the world what the world has to teach and then goes one better. Shelley had genius, but he would not have been a success in Wall Streetâ€”though the poet showed a flash of business knowledge in refusing to lend money to Byron.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(14442, 'Successful Methods of Public Speaking - Grenville Kleiser', 'Grenville Kleiser', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A passage from the book... You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking by studying the successful methods of other men. This does not mean, however, that you are to imitate others, but simply to profit by their experience and suggestions in so far as they fit in naturally with your personality. All successful speakers do not speak alike. Each man has found certain things to be effective in his particular case, but which would not necessarily be suited to a different type of speaker. When, therefore, you read the following methods of various men, ask yourself in each case whether you can apply[Pg 12] the ideas to advantage in your own speaking. Put the method to a practical test, and decide for yourself whether it is advisable for you to adopt it or not.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(14443, 'Superior Sales Management', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(14444, 'Time Distortion in Hypnosis', 'Milton Erickson &amp; Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(14445, 'Trade Craft', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(14446, 'The Trained Memory', 'Warren Hilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/186');
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(14447, 'Trance-formations', 'Richard Bandler &amp; John Grinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(14448, 'True Riches or Wealth Without Wings', 'T. S. Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   The lessons taught in this work are such as cannot be learned too early, not dwelt on too long or too often, but those who are engaged in the active and all-absorbing duties of life. In the struggle for natural riches, the wealth that meets the eye and charms the imagination, how many forget that true riches can only be laid up in the heart; and that, without these true riches, which have no wings, gold, the god of this world, cannot bestow a single blessing!\n  </li>\n </ol>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(14449, 'Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius', 'John Grinder &amp; Judith Delozier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rich with humor and metaphors from other cultures and disciplines, Turtles develops the characteristics common to the geniuses whose patterning formed the initial body of NLP techniques. You will learn how these skills are readily available for cultivating your own personal genius in a way that is respectful of the power of the unconscious.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is the documentary, with added notes and stories, of Grinder/Delozier''s five day seminar called "Prerequisites To Personal Genius". John Grinder and Judith Delozier get their participants to think about the structure of thinking; how our thought patterns become our beliefs about reality. The limitations of those thought patterns can be overcome, however, when a person is able to expand his/her perceptual filters and model "geniuses" -- this is the process which has been shown in the lives of people such as Einstein, Milton Erickson, and Gregory Bateson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout the book, the authors challenge you to reexamine the structures of your "mind" and the ways that all parts can be integrated in an internal dance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(14450, 'Twenty Years of Hus&#39;ling', 'J. P. Johnston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(14451, 'Ultimate NLP Home Study Course', 'Jim Esparza &amp; Rex Sikes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(14452, 'Uncover The Secrets Inside The Confident Mind E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(14453, 'Uncover The Secrets Inside The Confident Mind Part 2 E-Book', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(14454, 'The Universal Laws and You', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(14455, 'The University of Hard Knocks: The School That Completes Our Education', 'Ralph Parlette', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "What is written here is not the way I would write it were I writing a book " says Ralph Parlette. "It is the way I say it. The lecture took this unconscious colloquial form before audiences."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(14456, 'unknown', 'advanced hypnotic writing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(14457, 'The User&#39;s Manual for the Brain', 'Bob G. Bodenhamer &amp; L. Michael. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ". . .this manual . . .provides a systematic, step-by-step understanding of what NLP is all about. . ." --\n  <em>\n   Annette Arbel, Master Practitioner, NLP of Gastonia\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[This book] is the most complete, concise, and clear book on the subject of NLP that I have ever come across . . ." --\n  <em>\n   Joel Christman, CPA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book offers the perfect introduction to NLP and is useful because it is comprehensive in its coverage. --\n  <em>\n   London Coll. of Clinical Hypnosis, Spring/Summer, 2001\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Available for the very first time in bound-book format, this is the most comprehensive manual to date covering the NLP Practitioner course. A fully revised and updated edition, it contains the very latest developments in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, particularly with regard to the Meta-states model and the Meta-model of language. For all those embarking on Practitioner training or wishing to study to Practitioner level at home, this book is your essential companion. Written and designed by two of the most important theorists in NLP today, The User''s Manual For The Brain covers every aspect of the Practitioner programme, including the very latest insights. The User''s Manual For The Brain: fully explains the NLP model and techniques; systematically examines the NLP Language Model and the NLP Neurology Model; and provides an introduction to Advanced NLP. Thoroughly structured and expertly organised, The User''s Manual For The Brain is written in an inviting manner, punctuated by key points, and packed with useful illustrations and diagrams that make NLP as accessible as possible. Providing a wealth of exercises and techniques, this guide simply presents the reader with an excellent opportunity to get the most out of NLP.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(14458, 'Visionarry Leadership Skills', 'Robert Dilts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(14459, 'The Way of Peace', 'James Allen, Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In many ways The Way of Peace reflects James Allen''s New Thought Movement affiliations better than any of his other works. Referencing Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The Way of Peace is a treatise on the importance of. Allen explains how whatever we meditate upon we become. Published on its own in 1907 The Way of Peace was first part of Allen''s first book From Poverty to Power (also called The Realization of Prosperity and Peace). It is "A Book for all those who are in search of better conditions, wider freedom, and increased usefulness."James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of self-help movement. Allen''s practical philosophy for successful living has awakened millions to the discovery that "they themselves are makers of themselves." Allen insists that it is within the power of each person to form his own character and create his own happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(14460, 'What All Good Dogs Should Know: The Sensible Way to Train', 'Jack Volhard &amp; Melissa Bartlett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While such recent entries into the dog obedience market as Linda Colflesh''s Making Friends , Bashkim Dibra''s Dog Training by Bash and the Monks of New Skete''s The Art of Raising a Puppy wow the canine-happy with authorial charm and painstaking thoroughness, this volume aims to please by virtue of its succinct, pared-down approach. Volhard and Bartlett, the author and illustrator, respectively, of Teaching Dog Obedience Classes , march the reader through exercises designed to produce a\n  <code>\n   good'''' dog: i.e., one that is housetrained, comes when called, has no bad habits, stays when told and does not pull when walked. However, they may overestimate their audience. Only a novice owner who is endowed with unusual powers of deduction will be able to fruitfully apply directions like\n  </code>\n  Distract and do something pleasant for the dog.'''' Devotees of training manuals, on the other hand, may pick up some worthwhile tips: reinforce your status as leader by having the dog sit and stay when you need to open the door. Illustrations not seen by PW.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bestselling dog training book is now completely updated, but still refreshingly uncomplicated. A practical guide to positive training techniques for your puppy or older dog, it covers basic commands, includes information about walking on a leash, housetraining, and other â€œgood dogâ€ behaviors, and covers ways to correct objectionable behaviors. It even addresses issues common to rescue and shelter dogs, including shyness and insecurity. A new chapter on the canine personality profile helps you understand your dog better.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(14461, 'What Is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays', 'Mark Twain &amp; S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of 19th-century American offshoot of Voltaire. Like his French counterpart, he expressed a deeply felt indignation at religious hypocrisy and obscurantism, and peppered his satirical writings, especially in his later years, with stinging wit and iconoclastic fervor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This unique collection assembles writings in which Twain views the multifarious claims of religion--metaphysical, moral, and political--with a skeptical eye.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As editor S. T. Joshi points out in the introduction, Twain took aim at religion not just out of irreverent glee but because of serious concerns about central religious tenets that weighed on his mind for much of his life. Though he maintained till his death that he believed in God, he expressed deep skepticism regarding such religious beliefs as special Providence (God''s interference in the affairs of individual human beings), the concept of hell, the religious basis of morality, and the divine inspiration of the Bible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The centerpiece of the book is the long philosophical dialogue, What Is Man? (1906), which presents a rigidly deterministic view of human behavior, claiming that every action is the product of outside influences. Twain also asserts that altruism does not exist: we help others primarily as a means of making ourselves comfortable. Other writings in the book condemn religious exclusivity, the hypocritical Christian thirst for money, and the disgraceful treatment of animals by a supposedly moral human race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Containing many writings by Twain not generally available except in expensive academic publications, this excellent and affordable paperback edition has been annotated to elucidate historical, literary, religious, and other references. Also included is a lengthy introduction providing a historical overview of Twain s shifting attitudes toward religion.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S. T. Joshi\n  </strong>\n  (Moravia, NY) is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor whose previous books include\n  <em>\n   Documents of American Prejudice\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   God''s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Atheism: A Reader\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   H. L. Mencken on Religion\n  </em>\n  ; and\n  <em>\n   The Agnostic Reader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(14462, 'Who Wrote the Bible?', 'Washington Leslie Gladden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Bible is the collection of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity. The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations. Modern Rabbinic Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books that comprise the Tanakh, the Jewish version of the Bible. The Christian Bible includes the same books as the Tanakh (referred to in this context as the Old Testament), but usually in a different order, together with specifically Christian books collectively called the New Testament. Among some Christian traditions, the Bible includes additional Jewish books that were not accepted into the Tanakh.\n  <em>\n   (Quote from wikipedia.org)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   About the Author\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Washington Gladden (February 11, 1836 - July 2, 1918) was a leading American Congregational church pastor and early leader of the Social Gospel movement. He was a leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus and campaigning against Boss Tweed as acting editor of the New York Independent. Gladden was probably the first leading U.S. religious figure to support unionization of the workforce; he also opposed racial segregation. He was a prolific writer, with 40 books to his credit, as well as a number of hymns.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gladden was born in 1836 in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania to devout parents as Solomon Washington Gladden. Gladden''s father died when he was six and he spent much of his childhood living with his uncle on a farm in Owego, New York. At the time, western New York State was known as the Burned-Over District because it had been the center of a number of religious revivals. He joined the temperance movement as a boy.\n  <em>\n   (Quote from wikipedia.org)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   About the Publisher\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  F\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(14463, 'Wisdom', 'James Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Biography, Intellectual Life, Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Modern, 20th Century, Civilization, Literary Criticism\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(14464, 'Within You Is the Power', 'Henry Thomas Hamblin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within You is the Power shows us there is a power lying hidden in mankind, by the use of which any person can rise to higher and better things in life. The object of this book is to help people to bring their inward powers of mind and spirit into expression, wisely and in harmony with the laws of life and to build up character. There is no way whereby the discipline of life can be avoided. There are no means by which fate can be ''tricked,'' nor cunning device by which fate can be evaded. Each life must meet its own troubles and difficulties: each soul must pass through its deep waters, every heart must encounter sorrow and grief. But no one needs to be overwhelmed in the great conflicts of life, for one who has learned the great secret of his identity with the Universal Life and Power, dwells in an impregnable city, built upon and into the Rock of Truth, against which the storms of life beat in vain. While this book does not offer any vain promises of an easy life--for, if this were possible, it would be the greatest of all disasters--but rather endeavours to show how to become so strong that life looks almost easy by comparison.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Henry Thomas Hamblin was born at Walworth, London in 1873. Since his family was very poor, he was determined to raise himself from the rut which everyone was destined to fall into without being able to afford proper schooling. He started off by working in various scantily paying jobs and he decided to become an Optician. His lack of money did not hamper his determination and soon he qualified as an Optician. All through his life Hamblin had visionary experiences where he came in contact with a Divine Presence. The sudden and unexpected death of his ten-year-old son affected him so much that he came to realise that none of his worldly success had made him happy. He wanted to give the unexpressed part of him a voice and he started to write in the early 1920''s. One of his first books was "Within You is the Power", which sold over 200,000 copies. Other books soon followed. He worked right up to the end of his life in 1958 and left a legacy that is still continuing today.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(14465, 'Workbook (Pyscho-Linguistics) -  Intro to Hypnosis', 'Major Mark Cunningham - Intro to Hypnosis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(14466, 'Zebu', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(14467, 'Zebu The Hypnotic Language Card Game FlashCards (original)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.ocmgrp.com:8555/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(14468, '116 Wing Tsun dummy techniques', 'Master Yip Chun', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6137'),
(14469, 'The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology', 'Donald H. Berkebile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8254'),
(14470, '2010 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000', 'Numismatics Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6192'),
(14471, '21 tehnici de negociere', 'Daniel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6135'),
(14472, '250 HTML and Web Design Secrets', 'Molly E. Holzschlag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Do more than you ever thought possible with HTML, the most commonly used language of the Web! Packed with insider tips, tricks, timesavers, and workarounds, this unique guide shows you how to make the most of the methods and techniques you need to make fun and exciting Web pages. From streamlining the design process to improving a siteâ€™s ranking through its dynamic content, it delivers all the secrets you need to get more done in less time, save money, and become a successful Web designer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Insiderâ€™s Guide to:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Setting up a master Web designerâ€™s ultimate toolbox, necessary to effectively manage a site (see Chapter 1)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Defining the scope of a project and putting a process in place to manage it efficiently (see Chapter 2)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating and managing spectacular contentâ€“the most influential aspect of a site (see Chapter 5)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Crafting Web pages with HTML while discovering how to use HTML in such a way that it will make numerous other Web design aspects smoother (see Chapter 6)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The real story behind using XHTMLâ€“and why itâ€™s so important (see Chapter 7)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maximizing the abilities of Cascading Style Sheets to eliminate problems, improve workflow, and add visual effects (see Chapter 8)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Constructing exciting designs that work in a global environment (see Chapter 11)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keeping content fresh and engaging so that visitors come back and spread the word (see Chapter 13)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Improving a siteâ€™s ranking and managing its promotions (see Chapter 14)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the world of Web design and development,\n  <strong>\n   Molly E. Holzschlag\n  </strong>\n  is one of the most vibrant and influential people around. With over 30 Web development book titles to her credit, Molly is also a noted columnist, speaker, and educator.\n  <br />\n  As a Steering Committee Member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote open standards for the Web. She serves as an advisor and spokeswoman for the World Organization of Webmasters. Molly speaks regularly at conferences in addition tot teaching and developing curriculum for a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Phoenix, New School University, and Pima Community College.\n  <br />\n  Many recognize Molly from her Column â€œIntegrated Design.â€ Which appeared in the much-missed\n  <em>\n   Web Techniques Magazine\n  </em>\n  for three years, and from sister publication\n  <em>\n   Webreview.com\n  </em>\n  , where Molly served as Executive Editor for a year during the best of the San Francisco dot.com era. Molly has been honored as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. For more information about Molly, drop by at www.molly.com/\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9332'),
(14473, '4 poezii', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4917'),
(14474, '52 SEO Tips - Big Oak SEO', 'Shell Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6136'),
(14475, '7 Essential Body Language Tips', 'Sylvia Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6132'),
(14476, '97 Things Every Programmer Should Know', 'Kevlin Henney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you''ll expand your skills by adopting new approaches to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft through sound advice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spinellis, Cay Horstmann, Verity Stob, and many more--this book contains practical knowledge and principles that you can apply to all kinds of projects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few of the 97 things you should know:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   "Code in the Language of the Domain" by Dan North\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "Write Tests for People" by Gerard Meszaros\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "Convenience Is Not an -ility" by Gregor Hohpe\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "Know Your IDE" by Heinz Kabutz\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "A Message to the Future" by Linda Rising\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "The Boy Scout Rule" by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "Beware the Share" by Udi Dahan\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer. His work focuses on patterns and architecture, programming techniques and languages, and development process and practice. He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, including The Register, Better Software, Java Report, CUJ, and C++ Report. Kevlin is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. He also contributed to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10150'),
(14477, 'Abraham Lincoln, a History -- Volume 2', 'John G. Nicolay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8251'),
(14478, 'Abraham Lincoln: A History, vol 1', 'John G. Nicolay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8252'),
(14479, 'Absolute Beginner&#39;s Guide to Windows XP', 'Shelley O&#39;hara', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Upgrade to a digital lifestyle! _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Windows XP, Second Edition_ is not just about using Windows, but also about how to live in a digital world where you can share pictures over the Internet, download music from websites, communicate with long-distance family and friends on the computer, and more. Step-by-step instructions will show you how to accomplish key tasks and take precautions to protect your computer from viruses and spyware. Some of the tasks covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Starting programs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understanding file management basics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Getting wired for communication\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with photographs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Playing music and videos\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Improving your computer[HTML_REMOVED]s performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Upgrading Windows\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Updated to include information on Service Pack 2, _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s guide to Windows XP, Second Edition_ will show you how to work with Windows XP to make your life easier!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Microsoft Windows XP, Second Edition\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   About the Author\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Shelley O[HTML_REMOVED]Hara\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  is the author of more than 100 books, mostly dealing with computers. She has written some of the all-time best-selling computer books, including\n  <em>\n   Easy Windows XP Home Edition\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Easy Windows 98\n  </em>\n  . She also conducts computer training and teaches writing classes. In addition to tech writing, O[HTML_REMOVED]Hara has also published a romantic comedy called\n  <em>\n   The Marriage Trifecta\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6476'),
(14480, 'Absolute Beginner&#39;s Guide to Windows XP', 'Shelley O&#39;hara', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <br />\n (source: Anobii.com)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6510'),
(14481, 'Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites Problem Design Solution', 'Jon Duckett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites\n </p>\n <p>\n  Problem - Design - Solution\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book teaches anyone who already knows about creating Web pages in HTML how to bring their skills up to date and take advantage of XHTML and CSS to create attractive sites that also meet accessibility laws and guidelines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By looking at how to update an example site written in HTML, you will learn how the latest Web standards allow you to create Web pages that will last longer and work in more browsers. You''ll be introduced to a series of common situations, explore possible solutions, and learn to implement the best choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First, you will learn how to write XHTML markup. Then, you will see how to control the presentation and layout of your pages using CSS. And finally, you will learn how to meet accessibility requirements.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to create Web pages in XHTML, which will help pages work on more browsers and give your pages a longer lifespan\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to control presentation of your pages with CSS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to control the layout of a page using CSS rather than HTML tables\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to meet accessibility requirements set out in W3C WCAG and U.S. Government Section 508 guidelines\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for anyone who already knows how to create Web pages in HTML and wants to keep up-to-date by learning about XHTML, CSS, and accessibility.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrox Problem â€“ Design â€“ Solution references give you solid, workable solutions to real-world development problems. Each is devoted to a single application, analyzing every problem, examining relevant design issues, and implementing the ideal solution.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jon Duckett\n  </strong>\n  published his first Web site in 1996 while studying for a BSc (Hons) in psychology at Brunel University, London. Since then he has helped create a wide variety of Web sites and has coauthored more than ten programming-related books on topics from ASP to XML (via many other letters of the alphabet) that have covered diverse aspects of Web programming, including design, architecture, and coding.\n  <br />\n  After graduating, Jon worked for Wrox Press, first in their Birmingham (U.K.) offices for three years and then in Sydney (Australia) for another year. He is now a freelance developer and consultant based in a leafy suburb of London, working for a range of clients spread across three continents.\n  <br />\n  When not stuck in front of a computer screen, Jon enjoys writing and listening to music.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9296'),
(14482, 'Across A Billion Years', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in the year 2375, the novelÂ follows Tom Rice, a young archaeologist attached to a two-year dig on the planet of Highby V. He is searching for artifacts belonging to a long-lost and ancient race known simply as The High Ones. Throughout known space, details of this billion-year old civilization have been uncovered on many planets. What seems like a fairly straightforward expedition becomes a galactic odyssey when an artifact never seen before is uncovered. This device hints that perhaps the High Ones are not extinct at all. But, if they are not, then where are they? And will this lead to the culmination of Mankindâ€™s greatest challenge or greatest disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11207'),
(14483, 'Active Directory', 'Alistair G. Lowe-norris &amp; Robbie Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Windows 2000 Active Directory\n  </em>\n  is a notably authoritative and engaging guide to the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for any administrator or developer making the move to the new Windows and this powerful directory standard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Articulate and technically astute, the author comes across as a trusted advisor, providing an expert''s view of designing the layout of your company''s Active Directory schema. In realistic terms, he shows you how AD can coexist with Unix directories. The book not only provides a collection of screen shots (though there are hands-on tutorials for specific tasks) but also a nicely in-depth tour of what Internet directories are and what advantages Active Directory offers. Case studies on sample domains and organization units (OUs) for sample companies, including a model global corporation, will help you cope with the design of even the most complex directories. Hints for limiting "domains" and favoring the more flexible "organizational units" (OUs) will also help you think in Windows 2000 terms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Later sections of the book delve into Active Directory Services Interface (ASDI) scripting using Windows Script Host (WSH), Visual Basic, and even ASPs for browser-based administration. The tips and sample scripts for a variety of common administrative tasks, such as adding new users, changing passwords, and the like, assume very little programming background. This focus on the practical side of administration rounds out an extremely useful and technically savvy guide to Windows 2000 that can definitely simplify the life of any administrator, manager, or developer upgrading to the latest Windows.\n  <em>\n   --Richard Dragan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Microsoft introduced Windows 2000, the most important change was the inclusion of Active Directory. With many great benefits, it continues to be a huge headache for network and system administrators to design, implement and support. The first edition of this book, O''Reilly''s best-selling\n  <em>\n   Windows 2000 Active Directory\n  </em>\n  , eased their pain considerably. Now titled\n  <em>\n   Active Directory\n  </em>\n  , 2nd Edition, this book provides system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers with a clear, detailed look at Active Directory for both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The upgraded Active Directory that ships with Windows Server 2003 has over 100 new and enhanced features and once again, O''Reilly has the answers to puzzling questions. While Microsoft''s documentation serves as an important reference,\n  <em>\n   Active Directory\n  </em>\n  , 2nd Edition is a guide to help the curious (and weary) understand the big picture. In addition to the technical details for implementing Active Directory, several new and significantly enhanced chapters describe the numerous features that have been updated or added in Windows Server 2003 along with coverage of new programmatic interfaces that are available to manage it. After reading the book you will be familiar with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, and the Active Directory Schema, among many other topics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authors Robbie Allen and Alistair G. Lowe-Norris are experienced veterans with real-world experience. Robbie is a Senior Systems Architect in the Advanced Services Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He was instrumental in the deployment and automation of Active Directory, DNS and DHCP at Cisco, and is now working on network automation tools. Alistair is an enterprise program manager for Microsoft U.K. and previously worked for Leicester University as the project manager and technical lead of the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows 2000.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Active Directory\n  </em>\n  , 2nd Edition will guide you through the maze of concepts, design issues and scripting options enabling you to get the most out of your deployment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6395'),
(14484, 'Active Directory Bible', 'Curt Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced an entirely new approach to networking involving directory services. IT professionals are now responsible for designing a Windows 2000 Active Directory infrastructure, implementing it, maintaining it, and using Windows 2000 support technologies. This comprehensive Bible gives you all the knowledge necessary to successfully plan, deploy, and maintain an Active Directory network.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Master the power of Active Directory(TM) Whether you''re a networking newcomer or a veteran administrator, working with Windows(r) 2000 Server requires a thorough knowledge of Active Directory. This complete guide delivers all the information you need. Logically organized and packed with real-world examples, it shows you step-by-step how to create a migration plan, install and configure Active Directory, maintain a network at peak efficiency, and use Active Directory with IntelliMirror(r), Exchange, and other technologies. Inside, you''ll find complete coverage of Active Directory\n  <br />\n  * Design an Active Directory namespace and structure\n  <br />\n  * Plan for Active Directory sites and replication\n  <br />\n  * Configure forests, trees, trusts, and security\n  <br />\n  * Set up users, groups, printers, and shared files\n  <br />\n  * Get up to speed on backup and recovery strategies\n  <br />\n  * Manage replication and understand schema modifications\n  <br />\n  * Implement IntelliMirror, Dfs, indexing, Exchange, and DNS\n  <br />\n  Bonus CD-ROM\n  <br />\n  * Microsoft(r) TechNet and by-Admin trial versions\n  <br />\n  * Active Directory Migration Tool, Sizer Tool, and Readiness Analyzer\n  <br />\n  * A searchable e-version of the book\n  <br />\n  * IP Subnet Calculator trial version\n  <br />\n  * A searchable e-version of the book\n  <br />\n  * Adobe Acrobat Reader\n  <br />\n  www.idgbooks.com System Requirements: Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 or higher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6384'),
(14485, 'Adam si Eva', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4713'),
(14486, 'Addenda', 'Ion Barbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8558'),
(14487, 'Adding Ajax', 'Shelley Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. For instance, if you have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to update a table, you can enhance it by adding the capability to update the table with changes to the form fields, without actually having to submit the form. That''s just one example.Adding Ajax is for those of you more interested in extending existing applications than in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA). You already know the "business-side" of applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static content-and now you want to make your web pages livelier, more fun, and much more interactive. This book:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Provides an overview of Ajax technologies, and the importance of developing a strategy for changing your site before you sit down to code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explains the heart and soul of Ajax: how to work with the XMLHttpRequest object\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introduces and demonstrates several important Ajax libraries, including Prototype, script.aculo.us, rico, Mochikit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explores the interactive element that is Ajax, including how to work with events and event handlers that work across browsers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introduces the concept of web page as space, and covers three popular approaches to managing web space\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explains how to make data updates, including adding new data, deleting, and making updates, all from within a single page\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Describes the effects Ajax has on the Web-breaking the back button, losing browser history, dynamic effects that disappear when the page is refreshed, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers advanced CSS effects, including drag and drop "scroll bars", pagination, and the use of SVG and the Canvas object\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explores mashups-Ajax''s ability to combine data from different web services in any number of ways, directly in our web pages\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don''t need to start over to use Ajax. You can simply add to what you already have. This book explains how.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9271'),
(14488, 'Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals', 'Michael Labriola &amp; Jeff Tapper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Adobe Flex: Training from the Source\n  </em>\n  is the best-selling and most trusted resource for learning about Adobe Flex. Written by a team of authors with practical experience as consultants, mentors and developers of courseware, this book/CD uses project-based tutorials, and is designed to teach beginning Flex developers the details of building and architecting real-world rich internet applications using Flash Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. The book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. This latest edition includes complete coverage of new Flex 4.5 features, such as new enhancements to the Spark architecture and component set. It will also show you how to take advantage of the improvements to core Flex infrastructure for large application development.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Labriola\n  </strong>\n  is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Professional, Flex Developer Champion, and international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for many of the worldâ€™s most recognized brands. At Digital Primates, Michael mentors client development teams using emerging technologies. At home, he spends his free time escaping from technology through wine and food.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  J\n  <strong>\n   eff Tapper\n  </strong>\n  is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995 for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, ESPN, Morgan Stanley, Conde Nast, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Verizon, and many others. He has been developing Flex applications since the earliest days of Flex 1. As an instructor, Jeff is certified to teach all of Adobeâ€™s courses on Flex, AIR, Flash, and ColdFusion development. He is also a frequent speaker at Adobe Development Conferences and user groups. Digital Primates provides expert guidance on rich Internet application development and empowers clients through mentoring.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Matthew Boles\n  </strong>\n  is a Technical Training Specialist for the Adobe Technical Marketing group, and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matthew has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching. He is also a contributing author of the Adobe authorized Flex courseware.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10152'),
(14489, 'Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices', 'Shawn M. Lauriat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  â€œI very much enjoyed how this book covers the full Ajax application lifecycle and not only coding techniques. Anyone who is looking to become a professional front-end developer will appreciate the architectural insight and best practices delivered by this book.â€Â Â â€” Andi Gutmans, Co-Founder &amp; Co-Chief Technology Officer of Zend Technologies Â  Mission-Critical Ajax: Maximizing Scalability, Performance, Security, Reliability, and Maintainability Â  Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality Web applications with Ajax. Shawn M. Lauriat systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated with Ajax, offering proven patterns and robust code examples available in no other book. Youâ€™ll find best practices for addressing the full spectrum of issues enterprise Ajax developers face: scalability, performance, security, reliability, flexibility, maintainability, and reusability. Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing JavaScript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajaxâ€™s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includesÂ \n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitiveness\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using thelatest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Architecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Protecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications About the Web Site This bookâ€™s companion Web site (http://advancedajax.frozen-o.com) doesnâ€™t just provide all the code: It shows code examples in action, as building blocks of a real Web application interface.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9319'),
(14490, 'Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing', 'Hesham El-rewini &amp; Mostafa Abd-el-barr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This outstanding treatise...allows students and professionals to become familiar with the inner workings of an inherently complex architecture." (\n  <em>\n   CHOICE\n  </em>\n  , July 2005)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An outstanding resource for mastering computer architecture and parallel processing\n </p>\n <p>\n  This text enables students and practitioners to quickly master the complexities of advanced computer architecture and parallel processing. The authors have drawn from their own experience to present outstanding coverage of the complexities of advanced computer architecture and parallel processing. Using real-world examples and case studies, students and practitioners will understand the interaction between the hardware and software parts of the system. Focussing on practical solutionsâ€”from architectural to software issuesâ€”the book discusses key topics including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Multiprocessors interconnection networks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performance analysis of multiprocessor architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shared memory architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Message passing architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Abstract models\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Network computing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Parallel programming in PVM\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Message passing interface (MPI)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Scheduling and task allocation\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The logical organization of the text is designed to help readers build on their knowledge as they progress from one chapter to the next: from problem sets based on actual issues in the workplace that test readers'' knowledge, to end-of-chapter references directing readers to additional sources for in-depth research, and chapter summaries offering a concise overview of the key points.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With its comprehensive coverage, Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing simplifies course material development for instructors and helps readers learn faster, thanks to its logical organization, clear style, and practical examples. It is an excellent learning aid for both graduate and undergraduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science. Moreover, engineers and programmers will find it to be an outstanding on-the-job reference.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9629'),
(14491, 'Advanced JavaScript', 'Chuck Easttom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Advanced JavaScript Third Edition provides an in-depth examination of the most important features of JavaScript. Beginning with an overview of JavaScript, the book quickly moves into more advanced features needed for complex yet robust JavaScript scripts, such as objects, arrays, and date and time functions. Additionally, various features of JavaScript that are essential for modern web pages are discussed, including manipulating the status bar, creating dynamic calendars, and working with forms, images, and the Document Object Model. Numerous examples illustrate how to implement various techniques.Topics covered how to enhance your web pages with LED signs, banners, and images; implementing cookies to store and retrieve information; the structure of the Document Object Model and how it can be used to view, access, and change an HTML document; Security measures to protect private information while using the Internet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9222');
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(14492, 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment', 'W. Stevens &amp; Stephen A. Rago', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is the definitive reference book for any serious or professional UNIX systems programmer. Rago has updated and extended the original Stevens classic while keeping true to the original."\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   â€”Andrew Josey, Director, Certification, The Open Group, and Chair of the POSIX 1003.1 Working Group\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  The same trusted content from the Second Edition, now in paperback!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For over a decade, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens[HTML_REMOVED]\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Advanced Programming in the UNIXÂ® Environment\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  . Now, Stevens[HTML_REMOVED] colleague Stephen Rago has thoroughly updated this classic to reflect the latest technical advances and add support for today[HTML_REMOVED]s leading UNIX and Linux platforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rago carefully retains the spirit and approach that made this book a classic. Building on Stevens[HTML_REMOVED] work, he begins with basic topics such as files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for understanding more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Substantial new material includes chapters on threads and multithreaded programming, using the socket interface to drive interprocess communication (IPC), and extensive coverage of the interfaces added to the latest version of the POSIX.1 standard. Nearly all examples have been tested on four of today[HTML_REMOVED]s most widely used UNIX/Linux platforms: FreeBSD 5.2.1; the Linux 2.4.22 kernel; Solaris 9; and Darwin 7.4.0, the FreeBSD/Mach hybrid underlying Apple[HTML_REMOVED]s Mac OS X 10.3.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in the first edition, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll learn through example, including more than 10,000 lines of downloadable, ANSI C source code. More than 400 system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you[HTML_REMOVED]ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each fully updated for contemporary environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Advanced Programming in the UNIXÂ® Environment\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  has helped a generation of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today[HTML_REMOVED]s UNIX/Linux systems, this second edition will be even more indispensable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is the definitive reference book for any serious or professional UNIX systems programmer. Rago has updated and extended the original Stevens classic while keeping true to the original."\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   â€”Andrew Josey, Director, Certification, The Open Group, and Chair of the POSIX 1003.1 Working Group\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  The same trusted content from the Second Edition, now in paperback!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For over a decade, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens[HTML_REMOVED]\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Advanced Programming in the UNIXÂ® Environment\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  . Now, Stevens[HTML_REMOVED] colleague Stephen Rago has thoroughly updated this classic to reflect the latest technical advances and add support for today[HTML_REMOVED]s leading UNIX and Linux platforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rago carefully retains the spirit and approach that made this book a classic. Building on Stevens[HTML_REMOVED] work, he begins with basic topics such as files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for understanding more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Substantial new material includes chapters on threads and multithreaded programming, using the socket interface to drive interprocess communication (IPC), and extensive coverage of the interfaces added to the latest version of the POSIX.1 standard. Nearly all examples have been tested on four of today[HTML_REMOVED]s most widely used UNIX/Linux platforms: FreeBSD 5.2.1; the Linux 2.4.22 kernel; Solaris 9; and Darwin 7.4.0, the FreeBSD/Mach hybrid underlying Apple[HTML_REMOVED]s Mac OS X 10.3.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in the first edition, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll learn through example, including more than 10,000 lines of downloadable, ANSI C source code. More than 400 system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you[HTML_REMOVED]ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each fully updated for contemporary environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Advanced Programming in the UNIXÂ® Environment\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  has helped a generation of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today[HTML_REMOVED]s UNIX/Linux systems, this second edition will be even more indispensable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10154'),
(14493, 'Advanced Programming Language Design', 'Raphael A. Finkel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This accessible new volume examines and evaluates the principles of programming languages from both their common and language-specific elements. Each chapter is devoted to a particular programming language issue. These issues are illustrated with an example from one of the many programming languages used today.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book stems in part from courses taught at the University of Kentucky and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on programming language design. There are many good books that deal with the subject at an undergraduate level, but there are few that are suitable for a one semester graduate-level course. This book is my attempt to fill that gap.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The goal of this course, and hence of this book, is to expose first-year graduate students to a wide range of programming language paradigms and issues, so that they can understand the literature on programming languages and even conduct research in this field. It should improve the students'' appreciation of the art of designing programming languages and, to a limited degree, their skill in programming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book does not focus on any one language, or even on a few languages; it mentions, at least in passing, over seventy languages, including well-known ones (Algol, Pascal, C, C++, LISP, Ada, FORTRAN), important but less known ones (ML, SR, Modula-3, SNOBOL), significant research languages (CLU, Alphard, Linda), and little-known languages with important concepts (Io, Go .. del). Several languages are discussed in some depth, primarily to reinforce particular programming paradigms. ML and LISP demonstrate functional programming, Smalltalk and C++ demonstrate object-oriented programming, and Prolog demonstrates logic programming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Students are expected to have taken an undergraduate course in programming languages before using this book. The first chapter includes a review of much of the material on imperative programming languages that would be covered in such a course. This review makes the book self-contained, and also makes it accessible to advanced undergraduate students.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most textbooks on programming languages cover the well-trodden areas of the field. In contrast, this book tries to go beyond the standard territory, making brief forays into regions that are under current research or that have been proposed and even rejected in the past. There are many fascinating constructs that appear in very few, if any, production programming languages. Some (like power loops) should most likely not be included in a programming language. Others (like Io continuations) are so strange that it is not clear how to program with them. Some (APL arrays) show alternative ways to structure languages. These unusual ideas are important even though they do not pass the test of current usage, because they elucidate important aspects of programming language design, and they allow students to evaluate novel concepts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certain themes flow through the entire book. One is the interplay between what can be done at compile time and what must be deferred to runtime. Actions performed at compile time make for more efficient and less error-prone execution. Decisions deferred until runtime lead to greater flexibility. Another theme is how patterns and pattern matching play a large role in many ways in programming languages. Pattern matching is immediately important for string manipulation, but it is also critical in steering logic programming, helpful for extracting data from structures in ML, and for associating caller and callee in CSP. A third theme is the quest for uniformity. It is very much like the mathematical urge to generalize. It can be seen in polymorphism, which generalizes the concept of type, and in overloading, which begins by unifying operators and functions and then unifies disparate functions under one roof. It can be seen in the homoiconic forms of LISP, in which program and data are both presented in the same uniform way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two organizing principles suggest themselves for a book on programming languages. The first is to deal separately with such issues as syntax, types, encapsulation, parallelism, object-oriented programming, pattern matching, dataflow, and so forth. Each section would introduce examples from all relevant languages. The other potential organizing principle is to present individual languages, more or less in full, and then to derive principles from them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book steers a middle course. I have divided it into chapters, each of which deals primarily with one of the subjects mentioned above. Most chapters include an extended example from a particular language to set the stage. This section may introduce language-specific features not directly relevant to the subject of the chapter. The chapter then introduces related features from other languages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because this book covers both central and unusual topics, the instructor of a course using the book should pick and choose whatever topics are of personal interest. In general, the latter parts of chapters delve into stranger and more novel variants of material presented earlier. The book is intended for a one semester course, but it is about 30 percent too long to cover fully in one semester. It is not necessary to cover every chapter, nor to cover every section of a chapter. Only Chapter 1 and the first seven sections of Chapter 3 are critical for understanding the other chapters. Some instructors will want to cover Chapter 4 before the discussion of ML in Chapter 3. Many instructors will decide to omit dataflow (Chapter 6). Others will wish to omit denotational semantics (in Chapter 10).\n </p>\n <p>\n  I have not described complete languages, and I may have failed to mention your favorite language. I have selected representative programming languages that display particular programming paradigms or language features clearly. These languages are not all generally available or even widely known. The appendix lists all the languages I have mentioned and gives you some pointers to the literature and to implementations and documentation available on the Internet through anonymous ftp (file-transfer protocol).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The exercises at the end of each chapter serve two purposes. First, they allow students to test their understanding of the subjects presented in the text by working exercises directly related to the material. More importantly, they push students beyond the confines of the material presented to consider new situations and to evaluate new proposals. Subjects that are only hinted at in the text are developed more thoroughly in this latter type of exercise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In order to create an appearance of uniformity, I have chosen to modify the syntax of presented languages (in cases where the syntax is not the crucial issue), so that language-specific syntax does not obscure the other points that I am trying to make. For examples that do not depend on any particular language, I have invented what I hope will be clear notation. It is derived largely from Ada and some of its predecessors. This notation allows me to standardize the syntactic form of language, so that the syntax does not obscure the subject at hand. It is largely irrelevant whether a particular language uses begin and end or { and } . On the other hand, in those cases where I delve deeply into a language in current use (like ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, and C++), I have preserved the actual language. Where reserved words appear, I have placed them in bold monospace. Other program excerpts are in monospace font. I have also numbered examples so that instructors can refer to parts of them by line number. Each technical term that is introduced in the text is printed in boldface the first time it appears. All boldface entries are collected and defined in the glossary. I have tried to use a consistent nomenclature throughout the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In order to relieve the formality common in textbooks, I have chosen to write this book as a conversation between me, in the first singular person, and you, in the second person. When I say we, I mean you and me together. I hope you don''t mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Several supplemental items are available to assist the instructor in using this text. Answers to the exercises are available from the publisher (ISBN: 0-201-49835-9) in a disk-based format. The figures from the text (in Adobe Acrobat format), an Adobe Acrobat reader, and the entire text of this book are available from the following site:\n </p>\n <p>\n  ftp.aw/cseng/authors/finkel/apld\n </p>\n <p>\n  Please check the readme file for updates and changes. The complete text of this book is intended for on-screen viewing free of charge; use of this material in any other format is subject to a fee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are other good books on programming language design. I can particularly recommend the text by Pratt Pratt 96 for elementary material and the text by Louden Louden 93 for advanced material. Other good books include those by Sebesta Sebesta 93 and Sethi Sethi 89. I owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who helped me write this book. Much of the underlying text is modified from course notes written by Charles N. Fischer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students in my classes have submitted papers which I have used in preparing examples and text; these include the following:\n </p>\n <p>\n  C++ Feng Luo 1992 Mike Rogers 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dataflow Chinya Ravishankar 1981\n </p>\n <p>\n  Godel James Gary 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lynx Michael Scott 1985\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mathematics languages Mary Sue Powers 1994\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miranda Manish Gupta 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  PostChinya Ravishankar 1981 Rao Surapaneni 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  CLPWilliam Ralenkotter 1994\n </p>\n <p>\n  RussellRick Simkin 1981K. Lakshman 1992 Manish Gupta 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smalltalk/C++Jonathan Edwards 1992\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Edwards read an early draft of the text carefully and made many helpful suggestions. Michael Scott assisted me in improving Chapter 7 on concurrency. Arcot Rajasekar provided important feedback on Chapter 8 on logic programming. My editor, J. Carter Shanklin, and the reviewers he selected, made a world of difference in the presentation and coverage of the book. These reviewers were David Stotts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Spiro Michaylov (Ohio State University), Michael G. Murphy (Southern College of Technology), Barbara Ann Greim (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego), Henry Ruston (Polytechnic University), and L. David Umbaugh (University of Texas at Arlington). The University of Kentucky provided sabbatical funding to allow me to pursue this project, and Metropolitan College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, provided computer facilities that allowed me to work on it. This book was prepared on the Linux version of the Unix operating system. Linux is the result of work by Linus Torvalds and countless others, primarily at the Free Software Foundation, who have provided an immense suite of programs I have used, including text editors, document formatters and previewers, spelling checkers, and revision control packages. I would have been lost without them. Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Beth L. Goldstein, for her support and patience, and my daughter, Penina, and son, Asher, for being wonderful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Raphael A. Finkel\n  <br />\n  University of Kentucky 0805311912P04062001\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9129'),
(14494, 'The Advanced Theory of Statistics. Volume 1', 'Maurice George Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The original three-volume Advanced Theory of Statistics has long been regarded as the definitive work on statistical theory. The thoroughly revised and modernized fifth edition of Volume 1 was published in 1987; an updated and reshaped Volume 2 appeared in 1991. These two volumes now presentthe essential topics that every statistician needs to know. The two core volumes will be supplemented in due course by a volume on Bayesian Inference and by a series of monographs on more specialized topics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9020'),
(14495, 'The Advanced Theory of Statistics. Volume 2', 'Maurice George Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The original three-volume Advanced Theory of Statistics has long been regarded as the definitive work on statistical theory. The thoroughly revised and modernized fifth edition of Volume 1 was published in 1987; an updated and reshaped Volume 2 appeared in 1991. These two volumes now presentthe essential topics that every statistician needs to know. The two core volumes will be supplemented in due course by a volume on Bayesian Inference and by a series of monographs on more specialized topics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9021'),
(14496, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive withÂ the poetry and vigor of the American people, MarkÂ Twain''s story about a young boy and his journeyÂ down the Mississippi was the first great novel toÂ speak in a truly American voice. InfluencingÂ subsequent generations of writers â€” from SherwoodÂ Anderson to Twain''s fellow Missourian,Â T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and WilliamÂ Faulkner to J.D. Salinger â€” Huckleberry Finn, like the riverÂ which flows through its pages, is one of the greatÂ sources which nourished and still nourishes theÂ literature of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12051'),
(14497, 'The Adventures of Vlad Taltos: Phoenix', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4292'),
(14498, 'Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game', 'Alistair Cockburn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAgile Software Development is a highly stimulating and rich book. The author has a deep background and gives us a tour de force of the emerging agile methods.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€“Tom Gilb\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The agile model of software development has taken the world by storm. Now, in\n  <em>\n   Agile Software Development, Second Edition\n  </em>\n  , one of agileâ€™s leading pioneers updates his Jolt Productivity award-winning book to reflect all thatâ€™s been learned about agile development since its original introduction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alistair Cockburn begins by updating his powerful model of software development as a â€œcooperative game of invention and communication.â€ Among the new ideas he introduces: harnessing competition without damaging collaboration; learning lessons from lean manufacturing; and balancing strategies for communication. Cockburn also explains how the cooperative game is played in business and on engineering projects, not just software development\n </p>\n <p>\n  Next, he systematically illuminates the agile model, shows how it has evolved, and answers the questions developers and project managers ask most often, including\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  Where does agile development fit in our organization?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  How do we blend agile ideas with other ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  How do we extend agile ideas more broadly?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cockburn takes on crucial misconceptions that cause agile projects to fail. For example, youâ€™ll learn why encoding project management strategies into fixed processes can lead to ineffective strategy decisions and costly mistakes. Youâ€™ll also find a thoughtful discussion of the controversial relationship between agile methods and user experience design.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cockburn turns to the practical challenges of constructing agile methodologies for your own teams. Youâ€™ll learn how to tune and continuously reinvent your methodologies, and how to manage incomplete communication. This edition contains important new contributions on these and other topics:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  Agile and CMMI\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  Introducing agile from the top down\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  Revisiting â€œcustom contractsâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·Â Â Â Â Â  Creating change with â€œstickersâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition, Cockburn updates his discussion of the Crystal methodologies, which utilize his â€œcooperative gameâ€ as their central metaphor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If youâ€™re new to agile development, this book will help you succeed the first time out. If youâ€™ve used agile methods before, Cockburnâ€™s techniques will make you even more effective.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dr. Alistair Cockburn\n  </strong>\n  is an internationally renowned expert on all aspects of software development, from object-oriented modeling and architecture, to methodology design, to project management and organizational alignment. One of the pioneers who coined the term â€œagile software development,â€ he co-authored the 2001 Agile Software Development Manifesto and the 2005 Declaration of Interdependence. Since 1975, he has led projects and taught in places from Oslo to Cape Town, from Vancouver to Beijing. His work has covered topics from design to management to testing, in research, in government, and in industry. His most recent book is\n  <em>\n   Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams\n  </em>\n  . His books\n  <em>\n   Writing Effective Use Cases\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Agile Software Development\n  </em>\n  won back-to-back Jolt Productivity Awards in 2001 and 2002.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9130'),
(14499, 'Agile Web Application Development With Yii1.1 and Php5', 'Jeffrey Winesett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Fast-track your Web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP framework Overview of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework Write less code by using Yii''s application generation and scaffolding tools Enhance your application by adding Web feeds, adapting it to multiple languages, and by utilizing themes to provide beautiful skins and design flexibility In Detail This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework. You touch on each aspect of the software development lifecycle by building a project task management application from concept through production deployment. After a brief, general introduction to the Yii framework and outlining the software development approach taken throughout the book, the chapters break down in the same way as software development iterations do in real-world projects. After the 1st iteration, you will have a working and tested application with a valid, tested connection to a database. In the 2nd and 3rd iterations, we flesh out our main database entities and domain object model and become familiar with Yii''s object-relational-mapping (ORM) layer, Active Record. We also learn how to lean on Yii''s auto-generation tools to automatically build our create/read/update/delete (CRUD) functionality against our newly created model. These iterations also focus on how Yii''s form validation and submission model works. By the end of the third iteration you will have a working application that allows you to mange projects and issues (tasks) within those projects. The 4th and 5th iterations are dedicated to user management. We learn about the built-in authentication model within Yii to assist in application login and logout functionality. We then dive into the authorization model, first taking advantage of a Yii''s simple access control model, then implementing the more sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC) framework that Yii provides. By the end of the 5th iteration, all of the basics of a task management application are in place. The next several iterations are focused on the nice-to-haves. We add user comment functionality, introducing a reusable content portlet architecture approach in the process. We add in an RSS Web feed and demonstrate how easy it is to integrate other third-party tools within a Yii application. We take advantage of Yii''s theming structure to help streamline and design the application, and then introduce Yii''s internationalization (I18N) features so the application can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Finally, we turn our focus to production deployment. We introduce ways to optimize performance and security to prepare the application for a real-world production environment. Learn the Yii development framework by taking a test-driven, incremental, and iterative approach to building a real-world task management application What you will learn from this book Take a "test first" approach to software development using the Yii testing framework Auto-generate skeleton web applications as well as CRUD scaffolding for the domain object model using the built-in command-line interface Create user-based applications with Yii''s authentication model Enhance your user-based application to control a user''s access to feature functionality Write an administrative console application to extend the features provided by Yii''s powerful command-line tools Integrate other frameworks and libraries into a Yii application to further extend its feature set Spend less time managing application configuration by taking advantage of Yii''s sensible defaults and conventions. Learn how easy it is to implement a multi-user application by utilizing Yii''s authentication and role-based authorization models Update your code to properly mange the user''s last login time and store it in the database Achieve pre- and post-action method request processing using controller filters Tap into the CActiveRecord validation workflow to allow for pre- and post-validation processing of your model data Greatly increase re-use, consistency, and ease of maintenance of the application by developing small content blocks called portlets Make your application accessible to the world with internationalization (l18N) features and enhance the looks of your application using the Yii theming model Approach This is a step-by-step tutorial for developing web applications using Yii. This book follows the test-first, incremental, and iterative approach to software development while developing a project task management application called "TrackStar". Who this book is written for If you are a PHP programmer with knowledge of object oriented programming and want to rapidly develop modern, sophisticated web applications, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Yii is required to read this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7764'),
(14500, 'Agile Web Application Development With Yii1.1 and Php5', 'Jeffrey Winesett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Fast-track your Web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP framework Overview of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework Write less code by using Yii''s application generation and scaffolding tools Enhance your application by adding Web feeds, adapting it to multiple languages, and by utilizing themes to provide beautiful skins and design flexibility In Detail This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework. You touch on each aspect of the software development lifecycle by building a project task management application from concept through production deployment. After a brief, general introduction to the Yii framework and outlining the software development approach taken throughout the book, the chapters break down in the same way as software development iterations do in real-world projects. After the 1st iteration, you will have a working and tested application with a valid, tested connection to a database. In the 2nd and 3rd iterations, we flesh out our main database entities and domain object model and become familiar with Yii''s object-relational-mapping (ORM) layer, Active Record. We also learn how to lean on Yii''s auto-generation tools to automatically build our create/read/update/delete (CRUD) functionality against our newly created model. These iterations also focus on how Yii''s form validation and submission model works. By the end of the third iteration you will have a working application that allows you to mange projects and issues (tasks) within those projects. The 4th and 5th iterations are dedicated to user management. We learn about the built-in authentication model within Yii to assist in application login and logout functionality. We then dive into the authorization model, first taking advantage of a Yii''s simple access control model, then implementing the more sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC) framework that Yii provides. By the end of the 5th iteration, all of the basics of a task management application are in place. The next several iterations are focused on the nice-to-haves. We add user comment functionality, introducing a reusable content portlet architecture approach in the process. We add in an RSS Web feed and demonstrate how easy it is to integrate other third-party tools within a Yii application. We take advantage of Yii''s theming structure to help streamline and design the application, and then introduce Yii''s internationalization (I18N) features so the application can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Finally, we turn our focus to production deployment. We introduce ways to optimize performance and security to prepare the application for a real-world production environment. Learn the Yii development framework by taking a test-driven, incremental, and iterative approach to building a real-world task management application What you will learn from this book Take a "test first" approach to software development using the Yii testing framework Auto-generate skeleton web applications as well as CRUD scaffolding for the domain object model using the built-in command-line interface Create user-based applications with Yii''s authentication model Enhance your user-based application to control a user''s access to feature functionality Write an administrative console application to extend the features provided by Yii''s powerful command-line tools Integrate other frameworks and libraries into a Yii application to further extend its feature set Spend less time managing application configuration by taking advantage of Yii''s sensible defaults and conventions. Learn how easy it is to implement a multi-user application by utilizing Yii''s authentication and role-based authorization models Update your code to properly mange the user''s last login time and store it in the database Achieve pre- and post-action method request processing using controller filters Tap into the CActiveRecord validation workflow to allow for pre- and post-validation processing of your model data Greatly increase re-use, consistency, and ease of maintenance of the application by developing small content blocks called portlets Make your application accessible to the world with internationalization (l18N) features and enhance the looks of your application using the Yii theming model Approach This is a step-by-step tutorial for developing web applications using Yii. This book follows the test-first, incremental, and iterative approach to software development while developing a project task management application called "TrackStar". Who this book is written for If you are a PHP programmer with knowledge of object oriented programming and want to rapidly develop modern, sophisticated web applications, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Yii is required to read this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9054'),
(14501, 'Ajax Design Patterns', 'Michael Mahemoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides a strong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or JSON-based web services by using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response.Ajax Design Patterns shows you best practices that can dramatically improve your web development projects. It investigates how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles in the past and then relays that information directly to you.The patterns outlined in the book fall into four categories:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Foundational technology: Examines the raw technologies required for Ajax development\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Programming: Exposes techniques that developers have discovered to ensure their Ajax applications are maintainable\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Functionality and usability: Describes the types of user interfaces you''ll come across in Ajax applications, as well as the new types of functionality that Ajax makes possible\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Development: Explains the process being used to monitor, debug, and test Ajax applications Ajax Design Patterns will also get you up to speed with core Ajax technologies, such as XMLHttpRequest, the DOM, and JSON. Technical discussions are followed by code examples so you can see for yourself just what is-and isn''t-possible with Ajax. This handy reference will help you to produce high-quality Ajax architectures, streamline web application performance, and improve the user experience.Michael Mahemoff holds a PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne, where his thesis was "Design Reuse in Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction." He lives in London and consults on software development issues in banking, health care, and logistics."Michael Mahemoff''s Ajax Design Patterns is a truly comprehensive compendium of web application design expertise, centred around but not limited to Ajax techniques. Polished nuggets of design wisdom are supported by tutorials and real-world code examples resulting in a book that serves not only as an intermediate to expert handbook but also as an extensive reference for building rich interactive web applications." Â—Brent Ashley, remote scripting pioneer\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9273'),
(14502, 'Ajax Hacks', 'Bruce W. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ajax, the popular term for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is one of the most important combinations of technologies for web developers to know these days. With its rich grouping of technologies, Ajax developers can create interactive web applications with XML-based web services, using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response.Taking complete advantage of Ajax, however, requires something more than your typical "how-to" book. What it calls for is Ajax Hacks from O''Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that take the mystery out of Ajax''s many capabilities. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer.A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers all of the technology''s finer points. Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows you techniques for:Using Ajax with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps Displaying Weather.com data Scraping stock quotes Fetching postal codes Building web forms with auto-complete functionalityAjax Hacks also features a number of advanced hacks for accelerated web developers. Discover how to create huge, maintainable bookmarklets, how to use client-side storage for Ajax applications, and how to call a built-in Java object from JavaScript using Ajax. The book even addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving maintenance, performance, and reliability for JavaScript code.The latest in O"Reilly''s celebrated Hacks series, Ajax Hacks smartly complements other O''Reilly titles such as Head Rush Ajax and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bruce Perry is an independent Java software developer and writer. Since 1996, he has developed web applications and databases for various nonprofits, design and marketing firms, and ad agencies. When not hacking or writing, he loves cycling and climbing mountains in the U.S. and Switzerland. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Stacy LeBaron, daughter Rachel, and son Scott.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9277'),
(14503, 'Ajax in Action', 'Dave Crane &amp; Eric Pascarello &amp; Darren James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A tremendously useful field guide specifically written for developers down in the trenches...waiting for the killer solution..." --\n  <em>\n   Val''s Blog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Preface Sometimes your destiny will follow you around for years before you notice it. Amidst the medley of fascinating new technologies that I was playingâ€”I mean workingâ€”with in the early 1990s was a stunted little scripting language called JavaScript. I soon realized that, despite its name, it didnâ€™t really have anything to do with my beloved Java, but it persistently dogged my every step.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the late 90s, I had decided to cut my hair and get a proper job, and found myself working with the early adopters of digital set-top box technology. The user interface for this substantial piece of software was written entirely in JavaScript and I found myself the technical lead of a small team of developers writing window-management code, schedulers, and all kinds of clever stuff in this language. "How curious," I thought. "Itâ€™ll never catch on."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time I moved on to more demanding work, developing the enterprise messaging backbone and various user interface components for an "intelligent," talking "House of the Future." I was hired for my Java skills, but I was soon writing fancy JavaScript user interfaces again. It was astonishing to find that some people were now taking this scripting language seriously enough to write frameworks for it. I quickly picked up the early versions of Mike Fosterâ€™s x library (which youâ€™ll find put into occasional action in this book). One afternoon, while working on an email and text message bulletin board, I had the weird, exciting idea of checking for new messages in a hidden frame and adding them to the user interface without refreshing the screen. After a few hours of frenzied hacking, I had it working, and Iâ€™d even figured out how to render the new messages in color to make them noticeable to the user. "What a laugh," I thought, and turned back to some serious code. Meantime, unbeknownst to me, Eric Costello, Erik Hatcher, Brent Ashley, and others were thinking along similar lines, and Microsoft was cooking up the XMLHttpRequest for its Outlook Web Access.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Destiny was sniffing at my heels. My next job landed me in a heavy-duty development role, building software for big Tier 1 banks. We use a mixture of Java and JavaScript and employ tricks with hidden frames and other things. My team currently looks after more than 1.5 million bytes of such codeâ€”thatâ€™s static JavaScript, in addition to code we generate from JSPs. No, Iâ€™m not counting any image resources in there either. We use it to develop applications for hundreds of operators managing millions of dollarsâ€™ worth of accounts. Your bank account may well be managed by this software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Somewhere along the way, JavaScript had grown up without my quite realizing it. In February 2005, Jesse James Garrett provided the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle. He gave a short, snappy name to the cross-browser-asynchronous-rich-client-dynamic-HTML-client-server technology that had been sneaking up on us all for the last few years: Ajax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the rest, as they say, is history. Ajax is generating a lot of interest now, and a lot of good code is getting written by the people behind Prototype, Rico, Dojo, qooxdoo, Sarissa, and numerous other frameworks, too plentiful to count. Actually, we do try to count them, in appendix C. We think weâ€™ve rounded up most of the suspects. And Iâ€™ve never had so much fun playingâ€”I mean workingâ€”with computers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We have not arrived yet. The field is still evolving. I was amazed to see just how much when I did the final edits in September on the first chapter that I wrote back in May! Thereâ€™s still a lot of thinking to be done on this subject, and the next year or two will be exciting. Iâ€™ve been very lucky to have Eric and Darren on the book piece of the journey with me so far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We hope you will join usâ€”and enjoy the ride.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dave Crane\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9295'),
(14504, 'Ajax in Action', 'Dave Crane &amp; Eric Pascarello &amp; Darren James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A tremendously useful field guide specifically written for developers down in the trenches...waiting for the killer solution..." --\n  <em>\n   Val''s Blog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Preface Sometimes your destiny will follow you around for years before you notice it. Amidst the medley of fascinating new technologies that I was playingâ€”I mean workingâ€”with in the early 1990s was a stunted little scripting language called JavaScript. I soon realized that, despite its name, it didnâ€™t really have anything to do with my beloved Java, but it persistently dogged my every step.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the late 90s, I had decided to cut my hair and get a proper job, and found myself working with the early adopters of digital set-top box technology. The user interface for this substantial piece of software was written entirely in JavaScript and I found myself the technical lead of a small team of developers writing window-management code, schedulers, and all kinds of clever stuff in this language. "How curious," I thought. "Itâ€™ll never catch on."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time I moved on to more demanding work, developing the enterprise messaging backbone and various user interface components for an "intelligent," talking "House of the Future." I was hired for my Java skills, but I was soon writing fancy JavaScript user interfaces again. It was astonishing to find that some people were now taking this scripting language seriously enough to write frameworks for it. I quickly picked up the early versions of Mike Fosterâ€™s x library (which youâ€™ll find put into occasional action in this book). One afternoon, while working on an email and text message bulletin board, I had the weird, exciting idea of checking for new messages in a hidden frame and adding them to the user interface without refreshing the screen. After a few hours of frenzied hacking, I had it working, and Iâ€™d even figured out how to render the new messages in color to make them noticeable to the user. "What a laugh," I thought, and turned back to some serious code. Meantime, unbeknownst to me, Eric Costello, Erik Hatcher, Brent Ashley, and others were thinking along similar lines, and Microsoft was cooking up the XMLHttpRequest for its Outlook Web Access.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Destiny was sniffing at my heels. My next job landed me in a heavy-duty development role, building software for big Tier 1 banks. We use a mixture of Java and JavaScript and employ tricks with hidden frames and other things. My team currently looks after more than 1.5 million bytes of such codeâ€”thatâ€™s static JavaScript, in addition to code we generate from JSPs. No, Iâ€™m not counting any image resources in there either. We use it to develop applications for hundreds of operators managing millions of dollarsâ€™ worth of accounts. Your bank account may well be managed by this software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Somewhere along the way, JavaScript had grown up without my quite realizing it. In February 2005, Jesse James Garrett provided the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle. He gave a short, snappy name to the cross-browser-asynchronous-rich-client-dynamic-HTML-client-server technology that had been sneaking up on us all for the last few years: Ajax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the rest, as they say, is history. Ajax is generating a lot of interest now, and a lot of good code is getting written by the people behind Prototype, Rico, Dojo, qooxdoo, Sarissa, and numerous other frameworks, too plentiful to count. Actually, we do try to count them, in appendix C. We think weâ€™ve rounded up most of the suspects. And Iâ€™ve never had so much fun playingâ€”I mean workingâ€”with computers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We have not arrived yet. The field is still evolving. I was amazed to see just how much when I did the final edits in September on the first chapter that I wrote back in May! Thereâ€™s still a lot of thinking to be done on this subject, and the next year or two will be exciting. Iâ€™ve been very lucky to have Eric and Darren on the book piece of the journey with me so far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We hope you will join usâ€”and enjoy the ride.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dave Crane\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9302');
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(14505, 'Ajax in Practice', 'Dave Crane &amp; Bear Bibeault &amp; Jord Sonneveld &amp; Ted Goddard &amp; Chris Gray &amp; Ram Venkataraman &amp; Joe Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Ajax in Practice\n  </em>\n  provides example-rich coverage of Ajax packed with ready-to-use code and practical recipes for common and not-so-common tasks. Ajax developers now face the move from Ajax-as-theory to Ajax-in-practice.\n  <em>\n   Ajax in Practice\n  </em>\n  guides web developers through the transition from learning about Ajax to successfully\n  <em>\n   applying\n  </em>\n  Ajax-driven techniques in real-world development scenarios.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ajax gives web developers the potential to create rich user-centered internet applications. But Ajax also adds a new level of complexity and sophistication to those applications.\n  <em>\n   Ajax in Practice\n  </em>\n  tackles Ajax head-on, providing countless hands-on techniques and tons of reusable code to address the specific issues developers face when building Ajax-driven solutions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a brief overview of Ajax, this book takes the reader through dozens of working examples, all presented in an easy-to-use cookbook format. Readers will learn how to implement drag-and-drop interfaces and will discover how to create effective nagigation strategies for their applications. Unlike a traditional cookbook, though,\n  <em>\n   Ajax in Practice\n  </em>\n  provides a thorough discussion of each technique presented and shows how the individual components can be connected to create powerful solutions. A fun "mash-up" chapter concludes the book. Throughout\n  <em>\n   Ajax in Practice\n  </em>\n  , the examples chosen are interesting, entertaining, and practical.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Providing example-rich coverage of Ajax packed with ready-to-use code and practical recipes for common and not-so-common tasks, this work guides Web developers through the transition from learning about Ajax to successfully "applying" Ajax-driven techniques in real-world development scenarios.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9318'),
(14506, 'AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers', 'Paul J. Deitel &amp; Harvey M. Deitel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paul J. Deitel\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Dr. Harvey M. Deitel\n  </strong>\n  are the founders of Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation, corporate-training and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Javaâ„¢, C#, XML, Visual BasicÂ®, Perl, Python, and Internet and web programming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ...the challenges are for the designers of these applications: to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities. It''s going to be fun.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path\n  <br />\n  "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications"\n  <br />\n  (adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php)\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Introduction\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Welcome to Internet and web programming andWeb 2.0! And welcome to a walkthrough of the Web 2.0 phenomenon from the technical, business and social perspectives. We''ve worked hard to create what we hope you''ll find to be an informative, entertaining and challenging learning experience. At Deitel &amp; Associates, we write programming language professional books and textbooks for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training worldwide and developWeb 2.0 Internet businesses. This book reflects today''s Web 2.0, Ajax-based, Rich Internet Application-development methodologies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The technologies you''ll learn here are appropriate for experienced professionals who build substantial information systems. You''ll find "industrial-strength" code examples. We have attempted to write in a clear and straightforward manner using best practices. Perhaps most important, the book presents hundreds of working code examples and shows the outputs produced when these examples are rendered in browsers or run on computers. We present all concepts in the context of complete working programs.We call this the "live-code approach." All of the source code is available for download from\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.deitel.com/books/ajaxfp/\n </p>\n <p>\n  under the heading "Download Code Examples and Other Premium Content for Registered Users," once you''ve registered and logged on to our site.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The early chapters present a carefully paced introduction to "client-side" web programming, using the popular JavaScript language and the closely related technologies of XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the DOM (Document Object Model). The material in the JavaScript chapters presents a solid foundation for the deeper treatment of scripting in the Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, PHP and Ruby on Rails chapters later in the book. Experienced programmers will read the early chapters quickly and find the treatment of scripting in the later chapters to be rigorous and challenging.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Today''s users are accustomed to desktop applications with rich graphical user interfaces (GUIs), such as those used on Apple''s Mac OS X systems, Microsoft Windows systems, various Linux systems and more. Users want applications that employ the multimedia capabilities of graphics, images, animation, audio and video. They want applications that can run on the Internet and the web and communicate with other applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Users want to apply database technologies for storing and manipulating their business and personal data. They want applications that are not limited to the desktop or even to some local computer network, but that can integrate Internet and web components, and remote databases. Programmers want to use all these capabilities in a truly portable manner so that applications will run without modification on a variety of platforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book, we present a number of powerful software technologies that will enable you to build these kinds of systems. Early in the book we focus on building the portions of web-based applications that reside on the client side (i.e., the portions of applications that typically run in web browsers such as Mozilla''s Firefox or Microsoft''s Internet Explorer), using technologies such as the XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Flex and Extensible Markup Language (XML). Later in the book we concentrate on using technologies such as web servers, databases, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax and JavaServer Faces (JSF) to build the server side of web-based applications. These portions of applications typically run on "heavy-duty" computer systems on which organizations'' business-critical websites reside. By mastering the technologies in this book, you''ll be able to build substantial web-based, client/server, database-intensive, "multitier" applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have questions as you read this book, send an e-mail to deitel@deitel.com--we''ll respond promptly. For updates on the book and the status of all supporting software, and for the latest news on Deitel publications and services, visit www.deitel.com. Sign up at www.deitel.com/newsletter/subscribe.html for the free DeitelÂ® Buzz Online e-mail newsletter and check out www.deitel.com/ResourceCenters.html for our growing list of Internet and web programming, Internet business, Web 2.0 and related Resource Centers. Each week we announce our latest Resource Centers in the newsletter.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Key Features\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Here''s some of the key features of\n  <em>\n   Ajax, Rich Internet Applications and Web Development for Programmers\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Reflects today''s Web 2.0, Ajax-based, Rich Internet Application-development methodologies.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Coverage of the two leading web browsers--Internet Explorer and Firefox. All client-side applications in the book run correctly on both browsers.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Focus on Web 2.0 technologies and concepts.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on Web 2.0 and Internet Business (reviewed by leaders in the Web 2.0 community).\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Focus on building Rich Internet Applications with the interactivity of desktop applications.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on building Ajax-enabled web applications with "raw" Ajax and with the Dojo JavaScript libraries. Applications in this chapter demonstrate partial-page updates and type-ahead capabilities.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on Adobe Flex--a Rich Internet Application framework for creating scalable, cross-platform, multimedia-rich applications for delivery within the enterprise or across the Internet.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on rapid applications development of database-driven web applications with Ruby on Rails; also discusses developing Ajax applications with the Prototype and Script.aculo.us libraries.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Two chapters on Adobe Flash CS3, including building a computer game.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Significant treatment of client-side scripting with JavaScript.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Significant treatments of XHTML DOM manipulation and JavaScript events.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Significant treatment of XML DOM manipulation with JavaScript.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on building SOAP-based web services with Java and REST-based web services with ASP.NET (using Visual Basic).\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chapter on PHP 5.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Coverage of ASP.NET, featuring ASP.NET Ajax.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   JavaServer Faces (JSF) coverage emphasizing building Ajax-enabled JSF applications.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Client-side case studies that enable you to interact with preimplemented serverside applications and web services that we host at test.deitel.com.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Case studies including Deitel Cover Viewer (JavaScript/DOM), Address Book\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   (Ajax), Cannon Game (Flash), Weather/Yahoo! Maps Mashup (Flex), Mailing List (PHP/MySQL), Message Forum and Flickr Photo Viewer (Ruby on Rails), Guest Book and Secure Books Database (ASP.NET), Address Book with Google Maps (JavaServer Faces) and Blackjack (JAX-WS web services).\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  All of this has been carefully reviewed by a team of 38 distinguished industry developers and academics.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  <em>\n   AJAX, Rich Internet Applications and Web Development for Programmers Architecture\n  </em>\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This book focuses on Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. Our goal is to develop webtop applications that have the responsiveness, look and feel of traditional desktop applications. Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc. has evolved into a development organization, while continuing its focus on programming languages textbook and professional book authoring, and corporate training. We''re building the infrastructure for the Internet businesses we''re designing and developing as part of our Web 2.0 Internet Business Initiative. This book includes discussions of many practical issues we''ve encountered in developing that infrastructure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book is divided into several parts. Chapter 1 introduces Web 2.0 from the technical, business and social perspectives, and provides a foundation for understanding Rich Internet Application development. If you are a serious web developer, you''ll want to test your web applications across many browsers and platforms. The examples for the book execute correctly on both Microsoft''s Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla''s Firefox 2 (FF2) browsers. Most of the examples will also work in other browsers such as Opera and Safari, but may not work on earlier browsers. Microsoft Windows users should upgrade to IE7 and install Firefox; readers with other operating systems should install Firefox.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second part of the book, Chapters 2â€“13, presents a detailed treatment of Ajax component technologies, including a comprehensive treatment of JavaScript that spans nine chapters and concludes with Chapter 13''s treatment of Ajax development. Ajax is not a new technology--we''ve been writing about all but one of its component technologies since 1999, and many of the technologies existed before that. However, Ajax is one of the key technologies of Web 2.0 and RIAs. Chapters 2â€“13 cover "raw" Ajax programming, where you''ll handle the details yourself--several later chapters in the book demonstrate technologies that encapsulate Ajax functionality to help you easily build Ajax-based applications that operate across a wide variety of browsers and browser versions without your having to be concerned with the low-level details.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The th...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9303'),
(14507, 'Ajax: The Complete Reference', 'Thomas A. Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Definitive Guide to Ajax Web Application DevelopmentEvolve from the click-and-wait programming pattern to the latest Web 2.0 paradigm using this comprehensive guide to Ajax. Written by Web development expert Thomas Powell, the book lays out every feature of Ajax alongside detailed explanations and real-world code examples.Ajax: The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object as well as alternative JavaScript-based communication mechanisms. You''ll explore a variety of sample applications featuring emerging user-interface conventions and build applications that address real-world networking and security issues. A robust communication library is developed throughout the book that enables you to architect flexible Ajax applications. The latest technologies such as Web services, Flash-Ajax integration, client-side templates, Comet, and Offline Access are also covered. Discover the future of Web development today!Work with traditional JavaScript communication approaches like iframesExplore all the quirks and details in the XMLHttpRequest objectHandle disparate data formats, including XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and more Deal with networking issues, including timeouts, retries, response ordering, and a variety of server and content errorsSimplify JavaScript programming using open-source Ajax libraries like YUISecure Ajax applications using authentication, obfuscation, and encryption Implement common Ajax UI patterns such as auto suggest, click-to-edit, and drag-and-dropSolve troubling Ajax architecture problems, including back button, history, and bookmarking issuesLearn Ajax''s role in Web 2.0 and Web servicesExplore push style communication using Comet and FlashDiscover the future of offline Web application access and operation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9330'),
(14508, 'Al cicelea munte', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4744'),
(14509, 'Al cincilea munte', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8601'),
(14510, 'Al final del invierno', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tras miles de aÃ±os, el Largo Invierno producido en la Tierra por el bombardeo de cometas que causaron las estrellas de la muerte llegÃ³ a su fin. Los que salieron del capullo para enfrentarse a los peligros del mundo exterior en busca de la Nueva Primavera se llamaban a si mismos humanos... Su destino era la creaciÃ³n de un nuevo mundo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11116'),
(14511, 'Alan Simpson&#39;s Windows XP Bible 2Nd Ed.', 'Simpson, Alan.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6487'),
(14512, 'Alaree', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Robert Silverbergâ€™s â€œEarthmen and Strangersâ€ anthology, 1966:\n <br />\n <br />\n The German word â€œgestaltâ€ means â€œshapeâ€ or â€œpattern,â€ but it also has the sense of â€œgroupâ€ or â€œformation.â€ The science-fictional concept of the gestalt mind has frequently been examinedâ€”the intelligence that includes more than one individual. On Earth, the rule of one-body-one-intelligence seems to hold true, but who knows what we may find on other worlds? We already know of some simple creatures, like the corals and sponges, that exist in colonies numbering many individuals. Such Unkings are purely physical; the possibility exists, though, that on another planet some higher form of life may have developed a colony of linked minds. What it would be like to encounter such a form of life is considered in this story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11263'),
(14513, 'Albastru nemarginit, aproape transparent', 'Ryu Mukarami', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4732'),
(14514, 'Alchimistul', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4910'),
(14515, 'Alchimistul', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8602'),
(14516, 'Alea jacta est', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8522'),
(14517, 'Alfresco 3 Web Content Management', 'Munwar Shariff &amp; Pallika Majmudar &amp; Amita Bhandari &amp; Vinita Choudhary', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Create an infrastructure to manage all your web content, and deploy it to various external production systems\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   A complete guide to Web Content Creation and Distribution\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the concepts and advantages of Publishing-style Web CMS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leverage a single installation to manage multiple websites\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate Alfresco web applications with external systems\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail Alfresco provides a robust, easy to use, and scalable web content framework for managing multiple websites leveraging a common web infrastructure. If you are interested in configuring and building a new website quickly, determined to create a scalable infrastructure to stage multiple websites, and want to secure and control the content being pushed to external applications, then you have reached the right place. This book will guide you through creating, managing and publishing web content in staging, test and production environments. It will help you set up an infrastructure for supporting multiple websites using Alfresco, enabling a shortened web development cycle, and providing high return on investment and low cost of ownership. This book will take you from the basics of publishing style CMS - such as web forms, page templates, and staging - to the skills that will make you an Alfresco developer, covering advanced topics such as workflow, web services integration, and more. You will learn the various options used to install Alfresco including File System Deployment receivers on target production servers. You will also learn to configure a single instance of Alfresco to serve multiple web projects. Focus is given to reuse assets such as images, forms, and workflows across multiple web projects. It will introduce you to advanced concepts of separating the web content from presentation. The entire process of creating web content, getting it approved and published to a staging environment needs a robust workflow process. You will learn and have extensive hands-on experience with the examples given in the book to create a flexible workflow. You will learn about Alfresco Web Editor, a new feature released with the latest version of Alfresco 3.3. You will learn to configure Web Editor for in-context editing of web pages. You will be able to try out various integration options using Alfresco''s RESTful web services framework. By the end of the book, you will be able to set up an extensible enterprise web content management system for your company and customers. Create an infrastructure to manage all your web content, and deploy it to various external production systems What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Install and configure File System Receiver (FSR) on target production servers to deploy the content from a staging server to multiple production servers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Develop various page templates for renditions of output pages\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Preview the web pages within the context of the website including user interface\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Configure workflows for approving and publishing content to staging\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Administer the Alfresco WCM system\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Configure Web Editor for in-context editing of web pages\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Various installation options of Alfresco WCM\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Configure a new website using site wizard\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Define web forms to create and store structured web content\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Approach This book takes a step-by-step approach for building a complete web content management system using Alfresco. A greater emphasis is given to the concepts of web content creation and distribution. Plenty of sample code and screenshots are used to help you apply these concepts in a real production scenario. Who this book is written for If you are a web developer or content manager and wish to build a website using Alfresco, customize it and use it as per your clients needs, then this book is for you. It will also help business users to migrate from the existing proprietary web development tools to standards based open source web content management. Although no knowledge of Alfresco is presumed, exposure to HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, and related web technologies will help you to get the most from this book.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7749'),
(14518, 'Algorithmic Adventures', 'Juraj Hromkovic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There is a considerable, satisfying and underappreciated depth in the science of computing, it offers so much more than simply a driving licence for using a computer. The author of this book is a top researcher working on the fundamentals of informatics, and he has considerable experience teaching complex subjects in a simple manner. In this book he invites the reader to explore the science of computing, convinced that a good explanation of even the most basic techniques can demonstrate the power and magic of the underlying principles. The author starts with the development of computer science, algorithms and programming, and then explains and shows how to exploit the concepts of infinity, computability, computational complexity, nondeterminism and randomness. Finally, he offers some insight into emerging computing paradigms such as biological computing and quantum computing. This book is a fascinating read for students of all levels, and for those curious to learn about the science and magic of algorithmics and its role in other scientific disciplines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7691'),
(14519, 'Algorithms of the Intelligent Web', 'Haralambos Marmanis &amp; Dmitry Babenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the parts you can''t see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in data. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web shows readers how to use the same techniques employed by household names like Google Ad Sense, Netflix, and Amazon to transform raw data into actionable information.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Algorithms of the Intelligent Web is an example-driven blueprint for creating applications that collect, analyze, and act on the massive quantities of data users leave in their wake as they use the web. Readers learn to build Netflix-style recommendation engines, and how to apply the same techniques to social-networking sites. See how click-trace analysis can result in smarter ad rotations. All the examples are designed both to be reused and to illustrate a general technique- an algorithm-that applies to a broad range of scenarios.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they work through the book''s many examples, readers learn about recommendation systems, search and ranking, automatic grouping of similar objects, classification of objects, forecasting models, and autonomous agents. They also become familiar with a large number of open-source libraries and SDKs, and freely available APIs from the hottest sites on the internet, such as Facebook, Google, eBay, and Yahoo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Haralambos (Babis) Marmanis is a pioneer in the adoption of machine learning techniques for industrial solutions, and also a world expert in supply management. He has about twenty years of experience in developing professional software. Currently, he is the director of R&amp;D and chief architect, for expense management solutions, at Emptoris, Inc. Babis holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University, an M.S. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He was the recipient of the Sigma Xi award for innovative research in 2000, and he is the author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, conferences, and technical periodicals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dmitry Babenko is the lead for the data warehouse infrastructure at Emptoris, Inc. He is a software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He has designed and built a wide variety of applications and infrastructure frameworks for banking, insurance, supply-chain management, and business intelligence companies. He received a M.S. degree in computer science from Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7692'),
(14520, 'Algorithms Unplugged', 'Berthold Vocking &amp; Helmut Alt &amp; Martin Dietzfelbinger &amp; Rudiger Reischuk &amp; Christian Scheideler &amp; Heribert Vollmer &amp; Dorothea Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Algorithms specify the way computers process information and how they execute tasks. Many recent technological innovations and achievements rely on algorithmic ideas â€“ they facilitate new applications in science, medicine, production, logistics, traffic, communiÂ¬cation and entertainment. Efficient algorithms not only enable your personal computer to execute the newest generation of games with features unimaginable only a few years ago, they are also key to several recent scientific breakthroughs â€“ for example, the sequencing of the human genome would not have been possible without the invention of new algorithmic ideas that speed up computations by several orders of magnitude. The greatest improvements in the area of algorithms rely on beautiful ideas for tackling computational tasks more efficiently. The problems solved are not restricted to arithmetic tasks in a narrow sense but often relate to exciting questions of nonmathematical flavor, such as: How can I find the exit out of a maze? How can I partition a treasure map so that the treasure can only be found if all parts of the map are recombined? How should I plan my trip to minimize cost? Solving these challenging problems requires logical reasoning, geometric and combinatorial imagination, and, last but not least, creativity â€“ the skills needed for the design and analysis of algorithms. In this book we present some of the most beautiful algorithmic ideas in 41 articles written in colloquial, nontechnical language. Most of the articles arose out of an initiative among German-language universities to communicate the fascination of algorithms and computer science to high-school students. The book can be understood without any prior knowledge of algorithms and computing, and it will be an enlightening and fun read for students and interested adults.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Algorithms specify the way computers process information and how they execute tasks. Many recent technological innovations and achievements rely on algorithmic ideas â€“ they facilitate new applications in science, medicine, production, logistics, traffic, communiÂ¬cation and entertainment. Efficient algorithms not only enable your personal computer to execute the newest generation of games with features unimaginable only a few years ago, they are also key to several recent scientific breakthroughs â€“ for example, the sequencing of the human genome would not have been possible without the invention of new algorithmic ideas that speed up computations by several orders of magnitude. The greatest improvements in the area of algorithms rely on beautiful ideas for tackling computational tasks more efficiently. The problems solved are not restricted to arithmetic tasks in a narrow sense but often relate to exciting questions of nonmathematical flavor, such as: How can I find the exit out of a maze? How can I partition a treasure map so that the treasure can only be found if all parts of the map are recombined? How should I plan my trip to minimize cost? Solving these challenging problems requires logical reasoning, geometric and combinatorial imagination, and, last but not least, creativity â€“ the skills needed for the design and analysis of algorithms. In this book we present some of the most beautiful algorithmic ideas in 41 articles written in colloquial, nontechnical language. Most of the articles arose out of an initiative among German-language universities to communicate the fascination of algorithms and computer science to high-school students. The book can be understood without any prior knowledge of algorithms and computing, and it will be an enlightening and fun read for students and interested adults.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7689'),
(14521, 'Ali della notte', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In una Terra del lontano futuro una spaventosa catastrofe ecologica ha provocato lo sprofondamento delle Americhe e la decadenza della potenza terrestre nello spazio. La societÃ  del Terzo Ciclo si Ã¨ strutturata in corporazioni feudali ed attende lâ€™arrivo degli invasori, gli alieni che hanno salvato lâ€™umanitÃ  dallâ€™estinzione e che verranno a reclamare il possesso del pianeta.\n <br />\n Quando lâ€™invasione arriva le misere forze della Terra vengono sconfitte, e gli invasori occupano con facilitÃ  quello che considerano un loro dominio.\n <br />\n Lâ€™affascinante vicenda si svolge in tre cittÃ , Roum (Roma), Perris (Parigi) e Jorslem (Gerusalemme), seguendo le avventure e gli incontri di Tomis, una Vedetta il cui lavoro, proiettare la mente negli spazi per avvertire dellâ€™arrivo degli invasori, diventerÃ  senza senso dopo lâ€™invasione.\n <br />\n La rottura dellâ€™equilibrio della societÃ  feudale porterÃ  gli uomini a stabilire nuovi rapporti umani e ad incrementare i loro poteri mentali, sino ad arrivare a dominare gli invasori, che non verranno combattuti con le armi ma con lâ€™amore e la fratellanza, contribuendo a formare una societÃ  di impensabile ricchezza.\n <br />\n Un romanzo leggibile su piÃ¹ livelli e pieno di idee, un premio Hugo piÃ¹ che meritato.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11301'),
(14522, 'Alice in Tara minunilor', 'Lewis Carrol', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4856'),
(14523, 'Altair, Miradoniz', 'TOMOZEI Gheorghe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4717'),
(14524, 'Alternate Generals III', 'Harry Turtledove (Editor) &amp; A. M. Dellamonica &amp; Jim Fiscus &amp; William Sanders &amp; John Mina &amp; Brad Linaweaver &amp; Mike Resnick &amp; Roland J. Green &amp; Judith Tarr &amp; Lillian Stewart Carl &amp; Lee Allred &amp; Esther Friesner &amp; Chris Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With its dual portrait of generals Grant and Lee on opposing sides of the Roman Civil War, the jacket of editor Turtledove''s solid third alternative military history anthology neatly evokes this popular subgenre. While there''s no such story, Robert E. Lee must decide, as the ambassador to Britain of a victorious but ostracized Confederacy, where his true loyalties lie in Lee Allred''s provocative "East of Appomattox." Similarly, Roland J. Green''s " ''It Isn''t Every Day of the Week'' " shows how altering the outcome of a few minor incidents can turn history on its head, making General "Old Hickory" Jackson and the Cherokee Nation allies when the U.S. is drawn into the Napoleonic wars. Chris Bunch''s "Murdering Uncle Ho" vividly demonstrates the wisdom of "be careful what you wish for" in the book''s most intensely drawn battle sequences; this tale of an alternative Vietnam War draws some disturbing parallels with Iraq, as does Turtledove''s own "Shock and Awe." Esther M. Friesner''s "First, Catch Your Elephant" may not tell us much about Hannibal, but it succeeds marvelously as comedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6336'),
(14525, 'Amantii din Bizant', 'Mika Waltari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4710'),
(14526, 'Amantii din Bizant', 'Mika Waltari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8648'),
(14527, 'Amber &amp; Ashes', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3167'),
(14528, 'Ambuscada pe Ornella', 'Daniel Walther', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4755'),
(14529, 'American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History', 'John Fiske', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8250'),
(14530, 'Amintiri din copilarie', 'CREANGA Ion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8575'),
(14531, 'Amurgul Gandurilor', 'Cioran, Emil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4731'),
(14532, 'Amurgul Gandurilor', 'Emil Cioran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8544'),
(14533, 'Angel Rogue', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lord Robert Andreville, a master spy with the face of a fallen angel and a darkly heroic past, crosses Regency England with a half-Mohawk beauty. As they evade pursuers and circle each other in a dance of desire, their idyll is shattered by dark secrets. Only love has the power to heal the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8866'),
(14534, 'Angelmass', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(14535, 'Anochecer', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n El planeta Kalgash estÃ¡ al borde del caos, pero solo unas pocas personas se han dado cuenta de ello. Kalgash conoce Ãºnicamente la luz diurna perpetua, pues durante mÃ¡s de dos milenios la combinaciÃ³n de sus seis soles ha iluminado el cielo. Sin embargo, ahora empieza a reinar la oscuridad. Pronto se pondrÃ¡n todos los soles, y el terrible esplendor del anochecer desencadenarÃ¡ una locura que marcarÃ¡ el final de la civilizaciÃ³n. Anochecer , novela basada en un relato escrito por Asimov en 1941, permite al lector experimentar el cataclismo que sobrevendrÃ¡ sobre Kalgash a travÃ©s de los ojos de un periodista, un astrÃ³nomo, un arqueÃ³logo, un psicÃ³logo y un fanÃ¡tico religioso.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11077'),
(14536, 'ANTI PLAGIARISM APPLICATION WITH ALGORITHM KARP-RABINAT THESIS IN GUNADARMA UNIVERSITY', 'A. Benny Mutiara &amp; Sinta Agustina', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9473'),
(14537, 'Apache: The Definitive Guide', 'Ben Laurie &amp; Peter Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With distributions for both Unix and 32-bit Windows environments, the Apache Web server boasts reliability, security, and scalability--and it''s free.\n  <em>\n   Apache: The Definitive Guide\n  </em>\n  shows Apache administrators how to perform their jobs, detailing the server through version 1.3.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors--one of them a member of the Apache development team--begin with an academic discussion of what Web servers do before walking the reader through the process of installing Apache. Installation gets much attention--readers find out, step by step, how to set up a Web site (or several) under Apache, and how to set up Web site security and other preferences properly. The book also provides in-depth discussions of particular aspects of Apache operation, including MIME handling, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and security features such as authentication and caching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the programmers in the crowd, this book documents the Apache API with discussions of resource pools and their allocation, plus a full API reference. A tutorial explains how to write Apache extension modules in C. In all matters,\n  <em>\n   Apache: The Definitive Guide\n  </em>\n  covers both Unix and Win32 machines, but it places more emphasis on the Unix port. The complete source code of Apache 1.3 appears on the CD-ROM that ships with the book.\n  <em>\n   --David Wall\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Co-authored by Ben Laurie, one of the elite of programmers who code Apache, this really is the definitive text on how to get and use the Apache Web Server.... This is a clear road map for anyone considering setting up an Apache web server and an indispensable reference for all Apache users.'' - Pat Crawford, Computer Bulletin, May 2000 ''I have no reason to doubt its claim as the definitive guide and the 2nd edition is probably justified. If your intention is to use Apache, then Lauries'' book is probably not just definitive, but essential. It takes the reader through from the design of the simplest possible ''hello world'' site to a complex application involving on-line forms etc.'' - Joe McCool, Cvu, January 2000\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10168'),
(14538, 'Apararea lui Galilei', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4781'),
(14539, 'Argotice 1955', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4906'),
(14540, 'ARHITECTURI DE SECURITATE PENTRU PLATFORME SOFTWARE DISTRIBUITE', 'Cristian TOMA', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  Facultatea de CiberneticÄƒ, StatisticÄƒ ÅŸi InformaticÄƒ EconomicÄƒ\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  ARHITECTURI DE SECURITATE PENTRUÂ PLATFORME SOFTWARE DISTRIBUITEÂ \n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  SECURE ARCHITECTURES FORÂ SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS\n </div>\n <div>\n  Rezumatul tezei de doctorat\n </div>\n <div>\n  ConducÄƒtor ÅŸtiinÅƒific\n </div>\n <div>\n  Prof. univ. dr. Ion IVAN\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Doctorand\n </div>\n <div>\n  Cristian Valeriu TOMA\n </div>\n <div>\n  BUCUREÅžTI 2008\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7395'),
(14541, 'Art of Computer Programming Knuth vol v2', 'D. E. Knuth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9139'),
(14542, 'The Art of UNIX Programming', 'Eric S. Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense." Â—Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse "A delightful, fascinating read, and the lessons in problem-solvng are essential to every programmer, on any OS." Â—Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++ Writing better software: 30 years of UNIX development wisdom In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world''s best and most innovative software, and shows how these are carried forward in Linux and today''s open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and Linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that''s more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and longer-lived. Raymond incorporates commentary from thirteen UNIX pioneers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Ken Thompson, the inventor of UNIX.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ken Arnold, part of the group that created the 4BSD UNIX releases and co-author of The Java Programming Language.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Steven M. Bellovin, co-creator of Usenet and co-author of Firewalls and InternetSecurity.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Stuart Feldman, a member of the Bell Labs UNIX development group and the author of make and f77.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, principal architects of the X windowing system.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Steve Johnson, author of yacc and of the Portable C Compiler.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, The UNIX Programming Environment, The Practice of Programming, and of the awk programming language.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   David Korn, creator of the korn shell and author of The New Korn Shell Command and Programming Language.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mike Lesk, a member of the Bell Labs development group and author of the ms macro package, the tbl and refer tools,lex and UUCP.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Doug McIlroy, Director of the Bell Labs research group where UNIX was born and inventor of the UNIX pipe.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Marshall Kirk McKusick, developer of the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and a leader of the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD teams.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Henry Spencer, a leader among early UNIX developers, who created getopt, the first open-source string library, and a regular-expression engine used in 4.4BSD.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9889'),
(14543, 'Arta visatului', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4719'),
(14544, 'Artificii', 'Jorge Luis Borges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4739'),
(14545, 'Asterisk Cookbook', 'Leif Madsen &amp; Russell Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Asterisk has a wealth of features to help you customize your PBX to fill very specific business needs. This short cookbook offers recipes for tackling dialplan fundamentals, making and controlling calls, and monitoring channels in your PBX environment. Each recipe includes a simple code solution you can put to work immediately, along with a detailed discussion that offers insight into why and how the recipe works.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book focuses on Asterisk 1.8, although many of the conventions and information presented are version-agnostic. These recipes include solutions to help you:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Authenticate callers before moving on in your dialplan\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Redirect calls received by your auto-attendant\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create an automatic call-back service\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Initiate hot-desking to login to and accept calls at any office device\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitor and interrupt live calls to train new employees at a call center\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Record calls from your Asterisk dialplan\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Leif Madsen first got involved with the Asterisk community when he was looking for a voice conferencing solution. Once he learned that there was no official Asterisk documentation, he co-founded the Asterisk Documentation Project. Leif is currently working as a consultant, specializing in Asterisk clustering and call-center integration. You can get more information at http://www.leifmadsen.com.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Russell Bryant is the Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team at Digium, Inc. He has been a core member of the Asterisk development team since the Fall of 2004. At the first AstriCon in 2004, he was named the release maintainer for Asterisk''s first major release series, Asterisk 1.0. He has since contributed to almost all areas of Asterisk development, from project management to core architectural design and development.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7762'),
(14546, 'At Winter&#39;s End', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a recurrence of the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs and a resulting Long Winter of 700,000 years, the eventual New Springtime sees only two of the far future Earthâ€™s original Six Peoples emerge from their deep cocoons: the resilient, insect-like hjjk-folk and the simian tribes who regard themselves as heirs to humanity. Young Hresh-full-of-questions is a member of one of the latter, a small band that must radically change its ancient rituals and taboos to adapt to their new life. Taking up temporary residence in the shell of a once great city, the group fearfully meets another people, is itself torn in half by rivalry and, through Hresh, achieves a new realization of who they are. This solid, dramatic novel expands on a favorite motif of Silverbergâ€™s: the mixed terrors and pleasures of freedom, of going out into the wider world without guide, map or a sure sense of oneâ€™s own capabilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11112'),
(14547, 'Athyra', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4286');
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(14548, 'Auditing Information Systems', 'Jack J. Champlain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Have you been asked to perform an information systems audit and don''t know where to start? Examine a company''s hardware, software, and data organization and processing methods to ensure quality control and security with this easy, practical guide to auditing computer systems--the tools necessary to implement an effective IS audit. In nontechnical language and following the format of an IS audit program, you''ll gain insight into new types of security certifications (e.g., TruSecure, CAP SysTrust, CPA WebTrust) as well as the importance of physical security controls, adequate insurance, and digital surveillance systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Order your copy today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Increasingly, auditors, information security professionals, managers, and audit committees are being called upon to assess the risks and evaluate the controls over computer information systems in all types of organizations. However, many of these stakeholders are unfamiliar with the techniques they can use to efficiently and effectively determine whether information systems are adequately protected. Auditing Information Systems, Second Edition presents an easy, practical guide to auditing information systems that can be applied to all computing environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the Second Edition of this popular resource, auditors will be able to examine an organizationâ€™s hardware, software, data protection, and processing methods to ensure that adequate controls and security are in place. Little in the way of prerequisite technical know-how is required. Author Jack Champlain begins by explaining the basics of any computer systemâ€“the central processing unit, operating system, and application systemâ€“giving every auditor the tools needed to begin an audit. This is followed by a step-by-step approach for conducting information systems audits, detailing specific procedures that auditors can readily apply to their own organizations. The Second Edition devotes special attention to the issues of most concern to information managers today. It provides over 80 case studies that demonstrate how concepts can be applied in real-world situations. Chapter topics include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Information systems audit approach (physical, logical, environmental security)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Security certifications such as SAS 70, TruSecure, CPA SysTrust, and WebTrust\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Computer forensics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   E-commerce and Internet security (including encryption and cryptography)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Information privacy laws and regulations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Information systems project management controls\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   New technologies and future risks\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  As networks and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems bring resources together, and as increasing privacy violations and international political volatility threaten more organizations, information systems integrity becomes more important than ever. Auditing Information Systems, Second Edition empowers auditors, information security professionals, managers, and audit committees to effectively gauge the adequacy and effectiveness of information systems controls.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7956'),
(14549, 'Auditor&#39;s Guide to Information Systems Auditing', 'Richard E. Cascarino', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing_ is the most comprehensive book about auditing that I have ever seen. There is something in this book for everyone. New auditors will find this book to be their bible-reading it will enable them to learn what the role of auditors really is and will convey to them what they must know, understand, and look for when performing audits. For experiencedauditors, this book will serve as a reality check to determine whether they are examining the right issues and whether they are being sufficiently comprehensive in their focus. Richard Cascarino has done a superb job."\n  <br />\n  â€”E. Eugene Schultz, PhD, CISSP, CISM Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, High Tower Software\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A step-by-step guide tosuccessful implementation and control of information systems\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  More and more, auditors are being called upon to assess the risks and evaluate the controls over computer information systems in all types of organizations. However, many auditors are unfamiliar with the techniques they need to know to efficiently and effectively determine whether information systems are adequately protected.\n  <em>\n   Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing\n  </em>\n  presents an easy, practical guide for auditors that can be applied to all computing environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As networks and enterprise resource planning systems bring resources together, and as increasing privacy violations threaten more organization, information systems integrity becomes more important than ever. With a complimentary student''sversion of the IDEA Data Analysis Software CD, Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing empowers auditors to effectively gauge the adequacy and effectiveness of information systems controls.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has become impossible for today''s enterprises of any size and in any market sector to exist without computers to assist with their fundamental business operations. The modern auditor, therefore, requires significantly more knowledge of computers and computer auditing than did auditors of earlier years. In order for organizations to take full advantage of the opportunities that computers can offer, their systems must be controlled and dependable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written for those who need to gain apractical working knowledge of the risks and control opportunities within an information processing (IP) environment, as well as the auditing of that environment,\n  <em>\n   Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing\n  </em>\n  includes a complementary student''s version of the IDEA Data Analysis Software CD and is particularly useful for professionals andstudents within the fields of:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   IT security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IT audit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Internal audit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   External audit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Management information systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   General business management\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Emphasizing the practical implementation of principles and techniques through the use of realistic case studies,\n  <em>\n   Auditor''s Guide to Information Systems Auditing\n  </em>\n  follows the approach used by the Information System Audit and Control Association''s modelcurriculum and is an excellent study guide for those preparing for the CISA and CISM exams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This invaluable reference manual is filled with relevant information helpful to those accountable to management for the successful implementation and control of information systems and covers a wide range of topics, serving as an indispensable introductory reference to IT auditing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7957'),
(14550, 'Autoportret cu palimpsest', 'Ana Blandiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4903'),
(14551, 'Avatarul', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4812'),
(14552, 'Aventuri solitare', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4728'),
(14553, 'Aventuri solitare', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8594'),
(14554, 'Avocatul strazii', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4851'),
(14555, 'Balade', 'Radu Gyr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4734'),
(14556, 'BALADE', 'Radu Gyr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8554'),
(14557, 'Balade populare romanesti', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8560'),
(14558, 'Balade vesele si triste', 'TOPARCEANU George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4849'),
(14559, 'Balta-Alba', 'Vasile Alecsandri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6114'),
(14560, 'Baltimore', 'Mike Mignola &amp; Illustrator) &amp; Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mignola (_HellBoy_) and Golden (_The Myth Hunters_) create a haunting allegory on the nature of war, fusing the poignancy of Hans Christian Anderson''s The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the supernatural chills of\n  <em>\n   Dracula\n  </em>\n  and the horrors of WWI and the subsequent influenza epidemic. Years after Capt. (and Lord) Henry Baltimore is infected by a demonic vampire bat while wounded near the Ardennes forest, he summons three friends to a mysterious meeting. Demetrius Aischros is the merchant sea captain who had taken Baltimore home to Trevelyan Isle, where they found Baltimore''s family dead and his wife resurrected as a vampire. Thomas Childress Jr. is a nobleman and deserter who learns about the vampire infestation from Baltimore, his childhood friend. Dr. Lemuel Rose is the surgeon who treated Baltimore''s war injuries. Together they help Baltimore face a final showdown with the terrible Red King. Stark monochrome illustrations from Mignola enhance this dramatic tale of war and fear.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Lord Henry Baltimore lies wounded in no-man''s-land on World War I''s western front. As the carrion eaters come to feast, the injured soldier sees an impossibilityâ€”the dead eating the dead. But the ravening monstrosity comes to him, further mangles his wounded leg, and claims Lord Henry as his enemy. Lord Henry realizes that a virulent plague that only he now knows about is hiding among the other plagues of the time. The vampireâ€”for that is what the battlefield monster isâ€”destroys his family, but Baltimore maintains steadfast pursuit of it. He summons three friends also experienced with the supernatural to await him at an old inn. They tell one another of their first meetings with Lord Henry, thereby disclosing what the vampire has inflicted on the peer since the incident on the western front. Lord Henry arrives with what is necessary to finally banish the vampiric plague. Even after a fight to near death, some damage cannot be healed. Prolific dark fantasist Golden''s popular style is impeccable, and horror comics creator Mignola''s copious illustrations confirm the tale''s dark atmosphere throughout, from no-man''s-land to the old inn to the houses and graveyards where the vampire is encountered. A new classic of vampire literature. Murray, Frieda\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8929'),
(14561, 'Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions', 'Rita A. Hibschweiler &amp; Thomas H. Macgregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This volume is focused on Banach spaces of functions analytic in the open unit disc, such as the classical Hardy and Bergman spaces, and weighted versions of these spaces. Other spaces under consideration here include the Bloch space, the families of Cauchy transforms and fractional Cauchy transforms, BMO, VMO, and the Fock space. Some of the work deals with questions about functions in several complex variables. Multiplication operators, composition operators and weighted composition operators form a central topic of the volume. This topic has been an extensive area of research for the past twenty years. This volume includes results characterizing bounded, compact and isometric composition operators in various settings. Graduate students who are interested in analysis will find an overview of current work in the field. Specialists will find interesting questions and new methods, as well as familiar ideas (such as composition operators) seen in new settings or in more general form. Mathematicians with an interest in modern analysis will gain insight into the interplay between function theory and operator theory which is central to this work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7628'),
(14562, 'BASH Guide for Beginners - 2008 Edition', 'Machtelt Garrels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This guide discusses concepts useful in the daily life of the serious Bashuser. While a basic knowledge of shell usage is required, it starts with a discussion of shell building blocks and common practices. Then it presents the grep, awk and sed tools that will later be used to create more interesting examples. The second half of the course is about shell constructs such as loops, conditional tests, functions and traps, and a number of ways to make interactive scripts. All chapters come with examples and exercises that will help you become familiar with the theory. Machtelt Garrels has made many contributions to the Open Source community and has been working for over a decade on the wider acceptance of Linux and other Open Source products. She is an active member of the Linux Documentation Project and training manager at CoreSequence.\n  <em>\n   * Published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Money raised from the sale of this book supports the development of free software and documentation.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Machtelt Garrels is a Linux veteran and freelance trainer. She learned the importance of mastering the basic concepts about a subject in order to get the most out of any IT course. She is also a member of The Linux Documentation Project, where she initially found a fertile ground for making her work read throughout the world. She writes from practical experience as a long-time Linux user, administrator, support engineer and instructor.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10155'),
(14563, 'Basic Algebra', 'Anthony W. Knapp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <br />\n (source: Anobii.com)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10156'),
(14564, 'Basic Sensors in iOS', 'Alasdair Allan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Modern mobile platforms, such as Appleâ€™s iPhone and iPad, come with a growing range of sensors; GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes. This book guides you through how to make use of these sensors, giving you the necessary tools and experience to develop applications that makes best use of the hardware.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7160'),
(14565, 'Basics of Engineering Economy', 'Leland Blank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7629'),
(14566, 'Batalion de mars', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4703'),
(14567, 'Batalion de mars', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4772'),
(14568, 'Beautiful Code', 'Andy Oram &amp; Greg Wilson &amp; Jon Bentley &amp; Brian W. Kernighan &amp; Charles Petzold &amp; Douglas Crockford &amp; Henry S. Warren Jr. &amp; Ashish Gulhati &amp; More...lincoln Stein &amp; Jim Kent &amp; Jack Dongarra &amp; Poitr Luszczek &amp; Adam Kolawa &amp; Greg Kroah-hartman &amp; Diomidis Spinellis &amp; Andrew Kuchling &amp; Travis E. Oliphant &amp; Ronald Mak &amp; Rogerio Atem de Carvalho &amp; Rafael Monnerat &amp; Bryan Cantrill &amp; Jeffrey Dean &amp; Sanjay Ghemawat &amp; Simon Peyton Jones &amp; R. Kent Dybuig &amp; William R. Otte &amp; Douglas C. Schmidt &amp; Andrew ', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project''s architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules. Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International. tion.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Wilson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked on high-performance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security. He is the author of Data Crunching and Practical Parallel Programming (MIT Press, 1995), and is a contributing editor at Doctor Dobb''s Journal, and an adjunct professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andy Oram is an editor at O''Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in free software and open source technologies. His work for O''Reilly includes the first books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux, and the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer. His modest programming and system administration skills are mostly self-taught.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9132'),
(14569, 'A Beginner&#39;s Guide to Gambas', 'John W. Rittinghouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9221'),
(14570, 'Beginning Ajax', 'Chris Ullman &amp; Lucinda Dykes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As one of the prime enablers of innovations such as wikis, blogs, and third-party APIs, Ajax is redefining the way Web applications are created. This book familiarizes you with the core technologies behind Ajax, and shows you how to start building Web sites using Ajax techniques. It explains concepts step-by-step, using proven examples, so that you can immediately begin applying the information.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll see how building Ajax-enabled sites and applications allows more interactive user interfaces than ever before. You''ll learn about the differences in capabilities between client-side and server-side development techniques, as well as how Ajax crosses this boundary. You''ll discover how Ajax techniques can be summed up by patterns (which are development models that you''ll use repeatedly). With a mastery of these techniques, you''ll be able to breathe new life into your Web sites and applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ajax pros and cons so you know the best way to use it\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The fundamental JavaScript and DOM techniques underlying Ajax\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Methods for using the XMLHttpRequest object (the primary Ajax enabler) to call ASP.NET, PHP, and Java applications\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to store and transmit XML data that many Ajax applications use\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to debug JavaScript in your Ajax applications manually and how to write error handlers\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to combine applications through Web services or APIs to create mashups\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for Web developers who want to start building sites using Ajax techniques and are familiar with (X)HTML, JavaScript, and basic CSS.The reader will also need to be familiar with either PHP or ASP.NET for the server-side examples, although an extensive knowledge of either is not expected.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chris Ullman\n  </strong>\n  is a freelance Web developer and technical author who has spent many years working with ASP/ASP.NET. Coming from a computer science background, he started initially as a UNIX/Linux guru, who gravitated toward Microsoft technologies during the summer of ASP (1997). He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASP guides, and since then he has written and contributed to more than 25 books, mostnotably as lead author for Wroxâ€™s bestselling\n  <em>\n   Beginning ASP/ASP.NET 1.x\n  </em>\n  series. He has contributed chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#, XML, and other Internet-related technologies. After he left Wrox as a full-time employee in August 2001, he branched out into VB.NET/C# programming and ASP.NET development, and he started his own business, CUASP Consulting Ltd, in April 2003. He maintains a variety of Web sites from http://www.cuasp.co.co.uk (his â€œworkâ€ site) to http://www.atomicwise.com (a selection of his writings on music and art). He now divides his time between his family and composing electronic sounds for his music project, Open E.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lucinda Dykes\n  </strong>\n  is a freelance Web developer, teacher, and technical author who has been writing code and developing Web sites since 1994. She started her career in a high-tech area of medicine but left medicine to pursue her interests in technology and the Web. She has been involved in client-side development with JavaScript for many years through her company, Zero G Web, and teaches JavaScript courses online for an international group of students at eclasses.org. She has also authored numerous technical books about XML, XHTML, and Web application development with Dreamweaver.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9306'),
(14571, 'Beginning Django Ecommerce', 'James Mcgaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p style="text-align: justify;">\n  Beginning Django E-Commerce will be the first book to guide you through producing an e-commerce site using Django, the most popular Python web development framework. Topics covered include how to make a shopping cart, a checkout, and a payment processor; how to make the most of Ajax; and search engine optimization best practices. Throughout the book, you''ll take each topic and apply it to build a single example site, and all the while you wiÂ™ll learn the theory behind what you''re architecting.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Build a fully functional e-commerce site.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn to architect your site properly to survive in an increasingly competitive online landscape with good SEO techniques.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Become versed in the Django web framework and learn how you can put it to use to drastically reduce the amount of work you need to do to get a site up and running quickly.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  What you''ll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand Django best practices for architecting a web site that will eventually be put into production.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leverage Django templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across your site.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn SEO best practices with search engineâ€“friendly URLs, metatags, and an autogenerated Google site map.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Follow best practices for security so the bad guys don''t get control of your site or compromise your data.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn about developing and deploying your Python code on the Google App Engine.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Construct an enterprise-level shopping cart application that can actually receive payments from Authorize.net and Paypal.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who is this book for?\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is for programmers looking to learn how to quickly and effectively leverage the Django web framework to build lightweight, powerful web sites. While the book is aimed at developers interested in creating e-commerce sites, the topics covered apply to any other site you might build with Django. You''ll learn how to optimize your site for search engines, secure your pages to thwart hackers, and deploy your site into productionâ€“all with Django. Along the way, you''ll build a fully functional e-commerce module that will have you up and selling stuff on the web in no time!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Apress Beginning Series\n </h3>\n <p style="text-align: justify;">\n  The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entryâ€“level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from â€œnovice to professional.â€ Youâ€™ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know but without needless theory and filler. Youâ€™ll build your skill set by learning how to put together realâ€“world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you thereâ€”it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7746'),
(14572, 'Beginning HTML With CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference', 'David Schultz &amp; Craig Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML-the language that the majority of web site content is written in. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Referenceincorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Youll also learn how to add dynamic behavior to your data using the JavaScript" language. This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards compliant and demonstrate best practices-so you wont waste time on outdated, bad techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily locatable with popular search engines, and compact in file size. Even if you already know HTML and CSS basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables at the back, so you can look up all of the troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily. Pick up a copy of this book because it: Teaches standards-compliant HTMLnot outdated techniques Includes reference sections for you to easily look up syntax Doesnt require previous programming experience for comprehension Bruce Lawson and Gez Lemon acted as technical reviewers ofBeginning HTML with CSS and XHTML. Bruce and Gez are active members of the Web Standards Project''sAccessibility Task Force, and have helped ensure that the book follows current guidelines and best practice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9298'),
(14573, 'Beginning IPhone and IPad Web Apps: Scripting With HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript', 'Chris Apers &amp; Daniel Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It seems that everyone and her sister has developed an iPhone Appâ€”everyone except you, the hard-working web professional. And now with the introduction of the iPad, you may even feel farther behind. But the time has come where you donâ€™t need to struggle through Objective-C or master Appleâ€™s Cocoa touch APIs. WebKitâ€™s support for HTML5 means any ambitious web developer can join Appleâ€™s second mobile App wave and create compelling apps that address the unique features of both the iPhone and the larger iPad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps: Scripting with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript\n  </em>\n  takes you through every aspect of the latest Mobile Web Standards as well as the specific features of the iPhone and iPad. Youâ€™ll go beyond Web 2.0 and Ajax to learn about WebKit and Mobile Safari, HTML5 and CSS3, Vector Graphics and Multimedia support. Youâ€™ll discover what built-in hardware features of the iPhone and iPad you can use and how to take advantage of these device-specific capabilities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The market for Web apps is expanding and the combination of iPhone and iPad makes this a very hot areaâ€”as well as a competitive one. Youâ€™ll want to know about all the advantages available to get ahead and stay ahead, and\n  <em>\n   Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps\n  </em>\n  is the perfect starting point.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  What youâ€™ll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to take your existing web skills and deploy them on iPad and iPhone\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   User interface design basics for both the small iPhone screen and the big iPad display\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The keys to web app development built into HTML5, WebKit, and Mobile Safari\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to support mobile-media with iPhone- and iPad-specific features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to take advantage of advanced features of CSS3 for graphics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to address Appleâ€™s touch screen interface and interact with Cocoa touch APIs\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who this book is for\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Web designers and developers who want use their hard-earned skills and knowledge to create compelling mobile web experiences for iPhone and iPad users.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Table of Contents\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Development Tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Development Environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   WebApp Anatomy\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Device limitations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mimic the iPhone UI\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interesting CSS features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   HTML5 features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Vector graphics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Multimedia support\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Javascript OOP primer\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   CSS3 advanced features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   DOM and selectors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   AJAX\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Touch and Gesture events\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Location API\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Data Storage\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimization\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Linking to native applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Frameworks\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chris Apers\n  </strong>\n  has more than 13 years experience in web technologies and mobile development, including the PalmOS, webOS, and iPhone. He is a technical manager and architect at Newsweb/LagardÃ¨re Active and participates in open source projects such as porting development libraries and software to mobile devices. With the creation of the open source framework WebApp.Net, he provides an easy way to create mobile content targeting WebKit browsers. For more, visit www.webapp-net.com and www.chrilith.com.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Daniel Paterson\n  </strong>\n  has a masterâ€™s degree in comparative literature, and he penned a memoir on integrating literary theory into fictional works, taking novels by Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, and David Lodge as examples. After his university years, Daniel entered Web development and joined Newsweb/LagardÃ¨re Active in April 2009. Passionate about the Web as about many other things, he enjoys every opportunity to work on interesting projects and to develop his skills.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6528'),
(14574, 'Beginning JavaScript', 'Paul Wilton &amp; Jeremy Mcpeak', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to enhance static web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. This improves the experience of visitors to your site and makes it more likely that they will visit again. You must have seen the flashy drop-down menus, moving text, and changing content that are now widespread on web sitesâ€”they are enabled through JavaScript. Supported by all the major browsers, JavaScript is the language of choice on the Web. It can even be used outside web applicationsâ€”to automate administrative tasks, for example.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book aims to teach you all you need to know to start experimenting with JavaScript: what it is, how it works, and what you can do with it. Starting from the basic syntax, you''ll move on to learn how to create powerful web applications. Don''t worry if you''ve never programmed beforeâ€”this book will teach you all you need to know, step by step. You''ll find that JavaScript can be a great introduction to the world of programming: with the knowledge and understanding that you''ll gain from this book, you''ll be able to move on to learn newer and more advanced technologies in the world of computing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In order to get the most out of this book, you''ll need to have an understanding of HTML and how to create a static web page. You don''t need to have any programming experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book will also suit you if you have some programming experience already, and would like to turn your hand to web programming. You will know a fair amount about computing concepts, but maybe not as much about web technologies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternatively, you may have a design background and know relatively little about the Web and computing concepts. For you, JavaScript will be a cheap and relatively easy introduction to the world of programming and web application development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whoever you are, we hope that this book lives up to your expectations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll begin by looking at exactly what JavaScript is, and taking your first steps with the underlying language and syntax. You''ll learn all the fundamental programming concepts, including data and data types, and structuring your code to make decisions in your programs or to loop over the same piece of code many times.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once you''re comfortable with the basics, you''ll move on to one of the key ideas in JavaScriptâ€”the object. You''ll learn how to take advantage of the objects that are native to the JavaScript language, such as dates and strings, and find out how these objects enable you to manage complex data and simplify your programs. Next, you''ll see how you can use JavaScript to manipulate objects made available to you in the browser, such as forms, windows, and other controls. Using this knowledge, you can start to create truly professional-looking applications that enable you to interact with the user.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Long pieces of code are very hard to get right every timeâ€”even for the experienced programmerâ€”and JavaScript code is no exception. You look at common syntax and logical errors, how you can spot them, and how to use the Microsoft Script Debugger to aid you with this task. Also, you need to examine how to handle the errors that slip through the net, and ensure that these do not detract from the experience of the end user of your application.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From here, you''ll move on to more advanced topics, such as using cookies and jazzing up your web pages with dynamic HTML and XML. Finally, you''ll be looking at a relatively new and exciting technology, remote scripting. This allows your JavaScript in a HTML page to communicate directly with a server, and useful for, say, looking up information on a database sitting on your server. If you have the Google toolbar you''ll have seen something like this in action already. When you type a search word in the Google toolbar, it comes up with suggestions, which it gets via the Google search database.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the new concepts introduced in this book will be illustrated with practical examples, which enable you to experiment with JavaScript and build on the theory that you have just learned. The appendix provides solutions to the exercises included at the end of most chapters throughout the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During the first half of the book, you''ll also be building up a more complex sample applicationâ€”an online trivia quizâ€”which will show you how JavaScript is used in action in a real-world situation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9225'),
(14575, 'Beginning OpenOffice 3 (Pro)', 'Andy Channelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you want to fly with OpenOffice 3.0, publish to your local wiki, create web presentations, or add maps to your documents, Beginning OpenOffice 3 is the book for you. You will arm yourself with new OpenOffice.org 3.0 tools, from creating wiki docs to automating complex design steps. OpenOffice has been downloaded almost 100 million times, and this is the book that explains why.   You learn how to adopt OpenOffice 3.0 innovations. You see how to work across Windows, OS X, Google, and the Web, no matter what the format. Mail merges and wiki docs will never seem so simple.   What youâ€™ll learn You will acquire skills in stylish document creation using a range of tools, by hand and via automation. No matter whether the documents are flyers or books, you will learn automation, design, remediation, sharing information, collaboration, presentation, and output. And author Andy Channelle will talk about reports and how to produce docs formatted for wikis, the Web, Google, and other platforms.  Design OpenOffice crossâ€“platform documents and output them to all platforms. Use OpenOffice on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Deal with Word documents and wiki output alike. Learn how to produce snazzy PDFs, GoogleOffice docs, and automated designs. See how spreadsheets can be pretty and secure. Explore the dustier corners of OpenOffice, from fonts to bibliographies.   Who is this book for? OpenOffice 3.0 is for all of us. OpenOffice runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X: the audience is enormous, and 90 millions downloads speak clearly.  About the Apress Beginning Series The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entryâ€“level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from â€œnovice to professional.â€ Youâ€™ll start your journey by seeing what you need to knowâ€”but without needless theory and filler. Youâ€™ll build your skill set by learning how to put together realâ€“world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you thereâ€”it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7827'),
(14576, 'Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional', 'Emilian Balanescu &amp; Cristian Darie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition is an update to the popular book showing readers how to create e-commerce websites using two of the world''s most popular technologies: the PHP scripting language and MySQL database.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition to guiding readers through the creation of a complete, working website using sound enterprise development techniques, the authors take care to provide readers with a variety of alternative implementation solutions: for instance readers are shown how to accept payments from both PayPal and credit cards. The book has also been updated to reflect the latest development trends, showing readers how to upgrade their shopping cart using Ajax, integrate with Amazon''s Web services, and encourage customer feedback through cutting-edge interactive features.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous books. Cristian is studying distributed application architectures for his PhD, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. You can reach Cristian through his personal website at http://www.cristiandarie.ro.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Emilian Balanescu is a programmer experienced in many technologies, including PHP, Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and others. He currently works as a Wireless Network Administrator at accessNET International S.A. Romania, a company which provides fixed wireless access services operating a point-to-multipoint digital radiocommunication network with national coverage. His latest project in this position was developing an AJAX-enabled real-time Network Management System (using SNMP, Perl, PHP, and PostgreSQL) used for remote debugging, monitoring system performance, and isolating and troubleshooting system problems. You can reach Emilian at www.emilianbalanescu.ro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9056'),
(14577, 'Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development', 'Michael K. Glass &amp; Yann Le Scouarnec &amp; Elizabeth Naramore &amp; Gary Mailer &amp; Jeremy Stolz &amp; Jason Gerner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What is this book about?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes you step-by-step through understanding each â€” using it and combining it with the other two on both Linux and Windows servers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book guides you through creating your own sites using the open source AMP model. You discover how to install PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then you create PHP Web pages, including database management and security. Finally, you discover how to integrate your work with e-commerce and other technologies. By building different types of Web sites, you progress from setting up simple database tables to tapping the full potential of PHP, Apache, and MySQL.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When youâ€™re finished, you will be able to create well-designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What does this book cover?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here''sÂ whatÂ you will learn from this book:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How PHP server-side scripting language works for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Syntax, functions, and commands for PHP, Apache, and MySQL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Methods and techniques for building user-friendly forms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to easily store, update, and access information using MySQL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to allow the user to edit a database\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   E-commerce applications using these three technologies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to set up user logins, profiles, and personalizations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Proper protocols for error handling\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who is this book for?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes you step by step through understanding each â€“ using it and combining it with the other two on both Linux and Windows servers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book will guide you through creating your own sites using the open source AMP model. Youâ€™ll learn to install PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then youâ€™ll create PHP Web pages, including database management and security. Finally, youâ€™ll discover how to integrate your work with e-commerce and other technologies. By building different types of Web sites, you will progress from setting up simple database tables to tapping the full potential of PHP, Apache, and MySQL.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When youâ€™re finished, you will be able to create well-designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How PHP server-side scripting language works for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Syntax, functions, and commands for PHP, Apache, and MySQL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Methods and techniques for building user-friendly forms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to easily store, update, and access information using MySQL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to allow the user to edit a database\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   E-commerce applications using these three technologies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to set up user logins, profiles, and personalizations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Proper protocols for error handling\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9058');
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(14578, 'Beginning PHP4', 'Chris Ullman &amp; Ganesh Prasad &amp; Jon Blank &amp; Allan Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beginning PHP4\n  </em>\n  offers an almost ideal introductory tutorial to one of today''s hotter scripting languages. This book really is everything that the novice needs to start building dynamic Web sites that are powered by PHP4, but old hands at programming also will find in it valuable information.\n </p>\n <p>\n  PHP, of course, is introduced in the book, but there''s also an approachable and effective introduction to programming in general. The conscientious tutorial on basic concepts like variables, keywords, and flow control will give even beginners an understanding of the basics of writing programs. PHP, it turns out, is not only a great way to generate HTML dynamically, but a very marketable skill. Web fundamentals like HTTP, HTML form variables, and managing session information using no less than four different techniques are explained thoroughly and effectively. You also find out how to install PHP and other tools on your system, with the assistance of plenty of screen shots.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s not to say that this book will cramp the style of more experienced developers. Some chapters delve into such important and advanced topics as database programming (with MySQL) and PHP''s support for XML. One standout section demystifies the new support for objects and classes in PHP4. Basic topics like managing files and directories on the server, plus graphics processing, are addressed, of course, and a nifty sample program shows you how to build a Web-based text editor. Except for the final case study--a "URL directory manager" (akin to Yahoo!) that''s rather specialized--the examples are right on, and illustrate everyday programming tasks. You''ll learn also how to generate e-mail with PHP--certainly a valuable skill to have.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The appendix lists several hundred PHP functions in over 50 pages--a handy and useful feature. In all,\n  <em>\n   Beginning PHP4\n  </em>\n  provides a strong choice for learning about one of today''s most powerful and easy-to-use scripting languages; it''s concise, fast moving, and thoroughly approachable.\n  <em>\n   --Richard Dragan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Introduction to PHP 4\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Downloading and installing PHP\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Basics of HTTP and Web pages\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP as a scripting language\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP data types\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Constants and conversions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    HTML primer\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Form variables\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Decision making in PHP\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Loops and arrays\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP functions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Error handling in PHP\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips on writing more maintainable code\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Debugging hints\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Preserving state with hidden form variables\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Query strings\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Cookies and PHP4 native sessions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Using PHP objects\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    File and directory functions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP database programming\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Installing and using MySQL\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tutorial for SQL syntax\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Querying and updating records\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    XML "quickstart" for PHP users\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating e-mail and electronic newsletters\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP graphics processing (including image maps)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Case study for a URL directory manager\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    ODBC tutorial\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    PHP4 function reference\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP is a server-side scripting language. It is an open source, cross platform technology (NT, Linux, UNIX), rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. Using practical examples and a step by step approach, this book explains how to develop web applications using PHP.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9070'),
(14579, 'Beginning PHP5', 'Dan Squier &amp; David Mercer &amp; Allan Kent &amp; Steven Nowicki &amp; Clark Morgan &amp; Wankyu Choi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What is this book about?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beginning PHP5\n  </em>\n  Â is a complete tutorial in PHP5''s language features and functionality, beginning with the basics and building up to the design and construction of complex data-driven Web sites. Fully functioning applications are developed through the course of the book. Other features of the book include installation guide and troubleshooting tips, introduction to relational databases, practical working examples and applications, and a detailed language reference.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here are the new topics in this edition:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   OOP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   PEAR\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   GTK\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   MSI\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   CLI\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SQLite\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Error handling with try/catch\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP5 is the newest version of the preferred language for rapidly creating dynamic Web page content. While its main use is as a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, server-side Web scripting language, it now works equally well when creating multi-tiered applications or XML-based applications as well as Web applications. This book teaches you the features and functionality of PHP5, from installing and configuring it to designing and constructing complex data-driven Web sites.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As you proceed, you will build a number of fully functional applications. Youâ€™ll be introduced to basic programming logic, relational databases, OOP, PEAR, GTK, MSI, CLI, SQLite, and more. When youâ€™re finished, you will understand how to create, test, debug, and put your applications to work in the real world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The fundamentals of object-oriented programming in PHP5\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to write PHP5 applications that run on WindowsÂ®, LinuxÂ®, Mac OSÂ® X, and other operating systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Why PHP5 works effectively in small to enterprise-level applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Error handling with try/catch\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Data manipulation in MySQLÂ® using PHP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to build practical applications such as an online text editor, a Web-based e-mail application, and an object-oriented contact manager application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Command-line scripting and GUI application development\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Effective methods of maintaining and organizing your code, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  This book is for beginning programmers as well as experienced developers who want to learn what is possible with the latest version of PHP.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9096'),
(14580, 'Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development', 'Elizabeth Naramore &amp; Jason Gerner &amp; Yann Le Scouarnec', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9095'),
(14581, 'Beginning Python', 'James Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beginning Python: Using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1\n  </em>\n  introduces this open source, portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with clear syntax. This book enables you to quickly create robust, reliable, and reusable Python applications by teaching the basics so you can quickly develop Web and scientific applications, incorporate databases, and master systems tasks on various operating systems, including Linux, MAC OS, and Windows. You''ll get a comprehensive tutorial that guides you from writing simple, basic Python scripts all the way through complex concepts, and also features a reference of the standard modules with examples illustrating how to implement features in the various modules. Plus, the book covers using Python in specific program development domains, such as XML, databases, scientific applications, network programming, and Web development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Create a robust, reliable, and reusable Python application\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As an open source, object-oriented programming language, Python is easy to understand, extendable, and user-friendly. This book covers every aspect of Python so that you can get started writing your own programs with Python today. Author James Payne begins with the most basic concepts of the Python languageâ€”placing a special focus on the 2.6 and 3.1 versionsâ€”and he offers an in-depth look at existing Python programs so you can learn by example. Topics progress from strings, lists, and dictionaries to classes, objects, and modules. With this book, you will learn how to quickly and confidently create a robust, reliable, and reusable Python application.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Beginning Python:\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Introduces the concepts of variables for storing and manipulating data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Examines files and input/output for reading or writing data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Reviews examples of often-overlooked features of Python\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Delves into writing tests for modules and programs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Addresses programming with a graphical user interface in Python\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Places special focus on XML, HTML, XSL, and related technologies\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explains how to extend Python\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Shares numerical programming techniques\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Offers an inside look at Jython, a version of Python written in Java\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Programmer Forums\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Code Downloads\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Read More\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Beginning guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7073'),
(14582, 'Beginning RSS and Atom Programming', 'Danny Ayers &amp; Andrew Watt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  RSS and Atom are specifications that give users the power to subscribe to information they want to receive and give content developers tools to provide continuous subscriptions to willing recipients in a spam-free setting. RSS and Atom are the technical power behind the growing millions of blogs on the Web. Blogs change the Web from a set of static pages or sites requiring programming expertise to update to an ever changing, constantly updated landscape that anyone can contribute to. RSS and Atom syndication provides users an easy way to track new information on as many Web sites as they want. This book offers you insight to understanding the issues facing the user community so you can meet users'' needs by writing software and Web sites using RSS and Atom feeds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with an introduction to all the current and coming versions of RSS and Atom, you''ll go step by step through the process of producing, aggregating, and storing information feeds. When you''re finished, you''ll be able to produce client software and Web sites that create, manipulate, aggregate, and display information feeds effectively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is full of practical advice and tips for consuming, producing, and manipulating information feeds. I only wish I had a book like this when I started writing RSS Bandit." - Dare Obasanjo, RSS Bandit creator: http://www.rssbandit.org/\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Beginning RSS and Atom Programming\n </p>\n <p>\n  RSS and Atom are specifications that give users the power to subscribe to information they want to receive and give content developers tools to provide continuous subscriptions to willing recipients in a spam-free setting. RSS and Atom are the technical power behind the growing millions of blogs on the Web. Blogs change the Web from a set of static pages or sites requiring programming expertise to update to an ever changing, constantly updated landscape that anyone can contribute to. RSS and Atom syndication provides users an easy way to track new information on as many Web sites as they want. This book offers you insight to understanding the issues facing the user community so you can meet users'' needs by writing software and Web sites using RSS and Atom feeds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the first book to cover RSS and Atom together, it begins with an introduction to all the current and coming versions of RSS and Atom. You''ll go step by step through the process of producing, aggregating, and storing information feeds. When you''re finished, you''ll be able to produce client software and Web sites that create, manipulate, aggregate, and display information feeds effectively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   What developers'' tools are available to create and customize feeds\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The various approaches to storing feed data, from XML to SQL to RDF\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Why RSS and Atom information feeds must follow the rules of XML syntax\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How XQuery and XSLT can be powerful tools for selecting and manipulating a portion of an RSS or Atom feed\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   What''s required to build a tool to aggregate information from multiple feeds\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The newest use for RSS â€” podcasting MP3 audio files to iPods or other MP3 devices\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for beginning programmers who have some programming experience and are looking to add information feeds to their Web sites. No previous programming experience is assumed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is full of practical advice and tips for consuming, producing, and manipulating information feeds. I only wish I had a book like this when I started writing RSS Bandit."\n  <br />\n  â€” Dare Obasanjo, RSS Bandit creator: http://www.rssbandit.org.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9144'),
(14583, 'Beginning Sql Server 2005 Programming', 'Robert Vieira', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Covering all the fundamentals of SQL Server 2005, this developer-oriented guide begins with an exploration of the foundation objects of SQL. Each chapter builds on the previous one, gradually progressing to increasingly advanced topics. By the time you''ve completed this book, you will be prepared to perform as an efficient SQL Server 2005 programmer, and, when ready, move on to the more advanced Professional title.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The various user-defined functions and triggers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to create and change tables\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to manage keys, write scripts, and work with stored procedures\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Techniques for programming with XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to use Reporting Services and Integration Services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The different peripheral features of SQL\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for Microsoft database developers of all levels who are looking for an authoritative resource for core syntax, systems, and strategies for the 2005 release of SQL Server.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Professional guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7785'),
(14584, 'Beginning Transact-SQL With SQL Server 2000 and 2005', 'Paul Turley &amp; Dan Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beginning Transact-SQL with SQL Server 2000 and 2005\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Transact-SQL is a powerful implementation of the ANSI standard SQL database query language. In order to build effective database applications, you must gain a thorough understanding of these features. This book provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the T-SQL language and shows you how it can be used to work with both the SQL Server 2000 and 2005 releases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with an overview of the SQL Server query operations and tools that are used with T-SQL, the author goes on to explain how to design and build applications of increasing complexity. By gaining an understanding of the power of the T-SQL language, you''ll be prepared to meet the ever-increasing demands of programming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How T-SQL provides you with the means to create tools for managing hundreds of databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Various programming techniques that use views and stored procedures\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to optimize query performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to create databases that will be an essential foundation to applications you develop later\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for database developers and administrators who have not yet programmed with Transact-SQL. Some familiarity with relational databases and basic SQL is helpful, and some programming experience is helpful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Beginning guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beginning Transact-SQL with SQL Server 2000 and 2005\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Transact-SQL is a powerful implementation of the ANSI standard SQL database query language. In order to build effective database applications, you must gain a thorough understanding of these features. This book provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the T-SQL language and shows you how it can be used to work with both the SQL Server 2000 and 2005 releases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with an overview of the SQL Server query operations and tools that are used with T-SQL, the author goes on to explain how to design and build applications of increasing complexity. By gaining an understanding of the power of the T-SQL language, you''ll be prepared to meet the ever-increasing demands of programming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How T-SQL provides you with the means to create tools for managing hundreds of databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Various programming techniques that use views and stored procedures\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to optimize query performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to create databases that will be an essential foundation to applications you develop later\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for database developers and administrators who have not yet programmed with Transact-SQL. Some familiarity with relational databases and basic SQL is helpful, and some programming experience is helpful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Wrox Beginning guides\n  </em>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7786'),
(14585, 'Beginning WordPress 3', 'Stephanie Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily-and better yet, it''s free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You''ll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.What youâ€™ll learn\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to get started with Wordpress, create new content, and import existing content\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to create themes, widgets, and plugins\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to publish, move, maintain, and secure your WordPress sitesWho this book is forThis book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.Table of ContentsChapter 1: About WordPressChapter 2: Installing and UpgradingChapter 3: Dashboard and Settings Chapter 4: Working with ContentChapter 5: Importing Content Chapter 6: Creating a Basic Theme Chapter 7: Creating an Advanced ThemeChapter 8: Creating Widgets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Chapter 9: Creating Plugins\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 10: Users and Roles\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 11: Performance and Security\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 12: Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 13: Setting up the Network\n </p>\n <p>\n  Appendix 1: Plugin Index\n </p>\n <p>\n  Appendix 2: Theme Functions\n </p>\n <p>\n  Appendix 3: Plugin Recipes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9074'),
(14586, 'BERLIN, CAPITAL DE EUROPA', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8992'),
(14587, 'Bernie the Faust', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9981'),
(14588, 'Betelgeuse Bridge', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10002'),
(14589, 'Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions', 'Luke Hohmann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Beyond Software Architecture "Luke Hohmann is that rare software technologist who views software development from the viewpoint of the end user. He passionately believes that one hour spent with an end user is worth many hours making software architectural choices or days documenting perceived user requirements. Most of what is written about software development focuses on methods used to design and develop robust software. Luke''s latest effort, Beyond Software Architecture, illuminates the more mundane aspects of creating true business solutions by supporting the user throughout the lifecycle of the software product. By concerning himself with creating business value, Luke tightens the connection between a software application and the business function it performs." Bruce Bourbon General Partner, Telos Venture Partners ~"There are two kinds of people that read the Dilbert comic strip: folks that take a moment to marvel at how accurately it reflects life at their company before moving on to the next comic strip, and folks that think Dilbert is an amusing reminder that high tech companies can and should be better than Dilbert''s world. Anyone in the first group should stick to reading comics. This book is for people in the latter group." - Tony Navarrete Vice President, Diamondhead Ventures ~"Luke brings a proven methodology to the challenge of software development. In Beyond Software Architecture, Luke provides practical and proven techniques that all development executives can employ to improve the productivity of their software organization." - G. Bradford Solso CEO, Taviz Technology ~"Beyond Software Architecture is the first book I have read which contains an insider''s perspective of both the business and technical facets of software architecture. This is a great book to get marketers and software managers on the same page!" Damon Schechter CEO, LOC Global author of Delivering the Goods ~"There are books on technical architecture and books on product marketing, but few, if any, on how architecture and marketing information must be integrated for world class product development. Beyond Software Architecture provides this valuable bridge between technology and marketing it explains how to deliver quality products that are profitable in the marketplace." Jim Highsmith Director, Cutter Consortium author of Adaptive Software Development ~"Product development managers, marketing managers, architects, and technical leads from all functions should read this book. You''ll see a pragmatic view of how to define and use a product architecture throughout a project''s lifecycle and a product''s lifetime." Johanna Rothman Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. ~"Luke Hohmann has captured the essence of product creation in his latest book. He cleverly discusses the need for both the marketing and engineering roles in product creation and ties the two together building a good foundation for understanding and executing successful product creation." Lee Sigler Principal, 360 Market View, Inc. ~"Finally a book that deals with those often ignored but critical operational issues like licensing, deployment, installation, configuration and support. Beyond Software Architecture is the "What they don''t teach you at Harvard Business School" book for anyone who develops software products or buys them." Mary Poppendieck Managing Director, Agile Alliance President, Poppendieck LLC ~"Luke Hohmann delivers a passionate, articulate wake-up call to software architects: it ain''t just technical any more! Technical architectures have profound business ramifications, and ignoring the business ramifications of portability, usability, configuration, upgrade and release management, security, and other architectural choices can not only lead to project failures, but ultimately to nasty lawsuits from disappointed customers. Beyond Software Architecture is a must-read for successful software product managers!" Ed Yourdon Author of numerous books and articles on software development ~"Beyond Software Architecture is not just for software engineering professionals! Executives and product managers will find that the book provides the necessary background to make informed decisions about the software that their companies build. I have found that the book is a useful tool for building consensus between management and engineering, because it discusses business and customer-related issues without delving too deeply into implementation details." David Chaiken Vice President Systems Architecture AgileTV Corporation\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, a book that provides the software engineering community with a clearer understanding of the business value of software architecture. There are currently a significant number of books on creating, documenting, and implementing software architecture, but precious few resources have addressed how to build a software architecture that aligns with a customer''s overall business goals. In this new book, Luke Hohmann borrows from his extensive experience managing successful enterprise software projects to provide practical wisdom on creating and sustaining winning software solutions. This book helps technologists grasp the business ramifications of their decisions, and provides business-oriented software professionals (e.g. sales people and marketers) with better knowledge of how robust software can be built and maintained.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9212'),
(14590, 'The Big Picture', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(14591, 'Binecuvantati animalele si copii', 'Glendon Swarthout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8549'),
(14592, 'BIOS', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9372'),
(14593, 'Blackcollar: The Backlash Mission', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3046'),
(14594, 'Blackcollar: The Blackcollar', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3045'),
(14595, 'Blackcollar: The Judas Solution', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3044'),
(14596, 'Blindatele mortii', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4737'),
(14597, 'Blood Lite', 'Kelley Armstrong &amp; Joe R. Lansdale &amp; Lucien Soulban &amp; Christopher Welch &amp; Matt Venne &amp; Don D&#39;Ammassa &amp; Marc Onspaugh &amp; J. A. Konrath &amp; F. Paul Wilson &amp; Charlaine Harris &amp; Steven Savile &amp; Will Ludwigsen &amp; Janet Berliner &amp; Eric James Stone &amp; Sherrilyn Kenyon &amp; Mike Resnick &amp; D. L. Snell &amp; Nancy Holder &amp; Nancy Kilpatrick &amp; Jeff Strand &amp; Sharyn McCrumb &amp; Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Horror Writers Association Presents\n <br />\n BLOOD LITE\n <br />\n ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.\n <br />\n Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore"...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there''s no such thing as a "Day Off" for the Chicago P.D.''s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to Tread"...Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out sÃ©ance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong''s "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin â€” in a good way â€” from Janet Berliner Don D''Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy Kilpatrick J. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch\n <br />\n So let the blood flow and laughter reign â€” because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6334'),
(14598, 'The Book of Changes', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The story presented here offers an episode dating back to a time before any of the Majipoor novels published so farÂ â€” a period more than four thousand years before Valentineâ€™s time, more than three thousand years before Prestimion. But its setting is ten thousand years after the time of the first human settlement, and the early history of Majipoor is already becoming legendary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11091'),
(14599, 'The Book of Philip K Dick', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11722'),
(14600, 'The Book of Skulls', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to succeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11275'),
(14601, 'Borges En Paris', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8958'),
(14602, 'Borland C++ Builder (+CD)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12692'),
(14603, 'The Bounty Hunter Wars 1 The Mandalorian Armor', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(14604, 'British Metallic Coins and Tradesmen&#39;s Tokens With Their Value From 1600-1912', 'G. C. Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6189'),
(14605, 'Brivido crudele', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una giovane orfana diciassettenne, vergine, e madre di cento figli. Un astronauta che, su un lontano pianeta, Ã¨ stato vivisezionato e rimesso insieme, ma con criteri extraterrestri, da dei superchirurghi. Unite queste due vittime di un oltraggio insanabile. Dallâ€™orrore che striscia sotto la loro pelle, pronto a prorompere, scaturiranno torrenti di paura, ira, odio, gelosia, tormento, terrore: le emozioni umane delle quali si nutre e si abbevera, e grazie alle quali ingrassa e si arricchisce, il â€œmercante di doloreâ€. Lâ€™astronauta, lâ€™orfana e lâ€™avvoltoio: il piÃ¹ strano â€œtriangoloâ€ coniugale che i mondi interplanetari abbiano mai veduto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11245'),
(14606, 'Brooklyn Project', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We have proven that time travels are safe; the present is affected by changing the past. Nothing had changedâ€”count your pseudopods!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10087'),
(14607, 'Building Embedded Linux Systems', 'Karim Yaghmour &amp; Jon Masters &amp; Gilad Ben-yossef &amp; Philippe Gerum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  LinuxÂ® is being adopted by an increasing number of embedded systems developers, who have been won over by its sophisticated scheduling and networking, its cost-free license, its open development model, and the support offered by rich and powerful programming tools. While there is a great deal of hype surrounding the use of Linux in embedded systems, there is not a lot of practical information. Building Embedded Linux Systems is the first in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together an embedded system based on the Linux kernel. This indispensable book features arcane and previously undocumented procedures for:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Building your own GNU development toolchain\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using an efficient embedded development framework\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Selecting, configuring, building, and installing a target-specific kernel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating a complete target root filesystem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up, manipulating, and using solid-state storage devices\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Installing and configuring a bootloader for the target\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cross-compiling a slew of utilities and packages\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging your embedded system using a plethora of tools and techniquesDetails are provided for various target architectures and hardware configurations, including a thorough review of Linux''s support for embedded hardware. All explanations rely on the use of open source and free software packages. By presenting how to build the operating system components from pristine sources and how to find more documentation or help, this book greatly simplifies the task of keeping complete control over one''s embedded operating system, whether it be for technical or sound financial reasons.Author Karim Yaghmour, a well-known designer and speaker who is responsible for the Linux Trace Toolkit, starts by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of Linux as an embedded operating system. Licensing issues are included, followed by a discussion of the basics of building embedded Linux systems. The configuration, setup, and use of over forty different open source and free software packages commonly used in embedded Linux systems are also covered. uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, thttpd, tftp, strace, and gdb are among the packages discussed.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10157');
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(14608, 'Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions', 'Jeffrey R. Shapiro &amp; Marcin Policht', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions Building High  Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions Preface The year 2004 will long be remembered as the year that saw the beginning of a huge push by  companies and government organizations to once and for all migrate to a  Windows Server operating system underpinned by Active Directory and  Windows Server 2003. What is also significant about this year is that it  will be remembered as the year Microsoft finally ended all support for  Windows NT 4.0, the grandfather of the current version of Windows Server  that many IT professionals now regard as the Serengeti of the operating  system jungle. In 2004, many companies have finally made the move to ditch Novell NetWare. However, it is not simply enough to trade one operating  system for another. Many IT shops going to Windows Server 2003 need to  install and configure high availability, high-performance Windows Server  2003 systems that can service their needs day in, day out, 365 days a  year. At the same time, they are also striving to lower the cost of  installing, operating, and maintaining these systems and the overall cost  of ownership (TCO). Windows Server 2003 delivers on all these points. As  companies migrate to the platform that is the de facto winner in the  network and operating system wars, they face a huge learning curve and  dilemma on how best to set up high-performance Windows Server networks for maximum availability and power. Their aspirations come down to one thing:  service level "How do we do it with Windows Server 2003?" Companies that  have made the decision to migrate to Windows Server 2003 ask how they can  keep systems up 24/7 or how they can achieve three, four, and perhaps even five times the availability with Microsoft technology. Network  administrators ask, "Do we cluster, do we load balance, do we do both, do  we invest in hot standbys, replication...what works?" This book gives you  the answers to those questions. It will also go further than just failover and fault tolerance and discuss monitoring and operations management and  choosing the right technology to accompany Microsoft s high-performance  and high availability offerings. This is the book that caters to your  needs. It is about achieving service level and keeping systems up 24/7  with the Windows Server 2003 platform. This book provides a clear and  concise roadmap for how to go about using Microsoft Server 2003, (in some  cases) with third-party add-ons, for scalability, uptime, performance, and management and for how to avoid trouble at the same time. Many  administrators and engineers find it hard to make decisions about what  they need to do. They hear that clustering and using load balancing is a  black art extremely difficult and prone to disaster. Up until today, their only resources for architecting a high availability solution has been rare and expensive consultants and overzealous consulting services engineers,  particularly from hardware vendors. If you are turned to Microsoft  technology to achieve your SLA, this book will be the foundation to turn  to, to bring it all together. Microsoft now offers a rich toolset for  administration and monitoring, not only what is built into the server  products, but also with collateral offerings such as Microsoft Operations  Manager (MOM) and Systems Management Server. According to Gartner,  Microsoft will own the systems administration market, and possibly surge  ahead of IBM, in the coming years. Efforts in this area became very  evident in 2003 and 2004 with the advent of new versions of MOM and  Systems Management Server. We have thus devoted an entire chapter to  monitoring and installing MOM as the essential operations platform for any high availability network. The book is divided into two parts: Part I,  "High-Performance Windows Computing," provides background for high  availability, high performance, and service level, and covers theory, but  also Active Directory architecture and implementation. Part II, "Building  High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions," delves into the actual  installation and architecture of systems for print, file, SQL Server,  Exchange, and IIS, covers network load balancing clusters (NLB), and  provides an introduction to MOM. Chapter 1, "The World of  High-Performance, High availability Windows Computing," covers service  level, the meaning of high availability, downtime, failure, and more. We  also define scale-out, availability, and high-performance computing (HPC). In Chapter 2, "Choosing High-Performance Hardware," we talk hardware and  cover choosing high-performance equipment, standards, CPUs, and memory.  Chapter 3, "Storage for Highly Available Systems," certainly covers  storage for these systems, but it also talks about redundancy and offers a RAID Refresher, discussing RAID controllers, Network Attached Storage  Solutions (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and IP-Based Storage  Solutions. In Chapter 4, "Highly Available Networking," we discuss  backbone design, bandwidth, and what to look for in network interface  cards, hubs, switches, and routers. We ll also look into layer two, three, and four switches and routers, routing in high availability architecture,  and using hubs for failover interconnects. This chapter also introduces  SAN topology, fibre channel, Point-to-Point Topology for storage area  networks, FC-AL, Fabric, and zoning. If you need to design the  architecture for an Active Directory network, Chapter 5, "Preparing the  Platform for a High-Performance Network," is for you. This chapter covers  preparing the platform for a high-performance network and creating a  design plan, design goals, design components, design decisions, design  implications, and more. This chapter also covers Active Directory services and logical architecture, the forest plan for highly available systems.  The latter part of the chapter covers Active Directory physical  architecture, such as subnets, site links, and naming convention. Chapter  6, "Building the Foundations for a Highly Available Architecture," covers  building the foundations for a highly available architecture. This chapter also covers Windows Clustering 101, cluster models, quorum resources,  quorum resource deployment scenarios, and more. We also go into the forest creation process, how to form clusters creating shared disk resources, and preparing the cluster network. The first chapter in Part II, Chapter 7,  "High-Performance Print-Server Solutions," looks into high-performance  print-server cluster solutions. We will look at design specifications,  installations, and clustering the spooler resource. Like printing, every  network needs file servers. Some networks need to have a highly available  file-server solution. Chapter 8, "High-Performance File-Server Solutions," covers high-performance file-server solutions, scale-out versus scale-up,  Configuring 2-Node clusters, disk replication solutions, and so on.  Chapter 9, "High Availability, High-Performance SQL Server Solutions,"  introduces scale-out versus scale-up with Microsoft SQL Server, failover  for SQL Server, SQL Server cluster design, documenting the dependencies of the cluster, and so on. We look at the SQL Server Active/Active  configurations, multiple instance solutions, N+1 configurations, and so  on. We also cover noncluster redundancy solutions, such as replication,  and show step-by-step how to cluster the Analysis Services (OLAP). Chapter 10, "High Availability, High-Performance Exchange," covers scale-out  versus scale-up with Microsoft Exchange, storage group architecture,  exchange store considerations, transaction logs, the SMTP queue directory, Exchange permissions in the clustering architecture, and so on. The  section titled "Getting Started with Exchange 2003 Clustering" covers  installing the Exchange Virtual Server on the cluster nodes and how to  cluster Exchange using replicated disk technology and Microsoft Cluster  Services. Chapter 11, "Load Balancing," deals with scale-out, Network Load Balancing (network load balancing) for high-performance solutions, sharing server load, what cannot be scaled, selecting NLB clustering, and more. We look into what constitutes a candidate for NLB, architecture for and  designing the NLB cluster, setup and configuration of the NLB cluster, and so on. In Chapter 12, "Internet Information Server," we turn to the Web  and go into scale-out versus scale-up IIS, round-robin DNS load balancing, NLB for Internet Information Server, planning and configuration, IIS  Storage, NLB for FTP, and troubleshooting and maintaining the IIS NLB  server cluster. Chapter 13, "Looking for Trouble: Setting Up Performance  Monitoring and Alerts," is all about operations management. The first half of this chapter delves into the Windows Server 2003 monitoring systems,  the event viewer, system and performance monitoring objects, rate and  throughput, the work queue, response time, and more. The second half  covers MOM. We will cover the steps to take in a MOM rapid-deployment  project. These steps involve verifying software and hardware requirements  for MOM, the MOM service accounts, MOM database sizing, installing the  First Management Server, importing MOM 2005 Management Packs, and so on.  We also show you how you can trap alerts to the event logs and how MOM  collects these and emails the alerts to operators and the event log.  Windows Server 2003 high availability and high-performance engineering is  not an easy vocation. We hope this book will provide you with the  kick-start you need to correctly implement your own high availability,  high-performance systems. If there are issues you need clarification on,  or you need some advice, we will certainly try to help. You may contact us at hpc@codetimes.com . /&gt; class="navigation"&gt; Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n <br />\n (source: Anobii.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6412'),
(14609, 'Building Job Sites With Joomla!', 'Santonu Kumar Dhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This will be a step-by-step tutorial - a workbook with practical approach. The book starts by looking at the important features that make a professional job site: adding and managing jobs, jobseekers and employers, providing online recruitment services, selling credits and managing credit system, SEO to drive huge traffic to your job site, and so on. This book includes a lot of screenshots which not only illustrate tasks but also create a visual impact. This book contains overall necessary information that is important for the understanding of job site development. If you are looking for building and managing a job site using Joomla! extensions then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of using extensions is not expected but Joomla! basics will be required.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Santonu Kumar Dhar was born on 16 June 1987, in Comilla, Bangladesh. He is a\n  <br />\n  web designer and IT consultant. He started web designing in 2006 and he has\n  <br />\n  operated several websites since 2007. Now his web development skills include\n  <br />\n  PHP/MYSQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, WML, Joomla!, and other CMS such as\n  <br />\n  Drupal and Wordpress. Besides this he also has a good fundamental knowledge\n  <br />\n  of programming with Java, C/C++, and VB.Net.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He is also co-founder Chairman and Editor In Chief of the HAULE HAULE\n  <br />\n  magazine, (ISSN: 2078-8797), haulehaulemagazine.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7751'),
(14610, 'Building PHP Applications With Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework', 'Bartosz Porebski &amp; Karol Przystalski &amp; Leszek Nowak', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The first detailed, unbiased comparison of the three leading PHP frameworks\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Web developers have been eager for an impartial comparison of leading PHP frameworks so they can make educated decisions about the most effective tool for their needs. This guide uses Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework to solve key problems, providing source code examples and comparisons for each. It explains the approach and reviews the similarities and differences in the three frameworks, providing reliable information on which to base your decisions.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework are considered the leading PHP frameworks; developers need an unbiased comparison to choose which one works best for their individual situations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   This guide uses each framework to solve the same problems, illustrating the solutions with source code examples and working applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers wide range of topics, from installation and configuration to most advanced features like AJAX, web services and automated testing.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes an appendix of new PHP frameworks, including CodeIgniter, Lithium, and Agavi\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bestselling PHP author Elizabeth Naramore serves as technical editor\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Comparison of PHP Web Frameworks\n  </em>\n  provides the impartial, side-by-side comparison that developers have been looking for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The first unbiased comparison of the three leading PHP frameworks\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although it''s relatively easy to learn how to use a single PHP framework to produce dynamic web pages, it''s not easy to decide which of the three major web application frameworks will best suit your needs. To that end, this resource offers you an unbiased, in-depth comparison of the three most popular open source frameworks: Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework. The authors present a detailed examination of the similarities and differences of the three frameworks, providing similar examples and tasks for each framework so that you can decide for yourself which framework is right for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Building PHP Applications with Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Presents an invaluable comparative approach to the pros and cons of Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework and shows you how to solve problems using each of them\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Addresses the standard elements used in common tasks such as forms, mailing, searching, security, and templates\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explores advanced features such as AJAX, plug-ins, Web Services, content management services, and internationalization\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Demonstrates how to use various testing tools for quality assurance and increasing performance\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Looks at younger, up-and-coming frameworks such as CodeIgniter, Lithium, and Agavi\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Programmer Forums\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Code Downloads\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read More\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9064'),
(14611, 'Bulletin of the British Museum (natural History): Zoology Series Vol.34', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8248'),
(14612, 'C++ for Everyone', 'Cay S. Horstmann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Thorough and updated coverage on all the essential C++ concepts Aimed at providing you with a solid foundation in programming with C++, this new edition incorporates programming exercises with helpful self-check questions that reinforce the concepts discussed throughout the book. Youâ€™ll benefit from the how-to sections that show you how concepts are applied and advanced materials are featured on the accompanying Web site when youâ€™re ready to take your programming skills to the next level.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Shows you how to use C++ to your benefit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes advice for avoiding pitfalls\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incorporates self-check questions and programming exercises to reinforce what you learn\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Encourages you to take your C++ programming skills to the next level with the advanced material featured on the accompanying Web site C++ for Everyone, Second Edition, is the go-to guide for getting started with C++!\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12924'),
(14613, 'C++ How to Program', 'Paul J. Deitel &amp; Harvey M. Deitel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Introduction to Programming (CS1) and other more intermediate courses covering programming in C++. Also appropriate as a supplement for upper-level courses where the instructor uses a book as a reference for the C++ language.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This best-selling comprehensive text is aimed at readers with little or no programming experience. It teaches programming by presenting the concepts in the context of full working programs and takes an early-objects approach. The authors emphasize achieving program clarity through structured and object-oriented programming, software reuse and component-oriented software construction. The Eighth Edition encourages students to connect computers to the community, using the Internet to solve problems and make a difference in our world. All content has been carefully fine-tuned in response to a team of distinguished academic and industry reviewers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MITâ€™s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the worldâ€™s best-selling programming language textbook authors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitelsâ€™ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12925'),
(14614, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(14615, 'Calitatea de martor', 'Ana Blandiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4909'),
(14616, 'Camarazi de front', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4887'),
(14617, 'Caminante', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4831'),
(14618, 'CANTATA-141', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11721'),
(14619, 'Cantec de leagan', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8563'),
(14620, 'cantec pentru anul 2000', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8564'),
(14621, 'Cantec sfant', 'Iosif Stefan Octavian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4878'),
(14622, 'Cantece de vitejie', 'Cosbuc George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4742'),
(14623, 'Cantica pentru Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Jr Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4785'),
(14624, 'Cartas A Un Joven Novelista', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una reflexiÃ³n en forma epistolar dirigida a todos aquellos a los que domina la ilusiÃ³n de llegar a ser novelistas. El gran escritor peruano, a travÃ©s de estas cartas, nos habla con lucidez del oficio y el arte de narrar, y aconseja: Â«â€¦ quien ve en el Ã©xito el estÃ­mulo esencial de su vocaciÃ³n es probable que vea frustrado su sueÃ±o y confunda la vocaciÃ³n literaria con la vocaciÃ³n por el relumbrÃ³n y los beneficios econÃ³micos que a ciertos escritores (muy contados) depara la literatura. Ambas cosas son distintas. Tal vez, el atributo principal de la vocaciÃ³n literaria sea que, quien la tiene, vive el ejercicio de esa vocaciÃ³n como su mejor recompensa, mÃ¡s, mucho mÃ¡s, que todas las que pudiera alcanzar como consecuencia de sus frutos.Â» Y, a partir de esa idea fundamental sobre la vocaciÃ³n, Vargas Llosa discurre sobre el poder de persuasiÃ³n, el estilo, el espacio y el tiempo del narrador, la realidad y la experiencia del escritor, la autenticidad y la ficciÃ³n del relato, la eficacia de la escritura, su coherencia interna que emana del propio lenguaje, la estructura de la novela, Â«esa artesanÃ­a que sostiene como un todo armÃ³nico y viviente las ficciones que nos deslumbranÂ»â€¦ Un alarde de sabidurÃ­a y experiencia, ilustrado con numerosos ejemplos de escritores y novelas, descritos con pinceladas breves y certeras, que acaba con un consejo definitivo: Â«Querido amigo: estoy tratando de decirle que se olvide de todo lo que ha leÃ­do en mis cartas sobre la forma novelesca y de que se ponga a escribir novelas de una vez.Â»\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8966'),
(14625, 'Cartea nuntii', 'DANION VASILE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6924'),
(14626, 'Cascade Point', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(14627, 'A Case of Conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion; they are completely without any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of sin; and the species evolves through several forms through the course of its life cycle. The story was originally published as a novella in 1953, and later extended to novel-length, of which the first part is the original novella. The novel is the first part of Blish''s thematic â€œAfter Such Knowledgeâ€ trilogy, followed by Black Easter/The Day After Judgment and Dr Mirabilis.\n <br />\n The story is unusual in several respects. Few science fiction stories of the time attempted religious themes, and still fewer did this with Catholicism. Some of the first part is taken up with the Jesuit''s attempt to solve a puzzle, a long description of scandalous intrigue between various pseudonymous characters. As he is about to leave for Earth, he realizes the puzzle is soluble. The puzzle is contained within the pages of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce.\n <br />\n Many reacted negatively to the story, but surprisingly few educated Catholics were among them. One even sent James Blish a copy of the actual Church guidelines for dealing with extraterrestrials. These are not detailed, but merely suggest overall strategy based on whether the beings have souls or not, and if they have them, whether they are fallen like humans, or exist in a state of grace.\n <br />\n Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1959.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7014'),
(14628, 'Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments', 'Donna Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As emerging technologies increase the potential for constructivist learning processes and responses, it is critical that educational researchers, instructional designers, cognitive scientists, and information scientists become more aware of advances in these correlating fields.\n  <strong>\n   Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments: Processes and Interactions\n  </strong>\n  provides a systematic response to this highly innovative and rapidly evolving field for enhanced education and training. Containing unique research cases on experiences, implementations, and applications of virtual learning environments, this publication offers a critical collection of leading explorations useful to educational practitioners, researchers, and those involved in related fields of study.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Donna Russell\n  </strong>\n  is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and co-owner of Arete Consulting, LLC. She has a bachelors degree and a masters degree in education specializing in instructional design. Her PhD is in educational psychology with an emphasis on cognition and technology. She is Co-PI on the National Science Foundations grant, Achieving Recruitment, Retention and Outreach With STEM, developing science, technology and engineering programs for urban high school students. She is chair of the Problem-Based Education Special Interest Group committee for the American Education Researchers Association. She has published several articles and book chapters on virtual learning including Online Professional Development for Educators: A Case Study Analysis using Cultural Historical Activity Theory; Implementing an Innovation Cluster in Educational Settings to Develop Constructivist-based Learning Environments; Transformation in an Urban School: Using Systemic Analysis to Understand an Innovative Urban Teachers Implementation of an Online Problem-Based Unit; Group Collaboration in an Online Problem-based University Course in Creativity and Problem-Based Learning and Understanding the Effectiveness of Collaborative Activity in Online Professional Development with Innovative Educators through Inter-Subjectivity in Information and Communication Technology for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Development.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9470'),
(14629, 'The Cataclysm', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3165'),
(14630, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 01', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6204'),
(14631, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 02', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6205'),
(14632, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 03', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6206'),
(14633, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 04', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6207'),
(14634, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 05', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6208'),
(14635, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 06', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6209'),
(14636, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 07', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6210'),
(14637, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 08', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6211'),
(14638, 'Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Volume 09', 'British Museum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6212'),
(14639, 'Catastrophes!', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Edward Wellen &amp; Harlan Ellison &amp; Ben Bova &amp; Lloyd Biggie, Jr. &amp; William Tenn &amp; Clark Ashton Smith &amp; Harry Harrison &amp; Edmond Hamilton &amp; Larry Niven &amp; Fritz Leiber &amp; Chad Oliver &amp; Ursula K. Le Guin &amp; Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Raymond Z. Gallun &amp; Walter M. Miller, Jr. &amp; Alfred Coppel &amp; Robert Sheckley &amp; Robert Silverberg &amp; C. M. Kornbluth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10038'),
(14640, 'Catopolis', 'Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Janet Deaver-Pack &amp; Esther M. Friesner &amp; Richard Lee Byers &amp; Edward Carmien &amp; Lee Martindale &amp; Paul Genesse &amp; Jana Paniccia &amp; Donald J. Bingle &amp; Bruce A. Heard &amp; Christopher Welch &amp; Jean Rabe &amp; Marc Tassin &amp; Elaine Cunningham &amp; Robert E. Vardeman &amp; Elizabeth A. Vaughan &amp; Matthew Woodring Stover &amp; Ed Greenwood &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Seventeen original stories about the ''city of cats''\n <br />\n Set in a world that exists on the same plane as humans, yet is hidden from us, Catopolis introduces readers to an assortment of cats, ranging from a feline Seer who must take destiny into her own paws to defeat a dictatorial tomcat thugâ€¦to a black cat who can call upon the powers of the ''big cats'' to wage a war against evilâ€¦to a cat who would be kingâ€¦to the ins and outs of cat politics and the perils of using mice as ballotsâ€¦to a cat burglar looking for a musical treasure for his ''boss.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11782'),
(14641, 'Catopolis', 'Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Janet Deaver-Pack &amp; Esther M. Friesner &amp; Richard Lee Byers &amp; Edward Carmien &amp; Lee Martindale &amp; Paul Genesse &amp; Jana Paniccia &amp; Donald J. Bingle &amp; Bruce A. Heard &amp; Christopher Welch &amp; Jean Rabe &amp; Marc Tassin &amp; Elaine Cunningham &amp; Robert E. Vardeman &amp; Elizabeth A. Vaughan &amp; Matthew Woodring Stover &amp; Ed Greenwood &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Seventeen original stories about the ''city of cats''\n <br />\n Set in a world that exists on the same plane as humans, yet is hidden from us, Catopolis introduces readers to an assortment of cats, ranging from a feline Seer who must take destiny into her own paws to defeat a dictatorial tomcat thugâ€¦to a black cat who can call upon the powers of the ''big cats'' to wage a war against evilâ€¦to a cat who would be kingâ€¦to the ins and outs of cat politics and the perils of using mice as ballotsâ€¦to a cat burglar looking for a musical treasure for his ''boss.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11961'),
(14642, 'Cavalerii', 'Ioan Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4773'),
(14643, 'Cavalerul reginei', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4936'),
(14644, 'Cavalerul reginei', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8585'),
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(14647, 'CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide', 'Wendell Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Master the CCNPÂ® ROUTE 642-902 exam with this official study guide\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide is a best of breed CiscoÂ® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNPÂ® ROUTE exam. Senior instructor and best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. â€œDo I Know This Already?â€ quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help drill you on key concepts you must know thoroughly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete study plan for review.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wendell Odom, CCIEÂ® No. 1624, is a 28-year veteran of the networking industry. He currently works as an independent author of Cisco certification resources and occasional instructor of Cisco authorized training for Skyline ATS. He has worked as a network engineer, consultant, systems engineer, instructor, and course developer. He is the author of several best-selling Cisco certification titles. He maintains lists of current titles, links to Wendellâ€™s blogs, and other certification resources at www.TheCertZone.com.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP ROUTE exam, including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Network design, implementation, and verification plans\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   EIGRP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   OSPF\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IGP Redistribution\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Policy-based routing and IP service-level agreement (IP SLA)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   BGP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IPv6\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Routing over branch Internet connections\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  This volume is part of the Official Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10158'),
(14648, 'CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide', 'David Hucaby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CCNP SWITCH 642-813\n </p>\n <p>\n  Official Certification Guide\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Hucaby, CCIEÂ® No. 4594\n </p>\n <p>\n  CCNP SWITCH Exam Preparation\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Master the CCNPÂ® SWITCH 642-813 exam with this official study guide\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide\n  </em>\n  is a best-of-breed CiscoÂ® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNPÂ® SWITCH exam. Network architect and best-selling author Dave Hucaby shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide\n  </em>\n  presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. â€œDo I Know This Already?â€ quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. The complete exam topic list makes referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help drill you on key concepts and commands you must know thoroughly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   CCNP SWITCH 642-813 Official Certification Guide\n  </em>\n  is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP SWITCH exam, including\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Network design, implementation, and verification plans\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Switch operation and port configuration\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   VLANs, trunks, and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Aggregating switch links\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Multilayer switching\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enterprise campus network design\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Router and supervisor redundancy\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IP telephony\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wireless LANs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Switched network security\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This volume is part of the Official Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Hucaby\n  </strong>\n  , CCIE No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with healthcare networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, ASA, FWSM, and VPN product lines. David has a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. He is the author of several Cisco Press titles, including\n  <em>\n   Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook\n  </em>\n  , Second Edition;\n  <em>\n   Cisco Firewall Video Mentor\n  </em>\n  ; and\n  <em>\n   Cisco LAN Switching Video Mentor\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  David lives in Kentucky with his wife, Marci, and two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10159'),
(14649, 'CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide', 'Kevin Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide Kevin Wallace, CCIEÂ® No. 7945 Â  Â  CCNP TSHOOT Exam Preparation Â  Master CCNPÂ® TSHOOT 642-832 exam topics Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM Â  The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP TSHOOT exam, including Common network maintenance tasks and tools Troubleshooting models Cisco IOSÂ® troubleshooting commands and features Troubleshooting Cisco CatalystÂ® Switches and STP Troubleshooting BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP routing protocols Route redistribution, security, and router performance troubleshooting IP services and IP communications troubleshooting IPv6 troubleshooting Large enterprise network troubleshooting Â  Â  CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide is a best-of-breed CiscoÂ® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNPÂ® TSHOOT exam. Senior instructor and best-selling author Kevin Wallace shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. Â  CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. â€œDo I Know This Already?â€ quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help drill you on key concepts you must know thoroughly. Â  The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete study plan for review. Â  Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time. Â  CCNP TSHOOT 642-832 Official Certification Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining. Â  Kevin Wallace, CCIEÂ® No. 7945, is a certified Cisco instructor who holds multiple Cisco certifications including CCSPÂ®, CCVPÂ®, CCNPÂ®, and CCDPÂ®, in addition to multiple security and voice specializations. With Cisco experience dating back to 1989 (beginning with a Cisco AGS+ running Cisco IOS 7.x), Kevin has been a network design specialist for the Walt Disney World Resort, a senior technical instructor for SkillSoft/Thomson NETg/KnowledgeNet, and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University. Â  This volume is part of the Official Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears. Â  Â  Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains 100 practice questions for the exam developed by Cisco Press and delivered by the Boson Exam Environment (BEE). Bosonâ€™s ExSim-Max premium practice exams available atÂ  www.boson.com Â  Category: Cisco Pressâ€”Cisco Certification Covers: CCNP TSHOOT exam 642-832 Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10160'),
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(14656, 'CherryPy Essentials', 'Sylvain Hellegouarch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book covers the CherryPy library for Python web development from its history and installation through its main features and core concepts to its integration with Python and other products to construct, test, and deploy a sample photoblog application. The author Sylvain Hellegouarch is dedicated to the development of free software projects and has been coordinating and administrating the community efforts around the CherryPy project since 2004. The approach based on an example application introduces many other common Python libraries, providing transferable skills also relevant for non-web Python projects.   CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. CherryPy abstracts the complex low-level HTTP protocol into an easy-to-use interface that respects Python idioms. The library aims at being simple to learn for a beginner while offering the most advanced features to fluent Python developers. For these reasons CherryPy was chosen to be at the heart of the popular and feature-rich TurboGears web framework. CherryPy-powered web applications are stand-alone Python applications with their own embedded multi-threaded web server, but can also run behind Apache or IIS for scalability.  .\\tCherryPy installation using tarball, egg, and subversion .\\tThe CherryPy library in depth: its design and how to use it .\\tUsing CherryPy with common Python and non-Python products  .\\tObject Relational Mapping with SQLObject, SQLAlchemy, and Dejavu .\\tWeb Services via REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol .\\tAJAX and client-side scripting via MochiKit .\\tUnit, functional, and load testing .\\tCherryPy, Apache, and lighttpd deployment solurions  The book starts with two chapters dedicated to CherryPy itself, its history and installation. Then it moves through a gentle introduction to the main features and concepts of CherryPy to a thorough review of its core capabilities. After laying this foundation the book dives into a real-world example, detailing important steps in the creation of a photoblog application. These chapters cover database manipulation via Object Relational Mapping (ORM), using web services to enhance the application, and client-side scripting through AJAX. Finally, the book covers the need for unit, functional, and performance testing before closing with deployment solutions for a CherryPy-based application. Who this book is written for This book is principally geared towards Python web developers, who are looking to add the power of the CherryPy library to their existing Python skillset. It assumes a good working knowledge of Python . Although the CherryPy toolkit is at the core of the book, many other common libraries are introduced.  TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 1.Introduction to CherryPy 2.Download and Install CherryPy 3.Overview of CherryPy 4.CherryPy in depth 5.A photoblog application 6.Web Services 7.The presentation layer 8.Ajax 9.Testing 10.Deployment\n <br />\n (source: Anobii.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7074'),
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(14658, 'The China Bride', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n Nineteenth-century China, England and Scotland are the settings for Putney''s continuing saga of the Renbourne twins, Dominic and Kyle, begun in The Wild Child. There, Kyle handed over his unwanted betrothed, Meriel (a match arranged at birth), to his twin brother, Dominic, and escaped to Spain with his terminally ill mistress, Constancia. Ever since his true love''s death, Kyle has been exploring the world. In 1832, he is in Macao. His father''s health is failing, however, and Kyle plans to fulfill his lifelong dream of seeing the Temple of Hoshan, "an image of peace and unearthly beauty," then return to England to resume his duties as Lord Maxwell. Unfortunately, China is closed to all Fan-qui (foreigners) and Kyle must stay within the confines of the Canton Settlement, a narrow strip of warehouses serving as shipping point for all European and American trade companies. In order to sneak into the Chinese countryside, Kyle enlists the aid of Jin Kang, who he thinks is a young male Chinese interpreter. Jin is actually Troth Mei-Lian Montgomery, feisty daughter of a Scottish trader and Chinese concubine, who is forced to make her living by spying on "foreign devils." Kyle''s rash escapade is predictably unsuccessful, as he is discovered and sentenced to death. He marries Troth (symbolically) and dispatches her to England to tell his family of his fateAwhich, of course, turns out to be different from what she imagines. In chapters alternating between Troth''s experiences in England and flashbacks to her adventures with Kyle in China, Putney contrives an awkward tale, dependant for its drama on Kyle''s belief that he can never love again, and on Troth''s fear of rejection by Kyle''s family. Though the conflict rarely grips, the sex scenes are adequately steamy, and Putney provides plenty of atmospheric details.\n <br />\n From Library Journal\n <br />\n Picking up the story of the "irresponsible twin" from The Wild Child (LJ 8/99), Putney''s latest historical sweeps its adventure-seeking hero to the other side of the globe and into the narrow, conflicted life of Troth Mei-Lian Montgomery, an orphaned Eurasian daughter of a Scottish trader, with dangerous, passionate, and life-changing results. A master at creating unusual, sympathetic characters in compelling relational situations, Putney takes a woman caught between two worlds and a British peer who has vowed never to marry again and sends them on a forbidden journey that not only challenges their preconceptions about life and each other but eventually brings them love as well. Smoothly integrated references to the ancient practices of tai chi, feng shui, and wing chun add interest and authenticity to this highly sensual, emotionally involving romance, which also addresses a number of women''s and ethnic issues still relevant today. This elegantly written work is sure to join Putney''s earlier novels in most library romance collections. Putney is a best-selling RITA Award winner and lives in Baltimore.\n <br />\n ***\n <br />\n Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her new novel, The China Bride, she has created another fiercely moving love story and another endearing heroine â€“ a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover the woman she is destined to be.\n <br />\n Born to a Scottish father, Troth Montgomery, betrothed to her life as a concubine, never imagined she would one day leave the Orient to arrive at the English estate of a stranger â€“ the brother of the man who had briefly been her husband. Kyle Renbourne, Viscount of Maxwell, had taken Troth as his bride shortly before his apparent execution in a Chinese prison. Now, as his widow, she is entitled to the home she always dreamed of but remains haunted by the memory of a dashing husband and the brief, forbidden love they shared. But then Kyle Renbourne is seemingly reborn, though his mind and body are badly wounded. Together, Troth and Kyle embark on a miraculous journey of hope, faith, and struggle against a deadly menace that has followed them halfway across the world.\n <br />\n "She squeezed his hand, and in her grip he felt the pulse of her chi. Pure and bright, it glowed with a compassion that warmed the depths of his darknessâ€¦ He felt scalded, melted, transformed."\n <br />\n Written with elegance and gentle passion, The China Bride is a stirring tale of lasting love and the power of forgiveness told by a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8826'),
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(14662, 'CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide', 'David L. Cannon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Prepare for CISA certification and improve your job skills with the training you''ll receive in this valuable book. Covering the very latest version of the exam, it''s packed with instruction on all exam content areas, including the most up-to-date regulations, IS auditing best practices, and compliances. You''ll find practical exercises and plenty of real-world scenariosâ€”just what you need for the CISA exam, and beyond.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Take charge of your career with CISA certification\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Prepare for CISA certification and improve your job skills with the training you''ll receive in this valuable book. Covering the very latest version of the exam, it''s packed with instruction on all exam content areas, including the most up-to-date regulations, IS auditing best practices, and compliances. You''ll find practical exercises and plenty of real-world scenariosâ€”just what you need for the CISA exam, and beyond.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Full coverage of all exam objectives\n  </strong>\n  in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you''re getting the instruction you need for the exam\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Real-world scenarios\n  </strong>\n  that put what you''ve learned in the context of actual job roles\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Challenging review questions\n  </strong>\n  in each chapter to prepare you for exam dayâ€”more than 500 questions included\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Exam Essentials,\n  </strong>\n  a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A handy tear card\n  </strong>\n  that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   FEATURED ON THE CD\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  SYBEX TEST ERNGINE:\n  <br />\n  Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions and bonus exams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS:\n  <br />\n  Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.\n  <br />\n  Also on CD, you''ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF.\n  <br />\n  Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7966'),
(14663, 'Cisco Firewalls', 'Alexandre M. S. P. Moraes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alexandre has worked with Cisco security technologies since the year 2000 and is a well recognized expert in the LATAM security community. He is a frequent speaker at Cisco Networkers and other security conferences and has helped in training partners and customers in Brazil. In this book, he proposes a totally different approach to the important subject of firewalls:Â  Instead of just presenting configuration models, he uses a set of carefully crafted examples to illustrate the theory in action. From the configuration fundamentals to advanced topics such as voice inspection, multicast, IPv6 and identity-based firewalls, the book unveils important details about the operations of Cisco firewall solutions, enabling the reader to better use this knowledge on security design. Â A must-read !\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   --Luc Billot, Security Consulting Engineer at Cisco (Emerging Markets and European Market)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think that Alexandre''s book could have the alternative title ''Cisco Firewalls Illustrated.'' The way in which he links theory and practice is really insightful and greatly helpsÂ in understanding individual features and making better use of them for security design. Definitely a reference work in the subject !\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   --Louis Senecal, CCIE 2198, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco (Canada)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this fully illustrated tourÂ of the world of Cisco Firewalls, Alexandre devotes a great deal of attention to data center-related topics. Network virtualization architecture and the protection of environments that include virtual machines figure among the important subjects covered in the book. For those that want to benefit from virtualization without compromising security, this work is highly recommended.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   --David Gonzalez, CISSP #99462, Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco ( LATAM)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the eBook version of the printed book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cisco Firewalls\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Concepts, design and deployment for Cisco Stateful Firewall solutions\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  In this book, Alexandre proposes a totally different approach to the important subject of firewalls: Instead of just presenting configuration models, he uses a set of carefully crafted examples to illustrate the theory in action.?A must read!\n  <strong>\n   â€\n  </strong>\n  â€”Luc Billot, Security Consulting Engineer at Cisco\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cisco Firewalls\n  </em>\n  thoroughly explains each of the leading Cisco firewall products, features, and solutions, and shows how they can add value to any network security design or operation. The author tightly links theory with practice, demonstrating how to integrate Cisco firewalls into highly secure, self-defending networks.\n  <em>\n   Cisco Firewalls\n  </em>\n  shows you how to deploy Cisco firewalls as an essential component of every network infrastructure. The book takes the unique approach of illustrating complex configuration concepts through step-by-step examples that demonstrate the theory in action. This is the first book with detailed coverage of firewalling Unified Communications systems, network virtualization architectures, and environments that include virtual machines. The author also presents indispensable information about integrating firewalls with other security elements such as IPS, VPNs, and load balancers; as well as a complete introduction to firewalling IPv6 networks.\n  <em>\n   Cisco Firewalls\n  </em>\n  will be an indispensable resource for engineers and architects designing and implementing firewalls; security administrators, operators, and support professionals; and anyone preparing for the CCNA Security, CCNP Security, or CCIE Security certification exams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alexandre Matos da Silva Pires de Moraes, CCIE No. 6063\n  </strong>\n  , has worked as a Systems Engineer for Cisco Brazil since 1998 in projects that involve not only Security and VPN technologies but also Routing Protocol and Campus Design, IP Multicast Routing, and MPLS Networks Design. He coordinated a team of Security engineers in Brazil and holds the CISSP, CCSP, and three CCIE certifications (Routing/Switching, Security, and Service Provider). A frequent speaker at Cisco Live, he holds a degree in electronic engineering from the Instituto TecnolÃ³gico de AeronÃ¡utica (ITA â€“ Brazil).\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Create advanced security designs utilizing the entire Cisco firewall product family\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Choose the right firewalls based on your performance requirements\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Learn firewall? configuration fundamentals and master the tools that provide insight about firewall operations\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Properly insert firewalls in your networkâ€™s topology using Layer 3 or Layer 2 connectivity\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Use Cisco firewalls as part of a robust, secure virtualization architecture\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Deploy Cisco ASA firewalls with or without NAT\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Take full advantage of the classic IOS firewall feature set (CBAC)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Implement flexible security policies with the Zone Policy Firewall (ZPF)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Strengthen stateful inspection with antispoofing, TCP normalization, connection limiting, and IP fragmentation handling\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Use application-layer inspection capabilities built into Cisco firewalls\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â·??????? Inspect IP voice...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10161'),
(14664, 'Cisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook', 'Steve Mcquerry &amp; David Jansen &amp; Dave Hucaby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n PCisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook pSecond EditionpA concise reference for implementing the most frequently used features of the Cisco Catalyst family of switchespSteve McQuerry, CCIEreg; No. 6108pDavid Jansen, CCIE No. 5952pDavid Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594pCisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook, Second Edition, is a quick and portable reference guide to the most commonly used features that can be configured on Ciscoreg; Catalystreg; switches. Written to be used across all Catalyst IOS platforms, the book covers general use of Cisco IOSreg;, followed by a series of chapters that provide design and configuration guidelines. Each chapter starts with common design overviews and then describes the configuration of management features. Coverage includes Layer 2, Layer 3, multicast, high availability, and traffic management configurations.pThis book is organized by groups of common features, with sections marked by shaded tabs for quick reference. Information on each feature is presented in a concise format, with background, configuration, and example components. The format is organized for easy accessibility to commands and their proper usage, saving you hours of research time.pFrom the first page, the authors zero in on quick facts, configuration steps, and explanations of configuration options in each Cisco Catalyst switch feature. The quick reference format allows you to easily locate just the information you need without having to search through thousands of pages of documentation, helping you get your switches up and running quickly and smoothly.pWhether you are looking for a handy, portable reference to more easily configure Cisco Catalyst switches in the field, or you are preparing for CCNAreg;, CCNPreg;, or CCIEreg; certification, you will find Cisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook, Second Edition, to be an essential resource.pSteve McQuerry, CCIE No. 6108, is a technical solutions architect with Cisco focused on data center solutions. Steve works with enterprise customers in the midwestern United States to help them plan their data center architectures. David Jansen, CCIE No. 5952, is a technical solutions architect (TSA) with Cisco focused on Data Center Architectures at Cisco. David has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. David Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with healthcare networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, ASA/PIX/FWSM security, and VPN product lines.pul liImplement switched campus network designs liConfigure switch prompts, IP addresses, passwords, switch modules, file management, and administrative protocols liUnderstand how Layer 3 interfaces are used in a switch liConfigure Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and EtherChannel interfaces liImplement VLANs, trunking, and VTP liOperate, configure, and tune Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) liHandle multicast traffic and interact with multicast routers liStreamline access to server and firewall farms with accelerated server load balancing liDeploy broadcast suppression, user authentication, port security, and VLAN access lists liConfigure switch management features liImplement QoS and high availability features liTransport voice traffic with specialized voice gateway modules, inline power, and QoS features/ulpThis book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Pressreg;, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10162'),
(14665, 'Cisco Router Configuration Handbook', 'David Hucaby &amp; Steve Mcquerry &amp; Andrew Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Fast answers and reliable solutions for all widely-used Cisco router features - all in one time-saving guide\n <em>\n  Organized for maximum efficiency: describes actual commands and options in the sequence they should be used\n </em>\n Helps network pros eliminate time-consuming documentation searches\n <em>\n  Extensive updates: IPv6, MPLS, AutoQoS, SIP, MGCP, voice troubleshooting, VPNs, security, and more\n </em>\n "At-a-glance" illustrations offer fast answers and easy double-checkingLocating reliable Cisco router configuration command information can require extensive, time-consuming research. Cisco Router Configuration Handbook, 2/e, is the solution: a day-to-day reference to the most widely used Cisco router features and configurations. Straight from Cisco experts, it covers every facet of router configuration, including fundamentals, network protocols, packet processing, voice/telephony, security, and more. This book is organized for maximum efficiency. Related features are covered together, and features and options are covered in the sequence in which they are typically used. Shaded tabs mark each section for quick reference. Information on each feature, technology, or protocol is presented in a concise one- or two-page format, with sections presenting quick facts, configuration information, and step-by-step examples, including both required and optional commands. Simply put, this book brings together all the Cisco routing configuration information most network professionals will ever need - and organizes it more efficiently than any other resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10163'),
(14666, 'Cismigiu &amp; Comp.', 'Grigore Bajenaru', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4766'),
(14667, 'Cities in Flight', 'James Blish &amp; Richard D. Mullen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Omnibus edition of four novels, originally published separately: They Shall Have Stars, A Life for the Stars, Earthman, Come Home, and The Triumph of Time. The Triumph of Time was nominated for the 2007 British Science Fiction Award, BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6967'),
(14668, 'The City of Splendors', 'Ed Greenwood &amp; Elaine Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11684'),
(14669, 'Ciulinii Baraganului', 'Panait Istrati', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4809'),
(14670, 'CLASSIFICATIONS OF PLAGIARISM DETECTION ENGINES', 'Thomas Lancaster &amp; Perry Barr &amp; Fintan Culwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9483'),
(14671, 'Clientul', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4705'),
(14672, 'Clientul', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8615'),
(14673, 'Cloak of ShadowsAs', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11972'),
(14674, 'Cloud Computing Bible', 'Barrie Sosinsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7172'),
(14675, 'Cloud Computing Virtualization Specialist Complete Certification Kit: Study Guide Book and Online Course', 'Ivanka Menken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7671'),
(14676, 'Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing', 'Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7662'),
(14677, 'Cobit 4.1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9572'),
(14678, 'CobiT ITIL &amp; ISO17799.How to use them in conjunction', 'PWC', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3463'),
(14679, 'Cobra', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3007'),
(14680, 'Cobra Bargain', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3004'),
(14681, 'Cobra objects in Python', 'Jason Tackaberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6142'),
(14682, 'Cobra Strike', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3006'),
(14683, 'Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective', 'Diomidis Spinellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is a unique and essential reference that focuses upon the reading and comprehension of existing software code. While code reading is an important task faced by the vast majority of students, it has been virtually ignored as a discipline by existing references. The book fills this need with a practical presentation of all important code concepts, form, structure, and syntax that a student is likely to encounter. The concepts are supported by examples taken from real-world open source software projects. The focus upon reading code (rather than developing and implementing programs from scratch) provides for a vastly increased breadth of coverage.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you are a programmer, you need this book.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   You''ve got a day to add a new feature in a 34,000-line program: Where do you start?\n   <em>\n    Page 333\n   </em>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How can you understand and simplify an inscrutable piece of code?\n   <em>\n    Page 39\n   </em>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Where do you start when disentangling a complicated build process?\n   <em>\n    Page 167\n   </em>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How do you comprehend code that appears to be doing five things in parallel?\n   <em>\n    Page 132\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You may read code because you have to--to fix it, inspect it, or improve it. You may read code the way an engineer examines a machine--to discover what makes it tick. Or you may read code because you are scavenging--looking for material to reuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Code-reading requires its own set of skills, and the ability to determine which technique you use when is crucial. In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this knowledge to improve your own code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fact:\n  </strong>\n  If you make a habit of reading good code, you will write better code yourself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0201799405B02032003\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9120'),
(14684, 'Codul lui Da Vinci', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6915'),
(14685, 'Codul lui DA VINCI', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6917'),
(14686, 'Collision Course', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The novel details the response of the political leadership of Earth to an eventual collision of their aggressive expanding colonial empire with a newly-discovered alien race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11206'),
(14687, 'The Combination of Paradoxical, Uncertain and Imprecise Sources of Information based on DSmT', 'Florentin Smarandache &amp; Jean Dezert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  The Combination of Paradoxical, Uncertain and Imprecise\n </div>\n <div>\n  Sources of Information based on DSmT\n </div>\n <div>\n  and Neutro-Fuzzy Inference\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Florentin Smarandache\n </div>\n <div>\n  Dept. of Mathematics\n </div>\n <div>\n  Univ. of New Mexico\n </div>\n <div>\n  Gallup, NM 8730\n </div>\n <div>\n  U.S.A.\n </div>\n <div>\n  smarand@unm.edu\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Jean Dezert\n </div>\n <div>\n  ONERA/DTIM/IED\n </div>\n <div>\n  29 Av. de la Division Leclerc\n </div>\n <div>\n  92320 ChË† tillon\n </div>\n <div>\n  a\n </div>\n <div>\n  France\n </div>\n <div>\n  Jean.Dezert@onera.fr\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Abstract â€“ The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conï¬‚icting sources of\n </div>\n <div>\n  information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information systems\n </div>\n <div>\n  involving artiï¬cial reasoning. In this chapter, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, known\n </div>\n <div>\n  as Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) in the literature, developed for dealing with imprecise, uncertain and paradoxical sources of\n </div>\n <div>\n  information. We focus our presentation here rather on the foundations of DSmT, and on the two important new rules of combination,\n </div>\n <div>\n  than on browsing speciï¬c applications of DSmT available in literature. Several simple examples are given throughout the presentation\n </div>\n <div>\n  to show the efï¬ciency and the generality of this new approach. The last part of this chapter concerns the presentation of the neutrosophic\n </div>\n <div>\n  logic, the neutro-fuzzy inference and its connection with DSmT. Fuzzy logic and neutrosophic logic are useful tools in decision making\n </div>\n <div>\n  after fusioning the information using the DSm hybrid rule of combination of masses.\n </div>\n <div>\n  Keywords: Dezert-Smarandache Theory, DSmT, Data Fusion, Fuzzy Logic, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutro-fuzzy inference, Plausible\n </div>\n <div>\n  and Paradoxical Reasoning\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6126'),
(14688, 'Comedii si drame', 'Vasile Alecsandri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6115'),
(14689, 'A Coming Of Age', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(14690, 'Comparison of E-Learning Platforms', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9486'),
(14691, 'Complete Stories 3 - Second Variety and Other Stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11662'),
(14692, 'Complex Analysis', 'Eberhard Freitag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  The book provides a complete presentation of complex analysis, starting with the theory of Riemann surfaces, including uniformization theory and a detailed treatment of the theory of compact Riemann surfaces, the Riemann-Roch theorem, Abel''s theorem and Jacobi''s inversion theorem. This motivates a short introduction into the theory of several complex variables, followed by the theory of Abelian functions up to the theta theorem. The last part of the book provides  an introduction into the theory of higher modular functions.\n </div>\n <br />\n Beschreibing Redaktion:\n <br />\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  The book provides a complete presentation of complex analysis, starting with the theory of Riemann surfaces, including uniformization theory and a detailed treatment of the theory of compact Riemann surfaces, the Riemann-Roch theorem, Abel''s theorem and Jacobi''s inversion theorem. This motivates a short introduction into the theory of several complex variables, followed by the theory of Abelian functions up to the theta theorem. The last part of the book provides  an introduction into the theory of higher modular functions.\n </div>\n <br />\n (source: Bol.de)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10164'),
(14693, 'Complex System Maintenance Handbook', 'Khairy A. H. Kobbacy &amp; D. N. Prabhakar Murthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The efficient functioning of modern society depends on the smooth operation of many complex systems which provide products and services. These include transport systems, communication systems, utilities, manufacturing plants, processing plants, hospitals and banks. Such systems are unreliable in the sense that they degrade with age and/or usage and fail when they are no longer capable of delivering the products and services. When a complex system fails, the consequences can be dramatic. It can result in serious economic losses, affect humans and do serious damage to the environment. These failures can be controlled through preventive maintenance actions. Due to advances in the understanding of the physics of failure, and in the technologies used to combat this failure; the literature on maintenance of unreliable systems is vast. Complex System Maintenance Handbook is the first book to integrate this vast literature with chapters written by internationally-renowned active researchers and experienced practitioners focussing on different aspects of maintenance. Each chapter reviews the literature dealing with a particular aspect of maintenance, reports on developments and trends in a particular industry sector, or presents a case study. Complex System Maintenance Handbook narrows the gap between theory and practice and will trigger new research on different aspects of maintenance. It will be of interest to maintenance engineers and managers working in industry, as well as researchers and graduate students in the fields of maintenance, industrial engineering and applied mathematics.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Professor Kobbacy is a professor of management science in the Centre of Operational Research and Applied Statistics and also the Director of Management and Management Sciences Research Institute, Salford University, UK. He has a long-standing interest in "applied" operational research. He has previously lectured in operational research at Strathclyde University after gaining industrial experience in a major oil company. His research interests in operations management are directed towards the development of intelligent management systems for maintenance scheduling and inventory control. His research in preventive maintenance scheduling and management has been funded by industry and the research councils. Together with colleagues, he organised and chaired three European Conferences on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, Salford, in 1997 and 2001 and 2005. Professor Kobbacy was awarded the Operational Research President s medal in 1990 and was a vice president of the Operational Research Society, UK (2002-2004).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professor Murthy obtained B.E. and M.E. degrees from Jabalpur University and the Indian Institute of Science in India and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is currently a Research Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a Senior Scientific Advisor to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the USA, Europe and Asia. His current research interests include various aspects of technology management (new product development, strategic management of technology), operations management (lot sizing, quality, reliability, maintenance), and post-sale support (warranties, service contracts). He has authored or coauthored 20 book chapters, 145 journal papers and over 130 conference papers. He is a member of several professional societies and is on the editorial boards of seven international journals. He has run short courses for industry on various topics in technology management, operations management and post-sale support in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA. Professor Murthy has been the co-author of two previous Springer Series in Reliability books: Warranty Management and Product Manufacture (1-85233-933-0, 2005) and Product Reliability: Specification and Performance (due July 2008).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7630'),
(14694, 'CompTIA Project+ Study Guide:', 'Kim Heldman &amp; William Heldman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Prepare for CompTIA''s new Project+ exam!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Take an important step in your project management career by obtaining CompTIA''s Project+ certification. CompTIA is offering the first major update to its Project+ exam in six years, and this in-depth study guide from project management industry experts Kim and William Heldman is the perfect preparation for the exam. You''ll find complete coverage of all exam objectives, including key topics such as defining cost, risk, and delivery; handling changes mid-stream; and how to keep all stakeholders up to speed. Inside, find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you''re getting the instruction you need for the exam\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Real-world scenarios that put what you''ve learned in the contextof actual job roles\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Look inside for complete coverage of all exam objectives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kim Heldman\n  </strong>\n  , PMP, Project+, is the Chief Information Officer for the Colorado Department of Transportation. She has over 16 years of experience in project management and consulting experience. Kim is the author of several books on project management, including all the editions of the bestselling\n  <em>\n   PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   William Heldman\n  </strong>\n  , Project+, Microsoft MVP, has over 17 years of IT project management experience, including working for the Colorado Department of Revenue to develop and implement the agency''s network infrastructure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7661'),
(14695, 'Computational Geometry', 'Mark de Berg &amp; Otfried Cheong &amp; Marc van Kreveld &amp; Mark Overmars', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This well-accepted introduction to computational geometry is a textbook for high-level undergraduate and low-level graduate courses. The focus is on algorithms and hence the book is well suited for students in computer science and engineering. Motivation is provided from the application areas: all solutions and techniques from computational geometry are related to particular applications in robotics, graphics, CAD/CAM, and geographic information systems. For students this motivation will be especially welcome. Modern insights in computational geometry are used to provide solutions that are both efficient and easy to understand and implement. All the basic techniques and topics from computational geometry, as well as several more advanced topics, are covered. The book is largely self-contained and can be used for self-study by anyone with a basic background in algorithms. In this third edition, besides revisions to the second edition, new sections discussing Voronoi diagrams of line segments, farthest-point Voronoi diagrams, and realistic input models have been added.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10166'),
(14696, 'Computational Intelligence', 'Christine L. Mumford &amp; Lakhmi C. Jain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is the first in a new series entitled "Intelligent Systems Reference Library". It is a collection of chapters written by leading experts, covering a rich and diverse variety of computer-based techniques, all involving some aspect of computational intelligence (CI). Authors in this collection recognize the limitations of individual paradigms, and propose some practical and novel ways in which different CI techniques can be combined with each other, or with more traditional computational techniques, to produce powerful problem-solving environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Common themes to be found in the various chapters of this collection include the following:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fusion,\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Collaboration, and\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Emergence.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Fusion describes the hybridization of two or more techniques, at least one of which will involve CI. Collaboration ensures that the different techniques work effectively together. Finally, Emergence refers to the phenomenon that complex behaviour can arise as a result of collaboration between simple processing elements.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book covers a wide range of cutting edge techniques and applications, and is divided into the following parts:\n </p>\n <p>\n  I. Introduction\n </p>\n <p>\n  II. Fusing evolutionary algorithms and fuzzy logic\n </p>\n <p>\n  III. Adaptive solution schemes\n </p>\n <p>\n  IV. Multi-agent systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  V. Computer vision\n </p>\n <p>\n  VI. Communication for CI systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  VII. Artificial immune systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  VIII. Parallel evolutionary algorithms\n </p>\n <p>\n  IX. CI for clustering and classification\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7609'),
(14697, 'Computational Intelligence in Manufacturing Handbook', 'Jun Wang &amp; Andrew Kusiak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Despite the large volume of publications devoted to neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary programming, few address the applications of computational intelligence in design and manufacturing. Computational Intelligence in Manufacturing Handbook fills this void as it covers the most recent advances in this area and state-of-the-art applications. This comprehensive handbook contains an excellent balance of tutorials and new results, that allows you to:\n <em>\n  obtain current information\n </em>\n understand technical details\n <em>\n  assess research potentials, and\n </em>\n define future directions of the fieldManufacturing applications play a leading role in progress, and this handbook gives you a ready reference to guide you easily through these developments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7646'),
(14698, 'Computational Intelligence in Power Engineering', 'Ajith Abraham &amp; Swagatam Das', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Computational Intelligence (CI) is one of the most important powerful tools for research in the diverse fields of engineering sciences ranging from traditional fields of civil, mechanical engineering to vast sections of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and above all the biological and pharmaceutical sciences. The existing field has its origin in the functioning of the human brain in processing information, recognizing pattern, learning from observations and experiments, storing and retrieving information from memory, etc. In particular, the power industry being on the verge of epoch changing due to deregulation, the power engineers require Computational intelligence tools for proper planning, operation and control of the power system. Most of the CI tools are suitably formulated as some sort of optimization or decision making problems. These CI techniques provide the power utilities with innovative solutions for efficient analysis, optimal operation and control and intelligent decision making. This edited volume deals with different CI techniques for solving real world Power Industry problems. The technical contents will be extremely helpful for the researchers as well as the practicing engineers in the power industry.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Computational Intelligence (CI) is one of the most important powerful tools for research in the diverse fields of engineering sciences ranging from traditional fields of civil, mechanical engineering to vast sections of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and above all the biological and pharmaceutical sciences. The existing field has its origin in the functioning of the human brain in processing information, recognizing pattern, learning from observations and experiments, storing and retrieving information from memory, etc. In particular, the power industry being on the verge of epoch changing due to deregulation, the power engineers require Computational intelligence tools for proper planning, operation and control of the power system. Most of the CI tools are suitably formulated as some sort of optimization or decision making problems. These CI techniques provide the power utilities with innovative solutions for efficient analysis, optimal operation and control and intelligent decision making. This edited volume deals with different CI techniques for solving real world Power Industry problems. The technical contents will be extremely helpful for the researchers as well as the practicing engineers in the power industry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7612'),
(14699, 'Computer Science and ArtificialIntelligenceNRL STRATEGIC SERIES', 'National Academy of Sciences', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7403'),
(14700, 'Computer Security  Audit. Fundamentals of a Security  Audit', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7962'),
(14701, 'A conceptual guide to OpenOffice.org 3', 'R. Gabriel Gurley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3\n </div>\n <div>\n  Gabriel Gurley\n </div>\n <div>\n  Copyright Â© 2008 by Gabriel Gurley\n </div>\n <div>\n  For further information, visit the OpenOffice.org Documentation website at http://documentation.openoffice.\n </div>\n <div>\n  org/ or the authorâ€™s website at http://www.gabrielgurley.com/. To report errors, please send an email to editor@\n </div>\n <div>\n  gabrielgurley.com\n </div>\n <div>\n  Cover Illustration: A computer-generated illustration of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Illustration created by\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7819');
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(14702, 'Concrete5 Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Remo Laubacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Create and customize your own website with the Concrete5 Beginner''s Guide Follow the creation of a sample site, through the installation, configuration, and deployment of a Concrete5 site Use themes and add-ons to create a personalized site Ideal introduction to using the Concrete5 CMS Part of Packt''s Beginner''s Guide series - lots of practical examples, screenshots, and less of the waffle In Detail Concrete5 is a content management system for PHP developers. It can be used to build a range of sites and is particularly optimized for creating marketing websites. The Concrete5 Beginner''s Guide will show you how to get up and running with Concrete5 as quickly and painlessly as possible. Taking you from installation to deployment, this is the only reference that you will need for creating your new Concrete5 site By using a number of real-world examples, as well as taking you through the set up of a sample site, this book will enable you to become familiar with all of Concrete5''s features. Use add-ons, themes, and blocks to give your site the look-and-feel that you desire. Simple PHP will enable you to customize the layout and navigation options of your site, as well extend the dashboard giving you a fully functional, professional site in no time. A step-by-step guide to creating professional, feature-rich sites with Concrete5 What you will learn from this book Navigate your way around the toolbar and dashboard in order to edit your site Install add-ons and themes to make your site aesthetically pleasing Customize the layout of your site to enable your users to find what they need quickly Use Concrete5 blocks to add pictures. Extend the dashboard to add functionality to your blocks Deploy your site to the server Approach This book is part of Packt''s Beginner''s Guide series. You will be guided through the set up of a Concrete5 site with step-by-step practical examples. Who this book is written for This book is ideal for developers who would like to build their first site with Concrete5. Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML would be useful, but you will likely have little to no experience in using Concrete5. This book will teach you everything you need to know!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7765'),
(14703, 'Confessions of a Crap Artist', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dickâ€™s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artistâ€”a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jackâ€™s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jackâ€™s, but a great deal uglier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11790'),
(14704, 'Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional', 'Brian K. Barber &amp; Thomas W. Shinder &amp; Chad Todd &amp; Debra Littlejohn Shinder &amp; Norris L. Johnson Jr &amp; Martin Grasdal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In October of 2001, Microsoft will begin its most expensive market launch ever for Windows XP With the promise of a market launch twice the size of the one for Windows 95, Microsoft will undoubtedly drive enormous demand for its Windows XP desktop operating system. Many corporate and small business users have waited to upgrade from Windows 9x, and they now see WinXP as the stable, second generation of Windows 2000 Professional. Syngress''s Windows 2000 books were the first out on the market when W2K was released and quickly became bestsellers. Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional aims to be the the first book available on this new product. Designed to compete directly with books such as Mastering Windows 2000 Professional, by Mark Minasi, Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional is comprehensive guide for system administrators and network engineers responsible for deploying Windows XP Professional across the network. The first Windows XP Professional book on the market Not ''for Dummies'' - this is an essential reference guide for certified Windows 2000 administrators and engineers Edited by Tom Shinder, the best-selling author of Configuring ISA Server 2000 Unrivalled web support at www.solutions@syngress.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6468'),
(14705, 'Conquerors&#39; Heritage', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3014'),
(14706, 'Conquerors&#39; Legacy', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3012'),
(14707, 'Conquerors&#39; Pride', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3011'),
(14708, 'Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins', 'Erich Gamma &amp; Kent Beck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewDevelopers have grown accustomed to tools that force you to work more or less the way they want you to. But it hasn t always been that way. Some may remember the heyday of Smalltalk, which treated every user as a potential programmer. (Don t like the way your editor works? Change it.) Now, there s an open source software project that brings that philosophy back to life: Eclipse. From the outset, Eclipse has envisioned an endless Contribution Circle that benefits everyone involved. Users become configurers, thoroughly adjusting Eclipse to their unique needs. Configurers become extenders, plugging in new functionality they ve created. Extenders become publishers, sharing their functionality with the world. Publishers become enablers, providing hooks others can use to further extend the contributions they ve published. Finally, having earned the trust of the community, enablers become committers, able to contribute changes to the source code in the global Eclipse release. Contributing to Eclipse is about becoming part of that contribution circle -- and reaping its benefits. Authored by the legendary Erich Gamma (Design Patterns'' Gang of Four ) and Kent Beck (of Extreme Programming fame), this book has three goals. First, using plenty of examples, it thoroughly explains the basic concepts and details you need in order to contribute to Eclipse at any level. Second, it teaches you how to learn even more about Eclipse, whenever you need to know it. Third, maybe most important -- and not surprising, given who wrote it -- the book is a primer on Eclipse s sophisticated design principles. Of course, those principles aren t just relevant to Eclipse, but to any system you might be involved with. The authors begin by walking you through the Eclipse architecture at a high level, then setting you up for plug-in development, and walking you through just about the simplest possible example (You ll add a button to the toolbar. When you click the button, a dialog box will appear, announcing -- yup, the old standby -- Hello World.) Next, you ll drill down with a more detailed example: the authors own JUnit regression testing framework for implementing unit tests in Java. They start simple, using JUnit as existing functionality that will be accessed through Eclipse, and using the extension of JUnit for testing plug-ins, PDE JUnit. Next, they add the elements required for a complete Eclipse contribution. As the authors put it, collectively, The contributions add up to a new way to think about tests during the development process, and each bit shows you a useful corner of Eclipse. Along the way, you ll walk through implementing menu items, displaying results, defining extension points that allow others to extend JUnit, and packaging your plug-in. Gamma and Beck cover a wide range of issues associated with Eclipse development and testing, ranging from auto-test properties and exception handling to tracing, markers and marker resolution, and test reporting using JFace. Last but not least, the authors present a designer-to-designer tour of Eclipse built around design and implementation patterns, and showing how these patterns play out in diverse contexts. If you care about design at all, you ll find this stuff invaluable. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9119'),
(14709, 'CONUL LEONIDA FATA CU REACTIUNEA', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8657'),
(14710, 'Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks', 'Krzysztof Iniewski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Intended as a preview of cutting edge technologies designed to deal with the ever increasing demand for network bandwidth, this collection of twenty-four essays presents scholarship on several types of emerging high-speed network technologies. Divided into sections covering access and backhaul networks, wireline technologies, wireless and spectrum management, metropolitan core, storage and area networks and photonic component technology, specific topics discussed include fiber-wireless network, packet backhaul systems, passive optical networks, mobile wimax, ROADM and radio-frequency transmitters. Appropriate for electronics and communications engineers and high level graduate students, contributors to this work include academics from a variety of universities around the world as well as industry experts in computer networking, fiber optics and telephony." (_Reference and Research Book News_, February 2011)"Featuring contributions from top industrial experts and academic professors, this authoritative work provides a comprehensive introduction to next-generation networks."\n  <br />\n  (Global Print Monitor, 23 February 2011)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Only Resource to Cover Wireless, Wireline, and Optical Networks in One Volume\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mobile and stationary next-generation networks that access the photonic core are destined to become as ubiquitous as traditional telephone networks. These networks must efficiently provide adequate network quality to multimedia applications with high bandwidth and strict quality-of-service requirements, as well as seamlessly integrate mobile and fixed architectures. Today''s engineering students must be properly prepared to meet the challenges of next-generation network development and deployment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring contributions from top industrial experts and academic professors, this authoritative work provides a comprehensive introduction to next-generation networks. It explains wireless networks such as wireless local area networks (WLAN), wireless personal area networks (WPAN), wireless access, 3G/4G cellular, and RF transmission, as well as optical networks like long-haul and metropolitan networks, optical fiber, photonic devices, and VLSI chips. Rather than focusing on heavy math or physical details, this resource explores how the technology is being used. It describes access and transport network layer technologies while also discussing the network and services aspects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fiberâ€“wireless networks: technologies, architectures, and future challenges\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Packet backhaul network\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Point-to-point microwave backhaul\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fourth-generation broadband: paving the road to Gbit/s with copper\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Dynamic bandwidth allocation in EPON and GPON\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Next-generation ethernet passive optical networks: 10G-EPON\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Power line communications and smart grids\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Signaling for multimedia conferencing in 4G: architecture, evaluation, and issues\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Self-coexistence and security in cognitive radio networks\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Mobile WiMAX\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    UWB personal area networksâ€”MIMO extensions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Next-generation integrated metropolitan-access network: technology integration and wireless convergence\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Resilient burst ring: a novel technology for the next-generation metropolitan area networks\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Filled with illustrations and practical examples from industry, this book will be invaluable to engineers and researchers in industry and academia, as well as senior undergraduate and graduate students, marketing and management staff, photonics physicists, and chip designers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7771'),
(14711, 'Coridoare de oglinzi', 'Ana Blandiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4751'),
(14712, 'Cormyr: A Novel. Book 1 of Cormyr Saga', 'Ed Greenwood &amp; Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11959'),
(14713, 'Counter Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11677'),
(14714, 'Counter plagiarism detection software', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9482'),
(14715, 'A Crash Course in Python', 'By Stephen Saville &amp; Andrew Lusk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6139'),
(14716, 'Creating Your First VB Program', 'Transcript', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9365'),
(14717, 'Creatura', 'JOHN SAUL', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4845'),
(14718, 'Credit Risk ManagementSystems 2008Catching the next wave', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  About Chartis Research\n </div>\n <div>\n  Chartis Research is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for\n </div>\n <div>\n  risk technology. Our goal is to support enterprises as they drive business performance\n </div>\n <div>\n  through better risk management, corporate governance and compliance. We help clients\n </div>\n <div>\n  make informed technology and business decisions by providing in-depth analysis and\n </div>\n <div>\n  actionable advice on virtually all aspects of risk technology.\n </div>\n <div>\n  This includes technology for:\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Operational Risk Management\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Credit Risk Management\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Market Risk Management\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Asset &amp; Liability Management\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering Prevention and Detection\n </div>\n <div>\n  â€¢ Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, Solvency 2\n </div>\n <div>\n  Chartis Research has a total focus on Risk Technology giving it significant advantage over\n </div>\n <div>\n  generic market analysts.\n </div>\n <div>\n  Chartis Research has brought together a leading team of analysts and advisors from the\n </div>\n <div>\n  risk management and financial services industries. This team has hands-on experience of\n </div>\n <div>\n  implementing and developing risk management systems and programmes for Fortune 500\n </div>\n <div>\n  firms and leading consulting houses.\n </div>\n <div>\n  www.chartis-research.com\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7913'),
(14719, 'The Credit Scoring Toolkit', 'Raymond Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is an extremely valuable and timely book on a very important topic ... Anderson has provided a great service to all who use Credit Scoring techniques. Barry Scholnick PhD, Eric Geddes Associate Professor of Business, University of Alberta It is a superb mixture of a practical how to do guide for those wanting to use and develop credit scoring together with a way of putting the decisions it supports in context and the techniques it uses in a general modelling framework. Professor Lyn Thomas, Professor of Management Science, Scholl of Management, University of Southampton\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''ve written the thing, of course you''re going to brag. This work was took four years, and involved thousands of hours reading and research, to provide a view of the topic from practically every possible angle: statistics, economics, finance, law, history, and so on. And even though I already had several years experience in the field, its creation took me on a journey of learning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although written by a practitioner, the book is extremely well referenced and suited for academic environments (the bibliography and glossary are 15 and 40 pages long, respectively). It takes a non-geocentric approach, and strives present broad principles instead of focussing upon the situation in any one country. Even so, it is most relevant to the UK and USA environments, for which the most information is available.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Comments received from colleagues have thus far have included "awesome", "art", and "bible", as I really tried to draw upon my writing abilities to create something that "is in a totally different league" to other works. If you have any interest in retail credit, whether as a bank, retailer, or service provider, I am sure you will find this book of value.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7910'),
(14720, 'CREIERUL, O ENIGMA DESCIFRATA', 'Dorin Teodor MOISA', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6935'),
(14721, 'Crime Spells', 'Martin H Greenberg &amp; Loren L Coleman &amp; Phaedra M. Weldon &amp; Mike Resnick &amp; Michael A. Stackpole &amp; JayLake &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch &amp; Steven Mohan &amp; Jr. &amp; Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Ilsa J. Bick &amp; Joe Edwards &amp; Devon Monk &amp; Jason Schmetzer &amp; Randall N. Bills &amp; Robert T. Jeschonek &amp; Peter Orullian &amp; Leslie Claire Walker &amp; Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An anthology of stories edited by Loren L Coleman and Martin H Greenberg\n <br />\n Sixteen original stories about magic-fueled crimes and those who investigate them\n <br />\n When magic is used for criminal purposes, all sorts of ethical and logistical questions arise beyond the realm of everyday law and order.\n <br />\n Now, sixteen top tale-tellers offer fascinating new stories of those who commit magic crimes, those who investigate them, and those who prosecute them. From a young woman who uses out-of-body excursions to research paranormal crimes to a bookie who''s been paying for hex protection against magical interference to an artist who does divination through his sketched visions which may lead to a murderer''s undoing, here are powerful tales of magical crimes and punishments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6329'),
(14722, 'Crown of Fire', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11760'),
(14723, 'Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams', 'Alistair Cockburn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carefully researched over ten years and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams is a lucid and practical introduction to running a successful agile project in your organization. Each chapter illuminates a different important aspect of orchestrating agile projects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Highlights include\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attention to the essential human and communication aspects of successful projects\n </p>\n <p>\n  Case studies, examples, principles, strategies, techniques, and guiding properties\n </p>\n <p>\n  Samples of work products from real-world projects instead of blank templates and toy problems\n </p>\n <p>\n  Top strategies used by software teams that excel in delivering quality code in a timely fashion\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detailed introduction to emerging best-practice techniques, such as Blitz Planning, Project 360Âº, and the essential Reflection Workshop\n </p>\n <p>\n  Question-and-answer with the author about how he arrived at these recommendations, including where they fit with CMMI, ISO, RUP, XP, and other methodologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  A detailed case study, including an ISO auditor''s analysis of the project\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perhaps the most important contribution this book offers is the Seven Properties of Successful Projects. The author has studied successful agile projects and identified common traits they share. These properties lead your project to success; conversely, their absence endangers your project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The best thinking in the agile development community brought to street-level in the form of implementable strategy and tactics. Essential reading for anyone who shares the passion for creating quality software."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Eric Olafson, CEO Tomax\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Crystal Clear is beyond agile. This book leads you from software process hell to successful software development by practical examples and useful samples."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Basaki Satoshi, Schlumberger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A very powerful message, delivered in a variety of ways to touch the motivation and understanding of many points of view."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Laurie Williams, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A broad, rich understanding of small-team software development based on observations of what actually works."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”John Rusk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A superb synthesis of underlying principles and a clear description of strategies and techniques."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”GÃ©ry Derbier, Project Manager, Solistic\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Alistair Cockburn shows how small teams can be highly effective at developing fit-for-purpose software by following a few basic software development practices and by creating proper team dynamics. These small teams can be much more effective and predictable than much larger teams that follow overly bureaucratic and prescriptive development processes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Todd Little, Sr. Development Manager, Landmark Graphics\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I find Cockburn[HTML_REMOVED]s writings on agile methods enlightening: He describes [HTML_REMOVED]how to do,[HTML_REMOVED] of course, but also how to tell whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re doing it right, to reach into the feeling of the project. This particular book[HTML_REMOVED]s value is that actual project experiences leading to and confirming the principles and practices are so...well...clearly presented."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Scott Duncan, ASQ Software Division Standards Chair and representative to the US SC7 TAG and IEEE S2ESC Executive Committee and Management Board and Chair of IEEE Working Group 1648 on agile methods\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Crystal Clear\n  </em>\n  identifies principles that work not only for software development, but also for any results-centric activities. Dr. Cockburn follows these principles with concrete, practical examples of how to apply the principles to real situations and roles and to resolve real issues."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Niel Nickolaisen, COO, Deseret Book\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the successful projects I[HTML_REMOVED]ve been involved with or have observed over the past 19 or so years have had many of the same characteristics as described in\n  <em>\n   Crystal Clear\n  </em>\n  (even the big projects). And many of the failed projects failed because they missed somethingâ€”such as expert end-user involvement or accessibility throughout the project. The final story was a great read. Here was a project that in my opinion was an overwhelming successâ€”high productivity, high quality, delivery, happy customer, and the fact that the team would do it again. The differing styles in each chapter kept it interesting. I started reading it and couldn[HTML_REMOVED]t put it down, and by the end, I just had to say [HTML_REMOVED]Wow![HTML_REMOVED]"\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Ron Holliday, Director, Fidelity Management Research\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carefully researched over ten years and eagerly anticipated by the agile community,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams\n  </em>\n  is a lucid and practical introduction to running a successful agile project in your organization. Each chapter illuminates a different important aspect of orchestrating agile projects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Highlights include\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Attention to the essential human and communication aspects of successful projects\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Case studies, examples, principles, strategies, techniques, and guiding properties\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Samples of work products from real-world projects instead of blank templates and toy problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Top strategies used by software teams that excel in delivering quality code in a timely fashion\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Detailed introduction to emerging best-practice techniques, such as Blitz Planning, Project 360Âº, and the essential Reflection Workshop\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Question-and-answer with the author about how he arrived at these recommendations, including where they fit with CMMI, ISO, RUP, XP, and other methodologies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A detailed case study, including an ISO auditor[HTML_REMOVED]s analysis of the project\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Perhaps the most important contribution this book offers is the Seven Properties of Successful Projects. The author has studied successful agile projects and identified common traits they share. These properties lead your project to success; conversely, their absence endangers your project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9565'),
(14724, 'CSS Cookbook', 'Christopher Schmitt &amp; Dan Cederholm', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to enrich the presentation of HTML-based web pages, allowing web authors to give their pages a more sophisticated look and more structure. CSS''s compact file size helps web pages load quickly, and by allowing changes made in one place to be applied across the entire document, CSS can save hours of tedious changing and updating.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But to leverage the full power of CSS, web authors first have to sift through CSS theory to find practical solutions that resolve real-world problems. Web authors can waste hours and earn ulcers trying to find answers to those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project. The\n  <em>\n   CSS Cookbook\n  </em>\n  cuts straight through the theory to provide hundreds of useful examples and CSS code recipes that web authors can use immediately to format their web pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The time saved by a single one of these recipes will make its cover price money well-spent. But the\n  <em>\n   CSS Cookbook\n  </em>\n  provides more than quick code solutions to pressing problems. The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables readers to customize the formatting for their specific purposes, and shows why the solution works, so you can adapt these techniques to other situations. Recipes range from the basics that every web author needs to code concoctions that will take your web pages to new levels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reflecting CSS2, the latest specification, and including topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, it is easy to see why the\n  <em>\n   CSS Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is regarded as an excellent companion to\n  <em>\n   Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide\n  </em>\n  and a must-have resource for any web author who has even considered using CSS.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  "CSS Cookbook" provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that readers can use immediately to format their Web pages. Arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy reference, this second edition has been updated to explain the unique behavior of the latest browsers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9351'),
(14725, 'CSS Web Design for Dummies', 'Richard Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A step-by-step guide for stepping up from plain HTML\n </p>\n <p>\n  Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to update\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site''s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here''s what you need to get up to speed!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Discover how to\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create practical style sheets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Format pages that are visually pleasing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage details such as colors and backgrounds\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Handle lists and tables\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Render complex documents\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richard Mansfield\n  </strong>\n  was the editor of\n  <em>\n   COMPUTE!\n  </em>\n  Magazine from 1981 to 1987. During that time, he wrote hundreds of magazine articles and two columns. From 1987 to 1991, he was editorial director and partner at Signal Research. He began writing books full-time in 1991 and has written 36 computer books since 1982. Of those, four became bestsellers:\n  <em>\n   Machine Language for Beginners\n  </em>\n  (COMPUTE! Books),\n  <em>\n   The Second Book of Machine Language\n  </em>\n  (COMPUTE! Books),\n  <em>\n   The Visual Guide to Visual Basic\n  </em>\n  (Ventana), and\n  <em>\n   The Visual Basic Power Toolkit\n  </em>\n  (Ventana, coauthored by Evangelos Petroutsos). His books combined have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages.\n  <br />\n  Richardâ€™s recent titles include\n  <em>\n   Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Visual Basic .NET All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Visual Basic .NET Database Programming For Dummies\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Visual Basic 6 Database Programming For Dummies\n  </em>\n  (all published by Wiley),\n  <em>\n   Hacker Attack\n  </em>\n  (Sybex), and\n  <em>\n   The Wi-Fi Experience: Everyoneâ€™s Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking\n  </em>\n  (Pearson Education, coauthored by Harold Davis).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9308'),
(14726, 'CSS: The Definitive Guide', 'Eric A. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. A widely read author, he is also the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com), which counts among its clients America Online; Apple Computer, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank; and Macromedia, which described Eric as "a critical partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolutionary tool for CSS-based design."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the visual designer and campus web coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University web site, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was Project Coordinator for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, the first encyclopedia of urban history published fully and freely on the Web.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author of Eric Meyer on CSS and More Eric Meyer on CSS (New Riders), Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O''Reilly), and CSS2.0 Programmer''s Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), as well as numerous articles for the O''Reilly Network, Web Techniques, and Web Review, Eric also created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C''s official CSS Test Suite. He has lectured to a wide variety of organizations, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa. Eric has also delivered addresses and technical presentations at numerous conferences, among them An Event Apart (which he cofounded), the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his personal time, Eric acts as List Chaperone of the highly active css-discuss mailing list (www.css-discuss.org), which he cofounded with John Allsopp of Western Civilisation and which is now supported by evolt.org. Eric lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you''ve been led to believe. For nine years, he was the host of "Your Father''s Oldsmobile," a Big Band-era radio show heard weekly on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can find more detailed information on Eric''s personal web page at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9281'),
(14727, 'CSS3. Quick reference guide', 'Veign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6530'),
(14728, 'Cugetari', 'Emil Cioran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4708'),
(14729, 'Culegere povestiri', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4896'),
(14730, 'Curs MYSQL and PHP', 'Mihai Jalobeanu', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Curs PHP/MySQL\n </div>\n <div>\n  Acest curs este o traducere ÅŸi adaptare realizatÄƒ de Mihai Jalobeanu, a ghidului luiÂ David Cowans intitulat PHP/MySQL Tutorial (Â© 1999 - 2001 David Gowans)\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9746'),
(14731, 'Curs: Calculatoare numerice', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9380'),
(14732, 'Czas przemian', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ludzka kolonia na nieprzyjaznej, ubogiej planecie Borthan, pozbawiona kontaktu z ZiemiÄ…, wypracowaÅ‚a niespotykany nigdzie indziej system spoÅ‚eczny. CzÅ‚owiek jest w niej skazany na samotnoÅ›Ä‡ w tÅ‚umieÂ â€” normy i zasady spoÅ‚eczne zakazujÄ… mÃ³wienia o sobie i swoich potrzebach czy uczuciach, bo to prowadzi jakoby do zbytniego pobÅ‚aÅ¼ania sobie, litowania siÄ™ nad sobÄ… i zepsucia moralnego. Kinnall Darival, syn arystokraty, pisze pamiÄ™tnik (rzecz sama w sobie niebywaÅ‚a), w ktÃ³rym uÅ¼ywa sÅ‚Ã³w â€œjaâ€, â€œmnieâ€ (uznawanych powszechnie za obsceniczne)Â â€” liczÄ…c, Å¼e poruszy w ludziach jakÄ…Å› czuÅ‚Ä… strunÄ™ i zdoÅ‚a odmieniÄ‡ swÃ³j Å›wiat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11210'),
(14733, 'D-ale carnavalului', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4805'),
(14734, 'D&#39;ale carnavalului', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8562'),
(14735, 'Dan Brown', 'Codul lui da Vinci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8577'),
(14736, 'Dancing on the Wind', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A tragic past has driven Lord Strathmore to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and he does it superlatively well - until he meets a mysterious woman. By turns glamorous and subdued, reckless yet vulnerable, she baffles his mind even as she captures his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8869'),
(14737, 'Das Leben das Universum und der ganze Rest', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4581'),
(14738, 'Data Analysis With Open Source Tools', 'Philipp K Janert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Collecting data is relatively easy, but turning raw information into something useful requires that you know how to extract precisely what you need. With this insightful book, intermediate to experienced programmers interested in data analysis will learn techniques for working with data in a business environment. You''ll learn how to look at data to discover what it contains, how to capture those ideas in conceptual models, and then feed your understanding back into the organization through business plans, metrics dashboards, and other applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, you''ll experiment with concepts through hands-on workshops at the end of each chapter. Above all, you''ll learn how to think about the results you want to achieve Â— rather than rely on tools to think for you.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Use graphics to describe data with one, two, or dozens of variables\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Develop conceptual models using back-of-the-envelope calculations, as well as scaling and probability arguments\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mine data with computationally intensive methods such as simulation and clustering\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make your conclusions understandable through reports, dashboards, and other metrics programs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand financial calculations, including the time-value of money\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use dimensionality reduction techniques or predictive analytics to conquer challenging data analysis situations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Become familiar with different open source programming environments for data analysis\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  "Finally, a concise reference for understanding how to conquer piles of data." Â—Austin King, Senior Web Developer, Mozilla\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An indispensable text for aspiring data scientists." Â—Michael E. Driscoll, CEO/Founder, Dataspora\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7744'),
(14739, 'Data Architecture for ITSM', 'Charles T. Betz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3462'),
(14740, 'De Caelo', 'Constantin Noica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4733'),
(14741, 'De ce-ai plecat', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8580'),
(14742, 'De veghe in lanul se secara', 'Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4706'),
(14743, 'Deadman Switch', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(14744, 'Death of the Dragon', 'Troy Denning &amp; Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Azoun IV, in the twilight of his years, is still a shining hero to most of his subjects, and to all but the eldest, the only king they''ve ever known. He''s led them capably out of dark doom before.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Cormyr has never faced so many mighty and mysterious foes at once. Demonic ghazneths, ancient curses, weird trees of foul magic, goblins and their kin on the rise in the northern wilderlands, a blight upon the land, rebellious mutterings, dying war wizards...and a dragon the likes of which no living eyes on Faerun have ever seen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Purple Throne doesn''t seem so unassailable now. It could well shatter under the weight of a gigantic dragon--or the secrets and follies of the last of the Obarskyrs.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11686'),
(14745, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Sarah Smith &amp; Jeaniene Frost &amp; Daniel Stashower &amp; A. Lee Martinez &amp; Jeff Abbott &amp; L. A. Banks &amp; Katie MacAlister &amp; Christopher Golden &amp; Lilith Saintcrow &amp; Chris Grabenstein &amp; Sharan Newman &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collectionâ€”including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story.\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frostâ€”plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and moreâ€”send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns.\n <br />\n With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summerâ€”for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8935'),
(14746, 'Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites', 'Antonio Marcomini &amp; Glenn Walter Suter Ii &amp; Andrea Critto', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites addresses decision making in environmental risk management for contaminated sites, focusing on the potential role of decision support systems in informing the management of chemical pollutants and their effects. Considering the environmental relevance and the financial impacts of contaminated sites all over the post-industrialized countries and the complexity of decision making in environmental risk management, decision support systems can be used by decision makers in order to have a more structured analysis of a problem at hand and define possible options of intervention to solve the problem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Accordingly, the book provides an analysis of the main steps and tools for the development of decision support systems, namely: environmental risk assessment, decision analysis, spatial analysis and geographic information system, indicators and endpoints. Sections are dedicated to the review of decision support systems for contaminated land management and for inland and coastal waters management. Both include discussions of management problem formulation and of the application of specific decision support systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a valuable support for environmental risk managers and for decision makers involved in a sustainable management of contaminated sites, including contaminated lands, river basins and coastal lagoons. Furthermore, it is a basic tool for the environmental scientists who gather data and perform assessments to support decisions, developers of decision support systems, students of environmental science and members of the public who wish to understand the assessment science that supports remedial decisions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andrea Critto Lecturer in Environmental Risk Assessment and research associate at Department of Environmental Sciences; senior researcher at Interdepartmental Centre for the Dynamic Interactions between Economy, Environment and Society (IDEAS), the University Caâ€™ Foscari of Venice, Italy.\n  <br />\n  His main research activity concerns Environmental Risk Assessment and Management associated with: a) development of Decision Support Systems for the integration of environmental, technological, economical and societal issues; b) formulation of Environmental Quality Standards and planning of environmental monitoring; c) selection/comparison of remedial technologies for contaminated sites.\n  <br />\n  Dr. Critto received his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at the University Caâ€™ Foscari of Venice, Italy, with specialization in Environmental Risk Assessment and GIS-based Decision Support Systems (DSS) for risk based environmental management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Antonio Marcomini Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University Caâ€™ Foscari of Venice, he has been post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Canada) and research associate at the EAWAG-ETH Institute of Water Science and Technology , Duebendorf (Switzerland). He has written extensively on the environmental behaviour (i.e. identification and determination, degradation and bioaccumulation, fate and transport, etc.) of both naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals, on impact and human health/ecological risk assessment of chemical pollutants, on environmental sustainability of degraded land/ecosystems rehabilitation, and on tools (procedures, prools, decision support systems) for environmental decision making. He is author/coauthor of approx. 160 publications appeared in peer reviewed international journals, as well as of book chapters. Coordinator/scientific responsible of several international and national projects, his current research work focuses on characterization and risk assessment of emerging pollutants, especially nanoparticles and nanomaterials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Glenn W. Suter II Glenn W. Suter II is Science Advisor in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyâ€™s National Center for Environmental Assessment-Cincinnati, and was formerly a Senior Research Staff Member in the Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, and 30 years of professional experience including 25 years of experience in ecological risk assessment. He is the principal author of three texts in the field of ecological risk assessment, editor of two other books and author of more than a hundred open literature publications. He is Associate Editor for Ecological Risk of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, and Reviews Editor for the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). He has served on the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis Task Force on Risk and Policy Analysis, the Board of Directors of SETAC, an Expert Panel for the Council on Environmental Quality, and the editorial boards of five journals. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors; most notably, he is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and he received SETACâ€™s Global Founderâ€™s Award, their award for career achievement, and the EPAâ€™s Level 1 Scientific and Technical Achievement Award. His research experience includes development and application of methods for ecological risk assessment and ecological epidemiology, development of soil microcosm and fish toxicity tests, and environmental monitoring. His work is currently focused on the development of methods for determining the causes of biological impairments.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9381');
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(14747, 'Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations', 'Juergen Geiser', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations: Theory and Applications\n  </strong>\n  describes the analysis of numerical methods for evolution equations based on temporal and spatial decomposition methods. It covers real-life problems, the underlying decomposition and discretization, the stability and consistency analysis of the decomposition methods, and numerical results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book focuses on the modeling of selected multi-physics problems, before introducing decomposition analysis. It presents time and space discretization, temporal decomposition, and the combination of time and spatial decomposition methods for parabolic and hyperbolic equations. The author then applies these methods to numerical problems, including test examples and real-world problems in physical and engineering applications. For the computational results, he uses various software tools, such as MATLABÂ®,\n  <strong>\n   R3T\n  </strong>\n  , WIAS-HiTNIHS, and\n  <strong>\n   OPERA-SPLITT\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Exploring iterative operator-splitting methods, this book shows how to use higher-order discretization methods to solve differential equations. It discusses decomposition methods and their effectiveness, combination possibility with discretization methods, multi-scaling possibilities, and stability to initial and boundary values problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JÃ¼rgen Geiser\n  </strong>\n  is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Humboldt University of Berlin.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7631'),
(14748, 'The Definitive Guide to Jython', 'Josh Juneau &amp; Jim Baker &amp; Leo Soto &amp; Victor Ng &amp; Frank Wierzbicki', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jython is an open source implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented scripting language Python seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. The predecessor to Jython, JPython, is certified as 100% Pure Java. Jython is freely available for both commercial and noncommercial use and is distributed with source code. Jython is complementary to Java.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Definitive Guide to Jython\n  </strong>\n  , written by the official Jython team leads, covers Jython 2.5 (or 2.5.x)Â—from the basics tomore advanced features. This book begins with a brief introduction to the language and then journeys through JythonÂ’s different features and uses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Definitive Guide to Jython\n  </strong>\n  is organized for beginners as well as advanced users of the language. The book provides a general overview of the Jython language itself, but it also includes intermediate and advanced topics regarding database, web, and graphical user interface (GUI) applications; Web services/SOA; and integration, concurrency, and parallelism, to name a few.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What youÂ’ll learn\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to handle Jython basics like language syntax and concepts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to use the Jython scripting language for I/O, Java/Jython integration, and Jython in an IDE and databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to integrate Jython with the Django web framework and even Spring\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to develop web applications with Jython including web services/SOA, GUI considerations, and deployment targets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to conduct testing, continuous integration, concurrency, scaling, and more with Jython\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for Java web developers looking to use a dynamic scripting language as an alternative to Groovy or JRuby. Other web developers who use Python and Django may also be interested in this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Table of Contents\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Language and Syntax\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Data Types and Referencing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Operators, Expressions, and Program Flow\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Defining Functions and Using Built-ins\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Input and Output\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object-Oriented Jython\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exception Handling and Debugging\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Modules and Packages for Code Reuse\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Scripting With Jython\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Jython and Java Integration\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Jython in an IDE\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Databases and Jython: Object Relational Mapping and Using JDBC\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Simple Web Applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Web Applications With Django\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introduction to Pylons\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   GUI Applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deployment Targets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Strategy and Technique\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Testing and Continuous Integration\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Concurrency\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Appendix A: Using Other Tools with Jython\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Appendix B: Jython Cookbook\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Appendix C: Built-in Functions\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Josh Juneau\n  </strong>\n  has been developing software since the mid-1990s. PL/SQL development and database programming was the focus of his career in the beginning, but as his skills developed, he began to use Java and later shifted to it as a primary base for his application development. Josh has worked with Java in the form of graphical user interface, web, and command-line programming for several years. During his tenure as a Java developer, he has worked with many frameworks such as JSF, EJB, and JBoss Seam. At the same time, Josh has extended his knowledge of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) by learning and developing applications with other JVM languages such as Jython and Groovy. His interest in learning new languages that run on the JVM led to his interest in Jython. Since 2006, Josh has been the editor and publisher for the\n  <strong>\n   Jython Monthly\n  </strong>\n  newsletter. In late 2008, he began a podcast dedicated to the Jython programming language.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jim Baker\n  </strong>\n  has more than 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence, enterprise system management, and high-performance web applications. Jim is a committer on Jython and also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of Python enthusiasts in Boulder, Colorado. Jim graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a bachelor''s degree in computer science,andearnedhis master''s in science fromBrown University, where he wasan all-but-dissertation Ph.D. candidate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Frank Wierzbicki\n  </strong>\n  ishead of the Jython project and a lead software developer at Sauce Labs. He has been programming since the Commodore 64, was the king of home computers (look it up kids!) and can''t imagine why anyone would do anything else for a living. Frank''s most enduring hobby is picking up new programming languages, but he has yet to find one that is more fun to work with than Python.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Leonardo Soto\n  </strong>\n  has beenpart of the Jython development team since the middle of 2008, after a successfully completed Google Summer of Code project that aimed to run and integrate the Django web framework with Jython. He attended theUniversidad de Santiago de Chile for informatics engineering. He has developed several software systems over the past seven years, most of them being web applications, and most of them based on the JavaEE (formerly J2EE) platform. However, he has been spoiled by Python since almost the start of his professional developer career, and he has missed its power and clarity countless times, which inexorably turned him toward the Jython project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victor Ng\n  </strong>\n  has been slinging Python code in enterprises for about 10 years and has worked in the banking, adventure travel, and telecommunications industries. He started a small consulting company with his friend in 2006 called Monkeybean, Inc. (so named after his daughter''s nickname). He lives just outside of Toronto, Ontario.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Donna L. Baker\n  </strong>\n  is an information developer and graphic designer. She is also contributing editor for the online magazine,\n  <em>\n   WindoWatch.com\n  </em>\n  , and is the author of\n  <strong>\n   Coursebuilder for Dreamweaver F/X and Design\n  </strong>\n  (2002)\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   How to Use Adobe After Effects 5.0 &amp; 5.5\n  </em>\n  (2002), and\n  <strong>\n   Adobe Premiere 6.5 Complete Course\n  </strong>\n  (2003). Throughout her career, she has been involved in software, teaching, and knowledge management in different forms, from being a technical writer for a software company to working as a college curriculum developer and instructor. Find out more about Donna and what''s new and interesting in her world by visiting her home page, http://www.donnabaker.ca.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The source for this book can be downloaded from the\n  <a href="http://bitbucket.org/javajuneau/jythonbook/">\n   bitbucket.org\n  </a>\n  site. This book covers\n  <a href="http://www.jython.org/">\n   Jython 2.5.1\n  </a>\n  . To begin reading, start here\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7826'),
(14749, 'Demonii', 'F. M. Dostoievski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8531'),
(14750, 'The Deserter', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10103'),
(14751, 'Desertul pentru totdeauna', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4758'),
(14752, 'The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System', 'Marshall Kirk Mckusick &amp; Keith Bostic &amp; Michael J. Karels &amp; John S. Quarterman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn effectively and efficiently how to interface to the system; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Highlights:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Details major changes in process and memory management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Describes the new extensible and stackable file system interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes an invaluable chapter on the new network file system\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Updates information on networking and interprocess communication\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Written from the unique perspective of the system''s architects, this book delivers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the latest BSD system.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn effectively and efficiently how to interface to the system; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system. Written from the unique perspective of the system[HTML_REMOVED]s architects, this book delivers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the latest BSD system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in the previous book on 4.3BSD (with Samuel Leffler), the authors first update the history and goals of the BSD system. Next they provide a coherent overview of its design and implementation. Then, while explaining key design decisions, they detail the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the system[HTML_REMOVED]s facilities. As an in-depth study of a contemporary, portable operating system, or as a practical reference, readers will appreciate the wealth of insight and guidance contained in this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Highlights of the book:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Details major changes in process and memory management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Describes the new extensible and stackable filesystem interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes an invaluable chapter on the new network filesystem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Updates information on networking and interprocess communication\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9173'),
(14753, 'Design of Digital Systems and Devices', 'Marian Adamski &amp; Alexander Barkalov &amp; Marek W Grzyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Logic design of digital devices is a very important part of the Computer Science. It deals with design and testing of logic circuits for both data-path and control unit of a digital system. Design methods depend strongly on logic elements using for implementation of logic circuits. Different programmable logic devices are wide used for implementation of logic circuits. Nowadays, we witness the rapid growth of new and new chips, but there is a strong lack of new design methods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book includes a variety of design and test methods targeted on different digital devices. It covers methods of digital system design, the development of theoretical base for construction and designing of the PLDâ€“based devices, application of UML for digital design. A considerable part of the book is devoted to design methods oriented on implementing control units using FPGA and CPLD chips. Such important issues as design of reliable FSMs, automatic design of concurrent logic controllers, the models and methods for creating infrastructure IP services for the SoCs are also presented.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The editors of the book hope that it will be interesting and useful for experts in Computer Science and Electronics, as well as for students, who are viewed as designers of future digital devices and systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7404'),
(14754, 'Designing Successful E-Learning, Michael Allen&#39;s Online Learning Library', 'Michael W. Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe theoretical literature on learning and growth can be difficult to master and even more challenging to integrate into e-learning, but Michael has made this easy for all of us. He explains this thinking in clear and accessible language, amplifies the theories with research results, and describes popular approaches by applying these theories to learning and growth. Taking the illustrations even further into the field of e-learning design, he offers useful scenarios and practical examples of how these theories can be employed in online learning programs, providing readers with concrete ideas to leverage them in their own work.â€ --Nick van Dam, global chief learning officer for Deloitte and founder and chairman, e-Learning For Kids Foundation (www.e-learningforkids.org)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œHere, through research and examples, Allen delivers vivid ways to realize the promise of e-learning.â€--Allison Rossett, professor of educational technology, San Diego State University\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhile its target audience is instructional designers, this book should also be required reading for all training managers seeking guidelines on implementing world-class training. Allen provides bridges the gap from theory to practice on both training and educational programs. His guidance is as applicable to classroom-based as it is to e-learning based training.â€--Patty Crowell, director, Global Education Services, LSI Logic Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œOur sales/service performance has greatly improved due to the ideas and processes in Michael Allen''s books. They not only solidified our e-learning practices, but enhanced our blended learning skills as well.â€--Dave Hooker, vice president, Training and Program Development Institutional Sector, Ecolab Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the second volume of six in Michael Allenâ€™s e-Learning Libraryâ€”a comprehensive collection of proven techniques for creating e-learning applications that achieve targeted behavioral outcomes through meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning experiences. This book examines common instructional design practices with a critical eye and recommends substituting success rather than tradition as a guide. Drawing from theory, research, and experience in learning and behavioral change, the author provides a framework for addressing a broader range of learner needs and achieving superior performance outcomes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7776'),
(14755, 'Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process', 'Ben B. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Detail Process Charting is a practical tool for helping professionals at all levels gain stronger control of their work environments. Applicable to all organizations, this guide revisits the work-simplification approach to process improvement that prevailed for much of the twentieth century, with a special focus on the detail process chart. Looking forward to the demands of the twenty-first century, the method described in this book helps readers see the detail process chart with trained eyes that perceive fresh ways of applying this valuable approach to work improvement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The work-simplification approach first and foremost taps into the process-specific experiences of the people who do the work. It calls upon external resources for technology-specific expertise and alternative perspectives. There is no place for a "clean-slate" approach that ignores the current process and the experience of the people who do the work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detail Process Charting proposes a method of work simplification that incorporates teams of people, not individuals, from different parts of the work process coming together to improve the work they share. In fact, the more people who get involved in work simplification, the more opportunities for improvement will arise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detail Process Charting provides a brief introduction to the history of information process charting and its derivation from manufacturing process improvement methods, offering a commonsense approach to data gathering akin to following the path of the process with a clipboard. It defines the elements of a process flowchart (symbols, conventions, and words) and explains how each is applied. With the help of more than a hundred informative illustrations and a variety of real-world examples, this book demonstrates how to construct and use detail process charts to examine business processes and improve specific situations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many professionals debate who should be involved in improving work processes and what kind of solutions to look for. Some arguments discuss using outside help or internal resources, whether to apply radical solutions or incremental solutions, and whether improvement efforts should be top-down or bottom-up. Detail Process Charting suggests that these "either-or" arguments force a choice between one option and another to the detriment of the overall solution. The methodology presented here gives every option for work improvement a place in the process, the key being to know the right technique to apply to the right situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detail Process Charting is an essential book for CIOs, IT professionals, auditors, and analysts.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Detail Process Charting\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A must-read for any competitive organization, Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process provides a comprehensive, yet clear, explanation of how to utilize one of the most powerful tools available to improve work processes. [Graham] has successfully integrated the history, success stories, and wisdom of those in the field who have applied this time-tested tool."\n  <br />\n  â€“Jim Denyes, Training Manager\n  <br />\n  Naval Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Training Center\n  <br />\n  Author, Work Smarter, Not Harder\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book will be a valuable resource for all those interested in work simplification and its implementation. Excellent answers to the â€˜who,â€™ â€˜what,â€™ â€˜when,â€™ â€˜how,â€™ and â€˜whyâ€™ of work simplification are provided in an understandable and very useful level of detail. Graham has obviously â€˜been there, done that.â€™ "\n  <br />\n  â€“John A. Roberts III, Adjunct Professor\n  <br />\n  School of Business Administration, University of Dayton\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The keys to this approach . . . are the involvement of the workers and the simplicity of the charting approach. Even those participants who have never seen a process chart can almost instantly see how the process works, their role in it, and how it can be improved. This level of involvement means continuous buy-in, which significantly improves the chances of success. The emphasis on the document as the key process element and the ability to diagram the document to flow easily, rapidly, and clearly set this approach apart from all the others."\n  <br />\n  â€“Fredric D. Heilbronner, Director of Systems Consulting, eForms\n  <br />\n  Digital Consulting &amp; Software Services, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Much has been written about charting and business systems analysis, but I have not seen anything as comprehensive and clear as Ben Grahamâ€™s book. Writing in simple, easy-to-follow language with plentiful illustrations and practical examples, this book takes the reader through the full spectrum of the charting process from initial analysis to managing charting libraries. This book is a must-have for all process improvement analysts and managers wanting to improve their organizational efficiency."\n  <br />\n  â€“Robert Barnett, Managing Director\n  <br />\n  Robert Barnett and Associates Pty. Ltd.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9587'),
(14756, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip Kindred Dick &amp; Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11703'),
(14757, 'Developing Enterprise Applications -An Impurist&#39;s View', 'Paul Tindall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Developing Enterprise Applications using Using VB6, MTS, SQLServer and IIS- An Impurist''s View shows software architects, developers and managers how to apply both common and lesser known patterns and framework components to create flexible, global enterprise applications using Microsoft''s tools and technologies. Along the way, you will see hints, warnings and implementation techniques that were developed after many late nights of scouring through documentation to find the solution to particular quirks. Learn how to address the architectural reasoning behind each framework component decision and see the tradeoff decisions that must be made to achieve the ultimate goal of long-term business success.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Tindall is an application development manager and Senior Manufacturing Engineer for Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, Texas. Paul is responsible for developing applications to support Compaq''s global manufacturing operations using Visual Basic, SQL Server, IIS and Internet Explorer. He possesses over 8 years experience in enterprise application design and integration with over 12 years experience in software development in general. Paul has written articles that have appeared in Enterprise Development and Visual Basic Programmer''s Journal, covering various aspects of enterprise application development. Paul received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, Speed Scientific School. He is currently pursuing an Executive MBA degree at the University of Texas at Austin.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9568'),
(14758, 'Developing Quality Metadata: Building Innovative Tools and Workflow Solutions', 'Cliff Wootton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Book Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This advanced user guide helps developers push the envelop with creative techniques for developing their own tools.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the explosion of new audio and video content on the Web, it''s more important than ever to use accurate and comprehensive metadata to get the most out of that content. Developing Quality Metadata is an advanced user guide that will help you improve your metadata by making it accurate and coherent with your own solutions. This book is designed to get you thinking about solving problems in a proactive and productive way by including practical descriptions of powerful programming tools and user techniques using several programming languages. For example, you can use shell scripting as part of the graphic arts and media production process, or you can use a popular spreadsheet application to drive your workflow. The concepts explored in this book are framed within the context of a multimedia professional working on the Web or in broadcasting, but they are relevant to anyone responsible for a growing library of content, be it audio-visual, text, or financial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Solutions to build your own tools instead of buying off-the-shelf software solutions\n  <br />\n  *Real-world examples and case studies explore the usefulness of the tools\n  <br />\n  *Author Cliff Wootton has been building tools and applications for producing and delivering multimedia content for the last 25 years\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9148'),
(14759, 'Diavolul si domnisoara Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4933'),
(14760, 'Diavolul si domnisoara Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8603'),
(14761, 'Dictionar de proverbe si zicatori romanesti', 'Grigore BOTEZATU &amp; Andrei HINCU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4778'),
(14762, 'Dictionar de proverbe si zicatori romanesti', 'BOTEZATU Grigore si HINCU Andrei', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7300'),
(14763, 'DICTIONAR GASTRONOMIC ENGLEZ - ROMAN', 'dictionar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4839'),
(14764, 'DICTIONAR GASTRONOMIC ENGLEZ - ROMAN', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8581'),
(14765, 'A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar', 'Samuel Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n   Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl01johnuoft\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8249'),
(14766, 'Digital Design for Print and Web', 'John Dimarco', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The all-inclusive guideâ€”from theory to practiceâ€”for print and Web design\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Any well-conceived print or Web design features the dynamic interplay between visual artistry and technical skill. It becomes important, therefore, for the designer to cultivate an aesthetic eye as well as develop a high degree of computer savvy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By combining basic theory with hands-on technique,\n  <em>\n   Digital Design for Print and Web\n  </em>\n  takes the unique approach of uniting two subjects traditionally approached separately into one complete volume. As a result, you will gain a clearer understanding of the entire creative process, from project management to working with graphics to designing for print and, ultimately, the Web. In this book, you''ll find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Full-color text and illustrated, step-by-step instruction supported by more than 75 video tutorials\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Coverage of professional software including the Adobe Creative Suite\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A wide variety of inspirational images from well-known designers\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Online full-length project assignments from entry level to advanced\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  An ideal resource for design students or practitioners,\n  <em>\n   Digital Design for Print and Web\n  </em>\n  will show you to how to create more effectively and guide you on the path toward digital design mastery.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JOHN DiMARCO, PhD,\n  </strong>\n  is Assistant Professor at St. John''s University as well as creator and founder of PortfolioVillage.com.Â He is the author of\n  <em>\n   Web Portfolio Design and Applications\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Computer Graphics and Multimedia: Applications, Problems, and Solutions\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7770'),
(14767, 'Digital Forensics With Open Source Tools', 'Cory Altheide &amp; Harlan Carvey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "_Digital Forensics - MacGyver Style! The practical solutions of this book,_ Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools_, save the day when commercial tools fail. During an incident, the clock ticks. Response teams scramble to pull anything together to solve the immediate challenge. Cory Altheide and Harlan Carvey take you through the tools and tactics that you need - the ones that in a pinch will get the job done. A welcome addition to my library_."--\n  <strong>\n   Rob Lee, SANS Institute\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Intended for students and new computer professionals, or those new to open source applications, this guide to digital forensics provides practical instructions for many common tasks in data recovery and analysis using open source tools. Beginning with a discussion of setting up an open source examination platform and tool set, the work covers disk and file system analysis, Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X systems and artifacts, Internet artifacts, file analysis and automated analysis. The volume includes numerous code examples and tips and tricks as well as an appendix of software tools."--\n  <strong>\n   Reference and Research Book News\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools\n  </em>\n  is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools. The book is a technical procedural guide, and explains the use of these tools on Linux and Windows systems as a platform for performing computer forensics. Both well known and novel forensic methods are demonstrated using command-line and graphical open source computer forensic tools for examining a wide range of target systems and artifacts.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Written by world-renowned forensic practitioners\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Details core concepts and techniques of forensic file system analysis\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Covers analysis of artifacts from the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7759'),
(14768, 'Din inima Africii', 'Karen Blixer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8631'),
(14769, 'The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9968'),
(14770, 'Distant Friends and Other Stories', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(14771, 'THE DIVINE INVASION', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11789'),
(14772, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.â€\n <br />\n John BrunnerThe Inspiration for Bladerunnerâ€¦\n <br />\n â€˜Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?â€™ was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\n <br />\n By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldnâ€™t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheepâ€¦\n <br />\n They even built humans.\n <br />\n Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didnâ€™t want to be identified, they just blended in.\n <br />\n Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n <br />\n â€œ[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilitiesâ€¦ that other authors shy away from.â€\n <br />\n Paul Williams, â€œRolling Stoneâ€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11797'),
(14773, 'Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics &amp; Web Services', 'Robert J. Glushko &amp; Tim Mcgrath', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Document Engineering provides a thorough, common-sense approach to designing the documents used in service-oriented architectures. Well written and packed with examples, it is timely reading for architects, developers, and managers." Ronald Bourret, author of XML and Databases\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Document Engineering\n  </em>\n  provides a thorough, common-sense approach to designing the documents used in service-oriented architectures. Well written and packed with examples, it is timely reading for architects, developers, and managers."--Ronald Bourret, author of "XML and Databases"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborations -- between the customer and the online catalog to select a book; between the bookstore and a credit card authorization service to verify and charge the customer''s account; and between the bookstore and the delivery service with instructions for picking up and delivering the book to the customer. Document engineering is needed to analyze, design, and implement these Internet information exchanges. This book is an introduction to the emerging field of document engineering.The authors, both leaders in the development of document engineering and other e-commerce initiatives, analyze document exchanges from a variety of perspectives. Taking a qualitative view, they look at patterns of document exchanges as components of business models; looking at documents in more detail, they describe techniques for analyzing individual transaction patterns and the role they play in the overall business process. They describe techniques for analyzing, designing, and encoding document models, including XML, and discuss the techniques and architectures that make XML a unifying technology for the next generation of e-business applications. Finally, they go beyond document models to consider management and strategic issues -- the business model, or the vision, that the information exchanged in these documents serves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7402'),
(14774, 'Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications', 'James Earl Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Dojo offers Web developers and designers a powerful JavaScript toolkit for rapidly developing robust Ajax applications. Now, for the first time, thereâ€™s a complete, example-rich developerâ€™s guide to Dojo and its growing library of prepackaged widgets. Reviewed and endorsed by the Dojo Foundation, the creators of Dojo, this book brings together all the hands-on guidance and tested code samples you need to succeed. Expert Web developer James E. Harmon begins by demonstrating how to â€œAjax-ifyâ€ existing applications and pages with Dojo, adding Ajax features such as client- and server-side validation as quickly and nondisruptively as possible. Next, he presents in-depth coverage of Dojoâ€™s user interface, form, layout, and specialized Widgets, showing how they work and how to use them most effectively. Among the Widgets, he covers in detail: Date Pickers, Rich Text Editors, Combo Boxes, Expandable Outlines, and many others. In conclusion, Harmon introduces the Dojo toolkitâ€™s powerful capabilities for simplifying Ajax development. He thoroughly explains Dojoâ€™s helper functions, shortcuts, and special methods, illuminating each feature with examples of the JavaScript problems it can solve. This sectionâ€™s far-ranging coverage includes strings, JSON support, event handling, Ajax remoting, Dojo and the DOM, testing, debugging, and much more. All source code examples are provided on a companion Web site, including source code for a complete tutorial case study application.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9226'),
(14775, 'Domn al luminii', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4794'),
(14776, 'Domn al luminii', 'Zelazny, Roger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8614'),
(14777, 'Don&#39;t bother me with objects! I&#39;ve got a course to teach!', 'William Horton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9460'),
(14778, 'The Doom Brigade  -  The Chaos War 01', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4565'),
(14779, 'The Doom Brigade - Chaos War 01', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4559'),
(14780, 'The Doom Brigade - Kang&#39;s Regiment 01', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4573'),
(14781, 'The Doom Brigade', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   War can get a fellow killed.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fearless draconians of the War of the Lance have retired from the field of battle to a pleasant valley in the Kharolis Mountains. Well, it would be pleasant, if it weren''t for some dwarves, whose irritating feuding prevents the draconians from realizing their greatest hope -- the ability to continue their doomed race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the dwarves discover a map leading to a fortune buried in the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, the draconians are swept up in a feverish race for treasure. Little do both sides realize that they are part of the strange and terrible destiny descending upon Krynn during the Summer of Flame.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A desinty that includes the children of Chaos . . . the fire dragons!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Doom Brigade\n  </em>\n  is the first installment in The Chaos War series, stories set during the war of the\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Summer Flame\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling novel co-authored by Margaret Weis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2849'),
(14782, 'The Doom Brigade: Book 1 of The Chaos War Series', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2909'),
(14783, 'Doom of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2883'),
(14784, 'Doom of the Darksword - The Darksword Trilogy 02', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4571'),
(14785, 'A doua Fundatie', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4756'),
(14786, 'Down Among the Dead Men', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10009'),
(14787, 'Downward to the Earth', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11236'),
(14788, 'Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along after the Bomb', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œDr. Bloodmoneyâ€ is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dickâ€™s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dickâ€™s undying hope in humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11728');
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(14789, 'Dr. Tom Shinder&#39;s Configuring ISA Server 2004', 'Thomas W. Shinder &amp; Debra Littlejohn Shinder &amp; Martin Grasdal', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð¡Ñ‚Ñ€ÑƒÐºÑ‚ÑƒÑ€Ð° ÐºÐ½Ð¸Ð³Ð¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð»ÑÐµÑ‚ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ ÐµÐµ ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð² ÐºÐ°Ñ‡ÐµÑÑ‚Ð²ÐµÂ \n  </span>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÑÐ¿Ñ€Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ñ‡Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ°, Ð²ÐºÐ»ÑŽÑ‡Ð°ÑŽÑ‰ÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð¾Ñ‚Ð´ÐµÐ»ÑŒÐ½Ñ‹Ðµ, Ð½Ðµ Ð·Ð°Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÑ‰Ð¸Ðµ Ð´Ñ€ÑƒÐ³ Ð¾Ñ‚ Ð´Ñ€ÑƒÐ³Ð°Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ñ€Ð°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ‹ Ð¸Ð½ÑÑ‚Ñ€ÑƒÐºÑ†Ð¸Ð¹, Ñ‚Ð°Ðº Ð¸ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð¸Ð·ÑƒÑ‡ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð´ÑƒÐºÑ‚Ð° Â«ÑˆÐ°Ð³ Ð·Ð° ÑˆÐ°Ð³Ð¾Ð¼Â»,Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð½Ð°Ñ‡Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ñ Ñ Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð¼Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð³Ð¸Ð¸ Ð¸ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ñ‹Ñ… Ð¿Ð¾Ð½ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¸ Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð½Ñ‡Ð¸Ð²Ð°ÑÂ \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð¿Ñ€Ð°ÐºÑ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¼Ð¸ Ð²Ð¾Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¸. Ð’ ÐºÐ½Ð¸Ð³Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÐ´ 1FÑÑ‚Ð°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ²Ð¾Ð»ÑŽÑ†Ð¸ÑÂ \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð±Ñ€Ð°Ð½Ð´Ð¼Ð°ÑƒÑÑ€Ð¾Ð² ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¸ Microsoft Ð¾Ñ‚ Proxy 1.0Â \n   <strong>\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n    </span>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   Ð¿\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  </span>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  </span>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n    </span>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   Ð¾ ISA Server 2004.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÐŸÐ¾Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð±Ð½Ð¾ Ñ€Ð°ÑÑÐ¼Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ€ÐµÐ½Ñ‹: ÑÐ¾Ð²Ñ€ÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ð½Ñ‹Ð¹ Ñ€Ñ‹Ð½Ð¾Ðº Ð±Ñ€Ð°Ð½Ð´Ð¼Ð°ÑƒÑÑ€Ð¾Ð² Ð¸ ÑÐµÑ€Ð²ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ð²Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÐºÑÑˆÐ¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ, Ñ„ÑƒÐ½ÐºÑ†Ð¸Ð¾Ð½Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ñ‹Ðµ Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸ ISA Server 2004,Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÐºÐ¾Ð½Ñ„Ð¸Ð³ÑƒÑ€Ð°Ñ†Ð¸Ñ ÑÐµÑ‚ÐµÐ¹ Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ ISA Server 2004, Ñ‚Ð¸Ð¿Ñ‹ ÐºÐ»Ð¸ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð¾Ð² Ð¸Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÑÐ¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±Ñ‹ Ð¸Ñ… Ð½Ð°ÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð¹ÐºÐ¸, ÑƒÑÑ‚Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²ÐºÐ° Ð¸ ÐºÐ¾Ð½Ñ„Ð¸Ð³ÑƒÑ€Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ISA Server 2004.Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð”Ð°Ð½Ñ‹ ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑ‚Ñ‹ Ð¿Ð¾ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ñ‹ÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸ÑŽ ÑÐºÐ¾Ñ€Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸ Ð´Ð¾ÑÑ‚ÑƒÐ¿Ð° Ð² Ð˜Ð½Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð½ÐµÑ‚ Ð¸ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ñ‹Â \n  </span>\n </p>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </span>\n <p style="display: inline !important; ">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   ÑÐµÑ‚ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð¹ Ð±ÐµÐ·Ð¾Ð¿Ð°ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   Ð”Ð»Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑ‚ÐµÐ¼Ð½Ñ‹Ñ… Ð°Ð´Ð¼Ð¸Ð½Ð¸ÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð²\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Shinders Books Are the Final Word on All Things ISA\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Written by the Industry s Most Trusted Source on ISA Server, Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Tom and Deb Shinder\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides a Clear Migration Path from Earlier Versions of ISA Server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers All New Features, Including Advanced Application-Layer Firewalls, VPNs, and Web Cache Solutions\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  A NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS\n  <br />\n  This book is based in large part on our own trials and tribulations (as well as the occasional Eureka! moment) that we ve experienced working with ISA Server 2004. In this book, we are talking to people much like ourselves experienced Windows network administrators who want to secure their networks and speed up Web access for their users without having to make a full-time vocation of it, learn programming, recompile kernels, or struggle with a brand new command syntax. We re talking to people who want a security solution that is built to interoperate with their Windows domain controllers and Microsoft servers such as Exchange and SharePoint. We re talking to experienced ISA 2000 administrators, those who are brand new to the world of firewalls, and those who are migrating from third-party firewall products.\n  <br />\n  Â—Tom and Debra Littlejohn Shinder\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Go Under the Hood of ISA Server 2004\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Get Inside Application Layer Filtering (ALF), VPN quarantine, and SSL Bridging.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Create a Supporting Infrastructure\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Make certain your network will support the ISA Server 2004 firewall and the clients for DHCP, WINS, DNS, and RADIUS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Automate the Client Provisioning Process\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Reduce administrative overhead by automating Web proxy and firewall client configurations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Troubleshoot Upgrade Issues\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Get it right the first time, including ISA Server 2000 and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 upgrades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Control Access through the Firewall\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Create your policy elements in advance, and use the Access Rule toolset to simplify creation of Access Rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Publish to all Major Internet Protocols\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Includes coverage of HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, VNC, pcAnywhere, Terminal Services, PPTP and L2TP/IPSec VPN servers\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Control VPN Clients Access to Resources\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  For example, allow a group s access to the Exchange Server only when using the protocols required connecting using the full Outlook MAPI client.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Provide Secure Remote Access to Exchange Servers\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  No Exchange Server should be deployed without an ISA Server 2004 firewall in front of it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Speed up Web Access for Your Corporate Network Users\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  At the same time, reduce overall bandwidth usage on all your Internet links.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thomas W. Shinder, MD is an MCSE and has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his work with ISA Server and is recognized in the firewall community as one of the foremost experts on ISA Server. Tom has consulted with major companies and organizations such as Microsoft Corp., Xerox, Lucent Technologies, FINA Oil, Hewlett-Packard, and the U.S. Department of Energy.\n  <br />\n  Tom practiced medicine in Oregon, Texas, and Arkansas before turning his growing fascination with computer technology into a new career shortly after marrying his wife, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, in the mid 90s. They co-own TACteam (Trainers, Authors, and Consultants), through which they teach technology topics and develop courseware, write books, articles, whitepapers and corporate product documentation and marketing materials, and assist small and large businesses in deploying technology solutions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tom co-authored, with Deb, the best selling\n  <em>\n   Configuring ISA Server 2000\n  </em>\n  (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-928994-29-6),\n  <em>\n   Dr. Tom Shinder''s ISA Server and Beyond\n  </em>\n  (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-66-3), and\n  <em>\n   Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP\n  </em>\n  (Syngress, ISBN: 1-928994-11-3). He has contributed to several other books on subjects such as the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 MCSE exams and has written hundreds of articles on Windows server products for a variety of electronic and print publications.\n  <br />\n  Tom is the primary perpetrator on ISAserver.org (www.isaserver.org), where he answers hundreds of questions per week on the discussion boards and is the leading content contributor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Debra Littlejohn Shinder is an MCSE and has been awarded Microsoft s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the area of Server Security. She is a former police officer and college level criminal justice instructor, which led her to her interest in computer security and computer crime. She has authored a number of books on computer operating systems, networking, and security. These include\n  <em>\n   Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook\n  </em>\n  (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-65-5), and\n  <em>\n   Computer Networking Essentials\n  </em>\n  , published by Cisco Press. She is co-author, with her husband, Dr. Thomas Shinder, of the best selling Configuring\n  <em>\n   ISA Server 2000\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Dr. Tom Shinder''s ISA Server and Beyond\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Deb is also a technical editor, developmental editor, and contributor to over 15 additional books on subjects such as the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 MCSE exams, CompTIA Security+ exam and TruSecure s ICSA certification. She formerly edited the Brainbuzz A+ Hardware News and currently edits Sunbelt Software s WinXP News (www.winxpnews.com). Her articles are regularly published on TechRepublic s TechProGuild site and Windowsecurity.com, and have appeared in print magazines such as Windows IT Pro Magazine (formerly Windows &amp; .NET) and she has authored training material, corporate whitepapers, marketing material, and product documentation for Microsoft Corporation, DigitalThink, Sunbelt Software, CNET and other technology companies. Deb currently specializes in security issues and Microsoft products.\n  <br />\n  Deb and Tom live and work in the Dallas-Ft Worth area and occasionally teach computer networking and security classes at Eastfield College.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Martin Grasdal, Technical Editor (MCSE+I, MCT, CNE,CNI, CTT, A+) is an independent consultant with over 10 years experience in the computer industry, Martin has a wide range of networking and IT managerial experience. He has been an MCT since 1995 and an MCSE since 1996. His training and networking experience covers a number of products, including NetWare, Lotus Notes, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Exchange Server, IIS, and ISA Server, among others. Martin currently works actively as a consultant, author and editor. His recent consulting experience includes contract work for Microsoft as a Technical Contributor to the MCP Program on projects related to server technologies. Martin lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his wife Cathy and their two sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6396'),
(14790, 'Dragon', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4288'),
(14791, 'Dragon and Slave', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3030'),
(14792, 'Dragon And Soldier', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3029'),
(14793, 'Dragon and Thief', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Less complex than such recent novels as Manta''s Gift and Angelmass, this start to a new SF adventure series from Hugo Award-winner Zahn will appeal largely to younger readers. Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan, former small-time thief, is on the run, framed for theft from megacorporation Braxton Universis. Hiding out on an unoccupied planet, his only companion an artificial intelligence programmed with the personality of his con man uncle Virge, Jack witnesses a battle between incoming spaceships. While looking over the wreckage, he meets Draycos, a dragon-like K''da, sole survivor of an advance team of K''da and their Shontine allies-murdered by their enemies, the Valahgua, with a terrible energy weapon called "the Death." With Valahgua-backed mercenaries searching the planet for survivors, Jack and Draycos work together to escape. Despite Virge''s continuing doubts, Jack agrees to help Draycos find out who betrayed his people; but first they must prove Jack''s innocence and get the police off his back. Along the way, each will earn the other''s trust as they learn to work together as a team. Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement even when the plot becomes cliched. â€“From Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3028'),
(14794, 'Dragon Wing', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hugh the Hand agrees to assassinate the king''s son but is unprepared for the magical being who is his victim''s guardian or for the difficulty that awaits him in the realm of the dwarves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2802'),
(14795, 'Dragon Wing', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An assassin and the royal child he has been hired to kill form an unlikely and unstable alliance as the plots of human sorcerers, elven pirates, and dwarf revolutionaries threaten to overwhelm the airborne kingdoms of Arianus. Long-time collaborators Weis and Hickman ("The Darksword" trilogy; "The Rose of the Prophet" trilogy) have embarked on their most ambitious project to date in this first of a projected seven-volume cycle. The authors'' combined talents for innovative world-building and sympathetic characterizations find ample outlet in this epic fantasy. Recommended for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Preeminent storytellers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have redefined epic fantasy. Since the publication of their\n  <em>\n   Dragonlance\n  </em>\n  series, millions of readers have enjoyed their imaginative world-building, rich characterization, and intricate storylines. Now these bestsellingauthors bring their talents to one of the most innovative fantasy creations ever in\n  <em>\n   Dragon Wing\n  </em>\n  , the first volume in\n  <em>\n   The Death Gate Cycle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4555'),
(14796, 'The Dragon&#39;s Doom', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11683'),
(14797, 'The Dragon&#39;s Doom', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11985'),
(14798, 'The Dragon&#39;s Son', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weaving more spellbinding magic in the second book of her Dragonvarld trilogy, Weis charts the fate of Melisande''s twin sons, whose bloody birth marked the cliffhanging conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Mistress of Dragons\n  </em>\n  (2003). Marcus, "human, born of love and magic," and Ven, "half-dragon and half-human, born of evil," are at the crux of a conflict within the Parliament of Dragons that secretly watches over a wonderfully detailed landscape similar to medieval Earth''s. The innocent twins grow up apart in vastly different worlds: Prince Marcus inherits his mother''s dragon magic and lives a semi-normal life as King Edward of Idlyswylde''s bastard son, while Ven, human from the waist up (but blue-scaled, white-clawed dragon from the waist down), grows up the impoverished charge of a cold, grieving ex-soldier. Dragon''s blood imbues each boy with fantastic abilities, but also puts them in danger from rebel dragons disguised as humans. Readers'' hearts will ache for the conflicted Ven. Other notable characters include the wise Draconas, a dragon in human form who seeks to protect the twins and to uphold the ancient dragon law against killing humans, and Evelina, the vain and foolish gypsy who figures in Ven''s reunion with his long-lost twin. A surprising, fire-breathing conclusion, sure to please dragon fans, sets the stage for volume three.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the exciting middle volume of Weis'' Dragonvald trilogy (begun in\n  <em>\n   Mistress of Dragons\n  </em>\n  [BKL Ap 15 03]), the twin sons of a high priestess--one sired by King Edward; the other, by renegade dragon Grald--are growing up. Their mother died in childbirth, and neither knows he has a twin. Draconas, the dragon charged by the dragon parliament with walking among humans in human form, put Grald''s son, Ven, under the protection of a woman warrior, who has made a home deep in the forest. Draconas gave King Edward the care of his son, Marcus. But now Grald is searching for both young men, and the fate of a world beset by political intrigue, evil, and violence may lie in the hands of the brothers--if they manage to stay alive. Weis maintains a carefully crafted world and deepens the characterizations of the twins as each tries to come to terms with the past and his destiny. The novel moves inexorably to a cataclysmic conclusion that points forward to the trilogy''s concluding book.\n  <em>\n   Sally Estes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4556'),
(14799, 'Dragons at War', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dragons at War\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dragsons, the true children of Krynn., are power incarnate, and they know it. They come in all guises and forms. Their personalities are as varied as thier colors. Their magical abilities are virtually unlimited. And nothing is so terrifying as dragons on the wing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this collection, a follow-up to the popular\n  <em>\n   The Dragonss of Krynn\n  </em>\n  anthology,\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  creators, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman serve up a fantastical array of dragon tales featuring the motley races of Krynn and the deadliest creatres of the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  saga.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3172'),
(14800, 'Dragons of a Vanished Moon', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary team of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman take to the sky on dragonback again with the final dispatch from their latest voyage to the land of Krynn in the War of Souls trilogy. In volume two,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Lost Star\n  </em>\n  , the mysterious "One God" behind the irrepressible Mina''s miraculous rise to power is revealed. Yes, Dark Queen Takhisis is up to her old tricks. This time, however, she has stolen the entire planet of Krynn and hidden it away from her fellow deities. Now, she is seeking to bring the entire populace (both the living and the dead) under her fickle sway through Mina''s zealous proselytizing. Who will stop her dark quest? Who else? The troublemaking and time-traveling kender--Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, with the mystery of the "One God" revealed, much of the narrative impetus that made the first two books page-turners is lost. However, while there isn''t much left to write about in\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n  </em>\n  , the scenery is beautiful. There is an Elven exodus across the "plains of dust," stubborn Solamnic knights, cunning dragons, plotting wizards, and a full helping of Kender antics as Tasselhoff assumes the role of fly in the dark queen''s ointment. The conclusion is a textbook deus ex machina but fans should enjoy this book for what it is--another chance to return to the wonderful world of Krynn with its two most competent guides at the helm.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The One God Takhisis has pulled a fast one and vanquished the other gods of Krynn to a place unknown in this fast-paced conclusion to the War of the Souls trilogy (Dragons of a Fallen Sun; Dragons of a Lost Star). Through the warrior princess Mina, Takhisis (aka the Dark Queen) pretends to do good, heal the sick and comfort the afflicted in her scheme to take over the world. Takhisis''s most feared foe turns out to be a kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who possesses the Device of Time Journeying, an instrument that could smash all Takhisis''s ambitions with a single push of a button. As Mina takes over city after city, adding more souls to her dread troop, her opponents frantically try to figure out ways to stop her. The Solamnic Knights send one man, Sir Gerard, to spy on Mina by passing him off as a Dark Knight. The elves of Qualinest and Silvanost find common cause in the fight against the Dark Queen, while in a strange twist of allegiances, the dragons of Krynn realize that their survival depends on allying themselves with mortals which they do with cunning and stealth. At Sanction, all the players come together in a mighty battle to save Krynn and restore the world to its proper balance. Bestselling authors Weis and Hickman have made another admirable addition to the history, lore and ways of Krynn, including a set of useful endnotes to bring newcomers up to speed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2860'),
(14801, 'Dragons of a Vanished Moon', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary team of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman take to the sky on dragonback again with the final dispatch from their latest voyage to the land of Krynn in the War of Souls trilogy. In volume two,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Lost Star\n  </em>\n  , the mysterious "One God" behind the irrepressible Mina''s miraculous rise to power is revealed. Yes, Dark Queen Takhisis is up to her old tricks. This time, however, she has stolen the entire planet of Krynn and hidden it away from her fellow deities. Now, she is seeking to bring the entire populace (both the living and the dead) under her fickle sway through Mina''s zealous proselytizing. Who will stop her dark quest? Who else? The troublemaking and time-traveling kender--Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, with the mystery of the "One God" revealed, much of the narrative impetus that made the first two books page-turners is lost. However, while there isn''t much left to write about in\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n  </em>\n  , the scenery is beautiful. There is an Elven exodus across the "plains of dust," stubborn Solamnic knights, cunning dragons, plotting wizards, and a full helping of Kender antics as Tasselhoff assumes the role of fly in the dark queen''s ointment. The conclusion is a textbook deus ex machina but fans should enjoy this book for what it is--another chance to return to the wonderful world of Krynn with its two most competent guides at the helm.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The One God Takhisis has pulled a fast one and vanquished the other gods of Krynn to a place unknown in this fast-paced conclusion to the War of the Souls trilogy (Dragons of a Fallen Sun; Dragons of a Lost Star). Through the warrior princess Mina, Takhisis (aka the Dark Queen) pretends to do good, heal the sick and comfort the afflicted in her scheme to take over the world. Takhisis''s most feared foe turns out to be a kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who possesses the Device of Time Journeying, an instrument that could smash all Takhisis''s ambitions with a single push of a button. As Mina takes over city after city, adding more souls to her dread troop, her opponents frantically try to figure out ways to stop her. The Solamnic Knights send one man, Sir Gerard, to spy on Mina by passing him off as a Dark Knight. The elves of Qualinest and Silvanost find common cause in the fight against the Dark Queen, while in a strange twist of allegiances, the dragons of Krynn realize that their survival depends on allying themselves with mortals which they do with cunning and stealth. At Sanction, all the players come together in a mighty battle to save Krynn and restore the world to its proper balance. Bestselling authors Weis and Hickman have made another admirable addition to the history, lore and ways of Krynn, including a set of useful endnotes to bring newcomers up to speed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4568'),
(14802, 'Dragons Of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2908'),
(14803, 'The Dragons of Chaos', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2902'),
(14804, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3163'),
(14805, 'Dragons of Summer Flame', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman &amp; Michael Williams &amp; Larry Elmore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The war of the Lance is long over. The seasons come and go. The pendulum of the world swings. Now is is a hot parched summer such as no one on Krynn had ever known before. The uneasy balance starts to shift. Distraught by a grievous loss, the young mage Palin Majere seeks to enter the Abyss in search of his lost uncle, the infamous archmage Raistlin. The Dark Queen has found new champions. Devoted followers, loyal to the death, the Knights of Takhisis follow the Vision to victory. A dark paladin, Steel Brightblade, rides to attack the High Clerist''s Tower, the fortress his father died defending. On a small island, the mysterious Irda captures as ancient artifact and use it to ensure their own safety. Usha, child of the Irda, arrives in Pananthas claiming that she is Raistlin''s daughter. The summer will be deadly. Perhaps it will be the last summer Ansalon will ever know. Dragons Of Summer Flame is action-packed heroic fantasy at its best! --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more distant, more difficult to reach. Clerics'' prayers go unanswered, and magic goes awry. As the tension on Ansalon builds, estranged cousins Palin Majere and Steel Brightblade search for an explanation. It soon becomes evident that more than just magic is at stake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fate of all Krynn hangs in the balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a new paperback edition of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  cocreators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman''s first hardcover New York Times bestseller. It is the direct prequel to the current War of Souls trilogy. This edition features a new cover design that ties into the recent rereleases\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(14806, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  sets ''em up, and\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Winter Night\n  </em>\n  knocks ''em down. The second volume in Dragonlance''s seminal trilogy stokes the action with a big ol'' blast of dragon breath. The War of the Lance has begun in earnest, and the Companions--Tanis, Flint, the twins Raistlin and Sturm, Flint Fireforge, Goldmoon, et al.--find themselves separated across Ansalon. Everyone''s figured out that Takhisis''s dragon minions aren''t just scary bedtime stories, and the desperate search for the Dragon Orbs and the mythical Dragonlance is on. Lots of great combat, some humor and romance sprinkled in, and more solid character development for this complex band (especially Tanis and Laurana). An excellent follow-up bookended by cliffhangers--check out\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Spring Dawning\n  </em>\n  to see what happens next.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now the people know that the dragon minions of Takhisis, Queen of Dragons, have returned. The people of all nations prepare to fight to save their homes, their lives, and their freedom. But the races have long been divided by hatred and prejudice. Elven warriors and human knights fight among themselves. It seems the battle has been lost before it begins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The companions are separated, torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again--if they meet again. As the darkness deepens, a disgraced knight, a pampered elfmaiden, and a rattle-brained kender stand alone in the pale winter sunlight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not much in the way of heroes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3170'),
(14807, 'Dragos Dimancea', 'Mircea Dinescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8649'),
(14808, 'Drept civil -succesiuni-', 'Dumitru Macovei', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6942'),
(14809, 'Dreptul la timp 1959', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4905'),
(14810, 'Drum sangeros catre moarte', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4840'),
(14811, 'Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites', 'Cynthia Mccourt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A complete lifecycle guide to planning and building a site with Drupal\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to plan. Whether you are building with Drupal 6 or 7, this book details the steps necessary to plan your site so you can make informed decisions before you start to build.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Explains how to define the scope of your project\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shows you how to create a design plan taking into consideration how Drupal works\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Helps you make informed decisions regarding development methodologies, environments, standards, and site security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reviews ways to assess the use of existing and/or custom Drupal modules\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Teaches you how to avoid common pitfalls that can impact a successful site launch\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Walks you through preparing for post-launch site maintenance and management tasks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Details incorporating the nature of open source systems into your management strategies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Identifies ways to interact with members of the Drupal community\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The processes and techniques provided in this book will empower you to create a successful and sustainable site with Drupal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10167'),
(14812, 'Dupa 20 ani', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4847'),
(14813, 'Dying Inside', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The novelâ€™s main character, David Selig, is an undistinguished man living in New York City. David was born with a telepathic gift allowing him to read minds. Rather than use his ability for any greater good, however, Selig squanders his power, using it only for his own convenience. At the beginning of the novel, David earns a living by reading the minds of college students so that he can better plagiarize reports and essays on their behalf.\n <br />\n As the novel progresses, Seligâ€™s power grows more and more weak, working sporadically and sometimes not at all, and Selig struggles to maintain his grip on reality as he begins to lose an ability on which he has long since grown dependent.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972.\n <br />\n Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973.\n <br />\n Nominated for Locus Award in 1973.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11291'),
(14814, 'Dzur', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4287'),
(14815, 'E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning', 'Ruth C. Clark &amp; Richard E. Mayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling e-Learning and the Science of Instruction authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer--internationally-recognized experts in the field of e-learning, offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing asynchronous and synchronous e-learning courses that build knowledge and skills for learners in corporate, government, and academic settings. In addition to updating research in all chapters, two new chapters and a CD with multimedia examples are included.Based on scientific theory of how people learn and the results from over twenty-five years of research on multimedia learning, this new edition includes guidelines on a range of e-learning issues including the best use of text, visuals, and audio; the optimal amount and type of practice interactions; the best use of communication tools such as chat and discussion boards for collaborative learning; lesson design techniques to build problem-solving skills; what we have learned about the use of games and simulations; and how to best use virtual coaches to improve learning. This new edition is a comprehensive resource that contains vital information for anyone serious about getting multimedia learning right. It provides design principles to increase learning while debunking many popular theories about good design and includes: The most current research information availableNew examples of working multimedia that illustrate the book''s research guidelinesUpdated examples of multimedia screen captures Application of guidelines for synchronous e-learningNew guidelines on segmenting and sequencing topics to manage complex content A new chapter on games and simulations Each chapter includes examples drawn from Internet and from CD-ROM courseware and checklists of what to look for in e-learning courses you are reviewing or designing. Written for e-learning consumers and designers, both novice and seasoned alike, this essential resource shows how to apply a range of research-based multimedia learning principles to the selection and design of effective e-learning courseware.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9462'),
(14816, 'Eastward Ho!', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10020'),
(14817, 'Ecce homo', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8587'),
(14818, 'Eclipse Modeling Framework', 'Frank Budinsky &amp; Dave Steinberg &amp; Ed Merks &amp; Ray Ellersick &amp; Timothy J. Grose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewFor many developers, modeling is like flossing. You know you probably should, but you can t stand the hassle. But what if someone gave you the key benefits of modeling with a far lower cost of entry ?Someone has. And there s more. The Eclipse Modeling Framework is free.It s part of the open source Eclipse project, which is building a truly awesome collection of integrated, commercial-quality developer tools. (Let s be more precise. Eclipse is a platform for developing whatever new tool your heart desires and integrating your tool with others doing likewise. But many of the 3 million developers who ve downloaded Eclipse did so for the tools that already exist, especially Eclipse s state-of-the-art Java development environment.)We digress. Let s get back to models. When you think about them, you think UML: class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state diagrams, and so forth. That usually means expensive OOA/D tools. Once you ve done all that modeling, then what? While you can generate code from the model, quite a few organizations use it primarily as documentation. No wonder folks can t be bothered.Now, compare and contrast with EMF. EMF uses XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) to define models. You can create XMI with your fave-rave XML or text editor or export it from the modeler you already own. But most folks will build EMF models a third way: by annotating Java interfaces with model properties, within the Eclipse IDE. No expensive tools. No Everest-scale learning curves.Once you ve built your model, EMF s generator can create corresponding Java implementation classes for you. If you edit these classes with your own methods and instance variables, you can still regenerate them from the model. If you wish - and it s up to you - you can integrate modeling and programming as never before. Meanwhile, EMF s handling all sorts of nitty tasks for you, such as model change notification.Excited yet? Then read Eclipse Modeling Framework. Authored by a team of IBMers at the heart of the Eclipse project, it s all you need to know to get results with EMF. A little Java experience is all you need: The authors cover every detail of defining EMF models and generating code from them. They review all three ways to define EMF models and carefully walk through the powerful Ecore metamodel.There s extensive coverage of using the EMF Generator and its associated patterns, with a chapter-length case study. You ll find plenty of tips for building the best possible models, too - and these authors have done more EMF modeling than anyone.The book ends with a complete Quick Reference to the EMF 1.1 API and to EMF.Edit API, which provides generic, reusable classes for building editors for EMF models. By the time you get there, you ll be raring to go. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9121'),
(14819, 'Eco Umberto', 'Mogd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8589'),
(14820, 'The Econometrics of Financial Markets', 'John Y. Campbell &amp; Andrew W. Lo &amp; A. Craig Mackinlay &amp; Andrew Y. Lo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The definitive work explaining this complex but important field of academic endeavor. Oh, and by the way, it''s not just academic. The big question that financial econometircs addresses is: What can you learn about the future from the financial data available from the past? This broad issue can be specified in many different ways, and all the important ones are discussed in the book. . . . The vast literature on all the topics examined is assessed, rendered coherent, and then analysed by three men who themselves have made significant advances in the field. -- Ruben Lee, London Financial Market\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is sophisticated, yet accessible; full of details, yet intriguing. . . . Instructors will appreciate the attempt to make each chapter as self contained as possible which leaves them free to choose specified sequences of topics. Professionals will be pleased with the quick and authoritative introductions to important areas of Finance. . . . [A] well written introduction (indeed, something more) to Financial Econometrics. It is alert, explicit and articulate about assumptions. . . a splendid offering. . . . -- Maurizio Tiso, Review of Financial Studies\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by the "A" team of financial empiricism, it is a long awaited book. It covers many topics one could only usually find couched in the technical jargon of research papers, presented in this volume with pedagogical intentions. The language, while remaining technical, is quite accessible. It can be effortlessly read by scientific traders with standard knowledge of statistical methods. . . . This book should be made mandatory reading in research departments. -- Derivative Strategies\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation. This graduatelevel textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA students, and industry professionals interested in the econometrics of financial modeling. The book covers the entire spectrum of empirical finance, including: the predictability of asset returns, tests of the Random Walk Hypothesis, the microstructure of securities markets, event analysis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the term structure of interest rates, dynamic models of economic equilibrium, and nonlinear financial models such as ARCH, neural networks, statistical fractals, and chaos theory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each chapter develops statistical techniques within the context of a particular financial application. This exciting new text contains a unique and accessible combination of theory and practice, bringing stateofthe art statistical techniques to the forefront of financial applications. Each chapter also includes a discussion of recent empirical evidence, for example, the rejection of the Random Walk Hypothesis, as well as problems designed to help readers incorporate what they have read into their own applications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7916');
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(14821, 'efective proectirovanie tcp ip js', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  ÐŸÑ€Ð¾Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ TCP/IP Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÑ‚ Ð¿Ð¾ÐºÐ°Ð·Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒÑÑ Ð¾Ñ‡ÐµÐ½ÑŒ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ñ‹Ð¼, Ð½Ð¾ ÑÑ‚Ð¾ Ð·Ð°Ð±Ð»ÑƒÐ¶Ð´ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ. ÐœÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ð¼-\n </div>\n <div>\n  Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð¼Ð¸ÑÑ‚Ñ‹ ÑÑ‚Ð°Ð»ÐºÐ¸Ð²Ð°ÑŽÑ‚ÑÑ Ñ Ñ‚ÐµÐ¼, Ñ‡Ñ‚Ð¾ Ð½Ð°Ð¿Ð¸ÑÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¸Ð¼Ð¸ ÑÐµÑ‚ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð½ÐµÐ´Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð°Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ‡Ð½Ð¾ Ð½Ð°Ð´ÐµÐ¶Ð½Ð¾. Ð§Ð°ÑÑ‚Ð¾ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ñ‡Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ñ‚Ð°ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð´ÐµÐ» ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÐµÑ‚ÑÑ Ð½ÐµÐ¾ÑÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¾Ð±Ñ€Ð°Ñ‰ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ñ ÑÐµÑ‚ÐµÐ²Ñ‹Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ñ‚Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ð¼Ð¸. ÐŸÐ¾ÑÑ‚Ð¾Ð¼Ñƒ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÐµÂ Ð²Ð½Ð¸Ð¼Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ Ð² Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ½Ð¸Ð³Ðµ ÑƒÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¾ Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½ÐºÐ¸Ð¼ Ð²Ð¾Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð¼ Ñ„ÑƒÐ½ÐºÑ†Ð¸Ð¾Ð½Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ¹ÑÑ‚Ð²Ð° Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ñ‚Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð² Ð¸ ÑÐ¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð°Ð¼Â Ñ€Ð°Ð±Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ‹ Ñ Ð½Ð¸Ð¼Ð¸. Ð—Ð´ÐµÑÑŒ Ð¸Ð·Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ñ‹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´Ñ‚Ð²ÐµÑ€Ð¶Ð´ÐµÐ½Ð½Ñ‹Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€Ð°ÐºÑ‚Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð¹ ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑ‚Ñ‹, Ñ‚ÐµÑ…Ð½Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸ÐµÐ¼Ñ‹ Ð¸ ÑÐ²Ñ€Ð¸ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ\n </div>\n <div>\n  Ð¿Ñ€Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ð»Ð° Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ TCP/IP Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð´Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð°ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÑŒÐ½Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸; Ð¿Ð¾ÐºÐ°Ð·Ð°Ð½Ð¾, ÐºÐ°Ðº\n </div>\n <div>\n  Ð¸Ð·Ð±ÐµÐ¶Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¸Ñ… Ñ‚Ð¸Ð¿Ð¸Ñ‡Ð½Ñ‹Ñ… Ð¾ÑˆÐ¸Ð±Ð¾Ðº. ÐšÐ°Ñ€ÐºÐ°Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ð´Ð° Ð¸ Ð±Ð¸Ð±Ð»Ð¸Ð¾Ñ‚ÐµÐºÐ° Ñ„ÑƒÐ½ÐºÑ†Ð¸Ð¹ Ð´Ð°ÑŽÑ‚ Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑ‚ÑŒ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð²Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ, Ð½Ðµ Ð´ÑƒÐ¼Ð°Ñ Ð¾ Ð½Ð¸Ð·ÐºÐ¾ÑƒÑ€Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÐµÐ²Ñ‹Ñ… Ð´ÐµÑ‚Ð°Ð»ÑÑ…. ÐžÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ñ‹Ðµ Ð¸Ð´ÐµÐ¸ Ð¸ ÐºÐ¾Ð½Ñ†ÐµÐ¿Ñ†Ð¸Ð¸ Ð¸Ð»Ð»ÑŽÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð¸Ñ€ÑƒÑŽÑ‚ÑÑÂ Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸ÑÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð½Ñ‹Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð¼ÐµÑ€Ð°Ð¼Ð¸. Ð’Ñ‹ ÑÑ‚Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ‚Ðµ Ð»ÑƒÑ‡ÑˆÐµ Ð¿Ð¾Ð½Ð¸Ð¼Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð²Ð½ÑƒÑ‚Ñ€ÐµÐ½Ð½ÐµÐµ ÑƒÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð¹ÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾ TCP/IP Ð¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑƒÑ‡Ð¸Ñ‚Ðµ Ð½ÐµÐ¾Ð±Ñ…Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ñ‹ÐµÂ Ð¿Ñ€Ð°ÐºÑ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ Ð½Ð°Ð²Ñ‹ÐºÐ¸ Ñ€Ð°Ð±Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ‹ Ñ ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð¼ ÑÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ¹ÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾Ð¼ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ñ‚Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð².\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9150'),
(14822, 'Einmal Rupe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4579'),
(14823, 'El castillo de lord Valentine', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Miles de aÃ±os despuÃ©s de nuestra era, en el planeta Majipur existe un arcaico imperio feudal en el que, no obstante persisten restos de una avanzada tecnologÃ­a. En este marco Valentine, un juglar itinerante, descubre a travÃ©s de sueÃ±os y portentos su verdadera identidad: Ã©l es Lord Valentine, la Corona. Su cuerpo y su trono han sido ocupados por un usurpador.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11108'),
(14824, 'El Hablador', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dos narraciones alternan, en El hablador, para relatarnos el anverso y reverso de una historia singular. Por una parte, un narrador principal (que, al igual que en La tÃ­a Julia y el escribidor o Historia de Mayta, parecerÃ­a identificarse con el autor) evoca sus recuerdos de un compaÃ±ero de juventud limeÃ±o, apodado Mascarita, que siente fascinaciÃ³n por una pequeÃ±a cultura primitiva, por otra parte, un anÃ³nimo contador ambulante de historias -un `hablador`-, viviente memoria colectiva de los indios machiguengas de la Amazonia peruana, nos narra, en un lenguaje de desusada poesÃ­a y de magia, su propia existencia y la historia y mitos de su pueblo. La confluencia final de los dos relatos, al revelar su secreta unidad, muestra las misteriosas relaciones de la ficciÃ³n con las sociedades y con los individuos, su razÃ³n de ser, sus mecanismos y sus efectos en la vida. Por su dominio expresivo y la problemÃ¡tica abordada, El hablador es una de las mÃ¡s significativas y originales aportaciones de la narrativa de Mario Vargas Llosa. (Seix Barral)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8963'),
(14825, 'El hijo del hombre', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clay, el protagonista, despierta en un futuro muy lejano donde los descendientes del hombre adoptan formas de vida muy diversas y alucinantes. En su entrada a ese tiempo es acogido por Hammer, una criatura que tanto puede adoptar formas sexuadas como asexuadas, y tambiÃ©n macho y hembra, y en cuya compaÃ±Ã­a vive asombrosas experiencias de percepciÃ³n y explora todas las posibilidades de la sexualidad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11998'),
(14826, 'El hombre en el laberinto', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una raza de araÃ±as de extraordinaria inteligencia, de araÃ±as pensantes, lo habÃ­a transformado en un nuevo Minotauro. El representaba la Ãºnica â€”y la Ãºltimaâ€” esperanza del gÃ©nero humano, y era indispensable encontrarlo. Pero un objetivo semejante suponÃ­a internarse en un superlaberinto y realizar un trayecto cuyos riesgos y secretos excedÃ­an toda imaginaciÃ³n.\n <br />\n El hombre en el laberinto es, indiscutiblemente, la novela mÃ¡s inquietante y hermosa de Silvegberg, acaparador de premios Hugo y Nebula y uno de los escritores mÃ¡s audaces y polÃ©micos de los Ãºltimos aÃ±os.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11286'),
(14827, 'El laberinto de Majipur', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLord Valentineâ€™s Castleâ€ fue publicada fraccionada en dos volÃºmenes en esta colecciÃ³n, â€œEl Castillo de Lord Valentineâ€ y â€œEl Laberinto de Majipurâ€, si bien el editor las presentÃ³ como dos novelas independientes.\n <br />\n <br />\n El lector de â€œEl castillo de Lord Valentineâ€ dejÃ³ al protagonista convencido ya de su verdadera identidad: Ã©l era la Corona de Majipur aunque ni su cara ni su cuerpo fueran los que habÃ­a tenido como tal.\n <br />\n Decidido a recobrar el trono, el aventajado aprendiz de malabarista debe llegar al Monte del Castillo, montaÃ±a gigantesca salpicada de ciudades inmensas en cuya cima reina el impostor Barjacid. Pero el camino hacia el Castillo es un laberinto plagado de peligros.\n <br />\n Valentine tendrÃ¡ que convencer primero a su madre, La Dama de la Isla y del SueÃ±o, y para ello deberÃ¡ merecer ese honor, como cualquier peregrino que acude a la Isla, escalando Terraza tras Terraza.\n <br />\n Y antes de llegar al castillo, Valentine habrÃ¡ de pasar por la prueba mÃ¡s peligrosa: el verdadero Laberinto de Majipur, un mundo subterrÃ¡neo de tortuosas cavernas donde casi nadie ha visto el sol y donde reside el PontÃ­fice rodeado de su impresionante burocracia.\n <br />\n Escenarios, personajes y monstruos fabulosos como los dragones marinos de hasta cien metros de longitud son los ingredientes principales de esta segunda parte de â€œEl Castillo de Lord Valentineâ€ al igual que lo eran en la primera, conformando eses mundo fantÃ¡stico que tan merecida fama ha dado su creador, Robert Silverberg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11101'),
(14828, 'El mundo interior', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Este es el aÃ±o 2381, y esta es la MÃ³nada Urbana 116: 885.000 seres humanos viven alojados en las mil plantas de esta gigantesca torre, una obra maestra de ingenierÃ­a de la nueva humanidad. En este mundo interior nadie siente deseos de abandonar existe la perfecta felicidad: se desconocen las inhibiciones, los traumas y las frustraciones: el equilibrio emocional es mantenido a toda costa; los descontentos son enfermos... Y la MÃ³nada Urbana 116 es tan solo una de las cincuenta y una torres que forman la constelaciÃ³n Chipitts, la cual a la vez, es tan solo una de las muchas constelaciones semejantes que hay por toda la Tierra. Un planeta que ha conseguido eliminar las guerras y albergar a setenta mil millones de habitantes en su pequeÃ±a superficie. Sin embargo, no siempre resulta tolerable la vida fÃ¡cil, planificada...\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominado para el premio Hugo en 1972.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11212'),
(14829, 'El Pez En El Agua', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n El pez en el agua contiene, en capÃ­tulos alternos, las memorias de dos etapas decisivas de la vida de Mario Vargas Llosa: la comprendida entre fines de 1946, Ã©poca de su infancia en que se le comunicÃ³ que su padre no habÃ­a muerto, sino que estaba separado de su madre, y le fue presentado, y 1958, aÃ±o en que el joven escritor abandonÃ³ el PerÃº para instalarse en Europa, por su parte, y por otra la campaÃ±a presidencial peruana que, tras la derrota electoral en la segunda vuelta ante Fujimori, concluye el 13 de junio de 1990 con otro viaje a Europa, que debe dar inicio, como antaÃ±o, a otra etapa de la vida del autor en la que la literatura pase nuevamente `a ocupar el lugar central`.\n <br />\n La extrema convicciÃ³n y generosidad del comportamiento personal aquÃ­ descrito y su firme y vehemente convicciÃ³n y energÃ­a expresiva convierte a El pez en el agua no sÃ³lo en un testimonio apasionante e ineludible sino tambiÃ©n en uno de los principales libros de toda la obra de Mario Vargas Llosa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8892'),
(14830, 'Elements of Computer Security', 'David Salomon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  As our society grows ever more reliant on computers, so it also becomes more vulnerable to computer crime. Cyber attacks have been plaguing computer users since the 1980s, and computer security experts are predicting that smart telephones and other mobile devices will also become the targets of cyber security threats in the future.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Developed from the author''s highly successful Springer text, Foundations of Computer Security, this accessible, broad-ranging, and versatile textbook has been fully updated and enhanced with resources for students, instructors, and even those motivated to self-study on this topic.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Topics and features:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Examines the physical security of computer hardware, networks, and digital data\n  <br />\n  Introduces the different forms of rogue software (or malware), discusses methods for preventing and defending against them, and thoroughly describes a selection of viruses, worms and Trojans in detail\n  <br />\n  Provides numerous exercises and examples throughout the text, in addition to a Glossary of terms used in the book\n  <br />\n  Investigates the important threats to network security, and explores the timely subjects of authentication, spyware, and identity theft\n  <br />\n  Discusses key issues about privacy and trust in the online world, including children''s privacy and safety\n  <br />\n  Includes helpful appendices which discuss the definition, meaning, and history of the term "hacker"; introduce the language of "l33t Speak;" and provide a detailed virus timeline\n  <br />\n  Supplies additional resources at the associated website: http://www.DavidSalomon.name/, including an introduction to cryptography, and answers to the exercises\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Clearly and engagingly written, this concise textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate classes on computer security, as well as a solid reference for anyone needing to expand their security knowledge. The book is mostly non-mathematical, and is suitable for anyone familiar with the basic concepts of computers and computations.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  David Salomon is a professor emeritus of Computer Science at California State University, Northridge. He has authored numerous articles and Springer books, including Handbook of Data Compression, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression, Variable-length Codes for Data Compression, Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics, Curves and Surfaces for Computer Graphics, Coding for Data and Computer Communications, Data Privacy and Security, and A Guide to Data Compression Methods.\n </div>\n <br />\n Beschreibing Redaktion:\n <br />\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  As our society grows ever more reliant on computers, so it also becomes more vulnerable to computer crime. Cyber attacks have been plaguing computer users since the 1980s, and computer security experts are predicting that smart telephones and other mobile devices will also become the targets of cyber security threats in the future.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Developed from the author''s highly successful Springer text, Foundations of Computer Security, this accessible, broad-ranging, and versatile textbook has been fully updated and enhanced with resources for students, instructors, and even those motivated to self-study on this topic.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Topics and features:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Examines the physical security of computer hardware, networks, and digital data\n  <br />\n  Introduces the different forms of rogue software (or malware), discusses methods for preventing and defending against them, and thoroughly describes a selection of viruses, worms and Trojans in detail\n  <br />\n  Provides numerous exercises and examples throughout the text, in addition to a Glossary of terms used in the book\n  <br />\n  Investigates the important threats to network security, and explores the timely subjects of authentication, spyware, and identity theft\n  <br />\n  Discusses key issues about privacy and trust in the online world, including children''s privacy and safety\n  <br />\n  Includes helpful appendices which discuss the definition, meaning, and history of the term "hacker"; introduce the language of "l33t Speak;" and provide a detailed virus timeline\n  <br />\n  Supplies additional resources at the associated website: http://www.DavidSalomon.name/, including an introduction to cryptography, and answers to the exercises\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Clearly and engagingly written, this concise textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate classes on computer security, as well as a solid reference for anyone needing to expand their security knowledge. The book is mostly non-mathematical, and is suitable for anyone familiar with the basic concepts of computers and computations.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  David Salomon is a professor emeritus of Computer Science at California State University, Northridge. He has authored numerous articles and Springer books, including Handbook of Data Compression, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression, Variable-length Codes for Data Compression, Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics, Curves and Surfaces for Computer Graphics, Coding for Data and Computer Communications, Data Privacy and Security, and A Guide to Data Compression Methods.\n </div>\n <br />\n (source: Bol.de)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7664'),
(14831, 'Elminster in Hell', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gods and mortals alike succumb to gambling fever aboard the Peace of Boona on its yearly baccarat cruise, and would-be lovers Max and Eleanor, children of two of the game''s celebrated fixtures, are alternately seduced and repulsed by the frenzy. From up above, Kronos, Apollo and other celestial powerhouses dabble in earthly matters as the Titan Argus competes with the mortal D.A. Holon for the strumpet La Petite''s love in Mark Broderick''s madcap first book, Baccarat: Nine Lives South of Boona.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hell Hath Such Fury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the world of his birth he''s all but a god, but when an ancient evil banishes him to the depths of the Nine Hells, he''s just another lost soul. Elminster, Sage of Shadowdale, Chosen of Mystra, faces his most desperate struggle--to survive, to escape, to cling to his very sanity--and all the forces of the inferno are rallied against him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The top-selling book by the creator of the\n  <strong>\n   Forgotten Realms\n  </strong>\n  universe is now in paperback!\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11750'),
(14832, 'Elminster in Hell', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11989'),
(14833, 'Elminster in Myth Drannor', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the time of the great elven city of Cormanthor, when the Heartlands are home to barbarians, wicked dragons rule the skies, and the elven people trust no one. Wizards and warriors alike threaten their civilization in vain, arrogant, and ignorant quests for glory.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thus it was that Elminster was guided to Cormanthor, the Towers of Song, where Eltargrim was Coronal. There he dwelt for twelve summers and more, studying with many mighty mages, learning to feel magic and know how it could be bent and directed to his will . . . . It is recorded that when the Mythal was laid, and Cormanthor became Myth Drannor, Elminster was among those who devised and spun that mighty magic.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11705'),
(14834, 'Elminster in Myth Drannor', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11987'),
(14835, 'Elminster: The Making of a Mage', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An old wizard with the power to delight youngsters and horrify adults reveals his early beginnings in this strong fantasy, which traces the evolution of a mage''s powers. This joins others in the ''Forgotten Realms'' series: readers with a prior familiarity will be the best bets for this strong winner. --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In ancient days, sorcerers sought to learn the One True Spell that would give them power over all the world and understanding of all magic. . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The One True Spell was a woman, and her name was Mystra -- and her kisses were wonderful.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Priest Havilon Tharnstar\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tales Told to a Blind Wizard\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the time before Myth Drannor, when the Heartlands are home to barbarians, and wicked dragons rule the skies. In these ancient days, Elminster is but a shepherd boy, dreaming of adventure and heroics. When a dragon-riding magelord sweeps down upon him, though, the boy is thrust into a world of harsh realities, corrupt rulers, and evil sorcerers.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With patience and grit, Elminster sets about to change all that. The result of his labors is a world reborn and a mage made.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11687'),
(14836, 'Elminster: The Making of a Mage', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11986'),
(14837, 'Elminster&#39;s Daughter', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11704'),
(14838, 'Elogio De La Madrastra', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Con la sabidurÃ­a del meticuloso observador que es y gracias a la seductora ceremonia del bien contar, Vargas Llosa nos induce sin paliativos a dejarnos prender en la red sutil de perversidad que, poco a poco, va enredando y ensombreciendo las extraordinarias armonÃ­a y felicidad que unen en la plena satisfacciÃ³n de sus deseos a la sensual doÃ±a Lucrecia, la madrastra, a don Rigoberto, el padre, solitario practicante de rituales higiÃ©nicos y fantaseador amante de su amada esposa, y a inquietante Fonchito, el hijo, cuya angelical presencia y anhelante mirada parecen corromperlo todo. La reflexiÃ³n mÃºltiple sobre la felicidad, sus oscuras motivaciones y los paradÃ³jicos entresijos del poder putrefactor de la inocencia, que subyace en cada una de sus pÃ¡ginas, sostiene una narraciÃ³n que cumple con las exigencias del gÃ©nero sin por ello deslucir la rica filigrana poÃ©tica de la escritura.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8980'),
(14839, 'Elven Star', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Leaving his own realm to journey to the steamy rain forests of Pryan, Haplo sows the seeds of chaos in anticipation of his people''s invasion of the jungle world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2770'),
(14840, 'Elven Star', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Destruction looms over the dwarves, men and elves of Pryan, the World of Fire, in this second volume of The Death Gate cycle, begun in Dragon Wing . Childlike but immensely powerful, eyeless tytanssp.ok move through the three societies, killing all in their path. Elven arms dealer Paithan Quindiniar, arriving too late with weapons for the dwarves, flees to warn his people, accompanied by Rega, the human woman he warily loves against all convention, and other survivors. Meanwhile, arriving among the elves are Zifnab, a human and slightly addled wizard with an attendant dragon, and Haplo, an agent of the Lord of the Nexus, member of an ancient race that seeks to regain lost power over the four worlds created by the long vanished Sartan. A race for survival ensues. The authors deploy colorful characters in an intricate plot line and universe as the story slowly develops in what is intended to be a seven-volume saga. The atmosphere is often diluted by jarring touches, however, especially references to and jokes about our current world.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pryan, the Realm of Fire, holds an important secret for Haplo, the servant of an ancient race bent on revenge. Bearing with him the seeds of Pryan''s destruction, Haplo discovers that much of his work has already been done by the incessant warring among the dwarves, elves, and humans of an unhappily divided world. Weis and Hickman continue to exercise their unlimited ability to create intriguing fantasy backgrounds filled with colorful personalities in this stand-alone sequel to Dragon Wing ( LJ 12/89). Purchase where the authors are popular or fantasy has a strong following.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4552'),
(14841, 'Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools and Techniques', 'Arnold Berger &amp; Arnold H. Berger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The explanation of BDM/JTAG debuggers is one of the best I''ve seen... [the book''s] a needed addition to our art. --\n  <em>\n   - Jack Ganssle, Embedded Systems Programming technical editor\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dr. Arnold Berger\n  </strong>\n  is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing and Software Systems Department at the University of Washington-Bothell. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Cornell University. Dr. Berger has held positions as an R&amp;D Director at Applied Microsystems Corporation, Embedded Tools Marketing Manager at Advanced Micro Devices and R&amp;D Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Berger has published over 40 papers on embedded systems. He holds three patents.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9567'),
(14842, 'Emerging Research Directions in Computer Science: Contributions From the Young Informatics Faculty in Karlsruhe', 'Pankratius, Victor [hrsg.]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7690'),
(14843, 'ENCOPLOT: Pairwise Sequence Matching in Linear TimeApplied to Plagiarism Detection', 'Cristian Grozea &amp; Christian Gehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9479'),
(14844, 'ENCOPLOT: Pairwise Sequence Matching in Linear Time Applied to Plagiarism Detection', 'Cristian Grozea, Christian Gehl, Marius N. Popescu* christian.gehl@first.fraunhofer.de', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9477'),
(14845, 'Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology', 'Mehdi Khosrowpour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7114'),
(14846, 'Encyclopedia of Machine Learning', 'Claude Sammut &amp; Geoffrey I. Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This comprehensive encyclopedia, with over 250 entries in an A-Z format, provides easy access to relevant information for those seeking entry into any aspect within the broad field of machine learning. Most entries in this preeminent work include useful literature references.Topics for the Encyclopedia of Machine Learning were selected by a distinguished international advisory board. These peer-reviewed, highly-structured entries include definitions, illustrations, applications, bibliographies and links to related literature, providing the reader with a portal to more detailed information on any given topic.The style of the entries in the Encyclopedia of Machine Learning is expository and tutorial, making the book a practical resource for machine learning experts, as well as professionals in other fields who need to access this vital information but may not have the time to work their way through an entire text on their topic of interest.The authoritative reference is published both in print and online. The print publication includes an index of subjects and authors. The online edition supplements this index with hyperlinks as well as internal hyperlinks to related entries in the text, CrossRef citations, and links to additional significant research.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9536'),
(14847, 'Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications', 'Arthur Tatnall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Advances in information technology and communications have assisted organizations in utilizing portal technologies in support of effective and timely information for all purposes. The Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications offers all-inclusive, in-depth coverage of the nature, characteristics, advantages, limitations, design, and evolution of Web portals. Other topics in this two-volume encyclopedia include semantic portals, philosophical portal issues, and personal portals. This authoritative reference publication provides coverage of all aspects of portal technologies and applications for organizations worldwide.  The Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications contains more than 200 articles from 323 of the world''s leading experts and covers technical and organizational characteristics of portal applications in a wide range of settings from business, educational, scientific, and government entities. It also includes more than 1,440 key terms and definitions related to portal technologies and a list of more than 3,500 comprehensive references. Valuable to researchers in a variety of disciplines, this encyclopedia will add immense value to any reference collection.\n <br />\n (source: Bol.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7090'),
(14848, 'Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins (Roger de Wardt Lane, 2008)', 'Roger deWardt Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6213'),
(14849, 'Engineering Self-Organising Systems', 'Sven A. Brueckner &amp; Salima Hassas &amp; Mark Jelasity &amp; Daniel Yamins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The 7 full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The authors'' revisions have been significantly improved by the reviewers'' comments and the discussions following the presentation at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on overall design and fundations, algorithms and techniques, applications, as well as self-organization and evolutionary computing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9576'),
(14850, 'Enhancing Computer-Aided Plagiarism Detection', 'Maxim Mozgovoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This work is dedicated to the problem of computer- aided plagiarism detection, i.e. to the development and the use of software instruments that help to reveal plagiarism. The creation of such tools raises specific algorithmic problems that deserve attention. The results covered in this work, include: (a) Building the taxonomy of existing plagiarism detection methods according to their speed and reliability characteristics. (b) Studying and improving string matching algorithms used in plagiarism detection. Introducing "tokenizers" for the natural language texts, applying natural language parsers for plagiarism detection in order to enhance the quality of the detectors. (c) Optimizing the speed performance of string matching based plagiarism detection algorithms by applying a combined fast and reliable scoring scheme. Developing an efficient parameterized matching procedure. (d) Developing a fast string matching based plagiarism detection algorithm.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9480'),
(14851, 'Enhancing E-Learning With Media-Rich Content and Interactions', 'Richard Caladine &amp; Caladine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Online learning is transcending from the text-rich educational experience of the past to a video- and audio-rich learning transformation. The greater levels of media-rich content and media-rich interaction that are currently prevalent in online leisure experiences will help to increase e-learning s future efficiency and effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Enhancing E-Learning with Media-Rich Content and Interactions\n  </strong>\n  presents instructional designers, educators, scholars, and researchers with the necessary foundational elements, theoretical underpinnings, and practical guidance to aid in the technology selection and design of effective online learning experiences by integrating media-rich interactions and content.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richard Caladine\n  </strong>\n  is the Manager of Learning Facilities and Technologies at University of Wollongong Australia. He is responsible for the operation of University of Wollongong s audio-visual and rich media educational systems. These include a videoconference service consisting of 32 endpoints and a 40 port videoconference bridge that connects the seven NSW campuses of the University. As well he is responsible for the podcasting, webcasting and streaming services. He is actively involved with the training of staff in the pedagogically appropriate use of these systems and other educational technologies. Since 1994 he has researched the use of rich media in higher education, has published many papers, book chapters and books all on the appropriate pedagogical use of educational technologies. Richard s PhD is in the area of educational technology and he supervises postgraduate students in the area of Learning, Innovation and Future Technologies. Richard regularly speaks at international conferences, symposia and forums about the pedagogically appropriate application and future of Learning Technologies. His other interests include surfing, bushwalking, photography, and he regularly enters paintings and drawings in competitions. He is a foundation member of the Illawarra Ukulele Club.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9454'),
(14852, 'Enterprise Cloud Computing', 'Gautam Shroff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Gautam Shroff''s new book has arrived at a critical time and ably serves the computer professional wishing explore important new information technology. The past few years have seen an acceleration in the normally rapid pace of technological change. Cloud computing is becoming the new reality. It requires an understanding of virtualization and of the new systems designed to support massively parallel computation in the cloud: map-reduce, Hadoop, Hive, and many others. These techniques in turn make possible very large-scale enterprise analytics, using a variety of modern data-mining algorithms. In a succinct way, the author introduces us to all of these technologies and provides a unique perspective on today''s IT infrastructure."\n  <br />\n  Jeffrey D. Ullman, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Clouds are usually associated with vapor, and are close cousins of fog and mist - Gautam''s book is a huge step forward in bringing clarity and tangibility into this exciting next stage of evolution in enterprise IT. Gautam has a deep understanding of the cloud from the technology, customer requirement, service provider and innovator perspectives. I am glad he has translated this wealth of knowledge to the benefit of the greater technical community."\n  <br />\n  K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book provides a sound foundation for software architects who need to understand the potential impacts of moving to cloud computing."\n  <br />\n  David G. Hill, Computing Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform, describes emerging development paradigms and technologies, and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies, covering cloud infrastructure and platform services, programming paradigms such as MapReduce, as well as ''do-it-yourself'' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing, including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture, so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a reference for a graduate-level course in software architecture or software engineering.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7743'),
(14853, 'Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century', 'Andrew S. Targowski &amp; J. Michael Tarn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  IT education, particularly at business colleges, is undergoing a transformation because of the emerging federated systems or enterprise-wide systems (ES). This follows a trend in industry, which uses complex software applications like SAP and others. This movement toward ES in industry has created major challenges for integrating ES into the classroom. Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century presents methods of reengineering business curricula in order to use ES solutions. It also helps ES vendors understand the higher education environment so they can support college and university programs. Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century acts as a platform for both educators and vendors to present solutions and experiences gained from the challenges of integrating ES into the business classroom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Andrew Targowski is a professor of business information systems at Western Michigan University, USA. He has published 20 books on information technology, history, and political science in English and Polish. He is a pioneer of business computing and inventor of INFOSTRADA (Poland 1972), which triggered the information superhighway wave in the United States. He is a member of the executive council of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations and former chairman of the advisory council of Information Resource Management Association. J. Michael Tarn is an associate professor of business information systems at Western Michigan University, USA. He holds a Ph.D. and an MS in information systems from Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tarn has published numerous research papers in academic refereed journals, book chapters, and refereed conference proceedings. He currently serves as managing editor of the International Journal of Management Theory and Practices (IJMTP) and was editor-in-chief of Communications of the ICISA. He is a co-founder of the Telecommunications &amp; Information Management (TIM) Program at Western Michigan University, the first interdisciplinary and inter-collegial TIM program in Michigan. Professor Tarn is former president of the International Chinese Information Systems Association.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9466'),
(14854, 'Epica Magna', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4924'),
(14855, 'Epistemic Logic for AI and Computer Science', 'J.-j. Ch.meyer &amp; John-jules Ch Meyer &amp; W. van Der Hoek', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Epistemic logic has grown from its philosophical beginnings to find diverse applications in computer science as a means of reasoning about the knowledge and belief of agents. This book, based on courses taught at universities and summer schools, provides a broad introduction to the subject.'' Phinews\n </p>\n <p>\n  '' ... a very detailed coverage ... that is well written, well reasoned, and a useful reference to have on the shelf.'' R. J. Bradford, Axis\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Epistemic logic has grown from its philosophical beginnings to find diverse applications in computer science as a means of reasoning about the knowledge and belief of agents. This book, based on courses taught at universities and summer schools, provides a broad introduction to the subject; many exercises are included together with their solutions. The authors begin by presenting the necessary apparatus from mathematics and logic, including Kripke semantics and the well-known modal logics K, T, S4 and S5. Then they turn to applications in the contexts of distributed systems and artificial intelligence: topics that are addressed include the notions of common knowledge, distributed knowledge, explicit and implicit belief, the interplays between knowledge and time, and knowledge and action, as well as a graded (or numerical) variant of the epistemic operators. The problem of logical omniscience is also discussed extensively. Halpern and Moses'' theory of honest formulae is covered, and a digression is made into the realm of non-monotonic reasoning and preferential entailment. Moore''s autoepistemic logic is discussed, together with Levesque''s related logic of ''all I know''. Furthermore, it is shown how one can base default and counterfactual reasoning on epistemic logic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7405'),
(14856, 'Espinas', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Minner Burris: un maduro astronauta convertido por los cirujanos alienÃ­genas en un ser que ya no es completamente humano.\n <br />\n Lona Kelvin: cobaya de un experimento genÃ©tico la madre virgen de un centenar de hijos a los que nunca llegarÃ¡ a ver.\n <br />\n Duncan Chalk: un vampiro psÃ­quico que alimenta a travÃ©s de su imperio del espectÃ¡culo a millones de mirones, al tiempo que se alimenta a sÃ­ mismo con el dolor y la desesperaciÃ³n de los demÃ¡s.\n <br />\n Tres personajes, un amor, un odio, un ansia. Y, por encima de todo, una maravillosa historia de amor en los lÃ­mites de lo concebible.\n <br />\n <br />\n Espinas, publicada originalmente en 1967, y reeditada constantemente desde entonces, iniciÃ³, dentro de la carrera literaria de Robert Silverberg una segunda Ã©poca de esplendor en la que el autor sustituyÃ³ la gran cantidad de su producciÃ³n por una mucho mayor calidad literaria. El Ã©xito de esta novela, a su apariciÃ³n en los Estados Unidos, fue fulminante; fue nominada para el premio Hugo, y quedÃ³ finalista, en segundo lugar, en el premio Nebula. MÃ¡s adelante, Robert Silverberg serÃ­a premiado con un Hugo y media docena de Nebulas por su obra, que ha gozado siempre del continuado favor del pÃºblico de todo el mundo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11211'),
(14857, 'Essential Cvs', 'Jennifer Vesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Essential CVS does what you might think would be a small job more effectively and more comprehensively than I would have imagined, even allowing for the generally high standard of O''Reilly books. Apart from covering the boring stuff well, it has two big advantages over the Web: it backs up its discussion of various CVS functions with wise advice and policies on why and how to use these facilities - plus it provides readable (and, presumably, tested) examples. Computing sciences prizes abstraction and generalities; computing practice should, like this book, be informed by concrete specifics and sensible rules-of-thumb." - Damian Counsell, news@UK, December 2003\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, is the popular source-code management tool that frees developers from the chaos that too often ensues when multiple users work on the same file. An open source technology that is available on most computer platforms, including WindowsÂ® and Mac OSÂ® X, CVS is widely used to manage program code, web site content, and to track changes made to system configuration files. Multiple users can check out files from a directory tree, make changes, and then commit those changes back into the directory. If two developers modify the same file, CVS enables both sets of changes to be merged together into one final file. Although CVS is a lifesaver in many development scenarios, it suffers from poor documentation. But with\n  <em>\n   Essential CVS\n  </em>\n  , developers can have it all: the order that CVS brings and the comprehensive documentation developers need.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Essential CVS\n  </em>\n  is a complete and easy-to-follow reference that helps programmers and system administrators apply order to the task of managing large quantities of documents. The book covers basic concepts and usage of CVS, and features a comprehensive reference for CVS commands--including a handy Command Reference Card for quick, on-the-job checks. The book also includes advanced information on all aspects of CVS that involve automation, logging, branching and merging, and "watches." Readers will find in-depth coverage of the following:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Installing CVS and building your first repository\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Basic use of CVS, including importing projects, checking out projects, committing changes, and updating projects\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tagging, branching and merging\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with multiple users\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Clients, operating systems, and IDEs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Repository management and managing remote repositories\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project administration, including bug tracking systems, enforcing log messages, history and annotation, and more.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshooting\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Version control is essential to maintaining order in any project, large or small. Any CVS user, from beginners to team leaders and system administrators, will find this practical guide to CVS indispensable in getting the most from this valuable tool.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12586'),
(14858, 'The Essential Guide to HTML5', 'Jeanine Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML, with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page. The Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the WebSockets API facilitatesÂ real-time communication, and the local storage API enables data such as high scores or game preferences to be kept on a user''s computer for retrieval next time they play. All of these features and many more are covered within\n  <em>\n   The Essential Guide to HTML5\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book begins at an introductory level, teaching the essentials of HTML5 and JavaScript through game development. Each chapter features a familiar game type as its core example, such as hangman, rock-paper-scissors, or dice games, and uses these simple constructs toÂ build a solid skillset of the key HTML5 concepts and features. By working through these hands on examples, you will gain a deep, practical knowledge of HTML5 that will enable you to build your own, more advanced games and applications.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Concepts are introduced and motivated with easy-to-grasp, appealing examples\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Code is explained in detail after general explanations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reader is guided into how to make the examples ''their own''\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  What youâ€™ll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Use HTML5 and JavaScript to create interactive web sites\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Program in JavaScript with the new HTML5 features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Draw on canvas and place text on the canvas\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create animated scenes using timing events\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Handle mouse events for interaction with the user/player\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Important concepts useful in any programming language/environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   HTML tags, canvas, Math.random, setInterval, setTimerout, addEventListener, Date, localStorage and other features\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who this book is for\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anyone who wants to make interactive websites. This book is suited for:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Total beginners\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Those who have done some HTML but are afraid to do any programming\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Those with some experience with HTML, JavaScript, or Flash ActionScript but who are unfamiliar with the new features in HTML5\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Table of Contents\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   The Basics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Dice Game\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bouncing Ball\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cannonball and Slingshot\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Memory (aka Concentration) Game\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Quiz\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mazes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Rock, Paper, Scissors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Hangman\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Blackjack\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is\n  <strong>\n   Jeanine Meyer\n  </strong>\n  ''s sixth book, the previous title being_ The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript_. She continues to enjoy being part of the excitement of HTML5.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7665');
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(14859, 'Essential Microsoft Operations Manager', 'Chris Fox Voc', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the problem yourself-but that''s only if you''re lucky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), the diagnosis is done for you. MOM monitors server operations and automatically notifies you of problems by sending an immediate alert to your console, email address, or pager. To help you better understand how MOM works, O''Reilly presents\n  <em>\n   Essential Microsoft Operations Manager\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The goal of this comprehensive tutorial is to give first-time MOM administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005. Author Chris Fox, a renowned MOM expert, offers the type of practical, real-world advice that you need to improve the performance of your IT infrastructure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After taking you through the entire process of setting up MOM on the network, the book moves on to more advanced administration issues. It carefully instructs you how to program and automate MOM and the agents that reside on the servers themselves. You''ll also learn how to manage the scripts that determine which server agents are relevant to report.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By capturing system data, intelligently analyzing it, and then notifying you with a suggested course of action, MOM makes extinguishing fires a breeze. And now, thanks to\n  <em>\n   Essential Microsoft Operations Manager\n  </em>\n  , learning how to use MOM is a breeze, too.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chris Fox has been working with MOM 2000 SP1 since 2002 and has architected and implemented MOM 2000 and 2005 for over 500 managed nodes. Prior to this he has been developing enterprise AD/DNS/DHCP/WINS and Exchange architectures for 9 years. He has been published in Outlook &amp; Exchange magazine, .NET magazine and authored a chapter on clustering in Exchange 2000 24x7. Chris currently works as a Portals Technology Specialist for Microsoft Corporation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3467'),
(14860, 'Essential Software Architecture', 'Ian Gorton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Ian''s book helps us to head in the right direction through the various techniques and approaches... An essential guide to computer science students as well as developers and IT professionals who aspire to become an IT architect".\n  </em>\n  (Anna Liu, Architect Advisor, Microsoft Australia)\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"All in all,\n  <strong>\n   Essential Software Architecture\n  </strong>\n  is head and shoulders above other books on the subject that I''ve read."_ (Gregory Wilson, Dr. Dobbs Journal)\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Gorton has produced a well-done, thorough work. Writing such a book on software architecture is a daunting task. (...) Very few texts on this subject have been able to achieve the delicate balance between generality and specificity.\n  <strong>\n   Essential Software Architecture\n  </strong>\n  does this."_ (Shantanu Bhattacharya, Siemens Information Systems Ltd., India, for ACM Reviews)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Job titles like â€œTechnical Architectâ€ and â€œChief Architectâ€ nowadays abound in software industry, yet many people suspect that â€œarchitectureâ€ is one of the most overused and least understood terms in professional software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gortonâ€™s book tries to resolve this dilemma. It concisely describes the essential elements of knowledge and key skills required to be a software architect. The explanations encompass the essentials of architecture thinking, practices, and supporting technologies. They range from a general understanding of structure and quality attributes through technical issues like middleware components and service-oriented architectures to recent technologies like model-driven architecture, software product lines, aspect-oriented design, and the Semantic Web, which will presumably influence future software systems. This second edition contains new material covering enterprise architecture, agile development, enterprise service bus technologies, RESTful Web services, and a case study on how to use the MeDICi integration framework.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All approaches are illustrated by an ongoing real-world example. So if you work as an architect or senior designer (or want to someday), or if you are a student in software engineering, here is a valuable and yet approachable knowledge source for you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7150'),
(14861, 'Essentials of Economics', 'Faustino Ballve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Perhaps the best brief primer on economics ever penned, Ballve''s little classic explains such basics as what economics is -- and is not -- all about, the role of the entrepreneur, the factors of production, money and credit, international trade, monopoly and unemployment, socialism and interventionism -- all from an "Austrian School" perspective, and all in 100 pages!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7906'),
(14862, 'Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering', 'Donald R. Askeland &amp; Pradeep P. Fulay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This text provides students with a solid understanding of the relationship between the structure, processing, and properties of materials. Authors Donald Askeland and Pradeep Fulay teach the fundamental concepts of atomic structure and materials behaviors and clearly link them to the "materials" issues that students will have to deal with when they enter the industry or graduate school (e.g. design of structures, selection of materials, or materials failures). While presenting fundamental concepts and linking them to practical applications, the authors emphasize the necessary basics without overwhelming the students with too much of the underlying chemistry or physics. The book covers fundamentals in an integrated approach that emphasizes applications of new technologies that engineered materials enable. New and interdisciplinary developments in materials field such as nanomaterials, smart materials, micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) systems, and biomaterials are also discussed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Donald R. Askeland joined the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1970 after obtaining his doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Michigan. His primary interest was in teaching, resulting in a variety of campus, university, and industry awards and the preparation of a materials engineering textbook. Dr. Askeland was active in research involving metals casting and metals joining, particularly in the production, treatment, and joining of cast irons, gating and fluidity of aluminum alloys, and optimization of casting processes. Much of this work was interdisciplinary, providing data for creating computer models and validation of such models.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pradeep P. Fulay received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. His research is primarily concerned with the synthesis and processing of ceramic powders and thin films, consisting of nano-sized primary particles/grains. His current research involves development of novel synthesis and processing protocols for electro-optic and ferroelectric ceramics and studies related to the relationships between their microstructure and dielectric/optical properties. Dr. Fulay is also researching fundamental of magnetorheological (MR) fluids. He is a Fellow to the American Ceramic Society.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7632'),
(14863, 'Essentials of Programming Languages', 'Daniel P. Friedman &amp; Mitchell Wand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve found the interpreters-based approach for teaching programming languages to be both compelling and rewarding for my students. Exposing students to the revelation that an interpreter for a programming language is itself just another program opens up a world of possibilities for problem-solving. The third edition of Essentials of Programming Languages makes this approach of writing interpreters more accessible than ever."--Marc L. Smith, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative designs and other issues. The complete Scheme code for all the interpreters and analyzers in the book can be found online through The MIT Press Web site. For this new edition, each chapter has been revised and many new exercises have been added. Significant additions have been made to the text, including completely new chapters on modules and continuation-passing style. Essentials of Programming Languages can be used for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and for continuing education courses for programmers.Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by The MIT Press, including The Little Schemer (fourth edition, 1995), The Seasoned Schemer (1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns (1997), each of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned Schemer (2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov. Mitchell Wand is Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Having taught from EOPL for several years, I appreciate the way it producesstudents who understand the terminology and concepts of programminglanguages in a deep way, not just from reading about the concepts, but fromprogramming them and experimenting with them. This new edition has anincreased emphasis on types as contracts for defining procedure interfaces,which is quite important for many students. This new emphasis meshes wellwith the way the domains and operations of the interpreters are described."--Gary T. Leavens, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,University of Central Florida\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Gary Leavens )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With lucid prose and elegant code, this book provides the most concrete introduction to the few building blocks that give rise to a wide variety of programming languages. I recommend it to my students and look forward to using it in my courses."--Chung-chieh Shan, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Chung-Chieh Shan )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Having taught from\n  <em>\n   EOPL\n  </em>\n  for several years, I appreciate the way it produces students who understand the terminology and concepts of programming languages in a deep way, not just from reading about the concepts, but from programming them and experimenting with them. This new edition has an increased emphasis on types as contracts for defining procedure interfaces, which is quite important for many students."\n  <strong>\n   Gary T. Leavens\n  </strong>\n  , School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9151'),
(14864, 'Etruscul', 'Mika Waltari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4696'),
(14865, 'Eu, Robotul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4857'),
(14866, 'Evaluating the Impact of Distance Learning SupportSystems on the Learning Experience of MBA Students in aGlobal Context', 'Yongmei Bentley &amp; Anjali Shegunshi &amp; Mike Scannell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9453'),
(14867, 'Evam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure', 'Walter J. Glenn &amp; Michael T. Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9382'),
(14868, 'Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006', 'Bjarne Stroustrup', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006\n </div>\n <div>\n  Bjarne Stroustrup\n </div>\n <div>\n  Texas A&amp;M University\n </div>\n <div>\n  www.research.att.com/~bs\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9174'),
(14869, 'Evolving Intelligent Systems: Methodology and Applications', 'Plamen P. Angelov &amp; Dimitar P. Filev &amp; Nik Kasabov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From theory to techniques, the first all-in-one resource for EIS There is a clear demand in advanced process industries, defense, and Internet and communication (VoIP) applications for intelligent yet adaptive/evolving systems. Evolving Intelligent Systems is the first self- contained volume that covers this newly established concept in its entirety, from a systematic methodology to case studies to industrial applications. Featuring chapters written by leading world experts, it addresses the progress, trends, and major achievements in this emerging research field, with a strong emphasis on the balance between novel theoretical results and solutions and practical real-life applications. Explains the following fundamental approaches for developing evolving intelligent systems (EIS): the Hierarchical Prioritized Structure the Participatory Learning Paradigm the Evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems (eTS+) the evolving clustering algorithm that stems from the well-known Gustafson-Kessel offline clustering algorithm Emphasizes the importance and increased interest in online processing of data streams Outlines the general strategy of using the fuzzy dynamic clustering as a foundation for evolvable information granulation Presents a methodology for developing robust and interpretable evolving fuzzy rule-based systems Introduces an integrated approach to incremental (real-time) feature extraction and classification Proposes a study on the stability of evolving neuro-fuzzy recurrent networks Details methodologies for evolving clustering and classification Reveals different applications of EIS to address real problems in areas of: evolving inferential sensors in chemical and petrochemical industry learning and recognition in robotics Features downloadable software resources Evolving Intelligent Systems is the one-stop reference guide for both theoretical and practical issues for computer scientists, engineers, researchers, applied mathematicians, machine learning and data mining experts, graduate students, and professionals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7769'),
(14870, 'Exam 70-271: McDst Self Paced Training Kit. Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System', 'Walter J. Glenn &amp; Tony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCDST Exam 70-271 and on the job with this official Microsoft study guide, now updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, hands-on exercises, troubleshooting labs, and review questions. The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 425 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get expert exam tips and detailed explanations for right and wrong answers including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.  Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:  Perform and troubleshoot installation or upgrade  Configure and troubleshoot hardware such as print, display, and I/O devices  UPDATED Manage access to files, folders, and add-on software  Configure the desktop and user environment  NEW Set up and support Windows Firewall, security and privacy settings, and local policy  NEW Use Microsoft Update and Automatic Updates to keep your system current  Resolve network connectivity issues both local and remote  Optimize system performance Your kit includes:  15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.  Fully reengineered, self-paced study guide with expert exam tips.  Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options.  Case scenarios and troubleshooting labs for real-world expertise.  120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2.  Fully searchable eBook.  Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook.  Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition, eBook.\n <br />\n (source: Bol.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9383'),
(14871, 'Exam: 070-270Title: Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft WindowsXP Professional', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7349'),
(14872, 'Excel 2007 Power Programming With VBA', 'John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   This book is a single reference that-s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won-t find anywhere else\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   John Walkenbach, aka "Mr. Spreadsheet," is one of the world-s leading authorities on Excel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Expand Excel with VBA, and feel the power!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  No one is better at revealing the secrets of Excel than "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. This power-user''s guide is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for expanding Excel''s capabilities with Visual BasicÂ® for Applications. Excel 2007 has a few new tricks up its sleeve, and John Walkenbach helps you make the most of them all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll learn to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and PivotTables, and create event-handling applications. Work with VBA subprocedures and function procedures, facilitate interactions with other applications, build user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems, and much more. Get ready to make Excel do your bidding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mr. Spreadsheet''s POWER TIPS:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Power Tip #1 Create powerful Excel applications\n </p>\n <p>\n  Power Tip #2 Enhance Excel with VBA macros\n </p>\n <p>\n  Power Tip #3 Write event-driven VBA code\n </p>\n <p>\n  Power Tip #4 Understand the new Excel 2007 ribbon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Power Tip #5 Expand Excel''s shortcut menus\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   CD-ROM INCLUDES:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Valuable sample files that illustrate examples from the text\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A searchable PDF version of the book\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9884'),
(14873, 'Excel 2007 VBA Programmer&#39;s Reference', 'John Green &amp; Stephen Bullen &amp; Rob Bovey &amp; Michael Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Get ready to take your Excel applications to the next level by harnessing the power of the VBA language. This comprehensive resource will help you gain more control over your spreadsheets by using VBA while also showing you how to develop more dynamic Excel applications for other users. From introductory concepts to advanced developer topics, it guides you through every aspect of Excel 2007, including the Ribbon and the XML file formats.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In order to master all of the new features of this program, you''ll find an introduction to VBA and details on how to use it to enhance Excel. You''ll then learn how to work with the key objects and uncover the best ways to gain access to workbooks, worksheets, charts, and more. And you''ll find out how to write code for international compatibility, program the Visual Basic Editor, and use the functions in the Win32 API, which will expand your Excel VBA programming skills.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to write code that is readable, easy to maintain, and runs at maximum speed\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for utilizing the Visual BasicÂ® Editor and its multitude of tools\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for accessing data in a range of formats\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to set up your applications and convert them to add-ins\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to manipulate the Office XML file formats\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A thorough explanation of RibbonX\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Best practices for managing external data and using OLAP data sources\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Methods for effectively debugging your application\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for packaging and distributing customized applications to other users\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who is this book for?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for Excel users and programmers from beginning to advanced. You should have a reasonable working knowledge of Excel and a full installation of the software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Programmer''s References\n  </strong>\n  are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Green\n  </strong>\n  lives and works in Sydney, Australia, as an independent computer consultant, specializing in Excel and Access. He has 35 years of computing experience, a Chemical Engineering degree, and an MBA.\n  <br />\n  He wrote his first programs in FORTRAN, took a part in the evolution of specialized planning languages on mainframes and, in the early â€˜80s, became interested in spreadsheet systems, including 1-2-3 and Excel.\n  <br />\n  John established his company, Execuplan Consulting, in 1980, specializing in developing computerbased planning applications and in training. He has led training seminars for software applications and operating systems both in Australia and overseas.\n  <br />\n  John has had regular columns in a number of Australian magazines and has contributed chapters to a number of books including\n  <em>\n   Excel Expert Solutions\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Using Visual Basic for Applications 5\n  </em>\n  . He also co-authored\n  <em>\n   Professional Excel Development\n  </em>\n  with Stephen Bullen and Rob Bovey.\n  <br />\n  From 1995 to 2005 he was accorded the status of MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft for his contributions to the CompuServe Excel forum and MS Internet newsgroups.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   John Green contributed the Introduction, Chapters 1â€“11, 13, 15â€“17, and 19 to this book.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephen Bullen\n  </strong>\n  lives in Woodford Green, London, England, with his partner Clare, daughter Becky, and their dogs, Fluffy and Charlie. He has two other daughters, Jane and Katie, from his first marriage.\n  <br />\n  A graduate of Oxford University, Stephen has an MA in Engineering, Economics, and Management, providing a unique blend of both business and technical skills. He has been providing Excel consulting and application development services since 1994, originally as an employee of Price Waterhouse Management Consultants and later as an independent consultant trading under the names of Business Modelling Solutions Limited and Office Automation Limited. Stephen now works for Barclays Capital in London, developing trading systems for complex exotic derivative products.\n  <br />\n  The Office Automation web site, www.oaltd.co.uk, provides a number of helpful and interesting utilities, examples, tips and techniques to help in your use of Excel and development of Excel applications.\n  <br />\n  As well as co-authoring previous editions of the\n  <em>\n   Excel VBA Programmerâ€™s Reference\n  </em>\n  , Stephen co-authored\n  <em>\n   Professional Excel Development\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  In addition to his consulting and writing assignments, Stephen actively supports the Excel user community in Microsoftâ€™s peer-to-peer support newsgroups and the Daily Dose of Excel blog. In recognition of his knowledge, skills and contributions, Microsoft has awarded him the title of Most Valuable Professional each year since 1996.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Stephen Bullen contributed Chapters 14, 18, 24â€“27, and Appendix B to this book.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rob Bovey\n  </strong>\n  is president of Application Professionals, a software development company specializing in Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, and SQL Server applications. He brings many yearsâ€™ experience creating financial, accounting, and executive information systems for corporate users to Application Professionals. You can visit the Application Professionals web site at www.appspro.com.\n  <br />\n  Rob developed several add-ins shipped by Microsoft for Microsoft Excel and co-authored the\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Excel 97 Developers Kit\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Professional Excel Development\n  </em>\n  . He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from The Rochester Institute of Technology and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). Microsoft has awarded him the title of Most Valuable Professional each year since 1995.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Rob Bovey contributed Chapters 20â€“22 to this book.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Alexander\n  </strong>\n  is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with more than 14 yearsâ€™ experience consulting and developing office solutions. He parlayed his experience with VBA and VB into a successful consulting practice in the private sector, developing middleware and reporting solutions for a wide variety of industries. He currently lives in Frisco, Texas, where he serves as a Senior Program Manager for a top technology firm. Michael is the author of several books on Microsoft Access and Excel, and is the principle behind DataPig Technologies, where he shares Access and Excel knowledge with the Office community.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Michael Alexander contributed Chapters 12 and 23 and Appendices A and C to this book.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9227'),
(14874, 'Excel 2007 VBA Programming for Dummies', 'John Walkenbach &amp; Jan Karel Pieterse', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Step-by-step instructions for creating VBA macros\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Harness the power of VBA and create custom Excel applications\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Make Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Discover how to\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Grasp essential programming concepts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the Visual BasicÂ® Editor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Navigate the new Excel user interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Communicate with your users\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deal with errors and bugs\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Walkenbach\n  </strong>\n  is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and creator of the award-winning Power Utility Pak.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9228'),
(14875, 'Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook', 'Andre Odnoha', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Cookbook format means each technique is explained with step-by-step instructions, and you can jump straight to the techniques you need. You won''t need to read this book from start to finish in order to get value out of it. This book is for anybody who wants to use Excel to manage their revenues, budgets, and other financials. It''s especially suitable for small businesses that already use Excel and want to get more from it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Andre Odnoha\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andre Odnoha has been working within the business and technology field for many years combining his knowledge of business and information technology. With his knowledge in both software and hardware related to computer systems and a Bachelor''s degree in Business Administration, Andre works to combine and utilize technology from a business perspective.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andre has over 11 years of experience in computer software and hardware and has programmed numerous software applications designed for medical billing, e-commerce, and content management.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7167'),
(14876, 'Excel 2010 Power Programming With VBA', 'John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This unique memoir is about experiencing cancer, but it is also about so much more. Michael Murphy is an admired broadcaster, writer and psychoanalyst, and this is a pathbreaking book which has a very special relevance for all whose lives have been touched by cancer, but which also appeals to anyone who loves to read a moving story exceptionally well told.As Mary Robinson writes in her Foreword: His book is unflinchingly honest, and he breaks down the taboo around men speaking the unspeakable...What I have realised is that in writing about all aspects of the cancer theme - traumatic assault, mortality, endurance - Michael has created a personal myth to live by. His memoir graphically treats of themes which take enormous risks of courage to put into words, but through the exceptional quality of his writing, they have become a pillar of light which has enabled him to continue on in the warmth of its lustre, despite his loss and the limits that have now been reached.Learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and you can expand the already awesome power of Excel2010. John Walkenbach, aka Mr. Spreadsheet, shows you how to do it in this easy-to-follow guide.If you''re already an experienced Excel user, this book will make you an Excel master. You''ll learn a new approach to Excel and the steps involved in developing a new spreadsheet application. You''ll also discover how to develop VBA subroutines and functions, use advanced programming techniques, and more. And if you''re switching to Excel 2010 from an earlier version, there''s a section to get you up to speed on the new features.No one can teach you more about Excel than Mr. Spreadsheet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9886'),
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(14880, 'Excelsior (Tabel crono)', 'Alexandru Macedonski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8540'),
(14881, 'eXeWorking with eXe to edit your final project', 'Louis Cassou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7487'),
(14882, 'exe: elearning XHTML editor', 'EXE Team', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7488'),
(14883, 'Explaining the Diffusion of KnowledgeManagement: The Role of Fashion', 'Harry Scarbrough &amp; Jacky Swan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10151'),
(14884, 'Exploiting Software: How to Break Code', 'Greg Hoglund &amp; Gary Mcgraw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Praise for Exploiting Software\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExploiting Software highlights the most critical part of the software quality problem. As it turns out, software quality problems are a major contributing factor to computer security problems. Increasingly, companies large and small depend on software to run their businesses every day. The current approach to software quality and security taken by software companies, system integrators, and internal development organizations is like driving a car on a rainy day with worn-out tires and no air bags. In both cases, the odds are that something bad is going to happen, and there is no protection for the occupant/owner. This book will help the reader understand how to make software quality part of the designâ€”a key change from where we are today!â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Tony Scott\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chief Technology Officer, IS&amp;S\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â General Motors Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s about time someone wrote a book to teach the good guys what the bad guys already know. As the computer security industry matures, books like Exploiting Software have a critical role to play.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Bruce Schneier\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chief Technology Officer\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Counterpane\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Author of Beyond Fear andSecrets and Lies\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExploiting Software cuts to the heart of the computer security problem, showing why broken software presents a clear and present danger. Getting past the â€˜worm of the dayâ€™ phenomenon requires that someone other than the bad guys understands how software is attacked. This book is a wake-up call for computer security.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Elinor Mills Abreu\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Reutersâ€™ correspondent\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPolice investigators study how criminals think and act. Military strategists learn about the enemyâ€™s tactics, as well as their weapons and personnel capabilities. Similarly, information security professionals need to study their criminals and enemies, so we can tell the difference between popguns and weapons of mass destruction. This book is a significant advance in helping the â€˜white hatsâ€™ understand how the â€˜black hatsâ€™ operate. Through extensive examples and â€˜attack patterns,â€™ this book helps the reader understand how attackers analyze software and use the results of the analysis to attack systems. Hoglund and McGraw explain not only how hackers attack servers, but also how malicious server operators can attack clients (and how each can protect themselves from the other). An excellent book for practicing security engineers, and an ideal book for an undergraduate class in software security.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Jeremy Epstein\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Director, Product Security &amp; Performance\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â webMethods, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA provocative and revealing book from two leading security experts and world class software exploiters, Exploiting Software enters the mind of the cleverest and wickedest crackers and shows you how they think. It illustrates general principles for breaking software, and provides you a whirlwind tour of techniques for finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, along with detailed examples from real software exploits. Exploiting Software is essential reading for anyone responsible for placing software in a hostile environmentâ€”that is, everyone who writes or installs programs that run on the Internet.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Dave Evans, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Associate Professor of Computer Science\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â University of Virginia\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe root cause for most of todayâ€™s Internet hacker exploits and malicious software outbreaks are buggy software and faulty security software deployment. In Exploiting Software, Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw help us in an interesting and provocative way to better defend ourselves against malicious hacker attacks on those software loopholes. The information in this book is an essential reference that needs to be understood, digested, and aggressively addressed by IT and information security professionals everywhere.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Ken Cutler, CISSP, CISA\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Vice President, Curriculum Development &amp; Professional Services,\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MIS Training Institute\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book describes the threats to software in concrete, understandable, and frightening detail. It also discusses how to find these problems before the bad folks do. A valuable addition to every programmerâ€™s and security personâ€™s library!â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Matt Bishop, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Professor of Computer Science\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â University of California at Davis\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Author of Computer Security: Art and Science\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhether we slept through software engineering classes or paid attention, those of us who build things remain responsible for achieving meaningful and measurable vulnerability reductions. If you canâ€™t afford to stop all software manufacturing to teach your engineers how to build secure software from the ground up, you should at least increase awareness in your organization by demanding that they read Exploiting Software. This book clearly demonstrates what happens to broken software in the wild.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Ron Moritz, CISSP\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Senior Vice President, Chief Security Strategist\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Â Â Â Â Â Computer Associates\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExploiting Software is the most up-to-date technical treatment of software security I have seen. If you worry about software and application vulnerability, Exploiting Software is a must-read. This book gets at all the timely and important issues surrounding software security in a technical, but still highly readable and engaging, way. Hoglund and McGraw have done an excellent job of picking out the major ideas in software exploit and nicely organizing them to make sense of the software security jungle.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”George Cybenko, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security and Privacy\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a seductive book. It starts with a simple story, telling about hacks and cracks. It draws you in with anecdotes, but builds from there. In a few chapters you find yourself deep in the intimate details of software security. It is the rare technical book that is a readable and enjoyable primer but has the substance to remain on your shelf as a reference. Wonderful stuff.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Craig Miller, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chief Technology Officer for North America\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dimension Data\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s hard to protect yourself if you donâ€™t know what youâ€™re up against. This book has the details you need to know about how attackers find software holes and exploit themâ€”details that will help you secure your own systems.â€ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”Ed Felten, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Professor of Computer Science\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you worry about software and application vulnerability, Exploiting Software is a must-read. This book gets at all the timely and important issues surrounding software security in a technical, but still highly readable and engaging way.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”George Cybenko, Ph.D.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExploiting Software is the best treatment of any kind that I have seen on the topic of software vulnerabilities.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”From the Foreword by Aviel D. Rubin\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Associate Professor, Computer Science\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Technical Director, Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University\n </p>\n <p>\n  How does software break? How do attackers make software break on purpose? Why are firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software not keeping out the bad guys? What tools can be used to break software? This book provides the answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Exploiting Software is loaded with examples of real attacks, attack patterns, tools, and techniques used by bad guys to break software. If you want to protect your software from attack, you must first learn how real attacks are really carried out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This must-have book may shock youÂ—and it will certainly educate you.Getting beyond the script kiddie treatment found in many hacking books, you will learn about\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Why software exploit will continue to be a serious problem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   When network security mechanisms do not work\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Attack patterns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reverse engineering\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Classic attacks against server software\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Surprising attacks against client software\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Techniques for crafting malicious input\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The technical details of buffer overflows\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Rootkits\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Exploiting Software is filled with the tools, concepts, and knowledge necessary to break software.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9125'),
(14885, 'External and Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection Using Vector Space Models - 3rd PAN Workshop/1st PAN Competition', 'M. Zechner &amp; M. Muhr &amp; R. Kern &amp; M. Granitzer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9490'),
(14886, 'The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Strories', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dickâ€™s works has continued to grow, and his reputation has been enhanced by an expanding body of critical appreciation. This fifth and final volume of Dickâ€™s collected works includes 25 short stories, some previously unpublished.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11701'),
(14887, 'The Face of the Waters', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Silverberg, winner of four Hugos and five Nebulas, presents a riveting tale of an epic voyage of survival in a hostile environment. On the watery world of Hydros, humans live on artificial islands and keep an uneasy peace with the native race of amphibians. When a group of humans angers their alien hosts, they are exiledâ€”set adrift on the planet''s vast and violent sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11306'),
(14888, 'Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer', 'Bruno Aranda &amp; Zubin Wadia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Facelets is a templating language developed from the ground up with JavaServer Faces in mind. Created in response to the many concerns involving JSP when building JavaServer Faces views, Facelets steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSFâ€“centric view technology. Facelets top properties, templating, reuse, and ease of development, allows it to help making JSF a technology suitable for largeâ€“scale projects. One of the first things a developer using Facelets finds is that it immediately leads to a reduction in UI code. Facelets Essentials, the first book on Facelets, introduces you to its importance, architecture, and relationship to JSF and the Apache MyFaces web framework. Learn to create your first application using the power and flexibility Facelets offers. Then, master and apply its basic and advanced features including Unified Expression Language, templating and reuse, custom tag development, and more. What you''ll learn See why you should use Facelets and the Facelets architecture. Ccreate your first application with Facelets. Use the Facelets Unified Expression Language. Explore Facelets templating and reuse, as well as the tag reference and custom tag development. Create composition components. Extend the ViewHandler. And more... Who this book is for This book is for Java web developers who are using or experienced with JSF and perhaps learning to use the MyFaces web framework.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7742'),
(14889, 'Fair Game', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11700'),
(14890, 'The Father Thing', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n None\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11715'),
(14891, 'Fausta', 'Michel Yevaco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4882'),
(14892, 'Fausta invinsa', 'Michel Zevaco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4894'),
(14893, 'Filantropica', 'Nae Caranfil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4830');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14894, 'Financial Instrument Pricing Using C++', 'Daniel J. Duffy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the best languages for the development of financial engineering and instrument pricing applications is C++. This book has several features that allow developers to write robust, flexible and extensible software systems. The book is an ANSI/ISO standard, fully object-oriented and interfaces with many third-party applications. It has support for templates and generic programming, massive reusability using templates (?write once?) and support for legacy C applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book, author Daniel J. Duffy brings C++ to the next level by applying it to the design and implementation of classes, libraries and applications for option and derivative pricing models. He employs modern software engineering techniques to produce industrial-strength applications:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Standard Template Library (STL) in finance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating your own template classes and functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reusable data structures for vectors, matrices and tensors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Classes for numerical analysis (numerical linear algebra ?)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Solving the Black Scholes equations, exact and approximate solutions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing the Finite Difference Method in C++\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integration with the ?Gang of Four? Design Patterns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interfacing with Excel (output and Add-Ins)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Financial engineering and XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cash flow and yield curves\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Included with the book is a CD containing the source code in the Datasim Financial Toolkit. You can use this to get up to speed with your C++ applications by reusing existing classes and libraries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Unique... Let''s all give a warm welcome to modern pricing tools.''\n  <br />\n  -- Paul Wilmott, mathematician, author and fund manager\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the best languages for the development of financial engineering and instrument pricing applications is C++. It has several features that allow developers to write robust, flexible and extensible software systems. It is an ANSI/ISO standard, fully object-oriented and interfaces with many third-party applications. It has support for templates and generic programming, massive reusability using templates (â€˜write onceâ€™) and support for legacy C applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book we bring C++ to the next level by applying it to the design and implementation of classes, libraries and applications for option and derivative pricing models. We employ modern software engineering techniques to produce industrial-strength applications: -\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Standard Template Library (STL) in finance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating your own template classes and functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reusable data structures for vectors, matrices and tensors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Classes for numerical analysis (numerical linear algebra â€¦)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Solving the Black Scholes equations, exact and approximate solutions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing the Finite Difference Method in C++\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integration with the â€˜Gang of Fourâ€™ Design Patterns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interfacing with Excel (output and Add-Ins)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Financial engineering and XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cash flow and yield curves\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Included with the book is a CD containing the source code in the Datasim Financial Toolkit that you can use directly. This will get you up to speed with your C++ applications by reusing existing classes and libraries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Unique... Let''s all give a warm welcome to modern pricing tools.''\n  <strong>\n   Paul Wilmott, mathematician, author and fund manager\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7825'),
(14895, 'The Financier', 'Theodore Dreiser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10455'),
(14896, 'Fire de tort', 'Cosbuc George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4836'),
(14897, 'Fire Sea', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Abarrach, the Realm of stone. Here, on a barrenÂ Â world of underground caverns built around a core ofÂ Â molten lava, the lesser races -- humans, elves,Â Â and dwarves -- seem to have all died off. Here, too,Â Â what may well be the last remnants of the onceÂ Â powerful Sartan still struggle to survive. For HaploÂ Â and Alfred -- enemies by heritage, travelingÂ Â companions by necessity -- Abarrach may reveal more thanÂ Â either dares to discover about the history ofÂ Â Sartan... and the future of all their descendants.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Abarrach, the Realm of stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races -- humans, elves, and dwarves -- seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remnants of the once powerful Sartan still struggle to survive. For Haplo and Alfred -- enemies by heritage, traveling companions by necessity -- Abarrach may reveal more than either dares to discover about the history of Sartan... and the future of all their descendants.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2788'),
(14898, 'Firewater', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1952.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10014'),
(14899, 'Firma', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4931'),
(14900, 'Fixing Windows XP Annoyances', 'David A. Karp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Microsoft Windows XP may be the latest in a popular family of operating systems, but that doesn''t mean it''s perfect. However, the designers of Windows XP have built enough flexibility into their product and provided users with a sufficiently large toolkit to overcome most shortcomings. In\n  <em>\n   Windows XP Annoyances\n  </em>\n  David Karp reveals his ideas about how to use Windows XP most effectively, for maximum fun and productivity and as little aggravation as possible. If you''re comfortable working with Windows XP (or any of its recent predecessors) but find certain aspects of it, well,\n  <em>\n   annoying\n  </em>\n  , you''ll find this book to your liking. Karp guides his readers through potentially risky procedures, such as editing the Registry and adjusting hardware device drivers, with skill and precision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author''s tone is to the point and professional without being dry, without any of the phony, forced humor that appears in a lot of operating-system books. Though he inexplicably ignores the Windows XP Power Toys--some very handy utilities you can get from Microsoft''s Web site--he does a great job of handling important questions. Case in point, the important issue of which files can be deleted to free up disk space, and which you shouldn''t touch even though they look like pointless garbage. Similarly useful attention goes to the question of which background processes can be safely halted, and which are important. There''s fine coverage of scripting with the Windows Script Host (WSH), as well.\n  <em>\n   --David Wall\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered:\n  </strong>\n  How to get the most out of Windows XP, even when it appears that the operating system is working against you. Troubleshooting techniques, hardware advice, Registry hacking, interface customization, and advanced networking subjects all find a place in this book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book gives an insight into how frustrated end-users can get when what should be simple and intuitive is anything but. It''s required reading for any PC developer, especially those living in Redmont..." PC Plus, June 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6527'),
(14901, 'The Flat-Eyed Monster', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10084'),
(14902, 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-wasâ€”a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of â€œFlow My Tears, the Policeman Saidâ€, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.\n <br />\n Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance, immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyoneâ€”from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasureâ€”informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11695'),
(14903, 'Fooled By Randomness', 'Nassim Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7320'),
(14904, 'For Love of Amanda', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(14905, 'Formula One Racing for Dummies', 'Jonathan Noble &amp; Mark Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Formula One racing is the pinnacle of motor racing around the world. These days, the sport is a truly global circus. At almost every race on the calendar, more than 120,000 spectators cram into the grandstands and spectator banking, all vying for a view of the millionaire superstar drivers. At the same time, in 150 countries worldwide, more than 300 million people tune in to watch the fight for glory in the comfort of their front rooms. Formula One Racing For Dummies shares insight into why this sport attracts so much interest and so many devotees â€“ whether the fans be following drivers, worshipping cars, satisfying their fascination with technology, or simply soaking up the atmosphere at the track. This spirited guide gives you the nitty-gritty on this wildly popular race, answering questions like Why do Formula One cars have wings and why are they covered in logos? How does a race begin without a green light to signal the start? How do Formula One drivers prepare, mentally and physically, for a race? How can I get an autograph of my favorite driver? What strategies do drivers and their teams use during a race? How does Formula One compare with other forms of motor racing? Why is a Formula One car still a car, even though it has no roof, doors, or bonnet? Why is the business side of the sport so important and what''s the role of the sponsor? Besides the driver, who are the other people on the team? What does winning feel like and how do drivers go about doing just that? Considering that Formula One racing is matched only by the Olympics and the football World Cup in terms of worldwide fans, this engaging reference is a must-have for finding the information you''re after without plodding through reams of pages or stalling out in a cover-to-cover read. You can speed through the basics or take time relishing a look at each circuit. And for those who want more than words to bring the race to life, a full-color insert celebrates the sheer spectacle of the great race â€“ from crowds to crashes, incredible skill and technology to amazing finishes!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12587'),
(14906, 'Fortareata Digitala', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8579'),
(14907, 'Foundations of Ajax', 'Ryan Asleson &amp; Nathaniel T. Schutta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   If the question you have about Ajax is, ''I''m on a deadline--what tools are available, and how can I use them now?'' Foundations of Ajax is your book.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  â€” Joey deVilla, Dr. Dobb''s Journal\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Where Foundations of Ajax shines is its no-nonsense introduction, implementation, and expansion of the basics of Ajax programming, leaving the reader confidently ready to utilize the concepts within.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  â€” Craig Maloney, Slashdot Reviewer\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Foundations of Ajax hits the mark with its recipe-style format and examples . . . The elements of each example are well explained and easy to understand but aren''t diluted with pages of theory and whys. This book is all how.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  â€” Gregg Bolinger\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The one big thing that impressed me about this book was the fact that it...has so many detailed, in-depth code samples and discussions. It doesn''t just present code samples though. It takes you through the how''s and the why''s, which is cool.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  â€” greg hughes - dot - net\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ajax burst onto the Web development scene by offering highly interactive, desktop-like Web applications that can be deployed through any modern Web browser without the need for special plug-ins. Ajax is built on existing Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it is used in conjunction with your favorite server-side language. Foundations of Ajax explains how to combine these technologies effectively to implement Ajax into your new or existing Web applications. Like you, we are developers who are "in the trenches," tasked with building Web-enabled applications that provide real value to our customers. As the Web continues to grow, the demand for more expressive and engaging interfaces will continue to increase. Much of the early hype surrounding Ajax centered on its use by Internet powerhouses such as Google and Amazon. However, just because the initial forays into Ajax were pioneered by leading software development firms doesn''t mean your application wouldn''t also benefit from these techniques. You already know how to develop Web applications, so this book uses specific, focused examples to teach the Ajax tools and techniques you''ll need to bring your applications to life. Armed with this book and your existing development expertise, you too will be able to apply Ajax techniques to your application to enrich the end user''s experience. When we first saw the potential of Ajax, we knew we had to start leveraging it for our own applications. Along the way we''ve learned some hard-earned knowledge that we thought needed to be shared with the rest of the development community. With this book you''ll be able to easily extend your own applications with Ajax and have fun while doing it. We hope that someday we''ll be reading about your great Ajax-enabled application!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9356'),
(14908, 'Foundations of GTK+ Development', 'Andrew Krause', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are only two mainstream solutions for building the graphical interface of Linux-based desktop applications, and GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is one of them. As the standard for the GNOME and XFCE desktop environments, it is a necessary technology for all Linux programmers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Foundations of GTK+ Development guides the reader through the complexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that allows the reader to make the leap from novice to professional. Beginning with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, readers move on to learn about advanced issues such as custom widget creation. Replete with real-world examples, the developer can quickly take advantages of the concepts presented within to begin building his own projects.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Andrew Krause is the creator of OpenLDev, an integrated development environment that focuses on C, C++, Gtk+ and Gtkmm project management. He is currently attending Pennsylvania State University with a major in Computer Engineering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Andrew has eight years of experience with many computer and web programming languages such as C, C++, Perl, PHP and others. He also designs flight hardware for the Low Ionosphere Measurement Satellite project at Penn State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9157'),
(14909, 'Foundations of Python 3 Network Programming, Second Edition', 'Brandon Rhodes &amp; John Goerzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second edition of\n  <em>\n   Foundations of Python Network Programming\n  </em>\n  targets Python 2.5 through Python 2.7, the most popular production versions of the language. Python has made great strides since Apress released the first edition of this book back in the days of Python 2.3. The advances required new chapters to be written from the ground up, and others to be extensively revised.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You will learn fundamentals like IP, TCP, DNS and SSL by using working Python programs; you will also be able to familiarize yourself with infrastructure components like memcached and message queues. You can also delve into network server designs, and compare threaded approaches with asynchronous event-based solutions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the biggest change is this edition''s expanded treatment of the web. The HTTP protocol is covered in extensive detail, with each feature accompanied by sample Python code. You can use your HTTP protocol expertise by studying an entire chapter on screen scraping and you can then test lxml and BeautifulSoup against a real-world web site. The chapter on web application programming now covers both the WSGI standard for component interoperability, as well as modern web frameworks like Django.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finally, all of the old favorites from the first edition are back: E-mail protocols like SMTP, POP, and IMAP get full treatment, as does XML-RPC. You can still learn how to code Python network programs using the Telnet and FTP protocols, but you are likely to appreciate the power of more modern alternatives like the paramiko SSH2 library. If you are a Python programmer who needs to learn the network, this is the book that you want by your side.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  What youâ€™ll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand low level networking\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Handle sending and receiving email including composing and decoding emails, SMTP, POP and IMAP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Program the lower levels of web application programming such as FastCGI and WSGI and HTTP itself\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how to use memcached and message qeues using Python\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Access web services using Python\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Master multitasking with threads, forking, and asynchronous communication\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who this book is for\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book will be of interest to python programmers who need to program networked applications using Python. From web application developers, to systems integrators, to system administratorsâ€”this book has everything you need to know.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Table of Contents\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Introduction to Client/Server Networking\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   UDP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   TCP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Socket Names and DNS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Network Data and Network Errors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   TLS and SSL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Server Architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Caches, Message Queues, and Map-Reduce\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   HTTP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Screen Scraping\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Web Applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   E-mail Composition and Decoding\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SMTP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   POP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IMAP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Telnet and SSH\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   FTP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   RPC\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Goerzen\n  </strong>\n  is an accomplished author, system administrator, and Python programmer. He has been a Debian developer since 1996 and is currently president of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. His previously published books include the\n  <em>\n   Linux Programming Bible\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Debian Unleashed\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Linux Unleashed\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brandon Craig Rhodes\n  </strong>\n  has been an avid Python programmer since the 1990s, and a professional Python developer for a decade. He released his PyEphem astronomy library in the same year that Python 1.5 was released, and has maintained it ever since. As a writer and speaker, Brandon enjoys teaching and touting Python, whether as the volunteer organizer of Python Atlanta or on stage at conferences like PyCon. He was editor of the monthly\n  <em>\n   Python Magazine\n  </em>\n  , was pleased to serve as technical reviewer for the excellent Natural Language Processing with Python, and has helped several open source projects by contributing documentation. Today, Brandon operates the Rhodes Mill Studios consultancy in Atlanta, which provides Python programming expertise and web development services to customers both local and out-of-state. He believes that the future of programming is light, concise, agile, test-driven, and enjoyable, and that Python will be a big part of it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7075'),
(14910, 'Francis Carsac', 'Mogd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8534'),
(14911, 'Fratii Karamazov', 'F. M. Dostoievski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4900'),
(14912, 'Full MoonCity', 'Darrell Schweitzer &amp; Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Lisa Tuttle &amp; Gene Wolfe &amp; Carrie Vaughn &amp; Esther M. Friesner &amp; Tanith Lee &amp; Holly Phillips &amp; Mike Resnick &amp; P. D. Cacek &amp; Holly Black &amp; Ian Watson &amp; Ron Goulart &amp; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro &amp; Gregory Frost &amp; Peter S. Beagle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An anthology of stories\n <br />\n Move over, vampires. Make room for the hottest creatures in fantasy: werewolves. Most people think werewolves are creatures of ancient legend, associated with prowling darkened forests and terrifying peasants in medieval cottages. But what about today''s werewolf in modern society? Has twenty-first century life changed the rules and lifestyles of the contemporary lycanthrope? Are wolf packs communicating online via social networks? Could the person who at first glance looks like an average commuter (on the early train, to avoid the rising of the full moon) be one of them? Have werewolves infiltrated every level of government? Full Moon City answers these questions, and many more. Featuring contributions from bestselling fantasy luminaries, this collection of spellbinding stories puts the fun back into dark fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6339'),
(14913, 'Functional Programming for Java Developers', 'Dean Wampler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Software development today is embracing functional programming (FP), whether itâ€™s to write concurrent programs or to manage Big Data. Where does that leave Java developers? This concise book offers a pragmatic, approachable introduction to FP for Java developers or anyone who uses an object-oriented language. Using exercises in each chapter, you''ll learn how to apply FP principles to your Java code.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7161'),
(14914, 'Fundamental Concepts in Computer Science (171 Pages)', 'Erol Gelenbe &amp; Jean-Pierre Kahane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7406'),
(14915, 'Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics', 'Alpha C. Chiang &amp; Kevin Wainwright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The best-selling, best known text in Mathematical Economics course, Chiang teaches the basic mathematical methods indispensable for understanding current economic literature. the book''s patient explanations are written in an informal, non-intimidating style. To underscore the relevance of mathematics to economics, the author allows the economist''s analytical needs to motivate the study of related mathematical techniques; he then illustrates these techniques with appropriate economics models. Graphic illustrations often visually reinforce algebraic results. Many exercise problems serve as drills and help bolster student confidence. These major types of economic analysis are covered: statics, comparative statics, optimization problems, dynamics, and mathematical programming. These mathematical methods are introduced: matrix algebra, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, difference equations, and convex sets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7627'),
(14916, 'Fundamentals of X Programming: Graphical User Interfaces and Beyond', 'Theodosios Pavlidis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The X is the dominant window system under Unix, and X servers are available for Microsoft Windows, thus enabling graphics over a network in the PC world. This book provides an overview of the X Window System, focusing on characteristics that have significant impact on the development of both application programs and widgets. It pays special attention to applications that go beyond graphical user interfaces (GUIs), such as visualization and imaging programs; issues affecting video games; and designing widgets with a complex appearance. While the book does not assume previous knowledge of X, it is intended for experienced programmers, especially those who want to write programs that go beyond simple GUIs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9204'),
(14917, 'Fundatia', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4860'),
(14918, 'Fundatia Renascuta', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4819'),
(14919, 'Fundatia si Imperiul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4811'),
(14920, 'Fundatia si Pamantul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n sf\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4743'),
(14921, 'The Future We Wish We Had', 'Martin H Greenberg &amp; Esther M. Friesner &amp; Sarah A. Hoyt &amp; Dave Freer &amp; Brenda Cooper &amp; Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Alan L. Lickiss &amp; P. R. Frost &amp; Loren L. Coleman &amp; Mike Resnick &amp; James Patrick Kelly &amp; Lisanne Norman &amp; Annie Reed &amp; Julie Hyzy &amp; Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Irene Radford &amp; Rebecca Moesta &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The future holds endless possibilitiesâ€¦\n <br />\n Here are 16 intriguing visions of tomorrow\n <br />\n Features stories by: Esther M. Friesner\n <br />\n Brenda Cooper\n <br />\n Kevin J. Anderson\n <br />\n P. R. Frost\n <br />\n Mike Resnick and James Patrick Kelly\n <br />\n Lisanne Norman\n <br />\n Dean Wesley Smith\n <br />\n Irene Radford\n <br />\n Kristine Kathryn Rusch\n <br />\n And more\n <br />\n For all of those who thought that by now that they''d be driving along the skyways in their own personal jet car, who assumed that humans would have established bases on the Moon and Mars, or that diseases would have been conqured, the aging process slowed to a crawl, and war eliminated along with social injustice-here are 16 stories of futures that might someday be reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6340'),
(14922, 'Gaia Ajax VideoTutorial (Flash Video)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9341'),
(14923, 'GALACTIC POT HEALER', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11810'),
(14924, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d Topic List', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9553'),
(14925, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9554'),
(14926, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 2', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9555'),
(14927, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 3', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9556'),
(14928, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 4', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9557'),
(14929, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 5', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9558'),
(14930, 'The GALE Encyclopedia of Science 3d vol 6', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9559'),
(14931, 'Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games', 'Tracy Fullerton &amp; Christopher Swain &amp; Steven Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Master the craft of game design so you can create that elusive combination of challenge, competition, and interaction that players seek. This design workshop begins with an examination of the fundamental elements of game design; then puts you to work in prototyping, playtesting and redesigning your own games with exercises that teach essential design skills. Workshop exercises require no background in programming or artwork, releasing you from the intricacies of electronic game production, so you can develop a working understanding of the essentials of game design.Features:* A design methodology used in the USC Interactive Media program, a cutting edge program funded in part of Electronic Arts. * Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts, and the design methodology* Insights from top industry game designers, including Noah Falstein, American McGee, Peter Molyneux\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9168'),
(14932, 'The Game-Players Of Titan', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11671'),
(14933, 'General SS', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4786'),
(14934, 'Generation of Noah', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published under the title The Quick and the Bomb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9990'),
(14935, 'Genetic Programming Theory and Practice II', 'Una-May &amp; Tina Yu &amp; Rick Riolo Bill Worzel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This volume explores the emerging interaction between theory and practice in the cutting-edge, machine learning method of Genetic Programming (GP). The contributions developed from a second workshop at the University of Michigan''s Center for the Study of Complex Systems where leading international genetic programming theorists from major universities and active practitioners from leading industries and businesses met to examine how GP theory informs practice and how GP practice impacts GP theory. Chapters include such topics as financial trading rules, industrial statistical model building, population sizing, the roles of structure in problem solving by computer, stock picking, automated design of industrial-strength analog circuits, topological synthesis of robust systems, algorithmic chemistry, supply chain reordering policies, post docking filtering, an evolved antenna for a NASA mission and incident detection on highways.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9134'),
(14936, 'Geniul de a fi', 'Ana Blandiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4804'),
(14937, 'THE GENIUS AND THE GODDES', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4711'),
(14938, 'A Gentle Introduction to symfony', 'Fabien Potencier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9078'),
(14939, 'Gestapo', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4776'),
(14940, 'Getting Good With Git', 'Andew Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7758'),
(14941, 'Getting Started With Flex 4', 'Jeanette Stallons &amp; Andrew Shorten &amp; Vince Genovese', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Discover what''s possible with the latest version of Flash Builder and Flex. This hands-on guide helps you dive into the Adobe Flash Platform: through a series of quick step-by-step tutorials, you''ll learn the process of building, debugging, and deploying a complete Rich Internet Application with Flex 4. Each tutorial includes complete code samples and pre-built Flex components. Follow the tutorials in sequence or simply jump to the areas that interest you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ideal for experienced developers with or without a background in Flex,\n  <em>\n   Getting Started with Flex 4\n  </em>\n  shows you how to take advantage of your existing skills. You''ll quickly discover how easy RIA development can be.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create a Flex application that retrieves, displays, and modifies database records\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Easily add, update, and delete data in the database\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Test and debug the application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deploy your Flex application to a web server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Change the applicationâ€™s appearance with styling and skinning\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use Flex components to add charts and graphs\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  "Alaric and Elijah do a great job of guiding a newbie Flex developer through the myriad of components offered by this hugely popular framework. Flex novices will find it well worth a read."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Jodie O''Rourke, Adobe Certified Expert (Flash Platform) &amp; Community Professional Community Leader, Adobe User Group Program\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7748'),
(14942, 'Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js', 'Mick Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Getting location is easy. Mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs that quickly give developers access to coordinates. But what do you do with that data next? How should you store and query location data? Open formats like GeoJSON combined with data stores like CouchDB are making\\development of location based applications easier then ever before. Using NodeJS and CouchDB you can store location data, and perform complex queries on that data quickly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7162'),
(14943, 'Getting to Yes', 'Roger Fisher &amp; William Ury &amp; Bruce Patton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <i>\n   In archive is audio variant of this book\n  </i>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We''re constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it''s convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations. Narrated soothingly by NPR announcer Bob Edwards, Fisher adds the meaty portions of the material with a sense of playfulness. The blend of voices makes this tape easy to listen to, especially the real-life negotiating scenarios, in which negotiating examples are given. This is a must-have tape for every businessperson''s car. (Running time: one hour, one cassette)\n  <em>\n   --Sharon Griggins\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is by far the best thing I''ve ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property, and income and the statesman who would like to keep the peace." -- John Kenneth Galbraith\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7968'),
(14944, 'The Ghost Pit', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hugo Best Short Story nominee (2002).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4447'),
(14945, 'The Ghost Standard', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10098'),
(14946, 'Gli osservatori', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gli osservatori Ã¨ la versione di una storia sugli UFO fatta da uno scrittore di talento come Robert Silverberg: una vicenda in apparenza trita e banale diventa nelle sue mani un racconto avvincente i cui protagonisti spiccano con figure vive e reali dalla carta stampata.\n <br />\n In una notte illune del 1982 il cielo del Nuovo Messico viene vivacemente illuminato da unâ€™improvvisa esplosione: una stella lucente fiorita in un lampo biancazzurro che si muove da nordest verso sudovest, sopra la valle del Rio Grande ed i polverosi piccoli puebli, va a spegnersi dopo lâ€™ultima accecante vampata nei pressi di Albuquerque.Ma soltanto tre esseri umani scopriranno che la stella cadente apparsa in cielo Ã¨ in realtÃ  un disco volante precipitato sulla Terra per unâ€™avaria ai motori, soltanto Charley Estancia, il giovane messicano del pueblo di San Miguel dalla sveglia intelligenza, Kathryn Mason, la vedova melanconica e solitaria di Albuquerque, e Tom Falkner, colonnello delle forze aereeamericane, vedranno con i loro occhi gli alieni venuti dalle stelle, gli osservatori extraterrestri che studiano e controllano lo sviluppo della civiltÃ  umana. Soltanto loro sapranno del pericolo che corre la Terra e potranno impedire lo scoppio di un conflitto galattico. Una storia umana e affascinante che solo un maestro come Silverberg poteva.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11193'),
(14947, 'Global IT Outsourcing: Software Development Across Borders', 'Sundeep Sahay &amp; Brian Nicholson &amp; S. Krishna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. It is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses. In these case studies, which have typically been compiled over a 3-4 year timespan, the authors analyse the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). These challenges range from the conflicts that managers face when dealing with distance, to the tensions of transferring knowledge across time and space, to issues in trying to establish universal standards in a context of constant change, and the problems of identity that developers and clients experience in having to deal with different organizations and countries. Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9136'),
(14948, 'GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9887'),
(14949, 'Google Power Search', 'Stephan Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Behind Google''s deceptively simple interface is immense power for market and competitive researchâ€”if you know how to use it well. Sure, basic searches are easy, but complex searches require specialized skills. This concise book lays bare the full range of Google''s powerful search-refinement features, so you can quickly find the specific information you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7163'),
(14950, 'Google Power Search', 'Stephan Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Behind Google''s deceptively simple interface is immense power for both market and competitive researchâ€”if you know how to use it well. Sure, basic searches are easy, but complex searches require specialized skills. This concise book takes you through the full range of Google''s powerful search-refinement features, so you can quickly find the specific information you need. Learn techniques ranging from simple Boolean logic to URL parameters and other advanced tools, and see how they''re applied to real-world market research examples.Incorporate advanced search operators such as filetype:, intitle:, daterange:, and others into your queriesUse Google filtering tools, including Search Within Results, Similar Pages, and SafeSearch, among othersExplore the breadth of Google through auxiliary search services like Google News, Google Books, Google Blog Search, and Google ScholarAcquire advanced Google skills that result in more effective search engine optimization (SEO)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephan Spencer is founder and President of the highly-respected SEO firm Netconcepts. Clients include Discovery Channel, HSN, AOL, CNET, and SuperPages.com, to name a few. He is inventor of Netconcepts'' automated, pay-for-performance SEO technology platform GravityStream which powers the natural search channel for online retailers such as Cabela''s and Northern Tool. Stephan is a regular contributor to Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce and MarketingProfs, among others. Stephan is a sought-after conference presenter who''s spoken on SEO at hundreds of events across the globe for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, IncisiveMedia (Search Engine Strategies), O''Reilly/TechWeb, PubCon, ECMOD, IQPC and IIR. Stephan is an avid blogger. He blogs primarily on his own blog, Stephan Spencer''s Scatterings. But his posts can also be found on Searchlight (part of the CNET Blog Network), Shop.org Blog, Natural Search Blog, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Changes For Good, and Google, I Suggest....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9898'),
(14951, 'Google Power Tools Bible', 'Ted Coombs &amp; Roderico Deleon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewGoogle Power Tools comes as close as possible to covering the whole gigantic, sprawling collection of tools, applications, and resources that is Google today. Ted Coombs and Roderico DeLeon start, of course, with Google''s core search features -- and offer dozens of techniques most Google users haven''t discovered on their own. For example, you''ll learn how to display more results on each page of search results; and how to refine your image searches (including how to make sure you''re mostly safe from displaying "inappropriate" images). Coombs and DeLeon introduce Google''s number searches, which let you do everything from tracking UPS packages to displaying data about your automobile. You''ll also learn how to use Google''s underpublicized "special searches" to drill down more quickly on government-published or technology-related information. That''s only the first section. You''ll find chapter-length introductions to Google''s controversial book search feature, as well as handy shopping tools (like Google Catalogs). You''ll get comfortable with Google''s sexy geographical features, Google Maps and Google Earth; target your academic research more effectively with Google Scholar; manage your portfolio with Google Finance. There''s a practical overview of Google''s online "Office" tools, and a full section on "communicating Google-style" with Google Talk, Picasa, Google Groups, Google Page Creator, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Blogger. There''s up-to-date coverage of Google''s handy tools for cell phones and other mobile devices. And, not least, there''s a full section on Google''s moneymaking tools -- from AdWords and AdSense advertising to Google Analytics, which has brought web analytics to more sites than ever before. By last count, Google has more than a half billion users: With this book, you''ll be among the most productive of them. Bill Camarda, from the April 2007 Read Only\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9888'),
(14952, 'Google Web Toolkit for Ajax', 'Bruce W. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9280'),
(14953, 'The Gravity Mine', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Part of Phase Space: Stories From the Manifold and Elsewhere.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nomitated forÂ Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2001.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4419'),
(14954, 'Gray Hat Python', 'Justin Seitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Python is fast becoming the programming language of choice for hackers, reverse engineers, and software testers because it''s easy to write quickly, and it has the low-level support and libraries that make hackers happy. But until now, there has been no real manual on how to use Python for a variety of hacking tasks. You had to dig through forum posts and man pages, endlessly tweaking your own code to get everything working. Not anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gray Hat Python\n  </em>\n  explains the concepts behind hacking tools and techniques like debuggers, trojans, fuzzers, and emulators. But author Justin Seitz goes beyond theory, showing you how to harness existing Python-based security tools - and how to build your own when the pre-built ones won''t cut it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Automate tedious reversing and security tasks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design and program your own debugger\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how to fuzz Windows drivers and create powerful fuzzers from scratch\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Have fun with code and library injection, soft and hard hooking techniques, and other software trickery\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Sniff secure traffic out of an encrypted web browser session\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use PyDBG, Immunity Debugger, Sulley, IDAPython, PyEMU, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The world''s best hackers are using Python to do their handiwork. Shouldn''t you?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Justin Seitz is a Senior Security Researcher for Immunity, Inc., where he spends his time bug hunting, reverse engineering, writing exploits, and coding Python.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7076'),
(14955, 'The Green And The Gray', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(14956, 'Gringo', 'Fuentes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8568'),
(14957, 'Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop.', 'Jeremy Moskowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7660'),
(14958, 'Guerra al grande nulla', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ãˆ possibile che gli altri mondi non siano abitati. Ma finora, niente esclude che possano invece ospitare forme di vita, simili o no alla nostra. Questo Ã¨ un problema che le scoperte della nuova scienza rendono attuale e non piÃ¹ ignorabile, una questione che va considerata sotto tutti gli aspetti. Anche quello religioso. Infatti, fra i doveri della Chiesa c''Ã¨ quello di mantenersi in linea coi tempi; e il punto a cui Ã¨ arrivata la giovane scienza spaziale ha spinto appunto la Chiesa a interessarsi dell''eventualitÃ  che esistano altri pianeti abitati. A questo proposito importanti esponenti del Clero hanno consentito a rispondere alle domande dei giornalisti, e il risultato delle speciali recenti interviste Ã¨ stato ampiamente pubblicato su autorevoli quotidiani. Il romanzo che presentiamo in questo numero sembra scritto proprio in seguito alle ipotesi formulate da un Padre Gesuita nel corso del colloquio cui abbiamo accennato. E, guarda caso, a protagonista del suo romanzo, James Blish ha scelto un Gesuita. Il tema Ã¨ ardito, e solo un autore intelligente, obiettivo, e abile come Blish lo poteva affrontare. Ne Ã¨ uscito il racconto piÃ¹ eccitante che sia mai stato scritto nel campo della fantascienza. Un romanzo che i lettori di Urania non possono ignorare.\n <br />\n Premio Hugo per miglior romanzo in 1959.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7009'),
(14959, 'A Guide Book of United States Coins, 2010 (The Official Red Book of U.S. Coins)', 'R. S. Yeoman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The 63rd edition of The Official Red Book of U.S. Coins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6200');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14960, 'A Guide to Successful SLA Development &amp; Management', 'Gartner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3427'),
(14961, 'The Gypsy', 'Stephen Brust &amp; Megan Lindholm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Part gritty urban police procedural and part horror fable, this enthralling fantasy/mystery examines issues of life, death, love and morality. A man without memory, known as the Gypsy, wanders the streets of Lakota, Ohio, leaving death in his wake. After a clerk is murdered during a holdup, the Gypsy is booked by cop Mike Stepovich, who uncharacteristicallydb pockets the suspect''s strange knife, found nearby. An apparent snafu releases the Gypsy, who comes under suspicion again when a woman fortune teller is murdered in a cheap hotel. Stepovich, with the unvoiced disapproval of his brash young partner Durand, surreptitiously looks into the murders, now out of their jurisdiction, and finds himself walking down strange paths. Meanwhile a woman known as the Fair Lady is working her spells to draw others, including Stepovich''s teenage daughter''s friends, into her evil web. She can be stopped only by three brothers, known as the Raven, the Owl and the Dove. As forces move to their climax, Stepovich''s retired former partner plays a role, as does an old drunk known as the Coachman, who may hold the key to salvation. Brust ( The Phoenix Guards ) and Lindholm ( Wizard of the Pigeons ) have crafted a powerful and memorable fantasy.(From Publishers Weekly)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4278'),
(14962, 'Hacking Vim 7.2', 'Kim Schulz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor Create, install, and use Vim scripts to extend Vim''s functionality Personalize your work-area to fit your workflow Optimize your Vim editor to be faster and more responsive Packed with tips and tricks based on the author''s practical experience In Detail Vim is one of the most powerful open-source editors used by programmers and system administrators around the world. While Vim itself is inherently a powerful editor, personalizing it to suit your needs can be a daunting task. However, it is possible to do so with the help of this book. This book contains examples that cover everything from personalizing Vim according to the your work cycle to optimizations that will boost the your productivity. The main focus of this book is to make your life, as a Vim user, easier. Each chapter deals with a different aspect, and provides recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After an introduction covering the derivation of Vim and its relatives from the vi editor, the author explains basic changes that you can make to the appearance of the Vim editor. Further chapters cover improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; speeding up your work with templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers; and formatting text and code, including using external formatting scripts. The final comprehensive chapter covers everything about using Vim scripts and scripting to extend functionality. This book is written for Vim 7.2, the latest stable version. This latest version of Vim includes many new features like spell-checking, code completion, document tabs, current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and much more. Getting the most out of the Vim editor What you will learn from this book Gain a deep understanding of Vim to master the editor Personalize Vim to suit your needs Navigate through files faster while editing multiple files Boost your productivity by using templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers Improve the formatting of your text and code by mastering simple tricks Extend Vim with script Retain your Vim configuration across computers by storing an online copy Approach This book is a tutorial packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for common problems faced by Vim users in their everyday life. Every chapter covers a set of recipes, each of which follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated. Who this book is written for If you are a Vim user who wants to get more out of this legendary text editor, this book is for you. It focuses on making life easier for intermediate to experienced Vim users.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7750'),
(14963, 'Hacking Windows Vista', 'Steve Sinchak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewMicrosoft has poured millions of person-hours into Windows Vista. Guess what: A few hours of your own time could make it a whole lot better -- more convenient, more efficient, faster, more secure, and less frustrating. Steve Sinchak proves that in Hacking Windows Vista. Sinchak has earned Microsoft''s elite MVP designation and hosts the hugely popular TweakVista.com. His previous book, Hacking Windows XP, quickly became the No. 1 book ever released in the ExtremeTech series, and it deserved the plaudits it received. Here, he''s gone back to the drawing board, returning with an enormous collection of great ideas for Vista power users. Take, for instance, his comprehensive coverage of understanding system performance and then improving it. (Typically, without spending a dime. But even those rare techniques which aren''t free are still quite cheap -- such as giving Windows more memory via a ReadyBoost-compliant USB key). There''s a full chapter on speeding up system boot (Vista''s Boot Manager gives you 30 seconds to choose an operating system before it loads Vista, but what if you always choose Vista?) Oh, and do you really need to load all those programs in your startup folder, including that maddening RealPlayer Message Center? We highly doubt it.)But performance is just one area Sinchak focuses on. He reveals great interface customizations for new Vista features like Aero Glass and Windows Sidebar; shows how to change your right-click Send To menu; even walks you through creating multiple home pages in IE7 (when you open your browser, each page opens in a separate tab.) He walks you through everything from customizing Windows Media with virtual surround sound to improving your system''s privacy. This is one Vista book that''ll keep paying dividends for years to come. Bill Camarda, from the July 2007 Read Only\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6447'),
(14964, 'Hacking Windows XPExtremeTech', 'Sinchak, Steve.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6462'),
(14965, 'The Hand of Chaos', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The ancient Patryn-Sartan conflict over control of the four elemental realms enters a new phase as Patryn agent Haplo returns to the Realm of Sky, only to discover its invasion by serpentlike creatures whose evil ambitions threaten the destruction of all the realms. This fifth installment of a seven-volume fantasy epic bears the now-familiar Weis/Hickman trademarks: offbeat humor, complex villain/heroes, and an emphasis on moral responsibility. Despite a tendency toward wordiness, the authors have a knack for sustaining a good story. Purchase where the other series titles are in demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/92.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume five of the apparently interminable Death Gate Cycle (Serpent Mage, 1992, etc.). Now that the evil-magic serpents of the water-world Chelestra have escaped through the Death Gate, new power alliances are possible--such as that between the serpents and Xar, Haplo''s powerful Patryn boss. Despite Haplo''s feeble warnings about the serpents'' malevolent intentions (they can assume any shape, retaining only tell-tale red eyes), Xar dispatches Haplo and his yappy-dog sidekick to the air-world Arianus, with orders to set species against species and generally create chaos among the lower- order\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  mensch.'''' And this time Haplo''s old rival/accomplice, Albert the Sartan, languishes trapped inside the Labyrinth. So, by himself Haplo must somehow stop the elf-dwarf war by helping the human and elf magicians while placating Xar and devising a means to repel the serpents--oh, yes, and preventing various assassinations, including his own. A hypercomplicated plot whose increasingly improbable convolutions seem designed only to distract attention from the ludicrously implausible scenario, plodding narrative, and irritatingly obtuse characters. Which, being translated into Fannish, means: another smash hit. (First printing of 60,000) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4557'),
(14966, 'Hand of Fire', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11761'),
(14967, 'Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends', 'Emilio Soria Olivas &amp; Jose David Martin Guerrero &amp; Marcelino Martinez Sober &amp; Jose Rafael Magdalena Benedito &amp; Antonio Jose Serrano Lopez', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The machine learning approach provides a useful tool when the amount of data is very large and a model is not available to explain the generation and relation of the data set.\n  <strong>\n   The Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends: Algorithms, Methods, and Techniques\n  </strong>\n  provides a set of practical applications for solving problems and applying various techniques in automatic data extraction and setting. A defining collection of field advancements, this Handbook of Research fills the gap between theory and practice, providing a strong reference for academicians, researchers, and practitioners.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emilio Soria\n  </strong>\n  received an MS degree in physics (1992) and a PhD degree (1997) in electronics engineering from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). He has been an assistant professor at the University of Valencia since 1997. His research is centered mainly in the analysis and applications of adaptive and neural systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jose David Martin-Guerrero\n  </strong>\n  received a BS degree in physics (1997), a BS degree in electronics engineering (1999), an MS degree in electronic engineering (2001) and a PhD degree in electronic engineering (2004) from the University of Valencia (Spain). He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia. His research interests include machine learning algorithms and their potential real application. Lately, his research has been especially focused on the study of reinforcement learning algorithms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Marcelino Martinez\n  </strong>\n  received his BS and PhD degrees in physics (1992 and 2000, respectively) from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). Since 1994 he has been with the Digital Signal Processing Group in the Department of Electronics Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor. He has worked on several industrial projects with private companies (in the areas such as industrial control, real-time signal processing, and digital control) and with public funds (in the areas of foetal electrocardiography and ventricular fibrillation). His research interests include real time signal processing, digital control using DSP, and biomedical signal processing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rafael Magdalena\n  </strong>\n  received an MS and PhD degree in physics from the University of Valencia (Spain, 1991 and 2000 respectively). He has also been a lecturer with the Politechnic University of Valencia, a funded researcher with the research association in optics and has held industrial positions with several electromedicine and IT companies. Currently, he is a labour lecturer in electronic engineering with the University of Valencia (since 1998).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Antonio J. Serrano\n  </strong>\n  received a BS degree in physics (1996), an MS degree in physics (1998) and a PhD degree in electronics engineering (2002) from the University of Valencia. He is currently an associate professor in the electronics engineering department at the same university. His research interest is machine learning methods for biomedical signal processing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10169'),
(14968, 'A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering', 'Albert Endres', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This handbook presents the laws that significantly impact software engineering.  This book begins with requirements definitions and concludes with maintenance and withdrawl. Along the way, it identifies and discusses existing laws that significantly impact software engineering.  Software engineers who wish to reacquaint (or ecquaint) themselves with the basic laws of software engineering and their applicability in an industrial setting.\n <br />\n (source: Anobii.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7694'),
(14969, 'The Hanging Stranger', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11786'),
(14970, 'The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Concise Edition', 'Cheryl Glenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7642'),
(14971, 'Hardboiled Web Design', 'Andy Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If youâ€™ve been working on the web for a while, your bookshelves may already be buckling under the weight of books about HTML and CSS. Do you really need another one?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardboiled Web Design is different. Itâ€™s for people who want to understand why, when and how to use the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technologies in their everyday work. Not tomorrow or next week, but today. It wonâ€™t teach you the basics of writing markup or CSS, but if youâ€™re hungry to learn about how the latest technologies and techniques will make your websites and applications more creative, flexible and adaptable, then this is the book for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Are you ready to get hardboiled?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Jeffrey Zeldman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9353'),
(14972, 'Hardening Windows', 'Jonathan Hassell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewYou could spend morning til night protecting your Windows systems, from now until you retire. But if you''d rather leave some time for other things, read Hardening Windows. In less than 200 pages, Jonathan Hassell distills the massive field of Windows security into a set of practical techniques that deliver the greatest value in the least time. There are 145 separate techniques here, primarily for Windows XP, 2000, NT, the Internet Information Services web server, and Microsoft Exchange (though some also address Windows Server 2003). Most of these techniques require less than a page to explain. Many -- though, of course, not all -- can be implemented very quickly. Hassell covers a wide swath: system policies, security templates, passwords, user accounts, the Registry, penetration testing, auditing, event logs, forensic analysis, and more. He also presents substantial coverage of some of Microsoft s increasingly useful tools, notably Software Update Services and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer for Windows XP. Many Windows administrators are still struggling to secure mobile notebooks. Hassell presents a full chapter on Network Access Quarantine Control (NAQC), which enables Windows Server 2003 to limit access to remote users whose notebooks aren t up-to-date and secure.The book is realistic about issues like coping with diverse Windows clients. And it s full of urgent fixes that are easy to miss. (If you re not careful, Indexing Service might capture angry letters to superiors, love notes to mistresses, secret payroll information -- making them all conveniently searchable.) If it weren t already useful enough, it even contains quick-reference checklists for everything from policies to auditing. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6355'),
(14973, 'Hawksbill Station', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era. When the latest arrival suspiciously deflects questions about his crimes and knowledge of â€™Up Frontâ€™, the inmates decide to find out his secret. [NOTE: a novella length version of this story is also available.]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11292'),
(14974, 'Head First Ajax', 'Rebecca Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ajax is no longer an experimental approach to website development, but the key to building browser-based applications that form the cornerstone of Web 2.0. Head First Ajax gives you an up-to-date perspective that lets you see exactly what you can do Â— and has been done Â— with Ajax. With it, you get a highly practical, in-depth, and mature view of what is now a mature development approach. Using the unique and highly effective visual format that has turned Head First titles into runaway bestsellers, this book offers a big picture overview to introduce Ajax, and then explores the use of individual Ajax components Â— including the JavaScript event model, DOM, XML, JSON, and more Â— as it progresses. You''ll find plenty of sample applications that illustrate the concepts, along with exercises, quizzes, and other interactive features to help you retain what you''ve learned. Head First Ajax covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The JavaScript event model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Making Ajax requests with XMLHTTPREQUEST objects\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The asynchronous application model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Document Object Model (DOM)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manipulating the DOM in JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Controlling the browser with the Browser Object Model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XHTML Forms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   POST Requests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XML Syntax and the XML DOM tree\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XML Requests &amp; Responses\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   JSON Â— an alternative to XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ajax architecture &amp; patterns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Prototype LibraryThe book also discusses the server-side implications of building Ajax applications, and uses a "black box" approach to server-side components. Head First Ajax is the ideal guide for experienced web developers comfortable with scripting Â— particularly those who have completed the exercises in Head First JavaScript Â— and for experienced programmers in Java, PHP, and C# who want to learn client-side programming.With twenty years experience in the field, Rebecca M. Riordan has earned an international reputation for designing and implementing computer systems that are technically sound, reliable, and effectively meet her clients'' needs. Her particular area of expertise is database design and she is a five year Access MVP. Rebecca has also authored several database books and served as a senior technical support engineer for Microsoft''s database products. As a Microsoft employee in Australia, Rebecca was the Senior technical support engineer for Microsoft''s database products.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10170'),
(14975, 'Hero of Cartao 1. Hero&#39;s call', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3049'),
(14976, 'Hero of Cartao 2. Hero&#39;s Rise', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3048'),
(14977, 'Hero of Cartao 3. Hero&#39;s End', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3047'),
(14978, 'Historia de Mayta', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8944'),
(14979, 'Historia secreta de una novela', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ensayo en el cual cuenta la historia real que inspirÃ³ la historia de su novela La Casa Verde. De una conferencia dada en una universidad.\n <br />\n Hace unos aÃ±os, en la Feria de Frankfurt, centro mundial del chisme editorial, cuando La Casa Verde estaba a punto de publicarse en EspaÃ±a, corrÃ­a el rumor de que el autor era, ademÃ¡s de buen escritor, un aventurero que se dejaba caer en paracaÃ­das en medio de la selva para mejor observar las costumbres de los nativos\n <br />\n En La historia secreta de una novela, Mario Vargas Llosa se despoja de esta leyenda. Realiza, como Ã©l dice, un strip-tease. Pero, no como el novelista Â«que al comienzo estÃ¡ desnudo y al final (de la novela) vestidoÂ» sino un strip-tease de verdad, Â«como la muchacha que, bajo impÃºdicos reflectores, se libera de sus ropas y muestra, uno a uno, sus encantos secretos.Â» Esta es la historia secreta del escritor Vargas Llosa y del proceso de creaciÃ³n de La Casa Verde, una de sus obras mÃ¡s complejas y creativas. Como, en 1958, en una pensiÃ³n de Madrid, Â«quedÃ³ perpetrado el acto de locura: `voy a tratar de ser un escritor`Â», cÃ³mo, en 1962, Â«en un apartamento crujienteÂ» de ParÃ­s, empezÃ³ la batalla contra los fantasmas reales de Piura (Â«la casa verdeÂ», la MangacherÃ­a) y de la selva (la MisiÃ³n de Santa MarÃ­a de Nieva, Jum, TushÃ­a) que, poco a poco, fueron ordenÃ¡ndose para convertirse en esta maquiavÃ©lica Â«mentiraÂ» (Ezra Pound dixit) que es la novela.\n <br />\n QuizÃ¡ porque los editores deseamos siempre mitificar a nuestros autores creÃ­mos en la imagen tentadora de un Vargas Llosa paracaidista. Pero, aunque despuÃ©s quedÃ¡ramos ligeramente defraudados, no deja de ser muy atractivo imaginar a un seÃ±or normalmente endomingado, con el cabello bien planchado, profesor en varias universidades, recorriendo en hidroaviÃ³n, carros, canoas y lo que se diera, la selva, las misiones, Â«las casas verdesÂ» de PerÃº. (Tusquets)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8962'),
(14980, 'History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness', 'Lucian Boia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This book stems from the idea that there is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history. Boia points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The strength of\n  <em>\n   History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness\n  </em>\n  lies in the author s ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4939'),
(14981, 'History Teaching With Moodle 2', 'J. Mannion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This book is for history teachers who would like to enhance their lessons using Moodle. It doesn''t matter if you haven''t used Moodle before; as long as someone has set it up for you, you can get started with the exercises in the book at once. By following the creation of a History course with lots of practical examples and screenshots you will find it easy to turn your existing lesson plans into a Moodle course that will become even more efficient, attractive, and useful over time. Each chapter builds on the course and takes you through a different aspect of teaching history using Moodle. All the exercises relate to different periods of history and are suitable for all students of high-school age. Make the past come to life using a range of tasks and activities that can consolidate learning for some, enhance understanding for others, and enthuse all. Moodle''s built-in features allow students to get a better grasp of historical concepts and will rejuvenate their interest in the subject.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9459'),
(14982, 'The Hook', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6241'),
(14983, 'How ITIL-based IT Help Desk can helpSmall and Medium Businesses', 'WHITE PAPER', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3468'),
(14984, 'How to Do Everything With HTML &amp; XHTML', 'James H. Pence', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This step-by-step resource takes the fear and mystery out of using markup languages HTML and XHTML to build Web sites--it will help you through the process with friendly and familiar terms and techniques. You''ll cover all the basics, learn to add links, images, and data, and move on to advanced techniques such as animation, image maps, and interactivity. Discover the XHTML 1.0 recommendations and the direction in which Web design is headed with XHMTL 1.1 (XHTML Modularization) and the XHTML 2.0 working draft. Whatever your goals are, you''ll find what you need to accomplish them in\n  <em>\n   How to Do Everything with HTML &amp; XHTML\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand basic HTML syntax\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Control font size and type\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keep your site up to date with ease\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use frames to display multiple pages\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Polish the appearance of elements with Cascading Style Sheets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incorporate audio and video files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mix your own colors and be sure you''re using browser-safe colors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Add interactive features with JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn to work with GIF and JPEG graphic files\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James H. Pence (Campbell, TX), author of How to Do Everything with HTML, is a self-described "non-technical" writer. He was trained in creative writing and journalism at the Dallas Theological Seminary. As a member of the HTML Writers'' Guild, James authors and maintains his own Web site, Tuppence Creative Ministries, at www.tuppence.org. Addition-ally, he works as a freelance Web designer and is currently developing sites for author Reg Grant (www.reggrant.com).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9279'),
(14985, 'How to Do Everything With JavaScript', 'Scott Duffy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bring interactivity to any Web site with this easy-to-follow guidebook on JavaScript. Author Scott Duffy takes the fear out of working with a programming language by delivering instruction and theory in manageable doses, along with practical examples and plenty of ready-to-use code. Learn to write a program by exploring statements, variables, and functions--the three basic building blocks of any program. Use JavaScript as the behind-the-scenes director of your Web browser presentation. Create basic and advanced JavaScript applications--plus, modify existing scripts to suit your needs--all with the help of this great resource.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Write your own program using statements, variables, and functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn the history of the language and what it can do for you\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enable movement and interactivity for your Web site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Determine which version of JavaScript is right for you\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Store dates, numbers, and more with built-in classes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create scripts that work in every browser\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the basics of expressions, and organize your code into functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cause text or graphics to change on mouse rollovers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automatically change a formatted date on a Web page\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Coordinate objects and events seamlessly with built-in or scripted classes\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scott Duffy (Toronto, Ontario) MCSD, Sun Java 2 SCJP, CIW Associate, has eleven years of professional software design and development experience including having spent five of the past six years on web-based application development. He has written several books including "How to Do Everything with JavaScript" published by Osborne McGraw-Hill in 2002.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9239'),
(14986, 'HOWTO clonezilla live hard drive', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9732'),
(14987, 'Html &amp; Css', 'Thomas Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Definitive Guide to HTML &amp; CSS--Fully Updated\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by a Web development expert, the fifth edition of this trusted resource has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to address HTML5, the revolutionary new Web standard. The book covers all the elements supported in today''s Web browsers--from the standard (X)HTML tags to the archaic and proprietary tags that may be encountered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   HTML &amp; CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition\n  </em>\n  contains full details on CSS 2.1 as well as every proprietary and emerging CSS3 property currently supported. Annotated examples of correct markup and style show you how to use all of these technologies to build impressive Web pages. Helpful appendixes cover the syntax of character entities, fonts, colors, and URLs. This comprehensive reference is an essential tool for professional Web developers.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Master transitional HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 markup\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Write emerging standards-based markup with HTML5\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enhance presentation with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1 and CSS 2.1)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn proprietary and emerging CSS3 features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how to read (X)HTML document type definitions (DTDs)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Apply everything in an open standards-focused fashion\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Thomas A. Powell\n  </strong>\n  is president of PINT, Inc. (pint.com), a nationally recognized Web agency. He developed the Web Publishing Certificate program for the University of California, San Diego Extension and is an instructor for the Computer Science Department at UCSD. He is the author of the previous bestselling editions of this book and\n  <em>\n   Ajax: The Complete Reference\n  </em>\n  , and co-author of\n  <em>\n   JavaScript: The Complete Reference\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9346'),
(14988, 'HTML &amp; CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition (Complete Reference Series)', 'Thomas Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6536'),
(14989, 'Html &amp; Xhtml Demystified', 'Lee M. Cottrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Â Hard stuff made easy! Your practical, self-paced guide to HTML and XHTMLÂ  HTML and XHTML Demystified is a hands-on tutorial that gives you thorough guidance on required Web design techniques and technologies. The book also functions as a useful supplement for textbooks and classroom activities by focusing on the essentials and the most useful tags and properties, while avoiding unnecessary details. Learn to create Web pages, add graphics and links, create tables and frames, integrate forms, and more. Each chapter features valid HTML that follows all of the rules set by the W3C and incorporates the latest standards for HTML5. Web designers need to write pages that are accessible to all users, so each chapter is coded to address the accessibility requirements from the Americans with Disabilities Act and to allow the use of non-English characters.Â Â  HTML and XHTML DemystifiedÂ  Covers HTML, XHTML, HTML5, and CSS Develops two stand-alone examples per chapter: one created by the author; the other for you to practice Helps you recognize and resolve common HTML errors Includes end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam to reinforce learningÂ  Step-by-step coverage: HTML and The Web; Your First Web Pages; Inserting Graphics; Creating Hyperlinks; Using Lists; Building Tables; Gathering Data with Forms; Page Layout; Scripting; DHTML; Effectively Using Multimedia; Using Frames; Creating a Web Site\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lee Cottrell\n  </strong>\n  is a computer teacher at the Bradford School. He has been creating Web pages with HTML since 1993 and teaching it to students for more than 12 years. Throughout this time, Cottrell has learned how to effectively describe HTMLâ€™s core elements.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6537'),
(14990, 'HTML and XHTML, the Definitive Guide', 'Chuck Musciano &amp; Bill Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuck Musciano has spent his life on the East Coast, having spent time in Maryland, Georgia, and New Jersey before acquiring a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1982. Since then, he has resided in Melbourne, Florida, in the employ of Harris Corporation. He began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools and went on to join Harris'' Advanced Technology Group to help develop large-scale multiprocessors. This led to a prolonged interest in user-interface research and development, which finally gave way to his current position, manager of UNIX Systems in Harris'' Corporate Data Center. Along the way, he grew to know and love the Internet, having contributed a number of publicly available tools to the Net and started the still-running Internet Movie Ratings Report. The Web was a natural next step, and he has been running various Web sites within and without Harris for several years. Chuck has written on UNIX-related topics in the trade press for the past decade, most visibly as the "Webmaster" columnist for Sunworld Online (http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline). In his spare time he enjoys life in Florida with his wife Cindy, daughter Courtney, and son Cole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bill Kennedy is currently president and chief technical officer of ActivMedia, Inc., a new media marketing and marketing research company based in beautiful Peterborough, NH, but which conducts business with clients and associates from around the world primarily over the Internet (http://www.activmedia.com). When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago, of all things!) is out promoting a line of mobile, autonomous robots as real-world platforms for artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic research and for education (http://www.rwii.com). Or he''s out drumming up writing assignments from his former colleagues at IDG''s SunWorld/Advanced Systems Magazine (now SunWorld Online; http://www.sun.com), where he served as a senior editor-features (at-large over the Internet, of course) for nearly five years. Contact Dr. Bill directly at bkennedy@activmedia.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9282'),
(14991, 'HTML Complete Course', 'Donna L. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written by a Web design expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the ins and outs of HTML, the language of the Web, while working on a single project. Fifteen sessions and nearly 100 step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through building a slick, fully functional Web site from start to finish, using HTML and JavaScriptâ„¢. After completing the course, youâ€™ll have an impressive portfolio piece, a professional-looking Web site you can adapt to meet your needs, and a thorough understanding of HTML fundamentals. All of the files used to build the Web site conform to XHTML and CSS standards.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CD-ROM Contents\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Image viewing and editing tools PhotoPlus and Irfanview freeware versions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   WS_FTP Pro software that lets you connect to a Web server to upload, modify, and download your Web site files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   HandyTools for Web Designers power pack freeware version, including Handy File Find &amp; Replace, Handy ImageMapper, Gif Color Mapper, ColourSpy, and Gradientex\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Images and all the files needed to complete the project\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Donna L. Baker\n  </strong>\n  is a veteran graphic designer, information developer, and instructor who built her first Web site in 1993. She is the author of AdobeÂ® PremiereÂ® 6.5 Complete Course, and writes monthly articles on Web design and graphics applications for the online magazine WindoWatch.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9278'),
(14992, 'The HTML Pocket Guide', 'Bruce Hyslop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This handy low-priced book is packed with HTML/XHTML definitions and tips, including those for HTML5 elements in depth. Snappy writing and illustrative code samples walk readers through HTML uses and element definitions. Handy pocket size provides a convenient reference for HTML coders. A true companion to standards-compliant design. The HTML Pocket Guide is for both beginning users, who want an introduction to HTML, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference. While HTML5 is still under development, browser manufacturers are already supporting many of its features in Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and the upcoming Internet Explorer 9. So, now is the time to start learning about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The HTML Pocket Guide is a valuable companion to creating standards-compliant markup that will help Web designers and developers quickly define content and meaning. Accessible, convenient, and inexpensive, this pocket guide is exactly what web designers and developers need.\n </p>\n</div>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This handy low-priced book is packed with HTML/XHTML definitions and tips, including those for HTML5 elements in depth. Snappy writing and illustrative code samples walk readers through HTML uses and element definitions. Handy pocket size provides a convenient reference for HTML coders. A true companion to standards-compliant design. The HTML Pocket Guide is for both beginning users, who want an introduction to HTML, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference. While HTML5 is still under development, browser manufacturers are already supporting many of its features in Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and the upcoming Internet Explorer 9. So, now is the time to start learning about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The HTML Pocket Guide is a valuable companion to creating standards-compliant markup that will help Web designers and developers quickly define content and meaning. Accessible, convenient, and inexpensive, this pocket guide is exactly what web designers and developers need.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9328'),
(14993, 'HTML Professional Projects', 'John Gosney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John W. Gosney is currently the director of information technology for the Indiana University School of Dentistry. He is also associate faculty for the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, where he teaches a variety of literature and English courses, including a course that focuses on literature for adolescents: this course highlights the uniquely adolescent themes that can often be found in any work of fiction, regardless of genre or subject. Through the use of novel pedagogies (including the integration of problem-based learning) John encourages his students â€“ many of whom will be secondary education teachers â€“ to consider and explore the â€œteen themesâ€ that can be found in any work of fiction, and to thus specifically interpret these texts for a younger audience. Through his teaching and research, John is also interested in how technology â€“ especially Web-based technologies â€“ can further enhance the delivery of curriculum to both secondary and post-secondary students, across a broad spectrum of subjects and issues.[HTML_REMOVED] [HTML_REMOVED] John received his B.A. in technical writing and psychobiology from Purdue University. In 1996, he was awarded an M.A. in English from Butler University. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family that, along with two young boys, just happens to include a precocious twelve-year-old â€œpre-teenâ€ daughter thus keeping John acutely interested and in touch with how young people are using technology to communicate with their peers and (it is hoped!) better communicate with their parents.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9307'),
(14994, 'HTML, XHTML &amp; CSS for Dummies', 'Ed Tittel &amp; Jeff Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Build your Web pages and get them uploaded and published with (X)HTML and CSS!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  You don''t have to be an expert programmer to build great Web pages. If you can follow driving directions to a friend''s house, you have what it takes to build a useful Web document. This book will not only show you the design and technical elements you need to create good-looking, readable Web pages â€” it will give you the confidence to get started!\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Speak the language â€” master HTML, XHTML, and CSS syntax, create and view a Web page, and plan your site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Gather the building blocks â€” learn how to work with text and lists, create and customize links, and add images to your Web site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Build it correctly â€” take precise control with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and get creative with colors and fonts\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Juice it up with JavaScript â€” integrate scripts, add dynamic content with (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and get familiar with popular content management systems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Go mobile â€” design your site for optimal viewing on mobile devices with HTML and CSS\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Out with the old, in with the new â€” find out what elements are deprecated and look ahead to HTML5 and CSS3\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Open the book and find:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to plan, build, test, and publish Web pages\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Steps for formatting Web pages with (X)HTML\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Advice on planning a problem-free Web site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Solutions for adding inter-activity with JavaScript\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to embed content from Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and Google Maps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for enhancing your Web site''s capabilities\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to design for smartphones, iPads, and other mobile devices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for eliminating bugs in your Web pages\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Learn to:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Develop and build Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Work with content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla!\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Plan and design Web pages with mobile devices in mind\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ed Tittel\n  </strong>\n  is a 28-year veteran of the computer industry. A seasoned author and consultant, Ed has more than 140 books to his credit. Jeff Noble is a principle user experience designer at CA Technologies. He specializes in designing, building, optimizing, and explaining all aspects of Web sites and enterprise software applications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9349'),
(14995, 'HTML, XHTML &amp; CSS For Dummies, 7th Edition', 'Tittel, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6531'),
(14996, 'HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible', 'Bryan Pfaffenberger &amp; Steven M. Schafer &amp; Chuck White &amp; Bill Karow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An expanded, updated, and retitled edition of HTML Bible, examining HTML, XHTML-a set of extensions to HTML to make it more like XML-and cascading style sheets (CSS), which provide a simple way to add consistent formatting to HTML Web documents Focusing on reader feedback and changing industry trends, this new edition is a major overhaul that addresses the extensive changes in Web development Shows readers the best, most efficient way to use HTML and examines which peripheral technologies are worth learning for the long run Features "before and after" pictures that show the results of improved Web page coding Offers continued coverage of key topics, including site administration, dynamic data-driven pages, and many others, in addition to new sections on hot new topics such as blogs and content management\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9323'),
(14997, 'HTML: A Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Wendy Willard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HTML made easy--fully updated for the latest versionThe new edition of this bestselling beginner''s guide brings the book up to date with the latest changes in HTML, including XHTML 2.0. In dedicated modules that act as stand-alone lessons, you will learn how to structure a page, place images, size text, create links, generate Web-safe colors, work with multimedia, and more. Hands-on projects, self-assessments, and â€˜ask the expert'' sections make it easy to learn the essential skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9311'),
(14998, 'HTML5', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9292'),
(14999, 'HTML5 (including next generation additions still in development)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9348'),
(15000, 'HTML5 differences from HTML4', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9291'),
(15001, 'HTML5 for Web Designers', 'Jeremy Keith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in todayâ€™s browsers? In this brilliant and entertaining userâ€™s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9325');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15002, 'HTML5 Geolocation', 'Anthony T. Holdener &amp; Anthony T. Holdener Iii', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Truly revolutionary: now you can write geolocation applications directly in the browser, rather than develop native apps for particular devices. This concise book demonstrates the W3C Geolocation API in action, with code and examples to help you build HTML5 apps using the "write once, deploy everywhere" model. Along the way, you get a crash course in geolocation, browser support, and ways to integrate the API with common geo tools like Google Maps.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn how geo information is gathered from different sources, depending on the device\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Discover how coordinate systems work, including geodetic systems and datums\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the API to collect location information from a userâ€™s browser with JavaScript code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Place geo information on a map using the Google Maps or ArcGIS JavaScript APIs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Save geo data with databases, the Keyhole Markup Language, or the shapefile format\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Be familiar with several practical uses for geo data, such as geomarketing, geosocial, geotagging, and geo-applications\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7673'),
(15003, 'HTML5. Quick reference guide', 'Veign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6533'),
(15004, 'The Human Angle', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10101'),
(15005, 'Hung Out', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Intergalactic mercenaries led by Xris Cyborg accept a mission to lead a revolution on a planet of pacifists only to find themselves deprived of their leader and thrown into the midst of a power struggle between high-level officials of the Galactic Empire and the criminal underworld of the Hung Syndicate. The third outing for Mag Force 7, a spacefaring strike team composed of extraordinary and outrageous individuals, features fast-paced action, snappy dialog, and a good splash of humor. Coauthors Weis and Perrin have crafted a worthy successor to Knights of the Black Earth (LJ 4/15/95) and Robot Blues (LJ\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many years before he formed the Mag Force 7 team of commandos-for-hire, Xriswas a government agent, betrayed by one of his own while invesigating the galaxy-wide crime explosion which killed his partner and left him a cyborg. Now, while the rest of the Mag Force 7 is on a mission to overthrow a small planet''s despot, Xris has been set up on false charges and sent to a prison planet where he''s blackmailed into helping the Hung leaders escape. But who engineered Xris'' imrisonment and why? And can he find the answers without getting himself killed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis is the author of 12\n  <em>\n   New YorkTimes\n  </em>\n  bestsellers Margaret Weis is a\n  <em>\n   New York Times, Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Fast-paced action and dialogue appeals tospace opera readership Hung Out is the third book in the Mag Force 7 series following\n  <em>\n   Knights of the Black Earth\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Robot Blues\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Knights of the Black Earth\n  </em>\n  is a Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club Margaret Weis and Don Perrin have their own website.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2890'),
(15006, 'Hung Out', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Intergalactic mercenaries led by Xris Cyborg accept a mission to lead a revolution on a planet of pacifists only to find themselves deprived of their leader and thrown into the midst of a power struggle between high-level officials of the Galactic Empire and the criminal underworld of the Hung Syndicate. The third outing for Mag Force 7, a spacefaring strike team composed of extraordinary and outrageous individuals, features fast-paced action, snappy dialog, and a good splash of humor. Coauthors Weis and Perrin have crafted a worthy successor to Knights of the Black Earth (LJ 4/15/95) and Robot Blues (LJ\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many years before he formed the Mag Force 7 team of commandos-for-hire, Xriswas a government agent, betrayed by one of his own while invesigating the galaxy-wide crime explosion which killed his partner and left him a cyborg. Now, while the rest of the Mag Force 7 is on a mission to overthrow a small planet''s despot, Xris has been set up on false charges and sent to a prison planet where he''s blackmailed into helping the Hung leaders escape. But who engineered Xris'' imrisonment and why? And can he find the answers without getting himself killed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis is the author of 12\n  <em>\n   New YorkTimes\n  </em>\n  bestsellers Margaret Weis is a\n  <em>\n   New York Times, Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Fast-paced action and dialogue appeals tospace opera readership Hung Out is the third book in the Mag Force 7 series following\n  <em>\n   Knights of the Black Earth\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Robot Blues\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Knights of the Black Earth\n  </em>\n  is a Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club Margaret Weis and Don Perrin have their own website.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4572'),
(15007, 'The Icarus Hunt', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3003'),
(15008, 'Idiotul', 'F. M. Dostoievski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4783'),
(15009, 'Il figlio dell&#39;uomo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Un uomo del nostro tempo viaggia a miliardi dâ€™anniÂ nel futuro ed incontraÂ le formi diversi dellâ€™umanitÃ  del futuro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11197'),
(15010, 'Il secondo viaggio', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nel mondo del prossimo futuro immaginato da Silverberg in questo romanzo, i criminali incalliti non vengono piÃ¹ condannati alla prigione ma mandati in particolari Centri di Riabilitazione, dove subiscono un trattamento di droghe che cancella come una spugna la loro personalitÃ , lasciando un corpo con una mente vuota come quella di uno â€œzombieâ€. Su questa mente pulita come una lavagna, i terapisti del Centro di Riabilitazione costruiscono, con un paziente lavoro di anni, una nuova identitÃ : una persona â€œfittiziaâ€, dotata di un passato inventato ma dalle caratteristiche morali piÃ¹ salde di quelle della vecchia personalitÃ . Paul Macy Ã¨ una di queste persone â€œricostruiteâ€: il suo corpo apparteneva prima a Nat Hamlin, il piÃ¹ grande psico-scultore del mondo, un uomo di indubbio talento ma totalmente schiavo dei suoi istinti sessuali, al punto di diventare un inveterato stupratore nei sobborghi di New York.\n <br />\n Per i â€œricostruitiâ€ lâ€™inserimento nella societÃ  non Ã¨ facile, ma per Paul Macy le difficoltÃ  si presentano fin dallâ€™inizio quasi insormontabili: lâ€™imbarazzo dato dalla notorietÃ  di cui godeva la vecchia identitÃ  del suo corpo, il brusco incontro con Lissa, una ragazza telepatica con cui Hamlin aveva avuto una tempestosa relazione e soprattutto una serie di incubi ricorrenti in cui compare sempre la figura di Hamlin metteranno a dura prova la stabilitÃ  di Macy. E presto quello che appariva solo un incubo si trasformerÃ  in realtÃ : la personalitÃ  di Hamlin non Ã¨ stata affatto annullata ed ora torna allâ€™attacco della mente di Macy con demoniaca violenza e con la precisa volontÃ  di riprendersi il suo corpo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11239'),
(15011, 'Il sogno del tecnarca', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Il Tecnarca McKenzie ha fretta, perchÃ© vuol gli uomini sparsi per tutto lâ€™Universo durante il periodo del suo governo. Per questo lo irritano tanto le notizie portate dallâ€™equipaggio dellâ€™astronave che ha compiuto felicemente un viaggio di prova sperimentando la nuova propulsione. Gli uomini non sono i soli esseri intelligenti. Gli astronauti hanno notato tracce di attivitÃ  su uno dei pianeti scelti da Tecnarca per la colonizzazione terrestre. Unâ€™altra civiltÃ  vi sta installando una sua colonia. Il Tecnarca McKenzie ha fretta di definire la questione, perciÃ² bisogna mettersi in contatto con gli altri, far loro capire chi sono i terrestri, ed accordarsi perchÃ© le sfere di influenza delle due civiltÃ  non vengano mai a conflitto, e si dividano amichevolmente lâ€™Universo. E lâ€™astronave appena tornata dal difficile viaggio deve ripartire subito, con lo stesso equipaggio, che Ã¨ stanco ma Ã¨ lâ€™unico di cui il Tecnarca si fidi. Con lâ€™equipaggio viaggeranno i cinque uomini migliori della Terra, ognuno eccellente nel proprio campo, per negoziare con lâ€™altra razza e concludere secondo i desideri del Tecnarca il quale, avendo giÃ  rinunciato a una parte del suo sogno, non intende rinunciare anche alla metÃ  dellâ€™universo che gli Ã¨ rimasta. Ma le cose non vanno come stabilito, e il Tecnarca dovrÃ  mettersi a segnare il passo insieme a tutta la razza umana, perchÃ© la spedizione terrestre fa una scoperta che costringerÃ  McKenzie a rinunciare ai suoi sogni.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11298'),
(15012, 'Il tempo della Terra', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anno galattico 3806. Corwin, unâ€™antica colonia terrestre persa nello spazio, sta per essere distrutta dallâ€™orda devastatrice dei Klodni. Lanciandosi in unâ€™impresa disperata, Baird Ewing torna sul pianeta madre in cerca dâ€™aiuto. Ma la Terra Ã¨ ormai lontana dai grandi giorni di gloria. Asservita alla volontÃ  degli abitanti di Sirio IV, debole e inerme, preda di una decadenza totale, non puÃ² offrire nulla contro l''invasione aliena. Eppure, in un edificio fuori del tempo, Ã¨ nascosto il segreto che puÃ² permettere di annientare la flotta dei Klodniâ€¦ Un grande romanzo di avventure spazio-temporali, presentato per la prima volta in Italia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11194'),
(15013, 'Il tempo delle metamorfosi', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Velada Borthan Ã¨ di certo uno dei pianeti piÃ¹ singolari dellâ€™universo, inquietante intreccio di contraddizioni: un clima dolce accanto alle condizioni piÃ¹ aspre, la vita piÃ¹ naturale accanto alla costrizione dei propri sentimenti, una civiltÃ  raffinata accanto alla barbarie morale. Insomma, un inferno o un paradiso a seconda dei punti di vista: e, fatto assurdo, i suoi abitanti avevano scelto deliberatamente lâ€™inferno. Giardino dellâ€™Eden alla rovescia, Velada Borthan era completo anche di tentatore e di frutto proibito: in una societÃ  nella quale il peccato supremo consisteva nellâ€™aprire spontaneamente il proprio animo agli altri, il frutto proibito non poteva essere che il mezzo per far diventare della coscienza del singolo la coscienza di tutti. SarÃ  il Terrestre Schweiz a rivelarlo sconvolgendo un ordine che, per essere stato liberamente scelto, non era per questo meno spietato e inumano. Kinnall Darival, il giovane principe protagonista della vicenda, Ã¨ lâ€™uomo al quale viene affidato il segreto della droga che conduce alla comunione degli spiriti, spezzando i legami nei quali la sua gente aveva rinchiuso la propria personalitÃ . In un mondo in cui lâ€™affermazione di se stessi era vietata sino al punto da considerare osceno il parlare in prima persona, questa totale apertura personale non poteva essere che la peggiore delle bestemmie. Era perÃ² necessario passare attraverso di essa per riscattare Velada Borthan del suo inferno, anche a costo della perdita dellâ€™unico sentimento consentito in una societÃ  che aveva fatto dellâ€™insensibilitÃ  la massima delle virtÃ¹. Nessun vincolo Ã¨ tuttavia piÃ¹ resistente di quelli imposti dalla morale, per quanto assurda e deviata possa essere: per causa loro si Ã¨ anche disposti a rinunciare volontariamente al paradiso a portata di mano.\n <br />\n Ottenuto premio Nebula in 1971.\n <br />\n Nominato per premi Hugo e Locus in 1972.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11322'),
(15014, 'IMAGE: E-LEARNING, UNDERSTANDING, INFORMATION RETRIEVALAND MEDICALProceedings of the First International Workshop', 'Sergio Vitulano', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7407'),
(15015, 'Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks--From an Insider', 'David Megginson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  XML projects can fail for all kinds of reasons, from unrealistic overall goals to mishandled low-level technical decisions. Fortunately, one of the world''s leading XML consultants is ready to show you how to avoid XML pitfalls on your next project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since its invention, David Megginson has been helping to drive XML to new levels. He led the team that developed the SAX streaming API now used worldwide, has been a key contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium, and has served as a consultant to many of the world''s leading companies, including Boeing, Reuters, and McGraw-Hill. Drawing on this vast experience, Megginson offers in this book expert solutions and problem-solving guidance for virtually any XML project challenge. You''ll discover best practices for planning, budgeting, scheduling, and managing any XML project: content management, data interchange, legacy integration, or Web services. And you''ll find technical insights that only an expert like Megginson can offer.Coverage includes\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Setting expectations and planning for extensibility: key success factors in XML projects\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Choosing standards, technical approaches, and architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Overcoming hidden pitfalls in single-source publishing from XML source\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Intelligent searching with XML: essential design and implementation strategies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using XML in enterprise integration: practical realities and workarounds\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Scaling smoothly from demo to production system\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Making XML fast: real help for overcoming XML performance problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing the security risks associated with sending XML data across the Internet\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Recognizing when XML technology is wrong for your project\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  From start to finish, Imperfect XML presents a clear-eyed view of XML''s advantages and limitations--and technical and management solutions proven to make it work.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12581'),
(15016, 'Imperiul iadului', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4700'),
(15017, 'Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure eBook', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7937'),
(15018, 'In cinstea celei care a plecat', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8557'),
(15019, 'Income Tax Fundamentals 2011', 'Gerald E. Whittenburg &amp; Martha Altus-buller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Learn the skills you need for effective individual income tax preparation with the proven forms approach and hands-on workbook format. INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS 2011 Edition provides a concise, practical, and time-tested introduction to the most important areas of tax law. It is updated annually to ensure you are also learning the latest tax laws. Easy-to-read sections incorporate real examples using actual tax forms. This edition presents intriguing, real, and often humorous tax situations. Strategically placed self-study problems provide immediate feedback, while strong end-of-chapter problems and online interactive quizzes help prepare you for tests and the real world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gerald E. Whittenburg is a professor of accounting and taxation at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Whittenburg''s professional designations include Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, and Enrolled Agent. Dr. Whittenburg''s research interests have focused on corporate and individual taxation, as well as the tax research process. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in such journals as the ACCOUNTING REVIEW, ADVANCES IN TAXATION, JOURNAL OF TAXATION, TAXATION FOR ACCOUNTANTS, TAXES, MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, PRACTICAL TAX STRATEGIES, JOURNAL OF TAXATION OF INVESTMENTS, VALUATION STRATEGIES, JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY, JOURNAL OF TAXATION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, THE TAX ADVISER, TAX NOTES, REAL ESTATE ACCOUNTING AND TAXATION, and JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION. Dr. Whittenburg has authored several tax textbooks, including INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS, CALIFORNIA INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS, and FEDERAL TAX RESEARCH. His books are used in more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Whittenburg received a California State University (CSU) Trustee''s Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991. This award was competitive across the entire 20-campus CSU system. Dr. Whittenburg was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in 1999 and 2005. In 2003, he received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at the Academy of Tax Services of Ukraine. While in Ukraine, he lectured students and conferred with the faculty and staff on income taxation in the United States.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Martha Altus-Buller is a CPA with her own tax practice in San Diego, California. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for two years, holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego and a MS in Accounting from San Diego State University. She won a Sells award for scoring among the top in the country on the May 1983 CPA exam. Her practical experience includes work as a tax manager for Arthur Young, now Ernst &amp; Young, one of the (then) Big 8 accounting firms, and more than two decades of full-time practice in tax accounting.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7633'),
(15020, 'Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy', 'Efraim Turban &amp; Linda Volonino &amp; Ephraim R. Mclean &amp; James C. Wetherbe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Information technology has changed how businesses operate and succeed in today''s global economy. Organizations can now use IT to transform themselves and achieve a tremendous competitive advantage. "Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy, Seventh Edition" highlights how this new technology is changing the current business environment and what effect it has on today''s students. The text addresses the major principles of MIS in order to prepare managers to understand the role of information technology in the digital economy. Revised and updated for a junior or senior level MIS or MBA course, this title will give students what they need to succeed in the emerging digital economy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7116'),
(15021, 'Information Technology Outsourcing Transactions, 2001 Supplement: Process, Strategies, and Contracts', 'John K. Halvey &amp; Barbara Murphy Melby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book walks readers through an outsourcing transaction step-by-step: analyzing the benefits, selecting vendor, structuring the deal, managing the relationship. Provides managers with an organized methodical approach to the often intimidating prospect of relinquising absolute control of every aspect of a company''s business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3444'),
(15022, 'Ingeri si demoni', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6916'),
(15023, 'Ingeri si demoni', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6951'),
(15024, 'Ingeri si Demoni.part02', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4899'),
(15025, 'Inginerii Lumii Inelare', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4774'),
(15026, 'Inside Windows Server 2003', 'William Boswell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently practical,\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Inside WindowsÂ® Server 2003\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is an essential resource for IT professionals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Containing in-depth coverage of the newest Windows server technology, this book guides you through the complexities of installing, configuring, and managing a Windows Server 2003 system. Thousands of practical tips, recommendations, diagnostic aids, and troubleshooting techniques based on actual deployments and migrations help you set up and maintain a high-performance, reliable, and secure server that meets or exceeds the needs of its users.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You will find coverage of the more than 200 new features incorporated into Windows Server 2003, along with numerous updates and improvements, including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Volume Shadow Copy feature that permits taking snapshots of changes to files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Forest Trust type that permits two-way, transitive trusts between forests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   64-bit architecture that supports Intel Itanium and Itanium-2 servers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Many new command line tools, including how to manage a headless server with no keyboard, video, or mouse\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Dozens of features to improve your systemÂ¿s security\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  For each feature, the book discusses underlying design principles, provides process descriptions that help identify interoperability issues, and details procedures for installation and configuration. In particular, the book focuses on the increasingly critical issues of security, remote access, and system interoperability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Specific topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Performing upgrades and automated installations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Adding hardware\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing DNS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing Active Directory replication and security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with network access security and Kerberos\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing group policies with a mixture of platforms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing shared resources\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing file encryption and a public key infrastructure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing remote access and Internet routing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Recovering from system failures\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  With the information and experience-based advice in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Inside WindowsÂ® Server 2003\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  , you will be well equipped to deploy and manage a highly effective and smoothly functioning system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0735711585B03172003\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   William Boswell\n  </strong>\n  , MCSE, is the principal engineer for the Windows Consulting Group based in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to training and consulting, he writes the popular "Windows Insider" column for\n  <em>\n   MCP Magazine\n  </em>\n  and is a sought-after speaker for conferences such as TechMentor and SANS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0735711585AB03172003\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6428'),
(15027, 'Inside Windows Storage: Server Storage Technologies for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Beyond', 'Dilip C. Naik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Dilip Naik''s Inside Windows Storage is an invaluable reference for developers and customers alike and is a must-read for anyone wishing to implement Windows-based storage networking." --Tom Clark, Director, Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems The Windows and enterprise storage markets are converging. Migrating upwards from low-end servers, Windows is becoming a genuine platform for running mission-critical applications. The enterprise storage market is moving from high-end servers to also include medium range servers. Thanks to a slew of enterprise storage related features, Microsoft Windows storage technologies are rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. System administrators, programmers, and technical managers need to learn to appreciate and to tap the full potential of Windows enterprise storage. Inside Windows Storage is the first book to provide a comprehensive look at new and emerging Microsoft storage technologies. The text begins with an overview of the enterprise storage industry and Windows Server architecture, including the Windows NT I/O subsystem.With that foundation in place, readers explore the ins and outs of current Windows offerings, upcoming Windows server releases, and third-party products. Key topic coverage includes:\n  <em>\n   Direct Attached Storage, including the new Windows Storport driver model\n  </em>\n  Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs)\n  <em>\n   Network Attached Storage (NAS), including the Windows NT network stack and an overview of CIFS\n  </em>\n  Backup and restore technologies, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service\n  <em>\n   File systems and disk virtualization, including a detailed overview of NTFS as well as a study of Windows cluster file systems\n  </em>\n  Storage management, including the new Windows Virtual Disk Service\n  <em>\n   IP Storage and Infiniband\n  </em>\n  High availability, including RAID mirroring as well as multi path I/O solutions This extensive guide concludes by tracing Windows NT storage features as they appear in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003, and by offering a preview of what to expect from future Windows server releases. In short, Inside Windows Storage will help IT professionals gear up for the major role that Windows servers will surely play in the future of enterprise storage.032112698XB06302003\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Dilip Naik''s Inside Windows Storage is an invaluable reference for developers and customers alike and is a must-read for anyone wishing to implement Windows-based storage networking."\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Tom Clark, Director, Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Windows and enterprise storage markets are converging. Migrating upwards from low-end servers, Windows is becoming a genuine platform for running mission-critical applications. The enterprise storage market is moving from high-end servers to also include medium range servers. Thanks to a slew of enterprise storage related features, Microsoft Windows storage technologies are rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. System administrators, programmers, and technical managers need to learn to appreciate and to tap the full potential of Windows enterprise storage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Inside Windows Storage\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is the first book to provide a comprehensive look at new and emerging Microsoft storage technologies. The text begins with an overview of the enterprise storage industry and Windows Server architecture, including the Windows NT I/O subsystem. With that foundation in place, readers explore the ins and outs of current Windows offerings, upcoming Windows server releases, and third-party products.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Key topic coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Direct Attached Storage, including the new Windows Storport driver model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Network Attached Storage (NAS), including the Windows NT network stack and an overview of CIFS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Backup and restore technologies, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   File systems and disk virtualization, including a detailed overview of NTFS as well as a study of Windows cluster file systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Storage management, including the new Windows Virtual Disk Service\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IP Storage and Infiniband\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   High availability, including RAID mirroring as well as multi path I/O solutions\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  This extensive guide concludes by tracing Windows NT storage features as they appear in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003, and by offering a preview of what to expect from future Windows server releases. In short, _\n  <strong>\n   Inside Windows Storage\n  </strong>\n  _ will help IT professionals gear up for the major role that Windows servers will surely play in the future of enterprise storage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  032112698XB06302003\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6370'),
(15028, 'Insira-te, margarite', 'Vasile Alecsandri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4693'),
(15029, 'Insira-te, margarite', 'Alecsandri Vasile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8605'),
(15030, 'Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional (70-270), Second Edition', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7938'),
(15031, 'Insula din ziua de ieri', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4912'),
(15032, 'Insulele', 'Corneliu Leu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4883'),
(15033, 'Intalnirea din pamanturi', 'Marin Preda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4915'),
(15034, 'INTEGRATING SEASONAL OSCILLATIONSINTO BASEL II BEHAVIOURAL SCORING MODELS', 'Goran KLEPAC', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Abstract\n </div>\n <div>\n  The article introduces a new methodology of temporal influence measurement (seasonalÂ oscillations, temporal patterns) for behavioural scoring development purposes. TheÂ paper shows how significant temporal variables can be recognised and then integratedÂ into the behavioural scoring models in order to improve model performance.\n </div>\n <div>\n  Behavioural scoring models are integral parts of the Basel II standard on InternalÂ Ratings-Based Approaches (IRB). The IRB approach much more precisely reflects individualÂ risk bank profile.\n </div>\n <div>\n  A solution of the problem of how to analyze and integrate macroeconomic and microeconomicÂ factors represented in time series into behavioural scorecard models willÂ be shown in the paper by using the REF II model.\n </div>\n <div>\n  Keywords: credit scoring, REF II, time series analyze, data mining, temporal influence,Â seasonal oscillation, Basel II\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7912'),
(15035, 'Integrating Service Level Agreements: Optimizing Your OSS for SLA Delivery', 'John Lee &amp; Ron Ben-natan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Service level agreements (SLAs) offer service providers a way to distinguish themselves from their competitors in today''s volatile, hypercompetitive market. This book offers an innovative approach that takes full advantage of current interface, automation, and Internet-based distribution and reporting technologies.\n  <br />\n  * Addresses business-level SLAs, not just device-level SLAs\n  <br />\n  * Describes a revolutionary approach that combines network management, service management, field service activities, entitlement, and rating with workflow automation technologies\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Uncover a revolutionary approach to SLAs that will help you gain a competitive advantage in the field\n </p>\n <p>\n  The use of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will soon become the prevailing business model for delivering a large number of products and services. SLAs offer service providers the ability to distinguish themselves from the competition in todayâ€™s volatile market while providing a measure of security for their clients. Following an innovative approach, this book will clearly show you how to implement SLAs as part of an operation support solution (OSS). The authors address the issues you should know about and show you how to integrate data from applications available at all layers of the telecommunications management network (TMN) model. By combining network management, service management, field service activities, entitlement, and rating with dynamic workflow automation and leading-edge collaboration capabilities, the authorsâ€™ revolutionary approach provides you with a complete view of the SLA environment. This hands-on guide will also help you take full advantage of current community collaboration, data interface, process automation, and Internet-based distribution and reporting technologies when developing an SLA delivery strategy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Covering everything you need to know about drafting and utilizing SLAs, Lee and Ben-Natan include discussions on:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The roles, objectives, and life cycle of SLAs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The complexities in the SLA environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Lessons learned from the CLEC telecom bubble\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SLAs in a customer-centric approach\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Business-level SLAs as well as device-level SLAs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The integrated SLA (ISLA) model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integration techniques\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Organizational issues, including the various management layers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Operational processes, workflows, notifications, and alerts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Metrics and performance reporting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Notification, mobile computing, and wireless access\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3452'),
(15036, 'Intelligent Systems for Automated Learning and Adaptation: Emerging Trends and Applications', 'Raymond Chiong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Intelligent Systems for Automated Learning and Adaptation: Emerging Trends and Applications\n  </strong>\n  presents methodologies, architectures, and approaches on experiential automated learning. This critical mass of sought after research assembles the most intriguing and innovative applications, advancements, and leading studies on the methodology of intellectual computing."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Raymond Chiong\n  </strong>\n  is a tenured academic in the School of Computing &amp; Design, Swinburne University of Technology. He is leading the Intelligent Informatics Research Group under the Information &amp; Security Research Lab. He serves as an associate editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, and reviews for IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation and Springer''s Memetic Computing. He also serves on the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence, as well as IASTED Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation. His main research interests include nature-inspired computing and its application to complex systems. He has numerous publications in books, international journals, and conference proceedings, and is currently involved with four edited books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10171'),
(15037, 'INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 12207 SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE PROCESSES', 'Raghu Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9581'),
(15038, 'Internet is opening up new ways for consumers, companies and governments to conduct business and to exchange information electronically', 'Lucian Vasiu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8687'),
(15039, 'Into the Labyrinth', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Alfred and Haplo enter a terrifying prison maze that has long been shrouded in mystery and are followed by two assassins sent to take Haplo''s life. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2831'),
(15040, 'Introducing HTML5', 'Bruce Lawson &amp; Remy Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Suddenly, everyoneâ€™s talking about HTML5, and ready or not, you need to get acquainted with this powerful new development in web and application design. Some of its new features are already being implemented by existing browsers, and much more is around the corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by developers who have been using the new language for the past year in their work, this book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on todayâ€™s browsers. Rather than being just an academic investigation, it concentrates on the practicalâ€”the problems HTML5 can solve for you right away. By following the bookâ€™s hands-on HTML5 code examples youâ€™ll learn:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    how to apply the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    the uses of native multimedia for video and audio\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    techniques for drawing lines, fills, gradients, images and text with canvas\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    how to build more intelligent web forms\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    implementation of new storage options and web databases\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  All the code from this book (and more) is available at www.introducinghtml5.com.\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <hr />\n There appear to be intermittent problems with the first printing of Introducing HTML5. If you have one of these copies, please email us at\n <em>\n  ask@peachpit.com\n </em>\n with a copy of your receipt (from any reseller), and we[HTML_REMOVED]ll either provide access to the eBook or send you another copy of the print book -- whichever you prefer. If youâ€™d like the eBook we can add that to your Peachpit.com account. Â You can set up a free account at www.peachpit.com/join &lt;_http://www.peachpit.com/join_&gt;. Thanks so much for your understanding!\n <p>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6538'),
(15041, 'Introducing HTML5', 'Bruce D. Lawson &amp; Remy Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Suddenly, everyoneâ€™s talking about HTML5, and ready or not, you need to get acquainted with this powerful new development in web and application design. Some of its new features are already being implemented by existing browsers, and much more is around the corner.Written by developers who have been using the new language for the past year in their work, this book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on todayâ€™s browsers. Rather than being just an academic investigation, it concentrates on the practicalâ€”the problems HTML5 can solve for you right away. By following the bookâ€™s hands-on HTML5 code examples youâ€™ll learn:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      how to apply the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      the uses of native multimedia for video and audio\n     </p>\n     <ul>\n      <li>\n       <p>\n        techniques for drawing lines, fills, gradients, images and text with canvas\n       </p>\n      </li>\n      <li>\n       <p>\n        how to build more intelligent web forms\n       </p>\n       <ul>\n        <li>\n         <p>\n          implementation of new storage options and web databases\n         </p>\n        </li>\n        <li>\n         <p>\n          how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications\n          <em>\n          </em>\n          <strong>\n           <em>\n           </em>\n          </strong>\n          There appear to be intermittent problems with the first printing of Introducing HTML5. If you have one of these copies, please email us at ask@peachpit.com with a copy of your receipt (from any reseller), and we''ll either provide access to the eBook or send you another copy of the print book (est. to arrive the week of August 23)Â— whichever you prefer. If youâ€™d like the eBook we can add that to your Peachpit.com account. You can set up a free account at www.peachpit.com/join . Thanks so much for your understanding!\n         </p>\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n      </li>\n     </ul>\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9343'),
(15042, 'Introduction to CSS', 'Luka Abrus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9294'),
(15043, 'An introduction to English economic history and theory', 'Sir W. J. Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n   http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontoen02ashluoft\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    W. J.Â Ashley, (William James), Sir, 1860-1927\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8253'),
(15044, 'Introduction to Evolvable Hardware', 'Garrison W. Greenwood &amp; Andrew M. Tyrrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The authors are to be congratulated on a particularly attractive set of well-organized subjects describing state-of-the-art research in the evolvable hardware domain." (_Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines_, September 2008)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The authors should be congratulated on a particularly attractive set of well-organized subjects describing state-of-the-art research in the evolvable hardware domain." (_Genet Program Evolvable Machine_, February 2008)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The book is eminently readableâ€¦a good starting place." (_Computing Reviews.com_, September 13, 2007)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE FIRST UNIFIED GUIDE TO EVOLVABLE HARDWARE FOR THE PRACTITIONER\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evolvable hardware (EHW) is an exciting new field that brings together reconfigurable hardware, artificial intelligence, and fault tolerance in order to design autonomous systems that can self-adapt to compensate for failures or unanticipated changes in their operational environments. Demonstrating a high degree of reliabilityin extreme environments, these systems are finding exciting new applications in the military and space exploration fields.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Introduction to Evolvable Hardware: A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems provides a highly practical introduction for engineers, designers, andmanagers involved in the development of adaptive, high-reliability systems, while at the same time introducing EHW concepts to new researchers in a structured way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors cover the fundamentals of simulated evolution and provide an overview ofreconfigurable devices. Real-world digital and analog examples illustrate the power andversatility of EHW.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Special emphasis is placed on:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Fault-tolerant applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System integration concepts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Real-time design issues\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  An ideal resource for anyone interested in applied rather than theoretical research in this growing field, the book unifies the existing literature, which has, until now, only been available in journal articles and conference proceedings, and presents it in such a way that readers may begin applying it to their own research and design projects in a relatively short time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7657'),
(15045, 'Introduction to JavaScript', 'Luka Abrus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9232'),
(15046, 'Introduction to Paging Systems: One-Way, Two-Way, POCSAG, ERMES, FLEX, REFLEX &amp; INFLEXION', 'Lawrence Harte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This book explains the different types of paging systems, how they operate, and changes that are occurring in the paging industry. Traditional paging services have seen a world decline of over 65% in the number of traditional paging services between 1988 to 2003. During this decline, some paging systems have experienced high-growth. These systems offered new services including two-way short messaging, data gathering (telemetry), and remote control.You will discover that the lifecycle of paging systems is likely to continue because paging systems generally have much better and more reliable in building radio coverage, have smaller low cost devices (pagers), and the service cost can be substantially less than other systems such as cellular radio. The basic types of paging services include, tone, numeric, text (alpha) and voice. Two types of paging systems, one-way, or two-way paging systems can deliver these messages. One-way paging systems only permit the sending of messages from the paging system to the pager. Two-way paging systems allow the confirmation and response of a message from the pager to the system as well.Paging systems use different types of radio protocols to provide paging and messages services. The early paging systems simply turned on or off a signal on a given frequency to alert the user of a specific page. Commercial paging systems often conform to industry standards. Covered are the key paging industry standards including as POCSAG, ERMES, FLEX, and REFLEX to standardize equipment and services. This has resulted in a dramatic reduction in equipment and usage costs for the customer and the availability of amazing new devices.The paging industry continuesto evolve with innovative technologies and services that provide for new communication applications. This book covers some of the near-term changes that will affect the paging industry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12582'),
(15047, 'Introduction to Programming using Python', 'Katja Schuerer &amp; Corinne Maufrais &amp; Catherine Letondal &amp; Eric Deveaud &amp; Marie-Agnes Petit', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Introduction to Programming using\n </div>\n <div>\n  Python\n </div>\n <div>\n  Programming Course for Biologists at the\n </div>\n <div>\n  Pasteur Institute\n </div>\n <div>\n  by Katja Schuerer, Corinne Maufrais, Catherine Letondal, Eric Deveaud, and\n </div>\n <div>\n  Marie-Agnes Petit\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6144'),
(15048, 'Introduction to Python', 'Guido van Rossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6145'),
(15049, 'Introduction to Romanian', 'George Otto Seiver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7299');
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(15050, 'Introduction to Search With Sphinx', 'Andrew Aksyonoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches. Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to the point.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the particular way Sphinx conducts searches\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Install and configure Sphinx, and run a few basic tests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Issue basic queries to Sphinx at the application level\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn the syntax of search text and the effects of various search options\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get strategies for dealing with large data sets, such as multi-index searching\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Apply relevance and ranking guidelines for presenting best results to the user\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Andrew is the creator of Sphinx.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7760'),
(15051, 'An Introduction to theJava Telephony API (JTAPI)', 'Marcel Graf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9177'),
(15052, 'Introduction to the Command Line', 'Nicholas Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Introduction to the Command Line is a visual guide that teaches the most important Unix and Linux shell commands in a simple and straight forward manner. Command line programs covered in this book are demonstrated with typical usage to aid in the learning process and help you master the command line quickly and easily.Covers popular Unix, Linux, and BSD systems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7117'),
(15053, 'Introduction to Visual Basic', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9366'),
(15054, 'Introduction to Windows Forms Applications', 'VB', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9367'),
(15055, 'An Introductionary Overview of ITIL. Pocket Guide', 'itSMF', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3441'),
(15056, 'Intuneric si lumina', 'Nicolae Bratescu-Voinesti', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4745'),
(15057, 'Intuneric si lumina', 'Nicolae Bratescu Voinesti', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8654'),
(15058, 'Invaders From Earth', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a novel of sophisticated government deception in the near future, an exploration of political corruption. Written in 1957 when Silverberg was 22, the novel is cynical and highly suspenseful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11267'),
(15059, 'Inverse Problems', 'Alexander G. Ramm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inverse Problems is a monograph which contains a self-contained presentation of the theory of several major inverse problems and the closely related results from the theory of ill-posed problems. The book is aimed at a large audience which include graduate students and researchers in mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences and in the area of numerical analysis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7634'),
(15060, 'Invitatie la vals', 'Mihail Drumes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4770'),
(15061, 'Ion. Vol 2', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4747'),
(15062, 'IONA', 'Marin Sorescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4827'),
(15063, 'Iorich', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4282'),
(15064, 'Ipad All in One for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The ins and outs of all things iPad and iPad 2â€”in full color! Packed with the power of a MacBook, iPod touch, eReader, digital camera, portable game console and so much more, the iPad is an awesome device. And, the business world has certainly taken notice. The iPad is moving into the enterprise where power users and professionals alike are using the device to increase their productivity and work smarter at the office and on the go. Long-time For Dummies author Nancy Muir walks you through the latest functions, features, and capabilities of the iPad and iPad 2 in six easy-to-understand minibooks covering setting up and synching your iPad; using the iWork applications; printing from your iPad; managing your contacts and calendar; accessing your e-mail and the web; making FaceTime video calls; using your iPad as a presentation tool; and finding the best apps for travel, news, weather, finances, and business productivity.*  Six full-color minibooks include: iPad Basics, Just for Fun, iPad on the Go, Getting Productive with iWork, Using iPad to Get Organized, and Must-Have iPad Apps* Covers the newest iPad 2 features including FaceTime, Photo Booth, Smart Covers, HD video and cameras, video mirroring, and HDMI output* Shows you how to use iWork and other productivity apps to dress up your documents, create stellar spreadsheets, add pizzazz to your presentations, and maintain your schedule on the run* Walks you through connecting with WiFi and 3G; using Maps for directions and places to stay when you''re away from the office; keeping in touch with e-mail and social networking; and using your iPad as a remote desktop while you''re on the road* Includes information on having a little fun, too, with tips on loading your iPad or iPad 2 with music, movies, photos, e-books, games, apps, and more Filled with no-nonsense basics and slick and savvy tips, iPad All-in-One For Dummies, Second Edition is the best accessory you''ll ever buy for your iPad or iPad 2!\n <br />\n (source: Bol.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7157'),
(15065, 'iPhone Fully Loaded', 'Andy Ihnatko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trust Andy. This is not just another iPhone book\n </p>\n <p>\n  That would be like saying the iPhone is just another mobile device. Well, you know better. You''re crazy in love with your iPhone. Now there''s even more to love, plus 65,000 apps in the App Store. Andy Ihnatko explains the gems among them while he shows you how to control your Mac or PC from your iPhone, create and publish your blog or video, load your favorite comics, even have Office in your pocket. This thing just keeps getting better.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Publish your podcast, photos, or that video you just captured\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Install maps and travel guides that work even when the Internet doesn''t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Load up books from Amazon, public-domain archives, or stuff you scan\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get your daily dose of Doonesbury plus your favorite classic comic books\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Stream audio and video from new, free sources\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  ANDY IHNATKO is a world-renowned Mac pundit, blogger, author, and speaker. Author of the critically acclaimed The Mac OS X Tiger Book as well as iPod Fully Loaded, he has also written for nearly every publication with "Mac" in its name and is currently technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7635'),
(15066, 'Iptables Tutorial 1.1.19', 'Oskar Andreasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Iptables Tutorial 1.1.19\n <br />\n ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€: (C) Oskar Andreasson\n <br />\n Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by Oskar Andreasson\n <br />\n ÐŸÐµÑ€ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð´: (C) ÐÐ½Ð´Ñ€ÐµÐ¹ ÐšÐ¸ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ²\n <br />\n ÐŸÐ¾ÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð½ÑŽÑŽ Ð²ÐµÑ€ÑÐ¸ÑŽ Ð´Ð¾ÐºÑƒÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð° Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑƒÑ‡Ð¸Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð¿Ð¾ Ð°Ð´Ñ€ÐµÑÑƒ: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net\n <br />\n fb2-Ð´Ð¾ÐºÑƒÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚ Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ„Ð¾Ñ€Ð¼Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½ Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÑˆÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÑ‚Ð²Ð° Ñ‚ÐµÐ³Ð¾Ð²\n</p>\n<emphasis>\n Ð¸\n <strong>\n  . Ð§Ñ‚Ð¾Ð±Ñ‹ Ð² Â«Ñ‡Ð¸Ñ‚Ð°Ð»ÐºÐµÂ» (Ð² Ñ‡Ð°ÑÑ‚Ð½Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸, Haali Reader) Ñ‚ÐµÐºÑÑ‚ Ð²Ñ‹Ð³Ð»ÑÐ´ÐµÐ» Â«ÐºÑ€Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Â», Ð½Ð°ÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð¹Ñ‚Ðµ ÑÐ²Ð¾Ð¹ÑÑ‚Ð²Ð° ÑÐ¾Ð¾Ñ‚Ð²ÐµÑÑ‚Ð²ÑƒÑŽÑ‰Ð¸Ñ… ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð»ÐµÐ¹ (emphasis Ð¸ strong), Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð², Ð½Ð°Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð¼ÐµÑ€, Ð¸Ñ… Ñ†Ð²ÐµÑ‚Ð° Ð¸Ð»Ð¸ Ð½Ð°Ñ‡ÐµÑ€Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ. (Ð¿Ñ€Ð¸Ð¼. Ð°Ð²Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð° fb2-Ð´Ð¾ÐºÑƒÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ð°)\n </strong>\n</emphasis>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12822'),
(15067, 'Ipv6 for Enterprise Networks', 'Shannon Mcfarland &amp; Muninder Sambi &amp; Nikhil Sharma &amp; Sanja Hooda', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Increasingly, enterprises that formerly shunned IPv6 are considering implementation or actively moving forward with it. IPv6 for Enterprise Networks brings together all the information network engineers and other professionals need to successfully deploy IPv6 in their campus, WAN/branch and data center environments. Four leading Cisco IPv6 experts show how IPv6 impacts existing network designs, describe common IPv4/IPv6 co-existence mechanisms, and guide network professionals in choosing the right implementation options for their environments. The authors begin by reviewing the drivers behind accelerating IPv6 deployment in the enterprise, and offering a refresher on IPv6 technology. Next, building on this foundation, they introduce powerful new IPv6 services for routing, QoS, multicast, security and management. These services are explained through parallels with familiar IPv4 features and behavior. Then, in Part II, the authors apply these concepts through concrete, usable configuration examples, including an end-to-end IPv6 network design case study.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Shannon McFarland, CCIE No. 5245, is a corporate consulting engineer for Cisco, working as a technical\n </p>\n <p>\n  consultant for enterprise IPv6 deployment and data center design with a focus on application deployment\n </p>\n <p>\n  and virtual desktop infrastructure. Over the last 16 years, he has worked on large-scale enterprise campus\n </p>\n <p>\n  and WAN/branch network design, data center design and optimization for Microsoft operating systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  and server applications, as well as design and optimization of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the past 10 years, Shannon has been a frequent speaker at IPv6 events worldwide (notably Cisco Live\n </p>\n <p>\n  [formerly Networkers]), IPv6 summits, and other industry events. He has authored many papers and Cisco\n </p>\n <p>\n  Validated Designs (CVD) on IPv6, IP Multicast, Microsoft Exchange, VMware View, and other applications,\n </p>\n <p>\n  as well as contributed to many Cisco Press books. Prior to his time at Cisco, Shannon worked as a\n </p>\n <p>\n  consultant for a value-added reseller and also as a network engineer in the healthcare industry. Shannon\n </p>\n <p>\n  lives with his wife and children in Castle Rock, CO.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915, is a manager of product marketing for the Cisco Catalyst 4500/4900\n </p>\n <p>\n  series platform. As a product line manager, he is responsible for defining product strategies on the multibillion-\n </p>\n <p>\n  dollar Catalyst 4500 and 4900 series platforms, which include next-generation product architectures\n </p>\n <p>\n  both for user access in Campus and Server access in the Data Center. Prior to this role, Muninder\n </p>\n <p>\n  played a key role in defining the long-term Software and Services strategy for Ciscoâ€™s modular switching\n </p>\n <p>\n  platforms (Catalyst 6500 and 4500/4900 series) including a focus on IPv6 innovations. Some of these\n </p>\n <p>\n  innovations enabled dual-stack IPv6 deployments in large enterprise and service provider networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Muninder is also a core member of Ciscoâ€™s IPv6 development council. Muninder has represented Cisco as\n </p>\n <p>\n  part of multiple network design architecture reviews with large enterprise customers. Over the last 12+\n </p>\n <p>\n  years, Muninder has worked on multiple Enterprise Campus, WAN, and Data Center designs. Prior to\n </p>\n <p>\n  working at Cisco, Muninder worked as a network consultant for one of Indiaâ€™s leading network integrators\n </p>\n <p>\n  and was responsible for designing and implementing LAN, WAN, and hosted Data Center networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Muninder lives with his wife and children in Fremont, California.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273, is a technical marketing engineer at Cisco, where he is responsible for\n </p>\n <p>\n  defining new features, both hardware and software, for the Catalyst 4500 product line. Over the last 10\n </p>\n <p>\n  years, Nikhil has worked with various enterprise customers to design and troubleshoot both large and\n </p>\n <p>\n  midsize campus and data center networks.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Sanjay Hooda, CCIE No. 11737, is a technical leader at Cisco, where he works with embedded systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  and helps define new product architectures. His current focus areas include high availability and messaging\n </p>\n <p>\n  in large-scale distributed switching systems. Over the last 14 years, Sanjayâ€™s experience spans various\n </p>\n <p>\n  areas, including SCADA (Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition), large-scale software projects, and\n </p>\n <p>\n  enterprise campus and LAN, WAN, and data center network design.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10172'),
(15068, 'Irresistible Forces', 'Jo Beverley &amp; Lois Mcmaster Bujold &amp; Mary Jo Putney &amp; Jennifer Roberson &amp; Deb Stover &amp; Catherine Asaro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brimming with romance and adventure...a must-read. (_Romantic Times_)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling authors Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, and Lois McMaster Bujold join forces with award-winning authors Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Roberson, and Deb Stover in this all-new anthology of original stories proving that love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From sixteenth-century Britain to the farthest reaches of outer space, from medieval adventures to tales of inter-galactic love, here is a compilation that explores the wonderfully kinetic forces that lovers share-forces too great to resist...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8876'),
(15069, 'Issola', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4290'),
(15070, 'Istoria Angliei 2', 'Andre Maurois', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8645'),
(15071, 'Istoria Angliei Vol 1', 'Maurois, Andre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4725'),
(15072, 'Istoria Angliei Vol 2', 'Andre Maurois', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4934'),
(15073, 'Istoria comunismului povestita pentru bolnavii mintal', 'Matei Visniec', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8644'),
(15074, 'Istoria ideilor si credintelor religioase Vol. 2', 'Mircea Eliade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4844'),
(15075, 'Istoria literaturii romane', 'CALINESCU George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4889'),
(15076, 'Istoria literaturii romane contemporane', 'Eugen Lovinescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8529'),
(15077, 'Istoria se repeta', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4750'),
(15078, 'Istoria se repeta', 'Caragiale Luca Ion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8566'),
(15079, 'Istoria secolului XX', 'Constantin Hlihor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8573'),
(15080, 'IT Auditing, Second Edition. Using controls to protect information assets', 'Chris Davis &amp; Mike Schiller &amp; Kevin Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7636'),
(15081, 'It Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets', 'Chris(author) ; Schiller, Mike(author); Wheeler, Kevin(author) Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3457'),
(15082, 'IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets', 'Chris Davis &amp; Mike Schiller &amp; Kevin Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Protect Your Systems with Proven IT Auditing Strategies\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â "A must-have for auditors and IT professionals."Â  -Doug Dexter, CISSP-ISSMP, CISA, Audit Team Lead, Cisco Systems, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Plan for and manage an effective IT audit program using the in-depth information contained in this comprehensive resource. Written by experienced IT audit and security professionals,\n  <em>\n   IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets\n  </em>\n  covers the latest auditing tools alongside real-world examples, ready-to-use checklists, and valuable templates. Inside, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll learn how to analyze Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems; secure databases; examine wireless networks and devices; and audit applications. Plus, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll get up-to-date information on legal standards and practices, privacy and ethical issues, and the CobiT standard.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Build and maintain an IT audit function with maximum effectiveness and value\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Implement best practice IT audit processes and controls\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Analyze UNIX-, Linux-, and Windows-based operating systems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Audit network routers, switches, firewalls, WLANs, and mobile devices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Evaluate entity-level controls, data centers, and disaster recovery plans\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Examine Web servers, platforms, and applications for vulnerabilities\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Review databases for critical controls\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use the COSO, CobiT, ITIL, ISO, and NSA INFOSEC methodologies\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Implement sound risk analysis and risk management practices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Drill down into applications to find potential control weaknesses\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chris Davis\n  </strong>\n  , CISA, CISSP, shares his experience from architecting, hardening, and auditing systems. He has trained auditors and forensic analysts. Davis is the coauthor of the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Hacking Exposed: Computer Forensics.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mike Schiller\n  </strong>\n  , CISA, has 14 years of experience in the IT audit field, most recently as the worldwide IT Audit Manager at Texas Instruments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , CISA, CISSP, NSA IAM/IEM, is the founder and CEO of InfoDefense and has over ten years of IT security experience.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7960'),
(15083, 'IT Problem Management', 'Prentice Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3474'),
(15084, 'IT Project Management Handbook', 'Jag Sodhi &amp; Prince Sodhi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Now you can manage IT projects quickly, easily, on time, and on budget!IT project management has developed into a complex process with a broader scope of responsibilities than ever before. Here is the newest and most comprehensive book to offer winning insights and strategies on how to manage every step of the process. Written by two of this country''s leading experts on IT Project Management, this extensive yet easy-to-use volume will give you the tools you need to successfully navigate your next IT project. You''ll learn how to avoid cost overruns and schedule delays, meet customer requirements, take control of budgets and resource allocation, build a successful team, and put to use many more tried-and-true methods of project management. The handbook includes a completely up-to-date overview of the best Internet services, current software, and repositories available via the Internet along with networking, e-commerce, reuse, prototype, modeling and simulations. It''s all contained in this user-friendly handbook that will soon become the foundation for every IT project you manage ... or take part in. Based on real-world practical experience and case studies, the Handbook will give you the framework to manage, improve, and build greater accuracy into every phase of your IT project management.Here are just some of the systems, methods, tools, case studies, and techniques covered:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   IT Project Planning and Development Life Cycle Phases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Identifying Users, Customers, and Stakeholders\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customer Requirements Management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Modeling and Simulation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customer Acceptance Criteria\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Control and Recovery Mechanisms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Budgeting, Staffing, and Scheduling\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Function Point and Earned Value Methods\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Gantt Chart, PERT Chart, and CPM\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Risk Management - Assessment, Mitigation, Monitoring, and Reporting Plan\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System Management Standard\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Measurement Schema\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project management Tools - Microsoft Project, Kidasa Software''s Fast\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Track Schedule\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Management Quality Control Mechanism\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IT Networks and Internet Taxonomy\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wireless Technology, E-Commerce, and M-Commerce\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System Software LifeCycle Model\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System Integration Techniques\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System Testing and Evaluation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customer Satisfaction\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  About the AuthorJag Sodhi, MS, is a professor associated with the Defense Acquisition University. He has 32 years of combined experience as a well-known author, software developer, consultant, instructor, and project manager for defense products and commercial business applications. He has been a computer specialist and project manager and a member of DOD''s advanced technology team. He specializes in the best commercial practices and COTS tools for systems development and maintenance. Mr. Sodhi evaluated the Integrated Computer Aided Software Engineering (I-CASE) pilot project and is a member of the team for the DII COE project. He was the project leader for migration of his systems to the Joint Technical Architecture standard. Prince Sodhi is a senior management consultant for Proxicom Int''l Corp. He is an expert in project management, several programming languages, and in distributed computing applications in a multiple-tier, client-server environments. He is co-author of the books Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Process (1999) and Object-Oriented Methods for Software Development (1996), McGraw-Hill. He has a bachelor''s degree in computer/mathematics from the University of Minnesota.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9668'),
(15085, 'IT Services Costs  Metrics  Benchmarking &amp; Marketing', 'Prentice Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3449'),
(15086, 'ITIL Capacity Management', 'Larry Klosterboer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Business-Focused, Best-Practice Guide to Succeeding with ITIL Capacity Management\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using ITILÂ® capacity management processes, IT organizations can eliminate waste and overbuying, reduce both equipment and staffing costs, drive more value from existing investments, and consistently provide the right resources to meet the needs of the business. Now, in this comprehensive, best-practice guide, leading ITIL expert Larry Klosterboer systematically explains how to manage capacity using the ITIL framework and techniques.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on his extensive ITIL experience, Klosterboer covers all facets of ITIL-based capacity management, and offers proven solutions to the challenges IT organizations encounter in implementation. He presents expert guidance on accurately projecting demand and growth, planning and staffing, tool selection, process implementation, and much more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This bookâ€™s practical insights will be invaluable to every IT leader who wants to leverage ITILâ€™s best practices for capacity management, and for every business and technical manager who wants IT to deliver greater value, efficiency, and effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coverage includes\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Making the business case for capacity management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Establishing specific goals for capacity management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mastering ITIL capacity management terminology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Predicting capacity in dynamic, fast-changing organizations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing systems that help you anticipate trends\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Defining capacity plans, staffing capacity management teams, and implementing ongoing processes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Linking capacity with performance management and with other ITIL processes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Selecting the right capacity management tools for your environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrating capacity issues into your IT project management discipline\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using â€œbusiness capacity planningâ€ to help the entire business become more agile\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7645'),
(15087, 'ITIL Essentials for IT Service Management.Student Workbook', 'HP', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3477'),
(15088, 'ITIL Overview', 'XWAVE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3430'),
(15089, 'ITIL V2 Foundation Complete Certification Kit', 'The Art of Service', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7607'),
(15090, 'ITIL V3 Foundation Exam', 'Jan van Bon &amp; Arjen de Jong &amp; Axel Kolthof &amp; Mike Pieper &amp; Ruby Tjassing &amp; Annelies van Der Veen &amp; Tieneke Verheijen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This new title covers all the material found in the ITILÃƒÆ’â€šÃƒâ€šÂ® Foundations Exam. Its 230 pages cover everything you need to know to pass the exam and in addition the Official OGC sample exams are included at the end of each chapter. The title separates out the processes within each lifecycle stage making this a handy and convenient title to take back to the work place and to start implementing Best Practices as found in the Foundation training course. The book also contains official ITIL diagrams and Glossary of terms which are fully licensed by the British Government. - Covers all Foundation Exam Content - Contains Official Sample Exams - Contains Official Glossary of terms - Great fold-flat format for class training - Processes explained separately to support post exam implementation - 230 pages means fantastic value for the money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7647'),
(15091, 'ITIL.Toolkit Service Level Agreement (SLA)', 'Easytec Solutions', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3448'),
(15092, 'ITSM Case Study', 'Central Computer &amp; Telecommunications Agency', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3469'),
(15093, 'ITSMF - IT Service Management', '2003', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3438'),
(15094, 'Ivor Horton&#39;s Beginning Visual C++ 2008', 'Ivor Horton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ivor Horton''s Beginning Visual C++ 2008Proudly presenting the latest edition of one of the all-time bestselling books on the C++ language, successful author Ivor Horton repeats the formula that has made each previous edition so popular by teaching you both the standard C++ language and C++/CLI as well as Visual C++ 2008. Thoroughly updated for the 2008 release, this book shows you how to build real-world applications using Visual C++ and guides you through the ins and outs of C++ development.Horton''s accessible approach and detailed examples cover both flavors of the C++ language--native ISO/ANSIC++ Windows application development using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), as well as the development of C++/CLI Windows applications using Windows Forms. He also introduces you to the techniques you can use for accessing data sources in both MFC and Windows Forms, and working examples demonstrate each programming technique that is being discussed. With this book by your side, you are well on your way to becoming a successful C++ programmer.What you will learn from this bookHow to use the Standard Template Library, a powerful and extensive set of tools for organizing and manipulating data in your native C++ programsTechniques for finding errors in your C++ programsThe ways that Microsoft(R) Windows(R) applications are structured and the elements that are essential for each applicationHow to create and use common controls in order to build the graphical user interface for your applicationWays to develop your own libraries using MFCThe different controls that are available for accessing data sources, how they work, and how to customize themWho this book is forThis book is for anyone who wants to write C++ applications for the Microsoft Windows OS. No prior experience of any programming language is assumed.Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10173'),
(15095, 'Java &amp; Databases', 'Akmal B. Chaudhri', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-two academics and practitioners contributed to this presentation of the use of Java in persistent storage managers and other applications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9178'),
(15096, 'Java Call Control v1.0 to H.323 API Mapping', 'Chammika Subasinghe', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n     <div>\n      JavaTM Call Control v1.0 to H.323 API Mapping\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      JAINTM Community\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      A Fujitsu, NEC, NTT, Sun Microsystems, Telcordia Technologies Document\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      Date: October 25, 2001\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      Version: 1.0\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      Author: Chammika Subasinghe â€“ Fujitsu\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      Co-Author: Phelim Oâ€™Doherty â€“ Sun Microsystems, Inc.\n     </div>\n     <div>\n      <br />\n     </div>\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  This document has been authored by various companies within the JAIN Community as an example mapping from the Java Call Control protocol to the H323 Protocol. Oct. 2001\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9175'),
(15097, 'Java Concurrency in Practice', 'Brian Goetz &amp; Tim Peierls &amp; Joshua Bloch &amp; Joseph Bowbeer &amp; David Holmes &amp; Doug Lea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book."\n  <br />\n  --Martin Buchholz\n  <br />\n  JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun Microsystems\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore[HTML_REMOVED]s Law; from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl[HTML_REMOVED]s Law. Writing code that effectively exploits multiple processors can be very challenging.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java Concurrency in Practice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  provides you with the concepts and techniques needed to write safe and scalable Java programs for today[HTML_REMOVED]s--and tomorrow[HTML_REMOVED]s--systems."\n  <br />\n  --Doron Rajwan\n  <br />\n  Research Scientist, Intel Corp\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is the book you need if you[HTML_REMOVED]re writing--or designing, or debugging, or maintaining, or contemplating--multithreaded Java programs. If you[HTML_REMOVED]ve ever had to synchronize a method and you weren[HTML_REMOVED]t sure why, you owe it to yourself and your users to read this book, cover to cover."\n  <br />\n  --Ted Neward\n  <br />\n  Author of\n  <em>\n   Effective Enterprise Java\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brian addresses the fundamental issues and complexities of concurrency with uncommon clarity. This book is a must-read for anyone who uses threads and cares about performance."\n  <br />\n  --Kirk Pepperdine\n  <br />\n  CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book covers a very deep and subtle topic in a very clear and concise way, making it the perfect Java Concurrency reference manual. Each page is filled with the problems (and solutions!) that programmers struggle with every day. Effectively exploiting concurrency is becoming more and more important now that Moore[HTML_REMOVED]s Law is delivering more cores but not faster cores, and this book will show you how to do it."\n  <br />\n  --Dr. Cliff Click\n  <br />\n  Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have a strong interest in concurrency, and have probably written more thread deadlocks and made more synchronization mistakes than most programmers. Brian[HTML_REMOVED]s book is the most readable on the topic of threading and concurrency in Java, and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. This is a book I am recommending to all my readers of\n  <em>\n   The Java Specialists[HTML_REMOVED] Newsletter\n  </em>\n  , because it is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java developers today."\n  <br />\n  --Dr. Heinz Kabutz\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Java Specialists[HTML_REMOVED] Newsletter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I[HTML_REMOVED]ve focused a career on simplifying simple problems, but this book ambitiously and effectively works to simplify a complex but critical subject: concurrency.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java Concurrency in Practice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is revolutionary in its approach, smooth and easy in style, and timely in its delivery--it[HTML_REMOVED]s destined to be a very important book."\n  <br />\n  --Bruce Tate\n  <br />\n  Author of\n  <em>\n   Beyond Java\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java Concurrency in Practice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is an invaluable compilation of threading know-how for Java developers. I found reading this book intellectually exciting, in part because it is an excellent introduction to Java[HTML_REMOVED]s concurrency API, but mostly because it captures in a thorough and accessible way expert knowledge on threading not easily found elsewhere."\n  <br />\n  --Bill Venners\n  <br />\n  Author of\n  <em>\n   Inside the Java Virtual Machine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential for building high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java Concurrency in Practice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  , the creators of these new facilities explain not only how they work and how to use them, but also the motivation and design patterns behind them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  However, developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs can still be very difficult; it is all too easy to create concurrent programs that appear to work, but fail when it matters most: in production, under heavy load.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java Concurrency in Practice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  arms readers with both the theoretical underpinnings and concrete techniques for building reliable, scalable, maintainable concurrent applications. Rather than simply offering an inventory of concurrency APIs and mechanisms, it provides design rules, patterns, and mental models that make it easier to build concurrent programs that are both correct and performant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Basic concepts of concurrency and thread safety\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Techniques for building and composing thread-safe classes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using the concurrency building blocks in java.util.concurrent\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performance optimization dos and don[HTML_REMOVED]ts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Testing concurrent programs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Advanced topics such as atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and the Java Memory Model\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brian Goetz\n  </strong>\n  is a software consultant with twenty years industry experience, with over 75 articles on Java development. He is one of the primary members of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tim Peierls\n  </strong>\n  is the very model of a modern multiprocessor, with BoxPop.biz, recording arts, and goings on theatrical. He is one of the primary members of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joshua Bloch\n  </strong>\n  is a principal engineer at Google and a Jolt Award-winner. He was previously a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and a senior systems designer at Transarc. Josh led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Bowbeer\n  </strong>\n  is a software architect at Vizrea Corporation where he specializes in mobile application development for the Java ME platform, but his fascination with concurrent programming began in his days at Apollo Computer. He served on the JCP Expert Group for JSR-166 (Concurrency Utilities).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Holmes\n  </strong>\n  is director of DLTeCH Pty Ltd, located in Brisbane, Australia. He specializes in synchronization and concurrency and was a member of the JSR-166 expert group that developed the new concurrency utilities. He is also a contributor to the update of the Real-Time Specification for Java, and has spent the past few years working on an implementation of that specification.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Doug Lea\n  </strong>\n  is one of the foremost experts on object-oriented technology and software reuse. He has been doing collaborative research with Sun Labs for more than five years. Lea is Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Oswego, Co-director of the Software Engineering Lab at the New York Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Syracuse University. In addition, he co-authored the book,\n  <em>\n   Object-Oriented System Development\n  </em>\n  (Addison-Wesley, 1993). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10174'),
(15098, 'Java Generics and Collections', 'Maurice Naftalin &amp; Philip Wadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Java Generics and Collections\n </i>\n covers everything from the most\\basic uses of generics to the strangest corner cases. It teaches you\\everything you need to know about the collections libraries, so you''ll\\always know which collection is appropriate for any given task, and\\how to use it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7164'),
(15099, 'Java How to Program', 'Paul J. Deitel &amp; Harvey M. Deitel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Deitelsâ€™ groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   How to Program\n  </em>\n  series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of object-oriented programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. Their Live Code Approach features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs. This enables readers to confirm that programs run as expected.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Java How to Program (Early Objects) 9e\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  contains an optional extensive OOD/UML 2 case study on developing and implementing the software for an automated teller machine.This edition covers both Java SE7 and SE6.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paul J. Deitel\n  </strong>\n  , CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MITâ€™s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the worldâ€™s best-selling programming language textbook authors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dr. Harvey M. Deitel\n  </strong>\n  , Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel &amp; Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitelsâ€™ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12927'),
(15100, 'JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook', 'Danny Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In today''s Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment in mind, the new edition of this book offers bite-sized solutions to very specific scripting problems that web developers commonly face. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code that you can insert right into your application. Why is JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook so popular? After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author and scripting pioneer Danny Goodman has compiled a list of problems that frequently vex scripters of various experience levels. For every problem he addresses, Goodman not only offers code, but a discussion of how and why the solution works. Recipes range from simple tasks, such as manipulating strings and validating dates in JavaScript, to entire libraries that demonstrate complex tasks, such as cross-browser positioning of HTML elements, sorting tables, and implementing Ajax features on the client. Ideal for novices as well as experienced scripters, this book contains more than 150 recipes for:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Working with interactive forms and style sheets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Presenting user-friendly page navigation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating dynamic content via Document Object Model scripting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Producing visual effects for stationary content\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Positioning HTML elements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with XML data in the browser\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Recipes in this Cookbook are compatible with the latest W3C standards and browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Safari, and Opera 9. Several new recipes provide client-side Ajax solutions, and many recipes from the previous edition have been revised to help you build extensible user interfaces for Web 2.0 applications. If you want to write your own scripts and understand how they work, rather than rely on a commercial web development framework, the JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook is a must.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9236'),
(15101, 'JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook', 'Danny Goodman &amp; Scott Markel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On numerous online forums for JavaScript and DHTML, the majority of questions begin with "How do I...?" This new Cookbook provides the answers. After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author and scripting pioneer Danny Goodman has compiled a list of problems that frequently vex scripters of various experience levels. He has now applied state-of-the-art ECMA and W3C DOM standards and used best practices to create this extensive collection of practical recipes that can bring your web pages to life. The JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook is all about adding value to the content of a web page. The book focuses on practical and sensible applications of scripting, rather than flying images and gratuitous color changes. For every problem Goodman addresses, there''s a solution or "recipe"--a focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. Yet, rather than just cut-and-paste code, you also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to your designs. The recipes range from simple tasks, such as manipulating strings and validating dates in JavaScript, to entire libraries that demonstrate complex tasks, such as cross-browser positioning of HTML elements and sorting tables. This book contains over 150 recipes on the following topics:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Working with interactive forms and style sheets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Presenting user-friendly page navigation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating dynamic content\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Producing visual effects for stationary content\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Positioning HTML elements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing browser windows and multiple frames\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  This book is the ideal companion to O''Reilly''s JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference. If you own either of these books, the JavaScript &amp; DHTML Cookbook is a must.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9246');
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(15102, 'Javascript Bible, 4th Ed-Bible Series (With Cd)', 'Danny Goodman &amp; Michael Morrison &amp; Paul Novitski &amp; Tia Gustaff Rayl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9354'),
(15103, 'JavaScript Code Conventions v1.1', 'Joost H. van Rossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9224'),
(15104, 'JavaScript for Dummies', 'Emily A. Vander Veer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd edition:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Explains JavaScript and how it differs from java, HTML, and other Web programming tools\n </p>\n <p>\n  Describes what users can do with JavaScript that they can''t do with HTML\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outlines how JavaScript, the platform-independent scripting language, works with the latest versions of Netscape Navigator 5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5\n </p>\n <p>\n  Includes an important overview of Object-Oriented Concepts and the JavaScript language\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shows users how to "team up" JavaScript with Java, C++, OpenDoc, and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to create powerful multimedia applications\n </p>\n <p>\n  Describes how to build a quickie Web page using HTML tags\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shows users how to create a Java applet and run the applet from the Web page\n </p>\n <p>\n  Covers JavaScript''s forms so users can easily enter data and receive feedback\n </p>\n <p>\n  Guides users as they write and debug their own JavaScript programs\n </p>\n <p>\n  BONUS CD-ROM INCLUDES:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hot utility and sample programs, including Dreamweaver demo version, SurfMap JavaScript, Joust, NetObjects ScriptBuilder 3 trial version, Allaire HomeSite 4.5 trial version, Ant Tools Demo 3, ArtBeats Web Tools, BBEdit 4.5.1, HTML WebWeaver Lite, Paint Shop Pro 5 demo, and more!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now with more about JavaScript for Internet Explorer\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here''s the secret to building dynamic Web pages that get your visitors involved\n </p>\n <p>\n  Want the script for cool Web pages? With this handy guide by your side, it''s easy to follow! Completely revised, this edition gives you all the JavaScript basics as well as step-by-step instructions for getting your scripts onto the Web. Before you know it, you could be building interactive Web sites for fun â€” or profit!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Discover how to\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Write, test, and debug JavaScript scripts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Detect a user''s browser\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Format and display times and dates\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Store information with cookies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create hot buttons, clickable images, mouse rollovers, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  All this on the bonus CD-ROM\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   All sample code listings covered in the book\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Trial versions of Web WeaverÂ®, and DreamweaverÂ® MX 2004, including HomeSiteÂ®\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SmartMenus DHTML, plus other scripts and examples you can use\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Please see the CD-ROM appendix for details and complete system requirements.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9229'),
(15105, 'JavaScript Pocket Reference', 'David Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At 4.5 by 7 inches in size and only 89 pages long, the aptly named\n  <em>\n   JavaScript Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  will really almost fit in your pocket. Use this guide as a companion to turn to when you''re in doubt about that function syntax or you''re drawing a blank on the JavaScript object model.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book concisely packs together the syntax of the scripting language, including summaries of expression and statement style. The real meat of the tiny title is an alphabetical listing of JavaScript objects, along with their associated methods, properties, and events. One nice feature of this section is the attention to the varying support between Microsoft and Netscape browser versions. However, this listing is useful only if you know what object you want to work with. Missing from the reference is a solutions-based reference to let you refresh your memory about how to do a particular task, such as validate a form field or roll over a graphic when the user moves the mouse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One drawback is the book''s illustration of the object model--done only in a small diagram. This is a bit of a shame since this is one of the key topics most developers need help with. If you''re rather familiar with JavaScript, this pocket reference will be helpful. New coders, however, will likely find it insufficient.\n  <em>\n   --Stephen W. Plain\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O''Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a simple website at http://www.davidflanagan.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9244'),
(15106, 'JavaScript: The Complete Reference', 'Thomas A. Powell &amp; Fritz Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Definitive JavaScript Resource. Complete coverage of the W3C DOM2 standard\n </p>\n <p>\n  Build dynamic, cross-browser Web pages using JavaScript--the premier client-side scripting language in use today on the Web. First learn the basics of the language, then combine syntax and theory to develop practical applications--create a variety of windows including special dialogs, use the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) 2 to manipulate (X)HTML documents, add sizzle to your pages with special effects, and improve usability. With full coverage of advanced topics such as using embedded objects and remote JavaScript, this is the ultimate resource for beginning and advanced users alike.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn core language features such as data types, objects, and regular expressions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manipulate (X)HTML and XML documents using the W3C DOM 2\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Take advantage of the standard event models in DOM 2 for robust event handling\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Control windows and frames with the Windows object\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Validate forms before sending them to server-side programs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Add dynamic effects to Web pages, such as rollovers and animation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Extend JavaScriptâ€™s capabilities using embedded multimedia objects\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interact with servers on the Internet using remote JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand JavaScript security policies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshoot and debug your JavaScript programs\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Thomas Powell, lecturer for UCSD, is the author of HTML&amp; XHTML: The Complete Reference and Web Design: The Complete Reference. He is president and founder of PINT, a Web site design and development firm. Fritz Schneider is a software engineer at Google who where he works on both client- and server-side Web applications. He is an experienced teacher of Web technologies and co-author of How to Do Everything with Google.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thomas Powell (San Diego, CA) is a well-known author and educator in Web design and development. He is a lecturer for the University of California, San Diego Computer Science Department and the developer of the UCSD Extension Web Publishing Certificate program. He has been teaching classes in JavaScript, HTML, and Web design for more than four years. He is the author of the best-selling HTML: The Complete Reference and Web Design: The Complete Reference. Powell is also the President and founder of PINT (www.pint.com), a Web site design and development firm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fritz Schneider (San Diego, CA) is a software engineer with Anonymizer.com. While there he has designed and implemented a variety of Apache modules, written CGI scripts, implemented a Web-based customer email service, and created and maintained a large number of internal and public Web pages. He has been a teaching assistant in Web programming and computer science classes at both UCSD and Columbia University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9241'),
(15107, 'Jeffrey Archer', 'Nici un ban in plus nici un ban in minus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8588'),
(15108, 'Jhegaala', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jhegaala is the eleventh book in Steven Brustâ€²s Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. It was published in 2008. Following the trend of the series, it is named after one of the Great Houses and usually features that House as an important element to its plot. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot introduction | Plot summary\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this immediate sequel to Phoenix (1990), Brustâ€™s series hero Vlad Taltos, fleeing the Jhereg, decides to look up kinfolk in a papermaking town in Fenario. Before he can do more than ask about them, however, theyâ€™re murdered. Professional assassin Vlad is not going to stand for that, but, no longer part of an organization, he must do his own detecting in a strange land whose customs he doesnâ€™t know. Brust skillfully uses the minor characters to throw light on Vlad, making this a Vlad novel especially commendable to those contracting a first acquaintance. --Frieda Murray\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4283'),
(15109, 'Jhereg', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vlad Taltos x 3! Three Steven Brust fantasy novels in one all-new edition-featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion. A welcome addition to any fantasy fan''s library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures-Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla. From his rookie assassin days to his selfless feats of heroism, the dauntless Vlad will hold readers spellbound-and The Book of Jhereg will take its place among the classic compilations in fantasy. --A pocket-sized dragon-what''s not to love? --A collectible 3-in-1 edition featuring one of science fiction''s most memorable heroes "This whole series is entertaining and worth reading!" -Locus "Engaging...written with a light touch...good stuff!" -Publishers Weekly "Watch Steven Brust. He''s good. He moves fast. He surprises you." -Roger Zelazny "Hard to put down . . . fun to read!" -OtherRealms "Imagine James Bond in a world of magic...exciting!" -Voya\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4284'),
(15110, 'Jimmy T', 'Martin Page', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8643'),
(15111, 'Jocul cu margele de sticla', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4892'),
(15112, 'Jocul lui Ender', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4866'),
(15113, 'jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9309'),
(15114, 'Jquery api: 20090115', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9272'),
(15115, 'JQuery in Action', 'Bear Bibeault &amp; Yehuda Katz &amp; John Resig', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they''ve reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   jQuery in Action\n  </em>\n  , like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you''ll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you''ll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where you immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with major companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-house tools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other libraries and helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   jQuery in Action\n  </em>\n  offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9359'),
(15116, 'jQuery Pocket Reference', 'David Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n jQuery is the "write less, do more" JavaScript library. Its powerful features and ease of use have made it the most popular client-side JavaScript framework for the Web. This book is jQuery''s trusty companion: the definitive "read less, learn more" guide to the library.\n <i>\n  jQuery Pocket Reference\n </i>\n explains everything you need to know about jQuery, completely and comprehensively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9362'),
(15117, 'JQuery Reference Guide', 'Jonathan Chaffer &amp; Karl Swedberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Chaffer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal''s menu system and developer API reference.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karl Swedberg\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"--semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karl''s other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9337'),
(15118, 'Jquery Ui 1.6: The User Interface Library for Jquery', 'Dan Wellman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted plugin for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a trusted platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility, stability, and a minimum of time and effort. jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced This book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy to follow steps. In this book, you''ll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behaviour to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You''ll look at the properties and methods exposed by each component''s API and see how these can be used to bring out the best in each component. Events play a key role in any modern web applications if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by each component and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon. Approach An example-based approach leads you step-by-step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources in turn. To emphasize the way that jQuery UI takes the difficulty out of user interface design and implementation, each chapter ends with a `fun with'' section that puts together what you''ve learned throughout the chapter to make a usable and fun page. In these sections you''ll often get to experiment with the latest associated technologies like AJAX and JSON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9360'),
(15119, 'JQuery UI Themes Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Adam Boduch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Create new themes for your JQuery site with this step-by-step guide\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn the details of the jQuery UI theme framework by example\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   No prior knowledge of jQuery UI or theming frameworks is necessary\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The CSS structure is explained in an easy-to-understand and approachable way\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Numerous examples, no unnecessary long explanations, lots of screenshots and diagrams\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Detail\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Web applications today generally use at least some JavaScript to enhance the look and feel of the user interface. The jQuery UI toolkit gives web developers a set of widgets as well as a framework for developing and applying themes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  jQuery UI Themes: Beginner''s Guide is for web developers who want to design professional-looking applications that are resilient to change. It is a step-by-step guide that goes beyond showing how to switch themes in a user interface built with jQuery UI and offers developers a practical guide to designing their own themes and gives them insight as to how themes work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  JQuery UI Themes Beginner''s Guide starts with themes in general and why they''re important in web applications today. We gradually move forward, covering jQuery UI basics, eventually aiming for a full understanding of the theme framework. The ThemeRoller application is a powerful tool - allowing developers to easily adjust theme settings. In addition to seeing how the ThemeRoller works, we take a more in-depth look at the CSS framework internals allowing readers to develop the ability to adjust themes in ways the ThemeRoller cannot. This includes everything from special effects to theming custom widgets. There is no limit to what your theme can change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once you''ve read this book, you''ll no only be well-versed in theming jargon, you''ll also be able to take one look at any jQuery UI application and understand why and how it looks the way it does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book gives you the opportunity to create jQuery UI themes, learning by example.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand what themes are and why they matter\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn How The jQuery UI tookit works - what widgets are, and how they relate to themes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the details of the ThemeRoller application: how to effectively use this tool to design themes in a timely manor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Develop an understanding of the top-level CSS constructs. Apply styles to broad portions of the user interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Change the look and feel of widgets based on user interaction and application events\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use cues to inform the user, and effectively apply styles to these messages\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the jQuery UI icon sets as well as designing your own\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use special effects to enhance the visual appearance of widgets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customize the look and feel of widgets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Approach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a step-by-step tutorial aimed at beginners to JQuery UI Themes. There is ready-for-use sample code explained with essential screenshots for better and quicker understanding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is written for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for web application developers and CSS designers who want a better understanding of how to build themes for the jQuery UI toolkit. The reader should have a basic working knowledge of JavaScript and why it is used in web applications. Experience with jQuery UI and a general working knowledge of CSS will speed things along but aren''t a requirement. Readers can use this book as a starting point to familiarize themselves with the jQuery UI widget details.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Adam Boduch\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adam has been programming in Python for nearly a decade. He has experience working with several web frameworks such as Django and Twisted. He likes to experiment with integrating JavaScript tools such as jQuery UI into these frameworks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adam has been working for Enomaly since 2006. He started working with content management systems before making the transition to ECP, where he designed several user interface components using jQuery UI. He now leads the SpotCoud cloud computing marketplace project.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7168'),
(15120, 'Jurnalul unui killer sentimental', 'Luis Sepulveda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4716'),
(15121, 'Jython for Java Programmers', 'Robert Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert Bill''s\n  <em>\n   Jython for Java Programmers\n  </em>\n  from New Riders is an essential introduction to the complexities of the merger between two popular object-oriented languages, Python and Java. It is directed toward Java programmers who want to incorporate Python rather than vice versa, but the utter symmetry of merging two object-oriented languages creates an Escheresque problem in perspective. It is like two snakes gobbling each other up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Let''s sort this out historically. When Sun Microsystems'' virtual machine (VM) paradigm emerged in the mid-1990s, the high-level programming language Java became the idiom for the new "soft" computer. Java''s object-oriented architecture allowed it to scope from the lowest-level OS tasks (reads, writes to disk and screen), but much of the mid- and high-level tools were missing--e.g., common GUI features, text parsing, list sorting. The missing functionality is implemented gradually with nuts-and-bolts Java functions and by porting libraries to Java (GL4Java).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The cascade of "100 percent pure Java" ports has finally led to the gobbling up of the elegant Python scripting language, which is also object-oriented. But that is only half of the story. As Java devours Python, Python also devours Java. In one manifestation, Jython is Python written in Java rather than C. It has its own interpreter "jython" and compiler "jythonc," both of which can draw on all of Java''s classes. Conversely, jythonc will create a Java class which can be imported by the Java interpreter "java" and compiler "javac." Java programmers will have the luxury of importing and using succinct Jython classes rather than writing the lines of verbose native Java code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bewildering complexities are elucidated by Bill in\n  <em>\n   Jython for Java Programmers\n  </em>\n  , which presents Jython both as a standalone, Java-equipped language and as the class implementation within Java. Its three parts are dedicated to Jython''s basics (very similar to a Python tutorial), Jython''s internals, and Jython''s incorporation into GUI, database, and Web applications. The book follows in the New Riders tradition of exhaustive, implementation-centered publishing. Jython is not a Java foundation class, but Bill''s book is a cornerstone in its own right. We also recommend Jython.org to help sort out Jython''s big picture.\n  <em>\n   --Peter Leopold\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book will help Java developers to increase application development and deployment, thus optimizing their overall efficiency.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A brief introduction is provided that shows the differences between Java and Jython, important to include so that the reader will have a better understanding of why their union is beneficial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The remainder of the book teaches, through examples, how to use Jython. Intended for an experienced Java developer, this book assumes you understand the fundamentals to programming (i.e. loop statements, if.then, etc.). So, page space is focused on utilizing Jython with Java by covering the following: extending Python with java classes, modules, compiling, interpreters, design integration, etc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.newriders.com contains all code and applications developed in the book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7792'),
(15122, 'Jython for Java Programmers', 'Robert W. Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert Bill''s\n  <em>\n   Jython for Java Programmers\n  </em>\n  from New Riders is an essential introduction to the complexities of the merger between two popular object-oriented languages, Python and Java. It is directed toward Java programmers who want to incorporate Python rather than vice versa, but the utter symmetry of merging two object-oriented languages creates an Escheresque problem in perspective. It is like two snakes gobbling each other up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Let''s sort this out historically. When Sun Microsystems'' virtual machine (VM) paradigm emerged in the mid-1990s, the high-level programming language Java became the idiom for the new "soft" computer. Java''s object-oriented architecture allowed it to scope from the lowest-level OS tasks (reads, writes to disk and screen), but much of the mid- and high-level tools were missing--e.g., common GUI features, text parsing, list sorting. The missing functionality is implemented gradually with nuts-and-bolts Java functions and by porting libraries to Java (GL4Java).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The cascade of "100 percent pure Java" ports has finally led to the gobbling up of the elegant Python scripting language, which is also object-oriented. But that is only half of the story. As Java devours Python, Python also devours Java. In one manifestation, Jython is Python written in Java rather than C. It has its own interpreter "jython" and compiler "jythonc," both of which can draw on all of Java''s classes. Conversely, jythonc will create a Java class which can be imported by the Java interpreter "java" and compiler "javac." Java programmers will have the luxury of importing and using succinct Jython classes rather than writing the lines of verbose native Java code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bewildering complexities are elucidated by Bill in\n  <em>\n   Jython for Java Programmers\n  </em>\n  , which presents Jython both as a standalone, Java-equipped language and as the class implementation within Java. Its three parts are dedicated to Jython''s basics (very similar to a Python tutorial), Jython''s internals, and Jython''s incorporation into GUI, database, and Web applications. The book follows in the New Riders tradition of exhaustive, implementation-centered publishing. Jython is not a Java foundation class, but Bill''s book is a cornerstone in its own right. We also recommend Jython.org to help sort out Jython''s big picture.\n  <em>\n   --Peter Leopold\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book will help Java developers to increase application development and deployment, thus optimizing their overall efficiency.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A brief introduction is provided that shows the differences between Java and Jython, important to include so that the reader will have a better understanding of why their union is beneficial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The remainder of the book teaches, through examples, how to use Jython. Intended for an experienced Java developer, this book assumes you understand the fundamentals to programming (i.e. loop statements, if.then, etc.). So, page space is focused on utilizing Jython with Java by covering the following: extending Python with java classes, modules, compiling, interpreters, design integration, etc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.newriders.com contains all code and applications developed in the book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7828'),
(15123, 'Kender, Gully Dwarves and Gnomes', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second book in a series of classic Dragonlance tales, now with a new cover.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This re-release of the second volume of Dragonlance short stories ever published features a dramatic new cover treatment. It includes stories by some of the best-loved authors writing in the Dragonlance world, including a novella by New York Times best-selling authors and Dragonlance setting co-creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent New York Times best-seller Dragons of a Vanished Moon. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tracy Hickman, in addition to his work on several Dragonlance novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel The Immortals.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3164'),
(15124, 'Kingdoms of the Wall', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Each year twenty men and twenty women brave death and insanity in order to reach the Summit, a place where humans have the opportunity to learn directly from the gods. Poliar Crookleg has waited his whole life to go on the Pilgrimage to Kosa Saag. With his childhood friend Traiben, he is determined to be one of the few who return sane and filled with knowledge. But what the gods have to say may shatter the very fabric of the peopleâ€™s beliefs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11250'),
(15125, 'Knights of the Black Earth', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weis (the Dragonlance series, etc.) returns to her Stars of the Guardians series (The Lost King, etc.), this time collaborating with military expert and first-time author Perrin, formerly of the Canadian Defense Department. Cyborg Xris and the six other members of his mercenary Mag Force 7 team are back as well, seeking to foil a plot to assassinate the galactic ruler, King Starfire. High-tech combat and violent death permeate the narrative, which initially focuses on Xris''s mission to do away with his former colleague, the transsexual Darin Cowan/Darlene Mohini. Xris, who was once wholly human, believes that Cowan betrayed him, leading to the accident that left the Force ruler imprisoned in a cyborg body. When a foppish, drug-using member of the team is kidnapped during that mission, the Force discovers the plot by the Knights of the Black Earth to kill the king. Adventures and misadventures, leavened with plot twists, humor and ample quotes from Sun Tzu, follow. Unexpectedly subtle yet filled with fast-paced action, this above-average space opera will please Weis''s many fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The cyborg warrior Xris and his team of professional mercenaries seek out an elusive target whose past betrayals warrant speedy execution; their plans change abruptly, however, when they uncover a plot to destroy the galaxy''s young king, the last living bearer of the Blood Royal. Set in the same universe as Weis''s "Star of the Guardians" series, this effort by the popular sf/fantasy author and first-timer Perrin is a fast-paced galactic adventure designed to introduce the motley crew of antiheroes known as the Mag Force 7. Spiced with humor and a dash of romance, this space opera should appeal to most fans of sf adventure.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2853'),
(15126, 'Knights of the Black Earth', 'Don Perrin &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Xris, Mag Force 7''s cyborg leader, burns with a personal vendetta against the traitor who made him part machine. Now, revenge is at hand. There''s just one problem--the Knights of the Black Earth, a deadly fanatical group bent on assassinating the King and throwing the galaxy into chaos. Xris and Mag Force 7 must now join forces with the enemy to battle this devastating threat.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In a follow-up to her hit Star of the Guardians series, Weis joins forces with weapons and electronic warfare expert Perrin in a high-action, breakneck return to this universe. A group of mercenaries led by a freelance cyborg becomes involved in a plot to assassinate the galactic king.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4567'),
(15127, 'Kroniki Majipooru', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Czternastoletni Hissume, towarzysz lorda Valentine''a z czasÃ³w wyprawy, ktÃ³ra miaÅ‚a na celu odzyskanie tronu koronala wÅ‚adajÄ…cego ogromnym Å›wiatem Majipooru, urozmaica sobie monotonÄ… pracÄ™ w archiwach Labityntu nielegalnymi wyprawami do Rejestru Dusz.\n <br />\n DziÄ™ki specjalnym urzÄ…dzeniom do odtwarzania myslowych zapisÃ³w moÅ¼na tam przeÅ¼yÄ‡ to, czego kiedyÅ› doÅ›wiadczaÅ‚y miliony rozumnych istot zamieszkujacych planetÄ™przez kilkanaÅ›cie tysiÄ™cy lat. WcielajÄ…ca siÄ™ na krÃ³tko w rozmaite postacieÂ â€” wÅ‚adcÃ³w, bohaterÃ³w, a takÅ¼e zwykÅ‚ych mÄ™Å¼czyzn i kobietÂ â€” Hissume w ciÄ…gu czterech lat zdobyÅ‚a doswiadczenie, ktÃ³re pozwoli mu zrozumieÄ‡ Majipoorâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12002'),
(15128, 'L&#39;arca delle stelle', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n La Wotan Ã¨ una gigantesca arca spaziale. La sua missione Ã¨ trovare una nuova terra per la razza umana. Ma i telepati presenti a bordo captano un inquietante messaggio dallo spazio: intelletti che popolano il vuoto intergalattico entrano in contatto con lâ€™equipaggio. Nellâ€™Universo, infatti, la vita pullula anche nel nulla che divide le stelleâ€¦ Forme di vita inconcepibili si preparano a ricevere i nostri simili. Che cosa câ€™Ã¨ lÃ  fuori?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11238'),
(15129, 'L&#39;ora del passaggio', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nel 2103 lâ€™umanitÃ  ha scongiurato lâ€™olocausto nucleare, ma lâ€™impiego selettivo di una micidiale polvere radioattiva ha comunque segnato il destino della civiltÃ . Sulla costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti, in un desolato scenario di angoscia e disperazione, si aggira Tom Oâ€™Bedlam, un vagabondo mite e visionario. Dotato di strani poteri Tom Ã¨ immerso in estatiche visioni di gerarchie celesti, imperi galattici, fantastiche creature e meravigliosi paesaggi alieni, al di lÃ  di enormi distese di tempo e di spazio. Ma chi Ã¨ realmente Tom Oâ€™Bedlam? Un pazzo invasato, un mutante telepatico, o il profeta di una nuova rivelazione? Le strane visioni acquistano un nuovo significato quando nella mente di altri personaggi affiorano lentamente sogni e allucinazioni ricorrenti che proiettano le stesse immagini di cui parla Tom. Estasi e angoscia, stupore e inquietudine, ognuno reagisce in modo diverso allo strano fenomeno, ma lâ€™effetto Ã¨ incontrollabile e nessuno sembra sfuggirvi: Elszabet, direttrice di unâ€™isolata clinica psichiatrica; Charley, capo di una banda di razziatori; Jaspin, un antropologo fallito; Senhor Papamacer, fondatore di un culto messianico che attira migliaia di fanatici. Quando una sonda lanciata molto tempo prima raggiunge Proxima Centauri e rimanda le immagini di uno dei mondi evocati da Tom, non sembrano esserci piÃ¹ dubbiâ€¦ Ma il tempo della trasmigrazione Ã¨ ormai prossimo, e Tom si prepara a compiere il rito finale, nel quale a tutti sarÃ  concesso di raggiungere quei mondi di sogno e di beatitudine. Ma qual Ã¨ il significato di questâ€™ultima esperienza? Il segreto dellâ€™immortalitÃ  e della trascendenza o la fuga allucinata da un mondo di follia e disperazione?\n <br />\n Con questo romanzo stimolante e provocatorio, Robert Silverberg ritorna finalmente dopo molti anni ai temi della sua migliore fantascienza.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11288'),
(15130, 'L&#39;uomo stocastico', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stocastico: voce dotta, dal greco stochestikos, congetturale, dovuto al caso, aleatorio. Questo dice il dizionario. Ma Robert Silverberg dice di piÃ¹. Dice che uno specialista di indagini conoscitive e di statistiche previsionali, un professionista della congettura, un mago del calcolo delle probabilitÃ , puÃ² tutto a un tratto scoprire la vera natura del suo talento. E questo talento non ha niente a che fare con la scienza dei numeri, col buon senso, con il fiuto commerciale e politico. Ãˆ un dono naturale che, coltivato opportunamente, permette allâ€™uomo stocastico di vedere In come in una sfera di cristallo, il futuro. Chi vincerÃ  la terza corsa allâ€™ippodromo? Chi sarÃ  il prossimo presidente degli Stati Uniti? Come e quando arriverÃ  la nostra morte? Mai come in questo romanzo lâ€™antico sogno dellâ€™umanitÃ  Ã¨ stato presentato con tanta acutezza psicologica, con un casi vivo senso di ciÃ² che potrebbe essere, in concreto, la vita di un autentico veggente.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11314'),
(15131, 'La Casa Verde', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n La Casa Verde es sin duda una de las mÃ¡s representativas y apasionantes novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa. El relato se desarrolla en tiempos distintos, con enfoques diversos de la realidad, a travÃ©s del recuerdo o la imaginaciÃ³n, y ensamblados con tÃ©cnicas narrativas complejas que se liberan a travÃ©s de una desenvoltura narrativa Ã¡gil y precisa.\n <br />\n Â¿CuÃ¡l es el secreto que encierra La casa verde?. La casa verde ocurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre sÃ­, Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa MarÃ­a de Nieva, una factorÃ­a y misiÃ³n religiosa perdida en el corazÃ³n de la AmazonÃ­a. SÃ­mbolo de la historia es la mÃ­tica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La casa verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa de Mario Vargas Llosa. La casa verde (1965) recibiÃ³ al aÃ±o siguiente de su publicaciÃ³n el Premio de la CrÃ­tica y, en 1967, el Premio Internacional de Literatura RÃ³mulo Gallegos a la mejor novela en lengua espaÃ±ola.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8996'),
(15132, 'La ciudad y los perros', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8960'),
(15133, 'La cules de ingeri', 'Ana Blandiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4730'),
(15134, 'La Faz de las Aguas', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Catorce son los seres humanos que a bordo del Reina de Hydros navegan por los peligrosos mares de un planeta acuÃ¡tico perdido en el espacio. Descendientes de los antiguos colonos terrestres, detestados por los aborÃ­genes anfibios a causa de su voracidad y violencia, han sido desterrados por Ã©stos. El suyo es un viaje a ninguna parte. Excepto que se considere una parte a un lugar envuelto en mitos y raros misterios, denominado La Faz de las Aguas. El capitÃ¡n Delagard, un psicÃ³pata; el padre Quillan, en busca de una fe que ha perdido; el doctor Lawler, un hombre cÃ­nico y solitario. son algunos de los tripulantes de la nave. Una tripulaciÃ³n tan peligrosa para ella misma como las terribles asechanzas de un mar hostil. La Faz de las Aguas es una odisea de proporciones Ã©picas, la parÃ¡bola de un viaje de iniciaciÃ³n. En ella, Silverberg ha construido uno de los planetas mÃ¡s inquietantes e imaginativos de la ficciÃ³n cientÃ­fica y una novela de intenso, insondable esplendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11300'),
(15135, 'La Fiesta del Chivo', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â¿Por quÃ© regresa Urania Cabral a la isla que jurÃ³ no volver a pisar? Â¿Por quÃ© sigue vacÃ­a y llena de miedo desde los catorce aÃ±os? Â¿Por quÃ© no ha tenido un sÃ³lo amor? En La Fiesta del Chivo, la esperada y magistral nueva novela de Mario Vargas Llosa, asistimos a un doble retorno. Mientras Urania visita a su padre en Santo Domingo, volvemos a 1961, cuando la capital dominicana aÃºn se llamaba Ciudad Trujillo. AllÃ­ un hombre que no suda tiraniza a tres millones de personas sin saber que se gesta una maquiavÃ©lica transiciÃ³n a la democracia. Vargas Llosa, un clÃ¡sico contemporÃ¡neo, relata el fin de una era â€“ la Era Trujillo- dando voz, entre otros personajes histÃ³ricos, al impecable e implacable dictador, apodado el Chivo, y al sosegado y hÃ¡bil doctor JoaquÃ­n Balaguer, sempiterno presidente de la RepÃºblica Dominicana.\n <br />\n La Fiesta del Chivo reconstruye el Ãºltimo dÃ­a del dictador en unos capÃ­tulos, en otros narra la tensa espera de los conspiradores, y en otros mÃ¡s se adentra por los recuerdos y los secretos de Urania. El doctor Balaguer, en un principio un presidente pelele, acaba convirtiÃ©ndose en autÃ©ntico jefe de Estado cuando, muerto Trujillo, su decorativo cargo se carga de realidad. Su divisa es: `ni un instante, por ninguna razÃ³n, perder la calma`. En este cuadro que bien puede representar lo ocurrido en otras dictaduras tambiÃ©n aparecen otros personajes entregados en cuerpo y alma al dictador. Como, por ejemplo, el coronel Abbes GarcÃ­a, un sÃ¡dico demente con una inteligencia luciferina, Ramfis Trujillo, hijo vengador que nunca fue generoso con los enemigos, el senador Henry Chirinos, al que todos llaman el Constitucionalista Beodo y Trujillo ha rebautizado como La Inmundicia Viviente. Y el senador AgustÃ­n Cabral, el ministro Cabral, Cerebrito Cabral en tiempos de Trujillo, hasta que cayÃ³ en desgracia y se vio envuelto en un proceso kafkiano. Con un ritmo y una precisiÃ³n difÃ­cilmente superables, Vargas LLosa muestra que la polÃ­tica puede consistir en abrirse camino entre cadÃ¡veres, y que un ser inocente puede convertirse en un regalo truculento. La fiesta del Chivo es heredera de un subgÃ©nero literario que ha servido como pocos para retratar el siglo que termina, y en especial la conflictiva realidad latinoamericana: la novela sobre un dictador, como Tirano Banderas, de Valle-InclÃ¡n, El seÃ±or presidente, de Miguel Angel Asturias, Yo, el supremo, de Augusto Roa Bastos, o El otoÃ±o del patriarca, de Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez. Esta obra es una excelente prueba del portentoso talento de Vargas Llosa, de su capacidad para crear personajes inolvidables, para captar matices y atmÃ³sferas, para narrar, para describir, para convertir en literatura cuanto toca.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8994'),
(15136, 'La guerra del fin del mundo', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8972'),
(15137, 'La legge dei Vardda', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Un grande biologo, Orthis, ha trovato il modo di operare una mutazione nella struttura molecolare del corpo umano, perchÃ© possa resistere allâ€™accelerazione di velocitÃ  necessaria per i viaggi interstellari. I discendenti di questi primi mutanti, i Vardda, si sono stabiliti su un pianeta di Aldebaran e di lÃ  dominano i cieli e i popoli degli altri pianeti, arricchendosi con gli scambi dei prodotti dei vari mondi, prodotti che essi soltanto, che possono sopportare la velocitÃ  dei viaggi interstellari, possono trasportare, con le loro potenti astronavi che superano la velocitÃ  della luce. Câ€™Ã¨ un uomo sulla Terra, Trehearne, che Ã¨ nato da una terrestre e da un Vardda e in cui la mutazione Ã¨ perfetta. Questâ€™uomo sâ€™innamora di una bellissima Vardda e col suo aiuto raggiunge Llirdys, il meraviglioso pianeta della sua razza. Ma la legge dei Vardda Ã¨ terribile: nessuno di sangue misto puÃ² far parte della loro comunitÃ . Il divulgare il segreto della mutazione, metterebbe altri popoli in grado di fare viaggi interstellari e significherebbe la fine dellâ€™imperialismo commerciale dei Vardda. Con lâ€™aiuto della ragazza vardda, Trehearne riesce a farsi accettare, ma si associa ai discepoli di Orthis, il quale voleva divulgare il segreto della mutazione e farne partecipi i popoli degli altri pianeti abitati, Terra compresa. Il romanzo Ã¨ la storia della pericolosa ricerca del segreto di Orthis e delle estreme lotte dei Vardda contro pochi uomini che si battono per il progresso universale. Una storia appassionante, logica, serrata e piena di umanitÃ  e di poesia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11735'),
(15138, 'La rasarit de Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4694'),
(15139, 'La senorita de Tacna', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8991'),
(15140, 'La spada di Rhiannon', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11733'),
(15141, 'La stagione dei mutanti', 'Robert Silverberg &amp; Karen Haber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Siamo nel 2017 ed Ã¨ inverno, la stagione in cui avviene il raduno annuale dei mutanti. Tutto precipita quando Eleanor Jacobsen, il primo senatore mutante degli Stati Uniti e portavoce dei diritti della sua specie, viene assassinata mentre sta indagando su un esperimento genetico per creare un misterioso "supermutante"â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11289');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15142, 'La torre de cristal', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simeon Krug, un poderoso industrial que construyÃ³ su imperio con la creaciÃ³n y producciÃ³n en serie de androides, estÃ¡ empleando todos sus recursos en erigir una gigantesca torre de cristal destinada a contestar un mensaje ininteligible proveniente de las estrellas. Los androides, seres humanos concebidos artificialmente, han desarrollado una compleja religiÃ³n centrada en la figura de su creador, esperando de Ã©l la redenciÃ³n que les otorgue los mismos derechos que los seres humanos normales. Pero Simeon Krug no estÃ¡ interesado en las aspiraciones de sus creaciones, y la marea de las fuerzas sociales que se desata resulta incontenible.\n <br />\n Una de las novelas mÃ¡s apasionantes de la Ã©poca dorada de Robert Silverberg, en â€œLa torre de cristalâ€ se muestran nuevamente las soberbias dotes del autor para la caracterizaciÃ³n de sus personajes, entrando sin esfuerzo aparente en lo mÃ¡s recÃ³ndito de sus motivaciones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11171'),
(15143, 'LabVIEW ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TECHINIQUES', 'Rick Bitter &amp; Taqi Mohiuddin &amp; Matt Nawrocki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9206'),
(15144, 'Las puertas del cielo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Es una Tierra del futuro, una Tierra agobiada por la superpoblaciÃ³n. En ella domina una religiÃ³n, la de los vosters, que busca la inmortalidad a travÃ©s de la ciencia. Y, sin embargo, los vosters, a pesar de su poder, no han logrado implantarse en Venus, coto cerrado de la herejÃ­a harmonista. Las dos religiones estÃ¡n enfrentadas, pero Â¿podrÃ­a relacionarse la resurrecciÃ³n del mÃ¡rtir LÃ¡zaro, fundador de los harmonistas, y la aspiraciÃ³n celestial de Vorst? Â¿PodrÃ­an ambas religiones unidas abrir a los seres humanos las puertas del cielo?\n <br />\n Esta obra supuso para su autor, Robert Silverberg, la consagraciÃ³n como uno de los maestros de la ficciÃ³n cientÃ­fica. La agilidad, la exultante fantasÃ­a, la solidez narrativa de Silverberg se manifiestan en ella con todo su esplendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11304'),
(15145, 'LaTeX Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Stefan Kottwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Packed with fully explained examples, LaTeX Beginner''s Guide is a hands-on introduction quickly leading a novice user to professional-quality results. If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stefan Kottwitz\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. Afterwards, he worked as an IT Administrator and Communication Officer onboard cruise ships for AIDA Cruises and for Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Following 10 years of sailing around the world, he is now employed as a Network &amp; IT Security Engineer for AIDA Cruises, focusing on network infrastructure and security such as managing firewall systems for headquarters and fleet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In between contracts, he worked as a freelance programmer and typography designer. For many years he has been providing LaTeX support in online forums. He became a moderator of the web forum\n  <strong>\n   latex community.org\n  </strong>\n  and of the site\n  <strong>\n   golatex.de\n  </strong>\n  . Recently, he began supporting the newly established Q&amp;A site\n  <strong>\n   tex.stackexchange.com\n  </strong>\n  as a moderator.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blog at\n  <strong>\n   texblog.net\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7763'),
(15146, 'Le maschere del tempo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 25 dicembre 1998; al centro di Piazza di Spagna, a Roma, compare dal nulla un uomo completamente nudo. Ã¨ Vornan-19, e dice di provenire da mille anni nel futuro. Questâ€™improvvisa manifestazione, simile alla nascita di un dio, sconvolge un mondo che si avvicina alla fine del secondo millennio fra i tumulti provocati dai fanatici che predicano lâ€™Apocalisse e la necessitÃ  di dare libero sfogo agli istinti. Ma chi Ã¨ Vornan-19: un ciarlatano o un messaggero dellâ€™Utopia? Un agente del caos o un portatore della legge? Un nuovo messia o un anticristo? Un angelo o un serpente? Qual Ã¨ lâ€™immagine nascosta sotto le maschere cangianti che sâ€™alternano sul suo volto? Forse, Vornan-19 Ã¨ entrambe le cose: demonio distruttore e divinitÃ  adatta ai tempi della crisi e del rinnovamento. Durante una sua visita negli Stati Uniti, una commissione di studio cerca di scoprire i suoi segreti. La presenza di Vornan-19 sconvolge perÃ² la vita dei singoli e delle moltitudini, semina scandalo e rabbia per la sua totale amoralitÃ , per la completa dissennatezza del suo comportamento. I tabÃ¹ della civiltÃ  occidentale (il denaro, il potere, il sesso) vengono sconvolti: lâ€™Utopia Ã¨ corrosiva, e a contatto con essa la realtÃ  si disintegra. Chi si illudeva di strumentalizzare lâ€™Uomo Futuro, ne finisce schiavo e annientato. Un romanzo tra i capolavori del Â«nuovo SilverbergÂ».\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11218'),
(15147, 'Learn iPhone &amp; iPad Web App Development', 'Chris Apers &amp; Daniel Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It seems that everyone and her sister has developed an iPhone Appâ€”everyone except you, the hard-working web professional. And now with the introduction of the iPad, you may even feel farther behind. But the time has come where you donâ€™t need to struggle through Objective-C or master Appleâ€™s Cocoa touch APIs. WebKitâ€™s support for HTML5 means any ambitious web developer can join Appleâ€™s second mobile App wave and create compelling apps that address the unique features of both the iPhone and the larger iPad.Learn iPhone &amp; iPad Web App Development takes you through every aspect of the latest Mobile Web Standards as well as the specific features of the iPhone and iPad. Youâ€™ll go beyond Web 2.0 and Ajax to learn about WebKit and Mobile Safari, HTML5 and CSS3, Vector Graphics and Multimedia support. Youâ€™ll discover what built-in hardware features of the iPhone and iPad you can use and how to take advantage of these device-specific capabilities.The market for Web apps is expanding and the combination of iPhone and iPad makes this a very hot areaâ€”as well as a competitive one. Youâ€™ll want to know about all the advantages available to get ahead and stay ahead, and Learn iPhone &amp; iPad Web App Development is the perfect starting point.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  What youâ€™ll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to take your existing web skills and deploy them on iPad and iPhone\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   User interface design basics for both the small iPhone screen and the big iPad display\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The keys to web app development built into HTML5, WebKit, and Mobile Safari\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to support mobile-media with iPhone- and iPad-specific features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to take advantage of advanced features of CSS3 for graphics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to address Appleâ€™s touch screen interface and interact with Cocoa touch APIs\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who this book is forWeb designers and developers who want use their hard-earned skills and knowledge to create compelling mobile web experiences for iPhone and iPad users.\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Table of Contents\n </h3>\n <pre>\n  <code>\n   1. Development Tools2. Development Environment3. Debugging4. WebApp Anatomy5. Device limitations6. Mimic the iPhone UI7. Interesting CSS features8. HTML5 features9. Vector graphics10. Multimedia support11. Javascript OOP primer12. CSS3 advanced features13. DOM and selectors14. AJAX15. Touch and Gesture events16. Location API17. Data Storage18. Optimization19. Linking to native applications20. Using Frameworks\n  </code>\n </pre>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9299'),
(15148, 'Learn JavaScript and Ajax With W3Schools', 'Hege Refsnes &amp; W3schools &amp; Stale Refsnes &amp; Kai Jim Refsnes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s no faster, easier way to learn JavaScript and Ajax\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you want to start building interactive Web pages right away, you should begin by learning how to use JavaScript and Ajax. w3schools has perfected a straightforward tutorial approach that gives you what you need to know in manageable lessons, liberally supported with examples. You''ll find that tried-and-true format in this book, along with a detailed reference section that you will use again and again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You will learn:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What JavaScript is and isn''t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to put JavaScript into an HTML page\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    JavaScript special characters and guidelines\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use JavaScript operators\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    If... else statements and do... while loops\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    All about JavaScript objects\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use Ajax properties\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What the Ajax XMLHttpRequest Object does\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Add JavaScript\n  <br />\n  Define functions\n  <br />\n  Create cookies\n  <br />\n  Declare variables\n  <br />\n  Create objects\n  <br />\n  Build Ajax pages\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   w3schools\n  </strong>\n  is a leading Web destination for learning key Web technologies online. Founded in 1999, it receives more than 10 million unique visitors each month. w3schools tutorials are required reading in more than 100 high schools and universities.\n </p>\n</div>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fast, focused instruction for beginning Web developers\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  W3Schools.com is the number one online education source for beginning Web developers. This attractive two-color book contains concise, highly focused tutorials in the proven W3Schools instructional format, with an easy-to-use reference of JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM included. Novice developers will quickly learn to create interactive Web pages using the most popular Web scripting language.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   W3Schools is the top Google search result for instruction on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other key Web technologies; this book presents W3Schools tutorials in an easy-to-follow format for quick learning\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Features clear examples, simple explanations, and a thorough reference section covering JavaScript Objects and the HTML DOM\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers statements and comments; variables, operators, and comparisons; ifâ€¦then statements; pop-up boxes; events and tryâ€¦catch; objects, strings, arrays, and Booleans; cookies, validation, and timing; Ajax requests and XMLHTTP requests; Ajax suggest, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Designed to get beginning Web developers up and running as quickly as possible,\n  <em>\n   Learn JavaScript and Ajax with W3Schools\n  </em>\n  presents a proven, highly focused course of instruction in an easy-to-use format.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s no faster, easier way to learn JavaScript and Ajax\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you want to start building interactive Web pages right away, you should begin by learning how to use JavaScript and Ajax. w3schools has perfected a straightforward tutorial approach that gives you what you need to know in manageable lessons, liberally supported with examples. You''ll find that tried-and-true format in this book, along with a detailed reference section that you will use again and again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You will learn:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What JavaScript is and isn''t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to put JavaScript into an HTML page\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    JavaScript special characters and guidelines\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use JavaScript operators\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    If... else statements and do... while loops\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    All about JavaScript objects\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use Ajax properties\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What the Ajax XMLHttpRequest Object does\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Add JavaScript\n  <br />\n  Define functions\n  <br />\n  Create cookies\n  <br />\n  Declare variables\n  <br />\n  Create objects\n  <br />\n  Build Ajax pages\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9357'),
(15149, 'Learn OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet MacRo Programming', 'Mark Alexander Bain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Learn how to extend and customize Calc, the OpenOffice.org spreadsheet, using OOoBasic, OOo''s built-in programming language. You don''t need to be a developer to create useful and powerful routines and applications. This well structured and practical tutorial will walk you though every step, and inspire you with great ways to save time and increase your productivity using Calc. Adding macros to your spreadsheets enables you to add data processing features to your work, automate repetitive tasks, and even create complete data-driven programs that use the spreadsheet as their back end. This book teaches the OOoBasic language and the Calc object model, so that you can manipulate spreadsheets and data from within your programs. You will also see how to create dialog boxes and windows for friendly user interfaces, and how to integrate your spreadsheets with other applications, for example writing spreadsheet data to a document, or capturing data from a database, and using the spreadsheet for generating advanced calculations and reports. Calc is OpenOffice.org''s spreadsheet module. Like the rest of OpenOffice.org Calc can be programmed using the built-in language OOoBasic. Both simple macros and complex applications can be developed in this language by controlling Calc through its object model. The book is compatible with the commercial version of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, and the StarBasic language. This book will show you: How to create custom Calc applications Creating worksheet functions, automating repetitive tasks, creating new toolbars, menus, and dialog boxes A complete guide to the IDE, language, and object model Integrating Calc applications with other components of OpenOffice.org Internet-based collaborative applications How to understand, use and adapt the increasing number of freely available Calc Macros A fast, fun, and friendly tutorial. Full of practical, step-by-step examples and clear explanations of all of the important concepts. You don''t need to be a programmer to use this book, but you do need to be familiar with the concept of a program and how simple things like a loop might work. If all you have is a taster of simple programs from high school then you will be fine. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Working with OOo''s IDE 2 Libraries, Modules, Subroutines, and Functions 3 The OOo Object Model 4 Using Macros with Spreadsheets 5 Formatting Your Spreadsheets 6 Working with Databases 7 Working with Other OOo Documents 8 Developing Dialog Boxes 9 Creating a Complete Application 10 Tips and Tricks\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7801'),
(15150, 'Learn Python the hard way', 'Zed A. Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6147'),
(15151, 'Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education', 'Thomas M. Duffy &amp; Jamie R. Kirkley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education\n  </em>\n  brings the voice of the learning sciences to the study and design of distance learning. The contributors examine critical issues in the design of theoretically and pedagogically based distance education programs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight distance education programs are described in enough detail to allow readers with different interests to understand the pedagogical approaches and the implications of implementing those approaches. Issues of theory, pedagogy, design, assessment, communities of practice, collaboration, and faculty development are discussed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each section of the book includes:\n  <br />\n  *a primary chapter written by an author or authors involved with a distance education program that reflects learner-centered principles;\n </p>\n <p>\n  *a formal reaction to the chapter by a specialist from the learning sciences, educational evaluation and policy, administration, or the corporate sector with expertise in issues of distance learning; and\n </p>\n <p>\n  *an edited transcript of the authors'' discussion of the primary chapter held at a symposium at the Asilomar Conference Center.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A final "summing up" section offers two perspectives--from leading scholars outside the fields of instructional design, evaluation, and the learning sciences--on the approaches and thinking reflected in the rest of the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is essential for researchers, as well as all those engaged in delivering, supporting, or administrating distance education programs at the post-secondary level. The descriptions, strategies, and principles will inform the design of continuing education, as well as degree-based education and corporate education and training, and distance education programs for adults.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9447'),
(15152, 'Learning Android', 'Marko Gargenta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by an expert who''s taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android''s basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and more.\n  <br />\n  You''ll build a Twitter-like application throughout the course of this book, adding new features with each chapter. Along the way, you''ll also create your own toolbox of code patterns to help you program any type of Android application with ease.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Get an overview of the Android platform and discover how it fits into the mobile ecosystem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn about the Android stack, including its application framework, and the structure and distribution of application packages (APK)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Set up your Android development environment and get started with simple programs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use Android''s building blocks--Activities, Intents, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how to build basic Android user interfaces and organize UI elements in Views and Layouts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build a service that uses a background process to update data in your application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get an introduction to Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) and the Native Development Kit (NDK)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Marko Gargenta is the founder and chief Android expert at Marakana, a training company in San Francisco. Marko has developed Android Bootcamp and Android Internals courses, and has trained over 1,000 developers on four continents. His clients include Qualcomm, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Sharp, Cisco, U.S. Department of Defense, and many more. Marko frequently speaks on Android at technical conferences and events, and is the founder of San Francisco Android Users Group.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7088'),
(15153, 'Learning Ext JS', 'Shea Frederick &amp; Colin Ramsay &amp; Steve &#39;cutter&#39; Blades &amp; Steve Blades', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Shea Frederick\n  </strong>\n  Shea has worked closely with the Ext JS creators since inception, and more recently the added development team to create cutting edge web-interactivity. His full time work as part of a User Experience Development team allows him the freedom to explore the latest developments in the world of web applications and implement them in real-world requirements. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking and skiing.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Colin Ramsay\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Colin Ramsay began his web career hacking around ASP websites in a part-time developer job when he was at university. Since then he''s been involved with a range of web technologies, which have provided a springboard for the formation of his UK-based web development company, run in tandem with his fledgling writing projects.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Steve ''Cutter'' Blades\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Cutter is the Senior Web Developer for Dealerskins, a Nashville, Tennessee based hosting provider that develops websites for the Automobile Dealership market. Cutter began his web career when he began learning HTML 1 while in the US Army and stationed with the National Security Agency. Cutter got into application development as a Corporate Support Specialist for a regional ISP, just prior to becoming the IT Director of Seacrets, a large resort destination on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cutter has extensive experience as a server- and client-side developer, with a popular blog dedicated to ColdFusion, Ext JS, and other web development technologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9248'),
(15154, 'Learning IOS Game Programming: Building Your First IPhone Game', 'Michael Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Learning iOS Game Programming\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn excellent introduction into the world of game development explaining every aspect of game design and implementation for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. A great way for anyone interested in writing games to get started.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Tom Bradley, Software Architect, Designer of TBXML\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA great developer and a great game.Thatâ€™s everything you can find in this book to learn how to write an awesome game for iPhone.Maybe youâ€™re the next AppStore hit!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Sebastien Cardoso\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith\n  <em>\n   Learning iOS Game Programming\n  </em>\n  , youâ€™ll be writing your own games in no time. The code included is well explained and will save you hours of looking up obscure stuff in the documentation and online forums.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Pablo Gomez Basanta, Founder, Shifting Mind\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI always thought that to teach others one has to be an expert and a person with an established reputation in the field. Michael Daley proved me wrong. He is teaching others while studying himself. Michaelâ€™s passion in teaching and studying, ease of solutions to problems, and a complete game as a resulting project makes this book one of the best I have ever read.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Eugene Snyetilov\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re interested in 2D game programming with the iOS using OpenGL and OpenAL directly, this book walks you through creating a complete and fun game without getting bogged down in technical details.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Scott D.Yelich\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMichael Daley brings clarity to the haze of iPhone application development. Concrete examples, thorough explanation, and timesaving tips make this book a must have for the up and coming iPhone game developer.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Brandon Middleton, Creator of\n  <em>\n   Tic Tac Toe Ten\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is the A-Z guide to iOS game development; Michaelâ€™s book takes you from the basics and terminology to using the techniques in practice on a fully working game. Before you know it, you will find yourself writing your own game, fueled by a firm grasp of the principles and techniques learned within. I could not ask for a better reference in developing our own games.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Rod Strougo, Founder Prop Group\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Get Started Fast with iOS Game Programming\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the launch of the App Store, games have been the hottest category of apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. That means your best chance of tapping into the iPhone/iPad â€œGold Rushâ€ is to put out a killer game that everyone wants to play (and talk about). While many people think games are hard to build, they can actually be quite easy, and\n  <em>\n   Learning iOS Game Programming\n  </em>\n  is your perfect beginnerâ€™s guide. Michael Daley walks you through every step as you build a killer 2D game for the iPhone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Learning iOS Game Programming\n  </em>\n  , youâ€™ll learn how to build a 2D tile map game,\n  <em>\n   Sir Lamorakâ€™s Quest: The Spell of Release\n  </em>\n  (which is free in the App Store). You can download and play the game youâ€™re going to build while you learn about the code and everything behind the scenes. Daley identifies the key characteristics of a successful iPhone game and introduces the technologies, terminology, and tools you will use. Then, he carefully guides you through the whole development process: from planning storylines and game play all the way through testing and tuning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Download the free version of\n  <em>\n   Sir Lamorakâ€™s Quest\n  </em>\n  from the App Store today, while you learn how to build the game in this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coverage includesÂ \n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Planning high-level game design, components, and difficulty levels\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Using game loops to make sure the right events happen at the right time\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Rendering images, creating sprite sheets, and building basic animations\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Using tile maps to build large game worlds from small reusable images\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating fire, explosions, smoke, sparks, and other organic effects\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Delivering great sound via OpenAL and the iPhoneâ€™s media player\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Providing game control via iPhoneâ€™s touch and accelerometer features\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Crafting an effective, intuitive game interface\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Building game objects and entities and making them work properly\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Detecting collisions and ensuring the right response to them\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Polishing, testing, debugging, and performance-tuning your gameÂ \n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Learning iOS Game Programming\n  </em>\n  focuses on the features, concepts, and techniques youâ€™ll use most oftenâ€”and helps you master them in a real-world context. This book is 100% useful and 100% practical; thereâ€™s never been an iPhone game development book like it!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Learning iOS Game Programming\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn excellent introduction into the world of game development explaining every aspect of game design and implementation for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. A great way for anyone interested in writing games to get started.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Tom Bradley, Software Architect, Designer of TBXML\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA great developer and a great game.Thatâ€™s everything you can find in this book to learn how to write an awesome game for iPhone.Maybe youâ€™re the next AppStore hit!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Sebastien Cardoso\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith\n  <em>\n   Learning iOS Game Programming\n  </em>\n  , youâ€™ll be writing your own games in no time. The code included is well explained and will save you hours of looking up obscure stuff in the documentation and online forums.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Pablo Gomez Basanta, Founder, Shifting Mind\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI always thought that to teach others one has to be an expert and a person with an established reputation in the field. Michael Daley proved me wrong. He is teaching others while studying himself. Michaelâ€™s passion in teaching and studying, ease of solutions to problems, and a complete game as a resulting project makes this book one of the best I have ever read.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Eugene Snyetilov\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re interested in 2D game programming with the iOS using OpenGL and OpenAL directly, this book walks you through creating a complete and fun game without getting bogged down in technical details.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Scott D.Yelich\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMichael Daley brings clarity to the haze of iPhone application development. Concrete examples, thorough explanation, and timesaving tips make this book a must have for the up and coming iPhone game developer.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Brandon Middleton, Creator of\n  <em>\n   Tic Tac Toe Ten\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is the A-Z guide to iOS game development; Michaelâ€™s book takes you from the basics and terminology to using the techniques in practice on a fully working game. Before you know it, you will find yourself writing your own game, fueled by a firm grasp of the principles and techniques learned within. I could not ask for a better reference in developing our own games.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Rod Strougo, Founder Prop Group\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7768'),
(15155, 'Learning jQuery', 'Karl Swedberg &amp; Jonathan Chaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine.For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again.This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications.The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9312'),
(15156, 'Learning jQuery 1.3', 'Jonathan Chaffer &amp; Karl Swedberg &amp; John Resig', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Sources are in archive\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Chaffer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal''s menu system and developer API reference.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karl Swedberg\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"--semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karl''s other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9364'),
(15157, 'Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development With Simple JavaScript Techniques', 'Jonathan Chaffer &amp; Karl Swedberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine.For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again.This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications.The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9304'),
(15158, 'Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript', 'Robin Nixon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "J_ust get this book... [it] will work like a miracle for you._" - Abdul Khan --Amazon Canada\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Excellent! Easy to read, straightforward guide. Already learned several very useful things._" - Holly --Good Reads\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Finally a comprehensive resource for HTML users who want to move to the next level, and implement data-driven access to their websites._" - Michael L. Kleper --The Kleper Report\n </p>\n <p>\n  "After the first chapter of introducing terms; I knew that I had to purchase this book." - Graysen --Greysen Oh''s Blog\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_This is a superb start for learning the ins and outs of PHP, MySQL and JavaScript_." - Jonny IT Guy --Amazon UK\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You''ll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You''ll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript\n  </em>\n  explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You''ll practice what you''ve learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book will help you:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9065'),
(15159, 'Learning Python', 'Per Kraulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6146'),
(15160, 'Legende istorice', 'Dimitrie BOLINTINEANU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4782'),
(15161, 'Legendele sau Basmele romanilor', 'Petre Ispirescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4807'),
(15162, 'Legiunea blestematilor', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4826'),
(15163, 'The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9979'),
(15164, 'Letopisetul Tarii Moldovei', 'Neculce Ion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6544'),
(15165, 'Letopisetul Tarii Moldovei', 'Miron Costin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6545'),
(15166, 'Letopisetul Tarii Moldovei', 'Grigore Ureche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6546'),
(15167, 'The Liberation of Earth', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The story, which Tenn described as having been inspired by the Korean War, portrays Earth as the battleground between two powerful alien races, the Troxxt and the Dendi, who repeatedly â€œliberateâ€ it from each other. The Earth was nearly destroyed in process and abandoned by both parties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10025'),
(15168, 'Lichidati Parisul', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4777'),
(15169, 'Limpezimi', 'Ion PILLAT', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4722'),
(15170, 'Limpezimi', 'PILLAT Ion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8572'),
(15171, 'Linux From Scratch', 'Gerard Beekmans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gerard Beekmans\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 1999-2002 by Gerard Beekmans\n <br />\n ÐŸÐµÑ€ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð´: Ð”ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÐšÐ°Ð»ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ð½, ÐÐ¸Ðº Ð¤Ñ€Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑ ÐšÐ°Ð·Ð°Ð½ÐºÐ¾Ð².\n <br />\n Ð’ÐµÑ€ÑÐ¸Ñ 4.0\n <br />\n Ð­Ñ‚Ð° ÐºÐ½Ð¸Ð³Ð° Ð¾Ð¿Ð¸ÑÑ‹Ð²Ð°ÐµÑ‚ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ñ†ÐµÑÑ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Linux ÑÐ¸ÑÑ‚ÐµÐ¼Ñ‹ Ñ Ð½ÑƒÐ»Ñ, Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐ·ÑƒÑ Ð»Ð¸ÑˆÑŒ Ð¸ÑÑ…Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ñ‹Ðµ ÐºÐ¾Ð´Ñ‹ Ð½ÐµÐ¾Ð±Ñ…Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑÐ¿ÐµÑ‡ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12920'),
(15172, 'Linux Network Servers', 'Craig Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Authoritative Answers to All Your Linux Network ServerQuestionsâ€”Specifically for Linux Administrators\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tap intoLinux''s impressive capabilities as a network server. Written by one of theworldâ€™s leading Linux system administration experts,\n  <em>\n   Linux NetworkServers\n  </em>\n  teaches you, step-by-step, all the standard and advanced techniquesyou need to know to configure and administer a full range of network services,from file and printer sharing to email and the Web. Hundreds of clear, consistentexamples illustrate these techniques in detailâ€”so you stay on track andaccomplish all your goals. Coverage includes the following:\n </p>\n <p>\n  InstallingLinux\n  <br />\n  Understanding the boot process\n  <br />\n  Working with the networkinterface\n  <br />\n  Setting up login services\n  <br />\n  Using Linux nameservices\n  <br />\n  Configuring a mail server\n  <br />\n  Setting up Apache Webserver\n  <br />\n  Configuring network gateway services\n  <br />\n  Configuring desktopconfiguration server\n  <br />\n  Setting up file sharing\n  <br />\n  Setting up printerservices\n  <br />\n  Securing your server\n  <br />\n  Troubleshooting\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Craig HuntLinux Library\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Craig Hunt Linux Library\n  </strong>\n  provides in-depth,advanced coverage of the key topics for Linux administrators. Topics includeSamba, System Administration, DNS Server Administration, Apache, Security, andSendmail. Each book in the series is either written by or meticulously reviewedby Craig Hunt to ensure the highest quality and most complete coverage for networking professionals working specifically in Linux environments.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Craig Hunt is a noted Linux expert who lectures regularly on the topics at the NetWorld+Interop, ComNet, and other networking trade shows. He serves as both author and series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Library. In addition to Linux Network Servers, Craig authored the highly acclaimed Linux Sendmail Administration and Linux DNS Server Administration.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7679'),
(15173, 'Linux Power Tools', 'Roderick W. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewOK, you ve not only gotten Linux running, you can make your way around KDE or Gnome. Even the shell. You re actually getting pretty good at it. Now you re itching to go further. Roderick Smith has written Linux Power Tools for you. Whatever leading distro you prefer -- Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, or SuSE -- this book will help you make the most of it.Why be satisfied with getting X Window System working, when you can tweak it for significantly better performance? Why be satisfied with your system s existing disk performance, when a bit of repartitioning (or some filesystem tweaking) can make all the difference?Why be satisfied with the way your bundled web browsers work, when you can enhance everything from their font display to their security?Maybe you need better cross-platform compatibility? Maybe you re confused about which Linux printing system to use -- BSD LPD, LPRng, or CUPS? Maybe you re struggling with fonts (you sure won t be the first Linux user with font problems).These are just a few of the issues Linux Power Tools can help you with.Not sure how to set up an incremental backup with tar? Configure your digital camera with gPhoto? Bypass your distro s automatic con?gurations? Provide secure remote logins with SSH? Configure GRUB or LILO (but, umm, not Stitch)? It s all here.Some of this stuff can be tricky (for instance, resizing filesystems or using NTP time synchronization). No matter how hard or obscure the subject matter, though, Smith s clarity and experience will carry you through. We ve seen no faster route to Power Userville. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7681'),
(15174, 'Linux Power Tools', 'Roderick Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Step-by-Step Instructions Show You How to Supercharge Your Linux System\n  <br />\n  Wondering if it''s possible to work more efficiently in the X Window System, or squeeze more oomph from your existing hardware? Or perhaps you''re searching for a way to improve your web browser''s performance, or want to know how to choose the best mail server for your needs. If you''ve mastered the basics and are itching to go beyond, Linux Power Tools can take you there. Spanning a broad range of topics (from ALSA to zombies), Linux Power Tools covers the top five Linux distributions (Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and SuSE). Using his easy-to-follow style, Linux expert Rod Smith shares his secrets for creating the optimum Linux system, from top to bottom.\n  <br />\n  Coverage includes:\n  <br />\n  * Optimizing Hardware\n  <br />\n  * Creating the Perfect GUI Environment\n  <br />\n  * Using Digital Image Tools\n  <br />\n  * Fine-tuning the X Window System\n  <br />\n  * Doing Real Work in Text Mode\n  <br />\n  * Using Multiple Operating Systems\n  <br />\n  * Managing Packages Efficiently\n  <br />\n  * Optimizing Your Filesystem\n  <br />\n  * Improving Network Performance\n  <br />\n  * Preventing and Detecting Intrusions\n  <br />\n  * Getting the Most From Your Web Server\n  <br />\n  * Blocking That Obnoxious Spam Mail\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Step-by-Step Instructions Show You How to Supercharge Your LinuxSystem\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wondering if it''s possible to work more efficiently in the XWindow System, or squeeze more oomph from your existing hardware? Orperhaps you''re searching for a way to improve your web browser''s performance, orwant to know how to choose the best mail server for your needs. If you''vemastered the basics and are itching to go beyond,\n  <em>\n   Linux Power Tools\n  </em>\n  cantake you there. Spanning a broad range of topics (from ALSA to zombies),\n  <em>\n   LinuxPower Tools\n  </em>\n  covers the top five Linux distributions (Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE). Using his easy-to-follow style, Linux expert Rod Smithshares his secrets for creating the optimum Linux system, from top tobottom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Coverage includes:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   OptimizingHardware\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating the Perfect GUI Environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Digital ImageTools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Fine-tuning the X Window System\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Doing Real Work in TextMode\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Multiple Operating Systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing PackagesEfficiently\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimizing Your Filesystem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Improving NetworkPerformance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Preventing and Detecting Intrusions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Getting the Most From Your Web Server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Blocking That Obnoxious Spam Mail\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7780');
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(15175, 'Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook', 'Sarath Lakshman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n GNU/Linux is a remarkable operating system that comes with a complete development environment that is stable, reliable, and extremely powerful. The shell being the native interface to communicate with the operating system is capable of controlling the entire operating system. There are numerous commands on Linux shell which are documented but hard to understand. The man pages are helpful but they are very lengthy and it does not give any clues on key areas where commands can be used. Proper usage of shell commands can easily solve many complex tasks with a few lines of code, but most linux users don''t have the right know-how to use the Linux shell to its full potential.Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook is a collection of essential command-line recipes along with detailed descriptions tuned with practical applications. It covers most of the commands on Linux with a variety of usecases accompanied by plenty of examples. This book helps you to perform complex data manipulations involving tasks such as text processing, file management, backups and more with the combination of few commands.Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook shows you how to capitalize on all the aspects of Linux using the shell scripting language. This book teaches you how to use commands to perform simple tasks all the way to scripting complex tasks such as managing large amounts of data on a network.It guides you on implementing some of the most common commands in Linux with recipes that handle any of the operations or properties related with files like searching and mining inside a file with grep. It also shows you how utilities such as sed, awk, grep, cut can be combined to solve text processing related problems. The focus is on saving time by automating many activities that we perform interactively through as browser with a few lines of script.This book will take you from a clear problem description to a fully functional program. The recipes contained within the chapter will introduce the reader to specific problems and provide hands-on solutions.This practical book will help you gain control over all the aspects of Linux using the powerful shell scripting language\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7089'),
(15176, 'Linux Study Guide', 'Roderick W. Smith &amp; Sybex', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here''s the book you need to prepare for CompTIA''s Linux+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today''s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:\n  <br />\n  * Clear and concise information on setting up and administering a Linux system\n  <br />\n  * Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience\n  <br />\n  * Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a Linux-based testing engine and electronic flashcards for your Palm\n  <br />\n  You''ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:\n  <br />\n  * Hardware requirements\n  <br />\n  * User administration\n  <br />\n  * Package management\n  <br />\n  * Security fundamentals\n  <br />\n  * Shell scripting\n  <br />\n  * Administering Apache Web server\n  <br />\n  * Installing, updating, and removing drivers\n  <br />\n  * Understanding the Linux kernel\n  <br />\n  * Troubleshooting\n  <br />\n  Look to Sybex for the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in today''s competitive IT marketplace.\n  <br />\n  This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Here''s the book you need to prepare for CompTIA''s Linux+ exam.\n  </strong>\n  This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today''s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Clear and concise information on setting up and administering a Linux system\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a Linux-based testing engine and electronic flashcards for your Palm\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You''ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Hardware requirements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   User administration\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Package management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Security fundamentals\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shell scripting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Administering Apache Web server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Installing, updating, and removing drivers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understanding the Linux kernel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshooting\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Look to Sybex for the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in todayâ€™s competitive IT marketplace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7779'),
(15177, 'Linux System Administration', 'Vicki Stanfield &amp; Roderick W. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Most Indispensable Linux Book"\n  <br />\n  â€”2001\n  <em>\n   Linux Journal\n  </em>\n  Readers Choice Awards\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Authoritative Answers to All Your Linux Questions\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can rely on the fully updated second edition of\n  <em>\n   Linux System Administration\n  </em>\n  for answers to all your questions about installing, configuring, and administering Linux. Written by two Linux experts, this book teaches you, step-by-step, all the standard and advanced techniques you need to know to set up and maintain a secure, effective Linux environment. Scores of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detailâ€”so you stay on track and accomplish all your goals. Coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Installing a Linux server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up and maintaining user and group accounts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up Linux system security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Sharing files using Samba and NFS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing a backup strategy\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshooting common Linux problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up the X Window System\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up TCP/IP and connecting to the Internet\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Setting up a mail server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maintaining filesystems and partitions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Configuring printers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Improving system performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing shell scripts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Webmin for cross-distribution GUI administration\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Craig Hunt Linux Library\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The Craig Hunt Linux Library provides in-depth, advanced coverage of the key topics for Linux administrators. Topics include Samba, Network Servers, DNS Server Administration, Apache, Security, and Sendmail. Each book in the series is either written by or meticulously reviewed by Craig Hunt to ensure the highest quality and most complete coverage for networking professionals working specifically in Linux environments.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Stanfield\n  </strong>\n  , RHCE, has worked with Linux since 1994 and Unix since 1980. She has administered many varieties of Unix, VMS, as well as Slackware and Red Hat Linux.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Roderick W. Smith\n  </strong>\n  is a Linux networking expert and author of several books, including Linux Samba Server Administration and the Linux+ Study Guide, both from Sybex. Craig Hunt is a Linux expert who lectures regularly at major networking trade shows. He serves as author and series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Library.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7682'),
(15178, 'Linux System Administration', 'Tom Adelstein &amp; Bill Lubanovic', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''re an experienced system administrator looking to acquire Linux skills, or a seasoned Linux user facing a new challenge,\n  <em>\n   Linux System Administration\n  </em>\n  offers practical knowledge for managing a complete range of Linux systems and servers. The book summarizes the steps you need to build everything from standalone SOHO hubs, web servers, and LAN servers to load-balanced clusters and servers consolidated through virtualization. Along the way, you''ll learn about all of the tools you need to set up and maintain these working environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Linux is now a standard corporate platform with users numbering in the hundreds of millions, and there is a definite shortage of talented administrators.\n  <em>\n   Linux System Administration\n  </em>\n  is ideal as an introduction to Linux for Unix veterans, MCSEs, and mainframe administrators, and as an advanced (and refresher) guide for existing Linux administrators who will want to jump into the middle of the book. Inside, you''ll learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Set up a stand-alone Linux server\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot a DNS server using BIND\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Build an Internet server to manage sites, perform email and file transfers, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Set up an email service for a small-to-medium-sized site, complete with authentication\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Install and configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a web server built from scratch\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Combine computers into a load-balanced Apache web server cluster based on the free Linux Virtual Server\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Set up local network services from distributed file systems to DHCP services, gateway services, print services, user management and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use Linux virtualization with Xen or VMWare to run multiple kernels on one piece of hardware; manage each kernel''s access to processor time, devices, and memory\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create shell scripts and adapt them for your own needs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Back up and restore data with\n    <em>\n     rsync, tar, cdrecord\n    </em>\n    , Amanda, and MySQL tools\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Linux System Administration\n  </em>\n  is not only knowledgeable and practical, but convenient. The ingredients for this book had been scattered throughout mailing lists, forums, and discussion groups, as well as books, periodicals, and the experiences of colleagues. Everything is now in one handy guide. In the course of their research, the authors also solved many problems whose solutions were completely undocumented. They now pass their lessons on to you.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Adelstein works as a system administrator and a technical writer. He became a young author by accident in 1985 and has written prolifically ever since. Tom''s career began in public accounting and investment banking where he excelled by using computer technology to help his companies become industry leaders in the financial service sector. In 1993, he decided to change industries completely to pursue information technology full time. He says he chose to follow his heart instead of his head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting for information.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7747'),
(15179, 'Lisbon Cubed', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10036'),
(15180, 'Lituma en los Andes', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8970'),
(15181, 'Livada de visini', 'Anton P. Cehov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4876'),
(15182, 'Livada de visini', 'A. P. Cehov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6914'),
(15183, 'The Longest Way Home', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The â€œFolkâ€ were first to arrive on this faraway planet, pushing aside the docile, intelligent aboriginal races they encountered. The â€œMastersâ€ followed to subjugate the careless, complacent fellow humans who preceded them here. And so it has remained for ages.\n <br />\n Fifteen-year-old Joseph Master Keilloran has known only privilege, respect, and civility. Born to take over the reins of House Keilloran when he comes of age, he awakens one night in the Great House of distant relatives to the thunder of battleâ€”a terrifying din that has not been heard on this peaceful world since the original Conquest. All around him are devastation and death, as the local Folk rise up to wreak vengeance on the unsuspecting, unprepared Masters. With the aid of a still-faithful servant, Joseph barely escapes with his life. But now he is stranded and alone 10,000 miles from his home. Damned by his birth and classâ€”surrounded by enemies who would kill him if they found himâ€”Joseph must now embark on a journey of unimaginable distance toward a home that may also already be in ruins. His odyssey will be more terribleâ€”and more wondrousâ€”than he ever imagined, as a world he was kept sheltered from comes alive before him. Venturing deep into the lives and cultures of remarkable Indigene peoplesâ€”driven to hunt, scratch, and scheme for his survivalâ€”a resourceful young Master will be created anew as he is forced to reassess his homeworld and his place in it. Despite what is waiting for him at the finish, nothing here will ever be the same again. And Joseph will become a man before his long journey ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11244'),
(15184, 'Lord Valentine&#39;s Castle', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n OnÂ MajipoorÂ â€” an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic magical machinery, a certain Valentine wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. His dreams suggest he is the ruler of MajipoorÂ â€” but no one believes himâ€¦ so far.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11090'),
(15185, 'Los cachorros', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8967'),
(15186, 'Los cuadernos De don Rigoberto', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8893'),
(15187, 'Los jefes, Y Otros Cuentos', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8949'),
(15188, 'Love and War', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman &amp; Laura Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legend of Raistlin''s daughter!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A strange story that cannot be confirmed, yet it is whispered among the elves of Silvanesti, gossiped about by the kender of Krynn, and told here for the first time by Caramon, the enigmatic mage''s surviving twin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A wondrous new novella journeying into secrets of the heart and rumors about the past that have bearing on the future of Krynn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Plus ten exciting short stories -- untold tales of chivalry and affection, heroic quests and foul villainy, magic in battle and transcendent defeat -- featuring all the beloved companions and fantastical creatures of the best-selling\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  Saga.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story that has entrhalled over three million readers worldwide, as created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2806'),
(15189, 'Luceafarul', 'Mihai Eminescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4714'),
(15190, 'Luceafarul', 'Eminescu Mihai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8646'),
(15191, 'Lumea Inelara', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4901'),
(15192, 'The Magic of Krynn', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first book in a series of classic Dragonlance tales, now with a new cover.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This re-release of the second volume of Dragonlance short stories ever published features a dramatic new cover treatment. It includes stories by some of the best-loved authors writing in the Dragonlance world, including a novella by New York Times best-selling authors and Dragonlance setting co-creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent New York Times best-seller Dragons of a Vanished Moon. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tracy Hickman, in addition to his work on several Dragonlance novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel The Immortals.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3169'),
(15193, 'Maigret si fantoma', 'Georges Simenon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4834'),
(15194, 'Maigret si fantoma', 'Georges Simenon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8546'),
(15195, 'Majipoor Chronicles', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€˜There''s a room in there where millions of people of Majipoor have left memory-readings. You pick up a capsule, put it in a special slot and suddenly... you find yourself living in Lord Confalume''s time, or Lord Siminave''s, or out there fighting the Metamorph Warsâ€¦â€™\n <br />\n The archives of the House of Records of the planet Majipoor have been rediscovered by the boy Hissune in the time after the restoration of the Coronal Lord Valentine.\n <br />\n In tales of life, love, conflict and discovery, the complex and colourful world of Majipoor is explored from different perspectives, ranging across its long history and immense terrain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11096'),
(15196, 'MAKTUB', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8606'),
(15197, 'The Man in the High Castle', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Hugo Award Winner-1963\n <br />\n Itâ€™s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a warâ€”and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.\n <br />\n This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11740'),
(15198, 'A Man of Family', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9966'),
(15199, 'THE MAN WHO JAPED', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11676'),
(15200, 'Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach', 'Dean Leffingwell &amp; Don Widrig', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Second Edition of the popular text Managing Software Requirements focuses on this critical cause of failure and offers a practical, proven approach to building systems that meet customers'' needs on time and within budget. Using an approachable style, their own war stories and a comprehensive case study, the authors show how students can effectively identify requirements by applying a variety of techniques, centered on the power of use cases. The book illustrates proven techniques for determining, implementing, and validating requirements.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Many projects fail because developers fail to build the right thing. Developers of any kind of application should read this book."\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   â€”Grady Booch\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A comprehensive solution to the requirements challenges faced by every development team. Full of insight and ideas all developers can learn from."\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   â€”Ivar Jacobson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the wealth of development knowledge, experience, and tools available today, a substantial percentage of software projects fail, often because requirements are not correctly determined and defined at the outset, or are not managed correctly as the project unfolds. This second edition of the popular text\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Managing Software Requirements\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  focuses on this critical cause of failure and offers a practical, proven approach to building systems that meet customers'' needs on time and within budget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using an accessible style, their own war stories, and a comprehensive case study, the authors show how analysts and developers can effectively identify requirements by applying a variety of techniques, centered on the power of use cases. The book illustrates proven techniques for determining, implementing, and validating requirements. It describes six vital Team Skills for managing requirements throughout the lifecycle of a project: Analyzing the Problem, Understanding User Needs, Defining the System, Managing Scope, Refining the System Definition, and Building the Right System. _\n  <strong>\n   Managing Software Requirements, Second Edition\n  </strong>\n  _, specifically addresses the ongoing challenge of managing change and describes a process for assuring that project scope is successfully defined and agreed upon by all stakeholders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The five steps in problem analysis\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Business modeling and system engineering\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Techniques for eliciting requirements from customers and stakeholders\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Establishing and managing project scope\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Applying and refining use cases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Product management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Transitioning from requirements to design and implementation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Transitioning from use cases to test cases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Agile requirements methods\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  032112247XB05082003\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9211'),
(15201, 'Managing the Risks of IT Outsourcing', 'Ian Tho', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This book shows IT managers how to identify, mitigate and manage risks in an IT outsourcing exercise. The book explores current trends and highlights key issues and changes that are taking place within outsourcing. Attention is given to identifying the drivers and related risks of outsourcing by examining recently published and existing concepts of IT outsourcing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Founded on academic theory and empirical and quantitative information, this book:\n  <br />\n  * Incorporates the complete risk identification and mitigation life cycle\n  <br />\n  * Highlights the concept of core competency\n  <br />\n  * Looks at motivating factors and working relationships of the buyer and supplier\n  <br />\n  * Provides background to understand the risks as a result of â€˜human factorsâ€™ as defined by the agency theory\n  <br />\n  * Reviews the areas of risk that influence the decision to outsource the IT function\n  <br />\n  * Examines the forces that determine the equilibrium in the risk profiles for the buyer and supplier\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the common (and proven) methods that define risks in an IT outsourcing environment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Independantly provides both buyer and supplier views of IT outsourcing contract risks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Uniquely identifies the ''Risk Dimension Signature'', a tool to measure and manage risks from a departmental and organizational perspective\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This book shows IT managers how to identify, mitigate and manage risks in an IT outsourcing exercise. The book explores current trends and highlights key issues and changes that are taking place within outsourcing. Attention is given to identifying the drivers and related risks of outsourcing by examining recently published and existing concepts of IT outsourcing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3433'),
(15202, 'Manipularea prin corespondenta', 'Xavier Lucron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7292'),
(15203, 'Manta&#39;s Gift', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(15204, 'Manual PHP', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9052'),
(15205, 'manual spaga final', 'Valeria', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8639'),
(15206, 'Manuscris gasit intr-un buzunar', 'Julio Cartazar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8628'),
(15207, 'Many Bloody Returns', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Christopher Golden &amp; Bill Crider &amp; Kelley Armstrong &amp; Jim Butcher &amp; P. N. Elrod &amp; Rachel Caine &amp; Jeanne C. Stein &amp; Tanya Huff &amp; Carolyn Haines &amp; Tate Hallaway &amp; Elaine Viets &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.\n <br />\n Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.\n <br />\n In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris''s "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula''s birth. But this year, the Prince of Darkness actually shows up-and finds Sookie to be a tasty-looking present.\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher''s crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It''s My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don''t share their brotherly love.\n <br />\n In "Twilight," Cassandra DuCharme, who appeared in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong''s Dime Store Magic, knows she has to kill to live as a vampire another year-but finds herself disturbingly disinterested in the hunt.\n <br />\n Plus ten more bloody good birthday stories that take the cake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8938'),
(15208, 'Marea experienta', 'MIRCEA NAUMESCU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8650'),
(15209, 'Maretia frigului 1972', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4928'),
(15210, 'Marginea Fundatiei', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4815'),
(15211, 'Market Models: A Guide to Financial Data Analysis', 'Carol Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Market Models provides an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the use of market data to develop models for financial analysis. Written by a leading figure in the field of financial data analysis, this book is the first of its kind to address the vital techniques required for model selection and development. Model developers are faced with many decisions, about the pricing, the data, the statistical methodology and the calibration and testing of the model prior to implementation. It is important to make the right choices and Carol Alexander''s clear exposition provides valuable insights at every stage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In each of the 13 Chapters, Market Models presents real world illustrations to motivate theoretical developments. The accompanying CD contains spreadsheets with data and programs; this enables the reader to implement and adapt many of the examples. The pricing of options using normal mixture density functions to model returns; the use of Monte Carlo simulation to calculate the VaR of an options portfolio; modifying the covariance VaR to allow for fat-tailed P&amp;L distributions; the calculation of implied, EWMA and ''historic'' volatilities; GARCH volatility term structure forecasting; principal components analysis; and many more are all included.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Market Models: A Guide to Financial Data Analysis is the ideal reference for all those involved in market risk measurement, quantitative trading and investment analysis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CAROL ALEXANDER is Professor of Risk Management at the ISMA Centre, the Business School of Reading University. Prior to this post, she has held positions in both academia and financial institutions at: Gemente Universiteit in Amsterdam; UBS Phillips and Drew; The University of Sussex; Algorithmics Inc. and Nikko Global Holdings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professor Alexander has edited many books, most recently ''Risk Management and Analysis: Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk'' and ''New Markets and Products'' (John Wiley,1998) ''Visions of Risk (FT-Prentice Hall, 2000) and Mastering Risk Volume 2 (FT-Prentice Hall, 2001). For over a decade Professor Alexander has been consulting in risk management and investment analysis, developing solutions for private and commercial clients. She is also a principal of Pennoyer Capital Management, New York. She has published a large number of papers in international academic and professional journals and further details are available\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7905'),
(15212, 'Martian Time Slip', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11690'),
(15213, 'Martian Time-Slip', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Warning: Although this the action of this book is set on Mars, it could just as easily have taken place in one of the desert communities around Los Angeles. The real action takes place inside the minds of the characters. If you''re looking for all the external trappings of interplanetary Sci-Fi, you will be deeply disappointed. Approach it with an open mind, and you will be richly rewarded. What happens when one of the most powerful men on the planet Mars finds that real-estate speculators are intent on gobbling up the remote and seemingly worthless Franklin D Roosevelt mountains? Naturally he wants to find out why. A casual conversation with a psychologist followed by a chance encounter with a master repairman leads to one of those Dickian leaps: Since (1) autistic children do not respond to others because they are living in the future, (2) just build a machine to slow down time and (3) maybe even use it to go back in time and retroactively post a claim on the land before the speculators do. Well, the mechanism works, in a way. The speculators were proposing to build giant apartment blocks to help relieve overcrowding on polluted Earth. The autistic boy, Manfred Steiner, sees much further, however, to the time the apartment block would become a warehouse for the sick and dying, a "tomb world," of which he himself is a denizen. Manfred''s visions have a way of bending the reality of those around him; he persistently retreats to a vision of reality as "gubble" -- entropy seen as large wormlike constructs that underlie reality, leading to pure "gubbish." MARTIAN TIME-SLIP is one of my favorite Philip K Dicks. (The problem is that I like all 15 or so I''ve read more or less equally.) Reading Philip K Dick tends to bend your sense of reality much as Manfred Steiner does. And one can''t help looking over one''s shoulder for a few hours after reading him. I see Dick as not so much a science fiction writer as a creator of disturbing and eerily plausible futures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11720'),
(15214, 'Mary And The Giant', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11691'),
(15215, 'The Masculinist Revolt', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1966.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9970'),
(15216, 'Maski czasu', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jest schyÅ‚ek stulecia. Narasta chaos i szerzy siÄ™ upadek moralny. Na Å›wiecie pojawia siÄ™ tajemniczy nieznajomy imieniem Vornan-19, ktÃ³ry podaje siÄ™ za czÅ‚owieka z przyszÅ‚oÅ›ci, i twierdzi, Å¼e ma do speÅ‚nienia waÅ¼nÄ… misjÄ™. W krÃ³tkim czasie pociÄ…ga za sobÄ… miliony ludzi, oferujÄ…c im peÅ‚nÄ… niebezpieczeÅ„stw, ekscytujÄ…cÄ… odysejÄ…, ktÃ³ra caÅ‚kowicie zmieni przyszÅ‚y ksztaÅ‚t spoÅ‚eczeÅ„stwa Ziemiâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11262'),
(15217, 'The Masks of Time', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11305'),
(15218, 'Master Of Life And Death', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global overcrowding, a new immortality serum and an unfriendly alien ambassador are only a few of the problems confronting Roy Walton, government''s new Master of Life and Death in Robert Silverberg''s early and accomplished novel. Praised by a distinguished critic, Anthony Boucher, for "its complete clarity and narrative drive" the novel retains its power today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11174'),
(15219, 'Mastering PHP 4.1', 'Jeremy Allen &amp; Charles Hornberger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Build Dynamic, Database-Driven Web Sites\n  <br />\n  PHP is a fully developed, server-side embedded scripting language, and its importance for web application development has grown with the rise of the Apache web server. Are you a novice programmer? This book starts with the basics and takes you wherever you want to go. A seasoned pro? You''ll be amazed at how much you can capitalize on PHP''s power and object-oriented support, and how it leverages your knowledge of other languages. Finally, if you''re a PHP user in search of an authoritative reference, you need look no further. Mastering PHP 4.1 guides you through all levels of real-world web programming problems and provides expert advice on which solutions work best.\n  <br />\n  Coverage Includes:\n  <br />\n  * Reading and writing files\n  <br />\n  * Validating data with regular expressions\n  <br />\n  * Accessing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n  <br />\n  * Accessing LDAP servers\n  <br />\n  * Generating images and PDF documents on the fly\n  <br />\n  * Building authentication and access-control systems\n  <br />\n  * Sending e-mail and building web-to-e-mail interfaces\n  <br />\n  * Creating your own classes\n  <br />\n  * Closing common security holes in PHP scripts\n  <br />\n  * Parsing and generating XML documents\n  <br />\n  * Using sessions to store persistent data\n  <br />\n  * Debugging misbehaving scripts\n  <br />\n  * Encrypting and decrypting sensitive data\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Build Dynamic, Database-Driven Web Sites\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  PHP is a fully developed, server-side embedded scripting language, and its importance for web application development has grown with the rise of the Apache web server. Are you a novice programmer? This book starts with the basics and takes you wherever you want to go. A seasoned pro? Youâ€™ll be amazed at how much you can capitalize on PHPâ€™s power and object-oriented support, and how it leverages your knowledge of other languages. Finally, if youâ€™re a PHP user in search of an authoritative reference, you need look no further.\n  <em>\n   Mastering PHP 4.1\n  </em>\n  guides you through all levels of real-world web programming problems and provides expert advice on which solutions work best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Coverage Includes:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Reading and writing files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Validating data with regular expressions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Accessing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Accessing LDAP servers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Generating images and PDF documents on the fly\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Building authentication and access-control systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Sending e-mail and building web-to-e-mail interfaces\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating your own classes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Closing common security holes in PHP scripts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Parsing and generating XML documents\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using sessions to store persistent data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging misbehaving scripts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Encrypting and decrypting sensitive data\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9107'),
(15220, 'Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2010', 'Mansfield, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7171'),
(15221, 'Mastering Windows Server 2003', 'Mark Minasi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6435'),
(15222, 'Material Informativ Securitate IT si implementare ISO v7- ISO/IEC 17799', 'Internews Network', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9464'),
(15223, 'Mathematical Statistics', 'Aleksandr Alekseevich Borovkov &amp; A. Moullagaliev', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A wide-ranging, extensive overview of modern mathematical statistics, this work reflects the current state of the field while being succinct and easy to grasp. The mathematical presentation is coherent and rigorous throughout. The author presents classical results and methods that form the basis of modern statistics, and examines the foundations of estimation theory, hypothesis testing theory and statistical game theory. He then considers statistical problems for two or more samples, and those in which observations are taken from different distributions. Methods of finding optimal and asymptotically optimal statistical procedures are given, along with treatments of homogeneity testing, regression, variance analysis and pattern recognition. The author also posits a number of methodological improvements that simplify proofs, and brings together a number of new results which have never before been published in a single monograph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9014'),
(15224, 'Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers', 'Klaus Weltner &amp; Wolfgang Weber &amp; Jean Grosjean &amp; Peter Schuster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mathematics is the basic language in physics and engineering. It is an essential tool which first and second year students have to master as soon as possible. A lack of competence in mathematics is the main reason for failure and drop out in the beginning periods of study.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This textbook offers an accessible and highly approved approach which is characterised by the combination of the textbook with a detailed study guide on an accompanying CD. This study guide divides the whole learning task into small units which the student is very likely to master successfully. Thus he or she is asked to read and study a limited section of the textbook and to return to the study guide afterwards. Working with the study guide his or her learning results are controlled, monitored and deepened by graded questions, exercises, repetitions and finally by problems and applications of the content studied. Since the degree of difficulties is slowly rising the students gain confidence and experience their own progress in mathematical competence thus fostering motivation. Furthermore in case of learning difficulties he or she is given supplementary explanations and in case of individual needs supplementary exercises and applications. So the sequence of the studies is individualised according to the individual performance and needs and can be regarded as full tutorial course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More than that the study guide aims to satisfy two objectives simultaneously: firstly it enables students to make effective use of the textbook and secondly it offers advice on the improvement of study skills. Empirical studies have shown that the student''s competence for using written information has improved significantly by using this study guide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7637'),
(15225, 'Mathesis sau bucuriile simple', 'Constantin Noica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4919'),
(15226, 'Matplotlib for Python Developers', 'Sandro Tosi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Build remarkable publication-quality plots the easy way\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create high quality 2D plots by using Matplotlib productively\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incremental introduction to Matplotlib, from the ground up to advanced levels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Embed Matplotlib in GTK+, Qt, and wxWidgets applications as well as web sites to utilize them in Python applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deploy Matplotlib in web applications and expose it on the Web using popular web frameworks such as Pylons and Django\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get to grips with hands-on code and complete realistic case study examples along with highly informative plot screenshots\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail Providing appealing plots and graphs is an essential part of various fields such as scientific research, data analysis, and so on. Matplotlib, the Python 2D plotting library, is used to produce publication-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. This book explains creating various plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, error charts, scatter-plots and much more using the powerful Matplotlib library to get impressive out-of-the-box results.This book gives you a comprehensive tour of the key features of the Matplotlib Python 2D plotting library, right from the simplest concepts to the most advanced topics. You will discover how easy it is to produce professional-quality plots when you have this book to hand.The book introduces the library in steps. First come the basics: introducing what the library is, its important prerequisites (and terminology), installing and configuring Matplotlib, and going through simple plots such as lines, grids, axes, and charts. Then we start with some introductory examples, and move ahead by discussing the various programming styles that Matplotlib allows, and several key features.Further, the book presents an important section on embedding applications. You will be introduced to three of the best known GUI libraries--GTK+, Qt, and wxWidgets--and presented with the steps to implement to include Matplotlib in an application written using each of them. You will learn through an incremental approach: from a simple example that presents the peculiarities of the GUI library, to more complex ones, using GUI designer tools.Because the Web permeates all of our activities, a part of the book is dedicated to showing how Matplotlib can be used in a web environment, and another section focuses on using Matplotlib with common Python web frameworks, namely, Pylons and Django. Last, but not least, you will go through real-world examples, where you will see some real situations in which you can use Matplotlib. What you will learn from this book?\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Exploit the interactive computing environment of IPython to its fullest in collaboration with Matplotlib\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn line and point styles and master their customization, customization of axis ticks, and develop several plot types available in Matplotlib, such as histograms, bars, pie charts, polar charts, and so on\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore Object Oriented Matplotlib and learn how to add subplots, multiple figures, additional and shared axes, logarithmic scaled axes, data plotting with tick formatting and locators, text properties, fonts, LaTeX typewriting, and contour plots\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get comfortable with Glade--a RAD tool--to quickly design a GUI for GTK+ and embed Matplotlib into it\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make the most of Matplotlib within the wxWidgets framework, in particular using the wxPython bindings and design a GUI with wxGlade\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the Qt Designer to draw a simple GUI and refer it to your Python code to fit your needs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Expose Matplotlib on the Web using CGI (through Apache mod_cgi), mod_python, Django, and Pylons in no time at all\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Profit from the real-world examples by simply following the stream--identify the data source, elaborate the data and generate the resulting plot\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This is a practical, hands-on book, with a lot of code and images. It presents the real code that generates every image and describes almost every single line of it, so that you know exactly what''s going on.Introductory, descriptive, and theoretical parts are mixed with examples, so that reading and understanding them is easy. All of the examples build gradually with code snippets, their explanations, and plot images where necessary with the complete code and output presented at the end. Who this book is written for? This book is essentially for Python developers who have a good knowledge of Python; no knowledge of Matplotlib is required. You will be creating 2D plots using Matplotlib in no time at all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7077'),
(15227, 'A Maze of Death', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11659');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15228, 'MCAD/MCSD: Visual Basic .NET XML Web Services and Server Components Study Guide', 'Pamela Fanstill &amp; Brian Reisman &amp; Mitch Ruebush &amp; Helen O&#39;boyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here''s the book you need to prepare for the Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework exam (70-310). This Study Guide provides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   In-depth coverage of official exam objectives\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Practical information on using Visual Basic .NET to develop Web services using XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Hands-on exercises designed to give you the skills needed to approach the exams with confidence\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Creating and managing Microsoft Windows services, serviced components, .NET remoting objects, and XML Web services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Consuming and manipulating data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Testing and debugging\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deploying Windows services, serviced components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web services\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hereâ€™s the book you need to prepare for the Developing XML Web Servicesand Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NETFramework exam (70-310). This Study Guide provides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    In-depth coverage of official exam objectives\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practicalinformation on using Visual Basic .NET to develop Web services usingXML\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Hands-on exercises designed to give you the skills needed to approach theexams with confidence\n    <br />\n    <strong>\n     Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives,including:\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating and managing Microsoft Windowsservices, serviced components, .NET remoting objects, and XML Webservices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Consuming and manipulating data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Testing anddebugging\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Deploying Windows services, serviced components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web services\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7781'),
(15229, 'MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-272): Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System', 'Walter J. Glenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Help maximize your performance on Exam 70-272, one of two required exams for the new Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Certification (MCDST), with this all-new MCDST TRAINING KIT. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most#151;including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case studies, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job. Focusing on building your ability to resolve end-user incident requests about applications running on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system in the corporate or home environment, this official study guide covers configuring and troubleshooting applications, including Microsoft Office and Microsoft Internet Explorer; resolving issues related to usability and application customization; configuring and troubleshooting connectivity for applications; and configuring application security features.Ace your exam preparation by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD-ROM features 425 practice questions. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers#151;including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 180-day evaluation version of Windows XP software and other resources on CD-ROM#151;making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9384'),
(15230, 'MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-272): Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System', 'Walter J. Glenn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Help maximize your performance on Exam 70-272, one of two required exams for the new Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Certification (MCDST), with this all-new MCDST TRAINING KIT. This kit contains the tools and features that exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case studies, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Focusing on building your ability to resolve end-user incident requests about applications running on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system in the corporate or home environment, this official study guide covers configuring and troubleshooting applications, including Microsoft Office and Microsoft Internet Explorer; resolving issues related to usability and application customization; configuring and troubleshooting connectivity for applications; and configuring application security features.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace your exam preparation by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD-ROM features 300 practice questions. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 30-day evaluation version of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 software and other resources on CD-ROM-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9385'),
(15231, 'MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit', 'Ian Mclean &amp; Orin Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EXAM PREP GUIDE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fully updated for Windows Server 2008 R2! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-646â€”and on the jobâ€”with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what youâ€™ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maximize your performance on the exam by mastering the skills and experience measured by these objectives:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Planning for server deployment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Planning for server management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitoring and maintaining servers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Planning application and data provisioning\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Planning for business continuity and high availability\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  &lt;&gt;b&gt;PRACTICE TESTS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ian McLean, MCITP, MCDBA, MCT, has 40+ years of experience in the education and IT industries. He has coauthored numerous Self-Paced Training Kits covering Windows Server, WindowsÂ® client, Microsoft Exchange Server, and SQL ServerÂ® technologies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Orin Thomas is a consultant, writer, and Microsoft MVP whose books include the Self-Paced Training Kits for Exams 70-647, 70-662, 70-680, and 70-686. He holds the MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010 certification.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7777'),
(15232, 'MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-290: Managing and maintaning a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment', 'Dan Holme &amp; Orin Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-290, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want mostâ€”including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.  Focusing on account and resource management in a Windows Server 2003 environment, this official study guide covers topics such as managing physical and logical devices; users, computers, and groups; access and permissions; the server environment; and disaster recovery services.  Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on Windows Server 2003 by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD features 300 practice questions and pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 and a 15 percent exam discount voucherâ€”making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6414'),
(15233, 'MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure', 'Syngress &amp; Dan Douglas &amp; Susan Snedaker &amp; Kirk Vigil &amp; Hal Kurz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Syngress Study Guides guarantee comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives. There are no longer any short cuts or gimmicks that allow candidates to pass Microsoft''s new, more rigorous exams. The days of cramming to become a "paper MCSE" are over; candidates must have a full grasp of all core concepts and plenty of hands-on experience to become certified. This book provides complete coverage of Microsoft Exam 70-291 and features one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor-led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation, this study guide &amp; DVD training system gives students 100% coverage of official Microsoft exam objectives plus realistic test prep. The System package consists of:\n  <br />\n  1) STUDY GUIDE. 800 pages of coverage explicitly organized in the identical structure of Microsoft''s exam objectives. Sections are designed to "standalone", allowing readers to focus on those areas in which they are weakest and skim topics they may have already mastered.\n  <br />\n  2) DVD: A full hour of instructor-led training, complete with on-screen configurations and networking schematics, demystifying the toughest exam topics.\n  <br />\n  3) ONLINE PRACTICE EXAMS AND E-BOOK. Most exam candidates indicate that PRACTICE EXAMS are their single most valuable exam prep tool. Buyers of our Study Guides have immediate access to our exam simulations located at WWW.SYNGRESS.COM/SOLUTIONS. Syngress practice exams are highly regarded for rigor or the questions, the extensive explanation of the right AND wrong answers, and the direct hyperlinks from the exams to appropriate sections in the e-book for remediation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers will be fully prepared to pass the exam based on our 100% Certified guarantee.\n  <br />\n  Readers may save thousands of dollars required to purchase alternative methods of exam preparation.\n  <br />\n  Because of its breadth of coverage, this book will serve as a post-certification reference for IT professionals.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This book and DVD provides complete coverage of Microsoft Exam 70-291 and features one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD instructor-led training, and Web-based exam simulation that provides students with 100 percent coverage of official Microsoft exam objectives plus realistic test preparation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6373'),
(15234, 'MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-299. Windows Server 2003 Network Security Administration: Study Guide', 'Russ Kaufmann &amp; Russ Kaufman &amp; Bill English', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Here''s the book you need to prepare for the\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Implementing andAdministering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exam(70-299).\n  </strong>\n  This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements oftoday''s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessibleinstructional approach that earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide"designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this bookprovides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Clear and concise information onadministering a secure Windows Server 2003 network\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Practical examples andinsights drawn from real-world experience\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leading-edge exam preparationsoftware, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards for yourPalm\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You''ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics,including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Implementing, Managing, and TroubleshootingSecurity Policies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing, Managing, and Troubleshooting PatchManagement Infrastructure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing, Managing, and TroubleshootingSecurity for Network Communications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Planning, Configuring, and Troubleshooting Authentication, Authorization, and PKI\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bill English, MCSE, MCT, is President of Networknowledge, a training and consulting firm located in Minnesota. He has written numerous books, including the Administrator''s Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Russ Kaufmann, MCSE, MCT, has over 11 years'' IT experience, most recently with the Root Group as a Microsoft Practice Manager.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7684'),
(15235, 'MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Second Edition', 'Walter Glenn &amp; Anthony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-270Â—and on the jobÂ—with this official Microsoft study guide, now fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies plus other key topics. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, hands-on exercises, troubleshooting labs, and review questions.The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 425 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersÂ—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Perform an installation or upgrade, including remote deployment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Configure and customize the desktop environment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Administer disks, device drivers, printers, file systems, and other resources\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Manage TCP/IP networking and support remote and mobile users\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune system performance\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEW!Â—Administer security settings and services, including the advances in Windows XP Service Pack 2 Readiness Review Suite on CD Powered by MeasureUpYour kit includes:\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—15% exam discount voucher from Microsoft. Offer expires December 31, 2006. Details inside.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—Fully reengineered self-paced study guide with expert exam tips.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—Case scenarios and troubleshooting labs for real-world expertise.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—120-day evaluation version of Windows XP Professional software with Windows XP Service Pack 2.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—eBook in PDF format.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook.\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     NEWÂ—Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition eBook. A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O''Reilly Media''s Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O''Reilly''s web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7348'),
(15236, 'MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Second Edition eBook', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7943'),
(15237, 'MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit on Exam 70-290', 'Dan Holme &amp; Orin Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-290, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want mostâ€”including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.  Focusing on account and resource management in a Windows Server 2003 environment, this official study guide covers topics such as managing physical and logical devices; users, computers, and groups; access and permissions; the server environment; and disaster recovery services.  Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on Windows Server 2003 by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD features 300 practice questions and pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 and a 15 percent exam discount voucherâ€”making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7377'),
(15238, 'MCSA/MCSE Training Kit. Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server(tm) 2003 Network Infrastructure', 'J. C. Mackin &amp; Ian Mclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-291â€”and on the jobâ€”with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, hands-on exercises, troubleshooting labs, and review questions.  The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 425 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including a learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.  You also get expert exam tips plus a full review section inside the book that covers all objectives and sub-objectives. Maximize your performance on Exam 70-291 by learning how to:  Install and configure TCP/IP  Use DHCP to manage IP addressing Configure and manage DNS clients, servers, and zones Manage routing and remote access, including VPNs Implement and administer security procedures Monitor traffic, troubleshoot connectivity, and resolve service issues  Readiness Review Suite Includes 425 practice questions on CD Your kit includes:  NEWâ€”Self-paced study guide with complete objective-by-objective review plus expert exam tips NEWâ€”Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options  NEWâ€”Case studies and troubleshooting scenarios for real-world expertise NEWâ€”180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition NEWâ€”Windows Server 2003 Sampler, with excerpts from Microsoft Press reference books NEWâ€”eBook in PDF format NEWâ€”Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition, eBook A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6357'),
(15239, 'MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2003 Network Security Administration : Study Guide', 'Russ Kaufmann &amp; Bill English', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7782'),
(15240, 'MCSE 70-294. Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure', 'Jill Spealman &amp; Kurt Hudson &amp; Microsoft Corporation &amp; Melissa Craft', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This volume is the official Microsoft study guide for MCP Exam 70-217: Implementing and administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 directory services infrastructure. The modular system of lessons and exercises carries readers through all the requirements for planning, configuring, installing, administering, managing, troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimizing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jill Spealman is a technical writer and instructional designer, Jill is the owner of Wordsmith, Inc., a Chicago-area company that develops training materials. She has authored six training and certification books for Microsoft Press on Windows NT and Windows 2000, and has received national awards for these works from the Society for Technical Communication. Jill has 16 years of experience developing documentation and training, and has worked for Thomson NETG, Wallace, Waste Management, Rockwell FirstPoint Contact, GAB Robins, and National Move Management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kurt Hudson started working with information technology systems in 1989 while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Since 1996, he is a computer consultant and president of HudLogic, Inc. Kurt has earned many technical ratings, which include: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE in Windows 2000, NT 4.0+I, and NT 3.51), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+), Security+, Network+, A+, and i-Net+. He also has a graduate degree in business management (Masters of Management) from Troy State University, AL. He has also contributed to well over 30 commercial books and articles on computer networking and related technical certifications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq â€˜MSFTâ€™) is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great softwareâ€”any time, any place, and on any device.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7952'),
(15241, 'MCSE Exam 70-298: Windows Server 2003 Network Security Design', 'Brian Reisman &amp; Mitch Ruebush &amp; Sybex', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here''s the book you need to prepare for the Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network exam (70-298). This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today''s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Clear and concise information on designing a secure Windows based network\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards for your Palm\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You''ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Creating the Conceptual Design for Network Infrastructure Security by Gathering and Analyzing Business and Technical Requirements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating the Logical Design for Network Infrastructure Security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating the Physical Design for Network Infrastructure Security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Designing an Access Control Strategy for Data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating the Physical Design for Client Infrastructure Security\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Here''s the book you need to prepare for the\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Designing Security fora Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exam (70-298).\n  </strong>\n  This StudyGuide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today''s certificationcandidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approachthat earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Clear and concise information on designing a secure Windowsbased network\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practical examples and insights drawn from real-worldexperience\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engineand electronic flashcards for your Palm\n    <br />\n    You''ll also find authoritativecoverage of key exam topics, including:\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating theConceptual Design for Network Infrastructure Security by Gathering and AnalyzingBusiness and Technical Requirements\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating the Logical Design for NetworkInfrastructure Security\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating the Physical Design for NetworkInfrastructure Security\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Designing an Access Control Strategy for Data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating the Physical Design for Client Infrastructure Security\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7783'),
(15242, 'MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-294): Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure', 'Jill Spealman &amp; Kurt Hudson &amp; Melissa Craft &amp; Anthony Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-294â€”and on the jobâ€”with this official Microsoft study guide, now updated for Service Pack 1. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, hands-on exercises, troubleshooting labs, and review questions.  The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 425 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get expert exam tips and detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:  Plan, install, and configure an Active Directory infrastructure UPDATEDâ€”Manage forest and domain structure and site replication Create and manage OU structure and user and group accounts Plan Group Policy strategy using Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) NEWâ€”Use the new Security Configuration Wizard for user and computer security settings  Manage and troubleshoot Group Policy and Active Directory performance  Your kit includes:  15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside the book.  Official self-paced study guide with expert exam tips. Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options. Case scenarios and troubleshooting labs for real-world expertise. NEWâ€”180-day evaluation version of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition. NEWâ€”Demos and bonus materials on the CD. Fully searchable eBook. A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6426'),
(15243, 'MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure', 'Jill Spealman &amp; Kurt Hudson &amp; Microsoft Corporation &amp; Melissa Craft', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jill Spealman is a technical writer and instructional designer, Jill is the owner of Wordsmith, Inc., a Chicago-area company that develops training materials. She has authored six training and certification books for Microsoft Press on Windows NT and Windows 2000, and has received national awards for these works from the Society for Technical Communication. Jill has 16 years of experience developing documentation and training, and has worked for Thomson NETG, Wallace, Waste Management, Rockwell FirstPoint Contact, GAB Robins, and National Move Management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kurt Hudson started working with information technology systems in 1989 while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Since 1996, he is a computer consultant and president of HudLogic, Inc. Kurt has earned many technical ratings, which include: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE in Windows 2000, NT 4.0+I, and NT 3.51), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+), Security+, Network+, A+, and i-Net+. He also has a graduate degree in business management (Masters of Management) from Troy State University, AL. He has also contributed to well over 30 commercial books and articles on computer networking and related technical certifications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq â€˜MSFTâ€™) is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great softwareâ€”any time, any place, and on any device.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7378'),
(15244, 'MCSE Training Kit-Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Exam 70-270', 'Rick Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7368'),
(15245, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development', 'Matthew A. Stoecker &amp; Tony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Announcing an all-new MCTS Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-526, the exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.Focusing on Windows-based client development, this official study guide covers topics such as creating a UI for a Windows Forms application; implementing data-bound controls; managing the print process; enhancing usability; implementing asynchronous programming techniques; developing Windows Forms controls; and configuring and deploying applications.Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on using the .NET Framework for Windows-based client development by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The CD features 425 practice questions and a best-of-class test engine with pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers?including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual StudioÂ® 2005 software and a 15 percent exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7346'),
(15246, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-528): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development eBook', 'Glenn Johnson &amp; Tony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7306'),
(15247, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-620): Configuring Windows Vista Client eBook', 'Ian Mclean &amp; Orin Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  version: first printing\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7369'),
(15248, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-642): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure eBook', 'J.C. Mackin &amp; Tony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7362'),
(15249, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit by MCTS Exam 70-536', 'Tony Northrup &amp; Shawn Wildermuth &amp; Bill Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Exam Prep Guide Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536â€”and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what youâ€™ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:  Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications Enhance your application by adding graphics and images Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption Work with serialization and reflection techniques Instrument your applications with logging and tracing Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke  Practice Tests Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Your kit includes:  15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.  Official self-paced study guide. Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. 450 practice and review questions. Case scenarios and lab exercises. Code samples on CD. 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Fully searchable eBook.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7371'),
(15250, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit Exam 70-536', 'Tony Northrup &amp; Shawn Wildermuth &amp; Bill Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Exam Prep Guide Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536â€”and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what youâ€™ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:  Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications Enhance your application by adding graphics and images Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption Work with serialization and reflection techniques Instrument your applications with logging and tracing Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke  Practice Tests Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersâ€”including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Your kit includes:  15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.  Official self-paced study guide. Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. 450 practice and review questions. Case scenarios and lab exercises. Code samples on CD. 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Fully searchable eBook.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7307'),
(15251, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit on Exam 70-528', 'Glenn Johnson &amp; Anthony Northrup &amp; Tony Northrup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Announcing an all-new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-528, an exam for the new MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.Focusing on Web-based client development, this official study guide covers topics such as creating and configuring Web applications; using Microsoft ADO.NET, XML, and data-bound controls; creating custom Web controls; using ASP.NET state management; caching; customizing and personalizing a Web application; implementing authentication and authorization; creating ASP.NET mobile Web applications; and tracing, configuring, and deploying applications. Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on using the .NET Framework for Web-based client development by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The CD features 425 practice questions and a flexible test engine with pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers--including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual StudioÂ® 2005 and a 15 percent exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7383'),
(15252, 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit on Exam 70-529', 'Bill Ryan &amp; Shannon Horn &amp; Mark Blomsma', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Announcing an all-new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-529, the exam for the new MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.Focusing on distributed application development, this official study guide covers topics such as creating XML Web services; configuring and customizing a Web service application; creating, configuring, and deploying remote applications; implementing asynchronous calls and remoting events; implementing Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0; creating and accessing a serviced component; and using message queuing.Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on using the .NET Framework for distributed application development by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The CD features 425 practice questions and a flexible test engine with pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual StudioÂ® 2005 and a 15 percent exam discount voucher--making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7370'),
(15253, 'MCTS Training Kit (Exam 70-640): Configuring Windows Server 2008 eBook', 'Dan Holme', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7305'),
(15254, 'MCTS Training Kit (Exam 70-643): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure eBook', 'J.C. Mackin &amp; Anil Desai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7308'),
(15255, 'MCTS Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7 eBook', 'Ian Mclean &amp; Orin Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7303'),
(15256, 'MCTS Windows 7 Configuring 70-680 Study Guide', 'Sean Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This comprehensive guide book prepares the reader for Microsoft''s brand new MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring exam (70-680). You''ll find 100% coverage of all the exam objectives. It provides practical, real-world scenarios; hands-on exercises, and challenging assessment questions. This book prepares you for the 70-680 exam, called the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist certification for Windows 7. This book shows you how to install, migrate, upgrade, configure, support and maintain Windows 7 for the exam. Also included in this book is how to troubleshoot deploying Windows 7, network connectivity, configuring access to resources, configure mobile computing, monitoring and maintaining Windows 7, and all the new features of Windows 7. This book is absolutley the ideal guide to prepare you to take the 70-680 exam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7302'),
(15257, 'MCTS Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration: Exam 70-640', 'Will Panek, James Chellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7312'),
(15258, 'MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration', 'Will Schmied', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration Exam 70-236\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7310'),
(15259, 'Memento Mori', 'Mihai Eminescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4748'),
(15260, 'Memento Mori', 'Eminescu Mihai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8525'),
(15261, 'Memorii', 'Farah Pahlavi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8530');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15262, 'Microeconomics', 'James D. Gwartney &amp; Richard Stroup &amp; Russell S. Sobel &amp; David A. Macpherson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James D. Gwartney holds the Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University, where he directs the Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education. He served as Chief Economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress during 1999-2000. His most recent publication, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity (St. Martinâ€™s Press, 2005) is a primer on economics and personal finance designed for the interested lay person. His publications have appeared in both professional journals and popular media such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of Washington. His current research focuses on the measurement and determination of factors that influence cross-country differences in income levels and growth rates. In this regard, he is the senior researcher responsible for the preparation of the annual report, Economic Freedom of the World, which provides information on the institutions and policies of 130 countries. This data set, published by a worldwide network of institutes in 70 countries, is widely used by scholars investigating topics ranging from economic growth to peaceful relations among nations. Gwartney was invited by the incoming Putin Administration in March 2000 to make presentations and have discussions with leading Russian economists concerning the future of the Russian economy. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Adam Smith Award of the Association of Private Enterprise Education for his contribution to the advancement of free market ideals. He is the President-elect of the Southern Economic Association.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard L. Stroup is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Montana State University, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and a Visiting Professor in Economics at North Carolina State University. For the three years before his retirement from Montana State University, he served as head of its Department of Agricultural Economics &amp; Economics. Professor Stroup, who has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, was one of the originators of the â€œNew Resource Economics,â€ the academic approach popularly known as free market environmentalism. He also served as director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Interior and has been published widely in professional journals and popular publications. He is author or contributing editor of numerous books on the economics of resources and the environment and the author of Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment (Cato Institute). Most recently he co-authored Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity (St. Martinâ€™s Press, 2005) with James Gwartney and Dwight Lee. Stroup has lectured throughout the United States and abroad to professional and general audiences. He held the Hayek Chair in Economics at the University of Graz in Austria, in the fall of 2005. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Russell S. Sobel is Professor of Economics and holder of the James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at West Virginia University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University in 1994. He has published over 75 books and articles, and has received national recognition for his work on FEMA reform. Sobel was the founding Director of the West Virginia University Entrepreneurship Center, and he serves on the advisory boards of five major professional and academic organizations. He has received numerous awards for both his teaching and research. He regularly teaches courses in both principles of economics and public economics, and gives lectures at economic education outreach programs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  David A. Macpherson is the director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and the Rod and Hope Brim Eminent Scholar of Economics at Florida State University, where he has received two university-wide awards for teaching excellence. Professor Macpherson is the author of many articles in leading labor economics and industrial relations journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, 8th, as well as the annual Union Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey. His specialty is applied labor economics. His current research interests include pensions, discrimination, labor unions, and the minimum wage. He received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7638'),
(15263, 'Microsoft 70-270 Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional', 'TestKing', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Microsoft 70-270Â Installing, Configuring and AdministeringÂ Microsoft Windows XP Professional\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7372'),
(15264, 'Microsoft 70-271 Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System', 'TestKing', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Microsoft 70-271Â Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a MicrosoftÂ Windows XP Operating System\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7373'),
(15265, 'Microsoft 70-272 Supporting Users and Troubleshooting DesktopApplications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System', 'Gary', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Microsoft 70-272Â Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop\n </div>\n <div>\n  ApplicationsÂ onÂ a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7381'),
(15266, 'Microsoft 70-293 Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure', 'TestKing', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Microsoft 70-293Â Planning and MaintainingÂ aÂ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NetworkÂ Infrastructure\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7374'),
(15267, 'Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking', 'Mitch Tulloch &amp; Ingrid Tull &amp; Ingrid Tulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking\n  </em>\n  has a great deal to offer its readers--it''s thoroughly researched, well written, and carefully laid out. A more apt title would have been\n  <em>\n   The Encyclopedia of Microsoft Networking\n  </em>\n  , however, since Windows NT, Windows 2000, and additional Microsoft networking solutions are emphasized at the expense of other popular and robust technologies. If you run a Windows shop or just want a reference on hand while you prepare for a Microsoft networking certification test, you''ll be pleased by the contents of this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Mitch Tulloch has done a super job of defining (and, more importantly, explaining) hundreds of terms involving connecting computers to one another, sending signals across those connections, and performing useful work (such as database queries and electronic commerce transactions) with those signals. Entries tend to be long and thorough, often including examples or careful conceptual walk-throughs. The design team that organized this book deserves high praise too, because there are so many ways to find terms that are of interest to readers. (All the terms appear in a table of contents and an index, as well as in alphabetical order in the body of the encyclopedia.) There is also plenty of cross-referencing among terms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The prime weakness in this book isn''t necessarily that it favors Microsoft products, but that it''s sometimes actively hostile to competing technologies. Linux is defined as suffering from corporate "reluctance to use free software ... because there is no single company responsible for its development and support," making it suitable only for students who want to learn the Unix operating system. The first statement is a standard Microsoft argument against the adoption of Linux, although it contains some truth. The second statement reflects an error of omission: Linux is suited to such students but also to many other kinds of users. The book, not surprisingly, also lacks an entry for the Apache Web server. So if you''re interested mainly in Microsoft products and don''t care about these matters, this is a great book.\n  <em>\n   --David Wall\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered:\n  </strong>\n  Computer networking, particularly as implemented under Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 9x, Windows NT 4, and Windows 2000. Physical media, protocols, applications, and whole business solutions that have to do with networking are explained in an alphabetically organized series of entries.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Traditional networking encyclopedias tend to focus only on networking hardware, standards, and protocols and not much else. But shifting paradigms and innovative software have forced a reappraisal of what a networking encyclopedia should be about. My book tries to accomodate these changes by covering everything that the modern networking professional needs to know, including LAN/WAN devices and components, cabling, various network and data storage architectures, wireless and cellular communications standards and technologies, protocols, incipient and established standards, underlying engineering concepts, network operating systems, Internet services and technologies, programming languages and architectures for building distributed applications, certification programs for networking professionals, and of course Microsoft software, services, and innovations. A fair portion of my encyclopedia focuses on Microsoft technologies, and why not? You''ll find Microsoft software on virtually every desktop of every company in the world, in back rooms running mission-critical line-of-business software, on handheld PDAs, in embedded industrial systems--in short, almost everywhere. Today''s competent networking professional must be familiar with these technologies, and there has been a need for a general networking encyclopedia which acknowledges Microsoft''s pivotal role in building the networks that support the modern enterprise. Other companies have made contributions to networking as significant as Microsoft, and coverage of their products and services have been included though to a more limited extent. If you work exclusively with Novell products, you should buy their Novell''s Encyclopedia of Networking. But if you are a networking professional who has any contact at all with Microsoft software (and who doesn''t these days?) then my book is for you. Mitch Tulloch (author)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7351'),
(15268, 'Microsoft Encylopedia of Networking, Second Edition', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7950'),
(15269, 'Microsoft Excel VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner', 'Duane Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Written specifically with the beginner in mind, "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition" is the follow up to the most successful and best selling title in the Absolute Beginner series. The book contains completely updated information written for the current version of Excel, Excel 2003. "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition," is geared towards both students taking introductory programming courses, as well as professionals who frequently use spreadsheets and want to expand their knowledge of the capabilities of Excel by writing their own programs. In recent years, programming has experienced a surge unlike any other technical skill, due to both advancements in technology and the declining cost of computer hardware and software. This boom has created a need for more programmers and this book teaches programming using a very popular software package, making it perfect for new programmers. "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition," uses the Excel VBA language to provide readers with an introduction to programming. Concentrating on introductory programming topics and good programming practices, the book uses the VBA Excel language and the creation of simple games to teach these topics and practices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9885'),
(15270, 'Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook', 'Packt Publishing, Limited', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This book is written in a cookbook-style format and provides practical, immediately usable task-based recipes that show you how to manage and maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment with Windows PowerShell 2.0. Each chapter of the book is written so that it can be used as a desktop reference, or it can be read from beginning to end, allowing you to build a solid foundation for building scripts in your Exchange environment. This book is for messaging professionals who want to learn how to build real-world scripts with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the Exchange Management Shell. If you are a network or systems administrator responsible for managing and maintaining Exchange Server 2010, then this book is for you. The recipes in this cookbook touch on each of the core Exchange 2010 server roles and require a working knowledge of supporting technologies including Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory, and DNS. This book covers the latest additions to Exchange Server 2010 including Service Pack 1. A basic understanding of Exchange Server 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 is highly recommended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7675'),
(15271, 'Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 24seven', 'McBee, Jim. &amp; Gerber, Barry.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6387'),
(15272, 'Microsoft Offce 2010 Plain &amp; Simple', 'Gerald Joyce &amp; Marianne Moon &amp; Katherine Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9861'),
(15273, 'Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows', 'Steve Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide\n  </em>\n  , written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it''s best to use it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Office for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide\n  </em>\n  provides in-depth instructions on many of the new features and changes introduced in Office 2010, such as the following:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Office-wide features\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Backstage (File tab), customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, Paste Preview, image-editing tools, screen clippings, Office Web Apps\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Word\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Navigation Pane, searching for graphics and tables, text effects, contextual spell checking\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Excel\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Sparklines (cell-based charts), new conditional formatting options\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PowerPoint\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Reading View, presentation sections, Animation Painter tool, video-editing tools, comparing and combining presentations, creating videos from presentations, broadcasting presentations on the Web\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Outlook\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Using and finding commands in the new Ribbon interface, working with Conversation view, creating Quick Step macros\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30+ years of experience as a software expert, technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve wonÂ¹t waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Steveâ€™s guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is â€œThe Three Câ€™s.â€ The material must be clear, concise, and correct. Thumb through a copy today and find out why this is the quickest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Office 2010\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Table of Contents\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part I: Getting Started\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1: Whatâ€™s New in Office 2010\n  <br />\n  Chapter 2: Office Basics Chapter 3: Tables, Charts, and Art\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part II: Microsoft Word\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 4: Getting Started with Word 2010\n  <br />\n  Chapter 5: Formatting Documents Chapter 6: Creating Outlines Chapter 7: Sharing Word Documents\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part III: Microsoft Excel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 8: Getting Started with Excel 2010\n  <br />\n  Chapter 9: Formatting Worksheets and Data Chapter 10: Formulas and Functions Chapter 11: Working with Tables Chapter 12: Creating Charts\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part IV: Microsoft PowerPoint\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 13: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010\n  <br />\n  Chapter 14: Creating a Presentation Chapter 15: Wrapping Up a Presentation\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part V: Microsoft Outlook\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 16: Getting Started with Outlook 2010\n  <br />\n  Chapter 17: Working with Contacts Chapter 18: Composing and Sending Mail Chapter 19: Receiving Mail Chapter 20: Managing the Mail Chapter 21: Tasks and Appointments\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part VI: Office on the Web\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 22: Office Web Apps\n </p>\n <p>\n  Index\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9871'),
(15274, 'Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth', 'Joe Habraken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Office 2010 In Depth is the beyond-the-basics, beneath-the-surface guide for everyone who wants to streamline their work with Office 2010, and get more done in less time. Best selling technology expert Joe Habraken provides specific, tested, proven solutions to the problems Office users run into every day: challenges other books ignore or oversimplify. Habraken thoroughly covers all facets of working with Office 2010''s core features and techniques, and powerful new enhancements such as: " The updated customizable Ribbon and new Backstage full-screen options menu " Vastly improved image and illustration tools " Live Preview for tasks like Paste, Insert, or Theme change " Improved integration with SharePoint services, Windows Live, and Office Web Apps " And much more Simply put, no other book offers Office 2010 users this much simplicity, usable content, flexibility, and value. As with all In Depth books, Office 2010 In Depth presents comprehensive coverage, breakthrough techniques, exclusive shortcuts, quick access to information, troubleshooting help for tough problems, and real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out. This book is both a reference and a desk-side resource, providing in depth coverage of important Office 2010 applications features and tools.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   By Joe Habraken, an Office expert and best selling author\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers the hottest new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   For everyone who wants to get the most out of Office 2010, from hobbyists to power users to corporate developers\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9858'),
(15275, 'Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out eBook', 'Ed Bott &amp; Carl Siechert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9854'),
(15276, 'Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling', 'Wayne L. Winston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Master the analysis and business modeling techniques that help you transform your data into bottom-line results. Award-winning business professor and corporate consultant Wayne Winston shares the best of his real-world experience in this practical guideâ€”now updated for Excel 2007. Use Wayneâ€™s proven practices and hands-on exercises to help you work smarter, make better decisions, and gain the competitive edge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Solve real-world business problems with Excel 2007!\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Maximize profitsâ€”determine NPV, optimize your product mix, calculate ROI\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create best, worst, and most-likely case scenarios for sales\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Analyze investment performance and help minimize risk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Track your personal finances, calculate loan terms, and plan for retirement\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use trend and seasonality to forecast revenue\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Estimate a productâ€™s demand curve and manage inventory with precision Interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Assign a dollar value to customer loyalty\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Solve work scheduling problems and shorten wait times for customer service queues\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   PLUSâ€”predict outcomes of sporting events, presidential elections, and more!\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  CD Includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Sample files from each chapter\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Problem-and-solution setsâ€”build your expertise!\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Fully searchable eBook\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  A Note Regarding the CD or DVD\n </p>\n <p>\n  The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9883'),
(15277, 'Microsoft Official Academic Course: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-Active Directory Infrastructure', 'Wendy Corbin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7363'),
(15278, 'Microsoft TestKing Exam 70-549, 45 questions', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications by Using the Microsoft .\n </div>\n <div>\n  NET Framework\n </div>\n <div>\n  Number: 70-549\n </div>\n <div>\n  Passing Score: 700\n </div>\n <div>\n  Time Limit: 120 min\n </div>\n <div>\n  File Version: 1.0\n </div>\n <div>\n  Exam Name: PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications by Using the\n </div>\n <div>\n  Microsoft .NET Framework\n </div>\n <div>\n  Exam Code: 70-549\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7375'),
(15279, 'Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 for Windows and Mobile Applications Introductory', 'Gary B. Shelly &amp; Corinne Hoisington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 2010 FOR WINDOWS AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS, INTRODUCTORY teaches students the essentials of computer programming using the latest Visual Basic programming language, Visual Basic 2010.\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n (source: Bol.de)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7676'),
(15280, 'Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 for Windows Applications', 'Gary Shelly &amp; Corinne Hoisington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 2010 FOR WINDOWS AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS, INTRODUCTORY teaches students the essentials of computer programming using the latest Visual Basic programming language, Visual Basic 2010.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gary B. Shelly wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. More than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman Series'' textbooks have been sold. Gary and a talented group of contributing authors have produced books on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software that are the leading textbooks in the computer technology market today. Gary has hosted the annual Shelly Cashman Institute, a week-long training event focusing on the latest topics in technology, for the past 34 years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corinne Hoisington is a professor at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, VA with over 20 years of teaching experience. Professor Hoisington is the 2004 recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Computer Programming award. A dynamic speaker, she regularly presents on new technology and education trends to instructors across the United States.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7778'),
(15281, 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed', 'Lars Powers &amp; Mike Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   MicrosoftÂ® Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed\n  </em>\n  is an end-to-end, deep dive into the Visual Studio development environment. Itâ€™s meant to provide you guidance on how you can squeeze the ultimate productivity out of the many features built into the .NET development tools. Understanding how to use your tools will make you a better developer. This book was written with that premise as its focus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors have folded in real-world development experience alongside detailed information about the IDE. The result is practical, easy-to-employ information that will make you a more productive and complete developer. This book also helps to ease your transition from other development environments and former versions of Visual Studio.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finally, this book provides an entire section dedicated to Visual Studio Team System. It will help you understand how the Team Architect, Team Developer, Team Database Developer, and Team Tester work with the Team Foundation Server to increase team collaboration, visibility, and productivity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   MicrosoftÂ® Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed\n  </em>\n  provides straight, to-the-point answers to common developer questions about the IDE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detailed Information onâ€¦\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Whatâ€™s new in Visual Studio 2008\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with solutions, projects, editors, and designers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing ASP.NET applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing and consuming Web Services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating and hosting workflow-based applications using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with data and databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Refactoring code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automating the IDE\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing macros, add-ins, and wizards\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using team collaboration and the Visual Studio Team System products\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing source code changes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tracking projects with Team Foundation Server and work items\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Modeling applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing unit, web, and load testing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with Team Foundation Build\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lars Powers\n  </strong>\n  is an ISV Technical Advisor on the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team. He works with Microsoftâ€™s largest global ISV partners to help them craft solutions on top of Microsoftâ€™s next-generation technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Lars was an independent consultant providing training and mentoring on the .NET platform.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mike Snell\n  </strong>\n  runs the Solutions division at CEI (www.ceiamerica.com). Mike and his team deliver architecture, consulting, and mentoring to clients looking to build great enterprise and commercial software. Mike is also a Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9141'),
(15282, 'Microsoft Windows Internals', 'Mark E. Russinovich &amp; David A. Solomon &amp; Jim Allchin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Delve inside the Windows kernel with noted internals experts Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, in collaboration with the Microsoft Windows product development team. This classic guideâ€”fully updated for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, including 64-bit extensionsâ€”describes the architecture and internals of the Windows operating system. Youâ€™ll find hands-on experiments you can use to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand, along with advanced troubleshooting information to help you keep your systems running smoothly and efficiently. Whether youâ€™re a developer or a system administrator, youâ€™ll find critical architectural insights that you can quickly apply for better design, debugging, performance, and support.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Get in-depth, inside knowledge of the Windows operating system:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the key mechanisms that configure and control Windows, including dispatching, startup and shutdown, and the registry\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore the Windows security model, including access, privileges, and auditing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Investigate internal system architecture using the kernel debugger and other tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examine the data structures and algorithms that deal with processes, threads, and jobs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the operation and format of NTFS, and troubleshoot file system access problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   View the Windows networking stack from top to bottom, including mapping, APIs, name resolution, and protocol drivers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshoot boot problems and perform crash analysis\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Russinovich is chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software, a company that specializes in advanced systems software for Microsoft Windows. He is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine where he contributes to the Windows Power Tools column. He and David Solomon deliver public and private seminars on Windows operating system internals and advanced troubleshooting to numerous companies and organizations, including regular deliveries to Microsoft employees. They also created a 12 hour self-paced Windows internals video tutorial which Microsoft licensed for worldwide corporate use. Mark is also a frequent speaker at major industry conferences such as Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft IT Forum, Windows IT Pro Magazineâ€™s Connections, and MCP Magazine''s TechMentor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mark has a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, both in computer engineering. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, also in computer engineering. Before founding Winternals Software, he worked at Compuware NuMega Laboratories and IBMâ€™s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Solomon has focused on explaining the internals of the Windows NT operating system line since 1992. He has taught his world renowned Windows Internals classes to thousands of developers and IT professionals worldwide. His clients include all the major software and hardware companies, including Microsoft. He was a recipient of the 1993 Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is David''s fourth book. His first book was Windows NT for OpenVMS Professionals (Digital Press/Butterworth Heinemann, 1996). It explained Windows NT to VMS-knowledgeable programmers and system administrators. Prior to starting his own company, David worked for nine years as a project leader and developer in the VMS operating system development group at Digital Equipment Corporation. His second book, Inside Windows NT 2nd edition, covered the internals of Windows NT 4.0. His third book, Inside Windows 2000 3rd edition, was co-authored with Mark Russinovich.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition to organizing and teaching seminars, David is a regular speaker at technical conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and Microsoft PDCs. He has also served as technical chair for several past Windows NT conferences. When he''s not researching Windows, David enjoys sailing, reading, and Star Trek.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6360'),
(15283, 'Microsoft Windows Script Host 2.0 Developer&#39;s Guide', 'Gunter Born', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Since the release of Microsoft Windows 98, the Windows Script Host (WSH) has become increasingly popular as a tool for automating routine, daily PC tasks to save time and effort. But learning how to script with WSH has been difficult because of a lack of good documentation--until how. Learn Microsoft Windows Script Host 2.0 Now is the complete guide to automating routine Windows tasks by using Microsoft technologies. It covers all major features of Windows Script Host, as well as related topics such as how to access other automation objects and how to extend WSH with custom ActiveX components. This book is ideal for WSH novices with basic programming knowledge, Microsoft Visual Basic programmers, and programming experts who want to create WSH scripts to simplify working with their PCs. It includes coverage of the Microsoft Script Debugger as well as several handy tools on CD-ROM developed by the author to simplify scripting.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   It''s the complete guide to automating routine Windows tasks, covering all WSH features and related topics about automating routine tasks by using Microsoft technologies.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The only complete guide to automating Windows tasks with WSH 2.0.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reviews related topics about using Microsoft technologies to automate routine tasks.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes handy tools on CD-ROM developed by the author to simplify scripting.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6350'),
(15284, 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator&#39;s Pocket Consultant', 'William R. Stanek', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fully updated for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Release 2, this popular guide offers quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions for the IT professional supporting Windows Server 2003â€”whether in the office or in the field\n </p>\n <p>\n  Key Book Benefits:\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Now updated for Windows Server 2003 SP 1 and Release 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Provides fast facts and immediate reference for IT professionals supporting Windows Server 2003\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Zeroes in on exactly what the administrator needs to perform day-to-day tasks\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Delivers information in concise tables, easy-to-scan lists, and step-by-step instructions\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Pocket-sized format puts the right information right at your fingertips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William R. Stanek has over 20 years of hands-on experience with advanced programming and development. He has written nearly 100 books including: Microsoft Windows Vista Administrator''s Pocket Consultant, Windows Server 2008 Inside Out, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator''s Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition, and Microsoft IIS 7.0 Administrator''s Pocket Consultant (all from Microsoft Press). He also wrote MCSE Core Exams in a Nutshell and Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide for O''Reilly.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6431'),
(15285, 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference', 'Joseph Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6366'),
(15286, 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003: TCP/IP Protocols and Services : Technical Reference', 'Joseph Davies &amp; Thomas Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Get the in-depth technical details you need to support TCP/IP on the WindowsÂ® Server 2003 platform with this comprehensive technical guide. Combining concepts with packet examples, it steps layer by layer through the TCP/IP protocols and services that Windows Server 2003 supports to help you understand how they work and how theyâ€™re implemented in the operating system.  With the latest information about:  Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) Virtual private networks (VPNs) A must-have for any technical professional who works with Windows Server 2003 and TCP/IP  Includes details about these protocols and services:   Network interface layer protocols: Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) encapsulations, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), and PPP Internet layer protocols: Internet Protocol (IP) basics, addressing, and routing; Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP); Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP); and an overview of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Transport layer protocols: User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) basics, TCP connections, TCP data flow, and TCP retransmission, and time-out Application layer protocols and services: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), file and printer sharing, RADIUS and Internet Authentication Service (IAS), MicrosoftÂ® Internet Information Services (IIS) and the Internet protocols, IPSec, and VPNs.Winner of a Merit Award at the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), January 2004).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6432'),
(15287, 'Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference', 'Danielle Ruest &amp; Nelson Ruest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Your Definitive Resource on Microsoft Windows Server 2008"Build your network the right way with expert advice! This book provides real-world help in implementing Windows Server 2008 with attention to the use of virtualization solutions covering all you need to know in one well-written guide to success." --Bob Kelly, AppDeploy.com and Technical ReviewerPlan, set up, and administer a powerful, scalable Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environment. Featuring detailed explanations, best practices, pragmatic checklists, and real-world implementation examples, this comprehensive resource shows you how to deploy, manage, and secure WS08 on enterprise networks of all sizes.Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference explains how to develop migration plans and transition to WS08, configure AD and Internet services, handle print and Web servers, and work with resource pools and network delegation rights. You''ll get full coverage of the latest virtualization techniques, OU strategies, remote administration features, and storage maintenance utilities. Find out how to tune performance, deploy bulletproof security, create reliable system backups, and design failsafe disaster recovery plans. You''ll also learn to rely on resource pools and virtual service offerings to create the very best Windows infrastructure implementation.Migrate legacy networks to a Windows Server 2008-based infrastructureConfigure ADDS, User Services, DNS, DHCP, and IIS7Set up the Network and Build Network Infrastructure ServersUse Server Core to run the Hyper-V role on host serversDesign user and computer Group Policy strategies, network delegation rights, and OU strategiesManage file, print, application, terminal, Web, and collaboration servers as virtual service offeringsAdminister WS08 from the MMC, PowerShell, desktop, and command line Optimize redundancy using Windows Clustering Services and NLB on both host and virtual machines Secure WS08 using the Castle Defense System, BitLocker, Kerberos, EFS, PKI, smart cards, and biometricsBack up and restore data using WBAdmin.exe, the Volume Shadow Copy service, and the Recovery WizardRely on the most up-to-date task list to create a complete administration plan once the network is deployed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7361'),
(15288, 'Microsoft Windows Xp', 'Chris Fehily', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you have Windows XP on your computer, you''ll want Windows XP: Visual QuickStart Guide on your bookshelf-it''s as simple as that. Even veteran Windows users will quickly discover that the changes in Windows XP go far beyond a radically redesigned interface. And to get the most out of this powerful new operating system-including all of its bundled software and goodies-there''s no place better to start than the straightforward, task-oriented approach of Peachpit''s popular Visual QuickStart series. In this volume, veteran author Chris Fehily gets right down to business, covering both Home and Professional versions of Microsoft''s redesigned operating system in this single edition. After a thorough introduction to the new interface, chapters cover topics such as installing and removing programs; working with documents, accessories, and multimedia; going online; printing; hardware issues; maintenance; and more. Along the way you''ll find plenty of screen shots and other graphic aids to acclimate you to all that''s new in Microsoft''s operating system, as well as the types of undocumented tips and tricks that can only be gleaned from hard-won experience-the author''s, not yours!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6485'),
(15289, 'Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out', 'Ed Bott &amp; Carl Siechert &amp; Craig Stinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ed Bott and Carl Siechert have combined their considerable talents for producing user-level documentation in creating\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out\n  </em>\n  . One of the most carefully researched books on Windows XP to date, this large volume has all the information and procedures most everyday users of the operating system will want. With its nicely formatted how-to instructions, detailed documentation of command-line commands, intelligent explanatory text, and broad scope, this book makes a great reference for a family or business that uses Windows XP extensively. Even the illustrations are more helpful than usual, largely because the publisher has gone to the trouble of annotating many of them with pointers and labels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bott and Siechert deal with the most controversial features of Windows XP, notably product activation, in a straightforward way. They simply explain what activation is for, tell how to go about it, and move on. If you''re a power user interested in getting around activation and performing other unsanctioned hacks, look for your information in online newsletters. This book plays by Microsoft''s rules, and that''s fine. It''s obvious that the authors have had access to Windows XP for some time, and spent a lot of time exploring its new features. Count on this book to explain the complete set of Windows XP''s features--even the exciting networking stuff--in terms you can easily follow.\n  <em>\n   --David Wall\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered\n  </strong>\n  : Microsoft Windows XP (Professional and Home editions) for home and office users who want to install, use, and run applications. Emphasis is on basic set-up and configuration, hardware installation and modification, file management, multimedia, and networking.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ed Bott is an award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. Heâ€™s been writing about Microsoft Office and Windows for more than 15 years and is the author of nearly two dozen books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carl Siechert specializes in creating documentation for PC technologies, with a focus on Windows and Office. Heâ€™s cowritten more than 20 books, including the popular Windows Vista Inside Out Deluxe Edition and Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Craig Stinson is a computer journalist and author whoâ€™s written or coauthored more than 20 books, including Windows Vista Inside Out Deluxe Edition, and Microsoft Excel 2010 Inside Out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6517'),
(15290, 'Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit', 'Walter Bruce &amp; Paul Thurrott &amp; David Chernicoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Microsoft Windows XP Power ToolKit is the most comprehensive resource for providing Super Users with the information they want and need on the most valuable Windows XP tools, utilities and commands offered by Microsoft and other 3rd party companies. This reference identifies and documents the tools and then details how to get the most from them -- all included on a companion CD-ROM so you can use them right away.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Walter R. Bruce III is a writer and consultant who has been an avid Windows user since its initial release. He has for more than a dozen years been training computer users, and writing and publishing books about computer technology. He has written many internationally published books on a variety of computer operating system, database, telecommunication, and networking topics. As a publishing professional, he has also directed the publication of hundreds of computer-related books for three successful publishing companies. Walter holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics as well as a law degree. He was practicing law as a Judge Advocate General in the United States Air Force when he discovered his affinity for teaching people how to use computers. Walter currently lives with his family in the Silicon Valley area of northern California.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul Thurrott has written books about Windows XP, Microsoft Windows NT, and Microsoft Visual InterDev. He is the news editor for Windows &amp; .net Magazine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Chernicoff, senior contributing editor for Windows &amp; .net Magazine, a contributing editor for Connected Home Magazine, and author of more than 4000 computer-related feature stories, products reviews, how-to columns, and books, has been writing and consulting on the computer industry for more than 20 years. David lives with one wife, two children, three cats, and an untold number of deer in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6470'),
(15291, 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional Administrator&#39;s Guide', 'Jerry Lee Ford &amp; Jerry Lee Jr. Lee Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Windows XP Professional is Microsoft''s new business operating system. It differs from the home version in that XP Professional contains features such as: remote installation service and desktop, Windows server domain support, access control, multi-lingual user interface and SMP support. The Administrator''s Guide will help you maximize your computer system capabilities. It provides instructions for performing a fresh installation, as well as instruction on upgrading from a previous version of Windows. You will find this book to be very procedure-oriented focusing on administrative tasks--the complete reference for administering Windows XP Professional.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6467');
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(15292, 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit', 'Microsoft Corporation &amp; Microsoft Windows Team Staff &amp; Microsoft Windows Team', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charlie Russel is an information technology consultant, specializing in combined Windows and UNIX networks. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows Server and Security. Together with Sharon Crawford, Charlie authored the top selling Windows Server 2008 Administratorâ€™s Companion by Microsoft Press as well as the Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator''s Companion. Charlie also co-authored the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Administrator''s Companion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sharon Crawford is a veteran writer of computer books. Together with Charlie Russel, Sharon authored the top selling Windows Server 2008 Administratorâ€™s Companion by Microsoft Press as well as the Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator''s Companion.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6523'),
(15293, 'Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6375'),
(15294, 'Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide', 'Jerry Honeycutt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This title for power users and IT professionals is the authoritative source for information on the Windows XP registry and how to modify it to suit your administrative and personal needs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Windows registry contains profiles for each user of a computer plus information about system hardware, installed programs, property settings, and more. Modifying the Windows registry gives users the utmost control over the PC, but it''s been somewhat of a dangerous black art -- until now. This title is the complete reference to working with the Windows XP registry -- including everything from registry hacks for power users to management and deployment guidance for IT professionals. The book includes troubleshooting hints, common workarounds, and a guide to how to use the new registry editor. Written by a recognized expert -- the author of six books on the Windows registry -- this book is the authoritative resource for readers who want or need to work with the Windows registry. Highlights include chapters on pinpointing registry settings and scripting registry changes, dealing with registry permissions, using Windows Installer, and mapping Tweak UI settings to actual registry values.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6483'),
(15295, 'Microsoft WindowsXP Power Optimization', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Want a Faster and More Powerful PC? It''s There on YourDesk.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eventually, it will be time to buy a new PC or put money intoan upgrade, but\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization\n  </em>\n  shows you how toget the most out of your current equipment right now, simply by tuning yourWindows setup. These professional techniques range from the basic to theadvanced, and they can be used to achieve both targeted improvement and betteroverall system performance. In every area, the gains can be immense, and the timeit takes is minimal. Coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Enhancingperformance by removing unneeded items\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Making smart tradeoffs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Safelyremoving unneeded registry entries\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using command-line utilities\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   KeepingInternet Explorer under control\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Making simple but effective systemtweaks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating a comprehensive archival system\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitoring your systemfor performance concerns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keeping your system in peak operatingcondition\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understanding the connection between user activity and systemperformance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automating cleanup and maintenance tasks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keeping your PC safefrom viruses and human intruders\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Catching and correctingmistakes\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   System Optimizedâ€”What''s Next?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Once you''vehelped\n  <em>\n   your system\n  </em>\n  live up to its potential, help\n  <em>\n   yourself\n  </em>\n  byturning to\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Windows XP Power Productivity\n  </em>\n  , also from Sybex.You''ll find expert instruction on harnessing native Windows functionality and third-party utilities to work faster and smarter.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Mueller is an author and technical editor who has produced 63 books and over 300 articles, most recently Mining Amazon Web Services, Mining Google Web Services, and Mining eBay Web Services for Sybex. He has also contributed articles to technology magazines, such as InformIT, SQL Server Professional, Visual C++ Developer, and Visual Basic Developer. John runs a consulting firm offering services, including specialized application development, to small and medium-size businesses.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6455'),
(15296, 'Microsoft Word - Dict.RomRus.doc', 'Ion JURCONI &amp; Florina MOHANU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9534'),
(15297, 'Microsoft Word - Marin Sorescu - IONA.doc', 'IONA', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8641'),
(15298, 'Microsoft Word - Win2K Command Pocket Reference.doc', 'pxcollin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6410'),
(15299, 'Mince Ceskoslovenska 1918-1992, Ceske Republiky a Slovenske Republiky 1993-2010 (V. Novotny, 2009)', 'Vlastislav Novotny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6214'),
(15300, 'Mining and Control of Network Traffic by Computational Intelligence', 'Federico Montesino Pouzols &amp; Diego R. Lopez &amp; Angel Barriga Barros', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As other complex systems in social and natural sciences as well as in\n  <br />\n  engineering, the Internet is hard to understand from a technical point\n  <br />\n  of view. Packet switched networks defy analytical modeling. The\n  <br />\n  Internet is an outstanding and challenging case because of its fast\n  <br />\n  development, unparalleled heterogeneity and the inherent lack of\n  <br />\n  measurement and monitoring mechanisms in its core conception.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This monograph deals with applications of computational intelligence\n  <br />\n  methods, with an emphasis on fuzzy techniques, to a number of current issues in measurement, analysis and control of traffic in the\n  <br />\n  Internet. First, the core building blocks of Internet Science and\n  <br />\n  other related networking aspects are introduced. Then, data mining and control problems are addressed. In the first class two issues are\n  <br />\n  considered: predictive modeling of traffic load as well as\n  <br />\n  summarization of traffic flow measurements. The second class, control, includes active queue management schemes for Internet routers as well as window based end-to-end rate and congestion control. The practical hardware implementation of some of the fuzzy inference systems proposed here is also addressed. While some theoretical developments are described, we favor extensive evaluation of models using real-world data by simulation and experiments.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7611'),
(15301, 'The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dickâ€™s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.\n <br />\n This collection includes all of the writerâ€™s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include â€œService Callâ€, â€œStand Byâ€, â€œThe Days of Perky Patâ€, and many others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11809'),
(15302, 'MOAC 70-270 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional Lab Manual', 'Owen Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7380'),
(15303, 'MOAC 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment. Lab  Manual', 'Mark Fugatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7360'),
(15304, 'MOAC 70-290. Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment', 'Craig Zacker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A comprehensive programme of textbook, lab manual and software, this Microsoft Official Academic Course provides everything students need to build the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure, administer, and support the primary services in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional examination 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment. A complete set of instructor resources supports the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7364'),
(15305, 'MOAC 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-Active Directory Infrastructure', 'Microsoft Learning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Student CD are in archive\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7953'),
(15306, 'MOAC 70-299. Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server2003 Network', 'Craig Zacker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Slides for this course are in archive\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7365'),
(15307, 'Moarte si viscol', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4761'),
(15308, 'Moartea caprioarei', 'LABIS Nicolae', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8655'),
(15309, 'Moartea citeste ziarul', 'Mircea Dinescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4855'),
(15310, 'Mobile Web Design for Dummies', 'Janine Warner &amp; David Lafontaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The perfect place to learn how to design Web sites for mobile devices!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the popularity of Internet access via cell phones and other mobile devices, Web designers now have to consider as many as eight operating systems, several browsers, and a slew of new devices as they plan a new site, a new interface, or a new sub-site. This easy-to-follow friendly book guides you through this brave new world with a clear look at the fundamentals and offers practical techniques and tricks you may not have considered.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Explores all issues to consider in planning a mobile site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers the tools needed for mobile design, in particular XHTML and CSS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shows you how to plan for multimedia, e-commerce, and marketing your site, including adding audio, video, and social networking\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides real-world examples and tips to help you avoid common pitfalls\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  If you''re contemplating Web design in a mobile world, start first with this practical guide.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Let''s go mobile! Here''s how to make a big impression on the small screen\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  These days everyone''s on the go, and Web sites that are easy to navigate on your computer screen may be frustrating and inconvenient on your mobile phone. This book is all about fixing that problem! Learn what makes a great mobile Web page, the technologies that help you get around the limitations, and how to pack a punch on the small screen.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Small space, big challenge â€” examine what makes mobile a different creature and the specific design challenges involved\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Being flexible â€” learn to adapt your existing site for mobile display\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tools of the trade â€” discover the best markup language for your audience: WML, XHTML MP, or HTML5\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Maximize mobile features â€” take advantage of special features on the iPhoneÂ®, Android, and BlackBerryÂ® Storm\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Testing, testing â€” discover how to test your mobile designs with online emulators\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get around the limitations â€” find out how to add audio and video and optimize images for the small screen\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Spread the word â€” explore marketing options to get the word out about your mobile site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    M-commerce excitement â€” add a mobile-friendly shopping cart to your site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Open the book and find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The unique challenges of a mobile site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How smartphones, touchscreen phones, and feature phones differ\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for adapting an existing site to mobile\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Points to consider when designing for the small screen\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What WAP, WML, XHTML MP and HTML5 are â€” and how to use them\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to make multimedia work on a mobile device\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use a mobile emulator\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Interviews with top mobile experts\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Learn to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Plan an effective mobile Web site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create your design with XHTML MP and CSS2 or HTML5 and CSS3\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Add audio, video, social media, and m-commerce functions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Build a site that works well on all mobile devices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Let''s go mobile! Here''s how to make a big impression on the small screen\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  These days everyone''s on the go, and Web sites that are easy to navigate on your computer screen may be frustrating and inconvenient on your mobile phone. This book is all about fixing that problem! Learn what makes a great mobile Web page, the technologies that help you get around the limitations, and how to pack a punch on the small screen.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Small space, big challenge â€” examine what makes mobile a different creature and the specific design challenges involved\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Being flexible â€” learn to adapt your existing site for mobile display\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tools of the trade â€” discover the best markup language for your audience: WML, XHTML MP, or HTML5\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Maximize mobile features â€” take advantage of special features on the iPhoneÂ®, Android, and BlackBerryÂ® Storm\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Testing, testing â€” discover how to test your mobile designs with online emulators\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get around the limitations â€” find out how to add audio and video and optimize images for the small screen\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Spread the word â€” explore marketing options to get the word out about your mobile site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    M-commerce excitement â€” add a mobile-friendly shopping cart to your site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Open the book and find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The unique challenges of a mobile site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How smartphones, touchscreen phones, and feature phones differ\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for adapting an existing site to mobile\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Points to consider when designing for the small screen\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What WAP, WML, XHTML MP and HTML5 are â€” and how to use them\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to make multimedia work on a mobile device\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use a mobile emulator\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Interviews with top mobile experts\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Learn to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Plan an effective mobile Web site\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create your design with XHTML MP and CSS2 or HTML5 and CSS3\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Add audio, video, social media, and m-commerce functions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Build a site that works well on all mobile devices\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Janine Warner\n  </strong>\n  is the bestselling author of 12 books on the Internet and design, including all editions of\n  <em>\n   Dreamweaver For Dummies\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David LaFontaine\n  </strong>\n  has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, editor, and multimedia producer working on film, television, print, radio, and Internet projects.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6532'),
(15311, 'MOC 2063C. Introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET. Delivery Guide', 'MSDN Training', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n MOC 2063C\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7928'),
(15312, 'MOC 2124C. Programming winth C# . Delivery Guide', 'MSDN Training', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7929'),
(15313, 'MOC 2349. Module 14: Treading and Asyncronous Programming', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7930'),
(15314, 'MOC 2349. Module 15: Interoperating Betweeen Managed and Unmanaged Code', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7931'),
(15315, 'MOC 2349. Module 16: Using Microsoft ADO.NET to Access Data', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7932'),
(15316, 'MOC 2349. Module 17: Attributes', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7933'),
(15317, 'MOC 2389B. Programming with ADO.NET (Prerelease). Delivery Guide', 'MSDN Training', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7934'),
(15318, 'MOC 2500A. Introduction to XML and the Microsoft .Net Platform. Delivery Guide', 'MSDN Training', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7935'),
(15319, 'MOC 2520A Deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7941'),
(15320, 'MOC 2524A. Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft Visual C# .NET Beta 2 . Delivery Guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7947'),
(15321, 'MOC 2557C. Building COM+ Applications Using Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services. Delivery Guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7949'),
(15322, 'MOC 2558A. Programming with Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++ .NET. Delivery Guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7939'),
(15323, 'MOC 2565A. Develop Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (VIsual C# .NET)', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7940'),
(15324, 'MOC 2609A. Introduction to C# Programming with Microsoft .NET. Delivery Guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7948'),
(15325, 'MOC 2663. XML.NET', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7945'),
(15326, 'MOC 2717A. Introduction to Microsoft .NET Development', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7946'),
(15327, 'MOC 2805A. Security seminar for developers. Study guide', 'Microsoft Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7944'),
(15328, 'Modelul cultural european', 'Constantin Noica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4925'),
(15329, 'MODELUL CULTURAL EUROPEAN', 'Ioan-Lucian MUNTEAN', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8574'),
(15330, 'Modern Operating Systems', 'Andrew S. Tanenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For software development professionals and computer science students,\n  <em>\n   Modern Operating Systems\n  </em>\n  gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What makes an operating system modern? According to author Andrew Tanenbaum, it is the awareness of high-demand computer applications--primarily in the areas of multimedia, parallel and distributed computing, and security. The development of faster and more advanced hardware has driven progress in software, including enhancements to the operating system. It is one thing to run an old operating system on current hardware, and another to effectively leverage current hardware to best serve modern software applications. If you don''t believe it, install Windows 3.0 on a modern PC and try surfing the Internet or burning a CD.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers familiar with Tanenbaum''s previous text,\n  <em>\n   Operating Systems\n  </em>\n  , know the author is a great proponent of simple design and hands-on experimentation. His earlier book came bundled with the source code for an operating system called Minux, a simple variant of Unix and the platform used by Linus Torvalds to develop Linux. Although this book does not come with any source code, he illustrates many of his points with code fragments (C, usually with Unix system calls).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first half of\n  <em>\n   Modern Operating Systems\n  </em>\n  focuses on traditional operating systems concepts: processes, deadlocks, memory management, I/O, and file systems. There is nothing groundbreaking in these early chapters, but all topics are well covered, each including sections on current research and a set of student problems. It is enlightening to read Tanenbaum''s explanations of the design decisions made by past operating systems gurus, including his view that additional research on the problem of deadlocks is impractical except for "keeping otherwise unemployed graph theorists off the streets."\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the second half of the book that differentiates itself from older operating systems texts. Here, each chapter describes an element of what constitutes a modern operating system--awareness of multimedia applications, multiple processors, computer networks, and a high level of security. The chapter on multimedia functionality focuses on such features as handling massive files and providing video-on-demand. Included in the discussion on multiprocessor platforms are clustered computers and distributed computing. Finally, the importance of security is discussed--a lively enumeration of the scores of ways operating systems can be vulnerable to attack, from password security to computer viruses and Internet worms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included at the end of the book are case studies of two popular operating systems: Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. There is a bias toward the Unix/Linux approach, not surprising given the author''s experience and academic bent, but this bias does not detract from Tanenbaum''s analysis. Both operating systems are dissected, describing how each implements processes, file systems, memory management, and other operating system fundamentals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tanenbaum''s mantra is simple, accessible operating system design. Given that modern operating systems have extensive features, he is forced to reconcile physical size with simplicity. Toward this end, he makes frequent references to the Frederick Brooks classic\n  <em>\n   The Mythical Man-Month\n  </em>\n  for wisdom on managing large, complex software development projects. He finds both Windows 2000 and Unix/Linux guilty of being too complicated--with a particular skewering of Windows 2000 and its "mammoth Win32 API." A primary culprit is the attempt to make operating systems more "user-friendly," which Tanenbaum views as an excuse for bloated code. The solution is to have smart people, the smallest possible team, and well-defined interactions between various operating systems components. Future operating system design will benefit if the advice in this book is taken to heart.\n  <em>\n   --Pete Ostenson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems technologies.Â  The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Includes new and updated coverage of multimedia operating systems, multiprocessors, virtual machines, and antivirus software. Covers internal workings of Windows Vista (Ch. 11); unique even for current publications. Provides information on current research based Tanenbaumâ€™s experiences as an operating systems researcher. A useful reference for programmers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9724'),
(15331, 'Modx Web Development', 'Antano Solar John', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Building dynamic websites with the PHP application framework and CMS\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Simple, step-by-step instructions detailing how to install, configure, and customize MODx\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Covers detailed theory from the basics, to practical implementation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn the most common web requirements and solutions, and build a site in the process In Detail MODx is a content management system and PHP web application framework rolled into one. With the ease of a CMS and the extensibility of a framework, MODx allows you to develop professional-looking, intricate websites with its easy-to-use interface and flexible architecture. MODx provides reusable code called snippets most of which are so generic that, without any modification, they can serve multiple functionalities. The generic nature of the snippets makes it possible to get the perfect customization that is so hard in other content management systems. This book will get web developers up-and-running with MODx. With step-by-step examples and illustrative screenshots, you will be guided through installation, configuration, and customization. By the end of the book, you will have created a powerful, dynamic website by using the individual elements of MODx, without the need for programming know-how. Starting with a walk-through of installing MODx, you will quickly learn how to develop your site without having to use any programming language. Logical, step-by-step instructions will show you how to create your own unique site by adding and editing documents using the inbuilt TinyMCE editor. Change the look and feel of your site by creating your own templates using HTML, CSS, and widgets. By following the example of a blog site, you will learn how to extend your templates to allow rich user interactions through comments, posts, and forms. The book teaches a few core snippets such as Ditto and Wayfinder in detail. These powerful and flexible snippets will enable you to add multiple functionalities to your site. The book will also introduce you to many more snippets which will help you build some of the commonly required web functionalities such as forums and image galleries. Manage your users with authentication and authorization and make your site user-friendly with user groups, forums, and the use of PHx notations to embed logic in templates. Through following this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide, by the end of the book you will have a fully functional, feature-rich MODx site with professional-looking, dynamic web pages that are totally customizable. What you will learn from this book?\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Build a complete, feature-rich website using MODx\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Manage content easily using documents and containers\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Manage users and access with authentication and authorization\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Create templates to customize the look of your site\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Learn how to enhance your website quickly with dynamic content such as recent posts and dynamic menus using core snippets\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Learn the powerful templating language PHx to extend logic to templates\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Use custom snippets to add more functionality such as forums and image galleries\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Learn to create your own snippet for unique functionalities\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Deploy a search-engine-optimized and secure site\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This book is an example-driven tutorial, which will take you from the installation of MODx through to configuration, customization, and deployment. Step-by-step instructions will enable you to build a fully-functional, feature-rich website quickly and without any programming language. Who this book is written for? This book is ideal for those who want to learn to use MODx. Both beginner and experienced web developers will benefit from this comprehensive guide to MODx. No knowledge of PHP programming or any templating language is needed, but the more advanced chapters towards the end of the book will allow more confident developers to extend their applications even further by creating their own snippets.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9060'),
(15332, 'Monade 116', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anno 2381: nellâ€™esistenza umana lâ€™utopia Ã¨ diventata realtÃ . Guerre, fame, contrasti sociali, criminalitÃ  e controllo delle nascite sono ormai un semplice ricordo del passato. Lâ€™esistenza si svolge tranquilla e ordinata allâ€™interno di giganteschi grattacieli alti centinaia di piani. In una specie di ciclo chiuso, gli esseri umani nascono, studiano, lavorano, mettono al mondo figli, muoiono, senza mai uscirne. I figli sono considerati la massima benedizione di dio e il solo pensiero di porre un limite al loro numero Ã¨ unâ€™eresia. La libertÃ  sessuale Ã¨ totale: agli uominiÂ â€” e alle donneÂ â€” Ã¨ permesso cambiare letto ogni notte e giacere con il partner che essi desiderano volta per volta. Soltanto chi Ã¨ in preda alla pazzia puÃ² concepire il desiderio dl una vita privata, dellâ€™intimitÃ  coniugale, e nutrire sentimenti di gelosia, tutti sintomi di una pericolosa eresia. PoichÃ© Ã¨ stato del tutto eliminato il bisogno di uscire fuori del proprio ambiente, di viaggiare, se nâ€™Ã¨ estinto anche il desiderio. Risuscitare tale desiderio sarebbe una grave eresia, e per chi si rende colpevole di eresia ci sono diversi trattamenti, il piÃ¹ drastico dei quali Ã¨ lâ€™eliminazione fisica del colpevole, la morte. Ma il numero di coloro che vengono colti da impulsi malsani, che desiderano sfuggire alla facile esistenza programmata delle monadi urbane, alla ricerca di qualcosa che neanche loro sanno con esattezza cosa sia, ma che Ã¨ radicata nellâ€™anima degli esseri umani, aumenta. Ormai, infatti, la vita stessa Ã¨ diventata unâ€™utopia. Robert Silverberg, un autore che si Ã¨ imposto nel campo della fantascienza, oltre che della narrativa, vincitore di un premio Hugo ed ex-presidente dellâ€™associazione degli scrittori americani di science fiction, ripropone in questo libro uno dei piÃ¹ pressanti problemi dellâ€™umanitÃ , prospettandone una terrorizzante conclusione.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominato per premio Hugo in 1972.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11234'),
(15333, 'Monte Cassino', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8637'),
(15334, 'MoodleUser tutorial for the e-Learning of the Modellistica Course', 'Ali Giuseppe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Moodle\n </div>\n <div>\n  User tutorial for the e-Learning of the Modellistica Course (ProffÂ AliÂ Giuseppe)\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7486'),
(15335, 'Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development', 'William H. Rice &amp; William Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content established learning situation. This book guides you through meeting that challenge. This book is for anyone who wants to get the best from Moodle. Beginners will get a thorough guide to how the software works, with great ideas for getting off to a good start with their first course. More experienced Moodlers will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Rice is a software training professional who lives, works, and plays in New York City. His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending way too much time reading sites like slashdot and 43folders. His outdoor hobbies include orienteering, rock climbing, and edible wild plants (a book on that is coming someday). William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society: how we create our tools, and how our tools in turn shape us. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, and has two amazing sons. For more updates on him and his work, you could visit his online blog: http://williamriceinc.blogspot.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7145'),
(15336, 'Moodle 1.9 English Teacher&#39;s Cookbook', 'Silvina P. Hillar', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 80 simple but incredibly effective recipes for teaching reading comprehension, writing, and composing using Moodle 1.9 Overview of Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher''s Cookbook Packed with recipes to help you use Moodle effectively to teach English Create a different atmosphere to help students improve their writing skills using Moodle Implement different techniques in the teaching of reading comprehension, writing, and composition using a variety of resources from the free and open source software available Enhance the writing activities created for students by embedding Twitter &amp; Facebook into Moodle In Detail Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here. This cookbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete reading comprehension, writing, and composition course in Moodle 1.9 starting with simple activities and ending with complex ones. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve writing using Moodle as a virtual learning platform. This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students'' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students. Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters'' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story. Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa''s management technique in order to enhance group writing. Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity. The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes. Achieve outstanding results with ready-to-use recipes for writing and composing holding hands with Moodle 1.9 in the Web 2.0 Era What you will learn from this book Create prewriting activities such as matching or unjumbling among others using Hot Potatoes or Moodle Quizzes Develop a writing atmosphere for students to be creative bearing in mind Multiple Intelligences theory Perform a quandary maze using Quandary 2 and make students write according to their choices Display videos or images in the Moodle course as prewriting activities Embed social networks in the Moodle course and design interactive activities Insert management techniques in the teaching of writing and composing to enhance the students'' learning experience Design and upload different mind maps, Venn diagrams, or tree diagrams in the Moodle course Use listening comprehension activities as prewriting ones Inspire students to change a writing style into another one Change sceneries of classical stories, superheroes to create new ones or enhance them Approach This book follows a cookbook style, which will help you achieve outstanding results using ready-to-use recipes for reading comprehension, writing, and composition holding hands with Moodle 1.9 in the Web 2.0 Era. Each recipe is unique; some deal with similar teaching techniques, but they show how to develop the same technique using different software, situations, or topics. Images, videos, poems, songs, artists, classic stories, cartoons, superheroes, painting, the environment, and comics are inserted into the Moodle course, in order to be used as either prewriting or writing activities. Who this book is written for If you are an English teacher who wants to discover practical, funny, and engaging activities to insert in your course, this is a perfectly designed book for you. It will help you to use different techniques in the teaching of reading comprehension, writing, and composition using a great variety of resources from the free and open source software available in the Web and interesting websites as well as social networks. You need basic experience with Moodle 1.9 or 1.9.5, as well as installation and configuration procedures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7142'),
(15337, 'Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology', 'Paul Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Support and Enhance Food Technology, Product Design, Resistant Materials, Construction, and the Built Environment using Moodle VLE\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Customize your courses\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a course for each of the key areas of Design and Technology and add material to them\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Support and assess the progress of the students who are enrolled in the course\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use Moodle''s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your students'' learning progress in activities from assignments to offline activities\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create Moodle resources for kinesthetic learners by using media-rich content such as videos and audio sequences\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Detail\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle''s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s '' learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We will allow students in construction to gather and organize their research material in a great deal of detail and also allow them to better understand their target market and the materials used in their construction through detailed questioning. We will allow food technology students to discuss and receive constructive feedback on food products that contribute to health issues that will enable them to make informed decisions and therefore better quality products. Then we explore several components within Moodle''s core functionality and some third-party sources to display the progress of the student''s work and development. We then have an overview of the different design portfolios available. Finally we look at additional ways to enhance the teaching and learning of D &amp; T with Moodle using third-party modules and add-ons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hands-on tutorial for Design and Technology teachers showing them how to use Moodle to compose their lessons and engage their students\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Help your students to set up and organize their own database for Materials research or a specific database for food technology using the standard database module in Moodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Display the progress of your students'' work and development with several Moodle components such as forums, blogs, galleries, wikis, and some third-party sources\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Allow students to store, organize, and share their work with each other by using Moodle Portfolios such as Exabis, MyStuff, and Mahara\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design and create glossaries and add entries specifically for design and technology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Allow students to map out their ideas using a basic interface to link and label items on the screen using an add-on called Mindmap\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Assess your students'' progress by designing quizzes that are conveniently linked to the students'' gradebook\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design questionnaires and analyze their results and add feedback module and customize them to retain anonymity\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Give your students an opportunity to use Moodle to present their designs and ideas to a huge audience and gain invaluable feedback by using an interactive tool-DimDim\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a library of resources for students to interact with using applications such as myUdutu and add-ons such as Noodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a detailed framework with Moodle tools that allow you to chart students progress and offer them constructive feedback through reflective practice and achievable targets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create an electronic portfolio for Product design students that they can use to gather and organize their electronic materials\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Approach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book has real-world samples of how to solve problems related to Design and Technology and offers tips on how to enhance the use of Moodle to get the most out of the subject. Worked examples will act as a base from which to build complex and exciting courses for students in all age ranges and abilities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is written for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are a Design &amp; Technology teacher, teaching assistant, head of department, SMT, or IT technician in school and would like to use Moodle to design, create, or administer a VLE for Design and Technology, this book is for you. You need to know the basics of Moodle for teaching and learning and should have some experience with Design and Technology.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paul Taylor\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A lifelong educator, Paul Taylor has always been involved in aspects of education and training in both companies and educational establishments. After working in the world of animation hardware for a small company in California in the 1990s and getting a company credit on Toy Story, Paul returned to the UK and to Education. The idea was to combine real-world computing experience with educational principles. This led to 9 years of teaching secondary school ICT and Business Studies; running a web design company with A Level students for their vocational qualification.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A return to teaching coincided with an introduction to Linux and open source and Paul was an early adopter of Moodle in late 2003. This led to dialog with various Moodle users and Partners and an eventual leading role with the UK''s oldest Moodle partner, Pteppic, in 2007.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7141');
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(15338, 'Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology', 'Paul Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Support and Enhance Food Technology, Product Design, Resistant Materials, Construction, and the Built Environment using Moodle VLE\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Customize your courses\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a course for each of the key areas of Design and Technology and add material to them\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Support and assess the progress of the students who are enrolled in the course\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use Moodle''s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your students'' learning progress in activities from assignments to offline activities\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create Moodle resources for kinesthetic learners by using media-rich content such as videos and audio sequences\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Detail\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle''s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s '' learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We will allow students in construction to gather and organize their research material in a great deal of detail and also allow them to better understand their target market and the materials used in their construction through detailed questioning. We will allow food technology students to discuss and receive constructive feedback on food products that contribute to health issues that will enable them to make informed decisions and therefore better quality products. Then we explore several components within Moodle''s core functionality and some third-party sources to display the progress of the student''s work and development. We then have an overview of the different design portfolios available. Finally we look at additional ways to enhance the teaching and learning of D &amp; T with Moodle using third-party modules and add-ons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hands-on tutorial for Design and Technology teachers showing them how to use Moodle to compose their lessons and engage their students\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Help your students to set up and organize their own database for Materials research or a specific database for food technology using the standard database module in Moodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Display the progress of your students'' work and development with several Moodle components such as forums, blogs, galleries, wikis, and some third-party sources\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Allow students to store, organize, and share their work with each other by using Moodle Portfolios such as Exabis, MyStuff, and Mahara\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design and create glossaries and add entries specifically for design and technology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Allow students to map out their ideas using a basic interface to link and label items on the screen using an add-on called Mindmap\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Assess your students'' progress by designing quizzes that are conveniently linked to the students'' gradebook\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design questionnaires and analyze their results and add feedback module and customize them to retain anonymity\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Give your students an opportunity to use Moodle to present their designs and ideas to a huge audience and gain invaluable feedback by using an interactive tool-DimDim\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a library of resources for students to interact with using applications such as myUdutu and add-ons such as Noodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a detailed framework with Moodle tools that allow you to chart students progress and offer them constructive feedback through reflective practice and achievable targets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create an electronic portfolio for Product design students that they can use to gather and organize their electronic materials\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Approach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book has real-world samples of how to solve problems related to Design and Technology and offers tips on how to enhance the use of Moodle to get the most out of the subject. Worked examples will act as a base from which to build complex and exciting courses for students in all age ranges and abilities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is written for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are a Design &amp; Technology teacher, teaching assistant, head of department, SMT, or IT technician in school and would like to use Moodle to design, create, or administer a VLE for Design and Technology, this book is for you. You need to know the basics of Moodle for teaching and learning and should have some experience with Design and Technology.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paul Taylor\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A lifelong educator, Paul Taylor has always been involved in aspects of education and training in both companies and educational establishments. After working in the world of animation hardware for a small company in California in the 1990s and getting a company credit on Toy Story, Paul returned to the UK and to Education. The idea was to combine real-world computing experience with educational principles. This led to 9 years of teaching secondary school ICT and Business Studies; running a web design company with A Level students for their vocational qualification.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A return to teaching coincided with an introduction to Linux and open source and Paul was an early adopter of Moodle in late 2003. This led to dialog with various Moodle users and Partners and an eventual leading role with the UK''s oldest Moodle partner, Pteppic, in 2007.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9467'),
(15339, 'Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching', 'Jeff Stanford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   A recipe book for creating language activities using Moodle 1.9\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get the most out of Moodle 1.9''s features to create enjoyable, useful language learning activities\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create an online language learning center that includes reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar activities\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enhance your activities to make them visually attractive, and make the most of audio and video activities\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place - it''s in the newspapers, on other teachers'' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here.This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus - speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment - and shows you how use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practice them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it''s a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you''re ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results. What you will learn from this book?\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Look at a variety of activities that help students to learn words, review and recycle vocabulary, and learn different ways of keeping vocabulary records.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Help students get better at their speaking ability using the add-on nanogong recorder, which illustrates activities that look at pronunciation, intonation, fluency, stress, and discussions.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a wide range of activities for presenting grammar, practicing its use, and keeping grammar records.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Embed flash audio players and YouTube video on your Moodle to make language learning more fun.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Encourage students to read and interact with texts using Moodle and learn an activity on extended reading.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Set up collaborative writing tasks and tasks with different types of feedback to help students to structure sentences to create longer texts, build short stories using key vocabulary, and more.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make your materials look more engaging and attractive by enhancing their visual design.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Consider the importance of roles, groups, and outcomes as well as the add-ons to make the most of Moodle for language teaching.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create activities that help students learn and practice to write effectively online.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Set up useful listening activities using student-made recordings, forum discussions and authentic texts, which motivate students to listen.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Help students to interact with listening texts through tasks such as matching, gap-fill, text prediction, and ordering events.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Benefit from Moodle''s gradebook statistics to improve your own language tests.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make your students language learning experience more effective by checking the quality of the text, images, and audio and learn the importance of clear navigation paths.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach The author''s experience as a teacher enables him to combine a simple, descriptive how-to approach with enthusiastic insights into the rich potential of Moodle for creating engaging, useful language learning activities. The book is based on Moodle 1.9 and gives clear instructions with lots of screenshots. There are dozens of examples of activities that you can use to create your own online activities. Who this book is written for? This book is written for teachers, trainers, and course planners with little or no experience of Moodle who want create their own language learning activities.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7136'),
(15340, 'Moodle 1.9 Math', 'Ian Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Integrate interactive math presentations, build feature-rich quizzes, set online assignments, incorporate Flash games, and monitor student progress using the Moodle e-learning platform\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Get to grips with converting your mathematics teaching over to Moodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Engage and motivate your students with exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with Moodle, which include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate multimedia elements in math courses to make learning math interactive and fun\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Inspiring, realistic examples and interactive assessment exercises to give you ideas for your own Moodle math courses\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges.The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities.Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You''ll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle.Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease. What you will learn from this book?\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Convert mathematics teaching over to Moodle\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enhance your course with interactive graphs, images, videos, and audio\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate interactive presentations and explore different ways to include them in your course\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create your own SCORM activities using both free and commercial tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Add rich animation and fun games by incorporating Flash games and activities for engaging your students\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build feature-rich quizzes and set online assignments\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitor student progress and assess your teaching success\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Configure Moodle to display the complete set of mathematical symbols and objects\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach The book presents the reader with clear instructions for setting up specific activities, based around an example maths course (Pythagorean Theorem) with plenty of examples and screenshots. No Moodle experience is required to use the book, but the book will focus only on activities and modules relevant to teaching mathematics. We will assume that the reader has access to a working installation of Moodle. The activities will be appropriate for teaching math in high schools and universities. Who this book is written for? The book is aimed at math teachers who want to use Moodle to deliver or support their teaching. The book will also be useful for teachers of "mathematical sciences", or courses with a significant mathematical content that will benefit from the use of some of the tools explored in the book. No Moodle experience is required to use the book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7154'),
(15341, 'Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques', 'William Rice &amp; Susan Smith Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Motivate students from all backgrounds, generations, and learning styles\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    When and how to apply the different learning solutions with workarounds, providing alternative solutions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with screenshots and examples for Moodle''s powerful features\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Especially suitable for university and professional teachers In Detail Moodle is the world''s most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you''ll learn to get the best from Moodle. This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you''ll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle''s unique features. What you will learn from this book\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Build a learning outcome-focused approach that enables your students to perform well\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <ul>\n      <li>\n       Different techniques for creating a dynamic learning environment\n      </li>\n     </ul>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Put all the ideas you''ve wanted to implement, but never could, into action to create unique courses with reusable elements\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Incorporate Web 2.0 features to encourage student sharing of resources\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Build e-portfolios for students to collect their work and demonstrate mastery of the units\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Feel confident in finding ways to accommodate your students'' learning styles and preferences to guide them to a successful outcome for the course\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Develop high-quality courses that will last and stay useful and relevant to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This book contains clear guidance for all who want to put together effective online courses that motivate students and encourage dynamic learning. There are clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful screenshots and diagrams to guide you along the way. Who this book is written for If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 1.9 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7144'),
(15342, 'Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook', 'Michael de Raadt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video.Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn''t end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.Achieve outstanding results with ready-to-use recipes for creating feature-rich extensions for your website with various Moodle modules\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7139'),
(15343, 'Moodle 2.0 First Look', 'Mary Cooch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The book looks at the main functional areas of Moodle that have significant new features, explains the new features and how to use them. It draws attention to significant differences from how things used to behave, and gives the reader an idea of the kind of consequences these changes will bring to them. If you are an existing Moodle user, tutor, or administrator, then this book is for you. You are expected to be familiar with the operation of Moodle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Cooch\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Cooch has taught Languages and Geography in the UK for over 20 years. She manages several web sites, even more Moodles, and runs her own Moodle blog. A Moodle Certified Teacher, she now spends part of her working week travelling the country as a VLE trainer specializing in Moodle. She regularly promotes its benefits in Junior and High schools and has a deep understanding of what works best for younger students. Known online as the moodlefairy, Mary is a frequent contributor to the help forums of Moodle.org where she aims to enthuse others with her passion for this open source Virtual Learning Environment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7753'),
(15344, 'Moodle 2.0 for Business', 'Gavin Henrick &amp; Jeanne Cole &amp; Jason Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork.Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner''s Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits.An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!A beginner''s guide that shows you how to share documents, create group activities, dispense online training, and much more, all by setting up Moodle in your business\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7754'),
(15345, 'Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook', 'Silvina P. Hillar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Part of Packt''s Cookbook series, each chapter focuses on a different multimedia effect. If you don''t have the time to work your way through a long tutorial, then this is the book for you. The step-by-step recipes are independent from each other so you can dip in and out of the book to add great effects to your course as and when you need them. This cookbook is designed for teachers who want to learn how to insert different multimedia assets into their Moodle courses. It is expected that you will have basic knowledge of Moodle 1.9 or 2.0 and have Moodle installed and ready to be worked on. Teachers of different subjects can adapt the recipes to best suit their specific subject.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silvina P. Hillar\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Silvina P. Hillar has been teaching English since 1993. She has always had a great interest in teaching writing and composing techniques, and has made a lot of research on this subject.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She is an English Teacher, a Certified Legal Translator (English/Spanish) and has a Post Degree in Education (graduated with Honors).\n </p>\n <p>\n  She has been working in several schools and institutes with native English speaking students and as an independent consultant for many international companies as an interpreter, translator and e-learning activities developer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She has always had a passion for technological devices concerning education. Former videos and cassettes were a must in her teaching lessons, computer was and still is present. Her brother GastÃ³n C. Hillar designed some programs and games for her teaching. Lately, she is teaching using Moodle and the Web 2.0. She believes that one of the most amazing challenges in education is bridging the gap between classic education and modern technologies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She has been doing a lot of research on multimedia assets which enhance the teaching and learning through VLE platforms. She tries to embed the learning of students through new resources which are appealing and innovative for them. Thus, multimedia stimulates the different thinking skills as well as multiple intelligences.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9471'),
(15346, 'Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System', 'Jason Hollowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties, monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much more Transform your Moodle site into a system that will allow you to manage information such as monitoring attendance records, managing the number of students enrolled for a particular course, and inter-department communication Create courses for all subjects in no time with the Bulk Course Creation tool Create accounts for hundreds of users swiftly and enroll them in courses at the same time using a CSV file. Part of Packt''s Beginner''s Guide series: Readers are walked through each task as they read through the book with the end result being a sample CIMS Moodle site In Detail Moodle is the most widely used Learning Management System in the world. Moodle is primarily used as an online learning course platform and few people know how to use it in any other way. However, Moodle can also be used as a management system. By adapting Moodle to become a curriculum and information management system, you can keep your administrative tasks in the same place as your lesson plans by managing student attendance records, recording grades, sharing reports between departments, and much more Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System will show you how you can use Moodle to set up an environment that enables you to disseminate information about your educational program, provides a forum for communication amongst all those involved in your institution, and even allows you to control your course registration and enrollment. This book is written on version 1.9 and also includes examples applicable to version 2.0. This book will show you how to create courses and organize them into categories. You will learn to assign teachers to each course, which will greatly help you to manage timetables and student enrolment, which can otherwise be a very frustrating and time consuming task. You will learn how to display the different aspects of your Curriculum and Information Management System to make it easily accessible and navigable for staff and students alike, ensuring that everyone knows what they are doing and where they are meant to be A practical step-by-step guide to expand the functionality of your Moodle learning management system What you will learn from this book Create hundreds of courses in Moodle via the Bulk Course Creation tool with ease Add multiple web pages to your Moodle site that can all be accessed by anyone visiting the front page of your site Use Moodle to keep attendance records for your institution Ideas about how Moodle can be used as a grade submission tool Deliver program-wide assessment tests using the Moodle Quiz module Create different roles, with specifically defined access capabilities, in your Moodle site for educational administrators Install and use several advanced plugins that allow you to access student related information and data that is stored in the Moodle database Different ways of using your Moodle database as a Student Information System Expedite the communication and information flow within your institution using Moodle modules Manage the course registration and enrollment for your institution using contributed Moodle enrollment plugins Approach This book is a beginner''s guide in which the reader is led, step-by-step, to accomplish all the tasks right from installing Moodle to transforming into a CMS. Some more advanced steps and concepts are presented but always in a manner that allows beginners to follow along and learn through experience as they experiment on their own test site. By the time you finish the book, you will have your own fully-functional curriculum and information management system. Who this book is written for If you are a teacher or head of department in an institution and are interested in how Moodle can be used to streamline curriculum delivery and information flow in your institution, this book is for you. This book is also useful for Moodle administrators. Prior experience with Moodle is not essential for this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7135'),
(15347, 'Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System', 'Jason Hollowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties, monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much more Transform your Moodle site into a system that will allow you to manage information such as monitoring attendance records, managing the number of students enrolled for a particular course, and inter-department communication Create courses for all subjects in no time with the Bulk Course Creation tool Create accounts for hundreds of users swiftly and enroll them in courses at the same time using a CSV file. Part of Packt''s Beginner''s Guide series: Readers are walked through each task as they read through the book with the end result being a sample CIMS Moodle site In Detail Moodle is the most widely used Learning Management System in the world. Moodle is primarily used as an online learning course platform and few people know how to use it in any other way. However, Moodle can also be used as a management system. By adapting Moodle to become a curriculum and information management system, you can keep your administrative tasks in the same place as your lesson plans by managing student attendance records, recording grades, sharing reports between departments, and much more Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System will show you how you can use Moodle to set up an environment that enables you to disseminate information about your educational program, provides a forum for communication amongst all those involved in your institution, and even allows you to control your course registration and enrollment. This book is written on version 1.9 and also includes examples applicable to version 2.0. This book will show you how to create courses and organize them into categories. You will learn to assign teachers to each course, which will greatly help you to manage timetables and student enrolment, which can otherwise be a very frustrating and time consuming task. You will learn how to display the different aspects of your Curriculum and Information Management System to make it easily accessible and navigable for staff and students alike, ensuring that everyone knows what they are doing and where they are meant to be A practical step-by-step guide to expand the functionality of your Moodle learning management system What you will learn from this book Create hundreds of courses in Moodle via the Bulk Course Creation tool with ease Add multiple web pages to your Moodle site that can all be accessed by anyone visiting the front page of your site Use Moodle to keep attendance records for your institution Ideas about how Moodle can be used as a grade submission tool Deliver program-wide assessment tests using the Moodle Quiz module Create different roles, with specifically defined access capabilities, in your Moodle site for educational administrators Install and use several advanced plugins that allow you to access student related information and data that is stored in the Moodle database Different ways of using your Moodle database as a Student Information System Expedite the communication and information flow within your institution using Moodle modules Manage the course registration and enrollment for your institution using contributed Moodle enrollment plugins Approach This book is a beginner''s guide in which the reader is led, step-by-step, to accomplish all the tasks right from installing Moodle to transforming into a CMS. Some more advanced steps and concepts are presented but always in a manner that allows beginners to follow along and learn through experience as they experiment on their own test site. By the time you finish the book, you will have your own fully-functional curriculum and information management system. Who this book is written for If you are a teacher or head of department in an institution and are interested in how Moodle can be used to streamline curriculum delivery and information flow in your institution, this book is for you. This book is also useful for Moodle administrators. Prior experience with Moodle is not essential for this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9492'),
(15348, 'Moodle E-Learning Course Development', 'William Rice &amp; William H. Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle - Straight-forward coverage of installing and using the Moodle system - Working with Moodle features in all learning environments - A unique course-based approach focuses your attention on designing well structured, interactive, and successful courses A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content established learning situation. This book guides you through meeting that challenge. This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses. Moodle is the leading Open Source learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers can easily construct richly textured web based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading materials; activities such as quizzes, tests, surveys, and projects; and social elements that encourage interaction and group work between students.Moodle E-Learning Course Development shows you how to use Moodle as a tool to enhance your teaching. It will help you analyse your students'' requirements, and come to an understanding of what Moodle can do for them. After that you''ll see how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. The social constructionist learning philosophy is at the heart of Moodle: we all "construct" knowledge through interation with one another and with learning materials in a social way. Moodle E-Learning Course Develelopment will show you how to add static learning material, interactive activities, and social features to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. - Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies - Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and understand your way around it - Know how to create different kinds of courses. Moodle can support courses where the group works through the classes with a shared schedule, or where individual students work through at their own pace, or courses where students are free to explore the different topics in their own time. This book will show you how. - Understand all of Moodle''s learning features. Moodle provides features for managing course content, interactive resources, and social activities such as forums and wikis. This book explains what each of these features are, how they work, and most importantly how and when to use them effectively. - Manage students - so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes; allow students to enrol themselves, or invite students to join a course. You can even set up commercial courses where students pay to sign William Rice is an experienced trainer and expert on learning and teaching practices. This experience and expertise forms the foundation of his approach: What do we want to teach? How would this best translate into a course? How best can Moodle support these course objectives?Of course, the book contains everything you''d expect from an introduction to Moodle: clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, explanations and guides through the many features and options that you have to choose from. Throughout the book, William develops an example course. He uses this example to explore the sort of decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course. This book is written for everyone who wants to get the most from Moodle. Beginners to the software will get a thorough guide to how the software works, and some great ideas for getting to a good start with their first course. More experienced Moodlers will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7146'),
(15349, 'Moodle JavaScript Cookbook', 'Alastair Hole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a cookbook that contains a list of recipes explaining step-by-step how to use JavaScript in Moodle. The first two chapters concentrate on the basics of how to start working with JavaScript and the YUI while the later chapters show how to use these techniques as a basis for implementing more complete functionality. This book is aimed at developers and administrators comfortable with customizing Moodle with the use of plugin modules, themes, and patches who want to make their site more dynamic. If you have prior knowledge of HTML, PHP, and CSS and a good working knowledge of the underlying structure of Moodle, then this book is for you. No prior experience with JavaScript is needed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alastair Hole\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alastair Hole is a web software developer, currently specializing in educational software--particularly that which pertains to Further and Higher Education in the UK. His web development experience began in the post dot-com boom era, working on business-to-business e-commerce web applications in the publishing industry with a focus on back-office integration. He has since then transferred his talents to the educational sector, and has created projects that have gone on to receive awards from bodies such as The Times Educational Supplement and the IMS Global Learning Consortium.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alastair maintains an interest in free and open educational software, and is currently involved in a number of bids for JISC funding to further develop repositories to provide easy access to learning materials in the UK Further and Higher Education sectors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alastair Hole\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alastair Hole is a web software developer, currently specializing in educational software--particularly that which pertains to Further and Higher Education in the UK. His web development experience began in the post dot-com boom era, working on business-to-business e-commerce web applications in the publishing industry with a focus on back-office integration. He has since then transferred his talents to the educational sector, and has created projects that have gone on to receive awards from bodies such as The Times Educational Supplement and the IMS Global Learning Consortium.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alastair maintains an interest in free and open educational software, and is currently involved in a number of bids for JISC funding to further develop repositories to provide easy access to learning materials in the UK Further and Higher Education sectors.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9495'),
(15350, 'Moodle Security', 'Darko Mileti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Learn how to install and configure Moodle in the most secure way possible Follow the practical examples to close up any potential security holes, one by one Choose which parts of your site you want to make public and who you are going to allow to access them Protect against web robots that send harmful spam mails and scan your site''s information Learn how to monitor site activity and react accordingly In Detail Moving your classes and resources online with a Learning Management System such as Moodle opens up a whole world of possibilities for teaching your students. However, it also opens up a number of threats as your students, private information, and resources become vulnerable to cyber attacks. Learn how to safeguard Moodle to keep the bad guys at bay. Moodle Security will show you how to make sure that only authorized users can access the information on your Moodle site. This may seem simple, but, every day, systems get hacked and information gets lost or misused. Imagine the consequences if that were to happen in your school. The straightforward examples in this book will help you to lock down those access routes one door at a time. By learning about the different types of potential threat, reading this book will prepare you for the worst. Web robots can harvest your e-mail addresses to send spam e-mails from your account, which could have devastating effects. Moodle comes with a number of set roles and permissions - make sure these are assigned to the right people, and are set to keep out the spam bots, using Moodle''s authentication features. Learn how to secure both Windows and Linux servers and to make sure that none of your system files are accessible to the wrong people. Many of the most dangerous web attacks come from inside your system, so once you have all of your security settings in place, you will learn to monitor user activity to make sure that there are no threats from registered users. You will learn to work with the tools that help you to do this and enable you to back up your settings so that even a crashed system can''t bother you. Protect your students and staff by securing Moodle to prevent online attacks and hacks What you will learn from this book Use CAPTCHA to make sure that humans are creating new accounts on Moodle - not Spambots Configure PHP and Apache servers to protect your Windows and Linux systems from malicious threats Assign the most appropriate permissions to different files to ensure the right level of protection Create custom roles to control who accesses what Protect your site from external attacks with secure HTTP Organize regular anti-virus scans to ensure no new risks have been introduced to the system Monitor the security of Moodle easily with notifications and security reports Minimize the downtime of Moodle in the case of actual damage Approach Moodle Security is packed with practical examples, which guide you through optimizing the protection of your Moodle site. Each chapter covers a different security threat and how to secure your site against it. You will also find recommendations for what is best for your particular system and usage.. Who this book is written for If you are in charge of Moodle - whether you are an administrator or lead teacher - then securing it is one of the most important things that you can do. You need to know the basics of working with Moodle, but no previous experience of system administration is required.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9450'),
(15351, 'MooTools 1.2 Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Jacob Gube &amp; Garrick Cheung', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Garrick Cheung\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Garrick Cheung is a designer-developer and a member of the official Mootools Community team. He''s currently a Senior Technical Producer for CBS Interactive developing for sites such as GameSpot.com, TV.com and MP3.com. He''s passionate about code optimization and loves to teach and develop in MooTools. Garrick also writes about code and development at his site,\n  <strong>\n   garrickcheung.com\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jacob Gube\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jacob Gube is a massive MooTools developer. He is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions, a website dedicated to web developers and web designers. He''s also written for other popular web publications such as Read Write Web and Smashing Magazine discussing web technologies and development. A web professional for 8 years, Jacob is an in-house web developer specializing in distance-learning education and web accessibility, using PHP, MooTools, and jQuery to get the job done.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9242'),
(15352, 'More with symfony', 'Fabien Potencier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9080');
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(15353, 'Morire dentro', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Morire dentro: Ã¨ questa la sorte che attende David Selig, il telepate, profilandosi come un incubo allâ€™orizzonte della sua esistenza. Una minaccia a un tempo psichica e biologica corrode i suoi poteri: e per Selig, abituato a Â«spiareÂ» gli angoli piÃ¹ morbosi e reconditi dei suoi simili, a nutrirsi delle emozioni altrui, il lento affievolirsi delle proprie capacitÃ  Ã¨ un graduale stillicidio. Robert Silverberg ci trasporta con questo romanzo (uno dei suoi ultimi) nella mente del telepate, sicchÃ© il lettore puÃ² provare, in Â«soggettivaÂ», lâ€™incredibile esperienza dl guardare in un altro universo, condividendo le emozioni dl una terza vista. Selig raggiunge cosi lâ€™etÃ  in cui il suo dono potrebbe maggiormente giovargli: e invece si trova nuovamente respinto da una societÃ  che non Ã¨ pronta per quelli come lui, e in cui anche il rapporto con un essere che possiede i suoi stessi poteri ESP diventa ambiguo e pericoloso. Moderno Â«SlanÂ», David Selig si trova di fronte a un enigma troppo vasto per la sua fragile personalitÃ : perchÃ¨ sta perdendo il suo potere mentale? Si tratta solo di un male biologico, o di una minaccia piÃ¹ insidiosa? E che cosa sarÃ  di lui al termine di questa incredibile Â«odissea nel pensieroÂ»? Come ha scritto la rivista Analog: Â«Questo romanzo Ã¨ intensamente umanoâ€¦ intensamente vero. I lettori ricorderanno Morire dentro per una generazione, e forse ancor piÃ¹Â».\n <br />\n Robert Silverberg non ha bisogno di presentazioni; Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction ha scritto di lui: Â«E il nostro autore migliore. Di volta in volta ha costantemente ampliato i parametri della fantascienzaÂ».\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11192'),
(15354, 'The Mountains of Majipoor', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For young Prince Harpirias, the journey into the frozen tundra of the remote borderlands of Majipoor might well have been a death sentence. But it was also the only way out of a petty bureaucratâ€™s job in a provincial city, where heâ€™d been exiled as punishment for a youthful indiscretion. Doomed to spend the rest of his days hopelessly separated from the Coronalâ€™s glittering court, he grasps at his only hopeÂ â€” a mission that could represent suicide or salvation.\n <br />\n Somewhere beyond the nine guardian mountains of the Khyntor Marches, a party of paleontologists were captured while searching for the fossils of a fabled species of land-dwelling dragons. Their captors are a lost race of humans who, cut off from the majesty and civilization of Majipoor, have reverted to a primitive hunter-gatherer existence. Only one of the party has returned, a Shapeshifter named Korinaam, to bring back the terms for the release of the scientists.\n <br />\n Harpirias sets out on a mission of negotiation and rescue with a small band of soldiers and the wily Shapeshifter, who acts as both guide and interpreter. Facing blinding blizzards and slashing ice storms, physical privation and the attack of strange beasts, they finally reach their destination, only to find themselves face-to-face with a shockingly barbaric culture ruled by a dangerous chieftain. One mistake, one minor violation of custom and taboo, and the prince and his companions will face instant death or endless captivity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11086'),
(15355, 'Muero por dentro', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Muero por dentro es un clÃ¡sico de referencia y una de las mÃ¡s inspiradas historias de su autor: en ella aborda un tema tan clÃ¡sico como es la telepatÃ­a de manera sutil, ahondando en el lado oscuro del ser humano, rebosa soledad, devastaciÃ³n interior y sensibilidad.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nombrado para el premio Nebula a la mejor novela en 1972.\n <br />\n Nombrado para el premio Hugo a la mejor novela en 1973.\n <br />\n Nombrado para el premio Locus en 1973.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11187'),
(15356, 'Multasteptatei', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8651'),
(15357, 'Muntele vrajit', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8638'),
(15358, 'Mutazione', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Belzagor: un mondo misterioso, un pianeta preistorico immerso in un clima tropicale di vapori fumanti e di giungle intricate e abitato dai Nildoror, una razza indigena di esseri intelligenti simili ad elefanti, asserviti e schiavizzati dai terrestri durante i giorni dellâ€™imperialismo interstellare, ma ora finalmente di nuovo liberi. Mentre i Nildoror attendono pazientemente la partenza delle ultime colonie umane, Edmund Gundersen, un tempo agente della Compagnia che aveva sottomesso gli abitanti del pianeta, e detentore del potere di vita e di morte, ritorna su questo strano mondo spinto da un intimo senso di colpa e dal desiderio di rivedere la bella Seena, da lui abbandonata dieci anni prima. Ma durante lâ€™avventuroso pellegrinaggio nelle nebbie calde di Belzagor, molti incontri belli e orrendi attendono Gundersen, prima che egli possa osservare il mistico rituale della rinascita dei Nildoror, una cerimonia arcana che pochi terrestri hanno potuto vedere e a cui nessuno Ã¨ sopravvissuto per riferirne.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11185'),
(15359, 'My Mother Was a Witch', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10033'),
(15360, 'My Own Kind of Freedom', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fanfiction novel based on the Firefly television series (starring Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Jewel Staite and directed by Joss Whedon).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4279'),
(15361, 'MySQL Cookbook', 'Paul DuBois', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7165'),
(15362, 'MySQL for Python', 'Albert Lukaszewski &amp; Phd Albert Lukaszewski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Integrate the flexibility of Python and the power of MySQL to boost the productivity of your Python applications Implement the outstanding features of Python''s MySQL library to their full potential See how to make MySQL take the processing burden from your programs Learn how to employ Python with MySQL to power your websites and desktop applications Apply your knowledge of MySQL and Python to real-world problems instead of hypothetical scenarios A manual packed with step-by-step exercises to integrate your Python applications with the MySQL database server In Detail Python is a dynamic programming language, which is completely enterprise ready, owing largely to the variety of support modules that are available to extend its capabilities. In order to build productive and feature-rich Python applications, we need to use MySQL for Python, a module that provides database support to our applications. Although you might be familiar with accessing data in MySQL, here you will learn how to access data through MySQL for Python efficiently and effectively. This book demonstrates how to boost the productivity of your Python applications by integrating them with the MySQL database server, the world''s most powerful open source database. It will teach you to access the data on your MySQL database server easily with Python''s library for MySQL using a practical, hands-on approach. Leaving theory to the classroom, this book uses real-world code to solve real-world problems with real-world solutions. The book starts by exploring the various means of installing MySQL for Python on different platforms and how to use simple database querying techniques to improve your programs. It then takes you through data insertion, data retrieval, and error-handling techniques to create robust programs. The book also covers automation of both database and user creation, and administration of access controls. As the book progresses, you will learn to use many more advanced features of Python for MySQL that facilitate effective administration of your database through Python. Every chapter is illustrated with a project that you can deploy in your own situation. By the end of this book, you will know several techniques for interfacing your Python applications with MySQL effectively so that powerful database management through Python becomes easy to achieve and easy to maintain. A practical manual packed with step-by-step examples to manage your MySQL database efficiently through Python What you will learn from this book Explore the various means to install MySQL for Python, from using an egg to unrolling a tarball Query the database and retrieve records through MySQL for Python Implement insertion of data into a MySQL database in Python Carry out error-handling in MySQL for Python in order to ensure the robustness of programs Use secure logging techniques to record how your users use your programs Carry out record-by-record retrieval to save a lot of overhead while retrieving data Handle insertion of large amounts of data using iteration and the executemany function Automate the creation and removal of databases and tables using MySQL for Python Use the MySQL for Python library to automate user creation and to administer access controls Log user activity with MySQL for Python by using MySQL''s date and time support See how to revise database programs to include more functionality Use aggregate functions to make MySQL take the burden off your web server Save time and processing resources by scripting JOINs and subqueries Approach This is a practical, tutorial-style book that includes many examples to demonstrate the full potential of MySQL for Python. Every chapter starts with an explanation of the various areas for using MySQL for Python and ends with work on a sample application using the programming calls just learned. All complicated concepts are broken down to be very easy to understand. Everything in the book is designed to help you learn and use MySQL for Python to address your programming needs in the fastest way possible. Who this book is written for This book is meant for intermediate users of Python who want hassle-free access to their MySQL database through Python. If you are a Python programmer who wants database-support in your Python applications, then this book is for you. This book is a must-read for every focused user of the MySQL for Python library who wants real-world applications using this powerful combination of Python and MySQL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7078'),
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(15365, 'Natural Language Processing With Python', 'Steven Bird &amp; Ewan Klein &amp; Edward L. Loper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Steven Bird is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Research Associate in the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a PhD on computational phonology at the University of Edinburgh in 1990, supervised by Ewan Klein. He later moved to Cameroon to conduct linguistic fieldwork on the Grassfields Bantu languages under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. More recently, he spent several years as Associate Director of the Linguistic Data Consortium where he led an R&amp;D team to create models and tools for large databases of annotated text. At Melbourne University, he established a language technology research group and has taught at all levels of the undergraduate computer science curriculum. In 2009, Steven is President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ewan Klein is Professor of Language Technology in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He completed a PhD on formal semantics at the University of Cambridge in 1978. After some years working at the Universities of Sussex and Newcastle upon Tyne, Ewan took up a teaching position at Edinburgh. He was involved in the establishment of Edinburgh''s Language Technology Group in 1993, and has been closely associated with it ever since. From 2000-2002, he took leave from the University to act as Research Manager for the Edinburgh-based Natural Language Research Group of Edify Corporation, Santa Clara, and was responsible for spoken dialogue processing. Ewan is a past President of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and was a founding member and Coordinator of the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ELSNET).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Edward Loper has recently completed a PhD on machine learning for natural language processing at the the University of Pennsylvania. Edward was a student in Steven''s graduate course on computational linguistics in the fall of 2000, and went on to be a TA and share in the development of NLTK. In addition to NLTK, he has helped develop two packages for documenting and testing Python software, epydoc, and doctest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7648'),
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(15372, 'Net-Centric Approaches to Intelligence and National Security', 'Roy Ladner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9189'),
(15373, 'Neutral Planet', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the galactic war with the Rigelians, every allied system counts, so Earth sends the Peccable to contact the gnorph of planet Fafnir for a treaty. But thereâ€™s a Rigelian ship landing at the same time, so the two enemies must compete for the nativesâ€™ favor, rather like the Federation and the Klingons did in the classic Star Trek episode Fridayâ€™s Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11202'),
(15374, 'Nginx HTTP Server', 'Clement Nedelcu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Adopt Nginx for your web applications to make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever Get started with Nginx to serve websites faster and safer Learn to configure your servers and virtual hosts efficiently Set up Nginx to work with PHP and other applications via FastCGI Explore possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds A step-by-step guide to switching from Apache to Nginx Complete configuration directive and module reference In Detail Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as primary objective. With the advent of high-speed Internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This free open-source solution will either serve as full replacement of other software such as Apache, or stand in front of your existing infrastructure to improve its overall speed. However, migrating to Nginx requires some guidance. This book serves as a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different production situations: as standalone server, as reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, the complete directive reference will be your best friend at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For the former, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules to get it to do exactly what you need, in a fast and secure way. For the latter, it provides different angles of approach that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure. As the book progresses, it provides a complete reference to all the modules and directives of Nginx. It will explain how to replace your existing server with Nginx or configure Nginx to work as a frontend for your existing server. By the end of this book, you will be geared up to implement Nginx as a web server that will boost the speed of all your web applications. A handy guide to setting up Nginx as a standalone web server or as a reverse proxy, with complete directive and module references What you will learn from this book Download and build Nginx from source along with its dependencies Learn the basics of Nginx configuration: syntax, structure, and semantics Create virtual host configurations effortlessly Discover how to enable, configure, and use all first-party modules Establish advanced rewrite rules with the Nginx Rewrite module Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python, and more via FastCGI Configure Nginx to work as frontend for your existing HTTP server Complete the process of replacing Apache by Nginx Follow three practical examples on how to port your Apache rewrite rules Find your way through the configuration with the complete detailed directive reference Troubleshooting: know where to start looking if something goes wrong Approach The book includes detailed instructions for each of the processes it describes: downloading and installing the application, configuring and using modules, and much more. It provides a step-by-step tutorial to replace your existing web server with Nginx. With commented configuration sections and in-depth module descriptions, you will be able to make the most of the performance potential offered by Nginx. Who this book is written for By covering both early setup stages and advanced topics, this book will suit web administrators interested in solutions to optimize their infrastructure, whether they are looking into replacing existing web server software or integrating a new tool cooperating with applications already up and running. If you, your visitors, and your operating system have been disappointed by Apache, this book is exactly what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7755'),
(15375, 'Nici un ban in plus, nici un ban in minus', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4822'),
(15376, 'Nightwings', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fabulous tale of pilgrimage and hope, betrayal and transformation by one of science fictionâ€™s greatest writers. Only at night on the winds of darkness can she soar. And it was Avluela the Flierâ€™s ebony and scarlet wings that lead the Watcher to the seven hills of the ancient city from which, in a moment of weakness, the Watcher failed his vigil, leaving the skies and deep space unguarded. The invaders came and conquered. With Avluela lost in the turmoil of conquest, the Watcher set out alone for the Holy City home of the Rememberers, keepers of the past. This is where the secret of Earthâ€™s salvation lay hidden in antiquity. On his journey the Watcher hoped to recapture his youth and find the soaring, beautiful woman he loved. But Avluela held more for the Watcherâ€”and Earthâ€”than love. Her wonder stretched beyond flight, for she knew the riddle that would free all menâ€¦\n <br />\n <br />\n Three parts of this books were earlier published as separate novellas:\n <br />\n Nightwings (1968)\n <br />\n Perris Way (1968)\n <br />\n To Jorslem (1969)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11274'),
(15377, 'Noduri si semne 1982', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4726'),
(15378, 'Nokia 6500 Schematics', 'Zdedisha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6194'),
(15379, 'Non-programmers tutorial for Python', 'Josh Cogliati', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6148'),
(15380, 'Now Wait for Last Year', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11689'),
(15381, 'Nu sunt ce par a fi', 'Ion MINULESCU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4877'),
(15382, 'Nu sunt ce par a fi', 'MINULESCU Ion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8567'),
(15383, 'Nude Photography The Art And The Craft', 'Pascal Baetens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8663'),
(15384, 'Null-P', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10021'),
(15385, 'Numele trandafirului', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8597'),
(15386, 'Numerical Python', 'David Ascher &amp; Paul F. Dubois &amp; Konrad Hinsen &amp; Jim Hugunin &amp; Travis Oliphant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6149'),
(15387, 'Nunele trandafirului', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4763'),
(15388, 'O calatorie spre Soare-Rasare', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4821'),
(15389, 'O noapte furtunoasa', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4895'),
(15390, 'O noapte furtunoasa', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8591'),
(15391, 'O piatra pe cer', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4927'),
(15392, 'O scisoare pierduta', 'Ion Luca Caragiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4911'),
(15393, 'O viziune a sentimentelor 1964', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4918'),
(15394, 'ob avtore', 'Reks Staut', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12471'),
(15395, 'Obiecte cosmice 1967', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4926'),
(15396, 'Object Thinking', 'David West', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In OBJECT THINKING, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmerâ€”not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rely on analysis and conceptualizationâ€”on thinkingâ€”rather than formal process and methods. Both provocative and pragmatic, this book gives form to whatâ€™s primarily been an oral tradition among the fieldâ€™s revolutionary thinkersâ€”and it illustrates specific object-behavior practices that you can adopt for true object design and superior results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gain an in-depth understanding of:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Prerequisites and principles of object thinking.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object knowledge implicit in eXtreme Programming (XP) and Agile software development.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object conceptualization and modeling.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Metaphors, vocabulary, and design for object development.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Learn viable techniques for:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Decomposing complex domains in terms of objects.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Identifying object relationships, interactions, and constraints.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Relating object behavior to internal structure and implementation design.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incorporating object thinking into XP and Agile practice.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n [HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9185'),
(15397, 'Object-Oriented Analysis and Design', 'Sarnath Ramnath &amp; Brahma Dathan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) has over the years, become a vast field, encompassing such diverse topics as design process and principles, documentation tools, refactoring, and design and architectural patterns. For most students the learning experience is incomplete without implementation. This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to OOAD. The salient points of its coverage are: â€¢ A sound footing on object-oriented concepts such as classes, objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic linking, etc. â€¢ A good introduction to the stage of requirements analysis. â€¢ Use of UML to document user requirements and design. â€¢ An extensive treatment of the design process. â€¢ Coverage of implementation issues. â€¢ Appropriate use of design and architectural patterns. â€¢ Introduction to the art and craft of refactoring. â€¢ Pointers to resources that further the readerâ€™s knowledge. All the main case-studies used for this book have been implemented by the authors using Java. The text is liberally peppered with snippets of code, which are short and fairly self-explanatory and easy to read. Familiarity with a Java-like syntax and a broad understanding of the structure of Java would be helpful in using the book to its full potential.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) has over the years, become a vast field, encompassing such diverse topics as design process and principles, documentation tools, refactoring, and design and architectural patterns. For most students the learning experience is incomplete without implementation. This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to OOAD. The salient points of its coverage are: â€¢ A sound footing on object-oriented concepts such as classes, objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic linking, etc. â€¢ A good introduction to the stage of requirements analysis. â€¢ Use of UML to document user requirements and design. â€¢ An extensive treatment of the design process. â€¢ Coverage of implementation issues. â€¢ Appropriate use of design and architectural patterns. â€¢ Introduction to the art and craft of refactoring. â€¢ Pointers to resources that further the readerâ€™s knowledge. All the main case-studies used for this book have been implemented by the authors using Java. The text is liberally peppered with snippets of code, which are short and fairly self-explanatory and easy to read. Familiarity with a Java-like syntax and a broad understanding of the structure of Java would be helpful in using the book to its full potential. Brahma Dathan is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at Metropolitan State University, Minnesota. He obtained his BS in engineering with special focus on electronics and communication from the University of Kerala, MTech in computer science from IIT Madras and PhD in computer science from University of Pittsburgh. Sarnath Ramnath received his BTech and MTech degrees from IIT Delhi in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and his PhD in Computer Science from SUNY, Buffalo, in 1994. His areas of interest include algorithm analysis and design, data-structures, computational geometry and object-oriented software design. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Minnesota State University, St Cloud, MN, USA.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7227'),
(15398, 'Object-Oriented JavaScript', 'Stoyan Stefanov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The book requires no prior knowledge of JavaScript and works from the ground up to give you a thorough grounding in this powerful language. If you do already know some JavaScript, you will find plenty of eye-openers as you discover just what the language can do. This book takes a do-it-yourself approach when it comes to writing code, because the best way to really learn a programming language is by writing code. You are encouraged to type code into Firebug''s console, see how it works and then tweak it and play around with it. There are practice questions at the end of each chapter to help review what you have learned.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. He talks regularly about JavaScript, PHP, and other web development topics at conferences and his blog www.phpied.com and also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Stoyan is the engineering lead of Yahoo''s performance optimization tool ''YSlow'', as well as other open-source tools and ''PEAR'' libraries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9245'),
(15399, 'Odeleta', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8590'),
(15400, 'Of Men And Monsters', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A portion of this novel first appeared in Galaxy Magazine under the title â€œThe Men in the Wallsâ€.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9985'),
(15401, 'Office 2010 Bible', 'John Walkenbach &amp; Faithe Wempen &amp; Herb Tyson &amp; Lisa A. Bucki &amp; Michael R. Groh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The best of the best from the bestselling authors of\n   <em>\n    Excel, Word,\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    PowerPoint Bibles\n   </em>\n   !\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Take your pick of applications from the Office 2010 suite and your choice of leading experts to show you how to use them. This\n  <em>\n   Office 2010 Bible\n  </em>\n  features the best-of-the-best content from the\n  <em>\n   Excel 2010 Bible\n  </em>\n  , by "Mr. Spreadsheet" John Walkenbach; the\n  <em>\n   Word 2010 Bible\n  </em>\n  by Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson; the\n  <em>\n   PowerPoint 2010 Bible\n  </em>\n  , by PowerPoint expert Faithe Wempen; and coverage of Access 2010 from Microsoft MVP Michael Alexander. If you want to quickly and effectively begin using Office 2010, start in the experts'' corner with this must-have book.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Gives you the best-of-the-best content on Office 2010 from the leading experts, authors, and contributors to our\n   <em>\n    Excel, Word, PowerPoint\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Access Bibles\n   </em>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes content from John Walkenbach, aka "Mr. Spreadsheet"; Word expert and Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson; PowerPoint expert Faithe Wempen; and Excel and Access expert and Microsoft MVP Michael Alexander\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Takes you beyond creating simple text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to help you use multiple Office applications at once to conquer critical business tasks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Hones in with expert coverage of the topics within each application that you need to know most\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers even more from Outlook and other key Office topics\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Get the best of four books in one with this power-packed reference!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9859'),
(15402, 'Office 2010 for Dummies', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The latest edition of one of the bestselling Microsoft Office books of all time!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spend less time figuring out Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access and more time working on actual projects with this new edition of\n  <em>\n   Office 2010 For Dummies\n  </em>\n  . Filled with straightforward, friendly instruction, this book gets you thoroughly up to speed, and it actually makes doing Office work fun!\n </p>\n <p>\n  First learn all the basics, then how to add more bells and whistles, including how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add sound to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Helps you harness the power of Microsoft Office 2010 and all of its new functionality; the book covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explains and instructs in the straightforward, friendly, For Dummies style that makes instruction more accessible and skill-building easier\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers typing and formatting text in Word and spicing up your documents\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shows you how to navigate and edit an Excel spreadsheet, create formulas, and chart and analyze Excel data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Demonstrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation and add color, sound, and pictures\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explores Outlook, including configuring e-mail, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Be ready to take full advantage of Microsoft Office 2010 with this fun and easy guide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9872'),
(15403, 'Office 2010 the missing manual', 'Nancy Conner &amp; Matthew Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Whether you''re new to Microsoft Office or have used it for years, this clear and friendly primer helps you be productive with Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and the rest of the Office apps from day one. Learn what''s new in Office 2010 and get a complete, step-by-step guide to each of its main programs, along with details on Publisher, OneNote, and Office Web Apps. With this Missing Manual on hand, you''ll be creating professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases in no time. Office 2010: The Missing Manual is a great way to master Office 2010 without having to stock up on a shelfload of books. Packed with illustrations and friendly advice, it''s truly the book that should have been in the box.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn everything from basic word processing to desktop and web publishing with Word\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use tables, graphics, and videos to create sophisticated Word documents\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage your contacts and keep track of your schedule with Outlook\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Quickly create and edit PowerPoint presentations, and snazz them up with videos and sound\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build spreadsheets, use functions and formulas, and create charts and graphics with Excel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design databases and manage large stores of text, numbers, and pictures with Access\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9867'),
(15404, 'Office 2010 Web Apps for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Enhance your Microsoft Office 2010 experience with Office 2010 Web Apps!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Office Web Apps complement Office, making it easy to access and edit files from anywhere. It also simplifies collaboration with those who donâ€™t have Microsoft Office on their computers. This helpful book shows you the optimum ways you can use Office Web Apps to save time and streamline your work. Veteran\n  <em>\n   For Dummies\n  </em>\n  author Peter Weverka begins with an introduction to Office Web Apps and then goes on to clearly explain how Office Web Apps provide you with easier, faster, more flexible ways to get things done.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Walks you through Office 2010 Web Apps and shows you the many ways they can save you time and help streamline your work\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Separates the individual elements of Office Web Apps to provide you with a look at each: Word Web App, PowerPoint Web App, Excel Web App, OneNote Web App, and managing your files on SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shows you the ways in which Office 2010 Web apps complements Office by allowing you to access and edit files from anywhere\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Office 2010 Web Apps For Dummies\n  </em>\n  helps you discover how to save time and effort when you use Office Web Apps.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Simplify and streamline your work with Office Web Apps, accessible anywhere\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Office Web Apps are problem-solvers and simplifiers, giving you easier, faster, more flexible ways to get things done. This helpful guide shows you how to become a more proficient, more confident user of the Apps. You''ll view, edit, and share Office documents, manage your files, collaborate with other users, and make the most of this timesaving resource.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get to know the Apps â€” sign up and create Word documents, Excel worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and OneNote notebooks online\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    File sharing and collaboration â€” store Office files on Windows Live and SharePoint Web sites, and work simultaneously with others\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explore the Word Web App â€” format text, assign styles to text, create tables and lists, and spell-check your work\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Crunch numbers with Excel Web â€” enter data, use functions and formulas, and sort and filter data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Stay on point â€” design and create slides, format text, generate lists, and give a great presentation with the PowerPoint Web App\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Take and organize notes â€” write and store notes and make them more useful with the online version of OneNote\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Open the book and find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for setting up your browser for Office Web Apps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for creating diagrams and artwork\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Methods for writing better notes\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ten tools you can use in all the Apps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Best practices for sharing files\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Guidance on collaborating with others\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Hints for making a fantastic presentation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Things that work differently in Office Web Apps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Learn to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    View, edit, share, and coauthor Office files via the Internet\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Manage your files and folder permissions at Windows Live\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Work with Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Be more productive on the go\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9869'),
(15405, 'Office 2011 for MacIntosh: The Missing Manual', 'Chris Grover', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals useful lots of things you didn''t know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most Â— and plenty of power-user tips when you''re ready for more.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Take advantage of new tools.\n   </strong>\n   Navigate with the Ribbon, use SmartArt graphics, and work online with Office Web Apps.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Create professional-looking documents.\n   </strong>\n   Use Word to craft beautiful reports, newsletters, brochures, and posters.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Crunch numbers with ease.\n   </strong>\n   Assemble data, make calculations, and summarize the results with Excel.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Stay organized.\n   </strong>\n   Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Make eye-catching presentations.\n   </strong>\n   Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, animations, and other features.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Use the programs together.\n   </strong>\n   Discover how to be more productive and creative by drawing directly in Word documents, adding spreadsheets to your slides, and more.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9851'),
(15406, 'Office Home &amp; Student 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  One-stop shopping for all the essentials of Office Home &amp; Student 2010 The Home &amp; Student version of Microsoft Office is ideal for anyone who needs the essential Office applications and can do without tools like Access and Outlook. The version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Each minibook offers straightforward advice, helpful projects, and real-world examples that target the home and student audiences. Youâ€™ll benefit from instructions for creating a resume in Word, establishing a home budget in Excel, jazzing up a school presentation with PowerPoint, and taking notes in OneNote.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Targets home and school users of Office 2010, who primarily need and use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Demonstrates common, everyday projects, such as creating a cover letter in Word and creating reusable templates in Excel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Walks you through spiffing up a school presentation with PowerPoint\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Offers straightforward instructions for taking notes in OneNote\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Reviews common Office 2010 tools and details the basics of the Office ribbon Office Home &amp; Student 2010 All-in-One For Dummies is your fun and friendly guide to the essentials of Office 2010!\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9870'),
(15407, 'The Official GNOME 2 Developer&#39;s Guide', 'Matthias Warkus', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "an information-dense text that is particularly well-written; extensive use is made of annotated examples" --\n  <em>\n   Linux Users of Victoria\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Developers who write programs for GNOME use the GNOME API. Working with the GNOME API is preferable because the program will conform to the standard GNOME program look and feel. It also allows the developer to use the GNOME specific libraries in the program, greatly simplifying the development process.\n  <em>\n   The Official GNOME 2 Developer''s Guide\n  </em>\n  is the official GNOME Foundation guide to programming GUIs and applications using the GTK+ and GNOME API. Developed in partnership with the GNOME Foundation, this book is for programmers working with the GNOME 2 desktop environment. Each section begins with an example program that serves as a tutorial, then develops into a reference on the topic. Includes abundant, well-annotated examples. Knowledge of the C programming language is required, but no GUI programming experience is necessary.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12583'),
(15408, 'The Official Joomla! Book', 'Jennifer Marriott &amp; Elin J. Waring', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJoomla! is about allowing ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and that is exactly what the authors of this book do for its readers. â€¦ I present this book for your pleasure. It begins with how we began and takes you on a journey through which you can be empowered to reach the world.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”From the Foreword by Andrew Eddie, Member of the Joomla! Production Leadership Team\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Official Joomla! Book\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is the authoritative and comprehensive Joomla! reference for every administrator, developer, designer, and content manager. Distilling the unsurpassed experience of two long-time Joomla! contributors, it teaches exactly what you need to know, through practical example sites and crystal-clear explanations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If youâ€™re new to Joomla!, youâ€™ll learn how to quickly create usable, effective sites. If youâ€™re an experienced Joomla! user, youâ€™ll learn how to make your sites more flexible, feature-rich, visually attractive, and useful. And whether new or experienced, youâ€™ll learn how Joomla! really works, so you can fully leverage its power whenever youâ€™re ready. Youâ€™ll also get to know the Joomla! community by hearing from twelve community members through in-depth interviews, and youâ€™ll learn how to participate in the Joomla! project in ways that make sense for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Official Joomla! Book\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  covers everything from installation to usability, templates to extensions. The authors explain each key concept conversationally, helping you learn to help yourself and confidently gain control over Joomla! and the sites you build with it. They also present chapter-length application case studies for business, non-profits, and education. You will learn how to\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Plan sites effectively before you start building them\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create production sites quickly while avoiding common mistakes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Install and configure Joomla! for maximum efficiency\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create and edit content for your Joomla! site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customize and work with Joomla! templates\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Work with extensions: components, modules, plugins, and languages\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Efficiently administer Joomla! sites\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Participate in the Joomla! community as a user and contributor\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9113'),
(15409, 'The Official Ubuntu Book Sixth Edition (Joanne Romanovich&#39;s Library)', 'Benjamin Mako Hill &amp; Matthew Helmke &amp; Amber Graner &amp; Corey Burger &amp; Jonathan Jesse &amp; Kyle Rankin &amp; Jono Bacon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7170'),
(15410, 'Omega', 'Robert Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4833'),
(15411, 'Omega', 'Robert Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6912'),
(15412, 'Omul din Castelul Inalt', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4799'),
(15413, 'Omul din Castelul Inalt', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8608'),
(15414, 'Omul nostru din Panama', 'John Le Carre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4888'),
(15415, 'The Online English Grammar (Full PDF Version 1.1)', 'Anthony Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4707'),
(15416, 'An Online System for Plagiarism Detection', 'Vaughn M. Segers &amp; James Connan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9485');
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(15417, 'OOoSwitch: 501 Things YouWanted to Know AboutSwitching to OpenOffice.orgfrom Microsoft Office', 'Tamar E. Granor &amp; Scott Carr &amp; Sam Hiser', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Microsoft Office users are converting to OpenOffice.org in droves due to a wide difference in price and no onerous licensing or restrictive installation and activation requirements, this timely guide to making this switch helps MS Office users get up to speed quickly. With the goal of preventing Office users from becoming bogged down and spending a lot of time learning how OpenOffice.org''s functionality differs, this book allows them to accomplish what they can already do in Microsoft Office with their new office suite. Covered are the installation and configuration of OOo, file compatibility, exchange, and layouts. Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw are also discussed as replacements for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Paint along with hundreds of tips on using them in day-to-day work. The capabilities of OOo Math are demonstrated, as is the OOo application programming interface.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D.\n  </strong>\n  , has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She served as editor of\n  <em>\n   FoxPro Advisor\n  </em>\n  and is the coauthor of the magazineâ€™s popular â€œAdvisor Answersâ€ column. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\n  <strong>\n   Sam Hiser\n  </strong>\n  is an open source advocate and systems consultant to media, financial services, government, and education. He is a senior contributor and member of the Release Committee of OpenOffice.org.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7821'),
(15418, 'Openfire Administration', 'Mayank Sharma', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Detail\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Openfire is a free, open-source and full featured Jabber-based Instant Messaging server.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a guide to setting up Openfire, tweaking it, and customizing it to build a secure and feature-rich alternative to consumer IM networks. The features covered include details about setting up the server, adding and handling users and groups, updating, and extending the service with plug-ins, connecting with users on external IM networks, connecting with external voice over IP solutions and more, with user-friendly instructions and examples so that you can easily set up your IM network.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book deals with several features of Openfire to streamline communication within an enterprise and beyond. It shows how to configure Openfire to allow only secured connections. It then explains how Openfire complements other existing services running on your network. Managing and fostering IM as a real-time collaboration and communication tool is what this book is about.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Explore the advantages of IM over other communication modes and Openfire''s features so that you can choose the best communication tool with the best server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Install and run Openfire; configure different IM clients over Windows and Linux\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Extend with plug-ins to make your network feature-packed\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage your users and groups; add users via a Directory Server like OpenLDAP and Active Directory and import/export users from other networks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Connect with users over external IM networks, connect with external VoIP solutions expanding your network''s ability\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitor and filter content, audit messages, and manage archives as per regulation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Set up an Openfire cluster and scale Openfire with connection managers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Set up server-to-server communication, add users from a remote network, and transfer files across servers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enable database support in Openfire to handle thousands of users concurrently\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Install Fastpath and webchat to create and configure a helpdesk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maintain the server by monitoring sessions, reports, and usage statistics\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Approach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a functional step-by-step, easy-to-follow reference guide that explains how to use Openfire to develop a secure instant messenger network. Each chapter will tell you how to add features to your IM.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Having a simple practical approach, this book is very user-friendly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is written for?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for System Administrators who want to set up an in-house enterprise IM system using Openfire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The reader will need experience in managing servers on any operating system.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mayank Sharma is a contributing editor at SourceForge, Inc''s Linux.com. He also writes a monthly column for Packt Publishing. Mayank has contributed several technical articles to IBM developerWorks where he hosts a Linux Security blog. When not writing, he occasionally teaches courses on Open Source topics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, as an Industry Expert.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7667'),
(15419, 'OpenOffice.org MacRos Explained', 'Andrew Pitonyak', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Providing complete and thorough coverage of macro programming in OpenOffice.org, this guide teaches users to create their own macros and to understand their underlying structure. An introduction to the creation and management of macros in OpenOffice is presented, and each function and command is described. Specific techniques to perform a variety of commonly requested functions are provided, including actions common to all applications in the OpenOffice.org suite, such as printing or saving files, as well as those specific to the individual applicationâ€”Write, Calc, Impress, and Draw. Numerous examples and explanations demonstrate proper techniques and discuss known problems and solutions. The underlying data structure is discussed, and techniques are introduced to evaluate OpenOffice objects, facilitating the use of returned objects in the absence of sufficient documentation by the original programming team.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Andrew Pitonyak\n  </strong>\n  is a lead software engineer for Qwest and is known as â€œthe macro guyâ€ on OpenOffice.org forums. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7797'),
(15420, 'OpenOffice.org XML EssentialsUsing OpenOffice.org&#39;s XML Data Format', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="navheader">\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <table summary="Navigation header" width="100%">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th colspan="3" align="center">\n      <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">\n        OpenOffice.org XML Essentials\n       </span>\n      </font>\n     </th>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <td align="left" width="20%">\n      <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">\n        Â \n       </span>\n      </font>\n     </td>\n     <th align="center" width="60%">\n      <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">\n        Â \n       </span>\n      </font>\n     </th>\n     <td align="right" width="20%">\n      <br />\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div class="book" lang="en">\n  <div class="titlepage">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <p>\n      <a id="N10001">\n       OpenOffice.org XML Essentials\n      </a>\n     </p>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <p>\n      <a id="N10001">\n       Using OpenOffice.org''s XML        Data Format\n      </a>\n     </p>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  Content licensed under a\n  <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0">\n   Creative CommonsLicense\n  </a>\n  .\n </div>\n <div>\n  All content is copyright Oâ€™Reilly &amp; Associates, Inc.\n </div>\n <div>\n  During development,I give permission for non-commercial copying for educational andreview purposes. After publication, all text will be releasedunder the Free Software Foundationâ€™s GNU Free Documentation License.Â \n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7794'),
(15421, 'Openstreetmap', 'Jonathan Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Be your own cartographer\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Collect data for the area you want to map with this OpenStreetMap book and eBook\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create your own custom maps to print or use online following our proven tutorials\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Collaborate with other OpenStreetMap contributors to improve the map data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how OpenStreetMap works and why it''s different to other sources of geographical information with this professional guide\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail Imagine being able to create accurate maps that look how you want them to, and use them on the Web or in print, for free. OpenStreetMap allows exactly that, with no restrictions on how or where you use your maps. OpenStreetMap is perfect for businesses that want to include maps on their website or in publications without paying high fees. With this book in hand you have the power to make, alter, and use this geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on the Earth. OpenStreetMap was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. This book will allow you to take control of your own maps and use them smoothly. This book introduces the reader to the OpenStreetMap project and shows you how to participate in the project, and make use of the data it provides. No prior knowledge of the project is assumed, and technical details are kept to a minimum. In this book, you''ll learn how easy it is to add your neighborhood to OpenStreetMap using inexpensive GPS equipment, or even no GPS at all. You''ll find out how to communicate with other mappers working in the same area, and where to find more information about how to map the world around you. Once you have your area mapped, you''ll learn how to turn this information into maps, whether for use in print or online, large or small, and with the details you want shown. The book describes several rendering methods, each suited to different types of map, and takes you through a tutorial on each one. OpenStreetMap is a free map of the world. With this book and eBook you will learn how to add information to it and produce digital maps you can use for anything, for free. What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Plan and consider various design aspects of your site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use digital photography and voice recordings to speed up the surveying process\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Add geographic features to the OpenStreetMap database, using one of three editors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Check the map data for errors and other problems using various tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Collaborate with other mappers working in the same area as you\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use maps made using OpenStreetMap data on a mobile device\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create customized maps of any area showing only the features you want\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Import OpenStreetMap data into a traditional Geographic Information System (GIS) Approach This book introduces the OSM project, its aims and objectives, and its history, then guides you through the process of gathering, editing, and using OpenStreetMap data using a series of real-world examples. Who this book is written for This book is the perfect aid for geographic-information professionals interested in using OpenStreetMap in their work and web designers and developers who want to include mapping in their sites, and want a distinctive style. It is for you if you have a need to use maps and geographic data for work or leisure, and want accurate, up-to-date maps showing the information you''re interested in, without details you don''t need. If you want to use maps for navigation and want more or less detail than traditional printed maps give this book is perfect for you.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7756'),
(15422, 'Operational Risk With Excel and VBA', 'Nigel Da Costa Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A valuable reference for understanding operational risk\n </p>\n <p>\n  Operational Risk with Excel and VBA is a practical guide that only discusses statistical methods that have been shown to work in an operational risk management context. It brings together a wide variety of statistical methods and models that have proven their worth, and contains a concise treatment of the topic. This book provides readers with clear explanations, relevant information, and comprehensive examples of statistical methods for operational risk management in the real world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nigel Da Costa Lewis (Stamford, CT) is president and CEO of StatMetrics, a quantitative research boutique. He received his PhD from Cambridge University.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Understanding and managing operational risk is essential to a companyâ€™s survival and prosperity. With the regulatory spotlight on operational risk management, there has been ever-increasing attention devoted to the quantification of operational risks. As a result, we have seen the emergence of a wide array of statistical methods for measuring, modeling, and monitoring operational risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by quantitative risk expert Nigel Da Costa Lewis, Operational Risk with Excel and VBA brings together a wide variety of statistical methods and models that have proven their worth in real-world business situations, and illustrates how these methods can improve a firmâ€™s overall management of operational risk events.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on the authorâ€™s extensive experience, this book maps out the state-of-the-art statistical techniques that can be used to model operational risk. Youâ€™ll be introduced to the most important topics in this area, such as Bayesian Belief Networks, extreme value theory, and fitting frequency and severity of loss distributions to data. As you work your way through this concise guide, youâ€™ll quickly learn how to model operational risk using tools such as Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Through the companion CD-ROM that supplements this book, youâ€™ll be able to watch interactive illustrations of the modeling methods discussed and utilize a variety of Excel spreadsheets for your own endeavors in this field.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Other issues covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Random variables, risk indicators, and probability\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Expectation, covariance, variance, and correlation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Modeling central tendency and variability of operational risk indicators\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Statistical testing of operational risk parameters\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The law of significant digits and fraud risk identification\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Linear regression in operational risk management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Validating operational risk proxies using surrogate endpoints\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  To improve your understanding of the methods discussed, case studies, examples, and review questions are also included in many chapters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether youâ€™re a financial professional, consultant, or academic, Operational Risk with Excel and VBA provides you with an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the most crucial innovations in the application of statistical methods to operational risk modeling.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7698'),
(15423, 'Operatiunea Haos', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4740'),
(15424, 'Operele imperfecte 1979', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4916'),
(15425, 'Optimal Control Models in Finance', 'Ping Chen &amp; Sardar M. N. Islam', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The determination of optimal financing and investment strategies (optimal capital structure or optimal mix of funds, optimal portfolio choice, etc.) for corporations and the economy are important for efficient allocation of resources in the economy. Optimal control methods have useful applications to these areas in finance - some optimization problems in finance include optimal control, involving a dynamic system with switching times in the form of bang-bang control. Optimal control models for corporate finance and the economy are presented in this book and the analytical and computational results of these models are also reported. Such computational approaches to the study of optimal corporate financing are not well known in the existing literature. This book develops a new computational method where switching times are considered as variables in the optimal dynamic financial model represented by a second order differential equation. A new computer program named CSTVA (Computer Program for the Switching Time Variables Algorithm), which can compute bang-bang optimal financial models with switching time, is also developed. Optimal financing implications of the model results in the form of optimal switching times for changes in financing policies and the optimal financial policies are analyzed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7907'),
(15426, 'Orca', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4289'),
(15427, 'Organizing Information Resources for Effective Management', 'James G. Neal &amp; Polley Ann McClure', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  Organizing and Managing Information Resources on Your Campus\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7400'),
(15428, 'Orion va rasari', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4735'),
(15429, 'Oul si sfera 1967', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4904'),
(15430, 'Outbound Flight', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3043'),
(15431, 'Pactu cu diavolul', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4824'),
(15432, 'Padrone della vita, padrone della morte', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Soprapopolazione globale, nuovo siero dâ€™immortalitÃ  ed un ambasciatore extraterrestre ostile sono soltanto alcuni problemi di Roy Walton, recentemente nominato dal governo alla carica del Padrone della vita e della morte.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11265'),
(15433, 'Padurea spanzuratilor', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4768'),
(15434, 'The Paladin of the Night', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  /by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman After the overwhelming defeat of their tribes, Khardan and Zohra find themselves prisoners of an evil god''s disciples--and in danger of losing their honor, their lives and their souls! Second in yet another of Weis and Hickman''s epic fantasies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Great War of the Gods means nothing to the proud people on the mortal planet--until Akhran the Wandering God decrees the union of two mighty feuding clans. Though the families are fierce Warriors, they are few in number. Even the marriage of Khardan and Zohra is not enough to over power the strength of the invading army or prevent the imprisonment of their peoples. Now, with Khardan and Zohra mysteriously missing--seemingly cowards who hid from certain defeat--the two clans have lost all hope of ever again seeing their beloved open skies. But Prince Khardan and Princess Zohra, aided by the wizard Matthew, have been given another mission. . . a mission that at first seems less useful than counting the many grains of the desert sands, but soon proves to be of far more lasting importance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4563'),
(15435, 'Pandora 1', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Bill  Ransom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4868'),
(15436, 'Pandora 1', 'Herbert Frank &amp; Ransom Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8550'),
(15437, 'Pandora 2', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Bill  Ransom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4769'),
(15438, 'Pandora 2', 'Herbert Frank &amp; Ransom Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8551'),
(15439, 'Pandora 3', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Bill  Ransom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4760'),
(15440, 'Pandora 3', 'Herbert Frank &amp; Ransom Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8555'),
(15441, 'Pandora&#39;s Closet', 'Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Jean Rabe &amp; Timothy Zahn &amp; Christopher T. Pierson &amp; Louise Marley &amp; Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Rebecca Moesta &amp; Michael A. Stackpole &amp; John Helfers &amp; Linda P. Baker &amp; Jane Lindskold &amp; A. M. Strout &amp; Belle Holder &amp; Nancy Holder &amp; Judi Rohrig &amp; Donald J. Bingle &amp; Joe Masdon &amp; Yvonne Coats &amp; Peter Schweighofer &amp; Kelly Swails &amp; Keith R.A. DeCandido &amp; Elizabeth A. Vaughan &amp; Sarah Zettel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nineteen original tales of the pandora legend-as no one has ever imagine it before.\n <br />\n When Pandora''s Box was opened, so the ancient tale goes, all the evils that would beset humanity were released into the world. When the box was all but empty, the only thing that remained was hope. Now some of fantasy''s finest writers have taken on the task of opening Pandora''s closet. It is naturally chock full of an assortment of items, including a ring that can bring its wearer infinite health, a special helmet found in the most unlikely of places, a mysterious box that holds a legendary piece of cloth, and a red hoodie that transforms a woman''s world. These stories are of items claimed by people, but only at their own peril. After indulging in these stories, readers will certainly look at their own closets in a whole new light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3026'),
(15442, 'Parallel Programming With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step', 'Donis Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of parallel programmingTeach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010â€”one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.Discover how to:Apply techniques to help increase your application''s speed and efficiencySimplify the process of adding parallelism with the Task Parallel Library (TPL)Execute several tasks concurrently with various scheduling techniquesPerform data queries in parallel with PLINQUse concurrent collections in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for data itemsExtend classes in the TPL to meet the specific requirements of your applicationPerform live debugging of an application with parallel code\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Donis Marshall has over 20 years of experience in designing and building enterprise software utilizing Microsoft technologies for leading companies across industry segments. He is an endorsed trainer for Microsoft Global Learning Services, and has been training Microsoft developers and engineers for many years. Donis is the author of the Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2008, and Solid Code, published by Microsoft Press.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10175'),
(15443, 'Parallels Python API Reference', 'Python Team', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6150'),
(15444, 'Party of the Two Parts', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10011'),
(15445, 'Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Resource Management', 'Michael Kircher &amp; Prashant Jain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first volume of the POSA pattern series introduced a broad-spectrum of general-purpose patterns in software design and architecture. The secondÂ narrowed the focus to fundamental patterns for building sophisticated concurrent and networked software systems and applications. This volume uses design patterns to present techniques for implementing effective resource management in a system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The patterns are covered in detail making use of several examplesÂ providing directions to the readers on how to implement the presented patterns. Additionally, the volume presents a thorough introduction into resource management and a case study where the patterns are applied to the domain of mobile radio networks. The patterns are grouped by different areas of resource management and hence address the complete lifecycle of resources: resource acquisition, coordination and release.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Efficient management of resources is critical in the execution of any kind of software. From embedded software in a mobile device to software in a large enterprise server, it is important that resources, such as memory, threading, files, or network connections, are managed efficiently to allow the systems to function properly and effectively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the need for resource management is often discovered late in the software development lifecycle, and changing the system design at this late stage is difficult, it is important that such tasks are performed early in the lifecycle. Since systems belonging to different domains have different system constraints and requirements, a technique that works well in a particular system or configuration might not be so effective in another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  POSA 3 uses patterns to present techniques for implementing effective resource management in a system. The patterns are covered in detail, making use of several examples, and, as in previous POSA volumes, directions are given on how to implement the presented patterns. Additionally, the volume presents a thorough introduction into resource management, and two case studies where the patterns are applied to the domains of ad hoc networking and mobile radio networks. The patterns are grouped by different areas of resource management and hence address the complete lifecycle of resources: resource acquisition, coordination and release.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9176'),
(15446, 'Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture', 'Martin Fowler &amp; David Rice &amp; Matthew Foemmel &amp; Edward Hieatt &amp; Robert Mee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Developers of enterprise applications (e.g reservation systems, supply chain programs, financial systems, etc.) face a unique set of challenges, different than those faced by their desktop system and embedded system peers. For this reason, enterprise developers must uncover their own solutions. In this new book, noted software engineering expert Martin Fowler turns his attention to enterprise application development. He helps professionals understand the complex -- yet critical -- aspects of architecture. While architecture is important to all application development, it is particularly critical to the success of an enterprise project, where issues such as performance and concurrent multi-user access are paramount. The book presents patterns (proven solutions to recurring problems) in enterprise architecture, and the context provided by the author enables the reader to make the proper choices when faced with a difficult design decision.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology--from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET--the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is actually two books in one. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book''s lessons. The next section, the bulk of the book, is a detailed reference to the patterns themselves. Each pattern provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples in Java or C#. The entire book is also richly illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Dividing an enterprise application into layers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The major approaches to organizing business logic\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Designing distributed object interfaces\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  0321127420B10152002\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9200'),
(15447, 'Pazitorii timpului', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4869'),
(15448, 'Pe aripile vantului', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4816'),
(15449, 'PEAR Manual', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9062'),
(15450, 'Pendulul lui Foucault', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8519'),
(15451, 'Pendulul lui Foucault Vol 1', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4787'),
(15452, 'Pendulul lui Foucault Vol 2', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4921'),
(15453, 'The Penultimate Truth', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11694'),
(15454, 'Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4580'),
(15455, 'Peregrinarile lui Tuf', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4779'),
(15456, 'Peregrinarile lui Tuf', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8539'),
(15457, 'Perpessicius', 'CIP', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4792'),
(15458, 'Petals in the Storm', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in opulent 19th-century France, here is the epic tale of Rafael Whitbourne, the Duke of Candover, and beautiful spy Countess Magda Janos. United to uncover a court assassination, Rafael is shocked to learn that Magda is a woman he loved 15 years before and had thought dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8872'),
(15459, 'A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science', 'Peter J. Feibelman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!\n  </em>\n  , physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in\n  <em>\n   A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!\n  </em>\n  will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates,\n  <em>\n   A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!\n  </em>\n  remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science. This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since 1974 a solid state physicist,\n  <strong>\n   Peter J. Feibelman\n  </strong>\n  has been at Sandia National Laboratories, where he is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. In 1989 he won the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physicist Society for outstanding research in Surface Science. Feibelman received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1967, did postdoctoral research at the C.E.N. Saclay (France) and the University of Illinois (Urbana), then spent three years as assistant professor of physics at SUNY, Stony Brook.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7339'),
(15460, 'The Philip K Dick Reader', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11674'),
(15461, 'Php and Mysql Web Development', 'Luke Welling &amp; Laura Thomson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book by Welling &amp; Thomson is the\n  <br />\n  only one which I have found to be indispensable.\n  <br />\n  The writing is clear and straightforward\n  <br />\n  but never wastes my time.The book is\n  <br />\n  extremely well laid out.The chapters are the\n  <br />\n  right length and chapter titles quickly take\n  <br />\n  you where you want to go.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Wright Sullivan, President,A&amp;E\n  <br />\n  Engineering, Inc., Greer South Carolina\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThere are several good introductory\n  <br />\n  books on PHP, but Welling &amp; Thomson is an\n  <br />\n  excellent handbook for those who wish to\n  <br />\n  build up complex and reliable systems. Itâ€™s\n  <br />\n  obvious that the authors have a strong background\n  <br />\n  in the development of professional\n  <br />\n  applications and they teach not only\n  <br />\n  the language itself, but also how to use it\n  <br />\n  with good software engineering practices.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Javier Garcia, senior telecom engineer,\n  <br />\n  Telefonica R&amp;D Labs, Madrid\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book rocks! I am an experienced\n  <br />\n  programmer, so I didnâ€™t need a lot of help\n  <br />\n  with PHP syntax; after all, itâ€™s very close to\n  <br />\n  C/C++. I donâ€™t know a thing about\n  <br />\n  databases, though, so when I wanted to\n  <br />\n  develop a book review engine (among\n  <br />\n  other projects) I wanted a solid reference\n  <br />\n  to using MySQL with PHP. I have\n  <br />\n  Oâ€™Reillyâ€™s mSQL and MySQL book, and\n  <br />\n  itâ€™s probably a better pure-SQL reference,\n  <br />\n  but this book has earned a place on my\n  <br />\n  reference shelfâ€¦Highly recommended.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Paul Robichaux\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe true PHP/MySQL bible, PHP\n  <br />\n  and MySQL Web Development by Luke\n  <br />\n  Welling and Laura Thomson, made me\n  <br />\n  realize that programming and databases are\n  <br />\n  now available to the commoners. Again, I\n  <br />\n  know 1/10000th of what there is to know,\n  <br />\n  and already Iâ€™m enthralled.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Tim Luoma,TnTLuoma.com\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the eBook version of the title. To gain access to the contents on the CD bundled with the printed book, please register your product at informit.com/register.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL is a fast, reliable database that integrates well with PHP and is suited for dynamic Internet-based applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   PHP and MySQL Web Development\n  </em>\n  shows how to use these tools together to produce effective, interactive Web applications. It clearly describes the basics of the PHP language, explains how to set up and work with a MySQL database, and then shows how to use PHP to interact with the database and the server.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This practical, hands-on book includes numerous examples that demonstrate common tasks such as authenticating users, constructing a shopping cart, generating PDF documents and images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions, connecting to Web services using XML, and developing Web 2.0 applications with Ajax-based interactivity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fourth edition of\n  <em>\n   PHP and MySQL Web Development\n  </em>\n  has been thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded to cover developments in PHP 5 through version 5.3, such as namespaces and closures, as well as features introduced in MySQL 5.1.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10180'),
(15462, 'PHP for the Web', 'Larry Ullman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With PHP for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language. Leading technology author Larry Ullman guides readers through the latest developments including use and awareness of HTML5 with PHP. Other addressed changes include removal of outdated functions and more efficient ways to tackle common needs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the technology, and more intermediate users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here--in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the fourth edition of my first book: a beginner''s guide to the PHP programming language. This book was written for the average computer user wanting to begin developing dynamic Web sites. No prior programming experience is assumed, although you should already be familiar with the basics of HTML. The focus of the book is the PHP language itself, but two chapters introduce MySQL and SQL, in order to start using a database backend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the fourth edition of the book, I started by fixing any minor problems and updating the code for the latest version of PHP. New in this edition is a "Review and Pursue" section at the end of each chapter. The review prompts revisit the chapter''s key points. The pursue prompts are specific recommendations for how to apply what you just learned on your own. As with any of the book''s material, you can turn to the book''s supporting forum for help or feedback on the "Review and Pursue" section.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Also new in this edition is an added chapter, called "Putting It All Together." The chapter demonstrates how to use everything covered in the book to assemble a mini-Web application, with authentication and full\n  <em>\n   CRUD\n  </em>\n  (Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete) functionality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I thank you for your interest in my work. If you do decide to purchase the book, I hope it meets your expectations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9061'),
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(15465, 'PHP Manual enhanced (English)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9049'),
(15466, 'PHP Manual enhanced (Romanian)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9050'),
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(15468, 'PHP Pocket Reference', 'Rasmus Lerdorf', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simple, to the point, and compact--in fact, exactly what you''ve come to expect in an O''Reilly Pocket Reference--the second edition of\n  <em>\n   PHP Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  is thoroughly updated to include the specifics of PHP 4.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by the founder of the PHP Project, Rasmus Lerdorf,\n  <em>\n   PHP Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  is both a handy introduction to PHP syntax and structure, and a quick reference to the vast array of functions provided by PHP. The quick reference section organizes all the core functions of PHP alphabetically so you can find what you need easily; the slim size means you can keep it handy beside your keyboard for those times when you want to look up a function quickly without closing what you''re doing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This valuable little book provides an authoritative overview of PHP packed into a pocket-sized guide that''s easy to take anywhere. It is also the ideal companion for O''Reilly''s comprehensive book on PHP,\n  <em>\n   Programming PHP\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   PHP Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  an indispensable (and inexpensive) tool for any serious PHP coder.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  started the PHP Project back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development ever since. Also involved in a number of other Open Source projects, Rasmus is a longtime Apache contributor and foundation member. He is the author of the first edition of the PHP Pocket Reference, and the co-author of Programming PHP.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9059'),
(15469, 'PHP Programming With PEAR', 'Schmidt Stephan &amp; Stoyan Stefanov &amp; Wormus Aaron &amp; Lucke Carsten', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book explains many powerful PEAR packagesÂ¿ for maximizing your PHP development productivity for accessing and displaying data, handling dates, working with XML and Web Services, and accessing Web APIs. This book is for PHP developers who want to maximize their productivity through the use of proven, high-quality, reusable PEAR components. Some experience of working with PEAR classes will prove helpful, and developers who''ve used PEAR before can find something new to delight them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Aaron Wormus\n  <br />\n  Carsten Lucke\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carsten Lucke studied computer-science at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany. He is currently working as a software engineer for the software design and management AG (sd&amp;m AG) in Munich, Germany. In his spare-time he writes articles for various magazines and contributes to the open-source community (especially PHP). He is the developer of a handful of PEAR/PECL packages, founder of the 3rdPEARty pear channel-server project (\n  <strong>\n   3rdpearty.net\n  </strong>\n  ) and the tool-garage.de open-source and freeware project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Stephan Schmidt\n  <br />\n  Stoyan Stefanov\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. He talks regularly about JavaScript, PHP, and other web development topics at conferences and his blog\n  <strong>\n   phpied.com\n  </strong>\n  and also runs a number of other sites, including\n  <strong>\n   JSPatterns.com\n  </strong>\n  - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Stoyan is the engineering lead of Yahoo''s performance optimization tool ''YSlow'', as well as other open-source tools and ''PEAR'' libraries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9093'),
(15470, 'PHPExcel Codeplex developer documentation', 'Maarten Balliauw', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9067'),
(15471, 'Phule&#39;s Paradise', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Ingram\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Captain Willard Phule must lead his group of unlikely interstellar armed forces on a mission to protect The Fat Chance, an intergalactic casino, from a criminal takeover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3682'),
(15472, 'Picnic la marginea drumului', 'Arkadyi si Boris Strugatki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4697'),
(15473, 'Picnic la marginea drumului', 'Boris si Arkadi Strugatzki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8535'),
(15474, 'Plagiarism DetectionExperiments to investigate the utility of linguistically informed features in detectingtextual plagiarism', 'PER ALMQUIST', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9472'),
(15475, 'A plagiarism detection procedure in three steps: selection, matches and ``squares&#39;&#39;', 'Chiara Basileit', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  Chiara Basile - basile@dm.unibo.it\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9475'),
(15476, 'Plastica medievala', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8611'),
(15477, 'Plumb', 'BACOVIA George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4886'),
(15478, 'Pluta de piatra', 'Jose Saramago', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8625'),
(15479, 'Poemele luminii', 'Mircea Bucur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8635');
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(15484, 'Poezii', 'Ion Barbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4814'),
(15485, 'Poezii', 'Charles Baudelaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4891'),
(15486, 'Poezii', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4930'),
(15487, 'Poezii', 'Charles-Pierre Baudelaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8571'),
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(15491, 'Poezii diverse', 'Ion MINULESCU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4854'),
(15492, 'Poezii diverse', 'Marin Sorescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4862'),
(15493, 'Poezii diverse', 'Mihai Eminescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4873'),
(15494, 'Poezii populare ale rom', 'Alecsandri Vasile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8609'),
(15495, 'Point &amp; Click OpenOffice.org', 'Robin Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Robin''s book comes at the perfect time. With the extremely popular 2.0 release, more people will discover OpenOffice.org''s incredible value. A book like Robin''s is important because it helps people master the OpenOffice.org tools they need to get things done." --Jeffrey Bates, VP Editorial Operations, cofounder Slashdot.org OpenOffice.org 2.0 made easy...incredibly easy! Tired of Microsoft Office hassles, upgrades, and cost? Try OpenOffice.org 2.0! OpenOffice.org 2.0 is all the office productivity software you''ll ever need for your Windows or Linux computer: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, even databases...and it''s free! Not sure it''s up to the job? It is. Not sure you can switch from Microsoft Office? You can. Just let OpenOffice.org expert and Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) editor-in-chief Robin ''Roblimo'' Miller teach you OpenOffice.org the easy way--using the skills you already have! Robin will help you become productive in minutes--and you don''t need to be a computer expert! His easy, visual instructions walk you through every step of every task you need to know...plus, you''ll find twenty how-to videos on CD!You''ll master everything from formatting text documents to creating presentation slide shows and building "what-if" projections to designing flowcharts. There''s even bonus coverage of Firefox and Thunderbird, the fast, safe, free software for Web browsing and e-mail! / Master OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Base. / Create Microsoft Office-compatible documents anyone can read and use. / Analyze, manage, and manipulate business information with Calc. / Design attractive charts and other visuals. / Use mail merge to create great form letters or e-mails. / Create and manipulate sophisticated databases--even if you have no previous database experience. / Start using Firefox--the safest, most secure Web browser available for Windows! / Filter out junk mail with Thunderbird and say goodbye to Outlook Express. / Do things you can''t do with Microsoft Office--such as creating Flash slide shows for the Web! TWO CD-ROMS INCLUDED The first CD-ROM features OpenOffice 2.0 for Windows and Linux, plus the Windows versions of the latest Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software...just install and run!The second CD-ROM features ''Roblimo'' showing you how to perform twenty essential OpenOffice.org tasks in easy, bite-sized video tutorials...just watch, and do!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRobinâ€™s book comes at the perfect time. With the extremely popular 2.0 release, more people will discover OpenOffice.orgâ€™s incredible value. A book like Robinâ€™s is important because it helps people master the OpenOffice.org tools they need to get things done.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Jeffrey Bates, VP Editorial Operations, cofounder Slashdot.org\n </p>\n <p>\n  OpenOffice.org 2.0 made easy..._incredibly easy!_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tired of Microsoft Office hassles, upgrades, and cost? Try OpenOffice.org 2.0!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  OpenOffice.org 2.0 is all the office productivity software youâ€™ll ever need for your Windows or Linux computer: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, even databases... and itâ€™s free! Not sure itâ€™s up to the job? It is. Not sure you can switch from Microsoft Office? You can. Just let OpenOffice.org expert and Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) editor-in-chief Robin â€˜Roblimoâ€™ Miller teach you OpenOffice.org the easy wayâ€”using the skills you already have!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robin will help you become productive in minutesâ€”and you donâ€™t need to be a computer expert! His easy, visual instructions walk you through every step of every task you need to know... plus, youâ€™ll find twenty how-to videos on CD! Youâ€™ll master everything from formatting text documents to creating presentation slide shows and building â€œwhat-ifâ€ projections to designing flowcharts. Thereâ€™s even bonus coverage of Firefox and Thunderbird, the fast, safe, free software for Web browsing and e-mail!\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Master OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Base.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Create Microsoft Office-compatible documents anyone can read and use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Analyze, manage, and manipulate business information with Calc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Design attractive charts and other visuals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Use mail merge to create great form letters or e-mails.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Create and manipulate sophisticated databasesâ€”even if you have no previous database experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Start using Firefoxâ€”the safest, most secure Web browser available for Windows!\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Filter out junk mail with Thunderbird and say goodbye to Outlook Express.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Do things you canâ€™t do with Microsoft Officeâ€”such as creating Flash slide shows for the Web!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TWO CD-ROMS INCLUDED\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  The first CD-ROM features OpenOffice 2.0 for Windows and Linux,\n  <em>\n   plus\n  </em>\n  the Windows versions of the latest Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software... Â _just install and run!_\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second CD-ROM features â€˜Roblimoâ€™ showing you how to perform twenty essential OpenOffice.org tasks in easy, bite-sized video tutorials...Â \n  <em>\n   just watch, and do!\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7820'),
(15496, 'Por el tiempo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una novela de atmÃ³sfera ciber-punk sobre los viajes por el tiempo, un tema apasionante que en este libro queda reflejado de una manera bastante decente, en especial todo lo relacionado con las paradojas espacio-temporales. AdemÃ¡s, el libro nos aporta una minilecciÃ³n de historia sobre Constantinopla que ameniza la acciÃ³n. En definitiva un libro agradable, entretenido y rÃ¡pido de leer cuya Ãºnica falta estribarÃ­a en algunas caracterizaciones de algunos personajes. Aparte de esto, solo mencionar lo deplorable de la ediciÃ³n espaÃ±ola, plagada de errores tanto lingÃ¼Ã­sticos como de traducciÃ³n. AÃºn asÃ­, es muy recomendable para todos aquellos amantes de los viajes temporales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11221'),
(15497, 'Porting Excel/VBA toCalc/StarBasic', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9718'),
(15498, 'The Positronic Man', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11072'),
(15499, 'Povestea vorbii', 'Anton Pann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8552'),
(15500, 'Povesti', 'Ion Creanga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8561'),
(15501, 'Povestiri', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8528'),
(15502, 'Povestiri', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8593'),
(15503, 'Povestiri', 'Ion Creanga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8612'),
(15504, 'Powershell in Practice', 'Richard Siddaway', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Windows PowerShell is a scripting language that simplifies Windows system administration. PowerShell in Practice is a hands-on reference for administrators wanting to learn and use PowerShell. Following the "in Practice" style, individual related techniques are clustered into chapters. Each technique is presented in the form: problem, solution, discussion, and includes annotated code listings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written to answer the question "How can PowerShell make my job as an administrator easier?" this book concentrates on practical tasks and automation. Starting with an a brief tutorial and review, the majority of the book focuses on two major PowerShell usage areas: People - user accounts, mailboxes, desktop configuration; and Servers - Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, and more.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richard Siddaway\n  </strong>\n  is an IT Architect with 20 years experience as an analyst-programmer, server administrator, support engineer, DBA, and architect.Â He a PowerShell MVP and founded the U.K. PowerShell User Group.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7699'),
(15505, 'Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology', 'Frank W. Zammetti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the reviews:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Java developers who have read the tutorials and want to pick apart the real code of complete Ajax enabled Java applications will find this book very helpful. â€¦ the book can be recommended to any Java developer who wants to learn Ajax by doing." (Alberto Bolchini, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (5), May, 2008)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank W. Zammetti is a Web Architect Specialist for a leading worldwide financial company by day and a PocketPC and open-source developer by night. He is the Founder and Chief Software Architect of Omnytex Technologies, a PocketPC development house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He has over 12 years of professional experience in the IT field, and over 12 more of "amateur" experience. He began his nearly life-long love of computers at age 7 when he became 1 of 4 students chosen to take part in his school district''s pilot computer program. A year later, he was the only one left! The first computer Frank owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982, on which he wrote a program to look up movie times for all of Long Island (and without the 16k expansion module!). After that he moved on to a Commodore 64 and spent about 4 years doing nothing but Assembly programming (games mostly). He finally got his first IBM-compatible PC in 1987, and began learning the finer points of programming (as they existed at that time!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Frank has been primarily developing web-based applications for about 8 years; previously he developed Windows-based client/server applications in a variety of languages. Frank holds numerous certifications including SCJP, MCSD, CNA, i-Net+, A+, CIW, MCP and numerous BrainBench certifications. He is a contributor to a number of open-source projects, including DataVision, Struts, PocketFrog and Jakarta Commons. In addition, Frank has started two projects: Java Web Parts and The Struts Web Services\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enablement Project. He also was one of the founding members of a project that created the first truly working Commodore 64 emulator for PocketPC devices (PocketHobbit).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Frank is the author of various articles on topics ranging from integrating DataVision into webapps and using Ajax in Struts-based applications. He is currently working on a new application framework specifically geared to creating next-generation web applications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9300'),
(15506, 'Practical RDF', 'Shelley Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF''s capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions. Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C''s often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects. The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF/XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF''s data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF/XML. If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9745'),
(15507, 'Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services', 'John Mcconnell &amp; Eric Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Measure, manage, and improve the speed and reliability of web services\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Complete reference for creating relevant, effective Service Level Agreements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Detailed discussions of both technical and business performance metrics and their statistical treatment\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performance and management implications of various web services delivery infrastructures, including caching and load distribution\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Discussion of the transport infrastructure, including quality of service (QoS) technology and traffic shaping\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Instrumentation system design\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Measurement collection, aggregation, correlation, and use for real-time service level control and reporting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Quick problem detection, "triage" problem diagnosis, and root-cause analysis\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automated, policy-based system management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Load testing, modeling, and capacity planning for web systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Calculation of return on investment for web infrastructure improvements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Structured plan for implementation of SLM techniques\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The web has become a major vehicle for transforming business processes, but ineffective management of web-based services can result in high costs and user dissatisfaction. Service Level Management (SLM) is therefore a competitive weapon in the web marketplace, providing the tools needed to improve performance and reliability of web services while simultaneously controlling costs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services\n  </em>\n  shows you how you can measure, manage, and improve network performance and quality of experience (QoE) for critical web services. Starting with an explanation of SLM and common performance metrics, the book provides detailed discussions of methods to measure and improve performance. Service Level Agreements, instrumentation, performance-improvement technologies, load testing, and long-term planning are all covered in detail. This book provides both technical engineers and non-technical managers with an organized, cohesive plan for measuring, improving, and evaluating the performance of web-based services.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether you are delivering services to other businesses or directly to customers,\n  <em>\n   Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services\n  </em>\n  walks you through the complete process of designing a balanced solution for your situation. Use it to help design a system with the speed, reliability, and flexibility that are critical success factors for your business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The web has become a major vehicle for transforming business processes, but ineffective management of web-based services can result in high costs and user dissatisfaction. Service Level Management (SLM) is therefore a competitive weapon in the web marketplace, providing the tools needed to improve performance and reliability of web services while simultaneously controlling costs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services shows you how you can measure, manage, and improve network performance and quality of experience (QoE) for critical web services. Starting with an explanation of SLM and common performance metrics, the book provides detailed discussions of methods to measure and improve performance. Service Level Agreements, instrumentation, performance-improvement technologies, load testing, and long-term planning are all covered in detail. This book provides both technical engineers and non-technical managers with an organized, cohesive plan for measuring, improving, and evaluating the performance of web-based services.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether you are delivering services to other businesses or directly to customers, Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services walks you through the complete process of designing a balanced solution for your situation. Use it to help design a system with the speed, reliability, and flexibility that are critical success factors for your business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3425'),
(15508, 'Practical symfony', 'Fabien Potencier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9079'),
(15509, 'Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer', 'Justin Gehtland &amp; Ben Galbraith &amp; Dion Almaer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It''s not just another book on Ajax. It''s Pragmatic Ajax: a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications. Ajax turns static web pages into interactive applications. Now you can deploy rich-client applications to clients without sacrificing the easy deployment of web applications. But to many folks, Ajax seems difficult. That''s why we produced this book. As a Pragmatic guide, it strips away the mystery and shows you the easy way to make Ajax work for you. We cover the the basics of DHTML, JavaScript, and the infamous XmlHttpRequest call. You''ll see how to add Ajax to existing programs, and design new applications to exploit the power of Web 2.0. Learn the three layers of Ajax framework, and when (and how) to use each. See how to create rich clients, use visual effects, add client-side validation, and handle forms. Write applications that degrade gracefully if clients don''t support JavaScript. And see how to integrate your Ajaxified clients into Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails server frameworks. With Pragmatic Ajax, you''ll:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the breadth of the Ajax/Web 2.0 landscape, and go-indepth on how Ajax works\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how JavaScript works with your server-side framework\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   See how to easily apply Ajax techniques to an existing applicationÂ—and when not to\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Know what''s coming by looking at new features and frameworks currently in active development. Writing dynamic applications isn''t that hard. Folks are awed by Google Maps, but it isn''t rocket science (apart from the satellite pictures). As a special bonus, see how to implement your own Google Maps-like application using DHTML.Justin Gehtland is a partner and co-founder of Relevance, a training and consulting com-pany located in the Research Triangle, North Carolina. He has been an application de-veloper since 1990, and a web application developer since 1995. His technology back-ground includes all the usual suspects. He is currently focused on lightweight develop-ment using Ruby, .NET and Java.Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several technology books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, was recently Chief Technical Of-ficer for Amirsys, and is presently a consultant specializing in enterprise architecture and Swing/Ajax development. Ben presides over the Utah Java User''s Group, is active in the Java Community Process, and tinkers on various open-source projects from time to time. He has delivered over one hundred technical presentations in 2005 at venues including JavaOne, TheServerSide.com Java Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Sympo-siums.Dion Almaer is the other founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and is a columnist on Enterprise Java topics at openxource.com, onjava.com, TheServerSide.com, and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog. He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9314'),
(15510, 'Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer', 'Justin Gehtland &amp; Ben Galbraith &amp; Dion Almaer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It''s not just another book on Ajax. It''s\n  <em>\n   Pragmatic Ajax\n  </em>\n  : a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ajax turns static web pages into interactive applications. Now you can deploy rich-client applications to clients without sacrificing the easy deployment of web applications. But to many folks, Ajax seems difficult. That''s why we produced this book. As a Pragmatic guide, it strips away the mystery and shows you the easy way to make Ajax work for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We cover the the basics of DHTML, JavaScript, and the infamous XmlHttpRequest call. You''ll see how to add Ajax to existing programs, and design new applications to exploit the power of Web 2.0. Learn the three layers of Ajax framework, and when (and how) to use each. See how to create rich clients, use visual effects, add client-side validation, and handle forms. Write applications that degrade gracefully if clients don''t support JavaScript. And see how to integrate your Ajaxified clients into Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails server frameworks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Pragmatic Ajax, you''ll:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the breadth of the Ajax/Web 2.0 landscape, and go-indepth on how Ajax works\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how JavaScript works with your server-side framework\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   See how to easily apply Ajax techniques to an existing applicationÂ—and when not to\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Know what''s coming by looking at new features and frameworks currently in active development.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Writing dynamic applications isn''t that hard. Folks are awed by Google Maps, but it isn''t rocket science (apart from the satellite pictures). As a special bonus, see how to implement your own Google Maps-like application using DHTML.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Justin Gehtland is a partner and co-founder of Relevance, a training and consulting com-pany located in the Research Triangle, North Carolina. He has been an application de-veloper since 1990, and a web application developer since 1995. His technology back-ground includes all the usual suspects. He is currently focused on lightweight develop-ment using Ruby, .NET and Java.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several technology books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, was recently Chief Technical Of-ficer for Amirsys, and is presently a consultant specializing in enterprise architecture and Swing/Ajax development. Ben presides over the Utah Java User''s Group, is active in the Java Community Process, and tinkers on various open-source projects from time to time. He has delivered over one hundred technical presentations in 2005 at venues including JavaOne, TheServerSide.com Java Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Sympo-siums.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dion Almaer is the other founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and is a columnist on Enterprise Java topics at openxource.com, onjava.com, TheServerSide.com, and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog. He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9320'),
(15511, 'Pragmatic Guide to Subversion', 'Mike Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Subversion sets the standard in version control systems. Championed by open-source developers, Subversion is behind some of today''s biggest and most important software, including Apache, FreeBSD, Ruby, and MediaWiki. But more than just a tool for open-source collaboration, Subversion has made a significant impact in the corporate IT world. Most developers will now encounter Subversion source control during their career. As a developer, you probably have knowledge of more than one source control tool and are expected to fluidly switch between tools depending on where you are working. This book was written to bridge the gap between knowing something about version control in general and knowing about Subversion specifically. In Pragmatic Guide to Subversion, author Mike Mason drives developers to the features and practices that have made Subversion so successful. Each of the 48 tasks selected for the book is presented as a quick two-pager, with a succinct description on the left side and a quick reference on the right. The book is designed for experienced developers who know how to learn and want to get straight to the tricks and traps they''d otherwise learn by trial and error. Subversion started life as a command-line tool but graphical clients are now extremely popular and can offer a lot of extra power. For every task in Pragmatic Guide to Subversion, you get to see how to carry out the task via the regular command-line client as well as the TortoiseSVN graphical client for Windows, and the Cornerstone graphical client for Mac. Whether or not you''ve used other version control tools, you''ll learn Subversion''s popular way of working-how to access your source code, make changes, and share them with your team. Each of the development tasks selected for the book gives simple steps toward completion, paired with a clear explanation. You won''t find a more practical approach to learning Subversion than Pragmatic Guide to Subversion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9196'),
(15512, 'Prealgebra', 'Charles P. Mckeague', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pat McKeague''s sixth edition of PREALGEBRA is the book for the modern student like you. Like its predecessors, the sixth edition is clear, concise, and patient in explaining the concepts. This new edition contains hundreds of new and updated examples and applications, a redesign that includes cleaner graphics and images (some from Google Earth) that allow you to see the connection between mathematics and your world. This includes references to contemporary topics like gas prices and some of today''s most forward thinking companies like Google.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Charles P. "Pat" McKeague earned his B.A. in Mathematics from California State University, Northridge, and his M.S. in Mathematics from Brigham Young University. A well-known author and respected educator, he is a full-time writer and a part-time instructor at Cuesta College. He has published twelve textbooks in mathematics covering a range of topics from basic mathematics to trigonometry. An active member of the mathematics community, Professor McKeague is a popular speaker at regional conferences, includi\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7639'),
(15513, 'Preludiul Fundatiei', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4720'),
(15514, 'Preparing for the Project Management Professional', 'Michael W. Newell Pmp Enp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n html head /head body p quot;In order to get through the Project Management Professional (PMP#174;) Certification Exam with flying colors, you need a truly superior test preparation tool. Completely updated to reflect the most recent version of the test, the new third edition of Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP#174;) Certification Exam leaves no stone unturned in getting you ready for every competency area covered on the exam. ppLong respected as a #8220;project manager#8217;s lifesaver,#8221; the book is an essential desk reference as well as a superior guide to taking the exam. The book reveals how best to answer exam questions on defining, budgeting, assigning, and executing projects of all types and scopes, and includes sample questions in situational format, numerous case studies, and other valuable practice tools. ppIn addition, you''ll find new material on subjects including#58; pbull; program management brbull; portfolio management brbull; project environment brbull; organizational environment brbull; project management offices brbull; process groups brbull; and more ppWith all the latest changes in project management, the PMP#174; exam is tougher than ever. Hard work and careful preparation can make the critical difference between achieving certification#8230;and having to start over. Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP#174;) Certification Exam, now completely updated and revised, contains the latest and most complete test-preparation material available anywhere. It is still the ultimate go-to guide for anyone studying for the exam.quot; p /body /html\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9606'),
(15515, 'Prezentare MOODLE', 'Camelia Gavrila', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9469'),
(15516, 'Prima ancheta a lui Maigret', 'Georges Simenon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4746'),
(15517, 'Pro Android Scripting With SL4A: Writing Android Native Apps Using Python, Lua, and Beanshell', 'Paul Ferrill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Pro Android Scripting with SL4A is for programmers and hobbyists who want to write apps for Android devices without having to learn Java first. Paul Ferrill leads you from installing the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) to writing small scripts, to more complicated and interesting projects, and finally to uploading and packaging your programs to an Android device.Android runs scripts in many scripting languages, but Python, Lua, and Beanshell are particularly popular. Most programmers know more than one programming language, so that they have the best tool for whatever task they want to accomplish. Pro Android Scripting with SL4A explores the world of Android scripting by introducing you to the most important open-source programming languages that are available on Android-based hardware.Pro Android Scripting with SL4A starts by exploring the Android software development kit and then shows you how to set up an Eclipse-based Android development environment. You then approach the world of Android programming by using Beanshell, which runs on the Dalvik, and learning how to write small programs to administer an Android device.Next, discover how Lua, a lightweight language perfectly suited for scripting on smaller devices, can work with Android. Lua can be used for small but important tasks, like SMS encryption and synchronizing photos with flickr.Last, but certainly not least, you will discover the world of Python scripting for SL4A, and the power contained within the full range of Python modules that can combine with the Android SDK. You''ll learn to write small location-aware apps to get you started, but by the end of this book, you''ll find yourself writing fully GUI-fied applications running on the Android desktop!Pro Android Scripting with SL4A is rounded out with a chapter on distributing and packaging scripts, a skill that you''ll find very useful as you reach out to a wider audience with your programs.What youÂ’ll learn\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand the SL4A\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore the Android software development kit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Write scripts to administer an Android phone\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Write and execute full Python and applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how to write simple apps using Facades\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explore the full Android development process, from development to packaging Who this book is forThis is a book for beginning and intermediate Android developers, and a book for anyone coding in Python, Lua or exploring Beanshell.Table of Contents\n   </p>\n   <ol>\n    <li>\n     Introduction\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Getting Started with Android Scripting\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Navigating the Android SDK\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Developing Androids Scripts with Eclipse\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Exploring the Android API\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Background Scripting\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Python Utilities\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Python Dialog-Based GUIs\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Python for GUI with WebUI\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Packaging and Distributing Your Scripts\n    </li>\n   </ol>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10177'),
(15518, 'Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns', 'Michael Bowers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   If you are looking for a complete site design solutions book, this is not itâ€”but if you are seeking a book to help you solve many common problemsâ€”then this book will serve as a useful tool for you.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  â€” Nate Klaiber\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns is a reference book and a cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML. It contains 350 readyâ€“toâ€“use patterns (CSS and XHTML code snippets) you can copy and paste into your code. Each pattern can be combined with other patterns to create an unlimited number of solutions. Each pattern works reliably in all major browsers without the need for browser hacks. The book shows how to\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Code CSS and XHTML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Turn HTML into XHTML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use CSS Selectors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use six CSS Box Models\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create rounded corners, shadows, gradients, sprites, and transparency\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Replace text with images without affecting accessibility\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Style text with fonts, highlights, decorations, and shadows\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create flexible, fluid layouts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Position elements with absolute pixel precision\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Stack elements in layers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Size, stretch, shrinkwrap, indent, align, and offset elements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Style tables with borders and alternating striped rows\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Size table columns automatically\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate CSS and JavaScript without embedding JavaScript in XHTML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create drop caps, callouts, quotes, and alerts\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The bookâ€™s layout, with a patternâ€™s example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is also readable from cover to cover, with topics building carefully upon previous topics. A software developer can use this book to learn CSS for the first time. A designer familiar with CSS can use this book to master CSS and XHTML. If you are completely new to coding or completely new to CSS and XHTML, you may want to read an introductory book on CSS and XHTML first. You can interact with all the examples in the book at www.cssDesignPatterns.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9305'),
(15519, 'Pro HTML5 Programming', 'Peter Lubbers &amp; Brian Albers &amp; Frank Salem &amp; Ric Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HTML5 is here, and with it, rich Internet applications (RIAs) take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness that neither Ajax nor Comet could ever achieve. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge web technologyâ€”available in the most recent versions of modern browsersâ€”to build real-time web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. The HTML5 specification represents the next evolutionâ€”or rather, a revolutionâ€”of web communications required to build real-time applications. WebSockets and server-sent events provide not only a standard against which real-time web applications can be built, but also a socket, native to the browser, that facilitates network programming from the browser with efficient bidirectional (full-duplex) communication over a single connection. As the central theme for the examples of this book, author Peter Lubbers draws on his experience as an ultraâ€“long distance runner (try 165 miles in one go). He combines his passion for cutting-edge technology with real-life race scenarios in a way that will inspire you to take these new HTML5 featuresâ€”such as such as real-time race tracking, GPS integration, geo location, and live chatâ€”to the limits. Explains how you can create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers and platforms What youâ€™ll learn How the HTML5 specification has evolved How to design, develop, and run cutting-edge real-time web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, server-sent events, cross-document messaging, geo location, storage, canvas, and video Which features are available in browsers today and how you can run your applications in older browsers that do not support HTML5 features How to use client-side APIs to communicate directly with back-end systems such as messaging systems, JMS brokers, XMPP servers, and online services such as Google Wave Who is this book for? This book is for developers who want to use the latest cutting-edge technology available in current browsers; developers who want to create dynamic, data-driven web applications; and developers who want to know which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9352'),
(15520, 'Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development', 'Peter Lubbers &amp; Brian Albers &amp; Frank Salim &amp; Ric Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HTML5 is here, and with it, rich Internet applications (RIAs) take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness that neither Ajax nor Comet could ever achieve. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge web technologyâ€”available in the most recent versions of modern browsersâ€”to build real-time web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. The HTML5 specification represents the next evolutionâ€”or rather, a revolutionâ€”of web communications required to build real-time applications. WebSockets and server-sent events provide not only a standard against which real-time web applications can be built, but also a socket, native to the browser, that facilitates network programming from the browser with efficient bidirectional (full-duplex) communication over a single connection.  Explains how you can create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers and platforms  What youâ€™ll learn  How the HTML5 specification has evolved How to design, develop, and run cutting-edge real-time web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, server-sent events, cross-document messaging, geo location, storage, canvas, and video Which features are available in browsers today and how you can run your applications in older browsers that do not support HTML5 features How to use client-side APIs to communicate directly with back-end systems such as messaging systems, JMS brokers, XMPP servers, and online services such as Google Wave  Who is this book for? This book is for developers who want to use the latest cutting-edge technology available in current browsers; developers who want to create dynamic, data-driven web applications; and developers who want to know which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6529'),
(15521, 'Pro Javascript RIA Techniques', 'Den Odell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques: Best Practices, Performance, and Presentation shows you how you can build JavaScript RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) with compelling user interfaces and great performance. With the best practices and optimization techniques youâ€™ll learn in this book, you can optimize performance without sacrificing a rich user interface. Using a combination of innovative ideas and intelligent use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and plugâ€“ins, this book shows you how to make decisions based on best web standard development practices and realâ€“world browser data. Through practical examples, youâ€™ll see how to optimize both design and performance with an eye toward future enhancements and efficient maintenance.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Starting with the essential principles and techniques of semantic markup, build efficient, responsive web applications based on web standard best practices and realâ€“world experience.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Apply practical techniques and see how to reuse examples of broadly relevant page components to improve the interface and performance of existing sites.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore ways to push the boundaries of the possible with existing browser technology.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  What youâ€œll learn\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Best practices for building web applications using JavaScript and web standards\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimization techniques for high performance in browsers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to create richer user interfaces\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Advanced Ajax techniques\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to optimize graphic performance by drawing in the browser with SVG\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrating accessibility into rich web applications\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  Who is this book for\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is aimed at web developers and designers who need to improve the user experience of their sites by making their code more efficient and their sites more responsive, and incorporating more complexity all at the same time. It is for Internet professionals ready to go beyond Web 2.0 to a newer, more streamlined vision of rich user experiences.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Apress Pro Series\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hardâ€“won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9249'),
(15522, 'Pro OpenSSH', 'Michael Stahnke &amp; John Traenkenschuh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SSH, acronym for Secure Socket Shell, is the de facto standard among users and administrators wishing to establish secure communication between disparate networks.\n  <strong>\n   Pro OpenSSH\n  </strong>\n  , authored by two Fortune 100 system administrators, provides readers with a highly practical reference for configuring and deploying OpenSSH in their own environment. OpenSSH installation and configuration, key management, secure logging, client/server architectures, and digital certificates are just some of the topics covered in this book. Readers are also treated to complete deployment scenarios that come up almost daily in enterprise environments, large or small.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Stahnke works as a Unix Security Administrator at a Fortune 100 company in the Midwest. He has headed implementation of Secure Shell for his corporate IT group and assisted with global production rollouts. Additionally, he has led several studies and projects to improve the security state of his large-scale UNIX/Linux environment. When not devoting his time to improving security at work, Michael spends time researching and applying new open-source technologies and practices. Michael has also done contract programming to create content management solutions utilizing PHP, Perl, MySQL and C++.\n </p>\n <p>\n  John Traenkenschuh is a Senior Security Analyst at a Fortune 100 company. He has over ten years experience in Information Security, during which time he has earned the Certified Checkpoint Security Engineer and Administrator designations, a CISSP, and recently, his involvement with Security and with teaching VB .Net at Bradley University earned him a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional(MVP)/2004 designation. As a security analyst/consultant at three Fortune 100 companies, John has led research and implementation projects for technologies ranging from Wireless communications to UNIX to Windows to TCP/IP. He has authored numerous technical security policies for his company and enjoys technical articles on security exploits, valuable for the times he has helped/led security investigations. He is skilled with several flavors of UNIX, linux, and BSD but finds BSD truly yummy. For fun, he has been technical editor for several books and a member of the Center for Internet Security''s benchmark for PIX firewalling. He is slated to lead the Checkpoint benchmark effort once the PIX benchmark is published.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7741');
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(15523, 'Pro PHP XML and Web Services', 'Robert Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Pro PHP XML and Web Services\n  </em>\n  is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author\n  <strong>\n   Robert Richards\n  </strong>\n  , a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. Youâ€™ll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Table of Contents\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Introduction to XML and Web Services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XML Structure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Validation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XPath, XPointer, XInclude, and the Future\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   PHP and XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Document Object Model (DOM)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SimpleXML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Simple API for XML (SAX)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XMLReader\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Effective and Efficient Processing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XML Security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   PEAR and XML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Content Syndication: RSS and Atom\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   XML-RPC\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Representational State Transfer (REST)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SOAP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   PEAR and Web Services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Other XML Technologies and Extensions\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Robert Richards\n  </strong>\n  , an independent contractor, has worked in various fields including medical information, telecommunications, media and e-learning. Having been exposed to XML since its inception and used itÂ for various projects during his career, his most extensive work with the technology was within the e-learning space. He helped created a proprietary XML based application server which used XML for data publishing, defining application business logic as well as data querying. He was also the lead engineer for the company''''s involvement in SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model), used for Web-based learning, established by the U.S. Department of Defense through its Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After becoming the latest casualty of the dot-com implosion in 2001, Rob had his first taste of PHP and began contributing code to the domxml extension in 2002. Since then, he has become one of the authors of the DOM extension for PHP 5, contributes to the other XML based extensions and has authored the xmlReader, for PHP 5, and xmlwriter, for PHP 4.3+, extensions. Also on occasion, he contributes bug fixes to the libxml2 project found during the development of these extensions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9055'),
(15524, 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science', 'E. T. Jaynes &amp; G. Larry Bretthorst', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...tantalizing ideas...one of the most useful and least familiar applications of Bayesian theory...Probability Theory [is] considerably more entertaining reading than the average statistics textbook...the conceptual points that underlie his attacks are often right on."\n  <br />\n  Science\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is a work written by a scientist for scientists. As such it is to be welcomed. The reader will certainly find things with which he disagrees, but he will also find much that will cause him to think deeply not only on his usual practice by also on statistics and probability in general. Probability Theory: the Logic of Science is, for both statisticians and scientists, more than just ''recommended reading'': it should be prescribed."\n  <br />\n  Mathematical Reviews\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...the rewards of reading Probability Theory can be immense."\n  <br />\n  Physics Today, Ralph Baierlein\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is not an ordinary text. It is an unabashed, hard sell of the Bayesian approach to statistics. It is wonderfully down to earth, with hundreds of telling examples. Everyone who is interested in the problems or applications of statistics should have a serious look.â€\n  <br />\n  SIAM News\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[T]he author thinks for himself...and writes in a lively way about all sorts of things. It is worth dipping into it if only for vivid expressions of opinion...There are many books on Bayesian statistics, but few with this much color."\n  <br />\n  Notices of the AMS\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Going beyond the conventional mathematics of probability theory, this study views the subject in a wider context. It discusses new results, along with applications of probability theory to a variety of problems. The book contains many exercises and is suitable for use as a textbook on graduate-level courses involving data analysis. Aimed at readers already familiar with applied mathematics at an advanced undergraduate level or higher, it is of interest to scientists concerned with inference from incomplete information.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10178'),
(15525, 'Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology', 'George Q. Huang &amp; K. L. Mak &amp; Paul G. Maropoulos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Proceedings volume contains articles presented at the CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2009) that takes place 14-16 December 2009 in Hong Kong. This is the 6th DET conference in the series and the first to be held in Asia. Professor Paul Maropoulos initiated, hosted and chaired the 1st International DET Conference held in 2002 at the University of Durham. Since this inaugural first DET conference, DET conference series has been successfully held in 2004 at Seattle, Washington USA, in 2006 at Setubal Portugal, in 2007 at Bath England, and in 2008 at Nantes France.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The DET2009 conference continues to bring together International expertise from the academic and industrial fields, pushing forward the boundaries of research knowledge and best practice in digital enterprise technology for design and manufacturing, and logistics and supply chain management. Over 120 papers from over 10 countries have been accepted for presentation at DET2009 and inclusion in this Proceedings volume after stringent refereeing process.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7606'),
(15526, 'Professional Ajax', 'Nicholas C. Zakas &amp; Jeremy Mcpeak &amp; Joe Fawcett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. The book begins by exploring the roots of Ajax, covering how the evolution of the web and new technologies directly led to the development of Ajax techniques. A detailed discussion of how frames, JavaScript, cookies, XML, and XMLHttp requests (XHR) related to Ajax is included. After this introduction, the book moves on to cover the implementation of specific Ajax techniques. Request brokers such as hidden frames, dynamic iframes, and XHR are compared and contrasted, explaining when one method should be used over another. To make this discussion clearer, a brief overview of HTTP requests and responses is included.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once a basic understanding of the various request types is discussed, the book moves on to provide in-depth examples of how and when to use Ajax in a web site or web application. Different data transmission formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, and JSON are discussed for their advantages and disadvantages. Also included is a discussion on web services and how they may be used to perform Ajax techniques. Next, more complex topics are covered. A chapter introducing a request management framework explores how to manage all of the requests inside of an Ajax application. Ajax debugging techniques are also discussed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The last part of the book walks through the creation of two full-fledged Ajax web applications. The first, FooReader.NET, is an Ajax-powered RSS reader. The second, called AjaxMail, is an Ajax-enabled email system. Both of these applications incorporate many of the techniques discussed throughout the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professional Ajax 2nd edition iswritten for Web application developers looking to enhance the usability of their web sites and web applications and intermediate JavaScript developers looking to further understand the language. Readers should have familiarity with XML, XSLT, Web Services, PHP or C#, HTML, CSS. This book is not aimed at beginners without a basic understanding of the aforementioned technologies. Also, a good understanding of JavaScript is vitally important to understanding this book. Those readers without such knowledge should instead refer to books such as Beginning JavaScript, Second Edition (Wrox, 2004, ISBN: 978-0-7645-5587-9) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2005, ISBN: 978-0-7645-7908-0).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professional Ajax 2nd edition adds nearly 200 pages of new and expanded coverage compared to the first edition. Some of the new topics covered here include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Ajax Libraries including the Yahoo! Connection Manager, Prototype, and jQuery\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Request Management with Priority Queues and the RequestManager Object\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Comet push-based web systems and HTTP streaming\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maps and Mashups with Geocoding, Google Maps API and Yahoo! Maps API\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ajax Debugging with FireBug and Microsoft Fiddler\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (formerly code-named "Atlas")\n </p>\n <p>\n  And of course the Second Edition retains and updates the core first edition content including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   the range of request brokers (including the hidden frame technique, iframes, and XMLHttp) and explains when one should be used over another\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   different Ajax techniques and patterns for executing client-server communication\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ajax patterns including predictive fetch, page preloading, submission throttling, incremental field and form validation, periodic refresh, multi-stage download and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Syndication with RSS, Atom, and XParser\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   JSON and creating an autosuggest textbox example\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   web site widgets for a news ticker, weather information, web search, and site search\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ajax Frameworks JSpan, DWR, and Ajax.NET Professional\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A Web-based RSS/Atom aggregator case study\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An AjaxMail case study\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  This book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9310'),
(15527, 'Professional Ajax', 'Nicholas C. Zakas &amp; Jeremy Mcpeak &amp; Joe Fawcett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. The book begins by exploring the roots of Ajax, covering how the evolution of the web and new technologies directly led to the development of Ajax techniques. A detailed discussion of how frames, JavaScript, cookies, XML, and XMLHttp requests (XHR) related to Ajax is included. After this introduction, the book moves on to cover the implementation of specific Ajax techniques. Request brokers such as hidden frames, dynamic iframes, and XHR are compared and contrasted, explaining when one method should be used over another. To make this discussion clearer, a brief overview of HTTP requests and responses is included. Once a basic understanding of the various request types is discussed, the book moves on to provide in-depth examples of how and when to use Ajax in a web site or web application. Different data transmission formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, and JSON are discussed for their advantages and disadvantages. Also included is a discussion on web services and how they may be used to perform Ajax techniques. Next, more complex topics are covered. A chapter introducing a request management framework explores how to manage all of the requests inside of an Ajax application. Ajax debugging techniques are also discussed. The last part of the book walks through the creation of two full-fledged Ajax web applications. The first, FooReader.NET, is an Ajax-powered RSS reader. The second, called AjaxMail, is an Ajax-enabled email system. Both of these applications incorporate many of the techniques discussed throughout the book. Professional Ajax 2nd edition is written for Web application developers looking to enhance the usability of their web sites and web applications and intermediate JavaScript developers looking to further understand the language. Readers should have familiarity with XML, XSLT, Web Services, PHP or C#, HTML, CSS. This book is not aimed at beginners without a basic understanding of the aforementioned technologies. Also, a good understanding of JavaScript is vitally important to understanding this book. Those readers without such knowledge should instead refer to books such as Beginning JavaScript, Second Edition (Wrox, 2004, ISBN: 978-0-7645-5587-9) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2005, ISBN: 978-0-7645-7908-0). Professional Ajax 2nd edition adds nearly 200 pages of new and expanded coverage compared to the first edition. Some of the new topics covered here include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ajax Libraries including the Yahoo! Connection Manager, Prototype, and jQuery\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Request Management with Priority Queues and the RequestManager Object\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Comet push-based web systems and HTTP streaming\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Maps and Mashups with Geocoding, Google Maps API and Yahoo! Maps API\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ajax Debugging with FireBug and Microsoft Fiddler ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (formerly code-named "Atlas") And of course the Second Edition retains and updates the core first edition content including:\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      the range of request brokers (including the hidden frame technique, iframes, and XMLHttp) and explains when one should be used over another\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      different Ajax techniques and patterns for executing client-server communication\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Ajax patterns including predictive fetch, page preloading, submission throttling, incremental field and form validation, periodic refresh, multi-stage download and more\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Syndication with RSS, Atom, and XParser\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      JSON and creating an autosuggest textbox example\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      web site widgets for a news ticker, weather information, web search, and site search\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Ajax Frameworks JSpan, DWR, and Ajax.NET Professional\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      A Web-based RSS/Atom aggregator case study\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      An AjaxMail case study This book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes:\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088)\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491)\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889)\n     </p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     <p>\n      Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)\n     </p>\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9342'),
(15528, 'Professional CSS', 'Christopher Schmitt &amp; Mark Trammell &amp; Ethan Marcotte &amp; Todd Dominey &amp; Dunstan Orchard &amp; Jeffrey Zeldman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages. Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high-profile, real-world Web sites created by world-famous designers using CSS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer''s process from start to finish and how he overcame each site''s unique set of challenges. You''ll learn what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can turn regularly for more know-how and insights into designing large-scale, professional-level Web sites with CSS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to avoid problems later\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to tackle browser-compatibility issues\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Best practices for using XHTML with CSS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using drop shadows, drop-down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up-to-date information\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are looking to learn how to effectively develop CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christopher Schmitt\n  </strong>\n  is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm based in Tallahassee, Florida. An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, he interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-1990s while an undergraduate at Florida State University pursuing a Fine Arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The CSS Cookbook\n  </em>\n  (Oâ€™Reilly, 2004) and\n  <em>\n   Designing CSS Web Pages\n  </em>\n  (New Riders Press, 2002). He is also the co-author (with Micah Laaker) of\n  <em>\n   Photoshop CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less\n  </em>\n  (Wiley, 2004) and contributed four chapters to\n  <em>\n   XML, HTML, &amp; XHTML Magic\n  </em>\n  by Molly Holzschlag (New Riders Press, 2001). Christopher has also written for\n  <em>\n   New Architect\n  </em>\n  magazine,\n  <em>\n   A List Apart, Digital Web\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Web Reference\n  </em>\n  . In 2000, he led a team to victory in the â€œCool Site in a Dayâ€ competition, wherein he and five other talented developers built a fully functional, well-designed Web site for a non-profit organization in eight hours. Speaking at conferences such as The Other Dreamweaver Conference and SXSW, he has given talks demonstrating the use and benefits of practical CSS-enabled designs. Also helping to spread the word about Web design, he is the list mom for Babble (www.babblelist.com), a mailing list community devoted to advanced Web design and development topics. On his personal Web site, www.christopherschmitt.com, he shows his true colors and most recent activities. He is 6''7" tall and does not play professional basketball, but he wouldnâ€™t mind a good game of chess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mark Trammell\n  </strong>\n  of Gainesville, Florida, directs the Web presence at the University of Florida.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ethan Marcotte\n  </strong>\n  of Boston co-founded Vertua Studios (vertua.com), a Web design shop focused on creating beautiful, user-focused sites. A steering committee member of the Web Standards Project, he is a leading industry voice on standards-based Web design. Ethan is also the curator of sidesh0w.com, a popular Web log that is equal parts design, coding, and blather.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dunstan Orchard\n  </strong>\n  of Dorset, UK, and San Francisco is Senior UI Engineer at Appleâ€™s online store. He is a member of The Web Standards Project, a silent developer for the popular open source blogging platform Wordpress, and an occasional contributor to his own site at http://1976design.com/.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Todd Dominey\n  </strong>\n  of Atlanta founded Dominey Design (domineydesign.com), an interactive Web development and design studio that has produced original work for Budweiser, The Washington Post, Google, Winterfresh Gum, and others. He is also a Senior Interactive Designer at Turner Sports Interactive, designing and developing Web destinations for major PGA tournaments (including the PGA Championship and The Ryder Cup).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9336'),
(15529, 'Professional JavaScript for Web Developers', 'Nicholas C. Zakas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Professional JavaScript for Web Developers\n </p>\n <p>\n  JavaScript is an important feature of every major browser because it enables enhanced user interaction on both Web sites and Web applications. While exploring everything from its history to today''s advanced features, this book shows you how to use this powerful language to its full potential in order to develop your own applications that solve the business problems facing Web developers today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll gain a clear understanding of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation, plus you''ll examine critical areas including events, regular expressions, and browser detection techniques so that you can build dynamic user interfaces. You''ll also learn how to extend the language to meet your specific requirements as well as create seamless client-server communication without intermediaries such as Java or hidden frames.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   ECMAScript basics, object-oriented programming techniques, and important Document Object Model (DOM) concepts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to implement regular expressions for data validation and string manipulation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Methods for handling events to tie JavaScript to a Web user interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Techniques for validating data, sorting tables, and dealing with errors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to communicate between JavaScript and browser plugins\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   All about security issues, optimization, and intellectual property protections\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for Web developers who want to use JavaScript to dramatically improve the usability of their Web sites and Web applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nicholas C. Zakas\n  </strong>\n  has a BS in Computer Science from Merrimack College and an MBA from Endicott College. He is the author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wiley 2005), Professional Ajax (1st and 2nd editions, Wiley 2007 and 2007) as well as several online articles. Nicholas works for Yahoo! as a frontend engineer and has worked in web development for more than 6 years, during which time he has helped develop web solutions in use at some of the largest companies in the world. Nicholas can be reached through his web site at www.nczonline.net.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9264'),
(15530, 'Professional Joomla!', 'Dan Rahmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field--development and deployment--with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You''ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you''ll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You''ll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The process of creating a module from scratch\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to create and retain a virtual community\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who this book is for\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! fieldâ€”development and deploymentâ€”with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You''ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you''ll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You''ll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The process of creating a module from scratch\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to create and retain a virtual community\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Professional guides\n  </strong>\n  are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9112'),
(15531, 'Professional Mobile Web Development With WordPress, Joomla! And Drupal', 'James Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How to develop powerful mobile Web sites using popular content management systems (CMS)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mobile is the hottest thing goingâ€”and developing content for mobile devices and browsers is even hotter than\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  .Â  This book is your guide to it allâ€”how to design, build, and deploy sites, blogs and services that will work brilliantly for mobile users. Youâ€™ll learn about the state-of-the-art of mobile web development, the tools available to use, and the best practices for creating compelling mobile user interfaces. Then, using the most popular content management systems, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, youâ€™ll learn how to building world-class mobile web sites from existing platforms and content..Â  The book walks you through each platform, including how to use third-party plug-ins and themes, explains the strategies for writing your own logic, how to switch between mobile and desktop, and much more.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and acquaints you withÂ  a range of mobile devices and networks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers topics common to all platforms, including site topologies, switching between mobile and desktop, common user interface patterns, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Walks you through each content management platformâ€”WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupalâ€”first focusing on standard plug-ins and themes and then exploring advanced techniques for writing your own themes or logic\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explains the best practices for testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Also explores analytics, m-commerce, and SEO techniques for mobile\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Get ahead of the the mobile web development curve with this professional and in-depth reference guide!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Learn to implement sites with the major content management platforms\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The popularity of the mobile web is seemingly unstoppable, making the demand and expectations for sleek, smooth, and sophisticated web sites extraordinarily high. Unique to the shelf, this book describes how you can develop mobile content and then install, configure, test, and integrate mobile web sites using the most popular content management systems (CMS) in order to provide an engaging and enjoyable experience to users on the move. Placing a special emphasis on three particular platformsâ€”WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupalâ€”author James Pearce explains how to design and mobilize sites in conjunction with each CMS and walks you through the installation and configuration of the plugins, modules, and themes that will get you started, fast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Professional Mobile Web Development\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Features a brief history of the mobile web and explains what makes it unique\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and familiarizes you with mobile devices, networks, and their challenges\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Looks at how the mobile web is evolving and how best to design for it\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Reviews choices and decisions that should be made prior to working on CMS mobilization\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Describes the processes involved in testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site, regardless of platform\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Discusses mobile analytics, advertising, and other operational topics\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    wrox.com Programmer Forums\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Join our Programmer to Programmer forums\n  </strong>\n  to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Code Downloads\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read More\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Professional guides\n  </strong>\n  are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7701'),
(15532, 'Professional PHP4', 'Argerich Luis &amp; Devon O&#39;dell &amp; Luis Argerich &amp; John Coggeshall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent, it offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state-of-the-art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is a resource for working PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level. Although it assumes a conceptual familiarity with programming and databases in general, anyone who knows PHP enough to code and maintain small web applications can use this book. We also assume an interest in designing large web sites and general network programming to make full use of this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9105'),
(15533, 'Professional PHP4', 'Argerich Luis &amp; Devon O&#39;dell &amp; Luis Argerich &amp; John Coggeshall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent, it offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state-of-the-art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is a resource for working PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level. Although it assumes a conceptual familiarity with programming and databases in general, anyone who knows PHP enough to code and maintain small web applications can use this book. We also assume an interest in designing large web sites and general network programming to make full use of this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9106'),
(15534, 'Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers', 'Steve Mcconnell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Can you deliver 90% of your software on time, within budget, and fully meet the user''s real requirements? Would you like to? Best-selling author Steve McConnell provides a compelling argument for turning software success into an everyday habit by advancing the software profession itselfâ€”at the individual, organizational, and industry levels. Expanding on the contents of his previous book After the Gold Rush, the author dispels common myths of software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are a programmer, software developer, engineer, or work in software development, you should READ THIS BOOK.Why do so many companies use outdated and ineffective software development practices? See page 103What is "cargo cult" software development, and who uses it? See page 23How large is the return on investment for better software practices? Can you prove it? See page 115How do you create career paths for software professionals? See page 143Which affects projects more--good personnel or good process? See page 135How much difference is there between the worst software companies and the best? See page xv\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9210'),
(15535, 'Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting', 'Christian Bolton &amp; Justin Langford &amp; Brent Ozar &amp; James Rowland-jones &amp; Jonathan Kehayias &amp; Cindy Gross &amp; Steven Wort', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A hands-on resource for SQL Server 2008 troubleshooting methods and tools\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  SQL Server administrators need to ensure that SQL Server remains running 24/7. Authored by leading SQL Server experts and MVPs, this book provides in-depth coverage of best practices based on a deep understanding of the internals of both SQL Server and the Windows operating system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You''ll get a thorough look at the SQL Server database architecture and internals as well as Windows OS internals so that you can approach troubleshooting with a solid grasp of the total processing environment. Armed with this comprehensive understanding, readers will then learn how to use a suite of tools for troubleshooting performance problems whether they originate on the database server or operating system side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics Covered:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   SQL Server Architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understanding Memory\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   SQL Server Waits and Extended Events\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with Storage\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   CPU and Query Processing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Locking and Latches\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Knowing Tempdb\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Defining Your Approach To Troubleshooting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Viewing Server Performance with PerfMon and the PAL Tool\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tracing SQL Server with SQL Trace and Profiler\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Consolidating Data Collection with SQLDiag and the PerfStats Script\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introducing RML Utilities for Stress Testing and Trace File Analysis\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bringing It All Together with SQL Nexus\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Management Studio Reports and the Performance Dashboard\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using SQL Server Management Data Warehouse\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shortcuts to Efficient Data Collection and Quick Analysis\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An in-depth look at SQL Server and best practices for troubleshooting\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When faced with a variety of SQL Server issues, you need to be able to troubleshoot SQL Server as well as its underlying operating system. To that end, this author group of SQL Server experts presents you with invaluable advice that brings togetherâ€”and simplifiesâ€”practical internal information concerning SQL Server along with troubleshooting techniques and methodologies. Packed with real-world examples of ways to effectively use troubleshooting tools, this book shows you how to efficiently and accurately determine the root of your SQL Server problem so you can successfully resolve it.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Escorts you through the lifecycle of a query to establish an understanding of the fundamental concepts and architectures\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Examines the use of memory including the physical components, Windows memory management, and SQL Server''s own memory architecture\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Reviews SQL Server wait types and how to monitor them with Extended Events\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Equips you with the knowledge to confidently specify and monitor your storage performance requirements\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Details SQL Server''s locking model, the internal use of latches, and row versioning\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Shows you how to use SQLDiag, RML Utilities, SQL Nexus, the Management Data Warehouse, and how to build your own SQL Server Management Studio reports\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Programmer Forums\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Code Downloads\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read More\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10179'),
(15536, 'Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4', 'Bill Sheldon &amp; Billy S. Hollis &amp; Kent Sharkey &amp; Gaston Hillar &amp; Rob Windsor &amp; Jonathan Marbutt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gain a solid understanding of Visual Basic 2010 and the .NET 4 Framework\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Visual Basic 2010 boasts exciting new features and capabilities that cement its position as a true object-oriented language and provide you with access to new and better technologies. This invaluable book covers Visual Basic from start to finish and discusses the new enhancements to Visual Basic 2010. The team of expert authors explains how VB 2010 can be combined with .NET 4 to build applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, Visual Studio Tools for Office, and apps and libraries based on the Windows Communication Foundation, the Windows Workflow Foundation, and SharePoint.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Examines core language elements and development tools\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explores object-oriented and parallel programming\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Examines exception handling, debug and trace logging, as well as historical debugging in Visual StudioÂ® 2010\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Describes common structures and tools used to contain, access, and transfer data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Focuses on creating componentized applications for client and web-based solutions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Reviews the latest new application development technologies including: Silverlight, SharePointÂ®, WCF, Workflow and WPF\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox guides\n  </strong>\n  are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Programmer Forums\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Code Downloads\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read More\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bill Sheldon\n  </strong>\n  is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic and a Principal Engineer with InterKnowlogy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Billy Hollis\n  </strong>\n  is MSDN Regional Director of Developer Relations for Microsoft in Nashville, Tennessee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kent Sharkey\n  </strong>\n  is an independent software consultant and former content strategist for MSDN.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Marbutt\n  </strong>\n  is Vice President of Development for WayCool Software, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rob Windsor\n  </strong>\n  is a Microsoft MVP and a Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GastÃ³n C. Hillar\n  </strong>\n  is an independent software consultant, specialized in parallelism and multicore.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7678'),
(15537, 'Professional WordPress: Design and Development', 'Hal Stern, David Damstra, Brad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9075');
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(15538, 'Professional XMPP Programming With JavaScript and jQuery', 'Jack Moffitt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Create real-time, highly interactive apps quickly with the powerful XMPP protocol\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the JavaScript language throughout and making use of the jQuery library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Coverage Includes:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Getting to Know XMPP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Designing XMPP Applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Saying Hello: The First Application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exploring the XMPP Protocol: A Debugging Console\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Microblogging in Real Time: An Identica Client\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Talking with Friends: One-on-One Chat\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exploring Services: Service Discovery and Browsing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Group Chatting: A Multi-User Chat Client\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Publishing and Subscribing: A Shared Sketch Pad Introduction\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing with Friends: A Collaborative Text Editor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Playing Games: Head to Head Tic-Tac-Toe\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Getting Attached: Bootstrapping BOSH\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Deploying XMPP Applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing Strophe Plug-ins\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Note:\n  </strong>\n  CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Create real-time, highly interactive apps quickly with the powerful XMPP protocol\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the JavaScript language throughout and making use of the jQuery library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn about XMPP''s instant messaging features, such as rosters, presence and subscriptions, and private chats\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Covers XMPP stanzas, stanza errors, and client protocol syntax and semantics\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Discusses service discovery, data forms, and publish-subscribe\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Addresses XMPP programming-related topics such as application design, event handling, and combining existing protocols\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Details the best ways to deploy XMPP-based applications\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explains how to use Strophe''s plugin system and how to create your own plugins\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Professional guides\n  </strong>\n  are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   wrox.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Programmer Forums\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Code Downloads\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read More\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7289'),
(15539, 'Programmation OpenOffice.org 3', 'Laurent Godard &amp; Bernard Marcelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Suite bureautique libre, gratuite et multi-plate-forme, OpenOffice.org comporte plusieurs langages de script dont OOoBasic. Elle est Ã©galement munie d''une API permettant de manipuler ses objets. Automatisable et extensible, elle s''intÃ¨gre parfaitement au systÃ¨me d''information de l''entreprise. Le livre de rÃ©fÃ©rence sur la programmation OpenOffice.org et StarOffice. Ã‰crit par deux contributeurs majeurs de la communautÃ© francophone frOpenOffice.org, ce livre est une rÃ©fÃ©rence incontournable sur le puissant langage de macros OOoBASIC et sur l''API d''OpenOffice.org. Il explique comment utiliser l''interface utilisateur liÃ©e aux macros et aux scripts afin d''automatiser des tÃ¢ches rÃ©pÃ©titives, mais aussi comment tirer parti du langage de OOoBasic pour manipuler des documents, crÃ©er des boÃ®tes de dialogue et des formulaires, exploiter des bases de donnÃ©es externes ou intÃ©grÃ©es, intercepter des Ã©vÃ©nements. Chaque point de l''API est dÃ©crit grÃ¢ce Ã  de nombreux exemples de macros et de routines rÃ©utilisables. NouveautÃ©s liÃ©es Ã  la version 3.1 d''OpenOffice.org : En plus des fonctions de programmation d''OpenOffice.org 2, ce livre couvre les nouveautÃ©s de la version 3.1 : Document-Properties, surlignement, notes et tableaux irrÃ©guliers dans Writer, gestion de diaporama dans Impress, intÃ©gration des macros dans Base, jusqu''aux fonctions peu connues, sans oublier l''exportation PDF, l''export et import de texte encodÃ©, le filtrage de donnÃ©es, en passant par les fonctions matricielles et la gestion d''Ã©vÃ©nements. La crÃ©ation de boÃ®tes de dialogue ergonomiques et multilingues est expliquÃ©e ainsi que les contrÃ´les de formulaire et les formulaires intÃ©grÃ©s. Ã€ qui s''adresse cet ouvrage ? Aux utilisateurs d''OpenOffice.org et StarOffice souhaitant automatiser et Ã©tendre leur suite bureautique ; - Ã€ ceux qui migrent vers OpenOffice.org et souhaitent recrÃ©er des macros existantes. Aux dÃ©veloppeurs d''applications d''entreprise et services informatiques ayant Ã  intÃ©grer la suite OpenOffice.org. Aux Ã©tudiants et Ã  tous ceux qui souhaitent s''initier Ã  l''API d''OpenOffice.org et Ã  son langage de macros OOoBASIC.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7800'),
(15540, 'Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++', 'Michael Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This lively and readable book is the perfect introduction for those venturing into embedded systems software development for the first time. It provides in one place all the important topics necessary to orient programmers to the embedded development process. -- _Lindsey Vereen, Editor-in-Chief,\n  <em>\n   _Embedded Systems Programming\n  </em>\n  , 1/99\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Embedded software is in almost every electronic device designed today. There is software hidden away inside our watches, microwaves, VCRs, cellular telephones, and pagers; the military uses embedded software to guide smart missiles and detect enemy aircraft; communications satellites, space probes, and modern medicine would be nearly impossible without it. Of course, someone has to write all that software, and there are thousands of computer scientists, electrical engineers, and other professionals who actually do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each embedded system is unique and highly customized to the application at hand. As a result, embedded systems programming is a widely varying field that can take years to master. However, if you have some programming experience and are familiar with C or C++, you''re ready to learn how to write embedded software. The hands-on, no-nonsense style of this book will help you get started by offering practical advice from someone who''s been in your shoes and wants to help you learn quickly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The techniques and code examples presented here are directly applicable to real-world embedded software projects of all sorts. Even if you''ve done some embedded programming before, you''ll still benefit from the topics in this book, which include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Testing memory chips quickly and efficiently\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing and erasing Flash memory\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Verifying nonvolatile memory contents with CRCs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interfacing to on-chip and external peripherals\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Device driver design and implementation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimizing embedded software for size and speed\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  So whether you''re writing your first embedded program, designing the latest generation of hand-held whatchamacalits, or simply managing the people who do, this book is for you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9201'),
(15541, 'Programming Firefox', 'Kenneth C. Feldt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.\n  <em>\n   Programming Firefox\n  </em>\n  demonstrates how to use the XML User Interface Language (XUL) with open source tools in the framework''s Cross-Platform Component (XPCOM) library to develop a variety of projects, such as commercial web applications and Firefox extensions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book serves as both a programmer''s reference and an in-depth tutorial, so not only do you get a comprehensive look at XUL''s capabilities--from simple interface design to complex, multitier applications with real-time operations--but you also learn how to build a complete working application with XUL. If you''re coming from a Java or .NET environment, you''ll be amazed at how quickly large-scale applications can be constructed with XPCOM and XUL.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics in\n  <em>\n   Programming Firefox\n  </em>\n  include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   An overview of Firefox technology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An introduction to the graphical elements that compose a XUL application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Firefox development tools and the process used to design and build applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing an application with multiple content areas\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introduction to Resource Description Files, and how the Firefox interface renders RDF\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manipulating XHTML with JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Displaying documents using the Scalable Vector Graphics standard and HTML Canvas\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The XML Binding Language and interface overlays to extend Firefox\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementing the next-generation forms interface through XForms\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Programming Firefox\n  </em>\n  is ideal for the designer or developer charged with delivering innovative standards-based Internet applications, whether they''re web server applications or Internet-enabled desktop applications. It''s not just a how-to book, but a what-if exploration that encourages you to push the envelope of the Internet experience.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ken Feldt is a systems engineer and software developer with background in bit-slice raster image processor design, real-time process control, USB development, digital video workflow, and consumer-grade video authoring techniques. He holds undergraduate degrees in electronics engineering technology and an MBA in marketing from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the technical side, Ken work with various XML applications for science and engineering, currently building a business utilizing XUL and SVG to facilitate technical communications. His broader focus includes exploitation of various XML vocabularies to move the IT world more closely to the disciplines of science and the arts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He enjoys public speaking (once competing in a humorous speech contest for Toastmasters International and actually winning a few rounds), and takes particular pleasure in the ''old world'' skills of oratory, rhetoric, and creative writing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ken''s writing objectives focus on topics that help experienced engineers and software developers ramp up on new technologies, always trying to look at things from the perspective of the subject matter novice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ken also takes an interest in following the trail of how new technologies affect the social and industrial fabric of communities, and he is fully engaged in studying how innovation and entrepreneurship are both required in order to drive successful new business models.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9197'),
(15542, 'Programming in Python 3', 'Mark Summerfield', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œâ€¦Fulfills the immediate market need for those developers seeking to learn this latest evolutionary version of the Python lineage in a succinct, well-written package.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€“Mike Riley, Contributing Editor for Dr. Dobbâ€™s\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œBeyond the introduction to programming in Python 3 in the first chapter, if you progress through the first six chapters in sequence, youâ€™ll be well on your way to taking off with using Python independently.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€“James Pyles, Technical Writer and Author of the blog â€œA Million Chimpanzeesâ€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œâ€¦A key recommendation for any serious computer library strong in web programming languages.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€“Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSummerfieldâ€™s book is an excellent source to start learning Python 3.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€“Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3''s features and idioms.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Programming in Python 3, Second Edition,\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library modules of your own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won''t find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python''s "beautiful heart": the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise-one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Developing in Python using procedural, objectoriented, and functional programming paradigms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Creating custom packages and modules\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Writing and reading binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, and functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Programming SQL databases and key--value DBM files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging techniques-and using Test Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Utilizing Python''s regular expression mini-language and module\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Parsing techniques, including how to use the third-party PyParsing and PLY modules\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, coroutines, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Programming in Python 3, Second Edition,\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  serves as both tutorial and language reference. It assumes some prior programming experience, and is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code-all of it tested with Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. This edition covers Python 3.0 and 3.1, and due to the Python language moratorium it is also valid for Python 3.2 which has the same\n  <em>\n   language\n  </em>\n  as Python 3.1.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7079'),
(15543, 'Programming Jakarta Struts', 'Chuck Cavaness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''ve adopted Java as your organizational language, you''re probably using, or planning to use, some sort of multitier design to maximize maintainability while making your data store accessible to as many applications as possible. The Jakarta engine ranks as the interface server of choice in that environment, and the Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 makes it far easier to implement multitier information systems.\n  <em>\n   Programming Jakarta Struts\n  </em>\n  is the best how-to documentation around--in print or on the Internet--on the subject of using Struts to their greatest potential. Chuck Cavaness''s book is comprehensive, detailed, critical of its subject where appropriate, and generally invaluable to anyone implementing the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern in Java with the assistance of Struts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thankfully, Cavaness opens with an overview of the MVC pattern with a focus on how you''re meant to implement it under Struts. For anyone thinking that implementing MVC sounds like more trouble than it''s worth, this clarifies why such design usually pays off in the long run. After that, it''s into the particulars, which include code listings (lots of them, delightfully commented) and crystal-clear block diagrams that show the flow of messages among objects. There are also many database schema charts that show how the authors structure data in the storefront and shopping cart application that spans the whole of this volume.\n  <em>\n   --David Wall\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered:\n  </strong>\n  The Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 and how to use it to implement the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software design pattern. All the important features of Struts 1.1 get attention, including exception handling, the validation framework, internationalization, logging, and templating with the Tiles framework.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of the program. Jakarta Struts addresses this issue by combining Java Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSP), custom tags, and messaging resources (like Java Message Service) into a unified, re-usable framework. The result is a cooperative, synergistic platform that''s efficient and suitable for independent developers, large development teams, and everyone in between.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Struts Framework has become a highly popular open source project, but there''s still woefully little documentation on the technology. What does exist is far too basic and lacks critical information for developers like you writing today''s complex web applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   Programming Jakarta Struts\n  </em>\n  , 2nd Edition covers everything the successful earlier edition did--including an overview of the concepts involved in writing web applications; installation and configuration instructions for getting Struts up and running; a thorough discussion of how Struts implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (known as the Model 2 approach) and how to interface with that pattern in your own applications; Logging, Validation, and Exception Handling with Struts; using Tiles; writing internationalization and localization code using Struts; and practical, real-world best practices for web applications--as well as plenty more: now fully up to date with Struts 1.1, this edition covers the latest material on tag libraries and the new JavaServerFaces (JSF) APIs and even includes all-new chapters on JSF, JSTL/EL, and security.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With each enterprise system he s developed, author Chuck Cavaness has spent many grueling hours learning invaluable lessons about Struts and figuring out the dos and the don''ts of building web applications. He saves you time and headaches by sharing that invaluable real-world experience here, with his realistic, practical, here''s how to do it approach to using the Struts Framework to its fullest potential.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9191'),
(15544, 'Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0', 'Francesco Balena', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Create professional-quality applications, components, and user interfaces faster and more efficiently than ever with the powerful object-oriented programming capabilities in the Visual Basic 6.0 development system. From WindowsÂ® common controls to data access, Internet, and ActiveXÂ® programming, this book covers core development topics for version 6.0â€”providing insightful explanations and expertly rendered examples for rapid acceleration of your Win32Â® productivity.  Expedite development with the object-oriented capabilities in Visual Basic 6.0â€”including events, polymorphism, and object hierarchies Develop great user interfaces that use the full range of controls in Visual Basic and take advantage of OLE drag and drop, data-driven forms, and advanced Windows API techniques Build datacentric solutions using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.0 and 2.1, the DataEnvironment designer, and RDS components for remote activation over the Internet  Master ActiveX technology to create controls, learning advanced techniques such as COM callbacks, multithreaded components and applications, and windowless ActiveX controls Deploy rich, Web-ready components and applications with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and Microsoft Internet Information Server An electronic version of this book is available on the companion CD.A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O''Reilly Media''s Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O''Reilly''s web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9250'),
(15545, 'Proiect divin', 'JOHN SAUL', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4818'),
(15546, 'Proiect divin', 'JOHN SAUL', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8621'),
(15547, 'Proiectarea Sistemelor Informatice', 'Nicolae Morariu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9612'),
(15548, 'Proiectul Montauk - Experimente in timp', 'Nicholas, Preston B. &amp; Moon, Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4712'),
(15549, 'Project Hush', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10022'),
(15550, 'Project Management Step by Step: The Proven, Practical Guide to Running a Successful Project, Every Time', 'Richard Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The proven, practical guide to running a successful project, every time\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œThis straightforward and insightful approach gives results.Â It provides enough structure to ensure visibility and reliable delivery without smothering you with paperwork. It''s no nonsense real change for the real world.â€\n  <em>\n   Matthew Deardon,Â CEO, BT Directories\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ve got an important project to run. You need to know what to do, in what order, to make sure it all runs smoothly. You want to come out of it with the desired result, and looking good. This book is for you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Project Management Step by Step\n  </em>\n  is the proven, practical guide to running a highly successful project, one step at a time. It breaks down the management of the project into easy stages that will ensure you cover everything, at the right time, to bring about a successful delivery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Refreshingly jargon-free, itâ€™s a book for anybody who doesnâ€™t need in-depth theory and principles of various project management techniques, but rather just wants a foolproof guide to making sure their project runs smoothly, on time and to budget. It offers an approach robust enough to ensure your success, but simple enough to be immediately applicable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the fast track guide to becoming a competent and polished project manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA great approach, simple to understand, yet powerful in application. It delivers the project results!â€Â \n  <em>\n   Dave Keighley, Managing Director Operations and Logistics, NTL\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Newton is an experienced executive who has worked both as a management consultant and a senior manager in a number of major corporations. Over the past twenty years he has built a superb track record in the successful delivery of projects, the setting up and management of project teams, and advising companies on how to ensure successful delivery on an ongoing basis. He is an advocate and successful practitioner of simple approaches to project management.Richard is the author of "The Project Manager: Mastering the Art of Delivery", FT Prentice Hall, April 2005.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9613'),
(15551, 'Projects in Computing and Information Systems', 'Christian Dawson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is the essential guide for any student undertaking a computing/IS project, and will give you everything you need to achieve outstanding results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Undertaking a project is a key component of nearly all computing/information systems degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.\n  <em>\n   Projects in Computing and Information Systems\n  </em>\n  covers the four key aspects of project work (planning, conducting, presenting and taking the project further) in chronological fashion, and provides the reader with the skills to excel in the following essential areas:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Writing project proposals\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Surveying literature and writing literature reviews\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Time management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing risk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Team working\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with your supervisor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Software development\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Documenting software\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Report writing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Effective presentations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Viva voce examinations.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The author uses a number of real-life case studies to pass on the experiences of past student projects so the reader gets a genuine understanding of how to avoid pitfalls and ensure best practice in their own project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  New to this second edition:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Updated sections on ethics and plagiarism\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Updated section on agile methods\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   New section on poster presentations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Extended sections on team work\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   New section on software quality.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christian Dawson\n  </strong>\n  is currently a senior lecturer at Loughborough University.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christian Dawson is currently a lecturer at Loughborough University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9614'),
(15552, 'The Prophet of Akhran', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Great War of the Gods means nothing to the proud people on the mortal planetÂ—until Akhran the Wandering God decrees the union of two mighty feuding clans. Though the families are fierce Warriors, they are few in number. Even the marriage of Khardan and Zohra is not enough to over power the strength of the invading army or prevent the imprisonment of their peoples. Now, with Khardan and Zohra mysteriously missingÂ—seemingly cowards who hid from certain defeatÂ—the two clans have lost all hope of ever again seeing their beloved open skies. But Prince Khardan and Princess Zohra, aided by the wizard Matthew, have been given another mission...a mission that at first seems less useful than counting the many grains of the desert sands, but soon proves to be of far more lasting importance.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The Great War of the Gods comes to a close in the last volume of this series. The epic fantasy saga finds Khardin, Zohra, and the wizard Mathew faced withcrossing a vast desert. If they survive, the nomads must combat the fiercestof warriors--Khardin''s brother. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4554'),
(15553, 'The Protection of Information in Computer Systems', 'JEROME H. SALTZER &amp; MICHAEL D. SCHROEDER', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  JEROME H. SALTZER, SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE, &amp;Â MICHAEL D. SCHROEDER, MEMBER, IEEE\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div style="text-align: justify;">\n   Abstract - This tutorial paper explores the mechanics ofÂ protecting computer-stored information from unauthorizedÂ use or modification. It concentrates on those architecturalÂ structures--whether hardware or software--that areÂ necessary to support information protection. The paperÂ develops in three main sections. Section I describesÂ desired functions, design principles, and examples ofÂ elementary protection and authentication mechanisms. AnyÂ reader familiar with computers should find the first sectionÂ to be reasonably accessible. Section II requires someÂ familiarity with descriptor-based computer architecture. ItÂ examines in depth the principles of modern protectionÂ architectures and the relation between capability systemsÂ and access control list systems, and ends with a briefÂ analysis of protected subsystems and protected objects.\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   The reader who is dismayed by either the prerequisites orÂ the level of detail in the second section may wish to skip toÂ Section III, which reviews the state of the art and currentÂ research projects and provides suggestions for furtherÂ reading.\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6127'),
(15554, 'PROTECTORUL', 'JOHN SAUL', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4704'),
(15555, 'PROTECTORUL', 'JOHN SAUL', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8622'),
(15556, 'Prototype and Script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!', 'Christophe Porteneuve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost pass for Ruby code! Web applications are getting richer and richer, with more interaction baked in every day. But JavaScript, DOM, CSS and a full host of other Web standards are quite complex, and the result isn''t always browser compliant. The Prototype and script.aculo.us libraries are veritable treasure troves, smoothing over all the usual nitty-gritty differences between browsers, and making most common features a breeze to implement. With this book, you can quickly wield the whole power of these extraordinary libraries. Dive into Prototype, the library that makes JavaScript so much more powerful, and it looks a lot like Ruby code. Exploring the DOM, handling events, taming AJAX, and radically simplifying most of your scripting code: it all becomes easy-and very portable-with Prototype. When it comes to advanced UI features, script.aculo.us is every web developer''s dream come true: whether you need to create auto-completed text inputs, implement in-place editors, provide customized drag-and-drop behaviors, capture your users'' attention with visual effects or simply build DOM fragments more efficiently, it''s all there, and lightweight too. This book guides you through all the details of these features, letting you use many technologies on the server side, such asPHP, vanilla Ruby, and Ruby On Rails, in countless examples illustrating every aspect. Power users will also learn the design philosophies of the libraries, and how to contribute to them and augment them for their own needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9251'),
(15557, 'Prototype and Scriptaculous Quickly', 'Dave Crane &amp; Bear Bibeault &amp; Tom Locke &amp; Thomas Fuchs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A good solid intro. ... There is fantastically useful stuff about JavaScript itself as well as Prototype; for example the section of function contexts and closures is one of the best I have read on the subject. --\n  <em>\n   N. J. Ferrier at Amazon UK\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pretty darned definitive Plenty of useful examples, including counter-examples Shows how to migrate existing code, not just start from scratch Scriptaculous labs are excellent, and are available for download Okay, all the labs are excellent JavaScript haters beware! Prototype, Scriptaculous, and yes, this excellent book about these two JavaScript libraries, could change your mind. After reading Prototype and Scriptaculous In Action, you are in danger of saying to yourself, "Hey, I''d like to try some of this stuff out," and, before you even realize it, you''re writing JavaScript, getting stuff done, and maybe even enjoying it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book should rightly be considered the bible of Prototype and Scriptaculous. Just download and run the source code for the book (available online for free), for a real taste of what this book offers. --\n  <em>\n   John Guthrie at JavaLobby\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book should be in your library if you are planning to use one of these powerful and useful libraries as well as if you want to learn more advanced topics in JavaScript too! Worth every penny. --\n  <em>\n   Frank Stepanski at Barnes and Noble and bookpool.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave Crane is an Ajax authority and lead author of the best-selling Ajax in Action. He is currently senior developer for UK-based Historic Futures Ltd., developing the next generation of socially responsible supply-chain systems using Ajax to link rural cooperatives and multinational corporations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9252'),
(15558, 'Proyecto Brooklyn', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10102'),
(15559, 'Psaltirea in versuri', 'Dosoftei', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6936'),
(15560, 'Psihologie sociala - Influienta informationala referentiala', 'Stefan Boncu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6119'),
(15561, 'Puzzle', 'Dorin David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6934'),
(15562, 'Python 3 Object Oriented Programming', 'Dusty Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Harness the power of Python 3 objects Learn how to do Object Oriented Programming in Python using this step-by-step tutorial Design public interfaces using abstraction, encapsulation, and information hiding Turn your designs into working software by studying the Python syntax Raise, handle, define, and manipulate exceptions using special error objects Implement Object Oriented Programming in Python using practical examples In Detail Object Oriented Programming is a very important aspect of modern programming languages. The basic principles of Object Oriented Programming are relatively easy to learn. Putting them together into working designs can be challenging. This book makes programming more of a pleasure than a chore using powerful Python 3 object-oriented features of Python 3. It clearly demonstrates the core OOP principles and how to correctly implement OOP in Python. Object Oriented Programming ranks high in importance among the many models Python supports. Yet, many programmers never bother learning the powerful features that make this language object oriented. The book teaches when and how OOP should be correctly applied. It emphasizes not only the simple syntax of OOP in Python, but also how to combine these objects into well-designed software. This book will introduce you to the terminology of the object-oriented paradigm, focusing on object-oriented design with step-by-step examples. It will take you from simple inheritance, one of the most useful tools in the object-oriented programmer''s toolbox, all the way through to cooperative inheritance, one of the most complicated. You will be able to raise, handle, define, and manipulate exceptions. You will be able to integrate the object-oriented and the not-so-object-oriented aspects of Python. You will also be able to create maintainable applications by studying higher level design patterns. You''ll learn the complexities of string and file manipulation, and how Python distinguishes between binary and textual data. Not one, but two very powerful automated testing systems will be introduced to you. You''ll understand the joy of unit testing and just how easy they are to create. You''ll even study higher level libraries such as database connectors and GUI toolkits and how they apply object-oriented principles. Harness the power of Python 3 objects; it''s not just a scripting language What you will learn from this book Implement objects in Python by creating classes and defining methods Separate different objects into a taxonomy of classes, and describe the properties and behaviors of those objects via the class interface Design public interfaces using abstraction, encapsulation, and information hiding Turn your designs into working software by learning the Python syntax Share implementation using inheritance Add functionality to the existing classes and built-ins using inheritance Share similar code between classes by abstracting it into a parent class Raise, handle, define, and manipulate exceptions using special error objects Understand when to use object-oriented features, and more importantly when not to Learn what design patterns are, and why they are different in Python Uncover the simplicity of unit testing and why it''s so important in Python Utilize common Python 3 modules, libraries, and frameworks Approach The book begins with the very foundations of OOP and then uses practical examples to show how to correctly implement Object Oriented Programming in Python. Many examples are taken from real-world projects. The book focuses on high-level design as well as the gritty details of the Python syntax. The provided exercises inspire the reader to think about his or her own code, rather than providing solved problems. Who this book is written for If you''re new to Object Oriented Programming techniques, or if you have basic Python skills and wish to learn in depth how and when to correctly apply Object Oriented Programming in Python, this is the book for you. If you are an object-oriented programmer for other languages, you too will find this book a useful introduction to Python, as it uses terminology you are already familiar with. Python 2 programmers seeking a leg up in the new world of Python 3 will also find the book beneficial, and you need not necessarily know Python 2.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7081'),
(15563, 'Python Algorithms: Mastering Basic Algorithms in the Python Language', 'Magnus Lie Hetland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7072'),
(15564, 'Python basics for PHP developers', 'Thomas Myer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6154'),
(15565, 'Python Essential Reference', 'David M. Beazley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley''s\n  <em>\n   Python: Essential Reference\n  </em>\n  is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement. The result is a truly condensed product fit for the occularly well-adjusted (nota bene).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beazley''s subject is Python, a full-featured, freely-redistributable, POSIX-compliant (platforms include Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and Windows) scripting language that is based on object-oriented design principles. As advertised, Beazley''s source release (1.5.2) is available from an unfortunately slow server at www.python.org. The installation under Linux (Redhat 5.2) proceeded without incident.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beazley holds true to his catalogic purpose: fully 230 pages are formatted as technical appendices and indices covering the standard litany: built-in function syntax, database features, OS-level interfaces, Internet interfaces, and compiling/profiling/debugging. All references are fully annotated and illustrated with example source code that runs from a couple of lines to a couple of pages. In lock step with competing scripting languages, Python is extensible and embeddable in C and C++, and with blitzkrieg efficiency, Beazley summarizes these crucial practical issues in the final 30 pages. Python users who are tired of chasing questions through hyperlinked online documents will benefit from the expansive random-access index.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Python\n  </em>\n  the book captures the orderliness of Python the language. Beazley begins with an 86-page prÃ©cis of Python in the fashion of Kernighan and Ritchie: too brief for a newbie tutorial but enough to propel old hands into a scripting language that aspires to the elegance of a compiled language.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Indeed, it is a byte-compiling language. The line bytecode=compile("some_python_script",'''',''exec'')) creates ''bytecode'' as a token executed by exec bytecode. But a five-minute investigation through Beazley''s book does not describe how ''bytecode'' can be written into a separate executable file. If writing the byte-compiled code to a file is not possible, Python suffers from the limitations of other scripting languages: the executable is the source and cannot be hidden from the user, at least not without some difficulty. Despite its extensibility, embeddability, and pleasing architecture, Python is like other scripting languages: appropriate for solving small nonproprietary problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those familiar with more established scriptors like Perl may ask, "Why Python?" Unlike Perl, Python is a product of the fully object-oriented (OO) era, and its constructs reflect design principles that aspire beyond keystroke shortcuts of the succinct-but-often-arcane Perl. Python creator Guido van Rossum cleansed Perl''s idiosyncracies and objectified basic data structure, data manipulations, and I/O. With Python, OO is so intrinsic that learning Python is equivalent to learning OO. The same cannot be said of Perl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, comparisons with other languages are missing from Beazley''s book. Van Rossum, in an embarrassingly self-serving foreword, preemptively asserts that we readers need "neither evangelizing nor proselytizing"--after all, we already own the book--but we do need galvanizing and we don''t find it. Specifically, we need a response to the oft-repeated wisdom that new computer languages are only worth learning if they teach us to organize our thinking along new lines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scripting languages, however, are for quick and dirty projects: quick to write, easy to hack, and ultimately disposable. The essential tension created by van Rossum and friends is between the elegance of object-oriented principles and the utility of a quick-hacked script. Sadly, the tension remains unresolved in Beazley''s reference. There is little to convince us that Python has earned its place in the firmament by changing our thinking. But Beazley has given us much to get us going if we have already taken the leap of faith.\n  <em>\n   --Peter Leopold\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though Python is a relatively new programming language, it has quite a significant audience owing to its sensible syntax. An active user of Python since 1996, Beazley provides ample information on the fundamentals of versions 2.0 and 2.1, including syntax, functions, operators, classes, and libraries. This is first and foremost a reference, so he avoids lengthy discussions of Python''s superiority. Peppered with good code samples and featuring a companion web site with more extensive pieces, this title should be on hand in larger libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7082');
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(15566, 'Python for Software Design', 'Allen B. Downey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I very much like Python for Software Design. I hope that instructors in computational science will learn some pedagogical lessons from it. Repeatedly, the book showed code that was simply readable. The feature, its rationale, its uses, and debugging hints are together for collective reference (like an object?). And ideas are repeated as they naturally reappear. Is that how computer scientists think? I don''t know. But if that''s how they teach, they''re doing a fine job. When trying to teach the more difficult ideas of floating point errors, control of step size, mesh refinement, and parallel programming, computational scientists could learn something from Python for Software Design.\n  <br />\n  Dan Nagle, Scientific Programming\n </p>\n <p>\n  "... the book offers plenty of examples, very helpful explanations, and useful illustrations."\n  <br />\n  F.H. Wild III, Choice Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Downey successfully presents the programming language Python. The author provides details of Python in a cogent fashion, enabling a novice in programming to cover the material with relative ease. Downey succeeds in fulfilling his four goals, stated in the preface."\n  <br />\n  N. Chakrapani, reviews.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is short and well written, it follows a very smooth progression, and its companion web Site is very good."\n  <br />\n  O. Lecarme, reviews.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "a book that is nearly free from technical bugs; explains concepts in clear, readable prose; contains helpful illustrations; and integrates activities to engage its readers."\n  <br />\n  Max Hailperin, Computing in Science and Engineering\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Python for Software Design is a concise introduction to software design using the Python programming language. Intended for people with no programming experience, this book starts with the most basic concepts and gradually adds new material. Some of the ideas students find most challenging, like recursion and object-oriented programming, are divided into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several chapters. The focus is on the programming process, with special emphasis on debugging. The book includes a wide range of exercises, from short examples to substantial projects, so that students have ample opportunity to practice each new concept. Exercise solutions and code examples are available from thinkpython.com, along with Swampy, a suite of Python programs that is used in some of the exercises.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7083'),
(15567, 'Python Gist Graphics Manual. The Python Graphics Interface, Part IV', 'Zane Motteler &amp; Lee Busby &amp; Fred N. Fritsch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Zane Motteler &amp;Â Lee Busby &amp;Â Fred N. Fritsch\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6155'),
(15568, 'Python Imaging Library Overview', 'Fredrik Lundh &amp; Matthew Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6161'),
(15569, 'Python Mini Tutorial', 'Shui Hung Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6156'),
(15570, 'Python programming : an introduction to computer science', 'Zelle, John M', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  http://www.archive.org/details/pythonprogrammin00zell\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8247'),
(15571, 'Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner', 'Michael Dawson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical Python programming applications and you will learn how these skills can be put to use in real- world scenarios. Best of all, by the time you finish this book you will be able to apply the basic principles you?ve learned to the next programming language you tackle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Dawson has worked as both a programmer and a computer game designer and producer. In addition to real-world game industry experience, Mike earned\n  <br />\n  his bachelor?s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He currently teaches game programming and design to students of all ages through UCLA Extension courses and private lessons. Visit his Web site at www.programgames.com to learn more or to get support for any of his books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7084'),
(15572, 'Python Programming With the Java Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications', 'Richard Hightower', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Python and Java are natural team-mates. Using Python together with the Java class libraries, developers at all levels can leverage Python''s simplicity and Java''s power together, building advanced Web and enterprise applications with remarkable speed and efficiency. Richard Hightower shows how, from start to finish. Using step-by-step examples, Hightower introduces the fundamentals of Python and object-oriented programming. You''ll learn how to work with files, use Python''s intrinsic functionality, and take advantage of Python''s powerful string handling capabilities. Next, Hightower shows how to interface with Java APIs; how to build Swing graphical applications more easily with JPython; and, how to utilize SQL and JDBC to access enterprise data from Python programs. An important section shows how to use Python to solve problems that would otherwise require far more complex Java coding. For all Python programmers who want to take advantage of the Java class libraries. And. for all Java developers seeking faster, more efficient ways to build Web and enterprise applications.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Characterized by ease of use, richness of expression, and concise syntax, Python has remained a premier programming language for more than a decade, and is used by novices and professionals alike. In particular, its close relationship to Javaâ„¢ makes the two languages, when used in combination, ideal for Web and distributed enterprise application development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This tutorial begins with coverage of some of the basics of Python programming. Using plenty of skill-building exercises and interactive programming sessions, this book will help those new to programming develop an understanding of concepts and practical techniques. For experienced programmers, the book demonstrates Python''s breadth of capabilities and shows the ways that Python interfaces with Java APIs for professional application development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Python Programming with the Javaâ„¢ Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications with Jython\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  covers important topics such as:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Fundamental programming concepts, including statements, expressions, interpreters, and compilers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Python basics, including operators, string formatting, namespaces, classes, errors, and exceptions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object-oriented programming concepts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   File input/output\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Python''s intrinsic functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Formatting, parsing, and manipulating strings\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interfacing with the Java APIs and working with Java Streams\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using Python and Java Swing to create GUIs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with SQL and JDBCâ„¢\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Python and Java applets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In addition, the book contains instructions for downloading and installing the Python language and the Java Development Kit (JDK). Terminology, definitions, explanations, and numerous code samples make this book a useful learning experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether you are a sophisticated computer user new to programming or a serious application developer, _\n  <strong>\n   Python Programming with the Javaâ„¢ Class Libraries\n  </strong>\n  _ will give you insight into the power of Python and the know-how to put it to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0201616165B07022002\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7793'),
(15573, 'Python Scripting for Computational Science', 'Hans Petter Langtangen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now in its revised and updated 4th edition, this book teaches computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small programs written in the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in the previous edition, the focus is on highly relevant examples and applications. These include binding together existing applications and tools, for example, for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book also covers steering simulations and computational experiments; equipping old programs with graphical user interfaces; making computational Web applications; and creating interactive interfaces with a Maple/Matlab-like syntax to numerical applications in C/C++ or Fortran.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The highly regarded author, Hans Petter Langtangen, demonstrates that scripting with Python helps the programmer achieve much greater productivity, increases the reliability of scientific work and lets programmers have more fun - on Unix, Windows and Macintosh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fourth edition corrects, updates and improves the implementation of a range of tools that have seen significant changes in recent years. The open source software tools and examples associated with the book are also improved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now in its revised and updated 4th edition, this book teaches computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small programs written in the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in the previous edition, the focus is on highly relevant examples and applications. These include binding together existing applications and tools, for example, for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book also covers steering simulations and computational experiments; equipping old programs with graphical user interfaces; making computational Web applications; and creating interactive interfaces with a Maple/Matlab-like syntax to numerical applications in C/C++ or Fortran.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The highly regarded author, Hans Petter Langtangen, demonstrates that scripting with Python helps the programmer achieve much greater productivity, increases the reliability of scientific work and lets programmers have more fun - on Unix, Windows and Macintosh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fourth edition corrects, updates and improves the implementation of a range of tools that have seen significant changes in recent years. The open source software tools and examples associated with the book are also improved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7085'),
(15574, 'Python Scripting for Computational Science', 'Hans Petter Langtangen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The goal of this book is to teach computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small programs (scripts) written in the easy-to-learn, high-level language Python. The focus is on examples and applications of relevance to computational scientists: gluing existing applications and tools, e.g. for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization; steering simulations and computational experiments; equipping old programs with graphical user interfaces; making computational Web applications; and creating interactive interfaces with a Maple/Matlab-like syntax to numerical applications in C/C++ or Fortran. In short, scripting with Python makes you much more productive, increases the reliability of your scientific work and lets you have more fun - on Unix, Windows and Macintosh. All the tools and examples in this book are open source codes. The third edition is compatible with the new NumPy implementation and features updated information, correction of errors, and improved associated software tools.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7408'),
(15575, 'Python: Create - Modify - Reuse', 'James O. Knowlton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Python: Create-Modify-Reuse\n  </em>\n  is designed for all levels of Python developers interested in a practical, hands-on way of learning Python development. This book is designed to show you how to use Python (in combination with the raw processing power of your computer) to accomplish real-world tasks in a more efficient way. Don''t look for an exhaustive description of the Python languageâ€“â€“you won''t find it. The book''s main purpose is not to thoroughly cover the Python language, but rather to show how you can use Python to create robust, real-world applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this respect, the goal is similar to foreign-language books that identify themselves as â€œconversational,â€ focusing on the vocabulary and concepts that people will need the most. Likewise, I focus specifically on the Python knowledge needed to accomplish practical, specific tasks. Along the way, you will learn to create useful, efficient scripts that are easy to maintain and enhance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for developers with some experience with Python who want to explore how to develop full-blown applications. It is also for developers with experience in other languages who want to learn Python by building robust applications. It is well-suited for developers who like to â€œlearn by doing,â€ rather than exploring a language feature by feature. To get the most out of the book, you should understand basic programming principles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because this book is project-based, you can approach it in numerous ways. You can, of course, read it from cover to cover. Chapters 2 through 8 each cover a different project, so the chapters are independent of each other. However, because each chapter project is covered individually, there may be some overlap of information. I also sometimes refer to explanations of particular topics covered in previous chapters. This will help to reinforce important concepts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The end of the book contains two appendixes. The first one is a listing of Python resources you can check out for more information. The second one will help you with installing additional components used in some of the examples.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book starts with a basic overview of the Python language, designed for those familiar with other languages but new to Python. It is followed by several chapters, each of which describes a complete project that can be used as-is or modified and extended to suit your particular purposes. You''ll find applications that access databases, take advantage of web technologies, and facilitate network communications, to name a few. In addition, and more important than the technologies you will be introduced to, you will learn how to use Python to solve real challenges. Following these chapters are two chapters that cover accessing operating system resources and debugging and testing, respectively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each project chapter contains complete instructions describing how to install and use the application, so you can actually see the program run as you learn how to construct and use it, including how the project was designed and prototyped. This book is intended to be both a reference guide and a learning aid, teaching you how to build solutions with Python and providing reference information on a wide variety of Python programming concepts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is hoped that this book will help you have fun with Python and build useful applications, andâ€”unlike my experience with building a deckâ€”without sore thumbs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is framed around the code itself. This is because developers are typically looking for how to do something; and, as with many activities, you learn how to do something by watching how others do and trying it yourself. If you want to know how a\n  <code>\n   for\n  </code>\n  loop works, you''ll find\n  <code>\n   for\n  </code>\n  loops in my code, but that''s not the thrust of the book. Instead, this book shows you how to do things: how to build a content management system, how to build a test management system, how to set up a system for tracking customer follow-up, and so on. Along the way, you''ll learn how to communicate with a SQL database, how to act as a web server or communicate with one, how to access operating system services, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are three basic components to the book:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Chapter 1 is a brief overview of the Python language.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Chapters 2â€“8 cover seven different programming projects, which illustrate various technologies and techniques available to Python developers.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Chapters 9â€“10 cover additional, advanced topics, which will help you as you build Python projects.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The project chapters have a consistent structure:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Overview: What does the application do?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Using the program\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Design\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How it all fits together\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Modules involved\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Code and code explanation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Module/class 1 explanation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Module/class 2 explanation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Minor code file explanation\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Testing, including suggested tests\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Modifying the project, including some suggested adaptations\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Summary\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Each project is designed with classes that can be reused and accessed for multiple purposes. This is one of the main benefits of object-oriented programming, so designing for reusability is a main focus of the book. The book contains the following chapters:\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Python Basics\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This chapter is a basic primer on the Python language, and it functions as either a quick tutorial for experienced programmers new to Python or a refresher for programmers with Python experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part I: The Projects\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Directory/File Snapshot Program\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project demonstrates how to interact with files, create and manipulate data structures, and provide user output. It also touches on code design issues to improve code maintainability. Often when installing or uninstalling software, or verifying changes to a file system, it can be valuable to take a â€œsnapshotâ€ of the files and directories, along with their size and last-modified time. The script introduced in this chapter does just that. This chapter also explores how to capture a directory listing into a Python list, and explains how to query this list for particular values.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   DVD Inventory System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project takes advantage of Pythonâ€™s capability to access and manipulate data in a SQL database. The application enables multiple users to log in to a website that provides access to a DVD inventory database. Permissions are set such that some users can add, modify, or delete entries, whereas other users have read-only access to the data.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Web Performance Tester\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project shows how to communicate with a Python web server and retrieve information regarding how long it takes to receive requested items from the web server. Although writing Python programs to work on a single computer can be useful, the real power of Python can be seen when it is used to script communication between computers on a network. Most networks contain several web servers. A nice feature of Python is that it can act as a lightweight server for various Internet protocols, such as HTTP (web) and ftp. This application enables you to monitor performance of HTTP traffic on your network.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Customer Follow-Up System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project shows how to present a web form to the user and retrieve data from it, how to automatically format and send e-mail through an SMTP server, and how to generate an HTML-formatted report. The task for the second example is to automatically generate a customer comments e-mail message based on information the customer enters in a form. It uses the\n  <code>\n   mod_python\n  </code>\n  Apache module to take the information entered in the HTTP form and then utilizes a Python script on the web server to send that information to an SMTP server for mail delivery.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Test Management/Reporting System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project makes use of the\n  <code>\n   unittest\n  </code>\n  module to run tests against an existing application, and creates a framework for reporting test results. Testing is a vital process for developing software. This application enables users to run tests for a given piece of software, to list the previous test runs by date, to show test run results for any previously run tests, and to output the results of any test run as HTML for viewing in a web browser.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Version Management System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project connects to a list of servers via telnet, checks the application version of a pre-set application list, and displays its results both as output and to a log file. Often, a system administrator needs to patch systems or ensure that systems have the latest application versions installed. This script is an easy way to accomplish that task. It makes use of Pythonâ€™s capability to emulate a telnet client and log in to remote systems and perform functions on that remote system.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Content Management System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  This project explores Plone, a popular content management system based on Python and Zope (a Python-based application server). Because Python is a very mature language, numerous applications have been built on top of it. A great thing about working with Python-based applications is that you get the benefit of a full-blown application but you can still use Python to configure and customize it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part II: Advanced Topics\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Interacting with the Operating System\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  When writing scripts â€œin the real world,â€ often it is critical to be able to access services available through (and particular to) the operating system you happen to be on. For example, suppose you wanted to read or modify the Window Registry? Or you wanted to get the Linux process ID of a particular process that is running? Is such a thing even possible? Definitelyâ€”and this chapter shows you how.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Debugging and Testing\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  Because I am a software tester myself, testing is a subject that is certainly close to my heart. In this chapter, I discuss why testing is important, how to put the right amount of testing into your code, and how writing automated tests can help you to actually write code more quickly. Youâ€™ll look at PyUnit, the automated testing framework for Python, and learn how to use it to test the riskiest parts of a script. Youâ€™ll also explore the Python de...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Python: Create-Modify-Reuse\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aimed at all levels of Python developers who are interested in a task-based way of learning Python development, this hands-on book shows how you can efficiently use Python to create robust, real-world applications. After a brief primer on this object-oriented, interactive programming language, you will jump right into practical Python development so that you can create useful, streamlined scripts that are easy to maintain and enhance, and that you can immediately put to use in the real world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each chapter features a complete project that you can use as it currently exists or modify to suit your particular purposes. Among these projects you''ll find applications that access databases, take advantage of web technologies, facilitate network communications, and more. Plus, you''ll also explore more advanced topics such as accessing operating system resources, writing scripts that are easy to read and maintain, and debugging and testing. However, even more important than the technologies you will be introduced to, you will learn how to use Python to solve real challenges.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The various technologies and techniques that are available to Python developers\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to communicate with an SQL database\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for acting as a web server or communicating with one\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to access and manipulate XML files\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for building a content management system\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways to access and communicate with your operating system\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Who this book is for\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  This book is for developers who want to explore how to develop full-blown applications with Python. A general understanding of basic programming principles and object-oriented design is helpful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Create â€“ Modify â€“ Reuse guides\n  </strong>\n  are packed with unique, ready-to-use projects that are perfect for the busy programmer. The projects are created with minimal set-up, and can be modified, enhanced, and reused in real-world situations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7080'),
(15576, 'Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (Part I)', 'Bruce Beckles &amp; Bob Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6151'),
(15577, 'Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (Part II)', 'Bob Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6162'),
(15578, 'Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (Part III)', 'Bob Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6152'),
(15579, 'Qmail', 'John R. Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Qmail has quietly become one of the most widely used applications on the Internet today. It''s powerful enough to handle mail for systems with millions of users - Like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, while remaining compact and manageable enough for the smallest Unix- and Linux-based PC systems." "Topics covered include: installation and configuration, including patching qmail; moving from sendmail to qmail; handling locally and remotely originated messages; managing virtual domains; logging qmail activity; tuning qmail performance; running multiple copies of qmail on the same computer; mailing list setup and management; integrating the qmail MTA with POP and IMAP delivery; and filtering out spam and viruses." This guide, Qmail, will provide the guidance you need to build an email infrastructure that performs well, makes sense, and is easy to maintain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12584'),
(15580, 'qrg0008 (CSS3).pub', 'Veign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9338'),
(15581, 'qrg0009 (HTML5).pub', 'Veign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9313'),
(15582, 'Quantum Approach to Informatics', 'Stig Stenholm &amp; Kalle-antti Suominen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An essential overview of quantum information\n </p>\n <p>\n  Information, whether inscribed as a mark on a stone tablet or encoded as a magnetic domain on a hard drive, must be stored in a physical object and thus made subject to the laws of physics. Traditionally, information processing such as computation occurred in a framework governed by laws of classical physics. However, information can also be stored and processed using the states of matter described by non-classical quantum theory. Understanding this quantum information, a fundamentally different type of information, has been a major project of physicists and information theorists in recent years, and recent experimental research has started to yield promising results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quantum Approach to Informatics fills the need for a concise introduction to this burgeoning new field, offering an intuitive approach for readers in both the physics and information science communities, as well as in related fields. Only a basic background in quantum theory is required, and the text keeps the focus on bringing this theory to bear on contemporary informatics. Instead of proofs and other highly formal structures, detailed examples present the material, making this a uniquely accessible introduction to quantum informatics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics covered include:\n  <br />\n  * An introduction to quantum information and the qubit\n  <br />\n  * Concepts and methods of quantum theory important for informatics\n  <br />\n  * The application of information concepts to quantum physics\n  <br />\n  * Quantum information processing and computing\n  <br />\n  * Quantum gates\n  <br />\n  * Error correction using quantum-based methods\n  <br />\n  * Physical realizations of quantum computing circuits\n </p>\n <p>\n  A helpful and economical resource for understanding this exciting new application of quantum theory to informatics, Quantum Approach to Informatics provides students and researchers in physics and information science, as well as other interested readers with some scientific background, with an essential overview of the field.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An essential overview of quantum information\n </p>\n <p>\n  Information, whether inscribed as a mark on a stone tablet or encoded as a magnetic domain on a hard drive, must be stored in a physical object and thus made subject to the laws of physics. Traditionally, information processing such as computation occurred in a framework governed by laws of classical physics. However, information can also be stored and processed using the states of matter described by non-classical quantum theory. Understanding this quantum information, a fundamentally different type of information, has been a major project of physicists and information theorists in recent years, and recent experimental research has started to yield promising results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quantum Approach to Informatics fills the need for a concise introduction to this burgeoning new field, offering an intuitive approach for readers in both the physics and information science communities, as well as in related fields. Only a basic background in quantum theory is required, and the text keeps the focus on bringing this theory to bear on contemporary informatics. Instead of proofs and other highly formal structures, detailed examples present the material, making this a uniquely accessible introduction to quantum informatics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   An introduction to quantum information and the qubit\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Concepts and methods of quantum theory important for informatics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The application of information concepts to quantum physics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Quantum information processing and computing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Quantum gates\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Error correction using quantum-based methods\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Physical realizations of quantum computing circuits\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  A helpful and economical resource for understanding this exciting new application of quantum theory to informatics, Quantum Approach to Informatics provides students and researchers in physics and information science, as well as other interested readers with some scientific background, with an essential overview of the field.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7693'),
(15583, 'The Queen of Springtime', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The death-stars had come, and they had kept on coming for hundreds of thousands of years, falling upon the Earth, swept upon it by a vagrant star that had passed through the outer reaches of the solar system. They brought with them a time of unending darkness and cold. It was a thing that happened every twenty-six million years, and there was no turning it aside. But all that was done with now. At last the death-stars had ceased to fall, the sky had cleared of dust and cinders, the sunâ€™s warmth again was able to break through the clouds. The glaciers relinquished their hold on the land; the Long Winter ended; the New Springtime began. The world was born anew.\n <br />\n Now each year was warmer than the last. The fair seasons of spring and summer, long lost from the world, came again with increasing power. And the People, having survived the dark time in their sealed cocoons, were spreading rapidly across the fertile land.\n <br />\n But others were already there. The hjjks, the somber cold-eyed insect-folk, had never retreated, even at the time of greatest chill. The world had fallen to them by default, and they had been its sole masters for seven hundred thousand years. They were not likely to share it gladly now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11113'),
(15584, 'A quick, painless tutorial on the Python language', 'Norman Matloff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6140'),
(15585, 'R Cookbook', 'Paul Teetor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With more than 200 practical recipes, this book helps you perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently. The R language provides everything you need to do statistical work, but its structure can be difficult to master. This collection of concise, task-oriented recipes makes you productive with R immediately, with solutions ranging from basic tasks to input and output, general statistics, graphics, and linear regression.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. If youâ€™re a beginner,\n  <em>\n   R Cookbook\n  </em>\n  will help get you started. If youâ€™re an experienced data programmer, it will jog your memory and expand your horizons. Youâ€™ll get the job done faster and learn more about R in the process.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create vectors, handle variables, and perform other basic functions\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Input and output data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tackle data structures such as matrices, lists, factors, and data frames\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Work with probability, probability distributions, and random variables\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Calculate statistics and confidence intervals, and perform statistical tests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a variety of graphic displays\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of variance (ANOVA)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore advanced statistical techniques, such as finding clusters in your data\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  "Wonderfully readable,\n  <em>\n   R Cookbook\n  </em>\n  serves not only as a solutions manual of sorts, but as a truly enjoyable way to explore the R languageâ€”one practical example at a time." â€”Jeffrey Ryan, software consultant and R package author\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Teetor is a quantitative developer with Masters degrees in statistics and computer science. He specializes in analytics and software engineering for investment management, securities trading, and risk management. He works with hedge funds, market makers, and portfolio managers in the greater Chicago area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7761'),
(15586, 'R in Action', 'Robert Kabacoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ability to interpret and act on the massive amounts of information locked in web and enterprise systems is critical to success in the modern business economy. R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, is a comprehensive package that empowers developers and analysts to capture, process, and respond intelligently to statistical information.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   R in Action\n  </em>\n  is the first book to present both the R system and the use cases that make it such a compelling package for business developers. The book begins by introducing the R language, and then moves on to various examples illustrating R''s features. Coverage includes data mining methodologies, approaches to messy data, R''s extensive graphical environment, useful add-on modules, and how to interface R with other software platforms and data management systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Robert Kabacoff has more than 20 years of experience providing research and statistical consultation to organizations in health care, financial services, manufacturing, behavioral sciences, government, and academia. He is a former professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, where he taught graduate courses in quantitative methods and statistical programming. For the past two years, he has managed Quick-R, a popuar R tutorial website.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Robert Kabacoff has more than 20 years of experience providing research and statistical consultation to organizations in health care, financial services, manufacturing, behavioral sciences, government, and academia. He is a former professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, where he taught graduate courses in quantitative methods and statistical programming. For the past two years, he has managed Quick-R, a popuar R tutorial website.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10181'),
(15587, 'Radio Free Albemuth', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11723'),
(15588, 'Ramai', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8613'),
(15589, 'Rascoala, Vol 1', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4729'),
(15590, 'Rascoala, Vol 2', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8634'),
(15591, 'The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner&#39;s Guide to the RUP', 'Per Kroll &amp; Philippe Kruchten &amp; Grady Booch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Per Kroll and Philippe Kruchten are especially well suited to explain the RUP...because they have been the central forces inside Rational Software behind the creation of the RUP and its delivery to projects around the world."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  --From the Foreword by Grady Booch\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a comprehensive guide to modern software development practices, as embodied in the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. With the help of this book[HTML_REMOVED]s practical advice and insight, software practitioners will learn how to tackle challenging development projects--small and large--using an iterative and risk-driven development approach with a proven track record.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Rational Unified Process Made Easy\n  </strong>\n  _ will teach you the key points involved in planning and managing iterative projects, the fundamentals of component design and software architecture, and the proper employment of use cases. All team members--from project managers to analysts, from developers to testers--will learn how to immediately apply the RUP to their work. You will learn that the RUP is a flexible, versatile process framework that can be tailored to suit the needs of development projects of all types and sizes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Key topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to use the RUP to develop iteratively, adopt an architecture-centric approach, mitigate risk, and verify software quality\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tasks associated with the four phases of the RUP: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Roles and responsibilities of project managers, architects, analysts, developers, testers, and process engineers in a RUP project\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incrementally adopting the RUP with minimal risk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Common patterns for failure with the RUP--and how to avoid them\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Use this book to get quickly up to speed with the RUP, so you can easily employ the significant power of this process to increase the productivity of your team.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Per Kroll and Philippe Kruchten are especially well suited to explain the RUP...because they have been the central forces inside Rational Software behind the creation of the RUP and its delivery to projects around the world."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  --From the Foreword by Grady Booch\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a comprehensive guide to modern software development practices, as embodied in the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. With the help of this book''s practical advice and insight, software practitioners will learn how to tackle challenging development projects--small and large--using an iterative and risk-driven development approach with a proven track record.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Rational Unified Process Made Easy\n  </strong>\n  _ will teach you the key points involved in planning and managing iterative projects, the fundamentals of component design and software architecture, and the proper employment of use cases. All team members--from project managers to analysts, from developers to testers--will learn how to immediately apply the RUP to their work. You will learn that the RUP is a flexible, versatile process framework that can be tailored to suit the needs of development projects of all types and sizes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Key topics covered include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to use the RUP to develop iteratively, adopt an architecture-centric approach, mitigate risk, and verify software quality\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tasks associated with the four phases of the RUP: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Roles and responsibilities of project managers, architects, analysts, developers, testers, and process engineers in a RUP project\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Incrementally adopting the RUP with minimal risk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Common patterns for failure with the RUP--and how to avoid them\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Use this book to get quickly up to speed with the RUP, so you can easily employ the significant power of this process to increase the productivity of your team.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9209'),
(15592, 'Razbunatorul', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4846'),
(15593, 'Razbunatorul', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8521'),
(15594, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-620 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Jesse Varsalone &amp; Kelly Brown &amp; Robert J. Shimonski &amp; Jan Kanclirz &amp; Ron Barrett &amp; Mitch Garvis &amp; Tony Piltzecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This exam is designed to validate proficieny supporting Windows Vista client. This exam will fulfill the Windows Vista Technology Specialist requirements of Exam 70-620. The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Vista credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience in Tier 1 or Tier 2 phone support in an upper midsize organization or enterprise environment. MCTS candidates should have experience resolving issues concerning network connectivity, desktop operating systems, security, and applications. Their experience should also include addressing logon problems, performing password resets, and resolving most issues with desktop applications. * Designed to help study for and pass this important MCTS exam on the Vista operating system on the way to MCITP status * Targeted to newcomers to Microsoft certification AND people who wish to upgrade their Windows 2003 MCSE/MCSA * THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft * Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives * Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics * Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives * Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players * 1000 page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7352'),
(15595, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-640 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Anthony Piltzecker &amp; Naomi Alpern &amp; Tariq Bin Azad &amp; Laura Hunter &amp; John Karnay &amp; Jeffrery Martin &amp; Gene Whitley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2008 Active Directory skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exam 70-640.The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.MCTS candidates will manage network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management.In addition MCTS candidates must understand connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet.*Designed to help newcomers to Microsoft certification study for and pass MCTS exam for Active Directory on their way to MCITP certification\n <em>\n  THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft\n </em>\n Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives * Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics* Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n <em>\n  Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n </em>\n 1000 page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7353');
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(15596, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-642 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Brien Posey &amp; Susan Snedaker &amp; Ira Herman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSAs) AD and Application Platform Technical Specialists skills. The object of this exam is to validate only the skills that are are different from the existing MCSA skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exams 70-640 and 70-643.The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.MCTS candidates will manage network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management.In addition MCTS candidates must understant connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet.* Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n <em>\n  Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n </em>\n 1,000-page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review\n <em>\n  THE independent source of exam-day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft\n </em>\n Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives * Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7354'),
(15597, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-643 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Brien Posey &amp; Colin Bowern &amp; Jeffery A. Martin &amp; John Karnay &amp; Arno Theron &amp; Mohan Krishnamurthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brien Posey is a freelance technical writer who has received Microsoft''s MVP award four times. Over the last 12 years, Brien has published over 4,000 articles and whitepapers, and has written or contributed to over 30 books. In addition to his technical writing, Brien is the cofounder of Relevant Technologies and also serves the IT community through his own Web site. Prior to becoming a freelance author, Brien served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities and as a network administrator for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox. He has also worked as a network administrator for some of the nation''s largest insurance companies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colin Bowern is an avid technologist and solutions architect based in Toronto, Canada. Colin''s work on pragmatic solutions spans technology, financial, music, and public sector industries for organizations such as Microsoft, Meridian Credit Union, officialCOMMUNITY, and more. Recognized by the community for interactive contributions in public speaking, community building, and writing Colin is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. His work appears across books, web casts, and on his blog.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jeffery A. Martin, MS/IT, MS/M (MCSE, MCSE: Security, MCSE: Messaging, MCDBA, MCT, MCSA, MCSA: Security, MCSE: Messaging, MCP+I, MCNE, CNE, CNA, CCA, CTT, A+, Network+, I-Net+, Project+, Linux+, CIW, ADPM) has been working with computer networks for over 20 years. He is an editor, coeditor, author, or coauthor of over 15 books and enjoys training others in the use of technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  John Karnay is a freelance writer, editor, and book author living in Queens, NY. John specializes in Windows server and desktop deployments utilizing Microsoft and Apple products and technology. John has been working with Microsoft products since Windows 95 and NT 4.0 and consults for many clients in New York City and Long Island, helping them plan migrations to XP/Vista and Windows Server 2003/2008.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arno Theron (ITIL Service Foundation, MCSA, MCSE: Messaging, MCITP, MCTS, and MCT) is an independent information security professional with seven years'' network/server administration experience and six years'' IT training experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is dedicated to improving training policy and implementation with high-quality technical information. Arno has previously contributed to Syngress Publishing''s\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Forefront Security Administration Guide\n  </em>\n  (ISBN 978-1-59749-244-7). Arno is currently involved with designing and improving large-scale solutions and adapting such solutions to comply with Microsoft Operation Framework.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mohan Krishnamurthy Madwachar (MCSE, CCA) is the GM-Network Security at Almoayed Group in Bahrain. Mohan is a key contributor to Almoayed Group''s projects division and plays an important role in the organization''s network security initiatives. Mohan has a strong networking, security, and training background. His tenure with companies such as Schlumberger Omnes and Secure Network Solutions India adds to his experience and expertise in implementing large and complex network and security projects. Mohan holds leading IT industry-standard and vendor certifications in systems, networking, and security. He is a member of the IEEE and PMI. Mohan has coauthored five books published by Syngress:\n  <em>\n   Designing &amp; Building Enterprise DMZs\n  </em>\n  (ISBN: 1597491004),\n  <em>\n   Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen &amp; SSG Firewalls\n  </em>\n  (ISBN: 1597491187),\n  <em>\n   How to Cheat at Securing Linux\n  </em>\n  (ISBN: 1597492078),\n  <em>\n   How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007\n  </em>\n  (ISBN: 1597492126), and\n  <em>\n   Microsoft Forefront Security Administration Guide\n  </em>\n  (ISBN: 1597492447). He also writes newspaper columns on various subjects and has contributed to leading content companies as a technical writer and subject matter expert.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7355'),
(15598, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-646 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Naomi Alpern &amp; Tariq Bin Azad &amp; Dustin Hannifin &amp; Shawn Tooley &amp; Tony Piltzecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate skills as a Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 IT Professional requirements of Exam 70-646.The Microsoft Certified IT Professional(MCITP) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCITP candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.A MCITP Server Administrator is responsible for the operations and day-to-day management of an infrastructure of servers for an enterprise organization. Server administrators manage the infrastructure, web, and IT application servers, and use scripts to accomplish tasks on a regular basis. They conduct most server management tasks remotely by using Terminal Server or administration tools installed on their local workstation. MCITP Server Administrators also support engineering projects, and are responsible for server builds and configuration. * Targeted at MCSE/MCSA upgraders, AND new MCITP certification seekers.\n <em>\n  Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics\n </em>\n Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n <em>\n  Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n </em>\n Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7356'),
(15599, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-647 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Tariq Bin Azad &amp; Anthony Piltzecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate skills as a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 IT Professional requirements of Exam 70-647.The Microsoft Certified IT Professional(MCITP) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCITP candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.A MCITP Enterprise Administrator is responsible for the overall IT environment and architecture, and translates business goals into technology decisions and designs mid-range to long-term strategies. The enterprise administrator is also responsible for infrastructure design and global configuration changes.\n <em>\n  Targeted at MCSE/MCSA upgraders AND new MCITP certification seekers.\n </em>\n Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics\n <em>\n  Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n </em>\n Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n <em>\n  THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft\n </em>\n Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7357'),
(15600, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-648 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Anthony Piltzecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSAs) AD and Application Platform Technical Specialists skills. The object of this exam is to validate only the skills that are are different from the existing MCSA skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exams 70-640 and 70-643.The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.MCTS candidates will manage network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management.In addition MCTS candidates must understant connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet. * THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft* Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives * Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics* Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n <em>\n  Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n </em>\n 1000 page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7358'),
(15601, 'The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-649 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions', 'Anthony Piltzecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSEs) AD, Network Infrastructure, and Application Platform Technical Specialists skills. The object of this exam is to validate only the skills that are are different from the existing MCSE skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exams 70-640, 70-642, and 70-643.The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.MCTS candidates will manage network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management.In addition MCTS candidates must understant connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet.\n <em>\n  THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft\n </em>\n Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft''s exam objectives * Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topics* Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives\n <em>\n  Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players\n </em>\n 1000 page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7359'),
(15602, 'Real-Time Shader Programming', 'Ron Fosner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If you are new to shaders, there is no better way to learn the topic than to have an expert guide you from beginning to end. Ron Fosner is that guide and his well-crafted book will help you to become a competent shader programmer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Dave Eberly, President, Magic Software, Inc., and author of 3D Game Engine Design.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Real-Time Shader Programming by Ron Fosner has everything you need: well-written background sections, insightful comments, and lots of useful and well-explained code from which to build your own shaders."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Franz Lanzinger, President, Actual Entertainment, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fosner''sReal-Time Shader Programming provides a timely and complete resource that will introduce newcomers to the excitement of writing their own custom shaders, but will also grow with them and remain an essential reference companion for even the seasoned shader developer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Martin Reddy, Graphics Software Engineer at "a Large Animation Studio in Northern California" and author of Level of Detail for Computer Graphics\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now that PC users have entered the realm of programmable hardware, graphics programmers can create 3D images and animations comparable to those produced by RenderMan''s procedural programs--but in real time. Here is a book that will bring this cutting-edge technology to your computer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with the mathematical basics of vertex and pixel shaders, and building to detailed accounts of programmable shader operations, Real-Time Shader Programming provides the foundation and techniques necessary for replicating popular cinema-style 3D graphics as well as creating your own real-time procedural shaders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A compelling writing style, color illustrations throughout, and scores of online resources make Real-Time Shader Programming an indispensable tutorial/reference for the game developer, graphics programmer, game artist, or visualization programmer, to create countless real-time 3D effects.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Contains a complete reference of the low-level shader language for both DirectX 8 and DirectX 9\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides an interactive shader demonstration tool (RenderMonkeyTM) for testing and experimenting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes a CD ROM containing all shader examples, source code, and tools, plus the DirectX SDK\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Maintains an updated version of the detailed shader reference section at www.directx.com\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Teaches the latest shader programming techniques for high-performance real-time 3D graphics\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9203'),
(15603, 'Redis Cookbook', 'Tiago Macedo &amp; Fred Oliveira', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. This book will provide developers with problem and solutions in our useful cookbook style. This is example driven ebook.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7174'),
(15604, 'Reducing the Plagiarism Detection Search Spaceon the Basis of the Kullback-Leibler Distance', 'Alberto Barron-Cedeno &amp; Paolo Rosso &amp; Jose-Miguel Bened', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9474'),
(15605, 'REEDUCAREA DE LA  AIUD', 'DEMOSTENE ANDRONESCU', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  DEMOSTENE ANDRONESCU\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  REEDUCAREAÂ DE LAÂ AIUD\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  Lucrare publicatÄƒ Ã®n serial, Ã®n revista PUNCTEÂ CARDINALE,\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  Ã®n anii 1993 - 1996\n </div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  numerele 8/93 - 2/96\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6932'),
(15606, 'Regii nisipurilor', 'George RR Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4765'),
(15607, 'Regular Expression: Pocket Reference', 'Tony Stubblebine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference,\n  <em>\n   Regular Expression Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This concise and easy-to-use reference puts a very powerful tool for manipulating text and data right at your fingertips. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution.\n  <em>\n   Regular Expression Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  offers an introduction to regular expressions, pattern matching, metacharacters, modes and constructs, and then provides separate sections for each of the language APIs, with complete regex listings including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Supported metacharacters for each language API\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Regular expression classes and interfaces for Ruby, Java, .NET, and C#\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Regular expression operators for Perl 5.8\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Regular expression module objects and functions for Python\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Pattern-matching functions for PHP and the vi editor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Pattern-matching methods and objects for JavaScript\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Unicode Support for each of the languages\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  With plenty of examples and other resources,\n  <em>\n   Regular Expression Pocket Reference\n  </em>\n  summarizes the complex rules for performing this critical text-processing function, and presents this often-confusing topic in a friendly and well-organized format. This guide makes an ideal on-the-job companion.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tony Stubblebine is an Internet consultant, entrepreneur, and blogger. He''s also the author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference, former Engineering Director for Odeo.com and former Engineering Lead for O''Reilly Media. He posts regular updates to his blog, StubbleBlog and regularly releases small websites such as Gem Jack, a repository of documentation for Ruby gems, Rate My Dance Moves, a YouTube mashup, and I Heart Quotes, the Unix fortune program re-imagined for the web.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7086'),
(15608, 'The relative territorial status of the North and the South', 'Python, pseud. [from old catalog]', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n   The relative territorial status of the North and the South\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n    New Wiliam, 1859\n    <br />\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">\n     http://www.archive.org/details/relativeterritor00pyth\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8246'),
(15609, 'Resident Evil: Code Veronica', 'S. D. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7050'),
(15610, 'Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering', 'Eldad Eilam', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sometimes, the best way to advance is in reverse\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you want to know how something works, you take it apart very carefully. That''s exactly what this book shows youâ€”how to deconstruct software in a way that reveals design and implementation details, sometimes even source code. Why? Because reversing reveals weak spots, so you can target your security efforts. Because you can reverse-engineer malicious code in order to neutralize it. Because understanding what makes a program work lets you build a better one. You''ll learn how here.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn to read compiler-generated assembly language code for IA-32 compatible processors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Decipher an undocumented file format or network protocol\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand when reverse engineering is legal, and whenâ€”and whyâ€”it may not be\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   See how hackers use reversing to defeat copy protection technology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Find out how to pull the plug on malicious code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Determine how to prevent others from reversing your code, and find out how effective such steps can be\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explore reverse engineering on the .NET platform and its assembly language, MSIL\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Observe the dissection of a real-world malicious program and see how the attacker used it to control infected systems\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Eldad Eilam\n  </strong>\n  is a consultant in the field of reverse engineering. He assists clients with operating system and in-depth software reverse engineering, and has devoted several years to developing advanced reverse engineering techniques.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3443'),
(15611, 'Robinsonii Cosmosului', 'Francis Carsac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4835'),
(15612, 'Robot Blues', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Don Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2877'),
(15613, 'Robotii de pe Aurora', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4898'),
(15614, 'Robotii si Imperiul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4872'),
(15615, 'Robotii si Imperiul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8582'),
(15616, 'Romana cu sau fara profesor', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7291'),
(15617, 'Romana cu sau fara profesor vocabular', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7290'),
(15618, 'Romanian An Essential Grammar', 'Ramona Conczol-Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7296'),
(15619, 'Romanian Grammar', 'Dana Cojocaru', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7295'),
(15620, 'Romanii supt Mihai-Voievod', 'Nicolae Balcescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4767'),
(15621, 'Romanii supt Mihai-Voievod', 'Balcescu Nicolae', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8653'),
(15622, 'Romanta apocrifa', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8616'),
(15623, 'Romanta fara muzica(Ca ne iubim)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8617'),
(15624, 'Romanta noului venit', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8618'),
(15625, 'Romanta policroma', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8619'),
(15626, 'Rusaliile', 'Vasile Alecsandri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6113'),
(15627, 'Sadrac en el horno', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Siglo XXI. Un mundo en ruinas gobernado por un viejo y astuto tirano, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. La vida del Khan se mantiene gracias a la habilidad de Sadrac Mordecai, un brillante cirujano negro cuya misiÃ³n es reemplazar los Ã³rganos deteriorados del presidente.\n <br />\n Los mÃ¡s modernos aparatos se utilizan para tres proyectos de gran envergadura, uno de ellos, el proyecto Avatar, tiene por objeto lograr la inmortalidad del viejo lÃ­der transfiriendo la mente y la personalidad del Khan a un cuerpo mÃ¡s joven.\n <br />\n Sadrac descubre que ha sido elegido para ese macabro proyecto, pero logra idear con increÃ­ble serenidad un peligroso plan para cambiar la faz de la Tierra.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nombrado para el premio Nebula a la mejor novela en 1976.\n <br />\n Nombrado para el premio Hugo a la mejor novela en 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11279'),
(15628, 'Sailing to Byzantium', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11258'),
(15629, 'Salve', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8620'),
(15630, 'The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center', 'Daniel Siebert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  The Salvia divinorum Research and\n </div>\n <div>\n  Information Center\n </div>\n <div>\n  Salvia divinorum is an extraordinary herb used in shamanism, divination, healing, meditation, and the exploration of consciousness.\n </div>\n <div>\n  (This site is created and maintained by Daniel Siebert)\n </div>\n <div>\n  Image Gallery\n </div>\n <div>\n  (click on an image for a closer look)\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6128'),
(15631, 'Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A quick, clear guide to using the exciting new features of HTML5 today\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practical, hands-on approach helps web designers or developers begin using HTML5 right away\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Step-by-step directions show how to implement HTML5 video, drawing, drag and drop, forms, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Makes sense of all the competing claims and misinformation about what HTML5 is or isn[HTML_REMOVED]t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don[HTML_REMOVED]t need to wait to begin using HTML5, the successor to HTML 4 and XHTML. HTML5 is now being implemented in the latest versions of all the major browsers, and with it come some of the most exciting and powerful advances in web development technology in years.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes\n  </strong>\n  offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the book[HTML_REMOVED]s clear, step-by-step examples, web designers or developers new to HTML5 can learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with HTML5.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Steven Holzner\n  </strong>\n  is the award-winning author of 108 computer books and a contributing editor at\n  <em>\n   PC Magazine\n  </em>\n  . His books have sold 2.5 million copies and have been translated into 22 languages. He specializes in Web topics such as Facebook, banner ads, Google, Yahoo, and MSN pay-perclick campaigns, viral marketing, usenet marketing, and more. He also owns four apartment buildings that he markets exclusively on the Web (direct emails, banner ads, pay-per-click, email autoresponders, Craigâ€™s list, rent.com, and about ten other advertising sites) to find tenants.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9326'),
(15632, 'Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A quick, clear guide to using the exciting new features of HTML5 today\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practical, hands-on approach helps web designers or developers begin using HTML5 right away\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Step-by-step directions show how to implement HTML5 video, drawing, drag and drop, forms, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Makes sense of all the competing claims and misinformation about what HTML5 is or isn[HTML_REMOVED]t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don[HTML_REMOVED]t need to wait to begin using HTML5, the successor to HTML 4 and XHTML. HTML5 is now being implemented in the latest versions of all the major browsers, and with it come some of the most exciting and powerful advances in web development technology in years.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes\n  </strong>\n  offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the book[HTML_REMOVED]s clear, step-by-step examples, web designers or developers new to HTML5 can learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with HTML5.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Steven Holzner\n  </strong>\n  is the award-winning author of 108 computer books and a contributing editor at\n  <em>\n   PC Magazine\n  </em>\n  . His books have sold 2.5 million copies and have been translated into 22 languages. He specializes in Web topics such as Facebook, banner ads, Google, Yahoo, and MSN pay-perclick campaigns, viral marketing, usenet marketing, and more. He also owns four apartment buildings that he markets exclusively on the Web (direct emails, banner ads, pay-per-click, email autoresponders, Craigâ€™s list, rent.com, and about ten other advertising sites) to find tenants.\n </p>\n</div>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A quick, clear guide to using the exciting new features of HTML5 today\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practical, hands-on approach helps web designers or developers begin using HTML5 right away\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Step-by-step directions show how to implement HTML5 video, drawing, drag and drop, forms, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Makes sense of all the competing claims and misinformation about what HTML5 is or isn[HTML_REMOVED]t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don[HTML_REMOVED]t need to wait to begin using HTML5, the successor to HTML 4 and XHTML . HTML5 is now being implemented in the latest versions of all the major browsers, and with it come some of the most exciting and powerful advances in web development technology in years.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes\n  </strong>\n  offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the book[HTML_REMOVED]s clear, step-by-step examples, web designers or developers new to HTML5 can learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with HTML5.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A quick, clear guide to using the exciting new features of HTML5 today\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Practical, hands-on approach helps web designers or developers begin using HTML5 right away\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Step-by-step directions show how to implement HTML5 video, drawing, drag and drop, forms, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Makes sense of all the competing claims and misinformation about what HTML5 is or isn[HTML_REMOVED]t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don[HTML_REMOVED]t need to wait to begin using HTML5, the successor to HTML 4 and XHTML. HTML5 is now being implemented in the latest versions of all the major browsers, and with it come some of the most exciting and powerful advances in web development technology in years.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes\n  </strong>\n  offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the book[HTML_REMOVED]s clear, step-by-step examples, web designers or developers new to HTML5 can learn everything they need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with HTML5.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9335'),
(15633, 'Sams Teach Yourself Windows XP Computer Basics All in One', 'Greg Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Author Bio: Sams Teach Yourself Windows XP Computer Basics All in OneSams Teach Yourself Windows XP Computer Basics All in One Author Bio Greg Perry is a speaker and a writer on both the programming and the application sides of computing. He is known for his skills at bringing advanced computer topics to the novice''s level. Perry has been a programmer and a trainer since the early 1980s, teaching at computer conferences and at the college level. He received his first degree in computer science and a master''s degree in corporate finance. Perry has sold more than 2 million computer books, including such titles as Sams Teach Yourself Windows XP in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days, and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office XP in 24 Hours. He also writes about rental property management and loves to travel. His favorite place to be when away from home is either at New York''s Patsy''s or in Italy, because he enjoys only the best pasta!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6454'),
(15634, 'Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools', 'Christian Lahti &amp; Roderick Peterson &amp; Steve Lanza', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book illustrates the many Open Source cost savings opportunities available to companies seeking Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. It also provides examples of the Open Source infrastructure components that can and should be made compliant. In addition, the book clearly documents which Open Source tools you should consider using in the journey towards compliance. Although many books and reference material have been authored on the financial and business side of Sox compliance, very little material is available that directly address the information technology considerations, even less so on how Open Source fits into that discussion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each chapter begins with an analysis of the business and technical ramifications of Sarbanes-Oxley as regards to topics covered before moving into the detailed instructions on the use of the various Open Source applications and tools relating to the compliance objectives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bootable CD contains fully configured demonstrations of Open Source tools.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Shows companies how to use Open Source tools to achieve SOX compliance, which dramatically lowers the cost of using proprietary, commercial applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Contains a bootable-Linux CD containing countless applications, forms, and checklists to assist companies in achieving SOX compliance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Only SOX compliance book specifically detailing steps to achieve SOX compliance for IT Professionals\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book illustrates the many Open Source cost savings opportunities available to companies seeking Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. It also provides examples of the Open Source infrastructure components that can and should be made compliant. In addition, the book clearly documents which Open Source tools you should consider using in the journey towards compliance. Although many books and reference material have been authored on the financial and business side of Sox compliance, very little material is available that directly address the information technology considerations, even less so on how Open Source fits into that discussion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each chapter begins with an analysis of the business and technical ramifications of Sarbanes-Oxley as regards to topics covered before moving into the detailed instructions on the use of the various Open Source applications and tools relating to the compliance objectives. The bootable CD contains fully configured demonstrations of Open Source tools.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3426'),
(15635, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n British Science Fiction Award (1978)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance Dâ€”which Arctor takes in massive dosesâ€”gradually splits the userâ€™s brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesnâ€™t realize he is narcing on himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11741'),
(15636, 'Scepter und Hammer', 'Karl May', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8814'),
(15637, 'Sceptrul hazardului', 'Gerard Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4885'),
(15638, 'Science Teaching With Moodle 2.0', 'Vincent Lee Stocker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Create interactive lessons and activities in Moodle to enhance your students'' understanding and enjoyment of science\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Follow a sample course to see how lessons, groups, and forums are created\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make your student''s homework more exciting by enabling them to watch videos, participate in group discussions, and complete quizzes from home\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Simplify the teaching of difficult scientific notation using animations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitor your students'' progress using Gradebook\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Detail\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is becoming increasingly popular in schools worldwide due to its ease of use and flexibility. Science is the perfect subject to benefit from the features of Moodle as students will find it easier to learn with the help of interactive content, rather than reading ancient textbooks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 will give you lots of tips and tricks for teaching science using Moodle. This book will make learning more fun for your students and explain complicated concepts with ease with the help of images, diagrams, and interactive quizzes. It will teach you how to create quizzes, start forum discussions, embed videos, and much more, all while keeping the students'' performance at the front of your mind, which is easily monitored using the Gradebook function.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Use Moodle to create quizzes, forums, activities, and much more, to make your science lessons more interactive\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <pre>\n  <code>\n   * Use scientific notation, mathematical functions, and display molecules to make your students understand difficult concepts more easily* Use the DragMath Equation editor to teach about kinetic energy and momentum* Set up surveys to enable your students to help one another and improve the course with their suggestions* Create databases to classify elements, materials, and structures* Embed videos and images that students can access from home* Monitor your students with Gradebook* Set up quizzes and collect the results to see how your students are progressing* Easily explain difficult concepts such as light and sound waves using animations* Theme your site to make it more science-centric\n  </code>\n </pre>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Approach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Packed with lots of practical examples, each chapter takes you through a different aspect of teaching using Moodle. All examples are based around a sample science course, which you can see growing throughout the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is written for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is for science teachers who would like to enhance their lessons using Moodle. It doesn''t matter if you haven''t used Moodle before; as long as someone has set it up for you, you can get started with the exercises in the book straightaway.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Lee Stocker\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Compulsive technology explorer Vincent Lee Stocker is E-Learning Leader at Garden International School, Kuala Lumpur, where he leads/pioneers developments in Moodle, SIMs and other key areas. He has piloted innovative ICT use in a wide range of educational contexts including Hampshire, Kent, Bangkok, and Istanbul as well as developing a popular, internationally renowned Moodle-based website. Vincent is also a secondary school Chemistry specialist, subject leader, and pastoral manager with 15 years of teaching experience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His curiosity in using ICT to enhance his classroom practice started with setting up websites for his students to revise from in the early days of the Internet, and exploded with the realization of the power of tools such as Moodle. Vincent began using Moodle in 2004 with the release of version 1.3 and has gone on to train in excess of 200 teachers to use various versions of the software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His other interests include wakesurfing, music production, local exploration, cookery, and home-brewing ... anything that gives Vincent the excuse to tinker with technology and flex his secret geek side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vincent is married to Rhiannon Stocker. They recently celebrated the birth of their first child, Seren.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 is his first published work.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7757'),
(15639, 'Scientific Data Analysis Using Jython Scripting and Java', 'Dr Sergei Chekanov &amp; Sergei Chekanov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scientific Data Analysis using Jython Scripting and Java presents practical approaches for data analysis using Java scripting based on Jython, a Java implementation of the Python language. The chapters essentially cover all aspects of data analysis, from arrays and histograms to clustering analysis, curve fitting, metadata and neural networks. A comprehensive coverage of data visualisation tools implemented in Java is also included. Written by the primary developer of the jHepWork data-analysis framework, the book provides a reliable and complete reference source laying the foundation for data-analysis applications using Java scripting. More than 250 code snippets (of around 10-20 lines each) written in Jython and Java, plus several real-life examples help the reader develop a genuine feeling for data analysis techniques and their programming implementation. This is the first data-analysis and data-mining book which is completely based on the Jython language, and opens doors to scripting using a fully multi-platform and multi-threaded approach. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the information presented in this book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scientific Data Analysis using Jython Scripting and Java presents practical approaches for data analysis using Java scripting based on Jython, a Java implementation of the Python language. The chapters essentially cover all aspects of data analysis, from arrays and histograms to clustering analysis, curve fitting, metadata and neural networks. A comprehensive coverage of data visualisation tools implemented in Java is also included. Written by the primary developer of the jHepWork data-analysis framework, the book provides a reliable and complete reference source laying the foundation for data-analysis applications using Java scripting. More than 250 code snippets (of around 10-20 lines each) written in Jython and Java, plus several real-life examples help the reader develop a genuine feeling for data analysis techniques and their programming implementation. This is the first data-analysis and data-mining book which is completely based on the Jython language, and opens doors to scripting using a fully multi-platform and multi-threaded approach. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the information presented in this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7787');
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(15640, 'Scientific Data Analysis Using Jython Scripting and Java', 'Sergei Chekanov &amp; Sergei V. Chekanov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scientific Data Analysis using Jython Scripting and Java presents practical approaches for data analysis using Java scripting based on Jython, a Java implementation of the Python language. The chapters essentially cover all aspects of data analysis, from arrays and histograms to clustering analysis, curve fitting, metadata and neural networks. A comprehensive coverage of data visualisation tools implemented in Java is also included. Written by the primary developer of the jHepWork data-analysis framework, the book provides a reliable and complete reference source laying the foundation for data-analysis applications using Java scripting. More than 250 code snippets (of around 10-20 lines each) written in Jython and Java, plus several real-life examples help the reader develop a genuine feeling for data analysis techniques and their programming implementation. This is the first data-analysis and data-mining book which is completely based on the Jython language, and opens doors to scripting using a fully multi-platform and multi-threaded approach. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the information presented in this book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scientific Data Analysis using Jython Scripting and Java presents practical approaches for data analysis using Java scripting based on Jython, a Java implementation of the Python language. The chapters essentially cover all aspects of data analysis, from arrays and histograms to clustering analysis, curve fitting, metadata and neural networks. A comprehensive coverage of data visualisation tools implemented in Java is also included. Written by the primary developer of the jHepWork data-analysis framework, the book provides a reliable and complete reference source laying the foundation for data-analysis applications using Java scripting. More than 250 code snippets (of around 10-20 lines each) written in Jython and Java, plus several real-life examples help the reader develop a genuine feeling for data analysis techniques and their programming implementation. This is the first data-analysis and data-mining book which is completely based on the Jython language, and opens doors to scripting using a fully multi-platform and multi-threaded approach. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the information presented in this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7824'),
(15641, 'Scriitori romani de azi. Vol 1', 'Eugen SIMION', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4793'),
(15642, 'Scriitori romani de azi. Vol 4', 'Eugen SIMION', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4879'),
(15643, 'Scurta istorie a timpului', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4736'),
(15644, 'Search Engine Optimization', 'Jennifer Grappone &amp; Grappone &amp; Gradiva Couzin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New to the sometimes confusing and seemingly arcane world of making search engine friendly web sites? A new book offers a systematic, common-sense approach to the art and science of SEO.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day\n  </em>\n  by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin is written for anyone who has a web site and has yet to embark on the time-consuming process of optimizing the site for search engines. Both authors are experienced SEOs, and the book reflects the systematic approach they''ve developed whenever working with a new client.\n  <br />\n  Refreshingly, this approach focuses not only on technical tactics, but also on the reasons why SEO is important beyond just achieving high rankings in search engine results things like business goals, creating appealing marketing messages and designing human-usable web sites.\n  <br />\n  The book also avoids SEO techniques du jour, the kinds of tactics that are hotly debated in forums and that may or may not have any effect on your overall success. Rather, the book focuses on a solid, fundamental approach using time-tested techniques that work regardless of seemingly arbitrary algorithmic changes by the search engines.\n  <br />\n  The book is also very well written, using SEO-specific jargon only when necessary and always making sure to introduce new terms in clear English (there''s also an excellent glossary at the end of the book).\n  <br />\n  The first part of the book focuses on an area many newcomers totally neglect, often to their detriment: laying an effective foundation for your SEO efforts. You need to clarify your goals and really have an understanding of the fundamentals of how search engines work and what types of SEO activities do (and don''t) work before plunging in to your work.\n  <br />\n  And for anyone that works in an organization, the next key step is to create a strategy that works with your existing marketing, information technology, sales and other groups to make sure your SEO efforts support the overall goals of the entire team. Part two of the book focuses on developing this strategy, and also offers suggestions on working with other groups and selling them on the importance of effective SEO.\n  <br />\n  Only when this important groundwork has been established should you begin the actual work of keyword selection and optimization, link building and so on.\n  <br />\n  That''s the focus of part three developing and implementing a comprehensive SEO plan for your web site. This section takes a common-sense approach breaking the search engine optimization efforts for your web site into a 12-week process, and as the subtitle implies, dedicating an hour a day during this period to a specific goal-based task.\n  <br />\n  The authors provide useful tools for managing this process, in the form of spreadsheet-based worksheets to help you plan and organize your various tasks. Again, the emphasis is on providing simple but effective tools that someone new to the process can use. That said, these worksheets are truly useful, and you may find them becoming integral parts of your overall SEO toolkit.\n  <br />\n  Throughout the book the authors offer useful tips as asides. "Pearls of wisdom" tips are obviously tactics gleaned from experience, while "slacker" tips are great for letting you know when you can get away with less work or when you shouldn''t obsess over a certain activity.\n  <br />\n  There are also longer case studies and expert opinions from other well-known SEOs such as Aaron Wall and Patricia Fusco scattered throughout the book.\n  <br />\n  In all,\n  <em>\n   Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day\n  </em>\n  is an excellent overview of SEO and provides solid advice and guidance for anyone just getting started. The book is also useful if you''ve done SEO in the past but haven''t kept up with the current state of search engines and the kinds of SEO techniques that work today (and want to know what to avoid to stay out of --Online\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9137'),
(15645, 'The Search for Magic', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the first anthology to tie in to the bestselling War of Souls trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It contains 11 stories, written by well-known\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  authors, that elaborate on the characters and locations from the War of Souls trilogy. The stories link to the ongoing saga through the time frames of the main characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Contents:\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Introduction\n  <br />\n  "All for a Pint" by Brian Murphy\n  <br />\n  "The End" by Nancy Varian Berberick\n  <br />\n  "The Lost Sea" by Linda P. Baker\n  <br />\n  "Some Assembly Required" by Nick O'' Donohoe\n  <br />\n  "Go with the Floe" by Paul B. Thompson\n  <br />\n  "The Great Gully Dwarf Climacteric of 40 S.C." by Jeff Crook\n  <br />\n  "Bond" by Kevin T. Stein\n  <br />\n  "A Twist of the Knife" by Jean Rabe\n  <br />\n  "Hunger" by Richard A. Knaak\n  <br />\n  "Product Given for Services Rendered" by Don Perrin\n  <br />\n  "Dragon''s Throat" by Donald J. Bingle\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2848'),
(15646, 'A Secretof Amber', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11685'),
(15647, 'A secret of Amber', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11983'),
(15648, 'Secure Coding: Principles and Practices', 'Mark Graff &amp; Kenneth R. van Wyk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is an extremely useful little book in best O''Reilly tradition and I recommend it not only to programmers but also to security architects who work with programmers. It gives you a lot of insights that you don''t often come across." Information Security Bulletin, September\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Practically every day, we read about a new type of attack on computer systems and networks. Viruses, worms, denials of service, and password sniffers are attacking all types of systems -- from banks to major e-commerce sites to seemingly impregnable government and military computers --at an alarming rate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite their myriad manifestations and different targets, nearly all attacks have one fundamental cause: the code used to run far too many systems today is not secure. Flaws in its design, implementation, testing, and operations allow attackers all-too-easy access.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Secure Coding\n  </em>\n  , by Mark G. Graff and Ken vanWyk, looks at the problem of bad code in a new way. Packed with advice based on the authors'' decades of experience in the computer security field, this concise and highly readable book explains why so much code today is filled with vulnerabilities, and tells readers what they must do to avoid writing code that can be exploited by attackers. Writing secure code isn''t easy, and there are no quick fixes to bad code. To build code that repels attack, readers need to be vigilant through each stage of the entire code lifecycle:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Architecture: during this stage, applying security principles such as "least privilege" will help limit even the impact of successful attempts to subvert software.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design: during this stage, designers must determine how programs will behave when confronted with fatally flawed input data. The book also offers advice about performing security retrofitting when you don''t have the source code -- ways of protecting software from being exploited even if bugs can''t be fixed.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implementation: during this stage, programmers must sanitize all program input (the character streams representing a programs'' entire interface with its environment -- not just the command lines and environment variables that are the focus of most security analysis).\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Testing: during this stage, programs must be checked using both static code checkers and runtime testing methods -- for example, the fault injection systems now available to check for the presence of such flaws as buffer overflow.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Operations: during this stage, patch updates must be installed in a timely fashion. In early 2003, sites that had diligently applied Microsoft SQL Server updates were spared the impact of the Slammer worm that did serious damage to thousands of systems.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Beyond the technical,\n  <em>\n   Secure Coding\n  </em>\n  sheds new light on the economic, psychological, and sheer practical reasons why security vulnerabilities are so ubiquitous today. It presents a new way of thinking about these vulnerabilities and ways that developers can compensate for the factors that have produced such unsecured software in the past. It issues a challenge to all those concerned about computer security to finally make a commitment to building code the right way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9202'),
(15649, 'Secure Java', 'Abhay Bhargav', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Most security books on Java focus on cryptography and access control, but exclude key aspects such as coding practices, logging, and web application risk assessment. Encapsulating security requirements for web development with the Java programming platform, Secure Java: For Web Application Development covers secure programming, risk assessment, and threat modelingâ€”explaining how to integrate these practices into a secure software development life cycle. From the risk assessment phase to the proof of concept phase, the book details a secure web application development process. The authors provide in-depth implementation guidance and best practices for access control, cryptography, logging, secure coding, and authentication and authorization in web application development. Discussing the latest application exploits and vulnerabilities, they examine various options and protection mechanisms for securing web applications against these multifarious threats. The book is organized into four sections: Provides a clear view of the growing footprint of web applications Explores the foundations of secure web application development and the risk management process Delves into tactical web application security development with Java EE Deals extensively with security testing of web applications This complete reference includes a case study of an e-commerce company facing web application security challenges, as well as specific techniques for testing the security of web applications. Highlighting state-of-the-art tools for web application security testing, it supplies valuable insight on how to meet important security compliance requirements, including PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, HIPAA, and GLBA. The book also includes an appendix that covers the application security guidelines for the payment card industry standards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7666'),
(15650, 'Securing Windows Server 2003', 'Mike Danseglio', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the success of computer viruses like Slammer, security issues are now a top priority for Windows system administrators, right alongside day-to-day tasks such as setting up accounts and managing performance. If you use Windows 2003 Server at a small to medium-sized organization, or use Microsoft''s Small Business Server, this thorough yet concise tutorial offers the hands-on advice you need for securing your network.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Modern network operating systems include bundled services that range from traditional file and print sharing and Internet services to authentication, directory and remote access services each a potential security vulnerability as well as a capability.\n  <em>\n   Securing Windows Server 2003\n  </em>\n  shows you how to put Windows security tools to work, and how to run the server''s subsystems to protect users and resources. But that''s just the beginning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Network security needs to be well thought-out, not treated as a fire drill when a threat occurs. This book focuses primarily on ways to plan and implement a secure operating environment. Microsoft security veteran Mike Danseglio uses real-world examples to show you how various security concepts relate to your own system, including:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   File System Security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Group Policy and security templates\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Running secure code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Authentication\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   IP security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Public Key Certificates and Public Key Infrastructure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Smart Card technology\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   DHCP and DNS security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Internet Information Services security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Active Directory security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Remote access security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Security audits\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Sending secure email, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Many chapters include a debate, in which fictional protagonists discuss the pros and cons of a particular strategy or solution. These debates provide an objective look at competing methodologies, so you can select the solutions that best fit your network. Read this book cover to cover to create and implement a security plan, or use individual chapters as stand-alone lessons. Either way,\n  <em>\n   Securing Windows Server 2003\n  </em>\n  will guide you safely through the morass of security threats.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mike Danseglio is a Program Manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft Corporation. He has worked in the areas of security and technology for the last decade. He holds several technical certifications including MCSE and CISSP. His work includes developing and teaching extensive security training on topics including cryptography, security technology, and attacks and countermeasures. His recent projects include writing security documentation for Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family as well as working on a host of white papers and articles. He also works on security feature development for Microsoft Windows.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6418'),
(15651, 'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Modeling in RDF, RDFS and OWL', 'Dean Allemang &amp; James Hendler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Semantic Web models and technologies provide information in machine-readable languages that enable computers to access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks automatically without the direction of users. These technologies are relatively recent and advancing rapidly, creating a set of unique challenges for those developing applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist\n  </em>\n  is the essential, comprehensive resource on semantic modeling, for practitioners in health care, artificial intelligence, finance, engineering, military intelligence, enterprise architecture, and more. Focused on developing useful and reusable models, this market-leading book explains how to build semantic content (ontologies) and how to build applications that access that content.\n </p>\n <p>\n  New in this edition:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Coverage of the latest Semantic Web tools for organizing, querying, and processing information - see details in TOC below\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Detailed information on the latest ontologies used in key web applications including ecommerce, social networking, data mining, using government data, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Updated with the latest developments and advances in Semantic Web technologies for organizing, querying, and processing information, including SPARQL, RDF and RDFS, OWL 2.0, and SKOS\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Detailed information on the ontologies used in today''s key web applications, including ecommerce, social networking, data mining, using government data, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Even more illustrative examples and case studies that demonstrate what semantic technologies are and how they work together to solve real-world problems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dean Allemang is the chief scientist at TopQuadrant, Inc.-the first company in the United States devoted to consulting, training, and products for the Semantic Web. He co-developed (with Professor Hendler) TopQuadrantâ€™s successful Semantic Web training series, which he has been delivering on a regular basis since 2003. He has served as an invited expert on numerous international review boards, including a review of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute-the worldâ€™s largest Semantic Web research institute - and the Innovative Medicines Initiative, a collaboration between 10 pharmaceutical companies and the European Commission to set the roadmap for the pharmaceutical industry for the near future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim Hendler is the Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has authored over 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing, and web science. One of the early developers of the Semantic Web, he is the Editor-in-Chief emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. In 2010, he was chosen as one of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboy magazine, Hendler currently serves as an "Internet Web Expert" for the U.S. government, providing guidance to the Data.gov project.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9744'),
(15652, 'Seminar IT project management1', 'Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9669'),
(15653, 'Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development', 'Ricardo Gudwin &amp; Joao Queiroz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ricardo Gudwin received his Undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Electical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Currently, his research includes the study of intelligence and intelligent systems, semiotics and computational semiotics. Gudwin serves as an Associate Professor at the FEEC-UNICAMP, the head of the Computational Semiotics Group, and a member of the editorial board of the Online Journal for Semiotics, Evolution Energy Development. JoÃƒÂ£o Queiroz attained a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation at FEEC-UNICAMP. His current research is on the theoretical-formal conditions for the modeling of meaning processes in biological and artificial systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9617'),
(15654, 'Seniorii razboiului', 'Gerard Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8548'),
(15655, 'Sensul iubirii 1960', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4914'),
(15656, 'Sentinels', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The veteran SF team of Weis and Hickman (the Dragonlance and Deathgate series) plunges into a new universe with this soap operatic tale of a galactic chase. Exactly 3256 years after a family row sent supreme god Kendis-dai "into mortality" after losing his sister-lover Shuana-kir, "Omnet sifter" Merinda Neskat loses her own lover, Queekat Shn''dar. Even grimmer, Omnet, the governing intergalactic organ of information dissemination, is threatened by the revolt of its synthetic minds?the faster-than-human components that run every aspect of the automated universe, from computers to household appliances. To save Omnet, the grief-ridden Merinda must recover an ancient artifact, the Mantle of Kendis-dai, symbol of the lost Kendis civilization and key to a secret wisdom that could save civilization or disrupt it forever. After searching for eight years, Merinda meets the remnants of Earth''s first mission beyond its solar system. Led by the inept Jeremy Griffiths, the bumbling Earth team helps Merinda defeat the evil forces lurking both inside and outside her own shaky, heartbroken psyche. Ludicrous dialogue ("Get out of my sight!... You are a black hole in my existence") and particularly cheesy characterizations spoil this introduction to a potentially intriguing universe where "quantum weather" disrupts the laws of physics and allows magic to intersperse with science. In addition, the mythical, far-future and contemporary Earthling plot lines lack convincing linkages, boding ill for future volumes in this series. $150,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran sf team Weis and Hickman (The Hand of Chaos, LJ 2/15/93) again create a complex universe in the first book of a planned trilogy. When synthetic minds rebel against humans, disrupting information flow with lies, reluctant Earth captain Jeremy Griffiths is the key to saving civilization. The Mantle of Kendisdai, a powerful ancient artifact of knowledge, can stop the Sentinels?but only if it can be found. This thought-provoking adventure tale of power, greed, and information belongs in all sf collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2837'),
(15657, 'SEO for Press Releases_SHIFT tipsheet.doc', 'jxu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6134'),
(15658, 'Sequential Approximate Multiobjective Optimization Using Computational Intelligence', 'Hirotaka Nakayama &amp; Yeboon Yun &amp; Min Yoon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the reviews:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The basic concepts of multiobjective optimization are included making the book self-contained. The performance of the presented methods is demonstrated by the results of applications to real world problems. â€¦ The book is aimed to researchers, practitioners in industries and students of graduate course and high grade of undergraduate course." (Antanas Å½ilinskas, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1167, 2009)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book highlights a new direction of multiobjective optimzation, which has never been treated inÂ previous publications. When the function form of objective functions is not known explicitly as encountered in many practical problems, sequential approximate optimization based on metamodels is an effective tool from a practical viewpoint. Several sophisticated methods for sequential approximate multiobjective optimization using computational intelligence are introduced along with real applications, mainly engineering problems, in this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7608'),
(15659, 'Serpent Mage', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fourth volume of the authors'' Death Gate Cycle, begun with Dragon Wing , moves to Chelestra, Realm of Sea, last of the four worlds created by the Sartan during the Sundering in their battle against the Patryns. The inhabitants of this world--dwarves, elves and humans--are in grave danger: the seasun, source of light and life to the seamoons on which they dwell, is moving away. When the vessels in which they were to escape are destroyed by malignant, highly intelligent dragon-snakes, three children, scions of the ruling families, undergo adventures and encounter Haplo, the Patryn escaped from imprisonment in the Labyrinth who has been traveling the worlds of the Death''s Gate fomenting discord. Meanwhile, Alfred, the last remaining Sartan, also translated to the water world, is reunited with others of his kind, including Samah, who initiated the Sundering and has been in suspended animation since. The stage for escalated conflict is set. The worlds created by Weis and Hickman become more attractively complex with each book of the series. The deepening characterizations of Haplo and Alfred, with the underlying mysteries surrounding both, provide the necessary glue binding this opus, which promises three more volumes.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fourth of the projected seven-book series (most recently Fire Sea, not seen), continuing the adventures of Haplo the Patryn and his rival, Albert the Sartan. Haplo arrives on Chelestra, a water-world whose construction makes no geometric, physical, or narrative sense, only to find that the local seawater quenches the tattoos that are the source of his Patryn magic. Meanwhile, Alfred, the clumsy, bumbling Sartan, also arrives and by accident reawakens the slumbering ancient, arrogant Sartan ruling council, who regard askance Alfred''s growing friendship with Haplo. Also on Chelestra live some superpowerful dragon-snakes, whose purpose is to stir up trouble, force the Sartan to open the Death Gate, and allow them to escape. Haplo befriends a trio of\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  mensch,'''' the human, dwarf, and elf subclasses oppressed by the mighty Sartan, and eventually comes to trust Alfred--he turns out to be the Serpent Mage (whatever that is, and not that it makes a shred of difference to anything)--more than his nominal master, the Patryn Xar. Yet another futile exercise, with the implausible backdrop, absurd plotting, and vacuous dramatics highlighting the authors'' inability to narrate in other than a pedestrian monotone. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4566'),
(15660, 'The Servant Problem', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10097'),
(15661, 'The Service Management Audit. Nine-step Assesment', 'Cambridge Strategy Publications', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3473'),
(15662, 'Seven Languages in Seven Weeks', 'Bruce Tate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With\n  <em>\n   Seven Languages in Seven Weeks,\n  </em>\n  by Bruce A. Tate, you''ll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you''ll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than serve as a complete reference or installation guide,\n  <em>\n   Seven Languages\n  </em>\n  hits what''s essential and unique about each language. Moreover, this approach will help teach you how to grok new languages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For each language, you''ll solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off the language''s most important features. As the book proceeds, you''ll discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, while dissecting the process of learning languages quickly--for example, finding the typing and programming models, decision structures, and how you interact with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among this group of seven, you''ll explore the most critical programming models of our time. Learn the dynamic typing that makes Ruby, Python, and Perl so flexible and compelling. Understand the underlying prototype system that''s at the heart of JavaScript. See how pattern matching in Prolog shaped the development of Scala and Erlang. Discover how pure functional programming in Haskell is different from the Lisp family of languages, including Clojure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Explore the concurrency techniques that are quickly becoming the backbone of a new generation of Internet applications. Find out how to use Erlang''s let-it-crash philosophy for building fault-tolerant systems. Understand the actor model that drives concurrency design in Io and Scala. Learn how Clojure uses versioning to solve some of the most difficult concurrency problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s all here, all in one place. Use the concepts from one language to find creative solutions in another-or discover a language that may become one of your favorites.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bruce Tate runs RapidRed, an Austin, TX-based practice that consults on lightweight development in Ruby. Previously he worked at IBM in roles ranging from a database systems programmer to Java consultant. He left IBM to work for several startups in roles ranging from Client Solutions Director to CTO. He speaks internationally and is the author of more than ten books, including From Java to Ruby, Deploying Rails Applications, the best-selling Bitter series, Beyond Java, and the Jolt-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9135'),
(15663, 'The Seventh Gate', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2880'),
(15664, 'Sfarsitul  copilariei', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4695'),
(15665, 'Sfarsitul copilariei', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8553'),
(15666, 'Sfarsitul Eternitatii', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4727'),
(15667, 'Shadows of Doom', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11973'),
(15668, 'The Shadows of the Avatar 3', 'Vincent Jajalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11974'),
(15669, 'Shadrach in the Furnace', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the twenty-first century, a battered world is ruled by a crafty old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is ninety-three years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai Shadrach, a brilliant young surgeon whose chief function is to replace the Khanâ€™s worn-out organs. Within the vast tower-complex, the most advanced equipment is dedicated to three top-priority projects, each designed to keep the Khan immortal. Most sinister of these is Project Avatar, by which the Khanâ€™s mind and persona are to be transferred to a younger body.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1976.\n <br />\n Nominated forÂ Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11177'),
(15670, 'Shadrach nella fornace', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Siamo nel 2012 e la popolazione del mondo Ã¨ stata decimata dalle guerre batteriologiche. Il nostro pianeta Ã¨ dominato da un vecchio e astuto tiranno che si fa chiamare Genghis II Mao IV Khan e che abita in un palazzo a forma di torre, nella Mongolia.\n <br />\n Il Khan Ã¨ ormai giunto al novantatreesimo anno dâ€™etÃ  e lo mantengono in vita i trapianti che gli pratica il suo medico personale, Shadrach Mordecai, talmente devoto al proprio paziente da portare, impiantati nel corpo, una serie di â€œsensoriâ€ telemetrici con i quali controlla dâ€™istante in istante le condizioni di Genghis Mao.\n <br />\n Unâ€™altra importante funzione di Mordecai Ã¨ quella di dirigere tre distinte ricerche mediche, tuttâ€™e tre miranti ad assicurare al vecchio tiranno lâ€™immortalitÃ  fisica. La piÃ¹ avanzata delle tre Ã¨ il Progetto Avatar, consistente nel trapiantare il cervello, e dunque la personalitÃ , del Khan nel corpo di un uomo piÃ¹ giovane.\n <br />\n Mordecai sa che il corpo in cui dovrÃ  trapiantare il cervello del Khan Ã¨ quello dellâ€™erede designato, un giovanotto ignaro del suo destino (e, in generale, non troppo sveglio) chiamato Mangu; ma dopo qualche tempo scopre di dover sostituire Mangu. Inizia cosÃ¬ per Mordecai un pericoloso gioco dâ€™azzardo: se il piano difensivo da lui elaborato avrÃ  successo, egli potrÃ  diventare il padrone del mondo. Se non avrÃ  successo, dovrÃ  fare dono del suo corpo al rapace Genghis Mao.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominato per Premio Nebula in 1976.\n <br />\n Nominato per Premio Hugo in 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11252'),
(15671, 'Shattered Rainbows', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Catherine had saved Lord Michael Kenyon on the battlefields of Europe. Now, she is standing in his London drawing room asking him to pretend to be her mate. Catherine is in line to inherit a title, an ancient home, and heritage--if she arrives on the Island of Skoal with her husband, who unbeknownst to Michael is dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8875'),
(15672, 'The Shifting Realities of PK Dick', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11693'),
(15673, 'The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This collection includes all of the writerâ€™s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include â€œBeyond Lies the Wubâ€, â€œThe Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxfordâ€, â€œThe Variable Manâ€, and 22 others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11666'),
(15674, 'Si erau stelute in genele ei', 'MICEA CARTARESCU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8569'),
(15675, 'The Sickness', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published in Infinity Science Fiction magazine in 1955.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9998'),
(15676, 'The Silent Invaders', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Abner Harris was sent to Earth on a mission of extreme urgency. The universe was in danger of enslavement by the Medlins, and the fight against them called for Harris to assume the disguise of a flesh-and-blood Earthman.\n <br />\n But he discovered that the real villains of space were not the Medlins or the people of Earth: they were his own kind.\n <br />\n Suddenly he was alone, alienated from his own race, hated by the Medlins, and an impostor on Earth. No matter what side he chose heâ€™d be a traitor.\n <br />\n Yet choose he mustâ€¦ or forever remain a man without a planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11257'),
(15677, 'The Simulacra', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11799'),
(15678, 'Sistemul de operare Windows XP Professional', 'Cristina', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6480'),
(15679, 'Sluzhby Windows SharePoint. Prakticheskoe Posobie', 'O. Londer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6352'),
(15680, 'Small Business Server 2008 Installation, Migration, and Configuration', 'David Overton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Set up and run your small business server making it deliver big business impact\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Step-by-step guidance through the installation and configuration process with numerous pictures\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Successfully install SBS 2008 into your business, either as a new installation or by migrating from SBS 2003\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Configure hosted web sites for public and secure information exchange using Office Live for Small Business and Office Live Workspaces\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    An illustrative book for people with basic technical skills and no SBS background In Detail Small Businesses need to capitalize on the investments they make in IT to drive the business forward. SBS 2008 is uniquely positioned to deliver, but a poor implementation becomes a hindrance rather than a benefit to your business. Well implemented solutions enable your business to appear larger, yet more dynamic than many enterprises. It''s easy to get Small Business Server 2008 up and running when you''ve got this book to hand. It helps you in a clear and friendly manner to understand how to implement SBS 2008 inside your business in a way that matches your business needs. The author''s experience enables him to share a tried and tested path to deliver the business benefits without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details that are not relevant to small businesses. SBS 2008 is a fantastic investment for Small Businesses to make towards a well managed and highly functional IT solution in their business. This book is the culmination of many years advising small business owners and consultants on the recommend, tried and tested path to implement small business technology from Microsoft. Through this book you will gain an understanding of the features you can choose to use and then how to securely implement the server to deliver them. It will guide you through the installation and configuration process with the help of step-by-step instructions and plentiful screenshots. It will also explain how you can benefit from the collaboration tools based on SharePoint and how you can protect all your business data with a back-up process that covers anything from deleted files to a fire in the office. Imagine how great you''ll feel when your Small Business Server 2008 is ready and working, and you can get back to surfing the Internet! What you will learn from this book?\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Install SBS 2008, based on Windows Server, 2008 into your business environment\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Upgrade from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 reliably\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Securely configure network access and access from the internet\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Enable Exchange 2007 for email, calendar, and contacts\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Deliver collaboration tools based on SharePoint to improve finding and sharing of information across your business\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Manage the updates and security of all the PCs in your business network avoiding viruses and data leakage\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Empower people to work remotely away from the office, but be as productive as if they were in the office\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Understand how to manage the services delivered to your users\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Gain the basic systems management knowledge to start the task of keeping your server running smoothly\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This book presents step-by-step guidance through the installation and configuration process with the help of numerous screenshots. It contains many snippets of information and guidance on decision making. As every eventuality can''t be covered, there are links to online information as well as pointers to forums the author personally interacts with to answer additional questions. Who this book is written for? This book is designed for anyone who needs to install and configure SBS 2008. You don''t need to be a technical consultant who wants to tweak every setting to become an SBS success. This book will help those with a basic understanding of technology and a desire to install and use SBS 2008 quickly and continue with their business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6440'),
(15681, 'Smashing CSS', 'Eric A. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODERN LAYOUT\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and outs of CSS like Eric Meyer and inside Smashing CSS Eric provides techniques that are thorough, utterly useful, and universally applicable in the real world. From choosing the right tools, to CSS effects and CSS3 techniques with jQuery, Smashing CSS is the practical guide to building modern web layouts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Smashing CSS you will learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Throw elements offscreen/hide them\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create body/HTML backgrounds in XHTML\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Usemore than 15 layout techniques including clearfix, two/three simple columns, faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, em-based layout, fluid grids, sticky footers, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use a variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, boxpunching, rounded corners, CSS sprites, Sliding Doors, Liquid Bleach, ragged floats, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Apply CSS table styling including using thead, tfoot, and tbody, row headers, column-oriented styling (classes); styling data tables with jQuery, tables to graphs, tables to maps; and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use CSS3 elements including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBA, using jQuery to do CSS3 selections and so much more.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Eric Meyer is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, and has been working on the Web since 1993. Smashing CSS is for developers who already have some experience with CSS and JavaScript and are ready for more advanced techniques.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing Magazine\n  </em>\n  (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the world''s most popular web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the Smashing Magazine book series delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9347'),
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(15683, 'Smashing HTML5', 'Bill Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Welcome to HTML5 â€“ The Future of the Web\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  HTML5 is packed with great new features, including hew content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  , you have everything you need to get up and running quickly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bill Sanders is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His expertise and knowledge shared throughout\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  will help fast-track you toward building next-generation Web sites.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  provides comprehensive coverage â€“ from how to get started with HTML5 to optimizing media on the Web. You will learn how to use text, graphics, audio, video, and navigation in HTML5 Web pages running in compatible browsers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   You will also learn how to:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Work with HTML5 Tags\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Design page structure\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Make site navigation easy for your audience\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Integrate media including video into HTML5 pages\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Harness the power of the HTML5 Canvas\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Use HTML5 Forms\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Create interactivity, store information, and much more\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  is an essential read fro Web designers and developers looking to transition to HTML5. With this book, youâ€™ll be able to create Web pages that not only look great, but also take advantage of the new features HTML5 has to offer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Visit www.wiley.com/go/smashinghtml5 to download example code files.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing Magazine\n  </em>\n  (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the worldâ€™s most popular Web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the\n  <em>\n   Smashing Magazine\n  </em>\n  book series delivers useful and innovating information to Web designers and developers.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Welcome to HTML5 - the future of the Web\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  HTML5 is packed with great new features, including new content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  , you have everything you need to get up and running quickly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bill Sanders\n  </strong>\n  is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His expertise and knowledge shared throughout\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  will help fast-track you toward building next-generation Web sites.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  provides comprehensive coverage - from how to get started with HTML5 to optimizing media on the Web. You will learn how to use text, graphics, audio, video, and navigation in HTML5 Web pages running in compatible browsers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You will also learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Work with HTML5 tags\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design page structure\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make site navigation easy for your audience\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate media including video into HTML5 pages\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harness the power of the HTML5 canvas\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use HTML 5 forms\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create interactivity, store information, and much more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  is an essential read for Web designers and developers looking to transition to HTML5. With this book, you''ll be able to create Web pages that not only look great, but also take advantage of the new features HTML5 has to offer.Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Welcome to HTML5 â€“ The Future of the Web\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  HTML5 is packed with great new features, including hew content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  , you have everything you need to get up and running quickly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bill Sanders is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His expertise and knowledge shared throughout\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  will help fast-track you toward building next-generation Web sites.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  provides comprehensive coverage â€“ from how to get started with HTML5 to optimizing media on the Web. You will learn how to use text, graphics, audio, video, and navigation in HTML5 Web pages running in compatible browsers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   You will also learn how to:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Work with HTML5 Tags\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Design page structure\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Make site navigation easy for your audience\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Integrate media including video into HTML5 pages\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Harness the power of the HTML5 Canvas\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Use HTML5 Forms\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Create interactivity, store information, and much more\n    </strong>\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing HTML5\n  </em>\n  is an essential read fro Web designers and developers looking to transition to HTML5. With this book, youâ€™ll be able to create Web pages that not only look great, but also take advantage of the new features HTML5 has to offer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Visit www.wiley.com/go/smashinghtml5 to download example code files.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Smashing Magazine\n  </em>\n  (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the worldâ€™s most popular Web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the\n  <em>\n   Smashing Magazine\n  </em>\n  book series delivers useful and innovating information to Web designers and developers.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9329'),
(15684, 'Smashing WordPress', 'Thord Hedengren', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Push WordPress past its limits and take the basic blog into an entirely new blogosphere Smashing Magazine is the world''s most popular resource for web designers and developers, boasting more visits than leading Web sites and blogs. Smashing WordPress is the ultimate guide to WordPress, one of the hottest topics on the web today. Written by a WordPress expert, this exciting book breaks the barriers of blogging basics and shows you how to push WordPress to its limits-and beyond. As a free and open source platform, WordPress has quickly grown to be the most popular choice for bloggers and it is being pushed beyond its original purposes to power some fairly advanced sites. Its loyal community is constantly developing new plugins and themes to extend its functionality, taking WordPress to a new level of popularity. You''ll learn how WordPress can serve as a CMS, a forum, a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, and more. Helpful and clear instructions explain how to build beautiful WordPress themes, create custom login forms and admin themes, and integrate theme options.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   WordPress is an open source platform traditionally used for blogging only-but capable of so much more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explains how to maximize the power of WordPress and use it as a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, a forum, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Walks you through building plugins, integrating WordPress with the social Web, creating custom login forms and admin themes, and building WordPress projects for SEO\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Demonstrates how to use the Loop to control content and even use alternatives to the Loop If you''re hard-pressed for ideas on how to make the most of WordPress, then this is the book for you.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9076'),
(15685, 'SOARECI SI OAMENI', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4893'),
(15686, 'Soarele gol', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4797'),
(15687, 'Social Network Data Analytics', 'Charu C. Aggarwal', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Social network analysis applications have experienced tremendous advances within the last few years due in part to increasing trends towards users interacting with each other on the internet. Social networks are organized as graphs, and the data on social networks takes on the form of massive streams, which are mined for a variety of purposes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Social Network Data Analytics\n  </em>\n  covers an important niche in the social network analytics field. This edited volume, contributed by prominent researchers in this field, presents a wide selection of topics on social network data mining such as Structural Properties of Social Networks, Algorithms for Structural Discovery of Social Networks and Content Analysis in Social Networks. This book is also unique in focussing on the data analytical aspects of social networks in the internet scenario, rather than the traditional sociology-driven emphasis prevalent in the existing books, which do not focus on the unique data-intensive characteristics of online social networks. Emphasis is placed on simplifying the content so that students and practitioners benefit from this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book targets advanced level students and researchers concentrating on computer science as a secondary text or reference book. Data mining, database, information security, electronic commerce and machine learning professionals will find this book a valuable asset, as well as primary associations such as ACM, IEEE and Management Science.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Charu C. Aggarwal obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 1993 and Ph.D. from MIT in 1996. He has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since then, and has published over 140 papers in major conferences and journals in the database and data mining field. He has applied for or been granted over 75 US and International patents, and has thrice been designated Master Inventor at IBM for the commercial value of his patents. He has been granted 18 invention achievement awards by IBM for his patents. His work on real time stream analysis was recognized with the IBM Epispire award for environmental excellence in 2003, and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award in 2010. His contributions to privacy technology were recognized with the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 2008. He has served on the program committee of most major data mining conferences, and was program vice-chairs for the WWW Conference, 2009, for the ICDM Conference and SIAM Data Mining Conference several times. He has also served as program chair for several workshops. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Data Engineering for two terms from 2004 to 2008. He is an associate editor of the ACM SIGKDD Explorations, an action editor of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal, and an editorial board member of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal. He is a fellow of the IEEE for contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining algorithms.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7745'),
(15688, 'Software Architecture in Practice', 'Len Bass &amp; Paul Clements &amp; Rick Kazman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This award-winning book, substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture--how a software system is structured and how that system[HTML_REMOVED]s elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization[HTML_REMOVED]s business strategy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on their own extensive experience, the authors cover the essential technical topics for designing, specifying, and validating a system. They also emphasize the importance of the business context in which large systems are designed. Their aim is to present software architecture in a real-world setting, reflecting both the opportunities and constraints that companies encounter. To that end, case studies that describe successful architectures illustrate key points of both technical and organizational discussions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics new to this edition include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Architecture design and analysis, including the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Capturing quality requirements and achieving them through quality scenarios and tactics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using architecture reconstruction to recover undocumented architectures\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Documenting architectures using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   New case studies, including Web-based examples and a wireless Enterprise JavaBeansÂ™ (EJB) system designed to support wearable computers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The financial aspects of architectures, including use of the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM) to make decisions\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  If you design, develop, or manage the building of large software systems (or plan to do so), or if you are interested in acquiring such systems for your corporation or government agency, use _\n  <strong>\n   Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition,\n  </strong>\n  _ to get up to speed on the current state of software architecture.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Software architecture is an important field of study that is becoming more important and more talked about with every passing day. But, to our knowledge, there exists little practical guidance on how to manage software architecture within a real software development organization from a technical or from a managerial perspective. This book has emerged from our belief that the coupling of the software architecture of a system and its business and organizational context has not been well explored.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our experience with designing and reviewing large and complex software-intensive systems has led us to recognize the role of business and organization in the design of the system and also in its ultimate success or failure. Systems are built to satisfy an organizationis requirements (or assumed requirements in the case of shrink-wrapped products), and these requirements determine the extent to which a system must meet performance targets, be highly available, interoperate with other systems, or be designed for long lifetimes. These properties of a system are constrained by the systemis software architecture; or, to put it another way, the desire to achieve these properties influences the design choices made by a software architect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book we demonstrate this coupling through the use of case studies drawn from real systems, including the following: In Chapter 7, we show how the desire to quickly and easily share documents within an organization, with a minimum of centralized control, led to the software architecture of the World Wide Web. In Chapter 11, we discuss how the extreme safety requirements of air traffic control led one company to build a system around an architecture for achieving ultrahigh availability. In Chapter 14, we describe how the distribution of the subsystems of a flight simulator to different remotely located developers led to an architecture geared to enable the easy integration of these subsystems. In Chapter 16, we explain how the need to satisfy simultaneous product deliveries led (in fact, forced) one company to adopt an architecture that enabled the company to economically build a set of complex, related software systems as a product line.\n </p>\n <p>\n  These and other case studies show how the architectures flow from requirements of organizations and their business models, from the experience of the organizationis architects, and from the prevailing design climate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition, we discuss how architectures themselves can be powerful vehicles for influencing all of the preceding. A successful product or set of products can influence how other products are built; certainly, the case study of the software underlying the World Wide Web is a good example of this. Before this system existed, there was far less network awareness; less thought was given to accessibility of data; and security was the concern of only a few organizations, typically financial institutions and government agencies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is aimed at the software professionalothe person designing and implementing large software-intensive systemsoand at the managers of software professionals. It does not contain, for example, detailed financial justification for using a software architecture, for doing early architectural analyses, or for investing in a product line approach to building software. We provide only anecdotal evidence to support the claims that these pay off, although we passionately believe they do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A software architecture is the development product that gives the highest return on investment with respect to quality, schedule, and cost. This is because an architecture appears early in a productis lifetime. Getting it right sets the stage for everything to come in the systemis life: development, integration, testing, and modification. Getting it wrong means that the fabric of the system is wrong, and it cannot be fixed by weaving in a few new threads or pulling out a few existing ones, which often causes the entire fabric to unravel. Also, analyzing architectures is inexpensive, compared with other development activities. Thus, architectures give a high return on investment partially because decisions made for the architecture have substantial downstream consequences and because checking and fixing an architecture is relatively inexpensive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We also believe that reusable components are best achieved within an architectural context. But components are not the only artifacts that can be reused. Reuse of an architecture leads to the creation of families of similar systems, which in turn leads to new organizational structures and new business opportunities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A large percentage of this book is devoted to presenting real architectures that were designed to solve real problems in real organizations. We chose the case studies to illustrate the types of choices that architects must make to achieve their quality goals and to show how organizational goals affect the final systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In addition to the case studies, this book offers a set of techniques for designing, building, and evaluating software architectures. We look at techniques for understanding quality requirements in the context of an architecture and for building architectures that meet these quality requirements. We look at architecture description languages as a means of describing and validating software architectures. We look at techniques for analyzing and evaluating an architectureis fitness for its purpose. Each of these techniques is derived from our experience, and the experience of our colleagues at the Software Engineering Institute, with a variety of software systems. These systems range up to millions of lines of code and are large-team, multiyear development efforts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We have also provided a visual language for describing software architectures that contains enough expressiveness to describe both procedural and object-oriented systems and enough generality to describe systems at any granularity: a division of functionality, a set of software structures, a set of hardware structures, or any combination of these. Although a visual notation is not, in itself, documentation of an architecture, it is an integral part of such a documentation. One of our complaints with the state-of-the-practice in architecture today is the vagueness of architectural descriptions. We hope that the visual language described here is a contribution to the field, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of architectural documentation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book targets software professionals, or students who have knowledge and experience in software engineering, and we anticipate the following three classes of readers:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Practicing software engineers who wish to understand both the technical basis of software architecture and the business and organizational forces that are acting on them Technical managers who wish to understand how software architecture can help them to supervise the construction of systems more effectively and improve their organizations Students in computer science or software engineering who might use this book as supplemental reading in a first or second software engineering course\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although business issues are discussed throughout the book (for example, how an architecture affects an organizationis ability to compete in a market or how the architecture underlying a product family affects time to market), we present this material without going into the business issues in great depth and without using business jargon. We are, after all, software engineers. The technical sections are presented in more depth. These sections represent current work in the field of software architectureothe point where research meets practice; they are the philosophical foundations of the book. The case studies illustrate these technical foundations and show how they are realized in practice. However, we have written the case studies in such a way that expertise in the application domain from which each case study was drawn is not required. You will not need to be a pilot to understand either the air traffic control system or the flight simulation case studies. However, you will need to have a reasonable background in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline to benefit from the lessons of the case studies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One final note on the organization of the book. Software Architecture in Practice is not intended to be a prescriptive method for architectural design. In fact, we believe that it is impossible to satisfactorily create such a prescriptive design method. Any design involves trade-offs: Modifiability affects performance, security affects modifiability, scalability affects reliability, and everything affects cost. Any prescriptive method implicity or explicitly assumes that some of these qualities are more important than others and guides users toward the maximization of that goal. Our feeling is that although such an approach may be appropriate in a specific domain, it cannot possibly work in general. Quality requirements are different from organization to organization and from year to year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By way of contrast, we offer a toolbox approach to design. We believe that different architectural tools and techniques are appropriate for different situations and different quality goals. No single technique will ever suffice. So, we present a number of different architectural tools (layering, multiple views, patterns, blackboards, and so forth) and techniques (analysis methods, integration strategies, engineering principles) and illustrate their usage in different business and technical contexts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not surprisingly, most of the case studies use a mix of tools and techniques because they were chosen to illustrate how software architecture was the foundation for a successful system. These systems were successful precisely because they chose the right tools and implemented them using the right techniques. Anything less would not have resulted in a successful system, as we hope to persuade you in the coming pages. 0201199300P04062001\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9208'),
(15689, 'Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience', 'Peter Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThis book represents a thorough and extensive treatment of the software build process including the choices, benefits, and challenges of a well designed build process. I recommend it not only to all software build engineers but to all software developers since a well designed build process is key to an effective software development process.â€ - Kevin Bodie, Director Software Development, Pitney Bowes Inc. â€œAn excellent and detailed explanation of build systems, an important but often overlooked part of software development projects. The discussion of productivity as related to build systems is, alone, well worth the time spent reading this book.â€ - John M. Pantone, Objectech Corporation, VP, IT Educator and Course Developer â€œPeter Smith provides an interesting and accessible look into the world of software build systems, distilling years of experience and covering virtually every type of tool in the build engineer''s toolbox. Well organized, well written, and very thorough; I would recommend this book to anyone with a build system under their responsibility.â€ - Jeff Overbey, Project Co-Lead, Photran â€œ Software Build Systemsteaches how to think about building software. It surveys the tools and techniques for building software products and the ways things go wrong. This book will appeal to those new to build systems as well as experienced build system engineers.â€ - Monte Davidoff, Software Development Consultant, Alluvial Software, Inc. Inadequate build systems can dramatically impact developer productivity. Bad dependencies, false compile errors, failed software images, slow compilation, and time-wasting manual processes are just some of the byproducts of a subpar build system. In Software Build Systems, software productivity expert Peter Smith shows you how to implement build systems that overcome all these problems, so you can deliver reliable software more rapidly, at lower cost. Smith explains the core principles underlying highly efficient build systems, surveying both system features and usage scenarios. Next, he encapsulates years of experience in creating and maintaining diverse build systemsâ€“helping you make well-informed choices about tools and practices, and avoid common traps and pitfalls. Throughout, he shares a wide range of practical examples and lessons from multiple environments, including Java, C++, C, and C#. Coverage includes " Mastering build system concepts, including source trees, build tools, and compilation tools " Comparing five leading build tools: GNU Make, Ant, SCons, CMake, and the Eclipse IDE''s integrated build features " Ensuring accurate dependency checking and efficient incremental compilation " Using metadata to assist debugging, profiling, and source code documentation " Packaging software for installation on your target machine " Best practices for managing complex version-control systems, build machines, and compilation tools If you''re a developer, this book will illuminate the issues involved in building and maintaining the build system that''s best for your team. If you''re a manager, you''ll discover how to evaluate your team''s build system and improve its effectiveness. And if you''re a build â€œguru,â€ you''ll learn how to optimize the performance and scalability of your build system, no matter how demanding your requirements are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9566'),
(15690, 'Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase: A Practical Introduction', 'David E. Bellagio &amp; Tom J. Milligan &amp; Brian A. White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I wrote that the first edition of this book "communicates much of the experience, wisdom, and insight that was acquired along the way to discovering what SCM best practices are and how to implement/deploy them." The second edition is full of even more practical experience! It not only refines and expands upon earlier strategies and best practices, it also contains even more concrete "how-to" information about implementing and deploying them." --Brad Appleton co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration "Read this book when you''re getting started with configuration management (CM); read it again in six months and once more two years later. Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase goes beyond the basics to provide a coherent review of CM strategies for projects of all sizes and complexities." --Jennie Brown, CM Specialist IBM Corporation "This book covers practical software configuration management (SCM), ClearCase UCM and ClearCase use for project teams. Every project lead and SCM specialist should (re)read this book before starting a project."--Roger Jarrett, Senior Software Engineer IBM Rational Software "This second edition captures vital Unified Change Management (UCM) features and concepts. It brings the entire UCM feature set full circle and lays the ground work for a successful UCM implementation; Bellagio and Milligan continue where the first edition left off. The inclusion of composite baseline concepts, single stream development, performance tuning, and other features and concepts make this the core of any old or new Unified Change Management implementation. It is rare that a second edition of a book can hold your interest like the first. This publication does just that...this continues to be the standard for users interested in Unified Change Management deployment." --Adam Levensohn, Manager IBM Rational Software Software Configuration Management (SCM) can help even the largest, most complex project teams manage change, so they can deliver higher quality products faster. The First Edition of Software Configuration Management Strategies and Rational ClearCase established itself as the definitive single source for guidance on both SCM best practices and the market''s leading product, IBM Rational ClearCase.This fully updated Second Edition systematically addresses the latest ClearCase and ClearQuest(R) innovations, while offering even deeper insight into SCM strategy and management. The authors each draw on more than 15 years of SCM experience, and the knowledge of working with IBM Rational field teams in customer engagements worldwide. They systematically cover SCM planning and deployment, and SCM''s use throughout the entire project lifecycle: development, integration, building, baselining, release deployment, and beyond. They offer practical guidance on addressing challenges that arise as projects grow in size and complexity, from managing geographically distributed teams to tracking change requests.Coverage includes * Understanding basic SCM concepts, and the role, value, and components of SCM systems * Mastering IBM Rational''s Unified Change Management (UCM) model--including today''s most effective usage models, strategies, and policy configurations * Creating ClearCase repositories and establishing UCM environments, step-by-step * Working as a project manager in the ClearCase environment * Leveraging new ClearCase MultiSite and ClearQuest technologies to full advantage * Using the new ClearCase Remote Client to access centralized repositories across WANs * Monitoring ClearCase and tuning it for maximum performance This book is valuable for everyone concerned with SCM: developers who wantSCM to be as intuitive and convenient as possible; project managers and technical leaders who must efficiently manage change; tools engineers; even IT managersevaluating SCM technologies. A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I wrote that the first edition of this book "communicates much of the experience, wisdom, and insight that was acquired along the way to discovering what SCM best practices are and how to implement/deploy them." The second edition is full of even more practical experience! It not only refines and expands upon earlier strategies and best practices, it also contains even more concrete "how-to" information about implementing and deploying them."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Brad Appleton co-author of\n  <em>\n   Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Read this book when you[HTML_REMOVED]re getting started with configuration management (CM); read it again in six months and once more two years later.\n  <em>\n   Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase\n  </em>\n  goes beyond the basics to provide a coherent review of CM strategies for projects of all sizes and complexities."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Jennie Brown, CM Specialist IBM Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book covers practical software configuration management (SCM), ClearCase UCM and ClearCase use for project teams. Every project lead and SCM specialist should (re)read this book before starting a project."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Roger Jarrett, Senior Software Engineer IBM Rational Software\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This second edition captures vital Unified Change Management (UCM) features and concepts. It brings the entire UCM feature set full circle and lays the ground work for a successful UCM implementation; Bellagio and Milligan continue where the first edition left off. The inclusion of composite baseline concepts, single stream development, performance tuning, and other features and concepts make this the core of any old or new Unified Change Management implementation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is rare that a second edition of a book can hold your interest like the first. This publication does just that...this continues to be the standard for users interested in Unified Change Management deployment."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Adam Levensohn, Manager IBM Rational Software\n </p>\n <p>\n  Software Configuration Management (SCM) can help even the largest, most complex project teams manage change, so they can deliver higher quality products faster. The First Edition of\n  <em>\n   Software Configuration Management Strategies and Rational ClearCase\n  </em>\n  established itself as the definitive single source for guidance on both SCM best practices and the market[HTML_REMOVED]s leading product, IBM Rational ClearCase. This fully updated Second Edition systematically addresses the latest ClearCase and ClearQuestÂ® innovations, while offering even deeper insight into SCM strategy and management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors each draw on more than 15 years of SCM experience, and the knowledge of working with IBM Rational field teams in customer engagements worldwide. They systematically cover SCM planning and deployment, and SCM[HTML_REMOVED]s use throughout the entire project lifecycle: development, integration, building, baselining, release deployment, and beyond. They offer practical guidance on addressing challenges that arise as projects grow in size and complexity, from managing geographically distributed teams to tracking change requests.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coverage includes\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Understanding basic SCM concepts, and the role, value, and components of SCM systems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Mastering IBM Rational[HTML_REMOVED]s Unified Change Management (UCM) modelâ€”including today[HTML_REMOVED]s most effective usage models, strategies, and policy configurations\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Creating ClearCase repositories and establishing UCM environments, step-by-step\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Working as a project manager in the ClearCase environment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Leveraging new ClearCase MultiSite and ClearQuest technologies to full advantage\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Using the new ClearCase Remote Client to access centralized repositories across WANs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Monitoring ClearCase and tuning it for maximum performance\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  This book is valuable for everyone concerned with SCM: developers who wantSCM to be as intuitive and convenient as possible; project managers and technical leaders who must efficiently manage change; tools engineers; even IT managersevaluating SCM technologies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9126'),
(15691, 'Software Development and Professional Practice', 'John Dooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Software Development and Professional Practice\n  </strong>\n  reveals howto design and code great software. What factors do you take into account? What makes a good design? What methods and processes are out there fordesigning software? Is designing small programs different than designing large ones? How can you tell a good design from a bad one? You''ll learn the principles of good software design, and how to turn those principles back into great code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Software Development and Professional Practice\n  </strong>\n  is also about code constructionÂ—how to write great programs and make them work. What, you say? You''ve already written eight gazillion programs! Of course I know how to write code! Well, in this book you''ll re-examine what you already do, and you''ll investigate ways to improve. Using the Java language, you''ll look deeply into coding standards, debugging, unit testing, modularity, and other characteristics of good programs. You''ll also talk about reading code. How do you read code? What makes a program readable? Can good, readable code replace documentation? How much documentation do you really need?\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  This book introduces you to software engineeringÂ—the application of engineering principles to the development of software. What are these engineering principles? First, all engineering efforts follow a defined process. So, you''ll be spending a bit of time talking about how you run a software development project and the differentphases of a project. Secondly, all engineering work has a basis in the application of science and mathematics to real-world problems. And so does software development! You''ll therefore take the time to examine how to design and implement programs that solve specific problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finally, this book is also about human-computer interaction and user interface design issues. A poor user interface can ruin any desireto actually use a program; in this book, you''ll figure out why and how to avoid those errors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Software Development and Professional Practice\n  </strong>\n  covers many of the topics described for the ACM Computing Curricula 2001 course C292c Software Development and Professional Practice. It is designed to be both a textbook and a manual for the working professional.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What youÂ’ll learn\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to design and code great software\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What methods and processes are available to help you design great software\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to apply software engineering principles to your daily coding practice\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Howto tell a good design from a bad one?\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Understand the characteristics of good programs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to construct professional standard code that you can be proud to show\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Understand all about coding standards, and apply them to real Java coding\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explore debugging, unit testing and modularity\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    All about object-oriented programming (OOP) design principles and great coding\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to apply the principles you''ve learned to specific and real-world coding problems\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A companion to the ACM Computing Curricular 2001 source C202c\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Software Development and Professional Practice\n  </strong>\n  is designed to be both a textbook and a manual for the working professional programmer, and any student of programming who wants to learn the art of the trade. This book assumes you know some Java, enough to read its examples at least, and that you''ve already done some programming. Now you want to write great code!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book covers many of the topics described for the ACM Computing Curricula 2001 course C292c Software Development and Professional Practice, and will be a great companion to anyone studying this course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Table of Contents\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   Introduction to Software Development\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Process Life Cycle Models\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Project Management Essentials\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Requirements\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Software Architecture\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design Principles\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Structured Design\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object-Oriented Analysis &amp; DesignÂ—An Overview\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object-Oriented Analysis &amp; DesignÂ—A Play in Several Acts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Object-Oriented Design Principles\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design Patterns\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Code Construction\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Debugging\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Unit Testing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Walkthroughs, Code Reviews and Inspections\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wrapping it All Up\n  </li>\n </ol>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10183'),
(15692, 'Software Engineering and Computer Games', 'Rudy von Bitter Rucker &amp; Rudy Rucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book should be a requirement of anyone that wants to write games - period. --\n  <em>\n   From the Foreword by Andre Lamothe, author and CEO of Xtreme Games\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book should be a requirement of anyone that wants to write games - period"\n  <br />\n  AndrÃ© Lamothe, author and CEO of Xtreme Games\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are many books on the art of games programming but now acclaimed author Rudy Rucker has gone a step beyond and transformed it into a science.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Software Engineering and Computer Games uses an object-oriented (OO) approach throughout, incorporating UML for OO analysis and design and discussing software patterns and how to incorporate them into the design process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book covers nine topics:\n  <br />\n  1) Basic software engineering principles and techniques.\n  <br />\n  2) How to organize and complete a substantial software project\n  <br />\n  3) Practical examples of object-oriented design and programming.\n  <br />\n  4) The design of computer games.\n  <br />\n  5) Simulating physics inside our computer-generated worlds.\n  <br />\n  6) Artificial life, or how to simulate live creatures inside a computer program.\n  <br />\n  7) How to use two and three-dimensional computer graphics.\n  <br />\n  8) Windows programming with the Microsoft Foundation Classes, or MFC.\n  <br />\n  9) How to develop a project using Microsoft Visual Studio(Either Version 6.0 or .NET)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The game engine accompanying the book is an open source C++ framework (the POP Framework), available together with other accompanying material from the website.\n  <br />\n  The book can be used for self-study, with readers encouraged to use the POP Framework as a starting point for creating their own games.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Software Engineering and Computer Games was developed as the primary textbook for an undergraduate software engineering course and can also be the main book for courses on software projects or computer game design and programming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9213'),
(15693, 'Software Engineering Project Management, 2nd Edition', 'Richard H. Thayer &amp; Edward Yourdon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newly revised for 2001, this second edition of Richard Thayer''s popular, bestselling book presents a top-down, practical view of managing a successful software engineering project. The book builds a framework for project management activities based on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling model. Thayer provides information designed to help you understand and successfully perform the unique role of a project manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a must for all project managers in the software field. The text focuses on the five functions of general management by first describing each function and then detailing the project management activities that support each function. This second edition shows you how to manage a software development project, discusses current software engineering management methodologies and techniques, and presents general descriptions and project management problems. The book serves as a guide for your future project management activities. The text also offers students sufficient background and instructional material to serve as a main or supplementary text for a course in software engineering project management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Note: The 2001 revision includes a new Chapter 4 Introduction and a new paper that replaces an older paper.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second edition of\n  <strong>\n   Richard Thayer''s\n  </strong>\n  popular, bestselling book present a top-down, practical view of managing a successful software engineering project. The book builds a framework for project management activities based on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling model. Thayer provides information designed to help you understand and successfully perform the unique role of a project manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a must for all project managers in the software field. The text focuses on the five functions of general management by first describing each function and then detailing the project management activities that support each function. This new edition shows you how to manage a software development project, discusses current software engineering management methodologies and techniques, and presents general descriptions and project management problems. The book serves as a guide for your future project management activities. The text also offers students sufficient background and instructional material to serve as a main supplementary text for a course in software engineering project management.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3436');
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(15694, 'Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code', 'Bill Blunden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK!Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Codetakes an unflinching, no bulls$# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code thatyouare forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step beyond them by bringing our attention to the underlying illnesses that plague the software industry as a whole.Further,Software Exorcismdiscusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging, gives optimization strategies that appeal to all levels of programmers, and presents in-depth treatments of technical issues with honest assessments that are not biased toward proprietary solutions.Slashdot says . . ."Leave it to a SubGenius preacher to take normally mundane subjects, like software maintenance, and expose the unholy conspiracy behind them. I think the following quote from the introduction sums up the tone of the book nicely: ''Rather than shield your eyes from the sordid realities of the software industry, I am going to dust off my old 8mm films and let you take a good look at the uncensored truth for yourself. You may want to keep a paper bag handy in case you get sick.''"Click to read the whole Slashdot review.Readers are saying . . ."Okay, I''ve worked with every moron in the book . . . was this [book] written about the guy who sits in the cube next to me?" Dan, VSLive 2003 Orlando attendee"And I thought that I was the only person to ever actually throw my laptop across the room at a fellow coder." Anonymous, Microsoft PDC, Los Angeles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9124'),
(15695, 'Software Modeling and Design', 'Hassan Gomaa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Software Modeling and Design, Hassan Gomaa provides a clear, lucid presentation of a comprehensive software design method, based on industry-standard design notation, and battletested in the context of graduate-level software engineering courses taught at George Mason University. The book includes four, diverse case studies, showing readers how to apply the method to solve industrial-scale software design problems. These traits make this book unique within the field of software design and engineering."\n  <br />\n  Kevin Mills, NIST\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book presents a general, complete, and precise engineering solution, illustrated by many thorough examples, for model-based architecture and design. I strongly recommend it to anybody who wants to teach, or get acquainted with, the practice of modeling software. Beyond notation, this book focuses on fundamental and practical modeling and architecting principles."\n  <br />\n  Lionel Briand, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is a ''must have'' book for any senior technologist actively involved in the software development life cycle. It provides not only principles of software architecture, design and development but also practical examples of how to apply these techniques to produce high-quality, maintainable and extensible software. Dr. Gomaa, a recognized thought leader in software engineering, hits another home run with this volume."\n  <br />\n  Mark Gianturco, Intelligent Discovery Solutions\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Software modeling and designing are complex activities. Developing high quality models, particularly by novice analysts, requires a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of modeling as well as its nuances. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of modeling the static and dynamic aspects of software systems and architectures. It presents a fresh perspective on software modeling and design through the application of the UML based COMET (Collaborative Object Modeling and Architectural Design Method) approach to real world examples. Dr Gomaa has done an excellent job of presenting the material in a simple and elegant manner. The fundamental concepts have been explained with lots of examples and further solidified through several case studies presented at the end of the book. Overall, this is an excellent book on software modeling and design that will be valuable for not only software engineering students but also practitioners."\n  <br />\n  Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Software modeling continues to dominate as a method of choice for practitioners to gain an in-depth understanding of complex systems. Gomaa''s book stands out from other titles on software modeling in both its breadth and depth of coverage. Its detailed case studies are second to none when it comes to really seeing how modeling can be applied in practice."\n  <br />\n  Jon Whittle, Lancaster University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The COMET method is a unique UML-based approach covering theories and practices for modeling and design of software systems. This book is the core of author''s experiences and philosophy on software development."\n  <br />\n  Michael Shin, Texas Tech University\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a banking system for client/server architecture, an online shopping system for service-oriented architecture, an emergency monitoring system for component-based software architecture, and an automated guided vehicle for real-time software architecture. Organized as an introduction followed by several short, self-contained chapters, the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and design, and for experienced software engineers wanting a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7775'),
(15696, 'Software Project Management', 'Walker Royce', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For a cutting-edge take on how to manage today''s object-oriented, iterative software development process, take a look at Walker Royce''s\n  <em>\n   Software Project Management\n  </em>\n  . This readable, comprehensive guide shows how well-managed software teams can produce better, more profitable software in less time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book begins by outlining the "traditional" waterfall approach to software development. The author looks at what changes for management when it comes to today''s iterative software processes. Written with an eye toward management (with plenty of tables and figures for project estimation and planning), the author takes you through common pitfalls of managing software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Besides reviewing older studies and metrics, the author offers his own 10 principles to managing software, along with hints for all facets of development, from initial inception to construction and deployment of software. The author provides detailed project milestones and other deliverables to help you manage software better, including a breakdown of tasks for your team that will help maximize your efficiency.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a look forward at what better software management means for return on investment (ROI), the author presents several very useful appendices, which include software metrics (like COCOMO), as well as a description of the CCPDS-R missile command system (which used many of the author''s management principles). Overall, this groundbreaking title will be useful to any software manager or project leader seeking to get control of software costs and improve team efficiency.\n  <em>\n   --Richard Dragan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Royce''s thesis is that many current software management practices are tied to archaic technologies and techniques. His book therefore focuses on what we should keep doing, what we should change, and why. For example, Chapter 4 is a point-by-point discussion of the points raised in Alan Davis''s influential article "Fifteen Principles of Software Engineering." Royce argues that some of Davis''s principles, such as evaluating design alternatives before starting construction, are anchored in the discredited waterfall model, and may actually be counter-productive in a world where iterative development is done using commodity components.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Similarly, Royce is sceptical about the benefits of code inspections, believing both that modern tools allow automated testing through the project lifecycle, and that code inspections are usually so boring that they are inevitably superficial. Perhaps his most challenging statement is that you shouldn''t plan to throw this process away. Instead, you should plan to evolve your product...Read more from this review. --\n  <em>\n   Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobb''s Journal\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Dr. Dobb''s Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9621'),
(15697, 'Software Requirements', 'Karl Wiegers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Requirements" are essential for creating successful software because they let users and developers agree on what features will be delivered in new systems. Karl Wiegers''s\n  <em>\n   Software Requirements\n  </em>\n  shows you how to define and get more out of software requirements with dozens of "best practices" and tips that make this book a valuable resource for both software project managers and developers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book''s commonsense approach provides exemplary project management skills tailored to gathering (and refining, implementing, and eventually tracking) software requirements. While the book often cites recent software engineering studies, the focus always returns to practical management techniques. A case study for a chemical tracking application frames the book, and most chapters begin with anecdotes that demonstrate situations in which users and developers misunderstand each other about a software project''s ultimate goals. (If you''ve ever worked in the field, these stories will probably sound all too familiar.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book offers hope, though, for improving your software design process, with dozens of tips on getting better design input from your customers and then using these requirements to generate a variety of design documents. There are numerous templates and sample documents too--a big help for the busy software manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Several standout sections cover negotiating difficult steps in the process, particularly how to manage shifting requirements as projects move forward and keep the various users and stakeholders content throughout the software process. Late in the book, the author surveys today''s software management tools and shows how to pick the right ones for your organization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anchored by the author''s considerable experience and software engineering expertise, this jargon-free and practical guide to software requirements can definitely give you the edge in managing software projects more efficiently.\n  <em>\n   --Richard Dragan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered\n  </strong>\n  : software requirements specifications (SRS); business and user requirements; risk management; the requirements process; sample documents and templates; requirements development: elicitation, analysis, specification, and verification; rights and responsibilities for software customers; best practices; project management tips; process assessment and improvement; types of users; product champions; use cases and other diagrams; tips for prototyping; managing requirements change; change centered boards (CCBs); evaluating and using requirements tools; requirements traceability matrix; impact analysis.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact. Previously, he spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company. Karl received a B.S. from Boise State College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karl is the author of the Jolt Productivity Award-winning book Creating a Software Engineering Culture. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences such as Software Development. As an independent consultant, Karl presents training seminars and consulting engagements at a variety of companies on topics including requirements develoment and management, software process improvement, software technical reviews, software measurement, and risk management.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9593'),
(15698, 'Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2010', 'N. Satheesh Kumar &amp; S. Subashni', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A step by step guide to understand the features and concepts of testing applications using Visual Studio.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Master all the new tools and techniques in Visual Studio 2010 and the Team Foundation Server for testing applications\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customize reports with Team foundation server.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get to grips with the new Test Manager tool for maintaining Test cases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Take full advantage of new Visual Studio features for testing an application''s User Interface\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Packed with real world examples and step by step instructions to get you up and running with application testing\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail When testing your applications on the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio 2010 offers you a range of powerful tools for different types of testing. This Microsoft product makes the testing process easier and faster. A concise guide that will lead you through the amazing range of features offered by Visual Studio 2010 to test your software applications before going live. It is packed with simple but interesting examples to make you comfortable with Visual Studio 2010 testing environment. The book introduces you to the main types of testing available in Visual Studio for both desktop and web applications, and then walks you through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests. Visual Studio 2010 is the new version of Microsoft''s software development product, and includes lots of new features for developing and testing software applications. In collaboration with Team Foundation Server, it provides supporting tools for the management of the entire application life cycle, including development and testing. This book is more focused on testing features and the supporting tools provided by Visual Studio 2010 for testing the applications. The book begins by explaining different types of tests as part of the software development cycle, and then dives deep into providing an overview of each type of application testing using Visual Studio 2010 features. Along the way you will also learn in detail about creating and maintaining the test cases and associating the test cases with requirements using the Test Manager Tool. Each chapter in the book concentrates on explaining each test type using the features and tools provided by Visual Studio 2010. You will be guided in using these features with real world examples with step by step explanations. Get to grips with the amazing range of features offered by the Visual Studio for testing your software applications before going live. What you will learn from this book\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Master different types of testing in the software development life cycle, and how test management is supported in Visual Studio 2010.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use test manager for creating test plans, test suites and requirement based test suites.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create and customize code from the action recording and associate the data to UI testing.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get grips with web performance testing and set properties for the web test.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn about creating a load test for simulating actual user loads and tests using virtual users, browser mix and network mix.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the concept of using Test Controller and Test Agents and configuring them when simulating the multi-user environment to test performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Master the test list and running tests in a specific order.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get acquainted with Generic test which is used for testing third party components and services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the command line utility MSTest to run the tests and publish the results to Team Project and Team Build in Team Foundation Server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn about Test results and associating tests as part of automated build-in Approach This book starts with basic understanding of different types of tests. It then goes about explaining several examples with a step-by-step approach to master concepts and the features needed to help the reader understand testing clearly. Who this book is written for If you are a developer, a software tester, or an architect who wishes to master the amazing range of features offered by the Visual Studio 2010 for testing your software applications before going live - then this book is for you. This book assumes that you have a basic knowledge of testing software applications and have good work experience of using Visual Studio IDE.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10182'),
(15699, 'Solar Lottery', 'Philip Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11785'),
(15700, 'Solarienii', 'Norman Spinrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4820'),
(15701, 'Solarienii', 'Spinrad Norman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8629'),
(15702, 'A solution manual to the econometrics of financial markets', 'Petr Adamek &amp; John Y. Campbell &amp; Andrew W. Lo &amp; A. Craig Mackinlay &amp; Luis M. Viceira', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7899'),
(15703, 'Sonete', 'Vasile Voiculescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4780'),
(15704, 'Sorcerers of Majipoor', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The aged Pontifex Prankipin is near death and the Coronal Lord Confalume will now succeed as Pontifex. It is no secret that the next Coronal should be Prince Prestimion of Muldemar. But Korsibar has a new quarryâ€”the Starburst Crown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11097'),
(15705, 'Sorin', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8545'),
(15706, 'Spellfire', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11757'),
(15707, 'Sphinx Search Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Abbas Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book is a step-by-step guide for an absolute beginner. It covers everything, from installing to configuring, to get you started quickly. It has numerous code examples that the reader can try on their own and learn while doing so. It has two full-fledged applications as examples that readers can follow. This book is specifically focused on the Search feature of web applications. This book is for developers who are new to Sphinx Search. All code examples use PHP but the logic is same for any other web scripting languages as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Abbas Ali\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abbas Ali has over 6 years of experience in PHP Development and is a Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineer. A Mechanical Engineer by education, Abbas turned to software development just after finishing his engineering degree. He is a member of the core development team for the Coppermine Photo Gallery, an open source project which is one of the most popular photo gallery applications in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fascinated with both machines and knowledge, Abbas is always learning new programming techniques. He got acquainted with Sphinx in 2009 and has been using it in most of his commercial projects ever since. He loves open source and believes in contributing back to the community.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abbas is married to Tasneem and has a cute little daughter, Munira. He lives at Nagpur (India) since his birth and is in no rush to move to any other city in the world. In his free time he loves to watch movies and television. He is also an amateur photographer and cricketer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abbas is currently working as Chief Operating Officer and Technical Manager at SANIsoft Technologies Private Limited, Nagpur, India. The company specializes in development of large, high performance and scalable PHP applications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7767'),
(15708, 'Spinneret', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(15709, 'Spovedanii', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8630'),
(15710, 'SSBOOK1', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4562'),
(15711, 'Stacja Hawksbilla', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stany Zjednoczone wpadajÄ… w sidÅ‚a demokracji. Pod populistycznymi hasÅ‚ami wÅ‚adzÄ™ przejmujÄ… syndykaliÅ›ci. Ameryka w szponach dyktatury oznacza tajnÄ… policjÄ™, aresztowania i zsyÅ‚ki opozycjonistÃ³w. RzÄ…d deklaruje jednak, Å¼e nie wykonuje wyrokÃ³w Å›mierci. Gdzie wiÄ™c znikajÄ… dziaÅ‚acze opozycji? W przeszÅ‚oÅ›ci! Oto w przeszÅ‚oÅ›ci o miliard lat odlegÅ‚ej od nas syndykaliÅ›ci tworzÄ… stacjÄ™ zsyÅ‚ki niewygodnych politycznie wiÄ™ÅºniÃ³w. To czas, kiedy na Ziemi nie uksztaÅ‚towaÅ‚y siÄ™ jeszcze obecne kontynenty, a pierwsze zwierzÄ™ta nie wyszÅ‚y na lÄ…d. A podrÃ³Å¼ w czasie moÅ¼e siÄ™ odbywaÄ‡ tylko w jednÄ… stronÄ™â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11293'),
(15712, 'Standard Catalog of World Coins 1701-1800, 5th Edition', 'Numismatics Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6227'),
(15713, 'Standard Catalog of World Coins 1801-1900, 6th Edition', 'Numismatics Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6226'),
(15714, 'Star Song', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From a darkly humorous tale of the power of words ("Death and the Librarian") to a never-before-published response to the events of September 11 ("Ilion"), Friesner''s 12 stories illustrate the author''s acutely sensitive vision of wonder in the everyday world. Often cloaked in humor, these tales always provide keen insights using sf and fantasy as vehicles. Known primarily for his "Star Wars" novels, including Heir to the Empire, Zahn''s short stories also deliver strong plots and memorable characters. Beginning with a tale of interstellar war against a hive-mind ("Point Man") and ending with a novella that combines space travel and music in a unique and surprising fashion, Star Song''s six pieces illuminate the author''s versatility and eclectic tastes. Zebrowski''s many novels (e.g., Macrolife) mark him as a visionary as well as a master of hard sf. The ten short stories collected in In the Distance provide a benchmark of his creativity. From tales of the near future ("The Water Sculptor") to those of the far future ("Between the Winds"), the author expands his concept of the human condition to embrace the stars. Part of Five Star''s continuing commitment to showcasing the short fiction of the genre''s most prominent authors, these three volumes belong in most libraries where short sf is popular.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sextet of stories, all at least slightly on the light side, from the prolific and popular Zahn. In the story so titled, "The Broccoli Factor" is a breakthrough to fusion power with a difference. "The Play''s the Thing" depicts an alien''s ambitions to appear on Broadway as a revolutionary force. "Point Man" is about a character always in the wrong place at the wrong time, so that even when he prevents an interstellar war, he gets no credit. "Hitmen--See Murderers" offers the temptation of a telephone directory that predicts crimes. In "The Art of War," alien art appears to be a plot against humanity but is, in fact, a plot for something quite different. Finally, "Star Song" arises from the premise of interstellar travel with the help of space-dwelling aliens, or "flapblacks," with whom humans communicate musically, and it proceeds merrily thereafter. If no single story makes an extraordinary impact, not one is other than intelligent, and together they amount to quite a display of versatility.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(15715, 'Star Song and Other Stories', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4592'),
(15716, 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Even the Jedi are caught by surprise, their attentions focused on the political unrest between the Trade Federation and the Republic. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy.\n <br />\n <br />\n On the desert world of Tatooine, far from the concerns for the Republic, a slave boy works by day and dreams by nightâ€”of being a Jedi Knight and one day traveling the stars to worlds he''s only heard of in storiesâ€¦ of finding a way to win freedom from enslavement for himself and his beloved mother. His only hope lies in his extraordinary instincts and his strange gift for understanding the "rightness" of things, talents that allow him to be one of the best Podracers on the planet.\n <br />\n <br />\n In another part of the galaxy, the Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, young Obi-Wan Kenobi, are charged with the protection of the Amidala, the young Queen of Naboo, as she seeks to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. It is this quest that brings Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and the Queen''s beautiful young handmaiden to the sand-swept streets of Tatooine and the shop where the slave boy Anakin Skywalker toils and dreams. And it is this unexpected meeting that marks the beginning of the drama that will become legendâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6254'),
(15717, 'Star Wars: Fool&#39;s Bargain', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/3021'),
(15718, 'Starborne', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Starborne, Silverberg takes the Utopia theme and turns it on its head. The scene is Earth many centuries in the future, where all of life''s problems have been solved. But while humanity may be well fed, amply clothed, in perfect health, and rich beyond imagination, people are bored nearly to death. To bring a little spark back into the lives of humankind, the people of Earth band together to build a starship and begin the search for habitable planets in the rest of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11249'),
(15719, 'Starman&#39;s Quest', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The complicated problem of time lags and speedups in space travel brings about a conflict between twin brothers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11230'),
(15720, 'Statistical Analysis with R. Beginners Guide', 'John M. Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n If you are a data analyst, business or IT professional, student, educator, researcher, or anyone else who wants to analyze data effectively this practical, step-by-step guide packed with clear examples, screenshots, and code will help you quickly become proficient in data analysis using R. Prior experience of R is not needed; knowledge of other programming languages, software packages, or statistics may help but is not needed. After downloading and installing R, you learn its fundamentals with a basic R program then learn to import external data for analysis, manipulate data using variables, and store and edit data in an R workspace. Next you learn to use various statistics for global understanding of your data then create predictive models using regression analysis and customized functions to assess the implications of your predictions. Finally you learn to organize analyzed data to convey your predictions to others effectively and map your statistical analysis with charts and graphs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7766'),
(15721, 'Statistics', 'Martin Sternstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  [back cover]\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  BARRONâ€™S ]\n  <br />\n  EZâ€“101 ]\n  <br />\n  STUDY KEYS\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ]\n </p>\n <p>\n  Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barronâ€™s _ EZâ€“101 Study Keys _ give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Statistics\n  <br />\n  Second Edition\n </p>\n <p>\n  All key concepts covered under these topics: descriptive statistics, shape, probability distributions, planning a study, the population mean and proportion, chi-square analysis, and regression analysis.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7640'),
(15722, 'The Stochastic Man', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a not-too-distant future, the assassination of an all-powerful New York City Mayor has plunged the five boroughs back into a dangerous cesspool of crime, drugs, and prostitution. Professional prognosticator Lew Nichols joins the campaign team of a fast-rising politico running for the city''s top office, and is introduced to a man who privately admits to being able to view glimpses of the future. Lew becomes obsessed with capturing the man''s gift and putting it to use for his candidate, but struggles to accept the strict terms he arranges with his mentorâ€¦ and the unforgiving predetermination of the future.\n <br />\n <br />\n Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975.\n <br />\n Nominated forÂ Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best SF Novel, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1976.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11213'),
(15723, 'The Stoic', 'Theodore Dreiser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10444'),
(15724, 'Strategies for Information Technology Governance', 'Wim van Grembergen &amp; Grembergen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In many organizations, Information Technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, the sustainability and the growth of the business. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance. IT Governance consists of the leadership and organizational structures, processes and relational mechanisms that ensure that the organizationâ€™s IT sustains and extends the organizationâ€™s strategy and objectives. Strategies for Information Technology Governance records and interprets some important existing theories, models and practices in the IT Governance domain and aims to contribute to the understanding of IT Governance.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wim Van Grembergen is professor at the Business Faculty of UFSIA (University of Antwerp) and is a guest professor at the University of Leuven (KUL). He teaches information systems at the undergraduate and executive level, and researches in business transformations through information technology, audit of information systems, and IT evaluation. He published articles in journals such as Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Corporate Transformation, Journal of Information on Technology Cases and Applications, IS Audit &amp; Control Journal and EDP Auditing (Auerbach). Professor Van Grembergen has consulted with a number of organizations and is a member of the Board of Directors of an IT company servicing a Belgian financial group.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7153'),
(15725, 'Structural Analysis, SI Edition', 'Aslam Kassimali', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Structural Analysis teaches students the basic principles of structural analysis using the classical approach. The chapters are presented in a logical order, moving from an introduction of the topic to an analysis of statically determinate beams, trusses and rigid frames, to the analysis of statistically indeterminate structures. The text includes solved problems to help illustrate the fundamental concepts. Access to interactive software for analyzing plane framed structures is available for download via the texts online companion site. See the Features tab for more info on this software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Booknews:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A textbook that develops an understanding of the basic principles of structural analysis. Emphasizing the intuitive classical approach, it covers the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate beams, trusses, and rigid frames. It also presents an introduction to the matrix analysis of structures. An included diskette contains computer software for the analysis of plane frames, continuous beams, and trusses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aslam Kassimali is Professor of Civil Engineering at Southern Illinois University. He teaches structural engineering, nonlinear structural analysis, and structural dynamics and stability. Consistently recognized for teaching excellence, Dr. Kassimali has received 17 awards for outstanding teaching at the department and the college level since joining Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1980, and in 1996 he was named the Outstanding Teacher of the entire university. Professor Kassimali completed undergraduate work at the University of Karachi in Pakistan in 1969, then earned a master''s degree from Iowa State University in 1971 and masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1974 and 1976 respectively.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7641'),
(15726, 'Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems', 'Edward A. Lee &amp; Pravin Varaiya', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic.*\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors'' university.*\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors'' university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9207'),
(15727, 'Student Solutions Manual T/a Basic Econometrics 4th ed.', 'Demodar N. Gujarati', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\n </div>\n <div>\n  As in the previous three editions, the primary objective of the fourth editionÂ of Basic Econometrics is to provide an elementary but comprehensive introductionÂ to econometrics without resorting to matrix algebra, calculus, orÂ statistics beyond the elementary level.\n </div>\n <div>\n  In this edition I have attempted to incorporate some of the developmentsÂ in the theory and practice of econometrics that have taken place since theÂ publication of the third edition in 1995. With the availability of sophisticatedÂ and user-friendly statistical packages, such as Eviews, Limdep,Â Microfit, Minitab, PcGive, SAS, Shazam, and Stata, it is now possible to discussÂ several econometric techniques that could not be included in the previous\n </div>\n <div>\n  editions of the book. I have taken full advantage of these statistical\n </div>\n <div>\n  packages in illustrating several examples and exercises in this edition.Â \n </div>\n <div>\n  I was pleasantly surprised to find that my book is used not only by economicsÂ and business students but also by students and researchers in severalÂ other disciplines, such as politics, international relations, agriculture,Â and health sciences. Students in these disciplines will find the expanded discussionÂ of several topics very useful.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7909'),
(15728, 'Studiul de caz. Utilizarea sistemelor expert in gestionarea resurselor', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8689'),
(15729, 'Succeeding With Open Source', 'Bernard Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book grew out of work my system integration firm, Navica, performed for our clients. We serve both large and small companies in a variety of industries, implementing and configuring software applications as well as developing custom systems. Itâ€™s not exactly a secret that IT budgets have been tight over the past few years, so many of our clients asked us to explore ways to deliver projects at lower cost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In our efforts to find ways to lower project costs, we came across something called open source software. Given my background in large IT shops, global consulting firms, and enterprise software companies, I was pretty skeptical about a product that promised something for nothing. The whole ethos of volunteers delivering high-quality software seemed counterintuitive to me. Furthermore, I wondered how we could obtain support and training for the product. In short, I couldnâ€™t understand how open source worked. However, I felt we had to try open source as part of our effort to do the best possible job for our clients.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our experience with open source amazed us. Far from our nightmare vision of poor quality code distributed by a flaky group of unqualified idealists, we found that robust products were available that performed more than adequatelyâ€”we were able to succeed with open source. I knew we were onto something when our clients began to ask, "What other open source software can we use in our system?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  This presented us with another problem. Many of our clients accepted without question our open source recommendations; after all, the role of a professional services firm is to serve as a trusted advisor, and these clients expected us to fulfill that role. Others, however, although not mistrusting us, would inquire how we chose the proposed product. If the project plan called for turning the system over to them after implementation, they would ask about training options and quality, where they could turn for support, and so on. Even though we had seen good results with the products we recommended, we really had no formal criteria or documentation we could point to as the basis for our recommendation. The problem was compounded if our clients needed to get approval for the project from higher-ups in the organization. The higher you go in an organization, the more formal the paperwork needs to be. It wasnâ€™t nearly enough to present a slide that, under selection criteria, stated "a guy from the system integrator heard this was a good open source product." Clearly, our clients needed something more concrete for their project approval and budget process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even if our clients would have accepted an informal method of selecting open source products for their projects, I was uncomfortable with it. A career spent creating and implementing mission-critical software has made me acutely aware of the importance of assessing software in all its dimensions: functionality, support, training, and documentation, among others. If we were going to recommend open source products as a key piece of our clientâ€™s software infrastructure, I felt we needed a more formal methodology that would assess a product along all of those dimensions before we put it into production.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Out of that came our development of the Open Source Maturity Model (OSMM). This model assesses open source products for their maturityâ€”essentially, their production-readiness. The OSMM enables one or two people to evaluate an open source product with less than a weekâ€™s work. By doing so, the model quickly identifies which products are worth a more in-depth pilot-project evaluation. Using the model has made us more comfortable with our recommendations, made our clientsâ€™ project-approval process flow much more easily, and significantly reduced our clientsâ€™ project risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As weâ€™ve created open source-based systems for our clients, Iâ€™ve concluded that all IT users share their motivations. Open source is going to be widely used throughout the industry. Its cost structure is compelling. I believe the move to open source is consistent with the cost-reduction trend in all industries via customer self-service and self-reliance. As an example, look at the airline industry. In the beginning, it delivered high-cost, full-service transportation, complete with elegant meals and personal attention. Today, airplanes get you there just as fast, but elegance is but a distant memory. Passengers book their own tickets on the Internet (Remember travel agents? Another victim of self service. . .), bring their own meals, and pay extra for a movie, all in the name of low fares. Youâ€™ll occasionally hear someone nostalgically recalling the long-gone days of elegant airline travel, usually a passenger about to step onto a Southwest Airlines jetâ€”the Greyhound bus of the sky. The obvious IT analogy is the hardware transformation driven by Dell. You get a rock-bottom price but are expected to install and configure the system yourself. I believe software is going to tread that same path: low prices (free in the case of open source) accompanied by more do-it-yourself work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because of this belief, I decided to share our experiences with open source. As it becomes more widely used, a formalized method of selecting and assessing open source software and all of its elements will be extremely useful. You can take advantage of the system we use and shorten your learning curve with open source products. There is no turning back: You will need to be more self-reliant in the future as you choose and implement software. I hope you find the material in this book useful. If you do (or, for that matter, if you donâ€™t), I would be delighted to hear from you; I can be reached at bgolden@navicasoft.com.Please visit the site to view the latest information.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Succeeding with Open Source is the first ''How-To'' book for IT managers seeking guidance on selecting and implementing open source software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reader learns the ROI for Open Source, moving their open source selection efforts from guesswork to effective deployment\n  <br />\n  Author presents the Open Source Maturity (OSM) model -- an analytical framework that supports the selection and evaluation process\n  <br />\n  A clear, practical, methodical strategy with supporting examples for a thorough plan\n </p>\n <p>\n  IT organizations are turning to open source as a result of two hot buttons: cost efficiency and the need for innovative business solutions. IT organizations need to direct their investment toward business-specific innovation and away from pure infrastructure products. Open source is therefore an increasingly popular choice for infrastructure software. However, open source software differs significantly from its commercial counterpart. Because of that, a different evaluation and selection strategy is necessary -- but until now, there has been no guide to help organizations develop an open source strategy. ''Succeeding with Open Source'' is that guide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9122');
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(15730, 'Successful Software Development', 'Scott E. Donaldson &amp; Stanley G. Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PrefaceWe must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.â€”Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, speech delivered before the first Republican convention of Illinois, May 29, 1856, The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur B. Lapsley, vol. 2, p. 249 (1905).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Successful Software Development means "the ability to produce ''good'' software systems ''consistently''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Customers want software systems to do what they are supposed to do, to be delivered on time, to be delivered for the agreed-upon cost, and to satisfy any other criteria they may specify. Sellers want the systems they develop to do what the customer wants, to be delivered ahead of schedule or on time, to earn them a reasonable profit, and to satisfy any other criteria that may govern the way they do business. Software systems satisfying both customer and seller criteria are "good." Customers and sellers also want their criteria satisfied "consistently." The software development business should not be a lottery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a practitioner''s guide for achieving successful software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Making It Happen means "implementing a ''way'' of successful software development"\n </p>\n <p>\n  There is no one "way" to develop software systems. If there were, software systems development would have been reduced to an assembly-line process long ago. People with diverse experiences and educational disciplines contribute to advances in software development methodologies, processes, techniques, practices, and tools. This rich diversity brings about different "ways" to develop "good" software systems "consistently."\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a practitioner''s guide for making successful software development happen in a way that makes sense for your environment.Who Should Read This Book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The software development business is centered on a relationship between a customer and a seller of software products and services. So, this book is for both software customers and software sellers. More specifically, the intended audience is anyone who performs one or more of the following activities:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Develops software products and software-related products\n </p>\n <p>\n  Directly manages people who do the above\n </p>\n <p>\n  Manages the above managers\n </p>\n <p>\n  Buys/uses products from the above\n </p>\n <p>\n  Educates the people above\n </p>\n <p>\n  Individuals have used the first edition of this book to complement their particular expertise. Customers have used this book to refine their business dealings with sellers. Sellers have used this book to establish or refine their "way" of developing software systems for their customers. Sellers have also used the book to provide in-house training to their marketing personnel so the marketers better understand what their businesses are selling. Customers and sellers have used the book to train their human resource personnel so they better understand what skill sets are needed for the software development business. Universities have used the book in graduate schools to teach how to be successful in the software development business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the software customer, we explain and illustrate mechanisms to effectively communicate to the software seller (1) what you want, (2) when you want it, and (3) how much you want to pay for it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the software seller, we explain and illustrate the mechanisms to effectively communicate (1) to your customer your understanding of what the customer wants and (2) among your project team members how you are going to give the customer what the customer wants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For the educator, we provide supplemental training materials for the classroom. This material is packaged in a separately available study guide that consists of the following items:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over 500 pages that recast the book''s contents as presentation material. This material is organized by chapter and lays out the material in the order that it appears in the chapter. Most of the book''s figures, or adaptations of these figures, appear in this material.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sample questions for homework assignments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sample class project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sample course syllabus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Educators can use the above material in conjunction with the companion Web site at phptr/donaldson_siegel/ to develop courses based on the book''s material. These courses can be part of a corporate training program or a college or university curriculum. The study guide material is adapted from our teaching experience in both of these environments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Regarding the presentation material in the study guide, we note that students can use this material without an instructor as a companion to the book. Example uses of this material as a companion to the book include:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before reading a chapter or part of a chapter from the book, the student can go to the corresponding study guide pages to get a quick look at the chapter or chapter part.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While reading a chapter or chapter part, the student can, in parallel, look at the corresponding study guide pages. Sometimes a different look at the same material can facilitate learning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After reading a chapter or chapter part, the student can go to the corresponding study guide pages for review purposes and quickly recall key points, concepts, and book illustrations.How Is This Software Development Book Different from Other Such Books?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lots of things go into making successful software development happen. Among the important things, effective communication, risk reduction, and an organizational "way" of successful software development stand out and are threaded throughout this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Effective communication means "transmitting information, thought, or feeling so that it is satisfactorily received or understood emphasis added."1 At the risk of oversimplification, people understand the mechanics of creating software code, but both the customer and seller have trouble understanding each other. Customers have said, "We thought we told the developers what we thought we wanted, but what they delivered is not what we wanted." Sellers have said, "We thought we understood what the customer was trying to tell us, but come to find out, what we delivered is not what the customer wanted." Therefore, for us, Successful software development is first and foremost an ongoing exercise in effective communication between the customer and the seller throughout a software project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Risk reduction means "reducing the likelihood that software systems development products will (1) not be delivered on time, (2) not be delivered within budget, and (3) not do what the seller and customer mutually agreed that the products are supposed to do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Simply stated, people understand there are risks with creating software code. However, many people do not assess risk, allocate appropriate resources to mitigate risk, monitor risk, and decide how to deal with risk. Customers have said, "We don''t have documented requirements, but we expect the system to do what it is supposed to do." In response to such customer requests, sellers have said, "No problem! The software should do what you want and we will deliver it on time." Therefore, for us,Successful software development is also an ongoing exercise in risk reduction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An organizational "way" of successful software development means "a set of processes that an organization uses to develop and maintain software and software-related products." We proceed from the premise that, as we said earlier, there is no one way to build software systems. Again, at the risk of oversimplification, customers have said, "We don''t have time to stop and plan the work to be done, just get started coding." Sellers have said, "We know what the users need, so let''s get started." Therefore, for us, A "way" of developing software systems consists of processes that (1) promote effective communication throughout software systems development and (2) continually reduce risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We present processes based on fundamental engineering and process principles that include (1) project planning, (2) change control, and (3) product and process reviews. We present a language-based measurement technology2 for evaluating software processes and the products they yield. We explain how to use such measurements to improve your processes and products. We explain how to plan process improvement to help bring about improvement in the way you develop software systems. We explain why the ideas presented work, give you suggestions on how you can make them work, and offer insights into what may not work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An organizational "way" of doing business needs to incorporate such things as the lessons learned from people''s experiences and previous software development projects. If the organizational "way" includes such experiences and lessons learned, known and/or anticipated risks are reduced, but not necessarily eliminated. Also, effective customer/seller communication reduces misunderstandings, thereby reducing the risk that a software product will not satisfy its criteria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book, therefore, presents you with techniques for effectively communicating and reducing risk. We explain and illustrate fundamental engineering and process principles for you to consider when Making It Happen in your environment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We stress that these techniques have been successfully implemented on real-world software systems development projects and programs. The size of these projects and programs ranges from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars.How Is the Book Organized?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The chapters address the following topics:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1 The first chapter presents the business case for setting up a "consistent" way of doing software systems development. The chapter also presents some fundamental concepts and terms used throughout the book. These terms and concepts establish a working vocabulary to facilitate effective communication.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 2 The second chapter presents techniques for project planning and reducing risks. Many organizations develop project plans and then start working. For us, planning is just one part of an organization''s "way" of developing software systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 3 The third chapter presents an organizational "way" (or process) for developing software systemsâ€”an organizational software systems development process. In effect, this "way" of doing business helps to set the stage for the rest of the book. There are many "best practices" for software development. The question is, "How do these practices interface with one another?" The organizational "way" presented consists of a set of related processes that embody fundamental engineering and process principles that specifically address effective communication and risk reduction. The organizational "way" presented contains a project planning process, a change control process, product and process review processes, and a measurement process. We define and explain roles, responsibilities, activities, and communication linkages. We present this "way" of developing software systems for your consideration when defining your way of doing business. We stated above a key principle regarding software developmentâ€”successful software development is an ongoing exercise in risk reduction. In the third chapter, when we present a "way" for developing software systems for your consideration, we stress the following corollary to this key principle:\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you decide under certain particular circumstances that it may make better sense not to follow your organizational way of doing business, then you should keep in mind that you might be increasing software systems development risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 4 No matter how well a project is planned, it is almost axiomatic that things will change once the project gets underway. Therefore, the fourth chapter presents the fundamental process of change control. This chapter also addresses the communications problems that plague any software systems development project. Sometimes the customer believes that the requirements were effectively communicated to the developer. Sometimes the developer believes the customer requirements were understood. Subsequent to developer implementation of the requirements, the customer and developer may have vastly different perspectives regarding requirements satisfaction. This chapter offers guidance for reducing the likelihood of such disconnects arising in your environment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 5 For us, "consistent" software development involves the systems disciplines of management, development, and product assurance. The fifth chapter presents product and process reviews from the perspectives of these three systems development disciplines. This chapter focuses on how reviews help customers and/or sellers gain visibility into project progress and risk so that intelligent, informed decisions can be made with respect to what needs to be done next.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 6 Measurement for the sake of measurement is a waste of time and resources. The sixth chapter presents practical guidance on how to express meaningful measurement in everyday language that the intended audiences agree to and understand. Meaningful measurement contributes to (1) successful software systems development projects and (2) improvements in the "way" software systems are developed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 7 Pressures such as competition generally push organizations to continue to improve their skill sets, processes, and products. The seventh chapter addresses people issues associated with maturing the organization''s "way" of doing business. Getting software systems development processes on paper to document this "way" is a challenge. However, getting people in the organization to help build this "way" and then follow it is an even more imposing challenge. We present ideas for how to deal with this challenge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 8 Finally, the eighth chapter presents guidance for planning improvements to your "way" of developing software systems. This chapter helps you select concepts from the preceding chapters to develop a process improvement approach. We discuss how to factor lessons learned from following your "way" of doing business or from not following your "way" into improvement activities. Also, we present other candidate practices for your consideration for improving your "way" of developing software systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Table P-1 highlights in more specific terms what you will learn from each chapter. Table P-1 Chapter Highlights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter Title and Purpose What You Will Learn\n </p>\n <p>\n  1 Business Caseâ€”(1) makes the business case for setting up a "consistent" way of doing software systems development and (2) introduces fundamental concepts needed for the rest of the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What successful software development means.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why investing in software process improvement to achieve consistently "good" products makes good business sense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Business way refinement/transformation is first and foremost a cultural change exercise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Successful software development must be a customer/seller partnership, where the "seller" is the software systems development enterprise and the "customer" is the buyer/user of what the seller provides.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ideas in the book are scalableâ€”they apply to customer/seller partnerships of almost any size.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ideas in this book encompass customer/seller partnerships in any business environment (e.g., commercial, government).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why the software development business does not have to be a lottery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why successful software development is not inextricably tied to individual heroics to get the job done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why there is no one way to build software systems and how this viewpoint influences the way to achieve successful software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why prescriptively applying an organization''s business way makes good business sense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What "prescriptive application of an organization''s business way" means and why prescriptive application holds the key to institutionalizing the business way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Definitions of key terms needed for the rest of the book (e.g., software, software process, software process capability, software process maturity, prescriptive application, product and process "goodness," software process improvement, life cycle, culture).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The role of organizational commitment in making successful software development happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Effective customer/seller communication is a key element of successful software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A key mechanism for effecting good customer/seller communication is the change control board (CCB).\n </p>\n <p>\n  People are the most important success factorâ€”not automated tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Requisite software systems development disciplines for achieving successâ€”management, development, product assurance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Obstacles to effecting cultural change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Making software development success happen extends far beyond (1) management edicts, (2) assembling a team of experienced and good people, and (3) a five-minute conversation with a customer and a three-week coding frenzy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternative approaches to refining/transforming an organization''s business way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A systems engineering environment (SEE) provides a means for making successful software development happenâ€”whether systems are developed sequentially or in parallel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The SEE consists of a process component (application development process environment ADPE) and a technology component (ADTE).\n </p>\n <p>\n  2Project Planning Processâ€”provides practical guidance for effectively planning software systems development work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The project plan is a living contract that binds the customer/seller partnership by setting forth the work that the seller''s management, development, and product assurance disciplines accomplish and the customer''s management approves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Life cycle''s role in project planning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Planning is an ongoing negotiation between the buyer/user and seller.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to account for the interaction among the requisite disciplinesâ€”management, development, and product assuranceâ€”throughout the project life cycle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to plan for change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Contrasting views of work accomplishmentâ€”ideal, real, and realisticâ€”and their impact on project planning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to construct a simple, but powerful, risk assessment approach for project planning use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to incorporate risk reduction explicitly into a project plan budget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to construct a risk-reduced project plan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop an ADPE element defining an organization''s project planning process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  3 Software Systems Development Processâ€”(1) defines principles for putting together an organizationwide software systems development process (SOW), where the SOW is a customer vehicle framework that fosters success and (2) illustrates these principles by defining a top-level process that you can use as a starting point for defining a software development business way for your environment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Contractual agreements that can arise in the software systems development business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to write a "good" statement of work for communicating to the seller what he/she wants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the seller can constitute a project team and define associated responsibilities to accomplish project plan work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the customer can effectively interact with the seller project team.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the seller can define a software systems development process that (1) explicitly includes the customer throughout the process and (2) can incorporate any product development life cycle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to plug the seller organization and the customer organization(s) into the software systems development process so that both sides know how business is to be transacted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More about "prescriptive application" of the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to address process issues in those environments where numerous software systems development projects are unfolding more or less in parallel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How does a life cycle plug into the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How level of detail and organizational scope are two major considerations in defining an organizational software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the software systems development process can plug into a systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to design a form that helps track a product as it winds its way through the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What are the responsibilities of the customer and the seller after the seller delivers the product to the customer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop an ADPE element defining an organization''s software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why this element is a good place to begin setting up an ADPE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  4 Change Control Processâ€”defines change control board (CCB) mechanics and provides practical guidance for setting up CCBs for your software projects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why miscommunication can plague any software systems development project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the customer and seller can have dramatically different views of the state of a product and what to do to reduce the likelihood of such different views arising.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to manage unplanned change as well as planned change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why management of all change is crucial to achieving successful software systems development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the need for managing all change mandates a CCB concept that extends far beyond the traditional configuration management control board concept.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Change control mechanics of the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to establish seller and customer accountability through the CCB.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The three scenarios governing all of change control:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Do we want something new or different?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Is something wrong?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Should we baseline the product?\n </p>\n <p>\n  CCB mechanics (e.g., what to record at CCB meetings, CCB role in traversing a project life cycle, who should be the CCB chairperson, what should be the CCB voting mechanism, what is contained in a CCB charter, how is a CCB meeting conducted, how frequently should the CCB meet).\n </p>\n <p>\n  The information requirements for CCB minutes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to write CCB minutes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When are CCB hierarchies appropriate and how they should be set up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to design change control forms that make sense for an organizational way of doing business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop an ADPE element defining the workings of CCBs in a software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Product and Process Reviewsâ€”describes the basic processes associated with the various reviews called out in Chapter 3 as a means for reducing software systems development risk and thereby achieving success.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Principles pertaining to the purpose of reviews.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to resolve key issues regarding the review process involving peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The mechanics of document reviews and acceptance testing that an independent product assurance organization conducts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to make software requirements testable so that the software systems development process can be brought to a successful conclusion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What a software audit is and its relationship to reviews.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The key role that acceptance testing plays in harmonizing seller and customer understanding of what the delivered software system and supporting databases are to contain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Senior management visibility needs and how reviews can help meet these needs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How technical editing can be incorporated into the software systems development process to help prevent compromising good engineering work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Technical editing suggestions that can be used as a starting point for constructing an organizational technical editing guide.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop ADPE elements addressing (1) independent product assurance, (2) peer reviews, and (3) the acceptance testing cycle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  6 Measurementâ€”provides practical guidance for measuring product "goodness" and the "goodness" of the software systems development process that produced the products. The focus is on how to use measurement to achieve consistent product and process "goodness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Knowing when it makes sense to try to improve the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to avoid "measurement for the sake of measurement" activities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to use an easy-to-learn and easy-to-apply measurement technique, called Object Measurement, that you can use to measure almost anything, including product and process "goodness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to establish benchmarks to give meaning to product and process measurements.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to measure customer satisfaction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to quantify the concept of product integrity as a means for assessing software product "goodness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to extend the quantified product integrity concept to the software systems development process domain to assess process "goodness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to use the product "goodness" metric to track product evolution through the software systems development process to head off product development problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to set up value scales for measuring product and process "goodness" in any environment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to measure the "goodness" of the process described in Chapter 3.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to apply Object Measurement to alternative software business improvement approaches, such as those developed by the Software Engineering Institute.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop other product and process metrics in addition to those developed using Object Measurement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to integrate measurement into the software systems development process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to couple product and process measurements to facilitate improvements in the way software systems are developed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop an ADPE element to (1) quantify where an organization is productwise and processwise, (2) quantify differences from this baseline assessment, (3) establish quantitative product and process goals, (4) quantify progress toward achieving these goals, and (5) define the approach for incorporating process and product improvements based on the measurement activity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  7 Cultural Changeâ€”addresses human issues bearing on bringing about organizationwide cultural change during implementation of your systems engineering environment (SEE).\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to anticipate and manage the cultural changes that go hand in hand with any program designed to refine or alter the software systems development process through the establishment of an SEE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The role in bringing about cultural change of the organization responsible for writing the ADPE elements and seeing to it that they are implemented and continually improved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to deal with the challenges to ADPE implementation arising from the seller project-level individuals who will have to adapt to the ADPE practices that govern their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to deal with the challenges to ADPE implementation arising from those customer individuals responsible for giving direction to seller project managers for accomplishing project work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The impact on customer senior management that ADPE implementation brings about.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The key role that seller senior management plays in effecting software systems development cultural change through ADPE implementation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How business pressures affect seller senior management support for ADPE implementation and how to alleviate these pressures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How "prescriptive application" of the software systems development process relates to empowerment and bringing about cultural change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The customer''s role in ADPE implementation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The role of training in effecting cultural change associated with ADPE implementation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to sell ADPE implementation as a career growth opportunity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The organizational factors bearing upon how long it takes to bring about cultural change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why an ADPE element defining the ADPE element development and updating process is intimately tied to organizational cultural change.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to develop an ADPE element defining the ADPE element development and updating process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  8 Process Improvement Planningâ€”provides practical guidance on how to write an SEE implementation plan. This plan serves as a roadmap for doing the things discussed in the preceding chapters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to write an SEE implementation plan whose accomplishment can bring about organizationwide software process improvement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Factors bearing on the following 19 key SEE implementation issues and how to address these issues in an SEE implementation plan:\n </p>\n <p>\n  What are timeline considerations for SEE implementation tasks and their phasing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How should ADPE elements be phased in?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What ADPE elements should be included in your SEE?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How should the ADPE be constitutedâ€”(1) from a small number of elements (i.e., approximately ten), each with tens of pages or more, or (2) from a large number of elements (i.e., tens or more), each consisting of a couple of pages, or (3) some combination of (1) and (2)?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How frequently should an ADPE element be updated?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What amount of detail should be included in individual ADPE elements?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How can you define a plan for an application development technology environment (ADTE) for your organization?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you package ADPE elements and related items?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How should ADPE implementation be handled if your organization is small?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is an austere SEE implementation approach?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How can mentoring and coaching be leveraged to facilitate implementation of ADPE practices?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What strategies can be adopted to meet the cultural change challenges posed by SEE implementation?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you deal with the business reality of the almighty dollar in bringing about ADPE implementation?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you account for the reality that people within an organization span a broad spectrum of willingness to adapt to the engineering environment?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who should develop the SEE in your organization?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you frame an SEE implementation policy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you plan ADPE implementation improvement at the project level?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How can process and product measurement be integrated with your organizational process?\n </p>\n <p>\n  How should you structure an SEE implementation plan?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Appendix A How to Measure Strategic Information Management (SIM)â€”provides you with insight into applying Object Measurement outside a software context.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What strategic information management (SIM) is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How to measure the improvements of an organization''s performance in terms of SIM.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why the quantification of SIM is of interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What Are the Book''s Main Features?\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book features the following items to help you make successful software development happen in your environment:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annotated outlines to help you overcome the blank-page syndrome in committing to writing down your desired "way" of doing business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over 200 figures to help you quickly assimilate ideas and their relationships.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A list of key ideas at the outset of each chapter to help you work your way through the chapter and organize what you want to take from it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Process diagrams that you can easily adapt to your environment so that (1) if you are a seller, you can set up a way of consistently producing "good" software systems, and (2) if you are a customer, you can direct a seller to work with you to give you what you want, on time, and within budget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worked-out examples containing sufficient detail so that you can adapt the concepts illustrated to your organization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An easy-to-learn and easy-to-apply measurement technique, called Object Measurement, that you can use to measure almost anything, including product "goodness" and process "goodness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Easy-to-assimilate techniques for analyzing your organizational culture and determining how to evolve this culture toward achieving success in the software business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A simple and powerful technique to (1) assess software project risk and (2) produce a risk-reduced project plan, thereby increasing the likelihood of project success.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detailed treatment of 19 key process improvement issues that explains how to construct a process improvement program that makes sense for your organization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An index that facilitates quick retrieval of concepts, outlines, and techniques.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the end of the book, we include an annotated bibliography. Most of the bibliographic entries have been selected because of their practitioner bent. This bibliography is intended to (1) point you to alternative treatments of topics that we discuss, (2) help you gain greater insight into topics that we address, and (3) help you pursue topics that we only touch upon that may be of greater interest to you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We stress that this book is not tied to the use of any particular software systems development technology. You will find this book helpful whether you are using object-oriented technology, Unified Modeling Language (UML), automated tools, prototyping, or some combination of these and other technologies.How Does an Organization Institutionalize Its Engineering and Process Principles?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book''s central concept for housing an organization''s "way" of doing software systems development business is the systems engineering environment (SEE). The SEE consists of the following two complementary components:\n </p>\n <p>\n  An application development process environment (ADPE)\n </p>\n <p>\n  An application development technology environment (ADTE)The ADPE is that set of policies, guidelines, procedures, and standards defining an organization''s "way" of doing business. These entities we call "ADPE elements." The ADTE is that set of technologies (e.g., personal computers, networks, and automated tools) used to develop the organization''s software products and software-related products. The book focuses on the ADPE because its elements define the software systems development process. We show you how to capture software development concepts in a handful of these elements. We also give you practical guidance for taking the words in these elements and infusing them into your organization. This infusion (i.e., institutionalizing) is perhaps the most challenging aspect of maturing your organization''s software systems development capability--because change is mostly emotional, not cognitive.Please join us now by turning to Chapter 1.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A systematic approach to consistently successful software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the age of the Internet, where software is more mission-critical than ever, it''s no longer enough for your development projects to succeed some of the time. You need to deliver excellence, consistentlyâ€”and you must do it faster than ever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Successful Software Development proceeds from the fact that there is no one way to develop software systems and introduces a model for a mature software development process that accommodates flexibility, the Systems Engineering Environment (SEE). This model comprises two fundamental, interlocked elements: the policies and procedures that define how software development is performed and the technologies available to get the job done. Using the SEE framework, learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Understand and "sell" the business case for software improvement\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Establish and nourish an ongoing, productive dialogue between developers and customers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage the multiple constituencies, personalities, issues, and egos that complicate software development\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create plans that reflect the need for changeâ€”and take into account real-world risks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Write clearer, more useful contracts and statements of work\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Successful Software Development\n  </em>\n  includes over 200 figures, process diagrams, and annotated outlinesâ€”all designed to help you understand and implement better processes quickly and with less resistance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book''s techniques will work with any software quality methodology you choose, as well as SEI''s capability maturity models and ISO 9000. They will work with any development technology, from CASE to object-oriented design to rapid prototyping. And they will work for you whether you''re a programmer, manager, or customer. When it comes to delivering better software, if you need to get results, you need this book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9569'),
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(15733, 'Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development', 'Tim Bowler &amp; Wojciech Bancer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Design, develop, and deploy feature-rich, high-performance PHP web applications using the Symfony framework\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create powerful web applications by leveraging the power of this Model-View-Controller-based framework\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Covers all the new features of version 1.3 - many exciting plug-ins for you\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn by doing without getting into too much theoretical detail - create a "real-life" milkshake store application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes best practices to shorten your development time and improve performance\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In Detail With its flexible architecture, the Symfony framework allows you to build modern web applications and web services easily and rapidly. The MVC components separate the logic from the user interface and therefore make developing, changing, and testing your applications much faster. Using Symfony you can minimize repetitive coding tasks, optimize performance, and easily integrate with other libraries and frameworks.Although this framework contains with many powerful features, most developers do not exploit Symfony to its full potential.This book makes it easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional-looking web site utilizing the many features of Symfony. Taking you through a real-life application, it covers all major Symfony framework features without pushing you into too much theoretical detail, as well as throwing some light on the best practices for rapid application development.This book takes you through detailed examples as well as covering the foundations that you will need to get the most out of the Symfony framework. You will learn to shorten the development time of your complex applications and maintain them with ease. You will create several useful plug-ins and add them to your application and automate common tasks. The book also covers best practices and discussions on security and optimization. You will learn to utilize all major features of this framework by implementing them in your application.By the end, you should have a good understanding of the development features of Symfony (for Propel as well as Doctrine editions), and be able to deploy a high-performance web site quite easily. What you will learn from this book?\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Set up the foundations for a database-driven web site using Symfony\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create a list of products by accessing data from a database, paginate the menu, and then customize its look\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create forms--from simple contact forms to complex ones--with user-defined fields using sfFormExtraPlugin\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Send email notifications to the customers using PHP SwiftMailer library\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create quick development task plug-ins to save your development time and package them into your application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Configure and customize Symfony''s admin generator to create a nice looking back-office\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Secure your backend application with the Symfony authentication mechanism, leveraging the power of the sfGuardPlug-in security and authentication plug-in\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create an advanced admin panel with JavaScript that allows image files to be uploaded and thumbnails to be automatically generated\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Enhance your search mechanism by using the JQueryAutoComplete Widget to add an auto-complete feature to it\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Allow your users to choose their preferred language for display by introducing internationalization and localization to your application\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Integrate a component from another framework into your application with minimum effort\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Optimize the response time of your site by using compression and caching\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This book is an example driven tutorial that takes you through the process of building Model-View-Controller-based web applications. You will create and develop an online store application. It also covers best practices for better and quicker application development. Who this book is written for? This book is for PHP web developers who want to get started with Symfony 1.3. If you are already using Symfony 1.0 or are new to Symfony, you will learn how to use it in the best way to produce better applications faster.Basic knowledge of Object Oriented design and ORM will be quite helpful.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9082'),
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(15736, 'Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook', 'Susan Snedaker &amp; Russ Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As the late management guru Peter Drucker once said, â€œPlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.â€ The intent of this book is not to lead you through long, arduous planning processes while hackers are stealing your network out from under you. The intent is to provide you with effective network security planning tools so that you can â€œdegenerate into hard workâ€ as quickly as possible to keep your network secure with the least amount of effort.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than losing sleep at night wondering whoâ€™s wandering around your network in the dark, you can create a comprehensive security solution for your company that will meet your security needs today and will allow you to address new security requirements in the future. This book is designed to help you do exactly that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Analyze the Cost of Prevention Versus Remediation\n  <br />\n  How to determine if preventing a security breach is less costly than fixing it once it occurs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Identify the Right Project Management Team\n  <br />\n  Determine who will be affected and make certain they are on board from the start.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Monitor IT Security Project Quality\n  <br />\n  Many companies must comply with specific monitoring requirements to meet industry or governmental regulations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)\n  <br />\n  Be sure that your WBS tasks are at the same level by keeping the level of detail consistent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Create Reliable Documentation\n  <br />\n  Your documentation should be well defined and completed in as near real time as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Implement Individual Security Analysis Programs (ISAPs)\n  <br />\n  Testing requires an active â€œpushâ€ against security areas to ensure they donâ€™t collapse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Close the Issues Log, Change Requests, and Error Reports\n  <br />\n  Addressing known issues in a reasonable manner and documenting those resolutions are important elements of reducing risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Review Legal Standards Relevant to Your Project\n  <br />\n  Failure to understand the legal implications may leave your company at substantial legal risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â· Walk Through a Complete Plan\n  <br />\n  Includes a step-by-step security project plan for a security assessment and audit project.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The definitive work for IT professionals responsible for the management of the design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise wide security projects provides specialized coverage of key project areas including penetration testing, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and access control systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9564'),
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(15740, 'Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies', 'John O&#39;donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Responding to the specific needs of each student, personalized learning has the potential to refocus education on the individual rather than the institution.\n  <strong>\n   Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies\n  </strong>\n  explores the metaphor of anytime and anywhere individual education as well as the idea of tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. A critical mass of the most sought after industry findings, this innovative collection explores a variety of leading research in educational skills, knowledge, expertise, and experience to create the perfect learning space for each person.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John O Donoghue\n  </strong>\n  initially taught in a social priority area school, moving later to post graduate lecturing, advising and consultancy for both initial teaching training and education departments and more recently a within a National ICT Research Unit. He has held the position of chair and president of the Association for Learning Technology and has hosted a number of regional, national and international conferences. O Donoghue has held honorary research fellowships at universities across the globe. He now holds a visiting research fellowship at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Currently, Professor O''Donoghue was appointed Professor of Learning and Technology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. O Donoghue was previously a Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Wolverhampton. He is also a consultant and an advocate of the global classroom. He sits on a number of review, editorial and programme committees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9448'),
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(15744, 'The Temptation of Elminster', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11988');
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(15745, 'The Tenants', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The building does not have thirteenth floor: fourteenth immediately follows twelfth. But three very strange-looking gentlemen want to rent it nevertheless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9984'),
(15746, 'Terapia', 'David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6929'),
(15747, 'Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security', 'Hsinchun Chen &amp; Edna Reid &amp; Joshua Sinai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The wide variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are derived from Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Public Policy and these methods are involved in the collection of huge amounts of information from varied and multiple sources and of many types in numerous languages. Information fusion and information technology analysis techniques--which include data mining, data integration, language translation technologies, and image and video processing--play central roles in the prevention, detection, and remediation of terrorism. While there has been substantial investment on computer technology research applications to terrorism, much of the results and the literature has been a fragmented hodgepodge that is too narrowly focused on unconnected and unlinked discipline domains. As a result, there has been little effort to relate the research across the discipline domains from which terrorism informatics is drawn.Â TERROR INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security will provide an interdisciplinary and comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of terrorism informatics domain along three basic dimensions: methodological issues in terrorism research; information infusion techniques to support terrorism prevention, detection, and response; and legal, social, privacy, and data confidentiality challenges and approaches. The book will bring "knowledge" that can be used by scientists, security professionals, counterterrorism experts, and policy makers.Â The book will be organized into three major subject areas:Part I will focus on the methodological issues in terrorism research. The methodological issues that impact trends, achievements, root causes, and failures in terrorism research will be treated within the context of the methods of retrieving and developing, sharing, and implementing terrorism informatics methodologies and resources. Part II will focus on three major areas of terrorism research: prevention, detection, and established governmental responses to terrorism. This section will systematically examine the current and ongoing research including recent case studies and application of terrorism informatics techniques. Examples of such techniques are web mining, social network analysis, and multimodal event extraction, analysis to the terrorism phenomenon, etc. Part III will present the critical and relevant social/technical areas to terrorism research including social, privacy, data confidentiality, and legal challenges.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7695'),
(15748, 'Test Of The Twins', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2787'),
(15749, 'A theory of uncheetable program plagiarism detection and its practical implementation', 'Xin Chen &amp; Ming Li &amp; Brian Mckinnon &amp; Amit Seker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9489'),
(15750, 'Think Python. An introduction to Software Design', 'Allen Downey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6157'),
(15751, 'Think Python. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist', 'Allen Downey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6158'),
(15752, 'Thorns', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other peopleâ€™s pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveler whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again differently. Burrisâ€™ pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen.\n <br />\n <br />\n Attention: the text lacks aithorâ€™s italic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11233'),
(15753, 'Those Who Watch', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The novel concerns a trio of alien explorers, each one surgically altered so that they outwardly appear human, who find themselves separated, and permanently stranded on Earth, after their ship explodes while hovering in low orbit. Each of the aliens is injured during the accident, and all are taken in and nursed back to health by kindly human beings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11170'),
(15754, 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-likeâ€”or perhaps Satanicâ€”takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11803'),
(15755, 'Tiempo de cambios', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n En Borthan, un planeta colonizado cientos de aÃ±os atrÃ¡s, la humanidad vive en paz, sin embargo el precio pagado parece demasiado elevado: nada es considerado mÃ¡s obsceno que el compartir los propios sentimientos con otro humano, y se ha prohibido el uso de la palabra â€œyoâ€. Kinnall Darival es un hombre que lo tiene todo en la vida para ser feliz. Solo una cosa le perturba: las convenciones sociales le impiden expresar sus sentimientos a la persona amada. Cuando conoce a Scxhweiz, un comerciante de la Tierra, este le ofrece una sustancia mÃ¡gica capaz de derribar los muros entre las almas de los hombres. El sistema de valores de Darival se trastoca y experimenta cada vez mÃ¡s dudas que le conducirÃ¡n a ser un proscrito entre los suyos y a provocar el dolor entre aquellos a los que ama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11191'),
(15756, 'Tiempo de mutantes', 'Robert Silverberg &amp; Karen Haber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cuando llega el invierno, los mutantes se reÃºnenâ€¦ Siempre han vivido en la sombra, pero cerca de la sociedad normal. Ignorados, marginados, han sobrevivido recluidos en clanes invisibles, usando sus extraordinarias facultades psÃ­quicas para escudarse contra la intolerancia, en fanatismo y el aborrecimiento que inspira a los normales, hasta ahoraâ€¦\n <br />\n El primer lÃ­der mutante, que ha emergido a la luz para reclamar iguales derechos que el resto de los mortales, es asesinado.\n <br />\n Encontrar al asesino es la difÃ­cil misiÃ³n de un grupo de mutantes. Entre ellos estÃ¡n Michael, confuso entre la lealtad al clan y su amor por una persona normal; Melanie, sola entre los mutantes y rechazada por los normales; y Jean, que usa su poder psÃ­quico y su sexualidad de mutante para obtener todo aquello que mÃ¡s desea.\n <br />\n Como sociedad deben luchar contra su entorno, ocultando sus miedos hasta encontrar un medio que proteja sus intimidades, sus amores y sus vidas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11273'),
(15757, 'Time Bomb', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A collection of short fiction by this prize-winning science fiction writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(15758, 'Time Bomb And Zahndry Others', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4593'),
(15759, 'Time in Advance', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in 1956.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9980'),
(15760, 'A Time of Changes', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A spellbinding tale of a tradition-bound centuries-old Earth Colony and an Earthman who offers a magic drug that tears down the walls between menâ€™s souls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11319'),
(15761, 'Time of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman &amp; Michael Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness--to bring it under his control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Made aware of Raistlinâ€™s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlinâ€™s soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Or so he believes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Margaret Weis\n  </strong>\n  is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-seller\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n  </em>\n  . She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tracy Hickman\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to his work on several Dragonlance novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel\n  <em>\n   The Immortals\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4558'),
(15762, 'Time Out of Joint', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11675'),
(15763, 'Timpul dezarticulat', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4723'),
(15764, 'The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org', 'Benjamin Horst', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Home and educational computer users and company IT groups that are considering widespread deployment of OpenOffice.org will use this succinct reference to make more efficient use of the suite. The three major platforms are covered in detail: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X making this the essential starter''s guide to acquiring and using the suite. Each componentâ€”Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Data Source tools, Web, and the Formula toolâ€”is treated to a thorough yet concise collection of how-to topics providing everything needed to become proficient OpenOffice users. In addition, this guide addresses downloading and installing OpenOffice.org, working with users of Microsoft Office and other similar programs, participating in and benefiting from the open source community of developers and users, and finding more help and information online.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Benjamin Horst is a freelance consultant and web developer. He is a memeber of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project and led the OpenOffice.org migration strategies at its Open Source Innovation Center.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7799'),
(15765, 'The Titan', 'Theodore Dreiser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10454'),
(15766, 'To Live Again', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Imagine a future world where death is not exactly the end. You can record everything about you that ever made you a distinct human being and then be implanted in the mind of someone living.\n <br />\n Paul Kaufmann had been the richest and most powerful man on Earth. Imagine having his knowledge and insights integrated with your own persona. The tycoon''s mind becomes the prize in a deadly game for those still living who want more out of life than they could ever achieve on their own. The great man''s "soul" is stored in the Scheffing Institute, waiting for the time when someone hungry enough gives him back his appetite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11282'),
(15767, 'Toamna patriarhului', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8538'),
(15768, 'Toate numele', 'Saramago, Jose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4801'),
(15769, 'Tom O&#39;Bedlam', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Robert Silverberg, znakomity twÃ³rca Å›ciance fiction, znany jest polskiemu czytelnikowi z wielu powieÅ›ci, z ktÃ³rych najbardziej cenione to â€žCzÅ‚owiek z labiryntuâ€ i â€žRodzÄ…c siÄ™ umieramyâ€.\n <br />\n Jego kolejna ksiÄ…Å¼ka opowiada o chylÄ…cej siÄ™ ku upadkowi cywilizacji Ziemi poczÄ…tku XXII wieku. Przemoc i gwaÅ‚t staÅ‚y siÄ™ codziennoÅ›ciÄ…. RozkwitajÄ… fanatyczne sekty, Å›wiat zostaÅ‚ pozbawiony nadziei. I wtedy pojawia siÄ™ tytuÅ‚owy bohaterÂ â€” zdolny do nawiÄ…zania telepatycznego kontaktu z obcymi cywilizacjami.\n <br />\n Czy jego dar jest wybawieniem dla ludzkoÅ›ci, czy teÅ¼ narzÄ™dziem jej ostatecznej zagÅ‚ady?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11287'),
(15770, 'The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining', 'Xindong Wu &amp; Vipin Kumar', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Best-Known Algorithms Currently Used in the Data Mining Community Contributions from recognized leaders in the field Identifying some of the most influential algorithms that are widely used in the data mining community, The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining provides a description of each algorithm, discusses its impact, and reviews current and future research. Thoroughly evaluated by independent reviewers, each chapter focuses on a particular algorithm and is written by either the original authors of the algorithm or world-class researchers who have extensively studied the respective algorithm. The book concentrates on the following important algorithms: C4.5, k-Means, SVM, Apriori, EM, PageRank, AdaBoost, kNN, Naive Bayes, and CART. Examples illustrate how each algorithm works and highlight its overall performance in a real-world application. The text covers key topicsa "including classification, clustering, statistical learning, association analysis, and link mininga "in data mining research and development as well as in data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence courses. By naming the leading algorithms in this field, this book encourages the use of data mining techniques in a broader realm of real-world applications. It should inspire more data mining researchers to further explore the impact and novel research issues of these algorithms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7115'),
(15771, 'Topics in Contemporary Mathematics', 'Ignacio Bello &amp; Jack Rolf Britton &amp; Anton Kaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Through a unique problem-solving approach that enables non-math majors to see math at work in the contemporary world, this highly accessible text helps students develop techniques and methods that will be invaluable to them throughout their lives and careers. Special examples are presented in a two-column format with the easy-to-remember instructions, RSTUV (Read, Select, Think of a plan, Use the techniques, and Verify). More than 500 examples and 4100 carefully developed exercises cover a wide range of topics and provide both instructor and student with flexibility in choosing computational, drill, or conceptual problems. Real-world applications motivate students and hold their interest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7643'),
(15772, 'Torre di cristallo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Al di lÃ  del completo panorama di un mondo futuro, questo romanzo eccezionale ci invita a riflettere sulla definizione dellâ€™uomo e dellâ€™intelligenza e ci mostra una ricerca di comunicazione che Ã¨ giÃ  di per sÃ© profondamente religiosa. Ãˆ lâ€™anno 2218. In questa societÃ  di viaggi istantanei e di uomini artificialiÂ â€” gli â€œandroidiâ€Â â€” comincia a sorgere sulla tundra artica la torre di Simeon Krug: un titanico trasmettitore, destinato a rispondere ai segnali provenienti dallo spazio. Krug Ã¨ dominato dallâ€™ansia di parlare con le stelle, ma non si accorge che intorno a lui sta per scoppiare una crisi: senza saperlo, egli Ã¨ diventato una figura divina, e ora le sue responsabilitÃ  sono quelle di un dio.\n <br />\n Krug Ã¨ stato deificato dagli androidi che egli stesso progetta e costruisce, e tra gli androidi primeggia lâ€™â€œalfaâ€ Thor Guardiano, braccio destro di Krug ed esponente di un movimento segreto basato sulla fede che Krug libererÃ  gli androidi dalla schiavitÃ¹. CosÃ¬, mentre la torre continua a innalzarsi emblematicamente, la tempesta sociale e personale sâ€™addensa intorno ai protagonisti, fino a raggiungere un vertice narrativo e drammatico raramente toccato dalla fantascienza.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11205'),
(15773, 'Tower of Glass', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simeon Krug has a visionÂ â€” and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower heâ€™s constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But, Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger knows no bounds... and it threatens much more than the tower.\n <br />\n Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1970.\n <br />\n Nominated for Hugo and Locus Award in 1971.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11189'),
(15774, 'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11696'),
(15775, 'Triadic Game Design', 'Casper Harteveld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. This has led to an increasing number of attempts to apply games meaningfully. Games have been developed from teaching students about history, making patients adhere in taking their medicine, to recruiting personnel for the military and collecting data to improve search engines. Yet, little is known on how to design such games. This book is one of the first to look into the fundamentals of designing any game with a serious purpose and provides a way of thinking on how to design one successfully.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on the personal design experience of the author as well as dozens of examples, the reader will be introduced to a design philosophy called â€œTriadic Game Design.â€ This argues that all games involve three worlds: the worlds of Reality, Meaning, and Play. Each world is affiliated with different people, disciplines, aspects, and criteria. The philosophy also posits that a balance needs to be found within and between the three worlds. Such a balance is difficult to achieve, during the design many tensions will arise, forcing designers to make trade-offs. To deal with these tensions and to ensure that the right decisions are made to create a harmonic game, a frame of reference is needed. This is what\n  <em>\n   Triadic Game Design\n  </em>\n  offers. And this is what makes it an invaluable tool for practitioners and researchers who are interested in using and designing games that have a real world impact.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Casper Harteveldâ€™s disciplinary backgroundÂ includes: organization science, social and cognitive psychology, and gaming. His scientific expertise covers the design and use of serious games, human-computer interaction and sensemaking. Casper Harteveldâ€™s areas of application include the application of games in soil engineering, and virtual worlds such asÂ Second LifeÂ and Active Worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Casper Harteveld holds an MSc in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, a BSc in Psychology, and a BSc in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Casper Harteveldâ€™s professional experience includes working as a game designer on the game Levee Patroller, independently working on a cross-cultural assessment tool at the Capacity Development department for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and working as a research and teaching assistant at the Delft University of Technology.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7686'),
(15776, 'Triplet', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(15777, 'Tronul Lumii Inelare', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4920'),
(15778, 'The Trouble With Higher Education: A Critical Examination of Our Universities', 'Trevor Hussey &amp; Patrick Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Trouble with Higher Education\n  </em>\n  is a powerful and topical critique of the Higher Education system in the UK, with relevance to countries with similar systems. Â Based on the authorsâ€™ experiences that span over 30+ years of fieldwork, the issues discussed focus on the problems facing the principle responsibilities of universities: teaching, learning and research.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first half of the book identifies a number of problems that have followed the growth of mass education. Â It examines their causes and explains their damaging effects. Â The second half of the book offers a broad vision and makes a number of practical suggestions for ameliorating the problems and improving higher education. Â Supported by research, the suggestions include: ways of managing universities; proper inspection; better ways of organising studentsâ€™ learning; improving teaching and learning; better approaches to assessment, and the proper use of ideas such as learning outcomes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topics discussed include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Chronic under-funding, the replacement of student grants with loans and the introduction of tuition fees.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The growth of managerialism.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The emphasis on accountability and decline of trust.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The growth of a competitive, market ethos.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Modular degrees, knowledge treated as a commodity and students seen as customers.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The drift towards a two-tiered system, with teaching colleges and research universities.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Casualisation of the academic profession.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Trouble with Higher Education\n  </em>\n  is aimed primarily at a professional audience of academics, educationalists, managers, administrators and policy makers, but would interest anyone concerned about higher education. Â It is suited to professional development courses, and Masterâ€™s and doctoral level studies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trevor Hussey is professor emeritus of philosophy at Buckinghamshire New University and is now a part-time tutor in the University of Oxford.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patrick Smith is Professor of Learning and Teaching at Buckinghamshire New University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9468'),
(15779, 'Tutorial on Network Programming with Python', 'Norman Matloff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6159'),
(15780, 'Tutorial Python', 'Guido van Rossum &amp; Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Tutorial Python\n </div>\n <div>\n  Versiune 2.2\n </div>\n <div>\n  Guido van Rossum &amp;Â \n </div>\n <div>\n  Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6160'),
(15781, 'Ubik', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4858'),
(15782, 'The Ugly Little Boy', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11073'),
(15783, 'Ultima noapte de dragoste intiia noapte de razboi', 'Camil Petrescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4841'),
(15784, 'The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator&#39;s Guide', 'Robert Williams &amp; Mark Walla', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Windows Server 2003 is more an update of Windows 2000 than a new operating system. This latest version of the base Windows NT technology now expands to support Microsoft''s .NET Framework and new security initiatives. This book reflects these changes by expanding our previous book, The Ultimate Windows 2000 System Administrator''s Guide. Mindful that Windows 2000 will continue to be deployed, this book not only reflects the new features of Windows Server 2003 but also provides continued support for Windows 2000 administrators.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 are complex, feature-rich operating systems whose deployment in an enterprise requires highly skilled individuals to support its installation, maintenance, and optimization. These individuals are aided by the abundance of tools and wizards for effective operating-system management that Microsoft has provided. Indeed, many of the enhanced tools should shift the traditional role of administrator to that of proactive manager of computing environments. Thus, the depth of function, flexibility, and granularity of Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 ultimately represents both opportunity and challenge for system administration.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is written to help you succeed in the administration of the Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server family. Much of the information it provides is also applicable to the desktop Professional versions of the software. Although the use and management of client software is incorporated, the server side is clearly our primary focus. In this preface we provide a framework for the primary topics covered, define the target audience, and describe how to use this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR\n </p>\n <p>\n  Windows Server 2003 will not eliminate the system administrator. To the contrary, features such as the Active Directory and the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) will vastly broaden this role. Rather than spend time on mundane tasks and the management of dozens of disjointed tools, the consolidated approach provided by Windows Server 2003 will free the administrator to concentrate on more mission-critical activities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The functions of the Windows Server 2003 system administrator are generally those that support the user population and those that support the system. The following list summarizes the most common responsibilities:\n </p>\n <p>\n  USER-ORIENTED TASKS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Addition and removal of users\n </p>\n <p>\n  Group management\n </p>\n <p>\n  User application support\n </p>\n <p>\n  End-user customer service, education, and communication\n </p>\n <p>\n  Management of basic services such as mail and printing\n </p>\n <p>\n  SYSTEM-ORIENTED TASKS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Booting, shutdown, and everything in between\n </p>\n <p>\n  Backups and restoration\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardware maintenance, additions, and removal\n </p>\n <p>\n  System accounting and monitoring\n </p>\n <p>\n  System administration logs\n </p>\n <p>\n  System security and password aging\n </p>\n <p>\n  Network support\n </p>\n <p>\n  General troubleshooting\n </p>\n <p>\n  Obviously, this list only scratches the surface of system administration and IT management. However, as a means of setting the reader''s expectations, it does underscore the types of activities for which this book can be a guide.\n </p>\n <p>\n  BASIS OF OUR RESEARCH\n </p>\n <p>\n  In preparing this book, we used three primary sources of information. First, we relied heavily on our combined professional experience in application development, system administration, and IT management. Unlike many books written on theory by technical writers, our recommendations did not emerge from a vacuum but are based on reality and experiences. We hope the knowledge and experience we bring to this book will assist our fellow IT professionals to manage an enterprise as effectively as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Second, we used observations from system administrators in the field to provide "reality checks" to our conclusions. Theoretical understanding of Windows Server 2003 is a nice beginning, but it is no substitute for the actual experience of system administrators. Because Windows Server 2003 is a new product, one of our primary sources was Microsoft''s Beta Program and the participants'' experiences with final beta and final release versions of the operating system.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finally, we performed numerous tests and simulated real-world environments in an extensive laboratory environment. The tests centered primarily on the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition server versions; however, Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, and Windows XP Professional were also tested, and we refer to them periodically as client software within the broader enterprise framework. Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, was not available for testing at the time this book was written, so references to it are based on published Microsoft specifications. Where differences exist in the version levels, we call attention to them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  AUDIENCE\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator''s Guide was written for system administrators and other IT professionals who manage a Windows environment. Administrators coming from other operating-system environments, such as UNIX, will find numerous familiar technologies as well as many significant conceptual differences. Seasoned Windows 2000 and NT administrators will find many familiar aspects, but many significant differences as well, that will require a general updating of their technical skills. The addition of the Active Directory, a new domain model, advanced authentication technologies, and the enhanced MMC are just a few examples of entirely new or expanded operating-system features.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our aim was to produce an intermediate reference guide for administrators, leaving out specialized architectural and programming topics. Thus, this book should be used to gain an understanding of key concepts and for common "how-to" walk-through support. Experienced professionals should find the discussions of operating-system migration and the use of the new enhanced tools valuable. Those with moderate system administration experience can also benefit, but we assume these readers already have hands-on operating-system experience. Novices will need to learn network and operating-system fundamentals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attempting to provide useful information to an audience of system administrators was a challenge. Inevitably, some of this book''s material may appear either overly basic or too advanced, and depending on a reader''s level of experience, some discussions will be more helpful than others. To accommodate this wide variance in knowledge, we cover each major topic first from a conceptual basis and then expand this foundation with discussions on applying specific, advanced Windows Server 2003 functions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  System administrators coming from UNIX might find our sister publication, Windows NT and UNIX: Administration, Coexistence, Integration, and Migration (Addison-Wesley, 1998), very helpful. For Windows 2000 administrators, look at The Ultimate Windows 2000 System Administrator''s Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2000).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "This book will be a supportive resource to help you know how to use the tools and features Microsoft shipped, but even better, Williams and Walla guide you through enough of the product internals to approach administration more strategically."\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€”From the Foreword by Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Windows Division, Microsoft Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows NT, is designed to accommodate the seamless exchange of information through Web services. It delivers the increased flexibility and power needed to administer networks as global entities, but its enhanced management tools and security features present as many challenges as opportunities.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator''s Guide\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  will help readers negotiate these challenges and exploit the opportunities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Williams and Mark Walla take readers from an understanding of basic concepts to the application of advanced functions. This comprehensive book begins with the fundamentals of Windows 2000 system administration and applies them to Windows Server 2003. The book then details the planning, deployment, administration, and management of a Windows Server system, and follows up with complete coverage of advanced tools and theory. This book concludes with a quick reference to the most important Windows .NET commands and utilities.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Key topics include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Windows Server 2003 features, structure, planning, and installation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Migration from Windows NT and Windows 2000\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Microsoft Management Console\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Active Directory management and use\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   User management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Group Policy\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Security, including IP security\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Printer and file services and networking basics\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Virtual private networks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Disk and backup management and disaster recovery\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Terminal and Internet Information Services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cluster and indexing services, and message queuing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   System Management Server\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Windows 2000 administration support\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In this book, system administrators and other IT professionals will find the essential information needed to succeed in the administration of the Windows .NET and Windows 2000 Server families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0201791064B04072003\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6429'),
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(15790, 'Understanding the Linux Kernel', 'Daniel Plerre Bovet &amp; Marco Cesati', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In order to thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it works so well on a wide variety of systems, you need to delve deep into the heart of the kernel. The kernel handles all interactions between the CPU and the external world, and determines which programs will share processor time, in what order. It manages limited memory so well that hundreds of processes can share the system efficiently, and expertly organizes data transfers so that the CPU isn''t kept waiting any longer than necessary for the relatively slow disks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The third edition of\n  <em>\n   Understanding the Linux Kernel\n  </em>\n  takes you on a guided tour of the most significant data structures, algorithms, and programming tricks used in the kernel. Probing beyond superficial features, the authors offer valuable insights to people who want to know how things really work inside their machine. Important Intel-specific features are discussed. Relevant segments of code are dissected line by line. But the book covers more than just the functioning of the code; it explains the theoretical underpinnings of why Linux does things the way it does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This edition of the book covers Version 2.6, which has seen significant changes to nearly every kernel subsystem, particularly in the areas of memory management and block devices. The book focuses on the following topics:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Memory management, including file buffering, process swapping, and Direct memory Access (DMA)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Virtual Filesystem layer and the Second and Third Extended Filesystems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Process creation and scheduling\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Signals, interrupts, and the essential interfaces to device drivers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Timing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Synchronization within the kernel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interprocess Communication (IPC)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Program execution\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Understanding the Linux Kernel\n  </em>\n  will acquaint you with all the inner workings of Linux, but it''s more than just an academic exercise. You''ll learn what conditions bring out Linux''s best performance, and you''ll see how it meets the challenge of providing good system response during process scheduling, file access, and memory management in a wide variety of environments. This book will help you make the most of your Linux system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9893'),
(15791, 'Uniatismul din Transilvania INCERCARE DE DEZBINARE A POPORULUI ROMAN', 'Pr. Prof. DUMITRU STANILOAE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6945'),
(15792, 'Unit Test Frameworks', 'Paul Hamill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unit test frameworks are a key element of popular development methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and Agile Development. But unit testing has moved far beyond eXtreme Programming; it is now common in many different types of application development. Unit tests help ensure low-level code correctness, reduce software development cycle time, improve developer productivity, and produce more robust software.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until now, there was little documentation available on unit testing, and most sources addressed specific frameworks and specific languages, rather than explaining the use of unit testing as a language-independent, standalone development methodology. This invaluable new book covers the theory and background of unit test frameworks, offers step-by-step instruction in basic unit test development, provides useful code examples in both Java and C++, and includes details on some of the most commonly used frameworks today from the XUnit family, including JUnit for Java, CppUnit for C++, and NUnit for .NET.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Unit Test Frameworks\n  </em>\n  includes clear, concise, and detailed descriptions of:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The theory and design of unit test frameworks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examples of unit tests and frameworks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Different types of unit tests\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Popular unit test frameworks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   And more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  It also includes the complete source code for CppUnit for C++, and NUnit for .NET.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Hamill is a highly experienced software developer with more than ten years of experience developing code using C/C++, Java, and other languages. He has a BS ME from Cornell University and an MS EE from the University of Colorado, and is the published co-author of several academic papers on advanced CAD software. His recent experience includes work on a number of small entrepreneurial software development teams relying on eXtreme Programming (XP) and unit testing methodologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9192'),
(15793, 'Unix and Linux', 'Deborah S. Ray &amp; Eric J. Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fastest and easiest way to get up to speed on Unix, updated to include three years of Unix development.- Amply illustrated with hundreds of screen-shots--all updated to reflect the latest Unix developments, now representing everything from Sun''s Solaris to Apple''s Mac OS X.- Loaded with tips and techniques gleaned from the authors'' real-world experience working with the OS.- Step-by-instructions, clear screenshots, and low price point make this an ideal guide to getting started in Unix. Unix is an open operating system that can be improved on by anyone. It now encompasses everything from Sun''s Solaris to Apple''s Mac OS X and more varieties of Linux. With Unix, 4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the operating system, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots, and includes three years worth of new material based on the latest Unix developments. New coverage includes: more in-depth information on basic X Windows, Gnome, and GUI (how to put a friendly face on Unix); CUPS (the latest advances in printing); what''s new in the most popular flavors of Unix (OpenSolaris, BSD, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and more); New cover of ZFS as a whole new storage mechanism; all-new coverage of virtualization (eg VirtualBox); and beefed up coverage on system monitoring and system management for today''s Unix users and systems administrators. This reference guide details all Unix commands and options along with tips that put those commands in context. Leading Unix authorities Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray leverage their expertise as technical writers and working in the industry (Sun Microsystems) as they take readers step-by-step through the most common Unix commands and options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9735'),
(15794, 'Unix and Linux', 'Deborah S. Ray &amp; Eric J. Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fastest and easiest way to get up to speed on Unix, updated to include three years of Unix development.- Amply illustrated with hundreds of screen-shots--all updated to reflect the latest Unix developments, now representing everything from Sun''s Solaris to Apple''s Mac OS X.- Loaded with tips and techniques gleaned from the authors'' real-world experience working with the OS.- Step-by-instructions, clear screenshots, and low price point make this an ideal guide to getting started in Unix. Unix is an open operating system that can be improved on by anyone. It now encompasses everything from Sun''s Solaris to Apple''s Mac OS X and more varieties of Linux. With Unix, 4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the operating system, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots, and includes three years worth of new material based on the latest Unix developments. New coverage includes: more in-depth information on basic X Windows, Gnome, and GUI (how to put a friendly face on Unix); CUPS (the latest advances in printing); what''s new in the most popular flavors of Unix (OpenSolaris, BSD, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and more); New cover of ZFS as a whole new storage mechanism; all-new coverage of virtualization (eg VirtualBox); and beefed up coverage on system monitoring and system management for today''s Unix users and systems administrators. This reference guide details all Unix commands and options along with tips that put those commands in context. Leading Unix authorities Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray leverage their expertise as technical writers and working in the industry (Sun Microsystems) as they take readers step-by-step through the most common Unix commands and options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10176'),
(15795, 'UNIX Network Programming With TCP-IP', 'Alan Dix', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9895'),
(15796, 'UNIX Power Tools', 'Shelley Powers &amp; Tim O&#39;reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, more and more users are discovering the advantages of Unix for the first time. But whether you are a newcomer or a Unix power user, you''ll find yourself thumbing through the goldmine of information in the new edition of "Unix Power Tools" to add to your store of knowledge. Want to try something new? Check this book first, and you''re sure to find a tip or trick that will prevent you from learning things the hard way.  The latest edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with advice about almost every aspect of Unix, covering all the new technologies that users need to know. In addition to vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD, "Unix Power Tools" 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. Several sections focus on security and Internet access. And there is a new chapter on access to Unix from Windows, addressing the heterogeneous nature of systems today. You''ll also find expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, as well as basic information on Perl and Python.  "Unix Power Tools" 3rd Edition is a browser''s book...like a magazine that you don''t read from start to finish, but leaf through repeatedly until you realize that you''ve read it all. Bursting with cross-references, interesting sidebars explore syntax or point out other directions for exploration, including relevant technical details that might not be immediately apparent. The book includes articles abstracted from other O''Reilly books, new information that highlights program tricks and gotchas, tips posted to the Net over the years, and other accumulated wisdom.  Affectionately referred to by readers as "the" Unix book, UNIX Power Tools provides access to information every Unix user is going to need to know. It will help you think creatively about UNIX, and will help you get to the point where you can analyze your own problems. Your own solutions won''t be far behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9896'),
(15797, 'Unix Programming Environment', 'Brian W. Kernighan &amp; Robert Pike &amp; Rob Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    * Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIXÂ® programming environment and philosophy in detail.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  * Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This is Kernighan''s concise, classic exposition on how to make optimal use of the programming facilities built into Unix. Very highly recommended.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9890');
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(15799, 'The UNIX Programming Environment', 'Jerry Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10149'),
(15800, 'The Unteleported Man', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11699'),
(15801, 'Untold Adventures: A Dungeons and Dragons Anthology', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11784'),
(15802, 'Untold Adventures: A Dungeons and Dragons Anthology', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11960'),
(15803, 'Unul, nici unul si o suta de ani', 'Luigo Pirandello', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8636'),
(15804, 'Up The Line', 'Rovert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly effective. So Judson Daniel Elliott played by the book. Then he met a lusty Greek in Byzantium who showed him how rules were made to be broken!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11208'),
(15805, 'Use Case Modeling', 'Kurt Bittner &amp; Ian Spence', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Developers who effectively employ use cases deliver better applications--on time and under budget. The concept behind use cases is perhaps as old as software itself; they express the behavior of systems in terms of how users will ultimately interact with them. Despite this inherent simplicity, the use case approach is frequently misapplied, resulting in functional requirements that are confusing, cumbersome, or redundant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <strong>\n   Use Case Modeling\n  </strong>\n  , experienced use case practitioners Kurt Bittner and Ian Spence share their tips and tricks for applying use cases in various environments. They delve into all aspects of use case modeling and management, demonstrating how development teams can capitalize on the approach''s simplicity when modeling complex systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this ready reference, readers will discover how to\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Introduce a development team to use cases and implement a use case approach\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Identify the key elements of a use case model, including actors; and the components of a use case, including basic flow, preconditions, post-conditions, sub-flows, and alternate flows\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Master the objectives and challenges of creating detailed descriptions of use cases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Improve their descriptions'' readability and consistency\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Prevent and remedy common problems arising from the misuse of include, extend, and generalization use case relationships.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Organize and conduct a review of a use case model to realize the best possible approach\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  The book draws extensively on best practices developed at Rational Software Corporation, and presents real-life examples to illustrate the considerable power of use case modeling. As such,\n  <strong>\n   Use Case Modeling\n  </strong>\n  is sure to give development teams the tools they need to translate vision and creativity into systems that satisfy the most rigorous user demands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0201709139B08062002\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The director for Requirements Management Solutions at Rational Software,\n  <strong>\n   Kurt Bittner\n  </strong>\n  served on the original Rational Unified Process development team. He has twenty years of experience in software development, including work in requirements capture, analysis, design, development, and project and product management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A senior consultant at Rational Software,\n  <strong>\n   Ian Spence\n  </strong>\n  specializes in the adoption of the Rational Unified Process and the use case driven approach that it recommends. He has over eighteen years of experience in the software industry, covering the complete development lifecycle, including requirements capture, architecture, analysis, design, implementation, and project management.\n </p>\n <p>\n  0201709139AB08062002\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9626'),
(15806, 'User Interface Design', 'Larry E. Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although numerous sources document aspects of user-centered design, there are few references that consider how a designer transforms the information gathered about users and their work into an effective user interface design. This book explains just how designers bridge that gap. A group of leading experts in GUI design describe their methods in the context of specific design projects, and while the projects, processes, and methods vary considerably, the common theme is building a bridge between user requirements and user interface design.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Booknews:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Explains to software developers, programmers, and students how to translate information gathered about users and their work into the design of an actual graphical user interface. In 11 papers from an April 1996 workshop in Vancouver, explores such avenues as task object design, transforming representations, lightweight techniques to encourage innovative design, leaving the engineering perspective behind, and the redesign of complex legacy systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9138'),
(15807, 'User-Centered Design of Online Learning Communities', 'Niki Lambropoulos &amp; Panayiotis Zaphiris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  User-centered design (UCD) is gaining popularity in both the educational and business sectors. This is due to the fact that UCD sheds light on the entire process of analyzing, planning, designing, developing, using, evaluating, and maintaining computer-based learning. User-Centered Design of Online Learning Communities explains how computers can be used to augment human intellect for productivity and innovation, both nationally and globally. This book gives guidance to all stakeholders involved in online learning: organizations and businesses, developers, tutors, students, and evaluators; as well as provides best practices for the different phases of developing online learning communities from the analysis and design phase to the development, use, evaluation, and maintenance stage.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Niki Lambropoulos is a PhD student at the Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering, London South Bank University. Currently she works as an HCI Education consultant. She started working as a Greek language teacher in Greece in 1989. In 1999 she moved to London where she worked as a Greek language and ICT teacher and ICT coordinator. In 2002 she started working as a Project Manager, became an expert in the field of Online Learning and Online Communities and published widely in the field. Lambropoulos holds two BAs and a Diploma in Education from the University of Athens, Greece and an MA in ICT in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. Her interests are in HCI and in particular in the design, use and evaluation of systems in working places; strategy and information architecture; understanding target audiences needs, tasks and goals and translating them into interactive concepts; and user/learner research. Panayiotis Zaphiris is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics of City University London, UK. Before joining City University, he was a researcher at the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, USA, where he also got his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction. He also holds an MSc in Systems Engineering and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. His research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction with an emphasis in inclusive design and social aspect of computing. He is also interested in Internet-related research, such as Web usability, online communities, e-learning and social network analysis of online computer-mediated communication.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9452'),
(15808, 'Using Econometrics: A Practical Guide (6th Edition)', 'A. H. Studenmund', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Using Econometrics: A Practical Guide provides students with a practical introduction that combines single-equation linear regression analysis with real-world examples and exercises. An Overview of Regression Analysis; Ordinary Least Squares; Learning to Use Regression Analysis; The Classical Model; Hypothesis Testing; Specification: Choosing the Independent Variables; Specification: Choosing a Functional Form; Multicollinearity; Serial Correlation; Heteroskedasticity; Running Your Own Regression Project; Time-Series Models; Dummy Dependent Variable Techniques; Simultaneous Equations; Forecasting; Experimental and Panel Data; Statistical PrinciplesFor readers interested in understanding econometrics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7917'),
(15809, 'Using Microsoft SQL Server platform for plagiarism detection', 'Vladislav Shcherbinin &amp; Sergey Butakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9481'),
(15810, 'Using Moodle: Teaching With the Popular Open Source Course Management System', 'Jason Cole &amp; Jason R. Cole &amp; Helen Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won''t make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle''s basic interface and learn to start a course.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle''s built-in survey functions for assessing your class.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you''re on your own, there''s a lot of power behind the curtain.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS,\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is required reading.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Cole is currently the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he''s responsible for managing a Blackboard implementation that has over 15,000 users. A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system, and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen Foster is a Moodle administrator for the site with the most users (over 500,000 with around 1,500 new users daily) - Moodle.org - and is a facilitator for the Using Moodle course, which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen currently works full-time for Moodle as the Community Manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7134'),
(15811, 'Using Moodle: Teaching With the Popular Open Source Course Management System', 'Jason Cole &amp; Helen Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won''t make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle''s basic interface and learn to start a course.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle''s built-in survey functions for assessing your class.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you''re on your own, there''s a lot of power behind the curtain.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS,\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is required reading.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Cole is currently the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he''s responsible for managing a Blackboard implementation that has over 15,000 users. A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system, and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen Foster is a Moodle administrator for the site with the most users (over 500,000 with around 1,500 new users daily) - Moodle.org - and is a facilitator for the Using Moodle course, which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen currently works full-time for Moodle as the Community Manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9463'),
(15812, 'Using Moodle: Teaching With the Popular Open Source Course Management System (High Quality )', 'Jason Cole &amp; Helen Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won''t make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle''s basic interface and learn to start a course.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle''s built-in survey functions for assessing your class.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you''re on your own, there''s a lot of power behind the curtain.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS,\n  <em>\n   Using Moodle\n  </em>\n  is required reading.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Cole is currently the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he''s responsible for managing a Blackboard implementation that has over 15,000 users. A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system, and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen Foster is a Moodle administrator for the site with the most users (over 500,000 with around 1,500 new users daily) - Moodle.org - and is a facilitator for the Using Moodle course, which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen currently works full-time for Moodle as the Community Manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Helen has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9451'),
(15813, 'Using the HTML5 Filesystem API', 'Eric Bidelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Until now, web applications have been unable to organize binary data into a hierarchy of folders. That has changed with the advent of HTML5. With this book, you''ll learn how to provide your applications with a true file system that enables them to create, read, and write files ands folders in a sandboxed section of the user''s local filesystem. Author Eric Bidelman provides several techniques and complete code examples for working with the HTML5 Filesystem API.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7166'),
(15814, 'Utility of Choice: An Information Theoretic Approach to Investment', 'M. Khoshnevisan &amp; SUKANTO BHATTACHARYA &amp; Florentin Smarandache', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6130'),
(15815, 'Uvedenrode', 'Ion Barbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8559'),
(15816, 'Va fi', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8599'),
(15817, 'Vacanze nel deserto', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Una superstrada. Una macchina. E dollari per le vacanze. Quattro studenti universitari attraversano diagonalmente lâ€™America, fino al deserto dellâ€™Arizona. La scarrozzata Ã¨ anche una fuga dal rock, dalla droga, dallâ€™astrologia... Qualcosa di molto piÃ¹ eccitante aspetta i quattro boys: un miraggio di immortalitÃ  che il Libro dei Teschi, un antico manoscritto casualmente ritrovato, offre a chi accetta i Diciotto Misteri dellâ€™Iniziazione. Purtroppo, la vita eterna non sarÃ  elargita a tutti: due ragazzi dovranno morire affinche gli altri vivano. I primi dubbi: esiste davvero, laggiÃ¹ nel deserto, la casa dellâ€™eterna giovinezza?... Allâ€™avventura esoterica, oggi molto attuale nei "colleges", si ispira Â«Vacanze nel desertoÂ», un eccezionale romanzo "fantastico" che appaga il nostro bisogno di mistero: con questo libro Silverberg dÃ  una risposta nuova, abbagliante e terribile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11216'),
(15818, 'Vad', 'Dumitru Matcovschi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6944'),
(15819, 'Valentine Pontifex', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n GigantycznÄ… planetÄ™ Majipoor o Å›rednicy dziesiÄ™ciokrotnie wiÄ™kszej niÅ¼ Ziemia zasiedlili w odlegÅ‚ej przeszÅ‚oÅ›ci koloniÅ›ci z naszej planety, znajdujÄ…c na niej miejsce wÅ›rÃ³d rasy tubylczej, ktÃ³rÄ… nazwali Metamorfami, jako Å¼e potrafiÄ… oni zmieniaÄ‡ wyglÄ…d. W wyniku przegranej wojny z ludÅºmi, ZmiennoksztaÅ‚tni zostajÄ… zmuszeni do zamieszkania w rezerwatach. Na Majipoor przybywajÄ… tymczasem inne rasy: maleÅ„cy Vroonowie, czterorÄ™cy Skandarzy i dwugÅ‚owi Su-Suherisi. NiektÃ³re z tych istot posiadajÄ… umiejÄ™tnoÅ›ci parazmysÅ‚owe umoÅ¼liwiajÄ…ce uprawianie magii.\n <br />\n SpokÃ³j snÃ³w Lorda Valentine''a, wÅ‚adcy olbrzymiego Å›wiata Majipoor, zakÅ‚Ã³cajÄ… mroczne koszmary, ktÃ³re niebawem stajÄ… siÄ™ rzeczywistoÅ›ciÄ…. Majipoor staje wobec groÅºby kolejnej wojny z Metamorfami, ktÃ³rzy chcÄ… wypÄ™dziÄ‡ ze swojej planety najeÅºdÅºcÃ³w. Zaprowadzony przez Koronala Å‚ad moÅ¼e runÄ…Ä‡. Aby ocaliÄ‡ swÃ³j Å›wiat, Koronal zrzeka siÄ™ wÅ‚adzy na rzecz mÅ‚odego nastÄ™pcy Hissune''a.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11085'),
(15820, 'Valis', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11697'),
(15821, 'VB for Very Bright Kids', 'Martin Dreyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9368'),
(15822, 'VBScript, WMI, and ADSI Unleashed: Using VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to Automate Windows Administration', 'Don Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If youâ€™re a Windows administrator, scripting expertise can liberate you from boring, repetitive workâ€“so you can take on the sophisticated, high-value projects you really want. Top scripting guru Don Jones has written the definitive administratorâ€™s guide to getting results with Microsoftâ€™s key scripting technologies: VBScript, WMI, and ADSI.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jones draws on his unsurpassed experience training Windows administrators in conferences, classes, and from his enormously popular site, ScriptingAnswers.com.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll learn how to use VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to gain administrative control over nearly every aspect of every recent Windows server or client, including Windows Server 2003, Vista, XP, 2000, and NT. As you gain experience, Jones introduces more advanced techniques, ranging from modular scripting and script encryption to integrating VBScript with HTML code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jones concludes with a full section of ready-to-run, real-world examplesâ€“from logon/logoff scripts to automated domain and network administration, from querying WMI to creating Active Directory groups. Every script is explained line-by-line, with challenging techniques described in even greater detail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detailed information on how toâ€¦\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Decide what you can script: a framework for getting started fast\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand how scripts are designed, assembled, and run\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Master VBScript from start to finish: functions, I/O, data manipulation, program flow, and much more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use scripting objects for tasks ranging from retrieving network information to mapping drives\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Utilize FileSystemObject to manipulate the Windows filesystem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Write ADSI scripts to manipulate any directory service your company uses, from Active Directory to Novell NDS\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Modify domain information, users, groups, and policies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Query WMI informationâ€“from basic to advanced\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plan for errors, and test and debug your scripts\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build your own â€œresource kitâ€ of reusable script components\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  ON THE WEB:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Download all examples and source code presented in this book from ScriptingAnswers.com, where youâ€™ll also be able to post follow-up questions directly to the author in a moderated, active community.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Introduction 1\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part I: Introduction to Windows Administrative Scripting 11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1: Scripting Concepts and Terminology 13\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 2: Running Scripts 21\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 3: The Components of a Script 39\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 4: Designing a Script 55\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part II: VBScript Tutorial 73\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 5: Functions, Objects, Variables, and More 75\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 6: Input and Output 101\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 7: Manipulating Numbers 115\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 8: Manipulating Strings 129\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 9: Manipulating Other Types of Data 145\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 10: Controlling the Flow of Execution 155\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 11: Built-In Scripting Objects 173\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 12: Working with the File System 193\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 13: Putting It All Together: Creating Your First Script from Scratch 219\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part III: Windows Management Instrumentation and Active Directory Services Interface 245\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 14: Working with ADSI Providers 247\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 15: Manipulating Domains 257\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 16: Manipulating Users and Groups 271\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 17: Understanding WMI 283\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 18: Querying Basic WMI Information 299\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 19: Querying Complex WMI Information 317\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 20: Putting It All Together: Your First WMI/ADSI Script 335\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 21: Testing and Debugging WMI and ADSI Queries 357\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part IV: Advanced Scripting Techniques 371\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 22: Modular Script Programming 373\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 23: Scripts Packaging and Protection 389\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 24: Scripting Security 399\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 25: Introduction to HTML Applications 409\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 26: Debugging Tips, Tools, and Techniques 421\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Part V: Ready-to-Run Examples 437\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 27: Logon and Logoff Scripts 439\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 28: Windows and Domain Administration Scripts 455\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 29: Network Administration Scripts 481\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 30: WMI and ADSI Scripts 497\n </p>\n <p>\n  Appendix 509\n </p>\n <p>\n  Index 523\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Don Jone\n  </strong>\n  s is an internationally recognized scripting guru, speaker, and author. He serves as the Director of Projects and Services for SAPIEN Technologies, where his primary job is to drive the development of new products and services for Windows administrative scripting. Don is the founder of ScriptingAnswers.com, the webâ€™s friendliest community for Windows scripting. Don has written more than 30 books on information technology, including\n  <em>\n   Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI\n  </em>\n  (Addison-Wesley; the first edition of this book),\n  <em>\n   Windows Administratorâ€™s Automation Toolkit\n  </em>\n  (Microsoft Press),\n  <em>\n   Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators\n  </em>\n  (Microsoft Press), and\n  <em>\n   Windows PowerShell: TFMâ„¢\n  </em>\n  (SAPIEN Press). Don heads SAPIEN Technologiesâ€™ Las Vegas office, speaks at a half-dozen technical conferences each year, and contributes monthly content to Microsoft\n  <em>\n   TechNet Magazine\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6369'),
(15823, 'The Velvet Glove', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8245'),
(15824, 'Venus and the Seven Sexes', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9992'),
(15825, 'Vesperala', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8610'),
(15826, 'VHDL Programming by Example, 4th. Ed', 'Douglas L. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits.\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9184'),
(15827, 'Viata la tara', 'ZAMFIRESCU Duiliu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4865'),
(15828, 'Viata pe un peron', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4791'),
(15829, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne 1', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8524'),
(15830, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne 2', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8526'),
(15831, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne Vol.1', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4762'),
(15832, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne Vol.2', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4699'),
(15833, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne Vol.3', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4929'),
(15834, 'Vicontele de Bragelonne Vol.4', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4718'),
(15835, 'Violare il cielo', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sul brulicante formicaio che Ã¨ divenuta la Terra dopo il 2000, poco alla volta si impone una forma di religiositÃ  che trae le sue basi dottrinali dalla scienza. Ãˆ la religione di Noel Vorst, sono gli adoratori del Fuoco Blu dellâ€™elettrone, sono le tonache azzurre dei monaci che manipolano i segreti dellâ€™atomo. Ãˆ una religione, quella di Vorst, il cui scopo finale Ã¨ quello dellâ€™immortalitÃ â€¦ fisica! Ma in un mondo sovrappopolato lâ€™immortalitÃ  fisica non Ã¨ forse un controsenso? Ecco dunque la necessitÃ  di emigrare su altri mondi, mondi extrasolari. Ecco formarsi nello stesso tempo lo scisma degli Armonicisti di David Lazarus, che si oppone alla â€œchiesaâ€ centrale fondando un ordine a parte... Che significato ha tutto ciÃ² nel vasto gioco planetario nel cui centro Ã¨ lâ€™ultracentenario Noel Vorst e la cui posta finale sono le stelle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11227'),
(15836, 'Visual Basic 2008', 'Rod Stephens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is certainly a tome for programmers and of course developers." GadgetSpeak.com Sunday 1 June 2008\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Visual Basic 2008\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephenspresents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  New examples and extensively revised and retested code that complies with the 2008 release help you obtain a firm understanding of VB 2008. Extensive appendixes prove to be particularly useful to help you translate from the languages you already know into the corresponding VB syntax. Ultimately, you''ll find coverage of the technologies you need in order to build sophisticated applications with VB 2008.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What you will learn from this book\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Extension methods for adding new features to existing classes\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to select and use Windows Forms Controls for a specific purpose\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Tips for using subroutines and functions to break a program into manageable pieces\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Techniques for error handling and debugging\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Various important classes and objects to use when building an application\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to use the graphics device interface routines to draw images in VB\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ways an application interacts with its environment\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who this book is for\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  This book is for programmers who are looking to explore the latest features of the new release of Visual Basic. No prior experience with earlier versions of Visual Basic is necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Wrox Professional guides\n  </strong>\n  are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations.Â  They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9256'),
(15837, 'Visual Basic Express Edition Video', 'Lorin Thwaits', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9369'),
(15838, 'Visual Studio Express: Introduction to Windows as a Platform', 'Rich Tebb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6385'),
(15839, 'Visual Studio Hacks', 'James Avery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With start-up templates for projects ranging from Windows applications to web services, and extensive help and on-line documentation, Visual Studio .NET might be mistaken for a tool for unsophisticated users. It''s true that most developers soon discover that the basic operation of Visual Studio is fairly self-explanatory; less obvious are some of the suite''s more advanced built-in features.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Visual Studio .Net includes a wealth of little-used capabilities, is very customizable, has a complete automation model, and much more. On top of its regular feature set, there are hosts of free add-ins, macros, and power toys that can further enhance the functionality of Visual Studio. This book is all about exploring these things, and in doing so, becoming a better and more efficient developer. Developers will learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Get the most out of projects and solutions, including getting down and dirty with the undocumented format of project and solution files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use these editor features to the fullest, and add additional functionality to the editor through the use of third-party add-ins\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn smarter ways to navigate the application and your own source code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Customize shortcut keys, toolbars, menus, the toolbox, and much more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use the debugger successfully not only on your source code, but with T-SQL and scripting languages as well\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Automatically generate code\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn how the server can be used to interface with databases, services, and performance counters, as well as WMI\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use and create Visual Studio add-ins to extend its functionality\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Offering valuable tips, tools, and tricks,\n  <em>\n   Visual Studio Hacks\n  </em>\n  takes you far beyond the suite''s usual capabilities. You can read this book from cover to cover or, because each hack stands its own, you can feel free to browse and jump to the different sections that interest you most. If there''s a prerequisite you need to know about, a cross-reference will guide you to the right hack.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you want to experience the full spectrum of Visual Studio''s functionality and flexibility, you''ll find the perfect guide for exploration in\n  <em>\n   Visual Studio Hacks\n  </em>\n  . Once the final page is turned, you can confidently say that you''ve been exposed to everything that Visual Studio .NET is capable of doing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Avery is the founder and owner of Infozerk Inc. which runs The Lounge advertising network and provides .NET and Ruby consulting. James has been working with .NET since 2001 and has been a web developer since 1996. He has written books for Microsoft Press, Wrox, and O''Reilly Press. James has written articles for MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs, most recently doing a three month stint writing the Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and has spoken at a number of user groups and conferences.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9193'),
(15840, 'VISUL UNCHIULUI', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6947'),
(15841, 'Vorbitor in numele Mortilor', 'Card Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8565'),
(15842, 'Vtiger CRM Beginner&#39;s Guide', 'Ian D. Rossi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book covers the basics of installing and using a CRM system, explaining how to implement vtigerâ€™s powerful features for your business, adding extensions, plug-ins, and theming. It provides a step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and customizing vtiger even at the code level, with practical advice and directions. This is book is written for IT professionals and business managers who have power-user computer skills and are looking to improve sales management processes and/or customer service processes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ian D. Rossi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ian D. Rossi is the CEO of aimtheory, a privately-owned Internet company. aimtheory has been providing Internet-based business solutions to small and large companies globally since 2007. Ian is a co-founder of aimtheory CRM, a hosted vtiger CRM solution that serves clients on every continent except for Antarctica. Ian has over 14 years of experience in Internet-based business solutions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7169'),
(15843, 'Vulcan&#39;s Hammer', 'Philip K Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11794'),
(15844, 'Waiting for the Earthquake', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published in 1981 collection The best of Omni Science Fiction no.2.\n <br />\n <br />\n Originally written for 1975 UCLA seminar called â€œ10 Tuesdays Down a Rabbit Holeâ€, held by Harlan Ellison and other science fiction authors. The seminar was about writing a collection of science fiction short stories by different authors, all taking place on the same fictional planet Medea. It was an experiment in collaborative science-fictional world-building, featuring contributions by Hal Clement, Frank Herbert, and others. The complete cycle was published ten years later as Medea: Harlanâ€™s World (Bantam Spectra, 1985, ISBN 0-553-34170-7).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11215'),
(15845, 'The War of the Lance', 'Tracy Hickman &amp; Richard A. Knaak &amp; Margaret Weis &amp; Michael Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A recover of\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   best-selling Tales series.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n This collection of tales is edited by the creators of the\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n mythology.\n <em>\n  The War of the Lance\n </em>\n contains a number of short stories by popular\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n authors as well as two stories by Weis and Hickman. Â \n <p>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Margaret Weis\n  </strong>\n  is the co-creator of the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  world. She has authored or co-authored several\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best sellers set in the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  world. Weis lives in Wisconsin. Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tracy Hickman\n  </strong>\n  is the co-author of many of the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels. He has designed game settings, including\n  <em>\n   Starshield\n  </em>\n  , and is the co-author of the novel\n  <em>\n   Mystic Warrior\n  </em>\n  . Hickman lives in Utah. Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2786'),
(15846, 'War of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy, now available for the first time in hardcover.The second title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy is now being released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, the new version of this series is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all of the core Weis &amp; Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set in hardcover. The second title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy, now available for the first time in hardcover.The second title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy is now being released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, the new version of this series is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all of the core Weis &amp; Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set in hardcover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2826'),
(15847, 'Warhorse', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When humanity first ventured out among the stars, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, the only tool-users in the galaxy - and thus were free to mold the very cosmos to our heart''s desire. It would take us a long time - our star drive wasn''t very fast - but it was our Manifest Destiny ..and besides, there was no one to stop us - Then we met the Tampies!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(15848, 'We Can Build You', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11669'),
(15849, 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale', 'Philip Kindred Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11805');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15850, 'Web 2.0 Architectures', 'Duane Nickull &amp; James 7governor &amp; Dion Hinchcliffe &amp; James Governor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The "Web 2.0" phenomena has become more pervasive than ever before. It is impacting the very fabric of our society and presents opportunities for those with knowledge. The individuals who understand the trends and opportunities Web 2.0 represents are racing to cash in while Web 2.0 companies like Google see their stock pass $600 a share. While many simply describe it as an interactive "Web of participation" embracing concepts such as "trusting your users", both business and technical analysts struggle to understand it in greater detail and the opportunity it represents.This illuminating book puts substance behind Web 2.0. More accurately, the authors of Web 2.0 Design Patterns Â— Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, and James Governor, who together have a great deal of experience with technical specifications and industry trends Â— have distilled the core design patterns of Web 2.0 coupled with an abstract model and reference architecture. This Web 2.0 knowledge was distilled using several high-profile Web 2.0 companies as examples. The result is a base of knowledge that developers, business people, futurists, and entrepreneurs can understand and use as a source of ideas and inspiration.Web 2.0 Design Patterns examines the Web 2.0 phenomena from it''s humble origins to it''s current state. After piecing together Web 1.0 architecture, the book researches successful Web 2.0 services such as Google AdSense, Flickr, BitTorrent, MySpace, Facebook and Wikipedia to explain why they are not just different economically and socially, but technically. Web 2.0 Design Patterns goes on to examine:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   A Model for Web 2.0 Â— An in-depth look at the evolution of the Client-Server model into a more elaborate model for Web 2.0. It illustrates concepts such as "servers" evolving into a services (SOA) tier to facilitate interactions between systems and humans.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A Web 2.0 Reference Architecture - A generic component view that helps decision-makers recognize the basic patterns in existing Web 2.0 applications and software that can be repurposed for other commercial ventures.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Specific patterns of Web 2.0 Â— Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service pattern (SaaS), Participation-Collaboration Pattern, AJAX, Mashups, Rich User Experience (a.k.a. RIA), Collaborative Tagging Systems (Folksonomy), and more which can be repurposed to other businesses of technologies. In true Web 2.0 fashion, Nickull, Hinchcliffe, and Governor also present the reference model and patterns in Web 2.0 Design Patterns on their companion web site so that others in the industry can augment it and continue the discussion.About the authors: Duane Nickull (http://technoracle.blogspot.com) worked for both the United Nations CEFACT committee and OASIS, writing and building new SOA for global integration of multiple systems. A senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc., he has contributed to many SOA and Web Services standards and articles.Dion Hinchcliff (http://web2.wsj2.com/) is founder and Chief Technology Officer of a premier consulting firm, which specializes in Enterprise Web 2.0, SOA, WOA, and RIA strategy and execution. He works with IT clients in the federal government and Fortune 500 companies. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Web 2.0 Journal and AjaxWorld Magazine.James Governor (http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/) is an Industry Analyst with RedMonk, the first analyst firm built on open source. Providing high quality research at no cost, all of the firm''s content is open and freely accessible.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9258'),
(15851, 'Web Application Development With PHP 4.0', 'Tobias Ratschiller &amp; Till Gerken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PHP is an open-source Web scripting language that''s gaining steam in the development community, especially in the Apache Web server realm. With a syntax that draws heavily on C, PHP appeals to advanced programmers who are moving to the Web from traditional software development.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Web Application Development with PHP 4.0\n  </em>\n  isn''t your run-of-the-mill language tutorial. Authors Ratschiller and Gerken purposely designed its content to appeal to coders who already are proficient in PHP, but in need of advanced programming techniques and high-level application-development skills. Assuming a strong programming foundation, this book can be considered a next-level PHP tutorial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on their own experience of what''s really important in PHP development, the authors dive into topics such as linked lists and associative arrays. They also weave together topics like security and database access with such software-development issues as three-tier architecture, versioning, and program requirements. This balance makes for a nice fit for developers who have mastered the basics, but are looking to hone their skills to move to the next level.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book also goes into how to extend PHP by modifying its Zend language engine via the C source code. A companion CD includes PHP, MySQL, and Apache, as well as a number of utilities and the source code from the book. If already you''re deep into PHP and want to graduate to guru status, this book''s for you.\n  <em>\n   --Stephen W. Plain\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Topics covered:\n  </strong>\n  Development planning, coding conventions, advanced PHP syntax, associative arrays, polymorphism and self-modifying code, application design, HTTP and sessions, PHP normal form, database access with PHP, PHP, and XML, and extending PHP Zend engine.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The authors present a set of interesting programming concepts, and the reader learns how to write good, reusable code. --\n  <em>\n   Bjorn Schotte\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors provide useful examples that include real code. They also explain the code because they want you to understand how it works. --\n  <em>\n   Paul DuBois, Data Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9108'),
(15852, 'WEB BASED PLAGIARISMDETECTION SYSTEM', 'INTAN SYAZWANI BT SALEH', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9491'),
(15853, 'Web Database Applications With PHP and MySQL', 'Hugh E. Williams &amp; David Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the background and tools to do the job safely and reliably.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL\n  </em>\n  , Second Edition thoroughly reflects the needs of real-world applications. It goes into detail on such practical issues as validating input (do you know what a proper credit card number looks like?), logging in users, and using templates to give your dynamic web pages a standard look.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this book goes even further. It shows how JavaScript and PHP can be used in tandem to make a user''s experience faster and more pleasant. It shows the correct way to handle errors in user input so that a site looks professional. It introduces the vast collection of powerful tools available in the PEAR repository and shows how to use some of the most popular tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even while it serves as an introduction to new programmers, the book does not omit critical tasks that web sites require. For instance, every site that allows updates must handle the possibility of multiple users accessing data at the same time. This book explains how to solve the problem in detail with locking.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through a sophisticated sample applicationÂ—Hugh and Dave''s Wine StoreÂ—all the important techniques of dynamic content are introduced. Good design is emphasized, such as dividing logic from presentation. The book introduces PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 features, while providing techniques that can be used on older versions of the software that are still in widespread use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new edition has been redesigned around the rich offerings of PEAR. Several of these, including the Template package and the database-independent query API, are fully integrated into examples and thoroughly described in the text. Topics include:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Installation and configuration of Apache, MySQL, and PHP on UnixÂ®, WindowsÂ®, and Mac OSÂ® X systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introductions to PHP, SQL, and MySQL administration\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Session management, including the use of a custom database for improved efficiency\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   User input validation, security, and authentication\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The PEAR repository, plus details on the use of PEAR DB and Template classes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Production of PDF reports\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9073'),
(15854, 'web developers library', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9269'),
(15855, 'Wedding of the Century', 'Mary Jo Putney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stunningly beautiful, extraordinarily wealthy and sold to the highest bidder for the price of a dukedom-Sarah Vangelder wanted more than just a bartered marriage!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8821'),
(15856, 'Wednesday', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/10005'),
(15857, 'Who Killed Palomino Molero?', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth. Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa''s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8901'),
(15858, 'The Will of the Wanderer', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Enemies from birth, the headstrong Prince Khardan and impetuous Princess Zohra must unite in marriage to stop Quar, the God of Reality, Greed, and Law, from enslaving their people. But can Khardan and Zohra keep from betraying each other? Volume I in an epic new trilogy of magic, adventure, and immortal intrigue.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since time began, twenty Gods have ruled the universe. Though each god possessed different abilities, each was all-powerful within his realm. Now one of the Gods has upset the balance of power, leaving the others scrambling for control in the new order...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the epic tale of the Great War of the Gods--and the proud people upon whom the fate of the world depends. When the God of the desert, Akhran the Wanderer, declares that two clans must band together despite their centuries-old rivalry, their first response is outrage. But they are a devout people and so reluctantly bow to his bidding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enemies from birth, the headstrong Prince Khardan and impetuous Princess Zohra must unite in marriage to stop Quar, the God of Reality, Greed, and Law, from enslaving their people.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But can Khardan and Zohra keep from betraying each other? Can their two peoples maintain their fragile alliance until the long-awaited flowering of the legendary Rose of the Prophet?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Against the powerful legions of the evil Amir, Khardan and Zohra fight to save the desert people--a fight unexpectedly joined by an exiled wizard named Matthew and the mysterious powers of his alien land.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/2871'),
(15859, 'Windows 7 Portable Command Guide', 'Darril Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  WindowsÂ® 7 Portable Command Guide\n </p>\n <p>\n  MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686\n </p>\n <p>\n  Darril Gibson\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686 Commands in One Compact, Portable Resource\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maximize your efficiency as a Windows 7 administrator, and master all the commands, keywords, command arguments, options, and prompts covered on Microsoftâ€™s MCTS 70-680, MCITP 70-685, and MCITP 70-686 exams! This easy, handy reference brings together all the techniques, tips, tools, and examples youâ€™ll need. Itâ€™s your perfect take-anywhere guide to running Windows 7 environmentsâ€“_and passing Microsoftâ€™s three key Windows 7 administration exams_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Covers all the commands you need to score higher on your MCTS 70-680 and MCITP 70-685/70-686 exams!\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Use Windows 7â€™s maintenance and monitoring tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshoot Windows 7 reliability and network connectivity\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage security in Windows 7\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manipulate files, folders, and disks\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create and schedule batch files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Configure Windows 7 with\n   <strong>\n    netsh\n   </strong>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Recover damaged Windows 7 systems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Administer Windows 7 remotely\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Work from the WMI command line\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plan, create, and manage images for automated installation\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Use Imagex and DISM\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Work with WinPE and Setup\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Migrate user data to Windows 7 systems with USMT\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Master PowerShell and the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Manage group policy from the command line\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Your Perfect Take-Anywhere Windows 7 Command Resource!\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Covers all commands on the MCTS 70-680, MCITP 70-685, and MCITP 70-686 exams\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes important administration commands that arenâ€™t on the exams\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Packed with realistic scenarios, high-efficiency examples, and expert tips\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Category: Microsoft Certification\n </p>\n <p>\n  Covers: Microsoft Windows 7 Exams (MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686)\n </p>\n <p>\n  pearsonITcertification.com\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Darril Gibson\n  </strong>\n  is the CEO of Security Consulting and Training, LLC. He regularly teaches, writes, and consults on a wide variety of security and technical topics. Heâ€™s been a Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than ten years and holds several certifications, including MCSE (NT 4.0, 2000, 2003), MCDBA (SQL Server), MCITP (Windows 7, Server 2008, SQL Server), ITIL v3, Security+, and CISSP. He has authored, coauthored, or contributed to more than a dozen books. You can view a listing of most of his current books on Amazon: http://amzn.to/bL0Obo.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7311'),
(15860, 'Windows 7: The Definitive Guide', 'William Stanek', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This book provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You''ll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control. Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn''t just show you the steps you need to follow, he also tells you how features work, why they work, and how you can customize them to meet your needs. Learn how to squeeze every bit of power out of Windows 7 to take full advantage of its features and programs.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Set up, customize, and tune Windows 7\n   </strong>\n   -Optimize its appearance and performance, install and manage software, customize your hardware, and install printers, scanners, and faxes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Manage your files and data\n   </strong>\n   -Search your computer more efficiently, secure your data, share and collaborate, and get the most out of optional programs such as Windows Live Mail\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Master your digital media\n   </strong>\n   -Create media libraries, manage digital pictures and videos, make DVDs, and create movies\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Get connected and start networking\n   </strong>\n   -Set up a home or small-office network, conquer Internet Explorer, and master on-the-go networking\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Protect your computer\n   </strong>\n   -Keep your family safe while on the Internet, navigate the computer security maze, and configure Windows 7''s protection features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Manage and support Windows 7 systems\n   </strong>\n   -Configure user accounts, disks and drives, troubleshoot and handle routine maintenance, and resolve advanced support and recovery issues\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Learn advanced tips &amp; techniques\n   </strong>\n   -Manage the Windows boot environment, explore Group Policy, and much more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9897'),
(15861, 'Windows Server 2003 Clustering &amp; Load Balancing', 'Robert Shimonski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Learn to implement clustering and load balancing solutions with Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and deliver nearly 100 percent uptime. With a focus on real world production-based problems, the author delivers detailed high availability solutions that will give you the tools to roll out and troubleshoot these technologies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your definitive high availability implementation guide\n </p>\n <p>\n  Plan, design, and implement highly available Windows solutions using the expert advice inside this detailed guide. Written by a network infrastructure design specialist, this book covers the planning, development, cost analysis, management, installation, configuration, and roll out of several clustering and load balancing technologies. Invaluable troubleshooting tips derived from real-world implementations are also featured, making this an essential resource for network professionals who need to keep their systems up and running 24x7.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Design a highly available network infrastructure to meet "Five Nines" uptime\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Configure Windows 2000 clustering and load-balancing services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Implement a rolling upgrade to Windows Server 2003\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Develop a Windows Server 2003 cluster and load-balanced solution from scratch\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Create robust server farms with Application Center 2000\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design a two-node cluster with SQL Server 2000\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Design highly available solutions with Windows Services such as WINS and DHCP\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Monitor and baseline clusters and plan for disaster recovery\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn advanced troubleshooting and project management techniques\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6392'),
(15862, 'Windows Server 2008 Bible', 'Jeffrey R. Shapiro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This version of the Server Bible will be the largest yet, catering to what is certainly the most advanced operating system introduced by Microsoft. The book will cater to the needs of the server administration community and will be designed to be a critical reference. The book will extensively cover the most notable new feature of Windows Server known as the  Server Core.  Server Core is a significantly scaled-back installation where no graphical shell (explorer.exe) is installed, and all configuration and maintenance is done entirely through the command-line windows, or by connecting to the machine remotely using Microsoft Management Console. Server Core will also not include the .NET Framework, Internet Explorer or many other features not related to core server features. A Server Core machine can be configured for four basic roles: Domain controller, DNS Server, DHCP Server, and file server. Chapters on setup and installation will also cover the new componentized operating system Image-based setup and deployment tools, using WIM.  In addition to the already extensive Active Directory support this book will now fully cover the  Read-Only Domain Controller  operation mode in Active Directory, intended for use in branch office scenarios where a domain controller may reside in a low physical security environment, was introduced in Windows Server 2003 R2 and will be extended in the 2008 version. Chapters covering policy-based networking, branch management and enhanced end user collaboration will be extended. Windows Server 2008 will also ship Internet Information Services 7 and the current chapters on IIS will thus be extended. Coverage of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will also be introduced into this part of the book. We will also include coverage of the improved hot patching technology, which is a feature that allows non-kernel patches to occur without the need for a reboot. A significantly upgraded Terminal Services component, supporting RDP 6.0. will be covered in the chapter on terminal services. The most notable improvement is the ability to share a single application over a Remote Desktop connection, instead of the entire desktop.  This will be added to an already extended chapter on this remote access technology. In addition to these new features the book will also carry over existing features brought over from (SP1/R2) of Server 2003. These include covering of new security features of the operating system, Group Policy management, change control and service level, and administration practices.\n <br />\n (source: Bol.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12657'),
(15863, 'Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services', 'Joseph Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This in-depth technical reference delivers must-know information on TCP/IP for any IT professional working with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista operating systems. This comprehensive guide starts with the fundamentals, delivering coverage of TCP/IP protocols layer by layer to help build mastery of protocols and their implementation. It focuses on Internet layer protocols such as IP, ICMP, IGMP, and includes a preview of IPv6; transport layer protocols such as TCP and UDP; and application layer protocols such as DNS, DHCP, and WINS. Written by a leading TCP/IP author, plus peer reviews from experts on the WindowsÂ® Networking Team, this is the definitive guide to TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008. Features a companion CD with a fully searchable eBook and other resources.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Note Regarding the CD or DVD\n </p>\n <p>\n  The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O''Reilly Media''s Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O''Reilly''s web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12654'),
(15864, 'Windows System Programming', 'Johnson M. Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re writing a native Win32 program or just want to know what the OS is really doing underneath, you need Johnâ€™s book. He covers the stuff that real systems programmers absolutely must know. Recommended.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Chris Sells, Microsoft Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis fourth edition does a great job of incorporating new features in the Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7 API, but also stays true to teaching the foundational elements of building applications that target the Windows OS.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“Jason Beres, Product Management, Infragistics\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If you[HTML_REMOVED]re a systems-level 32-bit or 64-bit Windows developer, whether using the Windows API directly or via .NET interop, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll definitely want to take a look at this update to Johnson Hart[HTML_REMOVED]s well-respected and well-loved book. Johnson starts with Windows history and cultural issues and moves through basic and advanced system services in a thoughtful, thorough manner. If Mr. Rogers wrote a book with David Cutler, this is what they[HTML_REMOVED]d come up with."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Chris Sells,\n  </strong>\n  Longhorn Content Strategist,\n  <br />\n  Microsoft Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  "While focusing on UNIX developers that are looking to augment their skills or simply jump ship,\n  <em>\n   Windows System Programming, Third Edition\n  </em>\n  is a book that even some seasoned systems-level Windows developers will undoubtedly find useful. This is not your average bland GUI treatise; Hart takes you down to the metal, explains all the relevant concepts clearly and in-depth, and gives you an extensive library of high-quality code examples that can be easily adapted for your own larger applications. Even if you[HTML_REMOVED]ve created server applications before,\n  <em>\n   Windows System Programming\n  </em>\n  will teach you new tricks, shed new light on concepts you thought you[HTML_REMOVED]d mastered, and offer new strategies for creating robust and secure solutions."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Klaus H. Probst,\n  </strong>\n  Senior Architect,\n  <br />\n  Spherion Technology Services; Microsoft MVP\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is quite easy to follow; there are clear explanations of everything. Even the explanation of the standards is readable! For a developer not familiar with developing with Windows, Hart[HTML_REMOVED]s book also provides basic information on where Windows was and where it is today, plus a great explanation of how it is different from Posix and Unix."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Eric Landes,\n  </strong>\n  Microsoft MVP,\n  <br />\n  www.aspalliance.com/corporatecoder\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Even advanced developers will always need to have a book like this one on hand when the abstractions of a platform like .NET are inadequate or when they need to know more about how .NET is implemented. And the focus on low-level programming (specifically memory management and IO) and other non-GUI topics makes it stand out as superior among other Windows programming books. In keeping the GUI focus to a minimum, Hart[HTML_REMOVED]s book is able to be comprehensive on the topics contained within."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Michael Davidson,\n  </strong>\n  IT Analyst\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Windows System Programming, Third Edition\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  gives a solid grounding on using the core Windows APIs, includingWin64; is updated for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Framework, and has extensive examples illustrate all topics and show performance impact and tradeoffs\n </p>\n <p>\n  A practical guide to the central features and functions of the Windows API, _\n  <strong>\n   Windows System Programming, Third Edition,\n  </strong>\n  _ will get you up and running with Windows XP and 2003, as well as other Windows systems. Unlike most Windows programming resources, this book focuses exclusively on the core system servicesâ€”file system, memory, processes and threads, synchronization, communication, and securityâ€”rather than on the more commonly featured graphical user interface functions. Especially geared for those already familiar with UNIX or other high-end operating systems, Windows System Programming, Third Edition, helps you to build on your knowledge base to learn the most important features quickly and easily.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new edition has been updated and enhanced with coverage of new API functions, network programming, Windows Services, process and thread management, synchronization, and application performance on single and multiprocessor systems. It also describes techniques for porting applications to Win64, the new Windows 64-bit API.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with an examination of the features required in a single-process application, the text gradually progresses to increasingly sophisticated functions relating to a multithreaded environment. Each chapter contains realistic examples to illustrate the topics. You will find extensive coverage of such critical Windows topics as:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   File and directory management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Character I/O and Unicode\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The registry\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Structured exception handling\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Security services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Memory management and DLLs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Threads, process management, and scheduling\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Thread synchronization, including the condition variable model for event and mutex usage\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Interprocess communication, featuring pipes and mailslots\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Network programming with sockets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Developing Windows Services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Timers,Asynchronous I/O, and I/O completion ports\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Guidelines and trade-offs to improve application performance and reliability\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Win64, covering architecture, data types, and legacy code migration\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Short, practical examples illustrate each topic and are included on the companion Web site (www.awprofessional/com/titles/0321256190). The appendixes provide performance measurements and compare Windows, UNIX, and the C library.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9127'),
(15865, 'Windows Vista Security', 'Roger A. Grimes &amp; Jesper M. Johansson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written by two veteran Windows security expertsâ€”one a Microsoft Security MVP and Foundstone Security Consultant, and the other a former senior member of Microsoft''s Security Engineering Teamâ€”this essential resource prepares end users and technical administrators to handle various security problems that exist in Windows Vista as well as possible future threats. Offering in-depth coverage of all significant new security technologies in Windows Vista, this book addresses User Account Control, the new Firewall, Internet Explorer 7.0, Windows Defender, Service Hardening, and BitLocker.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   It''s not the computer. The hacker''s first target is\n   <em>\n    YOU\n   </em>\n   !\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dirty little secret that vendors don''t want you to know is that good computer security doesn''t cost a thing. Any solution you can buy is guaranteed to fail. Malicious hackers use this fact to their advantage. Real security is gained by understanding the enemy''s tactics and offsetting them with appropriate and consistently applied Windows settings. These expert authors realize that an effective strategy is two parts technology and one part psychology. Along with learning about Vista''s new security features (such as UAC, integrity controls, BitLocker, Protected Mode, and IIS 7), learn common-sense recommendations that will immediately provide reliable value.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vista Security Tips\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Have a healthy sense of paranoia\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Understand and apply the basics properly\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use longer passwords. No, longer than that\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use admin privilege very sparingly\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Don''t believe Internet Explorer Protected Mode will stop all attacks\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Don''t believe DEP can stop all attacks\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Don''t believe any technology can stop all attacks\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6448'),
(15866, 'Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies', 'Leonhard, Woody.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6458'),
(15867, 'Windows XP Annoyances', 'David A. Karp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Microsoft Windows XP may be the latest in a popular family of operating systems, but that doesn''t mean it''s perfect. However, the designers of Windows XP have built enough flexibility into their product and provided users with a sufficiently large toolkit to overcome most shortcomings. In Windows XP Annoyances David Karp reveals his ideas about how to use Windows XP most effectively, for maximum fun and productivity and as little aggravation as possible. If you''re comfortable working with Windows XP (or any of its recent predecessors) but find certain aspects of it, well, annoying, you''ll find this book to your liking. Karp guides his readers through potentially risky procedures, such as editing the Registry and adjusting hardware device drivers, with skill and precision.The author''s tone is to the point and professional without being dry, without any of the phony, forced humor that appears in a lot of operating-system books. Though he inexplicably ignores the Windows XP Power Toys--some very handy utilities you can get from Microsoft''s Web site--he does a great job of handling important questions. Case in point, the important issue of which files can be deleted to free up disk space, and which you shouldn''t touch even though they look like pointless garbage. Similarly useful attention goes to the question of which background processes can be safely halted, and which are important. There''s fine coverage of scripting with the Windows Script Host (WSH), as well. --David Wall Topics covered: How to get the most out of Windows XP, even when it appears that the operating system is working against you. Troubleshooting techniques, hardware advice, Registry hacking, interface customization, and advanced networking subjects all find a place in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6519'),
(15868, 'Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies', 'Ryan  Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6478'),
(15869, 'Windows XP for Dummies , 2nd Ed.', 'Rathbone, Andy.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6496'),
(15870, 'Windows XP for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Harvey, Greg.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6495'),
(15871, 'Windows XP for Power Users: Power Pack', 'Curt Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6489'),
(15872, 'Windows Xp Hacks', 'Preston Gralla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Windows XP is the latest, most reliable, and best-looking version of the Windows operating system to emerge yet. As the result of the unification of Microsoft''s corporate series (Windows NT and 200) with the home series (Windows 95, 98, and Me), Windows XP offers much that is pleasing to its users: rock-solid stability and a fresh new look. But power users who want to take command of their operating systems will find the same old frustrations: it''s never been easy to get under the hood of a Windows system and Windows XP is no exception.Now power users can rejoice! Windows XP Hacks offers tips, tools, and know-how to bend Windows XP to your will. The book delves into XP topics such as controlling the control panel, changing unchangeable icons, removing uninstallable XP components, stopping pop-up ads, taking a bite out of cookies, speeding up file downloads, protecting yourself with firewalls and proxy servers, and more. Users of both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Pro Edition will find smart, timesaving, fun, and useful hacks for virtually every feature in their operating system. Even if you''re not a power user yet, this book will have you well on your way. Each Hack in the book can be read easily in a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Windows XP Hacks provides direct, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges facing both those meeting Windows XP for the first time as well as long-time users who know what they want from their operating system and just wants tips on how to get it.Windows XP Hacks is the latest in O''Reilly''s new Hacks Series which aims to begin reclaiming the term "hacking" for the good guys. In recent years, the term has come to be associated with those nefarious black hats who break into computers to snoop, steal information or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term originally had a more benign meaning, and you''ll still hear it used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks books are written in the spirit of the true hackers -- the people who drive innovation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6463'),
(15873, 'Windows XP Networking', 'Kackie Cohen &amp; Andrew Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Windows XP: practical solutions for working network administrators\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deploying, managing, or supporting networks with Windows XP clients? Here[HTML_REMOVED]s all the information you need to maximize reliability, security, and performance... and minimize hassles and aggravation!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kackie Cohen and Andrew Daniels share the extraordinary experience they[HTML_REMOVED]ve gained deploying and running some of the world[HTML_REMOVED]s largest Windows networks. They don[HTML_REMOVED]t waste time on the "basics" you already know. Rather, they focus on the specific challenges you face as a working professional.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You[HTML_REMOVED]ll find best practices and real-world tips for everything from authentication to Internet connectivity, firewalls to wireless networking... and a whole lot more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Security best practices: system hardening, access control, authentication, authorization, and VPNs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   LANs in depth: TCP/IP configuration, heterogeneous networking, services for Unix, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wireless networking configuration and features, including Windows XP[HTML_REMOVED]s new UPnP support\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Internet connection firewall and Internet connection sharing: step-by-step configuration and management recommendations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mobile/remote networking, including dial-up and remote access services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Saving money with Windows XP[HTML_REMOVED]s new IP telephony and conferencing features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   QoS: prioritizing network traffic to improve mission-critical application performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshooting: network diagnostics, remote assistance, utilities, service packs, and command-line tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes extensive coverage of Windows XP Professional clients\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Windows XP: practical solutions for working network administrators\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deploying, managing, or supporting networks with Windows XP clients? Here[HTML_REMOVED]s all the information you need to maximize reliability, security, and performance... and minimize hassles and aggravation!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kackie Cohen and Andrew Daniels share the extraordinary experience they[HTML_REMOVED]ve gained deploying and running some of the world[HTML_REMOVED]s largest Windows networks. They don[HTML_REMOVED]t waste time on the "basics" you already know. Rather, they focus on the specific challenges you face as a working professional.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You[HTML_REMOVED]ll find best practices and real-world tips for everything from authentication to Internet connectivity, firewalls to wireless networking... and a whole lot more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coverage includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Security best practices: system hardening, access control, authentication, authorization, and VPNs\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   LANs in depth: TCP/IP configuration, heterogeneous networking, services for Unix, and more\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wireless networking configuration and features, including Windows XP[HTML_REMOVED]s new UPnP support\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Internet connection firewall and Internet connection sharing: step-by-step configuration and management recommendations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Mobile/remote networking, including dial-up and remote access services\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Saving money with Windows XP[HTML_REMOVED]s new IP telephony and conferencing features\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   QoS: prioritizing network traffic to improve mission-critical application performance\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Troubleshooting: network diagnostics, remote assistance, utilities, service packs, and command-line tools\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes extensive coverage of Windows XP Professional clients\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6473'),
(15874, 'Windows XP Professional Study Guide 2nd', 'Lisa Donald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6472'),
(15875, 'Windows XP Timesaving Techniques for Dummies , 2Nd Ed.', 'Leonhard, Woody.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6492'),
(15876, 'Windows XP Unwired', 'Wei-meng Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewWindows XP contains far more wireless support than most users realize. Whether you''re a road warrior or you simply want to connect two home PCs, this book walks you through your options -- and gives you step-by-step instructions once you''ve made your choices. Wei-Meng Lee walks you through setting up your own wireless network with popular Linksys and D-Link equipment and finding hotspots when you''re on the road. There''s a full, realistic chapter on security (for heavens sake, change that default SSID right now -- but don''t stop there.)Many discussions of wireless networking begin and end with Wi-Fi. Not this one. Lee knows Bluetooth backward and forward, and he shows exactly how to make the most of it, configuring and connecting with both Bluetooth access points and Bluetooth-enabled Pocket PCs. (Lee also covers crucial issues such as interference between Bluetooth and 802.11b and 802.11g networks). There''s also a full chapter on IrDA infrared support in Windows XP, including file transfer and security. And, if you''re going where no Wi-Fi hotspot has gone before you, Lee discusses your options for cellular networking -- from 1G through advanced 3G/GPRS (if you''re lucky enough to find it). You''ll find thorough coverage of Global Positioning Systems, including using Microsoft Streets and Trips with GPS to track your location throughout North America. There''s even coverage of Smart Displays: Windows XPÂ–compatible wireless touch screens that let you surf the Web from your couch, without moving your PC or notebook even an inch. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/6525'),
(15877, 'The Winds of Marble Arch', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Willis makes brilliant short fiction look easy in this collection of 23 novellas and short stories, which display a powerful range of sensibility, from poignant tenderness (Inn) and heartbreak (Samaritan) to close-to-the-bone satire (Even the Queen) and blackest savagery (All My Darling Daughters). The title novella illustrates many of Willis''s strengths. Starting from some inexplicable meteorological phenomenon like a blast of fetid air no one else in London''s Tube tunnels can feel or smell, The Winds of Marble Arch whirls its hapless narrator through one strange event after another, until finally his troubled marriage reaches an otherwise impossible transformation into leaves and lilacs and love. A bizarre snowstorm leads to a whole new fast-cut understanding of Christmas in Just Like the Ones We Used to Know, and another eerie blizzard brings the collection to a masterful close in Epiphany, opening a door between our puny reality and the Great Carnival around and above us all, even though we rarely perceive it. Willis''s gift promises that signs are everywhere; we just have to learn to recognize them.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between -- orangutans, Egypt, earthworms, roast goose, college professors, mothers-in-law, aliens, secret codes, Secret Santas, tube stations, choir practice, the post office, the green light on Daisy''s dock, weddings, divorces, death, and assorted plagues, from scarlet fever to "It''s a Wonderful Life." And a dog. Famous for her "sure-hand plotting, unforgettable characters, and top-notch writing," Willis has been called, "the most relentlessly delightful science fiction writer alive," and there are numerous examples here. Among them, Willis''s most famous stories -- the Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning "Fire Watch" and "Even the Queen" and "The Last of the Winnebagos" -- along with undiscovered gems like Willis''s heartfelt homage to Jack Williamson, "Nonstop to Portales." Her magical Christmas stories are here, too, from "Newsletter" to "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know..." which last year was made into the TV movie, Snow Wonder, starring Mary Tyler Moore. We''ve collected stories from throughout Willis''s career, from early ones like "Cash Crop" and "Daisy, in the Sun," right up to her newest stories, including the wonderful "The Winds of Marble Arch." There''s literally something for everyone here. If you''re a diehard Willis fan, you''ll be delighted with hard-to-find treasures like the until-now uncollected, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society..." If you''ve never read Connie Willis, this is your chance to discover "A Letter from the Clearys" and, well, "Chance." To say nothing of, "At the Rialto," the funniest story ever written about quantum physicists. And Willis''s chilling, "All My Darling Daughters." And...oh, there are too many great stories here to list and pleasures galore. So enjoy!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/1492'),
(15878, 'Winnowing: Local Algorithms for Document Fingerprinting', 'Saul Schleimer &amp; Daniel S. Wilkerson &amp; Alex Aiken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9487'),
(15879, 'Winthrop Was Stubborn', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in 1957.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9967');
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(15880, 'Wireless Sensor Networks', 'Jun Zheng (ph. D.) &amp; Jun Zheng &amp; Abbas Jamalipour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jun Zheng, PhD\n  </strong>\n  , is a Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering of the Southeast University, China. He has been involved in extensive research and development in the field of telecommunications engineering for many years. He is a technical editor of IEEE\n  <em>\n   Communications Magazine\n  </em>\n  and the online magazine\n  <em>\n   IEEE Communications Surveys &amp; Tutorials\n  </em>\n  . He has coauthored one book and has published a number of technical papers in refereed journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. An award-winning scientist in the communications technology field, Dr. Zheng is a senior member of the IEEE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Abbas Jamalipour, PhD\n  </strong>\n  , is a Professor of Wireless Networking at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is responsible for teaching and research in wireless data communication networks, wireless IP networks, network security, and cellular communications. He is the Editor in Chief of the\n  <em>\n   IEEE Wireless Communications\n  </em>\n  and technical editor of\n  <em>\n   IEEE Communications Magazine\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   International Journal of Communication Science\n  </em>\n  . Dr. Jamalipour has authored or coauthored a dozen books and has published more than 190 papers in major journals and international conferences. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Engineers Australia, as well as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7644'),
(15881, 'WiX: A Developer&#39;s Guide to Windows Installer XML', 'Nick Ramirez', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A practical guide, this book provides step-by-step instructions for building your installer, showcasing real-world examples throughout. Its purpose is to get the professional developer building installers in no time without getting bogged down in theory. Numerous references to additional resources are provided so that curious readers can supplement the knowledge they gain here with additional details. If you are a developer and want to create installers for software targeting the Windows platform, then this book is for you. You''ll be using a lot of XML so that you get accustomed to the basics of writing well-formed documents, using XML namespaces and the dos and don''ts of structuring elements and attributes. You should know your way around Visual Studio, at least enough to compile projects, add project references, and tweak project properties. No prior knowledge of Windows Installer or WiX is assumed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9195'),
(15882, 'WordPress 3 Complete', 'April Hodge Silver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Create your own complete website or blog from scratch with WordPress\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Learn everything you need for creating your own feature-rich website or blog from scratch\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Clear and practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    In-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Explore WordPress as a fully functional content management system\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Clear, easy-to-follow, concise; rich with examples and screenshots   In Detail Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that''s ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. Wordpress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website. WordPress 3 Complete begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website. Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site - from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you''ll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website. Once you''re done with WordPress 3 Complete, you''ll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and enhance your blog or website using WordPress. What you will learn from this book\n   </p>\n   <ul>\n    <li>\n     Install WordPress in a variety of environments\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Upgrade WordPress from older installations\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Add images, videos, tags, and categories to blog posts\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Personalize and control the content of your website\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Manage the look and feel of your site with customized themes\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Allow users to have a variety of control over content\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Link your website to the outside world through feeds, syndication, and podcasting\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Create custom post types to manage books, movies, people, or anything else you can imagine\n    </li>\n    <li>\n     Design and create your own themes and plugins from scratch\n    </li>\n   </ul>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Approach This a comprehensive step-by-step tutorial packed with screenshots and examples for easy and quick pickup. Who this book is written for This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who have slightly more advanced knowledge of WordPress. If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website in a simple and straightforward manner, then this book is for you. It is also for people who want to learn to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress website. You do not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9077'),
(15883, 'THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAGS', 'Alfred Znamierowski', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">\n  ÐŸÑ‡ÐµÐ»Ð¾Ð² Ð•Ð²Ð³ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð’Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡, ÐŸÐµÑ€ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð´ ÐšÐ¾Ð¼Ð°Ñ€Ð¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð˜Ñ€Ð¸Ð½Ñ‹ Ð’Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ñ‹ ÐÐ°ÑƒÑ‡Ð½Ñ‹Ð¹ Ñ€ÐµÐ´Ð°ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€: ÐšÐ¾Ð¼Ð°Ñ€Ð¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð•Ñ„Ð¸Ð¼ ÐÐ½Ð°Ñ‚Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐÐ°ÑƒÑ‡Ð½Ñ‹Ðµ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑƒÐ»ÑŒÑ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ñ‹: ÐšÑƒÐ·Ð½ÐµÑ†Ð¾Ð² ÐžÐ»ÐµÐ³ Ð’ÑÑ‡ÐµÑÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡\n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9537'),
(15884, 'The World Inside', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Urban Monad 116: A lofty spire a thousand stories high, where over 880,000 souls live out their perfectly regulated lives in peace and plenty.\n <br />\n But inside their glorious world are a few who dare to doubt and dream:\n <br />\n Aurea HolstonÂ â€” a beautiful young bride who fears leaving the only world sheâ€™s ever known.\n <br />\n Dillon ChrimesÂ â€” cosmos group pop star, who becomes one of the urbmon in an orgiastic, mind-shattering trip.\n <br />\n Jason QuevedoÂ â€” historian, who gets his kicks from the perverse savagery of an earlier age.\n <br />\n Siegmund KluverÂ â€” virile young man-on-the-way-up, who sees the nightmare behind the urbmonâ€™s shining facade.\n <br />\n And Michael StatlerÂ â€” who dares to escape...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11999'),
(15885, 'THE WORLD JONES MADE', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11716'),
(15886, 'World of Chance', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11732'),
(15887, 'Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine', 'Randall Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  5/5 stars, "you will have a greater understanding and appreciation for code that is written efficiently" --\n  <em>\n   MacCompanion, January 2005, http://www.maccompanion.com/documents/freeissues/2004/january2005.pdf\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you''ve asked someone the secret to writing efficient, well-written software, the answer that you''ve probably gotten is "learn assembly language programming." By learning assembly language programming, you learn how the machine really operates and that knowledge will help you write better high-level language code. A dirty little secret assembly language programmers rarely admit to, however, is that what you really need to learn is machine organization, not assembly language programming.\n  <em>\n   Write Great Code Vol I\n  </em>\n  , the first in a series from assembly language expert Randall Hyde, dives right into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming at the same time. And since\n  <em>\n   Write Great Code Vol I\n  </em>\n  concentrates on the machine organization, not assembly language, the reader will learn in greater depth those subjects that are language-independent and of concern to a high level language programmer.\n  <em>\n   Write Great Code Vol I\n  </em>\n  will help programmers make wiser choices with respect to programming statements and data types when writing software, no matter which language they use.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9190'),
(15888, 'Writing a Report', 'John Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Now in its 8th edition, this extensively revised and updatedhandbook explains how you can write reports that will be:A\n <em>\n  Read without unnecessary delayA\n </em>\n Understood without undue effortA\n <em>\n  Accepted, and where applicable, acted uponDivided into three parts, the book looks in detail firstly at thepractical side of report writing:A\n </em>\n Preparation and planningA\n <em>\n  Collecting and handling informationA\n </em>\n Writing and revisingSecondly, at the creative side of report writing:A\n <em>\n  Achieving a good style and choosing the right wordsAnd thirdly at 23 common types of report, including:A\n </em>\n Annual reportsA\n <em>\n  Appraisal reportsA\n </em>\n Audit reportsA\n <em>\n  MinutesA\n </em>\n Progress reportsA\n <em>\n  Student project reportsA\n </em>\n Technical reportsThere is also an extensive glossary and a selection of sample reports.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7394'),
(15889, 'Writing Mobile Code: Essential Software Engineering for Building Mobile Applications', 'Ivo Salmre', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mobile devices have now become both much richer and much morewidespread - just look at the capabilities of the newest cell phones. At the sametime advances such as the .NET Compact Framework have opened the worldof application development for these devices to a much larger group ofpotential developers. Most of the material available to help traditionalapplication developers adapt to the very different world of mobile applications(including books) has focused on particular features sets of either thedevelopment tools or the devices. This is the first concise and practicalengineering book that lays out the principals and methods of good mobilesoftware design and uses concrete examples to back up the theaory. While thenumerous examples use the .NET Compact Framework, the general principalsdiscussed are valid for all mobile device development. This is a book which isdestined to be a well-respected guide to this growing field for years to come.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Writing Mobile Code\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book will be your new bible for the rapidly developing world of mobile computing. From design to performance, the information you need to be successful is here."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Doug Ellis, Area Technical Manager, Cognos Corporation\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In the often resource-constrained world of mobile device development, solid software engineering practices are essential to success. 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Although the examples in this book are given in C# and Visual Basic languages, it would prove useful to mobile developers of all platforms. I highly recommend it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Michael Yuan, PhD., Mobile Software Consultant\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just when you thought you knew how to write mobile code, this book makes you reconsider the things you took for granted. Salmre provides a balanced mix of software recipes and forays into the philosophy of mobile development that will help any mobile developer to write better apps."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€”Alex Feinman, Software Engineer, OpenNETCF.org\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mobile computing devices have evolved from fixed-purpose communications tools to compelling and extensible mass-market computing platforms. Now, they stand poised to offer truly ubiquitous and mobile computingâ€”and to revolutionize the way people work, communicate, and interact with the world around them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing Mobile Code is the first definitive guide to writing applications for the new generation of mobile devices. In this accessible, hands-on reference, readers will find the principles and methods of great mobile software design and real-world examples to support them. While the many examples use the .NET Compact Framework, C#, and Visual Basic .NET, the design and engineering concepts Salmre discusses apply to all mobile-computing technologies and platforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Highlights include\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Performance considerations, including memory management, multithreading, XML, and graphics\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Designing the right user interface\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Establishing appropriate data-access and communications models\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Strategies for packaging and deploying your mobile application\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Whether you are new to designing mobile device software or a seasoned mobile-computing developer, this book will give you a deep understanding of what is unique and interesting about mobile development and how to build successful mobile applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In short, Writing Mobile Code is destined to be the seminal guide to this growing field for years to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9128'),
(15890, 'Writing Secure Code', 'Michael Howard &amp; David Leblanc &amp; David E. Leblanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewYour code will be attacked. You need to assume it will run in the most hostile environments imaginable -- and design, code, and test accordingly. Writing Secure Code, Second Edition shows you how. This edition draws on the lessons learned and taught throughout Microsoft during the firm s massive 2002 Windows Security Push. It s a huge upgrade to the respected First Edition, with new coverage across the board. Michael Howard and David LeBlanc first help you define what security means to your customers -- and implement a three-pronged strategy for securing design, defaults, and deployment. There s especially useful coverage of threat modeling -- decomposing your application, identifying threats, ranking them, and mitigating them. Then, it s on to in-depth coverage of today s key security issues from the developer s standpoint. Everyone knows buffer overruns are bad: Here s a full chapter on avoiding them. You ll learn how to establish appropriate access controls and default to running with least privilege. There s detailed coverage of overcoming attacks on cryptography (for example, avoiding poor random numbers and bit-flipping attacks). You ll learn countermeasures for virtually every form of user input attack, from malicious database updates to cross-site scripting. We ve just scratched the surface: There are authoritative techniques for securing sockets and RPC, protecting against DOS attacks, building safer .NET applications, reviewing and testing code, adding privacy features, and even writing high-quality security documentation. Following these techniques won t just improve security -- it ll dramatically improve robustness and reliability, too. Bill CamardaBill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading &amp; Fixing Networks For DummiesÂ®, Second Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9143'),
(15891, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orson Scott Card''s\n  <em>\n   Xenocide\n  </em>\n  is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin''s story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of\n  <em>\n   pequeninos\n  </em>\n  , and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it''s hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender''s tale will want to start reading this series with the first books,\n  <em>\n   Ender''s Game\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Speaker for the Dead\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Xenocide (1991) is the third novel in the Ender''s Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992. The title is a combination of ''xeno-'', meaning alien, and ''-cide'', referring to the act of killing; altogether referring to the act of selectively killing aliens. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4802'),
(15892, 'XML Scripting With Perl and Python', 'Martin C. Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aimed at experienced programmers,\n  <em>\n   Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP\n  </em>\n  is a guide to processing XML with popular scripting languages. The author is a strong advocate of script, as opposed to C++ or Java, on the grounds of speed of development, ease of use, and cross-platform support. With explanations and examples, he shows how to parse XML using Perl, Python, or PHP and offers brief notes on other scripting languages. To make sense of the book, readers need to be already familiar with the script language of their choice, and to a lesser extent with XML itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The opening chapters offer a brief introduction to XML and DTD (Document Type Definition) files and explain the basic concepts of parsing XML using event-driven or tree-based APIs. Next comes a long section on XML and Perl, covering the XML::Parser module, Perl and Unicode, generating and converting XML, and using SOAP or XML-RPC. A parallel section shows how the same things can be achieved with XML and Python, and there''s a further chapter on Zope, the Python application server. PHP has a shorter section, focusing on XML parsing, working with RSS (Rich Site Summary) XML documents, and XML-RPC. The last part of the book offers a chapter each on four other scripting languages: REBOL, Ruby, Tcl, and AppleScript.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The snag with this book is that few developers work with all these languages, and covering so many limits the detail on any one. Even so, it is interesting to compare the differences between the various approaches, particularly between Perl and Python, which are the author''s main area of expertise. There are also helpful insights on how to convert XML to and from database formats.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  -The only book that focuses on the usage of XML with the most popular scripting languages, including Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Rebol, TCL, and Mac OS X''s AppleScript.\n  <br />\n  -Complete coverage of the core XML processing issues, including the basics of parsing XML documents, converting XML to and from different formats and translating objects for use with databases.\n  <br />\n  -This book goes beyond the basics into advanced topics, such as using the SAX API for Perl, and using SOAP and XML-RPC to share XML formatted information over a network connection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7087'),
(15893, 'XMPP: The Definitive Guide', 'Peter Saint-andre &amp; Kevin Smith &amp; Remko Troncon &amp; Remko Tronon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   XMPP: The Definitive Guide\n  </em>\n  walks you through the thought processes and design decisions involved in building a complete XMPP-enabled application, and adding real-time interfaces to existing applications. You''ll not only learn simple yet powerful XMPP tools, but you''ll also discover, through real-world developer stories, how common XMPP "building blocks" can help solve particular classes of problems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With this book, you will:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Learn the basics of XMPP technologies, including architectural issues, addressing, and communication primitives\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the terminology of XMPP and learn about the wealth of XMPP servers, clients, and code libraries\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Become familiar with the XMPP concepts and services you need to solve common problems\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Construct a complete business application or real-time service with XMPP\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Every day, more software developers and service providers are using XMPP for real-time applications, and with the help of\n  <em>\n   XMPP: The Definitive Guide\n  </em>\n  , you can, too.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/7677'),
(15894, 'Yendi', 'Stephen Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4281'),
(15895, 'Young Zaphod Plays It Safe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4577'),
(15896, 'Zamek Lorda Valentine&#39;a', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pierwszy tom jednego z nasÅ‚ynniejszych cykli fantasy/science fiction.\n <br />\n Majipoor to olbrzymia planeta, zamieszkana przez wiele ras napÅ‚ywowych, wÅ›rÃ³d ktÃ³rych ludzie sÄ… rasÄ… dominujÄ…cÄ…. Na Majipoor Å¼yjÄ… teÅ¼ tubylcy, dziwna i wyobcowana rasa zmiennoksztaÅ‚tnych, ktÃ³rych wszyscy siÄ™ bojÄ….\n <br />\n Z racji braku surowcÃ³w cywilizacja na planecie jest raczej sÅ‚abo rozwiniÄ™ta, ale nie brak i zaawansowanych technologii.\n <br />\n Bohaterem jest wÄ™drowiec, zatrudniony jako Å¼ongler w objazdowej trupie. Ale sny, ktÃ³re na Majipoor majÄ… niezwykÅ‚Ä… moc, ujawniajÄ…, Å¼e jest on w rzeczywistoÅ›ci Lordem Valentine, wÅ‚adcÄ… planety, w podÅ‚y sposÃ³b pozbawionym wÅ‚adzy.\n <br />\n Wraz z Valentinem przemierzamy kontynenty Majipooru w kierunku oÅ›rodka wÅ‚adzy, jakim jest Zamek.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/12003'),
(15897, 'The Zap Gun', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/11793'),
(15898, 'Zeii insisi', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4788'),
(15899, 'Zeii insisi', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/8583'),
(15900, 'The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web', 'Dave Shea &amp; Molly E. Holzschlag', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n  Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you''ve finished perusing the volume, you''ll have a new understanding of the graphically rich, fully accessible sites that CSS design facilitates. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, Dave and Molly take you through every phase of the design process--from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects (no scripting required).\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/9275'),
(15901, 'Ziua reintoarcerii lor', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://cms.vle.ase.md/get/thumb_90_120/4698'),
(15902, 'The Magician', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“9â€”Flamel and company return in this fast-paced follow-up to\n  <em>\n   The Alchemyst\n  </em>\n  (Delacorte, 2007). The immortal human Nicholas Flamel; Scathach, the veggie vampire warrior; and the mortal twins of legend, Josh and Sophie, are still on the run from the malicious Dr. John Dee. Flamel retains two of the pages of the legendary Book of Abraham, and Dee will do anything to get them. After hopping a ley line to Paris, our heroes barely escape the machinations of Dee''s partner in crime, NiccolÃ² Machiavelli. While finding shelter with fellow immortals (Joan of Arc turns out to be a particularly helpful ally), Josh attempts to deal with the fact that his twin sister is now incredibly powerful. Having had her powers "awakened," Sophie''s new abilities make him surprisingly jealousâ€”a fact that Dee may find useful. Scott tapers down the sheer breadth of gods, goddesses, legends, and myths already introduced in his first novel, which is a bit of a relief. Even though the plot moves forward at breakneck speed, the author is careful not to lose sight of his characters'' struggles or inner demons. Fans of the previous novel will certainly find much to love, root for, and fear in this successful second installment.â€”_Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Alchemyst (2007), the first book in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series,  introduced a wide-ranging group of historical figures who have achieved immortality and are engaged in a present-day struggle for the fate of the world. This second entry picks up exactly where the first left off. Allied with the legendary Nicholas Flamel  on the â€œgoodâ€ side are teenage twins Sophie and Josh, who are supremely gifted but with powers that are untrained. Countering them is a new archvillain, NiccolÃ² Machiavelli, who, along with other figures from history and legend (Joan of Arc, a trio of Valkyries), swells the already impressive cast. Plundering every imaginable culture of their heroes and heroines is a clever feat, sure to draw all manner of historically and mythologically minded readers. One weakness starts to show through, however. In a six-book series such as this, each installment begins to feel like a lengthy, glorified chapter rather than its own book complete with a satisfying story arc and resolution. That said, this keeps the pace as an exciting and impeccably thought-out fantasy, well suited for those left in the lurch by Harry Potterâ€™s recent exeunt. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(15903, 'The Sorceress', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The third book in Michael Scott''s "Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series,\n  <em>\n   The Sorceress\n  </em>\n  , kicks the action up to a whole new level. Adding to the series'' menagerie of immortal humans ("humani") and mythological beasts, the book picks up where\n  <em>\n   The Magician\n  </em>\n  left off: the immortal Nicholas Flamel (of\n  <em>\n   The Alchemyst\n  </em>\n  ) and the twins, Sophie and Josh, have just arrived at St. Pancras international train station in London. Almost immediately, they''re confronted with a demonic bounty hunter that immortal magician John Dee has sent their way. At the same time, Dee''s occasional cohort, Niccolo Machiavelli, decides to focus his energy on Perenelle Flamel, the Alchemyst''s wife, who has been imprisoned at Alcatraz since the beginning of the series. In this book, Perenelle gets a chance to show off her sorcery and resourcefulness, fighting and forging alliances with ghosts, beasts, and the occasional Elder to try and find a way out of her predicament and back to Flamel. Scott is as playful as ever, introducing new immortals--famous figures from history who (surprise!) are still alive. He also adds to the roster of fantastical beasts, which already includes such intriguing foes as Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess, and the Morrigan, or Crow Goddess. Raising the stakes with each installment, Scott deftly manages multiple story lines and keeps everything moving pretty quickly, making this third book a real page-turner. More than just another piece in the puzzle of the whole series,\n  <em>\n   The Sorceress\n  </em>\n  is an adventure in its own right, and will certainly leave series fans wanting more.\n  <em>\n   --Heidi Broadhead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive: An Interview with Author Michael Scott\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What was your inspiration for the seriesâ€”was it the legend of the Flamels and the Book of Abraham? Did Dee figure in from the start?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  The story really started with Dr. John Dee and, for a long time, he was the hero of the series. I had written about Dee before in my horror novels,\n  <em>\n   Image\n  </em>\n  , (Sphere, UK, 1991),\n  <em>\n   Reflection\n  </em>\n  , (Sphere, UK, 1993) and then\n  <em>\n   The Merchant Prince\n  </em>\n  (Pocket Books, USA, 2000). Dee was a fascinating man, but he was never â€œrightâ€ for the lead character: he was always too dark, too troubled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I know I started to develop the series on May 18th, 1997, because that is the first time the word â€œAlchemystâ€ with the â€œYâ€ appears in my notebooks. However, it was really three years later, in late September 2000, when I was in Paris and stumbled across Nicholas Flamelâ€™s house in the Rue de Montmorency that the series really came together. I knew a lot about Flamel and the legendary Book of Abraham and, sitting in Flamelâ€™s home, which is now a wonderful restaurant, I realized that here was the hero for my series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Flamel was one of the most famous alchemists of his day. He was born in 1330 and earned his living as a bookseller (which was the same job I had for many years.) One day he bought a book, the same book mentioned in\n  <em>\n   The Alchemyst\n  </em>\n  : the Book of Abraham. It too, really existed and Nicholas Flamel left us with a very detailed description of the copper-bound book. Although the book itself is lost, the illustrations from the text still exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the course of his long life, Flamel became extraordinarily wealthy, and used his wealth to found churches, hospitals and schools. Both he and his wife, Perenelle, were very well known in France and across Europe. The streets named after them, the Rue Flamel and the Rue Perenelle, still exist in Paris today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  I was excited to see\n  <em>\n   The Sorceress\n  </em>\n  showing off more of Perenelle. How much does the real Perenelle Flamel influence the character of Perenelle?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  We know little about the historical Perenelle. There are a few solid facts however and I have incorporated them into the story: she was older than Nicholas (there is even the suggestion that she might have been a widow when she married him), and she was also wealthier. It is also abundantly clear that she was the dominant character in the marriage and there is some evidence to suggest that she was an alchemist in her own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What''s coming up next?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  Coming up next... well, book 4 brings up back to the west coast of America and San Francisco. And then we head south towards LA (but if I tell you any more Iâ€™ll reveal a couple of big surprises!) However, I will tell you that I am just back from a weekend in London where I spent most of Saturday wandering around Covent Garden. Youâ€™ll find out why in\n  <em>\n   The Necromancer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The most fun thing about the series, I think, is how you reveal new immortals as you go along (e.g., Machiavelli, Joan of Arc... I wonâ€™t spoil your reveals in\n  <em>\n   The Sorceress\n  </em>\n  , but theyâ€™re surprising). How do you decide which famous figure from history will be your next immortal?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  Thank you for not revealing some of the surprises!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once I had plotted the series, I had a rough idea of the type of characters I wanted to include. My settingsâ€”the United States, France and Englandâ€”suggested certain types of characters. I could not write about Paris, for example, and not include Joan. But there were other charactersâ€”Scathach is the perfect exampleâ€”who was there right from the very beginning. Again, she was someone I had written about before in my early collections of Irish folklore and knew that I wanted to use again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Also, because this series is based upon legend, mythology and history, it put in place certain rules: the only â€œcreatedâ€ characters in the series are the twins, Sophie and Josh. Everyone else existed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve written for adults and young adultsâ€”and this series certainly seems to have crossed over into an adult readership. Is the experience any different when youâ€™re writing for younger readers? Do you find that younger readers have a stronger connection to the work, for example?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  I have always written for both adults and young adults, but you are right, the Flamel series has crossed over in an extraordinary way. Writing for young adults requires a certain precision in language. Adults have a body of shared knowledge and information that young adults do not. I can make allusions and references in my adult writing that young adults might not get. My young adult writing tends to be much more descriptive and I will take the time to describe people, places and situations to allow the younger readers to become fully involved in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Younger readers are certainly attracted to the adventure and are thrilled to realize what when they go online they can find out all sorts of additional information about all the characters. The older readers tend to ask more specific questions about the mythological characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How is this series different from other young adult books that youâ€™ve written?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  This is the most intricate and ambitious work Iâ€™ve done. The six books will take place in less than a month so everything has to knit and mesh together. The notes for this series are now bigger than the books themselves. I have said before that there is nothing accidental in the books. What might look like an inconsistency, for example, is often a clue to something that will happen later on. Because Iâ€™ve plotted the entire series, it gives me huge freedom to plant seeds and clues to later events.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Of all the forms you write inâ€”novels, scripts, nonfictionâ€”do you have a favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  Novels. It is the only one of the three where you are in complete control. With a script, for example, everyone has a say and what you see on screen only vaguely resembles what youâ€™ve written.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Whatâ€™s your favorite genre (to write and to read)?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  I love writing fantasyâ€”and itâ€™s what I read most. However, my rule is when Iâ€™m writing fantasy, I will read anything but fantasy. So I end up reading a lot of crimeâ€”Iâ€™ve got the new John Connolly on the desk to read nextâ€”and Iâ€™m a huge John Sandford fan. The research for this series is huge (but itâ€™s the part I really enjoy), so I do find myself reading some terribly odd non-fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Have all six of the books in the series already been written? If so, what are you working on now? Is it strange to revisit each of the books as they come out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Scott:\n  </strong>\n  They have all been plotted, but not written. Iâ€™m close to the end of\n  <em>\n   The Necromancer\n  </em>\n  now and little bits of book 5,\n  <em>\n   The Warlock,\n  </em>\n  and even the end of book 6,\n  <em>\n   The Enchantress\n  </em>\n  , have been written.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I am also writing and researching a new series, not linked to the Flamel series, which Iâ€™m having a lot of fun with. All Iâ€™ll say is that it also has its roots in myth. The oddest part of revisiting the books is when I tour. Usually I am touring and reading from a book I finished many months previously. I have to be careful not to reveal any of the forthcoming surprises when I take questions.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-10â€“The third book takes up immediately where\n  <em>\n   The Magician\n  </em>\n  (Delacorte, 2008) left off, and the events described occur over the course of a week. Having fled a destroyed Paris, Nicolas Flamel and the twins are now in England with their every move being tracked by John Dee, the Dark Elders, and their denizens, who are now convinced that Sophie and Josh are the twins of legend. In the meantime, Flamel''s wife, Perenelle, the titular sorceress, is attempting to escape Alcatraz. Joined first by the knight Palamedes, and then by William Shakespeare, Flamel and the children try to stay ahead of their pursuers in an attempt to reach Stonehenge, where they hope to find a gate that will allow them to get to San Francisco. In the midst of evading pursuit, Josh finally gets the knowledge of an elemental power, Water Magic, from the insane Elder Gilgamesh, which, of course, conveniently becomes valuable. The chase and escape plots are rather thin and highlight the fact that this series feels bloated, and probably doesn''t need the six long volumes the author is planning to tell the story. The inclusion of historical characters such as Shakespeare and Billy the Kid seems primarily a gimmick, and these two characters in particular feel oddly anachronistic. This book is a must-read for fans of the series, but even they will tire if the author doesn''t get to the point with reasonable dispatch._â€“Tim Wadham, St. Louis County Library, MO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(15904, 'The Necromancer', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamel-The Necromancer San Francisco:After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they''ve seen and learned in the past week, they''re both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they''ll need to protect themselves from the Dark Elders, they''ve lost Scatty, and they''re still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone? Alcatraz:Dr. Dee underestimated Perenelle Flamel''s power. Alcatraz could not hold her, Nereus was no match for her, and she was able to align herself with the most unlikely of allies. But she wasn''t the only one being held on the island. Behind the prison''s bars and protective sigils were a menagerie of monsters-an army for Dee to use in the final battle. And now Machiavelli has come to Alcatraz to loose those monsters on San Francisco.Perenelle might be powerful, but each day she weakens, and even with Nicholas back at her side, a battle of this size could be too much for her. Nicholas and Perenelle must fight to protect the city, but the effort will probably kill them both. London:Having been unable to regain the two final pages of the Codex, Dee has failed his Elder and is now an outlaw-and the new prey of all the creatures formerly sent to hunt down Flamel.But Dee has a plan. With the Codex and the creatures on Alcatraz, he can control the world. All he needs is the help of the Archons. But for his plan to work, he must raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. For that, he''ll have to train a necromancer. And the twins of legend will make the perfect pupils. . . . The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamelâ€”The Necromancer San Francisco:After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they''ve seen and learned in the past week, they''re both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they''ll need to protect themselves from the Dark Elders, they''ve lost Scatty, and they''re still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone? Alcatraz:Dr. Dee underestimated Perenelle Flamel''s power. Alcatraz could not hold her, Nereus was no match for her, and she was able to align herself with the most unlikely of allies. But she wasn''t the only one being held on the island. Behind the prison''s bars and protective sigils were a menagerie of monstersâ€”an army for Dee to use in the final battle. And now Machiavelli has come to Alcatraz to loose those monsters on San Francisco.Perenelle might be powerful, but each day she weakens, and even with Nicholas back at her side, a battle of this size could be too much for her. Nicholas and Perenelle must fight to protect the city, but the effort will probably kill them both. London:Having been unable to regain the two final pages of the Codex, Dee has failed his Elder and is now an outlawâ€”and the new prey of all the creatures formerly sent to hunt down Flamel.But Dee has a plan. With the Codex and the creatures on Alcatraz, he can control the world. All he needs is the help of the Archons. But for his plan to work, he must raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. For that, he''ll have to train a necromancer. And the twins of legend will make the perfect pupils. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(15905, 'The Warlock', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the fifth installment of this bestselling series, the twins of prophesy have been divided, and the end is finally beginning. With Scatty, Joan of Arc, Saint Germain, Palamedes, and Shakespeare all in Danu Talis, Sophie is on her own with the ever-weakening Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel. She must depend on Niten to help her find an immortal to teach her Earth Magic. The surprise is that she will find her teacher in the most ordinary of places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(15906, '4.50 From Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(15907, 'The Aesop for Children', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/165');
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(15908, 'The Alchemyst', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with "dead-looking skin and... marble eyes" (actually Golems) storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality. Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex''s prophecies: "The two that are one will come either to save or to destroy the world." Mayhem ensues, as Irish author Scott draws on a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gunâ€”Dr. John Deeâ€”against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins (Sophie''s powers are "awakened" by the goddess Hekate, who''d been living in an elaborate treehouse north of San Francisco). Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month. Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels. Proceeding at a breakneck pace, and populated by the likes of werewolves and vampires, the novel ends on a precipice, presumably to be picked up in volume two. Ages 12-up.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 6-9â€“Scott uses a gigantic canvas for this riveting fantasy. The well-worn theme of saving the world from the forces of evil gets a fresh look here as he incorporates ancient myth and legend and sets it firmly, pitch-perfect, in present-day California. At the emotional center of the tale are contemporary 15-year-old twins, Josh and Sophie, who, it turns out, are potentially powerful magicians. They are spoken of in a prophecy appearing in the ancient Book of Abraham the Mage, all but two pages of which have been stolen by evil John Dee, alchemist and magician. The pursuit of the twins and Flamel by Dee and his allies to get the missing pages constitutes the book''s central plot. Amid all this exhilarating action, Scott keeps his sights on the small details of character and dialogue and provides evocative descriptions of people, mythical beings, and places. He uses as his starting point the figures of the historical alchemist Nicholas Flamel and his wife, who have found the secret of immortality, along with mythical beings, including the terrifying Scottish crow-goddess, the Morrigan; the three-faced Greek Hekate; the powerful Egyptian cat-goddess, Bastet; and Scathach, a legendary Irish woman warrior and vegetarian vampire. While there is plenty here to send readers rushing to their encyclopedias of mythology and alchemy, those who read the book at face value will simply be caught up in the enthralling story. A fabulous read.â€“_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(15909, 'Alcott Eight Cousins', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(15910, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Una fria noche de invierno, la nieve cae en una pequena ciudad, el viento hace resonar las campanas de la iglesia... y Fritz el novelista empieza el relato de su ultima narracion. En ese instante los mas extranos sucesos empiezan a desencadenarse, ligados unos a otros, casi como los engranajes de un reloj.En la inquietante historia se entremezclan un atormentado aprendiz de relojero, un principe automata, un amenazador caballero enfundado en su armadura y el siniestro senor Kalmenius, que, segun algunos, es el diablo en persona... A medida que la historia va desarrollandose, la vida y el reloj mecanico se entremezclan en esta muestra unica de la literatura de suspense, de la mano de uno de los mas prestigiosos escritores de nuestros dias. Philip Pullman ha sido el ganador de los codiciados premios Carnegie Medad y Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(15911, 'American Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(15912, 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(15913, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a mostâ€¦unusualâ€¦way. To avoid war, Earthâ€™s government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android''s Dream"), used in the alien race''s coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire, who with the help of Brian Javna, a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature. And they find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA. But there are others with plans for the sheep as well: Mercenaries employed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century science fiction author. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth. To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off the greatest diplomatic coup in history, a grand gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds. There''s only one chance to get it right, to save the life of Robin Baker -- and to protect the future of humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(15914, 'Anne Of Avonlea', 'Montgomery, L. M', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(15915, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'Montgomery, L. M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(15916, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(15917, 'Aunt Jo&#39;s Scrap-Bag', 'Alcott, Louisa May', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(15918, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what''s going to happen next ...'' There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. There was a will to be settled. She paid up front. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn''t going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn''t see - Beverly Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars and she didn''t seem like someone longing for a family reunion. But just as Kinsey begins to suspect foul play and start asking questions, Beverly Danziger pulls her off the case and fires her ...''One of the best written crime novels by anybody in recent memory''. - "New York Times". ''Kinsey Millhone [is] just about the gutsiest as well as the shrewdest of her kind''. - "Observer". ''An unusually compelling series of novels with a notably convincing central character''. - "Guardian".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(15919, 'Barrayar', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Romance.  104069  words long.  Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award Nominee, HOMer Award Winner\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(15920, 'Baum A Kidnapped Santa Claus', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(15921, 'The Body in the Library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(15922, 'The Borders of Infinity', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Fantasy.   27089  words long. First published in Free Lancers, ed. Elizabeth Mitchell, September 1987 Locus Poll Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(15923, 'Brothers in Arms', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction.   89868  words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(15924, 'Busman&#39;s Honeymoon', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. And what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country soon turns into a most baffling case, what with the misspelled "notise" to the milkman and the intriguing condition of the dead man -- not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a pence less than six hundred pounds in his pocket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(15925, 'By the Shores of Silver Lake', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(15926, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(15927, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A guide to get you up an running with calibre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(15928, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(15929, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(15930, 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(15931, 'Celtic Fairy Tales', 'Jacobs, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(15932, 'Cetaganda', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction.   84728  words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(15933, 'A Child&#39;s History of England', 'Dickens, Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(15934, 'Christmas Books', 'Dickens, Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(15935, 'A Civil Campaign', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One cunning plan too many? It''s spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ...money ...bio-genetics ...love ...lack of money ...incompatible planetary sexual mores ...love ...District succession scandals ...the Emperor''s wedding ...and, of course, love ...Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can''t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won''t do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan ...Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can''t solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan ...''It''s another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures ...Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and style!  A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel...Boy, can she write!'' -Anne McCaffrey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(15936, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(15937, 'Clouds of Witness', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket and was Lord Peter''s brother-in-law-to-be. His accused murderer was Wimsey''s own brother, and if murder set all in the family wasn''t enough to boggle the unflappable Lord Wimsey, perhaps a few twists of fate would be -- a mysterious vanishing midnight letter from Egypt...a grieving fiancee with suitcase in hand...and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(15938, 'The collected short stories of Roald Dahl - Volume 2', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Containing all the stories from Roald Dahl''s world - famous books - Over to You, Someone Like you, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch - plus eight further tales of the unexpected, this is the definitive collection by one of the great masters of the short story. Macabre, unsettling and deliciously enjoyable, these stories make the perfect bedtime read - but be warned, once you''ve started reading you won''t be able to stop . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(15939, 'The collected short stories of Roald Dahl Volume 1', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Containing all the stories from Roald Dahl''s world - famous books - Over to You, Someone Like you, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch - plus eight further tales of the unexpected, this is the definitive collection by one of the great masters of the short story. Macabre, unsettling and deliciously enjoyable, these stories make the perfect bedtime read - but be warned, once you''ve started reading you won''t be able to stop . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(15940, 'The Color of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. The Color of MagicM is Terry Pratchett''s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(15941, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.   Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.   In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(15942, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you''re waiting for\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team''s tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of ''80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you''ll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton''s other work.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A group of scientists visits the Congo jungle in search of a lost city and a domestic apeâ€™s ancestors, only to find the jungle holds some strange primates who have killer instincts. High drama marks a vivid condensed audio version of a thriller. --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(15943, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(15944, 'The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story From the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joan of Arc was not burned at the stake in Rouen, France in 1431. She was rescued from certain death by Scathach the Warrior.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The truth about that day is revealed in the last will and testament of William of York, and it will leave you wondering: does Joan of Arc still walk the earth? Michael Scottâ€™s first-ever exclusive ebook short story delves into the world of the bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel and offers readers a never-before-seen lost storyâ€”the story of two warriors who would become sisters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(15945, 'Diplomatic Immunity', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fans won''t find this surprising in the least, but Miles Vorkosigan--the plucky, short-statured hero of Lois McMaster Bujold''s beloved series--is uniquely incapable of having an uneventful honeymoon. Between a racially fueled diplomatic dispute, the appearance of a hermaphroditic old flame, and a bizarre Cetagandan genetic conspiracy, Miles just can''t seem to get a minute of peace with his new wife, the lovely and resourceful Ekaterin (whom Miles courted in A Civil Campaign). Miles had hoped to give "hands-on op games" a rest once and for all, but when the Emperor urgently calls on him to resolve a "legal entanglement" in Quaddiespace, diplomacy alone might prove inadequate. (Quaddies, you''ll remember, are the no-legged, four-armed free-fallers introduced in Falling Free.) Our newly minted Imperial Auditor almost immediately forgets all about "Baby''s First Cell Division" (after the assignment comes in, Ekaterin quickly observes "You know, you keep claiming your job is boring, Miles, but your eyes have gone all bright"), but even Miles feels the heat after his diplomatic attempts devolve into a series of flattering assassination attempts. Vorkosigan (and family now!) is as winning as ever, with Bujold offering up her usual fun mix of space-opera action and droll social commentary in a character-centered plot. And here''s a bonus for Milesophiles and Vorkosiga novices alike: a book-by-book timeline detailing what trouble Miles got into and when. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(15946, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John BrunnerTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results."[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams Rolling Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(15947, 'The Door into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Not only America''s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world. He remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."--Stephen KingElectronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan''s greedy partner and greedier fiancÃ©e trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . .Once again, the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers displays his genius. The Door in to Summer proves why Robert Heinlein''s books have sold more than 50 million copies, winning countless awards, and earning him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction. "Heinlein . . . has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."--Philadelphia Inquirer"One of the grandmasters of science fiction."--The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(15948, 'The Door into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(15949, 'E Is for Evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€”until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnâ€™t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseyâ€™s bank account. Problem is sheâ€™s not the one who deposited the money. But when sheâ€™s accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing herâ€¦Now Kinseyâ€™s working for herself. But with new evidenceâ€”and corpsesâ€”surfacing around her, sheâ€™s going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationâ€”and quite possibly her lifeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(15950, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(15951, 'English Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(15952, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(15953, 'Ethan of Athos', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Fantasy.   61819  words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(15954, 'European Folk and Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(15955, 'The Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(15956, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(15957, 'Falling Free', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction.   80238  words long.  Nebula Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Prometheus Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(15958, 'Fantastic beasts and where to find them', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most complete A to Z listing of magical beasts that exists, and includes their classifications. From Basiliks to Jarveys to Werewolves, this book covers all the magical beasts you''ve only heard of and will introduce you to a host of new ones you haven''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(15959, 'Farmer Boy', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(15960, 'Farmer in the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(15961, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(15962, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sam Vines is on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(15963, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn''t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere--Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quickly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list, with good reason. Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assets are a first-class mind, a Harvard law degree, and a beautiful, loving wife. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he really can''t refuse, he trades his old Nissan for a new BMW, his cramped apartment for a house in the best part of town, and puts in long hours finding tax shelters for Texans who''d rather pay a lawyer than the IRS. Nothing criminal about that. He''d be set for life, if only associates at the firm didn''t have a funny habit of dying, and the FBI wasn''t trying to get Mitch to turn his colleagues in. The tempo and pacing are brilliant, the thrills keep coming, and the finish has a wonderful ironic flourish. It''s not hard to see why Grisham changed the genre permanently with this one, and few of his colleagues in a very crowded field come close to equaling him. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(15964, 'Five Children and It', 'Nesbit, E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(15965, 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unless you''re a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world''s assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein''s many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein''s theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(15966, 'Friday', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(15967, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *For #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Milhone, danger comes with the jobâ€”but she never expects to find herself at the top of a hit manâ€™s listâ€¦*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **G IS FOR GAMEâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasnâ€™t heard from in six months, itâ€™s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girlâ€™s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy moneyâ€”or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **G IS FOR GUNâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kinsey doesnâ€™t know what to make of Agnesâ€™s vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but sheâ€™s got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinseyâ€™s car is run off the road, and then days later, sheâ€™s almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse gameâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***G IS FOR *****GUMSHOE**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edgeâ€¦especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasnâ€™t so senile after allâ€”and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinseyâ€™s determined to learn the truthâ€¦even if it kills her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(15968, 'A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(15969, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan &amp; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The final volume of the Wheel of Time, *A Memory of Light,* was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, *New York Times* bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents *The Gathering Storm* as the first of three novels that will make up *A Memory of Light.* This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(15970, 'Gaudy Night', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(15971, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(15972, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(15973, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A sensation across Europeâ€”millions of copies soldA spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.Itâ€™s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.Itâ€™s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harrietâ€™s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her ageâ€”and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with itâ€”who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialismâ€”and an unexpected connection between themselves.Itâ€™s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(15974, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman''s heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel,\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  , a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra''s Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal\n  <em>\n   daemon\n  </em>\n  , the manifestation of their souls in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra''s carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  , Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children''s book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn''t speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Subtle Knife\n  </em>\n  , will help put off that inevitability for a while longer.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials trilogy now appears in sophisticated trade paperback editions, each title embossed within a runic emblem of antiqued gold. The backdrop of The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book I sports a midnight blue map of the cosmos with the zodiacal ram at its center. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass carry similarly intriguing cover art, and all three titles offer details not seen in the originals: in Compass and Knife, for example, Pullman''s stamp-size b&amp;w art introduces each chapter; Spyglass chapters open with literary quotes from Blake, the Bible, Dickinson and more.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(15975, 'The Great Voyeur: observations on my sexual history', 'Russil Tamsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anecdotes from an unusual sex life, reaching back to first memories, interwoven with a secret life as a voyeur...  Many lessons get learned along the way.  This book is remarkably readable.  You might expect a completely narcissistic guide to the author''s cock and its travels--and that it is--but it''s also by turns funny, fascinating, eye-opening, warm and personal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/197');
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(15976, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(15977, 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution', 'Steven Levy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(15978, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it''s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it''s not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(15979, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it''s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it''s not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(15980, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Final Chapter It''s official! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling''s magical Harry Potter series, will be released on July 21, 2007. In the February 1 announcement from the book''s publisher, Lisa Holton, President of Scholastic Children''s Books, said, "We are thrilled to announce the publication date of the seventh installment in this remarkable series. We join J.K. Rowling''s millions of readers--young and old, veterans and newcomers--in anticipating what lies ahead." Save the date, and let the countdown begin! Visit the Harry Potter Store Our Harry Potter Store features all things Harry, including books (box sets and collector''s editions), audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more. The Harry-est Town in America Do you live in one of the Harry-est Towns in America? Each day Amazon.com will update the Top 100 list of which towns in America, on a per capita basis, are pre-ordering the most copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Amazon.com will donate a $5,000 Amazon.com gift certificate to a charitable organization of its choice that serves the winning town. The winning town will be announced shortly after the deadline of 11:59 p.m. PDT on July 15, 2007. Begin at the Beginning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone Hardcover Paperback Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHardcoverPaperback Why We Love Harry Favorite Moments from the SeriesThere are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone * Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him. * When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists. * Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.* Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets * The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius. * Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother. * The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban * Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''. * Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book. * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children. * The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom. * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire * Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them. * Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it. * Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge. * Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix * Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming. * Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone. * Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager. * Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape. * Dumbledore''s confession to Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince * The introduction of the Horcrux. * Molly Weasley asking Arthur Weasley about his "dearest ambition." Rowling has always been great at revealing little intriguing bits about her characters at a time, and Arthur''s answer "to find out how airplanes stay up" reminds us about his obsession with Muggles.* Harry''s private lessons with Dumbledore, and more time spent with the fascinating and dangerous pensieve, arguably one of Rowling''s most ingenious inventions.* Fred and George Weasley''s Joke Shop, and the slogan: "Why Are You Worrying About You-Know-Who? You Should Be Worrying About U-NO-POO--the Constipation Sensation That''s Gripping the Nation!"* Luna''s Quidditch commentary. Rowling created scores of Luna Lovegood fans with hilarious and bizarre commentary from the most unlikely Quidditch commentator.* The effects of Felix Felicis. Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling "I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I''m sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers." --J.K. Rowling Find out more about Harry''s creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling. Did You Know? The Little White Horse was J.K. Rowling''s favorite book as a child. Jane Austen is Rowling''s favorite author. Roddy Doyle is Rowling''s favorite living writer. A Few Words from Mary GrandPrÃ© "When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that''s how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more Harry Potter art from illustrator Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Deluxe Edition includes an exclusive insert featuring near-scale reproductions of Mary GrandPrÃ©''s interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and contains a full-cloth case book that has been blind-stamped on front and back cover with foil stamping on the spine. The book includes full-color endpapers featuring the jacket art from the trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring art created especially for this edition by Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Deluxe Edition includes an exclusive insert** **featuring near**-**scale reproductions of Mary GrandPrÃ©''s interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and contains a full-cloth case book that has been blind-stamped on front and back cover with foil stamping on the spine.  The book includes full-color endpapers featuring the jacket art from the trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring art created especially for this edition by Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(15981, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Deluxe Edition includes an exclusive insert** **featuring near**-**scale reproductions of Mary GrandPrÃ©''s interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and contains a full-cloth case book that has been blind-stamped on front and back cover with foil stamping on the spine. The book includes full-color endpapers featuring the jacket art from the trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring art created especially for this edition by Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(15982, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season''s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians'' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders? But Quidditch buffs need not go into mourning: we get our share of this great game at the World Cup. Attempting to go incognito as Muggles, 100,000 witches and wizards converge on a "nice deserted moor." As ever, Rowling magicks up the details that make her world so vivid, and so comic. Several spectators'' tents, for instance, are entirely unquotidian. One is a minipalace, complete with live peacocks; another has three floors and multiple turrets. And the sports paraphernalia on offer includes rosettes "squealing the names of the players" as well as "tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves." Needless to say, the two teams are decidedly different, down to their mascots. Bulgaria is supported by the beautiful veela, who instantly enchant everyone--including Ireland''s supporters--over to their side. Until, that is, thousands of tiny cheerleaders engage in some pyrotechnics of their own: "The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field." Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it''s true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry''s life, the book''s emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This Daily Prophet scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete. (Ages 9 and older) --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(15983, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season''s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians'' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders? But Quidditch buffs need not go into mourning: we get our share of this great game at the World Cup. Attempting to go incognito as Muggles, 100,000 witches and wizards converge on a "nice deserted moor." As ever, Rowling magicks up the details that make her world so vivid, and so comic. Several spectators'' tents, for instance, are entirely unquotidian. One is a minipalace, complete with live peacocks; another has three floors and multiple turrets. And the sports paraphernalia on offer includes rosettes "squealing the names of the players" as well as "tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves." Needless to say, the two teams are decidedly different, down to their mascots. Bulgaria is supported by the beautiful veela, who instantly enchant everyone--including Ireland''s supporters--over to their side. Until, that is, thousands of tiny cheerleaders engage in some pyrotechnics of their own: "The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field." Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it''s true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry''s life, the book''s emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This Daily Prophet scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete. (Ages 9 and older) --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(15984, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will blow you away. However, given that so much has gone into protecting the secrets of the book (including armored trucks and injunctions), don''t expect any spoilers in this review. It''s much more fun not knowing what''s coming--and in the case of Rowling''s delicious sixth book, you don''t want to know. Just sit tight, despite the earth-shattering revelations that will have your head in your hands as you hope the words will rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one warning to heart: do not open Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until you have first found a secluded spot, safe from curious eyes, where you can tuck in for a good long read. Because once you start, you won''t stop until you reach the very last page. A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully nuanced depiction of a community at war. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, no one and nothing is safe, including preconceived notions of good and evil and of right and wrong. With each book in her increasingly remarkable series, fans have nervously watched J.K. Rowling raise the stakes; gone are the simple delights of butterbeer and enchanted candy, and days when the worst ailment could be cured by a bite of chocolate. A series that began as a colorful lark full of magic and discovery has become a dark and deadly war zone. But this should not come as a shock to loyal readers. Rowling readied fans with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by killing off popular characters and engaging the young students in battle. Still, there is an unexpected bleakness from the start of Book 6 that casts a mean shadow over Quidditch games, silly flirtations, and mountains of homework. Ready or not, the tremendous ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will leave stunned fans wondering what great and terrible events await in Book 7 if this sinister darkness is meant to light the way. --Daphne Durham Visit the Harry Potter Store Our Harry Potter Store features all things Harry, including books (box sets and collector''s editions), audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more. Begin at the Beginning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone Hardcover Paperback Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHardcoverPaperback Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixHardcoverPaperback Why We Love Harry Favorite Moments from the SeriesThere are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone * Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him. * When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists. * Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.* Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets * The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius. * Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother. * The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban * Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''. * Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book. * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children. * The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom. * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire * Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them. * Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it. * Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge. * Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix * Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming. * Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone. * Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager. * Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape. * Dumbledore''s confession to Harry. Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling "I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I''m sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers." --J.K. Rowling Find out more about Harry''s creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling. Did You Know? The Little White Horse was J.K. Rowling''s favorite book as a child. Jane Austen is Rowling''s favorite author. Roddy Doyle is Rowling''s favorite living writer. A Few Words from Mary GrandPrÃ© "When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that''s how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more Harry Potter art from illustrator Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(15985, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet...As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate--and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.So it''s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort--and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(15986, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It''s been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero''s non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it? The fifth book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world''s newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry''s tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering ("hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well. Life isn''t getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry''s resilience is sorely tested. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Sorcerer''s Stone. Here we have an adolescent who''s sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It''s been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero''s non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it? The fifth book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world''s newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry''s tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering ("hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well. Life isn''t getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry''s resilience is sorely tested. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Sorcerer''s Stone. Here we have an adolescent who''s sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(15987, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.* So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter. Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦ â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back. EDITORIAL REVIEW: *I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.* So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter. Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦ â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(15988, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who''s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys'' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig. As it turns out, Harry isn''t punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he''s after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry''s very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(15989, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who''s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys'' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig. As it turns out, Harry isn''t punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he''s after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry''s very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(15990, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Say you''ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling''s enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he''s quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley. A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that''s where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children''s Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/116');
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(15991, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Say you''ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling''s enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he''s quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley. A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that''s where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children''s Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(15992, 'Harry Potter Prequel', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(15993, 'Have Space Suit Will Travel', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(15994, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(15995, 'Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope - and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(15996, 'I Is for Innocent', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago David Barney was acquitted of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now, Isabelleâ€™s ex-husband, Ken Voigtâ€”who is suing Barney for her estateâ€”is claiming the jury made a fatal mistake...Enter P.I. Kinsey Millhone, who takes the Barney case over from a former colleagueâ€¦and comes up with more questions than answers. Why are Mr. Barneyâ€™s witnesses denying ever having spoken to him? Why did Isabelle have so many enemiesâ€”including but not limited to her best friend, Voightâ€™s second wife, and her own twin sister? But the most troubling question of all is: Why is it that everything David Barney has to say about his beloved Isabelle still checks out? Now itâ€™s up to Kinsey to figure out whoâ€™s getting away with murderâ€¦.before she courts her own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(15997, 'Indian Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(15998, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Discworld''s most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He''s assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer, and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes led by Cohen the Barbarian. Opposing him, though, is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Oh ... Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower-Discworld''s first tourist and the author of a subversive book, about his visit to Ankh-Morpork, which has inspired the rebels in their struggle for freedom. The book is called "What I Did On My Holidays."\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s he who''s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire''s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(15999, 'A is for Alibi', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number-one suspect. The jury thought so, too.Eight years later and out on parole, Niki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner--and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely--and still angry over Fife''s betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills--and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include them all, with Millhone following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she finds herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(16000, 'J is for judgement', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''On the face of it, you wouldn''t think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changes my perceptions about my life...'' For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously. Fives hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trial of a suicide who''d allegedly just come back to life. After a five year wait, Wendell Jaffe''s widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks like a ''pseudocide'' - and Kinsey''s ready to risk everything to get to the truth. ''Friendlishly clever...better than anything else that''s currently on offer'' - "Literary Review".\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(16001, 'Job - A Comedy of Justice', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(16002, 'Just So Stories', 'Kipling, Rudyard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(16003, 'K Is for Killer', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can''t let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna''s young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution and pornography. She tangles with Lorna''s friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenaged hooker; Lorna''s sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(16004, 'King Arthur', 'MacGregor, Mary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(16005, 'Knife of Dreams', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy.The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, when Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanityâ€™s only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark Oneâ€™s prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers. There are those among the Forsaken who will go to any length to see him dead--and the Black Ajah is at his side....Unbeknownst to Rand, Perrin has made his own truce with the Seanchan. It is a deal made with the Dark One, in his eyes, but he will do whatever is needed to rescue his wife, Faile, and destroy the Shaido who captured her. Among the Shaido, Faile works to free herself while hiding a secret that might give her her freedom or cause her destruction. And at a town called Malden, the Two Rivers longbow will be matched against Shaido spears.Fleeing Ebou Dar through Seanchan-controlled Altara with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, Mat attempts to court the woman to whom he is half-married, knowing that she will complete that ceremony eventually. But Tuon coolly leads him on a merry chase as he learns that even a gift can have deep significance among the Seanchan Blood and what he thinks he knows of women is not enough to save him. For reasons of her own, which she will not reveal until a time of her choosing, she has pledged not to escape, but Mat still sweats whenever there are Seanchan soldiers near. Then he learns that Tuon herself is in deadly danger from those very soldiers. To get her to safety, he must do what he hates worse than work....In Caemlyn, Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne while trying to avert what seems a certain civil war should she win the crown....In the White Tower, Egwene struggles to undermine the sisters loyal to Elaida from within....The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(16006, 'Komarr', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Komarr could be a garden -- with a thousand more years work. Or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. In the political and physical claustrophobia of the domed cities, are the Komarrans surrounding Miles loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels bidding for revenge?Lies within lies, treachery within treachery -- Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(16007, 'Labyrinth', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Fantasy.   31005  words long. First published in Analog, August 1989 Analog Reader''s Choice Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(16008, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s 22nd Discworld novel, The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure. Pratchett returns to his first Discworld protagonist, the inept and cowardly wizard Rincewind, who habitually runs into trouble as fast as he flees. Rincewind''s arrival in Fourecks has distorted the space-time continuum, and he has to sort it out before the whole place dries up and blows away. The situation is complicated because the actual problem is located 30,000 years in the past--just where the Faculty of the Unseen University currently are. Pretty frightening, given "the true wizard''s instinct to amble aimlessly into dangerous places," and then "stop and argue ... about exactly what kind of danger it [is]." If you''re baffled by all this, no worries, mate. You needn''t have read Pratchett before--not even the five previous Discworld novels starring Rincewind (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, and Interesting Times)--to enjoy this latest romp. Nor to have visited Australia. When you finish, however, you''ll likely want to rush out and do both. --Nona Vero\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(16009, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(16010, 'Little House in the Big Woods', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(16011, 'Little House on the Prairie', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(16012, 'Little Town on the Prairie', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(16013, 'Little women', 'Louisa May Alcott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(16014, 'Lonesome Dove', 'Larry McMurtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, *Lonesome Dove* is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry''s epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, *Lonesome Dove* is reprinted in an S&amp;S Classic Edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Lonesome Dove,* by Larry McMurtry, the author of *Terms of Endearment,* is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A love story, an adventure, an American epic, *Lonesome Dove* embraces *all* the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the late nineteenth century, *Lonesome Dove* is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other''s deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Call''s dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Jake, the dashing, womanizing exRanger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into the wilderness, and turns him into a kind of hero...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Lonesome Dove* sweeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honor, and betrayal -- faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. *Lonesome Dove* is the novel about the West that American literature -- and the American reader -- has long been waiting for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(16015, 'The Long Winter', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(16016, 'Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett''s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.It''s a dreamy midsummer''s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren''t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won''t be only champagne that''s flowing through the streets ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(16017, 'The Man Who Never Missed', 'Steve Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first title in Perry''s cult-classic Matador series is now back in print. Once a ruthless soldier, Emile Khadaji has disappeared from the Galactic Confederation--with a secret plan to destroy it all in the name of freedom. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(16018, 'Marjorie&#39;s Three Gifts', 'Alcott, Louisa May', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(16019, 'Memory', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Restored to life after being pronounced dead, Miles Vorkosigan realizes that the event has left him with a profound weakness and is dismissed from his job, but things are further complicated when he remembers something that he saw while dead\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that''s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the planet of Jackson''s Whole, while rescuing his brother. Thanks to quick thinking on the part of his staff, and incredible artistry on the part of the specialist who revived him, his first death won''t be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he''s willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, "Who shall guard the guardians?" becomes a more-than-rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer. Things look bad, but they are far worse than Miles imagines, as he discovers,his worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don''t compare to Illyan''s worst nightmares - or are they memories?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(16020, 'Methuselah&#39;s Children', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Methuselah''s Children: Americans are fiercely proud of the freedom they seized in Revolt in 2100. Nothing could make them forswear it. Nothing except the secret of immortality....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(16021, 'The Mirror Crack&#39;d from Side to Side', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(16022, 'Mirror dance', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Injured in his mother''s womb, Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, born a dwarf with brittle bones, faces off against his brother, a cloned stranger created to murder Miles and replace him. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(16023, 'Miss Marple&#39;s Final Cases', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(16024, 'Montgomery ANNE OF AVONLEA', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(16025, 'Montgomery ANNE OF GREEN', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(16026, 'Montgomery ANNE OF ISLAND', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(16027, 'Montgomery Anne of Windy', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(16028, 'MONTGOMERY CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(16029, 'Montgomery EMILY CLIMBS', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(16030, 'Montgomery EMILY OF NEW MOON', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(16031, 'Montgomery EMILYS QUEST', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(16032, 'MONTGOMERY FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(16033, 'MONTGOMERY Jane of Lantern', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(16034, 'MONTGOMERY KILMENY OF THE', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(16035, 'Montgomery Magic for Marigold', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(16036, 'Montgomery PatofSilverBush MistressPat', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(16037, 'Montgomery Rainbow Valley', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(16038, 'Montgomery Rilla of Ingleside', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(16039, 'MONTGOMERY THE GOLDEN ROAD', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(16040, 'MONTGOMERY THE STORY GIRL', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(16041, 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(16042, 'More Celtic Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(16043, 'More English Fairy Tales', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(16044, 'The Moving Finger', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(16045, 'A Murder Is Announced', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(16046, 'The Myst Reader', 'Robyn Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now in paperback, the bestselling author of the Don''t Sweat series offers advice on how to deal with life''s bigger issues.With more than 21 million copies in print, Richard Carlson''s bestselling Don''t Sweat series has shown countless families, lovers, and professionals how not to sweat the small stuff. Now, Carlson takes on a subject that many people have asked him about on his nationwide lectures and tours: "But Richard. What do you do about the big stuff?"In this groundbreaking new book, Carlson tackles the difficult issues -- from illness, death, injury, and aging, to alcoholism, divorce, and financial pressures -- with his trademark and eminently helpful advice.What About the Big Stuff? will help anyone feel better able to deal with life''s twists and turns by offering warm, reassuring guidance in chapters such as:-- Overcome Aging Anxiety-- Become a Healing Force-- Experience Calm Resolve-- Retire with Ease-- Let Go of Your Past, and much more. 9780786888801 16.95\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(16047, 'Nemesis', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(16048, 'Neverwhere', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her - -and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won''t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family''s slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door''s entourage in their determined -- and possibly fatal -- quest.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the dread journey ever-downward -- through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time -- is Richard''s final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If Tim Burton reimagined *The Phantom of the Opera,* if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman''s *Neverwhere.* It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(16049, 'The Nine Tailors', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most baffling cases. Set in the strange, flat fen-country of East Anglia, this is a classic tale of suspense by a master of mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(16050, 'No children, no pets', 'Marion Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(16051, 'The Number of the Beast', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(16052, 'On the Banks of Plum Creek', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(16053, 'The Peter Rabbit Stories', 'Potter, Beatrix', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(16054, 'Quidditch Through the Ages', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/113');
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(16055, 'Ready Player One', 'Ernest Cline', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Hallidayâ€™s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline._--Chris Schluep_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Daniel H. Wilson on\n   <em>\n    Ready Player One\n   </em>\n   by Earnest Cline\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Daniel H. Wilson\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling author of_ Robopocalypse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I dare you not to fall in love with\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  . And I mean\n  <em>\n   head over heels\n  </em>\n  in love--the way you fall for someone who is smart, feisty, and who can effortlessly finish your favorite movie lines, music lyrics, or literature quotes before they come out of your mouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story is set in a near-term future in which the new, new form of the Internet is a realistic virtual multi-verse called the OASIS. Most human interaction takes place via goggles and gloves in millions of unique worlds, including the boring (and free) â€œpublic educationâ€ world from which our teenage protagonist must escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our unlikely hero is an overweight trailer park kid who goes by Wade Watts in real life, and â€œParzivalâ€ to his best friends and mortal enemies--all of whom he interacts with virtually. Just like the Arthurian knight that is his namesake, young Wade is on a quest for an incredible treasure guarded by mythical creatures. Specifically, the creator of the OASIS and richest man on the planet, James Halliday, stipulated in his will that his fortune be given to the first person who can find an â€œEaster eggâ€ hidden somewhere in the OASIS. The catch? Every devilishly complex clue on this treasure hunt is rooted in an intimate knowledge of 1980s pop culture.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This leaves the people of the future hilariously\n  <em>\n   obsessed\n  </em>\n  with every aspect of the 1980s. The setup is particularly brilliant, because Ernie Cline seems to have a laser-beam knowledge of (and warm, fuzzy love for) every pop song, arcade game, and giant robot produced in the last thirty years. Seriously, this is a guy who owns and regularly drives a 1982 DeLorean that has been mocked up to look exactly like the time-traveling car in\n  <em>\n   Back to the Future\n  </em>\n  , complete with a glowing flux capacitor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t just a fanboyâ€™s wet dream. Real villains are lurking, threatening our hero with death in their ruthless hunt for the treasure. Worse, these corporate baddies are posers with no love for the game â€“ they have movie dialogue piped in via radio earpieces, use bots to cheat at arcade games like JOUST, and donâ€™t hesitate to terrorize or murder people in the real world to achieve their aims inside the OASIS.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the book climaxes, a mega-battle unfolds with sobering life-or-death stakes, yet soldiered entirely by exciting and downright fun pop-culture icons. The bad guys are piloting a ferocious Mechagodzilla. Our good guy has to leave his X-Wing fighter aboard his private flotilla so that he can pilot an authentic Ultraman recreation. And how do you not grin when someone dons a pair of virtual Chuck Taylor All Stars that bestow the power of flight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cline is fearless and he lets his imagination soar, yet this pop scenery could easily come off as so much fluff. Instead, Cline keeps the stakes high throughout, and the epic treasure hunt structure (complete with an evolving high-score list) keeps the action intense. The plot unfolds with constant acceleration, never slowing down or sagging in the middle, to create a thrilling ride with a fulfilling ending.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Best of all, the book captures the aura of the manifold worlds it depicts. If\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  were a living room, it would be wood-panelled. If it were shoes, it would be high-tops. And if it were a song, well, it would have to be\n  <em>\n   Eye of the Tiger\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  I really, really loved it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   -- Daniel H. Wilson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Questions for Ernest Cline, Author of\n   <em>\n    Ready Player One\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  So it seems youâ€™re a bit of a pop-culture buff. In your debut novel\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One\n  </em>\n  you incorporate literally hundreds of pop culture references, many of them in ways that are integral to the bookâ€™s plot. Whatâ€™s the first thing you remember geeking out over?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Sesame Street\n  </em>\n  and the Muppets. I thought Jim Henson ruled the universe. I even thought it was pretty cool that I shared my first name with a muppet. Until the first day of kindergarten, when I quickly learned that "Ernie" was not a cool name to have. That was about the time I segued into my next childhood obsession,\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Like the bookâ€™s hero, you possess a horrifyingly deep knowledge of a terrifyingly broad swathe of culture, ranging from John Hughes movies to super-obscure Japanese animation to 8-bit videogames to science-fiction and fantasy literature to role-playing games like Dungeons &amp; Dragons. What the heck is wrong with you?! How do you have so much time on your hands?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Well, Iâ€™m raising a toddler now, so I donâ€™t have as much time to geek out as I used to. I think I amassed a lot of that knowledge during my youth. Like most geeks, I was a sponge for all kinds of movies, TV shows, cartoons, and video games. Then as an adult, I worked at a long series of low paying tech support jobs that allowed me to surf the Internet all day, and I spent a lot of my cubicle time looking up obscure pop culture minutiae from my childhood while I waited for people to reboot their PCs. Of course, I spent most of my off hours geeking out, too. Luckily, all those hours can now be classified as "research" for my novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™re stranded on an island and you can only take one movie with you. What is it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Easy!\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition\n  </em>\n  . (Can I take all of the DVD Extras and Making of Documentaries, too?)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™re given free tickets and back stage passes to one concert (artist can be living or dead)- who is it and why?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Are we talking about time travel back to a specific concert in the past here? Because it would be pretty cool to stand on the roof of Apple Records and watch the Beatles jam up there. But my favorite rock band thatâ€™s still together is RUSH, and I just bought tickets to see them this June!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Favorite book of all time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Thatâ€™s an impossible question! I could maybe give you three favorites:\n  <em>\n   Snow Crash\n  </em>\n  by Neal Stephenson,\n  <em>\n   Galapagos\n  </em>\n  by Kurt Vonnegut, and\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  by Douglas Adams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Best failed TV show pilot available on Youtube?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  The unaired Batgirl pilot starring Yvonne Craig.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Favorite episode of Cowboy Bebop?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  â€œGanymede Elegy.â€ Or maybe â€œBoogie Woogie Feng Shui.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Whatâ€™s the first arcade game you ever played? Whatâ€™s your favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  I was deflowered by\n  <em>\n   Space Invaders\n  </em>\n  . My all time favorite coin-op game was probably\n  <em>\n   Black Tiger\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Your idea of the perfect day...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Play Black Tiger. Then go see\n  <em>\n   Big Trouble in Little China\n  </em>\n  at the Alamo Drafthouse with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter doing a live Q&amp;A afterwards. When I get home that night, I accidentally invent a cheap abundant clean energy source that saves human civilization. I celebrate by staying up late to watch old\n  <em>\n   Ultraman\n  </em>\n  episodes with my daughter (who loves\n  <em>\n   Ultraman\n  </em>\n  even more than I do).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  True or False. We hear you own a DeLorean and that you plan on tricking it out to be a time-travelling, Ghostbusting, Knight-Rider car.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  False. I actually plan on tricking it out to be a time-traveling Ghostbusting Knight Riding Jet Car. Itâ€™s going to have both a Flux Capacitor and an Oscillation Overthruster in it, so that my Delorean can travel through time AND solid matter. My personalized plates are ECTO88, just like a DeLorean that appears in my book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Iâ€™m so glad that you asked this question, because now I can justify buying the car as a "promotional tool" for my book. Everyone reading this is a witness! My DeLorean is helping me promote my book! The fact that Iâ€™ve wanted one since I was ten years old is totally irrelevant!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  Speaking of DeLoreans: biggest plot hole in the\n  <em>\n   Back to The Future\n  </em>\n  Films?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Back to The Future\n  </em>\n  Trilogy is perfect and contains no plot holes! Except for the plot hole inherent in nearly all time travel films: The planet Earth is moving through space at an immense speed at all times. So if you travel back in time, you are traveling to a time when the Earth was in a different location, and you and your time machine would appear somewhere out in deep space. For a time machine to be useful, it also needs to be able to teleport you to wherever the Earth was/is at your destination time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q)\n  </strong>\n  But there are two DeLoreans in 1885--why doesnâ€™t Doc dig out the one he buried in a cave for Marty to find in 1955 and use the gasoline from it to get the other DeLorean up to 88mph?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A)\n  </strong>\n  Doc would have drained the gas tank before he stored a car for 80 years, so there wouldnâ€™t have been any gas. And tampering with the DeLorean in the cave at all could conceivably create a universe-ending paradox, because it has to be in the cave for Marty to get back to 1885 in the first place. Totally not a plot hole!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Clineâ€™s imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe.â€--_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This adrenaline shot of uncut geekdom, a quest through a virtual world, is loaded with enough 1980s nostalgia to please even the most devoted John Hughes fansâ€¦ sweet, self-deprecating Wade, whose universe is an odd mix of the real past and the virtual present, is the perfect lovable/unlikely hero.â€--_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fascinating and imaginativeâ€¦It''s non-stop action when gamers must navigate clever puzzles and outwit determined enemies in a virtual world in order to save a real one. Readers are in for a wild ride."--Terry Brooks, #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This non-gamer loved every page of\n  <em>\n   Ready Player One.\n  </em>\n  "--Charlaine Harris, #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Ready Player One _expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future. If this book were a living room, it would be wood-paneled. If it were shoes, it would be high-tops. And if it were a song, well, it would have to be\n  <em>\n   Eye of the Tiger\n  </em>\n  .Â  I really, really loved it."--Daniel H. Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   How to Survive a Robot Uprising\n  </em>\n  and_ Robopocalypse\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The pure, unfettered brainscream of a child of the 80s, like a dream my 13-year-old self would have had after bingeing on Pop Rocks and Cokeâ€¦I couldnâ€™t put it down."â€”Charles Ardai, Edgar Award-winning author and producer of\n  </em>\n  Haven\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Pure geek heaven. Ernest Cline''sÂ hero competes in a virtual world with life-and-death stakes -- which is only fitting, because he''s fighting to make his dreams into reality. ClineÂ blends a dystopic future with meticulously detailed nostalgia to create a story that will resonate i...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(16056, 'The Rolling Stones', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(16057, 'The Secret Garden', 'Frances Hodgson Burnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A house full of mystery awaits orphaned Mary Lennox when she comes to live with her uncle on the Yorkshire moors. At night she hears a distant crying that no one will explain, and her uncle is strangely unhappy. But when she meets Dickon, a magical boy who charms both birds and animals, and discovers a walled, locked garden, the secrets of Misselthwaite Manor begin to unfold. When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle''s great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals. Then, one day, with the help of a friendly robin, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all--a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been completely forgotten for years and years. Is everything in the graden dead, or can Mary bring it back to life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(16058, 'Shards of Honor', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Romance.   78287  words long.  Locus Poll Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(16059, 'She Hates My Futon', 'Craig Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (A novella in progress)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Weâ€™ve all seen those weird dating service ads that promise paradise. Are you a sucker or are you a dreamer? Ever call one?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(16060, 'The short happy life of the brown Oxford: and other classic stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With this collection of stories, readers are drawn into a world with a mysterious twist, a sense of otherness that eludes description. This thought-provoking writing--part science fiction, part mystery, part fantasy--includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(16061, 'Skinny Dip', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he''s running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn''t drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that''s guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy. You''ve got to hand it to Hiaasen: He''s perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida''s environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who''d rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the ''Glades into "God''s septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey''s sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz''s own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can''t keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool''s conscience grows in competition with Chaz''s ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead. As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what''s missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan''s character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(16062, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year''s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what''s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(16063, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage. But that''s not all.... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage. But that''s not all.... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But that''s not all....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(16064, 'The Stainless Steel Rat', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(16065, 'The Star Beast', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things -- not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible!John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn''t know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were -- or how bad the situation could get -- until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(16066, 'Star wars, Episode IV, a new hope', 'Hisao Tamaki &amp; George Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s Star Wars: a new hope like you''ve never seen it before! Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Obi-Wan, and Darth Vader all drawn manga style! Taken directly from George Lucas'' script for Episode IV of Star Wars, this book is masterfully drawn by Hisao Tamaki.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(16067, 'Starship Troopers', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(16068, 'A Storm of Swords (Song of Ice and Fire, 3)', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Our edition of A Storm of Swords will be published as two volumes housed in a single slipcase, lavishly illustrated by Charles Vess, who is contributing several full-color plates, more than 70 black and white interiors, as well as a separate full-color wraparound dust jacket to each volume. The limited edition is signed by George R. R. Martin and Charles Vess, and is limited to only 448 numbered sets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(16069, 'Stranger In a Strange Land', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(16070, 'Strong Poison', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knows all about poisons, and when her fiance dies in a manner described in one of her books, a jury of her peers think a hangman''s noose is the answer. But Lord Peter Wimsey is determined to find Harriet innocent--and make her his wife. Originally published in 1930.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(16071, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra''s close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dÃ¦mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Subtle Knife\n  </em>\n  offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there''s a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother''s increasing instability and separate them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the novel opens, Will''s enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry''s disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family''s tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dÃ¦mon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dÃ¦mon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra''s father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can''t quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be\n  <em>\n   possible\n  </em>\n  ," Will demands. "Things have to be\n  <em>\n   true\n  </em>\n  !" It is Philip Pullman''s gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful.\n  <em>\n   --Kerry Fried\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a starred review, PW said, "More than fulfilling the promise of The Golden Compass, this second volume in the His Dark Materials trilogy starts off at a heart-thumping pace and never slows down." Ages 12-up. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(16072, 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(16073, 'Templeton Darby OGill', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(16074, 'These Happy Golden Years', 'Wilder, Laura Ingalls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(16075, 'They do it with Mirrors', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(16076, 'The Thirteen Problems', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(16077, 'The Thousand Nights and a Night', 'Anonymous, Burton translation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(16078, 'Time Enough for Love', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(16079, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Harper Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee''s classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus''s children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(16080, 'To Sail Beyond the Sunset', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(16081, 'Twain A DOGS TALE', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(16082, 'Twinkle and Chubbins', 'Frank L Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(16083, 'The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 90-year-old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died -- and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General''s lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club''s telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man''s knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(16084, 'The Vor Game', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction.   97874  words long.  Hugo Award Winner, HOMer Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, SF Chronicle Award Nominee, Seiun Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(16085, 'Warbreaker', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, *Elantris,* and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is todayâ€™s leading master of what Tolkien called â€œsecondary creation,â€ the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Warbreaker* is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesnâ€™t like his job, and the immortal whoâ€™s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandrenâ€™s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as *breath* that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n By using *breath* and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of  bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(16086, 'The Warrior&#39;s Apprentice', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction/Romance.   98905  words long.  Locus Poll Award Nominee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(16087, 'Whose Body?', 'Dorothy L. Sayers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter the 1920''s Golden Age of Detection and meet Lord Peter Wimsey, the epitome of the elegant, eccentric sleuth, and one of the great characters of mystery fiction. In Whose Body, Dorothy L. Sayers'' first book, Wimsey himself views the stark naked body lying in the tub. And of course, the brilliant detective untangles the ghastly murder in spite of incorrect assumptions by the police. British actor David Case captures the essence of this delightful mystery in this unabridged production. 5 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(16088, 'The Wind In The Willows', 'Grahame, Kenneth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(16089, 'Winterfair Gifts', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction.   23117  words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(16090, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Baum, L. Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(16091, 'Zoe&#39;s Tale', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?I ask because it''s what I have to do. I''m Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don''t know my tale: How I did what I did â€” how I did what I had to do â€” not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I''m going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try to make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.It''s a story you know. But you don''t know it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://home.doctordont.com/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(16092, '8130_PDF_TOC.pdf', 'unation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(16093, 'Accounting for DUMmIES 4th', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
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(16095, 'Algebra II for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(16096, 'Basic Math &amp; Pre-Algebra For Dummies', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(16097, 'Beginning Math and Physics for Game Programmers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(16098, 'Bookkeeping for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(16099, 'Bookkeeping Workbook For Dummies', 'L. Epstein (Wiley, 2007) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(16100, 'Business Math for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(16101, 'Calculus II for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(16102, 'Calculus_Workbook_For_Dummi.PDF', 'Enlight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(16103, 'CH 11 Bookmarking', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(16104, 'CH 9 to 10 Searching', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(16105, 'CRC Press', 'Investigating Computer-Related Crime', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(16106, 'Cyber Crime Investigator&#39;s Field Guide', 'Bruce Middleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(16107, 'Cyber Forensics', 'Cyber Forensics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(16108, 'Encase CH 12 to 13', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(16109, 'Encase CH 14 Signature Analysis', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(16110, 'Encase CH 15 Hash Library', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(16111, 'Encase CH 16 External Viewers', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(16112, 'Encase CH 17 Detailed Copy Options', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(16113, 'Encase CH 18 Restoring Evidence', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
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(16115, 'Encase CH 20 Archiving a Case', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(16116, 'Encase Chapter Highlights V4', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(16117, 'Encase Chapter Highlights-1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(16118, 'EncaseChapterHighlightsV5', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(16119, 'EnCEForm2010', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(16120, 'Exploration of Windows Vista Advanced Forensic Topics', 'MSIST', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(16121, 'Forensic Examination of a RIM (BlackBerry) Wireless Device', 'mburnette', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
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(16124, 'gdb-refcard', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(16125, 'Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Computer Forensics Secrets and Solutions', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(16126, 'intel 1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(16127, 'Intermediate Statistics for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(16128, 'iOS Forensic Analysis 1430233427', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(16129, 'LE2 Online Forensics', 'joehem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(16130, 'Malware Analysis', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(16131, 'The Manager&#39;s Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to Essential Business Formulas and Ratios', 'Michael C. Thomsett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(16132, 'Microsoft Word - Restore_Validation.doc', 'richard.keightley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(16133, 'Physical Memory Forensics', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(16134, 'Probability for DUMmIES', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(16135, 'Statistics for Dummies', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(16136, 'Trigonometry_Workbook_For_D.PDF', 'Enlight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(16137, 'untitled', 'Intermediate Statistics for Dummies (Wiley, 2007)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(16138, 'White Paper', 'Richard Keightley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(16139, 'X86 Assembly/Print Version - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'https://bhatiafam.com/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(16140, '21', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author''s death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O''Brian''s desk at the time of his death are presented here both in printed version-including his corrections to the typescript-and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript to include a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer who is courting his fiancee. Of course we would rather have had the whole story; instead we have this proof that O''Brian''s powers of observation, his humor, and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(16141, 'All Things Wise and Wonderful', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Readers adored James Herriot''s tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here''s a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot''s own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the midst of World War II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing character--animal and human alike--Herriot enthralls with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(16142, 'All Tomorrow&apos;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "William Gibson''s rich protopointillism coins a wireless future where reality is only proxy and proviso. Made all the more beautiful and frightening by its probability, and by characters who somehow tweeze hope from the polymer." --Chris Carter, creator of *The X-Files*"One of science fiction''s greatest literary stylists...Gibson wouldn''t be Gibson if he spelled it out, if he eliminated all the ambiguity. His specialty is hanging on to that fractal edge without ever going over the brink." --*Wired Magazine*"*All Tomorrow''s Parties* hits on all cylinders." --*Seattle Times*"More ultra-cool cyberpunk... This familiar, vigorous, vividly realized scenario is set forth in the author''s unique and astonishingly textured prose." --*Kirkus Reviews*"The post modern gospel according to Gibson, the patron saint of cyberpunk literature." --*Entertainment Weekly*"It''s as if Raymond Chandler had written a novel in which Philip Marlowe drops acid, learns Microsoft Word 98 and winds up eating Thai food at a funky San Francisco dive...the most delicious of reads: genre with real literary spunk." --*New York Daily News*"*All Tomorrow''s Parties* is immensely engaging, alive on every page and as enjoyable a weekend entertainment as one could want."--*The Washington Post Book World*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/63');
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(16143, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **  Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(16144, 'The Arctic incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(16145, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(16146, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  In the seventh Artemis Fowl title, the 15-year-old mastermind focuses his ingenuity on global warming while struggling with a devastating illness. After Artemis invites four fairy friends to Iceland for a demonstration of his latest invention, the Ice Cube, it becomes clear that he is suffering from the Atlantis Complex, which manifests as obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, and multiple personalities. If this werenâ€™t enough to worry about, a spaceship crashes and disgorges amorphobots programmed to kill. Colfer keeps the action moving with laughs and gadgetry as he bounces between several plotlines that spotlight peripheral characters. A treat for series fans. Grades 5-8. â€”Lynn Rutan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  The Time Paradox\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œThe author once again offers an exhilarating ride through the fantastical world\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  of Artemis Fowl.â€ â€”\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  _School Library Journal\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Lost Colony\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œFast-paced, funny, and wholly enjoyable, the book is an action-packed thrill ride.â€\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€”\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  _VOYA\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Opal Deception\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œThis book is magical.â€ â€”\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  _The Washington Post\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Eternity Code\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ?â€œAgile prose, rapid-fire dialogue and wise-acre humor ensure that readers will burn\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  the midnight oil to the finish.â€â€”\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  _Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Arctic Incident\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œThe world that Colfer creates is as vivid and fantastical as any shire, Gotham, or\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  galaxy far, far away in recent memory.â€\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  _â€”Entertainment Weekly (A- review)\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Artemis Fowl\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€œWill grab your interest, no matter what your age.â€ â€”\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <em>\n   The New York Post\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(16147, 'The Artemis Fowl Files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Grade 5-8â€“No, this is not a sequel to the previous titles; it''s a companion book. It includes two original short stories, one a prequel to\n  <em>\n   Artemis Fowl\n  </em>\n  (the first) about Captain Holly Short and how she became a member of the LEP, and the other a story about Artemis looking for the Fei Fei Tiara (Seventh Dwarf). In it, readers see Mulch working with Artemis for the first time. There are also games; readers can practice fairy code, learn the gnomish alphabet, do a crossword puzzle or a find-a-word (the latter may cause problems in libraries). Finally, they can read interviews with Artemis, Captain Short, Butler, Mulch Diggums, Foaly, Commander Root, and the author. With the write-in caveat in mind, this volume will give all of those Fowler fans something to read while waiting for the next book._â€“Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, Monmouth Junction, NJ_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  The Artemis Fowl Files is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  EXTRAS INCLUDE:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p class="description">\n    "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and Eoin Colfer himself\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p class="description">\n    Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p class="description">\n    A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristics and personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p class="description">\n    Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(16148, 'Bili the Axe', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(16149, 'Black: The Birth of Evil', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head . . . and his world goes black.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world--a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But then he remembers the dream of being chased through an alleyway as he reaches to touch the blood on his head. Where does the dream end and reality begin?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other. Yet in both, catastrophic disaster awaits him . . . may even be caused by him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man''s choices.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(16150, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey''s crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey''s career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the *Surprise* is nearly sunk on her way to South America--where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain--the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack''s bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile''s fate and his own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(16151, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(16152, 'Bride of the Castle', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gene and Linda''s wedding seems to bring out the best in Castle Perilous . . . even if that''s not much better than the worst. When the happy groom suddenly prefers confronting barbarians over entertaining his wedding guests, a battle ensues that will change his life, infuriate his bride, and make for one bizarre wedding day!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(16153, 'Bride of the Slime Monster', 'Craig Shaw Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What is the Cineverse coming to? Second in the B-movie-based trilogy. With Roger stranded without a Captain Crusader Decoder Ring, Dr. Dread triumphant, and the Slime Monster intent on making Delores his bride, is the Cineverse doomed to B-movie oblivion?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(16154, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson''s characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(16155, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(16156, 'Castaways in Time', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this fantasy, 8 Americans find themselves in seventeenth-century England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(16157, 'Castle Dreams', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A would-be usurper to the throne of Lord Incarnadine, now dead, has the Realms Perilous in a spell-induced uproar that has all the inhabitants battling for the throne. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(16158, 'Castle for Rent', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time, the king of a mysterious castle found himself out of place. The odd thing was that the time was the future and the place was New York City! Castle Perilous had been a universe unto itself until it started living up to its name. Now it is a gateway to thousands of universes, each increasingly bizarre and more bewildering. Behind every door there is a room for every fantasy and around each corner a perilous journey for every inhabitant. With its population sent to otherworldly realms and demented demons taking their place, will anyone find their way home in time? The stone walls may be the only stable element in this fantastic fable, as time and place disappear before one''s eyes. Pandora''s box has never been so big!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(16159, 'Castle Kidnapped', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Castle Perilous is a magic castle full of mystery and adventure, but sometimes even magic castles can go awry. This particular castle has the power to send its guests to 144,000 alternate worlds, each a fantastic voyage to the unknown. But each voyage seems to backfire. Computer whiz kid Jeremy is stuck on a planet of golf-playing dinosaurs. Gentrified Gene finds himself a on a planet overrun with amazon women where the queen has taken a particular shine to him and only Lord of the Castle Incarnadine can stop this witty madness from shaking Castle Kidnapped to its foundations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(16160, 'Castle Murders', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Partying to death ? A parlous party at the Castle Perilous comes to a  dead halt when the body of viscount Oren is discovered and foul play is suspected.   But who is the killer?  And where is the murder weapon? The rambunctious revelers at Castle P. join in a treacherous treasure hunt for party favors of a decidedly deadly nature.the murder weapon must be hidden behind one of the 144,000 doors, or will it be buried in the back of the next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(16161, 'Castle Perilous', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(16162, 'Castle Spellbound', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(16163, 'Castle War', 'John DeChancie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Castle Perilous is still tottering from last year''s battle with the Hosts of Hell, and regaining stability proves a hard balancing act. Before Jeremy can design a program to calm the tremors of the universe, an alternative wicked reality appears that threatens to topple everything! Castle P. must face its evil twin, replete with its own dastardly doppleganger army-with the shadow self ensues as Good and Evil battle it out in the 144,000th dimension!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(16164, 'A Cat of Silvery Hue', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(16165, 'Champion of the Last Battle', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The troops of Bili the Axe and Prince Byruhn defend the fortress at New Kuhmbuhluhn against the attack of the brutal army of the Skohshuns\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(16166, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now in trade paperback for the first time!With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3000 years, is about to be killed by the Starways Congress, which has finally discovered her existence and fears her control of the galaxy-wide interlocked network of computers and ansibles.Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitaniathe Pequeninos, the Hive Queens daughters, and the human colony. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now in trade paperback for the first time!With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3000 years, is about to be killed by the Starways Congress, which has finally discovered her existence and fears her control of the galaxy-wide interlocked network of computers and ansibles.Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitaniathe Pequeninos, the Hive Queens daughters, and the human colony. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(16167, 'Clan of the Cats', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Milo Morai and his Horseclans warriors take refuge from preying wolves in the ruins of an ancient tower, where they encounter The Hunter, a genetically-engineered creature determined to challenge Milo Morai in a battle to the death\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(16168, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(16169, 'The Coming of the Horseclans', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Prophecy Written in Blood! After two hundred years of seaching for other immortals, the Undying High Lord Milo Morai has returned to the Horseclans to fulfill an ancient prophecy and lead them to their destined homeland by the sea. But in their path wait the armed might of the Ehleenee and an enemy even more treacherous-the Witchmen-pre-Holocaust scientists who have survived the centuries by stealing other men''s bodies to house their evil minds and who have in their hidden stronghold the means of destroying all who will not become their willing slaves. Can even Milo save the Horseclans from the bloodthirsty Ehleenee and the malevolent Witchmen who would rip him to shreads to discover his secret of immortality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(16170, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent.The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(16171, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.  Turner woke up in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him. They let him recuperate for a while in Mexico, then Hosaka reactivated his memory for a mission more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him.  The head designer from Maas-Biolabs is defecting to Hosaka, or so he says. Turner has to deliver him safely, and the biochips he invented -- which are of supreme interest to other parties, some of whom are not human.  Count Zero is human. Indeed, he''s just a kid from Barrytown, and totally unprepared for the heavy duty data coming his way when he''s caught up in the cyberspace war triggered by the defection. With voodoo on the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the superrich have their virtual hands full already.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(16172, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(16173, 'A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An evil wind blows through Midkemia.  Dark legions have risen up to crush the Kingdom of the Isles and enslave it to dire magics.  The final battle between Order and Chaos is abotu to begin in the ruins of the city called Sethanon.Now Pug, the master magician sometimes known as Milamber, must undertake an awesome and perilous quest to the dawn of time to grapple with an ancient and terrible Enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(16174, 'Daughter of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Magic and murder engulf the realm of Kelewan.  Fierce warlords ignite a bitter blood feud to enslave the empire of Tsuranuanni.  While in the opulent Imperial courts, assassins and spy-master plot cunning and devious intrigues against the rightful heir.  Now Mara, a young, untested Ruling lady, is called upon to lead her people in a heroic struggle for survival.  But first she must rally an army of rebel warriors, form a pact with the alien cho-ja, and marry the son of a hated enemy.  Only then can Mara face her most dangerous foe of all--in his own impregnable stronghold.  An epic tale of adventure and intrigue.  Daughter of the Empire is fantasy of the highest order by two of the most talented writers in the field today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(16175, 'Death &amp; What Comes Next', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Discworld Short Story\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(16176, 'The Death of A Legend', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(16177, 'Desolation island', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."â€”Stephen Vaughan, Observer  Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spyâ€”and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(16178, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(16179, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage''s Difference Engine--a forerunner of today''s computer based on mechanical principles rather than electronic technology.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1855 London, a steam driven calculator heralds a new age of information as everything from fast food to credit cards turns the Victorian Era into a bizarre modern-day world. "Bursting with the kind of demented speculation and obsessive detailing that has made both Gibson''s and Sterling''s work stand out in the past".--San Francisco Chronicle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(16180, 'Diggers', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The nomes are ready for their\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bright New Dawn!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the trouble with Bright New Dawns is that they''re usually followed by cloudy days. With scattered showers. Life Outside the Store is much colder than the four-inch-tall nomes expected. And there aren''t any walls . . . it''s all very unsettling.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Still, the nomes are finally adjusting to their new home at the abandoned quarry, when a Sign arrives announcing the quarry is to be reopened. The humans are coming to mess things up (as usual), but this time the nomes might just fight back -- if they can find a way to rouse the mysterious Dragon in the Hill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(16181, 'Dirk Gently&apos;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(16182, 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John BrunnerTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results."[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams Rolling Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(16183, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Compelling, ground-breaking, highly imaginative tale from the most phenomenonally popular fantasy authors since J.R.R. Tolkien.Creatures of legend, the dragons have returned to Krynn. Now, the darkness of war threatens to engulf the land. Then hope appears -- a blue crystal staff in the hands of a beautiful bar barian woman. The promise of this hope forces a group of long-time friends into the unlikely roles of heroes: Tanis Half-Elven, their leader, a skilled warrior who detests fighting and is tormented by love for two women; Sturm Brightblade, Knight of Solamnia, driven to restore the honor of the knighthood; Raistlin Majere, the powerful and unsettling magic-user, whose hourglass-shaped eyes conceal dark mysteries; Caramon, Raistlin''s twin, a genial giant both loved and feared by his brother; Flint Fireforge, the gruff old dwarven fighter, almost a father to them all; and Tasselhoff Burrfoot, a kender, the nuisance race of Krynn, immune to fear and followed by trouble wherever he goes.These are the warm, memorable characters of Dragons of Autumn Twilight who bring alive the fantasy world of Krynn, a land millions of listeners will want to return to again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(16184, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures.The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen!Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(16185, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(16186, 'Ender&apos;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved Science Fiction novels ever written.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the most talented result of Earth''s desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is Ender the general Earth needs? The only way to find out is to throw the child into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Formics has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(16187, 'Ender&apos;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn''t hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it''s how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician''s ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.  What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(16188, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Equal Rites*, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(16189, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(16190, 'The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(16191, 'Exile&apos;s return', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The second novel of a major new Feist acquisition, returning to his best-loved series. Written with Joel Rosenberg.  The second Riftwar collaboration, Murder in LaMut, written by masters of fantasy Raymond E. Feist and Joel Rosenburg.  The heavy action was supposedly at Crydee these days which meant that the one place they could be sure the three of them were not going was Crydee. Come spring, the privateer Melanie was due in Ylith, and its captain could be counted on for a swift conveyance away for sure, and likely not to murder them in their sleep. That would be bad for business. But away where? That wasn''t Durine''s worry. Kethol would surely be able to find the three of them somebody who needed men who knew which part of the sword you used to cut with and which part you used to butter your bread, and Pirojil would be able to negotiate a price at least half again what the employer was ready to pay. All Durine would have to do was kill people.  That was fine with him.  Durine, Kethol and Pirojil are three mercenaries who have spent twenty years fighting other people''s battles: against the Tsurani and the Bugs and the goblins, and now it seems they''ve run out of Tsurani, Bugs and goblins to kill. The prospect of a few months of garrison duty offers a welcome respite; but then they are given an assignment that seems, on the surface, like cushy work -- to protect a lady and her husband and deliver them safely to the city of Lamut. It should all have been so simple!  Raymond E. Feist is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Riftwar Saga, the Serpentwar Saga and the epic Krondor series.  Joel Rosenberg is best-known for The Guardian of the Flame sequence. His other fantasy work includes D''Shai novels and the Keeper of the Hidden Ways series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/329');
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(16192, 'The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.  The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(16193, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins'' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city''s small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city''s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn''t as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(16194, 'Fellowship Of The Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(16195, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(16196, 'Flight of the Nighthawks', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n " A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance. The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantasy Raymond E. Feist returns to his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a gripping new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar. In the middle of the night on Sorcerer''s Isle, the powerful sorcerer Pug is awakened from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Disturbed by the dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows. Though Pug does not yet know it, his son Magnus has discovered the cause of Pug''s prophetic dream: a beacon has been unleashed, directing a vast army of alien invaders to Midkemia, an army so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire might fall before its fury. Meanwhile, in far Stardock town, two boys are coming of age. But on the dusty path that leads them from home they are thrust by fate into a life undreamed of, becoming enmeshed in intrigue, murder, and treason. Though untrained and unready, they are called upon by the mysterious Conclave to travel deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh, to confront a plot so dark and twisted it will implicate even the highest-ranking nobles of the Empire, even members of the royal family itself. And behind this plot they discover the ancient Brotherhood of Death, the clan of assassins known as the Nighthawks. And Pug will find himself once again facing his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia. "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(16197, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing  book, which towers over its current rivals in  the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s  longboat."â€”Times Literary Supplement  Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(16198, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(16199, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(16200, 'A Guide Through Narnia', 'Martha C. Sammons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Guide Through Narnia was one of the first in-depth studies of C.S. Lewis''s seven Chronicles of Narnia. The focus and organization of this revised and expanded edition is on why Lewis wrote the books as fairy tales, the best "Form" for his ideas. It is written for both students and scholars who want to expand their understanding of these popular classics. Chapters include: -Seeing Pictures: How the books were written, chronological summaries, publication history -Selecting the Ideal Form: Why Lewis chose the fairy tale form, fairy tale elements and style -Seeing Man as Hero: Child heroes -Stealing Past Dragons: Characteristics of religious fantasy, allegory and "supposition," Christian elements -Stepping Through the Door: Themes and effects of fantasy -Dictionary of Names and Places Martha C. Sammons is Professor of English at Wright State University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(16201, 'A Guide Through Narnia', 'Martha C. Sammons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Guide Through Narnia was one of the first in-depth studies of C.S. Lewis''s seven Chronicles of Narnia. The focus and organization of this revised and expanded edition is on why Lewis wrote the books as fairy tales, the best "Form" for his ideas. It is written for both students and scholars who want to expand their understanding of these popular classics. Chapters include: -Seeing Pictures: How the books were written, chronological summaries, publication history -Selecting the Ideal Form: Why Lewis chose the fairy tale form, fairy tale elements and style -Seeing Man as Hero: Child heroes -Stealing Past Dragons: Characteristics of religious fantasy, allegory and "supposition," Christian elements -Stepping Through the Door: Themes and effects of fantasy -Dictionary of Names and Places Martha C. Sammons is Professor of English at Wright State University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(16202, 'GURPS Atlantis', 'Steve Jackson Games', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(16203, 'GURPS Basic Set: Characters', 'Steve Jackson &amp; Sean Punch &amp; David L. Pulver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GURPS Basic Set: Characters combines information from the   Third Edition GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Compendium I, plus hundreds of new   and updated rules! This 336-page, full-color hardcover contains everything   you need to create and play a GURPS Fourth Edition character.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(16204, 'GURPS Bestiary: Animals, Monsters and Were-Creatures', 'Steve Jackson &amp; Steffan O&apos;Sullivan &amp; Jeff Koke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rule the animal kingdom with GURPS Bestiary! This new edition of the popular supplement includes many of the popular creatures from prior editions, as well as dozens of new beasts. There is an expanded section on using animals as PCs, with templates (and rules for making new ones) and sample animal characters. GURPS Bestiary also includes animal folklore from around the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(16205, 'GURPS Bio-tech', 'David Pulver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s the technology of the posthuman age: biotech! Upgrade   your old body with smart drugs and viral nano . . . or improve on nature   with eugenics and gene-fixing. But it''s not just about the future. GURPS   Bio-Tech includes a full range of historical and modern medical equipment,   from early vaccines to surgical robots, along with game stats for the   world''s most deadly diseases.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GURPS Bio-Tech also includes a complete set of character templates for   bio-tech professions, rules for biotech magic, and two original campaign   settings.    Say goodbye to your old body. Have you upgraded your genetics this year?    GURPS Fourth Edition supplement.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(16206, 'GURPS Black Ops', 'S. John Ross &amp; Jeff Koke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- A super-high-powered, cinematic campaign world, fast-moving and violent.-- Ties in with current Hollywood hits...aliens and conspiracy!-- Covers both realistic and Hollywood-style operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(16207, 'GURPS Blood Types', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(16208, 'GURPS Bunnies &amp; Burrows', 'Steffan O&apos;Sullivan &amp; Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(16209, 'GURPS Camelot', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(16210, 'GURPS Car Wars: Deluxe Edition', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Over 250,000 Car Wars games sold!-- Multiple award winner, including Omni Magazine, Origins Award, and repeated Games 100 listings.-- Lots of bonus material in this big, heavy box, including the complete Car Wars Compendium -- a $19.95 value by itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(16211, 'GURPS Celitc Myth', 'Ken Walton &amp; Jo Walton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(16212, 'GURPS China', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(16213, 'GURPS Compendium II: Campaigns and Combat', 'Sean Punch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GURPS Compendium II is full of material from scores of GURPS worldbooks published in the last eight years - many of them out of print - about how to run a better GURPS game, how to handle roleplaying problems that come up (some universal, some particular to GURPS), expanded rules for character combat, injury and illness, mass combat, spaceship combat, and much, much, more!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(16214, 'GURPS Conan', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(16215, 'GURPS Cops', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(16216, 'GURPS Creatures of the Night', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(16217, 'GURPS Cyberpunk', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(16218, 'GURPS Cyberworld', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(16219, 'GURPS Discworld Also', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In GURPS Discworld, gamers visited the strange and wonderful setting of Terry Pratchett''s best-selling novels. Everyone had such a good time that we''ve booked a second trip! Our guide for GURPS Discworld Also will again be Phil Masters; he promises that the Dungeon Dimensions are not on the itinerary, and Mr Dibbler''s meat pies are not on the menu.  You will, however, visit the Lost Continent of XXXX (and its Cart Wars), meet the Hermit Elephants and a very big troll, and go on a mission for Unseen University to find out why the Librarian''s supply of bananas has dried up . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(16220, 'GURPS Discworld: Adventures of the Back of the Turtle', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Based on Terry Pratchett''s best-selling Discworld fantasy series.-- Co-written by Terry Pratchett himself.-- Cover and interior art by recognized Discworld artist Paul Kidby.-- Includes the GURPS Lite rules...so it can be played by itself. No other books required!The World is Flat.It rests on the back of four giant elephants, who in turn stand on the back of Great A''Tuin, the only turtle to form the basis of an entire branch of astrophysics.For the last few years, events on the Discworld have been chronicled in the works of Terry Pratchett. Now, thanks to a special deal, it''s time for roleplayers to make their way to the far end of the probability curve.This book is intended for use with the GURPS Basic Set (Third Edition), but can be played by itself, or used as a sourcebook for any roleplaying game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(16221, 'GURPS Fantasy', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(16222, 'GURPS Fantasy Folk', 'Chris W. McCubbin &amp; Sean Punch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(16223, 'GURPS Fantasy Harkwood', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(16224, 'GURPS Fantasy II', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(16225, 'GURPS Flight 13', 'Sean Punch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(16226, 'GURPS Grimoire', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(16227, 'GURPS High-Tech', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(16228, 'GURPS Historical Folks', 'Brian C. Smithron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(16229, 'GURPS Horror', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(16230, 'GURPS Horseclans', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They ride the plains of a post-holocaust America, mind-reading prairiecats by their sides. They''re deadly warriors . . . for honor, for loot, or just for the joy of a good fight. They would follow their leader, the undying Milo Morai, straight to Hell. And they''d come back with trophies. Now, Robert Adams'' bestselling Horseclans series comes alive in this supplement to GURPS. In the 96 pages of GURPS Horseclans, you''ll find: * A complete bibliography and reference to all 17 currently published Horseclans novels: names, races and nationalities, places, and more. * Biographies and game statistics for Milo Morai, Bili the Axe, Mara, Aldora, Dr. Bookerman, and other important characters. * Maps and historical information for campaigns in several different time periods - from just after the Great Dying, through the days of the Horseclans riding the plains and on the march east, to the "present-day" Eastern Confederation. * New rules for two kinds of immortals: The Undying, and the body-stealing Witchmen. * The telepathic prairiecats: complete rules for cat characters, combat, and "mindspeak" abilities. * A quick system for resolving large battles and their effects on participating player characters - both in terms of survival and of honor won! Now you, too, can ride to glory, and help Milo Morai rebuild civilization . . . with the Horseclans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(16231, 'GURPS Humanx', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(16232, 'GURPS Ice Age', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(16233, 'GURPS Illuminati', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(16234, 'GURPS Imperial Rome', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GURPS Imperial Rome takes you to a world of adventure and intrigue, gladiators and glory. The sprawling Roman Empire is full of campaign options, from orgies in the decadent Roman villas to battles with pirates off the coast of Sicily. As an adventurer in the Imperial Age of Rome, you can . . .      * Journey through the narrow streets of the greatest city in the world. Haggle with shop owners, debate with senators on the floor of the Forum, or run through the dark alleys with the infamous Roman gangs.      * Fight gruesome battles as a slave gladiator in the Colosseum - clashing with other warriors or dangerous beasts. Or race your chariot around the Circus Maximus, cheating death and vying for Imperial favor.      * Visit exotic provinces like Greece, Egypt and Asia, and meet traveling thinkers, merchants, soldiers and mysterious natives - from the barbarian Celts of northern Britain to the nomadic Berbers of Africa.      * March to war with the Roman legions, defending the borders against Carthagian invaders or the savage Huns of Asia.  Also includes maps of Rome and its provinces, adventure ideas and much more . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(16235, 'GURPS Infinite Worlds', 'Kenneth Hite &amp; Steve Jackson &amp; John M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(16236, 'GURPS IOU', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(16237, 'GURPS Japan: Beauty, Terror, Adventure', 'Lee Gold &amp; J. Hunter Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Back in print after a long hiatus!-- Detailed discussion of Japanese magic and spirits.-- Samurai, ninja, and ronin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(16238, 'GURPS Lensman', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(16239, 'GURPS Low-Tech', 'Jamieson &amp; Meyer &amp; Evan Jamieson &amp; Richard Meyer &amp; William H. Stoddard &amp; Eric Hotz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the dawn of civilization to the Middle Ages . . . or in any fantasy game . . . GURPS Low-Tech is a universal resource for any campaign set before the age of gunpowder and the printing press. It''s 128 pages of detailed research and game ideas:  Weapons: Cleave an enemy''s skull with a stone axe, stab him with a bronze sword, or impale him on your obsidian-tipped spear.  Armor: Whether it''s the crudest leather or the finest iron chain, any armor is better than none. Plus new rules for piecemeal armor!  Vehicles: Steer a dogsled across the Arctic, sail a trireme across the Mediterranean, or ride your chariot over the battlefields of Asia.  Equipment: Yokes and plows, adzes and hammers, sundials and locks; everything it takes to build a town or a nation.  Plus shelter, science, and civilizations . . . from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.  Whether you''re playing cavemen fighting to stay alive, armored knights jousting for honor, or time travelers searching for the truth about history, GURPS Low-Tech brings the past to life!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the dawn of civilization to the Middle Ages . . . or in any fantasy game . . . GURPS Low-Tech is a universal resource for any campaign set before the age of gunpowder and the printing press. It''s 128 pages of detailed research and game ideas:  Weapons: Cleave an enemy''s skull with a stone axe, stab him with a bronze sword, or impale him on your obsidian-tipped spear.  Armor: Whether it''s the crudest leather or the finest iron chain, any armor is better than none. Plus new rules for piecemeal armor!  Vehicles: Steer a dogsled across the Arctic, sail a trireme across the Mediterranean, or ride your chariot over the battlefields of Asia.  Equipment: Yokes and plows, adzes and hammers, sundials and locks; everything it takes to build a town or a nation.  Plus shelter, science, and civilizations . . . from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.  Whether you''re playing cavemen fighting to stay alive, armored knights jousting for honor, or time travelers searching for the truth about history, GURPS Low-Tech brings the past to life!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(16240, 'GURPS Mage: The Ascension', 'Robert M. Schroeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Based on the top-selling "World of Darkness" games from White Wolf.-- Introduces a new and different magic system to GURPS.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(16241, 'GURPS Magic', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(16242, 'GURPS Magic Items 1', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the Chest You Find . . .  Enchanted swords . . . marvelous rings . . . animated armor . . . wands and staffs of devastating power. Here is a catalog of hundreds of original and imaginative enchanted items for use in any campaign, from exotic trinkets to mighty artifacts. Categories include swords and weapons, armor, wizardly tools, thief''s supplies, clothing, jewelry, healing tools, necromantic items and curses, tricks, and traps.  GURPS Magic Items 1 also describes the eldritch shops that sell these wonders, with a complete and realistic guide to the economics of enchantment in a medieval fantasy world, including profiles of the typical enchanter, enchanter''s patron, and magical merchant.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(16243, 'GURPS Magic Items 2', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(16244, 'GURPS Man to Man', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(16245, 'GURPS Martial Arts', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(16246, 'GURPS Mecha', 'David Pulver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Includes a complete, detailed campaign world, "Cybermech Damocles"!-- By popular GURPS author David Pulver (Psionics, Vehicles).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(16247, 'GURPS Old West', 'Steve Jackson Games', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(16248, 'GURPS Orcslayer', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(16249, 'GURPS Places of Mystery', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(16250, 'GURPS Prisoner', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(16251, 'GURPS Psionics', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(16252, 'GURPS Religion: Gods, Priestly Powers and Cosmic Truths', 'Janet Naylor &amp; Caroline Julian &amp; Susan Pinsonneault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Universe. Some Assembly Required. So you want to dance with the gods. You want a priest who can call down bolts of power from the skies. You want to cure the diseased and dying, and you want hordes of fanatic followers to bow to your every command.  What you need is GURPS Religion.  GURPS Religion gives you everything you need to delve into the mysteries of creation and divine power. It opens up whole new vistas of roleplaying. Recreate gods from fantasy and myth, or create your won pantheon and answer the cosmic questions . . .  Who created the universe, and why?  Is there one deity or many?  Are the deities wise and benevolent, or are they rash and vengeful?  How do the characters get divine power?  GURPS Religion allows you to design a complete cosmos. It also helps you decide what part (if any) the gods play in characters'' day-to-day lives, and how to create the social institution we know as religions.  There are also sections on designing clerical characters, and rules for the magical powers granted to the faithful.  Power, magic, birth, death, and intrigue. The world of the gods is vast and complex. You can be a pawn of the powers that be. Or you can make the universe bend to your will.  You have the knowledge. You have the power. Create the Universe!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(16253, 'GURPS Riverworld', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(16254, 'GURPS Robots: Bold Experiments, Faithful Servants, Soulless Killers (Steve Jackson Games)', 'David Pulver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GURPS Robots contains detailed rules for designing, building, and playing robots - from the tiniest nanobots to the mightiest megabots. You can create cyborgs, androids, and even biomorphs - deadly fluid-metal machines that can take any shape.  The advanced design rules are compatible with GURPS Vehicles, 2nd Edition. Choose everything from the frames to weapons to the tiniest accessories!  Also included are rules for robots as player characters; artificial intelligences and battlesuits; and over 30 completely worked-out sample robots.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(16255, 'GURPS Russia', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(16256, 'GURPS Screampunk', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(16257, 'GURPS Space', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(16258, 'GURPS Space Terradyne', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(16259, 'GURPS Special Ops', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(16260, 'GURPS Steampunk', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(16261, 'GURPS Supers: Super-Powered Roleplaying Meets the Real World', 'Loyd Blankenship', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(16262, 'GURPS Supers: Supertemps', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(16263, 'GURPS Swashbucklers', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(16264, 'GURPS Technomancer', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(16265, 'GURPS Time Travel', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(16266, 'GURPS Transhuman Space', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(16267, 'GURPS Transhuman Space - Orbital Decay', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(16268, 'GURPS Transhuman Space - Personnel Files', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(16269, 'GURPS Ultra-Tech', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(16270, 'GURPS Ultra-Tech 2: Hard-Core, Hard-Wired Hardware', 'David L. Pulver &amp; Dan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Hundreds of different science fiction devices...weapons, computers, armor, exotic medicine, and much more.-- By one of the GURPS system''s most popular authors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(16271, 'GURPS Undead', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(16272, 'GURPS Vampire Companion', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(16273, 'GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade', 'Jeff Koke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE MIDNIGHT DANCE CONTINUES...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They stalk in the shadows, moving gracefully and unseen among their prey. They are the blood-drinking fiends of whispered legends â€“Kindred, Cainites, the Damned. Above all, they are vampires. Their eternal struggle, waged sicne the nights of Jericho and Babylon, plays itself out among the vampires'' grand Masquerade is imperiled, and the night of Gehenna draws ever closer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n UNTIL THE END OF ALL THINGS\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This new edition of Vampire: The Masquerade is an updated, revised version of the popular classic. In this mammoth volume can be found all 13 Clans, all major Disciplines, and a host of brand-new infomation on both the Kindred and the...things...that hunt them. This book compiles everything that a Vampire player or Storyteller needs to know about the Kindred and the World of Darkness for the new millenium. Plus, the new edition provides all-new information on the changes that affect the Clans, and on the beginning of the end of the Camarilla. Finally, the first of the Storyteller rulebooks is the best again!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(16274, 'GURPS Vehicles Expansion 1', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(16275, 'GURPS Vehicles: From Chariots to Cybertanks...and Beyond!', 'David L. Pulver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(16276, 'GURPS Vikings', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(16277, 'GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War', 'C. J. Carella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(16278, 'GURPS Wild Cards', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(16279, 'GURPS Witchworld', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(16280, 'GURPS WWII', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(16281, 'GURPS WWII: Hand of Steel', 'Shawn Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(16282, 'GURPS Y2K: The Countdown to Armageddon (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)', 'John M. Ford &amp; Scott Haring &amp; Kenneth Hite &amp; Steve Jackson &amp; Jeff Koke &amp; Phil Masters &amp; Sean Punch &amp; David Pulver &amp; Robert Schroeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- A detailed look at the ''survivalist" and "after the holocaust" adventure genres.-- The world didn''t end on January 1, 2000. Therefore, this book is good for gaming, rather than just for starting fires.-- Written by ten top GURPS authors, and edited by GURPS line editor Sean Punch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(16283, 'GURPS: New Sun', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(16284, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed  it."â€”Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press  Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and  smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the  distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive,  pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy  enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But  somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize  that could make him rich beyond his wildest  dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the  China Fleet...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(16285, 'Han Solo at Stars End', 'Brian Daley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Searching the galaxy for a rogue shipbuilder to repair the   *Millenium Falcon, *Han Solo and Chewbacca battle fierce enemies   and travel to the desolate asteroid known as Stars'' End, a planetary   prison. Reissue."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(16286, 'A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world. Annotation. The Heroine: Tiffany Aching, incipient witch and cheese maker extraordinaire. Once saved world from Queen of the Elves. Is about to discover that battling evil monarchs is child''s play compared to mortal combat with a Hiver (see below). At eleven years old, is boldest heroine ever to have confronted the Forces of Darkness while armed with a frying pan. The Threat: A Hiver, insidious disembodied presence drawn to powerful magic. highly dangerous, frequently lethal. Cannot be stopped with iron or fire. Its target: Tiffany Aching (see above). The Nac Mac Feegle: A.k.a. the Wee Free Men. Height: six inches. Color: blue. Famed for drinking, stealing, and fighting. Will attack anything larger than themselves. Members include: Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie, and Awfully Wee Billy Bigchin. Allies to Tiffany Aching (see above). The Book: Hilarious, breathtaking, spine-tingling sequel to the acclaimed Wee Free Men. The Author: Terry Pratchett, celebrated creator of the internationally best-selling Discworld series. Carnegie Medalist and writer extraordinaire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(16287, 'Hayek, F.A.', 'The Use of Knowledge in Society', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(16288, 'Hitchhiker&apos;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(16289, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n J.R.R. Tolkien''s fantasy masterpiece The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of the Five Armies are just some of the adventures that befall Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children''s fiction. Written by Professor Tolkien for his own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when published.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n J.R.R. Tolkien''s fantasy masterpiece The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of the Five Armies are just some of the adventures that befall Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children''s fiction. Written by Professor Tolkien for his own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(16290, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren''t real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death\n <em>\n  tries\n </em>\n . He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn''t have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas.\n <em>\n  â€”Nona Vero\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren''t real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death\n <em>\n  tries\n </em>\n . He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn''t have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas.\n <em>\n  â€”Nona Vero\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The master of humorous fantasy delivers one of his strongest, most conventional books yet. Discworld''s equivalent of Santa Claus, the Hogfather (who flies in a sleigh drawn by four gigantic pigs), has been spirited away by a repulsive assassin, Mr. Teatime, acting on behalf of the Auditors who rule the universe and who would prefer that it exhibited no life. Since faith is essential to life, destroying belief in the Hogfather would be a major blow to humanity. It falls to a marvelously depicted Death and his granddaughter Susan to solve the mystery of the disappeared Hogfather, and meanwhile to fill in for him. On the way to the pair''s victory, readers encounter children both naughty and nice; gourmet banquets made of old boots and mud; lesser and greater criminals; an overworked and undertrained tooth fairy named Violet; and Bilious, the god of hangovers, among other imaginative concepts. The tone of much of the book is darker than usual for Pratchett?for whom "humorous" has never been synonymous with "silly"?and his satire, too, is more edged than usual. (One scene deftly skewers the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas.") Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English-language satirists. U.K. rights: Victor Gollanz, The Cassell Group; trans., first serial, dramatic, audio rights: Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(16291, 'Honoured enemy', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first of a major new Feist acquisition, returning to his best-loved series. Written with Bill Forstchen, acclaimed writer of great military fantasy novels in the US.  FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE?  Hartraft''s Marauders, a crack band of Kingdom raiders, are a special unit designed to infiltrate and fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison, after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani.  Meanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time and discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) and they are forced by circumstances to band together and fight as one unit to survive.  The only problem is, who do they hate the most -- their mutual enemy, or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle not only with the elements and their enemies, but also their conscience. For what is more important -- one''s life or one''s honour?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(16292, 'The Horse and His Boy', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive. Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So join a wild gallop for freedom. The third volume in The Chronicles of NarniaÂ® The Horse and His Boy Narnia ... where some horses talk ... where treachery is brewing ... where destiny awaits. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide their fate and the fate of Narnia itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(16293, 'Horseclans Odyssey', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(16294, 'Horses of the North', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High Lord Milo Morai must prevent a threatened bloodfeud between the Linsee and Skaht clans before it can ignite a battle that would destroy all of the Horseclans\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/190');
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(16295, 'The Hundred Days', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. " The Hundred Days is certain to delight O''Brian''s fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."'' Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(16296, 'The Hutt Gambit', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy''s most famous con man, smuggler and thief. Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(16297, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(16298, 'I, Jedi', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole presents a stirring new tale set in the Star WarsÂ® universe: the dramatic story of a heroic X-wing pilot on the razor''s edge between the Force--and the dark side.Corran Horn has distinguished himself as one of the best and brightest of Rogue Squadron''s elite fighting force. Then his wife, Mirax, vanishes on a covert mission for the New Republic, and Corran vows to find her. To do so, he knows he must develop the latent Force powers inherited from his grandfather, a legendary Jedi hero. He joins Luke Skywalker''s famed Jedi academy to begin training, only to quit in frustration at Skywalker''s methods. Now Corran is on his own. Using his Corellian undercover experience, he must infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy a ruthless organization in order to find his wife. But to succeed, Corran will have to come to terms with his Jedi heritage--and make a terrible choice: surrender to the dark side...or die.Â© 1999 Lucasfilm Ltd. &amp; TMAll rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(16299, 'If Only They Could Talk', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(16300, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise WHAT I DID ON MY HOLIDAYS. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water bufffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancienct cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can''t even spell the word ''wizard''... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime''s experience of not dying... ...and a very SPECIAL butterfly. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(16301, 'Into A Dark Realm', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dread plot to destroy the Empire of Great Kesh has failed. The Conclave of Shadows has ended the murderous Nighthawk brotherhood''s horrific reign of terror and death. But the mad sorcerer, Leso Varen, has fled, taking refuge among the most powerful men and women on Kelewanâ€”a world now threatened, along with Midkemia, by hordes of the most vicious warriors in the known universe. The great sorcerer Pug knows of no power that will vanquish these invaders. And now he, brave Magnus and Nakor, and a disturbing young stranger named Bek must venture into the poisonous heart of the Dasati realmâ€”the most terrible place they have ever encounteredâ€”in a valiant, impossible attempt to turn the tides against the encroaching doom that would swallow their world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(16302, 'The Ionian Mission', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy''s blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(16303, 'Iron Fist', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force--sleek, swift, and deadly. For these X-wing fighters, no job is too dirty or too dangerous. Now they must rise to meet an impossible challenge: stop a powerful warlord by pretending to be his ally.Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission. But now they are called upon to cheat death twice. This time Wedge Antilles sends them in to stop the warlord Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer, Iron Fist. If Zsinj joins the Empire, it could turn the tide of war against the Rebels. The Wraith Squadron''s mission: infiltrate the warlord''s fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans. To do so, they must pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj''s forces. And that means first becoming pirates in space lanes teeming with Imperial Navy patrols. If that isn''t enough to get them killed, they''ll have to pass one last test--a suicide mission for Zsinj.Can they survive the test and turn the tables on Zsinj?Or is this the end for Wraith Squadron?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(16304, 'It Shouldn&apos;t Happen to a Vet', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How on earth did James Herriot come to be sitting on a high Yorkshire moor, smelling vaguely of cows? James isnt sure, but he knows that he loves it. This second hilarious volume of memoirs contains more tales of James unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, animal mayhem galore, and his first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(16305, 'Jimmy the Hand: Legends of the Riftwar', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city.   Though gifted beyond his peers, Jimmy is merely a pickpocket with potentialâ€”until he aids Prince Arutha in the rescue of Princess Anita from Duke Guy du Bas-Tyra, and runs afoul of "Black Guy''s" secret police. Facing a choice between disappearing on his own or in a weighted barrel at the bottom of Krondor''s harbor, Jimmy chooses the former.   Forced to flee the only home he''s ever known, Jimmy finds himself among the unsuspecting rural villagers of Land''s End, where he hopes to prosper with his talents for con and thievery. But Land''s End is home to many who tread the crooked pathâ€”and to a dark, dangerous presence even the local smugglers don''t recognize. And suddenly Jimmy''s youthful bravado and courage are leading him into the maw of chaos . . . and, quite possibly, to his doom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(16306, 'Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(16307, 'Johnny Mnemonic', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The award-winning author of Neuromancer brings his acclaimed talents to the screen in a March movie release, starring Keanu Reeves. This special edition features his screenplay and the original story on which it''s based. Johnny''s a 21st century smuggler with a computer chip in his head--24 hours to complete his mission.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(16308, 'King of Foxes', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the mountains of Midkemia, a boy came brutally of age in blood and in terror. And now he lives for one purpose alone ... revenge! An exceptionally skilled swordsman, young Tal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village -- rescued, recruited, and trained by the mysterious order of magicians and spies, the Conclave of Shadows. Now one of the secret society''s most valuable agents, he gains entrance into the court of Duke Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal''s village to the sword, by posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles. But the enemy is cunning and well protected -- in league with the foul necromancer Leso Varen, dark master of death-magic -- and to gain the Duke''s trust and confidence, Tal Hawkins must first sell his soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(16309, 'The King&apos;s Buccaneer', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long recovered from the ravages of the Riftwar, the land and the people of the Kingdom of the Isles thrive on the bounty of good times. Nicholas, youngest son of Prince Arutha of Krondor is intelligent and gifted, but vastly inexperienced in worldly matters. In hopes of hardening him, his father sends him and his squire, Harry, to live at rustic Castle Crydee to learn of life beyond the halls of privilege. Thus begins the most harrowing experience of their young lives. Within weeks of Nicholas''s arrival, Crydee is viciously attacked by assailants unknown. The result: murder, massive destruction, and the abduction of two young noblewomen, friends to the prince. And Crydee isn''t the only town that''s been hit - towns up and down the coast have suffered the same merciless devastation. From out of the wreckage two facts become clear. The raiders have come from the distant Sunset Islands, home to pirates of every stripe - and possibly even farther away than that. But more significant, these are no ordinary pirates: their mission is connected to dark magical forces that have threatened the Kingdom before. As brother to the future king, Nicholas feels compelled to follow the abductors and rescue those taken from Crydee - but the threat he ultimately faces is one that places the fate of all of his people in his inexperienced lands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(16310, 'Krondor, The Assassins', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist *returns us now to a place of unparalleled wonders--a sprawling kingdom coveted by enemies on all sides; a bustling center of commerce and magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict. This is Midkemia, where great heroes are bred, and its glorious center...*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Krondor**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Prince Arutha--newly returned from battle--is concerned about a rash of unexplained assassinations that plagues his capital city. And so he commissions his most trusted agent, Squire James--formerly the thief known as "Jimmy the Hand"--to discover the source of the deadly epidemic. The answers seem to lie far beneath the streets in the dank depths of Krondor, where a terrible war rages in secret between two rival criminal gangs: those who call themselves "Mockers" and others in the thrall of a mysterious being known as "The Crawler." But the deeper the Squire delves, the closer he gets to the true nature of the horror that has left untold dead in its wake. And unless James can prevent one last, unthinkable slaying, the nightmare forces of corruption and deceit will destroy his liege and reduce his beloved Krondor to ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(16311, 'Krondor, The Betrayal', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle... New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy; where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia -- a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression. It tells of mysterious deaths and sinister machinations -- and signs of a time when the fate of many civilizations rested in the able, unfaltering hands of RiftWar veterans Squire Locklear and cunning their-turned-squire Jimmy the Hand. It chronicles the powerful awakening of Owyn -- apprentice magician of untried strengths -- and celebrates the selfless achievements of Pug, the great sorcerer of two worlds. Welcome now to astonishing new corners of a world you have not yet fully explored-and prepare to experience true excitement, blood chilling terror...and the triumph born from the doom aimed at the beating heart of a kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(16312, 'Krondor: Tear of the Gods', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The vile sorcerer Sidi plans to strike the kingdom a fatal blow, setting the murderous pirate Bear upon the high seas in pursuit of the vessel that is transporting Midkemia''s most holy object; the Tear of the Gods. From this miraculous stone all magic power is believed to flow. And if the Tear becomes the mage''s trinket, the future will hold only terror, death and unending night. For Squire James, Lieutenant William, and the able magician Jazhara, the race is on to rescue the remarkable artifact. For all manner of dark creatures are gathering with one unspeakable purpose: to breed the chaos that will hasten the destruction of Squire James and his brave companions...and bring about the total corruption of the Tear of the Gods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(16313, 'The Last Battle', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Narnia . . . where lies breed fear . . . where loyalty is tested . . . where all hope seems lost.  During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challengeâ€”not an invader from without but an enemy from within.  Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear in this, the magnificent ending to The Chronicles of Narnia.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(16314, 'Last Chance to See', 'Douglas Adams &amp; Mark Carwardine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Douglas Adams'' genius was in using comedy to make serious points about the world Independent After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to find out what was happening to life on this one. Together they lead us on an unforgettable journey across the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures animals that they may never get another chance to see. They encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but lovable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Both funny and poignant, Last Chance to See is the tale of an unforgettable wildlife odyssey and a timely reminder of all that we must protect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(16315, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the Discworld''s last continent, it''s hot. It''s dry. . . very dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that''s not poisonous is venomous. But it''s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it''ll die in a few days, except. . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker. A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard. He''s the only hero left. Still . . . no worries, eh?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(16316, 'The Last Hero', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cohen the Barbarian.He''s been a legend in his own lifetime.He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn''t have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization.But these days, he can''t always remember just where he put his teeth...So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He''s going to climb the highest mountain of Discworld and meet the gods.It''s time the Last Hero in the world returns what the first hero stole. Trouble is, that''ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(16317, 'The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cohen the Barbarian.He''s been a legend in his own lifetime.He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn''t have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization.But these days, he can''t always remember just where he put his teeth...So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He''s going to climb the highest mountain of Discworld and meet the gods.It''s time the Last Hero in the world returns what the first hero stole. Trouble is, that''ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(16318, 'Let Sleeping Vets Lie', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Full of hilarious tales and a rich cast of supporting characters, this third volume of memoirs is sure to delight hardened fans and new readers of James Herriot titles alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(16319, 'The Letter of Marque', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship''s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(16320, 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don''t know it!\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads - so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goals of annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild mannered space and time traveller, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behaviour; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(16321, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(16322, 'The Lion, The Witch &amp; The Wardrobe', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive. Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So join the battle to end all battles. The second volume in The Chronicles of NarniaÂ® The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Narnia .... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change ... and a great sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(16323, 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sequel to Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(16324, 'The Lord God Made Them All', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The triumphant conclusion to the legendary seriesWith each book more engaging than the last, James Herriot once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire through his uplifting experiences as a country veterinarian. These stories provide a grand finale to the wonderful books that began with All Creatures Great and Small and continued in All Things Bright and Beautiful and All Things Wise and Wonderful.It is just after World War II, and James has returned from the Royal Air Force to do battle with the diseases and injuries that befall the farm animals and pets of Skeldale and the surrounding moors. Four-year-old Jimmy Herriot, Humphrey Cobb and his little beagle Myrtle, Norman the book-loving veterinary assistant, and many more new faces join old favorites among the green hills of Yorkshire, as James takes an unforgettable voyage to Russia on a freighter with 383 pedigreed sheep. Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting our spirits with compassion and goodness, James Herriot never fails to delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(16325, 'Lords And Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(16326, 'The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(16327, 'Madman&apos;s Army (Horseclans, No 17)', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having defeated the army of King Zastros, the High-Lord Milo Morai offers a peace settlement to his foes unaware of the evil and danger lurking in the heart of the devastated realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(16328, 'The Magician&apos;s Nephew', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The adventure begins Narnia ... where Talking Beasts walk ... where a witch waits ... where a new world is about to be born. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan''s song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(16329, 'Magician: Apprentice', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan called Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry.Yet Pug''s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to begin again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. Copyright Â© Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n PB-No shelf wear, no scuffs, tight binding, clean pages, no marks, has crease from storage, spine has 1 line, smoke/pet free home. Ships anywhere 7 days a week\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(16330, 'Magician: Master', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(16331, 'Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he''d like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mintâ€”so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny. Moist doesn''t want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork''s current ruling tyrant isn''t a "request" per se, more like a "once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you''ve-lived-quite-long-enough." So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (nÃ©e Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who''s probably a vampire. But he''ll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can''t figure out where all the gold has gone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(16332, 'A Man Called Milo Morai', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When violence erupts between the Linsee and Skaht clans and threatens to destroy all the Kindred clans, Milo decides to intercede for peace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(16333, 'Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(16334, 'Master and commander', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, ship''s surgeon and intelligence agent, against a backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship''s surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.Master and Commander is available in two editions: the regular edition featuring the classic cover art of Geoff Hunt, and a movie tie-in edition with a cover photo featuring Russell Crowe, star of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(16335, 'The Mauritius Command', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Jack''s assignment: to capture the Indian  Ocean islands of RÃ©union and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative  thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its  substance is more beguiling  still..."â€”Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek  Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a commandâ€”until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore''s pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La RÃ©union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captainsâ€”Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(16336, 'The Memories of Milo Morai', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As peace ends hostilities between the Kindred clans, Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans, and a select band of hunters set out to explore unknown territory and find themselves caught up in an ancient legacy of violence that threatens to co\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(16337, 'Mistress of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world on the other side of the rift:  Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies.  Following the opulent panoply of Daughter Of The Empire and the dazzling pageantry of Servant Of The Empire comes the resounding conclusion to the Empire trilogy.Besieged by spies and rival houses, stalked by a secret and merciless brotherhood of assassins, the brilliant Lady Mara of the Acoma faces the most deadly challenge she has ever known.  The fearsome Black Robes see Mara as the ultimate threat to their ancient power.  In search of allies who will join her against them, Mara must travel beyond civilization''s borders and even into the hives of the alien cho-ja.  As those near and dear to her fall victim to many enemies, Mara cries out for vengeance.  Drawing on all of her courage and guile she prepares to fight her greatest battle of all--for her life, her home, and the Empire itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(16338, 'Mona Lisa overdrive', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  Enter Gibson''s unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.  Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.  Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.  Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.  And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(16339, 'Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A sudden burst of nationalism has swept over Polly Perks causing her to cut off her hair, don her brother''s clothes and join the local regiment so she can fight for her country. But there''s only one problem -- she has no idea who she''ll be fighting or what she is really fighting for. And why do they want her to have a rolled-up pair of socks anyway? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined -- the Monstrous Regiment. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(16340, 'Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(16341, 'Mostly harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s not just a trilogy any more. In the fifth book of this popular series, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, and immediately all hell breaks loose. In short, it''s up to him to save the world from total multi-dimensional obliteration, the Guide from a hostile alien takeover, and the daughter he never knew he had, from herself. A tall order, to say the least. And one he''s really not up to, thank you very much."Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist....He is anything but harmless."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(16342, 'Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discworld''s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they''ve discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can''t sing, he can''t dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingÃ©nue from a little town (where else?) you''ve probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn''t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood''s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It''s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they''re definitely not ready for their close-up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(16343, 'Murder in LaMut: Legends of the Riftwar:', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; Joel Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Midkemia, there are no easy roads . . .   For twenty years the mercenaries Durine, Kethol, and Pirojil have fought other people''s battles. Having already defeated the Tsurani, the Bugs, and the goblins, it seems there are no more enemies for them to vanquishâ€”even as the Riftwar rages on in the west. What lies ahead for the able trio are a few welcomed months of restful garrison duty.   When ordered to accompany the promiscuous Lady Mondegreen, her aging husband, and her current lover to a summit in the city of LaMut, the Three Swords willingly comply, expecting an uncomplicated and undemanding assignment. But nothing is straightforward in this land of violence and treachery. And when the fury of a winter''s storm traps them inside a castle teeming with ambitious, plotting lords and ladies, the mercenaries suddenly find themselves with a series of cold-blooded murders to solve . . . and the political future of Midkemia resting in their hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(16344, 'Nation: The Play', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alone on a desert island -- everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm -- Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He''s completely alone -- or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire.Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She''s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship''s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things (including how to milk a pig, and why spitting in beer is a good thing), and start to forge a new nation. Encompassing themes of death and nationhood, Terry Pratchett''s new novel is, as can be expected, extremely funny, witty and wise. Mau''s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone''s lives! "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(16345, 'Neuromancer', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(16346, 'Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he''s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck...Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.There''s a problem:if he wins, he''s got no wife, no child, no future...A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution.Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(16347, 'The Nutmeg of Consolation', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O''Brian--or Stephen Maturin--could devise.In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin''s Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(16348, 'Of Beginnings and Endings', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Of Beginnings and Endings throws Bass Foster and his fellow castaways back through the ages to war-torn Britain and America, where they control kings and countries by wielding weapons from a highly advanced future civilization. From the author of the spellbinding Horseclans series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(16349, 'Of Chiefs and Champions', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Readers are taken on a fantastic and fascinating journey to the untamed wilderness of North America, where a band of twentieth-century Americans finds itself, after being transported in time. With the power of future technology, the band forever changes the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(16350, 'Of Myths and Monsters', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(16351, 'Of Quests and Kings', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Peaceful American homebody Sebastian Foster is swept back in time to a barbaric seventeenth-century England that never existed and into the role of commander of King Arthur of Tudor''s forces, responsible for uniting warring Irish clans\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/222');
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(16352, 'Opal Deception, The', 'Colfer, Eoin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Grade 5-7â€“Artemis Fowl has returned to his fiendish ways in the fourth book (Miramax, 2005) in Eoin Colfer''s series about the 14-year-old criminal mastermind. Although his mind was cleared of any memories of the fairy world in the third book, it''s not long before Artemis encounters many of his old cohorts. His archenemy, Opal Koboi, is no longer an imprisoned coma patient; she escaped by cloning herself and now has plans for the destruction of the Lower Elements and for world domination. Artemis needs the help of all his allies in this world and in the fairy world to stop the powerful and dangerous Opal. Nathanial Parker''s superior talent for narration is wonderfully showcased in this rollicking tale of identity theft, intrigue, and adventure. He uses many different British accents and dialects to make both the human and the supernatural characters come alive, and his pacing is faultless throughout the dialogue and the narrative. Fans of the series will be delighted to join Artemis and his associates for another fantastic tale of the underworld, complete with gaseous dwarves and extraordinary technology. A great choice for fantasy lovers in school and public libraries.â€“_Casey Rondini, Hartford Public Library, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Gr. 6-9. The fourth book in the Artemis Fowl saga follows\n  <em>\n   The Eternity Code\n  </em>\n  (2003), in which Artemis'' mind was wiped clean of any memories of the belowground world of elves, pixies, and dwarves. In this book, Artemis has reverted to his old life of crime. His archenemy, Opal Koboi, has been in a self-induced coma for a year, plotting revenge on all who thwarted her earlier evil doings. After cloning herself, she escapes and sets her plans in motion, going first to find LEPrecon Captain Holly Short and Commander Root, then taking on Artemis as she schemes to destroy the fairy world. As in all the books, this one has plenty of action as well as great humor and clever plot manipulations. Characters are once again fully realized, and fans will eagerly enter into the spirit of the action.\n  <em>\n   Sally Estes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(16353, 'Out of the Silent Planet', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(16354, 'Pattern Recognition', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first of William Gibson''s usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names. Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce''s quest will take her in and out of harm''s way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father''s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York. Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson''s brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson''s lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. --Jeremy Pugh\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(16355, 'Post Captain', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Master and Commander raised almost  dangerously high expectations, Post Captain  triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant  book."â€”Mary Renault  "We''ve beat them before and we''ll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtor''s Prison, from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(16356, 'Prince Caspian', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.   Narnia . . . the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen . . . and where the adventure begins.   Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan''s own magic horn) to return to the land of Narniaâ€”the land where they had ruled as Kings and Queens and where their help is desperately needed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(16357, 'Prince Of The Blood', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Authorâ€™s Preferred Edition of Raymond E. Feistâ€™s bestselling coming-of-age saga celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of its publication. Feist introduces a new generation of readers to his riveting novel of adventure and intrigue, revised and updated as he always meant it to be written. It is a work that explores strength and weakness, hope and fear, and what it means to be a manâ€”in a kingdom where peace is the most precious commodity of all.If there were two more impetuous and carefree men in the Kingdom of the Isles, they had yet to be found. Twins Borric and Erland wore that mantle proudly, much to the chagrin of their father, Prince Arutha of Krondor. But their blissful youth has come to an end. Their uncle, the King, has produced no male children. Bypassing himself, Arutha names Borric, the eldest twin by seconds, the Royal Heir. As his brother, Erland will have his own great responsibilities to shoulder. To drive home their future roles, Arutha sends them as ambassadors to Kesh, the most feared nation in the world. Borric and Erland will be presented to the Queen of Keshâ€”the single most powerful ruler in the known worldâ€”at her Seventy-fifth Jubilee Anniversary. But they have not even left Krondor when an assassination attempt on Borric is thwarted. Aware that he is being provoked into war, Arutha does not rise to the bait. His sonsâ€™ journey will not be deterred, for nothing less than peace is riding on it. Yet there is to be no peace for the young princes. When their traveling party is ambushed, Borric disappears and is presumed deadâ€”sending Erland into spirals of rage and grief as he is forced to navigate alone the court intrigues at Kesh. But unbeknownst to anyone, Borric lives and has escaped his captors. In a strange land, with a price on his head, Borric must use all his wits and stamina to find his way back to his brother. On separate paths, the two menâ€”one a fugitive and one a future kingâ€”make their journey toward maturity, honor, and duty. For every step they take could sway the fragile peace of the land, as those who crave war rally against themâ€”and become ever more daring.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(16358, 'Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention a headstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(16359, 'Quicksilver', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it''s just the beginning ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(16360, 'Rage of a Demon King', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A loyal soldier and a wealthy merchant have served bravely in the flames of an enduring war that is ravaging their land. But swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the scourge that is descending upon their home. For a foul and terrible thing has escaped from a world already devoured to feed on one consumed by chaos -- an insatiable nightmare creature of dark and murderous nature which seeks to own and corrupt the very source of life itselfThe final conflict is joined, pitting serpent against man and magician against demon. For those who battle in the cause of good, there will be victory...or there will be doom for all.There can be no other outcome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(16361, 'Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the eleventh Discworld novel, Death is missing â€“ presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. Thereâ€™s a harvest to be gathered in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(16362, 'Rebel Dawn', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the explosive conclusion of the blockbuster trilogy that chronicles the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo.  Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy''s most famous con man, smuggler, and thief.The Millennium Falcon is "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy."  So when Han Solo wins it in a game of sabacc, he and Chewbacca become kings of the smugglers--uncatchable, unstoppable.  But with the Empire clamping down, Han knows his luck can''t last.  Still, when an old girlfriend who is now the leader of an insurgent Rebel group offers him a shot at an incredible fortune, Han can''t resist.  The plan seems a sure thing.  The resistance will be light and the take enormous.  Han and his friends will divide it equally with the Rebels.  Too bad for Han that the planet of Ylesia is far from a pushover, that the Rebels have an agenda of their own, and that smuggler friends can often turn into enemies...quicker than lightspeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(16363, 'Red: The Heroic Rescue', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **New 5th Anniversary Editions include Bonus Graphic Novels.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."**The mind-bending pace of *Black* accelerates in **Red**, Book Two of Ted Dekker''s epic Circle Series. Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse. In one world, he''s a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he''s racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos through an unstoppable virus.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Two worlds on the brink of destruction. One unthinkable solution.Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide. Nothing is as it seems, as ***Black*** turns to ****Red.****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(16364, 'Restaurant End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(16365, 'The Return Of The King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien''s U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).\n <br />\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''An extraordinary book. It deals with a stupendous theme. It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them.'' The Observer ''Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.'' Sunday Telegraph\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(16366, 'Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies', 'Craig Shaw Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A terrible change has come to the Cineverse. In all its many movie worlds, bad guys win, good guys perish, and boy doesn''t even get girl. Only Captain Crusader (until recently plain old Roger Gordon) can put things right-but the Captain has problems of his own.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(16367, 'The Reverse of the Medal', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "An overwhelming, outstanding  novel...!"â€”Irish Times  Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionageâ€”the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey''s humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O''Brian''s readers have come to expect.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(16368, 'Rise of a Merchant Prince', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Surviving the wrath of the fearsome Sauur -- a hideous race of invading serpents -- noble Erik and cunning Roo have delivered a timely warning to the rulers of the Midkemian Empire, and are now free to pursue their separate destinies. Erik chooses the army -- and the continuing war against Midkemia''s dread enemies. Roo lusts for wealth and power -- rising high and fast in theworld of trade. But with luxury comes carelessness and a vulnerability to the desires of the flesh. And a beautiful seductress with her ruthless machinations threatens to destroy everything Roo has built and become -- summoning catastrophe into his future...and terror into his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(16369, 'The Road to Serfdom', 'F. A. Hayek', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(16370, 'The Savage Mountains', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(16371, 'Screwtape Letters, The', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(16372, 'Servant of the empire', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Second in Feist &amp; Wurts'' wonderful epic trilogy -- one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time  THE EMPIRE TRILOGY: BOOK II  Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma. But when you''re surrounded by deadly rivals intent on toppling you at every turn, you need to be the best simply to survive...\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this thrilling sequel to Daughter of the Empire, Lady Mara faces a vengeful blood enemy who doesn''t know Mara has a strategic secret weapon--a rakish Midkemian slave whose real identity will change the rimworld forever. "A tale of love, hate, and sacrifice against the panorama of an alien yet familiar society."--Publishers Weekly. HC: Doubleday.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(16373, 'The Seven Magical Jewels of Ireland', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bass Foster and a group of other twentieth-century Americans find themselves in an enigmatic seventeenth-century England facing enemies from the far distant future\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(16374, 'The Seventh Dwarf', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  This is an Eoin Colfer''s fantastic new Artemis adventure especially for World Book Day.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Eoin Colfer was born and raised in Wexford, a seaside town in the south-east of Ireland. His first novel, Benny and Omar, was an instant bestseller in Ireland, and Artemis Fowl, his first book featuring the brilliant young anti-hero was an immediate international bestseller. It was winner of both the WHSmith ''People''s Choice'' Children''s Book of the Year and the Children''s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Book of the Year and the Blue Peter Book Award.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(16375, 'Shadow of a Dark Queen', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dread darkness is descending upon a great land called Midkemiaâ€”a powerful and malevolent race of monsters that has slipped through a hole in the dimensions. And two unlikely young heroesâ€”a bastard heir denied his birthright and an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thieveryâ€”must take up arms in the struggle to protect their besieged world...two friends chosen by Destiny to stand at the fore of the battle that is to come against the gargantuan reptile army of the terrible Emerald Queen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(16376, 'Shadow of the Giant', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Earth was at war -- a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth -- they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic Ender''s Game, and its parallel, Ender''s Shadow.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins'' right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender''s defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family -- something he has never known -- but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies -- old enemies from the days in Ender''s Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender''s footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars. (20050910)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(16377, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heros; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender''s Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender''s brother Peter.Peter Wiggin, Ender''s older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean''s help, he will eventually rule the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(16378, 'Shadow Puppets', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Sequel to The New York Times Bestselling Enders''s Shadow Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender''s Earth. Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin''s victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender''s older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth''s young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future. Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender''s Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(16379, 'Shards of a Broken Crown (Serpentwar Saga, Book 4)', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The demon is no more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The enemy has been routed. But all is not well...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Winter''s icy grasp is loosening on the world. The Emerald Queen''s vanquished army has its broken back to the Bitter Sea. And treachery is its only recourse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A lackey has declared himself Lord of the defeated, amassing the still fearsome remnants of a ruthless fighting force together for one final assault on a weakened, vulnerable realm.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the warriors who remained steadfast against terrible numbers, for the courageous souls who barely survived a devastating onslaught upon their homeland, the time to rebuild and renew has not yet come. The war is not over in Midkemia. And Jimmy and Dash--two young noble brothers who stand at the center of a gathering storm--are impelled to action that could secure a tenuous peace...or turn triumph into catastrophe.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The demon is no more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The enemy has been routed. But all is not well...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(16380, 'The Silver Chair', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the first time, an edition of Lewis''s classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author''s non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive "P.S." section about the history of the book, plus a sample chapter from its sequel.  Drawn back to Narnia, Eustace Scrubb and his new friend Jill Pole are sent to rescue a captive prince. In a world where evil weaves a spell, Giants and Marsh-wiggles can be friend or foe, but the stakes are raised when they reach Underland and come face-to-face with a notorious and terrifying opponent.  On 9 December 2005, Andrew (Shrek) Adamson''s live-action film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be released by Disney, and it is already being hailed as the biggest film franchise of all time, guaranteed to appeal to adults and children across the globe. The second film is already in development.  Sporting breathtaking new photographic covers, these new adult editions of the seven Chronicles of Narnia now give everyone an opportunity to experience the adventures in their original form.  Re-live your childhood fantasies or discover for the first time what everyone will be talking about by Christmas and savour some of the best-loved stories ever written.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(16381, 'Silverthorn', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess  Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of  Krondor.To save his beloved,  Arutha sets out in search of the mytics herb called  Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and  forbidding land of the  Spellweavers.Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever  young thief, he wil confront an ancient evil and do  battle with the dark powers that threaten the  enchanted realm of Midkemia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(16382, 'Slaves of the Volcano God', 'Craig Shaw Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When PR man Roger Gordon tries to escape the monotony of his humdrum job by trying out his Captain Crusader Decoder Ring, he is taken by surprise when his favorite B-movies come to life, and he is soon involved in a world of danger, action, adventure andromance\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(16383, 'Small gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The thirteenth Discworld novel â€” In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: â€œHey, you!â€For Brutha, the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him, now, please.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(16384, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only once in a great while doesnbsp;nbsp;a writer come along who defies comparison -- anbsp;nbsp;writer so original he redefines the way we look atnbsp;nbsp;the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer andnbsp;nbsp;Snow Crash is such a novel, weavingnbsp;nbsp;virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just aboutnbsp;nbsp;everything in between with a cool, hipnbsp;nbsp;cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of thenbsp;nbsp;information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist deliversnbsp;nbsp;pizza for Uncle Enzo''s Cosa Nostra Inc., but itnbsp;nbsp;the Metaverse he''s a warrior prince. Plungingnbsp;nbsp;headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that''snbsp;nbsp;striking down hackers everywhere, he races alongnbsp;nbsp;the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroynbsp;nbsp;mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening tonbsp;nbsp;bring about infocalypse. Snow Crashnbsp;nbsp;is a mind-altering romp through a future Americanbsp;nbsp;so bizarre, so outrageous... you''ll recognize itnbsp;nbsp;immediately. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(16385, 'So long &amp; thanks for all the fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(16386, 'Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES, SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There''s a Death in the family. It''s hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe--especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It''s lawless. It changes people. It''s called MUSIC WITH ROCKS IN. It''s got a beat and you can dance to it but...It''s ALIVE. And it won''t fade away. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(16387, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he''s turned up again, and this time he''s brought the Luggage. But that''s not all.... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn''t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that''s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sorcerer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(16388, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens'' ways are strange and frightening....again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery....and the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(16389, 'Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n So piteously the lonely soul of man Shudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain, So heavy weighs the long, material chain From cause to cause, too merciless for hate, The nightmare march of unrelenting fate, -from "Dungeon Grates" C. S. Lewis is a profound and perhaps the most respected Christian apologist because his belief was so hard-won. This collection of verse, written immediately after he returned from the battlefields of World War I in 1919, offers penetrating insight into the psyche of a young man struggling with traumatic wartime experiences and the crisis of faith they engendered. By turns angry, bitter, and melancholy, these poems constitute a provocative document of Lewis''s journey from atheism through agnosticism and on to conviction. Irish writer CLIVE STAPLES ("JACK") LEWIS (1898-1963) was born in Belfast. A volunteer in the British Army during World War I, he served in the trenches of France, and returned to study and teach at Oxford University; he later accepted a post at Cambridge University, retiring only months before his death. His best-known works are The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956), Mere Christianity (1952), and his autobiography, Surprised by Joy (1955).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(16390, 'Spook Country', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The *New York Times* bestseller from â€œone of the most astute and entertaining commentators on our astonishing, chaotic present.â€( *Washington Post Book World*)**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hollis Henry is a journalist on investigative assignment for a magazine called *Node*, which doesnâ€™t exist yet. Bobby Chombo is a producer working on cutting-edge art installations. In his day job, Bobby is a trouble-shooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hollis Henry has been told to find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(16391, 'The Surgeon&apos;s Mate', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and  dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry  humor make O''Brian''s nautical adventure a  splendid treat."â€”Publishers Weekly  Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(16392, 'Swords of the Horseclans', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(16393, 'The system of the world', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Tis done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England''s shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess''s behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain''s newborn monetary system.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse''s manufactory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson''s Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(16394, 'Talon of the Silver Hawk', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko razes village after village, slaughtering men, women, and children without mercy. And when the carnage is done, only one survivor remains: a young boy named Kieli. A youth no longer, there is now but one road for him to travel: the path of vengeance. And he will not be alone. Under the tutelage of the rescuers who discovered him, Kieli will be molded into a sure and pitiless weapon. And he will accept the destiny that has been chosen for him ... as Talon of the Silver Hawk. But the prey he so earnestly stalks is hunting him as well. And Talon must swear allegiance to a shadowy cause that already binds his mysterious benefactors -- or his mission, his honor, and his life will be lost forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(16395, 'Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it''s wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He''s going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world''s first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(16396, 'The Thirteen Gun Salute', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin--his friend, ship''s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent--on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan''s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(16397, 'Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork''s more diminutive citizensâ€”a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes''s second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where''s My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork''s streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fearâ€”and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(16398, 'Time Paradox, The', 'Colfer, Eoin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Grade 4â€“8â€”Fourteen-year-old genius and mastermind Artemis Fowl realizes that he has a problem. His mother is nearing death and the only thing that can save her is the brain fluid from a species of lemur that he forced into extinction eight years earlier. He decides that he must travel back in time to right this terrible wrong but his younger self is present in the past and proceeds to challenge the older Artemis''s every move. At the older Artemis''s side is elf Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance (LEPrecon) and Mulch Diggums, a dwarf known for his potent flatulence and ground-munching abilities. The trio struggle to circumvent destiny but find the past fraught with deception. The story flows with quick-witted humor and action-packed scenes, and Colfer''s love of science shines through in the story''s inventions and clever use of engineering. The dueling technology and a game match between clashing masterminds make for an exciting, modern-day fairy tale. There is no integration of previous story lines; while this does not take away from the resolution, it does leave readers questioning some backstory. The author once again offers an exhilarating ride through the fantastical world of Artemis Fowl.â€”_Robyn Gioia, Bolles School, Ponte Vedra, FL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  A huge hit Guardian Fast, funny and very exciting Daily Mail Folklore, fantasy and high-tech wizardry ... Hugely entertaining Observer Engagingly vivid, exciting and witty. The Telegraph Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox is unadulterated joy. Scotland on Sunday\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(16399, 'Torrent downloaded from Demonoid.me', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(16400, 'Treason&apos;s harbour', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The finest writer of sea-stories in the  English language."â€”J. de Courcy Ireland  All Patrick O''Brian''s strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon''s agents, and the admiralty''s intelligence network is compromised. Maturin''s cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey''s daring mission.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(16401, 'Truckers', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(16402, 'The Truelove', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey''s friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa''s secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon''s intelligence service.In a thrilling finale, Patrick O''Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(16403, 'Trumpets of War', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After defeating the High King Zastros and his evil witch queen, Milo Morai and his Confederation Army set out to bring peace to Zastros'' kingdom of Southern Ehleenoee, a land plagued by bandits, murderers, and renegades\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/196');
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(16404, 'The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And itâ€™s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworldâ€™s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalistâ€™s life â€“ people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(16405, 'The Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second volume of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design. Includes special packaging and the definitive edition of the text, with fold-out map.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication, the text has been fully restored with almost 400 corrections - with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien - making it the definitive version, and as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien intended. Also included is the original red and black map of Middle-earth as a fold-out sheet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This 50th anniversary hardback features Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design, which has been reworked to celebrate this special anniversary.\n <br />\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien''s U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).\n <br />\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''An extraordinary book. It deals with a stupendous theme. It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them.'' The Observer ''Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.'' Sunday Telegraph\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(16406, 'The Unadulterated Cat', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Gray Jolliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one.For example: real cats have ears that look like they''ve been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(16407, 'Vet in a Spin', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(16408, 'Vet in Harness', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Yorkshire Dales have never seemed more beautiful for James. Now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partners plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way. All of the old Darrowby friends are on top formSiegfried thashes round the practice, Tristan occasionally buckles down for finals, and James is signed up for a local cricket team.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(16409, 'Vets Might Fly', 'James Herriot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n RAF training proves tough for Jamesbut you cant keep a good vet down. A few months of married bliss, a lovers nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriots fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. In between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he left behind him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(16410, 'Virtual Light', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pick-pocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(16411, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Dawn Treader* will take you places you never dreamed existed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Narnia . . . where anything can happen . . . and where the adventure begins.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *Dawn Treader* is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, their cousin Eustace and Caspian to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, to adventures great and small and toward Aslanâ€™s country at the very End of the World.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter this enchanted world countless times in *The Chronicles of Narnia*. There are seven books in all: ** ******\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Magicianâ€™s Nephew***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe******* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Horse and His Boy******* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Prince Caspian***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **** **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Voyage of The Dawn Treader******* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Silver Chair******* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Last Battle*********\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(16412, 'The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching needs magic--fast! Her sticky little brother Wentworth has been spirited away by the evil Queen of faerie, and itÂ’s up to her to get him back safely. Having already decided to grow up to be a witch, now all Tiffany has to do is find her power. But she quickly learns that itÂ’s not all black cats and broomsticks. According to her witchy mentor Miss Tick, "Witches donÂ’t use magic unless they really have to...We do other things. A witch pays attention to everything thatÂ’s going on...A witch uses her head...A witch always has a piece of string!" Luckily, besides her trusty string, TiffanyÂ’s also got the Nac Mac Feegles, or the Wee Free Men on her side. Small, blue, and heavily tattooed, the Feegles love nothing more than a good fight except maybe a drop of strong drink! Tiffany, heavily armed with an iron skillet, the feisty Feegles, and a talking toad on loan from Miss Tick, is a formidable adversary. But the Queen has a few tricks of her own, most of them deadly. Tiffany and the Feegles might get more than they bargained for on the flip side of Faerie! Prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett has served up another delicious helping of his famed Discworld fare. The not-quite-teen set will delight in the FeeglesÂ’ spicy, irreverent dialogue and TiffanyÂ’s salty determination. Novices to PratchettÂ’s prose will find much to like here, and quickly go back to devour the rest of his Discworld offerings. Scrumptiously recommended. (Ages 10 to 14) --Jennifer Hubert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(16413, 'Where&apos;s My Cow', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At six oâ€™clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where''s MyCow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. It isthe most loved and chewed book in the world.But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city.So Sam Vimes starts adapting the story. A story with streets, not fields. A book with rogues and villains. A book about the place where heâ€™ll grow up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(16414, 'White: The Great Pursuit', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **New 5th Anniversary Editions include Bonus Graphic Novels.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Time Is Running Out In Two Realities.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In one world, a lethal virus threatens to destroy all life as scientists and governments scramble to find an antidote. In the other, a forbidden love could forever destroy the ragtag resistance known as The Circle.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thomas can bridge both worlds, but he is quickly realizing that he may not be able to save either.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this mind-bending adventure, Thomas must find a way to rewrite history as he navigates a whirlwind of emotions and events surrounding a pending apocalypse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fate of two worlds comes down to one man''s choice--and it is a most unlikely choice indeed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life. Death. Love. Nothing is as it seems. Yet all will forever be transformed by the decisions of one man in the final hours of the Great Pursuit.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(16415, 'The Wine-Dark Sea', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O''Brian''s first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer''s famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader''s imagination.Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen''s mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O''Brian''s brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(16416, 'Wings', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(16417, 'Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you''re thirteen. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the Wintersmith isn''t *exactly* a boy. He is Winter itselfâ€”snow, gales, iciclesâ€”*all of it*. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She''ll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. Theyâ€”\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Crivens!* Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She''ll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairylandâ€”whether she wants it or not.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn''t survive until Springâ€”\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€”Spring won''t come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(16418, 'The Witch Goddess', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(16419, 'Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The twelfth Discworld novel It seemed an easy job . . . After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn''t marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That''s what life is all about. You can''t fight a Happy Ending. At least up until now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(16420, 'A Woman of the Horseclans', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(16421, 'Wrath of a Mad God', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Darkwar rages, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair to Midkemia and Kelewan. To save both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the mysterious Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the bloodthirsty Dasati on an audacious mission that has little, if any, chance to succeed. In Midkemia, young warriors Tad and Zane and their fellow soldiers must protect the Kingdom from raiders. And Pug''s beloved wife, Miranda, finds herself a prisoner of the Dasati and, even more ominously, of Pug''s nemesis, the evil sorcerer Leso Varen. But salvation may come from a friend thought long deadâ€”an unlikely ally whose remarkable powers will be sorely needed. For there is a momentous battle looming . . . a final, fevered onslaught against the most malevolent agents of evil ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(16422, 'Wyrd Sisters', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry''s Pratchett''s profoundly irrelevetn novels, are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.Meet Granny Weatherwx, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don''t get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can''t help it. As Granny Weatherwzx is about to discover, though, it''s a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you''ve got a few unexpected spells up your sleave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(16423, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(16424, 'The Yellow Admiral', 'Patrick O&apos;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O''Brian''s best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack''s exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack''s private fears for his career.Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie''s forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(16425, 'Young Zaphod', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(16426, 'Young Zaphod Plays It Safe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(16427, 'Zero History', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country.  Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own...  When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry''s face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn''t pay the rent, and right now she''s a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing; but there''s no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention.  Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the first time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all that. Milgrim''s idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck.  The culture of the military has trickled down to the street- Bigend knows that, and he''ll find a way to take a cut. What surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he''s just not used to it staring back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://brianmpenn.isa-geek.com/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(16428, '_net_2011-11.pdf 11-10-2011', '_net_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10654'),
(16429, 'The &quot;Goldfish&quot;', 'Arthur Cheney Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4325'),
(16430, '#1   Handmade Living     Jun 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10785'),
(16431, '#1   Innovated Magazine    Jan 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10779'),
(16432, '#12.6    BBC History Magazine   June 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10924'),
(16433, '#2   Innovated Magazine    Feb 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10780'),
(16434, '#23.7   Modern Painters    Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10787'),
(16435, '#3   Innovated Magazine    Mar 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10781'),
(16436, '#4   Innovated Magazine   Apr 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10782'),
(16437, '#4.8   Clean Eating    Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10844'),
(16438, '#46.7   Homemakers     Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10845'),
(16439, '#5   Innovated Magazine    May-Jun 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10783'),
(16440, '#6    Fashion Gems Magazine    Nov 2008', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10835'),
(16441, '#7    Fashion Gems Magazine    Jan 2009', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10836'),
(16442, '#8    Fashion Gems Magazine    Mar 2009', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10837'),
(16443, '01 THE TIME OF THE DARK (d-1)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4555'),
(16444, '01 Those Who Hunt The Night (ja-1)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4616'),
(16445, '02 The Walls of Air (d-2)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4556'),
(16446, '03', 'Retribution', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10799'),
(16447, '03 The Armies of Daylight (d-3)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4557'),
(16448, '04 Mother Of Winter (d-4)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4558'),
(16449, '07', 'Compacts &amp; Conspiracies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10764'),
(16450, '1000 Best Movies on Video', 'Peter Waymark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10712'),
(16451, '1000 PhotoShop Tricks', 'NDR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2344'),
(16452, '1000 Recipe Cookbook', 'Day, Martha (edt)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€¢ Soups and salads â€¢ Starters and canapÃ©sâ€¢ Fish, meat and poultry â€¢ Vegetarian and vegetable dishesâ€¢ Pasta and rice â€¢ Desserts and sweet treatsâ€¢ Cakes, biscuits and pastries â€¢ Sauces and condimentsWith 1000 scrumptious and easy-to-follow recipes withinits pages, this book provides the perfect answer to all thosevexed questions about what to cook. No more agonizingover what to put on the table; you will easily be able tofind something to tempt the palate and satisfy the appetiteof even the fussiest eaters â€“ whatever the occasion.From time-honoured classics to the more unusual, there isplenty of choice here. The selection will appeal to bothnovice and experienced cooks alike, whether you arelooking for ideas for a light, tasty lunch, a quick, heartysupper, a feast fit for family and friends, or somethingmore elaborate for a dinner party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2234'),
(16453, '101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving', 'Arthur VanGundy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4828'),
(16454, '101 Google Tricks Tips and Hacks', 'Chandrapal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(16455, '101 Science Experiments', 'Illa Podendorf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10927'),
(16456, '101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius', 'Brad Graham &amp; Kathy Mcgowan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    101 projects that appeal to the spy in you\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Utilizing inexpensive, easily obtainable components, you can build the same information gathering, covert sleuthing devices used by your favorite film secret agent. Projects range from simple to sophisticated and come complete with a list of required parts and tools, numerous illustrations, and step-by-step assembly instructions.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Projects include: scanners and radios, night vision devices, telephone devices, computer monitoring, audio eavesdropping, hidden cameras, video transmitters, and more\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   101 SPY DEVICES FOR SERIOUS SNOOPING\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book offers an amazingly awesome and complete collection of professional spy tools that you can build yourself. You can build any project in this thrilling arsenal of spy devices for $30 or less! Not only that, even total beginners to electronics can construct these mind-boggling snooping tools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You get complete, easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and hundreds of pictures.\n  <em>\n   101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius\n  </em>\n  gives you:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing sleuthin'' ''n snoopin'' devices, presented in sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Loads of projects simple enough for new spies to construct easily, progressing in complexity to devices that will excite investigation professionals\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explanations of the science and math behind each project\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Frustration-factor removal -- needed parts are listed, along with sources\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius\n  </em>\n  equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for devices that let you:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Build and install a nanny cam for viewing and recording activity from afar\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Hear and record what''s said from great distances\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   See and photograph in the dark\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Wire yourself for undetected recording\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Construct a hidden briefcase camera\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tap and record telephone conversations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Privately record every called number, with a time stamp, from any phone\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build a secret time-lapse camera\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Build and install motion-activated spy cameras or listening devices\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Alter photographic evidence\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Digitally disguise your telephone voice\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Secretly install key-logging software to see what''s done on any computer\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Learn what Web sites others are surfing\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Recover deleted computer files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   View other peoples'' computer screens from your PC\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Control your spy equipment from afar\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(16457, '1019aaA01ADDed1r0', 'PrintExpress PDF Export. - IPA Systems Ltd.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10796'),
(16458, '1020aaA01ADDed1r0', 'PrintExpress PDF Export. - IPA Systems Ltd.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10850'),
(16459, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4082'),
(16460, '11 Steps to Create a Successful Website', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4827'),
(16461, '110 Amazing Magic Tricks With Everyday Objects', 'Marvin Berglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(16462, '1111.qxd', 'trudy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10801'),
(16463, '13 The assassin', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Casca, the Eternal Mercenary, is captured by the fanatical Hashishi and forced to commit murder in the name of Hassan al Sabah, but he will risk everything to find a life of a his own. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4642'),
(16464, '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n   <em>\n    1491\n   </em>\n   Timeline\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Europe and Asia\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dates\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   The Americas\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  25000-35000 B.C.   Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  6000\n </p>\n <p>\n  5000   In what many scientists regard as humankind''s first and greatest feat of genetic engineering, Indians in southern Mexico systematically breed maize (corn) from dissimilar ancestor species.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First cities established in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  4000\n </p>\n <p>\n  3000   The Americas'' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures\n </p>\n <p>\n  Great Pyramid at Giza\n </p>\n <p>\n  2650\n </p>\n <p>\n  32   First clear evidence of Olmec use of zero--an invention, widely described as the most important mathematical discovery ever made, which did not occur in Eurasia until about 600 A.D., in India (zero was not introduced to Europe until the 1200s and not widely used until the 1700s)\n </p>\n <p>\n  800-840 A.D.   Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1000\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reconstruction of Cahokia, c. 1250 A.D.*   Abrupt rise of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, the largest city north of the Rio Grande. Population estimates vary from at least 15,000 to 100,000.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Death devastates Europe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1347-1351\n </p>\n <p>\n  1398   Birth of TlacaÃ©lel, the brilliant Mexican strategist behind the Triple Alliance (also known as the Aztec empire), which within decades controls central Mexico, then the most densely settled place on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1492   The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syphilis apparently brought to Europe by Columbus''s returning crew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1493\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain on around-the-world voyage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1519\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sixteenth-century Mexica drawing of the effects of smallpox\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Cortes driven from TenochtitlÃ¡n, capital of the Triple Alliance, and then gains victory as smallpox, a European disease never before seen in the Americas, kills at least one of three in the empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1525-1533   The smallpox epidemic sweeps into Peru, killing as much as half the population of the Inka empire and opening the door to conquest by Spanish forces led by Pizarro.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1617   Huge areas of New England nearly depopulated by epidemic brought by shipwrecked French sailors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  English Pilgrims arrive at Patuxet, an Indian village emptied by disease, and survive on stored Indian food, renaming the village Plymouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1620\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Ill., painting by Michael Hampshire.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Bernardino de SahagÃºn,\n  <em>\n   Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva EspaÃ±a,\n  </em>\n  1547-77).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in the New World, Native American cultures were flourishing with a high degree of sophistication. The new researchers have turned received wisdom on its head. For example, it has long been believed the Inca fell to Pizarro because they had no metallurgy to produce steel for weapons. In fact, scholars say, the Inca had a highly refined metallurgy, but valued plasticity over strength. What defeated the Inca was not steel but smallpox and resulting internecine warfare. Mann also shows that the Maya constructed huge cities and governed them with a cohesive set of political ideals. Most notably, according to Mann, the Haudenosaunee, in what is now the Northeast U.S., constructed a loose confederation of tribes governed by the principles of individual liberty and social equality. The author also weighs the evidence that Native populations were far larger than previously calculated. Mann, a contributor to the\n  <em>\n   Atlantic Monthly\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Science\n  </em>\n  , masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history of Native America and its inhabitants. 56 b&amp;w photos, 15 maps.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4151');
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(16465, '1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n   by Charles C. Mann\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Nathaniel Philbrick\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Last Stand\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   In the Heart of the Sea\n  </em>\n  , which won the National Book Award;\n  <em>\n   Sea of Glory\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and\n  <em>\n   Mayflower\n  </em>\n  , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and one of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times''\n  </em>\n  ten best books of the year. He has lived on Nantucket since 1986._\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™m a big fan of Charles Mannâ€™s previous book\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , in which he provides a sweeping and provocative examination of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Itâ€™s exhaustively researched but so wonderfully written that itâ€™s anything but exhausting to read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his follow-up,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  , Mann has taken it to a new, truly global level. Building on the groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby (author of\n  <em>\n   The Columbian Exchange\n  </em>\n  and, Iâ€™m proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer), Mann has written nothing less than the story of our world: how a planet of what were once several autonomous continents is quickly becoming a single, â€œglobalizedâ€ entity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann not only talked to countless scientists and researchers; he visited the places he writes about, and as a consequence, the book has a marvelously wide-ranging yet personal feel as we follow Mann from one far-flung corner of the world to the next. And always, the prose is masterful. In telling the improbable story of how Spanish and Chinese cultures collided in the Philippines in the sixteenth century, he takes us to the island of Mindoro whose â€œsouthern coast consists of a number of small bays, one next to another like tooth marks in an apple.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  We learn how the spread of malaria, the potato, tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar cane have disrupted and convulsed the planet and will continue to do so until we are finally living on one integrated or at least close-to-integrated Earth. Whether or not the human instigators of all this remarkable change will survive the process they helped to initiate more than five hundred years ago remains, Mann suggests in this monumental and revelatory book, an open question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timeline for\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   200,000,000 B.C.:\n  </strong>\n  Geological forces begin to break up the worldâ€™s single giant continent, Pangaea, forever separating the hemispheres. After this, Eurasia and the Americas develop completely different suites of plants and animals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1493 A.D.:\n  </strong>\n  Columbus sails on second voyage, establishing the first consequential European settlement in the Americas. Without intending to, he ends the long separation of the hemispheresâ€”and sets off the ecological convulsion known as the Columbian Exchange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1518:\n  </strong>\n  In the first environmental calamity of the modern era, accidentally imported African scale insects in Hispaniola lead to an explosion of fire ants. Spaniards flee the ant-infested island in droves; colonists in Santo Domingo hold procession in honor of St. Saturninus, praying for his aid against the insect plague.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1545:\n  </strong>\n  Spaniards discover the worldâ€™s biggest silver strike in Bolivia. In the next century, the worldâ€™s supply of this precious metal will more than double, giving Europe an economic edge that will help it colonize Africa, Asia and the Americas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1549:\n  </strong>\n  Initial appearance of tobaccoâ€”the addictive American drug that becomes the first global commodity crazeâ€”in China. That same year, HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s inaugurates the human part of the Columbian Exchange by signing the first contract to import large numbers of Africans to the American mainland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1571:\n  </strong>\n  Miguel LÃ³pez de Legazpi colonizes Manila and establishes continual trade with Chinaâ€”Columbusâ€™s life-long, never-fulfilled dream. Knitting the entire inhabited planet into a single web of trade, Legazpiâ€™s actions are the beginning of todayâ€™s economic globalization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1615:\n  </strong>\n  Earthworms come to northern North America in English ship ballast. During the next three centuries, they will re-engineer forests from Ohio Valley to Hudson Bay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1630-60:\n  </strong>\n  The gush of American silver finally causes its price to collapse, setting off a the worldâ€™s first global economic calamity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1644:\n  </strong>\n  Collapse of Ming dynasty. Long struggle between remaining Ming in south and incoming Qing dynasty in north leads the latter to forcibly evacuate most of the southern coast; millions of dispossessed people pour into the mountains, where they grow maize and sweet potatoes, American crops first smuggled into China from Manila and other European bases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1775:\n  </strong>\n  Franceâ€™s Flour War, set off by high bread prices, persuades King Louis XVI to allow the pioneering nutritional chemist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier to stage a series of publicity stunts to persuade farmers to grow potatoes, a distrusted foreign species from Peru. Parmentierâ€™s PR is so successful that broad swathes of northern Europe are soon covered with a monoculture of potatoes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1781:\n  </strong>\n  Britainâ€™s â€œsouthern strategyâ€ pushes Gen. Cornwallisâ€™s army into North Americaâ€™s malaria zone, an area dominated by malaria parasites introduced from Europe and Africa. Defeated by malaria, the British army surrenders to a general it never fought: George Washington. This ends the Revolutionary War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1845:\n  </strong>\n  Europeâ€™s potato monoculture, which is unlike anything ever seen in Peru, turns out to be especially vulnerable to another Peruvian import, the potato blight. Ravaging the continent from Russia to Ireland, the blight causes a famine that kills an estimated two million people, half of them in Ireland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1867:\n  </strong>\n  LÃ©opold Trouvelot, French amateur entomologist, smuggles gypsy moths to Medford, Mass., hoping to breed them with native silk-producing moths to produce a more robust silk-producer. Their almost immediate escape sets off an invasion that continues today. Trouvelot hurriedly returns to France before the dimensions of the problem can be known.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1880-1912:\n  </strong>\n  Industrializing nations, desperate for the elastic belts, pliable gaskets and the aborbent tires needed by steam engines and vehicles, buy every scrap of rubber they can get from the Amazonâ€™s rubber trees, the sole source of high-quality latex. The ensuing rubber boom collapses after an Englishman smuggles rubber trees out of Brazil. Soon much of southeast Asia is covered with this foreign tree.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1979:\n  </strong>\n  The golden apple snail is sent from Brazil to Taiwan to launch an escargot industry there. It escapes, proliferates, and becomes a major menace to the islandâ€™s rice crop.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA muscular, densely documented follow-up [to_\n  <em>\n   Mannâ€™s\n  </em>\n  1491]\n  <em>\n   . . . Like its predecessor,\n  </em>\n  1493 _runs to more than 400 pages, but it moves at a gallop . . . As a historian Mann should be admired not just for his broad scope and restless intelligence but for his biological senstivity. At every point of his tale he keeps foremost in his mind the effect of humansâ€™ activities on the broader environment they inhabit.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Alfred W. Crosby,\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œIn the wake of his groundbreaking book_ 1491_ Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  is a monumental achievement."\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -David Grann, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œSpirited . . . One thing is indisputable: Mann is definitely global in his outlook and tribal in his thinking . . . Mannâ€™s taxonomy of the ecological, political, religious, economic, anthropological and mystical melds together in an intriguing whole cloth.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Jonathan E. Lazarus,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  [Newark]\n  <em>\n   Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œFascinating . . . Convincing . . . A spellbinding account of how an unplanned collision of unfamiliar animals, vegetables, minerals and diseases produced unforeseen wealth, misery, social upheaval and the modern world.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA landmark book . . . Entrancingly provocative,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  bristles with illuminations, insights and surprises.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John McFarland,\n  <em>\n   Shelf Awareness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fascinating survey . . . A lucid historical panorama thatâ€™s studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Brilliantly assembling colorful details into big-picture insights, Mannâ€™s fresh challenge to Eurocentric histories puts interdependence at the origin of modernity.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  Charles Mann brilliantly described the Americas on the eve of Columbusâ€™s voyage. Now in\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  he tells how the world was changed forever by the movement of foods, metals, plants, people and diseases between the â€˜New Worldâ€™ and both Europe and China. His book is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. A fascinating and important topic, admirably told.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John Hemming, author of\n  <em>\n   Tree of Rivers\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating . . . Engaging and well-written . . . Information and insight abound on every page. This dazzling display of erudition, theory and insight will help readers to view history in a fresh way.â€Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Roger Bishop,\n  <em>\n   BookPage\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œCharles Mann expertly shows how the complex, interconnected ecological and economic consequences of the European discovery of the Americas shaped many unexpected aspects of the modern world. This is an example of the best kind of history book: one that changes the way you look at the world, even as it informs and entertains.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Tom Standage, author of\n  <em>\n   A History of the World in Six Glasses\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4152'),
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(16467, '18 Eighteen - July 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10572'),
(16468, '18Eighteen', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5882'),
(16469, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(16470, '1996-2000 Lotus Elise', 'Parts Catalogue', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10758'),
(16471, '212', 'Alafair Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3962'),
(16472, '23', 'Night Horrors; The Unbidden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10762'),
(16473, '25', 'Mage Noir', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10763'),
(16474, '25 Beautiful Homes - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7036'),
(16475, '250 HTML and Web Design Secrets', 'Molly E. Holzschlag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6098'),
(16476, '269 Amazing Sex Games', 'Hugh de Beer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6816'),
(16477, '32', 'The Testament of Longinus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10761'),
(16478, '3D World Magazine June 2011', '3D World Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(16479, '3D_World_2011-11S370.pdf 22-09-2011', '3D_World_2011-11S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6699'),
(16480, '40+ Magazine - October / 2011', 'October  2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10705'),
(16481, '40+ Magazine - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10706'),
(16482, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a houseâ€¦a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces forÂ \n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.Â \n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrivesÂ \n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comesÂ \n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive isÂ \n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after allâ€¦\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4083'),
(16483, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a houseâ€¦a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces forÂ \n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.Â \n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrivesÂ \n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comesÂ \n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive isÂ \n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after allâ€¦\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4468'),
(16484, '5 The Woman in Del Rey Crater', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Naomi Mitchison is the most beautiful woman on the moon--and the one who sent a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker of Asteroids. But investigator Gil Hamilton is sure she is not a murderer--and is determined to prove it before Naomi becomes a sack of spare parts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6297'),
(16485, '55 Ways to Have Fun With Google', 'Philipp Lenssen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You probably use Google everyday, but do you know... the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you''ll find Google-related games, oddities, cartoons, tips, stories and everything else that''s fun. Reading it, you won''t be the same searcher as before! No programming skills needed. (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(16486, '6 Maker', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ensign Andreas Nikolas, heartsick over the loss of his Mirror Universe lover, has resigned his post on Jean-Luc Picard''s starship, the\n  <em>\n   Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  to seek a home on the freighter\n  <em>\n   Iktoj''ni.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  All he wants of his new life is a chance to forget his troubles. And that''s what he gets -- until the\n  <em>\n   Iktoj''ni\n  </em>\n  is taken over by a monstrous alien with unbelievable powers and a disdain for all forms of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Without saying why, the alien sends the freighter hurtling toward a part of space inhabited by the Ubarrak, the Federation''s deadliest and most xenophobic enemy. And Nikolas, who fears that the incident will start a war, can''t convince his captor to turn back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard''s only hope of stopping the alien menance is Serenity Santana -- a woman who once abused his trust in the name of her people''s survival. Now she''s back, asking for the captain''s trust a second time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard desperately needs Santana''s help in his struggle to save his galaxy. But will she justify his faith in her -- or once again twist it to serve her own shadowy ends?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Jan Friedman is the author of more than forty science fiction and fantasy books, among them many Star Trek and Star Trek: Next Generation novels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6299'),
(16487, '6 The Secret Crown', 'Chris Kuzneski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bavaria, 1886 King Ludwig II, infamous for his eccentric behavior, is declared insane by his government and removed from his throne. A day later, Ludwig''s corpse washes up in the shallows of Lake Starnberg. Rumours about the cause of the tragedy abound, but few people know why Ludwig was really killed. Or what secret was silenced by his death. Germany, present day . . . Hidden among the crates in a newly discovered Nazi bunker are documents stamped with a black swan, the insignia of the murdered king. As a favour to a friend, Jonathon Payne and David Jones fly to Bavaria to protect the documents, but soon face a life-or-death battle against an unknown enemy. From the depths of the Black Forest to the water canals underneath Ludwig''s castles, the duo must solve the mystery behind the king''s death or share his tragic fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6322'),
(16488, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n</p>\n<p>\n Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Ventura\n </strong>\n is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies.\n </em>\n Ventura is the host of the television show\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n </em>\n on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Russell\n </strong>\n is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n </em>\n . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n <em>\n  Joan Rivers Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  NBC Nightly News\n </em>\n . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4156'),
(16489, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n</p>\n<p>\n Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Ventura\n </strong>\n is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies.\n </em>\n Ventura is the host of the television show\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n </em>\n on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Russell\n </strong>\n is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n </em>\n . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n <em>\n  Joan Rivers Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  NBC Nightly News\n </em>\n . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4434'),
(16490, '7 Galactic North', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A very worth while collection, with hints of what may be coming in future novels. Dark, vicious science fiction." STARBURST "The UK''s pre-eminent hard- sci-fi author of the past decade. Let''s hope Reynolds has plenty more mind space to explore." EDGE "The stories are written with real energy. Dark, satirical and frequently dystopian. This is gothic SF with gore as Reynolds ensures his taut narratives grip from the first sentence." -- Jonathan Wright SFX "Dark, gothic and graphic, with tightly composed narratives full of shocks and jaw-dropping moments. Atmosphere and economically-drafted characters are as important as the big ideas." -- Dave Golder BBC FOCUS\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gathered here for the first time are Alastair Reynolds'' stories and novelettes set in the universe of REVELATION SPACE, his first bestselling blockbuster. GALACTIC NORTH will include several brand-new stories and novelettes written specially for this collection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6268'),
(16491, '7 The Vortex Blaster', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="blurb">\n The last book Smith wrote set in the Lensman Universe follows the career of Neal "Storm" Cloud, the only man who can snuff out loose atomic vortices. Some good expansion on some of the other cultures that are seen only in passing in the main Lensman series.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6298'),
(16492, '7 What Good is a Glass Dagger', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6312'),
(16493, '7.Rules.of.Building.muscle.2011.pdf 16-10-2011', '7.Rules.of.Building.muscle.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10753'),
(16494, '78 Tax Tips for Canadians for Dummies', 'Christie Henderson &amp; Christie Henderson, Ca, Cfp, Tep &amp; Brian Quinlan &amp; Suzanne Schultz &amp; Suzanne Schultz, Ca, Cfp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Compiled by an expert team of accountants,\n <em>\n  78 Tax Tips For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n offers practical tax planning strategies. These individual tips offer straightforward advice and insight that will save readers aggravation and money.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hold on to more of your money and build your wealth with these tax-saving strategies!\n</p>\n<p>\n You work hard for your income â€” keep more of it in your wallet with this concise, practical guide. Compiled by a group of skilled accounting professionals, these 78 smart strategies offer something for everyone, whether you''re an aggressive investor or someone struggling with debt, an employee or self-employed, a student or retiree. With succinct tips explaining just what you need to know for year-round tax-planning, this book is an essential reference that just may save you thousands of dollars!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with the basics â€” understand the different types of taxes, find out how to organize your tax records, and investigate how to handle disagreements with the Canada Revenue Agency\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your income â€” use taxable benefits to your advantage, discover which expenses you can deduct, and claim all the credits available to you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Run a tax-smart small business â€” choose the ownership structure that''s right for you, maximize your capital cost allowance claim, and realize tax wins through income losses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce the taxes you pay on investments â€” explore tax-efficient investment vehicles, discover the best strategies for income properties, and make the most of capital losses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Claim all the credits available to you and your family â€” ensure that you don''t miss a credit and that you claim all acceptable expenses to realize the greatest possible savings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep taxes low in retirement â€” find out when to take your CPP/QPP pension, how to manage RRIF withdrawals, and which credits you can claim to reduce your tax burden\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an estate plan that leaves more for your heirs â€” consider strategies that reduce your estate''s exposure to income tax and probate fees\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do if you''re missing receipts or slips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to reduce your tax through charitable donations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The non-taxable benefits you should negotiate for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Home office expenses you can deduct\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sell your business in a tax-savvy way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which insurance products can help cut your tax bill\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to split your income to pay less tax\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to maximize your childcare and medical expense claims\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply tax-saving strategies throughout the year\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your deductions and credits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minimize tax on investment income\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid an audit\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(16495, '8 Grendel', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Come to Larry Niven''s Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man''s expansion and colonization throughout Known Space.A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6310'),
(16496, '8 Redoubtable', 'Mike Shepherd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris''s mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests-well, to hell with politics.Â Kris, badly injured at the end of Undaunted (2009), is put in charge of a squadron on anti-pirate duty on the Rim. Unsurprisingly, they soon encounter pirates aplenty and a planet thatâ€™s been taken over by former members of Peterwald Security. Kris canâ€™t leave injustice alone, and soon enough, what was supposed to be a relief-and-recon assignment turns into a full- fledged military mission. The main problem here is that series fans will have no trouble predicting what happens next; the plots are remarkably similar to previous entries, and there is limited character development. The one exception is the inclusion of Krisâ€™ hereditary enemy Lieutenant Vicki Peterwald. She and Kris must combine their forces to take down the pirate headquarters, and their time together leads to some interesting revelations on the state of internal affairs in the Peterwald Empire.Â \n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6364'),
(16497, '9 Ashes of Victory', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Why in Christ''s name can the woman\n  <em>\n   never\n  </em>\n  bring a ship back intact?" muses Hamish Alexander at the triumphant return of Honor Harrington in\n  <em>\n   Ashes of Victory\n  </em>\n  , the apparent resurrection of a woman he''d seen executed by the Peeps some two years earlier. Yep, she''s back: minus a left arm and an eye, minus a few inches of hair, and more than a little banged up in the process, the indestructible, ever-resilient Honor is back from the dead--and she''s got some 400,000 liberated POWs from Hades in tow for good measure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picking up where __ left off, the ecstatic reunion that begins\n  <em>\n   Ashes\n  </em>\n  proves short-lived as Honor once again lives up to her nickname of "The Salamander," always ending up where the fire''s hottest. In the longest book of this naval space-opera series, David Weber plunges his beloved heroine (now an admiral!) into a thick tangle of political plots, as she takes on a more mature, behind-the-scenes role than in previous books. But don''t fret: there''s still some good action as HH prevents an assassination attempt and Manticore and its allies test-drive their new weaponry. And quite a few characters get what''s coming to them too, including a few who drop like picked-off Peeps. All in all, yet another worthy installment in the series--check out __ first if you''re new to HH.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The new Honor Harrington novel is the longest yet, but justifies its length and complexity by greatly advancing the story of Honor and her universe. Honor has triumphally returned from Hades, at the head of a fleet of liberated POWs. Her reward is to become an admiral, a duchess, and a billionaire. She also becomes an elder sister of twins and, since Nimitz has lost some of his telepathy to war wounds, helps the ever delightful treecats learn signing, thereby proving they are fully sapient. But the war goes on, and the Star Kingdom''s superior technology and training increasingly give it the advantage, despite the People''s Republic of Haven''s efforts to catch up. After several years, the kingdom is approaching total victory, and the "Peeps" must purge the last ideologues on the Committee of Public Safety to maintain any hope of survival. Factor in Honor''s personal and professional dilemmas, realistic R&amp;D and procurement problems, spine-tingling action, and the series'' usual dry wit, and it is clear that Weber has produced another mandatory acquisition.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6271'),
(16498, '9 Bless the Beasts', 'Karen Haber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In desperate need of crucial repairs, the Starship VoyagerTM has come to Sardalia, a planet blessed with great natural beauty and apparently friendly inhabitants. The Sardalians welcome Voyager enthusiastically, but Captain Janeway soon grows suspicious. The Sardalians seem almost too eager to help. Janeway fears they are hiding some secret agenda. When Tom Paris and Harry Kim disappear while visiting the planet, the captain and her crew find themselves caught in the middle of a planetary war -- and faced with an agonizing moral dilemma.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6380'),
(16499, '9 Fire on High', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lieutenant Robin Lefler''s mother died in a shuttle explosion ten years ago. So is the woman being held prisoner in Thallonian space really her? If it is, what is her connection to the mysterious woman holding a weapon that could doom entire worlds? With the lives of billions at stake, Robin Lefler, Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur must find the answers before time runs out for them and for the struggling remnants of the once-great Thallonian Empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6295'),
(16500, '9 Not Long Before The End', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6303'),
(16501, '9 Proud Helios', 'Melissa Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The free flow of traffic to the Gamma Quadrant is vital to the recovery and survival of the planet Bajor and to Federation interests as well, so when a mysterious cloaked ship begins raiding wormhole shipping, cleaning out holds and killing whole crews, Commander Sisko of\n  <em>\n   Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  TM acts at once to the stop the piracy. He soon finds he has unlikely help, since the cloaked ship has been preying on Cardassian ships as well, and the convenient alliance goes well until two of Sisko''s personnel are captured by the pirates. The Cardassian commander will not hesitate to destroy the pirate ship if he can, even if Sisko''s people are still aboard, and Sisko must find the pirates first and hold off the Cardassians at least long enough to bring his crewmen to safety.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6285'),
(16502, '9 Rosetta', 'Dave Stern', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Starship Enterprise find their way forward blocked by a mysterious alien vessel, piloted by a race they will soon come to know as the Antianna. Unable to decipher the alien ship''s transmissions, unwilling to risk a battle, Enterprise is forced to veer from its planned course. Almost immediately, they find themselves in the heart of space ruled by the Thelasian Trading Confederacy, who have also had dealings with the Antianna. The Thelasian leader, Governor Maxim Sen, is in fact in the middle of organising a war against the Antianna, to eliminate the threat they pose to the Confederacy''s trading routes. Archer suspects Sen has other motives as well. He also suspects that there is a reason for the Antianna''s seemingly hostile posture. But, with the assembled races of an entire sector against him, he needs more than just suspicions. He needs facts. And, only one woman can give them to him: Ensign Hoshi Sato. If she can translate the Antianna language, peace may just be possible. If not, war - a devastating sector-wide war - will soon result.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6288'),
(16503, '9 Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6374'),
(16504, '9: Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6282'),
(16505, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4157');
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(16506, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4208'),
(16507, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4370'),
(16508, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4433'),
(16509, '97 In the Name of Honor', 'Dayton Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Kirk and the crew of the "U.S.S. Enterprise" discover that all aboard the "U.S.S. Gagarin, " a ship viciously attacked by Klingons ten years ago, remain prisoners on a remote jungle planet. Wth the unexpected assistance of his adversary Koloth, Kirk embarks on a daring rescue mission, knowing that if he fails, the Federation will deny all knowledge of his intentions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6375'),
(16510, '99 A Time to Heal', 'David Mack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker''s promotion to captain and his new command, Riker''s marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher''s new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" has never been told.  UNTIL NOW.  A cataclysmic war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets still threaten the fragile peace accord.  Rebels still loyal to the old Tezwa regime have captured Commander Riker and are willing to kill to achieve their goals...the Orion Syndicate is interfering in the rebuilding -- and may also be involved in much more than that. But the most devastating revelation of all threatens the very foundations of the Federation itself -- leaving Captain Picard to possibly face the very conflict that he labored so hard to prevent....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6358'),
(16511, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4144'),
(16512, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4448'),
(16513, 'A Taste Of China', 'Welcome To E-Cookbooks!', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(16514, 'Abandoned: A Thriller (Smoky Barrett)', 'Cody McFadyen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett, the wedding of one of their own was cause for celebration. Until a woman staggered down the aisle, incoherent, emaciated, head shaved, and wearing only a white nightgown. No one knows who she is or where she''s come from - or why she''s chosen to appear in a church filled with law enforcement agents. Then a fingerprint check determines that the woman has been missing for nearly eight years - that once she was someone''s wife, someone''s mother.and a cop. Imprisoning her in a dark cell, depriving her of any contact with the outside world, her enigmatic captor was a man she didn''t know and who seldom spoke, who punished her only when she failed to follow his most basic instructions designed to keep her alive. Cold, businesslike, seemingly indifferent to his victims, he''s a predator with an M.O. as terrifyingly inscrutable as any Smoky has ever encountered. As she fits together the pieces of what remains of his victim''s fractured life, a chilling picture emerges of a killer every bit as calculating, masterful, and professional as Smoky and the team she leads - a professional psychopath who doesn''t take murder personally and never makes a mistake. There''s a reason he let one of his victims go free. And by the time Smoky pierces the darkness of his twisted mind, it may cost her more than she can bear to lose to escape. For a trap snapped closed the moment she took this case too much to heart.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cody McFadyen on\n   <em>\n    Abandoned\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I build my books around the bad guy. I have from the first. I remember making a conscious decision to build my bad guys a little bit outside the box--the box being the firm reality we all know and agree to be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because itâ€™s a lot more fun to write about serial killers that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Think about it. Hannibal Lecter is a lot more interesting than Son of Sam. Hannibal is brilliant, complex, unclassifiable. He kills with finesse and precision. Son of Sam was an unhinged lunatic, blowing people away at random. As a character, Hannibal is much more interesting to write about (and read). Because true serial killers arenâ€™t super villains. Theyâ€™re disturbed, sordid individuals, driven by hungers and needs that usually destroy them from the inside out. A lot of the time, theyâ€™re socially inept, and not very smart. Their depravity is most often senseless. Writing about what they do would be like writing about a great white shark: it eats because it is hungry and it has such big sharp teeth... you canâ€™t sustain an entire novel on pure savagery. So I like for my bad guys to have a reason for what they do, some guiding purpose. Otherwise, all Iâ€™m doing is asking you to pull up a chair and watch the feast--and while something in our reptile brains might enjoy seeing a little bit of the feast, we shy away from the full truth of it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when I started thinking about\n  <em>\n   Abandoned\n  </em>\n  , the fourth book in my series, I started by thinking about my killer. I wanted to do something different, but what? The killers in the books earlier in the series had all been pretty "hungry;" in other words, they were appetite driven. "So what," I thought, "about a killer with no appetite at all?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  I actually rejected it at first, but the idea kept swimming back to the forefront. There was something terrifying about the idea of someone operating with such cold clarity. It was haunting me--which is always a good sign! I thought about it a lot and finally realized what (for me at least) makes such a killer so chilling: that kind of coldness relegates us to nothing, nothing at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The killer who is purposefully cruel, the killer who drools with excitement, still needs our humanity, at whatever level. There is a validation of our value as sentient, emotional beings, even if that only means they need our fear and our horror. Itâ€™s a terrible kind of "mattering," but still, we matter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the world of the killer I envisaged, we donâ€™t matter at all. Thereâ€™s no intentional cruelty, no enjoyment of our suffering, no acknowledgement of the value of our existence. He assigns his victims numbers, because itâ€™s a more economical use of oxygen than saying their names.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I saw him, he terrified me, and then I wrote him. He lies within the pages of\n  <em>\n   Abandoned\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s my hope heâ€™ll terrify you as well._--Cody McFadyen _\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In McFadyen''s intense fourth book to feature scarred FBI agent Smoky Barrett (after\n  <em>\n   The Darker Side\n  </em>\n  ), a psychopath known as Dali abducts wives for men who wish to be rid of them, imprisons them for years in darkness and isolation (I''m just storing meat) until life insurance proceeds are paid to the husbandsâ€”then charges half the insurance for services rendered. Nonpaying husbands suffer excruciatingly painful blackmail. While Smoky, who heads the L.A. branch of the FBI''s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, is attending a friend''s seaside wedding, a bald delirious woman is thrown out of a car, which speeds off. This incident leads to Smoky''s own abduction, in which her sadistic captor forces her to choose her freedom on condition of what amounts to death for her young FBI colleague. McFadyen knows how to put readers into the minds of his characters, but many will need megawatt night-lights after finishing this violent psychological thriller.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6156'),
(16515, 'Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy', 'John Julius Norwich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for John Julius Norwich\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a historian, Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer, he has a taste for beauty, a love of language, and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history.â€â€”Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of\n <em>\n  The Last Days of Hitler\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Golden Age of Europe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is an enchanting and satisfying raconteur.â€â€”_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHe has put readers of this generation more in his debt than any other English writer.â€â€”_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic. His style is as graceful and easy as it is knowledgeable.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norwich] is certainly the English languageâ€™s most passionate and dedicated chronicler of [Veniceâ€™s] extraordinary history.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Critical praise for ABSOLUTE MONARCHS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Absolute Monarchs_ sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes, feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. Norwich manages to organize this crowded stage and produce a rollicking narrative. He keeps things moving at nearly beach-read pace.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Bill Keller,\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Book Review, Cover review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRenowned historian Norwich offers a rollicking account of the men who held the papal office, their shortcomings and their virtues, and the impact of the papacy on world history. He conducts us masterfully on a tour of the lives of the popes from Peter to Benedict XVI. . . . Entertaining and deeply researched, Norwichâ€™s history offers a wonderful introduction to papal lives.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œHistorian, travel writer, and television documentarian Norwich presents an excellent, often surprising history of that 2,000-year-old institutionâ€¦.he focuses on political history as he traces the evolution of the papacy as an institution, while at the same time providing entertaining profiles of the most historically significant popesâ€¦.An outstanding historical survey.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Booklist\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen Norwich writes, I read; this member of the House of Lords is a notable and engrossing historian, perhaps best known for his monumental study of Byzantium. Here he offers a history of the nearly two-millennia-old papacy that should be popular with many readers.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spirited, concise chronicle of the accomplishments of the most noteworthy popes. . . . Norwich doesnâ€™t skirt controversies, ancient and present, in this broad, clear-eyed assessment.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â A SWEEPING CHRONICLE OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANTâ€”AND CONTROVERSIALâ€”INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY\n</p>\n<p>\n With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the worldâ€™s most accomplished historians. In\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n , John Julius Norwich captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent. Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Norwich presents such brave popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat, and Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun. Here, too, are the scandalous figures: Pope Joan, the mythic woman said (without any substantiation) to have been elected in 855, and the infamous â€œpornocracy,â€ the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Romeâ€™s most powerful families.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n brilliantly portrays reformers such as Pope Paul III, â€œthe greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,â€ who reinterpreted the Churchâ€™s teaching and discipline, and John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 â€œopened up the church to the twentieth century,â€ instituting reforms that led to Vatican II. Norwich brings the story to the present day with Benedict XVI, who is coping with a global priest sex scandal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Epic and compelling,\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n is the astonishing story of some of historyâ€™s most revered and reviled figures, men who still cast light and shadows on the Vatican and the world today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4341'),
(16516, 'Access 2007', 'Torben Lage Frandsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(16517, 'Access 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Alan Simpson &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Alison Barrows &amp; April Wells &amp; Jim Mccarter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Updated to cover all the latest features and capabilities of Access 2007, this resource provides new and inexperienced Access users with eight task-oriented minibooks that cover begininning to advanced-level materialÂ \n </li>\n <li>\n  Each minibook covers a specific aspect of Access, such as database design, tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to accomplish specific tasks such as database housekeeping, security data, and using Access with the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access is the world''s leading desktop database solution and is used by millions of people to store, organize, view, analyze, and share data, as well as to build powerful, custom database solutions that integrate with the Web and enterprise data sources\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Give your Access confidence a boost by mastering the new interface!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to the revised, mode user-friendly release of Access.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Access 2007 got a total makeover, and this all-in-one guide helps you work with confidence even if you''re all new to Access. The individual work with confidence even if you''re all new to Access. The individual minibooks show you how to create and work with tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros; manage databases; and program Access with VBA.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a database quickly and easily from templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sort, find, and filter data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use queries to gather data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Perform calculations in forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Automate actions with macros\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secure your Access database\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(16518, 'Access 2007 VBA Programming for Dummies', 'Joseph C. Stockman &amp; Alan Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve been using Access for a while, youâ€™re probably aware of its power and potential and itching to take advantage of both.\n <em>\n  AccessÂ 2007 VBA Programming For Dummie\n </em>\n s takes you beyond forms and reports and shows you how to use VBA to create killer Access databases and applications. This gentle introduction to VBA programming covers everything you need to get started, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Basic programming skills and concepts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations of modules, procedures, objects, and arguments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access-unique programming activities, including SQL and recordsets\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use the Visual Basic editor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating dialog boxes, lists, drop-down menus, and functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrating with other Office applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ready-to-use VBA code examples to type in or copy and paste from the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Completely revised to reflect all changes found in Microsoft Access 2007,\n <em>\n  Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you access to Access like youâ€™ve never had it before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customize combo and list boxes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Go beyond forms and reports and build custom database solutions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to know how VBA works in Access 2007? This plain-English guide introduces you to the fundamentals of VBA programming, helping you get the most out of your Access apps and giving you practical code examples for immediate use in your databases. You''ll see how to control Access through VBA and apply powerful real-world VBA solutions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create simple VBA programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Program Access forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage Access tables with SQL and recordsets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test and debug your code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use VBA with multiple databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate with other Office apps\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(16519, 'Access 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Alison Barrows &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Joseph C. Stockman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The all-in-one reference to all aspects of Microsoft Access 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to learn Microsoft Access inside and out, the nine minibooks in this easy-access reference are exactly what you need. Read the book cover to cover, or jump into any of the minibooks for the instruction and topics you need most. Learn how to connect Access to SQL Server, manipulate your data locally, use nifty new features from Office 2010 such as the enhanced Ribbon, create queries and macros like a champ, and much more. From the basics to advanced functions, itâ€™s what you need to make Access more accesssible.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to store, organize, view, analyze, and share data using Microsoft Access 2010, the database application included with Microsoft Office 2010\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes nine minibooks that cover such topics as database design, tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, database administration, securing data, programming with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and using Access with the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you build database solutions that integrate with the Web and other enterprise data sources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers plenty of techniques, tips, and tricks to help you get the most out of Access\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This all-in-one guide contains everything you need to start power-using Access 2010!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build powerful custom database solutions to keep your data organized and accessible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What kind of golden nuggets are in your data? This reference shows how to take advantage of Microsoft Access 2010''s new features and capabilities so you can, well, access the information you need. You''ll breeze through everything from tables, queries, and forms to database administration and Visual Basic for Applications as you learn this program.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set the table â€” follow easy ways to make new tables, create table templates, and utilize the Table Wizard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick and choose your data â€” learn how to find the information you want and organize it in a way that''s more useful\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get creative with forms â€” build your own forms using the Form Wizard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cut your workload â€” find out how to write simple instructions that tell Access how to automate steps instead of doing it yourself\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show it off â€” see the best ways to design reports and print form letters, mailing labels, numbers with totals and subtotals, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your database clean â€” discover what you need to do to ensure that your data is neat and tidy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go beyond Access â€” interact with and move data to and from other programs on your computer or computers all over the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to easily design your relational database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to create select queries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to design and use forms for editing data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for spiffing up reports with charts and graphs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for making macros smarter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for securing your database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for programming in VBA\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Access with SharePoint and SQL Server\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9 Books in 1\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Essential Concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tables\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Queries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Macros\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Database Administration\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Programming in VBA\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Going Beyond Access\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(16520, 'Access Forms &amp; Reports for Dummies', 'Brian Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create queries that make forms and reports useful\n</p>\n<p>\n Develop forms to access the data you need and make reports that make sense!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you thought you had to use a spreadsheet program to produce reports and forms, guess what! Access can turn out great-looking forms and reports that actually show what''s going on with your data -- if you know how to ask it nicely. This hands-on guide helps you do just that, and it works with all versions of Access.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Ask Access the right questions\n <br />\n * Work with sets of data\n <br />\n * Create simple forms with a wizard\n <br />\n * Use queries to create new tables\n <br />\n * Troubleshoot queries\n <br />\n * Add visual features to reports\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create queries that make forms and reports useful\n</p>\n<p>\n Develop forms to access the data you need and make reports that make sense!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you thought you had to use a spreadsheet program to produce reports and forms, guess what! Access can turn out great-looking forms and reports that actually show what''s going on with your data â€” if you know how to ask it nicely. This hands-on guide helps you do just that, and it works with all versions of Access.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ask Access the right questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with sets of data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create simple forms with a wizard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use queries to create new tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot queries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add visual features to reports\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(16521, 'Accounting for Dummies', 'John Tracy &amp; John A. Tracy, Cpa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦insightful and well-reasonedâ€¦â€ (_Money Matters_, October 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly with\n <em>\n  Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n , which features new information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics with this plain-English guide to your accountantâ€™s language. Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(16522, 'Accounting Workbook for Dummies', 'John A. Tracy Cpa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Balance the books -- without all the headaches!\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to get certified and become an accountant? Own a small business but need a little help balancing your books? Don''t worry! This hands-on guide provides the learning and vital practice you need to master important accounting concepts and basics. Perfect as a companion workbook for Accounting For Dummies -- or any other accounting textbook -- Accounting Workbook For Dummies gives you a wealth of real-world examples, demonstration problems, and handy exercises. With this helpful resource as your guide, you''ll master balance sheets, income statements, and budgets in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n <br />\n * Record transactions, track costs, and manage accounts\n <br />\n * Open and close bookkeeping cycles\n <br />\n * Analyze business performance and profit\n <br />\n * Choose the right accounting method\n <br />\n * Master investment accounting fundamentals\n <br />\n * Understand manufacturing cost accounting\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Balance the books â€” without all the headaches!\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to get certified and become an accountant? Own a small business but need a little help balancing your books? Don''t worry! This hands-on guide provides the learning and vital practice you need to master important accounting concepts and basics. Perfect as a companion workbook for Accounting For Dummies â€” or any other accounting textbook â€” Accounting Workbook For Dummies gives you a wealth of real-world examples, demonstration problems, and handy exercises. With this helpful resource as your guide, you''ll master balance sheets, income statements, and budgets in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Record transactions, track costs, and manage accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Open and close bookkeeping cycles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze business performance and profit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right accounting method\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master investment accounting fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand manufacturing cost accounting\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(16523, 'ACDSee PDF Image.', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2431'),
(16524, 'Acne for Dummies', 'Herbert P. Goodheart M. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acne is the most common skin disease in the United States, affecting more than 60 million adults and teenagers each year. Acne For Dummies addresses the causes of acne, and, most importantly, what can safely be done to cover it up, treat it, and minimize scarring. The book covers everything from daily skin care, over-the-counter acne preparations, and when to see a dermatologist to the hazards and benefits of prescription acne medications and the range of dermatological procedures available to erase aftereffects. Also covered are specific issues common to acne as seen in various ethnic groups and other skin problems, such as rosacea, a condition that people often mistake for acne.Â Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clear up acne misconceptions and get effective treatment!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pimples. Blemishes. Zits. Spots. Whatever you call them, they aren''t pretty. But these days, there are lots of treatments. In this friendly guide, a dermatologist explains how you can clear up your complexion, whether you''re a teenager or an adult, complete with color photos to help you identify your skin condition. From purchasing over-the-counter products to visiting a dermatologist, find the answers you need for optimal skin care.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your type of acne\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess your treatment options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Safely use prescription medications, including AccutaneÂ®\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get treatment for scarring\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clear up rosacea, razor bumps, and other acne impostors\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1250'),
(16525, 'Acrylic Painting for Dummies', 'Colette Pitcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create gorgeous paintings with this fun and easy guide to acrylics!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Always wanted to paint with acrylics? This easy-to-follow, full color guide gives you expert instruction and simple exercises in acrylic painting techniques and styles. The step-by-step projects let you practice your skill and stir your imagination â€” and give you the foundation to create similar projects with your own subjects and surfaces!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your feet (and brushes) wet â€” assemble your materials, prepare your surfaces, and sort out additives and enhancers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Try out basic acrylic techniques â€” work with brush strokes, control and thin your paint, experiment with textures, and use stencils\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice design and composition principles â€” mix and use color, balance elements, make changes, and pull your painting together\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Imitate several kinds of styles â€” use acrylic paint to mimic the effects of watercolor and oil paints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your repertoire â€” explore texture and dimension, work with glass, rocks, bricks, metalwork, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear step-by-step instructions with illustrations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A variety of projects and styles to suit all tastes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick tricks and techniques to get started painting right away\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of colorful paintings to inspire creativity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful hints for improving your drawing skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full-scale projects at the end of most chapters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exercises to jump-start your artistic passion\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Colette Pitcher\n </strong>\n is a painter and sculptor who exhibits her artwork throughout the country. She is the owner of the Showcase Art Center in Greeley, Colorado, where she offers adult instruction in numerous painting mediums. Pitcher is also the author of\n <em>\n  Watercolor Painting For Dummies\n </em>\n and is a contributor to\n <em>\n  PaintWorks\n </em>\n magazine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1251'),
(16526, 'The ACT for Dummies', 'Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Veronica Saydak &amp; Suzee Vlk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''ve heard that performing well on your ACT can make up for mediocre performance in high school. But how can you ace it? Suzee Vlk, author of\n <em>\n  The SAT I for Dummies\n </em>\n , can help.\n <em>\n  The ACT for Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with useful information and strategies to help you prepare for the test. The book includes advice on how to use the book efficiently (Vlk estimates you''ll need 19 hours to work through it), review chapters for all four sections of the exam, and two complete practice exams. In familiar Dummies style, Vlk includes a handy tear-out "Cheat Sheet" with a summary of the most important information and a "Part of Tens" section with 10 things colleges are looking for in their applicants and "Ten Dumb Things You Can Do to Mess Up Your ACT." With its witty writing, clear layout, and helpful icons in the margins to point out tips, tricks, and traps in the exam, and sample questions,\n <em>\n  The ACT for Dummies\n </em>\n makes test preparation easy and relatively painless.\n <em>\n  --C.B. Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boost your test-taking skills and beat the clock\n</p>\n<p>\n Prepare for the ACT? quickly and painlessly and maximize your score!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you one of the millions of students taking the ACT? Have no fear! This friendly guide gives you the competitive edge by fully preparing you for every section of the ACT, including the optional writing test. You get two complete practice tests plus sample questions -- all updated -- along with proven test-taking strategies to improve your score.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Study for each section\n <br />\n * Stay focused during the test\n <br />\n * Manage your time wisely\n <br />\n * Make smart guesses\n <br />\n * Spot test traps and tricks\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2093'),
(16527, 'ACT! 2005 for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ACT! 2005 will help you manage your business contacts and relationships (not just with customers, but also with prospects, vendors, and suppliers) more efficiently and effectively. But there is a catchâ€”you have to ACTivate it.\n <em>\n  ACT! 2005 for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you get your ACT together with basic information about fields, records, files, and navigation, and step-by-step guidelines for:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up and customizing databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the calendar to plan your schedule\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the alarm to alert you to things to ACT on, whether itâ€™s checking on a huge order or remembering a customerâ€™s birthday (so youâ€™ll get another huge order)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protecting your database by assigning specific security levels to users or password-protecting it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating reports and broadcast e-mails\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Karen S. Fredricks, an ACT! Certified Consultant, ACT! Premier Trainer, and self-professed ACT! FanACTic,\n <em>\n  ACT! 2005 For Dummies\n </em>\n covers both ACT! Standard Edition 2005 and ACT! Premium Edition 2005. It shows and tells you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use ACT! Notes and ACT! Histories to maintain records of all communications and activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tag contacts (to designate whether they are interested in a new product, whether they like golf, whether they rate a glorious gift basket at Christmas or get the automatic fruit cake, or whatever)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate with Excel, Outlook, and other programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use ACT! reporting and forecasting tools to manage and track sales\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Contacts and relationships are the key to any successful business. With ACT! 2005 helping you manage them, you can focus on building your business. Wouldnâ€™t it be nice to have a lot of new customers to add to ACT! 2005?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catch this new ACT! and build better relationships\n</p>\n<p>\n Organize customer information, schedule activities, create reports, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s time to ACT! on your intention to improve customer relationship management! ACT! 2005 offers great new tools, and with this book in hand, you have a top expert showing you how to use them. Manage contact information and activity histories, keep track of companies and sales opportunities, create broadcast e-mails, and make every client feel important.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize your contact database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule appointments and keep notes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate routine processes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design customized reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and track sales opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate with OutlookÂ®, Excel, and other programs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(16528, 'ACT! 2006 for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contact management software (CRM) like ACT! are extremely valuable tools that can save you time and money. ACT! is easy to set up and takes little time to create a database, however, it is also a little bit more complex to understand than ordinary software.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ACT! 2006 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the friendly new guide to the latest version of ACT! This straightforward, plain-English book shows you the fun and easy way to consolidate, view, and edit all contacts from your company and your life. Providing you with a general overview of ACT! and the basics, you will have the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Add, duplicate, and delete contacts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Remodel and customize lists and tabs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform contact searches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with ACT! notes and histories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule your activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share, design, and merge your reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create contact fields\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize your layout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain and back up databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Administer your database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate ACT! with Microsoft\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of exciting opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with ACT! Premium on the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with both ACT! 2006 and ACT! Premium features for the Web as well as tips for making ACT! work better for you, this is the ultimate reference to cleaning up your ACT and reaching your life and businessâ€™ full potential!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n New usage tips help you clean up your ACT!\n</p>\n<p>\n Organize your customer relationships so you can focus on your business\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to ACT! or an old pro, get the most out of your CRM software with this friendly new guide to the latest version of ACT! Integrate with Lotus Notes, add multiple contacts to a group, change contact-level security access, and more â€” all in easy-to-understand language from an industry expert.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design new reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate backups and synchronization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track and prioritize sales contacts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use ACT! with Citrix, VPN, and terminal services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize the database\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1253'),
(16529, 'ACT! 2007 for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out how to get the most from your ACT!\n</p>\n<p>\n Manage your contacts, communicate, synchronize ACT! with Outlook, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n You have a business or organization to run. ACT! is designed to make that easier, and this book helps you get your ACT! together. Here''s how to set up ACT! 2007, enter and organize contact information, use ACT! to track activities, prioritize leads, and produce reports, and make it act exactly as you need it to.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * View details on a particular contact\n <br />\n * Generate faxes, e-mail, or snail mail to a list\n <br />\n * Add fields to customize ACT!\n <br />\n * Handle backups and eliminate duplications\n <br />\n * Group and sort contacts\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to get the most from your ACT!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your contacts, communicate, synchronize ACT! with Outlook, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You have a business or organization to run. _\n <strong>\n  ACT!\n </strong>\n _ is designed to make that easier, and this book helps you get your\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ACT!\n  </em>\n </strong>\n together. Here''s how to set up\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ACT! 2007\n  </em>\n </strong>\n , enter and organize contact information, use _\n <strong>\n  ACT!\n </strong>\n _ to track activities, prioritize leads, and produce reports, and make it act exactly as you need it to.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  View details on a particular contact\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate faxes, e-mail, or snail mail to a list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add fields to customize ACT!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle backups and eliminate duplications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Group and sort contacts\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1254');
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(16530, 'ACT! By Sage for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you ready to reap the benefits of the bestselling contact relationship manager (CRM) software on the market today? Well, thenâ€”get into the act with ACT! 2008 and find out how the latest version of this exciting software enables you to set up a database thatâ€™s right for you so that you can focus on your business and career growth while also saving time and money.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this fun and friendly guide in hand, youâ€™ll discover how ACT! organizes customer information in one place, safely shares customer info between workgroups, and provides you with forecast tools, reports, and a contact database. Whether youâ€™re new to the features of ACT! or you are familiar with the basics but have not yet put to use ACT!â€™s more advanced abilities, this nuts-and-bolts reference has been updated and revised to make sure that you are up to speed on the most efficient way to organize your customer relationships and activities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author and full-time ACT! Certified Consultant and ACT! Premier Trainer Karen Fredricks walks you through tasks such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up the contact database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding multiple contacts to a group and adding contacts to a company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Changing contact-level security access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scheduling activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the basic ACT! Reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Designing new reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating the backup process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrating with Outlook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating groups\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ACT! by Sage For Dummies, 9th Edition\n </em>\n also boasts a companion Web site that includes all the updates for the 2008 version of ACT! Youâ€™ll be amazed by just how quickly youâ€™ll be able to set up a database and get it to act for you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Web site covers ACT! 2008 and beyond\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Schedule appointments, print reports, and manage your business better\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s easy to see why ACT! is the leading contact management /customer relationship management (CRM) software. Now it has even more cool features, and this guide covers them all. There''s even a new chapter on ACT! Dashboards. Here''s how to choose the right version of ACT!, get set up, and put your database to work making your life easier.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize ACT! menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create custom Dashboards to gain business insight\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the task list and calendar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Print address books, labels, and envelopes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage incoming e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your data secure\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(16531, 'Active Directory for Dummies', 'Steve Clines &amp; Marcia Loughry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re new to Active Directory (AD) or a savvy system administrator looking to brush up on your skills,\n <em>\n  Active Directory for Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n will steer you in the right direction! Since its original release, Microsoftâ€™s implementation of the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) for the Windows Server line of networking software has become one of the most popular directory service products in the world. If you are involved with the design and support of Microsoft directory services and/or solutions, you really need this book!\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll understand the basics of AD and utilize its structures to simplify your life and secure your digital environment. Youâ€™ll discover how to exert fine-grained control over groups, assets, security, permissions, and policies on a Windows network and efficiently configure, manage, and update the network. Youâ€™ll find new and updated material on security improvements, significant user interface changes, and updates to the AD scripting engine, password policies, accidental object deletion protection, and more. You will learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate the functions and structures of AD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand business and technical requirements and determine goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become familiar with physical components like site links, network services, and site topology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage and monitor new features, AD replication, and schema management\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain AD databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common AD mistakes that can undermine network security\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of the ten most important points about AD, and ten cool Web resources, and ten troubleshooting tips,\n <em>\n  Active Directory For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Active Directory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fully updated with all the exciting AD enhancements!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Design and deploy Active Directory to simplify policy and security management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This is not your dad''s AD! Whether you just need to upgrade your knowledge from previous versions or you''re starting fresh with Active Directory, this guide will get you rolling. Grow your AD capabilities with Domain Services, Lightweight Directory Services, Federation Services, Certificate Services, Rights Management Services, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan the DNS namespace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use trees and forests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Map the network infrastructure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and enforce network policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage replication traffic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit user objects\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1256'),
(16532, 'Acupressure &amp; Reflexology for Dummies', 'Bobbi Dempsey &amp; Synthia Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features healing routines and illustrations to guide you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ease your aches and find relief through the power of touch\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Searching for alternative treatments for pain? This friendly, do-it-yourself guide introduces you to the basics and benefits of acupressure and reflexology, showing you step by step how to nurture your emotional and physical well-being and that of someone else. You''ll see how to target specific body parts to address your ailments and improve your emotional as well as your physical well-being.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand basic healing principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Relieve your specific aches and pains\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boost your immune system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Address age-related ailments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find professional help\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features healing routines and illustrations to guide you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ease your aches and find relief through the power of touch\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Searching for alternative treatments for pain? This friendly, do-it-yourself guide introduces you to the basics and benefits of acupressure and reflexology, showing you step by step how to nurture your emotional and physical well-being and that of someone else. You''ll see how to target specific body parts to address your ailments and improve your emotional as well as your physical well-being.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand basic healing principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Relieve your specific aches and pains\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boost your immune system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Address age-related ailments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find professional help\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(16533, 'Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The eleventh tale of naval adventure in C.S. Forester''s Hornblower series finds Horatio Hornblower an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. As commander-in-chief of His Majesty''s ships and vessels in the West Indies, he must take on pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane. The war is over, but peaceful it is not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5957'),
(16534, 'Adobe Acrobat 6 PDF for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers accessing and distilling PDF files; converting Microsoft Office documents; capturing paper documents and Web pages; printing, annotating, editing and securing PDF files; extracting text and graphics; cataloging and distributing PDF files; creating interactive forms; and building multimedia presentations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Readers can convert any document to this universal file format, preserving all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of the source document regardless of the application and platform used to create it.\n </li>\n <li>\n  PDF files can be published and distributed anywhere: in print, attached to e-mail, on corporate servers, posted on Web sites, or on CD-ROM\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adobe PDF is the emerging workflow standard in the $400 billion publishing industry and plays a key role in financial services, regulated industries, and government, with more than 155 agencies worldwide sharing Adobe PDF files.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Share, review, print, and edit documents with Acrobat 6 PDFs\n</p>\n<p>\n Let others view your documents accurately, even without the software that created them\n</p>\n<p>\n When you get right down to it, PDF files are about bringing us all together. And this friendly book is about how to convert documents, distill files, make edits, extract elements, archive, and share your creations with others, even those whose systems are different from yours. Youâ€™ll feel better â€“ and much more productive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(16535, 'Adobe AIR for Dummies', 'Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to create rich Internet applications and RIA desktop apps that run seamlessly online and offline? Adobe AIR â€”Adobe Integrated Runtime â€” makes it possible;\n <em>\n  Adobe AIR For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n AIR allows Web developers to create rich Internet applications using Web technologies. They run on desktops and across multiple operating systems, and theyâ€™re more than mere wimpy widgets.\n <em>\n  Adobe AIR For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the scoop on AIR, working with local file systems and databases, setting up security, and all the stuff you need to know to create cool AIR apps. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build full-fledged Web apps with JavaScript, Flash, Flex, or HTML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate AIR applications with Flash\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use AIR to access services like eBay and AOL videos on the desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the AIR security model and how application sandboxes protect your code and data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create apps for network connectivity, monitor remote network services, and work with audio files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Debug your apps with the AIR Debug Launcher, the alert command, or the AIR HTML Introspector\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set the environment path in Vista, Windows XP, or Mac OS X\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use HTML and CSS as building blocks and handle events in HTML DOM\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add drag-and-drop capability in Flex, Flash, and HTML apps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re excited about the possibilities of building applications that run on the desktop and interface with external Web apps,\n <em>\n  Adobe AIR For Dummies\n </em>\n is just what you need to get started!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build full-fledged Web apps with JavaScript, Flex, or HTML â€” it''s a breath of fresh AIR\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With Adobe AIR, you can create rich Internet applications using Web technologies. They run on desktops and across multiple operating systems, and they''re more than mere wimpy widgets. This book gives you the scoop on AIR, working with local file systems and databases, setting up security, and all the stuff you need to know to create cool AIR apps.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get out in the AIR â€” find out how to create AIR apps using FlexÂ®, FlashÂ®, and HTML with Ajax\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play in the sandbox â€” understand the AIR security model and how application sandboxes protect your code and data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect â€” learn about the database connectivity of Adobe AIR and how to work with SQL when building database applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Banish bugs â€” see how to use the AIR Debug Launcher, the alert command, and the AIR HTML Introspector to debug your apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Surf the AIRwaves â€” create apps for network connectivity, monitor remote network services, and work with audio files\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for creating Internet-savvy apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set the environment path in Vista, WindowsÂ® XP, or Mac OSÂ® X\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for using HTML and CSS as building blocks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to use Webkit extensions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle events in the HTML DOM\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten terrific RIAs to check out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add drag-and-drop capability in Flex, Flash, and HTML apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for instant downloading and auto-updating\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(16536, 'Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Jennifer Smith &amp; Christopher Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adobe software has always been highly respected for creative design and development. Its programs allow you to produce amazing designs and creations with ease, and with the release of the Adobe Creative Suite 2, you can design a wide range of productions ranging from illustrations and Web sites to professional documents and photographic manipulations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to creating great graphics with all the cool CS2 tools. Written in a thorough, fun way to show you the basics on how to use each of the programs, youâ€™ll find out just how easy it is to start designing brilliant images and graphics. This guide gives you the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Draw with InDesign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand page layout and color\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create colorful images with Illustrator C2\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the pen tool, type, and image placing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the correct Photoshop mode for your creation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create images on PhotoShop CS2 for print\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint and retouch images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and secure PDF files with Acrobat 7.0\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit and extract text and graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build and publish a Web site with GoLive CS2\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with multimedia\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with easy-to-follow steps and guidance, youâ€™ll be up to speed with all the features in no time. With these six great reference guides rolled into one, this is the ultimate book for becoming a CS2 pro!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 6 books in 1â€”your key to success with CS2!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to creating great graphics with all the cool CS2 tools\n</p>\n<p>\n They all work together, and now you have one guide to help you work with each of them! First, you''ll get the "big picture" tour of the suite. Then you''ll be ready to create perfect pages with InDesign, illustrate them with Illustrator, add images you''ve edited with Photoshop, make PDFs with Acrobat, and design dynamite Web sites with GoLive.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use common menus, palettes, and plug-ins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design Web pages and print publications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create illustrations and add type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Retouch, enhance, and reshape photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save Photoshop images for print or the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(16537, 'Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Damon Dean &amp; Andy Cowitt &amp; Jennifer Smith &amp; Christopher Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The future looks bright for Web developers! With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, you now have fantastic tools that enable you to create a wide array of content and graphics to deploy on a Web site that is dynamic and easy to maintain.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is a hands-on, easy-to-understand guide to the main features in all the CS3 Web development products. The no-nonsense approach is designed to help you build Web sites by covering the basics of each programâ€”Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Contribute, and Acrobatâ€”as well as the new features in a clear and concise minibook. You get all the expert guidance you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right tools for the job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create basic HTML Web pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Punch up your pages with forms and frames in Dreamweaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save Photoshop images for print and the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with text, shapes, and images in Fireworks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand page layout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use layers, filters, and effects in Illustrator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with animation, sound, and video in Flash\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add interactivity to PDF files in Acrobat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute with other Adobe products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle advanced concepts\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much, much more!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This friendly guide doesnâ€™t just cover all the new tools in the Suite; it also offers you a primer on Web design as well as insight into how the Suite influences design. Complete with helpful hints on securing your work,\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to making the most of the Suite and developing for the Web quickly and easily!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n 7 books in 1\n <br />\n your key to success with Web Premium\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to creating a dynamic Web site with today''s hottest design tools\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to build a Web site that wows? Seven handy minibooks give you expert guidance in all the cutting-edge Web development products that are packed in Adobe''s Creative Suite. You''ll format text, import images, lay out pages, liven up illustrations with color, retouch photos, publish movies, add interactivity to PDF files, and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create basic HTML Web pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with graphics, text, and fonts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use layers, filters, and effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Punch up pages with forms and frames\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add animation, video, and sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(16538, 'Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium All-In-One for Dummies', 'Jennifer Smith &amp; Christopher Smith &amp; Fred Gerantabee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Design professionals rely on Adobeâ€™s Creative Suite Design Premium to deliver innovative ideas in print, Web, and mobile design.\n <em>\n  Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you beef up your skills with the latest version of this software. Youâ€™ll learn all about the hot new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re creating newsletters, Web sites, cool original art, or animations, this book has it covered. Youâ€™ll find out how to build Web pages with text and drawings, photos, Flash animations, and rollovers; check out enhanced Photoshop 3D tools; develop interactive animations for the Web or video with Flash CS4; and use the easier rollover and action features in Dreamweaver CS4 to add interactivity without coding. Youâ€™ll also discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to get familiar with the menus, panels, and tools that are similar throughout the suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for getting creative with Illustratorâ€™s cool new vector tracing feature\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to use the annotation capabilities in Acrobat 9.0 and the improved CSS capabilities in Dreamweaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  What Fireworks CS4, the newest addition to the suite, can add to Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Which extensions and filters are common to all programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hard-to-find keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to enhance and manipulate photos with Photoshop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secrets for smoothing out your workflow\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use the Adobe Bridge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Steps for using each program\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To help you quickly find what you need,\n <em>\n  Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is divided into eight minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Adobe Creative Suite Basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  InDesign CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrator CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Photoshop CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Acrobat CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dreamweaver CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Flash CS4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fireworks CS4\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to all the parts of Adobeâ€™s ultimate toolkit for today''s designer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s your one-stop guide to all the parts of Adobe CS4 Design Premium\n</p>\n<p>\n Design professionals (like you!) rely on Adobe''s Creative Suite Design Premium and this all-in-one guide. Here''s everything you need on the hot new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks. Whether you''re creating newsletters, Web sites, cool original art, or animations, this book has it covered!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get it together â€” see how the programs dovetail to create pages with text and drawings, or Web sites with photos, Flash animations, and rollovers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your toolbox â€” get familiar with the menus, panels, and tools that are similar throughout the suite\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find your vector â€” get creative with Illustrator''s cool new vector tracing feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See what''s new â€” check out enhanced Photoshop 3D tools, annotation capabilities in Acrobat 9.0, improved CSS capabilities in Dreamweaver, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Animate in a Flash â€” create interactive animations for the Web or video with Flash CS4\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Interact â€” use the easier rollover and action features in Dreamweaver CS4 to add interactivity without coding\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fire up your site â€” explore what Fireworks CS4, the newest addition to the suite, can add to Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which extensions and filters are common to all programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hard-to-find keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to enhance and manipulate photos with Photoshop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for smoothing out your workflow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Adobe Bridge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between RGB and CMYK\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to secure PDF files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for using each program\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1261'),
(16539, 'Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Jennifer Smith &amp; Jen Dehaan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦countless nuggets of wisdom that are designed to get you up to speedâ€¦â€ (_Mac Format_, October 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re responsible for producing quality printed materials or creating great-looking Web pages for your business or organization, Adobeâ€™s new Creative Suite has just what you need. This complete set of integrated graphics, design, and Web page creation tools will help you produce professional quality brochures, flyers, and newsletters as well as dynamic Web pagesâ€”as soon as you get familiar with all the parts!\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, relax.\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n has youâ€”and all those programsâ€”covered. Five minibooks walk you through setting up and using the tools, while the sixth shows you how they all work together. And this single volume will remain a handy reference long after you gain proficiency with the entire suite:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  InDesign for page layout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrator for creating art and graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Photoshop, the worldâ€™s favorite image editing program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Acrobat, to share files across different operating systems and develop interactive forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  GoLive for building innovative Web pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even if you plan to use only one or two of these elements now,\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n is an outstanding resource. Find out what you need to know today, and when youâ€™re ready to tackle the next tool, just turn to that minibook and away you go. These are only a few of the skills youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a professional-looking page with InDesign, import Photoshop and Illustrator graphics to enliven it, and preserve it in a PDF file\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a logo for your business with Illustrator and give it 3D effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save Illustrator files in a variety of Web-compatible formats, including GIF, HTML, and even MacromediaÂ® Flash SWF\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct photo color and edit your images in Photoshop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan an entire Web site for maximum impact, then save hours of work by using GoLiveâ€™s templates, components, and libraries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Acrobat to create PDFs that include MP3 audio, video or SWF files\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether your goal is to design newsletters, a full-size book, an e-commerce Web site, or just about anything else, Adobeâ€™s Creative Suite plus\n <em>\n  Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n will help you get the job done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(16540, 'Adobe Flex 3.0 for Dummies', 'Doug Mccune &amp; Deepa Subramaniam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ready to flex your Web development muscles and start building rich Internet applications? With Flex 3.0, you can create great RIAs that perform like desktop applications using Adobe Flash Player, which is already installed on more than 95 percent of Internet-connected computers. And the fun and easy wayâ„¢ to get up to speed on Flex is with\n <em>\n  Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide shows you how Flex lets you leverage the power of Adobeâ€™s ubiquitous Flash technology to build large applications. If youâ€™ve written code in any language,\n <em>\n  Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you started, introduce you to FlexBuilder and the Flex framework, and have you building some really â€œflashyâ€ stuff before you know it. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop interactive applications without worrying about browser differences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Event Model\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with ActionScript and MXML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build simple user interface controls and data-driven controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up data binding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format and validate user data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create, run, and clean a project\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore Flex manager classes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with styling and skinning Flex components\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All the code used in the book is on the companion Web site to save you that much more time.\n <em>\n  Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you become Flex-literate in a flash!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get going with Flex, and create RIAs in a Flash!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Develop interactive applications without worrying about browser differences\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Flex lets you leverage the power of Adobe''s ubiquitous Flash technology to build large applications. If you''re eager to create Flex apps and you''ve written code in any language, this book will get you started, introduce you to Flex Builder and the Flex framework, and have you building some really flashy stuff before you know it!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the event model\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with ActionScriptÂ® and MXML\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create, run, and debug a project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build simple user interface controls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up data binding\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore styling and skinning\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(16541, 'Adobe Premiere Elements for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adobe Premiere Elements offers amateur and home moviemakers the opportunity to work with editing tools as powerful as those packed into Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the top tools on the market.\n <em>\n  Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies\n </em>\n offers these same users not only a guide through all the how-to steps of using the software, but also a valuable reference on how to best apply the tools to a great video project.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Keith Underdahl, also author of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, is an experienced video editor who understands what new Premiere users need to know and how to best explain the topics. In this book, Keith describes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Best practices for shooting quality video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Picking the clips you want to keep and getting them into your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use Premiere Elementsâ€™ editing tools to add an opening credits page, transitions between clips, sound, music, and ending credits.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding special effects using only computer trickery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Putting your finished project on a DVD, videotape, or the Internet\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Covering more ground than the typical expanded users manuals you find in bookstores, Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies is the book you need to get you through your first video-editing project as well as to return to whenever you hit rough spots and need instant help.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once, only professionals with expensive tools could create digital videos. Now, with Adobe Premiere Elements and this book, you can create movies without a huge budget or a film school degree. This friendly guide shows you all the digital filmmaking steps from shooting video to getting it into your computer, editing your clips, adding music, and putting it all on a DVD to share with the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover How To:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shoot video like a pro director\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get clips from your camera to your PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit out the bad stuff and keep the good\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add in special effects, music, and credits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put your movie on DVD or the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(16542, 'Adopting a Pet for Dummies', 'Eve Adamson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Develop a loving relationship with your adopted pet\n</p>\n<p>\n Your fun and easy guide to the challenges and rewards of adopting a pet\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about adopting or rescuing an animal? This friendly guide gives you a no-nonsense introduction to the process and helps you select the right companion for you and your family. You''ll see how to handle everything from feeding, health care, and housetraining to obedience, behavior issues, and special needs for older and abused animals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Work with shelters and rescue groups\n <br />\n * Navigate the procedures and paperwork\n <br />\n * Find a supportive veterinarian\n <br />\n * Adopt a dog, cat, bird, critter, or exotic pet\n <br />\n * Help your pet adjust to its new home\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Develop a loving relationship with your adopted pet\n</p>\n<p>\n Your fun and easy guide to the challenges and rewards of adopting a pet\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about adopting or rescuing an animal? This friendly guide gives you a no-nonsense introduction to the process and helps you select the right companion for you and your family. You''ll see how to handle everything from feeding, health care, and housetraining to obedience, behavior issues, and special needs for older and abused animals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with shelters and rescue groups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the procedures and paperwork\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a supportive veterinarian\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adopt a dog, cat, bird, critter, or exotic pet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help your pet adjust to its new home\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(16543, 'The Adult Joke Book', 'Johnny Sharpe &amp; Emma Hayley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(16544, 'Advanced Selling for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Advanced Selling For DummiesÂ® is a terrific resource that can energize your business performance and boost your bottom line. An excellent guide for both seasoned salespeople who want to take their productivity to the next level and small- and large-business entrepreneurs who are missing the advanced selling strategies that they really need to generate business and revenue.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is packed with practical advice on how to boost sales, productivity and profits through the full-court-press approach to marketing and sales. Unlike other books that claim to reveal the "secret" to selling,\n <em>\n  Advanced Selling For Dummies\n </em>\n is based on the premise that no single secret exists. You need a positive attitude, a strong work ethic, a creative mind, and the "sticktoitism" to survive and thrive in today''s competitive marketplace.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the book, Ralph R. Roberts and a select group of the top sales people and trainers across the country give readers the necessary tools to become top-producers. Stressing the importance of focusing on your innate skill sets and creating a distinctive brand for yourself,\n <em>\n  Advanced Selling For Dummies\n </em>\n teaches the tricks and habits that can benefit you both in your professional and personal life--things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Believing in and motivating yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Planning the work and then working the plan\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Techniques for honing your sales skills\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Hour of Power-100 phone calls, one hour a day\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Personal branding through shameless self-promotion\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Credibility building through websites, blogging, and social media\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Personal partnering for inspiration and accountability\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Tapping the un-served and under-served multicultural marketplace\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Embracing change and taking risks\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Implementing the latest productivity-boosting technologies\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Hiring an assistant so you can pursue your passions\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· Tapping the power of R-Commerce (Relationship-Commerce\n</p>\n<p>\n Roberts also tackles the process of running a sales operation, which requires deft maneuvering. Here, you''ll learn to create solid partnerships with like-minded, talented people; set the right goals and reward yourself properly when you reach them; embrace change in your industry (and the world at large) to grow your business; create your own USP, a kind of personal resume and mission statement; "seed" your business cards; take a weekly "Hour of Power" to keep in touch with your contacts; and use the latest technology such as the Internet and blogs to grow sales.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers blogging,Internet leads, and virtual assistants\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Re-energize your careerand grow your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to become a power seller? This authoritative guide has all the forward-thinking strategies you need to recharge your skills and launch your sales into the stratosphere. You''ll see how to harness the latest technologies, build a brand presence, develop synergistic partnerships, take necessary risks, and balance your life to avoid burnout.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a winning game plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shamelessly promote yourself online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Unleash the power of R-Commerce\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tap into new and diverse markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build lucrative customer relationships\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(16545, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4283'),
(16546, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4337'),
(16547, 'Advertising for Dummies', 'Gary Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦if you need a quick start, get this book by all means." (_TamsPalm Blog_, October 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, you need to create an advertising campaign that brings in more customers, adds more dollars to your bottom line, and validates all the reasons you went into business in the first place. But how can you make your ad look and sound like champagne if your budget can only afford beer? Are you wasting your time trying to sell ice to an Eskimo?\n</p>\n<p>\n The world of advertising can seem like a daunting placeâ€”but it doesnâ€™t have to be.\n <em>\n  Advertising for Dummies\n </em>\n coaches you through the process and shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identify and reach your target audience\n </li>\n <li>\n  Define and position your message\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the most bang for your buck\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce great ads for every medium\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy the different media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create buzz and use publicity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Research and evaluate your competition\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Advertising for Dummies\n </em>\n offers newbies a real-world look at the ins and outs of advertisingâ€”from online and print to TV, radio, and outdoor formatsâ€”to show you how you can easily develop and execute a successful campaign on any budget. Plus, youâ€™ll find a glossary of common buzzwords you may encounter along the way so you can talk the talk like the advertising guru you (almost) are! With simple tips on how to write memorable ads and timeless lessons from the legends, this book is packed with everything you need to have people from New York to Los Angeles whistling your jingle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(16548, 'AdWords for Dummies', 'Howie Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  AdWords lets every business-from eBay PowerSellers to Fortune 500 companies-create targeted, cost-efficient advertising campaigns on the Web, and accounts for the bulk of Google''s $6 billion in annual revenues\n </li>\n <li>\n  This all-new guide helps advertisers get a handle on AdWords complexities and nuances, adopt AdWords best practices, and turn clicks into ka-ching!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include conducting quick and cheap market research, crafting a message that cuts through the clutter, choosing AdWords settings, bidding on keywords, setting a maximum daily spend, improving the Web page that an ad points to, testing strategies, tracking results, and using Web analytics tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes an exclusive offer from Google-AdWords credits equivalent to the price of the book-plus a companion Web site with up-to-the-minute AdWords tips and tricks, narrated video walkthroughs, and free trials of the author''s software\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover which keywords attract customers and make money\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use your $25 Google AdWords credit to start boosting your bottom line today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s the good word? It''s AdWords, the marketing solution that helps turn clicks into cash by attracting the right visitors to your Web site. This book shows how to find the best search terms to help build your business, as well as how to research your market, build a direct marketing strategy, analyze ad success, and turn a tidy profit.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activate and manage an AdWords account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine your market''s profitability\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write and test your ads\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure ad results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the perfect keywords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your customers happy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(16549, 'Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays', 'Frederich Schiller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Works of Frederick Schiller\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Friedrich Schiller was a famous German playwright, born in 1759 in the little duchy of Wurttemberg, Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Friedrich von Schiller was the son of an army officer. Although the young boy disliked the strict regimentation of his father''s chosen profession, he was forced by the Duke of Wurttemberg to enter a military academy. Trapped and overcome with depression, Schiller began to compose morbid poetry. He found some comfort in these literary diversions, but after composing his first play - The Robbers (1782) -Schiller''s writing was discovered by his superiors, and he was forbidden to write. The young dramatist quickly determined to desert the army and flee to Mannheim where he lived under an assumed name and made his living as a court playwright and stage manager. During this period, he penned such plays as Fiesko (1783), Intrigue and Love (1784) and Don Carlos (1787).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Between 1787 and 1798, Schiller wrote no plays, instead devoting himself to historical studies - The Revolt of the Netherlands and A History of the Thirty Years War - that won him fame as a historian. In 1794, however, Schiller established a close friendship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Under Goethe''s influence, Schiller soon returned his attentions to the craft of playwriting and, during the period that followed, composed his most mature dramas including Wallenstein''s Camp (1798), The Piccolomini (1799), Wallenstein''s Death (1799), Mary Stuart (1800), The Maid of Orleans (1801), and William Tell (1804.) In 1799, he took up residence in Weimar where he and Goethe collaborated to make the Weimar Theatre one of the most prestigious theatrical houses in Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On May 9, 1805, Friedrich Schiller died of tuberculosis. He was only forty-six years old. His plays, however, along with those of Goethe, had established a theatrical renaissance in Germany, which would become known as "Weimar Classicism." For more than a century after his death, Schiller remained the favorite playwright of the German people..\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(16550, 'The Affirmation (Gollancz)', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A haunting thriller from one of Britain''s most exciting writers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6344');
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(16551, 'After This', 'Alice McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n OVER the course of her five previous novels, Alice McDermott has staked an impressive claim on a subject matter and a turf â€“ Irish-American Catholic families congregated, for the most part, in New York City and its suburbs on Long Island. The Irish have, of course, long been a significant presence in American fiction, appearing well before the mass immigration of the late 19th century (think of "Huckleberry Finn"), and the novels, notably, of William Kennedy attest to the subject''s continuing strength. McDermott adds her own luster to this seemingly familiar community through her skill at evoking small, memorable incidents and her willingness to ignore certain narrative conventions.  Most fictional family sagas contain a lot of what could be called plain reporting: answers to the questions (who? what? when? where? why?) that are the basic stuff of journalism. But in her family dramas, McDermott has largely refused to provide a helpful framework of dates, genealogies or factual background. Instead, she has focused on the shifting inner lives of her characters, confident that God â€“ or the larger picture â€“ will be found in the details.  The opening of her latest novel, "After This," demonstrates McDermott''s technique at its most elliptical and effective. On a blustery April day in Midtown Manhattan, Mary (no last name given) leaves a church (almost certainly St. Patrick''s Cathedral) after lighting a candle, as she has done throughout the war, even though the fighting is over. (Since the war in question is clearly World War II, the action must take place, at the earliest, in the spring of 1946). Mary has also prayed: "She was 30, with no husband in sight. A good job, an aging father, a bachelor brother, a few nice friends. At least, she had asked â€“ so humbly, so earnestly, so seriously â€“ let me be content." Outside the church, squinting in the sunlight, Mary meets a friend of her brother''s, who unexpectedly asks her to dinner. "At a restaurant," he explains, when she seems confused. "The two of us." Mary agrees, they part, and she goes into Schrafft''s for what''s left of her lunch hour.  At the counter she exchanges small talk about the weather with a man seated next to her. "Reminds me of some days we had overseas," he says, standing up to pay his bill. Mary watches him walk away: "And here, of all things, was desire again. (She could have put the palm of her hand to the front of his white shirt.)" Mary returns to her office and later goes home to a walk-up apartment in an unnamed borough to prepare lamb chops for her father and brother before her dinner date, which passes pleasantly and ends with a chaste kiss. The next day, when she returns to Schrafft''s, the man she met the day before is waiting outside. Reader, she marries him.  This sequence could stand alone as a classic short story in the Joycean, epiphanic mode: an accretion of humdrum moments that gather force and blossom into the transfiguration of a life. Yet such stories seldom cry out for a sequel â€“ does anyone want to know what Gabriel and Gretta Conroy said to each other the morning after "The Dead" concludes? â€“ and McDermott''s deft, delicate beginning is a hard act to follow. Mary, so vivid in her first appearance, rapidly fades into careworn motherhood. Fewer than a dozen pages later, she and her husband, John Keane, are taking a rare break from Sunday Mass at a Long Island beach, deserted after the Labor Day weekend, with their three children. John seems stunned by his responsibilities; Mary''s pregnancy will only add to them. A hurricane is beginning to churn up the Eastern Seaboard, and the stinging, wind-borne sand drives the family back home. That night, a tree in the Keanes'' yard is blown over. The next morning, a neighbor with a chain saw, who also happens to be a registered nurse, appears just in time to help Mary deliver her baby.  Once this hectic episode concludes, McDermott''s narrative turns episodic and digressive, and "After This" begins to resemble a photo album with many missing snapshots and pages. Here is John serving on the building committee of St. Gabriel''s Parish, helping raise money for a new church and gym. Over there are Mary and her daughter standing in line to see Michelangelo''s PietÃ  in the Vatican pavillion at the 1964 World''s Fair. (McDermott, characteristically, omits the 1964 part, leaving that for her readers to deduce.) Here we see the neighbor''s teenage daughter going into Manhattan for an abortion, accompanied by the older of the two Keane daughters, who reads "A Farewell to Arms" in the waiting room. And up ahead, Pauline, Mary''s old friend from her office days and the Keane family''s honorary spinster aunt, is injured in a fall. Strangely, Pauline''s mishap and its aftereffects receive far more attention than the major tragedy that befalls Mary and John, registered almost subliminally and barely referred to again.  Each of the Keane children shines briefly before disappearing. Shy, awkward Jacob drops out of St. John''s after a year of poor grades and draws an unlucky lottery number for the Vietnam draft. Michael, charming and irreverent, spends most of his time at his upstate college in a seedy saloon. Annie, the bookish child (inspired by one of Pauline''s visits to escape into a Faulkner novel while thinking about "the odor of aging female flesh"), goes to study in England and changes her plans because of a young man she meets on a bus. Clare, devoted youngest child and just as devoted Catholic, nonetheless finds a way to break her parents'' hearts.  This assembly of splintered stories suggests that McDermott, like Virginia Woolf in "The Waves," has come to care less about her individual characters than about the unseen forces â€“ fate, the zeitgeist, the inexorable progress of time â€“ that shape and trace the patterns of their lives. With no warning or explanation, she provides capsule previews of the deaths of two family members that are jarring not just because they deflate suspense but because they suggest that it''s futile to invest much interest in these characters.  Late in the novel, Clare Keane, having finally found a boyfriend during the long summer vacation, returns to her Catholic high school displaying new aplomb and self-confidence: "Of course of course, the teachers, even the nuns told each other, indulgent and naÃ¯ve. Those who had been at the school when Annie was a student said, with a shrug, Life goes on." And that seems to be the burden and the message of "After This." Life does, irrefutably, go on. But if that''s all there is to say about the matter, why bother with art and stories, which defy the limits of birth and death by trying to immortalize the interesting things that happen in between? For all its page-by-page brilliance, "After This" leaves that question hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3937'),
(16552, 'Agatha Webb', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4019'),
(16553, 'Agincourt (e-book)', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed pastâ€”haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event that shocks all Christendom. With no options left, Hook heads home to England, where his capture means certain death. Instead he is discovered by the young King of Englandâ€”Henry V himselfâ€”and by royal command he takes up the longbow again and dons the cross of Saint George. Hook returns to France as part of the superb army Henry leads in his quest to claim the French crown. But after the English campaign suffers devastating early losses, it becomes clear that Hook and his fellow archers are their kingâ€™s last resort in a desperate fight against an enemy more daunting than they could ever have imagined.  One of the most dramatic victories in British history, the battle of Agincourtâ€”immortalized by Shakespeare in  Henry V â€”pitted undermanned and overwhelmed English forces against a French army determined to keep their crown out of Henryâ€™s hands. Here Bernard Cornwell resurrects the legend of the battle and the â€œband of brothersâ€ who fought it on October 25, 1415. An epic of redemption,  Agincourt  follows a commoner, a king, and a nationâ€™s entire army on an improbable mission to test the will of God and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. From the disasters at the siege of Harfleur to the horrors of the field of Agincourt, this exhilarating story of survival and slaughter is at once a brilliant work of history and a triumph of imaginationâ€”Bernard Cornwell at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4581'),
(16554, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6321'),
(16555, 'Ajax for Dummies', 'Steve Holzner Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...done a great job of explaining the various technologies behind Ajax...." (_Practical Web Design_, June 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...surprisingly good book..." (_Computer Shoppers_, June 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ajax is short for â€œAsynchronous JavaScript+CSS+DOM+XMLHttpRequest.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you werenâ€™t intimidated before, that tidbit is probably enough to make you reach for the Excedrin. Just reach for\n <em>\n  Ajax For Dummies\n </em>\n instead. With screen shots, actual code and explanations, and live Web sites where you can see Ajax applications doing their thing, it will have you using Ajax to create Web applications that look an act like desktop applications in no time. With Ajax, you can speed up and clean up your Web applications. Shoppers at your online store can fill their carts without waiting for multiple page refreshes. Searchers on your sites can get instant results on the same page.\n</p>\n<p>\n This guide takes you on a tour of how Ajax is used today, complete with examples of Ajax applications in action, such as an Ajax-enabled Yahoo! search or an Ajax-based chat application. Then it gives you basics on using JavaScript. After that you dive in and get info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Writing some Ajax, interactive mouseovers using Ajax, passing data to the server with GET or POST, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connecting to Google for a live search\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using free Ajax frameworks so you donâ€™t have to start from scratch, including Ajax Gold (written specifically for this book), AJAXLib, and grabbing XML with libXmlRequest\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of Ajax techniques, such as using Ajax for drag-and-drop operations, pop-up menus, downloading images behind the scenes, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using SACK (simple AJAX code kit), decoding XML with Sarissa, and creating visual effects with Rico\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handling XML int Ajax Applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with cascading style sheets (CCS) in Ajax, including setting up the styles, displaying a menu, styling text, handling colors and backgrounds, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Ajax and PHP\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a companion Web site, free Ajax frameworks, and sample code you can use,\n <em>\n  Ajax for Dummies\n </em>\n is your friendly guide to creating truly user-friendly Web sites!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(16556, 'Alaska for Dummies', 'Charles P. Wohlforth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™re in for a scenic, sensory treat! Alaska has 100,000 glaciers and 10 million lakes. Wildlife roams freely across vast spaces, unfettered by fences or roads. Opportunities to experience real wilderness and enjoy outdoor activities abound. You canâ€™t see or do it all, but you can make the most of your time with this friendly guide that gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Anchorage, the gateway to Alaska, and nearby outdoor destinations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Road trips from Anchorage: The Kenai Peninsula, including Seward, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai, and Homer; Fairbanks and its environs; Alaskaâ€™s long rural highways; and Denali National Park\n </li>\n <li>\n  Southeast Alaska, including Juneau, Skagway and Sitka\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bush Alaska, covering fascinating places in the Arctic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Options for visiting by cruise ship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Five great itineraries that touch on Alaskaâ€™s best destinations\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best places to see marine mammals, birds, humpback whales, black, brown, or polar bears, and other wildlife\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best gold rush towns, including Fairbanks, Juneau, Skagway, and Nome, where the free-wheeling frontier spirit abides today\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on fishing, skiing, sea kayaking, dogmushing, hiking, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations, ranging from a luxury hotel to railroad cars to a romantic inn and spa\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  AlaskaÂ For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy\n  <em>\n   Post-it\n  </em>\n  Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to get up close and personal (but not\n <em>\n  too\n </em>\n close or\n <em>\n  too\n </em>\n personal) with bears, explore the native heritage with its great totem poles, clan houses, and IÃ±upiat artwork, enjoy outdoor adventures, or just soak up the magnificent, unspoiled scenery, youâ€™re on your way to a great Alaskan escape.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tame the wilds of America''s Last Frontier\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether your style is luxury cruise ship, laid-back road trip, or active wilderness hike, this guide helps you explore Alaska the fun and easy way. See wildlife roaming vast open spaces. Explore Mount McKinley, Native Alaskan culture, and old gold rush towns. Go skiing, sea kayaking, or fishing. Marvel at spectacular glaciers and windswept tundras. You can do it all on a wild and wonderful Alaskan adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(16557, 'Algebra I Essentials for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its use of multiple variables, functions, and formulas algebra can be confusing and overwhelming to learn and easy to forget. Perfect for students who need to review or reference critical concepts,\n <em>\n  Algebra I Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n provides content focused on key topics only, with discrete explanations of critical concepts taught in a typical Algebra I course, from functions and FOILs to quadratic and linear equations. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical algebra concepts as they help students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom who just need a refresher of the core concepts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Essentials For Dummies\n  </em>\n  Series\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dummies is proud to present our new series,\n <em>\n  The Essentials For Dummies.\n </em>\n Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just the critical concepts you need for cramming, homework help, and reference\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re cramming, you''re studying new material, or you just need a refresher, this compact guide gives you a concise, easy-to-follow review of the most important concepts covered in a typical Algebra I course. Free of review and ramp-up materials, it lets you skip right to the parts where you need the most help. It''s that easy!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set the scene â€” get the lowdown on everything you''ll encounter in algebra, from words andsymbols to decimals and fractions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plant your roots (and exponents) â€” find out how powers and roots factor into algebra problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play by the rules â€” follow alongside easy-to-grasp explanations to solve linear, quadratic, and cubic equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a grip on graphing â€” learn how to graph a line, incorporate intercepts, and compute slopes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tell a story â€” discover how to use algebra to solve everyday problems, from making sense of financial investments to calculating distance formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick, focused lessons on key topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basic rules of algebra\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to change decimals tofractions (and vice versa)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on getting numbers and variables to cooperate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for facing the factoring method\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use FOIL\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with inequalities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample equations for you to test your skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Warning signs of algebraic pitfalls\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exactly what you need to know to ace Algebra I\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The "must-know" formulas and equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Concise coverage of key topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(16558, 'Algebra II Essentials for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Passing grades in two years of algebra courses are required for high school graduation.\n <em>\n  Algebra II Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n covers key ideas from typical second-year Algebra coursework to help students get up to speed. Free of ramp-up material,\n <em>\n  Algebra II Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n sticks to the point, with content focused on key topics only. It provides discrete explanations of critical concepts taught in a typical Algebra II course, from polynomials, conics, and systems of equations to rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical algebra concepts as they help students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom who just need a refresher of the core concepts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Essentials For Dummies\n  </em>\n  Series\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dummies is proud to present our new series,\n <em>\n  The Essentials For Dummies.\n </em>\n Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just the critical concepts you need to score high in Algebra II\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Algebra II Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n sticks to the point, with concise explanations of critical concepts taught in a typical Algebra II course. It''s perfect for cramming, for homework help, or as a reference for parents helping students prepare for an exam.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play by the rules â€” get the lowdown on algebraic properties, exponential rules, and factoring techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be rational â€” follow easy-to-grasp instructions for working with rational and radical equations, from dealing with negative exponents to fiddling with fractional exponents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your functions â€” discover how to use exponential and logarithmic functions to solve algebraic problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cozy up with polynomials â€” learn the steps to confidently (and correctly) solve polynomial equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to multiply and divide exponents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for solving linear equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The quadratic formula\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to denote function notation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Graphing techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Introducing zero to find y-intercepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The steps to solving systems of equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Formulas you need to know\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exactly what you need to know on exponential functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The "must-know" laws of logarithms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Matrices, sequences, series, and sets in quick, focused lessons\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1273'),
(16559, 'Algebra II for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Besides being an important area of math for everyday use, algebra is a passport to studying subjects like calculus, trigonometry, number theory, and geometry, just to name a few. To understand algebra is to possess the power to grow your skills and knowledge so you can ace your courses and possibly pursue further study in math.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Algebra II For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to get a handle on this subject and solve even the trickiest algebra problems. This friendly guide shows you how to get up to speed on exponential functions, laws of logarithms, conic sections, matrices, and other advanced algebra concepts. In no time youâ€™ll have the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Interpret quadratic functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the roots of a polynomial\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reason with rational functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expose exponential and logarithmic functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cut up conic sections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solve linear and non linear systems of equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Equate inequalities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplifyy complex numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make moves with matrices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort out sequences and sets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This straightforward guide offers plenty of multiplication tricks that only math teachers know. It also profiles special types of numbers, making it easy for you to categorize them and solve any problems without breaking a sweat. When it comes to understanding and working out algebraic equations,\n <em>\n  Algebra II For Dummies\n </em>\n is all you need to succeed!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with tips and ticks for cracking tough problems\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Face off with functions, conquer conics, and make headway with matrices\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve worked your way through Algebra I, and now you''re ready to take algebr5a to the next level. This friendly guide shows you how to get up to speed on exponential functions, laws of logarithms, conic sections, matrices, and other advanced algebra concepts - without even breaking a sweat. It''s just whatÂ  you need for Algebra II success!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bone up on basic algebra solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Graph parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve systems of equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a handle on complex numbers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle matrices, sequences, series, and sets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations in plain English\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Get in, get out" information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Icons and other navigational aids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tear-out cheat sheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top ten lists\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dash of humor and fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get smart! @www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find listings of all our books\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose from many different subject categories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   sign up for eTips at etips.dummies.com\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(16560, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On an ordinary summer''s afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter''s Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a wonderfully inspiring introduction by Chris Riddell,\n  <em>\n   Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland\n  </em>\n  is one of the twelve brilliant classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(16561, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6315'),
(16562, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling _Three Cups of Tea\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n  <strong>\n   Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and _Lift\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œJuddâ€™s hauntingly beautiful memoir reflects upon her life as actress, wife, daughter, sister, woman of faith, and ultimately, as friend of the worldâ€™s forgotten. The book is engaging as a narrative (I could not put it down), but this is not your typical â€˜celebrity memoir.â€™\n  <em>\n   All That is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is written with uncommon depth and uncommon love. It has the power to transport you not only into the mind and spirit of a true activist, but into the elusive meaning of our shared humanity, and even into unexpected places in your own soul. Prepare to have your eyes opened and your heart jolted.Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Sue Monk Kidd\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Ashley Judd has given us magnetic and searingly honest portrayals of diverse women on screen. Now with the same honesty and magnetism, she brings us her true self on the page. From her childhood to her revolutionary empathy with women and girls living very different lives, her path will inspire readers on journeys of their own."Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Gloria Steinem\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is all that is enlightening and inspiring. Â Ashley Judd has composed a memoir that teaches while it entrances and finds hope and faith in the most unlikely places. Â The book is full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world.â€Â \n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --Madeleine K. Albright\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOver the last decade I have watched my gifted, brilliant friend grow as an artist, but more importantly, as a wise, deeply empathetic woman. Â I have read the diaries that are the heart of this memoir since she began traveling the world, fearing for her safety and sanity, baffled why she chooses these grueling missions.\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  will be a revelation to readers, exposing Ashley Judd for what I have known for years she is: Â An amazing woman doing extraordinary work." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Morgan Freeman\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "There are certain books that stay with you far after the last page - Ashley Judd''s\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is that very type of book. With her sincere honesty, her commitment to servant leadership and her intense passion for everything that she is involved with, Ashley Judd presents a multi-layered portrait of how one person - committed, caring and conscientious - can truly make a difference. She may be our program''s No. 1 fan, but after reading this, you can count me as one of her top fans." --\n  <strong>\n   John Calipari\n  </strong>\n  , University of Kentucky Head Coach\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4159'),
(16563, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling _Three Cups of Tea\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n  <strong>\n   Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and _Lift\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œJuddâ€™s hauntingly beautiful memoir reflects upon her life as actress, wife, daughter, sister, woman of faith, and ultimately, as friend of the worldâ€™s forgotten. The book is engaging as a narrative (I could not put it down), but this is not your typical â€˜celebrity memoir.â€™\n  <em>\n   All That is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is written with uncommon depth and uncommon love. It has the power to transport you not only into the mind and spirit of a true activist, but into the elusive meaning of our shared humanity, and even into unexpected places in your own soul. Prepare to have your eyes opened and your heart jolted.Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Sue Monk Kidd\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Ashley Judd has given us magnetic and searingly honest portrayals of diverse women on screen. Now with the same honesty and magnetism, she brings us her true self on the page. From her childhood to her revolutionary empathy with women and girls living very different lives, her path will inspire readers on journeys of their own."Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Gloria Steinem\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is all that is enlightening and inspiring. Â Ashley Judd has composed a memoir that teaches while it entrances and finds hope and faith in the most unlikely places. Â The book is full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world.â€Â \n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --Madeleine K. Albright\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOver the last decade I have watched my gifted, brilliant friend grow as an artist, but more importantly, as a wise, deeply empathetic woman. Â I have read the diaries that are the heart of this memoir since she began traveling the world, fearing for her safety and sanity, baffled why she chooses these grueling missions.\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  will be a revelation to readers, exposing Ashley Judd for what I have known for years she is: Â An amazing woman doing extraordinary work." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Morgan Freeman\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "There are certain books that stay with you far after the last page - Ashley Judd''s\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is that very type of book. With her sincere honesty, her commitment to servant leadership and her intense passion for everything that she is involved with, Ashley Judd presents a multi-layered portrait of how one person - committed, caring and conscientious - can truly make a difference. She may be our program''s No. 1 fan, but after reading this, you can count me as one of her top fans." --\n  <strong>\n   John Calipari\n  </strong>\n  , University of Kentucky Head Coach\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4432'),
(16564, 'All the Brothers Were Valiant (Dodo Press)', 'Ben Ames Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953) was an American writer who published over thirty novels. His writing traversed a wide range of genres and evinced considerable expertise in a number of divergent fields. He achieved his greatest popularity when three of his books, All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (1945) and Leave Her to Heaven (1946) were adapted to film. His other works include: Evered (1921), Black Pawl (1922), Thrifty Stock, and Other Stories (1923), Audacity (1924), The Silver Forest (1926), Immortal Longings (1927), Splendor (1927), The Dreadful Night (1928), Great Oaks (1930), Touchstone (1930), Honeyflow (1932), Money Musk (1932), The Strumpet Sea (1938), Come Spring (1940) and House Divided (1947).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4572'),
(16565, 'Alt Om Data 01-2011', 'Alt Om Data', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(16566, 'Alternative Energy for Dummies', 'Rik Degunther', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...this book really does offer a comprehensive picture of the possible future of energy...well priced." (UK--Energy--Saving.com, August 6th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the truth about alternative energy and make it part of your life\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to utilize cleaner, greener types of energy? This plain-English guide clearly explains the popular forms of alternative energy that you can use in your home, your car, and more. Separating myth from fact, this resource explores the current fossil fuel conundrum, the benefits of alternatives, and the energy of the future, such as hydrogen and fuel cell technology.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ABCs of alternative energy â€” what it is, how it works, and what the real costs are\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where we are now â€” learn where our current energy comes from and how much longer it will last\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take the first step â€” see how energy efficiency and conservation can reduce your reliance on fossil fuels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the alternatives â€” from nuclear power to geothermal energy to wood burning, understand the benefits that alternative energy can have on the nation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply alternative fuels to transportation â€” from biofuels to exotic propulsion to electricity, see how they are best used and how hybrid, all-electric, and fuel cellâ€“powered vehicles work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a peek into the future â€” see what the outlook holds for each form of alternative energy discussed\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of alternative energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A review of the current world energy economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The problems with fossil fuels, from smog to global warming\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advantages of alternative energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practical results of alternatives you can use in daily life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for investing in alternative energy vehicles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways you can bring about change right now\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Insight into the future of energy production â€” and how you can invest in it\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(16567, 'Amabel Channice', 'Anne Douglas Sedgwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4254'),
(16568, 'Amateur Photographer', 'October 8th 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7211'),
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(16570, 'Amateur Photographer - 24 September 2011 UK', '24 September 2011 UK-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6419'),
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(16572, 'Amateur.Photographer-01.October.2011-Slicer.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer-01.October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6789'),
(16573, 'Amateur.Photographer-24.September.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 22-09-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer-24.September.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6565'),
(16574, 'Amateur.Photographer.15.Oct.2011.pdf 16-10-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer.15.Oct.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10749'),
(16575, 'Amateur.Photographer.2011-09-10.pdf 14-09-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer.2011-09-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6063'),
(16576, 'Amateur.Photographer.22.October.2011.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer.22.October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10916'),
(16577, 'Amateur.Photographer.October.8th.2011.pdf 04-10-2011', 'Amateur.Photographer.October.8th.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7216');
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(16578, 'Amazing Android Apps for Dummies', 'Begun, Daniel A.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Find the Android apps that are right for you so you can have fun and get more done!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The popularity of Android apps is exploding and this handy guide helps you sort through the thousands of available applications so you can find the ones that are ideal for you. You''ll explore a variety of apps in the areas of entertainment, finance, health, food, music, news, weather, photography, reference, dining out, social networking, sports, travel, and more. Author Daniel Begun helps you navigate through this enormousâ€”and potentially overwhelmingâ€”array of Android apps.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Holds your hand through the oftentimes overwhelming app selection and shares helpful advice for sorting through the tens of thousands of apps to find the ones that are right for you\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Helps you uncover which apps are worth the price and what''s fabulous for free\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides advice on what apps work best for all your favorite hobbies â€“ from movies to music, sports to social networking, fitness to fun games, and everything in between\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amazing Android Apps For Dummies\n  </em>\n  walks you through the process of finding, purchasing, and installing the most appealing apps for your needs.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How do you find the Android apps you can''t live without? Easy â€” just open this book!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are SO many apps â€” who has time to explore them all? Daniel A. Begun already did, and the best in 18 categories are reviewed here in plain English. What''s your passion? Sports? Movies? Shopping? Photography? Finance? Geeky stuff? Get the scoop on 180 must-have apps, learn what they cost, and find expert advice to help you sort the best from the rest in the world of Android apps.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    First things first â€” peek into the Android Market and other app stores and learn where Android apps excel â€” and where they don''t\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    For bibliophiles â€” find apps for reading or listening to books and viewing comics\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fun and games â€” entertain preschoolers, help kids build skills, challenge adult brains, and add some fun to your day with cool game apps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Shining stars â€” discover the best apps to follow your favorite band, keep track of upcoming movies, buy tickets, and even watch TV shows\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Mind your business â€” with apps that track profits, study investments, and manage your money on the go\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Open the book and find:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to stay productive with apps that block junk calls and texts\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Fun fitness apps to track your workouts and map your runs\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Wild weather apps for tracking earthquakes and hurricanes\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A blast from the past or the next big hit with apps for music fans of any age\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The best apps to add effects to your photos and videos\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Apps to help your golf game or your favorite fantasy leagues\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How to shop smarter with price comparison and product review apps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Learn to:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Which apps are worth the price and what''s fabulous for free\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Apps for gamers, fitness fans, shutterbugs, and weather watchers\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Cool apps for all your hobbies â€”from food to movies, shopping to sports, and more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(16579, 'Amazon.com for Dummies', 'Mara Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you''ve surfed the Web more than once, you''ve probably visited Amazon.com. Originally you may have gone there searching for books, but Amazon.com is so much more than a bookstore. The author of "Amazon.com For Dummies [registered]", who has been involved with the site from its beginnings, describes it as a shopping mall/home improvement store/bazaar/travel agency/newsstand/car lot, but most importantly, a community of buyers and sellers people like you. Countless opportunities exist for those who join this community, and "Amazon.com For Dummies [registered]" gives you a smorgasbord sampling of what they are and how to take advantage of every one. For example, you can: set up an account and buy things; bid on an auction; sell your items; personalize your shopping experience; open your own online "store"; and join the Amazon.com community. Written by Mara Friedman, who has held several positions with Amazon.com including marketing communications manager, "Amazon.com For Dummies [registered]" takes you from your first venture into the Amazon all the way to making money from your Amazon.com experience. Discover how to: find your way around the marketplace and scout out the best deals; get local movie show times, view restaurant menus, chat with other shoppers, send free e-cards, or sign up for a free reminder service; track orders and manage your account; browse specialty shops and check out international merchandise; take advantage of reviews from other shoppers; set up and use wish lists for yourself and your friends; create your own online Zshop, set the right prices, and take photos that help sell your items; and take advantage of the Amazon.com Advantage or become an Associate. Whether you''re a complete novice who''d like a guide to help you with your first online purchases, or a longtime Amazon.com shopper who wants to become an online entrepreneur, "Amazon.com For Dummies [registered]" has what you need. Use it today to get started, and tomorrow to help you manage your own successful online business.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)23.4    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)18.8\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(16580, 'America&#39;s Most Wanted Recipes', 'Ron Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Discover the recipes from America''s most popular family restaurants and cook them at home for a fraction of the price!        Wouldn''t it be nice if you could treat yourself to dishes from your favorite restaurants anytime? Now you can -- at home! In  America''s Most Wanted Recipes , Ron Douglas reveals copycat versions of carefully guarded secret restaurant recipes and shows family chefs how to prepare them at home, saving time and money. With these easy and mouth-watering recipes, families can enjoy a night out in their very own kitchens.      -  Great selection:  With more than 200 recipes from 57 of America''s most popular restaurants -- including The Cheesecake Factory, KFC, Olive Garden, P.F. Chang''s, Red Lobster, Outback Steakhouse, and many more -- no taste or craving will be left unsatisfied.        -  Cut the cost:  Watch your wallet without giving up restaurantquality food! You can save your family thousands of dollars each year by preparing these recipes just once a week.        -  Skip the lines:  Forget about waiting to be seated. You can have your favorite meals "on demand" from the comfort of your own kitchen. Time-saving tips and shortcuts will have dinner on the table in no time.        -  Eat healthy:  Low-fat alternatives and waist-slimming suggestions make these dishes delicious -- and nutritious.        -  Impress your family and friends:  These recipes are all fast, simple, and virtually indistinguishable from the originals. We bet your family and friends won''t be able to tell the difference!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(16581, 'American Cinematographer - July 2011', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7042'),
(16582, 'American Curves - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10567'),
(16583, 'American Curves 08-2011', 'American Curves', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2477'),
(16584, 'American PHOTO - December 2011', 'December 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6705'),
(16585, 'American.Handgunner-NovemberDecember.2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6420'),
(16586, 'American.PHOTO-December.2011-Slicer.pdf 24-09-2011', 'American.PHOTO-December.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6751'),
(16587, 'AmericanCinematographer201110.pdf 23-09-2011', 'AmericanCinematographer201110.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6713'),
(16588, 'Anatomy &amp; Physiology Workbook for Dummies', 'Janet Rae-dupree &amp; Pat Dupree', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An excellent primer for learning the human body\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n An anatomy and physiology course is required for medical and nursing students as well as for others pursuing careers in healthcare.\n <em>\n  Anatomy &amp; Physiology Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to get up to speed on anatomy and physiology facts and concepts. This hands-on workbook provides students with useful exercises to practice identifying specific muscle groups and their functions, memory exercises, as well as diagrams and actual demonstrations that readers can personally enact to illustrate the concepts.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the skeleton to skin to its systems â€” get a grip on the human body\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pursuing a career as a health care professional? Need to understand how the human body works? No problem â€” this hands-on workbook gets you up to speed in anatomy and physiology facts in a focused, step-by-step manner. From cells and tissue to the specific muscle groups to the largest organ (the skin), this easy-to-follow primer helps you understand the intricacies of the body and how all its systems work together.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick refresher explanations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step procedures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on practice exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ample workspace to work out problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tear-out Cheat Sheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dash of humor and fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See How To\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reinforce your knowledge through memory exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep track of confusing terms with strategies for fast translation and understanding\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know what instructors tend to emphasize on exams\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1277'),
(16589, 'Android Apps for Absolute Beginners', 'Wallace Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6856'),
(16590, 'Android for Work Productivity for Professionals', 'Marziah Karch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3067'),
(16591, 'Android Programming Tutorials Version 3.2', 'Mark Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10773'),
(16592, 'Anger Management for Dummies', 'W. Doyle Gentry Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If your anger, or that of a loved one, is out of control and threatening your life and livelihood, you need the calm, clear, and understanding help youâ€™ll find in\n <em>\n  Anger Management For Dummies.\n </em>\n This concise and practical guidebook shares specific anger management methods, skills, and exercises that will help you identify the sources of your anger and release yourself from their grip. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Defuse your anger before it strikes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Express your feelings calmly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respond rather than react\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent anger incidents in the future\n </li>\n <li>\n  Release healthy anger in a healthy way\n </li>\n <li>\n  Confess your anger in a journal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use anger constructively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get beyond old anger through forgiveness\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with coverage of road rage, air rage, office rage, and dealing with angry children,\n <em>\n  Anger Management for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the tools you need to overcome your anger and live a happier, more productive life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with inspiring real-life stories and helpful exercises\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Disengage from rage, find forgiveness, and lead an anger-free life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Is anger a problem for you or someone you love? This friendly guide offers a host of practical, proven techniques for understanding emotions, dealing with angry feelings constructively, and letting it go. You''ll see how to deal with anger before it happens, thwart an angry outburst, keep your cool, and adopt a new, healthier perspective.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Evaluate your anger level\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify anger triggers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent road and office rage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage anger in relationships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle anger from the past\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help angry children\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1278'),
(16593, 'Animal Dreams', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you''ve got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd''s advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life''s largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.  ***  â€œKingsolver is giving a new voice to our literature. Animal Dreams solidly establishes Kingsolver as someone who will give her public more than one great book.â€-Los Angeles Times Book Review  â€œAn emotional masterpieceâ€¦A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul.â€-New York Daily News  â€œA well-nigh perfect novel, masterfully written, brimming with insight, humor, and compassion. Kingsolverâ€™s clear, purposeful prose spins the narrative like a spiderâ€™s web, its interconnected strands gossamer-thin but tensile, strong. This richly satisfying novel should firmly establish Kingsolver among the pantheon of talented writers.â€-Publishers Weekly  â€œOne of the yearâ€™s best works of fiction.â€-Detroit News and Free Press  â€œA glorious tapestryâ€¦ Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams.â€-Denver Post  â€œA fascinating world of myth, memory, and dreams. Following Codi Noline home is definitely a worthwhile journey.â€-Dallas Morning News  â€œBarbara Kingsolver gives us the gift of a trip to forgiveness and love through lovingly sensual detail, characters we all know and yet wish we knew better, through evocations of an Arizona landscape both nurturing and mysterious.â€-Minneapolis Star Tribune  â€œKingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it.â€-San Francisco Chronicle  â€œYouâ€™ll treasure Animal Dreams. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind.â€-TONY HILLERMAN, author of Talking God and Thief of Time  â€œBarbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her charactersâ€™ state of mind.â€-New York Times Book Review  â€œA novel full of aching sadness-as well as joy, humor, insight, and wonderful writing.â€-Arizona Daily Star  â€œAnimal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfectâ€¦ Animal Dreams leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope.â€-Houston Post\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4619'),
(16594, 'Anna of the Five Towns', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4308'),
(16595, 'Anselm and the Logic of Illusion', 'Zaine Ridling, Ph.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4870'),
(16596, 'Anthropology for Dummies', 'Cameron M. Smith &amp; Evan T. Davies Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers the latest competing theories in the field\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a handle on the fundamentals of biological and cultural anthropology\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When did the first civilizations arise? How many human languages exist? The answers are found in anthropology - and this friendly guide explains its concepts in clear detail. You''ll see how anthropology developed as a science, what it tells us about our ancestors, and how it can help with some of the hot-button issues our world is facing today.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How anthropologists learn about the past\n </li>\n <li>\n  Humanity''s earliest activities, from migration to civilization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why our language differs from other animal communication\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to find a career in anthropology\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers the latest competing theories in the field\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a handle on the fundamentals of biological and cultural anthropology\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When did the first civilizations arise? How many human languages exist? The answers are found in anthropology â€” and this friendly guide explains its concepts in clear detail. You''ll see how anthropology developed as a science, what it tells us about our ancestors, and how it can help with some of the hot-button issues our world is facing today.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How anthropologists learn about the past\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Humanity''s earliest activities, from migration to civilization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why our language differs from other animal communication\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to find a career in anthropology\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(16597, 'Anxiety &amp; Depression Workbook for Dummies', 'Charles H. Elliott Phd &amp; Laura L. Smith Phd &amp; Aaron T. Beck Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From identifying your triggers to improving your relationships -- manage your emotional wellbeing\n</p>\n<p>\n Struggling to cope with anxiety and/or depression? Have no fear -- this hands-on guide focuses on helping you pinpoint the root of your problems and find relief from your symptoms in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening exercises, you''ll understand how to assess your current situation, remove the roadblocks to change, face your fears, and improve your view of yourself and the world around you. You''ll see how to take direct action to alter negative or distorted thinking, lift your moods, and adopt positive habits that will lead you toward a more joyful, meaningful, and connected life!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n <br />\n * How to improve the way you feel about yourself\n <br />\n * Skills to face and overcome what makes you anxious or depressed\n <br />\n * How to determine whether medication is an option for you\n <br />\n * Practical ways to prepare for and deal with setbacks\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n From identifying your triggers to improving your relationships â€” manage your emotional wellbeing\n</p>\n<p>\n Struggling to cope with anxiety and/or depression? Have no fear â€” this hands-on guide focuses on helping you pinpoint the root of your problems and find relief from your symptoms in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening exercises, you''ll understand how to assess your current situation, remove the roadblocks to change, face your fears, and improve your view of yourself and the world around you. You''ll see how to take direct action to alter negative or distorted thinking, lift your moods, and adopt positive habits that will lead you toward a more joyful, meaningful, and connected life!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to improve the way you feel about yourself\n </li>\n <li>\n  Skills to face and overcome what makes you anxious or depressed\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to determine whether medication is an option for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Practical ways to prepare for and deal with setbacks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(16598, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4099'),
(16599, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4463'),
(16600, 'AOL for Dummies', 'John Kaufeld &amp; Ted Leonsis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...about as easy as learning can be...another rollicking title to add to your wants list...5 stars..." (Internet Made Easy, March 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A traditional bestseller, AOL For Dummies is the only regularly updated reference book on the market for beginning AOL users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the essentials of signing up for AOL, getting around the AOL channels, using AOL''s e-mail and instant messaging, and exploring the Web browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps first-time users take advantage of AOL''s broadband content and the newest features of AOL 9.0 Optimized, such as improved safety features, e-mail systems, and on-demand programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Highlights the changes that users of previous versions will encounter with AOL 9.0\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes coverage of new high-speed services\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(16601, 'AP Biology for Dummies', 'Peter Mikulecky &amp; Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Brian Peterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Relax. The fact that youâ€™re even considering taking the AP Biology exam means youâ€™re smart, hard-working and ambitious. All you need is to get up to speed on the examâ€™s topics and themes and take a couple of practice tests to get comfortable with its question formats and time limits. Thatâ€™s where\n <em>\n  AP Biology For Dummies\n </em>\n comes in.\n</p>\n<p>\n This user-friendly and completely reliable guide helps you get the most out of any AP biology class and reviews all of the topics emphasized on the test. It also provides two full-length practice exams, complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides. This powerful prep guide helps you practice and perfect all of the skills you need to get your best possible score. And, as a special bonus, youâ€™ll also get a handy primer to help you prepare for the test-taking experience. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Figure out what the questions are actually asking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a firm grip on all exam topics, from molecules and cells to ecology and genetics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost your knowledge of organisms and populations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become equally comfortable with large concepts and nitty-gritty details\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your score on multiple choice questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Craft clever responses to free-essay questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify your strengths and weaknesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use practice tests to adjust you exam-taking strategy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Supplemented with handy lists of test-taking tips, must-know terminology, and more,\n <em>\n  AP Biology For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you make exam day a very good day, indeed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes extensive coverage of organisms and populations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Study for the AP exam with ease and increase your score!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Get up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner. Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP biology class, this book offers a review of the topics emphasized on the test and two full-length practice exams, complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides. AP Biology For Dummies helps you practice and perfect the skills you need to get your best possible score. As a bonus, you also get a handy primer to help you prepare for the test-taking experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Figure out what the questions are really asking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a firm grip on all exam topics, from molecules and cells to ecology and genetics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your score on multiple-choice questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Craft clever responses to free-essay questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(16602, 'AP Chemistry for Dummies', 'Peter J. Mikulecky Phd &amp; Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Kate Brutlag', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gearing up for the AP Chemistry exam?\n <em>\n  AP Chemistry For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. This AP Chemistry study guide gives you winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and topic guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.\n</p>\n<p>\n This user-friendly guide helps you prepare without perspiration by developing a pre-test plan, organizing your study time, and getting the most out or your AP course. Youâ€™ll get help understanding atomic structure and bonding, grasping atomic geometry, understanding how colliding particles produce states, and much more. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies. Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and follow a pretest plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand everything you\n  <em>\n   must\n  </em>\n  know about the exam\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a multiple-choice strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure out displacement, combustion, and acid-base reactions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with stoichiometry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Describe patterns and predict properties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a handle on organic chemistry nomenclature\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know your way around laboratory concepts, tasks, equipment, and safety\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze laboratory data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use practice exams to maximize your score\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  AP Chemistry For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the support, confidence, and test-taking know-how you need to demonstrate your ability when it matters most.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready, get confident, and get your highest possible score!\n</p>\n<p>\n Gearing up for the AP Chemistry test? This practical guide is packed with all the resources and help you need to bring your skills up to college level. You''ll find test-taking tactics and strategies, advice on how to make the most of your study time, and clear explanations of the chemistry concepts and problems covered in the exam.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for the exam â€” get comfortable with formats and scoring, manage your time, and reduce stress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play with building blocks â€” understand atomic structure and bonding and grasp atomic geometry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp how colliding particles produce states â€” nail down the chemistry that produces solids, liquids, gases, and solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Control reactions â€” figure out displacement, combustion, acid-base, and oxidation-reduction reactions and get familiar with stoichiometry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Describe patterns and predict properties â€” practice descriptive chemistry and get used to organic chemistry nomenclature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your way around a chemistry lab â€” from equipment, common tasks, and safety equipment to concepts and data analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure your yields â€” use practice exams to train your brain, test your skills, and focus your studies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Everything you must know about the exam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help creating a pre-test plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A full-scale review of all exam topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plenty of practice questions and explanations on each topic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of College Board-recommended labs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Multiple-choice question decoding tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handy lists of important ideas and equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Two full-length practice exams with answers, explanations, and scoring guides\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(16603, 'AP English Language &amp; Composition for Dummies', 'Geraldine Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gearing up for the AP English Language and Composition test?\n <em>\n  AP English Language &amp; Composition For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. In this AP study guide, youâ€™ll find winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and essay guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.\n</p>\n<p>\n This user-friendly guide helps you prepare without perspiration by developing a pre-test plan, organizing your study time, and getting the most out or your AP course. Youâ€™ll learn how to assemble your writerâ€™s toolkit, expand your vocabulary, analyze sentences and paragraphs, understand rhetorical approaches, perfect your grammar, and paint pictures with words. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and follow a pretest plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand everything you\n  <em>\n   must\n  </em>\n  know about the exam\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a multiple-choice strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your essay writing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find painless ways to become a better writer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid mistakes that will lower your score\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interpret non-fiction writing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write about graphs and charts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of practice exams to maximize your final score\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You work hard to perform at the college level. AP English Language and Composition For Dummies gives you the support, confidence, and test-taking know-how you need to demonstrate your ability when it matters most.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready, get confident, and get your highest possible score!\n</p>\n<p>\n Gearing up for the AP English Language and Composition test? This user-friendly guide is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. You''ll find winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and essay guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare without perspiration â€” develop a pre-test plan, organize your study time, and get the most out of your AP course\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble your writer''s toolkit â€” build your vocabulary, evaluate sentences and paragraphs, understand rhetorical approaches, perfect your grammar, and analyze visual elements like graphs, ads, and political cartoons\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the modes of discourse â€” narrative, description, argument, and exposition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your attack â€” develop a multiple-choice strategy and speed up your essay writing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your confidence â€” use practice exams to get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths, and focus your studies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your writing â€” find painless ways to become a better writer and avoid mistakes that will lower your essay score\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Everything you need to know about the exam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help creating a pre-test plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   User''s manuals for every tool a writer needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to interpret visual sources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for analyzing nonfiction writing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Multiple-choice question decoding tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step-by-step essay-writing guide\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Two full-length practice exams with answers, explanations, and scoring guides\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1284'),
(16604, 'AP English Literature &amp; Composition for Dummies', 'Geraldine Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yes, you can pass the AP English Literature and Composition exam with ease! Just brush the dust off your thinking cap and get a little help from\n <em>\n  AP English Literature and Composition For Dummies\n </em>\n . It gets you up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English class, this book has it all: long- and short-range planning advice, detailed chapters that discuss the four main literary genres, and two full-length practice exams â€” complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides. It helps you perfect the skills you need to get your best possible score. Two bonus appendixes provide a full list of teacher-recommended titles to choose from for the open-ended essay, as well as a quick grammar review to address the fundamentals of superior essay writing. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with the exam format and the types of questions youâ€™ll face\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure out what the questions are really asking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your score on multiple-choice questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write effectively and eloquently about poetry, prose, and drama\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for paired passages and craft a clever open-ended essay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Annotate poetry and prose like an expert\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Passing the AP English Literature and Composition exam doesnâ€™t have to be torture. Get\n <em>\n  AP English Literature and Composition For Dummies\n </em>\n and find out how easy it can be.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes expert advice on annotating poems and prose!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fine-tune reading comprehension skills with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Get up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner. Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English class, this book has you covered. With long- and short-range planning advice, detailed chapters that discuss the four main literary genres, and two full-length practice exams complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides, this book helps you perfect the skills you need to get your best possible score. As a bonus, two appendixes provide a full list of teacher-recommened titles to choose from for the open-ended essay, as well as a quick grammar review to address the fundamentals of superior essay writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Figure out what the questions are really asking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your score on multiple-choice questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write effectively and eloquently about poetry, prose, and drama\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for paired passages and craft a clever open-ended essay\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1285'),
(16605, 'AP U.S. History for Dummies', 'Greg Velm', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Getting ready to tackle the AP U.S. History exam?\n <em>\n  AP U.S. History For Dummies\n </em>\n is a practical, step-by-step guide that will help you perfect the skills and review the knowledge you need to achieve your best possible score! Discover how to identify what the questions are really asking and find out how to combine your history knowledge with context clues to craft thoughtful essays. Try your hand at two true-to-life AP exams, complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find out how to put together a game plan, develop a study strategy, decode the Political â€“ Economic â€“ Social (PES) answer secret, and understand exactly whatâ€™s going to be on the stress. This easy-to-understand guide reviews all periods of U.S. history, from the countryâ€™s earliest inhabitants to the present day. Ease your mind on stress day and feel completely prepared by completing the two practice exams with answers and explanations. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare a study plan for the time leading up to the exam\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decode your score and learn how to get the best score\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put your knowledge to work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Approach the different types of questions: multiple choice, document-based, and essay questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate all exam topics, from the Native Americans to the present day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze and connect political, economic, and social themes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize trick words\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten monster event topics AP wants you to know, ten unstoppable cultural trends, and ten key court decisions,\n <em>\n  AP U.S. History\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you ace this test!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes extensive coverage of the evolution of government\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get test-taking secrets from the pros and increase your score!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Getting ready to tackle the AP U.S. History exam? This practical, step-by-step guide helps you perfect the skills you need to achieve your best possible score. You discover how to identify what the questions are really asking and find out how to combine your history knowledge with the information provided on the exam to craft thoughtful essays. You also try your hand at two true-to-life AP exams, complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a firm grip on all exam topics, from Native Americans to the present day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze and connect political, economic, and social themes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize trick words in multiple-choice questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Answer document-based questions with confidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Craft clever responses to free-essay questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1286'),
(16606, 'Apple_Magazine_2011-1.pdf 16-10-2011', 'Apple_Magazine_2011-1.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10757'),
(16607, 'Arabic Phrases for Dummies', 'Amine Bouchentouf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A concise, portable guide for communicating in Arabic\n</p>\n<p>\n Today, Arabic is spoken in more than 20 countries, and more than one billion people study Arabic for religious reasons. This practical guide offers help on basic Arabic words and phrases and eases communication with Arabic speakers. Written as a companion to Arabic For Dummies, this book provides readers with the tools to converse with others in Modern Standard Arabic on a basic level. It uses real-world phrases extensively to illustrate grammatical concepts and provide opportunities to practice newfound skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Amine Bouchentouf (New York, NY) is a native Arabic speaker from Morocco and the author of Arabic For Dummies (978-0-471-77270-5).\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your handy guide to everyday Arabic words and expressions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to brush up on your Arabic conversation skills? This fun, concise phrasebook will jumpstart your comprehension, equipping you with the phrases necessary for common everyday situations â€” from traveling to shopping to making small talk. This quick-and-easy approach will have you speaking basic Arabic in no time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with the basics â€” figure out the Arabic alphabet and practice the sounds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   From nouns to numbers â€” understand the rules of grammar, get to know Arabic verbs, and practice counting in Arabic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Talk with native Arabic speakers â€” greet people, ask questions, and talk about yourself\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoy yourself around town â€” from dining and shopping to transportation and entertainment, know the right words and phrases to get what you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle on-the-job tasks â€” talk with coworkers, use the phone, send letters and e-mails, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with emergencies â€” find medical and legal help when you need it\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Every grammatical and linguistic point explained in plain English\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Arabic sounds represented in English characters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Words to Know" sections to help you find the right word fast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Favorite Arabic expressions and great Arabic proverbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1287');
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(16608, 'Archaeology for Dummies', 'Nancy Marie White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An objective guide to this fascinating science of history and culture\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Archaeology continually makes headlines--from recent discoveries like the frozen Copper-Age man in the Italian Alps to the newest dating of the first people in America at over 14,0000 years ago.\n <em>\n  Archaeology For Dummies\n </em>\n offers a fascinating look at this intriguing field, taking readers on-site and revealing little-known details about some of the world''s greatest archaeological discoveries. It explores how archaeology attempts to uncover the lives of our ancestors, examining historical dig sites around the world and explaining theories about ancient human societies. The guide also offers helpful information for readers who want to participate in an excavation themselves, as well as tips for getting the best training and where to look for jobs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your hands-on guide to this fascinating science of history and culture\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you amazed by archaeology? This friendly guide introduces you to this intriguing field and the people who reconstruct our past, clearing up common misconceptions and explaining how we learn about ancient human societies. You''ll see how to conduct archaeological fieldwork and unearth little-known details about some of the world''s biggest discoveries!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand what archaeology is and isn''t â€” discover its history, its different forms, and the reasoning behind its method\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn how archaeologists think and work â€” see how they use science to reconstruct the past and why they argue over significant finds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go on-site â€” know what to pack for a field expedition, where to dig, how to survey and excavate, and ways to handle ethical issues involved in archaeological investigation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your real work begins â€” process, study, and analyze materials in order to tell the story of past human behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your modern world view â€” examine the major archaeological finds to understand what they tell us about today''s society\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get involved â€” join societies, volunteer on digs, and study to become a professional archaeologist\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Survey and excavation techniques described in detail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Post-fieldwork procedures, from cleaning and dating to storing artifacts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different theoretical approaches of modern archaeology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The story of human milestones, from the first people through modern times\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructive case studies of actual digs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to interpret and display the past from different viewpoints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest sensational finds and controversies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(16609, 'The Archangel Project', 'C. S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vietnam vet Steven Harris and Candice Proctor (of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries, written as C.S. Harris) write here as Graham and deliver rollicking good suspense. October Tobie Guinness is a navy vet of the Iraq War with remote viewing skills, meaning she can see into rooms from miles away. She can''t hone in with complete exactness, though, and a viewing session unintentionally leads her to discover a conspiracy involving key defense industry and government personnel. They, in turn, quickly dispatch former special ops man Lance Palmer to clean up the situation. Jax Alexander is a CIA agent one mistake away from being fired, who goes down to New Orleans to investigate the death of Tobie''s former professor and stumbles into the plot. Jax and Tobie run for their lives, trying to stay one step ahead of the conspirators, piece together the plot and eventually save the life of the vice president and avert an unjust war. Tobie, tormented by her gift, is terrifically capable and intelligent, while Jax is the consummate skeptic who still loves his country and believes in his job. The credible, fast-moving plot gives them ample opportunities to show off their skills.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn engaging premise, smart and exhilarating. An electrifying ride that rings with authenticity. No question, this is an auspicious beginning for C. S. Graham.â€ (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Venetian Betrayal )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs current as todayâ€™s headlines and as disturbing as your darkest nightmare [â€¦.] Riveting, provocative, and enthralling, here is a debut not to be missed.â€ (James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas StrainNew York Times bestselling author of The Judas StrainJames Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe pace of the plot in this book is blistering....Itâ€™ll keep you turning pages.â€ (The Advocate )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] rollicking suspense novel. . . Conspiracy fans will love this impressive series opener.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5978'),
(16610, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6410'),
(16611, 'Architect 08-2011', 'Architect', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3741'),
(16612, 'Architect 09-2011', 'Architect', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4759'),
(16613, 'Architectural Record 09-2011', 'Architectural Record', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4760'),
(16614, 'Architectural.Record.Oct.2011.pdf 02-10-2011', 'Architectural.Record.Oct.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7092'),
(16615, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4342'),
(16616, 'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America&#39;s Top Secret Military Base', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put together a set of strong allegations about Area 51''s covert history ... Her research into the world of ''overhead,'' the aerial espionage that needed to be developed in extreme secrecy, is compellingly hard-hittting ... the book is noteworthy for its author''s dogged devotion to her research." (_\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In\n  <em>\n   Area 51,\n  </em>\n  Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public,\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n  weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4160'),
(16617, 'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America&#39;s Top Secret Military Base', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put together a set of strong allegations about Area 51''s covert history ... Her research into the world of ''overhead,'' the aerial espionage that needed to be developed in extreme secrecy, is compellingly hard-hittting ... the book is noteworthy for its author''s dogged devotion to her research." (_\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In\n  <em>\n   Area 51,\n  </em>\n  Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public,\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n  weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4369'),
(16618, 'Arizona for Dummies', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything from clothing styles to tequila shots is kicked back in Arizona. From teeming, cosmopolitan Phoenix to long stretches of open roads to intriguing trails that lead to incredible sights or adventures, Arizona has it all. This friendly guide helps you enjoy it all, with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  5 great itineraries, including kid-friendly jaunts, plus day trips and two-day trips\n </li>\n <li>\n  The grandeur of the Grand Canyon, the Red Rocks of Sedona, the expanses of northeast Arizonaâ€”Hopi and Navajo country, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fantastic historic attractions, including Frank Lloyd Wrightâ€™s former home and studio, a ghost town, a mining town, an active trading post, Holbook (home of classic Route 66 kitsch), and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upscale shopping in Phoenix or bargaining in Nogales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rafting on the Colorado River, mountain biking in Sedona, being a cowhand at a dude ranch, star gazing, horseback riding, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Where to find Native American crafts, Navajo rugs, Western art, Southwestern and ethnic furnishing, katchina dolls, silver inlay jewelry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fantastic museums and monuments where you can delve into Native American culture, plus some places where the ancient traditions are practiced today\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Arizona For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to experience the Old West or the new Westâ€¦whether your style is luxuriating at a plush resort, golfing on glorious, challenging courses, appreciating incredible sights and scenery, or exploring historical attractions and our Native American heritage, youâ€™ll find lots to do in Arizona. Kick back, relax, and enjoy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have a great Arizona adventure the fun and easy wayÂ®\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Take in the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, relax in a luxurious spa, or witness the timeless traditions of the Hopi and Navajo. Go golfing, rafting, stargazing, hiking, mountain biking, bird-watching, or horseback riding. With this friendly guide, you''re off for great fun in the Valley of the Sun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1289'),
(16619, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.   Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals.   On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man.   A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4145'),
(16620, 'The Art of Seduction', 'Robert Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  When raised to the level of art, seduction has toppled empires, won elections, and enslaved great minds. In this volume, Green asks readers what kind of seducer do they want to be?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Touted as a "handbook on the most subtle and effective form of power" and "an indispensable primer on how to take what you want from whomever you want," this book is more than a little creepy. Following on the heels of his 48 Laws of Power, this book continues Greene''s gross exploration of social power, this time in the realm of sexual politics. In Part 1, Greene, again paired with "packager" Joost Elffers (Play with Your Food), offers a straight-faced description of the nine types of seductive character, from the "Ideal Lover" to the "Rake." Elffers''s contribution comes in the form of numerous quotes by famous contemporary and historical figures tucked into the side margins. Part 2 examines the process of seduction, subdivided into four phases, with chapter headings such as "Master the Art of Insinuation" and "Isolate the Victim." This book will have real appeal for power mongers, gold diggers, and heartless manipulators everywhere. Books such as Beverley East''s Finding Mr. Write (LJ 5/1/00) and Jama Clark''s What the Hell Do Women Really Want? (Island Flower, 1997) offer advice on the same subject without the distasteful exploitative emphasis.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€David Valencia, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Greene is the author of The 48 Laws of Power (1998), a compilation of quotes from throughout history that prescribe methods of obtaining and wielding power. He now adds seduction to the mix of stratagems for those who feel the need to scheme to get what they want. Given the popularity of so-called reality-based television programs, it is clear there is a large audience of such people. Greene, again providing quotes on his topic from philosophers, scientists, playwrights, and novelists, examines "the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history" and profiles 10 seductive archetypes. Although the tactics Greene advises may be distasteful to some, his literary survey is fascinating. As was Greene''s previous work, this one is billed as "A Joost Elffers Production." Elffers is identified--with no hint of embarrassment--as a book "packager." A "quote" from a Newsweek review of The 48 Laws is used to hype the new book, though the actual article in which the quote appeared challenged Greene''s credentials as an editor and playwright and offered only lukewarm praise.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€David Rouse\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)22.9    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)16.3\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(16621, 'The Art of Sexy - September 2011', 'September 2011-slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6855'),
(16622, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu &amp; Lionel Giles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This special edition of\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Art of War by Sun Tzu\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  presents this timeless classic in two forms:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Section I contains the complete thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu''s masterpiece in Chinese, with the facing page English translation by Lionel Giles, without notes or commentary. This presentation avoids the objection that commentary tends to clutter and obscure the clarity of thought of the ancient military genius.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Section II contains the complete Giles translation of\n  <em>\n   The Art of War\n  </em>\n  , including his extensive introduction, and the fully annotated text with explanatory notes and critical commentary. His 1910 introduction includes an historical account of Sun Tzu''s work, evaluations by and of early Chinese commentators, an essay examining the traditional Chinese attitudes toward war and a bibliography that details Giles'' source materials. The text in this section includes critical commentary and notes by both Chinese historians as well as by Giles himself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lionel Giles, as the Keeper of the Department of Oriental printed Books and Manuscripts of the British Museum, was uniquely qualified to translate and explain this great classic Chinese work to Western readers. First published in 1910, Giles'' translation is widely considered to be the definitive English version.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Other special editions in this series which deal with the subject of warfare and strategy include:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Art of War By Mao Tse-tung - Special Edition\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (ISBN13: 978-0976072676)\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Art of War By Baron De Jomini - Special Edition\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (ISBN13: 978-0976072669)\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Art of War &amp; The Prince By Machiavelli - Special Edition\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (ISBN13: 978-0976072683)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission.\n  </strong>\n  All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From Section II - Introduction\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ssu-ma Ch`ien gives the following biography of Sun Tzu:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch`i State. His\n  <em>\n   Art of War\n  </em>\n  brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sun Tzu replied: "You may."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ho Lu asked: "May the test be applied to women?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King''s favorite concubines at the head of each. He then bade them all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: "I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The girls replied: "Yes".\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sun Tzu went on: "When I say "eyes front," you must look straight ahead. When I say "left turn," you must face towards your left hand. When I say "right turn," you must face towards your right hand. When I say "about turn," you must face right round towards your back." Again the girls assented. The words of command having been thus explained, he set up the halberds and battle-axes in order to begin the drill. Then, to the sound of drums, he gave the order "right turn." But the girls only burst out laughing. Sun Tzu said: "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame."\n </p>\n <p>\n  So he started drilling them again, and this time gave the order "left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst into fits of laughter. Sun Tzu: "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers."\n </p>\n <p>\n  So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene from the top of a raised pavilion; and when he saw that his favorite concubines were about to be executed, he was greatly alarmed and hurriedly sent down the following message: "We are now quite satisfied as to our general''s ability to handle troops. If We are bereft of these two concubines, our meat and drink will lose their savor. It is our wish that they shall not be beheaded."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sun Tzu replied: "Having once received His Majesty''s commission to be the general of his forces, there are certain commands of His Majesty which, acting in that capacity, I am unable to accept."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Accordingly, he had the two leaders beheaded, and straightway installed the pair next in order as leaders in their place. When this had been done, the drum was sounded for the drill once more; and the girls went through all the evolutions, turning to the right or to the left, marching ahead or wheeling back, kneeling or standing, with perfect accuracy and precision, not venturing to utter a sound. Then Sun Tzu sent a messenger to the King saying: "Your soldiers, Sire, are now properly drilled and disciplined, and ready for your majesty''s inspection. They can be put to any use that their sovereign may desire; bid them go through fire and water, and they will not disobey."\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the King replied: "Let our general cease drilling and return to camp. As for us, We have no wish to come down and inspect the troops."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thereupon Sun Tzu said: "The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After that, Ho Lu saw that Sun Tzu was one who knew how to handle an army, and finally appointed him general. In the west, he defeated the Ch\n  <code>\n   u State and forced his way into Ying, the capital; to the north he put fear into the States of Ch\n  </code>\n  i and Chin, and spread his fame abroad amongst the feudal princes. And Sun Tzu shared in the might of the King.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(16623, 'Artists.illustrators.2011.10.oct.pdf 11-10-2011', 'Artists.illustrators.2011.10.oct.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10653'),
(16624, 'as_22-9_A_Cover_V1.indd', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6587'),
(16625, 'as_29-9_A_Cover2.indd', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7025'),
(16626, 'ASP_131011_VettelCover_614371.pdf', '13 October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10751'),
(16627, 'ASP.NET 2.0 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe &amp; Ken Cox &amp; Jeff Cogswell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eight minibooks cover ASP.NET basics, Web controls, using HTML and ASP, C#, Visual Basic, database programming, using the .NET Framework, and advanced ASP.NET 2 (including themes, custom server controls, and Web parts)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The ideal resource for Web programming newcomers as well as the 1.5 million existing ASP developers who want a complete ready-reference that covers the new ASP.NET 2 updates\n </li>\n <li>\n  More than double the size of ASP.NET 2 For Dummies (0-7645-7907-X), the latest edition of the bestselling ASP beginner book that boasts combined sales of more than 100,000 copies across all editions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by veteran Dummies author Doug Lowe, who is renowned for his ability to explain complex topics in plain English\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1 â€” your key to ASP.NET 2.0 success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building dynamic, interactive, HTML-based Web pages\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ASP.NET 2.0 can do a lot, so there''s a lot to understand. This handy volume replaces a whole shelf of programming books with the essentials you need, whether you''re an ASP.NET beginner or a pro looking for a quick reference guide. Get the scoop on C# and VB, databases, all the new features, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand labels, text boxes, and validation controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with HTML tags and client-side scripting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Code in C# or Visual Basic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore database programming and XML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the powerful .NET Framework\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1290'),
(16628, 'ASP.NET 3.5 for Dummies', 'Ken Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did you volunteer to create a Web site for the softball team? Is it time to take your small business to the next level and let your customers shop online? Well, you can relax! ASP.NET 3.5 makes creating a dynamic site faster and cleaner than ever before, and\n <em>\n  ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, youâ€™ll get an introduction to all the tools and terminology you need to understand ASP.NET. If youâ€™ve used earlier versions of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer, you can probably skip that part and jump right into whatâ€™s new in 3.5. You''ll make friends with LINQ and SQL, create sites in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, and much more. Before you know it, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Integrate data, track shopping cart contents, and whisk away bugs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create user interfaces with easy navigation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the ListView control for sophisticated formatting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write LINQ queries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add a table to a database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an event handler\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of the drag ''n'' drop feature that lets you write less code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put all the features to work to develop dynamic Web applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The softball team is going to love that Web site, and your customers might enjoy shopping on your site so much that youâ€™ll have to expand your business to fill all the orders! We canâ€™t promise that, of course, but weâ€™re pretty sure that\n <em>\n  ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies\n </em>\n will make creating Web sites easier and a lot more fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All new for ASP.NET 3.5!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make friends with LINQ and SQL, and create sites in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Did you volunteer to create a Web site for the softball team? Want to let yourcustomers shop online? Relax! ASP.NET 3.5 makes creating a dynamic site faster and cleaner, and this book makes it easier. You''ll quickly discover howto integrate data, create user interfaces, track shopping cart contents, whisk away bugs, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the ListView control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write LINQ queries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add a table to a database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an event handler\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Code less using drag ''n'' drop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop dynamic Web applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(16629, 'Asset Allocation for Dummies', 'Dorianne Perrucci &amp; Jerry A. Miccolis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing â€” choosing and mixing your assets successfully.\n</p>\n<p>\n You donâ€™t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation.\n</p>\n<p>\n The big secret behind asset allocation â€” the secret that most sophisticated investors know and use to their benefit â€” is that itâ€™s really not all that hard to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Asset Allocation For Dummies serves as a comprehensive guide to maximizing returns and minimizing risk â€” while managing taxes, fees and other costs â€” in putting together a portfolio to reflect your unique financial goals. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Jerry A. Miccolis (Basking Ridge, NJ), CFAÂ®, CFPÂ®, FCAS, MAAA is a widely quoted expert commentator who has been interviewed in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on CBS Radio and ABC-TV. Â He is a senior financial advisor and co-owner of Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors (www.brintoneaton.com), a fee-only investment management, tax advisory and financial planning firm in Madison, N.J. Dorianne R. Perrucci (Scotch Plains, NJ) is a freelance writer who has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and TheStreet.com, and has collaborated on several financial books, including I.O.U.S.A, One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt (Wiley, 2008).\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use allocation strategies of the pros and protect your financial future\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t have to be an investment expert to allocate your assets successfully. This plain-English guide demystifies the process, giving you timely advice on diversifying your investment portfolio to help insulate it against volatility. You''ll see how to develop your personal investment strategy, avoid costly mistakes, and rebalance to generate extra return.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ABCs of asset allocation â€” discover how it works, why to do it, and the level of risk you''re comfortable with\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the different asset categories â€” from cash and bonds to stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your investment strategy â€” set your portfolio constraints, outline your financial goals, and select your asset classes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose securities and accounts â€” select the best ones, understand fees and expenses, and take advantage of tax breaks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintain your portfolio â€” keep tabs on your investments, know when to rebalance, and measure your results against appropriate market benchmarks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go beyond the basics â€” consider alternative investments (such as real estate and commodities), maximize after-tax results, and work with the pros when you need help\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The top asset allocation mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to match the right investments with the right accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to successfully manage risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Best practices for portfolio rebalancing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "What if?" investment scenarios\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Historical rates of return on ten asset classes and subclasses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to project your financial future\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance for fine-tuning your long-term allocation plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1292'),
(16630, 'Astrology for Dummies', 'Rae Orion', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn how to get your precise horoscope, decipher astrological symbols, and benefit from the phases of the moon with A_strology for Dummies, Second Edition._ Youâ€™ll learn how to construct your birth chart, interpret its component parts, and use that information to gain insight into yourself and others. With easy-to-follow, hands-on guidance, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identify the signs of the zodiac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the rising sign, and the 12 houses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the rulers of the signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Map your own horoscope (or a friendâ€™s)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use astrology in daily life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capture the heart of each sign of the zodiac, and more!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Astrology for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n demystifies astrological charts and uses plain English to show you how you can take advantage of the wisdom of the stars. Whether youâ€™re looking to assess relationships, examine your potential, or make some basic decisions â€” like, when to go on a first date â€”\n <em>\n  Astrology for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n helps you discover how understanding your position in the cosmos illuminates the secret corners of the self, provides a key to understanding others, and even offers a glimpse into the future.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n You probably follow your horoscope in the paper. But theres much more to astrology than the familiar sun signs. This entertaining guide shows you how to cast your birth chart, understand the way planets affect you, and discover what your horoscope means for romance, work, and the future.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<p>\n *Figure out your horoscope\n</p>\n<p>\n *Interpret sun signs, moon signs, rising signs, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n *Analyze relationships\n</p>\n<p>\n *Apply astrology to everyday decisions\n</p>\n<p>\n *Take advantage of astrology software and Web sites\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1293'),
(16631, 'Astronomy.December.2011.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Astronomy.December.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10929'),
(16632, 'ASUS Eee PC for Dummies', 'Joel Mcnamara', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What can you do with your Eee PC? Find out how to get the most from this mini-laptop with\n <em>\n  Asus Eee PC For Dummies.\n </em>\n It shows you how to get things doneâ€”using the Linux operating system and applications, navigating the tabbed desktop, adding hardware and software, backing up and restoring the Eee PC, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll learn how to set up Windows, take advantage of all the pre-installed software, ensure that your computer is secure, and even run your Eee PC on solar power. Youâ€™ll find tips for configuring printers and changing touchpad settings, techniques for making Skype phone calls and listening to Internet radio, and advice for adding storage and peripherals. It also helps you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Take full advantage of this exciting, ultra-portable â€œnetbookâ€ PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your wireless connection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make free Skype phone calls and video calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird e-mail, Mozilla Firefox, and other included applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the versatile OpenOffice productivity suite, including Writer for word processing, Calc for spreadsheets, and Impress for presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare the advantages of Windows vs. Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the science, language, math, and art functions that kids can enjoy on the Eee\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy built-in games, watch videos, play music, organize and view photos, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost storage and memory with SD cards and USB drives, go Bluetooth, and add a GPS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the scoop on backups, explore the advanced desktop, and customize the user interface\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Eee PC makes it simple to surf the Web, play games, work, and more.\n <em>\n  Asus Eee PC For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easier!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover all you can do with this well-equipped, Web-enabled mini-laptop\n</p>\n<p>\n Ultra-small, ultra-light, ultra-easy â€” that''s your Eee PC. But it''s no lightweight when it comes to getting things done, and this book helps you make the most of all it has to offer. Learn to use the Linux operating system and applications, navigate the ingeniously tabbed desktop, add hardware and software, back up and restore the Eee PC, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay in touch â€” learn to use Thunderbird e-mail and explore the flexibility of Web browsing with Firefox\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose your OS â€” see which ASUS Eee PC models come with WindowsÂ® XP and compare the advantages of Windows versus Linux\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Kid stuff â€” discover the science, language, math, and art functions that kids can enjoy on the Eee PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Let''s play â€” enjoy built-in games, watch videos, play music, organize and view photos, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand â€” boost storage and memory with SD cards and USB drives, go BluetoothÂ®, and add a GPS device\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tech it out â€” get the scoop on backups, explore the Advanced Mode desktop, and customize the user interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A quick course in using Linux\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up Windows on an Eee PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide to all the pre-installed software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make Skype phone calls and listen to Internet radio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on backing up, restoring, and troubleshooting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Testing and security advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add storage and peripherals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to extend battery life\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(16633, 'ASVAB AFQT for Dummies', 'Rod Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to scoring well on the AFQT\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  ASVAB AFQT For Dummies\n </em>\n reviews the core concepts that comprise the AFQT portion of the ASVAB, providing the tools that you need to get your best score and become eligible for military enlistment. This practical, hands-on guide features four practice exams (16 subtests in total) and detailed explanations of the answers. You''ll find the instruction, explanation, and practice you need to master the critical Word Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, Arithmetic Reasoning, and Mathematics Knowledge subtests.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Rod Powers is a First Sergeant, U.S. Air Force (Retired), and the author of the bestselling_ ASVAB For Dummies, 2nd Edition_.\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   ASVAB AFQT For Dummies\n  </em>\n  features four practice exams-more than any other title available!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Included is a branch-by-branch breakdown of required AFQT scores\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With test-taking tips and insight from a military expert,\n <em>\n  ASVAB AFQT For Dummies\n </em>\n is the only guide you need to ace the test and start your military career.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your tactical guide to maximizing your AFQT score\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, practical guide gives you everything you need to hit the Armed Forces Qualification Test with an alpha strike! You''ll get clear, easy-to-understand guidance on mastering every aspect of the exam: Word Knowledge, Paragraph Comprehension, Arithmetic Reasoning, and Mathematics Knowledge.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking the AFQT tour â€” take a guided tour of the AFQT and get a clear explanation of the four ASVAB subtests that make up your AFQT score\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   English-language basic training â€” pump up your vocabulary, word knowledge, and reading comprehension skills for both of the language-related subtests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Calculating better math knowledge â€” get easy-to-follow instructions on everything from working with fractions to dealing with decimals to knowing the angles of geometry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with word problems and arithmetic reasoning â€” make sense of word problems and develop a strategy for answering reasoning questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice makes perfect â€” take four practice exams and track your progress with complete explanations and answers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The score you need to join each branch of the military\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A breakdown of how the AFQT score is computed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for getting the most out of your study time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions on how you can request a retest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make smart guesses when you need to\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Algebra and geometry reviews\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test your knowledge and practice your test-taking skills with four complete AFQT exams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boost your score and become eligible for enlistment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be confident with your English and math knowledge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master critical sections of the exam\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(16634, 'ASVAB for Dummies', 'Rod Powers &amp; Jennifer Lawler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with practice questions and proven study tips\n</p>\n<p>\n Get fully briefed on the changes to the ASVAB and sharpen your test-taking skills\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to ace the ASVAB? This essential guide provides a comprehensive review of all test subjects and covers the latest updates, including the new short-length ASVAB and a new sample of the Armed Forces Qualifying Test. You''ll discover the pros and cons of the paper and computer exams, which tests are important to your military career, and cutting-edge study techniques.\n <br />\n * Understand the test''s formats\n <br />\n * Prepare to take the ASVAB\n <br />\n * Improve your study techniques\n <br />\n * Memorize key concepts\n <br />\n * Conquer the subtests\n <br />\n * Compute your scores\n <br />\n * Match scores to military jobs\n <br />\n * Maximize your career choices\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with practice questions and proven study tips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get fully briefed on the changes to the ASVAB and sharpen your test-taking skills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to ace the ASVAB? This essential guide provides a comprehensive review of all test subjects and covers the latest updates, including the new short-length ASVAB and a new sample of the Armed Forces Qualifying Test. You''ll discover the pros and cons of the paper and computer exams, which tests are important to your military career, and cutting-edge study techniques.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the test''s formats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare to take the ASVAB\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your study techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Memorize key concepts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conquer the subtests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compute your scores\n </li>\n <li>\n  Match scores to military jobs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your career choices\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1296');
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(16635, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4048'),
(16636, 'Athletic Scholarships for Dummies', 'Pat Britz &amp; Alexandra Powe Allred', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get insider tips on navigating the recruitment process\n</p>\n<p>\n Find the right school, the right program, the right coach, and the most money\n</p>\n<p>\n You''re prepared for challenges on the athletic field. But are you prepared for the challenges of winning an athletic scholarship? Let this friendly guide be your coach. It explains what kind of scholarships are out there, how to promote yourself and deal with recruiters, and how to survive possible snags after you''ve won your scholarship.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Get yourself noticed and recruited\n <br />\n * Make the most of college visits\n <br />\n * Negotiate a contract and make a commitment\n <br />\n * Understand redshirting\n <br />\n * Know when and how to transfer schools\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get insider tips on navigating the recruitment process\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the right school, the right program, the right coach, and the most money\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''re prepared for challenges on the athletic field. But are you prepared for the challenges of winning an athletic scholarship? Let this friendly guide be your coach. It explains what kind of scholarships are out there, how to promote yourself and deal with recruiters, and how to survive possible snags after you''ve won your scholarship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get yourself noticed and recruited\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of college visits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate a contract and make a commitment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand redshirting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know when and how to transfer schools\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(16637, 'Atomic_2011-10_HQ.pdf 24-09-2011', 'Atomic_2011-10_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6752'),
(16638, 'Augustus', 'Allan Massie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first in an acclaimed series of historical novels--including Tiberius and Caesar--reconstructs the lost memoirs of Augustus, recounting the life of the founder of the Roman Empire in his own frank, forceful style\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3997'),
(16639, 'Australia for Dummies', 'Marc Llewellyn &amp; Lee Mylne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef to glorious, sophisticated cities like Sydney, this guide helps you find the Australian adventures and attractions that are right for you, whether youâ€™d like to cuddle a koala, explore a shipwreck, swim with whale sharks, or climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The mysterious Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Red Center that has awed people for thousands of years\n </li>\n <li>\n  Where to spot all kinds of wildlife, including kangaroos, platypuses, wallabies, Tasmanian devils, wombats, marsupials, and man-eating crocodiles\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best places to take a beach walk or a bushwalk, where youâ€™ll wind beneath dripping tree ferns and pounding cascades\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of activities, from boomerang- and spear-throwing instruction to hiking to snorkeling over dazzling reefs, fishing for coral trout, or discovering Australiaâ€™s best wines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great accommodations, ranging from luxury hotels to an African-style safari camp with air-conditioned tents to a motel with underground rooms reached by a maze of tunnels dug out of the rock\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best places to experience Aboriginal culture and find Aboriginal arts and crafts\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Australia For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore Australia and have a g''day the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Sydney Opera House to mysterious Uluru . . . the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania . . . white sand beaches to the red dust of the Outback, Australia is packed with natural wonders, cosmopolitan cities, the arts, culture, and opportunities for fun and adventure. Take it all in with this handy guide to your perfect Down Under vacation. G''day!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(16640, 'Auto Express 07-2011', 'Auto Express Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2559'),
(16641, 'Auto Repair for Dummies', 'Deanna Sclar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦covers a wide range of topicsâ€¦provides a lot of educational content that explains the main principles of how cars work.'' (Simple Motors.co.uk, December 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The top-selling auto repair guide--400,000 copies sold--now extensively reorganized and updated\n</p>\n<p>\n Forty-eight percent of U.S. households perform at least some automobile maintenance on their own, with women now accounting for one third of this $34 billion automotive do-it-yourself market. For new or would-be do-it-yourself mechanics, this illustrated how-to guide has long been a must and now it''s even better. A complete reorganization now puts relevant repair and maintenance information directly after each automotive system overview, making it much easier to find hands-on fix-it instructions. Author Deanna Sclar has updated systems and repair information throughout, eliminating discussions of carburetors and adding coverage of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. She''s also revised schedules for tune-ups and oil changes, included driving tips that can save on maintenance and repair costs, and added new advice on troubleshooting problems and determining when to call in a professional mechanic. For anyone who wants to save money on car repairs and maintenance, this book is the place to start.\n</p>\n<p>\n Deanna Sclar (Long Beach, CA), an acclaimed auto repair expert and consumer advocate, has contributed to the Los Angeles Times and has been interviewed on the Today show, NBC Nightly News, and other television programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(16642, 'AutoCAD &amp; AutoCAD LT All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'David Byrnes &amp; Lee Ambrosius', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n AutoCAD is the leading software tool for creating technical and architectural drawings, but it definitely doesn''t lead in the "easy to master" category. That''s why there''s\n <em>\n  AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummiesâ€”\n </em>\n the perfect way to break a complex topic into bite-size, easy-to-understand pieces.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you get the hang of using AutoCAD and its slightly less feature-rich cousin, AutoCAD LT, you discover that it offers wonderful advantages. AutoCAD allows you to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create precision to 14 significant digits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Re-use portions of your drawings by copying and pasting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw things full size and print your drawings in any scale\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce drawings that are easier to read when reduced\n </li>\n <li>\n  Electronically share and distribute drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design in 2D or 3D\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n So obviously, the trick is to speed up that "getting the hang of it" process. That''s where\n <em>\n  AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n comes in especially handy. Ten easy-to-follow minibooks cover every aspect of AutoCAD, including the latest features of AutoCAD 2007, so you can find just what you need to know quickly and easily. You''ll get the scoop on\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  AutoCAD basics, such as setting up drawings, finding your way around the interface, and using all the tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Drawing and modifying objects in 2D and annotating your drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  3D modeling and viewing, working with solids and surfaces, and rendering\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding how AutoCAD LT differs from AutoCAD and deciding which program you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advanced drafting skills, including organizing drawings, working with blocks, and using AutoCAD utilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up your drawings for plotting to paper and publishing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sharing your drawings online for collaboration\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customizing and programming AutoCAD to make it work the way you want it to\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In the familiar, friendly\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n fashion,\n <em>\n  AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you plain-English explanations and step-by-step directions. Written by a pair of AutoDesk Authorized Authors, this handy guide will help make your relationship with AutoCAD a happy and productive one.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 10 books in 1â€” your key to AutoCAD success!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to all that''s new in the leading CAD software\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s a whole shelf of reference books in one handy cover! These convenient minibooks make it easy to find and figure out what you need to know, no matter how you use AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. From basic stuff like setting up drawings to 3D modeling, customization, and programming AutoCAD, you''ve got the goods all in one place.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up drawings and files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw and modify objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with text and dimensions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create 2D and 3D drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plot and publish your work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage drawings for sharing\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(16643, 'AutoCAD 2005 for Dummies', 'Mark Middlebrook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows how to use the leading technical drawing software-AutoCAD-and its less-expensive sister product, AutoCAD LT, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows first-time AutoCAD users how to create precise and efficient 2-D technical drawings and get started with 3-D technical drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include creating a basic layout; drawing and editing; writing text in drawings; plotting, creating, and editing external reference files; CAD standards; and drawing on the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores new features in the latest version of AutoCAD, including text improvements, streamlined Plot and Page Setup dialogue boxes, increased emphasis on tool palettes, better tools for transmitting sets of electronic files, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes a new chapter on sheet sets and a new collection of features for creating, managing, and publishing all of the drawings that make up a project\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use sheet sets, collaborate nicely, and go LT for 2005\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to use DWF, live up to new standards, and share files online\n</p>\n<p>\n AutoCAD can be complicated, but this book isnâ€™t! Hereâ€™s where youâ€™ll discover how to set up a drawing, toe the lines, add dimension and text, share your stuff, and more, in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT. Now youâ€™ll be able to create a presentable, usable, printable, and sharable drawing without getting old before your time.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage projects with sheet sets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import data into drawings using text tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Collaborate with other users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Standardize drawing components with tool palettes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the streamlined Plot and Page Setup features\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(16644, 'AutoCAD 2006 for Dummies', 'Mark Middlebrook &amp; David Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n AutoCAD "X" For Dummies is being updated to reflect the new features in the latest release of AutoCAD.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get acquainted with AutoCAD, one piece at a time\n</p>\n<p>\n Take a quick tour of AutoCAD, see what''s new, and start making real drawings\n</p>\n<p>\n If ever there was a software package that could use some down-to-earth explanation, it''s AutoCAD. Thank heavens for this book! It''s all here, from the basics of what AutoCAD does and how to set up a drawing to adding text and dimensions, printing (or plotting, in AutoCADese), and playing nicely with other AutoCAD kids.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Compare AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create basic drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage metric units\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use dynamic blocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Re-use with blocks and xrefs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add multiline text\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(16645, 'AutoCAD 2007 for Dummies', 'David Byrnes &amp; Mark Middlebrook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n AutoCAD 2007 is a premiere computer-aided designing program that lets you organize the objects you draw, their properties, and their files. It also helps you create great-looking models. But itâ€™s not always easy to figure out how to perform these functions, and many users end up missing out on AutoCADâ€™s full potential.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to perform these tasks and more! This hands-on guide lets you discover how to navigate around all the complications and start creating cool drawings in no time. Soon youâ€™ll have the tools you need to use DWG, set up drawings, add text, and work with lines, as well as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Draw a base plate with rectangles and circles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize a successful template\n </li>\n <li>\n  Zoom and pan with glass and hand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the AutoCAD design center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate through your 3-D drawing projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plot layout, lineweights, and colors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design block definitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Slice and dice your drawings to create new designs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a Web format using AutoCAD\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This book also features suggestions and tips on how to touch up your creations as well as ways to swap drawing data with other people and programs. Written in a friendly, straightforward tone that doesnâ€™t try to overwhelm you,\n <em>\n  AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the fun and easy way to draw precise 2-D and 3-D drawings!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet the newest version of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get acquainted with DWG, set up drawings, add text, and work with lines\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Welcome to the world of AutoCAD 2007! The program may be complex, but this friendly guide helps you navigate around all the complications and start creating cool drawings quickly. Get the hang of CAD standards, see what makes AutoCAD 2007 different, plot and edit your work, draw in 3D, put your stuff online, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand and use AutoCAD tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Zoom and Pan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the AutoCAD Design Center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw lines, polylines, polygons, and circles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Slice and dice drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Model and manipulate 3D objects\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(16646, 'AutoCAD 2008 3D Modeling Workbook for Dummies', 'Lee Ambrosius', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  AutoCAD 2007 features a new 3D rendering engine that greatly enhances the program''s 3D functionality-and makes this industry-standard drafting program even more difficult to master, even for veteran users\n </li>\n <li>\n  This focused For Dummies workbook gives people the practice they need to get up to speed on the new 3D features, with dozens of problems and step-by-step solutions for modeling, shadowing, and lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered by the problems include 2D geometric construction, 3D solid modeling, 3D surface modeling, rendering and imaging, dimensioning and drafting, and model interchange\n </li>\n <li>\n  Used by architects, engineers, and draftspeople, AutoCAD is the #1 computer-aided design (CAD) software in the world, with an installed base of 6.7 million users\n </li>\n <li>\n  The accompanying DVD provides videos that illustrate select problems and solutions presented in the workbook\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Conquer the complexities of AutoCAD 3D modeling\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mastering AutoCAD is no picnic, and using it for 3D modeling is among the toughest challenges. This unique workbook offers over one hundred exercises that lead you skill by skill toward AutoCAD 3D success. You get the hands-on practice you need to tackle everything from solid and surface modeling to rendering and plottingâ€”all reinforced with video walkthroughs on the companion DVD.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See How To\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transition from 2D to 3D\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Model solids using primitives, extrusions, and sweeps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle complex surface modeling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Visualize and render designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plot, import, or export 3D designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All this on the bonus DVD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Video walkthroughs demonstrate more than 60 AutoCAD 3D modeling techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   140 demonstration files to accompany the book''s exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Trial version of AutoCAD 2008\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   System requirements: Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1304'),
(16647, 'AutoCAD 2008 for Dummies', 'David Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A gentle, humorous introduction to this fearsomely complex software that helps new users start creating 2D and 3D technical drawings right away\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the new features and enhancements in the latest AutoCAD version and provides coverage of AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD''s lower-cost sibling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include creating a basic layout, using AutoCAD DesignCenter, drawing and editing, working with dimensions, plotting, using blocks, adding text to drawings, and drawing on the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  AutoCAD is the leading CAD software for architects, engineers, and draftspeople who need to create detailed 2D and 3D technical drawings; there are more than 5 million registered AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT users\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover precision techniques that increase accuracy and save time!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore the essentials, improve your geometry, and share your stuff\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n AutoCAD sets the standard for creating architectural and mechanical drawings, and it''s a complex package. Well, that''s where this book comes in! It takes you one step at a time through properly setting up AutoCADÂ® and AutoCAD LTÂ®, drawing and editing, zooming and panning, plotting and printing, working online, and other essentials.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Harness the text and annotation upgrades\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up basic drawings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the drawing commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Zoom and pan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore 3D models\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit hatch objects\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1305'),
(16648, 'AutoCAD 2009 &amp; AutoCAD LT 2009 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Lee Ambrosius', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody ever said AutoCAD was easy, which is why you need\n <em>\n  AutoCAD &amp; AutoCAD LT 2009 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies\n </em>\n ! These nine minibooks cover all the stuff you need to know to set up AutoCAD for 2D or 3D, create drawings, modify and share them, publish your work, and more. Thereâ€™s even a minibook devoted to increasing your options with AutoCAD LT!\n</p>\n<p>\n This one-stop guide to creating great technical drawings using AutoCAD 2009 shows you how to navigate the AutoCAD interface, set up drawings, use basic and precision tools, and use drawing objects. Youâ€™ll learn how to annotate your drawings, use dimensioning and hatching, and work with AutoCADâ€™s new Annotation Scaling feature. Youâ€™ll also find out how to work with solids, texture surfaces, add lighting, and much more. Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate the AutoCAD interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with lines, shapes, and curves\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add explanatory text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand AutoCAD LTâ€™s limitations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Render your drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and manage blocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use AutoCAD advanced drafting techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with CAD management and standards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share your work with others\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize the AutoCAD interface, tools, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with Web links to advanced information on navigating the AutoCAD programming interfaces, using custom programs, getting started with AutoLISP, and working with Visual Basic for AutoCAD,\n <em>\n  AutoCAD &amp; AutoCAD LT 2009 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies\n </em>\n is the only comprehensive AutoCAD guide youâ€™ll ever need.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9 books in 1 â€” your key to success with AutoCAD!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to creating great technical drawings using AutoCAD 2009\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody ever said AutoCAD was easy, which is why you need a book that is! These nine minibooks cover all the stuff you need to know to set up AutoCAD for 2D or 3D, create drawings, modify and share them, publish your work, and more. There''s even a minibook devoted to AutoCAD LT, to increase your options!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the AutoCAD interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with lines, shapes, and curves\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add explanatory text to your drawings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the differences between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Render your drawings\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1306'),
(16649, 'AutoCAD 2011 for Dummies', 'David Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A great way to get up and running fast with AutoCAD "X"!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re just learning AutoCAD, this friendly, For Dummies guide is perfect for you. Youâ€™ll get up to speed on all the basics and start creating 2D and 3D technical drawings sooner than you might imagine. Learn how to create a basic drawing, use AutoCAD Design Center, edit your drawings, work with dimensions, add text, and much more. The book is straightforward, easy to follow, and includes practical tips and notes that demystify this complex software even further.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gets you quickly up to speed on AutoCAD "X," the leading technical drawing software from Autodesk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers how to create a basic drawing, use AutoCAD Design Center, edit your drawings, use blocks, work with dimensions, add text, and draw on the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes updates on the latest features in AutoCAD â€œXâ€ focusing on those that matter most to beginners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses the popular For Dummies approach, which breaks down this intimidating topic into helpful, practical advice and how-tos for real people\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  AutoCAD "X" For Dummies\n </em>\n is what you need to get up to speed and start designing with this market-leading software!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Design with precision, explore your ideas in 3D, and create spectacular drawings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re new to AutoCAD 2011 or just a little rusty, this book will start the wheels turning and keep you rolling in the right direction. It includes practical advice, proven methods, and insider tips to get you up and running quickly. You''ll be setting up the AutoCAD environment to create complex technical drawings and realistic 3D models in no time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn your way around â€” explore AutoCAD 2011 features as you set up a new drawing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Slow and steady â€” understand how the intense detail in setting up a drawing pays off as your work continues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s all about the geometry â€” discover how to draw objects, edit them, and zoom and pan to see them better\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add the essentials â€” incorporate text, dimensioning, and hatching to make it easier to build your amazing creation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get more advanced â€” design symbols with changeable text or appearance and apply parametric rules to drawing objects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play well with others â€” explore all the features that enable you to share drawings and data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go on a 3D spree â€” take a trip into the 3D environment as you model in different ways and create spectacular results\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for setting up a layout in paper space\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage your properties and control your precision\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for using your AutoCAD toolkit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for drawing and editing dimensions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to push the Hatch boundary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   16 steps to follow for plotting success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to create static and dynamic blocks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets to 2D and 3D drawing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop basic layouts for technical drawings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use blocks, add text, and edit drawings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore 3D models and create your own impressive 3D designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create realistic renderings\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(16650, 'AutoCAD LT 2005 for Dummies', 'Mark Middlebrook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦easy to followâ€¦very usefulâ€ (_Engineering Designer_, 1 September 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shows first-time AutoCAD LT users how to use this popular 2D technical drawing software-an easier-to-use, less feature-rich version of the industry standard AutoCAD\n</p>\n<p>\n Updated to reflect the newest features and enhancements in the latest program release, such as text tables, streamlined plot and page setup dialogue boxes, and improvements to AutoCAD''s support for placing, editing, and plotting OLE objects\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes an explanation of the differences between the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and helps users decide which version is right for them\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes a new chapter with a hands-on overview of the typical CAD workflow: drawing objects, zooming and panning to see more detail, editing objects, adding annotations, and plotting\n</p>\n<p>\n Addresses topics such as creating a basic layout, drawing and editing, writing text in drawings, plotting, creating and editing an external reference file, applying CAD standards, and drawing on the Internet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
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(16652, 'Autocar 08-2011', 'Autocar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3674'),
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(16658, 'Automobile 12-09-2011', 'Automobile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5894'),
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(16664, 'Autosport 28-07-2011', 'Autosport', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4659'),
(16665, 'AUTOSPORT-35-2011-09-01.pdf 05-09-2011', 'AUTOSPORT-35-2011-09-01.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3909'),
(16666, 'AUTOSPORT-37-2011-09-15.pdf 15-09-2011', 'AUTOSPORT-37-2011-09-15.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6067'),
(16667, 'Autosport.Magazine.2011.09.15.English.PDF-esel2.pdf 20-09-2011', 'Autosport.Magazine.2011.09.15.English.PDF-esel2.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6553'),
(16668, 'Avalanche Express', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6185'),
(16669, 'Baby &amp; Toddler Meals for Dummies', 'Dawn Simmons &amp; Curt Simmons &amp; Sallie Warren Ms Rd Ld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes tips for feeding picky eaters and kids with allergies\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand your child''s nutritional needs and prepare fast, tasty meals\n</p>\n<p>\n Babies and toddlers need good nutrition to grow and thrive, and this essential, timesaving guide makes it easy to feed your child right. It explains exactly what foods you should introduce at what ages -- and shows you how to prepare fresh, home-cooked baby and toddler meals that beat anything you can get from a jar or box.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Save money and expand your baby-food budget\n <br />\n * Dish up healthy, well-balanced meals\n <br />\n * Introduce new foods at the right time\n <br />\n * Serve foods with high kid-appeal\n <br />\n * Have fun cooking with your child\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes tips for feeding picky eaters and kids with allergies\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand your child''s nutritional needs and prepare fast, tasty meals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Babies and toddlers need good nutrition to grow and thrive, and this essential, timesaving guide makes it easy to feed your child right. It explains exactly what foods you should introduce at what ages â€” and shows you how to prepare fresh, home-cooked baby and toddler meals that beat anything you can get from a jar or box.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Save money and expand your baby-food budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dish up healthy, well-balanced meals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduce new foods at the right time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Serve foods with high kid-appeal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Have fun cooking with your child\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1309'),
(16670, 'Baby &amp; Toddler Sleep Solutions for Dummies', 'Arthur Lavin Md &amp; Susan Glaser Ma', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Understand the sleep effects of life changes, prematurity, and health issues\n</p>\n<p>\n Find your way to your family''s best sleep solutions!\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you wonder whether you''ll ever sleep through the night again? Relax! This reassuring guide provides the essential information you need to help your kids to go to sleep -- and stay asleep -- all night long, whatever their age or stage of development. So cheer up -- a good night''s sleep is just pages away!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Foster healthy sleep patterns for life\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Tailor your approach to your child''s personality\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Establish bedtime rules in a nurturing way\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Handle snoring, night terrors, bedwetting, and other distressing issues\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand the sleep effects of life changes, prematurity, and health issues\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find your way to your family''s best sleep solutions!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you wonder whether you''ll ever sleep through the night again? Relax! This reassuring guide provides the essential information you need to help your kids to go to sleep â€” and stay asleep â€” all night long, whatever their age or stage of development. So cheer up â€” a good night''s sleep is just pages away!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Foster healthy sleep patterns for life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tailor your approach to your child''s personality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish bedtime rules in a nurturing way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle snoring, night terrors, bedwetting, and other distressing issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(16671, 'Baby Massage for Dummies', 'Joanne Bagshaw &amp; Ilene Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ...has illustrations and step-by-step instructions to show you how to use techniques that can reduce your babyâ€™s stressâ€¦â€ (_Manchester Evening News_, 22nd March 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explains massage for preemies, newborns, and toddlers\n</p>\n<p>\n Soothe your baby and promote well-being the all-natural way\n</p>\n<p>\n Curious about baby massage? Featuring illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this friendly guide makes it easy to use techniques that can reduce your baby''s stress; ease the discomfort of colic, constipation, and teething; and create a strong attachment between the two of you. You''ll also find suggestions for making massage part of your everyday routine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Ease common ailments\n <br />\n * Enhance your bond with your baby\n <br />\n * Stimulate growth and development\n <br />\n * Comfort a fussy baby\n <br />\n * Massage babies with special needs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1311'),
(16672, 'Baby Signing for Dummies', 'Jennifer Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Baby Signing For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the skills to connect in a meaningful way with your hearing baby or toddler. Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs, this friendly, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to use simple hand gestures and baby-specific signing techniques to start interacting with your baby. Every sign is accompanied by step-by-step directions and an illustrationâ€”from meeting and greeting, people, and mealtime signs to clothes, animals, outdoor signs, and, of course, bath time and bedtime. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce signs to your baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate signing into daily life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make everyday events easier with signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome stumbling blocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decrease fussing and crying through signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help your baby sign combinations of words\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your baby safe with signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the whole family involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find outside help (Web sites, videos, and signing schools and courses)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with illustrations of the entire ASL alphabet, signing dos and donâ€™ts, and ten songs to sign along with,\n <em>\n  Baby Signing For Dummies\n </em>\n is the key to enhancing communication with your child and increasing his/her intelligence in a simple, fun, and rewarding way!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now you''re talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bond\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you''ll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby''s day. You may even improve baby''s IQ!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce signs to your baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the whole family involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make bedtime easier with signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep baby safe with signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome stumbling blocks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1312'),
(16673, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C. S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5979'),
(16674, 'Baggers.Magazine.2011-11S370_HQ.pdf 02-10-2011', 'Baggers.Magazine.2011-11S370_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7191'),
(16675, 'Bahamas for Dummies', 'Darwin Porter &amp; Danforth Prince', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re planning a Bahamas getaway, this guide gets you in the know and in the mood. Youâ€™ll practically feel the sand between your toes and the sea breeze brushing your face. Find out about hot spots, like the well-touristed Nassau, Paradise Island, and Freeport/Lucaya on Grand Bahama Island, and less-visited islands like the Exumas and Abacos that are perfect if you want serious R &amp; R. This guide covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An overview of Bahamian customs, music, festivals, cuisine, and â€œthirst-bustersâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations ranging from simple Bahamian inns and guesthouses to mega-resorts, and from quaint gingerbread villas to a spectacular beach resort with a kidsâ€™ camp\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best places for all kinds of water sports, including water skiing, banana boat rides, Jet-Skiing, sailing, and parasailing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Snorkeling and scuba diving, including dramatic reef trips, shark dives, shipwreck dives, and even night dives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fishing for wahoo, blue marlin, oceanic bonito, blackfin tuna, snapper, grouper, barracuda, dolphins, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great places to stay and play if tennis or golf is your game\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gambling at glamorous casinos and taking in great stage shows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping for international imports of china, perfume, crystal, gemstones, or watches\n </li>\n <li>\n  A calendar of events including festivals, tournaments, and local holidays\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Bahamas For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re honeymooning or bringing the kidsâ€¦whether you want to be an adventurous underwater explorer or a contented beach potatoâ€¦this guide will help you enjoy the many sites and moods of the Bahamas.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have a spectacular island escape the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With coral sand beaches and spectacular seascapes, The Bahamas beckon. This guide covers everything from quaint bungalows to Vegas-style casinos . . . from water sports to nightlife. Get the scoop on great scuba diving, fishing, golf, sailing, shopping, and more. Relax and enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(16676, 'Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies', 'Chuck Hannabarger &amp; Charles Hannabarger &amp; Rick Buchman &amp; Frederick Buchman &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A practical, easy-to-understand guide to Balanced Scorecard for busy business leaders\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Balanced Scorecard method is an analysis technique designed to translate an organization''s mission and vision statement and overall business strategies into specific, quantifiable goals, and to monitor the organization''s performance in achieving these goals. Much less technology driven then other analysis approaches, it analyzes an organization''s overall performance in four regards: financial analysis, customer service, productivity and internal analysis, and employee growth and satisfaction.\n <em>\n  Balanced Scorecard Strategy For Dummies\n </em>\n breaks down the basics of Balanced Scorecard in simple language with practical, Dummies-style guidance on getting it done. This book covers all the basics of Balanced Scorecard for busy executives and managers-and does it without the high price tag of most professional level Balanced Scorecard guides.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with helpful checklists and figures\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find success by focusing on four critical areas to bring your business into balance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Set and achieve goals consistently by using and applying balanced scorecards that work. This hands-on guide shows you how to pay attention to more than just your bottom line, revealing how to balance goals you set for your customer needs, company growth and education, finances, and productivity. Discover proven strategies to analyze these areas in the best way to bring balance to your business and achieve the success you seek.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand organizational balance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build scorecards and dashboards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze your results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fine-tune and improve your system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common scorecard mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1314');
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(16677, 'Banjo for Dummies', 'Bill Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A complete guide to the world of the five-string banjo written for both beginners and more experienced players.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with over 120 how-to photos and 130 musical examples.\n </li>\n <li>\n  94 track CD included - hear and play along with every exercise and song.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The only book to offer instruction in clawhammer, bluegrass, melodic, single-string, minstrel and classic styles.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From Earl Scruggsâ€™ driving bluegrass picking to the genre-busting jazz fusion of BÃ©la Fleck and the multi-million selling movie soundtrackÂ \n <em>\n  O Brother Where Are Thou?\n </em>\n , the five-string banjo can be heard just about everywhere in American music these days.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Banjo For Dummies\n </em>\n is the most complete guide to the five-string banjo ever written. It covers everything you need to get into the banjo: including how to choose, tune and care for your instrument, developing a good playing posture, fretting your first chords and getting comfortable with the left and right hand picking patterns used for clawhammer and bluegrass playing techniques. Youâ€™ll then add the left hand, spicing up your playing with slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and chokes for an authentic five-string banjo sound.\n</p>\n<p>\n From there, youâ€™ll move on the play 19th century minstrel style, early 20th century classic style as well as try your hand at more advanced examples of bluegrass style. An in-depth chapter on bluegrass music explores Scruggs licks and techniques as well as melodic and single-string styles, with song examples. Also included is a banjo buyerâ€™s guide, a section on music theory as applied to bluegrass and old-time music, an accessories guide (advice on cases, picks, straps, metronomes, computer aids and much more), information on how to find a good teacher, banjo camp or festival, chord charts, bios of twelve influential players, practice tips and much, much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Banjo For Dummies\n </em>\n is accessible and fun to read and itâ€™s easy to locate just what youâ€™re interested in playing. Included are 20 songs including several new compositions written by the author just for this book, including Reno Rag (single-string style), â€œWinstonâ€™s Jigâ€ (Irish three-finger), and â€œEveryday Breakdownâ€ (Scruggs style). All musical examples are played slowly on the accompanying CD, many with guitar and mandolin accompaniment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Evans is one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated banjo players and teachers. He has taught thousands of people to play the five-string banjo in private lessons and group workshops literally all over the world. In addition to leading the Bill Evans String Summit, Bill has performed with Dry Branch Fire Squad, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Tony Trischka and many others and he hosts his own acclaimed banjo camp, the NashCamp Fall Banjo Retreat in the Nashville area. As an American music historian, he has taught at San Francisco State University, the University Virginia and Duke University. He has written a popular instructional column for\n <em>\n  Banjo Newsletter\n </em>\n magazine for the last fifteen years and hosts three popular instructional DVDs for AcuTab Publications. To learn more about Bill, visit his homepage at www.nativeandfine.com.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with how-to photos and musical examples\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From folk to bluegrass and beyond, play great banjo music â€” even if you''ve never played before!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to jump on the banjo bandwagon? This unique how-to guide gives you the latest tips on choosing and caring for a five-string banjo while covering both the popular clawhammer and bluegrass playing styles. You''ll see how to fret your first chords, incorporate slides and pull-offs, understand rhythm, play popular banjo tunes, and survive your first jam session!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the right banjo and accessories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop correct hand position and posture\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play basic chords and simple tunes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master bluegrass and clawhammer picking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tune and maintain your banjo\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(16678, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam L G Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n CLASSIC GHOST STORY CHILLS IN THIS FAST-PACED OCCULT THRILLER.\n</p>\n<p>\n Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world - that he could commune with spirits. But in Scotland''s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. And now the young are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited disappear.This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it?This chilling occult thriller is both an homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacy modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3919'),
(16679, 'Banshee Cries', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In "Banshee Cries," ritual murders under a full moon lead Jo Walker to confront a Harbinger of Death. Maybe this "gift" she has is one she shouldn''t ignore â€” because the next life she has to save might be her own!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5981'),
(16680, 'The Barbarian/Casca', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4648'),
(16681, 'Bartending for Dummies', 'Ray Foley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦a very interesting and informative bookâ€¦â€ (_M2 Best Books_, May 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1,000 + recipes and great party tips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the latest bar buzz on how to host, mix, shake, pour, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to concoct the perfect cocktail? From today''s popular Mojitos and Martinis to classics like Manhattans and Margaritas, you''ll be able to sip and entertain with a special twist. Get the scoop on everything from liquors, wine, and beer to Scotch, tequila, the latest tools of the trade, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Stock a bar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix exotic specialties and hot toddies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Experiment with new flavored rums, vodkas, and cordials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Garnish and serve drinks like a master mixologist\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cure hangovers and hiccups\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(16682, 'Basic Math &amp; Pre-Algebra for Dummies', 'Mark Zegarelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips for simplifying tricky operations\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the skills you need to solve problems and equations and be ready for algebra class\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions, decimals, and percents, you''ll build necessary skills to tackle more advanced topics, such as imaginary numbers, variables, and algebraic equations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand fractions, decimals, and percents\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Unravel algebra word problems\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Grasp prime numbers, factors, and multiples\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Work with graphs and measures\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Solve single and multiple variable equations\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for simplifying tricky operations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the skills you need to solve problems and equations and be ready for algebra class\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions, decimals, and percents, you''ll build necessary skills to tackle more advanced topics, such as imaginary numbers, variables, and algebraic equations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand fractions, decimals, and percents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Unravel algebra word problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp prime numbers, factors, and multiples\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with graphs and measures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve single and multiple variable equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1317'),
(16683, 'Basic Math &amp; Pre-Algebra Workbook for Dummies', 'Mark Zegarelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When you have the right math teacher, learning math can be painless and even fun! Let\n <em>\n  Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n teach you how to overcome your fear of math and approach the subject correctly and directly. A lot of the topics that probably inspired fear before will seem simple when you realize that you can solve math problems, from basic addition to algebraic equations. Lots of students feel they got lost somewhere between learning to count to ten and their first day in an algebra class, but help is here!\n</p>\n<p>\n Begin with basic topics like interpreting patterns, navigating the number line, rounding numbers, and estimating answers. You will learn and review the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Do remainders make you nervous? Youâ€™ll find an easy and painless way to understand long division. Discover how to apply the commutative, associative, and distributive properties, and finally understand basic geometry and algebra. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Properly use negative numbers, units, inequalities, exponents, square roots, and absolute value\n </li>\n <li>\n  Round numbers and estimate answers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solve problems with fractions, decimals, and percentages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate basic geometry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Complete algebraic expressions and equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand statistics and sets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncover the mystery of FOILing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Answer sample questions and check your answers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten alternative numeral and number systems, ten curious types of numbers, and ten geometric solids to cut and fold,\n <em>\n  Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n will demystify math and help you start solving problems in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the confidence and the math skills you need to get started with algebra!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you about to jump into algebra? This easy-to-follow, hands-on workbook helps you brush up on your general math skills and practice the types of problems you''ll encounter in your coursework. You get plenty of work space, step-by-step solutions to every problem, and expert tips on making the leap from arithmetic to algebra.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed, fully worked-out solutions to problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The inside scoop on converting fractions, decimals, and percents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The tips and tricks you need to solve basic algebra problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1318'),
(16684, 'Batman.And.Robin.Vol.2.No.1.Nov.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Batman.And.Robin.Vol.2.No.1.Nov.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6801'),
(16685, 'Battle Flag', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Distinguished at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck''s career is jeopardized once again by the suspicion and hostility of his brigade commander, General Washington Faulconer. The outcome of this vicious fight drastically changes both men''s fortunes and propels AX into the ghastly bloodletting at the Second Battle of Manassas.  Evocative and historically accurate, Battle Flag continues Bernard Cornwell''s powerful series of Nate''s adventures on some of the most decisive battlefields of the American Civil War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4582'),
(16686, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4161'),
(16687, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4431'),
(16688, 'BBC olive - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5985'),
(16689, 'BBC Ultimate Gadget Guide 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6123'),
(16690, 'BBC Wildlife 07-2011', 'BBC Wildlife', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2500'),
(16691, 'BBC Wildlife 08-09-2011', 'BBC Wildlife', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4668'),
(16692, 'BBC.Knowledge-SeptemberOctober.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'BBC.Knowledge-SeptemberOctober.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6739'),
(16693, 'BBC.Wildlife.Magazine.2011-10.pdf 30-09-2011', 'BBC.Wildlife.Magazine.2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7049'),
(16694, 'BBQ Sauces, Rubs &amp; Marinades for Dummies', 'Traci Cumbay &amp; Tom Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Think only master chefs can create the savory, succulent barbecue masterpieces you love to eat? Nonsense!\n <em>\n  BBQ Sauces, Rubs &amp; Marinades For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you everything you need to dig in, get your apron dirty, and start stirring up scrumptious sauces, magical marinades, and rubs to remember.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring 100 bold new recipes, along with lots of savvy tips for spicing up your backyard barbecue, this get-the-flavor guide a healthy dose of barbecue passion as it delivers practical advice and great recipes from some of America''s best competition barbecue cooks. You get formulas for spicing up chicken, beef, pork, and even seafood, plus plenty of suggestions on equipment, side dishes, and much more. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right types of meat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a BBQ tool set\n </li>\n <li>\n  Craft your own sauces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Smoke and grill like a pro\n </li>\n <li>\n  Marinate like a master\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the perfect time to add sauce\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rub your meat the right way\n </li>\n <li>\n  Whip up fantastic sides\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add flavor with the right fuel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan hours (and hours) ahead\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cook low and slow for the best results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid flavoring pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn BBQ leftovers into ambrosia\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful lists of dos and donâ€™ts, as well as major barbecue events and associations,\n <em>\n  BBQ Sauces, Rubs &amp; Marinades For Dummies\n </em>\n is the secret ingredient that will have your family, friends, and neighborhoods begging for more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the flavor that brings ''em back for more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stir up scrumptious sauces, magical marinades, and rubs to remember\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What is it about barbecue that inspires a lifelong quest for the best? This book provides you with a healthy dose of BBQ passion, along with practical advice and great recipes from some of America''s best competition barbecue cooks. You get formulas for spicing up chicken, beef, pork, and even seafood, plus tips on equipment, side dishes, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right types of meat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a BBQ tool set\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Craft your own sauces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Smoke and grill like a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Whip up fantastic sides\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1319'),
(16695, 'BEA WebLogic Server 8 for Dummies', 'Jeff Heaton &amp; Melody Layne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides an introduction to J2EE using the WebLogic platform, which claims the largest market share-about forty percent-of the Java application server market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features the most comprehensive coverage of the component types of WebLogic in the friendly For Dummies style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers static resources, JSPs, taglibs and servlets, EJBs, and WebLogic''s Web service development and deployment capabilities and tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teaches readers the basic administration and monitoring capabilities built into WebLogic, using a conversational and example-driven approach\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses real-world analogies all programmers will recognize to introduce the major topics of J2EE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examples will include not only coding, but also step-by-step deployment and troubleshooting tips\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set up Web services for WindowsÂ®, UnixÂ®, and LinuxÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Install and configure WebLogic, serve up some beans, and visit the Workshop\n</p>\n<p>\n Got application server issues? Apply some logic with BEA WebLogic Server, and let this handy guide show you how. Youâ€™ll soon be up and running with the number one J2EE application server, building and deploying Web services, using WebLogic Workshop, managing clusters, and using all the components of this enterprising technology.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1320'),
(16696, 'Beagles for Dummies', 'Susan Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beagles are an extraordinary breedâ€”no bones about it. Theyâ€™re cute, compact, fun-loving, and great with kids. (Not to mention those soulful eyes!) But their sense of humor, independence, and stubborn nature isnâ€™t for everyone. So whether youâ€™re thinking about getting your very own Snoopy-dog, or if youâ€™ve already opened your heart and home to one,\n <em>\n  Beagles for Dummies\n </em>\n answers important questions like:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What are Beagles supposed to look like and how should they behave?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Should I choose a puppy or an adult dog? Male or female?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How do I correct my Beagleâ€™s behavior problems?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What do I need to do to survive my Beagleâ€™s puppyhood?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How can I Beagle-proof my house to keep him (and my stuff) safe?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What should I teach my Beagle to do? How do I teach him?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What health problems is my Beagle likely to have when heâ€™s young? How about when he grows upâ€”or gets old?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Life with these little hounds can lead to years of merriment, entertainment, and loveâ€”but if you think Beagles are just another hound dog, think again! Whether you want to know everything there is to living with a Beagle, or just want to skip to a relevant subject (like how to keep him out of the hamper),\n <em>\n  Beagles for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you everything you need to choose and raise your Snoopy soul mate.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers housetraining, socializing, and exercising your Beagle\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the scoop on bringing a Beagle home and raising him right\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Beagles are fun-loving, cute, and great with kids. Is a Beagle right for you? This essential guide helps you decide, giving you all the basics on the breed. From feeding and grooming to healthcare and training, you get expert advice on making your Beagle''s homecoming a success and raising a happy, well-adjusted dog.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Adopt or rescue the right Beagle for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beagle-proof your home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bond with your new friend\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach basic commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Address behavior issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan travel with your Beagle in mind\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1321'),
(16697, 'The Bean Trees', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œTHE BEAN TREES IS THE WORK OF A VISIONARY.â€-Los Angeles Times  â€œA LIVELY NOVELâ€¦ AN EASY BOOK TO ENJOY.â€-The New Yorker  â€œLOVELY, FUNNY, TOUCHING AND HUMANE.â€-Kirkus Reviews  â€œA SPIRITED, WARM BOOK, WRY AND AT THE SAME TIME REFRESHINGLY GUILELESS.â€-Ella Leffland  ***  Taylor Green becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they meet the proprietor of an auto-repair shop with a safe-house for Central American refugees upstairs and there she builds a life for herself and her child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4620'),
(16698, 'Bear Island', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Film Crew Sails North To A Barren Arctic Island With A Killer On Board. And A Wartime Graveyard Of Ships And Men Explodes In Violence Once More&amp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3951'),
(16699, 'Beat to Quarters', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Adventure fiction. June, 1808Â â€“ and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands fullâ€¦ Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and â€˜to take, sink, burn or destroyâ€™ the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line NatividadÂ â€“ or face court-martial. And as if that wasn''t hard enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesleyâ€¦ This is theÂ seventh of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester''s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5963'),
(16700, 'Beekeeping for Dummies', 'Howland Blackiston &amp; Kim Flottum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _ Beekeeping For Dummies_ is a honey of a book on an increasingly popular hobby. For both enjoyment and profit, beekeeping has become a booming enterprise. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery from this pastime. Realize the benefits of keeping bees, from aiding the environment to enjoying homemade honey and wax products.\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Beekeeping For Dummies_ includes detailed, full-color photographs that show how to install a package of bees in your hive, what to expect from your bees (they are incredibly well-tempered during swarming!), and how to spot-and solve-common beekeeping problems.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Beekeeping For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Howland Blackiston, expert beekeeper and the president and co-owner of www.bee-commerce.com.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now updated â€” your guide to becoming a successful backyard beekeeper\n</p>\n<p>\n Interested in raising honey bees? This friendly, practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To bee or not to bee? â€” understand the benefits of beekeeping and whether it''s right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your first hive â€” gather the right equipment, obtain your bees, and transfer them safely to their new home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get up-close and personal â€” see how to open and close the hive, inspect your bees at the right times, and know what to look for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle common problems â€” from swarming to robbing to pesticide poisoning, find simple solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand Colony Collapse Syndrome â€” learn what you can do to help save the honey bees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gear up for the golden harvest â€” use the tools of the trade to extract honey, store it, and sell it\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Praise for Beekeeping For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n "The information a beginner needs to keep bees with confidence."\n <br />\n â€” Kim Flottum, Bee Culture Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n "A reader-friendly guide to beekeeping for novices or beginners."\n <br />\n â€” Dewey M. Caron, Professor of Entomology, University of Delaware\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The various types of honey bees and the role each plays in a colony\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on instruction in building a hive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep bees healthier and more productive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for all phases of honey production\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New information on raising your own queens\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plenty of helpful, illustrative pictures to guide you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The safest ways to inspect and enjoy your bees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A Beekeeper''s Calendar organized by climate zones\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(16701, 'The Beer Book', 'Tim Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is the ideal drinking companion - an extensive directory of over 2,000 beers. Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about and travel for. You can explore its astonishing variety and rapidly expanding new tastes - thirst-quenching lagers, "meal-in-a-glass" stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, and classic ales and bitters - with this up-to-date guide to every good beer in the world. You can visit over 800 breweries and read detailed tasting notes for over 2,000 beers from a team of local specialists. You can whet your appetite with tours to key beer-producing destinations, and discover the beers to try and how best to enjoy them, with brews that are anything but ''a pint of the usual''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(16702, 'Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel', 'S. J. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I''m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Memories define us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you loveâ€”all forgotten overnight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Welcome to Christine''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4372'),
(16703, 'Beginning Android', 'Android', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3068'),
(16704, 'Beginning Android Application Development', 'Wei-Meng Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10774'),
(16705, 'Beginning Flash Game Programming for Dummies', 'Andy Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can start game programming in a flash\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s how to create five different cool games - no experience necessary!\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever think you could come up with a better computer game? Then this book is for you! No boring programming theory here, just the stuff you need to know to actually make something happen, and all in plain English. Build a brain-teasing math game, go classic with Pong, create monsters and mayhem, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Build and control basic movie clips\n <br />\n * Make text appear and change\n <br />\n * Generate random numbers\n <br />\n * Add sound effects\n <br />\n * Create cars and space vehicles that move realistically\n <br />\n * Blow up stuff onscreen\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n I''m Andy Harris, the author of Beginning Flash Game Programming for Dummies. I''m very excited about this book. It''s something I''ve wanted to write for a very long time. I love games, I love programming, and I love teaching. You''ll see all three passions combined in this book.\n</p>\n<p>\n I grew up inventing games long before ordinary people could own a computer. When I got ahold of my first computer, I wrote games on it (and did some serious stuff too.)\n</p>\n<p>\n My first career was teaching severe disabilities special education. I really enjoyed that job, and it taught me a lot about how to explain things clearly without being insulting. While I was working as a special education teacher, I kept programming. I wrote some games for fun, and did some serious freelance programming, as well as teaching programming part time at the local university.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now I''m a full time computer science instructor at Indiana University / Purdue University - Indianapolis. (Yes, that\n <strong>\n  is\n </strong>\n the longest university name in the world.) I teach all kinds of programming languages and styles, but I never forget to have fun and enjoy teaching.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve written several other books on various programming topics, but this one is special. First, I''m thrilled to be writing in the landmark Dummies series. It''s an honor to be associated with such an established title. At the same time, it''s fun to work with a publisher that encourages me to write bad puns. That turned out to be no problem, as you''ll see. The best part is I get to write about my passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Computer games are a lot of fun. So why is it that books about writing games are so painful? I wanted to write a book that was fun, but also teaches you the stuff you need so you can write your own games. If you sit down and work through this book, I promise you you''ll be able to make good games.\n</p>\n<p>\n I can''t wait to see the games you make. Get writing some games, and drop me an email some time!\n</p>\n<p>\n -Andy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(16706, 'Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So you want to be a programmer? Or maybe you just want to be able to make your computer do what YOU want for a change? Maybe you enjoy the challenge of identifying a problem and solving it. If programming intrigues you for whatever reason,\n <em>\n  Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is like having a starter programming library all in one handy, if beefy, book.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this practical guide, youâ€™ll find out about compiling, algorithms, best practices, debugging your programs, and much more. The concepts are illustrated in several different programming languages, so youâ€™ll get a feel for the variety of languages and the needs they fill. Seven minibooks cover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting started\n </li>\n <li>\n  Programming basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Data structures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Algorithms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Web programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Programming language syntax\n </li>\n <li>\n  Applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to decide what you want your program to do, turn your instructions into â€œmachine languageâ€ that the computer understands, use programming best practices, explore the â€œhowâ€ and â€œwhyâ€ of data structuring, and more. Youâ€™ll even get a look into various applications like database management, bioinformatics, computer security, and artificial intelligence. Soon youâ€™ll realize that â€” wow! Youâ€™re a programmer!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1 â€” your key to programming success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to programming concepts in a variety of languages\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been curious about what it takes to program a computer and make it do your bidding, here''s the place to start! Each of these handy minibooks covers an important element of programming. You''ll find out about compiling, algorithms, best practices, debugging your programs, and more, illustrated in several programming languages.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decide what you want your program to do\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Program in different languages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn your instructions into machine language\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use programming best practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand data structures, algorithms, and syntax\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(16707, 'Beginning Programming With Java for Dummies', 'Barry Burd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Covering everything from basic Java development concepts to the latest tools and techniques used in Java, this book will put would-be programmers on their way to Java mastery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores what goes into creating a program, how to put the pieces together, dealing with standard programming challenges, debugging, and making it work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated for the release of the Java SDK 2.0, with all examples revised to reflect the changes in the technology\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n See why Java is a great place to start programming\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the scoop on what goes into a program and how to build one that works\n</p>\n<p>\n This Java won''t keep you up nights, because you have this handy book to show you the ropes! It lays the groundwork for the whole programming experience, shows you how to get started with Java, takes you through creating your first programs, helps you solve programming problems, and even lets you in on some great tips.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Turn your instructions into code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compile and run a program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand methods, classes, and objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use variables, values, and types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Java "if" statements\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(16708, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4100'),
(16709, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4462'),
(16710, 'Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin 24.08.2011', 'Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3708'),
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(16768, 'Best Ideas for Christmas USA', 'Vol.21, No.1-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10778'),
(16769, 'Best Movie International Magazine', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7043'),
(16770, 'BEST Secret Restaurant Recipes 1', 'RecipeLion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(16771, 'BEST Secret Restaurant Recipes 2', 'RecipeLion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
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(16773, 'best-of-smashing-magazine', 'Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6762'),
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(16775, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4261'),
(16776, 'Between the Assassinations', 'Aravind Adiga', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On India''s south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur â€“ a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur''s residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of "The Satanic Verses"; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed, "Between the Assassinations" is a triumph of voice and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4311'),
(16777, 'Beyond Good and Evil', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &amp; Helen Zimmern', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A major 19th century philosophical work by the German philologist, philosopher and author. In it, Nietzsche denounces what he considers to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacks philosophers for what he considers to be their lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their considerations of morality and values.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(16778, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4194'),
(16779, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4203'),
(16780, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4368'),
(16781, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4417'),
(16782, 'Bike Repair &amp; Maintenance for Dummies', 'Dennis Bailey &amp; Keith Gates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...this hands-on resource guide has all the tips you need...Bike Repair &amp; Maintenance For Dummies is an excellent guide." (Caravan Club Magazine, April 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By coupling step-by-step instructions and detailed photos and illustrations, Bike Repair &amp; Maintenance For Dummies gives readers the information they need to keep their bikes in working order, often without taking it to the shop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
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(16787, 'Billboard 10-09-2011', 'Billboard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4665'),
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(16790, 'Bilmagasinet 233 02-2011', 'Bilmagasinet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(16791, 'Bilmagasinet 234 03-2011', 'Bilmagasinet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2306'),
(16792, 'Bilmagasinet 235 04-2011', 'Bilmagasinet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(16793, 'Bilmagasinet 236 05-2011', 'Bilmagasinet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(16794, 'Bilmagasinet 237 06-2011', 'Bilmagasinet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(16795, 'Binder1.pdf 11-09-2011', 'Binder1.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5720'),
(16796, 'Biochemistry for Dummies', 'John T. Moore &amp; Richard Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by biochemistry? Youâ€™re not the first, and you wonâ€™t be the last. Hereâ€™s the good news â€” you donâ€™t have to stay baffled!\n <em>\n  Biochemistry For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the fun and easy way to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any standardized test.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, unintimidating guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course and makes biochemistry basics easy to understand. It explains all the topics and practical applications in plain English. From cell ultrastructure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supramolecular structure, youâ€™ll identify biochemical structures and reactions, send your grades soaring, and start looking forward to your next class, instead of dreading it. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Master biochemistry basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work through biochemistry problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for standardized tests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grasp amino acid and protein structures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Nail down enzyme terminology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a grip on the Michaelis-Menton equation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Load up on carbo knowledge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crack the nucleic acid code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to love lipids â€” but not too much\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the ABCs of vitamins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply biochem in everyday life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore a career in the field\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From water chemistry to protein synthesis\n <em>\n  Biochemistry For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the vital information, clear explanations, and important insights you need to increase your understanding and improve your performance on any biochemistry test.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers proteins, carbohydrates, and genetics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grasp biochem basics, apply the science, and ace your exams\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by biochemistry? This unintimidating guide makes it easy to understand, explaining all the topics and practical applications in plain English. From cell ultrastructure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supramolecular structure, you''ll identify biochemical structures and reactions, improve your grades, and get ready to tackle your tests.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master biochemistry basics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work through biochem problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for standardized tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply biochem in everyday life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore a career in the field\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(16797, 'Bioinformatics for Dummies', 'Jean-michel Claverie Ph. D. &amp; Cedric Notredame Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦buy soon and read fast!â€¦â€ (_Spixiana_, July 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...will be of enormous practical assistance to anyone getting to grips with bioinformatics tools in the course of their research..." (_Briefings in Bioinformatics_, June 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high school but had other plans after you graduated? Now you can explore the human genome and analyze DNA without ever leaving your desktop!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bioinformatics For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with valuable information that introduces you to this exciting new discipline. This easy-to-follow guide leads you step by step through every bioinformatics task that can be done over the Internet. Forget long equations, computer-geek gibberish, and installing bulky programs that slow down your computer. Youâ€™ll be amazed at all the things you can accomplish just by logging on and following these trusty directions. You get the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Analyze all types of sequences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all types of databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with DNA and protein sequences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conduct similarity searches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a multiple sequence alignment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit and publish alignments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Visualize protein 3-D structures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Construct phylogenetic trees\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This up-to-date second edition includes newly created and popular databases and Internet programs as well as multiple new genomes. It provides tips for using servers and places to seek resources to find out about whatâ€™s going on in the bioinformatics world.\n <em>\n  Bioinformatics For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to get the most out of your PC and the right Web tools so youâ€™ll be searching databases and analyzing sequences like a pro!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(16798, 'Biometrics for Dummies', 'Peter Gregory &amp; Michael A. Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What is biometrics? Whether youâ€™re just curious about how biometrics can benefit society or you need to learn how to integrate biometrics with an existing security system in your organization,\n <em>\n  Biometrics For Dummies\n </em>\n can help.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s a friendly introduction to biometrics â€” the science of identifying humans based on unique physical characteristics. With the governmentâ€™s use of biometrics â€” for example, biometric passport readers â€” and application of the technology for law enforcement, biometrics is growing more popular among security experts.\n <em>\n  Biometrics For Dummies\n </em>\n explains biometric technology, explores biometrics policy and privacy issues with biometrics, and takes a look at where the science is heading. Youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How pattern recognition and fingerprint recognition are used\n </li>\n <li>\n  The many vulnerabilities of biometric systems and how to guard against them\n </li>\n <li>\n  How various countries are handling the privacy issues and what can be done to protect citizensâ€™ privacy\n </li>\n <li>\n  How a scan of the palm, veins in the hand, and sonar imagery establish identity\n </li>\n <li>\n  What it takes to fully authenticate a signature\n </li>\n <li>\n  How gait, speech, linguistic analysis, and other types of biometric identification come into play\n </li>\n <li>\n  The criteria for setting up an implementation plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use authentication, authorization, and access principles\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by a pair of security experts,\n <em>\n  Biometrics For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the basics in an easy-to-understand format that doesnâ€™t scrimp on substance. Youâ€™ll get up to speed and enjoy getting there!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dig into biometric identification the fun and friendly Dummies way!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Biometrics â€” the science of identifying humans based on unique physical characteristics â€” is growing in popularity among security experts and security-minded organizations. Once the realm of futurists and sci-fi, biometrics is now commonly used to reliably control whether to let you into a facility or allow you to use a computer system. Here''s what it is, what it does, and how to use it.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   No lying eyes â€” how scans of the retina and iris establish a person''s identity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Triple A" gets you there â€” understand how to use authentication, authorization, and audit principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Security vs. privacy â€” how various countries are handling the privacy issues and what can be done to protect citizens'' privacy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ethics, please â€” understand the ethical issues raised by the growing use of biometric information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Palm reading, 21st century style â€” how a scan of the palm, veins in the hand, and sonar imagery establish identity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sign here â€” what it takes to fully authenticate a signature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Walk this way â€” using gait, speech, linguistic analysis, and other types of behavioral biometrics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Securing the security â€” learn the many vulnerabilities of biometric systems and how to guard against them\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Behavioral as well as physiological biometric measures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for choosing the right biometric system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Triple A is and how to use it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of laws regarding biometrics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Heisenberg''s Uncertainty Principle affects signatures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Criteria for setting up an implementation plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How facial imaging is used\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A look at where biometrics is heading\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(16799, 'Bipolar Disorder for Dummies', 'Candida Fink &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...Bipolar expert Candida Fink has written a book that explains it clearly, and provides plenty of advice on the latest drugs as well as telling you how to spot early signs of the condition..." (_Independent on Sunday_, 25th September 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bipolar Disorder affects many more people than just the 2.5 million Americans who suffer from the disease. Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends and coworkers. And, according to the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 15% of children diagnosed with ADHD may actually be suffering from early-onset of Bipolar Disorder.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bipolar Disorder For Dummies\n </em>\n reveals some of the causes and consequences of bipolar disorder, let you in on some crisis survival strategies, and describe ways that friends and family members can support loved ones who have the disease. The book includes an overview of the causes and symptoms of bipolar disorder, explains step-by-step how to obtain an accurate diagnosis, discusses the medications available, and tells what you can and can''t do to help someone with the disease. You''ll learn:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The different categories and potential causes of bipolar disorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to select the right mental health specialist\n </li>\n <li>\n  Managing employment-related issues brought on because of the disorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  How bipolar disorder affects children\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advocating for yourself or a loved one\n </li>\n <li>\n  Planning ahead for manic and depressive episodes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selecting the best medications for youâ€”including alternative "natural" treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to survive an immediate crisis situation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identifying triggers and mapping your moods\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with fill-in-the-blanks forms and charts, key web site and email addresses, and first-hand accounts from real people,\n <em>\n  Bipolar Disorder For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the latest information and self-help strategies you and your loved ones need to help everyone affected feel a whole lot better.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1330'),
(16800, 'Bite Me (ls-3)', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.  Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.  Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarter â€“ and thirstier â€“ by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais nonâ€¦  Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6328'),
(16801, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4373'),
(16802, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4049'),
(16803, 'BlackBerry Curve for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the most from your BlackBerry Curve with this easy-to-understand reference\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The BlackBerry Curve smartphone is the most popular BlackBerry model sold by Research in Motion. It boasts an optical trackpad, dedicated media keys, easy media sharing, Mac compatibility, iTunes synchronization, a camera, Wi-Fi calling, and extended battery lifeâ€”to name just a few features. This fun, friendly, and easy-to-understand book is a practical guide to the BlackBerry Curve and covers an array of how-to topics to help you get the most out of this exciting handheld device.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn the parts of the Curve, how to navigate the QWERTY keyboard, set up contacts and make appointments, download the latest applications, take great pictures, take advantage of the expandable memory, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Serves as a practical, hands-on guide to the BlackBerry Curve smartphoneCovers all current and newly introduced models of the BlackBerry Curve\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to get online and surf the Web, manage e-mail, and create a to-do list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates navigation tips and shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guides you through upgrades to the newest Curve models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to take advantage of the expandable memory, get multimedia, and download apps from BlackBerry App World\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through syncing your BlackBerry with your desktop\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Avoid the learning curve with this helpful guide to the BlackBerry Curve!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Got a new BlackBerry? Improve your learning curve with this book!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your BlackBerry Curve is like a laptop that fits in your pocket â€” if you know how to use all its features. And you will, after reading this book! You get a complete guide to basic BlackBerry features, plus information on how to organize your appointments and contacts, manage your e-mail, send PIN-to-PIN messages, record and play videos, sync with your desktop, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   BlackBerry 101 â€” learn the parts of your Curve, how to navigate the QWERTY keyboard, and important security tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized â€” set up your contacts, appointments, and reminders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s the password? â€” use Password Keeper to centralize your passwords so they''re easier to remember\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   E-mail 4Ever â€” maximize BlackBerry''s always-on e-mail plus the advantages of text and instant messaging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You are where? â€” find your location with your Curve''s GPS feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master the media â€” listen to music, record and watch videos, and snap and view photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet Desktop Manager â€” use it to make backups, install apps from your desktop, and sync your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All those apps â€” locate and download must-have applications from BlackBerry App World\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why your BlackBerry works around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A primer on messaging etiquette\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The advantages of PIN-to-PIN messaging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Timesaving shortcuts for media applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Web surfing tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use BlackBerry Messenger\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for backing up and restoring your information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(16804, 'BlackBerry for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The BlackBerry will never be as easy to use as a desktop computer, but a number of tricks can ease the difficulties its size imposes on users. The following were tested on a BlackBerry Curve, but many will work on other models, too. For help with some of these, we used "BlackBerry for Dummies" and frequently pinged Robert Kao, its co-author, for ideas. (Lee Gomes, On the Road,\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n , March 31, 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whatâ€™s part PDA, part smartphone, and part media player? Your BlackBerry, naturally! Whether itâ€™s the popular Pearl, the sleek Curve, or the hardworking 8800, your BlackBerry handheld device is loaded with features to make your life easierâ€”if you can figure out how to use them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  BlackBerryFor Dummies,2nd Edition\n </em>\n comes to the rescue with just what you need to know to get the most from this amazing device. Â  It covers the newest BlackBerry models and all the latest developments, like SureType vs. QWERTY keyboards and the new trackball navigation method. Youâ€™ll discover how to set up your BlackBerry as a full-fledged PDA, but also how to use the camera, play music and videos, make phone calls, and know where you are with GPS.\n <em>\n  BlackBerryFor Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web and send and receive e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your calendar, contacts, and to-do list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your BlackBerry a mobile mini-office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sync data with your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install a MicroSD card for extra memory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Watch movies and listen to music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Let your BlackBerry double as a laptop modem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your personal information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your BlackBerry almost anywhere in the world\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Because the BlackBerry world changes so quickly,\n <em>\n  BlackBerryFor Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n features a companion Web site that maintains the latest news and updates, so youâ€™ll always be up to date. Itâ€™s a pretty sweet deal!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(16805, 'BlackBerry for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The BlackBerry will never be as easy to use as a desktop computer, but a number of tricks can ease the difficulties its size imposes on users. The following were tested on a BlackBerry Curve, but many will work on other models, too. For help with some of these, we used "BlackBerry for Dummies" and frequently pinged Robert Kao, its co-author, for ideas. (Lee Gomes, On the Road,\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n , March 31, 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The BlackBerry is such a valuable tool, even the President is using one! Whether youâ€™ve just bought your first BlackBerry or you want to get up to speed on the new models,\n <em>\n  BlackBerry For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to use every fantastic feature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with information to help you make the most of this amazing device,\n <em>\n  BlackBerry For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how to send and receive e-mail and instant messages, surf the Web, take photos, make phone calls, play music, and organize your life, right from the palm of your hand. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get up to speed on the latest features of your BlackBerry, including Storm, Curve, Bold, Pearl Flip, and Javelin models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the display screen and use the trackball, your BlackBerryâ€™s keyboard, and shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your appointments, keep your calendar, and handle your to-do list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use e-mail, SMS text messaging, and instant messaging, and even receive faxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take photos, record video, and sync your BlackBerry with iTunes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your BlackBerry, arrange automated backups, maintain your battery, and protect your information with secure passwords\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your BlackBerry GPS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about the BlackBerry browser and bookmark and organize your favorite Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add cool lifestyle applications and enjoy games on your BlackBerry\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The more you know about your BlackBerry, the more youâ€™ll decide itâ€™s indispensable.\n <em>\n  BlackBerry For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n tells you everything you need to know, the fun and easy way!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(16806, 'BlackBerry for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The BlackBerry will never be as easy to use as a desktop computer, but a number of tricks can ease the difficulties its size imposes on users. The following were tested on a BlackBerry Curve, but many will work on other models, too. For help with some of these, we used "BlackBerry for Dummies" and frequently pinged Robert Kao, its co-author, for ideas. (Lee Gomes, On the Road,\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n , March 31, 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is your BlackBerry (or the one youâ€™re thinking about getting) a full-fledged PDA (Personal Data Assistant), a hand-held mini-computer, a high-tech organizer, or a cell phone? The answer is yes. Itâ€™s all of those and more. Whether youâ€™re considering getting a BlackBerry and want to know what it can do for you or whether you own one and want to learn how it can do more, this is the BlackBerry book to pick. It provides explanations of core BlackBerry features plus real-world tips and tricks to help you get more out of e-mail, Web browsing, phone functions, business applications, utilities, and even games. In proven\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n style with lots of screen shots and step-by-step explanations, it includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Info on personalizing your BlackBerry, using AutoText, customizing your screen, choosing what it alerts you to (and how), and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Basic key commands for navigating with the trackwheel and the QWERTY keyboard (or the SureType keyboard on some models), complete with a table of 15 Home Screen shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on using your Address Book, Calendar (for appointments and meetings), and the Tasks application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for making notes with MemoPad and taking advantage of the built-in calculator\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From those basics,\n <em>\n  BlackBerry For Dummies\n </em>\n guides you through getting online with your BlackBerry and using it for:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  E-mail, with info on sending, opening, and filtering it, viewing attachments (including JPEGS, Word docs, PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, and more), customizing your e-mail, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sending and receiving PIN-to-PIN messages, viewing text messages, and using Instant Messaging, complete with list of more that 50 commonly used abbreviations so text messaging doesnâ€™t take 4E (forever) and a table with more than 40 emoticons or smileys so you can catch on (and communicate) fast and clearly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surfing the Web, with info on browser shortcuts and navigation tips, using bookmarks, customizing and optimizing your browser, downloading and installing applications from the Web, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the phone, including call waiting, call forwarding, voice mail, speed dial, conferencing, and multitasking\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s a section on working with Desktop Manager, including using Intellisync, accessing and using the Application Loader, controlling your e-mail with Redirector settings, and protecting all your information. Thereâ€™s even a companion Web site with up-to-date coverage of all BlackBerry models and the latest accessories, plus links and news.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  BlackBerry For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you use your BlackBerry efficiently (and impressively), and that makes you more productive. No matter where you are, you can be in control, in touch, and in vogue with your BlackBerry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1334');
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(16807, 'BlackBerry Pearl for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba &amp; Marie-claude Kao &amp; Yosma Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The excitement of purchasing a Blackberry Pearl can only be outdone by the confusion of how to use it. How do you check your e-mail? How do you play music and video? What are PIN-to-PIN messages? Where do you find cool stuff to customize your Pearl?\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Blackberry Pearl for Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll discover all the answers to these questions and see how to use your new PDA to its maximum potential. This down-to-earth guide explores all of Pearlâ€™s features and shows you cool ways to make your Pearl\n <em>\n  your\n </em>\n Pearl. Clear, step-by-step instructions explain all the parts of the Pearl and give you the know-how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get organized with the Address Book, Calendar, and MemoPad\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage e-mail and send instant messages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dial and receive calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your voicemail service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take photos and create slideshows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the multimedia player\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Desktop Manager\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect and secure your Pearl\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n But donâ€™t think that this book is a plain, boring, just-the-facts type of guide. It will cue you in on how to personalize your Pearl with fun games, wallpaper, ringtones, and more. If you like news and entertainment, it also suggests some nifty programs that are a must-have. This is not just any ordinary PDA, and\n <em>\n  Blackberry Pearl for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you why!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your contacts, appointments, e-mail, and media\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to do a string of things with your BlackBerry Pearl!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a fact â€” your BlackBerry Pearl can do almost anything except bake a pie â€” but you can use it to e-mail a recipe!\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide is just what you need to get the scoop on the Pearl''s entire repertoire. Keep your calendar, make phone calls, organize your phone book, take photos, play music and video â€” here''s how!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Store and change your password\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bookmark favorite Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send PIN-to-PIN messages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play music and video clips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synch with your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find cool games\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(16808, 'BlackBerry Storm for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-awaited BlackBerry Storm is here! Take advantage of all the cool things your new touch-screen BlackBerry can do with\n <em>\n  BlackBerry Storm For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Your BlackBerry Storm can help you organize your calendar, surf the Internet, and stay in constant contact. it even works like a modem for your laptop.\n <em>\n  BlackBerry Storm For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to unlock all of the exciting capabilities of your BlackBerry Storm. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize your BlackBerry Storm, learn to navigate the touch screen, manage power consumption, and protect your device\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your contacts, keep notes, synchronize lists with your desktop, and manage your calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep in touch with e-mail, PIN-to-PIN and instant messaging, and phone calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse the Internet and keep track of key sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play music and videos, take pictures or mini-movies, and tune in the news\n </li>\n <li>\n  Activate Stormâ€™s built-in GPS and use Google Maps or BlackBerry Map\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synchronize your BlackBerry with your desktop so your data is consistent wherever you go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your laptop to use your BlackBerry Storm as a modem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and manage third-party applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your personal information safe\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find tips for tapping and thumbing the touch screen, secrets for taking great photos and videos, and even fun games to play on your Storm. Whether youâ€™re upgrading from an earlier model or you just got your first BlackBerry,\n <em>\n  BlackBerry Storm For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you utilize everything this handy device has to offer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get in touch with all the things your cool touch-screen BlackBerry can do!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you upgrading from an earlier BlackBerry, or did you hold out for the touch-screen model? Either way, this book is the perfect partner to help you get all your BlackBerry Storm has to offer. From using the touch screen to tracking your contacts to taking photos, the information is ripe for the picking!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start with the BlackBerry basics â€” customize your Storm, learn to navigate the touch screen, manage power consumption, and protect your device\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize your life â€” set up your contacts, keep notes, synchronize lists with your desktop, and manage your calendar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep in touch â€” communicate with e-mail, PIN-to-PIN and instant messaging, and phone calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Surf''s up â€” browse the Internet your way and keep track of key sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Satisfy your senses â€” play music and videos, take pictures or mini-movies, and tune in the news\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find yourself â€” learn what you need to activate Storm''s built-in GPS and use Google Maps or BlackBerry Map\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay on the same page â€” synchronize your Storm with your desktop so your data is consistent wherever you go\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Include bells and whistles â€” install and manage third-party applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of how your BlackBerry works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tapping and thumbing the touch screen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use SMS and MMS messaging on your Storm\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for taking great photos and videos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to get the most from the calendar function\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to go online at any time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten programs to include on your Storm\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to secure your personal information\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(16809, 'BlackBerry Storm for Dummies', 'Robert Kao &amp; Dante Sarigumba &amp; Kevin J. Michaluk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take your smartphone by storm and learn how to maximize its performance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n RIM''s next generation release of the BlackBerry Storm features an updated touch screen keyboard and WiFi. It''s also noticeably thinner, lighter, and faster! With this updated release comes newâ€”and more complexâ€”features. This easy-to-understand guide provides you with valuable information to unlock the full potential for this powerful handheld.\n</p>\n<p>\n Focused on the new and exciting features of the BlackBerry Storm, this book shows you how to use the touch screen, enter and maintain your contacts, manage your appointments and meetings, create and manage your To-Do lists, and much, much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduces the new WiFi capabilities of the BlackBerry Storm\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to get organized with your contacts, appointments, meetings, e-mail, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to sync up with your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you find your way by using your BlackBerry Storm as a GPS device Provides instructions for taking great photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to take full advantage of everything your new BlackBerry Storm has to offer!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new Storm is brewing! Learn to use all the features of this pocket powerhouse\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Already in love with a BlackBerry, or wondering if you want one? Here''s what you need to know! Discover how to use the touch screen and different keyboards, manage e-mail, and make your BlackBerry Storm a pocket-sized office. You''ll even find some supercool ideas from Kevin Michaluk, BlackBerry fanatic and founder of CrackBerry.com.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pop out of the box â€” see how to personalize your Storm, how to feel secure, and what you can do with no setup\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized â€” use the PDA functions toÂ¿maintain your contacts, appointments, and to-do lists\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your life easier â€” by centralizing your passwords with Password Keeper\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep in touch â€” with always-on e-mail, text messaging, PIN-to-PIN messages, and BlackBerry Messenger\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the fun â€” play music, watch videos, take pictures, and choose new ring tones\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Back to work â€” use BlackBerry Desktop Manager to make backups and sync with your PC or Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Talk to me â€” make and receive phone calls, conduct conference calls, and keep meeting notes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More apps to enjoy â€” explore BlackBerry App World and other app stores for hundreds of apps; some are free\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to tap, touch-press, and finger-scroll\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for typing on the Storm''s two keyboard options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the alarm clock feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Browser and bookmarking tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Insights and ideas fromKevin Michaluk, founder of CrackBerry.com\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on using Media Manager\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to move your stuff from an older BlackBerry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten fun games for the Storm\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn How To:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the touch screen, Wi-Fi, and other updated features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your contacts, e-mails, to-do lists, and calendar on your Storm\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Multitask by sending an e-mail while you''re on a conference call\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take great pictures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(16810, 'Blackboard for Dummies', 'Howie Southworth &amp; Kemal Cakici &amp; Yianna Vovides &amp; Susan Zvacek', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the latest in a series of titles to explain the complexities of software applications to ordinary users..." (Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use the quick-start guide to create your course in a flash\n</p>\n<p>\n Post course materials, give quizzes, facilitate discussions, and handle grades\n</p>\n<p>\n You''re an educator, not a psychic, so how would you know how to use Blackboard with no instructions? These step-by-step examples show you how to set up a Blackboard classroom, put your materials on the Internet, communicate online with students, and even evaluate their performance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Navigate the Blackboard environment\n <br />\n * Customize your course menu\n <br />\n * Add and organize course materials\n <br />\n * Give online assignments\n <br />\n * Conduct online discussions and chat rooms\n <br />\n * Keep track of grades\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(16811, 'Blacklands', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  British author Bauer''s solid debut focuses on Steven Lamb, an unhappy 12-year-old boy who lives with his mother, grandmother, and five-year-old brother in Shipcolt, Somerset. Steven''s grandmother is still haunted by the disappearance and suspected murder of her 11-year-old son, Billy, 19 years earlier. The authorities assume Billy was killed by pedophile Arnold Avery, who was convicted of six counts of murder and is serving a life sentence in Longmoor prison. Determined to find Billy''s remains, Steven has been methodically digging up the moor near his house. Frustrated by his lack of progress, he writes a letter to Avery asking for information, and so begins a cat-and-mouse game that will have dire consequences. Bauer creates believable tension within the Lamb household as her characters shoulder enormous psychological burdens, though a somewhat far-fetched climax dilutes the quiet power of the preceding story.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Bauer, whose intent was to write a â€œsmall story about a boy and his grandmother,â€ didnâ€™t quite succeed. Yes, thereâ€™s a grandmother and her 12-year-old grandson, but Bauerâ€™s debut is hardly a â€œsmallâ€ (read simple and uncomplicated) story. Itâ€™s an unsettling novel, with the sort of devastating emotional content that makes it both difficult to read and difficult to forget. Steven Lamb wants nothing more than to find the body of his uncle, taken as young boy (and presumably murdered) by pedophile Arnold Avery, who is now in prison. Itâ€™s Stevenâ€™s desperate wish that by finding the body, heâ€™ll heal his dysfunctional family and repair his grandmotherâ€™s broken heart. Digging holes in the nearby moor (the blacklands), where many of Averyâ€™s victims were found, has revealed nothing, leaving the pedophile himself as Stevenâ€™s only hope for ending his familyâ€™s pain. Thus begins a carefully orchestrated mail correspondenceâ€”just a few words here and thereâ€”passed between the two in letters that the recipients must puzzle out. Unfortunately for Steven, Avery quickly gains control of the conversation, which allows him to live in glorious memory of his killings. If the turn of events isnâ€™t totally unexpected, itâ€™s a riveting journey nonetheless, with Bauer remaining fully invested in her troubled characters: one a clever, vicious manipulator; the other an unappreciated, bullied 12-year-old, desperate for love. --Stephanie Zvirin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4570'),
(16812, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dark, chilling psychological thriller. How do you know when you''re in too deep? When the shadowy figure comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6198'),
(16813, 'The Blackwater Lightship', 'Colm Toibin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the opening pages of\n  <em>\n   The Blackwater Lightship\n  </em>\n  , a stranger drives up to Helen O''Doherty''s Dublin house to tell her that her brother Declan is in the hospital and needs to see her. At his request, she joins him at the creepy seaside house of their grandmother--where, as children, they awaited news of their dying father. What''s more, they''re not the only guests. Paul and Larry, friends of Declan who have known about his HIV diagnosis far longer than his family, are the next to arrive. And then comes Helen''s estranged mother Lily, whom she hasn''t seen in years. Still angry over the emotional abandonment she suffered during her youth, Helen had refused even to invite Lily to her wedding. Now she must come to terms not only with the imminent death of her beloved brother but also with her mother and grandmother--all at once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n (_The Story of the Night_) delivers this unsentimental account of a troubled family in spare but suggestive language. He does allow his characters a few high-spirited remarks and the occasional outburst. Otherwise, though, he keeps his tone even, allowing for the perfect integration of a light, unforced symbolism. For Lily, broken hopes and dreams are bound up with the Blackwater Lightship, one of two lighthouses that once stood in the Irish Sea near Ballyconnigar. As a child, she believed that these would always be there:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls. He was forceful and strong and she was weaker but more constant, and sometimes she began to shine her light before darkness had really fallen.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  For Helen, on the other hand, it was the house itself that prompted her deepest, happiest fantasies. But now Lily has sold the property and shattered Helen''s dream that "it would be her refuge, and that her mother, despite everything, would be there for her and would take her in and shelter her and protect her. She had never entertained this thought before; now, she knew that it was irrational and groundless, but nonetheless ... she knew that it was real and it explained everything." What Declan has done by drawing them all together at Granny''s house is to enact this potent, poignant fantasy. Whether it has the power to reconstruct his family is another matter, but in any case,\n  <em>\n   The Blackwater Lightship\n  </em>\n  remains a gripping narrative, deftly delivered by a master storyteller.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the young Turks of Irish fiction (The Heather Blazing; The Story of the Night) again examines themes of loss and death in a novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In clipped, stripped-down prose, T?ib!n unfolds the family saga of Helen, mother Lily and grandmother Dora, three generations of women whose estrangement is ended by the grief they share. Helen''s brother, Declan, is dying of AIDS. Helen receives the news of Declan''s illness from Paul, her brother''s best friend. Unlike her mother or grandmother, Helen has known for years that Declan is gay, but he has kept his illness a secret, even from her. Declan sends Paul to fetch Helen to the hospital, where he asks her to tell their mother and grandmother about his condition. Declan wants them all to spend a few days together at Granny''s seaside house in Cush, Wexford. Years ago, Declan and Helen stayed there while Lily attended to their father, who was dying in a hospital in Dublin. Larry, another friend, completes the cast of characters surrounding Declan during his decline. T?ib!n has not written a "dying of AIDS" story here. Instead, by focusing on the relationships of those around Declan, he has created a delicately powerful story of a family''s failure to face difficult feelings and their stubborn refusal to admit need. The novel does not take a flamboyant tone, but instead keeps faith with the quiet power of everyday life to imbue its straightforward prose with the essence of drama. (Aug.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6196'),
(16814, 'Blast from the past', 'Ben Elton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s 2:15 A.M. and the phone is ringing. Jolted awake, Polly stares wide-eyed at it. She is certain it must be bad news because no one with good news calls at that hour. A wrong number, maybe. But more likely it''s the Bug, the stalker who has been harassing her for ages. But as Polly reaches for the phone, the one thing she cannot imagine, the one thing she doesn''t remotely expect, is the voice on the other end of the line. Her very own blast from the pastâ€¦ "Don''t freak out," the voice says. "It''s Jack." And so begins a steamy two-in-the-morning stroll down memory lane. Sixteen years ago Polly Slade collided with an American knight-in-shining-armor at a roadside restaurant, when she wore a T-shirt with a cruise missile on it and he fell in love like a man without a parachute. For one summer the coolly polished American soldier and his red-hot anarchist British lover shared hotel rooms and noisy sex in the kind of burning-furnace love that can only happen once in any lifetime. Then Jack went back to America and his oh-so-promising career in the U.S. military. And Polly went on to her demonstrations, an unsatisfactory string of lovers, a dismal apartment, and, of course, the Bugâ€¦ "Now Jack is a four-star general. And the Bug is a menace with a knife, standing outside Polly''s building as the American makes his dashing return.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  It''s 2.15am and you''re alone in bed when you are woken by the phone. Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good with bad news, which would probably be worse. And then you hear the one voice in the world you''d least expect - your very own Blast From The Past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4573'),
(16815, 'Bleeding Heart Square', 'Andrew Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Andrew Taylor has written over 25 crime novels, and won many awards for his books. His best selling historical crime novel THE AMERICAN BOY was selected by Richard and Judy''s book club. This new story is set in Bleeding Heart Square in the 1930s. In case you were wondering, there is no ''Bleeding Heart Square'' in London, but there is a ''Bleeding Heart Yard''. It is apparently named after Elizabeth Hatton, a 17th century society beauty who was murdered one night in 1626 after a ball, and her body found in the Yard torn limb from limb and with her heart still bleeding on the cobblestones, a story that is used in this book to describe the origins of Bleeding Heart Square.  At the start of the book, Lydia has a violent argument with her husband, Marcus. She decides to leave him and her life of privilege to take refuge with her father in his rooms at 7 Bleeding Heart Square, to live in much reduced circumstances. She does not know her father well, as her mother divorced him when she was young. But she is determined to stay with him, and not to give in to her mother (re-married and now Lady Cassington) and return to live with Marcus, to keep up appearances. The current owner of the house is a shady character called Serridge. Narton, a policeman, suspects Serridge of murdering the previous owner, Phillipa Penhow, about four years ago. Ms Penhow, a rich spinster, had become smitten with Serridge. He persuaded her to buy a remote farmhouse in Essex, and to move there to live with him, until she disappeared shortly afterwards. When questioned, Serridge claimed that she met an old boyfriend and moved away to America with him, but no-one has heard from her since. Narton recruits Rory, a young man he sees hanging about the square, to help him find evidence that Serridge is to blame. Rory wants to find out what happened to Ms Penhow, because she is the aunt of his girlfriend Fenella. It also turns out that Lydia''s father is somehow connected to Serridge, not only through their time together in the army during the First World War, but also because he used to own the farm in Essex that Serridge persuaded Ms Penhow to buy.  The main mystery to be solved in the book is whether Serridge murdered Ms Penhow for her money, or whether she really did move to America. However, in true Dickensian fashion, there is a whole host of characters, and many subplots that contribute to the main story. Ms Penhow''s infatuation with Serridge, and the consequences of that, are gradually revealed through excerpts from her diary, read by an unknown person, who has somehow acquired the diary. These convey her initial optimism and subsequent slide into despair, and raise the hope that perhaps she did just run away after all. Meanwhile, with the help of Narton, Rory starts to find out what really happened to Ms Penhow, while gradually realising that Fenella no longer wants to marry him, and struggling to find himself a job as a journalist. A third subplot describes how Lydia starts to make a new life for herself, her growing friendship with Rory after he also moves into 7 Bleeding Heart Square, and her own part in discovering what happened to Ms Penhow.  The book evokes the period partly through its descriptions of the British Fascist movement, and Marcus''s involvement in it, and through the stark differences between the lives of the wealthy and those of the poor. It is a hugely enjoyable book, in which the many different threads, and rich detail, are skilfully woven together. It was an exciting read, and I had to restrain myself from turning to the ending to find out what happened before finishing the book. But, I''m afraid when I finally did get there, I was a bit underwhelmed by the final unveiling of the fate of Ms Penhow, and I don''t think this was just because I hadn''t been paying enough attention to the clues dotted through the story. Despite this, and because the story of Ms Penhow is in some ways almost incidental, mostly serving as a means to throw the various characters together, one can just about forgive the ending, and simply enjoy the rest of the book. One to recommend, but I don''t think it''s going to make my top five of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3998'),
(16816, 'Blind Fall: A Novel', 'Christopher Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From three-time\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Christopher Rice--whose novels have been called "bold and ambitious" by\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , "chillingly perverse" by\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  , and "shocking, sexy...intricate" by\n  <em>\n   Glamour\n  </em>\n  --comes this startling psychological thriller about an Iraq War vet who seeks redemption and revenge when a fellow Marine he failed to protect during the war is brutally murdered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  John Houck became a Marine to become a hero. But his life changed when he failed to notice an explosive device that ended up maiming the captain of his Force Recon Company, a respected Marine who nearly sacrificed himself to save John''s life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Home from Iraq, John pays a visit to his former captain, only to discover the captain has been gruesomely murdered. John pursues a strange man he sees running from the scene, but he discovers that Alex Martin is not the murderer. Alex is, in fact, the former captain''s secret male lover and the killer''s intended next victim.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it becomes clear that local law enforcement has direct connections to the murder itself, John realizes that to repay his debt of honor, he must teach Alex Martin how to protect himself, even if that means teaching Alex to kill. In the process, John confronts the painful truth about the younger brother he was unable to protect and the older sister he always felt he failed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blind Fall\n  </em>\n  is a story of honor and integrity, of turning failure into victory. It is a stunning departure for Christopher Rice: the story of two men, one a Marine, one gay, who must unite to avenge the death of the man they both loved--one as a brother-in-arms, one as a lover--and to survive.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Christopher Rice\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dear Amazon.com Reader,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authors hate answering the question "what is your book about?" because deep down most of us are arrogant enough to believe that our books are about\n  <em>\n   everything\n  </em>\n  . Birth, death, love, grief. You name it, I probably think it''s in there somewhere, albeit sometimes only in the form of a throwaway character, like a wisecracking gas station attendant who pops off a few good lines about living in the present as my main character bounces on the balls of his feet, impatient to be rung up so he can race to his next car-chase. But the longer I write for a living, the more it becomes clear to me that while arrogance is a helpful tool for dealing with one''s own negative reviews (or the death threats that have been posted alongside your promotional video on YouTube), the question "what is your book about" is one that I better have a coherent answer to long before it''s posed to me by anyone besides the ever-present critic who lives in my head. Otherwise I find myself writing entire chapters about the shape of a certain box hedge because I''ve lost my way and fallen prey to that childish belief that writing is about nothing more than filling up a page. (It is, kind of, but only when you''re past deadline.) That said, I can say with confidence that my latest thriller,\n  <em>\n   Blind Fall\n  </em>\n  , is a novel about self-acceptance. It''s about how we are often forced to let go of something we believed to be an absolute truth before we can treat ourselves with the same respect we would grant our closest friend. And in that sense, it is also a story about how our own visions of our past, of where we came from and what made us who we are, become incomplete and deceptive if we turn away from of those who walked the path with us and the insights they have to offer into our own personal history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Phew!\n  </em>\n  Got that out of the way. How was that, Amazon.com editors? Did I win over some Jonathan Franzen readers with that one?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Please note that I referred to my own novel as a thriller. I did so with pride. As I''ve said now in numerous interviews,\n  <em>\n   Blind Fall\n  </em>\n  was intended to be lean, clear and forceful, a suspenseful story about gays in the military that might appeal to the broadest audience possible. That doesn''t mean I dumbed down or cleaned up a more "literary"--God, I hate that word--story that''s still sitting in my desk drawer. It means I chose to tell the entire story from the point-of-view of the character facing the greatest personal challenge of any in the book--John Houck, the battle-scarred Marine who discovers the comrade who saved his life in combat was secretly gay. Anything that didn''t serve John''s character, that didn''t ring true to who he was, didn''t make the cut. That was a challenge. I love the guy as much as I do any of my protagonists but let''s just say we probably wouldn''t end up voting for the same candidate in the Presidential election this coming November and we certainly have different CDs in rotation. (To get into character sometimes I would depart from my usual film score montages and get amped up on a little Coheed &amp; Cambria and Incubus. Don''t laugh! It''s not that big of a stretch. I went to a Mottley Crue concert when I was twelve.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I also chose to tell you who the killer was about 70 pages in. Why? Because this novel is not a whodunit. This novel is a what-the-hell-are-they-going-to-do, but that''s got a few too many words in it so we call those thrillers. Don''t get me wrong; there are some twists and turns along the way, but I didn''t want the reader breaking sweat over who was responsible for the murder that starts off the action. I wanted the reader''s heart to become invested in the relationship between John, the straight (and more than a little homophobic) Marine, and Alex, the secret gay lover of the man who saved John''s life. How are these two very different men going to come to accept one another, if at all? This is the question that dominated my thoughts while I was writing the book, and if you decide to give it a read, I hope it dominates yours as well. Sometimes the best suspense comes not from the revelation of a previously concealed detail that''s been skillfully foreshadowed, but from wondering how a character you have come to know intimately over the course of many chapters is going to react to a seemingly insurmountable set of obstacles. That''s what I was shooting for with\n  <em>\n   Blind Fall\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  So there you have it, along with a few unsolicited personal details about yours truly. (Like the fact that I went to a Motley Crue concert when I was twelve.) At the very least, I hope\n  <em>\n   Blind Fall\n  </em>\n  keeps some of you up late at night. For the next month, my late nights will all be spent in hotels as I cross the country to promote this puppy. Maybe I''ll get to meet some of you along the way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Best,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Christopher Rice\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rice''s fourth thriller (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Light Before Day\n  </em>\n  ) clumsily mixes the plight of gays in the military with an unlikely murder investigation. John Houck, a former marine sergeant, returns to the States from Iraq, determined to make amends with his commanding officer, Capt. Mike Bowers, who was gravely injured due to John''s negligence. But when he tracks Mike down at home in Owensville, Calif., John discovers Mike gruesomely murdered in his bed. John, who had no idea Mike was gay, reluctantly joins forces with Alex Martin, Mike''s live-in boyfriend, to bring the killer to justice. After John and Alex learn that local law enforcement played a role in Mike''s death, they must go on the run to save their own lives. A subplot involving John''s brother''s suicide distracts in a subpar effort that lacks the complexity of Rice''s earlier novels.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6140'),
(16817, 'Bliv En Haj Til Grundlaeggende Database', 'Lone Riemer Henningsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3489'),
(16818, 'Bliv En Haj Til Videregaaende Database', 'Lone Riemer Henningsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3490'),
(16819, 'Blocking Spam &amp; Spyware for Dummies', 'Peter H. Gregory &amp; Michael A. Simon &amp; Mike Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fight back and save money with these expert tips\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out what spam and spyware cost your company, and how to stop them\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here''s help giving spammers and spies the bum''s rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Understand how spammers get addresses\n <br />\n * Calculate the cost of spam and spyware\n <br />\n * Re-engineer your business processes\n <br />\n * Select spam and spyware filters\n <br />\n * Manage implementation and maintenance\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fight back and save money with these expert tips\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out what spam and spyware cost your company, and how to stop them\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here''s help giving spammers and spies the bum''s rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand how spammers get addresses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate the cost of spam and spyware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Re-engineer your business processes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select spam and spyware filters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage implementation and maintenance\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1339'),
(16820, 'Blogging for Dummies', 'Susannah Gardner &amp; Shane Birley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everybodyâ€™s doing it! And while that logic never got far with your mother, itâ€™s a fine reason to start blogging, especially if you have a business to build or a cause to promote. Well-run blogs do more than offer an outlet for your thoughts. Theyâ€™ve actually influenced everything from a companyâ€™s image to the outcome of a local election.\n</p>\n<p>\n Because the blogosphere is pretty crowded, itâ€™s a good idea to find out a bit about the anatomy of a blog, what makes a good one, and what it takes to keep one going before you dive right in and start sharing with the world.\n <em>\n  Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you all the basics so you can get a good start. And if youâ€™ve been around the blog a few times and want to advance to the next level,\n <em>\n  Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n even takes a look at podcasting and videoblogging.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make your blog stand out in a crowd, build an audience, and even make it pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the best software options, boost readership, and handle comments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate revenue from your blog with ads and sponsorships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your privacy and your job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with spam and the inappropriate comments from that guy who posts several times a day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find your niche\n </li>\n <li>\n  Attract and keep readers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your blog to promote your business, cause, or organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add audio, video, cool widgets, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ready? Get\n <em>\n  Blogging for Dummies\n </em>\n and letâ€™s get started!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Express yourself, build your business, or promote a cause\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your blog stand out in a crowd, build an audience, and even make it pay\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re just finding out about blogs or you''ve been blogging for a while and are curious about podcasting or videoblogging, you can find answers in this book! Get the scoop on software options and how to boost readership, handle comments, make money with ads and sponsorships, add audio or video, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and maintain a blog that draws readers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your privacy and your job\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with spam and inappropriate comments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find your niche\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use your blog to promote your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(16821, 'Blogging for Dummies', 'Susannah Gardner &amp; Shane Birley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The blogging bestseller, now fully updated to reflect the latest tools and techniques\n</p>\n<p>\n Blogging is forever evolving, and remains essential for anyone who wants a distinctive Web presence. There are many options that surround blogging-on everything from blogging software to hosting services-and this fun and friendly guide gets you started so can begin logging in hours of blogging!\n</p>\n<p>\n Building on the success of the two previous bestselling editions, this latest revision includes essential blogging basics, the elements required of a good blog, and the tools you''ll need to get started. You''ll discover how to determine the right blogging software for you, whether you should run your own blog or use a full-service hosting site, and how to set up an account and write your first post.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Builds on the two previous bestselling editions and covers the latest advertising tools to attract an audience, methods for making money with your blog, and ways to measure your blog''s success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes updates to the major blogging software utilities including Google''s Blogger, TypePad, and WordPress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through the latest search engine optimization techniques for increasing your blog''s visibility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews the newest plug-ins and gadgets that will allow you to extend your blog\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you''re in a fog about how to blog, then this easy-to-understand guide is the right book for you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fog about blogs? Read this book and it all becomes clear!\n</p>\n<p>\n Millions of people posted a blog entry this morning. They''re promoting products, espousing causes, discussing their lives, and sharing tips on everything from getting the laundry clean to getting their candidate elected. Join the fun! Here''s how to choose and use blogging software, pick a topic, add photos, attract readers, and keep your blog interesting.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blog basics â€” find out what defines a blog and what type of blog best suits your purpose\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you say â€” learn how to create appealing content and what you don''t want to put in your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compare tools â€” understand the pros and cons of hosted services and see what Blogger, WordPress, and other tools offer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When smaller is better â€” explore microblogging, including TwitterÂ® and Tumblr\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Speak up â€” try your hand at podcasting or video blogging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Socialize your blog â€” boost readership with a presence on social networking sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blogging for dollars â€” see how to put ads on your blog or in your RSS feed, seek sponsorships, and maintain a business blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your visitors â€” learn to collect and analyze statistics on who''s visiting your site, when, and for how long\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for choosing a topic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to connect with your readers through comments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on blogging ethics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A comparison of leading blogging software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help managing routine blog tasks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for conquering writer''s block\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to boost readership\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why RSS feeds are a great idea\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool widgets, gadgets, and themes to customize your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the latest versions of Blogger and WordPressÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize what goes into an effective blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find your niche in the blogosphere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build an audience and make money from your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(16822, 'Blogging for Dummies', 'Brad Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n <br />\n If you want to give yourself a Web presence without spending a lot of time or money, a blog is your answer and this is your guide. Blogs (Web logs) are short, diary-like entries on a Web site that has a chronological, journal format. Fun or informative, but not formal, blogs are easy to set up, maintain, and update. You can share your personal, stream-of-consciousness musings or your expertise on any subject ranging from your family vacation to world peace. This guide helps beginners (even technophobes) get started fast, with the essential info on:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * The elements of blogs, such as entries, sidebars, categories, comments, and index pages\n <br />\n * The different types of hosting services, from free to fee and from â€œturn keyâ€ services that are easy-to-use to DIY programs\n <br />\n * Details on two popular, free â€œsocial communityâ€ hosted Web services that are ideal for casual bloggersâ€”MSN Spaces and Yahoo! 360\n <br />\n * The scoop on Blogger, a popular free hosted service that has some community tools like the social networks, but is basically blog-intensive\n <br />\n * DIY blogging, covering three of the most powerful and flexible blog programsâ€”Movable Type, WordPress, and Radio Userland\n <br />\n * Hooking into RSS feeds to distribute your blog entries beyond your site\n <br />\n Choosing a newsreader\n <br />\n * Ways to raise the visibility of your blog and make money from blogging\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Complete with step-by-step instructions and lots of screen shots, this guide walks you through everything from setting up your blog and posting your first entry to adding photos, audio, and more. It includes the URLs of lots of sample sites to see to give you an idea of blog possibilities. In addition to the essential how-to, it fills you in on:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * The blogosphere, blog culture and etiquette, snarks, macrologues, and more\n <br />\n * Moblogs that let you post entries remotely using your portable computer, PDA, or cell phone\n <br />\n * Buying a domain through a registrar such as Network Solutions, Register.com, or Go Daddy\n <br />\n * MP3 blogs, vlogs (videoblogs), photoblogging, audioblogging, podcasting, and more\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You know you have something to say, whether itâ€™s heavy stuff or just your thought for the day. Make your opinions known. Get your photos shown. With Blogging For Dummies, youâ€™ll soon be blogging with the best of â€˜em.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n More About the Author\n <br />\n Brad Hill has worked in the online field since 1992 and has written 20 books. As a best-selling author, columnist, and blogger, Brad reaches a global audience of consumers who rely on his writings to help determine their online service choices.\n <br />\n Brad''s books include a Publishers Weekly bestseller and a Book-of-the-Month catalog selection. Bradâ€™s titles in the For Dummies series include Google For Dummies and Building Your Business with Google For Dummies. Brad is often consulted in the mediaâ€™s coverage of the Internet. He appears frequently on television, radio, Webcasts, and has been quoted in Business Week, The New York Times, and innumerable other publications.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brad is Associate Editor of Weblogs, Inc., the world''s largest blog network, where he helps to manage about 100 blogs written by nearly 200 bloggers. As a staff blogger at Weblogs, Inc., for two years, he posted well over 3,000 entries in blogs about digital music, Google, Yahoo!, search engine marketing, and others. As a hobby, Brad operates independent blogs about dogs www.fourfooted.com, classical music (www.undeadmusic.com), and his own bad self (www.bradhill.com). He and his wife maintain a photo blog about their adventures at home and on vacations, read mostly by friends and family.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brad has not won the Nobel Prize, and the prospect seems doubtful. He remains cheerful.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book Dimension\n <br />\n length: (cm)23.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)18.7\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(16823, 'Blood of Victory', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3979'),
(16824, 'Blood Pool', 'B. Ella Donna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Raven Strigoi, M.D. must do battle with a clever sorcerer known as Courtier de Sang. The sorcerer has developed a virus designed to kill shape shifters, and Ravens lover has become infected. As she races against time, the virus jumps species, and now any magickal being on Mirabelle island is susceptible, including Raven, who is half vampire and half human. Raven needs a miracle and must face a goddess to get it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4269'),
(16825, 'Blood Runs Cold', 'Alex Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4034');
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(16826, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4166'),
(16827, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4430'),
(16828, 'Bloodsucking Fiends (ls-1)', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that''s where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful, undead redhead walks through the doorâ€¦ and proceeds to rock Tommy''s life â€” and afterlife â€” in ways he never imagined possible.  A wildly original story of romance, lust, bloodlust, and blood loss â€” from the author of  Coyote Blue  and  Practical Demonkeeping.  "Goofy grotesqueriesâ€¦ wonderfulâ€¦ deliciousâ€¦ bloody funnyâ€¦ like a hip and youthful ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Lugosis. "Â â€”  San Francisco Chronicle  "Delightfulâ€¦ highly recommendedâ€¦ filled with oddball characters, clever dialogue and hilarious situations."Â â€”  Library Journal  "Moore''s storytelling style is reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams."Â â€”  Philadelphia Inquirer  "A series of bizarre misadventures that take place at breakneck speed in a variety of interesting locales. The dialogue is sharp and from the hip, the pace frenetic, and the situations tinged with a healthy dose of the supernaturalâ€¦ Moore is one of those rare writers who is laugh-out-loud funny."Â â€”  Santa Barbara Independent\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6329'),
(16829, 'Bloomberg Businessweek - 10 October-16 October 2011', '10 October-16 October 2011 (STEVE JOBS special, watermarked)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10656'),
(16830, 'Bloomberg_Businessweek_2011-09-12.pdf 16-09-2011', 'Bloomberg_Businessweek_2011-09-12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6083'),
(16831, 'Bloomberg_Businessweek_2011-10-10.pdf 07-10-2011', 'Bloomberg_Businessweek_2011-10-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10586'),
(16832, 'Bloomberg.Businessweek.10.October.16.October.2011.pdf 10-10-2011', 'Bloomberg.Businessweek.10.October.16.October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10636'),
(16833, 'Bloomberg.Businessweek.2011.10.03S370.pdf 02-10-2011', 'Bloomberg.Businessweek.2011.10.03S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7194'),
(16834, 'Blue Fanny 2', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6791'),
(16835, 'Blue Heaven', 'C.J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, NOW THEY''RE RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES. If twelve-year-old Annie hadn''t been angry with her mother, she would never have taken her younger brother William on a secret fishing trip deep into the North Idaho woods and they would never have witnessed the execution nor looked straight into the eyes of the four executioners. Now they''re running for their lives.They can''t go home: the killers know exactly who they are. And where they live. They can''t turn to the law: the killers are four respected Los Angeles policemen. There''s nowhere for William and Annie to hide. And no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins. Rawlins, an old-school rancher, knows something is wrong with the law in Blue Heaven. But he is only one against four men who will stop at nothing to silence their witnesses...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this overly complicated thriller from bestseller Box, his first stand-alone, siblings Annie and William Taylor, ages 12 and 10, witness a gruesome murder in the woods outside the small Idaho town of Kootenai Bay, nicknamed Blue Heaven for its abundance of retired LAPD officers. Annie and William make a run for it after they''re spotted by the killers, a group of crooked LAPD cops who retired to Idaho eight years earlier after pulling a complicated heist in California that left a man dead. Rancher Jess Rawlins becomes the children''s only hope of survival after they take refuge in his barn. Jess must stay one step ahead of the killers, who have volunteered to help the local authorities investigate the children''s disappearance. Annie and William''s mother is frantic, as the scheming officers try to persuade her the children are gone for good. A subplot involving a retired California detective pursuing the original robbery case adds too many extra characters and undercuts the suspense. Readers expecting the same brisk story lines as the author''s Joe Pickett crime novels (_Free Fire_, etc.) will be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   100,000 first printing; author tour. (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA thriller with a heart.â€â€”_The Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the best thrillers of the year. It kept me up most of the night, the way few books have ever done. C.J. Box owes me a nightâ€™s sleep!â€â€”Tess Gerritsen\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA first-rate thriller, peopled by complex characters and unpredictable action. Donâ€™t miss it.â€â€”T. Jefferson Parker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA first-rate, edge-of-your seat read.â€â€”_Omaha__ World-Herald_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA non-stop thrill rideâ€”a provocative suspense novel that has you rooting for the characters every step of the way.â€â€”Harlan Coben\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unusual, intelligent thriller that resonates long after the last page is turned.â€â€”George Pelecanos\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA suspenseful tour de force.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRelentless. C.J. Box sucked me in with good cops, bad cops, and missing money, then blind-sided me with unexpected twists and surprises in this novel of clashing cultures and dark secrets.Â  Box delivers the goods!â€â€”Robert Crais\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5968'),
(16836, 'The Blue Zone', 'Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone.  Kate Raab''s life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her familyâ€¦ until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family''s placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone.  Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened: Her father has disappeared-into what the WITSEC agency calls "the blue zone"-and someone close to him is found brutally murdered. With her family under surveillance, the FBI untrustworthy, and her father''s menacing "friends" circling with increasing intensity, Kate sets off to find her father-and uncover the secrets someone will kill to keep buried.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3949'),
(16837, 'Body Language Secrets', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7197'),
(16838, 'Bond Investing for Dummies', 'Russell Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bonds and bond funds are among the safest and most reliable investments you can make to ensure an ample and dependable retirement income â€” if you do it right!\n <em>\n  Bond Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you do just that, with clear explanations of everything you need to know to build a diversified bond portfolio that will be there when you need it no matter what happens in the stock market.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide explains the pros and cons of investing in bonds, how they differ from stocks, and the best (and worst) ways to select and purchase bonds for your needs. You''ll get up to speed on all the different types of bonds and discover how to know when it''s time to sell and how to get the best prices when you do. Find out what you need to know about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Buying and selling bonds and bond funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measuring bond risks and returns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taxes on bond interest and tax-free bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customizing and optimizing your bond portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Common bond-investing mistakes and how to avoid them\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Risk-free" U.S. Treasury bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tax-free municipal bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  High yield corporate bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  The pros and cons agency bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Convertible bonds, derivatives, and other exotic offerings\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with sound advice and dependable formulas for ensuring that your bond investments fulfill your retirement goals,\n <em>\n  Bond Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n is the resource you need to put the gold in your golden years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explains how bonds can help you retire comfortably\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to choose the right bonds or bond funds to meet your financial goals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to add bonds to your portfolio? This plain-English guide clearly explains the pros and cons of investing in bonds, how they differ from stocks, and the best (and worst!) ways to select and purchase bonds for your needs. You''ll get up to speed on the different bond varieties and see how to get the best prices when you sell.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy and sell bonds and bond funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure bond returns and risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand interest and taxes on interest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Diversify your holdings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common investing mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(16839, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that "The Replacement Child" is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds."--"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra. As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society. Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, "The Replacement Child," which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a "New York Times" Notable Book. An intriguing, impressive new mystery, "The Bone Fire" captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6324'),
(16840, 'Bones of the Hills (c-3)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan and his descendantsGenghis Khan has fulfilled his dream of uniting the many warring tribes of his lands into one great nation. He has taken his armies against the mighty cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are being mutilated or killed and his trading gestures rebuffed. He decides to divide his armies to conquer, using his sons as generals and sending them out simultaneously in many directions.As well as discovering new territories and laying waste the cities which resist, Genghis knows that the actions of his generals will help him decide who, from his rival sons and heirs, should succeed him as khan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6199'),
(16841, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4167'),
(16842, 'The Book of Lies', 'Agota Kristof', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An omnibus of novels: The Notebook â€“ The Proof â€“ The Third Lie  These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof''s reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided "brothers" in much of Europe since World War II. Kristof''s postmodern saga begins with The Notebook, in which the brothers are children, lost in a country torn apart by conflict, who must learn every trick of evil and cruelty merely to survive. In The Proof, Lucas is challenging to prove his own identity and the existence of his missing brother, a defector to the "other side." The Third Lie, which closes the trilogy, is a biting parable of Eastern and Western Europe today and a deep exploration into the nature of identity, storytelling, and the truths and untruths that lie at the heart of them all. "Stark and haunting." â€“ The San Francisco Chronicle; "A vision of considerable depth and complexity, a powerful portrait of the nobility and perversity of the human heart." â€“ The Christian Science Monitor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3920'),
(16843, 'The Book of Revelation for Dummies', 'Larry R. Helyer &amp; Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by the Book of Revelation? Understand the purpose, key themes, and symbolism of the most fascinating book in the Bible with\n <em>\n  The Book of Revelation For Dummies\n </em>\n , an easy-to-understand guide that will help you grasp the enduring messages of Revelation and apply them to your life. You will understand what Revelation says about the past, present, and future, and how it relates to the rest of the Bible.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will learn how this mysterious book of the Bible fits into a historical context. Youâ€™ll discover all kinds of interesting facts about the apostle John and learn about the details of his world. You will be able to choose a perspective for interpreting this book of the Bible and decipher the many haunting symbols. There is no need to read this reference guide from cover to cover; simply browse the table of contents or flip through the pages to find the answers and assistance that you need. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Interpret the prophecy of the Revelation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Place it in historical context\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how it relates to other books in the Bible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Unravel the details of the apostle Johnâ€™s life and world\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose a perspective for understanding\n </li>\n <li>\n  See the grander scheme of things\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of the ten most commonly asked questions about end times and the ten rules of thumb for interpreting scripture,\n <em>\n  The Book of Revelation\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you understand and decode one of the most perplexing books in the Bible!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand the purpose, key themes, and symbolism of the most fascinating book in the Bible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grasp the enduring messages of Revelation and apply them in your life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by the book of Revelation? This friendly, unintimidating guide walks you through the most difficult book of the New Testament, providing a clear explanation of the major views and interpretations of the End Times. You''ll understand what Revelation says about the past, present, and future, and how it relates to the rest of the Bible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The prophecy of Revelation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The main views on its interpretation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Revelation says about our relationship with God\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Contemporary theories on Revelation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The book''s message of hope\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2094'),
(16844, 'Bookkeeping for Canadians for Dummies', 'Lita Epstein &amp; Cecile Laurin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n includes information on keeping track of transactions, figuring out balance sheets, and keeping ledgers or journals.Â  It covers how to create financial statements and also shows how to operate accounts for businesses.Â  Small business owners and employees will find that\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n also includes relevant, up-to-date tax information.Â  In addition, the book teaches how to recognize theÂ assets and liabilities to the business.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lita Epstein\n </strong>\n , MBA, designs and teaches online courses in investing, finance, and taxes. She is the co-author of\n <em>\n  Reading Financial Reports For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CÃ©cile Laurin\n </strong>\n teaches at Algonquin College and is the co-author of\n <em>\n  Accounting For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(16845, 'Bookkeeping for Dummies', 'Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a good refresher for any professional who feels rusty on the basics." (_Accounting Technician,_ May 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any business owner, but itâ€™s also important to those who work with the business, such as investors, financial institutions, and employees. People both inside and outside the business all depend on a bookkeeperâ€™s accurate recordings.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping For Dummies\n </em>\n provides the easy and painless way to master this crucial art. Youâ€™ll be able to manage your own finances to save money and grow your business. This straightforward, no-nonsense guide shows you the basics of bookkeepingâ€”from recording transactions to producing balance sheets and year-end reports. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Outline your financial road map with a chart of accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep journals of cash transactions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your computerized books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control your books, your records, and your money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy and track your purchases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record sales returns and allowances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine your employee [is â€œemployeeâ€ necessary here?] staffâ€™s net pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain employee records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your books for yearâ€™s end\n </li>\n <li>\n  Report results and start over\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce an income statement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Complete year-end payroll and reports\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This guide features tips and tricks for managing your business cash with your books and also profiles important accounts for any bookkeeper. Thereâ€™s no question that bookkeepers must be detail-oriented, meticulous, and accurate.\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to keep track of your businessâ€™s financial well-being and ensure future success!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(16846, 'Bookkeeping Workbook for Dummies', 'Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''re preparing for The American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers'' (AIPB) bookkeeping certification test, you need an easy- to-follow test-preparation guide that gets you up to speed quickly in all of the bookkeeping basics, from setting up a company''s books and recording transactions to managing employee payroll, handling government paperwork, and closing out the books. You need\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With demonstration problems, complementary examples, and multiple-choice questions you''ll find in this user-friendly primer, you''ll sharpen your bookkeeping skills for the real world as you increase your ability to perform well on any test. Chapter quizzes let check your progress as you go, and step-by-step answers show you where you went wrong (or right) each problem. You''ll feel your confidence â€”and competenceâ€”growing as you learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perform a wide variety of financial transactions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use key concepts and skills with real-world bookkeeping problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a bookkeeping system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track day-to-day business operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep journals for active accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use blank working papers and spread sheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle cash entries and develop internal controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate and pay employee withholding taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depreciate assets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prove out your books at year''s end\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare tax returns as set up for a new year\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with Top Ten lists for managing cash, monitoring accounts, and finding additional helpful resources,\n <em>\n  Bookkeeping Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n is the test-prep guide you need to help you ace the certification test and speed your way into a successful and rewarding career.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the general ledger to the balance sheet â€” solve bookkeeping problems with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In order to become a certified bookkeeper, you need to pass the test recently introduced by The American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers. No worries with this easy-to-follow guide! This hands-on workbook gets you up to speed in all the basics of bookkeeping, from setting up a company''s books and recording transactions to managing employee payroll, handling government paperwork, and closing out the books. With the featured demonstration problems, complementary examples, and multiple-choice questions, you''ll sharpen your bookkeeping skills for the real world and improve your performance on any test.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice key concepts and skills through real-world bookkeeping problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know where you went wrong (or right) with a problem through step-by-step answers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Track day-to-day business operations, handle cash, and develop internal controls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prove out your books, do your taxes, and get ready for a new bookkeeping year\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(16847, 'Borderline Personality Disorder for Dummies', 'Charles H. Elliott Phd &amp; Laura L. Smith Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your clear, compassionate guide to managing BPD â€” and living well\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for straightforward information on Borderline Personality Disorder? This easy-to-understand guide helps those who have BPD develop strategies for breaking the destructive cycle. This book also aids loved ones in accepting the disorder and offering support. Inside you''ll find authoritative details on the causes of BPD and proven treatments, as well as advice on working with therapists, managing symptoms, and enjoying a full life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review the basics of BPD â€” discover the symptoms of BPD and the related emotional problems, as well as the cultural, biological, and psychological causes of the disease\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand what goes wrong â€” explore impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, identity problems, relationship conflicts, black-and-white thinking, and difficulties in perception; and identify the areas where you may need help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the choice to change â€” find the right care provider, overcome common obstacles to change, set realistic goals, and improve your physical and emotional state\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate treatments for BPD â€” learn about the current treatments that really work and develop a plan for addressing the core symptoms of BPD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If someone you love has BPD â€” see how to identify triggers, handle emotional upheavals, set clear boundaries, and encourage your loved one to seek therapy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The major characteristics of BPD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Who gets BPD â€” and why\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recent treatment advances\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Illuminating case studies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for calming emotions and staying in control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A discussion of medication options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to stay healthy during treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for explaining BPD to others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help for parents whose child exhibits symptoms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Treatment options that work and those you should avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles H. Elliott, PhD, and Laura L. Smith, PhD, are clinical psychologists who specialize in training mental health professionals in the treatment of adolescents and adults with personality disorders, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, anger, and depression. They are the coauthors of Depression For Dummies, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder For Dummies, and Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(16848, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4101');
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(16849, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4461'),
(16850, 'Born to Die', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Appearancesâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A sad, strange coincidenceâ€¦that''s Dr. Kacey Lambert''s initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It''s not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Can Beâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to notice ties between the dead women''s lives and her own-all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O''Halleran, the man Kacey just started dating.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deadlyâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The deeper Kacey digs, the more reason she has to fear. More look-alikes are dying, and the killer is getting bolder and more brutal. And Kacey knows it''s only a matter of time before hers is the next name on a list of those who were born to dieâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4108'),
(16851, 'Born to Die', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Appearancesâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A sad, strange coincidenceâ€¦that''s Dr. Kacey Lambert''s initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It''s not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Can Beâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to notice ties between the dead women''s lives and her own-all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O''Halleran, the man Kacey just started dating.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deadlyâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The deeper Kacey digs, the more reason she has to fear. More look-alikes are dying, and the killer is getting bolder and more brutal. And Kacey knows it''s only a matter of time before hers is the next name on a list of those who were born to dieâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4409'),
(16852, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4168'),
(16853, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4206'),
(16854, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4367'),
(16855, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4429'),
(16856, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4169'),
(16857, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4366'),
(16858, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4428'),
(16859, 'Boston for Dummies', 'Marie Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boston offers a unique blend of traditional and trendyâ€¦old and new, with ultramodern skyscrapers towering beside colonial historical sites. Whether you want to explore incredible museums or shop tempting boutiques, take in a game or take a cruise, this book points the way with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Attractions for history lovers, sports lovers, and food lovers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seven great itineraries and four fun day trips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Public Garden, the first botanical garden in the U.S., legendary Fenway Park, Longfellow National Historic Site, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of restaurants, ranging from local seafood and pizza favorites and ethnic eateries to elegant, high-end dining and unique neighborhood cafes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping in stores that range from cheap to chic, boho to bourgeois, including Newbury Street, the â€œrodeo Drive of New Englandâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walking the 3-mile Freedom Trail, Harvard Square, Commonwealth Avenue, or around Walden Pond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking in fantastic live performances or relaxing in fun pubs and bars\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Boston For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n , includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this friendly guide, youâ€™ll enjoy a Boston vacation that suits you, whether thatâ€™s exploring the old or celebrating the new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make vacation history in Boston the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pay homage to history or cheer the Red Sox or Celtics. Walk the famed Freedom Trail or stroll around Walden Pond or Beacon Hill. Explore incredible museums or power shop on Newbury Street. From revered colonial sites to today''s hippest trends, Boston has it all. This guide is your ticket to a great getaway.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(16860, 'Boston Terriers for Dummies', 'Wendy Bedwell-wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Has a Boston Terrier stolen your heart? Whether youâ€™re thinking about adding one of these â€œAmerican Gentlemenâ€ to your home or you already have one, this fun, friendly guide is the key to becoming a responsible and happy puppy parent!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Boston Terriers For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you all the basics on raising and living with this intelligent, affectionate breed. Youâ€™ll learn where and how this dog originated, what it needs, and how to determine if a Boston Terrier is the right dog for you and your family. From feeding and grooming to basic training, you get all the tips any Boston owner needs to make their dog feel welcome, loved, and well-cared for. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the breedâ€™s origin and history\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right Boston Terrier for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Puppy-proof your home and yard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach your Boston basic commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Housetrain and socialize your puppy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct Boston behavior gone bad\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle breed-specific health concerns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance your dogâ€™s quality of life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Travel with your Bostonâ€”or find a reputable sitter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for the senior dog\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with sections on nutrition, first aid, and exercise and play,\n <em>\n  Boston Terriers For Dummies\n </em>\n is the only guide you need to raise a happy, healthy dog!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes tips on housetraining, socializing, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the scoop on bringing a Boston Terrier home and raising him right\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have the unmistakable snout, bulging eyes, and endearing snorts that trumpet the Boston Terrier stolen your heart? Whether you''re thinking about adding one of these American Gentlemen to your home or already have, this book gives you all the basics on raising and living with this intelligent, affectionate breed â€” from feeding and healthcare to basic training.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right Boston for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Puppy-proof your home and yard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach your Boston basic commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Correct Boston behavior gone bad\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1349'),
(16861, 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey &amp; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4195'),
(16862, 'Brain Games for Dummies', 'Timothy E. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  300 challenging puzzles to improve problem-solving skills and stimulate the brain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Studies have shown that puzzles like Sudoku, crosswords, cryptograms, and other "mental aerobics" can help reduce memory loss due to normal aging and minimize the risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases.\n <em>\n  Brain Games For Dummies\n </em>\n features 300 fun mental exercises that will keep readers'' neurons firing: 100 crossword puzzles, 75 Sudoku puzzles, 50 word searches, 25 word scrambles, 25 cryptograms, 15 riddles, and 10 logic puzzles, along with complete solutions. Ranked by level of difficulty (easy, tricky, tough, and treacherous), these puzzles are a surefire way to boost mental fitness. The book''s portable trim size makes it perfect for playing on the go or during the commute home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Perfect your puzzle-solving skills and boost your brain power at the same time!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Always wanted to solve Sudoku? Think you''re up for the challenge of cryptograms? This puzzle-packed guide is bursting with fun exercises that will give you hours of enjoyment as well as a great mental workout! From riddles to word searches to crosswords, you''ll find savvy strategies for solving even the trickiest of puzzles.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare your puzzle strategies â€” get to know the different types of puzzles and the best ways to solve them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the importance of mental exercise â€” see how (and why) to improve your cognitive fitness through puzzle-solving\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into the game â€” solve crosswords, tackle word searches and scrambles, take on Sudoku, figure out logic puzzles, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master various difficulty levels â€” work your way through the easy puzzles first, then move to the tricky, tough, and truly treacherous!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the answers â€” see how each puzzle is solved (but try to resist peeking!)\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Crosswords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Word searches\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Word scrambles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cryptograms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sudoku\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Riddles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Logic puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping your mind sharp\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on other fun games and puzzles to try\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1350'),
(16863, 'Branding for Dummies', 'Bill Chiaravalle &amp; Barbara Findlay Schenck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although...branded as "A Reference for the Rest of Us" - i.e., non-experts - even pros would find this volume useful. --\n <em>\n  BrandChannel.com Featured Book, February 2006\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why do consumers pay a premium for a Dell or Hewlett-Packard laptop, when they could get a generic machine with similar features for a lower price? The answer lies in the power of branding. A brand is not just a logo. It is the image your company creates of itself, from your advertising look to your customer interaction style. It makes a promise for your business, and that promise becomes the sticking point for customer loyalty. And that loyalty and trust is why, so to speak, your laptops sell and your competitorsâ€™ donâ€™t.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whatever your business is, whether itâ€™s large or small, global or local,\n <em>\n  Branding For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the nuts and bolts know-how to create, improve, or maintain a brand. This plain-English guide will help you brand everything from products to services to individuals. It gives you step-by-step advice on assembling a top-notch branding team, positioning your brand, handling advertising and promotion, avoiding blunders, and keeping your brand viable, visible, and healthy. Youâ€™ll get familiar with branding essentials like:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Defining your companyâ€™s identity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Developing logos and taglines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Launching your brand marketing plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Managing and protecting your brand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fixing a broken brand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making customers loyal brand champions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Filled with easy-to-navigate icons, charts, figures, top ten lists, and humor,\n <em>\n  Branding For Dummies\n </em>\n is the straight-up, jargon-free resource for making your brand stand out from the packâ€”and for positioning your business to reap the ensuing rewards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1351'),
(16864, 'Brave new world', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley''s vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley''s most enduring masterpiece. The nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3993'),
(16865, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Aldous Leonard Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brave New World Revisited  (Harper &amp; Row, 1958), written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World, was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future but in Brave New World Revisited he concluded that the world was becoming much more like Brave New World much faster than he thought.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3995'),
(16866, 'Bridge for Dummies', 'Eddie Kantar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For the beginner or near-beginner, the revised\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Bridge for Dummies\n  </em>\n  Â \n </strong>\n by Eddie Kantar is the best choice." (_The New York Times_, December 16, 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bridge, as any player will tell you, is simply the best card game ever. Itâ€™s challengingâ€”each hand presents a different set of conditions you must figure out and solve. It''s very socialâ€”you play with a partner and two opponents. And best of allâ€”it''s fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bridge For Dummies, 2E\n </em>\n gives you a step-by-step explanation of the fundamentals of the game in terms you can understand. It walks you through the different aspects of bridge, featuring real-life examples, so that you can feel comfortable with the basics before you ever start to play. And if you''re already experienced at the game, you''ll discover a wealth of tips and hints that can make you a better player. You''ll learn all about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of nontrump play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to play the hand in a trump contract\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bidding for fun and profit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking advantage of advanced bidding techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playing a strong defense and keeping score\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playing bridge on your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playing in bridge clubs and tournaments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find other great bridge resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This newly revised edition features an expanded section on playing bridge online, with updated web addresses and other resources, along with new information on the latest bidding techniques. For anyone from novice to pro wanting to learn bridge or learn techniques to improve their game,\n <em>\n  Bridge For Dummies, 2E\n </em>\n makes an ideal partner!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1352'),
(16867, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4636'),
(16868, 'The Brightener', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5934'),
(16869, 'The Bronze Hand', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4030'),
(16870, 'BT 01-08-2011', 'BT', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3149'),
(16871, 'BT 01-09-2011', 'BT', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3812'),
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(16926, 'BuddyPress for Dummies', 'Lisa Sabin-wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use BuddyPress to create the ultimate site experience\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n BuddyPress is a suite of free WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. It contains all the features you would expect from WordPress, but it aims to let members socially interact. With this fun and friendly guide, you''ll learn how to customize BuddyPress so that it matches the style of your Web site.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll walk through the necessary steps for modifying and customizing BuddyPress themes and you''ll discover how to extend BuddyPress through the use of addons and plugins. With BuddyPress, you''ll be well on your way to creating the ultimate user experience on your site.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to set up the WordPress foundation required to run BuddyPress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through installing BuddyPress on a WordPress-powered site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the different BuddyPress components, including extended profiles, private messaging, friends, groups, the wire, activity streams, blog tracking, status updates, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Details ways to troubleshoot BuddyPress once it is up and running\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to extend BuddyPress through the use of addons and plugins\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bring all your social community subscriptions together in BuddyPress!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get your buddies together with BuddyPress and create your own social community\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a cause, a hobby, or some other obsession you can''t wait to share with a like-minded community? BuddyPress is the buddy you need to get that community started. Here''s how to get BuddyPress up and running on your WordPress Web site and use its free tools and themes to host a social network devoted to your pet projects, right on your site.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full court press â€” start by obtaining a Web hosting provider and installing WordPress, then install and configure BuddyPress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s your domain â€” register your domain name and use FTP to transfer necessary files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Member options â€” explore BuddyPress features for creating profiles, avatars, and community friendships\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Growing with the group â€” integrate members'' blogs, set up member groups, and add discussion forums with BuddyPress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Custom Buddy â€” expand BuddyPress themes, personalize them with CSS, and learn how to create your own\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s on the wire â€” promote community interaction through wire postings for individuals or groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gather the gang â€” integrate TwitterÂ®, FacebookÂ®, FlickrÂ®, YouTubeÂ®, and other social media into your community\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go farther â€” discover third-party plugins that add more options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool things you can do with a BuddyPress site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Requirements for a hosting environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find and download free themes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do with widgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways for members to create and manage their own forums\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How member avatars are used\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on using member group features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten BuddyPress sites to check out\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1353'),
(16927, 'Budget Weddings for Dummies', 'Meg Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t let â€˜white blindnessâ€™ drive you into debt! Make your wedding everything you want it to be on the budget you determine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you planning a wedding, but worried about how much money you''ll have to spend? In today''s tough economic times, planning a budget wedding is more important than ever. This fun, money-saving guide is packed with tips for planning the wedding of your dreams without breaking your bank account!\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find tons of tips and advice for planning a budget-friendly celebration while still remaining true to your personality, values, and tastes. You''ll see how to make and keep your wedding budget; select the most economical time to get married; scope out wedding locations that fit the bill; and incorporate everything from economical to green ideas that emphasize style and elegance. Plus, you get tips and pointers for negotiating with vendors and avoiding hidden expenses and add-ons.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on information for planning a stylish wedding while sticking to your budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get deals on gowns, tuxes, cakes, invitations, photography, food, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use your creativity (and friends and family) to save money on decorations, food, favors, and wedding attire\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cut corners where no one will notice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set your own priorities for your big day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your celebration unique\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You don''t have to settle for less on your wedding day. Author, Meg Schneider is an award-winning journalist who planned her own wedding for less than $5,000Â Â _Budget Weddings For Dummies_ is the only guide you need to save yourself money, time, and stress while you plan a beautiful, memorable ceremony!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1354'),
(16928, 'Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve dreamed about having a customized multimedia PC or one tricked out for your favorite games, build your own and make your dreams come true!\n <em>\n  Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not only is building your own PC a really rewarding project, it can also save you a nice chunk of cash. This step-by-step guide helps you decide what you need, teaches you what all those computer terms mean, and tells you exactly how to put the pieces together. It shows you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What tools you need (not as many as you might think!)\n </li>\n <li>\n  All about operating systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to install CD and DVD drives\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on sound and video, and how to put a sound system together from start to finish\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to connect a monitor and install a modem\n </li>\n <li>\n  All about setting up and configuring the hard drive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secrets for securing your system, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Included is a bonus DVD showing you how to install the motherboard, CPU, RAM, ports, hard drive, video and sound cards, a DVD drive, and more. With\n <em>\n  Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can have the computer you want plus the satisfaction of doing it yourself!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do-it-Yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n Build the custom PC you want â€” just the way you want it â€” and have fun doing it!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you frustrated because you can''t buy the PC you want? Have you ever wanted to create your own custom PC but were unfamiliar with all of the parts and terminology? This book is your new best friend!\n</p>\n<p>\n This illustrated, hands-on guide will help you choose the best components for the PC that''s right for you. Inside the book, we walk you through the assembly process in simple, can-do language. Plus, you get a bonus DVD containing 45 minutes of step-by-step video instructions that show you how to build your own PC. It''s like having an expert right beside you all the way!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1355'),
(16929, 'Building a PC for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n By buying components and assembling them yourself, you can save a little money and gain a lifetime of free technical support.\n <em>\n  Building a PC for Dummies\n </em>\n removes the intimidation factor from building your own Intel-based personal computer, explains what you need, and shows you how to put everything together. It''s a fine place to start if you''ve never assembled your own machine before and want to give the process a try.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Mark L. Chambers describes what to look for when shopping for components, but he refrains from recommending any specific models or manufacturers.\n <em>\n  Building a PC for Dummies\n </em>\n would be stronger if he had made such recommendations, the way\n <em>\n  Tom''s Hardware Guide\n </em>\n does. Even without a specific shopping list, this book makes it possible for a novice computer builder to make informed decisions about motherboards, processors, storage devices, expansion cards, and input devices.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chambers presents the assembly process logically, explaining how to install a component or two at a time while performing incremental testing. He includes troubleshooting information in each component''s section, but it''s odd that he puts his discussion of operating systems in an appendix--most system builders will want to see their creations run as soon as possible.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered\n </strong>\n : Buying and building a PC; selecting motherboards, processors, storage devices, expansion cards, and input devices.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows tech hobbyists how to build the perfect PC, whether they want to create the ultimate gaming machine or combine new and recycled parts to construct an inexpensive computer for a child\n </li>\n <li>\n  The do-it-yourself craze is sweeping through the tech community, and this guide is now significantly revised and updated to cover the wide array of new hardware and accessories available\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step instructions and dozens of photos walk first-time computer builders through the entire process, from building the foundation, and adding a processor and RAM, to installing a video card, configuring a hard drive, hooking up CD and DVD drives, adding a modem, and troubleshooting problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1356'),
(16930, 'Building Facebook Applications for Dummies', 'Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Wagner gives a fun and easy way to get started building applications for this vast horde of potential buyers." (_The Bookseller_, Friday 14th March)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s no doubt about it â€” Facebook is cool. Along with users who want to interact with friends, businesses are using Facebook as a marketing and networking tool. And if youâ€™re a Web developer, you probably know thereâ€™s a demand for Facebook applications. If you have some basic knowledge of Web client technology, such as HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, and know how to use a Web programming language,\n <em>\n  Building Facebook Applications For Dummies\n </em>\n is just what you need to start building apps for Facebook.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide helps you create applications to reach Facebookâ€™s huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with the Facebook API\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build applications that take advantage of Facebookâ€™s News Feed and Wall\n </li>\n <li>\n  Migrate existing Web applications to Facebook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create mobile apps for Facebook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Facebookâ€™s markup and query languages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your app noticed by Facebook users\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A handy companion Web site includes code samples, starter applications, and other useful information about building Facebook apps. Whether you want to create applications for business purposes or just for fun,\n <em>\n  Building Facebook Applications For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to get started.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1357'),
(16931, 'Building Flash Web Sites for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can get Flash-y with your Web site -- here''s how!\n</p>\n<p>\n Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool\n</p>\n<p>\n Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Build an interface with custom buttons and menus\n <br />\n * Include animation and soundtracks\n <br />\n * Dress up your text\n <br />\n * Create tween animations\n <br />\n * Create ActionScript objects\n <br />\n * Test and publish your site\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  You can get Flash-y with your Web site â€” here''s how!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build an interface with custom buttons and menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Include animation and soundtracks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dress up your text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create tween animations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create ActionScript objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test and publish your site\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1358'),
(16932, 'Building Research Tools With Google for Dummies', 'Harold Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Googleâ€”a funny name for a fabulous tool. Youâ€™ve already used it to look up all sorts of information on the Web almost instantly. Now what if you could use its amazing abilities to turbo-charge your research on a grand scale?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you do just that. In plain English, it shows you easy ways to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ask Google exactly what you want to know\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine whether what you need can actually be found through Google, and where to look if the answer is â€œnoâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your research results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present your findings in a way that makes sense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write your own specialized search applicationsâ€”if you want to\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To get the most from Google, you need to understand Google.\n <em>\n  Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how Google works and how you can build more effective queries (hint: itâ€™s a lot more than just using the â€œAdvanced Searchâ€ techniques!) It even shows you how to think like a researcher and how to package the results of your research so it means something to your audience. Youâ€™ll be able to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand Google research techniques and use the custom search-related syntax\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize Googleâ€™s strengthsâ€”and limitations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Target your search by using Google operators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google to research photos, or even an entire industry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve the effectiveness of your results by understanding Googleâ€™s comparative methodology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build custom tools using WDSL and Web Services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You donâ€™t have to become a programmer to use Google, but if you know a little about software development and want to explore new, more focused search techniques,\n <em>\n  Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies\n </em>\n has a section just for you. It introduces you to the Google API, shows you how to download a developer key, and leads you through building a C# .Net Google application. On the companion Web site, youâ€™ll find the source code and software discussed in the book as well as links to lots of other resources for researchers. Before you know it, youâ€™ll be Googling your way to research success!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use Google APIs to turbo-charge your research\n</p>\n<p>\n See how Google works, build more effective queries, and improve your results\n</p>\n<p>\n Sure, you''ve used Google, but have you really explored all that Google can do? This friendly guide leads you deep into Google-land, where you''ll meet your perfect research partner. Find out how to ask exactly what you want to know, analyze and package your results, and even create individualized tools for the research you do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand Google research techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google''s custom search-related syntax\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your research skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present results that make sense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Web services and WSDL\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1359'),
(16933, 'Building Web Sites All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin &amp; Claudia Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design with users in mind\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with HTML and CSS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize graphic elements for the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build your site with e-commerce functionality\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From idea to online, your key to great-looking Web sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building a user-friendly site with professional flair\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re building a site to keep in touch with others, sell products, or promote a cause, you want to make sure yours stands out in the crowd. This handy reference shows you how to design an accessible site, create graphics and navigation menus, build forms, insert sound and video, and keep your visitors coming back for more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan, maintain, and promote a Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design with users in mind\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with HTML and CSS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize graphic elements for the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build your site with e-commerce functionality\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1360'),
(16934, 'Building Web Sites All-In-One for Dummies', 'Claudia Snell &amp; Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to launch a Web site but donâ€™t know where to begin? Information on Web design, page building software, using HTML, site planning, and everything else you need to know can be found easily in\n <em>\n  Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n . So you can easily find what youâ€™re looking for, this plain-English guide is divided into nine minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Preparations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Site Design\n </li>\n <li>\n  Site Construction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Web Graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Multimedia\n </li>\n <li>\n  Audience Interaction\n </li>\n <li>\n  E-Commerce\n </li>\n <li>\n  Site Management\n </li>\n <li>\n  Case Studies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From deciding what your site should do to working with HTML, using Dreamweaver, incorporating Flash creations, and keeping your site on the cutting edge, this book is your one-stop course in building Web sites. Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan your site, decide whether you need a Web team, and create relevant content\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop your site design, work with wire frames, and organize behind-the-scenes files that make your site work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the right hardware and software and create pages with Dreamweaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create cool site graphics with Photoshop and Fireworks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add interest with Flash animations, slideshows, video, and sound\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your site interactive with Javascript, PHP, ASP, and MySQL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an e-commerce site thatâ€™s user-friendly, legally sound, and secure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your content and design fresh and up to date\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ready to begin? Grab\n <em>\n  Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n and letâ€™s get started!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plan, build, and maintain a Web site that does exactly what you need!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to launch a Web site but don''t know where to begin? This book is your answer! There''s a minibook covering each step of the process, from deciding what your site should do to working with HTML, using Dreamweaver, incorporating Flash creations, and keeping your site on the cutting edge. There are even case studies to give you great ideas!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start off right â€” plan your site, decide whether you need a Web team, and create relevant content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design basics â€” develop your site design, work with wire frames, and organize behind-the-scenes files that make your site work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose your tools â€” select the right hardware and software and learn to create pages with DreamweaverÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get graphic â€” discover how to create cool graphics for your site with PhotoshopÂ® and FireworksÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Liven up your site â€” create interest with FlashÂ® animations, slideshows, video, and sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Audience participation â€” make your site interactive with JavaScriptÂ®, PHP, ASP, and MySQLÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your site pay â€” build an e-commerce site that''s user friendly, legally sound, and secure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ongoing success â€” keep your site fresh and up to date\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1361'),
(16935, 'Building Your Business With Google for Dummies', 'Brad Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦clear and well-placed diagramsâ€¦plain English explanationsâ€¦â€ (_Internet Works_, Autumn 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The first-ever book to show businesses step by step how to capitalize on advertising programs offered by Google, the world''s #1 search engine, with more than 200 million search queries per day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by a veteran For Dummies author working in cooperation with Google, which will help support the book\n </li>\n <li>\n  From selecting the right keywords to crafting the right message, the book explains how to boost site traffic using AdWords, Google''s hugely successful sponsored-link advertising program, which now has more than 150,000 advertisers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also details how to make money with AdSense, a Google program that funnels relevant AdWords ads to other sites-and pays those sites whenever someone clicks on them\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1362'),
(16936, 'Building Your Own Home for Dummies', 'Kevin Daum &amp; Janice Brewster &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keep construction on track with helpful checklists\n</p>\n<p>\n Turn your dream of a custom home into reality!\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely -- and staying sane during the process!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Find the best homesite\n <br />\n * Navigate the plan approval process\n <br />\n * Obtain financing\n <br />\n * Hire the right contractor\n <br />\n * Cut design and construction costs\n <br />\n * Avoid common mistakes\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keep construction on track with helpful checklists\n</p>\n<p>\n Turn your dream of a custom home into reality!\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely â€” and staying sane during the process!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find the best homesite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the plan approval process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Obtain financing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hire the right contractor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cut design and construction costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1363'),
(16937, 'Bulldogs for Dummies', 'Susan M. Ewing', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out how to select, train, and care for your Bulldog\n</p>\n<p>\n Though originally bred for bull baiting, today''s Bulldogs are calm, dignified, and courageous - and make great pets. Whether you''re already a Bulldog owner or you''re thinking about becoming one, this friendly guide will answer your questions and help you and your Bully live happily ever after. From choosing your dog to training, diet, and health, it''s just what you need for Bulldog success!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Understand the breed and its history\n <br />\n * Buy or adopt a healthy Bulldog\n <br />\n * Housetrain your Bulldog and teach basic commands\n <br />\n * Keep your Bulldog well-groomed and active\n <br />\n * Watch for breed-specific health problems\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to select, train, and care for your Bulldog\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Though originally bred for bull baiting, today''s Bulldogs are calm, dignified, and courageous â€” and make great pets. Whether you''re already a Bulldog owner or you''re thinking about becoming one, this friendly guide will answer your questions and help you and your Bully live happily ever after. From choosing your dog to training, diet, and health, it''s just what you need for Bulldog success!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the breed and its history\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy or adopt a healthy Bulldog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Housetrain your Bulldog and teach basic commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your Bulldog well-groomed and active\n </li>\n <li>\n  Watch for breed-specific health problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1364'),
(16938, 'Buried alive', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 26\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4266'),
(16939, 'Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4237'),
(16940, 'Business Communication for Success', 'Scott McLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4728'),
(16941, 'Business Etiquette for Dummies', 'Sue Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make no mistake, etiquette is as important in business as it is in everyday life â€” itâ€™s also a lot more complicated. From email and phone communications to personal interviews to adapting to corporate and international cultural differences,\n <em>\n  Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n keeps you on your best behavior in any business situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and navigate todayâ€™s diverse and complex business environment with great success. Youâ€™ll get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business. Youâ€™ll find out how to behave gracefully during tense negotiations, improve your communication skills, and overcome all sorts of work-related challenges. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make a great first impression\n </li>\n <li>\n  Meet and greet with ease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be a good company representative\n </li>\n <li>\n  Practice proper online etiquette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adapt to the changing rules of etiquette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with difficult personalities without losing your cool\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become a well-mannered traveler\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop good relationships with your peers, staff, and superiors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Give compliments and offer criticism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect physical, racial, ethnic, and gender differences at work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn the difference between â€œcasual Fridayâ€ and sloppy Saturday\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop cubicle courtesy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid conversational faux pas\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Business etiquette is as important to your success as doing your job well. Read\n <em>\n  Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n and make no mistake.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Navigate cultural differences in meeting styles and gift-giving\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to say and do the right thing in all business situations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be on your best business behavior? This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and successfully navigate today''s culturally diverse business environment. You get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a great first impression\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice proper online etiquette\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your verbal and written skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with difficult personalities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Become a well-mannered traveler\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1365'),
(16942, 'Business Math for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, it is easier than ever before to understand complex mathematical concepts and formulas and how they relate to real-world business situations. All you have to do it apply the handy information you will find in\n <em>\n  Business Math For Dummies\n </em>\n . Featuring practical practice problems to help you expand your skills, this book covers topics like using percents to calculate increases and decreases, applying basic algebra to solve proportions, and working with basic statistics to analyze raw data. Find solutions for finance and payroll applications, including reading financial statements, calculating wages and commissions, and strategic salary planning.\n</p>\n<p>\n Navigate fractions, decimals, and percents in business and real estate transactions, and take fancy math skills to work. Youâ€™ll be able to read graphs and tables and apply statistics and data analysis. Youâ€™ll discover ways you can use math in finance and payroll investments, banking and payroll, goods and services, and business facilities and operations. Youâ€™ll learn how to calculate discounts and markup, use loans and credit, and understand the ins and outs of math for business facilities and operations. Youâ€™ll be the company math whiz in no time at all! Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Read graphs and tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invest in the future\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use loans and credit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate bank accounts, insurance, budgets, and payroll\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate discounts and markup\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure properties and handle mortgages and loans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage rental and commercial properties\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten math shortcuts to do in meetings and drive your coworkers nuts and ten tips for reading annual reports,\n <em>\n  Business Math\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to solving math problems in business situations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features tons of formulas and practice problems to hone your skills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to do financial computations to be successful in business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by business math? Never fear â€” this easy-to-understand guide explains complex formulas and concepts in plain English and shows you how to use them day to day on the job. From using basic algebra to solve proportions and statistics to analyze data to reading financial statements, calculating wages and commissions, and managing investments, you''ll gain the skills you need to conduct real-world business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply formulas and theories to everyday business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate payroll situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use formulas in spreadsheets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage inventory or properties\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your analytical thinking\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(16943, 'Business Plan for a Startup Business', 'lqgraves', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10759'),
(16944, 'Business Valuation for Dummies', 'Lisa Holton &amp; Jim Bates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Business Valuation For Dummies is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company''s financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to calculating â€” and understanding â€” business value\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to determine the value of a business, but not sure where to start? This plain-English guide gives you step-by-step directions for the major valuation methods, supporting them with real-world examples. You''ll work with easy-to-understand valuation models and apply them to different types of businesses to achieve the fairest, most affordable valuation solution.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Business valuation 101 â€” learn what it is, why it''s a challenge, and the approaches that experts take to uncover value (or the lack of it)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp key valuation tools â€” understand valuation reports, financial statements, and "rule of thumb" guidelines for specific businesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to the heart of it â€” analyze historical performance, evaluate assets and income value, and estimate cost of capital\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you''re selling a business â€” see how to conduct due diligence and increase your company''s value\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you''re buying a business â€” incorporate valuation into the necessary prep before negotiation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Seek help from the experts â€” from divorce to estate planning to attracting outside investors, know when and why you should get outside valuation help\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real-world advice on planning and executing valuation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The role of the supporting players in the valuation process\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed case studies on buying and selling businesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How forensic accounting fits into valuation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The soft and hard skills needed for successful valuation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to build into a partnership agreement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you should pause before transforming your company into an ESOP\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1367'),
(16945, 'BusinessObjects XI Release 2 for Dummies', 'Derek Torres &amp; Stuart Mudie &amp; Julie Albaret', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n BusinessObjects may seem like a dauntingly complex topic, but\n <em>\n  BusinessObjects XI Release 2 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes is a snap. Even if you''re new to business intelligence tools, this user-friendly guide makes it easy to access, format and share data, analyze the information this data contains, and measure your organizationâ€™s performance.\n</p>\n<p>\n In no time, you''ll be finding your way around Universes to see how everything is shaping up, viewing and creating reports, building powerful queries on your organizations database, and measuring your company''s performance using BusinessObjects XI Release 2. This completely jargon-free handbook will put you in complete control of the ways and means of a truly exciting and powerful suite of business intelligence tools. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make business decisions with help from BusinessObjects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use BusinessObjects XI wizards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform a server installation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and define a Universe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up desktop reporting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize and use InfoView\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure performance with Dashboard and Analytics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of data marts and understand how they fit into your BusinessObjects system\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Created by a team with more than 15 years combined experience working with BusinessObjects tools,\n <em>\n  BusinessObjects XI Release 2 For Dummies\n </em>\n comes complete with several short lists of useful information, including tips on how to prepare for a successful BusinessObjects integration and helpful resources beyond the pages of this book. You''ll also find an overview of Crystal Reports, BusinessObjectsâ€™ companion reporting tool.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make better decisions with help from BusinessObjects\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find your way around Universes and see how your organization is doing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n BusinessObjects may seem like a dauntingly complex topic, but this book makes it a snap. Even if you''re new to business intelligence tools, you''ll find it''s easy to start viewing and creating reports, building powerful queries on your organization''s database, and measuring your company''s performance using BusinessObjects XI Release 2 â€” completely jargon-free!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Perform a server installation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and define a Universe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up desktop reporting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize and use InfoView\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure performance through dashboards and analytics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1368'),
(16946, 'Buying a Computer for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s in-your-face fun reading, well-organized and wide-ranging. --\n <em>\n  Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 19, 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n CPU, Ghz, Mhz, DIMMS, RAM, ROM, AGP, ISA, PCI, USB, CRT, LCD, NIC, CCD, CIS, DP, Kbps. What do all of these acronyms mean?\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you baffled by computer technology and technology? Intimidated by computer salespeople who grimace or grin when you say â€œgizmo?â€\n <em>\n  Buying a Computer For Dummies 2005 Edition\n </em>\n gives you the ABCs of buying a computer. You donâ€™t have to be able to talk tech; you just have to know what you want and how to get it. This guide turns evaluating the mind-boggling options into a simple five-step process, complete with software and hardware worksheets to help you pick a computer just for you. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right software for your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pick the right peripherals, including monitor, printer, scanner, modem, keyboard, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spend â€œextraâ€ money strategically to get more computer power for your buck\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose disk drives, including info on CD-ROM, DVD, Floppy, Zip, and flash memory cards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be sure you get support\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Dan Gookin, the author of DOS for Dummies, the bestseller that spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, plus many other For Dummies big sellers,\n <em>\n  Buying a Computer For Dummies\n </em>\n is updated to incorporate the latest technologies. It covers processor upgrades, flat panel displays, new peripherals, laptops, tablet PCs, wireless systems, and more. Youâ€™ll find information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing a digital camera and getting images from it into your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting a network card (NIC) for a broadband modem if you want the fastest Internet connection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the right decisions: CRT or LCD monitor? Laser printer or ink jet? Wired network or wireless?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Software for word processing, databases, desktop publishing, home budgeting, spreadsheets, graphics. and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Essential utilities, including antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewall software\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n It also arms you with important questions to ask a dealer and warning signs to look for in ads or sales pitches. Whether you are buying your very first computer, considering upgrading your current system, or replacing a system thatâ€™s outdated by todayâ€™s standards, this guide gets you past the jargon and into the wise buying mode. ASAP. PDQ.\n</p>\n<p>\n Oh, and it also tells you what all of the acronyms at the top stand for!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(16947, 'Buying a Computer for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s in-your-face fun reading, well-organized and wide-ranging. --\n <em>\n  Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 19, 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Realizing that purchasing a computer is a significant investment, beloved author Dan Gookin assists readers in finding a tailor-made computer that suits specific needs while also offering longevity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Delivers all the know-how in an understandable, enjoyable, friendly style so readers don''t feel overwhelmed by all the choices they''ll face when buying a computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks readers step by step through all the new developments: CD burner/DVD combo drives, processor upgrades, flat panel displays, new modem and networking options, new peripherals, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An essential reference for first-time computer buyers looking to make a wise purchase, and for anyone looking to get an additional computer\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1370'),
(16948, 'Buying a Computer for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s in-your-face fun reading, well-organized and wide-ranging. --\n <em>\n  Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 19, 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out where to shop and what to look for\n</p>\n<p>\n Handheld? Flat-screen iMacÂ®? PentiumÂ® 4 with warp speed processing? Hereâ€™s how to choose\n</p>\n<p>\n Those computer megastores can be intimidating, so take five â€“ five easy steps toward finding the computer that does what you want it to! Veteran For Dummies author Dan Gookin supplies checklists, questions, and answers that help you discover what you need, what you want, where to find it, and how to buy it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(16949, 'Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies', 'Susannah Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦explains what blogging is, and how businesses can profit by improving corporate communications and customer relations to generating marketing and advertising.â€ (_VNU_, 26th May 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this instant-communication world, buzz means business! And one of the greatest ways to get customers and potential customers buzzing about your business is with a Web log, commonly called a blog. Blogs can help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce the people behind your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss relevant issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide a clearinghouse for information and expertise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Show your business as a good corporate citizen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Support an exchange of ideas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get honest feedback from your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Affect public opinion\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re new to blogging, or if you know the mechanics of a blog but want some help refining and targeting yours,\n <em>\n  Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you going right away. An expert blogger shows you the ins and outs of putting together a professional-looking blog, walks you through the jargon, helps you decide what your blog should do, and even explains various software solutions. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up and maintain a blog, write in blogging style, and observe blogging etiquette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Define your audience and target your blog to reach them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Involve your customers, earn their trust, educate the public, and build community\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid possible legal pitfalls while keeping your blog interesting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage contributions and links to your blog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use images and design an eye-catching format\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize your blog for top search engine ratings, track your results, and measure your success\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Susannah Gardner, who has taught online journalism, directed multimedia efforts, and provided custom Web solutions to clients,\n <em>\n  Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies\n </em>\n even shares tips from the experts who establish and maintain some of the top-rated business blogs. Youâ€™ll discover the secrets of success, how to spot and solve problems, what software can enhance your blogging life, and a whole lot more. It like having a staff of experts on call!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1372'),
(16950, 'By Advice of Counsel', 'Arthur Cheney Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4253'),
(16951, 'By Stealth', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6186');
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(16952, 'C for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n while (dead_horse)\n</p>\n<p>\n beat ():\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re like most people, the above seems like nonsense. Actually, itâ€™s computer senseâ€”C programming. After digesting\n <em>\n  C For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll understand it. C programs are fast, concise and versatile. They let you boss your computer around for a change. So turn on your computer, get a free compiler and editor (the book tells you where), pull up a chair, and get going. You wonâ€™t have to go far (page 13) to find your first program example. Youâ€™ll do short, totally manageable, hands-on exercises to help you make sense of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All 32 keywords in the C language (thatâ€™s rightâ€”just 32 words)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The functionsâ€”several dozen of them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Terms like printf(), scanf(), gets (), and puts ()\n </li>\n <li>\n  String variables, numeric variables, and constants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Looping and implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Floating-point values\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In case those terms are almost as intimidating as the idea of programming, be reassured that\n <em>\n  C For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Dan Gookin, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  DOS For Dummies\n </em>\n , the book that started the whole library. So instead of using expletives and getting headaches, youâ€™ll be using newly acquired skills and getting occasional chuckles as you discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design and develop programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add comments (like post-it-notes to yourself) as you go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Link code to create executable programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Debug and deploy your programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use lint, a common tool to examine and optimize your code\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A helpful, tear-out cheat sheet is a quick reference for comparison symbols, conversion characters, mathematical doodads, C numeric data types, and more.\n <em>\n  C For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the mystery out of programming and gets you into it quickly and painlessly.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out how to tell your computer what to do\n</p>\n<p>\n Design and develop programs, compile and link code, fix problems, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Come "C" what all the excitementâ€™s about! C programs are fast, concise, and versatile, and youâ€™ll be writing them in no time. This friendly book unlocks the mysteries of coding, compiling, adding comments, and using keywords, I/O, variables, integers, and all the rest. Youâ€™ll write your first C program before you finish Chapter 1!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the entire program development cycle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Link code to create executable programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Debug and deploy your programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use floats, integer variables, and if statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write functions and use loops\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1373'),
(16953, 'C# 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Bill Sempf &amp; Chuck Sphar &amp; Stephen Randy Davis &amp; Charles Sphar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A logical, straightforward approach to learning the C# language\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n C# is a complicated programming language for building .NET-connected software for Microsoft Windows, the Web, and a wide range of devices. The friendly\n <em>\n  All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n format is a perfect way to present it. Each minibook is a self-contained package of necessary information, making it easy to find what you''re looking for.\n</p>\n<p>\n Upgrades in C# 2010 include the ability to build Windows 7 applications and compatibility with Python and Ruby.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  C# is a somewhat complex programming language for building .NET-connected software for Microsoft Windows, the Web, and other devices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beginning C# programmers will appreciate how the All-in-One format breaks the topic into minibooks, each one addressing a key body of information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minibooks include creating your first C# program, Windows 7 programming, basic C# programming, object-based programming, object-oriented programming, Windows programming with C# and Visual Studio, and debugging\n </li>\n <li>\n  Companion Web site includes all sample code\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Beginning C# programmers will find\n <em>\n  C# 2010 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n explains a complicated topic in an easy, understandable way.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Experience the fun and power as you learn to write your own C# applications\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What are you going to create with C#? Maybe your first WindowsÂ® 7 application? Or how about digging into Web construction? With this comprehensive book, you''ll be able to decide where you want to go next. It takes you through everything from Visual Studio and WPF to Web and services development so you can start building your own applications.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dig into C# â€” dive into object-oriented programming to create good class libraries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it secure â€” learn how to identify risks and then build Windows and Web applications with the right security\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into .NET â€” from coding for Windows Mobile to accessing XML files, you''ll uncover what you can do with the .NET framework\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop with WPF â€” discover key WPF concepts as well as common application patterns used in the software industry today\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get Visual â€” find out how to use, optimize, and customize Visual Studio''s graphic user interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.csharpfordummies.net to find the source code for all the projects in the book, updated for Visual Studio 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for creating your first C# console application\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to take advantage of object-oriented programming\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for writing secure code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on how to use Visual Studio and create macros\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to implement Web services with SOAP\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to build Web applications and leverage the Framework\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where you can take your applications with dynamic programming\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1374'),
(16954, 'C++ Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Matthew Telles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Seasoned C++ programmer Matthew Telles shows developers at any level of experience how to save hours by improving, refactoring, and debugging their code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Some of the techniques covered include mastering asserts, creating a complete class, hiding a method of a base class, freeing blocks of memory, implementing a simple locking mechanism, creating debugging macros, checking for errors at run-time, finding and fixing memory leaks, and reducing code complexity\n </li>\n <li>\n  The easy-to-follow, two-column Timesaving Techniques format makes mastering each timesaver a snap\n </li>\n <li>\n  C++ is one of today''s most widely used programming languages, with compilers offered by Microsoft, Borland, and Code Warrior\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book is the perfect companion to\n  <em>\n   C++ For Dummies\n  </em>\n  , Fifth Edition (0-7645-6852-3)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Streamline OOP and maximize built-in functionality\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 70 techniques that help you save time by...\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Changing things on the fly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handling multiple operating systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Defining default arguments for functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating overload operators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with vector algorithms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implementing virtual files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reducing the complexity of code\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1375'),
(16955, 'Cake Decorating for Dummies', 'Joe Locicero', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids'' cakes\n</p>\n<p>\n Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics -- from baking to icing to decorating with style. You''ll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find ingredients and supplies\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Make a cake from scratch\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Use frostings and fillings\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Cut and serve a cake\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Troubleshoot cake catastrophes\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Master creative techniques\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids'' cakes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics â€” from baking to icing to decorating with style. You''ll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find ingredients and supplies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a cake from scratch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use frostings and fillings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cut and serve a cake\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshoot cake catastrophes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master creative techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1376'),
(16956, 'Calculus II for Dummies', 'Mark Zegarelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An easy-to-understand primer on advanced calculus topics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Calculus II is a prerequisite for many popular college majors, including pre-med, engineering, and physics.\n <em>\n  Calculus II For Dummies\n </em>\n offers expert instruction, advice, and tips to help second semester calculus students get a handle on the subject and ace their exams. It covers intermediate calculus topics in plain English, featuring in-depth coverage of integration, including substitution, integration techniques and when to use them, approximate integration, and improper integrals. This hands-on guide also covers sequences and series, with introductions to multivariable calculus, differential equations, and numerical analysis. Best of all, it includes practical exercises designed to simplify and enhance understanding of this complex subject.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the info you need to get ahead of the curve\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gain confidence and conquer this complex subject\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Getting ready for Calculus II? This fun, friendly guide is packed with expert instruction, advice, and tips to help you make sense of the math and score your best. You get in-depth explanations of key intermediate calculus topics, from integration to indefinite integrals to infinite series. Plus, you''ll solve plenty of practice problems to increase your understanding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with indefinite integrals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simplify functions with variable substitutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve complex area and volume problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand series and sequences\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve differential and multivariable equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1377'),
(16957, 'Calculus Workbook for Dummies', 'Mark Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From differentiation to integration - solve problems with ease\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear! This hands-on guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of calculus problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with limits, continuity, curve-sketching, natural logarithms, derivatives, integrals, infinite series, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  The inside scoop on calculus shortcuts and strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know where to begin and how to solve the most common problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use calculus in practical applications with confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From differentiation to integration â€” solve problems with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear! This hands-on guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of calculus problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with limits, continuity, curve-sketching, natural logarithms, derivatives, integrals, infinite series, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  The inside scoop on calculus shortcuts and strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know where to begin and how to solve the most common problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use calculus in practical applications with confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1378'),
(16958, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4109'),
(16959, 'California for Dummies', 'Mary Herczog &amp; Paula Tevis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With two of the nationâ€™s largest megalopolises â€” Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay areaâ€”California has the largest, wealthiest, and most urbanized population of any state in the nation. Yet itâ€™s also an agricultural wonderland, a nature-lovers paradise, a wine-loverâ€™s dream, an outdoor enthusiastâ€™s ideal playground, and more. In fact, thereâ€™s so much to see and do in California that youâ€™ll probably have to choose.Â  With this guide, you canâ€™t lose. It gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Northern California, including San Francisco, the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, Redwood Country, Yosemite National Park, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  The central coast, including the Monterey Peninsula and the spectacular Big Sur Coast\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Southland cities, including L.A., San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Beach, ritzy Palm Springs, and San Diego\n </li>\n <li>\n  Major attractions like Hearst Castle, Disneyland, the San Diego Zoo, and Alcatraz\n </li>\n <li>\n  Activities like hiking in the Yosemite Valley, biking along the Monterey coastline, cruising Sunset Boulevard, taking in the scenery on the Pacific Coast Highway, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of dining options, ranging from foodie favorites like the French Laundry in Yountville and Campanile, Patina, and Providence in L. A. to good restaurants for picky eaters, and great places to enjoy a vegetarian meal or incredible Vietnamese, Italian, Mexican, or Thai specialties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Canâ€™t miss family destinations in various parts of the state, including Humboldt Redwood State Park, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the California Science Center, in L.A., and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  All sorts of accommodations, from new Treebones Resort in Big Sur that houses you in a gorgeous yurt, L. A.â€™s Chateau Marmont, with its Art Deco and Beaux Arts castle-style main building and individual bungalows, the Grand View and Seven Gables inns in Monterey/Pacific Grove with their spectacular ocean views, Chateau du Sureau in Oakhurst for pure pampering and four-star dining, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <strong>\n  For Dummies\n </strong>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  California For Dummies\n </em>\n , 4th Edition includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with all kinds of planning tips plus actual time-tested itineraries, this covers the must-see attractions, suggests things to see or do that are off the beaten path, and answers questions you might not even think to ask, like where to go to get down and wacky the way actual Californians do, where to find great inexpensive, gifts, and even where to find the graves of some of Hollywoodâ€™s biggest stars. With this guide, youâ€™ll soon be singing, "California, here I come."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore California the fun and easy way Â®\n</p>\n<p>\n From the redwoods to Hollywood, wine country to Disneyland, Frisco and Lake Tahoe to L. A. and San Juan Capistrano, legendary Sunset Boulevard to the spectacular Pacific coast, this friendly guide helps you soak up the sun, the sights, and the many moods of California.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1379'),
(16960, 'California Wine for Dummies', 'Ed Mccarthy &amp; Mary Ewing-mulligan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover the nuances of California wines and increase your drinking pleasure\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be a California wine connoisseur? This friendly guide gives you the knowledge you need to appreciate these fine wines, showing you how to taste them, select a good bottle, pair wine with food, and much more. You''ll see why certain wine regions are renowned and how to further enrich your wine-drinking experience.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   California wine 101 â€” understand the range of California wines, what makes them unique, and what a varietal wine is\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review the regions â€” explore the major wine regions of California and what makes each one special, from the soil to the climate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Open the bottle â€” become fluent in the Big Six: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Zinfandel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go beyond the basics â€” appreciate Pinot Grigio, Viognier, Syrah, sparkling wines, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Round out your wine experience â€” pair and share wines, learn about the proper glassware and serving temperatures, and prepare for a winery visit\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of California wine today\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wine recommendations for all budgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of wine label language\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A map of wine regions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for aging and collecting California wines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Winery tasting etiquette\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ins and outs of recent vintages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top wine country travel destinations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ed McCarthy, CWE, is a wine columnist for WineReviewOnline.com and for Beverage Media. Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW, is President of the International Wine Center in New York. Together, they are the authors of many For Dummies wine guides, including the perennial bestseller Wine For Dummies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1380'),
(16961, 'Call Centers for Dummies', 'Real Bergevin &amp; Afshan Kinder &amp; Winston Siegel &amp; Bruce Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips on making your call center a genuine profit center\n</p>\n<p>\n In North America, call centers are a $13 billion business, employing 4 million people. For managers in charge of a call center operation, this practical, user-friendly guide outlines how to improve results measurably, following its principles of revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In addition, this new edition addresses many industry changes, such as the new technology that''s transforming today''s call center and the location-neutral call center. It also helps readers determine whether it''s cost-efficient to outsource operations and looks at the changing role and requirements of agents.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The ultimate call center guide, now revised and updated\n </li>\n <li>\n  The authors have helped over 60 companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their call center operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers comprehensive guidance for call centers of all sizes, from 20-person operations to multinational businesses\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the latest edition of\n <em>\n  Call Centers For Dummies\n </em>\n , managers will have an improved arsenal of techniques to boost their center''s bottom line.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your friendly guide to profitable call center management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The call center industry is one of the world''s most rapidly growing and fastest changing. For call center managers or anyone who just wants the inside scoop on this exciting field, this guide is a must-read. Loaded with best practices from the most successful call centers around the world,\n <em>\n  Call Centers For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything you need to know, whether you''re just setting up shop or looking to improve your operations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start from the ground up â€” investigate where to locate and how to build a call center, understand the roles and responsibilities in a call center team, and consider the outsourcing option\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Call center business basics â€” create a successful call center business model, determine achievable goals, and measure your center''s progress through business drivers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure proper resource management â€” discover how to always have the right staff levels â€” including home agents â€” through forecasting and scheduling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain efficiency through technology â€” see how advances in call center technology, such as interactive voice response and Voice over Internet Protocol, can help your call center agents be more productive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build high-performance teams â€” recruit and retain the best people by providing great training and keeping your agents motivated\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep improving â€” explore strategies to identify areas of improvement and learn how to manage change within your call center\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to develop a positive company culture and high employee engagement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies to improve your customer satisfaction scores and first-call resolution\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for designing the ideal space for your center\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to select the right outsourcing partner\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create people-friendly work schedules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up a home agent program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to decrease costs and increase efficiency\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Locate, design, and build a call center\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure productivity and quality and set appropriate goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain efficiency through schedulingand technology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build and retain high-performance teams\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1381'),
(16962, 'The Caller', 'Alex Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4044'),
(16963, 'The Calorie Counter for Dummies', 'Rosanne Rust &amp; Meri Raffetto', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to keep track of your caloric intake\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Calorie Counter For Dummies\n </em>\n provides you with vital information on the nutritional and caloric value of the foods that you eat everyday-at home, the supermarket, and restaurants.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re trying to lose weight, eat healthier, or control and prevent diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, this take along guide provides you with a portable, quick, and easy way to get nutritional information whenever and wherever you need it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Calorie Counter For Dummies\n </em>\n providesÂ you with access to the calorie, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, and sodium counts found in thousands of fast-food andÂ chain-restaurant menu items and the foods like the fruits, vegetables, and meats you eat everyday.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tuck this compact guide into your glove box, briefcase, or purse, and have key calorie information at your fingertips at all times!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The simple, portable way to keep track of what you eat\n</p>\n<p>\n This compact guide gives you all the vital information you need on the nutritional and caloric value of the foods you eat â€” whether at home, at a restaurant, or on the go. The perfect size for briefcase, purse, or backpack, The Calorie Counter For Dummies makes losing weight and eating healthy as easy as 1-2-3!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take control â€” make smart dietary choices to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, and reduce high blood pressure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the facts â€” track calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, carbohydrates, fiber, sugar, protein, and other nutrients in a wide variety of foods at home and on restaurant menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay healthy â€” master the basics of good nutrition and a healthy diet with simple everyday guidelines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Too busy to cook? â€” dine out the smart way and choose healthier restaurant menu options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nutritional information for your favorite restaurants in the U.S. and Canada\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A-to-Z listings for fast-food and casual dining options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nutritional values for everyday foods, including fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, and dairy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on losing weight and sticking with your weight-loss plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple tricks for cutting the fat in your diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2095'),
(16964, 'Cambridge.A.Philosophy.Of.Cinematic.Art.Mar.2010.eBook-ELOHiM.pdf 05-09-2011', 'Cambridge.A.Philosophy.Of.Cinematic.Art.Mar.2010.eBook-ELOHiM.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3912'),
(16965, 'Camera Raw With Photoshop for Dummies', 'Kevin L. Moss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Offered by Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Sony, and other leading camera manufacturers, the Camera Raw format lets photographers create high-resolution "digital negatives"-uncompressed, unprocessed images that they can then manage and convert using Photoshop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cameras featuring Camera Raw capabilities are now priced as low as $300\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book explains what Camera Raw is, why serious amateur and professional photographers need it, and how to make the most of it using Photoshop''s powerful Camera Raw plug-in\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include evaluating and working with Camera Raw images, harnessing Photoshop Camera Raw tools, using metadata, understanding color, and correcting images\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Manage images with AdobeÂ® Bridge, import raw files from your camera, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Camera Raw is all about controlling how you manage your digital image processing. This guide shows you how to use Camera Raw and Photoshop for color management, easy image evaluation, color and tonal corrections, and general editing. Get up to speed quickly, with fabulous, full-color examples that illustrate every step. We''ll even show you how to add some special effects!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage and convert raw images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and back up your image files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use filters and exposure controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calibrate your monitor for color management\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with layers and use histograms\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1382'),
(16966, 'Canadian Art    Fall 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10832'),
(16967, 'Canadian Home Workshop', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7082'),
(16968, 'Canadian Home Workshop 09-2011', 'Canadian Home Workshop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3454'),
(16969, 'Canadian.Home.Workshop-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 01-10-2011', 'Canadian.Home.Workshop-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7076'),
(16970, 'Cancun &amp; the Yucatan for Dummies', 'Victoria Veilleux &amp; David Baird', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The spectacular coastline of Mexicoâ€™s YucatÃ¡n peninsula is a diverse playground where you can bask on pristine beaches, explore ancient ruins, play golf or tennis, go biking, snorkeling or scuba diving, do serious shopping, or escape to a secluded lagoon. With info on Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya, plus the nearby ruins, this friendly guide gives you the low down on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Everything from unique spa experiences to nature preserves and ecoparks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations ranging from a luxury resort where guests can dabble in a Viking-clad kitchen or where rooms spread out through the jungle to a European-style inn that offers Spanish lessons or a peaceful beachside palapa (thatch-roofed) inn\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of dining options, including fresh seafood, regional specialties such as pork pibil, papadzules, and poc chuc_,_ or Thai, Argentinean, or Italian cuisine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Diving into the clear depths of the YucatÃ¡n cenotes (natural wells)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Birding at Isla Contoy, with more than 70 species of birds as well as a host of marine and animal life\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Panoramic Tower on Isla Mujeres. where you get a stunning view of the island and Cancun\n </li>\n <li>\n  Day trips to the archeological sites at Tulum, ChichÃ©n ItzÃ¡, and Ek Balam\n </li>\n <li>\n  The pedestrian-only Avenida 5 in Playa del Carmen thatâ€™s the hot social scene\n </li>\n <li>\n  Night life, including live music venues, tequila bars, sports bars, cafes, and plenty of places where you can dance the night away\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  CancÃºn &amp; the YucatÃ¡n For Dummies\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  3rd Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether your idea of the perfect vacation is action, sun, and non-stop fun or an escape to Â  a peaceful haven where life moves along in pure maÃ±ana mode, this guide will get you on your way with no problemo, amigo.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Getting ready to go, amigo the fun and easy wayÂ®\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n CancÃºn &amp; the YucatÃ¡n beckon with incredible beaches, a rich, ancient culture, and amazing natural wonders. From plush resorts to secluded tropical getaways . . . from scuba diving, golf, orfly-fishing to basking in the sun . . . from power shopping to barhopping to bird watching, this friendly guide will get you ready to go with no problemo.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1383'),
(16971, 'Candlestick Charting for Dummies', 'Russell Rhoads', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts? Find them a little confusing? No worries!\n <em>\n  Candlestick Charting For Dummies\n </em>\n sheds light on this time-tested method for finding the perfect moment to buy or sell. It demystifies technical and chart analysis and gives you the tools you need to identify trading patterns â€” and pounce!\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, practical, guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. In no time, youâ€™ll be working with common candlestick patterns, analyzing trading patterns, predicting market behavior, and making your smartest trades ever. Youâ€™ll discover the advantages candlestick has over other charting methods and learn the secrets of combining it with other technical indicators. Youâ€™ll also get familiar with different ways to display and interpret price action, including trend lines, support levels, resistance levels, moving averages, and complex indicators. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Construct candlestick charts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify and interpret basic patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Trade in bull and bear markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with complex patterns and indicators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid False signals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the components of market activity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with bullish or bearish single-stick, two stick, and multistick patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify and interpret complex patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use indicators to determine the market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Outperform the market in any conditions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t know whether to grab the bull by the horns or just grin and bear it? Read\n <em>\n  Candlestick Charting For Dummies\n </em>\n and get it right the first time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with charts and real-world trading examples\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Translate candlestick patterns and use them to predict market behavior\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts, but find them confusing? No worries â€” this friendly, practical guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. You''ll see how to work with common candlestick patterns and analyze data to make smart trading decisions. You''ll also combine patterns with other indicators for more profitable trading!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Construct candlestick charts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify and interpret basic patterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Trade in bull and bear markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with complex patterns and indicators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid false signals\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1384'),
(16972, 'Candy Making for Dummies', 'David Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You''ll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids'' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Choose the proper utensils and ingredients\n <br />\n * Melt, temper, and mold chocolate\n <br />\n * Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets\n <br />\n * Create special holiday treats\n <br />\n * Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You''ll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids'' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the proper utensils and ingredients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Melt, temper, and mold chocolate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create special holiday treats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1385'),
(16973, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies', 'Amelia Jeanroy &amp; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything you need to know to can and preserve your own food\n</p>\n<p>\n With the cost of living continuing to rise, more and more people are saving money and eating healthier by canning and preserving food at home. This easy-to-follow guide is perfect for you if you want to learn how to can and preserve your own food, as well as if you''re an experienced canner and preserver looking to expand your repertoire with the great new and updated recipes contained in this book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find clear, hands-on instruction in the basic techniques for everything from freezing and pickling to drying and juicing. There''s plenty of information on the latest equipment for creating and storing your own healthy foods. Plus, you''ll see how you can cut your food costs while controlling the quality of the food your family eats.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Everything you need to know about freezing, canning, preserving, pickling, drying, juicing, and root cellaring\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the many great benefits of canning and preserving, including eating healthier and developing self-reliance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features new recipes that include preparation, cooking, and processing times\n </li>\n <li>\n  Amy Jeanroy is the Herb Garden Guide for About.com and Karen Ward is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want to save money on your grocery bill, get back to basics, and eat healthier,\n <em>\n  Canning &amp; Preserving For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is your ideal resource!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n second edition\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat healthier by canning and preserving food at home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cut your food costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Control the quality of the food your family eats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your repertoire with great new recipes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   &lt;\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Amelia Jeanroy\n</p>\n<p>\n Herb Gardens Guide, About.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Karen Ward\n</p>\n<p>\n Canning instructor\n</p>\n<p>\n Now updated â€” your guide to preserving the best, freshest fruits and veggies\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to can and preserve your own food? This practical guide gives you all the clear, hands-on instruction you need in the basic techniques â€” everything from freezing and pickling to drying, canning, root cellaring, and more. You''ll see how to create and store your own foods with the latest equipment â€” while you save money on your grocery bill and eat healthier!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare to preserve â€” understand the various methods for canning and preserving and the equipment and tools for each\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Yes you can can! â€” go step by step through water-bath and pressure canning to store perfect produce and meats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Baby it''s cold inside! â€” discover how to properly package and freeze your foods, prevent thawing damage, and preserve quality and flavor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking time to dry â€” get drying know-how and see how to store and use your dried foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New and updated recipes that include preparation, cooking, and processing times\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest canning supplies and equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for preserving the best flavor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to can combined foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed information on food safety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on troubleshooting problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best places to prepare and store your foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A metric equivalent chart for converting measurements\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1386');
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(16974, 'Canon EOS 7D for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the most out of the new Canon EOS 7D with this fun and friendly guide\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The new Canon EOS 7D comes equipped with a huge 18.0 megapixel sensor, many beginner-friendly features to aid in getting great pictures, and a video mode that allows you to shoot video as well as stills. If you''re looking to get the most from the features and functions that come with this dSLR, then this is the book for you!\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a veteran author and experience photographer, this easy-to-understand guide shows you how to properly use all the capabilities of this new camera. Filled with page after page of full-color images, this book walks you through the features of the Canon EOS 7D and the software that accompanies it.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduces you to the main features and functions of the new Canon EOS 7D\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the on-board controls, shooting in auto mode, using live view and playback modes, and dialing in exposure and lighting controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through manipulating focus and color controls and handling situational shooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses getting photos onto a PC for editing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Prepare to take aim at maximizing all the features and functions that the Canon EOS 7D has to offer with this helpful book by your side!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn what you can do with all the power packed into that camera!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Is this your very first digital SLR? Or have you already shot photos with a dSLR, but aren''t quite sure how to handle your EOS 7D? Either way, this is the book you want. Here''s how to use the two automatic modes, shoot RAW or JPEG, master your camera''s advanced features, use Live View, get great shots, and then edit and print your images.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s all about control â€” get acquainted with all the controls and menus and how to use each one\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quality counts â€” learn to choose the best image size and quality for your purposes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s Live â€” shoot photos and movies with Live View, take advantage of creative modes, and get the most from custom functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get flashy â€” use the built-in flash, auxiliary flash, and external Speedlites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Perfect your image â€” organize and edit your photos, understand metadata and RAW files, crop and resize images, and prepare for printing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can learn from the LCD monitor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to ease yourself into manual control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for capturing exactly what you want when you shoot\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What a histogram can tell you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create high-definition video with your EOS 7D\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on outfitting your camera bag\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Things to watch for when using Live View\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Canon ZoomBrowser EX\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the on-board controls, Live View, and playback mode\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dial in exposure and fine-tune focus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get great shots in many situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1387'),
(16975, 'Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Layout is neat, easy to work through and is organised well." (ePhotozine.com, April 16th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re as excited as we are about the Rebel XSi/450D, you probably canâ€™t wait to start shooting.\n <em>\n  Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to make every shot count! Even if youâ€™re new to digital SLR cameras or are unfamiliar with general photography terms and techniques, this handy guide will show you how to feel comfortable with the controls and start taking beautiful photographs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t worry if youâ€™ve never heard the words aperture, white balance, or ISO. Youâ€™ll soon be switching easily between automatic and manual modes, managing exposure, and using the all-important Quality setting! Youâ€™ll learn everything about the lenses, from how to choose the ones you need to how to handle them. Youâ€™ll finally know how to push just the right buttons to achieve the results that you desire. In a snap, you will find out how to unleash your creativity by manipulating exposure and lighting. You will find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Control picture quality\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjust resolution for image quality and size\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shoot in automatic and manual modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Review photos using Playback Mode and the histogram, delete unwanted photos, and protect valuable photos from accidental deletion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manipulate exposure, color, focus, and lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download, organize, archive, print, and share photos with family and friends\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten fast photo-editing tricks and ten special-purpose features to explore on a rainy day,\n <em>\n  Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of your new Canon digital SLR camera.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1388'),
(16976, 'Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Canon Digital Rebel XTi/400D is an ideal camera for first-time digital SLR users. Unfortunately if you don''t know photography lingo you might find yourself never veering from your camera''s default settings and into all the cool features that help you take outstanding photos. This book takes care of that problem.\n <em>\n  Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D For Dummies\n </em>\n comes to the aid of new and inexperienced XTi/400D users by walking them through all the features of their camera. The book not only explains that camera''s controls, but also demonstrates how each feature contributes to creating great photos. Illustrated with hundreds of full-color photos, this guide helps you get up-to-speed on the XTi/400D and in control of this popular camera.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make friends with your Rebel XTi/400D and enjoy all its features\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take creative control by adjusting exposure, color, and focus\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the digital SLR you''ve dreamed of, and now it''s yours. Make the most of it with this handy guide! Understand camera lingo, get great results in automatic and manual modes, and preserve, protect, and print your pictures. This book shows you how to snap super shots every time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right camera settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sense of f-stops, shutter speed, and ISO\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shoot beautiful portraits and travel photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capture action and nature scenes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Download and organize your picture files\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1389'),
(16977, 'Canon EOS Rebel T1i/500D for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran author Julie Adair King demystifies the high-end features of the new Canon T1i.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Canon EOS Rebel T1i is the newest camera offered in Canon''s popular Rebel line of digital SLRs-and sells for less than $900. Packed with page after page of full-color images, this hands-on guide is aimed at helping you make the most of the Canon T1i''s controls and shooting modes. Get ready to maximize the camera''s main functions in order to create effective digital photos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Julie Adair King brings her expertise in the areas of digital cameras and photography and combines it with her fun and friendly writing style to offer you helpful explanations and advice. Plus, examples walk first-time users of a digital SLR camera through the basic features as well as the software that accompanies the camera.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Selling for under $900, the Canon EOS Rebel T1i is a consumer-friendly digital camera, ideal for first-time owners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to shoot in auto mode, use live view and playback modes, and explore the on-board controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates techniques for dialing in exposure and lighting controls, manipulating focus and color controls, and handling situational shooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers printing, posting online, and other ways to share images\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Picture this: taking better digital photos than you ever thought possible with your Canon EOS Rebel T1i!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n New to digital SLR cameras? Relax! This book improves your dSLR skills\n</p>\n<p>\n Excited about your new camera, but a little intimidated by all its options? You''ve come to the right book! From how to change lenses and understand all the controls to usingCustom Functions and shooting Raw files, this friendly guide helps you enjoy everything this cool camera has to offer.Explore creative choices and get great shots every time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn your camera â€” set it up, navigate the menus, and get to know each button and dial\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Automatic improvement â€” start snapping better photos immediately with automatic exposure modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take full control â€” master advanced exposure, color, focus, and flash options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go Live â€” use the Live View feature, review images on the camera monitor, and shoot HD video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All together now â€” learn to apply camera settings and shooting strategies for the best shots in different situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The scoop on the new Quick Control display\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for making simple adjustments using Creative Auto mode\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to organize and safeguard your photo files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to select f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to get the best results with autofocus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to avoid red-eye and other flash problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on manipulating focus and color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get great prints and Web-friendly images\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1390'),
(16978, 'Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The new Canon EOS Rebel XS is designed to capture the perfect photos. But if youâ€™re new to SLRs, digital photography can be a bit intimidating.\n <em>\n  Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to get the most out of this digital camera, taking advantage of its 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor with DIGIC III image processor.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers explanations of all the controls and menus, suggestions to make using lenses a breeze, and picture-taking advice to give you the confidence to start shooting fantastic photos. Youâ€™ll learn to manage aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and work with the Auto Lighting Optimizer to enhance your creativity. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Handle and manipulate lenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get creative with exposure, lighting, and color balance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download, organize, print, and share your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how to use the Live View mode, adjust settings, and get great shots in automatic or manual mode\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Autofocus with Live View, set white balance, and choose a color space\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Canonâ€™s downloading tools, prepare images for print, and create Web-friendly files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get great photos in automatic modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow ten speedy editing tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid motion blur and noise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check focus by magnifying the view\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capture action, scenic vistas, and close-ups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print from rhe ZoomBrowser EX/ImageBrowserÂ \n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve invested in the Canon EOS Rebel XS, so it makes sense to learn the best techniques for using this camera.\n <em>\n  Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the knowledge to become a pro.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the most from your new Canon camera the fun and easy wayÂ®!\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a great camera, but if you''re new to SLRs, the EOS Rebel XS/1000D might be just a bit intimidating. This book comes to the rescue with plain-English explanations of all the controls and menus, easy techniques to help you solve common picture problems, and plenty of advice to give you the confidence you need to start shooting fantastic photos.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoy great results from the get-go â€” take advantage of special automatic modes to quickly improve your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the lingo â€” master all the confusing digital photography terminology from file formats to f-stops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expose your creativity â€” explore advanced shooting modes to manipulate exposure, color, and focus like a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go live â€” discover when and how to best use your camera''s Live View feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share your favorites â€” get step-by-step help to download, print, and share photos online with Canon''s free software\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to shoot beautiful portraits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative tips for capturing action, scenic vistas, and close-ups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten speedy retouching tricks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What P, Tv, Av, M, and A-DEP modes do\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to solve focus and exposure problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What "noise" is and how to avoid it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to organize your photos using Canon ZoomBrowser EX/ImageBrowser\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1391'),
(16979, 'Captain Alatriste', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in a magnificent series of historical novels from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South The novels of Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as "the master of the intellectual thriller" (Chicago Tribune). His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste, comes PÃ©rez- Reverte''s most stunning creation to date: a riveting series featuring the adventures of an iconic hero. Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Needing gold to pay off his debts, Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the travelers a fright. "No blood," they are told. Then a mysterious stranger enters to clarify the job: he increases the pay, and tells Alatriste that, instead, he must murder the two travelers. When the attack unfolds, Alatriste realizes that these aren''t ordinary travelers, and what happens next is only the first in a riveting series of twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4286'),
(16980, 'Car Audio for Dummies', 'Doug Newcomb &amp; Mike Mettler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about a knockout audio system for your car? Not sure what you need, want, or can afford?\n <em>\n  Car Audio For Dummies\n </em>\n is a great place to find some answers!\n</p>\n<p>\n But wait â€” what if speakers that vibrate your floorboards donâ€™t turn you on? What if youâ€™re thinking more about hands-free phone access and a DVD player to entertain the kids? Surprise!\n <em>\n  Car Audio For Dummies\n </em>\n can give you a hand there, too. Whether you want to feel as if your favorite band is performing right on top of your dashboard or you want to keep the soccer team entertained on the way to the tournament, this friendly guide can help.\n</p>\n<p>\n From planning your system and buying components to getting them installed and protecting your investment, youâ€™ll find plenty of wise advice. Get the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Figuring out what kind of equipment you need to do what you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identifying good sound quality when you hear it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding components to a factory system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing a video player, hands-free phone system, amplifiers, speakers, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding a reliable installer (todayâ€™s automotive electronics systems are so complex that you probably wonâ€™t want to go it alone)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding warranties and returns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protecting and insuring your system\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Car Audio For Dummies\n </em>\n is sort of like that knowledgeable friend you want to take along when you tackle a project like this. Sounds like a good idea, doesnâ€™t it?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Decide on the right system for you and your car\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Face the music â€” and the phone and video â€” with this sound advice!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to feel as if your favorite band is performing right on top of your dashboard? Or are you more about hands-free phone access and a DVD player to entertain the kids? This book can help with either project and many others. From planning your system and buying components to getting them installed and protecting your investment, here''s the scoop.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add components to a factory system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify good sound when you hear it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand warranties and returns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a reliable installer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect and insure your system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose a video player\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1392'),
(16981, 'Car Hacks &amp; Mods for Dummies', 'David Vespremi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So you want to turn your Yugo into a Viper? Sorry--you need a certified magician. But if you want to turn your sedate sedan into a mean machine or your used car lot deal into a powerful, purring set of wheels, youâ€™ve come to the right place.\n <em>\n  Car Hacks &amp; Mods for Dummies\n </em>\n will get you turbo-charged up about modifying your car and guide you smoothly through:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing a car to mod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Considering warranties, legal, and safety issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hacking the ECU (Engine Control Unit) to adjust performance-enhancing factors like fuel injection, firing the spark plugs, controlling the cooling fan, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Replacing your ECU with a plug and play system such as the APEXi Power FC or the AEM EMS system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Putting on the brakes (the faster you go, the faster youâ€™ll need to stop)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up your car for better handling and cornering\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by David Vespremi, automotive expert, frequent guest on national car-related TV shows, track driving instructor and self-proclaimed modder,\n <em>\n  Car Hacks &amp; Mods for Dummies\n </em>\n gets you into the ECU and under the hood and gives you the keys to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing new wheels, including everything from the basics to dubs and spinners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Putting your car on a diet, because lighter means faster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Basic power bolt-ons and more expensive power adders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Installing roll bars and cages to enhance safety\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding aero add-ons, including front â€œchinâ€ spoilers, real spoilers, side skirts, and canards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Detailing, down to the best cleaners and waxes and cleaning under the hood\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using OBD (on-board diagnostics) for troubleshooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting advice from general Internet sites and specific message boards and forums for your carâ€™s make or model, whether itâ€™s a Chevy pick-up or an Alfa Romeo roadster\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to compete at drag strips or on road courses or simply accelerate faster on an interstate ramp, if you want to improve your carâ€™s performance,\n <em>\n  Car Hacks &amp; Mods\n </em>\n <em>\n  for Dummies\n </em>\n is just the boost you need.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turn the car you have into the car you want\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s how to get faster acceleration, shorter stopping, better handling, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever wish you''d been invited to the design and engineering meetings when your car was being created? Well, here''s how to add what they forgot and change what bugs you! This handy guide steers you safely past warranty pitfalls, shows you what modifications are legal, provides performance tips, and helps you make your car look cool.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover How To:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your car for better cornering\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve appearance with detailing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose add-ons that work with your car\n </li>\n <li>\n  Match your braking power to your horsepower\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost mileage by hacking the computer\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1393'),
(16982, 'The Car of Destiny', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5935'),
(16983, 'Car_and_Driver_2011-11_HQ.pdf 26-09-2011', 'Car_and_Driver_2011-11_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6844'),
(16984, 'Car.and.Driver-October.2011.pdf 12-09-2011', 'Car.and.Driver-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5891'),
(16985, 'Car.Craft.USA.2011.11.pdf 20-10-2011', 'Car.Craft.USA.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10806'),
(16986, 'Card Games for Dummies', 'Barry Rigal &amp; Omar Sharif', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Card Games for Dummies\n </em>\n bills itself as "the fun and easy way to play and win your favorite card games." The book is broken down into different sections that broadly encompass the types of card games available: card-swapping games (gin and rummy), trick-taking games (whist and euchre), games where you try to score as many points as possible (pinochle), and games where you don''t want to score any points at all (hearts). Each chapter starts with the fundamentals--the definition of a "trick," for example--and builds from there, progressing from the simplest games in each category to the more complex.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by journalist Barry Rigal,\n <em>\n  Card Games for Dummies\n </em>\n is a nice companion piece to the more staid\n <em>\n  Complete Hoyle''s Games\n </em>\n . Unlike\n <em>\n  Hoyle''s\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Card Games for Dummies\n </em>\n not only explains game mechanics, but gives you useful tips for play, provides the lowdown on strategy, and warns of the boneheaded blunders that you''d undoubtedly make if you''d been taught the rules and nothing more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So if you''ve always wanted to learn cribbage, but never wanted to ask a friend for a tutorial, this is the book for you. One word of warning: if you want to learn how to play bridge, you won''t find much here other than a synopsis of the rules and a recommendation for\n <em>\n  Bridge for Dummies\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Matthew Baldwin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Card Games For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll not only be able to play the hottest card games around, you can also apply game-winning strategies and tips to have fun and beat your opponents. Now updated, this hands-on guide shows you everything you need to knowâ€”the basics, the tricks, and the techniquesâ€”to become a master card player, with expanded coverage on poker as well as online gaming and tournaments. Soon you will have the card-playing power to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pin down your opponents in Texas Holdâ€™em\n </li>\n <li>\n  Show off your power in Stud Poker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hit wisely in Blackjack\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break hearts ruthlessly in Hearts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix up the night with Gin and Rummy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build yourself a victory in Bridge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send them fishing in Go Fish\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This straightforward, no-nonsense guide features great ways to improve your game and have more fun, as well as a list of places to find out more about your favorite game. It also profiles different variations of each game, making you a player for all seasons!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1394'),
(16987, 'The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4293'),
(16988, 'The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4335'),
(16989, 'Casca #01 The Eternal Mercenary', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4644'),
(16990, 'Casca #02: God of Death', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4645'),
(16991, 'Casca, the Persian', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4646'),
(16992, 'Casca: Panzer Soldier', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4647'),
(16993, 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton''s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone (1890), The Captain of the Polestar (1890), The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892), Beyond the City (1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), The Great Boer War (1900), The Green Flag (1900), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Lost World (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4330'),
(16994, 'Casino Gambling for Dummies', 'Kevin Blackwood &amp; Max Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Earn comps and avoid big losses\n</p>\n<p>\n Bet wisely, beat the house, and bring home the bucks!\n</p>\n<p>\n Crazy about casinos, but worried about losing your shirt? Relax! This hands-on guide is filled with insider secrets and tips for maximizing winnings and minimizing losses in the most popular casino games --blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, slots, and more. You get the scoop on everything from game rules and jargon to making the best bets (and knowing when to quit).\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Understand the odds\n <br />\n * Develop winning strategies\n <br />\n * Avoid gimmicks and bad bets\n <br />\n * Manage your money effectively\n <br />\n * Gamble on the Internet\n <br />\n * Deal with the IRS\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Earn comps and avoid big losses\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bet wisely, beat the house, and bring home the bucks!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Crazy about casinos, but worried about losing your shirt? Relax! This hands-on guide is filled with insider secrets and tips for maximizing winnings and minimizing losses in the most popular casino games â€”blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, slots, and more. You get the scoop on everything from game rules and jargon to making the best bets (and knowing when to quit).\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the odds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop winning strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid gimmicks and bad bets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your money effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gamble on the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with the IRS\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1395'),
(16995, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There was a time when reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it''s impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel''s undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller''s characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense. Yossarian says, "You''re talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive." "Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?" "To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn''t make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who''s dead." "I can''t think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy." "The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who''s going to get you killed, no matter which side he''s on." Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It''s a good thing, too. As long as there''s a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It''s an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(16996, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'J. D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children''s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden''s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(16997, 'Catholic High School Entrance Exams for Dummies', 'Lisa Zimmer Hatch &amp; Scott Hatch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A real-world guide to passing the entrance exam for Catholic high school\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies\n </em>\n provides students and their parents with an efficient and effective way to prepare for the HSPT, TACHS, and COOP-the three entrance exams used by Catholic high schools. Included are\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Six full-length practice tests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test-taking tips from the experts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thorough reviews of each test''s format\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With full sample tests, up-to-date questions, and a comprehensive review of the basics in each category,\n <em>\n  Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies\n </em>\n is a family''s ticket to education success.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A real-world guide to mastering Catholic high school entrance exams\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you planning to attend a Catholic high school? Do you need a fast and effective way to prepare for the HSPT, TACHS, and COOP exams? With six full sample tests, up-to-date questions, and a comprehensive review of the basics in each category you''ll encounter, Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies is your ticket to test-taking success.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gear up for the big day â€” find out how schools use your score, register for the exam you''re supposed to take, and review a list of what you''ll need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be victorious over vocabulary, grammar, and usage â€” discover the types of verbal questions you''ll face on your exam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master analogies and reading comprehension â€” figure out the relationships in analogies and put together a planned approach to reading and understanding passages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ace arithmetic and win at word problems â€” get an overview of basic math concepts and learn how to approach and solve different types of word problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Overcome obstacles with algebra and geometry â€” demystify these often-intimidating subjects with easy-to-understand explanations for working with variables, lines and angles, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test your skills â€” take six practice tests complete with answer keys and thorough explanations of the answers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to the exams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to handle pre-exam jitters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to bring on exam day (and what to leave at home)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tactics for learning new words\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A breakdown of analogy questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The parts of speech\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on reasoning your way through logic questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coverage of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pointers for deciphering quantitative relationships\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common pitfalls to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boost your scores on the HSPT, TACHS, and COOP\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sharpen your test-taking skills with six full-length exams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review key verbal and math concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your opportunity to attend the Catholic high school of your choice\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1396'),
(16998, 'The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet', 'Perez-Reverte, Arturo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4319'),
(16999, 'CD and DVD Recording for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most new PCs and Macs today are equipped with the latest in recording and storage equipment: CD-RW and DVD-R/RW drives. Even if your computer is a little older, you can still join the revolution with add-on hardware and software. You can record music and movies, store photos and data, and organize things you want to preserve for posterity, safely and easily.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  CD and DVD Recording For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n , Second Edition, takes the frustration out of choosing and using these cool recording systems. This easy-to-follow guide will help you find what you need and use it efficiently, and it covers all the newest equipment. Youâ€™ll discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose and install a CD or DVD recorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pick the best software for your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Store large data files safely on CD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use EasyCD and DVD Creator and Toast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record mixed media disks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create electronic photo albums, baby books, genealogies, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Once upon a time, videotape, vinyl record albums, and floppy disks were state of the art for preserving movies, music, and data. The superior durability and capacity of CDs and DVDs have made these tools as obsolete as the washboard, but never fear.\n <em>\n  CD and DVD Recording For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n , Second Edition, makes it easy to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Transfer your favorite VHS movies to DVD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Preserve those classic LPs on CD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Archive records and data files, and safely store treasured family photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ask the right questions when shopping for CD or DVD recording hardware and software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record original material, copy and erase rewriteable disks, and make backups of important data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add menus to your disks, label them, and care for them properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record a bootable CD-ROM\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Todayâ€™s CD and DVD recorders can produce everything from superb sound quality to original movies you can play on your DVD player.\n <em>\n  CD and DVD Recording For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n will get your recording career going in a jiffy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Choose and use the perfect CD or DVD recorder\n</p>\n<p>\n Safeguard data and photos, put that classic music on CD, or record your favorite movies\n</p>\n<p>\n CDs and DVDs do more than entertain; theyâ€™re also the perfect data storage system! This fully updated guide helps you record favorite tunes as well as preserve family photos with the greatest of ease. Get the scoop on the latest devices, tips on mixed media recording, advice on turning your videotapes into DVDs, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the equipment you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Easy CD &amp; DVD Creator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Archive data files on CDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and convert files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for CDs and DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record a bootable CD-ROM\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(17000, 'Cecilian Vespers: A Mystery (A Collins-Burke Mystery)', 'Anne Emery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4244'),
(17001, 'The Celestine Prophecy', 'James Redfield', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda''s The Teachings of Don Juan.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Redfield''s debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses''s trek up Mt. Sinai. Originally self-published, the book sold phenomenally, sparked by word of mouth, and may be this year''s The Bridges of Madison County --with which it shares some regrettable stylistic similarities. The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditional family values. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine Insights during a series of chance encounters. Redfield has a real talent for page-turning action, and his lightweight quest employs auras, energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched. The book ends with the protagonist poised to discover the 10th Insight in a promised sequel. 250,000 first printing; BOMC selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(17002, 'Celiac Disease for Dummies', 'Ian Blumer Md &amp; Sheila Crowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For the newly diagnosed and those who want to learn more about the disease,\n <em>\n  Celiac Disease For Dummies\n </em>\n is a valuable resource. . . . It will be among the go-to books for newly diagnosed celiacs for many years to come. . . .\n <em>\n  Celiac Disease For Dummies\n </em>\n will easily inform and engage readers." (_GIG (Gluten Intolerance Group) Quarterly_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The latest ''Dummies'' book to broach the subject of celiac disease is a refreshing take on a serious condition because it provides, along with all the medical facts and helpful hints, a huge dose of respect for the patient and humour. If you are looking for an excellent overall reference on all aspects of celiac disease, written in non-medical, approachable language, this is it."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Janet Dalziel, President, Canadian Celiac Association\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1398'),
(17003, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4110'),
(17004, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4460');
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(17005, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4111'),
(17006, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4459'),
(17007, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4328'),
(17008, 'The Chauffeur and the Chaperon', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5936'),
(17009, 'Chemistry Workbook for Dummies', 'Peter J. Mikulecky Phd &amp; Katherine Brutlag &amp; Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Brian Peterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From liquids and solids to acids and bases - work chemistry equations and use formulas with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the chemistry terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear - this hands-on guide helps you solve many types of chemistry problems in a focused, step-by-step manner. With problem-solving shortcuts and lots of practice exercises, you''ll build your chemistry skills and improve your performance both in and out of the science lab. You''ll see how to work with numbers, atoms, and elements; make and remake compounds; understand changes in terms of energy; make sense of organic chemistry; and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know where to begin and how to solve the most common chemistry problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the key exceptions to chemistry rules\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use chemistry in practical applications with confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From liquids and solids to acids and bases â€” work chemistry equations and use formulas with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the chemistry terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear â€” this hands-on guide helps you solve many types of chemistry problems in a focused, step-by-step manner. With problem-solving shortcuts and lots of practice exercises, you''ll build your chemistry skills and improve your performance both in and out of the science lab. You''ll see how to work with numbers, atoms, and elements; make and remake compounds; understand changes in terms of energy; make sense of organic chemistry; and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know where to begin and how to solve the most common chemistry problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the key exceptions to chemistry rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use chemistry in practical applications with confidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1399'),
(17010, 'Chess for Dummies', 'James Eade', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was inevitable, thank goodness, that the Dummies series would give us an introductory chess book. The light touch is perfect to offset the sober aura of mystery that surrounds the game in many people''s minds. And the extras that reach beyond the well-written move explanations, strategies, and pattern-recognition make the book a real winner. It won''t take much playing for readers to appreciate the section on chess etiquette, for example, or the one on uncommon moves, subtitled, "The Ones That Start the Fights." Informative tips and amusing bits of trivia add to the fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game\n</p>\n<p>\n Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess\n</p>\n<p>\n Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you''ll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You''ll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your chessboard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the pieces and their powers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the game''s patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decipher chess notation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Employ tactics to gain an advantage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find tournaments and clubs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1400'),
(17011, 'Chicago for Dummies', 'Laura Tiebert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years ago, when Frank Sinatra sang the praises of "my kind of town," he was saluting Chicago. Chicago is still a truly vibrant and eclectic city that constantly reinvents itself. Cosmopolitan yet not elitist, sophisticated in some ways yet refreshingly brash in others, Chicago is wonderfully entertaining and welcoming. Thereâ€™s plenty to do and this guide clues you in with the latest info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Four options for exploring the city\n </li>\n <li>\n  Five day trips to nearby attractions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations, ranging from three of the worldâ€™s best luxury hotels to wonderful historic getaways with modern amenities\n </li>\n <li>\n  A shopping guide that covers power shopping along the Magnificent Mile and bargain hunting in unique shops\n </li>\n <li>\n  The action and attractions, ranging from Soldier Field or Wrigley Field to the Hancock Observatory to Navy Pier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restaurants, including everything from elegant to family-style, and from Chicagoâ€™s famous deep-dish pizza to all kinds of ethnic cuisine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Intriguing architecture and incredible museums, including the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Art Institute of Chicago\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fantastic outdoor attractions, including Millenium Park, Grant Park, North Avenue Beach, two great zoos, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to do when the sun goes down, whether you like the blues, ska, or hip-hopâ€¦ the hot night spots or great theater\n </li>\n <li>\n  Culture, ranging from Lyric Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to The Second City and Improv Olympics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sportsâ€”baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and moreâ€”in a city of notoriously passionate fans\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,Â _Chicago For Dummies, 4th Edition_, includes:Â \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this friendly guide to help you choose from the best sites and attractions, Chicago will surely be your kind of town.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With this fun guide, exploring the Windy City is a breeze\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Cheer the Bears or the Cubs, or applaud great live theater. Explore incredible museums, shop till you drop, or view a spectacular sunset from the Hancock Observatory. Whether your style is the Magnificent Mile or Rush Street . . . rock, hip-hop, or a blues beat . . . with this guide, Chicago is your kind of town.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1401'),
(17012, 'The Chief Legatee', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4031'),
(17013, 'Chihuahuas for Dummies', 'Jacqueline O&#39;neil', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "a guide to help you know what to expect from these loveable creatures" (_I Want It Now_, June 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you crazy about Chihuahuas?\n <em>\n  Chihuahuas For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n is fully updated to show you how to find the one youâ€™ll love most and make him or her part of your family. This one-stop guide gives you all the information you need to raise and care for your plucky little pooch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find expert advice on everything from feeding and healthcare to housebreaking, grooming, training, and more. Plus, youâ€™ll learn the ins and outs of selecting the right vet, handling emergencies, and even entering your little darling in a dog show. Youâ€™ll find out about the ups and downs of living with a pet, get familiar with the Chihuahuaâ€™s classic physical characteristics, and find help in deciding whether youâ€™d prefer a dog with a long coat or a smooth coat. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose your ideal Chihuahua\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your home for your new arrival\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your puppyâ€™s nutrition and health\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent common behavior problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach your Chihuahua fun tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a strong and loving bond with your pet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Train children to get along with your Chihuahua\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose Chihuahua toys and accessories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select a crate and bedding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduce your little dog to other pets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach your little dynamo manners and good behavior\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You know that bringing a Chihuahua into your home will be a happy and joyful experience.\n <em>\n  Chihuahuas For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n makes it easy, too!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1402'),
(17014, 'A Child of the Jago', 'Arthur Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4276'),
(17015, 'The Children Of Hurin', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6389'),
(17016, 'Chinese for Dummies', 'Wendy Abraham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The perfect beginnerâ€™s guide to understanding and communicating in Chinese\n</p>\n<p>\n Chinese language and culture are becoming increasingly appealing to people both in and out of the business world. Chinese For Dummies is for anyone who wants to learn or brush up on their skills in basic Chinese. Focusing on Chinaâ€™s official dialect, Mandarin, this easy-to-follow guide covers proper pronunciation, basic grammar and numbers, vocabulary, and proper etiquette and gestures. Readers will discover how to make small talk, order food in restaurants, make travel arrangements, and be both a gracious guest and a wonderful host, as well as understand the basics of Chinese culture.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features real-world examples and a mini-dictionary\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your friendly guide to understanding Chineseâ€”quickly and easily!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Curious about Chinese? Whether youâ€™re a student, a traveler, doing international business, or you just want to pick up basic Chinese, this clear, easy-to-follow guide will have you pronouncing words in standard Mandarin like a native speaker. From grammar, numbers, and vocabulary to greetings, popular expressions, and proper etiquette, youâ€™ll make yourself understood in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Have everyday conversations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speak in â€œperfect pitchâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Construct sentences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand cultural rules and taboos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get around in Chinese-speaking country\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All This on the Audio CD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pick up Chinese the easy wayâ€”through actual conversation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features dialogues by native Chinese speakers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allows you to hear Chinese as itâ€™s really spoken\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reinforces lessons from the book\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get smart!\n </strong>\n <br />\n @www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find listings of all our books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose from many different subject categories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sign up for eTips at etips.dummies.com\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1403'),
(17017, 'Chinese Phrases for Dummies', 'Wendy Abraham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n</p>\n<p>\n Speak Chinese - instantly!\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to China but don''t know Chinese? Taking Chinese at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don''t worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Chinese in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, time, and money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n</p>\n<p>\n Speak Chinese â€” instantly!\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to China but don''t know Chinese? Taking Chinese at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don''t worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Chinese in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, time, and money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1404'),
(17018, 'Choke', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who''s taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer''s-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of\n  <em>\n   Choke\n  </em>\n  are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Art never comes from happiness." So says Mancini''s mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son''s life would be chock-full of nothing but art. Alas, that''s not the case. In the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus, and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn''t quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he''s trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he''s settling for the Heimlich.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palahniuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot, but suffice it to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins''s __, a little bit of Don DeLillo''s\n  <strong>\n   , and, well, a little bit of\n  </strong>\n  . Just as with\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  and the other two novels under Palahniuk''s belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, including this skeptical bit on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether this is the novel that will break Palahniuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end, though, the author''s nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just barely. And what''s next for Victor Mancini''s creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does in the final pages: "Maybe it''s our job to invent something better.... What it''s going to be, I don''t know."\n  <em>\n   --Bob Michaels\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk (Fight Club; Invisible Monsters) once again demonstrates his faith in the credo that before things get better, they must get much, much worse. Like previous Palahniuk protagonists, Victor Mancini is young and prematurely cynical, a med school dropout whose eerily detached narration of the banal horrors of everyday existence gives way to a numbed account of nihilistic carnage. Cruising sex-addict meetings for action, Victor enjoys bathroom trysts with nymphomaniacs on short prison furloughs, focused on maximizing his sexual highs. During the working day, he is trapped in a 1734 colonial theme park, where the entire self-medicated staff blearily endures abusive school tours while hiding out from the world. Victor supports his mother, who is in the hospital, stricken with Alzheimer''s; she is wasting away, and despite the misery she put him through in childhood (revealed in an increasingly horrific series of flashbacks), he wants to be a good boy and take care of her. This becomes challenging when Victor is seduced by a strange hospital worker calling herself Dr. Marshall, who shows him his mother''s diary; it describes her self-impregnation by a holy relic she believes to be the foreskin of Jesus. This has a profound effect on Victor, who is stunned by the possibility that there may be some good in him after all. Victor is even more pathetic than Palahniuk''s previous antiheroes, in that the world he creates for himself (a carnivalesque mâ€šlange of theme park, geriatric ward and asylum) is actually more horrific than the one he seeks to escape. Still, the novel showcases the author''s powers of description, character development and attention-getting dialogue handily enough to give this dark meditation on addiction a distinctive and humorous twist. Author tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6187'),
(17019, 'Christine Feehan', 'Savage Nature (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4379'),
(17020, 'Christopher: Pandora&#39;s Box', 'Alex Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(17021, 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome For', 'Susan R. Lisman M. D. &amp; Karla Dougherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve been repeatedly poked, prodded, tested and scanned, yet, despite how awful you feel, your doctor, like many of your friends, co-workers, and family members have begun dropping subtle (and some not-so-subtle) hints that they think itâ€™s â€œall in your head.â€ Maybe youâ€™re one of the lucky few CFS sufferers whoâ€™ve received an accurate diagnosis but nothing your health care provider does seems to help. Well, youâ€™re not alone. According to recent estimates, of the approximately 800,000 Americans with CFS, more than 90% have been misdiagnosed, dismissed, or are not receiving proper treatment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t despair, help has arrived. Written by a national expert who has successfully treated scores of CFS patients in her own practice,\n <em>\n  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the knowledge and tools you need to beat CFS and get back to living a normal life. In plain English Doctor Susan Lisman fills you in on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What CFS is, how you get it, and how it effects your bodyÂ Â Â Â Â \n </li>\n <li>\n  Its major symptoms and warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting an accurate diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoiding situations that might be making you sicker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teaming up with the right doctor and crafting a treatment plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  The most effective drugs, therapies and alternative approaches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coping with CFS in your personal and professional lives\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with checklists, self-tests, questionnaires, and other powerful tools, and featuring many inspiring real-life stories of patients whoâ€™ve licked CFS,\n <em>\n  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Dummies\n </em>\n puts you on the road to recovery.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips for getting treatment and getting back to life\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s great advice on controlling CFS at home, work, school, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n If you think â€” or know â€” that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is affecting you or someone you love, take heart! This upbeat guide helps you assess symptoms, walks you through diagnosis and treatment options, arms you with the right questions to ask the doctor, and provides loads of tips for getting your life back on track, even with CFS.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine if your symptoms are due to CFS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the right physician\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand various treatment options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your CFS in a variety of situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help someone who''s living with CFS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1405'),
(17022, 'Chronic Pain for Dummies', 'Stuart S. Kassan &amp; Charles J. Vierck &amp; Elizabeth Vierck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Proven exercises and techniques for dealing with pain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your compassionate guide to conquering pain and living a full life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you suffer from chronic pain? This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the newest pain-relieving techniques. You''ll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Diagnose your pain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an anti-pain medical team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent or minimize pain attacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore alternative therapies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make helpful lifestyle changes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Proven exercises and techniques for dealing with pain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your compassionate guide to conquering pain and living a full life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you suffer from chronic pain? This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the newest pain-relieving techniques. You''ll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Diagnose your pain\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build an anti-pain medical team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prevent or minimize pain attacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore alternative therapies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make helpful lifestyle changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1406'),
(17023, 'Cinematography - Theory and Practice 2nd ed', 'B. Brown (Focal, 2012) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4751'),
(17024, 'The Circle of Blood', 'Alane Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney gets to witness all aspects of death, including the autopsy room. Yet somehow that feels easy, compared to her personal life. Now that her long-lost mother has made a surprise return, Cameryn''s more confused than ever. Things only get worse when she picks up a mysterious young hitch-hiker. Cameryn senses that the girl is running away from something, but before she can find out more, the girl is found dead-a gun in her hand. Is it suicide? Or something even more sinister?  Mixing forensic details and ripped-from-the-headlines themes, Alane Ferguson makes her readers'' hearts pound yet again with this edge-of-your seat forensic mystery!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3991'),
(17025, 'Circuit Cellar 09-2011', 'Circuit Cellar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4683'),
(17026, 'Circuit Cellar No.253', 'August 2011 (True PDF )', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7213'),
(17027, 'Circuit Cellar No.255', 'October 2011 (True PDF)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7041'),
(17028, 'Circuit.Cellar.No.255-October.2011.True.PDF)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7048'),
(17029, 'The Circular Study', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4032'),
(17030, 'City of Lies', 'Alafair Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3971'),
(17031, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4084'),
(17032, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4408'),
(17033, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4467'),
(17034, 'Classical Mechanics', 'R.DOUGLAS GREGORY', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6821'),
(17035, 'Clayhanger', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4234'),
(17036, 'clean-eating-2011-the-eat-clean-diet-favorites', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5986'),
(17037, 'Cleaning Windows Vista for Dummies', 'Allen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out what you should clean, when, and how\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dump programs you don''t need, archive data, and bring order to your desktop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s a handy household hint - getting control of all the clutter on your PC will make it run faster and more efficiently. This book is like a closet full of cleaning tools that help you organize your data and e-mail, archive the stuff you do need to keep, toss old cookies, tune up your file system, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a cleaning schedule\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what programs you have\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clear out your root directory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control your Web cache files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage Windows updates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get serious about system security\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out what you should clean, when, and how\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dump programs you don''t need, archive data, and bring order to your desktop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s a handy household hint â€” getting control of all the clutter on your PC will make it run faster and more efficiently. This book is like a closet full of cleaning tools that help you organize your data and e-mail, archive the stuff you do need to keep, toss old cookies, tune up your file system, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a cleaning schedule\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what programs you have\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clear out your root directory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control your Web cache files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage Windows updates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get serious about system security\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1407'),
(17038, 'Cleaning Windows XP for Dummies', 'Allen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Windows is the world''s dominant desktop operating system, with 93.8 percent of the market as of 2002\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, speeding up access to programs and data, customizing the interface, rooting out resource hogs, tuning up e-mail and Web browser performance, protecting against viruses, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focuses on Windows XP and covers the new Service Pack 2, but many techniques are applicable to older Windows versions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Streamline your system and safeguard your computer\n</p>\n<p>\n Eliminate unused programs, organize data, dump stale cookies, and pick up speed\n</p>\n<p>\n If you can brew a pot of coffee while your programs load, itâ€™s time to clean the Windows! Here''s how to clear out stuff you don''t need, create an orderly desktop, scrub away Internet gunk, and keep your system clutter-free by setting up a regular cleaning schedule. Through sparkling clean Windows, youâ€™ll see faster, safer computing thatâ€™s a lot more fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make your programs run faster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Archive old data and remove duplicate files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate spyware and adware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage Internet information safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shut down unused services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize Service Pack 2''s security features\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1408'),
(17039, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4170'),
(17040, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4427'),
(17041, 'Clerks.The.Comic---420ebooks.pdf 13-09-2011', 'Clerks.The.Comic---420ebooks.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5901');
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(17042, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess &amp; Mark Rawlinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done here-the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed. --\n  <em>\n   William S. Burroughs\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States. --\n  <em>\n   The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.â€ â€”_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAnthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel.â€ â€”_Time_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom,\n  <em>\n   A Clockwork Orange\n  </em>\n  became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. Brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novelâ€™s main character and merciless droog, fifteen-year-old Alex, this influential novel is now available in a student edition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Norton Critical Edition of\n  <em>\n   A Clockwork Orange\n  </em>\n  is based on the first British edition and includes Burgessâ€™s original final chapter. It is accompanied by Mark Rawlinsonâ€™s preface, explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A glossary of the Russian-origin terms that inspired Alexâ€™s dialect is provided to illustrate the process by which Burgess arrived at the distinctive style of this novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBackgrounds and Contextsâ€ presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editor to enrich the readerâ€™s understanding of this unforgettable work, many of them by Burgess himself. Burgessâ€™s views on writing\n  <em>\n   A Clockwork Orange\n  </em>\n  , its philosophical issues, and the debates over the British edition versus the American edition and the novel versus the film adaptation are all included. Related writings that speak to some of the novelâ€™s central issuesâ€”youthful style, behavior modification, and art versus moralityâ€”are provided by Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, B. F. Skinner, John R. Platt, Joost A. M. Meerloo, William Sargent, and George Steiner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCriticismâ€ is divided into two sections, one addressing the novel and the other Stanley Kubrickâ€™s film version. Five major reviews of the novel are reprinted along with a wide range of scholarly commentary, including, among others, David Lodge on the American reader; Julie Carson on linguistic invention; Zinovy Zinik on Burgess and the Russian language; Geoffrey Sharpless on education, masculinity, and violence; Shirley Chew on circularity; Patrick Parrinder on dystopias; Robbie B. H. Goh on language and social control; and Steven M. Cahn on freedom. A thorough analysis of the film adaptation of\n  <em>\n   A Clockwork Orange\n  </em>\n  is provided in reviews by Vincent Canby, Pauline Kael, and Christopher Ricks; in Philip Strick and Penelope Houstonâ€™s interview with Stanley Kubrick; and in interpretive essays by Don Daniels, Alexander Walker, Philip French, Thomas Elsaesser, Tom Dewe Mathews, and Julian Petley.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Selected Bibliography is also included.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(17043, 'Cloud Computing for Dummies', 'Judith Hurwitz &amp; Robin Bloor &amp; Marcia Kaufman &amp; Fern Halper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The easy way to understand and implement cloud computing technology written by a team of experts\n</p>\n<p>\n Cloud computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the cost-saving possibilities are great and many companies are getting on board. If you''ve been put in charge of implementing cloud computing, this straightforward, plain-English guide clears up the confusion and helps you get your plan in place.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn how cloud computing enables you to run a more green IT infrastructure, and access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without having to understand, manage, or invest in the technology infrastructure that supports them. You''ll also find out what you need to consider when implementing a plan, how to handle security issues, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Cloud computing is a way for businesses to take advantage of storage and virtual services through the Internet, saving money on infrastructure and support\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book provides a clear definition of cloud computing from the utility computing standpoint and also addresses security concerns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers practical guidance on delivering and managing cloud computing services effectively and efficiently\n </li>\n <li>\n  Presents a proactive and pragmatic approach to implementing cloud computing in any organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps IT managers and staff understand the benefits and challenges of cloud computing, how to select a service, and what''s involved in getting it up and running\n </li>\n <li>\n  Highly experienced author team consults and gives presentations on emerging technologies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cloud Computing For Dummies\n </em>\n gets straight to the point, providing the practical information you need to know.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get your head into the clouds â€”learn what cloud computing is and how to use it\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s a lot more to cloud computing than you may realize. This book takes you through the options, what they can do for your company, how to choose the best approach for your business, and how to build a strategy. You''ll learn about managing and securing cloud services and get down-to-earth advice about planning your move to the cloud.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get hold of the cloud â€” discover how the cloud differs from traditional hardware/software-based resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techie nitty gritty â€” explore the technical foundation and evolution of the cloud\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show me the money â€” analyze how much a cloud data center can save your company in power, labor, property, and other expenses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The cloud tour â€” examine the elements of the cloud and service options for infrastructure, platform, and software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Who''s in charge here? â€” learn about cloud management and how governance is defined inside the cloud\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Risk and reward â€” recognize the assorted risks and how to determine acceptable risk levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cloud security â€” understand how to plan for a secure and compliant cloud environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for the plunge â€” create a detailed plan for implementation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The characteristics of the cloud\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important security issues and how to handle them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cloud standards and best practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Efficiencies of the cloud\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Questions to ask a potential cloud vendor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Groups that clarify, promote, and maintain standards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the cloud relates to SOA\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How cloud users benefit from elasticity and scalability\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1409'),
(17044, 'Club International', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5888'),
(17045, 'Coaching Baseball for Dummies', 'The National Alliance For Youth Sports &amp; Greg Bach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you are a baseball fan, then coaching youth baseball is one the most enjoyable and rewarding activities youâ€™ll experience. But what if youâ€™ve never coached before? Or you havenâ€™t played the game in a while and have forgot some key points to the sport?\n</p>\n<p>\n No worries!\n <em>\n  Coaching Baseball for Dummies\n </em>\n guides you through the rules of the game, explaining all the essential skills and the best ways to teach them to your players. Covering different age groups and great practice routines, this guide is all you need to have a fun-filled season. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fulfill the role of being a coach and parent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how your league works\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate your team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach your players fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand all kinds of children\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your practice plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for game day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome challenges and problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide also shows you how to run all kinds of drills, from hitting and pitching to fielding and base running. And when your team is tense or low on morale, it shows you how to relax your players and keep them focused on the game. There are also suggestions for making your season, and theirs, a memorable one.\n <em>\n  Coaching Baseball for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how much fun it can be to train kids to be athletes, have good sportsmanship, and work together as a team.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with batting, pitching, and fielding drills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the score on coaching youth baseball\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Volunteering as a baseball coach can be a fun, rewarding experience. But what if you''ve never coached before? No worries! This friendly guide explains the rules of the game, giving you expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, running great practices, and leading your team effectively during a game.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop a coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach baseball and softball fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage good sportsmanship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure safety on the field\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate effectively with parents\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1410'),
(17046, 'Coaching Basketball for Dummies', 'Lastthe National Alliance For Youth Sports &amp; The National Alliance For Youth Sports &amp; Greg Bach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So youâ€™re thinking about volunteering to coach youth basketball? Great! Youâ€™re in for a fun, rewarding experience. Whether youâ€™re new to the sport and looking for some guidance or youâ€™re a seasoned coach hunting for some fresh tips,\n <em>\n  Coaching Basketball For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you command the court with confidence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each friendly chapter is packed with expert advice on teaching the basics of basketballâ€”from dribbling and shooting to rebounding and defendingâ€”and guiding your kids to a fun-filled, stress-free season. You get a crash course in the rules and regulations of the game, as well as clear explanations of what all those lines, circles, and half-circle markings mean on the court. Youâ€™ll assign team positions, run great practices, and work with both beginning and intermediate players of different age groups. Youâ€™ll also see how to ramp up your playersâ€™ skills and lead your team effectively during a game. This book will also help you discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop your coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand your leagueâ€™s rules\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conduct a preseason parentsâ€™ meetingâ€”crucial for opening the lines of communication\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach offensive and defensive strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your kids healthy and injury-free\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage good sportsmanship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make critical half-time adjustments during a game\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help struggling players\n </li>\n <li>\n  Address discipline problems and handle difficult parents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coach an All-Star or Travel team\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with numerous offensive and defensive drills and tips for helping your kids relax before a game,\n <em>\n  Coaching Basketball For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to get the score on this worthwhile endeavor!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with numerous offensive and defensive drills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to get the score on coaching youth basketball\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Planning to volunteer as a basketball coach? This friendly guide helps youcommand the court by explaining the rules of the game, giving you expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, running great practices, promoting teamwork, helping struggling players, keeping kids healthy and injury-free, and leading your team effectively during a game.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your coaching philosophy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach offensive and defensive strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Encourage good sportsmanship\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure safety on the field\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate effectively with parents\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1411'),
(17047, 'Coaching Football for Dummies', 'The National Alliance Of Youth Sports &amp; Greg Bach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if youâ€™ve never coached before?\n</p>\n<p>\n No worries!\n <em>\n  Coaching Football For Dummies\n </em>\n is\n <strong>\n  the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n to tackle the basics of coaching youth football. This friendly guide shows you how to teach your players effectively, regardless of their age or skill level, and lead your team to victoryâ€”even if youâ€™re a first-time coach. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop a coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach football fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage good sportsmanship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your teamâ€™s skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure safety on the field\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate effectively with parents\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with valuable information on preparing your game plan before you even step on the field, this hands-on resource gives you expert guidance in building your coaching skills, from evaluating your players and running enjoyable, productive practices to working with all types of kidsâ€”uncoordinated, shy, highly talentedâ€”at once. Youâ€™ll find a variety of fun-filled drills for teaching everything from tackling and blocking to running and catching, as well as advanced drills to take your playersâ€™ skills up a notch. Youâ€™ll also see how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Conduct a preseason parentsâ€™ meetingâ€”an often overlooked aspect of coaching\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gather the necessary gear and fit the equipment to your players\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise the level of play on offense, defense, and special teams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take steps to avoid injuries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with discipline issues and problem parents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make critical half-time adjustments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transition to coaching an All-Star Team\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with tips for working with parents, keeping your players healthy, and leading your team effectively on game days,\n <em>\n  Coaching Football For Dummies\n </em>\n is all you needâ€”besides a whistle and a clipboardâ€”to navigate your players through a safe, fun, rewarding season!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with drills, play formations, and tips for game days\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to tackle the basics of coaching youth football\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Volunteering as a football coach can be a fun, rewarding experience, both for you and your team. But what if you''ve never coached before? Have no fear â€” this friendly guide explains the rules of football, giving you expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, running great practices, and leading your team effectively during a game.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop a coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage good sportsmanship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coach offense, defense, and special teams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure safety on the field\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate effectively with parents\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(17048, 'Coaching Lacrosse for Dummies', 'National Alliance For Youth Sports &amp; Greg Bach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about volunteering as a lacrosse coach? Even if youâ€™ve never done it before, you can lead your team to a safe and exciting season.\n <em>\n  Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the fun and easy way to get the score on coaching youth lacrosse with loads of tips and plenty of offensive and defensive drills.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide helps you grasp the basics and take charge on the field. Youâ€™ll get lots of expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, determining positions for each player, promoting teamwork, keeping kids healthy and injury-free, helping struggling players improve their skills and encouraging your best players to make the most of their talents, and leading your team effectively during a game. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recognize your behind-the-scenes responsibilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a handle on rules and terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan and execute practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teach basic lacrosse skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify playersâ€™ strengths and weaknesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Juggle the dual roles of coach and parent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a lacrosse coaching philosophy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Motivate all of your players\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make practice and skill-building fun\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the league your coaching\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make sure your team has all the right equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take different approaches to coaching girls and boys\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assign players to positions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Motivate players on game day\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Make yourself the perfect somebody with a little help from\n <em>\n  Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with numerous offensive and defensive drills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to get the score on coaching youth lacrosse\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to volunteer as a lacrosse coach? This friendly guide helps you grasp the basics and take charge on the field. You get expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, determining positions for each player, promoting teamwork, keeping kids healthy and injury-free, helping struggling players, and leading your team effectively during a game.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach lacrosse fundamentals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Encourage good sportsmanship\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coach fun-filled practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure safety on the field\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate effectively with parents\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1413'),
(17049, 'Coaching Volleyball for Dummies', 'The National Alliance For Youth Sports', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to coaching youth volleyball\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you been asked to coach a youth volleyball team? This friendly, practical guide helps you grasp the basics and take charge on the court. You get expert advice on teaching key skills to different age groups, running safe and effective practices, helping struggling players, encouraging good sportsmanship, and leading your team with confidence during a match.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lay the groundwork for a great season â€” develop your coaching philosophy, run an effective preseason meeting, and get up to speed on the rules and terminology of the sport\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your team â€” size up the players, find roles for everyone to succeed in, and coach all different types of kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach the basics of volleyball â€” from serving and passing to setting, attacking, and blocking, instruct your players successfully in all the key elements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Raise the level of play â€” teach more advanced offensive and defensive skills and keep your kids'' interest in volleyball going strong\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the moms and dads happy â€” work with parents to ensure a successful and fun season\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Score extra points â€” keep your players healthy and injury free, resolve conflicts, and coach a volleyball club team\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear explanations of the game''s fundamentals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An assortment of the sport''s best drills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The equipment your team needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Player positions and their responsibilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for running fun-filled practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Refinements for your coaching strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to meet players'' special needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to make the season memorable\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The National Alliance for Youth Sports is America''s leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children. It provides a wide range of programs for coaches, administrators, officials, parents, and young athletes. Greg Bach is the Director of Communications for the Alliance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1414'),
(17050, 'Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X for Dummies', 'Erick Tejkowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cocoa programming is not only the favored development environment for Mac OS X, itâ€™s also a primary tool for creating iPhone and iPod Touch software. That makes this a great time to learn Cocoa, and\n <em>\n  Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ideal place to start!\n</p>\n<p>\n This book gives you a solid foundation in Cocoa and the unusual syntax of Objective-C. Youâ€™ll learn whatâ€™s new in Cocoa frameworks and create an application step by step. For example, you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  See how Xcode underlies your applications as the main component of Appleâ€™s IDE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examine the basics of the Objective-C language, the elements of a Cocoa interface, and object-oriented programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Xcode and Interface Builder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spruce up your apps with audio, video, Internet features, stylized text, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create applications with the stunning graphics for which Macs are famous\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how to build apps with multiple documents and even executables that arenâ€™t traditional Mac apps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all the exciting new Cocoa features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Cocoa numbers, arrays, Booleans, and dates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build document-based applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify with key-value coding\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The better you understand Cocoa programming, the better the applications you can create for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch.\n <em>\n  Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy and fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cocoa is hot! Stir up apps for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a great time to go for Cocoa, because it''s not only Apple''s preferred framework for developing software, it''s also the best way for you to create software for Mac OS X and iPhone. This book gives you a solid foundation in Cocoa and the unusual syntax of Objective-C. You''ll learn what''s new in Cocoa frameworks and create applications step by step.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   X marks the start â€” see how Xcode underlies your applications as the main component of Apple''s Developer Tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be objective â€” examine the basics of the Objective-C language and the elements of a Cocoa interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add bells and whistles â€” spruce up your apps with audio, video, Internet features, stylized text, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Graphically speaking â€” create applications with the stunning graphics for which Macs are famous\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   High-end Cocoa â€” see how to build apps with multiple documents or even have Xcode build an interface for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for building a good interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with Cocoa numbers, arrays, Booleans, and dates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on managing files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten tips for easier Cocoa programming\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to simplify with key-value coding\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do with Cocoa on the Internet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add bindings to your application\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for building document-based applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1415'),
(17051, 'Coin Collecting for Dummies', 'Neil S. Berman &amp; Ron Guth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Canâ€™t make heads or tails out of coin collecting? You need\n <em>\n  Coin Collecting For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n the treasure trove on information on numismatics. This hands-on guide escorts you through the worldâ€™s oldest hobby, helping you decide which type of coins you want to collect, keep your collection in mint condition, buy and sell coins on the Internet, find interesting coin shows to attend, and assemble and diversify a great collection.\n</p>\n<p>\n The purpose of this fun, easy-to-access guide is to turn you into a world-class coin collector in as little time as possible. Youâ€™ll learn what coins can teach you about history and geography, develop organizational and observational skills, and learn to use analytical tools, all without event thinking about it. And youâ€™ll learn the basics about ancient coins, U.S. coins, world coins, and the wild-and-wooly stuff that really gets your numismatic juices flowing. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Start your collection correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate coins using age, condition, rarity, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy interesting coins without breaking the bank\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate rare and expensive coins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get savvy about avoiding fakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the whole family involved in your collection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a buying strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clean and handle coins safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your collection secure at home and on the road\n </li>\n <li>\n  Investigate tokens, medals, and miscellaneous coins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create complete collections of copper, nickel, silver, or gold U.S. coins\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n When it comes to numismatics,\n <em>\n  Coin Collecting For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is right on the money!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers the essentials of coin collecting at an affordable price\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Spend wisely â€” and then keep your collection in mint condition\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Can''t make heads or tails of numismatics? Welcome to a treasure-trove of information on numismatics â€” or rather, coin collecting. This hands-on guide escorts you through the world''s oldest hobby, covering topics such as how to decide which coins to collect, ways to protect them, buying andselling on the Internet, attending coin shows, to assembling and diversifying your collection.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Store your collection correctly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand how age affects value\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Locate rare and expensive coins\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get savvy with avoiding fakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get kids or loved ones involved\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1416'),
(17052, 'Cold Kill', 'Neil White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3904'),
(17053, 'Cold Vengeance', 'Lincoln Child &amp; Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife''s betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-he is also forced to dig further into Helen''s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-and everything he''s believed, everything he''s trusted, everything he''s understood . . . may be a horrific lie.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  COLD VENGEANCE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nothing is what it seems.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4113'),
(17054, 'Collected Essays', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All over the English-speaking world critics have greeted these essays with such comments as â€œbrilliantâ€¦ provocativeâ€¦ magnificent.â€ Many find that Huxley is the finest essayist since Montaigne. It has been said that â€œMr. Huxley is not only a literary giant, but one of the greatest thinkers of our time.â€  Mr. Huxleyâ€™s topic is man, the total compass of his faculties in science, literature, music, religion, art, love, sex, speculative thinking and simple being. Here, displayed to the full, is the astonishing virtuosity of Huxleyâ€™s genius.  The range of Aldous Huxleyâ€™s thinking was astonishing. His opinions on art were as original and well-founded as his discussions of biology or architecture, poetry, music, or history. As a virtuoso of letters, he was unequalled.  Born into a famous family with a long intellectual tradition, Huxley attended Eton and Oxford. His reputation as a writer was well-established before he was thirty. Mr. Huxley was not only a master essayist; in 1959 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit for â€œhaving done the best work of our time in what threatens to be a neglected field, the novel of ideas.â€  His novels include â€œCrome Yellowâ€ and â€œThe Genius and the Goddessâ€.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4008'),
(17055, 'The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Vol.4', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he''s hired to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick''s masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timedthe movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summerbut whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that''s available in various collections remains to be seen.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Minority Report should be on everyone''s shelves, and in this edition is wonderfully affordable. Why can''t more hardback books cost 6.99?'' The Daily Mail\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6382'),
(17056, 'College Girls', '2011 Nov-Dec', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6817'),
(17057, 'Color Management for Digital Photographers for Dummies', 'Ted Padova &amp; Don Mason', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows digital photo enthusiasts how to ensure that the color in an image file is accurately represented and reproduced, from camera or scanner to monitor or printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with color management solutions that will help novices create picture-perfect images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses the main components of color management including understanding light, matching digital images to displays and prints, working with color spaces, calibrating a printer, and using color management tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Familiarizes readers with the various color management tools that help calibrate consistent picture quality\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s your key to perfect color in digital images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with PhotoshopÂ® Elements and these tips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Shooting great photos is only half the battleâ€”tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect printsâ€”in full color, of course!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build a viewing booth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and apply color profiles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use adjustment layers to correct contrast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Achieve great-looking skin tones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save money with accurate soft proofs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1417'),
(17058, 'Colorado &amp; the Rockies for Dummies', 'Nicholas Trotter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to roam incredible National Parks or luxuriate at a posh resort? Ride the rails or ride the range? Explore quaint small towns or booming big cities? Ski the slopes or browse in the shops? Whether you want urbane luxury, back-country adventure, or something in-between, youâ€™ll find it between the pages of this friendly guide that gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Rock climbing, whitewater rafting, trout fishing, mountain biking, skiing, and golfing\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Natural Wonders and wide range of environments\n </li>\n <li>\n  The breweries and their signature brews\n </li>\n <li>\n  Local delicacies such as buffalo, rattlesnake, and Rocky Mountain oysters\n </li>\n <li>\n  3 great itinerary options\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Colorado &amp; the Rockies For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore Colorado &amp; the Rockies the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n From the towering peaks of the Rockies to the towering skyscrapers of Denver, from roughing it at a cattle ranch to luxuriating at a ski or golf resort, from the Old West to the New West, Colorado has something for everyone and this friendly guide gets you going!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(17059, 'Commercial Real Estate Investing for Dummies', 'Peter Conti &amp; Peter Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor?\n <em>\n  Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiation and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, it helps you pick the right properties at the right time for the right price.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, there is a fun and easy way to break into commercial real estate, and this is it. This comprehensive handbook has it all. Youâ€™ll learn how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your propertyâ€™s value. Youâ€™ll discover the upsides and downsides of the various types of investments, learn the five biggest myths of commercial real estate investment, find out how to recession-proof your investment portfolio, and more. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get leads on commercial property investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine what a property is worth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the right financing for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle inspections and fix problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make big money in land development\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your properties or hire a pro\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exploit the tax advantages of commercial real estate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what offer a seller really-really wants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform due diligence before you make a deal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise capital by forming partnerships\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Investing in commercial property can make you rich in any economy. Get\n <em>\n  Commercial Real Estate For Dummies,\n </em>\n and find out how.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Spot the best times to buy, hold, or sell\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to break into the business of commercial real estate\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about becoming a commercial real estate investor? This friendly guide covers the entire process, offering practical advice on negotiating and closing win-win deals and maximizing profit. From office buildings to shopping centers to apartment buildings, you''ll see how to find great properties, size up sellers, finance your investments, protect your assets, and increase your property''s value.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine a property''s worth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the right financing for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle inspections and fix problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make big money in land development\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your properties or hire a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(17060, 'Commodities for Dummies', 'Amine Bouchentouf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 2002, commodities have outperformed every other asset class including stocks, mutual funds and real estate. If youâ€™re itching to get in on the fun and profit,\n <em>\n  Commodities For Dummies\n </em>\n is the resource you need to find out how to break into the commodities market and understand how to trade and prosper.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How commodities stack up against other investment vehicles\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to identify, manage, and overcome risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  The pros and cons of futures, equities, ETFs and mutual funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Specific techniques for analyzing and trading in commodities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Powerful profits in energyâ€”crude oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, and alternatives\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you need to know about trading in metalsâ€”precious and not-so-precious\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to grow your portfolio with farm products\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Featuring time-tested rules for investment success, this comprehensive, user-friendly guide helps you minimize risk, maximize profit, and find the shortest route to Easy Street.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grow your portfolio through energy, metals, and agricultural products\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get more bang for your buck in the commodities market and start trading today\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to cash in on commodities? This plain-English guide gives you the basics on breaking into the market, dispelling common myths, and presenting a wide range of trading and investing strategies. It will help you diversify your portfolio, measure risk, and apply market analysis techniques. You''ll also see how commodities stack up against other assets and how to avoid investing pitfalls.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right fund for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a solid investment strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand commodities exchanges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify and minimize risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a reputable broker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Profit from global market trends\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1420'),
(17061, 'Commodore Hornblower', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this ninth installment in the Hornblower series, the incomparable Horatio Hornblower, recently knighted and settled in as squire of the village of Smallbridge, has been designated commodore of his own squadron of ships, led by the two-decker  Nonsuch  and bound for the Baltic. It is 1812, and Hornblower has been ordered to do anything and everything possible, diplomatically and militarily, to protect the Baltic trade and to stop the spread of Napoleon''s empire into Sweden and Russia. Though he has set sail a hero, one misstep may ruin his chances of ever becoming an admiral. Hostile armies, seductive Russian royalty, nautical perils such as ice-bound bays, assassins in the imperial palaceâ€”Hornblower must conquer all before he can return home to his beloved new wife and son, as his instructions are to sacrifice every man and ship under his command rather than surrender ground to Napoleon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5964'),
(17062, 'The Complete Book of Intelligence Tests: 500 Exercises to Improve, Upgrade and Enhance Your Mind Strength', 'Philip Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Enjoyable mental exercises to help boost performance on IQ tests\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This engaging book offers readers the ultimate in calisthenics for the brain. Using the same fun, informative, and accessible style that have made his previous books so popular, Philip Carter helps people identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and provides methods for improving memory, boosting creativity, and tuning in to emotional intelligence. Featuring never-before-published tests designed specifically for this book, plus answers for all questions, this latest treasure trove from a MENSA puzzle editor outlines a fun, challenging program for significantly enhancing performance in all areas of intelligence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(17063, 'The Complete Chronicles of Narnia', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To commemorate the 50th anniversary of"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", all seven titles of "The Chronicles of Narnia" are packaged in this deluxe hardcover edition, featuring the original, color illustrations by award-winning illustrator Pauline Baynes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6314'),
(17064, 'The complete guide to home carpentry', 'By Creative Publishing International', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6094'),
(17065, 'The complete guide to home carpentry', 'By Creative Publishing International', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6099'),
(17066, 'Complete MBA for Dummies', 'Dr. Kathleen Allen Ph.d. &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "with this friendly guide, everyone can sample the benefits of an MBA education in a fraction of the time and at much less cost"(Business a.m., 5 November 2002)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to get an MBA?\n <em>\n  The Complete\n </em>\n <em>\n  MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n is the practical, plain-English guide that covers all the basics of a top-notch MBA program, helping you to navigate todayâ€™s most innovative business strategies. From management to entrepreneurship to strategic planning, youâ€™ll understand the hottest trends and get the latest techniques for motivating employees, building global partnerships, managing risk, and manufacturing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fun, easy-to-access guide is full of useful information, tips, and checklists that will help you lead, manage, or participate in any business at a high level of competence. Youâ€™ll find out how to use databases to your advantage, recognize and reward your employees, analyze financial statements, and understand the challenges of strategic planning in a global business environment. Youâ€™ll also learn the basic principals of accounting, get a grip on the concepts behind stocks and bonds, and find out how technology has revolutionized everything from manufacturing to marketing. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know and respond to your customersâ€™ needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle budgets and forecasts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recruit and retain top people\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish and run employee teams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Sarbanes-Oxley to your companyâ€™s advantage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with the best of them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build long-term relationships with clients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common managerial mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve cash flow\n </li>\n <li>\n  Market your products and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of your advertising dollar\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Once you know what an MBA knows, the skyâ€™s the limit. Read\n <em>\n  The Complete\n </em>\n <em>\n  MBA For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n and watch your career take off!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1421'),
(17067, 'The Complete Night of the Living Dead Filmbook', 'John Russo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10768'),
(17068, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4288'),
(17069, 'Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4298');
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(17070, 'Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4334'),
(17071, 'Composting for Dummies', 'Cathy Cromell &amp; The National Gardening Association', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Back-to-basics gardening that will benefit the earth and your wallet!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to use ordinary waste to create an extraordinary garden? Composting lets you turn household food waste, yard clippings, and more into free compost and mulch that''s chock-full of nutrients. From building and working with traditional compost bins to starting an indoor worm-composting operation, Composting For Dummies makes these often intimidating projects easy, fun, and accessible for anyone!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Digging into compost basics â€” get a handle on the benefits of composting and the tools you''ll need to get started\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choosing the best method and location â€” find the best composting method and location that''s right for you, whether it''s above ground, in a hole, in a container or bin, or even right in your kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Building your pile â€” learn which ingredients can go into your compost pile, what stays out, and how to mix it all up in the right proportions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stepping beyond traditional composting â€” get the lowdown on vermicomposting (letting worms eat your garbage), growing green manures to compost later, and sheet composting in the same spot you plan to plant\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step-by-step guide to composting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The right gear and tools for the job\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on constructing your own composting containers and bins\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Materials you can safely compost (and those to avoid)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cover crops to improve your soil now and compost later\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recommendations for using your finished compost\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What worms contribute to your compost\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice if your compost pile isn''t cooperating\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn household food waste, yard clippings, and more into nutrient-rich compost\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build and maintain your own compost bin\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use worms to aid in composting, both indoors and out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Give your vegetable and flower gardens a boost of energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cathy Cromell is a Regional Reporter for the National Gardening Association. She is a certified Master Gardener, Master Composter, and Master Entomologist. The National Gardening Association is the leading garden-based educational nonprofit organization in the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(17072, 'Computational Photography: Methods and Applications (Digital Imaging and Computer Vision)', 'Rastislav Lukac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3902'),
(17073, 'Computer Active - India 09-2011', 'Computer Active', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4718'),
(17074, 'Computer Active 08-2011', 'Computer Active', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3834'),
(17075, 'Computer Active 09-2011', 'Computer Active', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4762'),
(17076, 'Computer Active Ultimate Guide 01-2011', 'Computer Active', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(17077, 'Computer Arts - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6706'),
(17078, 'Computer Arts 09-2011', 'Computer Arts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3769'),
(17079, 'Computer Forensics for Dummies', 'Linda Volonino &amp; Reynaldo Anzaldua', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Uncover a digital trail of e-evidence by using the helpful, easy-to-understand information in\n <em>\n  Computer Forensics For Dummies\n </em>\n ! Professional and armchair investigators alike can learn the basics of computer forensics, from digging out electronic evidence to solving the case. You wonâ€™t need a computer science degree to master e-discovery. Find and filter data in mobile devices, e-mail, and other Web-based technologies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll learn all about e-mail and Web-based forensics, mobile forensics, passwords and encryption, and other e-evidence found through VoIP, voicemail, legacy mainframes, and databases. Youâ€™ll discover how to use the latest forensic software, tools, and equipment to find the answers that youâ€™re looking for in record time. When you understand how data is stored, encrypted, and recovered, youâ€™ll be able to protect your personal privacy as well. By the time you finish reading this book, youâ€™ll know how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare for and conduct computer forensics investigations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and filter data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect personal privacy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer evidence without contaminating it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Anticipate legal loopholes and opponentsâ€™ methods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle passwords and encrypted data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with the courts and win the case\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Plus,\n <em>\n  Computer Forensics for Dummies\n </em>\n includes lists of things that everyone interested in computer forensics should know, do, and build. Discover how to get qualified for a career in computer forensics, what to do to be a great investigator and expert witness, and how to build a forensics lab or toolkit.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  When the crime scene is a computer or handheld device, you can uncover a digital evidence trail!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pressing Delete doesn''t hide anything! Professional and armchair investigators alike can learn the basics of computer forensics, from digging out electronic evidence to solving the case. You don''t need a computer science degree to master e-discovery! Find and filter data in mobile devices, e-mail, and other Web-based technologies.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect personal privacy â€” understand how a digital evidence trail is stored, hidden, and recorded\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dig out evidence â€” learn how to extract and transfer evidence without contaminating it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze findings â€” distinguish between the science of forensics and the art of investigation, which requires your intuition and creativity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare to crack the case â€” anticipate legal loopholes and opponents'' methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Succeed in court â€” prepare yourself to sit on the stand and expertly exhibit evidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/computerforensics for links to free trial downloads of the latest computer forensics software, resources, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basics of computer forensics and e-discovery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to find and filter data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   E-mail, Web-based, and mobile forensics information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle passwords and encrypted data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for voicemail, legacy mainframes, and databases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dangers of avoiding best practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide to software, tools, and equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with the courts to win your case\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1423'),
(17080, 'The Computer Graphics Manual (Vol 1) (comp sci)', 'D. Salomon (Springer, 2011) BBS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7202'),
(17081, 'Computer Music 10-2011', 'Computer Music', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3770'),
(17082, 'Computer Music 10-2011', 'Computer Music', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4701'),
(17083, 'Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach', 'Ying-Dar Lin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6830'),
(17084, 'Computer Science: An Overview (2-downloads)', 'Glenn Brookshear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10827'),
(17085, 'Computer Shopper - December 2011', '12 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10921'),
(17086, 'Computer Shopper - November 2011', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5878'),
(17087, 'Computer Shopper 10-2011', 'Computer Shopper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4554'),
(17088, 'Computer Shopper 11-2011', 'Computer Shopper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4747'),
(17089, 'Computer Shopper 11-2011', 'Computer Shopper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4764'),
(17090, 'Computer_Shopper_2011-11.pdf 13-09-2011', 'Computer_Shopper_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6010'),
(17091, 'Computer-Games-09-2011.pdf 24-09-2011', 'Computer-Games-09-2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6741'),
(17092, 'Computer.Arts-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 26-09-2011', 'Computer.Arts-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6813'),
(17093, 'Computer.Arts.2011.11.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Computer.Arts.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10925'),
(17094, 'Computer.Arts.Projects-09-2011-Slicer.pdf 12-09-2011', 'Computer.Arts.Projects-09-2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5883'),
(17095, 'Computer.Arts.Projects-10-2011-Slicer.pdf 14-09-2011', 'Computer.Arts.Projects-10-2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6061'),
(17096, 'Computer.Arts.Projects-11.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 08-10-2011', 'Computer.Arts.Projects-11.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10606'),
(17097, 'Computer.Music.2011.11.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Computer.Music.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10915'),
(17098, 'Computer.Power.User.CPU-November.2011.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Computer.Power.User.CPU-November.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7018'),
(17099, 'Computer.World.2011-09-26S370.pdf 01-10-2011', 'Computer.World.2011-09-26S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7074'),
(17100, 'Computers for Seniors for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great advice on choosing a computer, getting online, and having fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n Computers are an essential part of daily life these days, but they can be a bit intimidating at first.\n <em>\n  Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gets you going with lots of illustrations and easy-to-follow-instructions, never assuming you already know more than you do.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn to use the keyboard and mouse, navigate the Windows 7 operating system, access the Internet and use e-mail, create documents, shop safely online, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to choose the right computer, get it set up, and get going\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to connect to the Internet and keep up with family and friends via e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you create documents, work with files and folders, simplify your finances, and build a budget using a spreadsheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses how to use social networking sites and how to shop and bank online without compromising your privacy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers tips and advice to help you avoid common pitfalls\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n by your side, you''ll be able to use the computer with confidence and take advantage of all it has to offer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n Computers For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right computer, get set up, and get online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exchange e-mails and photos with family and friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with files and folders, and create and print documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simplify your finances and be safer online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Nancy C. Muir\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Coauthor of\n </em>\n Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n With this friendly, hassle-free guide, you can finally benefit from all the Internet has to offer\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™d like to be able to exchange e-mails with your grandchildren, share photos with friends far away, and enjoy the convenience of shopping and paying bills online without checks and stamps, this book is just the ticket. It explains what you need, where to get it, how to use it, and how to stay safer, with plenty of examples and illustrations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose wisely â€“ investigate different types of computers, price ranges, and how to set up the computer when you get it home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about Windows 7 â€“ practice all the basics from turning on the computer to managing files and using the Help system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get things done â€“ use Microsoft Works software to create documents, plan budgets with spreadsheets, and get organized\n </li>\n <li>\n  Photos, music, and more â€“ work with photos from your digital camera, listen to music, and play games\n </li>\n <li>\n  The world online â€“ connect to the Internet, set up an e-mail account, read and write blogs, and shop more safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enlarge your circle â€“ explore social networking sites like Facebook and Eons and meet people who share your interests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your computer happy â€“ use routine maintenance, virus protection, and updates\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to use the keyboard and mouse\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for making the computer do what you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to install a printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice for interacting with a computer if you have vision, hearing, or dexterity challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create and edit documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Directions for organizing your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Internet safety tips\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to chat online\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(17101, 'Computerworld - 12 September 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6079'),
(17102, 'Computerworld.2011.10.10S370.pdf 16-10-2011', 'Computerworld.2011.10.10S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10755'),
(17103, 'Computerworld.Magazine-12.September.2011.pdf 20-09-2011', 'Computerworld.Magazine-12.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6552'),
(17104, 'The Comstock Club', 'C. C. Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5923'),
(17105, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_Â is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4146'),
(17106, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_Â is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4407'),
(17107, 'The Confessions of Artemas Quibble', 'Arthur Cheney Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4316'),
(17108, 'A Conflict of Interests', 'Clive Egleton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wealthy call girl is found dead. When Detective Inspector Coghill starts to investigate he is alerted from above that the case is politically sensitive and that his career could be in jeopardy if he continues. Soon he discovers that it is no longer his job that is at risk but his life. Clive Egleton is the author of fourteen previous novels including "The October Plot", "Seven Days to a Killing", "Troika" and "Picture of the Year".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6155'),
(17109, 'Conflict Resolution at Work for Dummies', 'Vivian Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A practical workplace guide to handling conflict effectively\n</p>\n<p>\n Managing employees and encouraging them to work together toward a common goal is an essential skill that all leaders should possess.\n <em>\n  Conflict Resolution at Work For Dummies\n </em>\n provides the tools and advice you need to restore peace, train your colleagues to get along better with others, prevent conflicts from ever starting, and maintain better productivity while boosting morale.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  One of the only trade publications that takes the manager''s perspective on how to address conflicts, resolve disputes, and restore peace and productivity to the workplace\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines more positive means for resolving conflicts (other than arguing, surrendering, running away, filing a lawsuit, etc.)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps managers and employees sort through problems and make the workplace a more rewarding place\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No manager should be without\n <em>\n  Conflict Resolution at Work For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The easy way to maintain healthy and productive working relationships\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to restore peace among the masses? Whether you work for a fledgling startup or a Fortune 500 company, Conflict Resolution at Work For Dummies gives you everything you need to repair conflict in the workplace using a proven mediation method and philosophy that''s easy to understand and ready for you to apply right away.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tap into conflict resolution expertise â€” get an overview of conflict resolution at work and gain expert insight into how you can manage it like a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rediscover communication â€” find out how body language, tone of voice, emotions, and filters impact the ability to communicate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice good self-awareness â€” understand how ignoring a problem, misinterpreting employees'' needs, and creating muddy expectations contribute to conflict\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know how to address conflict â€” learn how to choose the optimal time and place to discuss problems and address employees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Resolve a conflict between two or more employees â€” get easy-to-follow guidance on how to prepare for a mediated conversation, brainstorm options, negotiate solutions, develop proposals, and monitor progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help yourself during conflict â€” learn strategies to move through your own conflicts, avoid common conflict causes, and create win/win solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The right way to manage conflict within a team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on when to tackle issues and when to hold back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practical guidance on developing solutions and agreements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to address just about any issue you''ll face\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on keeping your team focused and productive during conflicts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use internal resources like Human Resources and when to turn to outside experts\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(17110, 'Connected.World.USA.2011.11.12.pdf 14-10-2011', 'Connected.World.USA.2011.11.12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10708'),
(17111, 'Conquering Childhood Obesity for Dummies', 'Kimberly A. Tessmer &amp; Michelle Hagen &amp; Meghan Beecher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features fun, kid-friendly activities to get them moving\n</p>\n<p>\n A positive and safe plan for lifetime weight management\n</p>\n<p>\n Concerned about your child''s weight? This practical guide provides effective strategies for improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, and dealing with weight issues at home and in the classroom. You''ll see how to change your family''s lifestyle, help your child make healthier choices (and stick to them!), and foster a lifetime commitment to health and fitness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Introduce good eating habits\n <br />\n * Keep your family fit and active\n <br />\n * Prepare healthier meals\n <br />\n * Maintain your child''s weight loss\n <br />\n * Find outside professional support\n <br />\n * Fix over 30 tasty recipes\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features fun, kid-friendly activities to get them moving\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A positive and safe plan for lifetime weight management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Concerned about your child''s weight? This practical guide provides effective strategies for improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, and dealing with weight issues at home and in the classroom. You''ll see how to change your family''s lifestyle, help your child make healthier choices (and stick to them!), and foster a lifetime commitment to health and fitness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce good eating habits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your family fit and active\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare healthier meals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain your child''s weight loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find outside professional support\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix over 30 tasty recipes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(17112, 'Conspiracy Theories &amp; Secret Societies for Dummies', 'Christopher Hodapp &amp; Alice von Kannon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Whether it''s organized crime, Â Illuminati, or world domination, Chris and Alice take you down dark alleys of mystery and fear but keep a flashlight focused carefully so you won''t get grabbed by hobgoblins."\n </em>\n --Ed King, Maine Masonic College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In London''s Hyde Park, there''s a place called Speaker''s Corner, where anyone can preach or shriek anything they like. There have been famous and brilliant people who''ve made speeches there, and there have been an awful lot of cranks, wackos, and madmen in the park, too. So, how do you tell the difference between a cautionary reporter of impending calamity from a madman off his meds? Too little skepticism risks falling down the rabbit hole into a twisted wonderland of circular logic, but too much skepticism risks overlooking something critical that may become tomorrow''s tragic headline.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Conspiracy Theories &amp; Secret Societies For Dummies\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Â covers the most famous--and infamous--conspiracy theories throughout history, including the assassination of JFK, the death of Princess Diana, Area 51,Â Moon landing hoaxes, Elvis sightings,Â and the 9/11 "truth movement," along with secret societies like Freemasons, Skull and Bones, Rosicrucians, the Mafia, and Ninjas. Â Authors Christopher Hodapp (\n </em>\n Solomon''s Builders, Freemasons For Dummies)_Â and Alice Von Kannon (_The Templar Code For Dummies_) take you on a lively, balanced trip through the world of conspiracism and secrecy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A conspiracy theory is the idea that someone, or a group of someones, acts secretly, with the goal of achieving power, wealth, influence, or other benefit. It can be as small as two petty thugs conspiring to stickup a liquor store, or as big as a group of revolutionaries plotting to take over their country''s government. Individuals, corporations, churches, politicians, military leaders, and entire governments can all be conspirators, in plots as evil as secretly developing nuclear weapons, as creepy as smuggling stolen human transplant organs, or as annoying as cornering the world market on neighborhood $4-coffee joints.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â "Secret societies are the repositories of the hidden knowledge that spins the conspiracy theory. But the term secret society covers a lot of ground -- everything from college frats and the lodge your grandpa belonged to, to the lesser known, powerful groups that stay out of the eyes of the press, like the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the legendary Illuminati (if they really exist at all)."\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies\n </em>\n was required reading in a 2010 course on conspiracy at Harvard University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(17113, 'Construction Technology: An Illustrated Introduction', 'Eric Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3891'),
(17114, 'Consulting for Dummies', 'Bob Nelson &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRefreshingly irreverent and lucidly writtenâ€¦go for it whether youâ€™re a wannabe or an old pro!â€ â€“ James H. Kennedy, Founder, Consultant News, on the first edition of\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhether you are a novice consultant or a pro, Consulting For Dummies coaches you to outstanding success. It is crammed with practical, proven tips and techniques to attract clients and to deliver a quality project profitably while having fun.â€ â€“ Bradley Zehner II, Ph.D., Professor, Pepperdine University, and Founder, Zetec, Strategy and Marketing Consulting, on the first edition of\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is a revelation â€“ a must read.â€ â€“ Ken Shelton, Editor, Executive Excellence, on the first edition of\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n So you want to be a consultant? If you have expertise people are willing to pay for and the motivation to work hard at this exciting and rewarding profession,\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n supplies the rest. Newly revised â€“ with lots more information for aspiring and established consultants alike â€“\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is without a doubt the most current and comprehensive book available today on the art and business of consulting. In it, youâ€™ll find everything you need to set up your consulting business, generate demand for your services, create lasting solutions for your clients, and succeed!\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, practical, guide shows you how to get your business off the ground and running smoothly, with the latest on developing a marketable idea, running your home office, writing winning proposals, selling your services, and getting referrals. Youâ€™ll find expert tips on setting fees, keeping track of time and money, and building a business with new clients, including the latest on using the Internet to market your services and make a name for yourself. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Start a successful consulting business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build partnerships with clients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle financial and legal issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set your fees (including advanced pricing strategies)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write winning proposals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and develop solutions for client problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make great presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate contracts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement your recommendations and make them stick\n </li>\n <li>\n  Practice the ABCs of selling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reward current clients for referrals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot common consulting issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take your consulting business to the next level\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with savvy tips on how to improve cash flow, find new clients, and increase your business with existing clients\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n helps you get your business up and running fast. And if youâ€™ve already got an established consulting business,\n <em>\n  Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n helps you take your business to the next level â€“ building your client base and increasing your bottom line.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the Back Cover\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to turn your expertise into income\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, friendly guide shows you how to get your business off the ground and running smoothly, with the latest on developing a marketable idea, running your home office, writing winning proposals, selling your services, and getting referrals. You get expert tips on setting fees, keeping track of time and money, and building business with new clients. So whether youâ€™re a novice looking for your first client or an experienced consultant searching for new techniques to build your business, youâ€™ll find the answers here!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DiscoverÂ how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Handle financial and legal issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write winning proposals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make great presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate contracts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take your business to the next level\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Author\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Bob Nelson\n </strong>\n (San Diego, CA) is founder and president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting firm based in San Diego, California. As a practicing manager and a best-selling author, he is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of employee recognition, rewards, motivation, morale, retention, productivity, and management. He is author of the bestselling book\n <em>\n  1001 Ways to Reward Employees\n </em>\n (Workman) â€” which has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide â€” and coauthor of the best-selling book\n <em>\n  Managing For Dummies,\n </em>\n 2nd Edition, with Peter Economy (Wiley), as well as 18 other books on management and motivation.\n <br />\n Bob has been featured extensively in the media, including television appearances on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and MSNBC; radio appearances on NPR, USA Radio Network and the Business News Network; and print appearances in the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n , and many more. He writes a weekly column for\n <em>\n  American City Business Journals\n </em>\n and a monthly column for\n <em>\n  Corporate Meetings &amp; Incentives\n </em>\n , among others.\n <br />\n Dr. Nelson received his PhD in management from The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center of Claremont Graduate University in suburban Los Angeles, and received his MBA in organizational behavior from The University of California at Berkeley. For more information on products and services offered by Nelson Motivation, Inc. â€” including speaking or consulting services â€” call 800-575-5521. Visit Bob at his Web site: www.nelsonmotivation.com.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Peter Economy\n </strong>\n (La Jolla, CA) is a freelance business writer and publishing consultant who is associate editor of the Apex award-winning magazine\n <em>\n  Leader to Leader\n </em>\n , and coauthor of the best-selling book\n <em>\n  Managing For Dummies,\n </em>\n 2nd Edition, with Bob Nelson (Wiley),\n <em>\n  Giving Back\n </em>\n with Bert Berkley (Wiley),\n <em>\n  The SAIC Solution\n </em>\n with J. Robert Beyster (Wiley), as well as the author or coauthor of more than 35 other books on a wide variety of business and other topics. Visit Peter at his Web site: www.petereconomy.com and be sure to check out his blog at: www.theventureedge.com.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest on using the Internet to market your services\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to make a name for yourself in this lucrative career field\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you want to be a consultant? This practical, friendly guide shows you how to get your business off the ground and running smoothly, with the latest on developing a marketable idea, running your home office, writing winning proposals, selling your services, and getting referrals. You get expert tips on setting fees, keeping track of time and money, and building business with new clients.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DiscoverÂ how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start a successful consulting business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build partnerships with clients\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle financial and legal issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make great presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate contracts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Promote your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1429'),
(17115, 'Consumer Behavior for Dummies', 'Laura Lake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get into the minds of consumers and increase your revenue!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to better understand why consumers think and act the way they do? This practical guide gives you the tools to identify the influences that affect their purchasing behavior. It also shows you how to apply that knowledge as you develop a marketing strategy that speaks directly to their needs. You''ll see how to capture their attention, motivate them to purchase your products and services, earn their loyalty, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why do they buy? â€” understand the decision-making process consumers go through when considering a purchase\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply behavior to marketing â€” learn the 4Ps of marketing and how consumer behavior plays a role in each\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain a deeper understanding of the individual consumer â€” gauge a consumer''s motivation, emotions, perception, and attitude and use them to predict and change buying intentions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore external influences on customers â€” from cultures to family life cycles to household structures and social groups, see how purchasing patterns are affected\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Craft your marketing strategy â€” use consumer knowledge to delve into market research, identify key segments, and launch into untapped markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Implement your plan â€” create powerful positioning strategies and reach customers where they''re at with a message that motivates them\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Actionable, real-world insight and advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips to help you lead consumers from attention to action\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Research techniques and marketing tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How self-concepts and lifestyle change consumer behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for cultivating repeat business and loyalty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to protect against consumer misbehavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on encouraging new product adoption\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to enhance customer satisfaction\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laura A. Lake\n </strong>\n has been involved in the marketing industry since 1997. She has worked with many companies, assisting them in understanding consumer behavior and the management and implementation of the findings within. In 2008, Lake founded her own successful marketing agency and sales training company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1430'),
(17116, 'Consumer Reports - Kitchen Planning and Buying Guide 2011', 'Kitchen Planning &amp; Buying Guide 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10631'),
(17117, 'Consumer Reports - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6558'),
(17118, 'Consumer Reports: Electronics Buying Guide 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10627'),
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(17123, 'Container Gardening for Dummies', 'Bill Marken &amp; Suzanne Dejohn &amp; The Editors Of The National Gardening Association', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The easy way to get a green thumb in container gardening!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to spruce up your indoor or outdoor space with annuals, perennials, vegetables, and succulents? This updated edition of Container Gardening For Dummies gives you clear, concise step-by-step instructions for cultivating delightful gardens in everything from a redwood window box to a hanging basket to an old watering can. It also includes color photos to inspire your designs.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting the dirt on container gardening â€” discover the advantages of growing plants in containers and learn how to maximize your garden conditions to help plants thrive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Picking a pot to plant in â€” take a look around your living space and determine the best location and type of container for your garden\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoying a summer fling â€” get the lowdown on the best single-season flowers, vegetables, and bulbs for container growing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Putting down roots â€” find out which perennials, trees, shrubs, fruits, and berries give year-round impact\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Designing and decorating â€” take advantage of ideas and inspiration for creating eye-catching container gardening displays\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Things you need to know before planting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A quick primer on climate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to look for in a soil mix\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with perennials and annuals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information you need to help you choose plants\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why and when containers need water and fertilizer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on replanting, repotting, and pruning\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for preventing insect pests and diseases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to liven up your space with trees, shrubs, and vines\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose, plant, and care for flowers, fruits, trees, and shrubs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grow vegetables and herbs just steps away from your kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cultivate charming gardens in any climate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prevent insects and diseases from invading containers the eco-friendly way\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Packed with planting and design ideas that will transform even the humblest of pots into a flower festival." â€” Doug Jimerson, Editor-in-Chief, Garden Escape, www.garden.com "Who better to turn to for everything you need to know about container culture than a guy who has â€˜been there, done thatâ€™ for a careerful of years?" â€” Joseph F. Williamson, Former Garden Editor and Managing Editor of Sunset Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n 16 Pages of Colorful Photos!\n</p>\n<p>\n Where Does Your Garden Grow? Find out how you can cultivate a charming garden in a redwood window box, a hanging basket, or a pair of old cowboy boots with Container Gardening For DummiesÂ® Grow colorful plants, flowers, trees, and vegetables that will turn any gardener[HTML_REMOVED]s thumb green with envy. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re an inexperienced city dweller or his savvy country cousin, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll love the down-to-earth tips and easy-to-follow directions for creating gorgeous container gardens in any climate. Sprout a Very Green Thumb\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Unearth winning approaches for growing almost anything in a container\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how experts make greens flourish on roofs, balconies, and windowsills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own one-of-a-kind garden by using classic and offbeat containers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncover the best fertilizing and watering techniques for your climate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grow exotic and low-maintenance cactus and succulents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent insects, pests, and diseases from invading your containers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out which ten tools are ideal for working in container gardens\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1431'),
(17124, 'Controlling Cholesterol for Dummies', 'Carol Ann Rinzler &amp; Martin W. Graf Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "the authors...know their stuff...the book is a fairly painless way to learn more about subjects you might rather avoid." (_Chicago Tribune_, December 1, 2002)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Need to get your cholesterol in check? Youâ€™ll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and dietary advice, in\n <em>\n  Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , an easy-to-understand guide to cholesterol control. Youâ€™ll learn how to lower your numbers and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Youâ€™ll also find out how to eat and exercise properly, use vitamins and supplements, and quit unhealthy habits.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find out cholesterolâ€™s positive functions and why too much can be a bad thing. You can also assess your cholesterol risk by taking your age, sex, ethnicity, and family history into consideration. Find out what you need to ask your doctor about stress tests, ECBT, and angiograms to check for plaque buildup. Design a cholesterol-crushing diet and understand which foods can help you lower your numbers. Find out how smoking, alcohol, exercise, excess weight, supplements, and prescription medications affect your cholesterol levels. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your cholesterol risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the benefits and risks associated with cholesterol\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and adhere to a cholesterol-lowering diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid dangerous drugs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce your risk of heart attack\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose fats and fibers correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check for plaque buildup\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten important cholesterol websites, ten nutrition websites, ten cholesterol myths, ten landmarks in cholesterol history, ten foods that raise your cholesterol, and ten foods that lower your cholesterol,\n <em>\n  Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n will help keep your cholesterol levels under control for good!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1432'),
(17125, 'Cooking the Chinese Way', 'Ling Yu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n by Lerner Publications Company Minneapolis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(17126, 'Cooking the Cuban Way', 'Victor Manuel Valens &amp; Alison Behnke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Presents recipes for dishes, such as Bird''s Nest Soup, Stargazy Pie, and Hopping John, from eleven different countries. Includes lists of cooking utensils, terms, and special ingredients.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(17127, 'Cooking the Mexican Way', 'Rosa Coronado', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8-These three titles are, for the most part, worthy successors to the originals. (Cooking the East African Way was originally called Cooking the African Way [Lerner, 1988].) Each well-organized and well-written book now has a greater emphasis on low-fat and vegetarian recipes. An introductory section contains information on the culture, geography, food, holidays, and festivals of the country or region. This is followed by safety tips; glossaries of cooking utensils, terms, and special ingredients; healthy and low-fat cooking tips; and a metric conversion chart. A short discussion on eating customs is followed by sample menus complete with shopping lists. The clearly written recipes that follow are organized by type of meal. Brief introductory notes, suggestions for substitute ingredients, and cooking tips are included in many of the recipes. Preparation time and serving size are indicated. The books are visually appealing with many full-page, full-color photographs (frequently adjacent to the recipes they refer to). A couple of minor quibbles are the lack of pronunciation guides (present in the previous editions) and the lack of a nutritional breakdown for each recipe. Carole L. Albyn and Lois S. Webb''s The Multicultural Cookbook for Students (Oryx, 1993) would be a good companion to any of these volumes. Fran Osseo-Asare''s A Good Soup Attracts Chairs (Pelican, 1993; o.p.) introduces West African cuisine. These new titles will be useful for cultural and heritage school projects as well as fun reads for intermediate cooks.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Janice Greenberg, formerly at Brooklyn Public Library, NY\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(17128, 'Cooking the Thai Way', 'Supenn Harrison &amp; Judy Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An introduction to the cooking of Thailand including such recipes as lemon chicken soup, satay, and Thai spring rolls, and includes information on the history, geography, customs, and people of Thailand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(17129, 'Cooking the Vietnamese Way', 'Chi Nguyen &amp; Judy Monroe &amp; Robert L. Wolfe &amp; Diane Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An introduction to the cooking of Vietnam featuring such recipes as spring rolls, sweet and sour soup, and Vietnamese fried rice. Also includes information about the land, history, and holidays of this south-east Asian country.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(17130, 'Cool Careers for Dummies', 'Marty Nemko Phd &amp; Richard N. Bolles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Looking for a job? Thinking about a career change? Dreading it? Well,\n <em>\n  Cool Careers for Dummies\n </em>\n promises not only to help you find jobs you never knew existed, but to make it\n <em>\n  fun\n </em>\n ! From enologist (that''s winemaker, dummy) to attorney specializing in outer-space issues, career specialists Marty Nemko and Paul and Sarah Edwards have compiled over 500 interesting, offbeat, and just plain cool jobs. But that''s just the first step.\n</p>\n<p>\n After the short descriptions of cool careers--thoughtfully separated in their own yellow-pages section--the authors present a smart, funny, well-organized guide to choosing and nabbing the perfect job, even jobs that don''t make the "cool" list. Filled with practical advice such as using e-mail to reach potential employers (it''s more likely to get answered),\n <em>\n  Cool Careers for Dummies\n </em>\n is a sure cure for the interview jitters. Important tips and pitfalls are highlighted with bold icons, making this useful as a handy reference as well as a career guide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sections on rÃ©sum&amp;eacutes, interviews, and salary negotiation round out the package, making this the perfect companion for the first-time job hunter or the seasoned professional looking for a change--after all, you don''t have to be a dummy to need a little help. A word of warning: if you think you''re satisfied with your career, be careful with this book--you might find yourself longing to be a newborn photographer or a dating coach!\n <em>\n  --Rob Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, thousands of people change careers. Whether you are a recently graduated student looking to put what you studied to good use or an experienced professional looking for a change in routine, finding a career that really suits you can be a daunting task.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cool Careers for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you discover what you really want out of life, what your passions are, and how well you perform in different environments, and then shows you how to use this information to find a career that suits you. Now revised and up-to-date, this easy-to-use guidebook helps you explore your job options and make clear-minded decisions. This new edition gives you the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Search for and find a career that fits your talents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Land the job you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Train for your new found career\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mold your resume into a masterpiece\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put on a stunning interview\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your career by making the most out of your job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the fun and profit of self-employment\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Along with these features,\n <em>\n  Cool Careers for Dummies\n </em>\n provides a self-assessment section to help you identify your interests. After answering a few questions about yourself, youâ€™ll apply your answers to the Cool Careers Yellow Pages, which profiles more than 500 great careers. It also lets you in on some unwritten codes of the office, such as having integrity, defusing saboteurs, and maintaining office relationships. So what are you waiting for? Get\n <em>\n  Cool Careers for Dummies\n </em>\n and find the job of your dreams today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1433'),
(17131, 'COPD for Dummies', 'Kevin Felner Md &amp; Meg Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your home COPD friendly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Your reassuring guide to understanding and managing COPD\n <br />\n and getting on with your life\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about COPD? This straightforward guide provides clear information about this progressive disease, explaining how to recognize the warning signs, get diagnosed, and choose the best treatment. You''ll see how diet, exercise, and medication affect your symptoms and make your life easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know your risk factors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the right doctors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Quit smoking, start exercising, and change your diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your overall health\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for emergencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help loved ones with COPD\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your home COPD friendly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your reassuring guide to understanding and managing COPD and getting on with your life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about COPD? This straightforward guide provides clear information about this progressive disease, explaining how to recognize the warning signs, get diagnosed, and choose the best treatment. You''ll see how diet, exercise, and medication affect your symptoms and make your life easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your risk factors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the right doctors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quit smoking, start exercising, and change your diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your overall health\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for emergencies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help loved ones with COPD\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1434'),
(17132, 'Copyediting &amp; Proofreading for Dummies', 'Suzanne Gilad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a winning rÃ©sumÃ© and land the job you''ve always wanted. Books, magazines, Web sites, corporate documents - find out how to improve any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers, editors, and your boss.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Balance between style and rules\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the art of the query\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use proofreader symbols\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit and proof electronic documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a solid freelancing career\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a winning rÃ©sumÃ©, and land the job you''ve always wanted. Books, magazines, Web sites, corporate documents â€” find out how to improve any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers, editors, and your boss.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Balance between style and rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master the art of the query\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use proofreader symbols\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit and proof electronic documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a solid freelancing career\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1435'),
(17133, 'Core Strength for Dummies', 'Lareine Chabut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Core Strength For Dummies\n </em>\n explores a number of workouts designed to work the different core muscles that stabilize the spine and pelvis and run the entire length of the torso. It also provides information on all of the tools and guidance needed to reach a desired fitness goal.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Shape and condition your core muscles â€” and get a lean, flexible body\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Concerned about your core? This authoritative guide presents simple guidelines for strengthening your core muscles, providing a variety of safe, effective workouts that anyone can perform. Fitness expert LaReine Chabut gets you going with an easy-to-follow core training program, as well as tips for making healthier lifestyle choices to help you reach your fitness goals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the core basics â€” discover the benefits of a strong core, evaluate your fitness level, and see how to reshape your muscles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You can work it out â€” practice beginner core moves, choose the right amount of weight, and select the perfect number of sets and reps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sculpt your trouble areas â€” define your abs, tighten your glutes, and strengthen your back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the most of accessories â€” incorporate an exercise ball, free weights, and machines into your routine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shake up your routine â€” try Pilates and yoga moves as well as fun, practical stretches to keep you strong and flexible\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it a family affair â€” get core moves for pregnant women, Mommy and Me moves, fun exercises for younger and older children, and recommendations for seniors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The best ways to train your core\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for working out safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guidelines for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to warm up and cool down\n </li>\n <li>\n  LaReine Chabut''s "Core Secrets" workout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dietary and lifestyle changes that improve core strength\n </li>\n <li>\n  Motivation and support for sticking with your program\n </li>\n <li>\n  A total body workout focusing on your core\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1436'),
(17134, 'The Corfu trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6357'),
(17135, 'Cosmopolitan - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5889'),
(17136, 'Cosmopolitan USA - November 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10640'),
(17137, 'Costa Rica for Dummies', 'Eliot Greenspan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a wealth of attractions and adventures, Costa Rica is one of the hottest vacation destinations in the Americas. Whether you want relaxation or excitement, youâ€™ll find it. Stroll leisurely on the beach or zip through the treetops on a canopy tour. Explore urban San Jose or incredible national parks with unspoiled wilderness. Choose the Caribbean Coast or the Central Pacific Coast. Lounge beside an infinity pool or battle a billfish. Seek out exuberant nightlife or take in the lush tropical scenery. Go golfing, snorkeling, volcano viewing, river rafting, sea kayaking, mountain biking, or horseback riding. Stay in a luxurious resort or a rustic wooden cabin . . . a Mediterranean villa or an Ecolodge tent. This friendly guide clues you in, with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The lowdown on how to get to Costa Rica and how to get around after you arrive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Details on San Jose and the Central Valley; the Guanacaste area, Costa Ricaâ€™s â€œGold Coastâ€; the Manuel Antonio area, the most popular ecotourism destination; the Monteverde area with its misty cloud forests; and the rest of the country\n </li>\n <li>\n  Suggested itineraries to help you make the most of your time\n </li>\n <li>\n  A â€œQuick Conciergeâ€ section with key phone numbers, Web addresses, and other handy how-toâ€™s for traveling in Costa Rica\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Costa Rica For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n With tips and recommendations from the experts at Frommer''s\n</p>\n<p>\n Costa Rica for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n 3rd Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n Eliot Greenspan\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore Costa Rica the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you want relaxation or adventure, a sunny beach or a tropical rain forest, Costa Rica has it all. Explore urban San JosÃ© or incredible national parks with unspoiled wilderness. Go golfing, snorkeling, volcano viewing, river rafting, sea kayaking, mountain biking, or horseback riding. With this friendly guide, you''re on your way!\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(17138, 'Countries and Their Cultures Vol.1 - Afghanistan', 'Czech Republic(BBS)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6823'),
(17139, 'Countries and Their Cultures Vol.2 - Denmark', 'Kyrgyzstan(BBS)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6824'),
(17140, 'Countries and Their Cultures Vol.3 - Laos', 'Rwanda(BBS)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6825'),
(17141, 'Countries and Their Cultures Vol.4 - Saint Kitts', 'Zimbabwe (Index)(BBS)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6826'),
(17142, 'Country Homes &amp; Interiors - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5987'),
(17143, 'The Covenant of Genesis', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AN INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY.A MERCILESS FOE.A DEADLY RACE FOR THE TRUTH.Â Off a remote stretch of the Indonesian coast, archaeologist Nina Wilde has made an astounding discovery: an artifact that will rewrite everything thatâ€™s known about human history. But before she can return to tell the world of her find, her ship is brutally attacked, her crew is ruthlessly murdered, and the artifact is stolen. Someone wants this secret to stay hiddenâ€”and will do anything to keep it that way.From the depths of the ocean to the Australian outback to the halls of the United Nations, Nina and her fiancÃ©, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, embark on a quest to stop the all-powerful Covenant of Genesis, a clandestine group sworn to keep Ninaâ€™s discovery a secret. Nina and Eddie have faced tough adversaries before, but the relentless Covenant is always two steps ahead of themâ€”and more than willing to kill again. Who will be the first to expose the truthâ€”and claim the most valuable archaeological prize of all time?Â Enter The Covenant of GenesisAnd discover an action-packed thrill ride that will keep you reading long into the night!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4001'),
(17144, 'Cover Letters for Dummies', 'Joyce Lain Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Glittering advice plus great classic and cyberspace cover letters-the best of the cover letter books. --\n <em>\n  Rick Miller, CEO, CareerCast, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Her distinguished career...has placed her leaps and bounds ahead of the rest. --\n <em>\n  Bob Calvert, Jr., Career Opportunities News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n If all new college graduates had a Joyce Lain Kennedy to guide them...there would...be fewer unfocused, frazzled, jobless people. --\n <em>\n  Dr. Drema K. Howard, Director, Career Resource Center, University of Southern Florida\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n If all new college graduates had a Joyce Lain Kennedy to guide them...there would certainly be fewer unfocused, frazzled, jobless people. --\n <em>\n  Dr. Drema K. Howard, Director, Career Resource Center, University of Southern Florida\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Joyce Lain Kennedy is at the top of her field. --\n <em>\n  Richard L. Knowdell, CEO of Career Planning and Adult Development Network\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cover letters are alive and sell! When theyâ€™re written right, that is. To stand out in todayâ€™s sea of qualified job seekers, learn to craft riveting new breeds of cover letters, create vibrant images online, and discover sensational self-marketing documents you never imagined. This completely revised and updated\n <em>\n  3rd Edition\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Cover Letters For Dummies\n </em>\n brings you all this â€” plus over 200 great new samples by 62 successful professional cover letter/resume writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve probably suspected that passive and sleepy cover letters merely hugging resumes wonâ€™t get you where you want to go. Especially in a shaky job market. The verdictâ€™s in. Since the last edition of\n <em>\n  Cover Letters For Dummies,\n </em>\n blazing fast change in tools, technology, and how hiring managers come calling and how we invite them to look us over, means big dramatic changes in our job messages.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this exceptional handbook of contemporary job messages, youâ€™ll discover fresh ways of thinking about cover letters that captain an entire team of new-style job messages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(17145, 'Coyote Blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope''s love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American outlaw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6330'),
(17146, 'Coyote Dreams (twp-3)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Much of the city can''t wake up. And more are dozing off each day. Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker''s fellow cops are down with the blue fluâ€”or rather the blue sleep. Yet there''s no physical cause anyone can point toâ€”and it keeps spreading. It has to be magical, Joanne figures. But what''s up with the crazy dreams that hit her every time she closes her eyes? Are they being sent by Coyote, her still-missing spirit guide? The messages just aren''t clear. Somehow Joanne has to wake up her sleeping friends while protecting those still awake, figure out her inner-spirit dream life and, yeah, come to terms with these  other  dreams she''s having about her boss.... Wouldn''t it be easier to just save the world?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker''s fellow cops are down with the blue fluâ€”or rather the blue sleep. Yet there''s no physical cause anyone can point toâ€”and it keeps spreading.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It has to be magical, Joanne figures. But what''s up with the crazy dreams that hit her every time she closes her eyes? Are they being sent by Coyote, her still-missing spirit guide? The messages just aren''t clear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Somehow Joanne has to wake up her sleeping friends while protecting those still awake, figure out her inner-spirit dream life and, yeah, come to terms with these\n  <em>\n   other\n  </em>\n  dreams she''s having about her bossâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Tuesday, July 5, 8:58 a.m.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone had driven a tire iron into my skull. I could tell, because centered in my left temple was a vast throbbing pain that could only come from desperate injury. It felt like there were a thousand vicious gnomes leaping up and down on the iron, trying to increase the size of the hole in my head. I had the idea that once it was split open far enough, they would run down the length of metal and dive into the soft, gooey gray matter of my brain and have themselves a little gnomish pool party. Neither of my eyes would open. I fumbled a hand up to poke at them and encountered sufficient goo that I took a moment to consider the possibility that the gnomes were already in my head, had overfilled it and were now flowing out my sinuses and tear ducts. It wasn''t a pretty thought. Then again, nothing could be a pretty thought when someone''d smashed a tire iron into my head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I rolled my fingers across my eyelashes, trying to work some of the ook out of them. My heart was beating like a rabbit on speed, except when it paused with an alarming little arrhythmia that made me start hyperventilating. I hoped I was dying, because anything else seemed anticlimactic with all that going on. Besides, I had some experience with dying. It was kind of old hat, and so far it hadn''t stuck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike my eyes. I physically pried one open with my fingers. The red numbers on my alarm clock jumped into it and stabbed it with white-hot pokers. I whimpered and let it close again, wondering why the hell I was in my bed, if I was dying. Usually I found myself dying in more exotic locations, like diners or city parks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A whisper of memory drifted through my brain in search of something to attach itself to. The department''s Fourth of July picnic had been the day before. I''d attended, feeling saucy and cute in a pair of jeans shorts and a tank top. I''m five foot eleven and a half.\n  <em>\n   Cute\n  </em>\n  and I are not generally on speaking terms, so the feeling had been a novel one and I''d been enjoying it. The outfit had shown off a rare tan and the fact that I''d lost twelve pounds in the past few months, and I''d gotten several compliments. Those were as rare as me rubbing elbows with\n  <em>\n   cute,\n  </em>\n  so it''d been a good day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which did nothing to explain how it had ended with a tire iron separating the bones of my cranium. I walked my fingers over the left side of my head, cautiously. My fingers encountered hair too short to be tangled, but no tools of a mechanic''s trade. I pressed my hand against my temple, admiring how nice and cool it felt against the splitting headache, and the memory found something to attach itself to.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morrison. My boss. Smiling fatuously down at a petite redhead in Daisy Mae shorts that hugged her va-va-va-voom curves. Right about then somebody''d offered me a beer, and it''d sounded like an awfully good idea. I tried to close my eyes in a pained squint, but I''d never gotten them open, so I only wrinkled them and felt crusty goo crinkle around my lashes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only other thing I remember clearly was a bunch of guys from the shop swooping down on me as theyâ€” eachâ€”bore a fifth of Johnnie Walker. With my last name being Walker, they figured me and Johnnie must be cousins and that gave me a leg up on them. I was pretty sure my leg up had turned into a slide down the slow painful descent of hangover hell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I gave up on rubbing my eyes and prodding my head, and instead flopped my arm out to the side with a heartfelt grunt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, the grunt wasn''t mine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It turned out my eyes were willing to come open after all, with sufficient force behind the attempt. I wasn''t sure I had eyelashes left after the agony of ripping through loaded-up sleep, but at least the subsequent tears did something to wash away some of the goop. I was out of bed and halfway across the room with a slipper in hand, ready to fling it like the deadly weapon it wasn''t, when I noticed I wasn''t wearing any clothes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Neither was the blurry-eyed guy who''d grunted when I''d smacked him. At least not on his upper half. He pushed up on his elbows while I scrubbed at my eyes with my free hand. I''d gone to sleep with my contacts in, which partly explained why there was such a lot of gunk in my lashes, but I didn''t believe what my twenty-twenty vision was telling me. I was pretty certain the goo had to be impairing it somehow, becauseâ€”\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”because\n  <em>\n   damn, sister!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Easy on the eyes" didn''t cover it. He was so easy on the eyes that they just sort of rolled right off him as precursor to a girl turning into a puddle ofâ€”\n </p>\n <p>\n  All right, there was way too much goo going on in my morning. "Who the hell are you?" I demanded, then coughed. I sounded like I''d been on a three-day drunk. In my defense, I knew it wasn''t more than a one-night drunk, but Jesus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mark," he said in a sleepy, good-natured sort of rumble, and grinned at me. "Who''re you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What''re you\n  <em>\n   doing\n  </em>\n  here?" I asked instead of answering. He arched one eyebrow and looked my naked self over, then lifted the covers a few inches to inspect his own lower half.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''d say I''m havin'' a real good night." He grinned again and flopped back onto my bed, arms folded behind his head. His hair was this amazing color between blond and brown, not dishwater, but glimmering with shadows and streaks of light. His folded-back arms displayed smoothly muscular triceps. Who ever heard of someone having noticeably beautiful triceps, for heaven''s sake? The puff of hair in his armpits was, at least, an ordinary brown and not waxed away. That would''ve been more than I could handle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "So who''re you?" he asked again, pleasantly. More than pleasantly. More like the cat who''d stolen the cream, eaten the canary and then knocked the dog out of the sunbeam so he could loll in it undisturbed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For a moment I was tempted to open the curtains so I could see if he''d stretch out and expose his belly to the morning sunlight. God should be so good as to give every woman such a view once in her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The thing wasâ€”well, there were many things. Many, many things and all of them led back to me being unable to think of the last time I''d done something so astoundingly stupid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No, that wasn''t true. I knew exactly the last time I''d done something so astoundingly stupid. I''d been fifteen, and I''d have hoped the intervening thirteen years of experience would be enough to keep me from doing it again. Only I hadn''t been shitface drunk then, and if the God who was kind enough to provide the gorgeous man in my bed was genuinely kind, there wouldn''t be the same consequences there''d been then.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   point\n  </em>\n  was, Mark was so far out of my league it wasn''t even funny. I didn''t think I''d said that out loud until he pushed up on an elbow again and looked me over a second time before saying, "I beg to differ," in a mildly affronted tone. Then curiosity clearly got the better of him as he sat all the way up, drawing his knees up and looping his arms around them as he squinted at me. He had a tattoo on his right shoulder, a butterfly whose colors were so bright it had to be new. His biceps were magnificent. He had smooth sleek muscle where most people didn''t even have flab. It was like he took up more space than he really ought to.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which, in my experience, suggested he probably wasn''t human.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I didn''t realize I''d said\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  out loud, either, until he threw his head back and laughed, then scooted around on my bed like he belonged there, giving me a curious grin. "What\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  your name?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Joanne," I finally answered. "Joanne Walker. SPD," I added faintly, for no evident reason. Maybe I thought announcing I worked for the police department would provide me with some kind of physical shielding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It struck me that clothes would be a lot more effective in that arena. Still clutching my slipper as a weapon, I scampered for the bathroom and pulled my rarely used robe off the door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m pleased to make your acquaintance, Joanne Walker," he called after me. I stuck my head out the door incredulously.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is that what you call it?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What should I call it?" He shrugged, a beautiful movement like glass flowing. "I''mgettin'' a kinda freaked-out vibe from you, ma''am. You want I should vacate the premises?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I want you should tell me you had rubbers in your wallet and you don''t anymore, and that you''ve got a nice clean blood test in your hip pocket. I''ll think about the rest of it after that." I retreated into the bathroom again and poked through the garbage nervously. Funny what strikes a girl as relieving in the midst of mental crisis. Having a naked guy whose name I barely knew in my bed would normally be more than enough reason to come apart at the seams, but oh no. Give me a little evidence of safe sex despite drunken revelry and it seemed I could handle the naked guy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pity there was no such evidence. Despite that, my hind brain announced it wouldn''t half mind handling the naked guy. More than once. Which, in fact, I could only presume that I had.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Augh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sorry," he said. "Still got three in my wallet."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three. I stopped poking around in the garbage to stare though the wall at him. "Confident, aren''t you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  I heard a grin come into his drawl: "Looks like I got cause, ma''am. I had five to begin with," he added cheerfully. I lurched to the door so I could stare at him more effectively. I''d developed some unusual skills lately, but X-ray vision hadn''t been one of them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are you serious?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No," he said, still cheerfully. "Sorry, ma''am."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jesus. I didn''t remember the last time I got laid, or more accurately, I remembered in exquisite, precise detail, and now it appeared I''d missed an all-nighter of action thanks to way, way too much whiskey in the jar. That was wrong on so many levels I didn''t even know where to begin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stop calling me ma''am." For some reason I found the ma''aming kind of charming, and I wasn''t sure I wanted to be charmed. I wasn''t sure what I wanted at all. All my base impulses were to throw the guy out and hide under the bed until it all went away. It''d been an approach to life that had worked pretty well until recently, but a couple of weeks ago it''d become violently clear that the ostrich s...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5982'),
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(17148, 'CPU 10-2011', 'CPU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3900'),
(17149, 'CPU 10-2011', 'CPU', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4756'),
(17150, 'Cracking Codes &amp; Cryptograms for Dummies', 'Denise Sutherland &amp; Mark Koltko-rivera &amp; Christopher L. Hodapp', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fast and easy way to crack codes and cryptograms\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Did you love Dan Brown''s\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n ? Are you fascinated by secret codes and deciphering lost history?\n <em>\n  Cracking Codes and Cryptograms For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to think like a symbologist to uncover mysteries and history by solving cryptograms and cracking codes that relate to Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Illuminati, and other secret societies and conspiracy theories.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll get easy-to-follow instructions for solving everything from the simplest puzzles to fiendishly difficult ciphers using secret codes and lost symbols.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Over 350 handcrafted cryptograms and ciphers of varying types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips and tricks for cracking even the toughest code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sutherland is a syndicated puzzle author; Koltko-Rivera is an expert on the major symbols and ceremonies of Freemasonry\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the helpful information in this friendly guide, you''ll be unveiling mysteries and shedding light on history in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Solve compelling and challengingpuzzles to uncover secrets andconspiracy plots\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fascinated with the culture of conspiracy? Uncover the mysteries and test your knowledge of secret societies by solving cryptograms and deciphering codes that not only unveil historical fact and fiction but entertain you as well. Walk in the footsteps of a symbologist by solving everything from the simplest puzzles to fiendishly difficult ciphers, using secret codes and lost symbols.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Think like a symbologist â€” discover a variety of codes and wordplay and the strategies for solving each one\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build your code-cracking skills â€” work your way from solving simple cryptograms to difficult Masonic and double level ciphers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncover a bigger mystery â€” use the answers you discover to solve three conspiracy stories contained in the book\n </li>\n <li>\n  Appreciate the history of code and encryption â€” reveal the secret world of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the Knights Templar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check your work â€” find hints and answers for all the book''s puzzles\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Over 350 handcrafted cryptograms and ciphers of varying types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips and tricks for cracking even the toughest code\n </li>\n <li>\n  An introduction to the history and relevance of using code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Puzzle strategies and hints to help nudge you in the right direction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fun and intriguing anagrams and story wordplay puzzles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fascinating number ciphers that reference the keypad letters on your cellphone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Puzzles of all levels: Easy, Tricky, and Treacherous\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Expose conspiracies like the characters do in Dan Brown''s The Lost Symbol\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decipher cryptic puzzles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the role coded messages play in secret societies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use encrypted alphabets to unveil secrets of the past\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1439'),
(17151, 'Creating Family Web Sites for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Add multimedia, post the family calendar, and save time with templates\n</p>\n<p>\n Introduce your new baby, share the family tree, or plan a reunion on the Web\n</p>\n<p>\n With families scattered all across the country, the best family gathering place is now online! With this book, you don''t need to be a Web wizard to set up a cool site where everyone can meet the baby, kids can report their game scores, couples can share wedding photos, and Grandpa can continue the family genealogy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Post an online photo album for free\n <br />\n * Register a domain name\n <br />\n * Build Web sites from templates and graphics included on the CD\n <br />\n * Edit images with Photoshop Elements 3\n <br />\n * Share stories with blogs\n</p>\n<p>\n Cross-platform CD-ROM includes\n <br />\n * Family Tree Maker starter version\n <br />\n * Macromedia? Dreamweaver? MX 2004 and Contribute(TM) trial versions\n <br />\n * Fetch shareware, Web design templates, and more\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Add multimedia, post the family calendar, and save time with templates\n</p>\n<p>\n Introduce your new baby, share the family tree, or plan a reunion on the Web\n</p>\n<p>\n With families scattered all across the country, the best family gathering place is now online! With this book, you don''t need to be a Web wizard to set up a cool site where everyone can meet the baby, kids can report their game scores, couples can share wedding photos, and Grandpa can continue the family genealogy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Post an online photo album for free\n </li>\n <li>\n  Register a domain name\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build Web sites from templates and graphics included on the CD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit images with Photoshop Elements 3\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share stories with blogs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Cross-platform CD-ROM includes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Family Tree Maker starter version\n </li>\n <li>\n  MacromediaÂ® DreamweaverÂ® MX 2004 and Contributeâ„¢ trial versions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fetch shareware, Web design templates, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1440');
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(17152, 'Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Richard Wagner &amp; Richard Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re looking to show off your digital photos or launch your own blog,\n <em>\n  Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n delivers all the know-how you need to create Web pages for any need. It demystifies technical topics like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, gives you the lowdown on adding sound and video to a page, and shows you how to put the latest versions of Dreamweaver and Flash to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n These nine minibooks show you the easy way to create great-looking pages with all the bells and whistles. Theyâ€™re completely revised and updated to cover new page design tools and trends. Three all-new minibooks show you how to use Microsoft''s new Expressions Web tool to build simple but dazzling pages at online services such as Google Pages, MySpace, and eBay. Youâ€™ll also learn how to tweak a site''s look and feel with Cascading Style Sheets. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create user-friendly page designs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a blog or photo page\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune your firewall\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune pages with HTML or CSS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spice up your pages with video and animation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use templates to save time and frustration\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce exposure by controlling user tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create interactive features such as clickable images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate sophisticated graphic effects and movies with FlashDiscover\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n So what are you waiting for? Get\n <em>\n  Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n and start smartening up your Web pages now!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your key to creating winning Web sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to creating eye-catching pages with today''s most popular tools\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re looking to show off your digital photos or launch your own blog, this guide delivers all the know-how you need to create Web pages for any need. It demystifies technical topics like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, gives you the lowdown on adding sound and video to a page, and shows you how to put the latest versions of Dreamweaver and Flash to work.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create user-friendly page designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a blog or photo page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with leading Web design tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fine-tune pages with HTML or CSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add video and animation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save time with templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(17153, 'Creating Web Pages for Dummies', 'Bud E. Smith &amp; Arthur Bebak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n <br />\n Chances are, youâ€™re already a Web user and use the Internet on a regular basis. Youâ€™ve probably seen a few impressive Web sites and now youâ€™re inspired to create a Web page of your own, but youâ€™re not sure where to start. The answer is: right here!\n <br />\n Creating Web Pages For Dummies guides you through the process of making your own Web pages without hassle or confusion. This straightforward book shows you just how easy it is to launch a site, specialize a page, making your site interactive, and much more! In no time you will become a pro in:\n <br />\n * Web publishing basics\n <br />\n * Geocities, Google page creator, and AOL Web publishing\n <br />\n * Using Flickr, creating blogs, and selling products on eBay\n <br />\n * HTML and other handy tools to â€œbeef upâ€ your site\n <br />\n * Writing and formatting Web text\n <br />\n * Creating and adding graphics for your site\n <br />\n * Adding links, animation, and multimedia\n <br />\n * Designing a great-looking, complete Web site\n <br />\n Besides getting to know the ins and outs of building a Web page, this guide offers suggestions on Web publishing, ranging from testing out your Web site and advertising your site to legal permission and displaying borrowed content. This resourceful guide also includes Web lingo worth knowing and a quick guide to HTML tags, which points out some lesser known but nevertheless useful tags. Now in its 8th edition, Creating Web Pages For Dummies will help make your Web page stand out in the crowd!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1442'),
(17154, 'Credit Repair Kit for Dummies', 'Steve Bucci &amp; Stephen R. Bucci &amp; Terry Savage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let your credit suffer needlessly from errors or outdated information\n</p>\n<p>\n With tools and tips for fixing a bad credit report\n</p>\n<p>\n A bad credit report can hurt your chances at qualifying for loans and credit cards, and it can even get in the way when you want to rent an apartment or land a job. Credit Repair Kit For Dummies is your essential guide to managing your credit -- from fixing mistakes on your credit report, to improving your credit going forward, to establishing manageable payment plans with creditors.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Protect yourself from identity theft\n <br />\n * Improve your credit score\n <br />\n * Assert your rights under the FACT Act\n <br />\n * Maintain great credit\n <br />\n * Investigate your legal options\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let your credit suffer needlessly from errors or outdated information\n</p>\n<p>\n With tools and tips for fixing a bad credit report\n</p>\n<p>\n A bad credit report can hurt your chances at qualifying for loans and credit cards, and it can even get in the way when you want to rent an apartment or land a job. Credit Repair Kit For Dummies is your essential guide to managing your credit â€” from fixing mistakes on your credit report, to improving your credit going forward, to establishing manageable payment plans with creditors.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Protect yourself from identity theft\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your credit score\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assert your rights under the FACT Act\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain great credit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Investigate your legal options\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1443'),
(17155, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Dostoevsky, Fyodor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(17156, 'The Crime Of Olga Arbyelina', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Olga Arbyelina is a princess who fled Russia during the revolution; now she lives in a town near Paris tending to her hemophiliac son, keeping ghosts at bay-an existence hollowed out by history. The town gossips obsess over her, making her into the prime character in their "game of a thousand voices." They "had a fleeting dream of figuring in a poignant melodrama called The Exiled Princess." When she is found lying next to a dead man on the local riverbank, her fame only increases. The Crime of Olga Arbyelina begins with this grim discovery and moves backward, trying to find the erotic transgressions and terrible secrets that separate this exile from the tired and ordinary world.  Andrei Makine resembles his heroine in that he is a kind of runaway; born in 1958, he fled the Soviet Union for France. There he wrote about his homeland in his adopted tongue. The well-received novels Once Upon the River Love and Dreams of My Russian Summers first appeared in French and have since been translated widely. Perhaps it is all these layers of language and memory that make his prose so thick and difficult; clearly there is a great clumsiness in this particular translation, which is rife with sentences like "She was breathing jerkily," and "A thought struck her with the painfulness and beauty of its truth." Ultimately, such writing sabotages The Crime of Olga Arbyelina, fogging up the book''s exotic landscape. Translations can work two ways: they can transport you into a world of strange new music, or they can feel like schoolwork. This book is definitely the latter: you know it''s supposed to be a learning experience, but the difficult, self-serious prose makes you want to resist, stare at the clock, play hooky.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3921'),
(17157, 'Criminology for Dummies', 'Steven Briggs &amp; Joan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your thorough guide to comprehending and combating crime\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work? This you-are-there guide takes you deep into the world of crime, giving you a better understanding of the dark recesses of the criminal mind and how law enforcement officials investigate crime. You''ll gain real-world knowledge of the reasons for and consequences of crime, the way society responds to it, and, most important, how crime can be prevented.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enter the world of crime â€” understand what crime is, how it is measured, and the various ways crime affects victims and society\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify different types of crime â€” from white-collar crime to organized crime to terrorism, examine the nature of crime and why certain criminals are attracted to specific crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know who commits crimes, and why â€” explore different theories that attempt to explain why people commit crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take it to the streets â€” follow law enforcement officials and federal agencies as they chase and apprehend the bad guys\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Seek justice â€” meet the key players in the criminal justice system and see why and how the guilty are punished\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with juveniles â€” know the differences between adult and juvenile systems, realize why youths are treated differently, and review modern methods for treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common criminal traits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The causes of violent crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recent efforts to secure victims'' rights\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The processes used to solve crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step-by-step walkthrough of the criminal justice process\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to recognize and fight back against crime\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jobs in the criminal justice field\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten notorious, unsolved crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steven Briggs\n </strong>\n is a career prosecutor and nationally recognized lecturer on law enforcement and criminal law topics. He has trained many organizations, including the National District Attorneys Association, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Russian-American Rule of Law Consortium. He is also an adjunct professor of criminal justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1444'),
(17158, 'Critical Thinking Skills Success', 'Lauren Starkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4830'),
(17159, 'Crochet Patterns for Dummies', 'Susan Brittain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Would you like to learn to crochet? Already know the basics, but would like to stretch your crocheting skills? From scarves and sweaters to hats and handbags, you can create beautiful, useful designs with ease using\n <em>\n  Crochet Patterns For Dummies.\n </em>\n From choosing the right hooks and yarn and crocheting basic stitches to joining pieces together, this easy-to-follow guide will have you hooked in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our hands-on workbook gets you crocheting fashionable, fun designs in a focused, step-by-step manner. You get a review of the basic stitches and stitch combinations, along with a concise appendix containing easy-to-follow instructions for working these stitches. Youâ€™ll find plenty of tips on changing colors and adding shape to your projects. Plus, you get full-color photos of every projectâ€”from potholders to afghans, belts to table runners, skirts to vests, and much more. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decipher crochet lingo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a gauge swatch, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with the most common stitches and stitch patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crochet in the round or with color\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shape a design through increasing or decreasing stitches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use new techniques like felting and working with wire\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crochet pictures and words using the filet crochet technique\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n There are also quick-and-easy designs that are great for kids to make, as well as handy hints on caring for your finished items. Featuring more than 50 fantastic patterns perfect for beginners or those wanting to take their skills to the next level,\n <em>\n  Crochet Patterns For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to crocheting success!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get kids involved with quick and easy designs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From scarves and sweaters to hats and handbags â€” create beautiful crochet designs with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to get a handle on crocheting? Know the basics, but don''t know where to go from there? No problem! This hands-on workbook gets you crocheting useful, fashionable designs in a focused, step-by-step manner. From choosing the right hooks and yarn and crocheting basic stitches to changing color, shaping, and joining pieces together, this easy-to-follow guide will have you hooked in no time. Plus this friendly guide features full-color photos of every project and over 50 fantastic patterns perfect for beginners or those wanting to stretch their crocheting skills!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a gauge swatch, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with the most commonstitches and stitch patterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Crochet in the round or with color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use new techniques like felting and working with wire\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Crochet pictures and words using the filet crochet technique\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1445'),
(17160, 'Crocheting for Dummies', 'Karen Manthey &amp; Susan Brittain &amp; Julie Holetz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜The ultimate fool-proof guide, it will have you crocheting masterpieces in no-time.'' (Let''s Get Crafting, June 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An updated classic covering the latest techniques and trends in crocheting\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you hooked on the art of crochet? Looking for a fun new hobby that you can take with you virtually anywhere?\n <em>\n  Crocheting For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you easy-to-understand instructions on how to choose the right tools, create basic stitches, and finish off your work to make beautiful pieces of art. From learning to create consistency with gauge swatch to decoding crochet patterns, symbols, and diagrams, this easy-to-follow guide is all you need to start creating beautiful designs in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n This revised edition contains completely new content, including fresh new patterns, stitches, and techniques reflecting crocheting styles from around the world. Plus, it''s packed with new and refreshed photos and line art throughout, along with step-by-step instructions that will easily guide you from your first stitch to your first sweater.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A new section covering common crocheting mistakes and how to correct them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crocheting with eco-awareness: using organic yarns, as well as free trade and sustainably sourced fibers\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best resources for purchasing supplies, as well as choosing and buying patterns__\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a first-time crocheter or looking to expand your skills,\n <em>\n  Crocheting For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you the skills, techniques, and confidence to crochet like a pro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1446'),
(17161, 'Crome Yellow', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4014'),
(17162, 'Cross-Cultural Selling for Dummies', 'Michael Soon Lee &amp; Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to reach out to multicultural customers?\n <em>\n  Cross-Cultural Selling For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with everything you need to know to tap into multicultural markets, from establishing solid relationships to adapting your advertising to meeting the needs of your new clientele. Youâ€™ll acquire key cross-cultural skills and build a coordinated effort that engages all aspects of your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, easy-to-understand guide shows you how to measure the purchasing power of other cultures and change the way you market to them. Youâ€™ll learn how to do multicultural research, develop a marketing campaign with wide appeal, pick the right media, tune your materials to the market, and establish a presence in the community. Youâ€™ll find tips on identifying generational differences with in a culture, pronouncing names correctly, and determining customer motivation. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reach out to multicultural customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop strong relationships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adapt your sales presentations and techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clear language barriers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost your street cred\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present appealing financing options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a foundation for long-term success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle negotiations with skilled hagglers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize and overcome objections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adopt techniques to close the sale\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a strong referral base\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid cultural conflicts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain a diverse sales team\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You can realize the incredible untapped potential of the multicultural market to send your sales soaring and your profits off the charts.\n <em>\n  Cross-Cultural Selling For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Appeal to the multicultural market and send your sales soaring\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to reach out to customers from other cultures? This practical, easy-to-understand guide shows you how to tap into multicultural markets, from establishing solid relationships to adapting your advertising to meeting the needs of your new clientele. You''ll acquire key cross-cultural skills and build a coordinated effort that engages all aspects of your business.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adapt to multicultural markets â€” measure the purchasing power of other cultures and change the way you market and sell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a marketing campaign with wide appeal â€” do your research, pick the right media, tune your materials to your market, and establish a presence in the community\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build rapport with culturally diverse clients â€” identify generational differences, pronounce names correctly, and determine customer motivation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adapt your sales presentation and techniques â€” clear language barriers, boost your street cred, and present financing options in ways that appeal to your multicultural clientele\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Close the sale â€” recognize and overcome objections, handle negotiations with skilled hagglers, and head off potential buyer''s remorse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a foundation for long-term success â€” excel at customer service, create a strong referral base, and maintain a diverse sales team\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Six steps to a multicultural mindset\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for overcoming stereotypes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for sizing up your competition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for building a diversity-friendly business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for adapting your product line\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do''s and don''ts for meeting and greeting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most common buying signals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Culture-specific insiders information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for generating referrals\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(17163, 'Crosswords for Seniors for Dummies', 'Timothy E. Parker &amp; Joan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A puzzle-packed guide tailored to the interests of the older generation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you over the age of 55? Looking for some great crossword puzzles? Better yet, how about a collection of crosswords that is tailored to your interests? Look no further.\n <em>\n  Crosswords For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n fits the bill.\n</p>\n<p>\n This compilation of challenging and entertaining crossword puzzles is perfect for you if you want to challenge your brain, preserve mental fitness-and are just looking for some fun! It''s a known fact that keeping the mind active and healthy can reduce the risk of such conditions as dementia; plus, puzzles have been proven to strengthen memory and mind function.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Helps you maintain an active and productive mind by providing fun games designed to stimulate the brain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses large print for easy reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contains 150 puzzles arranged from easy to difficult that are specifically designed to pique the interest of those over 55\n </li>\n <li>\n  Timothy E. Parker is the Senior Crossword Puzzle Editor of\n  <em>\n   USA Today Crosswords\n  </em>\n  and the "World''s Most Syndicated Puzzle Compiler" according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n So keep your mind sharp while you have a great time with\n <em>\n  Crosswords For Seniors For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your fun and easy guide to solving and enjoying crosswords\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you love crossword puzzles? Can''t find ones that appeal to you? This puzzle-packed guide is bursting with crosswords that are not only in large print to ease eyestrain, but also feature clues that are appropriate for those in their golden years. Plus, you''ll discover how you can improve your brain''s health through stimulating mental exercise.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spruce up your solving strategies â€” become familiar with the puzzles, consider themes, identify types of clues, and use outside resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the lowdown on brain benefits â€” see what current research has to say about the importance of mental exercise and the impact it can have on your cognitive abilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle the puzzles â€” from easy to tough to treacherous, solve 150 crossword puzzles with a variety of themes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Check the solutions â€” push yourself to find solutions to improve your puzzle-solving skills and, when your brain is drained, check the answer section to see how well you did\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pique your interest â€” find puzzles on topics of interest to prime-timers, from Ed Sullivan to Watergate to Wolfgang Puck\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of solving crosswords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Various types of clues you''ll encounter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The health benefits of solving puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for improving your memory and brain power\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fully worked-out solutions to all puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to make crosswords a group activity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tackling the trickiest puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Web resources to try when you''re stuck\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Making Everything Easier!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Solve 150 puzzles from easy to treacherous\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stimulate your brain and increase your mental fitness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce eyestrain with a large-print format and oversized answer grids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solve clues that are appropriate for prime-timers\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(17164, 'Cruise Vacations for Dummies 2006', 'Heidi Sarna &amp; Matt Hannafin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the book to read before you book your cruise! Even if youâ€™ve never set foot on a ship, youâ€™ll know what to expect and how to enjoy every minuteâ€”on board or in port! Cruising is a great vacation value; for one price, you get your cabin, meals and entertainment, a variety of onboard activities, and the chance to explore different places.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to pick the cruise for you and choose great things to do, with\n <strong>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reviews of the best cruise lines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overviews of popular cruise ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, the Mediterranean, the Mexican Riviera, Hawaii, and New England and Eastern Canada\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on onboard entertainment, food, spa offerings, shopping, gambling, and childrenâ€™s activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recommendations on the top attractions and best shore excursions at popular ports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Details on everything from passport requirements to packing tips, and from embarkation day to clearing customs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Cruise Vacations For Dummies 2006\n </em>\n helps you make the most of your vacation. It includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on the best ships for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on sightseeing at ports of call\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Ride the waves the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Choose relaxation or adventure, a luxury liner or rustic schooner, an exotic port or a popular vacation spot. Whatever floats your boat, you''ll find the perfect cruise for you in this friendly guide that clues you in on cruise lines, destinations, shore attractions, and more. Bon voyage!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best cruise ships for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1449'),
(17165, 'Cruise Vacations for Dummies 2007', 'Heidi Sarna &amp; Matt Hannafin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Listen to a free companion podcast!\n</p>\n<p>\n On a cruise vacation, getting there\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n half the funâ€”or more. Even if youâ€™re a land lubber, this guide will get you ready and eager to set sail. Youâ€™ll learn what to expect and how to enjoy every minuteâ€”on board or in port. As the authors write, â€œThe captain does the driving, the chef does the cooking, the bartenders do the pouring, and the stewards make your bed.â€ You unpack once and then relax and enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to pick the cruise for you and choose great things to do, with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reviews of the best cruise lines and specifics such as the best ships for families, best romantic cruises, best party cruises, best small ship cruises, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overviews of popular cruise ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, the Mediterranean, the Mexican Riviera, Hawaii, and New England and Eastern Canada\n </li>\n <li>\n  Special icons that point out Bargain Alerts, Heads Ups (warnings about tourists traps, unsafe neighborhoods, etc.), and Kid-Friendly options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on onboard entertainment and activities, food, spa offerings, shopping, gambling, and childrenâ€™s activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recommendations on the top attractions and best shore excursions at popular ports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Details on everything from passport requirements to packing tips, and from embarkation day to clearing customs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Cruise Vacations For Dummies 2007\n </em>\n helps you make the most of your vacation. It includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on the best ships for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on sightseeing at ports of call\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re looking for adventure on the high seas or laid-back fun in the sun, get your sea legs and get set for smooth sailing with this friendly guide.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Coast along with cruise control at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have a bon voyage the fun and easy wayÂ®\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Cruise these pages for the best ships for families, romance, fine dining, and more. Whether your style is laid-back or lively, rustic schooner or luxury liner, popular port or exotic adventure, set sail with this guide that covers cruise lines, destinations, shore attractions, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best cruise ships for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(17166, 'Cryptography for Dummies', 'Chey Cobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦a useful guide for anyone bamboozled by encryptionâ€¦â€ (_PC Utilities_, June 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reader can dip into it whenever the mood takes themâ€¦â€ (_MicroMart_, 29th April 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Cryptography is the most effective way to achieve data security and is essential to e-commerce activities such as online shopping, stock trading, and banking\n </li>\n <li>\n  This invaluable introduction to the basics of encryption covers everything from the terminology used in the field to specific technologies to the pros and cons of different implementations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses specific technologies that incorporate cryptography in their design, such as authentication methods, wireless encryption, e-commerce, and smart cards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Based entirely on real-world issues and situations, the material provides instructions for already available technologies that readers can put to work immediately\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expert author Chey Cobb is retired from the NRO, where she held a Top Secret security clearance, instructed employees of the CIA and NSA on computer security and helped develop the computer security policies used by all U.S. intelligence agencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1451'),
(17167, 'Crystal Reports 10 for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Would\n <br />\n you\n <br />\n read\n <br />\n information\n <br />\n presented\n <br />\n like\n <br />\n this?\n</p>\n<p>\n No. Itâ€™s just not natural. Sometimes presentation is almost as important as content. When you create a report, the goal is to provide information for readers in a format they can readily understand.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies,\n </em>\n the latest version of the most popular report writer in the world, shows you how to create simple or sophisticated reports, turning data into interactive, actionable reports that convey whatâ€™s happening in your business. You can progress cover-to-cover or use the index to find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Give your reports more pizzazz by using the correct fonts, color, drop shadows, graphic elements, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate elements from multiple, non-database sources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Group sort, total result sets, cross-tab reports, and add formulas, charts, or maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use customized Business Views gleaned from the same information to provide each reader with information he or she needs to know without spilling all the beans, sales figures, marketing information, or whatever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present multi-dimensional data in OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) cubes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get ideas from sample reports on the companion Web site\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Allen G. Taylor, nationally known lecturer, teacher, and author of over 20 books, including\n <em>\n  Database Development for Dummies, Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it crystal clear how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Store your information securely in Crystal Repository\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Crystal Analysis 10 to display OLAP data so you and your reportâ€™s readers can analyze the information in an online environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Crystal Enterprise to put Crystal Reports online for viewing by hundreds or thousands of people in your organization\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to dazzle your companyâ€™s CEO and shareholders, motivate the sales force, or simply share database information cogently, with\n <em>\n  Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies\n </em>\n you not only make your point, you an impression. When your reports look professional, you look professional.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sample reports and more on companion Web site\n</p>\n<p>\n Create simple or sophisticated reports, add elements, format, and deliver them\n</p>\n<p>\n What good is all that data youâ€™re keeping if you canâ€™t put it in a form that means something? This handy guide gets you going with Crystal Reports 10 and its exciting enterprise enhancements. Let your data out of the database and turn it into interactive reports that tell you, and others, whatâ€™s happening in your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and print a simple report\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design reports to meet specific needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort, group, and total result sets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop and update OLAP reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Crystal Reports with Crystal EnterpriseÂ® and Crystal AnalysisÂ®\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1452'),
(17168, 'Crystal Reports 2008 for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A report is only useful if those who receive it understand what it means. Knowing how to use Crystal Reports gives you the edge in producing reports from your database that really are crystal clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n is a quick and easy guide to get you going with the latest version of this bestselling report-writing software. In fact, itâ€™s so popular that previous editions have made it a bestseller too.\n <em>\n  Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you just what you should know to produce the reports youâ€™ll need most often, including how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pull specific information from your database, sort and group it, and find the details you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use dynamic or cascading prompts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot and print reports and save time with templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  View reports on your LAN\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write formulas to retrieve specific information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and update OLAP reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format reports, control page breaks, and even add graphics or Flash files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance your reports with charts and maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Crystal Reports in the enterprise\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s also a companion Web site with sample reports from the book and links to sites with more related information. With\n <em>\n  Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n by your side, youâ€™ll soon be able to create reports from simple to spectacular, whenever the need arises.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Put data on display in the most logical way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just what you need to know to produce the most useful reports\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Crystal Reports is the most popular report-writing package, and this handy guide makes it easy for you to start using it quickly and effectively. Find out what a report should look like, how to focus it for readability, ways to illustrate data with charts and maps, and how to publish your reports for others.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose data and format your reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   View reports on your LAN\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write formulas to retrieve specific information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enhance your report with a chart\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and update OLAP reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1453'),
(17169, 'Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies', 'Michael Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  As the fastest growing dashboarding solution on the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to transform the contents of an ordinary Excel spreadsheet into an engaging, interactive Flash-based dashboard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers step-by-step instruction on the wide array of functionality that Xcelsius has to offer so that readers can complete mini-dashboards of increasing complexity with each chapter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses how to prepare Excel spreadsheets for use with Xcelsius dashboards and then use basic components of Xcelsius (charts, buttons, labels)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows ways to add advanced functionality to dashboards (gauges, sliders, maps) and create interactive business calculators with Xcelsius\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses integrating Xcelsius reports into PowerPoint slides, Web pages, and e-mail\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build cool interactive dashboards to explain your data\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create charts, maps, and gauges, slice data into various views, and more â€” easily!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Crystal Xcelsius is like a rocket-booster that lets you turn your Excel spreadsheets into professional-looking dashboards, scorecards, "what if" visualizations, even highly polished PowerPoint presentations. And here''s the know-how you need to use it! Build simple to sophisticated dashboards, add buttons, refresh your data, create a visual model with style, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create basic dashboards with gauges and sliders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build in interactivity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use color to explain data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add menus and selectors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with dynamic visibility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format and distribute your dashboards\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(17170, 'CSS Mastery', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3913'),
(17171, 'CSS Web Design for Dummies', 'Richard Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n A step-by-step guide for stepping up from plain HTML\n</p>\n<p>\n Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to update\n</p>\n<p>\n Attention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site''s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here''s what you need to get up to speed!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create practical style sheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format pages that are visually pleasing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage details such as colors and backgrounds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle lists and tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Render complex documents\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1455'),
(17172, 'The Cult of Osiris', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Andy McDermott''s brilliant new novel, Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are on the hunt for the lost pyramid of Osiris...The incredible secret of the Great Sphinx of Egypt is about to be revealed. An archaeological dig is preparing to open the Hall of Records, a repository of ancient knowledge hidden beneath the enigmatic statue. But on the night of the unveiling student Macy Sharif makes a shocking discovery: a religious cult already raiding the Hall of Records to find the location of the mythical Pyramid of Osiris. Framed by corrupt officials, she goes on the run, trying to reach the only people who can save her before she is silenced -- permanently. Discredited, jobless and broke, archaeologist Nina Wilde and ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase have problems of their own -- until Macy''s plea for help sends them on a deadly quest across the globe as they try to reach the mysterious pyramid before Khalid Osir, the charismatic leader of the Osirian Temple. But is the cult''s motive purely greed...or something more sinister?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Andy McDermott works as a freelance writer ''and occasional cartoonist''and in a previous incarnation was magazine editor for, amongst others, DVD Review and the iconoclastic film magazine Hotdog. Andy was born in West Yorkshire.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4002'),
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(17182, 'Customer Service for Dummies', 'Karen Leland &amp; Keith Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ''must-have'' manual for companies of all sizes -- from the sales proprietor to the largest corporation. --\n <em>\n  Home Business Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Excellent...Provides lots of step-by-step tips. --\n <em>\n  Small Business Opportunities\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Well-written, fun-to-read...An excellent book to make those hard-earned marketing dollars work to your advantage. --\n <em>\n  Self-Employed America\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Customer Service For Dummies\n </em>\n , Third Edition integrates the unbeatable information from Customer Service For Dummies and Online Customer Service For Dummies to form an all-in-one guide to customer loyalty for large and small businesses alike. The book covers the fundamentals of service selling and presents up-to-date advice on such fundamentals as help desks, call centers, and IT departments. Plus, it shows readers how to take stock of their customer service strengths and weaknesses, create useful customer surveys, and learn from the successes and failures of businesses just like theirs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Karen Leland\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Keith Bailey\n </strong>\n (Sausalito, CA) are cofounders of Sterling Consulting Group, an international consulting firm specializing in quality service consulting and training for such clients as Oracle, IBM, Avis, and Lucent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(17183, 'Customer Service Training 101', 'Renee Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Your service team may represent the first, last, or only interaction point between your customers and your company. Your front-line service professionals make or break countless opportunities, leads, sales, and relationships every day. Completely revised and updated to meet the challenges of a new service landscape, the second edition of "Customer Service Training 101" presents proven techniques for creating unforgettable customer experiences. The book covers every aspect of face-to-face, phone, Internet, and self-service customer relations, and provides simple yet powerful tips for: projecting a positive attitude and making a great first impression; communicating effectively, both verbally and nonverbally; developing trust, establishing rapport, and making customers feel valued; and confidently handling difficult customers and situations. The new features include: ''How Do I Measure Up?'' self-assessments, and ''Doing It Right'' examples from the author''s extensive customer service experience. Every step-by-step lesson in this comprehensive and inspiring training manual is augmented with instructive sidebars, a summary of key points, practice exercises, and so much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4222');
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(17184, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n   <em>\n    Cutting for Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel\n   <em>\n    The World According to Garp\n   </em>\n   . In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for\n   <em>\n    The Cider House Rules\n   </em>\n   --a film with seven Academy Award nominations. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n   <em>\n    Cutting for Stone\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. Iâ€™ve not read a novel wherein medicine, the practice of it, is made as germane to the storytelling process, to the overall narrative, as the author manages to make it happen here. The medical detail is stunning, but it never overwhelms the humane and narrative aspects of this moving and ambitious novel. This is a first-person narration where the first-person voice appears to disappear, but never entirely; only in the beginning are we aware that the voice addressing us is speaking from the womb! And what terrific characters--even the most minor players are given a full history. There is also a sense of great foreboding; by the midpoint of the story, one dreads what will further befall these characters. The foreshadowing is present in the chapter titles, too--â€˜The School of Sufferingâ€™ not least among them!\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  is a remarkable achievement.\n  <em>\n   --John Irving\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (\n  <em>\n   My Own Country\n  </em>\n  ) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3917'),
(17185, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4149'),
(17186, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4406'),
(17187, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4458'),
(17188, 'Cycle.World.2011-11.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Cycle.World.2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7029'),
(17189, 'Cynthia Wakeham&#39;s Money', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4020'),
(17190, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Book DescriptionÂ \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Where there''s a CODE there''s a COD ...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the not so distant past, a man had a Very Cunning Theory which he wrote down in a book, and it proved to be very popular indeed. In the very distant past, a man was born who had a wife, who had a child, who grew up and had children in turn, and so there was a bloodline stretching to today. And Leonardo da Vinci knew all about it and recorded it in a painting for everyone to see, despite lots of Bad People trying to cover up the whole thing. And the man with the Very Cunning Theory figured all this out from lots of clues and pictures that Leonardo da Vinci had cunningly concealed, and then published it for everyone to see.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But then it turned out that this Very Cunning Theory was Not So Cunning After All because it wasn''t true. Not even remotely. Not even a tiny bit likely. Which is where this book comes in.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Because it turns out that although Leonardo da Vinci didn''t know anything at all about a holy bloodline extending to the present day, he knew a very great deal indeed about what cod really are, and that sinister knowledge is only now coming to light ...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fishclaimer\n  <br />\n  This book has not been authorized or endorsed by Dan Brown or his publishers, but it is much, much funnier.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n  The unexplained and sinister popularity of the millennium''s second biggest literary sensation is probed in this funny spoof of the Dan Brown bestseller. A London curator is found dead with a cod shoved down his throat beneath the mysterious message, "THE CHATHOLIC [sic] CURCH HAD ME MURDERED!" Applying his brilliant code-breaking skills, "anagrammatologist" Robert Donglan rearranges the letters to get "H! THE CCC COME HARD, HURDLE A COLT," a clue that entangles him with French secret agent Sophie Nudivue; a priest-cryptographer; a brutal killer known as the Exterminator; and the suppressed works of Leonardo da Vinci''s more talented sister, Eda. Brine, aka London University literature prof Adam Roberts, tweaks many of The Da Vinci Code''s conceits to preposterous effect as his characters puzzle out an all-embracing super-plot, trace the ominously fish-shaped layout of London''s streets and discover a mytho-historical counternarrative that makes Catholic dogma seem eminently reasonable. But he also uncovers and parodies a startling pattern of bad writingâ€”involving sloppily redundant dialogue; pointless, factoid-filled digressions; and tiresome red herringsâ€”that appears again and again in seemingly unrelated Code-style thrillers. Coincidence? Or does it point to a hidden conspiracy in the publishing industry to pad potboilers with overstuffed filler in order to justify high prices? Readers will laugh at Brine''s revelations but may not easily be able to dismiss them. (Oct. 18)\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Dimension\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)19.7    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)12.8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(17191, 'Dachshunds for Dummies', 'Eve Adamson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about owning a Dachshund?\n <em>\n  Dachshunds For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n is fully updated to show you how to find the one youâ€™ll love forever and make him or her part of your family. Whether you choose a standard or miniature this one-stop guide gives you all the information you need to raise and care for your adorable â€œhot dog.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n This must-have resource is packed with expert advice on everything from feeding and healthcare to housebreaking, grooming, training, and more. Plus, youâ€™ll learn the ins and outs of selecting the right vet, handling emergencies, and even showing your Dachshund. Youâ€™ll find out about the ups and downs of living with a pet, get familiar with the Dachshundâ€™s classic physical characteristics, and find help in deciding whether youâ€™d like a smooth, wirehaired, or longhaired pooch. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose your ideal Dachshund\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your home for your new arrival\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your puppyâ€™s nutrition and health\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conquer training problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Groom a smooth, wirehaired, or longhaired Dachshund\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a strong and loving bond with your pet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle common Dachshund back problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose toys, grooming tools, and accessories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select a crate and bedding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduce your dog to other pets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take charge of your Dachshundâ€™s training\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bringing a lively, clever Dachshund into your home will be a happy and joyful experience.\n <em>\n  Dachshunds For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n makes it easy, too!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for grooming smooth, wirehaired, or longhaired Dachshunds\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The must-have guide for you and your Dachshie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about owning a Dachshund? Whether you choose a standard or miniature, this updated guide gives you expert guidance on everything from housing and diet to exercise and health care. You get expert advice on training your Dachshund, handling their common back problems, and just having fun with this clever, lively dog.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right Dachshund for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare your home for your Dachshund\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage nutrition and health\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conquer training problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show your Dachshund\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1457'),
(17192, 'The Damascened Blade', 'Barbara Cleverly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On a break from his policing duties, Joe Sandilands is visiting his old army friend, James Lindsay, commander of the British army''s front line fort at Gor Khatri on the Afghan border. An uneasy peace is in operation, but into this situation is injected an ill-assorted group of visitors to the fort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4268'),
(17193, 'A Dance With Dragons', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Game of Thrones\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Once and Future King,\n  </em>\n  this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Clash of Kings\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Storm of Swords\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Feast for Crows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4088'),
(17194, 'A Dance With Dragons', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Game of Thrones\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Once and Future King,\n  </em>\n  this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Clash of Kings\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Storm of Swords\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Feast for Crows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4405'),
(17195, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4118'),
(17196, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4457'),
(17197, 'Dante&#39;s Paradiso', 'Dante Alighieri &amp; Charles Eliot Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the third part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Paradiso" or "Paradise," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(17198, 'Daredevil.No.3.Nov.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Daredevil.No.3.Nov.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6800'),
(17199, 'Dark Hollow', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4021'),
(17200, 'Dark Mirror', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the red-haired, beautiful and mysterious, Marion Summers dies in horrendous circumstances in the London Library, Brock and Kolla are brought in to investigate, in the new mystery from Australia''s master of crime. Barry Maitland, nominated by The Australian as one of the top five crime writers in the world, returns with a vengeance in Dark Mirror. When Marion Summers - red-haired, beautiful and mysterious - collapses and dies in the rarefied surrounds of the London Library, DI Kathy Kolla and DCI David Brock are sent to head the investigation. Kathy finds a reluctant kinship with the feisty Marion, who had, like Kathy, left a difficult home life when young and struck out to London for independence. Marion''s research on the intriguing, adulterous circle of artists, wives, lovers and muses around Victorian artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti seems irrelevant until the use of arsenic arises. As Brock and Kolla get closer to the truth, another victim dies an excruciating death by poison in a library, and it looks like a serial poisoner is on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4637'),
(17201, 'The Dark on the Other Side', 'Barbara Michaels &amp; Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The house talked; Linda Randolph could hear it. The objects in it talked, too, but the house''s voice was loudest. Linda was afraid that, as her husband suggested, she was losing her mind. Either that, or her husband was involved with dark, brutal forces beyond the limits of human sanity.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Everywhere she turns, Linda Randolph hears voices: from empty dark corners and lonely rooms. But it is the house itself that speaks the loudest, telling Linda to run for her life. Her husband, Gordon, the noted statesman and scholar, suggests she''s losing her mind. Linda almost hopes it''s true, because the alternate explanation is too terrible to contemplate: that Gordon is intimately involved with dark, diabolical forces beyond the scope of the natural and rational. Either Linda Randolph is half-mad ... or her husband is pure evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4623'),
(17202, 'Dark Pitt 3 - Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6247'),
(17203, 'Dark Star', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3980'),
(17204, 'The Dark Tide', 'Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An explosion rips through New York City ''s Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman''s husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen years is dead.  On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen''s hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Ty Hauck, a detective, becomes emotionally caught up in the case and finds a clue that shockingly connects the two seemingly unrelated events.  Months later, two men show up at Karen''s home digging into Charles''s business dealings. Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing-and the trail points squarely to Charles. With doubt suddenly cast on everything she has ever known, Karen, with Hauck, steps into a widening storm of hedge fund losses, international scams, and murder. And as the investigations converge, these two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted-and deadly-conspiracy.  With its breakneck pacing, plentiful twists, compelling characters, and abundant heart, The Dark Tide confirms Andrew Gross''s place as a master storyteller at the top of his game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3963'),
(17205, 'Dark Voyage', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3982'),
(17206, 'The Darker Side', 'Cody McFadyen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  When FBI Agent Smoky Barrett and her team of investigators are called in by the Director himself to handle a case of murder committed on a flight from Texas to Virginia, the case begins with a shock, and the twists keep coming.It soon becomes apparent that Smoky is dealing with a serial killer who appears to have committed a truly horrific number of murders already, someone who can find people with secrets not just the secrets we all admit to ourselves, but the deepest, innermost secrets of all and is using them to target and destroy his victims.The case is on the edge of going public, and when that happens, with all the accelerated power of the internet behind it, public hysteria is not far behind.Just at the time when she is working so hard to bring up her adopted daughter Bonnie, Smoky is now under the most intense pressure of her career to get results. Yet the team has never been faced with such an apparently insoluble problem. Who will the next victim be? Everyone in the world has secrets. Even Smoky.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Full of horrific violence, this solid third thriller to feature scarred FBI agent Smoky Barrett (after\n  <em>\n   The Face of Death\n  </em>\n  ) shows that McFadyen knows how to shock. When the FBI director calls Smoky to Washington, D.C., to inspect the body of a beautiful young woman stabbed to death aboard an airplane, Smoky can''t figure out why she''s been assigned a case so far outside her L.A. jurisdiction. But when Smoky learns that not only was the victim, Lisa Reid, the child of a powerful Democratic senator but also that she was a pre-op transsexual, Smoky realizes that this is more than a bizarre homicide. Smoky and her team soon get on the trail of the man they dub the Preacher, a sin collector who murders people to obtain their darkest secrets. Harboring secrets of her own, Smoky must stay one step ahead of the killer if she''s to bring him down. The forays into the victims'' minds to expose their secrets are unnecessary, but the formidable Smoky makes up for the occasional plot tangent.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The third timeâ€”that is,Â the third Smoky-Barrett-tracking-a-serial-killer novelâ€”may well be the charm. This time the diminutive Barrett and her team of manhunters are searching for a brilliant religious zealot who is explaining his killingsâ€”and his beliefsâ€”on viral video Web sites. Because one of the killerâ€™s featured victims is the transgender son of a very prominent congressman and potential presidential candidate, Smoky finds herself under the additional scrutiny of the director of the FBI, the president, and possibly even the pope. McFadyen has worked every angle and blended several subgenres with tremendous assurance. The killer, who calls himself The Preacher, makes some fascinating arguments about truth, sin, and the path to absolution. The police-procedural elements of the story seem knowing. The tension builds with each page. Continuing characters in the series continue to grow in complexity, especially Smoky, who must confront whether she is ready to love again after losing her husband and daughter to another serial killer. And, above all,Â McFadyen is a supremely gifted storyteller. The Darker Side is an utterly compelling thriller. --Thomas Gaughan\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6158'),
(17207, 'The Darkest Angel', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10664'),
(17208, 'The Darkest Fire', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10665'),
(17209, 'The Darkest Kiss', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10666'),
(17210, 'The Darkest Night', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10667'),
(17211, 'The Darkest Pleasure', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10668'),
(17212, 'The Darkest Prison', 'Valued Acer Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10669'),
(17213, 'The Darkest Whisper', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10670'),
(17214, 'Darkhouse', 'Alex Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4042'),
(17215, 'Darkside', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace?Jonas finds himself sidelined as the investigation is snatched away from him by an abrasive senior detective. Is his first murder investigation over before itâ€™s begun? But this isnâ€™t the end of it for Jonas, because someone in the village is taunting him, blaming\n  <i>\n   him\n  </i>\n  for the tragedy, and watching every move he makes...\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Belinda Bauer first novel Blacklands won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel 2010\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Talking about the new book, Darkside, Bauer remarked: ''Darkside is the story of a young policeman who gets hopelessly out of his depth while trying to catch the killer of elderly and vulnerable people in the tiny village where he lives with his chronically ill wife. He is sidelined by the homicide detectives who are called in, and a series of sinister notes accuse him of failing to do his job.\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <p>\n    ''Darkside was terrible to write. I was frequently reduced to tears while wrestling with what the characters were going through and with all its twists and turns. I ended up moulding the plot out of clay just so that I could get some visual sense of what I was doing. It sounds pretentious but it really helped. When I finished Darkside I hated it but the more I live with it, the more I like it. I''m interested to see what readers think...''\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace? Jonas finds himself sidelined as the investigation is snatched away from him by an abrasive senior detective. Is his first murder investigation over before it''s begun? But this isn''t the end of it for Jonas, because someone in the village is taunting him, blaming him for the tragedy, and watching every move he makes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4571'),
(17216, 'Data Warehousing for Dummies', 'Thomas C. Hammergren &amp; Alan R. Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Data warehousing is one of the hottest business topics, and thereâ€™s more to understanding data warehousing technologies than you might think. Find out the basics of data warehousing and how it facilitates data mining and business intelligence with\n <em>\n  Data Warehousing For Dummies, 2nd Edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Data is probably your companyâ€™s most important asset, so your data warehouse should serve\n <em>\n  your\n </em>\n needs. The fully updated Second Edition of\n <em>\n  Data Warehousing For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you understand, develop, implement, and use data warehouses, and offers a sneak peek into their future. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Analyze top-down and bottom-up data warehouse designs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the structure and technologies of data warehouses, operational data stores, and data marts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose your project team and apply best development practices to your data warehousing projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement a data warehouse, step by step, and involve end-users in the process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Review and upgrade existing data storage to make it serve your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comprehend OLAP, column-wise databases, hardware assisted databases, and middleware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use data mining intelligently and find what you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make informed choices about consultants and data warehousing products\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Data Warehousing For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n also shows you how to involve users in the testing process and gain valuable feedback, what it takes to successfully manage a data warehouse project, and how to tell if your project is on track. Youâ€™ll find itâ€™s the most useful source of data on the topic!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  There''s more to data warehousing than you think, so start right here!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t need a forklift to work with a data warehouse, but you do need a hefty load of know-how to make wise decisions when setting one up. Data is probably your company''s most important asset, so your data warehouse should serve your needs. Here''s how to understand, develop, implement, and use data warehouses, plus a sneak peek into their future.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your stuff â€” understand what a data warehouse is, what should be housed there, and what data assets are\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a handle on technology â€” learn about column-wise databases, hardware assisted databases, middleware, and master data management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The intelligent view â€” see how business intelligence and data warehousing work together\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ask the right questions â€” explore data mining and learn to find what you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do the groundwork â€” choose your project team and apply best development practices to your data warehousing projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep the user in mind â€” involve your users in defining business needs through testing, and learn how to get valuable feedback\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix or replace? â€” learn how to review and upgrade existing data storage to make it serve your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buyer beware â€” be prepared when dealing with data warehousing product vendors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to expect from your data warehouse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between data warehouses and data marts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about specialty database technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to look for in a consultant\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How your data warehouse feeds dashboards and scorecards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for managing a successful data warehouse project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to effectively capture business needs and requirements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten signs your project is in trouble\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1458'),
(17217, 'Databaser I Virksomheden', 'Kirsten Wissing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3496'),
(17218, 'Dating for Dummies', 'Joy Browne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you think dating is a simple process--meet someone, ask him or her for a date or get asked out yourself, try not to come off as a drooling moron, then arrange to get together for a second date or cut your losses and work to meet someone else--well, lucky you. For many people, it''s far more complicated than that, and Dr. Joy Browne addresses those complexities in\n <em>\n  Dating for Dummies\n </em>\n . Exactly how do you meet a potential date? How do you present yourself in the most favorable light? How do you negotiate that first date? (One interesting story Browne tells is of a couple who negotiated a weekend together, deciding whether or not they''d have sex, and under what conditions they''d consider marriage and children--all\n <em>\n  before\n </em>\n their first date.) And how do you proceed from there? The process still comes down to chemistry, but Browne shows how many ways there are to make sure you get your best possible chance with Mr./Ms. Right.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While you wouldn''t want to be caught dead reading either of these titles on the subway, they offer a study in contrasts. Baber and Spitznagel seem to have set out to produce a humorous look at dating and mating, but they deliver a boorish effort that will confirm a lot of women''s worst fears about male dating behavior. While some might think that the "humor book" caveat makes everything okay, the overall Beavis-and-Butthead approach to the subject?which is, less dating and more sex in these authors'' minds?provides little in the laughs department. Men and women should avoid this book like a blind date with a cold sore, and libraries can pass. By contrast and in keeping with the excellent "For Dummies" treatment of complicated subjects, psychologist Browne''s book offers a professional, insightful, and very readable examination of dating?real dating. Browne covers every aspect of the basic mechanics of dating in the 1990s, from making your own personal inventory to help you discover who you are and what you want, to finding appropriate people to date, to actually conducting dates at various stages of relationship development. Nothing seems to be missed by Browne: she tackles breaking up, sex, and even the darker sides of dating, like rape and stalking. This excellent book''s biggest drawback for libraries is its numerous "work form" sections, an invitation to certain patrons to make it their own. But Dating for Dummies is worth the risk; recommended for all public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib, Boston\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(17219, 'The Daughters of Cain', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bizarre and bewildering '' that''s what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse''s soul. Chief Superintendent Strange''s opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive. Within days of taking over the case Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of Dr Felix McClure. When another body is discovered Morse suddenly finds himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution. But then he receives a letter containing a declaration of love . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6167'),
(17220, 'David Baldacci - [SEAN KING AND MICHELLE MAXWELL 05]', 'The Sixth Man (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4380');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17221, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Check out these other great works (hundreds of volumes):\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Ultimate Handheld\n  <br />\n  Bible Library\n  <br />\n  (121 volumes, 1 Million + Links)\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Ultimate Handheld\n  <br />\n  Classic Library\n  <br />\n  (more than 1000 works)\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Ultimate Bible\n  <br />\n  Study Suite\n  <br />\n  (8 volumes, 1 Million + Links)\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charles Dickens'' "David Copperfield", which originally appeared in serial format between May 1849 and November 1850, is considered as the most autobiographical of all his novels. A classic "Bildungsroman", i.e., a novel of self-cultivation, it is the story of its title character from childhood to maturity which chronicles the struggle between the emotional and moral aspects of his life. Central to the theme of the novel is the idea of "the disciplined heart". Dickens suggests that people basically fall into three categories: those who have one, those who don''t, and those who seek to develop one. It is this development in David Copperfield that establishes the principal context of his relationships throughout the novel. Considered by many as one of Dickens'' greatest works, "David Copperfield" remains as popular today as when it was first written.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(17222, 'David Eagleman', 'Incognito  The Secret Lives of ain (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4178'),
(17223, 'Day Of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Addison brothers, Harry and Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn''t ignore him. Except it seems he is too late, as Danny was on board a tourist bus which was blown apart by a bomb. But when Harry arrives in Italy he is plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare, discovering that his brother is accused of assassinating the Cardinal Vicar of Rome and when he dares to suggest that Danny is still alive he finds that someone is willing to frame him for murder before he can start to clear Danny''s name. Alone and vulnerable in a foreign country, Harry is sucked into the maelstrom of a conspiracy in the heart of the Vatican, where men of God are using the devil''s hand to further the influence of the Catholic Church. A tense and absorbing thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3981'),
(17224, 'Day Trading for Dummies', 'Ann C. Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Day trading is undoubtedly the most exciting way to make money from home. It''s also the riskiest. Before you begin, you need three things: patience, nerves of steel, and a well-thumbed copy of\n <em>\n  Day Trading For Dummiesâ€”\n </em>\n the low-risk way to find out whether day trading is for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies its all-too-numerous pitfalls, and get you started with an action plan. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty of daily trading practices, it gives you the knowledge and confidence you''ll need to keep a cool head, manage risk, and make decisions instantly as you buy and sell your positions. Learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your accounts and your office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect with research and trading services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan and research trades carefully and thoroughly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with regulations issues and tax requirements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Leverage limited capital\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with the stress quick-action trading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sell short to profit from price drops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate your day-trading performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use technical and fundamental analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find entry and exit points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use short-term trading to establish a long-term portfolio\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find Top-Ten Lists of good reasons to go into day trading, or run from it in terror, as well as lists of the most common (and expensive) mistakes day traders make. Read\n <em>\n  Day Trading For Dummies\n </em>\n and get the tips, guidance, and solid foundation you need to succeed in this thrilling, lucrative and rewarding career.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features sample trading plans\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Know the markets, gain confidence, and buy and sell like the pros\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to succeed as a day trader? This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies the all-too-numerous pitfalls, and gives you a step-by-step action plan to get started. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty daily practices, you''ll see how to keep a cool head and manage risk while you buy and sell your positions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up your accounts and your office\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan and research trades\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comply with regulatory issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Leverage limited capital\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Profit from price drops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make better portfolio decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1460'),
(17225, 'Days of the Dead', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4560'),
(17226, 'Dead Connection - v4', 'Alafair Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3972'),
(17227, 'Dead famous', 'Ben Elton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "A book with pace and wit, real tensionâ€¦and a big on-screen climax."  From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of Popcorn and Inconceivable, a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame.  One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones.  Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.  Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then suddenly, there are some new ones.  Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?  ***  Amazon.co.uk Review  Ben Elton''s Dead Famous brings together his talents in comedy and crime writing to produce a hilarious and devastating novel on the gruesome world of reality TV. Peeping Tom productions invent the perfect TV programme: House Arrest. Its slogan is: "One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. One survivor." This is all a clever parody of the massive TV hit Big Brother, with its vain, ambitious contestants with their tattoos and their nipple rings, their mutual interest in star signs, their endless hugging and touching, and above all their complete lack of genuine intellectual curiosity about one single thing on this planet that was not directly connected with themselves.  However, Elton adds a clever twist to this very funny send-up. On Day 27 of the programme, one of the housemates is killed live on TV. Everyone in the country has a theory about the killer, "indeed the only person who seemed to have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the killer''s identity was Inspector Stanley Spencer Coleridge, the police officer in charge of the investigation". Coleridge is an old fogey from the 1950s, who has to learn quickly about lesbians, piercings, blow jobs and the seductions of TV fame before he can crack the case. Elton''s wicked parody of the housemates is brilliant, the murder fiendish in its ingenuity, and the ending wonderfully over the top. Dead Famous is great fun, and even has some social comment thrown in for good measure.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA book with pace and wit, real tensionâ€¦ and a big onâ€“screen climax.â€ --\n  <em>\n   Independent\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the best whodunits I have ever readâ€¦ a funny, gripping, hugely entertaining thriller.â€ --\n  <em>\n   The Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWry, fast, and fiendishly clever.â€ --\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, and forty microphones. Everybody knows the rulesâ€”total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. However, on day 27, one of the housemates isÂ killed on live TV.Â Who is the murderer? How did they manage to kill under the constant gaze of the television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4574'),
(17228, 'Dead Matter', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shaking up the spirits of Manhattan  The spirit populace of Manhattan doesn''t appreciate its well-deserved RIP being disturbed, and Department of Extraordinary Affairs Agent Simon Canderous is sent in to do damage control. Meanwhile, his vacationing partner, Connor Christos, is in a sorry state, and he tells Simon that each night he''s being haunted by visions of his long-lost brother at his window. Simon is worried that his partner may be going crazy-or worse, maybe he''s notâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4313'),
(17229, 'The Dead of Jericho', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anne Scott''s address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse''s smartest suit. Inspector Morse turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on Wednesday afternoon. He hadn''t planned a second visit, but was back the same day as officer in charge of a suicide investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6179'),
(17230, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  !\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris\n </strong>\n writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4119'),
(17231, 'Dead To Me (sc-1)', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4273'),
(17232, 'Dead Water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4561'),
(17233, 'Deader Still (sc-2)', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s hard to defeat evil on a budget. Just ask Simon Canderous.  It''s been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affairs'' last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boat full of dead lawyers is found in the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometryâ€”the ability to divine the history of an object by touching itâ€”agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now, his workday may never endâ€”until his life does.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4257'),
(17234, 'Deadlock', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The countdown to deadlock has begun...It should have been a tranquil, if unwelcome holiday for Tweed. But six fresh graves in an isolated Norfolk churchyard mark the start of one of the deadliest manhunts ever undertaken. A hostile master planner has gone missing. He hasn''t defected, he has vanished - with enough explosive power to take out a great city, leaving no survivors. Now the Russians, appalled that detente may be destroyed, are asking Tweed to track him down. Somewhere in Europe, a ruthless cold-blooded killer is moving towards his unknown target, a near-genius for whom ''terror is the ultimate weapon''. He has planned a brutal act of violence which will bring Europe to its knees. With Bob Newman, foreign correspondent turned undercover agent, and Paula Grey, his assistant, Tweed must locate the renegade before crisis becomes holocaust. The final confrontation will be one of the most terrifying they have ever faced.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6203'),
(17235, 'Death Drop', 'B M Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or murder?  When 12-year-old David is found blindfolded and dead at the bottom of a ship''s hold while on a school outing, the headmaster claims the tragedy was due to an accident. But the boy''s father begins his own investigation and very quickly he uncovers a tawdry and messy web of secrecy, jealousy and cover-up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4281'),
(17236, 'Death is now my neighbour - Morse 12', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6160'),
(17237, 'The Death Of Kings(e-2)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly  After what was in effect a preamble-Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003)-Julius Caesar takes center stage in this second fast-moving, action-oriented installment in Iggulden''s projected four-book retelling of the Roman emperor''s saga. Julius, a rising young officer assigned to the Roman-controlled northern coast of Africa, distinguishes himself in a bloody raid on the fortress of Mytilene only to have his transport ship captured by pirates. He and the crew are thrown into the hold to rot while awaiting a ransom that will likely ruin his young family back in Rome. After the ransom arrives, Julius gathers his loyal men and marches along the coast, impressing the locals (pirate collaborators all) into military service. He makes good on his bloody promise to wipe out the pirates, then takes his forces to Greece, where, at long odds, he defeats old king Mithridates, who is leading an insurrection that threatens Roman rule in all of Greece. Julius returns to Rome victorious and rich-only to find that the corruption and thuglike violence at the heart of the Republic has come near to destroying those he holds dear, including his wife and small daughter. Those looking for depth of character may be disappointed that Julius Caesar is pictured as little more than a man gripped by driving ambition. Iggulden does a better job in weaving an intricate and compelling tapestry of Roman underling and slave life, with several well-developed minor characters whose craftiness, loyalty and heroics far overshadow those of their social betters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6218'),
(17238, 'The Debba', 'Avner Mandelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is a terrorist. To David Starkman, â€œThe Debbaâ€ is a controversial play, written by his father the war hero, and performed only once, in Haifa in 1946, causing a massive riot. By 1977, David is living in Canada, having renounced his Israeli citizenship and withdrawn from his family, haunted by persistent nightmares about his catastrophic turn as a military assassin for Israel. Upon learning of his fatherâ€™s gruesome murder, he returns to his homeland for what he hopes will be the final time. Back in Israel, David discovers that his father''s will demands he stage the play within forty-five days of his death, and though he is reluctant to comply, the authoritiesâ€™ evident relief at his refusal convinces him he must persevere. With his fatherâ€™s legacy on the line, David is forced to reimmerse himself in a life he thought heâ€™d escaped for good.The heart-stopping climax shows that nothing in Israel is as it appears, and not only are the sins of the fathers revisited upon the sons, but so are their virtuesâ€”and the latter are more terrible still.  Disguised as a breathtaking thriller, Avner Mandelmanâ€™s novel reveals Israelâ€™s double soul, its inherent paradoxes, and its taste for both art and violence. The riddle of the Debbaâ€”the myth, the play, and the novelâ€” is nothing less than the tangled riddle of Israel itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4282'),
(17239, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6226'),
(17240, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4171'),
(17241, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4426'),
(17242, 'Demon Hunts', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.  She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits.  Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protect..\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Murphy''s oddly fuzzy fifth mystery featuring half-Cherokee, half-Irish Seattle police detective Joanne Walker, the usually feisty urban shaman and her psychically gifted partner, Billy Holliday, confront the Seattle Slaughterer, a cannibalistic serial killer who might also be a banshee or a wendigo. Joanne''s beginning to appreciate her gifts of healing and Sight, as does her boss, Capt. Michael Morrison, but it''s the anniversary of her mother''s death, and she''s still grieving the loss of Coyote, her Navajo mentor and boyfriend. She''s delighted when Coyote suddenly returns, and less thrilled that the investigation requires her to travel into the eerie Lower and Middle World to save victims and confront the monster. Unfortunately, the romantic reunion with Coyote generates few sparks for this low-key installment, and the killer, who should be terrifying, comes off as a scenery-chewing conundrum.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil.\n  <strong>\n   Literally.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5940'),
(17243, 'The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6316'),
(17244, 'Der Spiegel 2011 38', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6122'),
(17245, 'Der Spiegel 2011 39', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6827'),
(17246, 'Der Spiegel 2011 40', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7205'),
(17247, 'Der Spiegel 2011 41', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10620'),
(17248, 'The Descent of Anansi', 'Larry Niven &amp; Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s the American Revolution all over again. But this time it''s a ragtag band of space colonists vs. the United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread--200 miles above the earth.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born in Los Angeles in 1952,\n  <strong>\n   Steven Barnes\n  </strong>\n  began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words.Â His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer.Â He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for\n  <em>\n   Black Belt Magazine\n  </em>\n  (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as theÂ host of the world''s longest-running science fiction radio show,Â _Hour 25_.Â Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania''s Serengeti plain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Larry Niven\n  </strong>\n  is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His_ Beowulf''s Children_, co-authored with Jeery Pournelle and Steven Barnes was a_ New York Times_ bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6292'),
(17249, 'Design &amp; Build Your Ideal Entertainment Center(BBS)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6089'),
(17250, 'Design Is - Spring 2011', 'Design Is Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2494'),
(17251, 'Design Patterns for Dummies', 'Steve Holzner Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a pattern here, and here''s how to use it!\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how the 23 leading design patterns can save you time and trouble\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever feel as if you''ve solved this programming problem before? You -- or someone -- probably did, and that''s why there''s a design pattern to help this time around. This book shows you how (and when) to use the famous patterns developed by the "Gang of Four," plus some new ones, all designed to make your programming life easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Simplify the programming process with design patterns\n <br />\n * Make the most of the Decorator, Factory, and Adapter patterns\n <br />\n * Identify which pattern applies\n <br />\n * Reduce the amount of code needed for a task\n <br />\n * Create your own patterns\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  There''s a pattern here, and here''s how to use it!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how the 23 leading design patterns can save you time and trouble\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever feel as if you''ve solved this programming problem before? You â€” or someone â€” probably did, and that''s why there''s a design pattern to help this time around. This book shows you how (and when) to use the famous patterns developed by the "Gang of Four," plus some new ones, all designed to make your programming life easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Simplify the programming process with design patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of the Decorator, Factory, and Adapter patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify which pattern applies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce the amount of code needed for a task\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own patterns\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1461'),
(17252, 'Desire', 'Jayne A. Krentz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The owner of the Isle of Desire after her father''s death, Lady Clare knows she must marry to protect her inheritance but nonetheless feels betrayed when her guardian chooses a fearsome knight, and not the poet she requested, to be her spouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4058'),
(17253, 'Desire 08-2011', 'Desire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3616'),
(17254, 'Destination Weddings for Dummies', 'Susan Breslow Sardone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to have a wonderful wedding away from home?\n <em>\n  Destination Weddings For Dummies\n </em>\n is your all-in-one guide to getting married out of town, giving you savvy tips on everything from making travel arrangements to hiring vendors to dressing the wedding party.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fron Vegas to the Vatican, this hands-on, practical resource helps you arrange a unique, unforgettable wedding anywhere in the world. Focusing on the various ways you can use the Internet in your planning,\n <em>\n  Destination Weddings For Dummies\n </em>\n is filled with Web tips, shortcuts, and URLs, as well as instructions for creating your own digital wedding planner. Youâ€™ll see how to establish a realistic wedding budget and get your friends and family on board. Then, youâ€™ll choose the perfect location; from Europe to the tropics to the open sea, weâ€™ve done the scouting for you! Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get married legally around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know who, when, and how to invite\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create your own destination wedding Web site and blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fit all the basics into your budgetâ€” from flowers and catering to the rings, photography, and music\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hire wedding pros from a distance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decide on your ceremonyâ€™s style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dress the bride, groom, and the wedding party\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate your plans to invited guests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compare wedding packages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save money on travel arrangements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test-drive your destination wedding site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize fun wedding activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle various wedding emergencies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If money is no object, you''ll also see how to host a blowout wedding and make a splash when you splurge. Whether itâ€™s a small, intimate ceremony in a Hawaiian garden or a large gathering on a yacht in the Mediterranean,\n <em>\n  Destination Weddings For Dummies\n </em>\n is all you need to get married anywhere you choose with ease and in style!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Great ideas and top locations from Europe to the tropics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Plan a unique budget-friendly wedding away\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to have a wonderful wedding away from home? This savvy guide helps you organize an out-of-town affair with flair, giving you tips on everything from making travel arrangements to hiring vendors to dressing the wedding party. You''ll also use the Internet wisely to plan and involve loved ones who can''t attend.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get married legally around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know who, when, and how to invite\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize wedding fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save money on travel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the Web to your advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(17255, 'Detox Diets for Dummies', 'Gerald Don Wootan D. O. M.ed. &amp; Matthew Brittain Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Detox Diets For Dummies\n </em>\n is your guide to making informed choices about cleansing your body and mind safely and conveniently\n</p>\n<p>\n Researchers have found that we ingest dangerous chemicals every day in our food, water, and the air we breathe.\n <em>\n  Detox Diets For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you understand the effects of these chemicals on your body and find safe, gentle methods to expel them from your system.\n</p>\n<p>\n This comprehensive guide provides clear, reliable information on the leading detox plans so you can accurately assess your own needs and select the best plan for your desired detox goal. A screening quiz helps you identify the program and plan that best suits your lifestyle and personal detox objectives.\n <em>\n  Detox Diets For Dummies\n </em>\n provides plenty of healthy recipes and exercises help clear your body of toxins without harmful or unpleasant side effects.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Helps you flush away harmful chemicals safely and easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals why some popular detox programs may cause more harm than good\n </li>\n <li>\n  Supplies a screening quiz to help you identify your personal detox needs and choose the right program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recommends programs for quitting smoking or drinking, fighting allergies, and losing weight, calming stress and anxiety, increasing your energy, and revitalizing your spirit.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes more than 35 recipes for safe cleansing of toxins and other harmful agents\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you are motivated by weight loss, disease prevention, metal purification, or physical revival-Read\n <em>\n  Detox Diets For Dummies\n </em>\n for a variety of detox programs that are all natural and fit every lifestyle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cleanse your body and mind â€” safely and naturally\n</p>\n<p>\n We live in an increasingly toxic world. Every day, we take toxins into our bodies through the food we eat, water we drink, and air we breathe. With the expert guidance of Detox Diets For Dummies, you''ll discover safe, natural methods to expel toxins from your system! Find simple suggestions for decreasing toxins in your body by changing the way you shop for food, cook, eat, and exercise.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to the bottom of natural detoxification â€” find out what toxins you''re exposed to, how they can harm you, and why detoxification is essential for good health\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eliminate common toxins â€” live a healthy, happy life by ridding your body of common toxins including natural and man-made chemicals, heavy metals, medications, insecticides, bacteria, viruses, and microbes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work toward a detoxified life â€” get started on a detoxification regimen and learn how to dodge toxic-filled foods in the grocery store and at restaurants\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enhance wellness through detoxification â€” discover how toxins affect your immune system, your energy levels, and other aspects of your health and how detoxification can keep you in top-notch shape\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintain healthy detoxification habits â€” learn how to eat for optimum health every day, buy quality supplements, tap into the benefits of sauna, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A quiz that helps you pinpoint your current toxicity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What detoxification can do for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best foods for a toxin-free pantry\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for buying high-quality supplements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for finding a doctor geared toward natural remedies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The importance of sweating out toxins with exercise or sauna\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to reach your ideal weight with a detox diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recipes for detox dieting success\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your body''s natural detox systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat foods that lower your toxic exposure and improve your health\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rid your body of toxins safely through diet and exercise\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prevent disease and strengthen immunity\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(17256, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4196'),
(17257, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4365'),
(17258, 'Devil May Care', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Vintage Bond. Thrilling'' The Times''Everything a thriller should be'' Front Row, Radio 4Bond is back. With a vengeance.M has summoned agent 007 to London. It''s the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate.The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner''s secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner''s cold-blooded plans for world domination.Only by playing Gorner''s twisted game can Bond stop him . . .''Warm-hearted, superbly crafted'' Sunday Express''Bond aficionados will be thrilled'' Metro''A page-turner'' Daily Mail\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6392'),
(17259, 'The Devil Stone', 'Beatrice Heron-Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4568');
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(17260, 'The Devil&#39;s Banker', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hailed as â€œthe John Grisham of Wall Streetâ€ by the New York Times, Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero yet: forensic accountant Adam Chapel--and paints a frightening scenario where terrorism is big business and money is the ultimate weapon of warâ€¦The explosion that shatters the smart Parisian apartment reverberates around the globe. In an instant, a suspected terrorist is dead and half a million dollars has vanished. Within days, the CIA is certain it has found a connection between the dead man and a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Determined to avert another 9/11, they have assembled an elite counterterrorist task force, code name: Blood Money. Its mission: to follow the money trail. Its secret weapon: forensic accountant Adam Chapel. A man who trusts numbers more than people, Chapel has his own reasons for wanting to get the job done-- four of his colleagues were killed in the Paris blast. Now Chapel is thrust back into the line of fire when he teams up with British intelligence agent Sarah Churchill. The two are assigned to hunt down a shadowy mastermind who is moving vast sums of money from country to country, from bank to bank, leaving no tracks--as he prepares for an Armaggedon of his own devising. As Chapel follows a disappearing money trail from Paris to Munich to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Sarah uses her elite training to stalk the â€œshadowâ€ and his elusive network. Meanwhile, their quarry is auditing their every move, laying a twisting trail of false clues and shocking surprises. With the clock ticking down, soon Chapel and Sarah have only days, hours, minutes to avert disaster as a master terrorist plots to unleash the first strike in a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy--with an almost unimaginable goal. Hurtling us from the winding alleys of Pakistan to the elite banking houses of Europe, The Devilâ€™s Banker creates an adrenaline-fueled world where following the money has never been more dangerous, and evil has never been harder to unmask.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6130'),
(17261, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6402'),
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(17272, 'Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md &amp; Cait James Ms', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you or a family member has diabetes, food preparation may seem like a chore or a deprivation. What can you cook that tastes good and fits the diabetes guidelines? The authors of\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies\n </em>\n , diabetes expert Alan Rubin (who also wrote\n <em>\n  Diabetes for Dummies\n </em>\n ) and registered dietician Fran Stach, have come up with dishes that will please not just the person with diabetes but the whole family. The diabetes diet is healthy for all of us, and if we can make it taste good, we all benefit.\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where this book shines. The 112 recipes are as creative and tasty as they are healthy, yet most take a half hour or less of preparation (plus cooking time). Recipes include Soy Waffles, Crispy Corn French Toast, Portobello PatÃ©, Carrot Soup with Leek and Blood Orange, Mango Tortilla Salad, Oriental Beef and Noodle Salad, and Spaghetti Squash with Fresh Basil, plus a variety of fish, meat, and poultry entrÃ©es. Some of the recipes were created by chef Denise Sharf; others were contributed by gourmet restaurants. All recipes include nutritional information: calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and exchanges.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies\n </em>\n is more than a compilation of recipes. The book also gives guidelines for "what, when, and how much" to eat, including tips for visualizing portions (an ounce of meat is the size of a matchbox; an ounce of cheese is the size of a domino; a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse). You''ll get shopping and cooking tips and illustrated food-preparation steps to help novice cooks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like the whole For Dummies line, the style is simple, friendly, clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, such as, "Don''t go to a paint store and expect to get thinner there."\n <em>\n  -- Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to eat a well-balanced diabetic diet\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to create healthy meals that are diabetic friendly? This revised and updated third edition of\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how easy it can be to manage diabetes through diet, including the latest information on diabetes testing, monitoring, and maintenance, as well as delicious new recipes and nutritional information. This edition also includes a new section that focuses on vegetarian dishes and a new chapter on encouraging a Type 1 diabetic child to eat properly.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features changes in fat, carbohydrate and protein recommendations that parallel the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association regarding meal plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes new ideas about restaurant eating, including new menu items at fast food locations as well as revised tips on food shopping and setting up the diabetic kitchen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers 100+ new and revised diabetic recipes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with ways to involve children in meal planning and preparation,\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you improve your diet and your health!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(17273, 'Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md &amp; Chef Denise Sharf &amp; Alison G. Acerra Rd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you or a family member has diabetes, food preparation may seem like a chore or a deprivation. What can you cook that tastes good and fits the diabetes guidelines? The authors of\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies\n </em>\n , diabetes expert Alan Rubin (who also wrote\n <em>\n  Diabetes for Dummies\n </em>\n ) and registered dietician Fran Stach, have come up with dishes that will please not just the person with diabetes but the whole family. The diabetes diet is healthy for all of us, and if we can make it taste good, we all benefit.\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where this book shines. The 112 recipes are as creative and tasty as they are healthy, yet most take a half hour or less of preparation (plus cooking time). Recipes include Soy Waffles, Crispy Corn French Toast, Portobello PatÃ©, Carrot Soup with Leek and Blood Orange, Mango Tortilla Salad, Oriental Beef and Noodle Salad, and Spaghetti Squash with Fresh Basil, plus a variety of fish, meat, and poultry entrÃ©es. Some of the recipes were created by chef Denise Sharf; others were contributed by gourmet restaurants. All recipes include nutritional information: calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and exchanges.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies\n </em>\n is more than a compilation of recipes. The book also gives guidelines for "what, when, and how much" to eat, including tips for visualizing portions (an ounce of meat is the size of a matchbox; an ounce of cheese is the size of a domino; a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse). You''ll get shopping and cooking tips and illustrated food-preparation steps to help novice cooks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like the whole For Dummies line, the style is simple, friendly, clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, such as, "Don''t go to a paint store and expect to get thinner there."\n <em>\n  -- Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These recipes transform the typical diabetic diet from bland and blah to â€œMmmmmm!â€ and â€œAhhhhh!â€\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is extensively updated with more than 100 new recipes from great restaurants and great chefs. Youâ€™ll discover taste-tempting dishes like Blueberry Almond Pancakes, BBQ Chicken Potato Hash, Beer Braised Pork, Sweet Potato Biscuits, and Chocolate Almond Biscotti. Thereâ€™s loads of new information about diabetes and the role of diet in managing it, plus:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tips on how to fare well with restaurant or fast food fare\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coverage of ethnic foods, including African-American, Chinese, Italian, French, Indian, Thai, and Mexican\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on popular diets, including South Beach, Atkins, Ornish, and others\n </li>\n <li>\n  Nutrition information and diabetic exchanges for each recipe\n </li>\n <li>\n  A â€œvisualâ€ guide to portion sizes with comparisons youâ€™ll remember, such as a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on new artificial sweeteners, including Splenda\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for food shopping, including how to decipher confusing food labels and calculate exchanges\n </li>\n <li>\n  A Restaurant Travel Guide for 14 cities, including New York, Boston, Chocago, Dallas, Denver, and Nashville\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Alan Rubin, M.D. is one of the nationâ€™s leading authorities on diabetes. He wrote the bestselling\n <em>\n  Diabetes For Dummies,\n </em>\n 1st and 2nd editions, and the 1st edition of\n <em>\n  Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies.\n </em>\n While the cooking tips and great recipes will make you think heâ€™s a food guru, the doctor in him comes through. The book includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Updated recommendations for elderly diabetics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info especially for pregnant or postmenopausal diabetics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to promote healthy eating in children\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exercise adviceâ€”just 30 minutes a day protects against the complications of diabetes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With all this information and these recipes, youâ€™ll manage to eat very well while you manage your diabetes!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(17274, 'Diabetes for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Greeks and Romans knew about diabetes. Fortunately, the way they tested for the condition--by tasting the urine--has gone by the wayside."\n <em>\n  Diabetes for Dummies\n </em>\n has the friendly, quirky style you expect from all the For Dummies books, but this is no skim-the-surface Diabetes 101. Rubin has packed this book with useful information, peppered with warm advice for enjoying your life while living with diabetes. One of his points is that although you''d rather not have this disease, you''re lucky to have it now instead of a few decades ago, because today you can manage diabetes and live a productive, quality-filled life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book is divided into sections on "Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes," "How Diabetes Affects Your Body," "Managing Diabetes: The ''Thriving with Diabetes'' Lifestyle Plan," and "Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes." Each chapter is packed with facts and strategies on topics such as monitoring, battling complications, medications, diet, and exercise. If you skim, it''s an introduction to diabetes; if you read it carefully, it''s a textbook. Web surfers will appreciate the "Dr. W.W. Web" appendix, where Rubin lists many useful diabetes Web sites. (If you''d rather click than type, you can visit Rubin''s Web site, where he offers links to all the diabetes sites.) Also included is a mini-cookbook of multiethnic recipes from noted restaurants, mostly in San Francisco (with the restaurant address, in case you want to order instead of cook).\n <em>\n  --Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As one of the countryâ€™s leading endocrinologists, Alan Rubin could be expected to know a lot about diabetes. --\n <em>\n  Rick Mendosa, Diabetes Journalist, www.mendosa.com/diabetes.htm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n At last, a diabetes book for everyone. Dr. Rubin is superb at translating the issues of diabetes into plain English. --\n <em>\n  G. Robert Hampton, M.D., Retinal Specialist on the American Academy of Ophthalmologyâ€™s Public Information Committee, Syracuse, NY\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Diabetes For Dummies is a wonderfully written book and will become the companion book for all diabetics and their families. --\n <em>\n  Michael D. Goldfield, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with wit and wisdom, this book will teach you the Ten Commandments of Diabetes Care, which can help add life to your years...and years to your life. --\n <em>\n  Dr.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This lively and lucid guide will provide you the information you need to leap to the peaks of understanding diabetes. --\n <em>\n  June Biermann &amp; Barbara Toohey\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This lively and lucid tell-it-all guide will provide you with the information you need to leap from the depths of diabetes ignorance to the peaks of understanding. --\n <em>\n  June Biermann and Barbara Toohey, Founders and Editors-in-Chief of diabetes.com\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1466'),
(17275, 'diabetesforecast201109', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5988'),
(17276, 'Dial Me for Murder', 'Amanda Matetsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Crime reporter and mystery novelist Paige Turner is looking into the murder of a young secretary whose naked body was found in Central Park -with the understanding between herself and the police that Paige keeps her exclusive investigation off the record and out of the pages of Daring Detective.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4051'),
(17277, 'Diamonds and Dudes Magazine', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5895'),
(17278, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Diary\n  <br />\n  "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?"\n  <br />\n  Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦\n  <br />\n  Praise\n  <br />\n  "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer."\n  <br />\n  â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  â€œCAN YOU FEEL THIS?â€ Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality. Diary takes the form of a â€œcoma diaryâ€ kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, sheâ€™s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses heâ€™s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the wallsâ€”an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peterâ€™s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Mistyâ€™s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦ Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from Americaâ€™s favorite, most inventive nihilist. It is Chuck Palahniukâ€™s finest novel yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6188'),
(17279, 'Die Upon a Kiss', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4562'),
(17280, 'DIE ZEIT 41/2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10573'),
(17281, 'DIE ZEIT 42/2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10659'),
(17282, 'DIE ZEIT 43/2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10793'),
(17283, 'Diet &amp; Nutrition 07-2011', 'Diet &amp; Nutrition', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3084'),
(17284, 'Differential Equations for Dummies', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to understand and solve complex equations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many of the fundamental laws of physics, chemistry, biology, and economics can be formulated as differential equations. This plain-English guide explores the many applications of this mathematical tool and shows how differential equations can help us understand the world around us.\n <em>\n  Differential Equations For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect companion for a college differential equations course and is an ideal supplemental resource for other calculus classes as well as science and engineering courses. It offers step-by-step techniques, practical tips, numerous exercises, and clear, concise examples to help readers improve their differential equation-solving skills and boost their test scores.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Power your way through ordinary and singular points\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand differential equations through practical tips and examples\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do differential equations cause you distress? No worries! This friendly guide explains this intimidating subject in plain English, walking you step by step through all the key concepts â€” from linear and separable first order differential equations to higher order equations, power series, and Laplace transforms. You''ll find plenty of examples to increase your problem-solving skills and a variety of helpful definitions and explanations to conquer even the toughest differential equations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Classify differential equations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve with integrating factors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with coefficients\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use handy theorems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have fun with advanced techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply differential equations in real life\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(17285, 'Differential Equations Workbook for Dummies', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n Differential Equations Workbook for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Make sense of these difficult equations\n</p>\n<p>\n Improve your problem-solving skills\n</p>\n<p>\n Practice with clear, concise examples\n</p>\n<p>\n Score higher on standardized tests and exams\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven Holzner, PhD\n</p>\n<p>\n Author, Differential Equations For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the confidence and the skills you need to master differential equations!\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to know how to solve differential equations? This easy-to-follow, hands-on workbook helps you master the basic concepts and work through the types of problems you''ll encounter in your coursework. You get valuable exercises, problem-solving shortcuts, plenty of workspace, and step-by-step solutions to every equation. You''ll also memorize the most-common types of differential equations, see how to avoid common mistakes, get tips and tricks for advanced problems, improve your exam scores, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Workbook Way\n</p>\n<p>\n Quick refresher explanations\n</p>\n<p>\n Step-by-step procedures\n</p>\n<p>\n Hands-on practice exercises\n</p>\n<p>\n Ample workspace to work out problems\n</p>\n<p>\n Tear-out Cheat Sheet\n</p>\n<p>\n A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n Go to Dummies.comÂ®for videos, step-by-step photos, how-to articles, or to shop the store!\n</p>\n<p>\n More than 100 problems!\n</p>\n<p>\n Detailed, fully worked-out solutions to problems\n</p>\n<p>\n The inside scoop on first, second, and higher order differential equations\n</p>\n<p>\n A wealth of advanced techniques, including power series\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steven Holzner, PhD, served on the faculty of Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.? He is an award-winning author who has written Physics For Dummies, Quantum Physics For Dummies, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1468'),
(17286, 'A Difficult Problem', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4013'),
(17287, 'Digital Art Photography for Dummies', 'Matthew Bamberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "there is a lot of content packed into 370 pagesâ€¦served up in a friendly mannerâ€¦" (_Amateur Photographer_, September 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist/photo artist Bamberg provides a thorough overview not only of digital photography but also of photography in general. In Part 1, he offers solid, practical advice on defining one''s audience and personal approach to photography and discusses the process of making photographs, various compositional elements (e.g., color, light and shadow, perspective), and the transition to digital photography. Part 2 contains wide-ranging tips about photographing outdoors and indoors, photographing people and animals, and taking color, black-and-white, and night shots. Part 3 deals with the use of PhotoShop; Part 4 is about managing digital files, printing photographs, and matting and framing one''s work. In Part 5, and in a bonus section titled "On the Web," Bamberg imparts additional tips that address everything from photographing on a cloudy day to enhancing one''s photographs with text. The book includes a useful index for locating specific information and is illustrated with more than 300 full-color photographs. Bamberg has written a remarkably clear and comprehensive overview of digital photography; recommended for all libraries, especially for public libraries where there is interest in amateur photography.\n <br />\n â€”Raymond Bial, First Light Photography, Urbana, IL (_Library Journal_, April 1, 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So youâ€™ve made the jump to digital photography and youâ€™re having a ball with your new camera, right? Now, youâ€™re wondering just what it would take to make your photos a little more than just snapshots. Well,\n <em>\n  Digital Art Photography For Dummies\n </em>\n is a great place to find out!\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll not only discover great new ideas, youâ€™ll see the effects in full color. This book will help you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get fabulous, well-exposed photos, no matter what your shooting conditions may be\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something a lot better than what you started with, or maybe something entirely new\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce gallery-worthy art prints that people are willing to pay for\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out if itâ€™s time to upgrade your computer to handle graphics work\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Sound like fun? This plain-English guide makes it easy, too! Youâ€™ll find out just what makes a picture artistic, how to plan and set up a good photo shoot, what kinds of tools are available in Photoshop to help you enhance or even completely revamp an image, and how to be sure that what comes out of your printer meets all your expectations. Â  Best of all, this book is jam-packed with full-color images that show you just what you can produce. Youâ€™ll find out how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select the right digital equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shoot in color, black-and-white, and at night\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose subject matter that fits your style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and use your cameraâ€™s settings to get the best shots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Photograph landscapes, people, action, and just about anything else\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create special effects in Photoshop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve the quality of your photos or turn them into true works of art\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mat and frame your work for maximum effect\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re comfortable with your digital camera but want to find out more about creating cool effects in Photoshop, you can jump directly to Part III and discover tips and techniques that turn ordinary pictures into extraordinary art. Or maybe youâ€™ve been trying to get better nighttime photos. Part II is all about setting up your equipment and getting the perfect shot. Like all\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books,\n <em>\n  Digital Art Photography For Dummies\n </em>\n is designed so you can go directly to the part that most interests you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™ve been thinking of selling your work or you just want to create a knock-their-socks-off family gallery that your relatives can view online, this book shows you how to take your photography hobby to the next level. Even if you just want to look at the pictures for inspiration, you canâ€™t go wrong!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1469'),
(17288, 'Digital Camera World - October 2011', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6097'),
(17289, 'Digital Camera World 02-2010.pdf', 'Digital Camera World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(17290, 'Digital Camera World 09-2011', 'Digital Camera World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3642'),
(17291, 'Digital Camera World 19-09-2011', 'Digital Camera World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6416'),
(17292, 'Digital Camera World 20-10-2011', 'Digital Camera World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10804'),
(17293, 'Digital Foto Nr. 1 2011', 'Digital Foto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(17294, 'Digital Foto Nr. 2 2011', 'Digital Foto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(17295, 'Digital Foto Nr. 3 2011', 'Digital Foto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(17296, 'Digital Foto Nr. 4 2011', 'Digital Foto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(17297, 'Digital Foto Nr. 5 2011', 'Digital Foto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(17298, 'Digital Nature Photography', 'J. Gerlach, B. Gerlach (Focal, 2007) BBS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7207'),
(17299, 'DIGITAL NEGATIVES', 'Ron Reeder &amp; Brad Hinkel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10651'),
(17300, 'Digital Painting in Photoshop', 'Susan Ruddick Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(17301, 'Digital Photo 06-2011', 'Digital Photo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(17302, 'Digital Photo 22-10-2011', 'Digital Photo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10928'),
(17303, 'Digital Photo Projects for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Digital Photo Projects For Dummies\n </em>\n presents a unique twist on understanding the basics of digital photography. This full-color book walks you through the most common projects and tasks youâ€™ll encounter in your digital photography activities. The book demonstrates the basics of setting your camera for the best shot before diving into how to improve your photos. Projects include brightening a dark photo, improving focus, getting rid of red-eye, touching up blemishes, creating a collage, adding a photo to a business card, rescuing old or damaged photos, and turning a photo into a piece of artwork ready for framing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book includes a DVD that contains "screencast" lessons created by the author that let you watch the specific steps of selected projects on your screen while you do them yourself. The DVD also includes trial versions of photo software as well as sample images from the book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Complete all projects with Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout on DVD!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Software and video make this your complete kit for enhancing digital photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you have digital photos stored on your camera and no idea what to do with them? This package provides the tools needed to turn photos into fun projects. The book shows how to take great shots and transform them into cool photo creations. The DVD features video training to help you understand photo editing along with the software you need to complete the projects.\n</p>\n<p>\n Julie Adair King is the bestselling author of five editions of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as the recently published Digital Photography Before &amp; After Makeovers. She is a speaker at digital photography seminars around the country.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix common digital photo flaws\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combine pictures into a collage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enhance focus, color, and exposure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Restore treasured family photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spice up photos with text and special effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All this on the Bonus DVD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Over two hours of video training\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All the sample photos that appear in the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Trial Versions of the software\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n See DVD appendix for system requirements\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1470'),
(17304, 'Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a no nonsense introduction...Everything you''ll need to know to get started is there...A very informative book." (Digital SLR Photography, May 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here''s what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right camera and software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compose and shoot great pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scan old prints and repair them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print your photos or share them online\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(17305, 'Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a no nonsense introduction...Everything you''ll need to know to get started is there...A very informative book." (Digital SLR Photography, May 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An 816-page All-in-One guide designed for both beginning and experienced digital photographers, offering seven minibooks on everything from buying a camera and choosing the right equipment to editing with high-end tools and restoring photos digitally\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes chapters on basics such as point-and-shoot photography, with later chapters exploring editing, printing, and shooting portraits or high-speed action\n </li>\n <li>\n  This new edition covers the latest technology changes in digital photography, including Photoshop 7, new low-priced SLR cameras, updated storage and output options with DVD technology, and how each of these changes affects photography techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  David Busch is the author of more than fifty technology books, most covering digital photography, image editing, and digital restoration\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1473'),
(17306, 'Digital Photography All-In-One for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a no nonsense introduction...Everything you''ll need to know to get started is there...A very informative book." (Digital SLR Photography, May 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s easy to get started in digital photography and take great photos with\n <em>\n  Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies! Â \n </em>\n This fourth edition helps you choose the right camera, compose and capture great photos, load them onto your computer, enhance them with Photoshop, and share them online or as prints. Hereâ€™s how to compare digital camera features, choose accessories, and explore digital SLRs; get great close-ups, sports and action shots, and portraits; and use image editors including Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, PhotoImpact, and Adobeâ€™s popular Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Compose pictures that communicate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of macro photography\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get great candid photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create the right lighting and use cool lighting gadgets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Take advantage of six cool improvements in digital SLRs\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Follow great ideas for getting your photos published\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take great shots in a wide range of situations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to repair and restore treasured heirloom photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your images into greeting cards, T-shirts, online albums, or prints\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll quickly find what you need in one of the seven minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Your Digital Studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Digital SLRs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking Great Pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Basics of Image Editing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing with Photoshop/Photoshop Elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restoring Old Photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Printing and Sharing Digital Images\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n gets you up to speed on digital cameras and all the tricks, so you can truly enjoy your digital photography experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(17307, 'The Digital Photography Book', 'Scott Kelby Volume 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3884'),
(17308, 'The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3', 'Scott Kelby Volume 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3886'),
(17309, 'Digital Photography for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King &amp; Serge Timacheff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''re comfortable with the concept of photography but find the digital part a stumbling block,\n <em>\n  Digital Photography for Dummies\n </em>\n will get you over the hump.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Julie Adair King, a photographer and graphics-software specialist, deftly explains such concepts as resolution, f-stop, and compression. She is also refreshingly upfront about the differences between film-based and digital photography, spelling out the latter''s shortcomings early on. Her advice on all aspects of the field is well thought out and simple without being condescending. She informs readers, for example, that you needn''t use high-pixel resolutions simply for placing images on a Web page. Such tips will come as a relief to fledgling photographers on a budget, or novices who may have thought they had to use the highest-quality settings at all times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aside from the technical concerns of working with the camera and computer, King also gives sound tips on composition and lighting. And since retouching is one of the principal benefits of digital photography, she spends a fair amount of time discussing photo-editing software. And while most of the examples are in black and white, the most important examples, gratefully, are included in a 16-page color plate section in the middle of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n For those of you considering jumping into the world of digital photography, you''ll be hard-pressed to find a better guide to getting started than\n <em>\n  Digital Photography for Dummies\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --John Frederick Moore\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...gives you an introduction to the world of photography whether you are a beginner or an experienced photographer..." (_Lingerie Buyer_, February 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...covers the essentials of digital imaging technology that a first time digital photographer needs to know..." (The CBL Source, October/November 2002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(17310, 'Digital Photography for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Isnâ€™t that digital camera so cool? There must be a hundred things it will do that you havenâ€™t really figured out yet, right? For that matter, just getting the hang of all the features you DO know about may be keeping you busy. With your digital camera, you can  See immediately whether you got the shot you wanted Take dozens of photos to be sure you get what you want, and just delete the ones you donâ€™t like Edit and enhance your pictures on your computer E-mail images to friends, post them on the Web, make prints, or create photo gifts   The more you know about your digital camera and about digital photography, the more youâ€™ll enjoy taking pictures and the better your pictures will be. Of course, the best way to see examples of good photographic techniques is in full color, and Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition gives you exactly that â€” plenty of beautiful, colorful photos that show you what you can accomplish and start the ideas popping.  With a digital camera, a computer, and some photo-editing software, you can explore unlimited creative opportunities. You donâ€™t have to be a computer whiz or a professional photographer, either. Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition helps you get the hang of  Choosing the right camera, software, and accessories for what you want to do Editing your images with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Using your cameraâ€™s settings, composing great pictures, managing exposure and lighting, and working with automatic modes Getting your images out of the camera and onto your computer, organizing them, and sharing them online or in print Doing cool things with your pictures, like sharpening focus, covering flaws, adding people from other photos, and jazzing up your images with special effects   Written by Julie Adair King, a photographer who has penned several other books on the subject, colorful Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition can help you take better digital photos, do more with them, and have a lot more fun with your camera. Youâ€™ll get the picture!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(17311, 'Digital Photography for Seniors for Dummies', 'Mark Justice Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...offers clear advice on everything from how to choose a camera to putting shots online...perfect for its intended readership." (Digital SLR Photography, July 2009) "...good value as it is a good starter book which will give a good basic understanding of many of the issues involved in digital photography" (GadgetSpeak.com, June 19th 2009) "...no-nonsense guide is filled with everything a beginner needs to know about digital photography...informative and easy-to-interpret tome" (Digital Photographer, October 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take the mystery out of digital photography and join the fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t need to be a professional photographer or a technology expert to take great digital photos! This down-to-basics guide makes it easy to choose the right camera, understand all its dials and controls, take good pictures, make them look even better with your computer, and print them or share them online for friends and family to enjoy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do your homework â€” compare camera features to choose those you need at the price you can afford\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice, practice, practice â€” learn to use camera settings, how to compose good shots, and how light affects a picture\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The darkroom is now digital â€” use free software to organize and edit your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn to share â€” print your pictures at home or through a service, e-mail them to friends, set up an online photo album, or show them off in a digital picture frame\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to pick the camera that best fits your budget and needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for taking great travel photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accessories you might want for your camera\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get really good pictures of kids and pets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to get photos from your camera to your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips and tricks for editing pictures on a computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Good reasons for putting your pictures online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1476');
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(17312, 'Digital Photography Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Love taking pictures with your digital camera? Want to improve your skills, but donâ€™t have a lot of time to spend? How about some straight-to-the-point tips that cut to the chase and show you step by step how to accomplish a task? If that sounds like just what you had in mind,\n <em>\n  Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is exactly what you need.\n</p>\n<p>\n This handy, full-color guide breaks down the most important tasks into simple two-page, illustrated instructions. You choose what you want to do, flip to the right page, follow the instructions, and voilÃ ! A new skill is yours!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n covers important tasks from choosing a camera to printing your photos or turning them into slideshows or galleries. Youâ€™ll be able to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select and use various lenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of your meters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use tripods, screens, and scrims when shooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with depth of field\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shoot and process Camera Raw images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download and organize your pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and use color profiles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit in the â€œquick fixâ€ mode\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restore a vintage photo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an online photo gallery, greeting cards, calendars, or CD jackets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n More than 170 digital photography tasks are presented in this easy-to-use, full-color reference. Grab a copy and find out how much more fun you can have with your digital camera!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Step by step to shooting, sprucing up and sharing great photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get That Group Shot\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the best location and try props or natural elements such as trees to arrange people.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Try a variety of poses. Have some sit and others stand. Stagger people in front and behind.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Having people get close, tilting their heads toward each other, and even touching one another often makes the shot more intimate and engaging.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For really large groups, moving higher and shooting down on them enables more people to squeeze into the frame.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When a group is engaged in an activity, bring elements of it into the shot to add context.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use humor to get people to smile naturally. It''s the next best thing to spontaneity.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right camera\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Light your subject\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capture portraits and landscapes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Download and organize your images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix skin tones and color casts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an online photo gallery\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(17313, 'Digital Photos, Movies, &amp; Music GigabookFor Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers &amp; Tony Bove &amp; David D. Busch &amp; Martin Doucette &amp; David Kushner &amp; Andy Rathbone &amp; Cheryl Rhodes &amp; Todd Staufer &amp; Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introducing the most complete digital media reference available-more than 900 pages of fun and easy instructions and tips on digital photography, digital video, digital music, and CD and DVD recording\n </li>\n <li>\n  At under $35, this value-priced book is the only single-volume digital media reference that covers such topics as choosing a digital camera, taking great pictures, and editing digital pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers printing and sharing pictures, selecting a camcorder, capturing good film footage, and importing video clips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides coverage of editing videos, buying music online, using playlists, syncing an iPod or MP3 player, and burning CDs and DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes exclusive Dummies Man reusable peel-and-stick reference tabs that readers can use to mark their favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dive into this GigaReference and build your digital media skills!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Broad assortment of topics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy tabs to mark favorite spots\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Special "Check It Out" features\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This guide to digital media is our biggest ever, and your best buy!\n</p>\n<p>\n In this brave new digital world, you need all the information you can get. Hereâ€™s a wealth of wisdom about all aspects of digital photography, music, and moviesâ€“what hardware and software to buy, how to use it, how to squeeze peak performance from it every time, and how to preserve the results for posterity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t worry about losing your place in this supersized reference; mark those helpful instructions with one of the handy tabs youâ€™ll find in the front of the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1478'),
(17314, 'Digital Portrait Photography for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A full-color guide to the art of digital portrait photography\n</p>\n<p>\n Portrait photography entails taking posed photographs of individuals or set scenery and is the most common photo style among the most novice photography hobbyist to the most advanced photographer. With this easy-to-understand guide, bestselling author and professional photographer Doug Sahlin walks you through the best techniques for getting professional-quality digital portraits.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with hundreds of full-color photos and screen shots, this book discusses best practices for taking formal portraits, wedding photos, event photos, casual photos, and more. You''ll examine the difference between using the built-in flash and natural lighting and take a look at the benefits of upgrading to a photo lighting kit and pro backdrop.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Portrait photography is the most popular style of photography\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features helpful information for everyone from beginner hobbyists to advanced photographers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares insider tips for selecting equipment and choosing from the various tools for portrait photography\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through working with a wide range of subjects, including children, pets, and wildlife\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses lighting and editing images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Takes a look at ways to create a portrait that is suitable for framing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Make sure your subjects are ready for their close ups with this fun and friendly guide to digital portrait photography.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn professional techniques for shooting great portraits of kids, pets, and family groups\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Done right, a good portrait captures much more than what someone looks like; it also reveals a bit of his or her life and personality. This guide shows you how to make that happen, with advice on equipment and lighting, tips for working with various subjects, information on how to choose the best camera settings for portraits, and instructions for fine-tuning your images on your computer.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right equipment â€” find out what to look for in the ideal camera, lenses, filters, and lighting sources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See your subject â€” sharpen your observation skills by paying close attention to your surroundings and the people near you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Location, location â€” place your subject in natural surroundings that say something about the person\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet challenges â€” discover the secrets of photographing babies, young children, and pets, especially cats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make them even better â€” enhance the effects you''ve created with appropriate cropping, sizing, and retouching\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important details about composition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with props\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Various lighting approaches and the results they achieve\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for taking advantage of your surroundings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What differentiates a portrait from a snapshot\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use focal length and aperture\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten top editing tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What a histogram is and how to use one\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(17315, 'Digital Scrapbooking for Dummies', 'Jeanne Wines-reed &amp; Joan Wines', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get creative with graphic elements\n</p>\n<p>\n Tackle photo techniques at any level\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to preserve your memories digitally? This interactive reference explains the basics of this fast, versatile new hobby, giving you the lowdown on the equipment and programs you need to create beautiful pages. You also get expert tips on digital photography, graphic design, scanning, journaling, filters, and fonts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a digital layout from scratch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the best software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use popular scrapbook styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Digitize traditional photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the kids involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share your scrapbook online\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get creative with graphic elements\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tackle photo techniques at any level\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to preserve your memories digitally? This interactive reference explains the basics of this fast, versatile new hobby, giving you the lowdown on the equipment and programs you need to create beautiful pages. You also get expert tips on digital photography, graphic design, scanning, journaling, filters, and fonts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a digital layout from scratch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the best software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use popular scrapbook styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Digitize traditional photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the kids involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share your scrapbook online\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(17316, 'Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...simple to understand" (_Which Digital Camera,_ October 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Understanding exactly how a digital SLR (dSLR) works can help you use its exciting capabilities to their fullest potential. Whether you aim to become a serious photo hobbyist, are interested in turning pro, or want to take advantage of the improved control that dSLRs give you over your photography, this fun and friendly reference will show you how to maximize everything a dSLR has to offer so that you can improve your photography skills, increase your picture-taking and image-editing knowledge, and ultimately, take better photos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with just the right balance of technology and techniques in mind, this guide provides you with the know-how on everything from getting acquainted with the basic key features of the technology (lenses, sensors and image processors, and exposure and focusing systems) to the nuances of various dSLR techniques (setting up speedy continuous-shooting burst modes to capture fast action, applying selective and sharp focus, and shooting under the lowest levels of light). Other topics explored include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Composing your shots with an accurate viewfinder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deciding how many pixels your camera needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cleaning the sensor yourself\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing between a tripod or monopod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjusting exposure and improving shutter speed\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating time-lapse sequences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fixing murky or contrasting photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With so much subject area covered,\n <em>\n  Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n not only introduces you to the fundamentals of great picture-taking with a dSLR, but goes beyond the basics. Some of the more advanced topics discussed include working with the various formats of digital photos, minimizing shutter lag and first-shot delays, and fixing up your pictures with various image-editing programs. This is just the book you need to progress from getting started with a dSLR to actually improving your dSLR photography!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1481'),
(17317, 'Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is split into clear sections and interspersed with photographs and bullet points, which along with the friendly language makes it an enjoyable readâ€¦â€ (_What Digital Camera?_ 1st March 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you own a Digital SLR camera or are thinking of buying one, with this guide, youâ€™ll give it your best shot! It has info to help you choose the right camera and accessories, and then use them right.\n <em>\n  Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography For Dummies\n </em>\n covers the hardware, the software, and the techniques you need to take top-notch digital photos with your dSLR. This guide will get you clicking with information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The advantages of a dSLR camera: more control over what portions of your images are in sharp focus; a more accurate viewfinder; lower levels of the annoying grain effect called noise; ability to capture the most fleeting action; more control over depth-of-field; ability to review your image immediately, upload the photo to your computer, make adjustments, and print a full-color print in minutes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing the accessories that will take your dSLR to the next level, depending on the type of photography you do and your current and future needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Megapixels, and matching pixels to print sizes and printers\n </li>\n <li>\n  The components of a dSLR: lens; viewing system, aperture, shutter, light-sensitive component; medium for storing the captured image\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accessorizing your dSLR with memory cards, filter add-ons (infrared, polarizers, neutral density, and special effects), electronic flash, tripods, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Once you get your hands on a dSLR camera (literally), this reference helps you use its features and controls to take great pictures. Complete with more than 300 color photos, lots of tables, and clear, step-by-step instructions for various situations, subjects, and calculations,\n <em>\n  Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you refine your techniques with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting the exposure right with the histogram, the metering system, or Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, or Manual Exposure modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Achieving the right focus with manual focus or autofocus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The scoop on lensesâ€”prime, zoom, and specialâ€”and using them appropriately and creatively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use interchangeable lenses, set up speedy continuous-shooting burst modes, apply selective focus, and shoot under the lowest light levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special features of dSLR to reduce noise, cancel camera shake, do time-lapse photography, and shoot infrared photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with the RAW format, JPEG, or both\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking action, flash, or sequence photos or freezing the action\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Composition basics, including the Rule of Thirds, tips for shooting portraits or group photos, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Using image editors to fix-up your photos (with cropping, tonal adjustments, color correction, spot removal, sharpening/blurring, and more), with step-by-step instructions for using Photoshop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compositing images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choosing your printer and evaluating your output options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography For Dummies,\n </em>\n you wonâ€™t only get the how-to for various types of shots, youâ€™ll see the results with great color photos. In no time, youâ€™ll be taking great photos of your own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1482'),
(17318, 'Digital SLR Cameras &amp; Photography for Dummies', 'David D. Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦the ideal guide for beginner DSLR camera users, with full-colour examples of what you can achieve.'' (At Home, May 2011).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ideal guide for beginning DSLR camera users, with full-color examples of what you can achieve\n</p>\n<p>\n Make the most of your Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, or Olympus digital SLR camera! This guide explains the different lenses, the many settings and how to use them, the results you can get from using different controls, how to use lighting and exposure, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you haven''t purchased your camera yet, you''ll also find tips on choosing a camera and accessories. And you''ll find out how to make your pictures even better with Photoshop.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Updated for all the newest camera models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduces you to all the features common to DSLR cameras\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrated with more than 300 full-color photos and screen shots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares tips on composition, lighting and exposure controls, and file formats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains Adobe Photoshop and how to create fine prints from your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers advice on improving your photos and where to find help\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you''re new to digital SLR photography, here''s just what you need to have fun and success with your camera!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1483'),
(17319, 'Digital SLR Photography 08-2011', 'Digital SLR Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4339'),
(17320, 'Digital Video for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Â â€œâ€¦gets to the stuff you really want to knowâ€¦required reading.â€ (_Nothern Echo_, August 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So you have a camcorder and visions of being the next Spielberg. But how do you progress from shooting so-so footage to showing your own finished movie?\n <em>\n  Digital Video For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n gives you the know-how and the show-how! Find out how to shoot and edit great movies, using iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements to add the finishing touches like special effects and your own soundtrack. With the latest information and lots of illustrations and screen shots, this friendly guide walks you through:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting your computer ready to work with digital video (complete with information about FireWire)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing a camcorder, including features to look for and features that are useless\n </li>\n <li>\n  Digitizing old VHS videotapes to preserve memories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Purchasing other movie making gear, including audio and lighting equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shooting better video, with tips on lighting, panning, using the zoom, and recording better audio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating your own sound effects such as footsteps, bones breaking, fire, thunder, insects buzzing, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capturing digital video using iMovie, Windows Movie Marker, or Premiere Elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing, including understanding timecode, organizing and previewing clips, and assembling clips in Storyboard and Timeline\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding transitions, titles, and special effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Importing and integrating video from phones and digital cameras\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using audio rubberbands in iMovie, Premiere Elements, and other editing programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding narration, importing and working with CD audio, and adding a music soundtrack\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Keith Underdahl has extensive professional video production experience developing kiosk and marketing videos for Ages Software. Realizing that youâ€™ll want to polish and premiere your movie, he includes information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  More advanced video editing, including animating video clips, improving light and color, compositing video (bluescreen or greenscreen), and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  13 categories of video effects, ranging from blur and sharpen to transform\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with still photos and graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sharing your video online using QuickTime (/QT), RealMedia (.RM), or Windows Media Video (.WMV)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making tapes or burning DVDs in 9 steps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With a handy cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts, a chart comparing 10 video editing programs, a glossary, and more, with this guide youâ€™ll soon be saying â€œLights, camera, actionâ€ and producing your own movie attraction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1484'),
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(17323, 'Digital.Arts-September.2011-UK-Slicer.pdf 09-09-2011', 'Digital.Arts-September.2011-UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4731'),
(17324, 'Digital.SLR.Photography.11.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 14-10-2011', 'Digital.SLR.Photography.11.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10711'),
(17325, 'Digital.Video.2011-10S370.T.pdf 14-10-2011', 'Digital.Video.2011-10S370.T.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10703'),
(17326, 'Dinner Tonight', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10684'),
(17327, 'Dirk Pitt 1 - Pacific Vortex', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6248'),
(17328, 'Dirk Pitt 10 - Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6249'),
(17329, 'Dirk Pitt 11 - Sahara', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6250'),
(17330, 'Dirk Pitt 12 - Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6251'),
(17331, 'Dirk Pitt 13 - Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6252'),
(17332, 'Dirk Pitt 14 - Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6253'),
(17333, 'Dirk Pitt 15 - Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6254'),
(17334, 'Dirk Pitt 17 - Trojan Odyssey', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6255'),
(17335, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6256'),
(17336, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Valhalla Rising', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6257'),
(17337, 'Dirk Pitt 2 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6258'),
(17338, 'Dirk Pitt 4 - Raise The Titanic', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6260'),
(17339, 'Dirk Pitt 5 - Vixen 03', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6261'),
(17340, 'Dirk Pitt 6 - Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6126'),
(17341, 'Dirk Pitt 7 - Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6127'),
(17342, 'Dirk Pitt 8 - Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6128'),
(17343, 'Dirk Pitt 9 - Treasure', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6129'),
(17344, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant â€” you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.  But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.  Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie â€” exhausted from the birth â€” turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird...  People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it.  Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore â€” death and dying â€” and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moore spends a significant portion of his new novel speculating on the nature of the careful, cautious beta male, so it''s appropriate that Stevens, reading the novel, sounds like one himself, gently picking his way through the blackly comic tangles of the book''s dense plot. Charlie Asher''s life is thrown into chaos when his beloved wife unexpectedly dies, and while trying to recover a sense of balance, he finds himself suddenly surrounded by the dead and dying. Stevens''s voice is professional and assured, letting the jokes take care of themselves rather than pounding them into submission. Most importantly, Stevens''s average-guy voice stands in for Charlie''s own increasingly puzzled demeanor, besieged by a world which makes less and less sense, in which the realm of the dead grows ever larger.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s certainly original. Even the harshest critic can''t begrudge Christopher Moore his vivid imagination, satirical plots, and humor. Like a good sleight-of-hand artist, Moore builds up a huge reserve of goodwill to pull off his most demanding trick yet: laughing at death. The already-strained boundaries of his previous work (_Lamb, _an alternate history of Jesus''s life;\n  <em>\n   Bloodsucking Fiends\n  </em>\n  , a vampire love story; and\n  <em>\n   The Stupidest Angel\n  </em>\n  , concerning the resurrection of Santa Claus) stretch even further to produce this tale that critics praise for its "improbable humor" (_New York Times_) and courage in "embracing what we fear" (_Washington Post_).[HTML_REMOVED]\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6327'),
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(17354, 'Discover 10-2011', 'Discover', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3675'),
(17355, 'Discover 11-2010', 'Discover', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2550'),
(17356, 'Discover 12-2010', 'Discover', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2551'),
(17357, 'Discover USA - November 2011', 'November 2011 (US)-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6563'),
(17358, 'Discover-November.2011.US-Slicer.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Discover-November.2011.US-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6708'),
(17359, 'Discover.Magazine.December.2011.USA.pdf 19-10-2011', 'Discover.Magazine.December.2011.USA.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10791'),
(17360, 'The Disintegration Machine, and When the World Screamed', 'Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4223'),
(17361, 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dante''s version of Heaven, Hell, and what is in between. Eloquently written and stylistically pleasing, Dante''s The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest epic poems ever written. In this volume, Dante describes PURGATORY.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(17362, 'Divorce for Dummies', 'John Ventura &amp; Mary Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great reference book...a comprehensive index of up-to-date social, legal and financial information of high relevance to mediators" (National Family Mediation Bulletin, January 2009) "...reads seamlessly and is well assisted by first-class presentational standards...it is a smashing book" (Family Law, March 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since Divorce For Dummies, 2nd Edition published in 2005, there have been considerable changes in collaborative divorces, common law marriages, same sex marriages, visitation, and even custody laws (from children to pets). Divorce For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes 25 percent new, revised, and refreshed material covering all of the above.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1485'),
(17363, 'Do-It-Yourself Websites for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Lots of good stuffâ€¦it will be read by many peopleâ€¦to see how they [their websites] can be improved." (_GadgetSpeak.com,_ Sunday 23rd March 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A step-by-step guide to creating your first Web site\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody''s building cool web sites, but how?\n <em>\n  Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , shows you how, with simple, step-by-step instruction that will build your confidence as you build your site.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn to plan your site and secure a domain name, how to use Dreamweaver for site construction, and how to test and publish your site. You''ll also learn about designing a blog, creating a podcast, adding Flash, and even how to make money with your Web site.\n <em>\n  Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy and fun!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perfect for those who''ve never attempted a Web site before, including small-business owners, the family historian, amateur genealogists, and travel buffs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains using Web site creation tools including Dreamweaver, Photoshop Elements, Flash, and WordPress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how Web pages work, how to plan and design your site, and what to look for in Web hosting services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers editing and creating Web graphics and text, how to customize a site for different purposes, testing, and publishing your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides information on blogs, podcasts, adding Flash, and making money from your site\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to create a Web site you''ll be proud of.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2159'),
(17364, 'The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4035'),
(17365, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4172'),
(17366, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4364'),
(17367, 'Dog Grooming for Dummies', 'Margaret H. Bonham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Handle grooming yourself to save money and bond with your dog\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Brush, bathe, and clip your dog like a pro!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether your dog is destined for a career in the show ring or a spot on the living room couch, good grooming is important. This friendly guide shows you how to develop a grooming routine that will keep your dog clean - and strengthen the bond between you. It includes detailed, step-by-step grooming instructions for all types of coats.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Train your dog for grooming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for nails, teeth, and ears\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use clippers and scissors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Groom specific types of coats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare a dog for the show ring\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Handle grooming yourself to save money and bond with your dog\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Brush, bathe, and clip your dog like a pro!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether your dog is destined for a career in the show ring or a spot on the living room couch, good grooming is important. This friendly guide shows you how to develop a grooming routine that will keep your dog clean â€” and strengthen the bond between you. It includes detailed, step-by-step grooming instructions for all types of coats.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Train your dog for grooming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for nails, teeth, and ears\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use clippers and scissors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Groom specific types of coats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare a dog for the show ring\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(17368, 'Dog Training for Dummies', 'Jack Volhard &amp; Joachim Volhard &amp; Wendy Volhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "this book will give you practical information on and understandable explanations of your dog''s behaviour and how to train him." Dogs Monthly August 2008\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n That innocent face. Those sad, puppy-dog eyes. Letâ€™s face it: puppies can make anyoneâ€™s heart melt. But without proper training, they can make even the most doting doggie moms and dadsâ€™ blood pressure soar. So before your new puppy has you jumping through hoops, stop and ask yourself, â€œJust who is the trainer here?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dog Training for Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , shows you how to select the right training method for your puppy or adult dog, based on his unique personality, to reach your desired goals. Whether you want to teach Spike to sit, or want to help Rover master retrieving, this book gives training for you\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n your dogâ€”to ensure a mutually respectful relationship with your four-legged family member.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your dogâ€™s mind\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize why positive reinforcement training is key\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master basic training\n </li>\n <li>\n  Survive the puppy period\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with doggie donâ€™ts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seek expert outside help\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With step-by-step instruction in basic commands, guidance on how to eliminate unwanted behavior, and tips for making training fun for you and your pooch,\n <em>\n  Dog Training for Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with all the latest techniques and resources you need to make your pal a Top Dog for life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(17369, 'Dog Tricks &amp; Agility for Dummies', 'Sarah Hodgson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to teach a dog new tricks\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dog Tricks &amp; Agility For Dummies\n </em>\n (previously titled\n <em>\n  Dog Tricks For Dummies\n </em>\n ) makes trick and agility training fun for both you and your dog. You will learn to teach simple tricks, like tail wagging or barking on command to more complex tricks like fetching keys, your dog''s dinner bowl, or the laundry. This hands-on guide provides the lowdown on the coolest dog tricks and offers expanded coverage on infusing the thrill of agility (whether for fun or competition) into your dog''s life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Push a cart or stroller, run an agility course, play Frisbee and fly ball, and put the toys away\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate all types of agility obstacles big and small, narrow and wide\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your dog for canine good citizen certification\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine if your dog can get involved in pet therapy and what''s involved (i.e. nursing homes, children''s centers, prisons, etc.)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your own agility obstacles at home and set up a course\n </li>\n <li>\n  Officially enter agility trials\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your hands-on guide to having fun with your dog!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to teach your dog the coolest tricks? This step-by-step guide uses positive reinforcement to help you easily train your four-legged friend. From simple to more complex tricks, you''ll learn to think like a dog for a more positive relationship. Plus, you''ll discover how to infuse the thrill of agility â€” for fun or competition â€” into your dog''s life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach simple tricks the positive way â€” from rolling over toretrieving, discover the encouraging approaches to trainingthat work best for you and your dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take it to the next level â€” teach tricks that will excite your dog such as singing on cue, balancing treats, and playing "action hero"\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Leap into agility training â€” teach your dog to make the jumps, go through tunnels, weave around poles, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A review of basic commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for clicker and target training\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advanced tricks your dog will love\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to agility obstacles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to troubleshoot agility moves\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   National agility competitive groups and organizations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Breed hobbies and events such as tracking, flyball, sledding, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping your dog fit and healthy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach your dog clever tricks and tasks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine your dog''s abilities and tailor activities accordingly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make training fun for you and your dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work in tandem with your dog to master agility commands and courses\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1490');
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(17370, 'Dogs All-In-One for Dummies', 'Eve Adamson &amp; Richard G. Beauchamp &amp; Margaret H. Bonham &amp; Stanley Coren &amp; Miriam Fields-babineau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The most essential information on dog ownership in one easy-to-navigate book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dogs All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n offers all dog lovers the latest information you need to choose, raise, and care for your furry best friend from puppyhood to its twilight years. From finding the right dog for your lifestyle and teaching your dog good manners to housetraining, grooming, and knowing when your pet is sick or needs medical attention, this fact-packed guide will serve as your essential dog bible.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features new information on dog showing, agility, going Green, and traveling with your pooch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes information from\n  <em>\n   Dogs For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Puppies For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Adopting a Pet For Dummies; Choosing a Dog For Dummies; Dog Grooming For Dummies; Dog Health &amp; Nutrition For Dummies; Dog Training For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Dog Tricks &amp; Agility For Dummies 2nd Edition; Housetraining For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Breeding Dogs For Dummies; Mixed Breeds For Dummies;\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Understanding Your Dog For Dummies\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thorough and timely,\n <em>\n  Dogs All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything from head to tail!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your comprehensive guide to choosing, raising, and living with your canine companion\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This hands-on guide gives you everything you need to choose, raise, and care for your furry friend from puppyhood to her twilight years. From finding the right dog for your lifestyle to housetraining, grooming, and knowing when your pet needs medical attention, this is the ultimate dog bible you''ll turn to again and again.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know (and find) your four-legged friend â€” choose the best fit for you, prepare your pad for its newest family member, and welcome home your new best friend\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish yourself as top dog â€” discover the power of positive attention and learn how to be the ideal pack leader\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Paws" to learn about dog health and nutrition â€” arm yourself with the latest information on food, vaccinations, common health problems, canine first aid, and when to visit the vet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the lead out â€” try a hand (and paw) at fun and creative activities for you and your pooch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go behind the scenes â€” understand what ancient breed traits lurk behind many dog behaviors, and use substitute activities to your advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compare and contrast â€” check out the history and characteristics of every breed recognized by the American Kennel Club â€” plus many popular mixed breeds\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you need to know before you bring a dog home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on adopting and rescuing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The scoop on nutrition, health, and vaccinations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to care for an aging dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to groom your dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for housetraining and teaching good behavior and tricks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Agility training and showing your dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Profiles of dog groups and a look at mixed breeds\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n 12 Book In 1\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adopting a Pet For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Breeding Dogs For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choosing a Dog For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog Grooming For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog Health &amp; Nutrition For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dogs For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog Training For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog Tricks &amp; Agility For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Housetraining For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mixed Breeds For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Puppies For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understanding Your Dog For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1491'),
(17371, 'Doing Business in China for Dummies', 'Robert Collins &amp; Carson Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Navigate China''s business culture and etiquette\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way to grow your business in China\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, friendly guide covers all the basics, from the nuts and bolts of Chinese business and bureaucracy to negotiating with your Chinese partners. You''ll also get the know-how you need to manage day to day, from travel tips and advice on converting money to getting past language barriers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Understand Chinese markets\n <br />\n * Develop a strong business plan\n <br />\n * Find the right employees\n <br />\n * Work with currency controls and the Chinese banking system\n <br />\n * Sell and source in China\n</p>\n<p>\n Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Icons and other navigational aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * Top ten lists\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Navigate China''s business culture and etiquette\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to grow your business in China\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, friendly guide covers all the basics, from the nuts and bolts of Chinese business and bureaucracy to negotiating with your Chinese partners. You''ll also get the know-how you need to manage day to day, from travel tips and advice on converting money to getting past language barriers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand Chinese markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a strong business plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the right employees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with currency controls and the Chinese banking system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sell and source in China\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Get in, get out" information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Icons and other navigational aids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tear-out cheat sheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top ten lists\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dash of humor and fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1492'),
(17372, 'The Doors of Perception', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4015'),
(17373, 'DotNetNuke for Dummies', 'Lorraine Young &amp; Philip Beadle &amp; Scott Willhite &amp; Chris Paterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you want to develop Web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you thereâ€™s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic Web sites just by using a Web browser.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  DotNetNuke For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly Web site. Youâ€™ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time. This plain-English guide lets you discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNuke\n </li>\n <li>\n  Change and customize portal settings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add and manage pages on your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your site look professional\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deliver contents with Text/HTML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add news feeds, online surveys, and banners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interact with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forums\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an e-business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize the look of your site with exciting components\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This book features cool new modules that will meet every Web siteâ€™s need, both commercial and personal. With\n <em>\n  DotNetNuke For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the World Wide Web!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get up to speed on DotNetNuke 4.4\n</p>\n<p>\n Get down to business and create a site your customers can use\n</p>\n<p>\n Power to the people who aren''t programmers! That''s what DotNetNuke is all about, and this book gets you plugged in. You''ll find out how you can create and manage a flexible, versatile Web site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use the convenient modules, build a community, and save some cash in the process.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install DotNetNuke\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Control access by using roles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use modules and skins\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enable users to add content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take advantage of open-source support\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Monitor your site''s statistics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1493'),
(17374, 'Double Jeopardy', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6204'),
(17375, 'download@superseeds.org Autosport', '30 June 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4716'),
(17376, 'Draft', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10672'),
(17377, 'Drawing Cartoons &amp; Comics for Dummies', 'Brian Fairrington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A unique reference for creating and marketing original cartoons and comics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n An original American art form, comics thrill millions of people across the globe. Combining step-by-step instruction with expert tips and advice,\n <em>\n  Drawing Cartoons &amp; Comics For Dummies\n </em>\n is a one-stop reference for creating and marketing original cartoons and comics. While many books tend to focus on specific characters or themes, this thorough guide focuses instead on helping aspiring artists master the basic building blocks of cartoons and comics, revealing step by step how to create everything from wisecracking bunnies to souped-up super villains. It also explores lettering and coloring, and offers expert marketing advice. The book''s color insert provides guidance on how to add color to cartoon creations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your real-world guide to creating and marketing original cartoons\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you love comics? Want to become a cartoonist? This practical, hands-on guide is packed with step-by-step instructions and plenty of tips for creating your own cartoons. From inanimate objects to animals to aliens, you can see how to breathe life into your characters and make your cartoons stand out. Plus, you discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master the basic building blocks â€” set up your workspace; start creating with pencil, ink, and pens; and fix mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the creative juices flowing â€” find inspiration and formulate your cartoon idea, gag, or concept, and make it work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create your characters â€” from their heads to their toes, give your characters personality and presence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble your comic strip â€” create an effective background, plan your layout, letter your cartoons, create drama, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fine-tune your work â€” discover the tools and techniques for digitally formatting your comics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of the different cartooning genres\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drawing techniques, such as shading and crosshatching\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An exploration of body, gender, species, and character types\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for developing a cast of characters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The lowdown on drawing editorial cartoons\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add color to your creations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten steps to a finished comic strip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints on breaking into the business\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1494'),
(17378, 'Dream Dictionary for Dummies', 'Penney Peirce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dreams! What do they mean? You probably recognize a connection between the dream world and the â€œrealâ€ world, but did you know that you can actually do things to nurture your dream life?\n <em>\n  Dream Dictionary For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and fascinating guide that shows you not only how to decode your dreams, but how to remember them and even how to make a dream work for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re already a prolific dreamer or are just peeking into the unknown, you''re sure to get results from the insights, techniques, and tips provided in this unique and transforming guide. An A-to-Z list of dream symbols and their meanings helps you make sense of your dreams and harness them to increase your creativity, solve problems, find life purpose, and obtain accurate personal guidance. And, just by reading the dictionary definitions, you''ll begin to understand symbology in a much deeper way_._ Youâ€™ll learn how to synchronize your body, emotions, mind, and soul to experience the full meaning of your dreams and, in some cases, make them your reality.Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recognize your dream cycles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your ability to remember your dreams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep and use a dream diary\n </li>\n <li>\n  Notice your waking dreams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncover hidden messages in your dreams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focus your dreams to solve problems or make decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Form a dream support group\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n So start dreaming and get back to reality with a little help from\n <em>\n  Dream Dictionary For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With an A-to-Z list of dream symbols and their meanings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open your dream door and find greater self-awareness, knowledge, and success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You probably recognize a connection between the dream world and the "real" world, but did you know you can actually do things to nurture your dream life? This fun and fascinating guide shows you not only how to decode your dreams, but how to remember them and even how to make a dream work for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize your dream cycles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Increase your ability toremember your dreams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep and use a dream diary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Notice your waking dreams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Focus your dreams to solve problems or make decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(17379, 'Dreams Of My Russian Summers', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an era when everything is an event, and nothing just happens naturally, it''s hard not to be suspicious of the a novel that is the first ever to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, by a Russian Ã©migrÃ© who has been compared to Nabokov, Pasternak, and Proust. Add in the fact, repeated in the novel, though apparently true, that after being turned away by French publishers, the author pretended to be only the translator of the novel, and that it was then published, and you''ve got a book that can''t possibly live up to the hype that precedes it.  Makine, who fled the Soviet Union in 1987 when he was thirty, tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a young man who, along with his sister, spends summers in Siberia with his French grandmother, Charlotte Lemonnier. Trapped there after the death of her Russian husband, Charlotte shares a world of memory with the children, memory of France prior to WWII. In the intensely paranoid world of Soviet Communism, Charlotte ''s very Frenchness is deeply suspicious to her neighbors and the authorities.  The boy grows up loving his grandmother and the idyllic world she summons, but torn between this Francophilia and a youngster''s need to conform and embrace his Russian side. In his mind, the Russian aspect of his character comes to represent a kind of barbarism and a capacity for brutality, while the French aspect represents a gauzy humanism and a love of beauty. It is this sense that shows him that it is right for the Soviets to fear their Frenchness:  I became aware of a disconcerting truth: to harbor this distant past within oneself, to let one''s soul live in this legendary Atlantis, was not guiltless. No, it was well and truly a challenge, a provocation in the eyes of those who lived in the present.  Here in the West, it is blithely assumed that humanism and the good reside exclusively in the souls of progressives. For Makine, and his narrator, precisely the opposite is true; in the East, at that time, it was necessary to look backwards to find values and a culture which exalted human being, while the progressives of the Soviet Union did all they could to extinguish them.  Memory is so personal that it''s not too surprising that Makine''s narrative sometimes seems overly diffuse and obscure. He lays on the Proust and Nabokov parallels a tad too heavily at times-a few less references to cork-lined rooms and moths wouldn''t hurt; we get the message. And I''m sufficiently Francophobic to find it amusing, rather than touching, that someone recalls France with such a golden glow. But the lyricism of the writing, some memorable images, and the way the story implicates the tragedy of 20th Century Russia earn the book a qualified recommendation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4078'),
(17380, 'Dreamweaver 8 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Sue Jenkins &amp; Michele E. Davis &amp; Jon A. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine minibooks, filling nearly 800 pages, take you beyond Dreamweaver basics, giving you the know-how and hands-on techniques necessary to create state-of-the-art Web sites. You''ll master Dreamweaver basics, such as laying out pages, adding content to pages, and working with code; develop Web applications and databases; make pages dynamic; and learn to use Dreamweaver with Contribute. Order your copy of this reference to the popular software application today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9 books in 1 â€” your key to Dreamweaver success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building and maintaining high-impact Web sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Dreamweaver is the top pick of Web designers looking for a powerful, cross-platform tool that produces professional Web sites. With this complete reference guide at your fingertips, you can start creating great-looking pages, toss in the bells and whistles, build Web applications, configure database connections, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and design your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with text, graphics, links, and layers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Cascading Style Sheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publish your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make dynamic pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design Web applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1496'),
(17381, 'Dreamweaver 8 for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever visited a knockout Web site and wondered, â€œHow did they do that?â€ Wonder no more. Odds are, they did it with Dreamweaver. Completely updated to give you the scoop on all the cool new tools in the latest version_, Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies_ will have you designing dynamite Web sites in no time. In fact, by Chapter 2 youâ€™ll dive right into setting up your Web site, creating your first Web page, and adding text images and links. This guide starts with basic Web page design features and progresses to the more advanced options for DHTML and database-driven sites, with step-by-step instructions for every function plus lots of screen shots. It walks you though:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A tour of the desktop, covering the toolbars, menu options, the Insert bar, the Document window, the Properties inspector, the Vertical Docking panels, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Popular features such as sophisticated template capabilities and Library items Tracing images, the Quick Tag Editor, Design Notes, and the History palette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the most of Dreamweaverâ€™s site management features, including a Testing Server, the Check IN/Out feature, integrated e-mail, Design Notes, Site Map Layout and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using HTML tables to create page layouts\n </li>\n <li>\n  14 different benefits of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how to capitalize on them\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies\n </em>\n includes tips to save you time\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n money so you can create a Web site that makes a big impression without spending big bucks. Whether youâ€™re a beginner who wants to get started or an experienced pro who wants to enhance your skillsâ€¦whether you want something simple like a site to promote a quaint bed &amp; breakfast or something wild to catapult your rock band to the big time, Dreamweaver gives you the tools and this guide helps you make the most of them. When youâ€™re ready to tackle more complex sites, it covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using Fireworks with Dreamweaver to automate your workflow, optimize graphics for Web use, and create sophisticated animations, fancy rollovers, and special effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Showing off with multimedia: creating Flash buttons and text; adding Flash movie files; working with sound and video files; getting familiar with Java and ActiveX control\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrating forms into dynamic, interactive sites and creating shopping cart systems, guest books, contact forms, search engines, chat rooms, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building a simple database-driven site\n </li>\n <li>\n  E-commerce basics\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With Dreamweaver, you donâ€™t have to be a techie to design and create a terrific Web site. So get this book and get started!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your site can look like a million â€” even on a budget!\n</p>\n<p>\n Use Dreamweaver''s cool new tools to design a site with interactivity and style\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re facing your first Web site challenge or taking an existing site to the next level, this book could be your dream come true. Here''s how to develop a powerful site that''s attractive, functional, and dynamic, and even weave in eye-popping effects with ShockwaveÂ® and FlashÂ®.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design pages and set up Web server access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create layers and tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Modify sites created in another program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add dynamic effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work faster with templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use CSS and DHTML\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1497'),
(17382, 'Dreamweaver CS3 for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with the latest Dreamweaver tips and techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed fast and start creating dynamite Web sites!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that''s easy to develop and maintain? Whether you''re a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver''s newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your site and create new pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with text, graphics, and links\n </li>\n <li>\n  Define and apply styles using CSS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add audio, video, and FlashÂ®Â files to your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Dreamweaver''s database features\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with the latest Dreamweaver tips and techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed fast and start creating dynamite Web sites!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that''s easy to develop and maintain? Whether you''re a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver''s newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up your site and create new pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with text, graphics, and links\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Define and apply styles using CSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add audio, video, and FlashÂ® files to your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Dreamweaver''sdatabase features\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1498'),
(17383, 'Dreamweaver CS4 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Sue Jenkins &amp; Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Web site designers, Web developers, and visual designers all use Dreamweaver CS4 to build world class Web sites. Whether youâ€™re just starting out or youâ€™re a design pro,\n <em>\n  DreamweaverCS4 All-In-One for Dummies\n </em>\n makes Web development easy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll start with Dreamweaver basics and the essentials of a good Web site. Then youâ€™ll learn to add zing with Spry effects, set up Contribute, build dynamic pages, extend your site with Web applications, configure database connections using PHP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion, and more! Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with Dreamweaverâ€™s workspace, use the toolbars and panels, and set preferences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan, design, build, and manage a site that meets your audienceâ€™s expectations Â \n </li>\n <li>\n  Add Flash files, movies, and sound, and keep your site updated with Cascading Style Sheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and use code snippets and history panel commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow the right steps for setting up links\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate interactive images to build visually appealing Web pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use layers with CSS, JavaScript behaviors, or FlashÂ® movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Review source formatting and clean up your code to avoid errors when publishing your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capture attention with dynamic content and forms\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver CS4 All-In-One for Dummies\n </em>\n is divided into nine minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting Started\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mastering the Basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working Like the Pros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Energizing Your Site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publishing Your Site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working Collaboratively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building Web Applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making Pages Dynamic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Developing Applications Rapidly\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Your one-stop Dreamweaver reference is\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver CS4 All-In-One for Dummies\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your one-stop Dreamweaver reference, filled with the latest tips and techniques\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Web site development or simply want to learn all the cool new stuff in Dreamweaver CS4, this book has what you need in one convenient package. It gets you going with Dreamweaver basics and the essentials of a good Web site, and then shows you how to add zing with Spry effects, set up Contribute, build dynamic pages, and more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the landscape â€” get familiar with the workspace, use the toolbars and panels, and set preferences\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wow them with your site â€” plan, design, build, and manage a site that meets your audience''s expectations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it shine â€” add FlashÂ® files, movies, and sound, and keep your site updated with Cascading Style Sheets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Snip, snip â€” create and use code snippets and history panel commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Layer it on â€” explore the versatility of layers and use them with CSS, JavaScriptÂ® behaviors, or Flash movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it clean â€” review source formatting and clean up your code to avoid errors when publishing your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go configure â€” extend your site with Web applications and configure database connections using PHP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusionÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dynamic data â€” make your site shine with dynamic content and forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide to planning and designing a site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of Web design workflow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to insert rollovers and interactive media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for setting up links\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Server Side Includes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why and how to make pages XHTML-compliant\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to collaborate through a Contribute site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool Web applications you can build\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1499'),
(17384, 'Dreamweaver CS4 for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie,\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on Dreamweaver. Youâ€™ll be able to create professional, great-looking, user-friendly websites in no time at all. Take advantage of the new, more customizable interface, improved integration with Flash and Photoshop, a handy new AJAX coding feature, and Live View, which lets you see your work as you create it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand Dreamweaver basics, set up your site and create new pages, and work with text, graphics, and links. You can manage, test, and publish a site, define and apply styles with CSS, coordinate your design work, add audio, video, and Flash files to your site, build a dynamic Web site, and use Dreamweaverâ€™s database features. Know how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design, build, and deploy professional-looking Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Dreamweaverâ€™s new, more versatile preset layouts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune styles with enhanced CSS support\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your pages cutting-edge with SmartObjects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of the new, more customizable interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand browser differences, make the most of CSS, build dynamic sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and optimize Web graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to maximize Cascading Style Sheets and Dreamweaverâ€™s Layers features for creating fluid layouts\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten resources, ten timesaving tips, and ten great Web sites designed in Dreamweaver,\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver CS4\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Dreamweaver.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s easier than ever to turn your Web design dreams into reality â€” discover how!\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie, here''s the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on Dreamweaver CS4. Soon you''ll be taking advantage of the new, more customizable interface, the improved integration with Flash and Photoshop, a handy new AJAX coding feature, Live View to let you see your work as it will actually appear, and a whole lot more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover Web design basics â€” understand browser differences, make the most of CSS, and use Dynamic Web templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shades of gray â€” see how the new gray interface makes it easier to work with the colors in your designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go graphic â€” create and optimize Web graphics using Dreamweaver''s close integration with PhotoshopÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cascading Style Sheets â€” learn to create beautiful layouts that are easily updated using Dreamweaver''s enhanced CSS features and templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Give it Flash â€” insert Flash files or link to audio and video files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the Spry Framework â€” include interactive features like drop-down menus and collapsible panels without writing code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Just add data â€” connect your site to a data source and create basic interactivity for sites such as online catalogs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize the workspace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for setting up links\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best formats for Web images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which new tools help you work with code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create rollover images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Key concepts of a dynamic Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Page layout tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage, test, and publish your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(17385, 'Dreamweaver CS5 for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A fully updated guide to the leading Web site creation tool, Dreamweaver CS5\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Dreamweaver holds 90 percent of the market share for professional Web site development software. This popular book, which has sold more than 300,000 copies in previous editions, is fully updated for the newest version of Dreamweaver. Both beginning and intermediate Web site developers will get the information they need from this easy-to-follow guide.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Dreamweaver is the gold standard for Web site development software; this book covers what both beginners and intermediate-level users need to know to develop sites for online commerce, education, customer service, and other uses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the basics, including customizing your workspace, setting up your site, creating pages, and publishing your site to the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to work with text, graphics, and links; managing and testing your site; defining and applying styles with CSS; creating CSS layouts; adding audio, video, and Flash files; exploring the Spry framework; building dynamic sites, connecting to a database, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Web site developers will find just what they need to get going and create effective, eye-catching Web sites with\n <em>\n  Dreamweaver CS5 For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed fast and start creating great Web sites!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a beginner or an experienced Web developer, you''ve come to the right place. With this handy guide you''ll go from designing your first page to putting your Web site online in no time. Web design expert Janine Warner walks you step-by-step through all the essential features of Dreamweaver CS5 and helps you launch the Web site you''ve always wanted.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the basics â€” gain a better understanding of the basic concepts of Web design and the main features of Dreamweaver\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start testing and publishing â€” test your site in different Web browsers, fix broken links, manage linked files, and get your site uploaded to the Web as soon as it''s ready\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with a team â€” use the Check In/Check Out feature to make it easier to manage a site when collaborating with a group\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save time with styles â€” dive into cascading style sheets to format content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Achieve more consistent designs â€” utilize sophisticated template capabilities to improve your site''s look and make global updates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your site to the next level â€” spice up your pages by integrating interactive images, video, and Flash\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the Spry Framework â€” include interactive features like drop-down menus and collapsible panels without writing code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extend Dreamweaver''s functionality â€” take advantage of new online tools to set up a shopping cart, add traffic tracking, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage, organize, test, and publish Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to work with text, graphics, and links\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design advice on what looks good and what to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for gaining control over design and layout with Dreamweaver''s CSS tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for including rollover images, pop-up windows, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for adding forms and multimedia\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage and update a site with Business Catalyst\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design and publish a Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop beautiful, accessible sites with CSS and XHTML\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add interactivity with drop-down menus and rollovers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Dreamweaver to create and edit templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1501'),
(17386, 'Drupal for Dummies', 'Lynn Beighley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to set up, manage, and administer a Drupal Web site\n</p>\n<p>\n Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed Web sites, but most Drupal books are written for expert developers.\n <em>\n  Drupal For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the fast, fun and easy way to get going with Drupal, set up a site, apply templates, use modules, and more, even if you have no programming experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Drupal For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to take advantage of everything in Drupal that is ready to use, demystifying what may appear to be a complex set of tools.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management system designed for content-managed Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to download Drupal, install the LAMP stack, and set up a site; no programming experience required\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and create your site''s content; apply templates, and get your first site up and running\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use modules and third-party templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow plain-English instructions for site management, including making changes across the site and managing user access and privileges\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Drupal For Dummies\n </em>\n is designed to help the non-programmer who simply wants to turbocharge a blog or is responsible for administering a content-managed site.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drop in and check out Drupal, the free, flexible framework for building and managing Web sites\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you''ve never built a Web site and the only thing you''ve programmed is your DVR, you really can set up a site with Drupal. This book shows you how to find and install the right version of Drupal, how to plan your site, and how to manage it. You can even beef it up with data from other sites, a storefront, an image gallery, and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start here â€” find the free software and get simple solutions on things like setting up a database and installing Drupal on a Web host\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Who''s in charge â€” manage an administrator account, establish rules, and control site users\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s on your site â€” create, manage, and edit your content, and decide whether to allow comments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where''s your region? â€” work with themes and regions and manage menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Open forum â€” create a site with a blog and forum and set up appropriate security\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay current â€” keep Drupal up to date, monitor activity on your site, and locate new modules and themes to use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cover your bases â€” maintain your database, back it up, and know how to restore it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Move up â€” see how Drupal can build a robust site that interacts with other sites and how to set up an online store\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Drupal is and what it''s not\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools you need to install Drupal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to decide on rules and settings for your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for telling your story quickly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on choosing, changing, and configuring themes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about modules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of good site security\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1502'),
(17387, 'Dungeon Master for Dummies', 'James Wyatt &amp; Bill Slavicsek &amp; Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a Dungeons &amp; Dragons fan, youâ€™ve surely thought of becoming a Dungeon Master. Learning to be a DM isnâ€™t as hard as you might think, especially if you have\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n </em>\n tucked into your bag of tricks!\n</p>\n<p>\n From organizing your first D&amp;D game to dealing with difficult players, this book covers everything a DM needs to know. Written for the newest edition of D&amp;D by the experts at Wizards of the Coast, creators of the game, it shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build challenging encounters, make reasonable rulings, and manage disagreements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize all the common codes, tables, and spells\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the parts of a D&amp;D adventure and how to create dungeon maps and craft monsters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shape storylines and write your own adventures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find your style as a DM and develop a game style that plays to your strengths\n </li>\n <li>\n  Script an encounter, vary the terrain and challenges, and establish rewards (experience points and treasure)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to use published adventures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use and follow the official\n  <em>\n   Dungeon Masterâ€™s Guide\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a campaign with exciting themes, memorable villains, and plots that keep players entranced\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re getting the urge to lead the charge in a D&amp;D game of your own,\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n </em>\n will introduce you to the DMâ€™s many jobs. With the information you need to start your own game, craft exciting stories, and set up epic adventures, youâ€™ll be on your way!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look inside scenes from\n  <em>\n   Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  (Click on images to enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™ve been a Dungeon Master (DM) before and want to fine-tune your skills or want to get ready and take the plunge, this is the book for you. It gives you the basics on running a great game, info for more advanced dungeon mastering, guidelines for creating adventures, and tips for building a campaign. It shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Handle all the expressions of DMing: moderator, narrator, a cast of thousands (the nonplayer characters or NPCs), player, social director, and creator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use published adventures and existing campaign worlds or create adventures and campaign worlds of your own\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjure up exciting combat encounters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle the three types of encounters: challenge, roleplaying, and combat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own adventure: The Dungeon Adventure, The Wilderness Adventure. The Event-Based adventure (including how to use flowcharts and timelines), The Randomly Generated Adventure, and the High-Level adventure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create memorable master villains, with nine archetypes ranging from agent provocateur to zealot\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To get you off to a fast start,\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A sample dungeon for practice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ten ready-to-use encounters and ten challenging traps\n </li>\n <li>\n  A list of simple adventure premises\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mapping tips, including common scales, symbols, and conventions, complete with tables\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Authors Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker wrote the hugely popular\n <em>\n  Dungeons and Dragons For Dummies\n </em>\n . Bill has been a game designer since 1986 and leads the D&amp;D creative team at Wizards of the Coast. Richard is a game developer and the author of the fantasy bestseller\n <em>\n  Condemnation\n </em>\n . They give you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using a DM binder to keep records such as an adventure log, PCsâ€™ character sheets, NPC logs/character sheets, treasure logs, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Knowing player styles (role players and power games) and common subgroups: hackâ€™nâ€™slasher, wargamer, thinker, impulsive adventurer, explorer, character actor, and watcher\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognizing your style: action movie director, storyteller, worldbuilder, puzzlemaker, or connector\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using miniatures, maps, and other game aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using 21st century technology, such as a Web site or blog, to enhance your game\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The book includes a sample adventure, The Necromancerâ€™s Apprentice, thatâ€™s the perfect way to foray into DMing. It includes everything you need for a great adventureâ€”except your players. What are you waiting for? There are chambers to be explored, dragons to be slain, maidens to be rescued, gangs of gnoll warriors to be annihilated, worgs to be wiped out, treasures to be discovered, worlds to be conqueredâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1503');
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(17388, 'Dungeon Master for Dummies', 'Bill Slavicsek &amp; Rich Baker &amp; Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a Dungeons &amp; Dragons fan, youâ€™ve surely thought of becoming a Dungeon Master. Learning to be a DM isnâ€™t as hard as you might think, especially if you have\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n </em>\n tucked into your bag of tricks!\n</p>\n<p>\n From organizing your first D&amp;D game to dealing with difficult players, this book covers everything a DM needs to know. Written for the newest edition of D&amp;D by the experts at Wizards of the Coast, creators of the game, it shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build challenging encounters, make reasonable rulings, and manage disagreements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize all the common codes, tables, and spells\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the parts of a D&amp;D adventure and how to create dungeon maps and craft monsters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shape storylines and write your own adventures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find your style as a DM and develop a game style that plays to your strengths\n </li>\n <li>\n  Script an encounter, vary the terrain and challenges, and establish rewards (experience points and treasure)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to use published adventures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use and follow the official\n  <em>\n   Dungeon Masterâ€™s Guide\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a campaign with exciting themes, memorable villains, and plots that keep players entranced\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re getting the urge to lead the charge in a D&amp;D game of your own,\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n </em>\n will introduce you to the DMâ€™s many jobs. With the information you need to start your own game, craft exciting stories, and set up epic adventures, youâ€™ll be on your way!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look inside scenes from\n  <em>\n   Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  (Click on images to enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™ve been a Dungeon Master (DM) before and want to fine-tune your skills or want to get ready and take the plunge, this is the book for you. It gives you the basics on running a great game, info for more advanced dungeon mastering, guidelines for creating adventures, and tips for building a campaign. It shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Handle all the expressions of DMing: moderator, narrator, a cast of thousands (the nonplayer characters or NPCs), player, social director, and creator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use published adventures and existing campaign worlds or create adventures and campaign worlds of your own\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjure up exciting combat encounters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle the three types of encounters: challenge, roleplaying, and combat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own adventure: The Dungeon Adventure, The Wilderness Adventure. The Event-Based adventure (including how to use flowcharts and timelines), The Randomly Generated Adventure, and the High-Level adventure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create memorable master villains, with nine archetypes ranging from agent provocateur to zealot\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To get you off to a fast start,\n <em>\n  Dungeon Master For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A sample dungeon for practice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ten ready-to-use encounters and ten challenging traps\n </li>\n <li>\n  A list of simple adventure premises\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mapping tips, including common scales, symbols, and conventions, complete with tables\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Authors Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker wrote the hugely popular\n <em>\n  Dungeons and Dragons For Dummies\n </em>\n . Bill has been a game designer since 1986 and leads the D&amp;D creative team at Wizards of the Coast. Richard is a game developer and the author of the fantasy bestseller\n <em>\n  Condemnation\n </em>\n . They give you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using a DM binder to keep records such as an adventure log, PCsâ€™ character sheets, NPC logs/character sheets, treasure logs, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Knowing player styles (role players and power games) and common subgroups: hackâ€™nâ€™slasher, wargamer, thinker, impulsive adventurer, explorer, character actor, and watcher\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognizing your style: action movie director, storyteller, worldbuilder, puzzlemaker, or connector\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using miniatures, maps, and other game aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using 21st century technology, such as a Web site or blog, to enhance your game\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The book includes a sample adventure, The Necromancerâ€™s Apprentice, thatâ€™s the perfect way to foray into DMing. It includes everything you need for a great adventureâ€”except your players. What are you waiting for? There are chambers to be explored, dragons to be slain, maidens to be rescued, gangs of gnoll warriors to be annihilated, worgs to be wiped out, treasures to be discovered, worlds to be conqueredâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(17389, 'Dungeons &amp; Dragons for Dummies', 'Bill Slavicsek &amp; Richard Baker &amp; Mike Mearls', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore the fantasy world of D&amp;D and delve into dungeons, slay monsters, and gain treasure!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been thinking of playing D&amp;D or you''ve played before and you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition, this is the book for you. Here''s what you need to know to join the fantasy fun.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   D&amp;D terminology â€” understand what ability check, modifier, saving throw, AC, gp, hp, and XP mean\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Roll the dice â€” add modifiers and see if you rolled the d20 high enough to beat the challenge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minding your manners â€” know D&amp;D etiquette so you''ll be welcome in any adventure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Character building â€” select your character''s race and class, and choose the best powers, skills, feats, and gear\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Roleplaying â€” give your character a background and personality quirks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combat â€” use combat rules, a battle grid, and miniatures to play out furious battles\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look inside scenes from\n  <em>\n   Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  (Click on images to enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Everything a new player needs to get started playing D&amp;D\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details on four fantasy races and four iconic classes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of every number and statistic on the character sheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best magic items and equipment for characters of all classes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on roleplaying and teamwork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A ready-to-use adventure to get you started as a Dungeon Master\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A ready-to-use battle grid with character and monster markers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1506'),
(17390, 'Dungeons &amp; Dragons for Dummies', 'Bill Slavicsek &amp; Rich Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore the fantasy world of D&amp;D and delve into dungeons, slay monsters, and gain treasure!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been thinking of playing D&amp;D or you''ve played before and you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition, this is the book for you. Here''s what you need to know to join the fantasy fun.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   D&amp;D terminology â€” understand what ability check, modifier, saving throw, AC, gp, hp, and XP mean\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Roll the dice â€” add modifiers and see if you rolled the d20 high enough to beat the challenge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minding your manners â€” know D&amp;D etiquette so you''ll be welcome in any adventure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Character building â€” select your character''s race and class, and choose the best powers, skills, feats, and gear\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Roleplaying â€” give your character a background and personality quirks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combat â€” use combat rules, a battle grid, and miniatures to play out furious battles\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look inside scenes from\n  <em>\n   Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  (Click on images to enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Caught in traffic. Trapped in a cubicle. Stuck in a rut.Â  Tangled up in red tape.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the real world, sometimes you feel powerlessâ€”but not in Dungeons &amp; Dragons (D &amp; D). In this fantasy-adventure, you have all kinds of special powers. You can slay the evil dragon, overcome the orc or the ogre, haunt the werewolf, and triumph over sinister trolls. You venture into strange realms, encounter strange creatures, and use magical powers. Your character grows and develops with every adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this guide, you can learn the ins and outs of D &amp; D and start playing right away.\n <em>\n  Dungeons &amp; Dragons For Dummies\n </em>\n gives beginners the basics of the complex game and helps experienced players fine-tune their roleplaying. It guides you through:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating your character (a powerful fighter, a sneaky rogue, a crafty sorcerer, or a charismatic cleric), and character advancement\n </li>\n <li>\n  The races: humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings\n </li>\n <li>\n  The types of character actions: attack rolls, skill check, and ability checks\n </li>\n <li>\n  The 6 abilities: strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma\n </li>\n <li>\n  Feat requirements and types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Playing the game, including moving in combat, attacking with a weapon (melee attacks or ranged attacks), and damage and dying\n </li>\n <li>\n  Picking skills, armor, weapons, and gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing spells if your character is a sorcerer or domains for a cleric\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building encounter or combat strategies and using advanced tactics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximizing your characterâ€™s power with the acquisition of the right magic items: armor, weapons, potion, scroll, ring, wand, staff, rod, plus wondrous items\n </li>\n <li>\n  D &amp; D game etiquette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Becoming a Dungeon Master\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s even a sample play session that walks you through typical play, gets you comfortable using the battle grid and character markers, lets you test player characters against each other and against monsters, and shows you how to add story elements to create an adventure. Produced in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, written by D &amp; D game designers, andÂ complete with a battle grid, a sample dungeon map, and a glossary, this guide arms you with the knowledge to create and equip a character and empowers you to enter the captivating, fascinating world of D &amp; D.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1505'),
(17391, 'DVD &amp; Blu-ray Review - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5887'),
(17392, 'Dwell 09-2011', 'Dwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3617'),
(17393, 'Dwell magazine', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10777'),
(17394, 'Dwell.2011.11.pdf 21-10-2011', 'Dwell.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10869'),
(17395, 'E House 08-2011', 'E House', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(17396, 'E-Discovery for Dummies', 'Linda Volonino &amp; Ian Redpath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover the process of e-discovery and put good practices in place.\n</p>\n<p>\n Electronic information involved in a lawsuit requires a completely different process for management and archiving than paper information. With the recent change to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure making all lawsuits subject to e-discovery as soon as they are filed, it is more important than ever to make sure that good e-discovery practices are in place.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  e-Discovery For Dummies\n </em>\n is an ideal beginner resource for anyone looking to understand the rules and implications of e-discovery policy and procedures. This helpful guide introduces you to all the most important information for incorporating legal, technical, and judicial issues when dealing with the e-discovery process. You''ll learn the various risks and best practices for a company that is facing litigation and you''ll see how to develop an e-discovery strategy if a company does not already have one in place.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  E-discovery is the process by which electronically stored information sought, located, secured, preserved, searched, filtered, authenticated, and produced with the intent of using it as evidence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses the rules and process of e-discovery and the implications of not having good e-discovery practices in place\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to develop an e-discovery strategy if a company does not have one in place\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  e-Discovery For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you discover the process and best practices of managing electronic information for lawsuits.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n E-Discovery For Dummiesz\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Follow the correct steps in the e-discovery process\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Anticipate potential risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop an e-discovery strategy for your company\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify best practices in the event of litigation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Linda Volonino\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian Redpath\n</p>\n<p>\n e-discovery consultants\n</p>\n<p>\n Be prepared for legal action!\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn about e-discovery rules, protections, and vulnerabilities\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the issues, challenges, strengths, and limitations of e-discovery in an easy-to-understand guide. Find out how to identify, protect, and produce electronically stored information, prepare for litigation, avoid tainting evidence, and much more. It''s a much better (and cheaper) way to learn about this hot legal issue than through experience!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What happened â€” explore the legal changes that made e-discovery an issue and what they mean to you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your ESI IQ â€” get a comprehensive look at your electronically stored information (ESI) and how to manage it effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a team â€” assemble a team of employees from your IT and Legal departments and establish how to work together on important e-discovery projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a plan â€” identify potentially relevant ESI and how to comply with litigation holds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put the plan into action â€” preserve ESI, redact privileged info, and produce ESI in its native format, including metadata\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you''re challenged â€” find out how to evaluate admissibility and document your evidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be prepared â€” build an electronic records management program and policy and monitor compliance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Call for backup â€” know when to bring in outside vendors and computer forensics specialists\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you can''t ignore e-discovery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to prepare for litigation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten essential e-discovery rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create a data map\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What data to keep\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up a document repository\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions for controlling your e-discovery costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to review, process, and filter information\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1507'),
(17397, 'E-Mail Marketing for Dummies', 'John Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n E-mail seems like a terrific marketing tool â€” until you think about all that spam clogging up your own inbox. But of course YOUR message isnâ€™t spam. So how do you use e-mail to market without becoming a spammer?\n</p>\n<p>\n Done properly, e-mail marketing is highly effective.\n <em>\n  E-Mail Marketing For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you send your message to the inboxes of the world while observing professional standards, improving your deliverability, and executing your e-mail marketing strategy in line with current laws. You''ll discover the secrets to creating professional and inviting e-mail messages, locating receptive respondents, tracking the results, and finding out whether your program is working. Youâ€™ll be able to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Combine e-mail with other marketing media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a winning strategy, build a quality e-mail list, and find success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with anti-spam laws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set reasonable objectives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to use an e-mail service provider\n </li>\n <li>\n  Brand your e-mails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build relationships with your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your â€œopenâ€ rate and find out whoâ€™s actually opening your e-mails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use e-mail to improve search engine optimization\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n And if youâ€™re not a bona fide, pocket-protector-carrying geek, this book is perfect. Itâ€™s written for business people who need to get return on their time as well as their marketing efforts. Whether you read it straight through or dive right into the part you need most,\n <em>\n  E-Mail Marketing For Dummies\n </em>\n is all about using e-mail to help your business prosper.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Send your message to the inboxes of the world\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Develop a winning strategy, build a quality e-mail list, and find success\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Done properly, e-mail marketing is highly effective. This book tells you how to use e-mail marketing properly and effectively so that no one sees you as a nasty spammer. You''ll discover the secrets to creating professional and inviting e-mail messages, locating receptive respondents, tracking the results, and finding out whether your program is working.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combine e-mail with other marketing media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comply with anti-spam laws\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set reasonable objectives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Brand your e-mails\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build relationships with your customers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Increase your open rate\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(17398, 'E.E.09.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 25-09-2011', 'E.E.09.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6810'),
(17399, 'The Ear in the Wall', 'Arthur B. Reeve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4260'),
(17400, 'Earl Mindell&#39;s', 'Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10675'),
(17401, 'The Earth And Sky Of Jacques Dorme', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a problematic start, Andrei Makine is getting better with every new book. His earlier setbacks were partly due to the snobbery of the French, who did not believe that a Russian could write better than they could in their own language. When he pretended his novels had been translated, they began to earn high accolades and won a couple of prestigious prizes.  Yet the tone of these earlier triumphs was sometimes too dependent on mystique, as if cashing in on the much-vaunted but dubious "Russian soul", a quality eminently exploitable by crass publishers like the one who allowed Makine''s Once on the River Amur (a Siberian waterway) to be rendered as Once Upon the River Love.  Makine then found his true and necessary metier in a series of apparently slight novels that disclose profound insights into Russia''s recent history. Requiem for the East and A Life''s Music, his two most recent books, have given us a poignant and privileged understanding of what it was to be a Russian caught up in the Second World War.  AdvertisementAdvertisement  The rather awkwardly named The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme (it sounds no better in French) continues to piece together this mosaic, much in the way that the novels of Solzhenitsyn, when read in chronological order, bear witness to the terrible march of the Soviet regime.  But there the resemblance ends. Makine proceeds by glimpse and allusion; we don''t realise, when we witness the vivid, stormy atmospherics of the first page, that this couple somewhere out on the steppe, swept away by urgent love-making in a strange bedroom that lacks a far wall, have seized a few precious hours from the Battle of Stalingrad raging 70 miles away.  We don''t know who they are, how they came together, or why they talk about France. The stateless man, who is piloting a Red plane, remarks mysteriously: "As for the English, I don''t know whether we can count on them. But you know, it''s like a battle in the air. It''s not always the number of planes that decides it, nor even how good they are. How to explain? It''s the air. Yes, the air. Sometimes you feel the air is supporting you, playing on your side. The air or heaven itself."  With these few words you realise this is no ordinary war story. Genre-wise, it turns out to be partly a quest novel: the woman goes on to befriend a little boy from an orphanage and beguiles him with tales about her French provenance, her Russian destiny and the few days of desperate love. The boy feels intimately connected to that tempestuous night and 50 years later determines to find the plane in which the man crashed and died.  His quest fulfilled, the boy, who has grown up to be a writer, tries to have an account of it published. His first encounter with a representative of the industry is bewildering and galling and leads, after his precipitous exit, to a superb meditation on the relationship of truth to fiction. Some historians, he reflects, dismissed the whole of War and Peace on the grounds that Tolstoy muddled some of the details regarding the Battle of Borodino. Makine''s rebuttal lies precisely in the story he concocts, a factional tour de force brilliantly and incontrovertibly grounded in some of the most monumental events of the last century, yet fragmentary, impressionistic, and touchingly, passionately human in the telling. It is not only an exquisite pleasure to read, it is the best, because it is the most human kind of history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3936'),
(17402, 'Easy Living - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10807'),
(17403, 'Eating Disorders for Dummies', 'Susan Schulherr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder?\n <em>\n  Eating Disorders For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of whatâ€™s happening inside you and offers a simple step-by-step procedure for developing a safe and health plan for recovery.\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, reassuring, and gentle guide explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. Informative checklists help you determine whether you are suffering form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is having or may soon have on your health. Youâ€™ll also get plenty of help in finding the right therapist, evaluating the latest treatments, and learning how to support recovery on a day-by-day basis. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identify eating disorder warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set yourself on a sound and successful path to recovery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize companion disorders and addictions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle anxiety and emotional eating\n </li>\n <li>\n  Survive setbacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Approach someone about getting treatment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Treat eating disorders in men, children, and the elderly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help a sibling, friend, or partner with and eating disorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Benefit from recovery in ways you never imagined\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful lists of recovery dos and donâ€™ts,\n <em>\n  Eating Disorders For Dummies\n </em>\n is an immensely important resource for anyone who wants to recover â€” or help a loved one recover â€” from one of these disabling conditions and regain a healthy and energetic life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to set yourself on a sound and successful path of recovery\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find treatment and support and regain control of your life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Think you â€” or someone you love â€” has an eating disorder? This practical, reassuring guide explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. Informative checklists help you determine if you are suffering from an eating disorder, as well as the serious medical impacts. You''ll see how to find the right therapist, evaluate the latest treatments, and support your â€” or your loved one''s â€” recovery in day-to-day living.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify the warning signs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize companion disorders and addictions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle anxiety and emotional eating\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Survive setbacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Approach someone about getting treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Treat disorders in men, children, or the elderly\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1509'),
(17404, 'eBay Bargain Shopping for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...grab this book before you bid..." (_Teddy Bear Club Intl_, November 2003)\n</p>\n<p>\n [_EBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies_] "...Recommended reading..." (_Collect It_, Jan 04)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chances are you have friends who have been thrilled with deals they got on eBay. Maybe youâ€™d like to get in on the eBay action, but donâ€™t know where to start. Or maybe youâ€™ve bought on eBay before, but want to get the inside scoop on scooping up the very best deals. This book is for you. It helps you differentiate between the junk and the jewels and get the best buys on everything from clothing, household goods, and electronics to business equipment, new or used cars, and real estate!\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by Marsha Collier, self-professed bargain shopper and best selling author of\n <em>\n  eBay For Dummies, eBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with advice and anecdotes from other experts, some of whom make a living buying and selling on eBay. It helps you begin shopping on eBay quickly, safely, and successfully, with information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using the My eBay Page to keep up with your potential deals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using feedback about sellers and shopping safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bidding, buying, and winning\n </li>\n <li>\n  Things to look for and things to look out for\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to pay, including PayPal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking advantage of eBayâ€™s search functions and refining your searches to zero in on sought-after items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping eBayâ€™s Bargain Basement\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even successful eBay veterans will discover tips and tricks they didnâ€™t know and bargain shopping secrets. Whether you want to use eBay to seek out and snap up hard-to-find collectibles, or simply to save on everyday purchases,\n <em>\n  eBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies\n </em>\n takes you step-by-step through the process. And to get you started right, the book is a real bargain!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1510'),
(17405, 'eBay Bargain Shopping for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...grab this book before you bid..." (_Teddy Bear Club Intl_, November 2003)\n </p>\n <p>\n  [_EBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies_] "...Recommended reading..." (_Collect It_, Jan 04)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chances are you have friends who have been thrilled with deals they got on eBay. Maybe youâ€™d like to get in on the eBay action, but donâ€™t know where to start. Or maybe youâ€™ve bought on eBay before, but want to get the inside scoop on scooping up the very best deals. This book is for you. It helps you differentiate between the junk and the jewels and get the best buys on everything from clothing, household goods, and electronics to business equipment, new or used cars, and real estate!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by Marsha Collier, self-professed bargain shopper and best selling author of\n  <em>\n   eBay For Dummies, eBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies\n  </em>\n  is packed with advice and anecdotes from other experts, some of whom make a living buying and selling on eBay. It helps you begin shopping on eBay quickly, safely, and successfully, with information on:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the My eBay Page to keep up with your potential deals\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using feedback about sellers and shopping safely\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bidding, buying, and winning\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Things to look for and things to look out for\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to pay, including PayPal\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Taking advantage of eBayâ€™s search functions and refining your searches to zero in on sought-after items\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Shopping eBayâ€™s Bargain Basement\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Even successful eBay veterans will discover tips and tricks they didnâ€™t know and bargain shopping secrets. Whether you want to use eBay to seek out and snap up hard-to-find collectibles, or simply to save on everyday purchases,\n  <em>\n   eBay Bargain Shopping For Dummies\n  </em>\n  takes you step-by-step through the process. And to get you started right, the book is a real bargain!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1515'),
(17406, 'eBay Business All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Marsha Collier presents readers with an all-new guide that goes beyond all previous eBay business books, offering one-stop guidance on eBay techniques as well as entrepreneurial fundamentals. She provides in-depth coverage on the most critical eBay topics, including merchandise sourcing, marketing, advertising, and customer service.\n</p>\n<p>\n The minibooks that make up the guide cover eBay registration, navigation, and buying; getting ready to sell; digital photography and scanning for sales pages; eBay selling and marketing; getting legal and licensed; using auction management software; setting up an office (PCs, Internet, networking, and shipping); and PayPal.\n <br />\n * Marsha Collier''s eBay books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and her Starting an eBay Business For Dummies is currently the bestselling eBay reference on the market\n <br />\n * This one-stop reference examines not only eBay techniques and issues, but also the basic business strategies that people need to run any successful venture\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 books in 1â€” your key to a successful eBay business!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to using eBay tools, managing inventory, and selling like a pro\n</p>\n<p>\n Why are some eBay businesses booming while others bomb? Marsha Collier knows the answers, and she''s packaged them neatly in these self-contained minibooks that cover every facet of running a successful eBay business. Your business will blossom with her expert advice on choosing the right things to sell, presenting and promoting your items, shipshape shipping, and even handling the legal stuff.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find deals on essential computer equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate with buyers effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate the best merchandise to sell\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take great auction photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Open an eBay store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make shipping profitable\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(17407, 'eBay Business All-In-One for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to become an eBay entrepreneur? Nobody knows more about starting an eBay business than Marsha Collier, and sheâ€™s put it all in 1-2-3 order for you in\n <em>\n  eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n This all-in-one guide includes nine handy minibooks that cover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  eBay Basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Essential Tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selling Like a Pro\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sourcing Merchandise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Presenting Your Items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promoting Your Goods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Storing and Shipping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Power Selling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Office and Legal\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n eBay PowerSeller Marsha Collier shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your business, find and manage inventory, and run your business like a pro\n </li>\n <li>\n  Equip yourself with the tools that countâ€”eBayâ€™s search engine, online sources of information, the PayPal system, and eBayâ€™s management tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Source your merchandise and learn valuable strategies for managing and maximizing sales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up the optimal eBay photo studio and develop and market your eBay Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn the ins and outs of online retailing and what it takes to buy and sell online safely and easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find deals on the computer equipment you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote, market, and show off your goods, all the while keeping your business legal\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Before you know it, you too can be a PowerSeller! Â Get started today with\n <em>\n  eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A fully updated eBay business primer from Marsha Collier, renowned eBay business expert!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re thinking about starting an eBay business or are already up and running, this step-by-step guide will lead you down the smart path to making a regular income on eBay. With solid tips from the bestselling eBay expert, this reference helps you get your eBay business off the ground and manage the basics of listing items, completing transactions, and keeping your buyers happy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the nuts and bolts â€” discover how you can set up your business, find and manage inventory, and run your business like a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Equip yourself with the tools that count â€” make the most of eBay''s search engine, online sources of information, the PayPal system, and eBay''s management tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start selling like a whiz â€” learn valuable strategies for managing and maximizing sales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Source your merchandise effortlessly â€” learn the ins and outs of online retailing and what it takes to buy and sell online with ease\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the word out â€” find out how to set up the optimal eBay photo studio and develop and market your eBay Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be the power seller you were born to be â€” from opening your eBay store to the nitty-gritty office set up, get your business up and running\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to navigate through eBay''s buyer and seller tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on effectively using your My eBay page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Insider advice on creating listings that win bids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sources for the merchandise that sells profitably on eBay\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How top sellers use photos and HTML to improve their sales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for promoting your business both on eBay and off\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Worry-free shipping strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Painless guidance on keeping your business legal\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1511'),
(17408, 'eBay for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about buying or selling items on eBay? Whether you want to use eBay to make smart bids and win auctions or turn household clutter into cash,\n <em>\n  eBay for Dummies, Fifth Edition\n </em>\n is your passport to the most successful trading community on the planet. Beginning with an overview of what eBay is and how to become a registered user,\n <em>\n  eBay for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you discover how you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Search for items to buy and list items to sell on eBay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Place a bidâ€”and determine how much you should spend\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use pictures and basic HTML to make your eBay listings more appealing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate well and close deals without a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify auction terms (reserve price, starting bid, Buy It Now, etc.)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your transactions and interactions using the My eBay page\n </li>\n <li>\n  Resolve buying and selling issues with eBayâ€™s Trust &amp; Safety program\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much more!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Registering at eBay makes you part of a really unique community of people who like to collect, buy, and sell items of just about every kind! So if youâ€™re ready to join the millions of people who use their home computers to make great deals, buy cool stuff, and turn a profit,\n <em>\n  eBay for Dummies\n </em>\n does all the legwork so you can sit back and let the bidding begin!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Buy low, sell high, and join the eBay community\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Economy shopper or entrepreneur â€” discover the secrets to eBay success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The bucks start here! Whether you''re saving them or earning them, eBay''s the place, and Marsha Collier is the person to show you how. Get great safe-shopping secrets, find out how to sell what people are buying, ship stuff the right way, bag auction bargains, deal with problem transactions like a pro, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Bid to win your first auction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Unearth unmatched bargains\n </li>\n <li>\n  Earn positive feedback points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your junk into cash as an eBay seller\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance listings with photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1513'),
(17409, 'eBay for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling guide to successfully buying and selling on eBay, fully revised and updated\n</p>\n<p>\n eBay is the world''s #1 shopping and selling site, where millions find bargains and make money with their own sales. Marsha Collier is the #1 eBay expert and bestselling author, with more than a million copies of her books in print. And\n <em>\n  eBay For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies\n </em>\n has been the bestselling book on eBay since the original edition in 1999.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated to cover all the changes in the eBay site,\n <em>\n  eBay For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n gets you started with information about signing up and navigating the site. It shows you how to find the best bargains, bid to win, and complete your purchase securely. Then it guides you into become a successful eBay seller, showing you how you can pick up extra money in a tight economy with eBay sales.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Covers how to find bargains on eBay, bid successfully, and pay for your purchases safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps new users become comfortable with the site and shop with confidence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to set up a seller account, list items, offer customer service, ship merchandise, and receive payment securely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepares you for other issues that may arise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores eBay''s special features, showing you how to work within the rules, use the community, and even set up a charity auction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes insider tips on becoming a better buyer and seller\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  eBay For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n prepares you to save money on your purchases and make money on your sales, all from the comfort of your home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cash in on the eBay phenomenon! Bag big bargains, sell like a pro, and make a profit\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s better than saving money and making money, all without leaving home? That''s what eBay is all about, and this bestselling, fully updated guide covers all its newest features. eBay expert Marsha Collier shows you how to use My eBay, make smart bids, conduct your own auctions, market and ship your stuff, handle privacy issues, and keep everything safe and legal.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Feel at home â€” get registered, find your way around the site, and customize your My eBay page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be a savvy collector â€” find out how to identify real deals on collectibles and learn what people are buying\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Join the community â€” share ideas in discussion groups and use the Trust &amp; Safety resource\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Become a stellar seller â€” learn to determine what your stuff is worth, when to list it, and how to make it irresistible\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Picture perfection â€” get tips for photographing your items and showing them to best advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mind your business â€” keep track of items you''re bidding on, items you''ve won, and items you''re selling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s a wrap â€” complete your auction, accept payment, ship your items, and manage feedback\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep the tax man happy â€” maintain the proper records and keep yourself out of trouble\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How and why to give feedback\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for great item listings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to bid for the best deals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool sites and software to make using eBay more fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to keep yourself safe when selling or buying\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to communicate effectively with buyers and sellers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for finding eBay''s most trustworthy sellers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you should check out charity auctions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1514'),
(17410, 'eBay Listings That Sell for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier &amp; Patti Louise Ruby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n No matter what you want to sell on eBayâ€”auto parts or designer apparelâ€¦weird, unique wares or pricey antiquesâ€”the principles and basic rules for successful listings are the same.\n <em>\n  eBay Listings That Sell For Dummies\n </em>\n follows the advice it gives you for your adsâ€”it tells you what you need to know without bogging you down with lots of fluff and peripheral stuff. From the mechanics to descriptive ad copy to photography to getting it on eBay, this guide covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  eBay options that can boost the appeal of your listings, including Buy It Now (BIN), Subtitle, Bold Title, Highlight, Box border, Home Page Featured, Featured Plus!,Â  and Gallery Picture (a must)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Constructing catchy listings with a title that sells and keywords that pay off\n </li>\n <li>\n  eBay Acronyms youâ€™ll need to know\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackling and completing eBayâ€™s Sell Your Item form\n </li>\n <li>\n  HTML formatting basics plus some free JavaScript scripts you can use to dress up your listing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Embedding images, creating thumbnails, and adding bells and whistles (or not)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buying a digital camera for taking eBay photos and equipping your â€œstudioâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lighting correctly, and using the Cloud Dome, light cubes, panels, and umbrellas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Retrieving your images and uploading them to a server (your free ISP space, AOL, eBay, eBayâ€™s Picture Manager, or others)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing your photos, including cropping, enhancing, resizing, sharpening, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  A checklist of techniques for preparing elegant, fast-loading images for your ads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sprucing up your eBay store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Posting your listing to other sites such as half.com, amazon.com, and overstock.com\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating with HTML Generators, including eBayâ€™s Turbo Lister, or Third-Party HTML generators such as Mpire.com Launcher or the authorsâ€™ free tool from www.coolebaytools.com\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by eBay pros Marsha Collier, a successful PowerSeller, and Patti Louise Ruby, a trainer at eBay University events and eBay Live,\n <em>\n  eBay Listings That Sell For Dummies\n </em>\n is loaded with tricks of the trade. Itâ€™s complete with step-by-step instructions for many tasks, tables and checklists, lots of screen shots, and examples of good and bad ads. With this friendly guide, your merchandise will quickly be goingâ€¦goingâ€¦gone on eBay.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover the tricks top sellers use to grab attention\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create your own unique eBay selling pages with time-tested techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you know your way around eBay, but you''re not getting the highest bids for your items? Maybe your listings need a makeover! Here are all the techie secrets for taking better merchandise photos, writing hot copy and formatting it in HTML, "branding" your eBay store, making your listings look great on anybody''s browser, and a whole lot more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get all you can out of eBay''s tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tweak HTML for eye-popping results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Equip your own eBay photo studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shoot product photos designed to impress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid rookie selling mistakes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1516');
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(17411, 'eBay Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦eBay sellers in particular may well find (this) worth the moneyâ€¦â€ (_PC Utilities_, October 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, youâ€™ve gotten started on eBay. Youâ€™ve made a few purchases and your first sale. You may have even built a moneymaking business. Now youâ€™re looking for ways to ratchet things up. Youâ€™re looking for the insider tips and tricks for the easiest ways to take care of listing items, completing transactions, and keeping good records and you don''t have the time to do all the research.\n <em>\n  eBay Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n is the book for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marsha Collier, an eBay University instructor and best selling author of\n <em>\n  eBay For Dummies\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starting an eBay Business For Dummies\n </em>\n , has collected the fastest and most effective techniques for finding items to sell, setting up your sales pages, pricing items to move, getting the word out about your business, collecting payments, shipping your item, and taking care of all the paperwork. Time is money after all. So why waste time when you can be making money on eBay. This book contains over 60 step-by-step techniques proven to add efficiency to your eBay operation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes coverage of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Finding sources for merchandise to sell on eBay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting attractive prices and shipping costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handling multiple sales without losing your cool\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prettying up your auctions with digital photo and HTML tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tracking payments and shipments and keeping your customers happy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with PayPal, both on and off of eBay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhancing your status in the eBay community\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplifying your bookkeeping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating marketing, merchandising, and advertising plans\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Solving problems quickly when they occur\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1517'),
(17412, 'Eclipse for Dummies', 'Barry Burd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  In his friendly, easy-to-understand style, the bestselling author of Java 2\n </li>\n <li>\n  For Dummies shows developers how to get up to speed fast on this popular Java IDE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eclipse, an open source product originally developed by IBM, has an estimated 500,000 users-a 45 percent market share among Java IDEs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows Java developers how to maximize programming productivity with Eclipse, covering all the basics as well as advanced techniques such as using Ant, developing new Eclipse plug-ins, and working with Javadocs JAR files\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enjoy easier, speedier programming with fewer bugs\n</p>\n<p>\n See how Eclipse makes it easier to use all the cool new Java tools\n</p>\n<p>\n Instead of casting a shadow, Eclipse really brightens the IDE landscape, and this book shines plenty of light on using every feature. It''ll help you download and install Eclipse, find out how to use all the views, perspectives, and project properties, and get busy developing effective Java applications, all without seeing stars.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize perspectives, workspaces, and editors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extend Eclipse with plug-ins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate code automatically\n </li>\n <li>\n  Preview, undo, and redo refactoring operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Javadocs and JAR files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search across projects with Java\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1518'),
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(17414, 'EcoHome Magazine', 'September &amp; October 2011 (True PDF)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7201'),
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(17427, 'Ekstrabladet 02-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Kristen fag-boss giâ€™r 3F, HK,\n </div>\n <div>\n  FOA og alle de andre baghjul PAMPER\n </div>\n <div>\n  AF GUDS\n </div>\n <div>\n  NÃ…DE Gule fagforeninger billige, men elendige\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3151'),
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(17429, 'Ekstrabladet 03-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Bengnaver-Ritt supplererÂ pensionen med loppetjans\n </div>\n <div>\n  Hun er ikke alene - se, hvem der ogsÃ¥ scorer kassen\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3156'),
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(17464, 'Ekstrabladet 23-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3692'),
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(17466, 'Ekstrabladet 24-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3704'),
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(17471, 'Ekstrabladet 27-07-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3090'),
(17472, 'Ekstrabladet 27-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3743'),
(17473, 'Ekstrabladet 28-07-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3109'),
(17474, 'Ekstrabladet 28-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3753'),
(17475, 'Ekstrabladet 29-07-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3117'),
(17476, 'Ekstrabladet 29-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3761'),
(17477, 'Ekstrabladet 30-07-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3124'),
(17478, 'Ekstrabladet 30-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3792'),
(17479, 'Ekstrabladet 31-07-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3128'),
(17480, 'Ekstrabladet 31-08-2011', 'Ekstrabladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3796'),
(17481, 'Electrical Safety Code Manual: A Plain Language Guide to National Electrical Code, OSHA and NFPA 70E', 'Kimberley Keller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5899'),
(17482, 'ElectricityandMagnetism', 'Ben Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4879'),
(17483, 'Electrocorrosion and Protection of Metals', 'J. Riskin (Elsevier, 2009) BBS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10648'),
(17484, 'Electronic Lifestyles Magazine - Fall 2011', 'Fall 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10576'),
(17485, 'Electronic Products 07-2011', 'Electronic Products', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2495'),
(17486, 'Electronic Products 08-2011', 'Electronic Products', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3456'),
(17487, 'Electronic.House.10.2011.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Electronic.House.10.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10926'),
(17488, 'Electronic.Lifestyles-Fall.2011-Slicer.pdf 07-10-2011', 'Electronic.Lifestyles-Fall.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10594'),
(17489, 'Electronics Explained: The New Systems Approach to Learning Electronics', 'Jr. Louis Frenzel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Don''t spend time reading about theory, components and old ham radios - that''s history! Industry veteran, Louis Frenzel, gives you the real scoop on electronic product fundamentals as they are today. Rather than tearing electronics apart and looking at every little piece, the author takes a systems-level view. For example, you will not learn how to make a circuit but how a signal flows from one integrated circuit (IC) to the next and so on to the ultimate goal. This practical application-driven viewpoint and breadth of coverage is unprecedented. This book touches upon TV, audio, sattelite, radio, wireless communication, and networking. All of this content is brought to life through hands-on projects that you will enjoy whether you are a hobbyist, student, or engineer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(17490, 'Electronics for Dummies', 'Cathleen Shamieh &amp; Gordon Mccomb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Electronics is fascinating â€“ want to make something of it? This book shows you how!\n</p>\n<p>\n You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it works. Â  This book helps you out with that part, explaining the whole thing in plain English. Learn how electricity functions, how to harness it and put it to work, what tools you need to build circuits, what you can make with them, and how to do it safely.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Mystery solved â€“ understand what makes your iPod, remote control, and computer work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Essential stuff â€“ outfit your electronics lab with all the necessary tools, including some that will surprise you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schematic road maps â€“ learn to read schematics and understand how they help your project get where itâ€™s going\n </li>\n <li>\n  Symbols of power â€“ recognize all the identifiers for power sources, grounds, and components\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tools of the trade â€“ discover how to use a multimeter, logic probe, oscilloscope, and solderless breadboard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break it down â€“ get to know the ins and outs of components such as resistors, capacitors ,diodes and transistors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting it together â€“ find out how integrated circuits make all the rest possible and learn to work with them\n </li>\n <li>\n  &amp; Analyze it â€“ understand the rules that govern current and voltage and learn how to apply them\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The difference between electronics and electricity\n </li>\n <li>\n  A list of essential tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cool projects you can build quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great places to find parts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Important safety tips\n </li>\n <li>\n  What a sine wave is\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interesting stuff about speakers, buzzers, and DC motors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ohmâ€™s Law and how to use it\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Begin having fun with electronics projects right away\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the basic concepts of electronics, build your electronics workbench, and create cool projects\n</p>\n<p>\n Wish you could fix that faulty doorbell, hook up a motion detector, or maybe build your very own robot? This book will really get you charged up! It won''t make you an electrician, but it covers the basics, choosing and using tools, and how to build more than a dozen really cool, inexpensive gizmos. You''ll be shocked at how easy it is!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Master electricity basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fill up your electronics parts bin\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read circuit schematics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test circuits with multimeters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design your own printed circuit boards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build robots and program their actions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1519'),
(17491, 'Electronics for Dummies', 'Gordon Mccomb &amp; Earl Boysen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to hook up your home theater system?\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to fix it so your garage band rocks the neighborhood?\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to solder the faulty wire on your old phonograph so you can play those 60s albums youâ€™ve kept all this time?\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a do-it-yourselfer , hobbyist, or student , this book will turn you on to real-world electronics. It quickly covers the essentials, and then focuses on the how-to instead of theory. It covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fundamental concepts such as circuits, schematics, voltage, safety, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tools of the trade, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic probes, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Common electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors, transistors)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making circuits using breadboards and printed circuit boards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Microcontrollers (implementation and programming)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Author Gordon McComb has more than a million copies of his books in print, including his bestselling\n <em>\n  Robot Builderâ€™s Bonanza\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  VCRs and Camcorders For Dummies.\n </em>\n He really connects with readers! With lots of photos and step-by-step explanations, this book will have you connecting electronic components in no time! In fact, it includes fun ideas for great projects you can build in 30 minutes or less. Youâ€™ll be amazed! Then you can tackle cool robot projects that will amaze your friends! (The book gives you lots to choose from.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Students will find this a great reference and supplement to the typical dry, dull textbook. So whether you just want to bone up on electronics or want to get things hooked up, souped up, or fixed up,â€¦whether youâ€™re interested in fixing old electronic equipment, understanding guitar fuzz amps, or tinkering with robots,\n <em>\n  Electronics For Dummies\n </em>\n is your quick connection to the stuff you need to know.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Begin having fun with electronics projects right away\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the basic concepts of electronics, build your electronics workbench, and create cool projects\n</p>\n<p>\n Wish you could fix that faulty doorbell, hook up a motion detector, or maybe build your very own robot? This book will really get you charged up! It won''t make you an electrician, but it covers the basics, choosing and using tools, and how to build more than a dozen really cool, inexpensive gizmos. You''ll be shocked at how easy it is!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Master electricity basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fill up your electronics parts bin\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read circuit schematics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test circuits with multimeters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design your own printed circuit boards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build robots and program their actions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1520'),
(17492, 'Electronics Projects for Dummies', 'Earl Boysen &amp; Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These projects are fun to build and fun to use\n</p>\n<p>\n Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector\n</p>\n<p>\n Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations -- a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.\n</p>\n<p>\n Check out ten cool electronics projects, including\n <br />\n * Chapter 8 -- Surfing the Radio Waves (how to make your own radio)\n <br />\n * Chapter 9 -- Scary Pumpkins (crazy Halloween decorations that have sound, light, and movement)\n <br />\n * Chapter 12 -- Hitting Paydirt with an Electronic Metal Detector (a project that can pay for itself)\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Handle electronic components safely\n <br />\n * Read a circuit diagram\n <br />\n * Troubleshoot circuits with a multimeter\n <br />\n * Build light-activated gadgets\n <br />\n * Set up a motion detector\n <br />\n * Transform electromagnetic waves into sound\n</p>\n<p>\n Companion Web site\n <br />\n * Go to www.dummies.com/go/electronicsprojectsfd\n <br />\n * Explore new projects with other electronics hobbyists\n <br />\n * Find additional information and project opportunities\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  These projects are fun to build and fun to use\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations â€” a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.\n</p>\n<p>\n Check out ten cool electronics projects, including\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Chapter 8 â€” Surfing the Radio Waves (how to make your own radio)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chapter 9 â€” Scary Pumpkins (crazy Halloween decorations that have sound, light, and movement)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chapter 12 â€” Hitting Paydirt with an Electronic Metal Detector (a project that can pay for itself)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Handle electronic components safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read a circuit diagram\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot circuits with a multimeter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build light-activated gadgets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a motion detector\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transform electromagnetic waves into sound\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Companion Web site\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Go to www.dummies.com/ go/electronicsprojectsfd\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore new projects with other electronics hobbyists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find additional information and project opportunities\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1521'),
(17493, 'Elektor Electronics', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10560'),
(17494, 'Elektor Electronics No.9 - September 2011 (UK)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6710'),
(17495, 'Eleven Possible Cases', 'Franklin Fyles &amp; Anna Katherine Green &amp; Joaquin Miller &amp; Frank Richard Stockton &amp; Maurice Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4022'),
(17496, 'The Elimination Experiment Workout', 'Brad  Pilon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10674'),
(17497, 'Elle USA - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10685'),
(17498, 'Elvis for Dummies', 'Susan Doll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ultimate introduction to the life and works of the King\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to understand Elvis Presley? This friendly guide covers all phases of Elvis''s career, from his musical influences as a teenager in Memphis and his first recordings to his days at Graceland and the mystery surrounding his death. You''ll discover little-known details about his life, appreciate his contributions to music and film, and understand why his work still resonates with so many people today.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore Elvis''s musical roots â€” see how Elvis''s childhood and his Southern background influenced the development of his sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Trace the beginnings of his storied career â€” be there as Elvis makes his first recordings for Sun Records\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Relive the magic â€” experience the frenzy and excitement that surrounded Elvis''s entrance to the national music scene\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a fresh look at Elvis''s films â€” understand the misconceptions surrounding Elvis''s Hollywood career\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Watch as Elvis reinvents himself â€” witness his comeback to live performances, culminating with an historic act in Las Vegas\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The significance of the major events in Elvis''s career\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meanings behind Elvis''s music\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The controversy over his musical performing style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Career highlights that no other performer has accomplished\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A typical Elvis concert â€” what it was like and what it meant\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details on Elvis''s television appearances\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The many ways fans keep Elvis''s memory alive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An appendix of the important people in Elvis''s life\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Doll\n </strong>\n , PhD, is the author of numerous books on Elvis Presley. A film instructor with 20 years of experience teaching at the college level, she writes extensively on film and popular culture. Doll currently works as a researcher and writer for Facets Multi-Media in Chicago and writes regularly for the Turner Classic Movies Web site.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1522'),
(17499, 'Emotional Intelligence for Dummies', 'Steven J. Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being aware of and in control of your emotions is one of the keys to success in life -- both professionally and personally.\n <em>\n  Emotional Intelligence For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to take control of your emotions rather than letting your emotions control you! Discover how developing your emotional intelligence can further your relationships with others, in the workplace and at home. Emotional awareness is also a critical skill for career success, and Dr. Stein provides practical exercises for developing this skill and achieving your professional and personal goals. He also provides valuable insights into how emotional intelligence can be applied to raising children and teenagers and realizing personal happiness. Full of lively anecdotes and practical advice,\n <em>\n  Emotional Intelligence For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ideal book for anyone who wants to get smart about their feelings and reach the next level at work and at home.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage your emotions - identify your feelings, determine what beliefs cause negative emotions, and stop self-destructive behaviors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the power of empathy - read other people''s emotions through facial cues and body language and show them you understand their feelings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thrive at work - find a job that''s right for you, overcome hassles and fears, and develop your leadership skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build and sustain meaningful relationships - discover how to take your partner''s emotional temperature and manage emotions to grow closer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise an emotionally intelligent child - keep your cool with your child, coax shy children out of their shells, and get your child to be less aggressive and defiant\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take control of your emotions to achieve success in the workplace and happiness at home\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Being aware of and able to control your emotions is oneof the keys to success in life, both professionally and personally. This friendly guide will help you to understand your feelings and how you can manage them, instead ofhaving them control you. Through practical, proven techniques and helpful exercises, you''ll discover how you can increase your confidence, build stronger relationships with your partner, family, and colleagues, and find authentic happiness.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your emotions â€” identify your feelings, determine whatbeliefs cause negative emotions, and stop self-destructive behaviors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover the power of empathy â€” read other people''s emotions through facial cues and body language and show them you understand their feelings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Thrive at work â€” find a job that''s right for you, overcome hassles and fears, and develop your leadership skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build and sustain meaningful relationships â€” discover how to take your partner''s emotional temperature and manage emotions to grow closer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Raise an emotionally intelligent child â€” keep your cool with your child, coax shy children out of their shells, and get your child to be less aggressive and defiant\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "I suspect\n <em>\n  Emotional Intelligence For Dummies\n </em>\n will motivate you to adopt a broader view of what it means to be smart, and you will find yourself further developing the emotional skills that allow you to lead a more satisfying life."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter Salovey\n </strong>\n , PhD, Professor of Psychology, Yale University\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The science behind emotional intelligence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exercises to help you turn negative emotions positive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to diffuse tense situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to improve your performance at work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why emotionally intelligent workplaces are more productive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The four keys to a lasting relationship\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What battles are worth fighting â€” and when to keep quiet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to help your child become emotionally aware\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(17500, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4197'),
(17501, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4202'),
(17502, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4416');
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(17503, 'Emperor: The Gods of War (e-4)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <p class="description">\n    SUMMARY:\n    <br />\n    Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher''s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Gates of Rome, Wolf of the Plains, the Gods of War, Lords of the Bow, the Field of Swords, the Death of Kings, Bones of the Hills. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Gates Of Rome is the first novel in the Emperor series, written by author Conn Iggulden. The series is historical fiction following the life of Julius Caesar. The first book in the series introduces two young Romans: Gaius (Gaius Julius Caesar), son of a senator and born of noble-blood, and blood-friend Marcus (Marcus Junius Brutus), son of a high-class prostitute (Servilia Caepionis). It tells of the harsh realities of life in the Ancient Rome, not only for the nobilitas but also for the slave population, who revolt and kill Gaius'' father during a siege on their villa. As the two boys begin their careers (Gaius as a senator and Marcus as a legionary), a political war is being played out in the senate, between two powerful Generals: Cornelius Sulla and Gaius'' uncle Gaius Marius. Emperor: The Gates of Rome, is about the youth of Gaius Julius Caesar. It starts with Gaius and Marcus, who is adopted by Gaius parents. The two boys grow up with each other and have a deep, ongoing friendship. When they are old enough to participate in the legions, Gaius father hires the best trainer he can find for them, Renius, an old gladiator who has never been beaten. Though he helps them master the art of the blade, its not without pain; they almost end up being drowned and even killed. Near the end of their training, Gaius is seriously injured by Renius in a training accident, but is saved by the nomadic Cabera, an old man of many talents, healing and archery amongst them. Marcus then proceeds to try his hand at the gladius and cuts Renius''s arm. A few days later, a slave revolt erupts in Rome an...http://booksllc.net/?l=en\n   </p>\n   <p class="description">\n    SUMMARY:\n    <br />\n    Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher''s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Gates of Rome, Wolf of the Plains, the Gods of War, Lords of the Bow, the Field of Swords, the Death of Kings, Bones of the Hills. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Gates Of Rome is the first novel in the Emperor series, written by author Conn Iggulden. The series is historical fiction following the life of Julius Caesar. The first book in the series introduces two young Romans: Gaius (Gaius Julius Caesar), son of a senator and born of noble-blood, and blood-friend Marcus (Marcus Junius Brutus), son of a high-class prostitute (Servilia Caepionis). It tells of the harsh realities of life in the Ancient Rome, not only for the nobilitas but also for the slave population, who revolt and kill Gaius'' father during a siege on their villa. As the two boys begin their careers (Gaius as a senator and Marcus as a legionary), a political war is being played out in the senate, between two powerful Generals: Cornelius Sulla and Gaius'' uncle Gaius Marius. Emperor: The Gates of Rome, is about the youth of Gaius Julius Caesar. It starts with Gaius and Marcus, who is adopted by Gaius parents. The two boys grow up with each other and have a deep, ongoing friendship. When they are old enough to participate in the legions, Gaius father hires the best trainer he can find for them, Renius, an old gladiator who has never been beaten. Though he helps them master the art of the blade, its not without pain; they almost end up being drowned and even killed. Near the end of their training, Gaius is seriously injured by Renius in a training accident, but is saved by the nomadic Cabera, an old man of many talents, healing and archery amongst them. Marcus then proceeds to try his hand at the gladius and cuts Renius''s arm. A few days later, a slave revolt erupts in Rome an...http://booksllc.net/?l=en\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   It looked as if it would be war. The strife between that great figure, Pompey, the Dictator of Rome, and the young general fresh from his triumphant conquests of Gaul and Britain, had come to a head. So Julius Caesar, with all his generals and his four veteran legions, had crossed the Rubicon and was marching towards Rome. But in the wide-reaching Roman Empire there are many more legions, and many loyal to Pompey, and to fight against and kill your own people will never be easy. So even when Julius Caesar, accompanied by Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian, rode into Rome, the first time they had been back in their home town for over ten years, his path to success would not be easy. His uncanny ability at picking the right notes in his speeches from the Senate steps and his brilliance at communication made him sure of his role, sure of his rightfulness for command, sure that power was his alone. But the power he could achieve in Rome itself was not repeated across the empire - and in Spain, in Africa, in Greece, in all Asia Minor, there were officials, commanders, legions loyal to Pompey and the Roman state. And would the friends who had fought at his side for so long continue to do so, to follow his star? How could Caesar succeed against such odds? The Gods of War is the story of ambition and loyalty, of friendship and power, of love and war. A famous tale, of truly epic dimensions, it ranges from Rome to Greece to Egypt and back to Rome; it shows how brilliant generalship can completely turn the odds, how overwhelming success can change even the best of men; it depicts brilliantly those famous names - Caesar, Marcus Brutus, Mark Antony, Pompey, Cicero, Cleopatra, Ptolemy - so that they appear anew. This is a triumphant conclusion to the outstanding Emperor series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Iggulden (Emporer: The Field of Swords) saves the best for last in the fourth and final novel of his well-received Emperor series, following the life of Julius Caesar. Caesar''s story is a familiar one, but Iggulden writes it convincingly as a thriller: the novel begins in 49 B.C., when Caesar and his legions-fresh from their conquests in Gaul and Britain-cross the Rubicon and race toward Rome to confront his enemies. It ends five years later on the Ides of March with his assassination. Along the way, there''s a civil war to be fought and won, a romantic encounter with the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra and a triumphant return to Rome where a cowed Senate names him Dictator for Life and Unconquered God. But Caesar''s enemies-including his friend Marcus Brutus-plot his assassination for subverting the Republican government. Despite Caesar''s larger-than-life historical reputation, Iggulden humanizes his hero and juxtaposes his bloodlust in battle and ruthless ambition in politics with an unexpected tenderness in his personal relations. Taking a rather large dose of literary license, Iggulden strays too far from the historical record, but his expert plotting, supple prose and fast-paced action will keep readers riveted until the end.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Iggulden concludes his magnificent four-part saga of Julius Caesar with a veritable bang. The many fans of the previous three volumes--_ The Gates of Rome_ (2002),\n  <em>\n   The Death of Kings\n  </em>\n  (2003), and\n  <em>\n   The Field of Swords\n  </em>\n  (2005)--will not be disappointed by the cataclysmic final installment in this riveting epic. After tasting the fruits of victory on battlefields in Gaul and Britain, General Julius Caesar crosses the fabled Rubicon, initiating a civil war among rival Roman legions. Matching wits with cunning Roman dictator and military genius Pompey the Great, Caesar grapples for power both within the confines of the city of Rome and in all the far-flung corners of the empire. Realizing martial success alone is not enough to command the respect and loyalty of the cosmopolitan Romans, he becomes a consummate politician, exploiting his relationships with Marcus Brutus, Mark Antony, Octavian, and, of course, Cleopatra. Brimming with military, political, and romantic intrigue, this action-packed epic provides a breathtaking panorama of one of the most exciting episodes in the ancient world and breathes new life into a legendary historical figure.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6214'),
(17504, 'Empire of Gold', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in the jungles of South America, an incredible treasure has been hidden for centuries. Archaeologist Nina Wilde possesses the key to finding it - but in her way stand revolutionaries and drug lords, all fighting for control over the riches from a lost empire! Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back for their seventh blockbusting adventure by the bestselling author of THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS, Andy McDermott. This time their goal is the legendary last outpost of the Inca Empire - which could point the way to an even greater discovery long thought to be just a myth: El Dorado, the lost city of gold. Corrupt soldiers, ruthless mercenaries - led by a man with a personal grudge against Eddie - and murderous rebels will stop at nothing to obtain the unimaginable fortune for themselves. But even as they all battle to find the treasure, Nina and Eddie''s greatest enemy may turn out to be someone much closer to home...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4000'),
(17505, 'Empire of Silver (c-4)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The eagerly awaited 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life and adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty.Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis'' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, China''s Song dynasty.The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia, over the Carpathian mountains and into Hungary. The Templar knights have been broken and there is no king or army to stop him reaching France. But at the moment of Tsubodai''s greatest triumph, as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy, Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6215'),
(17506, 'Empire of the Summer Moon', 'S. C. Gwynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In the tradition of\n  <em>\n   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\n  </em>\n  a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled\n <em>\n  backward\n </em>\n by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneâ€™s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsâ€”a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n announces him as a major new writer of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4173'),
(17507, 'Empire of the Summer Moon', 'S. C. Gwynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In the tradition of\n  <em>\n   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\n  </em>\n  a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled\n <em>\n  backward\n </em>\n by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneâ€™s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsâ€”a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n announces him as a major new writer of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4363'),
(17508, 'Endometriosis for Dummies', 'Joseph Krotec Md &amp; Sharon Perkins Rn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the empowering info that puts you in control\n</p>\n<p>\n Take charge and take comfort in knowing how to live well with endometriosis\n</p>\n<p>\n Diagnosing and living with endometriosis isn''t easy, but this disease doesn''t have to rule your life. This book helps you find out and recognize typical symptoms. Plus, you''ll get up-to-date info on traditional and alternative treatments -- ranging from medications and surgeries to acupuncture and massages. The authors provide plenty of compassionate advice on dealing with the pain and emotional issues, so you can enjoy life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Evaluate treatment options\n <br />\n * Enhance your chances of getting pregnant\n <br />\n * Manage the pain\n <br />\n * Make lifestyle changes to minimize symptoms\n <br />\n * Deal with the emotional and financial challenges\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the empowering info that puts you in control\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take charge and take comfort in knowing how to live well with endometriosis\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Diagnosing and living with endometriosis isn''t easy, but this disease doesn''t have to rule your life. This book helps you find out and recognize typical symptoms. Plus, you''ll get up-to-date info on traditional and alternative treatments â€” ranging from medications and surgeries to acupuncture and massages. The authors provide plenty of compassionate advice on dealing with the pain and emotional issues, so you can enjoy life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Evaluate treatment options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance your chances of getting pregnant\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage the pain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make lifestyle changes to minimize symptoms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with the emotional and financial challenges\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1524'),
(17509, 'Energy Efficient Homes for Dummies', 'Rik Degunther', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hands-on, practical solutions to save money by making smart energy changes\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the best and most affordable strategies people can employ to combat global warming is to improve the energy and water efficiency of their homes. Energy Efficient Homes For Dummies provides homeowners with advice, tips, and projects to reduce costs, increase energy efficiency, and cut down on waste and pollution. After performing a do-it-yourself home energy audit, readers create an action plan based on their personal goals. Readers are presented with a wide range of potential solutions, from making better use of blinds and awnings to exploring geothermal options in order to reduce household costs and their impact on the planet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rik DeGunther (Rescue, CA) is the founder of Efficient Homes, an energy consulting firm that focuses on home energy audits and the design of efficient heating and cooling systems.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Save money with hands-on, smart household energy solutions!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make eco-friendly changes in your house that will save energy? This practical guide is packed with tips and projects for increasing your home''s energy efficiency while reducing costs and cutting down on waste and pollution. You''ll see how to put together your own energy action plan based on your needs â€” and make your lifestyle more comfortable and enjoyable.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn from an energy expert â€” the author draws on his extensive experience to provide the best, most effective solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your energy usage â€” perform a home energy audit and identify the areas that need improvement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce inefficiencies inside and out â€” banish contaminants, seal and insulate your home, get more from your heating and air conditioning, fix leaks, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cut costs in every room â€” use the right lights and switches, stop wasting water, and lessen the load on appliances\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of energy costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on changing your consumption habits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for calculating your carbon footprint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ten best efficiency investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for financing energy improvements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of different energy alternatives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top solar investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most efficient ways to reduce waste\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1525'),
(17510, 'England for Dummies', 'Donald Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n England offers so many royal palaces, massive cathedrals, glorious gardens, world-class museums, and historical sites that you could be overwhelmed, but this guide helps you zero in on the things you want to see and do and plan the perfect trip for you! It gives you up-to-date info on: shopping and antiquing; side trips to attractions; where to pay homage to literary giants; important castles and palaces; central England, the picturesque Cotswolds region, and northern England.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore England the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The pomp and pageantry. The scenery and the history. The palaces and the pubs. The stores and the moors. From bustling London to quaint villages to seaside resorts, England has something for everyone. With this guide, it''s blooming likely that you''ll have a fantastic trip.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1526'),
(17511, 'English Grammar Workbook for Dummies', 'Geraldine Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get some good grammar practice -- and start speaking and writing well!\n</p>\n<p>\n Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that''s what this workbook is all about. Open it and you''ll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with -- from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure -- and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you''ll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school.\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n <br />\n * Review grammar rules and exceptions\n <br />\n * Build grammar skills, from sentence mechanics to stylistic fine points\n <br />\n * Convey your ideas clearly and persuasively\n <br />\n * Speak and write with flair and confidence\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get some good grammar practice â€” and start speaking and writing well!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that''s what this workbook is all about. Open it and you''ll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with â€” from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure â€” and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you''ll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Review grammar rules and exceptions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build grammar skills, from sentence mechanics to stylistic fine points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Convey your ideas clearly and persuasively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speak and write with flair and confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1527'),
(17512, 'Environment Lighting Cenima4D', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6861'),
(17513, 'Environmental Design + Construction Magazine 05-2011', 'Environmental Design + Construction Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2497'),
(17514, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6342'),
(17515, 'Erhvervsbladet 01.09.2011', 'Erhvervsbladet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3813'),
(17516, 'ESPN 09-2011', 'ESPN', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3771'),
(17517, 'ESPN The Magazine USA 2011-10-03S370 HQ', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6848'),
(17518, 'ESPN_2011-09-05.pdf 08-09-2011', 'ESPN_2011-09-05.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4702'),
(17519, 'ESPN-10-17-2011.pdf 10-10-2011', 'ESPN-10-17-2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10621'),
(17520, 'Espresso Shott Cozy Mystery)', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The pseudonymous Coyle (a husband-wife team) makes the jump to hardcover with this enjoyable coffeehouse mystery, the seventh in the series to star Clare Cosi, the crime-solving barista of Village Blend (French Pressed, etc.). Breanne Summour, the disdainer-in-chief of Manhattan fashion magazine Trend, is engaged to be married to Matteo Allegro, Clare''s ex-husband. Sharing a grown daughter, Clare and Matt remain friends and business partners. When a 22-year-old dancer who looks like Breanne is shot after performing at Matt''s bachelor party, a frantic Matt believes Breanne was the intended target. Clare agrees to protect Breanne until the posh wedding at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after the murder of Breanne''s former assistant, Clare''s life is in jeopardy, too. This mellow-paced cozy includes some surprises for both bride and groom, who must deal with the bitter fruits of their past actions. Recipes and coffee tips are a bonus.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Coyle (a husband-wife team) makes the jump to hardcover with this enjoyable coffeehouse mystery, the seventh in the series to star Clare Cosi, the crime-solving barista of Village Blend (_French Pressed_, etc.). Breanne Summour, the disdainer-in-chief of Manhattan fashion magazine\n  <em>\n   Trend\n  </em>\n  , is engaged to be married to Matteo Allegro, Clare''s ex-husband. Sharing a grown daughter, Clare and Matt remain friends and business partners. When a 22-year-old dancer who looks like Breanne is shot after performing at Matt''s bachelor party, a frantic Matt believes Breanne was the intended target. Clare agrees to protect Breanne until the posh wedding at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after the murder of Breanne''s former assistant, Clare''s life is in jeopardy, too. This mellow-paced cozy includes some surprises for both bride and groom, who must deal with the bitter fruits of their past actions. Recipes and coffee tips are a bonus.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Cleo Coyle''s "Coffeehouse" books are superb examples of the cozy genre because of their intelligent cast of characters, their subtle wit, and their knowledge of the coffee industry used to add depth and flavor to the stories...Coyle, a pen name for a married writing team who grew up in Pittsburgh with Italian parents, brings to the series a love of New York City. Highly recommended for all mystery collections. --Library Journal, Starred Review --Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bridal jitters are the least of the problems for an amateur sleuth trying to smooth a path for her ex-husband''s second wedding. Clare Cosi, manager of the Village Blend coffee shop...visits underground restaurants, temples to high fashion and the hotel room of a seductive Italian sculptor in her attempts to keep the wedding plans on track and the bride alive. A realistic depiction of New York City high and low life. The smattering of recipes, romance and caffeine-fueled detection add up to a lively tale.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Coyle (a husband-wife team) makes the jump to hardcover with this enjoyable coffeehouse mystery, the seventh in the series to star Clare Cosi, the crime-solving barista of Village Blend (French Pressed, etc.). Breanne Summour, the "disdainer-in-chief" of Manhattan fashion magazine Trend, is engaged to be married to Matteo Allegro, Clare''s ex-husband. Sharing a grown daughter, Clare and Matt remain friends and business partners. When a 22-year-old dancer who looks like Breanne is shot after performing at Matt''s bachelor party, a frantic Matt believes Breanne was the intended target. Clare agrees to protect Breanne until the posh wedding at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after the murder of Breanne''s former assistant, Clare''s life is in jeopardy, too... --Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6227'),
(17521, 'Esquire USA - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10730'),
(17522, 'Esquire USA - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6693'),
(17523, 'Estate &amp; Trust Adminstration for Dummies', 'Margaret Atkins Munro &amp; Kathryn A. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Executing an estate or a trust fund is a big responsibility.\n <em>\n  Estate &amp; TrustÂ Administration For Dummies\n </em>\n contains advice for handling estates and trusts of any size. It offers solid pointers on reading and interpreting a will and other documents, and helping heirs avoid paying too much (or too little). It also shows you how to take care of a loved one''s estate in the event that a will or trust was never created.\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, plain-English guide helps you understand and follow the rules that govern estates and trusts, ensure a smooth transfer of property, and manage fiduciary affairs in an orderly manner. Youâ€™ll get help choosing and assembling a team of professional advisors, settling debts and paying bequests, operating a revocable or irrevocable trust, and making sound trust investment decisions. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand executorsâ€™ and trusteesâ€™ duties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read and interpret important documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Properly execute an estate or trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle estates both large and small\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with the probate process and estate taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify different types of trusts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow the deceasedâ€™s wishes â€” and the law\n </li>\n <li>\n  Notify insurers and employers of a death\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow the steps for closing an estate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish, fund, and change ownership of a trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep proper trust records\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Yes, you can do the job and do it well. All you need is a little help from\n <em>\n  Estate and TrustÂ Administration For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Easy-to-follow guidance on administering an estate or trust\n</p>\n<p>\n Administering an estate or a trust is a big responsibility. This practical, authoritative guide contains advice for handling estates and trusts large or small, offering solid advice on reading and interpreting documents, and helping anyone involved in an estate or trust avoid paying too much, or too little, tax and other administrative expenses. It also shows you how to take care of a loved one''s estate in the event he or she never created a will or other estate planning documents.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand and follow the rules â€” administer estates and trusts to ensure a smooth transfer of property and orderly management of fiduciary affairs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble a team â€” choose the legal and financial experts, and know when to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the probate process â€” move efficiently through each step, whether your decedent had many assets or just a few\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify and liquidate estate assets â€” whether owned outright, jointly, or in a trust\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Settle debts and pay bequests â€” from paying funeral expenses and administration costs to segregating and distributing named property\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Operate a revocable or irrevocable trust â€” understand a trustee''s duties, responsibilities, and limitations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sound trust investment decisions â€” diversify holdings and meet beneficiary needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comply with income and estate tax regulations â€” from the decedent''s final Form 1040, through the estate''s Form 706, and the estate and trust''s Form 1041\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of executors'' and trustees'' duties\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reviews of the probate process and estate taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on finding and managing professional help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on notifying insurers of a death\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for closing an estate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rules for establishing and funding a trust\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Essentials on estate and trust record keeping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fundamentals of preparing federal estate tax and estate and trust income tax returns\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1528'),
(17524, 'Etiquette for Dummies', 'Sue Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "provides comprehensive advice on practising every-day good behaviour, including ''do''s and don''ts'' on the use of wireless technology such as Blackberrys and iPods."Â  (_Publishing News_ (Main) Friday 18th May)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life is full of moments when you donâ€™t know how to act or how to handle yourself in front of other people. In these situations, etiquette is vital for keeping your sense of humor and your self-esteem intact. But etiquette is not a behavior that you should just turn on and off. This stuffy French word that translates into getting along with others allows you to put people at ease, make them feel good about a situation, and even improve your reputation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Etiquette For Dummies\n </em>\n approaches the subject from a practical point of view, throwing out the rulebook full of long, pointless lists. Instead, it sets up tough social situations and shows you how to navigate through them successfully, charming everyone with your politeness and social grace. This straightforward, no-nonsense guide will let you discover the ins and outs of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Basic behavior for family, friends, relationships, and business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grooming, dressing, and staying healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coping with unexpected stuff like sneezing or feeling queasy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintaining a civilized relationship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making friends and keeping them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building positive relationships at work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicating effectively\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This book shows you how to take on these situations and make them pleasant. It also gives you great advice for tipping appropriately in all types of services and setting stellar examples for your kids. Full of useful advice and written in a laid-back, friendly style,\n <em>\n  Etiquette For Dummies\n </em>\n has all the tools you need to face any social situation with politeness and courtesy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1529'),
(17525, 'Eulalia!', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4768'),
(17526, 'Eureka 08-2011', 'Eureka', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3643'),
(17527, 'Europe for Dummies', 'Donald Olson &amp; Liz Albertson &amp; Cheryl A. Pientka &amp; George Mcdonald &amp; Darwin Porter &amp; Danforth Prince &amp; Hana Mastrini &amp; Bruce Murphy &amp; Alessandra de Rosa &amp; Neil Edward Schlecht &amp; Tania Kollias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer''s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out "cheat sheet" with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to explore Europe\n</p>\n<p>\n From great museums and historic sights to fabulous food and trendsetting styles, Europe has it all. Get the lowdown on everything from passports to palaces, culture to nightlife, and cathedrals to cuisine. With mini-guides to fifteen of Europe''s most popular cities and surrounding areas in eleven different countries, this book is your ticket to an exciting European adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1530'),
(17528, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4120'),
(17529, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4456'),
(17530, 'The Everyday Internet All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Internet made its way into everyday life as a tool people used occasionally to keep in touch with friends and gather information for personal or business needs. Now, thanks to high-speed connections, wireless access, and safe and powerful Web sites, the Internet has become the main means for handling personal finance, shopping for big-ticket items, and communicating with people around the world. It''s to the point where many people can''t get through the day without turning to the Internet to get things accomplished.\n <br />\n The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the complete resource for casual Internet users who are looking to make the jump to becoming experienced navigators of the wired world. Written by Internet guru Peter Weverka, this book walks readers through the basics of going online before heading into the realms of online bargain shopping, bill paying, personal finance, keeping up with hobbies, and even setting up an online business.\n <br />\n * The material is broken into mini-books that make it easier to find an answer and keep moving along the online highway\n <br />\n * This book clarifies all the mysteries of how to use the Internet to make everyday life simpler\n <br />\n * Covers key Internet properties like eBay, Google, and Yahoo! as well as favorite tasks like playing games, tracing family roots, and keeping a diary online\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 8 books in 1 â€” simplify your life with Internet tools\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to using online resources, keeping in touch, and having fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet is a worldwide workplace, a giant communications network, a vast playground, and there''s a minibook here covering each aspect of it. Find out about e-mail, researching on the Web, communication, shopping, banking and bill-paying, entertainment, even making money online. Start where you choose and find out what you want to know!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the best e-mail program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate people, addresses, and phone numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the free telephone service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invest online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find bargains and sell your stuff\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play games and rent movies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2096'),
(17531, 'Everyday.Practical.Electronics-09-2011-Slicer.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Everyday.Practical.Electronics-09-2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4691'),
(17532, 'Everyman&#39;s Land (Dodo Press)', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933) was a British novelist. She was Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920)''s wife. Her former name was Alice Muriel Livingston, and she was introducing herself after her marriage as Mrs. C. N. Williamson. Her mystery A Women in Grey (1898) was translated and adapted into Japanese by Kuroiwa Ruiko by the title Ghost Tower in 1901. Alice and her Husband collaborated in writing too many books including The Princess Passes (1905), The Motor Maid (1910), The Port of Adventure (1913), It Happened in Egypt (1914), The Shop-Girl (1916) and The Second Latchkey (1920).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5926');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17533, 'Evo_2011-11.pdf 24-09-2011', 'Evo_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6753'),
(17534, 'Evo_2011-12.pdf 13-10-2011', 'Evo_2011-12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10676'),
(17535, 'Evo_2011-12.pdf 17-10-2011', 'Evo_2011-12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10767'),
(17536, 'Evolution for Dummies', 'Greg Krukonis Phd &amp; Tracy Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today, most colleges and universities offer evolutionary study as part of their biology curriculums.\n <em>\n  Evolution For Dummies\n </em>\n will track a class in which evolution is taught and give an objective scientific view of the subject. This balanced guide explores the history and future of evolution, explaining the concepts and science behind it, offering case studies that support it, and comparing evolution with rival theories of creation, such as intelligent design. It also will identify the signs of evolution in the world around us and explain how this theory affects our everyday lives and the future to come.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fascinating case studies highlight evolutionary research in the lab and in the wild\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Darwin to DNA â€” your objective guide to the key concepts of evolution\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to get a clear understanding of evolution? This plain-English guide explains what evolution is, how it works, and the ways it affects your life. You''ll see how evolution impacts everything from body shape to behavior to choosing a mate, ways we can trace the past evolutionary history of species, and how humans continue to evolve.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What natural selection is and how it works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The evolutionary history of modern humans\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The evolution of viruses and scientists'' fight against them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The role of genetics in the evolution of species\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1531'),
(17537, 'Excel 2003 Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Diane Koers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for creating spreadsheets you can really use\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ...for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use AutoOutline\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose Data Group and Outline AutoOutline. Figure 11-9 illustrates a worksheet with outline headings for both rows and columns. Row outline symbols are at the top of the worksheet.\n </li>\n <li>\n  AutoOutline works best if the worksheet has summary formulas that reference cells in the detail cells. The summary formulas must be adjacent to the detail.\n </li>\n <li>\n  To expand the outline, click the Show Detailbuttons to the left of the rows or above thecolumn headings. (See Figure 11-10.)\n </li>\n <li>\n  To collapse the outline, click the Hide buttonsto the left of the rows or above the columnheadings.\n </li>\n <li>\n  To remove the AutoOutline, choose Data Group and outline Clear Outline.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Format cells and data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build formulas and functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time with Excel tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add color graphics toyour spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create charts and PivotTables\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for creating spreadsheets you can really use\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ...for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use AutoOutline\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Choose Data Group and Outline AutoOutline. Figure 11-9 illustrates a worksheet with outline headings for both rows and columns. Row outline symbols are at the top of the worksheet.\n </li>\n <li>\n  AutoOutline works best if the worksheet has summary formulas that reference cells in the detail cells. The summary formulas must be adjacent to the detail.\n </li>\n <li>\n  To expand the outline, click the Show Detailbuttons to the left of the rows or above thecolumn headings. (See Figure 11-10.)\n </li>\n <li>\n  To collapse the outline, click the Hide buttonsto the left of the rows or above the columnheadings.\n </li>\n <li>\n  To remove the AutoOutline, choose Data Group and outline Clear Outline.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Format cells and data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build formulas and functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time with Excel tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add color graphics toyour spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create charts and PivotTables\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1532'),
(17538, 'Excel 2007', 'Torben Lage Frandsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(17539, 'Excel 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Master the Ribbon, powerful graphics capabilities, and more!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to great-looking spreadsheets that actually mean something\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Create colorful spreadsheets and charts, use Live Preview, and maximize everything Excel 2007 has to offer! Find just what you need to know about using the new Ribbon, designing spreadsheets that communicate, editing and printing them, working with formulas, protecting your data when you collaborate, turning out cool charts, and much more. The included four-color insert highlights the Ribbon, new graphics features, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create dynamic spreadsheets with style galleries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with more than 40 new cell styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate formatting with Live Preview\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share Excel data with other programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use VBA to write custom Excel functions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Master the Ribbon, powerful graphics capabilities, and more!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to great-looking spreadsheets that actually mean something\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Create colorful spreadsheets and charts, use Live Preview, and maximize everything Excel 2007 has to offer! Find just what you need to know about using the new Ribbon, designing spreadsheets that communicate, editing and printing them, working with formulas, protecting your data when you collaborate, turning out cool charts, and much more. The included four-color insert highlights the Ribbon, new graphics features, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create dynamic spreadsheets with style galleries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with more than 40 new cell styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate formatting with Live Preview\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share Excel data with other programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use VBA to write custom Excel functions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1533'),
(17540, 'Excel 2007 Dashboards &amp; Reports for Dummies', 'Michael Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whatâ€™s the use of putting out reports that no one reads? Properly created dashboards are graphical representations that put data in a context for your audience, and they look really cool! How cool? Youâ€™ll find out when you see the dazzling examples in\n <em>\n  Excel 2007 Dashboards &amp; Reports For Dummies.\n </em>\n And, before long, everyoneâ€™s eyes will be riveted to your dashboards and reports too!\n</p>\n<p>\n This revolutionary guide shows you how to turn Excel into your own personal Business Intelligence tool. Youâ€™ll learn the fundamentals of using Excel 2007 to go beyond simple tables to creating dashboard-studded reports that wow management. Get ready to catch dashboard fever as you find out how to use basic analysis techniques, build advanced dashboard components, implement advanced reporting techniques, and import external date into your Excel reports. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Unleash the power of Excel as a business intelligence tool\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create dashboards that communicate and get noticed\n </li>\n <li>\n  Think about your data in a new way\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present data more effectively and increase the value of your reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create dynamic labels that support visualization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Represent time and seasonal trending\n </li>\n <li>\n  Group and bucket data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Display and measure values versus goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement macro-charged reporting\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Using Excel 2007 as a BI tool is the most cost-efficient way for organizations of any size create powerful and insightful reports and distribute throughout the enterprise. And\n <em>\n  Excel 2007 Dashboards and Reports for Dummies\n </em>\n is the fastest you for you to catch dashboard fever!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create dashboards that communicate and get noticed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use pivot tables and form controls to build reports that mean something\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s the use of putting out reports that no one bothers to read? Properly created dashboards are graphical representations that put data in a context for your audience, and they look really cool. You''ll find out when you see the examples in this book, and soon your dashboards and reports will be getting rave reviews.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Think about your data in a new way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create dynamic labels that support visualization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Represent time and seasonal trending\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Display and measure values versus goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Give users an active interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1534'),
(17541, 'Excel 2007 Data Analysis for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows ordinary users how to tap the rich data analysis functionality of Excel, make sense of their organization''s critical financial and statistical information, and put together compelling data presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Now revised with over 30 percent new content to cover the enhancements in Excel 2007, including the completely redesigned user interface, augmented charting and PivotTable capabilities, improved security, and better data exchange through XML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides thorough coverage of Excel features that are critical to data analysis-working with external databases, creating PivotTables and PivotCharts, using Excel statistical and financial functions, sharing data, harnessing the Solver, taking advantage of the Small Business Finance Manager, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Unleash the power of Excel to make sense of your data\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to gain new insights into your data\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This handy guide helps you analyze the information you work with in your job to make better decisions. From grabbing external data to working with PivotCharts, database functions, and regression analysis, it shows you step by step how Excel can turn raw data into intelligible information.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Import data into Excel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with PivotTables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use database and statistical functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize PivotCharts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a Solver worksheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform regression analysis calculations\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1535'),
(17542, 'Excel 2007 for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the simple guidance in this book will have you excelling at home or in the office in no time."Â  (_PQ Magazine_, November 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One look at Excel 2007, with its new Office Button, Quick Access toolbar, and Ribbon, and you realize youâ€™re not in Kansas anymore. Well, have no fearâ€”\n <em>\n  Excel 2007 for Dummies\n </em>\n is here!\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve never worked with a computer spreadsheet, or if youâ€™ve had some experience with earlier versions of Excel but need help transitioning, here youâ€™ll find everything you need to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets (without sacrificing your sanity!).\n <em>\n  Excel 2007 for Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the fundamental techniques, concentrating on only the easiest, most user-friendly ways to get things done.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Rearrange, delete and insert new information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep track of and organize data in a single worksheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer data between the sheets of different workbooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a chart using the data in a worksheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add hyperlinks and graphics to worksheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  And more!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Plus, in keeping with Excel 2007â€™s more graphical and colorful look,\n <em>\n  Excel 2007 for Dummies\n </em>\n has taken on some color of its own, with full-color plates in the mid-section of the book illustrating exactly what youâ€™ll see on your screen. Whether you read it from cover to cover or skip to the sections that answer your specific questions, the simple guidance in this book will have you excelling at home or in the office no time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1536'),
(17543, 'Excel 2007 for Dummies Quick Reference', 'John Walkenbach &amp; Colin Banfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fast answers to frequently asked questions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excel 2007 essentials at your fingertips!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you''ll quickly find just what you need to know about navigating the new interface; using the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar; saving, protecting, and recovering workbook files; entering and editing data; creating formulas and functions, and much more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fast answers to frequently asked questions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excel 2007 essentials at your fingertips!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you''ll quickly find just what you need to know about navigating the new interface; using the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar; saving, protecting, and recovering workbook files; entering and editing data; creating formulas and functions, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1537'),
(17544, 'Excel 2007 Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Diane Koers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Completely updated to reflect the many changes in the latest release of Excel, this helpful book presents readers with concise instructions for carrying out common Excel 2007 tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  An easy-to-navigate design features a two-column layout and is packed with step-by-step directions and illustrations that incorporate the notable changes to Excel 2007\n </li>\n <li>\n  Readers can pick the task, find it fast, and get it done quickly, all while gaining a clear understanding of Excel 2007 enhancements, such as a new user interface, improved charting and PivotTable capabilities, and better data exchange with XML\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just the steps you need to create spreadsheets, charts, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Simple steps...\n</p>\n<p>\n ...for great results\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a Basic Chart\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1.Select the data (sequential or nonsequential) you want to plot in the chart. See Figure 11-1 for an example of sequential data selected for a chart.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2.Press the F11 key. Excel immediately adds a new sheet called Chart 1 to your workbook with the data plotted into a column chart. Figure 11-2 shows you the various elements that can make up a chart\n</p>\n<p>\n Some newer keyboards use a different function for the F11 key. If your F11 key does not produce a chart, use the Insert tab as explained in the next section.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Title: A descriptive name for the overall chart. By default, titles are not added in a basic chart.\n </li>\n <li>\n  X or Category axis: Column or row headings from your selected data, which Excel uses for Category axis names.\n </li>\n <li>\n  X Axis Title: A descriptive name for the Category axis. By default, a category label is not added in a basic chart.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Enter data into a spreadsheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build formulas and functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format cells and add graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort and analyzedata\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create charts andPivotTables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Blend Excel intoPowerPointÂ®\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(17545, 'Excel 2007 VBA Programming for Dummies', 'John Walkenbach &amp; Jan Karel Pieterse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Step-by-step instructions for creating VBA macros\n</p>\n<p>\n Harness the power of VBA and create custom Excel applications\n</p>\n<p>\n Make Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Grasp essential programming concepts\n <br />\n * Use the Visual Basic(r) Editor\n <br />\n * Navigate the new Excel user interface\n <br />\n * Communicate with your users\n <br />\n * Deal with errors and bugs\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Step-by-step instructions for creating VBA macros\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Harness the power of VBA and create custom Excel applications\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Make Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Grasp essential programming concepts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Visual BasicÂ® Editor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the new Excel user interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate with your users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with errors and bugs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1539'),
(17546, 'Excel 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly guide to Excel 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Excel is the standard for spreadsheet applications and is used worldwide, but it''s not always user-friendly. That makes it a perfect\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n topic, and this handy all-in-one guide covers all the essentials, the new features, how to analyze data with Excel, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Excel is the leading spreadsheet/data analysis software and is used throughout the world; the newest revision includes upgraded tools and a redesigned interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  For Dummies books are the bestselling guides to Excel, with more than three million copies sold\n </li>\n <li>\n  Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies covers the changes in the newest version as well as familiar tasks, such as creating and editing worksheets, setting up formulas, and performing statistical functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eight self-contained minibooks cover the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, presenting data in charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and creating macros with VBA.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Newcomers to Excel as well as veterans who just want to learn the latest version will find\n <em>\n  Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n has everything they need to know.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s everything you need to know about using Excel â€” in one handy package!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Excel is such a powerhouse, it takes eight self-contained minibooks to cover all its features! Open this All-in-One and find just what you need to know, from how to use the Ribbon interface and Backstage View and how to set up your first spreadsheet to collaborating on a worksheet, presenting results with cool charts and graphs, and understanding formulas and functions.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Welcome to 2010 â€” explore the new user experience, learn where to get help, and customize your Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Workin'' with worksheets â€” learn to build, format, edit, proof, manage, and print them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Formula for success â€” find out what formulas and functions do and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share and collaborate â€” discover how to send workbooks out for review and incorporate input from multiple users\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Results that are pretty â€” find out which type of chart shows off your data to best advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keeping data in line â€” learn to maintain, sort, and filter data lists using Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze this â€” use Excel''s computational ability to predict possible outcomes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making macros â€” use Visual BasicÂ® for Applications, record macros, edit VBA code, and make Excel do your bidding\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to navigate the Ribbon and Backstage View\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shortcuts for switching from older versions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tricks for eliminating Text to Speech errors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about functions and how they work in formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to secure data and still enable user edits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use line charts, pie charts, and scatter charts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for creating macros and custom functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to perform what-if analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1540'),
(17547, 'Excel 2010 for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling Excel book on the market, updated for Excel 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As the world''s leading spreadsheet application, Excel has a huge user base. The release of Office 2010 brings major changes to Excel, so\n <em>\n  Excel For Dummies\n </em>\n comes to the rescue once more!\n</p>\n<p>\n In the friendly and non-threatening\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n style, this popular guide shows beginners how to get up and running with Excel and helps more experienced users get comfortable with new features.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Excel is the number one spreadsheet application worldwide, and\n  <em>\n   Excel For Dummies\n  </em>\n  is the number one guide to using it\n </li>\n <li>\n  With the major changes in Microsoft Office 2010, Excel has new features and a new interface design; users need help to get up to speed\n </li>\n <li>\n  The book includes everything you need to know to perform basic Excel 2010 tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers creating and editing worksheets and charts, formatting cells, entering formulas, inserting graphs, designing database forms, and adding database records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers printing, adding hyperlinks to worksheets, saving worksheets as Web pages, adding existing worksheet data to an existing Web page, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Excel or just need to understand the 2010 version,\n <em>\n  Excel 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n provides what you need to know.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed on Excel 2010 and discover a whole new way to crunch numbers!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you just discovered you need to use Excel for the first time? Or are you an Excel veteran who wants to understand the 2010 version in a hurry? Either way, this friendly book has everything you need to know about creating and editing worksheets, formatting cells, using formulas, adding hyperlinks, saving worksheets as Web pages, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate effectively â€” see how the Ribbon interface andthe Backstage View give you access to all the tools you need for every task\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s your Excel â€” customize the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar to include the tools you use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To err is human â€” but you can easily fix mistakes and make updates with Excel''s editing functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy maintenance â€” make maintaining your worksheets easier with zoom, comments, cell names, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pivotal moments â€” create and format pivot tables to summarize your data effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making it pretty â€” include graphics, charts, and clip art to clarify the story your worksheets tell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Macro magic â€” automate Excel commands by creating macros you can add to the Ribbon or Quick Access toolbar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Collaborate online â€” share your worksheets via Windows Live SkyDrive and edit them from anywhere with Office Web Apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s new in Excel 2010, including the Backstage View\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to launch Excel fromWindows 7, Windows Vista,and Windows XP\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for drag-and-drop editing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for perfect printouts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Insert Function button\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for securing your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Conditional Formatting and Sparklines minigraphs to highlight your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to do "what-if" data analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and edit worksheets, format cells, and enter formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add data tables and sort and filter records\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create powerful charts with graphics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share worksheets via e-mailand SharePoint\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1541'),
(17548, 'Excel 2010 for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Colin Banfield &amp; John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the answers to your most important Excel questions with this reference\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n John Walkenbachâ€™s name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. Known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," Walkenbachâ€”along with Excel expert Colin Banfieldâ€”answers your most common and important Excel questions in this easy-to-understand reference.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn how to open, save, protect, and recover workbook files; add, copy, and delete worksheets; enter and edit data and text; create formulas and functions; audit, format, and print; and more. Highly organized and free of unnecessary jargon, this essential reference allows you to find the answers youâ€™re looking for quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Excel gurus Walkenbach and Banfield offer quick and easy answers to common Excel questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers information in a highly organized, easy-to-understand format so you can find exactly what you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes information on opening, saving, protecting and recovering workbook files; adding, copying, and deleting worksheets; entering and editing data and text; creating formulas and functions; auditing; formatting; printing; and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers navigating the user interface; using the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar; saving, protecting, and recovering workbook files; entering and editing data; creating formulas and functions, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Excel 2010 For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n enables you to spend more time working on your projects rather than trying to figure how to make Excel work for you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Straightforward and up-to-date â€” the nitty-gritty on working with Excel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to spend more time on your projects and less time trying to figure out Excel? This handy, portable guide gives you the facts in an easy-to-use format. Two Excel gurus bring you quickly up to speed on the 2010 version and then lay out the stuff you need to know: how to compare workbooks, manage worksheets, enter dates, work with formulas and functions, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New for 2010 â€” learn to use the slicer report filter for PivotTables, in-cell charts (called Sparklines), table and PivotTable search filters, interactive PivotChart filters, and PivotTable custom calculations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than one â€” share workbooks, protect them from unauthorized use, or compare two side-by-side\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s relative â€” use relative, absolute, and mixed references, and convert formulas to values\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cell development â€” edit cell contents, copy cells and ranges, and enter dates, formulas, text, and values\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chart your progress â€” choose a chart, modify its axis, create and add elements, and add context to numbers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tables and more â€” use tables, PivotTables, and PivotCharts effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A tour of the Excel 2010 window\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keyboard shortcuts that save you time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to undo changes and correct mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All you need to know about naming constants and formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on formatting numbers and ranges\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to adjust settings and print your worksheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different types of charts and how to change them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do with the slicer report filter\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the new interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create formulas and functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save, protect, and recover workbook files\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1542'),
(17549, 'Excel 2010 Formulas', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6424'),
(17550, 'Excel 2010 Forumlas', 'John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3882'),
(17551, 'Excel 2010 Power Programming With VBA', 'John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All the methods and tools you need to successfully program with Excel John Walkenbach''s name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. With this comprehensive guide, "Mr. Spreadsheet" shows you how to maximize your Excel experience using professional spreadsheet application development tips from his own personal bookshelf. Featuring a complete introduction to Visual Basic for Applications and fully updated for the new features of Excel 2010, this essential reference includes an analysis of Excel application development and is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for expanding Excelâ€™s capabilities with VBA. Offers an analysis of Excel application development and a complete introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Features invaluable advice from "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself (bestselling author John Walkenbach), who demonstrates all the techniques you need to create large and small Excel applications Provides tips, tricks, and techniques for expanding Excel''s capabilities with VBA that you wonâ€™t find anywhere else Includes a CD with templates and worksheets from the book This power-user''s guide is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for expanding Excel''s capabilities with VBA. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4215'),
(17552, 'Excel 2010: The Missing Manual', 'Matthew Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4218'),
(17553, 'Excel Formulas and Functions for Dummies', 'Ken Bluttman &amp; Peter G. Aitken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Put the power of Excel formulas and functions to work for you!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day-to-day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15-year and 30-year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly book demystifies Excel''s built-in functions so you can put them to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll find step-by-step instructions on 150 of Excel''s most useful functions, how they work within formulas, and how to use them to make your life easier.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  See how to use 150 of Excel''s most useful functions, with real-world examples showing how each function is used within a formula\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to calculate the costs of leasing versus buying a car, compute classroom grades, create an amortization table, or evaluate investment performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fully updated for Excel 2010, but the principles will work with earlier versions of Excel as well\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes essential coverage of an additional 85 functions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In the ever-popular, non-threatening For Dummies style,\n <em>\n  Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n makes Excel''s power accessible to you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Roll up your sleeves and start working with functions from ABS to ZTEST\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Get your hands dirty and dig for the nuggets in your data! This book shows you how, walking you through over 150 built-in functions in Excel 2010. Want to calculate a loan payment? How about finding a trend in your data? It''s all covered with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, so you can put the power of Excel functions to work.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put the fun in functions â€” from using the Insert Function dialog box and array functions to correcting formulas, you''ll brush up on Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do the math â€” create worksheets to track costs and revenue\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple to sophisticated â€” take advantage of finance-related functions and learn how to sum and round numbers to get just the answers you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Statistically speaking â€” test for central tendencies, analyze deviation, and count items in a data sample\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dive into forecasting â€” apply statistical functions to develop sound predictions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the data work for you â€” work with dates, times, and strings of text and pluck out pieces of data from a database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s your function? â€” get the most from several cool functions, such as the amazing IF and the workhorses HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tapping into formula and function fundamentals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to catch errors and audit formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for moving from basic to advanced math functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to solve problems with statistics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Best practices for working with data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to compare, find, and measure text\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to use lookup, logical, and reference functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to put data into a database structure\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Excel''s built-in formulas to make everyday calculations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine what functions to use in your formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create amortization tables, calculate classroom grades, or evaluate investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design a database\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1543'),
(17554, 'Excel Formulas and Functions for Dummies', 'Ken Bluttman &amp; Peter G. Aitken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Targets beginning to intermediate Excel users seeking real-world examples of how they can use Excel''s powerful built-in functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows readers how to use Excel functions in formulas to help them decide between buying and leasing a car, calculate mortgage costs, compute grades, evaluate investment performance, figure college expenses, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gives explanations and examples of real-world situations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides an abbreviated discussion of an additional 200 functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Excel commands nearly 90 percent of the market for spreadsheet applications; although this book is written for Excel 2003, the functions described are in earlier versions as well\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use Excel functions to solve problems every day\n</p>\n<p>\n Evaluate your investments, calculate credit card costs, predict expenses, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n When you figure in the interest, just how much ARE you paying for that car? You may not want to know, but if you do, Excel has a formula and function for that â€” and over two hundred others. This book makes it easy to discover what they are, what they do, and how they can help you!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Save time with the Insert Function dialog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate loan payments and interest rates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand array functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use significance tests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with date and time functions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1544'),
(17555, 'Excel Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covering formulas, charts, data lists, macros, and versions 2000, 2002, and 2003, this book offers more than seventy easy-to-follow techniques that show both new and experienced Excel users how to save time and avoid tedious or redundant tasks. Bestselling author Greg Harvey includes information on customizing Excel''s menus and toolbars; modifying Excel''s editing settings; using add-ins, AutoCorrect, AutoFill, AutoFormat, and data validation; copying and moving data between worksheets; encrypting workbook files; creating external database queries; converting worksheet data and charts into Web pages; and much more.\n <br />\n * Written by Greg Harvey, one of the bestselling technology authors of all time, whose books have combined sales of more than four million copies\n <br />\n * A unique, two-column format makes it easy for readers to grasp and apply each technique-and begin working more efficiently\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make Excel work your way and be more productive\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 60 techniques that help you save time by . . .\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customizing Excel''s menus, toolbars, and screen display\n </li>\n <li>\n  Streamlining program startup\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speeding data entry with AutoFill and AutoCorrect\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating formatting with Styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using linking formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Controlling data display in tables\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1545'),
(17556, 'Excel VBA Programming for Dummies', 'John Walkenbach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having Excel and just using it for standard spreadsheets is a little like getting the ultimate cable system and a 50â€ flat panel plasma HDTV and using it exclusively to watch Lawrence Welk reruns. With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, you can take advantage of numerous Excel options such as: creating new worksheet functions; automating tasks and operations; creating new appearances, toolbars, and menus; designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins; and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n This guide is not for rank Excel amateurs. Itâ€™s for intermediate to advanced Excel users who want to learn VBA programming (or whose bosses want them to learn VBA programming). You need to know your way around Excel before you start creating customized short cuts or systems for speeding through Excel functions. If youâ€™re an intermediate or advanced Excel user,\n <em>\n  Excel VBA For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you take your skills (and your spreadsheets) to the next level. It includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An introduction to the VBA language\n </li>\n <li>\n  A hands-on, guided, step-by-step walk through developing a useful VBA macro, including recording, testing, and changing it, and testing it\n </li>\n <li>\n  The essential foundation, including the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and its components, modules, Excel object model, subroutines and functions, and the Excel macro recorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  The essential VBA language elements, including comments, variables and constants, and labels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Range objects and discovering useful Range objective properties and methods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using VBA and worksheet functions, including a list and examples\n </li>\n <li>\n  Programming constructions, including the GoTo statement, the If-Then structure, Select Case, For-Next loop, Do-While loop, and Do-Until loop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automatic procedures and Workbook events, including a table and event-handler procedures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Error-handling and bug extermination techniques, and using the Excel debugging tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating custom dialog boxes, also known as UserForms, with a table of the toolbox controls and their capabilities, how-to for the dialog box controls, and UserForm techniques and tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customizing the Excel toolbars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using VBA code to modify the Excel menu system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating worksheet functions and working with various types of arguments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating Excel add-ins such as new worksheet functions you can use in formulas or new commands or utilities\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Author John Walkenbach is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and the author of more than 40 spreadsheet books including\n <em>\n  Excel 2003 Bible\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA.\n </em>\n While this guide includes tons of examples and screenshots, Walkenbach knows thereâ€™s no substitute for hands-on learning. The book is complete with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A dedicated companion Web site that includes bonus chapters plus all sample programs to save you a lot of typing and let you play around and experiment with various changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Information to help you make the most of Excelâ€™s built-in Help system so you can find out other stuff you may need to know\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n What are you waiting for? Sure, learning to do VBA programming takes a little effort, but itâ€™s a Very Big Accomplishment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create new functions, automate tasks, and design add-ins\n</p>\n<p>\n Become an Excel programmer with VBA, and discover what you can make Excel do\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to Excel at spreadsheet creation, VBA is your ticket to greatness. And youâ€™re in luck, because "Mr. Spreadsheet" is about to walk you through VBA programming, showing you how to create custom spreadsheets, write macros that make Excel do cool tricks, and more. Open this book and youâ€™re on your way!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand and use VBA\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate Excel with macros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find what you need in Excelâ€™s Help system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design custom dialog boxes, toolbars, and menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop user-oriented applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create custom commands\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1546');
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(17557, 'Excel Workbook for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excel is the most sophisticated spreadsheet program available, making it easy for you to create a variety of analyses and calculations for personal and professional use. However, this program is much more than just an electronic version of an accountantâ€™s green sheet, and mastering even the most basic functions can be a challenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Excel Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n is specially designed to give you the hands-on experience you need to start using this great program with confidence and efficiency. This guide is packed with hundreds of exercises that walk you through the ins and outs of Excel at your own pace. Youâ€™ll have all the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Enter spreadsheet data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format, modify, and print your spreadsheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Copy and correct formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create date and time formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use math, statistical, lookup, and logical functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chart spreadsheet data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add graphics to the spreadsheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage and secure your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform what-if analyses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate pivot tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publish spreadsheets as Web pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add hyperlinks to spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of Macros and Visual Basic Editor\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Included is a bonus CD-ROM full of useful features, including sample files for all exercises in the book, a variety of important Excel tools, worksheets, and templates for financial planning, and a trial version of Crystal Xcelsius to get you started making progress and becoming an Excel expert!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Start using Excel spreadsheets, formulas, and charts â€” practice exercises make it easy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t have to be overwhelmed by Excel â€” this workbook helps you get the hang of the most popular spreadsheet program by doing! From working with pivot tables to adding graphics to building dynamic charts, managing and securing data, performing data analysis, adding hyperlinks, and creating macros, you will do it all with the help of practice files on the CD-ROM.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up, format, and edit basic spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a variety of formulas for finance, date and time, math, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate return on investments or loan amortization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master data analysis with pivot tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn spreadsheets into Web pages and master hyperlinks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All this on the bonus CD-ROM\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample files for all exercises in the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A variety of useful Excel tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Worksheets and templates for financial planning and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Trial version of Crystal Xcelsius\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(17558, 'Exchange-Traded Funds for Dummies', 'Russell Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It seems like every week Wall Street comes up with some new, exotic investment idea that puts your money at risk. Thankfully, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are less volatile than individual stocks, cheaper than most mutual funds, and subject to minimal taxation. But how do you use this wonderful product to diversify your investments in todayâ€™s fast-growing and ever-changing market?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you in plain English how to weigh your options and pick the exchange-traded fund thatâ€™s right for you. It tells you everything you need to know about building a lean, mean portfolio and optimizing your profits. This hands-on guide will give you the power to use ETFs to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create the stock (equity) side of your portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle risk control, diversification, and modern portfolio theory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage small, large, sector, and international investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add bonds, REITs, and other ETFs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invest smartly in precious metals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work non-ETFs into your investment mix\n </li>\n <li>\n  Revamp your portfolio to fit life changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fund your retirement years\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, this book covers commonly asked questions about ETFs and mistakes that many investors, even the experienced ones, make. It provides forecasts of the future for ETFs and personal spending and also provides a complete list of ETFs and Web resources to assist your investment. With\n <em>\n  Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll soon discover what makes ETFs the hottest investment on the market!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out what makes ETFs the hottest investment on the market\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Weigh the options and pick an ETF that''s right for you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for a new and rewarding way to invest? Exchange-traded funds may be for you! ETFs are less volatile than individual stocks, cheaper than most mutual funds, and subject to minimal taxation. Start profiting today â€” with the friendly guide that tells you everything you need to know about this increasingly popular investment.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Diversify your portfolio with ETFs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lower your investment costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decrease your tax burden\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your long-term investment performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invest in stocks, bonds, REITs, or commodities\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1548'),
(17559, 'Existentialism for Dummies', 'Christopher Panza &amp; Gregory Gale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you ever wondered what the phrase â€œGod is deadâ€ means? Youâ€™ll find out in\n <em>\n  Existentialism For Dummies\n </em>\n , a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaardâ€™s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find an introduction to existentialism and understand how it fits into the history of philosophy. This insightful guide will expose you to existentialismâ€™s ideas about the absurdity of life and the ways that existentialism guides politics, solidarity, and respect for others. Thereâ€™s even a section on religious existentialism. Youâ€™ll be able to reviewkey existential themes and writings. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Trace the influence of existentialism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Distinguish each philosopherâ€™s specific ideas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explain what it means to say that â€œGod is deadâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  See culture through an existentialist lens\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the existentialist notion of time, finitude, and death\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the absurdity of life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the art of individuality\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of the ten greatest existential films, ten great existential aphorisms, and ten common misconceptions about existentialism,\n <em>\n  Existentialism\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to a very influential school of thought.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore key existential themes and writings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your friendly guide to finding meaning in a meaningless world\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Is God "dead"? If we are alone, how should we act? These are key questions posed by existentialism. This unintimidating guide clearly explains the concepts of this philosophical movement in plain English. You''ll meet the thinkers who helped it evolve â€” Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus â€” and see how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The birth of existentialism\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What "God is dead" means\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why it''s crucial to live authentically\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An existentialist critique of culture today\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The movement''s impact on philosophy and psychology\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1549'),
(17560, 'Exotic - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7037'),
(17561, 'Exotic 09-2011', 'Exotic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3878'),
(17562, 'Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies', 'Tee Morris &amp; Evo Terra &amp; Ryan C. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you once dreamed of a broadcasting career, or if youâ€™re passionate about a cause you want to share with the world, podcasting may be just what youâ€™re looking for. But itâ€™s not as simple as picking up a microphoneâ€”at least, not if you want great results. So pick up\n <em>\n  Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies\n </em>\n instead, and discover the secrets of producing professional podcasts!\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide shows you how to record like a pro, build an audience, and maybe even generate some revenue from your podcasting passion. If you''re ready to go live with what you have to say, here''s how to create podcasts that appeal to a large audience, sound top-notch, and communicate a message. Find out what equipment you need, how to promote your podcast, and how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose a topic and decide whether to narrow or expand your focus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort and filter information about your subject matter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a recording studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record with pro-level software and hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce your show with sound effects, music, and appropriate sound balance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a video podcast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Craft a targeted distribution, marketing, and promotional plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote your business or a nonprofit group\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your podcasting hobby into a moneymaking venture by selling ads or products on your podcasts, or by using them to promote your own skills\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s a lot to think about if youâ€™re considering creating podcasts that will stand out and get noticed. With this guide by your side, your star status is much closer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Revealed â€” the secrets to producing professional podcasts!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Record like a pro, build an audience, and maybe even generate some revenue\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re ready to take your podcasting passion to the next level, you''ve picked up the right book. Here''s what you need to know to create podcasts that appeal to a large audience, sound top-notch, communicate a message, and maybe even make some money. Find out what equipment you need, how to promote your podcast, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Record with pro-level software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a recording studio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a video podcast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Craft a targeted distribution, marketing, and promotional plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Promote a business or nonprofit group\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1550'),
(17563, 'Exposed', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Veteran FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believed the threat targeted Quantico. It targeted them.A deadly virusâ€”virtually undetectable until it causes death from a million internal cuts. The victims appear random, but Maggie wonders if vengeance isn''t the guiding hand.An aficionado of contemporary killers, using bits and pieces from their crimesâ€”the Beltway Sniper''s phrases, the Unabomber''s clues, the Anthrax Killer''s delivery.Maggie knows dangerous minds, but she must tackle this new opponent from within a biosafety isolation wardâ€”while waiting to see if death is already multiplying inside her body. She just fears her last case might end with the most intelligent killer she''s ever faced escalating from murderâ€¦to epidemic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4050'),
(17564, 'Exposure-September.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Exposure-September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6703'),
(17565, 'Extreme How-To - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7038'),
(17566, 'Extreme How-To 04-2011', 'Extreme How-To', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2308'),
(17567, 'Extreme Searcher&#39;s Internet Handbook', 'Hock, Randolph.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5902'),
(17568, 'extreme.howto.2011-10.pdf 30-09-2011', 'extreme.howto.2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7047'),
(17569, 'The Extremes (Gollancz)', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bizarre and horrible coincidence draws FBI special agent Teresa Simonsto England: on the same day that a mass murderer killed her husband and fourteenothers in Kingwood City, Texas, another spree killer massacred seventeen in thesmall Sussex town of Bulverton. Teresa seeks to understand her husband''s deathby exploring the similar but unrelated event in Bulverton, as she once exploredreconstructions of historical mass murders in ExEx (Extreme Experience, abrutally realistic form of virtual reality) to train for her FBI job. InBulverton she finds a commercial ExEx parlor, which, she is horrified andfascinated to discover, offers a Bulverton mass-murder scenario. As Teresaexplores both the town and the scenario of Bulverton, the separations betweenreality and ExEx, between ExEx murder reconstructions, between past and present,begin to blur--and so does the separation between Kingwood City and Bulverton,as Teresa realizes the simultaneity of the events may be more than acoincidence.A New York Times Recommended Book, The Extremes received theBritish Science Fiction Association award for 1999. Christopher Priest''sprevious novel, ThePrestige, won the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Award.--Cynthia Ward\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6345'),
(17570, 'F01PD1FS0901_32375.indd', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10843'),
(17571, 'F1.Racing.Magazine.2011.October.English.PDF.pdf 25-09-2011', 'F1.Racing.Magazine.2011.October.English.PDF.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6807'),
(17572, 'The Face of Death', 'Cody McFadyen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen took the suspense thriller where other writers have feared to tread. He introduced readers to a heroine every bit as dark and edgy as the serial killers she hunts: Special Agent Smoky Barrett. Now, in his latest novel, McFadyen brings Agent Barrett back to track down a killer who breaks all the rules. Get ready for a shattering confrontation with the very essence of human evil. â€œI want to talk to Smoky Barrett or I''ll kill myself.â€ The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims â€œThe Strangerâ€ killed her adoptive family, that he''s been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her. No one has. Until now. Special Agent Smoky Barrett is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nation''s elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they''ll have to be to deal with this case. For another vicious double homicide reveals a killer embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an â€œartistâ€ who''s molding sixteen-year-old Sarah into the perfect victimâ€”and the ultimate weapon. But Smoky Barrett has another, more personal reason for catching The Strangerâ€”an adopted daughter and a new life that are worth protecting at any cost. This time Smoky is going to have to put it all on the line. Because The Stranger is all too real, all too close, and all too relentless. And when he finally shows his face, if she''s not ready to confront her worst fear, Smoky won''t have time to do anything but die.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  : Don''t let the title fool you. Cody McFadyen''s\n  <em>\n   The Face of Death\n  </em>\n  is not just another scary-as-hell serial killer novel (although it is that in\n  <em>\n   spades\n  </em>\n  ). Drawing a chilling portrait of a child stalked by a serial killer seeking revenge, McFadyen''s second novel is surprisingly moving, standing out in an already packed genre by focusing on victim Sarah Langstrom and her struggle to survive. McFadyen knocked our socks off with his first book\n  <em>\n   The Face of Death\n  </em>\n  is a perfect book for fans of\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  McFadyen''s outstanding sequel to his debut,\n  <em>\n   Shadow Man\n  </em>\n  (2006), provides a chilling reminder: "However bad things may become, evil men only triumph in the most important ways when we let them." FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett is barely back in fighting form six months after killing the man who murdered her family and best friend before she must deal with another threat. "The Stranger," a serial killer seeking revenge for a miscarriage of justice, has targeted 16-year-old Sarah Langstrom, who asks for Smoky''s help after the Stranger kills Sarah''s latest foster family. The Stranger''s murder spree actually began on Sarah''s sixth birthday with her biological parents and dog. Smoky''s crackerjack L.A. Violent Crimes Unit whirls into action to catch a monster who inflicts pain on Sarah by systematically killing anyone she loves. Smoky''s fierce first-person narrative and Sarah''s eerie diary excerpts, supplemented by a great cast, lift this scary thriller far above the usual serial-killer norm.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6159'),
(17573, 'Facebook for Dummies', 'Leah Pearlman &amp; Carolyn Abram', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eagerly anticipated update to the bestselling first edition is here!\n</p>\n<p>\n Facebook''s popularity is seemingly unstoppable. The site experienced a huge boom in registered users in the latter half of 2008. It was at that time that Facebook also underwent a radical facelift and introduced numerous changes. Packed with hundreds of screen shots, this anxiously awaited new edition presents you with a thorough update on all the exciting changes to Facebook''s interface since the first edition hit the shelves a mere one year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n Authored by two Facebook employees,\n <em>\n  Facebook For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , features unique insight and insider knowledge of Facebook that can''t be found anywhere else. You''ll explore optimum ways to get familiar with Facebook, tips for representing yourself online, best practices for keeping connected, how to run a business on Facebook, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Walks you through creating a profile, navigating the interface, and setting up privacy features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to find and add friends, fill out your profile, add applications, and upload photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses ways to join a network or group or use Facebook as a scheduler\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses using Facebook to promote your business and buy ad space on Facebook\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Put your best face forward and dive in to all the exciting new features that Facebook offers!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a Profile, navigate the site, and use privacy features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find friends and Groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add applications and upload photos to your Facebook page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a fan page or get the word out about an event\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Facebook secrets revealed! Keep up with friends, family, classmates, and business contacts\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Is everybody on Facebook except you? Change that with this friendly guide. These Facebook experts show you how to set up your Profile, protect your privacy, find friends and family members, learn what''s happening in their lives, and keep them up to date on yours. You can even improve your business life with Facebook â€” here''s how!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For the beginner â€” learn the rules, set up a Profile with your personal information, upload photos, and find friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it work for you â€” tailor the Facebook system to deliver the updates you want and block out the rest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Here, you can write on the Wall â€” explore communication through personal posts, public comments, and photo sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Participate â€” discover and join groups that focus on activities you enjoy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take the lead â€” start your own group, plan an event, or find others who share a special interest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Promote your business â€” use fan pages and ads to introduce your business to new customers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   On the go â€” use Facebook mobile texts to stay connected while you''re out and about\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help keep Facebook safe â€” report rules violations and activities that weaken the Facebook community\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can and can''t do on Facebook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to find and connect with your friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on navigating the site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Privacy controls and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for creating the perfect Profile\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to schedule your life with Facebook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for a business page that gets attention\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Great applications to try\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1551'),
(17574, 'Facebook Marketing for Dummies', 'Paul Dunay &amp; Richard Krueger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to leverage the power of the Facebook community to achieve your business marketing goals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Facebook boasts an extremely devoted user base, with more than 65 billion page visits per month. With Facebook, an organization can market and promote their brand, products, or services via the network''s built-in components of profile pages, polls, community building, advertising, word-of-mouth marketing, and business applications. This insightful resource focuses on the strategies, tactics, and techniques necessary to lead your organization into the world of Facebook marketing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with vital real-world case studies, the book serves as a must-have guide for the most reliable, responsible, and ethical business and marketing practices with Facebook.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A helpful reference that discusses essential strategies, tactics, and techniques for excelling in the world of Facebook marketing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines setting up a business profile page, hosting an event on Facebook, and tracking your return-on-investment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares strategies for successful Facebook advertising campaigns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to create widgets and Facebook applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Face it: this essential book contains everything you need to know for your foray into Facebook marketing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Connect with customers by putting your best face forward with Facebook marketing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Facebook continues to grow, engaging an ever-widening demographic base. Why wouldnâ€™t you want to market your business to its hundreds of millions of loyal members, especially when you can build a Facebook Page for free? Learn how to use the Wall, start a discussion, host an event, and promote your business. Branch out into more engaging Facebook ad strategies and measure your marketing success!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make up your mind â€” learn how Facebook marketing works and what to keep in mind as you seek a new kind of relationship with your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Above the crowd â€” design a Facebook Page that makes your business stand out and create a strategy for viral marketing success in Facebook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Go guerilla â€” tap into Facebookâ€™s efficient network of connections to expand your customer base\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get connected â€” use Facebook Connect to engage your visitors with the same social features that have built Facebookâ€™s popularity\n </li>\n <li>\n  The next level â€” host a contest, develop an application, or use Facebook as a giant focus group with Facebook survey applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fascinating facts about the changing Facebook demographics\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use the site to promote your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Facebook business etiquette tips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Characteristics of a successful Page for your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ten great Facebook business blogs\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to host a Facebook event\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for optimizing your Facebook ad campaign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reasons why your company needs a Facebook presence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the Facebook tools and built-in applications to connect with your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a successful Facebook ad campaign by targeting key demographics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gather marketing information through Facebook Insights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extend your Facebook clients to your own Web site with Facebook Connect\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1552'),
(17575, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6242'),
(17576, 'Family Handyman - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10632'),
(17577, 'Family Handyman - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5989'),
(17578, 'Family_Handyman_2011-10_HQ.pdf 17-09-2011', 'Family_Handyman_2011-10_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6087'),
(17579, 'A Family&#39;s Guide to the Military for Dummies', 'Sheryl Garrett &amp; Sue Hoppin &amp; Tanya Biank', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Expert advice on all aspects of military life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Family''s Guide to the Military For Dummies\n </em>\n is for the millions of military dependents, family members, and friends who are looking for straightforward guidance to take advantage of the benefits and overcome the challenges unique to life in the military. This comprehensive guide covers such key topics as introducing military life to readers new to the armed forces, financial planning, relocation, deployment, raising kids alone while a partner is away, and taking advantage of the available benefits. It offers tips and advice for dealing with emotions that surround events like deployments, deciphering the acronyms used in daily military life, forming support groups, keeping track of a loved one''s whereabouts, and surviving on a military base in a foreign country.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your personal how-tohandbook for living yourbest life as a military family\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for a clear, concise guide to military life? Whether you''re new to the armed forces or planning your latest relocation, this plain-English handbook has expert tips for overcoming the challenges and taking advantage of the benefits unique to life in the military. From living on a base to financial planning to deployment, you''ll see how to find all the support your family needs.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the boot camp basics â€” understand rank and military hierarchy, find your way around a base, and connect with others in the community\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take charge of your finances â€” decipher military compensation, handle your taxes, build credit, and invest for your family''s future\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your military benefits â€” obtain health and dental insurance, utilize the family support centers, explore retirement benefits, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Raise a happy family â€” from housing and childcare to education and recreation, take advantage of all the military offers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle deployments â€” prepare for deployment, help children cope, stay connected with your loved one, and manage stress and anxiety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transition out of the military â€” assess the financial benefits, retire from service, and plan for your next career\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of military versus civilian lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your place in the military structure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Educational and employment opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Family support centers, groups, and associations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best benefits for military spouses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to avoid scams against service members\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A family''s guide to military acronyms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Programs outside the military you can turn to for support\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(17580, 'Fantamag.com &amp; Storemags.com - Magazines for all', 'www.storemags.com &amp; www.fantamag.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6426'),
(17581, 'Fantamag.com &amp; Storemags.com - Magazines for all', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2445'),
(17582, 'Fantasy Football for Dummies', 'Martin Signore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with expert advice and timely tips\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way to guide your team to glory in fantasy football\n</p>\n<p>\n Fantasy football can be an addictive hobby. But if you''ve never played before, how do you start? Have no fear! This friendly guide explains the game to you from start to finish -- from scouting and drafting your players to building your coaching skills to planning your strategy. And who knows, perhaps even to tasting victory in your league championship!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the basics of the game\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Pick the league right for you\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Assemble your dream team in the draft\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Develop your in-season management skills\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Know which quick fixes work and what common mistakes to avoid\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with expert advice and timely tips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to guide your team to glory in fantasy football\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fantasy football can be an addictive hobby. But if you''ve never played before, how do you start? Have no fear! This friendly guide explains the game to you from start to finish â€” from scouting and drafting your players to building your coaching skills to planning your strategy. And who knows, perhaps even to tasting victory in your league championship!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the basics of the game\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick the league right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble your dream team in the draft\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your in-season management skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know which quick fixes work and what common mistakes to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(17583, 'Fashion - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10808'),
(17584, 'Fashion for Dummies', 'Jill Martin &amp; Pierre A. Lehu', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fashion For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the guess out of dress, giving you the confidence and know-how you need to dress for every occasion. This full-color guide is packed with tips on creating a confusion-free wardrobe that works with your body type and personal style, as well as navigating the worlds of color, pattern, and texture.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reveals how to put together outfits that work without overextending your budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features a section dedicated to menswear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with helpful illustrations presented in full color\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The perfect guide for novice fashion-hunters,\n <em>\n  Fashion For Dummies\n </em>\n is your key to always dressing your best!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jill Martin''s Ultimate Outfit Checklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  How to be happy with your outfit every time you get dressed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if youâ€™d be psyched if the ex-boyfriend who dumped you ran into you while you were wearing it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if it makes you feel confident enough to ace a job interview.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if it stands out just enough to get you noticed. While you might not want to scream, â€œLook at me!â€ in a fire engineâ€“red dress, you donâ€™t have to wear only head-to-toe black, either. Try adding some color as an accent with a scarf, or some great jewelry, or even metallic shoes or a unique bag for a change.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if youâ€™re comfortable that itâ€™s you exactly as you see yourself. Wearing pants when you really feel more comfortable in skirts and dresses (or vice versa) just to change up your wardrobe is not necessary. You know what you feel and look good in, and itâ€™s okay to stick with that look.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if the fabric feels soft on your skin. Donâ€™t wear it if itâ€™s at all itchy, because itâ€™ll distract you and make you uncomfortable all day.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if itâ€™s going to keep you warm enough. Showing some skin is sexy, but in the winter, try a sexy neckline instead of bare arms.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if it fits you properly. If itâ€™s too big or too small, it wonâ€™t flatter your figure and youâ€™ll be trying to adjust yourself all day. Again, distracting and uncomfortable!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if it doesnâ€™t make you look like you tried too hard. While itâ€™s important that everything youâ€™re wearing goes well together, you donâ€™t want to look too matchy-matchy. Avoid matching your shoes to your belt to your bag to your hair accessories.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if itâ€™s appropriate for the location, activity, or venue. Thereâ€™s no need to wear high heels to the company picnic. Not only will you look out of place, but you wonâ€™t be able to participate in any of the dayâ€™s events.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10)\n </strong>\n Only wear it if it represents your generation, meaning you donâ€™t look like youâ€™re wearing your motherâ€™s clothes â€” or your daughterâ€™s, for that matter. Just because micro-minis are in for the teen set does not mean that you should necessarily follow that trend.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jill Martin Reveals Her Fashion Discoveries in an Amazon-Exclusive Interview\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What was the biggest fashion discovery you made while you were writing\n  <em>\n   Fashion For Dummies?\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n While following the trends is always fun, youâ€™ll look your most beautiful and stylish if you stay true to your personality and dress to flatter your body type.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Has your style changed at all because of this book?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Well, maybe not changed entirely, but it definitely evolved and got more refined. While I used to have an overflowing closet with tons of different looks, now I have a cleaned-out and organized closet thatâ€™s narrowed down to the more classic look that best expresses my style.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Is there any one fashion rule that you would advise people of across the board, regardless of style or body type?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Yes! Invest wisely and think long-term when it comes to your basic and staple items. Itâ€™s okay to spend a little more on these pieces, because youâ€™ll have them in your wardrobe for years. Likewise, look for bargains when buying super trendy items. You wonâ€™t have these for more than a season or two, so thereâ€™s no need to spend too much.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What is the biggest splurge you ever made on your wardrobe, and was it worth it?\n </strong>\n <br />\n I bought this amazing Chanel bag. I had no business spending that kind of money at the time, but I had to have it. And, yes, it was worth it because itâ€™s a classic that will never go out of style. Iâ€™ve been using it for years and will continue to do so. I have more than gotten my moneyâ€™s worth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What is the best bargain you ever found?\n </strong>\n <br />\n I found a couple of beautiful rhinestone broaches at a flea market once. I use them all the time. I wear one on my jean jacket pocket, and the other I pin onto a formal dress to give it a vintage look.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fashion For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the guess out of dress, giving you the confidence and know-how you need to dress for every occasion. This full-color guide is packed with tips on creating a confusion-free wardrobe that works with your body type and personal style, as well as navigating the worlds of color, pattern, and texture.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reveals how to put together outfits that work without overextending your budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features a section dedicated to menswear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with helpful illustrations presented in full color\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The perfect guide for novice fashion-hunters,\n <em>\n  Fashion For Dummies\n </em>\n is your key to always dressing your best!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1554'),
(17585, 'Fast.Bikes.2011.11.pdf 09-10-2011', 'Fast.Bikes.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10615');
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(17586, 'Fault Line: A Novel', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes heâ€™ll be the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, California â€™s nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.  Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered, the patent examiner who reviewed the innovation dies-and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of ideas, and running out of time, he knows that the one person who can help him is the last person heâ€™d ever ask: his brother.  Ben Treven is a military liaison element, an elite undercover soldier paid to â€œfind, fix, and finishâ€ high-value targets in the United States global war on terror.  Disenchanted with what he sees as America â€™s culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows-and because other than Alex, whom he hasnâ€™t spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone.  But blood is thicker than water, and when Ben receives Alexâ€™s frantic call he hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that thereâ€™s another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer whom Alex has long secretly desired-and whom Ben immediately distrusts. As these three struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart-even as Sarahâ€™s presence, and her own secret yearnings, deepens the fault line between them.  A full-throttle thriller that is both emotionally and politically charged, Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and onto the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped by only three people-three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, theyâ€™ll first have to survive one another.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes heâ€™ll be the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Californiaâ€™s nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered, the patent examiner who reviewed the innovation dies--and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of ideas, and running out of time, he knows that the one person who can help him is the last person heâ€™d ever ask: his brother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ben Treven is a military liaison element, an elite undercover soldier paid to â€œfind, fix, and finishâ€ high-value targets in the United States global war on terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Disenchanted with what he sees as Americaâ€™s culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows--and because other than Alex, whom he hasnâ€™t spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But blood is thicker than water, and when Ben receives Alexâ€™s frantic call he hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that thereâ€™s another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer whom Alex has long secretly desired--and whom Ben immediately distrusts. As these three struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart--even as Sarahâ€™s presence, and her own secret yearnings, deepens the fault line between them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A full-throttle thriller that is both emotionally and politically charged,\n  <em>\n   Fault Line\n  </em>\n  centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and onto the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped by only three people--three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, theyâ€™ll first have to survive one another.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Barry Eisler on\n   <em>\n    Fault Line\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fault Line\n  </em>\n  , my first standalone, introduces military assassin Ben Treven, and my previous six books were a series centering around freelance assassin John Rain.\n  <em>\n   Fault Line\n  </em>\n  includes some pretty explicit sex, and the\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™m not sure exactly what draws me to characters like Rain and Ben. I think itâ€™s that, on the one hand, theyâ€™re like you and me. Theyâ€™re not sociopaths; theyâ€™re normal. And yet theyâ€™re not normal, because they can do--and live with--acts that would crush a normal psyche. I guess Iâ€™m drawn to the idea that a person can transcend--commit the ultimate transgression, in fact--without being punished for it. An ability like that would be an almost god-like kind of power, wouldnâ€™t it? Raskolnikov without the guilt. Ahab without the catastrophe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And yet these men arenâ€™t free of consequences--there is a â€œcost of it,â€ as a Vietnam vet friend whoâ€™s taught me a lot puts it. That cost, and the way these men shoulder it, is something else that fascinates me, and that I try to reflect in my books. It''s not just Rain grappling with the weight of what he''s done; it''s how it effects his ability to have a relationship with a woman--even a fellow professional like Delilah. And the wall Ben feels between men like himself and civilians creates a painful barrier between him and Sarah Hosseini--a barrier that will be put under tremendous pressure by their mutual attraction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Okay, now sex...\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are three general ways to get to know someoneâ€™s character: time, stress, and sex. In a novel, you donâ€™t have time, meaning you need an accelerant, and that leaves you with sex or stress. Violence is one of the most stressful experiences we humans can face, which is why violence can be such a powerful tool in stories. But sex is also enormously revealing, which is why the biblical euphemism that Abraham â€œknewâ€ Sarah is so apt. Also, sex can be an incredibly powerful pivot. Sex changes everything. Remember when John Cusack and Ione Skye finally make love in\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which is why I had so much of a blast with the buildup to what happens in\n  <em>\n   Fault Line\n  </em>\n  and with its culmination. These are characters caught for a variety of reasons between powerfully conflicting feelings of antagonism and attraction. They know they shouldnâ€™t, they even tell themselves they donâ€™t want to... and yet of course they do. What would happen to two people with feelings like that, pressurized by shared danger, enhanced by distrust, catalyzed by violence? Not going to tell you here... youâ€™ll have to read the book to find out.\n  <em>\n   --Barry Eisler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Charles Bush)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eisler fans looking for the return of John Rain wonâ€™t find him here, but they wonâ€™t be disappointed. Silicon Valley patent lawyer Alex Treven is counting on a big payday when he closes a potential multimillion-dollar deal with the inventor of an encryption program, but his prospects change quickly when the inventor is murdered and Alex is attacked in his home. To uncover the truth of the murder and survive himself, Alex will need to call in the services of a man he never wanted to see again: his estranged brother, Ben, who works for a secret anti-terrorist military organization but agrees to fly from Istanbul to San Francisco to helpâ€”and immediately becomes a target. Also involved is another lawyer, an Iranian American woman who also knows about the encryption program and may or not be trustworthy. Rich characterizations and family dynamics blend seamlessly with gripping action scenes. Eisler has himself another winner. --Jeff Ayers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4627'),
(17587, 'Fear.Itself.Spotlite.OneShot.Jun.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'Fear.Itself.Spotlite.OneShot.Jun.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(17588, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and  praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4089'),
(17589, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and  praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4404'),
(17590, 'The Feast of St. Friend', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4242'),
(17591, 'Ferrets for Dummies', 'Kim Schilling &amp; Susan A. Brown Dvm', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about getting a ferret? Want to make sure youâ€™re giving the ferret you already have the best possible care?\n <em>\n  Ferrets For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you decide whether a ferret is for you and give your little fellah a healthy, happy home. Itâ€™s packed with practical information on feeding, housing, health maintenance, and medical care.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, plain-English guide gives you the authoritative information you need in a cut-to-the-chase, quick-reference format. Youâ€™ll find the latest on appropriate diets for ferrets, dental hygiene, common ferret diseases and infections, and designing and establishing an enjoyable and enriching environment for both your ferret and yourself. Youâ€™ll also get solid tips about how to get to know your ferret and introduce it to other family members and how and when to give your ferret and his cage a good cleaning. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the perfect ferret\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ferret-proof your house\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle ferret first-aid\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make foods your ferret will love\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with behavior issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select terrific ferret toys\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interpret your ferretâ€™s actions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the best vet for your ferret\n </li>\n <li>\n  Travel with your ferret\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make sure your little friend doesnâ€™t get bored\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to breed your ferret\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful lists of ferret myths and misconceptions as well as recipes for meals your ferret will gobble up,\n <em>\n  Ferrets For Dummies\n </em>\n is the resource you need to keep your ferret happy and healthy for years to come.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to adopt, nurture, live with, and love your ferret\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fallen in love with a fuzzy ferret? This friendly, informative guide gives you expert tips on caring for and enjoying your ferret, and keeping him healthy and happy. Plus, you get the latest on appropriate diets for ferrets, dental hygiene, common ferret diseases and infections, and designing and establishing an enriching environment for both you and your ferret.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the perfect ferret\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ferret-proof your house\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle ferret first aid\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make foods your ferret will love\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with behavior issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the best toys\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interpret your ferret''s actions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1555'),
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(17644, 'Fibromyalgia for Dummies', 'Roland Staud &amp; Christine Adamec', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderful reference tool about fibromyalgia and how to help yourself." --\n <em>\n  FM Aware Magazine, February 2003\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Both newly diagnosed and long-time sufferers will enjoy reading [this] thorough guide to easing the pain. --\n <em>\n  Fibromyalgia Frontiers, Volume 10, number 4, 2002\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pain you suffer from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is not in your imagination. FMS is a real medical problem that can be as debilitating and demoralizing as it is mysterious.\n <em>\n  Fibromyalgia For Dummies, Second Edition,\n </em>\n brings you the latest scientific findings on the symptoms and causes of this disease and guides you toward proven, practical steps you can take reduce or eliminate FMS-related pain.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide is fully updated with the latest fibromyalgia treatment options, and evaluations of new medications that have shown great promise in reducing pain. You''ll discover how to spot an array of symptoms and their possible causes, work with your physician to develop a treatment plan, and manage your pain at home and in the office. You''ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identify your FMS trigger points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with chronic pain and sleep problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find medications that work for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate a physician who can really help you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make healing lifestyle changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use hands-on therapies to alleviate pain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find effective over-the-counter and prescription medications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose among alternative therapies and treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce the emotional distress caused by FMS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help a child with FMS\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Featuring moving and inspiring stories from fellow FMS sufferers who share their stories and offer invaluable tips on working your way back to wellness,\n <em>\n  Fibromyalgia for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n offers serious and sensitive guidance to help you overcome FMS and start being yourself again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1556'),
(17645, 'The Field Of Swords(e-3)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar â€“ an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction. THE GATES OF ROME, THE DEATH OF KINGS and now THE BITTER RIVER tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world. Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults. As he takes the legions north into mighty battles with the Gallic tribes, the imperious stand of Caesar and the leadership of his men, his new friendships with fellow leaders and his overwhelming ambition, begin to separate him from Brutus, the great swordsman and warrior.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6219'),
(17646, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4085'),
(17647, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4447'),
(17648, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY: The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon''s "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard''s characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk''s yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let''s just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon. But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn''t happy unless he''s first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it''s about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club''s protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you''ll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you''re not likely to forget the book''s author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels SUMMARY: The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon''s "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard''s characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk''s yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let''s just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon. But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn''t happy unless he''s first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it''s about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club''s protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you''ll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you''re not likely to forget the book''s author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels SUMMARY: Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it''s only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it''s only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6189'),
(17649, 'Fighting Spam for Dummies', 'John R. Levine &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Ray Everett-church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unsolicited commercial email--spam--has become the most frequent complaint among users of the Internet. Its blaring subject lines and gaudy content--repetitive at best and frequently offensive--have made it much harder to make productive use of computers.\n <em>\n  Fighting Spam for Dummies\n </em>\n presents some techniques for keeping your email address off spammers'' mailing lists and, when that fails, keeping junk mail out of your primary inbox with filters and other utilities. As a last resort, the book (which, oddly, has three co-authors of its 200 small pages) shows you how to adjust your email program so it doesn''t automatically show pictures and is less likely to spread viruses.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s a fair bit of interesting material in this book, a lot of which has to do with the tricks spammers use to conceal their identities. You''ll find detailed instructions on how to convert the header lines of a garbage message--complete with obfuscated URLs and fake IP addresses--into the real origin of the message. Of course, there''s not much more to do once you''ve figured out that the message originated in Taiwan or Russia, but that''s not the fault of the authors. Elsewhere in this slender handbook, you''ll find click-by-click instructions for erecting filters and making other worthwhile configuration changes in Eudora, Netscape and Mozilla Mail, several versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, and several Webmail sites.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered\n </strong>\n : Where spam comes from and what you can do about it. Instructions for configuring email clients focus on software for Microsoft Windows.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦an informative, fun and easy-to-read book which does not patronise the reader and will not confuse.â€ (_Virus Bulletin_, April 2005)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1557'),
(17650, 'Figure Drawing for Dummies', 'Kensuke Okabayashi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive figure.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to drawing the human figure and bringing it to life\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to draw the human body? This step-by-step guide gives you clear instructions and examples coupled with expert tips that show you how to draw the body in a variety of poses. Whether you''re a professional illustrator, an art student, or a hobbyist, you''ll find the techniques you need to capture the human form.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a grip on the basics â€” drawing exercises show you how to work with lines, curves, shapes, light, shadows, and blending\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Off to a head start â€” draw the components of the head, facial features, muscle structure, and hairstyles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build the body â€” examine bone structure and shape, create stick figures, depict muscles, and draw the body in motion\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strike dynamic and casual poses â€” from running, jumping, and climbing to sitting, stretching, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accessorize your figures â€” draw textures, patterns, and folds, and add basic clothing and shoes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The drawing supplies you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up your studio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between drawing adults and children\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step illustrations and examples\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for forming facial expressions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advanced drawing techniques, including shading\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with composition and perspective\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on fixing mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Places to present and archive your work\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1558'),
(17651, 'The Filigree Ball', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4036'),
(17652, 'Film Journal International 09-2011', 'Film Journal International', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3676');
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(17653, 'Filmmaking for Dummies', 'Bryan Michael Stoller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I found\n <em>\n  Filmmaking For Dummies\n </em>\n a thorough and informative read: a complete A to Z that demystifies not only production, but pre- and post- production as well. Stoller paints a picture of filmmaking so basic that you''d have to be not just a dummy but completely braindead if you''re unable to make your own movie after closing the book." (_Entertainment Weekly_, September 5, 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now updated--the step-by-step secrets to capturing great moments on film\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With all the recent advancements in filmmaking technology, more people than ever are trying their hand at filmmaking. Keeping up with the newest information in this booming field, this updated edition of\n <em>\n  Filmmaking For Dummies\n </em>\n features up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest and greatest hardware, software, accessories, and trends--including high-definition technology and new outlets for films such as YouTube and MySpace. It demystifies the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, from developing a project and securing financing to hiring a cast and crew, editing, and getting distribution. This new edition also provides new movie examples and updated contacts and resources. Whether people want to become professional filmmakers or simply shoot quality home movies, this practical guide has all the advice and tips needed to succeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1559'),
(17654, 'Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies', 'Helmut Kobler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œSave it in the editâ€ is a common saying among film professionals. Editing makes the difference between boring vacation movies and exciting traveloguesâ€¦between the whole dull news conference and the highlights on the evening news. Whether youâ€™re a budding Spielberg, a proud parent who wants two-year-old Juniorâ€™s every feat documented for posterity, or a band that wants your music video to rock,\n <em>\n  Final Cut Pro HD For Dummies\n </em>\n tells you what you need to know to edit regular digital or high definition video like a pro. It covers the basics of capturing, importing, and editing digital videos, with detailed how-to for:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organizing your media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigating the audio and video Timeline tracks and selecting clips and frames on the Timelines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting fancier with split, roll, ripple, slip, and slide edits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with audio, including mixing, editing out scratches and pops, and using filters to create effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Soundtrack to compose a musical score, even if you donâ€™t know the difference between horns and strings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply transitions such as 3D simulation, dissolve, iris, stretch and squeeze, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding text for captions, opening titles, and closing credits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Color-correcting video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compositing, rendering, and outputting your final product to tape, CD, DVD, or the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Three bonus chapters online go into more depth about rendering, customizing the interface, and managing media so you can refine your skills even further.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Final Cut Pro HD For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Helmut Kobler, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, owner of K2Films, and a frequent contributor to Macaddict Magazine. Having this book next to your editing equipment is the next best thing to having him sit next to you and guide you through the editing process.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create professional, high-definition videos using tips from the pros\n</p>\n<p>\n Edit video clips, add soundtracks, create special effects, and put it all on DVD\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a story to tell? Movie-making is easy with Final Cut Pro HD, and this handy book puts a real filmmaker at your elbow to talk you through the process in plain English! Soon youâ€™ll be cranking out professional quality movies in regular digital or high definition format and distributing them to all your adoring fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Equip your Mac for Final Cut Pro\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import video, audio, and still pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Composite video clips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Remove background noises\n </li>\n <li>\n  Color-correct video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put movies on tape, DVD, or the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1560'),
(17655, 'Financing Real Estate Investments for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Chip Cummings &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your practical guide to scoring cash to fuel your real estate investments\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be a smart, successful real estate investor? This no-nonsense guide contains everything you must know to make the right choices about financing your investments â€” from the various options available and the impact on cash flow to the tax implications and risk factors involved. You also get tried-and-true tips for surviving a down market and using current investments to finance future ones.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A crash course in real estate financing â€” understand standard terms and concepts, learn the various sources of investment capital, and gather all essential facts and figures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Weigh your options â€” decide which type of financing is best for your circumstances and incorporate it into your real estate investing plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finance residential properties â€” evaluate residential loan programs, navigate the loan application and processing, and handle the closing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Invest in commercial properties â€” know the different property types, choose the one that meets your investment goals, and discover unique sources for financing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tap into unconventional sources â€” discover the pros and cons of "hard money," capitalize on seller financing, partner to share risk and equity, and invest on the cheap with no-money-down deals\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real-world advice on financing without tying up all your capital\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get prequalified or preapproved for a loan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Questions to ask your lender upfront\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to avoid common beginner blunders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to protect your personal assets from investment risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bargain-hunting hints for low-cost loans\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for surviving a credit crunch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten pre-closing steps you must take\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ralph R. Roberts is an internationally acclaimed real estate agent, speaker, investor, and consultant. Chip Cummings is a real estate lending expert, a Certified Mortgage Consultant with more than 25 years of experience, and a seasoned real estate investor. Roberts and Cummings coauthored Mortgage Myths: 77 Secrets That Will Save You Thousands on Home Financing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1561'),
(17656, 'Firefox for Dummies', 'Blake Ross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Firefox For Dummies gives you the inside scoop on the exciting new browser from the Web wizard that got it started. The book''s author, Blake Ross, began developing Firefox as a teenager. Once available to the world, the simple and powerful tool was an instant hit claiming a sizable share of the Web browser market with over 140 million downloads.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In this book Blake not only gives you the lowdown on how to use Firefox for safe Web searching, but he also shares his insight into how the product came to life. It''s a combination of practical tech insight and a good story that is rare in computer books.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include downloading and installing Firefox, creating a home page, searching with Google, creating customized themes and toolbars, using tabbed browsing, downloading and saving files, maintaining security and privacy, eliminating annoying popups, and adding Firefox extensions.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your online world safer, easier, and a lot more fun, for free!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Firefox is a lot like a For Dummies book â€” designed to make things easier for the rest of us. Now, one of the guys who invented it shows you how to use the browser made for people, not programmers. This book shows how you can view multiple Web pages at one time, how you can easily move yourÂ favorite links and bookmarks from your old browser into Firefox, how Firefox keeps you safe online, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Acquire and install Firefox\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the transition from another browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Firefox''s innovative tabbed browsing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage bookmarks with ease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain online privacy and security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize your browser\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1562'),
(17657, 'Firewalls for Dummies', 'Brian Komar &amp; Ronald Beekelaar &amp; Joern Wettern', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With more and more small-office and home computers being left connected to the Internet at all times, the owners of those machines are being faced with problems that used to confront only big operations. The authors of\n <em>\n  Firewalls for Dummies\n </em>\n spread the message: everyone with a cable modem, data satellite dish, or DSL connection needs a firewall now. Thankfully, though, these guys go beyond merely showing how to set up turnkey personal firewall products--too many Dummies books explain the obvious and the generally intuitive--and reveal how to set up the sorts of firewalls that protect sizable networks. By understanding these techniques, small operators can plan for growth and improve their level of protection. What''s more, this book provides a serious explanation of corporate firewall products and techniques that''s appropriate for people who build and maintain big systems.\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors generally steer away from showing how to configure specific firewall products, though a few of the biggies--Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, BlackICE, ZoneAlarm, and Check Point FireWall-1--get comparative overview coverage. Mostly, they favor more general firewall configuration strategies and techniques. These they explain with a lot of prose, a fair number of conceptual diagrams, and tables that sum up permission rules. This is a worthwhile read.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered\n </strong>\n : Firewalls and the ways they can be deployed to prevent unauthorized access to computers and networks without interfering with the protected users'' ability to get out to the Internet. A summary of networking fundamentals as they apply to firewalls is followed by coverage of network address translation (NAT), demilitarized zones (DMZs) as created by multiple or even single computers, and filtering policies.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What an amazing world we live in! Almost anything you can imagine can be researched, compared, admired, studied, and in many cases, bought, with the click of a mouse. The Internet has changed our lives, putting a world of opportunity before us. Unfortunately, it has also put a world of opportunity into the hands of those whose motives are less than honorable. A firewall, a piece of software or hardware that erects a barrier between your computer and those who might like to invade it, is one solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve been using the Internet for any length of time, youâ€™ve probably received some unsavory and unsolicited e-mail. If you run a business, you may be worried about the security of your data and your customersâ€™ privacy. At home, you want to protect your personal information from identity thieves and other shady characters.\n <em>\n  Firewalls For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n will give you the lowdown on firewalls, then guide you through choosing, installing, and configuring one for your personal or bus iness network.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Firewalls For DummiesÂ®Â \n </em>\n helps you understand what firewalls are, how they operate on different types of networks, what they can and canâ€™t do, and how to pick a good one (itâ€™s easier than identifying that perfect melon in the supermarket.) Youâ€™ll find out about\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Developing security policies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establishing rules for simple protocols\n </li>\n <li>\n  Detecting and responding to system intrusions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up firewalls for SOHO or personal use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating demilitarized zones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Windows or Linux as a firewall\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configuring ZoneAlarm, BlackICE, and Norton personal firewalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Installing and using ISA server and FireWall-1\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the handy tips and hints this book provides, youâ€™ll find that firewalls are nothing to fearÂ â€“Â that is, unless youâ€™re a cyber-crook! Youâ€™ll soon be able to keep your data safer, protect your familyâ€™s privacy, and probably sleep better, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1563'),
(17658, 'The First Billion', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Reich electrified readers withNumbered AccountandThe Runner, his first two international thrillers. Now theNew York Timesbestselling author whose work has been called "gripping" (Chicago Tribune), "chilling" (The Denver Post), "wonderful" (The New York Times Book Review), ratchets up the stakes in an ingeniously plotted story of nerve-jangling intrigue and hot-wired suspense. Using today''s cutthroat global economy as a backdrop,The First Billionexplodes into a breakneck tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption... John "Jett" Gavallan is a former fighter pilot, now the high-flying CEO of Black Jet Securities, an investment firm that earned its first billion before the techno dream crashed and burned. Poised for an offering crucial to his company''s survival, Gavallan is banking on the riskiest gamble of his dazzling career. In exactly six days, he will take Mercury Broadband, Russia''s leading media company, public on the New York Stock Exchange. But rumors of fraud have suddenly surfaced that could send the deal south. Gavallan makes a preemptive strike by dispatching his number-two man--fellow Desert Storm fighter pilot Grafton Byrnes--to Moscow to penetrate the shadowy Russian multinational. When Byrnes fails to return, Gavallan fears the worst. But the truth is even more diabolical than he can imagine. Plunging into a desperate search for his best friend, the renegade top gun is suddenly fighting a different kind of war, where there is no safe harbor and no one he can trust. Not Konstantin Kirov, the elusive head of Mercury Broadband who may not be what he seems. Not the bankers and traders Gavallan does business with every day. Not the exotic beauty who has told him all her deepest secrets--except one. Suddenly Jett finds himself trapped in a conspiracy that could shatter the delicate balance between nations--and plunge the global economy into chaos. Hunted by the F.B.I. and a band of elite killers, Jett races from Palm Beach to Zurich to Moscow in a desperate search for answers. But for this brave ex-commando haunted by visions of war, the truth comes at a terrible price. With Mercury rising and the hours ticking down, he is moving closer to a place where murder and revenge are the currency of choice...and where the first billion is the ultimate insider secret--and the deadliest obsession of all. With breakneck plotting, stunning realism, and a sense of danger that keeps the heart racing,The First Billionis a knockout of a novel that will linger long after the final shocking twist is revealed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6131'),
(17659, 'First Glimpse 09-2011', 'First Glimpse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3839'),
(17660, 'First Glimpse Magazine September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4771'),
(17661, 'Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program, 11th Ed.', 'Wener W.K. Hoeger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3892'),
(17662, 'Fitness for Dummies', 'Suzanne Schlosberg &amp; Liz Neporent &amp; Tere Stouffer Drenth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The original\n <em>\n  Fitness for Dummies\n </em>\n , published in 1996, was a real breakthrough: a book that took a reader through all the fitness basics without being offputtingly complicated or insultingly simplistic. This second edition only improves on that tough balancing act.\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors are two of the most experienced fitness writers in the business--Suzanne Schlosberg is a longtime contributor to\n <em>\n  Shape\n </em>\n and Liz Neporent is a veteran personal trainer, corporate fitness consultant, and contributor to\n <em>\n  Shape\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n . In addition to being experienced at explaining exercise, they''re both exercise junkies, and their firsthand knowledge and love of the topic is evident throughout.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each section of the book--whether dealing with basic fitness issues, cardiovascular training, strength training, flexibility, joining a gym, or exercising at home--offers a combination of well-researched, easily understandable information, combined with informed opinion. For example, in chapters discussing exercise equipment, they''re able to offer personal reactions to the gear--mentioning that Life Fitness makes great exercise bikes but a treadmill they don''t care for.\n</p>\n<p>\n New information in this second edition includes "100 Reasons to Break a Sweat," featuring the latest research on exercise benefits; sections incorporating Internet fitness resources; and beefed-up exercise-video advice. That latter section includes tips about avoiding rip-offs (older videos are sometimes repackaged, with new covers promising different benefits) and a handy guide to choosing the best video instructors for different fitness levels.\n</p>\n<p>\n The core information, though, is the best reason to buy this edition of\n <em>\n  Fitness for Dummies\n </em>\n . Exercise science is complicated, but this book makes it as simple--and entertaining--as it can possibly be.\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is the most comprehensive and entertaining fitness book I''ve ever seen." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Sharon Cohen, Executive Editor, Men''s Fitness Magazine_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1564'),
(17663, 'Fitness Life - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10686'),
(17664, 'Fix Your Own Computer for Seniors for Dummies', 'Corey Sandler &amp; Tom Badgett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to diagnose and fix simple PC problems with this easy-to-follow guide\n</p>\n<p>\n When something goes wrong with your computer, it''s frustrating and potentially expensive. With\n <em>\n  Fix Your Own Computer For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n , you can find out what''s wrong, how to fix it, whether you need to call in professional help, and how to practice preventive maintenance.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide avoids techie jargon and shows you how to diagnose the problem, find out whether the software or hardware is at fault, make simple repairs, and add external devices such as scanners, printers, and hard drives. It also helps you maintain your computer through basic steps like defragmenting the hard drive and cleaning out files - techniques that can prevent a lot of problems from occurring in the first place.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Written specifically for first-time computer users, this book explains how to diagnose basic PC problems, understand error messages, and fix common issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Specific step-by-step procedures guide you through basic repairs such as replacing the hard drive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains common mistakes and how to avoid them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Outlines the steps for preventive maintenance, such as how to defragment the hard drive, clean files, delete old files, and organize files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores ways to expand and enhance a computer with external devices including hard drives, Web cameras, Web phones, scanners, printers, flash drives and other hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows what you can fix yourself and when to seek help from a repair service or the manufacturer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Easy to read and follow,\n <em>\n  Fix Your Own Computer For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n will boost your confidence when dealing with your computer and with professional technicians, too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make simple repairs to your computer that extend its life and save you money\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you go into panic mode when your computer isn''t working properly? End the worry with this accessible guide! Expert Corey Sandler shows you how to quickly uncover what''s wrong and fix it by following easy steps. In no time, you''ll learn the best way to maintain your PC, solve hardware problems, restore system settings, troubleshoot issues, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the parts â€” from the mouse and keyboard to the monitor, printer, and connection ports, discover how PC components work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Inside the box â€” develop a working knowledge of your PC''s "brain" and the Windows operating system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your PC healthy â€” follow tips and techniques for proper computer hygiene\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Upgrade memory and replace drives â€” change your PC''s memory, hard disk drives, and CD/DVD drives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get WindowsÂ® back on track â€” repair, refresh, or reinstall Windows to quickly get up and running again\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Diagnose the problem â€” use the Windows Troubleshooting Wizard and make changes to your injured PC using a list of solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enhance security â€” take the steps needed to protect your PC from viruses and other threats\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Introductions to your PC''s parts and operating system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to keep your computer healthy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for stopping viruses, malware, and spam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to repair and when to replace your PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to change your computer''s memory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for repairing Windows\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get your printer and monitor working again\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tricks for fixing common PC problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1565'),
(17665, 'Fix, Freeze, Feast', 'Kati Neville &amp; Lindsay Tkascik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3113'),
(17666, 'Flare - Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10687'),
(17667, 'Flash', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2433'),
(17668, 'Flash &amp; Flex 08-2011', 'Flash &amp; Flex', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3457'),
(17669, 'Flash &amp; Flex Magazine Android Apps', 'Flash &amp; Flex', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(17670, 'Flash CS3 for Dummies', 'Ellen Finkelstein &amp; Gurdy Leete', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pack pizzazz into your Web sites with Flash!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Start with simple animation, or create whole pages in Flash\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The newest version of Flash offers all sorts of cool options for designing Web sites that stand out from the crowd, and this handy guide makes it easy. Enhance your site with animated graphics, boxes, or buttons; morph shapes; create text with exotically changing colors; add sound or video; and watch visitors flock to your site!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pack pizzazz into your Web sites with Flash!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Start with simple animation, or create whole pages in Flash\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The newest version of Flash offers all sorts of cool options for designing Web sites that stand out from the crowd, and this handy guide makes it easy. Enhance your site with animated graphics, boxes, or buttons; morph shapes; create text with exotically changing colors; add sound or video; and watch visitors flock to your site!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1566'),
(17671, 'Flash CS4 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin &amp; William B. Sanders &amp; Bill Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ready to take your Flash skills to the next level? Learn how to use Adobe Flash CS4 to create innovative interactive experiences!\n <em>\n  Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to create professional, cool projects, step by step, from start to finish.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re working on your first Flash project or youâ€™re a veteran Flash animator ready to get into more advanced applications,\n <em>\n  Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n walks you through Flashâ€™s new tricks and explains how to use them. Youâ€™ll get the skinny on new features including inverse kinematics, motion tweening, and Motion Editor. Youâ€™ll also find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with panels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of an ActionScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and plan your first project\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow the ins and outs of Flash graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate your way around the swatches panel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your video on the Web using YouTube\n </li>\n <li>\n  Utilize Flash audio and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop with the Flash timeline\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To help you quickly find what you need,\n <em>\n  Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is divided into eight minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introducing Flash\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating Graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Animating Graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding ActionScript 3.0 Magic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Flash Audio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Flash Video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting Interactive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finalizing a Flash Project\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n will help make your experience animating in Flash much easier!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn Flash CS4 from the ground up with this one-stop, nuts-and-bolts reference guide!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Take your Flash skills to the next level with this easy-to-use book that explains it all! Whether you''re working on your first Flash project or you''re a veteran Flash animator ready to get into more advanced applications,\n <em>\n  Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you Flash''s new tricks and shows you how to use them â€” in a flash!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find out what''s new in Flash â€” get the skinny on new features including inverse kinematics, motion tweening, and Motion Editor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deco tool, Spray Brush, Bone tool, and more! â€” find out about all the fun new tools Flash has to offer in CS4\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your first Flash project made easy â€” learn how to create professional, cool projects, step by step from start to finish\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get ready for prime time â€” from camera to desktop, get the inside scoop on working with Flash video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get interactive â€” everything you need to know to add Flash to create cool interfaces for applications and Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear explanations of graphics, symbols, and animations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for working with panels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What ActionScript can do for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create and plan your first project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ins and outs of Flash-y graphics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add artistic colors and gradients with the color panel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nuts-and-bolts tips for working with Flash audio and video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for working with the Flash Timeline\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1567'),
(17672, 'Flash CS4 for Dummies', 'Ellen Finkelstein &amp; Gurdy Leete', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Adobe Flash CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n as your guide, you can unleash your creativity and contribute to the â€œFlashâ€-iest showcase of dynamic content: the Web! Youâ€™ll beecome acquainted with Flash CS4 and learn when to use this popular Web development tool. Plus, youâ€™ll discover what you can create, from animation to games to presentations.\n</p>\n<p>\n This full color edition gives you the opportunity to get acquainted with Flash CS4, discover all the possibilities, and become familiar with the new tools. Youâ€™ll be able to create dynamic content, adapt the programâ€™s features to suit your development needs, publish your Flash files to the Web, and showcase your creativity and newly acquired skills. Youâ€™ll discover how to create graphics, text, and layers, make animations, add sound and video, and optimize your files for download. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Draw and edit images, create effects, and use layers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building layers, manipulate objects, and add buttons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Animate figures and add interactive features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the basics of colors, frame rates, and graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate video and sound files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publish your files to the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten frequently asked questions about Flash, ten best resources for Flash, and samples of work from ten fabulous Flash designers,\n <em>\n  Adobe Flash CS4\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide designing dynamic and interactive content.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explore the ways you can create impressive animations with Adobe Flash CS4\n</p>\n<p>\n Unleash your creativity and contribute to the flashiest showcase of dynamic content: the Web! Become acquainted with Flash CS4; learn when to use this popular Web development tool; and discover what you can create, from animation to games to presentations. Find the basics on getting started with Flash and a reference to all of Flash''s tools inside.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting acquainted with Flash CS4 ?â€” discover possibilities and become familiar with new CS4 tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creating graphics, text, and layers â€” learn to draw, edit images, create effects, and use layers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Animating â€” prepare, edit, and execute animations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adding sound and video â€” acquire and edit audio and incorporate video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Publishing your Flash files â€” optimize for download and publish to the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to Flash''s newest features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use Flash and what you can create\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to conceive and execute your first animation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of colors, frame rates, and graphics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to develop interactive content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for acquiring and embedding sound and video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Directions for publishing files to the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for simplifying your work with symbols, tweening, and inverse kinematics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1568'),
(17673, 'Flashforward', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert J. Sawyerâ€™s award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times called Frameshift â€œfilled to bursting with ideas, characters, and incidents.â€ His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Now, his award-winning novel Flash Forward is becoming a network TV series, expected to air in the fall of 2009. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flash forward and see their successesâ€¦or learn how to avoid their failures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6231'),
(17674, 'Flavour Magazine London Edition 07-2011', 'Flavour Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2502'),
(17675, 'Flavour Magazine South West Edition 07-2011', 'Flavour Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2503'),
(17676, 'Flexible Web Design', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3905'),
(17677, 'Flight_International_August23_2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Flight_International_August23_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4703'),
(17678, 'Flight_International_September13_2011.pdf 20-09-2011', 'Flight_International_September13_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6554'),
(17679, 'Flight_International.September20_2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Flight_International.September20_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6709'),
(17680, 'Flight.International.August30.2011.pdf 14-09-2011', 'Flight.International.August30.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6062'),
(17681, 'Flight.International.October.11.2011.pdf 12-10-2011', 'Flight.International.October.11.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10655'),
(17682, 'Flight.International.October.18.2011.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Flight.International.October.18.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10935'),
(17683, 'Flight.International.October.4.2011.pdf 06-10-2011', 'Flight.International.October.4.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10579'),
(17684, 'Flipping Houses for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It promised to teach would-be property moguls how to "lay the foundation for successful flipping and bring home bucksâ€." (_Economist,_ March 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This book is designed for realty investors who want to profit from buying below market, making cosmetic improvements to add value, and then quickly reselling. But real estate agents and home buyers should also study it because of the valuable insights offered by a longtime, very successful real estate broker. On my scale of one to 10, this superb book rates an off-the-chart 12."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Robert Bruss\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve probably seen TV shows like\n <em>\n  Flip This House\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Flip That House\n </em>\n , in which Real estate investors buy, renovate, and sell a house in a matter of weeks for tens of thousands of dollars in profit. They make flipping houses look so easy that you want to jump out of your recliner (during the next commercial, of course), run down the street, find a house for sale, flip it for a 50 percent profit, and run back home to continue watching the show.\n</p>\n<p>\n I, Ralph Roberts, have flipped hundreds of houses, and it''s never as easy as it looks on TV. People don''t generally line up at your front door begging you to buy their house for 30-50 percent below market value. Renovation expenses always exceed estimates. And you can''t always sell a house for what you think it''s worth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flipping houses for a profit requires time, money, and what I like to call\n <em>\n  sticktoitism\n </em>\n â€”dogged determination in the face of overwhelming uncertainty.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Not just another house flipping book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You can find plenty of books about flipping houses that claim "anyone can do it" and make flipping look easy and risk-free.\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n takes a different approachâ€”honesty. We don''t claim that flipping houses is "easy" or "simple" or "risk-free," because, quite frankly, it isn''t.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n reveals the risks and rewards of flipping properties; helps you determine whether you have the time, energy, cash, and other resources to be successful; and then conveys the expert knowledge that those who wish to pursue house flipping need in order to minimize risk and maximize potential profits in a very competitive market.\n <strong>\n  Did you know?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Most books on flipping houses gloss over the key factors that that make or break the novice house flipper. These are the very items we focus on in\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n . For example, did you know:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You should secure financing\n   <em>\n    before\n   </em>\n   you look at houses.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   As a flipper, you want\n   <em>\n    dontwanners\n   </em>\n   â€”houses that the owners obviously don''t want.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You make your profit when you buy the property. You realize your profit when you sell.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Always plan on earning at least 20 percent after your total investmentâ€”purchase price, repairs and renovations, real estate agent commissions, and holding costs (monthly mortgage payments, insurance, property taxes, and utilities).\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with a top-notch real estate agent can save you thousands of dollars more than what you pay in commissions.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You should choose a limited geographical area to work and then become an expert on the houses and property values in that area.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your goal when renovating a home should be to bring the property up to market standards, not exceed them.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A flipping book for real people\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n speaks to the mom and pop investor, steering you clear of the gray areas, which tend to carry high-risks and low-returns, into safer, more potentially profitable areas. We encourage you invest in your comfort zone and take on bigger, riskier projects with higher profit potential only when you''re ready.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n we stress that the first flip is the most important one, and we take the guesswork out of the first transaction, to lead you through a positive first experience on which to build a promising real estate investment portfolio.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Flipping Houses For Dummies\n </em>\n provides plenty of examples of successful and not-so-successful property flips, presenting the total investment (in time and money), the work involved, and the net profit. Before-and-after photos visually illustrate the positive transformations from run-down-shacks to showcase homes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1569'),
(17685, 'Flood Gate', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3952'),
(17686, 'Florida for Dummies', 'Lesley Abravanel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the Gold Coast to the Gulf Coast, the Everglades to theme parks, bustling Miami to historic St. Augustine, water sports to relaxing resorts, Florida offers infinite, intriguing variety. Whether you want to ride the waves or ride the roller coasters, take in the sites or soak up the sun, this friendly guide is your key to fun in the Sunshine State with info. on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The top ten beaches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Favorite Florida foods and where to get them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Theme-park hopping and fantastic shopping\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to get around\n </li>\n <li>\n  Wildlife, night life, and culture\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide_, Florida For Dummies, Third Edition_ includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore Florida the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you want to experience the wildlife of the Everglades or the night life of South Beach, dive with the dolphins or mingle with the mouse, catch the big one or catch some rays, this friendly guide helps you enjoy the Sunshine State.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1570'),
(17687, 'Fluke, Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After reverently lambasting the most cherished rites and credos of virtually every one of the world''s major religions in his transcendently hilarious novel  Lamb,  the one and only Christopher Moore returns with a wild look at interspecies communication, adventure on the high seas, and an eons-old mystery.  Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love â€” with the salt air and sun-drenched waters off Mauiâ€¦ and especially with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths that have been bleeping and hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That''s the question that has Nate and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing any large marine mammal that crosses their path. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters:  Bite me.  No one on Nate''s team has ever seen such a thing; not his longtime partner, photographer Clay Demodocus, not their saucy young research assistant, Amy. Not even spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman, Kona (the former Preston Applebaum of New Jersey), could boast such a sighting in one of his dope-induced hallucinations. And when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot â€” and their research facility is summarily trashed â€” Nate realizes that something very fishy indeed is going on.  This, apparently, is big, involving dangerously interested other parties â€” competitive researchers, the cutthroat tourist industry, perhaps even the military. The weirdness only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate''s big-bucks benefactor saying that a whale has made contact â€” by phone. And it''s asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye. Suddenly the answer to the question that has daunted and driven Nate throughout his adult life is within his reach. But it''s waiting for him in the form of an amazing adventure beneath the waves, 623 feet down, somewhere off the coast of Chile. And it''s not what anyone would think.  It must be said: Christopher Moore''s  Fluke  is a whale of a novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6331'),
(17688, 'Flying Colours', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Flying Colours  describes the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England.   It was originally published in 1938 as the third in the series, but isÂ ninth by internal chronology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5965'),
(17689, 'Focus on Photoshop', 'Corey Hilz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you into photography not photomanipulation?Frustrated that you are spending too much time in front of the screen and not enough behind the lens? Bewildered by the multitude of advanced editing options available to you in Adobe Photoshop? If any of the above is true then, whatever your Photoshop/photography level, you will benefit hugely from this terrific little book.Unlike most of the photoshop guides available today, this no-nonsense, inspiring guide is aimed solely at photographers: those whose aim is to use the software to bring out the natural best in their photographs, rather than those who want to change them completely. Breath-taking photographer Corey Hilz wastes no time on the plethora of feature in Photoshop which, though impressive, are of no use to the ''natural'' photographer. Corey instead takes you through a highly effective, professional workflow for bringing out the best in your photographs in Photoshop, from post-capture through to output, without spending hours in front of the screen. Ignoring high-end photomanipulation, he instead focusses on the vital aspects for photographers such as: correcting exposure, tone adjustments (including correct use of the tone curve), sharpening, monochrome conversion and lens correction. Additionally, Corey covers the workflow on either side: effective importing and tagging, and perfect output with minimal effort.Everything about this beautiful little book is aimed at a visual audience. Packed with stunning photographs to illustrate every tweak the author makes, this highly affordable and succinct reference guide focusses on the specific needs of the photographer and nothing else. There are hundreds of excellent comprehensive reference guides to photoshop out there, this is not one of those. It is, instead, a book that won''t waste a second of your valuable shooting time. Buy into theÂ Focus series and get right back where you belong and deserve to be: behind a lens. * No-nonsense end-to-end professional Photoshop workflow for photographers who want to spend more time behind the lens, and less in front of a screen* Unique approach tailored specifically for traditional ''realistic'' photography in the digital age, tells the working photographer exactly what they need to know to get the best from their photos* Clear format with emphasis on the visual aspect throughout, in a handy, affordable, pocket-sized guide\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(17690, 'Focus-09.2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Focus-09.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4676');
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(17691, 'Food Allergies for Dummies', 'Robert A. Wood Md &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I would thoroughly recommend this book to all serious allergy sufferers" (_Women''s Fitness_, September 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you constantly worrying about what you or your loved ones eat? Is every dining experience an episode of anxiety for you? Being allergic to different types of food not only ruins the experience of eating, it can lead to dangerous, sometimes lethal, consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Food Allergies for Dummies\n </em>\n , you can feel safer about what you eat. This concise guide shows you how to identify and avoid food that triggers reactions. This guide covers how to care for a child with food allergies, such as getting involved with his/her schoolâ€™s allergy policies, packing safe lunches, and empowering him/her to take responsibility for his allergy. You will also discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The signs and symptoms of food allergies\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to determine the severity of your allergy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to eat out and travel with allergies\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create your own avoidance diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to enjoy your meal without allergic symptoms\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to prevent food allergies from affecting your child\n </li>\n <li>\n  The latest research being done to treat food allergies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Food Allergies for Dummies\n </em>\n also provides an in-depth chapter on peanut allergy and how to spot traces of peanut in your food. With this book, you will feel safer and more comfortable while you eat. And, with plenty of helpful resources such as Web sites and allergy-friendly recipes, youâ€™ll hardly have to worry about your diet!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1571'),
(17692, 'Food Network Magazine    Oct  2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10786'),
(17693, 'Food Network Magazine  July-Aug 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10931'),
(17694, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wankâ€¦ If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"  Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the  Times of Olde Newe Yorke  as  Lamb, A Dirty Job , and  You Suck  (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters â€” a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lustâ€¦ and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.  Fool  A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughters â€” selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia â€” were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Lear â€” at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucester â€” demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind ofâ€¦ wellâ€¦ stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot.  Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things rightâ€¦ is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier witâ€¦ and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuvering â€” cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff) â€” to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatingsâ€¦ and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way.  Pocket may be a foolâ€¦ but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6332'),
(17695, 'Football for Dummies,', 'Howie Long &amp; John Czarnecki', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the Dummies series is tackling football. Former Raider all-pro defensive end and current Fox TV analyst Howie Long calls the signals, and if he doesn''t always go deep--he''s got a lot of ground to cover--at least he connects. With all its X''s and O''s, football is a complicated sport, and Long works hard to smooth the way: "Once you break through that initial fear of being overwhelmed by football and what you don''t understand," he counsels, "I know everything else about the game, like dominoes, will fall into place." In his role as guide, Long plays those dominoes, from peewees to the pros to the fantasy leagues, explaining positions, analyzing offenses and defenses, and detailing strategies. As with all Dummies guides, the fun part is the "Part of Tens," the series of top-10 lists that dig in for the final chapter. He scores big with his inclusions of John Hannah and Hugh McElhenny among the greatest offensive players ever, but should be penalized for overemphasizing tight ends and forgetting the electricity that wide receivers bring to the game. This, of course, reflects a defensive end''s natural bias; since they muck it up more with the hulkier tight ends, they simply let the speedballs fly by.\n <em>\n  --Jeff Silverman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The ultimate fan''s guide to America''s most popular sport\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Since the last edition of\n <em>\n  Football For Dummies\n </em>\n , new stadiums have been built, new stars have ascended, and records have been broken. This new edition has been revised to reflect today''s game, giving football fans up-to-the-minute information on all the rules and regulations, positions, plays, and penalties. Featuring coverage of the newest stadium technologies, revised greatest players and legends, and pro-football must-do experiences, it also includes expert advice on training and gearing up for those who play the game. Fans will discover the best ways to enjoy football-at home or at the stadium.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1572'),
(17696, 'For Him Magazine', 'FHM', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6516'),
(17697, 'For Sale in Palm Springs: The Henry Wright Mystery Series', 'Albert Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A murdered real estate agent. Unsatisfied home buyers. A possible celebrity scam. A secret society! Join retired police chief Henry Wright in figuring out who killed Palm Springs real estate mogul Rex Thornbird in this page turning thriller that will keep you guessing. This first book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series takes our detective from Palm Springs to the Silicon Valley to find the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3992'),
(17698, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   For Whom the Bell Tolls\n  </em>\n  begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he''ll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don''t like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That''s the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan''s arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan''s sense of duty versus Pablo''s dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader''s small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo''s loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   For Whom the Bell Tolls\n  </em>\n  combines two of the author''s recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo''s last stand is a showcase for Hemingway''s narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator''s psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway''s most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels in American literature. --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review, J. Donald Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(17699, 'Force Ten From Navarone', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3953'),
(17700, 'Foreclosure Investing for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the housing bubble of the past few years bursting and interest rates on the rise, there has been an upsurge in the number of foreclosures across the country, creating many opportunities for profit. But investing in real estate foreclosure[s?] can be a tough job, especially when a negative stigma is attached. How do you make money while preserving your morals and trust?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foreclosure Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to invest in foreclosures ethically without being accused of stealing homes from â€œlittle old ladies.â€ This step-by-step guide helps you thoroughly research property, find the best opportunities, purchase foreclosures, and avoid misleading distressed homeowners. This book doesnâ€™t promise quick profits through minimal work, but it will provide you with invaluable information to become a successful investor, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identifying opportunities and understanding risks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Obtaining information, tools, support, and resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locating properties prior to foreclosure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assisting homeowners through the foreclosure process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Acquiring properties below market value prior to the auction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buying property at an auction, from lending institutions, and government agencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Repairing, renovating, and selling or leasing property\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This book provides tips and strategies for refinancing your property and maximizing your profits. It also gives you advice on how to assist homeowners, have them work with you, and common mistakes you should avoid. Itâ€™s time to go out and make the most of foreclosure investing, and with\n <em>\n  Foreclosure Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n by your side, your hard work and devotion will bring tons of success!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers foreclosure rules and regs for all 50 states\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Minimize your risks and maximize your return, while assisting homeowners\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to buy and sell foreclosure properties? This hands-on guide covers all aspects of investing in foreclosures, from identifying potential properties and assessing value to carefully researching and inspecting properties, so you don''t get stuck holding a money pit . . . or even worse, a worthless piece of paper! Discover how to deal with homeowners in preforeclosure, bid for a property, buy bank-owned properties at well below market value â€” and ultimately sell for maximum profit.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Research property titles, mortgages, and deeds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a strong investment team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Obtain financing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network your way to success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common pitfalls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Invest with integrity\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1573'),
(17701, 'Foreclosure Self-Defense for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Lois Maljak &amp; Paul Doroh &amp; Joe Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Facing foreclosure? You need to do three things: stop worrying about why this has happened to you; resolve to fight the foreclosure and save your home; and read\n <em>\n  Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies.\n </em>\n It delivers the knowledge, strategies, and tactics youâ€™ll need to take command of your situation and achieve the best possible outcome.\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, no-nonsense guide helps you size up your options and increase your chances of saving your home. Youâ€™ll find out how to delay foreclosure, form a plan of attack, negotiate solutions with your lender, and restore your financial health. Youâ€™ll also find field-tested strategies for dodging the foreclosure trap, getting out from under a house you really canâ€™t afford, and finding help where you might least expect it. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Regain your emotional composure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Confront your foreclosure head-on\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your rights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess your situation and weigh your options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Touch base with key people who can help you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stop the financial bleeding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Team up with your lender to find solutions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work out a refinancing deal with another lender\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid quick-fix schemes and scams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cash out before itâ€™s too late\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recover from foreclosure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Re-establish your credit\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a handy cheat-sheet to help you keep your most important tasks in the front of your mind\n <em>\n  Foreclosure Self-Defense for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the moral support, commonsense guidance, and expert advice you need to make the best of this difficult situation.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Save your home, protect your family, re-establish your credit!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Defend your home from foreclosure â€” or get out from under it\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you facing foreclosure? This no-nonsense guide helps you size up all your options and increase your chances of saving your home. You''ll see how to delay foreclosure, form a plan of attack, negotiate solutions with your lender, and restore your financial health. Discover field-tested strategies for dodging the foreclosure trap or getting out from under a house you really can''t afford.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your rights\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Weigh your options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Team up with your lender\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid mortgage scams and pitfalls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recover from foreclosure\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1574'),
(17702, 'Foreign Correspondent', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3987'),
(17703, 'Forgive Me', 'Amanda Eyre Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4004'),
(17704, 'The Forgotten Legion (tflc-1)', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two gladiators, a soothsayer and a prostitute seek freedom and revenge in Kane''s sword and sandal epic that starts strong but runs adrift after too many bloody battles. While Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus struggle for control of Rome, Romulus and Fabiola, the illegitimate children of a slave raped by a nobleman, run afoul of their master and are sold off; Romulus to gladiator school and Fabiola to the citys fanciest brothel. Romulus is trained by Brennus, a fearsome gladiator whose family was slaughtered by the Roman army. Across the Forum, Fabiola, soon a favored courtesan of the social elite, vows to save her brother from certain death and to destroy the man who fathered her. After a fatal accident outside the brothel, Romulus and Brennus flee the city, joining up with Tarquinius, an Etruscan warrior who can glimpse the future. The trio enlists in Crassuss army as they prepare to invade the Parthian Empire, a military action that quickly turns disastrous. Though the cliffhanger ending is oddly underwhelming (a sequel is in the works), readers into Roman intrigue and epic violence will consider Kanes debut promising.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This may be the only historical novel in which a principal character is a proto-Etruscan nationalist. In this lively and often riveting first novel, KaneÂ captures much of the chaos, brutality, and splendor of the late republic in the first century BCE, when Rome was ruled by the First Triumvirate of Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Marcus Licinius Crassus. Curiously, the four main characters are from the underside of society, and each has reason to despise the power of the emerging Roman superstate. Tarquinius labors on a latifundium and bemoans the loss of Etruscan greatness and subservience to Latin cultural and political domination. Brennus is a great gladiator whose family fell victim to imperial expansion. The twins, Romulus and Fabiola, suffer the degradation of slavery. Each of them is caught up in one of the seminal episodes of the century, as Crassus, seeking military glory, launched an expedition against Romeâ€™s archenemy in the East, Parthia. Kane clearly knows the history of the period, and his story is rich in accurate historical detail. The characterizations are finely drawn andÂ set against a dangerous, cruel, but often thrilling landscape. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4578'),
(17705, 'Formula One Humour Magazine 07-2011', 'Formula One Humour Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3722'),
(17706, 'The Forsaken Inn', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4037'),
(17707, 'Fortean_Times_2011-11.pdf 13-10-2011', 'Fortean_Times_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10677'),
(17708, 'FourFourTwo', 'UK October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5892'),
(17709, 'France for Dummies', 'Darwin Porter &amp; Danforth Prince &amp; Cheryl A. Pientka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The French have mastered the art of living well. With this guide, youâ€™ll master the art of vacationing wellâ€”seeing what you want to see, doing what you want to do, and enjoying every mile and every minute. In France, there are so many sights to see and so much fabulous food and wine to savor that you may have to pick and choose. This friendly guide helps you plan ahead with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Four great itineraries for exploring France and five daytrips from Paris\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provence, with the famous towns of Avignon, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence, and the quaint village of St-RÃ©my\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fabled French Riviera, including Cannes, Nice, and Monaco\n </li>\n <li>\n  The D-day beaches at Normandy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biking in the countryside, climbing to the heights of Mont-St-Michel, visiting prestigious vineyards, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hotels, ranging from one built as a convent in the early 18th century to an Italianate rose-pink villa from 1881 to a palatial hideaway in chic St. Tropez\n </li>\n <li>\n  Museums, ranging from MusÃ©e de Louvre and MusÃ©e dâ€™Orsay in Paris to MusÃ©e Picasso in Antibes and Foundation Maeght in St-Paul-de-Vence, a modern art Mecca\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incredible castles, palaces, churches, and cathedrals, including CathÃ©drale de Notre-Dame in Paris, one of Western civilizationâ€™s greatest edifices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping for the latest fashions in the chic boutiques of Paris, for hand-painted pottery in Quimper, for home decorating items and antiques in St-RÃ©my-de-Provence, for fruits, vegetables, and area specialties at the famous fruit and vegetable market in Aix-en-Provence, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  France For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n , includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether your style is grabbing a bite at a sidewalk cafÃ© or savoring five-star haute cuisineâ€¦taking in the major attractions or exploring the French countryside, with this guide, youâ€™ll have a bon voyage!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore France with le savoir-faire\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore romantic Paris or quaint villages. Savor superb food and wine. Visit famous vineyards, storied castles, soaring cathedrals, the fabled French Riviera, or the D-Day beaches at Normandy. This fun guide gets you in a carefree, c''est la vie frame of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1575'),
(17710, 'Franklin Kane', 'Anne Douglas Sedgwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4312'),
(17711, 'A Free Man of Color', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4559'),
(17712, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6228'),
(17713, 'French Verbs for Dummies', 'Zoe Erotopoulos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the hang of French verbs and get over verb hang-ups!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n French verbs can drive anyone crazy who''s trying to keep track of all the regular and irregular types. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, exercises, and conjugation charts - just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Review regular verbs in the present tense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with common exceptions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate all simple tenses, from present indicative to past subjunctive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate compound tenses\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the hang of French verbs and get over verb hang-ups!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n French verbs can drive anyone crazy who''s trying to keep track of all the regular and irregular types. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, exercises, and conjugation charts â€” just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Review regular verbs in the present tense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with common exceptions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate all simple tenses, from present indicative to past subjunctive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate compound tenses\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1576'),
(17714, 'Freshwater Aquariums for Dummies', 'Maddy Hargrove &amp; Mic Hargrove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers the latest aquarium gadgets\n</p>\n<p>\n Design a dazzling underwater environment with this bestselling guide!\n</p>\n<p>\n Setting up your first freshwater aquarium can be a daunting task. This friendly guide answers all your questions, from setting up your tank and selecting fish to the water, chemicals, plants, and much more. There''s also expanded guidance on combining different species of fish, maintaining a tank, cleaning gravel, and dealing with common problems such as algae.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Choose the right aquarium\n <br />\n * Select the best fish\n <br />\n * Get good deals on equipment\n <br />\n * Maintain a clean, healthy environment\n <br />\n * Handle tank pitfalls\n <br />\n * Breed your fish\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers the latest aquarium gadgets\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Design a dazzling underwater environment with this bestselling guide!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Setting up your first freshwater aquarium can be a daunting task. This friendly guide answers all your questions, from setting up your tank and selecting fish to the water, chemicals, plants, and much more. There''s also expanded guidance on combining different species of fish, maintaining a tank, cleaning gravel, and dealing with common problems such as algae.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right aquarium\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the best fish\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get good deals on equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain a clean, healthy environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle tank pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Breed your fish\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1577'),
(17715, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4174'),
(17716, 'Front 09-2011', 'Front', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3615'),
(17717, 'FRONT Magazine - Issue 160', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6080'),
(17718, 'FrontPage 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever looked at a great Web site and thought, â€œHow did they do that?â€ Now you can do it with Front Page 2003, Microsoftâ€™s popular Web site creation and management program.\n <em>\n  FrontPage 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n lives up to its name! It contains nine minibooks that cover all aspects of FrontPage.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Book I explains basic concepts and shows you how to create your first Web page\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book II gets you started with basic Web pages and covers topics such as working with forms, tables, frames and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book III guides you through working with an existing Web site, creating a new Web site, using Front Page views and reports, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book IV gets you into advanced design features, such as using cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and clip art, adding multimedia, creating dynamic Web sites, and securing Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book V covers database topics, including creating interactive Web pages with Access and developing applications with SQL Server\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VI explains how to create pages that work with XML and XSTL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VII covers scripting techniques, such as how to perform common scripting tasks and work with cookies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VIII covers VBA programming topics, such as storing and modifying data, creating structured programs, and trapping errors and fixing bugs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book IX offers unique coverage of advanced programming topics, such as using Front Page with Active Server Pages (ASP) and PHP, and working with Web Services (e.g., creating connections with Google, Amazon, and eBay)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by John Paul Mueller, author of more than 63 books and 300 articles on computer topics, this book is helpful for the FrontPage newbie, who will start at the very beginning, and work at his/her own pace, and for experienced users who will forge ahead to improve and expand their skills and take advantage of all the capabilities of FrontPage 2003.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips also work for FrontPage 2002 and 2000\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to creating great-looking Web sites with FrontPage 2003\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to put the fun back into Web development and create a fantastic site? From building basic HTML pages to complex pages with Cascading Style Sheets, this one-stop guide to FrontPage 2003 covers it all. These nine minibooks show you how to design special effects, write interactive scripts, manage your site more effectively, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop secure Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Excel, Access, and SQL Server\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create dynamic XML pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a VBA program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Active Server Pages and PHP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Web services\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1578'),
(17719, 'Fugitive Pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4258'),
(17720, 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic "Geek Love", Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut." Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club (made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke and Lullaby. His latest novel is Diary. For more information, visit www chuckpalahniuk.net\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6190'),
(17721, 'Full Black', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brad Thor] is arguably the best political thriller writer of all time.â€ --Suspense Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrad has yet again managed to take a world that few people see or know about, and expose readers to the inner workings of that world.â€ --Examiner.com (Houston)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<h1>\n 1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yetâ€”a terrifying story of espionage and betrayalâ€”brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.\n</h1>\n<p>\n Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply donâ€™t exist.\n</p>\n<p>\n When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the CIAâ€™s intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terroristsâ€™ network and prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, a foreign wet work team has been sent to California. Their target: one of Hollywoodâ€™s most famous filmmakers.\n</p>\n<p>\n While working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the worldâ€™s wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokersâ€”a man with a radical anti-American agenda poised to plunge the nation into deadly, irreversible chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the plots rocket to their pulse-pounding conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid stunningly bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America. Unable to trust anyone, he will be forced to go\n <em>\n  Full Black\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Intense and frighteningly realistic, FULL BLACK is, hands down, Brad Thorâ€™s most riveting thriller to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4121'),
(17722, 'Full Black', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brad Thor] is arguably the best political thriller writer of all time.â€ --Suspense Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrad has yet again managed to take a world that few people see or know about, and expose readers to the inner workings of that world.â€ --Examiner.com (Houston)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<h1>\n 1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yetâ€”a terrifying story of espionage and betrayalâ€”brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.\n</h1>\n<p>\n Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply donâ€™t exist.\n</p>\n<p>\n When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the CIAâ€™s intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terroristsâ€™ network and prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, a foreign wet work team has been sent to California. Their target: one of Hollywoodâ€™s most famous filmmakers.\n</p>\n<p>\n While working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the worldâ€™s wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokersâ€”a man with a radical anti-American agenda poised to plunge the nation into deadly, irreversible chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the plots rocket to their pulse-pounding conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid stunningly bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America. Unable to trust anyone, he will be forced to go\n <em>\n  Full Black\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Intense and frighteningly realistic, FULL BLACK is, hands down, Brad Thorâ€™s most riveting thriller to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4403'),
(17723, 'Fundamental Analysis for Dummies', 'Matt Krantz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How to determine the true strength and stability of any business\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s the key to multibillionaire Warren Buffett''s five-decade run as the most successful investor in history? Fundamental analysis. Now,\n <em>\n  Fundamental Analysis For Dummies\n </em>\n puts this tried and true method for gauging any company''s true underlying value into sensible and handy step-by-step instructions..\n</p>\n<p>\n In this easy-to-understand, practical, and savvy guide you''ll discover why this powerful tool is particularly important to investors in times of economic downturn and how it helps you assess a business''s overall financial performance by using historical and present data to forecast its future monetary value. You''ll also learn how to use fundamental analysis to spot bargains in the market, minimize your risk, and improve your overall investment skills.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows how to predict the future value of a business based on its current and historical financial data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you guage a company''s performance against its competitors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers evaluation of internal management\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals how to determine if in a company''s credit standing is any jeopardy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Applies fundamental analysis to other investment vehicles, including currency, bonds, and commodities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Matt Krantz is a writer and reporter for USA TODAY and USATODAY.COM where he covers investments and financial markets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Read\n <em>\n  Fundamental Analysis For Dummies\n </em>\n and find the bargains that could make you the next Warren Buffett!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fundamental Analysis for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess the future value of a business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate internal management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gauge a company''s performance against its competitors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make informed investments in both bear and bull markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Matt Krantz\n</p>\n<p>\n Financial Markets Reporter, USA Today\n</p>\n<p>\n The easy way to analyze investments and industries!\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s more important than ever for investors to know the true financial stability of a business. Whether you''re a seasoned investor or just want to learn how to make more intelligent and prudent investment decisions, this no-nonsense guide gives you practical tips, tricks, and secrets for using fundamental analysis to manage your portfolio and enhance your current system of selecting stocks!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What is fundamental analysis and why should you use it? â€” understand who should use fundamental analysis, how you can use it, and get up-to-speed on why it gives investors an edge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to perform fundamental analysis â€” get practical guidance on how to perform fundamental analysis to analyze and measure a company''s profitability, financial resources, cash flow, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Looking for fundamental reasons to buy or sell â€” find out how to look for buy or sell signals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making money from fundamental analysis â€” learn how to pay the right price for a stock and get tips on how an annual report can be used to find out what a company is worth to you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting advanced with fundamental analysis â€” get tips on how digging into the industry''s fundamentals, finding trends, recognizing red flags, and technical analysis keeps investors at the top of their game\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to always look for when studying a company\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips to determine if a company''s credit standing is in jeopardy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real examples of how fundamental analysis unearthed secrets investors wanted to know\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online tools to make analysis easier\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A checklist of things to consider in every annual report\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on how a good company in a bad industry can still make you money\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why trends are important to investors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1579'),
(17724, 'Fundraising for Dummies', 'John Mutz &amp; Katherine Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to raise money for your cause\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fundraising For Dummies\n </em>\n , 3rd Edition shows you how to take advantage of the latest strategies and resources available for raising money through everything from special events to online donations, in both good and bad economic times. The authors teach you how to market your organization using the most up-to-date tools and technologies available through the Internet. This expanded edition also offers information about philanthropy and tax law.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Contains new tips and techniques for creating materials that bring in contributions and support for the more than 1.4 million charitable and nonprofit organizations in the United States\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to use social media to keep donors and volunteers engaged through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Web technologies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers grassroots online fundraising and how to host big events on a shoestring budget\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find tips on negotiating without alienating donors and developing long-term organizational goals. All these strategies are what makes this resource indispensable!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fundraisers learn the tricks that get the cash!\n</p>\n<p>\n Scores of proven ways to raise money for nonprofit organizations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1580'),
(17725, 'Fundraising for Dummies', 'John Mutz &amp; Katherine Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out how to cultivate donors and solicit donations online\n</p>\n<p>\n Covers new changes in tax and philanthropy law\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a small outfit or a big organization, you''re competing for donors'' dollars and time. This hands-on, vital guide shows you how to take full advantage of the strategies and resources available and advises you how to promote your cause, research potential donors, organize events, write winning grant proposals, and utilize the latest technology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Define your group?s focus\n <br />\n * Create a viable plan\n <br />\n * Organize your board of directors\n <br />\n * Find and train volunteers\n <br />\n * Market via print and online\n <br />\n * Promote yourself with the media\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fundraisers learn the tricks that get the cash!\n</p>\n<p>\n Scores of proven ways to raise money for nonprofit organizations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1581'),
(17726, 'Fungi sommer 2011', 'Fungi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3183'),
(17727, 'furniture world', 'Russell Bienenstock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10584'),
(17728, 'Furniture.World-September.October.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-10-2011', 'Furniture.World-September.October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10607'),
(17729, 'Fury', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6205'),
(17730, 'The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension', 'Michael D. West, L. Stephen Coles, Steven B. Harris, Gregory M. Fahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4538'),
(17731, 'Future Trends in Microelectronics: From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy', 'Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alexander Zaslavsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7210'),
(17732, 'Future.Music-Autumn.2011.pdf 26-09-2011', 'Future.Music-Autumn.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6836');
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(17733, 'Futures &amp; Options for Dummies', 'Joe Duarte Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The days of buying and holding stocks and mutual funds for years are gone; nowadays, futures and option markets offer some of the best opportunities to make money trading in volatile times. But like all investments, high risk is involved, and in order to become a successful trader you must be prepared to work as a geopolitical analyst, a money manager, and an expert in all types of commodity markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Futures &amp; Options For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how trading is done and how to survive and succeed in these ever-changing markets. Filled with nuts-and-bolts advice, youâ€™ll soon discover how to manage the risks involved and reap the rewards of futures and options trading. This straightforward guide gives you the tools you need to understand:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ins and outs of trading futures and options\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to analyze the markets and develop strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interest-rate futures and speculating with currencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to stock up on indexes\n </li>\n <li>\n  The direction of commodity futures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organizing your financial data and calculating your worth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Developing strategies now to avoid pain later\n </li>\n <li>\n  The execution of successful trades\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Trading takes an iron-cast stomach and nerves of steel to perform, and this book features ways to keep yourself sane and secure. It also lists resourceful Web sites, commodity exchanges, books, newsletters, and magazines to assist in your trading endeavors. From technical analysis to finding a broker,\n <em>\n  Futures &amp; Options For Dummies\n </em>\n has all the information you need to capitalize on these markets!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Earn more money â€” start trading futures and options\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with helpful information on the futures market\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Even experienced investors need help understanding the world of futures and options. Thankfully, Futures &amp; Options For Dummies explains all the risks and rewards in futures trading, and gives you nuts-and-bolts advice for getting started. From technical analysis to finding a broker, this straightforward, easy-to-read guide covers it all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right broker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze market data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop effective stock option strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Trade financial and commodities futures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use market sentiment to your advantage\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1582'),
(17734, 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos 03-2011', 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(17735, 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos 06-2011', 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(17736, 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos 07-2011', 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2555'),
(17737, 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos 08-2011', 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2518'),
(17738, 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos 09-2011', 'Gadgets &amp; Gizmos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3701'),
(17739, 'Gadgets.and.Gizmos.Magazine-October.2011.pdf 20-09-2011', 'Gadgets.and.Gizmos.Magazine-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6550'),
(17740, 'gal-september_2011.pdf 20-09-2011', 'gal-september_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6442'),
(17741, 'Game Insider 07+08-2011', 'Game Insider', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3080'),
(17742, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4090'),
(17743, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4402'),
(17744, 'A Game Of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4466'),
(17745, 'Gamecca Magazine', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3908'),
(17746, 'Games Master 09-2011', 'Games Master', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3099'),
(17747, 'Gamesmaster_2011-11S370.pdf 24-09-2011', 'Gamesmaster_2011-11S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6755'),
(17748, 'Gamesmaster_2011-12.pdf 10-10-2011', 'Gamesmaster_2011-12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10641'),
(17749, 'Gamesmaster-November.2011.pdf 14-09-2011', 'Gamesmaster-November.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6059'),
(17750, 'GarageBand for Dummies', 'Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready to rock with Apple''s digital music recording studio\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to record, edit, mix, and master like a pro!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you the next big thing in music - but the world just doesn''t know it yet? Here''s the guide that will help you create great-sounding recordings with GarageBand. Packed with useful information on setting up a digital studio, laying down tracks, working with loops, playing with MIDI and software instruments, and mixing tracks, the only thing this book doesn''t provide you with is . . . a recording contract!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n <br />\n * Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Icons and other navigational aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * Top ten lists\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Decide what gear you''ll need\n <br />\n * Optimize your room for recording\n <br />\n * Mix vocals, instruments, and loops into a song\n <br />\n * Improve recordings with editing and effects\n <br />\n * Create CDs, movie scores, and more using other iLife applications\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready to rock with Appleâ€™s digital music recording studio\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to record, edit, mix, and master like a pro!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you the next big thing in music â€“ but the world just doesnâ€™t know it yet? Hereâ€™s the guide that will help you create great-sounding recordings with GarageBand. Packed with useful information on setting up a digital studio, laying down tracks, working with loops, playing with MIDI and software instruments, and mixing tracks, the only thing this book doesnâ€™t provide you with is . . . a recording contract!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide what gear youâ€™ll need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize your room for recording\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix vocals, instruments, and loops into a song\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve recordings with editing and effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create CDs, movie scores, and more using other iLife applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(17751, 'Gardeners World 2011-09S370 HQ', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5990'),
(17752, 'Gardening Basics for Dummies', 'Steven A. Frowine &amp; The National Gardening Association', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™re now officially out of excuses for not planting the garden of your dreams. Even if youâ€™ve never sowed a seed nor pulled a weed,\n <em>\n  Gardening Basics For Dummies\n </em>\n contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This friendly and informative guide also covers all of the tools and additives available to make gardening easier. Youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Clear definitions and descriptions of the different types of plants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on choosing the type of garden you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create a garden plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Easy-to-follow instructions for soil preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on planting, growing and caring for annuals and perennials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step plans for organic and edible gardens\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plans for butterfly and children''s gardens\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with helpful tips on controlling pests safely, managing weeds, and correcting common gardening problems, Gardening for Dummies turns your brown thumb green in a hurry.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with fun and useful tips to help you plan your garden!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create the garden of your dreams with the right plants and equipment\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want a green thumb? This handy guide gives beginning gardeners tips, plans, and insider know-how for getting started with flower beds, borders, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns, and more. Packed with step-by-step advice, illustrations, resources, and suggested plantings, this friendly guide covers all the tools that make gardening today easier than ever before!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pick the best plants for your climate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan and prep your garden\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your plants healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use compost, fertilizer, and safe pesticides\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot common problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate garden supplies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(17753, 'The Gates Of Rome(e-1)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "What Robert Graves did for Claudius, Conn Iggulden now does for the most famous Roman Emperor of them all. This novel is a vibrant blending of historical fact and fiction. If only all history lessons could be this thrilling." -William Bernhardt  " The Gates of Rome is a big, sumptuous feast of a novel that''s so vividly written I could hear the clang of swords and smell the scent of spice in the air. It had me enthralled from start to finish." -Tess Gerritsen  "An absorbing portrait of ancient Roman life and history, well written and full of suspense." â€“ Kirkus Reviews  The astonishing life of Julius Caesar is recreated in a magnificent new novel that brilliantly interweaves history and adventure. An epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction â€“ already a top ten bestseller in hardback. From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that created an empire to the betrayals that almost tore it apart, the Emperor novels tell the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all: Julius Caesar. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, The Gates of Rome introduces an ambitious young man facing his first great test. In the city of Rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core. Citizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict â€“ and Julius Caesar will be in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6220'),
(17754, 'The gates of wrath : a melodrama', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4251'),
(17755, 'GEAR #72 - 12-2009', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4495'),
(17756, 'GEAR #73 - 01-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4496'),
(17757, 'GEAR #74 - 02-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4497'),
(17758, 'GEAR #75 - 03-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4498'),
(17759, 'GEAR #76 - 04-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4499'),
(17760, 'GEAR #77 - 05-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4500'),
(17761, 'GEAR #78 - 06-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4501'),
(17762, 'GEAR #79 - 07-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4502'),
(17763, 'GEAR #80 - 08-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4503'),
(17764, 'GEAR #81 - 08-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4504'),
(17765, 'GEAR #82 - 09-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4505'),
(17766, 'GEAR #83 - 10-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4506'),
(17767, 'GEAR #84 - 11-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4507'),
(17768, 'GEAR #85 - 12-2010', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4508'),
(17769, 'GEAR #86 - 01-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4509'),
(17770, 'GEAR #87 - 02-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4510'),
(17771, 'GEAR #88 - 03-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4511'),
(17772, 'GEAR #89 - 04-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4512'),
(17773, 'GEAR #90 - 05-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4513'),
(17774, 'GEAR #91- 06-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4514'),
(17775, 'GEAR #93 - 08-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4515'),
(17776, 'GEAR 08-09-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4660'),
(17777, 'GEAR 13-09-2011', 'GEAR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5984'),
(17778, 'Geare-67.Issue', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4704'),
(17779, 'The GED for Dummies', 'Murray Shukyn &amp; Dale E. Shuttleworth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the skills and know-how you need to pass the GED test\n</p>\n<p>\n Earning a GED can provide you with an advantage over other job and education candidates and the confidence to take the next step.\n <em>\n  The GED For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you fresh and relevant example questions from the GED and even more hands-on training in each of the 5 subject areas to help you maximize your success and earn a passing score.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features 2 full practice tests in each of the 5 subject areas with detailed walk-throughs and explanations for every solution\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers advice on test preparation, from registering and studying effectively to managing your time during the exam\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Improve your job and education prospects now by studying for the GED with this easy-to-follow, proven guide!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the skills, information, and techniques you need to earn your high school equivalency\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s job environment, earning a GED can give you an edge over the competition â€” whether it''s to find a new job or to advance in the one you already have. The GED For Dummies, 2nd Edition, gives you the confidence and hands-on training you need to maximize your success. Plus, you''ll get two practice tests for each of the exam''s five sections to hone your test-taking skills before the big day.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the write stuff â€” perfect your grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills for the Language Arts/Writing Test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put the "social" in your studies â€” learn how to decipher charts, tables, graphs, and more to answer multiple-choice questions on the Social Studies Test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your specimen â€” get the lowdown on how to read and answer questions about life, physical, earth, and space sciences on the Science Test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Read between the lines â€” navigate your way through the types of fiction and nonfiction passages you''ll encounter on the Language Arts/Reading Test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be calculating â€” take the fear out of math and learn how to answer multiple-choice and alternate-format grid questions for the Mathematics Test\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Overviews of the test sections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When and how to schedule the test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special considerations if English is your second language\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important test-taking strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make the most of your time on test day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Two practice tests for each subject, complete with answers and explanations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate and understand the format of the five subject tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain confidence by taking multiple practice tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know what to expect on test day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your time during the test\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2097'),
(17780, 'Genetics for Dummies', 'Tara Rodden Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A plain-English guide to genetics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals and the most recent discoveries. Now with 25% new and revised material,\n <em>\n  Genetics For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you clear and accessible coverage of this rapidly advancing field.\n</p>\n<p>\n From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you''ll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes . . . and even clone cats.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Covers topics in a straightforward and effective manner\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes coverage of stem cell research, molecular genetics, behavioral genetics, genetic engineering, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores ethical issues as they pertain to the study of genetics\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you?re currently enrolled in a genetics course or are just looking for a refresher,\n <em>\n  Genetics For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n provides science lovers of all skill levels with easy-to-follow information on this fascinating subject.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A plain-English guide to this fascinating topic\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about genetics? This practical guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals and the most recent discoveries. From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you''ll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes . . . and even clone cats.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into genetics â€” get the 411 on how genetic information is divvied up during cell division and how trait inheritance works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dig into DNA â€” discover how your DNA is put together, how it gets copied, and how the building plans for your body are encoded in the double helix\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Toast to health â€” understand how genetics affects your health and get the lowdown on the latest developments in genetic counseling, inherited diseases, genetics and cancer, and chromosome disorders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get in the know â€” learn about the impact of genetics on hot topics like population genetics, evolution, forensics, cloning, ethical issues, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of cell biology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The laws of inheritance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A plain-English explanation of traits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The genetics of sex\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How DNA is replicated\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A tour of the double helix\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The genetics of diseases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How gene therapy can treat genetic diseases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The use of DNA to solve crimes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Controversial topics in genetics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the latest developments in genetics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the latest on stem cell research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get up to speed on molecular genetics, genetic counseling, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore ethical issues as they apply to genetics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1585'),
(17781, 'Genetics for Dummies', 'Tara Rodden Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reveals the connections between genetics and specific diseases\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand the science and the ethics behind genetics\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals. From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you''ll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes . . . and even clone cats.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What geneticists do\n </li>\n <li>\n  How traits are passed on\n </li>\n <li>\n  How genetic counseling works\n </li>\n <li>\n  The basics of cloning\n </li>\n <li>\n  The role of DNA in forensics\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on the Human Genome Project\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reveals the connections between genetics and specific diseases\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand the science and the ethics behind genetics\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals. From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you''ll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes . . . and even clone cats.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What geneticists do\n </li>\n <li>\n  How traits are passed on\n </li>\n <li>\n  How genetic counseling works\n </li>\n <li>\n  The basics of cloning\n </li>\n <li>\n  The role of DNA in forensics\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on the Human Genome Project\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1586'),
(17782, 'Genghis: Birth of an Empire (c-1)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujinâ€™s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.  Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujinâ€™s legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warriorâ€™s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Author of the bestselling Emperor series on the life of Julius Caesar, Iggulden turns to another of history''s great conquerors, Genghis Khan, for a new series of brilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction. Future conqueror Temujinâ€”"a man of iron"â€”is born to the khan (ruler) of a fierce Mongol tribe that roams central Asia''s steppes in the 12th century. When his father is killed by Tartar raiders before Temujin reaches manhood, a rival claims the tribe and banishes Temujin''s family. Left behind without resources when the tribe migrates, the family struggles to survive the harsh environment, and Temujin dreams of gathering similar outcastsâ€”wanderers and herdsmenâ€”into a new tribe. After assembling a core of these "men scorned by all the others," Temujin begins raiding Tartar camps. As his fame spreads, Temujin launches an ambitious campaign to unite the Mongol tribes "after a thousand years of warfare" into a single people, defeat the Tartars and invade China. Building on the fragments of Genghis''s life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and "unforgiving land" and the enigmatic young manâ€”charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable "of utter ruthlessness"â€”who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Iggulden, author of the best-selling Emperor__series, shifts his focus eastward, retelling the story of legendary warrior Genghis Khan. Just as he did for Julius Caesar, Iggulden plants his subject firmly into historical context, fictionalizing the early years of Temujin, the son of a khan brutally murdered by invading Tartars. When his family is betrayed by a rival and abandoned by their clan, young Temujin vows revenge and dreams of the day he will become the conqueror rather than the conquered. Surviving the harsh reality of the Asian steppes, his adolescence is informed by a sense of mission that grows more urgent with each passing year. As a young man, he begins to develop skills as both a fierce warrior and a diplomat, reuniting Mongol tribes and factions into a formidable army. This authentically detailed historical drama sets the stage for the next installment.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6216'),
(17783, 'A Gentleman of Fortune', 'Anna Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4011'),
(17784, 'Geocaching for Dummies', 'Joel Mcnamara', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find a high-tech hobby in the great outdoors!\n</p>\n<p>\n Dig into this fast-growing detective sport thatâ€™s fun for all ages\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you get your coordinates, your GPS receiver, maps, compass, and this book, youâ€™re ready for adventure! Seek out containers of goodies hidden around the world by other geocachers, hide a cache of your own, see new places, and get a little exercise to boot. Hereâ€™s where to start!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose and use a GPS receiver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and download coordinates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pack the right gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share experiences with the geocaching community\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search for benchmarks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use geocaching as a teaching tool\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find a high-tech hobby in the great outdoors!\n</p>\n<p>\n Dig into this fast-growing detective sport thatâ€™s fun for all ages\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you get your coordinates, your GPS receiver, maps, compass, and this book, youâ€™re ready for adventure! Seek out containers of goodies hidden around the world by other geocachers, hide a cache of your own, see new places, and get a little exercise to boot. Hereâ€™s where to start!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose and use a GPS receiver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and download coordinates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pack the right gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share experiences with the geocaching community\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search for benchmarks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use geocaching as a teaching tool\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1587'),
(17785, 'George W. Bush', 'Decision Points (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4343'),
(17786, 'German Phrases for Dummies', 'Paula Christensen &amp; Anne Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n</p>\n<p>\n Speak German - instantly!\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to Germany but don''t know German? Taking German at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don''t worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking German in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, time, and money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n</p>\n<p>\n Speak German â€” instantly!\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to Germany but don''t know German? Taking German at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don''t worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking German in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, time, and money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1588'),
(17787, 'Germany for Dummies', 'Donald Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the Bavarian Alps to the Rhine, from Berlin to the Black Forest, Germany is packed with beer gardens, castles, art, culture, and a hopping nightlife. Take it all in with this handy guide to your perfect Teutonic adventure:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Complete coverage of the big cities and small towns, from Berlin and Munich to the spa town of Baden-Baden\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best castles and palaces, including the fairy-tale-style castles Neuschwanstein and Linderhof\n </li>\n <li>\n  Suggestions for kid-friendly attractions, hotels, and restaurant\n </li>\n <li>\n  The country''s best wines and wine regions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n  <em>\n   Germany For Dummies, Third Edition\n  </em>\n  includes:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn?t miss?and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your handy guide to a perfect Teutonic adventure\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Germany has something for everyone, from bustling Berlin to elegant and fun-loving Munich to the Bavarian Alps and the Rhine Valley. Whether you''re into beer halls or symphony halls, imposing cathedrals or fairy-tale castles, historical sights or nightlife, this friendly guide preps you for a wonderful trip to Germany. Auf Wiedersehen!\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1589'),
(17788, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n  <em>\n   Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not quite. Yes,\n  <em>\n   Getting Things Done\n  </em>\n  offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n  <em>\n   Fast Company\n  </em>\n  has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(17789, 'The Ghost / A Modern Fantasy', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4248'),
(17790, 'The Ghost and the Femme Fatale', 'Alice Kimberley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The local Film Noir festival takes a dark turn when a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed. Now, bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I. â€“ even though he and his license expired more than fifty years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4056'),
(17791, 'The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion', 'Alice Kimberly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rhode Island bookshop owner Penelope McClure never believed in ghosts -- until she met the spirit of Jack Shepard, a big city private investigator who was gunned down in her store over sixty years ago. Now Penelope not only believes in her hard-boiled ghost, she asks for his help in solving a murder. A loyal customer of Penelope''s bookshop has been found dead on posh Larchmont Avenue. The elderly woman left a will that was recently (and suspiciously) revised to name her mailman, Seymour Tarnish, the sole heir to her estate. Many eyes in the little town turn to the hapless mailman as the murderer, including the town''s police chief, but Seymour doesn''t care. He''s too busy settling into his posh new digs. Unfortunately, Seymour''s new mansion also appears to be haunted and when the mansion''s ghosts begin plaguing him, he hires a team of parapsychologists to exorcise every last spirit from the entire town. Now Penelope must not only solve a murder, and prove her friend Seymour innocent, she must act fast to save her beloved ghost; because if these "spirit zappers" actually do their job, then the ghost of Jack Shepard finally will be history. And that scares Pen a lot more than rattling chains and cold spots.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3922'),
(17792, 'Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Dresden Files series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn''t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.\n</p>\n<p>\n But being dead doesn''t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.\n</p>\n<p>\n To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jim Butcher\n </strong>\n is a full-time writer who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, son, and ferocious guard dog.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4122'),
(17793, 'Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Dresden Files series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn''t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.\n</p>\n<p>\n But being dead doesn''t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.\n</p>\n<p>\n To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jim Butcher\n </strong>\n is a full-time writer who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, son, and ferocious guard dog.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4401'),
(17794, 'The Ghost Who Came to Say He Was Sorry', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6223'),
(17795, 'Ghost.Rider.Vol.1.No.1.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Ghost.Rider.Vol.1.No.1.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6804'),
(17796, 'Giganternes fald', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4536');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17797, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4086'),
(17798, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4150'),
(17799, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4400'),
(17800, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4446'),
(17801, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4087'),
(17802, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4399'),
(17803, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4445'),
(17804, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4093'),
(17805, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4398'),
(17806, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4444'),
(17807, 'Girls Gone Wild Magazine - Fall 2011', 'Fall 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10598'),
(17808, 'GIS for Dummies', 'Michael N. Demers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n GIS (geographic information system) is a totally cool technology that has been called â€œgeography on steroids.â€ GIS is what lets you see the schools in your neighborhood or tells you where the nearest McDonaldâ€™s is.\n <em>\n  GIS For Dummies\n </em>\n tells you all about mapping terminology and digital mapping, how to locate geographic features and analyze patterns such as streets and waterways, and how to generate travel directions, customer location lists, and much more with GIS.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re in charge of creating GIS applications for your business or you simply love maps, youâ€™ll find\n <em>\n  GIS For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with information. For example, you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn all the hardware and software necessary to collect, analyze, and manipulate GIS data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the difference between 2D and 3D maps, create a map, or manage multiple maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze patterns that appear in maps and interpret the results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure distance in absolute, comparative, and functional ways\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize how spatial factors relate to geographic data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how GIS is used in business, the military, city planning, emergency services, land management, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out how GIS can help you find out where flooding may occur\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine what your organization needs, do appropriate analyses, and actually plan and design a GIS system\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find dozens of applications for GIS queries and analyses, and even learn to create animated GIS output. Whether your goal is to implement a GIS or just have fun,\n <em>\n  GIS For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you there!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Curious about GIS?\n</p>\n<p>\n Organizing a GIS?\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s the book you need!\n</p>\n<p>\n Geographic information system, or GIS, is a powerful technology that has been called "geography on steroids." This book contains what you need to know on mapping terminology and digital mapping, how to locate geographic features and analyze their patterns, and how to generate travel directions, customer locations lists, and much more with GIS.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   GIS takes a village â€” know all the hardware and software necessary to collect, analyze, and manipulate GIS data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Just for map mavens â€” explore the difference between 2D and 3D maps, create a map, or manage multiple maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the data mean â€” analyze patterns that appear in maps and interpret the results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Think spatially â€” recognize how spatial factors relate to geographic data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   On the grid â€” define and locate geographic objects on the grid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The earth is not flat â€” accurately portray geographic features with map projections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Technological duct tape â€” discover the many uses of GIS for business, the military, city planning, emergency services, land management, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design a GIS â€” determine what your organization needs, do appropriate analyses, and plan your system\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get paper maps into your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Different ways to measure distance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to organize your spatial data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What raster and vector mean to a cartographer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose a GIS software vendor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How GIS can help you determine appropriate land use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dozens of applications for GIS queries and analyses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create animated GIS output\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1590'),
(17809, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community''s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  , in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children''s adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community''s Elders. This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare. Lowry''s development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community''s citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society''s collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world. With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher''s Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen''s The Little Match Girl. Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers. Ages 12-14.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(17810, 'Glamour UK - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7217'),
(17811, 'Glamour UK - Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10688'),
(17812, 'The Glamour', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A tightly narrated slice of psychological horror." The Independent "[a] cool, understated chiller. Priest''s control over his story will keep you turning the pages as events slowly twist their way to an unseen climax." -- Brian J. Robb DREAMWATCH\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cameraman Richard Grey''s memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb incident. But when Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of "the glamour".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6346'),
(17813, 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4198'),
(17814, 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4362'),
(17815, 'The glass castle: a memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4415'),
(17816, 'GlimpsesBookDTR.indb', 'Glimpses of the Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10760'),
(17817, 'Global Warming for Dummies', 'Elizabeth May &amp; Zoe Caron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get positive suggestions for practical solutions to this heated issue.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hotly debated in the political arena and splashed across the media almost 24/7, global warming has become the topic of the moment. Whatever one''s views on its cause, there is no denying that the earth''s climate is changing, and people everywhere are worried.\n <em>\n  Global Warming For Dummies\n </em>\n sorts out fact from fiction, explaining the science behind climate change and examining the possible long-term effects of a warmer planet. This no-nonsense yet friendly guide helps you explore solutions to this challenging problem, from what governments and industry can do to what you can do at home and how to get involved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand global warming and what you can do to make a positive difference!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fiercely debated in the political arena and constantly splashed across the media, global warming is a hot topic.\n <em>\n  Global Warming For Dummies\n </em>\n sorts out fact from fiction, explaining the science behind climate change and examining the possible long-term effects of a warmer planet. This friendly guide helps readers explore solutions to this challenging problem, from what governments and industry can do to what readers can do at home and how to get involved.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understanding the greenhouse effect â€” discover how greenhouse gases affect the planet''s atmosphere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tracking down the causes â€” investigate how society has caused a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Examining global warming''s effects â€” see the changes already taking place around the world and look at what scientists project for the future\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Switching to renewable energy â€” find out about carbon-free alternative energy sources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Going green in business â€” explore how companies in every sector can help stop global warming while helping their bottom line\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking action â€” check out dozens of ways you can be a part of the solution, from what you eat to what you wear to how you heat your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Sierra Club of Canada Foundation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How human activity is altering Earth''s atmosphere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What could happen when polar ice melts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which species could disappear if global warming continues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Carbon-reduction success stories from around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the Kyoto Protocol is and what it means\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the sun, wind, earth, and ocean can all provide clean sources of energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You can fight global warming by hopping on a bike or painting your roof white\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ol>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1591'),
(17818, 'Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies', 'Danna Korn &amp; Connie Sarros', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks?\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies\n </em>\n is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too!\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Youâ€™ll find out what you can and canâ€™t use in gluten-free cooking, learn to spot the hidden gluten in foods, discover surprising ways to save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight. Youâ€™ll also learn how to convert your current favorite recipes to gluten-free delights using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare your kitchen for gluten-free cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop for gluten-free products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the kids involved in gluten-free cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make any meal gluten free\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add color and nutrition at the same time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cook gluten-free without a recipe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do the â€œimpossibleâ€â€” gluten-free baking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make gluten-free sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create fabulous gluten-free fish, chicken, and meat dishes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Go gluten-free and vegetarian, too\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods, kidâ€™s favorites, and ways to eat gluten-free while traveling\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies\n </em>\n is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More than 150 wheat- and gluten-free recipes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to cook and eat well sans the gluten!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? This practical guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic, healthy dishes, from breakfast to dinner to dessert. You''ll understand what you can and can''t use in gluten-free cooking, spot the hidden gluten in foods, save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare your kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shop for gluten-free products\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the kids involved\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make any meal gluten-free\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1592'),
(17819, 'The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies', 'Meri Raffetto Rd Ldn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get proven results from this safe, effective, and easy-to-follow diet\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the glycemic index is a proven method of losing and maintaining weight safely and quickly.\n <em>\n  The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies\n </em>\n presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommends foods that boost metabolism, promote weight loss, and provide longer-lasting energy\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features delicious recipes for glycemic-friendly cooking at home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes exercises for maintaining glycemic index weight loss and promoting physical fitness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers guidance on shopping for food as well as eating at restaurants and away from home\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll not only see how to apply the glycemic index to your existing diet plan, but also how to develop a lifestyle based around improving your overall health.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lose weight and improve your overall health\n</p>\n<p>\n Eating fewer carbohydrates may be trendy â€” but since your body needs them to function, eliminating too many carbs from your diet is neither healthy nor practical. Enter the glycemic index, a proven method for calculating the way carbohydrates act in your body to help you lose weight safely, quickly, and effectively. The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the glycemic index â€” find out exactly what the glycemic index is and how you can use it to develop a healthier diet and lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your health back on track â€” use a low-glycemic diet to help control diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypothyroidism, metabolic syndrome, and other health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat the low-glycemic way â€” get helpful, easy-to-follow guidelines for adding low-glycemic foods to your meals at home, while dining out, and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy and delicious recipes for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common low-glycemic and high-fiber foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple strategies to increase your metabolism\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on reading food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for dining out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Healthy-eating strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to stay on track with a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to modify your favorite meals for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A sensible exercise plan that you can stick with\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the glycemic index to achieve your weight-loss goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your overall wellness and control specific health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat and cook the low-glycemic way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make positive, sustainable lifestyle and diet changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2098'),
(17820, 'GMAT for Dummies', 'Scott Hatch &amp; Lisa Hatch &amp; Lisa Zimmer Hatch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n GMAT scores are an important part of any graduate business-school application, so you need to perform well. Suzee Vlk, long time test-prep specialist and author of several Dummies books, can help.\n <em>\n  The GMAT for Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with useful information and strategies to help you prepare for the test. The book includes advice on how to use the book efficiently (Vlk estimates you''ll need 28 hours to work through it), review chapters for all three sections of the exam, and two complete practice exams. Two chapters focusing on the analytical writing assessment portion of the exam will help you write effective essays--and remind you that schools differ regarding the importance of this section. Vlk also offers special advice for "computer illiterates" worried about taking this computer-based exam. In familiar Dummies style, Vlk includes a handy tear-out "Quick Reference Card" with a summary of the most important information and a "Part of Tens" section with "10 Dumb Things You Can Do to Mess Up Your GMAT" and 10 relaxation techniques to use before and during the exam. With its witty writing and helpful icons in the margins pointing out important information,\n <em>\n  The GMAT for Dummies\n </em>\n makes test preparation easy and relatively painless.\n <em>\n  --C.B. Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re planning to apply for an MBA program, youâ€™re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition\n </em>\n , puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible, providing you with complete math and grammar reviews and all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the testâ€™s format\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bring the right stuff\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make educated guesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid the examâ€™s pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calm your nerves\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time and beat the clock\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This\n <em>\n  Fifth Edition\n </em>\n is packed with plenty of updated practice questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Our sample questions read just like the actual test questions, so you can get comfortable with the way the GMAT phrases questions and answer choices. You get plenty of tips on correctly answering the sentence correction, reading comprehension, and critical reading questions and tackling the analytical essays. Thereâ€™s also a comprehensive math review of everything from number types to standard deviation and expanded coverage of statistics and probability. Each section ends with a mini practice test to prepare you for the two full-length practice tests featured in this easy-to-digest guide. Youâ€™ll see how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read passages quickly and effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break apart and analyze arguments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write a well-organized, compelling essay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle the data sufficiency math question type that only appears on the GMAT\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use relaxation techniques if you start to panic during the test\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a scoring guide, explanatory answers, timesaving tips, math formulas you should memorize, and a list of writing errors to avoid,\n <em>\n  GMAT For Dummies\n </em>\n is all you need to practice your skills, improve your score, and pass with flying colors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1593'),
(17821, 'GNSS for Vehicle Control', 'Bevly, David M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6866'),
(17822, 'The Golden Silence', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5937'),
(17823, 'The Golden Silence', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen Knight was very angry though he meant to be kind and patient with Margot. Perhaps after all she had not given the interview to the newspaper reporter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5983'),
(17824, 'The Golden Slipper', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4038'),
(17825, 'GoldMine 8 for Dummies', 'Joel Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you run a small business, you know how important customer relationship management, or CRM, can be to your bottom line. And you know it can be a bit daunting. Well, not with GoldMine and\n <em>\n  GoldMine 8 For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n GoldMine is business software designed to help you organize your contacts, track activities, schedule appointments, create reports that tell you how youâ€™re doing, and make accurate business projections. GoldMine 8 is completely revised to make it more useful than ever, once you get the hang of it. Thatâ€™s where\n <em>\n  GoldMine For Dummies\n </em>\n comes to the rescue! Written by an authorized GoldMine trainer, this guide shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up GoldMine 8 and customize it for your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create, view, and update customer records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule activities and manage leads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitor your marketing efforts and see whatâ€™s working\n </li>\n <li>\n  Predict sales based on past results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with GoldMineâ€™s e-mail system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and distribute information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access GoldMine from outside your office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate GoldMine with your company Web site\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even if youâ€™ve used a previous version of GoldMine, youâ€™ll find some big changes in this newest revision, but\n <em>\n  GoldMine 8 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy to get up to speed. When youâ€™ve read this book and discovered how GoldMine can help you keep track of your clients, reduce costs, and improve efficiency, youâ€™ll think youâ€™ve hit the motherlode!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customize GoldMine to fit your business needs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use GoldMine to support sales and service,keep records, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s a reason why it''s called GoldMine. When you''ve read this book and discovered how GoldMine can help you keep track of your clients, reduce costs, and improve efficiency, you''ll think you''ve hit the mother lode! Manage your contacts and leads, schedule activities, track your marketing efforts, create reports, and make GoldMine work for your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Joel Scott is President of Computer Control Corporation, a GoldMine dealership that has earned GoldMine''s Top 10 Dealer status for ten years. He''s also an authorized GoldMine and GoldSync Technician.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up GoldMine and access it remotely\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use filters, groups, and SQL queries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Schedule activities and forecast sales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Monitor marketing projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with GoldMine''s e-mail system\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1594'),
(17826, 'Golf for Dummies', 'Gary Mccord &amp; David Feherty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When it comes to improving your golf game, everyoneâ€™s an expert, even other beginners who donâ€™t play any better than you. Get help from real experts. Golf For Dummies, Third Edition, features easy-to-follow instructions for hitting the ball farther and straighter, and shaving strokes off your game. It gives you:            Advice on adjusting your grip, stance, and swing      Helpful tips from the top players in the game      New methods for improving improve your short game      Exercises tailored to keep you fit and improve your game      Reviews of the latest golfing equipment      The latest on neworganizations and websites for golfers      Details about great new courses      Accounts of golfâ€™s greatest moments and players              Playing golf is funâ€”playing better is even more fun. With a little help from Golf for Dummies, Third Edition, youâ€™ll have the time of your life whenever you lace up your cleats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(17827, 'Golf&#39;s Short Game for Dummies', 'Michael Patrick Shiels &amp; Michael Kernicki', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Easy-to-grasp techniques for improving the short game\n <br />\n About 70 percent of the shots in a round of golf are taken 75 yards from the pin or closer, making the short game the most significant factor in a golfer''s score. This practical guide shows readers how to shave strokes off their game by improving their pitching, chipping, bunker play, and putting. Golfers will find expert tips on choosing the right wedges, putters, and balls, as well as illustrated step-by-step instructions on swings used in short-game shots. They''ll also find information on how to beat bunkers and other hazards and how to play various lies-in deep rough, from the fairway, uphill, side-hill, and off bare ground. There''s also a section on stretches, exercises, and drills to improve techniques, as well as tips on reading greens for accurate putting.\n <br />\n Michael Patrick Sheils (Birmingham, MI) is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America. He has written four books, and his articles and columns have appeared in worldwide magazines and newspapers. Michael Kernicki (Miami Beach, FL) has been a PGA member for 27 years and is currently the Head Professional at the historic Indian Creek Country Club in Miami Beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with fun drills and exercises\n</p>\n<p>\n Chip, pitch, and putt your way to a better score\n</p>\n<p>\n On average, 50 percent of your golf score is based on shots 50 yards or closer to the green. Packed with tips, techniques, drills, and exercises, this handy guide gives you the know-how you need to improve your short game â€” pitch and chip shots, bunker play, and putting â€” and dramatically lower your score.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Improve your chip, pitch, and bunker shots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune your putting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the right wedges and putter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply the techniques of top pros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix common problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1596'),
(17828, 'Good Housekeeping - Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10689');
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(17829, 'Google AdSense for Dummies', 'Jerri L. Ledford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can get paid for online ad placement with Google AdSense! If youâ€™ve ever considered using AdSense to improve revenue for your Web site,\n <em>\n  Google\n </em>\n <em>\n  AdSense For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you started. Itâ€™s loaded with tips to help you implement a successful AdSense program.\n</p>\n<p>\n AdSense lets you generate income with ad placement on blogs and Web sites.\n <em>\n  Google\n </em>\n <em>\n  AdSense For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how AdSense works, how to analyze cost per click and track AdSense results, and how to earn money from your blog or Web site without selling a product. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Register and set up an AdSense program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track results with server logs, AdSense reports, and Google Analytics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost AdSense income with search engine optimization techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply Google guidelines by including relevant links and content, making your site easy to navigate, using a sitemap, and keeping links in good repair\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune your Web site with beefed-up content to please Google and boost effectiveness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Earn more with AdSense for RSS, streaming video, and referral units\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design appealing ads and search boxes, and deal with ads from competitors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add video units to your site, design mobile ad units, and understand referral units\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Google\n </em>\n <em>\n  AdSense For Dummies\n </em>\n , author Jerri Ledford, a self-described â€œGoogle geek,â€ helps you make money with AdSense.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s how to earn money from your Web site without selling a thing!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to make your Web site or blog earn its keep, using Google AdSense makes a lot of sense. It also makes sense to find out how AdSense works and how to make it work for you. This friendly guide cuts through the geek-speak and shows you what AdSense is, how to make your site Google-friendly, how to use AdSense for Search or Content, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fine-tune your Web site â€” beef up your content for Google''s approval as well as to boost effectiveness\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply Google guidelines â€” include relevant links and content, make your site easy to navigate, use a sitemap, design for the user, and keep links in good repair\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover other types of AdSense â€” use AdSense with video, mobile, and RSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn to love units â€” add video units to your site, design mobile ad units, and understand referral units\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get creative â€” use AdSense as a page element on your blog and design knockout ads and cool search boxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make them pay â€” increase your income from AdSense for RSS, referral units, and streaming videos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use some sense â€” track your results using AdSense reports and Google Analytics\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Answers to FAQs about AdSense\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for building a content-rich Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How search engine optimization can boost AdSense income\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do about competitors'' ads\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for designing ads with appeal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up AdSense for mobile and RSS feeds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the AdSense referral program works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What server logs and channels can tell you\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1597'),
(17830, 'Google AdWords for Dummies', 'Howie Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A completely updated reference to help you get the most value out of your AdWords campaigns\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Google AdWords is a unique tool that allows you to set your own budget and create ads and choose keywords that are specifically related to your business. When your ad appears next to the search results, people can simply click your ad to learn more about you or make a purchase. This handy guide walks you through the newest tips, tricks, and techniques for maximizing your AdWords campaign.\n</p>\n<p>\n Offering valuable advice, this new edition includes case studies from readers who have shared what they learned from using the techniques revealed in the first edition.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A revised and updated guide that shares invaluable advice for maximizing your AdWords campaign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses changes to the AdWords interface as well as best practices in split testing, opt-in landing page structure, and ad group structure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews new, free tools included in AdWords as well as new and improved third-party tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes an in-depth explanation of Google''s free Web site testing and optimization tool: Website Optimizer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes a Google AdWords gift card worth $25 (details inside book)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this handy reference by your side, you will discover the best way to put a Google AdWords campaign to work for\n <em>\n  you\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boost your bottom line with your $25 Google AdWords credit â€” see inside\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Google AdWords lets you create ads that appear beside search results specifically related to your business â€” and you can set your own budget. Here''s how to use AdWords and get the most from the newest tools, including the exciting Website Optimizer. And along with all this great advice, you get a gift card worth $25 on your first AdWords campaign!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See what''s new â€” explore the changes in the AdWords interface, new free tools, and enhanced third-party tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Optimize â€” see how the Website Optimizer works and how to effectively test landing page elements, order forms, and other aspects of your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Economize â€” use conversion tracking to keep your costs low\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s best â€” benefit from best practices in split testing, opt-in landing page structure, and ad group structure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover what works â€” learn from case studies where readers of the first edition share their experience and techniques they''ve used\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to turn clicks into cash\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for writing ads that attract clicks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How you control what your campaign costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you want to discourage some people from clicking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for choosing keywords that work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Google Analytics can help you increase sales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to identify your market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your Google AdWords gift card worth $25!\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/adwords2e for additional tips and tricks to help you make the most of the latest developments in Google AdWords\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1598'),
(17831, 'Google Apps for Dummies', 'Ryan Teeter &amp; Karl Barksdale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Google Apps are Web-based, low-cost (or free!) office productivity tools that do everything those expensive applications do â€” and you can access them from any computer with an Internet connection.\n <em>\n  Google Apps For Dummies\n </em>\n boosts your "app-titude" by giving you the low-down on choosing, setting up, and using these nifty and powerful gadgets for work or play.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re an individual who wants to take advantage of iGoogle or an organization looking for an enterprise-wide training solution for users at all levels, this comprehensive, practical guide brings you up to speed with all of the basic information and advanced tips and tricks you need to make good use of every Google Apps''s tool and capability. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get productive fast with free or inexpensive Web-based apps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design your perfect Start Page layout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose among the different editions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Gmail and Google Talk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Google Docs and spreadsheet documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and collaborate on documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import events into your calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build dazzling presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Dashboard to create and manage user accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a Web page with a unique domain setting\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Google Apps are poised to shatter the primacy of the current way of working with PCs, saving businesses, schools, government agencies, and individuals big bucks on software, network infrastructure, and administration.\n <em>\n  Google Apps For Dummies\n </em>\n is your key to making this revolutionary new approach work for you and your organization.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get down to business with these online office tools\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create documents and spreadsheets, keep your calendar, use Gmail, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s more than one way to do office stuff. Google Apps are Web-based, low-cost (or free!) office productivity tools that do everything those big guys do, and you can access them from any computer with an Internet connection. This book boosts your "app-titude" with the lowdown on choosing, setting up, and using them for work and play.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose among the different editions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Register a new domain\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Gmail and Google Talk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and collaborate on documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Import events into your calendar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build cool presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1599'),
(17832, 'Google Blogger for Dummies', 'Susan Gunelius', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you bemused by blogs? Eager to become a blogger?\n <em>\n  Google Blogger For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you start blogging sooner than you think.\n</p>\n<p>\n More than 14 million people are promoting a business, connecting with family and friends, and sharing opinions with Google Blogger. This book helps you start a Blogger account, create content, build an audience, make money from your blog, and more, all without learning to program. Youâ€™ll be able to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn the parts of a blog, what Blogger does, and how to choose goals and blog topics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose a domain name, learn to use the dashboard, pick a template, and configure settings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dress up your blog with themes and find out where to get plenty of free ones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn blogging etiquette and some secrets for long-term success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make money from your blog with Google Adsense, contextual and text link ads, and merchandising with CafePress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up multi-user blogs or branch into mobile blogging, podcasting, or video blogging\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of social networking sites and learn simple search engine optimization techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain your blog with tools like Blog This! and Quick Edit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Moderate comments effectively, track your stats, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Google Blogger is a great choice for beginning bloggers, and\n <em>\n  Google Blogger For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the know-how to venture confidently into the blogosphere.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s what you need to know to get started with Google Blogger\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to share your opinions, promote your business, network with others, and maybe pick up a few extra dollars, all without learning to program? Millions of people are doing it with Google Blogger, and you can too. This book helps you create a Blogger account, write compelling content, build an audience, make money from your blog, and more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s a blog, and what''s Blogger? â€” learn the parts of a blog, what Blogger does, and how to choose goals and blog topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nuts and bolts â€” choose a domain name, learn to use the dashboard, pick a template, and configure settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blog effectively â€” learn blogosphere etiquette and some secrets for long-term success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fun bells and whistles â€” dress up your blog with templates (lots of them are free!)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Does making dollars make sense? â€” explore options for Google AdsenseÂ®, contextual and text link ads, paid posts, and merchandising with CafePress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spread the word â€” promote your blog through search engines and social networking sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A family of blogs â€” set up multi-user blogs or branch into mobile blogging, podcasting, or video blogging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get more Google â€” use PicasaÂ®, YouTube, Feedburner, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose a blog topic and personalize your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you should know about moderating comments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to maintain your blog with tools like Blog This! and Quick Edit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple search engine optimization techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tracking your blog traffic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find cool free templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make money from your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten useful social networking sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1600'),
(17833, 'Google Earth for Dummies', 'David A. Crowder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Aimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes valuable tips on various customizations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPS\n </li>\n <li>\n  There are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore foreign cities or find every ATM in your hometown!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Map historic sites, look for a new home, or analyze traffic patterns\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to see the world? Forget packing, customs, and airport security â€”with Google Earth, simply click and you''re there. And it works just as well to find school districts and shortcuts in your hometown. This guide helps you install and customize the software, create specialized maps, tour almost any city on earth, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Locate specific businesses in any city\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a tour of homes for sale\n </li>\n <li>\n  Visit historic sites in another country\n </li>\n <li>\n  Insert your own 3D models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find alternate routes to work\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1601'),
(17834, 'Google Search &amp; Rescue for Dummies', 'Brad Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Be amazed at all the ways Google''s at your service!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s how to find your way through all the information Google offers\n</p>\n<p>\n More than a search engine, Google has become a lifestyle. This book introduces you to the rest of the Google family - valuable tools such as Google Maps, Google Video, Google Earth, Google Scholar, and Gmail. Play Google games, shop with Froogle, or find stuff on your own computer with Google Desktop. The possibilities will make you Google-eyed!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Refine your results with search operators\n <br />\n * Use Google as an answer engine\n <br />\n * Enjoy one-click searching with Google Toolbar\n <br />\n * Get specific information with Google Labs services\n <br />\n * Simplify e-mail with Gmail\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Be amazed at all the ways Google''s at your service!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s how to find your way through all the information Google offers\n</p>\n<p>\n More than a search engine, Google has become a lifestyle. This book introduces you to the rest of the Google family â€” valuable tools such as Google Maps, Google Video, Google Earth, Google Scholar, and Gmail. Play Google games, shop with Froogle, or find stuff on your own computer with Google Desktop. The possibilities will make you Google-eyed!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Refine your results with search operators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google as an answer engine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy one-click searching with Google Toolbar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get specific information with Google Labs services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify e-mail with Gmail\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1602'),
(17835, 'Google Sites &amp; Chrome for Dummies', 'Ryan Teeter &amp; Karl Barksdale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Googleâ€™s new Chrome browser?\n <em>\n  Google Sites &amp; Chrome For Dummies\n </em>\n has what you want to know!\n</p>\n<p>\n Today, Google is so much more than another word for â€œsearch.â€\n <em>\n  Google Sites &amp; Chrome For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of free hosting, free tools, and a simple, straightforward interface with Google Sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a Google account or Google Apps account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects or keep family members up to date\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Contact List, Google Talk, and Google Chat, and handle e-mail with Gmail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download and install the speedy Google Chrome browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install browser plug-ins, enable offline access to Google Docs, and manage misbehaving tabs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll even find instructions and examples to help you plan sites for personal and business use, plus a sample college course site. With advice from\n <em>\n  Google Sites &amp; Chrome For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can make collaboration easy and have the high-speed Web at your fingertips.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boost your bottom line with your $25 Google AdWords credit â€” see inside\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you hear "Google", do you think "search"? Most people do. But Google is much more, and you won''t have to search far to get the scoop. This book shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. You can even boost your business with Google AdWords â€” look inside for more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple and free â€” take advantage of free hosting, free tools, and a simple, straightforward interface with Google Sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wonderful wikis â€” create wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects and keep family members up to date\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A gaggle of gadgets â€” use Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a shine to Chrome â€” create a highly efficient, personalized browser using tabs and shortcuts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample a scheme â€” explore sample schemes for a personal site, business intranet, or college course site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tinker â€” install browser plug-ins, enable offline access to Google Docs, and manage misbehaving tabs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Applicable applications â€” integrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where Google Sites beats other team site packages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create a Google account or Google Apps account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on setting up sites that work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for managing collaborators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chrome''s better way of fixing unruly tabs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps to take when designing a scheme\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you should consider Gmail\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1603'),
(17836, 'Google SketchUp 7 for Dummies', 'Aidan Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "full of tips and techniques" (_British Woodworking_, October 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Google SketchUp is the exciting free software package that makes 3D available to everybody. Whether you need to build 3D models for work, or youâ€™ve just always wanted to explore 3D modeling, Google SketchUp was made for you. Still, it does take a bit of understanding to get started, so turn to\n <em>\n  Google SketchUp 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n In classic\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n tradition,\n <em>\n  Google SketchUp 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n gets right to the point so you can start creating 3D models right away. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up SketchUp, learn about edges and faces, use inferences and guides, and build your first model\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish a basic end-to-end workflow for creating and sharing models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Model non-boxy objects like terrain, characters, bottles, and spheres\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add details like stairs, gutters, and eaves\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spruce up your models with styles and shadows to add effects, make objects pop, and enhance realism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the LayOut function to draw with vector tools, add text and callouts, and print your work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design buildings and objects, export your models to other design programs or to Google Earth, and explore 3D animation\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n On the bookâ€™s companion Web site, youâ€™ll also find a bonus chapter and videos demonstrating more about what you can do with Google SketchUp.\n <em>\n  Google SketchUp 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n also shows you what SketchUp can and canâ€™t do, and offers tips for solving common problems. Add a new dimension to your work today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1604'),
(17837, 'Google SketchUp for Dummies', 'Aidan Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "full of tips and techniques" (_British Woodworking_, October 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Considerably easier to use than other 3D software, Google SketchUp has found a niche in architecture, landscaping, real estate development, furniture building, and other design professions\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fun and friendly approach assumes no previous 3D modeling experience and explains the basic concepts involved in 3D modeling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows readers how to build a 3D model, print it, share it, export it to another professional design package, export it to Google Earth, and create a 3D animated tour\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps readers harness the power of Google SketchUp so that they can populate Google Earth with 3D buildings, monuments, and other sculptures\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1605'),
(17838, 'Google SketchUp for Dummies', 'Aidan Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Considerably easier to use than other 3D software, Google SketchUp has found a niche in architecture, landscaping, real estate development, furniture building, and other design professions       The fun and friendly approach assumes no previous 3D modeling experience and explains the basic concepts involved in 3D modeling       Shows readers how to build a 3D model, print it, share it, export it to another professional design package, export it to Google Earth, and create a 3D animated tour       Helps readers harness the power of Google SketchUp so that they can populate Google Earth with 3D buildings, monuments, and other sculptures\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3897'),
(17839, 'Google Voice for Dummies', 'Bud E. Smith &amp; Chris Dannen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Save time and money with Google''s revolutionary new phone system\n</p>\n<p>\n Google Voice combines existing phone lines, e-mail, and Web access into one central communication channel. Tech industry watchers expect it to give Skype some serious competition, yet little information is available on this new Google service.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Google Voice For Dummies\n </em>\n is the first and only book on Google''s breakthrough new offering and provides essential information for individuals and businesses who want to take advantage of this exciting new technology.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Google Voice is expected to have a major impact on telephony and to offer major cost savings for individuals and businesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  This guide focuses on an in-depth understanding of setting up and using Google Voice and how to integrate it with other Google services, including Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Talk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses managing Google Voice within organizations and examines key concerns for business, schools, government, and other kinds of organizations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how Google Voice connects with the many phone options currently available and how to move toward an optimized and inexpensive, yet flexible and powerful phone environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  The book is supported by news and updates on www.gvDaily.com, the leading Google Voice question and answer site created by authors Bud E. Smith and Chris Dannen\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Google Voice For Dummies\n </em>\n supplies much-needed information on this free and exciting technology that the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n has called revolutionary_._\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n Google Voice for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up and use Google Voice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Integrate Google Voice with other Google services such as GmailÂ® and Google Chat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combine Google Voice with your existing phone and Web systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Realize impressive cost savings\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bud E. Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n Chris Dannen\n</p>\n<p>\n Foreword by members of the Google Voice team\n</p>\n<p>\n Get it all together with Google Voice and save â€”this book shows you how!\n</p>\n<p>\n Google Voice, the service that collects all your phone lines, e-mail, and Web access into one manageable communication channel, has a lot of people excited. If you''re one of them, here''s the easy step-by-step way to understand Google Voice, set it up for personal or business use, integrate other Google services, and simplify your life!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect the lines â€” understand how Google Voice provides a single telephone number for your work, home, and cell phone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   GrandCentral to Google Voice â€” explore the connection and how to switch if you''re a GrandCentral user\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The crucial settings â€” learn to set up your greetings and default settings, handle live calls, and create a ring schedule\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   iPhone, your phone â€” use Google Voice with your iPhone, BlackBerryÂ®, Android phone, and other models\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   G-whiz â€” optimize Google Voice connections with Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Talk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In the organization â€” see how your business can address specific concerns about security, availability, and intellectual property\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you''ll save â€” look at how Google Voice saves you money, time, and frustration\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Whether you''ll need a new cell phone for Google Voice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for your settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special considerations for certain locations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Google Voice gives you more control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Directions for importing your contact list\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for using Google Voice in different countries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to change voicemail greetings\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1606'),
(17840, 'Google.SEO.Secrets.pdf 06-09-2011', 'Google.SEO.Secrets.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4469'),
(17841, 'GPS for Dummies', 'Joel Mcnamara', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "at over 350 pages you can be sure to find the answers to most of your questions!" (_Boat Mart_, July 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  GPS For Dummies\n </em>\n gives new meaning to finding yourself. In fact, with a GPS (global positioning system) receiver, you can determine precisely where you are anywhere on this planet. If youâ€™re are planning on buying a GPS receiver or if you have one and want to get your moneyâ€™s worth, this guide tells you what you need to know, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n Basic GPS principles and concepts such as waypoints, routes, tracks, and coordinate systems\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recommended features for GPS receivers to be used in various types of activities, including hiking, mountain biking, cross country skiing, geocaching, hunting, ATVing, mapping, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to do digital mapping on your computer, including software packages you can use to work with aerial photos, topographic maps, and road maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  The main providers of digital map data for the U.S. and their Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on geocachingâ€”a high-tech treasure hunt\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Joel McNamara, avid outdoorsman, adventure racer, search and rescue team member, and author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Computer Espionage, GPS for Dummies\n </em>\n is ideal for both ordinary travelers and exotic explorers. It covers a world of GPS info such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing features for a GPS receiver, including the screen, an alarm, built-in maps, an electric compass, an altimeter, antennas, interface modes, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Systems for traveling on the main roads and systems for exploring off the beaten path\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using GPS with a PDA (personal digital assistant)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Computer requirements for different mapping choices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topographic map software from Maptech, DeLorme, and National Geographic thatâ€™s for off-road use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Web-hosted mapping services, including street maps, topographic maps, aerial photos, and U.S. government-produced maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporating GPS receivers into outdoor workouts, with tips for specific sports including cycling, golf, rowing, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A companion Web site has links to all kinds of free maps and resources. So explore on your computer and then explore for real! With\n <em>\n  GPS for Dummies, y\n </em>\n ouâ€™ll find yourself having adventures!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(17842, 'GQ UK - November 2011 ', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10717'),
(17843, 'Grammar Essentials for Dummies', 'Geraldine Woods &amp; Joan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For students competing for the decreasing pool of college scholarships, writing a stellar entrance essay can make all the difference. With discrete explanations of vital grammar rules, common usage errors, and the other key concepts people need to refer to most often,\n <em>\n  Grammar Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n provides crucial information to help students communicate accurately and effectively. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical grammar concepts as they help students with homework assignments or college entrance essays, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom and people learning English as a next language.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Essentials For Dummies\n  </em>\n  Series\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dummies is proud to present our new series,\n <em>\n  The Essentials For Dummies.\n </em>\n Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your concise and fun guide to mastering good grammar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to brush up on your grammar pronto? This easy-to-use guide teaches you all the tricks of the grammar trade to help you communicate accurately and effectively. From making peace between subjectsand verbs to using commas and apostrophes correctly, you''ll improve your writing and English skills in no time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp grammar nitty-gritty â€” understand what grammar is and how to put it to work in the real world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start with your subjects â€” identify subjects, make subjects and verbs agree, and work with difficult subjects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for pronouns â€” pair them with nouns, choose between singular and plural pronouns, and master the use of possessive pronouns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Construct a complete sentence â€” steer clear of fragments and run-ons, join ideas, and watch out for danglers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand adjectives and adverbs â€” find them, place them, choose between them, and avoid common mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your writing â€” identify your audience, add meaning with strong verbs, and spice upboring sentences\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear explanations of vital grammar rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Examples of correct and incorrect usage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for solving grammatical dilemmas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Punctuation principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of capital letters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose the right words (such as whose vs. who''s)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tackling troublemakers such as double negatives and indirect objects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to learn better grammar\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exactly what you need to know to grasp grammar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The must-know parts of speech\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What material often appears on college admissions tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1608'),
(17844, 'The Grand Babylon Hotel', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4306'),
(17845, 'Grant Writing for Dummies', 'Beverly A. Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grant Writing For Dummies, 3rd Edition serves as a one-stop reference for readers who are new to the grant writing process or who have applied for grants in the past but had difficulties. It offers 25 percent new and revised material covering the latest changes to the grant writing process as well as a listing of where to apply for grants. Grant writers will find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The latest language, terms, and phrases to use on the job or in proposals.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to target the best websites to upload and download the latest and user-friendly application forms and writing guidelines.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Major expansion on the peer review process and how it helps improve one''s grant writing skills and successes.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One-stop funding websites, and state agencies that publish grant funding opportunity announcements for seekers who struggle to find opportunities. New to third edition.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling guide to getting funding from governments, corporations, and foundations\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to get a grant? This proven guide offers up-to-date advice on putting together a successful grant proposal â€” from researching your options to dealing with application forms to compiling a winning contract bid document. Whether you''re a new grant writer or a veteran fundraiser, you''ll see how to win more grant awards in an increasingly competitive funding environment.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with grant basics â€” understand the difference between grants and contracts, start the planning process, and manage the paperwork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show me the money â€” locate worldwide grantmaking organizations (whether public, private, or international) and get the dollars you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play and win the grants game â€” demonstrate your need through powerful writing and convince peer reviewers to rate your application with the maximum points\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write a competitive application narrative â€” prepare each section of your funding request, from the cover letter and abstract to each section of grant proposals and contract bids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Increase your funding success rates â€” give funders the specifics they''re looking for, build grant applicant credibility, and craft the Corporate Letter Request\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   One-stop funding Web sites and state agencies that publish grant funding opportunity announcements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest language, terms, and phrases to use on the job or in proposals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to recycle a rejected proposal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful chapters on project staffing, resources, equity, and budgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to target the best Web sites to find the latest application forms and writing guidelines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An example of a well-researched, well-written grant proposal\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1609'),
(17846, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Robert Demott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Journey with the Joads for 21 hours in this first unabridged version of Steinbeck''s classic. Controversial, even shocking, when it was written, the work continues to be so even today. The keen listener can hear why, because it poses fundamental questions about justice, the ownership and stewardship of the land, the role of government, power, and the very foundations of capitalist society. As history, this brings the Dust Bowl years to life in a most memorable way. Steinbeck (Travels with Charley, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/15/94) is a master storyteller and manages to engage the listener''s sympathy with this epic story. Reader Dylan Baker, who gives each character a distinctive voice, draws the listener in. His female characters, especially the minor ones and Rose of Sharon, don''t seem as authentic as his wonderful evocation of the fictional Tom, Ma, and Pa. But his voice is easy to listen to, and he is faithful to the characters'' backgrounds and the plains region. The music that ends each individual tape is perfect for the story. This program is a well-produced, affordable, and worthwhile addition for any library with a serious audiobook collection.?Nancy Paul, Brandon P.L., WI\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family''s life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusionment once they arrive there and fall prey to a parasitic economic system. The insularity of the Joads--Ma''s obsession with family togetherness, son Tom''s self-centeredness, and daughter Rose of Sharon''s materialism--ultimately gives way to a sense of universal community. --\n  <em>\n   The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(17847, 'Grass for His Pillow', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lian Hearn''s second novel in the Tales of the Otori,\n  <em>\n   Grass For His Pillow\n  </em>\n  continues to enrich and expand his mystical imaginings of feudal Japan. Picking up where __ left off, Takeo fulfills his debt of honor and accepts his heritage as a member of the superhuman cabal of assassins known as "The Tribe," and is thus ingested into their plots. But his heart yearns for Kaede, his one true love, and secretly wishes to fulfill the final wishes of his adopted father, Otori Shigaru. Meanwhile, Kaede returns to her homeland to find her father''s estate in ruin and her inheritance in jeopardy. The two each encounter vast political machinations and deadly consequences as they unconsciously move toward their overwhelming urges to reunite and defy (or perhaps embrace) fate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hearn''s second book into the Tales of the Otori series is a more poignant tale than the first, painfully examining the lines between honor, duty, and love. With its calming and satisfying conclusion, the landscape of Hearn''s mythical vision of Japan braces for a dazzling storm in the book to come.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Hearn''s second thrilling installment of her Tales of the Otori trilogy (after 2002''s Across the Nightingale Floor) is once again set in a magic-haunted version of medieval Japan where no one wields unchallenged authority and no one is safe. The swirl of treacherous, shifting clan alliances threatens to overwhelm young lovers and aristocrats Takeo and Kaede. Separated throughout most of the action, the two must develop their talents while trying to maintain their integrity. Takeo possesses superhuman gifts such as the ability to become invisible, project a double image of himself and hear distant conversations; however, he must discipline his skills and control his impetuous temper. He also must work out his relationship with the Tribe, a treacherous secret organization of spies and assassins that saved his life but that may have murdered his father. Kaede, meanwhile, has to escape the powerless role of a woman if she is to protect herself and her family domain from predatory neighbors. Adept at creating vivid natural settings where the supernatural feels unusually plausible, Hearn catches fresh details of trees, birds, rivers and mountains. With quick, direct sentences like brushstrokes on a Japanese scroll, she suggests vast and mysterious landscapes full of both menace and wonder. Hearn shows that middle novels of trilogies don''t have to simply fill space between an exciting opening and conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6320'),
(17848, 'Grave Goods aka Relics of the Dead', 'Ariana Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Starred Review. Set in 1176, Franklin''s excellent third Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after The Serpent''s Tale) finds Adelia Aguilar, a qualified doctor from the School of Medicine in Salerno, in the holy town of Glastonbury, where Henry II has sent her to inspect two sets of bones rumored to be those of Arthur and Guinevere. Henry is hoping that an unequivocally dead Arthur will discourage the rebellious Welsh. The bones have been uncovered by the few monks, under the saintly Abbot Sigward, who remain after a terrible and mysterious fire devastated the town and abbey. Adelia''s party includes her loyal Arabian attendant, Mansur, whose willingness to play the role of doctor allows Adelia to be his translator and practice the profession she loves; and Gyltha, Mansur''s lover and the caretaker of Adelia''s small daughter, Allie. Eloquently sketched characters, including a ragtag group of Glastonbury men down on their luck, and bits of medieval lore flavor the constantly unfolding plot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4241');
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(17849, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.\n <br />\n Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won''t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals andabandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.\n <br />\n For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family''s slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door''s entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest.\n <br />\n For the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard''s final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.\n <br />\n If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman''s NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6369'),
(17850, 'Graveyard Dust', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4564'),
(17851, 'The Gray Madam', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4039'),
(17852, 'The GRE Test for Dummies', 'Suzee Vlk &amp; Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Veronica Saydak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It goes without saying that if you''re taking the GRE you''re not really a dummy. But GRE scores are an important part of any graduate-school application--so you need to do your best. Suzee Vlk, long time test-prep specialist and author of several Dummies books, can help.\n <em>\n  The GRE for Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with useful information and strategies to help you prepare for the test. The book includes advice on how to use the book efficiently (Vlk estimates you''ll need 31 hours to work through it), review chapters for all three sections of the exam, and two complete practice exams. Vlk also discusses the pros and cons of taking the GRE by computer or with paper and pencil and special advice for those who choose to take the computer-based test. In familiar Dummies style, Vlk includes a handy tear-out "Cheat Sheet" with a summary of the most important information and a "Part of Tens" section with 10 "wrong rumors" about the GRE and 10 relaxation techniques to use before and during the exam. With its witty writing, helpful icons in the margins pointing out important information, and useful vocabulary scattered throughout,\n <em>\n  The GRE for Dummies\n </em>\n makes test preparation easy and relatively painless.\n <em>\n  --C. B. Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A totally effective and surprisingly fun guide to the Graduate Record Examination\n</p>\n<p>\n In Fall 2007, the GRE Program is planning to implement significant changes to the verbal measure, quantitative measure, and analytical writing sections of the GRE. This easy-to-use, refreshingly irreverent revision shares inside information on what to expect with these changes, helping both recent graduates and workforce veterans prepare for the revised test, maximize their score, and get into the graduate program of their choice. It includes all of the secrets of the Internet-based test (iBT)-in which the computer generates unique questions according to correct or incorrect answers-as well as brush-up reviews on math and grammar, two complete practice tests, and proven time-management techniques that make test-prep fun and simple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suzee Vlk wrote For Dummies guides to the ACT, SAT, GRE, and GMAT and taught test preparation classes for more than 25 years. Michelle Gilman (Solana, CA) is the founder and CEO of Fusion Learning Center. Veronica Saydak (Solana, CA) is Director of student curricula at Fusion and has been tutoring test preparation at all levels for several years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2099'),
(17853, 'The Great Adventure', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4317'),
(17854, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F.scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Book DescriptionÂ \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, it explores the superficially glittering world of mansions on the Long Island shore, and his encounter with Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Synopsis:\n  <br />\n  "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was . . ."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald''s masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby''s lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island''s gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named `the Jazz Age''. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his `unutterable visions'' - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald''s struggle to write the novel, its critical reception and its significance for future generations.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Amazon.com\n  <br />\n  In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald''s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author''s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald''s--and his country''s--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that''s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby''s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby''s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel''s more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy''s patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From  AudioFile\n  <br />\n  Christopher Reeve''s smooth rhythm and soft-spoken tone accentuate Fitzgerald''s flowing, elegant style. Since his character is an onlooker to events which take place in Gatsby''s glittering but superficial world, Reeve also projects an appropriate distant quality. However, his vocal attempts to make each character well-defined seem to be an overwhelming task for one reader. Occasionally, it is hard to tell which character is speaking. Nonetheless, Reeve''s ability to accurately evoke the emotions of the characters transcends this flaw. As a result, he delivers a noteworthy performance. M.P.T.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  About Author\n  <br />\n  F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was hailed early on as a major new voice in American fiction; his other novels include The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Dimension :\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)19.8    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)12.6\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(17855, 'A Great Man / A Frolic', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4292'),
(17856, 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : At first glance,\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris\n </em>\n might seem to be foreign territory for David McCullough, whose other books have mostly remained in the Western Hemisphere. But\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n is still a quintessentially American history. Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough''s histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it''s hard not to come away with a sense that you''ve learned something new and important about whatever he''s tackled.\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey is\n </em>\n , like each of McCullough''s previous histories, a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers. --_Darryl Campbell_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An epic of ideas, as well as an exhilirating book of spells . . . This is history to be savored."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Stacy Schiff,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn ambitious, wide-ranging study of how being in Paris helped spark generations of American genius. . . . A gorgeously rich, sparkling patchwork, eliciting stories from diaries and memoirs to create the human drama McCullough depicts so well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively and entertaining panorama. . . . By the time he shows us the triumphant Exposition Universelle in 1889, witnessed through the eyes of such characters as painters John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri, we share McCullough''s enthusiasm for the city and his affection for the many Americans who improved their lives, their talent and their nation by drinking at the fountain that was Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Michael Sims,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From a dazzling beginning that captures the thrill of arriving in Paris in 1830 to the dawn of the 20th century, McCullough chronicles the generations that came, saw and were conquered by Paris. . . .\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n will satisfy McCullough''s legion of loyal fans . . . it will entice a whole new generation of Francophiles, armchair travelers and those Americans lucky enough to go to Paris before they die."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Bruce Watson,\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "McCullough''s skill as a storyteller is on full display. . . . The idea of telling the story of the French cultural contribution to America through the eyes of a generation of aspiring artists, writers and doctors is inspired. . . a compelling and largely untold story in American history."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Kevin J. Hamilton,\n <em>\n  The Seattle Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There is not an uninteresting page here as one fascinating character after another is explored at a crucial stage of his development. . . . Wonderful, engaging writing full of delighting detail."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”John Barron,\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCulloughâ€™s research is staggering to perceive, and the interpretation he lends to his material is impressive to behold. . . . Expect his latest book to ascend the best-seller lists and be given a place on the year-end best lists.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA highly readable and entertaining travelogue of a special sort, an interdisciplinary treat from a tremendously popular Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. . . . Highly recommended.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. . . . . McCullough again finds a slighted subject in\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n , which chronicles the adventures of Americans in Paris. . . . Wonderfully atmospheric.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Wendy Smith,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCullough has hit the historical jackpot. . . . A colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4199'),
(17857, 'The Greek Key', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "He will be assassinated - the general took the decision last night." Murder - committed over forty years ago, is the detonator which triggers off Tweed, Paula Grey and Newman in their quest for The Greek Key. On Exmoor live three former Commandos who raided the island of Siros during World War 2. What is the secret which binds the trio in a state of terror years later? When agent Harry Masterson is found dead in Greece, Tweed marshals his forces, including the ruthless, cynical Marler, to hunt down the killer. But what is the connection linking Athens with Exmoor and an unsolved murder case over forty years old? What part is played by the mysterious Christina? And why are so many terrified of identifying The Greek Key? Trapped in a vortex of violence and death, Tweed begins to uncover a diabolical plot to destroy detente. As time runs out, only Tweed can neutralize catastrophe - if he isn''t already too late..."Colin Forbes ''has no equal''" - "Sunday Mirror".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6209'),
(17858, 'Green Business Practices for Dummies', 'Lisa Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green Business Practices For Dummies\n </em>\n provides readers with the information they need to reduce the environmental impact of the business with out reducing their bottom line. The practical and expert advice and tips presented in this title benefits business owners at all levels, from large corporations to small, family-run stores.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only resource with specific,hands-on guidance for greening your business\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of profit-enhancing opportunities while minimizing negative environmental and social impact? This practical guide shows you how to implement green business practices and gain competitive advantage through reduced costs, product and process innovation, increased productivity, and more. You''ll cultivate an eco-minded workforce and manage environmental opportunities and threats at every level of your organization.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your sustainability plan â€” establish your goals, choose key performance indicators, and share your plan with stakeholders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Embark on your green journey â€” get started by altering daily office practices, re-evaluating products and processes, and adapting your physical facilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get internal and external stakeholders involved â€” stimulate buy-in from employees, develop community relationships, and collaborate with nonprofits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess and measure your progress â€” identify greening standards to meet, accumulate data, and design and distribute a sustainability report to inform stakeholders of your progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn by example â€” discover how numerous green corporate visionaries met their sustainable business goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reap the benefits of going green â€” improve employee morale, increase stakeholder engagement, stand out in the marketplace, and reduce your eco-footprint\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations about why sustainability is a profitable business model\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common frameworks that guide most sustainability efforts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to create an eco-conscious work environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on working with regulatory pressures and policymakers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to link community support with your corporate message\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Success stories of green businesses, small and large\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Checklists, frameworks, and action items to transform your organization\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1610'),
(17859, 'Green Careers for Dummies', 'Carol L. Mcclelland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Everything you need to start a green career\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As you look for ways to contribute positively to the global economic and environmental crisis, getting an eco-friendly job provides a two-prong solution.\n <em>\n  Green Careers For Dummies,\n </em>\n a 2010 Green book Festival award winner,Â introduces you to the wealth of opportunities in the rapidly expanding sustainable career genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book explores the green frontier of careers and shows you how to find a field that is best suited to your primary interests, skills, and goals, and then translating that into the sustainable job sphere.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Career opportunities in the environmental science, renewable energy, smart grid, green building, transportation, manufacturing, sustainability, policy, and more.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Job search 2.0 techniques (new media, online, networking, and electronic communications)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Emerging green jobs that will be created in the next 5 years and beyond\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a recent college graduate or looking to make a career change,\n <em>\n  Green Careers For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop source for finding your fit in an environmentally responsible job. If you are a career counselor, this book gives you a solid overview of the ever-evolving world of green career possibilities you cn refer to in your work with students and clients.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make a good living in the emerging green economy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The green economy is just now in its infancy. The transition from business-as-usual to a new sustainable economy is opening up a wide range of opportunities that are likely to continue for years to come as new clean technologies, policies, and standards are adopted. Making sense of this new economy can be tricky, but if you''re committed to finding a career that will have a positive impact on the planet, this friendly guide gives you everything you need to land the job of your dreams.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discovering the green frontier â€” learn how to navigate the world of green careers and get the inside scoop on the green economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finding your green focus â€” set your sights on the green career that matches your interests, highlights your strengths, and leverages your experience and education\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exploring careers in green industries â€” get a handle on the huge variety of job titles in the more than 50 industries that make up the green economy, from managing natural resources and generating clean energy to policy making and environmental education\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Using green job search 2.0 techniques â€” harness the Web to grow your green network, advance your green education, and claim your competitive advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activating your green job search â€” discover how to target the right eco-friendly companies that match your goals, find openings for your talents, and take your green career to the next level\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on whether a green career is right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What it takes to thrive in a green economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to green your current job\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plain-English definitions of industry-specific terminology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on recognizing industry opportunities and threats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on greening up your resume\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful advice for interviews\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Great green career resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1611'),
(17860, 'Green Cleaning for Dummies', 'Elizabeth B. Goldsmith &amp; Betsy Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An authoritative guide to reducing household exposure to hazardous chemicals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thousands of household products contain toxic ingredients. Today, more and more people are seeking more natural cleaning methods to reduce their exposure to harsh chemicals. From the kitchen and bath to the living room and laundry,\n <em>\n  Green Cleaning For Dummies\n </em>\n provides readers with green solutions to every common cleaning chore. Focusing on organic, nontoxic, sustainable alternatives to conventional cleaning products, it''s packed with suggestions and tips for effective cleaning, and even offers green solutions for sprucing up patios, garages, vehicles, and the exterior of a house.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your ecofriendly guide to safer, healthier housekeeping\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to go green as you clean? This authoritative guide provides expert, proven advice on cleaning your home with organic, nontoxic, sustainable resources. From the kitchen and bath to the living room, laundry, and even your garage, you get green solutions for every common cleaning chore.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover a new way to clean â€” learn how natural methods can save you money while improving your health and the environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get ready to go green â€” prepare your house and assemble cleaning tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your family â€” know the right cleaners to avoid (and which ones you can make yourself)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle your inside spaces â€” get green cleaning solutions for every room in the house and improve the efficiency of your appliances\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go the extra mile â€” go beyond cleaning with ways to conserve energy and reduce waste\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A room-by-room breakdown of green cleaning tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recipes for making your own cleaning products\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cost-free changes to clean green\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for improving your sleeping environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Small changes to ease cleaning and save resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to consume fewer resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An appendix of clean, green organizations and programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1612'),
(17861, 'Green Gadgets for Dummies', 'Joe Hutsko &amp; Tom Zeller Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Save some green by going green with these environmentally friendly gadgets!\n</p>\n<p>\n With concern for the future of our environment growing stronger and more serious every day, there has never been a better time to take a new approach to some of the most popular gizmos and gadgets on the market and learn how you can convernt to electronics that have minimal environmental impact.\n</p>\n<p>\n Green gadgets encompass everything from iPods to energy-efficient home entertainment devices to solar laptop chargers and crank-powered gizmos. This helpful resource explains how to research green gadgets, make a smart purchasing decision, use products you already own in a more environmentally friendly way, and say goodbye to electronics that zap both energy and money.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explore the environmental and financial benefits of green gadgets with this friendly reference\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses which gadgets save energy-and which ones create energy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn ways to offset your carbon footprint when you can''t reduce consumption\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get tips for understanding products labels and avoiding "greenwash"\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how to calculate the energy and money your gadgets consume\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get moving and start living green with this informative guide to environmentally and wallet-friendly gadgets!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Think green, save green, love Mother Earth, and have your gadgets too\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n No doubt about it, we''re a society of gadget freaks. But if you love your gadgets and the planet and saving money, here''s where it all comes together. Discover new environmentally friendly gadgets, ways to use the ones you have more efficiently, and steps to safely recycle or dispose of out-of-date or broken gizmos. You''ll even find out how being green saves green!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Start thinking green\n  </strong>\n  Â â€”Â learn the "four Rs" of green gadgetry, understand carbon footprints, and starve energy vampires\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Save energy now\n  </strong>\n  Â â€” by using rechargeable batteries, monitoring power use, adjusting settings on TVs and video game consoles, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Control your computer\n  </strong>\n  Â â€” discover how to adjust power conservation settings for Macs and PCs\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Know green from greenwash\n  </strong>\n  Â â€” find out how to choose electronic devices that are truly environmentally friendly\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Recognize when it''s time to say goodbye\n  </strong>\n  Â â€” know what you can donate, how to erase your personal information, and how to find reputable recyclers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/greengadgetsfd to find more online resources and information about green gadgets!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How many dollars you can save with energy-saving settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sneaky ways your gadgets steal energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The six sins of greenwashing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safe ways to dispose of dead batteries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How (and why) to deauthorize iTunes before donating your PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for wiping Windows or Mac hard drives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Greener gadgets for your home, car, and outdoor activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What EnergyStar ratings mean\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1613'),
(17862, 'Green Home Computing for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard &amp; Katherine Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your computer a green machine and live greener at home and at work\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Get on board the green machine! Green home computing means making the right technology choice for the environment, whether it be a Windows-based or Mac-based computer and all the peripherals. In addition, it means learning how to properly and safely dispose of those items and how to use your computer to create a greener life at home and at work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Computer expert Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray introduce you to the many green products that exist in the world of technology, including eco-friendly desktops, laptops, and servers; energy-efficient peripherals; and the numerous Web sites that offer advice on how to go green in nearly every aspect of your life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Bestselling author Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray show you how to make your computer more eco-friendly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses buying a green computer and choosing eco-friendly peripherals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover ways to manage your power with software and servers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides helpful explanations that decipher how to understand your computer''s power consumption\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this invaluable insight, you''ll discover that it actually\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n easy being green!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  It can be easy to be green! Follow these suggestions and help save the planet\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Get on board the green machine! Here''s how to assess your technology''s green factor and make small changes with big impact. You''ll also find tips for using technology in green ways and advice on getting rid of old devices in an environmentally friendly way. Learn what to buy, when to upgrade, where to find green ideas, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Watch your step â€” calculate the size of your carbon footprint and see how much your electronics contribute to it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do your home work â€” find great advice to help you make the case to your employer for telecommuting options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You have the power â€” to use less energy, and you''ll find lots of ways to do that\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Green upgrades â€” discover how to give your current computer a green makeover\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buying green â€” learn what to look for when shopping for a new computer and peripherals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When it''s time to retire your electronic devices â€” uncover earth-friendly ways to recycle your old computer and be sure you don''t give away your personal data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sharing is good â€” see how home networks, device sharing, and Windows Home Server can protect the planet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The green cloud â€” find out why cloud computing makes green sense\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the Energy Star can tell you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for reducing energy use throughout your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between Energy Star and EnergyGuide\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to decide what to print and what to read on an electronic device\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten great places to find green hints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Definitions of common green terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to prepare equipment for recycling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for setting up a green home office\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(17863, 'Green Living for Dummies', 'Yvonne Jeffery &amp; Liz Barclay &amp; Michael Grosvenor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Want to do your part to reduce energy consumption, waste, and pollution; clean up the environment, and save the planet? Green Living For Dummies is packed with practical suggestions you can follow to make your lifestyle greener by doing as little damage as possible to the planet and the animal and plant life that depend on it.  This practical guide delivers an array of realistic practices and changes you can undertake to help the environment and create a better home for yourself and your loved ones. Youâ€™ll discover easy and innovative ways to make a difference by reducing energy use and waste, scaling back reliance on your car, and even making minor adjustments to your diet. Youâ€™ll also find how to live green at work and in your community, and youâ€™ll develop a deeper understanding of how these changes benefit both the environment and your own health and well-being! Discover how to:  Go green gradually Make eco-friendly home improvements Work greener transportation into your lifestyle Save money by going green Eat locally and organically Raise your childrenâ€™s environmental awareness Reduce waste by repairing, restoring, and reusing Become a green consumer Invest in green companies for fun and profit   Complete with handy lists of things you can do to make a difference right away and down the road Green Living For Dummies is the resource you need to start taking steps toward shrinking your footprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1615'),
(17864, 'Green Your Home All in One for Dummies', 'Yvonne Jeffery &amp; Liz Barclay &amp; Michael Grosvenor &amp; Elizabeth B. Goldsmith &amp; Betsy Sheldon &amp; Eric Corey Freed &amp; Rik Degunther &amp; Ann Whitman &amp; The National Gardening Association &amp; Owen E. Dell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies empowers readers to make ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home. At $29.99 and 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the wide range of content that they seek.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical, simple home solutions for reducing your impact on the planet\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to go green in and around your home? This value-packed guide gives you easy-to-follow, budget-friendly tips that will reduce your ecofootprint. From using greener cleaning tools and building materials to cutting your energy costs and working with your lawn, you''ll discover how to make your home cleaner, healthier, and more energy efficient.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go green, save money â€” using less means saving more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce, reuse, recycle â€” the reasons behind going green and tips for getting the whole family involved\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your energy use â€” simple fixes for making your heating, air conditioning, lighting, water use, and appliances more efficient\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bring green to your clean â€” practical tips for eliminating toxic cleaners from your home and cleaning every room of the house\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Remodel the ecofriendly way â€” using sustainable construction materials in your home projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your garden and landscaping â€” organic options for growing your garden and beautifying your yard with less waste\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tap into the power of solar energy â€” projects to make solar work for your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to cut back on consumption\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to reuse and repurpose your possessions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recipes for green cleaning solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Green options for heating and cooling systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for organic gardening\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Great green food choices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for financing solar investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Green finish and construction materials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to raise ecoconscious kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(17865, 'Grieving for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Coping and recovery strategies for dealing with the loss of a loved one\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or expected, grieving the loss is a difficult yet transformative process.\n <em>\n  Grieving For Dummies\n </em>\n approaches this very important subject with sensitivity, helping readers who are grieving the loss of a loved one as well as those who want to support them in this process. This compassionate guide covers all types of profound losses, including parents, spouses and partners, children, siblings, friends, and pets. It also addresses childrenâ€™s grieving and how the manner of death may cause additional hurdles to grieving the loss. The book is filled with practical suggestions for moving through the phases, stages, and tasks of grieving with an eye towards successfully integrating the loss of a loved one, while at the same time, keeping the love shared alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grieve loss and integrate it into your life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understanding loss and the natural process of grieving\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or expected, grieving is a difficult yet transformative process. Covering all types of profound losses, including parents, spouses and partners, children, siblings, friends, and pets, this compassionate resource provides the plainspoken wisdom needed to move through the phases, stages, and tasks of grieving.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Honor your own grieving\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Support the grieving of others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help children with grief and loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find professional and peer support\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Express and release grief\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get through holidays and anniversaries\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(17866, 'Grilling for Dummies', 'John Mariani &amp; Marie Rama', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hot for your Hibachi, warming up for the Weber?\n <em>\n  Grilling for Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect guide for the home grillmaster. It doesn''t matter if you can''t tell a briquette from a Rockette or if you just won your third Michelin star cooking on your grill, this book is one of the best guides available. Like all books in the popular Dummies series,\n <em>\n  Grilling for Dummies\n </em>\n is clear, concise, and thorough. Part reference, part cookbook, and part cooking class, no coal is left unturned. The book covers the gamut with 130 recipes, including everything from the basic burger to wild game to fruit (yes, grilled fruit, and it''s not bad). There is an excellent section on vegetables and vegetarian fare, and many ideas and recipes are given for low-fat grilling. Different techniques are presented in depth, including barbecue, smoking, marinades, and rubs. Authors Marie Rama and John Mariani cover every step in the grilling process, from lighting the fire to setting the table. Especially good are the technical sections that address ingredients and prep work, covering subjects as diverse as working with chilies or butterflying lamb chops. Rama and Mariani also win the food diplomat''s award for deftly avoiding the regional squabbles that define the barbecue world. Lexington, Kansas City, Texas, Ohio, and other styles are touched on without playing favorites. Read the section on ribs, prepare them all, and draw your own battle lines. Unusual for the Dummies series, but welcome, is the section of full-color photographs illustrating what your food should and can look like with a little effort. This is a solid book for anybody interested in becoming a better backyard chef.\n <em>\n  --Mark O. Howerton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now updated â€” your guide to becoming an expert grill master!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you gearing up to grill? This hands-on guide explains how to purchase, use, and maintain everything from charcoal and gas grills to smokers and rotisseries for your grill. You get the latest on the different types of grills and food prep and grilling techniques, as well as dozens of new and improved recipes that will stretch your skills and tantalize your taste buds!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get ready to grill â€” understand grilling lingo, choose the right grill for you, and start and safely maintain a grill-ready fire\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add spice to your life â€” stock your griller''s pantry with the latest herbs, rubs, flavored oils and marinades, including Asian and Mediterranean seasonings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grilling the oldies but goodies â€” from burgers and sausages to kebabs and ribs, make everyone''s favorites taste fabulous\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go beyond the BBQ basics â€” expand your grilling skills with tasty tips for grilling pork, beef, poultry, lamb, fish and shellfish, vegetables, pizza, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between regular grilling and barbecuing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full-color photos of mouthwatering recipes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Highlights of the latest and best grilling equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extended coverage on grill set-up and maintenance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expert advice on direct and indirect grilling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Figures and charts featuring meat cuts and food prep techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Must-know tips and tricks to master control over the grill\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on using smokers and rotisseries\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1618'),
(17867, 'The Grim Smile of the Five Towns', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4300'),
(17868, 'Grit 07+08-2011', 'Grit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3103');
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(17869, 'Guerrilla Marketing for Dummies', 'Jonathan Margolis &amp; Patrick Garrigan &amp; Jay Conrad Levinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to reach consumers in innovative ways?\n <em>\n  Guerilla Marketing For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with guerilla tactics and trade secrets for marketing your products or services like never before. From re-imagining existing marketing platforms to mastering trailblazing methods, youâ€™ll create a cost-effective game plan for getting your customersâ€™ attention and keeping it!\n</p>\n<p>\n This savvy, hands-on guide explains what guerilla marketing is, who does it, and why. Youâ€™ll learn how it can take your brand to new heights as you start thinking like a guerilla, brainstorming, collaborating, and refining ideas for an exciting, non-traditional marketing program. The real fun starts when you build a winning team and take your message to the streets, executing attention-grabbing publicity stunts and creating unforgettable events. Youâ€™ll find out when it pays to work with the big-gun guerilla-marketing firms and how to launch your own low-cost campaign. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reach customers wherever they are\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a cohesive guerilla-marketing campaign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capitalize on the hottest trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cut through the constant marketing clutter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make products and brands stand out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use buzz, viral, grassroots, and experiential marketing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write a great press release\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create opportunities for partnership and tie-ins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find budget-friendly ways to go guerilla\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a powerful online presence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with existing contacts, publicists, and the press\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You\n <em>\n  can\n </em>\n enter the guerilla jungle and emerge with the lionâ€™s share of the sales! Let\n <em>\n  Guerilla Marketing For Dummies\n </em>\n show you how.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enter the guerrilla jungle and emerge with the lion''s share of the sales!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to reach consumers in innovative ways? This savvy, hands-on guide arms you with guerrilla tactics and trade secrets for marketing your products or services like never before. From re-imagining existing marketing platforms to mastering trailblazing methods, you''ll create a cost-effective game plan for getting your customers'' attention!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand guerrilla marketing â€” what it is, who does it and why, and how it can take your brand to new heights\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Think like a guerrilla â€” brainstorm, collaborate, and refine ideas for an exciting, nontraditional marketing program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your message to the streets â€” build a winning team, execute publicity stunts, and create unforgettable events\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capitalize on the hottest trends â€” use buzz, viral, grassroots, and experiential marketing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a powerful online presence â€” develop a Web site, use search engine optimization, buy banner ads, create blogs, and utilize social networking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spread the word â€” leverage existing contacts, pitch to the press, and work with publicists\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of guerrilla methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Must-have elements of a cohesive campaign\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to cut through constant marketing clutter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to write a great press release\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Opportunities for partnerships and tie-ins\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten practically perfect campaigns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Budget-friendly ways to go guerrilla\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When and how to hire the pros\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1619'),
(17870, 'The Guests Of Hercules', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5938'),
(17871, 'Guitar All-In-One for Dummies', 'Consumer Dummies &amp; Jon Chappell &amp; Mark Phillips &amp; Dave Austin &amp; Mary Ellen Bickford &amp; Holly Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your comprehensive, hands-on guide to playing guitar\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you always wanted to play the guitar? You can start today with these 8 minibooks. Covering both acoustic and electric guitar, this hands-on resource gives you all the instruction you need to play across multiple genres, whether you''re a beginner or an experienced guitarist. You''ll find plenty of tips for playing easier and more complex pieces â€” and for composing your own. Plus, you can play along with examples on the bonus CD!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gear up to start playing â€” understand the different parts of a guitar, find the right guitar for you, string and tune the instrument, and develop basic playing skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Immerse yourself in sounds and technique â€” play major and minor chords, master left- and right-hand techniques, and play melodies in position and double-stops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get ready to rock! â€” from Chuck Berry to Keith Richards to The Edge, see how the best play barre chords, hot licks, and sweet leads\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play the blues â€” explore rhythm and lead techniques, signature riffs, blues progressions, and the achievements of great blues guitarists\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go classical â€” learn about the history of classical guitar, combine arpeggios and melody, and sample different genres\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice, practice, practice â€” try your hand at major scales, minor scales, and chord exercises to rev up stalled skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write songs and music â€” check out different song forms, understand modes, and compose with chords\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plenty of music examples and practice exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Musical styles and genres through the years\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Correct hand position and posture\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basic playing techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Standard music notation and tablature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for playing up the neck\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to solo and improvise leads\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Different fingerstyles to play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accessories for your guitar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A comprehensive guitar chord chart\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bonus CD Includes\n</p>\n<p>\n More than 90 tracks all played by the authors\n</p>\n<p>\n Songs from different guitar genres\n</p>\n<p>\n Examples of chord progressions, riffs, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Major and minor scale patterns\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1620'),
(17872, 'Guitar Exercises for Dummies', 'Mark Phillips &amp; Jon Chappell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Guitar Exercises For Dummies\n </em>\n includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining technique.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You''ll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review basic guitar fundamentals â€” posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Brush up on guitar notation â€” decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Warm up away from the guitar â€” release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wake up those fingers â€” limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop strength, speed, and independence â€” play single-note patterns and chord progressions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drills &amp; tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Technique building opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full-length pieces to play along with\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to improve your musicianship\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bonus CD Includes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Selected exercises from each chapter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Every performance piece\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Open string tuning notes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Metronome tracks of different tempos\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1621'),
(17873, 'Guitar for Dummies', 'Mark Phillips &amp; Jon Chappell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Have you always wanted to play guitar? Who wouldn''t? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about itâ€”guitars are cool.  Guitar For Dummies 2nd Edition tells you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs to know: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it allâ€”and you don''t even need to know how to read music. Full of photo-illustrated exercises and songs you can play to practice the techniques discussed in each section, this step-by-step guide will take you through the basics and beyond before you can say "Eric Clapton." You''ll learn how to:  Match yourself with the guitar and equipment that fits your needs and budget Select the right accessories: amps, picks, pedals, capos, cases, and other goodies Pick and strum to produce a clean, clear, buzz-free tone Know whether you''re really in tune Play melodies without reading music Perform basic guitar maintenance and repairs Build strength and dexterity while playing Play in different styles, including rock, blues, folk, jazz, and classical Make your guitar talk with bends and slides!   Fully revised and updated, with an all new interactive CD that allows readers to listen, learn, tune, and play along, Guitar For Dummies 2nd Edition is the perfect introductory guide for any novice acoustic or electric guitar player.Â   Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(17874, 'guitar.bass.2011.11.nov.pdf 10-10-2011', 'guitar.bass.2011.11.nov.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10635'),
(17875, 'Guns_2011-12S370_T.pdf 10-10-2011', 'Guns_2011-12S370_T.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10622'),
(17876, 'Guns.Magazine-November.2011-Slicer.pdf 16-09-2011', 'Guns.Magazine-November.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6086'),
(17877, 'GURPS for Dummies', 'Adam Griffith &amp; Bjoern-erik Hartsfvang &amp; Stuart J. Stuple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is itâ€”the key that unlocks the riches of GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) and gives you a wealth of information on how to create your character and fine-tune your play. Produced in partnership with Steve Jackson Games, the game''s creator,\n <em>\n  GURPS For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ideal companion to G_URPS Basic Set, 4th Edition_ that explains the rules. It gives you insight into the choices youâ€™ll make in everything from creating a fun, dynamic character using the allotted number of points, to playing in an adventure, to becoming a GM. Whether you want to be an Amazon princess or a stalwart warrior, an old-fashioned swashbuckler or a modern investigator, a tough cop or a cat burglar, a sorcerer casting spells or a cosmic ranger, fighting lawlessness in the asteroids, this guide will help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determine your characterâ€™s basic attributes: IQ, DX (dexterity), ST (strength) and HT (health)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure out your characterâ€™s secondary characteristics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose advantages (including powers and perks) and disadvantages (including quirks and disadvantages with a self-control roll modifier)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize your points by using talents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select your skills based on functional area or the campaign setting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance your character with spells, magic items, magic staves, and powerstones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategically purchase equipment for different characters, tech levels, and campaign types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and manage a character sheet, write a character background, keep a character log, and moreâ€”all with samples\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose good combat techniques and play with your character\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want to become a GM, this guide gets you going with advice on creating the adventure, managing the character creation process, managing combat, and interpreting the rules. Thereâ€™s even a handy Cheat Sheet tear-out GM screen in the front of the book. There are tips throughout, plus advice on how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create your very own GURPS universe for your campaign, whether itâ€™s dungeon-crawl, high-adventure, combat-focused, puzzle-focused, or masquerade-type\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Provide a basic write-up of the world for your players, including technology level, supernatural and supernormal abilities and powers, races, setting, character templates, cultural and social information, and limitations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an electronic combat grid, a battle log, a tactical map, and moreâ€”with samples\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do mapping, planning, and plotting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create memorable NPC (nonplayer characters), both good guys and bad guys\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  GURPS For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you create more detailed, exciting, and interesting characters and take your game to the next level. Thatâ€™s important whether youâ€™re saving a princess or saving the planetâ€¦searching for hidden treasure or for secrets to eliminate diseaseâ€¦ fighting crime or combating armies of evil robotsâ€¦casting spells in medieval castles or destroying terrorist cells in modern day milieus. With GURPS, the only limitation is your imagination.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the scoop from the experts and start playing today\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This is it â€” the secret passageway to success (and fun) with GURPS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) is not like other role playing games because it gives you the freedom to create any world or character you can imagine. This fun and easy guide gets you up to speed, so you can get into the game and hold your own right from the start.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop your character''s skills and attributes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for combat and other encounters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Role play your character''s personality\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become a Game Master\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and populate your own game world\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1623'),
(17878, 'Hacking for Dummies', 'Kevin Beaver &amp; Stuart Mcclure', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦it is easy to read, the presentation is clear and uncluttered, it caters for a variety of audiencesâ€¦'' (BCS.org, February 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you worried about external hackers and rogue insiders breaking into your systems? Whether itâ€™s social engineering, network infrastructure attacks, or application hacking, security breaches in your systems can devastate your business or personal life. In order to counter these cyber bad guys, you must become a hacker yourselfâ€”an ethical hacker.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hacking for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you just how vulnerable your systems are to attackers. It shows you how to find your weak spots and perform penetration and other security tests. With the information found in this handy, straightforward book, you will be able to develop a plan to keep your information safe and sound. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work ethically, respect privacy, and save your system from crashing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a hacking plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Treat social engineers and preserve their honesty\n </li>\n <li>\n  Counter war dialing and scan infrastructures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the vulnerabilities of Windows, Linux, and Novell NetWare\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent breaches in messaging systems, web applications, and databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Report your results and managing security changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid deadly mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get management involved with defending your systems\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n As we enter into the digital era, protecting your systems and your company has never been more important. Donâ€™t let skepticism delay your decisions and put your security at risk. With\n <em>\n  Hacking For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can strengthen your defenses and prevent attacks from every angle!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1624'),
(17879, 'Hacking for Dummies', 'Kevin Beaver &amp; Stuart Mcclure', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦it is easy to read, the presentation is clear and uncluttered, it caters for a variety of audiencesâ€¦'' (BCS.org, February 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new edition of the bestselling guide-now updated to cover the latest hacks and how to prevent them!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s bad enough when a hack occurs-stealing identities, bank accounts, and personal information. But when the hack could have been prevented by taking basic security measures-like the ones described in this book-somehow that makes a bad situation even worse. This beginner guide to hacking examines some of the best security measures that exist and has been updated to cover the latest hacks for Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux.\n</p>\n<p>\n Offering increased coverage of Web application hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and mobile computing hacks, this guide addresses a wide range of vulnerabilities and how to identify and prevent them. Plus, you''ll examine why ethical hacking is oftentimes the only way to find security flaws, which can then prevent any future malicious attacks.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explores the malicious hackers''s mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers developing strategies for reporting vulnerabilities, managing security changes, and putting anti-hacking policies and procedures in place\n </li>\n <li>\n  Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains ethical hacking and why it is essential\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to put all the necessary security measures in place so that you avoid becoming a victim of malicious hacking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(17880, 'Hacking for Dummies', 'Kevin Beaver &amp; Stuart Mcclure', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦a good readâ€¦a price well-worth paying, because such works are invaluableâ€¦â€ (_InfoSecurity News Magazine_, August 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦an excellent aideâ€¦â€ (_PC Home_, August 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦should be of interest to both ethical and malicious hackersâ€¦â€ (_Publishing News_, 22nd March 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While youâ€™re reading this, a hacker could be prying and spying his way into your companyâ€™s IT systems, sabotaging your operations, stealing confidential information, shutting down your Web site, or wreaking havoc in other diabolical ways.\n <em>\n  Hackers For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you hack into a hackerâ€™s mindset and take security precautions to help you avoid a hack attack. It outlines computer hacker tricks and techniques you can use to assess the security of your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix them before malicious and criminal hackers can exploit them. It covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hacking methodology and researching public information to see what a hacker can quickly learn about your operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Social engineering (how hackers manipulate employees to gain information and access), physical security, and password vulnerabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Network infrastructure, including port scanners, SNMP scanning, banner grabbing, scanning, and wireless LAN vulnerabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Novell NetWare\n </li>\n <li>\n  Application hacking, including malware (Trojan horses, viruses, worms, rootkits, logic bombs, and more), e-mail and instant messaging, and Web applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tests, tools (commercial, shareware, and freeware), and techniques that offer the most bang for your ethical hacking buck\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this guide you can develop and implement a comprehensive security assessment plan, get essential support from management, test your system for vulnerabilities, take countermeasures, and protect your network infrastructure. You discover how to beat hackers at their own game, with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A hacking toolkit, including War dialing software, password cracking software, network scanning software, network vulnerability assessment software, a network analyzer, a Web application assessment tool, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  All kinds of countermeasures and ways to plug security holes\n </li>\n <li>\n  A list of more than 100 security sites, tools, and resources\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ethical hacking helps you fight hacking with hacking, pinpoint security flaws within your systems, and implement countermeasures. Complete with tons of screen shots, step-by-step instructions for some countermeasures, and actual case studies from IT security professionals, this is an invaluable guide, whether youâ€™re an Internet security professional, part of a penetration-testing team, or in charge of IT security for a large or small business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1626'),
(17881, 'Hacking Wireless Networks for Dummies', 'Kevin Beaver &amp; Peter T. Davis &amp; Devin K. Akin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Become a cyber-hero - know the common wireless weaknesses\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."\n <br />\n --Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program\n</p>\n<p>\n Wireless networks are so convenient - not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who''d like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network''s armor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat denial of service and WEP attacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how invaders think\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the effects of different hacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect against war drivers and rogue devices\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Become a cyber-hero â€” know the common wireless weaknesses\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."\n <br />\n â€”Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program\n</p>\n<p>\n Wireless networks are so convenient â€” not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who''d like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network''s armor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat denial of service and WEP attacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how invaders think\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the effects of different hacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect against war drivers and rogue devices\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(17882, 'Hair Loss and Replacement for Dummies', 'Md William R. Rassman &amp; Md Robert M. Bernstein &amp; Md Jae P. Pak &amp; Md Eric S. Schweiger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What are the causes of hair loss? Can you prevent it? Can lost hair be restored?\n <em>\n  Hair Loss &amp; Replacement For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you understand why men and women lose their hair and offers thorough, objective reviews of a wide array of hair replacement options, including hair replacement surgery, prescription and over-the-counter medicinal treatments, hairpieces, natural remedies, and a variety of other options.\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, user-friendly guide explains the pros and cons of hairpieces, fibers, foundations, and hair thickening techniques. Youâ€™ll learn about pharmaceutical, laser, and topical treatments, and youâ€™ll find out how to determine whether youâ€™re good candidate for hair transplant surgery. Youâ€™ll even find help in assessing costs, controlling expectations, avoiding hair replacement scams, and determining which option truly is best for you. Youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What you need to know about hair and hair loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to take better care of your hair\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to prevent or reduce hair loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creative techniques for concealing hair loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping tips for hair-replacement systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  How finesteride, minoxidil, and other medications might help\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice about low level laser treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  The low-down on hair transplant surgery\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful myth-busting information about the causes of hair loss and the benefits of FDA-approved treatments, and helpful comparisons of the advantages of non-surgical and surgical hair replacement,\n <em>\n  Hair Loss &amp; Replacement For Dummies\n </em>\n is the resource to consult before you decide on any hair replacement treatment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Avoid scams and expensive failures and find a hair solution that works!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What causes hair loss? Can you prevent it? Can lost hair be restored? This authoritative, user-friendly guide helps you understand hair loss and prevention in both men and women. You''ll also find thorough, objective reviews of hair-replacement options, including surgery, prescription and over-the-counter medicinal treatments, hairpieces, natural remedies, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the problem â€” why hair loss and pattern balding occur, what Grandpa''s head can tell you, and the diseases and disorders that cause hair loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cover it up â€” pros and cons of hairpieces, attachment do''s and don''ts, hair systems for women, and hairpiece maintenance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conceal it â€” fooling with fibers, applying foundation, and hair-thickening techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn about pharmaceutical, laser, and topical treatments â€” DHT inhibitors, Rogaine, medications for women only, diet supplements, and LLLT\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the surgical option â€” choose a doctor, understand surgical and postoperative procedures, and recognize possible complications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get real â€” assess the costs, control expectations, don''t be fooled by hair-loss myths, and determine whether surgical or non-surgical options are best for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you need to know about hair and hair loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to take better care of your hair\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to prevent or reduce hair loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative techniques for concealing hair loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shopping tips for hair-replacement systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How finasteride, minoxidil, and other medications might help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice about low-level laser treatments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The lowdown on hair transplant surgery\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1628'),
(17883, 'Ham Radio for Dummies', 'H. Ward Silver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s time we cleared the air about ham radio. If you think of it as staticky transmissions sent by people in the middle of nowhere, think again. Todayâ€™s ham radio goes beyond wireless to extreme wireless, Operators transmit data and pictures, use the Internet, laser, and microwave transmitters, and travel to places high and low to make contact. In an emergency or natural disaster, ham radio can replace downed traditional communication and save lives. Whether youâ€™re just getting turned on to ham radio or already have your license,\n <em>\n  Ham Radio for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you with the terminology, the technology\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n the talknology. You discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decipher the jargon and speak the language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy or upgrade your equipment, including the all-important antennas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a ham radio shack, complete with the rig, a computer, mobile/base rig, microphones, keys, headphones, antennas, cables and feedlines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study for your license, master Morse code, take the test and get your call sign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the basics of ragchews (conversations), nets (organized on-air meetings) and DX-ing (competing in contacts to make contacts)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keeping logs with the vital statistics, including time (in UTC or World Time), frequency, and call sign\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Ward Silver, an electrical engineer, Certified Amateur Radio License Examiner, and columnist for\n <em>\n  QST\n </em>\n , a monthly magazine for ham operators,\n <em>\n  Ham Radio for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the info you need to delve into the science or dive into the conversation. It explains how you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tune in to the most common types of signals, including Morse Code (CW), single-sideband (SSB), FM, Radioteletype (RTTY), and data signals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break in, introduce yourself, converse, and say or signal goodbye\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate while traveling (ham radio goes where mobile phones go dead)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Register with an emergency organization such as ARES and RACES\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help in emergencies such as earthquakes, wildfires, or severe weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pursue your special interests, including contacting distant stations, participating in contests, exploring the digital modes, using satellites, transmitting images, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a glossary and ten pages of additional suggested resources,\n <em>\n  Ham Radio for Dummies\n </em>\n encourages you to touch that dial and take that mike.\n</p>\n<p>\n CUL. (Thatâ€™s Morse Code for â€œsee you later.â€)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  You can be a lifesaver while you make new friends\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out about ham radio, prepare for your license, and join the fun!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hams do cool things like talking to folks around the world and helping with communications during emergencies. If hamming it up sounds like fun, hereâ€™s the scoop, including licensing requirements and how to set up a station. And if youâ€™re already licensed, this book will help you start sounding (and feeling) like a pro!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand ham jargon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate on the air\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for the license exam\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a radio shack\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help in an emergency or natural disaster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be a ham on the go\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1629'),
(17884, 'Hand and Ring', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4023'),
(17885, 'The Hand in the Dark', 'Arthur J. Rees', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4287'),
(17886, 'Hands of Flame (n-3)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  War has erupted among the five Old Races, and Margrit is responsible for the death that caused it. Now New York City''s most unusual lawyer finds herself facing her toughest negotiation yet. And with her gargoyle lover, Alban, taken prisoner, Margrit''s only alliesâ€”a dragon bitter about his fall, a vampire determined to hold his standing at any cost and a mortal detective with no idea what he''s up againstâ€”have demands of their own.  Determined to rescue Alban and torn between conflicting loyalties as the battle seeps into the human world, Margrit soon realizes the only way out is through the fire.â€¦\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lawyer Margrit Knight is one of the few humans aware of New York City''s otherworldy denizens; known as the Negotiator among the Old Races who dwell behind the scenes, she calls upon her allies, a fallen dragon and her vampire employer, when her gargoyle lover is kidnapped and placed on trial by his "peers." While wrapping up many loose ends, the concluding volume of Murphy''s Negotiator trilogy (_Heart of Stone; House of Cards_) leaves open the possibility of future explorations into an urban fantasy that brings some unusual creatures, such as gargoyles, djinn, and selkies, into the modern world. Margrit is a gutsy, resourceful heroine who can walk a fine line between the paranormal and the real world. A good choice for most libraries, with particular appeal to fans of Charles de Lint and Jim Butcher.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  African American Hispanic Legal Aid lawyer Margrit Knight, who discovered the existence of the Old Races in Heart of Stone (2007), has been changed by love for the gargoyle Alban and being saved from death by vampire blood. Now Alban, self-exiled from his people to protect a secret, is bound for criminal court, and the strict Old Races trial procedures will open his memories to the tribunal. Margrit fearlessly throws herself into situation after peril-filled situation to avert war among Old Races factions and iron things out with the dragon Janx and her new boss, vampire Eliseo Daisani. The Negotiator trilogy wraps up nicely. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5941'),
(17887, 'Hannibal: Enemy of Rome', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first in a brilliant new series set during the Second Punic War, from the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The Forgotten Legion Chronicles.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage, their only serious rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus, son of a Roman equestrian and landowner. A disastrous adventure will see Hanno sold into slavery and bought by Quintus''s father. Although an unexpected friendship springs up between the two boys -- and with Quintus''s sister, Aurelia -- the fortunes of the two warring empires once again separates them. They find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict and an alliance forged through slavery will be played out to its stunning conclusion in battle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  BEN KANE was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He studied veterinary medicine at University College Dublin but after that he travelled the world extensively, indulging his passion for ancient history. Now he lives in North\n  <br />\n  Somerset, where he researches, writes and practises as a small animal vet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4577'),
(17888, 'Happiness for Dummies', 'W. Doyle Gentry Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, you can find the happiness you want and live â€œthe good lifeâ€ you deserve by applying the helpful information in\n <em>\n  Happiness For Dummies\n </em>\n , the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! Â  Youâ€™ll discover proven techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and techniques will help you change key behaviors, foster good habits, and be in sync with your surroundings.\n</p>\n<p>\n This helpful guide will give you the chance to assess your happiness and understand what it means to be happy at each stage of self-actualization. Youâ€™ll learn why having positive emotions can improve your health and well-being. And, you will find out what happiness isnâ€™t and how to avoid confusing happiness with culturally valued outcomes like wealth, power, and success. Pursue what you want, seize the day, find benefits in lifeâ€™s challenges, and live a coherent lifestyle. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your current capacity for happiness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Live the life that you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome common obstacles to happiness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify your strengths and virtues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your emotional and spiritual life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create meaningful social ties and learn to be alone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the silver lining\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten ways to raise a happy child, ten common roadblocks to happiness, and ten personal habits to foster happiness,\n <em>\n  Happiness For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide to being happy and living your best life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for balancing work and play\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the happiness you want and live "the good life" you deserve!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Give yourself the gift of happiness! This friendly, upbeat guide gives you proven techniques for living a more meaningful, healthy, and productive life and truly becoming a happier person. No matter your current circumstances, you''ll find positive concepts and techniques to help you change key behaviorsâ€”and foster the good habits that will bring you the happiness you seek!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Overcome common obstacles to happiness\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify your strengths and virtues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your emotional and spiritual life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Achieve happiness in your relationships\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Always find the silver lining\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1630'),
(17889, 'Happy Birthday: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning point in lifeâ€”a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce, sheâ€™s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkâ€™s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canâ€™t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerieâ€™s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, Aprilâ€™s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Sheâ€™s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.\n</p>\n<p>\n A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebrationâ€”and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Danielle Steel\n </strong>\n has been hailed as one of the worldâ€™s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include\n <em>\n  44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart,\n </em>\n and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of\n <em>\n  His Bright Light,\n </em>\n the story of her son Nick Trainaâ€™s life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4123'),
(17890, 'Happy Birthday: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning point in lifeâ€”a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce, sheâ€™s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkâ€™s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canâ€™t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.\n</p>\n<p>\n Valerieâ€™s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, Aprilâ€™s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Sheâ€™s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age.\n</p>\n<p>\n A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebrationâ€”and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Danielle Steel\n </strong>\n has been hailed as one of the worldâ€™s most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include\n <em>\n  44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart,\n </em>\n and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of\n <em>\n  His Bright Light,\n </em>\n the story of her son Nick Trainaâ€™s life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4397');
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(17891, 'Hard Bitten', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully compelling vampire heroine."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_ Bestselling Author Julie Kenner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl."\n  <br />\n  -Geek Monthly (geekmonthly.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must-read."\n  <br />\n  -Candace Havens, author of\n  <em>\n   Dragons Prefer Blondes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking'' hot sexual tension...A stunning combination."\n  <br />\n  -Tate Hallaway, author of\n  <em>\n   Honeymoon of the Dead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a new talent in town, and if this debut is any indication, she''s here to stay. Not only does Neill introduce an indomitable and funny heroine, her secondary characters are enormously intriguing and make terrific foils. While the tone of this first-person Chicagoland Vampire series starter is generally light, there is an undercurrent of danger. Truly excellent."\n  <br />\n  -_Romantic Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake." -_Library Journal_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals-and they''re camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are...tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn''t help that she can''t tell who''s on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who''s tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago''s supernatural society-a world full of vampires who seem ready to fulfill the protesting human''s worst fears, and a place where she''ll learn that you can''t be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4124'),
(17892, 'Hard Rain (John Rain Thrillers (Paperback))', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  â€˜I insist on only a few questions. Is the target a man? I don''t work against women or children. Have you retained anyone else to solve this problem? Is the target a principal? I am no longer samurai, eitherâ€¦ I am a realist nowâ€™ John Rain, jazz fan, single malt connoisseur and honorable assassin, is dragged out of retirement first by blackmail and then by revenge. Featuring many of the characters so vividly brought to life in Rain Fall, Barry Eisler takes us on another journey into a world of spooks, double-crosses and elaborately executed â€˜terminationsâ€™. Stylish, page-turning and authentic, Barry Eisler is in the front rank of thriller writing\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Barry Eisler''s half-breed freelance assassin John Rain returns to Tokyo for a second outing in\n  <em>\n   Hard Rain\n  </em>\n  , the sequel to Eisler''s stunning 2002 debut, __. Once again Rain is working with, or at least parallel to, Tatsu, a wily veteran of Japan''s FBI equivalent, who aims to cleanse the Japanese government of its systemic corruption. To further this goal, he''s persuaded the ever-cautious Rain to take out Murakami, a brutal gangster and hitman who specializes in making his killings look like suicide, a specialty Rain thought was his alone. Liquidating the dangerous and elusive Murakami proves to be a difficult task, however, one that leads to personal loss for Rain, and sets the plot on course for a climax that hits with the power of a well-delivered roundhouse kick.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eisler builds on Rain''s self-enforced isolation and loneliness as he expertly shows the reader Tokyo as channeled by Chandler, transforming the burgeoning metropolis into a noir catacomb of dimly lit hostess bars, scheming bureaucrats, shadowy intelligence agents, and outlaw martial arts\n  <em>\n   dojos\n  </em>\n  where thugged-up\n  <em>\n   yakuza\n  </em>\n  train for illicit death matches.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the plot becomes complicated toward the novel''s conclusion, Rain is a refreshing and complex character whom readers will want to see return for another installment. If you''ve a yen for a thriller that mixes suspense, intrigue, and action with a Japanese flavor and a hardboiled American attitude, Eisler''s\n  <em>\n   Hard Rain\n  </em>\n  is an excellent choice.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rain Fall (2002), Eisler''s first book about Japanese-American Vietnam vet John Rain, a hired assassin for government agencies in Tokyo and Washington, worked so well that the author wisely decided to keep all the elements intact in this captivating follow-up. Once again, the nightscape of Tokyo is painted in beautifully dark tones, scored to the live jazz of the clubs where Rain drinks from a menu of expensive single malt whiskeys. Once again, Rain knows everything about the arts of killing and avoiding surveillance-from the sound a man''s ribs make when he''s crushed to death trying to lift too much weight to how to use a container of very hot tea to ruin a would-be pursuer''s day. Once again Rain has to decide whether any of the people he''s working for-the shrewd Tatsu, a veteran agent of Japan''s FBI who seems to be dedicated to battling high-level corruption; various shady American CIA agents-are to be trusted. And once again, Rain realizes how alone he really is, despite the promise of love and companionship from a couple of very interesting women. "I had understood even as a child that to be half Japanese is to be half something else, and to be half something else is to be... chigatte. Chigatte, meaning\n  <code>\n   different,'' but equally meaning\n  </code>\n  wrong.'' The language, like the culture, makes no distinction." The plot itself is a complicated one about a CIA scheme called Crepuscular, designed to clean up-or possibly further corrupt-Japan''s tangled mess of business and politics. Eisler acknowledges the help of experts in many areas, but it''s his own impressive literary skills that make his John Rain such a fascinating, touching and wholly believable character.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4628'),
(17893, 'Harlequin - Grail Quest 01', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4583'),
(17894, 'Harpers Bazaar - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10809'),
(17895, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The Final ChapterÂ \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The pubdate of the seventh and final Harry Potter book has been announced, and the rumours are already circulating - what are the Deathly Hallows? Who will make it through to the end? This special edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is for any major fan of the series, offering a luxury jacket and binding, this is set to make the perfect present for any muggle!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n  Potter fans, relaxâ€”this review packs no spoilers. Instead, weâ€™re taking advantage of our public platform to praise Rowling for the excellence of her plotting. We canâ€™t think of anyone else who has sustained such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over seven thick volumes and so constantly surprised us with twists, well-laid traps and Purloined Letter-style tricks. Hallows continues the tradition, both with sly feats of legerdemain and with several altogether new, unexpected elements. Perhaps some of the surprises in Hallows donâ€™t have quite the punch as those of earlier books, but that may be because of the thoroughness and consistency with which Rowling has created her magical universe, and because weâ€™ve so raptly absorbed its rules.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Weâ€™re also seizing the occasion to wish out loud that her editors had done their jobs more actively. Itâ€™s hard to escape the notion that the first three volumes were more carefully edited than the last four. Hallows doesnâ€™t contain the extraneous scenes found in, say, Goblet of Fire, but the momentum is uneven. Rowling is much better at comedy than at fight scenes, and no reader of the sixth book will be startled to hear that Hallows has little humor or that its characters engage in more than a few fights. Surely her editors could have helped her find other methods of building suspense besides the use of ellipses and dashes? And craft fight dialogue that sounds a bit less like it belongs in a comic book? Okay, weâ€™re quibbling. We know these minor nuisances wonâ€™t dent readersâ€™ enjoyment, at least not this generation of readers; we couldnâ€™t put Hallows down ourselves. But we believe Rowling, and future readers, deserved even better. Ages 9-12. (July)\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Synopsis\n  <br />\n  ''His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.'' With these words "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" draws to a close. And here, in this seventh and final book, Harry discovers what fate truly has in store for him as he inexorably makes his way to that final meeting with Voldemort. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling will reveal all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  More Information about  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n  <br />\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. On 21 July 2007, all editions but the American were released at a minute past midnight (00:01) BST; the American and Canadian editions was released at a minute past midnight (00:01), local time. It was released globally in 93 countries.The book reached the top spot on both the Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble best-seller lists just a few hours after the date of publication was announced on 1 February 2007.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Why We Love Harry\n  <br />\n  Favorite Moments from the Series\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Series of Harry Potter\n  <br />\n  The Harry Potter series was originally published as a children''s book by British publisher Bloomsbury, and American publisher Scholastic Press. However, it rapidly became a phenomenal success amongst children and adults alike. The books each chronicle one year at school for the characters concerned and follows a long tradition of children''s series about life in schools. Perhaps unlike some of the traditional series of this format, each book has matured and expanded in complexity and scope compared to the last, approximately developing with the age of the principal characters (later books are also significantly darker in tone than earlier ones). Although the author has said that she comprehensively plotted the entire series of books before the first was published, and that this plot remains unchanged, she has also stated that it has undergone a number of revisions as it has progressed. The books started as relatively slim volumes (223 pages Philosopher''s Stone UK ed.), but have grown as the series progressed (766 pages Order of the Phoenix UK ed.).\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The books contain a significant element of fantasy and magic, but this is combined with a detective-novel approach to the story. Each volume contains a complete problem and task for the heroes to complete, but each has also added to the background information about the wizarding world in general and contains many pieces of information whose importance only becomes apparent in later volumes (known as foreshadowing). Thus a considerable fan following has developed of people wanting to discover how the many loose ends and unfinished adventures in the book will finally be completed. The author has stated that, more than with any other book in the series, the final volume continues the unfinished story in book six. She has also stated that she doesn''t have plans for any other novels concerning Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.\n  <br />\n  * When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n  <br />\n  * The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.\n  <br />\n  * The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n  <br />\n  * Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.\n  <br />\n  * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.\n  <br />\n  * The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom.\n  <br />\n  * Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  <br />\n  * Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.\n  <br />\n  * Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it.\n  <br />\n  * Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge.\n  <br />\n  * Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.\n  <br />\n  * Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape.\n  <br />\n  * Dumbledore''s confession to Harry.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n  <br />\n  * The introduction of the Horcrux.\n  <br />\n  * Molly Weasley asking Arthur Weasley about his "dearest ambition." Rowling has always been great at revealing little intriguing bits about her characters at a time, and Arthurâ€™s answer "to find out how airplanes stay up" reminds us about his obsession with Muggles.\n  <br />\n  * Harry''s private lessons with Dumbledore, and more time spent with the fascinating and dangerous pensieve, arguably one of Rowlingâ€™s most ingenious inventions.\n  <br />\n  * Fred and George Weasleyâ€™s Joke Shop, and the slogan: "Why Are You Worrying About You-Know-Who? You Should Be Worrying About U-NO-POO--the Constipation Sensation That''s Gripping the Nation!"\n  <br />\n  * Luna''s Quidditch commentary. Rowling created scores of Luna Lovegood fans with hilarious and bizarre commentary from the most unlikely Quidditch commentator.\n  <br />\n  * The effects of Felix Felicis.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  More About Author\n  <br />\n  J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jo moved house twice when she was growing up. The first move was from Yate (just outside Bristol in the south west of England) to Winterbourne. Jo, her sister and friends used to play together in her street in Winterbourne. Two of her friends were a brother and sister whose surname just happened to be Potter! The second move was when Jo was nine and she moved to Tutshill near Chepstow in the Forest of Dean. Jo loved living in the countryside and spent most of her time wandering across fields and along the river Wye with her sister. For Jo, the worst thing about her new home was her new school.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Tutshill Primary School was a very small and very old-fashioned place. The roll-top desks in the classrooms still had the old ink wells. Jo''s teacher, Mrs Morgan, terrified her. On the first day of school, she gave Jo an arithmetic test, which she failed, scoring zero out of ten. It wasn''t that Jo was stupid - she had never done fractions before. So Jo was seated in the row of desks far to the right of Mrs Morgan. Jo soon realised that Mrs Morgan seated her pupils according to how clever she thought they were: the brightest sat to her left, and those she thought were dim were seated to her right. Jo was in the ''stupid'' row, ''as far right as you could possibly get without sitting in the playground''.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From Tutshill Primary, Jo went to Wyedean Comprehensive. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jo always loved writing more than anything. ''The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they''d tell me I didn''t have a hope.''\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At school, Jo would entertain her friends at lunchtime with stories. ''I used to tell my equally quiet and studious friends long serial stories at lunchtimes.'' In these stories, Jo and her friends would be heroic and daring.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After school, Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. Her parents hoped that by studying languages, she would enjoy a great career as a bilingual secretary. But as Jo recalls, ''I am one of the most disorganised people in the world and, as I later proved, the worst secretary ever.'' She claims that she never paid much attention in meetings because she was too busy scribbling down ideas. ''This is a problem when you are supposed to be taking the minutes of the meeting,'' she says.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When she was 25, Jo started writing a third novel (''I abandoned the first two when I realised how bad they were''). A year later, she went to Portugal to teach English, which she really enjoyed. Working afternoons and evenings, she had mornings free to write. The new novel was about a boy who was a wizard.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When she returned to the UK, Jo had a suitcase full of stories about Harry Potter. She moved to Edinburgh with her young daughter and worked as a French teacher. She also set herself a target: she would finish the ''Harry'' novel and get it published. In 1996, one year after finishing the book, Bloomsbury bought Jo''s first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ''The moment I found out that Harry would be published was one of the best of my life,â€™ says Jo. A few months after ''Harry'' was accepted for publication in Britain, an American publisher bought the rights for enough money to enable Jo to give up teaching and write full time - her life''s ambition!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(17896, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. ã€€ã€€All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley â€” a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry''s room is a closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn''t had a birthday party in eleven years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(17897, 'Harvard.Business.Review.11.2011.Slicer.pdf 15-10-2011', 'Harvard.Business.Review.11.2011.Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10728'),
(17898, 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Alice Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The award-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro''s collection Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage is about the lives, hopes, dreams and ends of women: their marriages, their relationships with those who touch their lives in some momentous way-however brief or long-standing-and the extraordinary effects wrought by the hand of fate. She is not only a genius storyteller, she has a cunning ability to make you believe the short story you''ve just read was actually a full-length novel. So if you''ve ever thought twice about buying a book of short stories, then the marvellous Alice Munro will make you think againâ€¦  Munro''s world is one of post-war Canada, when women are beginning to experience a constrained kind of freedom. In "What is Remembered", a chance meeting at a funeral has a profound, yet stabilising effect on Meriel, a young wife and mother. "Young husbands", writes Munro, "were stern in those days". Between learning how to kowtow to bosses and manage wives, there was so much else to learn: mortgages, lawns and politics for a start. The wives, meantime, were afforded the opportunity of "a second kind of adolescence"-but only in the confines of the family home, while the men were absent, and only after wifely jobs were accounted for. In the book''s title story, a capable, spinsterly housekeeper finds love in the most unexpected place, in the most unexpected way. However the opportunity presents itself, it is what you choose to make of it that really matters, the author seems to be saying. Johanna could be deeply disappointed with her "opportunity" but, in her straightforward way, amends a few details and makes the most of it.  Alice Munro''s stories are retrospective; tales of lives lived, for better or worse. If you want something, take it, quickly. You only get one life, and this is it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3941'),
(17899, 'Haunted', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  "Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them, to be precise. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers'' Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months," and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of "real life" that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But "here" turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Haunted is on one level satire of reality television - The Real World meets Alive. It draws from a great literary tradition - The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, Frankenstein - to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost."--BOOK JACKET.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6191'),
(17900, 'Hawaii for Dummies', 'Cheryl Farr Leas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get in the aloha spirit the easy, breezy way\n</p>\n<p>\n From rainforests to volcano craters, whale watching to scuba diving, marine life to nightlife, Hawaii truly has it all. Whether you sip a mai tai or a cup of Kona Joe, catch some rays or surf the waves, check into a spa or check out a luau, this guide will help you find your island paradise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1631'),
(17901, 'Health Smart - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10810'),
(17902, 'health-fitness-tone-up-in-10-minutes', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5991'),
(17903, 'Healthy Aging for Dummies', 'Brent Agin Md &amp; Sharon Perkins Rn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Look to this book for advice, techniques, and strategies to help people stay vigorous and healthy as they grow older.\n</p>\n<p>\n People are becoming increasingly knowledgeable about managing their health as they age.\n <em>\n  Healthy Aging For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how people can embark on a healthy lifestyle that will enable them to feel young, both mentally and physically, even as theyâ€™re getting older. It covers tips and advice on choosing the ideal physician; starting an exercise program; learning to meditate; taking the right vitamins and herbs; dealing with or preventing heart disease, cancer, and dementia; replacing negative thinking with positive thinking; and building memory and learning skills.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Set pro-aging goals, take action, and get on the road to lifelong wellness!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the secrets for keeping your body fit and your mind sharp\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Just because you''re getting older doesn''t mean you have to feel older. This essential guide is packed with proven strategies to slow down the aging process, from good nutrition and exercise to skin care, stress reduction, and mental exercises. It''s your complete prescription for looking and feeling younger and enjoying a higher quality of life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify your health risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a good night''s sleep and understand the importance of it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your whole body healthy and strong\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be proactive in disease prevention\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintain vitality as you age\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1633'),
(17904, 'Healthy Aging Magazine - 2011 Premier Issue', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5992'),
(17905, 'Healthy Carb Cookbook for Dummies', 'Jan Mccracken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to\n <em>\n  USA Weekend\n </em>\n , over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up!\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a first-timer or a â€œtry, try-againerâ€, this book helps you get with the low-carb program and stick with it! Building on the success of\n <em>\n  Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies\n </em>\n , it gives you loads of nutritional information plus more than 100 sumptuous low-carb recipes like Crunchy Brunch Oatmeal Pecan Waffles, Caribbean Chicken, Chile Spiced Broccoli, and Lemon Torte with Raspberries.\n <em>\n  Low-Carb Cookbook For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A complete nutritional analysis for each recipe so you canâ€™t go wrong\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of recipes for dishes with 5 carbs or less\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recipes that de-carb no-nos like Southern fried chicken and Philly cheese steak sandwiches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recipes for soups, seafood, and meat dishes, including pork chops, lamb and steaks (with a steak chart so you can chart a low-carb course)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recipes for great desserts, including chocolate specialties and cheesecake\n </li>\n <li>\n  Vegetarian recipes and crock pot specialties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Terrific wrap recipes using lettuce, tortillas, or crepes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guidelines for eating low-carb when youâ€™re dining out or brown-bagging it\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Author\n <strong>\n  Jan McCracken\n </strong>\n , a health advocate and low-carber for more than ten years, has written two low-carb cookbooks and is a contributor to numerous low-carb publications. Having fallen off the low-carb wagon several times herself, she alerts you to things that can sabotage your success and clues you in on carb counting and techniques that have worked for her. Youâ€™ll get started right with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Mini-courses on low-carb math and on low-carb nutritition and the glycemic index\n </li>\n <li>\n  A shopping list for stocking a low-carb kitchen\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on different kinds of carbs and artificial sweeteners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on using spices creatively for variety and flavor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on incorporating exercise, including taking the first step (and lots more steps) with a pedometer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for reducing stress (a common cause of bingeing)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this information, you wonâ€™t be mystified. With the fantastic recipes, you wonâ€™t feel deprived. You will be inspired to stick to a low-carb lifestyleâ€”one that can help you lose weight and feel healthier!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Over 100 homemade dishes high in goodness, low in carbs\n</p>\n<p>\n Know-how and recipes to help you live a healthy carb lifestyle!\n</p>\n<p>\n With sumptuous recipes and information on nutrition, this terrific cookbook helps you make the switch to healthy carbs. Get the skinny on the basics of low-carb living. Get recipes that de-carb favorite foods like Southern fried chicken and lasagna. If you''ve tried low-carb, but felt mystified or deprived, this is your key to success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare low-carb and healthy carb meals, snacks, and desserts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat low-carb on the go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stock a carb friendly kitchen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make low-carb cooking easy with a crock pot\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get in and out of the kitchen quickly\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1634'),
(17906, 'Heart of Stone (n-1)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  What secrets lie shrouded in darkness?    Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn''t a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she''d encounter a dark new world filled with magical beings â€” not to mention a dying woman and a mysterious stranger with blood on his hands. Her logical, lawyer instincts told her it couldn''t all be real â€” but she could hardly deny what she''d seen . . . and touched.   The mystery man, Alban, was a gargoyle. One of the fabled Old Races who had hidden their existence for centuries. Now he was a murder suspect, and he needed Margrit''s help to take the heat off him and find the real killer.   As they worked together to figure out who was framing Alban, Margrit discovered that this man with a heart â€” and body â€” of stone made her feel more alive than ever, And as the dead pile up, it''s a race against the sunrise to clear Alban''s name and keep them both alive . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Murphy''s exciting series opener, Alban Korund, a winged, shape-shifting gargoyle, is framed as a murderer. He begs legal help from Margrit Knight, a human lawyer who at first thinks he''s your average Central Park stalker. Margrit soon becomes attracted to her stony client and fascinated by the shadowy world of the Old Races, who live secretly among humans. As she struggles to prove Alban''s innocence, Margrit herself battles a dangerous dragonlord, other gargoyles and a powerful vampire, as well as taking on the case of a selkie mother and baby living in a building destined for demolition. Margrit must also decide what to do about her jealous on-again/off-again boyfriend, Tony, a homicide detective who dislikes Alban and thinks he''s guilty. Realist, feminist Margrit makes for a deeply compelling heroine as she struggles to sort out the sudden upheaval in her professional and romantic lives. Murphy (_Coyote Dreams_) has created a refreshing addition to the urban fantasy landscape.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn''t a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she''d encounter a dark new world filled with magical beingsâ€”not to mention a dying woman and a mysterious stranger with blood on his hands. Her logical, lawyer instincts told her it couldn''t all be realâ€”but she could hardly deny what she''d seenâ€¦and touched.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The mystery man, Alban, was a gargoyle. One of the fabled Old Races who had hidden their existence for centuries. Now he was a murder suspect, and he needed Margrit''s help to take the heat off him and find the real killer. And as the dead pile up, it''s a race against the sunrise to clear Alban''s name and keep them both aliveâ€¦.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5947'),
(17907, 'Heartstone', 'C. J. Sansom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6070'),
(17908, 'The Heather-Moon', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5939'),
(17909, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4175'),
(17910, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4205'),
(17911, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4361'),
(17912, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4425');
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(17913, 'Hedge Funds for Dummies', 'Ann C. Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you want to diversify your portfolio and lower your risk exposure with hedge funds, hereâ€™s what you should know:\n <em>\n  Hedge Funds For Dummies\n </em>\n explains all the different types of funds, explores the pros and cons of funds as an investment, shows you how to find a good broker, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Authored by Ann Logue, a financial writer and hedge fund specialist, this handy, friendly guide covers all the bases for investors of all levels. Whether youâ€™re just building your first portfolio or youâ€™ve been investing for years, youâ€™ll find everything you need to know inside:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What a hedge fund is and what it does\n </li>\n <li>\n  How hedge funds are structured\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determining whether a hedge fund is right for your portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculating investment risk and return\n </li>\n <li>\n  Short- and long-term tax issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Developing a hedge fund investment strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitoring and profiting on macroeconomic trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluating fund performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluating hedge fund management\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re investing for the future, you definitely want to minimize your risk and maximize your returns. A balanced portfolio with hedge funds is one of the best ways to achieve that sort of balance. This book walks you step by step through the process of evaluating and choosing funds, incorporating them into your portfolio in the right amounts, and making sure they give you the returns you expect and deserve. Youâ€™ll learn all the ins and outs of funds, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What kind of fees you should expect to pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Picking a hedge fund advisor or broker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fulfilling paperwork and purchasing requirements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Performing technical analysis and reading the data\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to withdraw funds and handle the taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tracking fund performance yourself or through reporting services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hedge fund strategies for smaller portfolios\n </li>\n <li>\n  Performing due diligence on funds that interest you\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This friendly, to-the-point resource includes information you canâ€™t do without, including sample portfolios that show you how to invest wisely. Hedge funds are an important part of every balanced portfolio, and this friendly guide tells how to use them to your best advantage. With important resources, vital information, and commonsense advice,\n <em>\n  Hedge Funds For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect resource for every investor interested in hedge funds.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filled with tips on picking the right fund â€” at the right time\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Calculate risk and return, analyze funds, and evaluate your performance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to diversify your portfolio with hedge funds? Need to know more before you invest? Relax!\n <em>\n  Hedge Funds For Dummies\n </em>\n explores the pros and cons of hedge funds as an investment choice, and shows you how to find a hedge fund manager who is right for you. When it comes to hedge funds, start here!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your tax liability\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes of failed hedge funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your hedge fund strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand legislation affecting hedge funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle due diligence on your hedge fund\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1635'),
(17914, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Contains an all new exclusive short story by George R. R. Martin! An adaptation of Martin''s hit novel, bringing the world of A Song of Ice and Fire to life in comic book form. Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6356'),
(17915, 'The Heights of Zervos', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The downward gradient increased as he pressed his foot harder and prayed - prayed against two catastrophes ..." - April 1941 - the monastery on the heights of Zervos takes on a crucial new significance as the Germans prepare to invade Greece. A Scots secret agent, a Greek patriot and two English soldiers face tremendous odds as they race against time to dent crack Nazi troops, the use of this vital observation post. The action begins at sea and continues non-stop overland in a murderous mind-killing creep up the ice-bound mountain, culminating in a sensational, breathtaking, nail-biting finish ...Colin Forbes. "Has no equal" - "Sunday Mirror".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6221'),
(17916, 'Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4290'),
(17917, 'Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4332'),
(17918, 'HELLO : 10-24-11', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10811'),
(17919, 'Hello 10-17-11', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10690'),
(17920, 'hello-2011-09-05', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4679'),
(17921, 'Hello-2011-10-10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10628'),
(17922, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4094'),
(17923, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4396'),
(17924, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4443'),
(17925, 'Herb Companion 09-2011', 'Herb Companion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3085'),
(17926, 'Herc.Vol.1.No.6.1.Oct.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Herc.Vol.1.No.6.1.Oct.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6802'),
(17927, 'Heretic - Grail Quest 03', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4584'),
(17928, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans! The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6304'),
(17929, 'A Hero&#39;s Daughter', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Early works of an author who has hit the big-time are often reissued for reasons more venal than literary. None of the pre- and post- publications of Tracy Chevalier come anywhere near the standard of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, but that didn''t stop them being rushed into instant print once best-sellerdom was declared and the film came out.  Andrei Makine gained international recognition only when his fourth novel, Le Testament Francais, won two prestigious prizes. Famously, the refugee from the Soviet Union who wrote in French hadn''t been able to get his first novel published until he pretended it was translated from "the original Russian" by the mythical "Francoise Bour".  It''s a cute story, but why has that one, A Hero''s Daughter, suddenly come out in English 14 years after publication? Are the translator and/or publishers jumping on a bandwagon in the light of later prizes awarded to them both?  At 163 elegant pages, and featuring only two central characters â€“ that is, "without the bewildering patronymics or the excessive length" of most Russian novels (a grab on the back cover) â€“ A Hero''s Daughter lightly realises huge moments in recent Russian history.  Starting with the atrocious encounters between Germany and Russia in World War II, when existence was a frozen trench and the lads are kept going with vodka and blind loyalty ("For Stalin''s sake it all made senseâ€¦"), it skips over 40 pretty good years to bring the eponymous hero into the ''80s, the era of Gorbachev and perestroika.  Life starts changing in ways incomprehensible to an old soldier, if 53 can be called old. Ivan feels old because he is a veteran, and because, by great good luck, he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for simply surviving the Battle of Stalingrad. The real act of heroism that he did commit, no one ever saw. But Ivan has a precious Gold Star to prove the benevolent idiocy of the authorities, and he will never sell it, not even to numb his misery with vodka after his wife dies in their backwoods village, when life holds nothing for him.  Well, not nothing. Although their son died, Ivan and Tatyana had a daughter, Olya, a model child who studied hard and went away to Moscow to become a translator. By now, Western snouts are poking greedily into Russian troughs and there is plenty of work for a girl who knows a language or two. And who is prepared to go the extra mile â€“ the businessmen staying in the huge hotels expect more than mere translation. The valuta they pay for services rendered means that Olya can shop at the Beriozki shops for luxury goods only available in Western currency.  Deep down she doesn''t approve of this lifestyle, although perhaps it is justified by the small-time espionage she can engage in while her drugged clients are snoring. It all makes sense for the New Russia''s sake. Though it would kill her father if he were to find out. She''d drop it all anyway, the moment she found a nice boy to marry.  While Olya is ambivalent about her compromises, Ivan gets some real shocks. For the first time he is no longer trotted out to speak to local schoolchildren about his role in the great battle; and in Moscow one of his old mates spills the beans on what translators really do. Ivan gets drunk and goes berserk. The damage he does in a Beriozka becomes a radio news item, and grounds for Olya''s rich Russian "fiance" to give her the flick, even though she''s just survived an abortion with complications. All she wants to do is to shuck off her sordid life and take her father back to the village, where she can look after them both. Unfortunately, he dies suddenly of a heart attack. Olya sleeps with a man one last time, in order to raise the money for the coffin â€“ flogging the Gold Star doesn''t do it.  The stories of Ivan and Olya are truly tough, but strangely uplifting. Life in the Soviet Union was never easy, and whatever benefits rampant capitalism might be about to provide lie outside the novel''s time-frame.  Meanwhile, the penury, shortages and brutal hardship that drive ordinary citizens to alcoholism and prostitution are countered by some kind of irreducible humanity. Olya emerges as an innately good girl who will one day find her proper level; Ivan is moved by an untutored morality based on vague but sound instincts. Their friends are all pals to them and to each other.  The human face of Soviet society may have been covered with warts, but virtue of a sort shone out of it, as it also does from this deceptively slight, excellently translated, and deeply involving first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4077'),
(17930, 'Hi-Fi Choice - 15 November 2011 UK (Awards 2011)', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10716'),
(17931, 'Hi-Fi Choice - November 2011 ', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6763'),
(17932, 'Hi-Fi Choice - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4739'),
(17933, 'Hi-Fi Choice 10-2011', 'Hi-Fi Choice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3608'),
(17934, 'Hi-Fi World 04-2011', 'Hi-Fi World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(17935, 'Hi-Fi World 07-2011', 'Hi-Fi World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2542'),
(17936, 'Hi-Fi_Choice_2011-11.pdf 14-09-2011', 'Hi-Fi_Choice_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6064'),
(17937, 'HiFi.Choice.Awards.2011.pdf 20-10-2011', 'HiFi.Choice.Awards.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10803'),
(17938, 'High Blood Pressure for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New info on high blood pressure in women, children, and the elderly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to take charge of hypertension and add years to your life!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you battling high blood pressure? This updated guide explains all the latest breakthroughs in the detection, treatment, and prevention of high blood pressure, helping you determine whether you''re at risk and develop a diet and exercise program to keep your blood pressure at healthy levels. You''ll also find new information on protecting your heart, kidneys, and brain and dealing with secondary high blood pressure.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure your blood pressure properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a successful treatment plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your lifestyle habits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate new drug therapies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find resources and outside support\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New info on high blood pressure in women, children, and the elderly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to take charge of hypertension and add years to your life!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you battling high blood pressure? This updated guide explains all the latest breakthroughs in the detection, treatment, and prevention of high blood pressure, helping you determine whether you''re at risk and develop a diet and exercise program to keep your blood pressure at healthy levels. You''ll also find new information on protecting your heart, kidneys, and brain and dealing with secondary high blood pressure.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure your blood pressure properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a successful treatment plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your lifestyle habits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate new drug therapies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find resources and outside support\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1636'),
(17939, 'High Dynamic Range Digital Photography for Dummies', 'Robert Correll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create amazing HDR photos with this full-color, plain-English guide\n</p>\n<p>\n Your secret is safe with us. Even if you don''t have the latest high-end high dynamic range (HDR) camera equipment, you can still create striking images that appear as if you do with the tips, tricks, and techniques in this helpful guide. Discover how to use bracketing effectively, get the most out of a tripod, finesse your photos with Photoshop, and make it all go easier with this practical and inspiring book.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shines a light on HDR-what it is, how it''s done, and what tools you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through how to take good photographs, from using the right settings to choosing good HDR subjects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to put all your images together in a single photo, including selecting the software, establishing workflow, and creating files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers how you can clean up digital residue, how to create HDR in black and white, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with beautiful and inspiring full-color HDR images to fire your imagination\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get fresh ideas, avoid mistakes, and produce memorable images with this essential guide.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the lowdown on how HDR works plus ways to shoot it, process it, and finish your images\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to take an artistic leap forward in your photography? Do you want dynamic photos that bring a scene to life? With this book, your camera, and a little practice, you''ll be able to create amazing HDR images. Packed with full-color examples, it shows you how to edit photos to give them more vibrant colors, richer contrast, and sharper highlights.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ABCs of HDR â€” learn the basics about cameras, gear, workflow, and software options for creating HDR\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Examine your HDR options â€” apply different strategies when shooting with a pro camera or basic point-and-shoot model\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your photo techniques â€” discover the basics of photo bracketing and how to create HDR from a single Raw photo\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn normal photos into eye-catching HDR images â€” use Photomatix Pro to create and tone-map HDR images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Broaden your horizons â€” take better photos for HDR and create HDR panoramas or black-and-white HDR images\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What makes a photo a high dynamic range image\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to tone-map an HDR image\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to shoot more or fewer brackets for an HDR image\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on shooting single-exposure HDR\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create amazing panoramas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for shooting with a high-end or budget digital camera\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for converting HDR images to black and white\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Problem-solving techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1637'),
(17940, 'High Fidelity', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Follows the life, love affairs, and belated growth to maturity   of Rob, a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner.   Reprint. *NYT. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6373'),
(17941, 'High Precision Camera Calibration', 'Tobias Hanning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4540'),
(17942, 'High-Powered Investing All-In-One for Dummies', 'Amine Bouchentouf &amp; Brian Dolan &amp; Joe Duarte Md &amp; Mark Galant &amp; Ann C. Logue Mba &amp; Paul Mladjenovic &amp; Kerry Pechter &amp; Barbara Rockefeller &amp; Peter J. Sander &amp; Russell Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Looking for help making smarter, more profitable high-end investment decisions? Why buy ten books that cover each of the major topics you need to understand, when\n <em>\n  High-Powered Investing All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you ten expert guide for the price of one?\n</p>\n<p>\n This hands-on resource arms you with an arsenal of advanced investing techniques for everything from stocks and futures to options and exchange-traded funds. Youâ€™ll find out how to trade on the FOREX market, evaluate annuities, choose the right commodities, and buy into hedge funds. And, youâ€™ll get up to speed on using business fundamentals and technical analysis to help you make smarter decisions and maximize your returns. Youâ€™ll also find ways to be as aggressive as your personality and bank account allow, without taking foolish or excessive risks. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Conduct preliminary research\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate businesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invest for growth and income\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minimize your investing risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read financial statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand your tax obligations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Trade foreign currencies, futures, and options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a feel for markets and react quickly to fluctuations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spot and forecast pricing trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of online trading innovations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The key to expanding your investment opportunities successfully is information. Whether youâ€™re just beginning to explore more advanced investing or have been dabbling in it for a while,\n <em>\n  High-Powered Investing All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the information, strategies, and techniques you need to make your financial dreams come true.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 books in 1 â€” your key to success in high-end investments\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your essential guide to expanding your portfolio with more aggressive investment vehicles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make smarter, more profitable high-end investment decisions? This hands-on guide arms you with an arsenal of advanced investing techniques for everything from stocks to futures and options to exchange-traded funds. You''ll see how to trade the FOREX market, evaluate annuities, choose the right commodities, and buy into hedge funds. And you''ll find out how researching business fundamentals and using technical analysis can help you make smarter decisions and maximize your returns!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conduct preliminary research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Invest for growth and income\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minimize your investing risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Read financial statements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your tax obligations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(17943, 'Hilda Lessways', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4265'),
(17944, 'His Last Bow', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4279'),
(17945, 'The Historical Jesus for Dummies', 'Catherine M. Murphy Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Was Jesus of Nazareth a real person? Did all of the events described in the gospels really happen? How was the world Jesus lived in different from our own? In\n <em>\n  The Historical Jesus For Dummies,\n </em>\n you''ll discover the answers to these questions and hundreds more.\n</p>\n<p>\n This accessible, plain-English guide to the life and times of Jesus paints a vibrant picture of his world, examining records in the New Testament and Roman history as well as recent archeological finds that shed new light on his life. You''ll find informative explanations of Jesus''s birth, infancy, and childhood; meet his followers and enemies; learn about his teachings and miracles, and discover how modern scholars and historians have arrived at these conclusions. This fascinating primer to the real-life Jesus explores:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The different stories of Jesus in the gospels\n </li>\n <li>\n  The three quests for the historical Jesus\n </li>\n <li>\n  The miracles of Jesus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Jewish society and the influence of Rome in Jesus''s time\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Roman practice of crucifixion\n </li>\n <li>\n  The politics of Roman-occupied Judea\n </li>\n <li>\n  What people though of Jesus when he was alive\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Gnostic gospels and other non-biblical texts of the time\n </li>\n <li>\n  The top controversies surrounding Jesus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Portrayals of Jesus in art and film\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a concise account of the spread of Christianity throughout the world, The\n <em>\n  Historical Jesus For Dummies\n </em>\n puts you in touch with the human Jesus who walked the earth and whose teachings changed the world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Demystifies top controversies surrounding Jesus\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your accessible guide to the life and times of Jesus\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know more about Jesus? This plain-English, practical guide paints a vibrant picture of his world, examining records in the Bible and Roman history and exploring recent archaeological finds that shed new light on his life. You get informative explanations of Jesus''s infancy, followers, teachings, and miracles, as well as the crucifixion and resurrection.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different stories of Jesus in the gospels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The three quests for the historical Jesus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jewish society and the influence of Rome in Jesus''s time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The spread of Christianity around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jesus in art and film\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2100'),
(17946, 'HMS Ulysses', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Novel That Launched The Astonishing Career Of One Of The 20Th Century S Greatest Writers Of Action And Suspense An Acclaimed Classic Of Heroism And The Sea In World War Ii. Now Reissued In A New Cover Style. The Story Of Men Who Rose To Heroism, And Then To Something Greater, Hms Ulysses Takes Its Place Alongside The Caine Mutiny And The Cruel Sea As One Of The Classic Novels Of The Navy At War. It Is The Compelling Story Of Convoy Fr77 To Murmansk A Voyage That Pushes Men To The Limits Of Human Endurance, Crippled By Enemy Attack And The Bitter Cold Of The Arctic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3954'),
(17947, 'Holiday Grind', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *There''s nothing cozier than a winter evening in Greenwich Village. Streetlights shimmer through icy flakes, cafÃ©s glow with welcoming warmth, and a layer of snow dusts historic townhouses like powdered sugar on holiday confections. Murder has no place in such a pretty picture, until now...*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who''s been using her Village Blend as a place to warm his mittens. When she finds him brutally gunned down in a nearby alley, a few subtle clues convince her that Alfred''s death was something more than the tragic result of a random mugging--the conclusion of the police. With Clare''s boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn, distracted by a cold case of his own, and ex-husband Matt investigating this year''s holiday lingerie catalogs (an annual event), Clare charges ahead solo to solve her beloved Santa''s slaying. Then someone tries to ice Clare, and she really gets steamed. But she''d better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **   This very special holiday entry in Cleo Coyle''s nationally bestselling mystery series includes a bonus section of delicious holiday recipes as well as a glossary of coffeehouse terms, instructions on making espressos and lattes without an expensive machine, and tips for creating tasty coffeehouse syrups at home.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6233'),
(17948, 'Home Buying for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Ray Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now updated â€” America''s #1 bestselling home-buying book!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to buy a house, but concerned about the market? Have no fear â€” this trusted guide arms you with Eric Tyson and Ray Brown''s time-tested advice and updated strategies for buying a home in current market conditions. You''ll discover how to find the right property, make smart financial decisions, and understand the latest lending requirements and tax implications.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New to this edition â€” new and expanded coverage to help homebuyers take advantage of low home prices, understand the subprime mortgage crisis, obtain a mortgage, and improve credit scores\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To buy or not to buy? â€” weigh the advantages of owning versus renting, get your finances in order, and know how much house you can safely afford\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle financing â€” understand your credit rating, navigate the different types of mortgages, and complete all paperwork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play the real estate game â€” find the right location and property, assemble an all-star real estate team, and make the most of the Internet''s real estate resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Let''s make a deal â€” negotiate with finesse, make successful offers, inspect and protect your new home, and cover all your bases in escrow\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "Invaluable information, especially for the first-time home buyer."\n <br />\n â€”_Fort Worth Star-Telegram_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A reference you''ll turn to time after time."\n <br />\n â€”_St. Petersburg Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reasons why home prices rise and fall\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on instruction for buying a home in up or down markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to pay the price you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best mortgage options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A sample home-buying contract\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pros and cons of comparable market analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for overcoming mortgage and appraisal problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to cope with buyer''s remorse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best real estate Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Eric Tyson\n </strong>\n , MBA, is a financial counselor and the author of bestselling\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books on personal finance, investing, and real estate investing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ray Brown\n </strong>\n , a real estate professional for more than 30 years, has hosted a real estate radio show in San Francisco.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1639'),
(17949, 'Home Buying for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Ray Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This may be the best comprehensive guide for home buyers.\n <em>\n  Home Buying for Dummies\n </em>\n is coauthored by Eric Tyson, author of several other books in the For Dummies series, and Ray Brown, a long-time real estate professional. Like other books in the series, this one is an easy and even entertaining read. But it does not gloss over details in pursuit of simplicity.\n <em>\n  Home Buying for Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the bases, providing clear explanations and reasonable judgments on how to select a mortgage, hire a real estate agent, find the right house, and negotiate a good deal. The book goes further than most in providing helpful, specific information. For example, in discussing ways to save money for a future down payment,\n <em>\n  Home Buying for Dummies\n </em>\n even includes the phone numbers for various mutual funds appropriate to different investment time frames.\n <em>\n  --Barry Mitzman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though fun and exciting, buying a home can also be complicated and confusingâ€”and most people learn the hard way that a wrong move can cost dearly. In order to find the perfect home at the best price, you must have skill, foresight, and a little guidance from experienced professionals.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Home Buying for Dummies, Third Edition\n </em>\n provides just that! Packed with invaluable advice in an objective, down-to-earth style that will have you sitting in your dream home in no time, this friendly guide contains everything you need to know to play the home buying game. It has the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Improve your credit score and select a mortgage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose a time and place to buy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine the price you want to pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assemble an all-star real estate team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make use of the wonderful world of the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate your best deal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Inspect and protect your home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle and become responsible for the title\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with buyerâ€™s remorse\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Featured in this guide are tips and tricks on things you should do after you seal the deal, as well as things you ought to know about real estate investing. Also included is advice on how to sell your house, as well as a sample real estate purchase contract and a good inspection report. Donâ€™t get chewed up by the real estate marketâ€”_Home Buying for Dummies, Third Edition will_ lead you to the home you want!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1640'),
(17950, 'Home Cinema Choice - December 2011', 'gnv6', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10919'),
(17951, 'Home Cinema Choice - October 2011 (UK)', 'October 2011 (UK)-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6764'),
(17952, 'Home Cinema Choice 05-2011', 'Home Cinema Choice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(17953, 'Home Cinema Choice 10-2011', 'Home Cinema Choice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3677'),
(17954, 'Home Cinema Choice 22-10-2011', 'Home Cinema Choice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10932'),
(17955, 'Home Cinema Choice 25-09-2011', 'Home Cinema Choice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6812'),
(17956, 'Home Entertainment Buyers Guide 07-2011', 'Home Entertainment Buyers Guide', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2525'),
(17957, 'Home Maintenance for Dummies', 'James Carey &amp; Morris Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A hands-on, step-by-step guide to properly maintaining your home\n</p>\n<p>\n Your home requires regular maintenance to operate safely and efficiently. The expert advice in this second edition of\n <em>\n  Home Maintenance For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you save literally thousands of dollars each year by showing you how to perform home maintenance yourself!\n</p>\n<p>\n This new edition provides the latest tips on how to tune up your home and make repairs to every room of the house, from basement to attic. By combining step-by-step instructions and expert information, this practical guide gives you the skills to tackle everything from furnace tune-ups to leaky roofs. You''ll also learn how to conduct routine inspections, keep major appliances running efficiently, and increase energy efficiency.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows how to keep your home in tip-top shape, preserve its value, and avoid costly repairs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers all rooms of the house, in addition to the roof, foundation, and exterior\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to keep all home systems and major appliances running smoothly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes a seasonal maintenance schedule\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides the latest green maintenance options to help lower your utility bills\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n James Carey and Morris Carey have a radio show, a newspaper column, and a Web site, all called\n <em>\n  On the House,\n </em>\n and appear regularly on\n <em>\n  CBS News Saturday Morning.\n </em>\n They are also the authors of\n <em>\n  Home Remodeling For Dummies\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve always wanted to tackle home repairs like a pro,\n <em>\n  Home Maintenance For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is your ideal resource!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Home Maintenance For Dummies, readers will find out how to prevent costly repairs and safety hazards with handy calendars and checklists that will ensure nothing falls through the cracks -- including the cracks! Home Maintenance For Dummies covers everything from plumbing to painting with special tips on preparing for freezing winter conditions and sizzling summer days.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(17958, 'Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Eric Geier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If your household harbors more than one computer, youâ€™ve probably wondered about home networking. Maybe youâ€™ve gone so far as to start setting up a network and given up in frustration. Well, now you can relax.\n <em>\n  Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n has come to the rescue!\n</p>\n<p>\n A network will make your life easier, and\n <em>\n  Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easier to create one. It shows you how to choose the right hardware, add user accounts, get different operating systems to work together, secure your network, exchange files, add wireless devices, and even use Wi-Fi out in public. Seven individual, self-contained minibooks cover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What a network will do for you, including a low-tech explanation of how it works\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing a network type that will work best for your needs, and planning what equipment youâ€™ll need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Installing and configuring your computers and networking gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrading your equipment with the manufacturerâ€™s updates\n </li>\n <li>\n  The ins and outs of using particular versions of operating systems â€” Windows, Mac, and Linux â€” with your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step directions on connecting to networks, sharing files and printers, checking connection status, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discovering networking accessories and gadgets to get the most out of your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding and using Wi-Fi hotspots, plus setting up your own\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll even find troubleshooting tips to help find and fix common problems.\n <em>\n  Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n will be your personal network assistant!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 7 books in 1 â€” your key to a successful home network!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to setting up a network and keeping it safe\n</p>\n<p>\n If your household has more than one computer, networking will make your life easier. And all the stuff you need to know is right here â€” how to choose the right hardware, add user accounts, get different operating systems to work together, secure your network, exchange files, add wireless devices, and even use Wi-Fi out in public.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install necessary equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up and configure your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guard against hackers, phishers, and spam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up your own Web server\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add cool wireless gadgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1642');
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(17959, 'Home Networking for Dummies', 'Kathy Ivens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having a network in your home increases work efficiency and minimizes confusion. If you want to set up a network in your home but youâ€™re not quite sure where to start, then\n <em>\n  Home Networking for Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy for you to become your householdâ€™s network administrator. Now fully updated with information on the newest technology in networking available, this quick and to-the-point walkthrough will show you how to install Web connections in your entire home, whether by wires, cables, or WiFi. This resourceful guide illustrates:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Planning and installing your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  The differences between Ethernet cable, phone lines, and wireless technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configuring computer sharing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up and managing users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Installing, managing, and troubleshooting the network printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding UNC format, mapping drives, and traveling on the network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with remote files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Securing your network from viruses, spyware, and other baddies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Along with the basics, this book introduces fun ways to use your network, including sharing music, keeping shopping lists, creating photo albums, setting up a family budget, and instant messaging. It also provides ways to keep your network safe for kids, such as talking to your child about the Internet, creating site filters, and ISP E-mail filtering features. With this trusty guide your home will be fully connected and youâ€™ll be working more efficiently in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Integrate a Vista PC into your existing XP network\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Share the Internet and work more efficiently from anywhere in your home!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to become the administrator of your own home network? This bestselling guide has been fully updated to walk you through all the newest options in wired and wireless networking. From planning to installation to maintenance, all steps are explained in plain English to help you connect computers, share files and printers, and lock out any snoops!\n</p>\n<p>\n Kathy Ivens, Senior Contributing Editor for\n <em>\n  Windows &amp; .NET Magazine\n </em>\n , has been a computer consultant since 1984. She has installed hundreds of corporate and private networks.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan and install your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure computer sharing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage users and profiles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your network secure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Retrieve data when disaster strikes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect other devices to your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1643'),
(17960, 'Home Networking for Dummies', 'Kathy Ivens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sounds pretty impressive, doesn''t ityour own home network. Should you have one? Are they hard to set up? How would it help? Are home networks more vulnerable to security risks? If you''ve asked yourself any of these questions, this updated Third Edition of Home Networking For Dummies is exactly what you need.Home networks aren''t just for people with home-based businesses. With a home network, you can Begin a project on one computer and finish it on another Connect desktop and laptop computers so you can take your work with you Share printers and Internet connections Control access to files Set up security to protect all the computers on the network And on top of all that, you get to be the network administrator!If you have more than one computer in your household, Kathy Ivens, author of Home Networking For Dummies, Third Edition, believes it only makes sense for you to have a home network. It''s efficient and it makes files easier to organize and manage. But as impressive as "home network" sounds, installing and maintaining one doesn''t have to be complicated this book makes it easy. In the For Dummies straightforward style, Kathy shows you step by step how to Plan your network, buy the right hardware at the right price, install it, and configure computer sharing Decide on the best places to put the different computers in your home Piggyback on existing home wiring like telephone and electric lines Install and troubleshoot wireless connections Set up each computer to share some things and keep others private Manage users and user profiles Install firewalls, work with the Windows XP SP2 Security Center, keep virus protection updated, and develop a disaster recovery plan Maintain your network for optimum performance Kathy Ivens is Senior Contributing Editor for Windows &amp; .NET Magazine and a consultant who has installed plenty of networks. She knows what to look for and how to help you put together exactly what you need. This edition of Home Networking For Dummies includes the most up-to-date information to help you become the administrator of your very own home network without acquiring one more gray hair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1644'),
(17961, 'Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies', 'Jeff Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Invaluable advice that will be music to your ears!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you thinking of getting started in home recording? Do you want to know the latest home recording technologies?\n <em>\n  Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you recording music at home in no time. It shows you how to set up a home studio, record and edit your music, master it, and even distribute your songs.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this guide, you?ll learn how to compare studio-in-a-box, computer-based, and stand-alone recording systems and choose what you need. You?ll gain the skills to manage your sound, take full advantage of MIDI, mike common instruments, do overdubs and replace missed notes, understand the mastering process, and prepare your music for duplication.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains how to put together all the things your home recording studio should have\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to perform multitrack recording and venture into MIDI sequencing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Details ways to clean up your tracks by becoming an expert at mixing and editing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses choosing the gear that suits your project\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through adding computers and software to your recording tools and enhancing sound with professional editing tips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features instructions for setting up microphones, connecting electronic instruments, and orking with MIDI and electronic instruments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes advice for editing tracks, mixing, mastering, and distributing your songs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you?re a beginning musician or a pro,\n <em>\n  Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies\n </em>\n teaches you home recording basics so you can begin recording music at home and create great CDs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lay down tracks and make it to the big time â€” a pro shows you how!\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a great time to start recording, because today''s technology allows you to make terrific CDs in your garage instead of in an expensive studio. Of course, you need to know how to use the tools, and Jeff Strong shares the secrets in plain English. Here''s how to set up a home studio, record and edit your music, master it, and even distribute your songs.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick the parts â€” compare studio-in-a-box, computer-based, and stand-alone recording systems and choose what you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create the space â€” learn creative ways to manage sound in the space you have\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet MIDI â€” take full advantage of Musical Instrument Digital Interface, choose the MIDI gear you need, and use it to enhance your sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Now hear this â€” find out what microphones are available, what you should have, and how to mike common instruments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For the record â€” explore multitrack recording, learn to do overdubs and replace missed notes, and venture into MIDI sequencing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clean up your tracks â€” become an expert at mixing and editing, and polish your sound with effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master the magic â€” understand the mastering process and how to prepare your music for duplication\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What your home recording studio should have\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about mixers â€” analog, digital, and software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with MIDI and electronic instruments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for getting great sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to place mikes for different effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for getting the most from guitars, horns, pianos, and vocals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Professional editing tips to enhance your sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative ways to market your music\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1645'),
(17962, 'Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies', 'Jeff Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build a home studio to fit any budget\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore equipment and techniques for making top-notch recordings at home\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve picked a perfect time to start recording! From PC-based to studio-in-a-box, today''s equipment lets you put together a professional quality CD right at home, if you know how to use it. This guide covers everything from microphone placement to multitracking and mastering, helping you choose the right tools and use them like a pro.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a studio around your budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Direct signal flow to maximize your sound\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply the best microphone techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use compressors and limiters properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a space for optimum mixing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build a home studio to fit any budget\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore equipment and techniques for making top-notch recordings at home\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve picked a perfect time to start recording! From PC-based to studio-in-a-box, today''s equipment lets you put together a professional quality CD right at home, if you know how to use it. This guide covers everything from microphone placement to multitracking and mastering, helping you choose the right tools and use them like a pro.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a studio around your budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Direct signal flow to maximize your sound\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply the best microphone techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use compressors and limiters properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a space for optimum mixing\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1646'),
(17963, 'Home Staging for Dummies', 'Christine Rae &amp; Jan Saunders Maresh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door?\n <em>\n  Home Staging For Dummies\n </em>\n delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring eight full-color pages of instructive before-and-after photos, this completely practical guide demonstrates how and why to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, and pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house. Youâ€™ll get a handle on what buyers want and how to show it to them, find plenty of do-it-yourself tasks that add real value to your home, and get tips on producing photos of your home that will have buyers craving to see more! Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  See your home as prospective buyers will see it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know what needs doing and what doesnâ€™t\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the three-step home staging process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add real value to your home without breaking the bank\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to DIY or call in the pros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create curb appeal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a great first impression with a beautiful entryway\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spruce up your kitchen, bathroom, living, and dining rooms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your bedrooms into a buyerâ€™s dream\n </li>\n <li>\n  Whip your mechanicals into top shape\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid staging nightmares\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get top dollar for your home â€” all you need is a little help from\n <em>\n  Home Staging For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 full-color pages of before-and-after photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? This no-nonsense, practical guide shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way. You''ll see how â€” and why â€” to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house, and much more to get top dollar!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the improvements that buyers want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear out the clutter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show off your home''s best features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Woo buyers with curb appeal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Depersonalize and neutralize each room\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get rooms photo ready\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1647'),
(17964, 'Home Theater - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7203'),
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(17966, 'Home Theater - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6090'),
(17967, 'Home Theater - September 2011', 'September 2011-slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6096'),
(17968, 'Home Theater 01-2010', 'Home Theater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2528'),
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(17981, 'Home Theater 12-2010', 'Home Theater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2539'),
(17982, 'Home Theater Buyer&#39;s Guide 2010', 'Home Theater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2540'),
(17983, 'Home Theater for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Pat Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...exhaustive and uncomplicated..." (_Camcorder User_, August 2003)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...clear and concise...a good read throughout..." (_DVD Monthly_, July 2003)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...superb at demystifying the murky and often bewildering world of home cinema...written in plain English...worth the investment..." (_Hi Fi Choice_, July 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Overwhelmed with big screen TV and home theater audio options? What do you need to build the perfect home theater experience?\n <em>\n  Home Theater For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to plan a home theater system and choose components that fit your budget and your room.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with the most basic information, this guide helps you choose what you need and put it all together. It explains DLP, 3LCD, HDMI, DTV, and HDTV so you can talk intelligently with salespeople at the electronics store. Youâ€™ll find out about Blu-ray, explore HD and satellite radio options, and see how to incorporate a Wii, Xbox, or Playstation 3 into your set-up. Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose among plasma, LCD, and projection TVs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know the difference between digital TV and HDTV\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess and choose an LCD TV, a new 3D TV, or an HD radio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your audio system and TV for maximum performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use a Media Center or Home Theater PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune your system and add cool touches such as accessing home theater content from your cell phone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore HD and satellite radio options, CD players, DVD-Audio disks, and options for old cassettes and vinyl\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your system with the proper cables for each component, or learn what it takes to go wireless\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calibrate your video with a calibration disk, an optical comparator, or a DVD containing THX Optimizer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get the perfect home theater experience by following the expert tips and techniques presented in\n <em>\n  Home Theater For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n . Youâ€™ll be watching movies and listening to audio in no time!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(17984, 'Home Theater for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Pat Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...exhaustive and uncomplicated..." (_Camcorder User_, August 2003)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...clear and concise...a good read throughout..." (_DVD Monthly_, July 2003)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...superb at demystifying the murky and often bewildering world of home cinema...written in plain English...worth the investment..." (_Hi Fi Choice_, July 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A low-tech way to understand a high-tech system!\n</p>\n<p>\n Create the home entertainment center that fits your home and your tastes\n</p>\n<p>\n Gadget fans, a home theater setup is the stuff your dreams are made of. This book keeps the dream from becoming a nightmare! Here''s how to select, set up, and optimize a system, translate the salesperson''s geek-speak, connect all the parts throughout your home, and even do cool stuff like accessing your system from your laptop computer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Choose the right space for your system\n <br />\n * Select and connect source devices\n <br />\n * Understand speakers, TV types, and remotes\n <br />\n * Create a whole-home network\n <br />\n * Access your system away from home\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1649'),
(17985, 'Home-Based Business for Dummies', 'Paul Edwards &amp; Sarah Edwards &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...full of encouragement and information to help you through all the stages of setting up your own home-based business." ([HTML_REMOVED]www.sixtyplussurfers.co.uk[HTML_REMOVED], June 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Expert tips and advice on starting a home-based business\n</p>\n<p>\n Starting your own home-based business is a great way to supplement your income in these tough economic times. With thirty percent new and revised material, _Home-Based Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n <em>\n  gives you the most current and up-to-date information you need to navigate your way through the whole process.\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll get trusted and creative advice on how to start being your own boss, bringing in a steady paycheck, and running a business you''ll enjoy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Complete coverage of legal and financial aspects of a home-based business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Effective advertising and promotional strategies that won''t break the bank__\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips and information you need to make your business profitable__\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on outfitting and running a home office __\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''ve been affected by downsizing in these uncertain times or are just looking to earn some extra cash,\n <em>\n  Home-Based Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to avoid scams and truly start working from home for profit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1650'),
(17986, 'Home-Based Business for Dummies', 'Paul Edwards &amp; Sarah Edwards &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Thanks to the Internet, home-based businesses are booming. With a home computer and a good idea, you can market and sell almost anything in the world just from home. Whether youâ€™re selling homemade jams or working as a business consultant, todayâ€™s entrepreneur doesnâ€™t even have to leave home.  Home-Based Business For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you make your endeavor profitable and successful! Ideal for future entrepreneurs who have the urge and want the know-how, this updated guide includes new information on home business scams and how to avoid them, shows how to create an efficient, comfortable (but not too comfortable) work environment, explains how to put new technologies to work for you, and much more. Thereâ€™s even a 10-question quiz to help you determine if youâ€™re ready. Youâ€™ll learn all the basics, including:  Selecting the right kind of business for you Setting up a home office Managing money, credit, and financing Marketing almost anything in the world Avoiding distractions at home   Home-Based Business For Dummies, 2nd Edition was written by Paul and Sarah Edwards, award-winning authors who write a monthly column for Entrepreneur magazine, and Peter Economy, an author or coauthor For Dummies books on managing, consulting, and personal finance. In straightforward English, they show you how to:  Stay connected to the business community, even when working from home Keep your work separate from your personal life Handle benefits, health insurance, and your retirement planning Make sure your bookkeeping is accurate and legal Use the Internet to bid for work, list your services in directories, network, and more Choose the technology and other resources you need Develop your own marketing and advertising strategies Navigate IRS rules for home-based businesses   Home-Based Business For Dummies is packed with ideas and information that will help you get started right and help established, successful home-based business owners stay ahead of the pack. Use it well and this handy guide will be the most important reference in your home office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(17987, 'Homebrewing for Dummies', 'Marty Nachel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marty Nachel immediately dispels two long-held myths in\n <em>\n  Homebrewing for Dummies\n </em>\n : brewing your own beer isn''t all that difficult, and despite all that you may have heard or assumed, facial hair is not a prerequisite to being a good homebrewer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like all other books in the popular Dummies series,\n <em>\n  Homebrewing for Dummies\n </em>\n is a clear, concise, how-to guide for the do-it-yourselfer. As it turns out, making beer isn''t hard to do if you have a stove, some basic equipment, and a little time on your hands. Here''s your chance to make your own Hefeweizen or India Pale Ale and avoid another trip to the local microbrewery; Nachel provides the recipes and solid step-by-step instructions. And if making beer isn''t enough, the chapter on evaluation will teach even the most pedestrian beer drinker to critically analyze homebrews like a pro.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nachel is well qualified. The former welder is an award-winning brewer and one of the top beer writers in the country.\n <em>\n  Homebrewing for Dummies\n </em>\n covers the gamut--from simple lagers to Belgian Dubbels--and Nachel shows that you don''t need a team of Clydesdales or a Colorado mountain spring to make great beer at home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to become your own brewmeister?\n <em>\n  Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n gives you easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from making your first â€œkitâ€ beer to brewing an entire batch from scratch. Before you know it, youâ€™ll be boiling, bottling, storing, pouring, and kegging your own frothy, delicious suds.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, hands-on guide walks you through each step in the brewing process at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. It fills you in on all the homebrewing basics with a comprehensive equipment list; instructions on keeping your hardware clean and sanitized; and loving descriptions of the essential beer ingredients, their roles in the brewing process, and how to select the best ingredients for you beer. Youâ€™ll also find out about additional ingredients and additives you can use to give your homebrew distinctive flavors, textures, and aromas. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your home brewery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the best ingredients and flavorings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own lager, ale, and specialty beers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Try your hand at cider, and even meade\n </li>\n <li>\n  Brew gluten-free beer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Package your beer in bottles and kegs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate your beer and troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take part in homebrewing competitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become an eco-friendly brewer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is fully updated with the latest brewing techniques and technologies and features more than 100 winning recipes that will have your friends and neighbors singing your praises and coming back for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1652'),
(17988, 'Hooligan', 'Jonas Nyrup, Tom Carstensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4537'),
(17989, 'Hornblower and the Atropos', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower''s command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet''s harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester''s most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5966'),
(17990, 'Hornblower and the Hotspur', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n MacNee ( The Avengers  and  A View to a Kill ) is a superb choice to read this ripping yarnâ€”the third in Forester''s expert and exciting series about a young naval officer who rises rapidly through the ranks to become one of England''s heroes in the battles against Napoleon''s huge fleet of fast and formidably armed frigates. MacNee is perfect as the young Horatio Hornblower, who listeners meet on his wedding day in 1803. The couple''s romance succumbs to history as the dastardly French prepare to attack. With the possible exception of Patrick O''Brian, nobody else writes about sea battles with the perfect control of Forester, and MacNee uses all his acting skills to keep the action moving. A few sound effects might have been in order during the fighting scenes, but one can''t have everything.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5969'),
(17991, 'Hornblower and the Widow McCool (h-2)', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last Encounter". It is titled "Hornblower''s Temptation" in certain US editions.  The story is set very early in Hornblower''s career, in 1799 or 1800, after Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, but before Lieutenant Hornblower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5970'),
(17992, 'Hornblower during the Crisis', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Captain Hornblower, after two hard years on blockade at Brest, has relinquished the helm of the Hotspur. He has no ship, only the promise of one. Meanwhile there are battles to be fought.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5971'),
(17993, 'Hornblower&#39;s charitable offering', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HMS  Sutherland  of two decks and seventyfour guns, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was on her way north from Gibraltar to her rendezvous in the Western Mediterranean. To port lay the coast of Spain; to starboard, and barely in sight, just peeping over the horizon, lay the hilltops of one of the Balearic Islands, Ibiza. Spain was now an ally of England, and it was no business of the Sutherlandâ€™s to intercept Spanish trade or fight Spanish ships of war. Only the French were now enemies, and the French conquest of Spain had not progressed as far south yet as Valencia. It was to take a hand in the struggle in Catalonia that the Sutherlandâ€“at least so Hornblower suspectedâ€”was being sent north. Meanwhile he had little enough to worry him; a full crew, a wellfound ship, and nothing special to do â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5972'),
(17994, 'Horse Health &amp; Nutrition for Dummies', 'Audrey Pavia &amp; Kate Gentry-running Dvm Cva', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to know the best ways to care for your horse?\n <em>\n  Horse Health and Nutrition For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you up-to-the-minute guidance on keeping horses healthy at all stages of life. It provides the latest information on equine nutrition and healthcare, explaining how your horseâ€™s body functions and how to keep it in good working order.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with practical advice on equine first aid and alternative therapies, this completely practical, plain-English guide explains exactly what to feed your four-legged â€œhayburnerâ€ and how much. Youâ€™ll find out what kind of preventive care is vital to keeping your horse in good physical shape and how to recognize signs of illness when things go wrong. Youâ€™ll get the low-down on the diseases and conditions most likely to plague the domestic horse and find help in deciding whether to treat problems yourself or call the vet. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage your horseâ€™s diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  House your horse safely and comfortably\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tend to the daily details of horse care\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examine coat, eyes, hooves and manure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify, control, and prevent equine diseases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand links between horse behavior and health\n </li>\n <li>\n  Practice good horse nutrition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grow your own horse food\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cover horse-health-care costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Breed your horse\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for pregnant mares and newborns\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A healthy horse is a happy horse. Keep your horse fit with a little help from\n <em>\n  Horse Health and Nutrition For Dummies,\n </em>\n and youâ€™ll be happy too!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with practical advice on equine first aid and alternative therapies\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From foal to senior, give your horse a happy, healthy life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know the best ways to care for your horse? This plain-English guide gives you all the latest information on equine nutrition and healthcare, explaining how your horse''s body functions and how to keep it in good working order. You''ll see how to perform checkups safely at home, spot the signs of illness, and help your horse age gracefully.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your horse''s diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify, control, and prevent equine diseases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Breed your horse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Care for pregnant mares and newborns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   House and groom your horse\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1653'),
(17995, 'Horseback Riding for Dummies', 'Audrey Pavia &amp; Shannon Sand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve always dreamed of riding horses. So what are you waiting for? Itâ€™s time you realized your equestrian dreams and learned to ride like a pro on the back of a noble steed. And\n <em>\n  Horseback Riding for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t know a horseâ€™s head from its tail, a trot from a canter, withers from a fetlock? No problem. Coauthored by a medal-winning equestrian and nationally respected equestrian trainer, it tells you what you need to know about that elegant animal, body and soul, to become an accomplished rider. And it trains you in all the technical basics of riding for fun or competition, including how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find a good stable and instructor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select riding gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Warm up and keep riding muscles fit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish a rapport with a horse\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cue a horse to walk, jog, trot, lope, and cantor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ride in the ring and on trails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your balance and timing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compete in horse shows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy and care for your own horse\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Stop dreaming about it and learn to ride like the wind with\n <em>\n  Horseback Riding for Dummie\n </em>\n sâ€”the ultimate beginnerâ€™s guide to all things equestrian.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips on warming up, improving control, and staying safe\n</p>\n<p>\n Get to know your horse and communicate with him\n</p>\n<p>\n Hooked on horses? Ready to ride? This easy-to-follow guide is all you need to settle in the saddle and start riding for fun or competition. You''ll see how to mount and dismount; ride in Western or English style; cue your horse to walk, jog or trot, and lope or canter; make the leap to jumping; and even enjoy fun and games with your horse.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the best stable and instructor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select riding gear\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ride in the ring and on trails\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your balance and timing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compete in horse shows\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy and take care of a horse\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1654'),
(17996, 'Horses for Dummies', 'Audrey Pavia &amp; Janice Posnikoff D. V. M.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Horse lovers will flock to this volume, which is chock full of down-to-earth, practical advice. While much of the information would be useful to anyone involved with horses, this book is really for the prospective horse owner who is just starting out. The novice will find the book easy to use, as each chapter stands on its own as a source of information about a specific aspect of horse ownership. Users can refer to the topic they need, and important sections are marked with icons indicating "Tip," "Warning," and "Remember." There is even an indicator for "technical stuff" that the beginner may not need to know. The book''s coauthors are a veterinarian and an editor of an equine magazine, respectively, and both are well versed in the intricacies of horse ownership. They are careful to point out matters of protocol, those things that are always done a certain way in the horse world, though often for no apparent reason. A worthwhile purchase for public libraries.ADeborah Emerson, Monroe Community Coll., Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features new full-color photos and online resources\n</p>\n<p>\n Train, care for, and have fun with your horse\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re crazy about horses, this hands-on guide is all you need to giddy up and go. Featuring updates on breeds, boarding, nutrition, equipment, training, and riding, as well as new information on various equine conditions, this resource shows you how to keep your horse happy - and take your riding skills to the next level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Select the right horse for you\n <br />\n * Feed, groom, and handle your horse\n <br />\n * Recognize common horse ailments\n <br />\n * Have fun in the saddle\n <br />\n * Get involved in equestrian competitions\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(17997, 'The Hot Zone', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of theappearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6201'),
(17998, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'A. Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4314'),
(17999, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4331'),
(18000, 'House &amp; Garden 09-2011', 'House &amp; Garden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3458'),
(18001, 'House Beautiful UK 2011-10S370', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5994'),
(18002, 'The House in the Mist', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4041'),
(18003, 'House of Cards (n-2)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  A covenant broken. A hell unleashed... New York City''s only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she''s summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit''s been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won''t take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies...oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this mess â€” and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ". . . a strong fantasy in a world vaguely reminiscent of ancient Greece, a world-spanning adventure and two nicely done romances." --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times BOOKclub\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York City''s only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she''s summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Margrit''s been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won''t take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkiesâ€¦oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this messâ€”and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasyâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5948'),
(18004, 'The House of the Whispering Pines', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3924'),
(18005, 'House Selling for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Ray Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the same authors as\n <em>\n  Home Buying for Dummies\n </em>\n , the new\n <em>\n  House Selling for Dummies\n </em>\n shares all of the companion volume''s virtues and likewise qualifies as the overall best choice on its topic. It provides clear and wise counsel on preparing a house for sale, setting the asking price, and negotiating with buyers.\n <em>\n  House Selling for Dummies\n </em>\n discusses the pros and cons of selling a house without a listing agent, but authors Tyson and Brown seem to believe that most "dummies" need the professional help of a Realtor. The book offers extensive and good advice on selecting and working with an agent.\n <em>\n  --Barry Mitzman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n New how-to details on staging and curb appeal\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way? to minimize selling hassles and get top dollar for your house\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to stand out to homebuyers in today''s crowded market? America''s #1 bestselling real estate authors have revised their classic guide to save you time and money as you prepare to sell your property. They''ll show you when to put your house on the market, the pros and cons of FSBO, and the best ways to utilize the Internet, from online listings to digital photos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Prepare your property to attract buyers\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Determine your asking price\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Hire the right real estate agent\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Market and show your house\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Negotiate for the best offer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1656'),
(18006, 'House Style &amp; Living 08-2011', 'House Style &amp; Living Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3459'),
(18007, 'house-garden-uk-2011-10-oct', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5993'),
(18008, 'Housetraining for Dummies', 'Susan Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest information and tips on making housetraining easier for your pet and yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n Did you know that what you feed your dog can effect help or hinder the housetraining process? That''s just one of the valuable tips you''ll find in\n <em>\n  Housetraining For Dummies 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n the authoritative housetraining reference for new and veteran pet owners alike.\n</p>\n<p>\n This new edition features plenty of new and revised material on everything from the latest housetraining equipment to the latest information on diet and nutrition and the crucial role it plays in housetraining. You''ll also find useful tips and techniques for creating environmentally safe cleaners from natural products found in the home and alternatives you can use if you have a sensitive pet.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features the latest findings on how pet nutrition can influence housetraining success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers proven housetraining strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduces new methods for housetraining multiple pets at once\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews new housetraining equipment and products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to make environmentally safe stain and odor removers from products already in your home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Susan McCullough is a columnist for\n  <em>\n   Dog Fancy\n  </em>\n  magazine and the author of several books including\n  <em>\n   Beagles For Dummies\n  </em>\n  and the award-winning\n  <em>\n   Senior Dogs For Dummies\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Housetraining can be a difficult and stressful process for both you and your puppy, adult, or senior dog.\n <em>\n  Housetraining For Dummies 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is the resource you need to make it faster and easier for both of you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n I''ve written Housetraining For Dummies to provide a light-hearted but informative guide to helping any dog learn proper bathroom behavior. Whether your pooch is a young puppy who''s just learning where to potty or an adult dog with serious bathroom issues, this book will help you housetrain your dog quickly and easily -- and even have fun doing it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1657'),
(18009, 'How Brains Make Up Their Minds', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3898'),
(18010, 'How Computers Work [9th Ed.]', 'Ron White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6078'),
(18011, 'How to Be a Genius Your Brain and How to Train It', 'John Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3089'),
(18012, 'How To Be Lost', 'Amnda Eyre Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4016');
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(18013, 'How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5', 'Steve Caplin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   How to Cheat in Photoshop\n  </em>\n  shows you how to cheat in two important ways. First, you''ll learn a professional montage artist''s proven-to-be-successful tips for getting the best out of Photoshop''s many features quickly and efficiently, so that you can create work under deadline while still maintaining quality. Second, you''ll learn how to make an image look like something else entirely, for those moments when stock imagery just won''t do and you don''t have the time (or funding) to set up a photo shoot. Photomontage master Steve Caplin has been a recognized leader in the world of photo manipulation for many years, and in this invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, retouchers, students, and graphic artists, he shows exactly what methods he uses to create stunning imagery used in advertising, publishing, print media, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fully updated to cover all of the new features in Photoshop CS5, this book is also backwards-compatible and can be used with any version of Photoshop. The accompanying DVD for Mac and PC contains over two and a half hours of video tutorials for additional training, and on the book''s popular website "howtocheatinphotoshop.com", you''ll find even more resources such as an "Ask the Author" forum, sample images from other How to Cheat fans, and weekly challenges so that you can test your own skills and see where your creativity can take you.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   A complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 learning package! Includes a fully updated book, a DVD containing all of the imagery used in the examples, over 2 hours of video tutorials, and website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Includes hundreds of tips and project ideas to help you get started, whether you''re working to a professional deadline or just for fun\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Packed with professional advice from a photomontage artist who makes his living creating surreal works of artâ€”you''re learning from the best!\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(18014, 'How to Cook Everything', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Today''s favorite kitchen companionâ€”revised and better than ever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman''s award-winning\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost half the material is new), making it absolutely indispensable for anyone who cooksâ€”or wants to. With Bittman''s straightforward instructions and advice, you''ll make crowd-pleasing food using fresh, natural ingredients; simple techniques; and basic equipment. Even better, you''ll discover how to relax and enjoy yourself in the kitchen as you prepare delicious meals for every occasion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A week doesn''t go by where I don''t pull\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  down from the shelf, so I am thrilled there''s a new, revised edition. My original is falling apart!"\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Al Roker\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This new generation of\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  makes my ''desert island'' cookbook choice jacked up and simply universal. I''ll now bequeath my cookbooks to a collector; I need only this one."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Mario Batali\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mark Bittman has done the impossible, improving upon his now-classic\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . If you need know-how, here''s where to find it."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Bobby Flay\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mark Bittman is a great cook and an incredible teacher. In this second edition, Mark has fine-tuned the original, making this book a must for every kitchen."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jean-Georges Vongerichten\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Throw away all your old recipes and buy\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . Mark Bittman''s recipes are foolproof, easy, and more modern than any others."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Isaac Mizrahi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Generous, thorough, reliable, and necessary,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  is an indispensable reference for both experienced and beginner cooks."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Mollie Katzen\n  </strong>\n  , author of the\n  <em>\n   Moosewood Cookbook\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I learned how to cook from\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  in a way that gives me the freedom to be creative. This new edition will be my gift to new couples or for a housewarming; if you have this book, you don''t really need any others."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Loeb\n  </strong>\n  , singer/songwriter\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Exclusive Recipe Excerpts from\n   <em>\n    How to Cook Everything\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Grilled or Broiled Chicken Kebabs\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Roasted Shrimp with Herb Sauce\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Warm Spicy Greens with Bacon and Eggs\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Author Tip: 7 Ways to Vary Chicken Kebabs [PDF]\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10 Reasons You Need the New\n   <em>\n    How to Cook Everything\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (even if you already have the original)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1.\n  </strong>\n  The 2000+ simple recipes will make cooking at home easier, so you can spend less and eat better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   2.\n  </strong>\n  With 1,446 new recipes and variations such as Beer-and-Butter Chicken Wings, Roasted Corn Chowder, BLT Salad, Paella with Chicken and Chorizo, Caramelized French Toast, and Popcorn Brittle, this book provides a whole new array of recipes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   3.\n  </strong>\n  The many new techniques covered in this edition will help you to expand your repertoire of kitchen skills to include frosting a cake, grinding your own chili powder, or even de-boning a quail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   4.\n  </strong>\n  Your husband, wife, brother, sister, son, daughter, or best friend needs a little help in the kitchen (okay, maybe a lot). The new\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  contains more expert advice like â€œ12 Must-Have Kitchen Tools,â€ â€œSuper-Easy 3-Ingredient Soups,â€ and â€œThe Basics of Cutting.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   5.\n  </strong>\n  You trust Bittmanâ€™s no-nonsense opinions and canâ€™t wait to read the thousands of new ones packed into this edition. Heâ€™ll even help you to select the best inexpensive fish (ex. mackerel is versatile, tasty, healthy, and plentiful; tilapia can taste kinda muddy).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   6.\n  </strong>\n  The index of â€œEssential Recipesâ€ points you to Bittmanâ€™s favorite dishes in each chapter, so thereâ€™s less reason to be intimidated by\n  <em>\n   all those recipes\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   7.\n  </strong>\n  There are more helpful lists in the new\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  than ever before. Bittman shows how to jack up the basics with easy ideas like â€œ4 Ways to Thicken a Sauceâ€, and â€œInfinite Ways to Season or Serve Any Grilled or Broiled Chicken Dish.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   8.\n  </strong>\n  With this editionâ€™s brand new charts, itâ€™s absurdly easy to look up the cooking times for grains, heat factor for chiles, and other need-to-know information about everything from herbs and spices to flour and noodles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   9.\n  </strong>\n  You know itâ€™s cheap, easy, and fast to serve your family boneless chicken breasts every week, but sometimes you run out of ideas. Thatâ€™s why you really need all the new recipes, variations, and other suggestions for chicken breasts like â€œ11 More Ways to Vary Grilled or Broiled Boneless Chicken.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10.\n  </strong>\n  There are plenty of new illustrations which incorporate more detail than many photos. Theyâ€™ll show you how to use a pastry bag, how to eat crabs, and even how to puree soup using an immersion blender (itâ€™s is way less messy than a regular blender).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Ten years have brought many changes to the U.S. culinary landscape, and Bittman''s new edition of his contemporary classic reflects that, with hundreds of recipes added, out-of-date ones banished and few lines from the holdovers left untouched. The opening chapter offers invaluable new tips on basic kitchen equipment and techniques, and in the wake of the recent vegetarian version of the book, produce and legumes are now featured earlier and with more inspired meatless recipes. Overall, Bittman''s globe-trotting palate shows even better than it did in the already quite international first edition, with intriguing recipes from every corner of the world. Considering these expansions, the most important change has been to the book''s user-friendliness: a proliferation of charts, lists and boxes makes much more information immediately availableâ€”hardly a page goes by without an eye-catching sidebar about technique, a handy table organizing the basics of an ingredient or dish or the myriad suggestions of variations and new ways to think about a recipe that make it the best-value all-in-one volume available. At-a-glance coding to indicate what is fast to make, what can be made ahead and what is vegetarian, plus highlighted recipes that Bittman considers essential, help ensure that even with more of everything to cook, this massive tome is navigable. Whether the first edition is on their shelves or not, home cooks of all skill levels will want to get this one.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(18015, 'How to Do Everything with Google Tools', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6557'),
(18016, 'How To Magazine- September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3903'),
(18017, 'How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person''s point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person." Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. --Joan Price\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(18018, 'How to... 08-2011', 'How to...', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3698'),
(18019, 'How to... 09-2011', 'How to...', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3795'),
(18020, 'How to... Magazine', 'October 2011 -', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7023'),
(18021, 'How to... Magazine July 2011', 'How to...', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(18022, 'How to... Magazine June 2011', 'How to...', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(18023, 'HTML 4 for Dummies', 'Ed Tittel &amp; Mary Burmeister &amp; Mary C. Burmeister', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This guide walks you through the entire Web authoring process, teaching you how to use the nuts and bolts of HTML to build your Web page. You''ve got to feel good about a guide that tells you that "if you can dial a telephone or find your keys in the morning, you too can become an HTML author."\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors start with the premise that you''re a true beginner. The first part of the book covers the history of the Web, what a browser is, how HTML is used, and what it takes to access the Web. The book then dives into HTML basics, page layout, and instructions on how to build your first basic Web page. Part 2 explains what a markup language is and how HTML works. This section provides an overview of each HTML tag, highlights special characters, and shows you how to add templates, lists, and links to your Web pages. Part 3 covers relatively advanced areas such as tables, attractive Web design, complex pages, forms, style sheets, image maps, navigation aids, and finally going live with your site.\n</p>\n<p>\n Part 4 contains the famous "Part of Tens" section that is in each Dummies book, plus HTML''s Top Ten Do''s and Don''ts, Ten Design Desiderata, and Nearly Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs. Extras on the CD-ROM include overviews on testing your pages, working with Dynamic HTML, frames, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and more. The CD-ROM also has shareware and examples of HTML that are used in the book.\n <em>\n  --Elizabeth Lewis\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "read the user-friendly starter guide HTML 4 For Dummies, published by John Wiley &amp; Sons." (_Smallbusiness.co.uk)_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1658'),
(18024, 'HTML, XHTML &amp; CSS for Dummies', 'Ed Tittel &amp; Jeff Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Now featuring more than 250 color illustrations throughout, this perennially popular guide is a must for novices who want to work with HTML or XHTML, which continue to be the foundation for any Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  The new edition features nearly 50 percent new and updated content, including expanded coverage of CSS and scripting, new coverage of syndication and podcasting, and new sample HTML projects, including a personal Web page, an eBay auction page, a company Web site, and an online product catalog\n </li>\n <li>\n  The companion Web site features an eight-page expanded Cheat Sheet with ready-reference information on commands, syntax, colors, CSS elements, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers planning a Web site, formatting Web pages, using CSS, getting creative with colors and fonts, managing layouts, and integrating scripts\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with useful tips, techniques, and code examples\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build quality Web pages with XHTML and add some pizzazz with CSS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t have to be a master programmer to build great Web pages! This book shows you what HTML is about and how to use XHTML to format great-looking pages. Then you''ll see how CSS helps you manipulate colors, fonts, and more. You can even add scripting languages and build interactive pages â€” here''s how!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your Web site to prevent problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the proper syntax for HTML and XHTML\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a company Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Upload and publish Web pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Integrate scripts with XHTML\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test and debug your Web pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(18025, 'HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Andy Harris &amp; Chris Mcculloh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to build a killer Web site? Want to make it easy to keep your site up to date? You''ll need to know how CSS, HTML, and XHTML work together.\n <em>\n  HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n makes that easy too! These eight minibooks get you started, explain standards, and help you connect all the dots to create sites with pizzazz.\n</p>\n<p>\n This handy, one-stop guide catches you up on XHTML basics and CSS fundamentals. You''ll learn how to work with Positionable CSS to create floating elements, margins, and multi-column layouts, and you''ll get up to speed on client-side programming with JavaScript. You''ll also get the low-down on server side programming with PHP, creating a database with MySQL, and using Ajax on both client and server sides. You''ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use templates and validators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage information with lists and tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn lists of links into button bars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add style color and borders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create variables for data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add motion with basic DOM animation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with arrays\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add Flash functionality with AFLAX\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build and manage a multipage site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and run your own server\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You don''t need expensive or complicated software or a super-powerful computer to build a Web site that does all sorts of amazing things. All you need is a text editor and the clear, step-by-step guidance you''ll find in\n <em>\n  HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1 â€” your key to developing powerful Web applications\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to using CSS with XHTML to create dynamic sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Things move quickly on the Web, and you want to make it easy to keep yoursite up to date. So you''ll want to know how HTML, XHTML, and CSS worktogether, and this book makes that easy! Handy minibooks get you started, explain how to use the most up-to-date standards, and show you how to put it all together for sites with pizazz.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use templates and validators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage information with lists and tables\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add style, color, and borders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create powerful applications with Ajax\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add interactivity to your Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1660'),
(18026, 'Hugo / A Fantasia on Modern Themes', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4236'),
(18027, 'The Hunt for Atlantis', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McDermott''s debut, already an international bestseller, raises the bar to please adventure junkies who prefer to mainline their action. Ten years after learning that her parents had perished in an avalanche while tracking the fabled lost city of Atlantis, archeologist Nina Wilde decides to pick up where they left off. A man claiming to represent philanthropist Kristian Frost phones to invite Nina to meet him and discuss financing her quest, but he''s up to no good. Fortunately, British bodyguard Eddie Chase really does work for Frostâ€”who really does want to finance her missionâ€”and he rescues Nina and gets the ball rolling. Distinguishing good guys from bad guys proves harder than finding Atlantis, but that won''t stop readers from enjoying the adrenalin rush as Nina and Eddie tag-team their way through nonstop high-octane action scenes.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Adventure stories don''t get much more epic than this'' -- Mirror\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4003'),
(18028, 'Hustler', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3570'),
(18029, 'Hustler - December 2011', 'December 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6715'),
(18030, 'Hustler 10-2011', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3730'),
(18031, 'Hustler 11-2011', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3702'),
(18032, 'Hustler Barely Legal', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5890'),
(18033, 'Hustler Magazine UK Edition', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3670'),
(18034, 'Hustler UK # 40', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3749'),
(18035, 'Hustler UK #38', 'Hustler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3721'),
(18036, 'HWM Singapore 09-2011', 'HWM', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3842'),
(18037, 'HWM Singapore Magazine', 'September 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3890'),
(18038, 'HWM Singapore Magazine September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4745'),
(18039, 'Hybrid Electric Vehicles', 'Mi, Chris, Masrur, M. Abul, Gao, David Wenzhong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6822'),
(18040, 'Hypoglycemia for Dummies', 'James Chow M. D. &amp; Cheryl Chow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hypoglycemia simply means â€œlow blood-sugar,â€ but without concrete symptoms itâ€™s very hard to diagnose. It is nevertheless a condition that should be watched over carefully. People react differently to low blood sugar as well as to the treatment they receive.\n <em>\n  Hypoglycemia for Dummies\n </em>\n explores this fickle condition and shows you how to manage your blood sugar to feel better.\n</p>\n<p>\n This no-nonsense, plain-English guide lays out the facts you need to maintain a healthy body. It offers expert advice on identifying symptoms, changing lifestyles, and also extensive coverage on diet, exercise, alternative treatments, and the link between low blood sugar and diabetes. This expanded 2nd edition provides:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A thorough explanation of hypoglycemia and how it affects your body\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exercise routines that lead to a healthier lifestyle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Diet suggestions on what to eat and how often\n </li>\n <li>\n  A basis for choosing a doctor thatâ€™s right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Vitamins and supplements that treat your symptoms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to manage hypoglycemia in the workplace\n </li>\n <li>\n  An explanation of how hypoglycemia affects family and friends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Methods to de-stress yourself\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with tips on helping other hypoglycemics and myth-debunking facts about the disease,\n <em>\n  Hypoglycemia for Dummies\n </em>\n is the fast and simple way to learn and treat the condition, with the help of the most up-to-date medical information available. Escape the blood sugar blues and starting feeling better in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes an improved diet plan\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Escape the blood sugar blues and start feeling better today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to get a handle on your hypoglycemia? If so, this friendly guide offers expert advice on identifying symptoms and making the necessary lifestyle changes so you can live a full and active life. This book features expanded coverage on diet, exercise, alternative treatments, and the link between low blood sugar and diabetes. Most importantly, it shows you how to develop and follow a healthy diet plan â€” the first step to dealing with this condition.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prevent low blood sugar episodes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fight depression and stay motivated\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it through the work day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help hypoglycemic infants and children\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the support you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1661'),
(18041, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . . Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that arenâ€™t sparkly, arenâ€™t fun, donâ€™t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its rootâ€”before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. Chilling drama combines with laughout-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6409'),
(18042, 'IBM Workplace Services Express for Dummies', 'Stephen R. Londergan &amp; Michael Loria', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use WSE to work together, even when you''re not!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover the ideal way for small and medium businesses to work together\n</p>\n<p>\n IBM Workplace Services Express is an easy-to-use collaborative portal application that facilitates communication and teamwork with built-in team spaces, document management, and instant messaging -- all in a single portal. This handy guide helps you get started, navigate the workspace, get organized, use the built-in collaboration tools, use document libraries to create and share documents, and more. If you want to get your organization on the fast track to success, this friendly book shows you how IBM Workplace Services Express can help.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Collaborate using built-in tools such as team spaces and forms\n <br />\n * Produce and collaborate on documents with Microsoft(r) Office\n <br />\n * Get any team or project up and running in no time\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use WSE to work together, even when you''re not!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover the ideal way for small and medium businesses to work together\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n IBM Workplace Services Express is an easy-to-use collaborative portal application that facilitates communication and teamwork with built-in team spaces, document management, and instant messaging â€” all in a single portal. This handy guide helps you get started, navigate the workspace, get organized, use the built-in collaboration tools, use document libraries to create and share documents, and more. If you want to get your organization on the fast track to success, this friendly book shows you how IBM Workplace Services Express can help.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Collaborate using built-in tools such as team spaces and forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce and collaborate on documents with MicrosoftÂ® Office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get any team or project up and running in no time\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1662'),
(18043, 'IBS Cookbook for Dummies', 'Carolyn Dean Md Nd &amp; L. Christine Wheeler Ma', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A unique guide to decreasing symptoms of IBS through delicious food\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? You''re not alone; it is estimated that about 35 million Americans experience the symptoms of IBS.\n <em>\n  IBS Cookbook For Dummies\n </em>\n provides those affected by IBS with easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand recipes to create meals using foods and methods that decrease the risk of experiencing the discomfort of symptoms associated with the disorder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find the dietary tips and information you need to decrease your symptoms and discomfort simply by watching what you eat. You''ll find more than?100 tasty recipes you can easily make at home. And since individuals with IBS often suffer from various complications-including bowel obstructions, sores and ulcers within the intestinal tract, and malnutrition or the presence of nutritional deficiencies-_IBS Cookbook For Dummies_ provides a nutritional meal plan that will help alleviate these complications.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Presents more than 70 delicious, easy-to-make recipes designed to ease the symptoms of IBS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you avoid "trigger" foods and choose healthier alternatives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes tips for menu planning, including healthy meals and snacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains what to eat when traveling and dining out\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No need to suffer when you have IBS; just get this handy guide to start eating-and feeling-better!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Manage IBS and get back to enjoying food and life!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you think living with IBS means eating only blah and bland foods, this book will change your mind and your meals! Get the latest info on IBS plus over 100 delicious recipes, nutritional information, and lifestyle advice that''ll help you take charge of your diet and befriend food again.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your body â€” use a food diary to track your IBS symptoms and identify your triggers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a closer look at food â€” learn the role food preparation plays in setting off and managing your IBS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sensible substitutes â€”discover replacement ingredients for your IBS triggers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare delicious foodsâ€” over 100 healthy, family-friendly recipes for every meal of the day plus snacks, soups, salads, drinks, and desserts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sensible substitutes â€” make smart choices when dining out and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on IBS, food, and you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Natural foods and medicines to treat your symptoms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to shop for safe foods and decipher food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for avoiding common eating traps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for stocking your kitchen to support your diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to sooth your tummy on difficult days\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for parents of IBS kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1663'),
(18044, 'IBS for Dummies', 'Carolyn Dean Md Nd &amp; L. Christine Wheeler Ma', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spot the triggers and handle IBS at home or work\n</p>\n<p>\n Get control of your symptoms and improve your quality of life\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you or a loved one suffering from IBS? This plain-English, reassuring guide explains all aspects of this frustrating condition and helps you find the right doctor and treatment plan. You get up-to-date information on the latest tests, healthy nutrition guidelines, diet and exercise plans, and the newest medicines and therapies to bring you much-needed relief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Get an accurate diagnosis\n <br />\n * Recognize the warning signs\n <br />\n * Reduce your stress\n <br />\n * Weigh treatment pros and cons\n <br />\n * Adopt an IBS-friendly diet\n <br />\n * Help children with IBS\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Spot the triggers and handle IBS at home or work\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get control of your symptoms and improve your quality of life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you or a loved one suffering from IBS? This plain-English, reassuring guide explains all aspects of this frustrating condition and helps you find the right doctor and treatment plan. You get up-to-date information on the latest tests, healthy nutrition guidelines, diet and exercise plans, and the newest medicines and therapies to bring you much-needed relief.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get an accurate diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce your stress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weigh treatment pros and cons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adopt an IBS-friendly diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help children with IBS\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1664'),
(18045, 'iBusiness Magazine', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3607'),
(18046, 'Icefalcons Quest (d-5)', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4565'),
(18047, 'Ideal Home - November 2011 UK', 'November 2011 UK-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7083'),
(18048, 'The Ideal Man', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If a book has Julie Garwood''s name on it, it''s guaranteed to be a meticulously written, well-thought-out, and thoroughly engaging story."\n <br />\n -_Sun Journal_ (Maine)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Romance writer Julie Garwood attracts readers like beautiful heroines attract dashing heroes."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that''s pulse-pounding in every sense of the word.Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter''s face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation.Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he''s definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she''s attracted to him in a way she can''t explain.Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister''s wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she''ll be called to testify. But they''ve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie''s shadow until the trial, and it isn''t long before sparks fly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4095'),
(18049, 'ideal-hm-and-grdn-2011-09-sep', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5995'),
(18050, 'Ideas - October 2011', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6581'),
(18051, 'Identity Theft for Dummies', 'Michael J. Arata Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical solutions to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2008, 9.9 million Americans became victims of identity theft. The cost exceeded $48 billion in 2008; consumers spend some $5 billion out-of-pocket each year to clear up resulting fraud issues. This guide will help keep you from becoming the next victim.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a veteran security professional,\n <em>\n  Identity Theft For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the tools to recognize what information is vulnerable, minimize your risk, stay safe online, and practice damage control if your identity is compromised.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  If you have a name, a date of birth, and a Social Security number, you''re a potential victim; this book helps you recognize your risk and defend against identity thieves\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains what identity theft is, how it happens, and how to recognize if you have become a victim\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to protect your personal information, how to be discreet in public places, how to interpret your credit report, and why you should monitor your financial statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you recognize risks you may not have considered, such as what you set at the curb on trash day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides advice on how to clear your name if you are victimized\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Identity Theft For Dummies\n </em>\n arms you to fight back against this growing threat.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n What should I shred? How do I read my credit report? Is it safe to shop online? Find out!\n</p>\n<p>\n Identity theft costs billions of dollars each year to people just like you. This book shows you how to protect your personal information, reveals risks you may not have thought about, helps you learn whether you''ve already been victimized, and explains the steps you need to take to reclaim your good name and your good credit.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shred before you shed â€” why you should avoid placing anything in your garbage that contains personal information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be vigilant â€” learn how to regularly monitor your bank accounts and credit card statements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Am I hit? â€” what to watch for so you can tell as soon as possible whether your identity has been stolen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stick with the coffee â€” why a cybercafÃ© may be a bad place to shop online or check your bank balance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compare services â€” assess different companies that offer identity theft protection\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Oops, they got me â€” know what to do first if your identity is stolen and what information you need to have\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cyber-wary â€” identify the protection you already have, whether it''s adequate, and how to secure information on your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The walls have ears â€” learn to stay safe in public places\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to understand your credit report\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on making a security plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How and when to complete a fraud affidavit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reasons for placing fraud alerts on your credit report\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information you need to open or close accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Checklists and phone numbers for reporting losses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sensible steps to keep you safe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What NOT to carry\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize and avoid common scams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your personal information offline and online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Interpret and monitor your credit report\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Restore your good name if you are victimized\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1665'),
(18052, 'If You Ask Me', 'Betty White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White''s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty''s candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped persuade her to host\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life,\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  is funny, sweet, and to the point-just like Betty White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Betty White\n  </strong>\n  ''s award-winning career in television and film has spanned an impressive seven decades and has included iconic roles on\n  <em>\n   The Mary Tyler Moore Show\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Golden Girls\n  </em>\n  . Widely recognized for her lifelong work for animal welfare, she lives in Brentwood, California, with her golden retriever, Pontiac.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4176'),
(18053, 'iGamer UK - September 2011 ', 'September 2011 UK-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6069'),
(18054, 'iGamer-September.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 19-09-2011', 'iGamer-September.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6102'),
(18055, 'iLife &#39;04 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Tony Bove &amp; Cheryl Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Updated to cover the latest iLife features and enhancements, including the new GarageBand application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seven minibooks on iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iPod, and iLife Extras get readers quickly up to speed with all of Apple''s digital media applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the key features of each application, including ripping songs and working with a playlist (iTunes), editing and saving digital photo files (iPhoto), assembling picture and video clips into a home movie (iMovie), creating DVD slide shows and movies (iDVD), and setting up and recording in a digital music studio (GarageBand), plus bonus coverage of Apple''s market-leading iPod\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1â€“your key to success with iLife â€™04\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Release your creativity with this one-stop guide to the digital iLife style\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Living the iLife may mean creating a slide show with your own digital photos, adding original music from your GarageBand, and posting it on the Web. Or blending purchased songs with clips from your digital camcorder to make a music video DVD. Or just keeping your iPod loaded with the latest iTunes. Find out how, now!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Rip songs and create playlists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit photos and create SmartAlbums\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage video clips, create movies, and edit soundtracks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Burn multipurpose DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record musical instruments using GarageBand\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1666'),
(18056, 'Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components', 'R. Parmley (2000) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4541'),
(18057, 'Illustrator CS4 for Dummies', 'Ted Alspach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard for creating exciting, color-rich artwork for print, the Web, or even mobile devices. Whether youâ€™re stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, youâ€™ll find\n <em>\n  Illustrator CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect partner.\n</p>\n<p>\n This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools, tips on color control and path editing, ways to organize graphics, and how to get your work into print or on the Web. Youâ€™ve heard Illustrator is a bit complicated? Thatâ€™s why you need this friendly\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n book! It shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage Illustrator CS4â€™s many tools, commands, and palettes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide when to choose RGB over CMYK and how to get perfect color when printing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare path and pixel documents, adjust points on a path, and learn to use the versatile Pen and Pencil tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Character and Paragraph palettes and get creative with type on a path\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work in pixel preview mode, create Web-specific vector graphics, and use Flash with Illustrator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your pages for printing and work with separations, or save files in Web-friendly formats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create basic shapes, straight lines, and precise curves, then bring it all together into eye-popping artwork\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize with the Layers palette, tweak color, and make the most of styles and effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Illustrator together with other elements of the Adobe Creative Suite\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With plain-English instructions and colorful examples of what you can achieve,\n <em>\n  Illustrator CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n will make you an Illustrator pro in no time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have more fun and get more done with Illustrator â€” here''s how to free your creativity!\n</p>\n<p>\n Illustrator is the artist''s choice for creating spectacular graphics, and here''s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools; tips on color control and path editing; ways to organize graphics; and how to create for print, the Web, or mobile devices.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Colorful choices â€” learn when to choose RGB instead of CMYK and how to get perfect color when printing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Follow the path â€” compare path and pixel documents, adjust points on a path, and learn to use the versatile Pen and Pencil tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Just your type â€” use the Character and Paragraph panels and get creative with type on a path\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The artistic Web â€” work in pixel preview mode, create Web-specific vector graphics, and use FlashÂ® with Illustrator\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get it out there â€” set up your pages for printing and work with separations, or save files in Web-friendly formats\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with Illustrator''s panels and menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The newest tools and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to create basic shapes and bring them together\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple steps for tweaking color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create straight lines and precise curves\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do with styles and effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to organize with the Layers panel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Illustrator works with the rest of Adobe''s Creative Suite\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1667');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18058, 'Illustreret Videnskab', 'DeB', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6427'),
(18059, 'Illustreret Videnskab 03-2011', 'Illustreret Videnskab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(18060, 'Illustreret Videnskab 04-2011', 'Illustreret Videnskab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(18061, 'Illustreret Videnskab 05-2011', 'Illustreret Videnskab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(18062, 'Illustreret Videnskab 06-2011', 'Illustreret Videnskab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(18063, 'Illustreret Videnskab 07-2011', 'Illustreret Videnskab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(18064, 'IM01 - The Shape of Water', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4065'),
(18065, 'IM02 - The Terra-Cotta Dog', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4066'),
(18066, 'IM03 - The Snack Thief', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the third book in Andrea Camilleri''s Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper''s nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new case. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily''s coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren''s midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief''s life-as well as Montalbano''s-is on the line .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4067'),
(18067, 'IM04 - The Voice of the Violin', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inspector Salvo Montalbano, with his compelling mix of humor, cynicism, and compassion, has been compared to Georges Simenon''s, Dashiel Hammett''s, and Raymond Chandler''s legendary detectives.\n <br />\n In this latest novel, Montalbano''s gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immedi-ately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim''s friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4068'),
(18068, 'IM05 - Excursion to Tindari', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over American readers and critics alike as "one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction" (USA Today). Now, in Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri''s savvy and darkly comic take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone- chilling case yet.\n <br />\n In two seemingly unrelated crimes, a young Don Juan is found murdered and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. As Montalbano works to solve both cases, he stumbles onto Sicily''s ghastly "new age" of brutal and anonymous criminality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4069'),
(18069, 'IM06 - The Scent of the Night', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vig''ata have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he''s on the outs with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The Scent of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4070'),
(18070, 'IM07 - Rounding the Mark', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The earthy and urbane Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano casts his spell on more and more fans with each new mystery from Andrea Camilleri.\n <br />\n Two seemingly unrelated deaths form the central mystery of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalbano deep into a secret world of illicit trafficking in human lives, and the investigation will test the limits of his physical, psychological, and moral endurance. Disillusioned and no longer believing in the institution he serves, will he withdraw or delve deeper into his work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4071'),
(18071, 'IM08 - The Patience of the Spider', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri''s crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets in pursuit of the strangest culprit he''s ever hunted. A mystery unlike any other, this emotionally taut story brings the Montalbano saga to a captivating crossroads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4072'),
(18072, 'IM09 - The Paper Moon', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri''s classic crime novels continue to win more and more fans in America. The latest installment of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn''t have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man--shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down--commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in VigÃ ta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4073'),
(18073, 'IM10 - August Heat', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in VigÃ ta and endure the August heat. Montalbano''s long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend - husband and young son in tow - to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family''s beach rental, Montalbano, in pursuit of the child, uncovers something terribly sinister. As the inspector spends the summer trying to solve this perplexing case, Livia refuses to answer his calls - and Montalbano is left to take a plunge that will affect the rest of his life. Fans of the Sicilian inspector as well as readers new to this increasingly popular series will enjoy following the melancholy but unflinchingly moral Montalbano as he undertakes one of the most shocking investigations of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4074'),
(18074, 'IM11 - The Wings of the Sphinx', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4075'),
(18075, 'iMac for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Congratulations! When you bought that shiny new anodized aluminum iMac, you made a great choice. Now you want take advantage and control of that baby''s awesome speed, high performance, powerful operating system, and fantastic applications, and\n <em>\n  iMac for Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n is here to help you do just that!\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-use guide covers both the iMac''s splendid, cutting-edge hardware and Leopard_,_ the latest version of Appleâ€™s superb Mac OS X operating system. It gives you the basic information that every iMac owner should know and then moves on to explore the software that comes with your iMac. And, everywhere you look, you''ll find plenty of power-user tips and tricks thatâ€™ll save you time, effort, and money. You''ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up and customize your iMac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import files from your old computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Store, and organize digital photos, music, and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your system with Time Machine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse the Internet with Safari\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep in touch with iChat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your iMac a digital media hub with iLife\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your iMac to a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your iMac safe and secure\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Your iMac is an elegant and sophisticated machine â€” and as fast, powerful, and easy-to-use as a computer can be. With the help you get from\n <em>\n  iMac For Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n you''ll be an iMac power user in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet your iMac and fall in love with Mac OS X Leopard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have more fun and get more done with your iMac!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s the perfect partner for your shiny new iMac, with just what you needto set it up, import files from your old computer, and even make the switch from Windows. Soon you''ll have Leopard eating out of your hand and be browsing with Safari, staying in touch with friends and family using .Mac, and enjoying the iLifeÂ®, worry-free!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up and customize your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Send and receive e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Store and organize digital photos, music, and videos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Back up your system with Time Machine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshoot problems and protect your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1668'),
(18076, 'iMac for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The perennial bestselling iMac book is backâ€”now updated and revised throughout!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re eager to discover how to take advantage of the exciting possibilities that an iMac offers, then this is the book for you. From its speed, high performance, powerful operating system, and amazing applications, the iMac is an impeccable choice, and the fun, friendly, and approachable style of\n <em>\n  iMac For Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n is an ideal way to get started with the basics.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn the fundamentals of the iMac including setting up and customizing your iMac and the software that comes with it, importing files from your old computer, sending and receiving e-mail, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Boasts new content covering the latest iMac hardware, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife ''09, iWork ''09, and coverage of the latest trends in the market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through storing and organizing digital photos, music, and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains backing up your system with Time Machine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Delves into creating a multi-user iMac and connecting to a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews troubleshooting tips and tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to automate mundane tasks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  iMac For Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n , you''ll be able to proclaim, "iKnow" in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet the amazing iMac! Here''s how to make the most of all its features\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You have this amazing, power-packed, shiny object on your desk â€” open this book and learn about its cool features! This handy reference shows you how to use your iMac for work and play, turning you from novice to iMac pro in no time. Use the Safari Web browser, take advantage of MobileMe, enjoy the iLife and iWork suites, and keep your iMac happy!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started â€” set up your iMac, customize your preferences, organize files and folders, and hook up a printer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tame OS X â€” learn your way around Mac OSÂ® X, get to know the Dock, find things with Spotlight, and back up your system with Time MachineÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your stuff''s always available â€” take advantage of iDisk storage and access your files from anywhere via the Internet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   iLove this stuff â€” explore iLife where photos, movies, music, and your very own Web site all hang out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online action â€” get your Internet connection and e-mail set up, browse the Web, and sync up with MobileMe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Want to share? â€” personalize your iMac for multiple users, set up a network, go wireless, and use Airport ExtremeÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When you''ve gotta work â€” do it the iMac way with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the iWork productivity applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it happy â€” troubleshoot problems and maintain your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up user accounts and configure your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for getting around on the iMac desktop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iTunes, and iWeb\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for hooking up printers, scanners, and other tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with iWork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for speeding up your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important security advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple steps for troubleshooting and fixing common problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up, customize, and navigate your iMac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Surf the Web with Safari and keep in touch via e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the most out of your photos, movies, and music with iLife\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a wireless network and keep your iMac safe\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1669'),
(18077, 'ImagineFX 066 02-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3447'),
(18078, 'ImagineFX 067 03-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3448'),
(18079, 'ImagineFX 068 04-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3453'),
(18080, 'ImagineFX 069 05-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3452'),
(18081, 'ImagineFX 070 06-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3450'),
(18082, 'ImagineFX 071 07-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3449'),
(18083, 'ImagineFX 072 08-2011', 'ImagineFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3451'),
(18084, 'ImagineFX_2011-10S370_HQ.pdf 08-09-2011', 'ImagineFX_2011-10S370_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4680'),
(18085, 'ImagineFX_2011-11.pdf 25-09-2011', 'ImagineFX_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6760'),
(18086, 'ImagineFX_2011-12.pdf 13-10-2011', 'ImagineFX_2011-12.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10678'),
(18087, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4200'),
(18088, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4201'),
(18089, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4360'),
(18090, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4414'),
(18091, 'iMovie &#39;09 &amp; iDVD &#39;09 for Dummies', 'Dennis R. Cohen &amp; Michael E. Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a tightly focused and easy-to-absorb introduction to iMovie and iDVD." (Mac User, July 17th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fun, full-color guide to creating, editing, dressing up, and sharing home movies using iMovie and iDVD\n</p>\n<p>\n Make home movies 21st Century style, complete with special effects, themes, backgrounds, and other elements you can add yourself when you know how to use iMovie and iDVD. This fun and friendly guide makes it easy!\n</p>\n<p>\n iMovie and iDVD are preloaded on every new Mac. Especially if you''re new to the Mac, you''ll appreciate how\n <em>\n  iMovie ''09 &amp; iDVD ''09 For Dummies\n </em>\n walks you through every step, starting with transferring footage from your camcorder to your computer. You''ll learn to use all the features and put your finished product on DVD for others to enjoy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains how to transfer movie clips to the computer from a camcorder or digital camera\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers all the features of both iMovie ''09 and iDVD ''09\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to use the new Project Library, editing effects, transitions, image stabilization, and Precision Editor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guides you through the cover flow interface, image stabilization, image effects, maps and backgrounds, and themes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides step-by-step directions for creating multimedia DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrated in beautiful full color\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iMovie ''09 &amp; iDVD ''09 For Dummies\n </em>\n will have you making movies in no time and having fun doing it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1670'),
(18092, 'Import/Export for Dummies', 'John J. Capela', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A clear, easy-to-understand primer on the exciting world of import/export\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The United States imports $1.2 trillion and exports $772 billion in goods on an annual basis. Import/Export For Dummies provides entrepreneurs and small- to medium-size businesses with the critical information they need to begin exporting their products around the world and importing goods to sell in America. This practical guide covers the ins and outs of developing or expanding operations to capture a share of this growing market, with details on the top ten countries with which America trades, from Canada to Germany to China.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get your goods through Customs â€” hassle-free\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your port of entry for setting up and managing your import/export business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to conquer the exciting world of international trade? This practical guide covers the ins and outs of developing or expanding your global operations, showing you how to identify target markets, find customers, follow the rules and regulations, and much more. Plus, get full contact info for international trade offices for dozens of countries.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate import/export opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select products and suppliers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a marketing strategy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Complete licensing and shipping documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate prices and arrange payments\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1671');
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(18093, 'In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler&#39;s Berlin', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLarson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.â€â€”New York Times Book ReviewÂ Â Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitlerâ€™s rise to power.Â The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes Americaâ€™s first ambassador to Hitlerâ€™s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.Â A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the â€œNew Germany,â€ she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romanceâ€”and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitlerâ€™s true character and ruthless ambition.Â Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre GÃ¶ring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4177'),
(18094, 'In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler&#39;s Berlin', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLarson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.â€â€”New York Times Book ReviewÂ Â Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitlerâ€™s rise to power.Â The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes Americaâ€™s first ambassador to Hitlerâ€™s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.Â A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the â€œNew Germany,â€ she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romanceâ€”and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitlerâ€™s true character and ruthless ambition.Â Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre GÃ¶ring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4359'),
(18095, 'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain', 'David Eagleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA stunning exploration of the ''we''_\n  <em>\n   behind the ''I''. Eagleman reveals, with his typical grace and eloquence, all the neural magic tricks behind the cognitive illusion we call reality.â€ â€“Jonah Lehrer,Â  authorÂ ofÂ \n  </em>\n  How We Decide_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.â€ â€“_New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour mind is an elaborate trick, and mastermind David Eagleman explains how the trick works with great lucidity and amazement. Your mind will thank you.â€ â€“Kevin Kelly,\n  <em>\n   Wired Magazine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fun read by a smart person for smart peopleâ€¦it will attract a new generation to ponder their inner workings.â€ â€“_New Scientist\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWritten in clear, precise language, the book is sure to appeal to readers with an interest in psychology and the human mind, but it will also please people who just want to know, with a little more clarity, what is going on inside their own skulls.â€\n  </em>\n  â€“BooklistÂ \n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œOriginal and provocativeâ€¦Incognito is a smart, captivating book that will give you a prefrontal workout.â€ _â€“NatureÂ \n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <em>\n  â€œIncognito is fun to read, full of neat factoids and clever experiments...Eagleman says heâ€™s looking to do for neuroscience what Carl Sagan did for astrophysics, and heâ€™s already on his way.â€ â€“\n </em>\n Texas Monthly_ _\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Although\n  <em>\n   Incognito\n  </em>\n  is face-paced, mind-bending stuff, it''s a book for regular folks. Eagleman does a brilliant job refining heavy science into a compelling read. He is a gifted writer." -_Houston Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA popularizer of impressive gustoâ€¦[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars.â€ â€“_N... _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If the conscious mindâ€”the part you consider to be youâ€”is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didnâ€™t think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant in 1916? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourselfâ€”who, exactly, is mad at whom?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions,\n  <em>\n   Incognito\n  </em>\n  is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4344'),
(18096, 'Inconceivable', 'Ben Elton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Whenever Sam thinks about babies, he envisages rivers of vomit and sleepless nights. But wife Lucy can''t walk past Mothercare without crying. What''s more, she can''t seem to conceive-not by traditional methods, anyway. Hippy confidante Drusilla suggests an array of New Age remedies, including the intimate use of nutmeg oil and al fresco lovemaking. As Lucy faces a possible verdict of infertility, her love for Sam enters tailspin, accelerated by the advent of arrogant actor Carl Phipps. Meanwhile Sam, desperate to escape his tedious BBC job, conceives the inconceivable-turning the intimacies of their battle for babies into an acclaimed movie script.  Inconceivable tells a poignant and heart-rending story with Elton''s trademark wit, creating a novel that is entertaining and emotionally satisfying; as explosive as Popcorn and with the incendiary humour of Blast From the Past. It courageously tackles its central theme from both the male and the female points of view, and while delivering laughs on every page, it steers clear of laddish clichÃ©s. Lucy''s tale, though pregnant with unfulfilled emotion, never stints on humour. "There seem", she fumes, "to be more urban myths attached to infertility than there are toâ€¦ film stars filling their bottoms with small animals."  Aside from the rich vein of gags about DIY conception (Sam has to leave a power lunch with the excuse: "Sorry, my wife is ovulatingâ€¦"), Elton also subjects the TV industry to relentless stand-up-style bombardment, giving birth to some brilliant asides, which enrich the main story but never overpower it. Funny, tragic, true and ultimately heart-warming, this book should be available on the National Health Service.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite their repeated efforts, Sam and Lucy Bell, the loving yet infertile protagonists of British comedian Elton''s (Popcorn) romantic comedy, cannot conceive a baby. When Lucy decides that their childlessness is at least partly due to the stress brought on by their efforts to conceive, she insists that they each keep diaries, to privately sort out their thoughts and emotions. The two diaries tell the story, with often hilariously divergent perspectives on the couple''s reproductive struggle. Yet sperm tests, full-moon "bonks" on Primrose Hill, annoying New Age home remedies and Lucy''s long-distance "adoption" of an endangered baby gorilla are not their only concerns. Sam, a frustrated would-be writer, is in the middle of a creative block, and he is also on the verge of losing his less-than-enthralling job as an executive at the BBC. Lucy, meanwhile, is being pursued romantically by a dashing but arrogant clientDshe''s a film agentDand against her wishes, Sam is secretly using their troubles and diaries as inspiration for the screenplay he is finally writing. Despite his betrayal, Sam remains sweetly endearing. Elton captures the spirit of the modern bloke and the confusion that arises from a desire to be sensitive to one''s partner''s emotional needs while fulfilling traditional expectations of manhood. Laced with hip, witty asides, this he-said she-said comedy handily overcomes a somewhat sluggish start and manages to be both touching and laugh-out-loud funny. The book may receive some attention via the film Maybe Baby, based on this novel, directed by Elton and released in Australia this past August. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trying to become pregnant can turn sex into an act of forced labor and drudgery. Fortunately, talents like the U.K.''s Elton can turn it all on its head to create a laughing-out-loud novel in which Lucy, using thermometers, New Age remedies, and specimen jars, "keeps trying," and husband Sam, who''s a BBC executive, "keeps going along with it all." As this marital tragicomedy unfolds, readers are made privy to the couple''s alternating diary entries, thus seeing them as they see each other and themselves, all too often a most incongruent mix. Though married for more than a decade, these two, like so many couples, seem to know precious little about each other and even less about themselves. Lucy''s demands almost drive Sam insane, and the stress of "trying" eventually strains their marriage until they hilariously and hurtfully betray each other. Elton strives for a balance between tearful poignancy and belly laughs, and, happily, often succeeds in this clever, entertaining, and timely novel.\n  <em>\n   Whitney Scott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4575'),
(18097, 'Incredible iPhone Apps for Dummies', 'Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A full-color directory of must-have iPhone and iPod touch apps!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The App Store allows you to browse and download thousands of applications that were developed with the iPhone SDK and published through Apple. The popularity of iPhone and iPod touch apps is exploding and this handy guide helps you sort through the tens of thousands of available apps so you can find the ones that are ideal for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with tips and tricks on how to make the most of each app, this book escorts you through a vast selection of apps and then helps you narrow down the most essential and most entertaining apps for your needs and interests. You''ll encounter amazing apps in business, education, entertainment, finance, cooking, nutrition, games, healthcare, news, music, social networking, news, weather, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Helps you sort through the tens of thousands of available apps for the iPhone and iPod touch so you can find whatâ€™s right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares unique tips and tricks for making the most of the apps that appeal to you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you a variety of apps in the fields of weather, news, photography, cooking, entertainment, business, education, healthcare, social networking, sports, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Presents information in the straightforward but fun language that defines the\n  <em>\n   For Dummies\n  </em>\n  series\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Incredible iPhone Apps For Dummies\n </em>\n , you''ll discover how to have fun, get more done, and make the most of your iPhone or iPod touch.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dizzy from too many iPhone apps? Let Dr. Mac find the ones you can''t live without!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With over 100,000 apps and counting, the App Store can be mind-boggling. This handy guide gives you the scoop on oodles of must-have apps along with tips on how to make the most of each one. From Mac guru Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, it''s the perfect companion to help you have fun, get more done, and make the most of your iPhone or iPod touch.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hide and seek â€” uncover the most essential and entertaining gems in the App Store\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More for your money â€” discover which apps are worth the price and when free is fabulous\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Feed your needs â€” find the best apps to indulge your interests, from entertainment to sports to music and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An apple a day â€” stay on track each day with apps for weather, news, health, fitness, and productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cook up fun â€” with apps for cooking, travel, games, and photography\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on which apps give you the most bang for your buck\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apps to keep you connected on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best games to play alone or with your friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on apps to boost your productivity at work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which apps are ideal for reading e-books\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   First-rate apps for photo-editing and sharing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten cool things to go with your apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 50 fantastic apps that are absolutely free\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dr. Mac''s prescription for the ultimate iPhone or iPod touch experience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apps for sports fans, book buffs, fitness fanatics, foodies, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool accessories to go along with your apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1672'),
(18098, 'InDesign CS2 for Dummies', 'Barbara Assadi &amp; Galen Gruman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significant inroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major media companies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it is now the only desktop publishing program taught at many art schools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows graphic designers how to get up to speed quickly on the latest InDesign release, make the most of program tools, create great page designs, add sparkle, and output to a variety of media\n </li>\n <li>\n  The authors, both Quark experts who''ve converted to InDesign, offer special tips and insights to Quark users who are making (or thinking of making) the switch to InDesign\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Design perfect pages with WindowsÂ® or Mac OSÂ® X\n</p>\n<p>\n Get up to speed and make the switch to InDesign quickly and easily\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re starting from scratch or migrating from another page layout program, you''ll appreciate this plain-English guide to InDesign CS2. It walks you through all the essential information about handling graphics, text, objects, and the printing process, plus a thing or two about designing eye-catching publications. You''ll be "in" before you know it!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and lay out a publication\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and apply Master Pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create text frames, picture frames, and lines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set preferences to streamline your work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare files for printing\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1673'),
(18099, 'InDesign CS3 for Dummies', 'Galen Gruman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with the latest InDesign tips and techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The secrets of InDesign page layout - explained in plain English!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPressÂ®? No worries - this easy-to-follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you''ll design and output like a pro every time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up a new publication\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and use master pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add frames, lines, and colors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage chapters and books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Output your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import and place pictures\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with the latest InDesign tips and techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The secrets of InDesign page layout â€” explained in plain English!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPressÂ®? No worries â€” this easy-to-follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you''ll design and output like a pro every time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a new publication\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and use master pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add frames, lines, and colors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage chapters and books\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Output your files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Import and place pictures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1674'),
(18100, 'InDesign CS4 for Dummies', 'Galen Gruman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...explains everything in easily understood, bit-sized chunks (excellent)...It''ll take you from a standing start to a position of relative confidence..." (Mac User, February 27th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n InDesign is the preferred graphic design software, and InDesign CS4 is loaded with cool new desktop publishing features.\n <em>\n  InDesign CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use every one!\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re an experienced designer or just want to create a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, youâ€™ll benefit from Galen Grumanâ€™s guidance. This desktop publishing expert shows you how to navigate InDesign menus, dialog boxes, panels, and panes; streamline your work with templates; prepare your creations for printing or online publication, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explore the new tools, work with the application frame, and set preferences for the way you work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to open and save documents and export content\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with the Pages panel, apply Master Pages, and work with Layers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of color with color libraries, multi-ink colors, spot versus process color, and gradients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create layout guidelines and use color swatches for consistency\n </li>\n <li>\n  Streamline text formatting by using styles and treat text as a graphic element\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design for the Web with hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and Flash files\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how InDesign CS4 works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover why good design is part science and part art and learn to manipulate, organize, and align design objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of tips for cropping and positioning graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting tools\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  InDesign CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n also offers great advice for designing pages that do their job perfectly. Start creating today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1675'),
(18101, 'Index Investing for Dummies', 'Russell Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A recommended, proven way to broaden portfolios and profits\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommended by finance experts and used extensively by institutional investors, index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provide unmanaged, diversified exposure to a variety of asset classes.\n <em>\n  Index Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n shows active investors how to add index investments to their portfolios and make the most of their money, while protecting their assets. It features plain-English information on the different types of index funds and their advantage over other funds, getting started in index investing, using index funds for asset allocation, understanding returns and risk, diversifying among fund holdings, and applying winning strategies for maximum profit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Broaden your portfolio and your profits with this plain-English guide\n</p>\n<p>\n Interested in index funds? Want to invest your money wisely? This plain-English guide explains a recommended, proven way to use index investments to build a well-diversified,low-cost portfolio. Whether you''re a conservative or aggressive investor, you''ll see how to find the right funds that provide healthy long-term returns â€” and stay afloat in tough economic times.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What are index funds, anyway? â€” learn how index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds work and their advantages over other funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your index fund choices â€” from stocks and bonds to commodities and real estate, understand the risks and rewards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the right investing moves â€” discover your investing style, your connection to the market, and your long-term financial needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your portfolio blueprint â€” decide how many funds you need, where to house them, and whether to mix index funds with other investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your money wisely â€” disaster-proof your portfolio, correct your mistakes, and get help from the pros if you need it (but tread carefully!)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure happy returns â€” see how to maintain a smooth-running, age-appropriate, profitable portfolio for years to come\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear explanations of index funds â€” and why they work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to avoid the temptation to beat the markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluations of popular index funds â€” the best and the worst\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample portfolios, from conservative to aggressive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lists of index mutual funds and ETFs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Web resources that help you stay up-to-date\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A Q&amp;A with John Bogle, founder of Vanguard\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1676'),
(18102, 'Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri &amp; John Ciardi &amp; Archibald T. Macallister &amp; Edward M. Cifelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The timeless classic of a journey through the horrors of hell The action adventure blockbuster that''s rocking the video game world All hell is breaking loose. Electronic Arts'' thrilling video game Dante''s Inferno has exploded on the scene and this book provides unique insight into its creation. Go back to the source with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow''s celebrated translation of Dante''s epic poem. Presented here in its entirety, the poem provides the original foundation and inspiration for the game. Then learn the game''s creators turned the Dante''s notorious Nine Circles of Hell into the hottest game around.  In sixteen pages of stunning art, you''ll discover how the monsters and characters--from King Minos and Cerberus to Lucifer himself--evolved from their classic images to the darkest creatures in damnation, and witness how the environments fashioned by the game''s creators bring the tortured netherworld of absolute evil to hideous life. In addition, Executive Producer Jonathan Knight shares intriguing details about the process of adapting Dante''s masterpiece into this epic videogame in a fascinating introduction written exclusively for this book. Welcome to Hell--let the nightmares begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(18103, 'Infertility for Dummies', 'Sharon Perkins Rn &amp; Jackie Meyers-thompson &amp; Richard Paulson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you having problems becoming pregnant? Youâ€™re not alone; over 7.2 million Americans are facing the same challenges of infertility. Though some non-experts say that itâ€™s all a matter of relaxation or taking medication, you need clear, straightforward, and trustworthy answers from healthcare professionals without feeling insulted, humiliated, or scared.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with compassion as well as professional knowledge,\n <em>\n  Infertility for Dummies\n </em>\n combines comfort and expertise to walk you through your journey to becoming pregnant. This plain-English guide explains how infertility affects both men and women, while covering the latest treatments. It covers all key areas, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determining if you are infertile\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making healthy pre-conception lifestyle changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding the male and female anatomy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Techniques for timing your conception\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different ways to diagnose infertility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dealing with early pregnancy loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding the right doctor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different types of alternative insemination\n </li>\n <li>\n  New advances and concerns in infertility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improving your chances of conceiving\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Infertility for Dummies\n </em>\n includes strategies for dealing with family and friends â€” what to expect from them, how to deal with inappropriate comments, and understanding that they are just trying to help. This book also provides the names and profiles of fertility medications and where you can find them.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for boosting fertility and timing it right\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the facts, get a diagnosis, and get the help you need\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Having trouble becoming pregnant? Don''t despair. This compassionate, plain-English guide explains the hows and whys of infertility for both women and men and covers the latest low- and high-tech treatments. You''ll understand the latest advances in fertility medicine and the pros and cons, as well as how to stay positive and support your partner.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determine if you are infertile\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the right doctor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate treatment costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide if IVF is for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your chances of conceiving\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your relationship healthy\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1677'),
(18104, 'Infinite Jest', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy,\n  <strong>\n   Infinite Jest\n  </strong>\n  bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace''s brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace''s story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent of anti-O.N.A.N.ist terrorism by Quebecois separatists; drug problems are widespread; the Northeastern continent is a giant toxic waste dump; and CD-like "entertainment cartridges" are the prevalent leisure activity. The novel hinges on the dysfunctional family of E.T.A.''s founder, optical-scientist-turned-cult-filmmaker Dr. James Incandenza (aka Himself), who took his life shortly after producing a mysterious film called Infinite Jest, which is supposedly so addictively entertaining as to bring about a total neural meltdown in its viewer. As Himself''s estranged sons?professional football punter Orin, introverted tennis star Hal and deformed naif Mario?come to terms with his suicide and legacy, they and the residents of Ennet House become enmeshed in the machinations of the wheelchair-bound leader of a Quebecois separatist faction, who hopes to disseminate cartridges of Infinite Jest and thus shred the social fabric of O.N.A.N. With its hilarious riffs on themes like addiction, 12-step programs, technology and waste management (in all its scatological implications), this tome is highly engrossing?in small doses. Yet the nebulous, resolutionless ending serves to underscore Wallace''s underlying failure to find a suitable novelistic shape for his ingenious and often outrageously funny material.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(18105, 'Inhabitant of the State', 'Andrei Platonov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3940'),
(18106, 'Initials Only', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4024'),
(18107, 'Inked Girls Magazine', 'November-December 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10846'),
(18108, 'Inked Sexy Tattoos Magazine', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10649'),
(18109, 'Inkscape', 'Tavmjong Bah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4221'),
(18110, 'Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know', 'Alexandra Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs -- from the dog''s point of view. As a dog owner, Horowitz is naturally curious to learn what her dog thinks about and knows. And as a scientist, she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot speak for themselves.In clear, crisp prose, Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs'' perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What''s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What''s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees?Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprising -- once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research -- on dogs'' detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention -- that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do.The relationship between dogs and humans is arguably the most fascinating animal-human bond because dogs evolved from wild creatures to become our companions, an adaptation that changed their bodies, brains, and behavior. Yet dogs always remain animals, familiar but mysterious. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4179'),
(18111, 'Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know', 'Alexandra Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs -- from the dog''s point of view. As a dog owner, Horowitz is naturally curious to learn what her dog thinks about and knows. And as a scientist, she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot speak for themselves.In clear, crisp prose, Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs'' perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What''s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What''s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees?Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprising -- once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research -- on dogs'' detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention -- that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do.The relationship between dogs and humans is arguably the most fascinating animal-human bond because dogs evolved from wild creatures to become our companions, an adaptation that changed their bodies, brains, and behavior. Yet dogs always remain animals, familiar but mysterious. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4424'),
(18112, 'Inside Out: A Novel', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Torture.  Ghost detainees.  And a massive cover-up that continues even today.  This is the propulsive thriller that only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could write.  Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben''s release: Find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben''s unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.  But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He''ll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle â€“ everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Barry Eisler on\n   <em>\n    Inside Out\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black ops soldier Ben Treven is back, and I have to tell you, I love what heâ€™s been up to.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What really fires me up about\n  <em>\n   Inside Out\n  </em>\n  --apart from the characters, the action, and (naturally) the sex--is the timeliness and relevance of the story. The ninety-two interrogation videos the CIA confessed last year to destroying, and which form the foundation for the bookâ€™s plot, are back in the news now, as independent prosecutor John Durham concludes his two-year obstruction of justice investigation. And the other subjects at the heart of\n  <em>\n   Inside Out\n  </em>\n  --torture, ghost detainees, renditions, the real nature of Americaâ€™s Establishment--continue to be the most profound and controversial political issues of the day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Various interviewers have asked me, "Do you really believe in the â€˜oligarchyâ€™ you write about?" Itâ€™s a strange question, suggesting as it does that the oligarchy is in the same category as, say, the Loch Ness Monster or UFOs. In fact, as one of the characters in the book explains, â€œThe oligarchy is right out in the open. Itâ€™s just a collection of people in business, politics, the military, and the media who recognize their interests are better served by cooperation than they would be by competition.â€ MIT professor and former IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson has written about the oligarchy in the\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  ; Matt Taibbi has written about it in\n  <em>\n   Rolling Stone\n  </em>\n  . After Enron, the subprime meltdown and bailout, the lax oversight of BP that led to the Gulf oil spill--to name just a few--youâ€™d have to be in fairly significant denial not to notice the oligarchyâ€™s insidious presence, if only by its disastrous effects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ve never written a book that so perfectly synthesizes my interests as a thriller writer and my concerns as a political blogger, or one that draws so heavily not just on my obsession with current events but on my background as a CIA intelligence officer. More than anything else,\n  <em>\n   Inside Out\n  </em>\n  is a reality-based thriller--as demonstrated by the list of sources and the bibliography I include at the end. Its emotional impact doesnâ€™t derive from Jack Bauer fantasies, but rather from real people caught up in the real political machinations of the day. For me, the most gripping thrillers are always the ones that hew most closely to reality, the ones that leave you feeling,\n  <em>\n   Good God, this could really be happening!\n  </em>\n  Thatâ€™s the kind of book I set out to write with\n  <em>\n   Inside Out\n  </em>\n  , and the kind of experience I think it delivers. I hope youâ€™ll enjoy it.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eisler''s rock-solid sequel to\n  <em>\n   Fault Line\n  </em>\n  finds black ops spy/assassin Ben Treven dealing with anger management problems that have landed him in a grim Filipino jail. To the rescue is his old boss, Col. Scott Hort Horton, chief of Ben''s secret unit, the absurdly blandly named Intelligence Support Activity. Hort tried to have Ben killed in the last book, but no matterâ€”in exchange for his release, Ben must hunt down fellow agent Daniel Larison, a rogue who''s demanding $100 million worth of uncut diamonds in exchange for 92 secret tapes showing extreme torture, instigated and sanctioned by the office of the U.S. vice president. Caught in this rapidly escalating disaster are various high-level government officials, all of whom are willing to do whatever it takes to keep the tapes from being revealed. The open ending promises to unite Ben with Eisler''s other series hero, John Rain, a matchup that should prove to be thriller gold for anxiously awaiting readers.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour. (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4629'),
(18113, 'Inside Scientology', 'Janet Reitman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n How is it that America''s most popular new religion is still its least understood? Janet Reitman sheds some long-awaited light on the ever-elusive faith organization, the Church of Scientology. Based on five years of research, access to confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is the first objective modern history of the notoriously secretive faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4212'),
(18114, 'InSt-uk-2011-10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7218'),
(18115, 'InStyle - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10691'),
(18116, 'Insurance for Dummies', 'Jack Hungelmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now updated â€” your guide to getting the best insurance policy\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you intimidated by insurance? Have no fear â€” this easy-to-understand guide explains everything you need to know, from getting the most coverage at the best price to dealing with adjusters, filing claims, and more. Whether you''re looking for personal or business insurance, you''ll see how to avoid common pitfalls, lower your costs, and get what you deserve at claim time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the basics â€” understand how to make good insurance decisions and reduce the chances of a financial loss in your life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your insurance on the road â€” manage your personal automobile risks, handle special situations, insure recreational vehicles, and deal with insurance adjusters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand homeowner''s and renter''s insurance â€” know what is and isn''t covered by typical policies, common exclusions and pitfalls, and how to cover yourself against personal lawsuits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy the right umbrella policy â€” discover the advantages, and coordinate your policies to cover the gaps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage life, health, and disability risks â€” explore individual and group policies, understand Medicare basics, and evaluate long-term disability and long-term-care insurance\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best life, health, home, and auto policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for handling the claims process to get what you deserve\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on adjusting your deductible to suit your lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to navigate healthcare policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to reduce your risk and your premiums\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common traps and loopholes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Considerations for grads, freelancers, and remote workers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Jack Hungelmann actually manages to make insurance interesting." â€” Janet Eian, Chief Administrative Officer, Endurant Business Solutions "Loaded with tips that can save buyers money." George Williams, CPCU, Editor-in-Chief, American Agent &amp; Broker magazine Praise for Insurance For DummiesÂ® "An indispensable walk through the insurance mazeâ€¦. The book[HTML_REMOVED]s true value lies in the prevention of heartaches, headaches, and potential insolvencyâ€¦. An invaluable resource." â€” Danelle J. Wolf, Owner, Wolf[HTML_REMOVED]s Wayzata Pharmacy, Inc. "You can[HTML_REMOVED]t afford not to read this now!" â€” Carmen Ellingson, Education Director, Minnesota Society of CPCU\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out what kind of insurance you need â€” before it[HTML_REMOVED]s too late\n</p>\n<p>\n Confused by insurance fine print? Relax! From deciding how much coverage you need to locating the best policies, insurance pro Jack Hungelmann shows you step-by-step how to get the right amount of protection at the best price. If you[HTML_REMOVED]re looking for savvy advice on any type of insurance â€” life, health, home, auto, you name it â€” this friendly guide is just the ticket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1678'),
(18117, 'Interiors Monthly', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10574');
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(18118, 'Intermediate Arabic for Dummies', 'Keith Massey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Looking to enhance your Arabic writing skills?\n <em>\n  Intermediate Arabic For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice writing the language like a native. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, youâ€™ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of Arabic style and usage that will have you writing in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, hands-on workbook starts with a helpful grammar review from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. It presents words and examples in both Arabic script and English transliteration. Youâ€™ll find tips for selecting the correct verbs and charts that provide conjugations of regular and irregular Arabic verbs, and end-of-chapter answer keys help you focus your studies. And, you can practice your Arabic writing right in the book. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Improve your written Arabic skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand Arabic style and usage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use numbers times and dates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read and write the Arabic alphabet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use fundamental Arabic grammar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate more effectively in Arabic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grasp essential differences in Arabic and English usage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Join clauses and form conditional sentences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the verbal noun and participles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write emails, personal letters, and other correspondence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conduct business effectively in Arabic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes in Arabic\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful English/Arabic and Arabic/English dictionaries and great hints for fine-tuning your Arabic,\n <em>\n  Intermediate Arabic For Dummies\n </em>\n is the tool you need to start improving your Arabic writing now!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From e-mails to personal letters to correspondence, write in Arabic with confidence!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to enhance your Arabic writing skills? This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you canpractice writing the language like a native. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you''ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of Arabic style and usage that will have you writing in no time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get back to basics â€” use numbers, times, and dates, and read and write the Arabic alphabet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand fundamental Arabic grammar â€” from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master Arabic verbs â€” learn all ten forms, spot the irregular verbs, create commands, use objects, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write like a native â€” grasp the essential differences in Arabic versus English language usage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put your writing skills to use â€” exercises and lessons get you up to speed and improving your Arabic right away\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice, practice, practice â€” plenty of room is provided for writing directly in the workbook!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jazz up your writing â€” join clauses, form conditional sentences, and use the verbal noun and participles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your Arabic on the road â€” communicate effectively when traveling or conducting business\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A helpful Arabic grammar review\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Arabic words and examples in both Arabic script and English transliteration\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for selecting the correct Arabic verbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Answer keys at the end of each chapter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   English-Arabic and Arabic-English dictionaries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Verb charts that provide conjugations of regular and irregular Arabic verbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most common Arabic writing mistakes to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for fine-tuning your Arabic\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1679'),
(18119, 'Intermediate German for Dummies', 'Wendy Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Need to brush up on your German?\n <em>\n  Intermediate German For Dummies\n </em>\n is your key to success in becoming confident in both written and spoken German. It gives you the straight talk and nitty-gritty detail that will see you successfully through any major or minor roadblocks to communicating in German.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, hands-on workbook is loaded with practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, youâ€™ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of German style and usage that will have you writing and speaking in no time. Plus, youâ€™ll find multiple charts that provide conjugations for all types of German verbs. Youâ€™ll get up to speed with German grammar, master essential differences between German and English language usage, and be able to communicate effectively when traveling or conducting business. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use fundamental German grammar, from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select and conjugate German verbs correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the importance of grammatical gender in German\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid the most common writing mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use numbers and express dates and times\n </li>\n <li>\n  Name countries and nationalities in German\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expand your German vocabulary exponentially\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get comfortable with the subjunctive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine verbs with confidence and competence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re heading to any German-speaking country, sharpen your German-language skills the fun and easy way with\n <em>\n  Intermediate German For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Plenty of room to practice skills with exercises right in the workbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From letters to e-mails to postcards, write in German with confidence\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to enhance your German writing skills? This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you''ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of German style and usage that will have you writing in no time. Plus, you''ll find multiple charts that provide the conjugations for all types of German verbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use fundamental German grammar â€” from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the correct German verbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the importance of grammatical gender in German\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid the most common writing mistakes in German\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1680'),
(18120, 'Intermediate Italian for Dummies', 'Daniela Gobetti &amp; Cristiana Mora Thielmann &amp; Chiara Marchelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take your Italian skills to the next level the fun and easy way with\n <em>\n  Intermediate Italian For Dummies\n </em>\n ! This practical, easy-to-follow guide will help you to be more fluent and comfortable in your Italian writing.Â Youâ€™ll learn key concepts, practice what youâ€™ve learned, and check your answers. With the exercises and lessons featured in this book, you will be able master written communication in Italian.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll quickly understand the basics of Italian grammar and pick up on the nuances of this romantic language. Youâ€™ll learn how to conjugate verbs, navigate tenses, and feel comfortable with gendered words. Say and spell words correctly, and no one will be able to tell that youâ€™re not a native Italian. Youâ€™ll discover the basics of ordering words, answering questions, and forming complete sentences. Youâ€™ll be able to master parts of speech and apply articles as needed. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate grammar, language nuances, and verb tenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate verbs and understand the basics of gender\n </li>\n <li>\n  Say and spell words correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Order words correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Answer questions and form complete sentences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use articles where necessary\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the various parts of speech\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write and speak Italian like a native\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten facts to remember about Italian grammar and ten subtle terminology distinctions,\n <em>\n  Intermediate Italian\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to taking your Italian skills to the next level and improving upon what you already know about this widely spoken language.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Plenty of room to practice skills with exercises right in the workbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From e-mails to personal letters and correspondence, write in Italian with confidence\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to enhance your Italian writing skills? This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice writing the language like a native. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you''ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of Italian style and usage that will have you writing in no time. Plus, you''ll find an appendix of verb charts that provides conjugations of regular and irregular Italian verbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use fundamental Italian grammar â€” from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the correct Italian verbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the importance of grammatical gender in Italian\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid the most common writing mistakes in Italian\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1681'),
(18121, 'Intermediate Spanish for Dummies', 'Gail Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Dummies series is deservedly popular...It is packed with practical and informative lessons and reviews to develop Spanish skills."Â  (_Spain Magazine_, February 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Need to brush up on your Spanish?\n <em>\n  Intermediate Spanish For Dummies\n </em>\n is your key to success in building your writing skills and bolstering your confidence. It gives you the straight talk and nitty-gritty detail that will see you successfully through any major or minor roadblocks to communicating in Spanish.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, hands-on workbook is loaded with practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, youâ€™ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of Spanish style and usage that will have you writing like a native in no time. Plus, youâ€™ll find multiple charts that provide conjugations for all types of Spanish verbs. Youâ€™ll get up to speed with Spanish grammar, master essential differences between Spanish and English language usage, and be able to communicate effectively when traveling or conducting business. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use fundamental Spanish grammar, from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select and conjugate Spanish verbs correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the importance of grammatical gender in Spanish\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid the most common writing mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use numbers and express dates and times\n </li>\n <li>\n  Name countries and nationalities in Spanish\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expand your Spanish vocabulary exponentially\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get comfortable with the subjunctive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine verbs with confidence and competence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Sharpen your Spanish-language skills the fun and easy way with\n <em>\n  Intermediate Spanish For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1682'),
(18122, 'Intermediate Statistics for Dummies', 'Deborah Rumsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "style, language, layout,common sense, Minitab output, dire warnings,practicalities,examples,punchy headings and warmth of humour..." (_MSOR Connections_, Vol 8 No 1)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Need to know how to build and test models based on data?\n <em>\n  Intermediate Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the knowledge to estimate, investigate, correlate, and congregate certain variables based on the information at hand. The techniques youâ€™ll learn in this book are the same techniques used by professionals in medical and scientific fields.\n</p>\n<p>\n Picking up right where\n <em>\n  Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n left off, this straightforward, easy-to-follow book guides you beyond Central Limit Theorem and hypothesis tests and immerses you in flavors of regression, ANOVA, and nonparametric procedures. Unlike regular statistics books, this guide provides full explanations of intermediate statistical ideas; computer input dissection; an extensive number of examples, tips, strategies, and warnings; and clear, concise step-by-step proceduresâ€”all in a language you can understand. Youâ€™ll soon discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Analyze data and base models off of your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make predictions using regression\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare many means with ANOVA\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test models using Chi-square\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dealing with abnormal data\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, this book includes a list of wrong statistical conclusions and common questions that professors ask using computer output. This book also adopts a nonlinear approach, making it possible to skip to the information you need without having to read previous chapters. With\n <em>\n  Intermediate Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll have all the tools you need to make important decisions in all types of professional areasâ€”from biology and engineering to business and politics!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1683'),
(18123, 'Internet Explorer Construction Kit for Dummies', 'Clayton Walnum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve heard the saying, â€œIf you want something done right, do it yourself.â€ Actually, most Internet browsers are done right. Chances are, youâ€™re comfortable with yours. Yet, you may want to build your own. You donâ€™t have to start from scratchâ€”you can start with the Browser Construction Kit on the CD-ROM that comes with\n <em>\n  Internet Explorer Construction Kit for Dummies.\n </em>\n Best of all, thereâ€™s no programming required.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you personalize your browser or build one just for your business, you can include features and functions not available with traditional browsers, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Log file: a list of all Web sites visited\n </li>\n <li>\n  Alarm: an audible or popup alarm that signals the end of the time period used with the countdown timer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lock: prevents the custom browser from further browsing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Approved list: list of Web sites to which browsing is limited\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spy: screen captures taken once a minute\n </li>\n <li>\n  Popular sites: a list of the most-visited sites\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You can make your browser G-rated. Thatâ€™s great if you have curious kids and are concerned about adult sites and Internet safety or simply want to limit their browsing time. The ability to limit access to specific sites also comes in handy if you own a business and want customers in your store to be able to browse your online catalog, but not to comparison shop!\n</p>\n<p>\n Written (and more importantly, programmed) by Clayton Walnum, author of\n <em>\n  Standard C++Bible\n </em>\n and many other computer books,\n <em>\n  Internet Explorer Construction Kit For Dummies\n </em>\n takes you step-by-step through:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Adding borders to give your browser a graphical theme\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using window skin to add an image to your windowâ€™s background\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the bar scene â€”assembling the toolbar, designing the menu bar, pulling together the status bar, and customizing the address bar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating buttons and icons\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition to your Browser Construction Kit, the bonus CD-ROM includes several sample projects you can create, sample graphics for creating custom buttons and skins, and an evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro8 so you can get down to work. You even have everything you need to create a browser with themed graphics, choosing from animal, art, music, sea, sports, or more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Have fun creating your own personalized, custom-built browser. That way, it will be done just right for you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Personalize your browser or build one just for your business\n</p>\n<p>\n Create a G-rated browser for your kids or one geared toward your hobbies\n</p>\n<p>\n Think you can build a better browser than those big guys? Go for it! You don''t need a degree in programming, just these easy-to-follow instructions and the tools on the CD-ROM. Make your browser reflect your personality, get rid of things that slow you down, keep the kids from browsing off-limits, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover How To:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize toolbars, status bars, and menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Personalize the look with graphics and skins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a special-topic browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Limit access to protect children online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track online time and sites visited\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1684'),
(18124, 'The Internet for Dummies', 'John R. Levine &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Carol Baroudi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Now updated to cover the latest browsers, including Internet Explorer 7 and the newest version of Firefox\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Packed with new information on the latest Internet trends, including talking over the Internet using Skype, having fun on MySpace, building a simple Web page, sharing photos on Flickr, and posting and viewing videos on YouTube\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Includes coverage of browsers, search engines, music and video sites, shopping, financial services, file downloads, e-mail, instant messaging, viruses, spam, and creating a personal Web site or blog\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2101'),
(18125, 'The Internet GigaBook for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka &amp; Tony Bove &amp; Mark L. Chambers &amp; Marsha Collier &amp; Brad Hill &amp; John R. Levine &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Doug Lowe &amp; Camille Mccue &amp; Deborah S. Ray &amp; Eric J. Ray &amp; Cheryl Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get connected, get clicking, and get what you need from the Internet, whether thatâ€™s answers from Google, bargains from E-bay, music from iTunes, or merchandise from the thousands of shopping sites.\n <em>\n  The Internet Gigabook For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies\n </em>\n has almost 900 pages jam-packed with information, how-tos, tips, techniques, advice, and short-cuts to help you use the Internet for all itâ€™s worth! Whether youâ€™re an experienced Web surfer or just daring to get your feet wet for the first time, youâ€™ll discover how to get the most from the Internet\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n its most popular sites with information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The basicsâ€”everything from installation to browsing, navigation, and setting up your e-mail account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Googlingâ€”searching for information, photographs, newsgroups, bargains, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Yahooingâ€” searching, mail, shopping, chatting, playing games, doing financial research, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buying and selling on eBayâ€”finding collectables, hard-to-find items, and bargains; bidding, buying, and paying online; and selling your own trash and treasures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making beautiful music together with iTunesâ€”buying and playing music, burning CDs, organizing your music collection with playlists, and even editing on your iPod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating your own Web Pagesâ€”building your first site, including the essentials and working with HTML, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, posting your Web site, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Edited by Peter Weverka, author of many\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books,\n <em>\n  The Internet Gigabook For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies\n </em>\n includes information culled from eight\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books. Itâ€™s like a greatest-hits collection! Even experienced surfers will discover some new tricks such as how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use Yahoo! Finance to get stock quotes, do financial research, and create an online portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Instant Messaging with AOL, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo! Messenger\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop Google Catalogs or use Froogle for online comparison shopping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use advanced techniques and bidding strategies to help you win in eBay auctions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Yahoo! People Search to find old friends. search Yahoo! Personals to find true romance (or someone semi-compatible). place your own personal ad, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google News to scan the headlines, search for specific topics, follow related links to go in-depth, or track a story over time\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re new to the Internet and want to learn how to set up your e-mail or have a great e-tail idea and want to set up an online business, this Gigabook, complete with an in-depth index, helps you get GigaValue from your online experience.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything you need to get GigaValue from your online experience\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Broad assortment of topics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy tabs to mark favorite spots\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Special "Check It Out" features\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Search with Googleâ„¢, shop on eBay, download music, build a Web site â€“ hereâ€™s how!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet is a big placeâ€“and this is a big book! Inside youâ€™ll find advice, answers, and guidance from some of the top authorities on Google, Yahoo!, eBay, iTunes, and every aspect of the Web. From sending your first e-mail to setting up an online business, The Internet GigaBook For Dummies shows you how.\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t worry about losing your place in this supersized reference; mark those helpful instructions with one of the handy tabs youâ€™ll find in the front of the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2102'),
(18126, 'The Internet Is a Playground', 'David Thorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world''s leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue account with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne''s hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne''s razor-sharp writings, compiled here, say something about everyday life we can all relate to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4153'),
(18127, 'The Internet Is a Playground', 'David Thorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world''s leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue account with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne''s hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne''s razor-sharp writings, compiled here, say something about everyday life we can all relate to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4413'),
(18128, 'Interview With the Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The time is now.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the ThÃ©Ã¢tre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(18129, 'Into the Wild', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer''s book tries to answer. While it doesn''tâ€”cannotâ€”answer the question with certainty,\n  <em>\n   Into the Wild\n  </em>\n  does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless''s "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner''s writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams."\n  <em>\n   Into the Wild\n  </em>\n  shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book''s end, McCandless isn''t merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won''t soon forget Christopher McCandless.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men''s Journal, retraces McCandless''s ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless''s death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(18130, 'The Inverted World', 'Christopher Priest &amp; John Clute (Introduction)', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  When Helward Mann leaves the city of Earth, he has no reason to believe that the world that lies beyond the walls could be anywhere but his home planet. Indeed, despite similarities, there is evidence which he cannot ignoreÂ â€” that slowly betrays all his preconceptions.\n  <br />\n  Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1975.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Priest''s reissued novel\n  <em>\n   Inverted World\n  </em>\n  presents the reader with a city surrounded by high walls and a populace unaware that the entire polis sits upon tracks, pulled by a giant winch in order to stay ahead of a crushing, slowly moving gravity field...You feel the kind of surprise and exhilaration here that you do when a magician reveals (though they''re not supposed to) the simple method behind an illusion." --_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "... his well-crafted books play fun tricks on the reader. In this devilishly entertaining 1974 novel, Priest tells of a city called Earth that must perpetually move on rails to escape its hyperboloid planet''s oppressive gravity." --_Time Out New York_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A somber psychedelic journey through a landscape that seems a collaboration between Breugel the Elder and M.C. Escher, Priest''s book is an engine of epiphany, and a formal marvel: a narrative in the exact shape of the conundrum it presents." -Jonathan Lethem\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book shows us a community plunged into ignorance, trying to understand its place. You finish this novel appreciating our culture''s efforts to protect its collective memories and also worried that everything we take for granted can easily be lost." --_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The most famous book from those days,\n  <em>\n   Inverted World\n  </em>\n  ...upended existence, revealed a planet to be infinite, in a finite universe; between its poles, pressure warped every dimension of the body." â€”_Guardian_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The author has created a unique and original world." -_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A marvellous thought experiment." â€”_The Independent_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Inverted World_ will be remembered for many years, I would guess, as one of the few science fiction novels of the 1970s to come up with a new idea." -_Foundation_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Inverted World_ reads like a classic science fiction book--the physical concepts of the world in which it takes place are filled with a sense of wonder." -_San Francisco Signal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A science fiction mystery story about a world whose ''secret'' is as incredible, but as acceptable, to its readers as it is to its characters --which if you think about it is one of the highest compliments a critic can pay to a novel. A well-structured, finely written, mature narrative that is very compelling and thoroughly entertaining. It is a ''must''."-_Luna Monthly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A marvelous thought experiment in which our familiar spherical world is replaced by a hyperboloid one. Rudy Rucker is equally known for his arithmetically generated science-fiction novels." -_Independent_ on Sunday\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The story is among those seldom found, incredibly readable narratives that the reader aches to continue reading." -_Jersey Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the trickiest and most astonishing twist endings in modern SF." â€”_Tribune_ (London)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the cityâ€™s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the â€œoptimumâ€ into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death.\n  <br />\n  The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crÃ¨ches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum.\n  <br />\n  Helward Mann is a member of the cityâ€™s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the cityâ€™s continued existence. But the worldâ€”he is about to discoverâ€”is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6349'),
(18131, 'Investing for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction. Part I: Investing Fundamentals. Chapter 1: Exploring Your Investment Choices. Chapter 2: Weighing Risks and Returns. Chapter 3: Getting Your House in Order before You Invest. Part II: Stocks, Bonds, and Wall Street. Chapter 4: The Workings of Stock and Bond Markets. Chapter 5: Building Wealth with Stocks. Chapter 6: Investigating and Purchasing Individual Stocks. Chapter 7: Exploring Bonds and Other Lending Investments. Chapter 8: Mastering Mutual Funds. Chapter 9: Choosing a Brokerage Firm. Part III: Get ting Rich with Real Estate. Chapter 10: Investing in a Home. Chapter 11: Investing in Real Estate. Chapter 12: Real Estate Financing and Deal Making. Part IV: Savoring Small Business. Chapter 13: Assessing Your Appetite for Small Business. Chapter 14: Starting and Running a Small Business. Chapter 15: Purchasing a Small Business. Part V: Investing Resources. Chapter 16: Selecting Investing Resources. Chapter 17: Perusing Periodicals, Radio, and Television. Chapter 18: Selecting the Best Investment Books. Chapter 19: Investigating Internet and Software Resources. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 20: Ten Investing Obstacles to Conquer. Chapter 21: Ten Things to Consider When You''re Selling an Investment. Chapter 22: Ten T ips for Investing in a Down Market. Index.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Become a savvy investor with this updated\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take charge of your financial future? This national bestselling guide has been thoroughly updated to provide you with the latest insights into smart investing, from weighing your investment options (such as stocks, real estate, and small business) to understanding risks and returns, managing your portfolio, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get time-tested investment advice -- expert author Eric Tyson shares his extensive knowledge and reveals how to invest in challenging markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover all the fundamentals of investing -- explore your investment choices, weigh risks and returns, choose the right investment mix, and protect your assets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate Wall Street -- understand the financial markets and the Federal Reserve, avoid problematic buying practices, and evaluate investment research\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build wealth with stocks, bonds, and mutual funds -- use indexes, understand prices, minimize costs, and diversify your investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get rich with real estate -- find the right property, evaluate the market, finance your investments, work with agents, and close the deal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Start, buy, or invest in a business -- write a business plan, finance your business, and improve profitability\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage college and retirement savings accounts -- establish your goals, evaluate your investment options, and tame your taxes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recommendations on the best stock, bond, and money market funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best times to buy and sell stocks and bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on exchange-traded and hedge funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for reading and analyzing financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best online brokers\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to make safe and profitable real estate investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  A wealth of information on the best investment tools and resources\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1686'),
(18132, 'Investing for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Revised and updated to keep up with the rapidly changing world of investing, Investing For Dummies, Fourth Edition is back and more informative than ever. A Wall Street Journal bestseller, this friendly guide has helped tens of thousands of Americans get into stock investing without risking their shirts. This trustworthy, no-nonsense guide shows readers how to be their own investment expertâ€“even in a down marketâ€“and helps them get the most from retirement accounts such as 401(k)s and IRAs. Readers will learn how to spot good and bad investments, how to tell hype from real information, how to maximize investment for college or other family expenses, and how to diversify their portfolio.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Addressing the questions and concerns of both new and seasoned investors in a positive, straightforward manner, Eric Tyson offers the basic advice novices need and the expert analysis experienced investors rely on. Plus, expanded information on a number of topics is included, such as how to recognize good and bad investing environments; tips on evaluating individual securities; advice on port-folio risk allocation; new investment products on the market; and the evolution of the Internet as an investment tool. As always, the Fourth Edition updates all the new tax laws and regulations that affect investing, and keeps up with the latest in technology and online trading. Investing For Dummies, Fourth Edition offers tried-and-true advice that every investor can use.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Eric Tyson is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance author, lecturer, and advisor. He is dedicated to teaching people to manage their money better. Eric is a former management consultant to businesses for which he helped improve operations and profitability. He has been involved in the investing markets in many capacities for more than three decades. In addition to investing in securities and mutual funds over recent decades, Eric has also successfully invested in real estate and started and managed his own business. He has counseled thousands of clients on a variety of investment quandaries and questions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An accomplished freelance personal finance writer, Eric is the author or co-author of numerous best-selling books including For Dummies books on Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Taxes, and Home Buying and is a syndicated columnist.Â Personal Finance for Dummies was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Business Book of the Year.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of national and local publications, including Newsweek, Kiplinger''s Personal Finance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line/Personal, and on NBC''s Today Show, ABC, CNBC, PBS''s Nightly Business Report, CNN, CBS national radio, Bloomberg Business Radio, National Public Radio, and Business Radio Network. He''s also been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1687'),
(18133, 'Investing in an Uncertain Economy for Dummies', 'Sheryl Garrett &amp; Lastgarrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Investing in an Uncertain Economy For Dummies provides investors with focused, individualized investment strategies that enable them to conquer indecision and protect and strengthen their current financial holdings. With advice from 200 top independent financial advisors, empowered readers can make effective asset allocation decisions in the face of volatile markets.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Protect and strengthen your financial holdings during troubled economic times\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make the right investment decisions in an uncertain market? This concise, practical guide gives you smart, actionable strategies for saving your money and meeting both your short- and long-term financial goals. You''ll see how to safely accumulate wealth, consolidate and protect gains, and make the best investment allocations in troubling times.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your finances in shape â€” manage debt, assess your insurance, improve your credit score, and create a safety net\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand investment vehicles and accounts â€” from money markets and annuities to mutual and exchange-traded funds to stocks, bonds, commodities, IRAs, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make effective asset allocation decisions â€” know your risk tolerance, diversify your holdings, and rebalance your assets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save for retirement â€” provide for potential long-term care expenses, allocate your assets, and minimize your portfolio risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Live on your investment earnings â€” make Social Security work for you, get the most from your pension, take stock of your IRAs, use your taxable investments, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take care of others â€” help adult children or elderly parents with large expenses and see how to preserve your assets to pass on to your heirs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   80 strategies from top independent financial advisors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Focused, individualized investment strategies that work during the good times and the bad\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on building a conservative, moderate, or aggressive portfolio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to reduce your investment risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on rebalancing your assets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for acquiring undervalued investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods to make your money last throughout your retirement, even in the face of economic turmoil\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1688'),
(18134, 'Investing Online for Dummies', 'Matt Krantz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Investors are becoming a lot more independent these days. With the stock market sinking and soaring from day to day, retirement plans becoming less certain, and a longer life expectancy in retirement, more people are looking for some control over their investments. If youâ€™re one of them,\n <em>\n  Investing Online For Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n might be just what youâ€™re looking for.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet brings a world of investment resources to your desktop, but how do you find your way through the dizzying array of investment possibilities? The Dummies Way, of course! This book helps you set reasonable expectations, assess your risk tolerance, choose an asset allocation, analyze and select investments, and maximize your financial success. Youâ€™ll discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determine how much you can afford to invest\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose an online broker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Research, trade, and track investments online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure the potential return of a stock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your investment knowledge and build a profitable portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy bonds online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand options, commodities, and IPOs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve decided to take control of your investments but donâ€™t want to make it your full-time job,\n <em>\n  Investing Online For Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n gives you the important information that will also give you confidence. Completely updated to cover all the new online tools and resources, it even provides some bonus assistance on the companion Web site.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Research, trade, and track investments online\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take control of your investments, maximize investment knowledge, and build a profitable portfolio\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet brings a world of investment resources to your desktop, but how do you find your way through a dizzying array of investment possibilities? The Dummies Way, of course! This book helps you set reasonable expectations, assess your risk tolerance, choose an asset allocation, analyze and select investments, and maximize financial success.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine how much you can afford to invest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose an online broker\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enter and execute trades\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure the potential return of a stock\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy bonds online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand options, commodities, and IPOs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1689');
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(18135, 'Investing Online for Dummies', 'Kathleen Sindell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Investing Online for Dummies\n </em>\n is an invaluable resource for those who want to take advantage of the timely nature of the Internet for online investing. Author Kathleen Sindell covers all the bases for the online investor including setting up stock screens, selecting mutual funds, fishing for IPOs, and online banking and trading. This book is loaded with links to investment resources on the Internet and also includes a CD-ROM with demos of various investment tools and popular shareware programs. Highly recommended for online investors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Investing Online for Dummies" (1998). Beginner''s guide to conducting financial investments over the Internet. With advice about finding the right information sources and online brokerages, this primer is of value to computer novices as well as veteran Internet users who wish to begin investing online. This book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing helpful investment and finance software. --\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia Britannica Review, June 15, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Investing Online for Dummies" has it all and is filled with great recommendations -- and a few smart warnings-- about the world of online investment resource. --\n <em>\n  Suretrade.com, Book Reviews, Feb. 17, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n An ideal starter book. "Investing Online for Dummies" advises you on getting timely stock quotes 24 hours a day, finding savings and treasury securities information, paying low commissions, plus a whole lot more. --\n <em>\n  KSWB San Diego Television, Virtual Library: E-Commerce Books June 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Any investor who fails to take advantage of all of the information that is available through their computer is passing up some of the most amazing tools to help achieve financial success. However, one of the most difficult tasks for investors is sifting through all of the material on the Internet. This book ("Investing Online for Dummies") cuts through all of the clutter and puts you in touch with information that is useable and reliable.\n</p>\n<p>\n I have to admit it took me a long time to become comfortable with computers, the Internet, and the material that is available. Now it would be impossible for me to do my work as a journalist and investor without those tools.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like all "dummies" books, this one approaches its subject with a sense of humor. After all, we''re not talking about rocket science or brain surgery. Yet, the quality of the work is exceptional and no other book on online investing comes close to this one. --\n <em>\n  Money In the Morning, Investing for Rookies, February 5, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do it yourself investing. This can be complicated, but it can also be fascinating, empowering and profitable... Here are some books to get you started "Investing Online for Dummies", by Kathleen Sindell (IDG Books, 1999). You''ve read the book, visited your broker, now check out the Web. Sindell shows how to find all of the resources on the Web to develop and monitor your portfolio. --\n <em>\n  ABC.News.Com, The Laughing Stockbroker''s Guide to Investing, June 5, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t be fooled by the Dummies moniker, because investing is serious business, and\n <em>\n  Investing Online for Dummies\n </em>\n handles its subject with finesse. Readers can learn how to understand the real cost of mutual fund sales fees, where to obtain free downloadable retirement planners, and how to get investor information from mailing lists. The author has done her homework, and the book is enhanced with screen shots, tips, and charts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s some hard-learned advice. Smart investing requires both knowledge and time on the part of the investor, regardless of the financial stakes involved. If you are participating in any way with online investing, consider purchasing "Investing Online for Dummies" sooner rather than later. RECOMMENDED. --\n <em>\n  My Mac Online by John Nemerovski, BookBytes Book Reviews, June 1998\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Investing Online for Dummies is an invaluable resource for those who want to take advantage of the timely nature of the Internet for online investing. Author Kathleen Sindell covers all the bases for the online investor including setting up stock screens, selecting mutual funds, fishing for IPOs, and online banking and trading. This book is loaded with links to investment resources on the Internet and also includes a CD-ROM with demos of various investment tools and popular shareware programs. Highly recommended for online investors. --\n <em>\n  Online Investing, Trading Online, February 14, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of six newly released online investing books...the best of the lot is "Investing Online for Dummies, 2nd Edition" by Kathleen Sindell, which is full of solid advice and helpful Web hints. Sindell covers every area you need to worry about: financial planning, choosing mutual funds and stocks, and portfolio tracking. The book even includes a helpful section on bonds, a subject too often ignored by writers and investors. --\n <em>\n  BusinessWeek Online, BusinessWeek Review, May 14, 1999\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Speaking of beginning investors, here''s some recommended reading:\n <em>\n  Investing Online for Dummies\n </em>\n , by Kathleen Sindell. We spoke to Sindell this week about the wealth of resources available to average investors on the Web. Her book is full of good advice and great Web sites that can help you with everything from buying stocks and bonds to banking online. Give it a read. --\n <em>\n  The Money Machine with Carmine Gallo, InteractiveWeek Online, Avoid Trading Mistakes, June 15, 1998\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1690'),
(18136, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the plot of your\n  <em>\n   Invisible Monsters\n  </em>\n  , more than ably responds to this call to arms. Set once again in an all-too-familiar modern wasteland where social disease and self-hatred can do more damage than any potboiler-fiction bad guy, the tale focuses particularly on a group of drag queens and fashion models trekking cross-country to find themselves, looking everywhere from the bottom of a vial of Demerol to the end of a shotgun barrel. It''s a sort of\n  <em>\n   Drugstore Cowboy\n  </em>\n  -meets-_Yentl_ affair, or a Hope-Crosby road movie with a skin graft and hormone-pill obsession, if you know what I mean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Um, yeah. Anyway, the Hollywood vibe doesn''t stop these comparisons. As with\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  , the book is invested with a cinematic sweep, from the opening set piece, which takes off like a house afire (literally), to a host of filmic tics sprayed throughout the text: "Flash," "Jump back," "Jump way ahead," "Flash," "Flash," "Flash." You get the idea. It''s as if Palahniuk didn''t write the thing but yanked it directly out of the Cineplex of his mind''s eye. Does it succeed? Mostly. Still working on measuring out the proper dosages of his many writerly talents (equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness), Palahniuk every now and then loosens his grip on the story line, which at points becomes as hard to decipher as your local pill addict''s medicine cabinet. However\n  <em>\n   Invisible Monsters\n  </em>\n  works best on a roller-coaster level. You don''t stop and count each slot on the track as you''re going down the big hill. You throw up your hands and yell,\n  <em>\n   "Whee!"\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Bob Michaels\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk''s grotesque romp aims to skewer the ruthless superficiality of the fashion world and winds up with a tale as savagely glib as what it derides. Narrator Shannon McFarland, once a gorgeous fashion model, has been hideously disfigured in a mysterious drive-by shooting. Her jaw has been shot off, leaving her not only bereft of a career and boyfriend, but suddenly invisible to the world. Along comes no-nonsense, pill-popping diva Brandy Alexander, a resplendent, sassy, transgendered chick, who has modeled her body rearrangement--the breast implants, the hair, the figure--on what Shannon used to look like. Brandy suggests veils, high camp and no self-pity. Shannon wants revenge[...] Adding to the plot''s contrivances are the relentless flashbacks, heralded at the beginning of almost every paragraph with "Jump back to..." and the author''s pretentious device of using a fashion photographer''s commands ("Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break") to signpost the narrator''s epiphanies. Palahniuk writes like he''s overdosed on Details magazine. Though the absurd surprise ending may incite groans of disbelief, this book does have fun moments when campy banter tops the heroine''s flat, whiny bathos. (Sept.) FYI: The film of Palahniuk''s novel Fight Club will star Brad Pitt.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6192'),
(18137, 'iPad &amp; iPhone User - September/October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5884'),
(18138, 'The iPad Handbook - 2012 UK', '2012 UK-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5898'),
(18139, 'iPad.and.iPhone.User-November.2011.pdf 28-09-2011', 'iPad.and.iPhone.User-November.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6862'),
(18140, 'iPAQ for Dummies', 'Brian Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With an iPAQ in your pocket, you have a whole world of technology literally at your fingertips. The iPAQ is not only a PDA, itâ€™s also a Pocket PC. You can do almost anything on your iPAQ that you can do at home on your desktop computerâ€”if you know how to use all its really cool features. And there are so many of them!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iPAQ For Dummies\n </em>\n boils down all this complicated, amazing technology into understandable pieces. Whether youâ€™ve never used a Pocket PC before or youâ€™re just new to the iPAQ, this handy guide will help you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate the iPAQ interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the address book and calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule appointments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sync your iPAQ with your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create pocket spreadsheets, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n At the heart of iPAQâ€™s power is the new Windows Mobile 2003 operating system, with its improved security and network support, better Web browsing, and smoother synchronization for e-mail, calendars, and contacts.\n <em>\n  iPAQ For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use that power to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the menus, change your screen settings, and establish a password\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enter information into your iPAQ in various ways\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web, read e-mail and e-books, and download music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create documents and spreadsheets with the pocket versions of Word, Excel, and Money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your calendar, contacts, and â€œto doâ€ list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Entertain yourself with games while you wait for that appointment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit and display photos on your iPAQ, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You can even connect a GPS and all sorts of other cool add-ons to your iPAQ.\n <em>\n  iPAQ For Dummies\n </em>\n tells you the best choices, what they do, and how to use them. With an iPAQ in one hand and this book in the other, youâ€™ll be able to do things you never thought possible.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get organized with iPAQâ€™s power â€“ use Word, Excel, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Put your office, your music, e-mail, even the Web in your pocket!\n</p>\n<p>\n All that power in your pocket might be a little overwhelming, if you didnâ€™t have this friendly book to help you use it! From choosing the iPAQ model thatâ€™s right for you to surfing the Net and checking your e-mail, youâ€™ll find out how to get the most from the coolest toy on the block.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Keep your calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create pocket spreadsheets and manage money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sync your iPAQ with other devices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your contacts and address book\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write or record notes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1691'),
(18141, 'iPhone for Dummies', 'Edward C. Baig &amp; Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Congratulations! The iPhone you just bought is one heck of a wireless telephone, complete with a capable 2-megapixel digital camera. But itâ€™s way more than that: it''s also a gorgeous widescreen video iPod and the smallest, most powerful Internet communications device yet. So now that you''ve got it, what do you do with it? That''s where\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies\n </em>\n comes in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Appleâ€™s iPhone, puts the world virtually in your pocket. But because it does so much, thereâ€™s a lot to know about using it! This full-color guide shows you how to find and play music and videos; use the full-featured keyboard; get driving directions and stock quotes; send e-mail; take, browse, and organize photos; work with contacts and appointments â€” and even talk on the phone. You''ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Activate your own service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the multitouch interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn on the speaker phone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Visual Voicemail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get video, podcasts, and RSS feeds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web with your iPhone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse your iTunes library and create playlists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive text messages and notes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose wallpaper and ringtones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lock your iPhone and secure your stuff\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies\n </em>\n comes complete with tantalizing lists of awesome accessories, wonderful widgets, and fantastic things to wish forâ€”once you finally stop gushing and drooling and playing with your sparkly, new iPhone long enough to wish for anything else!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Play podcasts, music, videos, and photo slideshows\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customize your iPhone, fill it with cool stuff, even use it to manage your life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With Apple''s iPhone, you have the world virtually in your pocket. But because it does so much, there''s much to know about using it! This full-color guide shows you how to keep on top of your appointments, check the local weather, get driving directions and stock quotes, send and receive e-mail and text messages, take photos â€” even talk on the phone.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activate your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sync your data, calendar, e-mail, and media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make and receive phone calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a person, place, or thing with Maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take and organize photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshoot common problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1692'),
(18142, 'iPhone for Dummies', 'Edward C. Baig &amp; Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The iPhone 3G is here! Youâ€™ll want to make the most of it, and\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is ready to help. Master the multitouch interface, send text messages, enjoy rich-HTML e-mail, use GPS maps, and more, with this full-color guide to show you how!\n</p>\n<p>\n Edward C. Baig and â€œDr. Macâ€ Bob LeVitus, two giants of Mac-dom, have packed this colorful little book with tips on every cool feature of the iPhone 3G. Theyâ€™ll show you how to find and download hundreds of cool apps from the new Apps Store, sync up your contact lists with MobileMe, browse the Internet, take photos, download music, and much more. For example:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use 3G wireless technology to surf the Web faster, send and receive e-mail, and talk on the phone, all at once\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play music, watch videos on the widescreen display, or download a game from the App Store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate Web sites or photos using tap, flick, and pinch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get turn-by-turn directions, view a map, get live traffic information, or find services near your location with the GPS feature\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synchronize data, calendar entries, and address books between your desktop and your iPhone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Snap, share, sync, and save photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how the touch screen lets you type, surf, dial, download, play music, and more, all with a simple tap\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the new scientific calculator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what Microsoft Exchange has to offer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You already love your iPhone. With\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll find more to love!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Shop at the App Store, map your route with GPS, and sync up with MobileMe\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With Apple''s iPhone, you have the world virtually in your pocket. Along with taking pictures, watching videos, listening to music, getting your e-mail, and texting, you can sync up your calendars and contact lists, navigate with GPS maps, find and download hundreds of cool apps, browse the Web â€” and even talk on the phone.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Need speed? â€” use 3G wireless technology to surf the Web faster, send and receive e-mail, and talk on the phone, all at once\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Entertain me â€” play music, watch videos, listen to podcasts, view photo slideshows, or download a game from the App Store\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Map your progress â€” find nearby restaurants and businesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it together â€” synchronize e-mail, contacts, and calendars between your computer and your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tap into these opportunities â€” take off in Airplane Mode, connect to a Wi-Fi network, choose your wallpaper, enable Bluetooth, and more, all with a simple tap\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for getting started with your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to navigate Web sites or photos using tap, flick, and pinch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for getting stock quotes or checking the weather forecast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to play and manage music and videos on your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on using the iPhone''s handy Calendar and World Clock\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping all your apps up to date\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to snap, share, sync, and save photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1693'),
(18143, 'iPhone for Dummies', 'Edward C. Baig &amp; Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A full-color guide to the iPhone, including the new iPhone 3G S\n</p>\n<p>\n With its new 3G S model, the iPhone is definitely the must-have mobile device. This fully updated guide covers all the cool features of the fastest iPhone ever, including the Spotlight search feature, voice control, and video camera capability.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n also covers the basics of using the multitouch interface, setting up iTunes, browsing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The iPhone 3G S is the fastest and most powerful iPhone yet, with a host of new features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to use landscape mode for e-mail, texting, and shooting widescreen video\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how to copy or cut and paste text, video, photos, and Web content from one app to another\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out how to make calls, play music, or create new playlists using voice control\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate anything on your iPhone with Spotlight, whether in your calendar, contacts, e-mail, iPod, apps, or even saved Web clips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how to create and send messages that include text, video, voice memos, map locations, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Covering all the features of the much-anticipated iPhone 3G S,\n <em>\n  iPhone For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n helps you get every bit of functionality your iPhone offers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fill your iPhone with cool stuff, ask it to play a song or call a friend, and find anything with Spotlight!\n</p>\n<p>\n The iPhone keeps getting better, and this book keeps you in tune with the newest features. The basics are here too: how to use the multitouch interface, set up iTunes and buy music, surf the Web, check and send e-mail and text messages, watch movies and TV shows (and YouTube), admire pictures, download apps â€” and even make phone calls.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay organized â€” synchronize contacts, calendars, e-mail accounts, and bookmarks between your computer and your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do you copy? â€” copy, cut, and paste text, photos, and videos from one application to another\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Record it â€” capture a thought, a memo, or a meeting with Voice Memos then trim your recording and send it via e-mail or MMS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shake and shuffle your music â€” create playlists, scroll through your music library, and customize your listening experience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find yourself â€” identify your location via GPS, get turn-by-turn directions, find true north with the compass, and search for a location\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for getting started with your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make a phone call with Voice Control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about connecting to a Wi-Fi network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to check the weather and get stock quotes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to connect wirelessly to Bluetooth devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for taking advantage of push notifications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How MobileMe can help find your iPhone if it has been lost\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on troubleshooting your iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1694'),
(18144, 'iPhone Life', 'Vol.3 No.5 2011(www.mastitorrents.com)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5726'),
(18145, 'iPhone Life - Volume 3, #6 November/December 2011', 'Volume 3, #6 November-December 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10633'),
(18146, 'Iphone Life 09+10-2011', 'iPhone Life', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3750'),
(18147, 'iPhone Life Magazine', 'September-October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3614'),
(18148, 'iPhone.Life-November-December.2011-Slicer.pdf 10-10-2011', 'iPhone.Life-November-December.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10637'),
(18149, 'iPhoto &#39;09 for Dummies', 'Angelo Micheletti', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n iPhoto â€™09 is packed with cool photo-editing features, and\n <em>\n  iPhoto â€™09 For Dummies\n </em>\n is your fast track to using every one. Youâ€™ll learn to clean up and enhance your photos, print them or upload them to a sharing site online, create cool projects, protect and secure your pictures, and make photography more fun than ever. This full-color guide shows you how, and even helps you shoot future photos with an eye to iPhotoâ€™s capabilities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s an easy exercise to get you started and plenty of beautiful full-color photos to show you the results you can achieve. Youâ€™ll learn your way around the interface, whatâ€™s new, and how to set preferences.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Discover how to create a well-organized, maintainable archive so you can find photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import and export photos from various sources, including card readers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage any import problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your collection using facial recognition and GPS technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crop, rotate, and enhance your images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use a histogram and improve exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a MobileMe gallery, send photos to Facebook or Flickr, make prints, and burn CDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get tips for successfully e-mailing your pictures and for printing your photos at home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create photo greeting cards, calendars, or a travel book with maps that show where you took your pictures\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iPhoto â€™09 For Dummies\n </em>\n even tells about cool add-ons and ideas for iPhoto. Learn to make all your photos the best they can be.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make all your photos â€” past, present, and future â€” the best they can be!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With the great features of iPhoto ''09, you can retouch and enhance your photos, print them or upload them to a sharing site online, create cool projects, protect and secure your pictures, and make photography more fun than ever. This full-color guide shows you how, and even helps you shoot future photos with an eye to iPhoto''s capabilities.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basic training â€” learn your way around the interface, what''s new with iPhoto ''09, and how to set preferences\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized â€” discover how to create a well-organized, maintainable archive so you can find photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make them better â€” see how to use a histogram and improve exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sharing is good â€” set up a MobileMe gallery, send photos to Facebook or FlickrÂ®, make prints, and burn CDs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make memories â€” create cards, calendars, or a travel book with maps that show where you took your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An easy exercise to get you started\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to organize your collection using facial recognition and GPS technology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why importing from a card reader is a good idea\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to search for a photo\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle import problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for printing your photos at home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for successfully e-mailing your pictures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find cool add-ons and ideas for iPhoto\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1695'),
(18150, 'iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies', 'Tony Bove &amp; Cheryl Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This beginner''s guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_, January 15, 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether itâ€™s the iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, video iPod, or some other variation, iTunes and iPods go together like treble and bass. Itâ€™s so easy to purchase the latest music and videos, download podcasts, and even keep track of your calendar on your iPodâ€”so why wouldnâ€™t you? But if itâ€™s so easy, why do you need\n <em>\n  iPod &amp; iTunes For Dummies?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n iPods now come in everything from 1GB to 80GB models and play movies, store photos, function as a spare hard drive, and even wake you up in the morning. If this is your first one, youâ€™ll find no better place to get acquainted with it than in this bestselling book. If youâ€™ve just purchased a brand-new iPod, youâ€™ll find this Fifth Edition packed with valuable tidbits about the latest and greatest features. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up an iTunes account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a playlist of streaming radio stations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synchronize your iPod with other devices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record memos and appointments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play movies from your iPod on a TV\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your iPod to your car stereo or portable speakers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add and edit iTunes song information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize music and media into iTunes playlists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune sound playback with either the iPod or iTunes equalizer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer music to your iPod from old tapes and phonograph records\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Find out how to use every feature of your favorite iPod model and get the scoop on making the most of iTunes with\n <em>\n  iPod &amp; iTunes For Dummies, 5th Edition!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1696'),
(18151, 'iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies', 'Tony Bove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This beginner''s guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_, January 15, 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re completely new to iPod and iTunes or youâ€™d like to discover advanced techniques for playing, managing, browsing, buying, and storing music and other files,\n <em>\n  iPod &amp; iTunes For Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n can help you! The iPod and iTunes have revolutionized how we enjoy music, and this bestselling guide has been updated to keep you current. Hereâ€™s how to use the newest iPods, set up iTunes on your Mac or PC, purchase music and movies, rip CDs, organize your media library, make the most of digital sound, and so much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n The latest iPods are much more than just digital music players. Now, surf the Web, rent movies, buy songs and directly download them, send and receive e-mails, store photos, play slideshows, watch videos, and play games. Youâ€™ll find information about all iPod models and how to set up iTunes so you can start enjoying your iPod right away. Youâ€™ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn how to use the iPod displays and scrolling wheels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install iTunes and load your music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your library organized so you can search, browse, and sort\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create playlists and burn CDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your iPod as a hard drive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share content legally\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synchronize your e-mail, contacts, and bookmarks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten common problems and solutions, and eleven tips for the equalizer,\n <em>\n  iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies, 6th Edition\n </em>\n includes bonus chapters about early iPod models, creating content for iPod, tips for working with MusicMatch, using your iPod for backup and restore, and 14 web sources for additional information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1697'),
(18152, 'iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies', 'Tony Bove &amp; Cheryl Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This beginner''s guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_, January 15, 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine running your daily errands while listening to songs from five different albums, or creating a party mix that lasts all night long, or catching the news briefings while walking to class. Whether weâ€™re commuting to work or heading off on a vacation, the iPod has revolutionized how we listen to music. Never before has a device with such capacity been so easy to carry that even the largest model weighs less than two CD jewel cases.\n <em>\n  IPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies\n </em>\n offers a comprehensive but friendly guide to this new technology that is sweeping the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book has updated advice to help you get the hang of the most recent iPod upgrades. Some of the things youâ€™ll find out about are:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Specs and information on the latest models, including the iPod Shuffle and iPod Photo\n </li>\n <li>\n  The way to set up iTunes on your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for acquiring and managing music, photos, and podcasts\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to transfer music from iTunes to your iPod, how to play songs, and what to do if something does not function properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advanced techniques such as decoding and encoding, enhancing sound quality, recording and editing, and using your iPod as a hard drive\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by computer experts and music enthusiasts, this complete resource will show you how to get the most out of your iPod and iTunes. Get ready to enjoy the wonders of this international phenomenon!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1698'),
(18153, 'iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies', 'Tony Bove &amp; Cheryl Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This beginner''s guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_, January 15, 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The iPod, Apple''s breakthrough MP3 music player, boasts a contact list, calendar, alarm clock, notes reader, and a handful of games\n </li>\n <li>\n  In its first year, iTunes has sold more than 70 million songs; since hitting the market in November 2001, the iPod has sold more than 3 million units\n </li>\n <li>\n  This updated edition covers cool new third-party accessories, new iTunes features, iPod functions, troubleshooting, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers naming an iPod, setting preferences, connecting and sharing an iPod, organizing a digital jukebox, playing music, copying files, burning an audio CD, searching for and downloading songs from the music store, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated and revised to include coverage on both the Windows and Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Platforms\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1699'),
(18154, 'iPod &amp; iTunes for Dummies', 'Tony Bove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This beginner''s guide in the usual "Dummies" format shows how to set up, acquire, and manage media content; how to play with the iPod, hook it up to other components, and take it on the road; how to use advanced techniques; and how to troubleshoot common problems. Online bonus chapters (available at http://www.dummies.com/go/ipod4e/) cover MusicMatch Jukebox and online resources. Clear, with just enough background information; recommended for all libraries. (_Library Journal_, January 15, 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to make the most of your iPod and the iTunes store\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n iPods have totally revolutionized the way we play music, videos, and TV shows. This handy guide is written by veteran\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n author Tony Bove and will have you off and running with your iPod in no time. Youâ€™ll get set-up advice and help loading your iPod with tunes, podcasts, movies, and more. Got an iPod touch or iPhone? Learn to use the multitouch interface, add photos, surf the Web, manage your e-mail and calendar, and even play games.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Introduces the different iPod models, including iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle\n <br />\n â€¢ Explains how to set up iTunes, shop at the iTunes store, and import music, videos, and podcasts\n <br />\n â€¢ Shows how to manage photos, videos, synchronize devices with iTunes, burn CDs from iTunes, play iPod content, and play music on your home stereo, TV, or car stereo\n <br />\n â€¢ Includes tips on working with Genius to create playlists, resetting and restoring your iPod, troubleshooting, and organizing and sharing content\n</p>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t wait another minute to start enjoying your new iPod! Start enjoying everything your iPod can offer with the latest edition of\n <em>\n  iPod &amp; iTunes For Dummies\n </em>\n today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1700'),
(18155, 'iPod Touch for Dummies', 'Tony Bove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The perfect full-color guide to the iPod touch for both Mac and Windows users\n</p>\n<p>\n Your iPod touch can do so many things. With this full-color guide, you can get hip to all your iPod touch has to offer and take full advantage of the iTunes store and the App Store, as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll start by learning how to manage the multi-touch interface and setting up iTunes. Then you''ll discover how to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, receive and send e-mail, get directions and use maps, play games, download and watch movies, shop for cool new apps at the App Store, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Starts with the basics of setting up and using the iPod touch, richly illustrated in full color\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers listening to music, synchronizing your data, working with the calendar, setting up iTunes, and getting online via Wi-Fi\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to send and receive e-mail, shop for movies and music at the iTunes Store, browse the Web, share photos, download and watch movies and TV shows, and download apps from the App Store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to use your iPod touch as a portable game console and how to manage your contacts and to-do lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers protecting your information and troubleshooting\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  iPod touch For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you make the most of this amazing device that combines a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a portable game console, and a breakthrough Internet device.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touch up your life with music, movies, e-mail, maps, the Web, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n You have the magic touch â€” at least, you will after you''ve read this book! From the basic stuff about setting up an iPodtouch and charging its battery to cool stuff like playing games, finding your way with Google Maps, connecting with Facebook, and sending tweets, this guide helps you grab all the excitement your iPod touch makes possible.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Power up â€” connect your iPod touch to your Mac or PC, sync up with iTunes, charge up the battery, and locate a Wi-Fi network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Flick, pick, and click â€” navigate the multitouch screen, use the onscreen keyboard, and shop for content or apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playback''s a breeze â€” create playlists, play videos and audio books, set up slideshows, and e-mail photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finding yourself â€” enter locations, get directions from Google Maps, show traffic and satellite maps, and save bookmarks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep in touch â€” maintain your calendar, connect to Facebook or MySpaceÂ®, use Twitter, and instant message\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for getting started with your iPod touch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize your iPod touch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for browsing and downloading content from the iTunes Store\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sync your data, calendar, e-mail, and media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about loading images on your iPod touch and setting up a slide show\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for getting online with your iPod touch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations for finding your location, checking the weather forecast, or getting stock quotes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1701'),
(18156, 'Ireland for Dummies', 'Elizabeth Albertson &amp; Liz Albertson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Relatively tiny Ireland (32,600 sq. miles) packs great attractions into a small area. You can pack a lot of diverse experiences into your trip with this book as your guide. Climb the cliffs. Kiss the blarney stone. Have a bowl of Irish stew and a pint of Guinness in a local pub. Pay homage to literary giants W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, or Frank McCourt. Play championship golf courses. Whether you?re a book lover or a golf nut?a history buff or a Celtic music fan?a full-fledged adventurer or a laid-back sight-seer, you?ll find plenty to enjoy in this guide that gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Historic sights, including the 5,000 year old Newgrange Tomb, the burial mounds at Knowth, the storied Hill of Tara, ancient seat of the Irish high kings, and Glendalough, a monastic community founded in the sixth century\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gorgeous natural wonders, including the sheer Cliffs of Moher and Slieve League cliffs; the rocky, wildflower-studded Burren; the beautiful Aran Islands; the wild landscape of Connemara; and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cosmopolitan Dublin, hot-and-happening Belfast, and intriguing medieval villages\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strolling through Powerscourt Garden?or touring the Waterford Crystal Factory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exploring Killarney National Park on horseback, on a bike, or on foot\n </li>\n <li>\n  Driving the Ring of Kerry with its seascapes, cliffs, and spectacular mountain views or the Dingle Peninsula?with its patchwork of farms, plus sandy beaches, craggy cliffs, and more seascapes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Staying in an ancient but luxurious castle or a comfortable B &amp; B overlooking a working dairy farm\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dining on diverse cuisines, ranging from Italian to Mediterranean to fusion and from meat-and-potatoes to sushi; enjoying great pub food at a local haunt or feasting at a medieval banquet in an authentic castle\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <strong>\n  For Dummies\n </strong>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  Ireland For Dummies\n </em>\n , 5th Edition helps you make the most of your vacation. It includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss--and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No, this book can?t tell you where to find a leprechaun, but if you?re looking for other Irish sites, attractions or adventures, you?re in luck with this guide.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover Ireland the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From its fascinating history and friendly people to its stunningly beautiful landscapes, Ireland has it all. Take in breathtaking clifftop views or heather-covered hills. Play championship golf courses or explore ancient castles. Enjoy Celtic music and a pint of Guinness at local pubs. Visit cosmopolitan Dublin, hot-and-happening Belfast, or quaint villages. With this friendly guide, you''ll explore the Emerald Isle in style.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1702'),
(18157, 'Irreverent Photo Tools for Digital Photographers', 'S. Weinrebe (Cengage, 2010) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4473'),
(18158, 'Island', 'Aldous Leonard Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4017'),
(18159, 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation â€” a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy''s body â€” Tucker Case''s troubles begin one very drunk morning at the Seattle airport Holiday Inn Lounge. Surrendering to the strident will of a call girl who wants desperately to join the Mile High Club, he proceeds to crash his shocking pink jet on the runway â€” totaling the plane and seriously damaging the organ that got him into this mess in the first place. Now, with his flying license revoked, his job and manhood demolished, facing a possible prison term or, worse, the murderous wrath of Mary Jean Dobbins and her corporate goons, Tuck has to run for his life toward the only employment opportunity left for him: piloting a Lear jet for a shady medical missionary and a sexy, naturally blond High Priestess on the remotest of Micronesian island hells.  But first he has to get there, encountering spies, cannibals, journalists, and would-be bitch goddesses every step of the way. Traveling with his Filipino transvestite navigator and a fruit bat companion, Roberto, Tuck braves shark-infested waters and a typhoon before reaching the dark heart of a tropical paradise â€” all before his first day of work.  A delightfully offbeat look at cargo cults, religious zeal, and pyramid schemes,  Island of the Sequined Love Nun  is Christopher Moore at his hilarious best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6333'),
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(18163, 'issue10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10738');
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(18164, 'IT Disaster Recovery Planning for Dummies', 'Peter Gregory Cisa Cissp &amp; Philip Jan Rothstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if youâ€™re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But itâ€™s easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to get started by creating a safety net while you work out the details of your major plan. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you''re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here''s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep your plans updated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand guide will help you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare your systems, processes, and people for an organized response to disaster when it strikes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify critical IT systems and develop a long-range strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select and train your disaster recovery team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conduct a Business Impact Analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine risks to your business from natural or human-made causes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get management support\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create appropriate plan documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test your plan\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Some disasters get coverage on CNN, and some just create headaches for the affected organization. With\n <em>\n  IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll be prepared for anything from hackers to hurricanes!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a safety net while you work out your major plan\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Identify critical IT systems, develop a long-range strategy, and train your people\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Some disasters get coverage on CNN â€” some just create headaches for the affected organization. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you''re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here''s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep them updated.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select your disaster recovery team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conduct a Business Impact Analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get management support\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create appropriate plan documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test your plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1703'),
(18165, 'It Happened in Egypt', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5927'),
(18166, 'It was a year ago today that I walked away from the sports supplement industry', 'Brad Pilon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10673'),
(18167, 'Italian Verbs for Dummies', 'Picarazzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A step-by-step guide to grasping the basics of Italian verbs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 66 million people around the world speak Italian, and Italian remains a popular choice for American students studying a foreign language. Italian Verbs For Dummies is ideal for those who have a basic knowledge of Italian but wish to improve their fluency by mastering the nuances of Italian verbs. This plain-English guide provides coverage of basic sentence structure, moods, tenses, and regular and irregular verbs, along with exercises to make conjugating Italian verbs a snap. It can also serve as a supplementary resource for students to use alongside classroom books.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Teresa L. Picarazzi\n </strong>\n (Fairfield, CT) is currently Adjunct Professor of Italian at Fairfield University and a full-time Italian teacher at Trumbull High School.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Teresa L. Picarazzi\n </strong>\n has taught Italian language, literature, and cinema for over 20 years at a number of universities, including Dartmouth College, The University of Arizona, and Wesleyan University. She currently teaches Italian at The Hopkins School in New Haven. She has lived, studied, conducted research, and directed study-abroad programs in Florence, Siena, Urbino, Cortona, and Ravenna. She has two edited volumes and several articles in the area of contemporary Italian political theater and cultural studies. She is also the author of a feminist psychoanalytic book, entitled\n <em>\n  Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburgâ€™s Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters,\n </em>\n on one of Italyâ€™s foremost twentieth-century authors. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Giancarlo, their daughter Emilia, and their dog, Toby, during the school year and in Ravenna during the summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1704'),
(18168, 'Italy for Dummies', 'Bruce Murphy &amp; Alessandra de Rosa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n See the best of Italy on a bellissimo vacation\n</p>\n<p>\n Italy offers infinite variety, with its historical yet cosmopolitan cities, picturesque towns, gently rolling hills, and spectacular seacoasts. Whether your interests are art and architecture or food and drink, ancient treasures or modern shops, this guide helps you explore the country with gusto.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1705'),
(18169, 'Italy for Dummies', 'Bruce Murphy &amp; Alessandra de Rosa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Detailed itineraries show you how to see the highlights, whether your vacation lasts one week or two, you''re traveling with children, or you''re a history buff looking for a fix of archaeological Italy.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bargain alerts tip you off to time-saving insider detailsâ€“like which sight passes grant you free access to othersâ€“so more of your money stays where you want it.\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Not all Italian pizzas, pastas, and wines are created equally;\n   <em>\n    Italy for Dummies\n   </em>\n   steers you in all the right culinary directions.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Have a bellissimo vacation in Italy\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Italy offers infinite variety, with its historical yet cosmopolitan cities, picturesque towns, gently rolling hills, and spectacular seacoasts. Whether your interests are art and architecture or food and drink, ancient treasures or modern shops, this guide helps you explore the country with gusto from the splendors of Venice, Florence, and Rome to the beauty of Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Open the book and find:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Lots of detailed maps\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1706'),
(18170, 'iWork 09 for Dummies', 'Jesse Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dress up office documents the Apple way with iWork ''09 and this friendly guide\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re a Mac lover and want to explore life outside of that "other productivity suite," here''s your chance to dress up your docs with Apple''s iWork ''09 and this easy-to-follow guide from Mac technology expert, Jesse Feiler. He draws on 20 years of experience with Apple software to share his secrets of producing fun and creative files using Apple iWork ''09.\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore iWork''s word processing software, called Pages, and start cranking out text that not only reads well, it\n <em>\n  looks\n </em>\n great. Add style to your spreadsheets with Numbers. And produce dazzling presentations with Keynote--all of it with iWork''s special bells and whistles that will give your everyday documents extra Apple style. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use this creative office productivity suite for your Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harness the creative possibilities of iWork for home or office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write text documents that look great, too\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crunch numbers and build spreadsheets that look great with Numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Easily build presentations that include multimedia and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Why work when you can iWork with this great guide-and have some fun, too!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Be productive the Mac way! Discover the creative possibilities of iWork ''09\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not only can you do the same things with iWork that you can with that "other" suite of office productivity tools, but you can spend less and be more creative too. Here''s how to start creating slick-looking documents and page layouts with Pages, knockout charts and reports with Numbers, and presentations with polish using Keynote. Why settle for less?\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get down to work â€” find your way around iWork and discover how the tools let you work more efficiently\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do it and reuse it â€” take advantage of iWork functionality such as themes and templates that you can customize and reuse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn the Pages â€” work with Pages templates, set preferences, and create templates of your own\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dress up your documents â€” see how Pages combines word processing with design capabilities for great layouts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s on the table â€” take advantage of tables in Numbers to make spreadsheets more visually appealing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chart it â€” display data in charts that communicate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capture their attention â€” choose from among Keynote''s themes to create visually stunning presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finishing touches â€” add video and sound to your Keynote presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shortcut menus and commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage and customize the iWork toolbar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for working with the Inspectors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make the most of tables and formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with ready-made templates that you can modify\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool ways to dress up Keynote presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to automate your work with AppleScript and Automator\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do with iWork.com\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Keynote''s multiscreen Presenter Display\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1707'),
(18171, 'Jakarta Struts for Dummies', 'Mike Robinson &amp; Ellen Finkelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a Web developer, youâ€™ve probably heard a lot about Jakarta Struts, the popular open source framework for creating Web applications in Java. Struts is the de facto standard for Java-based Web applications; in fact, some people consider it the yardstick by which all other Web application frameworks are measured.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Struts framework is based on a classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm that combines Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), custom tags, and message resources into a unified framework.\n <em>\n  Jakarta Struts For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you up and running with Struts in a hurry, so you can\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Control the business logic of your applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design the view for JavaServer Pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Validate data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use tiles to dynamically create pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure and troubleshoot your applications, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Jakarta Struts saves you coding time and helps you create an extensible development environment.\n <em>\n  Jakarta Struts For Dummies\n </em>\n provides the information you need when you need it, and even lets you get your feet wet right away by creating a special â€œjump startâ€ application in Part I.\n <em>\n  Jakarta Struts For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand and apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Struts into a Web application environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use tag libraries to simplify your JSP pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain control with effective security features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Internationalize Web applications with a feature that creates easy-to-update text content, so international viewers can see pages in their own languages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Represent all types of data, from one or two items to a huge and complex database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extend Jakartaâ€™s functionality with plug-ins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use logging to help you troubleshoot an application\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Loaded with tips, examples, and explanatory sidebars, this plain-English guide to Jakarta Struts will have you creating Web applications with Struts before you can say â€œJavaâ€.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reduce development time, increase maintainability, and take charge of your code\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how Jakarta Struts can support your pages and keep the Java hot!\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll know more than beans about Jakarta Struts after youâ€™ve spent a little time with this book! Itâ€™ll get you up and running with the popular open source framework that helps you develop and manage Java-based Web applications. Youâ€™ll build one before you even finish Part I â€“ and then explore all the techniques you need for a rock-solid, full-featured Web application.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Struts into a Web application development environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use tag libraries to simplify your JSPâ„¢ pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep control with effective security features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reach users around the world in their own language\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1708'),
(18172, 'The Janus Man', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6222'),
(18173, 'Java 2 for Dummies', 'Burd, Barry A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n * This updated bestseller covers programming essentials for the newest version of Java, the popular platform-independent, object-oriented programming language * The material is fully updated and focuses on the new Java SDK 1.5, addressing the needs of new or inexperienced Java developers * The fun and easy writing style walks readers through Java syntax basics and helps them write their first program * Shows readers how to create basic Java objects and figure out when they can reuse existing code * The new edition is also modified to better address the readers who may have some programming knowledge, but who are new to Java\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1709'),
(18174, 'Java All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Nine minibooks filling more than 800 pages provide the world''s five million-plus Java developers with a basic all-in-one programming reference\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the recent release of the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and the new J2SE Development Kit 5.0\n </li>\n <li>\n  Starts with beginner topics including getting started with Java, using the Java development platform, and Web programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expands into more advanced Java fundamentals such as object-oriented programming, working with arrays and collections, and creating user interfaces with Swing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 books in 1â€” your key to success with Java!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to the most-used language for application development\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no question that Java is the popular kid on the block, and knowing Java will definitely boost your reputation as a developer. Here are all the Java essentials packed into one handy resource. Find out how to do everything from basic programming to using regular expressions and creating applets for the Web, all in one place!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with variables and data types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use object-oriented programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Program for a network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create servlets and Java Server Pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read and write XML data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop simple games\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1710'),
(18175, 'JavaScript &amp; Ajax for Dummies', 'Andy Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that work\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site''s visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you''re new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you''ll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down to basics â€” learn your way around JavaScript and choose an editor and test browser\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage complexity â€” use functions, arrays, and objects to create more sophisticated programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Page magic â€” discover how to control what happens on your pages, animate objects, and put pages in motion\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get beautiful â€” Use the jQuery User Interface library to add sliders, tabbed interfaces, and custom dialogs to a site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Come clean with AJAX â€” build AJAX requests into your programs, use jQuery, and work with AJAX data\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose a test browser\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to discuss string concatenation with a straight face\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for debugging your code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add useful information to a dropdown list\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why AJAX connections should be asynchronous\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The exciting possibilities of the jQuery library\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Aptana editor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online resources for JavaScript programmers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy Harris is a lecturer in computer science at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. He was instrumental in developing the university''s certificate program in applied computer science and has taught courses in Web development as well as several programming languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1711'),
(18176, 'JavaScript for Dummies', 'Emily A. Vander Veer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Responding to reader feedback, the author has thoroughly revamped the book with more step-by-step coverage of JavaScript basics, an exclusive focus on Internet Explorer, and many complete sample scripts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated to cover JavaScript 1.5, the latest release of this popular Web scripting language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using lots of examples, including a sample working Web site, the book shows how to create dynamic and interactive pages, build entire sites, and automate pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd edition:\n</p>\n<p>\n Explains JavaScript and how it differs from java, HTML, and other Web programming tools\n</p>\n<p>\n Describes what users can do with JavaScript that they can''t do with HTML\n</p>\n<p>\n Outlines how JavaScript, the platform-independent scripting language, works with the latest versions of Netscape Navigator 5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes an important overview of Object-Oriented Concepts and the JavaScript language\n</p>\n<p>\n Shows users how to "team up" JavaScript with Java, C++, OpenDoc, and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to create powerful multimedia applications\n</p>\n<p>\n Describes how to build a quickie Web page using HTML tags\n</p>\n<p>\n Shows users how to create a Java applet and run the applet from the Web page\n</p>\n<p>\n Covers JavaScript''s forms so users can easily enter data and receive feedback\n</p>\n<p>\n Guides users as they write and debug their own JavaScript programs\n</p>\n<p>\n BONUS CD-ROM INCLUDES:\n</p>\n<p>\n Hot utility and sample programs, including Dreamweaver demo version, SurfMap JavaScript, Joust, NetObjects ScriptBuilder 3 trial version, Allaire HomeSite 4.5 trial version, Ant Tools Demo 3, ArtBeats Web Tools, BBEdit 4.5.1, HTML WebWeaver Lite, Paint Shop Pro 5 demo, and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1712'),
(18177, 'Jazz for Dummies', 'Dirk Sutro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz\n</p>\n<p>\n Jazz is America''s greatest music, but with over a century''s worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax! This hep cat''s guide delivers the scoop on the masters and their music -- from Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Wynton Marsalis. It''s just what you need to tune in to the history and musical structure of jazz and become a more savvy listener.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Understand the traits and roots of jazz\n <br />\n * Tune in to jazz styles, from big band to bebop\n <br />\n * Listen to great jazz artists\n <br />\n * Catch a live jazz performance\n <br />\n * Succeed in a jazz ensemble\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Jazz For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n "Now you can finally know about one of . . . America''s greatest contributions to world culture."\n <br />\n --Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fun to read. . . . An important stepping stone to understanding this complex and profound music."\n <br />\n --James Moody, jazz saxophonist\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dirk Sutro is madly in love with jazz and . . . he knows what he''s talking about."\n <br />\n --"Chubby" Jackson, jazz bassist\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jazz is America''s greatest music, but with over a century''s worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax! This hep cat''s guide delivers the scoop on the masters and their music â€” from Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Wynton Marsalis. It''s just what you need to tune in to the history and musical structure of jazz and become a more savvy listener.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the traits and roots of jazz\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tune in to jazz styles, from big band to bebop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Listen to great jazz artists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Catch a live jazz performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Succeed in a jazz ensemble\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Jazz For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Now you can finally know about one of . . . America''s greatest contributions to world culture."\n <br />\n â€”Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fun to read. . . . An important stepping stone to understanding this complex and profound music."\n <br />\n â€”James Moody, jazz saxophonist\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dirk Sutro is madly in love with jazz and . . . he knows what he''s talking about."\n <br />\n â€”"Chubby" Jackson, jazz bassist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1713'),
(18178, 'Jennifer Egan', 'A Visit From the Goon Squad (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4371'),
(18179, 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want ead (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4340'),
(18180, 'The Jew in the Lotus', 'Kamenetz, Rodger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kamenetz (English, LSU) recounts his experience as one of a group invited to Dharamsala by the Dalai Lama to discuss how the Jewish experience of spiritual survival in exile might be helpful to Tibetans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kamenetz, a poet and a Jew, was invited to attend and write about a historical meeting between a delegation of American Jews and a group of Tibetan Buddhists that included the Dalai Lama. This interfaith get-together was inspired, in part, by the increasing number of Jews who have become Buddhists as well as the Dalai Lama''s perception of Jews as "survival experts." The Dalai Lama felt that the Jews, experts in exile and the preservation of faith and practice, would offer advice and comfort; participating rabbis were intrigued by the surprising similarities between the two religions, including esoteric traditions and a profound awareness of suffering. Kamenetz not only chronicles the resultant discussions, which proved to be enlightening and emotional, but also profiles a number of Jewish Buddhists, including Allen Ginsberg and Ram Dass. As his investigation throws his own beliefs and assumptions into high relief, Kamenetz is amazed and humbled by the intensity and altruism of Buddhism. Kamenetz defines and comments upon these complex matters with skill, personableness, and a welcome dash of levity.\n  <em>\n   Donna Seaman\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(18181, 'Jewel That Was Ours', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the ninth novel in Inspector Morse series. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Publication history | Sources, references, external links\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chief Inspector Morse is dispatched to Oxford to untangle a plot involving the death of the American who intended to donate a fabulous jewel to the Ashmolean Museum. Soon after, the professor who is hyping the receipt of the jewel is murdered, and the plot takes off on a giddy series of revelations tied to the professor''s assorted drunken sprees and amorous liaisons among the Oxford elite. Unfortunately, the story seems overedited, and the reading by popular British actor Edward Woodward leaves much to be desired. Woodward plays a great Inspector Morse, and some of his other British voices are wittily done. However, every American voice sounds alike; read: Southern hick. Woodward''s female voices are uniformly squeaky. Nonetheless, the story will keep listeners guessing, and Dexter is in top form. For large mystery collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, N.C.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6161'),
(18182, 'Jewelry &amp; Beading Designs for Dummies', 'Heather H. Dismore &amp; Tammy Powley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you love jewelry and beading? Would you like to know how to make chic jewelry and accessories?\n <em>\n  Jewelry &amp; Beading Designs for Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with patterns, step-by-step instructions, and inspiring color photos to get you stringing, knotting, and looping in no time. From earrings and necklaces to pins, purses, charms, and more, youâ€™ll discover new techniques for making just the right pieces to suit you â€” or give as fantastic, fashionable gifts!\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-follow visual guide speeds you right into the basics of jewelry making: assembling your gear; working with pliers; and fine-tuning your stringing, bead weaving, and wire wrapping skills. Youâ€™ll use elastic cord, ribbon, leather, a wire jig, and more to make bracelets, bookmarks, pendants, and napkin rings. Before you know it, youâ€™ll take your skills to the next level and beyond, using multiple techniques and materials on thrilling and unconventional designs. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make more than 75 fresh, fun, and practical projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hone your basic jewelry making skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with silver, leather, glass beads, and crystals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create rings, bracelets, phone covers, wine charms, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use bead crimping, knotting, and weaving to make beautiful designs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make stunning earrings and necklaces using a wire jig\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fabricate beads and wire components\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find nontraditional materials such as hardware, beach glass, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Add beauty, skill, and satisfaction to your life with a little help from\n <em>\n  Jewelry and Beading Designs For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your visual guide to building up your beading techniques and creating stunning jewelry!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you love jewelry and beading? Are you looking for some clever, creative projects to make chic jewelry and accessories? This easy-to-follow guide is packed with step-by-step instructions and inspiring color photos to get you stringing, knotting, and looping in no time. From earrings and necklaces to pins, purses, charms, and more, you''ll discover new techniques for making just the right pieces to suit you â€” or to give as fantastic, fashionable gifts!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of jewelry making and beading â€” assemble your gear, work with pliers, and brush up on stringing, bead weaving, and wire wrapping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start with simple projects â€” use elastic cord, ribbon, leather, a wire jig, and more to make bracelets, bookmarks, pendants, and napkin rings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Incorporate multiple techniques and materials â€” take your skills to the next level with unconventional designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Complete more advanced projects â€” craft custom jewelry components, learn advanced bead weaving, and make jewelry with polymer clay\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create unique, one-of-a-kind accessories â€” see jewelry in a fresh way by utilizing nontraditional materials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common jewelry-making mistakes â€” discover how to read directions properly, buy the proper tools from the right places, remember findings, use the right tool for the job, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 300 pages of projects and an 8-page color section\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A picture of the finished piece at the beginning of each project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Technique-based chapters â€” ramp up your skills in stringing, crimping, knotting, weaving, and wire wrapping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear illustrations of complicated steps so you don''t get lost â€” see exactly what your piece should look like at key points\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coordinating pieces grouped together to help you accessorize with style\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1714'),
(18183, 'Job Interviews for Dummies', 'Joyce Lain Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Job interviews are crucial meetings that seal the deal on who gets hired. But, since the previous edition of\n <em>\n  Job Interviews for Dummies\n </em>\n was published, everything about the interview process has changed in ways you need to know about and get comfortable with beforehand.\n</p>\n<p>\n This completely revised and updated 3rd Edition brings you fully up to speed with the latest technological changes, interview strategies, and negotiation techniques to help you give a show-stopping performance and land the job of your dreams. You learn the secrets of successful Internet video interviewing and find out how to present yourself on a global scale. And, youâ€™ll get plenty of expert advice on giving targeted responses, pinpointing the critical parts of questions, and following up on the interview. In this outstanding handbook of contemporary interview arts, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Out-prepare the competition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome your fear of interviewing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ask smart questions about the job and the employer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Give the best answers to make-or-break questions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fit your qualifications to the jobâ€™s requirements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dress like an insider\n </li>\n <li>\n  Survive personality tests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interview across cultures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deliver a show-stopping interview performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate a job offer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate a better salary\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re fresh from the classroom, a prime-timer over 50, or somewhere in between,\n <em>\n  Job Interviews For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n gets you up to speed fast on the skills and tools you need to land the job you want.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest and greatest on the changing interview scene\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to give a show-stopping interview and land the job you want\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re fresh from the classroom, a prime-timer over 50 â€” or somewhere in between â€” this friendly, authoritative guide helps you outprepare the competition, overcome your fear of interviewing, and outrageously improve your interviewing success. You meet Internet video interviewing techniques and learn how to present yourself on a global scale. You get new advice on giving targeted responses, pinpointing the critical part of questions, and following up after the interview in this outstanding handbook of contemporary interview arts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Give the best answers tomake-or-break questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fit your qualifications to a job''s requirements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dress like an insider\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate a better salary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Survive personality tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Interview across cultures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
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(18188, 'Jon Cartland 6 Silver Canyon', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6797'),
(18189, 'Jon Cartland 8 Lille Sol', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6794'),
(18190, 'Joomla! For Dummies', 'Steve Holzner Ph.d. &amp; Nancy Conner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is\n <em>\n  Joomla! For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more.\n <em>\n  Joomla! For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use templatesâ€” powerful collections of PHP and CSSâ€”to make your pages do what you want them to\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab\n <em>\n  Joomla! For Dummies\n </em>\n and start creating!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build cool Web sites without coding â€” it''s easy with Joomla!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Joomla! makes it easy, and this book makes it easier yet! See how to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, allow your guests to sign up for e-mail lists, and much more, all with portable Joomla! modules. Instead of struggling with code, you can concentrate on content. Here''s how!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into Joomla! â€” acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The meaning of menus â€” see how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taming templates â€” use these powerful collections of PHP and CSS to make your pages do what you want them to\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Module madness â€” create searches, polls, menus, newsflashes, and banners with built-in Joomla! modules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Joomla! and SEO â€” build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extend your options â€” explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plug it in â€” check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing Joomla!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Examples of cool Joomla! sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to remove and rename menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to add pages to your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make menu options work for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for tracking page hits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The secrets of keywords\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1716'),
(18191, 'Judgement Calls', 'Alafair Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3973'),
(18192, 'Jumper 3 - Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6405'),
(18193, 'The Jungle (The Oregon Files)', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Juan Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries engage in one daring rescue operation after another with progressively higher stakes in Cussler''s high-octane eighth Oregon Files novel (after The Silent Sea), his sixth collaboration with Du Brul. The rescue of a kidnap victim, an Indonesian teenage boy, from an Afghan village, yields a bonus in the form of MacD Lawless, a former U.S. Army Ranger, who proves of immediate value. Betrayals, more rescues, and escapes follow as one mysterious man seeks world domination using a discovery linked to 13th-century China. Cabrillo''s handpicked team members, who operate from their state-of-the-art ship, the Oregon, are the only chance to stop a plot that threatens to bring the U.S. government to its knees. The frenetic action moves from Afghanistan to Singapore and the Burmese jungle with lots of derring-do at sea before climaxing in a surprising locale in a fashion sure to delight series fans. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Silent Sea\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fast-paced and a lot of fun-delivers the wallop Cussler''s fans have come to expect."\n  <br />\n  -_Booklist_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6147'),
(18194, 'The Jungle', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack B. Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Silent Sea\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fast-paced and a lot of fun-delivers the wallop Cussler''s fans have come to expect."\n  <br />\n  -_Booklist_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The extraordinary new adventure from the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   - bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive them all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China...a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar...for Cabrillo and his crew, all of these events will come together-leading to the greatest threat against U.S. security that the world has ever known.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6146'),
(18195, 'JUNOS for Dummies', 'Michael Bushong &amp; Cathy Gadecki &amp; Aviva Garrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re in charge of a network, youâ€™re probably aware that the only time anyone notices the network is when it goes down. With JUNOS software and\n <em>\n  JUNOS For Dummies\n </em>\n , a friendly book to help you set it up and manage the software, you might be able to start convincing your clients to believe in magic. Hereâ€™s the help you need for switching, routing, security, interface configuration, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, you can go inside JUNOS software and understand everything you need to know about operating a network with JUNOS. Youâ€™ll learn how the control plane handles packet delivery and establishes traffic policies and see how a single network operating system can add stability and reliability while saving administrative time. Plus, youâ€™ll find out how to set up a routing protocol that automates configuration of routing tables for greater efficiency and how you can set up individual or group user accounts locally on the route, or on remote centralized authentication servers. By the time you finish this book, youâ€™ll know how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with the JUNOS network operating system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and configure a Juniper router\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect, manage, and troubleshoot routers and other Juniper appliances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your network more efficient\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure JUNOS default security features as well as restricted physical access to protect routers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solve hardware, software, interface, and router problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate JUNOS with other systems\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of the most useful commands, IOS-JUNOS command conversions, and the best place to seek additional help,\n <em>\n  JUNOS\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to getting started with and mastering JUNOS.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get up to speed and get going with the networking software from Juniper Networks\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re in charge of a network, you''re probably aware that the only time anyone notices the network is when problems occur. With JUNOS software and this friendly book to help you set up and manage your network, folks will instead notice the improvements. Here''s the help you need for switching, routing, security, interface configuration, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Packets on a plane â€” understand how the control plane handles network setup and establishes traffic policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   One for all â€” see how a single network operating system adds stability and reliability while saving administrative time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best route â€” set up a routing protocol to exchange routing information between routers in your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Love labels â€” speed packets through your network with MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Account for users â€” set up individual or group user accounts on the router, or on remote centralized authentication servers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secure the premises â€” configure JUNOS security features to restrict access and prevent attacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shoot down trouble â€” solve hardware, software, interface, and router problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for integrating JUNOS with other systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide for choosing the right hardware\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to assign IP addresses to routers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Security recommendations using firewalls and address translation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to run RIP, OSPF, and IS-IS on your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for monitoring your routers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to enable Class of Service (COS)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to minimize downtime with JUNOScript\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1717'),
(18196, 'Just 18', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5903');
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(18241, 'Jyllandsposten 30-07-2011', 'Jyllandsposten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3125'),
(18242, 'Jyllandsposten 30-08-2011', 'Jyllandsposten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3794'),
(18243, 'Jyllandsposten 31-07-2011', 'Jyllandsposten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3130'),
(18244, 'Jyllandsposten 31-08-2011', 'Jyllandsposten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3801'),
(18245, 'KIDS', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10630'),
(18246, 'Killing By The Clock', 'Barbara Cleverly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4277'),
(18247, 'The Killing Moon: A Novel', 'Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hogan''s fourth novel (after the Hammett Awardâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Prince of Thieves\n  </em>\n  ) convincingly and movingly brings alive the dying Massachusetts community of Black Falls, which is plagued by a brain drain and by a corrupt, if small, police force. Don Maddox, the town''s first (and only) college scholarship recipient, reneged on his obligation to return and work in the community, but 15 years later the prodigal son shows up for his mother''s funeral. Oddly, Maddox becomes a part-time auxiliary policeman, clashing often with his superiors. The author soon reveals Maddox''s hidden agenda, which is related to a lucrative drug ring and to a series of murders believed to have been committed by a registered sex offender. Strong characters and a memorable setting more than offset a windup with some predictable cliffhangers.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hogan, winner of the 2005 Hammett Prize, turns in another disturbing thriller, this one revealing the dark underside of small-town life. At the behest of one of the city fathers, Donny Maddox has returned to Black Falls, where he''s installed as a part-time cop. Bucky Pail, who runs the force more like a gang than a law-enforcement agency, is incensed by the maneuver, especially since he''s unable to intimidate Maddox. Black Falls is full of terrible secrets, and laconic, angry Donny fits right in, though his motives seem less overtly corrupt and self-serving than most of the people he encounters. Hogan feeds out Maddox''s history at a frustratingly slow rate, and his use of different narrators makes for a sometimes bumpy telling. But there''s no denying the attraction of the righteous-angry-man-against-the-corrupt-system theme, and Hogan delivers plenty of excitement, much of which comes in the form of several riveting (and notably vicious) confrontations. At his best, Hogan will remind readers of Lee Child and Stephen Hunter.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6150'),
(18248, 'Killing rain', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  No one but Japanese-American assassin John Rain can win the game of cross and double cross he encounters in this new novel of sexy international intrigue in the series.  Torn between his past as a soldier and his vocation as a killer, longing for attachment but forced to operate alone, and haunted by the fear that one day there must be a reckoning for the things he has done, John Rain moves like a dark ghost through Tokyo and the other urban landscapes in which his Asian features enable him to operate undetected. His ability to make death appear to have been of â€œnatural causesâ€ keeps his reluctant services in constant demand.  In Killing Rain, Rain has a new employer, the Mossad â€“ which needs an operator who can remove â€œproblemsâ€ in Asia â€“ and a new partner: Dox, the ex-marine sniper and party animal first introduced in Rain Storm. He also has a new hope that by using his fearsome talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has already taken. But when Rainâ€™s freshly awakened conscience causes him to botch an assignment, turning what should have been a surgical hit into a massacre, he finds himself running both from the Mossad and from the CIA. Can he trust Delilah, the alluring Israeli agent whom he once fought and then loved, to save him now?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Eisler''s taut and compelling fourth thriller to feature John Rain (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Rain Storm\n  </em>\n  ), the freelance assassin''s latest employer, Israeli intelligence, has sent him and his longtime associate, Dox, to Manila to kill weapons dealer Manheim Levi. Just as Rain is about to make his move, however, Levi''s young son suddenly appears on the scene; Levi''s bodyguards wind up shot while Levi and his son escape. The dead bodyguards turn out to be ex-CIA; and Jim Hilger, the renegade Company man with whom they were also working, is upset enough to ask his own specialists to exact revenge. Trying to find a way to complete his mission, Rain contacts Delilah, a fellow intelligence agent with whom he''s been involved. But her Mossad colleagues, who have lost their trust in Rain''s reliability, are setting up their own plan to take care of him. The plot has enough twists and turns to satisfy, and Eisler is an adept hand at pacing and suspense. The dialogue generally rings true, though the switching back and forth between first- and third-person narrative can be distracting. Various exotic Asian locales add to the appeal.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Freelance assassin John Rain returns for a fourth outing. He has a new boss, the Israeli intelligence organization Mossad; a new partner, the affable sniper Dox; and a new outlook: maybe killing only bad people will help him feel better about himself. The plan falls apart, however, when Rain botches his assignment and winds up on the run, from both his current employer and his former colleagues at the CIA. The Rain series has been compared to Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, but there''s one important difference: Fleming never took Bond seriously, and Eisler takes Rain very seriously indeed. That''s not necessarily bad, of course, but it may be easier to sustain the superkiller premise if you can laugh at it a little.\n  <em>\n   Killing Rain\n  </em>\n  is the weakest in the series, but it''s by no means a failure. There''s plenty of nicely detailed action here, and if the idea of a hard-edged professional killer with a conscience seems to be losing some of its oomph, Eisler is a skilled enough writer to resuscitate his hero next time out.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4630'),
(18249, 'The King&#39;s Gold', 'Perez-Riverte, Arturo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4274'),
(18250, 'Kingdom of Shadows', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3983'),
(18251, 'The Kingdom', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Grant Blackwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  , Clive Cussler brought readers into the world of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, whose passion and instinct for treasure-hunting has led to extraordinary discoveries-and perilous journeys.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Their next adventure, however, might be their most astonishing yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos'' was on a mission to find the oil baron''s missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn''t quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time . . . and a skeleton that could turn the history of human evolution on its head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Packed with the endless imagination and breathtaking suspense that are his hallmarks,\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom\n  </em>\n  once again proves that Clive Cussler is "just about the best storyteller in the business" (_New York Post_).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   Crescent Dawn\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Jungle\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Grant Blackwood\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the Briggs Tanner series, and coauthor with Cussler of the Fargo Adventures\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Colorado.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6148'),
(18252, 'Kitchen and Bath Ideas USA', '12 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10795'),
(18253, 'Kitchen Garden 09-2011', 'Kitchen Garden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3461'),
(18254, 'kitchen-garden-2011-10-oct', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5996'),
(18255, 'The kite runner', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father''s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6287'),
(18256, 'Knitting for Dummies', 'Pam Allen &amp; Tracy Barr &amp; Shannon Okey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now updated and better than ever--the bestselling guide to knitting brilliant, timeless pieces Knitting For Dummies consistently ranks among our top-selling Dummies titles since it published six years ago, with 300,000 copies sold. Knitting For Dummies, Second Edition is for those new to the craft who are looking for a great introductory guide, as well as those already familiar with knitting who are looking for an easy-to-read, fun reference that introduces them to new projects and techniques. This revised and expanded edition not only provides the latest information and resources, but also step-by-step how-to instructions for all the knitting techniques explained in the book. Using easier-to-follow photos and illustrations, the guide demonstrates basic knitting stitches and shows readers how to decipher patterns and work with multiple colors. It also explains how to fix common knitting mistakes and relax stiff shoulders and fingers. Most projects also offer a list of variations, so knitters can expand their understanding and design projects on their own. This new edition also features a new section covering knitting online (blogs, e-zines, and Web sites), a new chapter on felting knitted projects (which has become very popular among beginners), the latest new yarns and styles, a new bibliography, and new sample projects and patterns, including ''your first sweater'' (an easy top-down raglan that requires no piecing), a bag knit in the round, and a tubular neckerchief kind of scarf. Shannon Okey (Cleveland, OH) is the author of nearly a dozen books on knitting and other fiber arts, a columnist for knit.1 magazine, and a frequent contributor to other craft magazines. She hosts a call-in podcast about knitting and has appeared on many television shows, including Knitty Gritty, Uncommon Threads, and Crafters Coast to Coast. Okey can be found online at knitgrrl.com. Tracy Barr (Indianapolis, IN) has served as editor, editorial manager, writer, and consultant for the For Dummies books for many years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1718'),
(18257, 'Knitting Patterns for Dummies', 'Kristi Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you always wanted to knit? Know the basics, but youâ€™re looking to stretch your knitting skills?\n <em>\n  Knitting Patterns For Dummies\n </em>\n is chock-full of simple instructions and easy-to-follow patterns to help you create a wide range of classic, beautiful knits for the whole family, from clothing to household items to gift ideas. This fun, friendly guide gives you scores of new ways to have fun with needles and yarn, with great projects such as basic ponchos and pullovers, felted bags and slippers, cabled sweaters, and home and baby accessories, to name a few. You get step-by-step instructions for all the patterns in the book, along with line drawings and 8 pages of full-color photos to guide you. And, with the variations added at the end of many of the patterns, youâ€™ll have almost 100 projects to choose from! Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select the right yarn and needles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decipher knitting lingo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure your gauge, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with common stitches, such as the stockinette, garter seed, box, and half linen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle ribbing, cabling, and knitting lace\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with patterns with rectangles, circles, and triangles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use colorful stitches such as the Stripes, Fair Isle, and Mosaic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Join shapes together in your design\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create different textures and add color throughout a piece or just as accents\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll also find ten things you can knit with that\n <em>\n  arenâ€™t\n </em>\n yarn or needles, as well as plenty of tips for caring for your knits once theyâ€™re complete. From beanies to bags to blankets,\n <em>\n  Knitting Patterns For Dummies\n </em>\n has it allâ€”everything you need to pick up your sticks and get creative right away!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Knit designs from head to toe and beyond\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From sweaters and slippers to pillows and purses â€” create classic, beautiful knits with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for great knitting projects? This fun, friendly guide is chock-full of simple instructions and easy-to-follow patterns to help you create a wide range of knitted items for the whole family, from clothing and accessories to household items and gift ideas. Plus, you get full-color photos and fantastic projects perfect for beginners or those who want to stretch their knitting skills!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right yarn and needles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure your gauge, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with common stitches and pattern shapes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create different textures and add color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Care for completed knits\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1719'),
(18258, 'Knitting Under the Influence', 'Claire LaZebnik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When you''re in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your free time. After all, as long as you''re following the instructions, you can knit row after row with the knowledge that the pattern will emerge and you''ll end up with just what you wanted. Life, on the other hand, doesn''t come with a stitch counter, so Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy, the heroines of KNITTING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, just have to figure things out as they go along.\n  <br />\n  Their weekly Sunday knitting circle is the only thing holding them together as Kathleen is cut off financially by her family and forced to enter `the real world'' for the very first time at the age of twenty-seven, Sari finds herself falling for the man who made her life a living hell in high school but who now desperately needs her help, and Lucy finds herself torn between emotion and reason when her lab and her boyfriend are assailed by an animal-rights group.\n  <br />\n  At their club meetings, they discuss the really important questions: how bad is it, really, to marry for money if you like the guy a lot anyway? Can you ever forgive someone for something truly atrocious that they''ve done? Is it better to be unhappily coupled than happily alone? And the little ones: Can you wear a bra with a hand-knit tube top? Is it ever acceptable to knit something for a boyfriend? And why do your stitches become lopsided after your second martini?\n  <br />\n  In Claire LaZebnik''s hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking novel, Sari, Lucy, and Kathleen''s lives intersect, overlap, unravel, and come back together-the result is an utterly satisfying read.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6225'),
(18259, 'Koi for Dummies', 'R. D. Bartlett &amp; Patricia Bartlett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Known throughout the world for its beauty and personality, koi is one of the most carefully bred fish species around. Raising koi is especially time-consuming and requires more than just sprinkling little flakes in the fish bowl. But thankfully, you donâ€™t have to be an expert to maintain your own koi pond.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Koi For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how easy and fun it can be to own and care for these delicate fish. Whether building a pond or aquarium for the indoors or outdoors, this easy-to-understand guide explores all of your options. Clear, concise advice helps you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Appreciate your koiâ€™s beauty\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build, design, and maintain your koi pond or aquarium\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and select koi and the proper supplies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your koi happy and healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Treat your koi for parasites, bacterial infections, and viruses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Breed and care for baby koi\n </li>\n <li>\n  Show off your koi to other koi enthusiasts\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This fun, friendly guide also explains what to do during a power outage and how to check your koi for illness. Featuring 8 pages of full-color photos,\n <em>\n  Koi for Dummies\n </em>\n is all you need to get started raising your very own koi. No matter where you live, youâ€™ll be able to care for and breed this beautiful fish!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features 8 pages of full-color photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All you need to know about setting up a Koi habitat, selecting Koi, and keeping them healthy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to keep Koi? This friendly guide shows you how to get started, with expert tips on everything from buying Koi and keeping them healthy to feeding, breeding, showing, and enjoying these gorgeous fish. You''ll see how to set up and maintain an indoor or outdoor pond or an aquarium, select filters and heaters, and handle your Koi properly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select healthy Koi\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get all the right equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Diagnose and treat common illnesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your Koi safe year-round\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise baby Koi\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1720'),
(18260, 'Komputer For Alle 02-2011', 'Komputer For Alle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(18261, 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR6.BobSeN.pdf 11-09-2011', 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR6.BobSeN.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5721'),
(18262, 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR7.BobSeN.pdf 11-09-2011', 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR7.BobSeN.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5722'),
(18263, 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR8.BobSeN.pdf 11-09-2011', 'KoMPUTER.2008.NR8.BobSeN.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5723'),
(18264, 'Lacrosse for Dummies', 'James Hinkson &amp; Jim Hinkson &amp; Joe Lombardi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lacrosse For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ultimate guide for fans and players of this rapidly growing sport alike. The book offers everything the beginning player needs to know, from the necessary equipment to the basic rules of the game, with explanations of the women''s game and the indoor game, too. It also offers a wealth of information for the experienced player, including winning offensive and defensive strategies, along with skill-building exercises and drills. Finally, there''s information on how armchair lacrosse players can get their fix of the sport on television, online, on in print.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your complete guide to the fastest growing sport in North America!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a player, coach, or fan of field or box lacrosse, this friendly guide explains everything you need to know about the game. From the basic rules of the men''s andwomen''s games and the fundamentals of passing and catching to advanced offensive and defensive strategies, you''ll discover how to get the most out of this exciting sport.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Understand the essentials\n   </strong>\n   â€” meet the players on the field and floor, discover how the game is played, and get to know the rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Get equipped\n   </strong>\n   â€” choose the perfect stick and select protective gear that gives you the freedom to move\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Become a better player\n   </strong>\n   â€” bone up on basic technique, develop your passing and catching skills through drills, and learn how to evade defenders and stop offensive players\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Improve as a team\n   </strong>\n   â€” investigate how your team can play as one â€” both offensively and defensively â€” to increase your chances of victory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Coach like a pro\n   </strong>\n   â€” figure out what style of play suits your team, draw up winning game plans, and keep your players sharp\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Cheer from the sidelines\n   </strong>\n   â€” find the best ways to follow lacrosse on television, online, or in print; check out the top high schooland college teams; and keep up with the pros in the MLL and NLL\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What makes women''s lacrosse unique\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to read referees'' signals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful tips from star college and professional players\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Traits every great goalie must have\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How lacrosse is similar to basketball and hockey\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ingredients for effective special teams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mental and physical conditioning plans to keep you game-ready\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Profiles of the top players\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the field, box, and women''s games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the proper equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your offensive and defensive skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep up with college and professional games\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1721'),
(18265, 'Lady Betty Across the Water', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5928'),
(18266, 'Land of Marvels', 'Barry Unsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Booker Prize-winning Unsworth (_The Ruby in Her Navel_) sets his intelligent and timely new book in Mesopotamia during the spring of 1914, just before the chaos of WWI. John Somerville, a British archeologist desperate for fame, worries that his new discovery, an ancient tomb, will be compromised by the construction--funded by Germany--of a new railway line. At the excavation site, Somerville''s wife, Edith, wonders if her marriage has fizzled, especially after the arrival of Alex Elliott, a handsome American posing as a geologist but secretly searching for new sources of oil. Meanwhile, Jehar, an Arab confidence man, brings often fabricated messages to Somerville, warning him that the Germans are quickly approaching. The tension between the players--all eager to claim rights to what the land provides--builds toward a violent, unexpected finale. In elegantly modulated prose, Unsworth creates a tapestry of ambition and greed while, at the same time, foreshadowing the current conflict in the region.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The New Yorker\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is 1914, and, after three years in the deserts of Mesopotamia, the British archeologist John Somerville believes he is on the brink of a great discovery. Before he can uncover what he thinks was the residence of the last Assyrian king, Somerville must fight off plans for a railway that will encroach on his dig site, and thwart the efforts of Elliot, a charismatic, straight-talking American (in British historical novels there is rarely any other kind) who is bent on finding oil and on destroying what remains of Somerville''s marriage. There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth''s knowing depiction of a decaying empire run by upper-class incompetents, and in his generous and sympathetic portrayal of women caught between cultures, but he falters in the execution: the plot is that of a thriller, yet the story unfolds at the leisurely pace of a somewhat distracted teatime conversation.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4650'),
(18267, 'The Land of Mist', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4224'),
(18268, 'The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty thousand years in the making and 31 years in the writing, Auel''s overlong and underplotted sixth and final volume in the Earth''s Children series (The Clan of the Cave Bear; etc.) finds Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar; and their infant daughter, Jonayla, settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Animal whisperer and medicine woman Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan, but all is not rosy in this Ice Age setting; there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona. While gazing on an elaborate cave painting (presumably, the Lascaux caverns in France), Ayla has an epiphany and invents the concept of art appreciation, and after she overdoses on a hallucinogenic root, Ayla and Jondalar come to understand how much they mean to one another, thus giving birth to another conceptâ€”monogamy. Otherwise, not much of dramatic interest happens, and Ayla, for all her superwomanish ways, remains unfortunately flat. Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed the previous volumes will relish the opportunity to re-enter pre-history one last time. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n What began 30 years ago with Auelï¿½s best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), namely the phenomenally popular Ice Ageï¿½era Earthï¿½s Children series, comes to an end in the sixth installment. Now a wife and mother, Ayla lives among the Zelandoni, the people of her mate, Jondalar, but she hasnï¿½t forgotten the ways of the people who raised her. Ayla is training to become a spiritual leader, and her devotion to this calling takes its toll on her union with Jondalar. On their journeys, Ayla and her friends contend with earthquakes, a band of marauding rapists, and even an outbreak of prehistoric chicken pox. When Ayla and Jondalar get wistful for the days when they were alone with their animals, readers might find themselves feeling similarly. As was the case with The Shelters of Stone (2002), thereï¿½s not a lot of urgency in this final volume, but the millions of readers who have been with Ayla from the start will want to once again lose themselves in the rich prehistoric world Auel conjures and see how this internationally beloved series concludes. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Auelï¿½s novels have been record-breaking mega-best-sellers, with 45 million copies worldwide, ensuring that readers will clamor for the series finale. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4096'),
(18269, 'The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty thousand years in the making and 31 years in the writing, Auel''s overlong and underplotted sixth and final volume in the Earth''s Children series (The Clan of the Cave Bear; etc.) finds Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar; and their infant daughter, Jonayla, settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Animal whisperer and medicine woman Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan, but all is not rosy in this Ice Age setting; there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona. While gazing on an elaborate cave painting (presumably, the Lascaux caverns in France), Ayla has an epiphany and invents the concept of art appreciation, and after she overdoses on a hallucinogenic root, Ayla and Jondalar come to understand how much they mean to one another, thus giving birth to another conceptâ€”monogamy. Otherwise, not much of dramatic interest happens, and Ayla, for all her superwomanish ways, remains unfortunately flat. Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed the previous volumes will relish the opportunity to re-enter pre-history one last time. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n What began 30 years ago with Auelï¿½s best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), namely the phenomenally popular Ice Ageï¿½era Earthï¿½s Children series, comes to an end in the sixth installment. Now a wife and mother, Ayla lives among the Zelandoni, the people of her mate, Jondalar, but she hasnï¿½t forgotten the ways of the people who raised her. Ayla is training to become a spiritual leader, and her devotion to this calling takes its toll on her union with Jondalar. On their journeys, Ayla and her friends contend with earthquakes, a band of marauding rapists, and even an outbreak of prehistoric chicken pox. When Ayla and Jondalar get wistful for the days when they were alone with their animals, readers might find themselves feeling similarly. As was the case with The Shelters of Stone (2002), thereï¿½s not a lot of urgency in this final volume, but the millions of readers who have been with Ayla from the start will want to once again lose themselves in the rich prehistoric world Auel conjures and see how this internationally beloved series concludes. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Auelï¿½s novels have been record-breaking mega-best-sellers, with 45 million copies worldwide, ensuring that readers will clamor for the series finale. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4384'),
(18270, 'The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty thousand years in the making and 31 years in the writing, Auel''s overlong and underplotted sixth and final volume in the Earth''s Children series (The Clan of the Cave Bear; etc.) finds Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar; and their infant daughter, Jonayla, settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Animal whisperer and medicine woman Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan, but all is not rosy in this Ice Age setting; there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona. While gazing on an elaborate cave painting (presumably, the Lascaux caverns in France), Ayla has an epiphany and invents the concept of art appreciation, and after she overdoses on a hallucinogenic root, Ayla and Jondalar come to understand how much they mean to one another, thus giving birth to another conceptâ€”monogamy. Otherwise, not much of dramatic interest happens, and Ayla, for all her superwomanish ways, remains unfortunately flat. Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed the previous volumes will relish the opportunity to re-enter pre-history one last time. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n What began 30 years ago with Auelï¿½s best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), namely the phenomenally popular Ice Ageï¿½era Earthï¿½s Children series, comes to an end in the sixth installment. Now a wife and mother, Ayla lives among the Zelandoni, the people of her mate, Jondalar, but she hasnï¿½t forgotten the ways of the people who raised her. Ayla is training to become a spiritual leader, and her devotion to this calling takes its toll on her union with Jondalar. On their journeys, Ayla and her friends contend with earthquakes, a band of marauding rapists, and even an outbreak of prehistoric chicken pox. When Ayla and Jondalar get wistful for the days when they were alone with their animals, readers might find themselves feeling similarly. As was the case with The Shelters of Stone (2002), thereï¿½s not a lot of urgency in this final volume, but the millions of readers who have been with Ayla from the start will want to once again lose themselves in the rich prehistoric world Auel conjures and see how this internationally beloved series concludes. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Auelï¿½s novels have been record-breaking mega-best-sellers, with 45 million copies worldwide, ensuring that readers will clamor for the series finale. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4442'),
(18271, 'Landscape', 'August 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10604'),
(18272, ' Langford  039 s Advanced Photography  Eighth Edition  The guide for Aspiring Photographers  The Langford Series ', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6754'),
(18273, 'Laptops All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Corey Sandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦this title consists of eight mini-books giving laptop owners the detailed information and advice they needâ€¦" (_Publishing News_, Fri 14th March 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Builds on the huge success of Laptops For Dummies, now in its second edition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eight minibooks comprising nearly 850 pages give laptop owners the detailed information and advice they need to make the most of their computers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers focused content for new and intermediate laptop users, covering laptop basics and beyond, from synchronizing information with a desktop PC and coordinating e-mail between two computers to accessing the Internet or a desktop computer remotely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minibooks include laptop basics, software for laptops, accessories to go, traveling with a laptop, security, networking a laptop, sources of power, and upgrading a laptop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sales of laptops continue to outpace sales of desktop PCs, with retail laptop sales up 24 percent in the 2006 holiday season\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1722'),
(18274, 'Laptops for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A great boon for the laptop buyer." (_Good Book Guide_, January 2007)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUsing plenty of insight laced with humour, Gookin explains the benefits of laptops and shows how to solve problems" (_Good Book Guide,_ May 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Laptops For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to use your laptop to its fullest potential, from how to purchase a laptop and what to do when you first open the box to how to keep your laptop safe and running smoothly.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will discover how to choose and purchase the right laptop for you, how to set up and maintain your laptop, customize user accounts, adding your laptop to networks, printing, and connecting to the Internet. In this updated and revised edition, find information about synchronizing with the desktop, coordinating email pickup between two machines, remote access to the desktop, networking, power management, storage, and especially laptop security. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate all your laptopâ€™s components\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use keyboard shortcuts and a mouse\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and manage files and accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print files and add your laptop to a network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Properly equip your laptop carrying case with tools and resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage the power supply\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add software tools to synchronize and update files between a laptop, a PDA, and a desktop or office server\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition to the basics, find lists of ten battery tips and tricks, ten handy laptop accessories, and ten things you should keep in your laptop carrying case in\n <em>\n  Laptops for Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n , a convenient and handy guide!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1723');
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(18275, 'Laptops for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest edition of the bestselling guide to getting started with a laptop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one knows computers like veteran author Dan Gookin. With this new edition of his bestseller, he shares his wealth of knowledge and once again finesses even the most complex of topics and presents it in such a way that makes it simple, entertaining, and easy to understand.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll explore the latest hardware and technology updates and delve into the most updated information on Windows 7. You''ll review the many issues that are unique to laptops, including synchronizing with the desktop, coordinating e-mail between two machines, working on the road, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Beloved and popular author Dan Gookin returns with a new edition that makes understanding laptops simpler than you ever thought possible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares the latest information concerning laptops: new technology, current processors available, and steps to update memory and hard drive capabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes coverage of connectivity between a laptop and desktop, interfaces between laptops, add-ons, networking procedures, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews the perks of newer laptops, including larger displays, longer battery power, and speeds equal to desktops to name a few\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines the benefits of mobility for students, employees, and anyone who needs to work on the go\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This fun and friendly guide will get you up and running with your laptop in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a move on! Learn to roam free with this guide to choosing and using a laptop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Laptops come with everything you need to get going â€” everything, that is, except a guide to buying and using one. This book covers portable computers from laptop to lap-bottom, with useful advice on picking one, setting it up, managing power and peripherals, going online, and hitting the road.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which one fits your lap? â€” learn what to look for, what to ignore, and how to find the laptop you''ll love\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get acquainted â€” tour your laptop and locate its buttons, disk slots, security features, and keyboard peculiarities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Windows, laptop model â€” test-drive WindowsÂ® on your laptop and know where to find programs, files, and network access\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Feel the power â€” discover how to monitor your laptop''s power and prolong battery life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You''ve got connections â€” introduce your laptop to a network and connect to the Internet wherever you find it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make friends with your OS â€” find out how to use the latest features in Windows 7 and other laptop-friendly operating systems and keep your laptop happy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bells and whistles, anyone? â€” add a portable printer, PC Card, or USB gizmo to make your laptop more versatile\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for takeoff â€” protect your laptop and your data when you travel\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Translations of laptop buzzwords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Regular maintenance and troubleshooting tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for safely unpacking your laptop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on maximizing power, memory, and hard drive space\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for strong passwords you can actually remember\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the differences are between netbooks and laptops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make phone calls and video-chat from your laptop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Descriptions of ten cool laptop accessories\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the most of the latest laptop features and capabilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Synchronize your laptop with your desktop and cellphone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up security for mobility and social networking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Beef up your laptop''s memory and hard drive capacity\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1724'),
(18276, 'Laptops for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A great boon for the laptop buyer." (_Good Book Guide_, January 2007)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUsing plenty of insight laced with humour, Gookin explains the benefits of laptops and shows how to solve problems" (_Good Book Guide,_ May 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  With a generous dash of humor and fun, bestselling author Dan Gookin shows people how to select the right machine and tackle typical laptop challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Laptop sales recently surpassed those of desktop machines-a trend that seems likely to continue\n </li>\n <li>\n  A must for laptop newbies as well as road warriors who need to get the most out of their machines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers synchronizing with the desktop, accessing the desktop remotely, coordinating e-mail pickup between two machines, wireless networking, managing power, and securing a laptop\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1725'),
(18277, 'Laptops for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Corey Sandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a part of the business world, chances are that you need to use a laptop for mobile computing. Newly revised and updated to serve as a valuable guide for anyone who operates a laptop computer,\n <em>\n  Laptops for Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is an indispensable guide thatâ€™s perfect for when youâ€™re on the road.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll learn how to select the perfect laptop to take with you on the road and youâ€™ll find out how to install or activate WiFi, Bluetooth, wired Ethernet, satellite, and other communication media to keep you connected to the business world. Now you can make sure that you will choose the best software for mobile computing and manage all your files and accounts safely and securely. Youâ€™ll be prepared to fix or work around common hardware and software failures so that you can proceed with your tasks. You will:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Become familiar with all your laptopâ€™s components\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and manage files and accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with repairs, unusual or non-standard power sources, and alternate means of communication\n </li>\n <li>\n  Properly equip your laptop carrying case with tools and resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add software tools to synchronize and update files between a laptop, a PDA, and a desktop or office server\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition to the basics, learn keyboard shortcuts for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, find troubleshooting advice, and cool things you can add to your laptop in\n <em>\n  Laptops for Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , a convenient and handy guide!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quick, up-to-date answers about laptop hardware, software, use, and care\n</p>\n<p>\n Laptops are compact, convenient, and most importantly, mobile. That portable package is pumped full of features, and this fully revised guide is packed with useful information you can take wherever you take your laptop. This edition covers Windows VistaÂ®, Office 2007, security, Windows Media Center and Media Direct, Blu-ray DVD drives, wireless USB ports, and so much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick and choose â€” compare laptop features and choose the best buy for your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate â€” find out how to install and activate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wired Ethernet, and other communication media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get it together â€” compare, choose, and install software tools to synchronize your laptop with other devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be prepared â€” outfit your carrying case with everything you need for repairs, unusual power sources, and other oddities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put safety first â€” secure your property and information with accessories, hardware, and software, including the most recent Symantec and Microsoft security suites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The similarities and differences in laptops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   External devices you might want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to surf the Web, watch a movie, or check e-mail â€” anywhere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Security and maintenance tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keyboard shortcuts for Word, ExcelÂ®, and PowerPointÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you should know about storage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice for the road warrior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool things to add\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1726'),
(18278, 'Laptops for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Corey Sandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chances are, you wanted a laptop because itâ€™s compact, portable, and gets the job done. Youâ€™ll want this book for the same reasons. Small enough to fit into your laptop case, it gives you what you need to make the most of your laptopâ€”even if itâ€™s your first computer. After an introduction that familiarizes you with the hardware and software plus operational essentials, it includes concise info on:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Connecting stuff together, including info on WiFi and Bluetooth\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The essentials of Windows, from the Startup Menu and Control Panel to the Recycle bin\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Managing storage and using folders, subfolders, and directories\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Working with files\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Keyboard shortcuts, plus shortcuts for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Trouble shooting, including the seven more likely sources of problems\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  User-friendly and complete with a glossary that defines tech terms in laymanâ€™s language and an index that helps you find the information you need fast,\n  <em>\n   Laptops For Dummies Quick Reference\n  </em>\n  is a practical, portable primer for laptop users.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fast answers to frequently asked questions\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Laptop essentials at your fingertips!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, accessible reference, you''ll be able to navigate your laptop, install and activate WiFi, select software, manage files, create shortcuts, solve common problems, and tuck all this book''s answers into your laptop case.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1727'),
(18279, 'Laptops for Seniors for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy-to-understand advice for seniors who want to get up and running with their laptops\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Laptop popularity is on the rise among computer buyers, including seniors. For anyone in the over-60 age group who is eager to get started with a laptop, this is the book for you! Laptops are ideal for seniors who travel and want to stay in contact with family and friends. You''ll learn how to select the laptop that is right for you; get familiar with the hardware, operating system, and software; understand files and folders; and connect to other wireless technology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring a larger font for text and larger sizes for images, this easy-to-understand book begins with the basics and progresses to step-by-step coverage of how to establish positive habits and avoid common pitfalls. With this guide, you''ll feel confident about staying safe online when banking, shopping, or chatting.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Seniors are becoming more adventurous when purchasing a computer, and laptops are increasing in popularity among the 60+ age group demographic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the basics: selecting the right laptop for your needs, using the keyboard and mouse, finding your way around Windows 7, using the Internet, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assures you about staying safe online and keeping your information private when shopping, e-mailing family and friends, banking, researching, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features a large font and large images for easy reading\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This gentle introduction will get you started using your laptop today!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now''s the time! Learn to pick a laptop, use Windows, and take advantage of the Internet\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Tired of wondering what all the fuss is about? This book is written for people like you, who may not know much about computers but are ready to learn. In plain English, it tells you how to use a computer, the Windows operating system, and basic software; what to look for in a laptop; and how to get online to shop, e-mail, and chat â€” safely.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compare â€” understand the differences between standard "notebook" laptops, netbooks, mids or minis, and tablet PCs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose wisely â€” consider weight, monitor size, price, how you''ll connect to the Internet, processor speed, and memory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All the details â€” charge the battery, set up user accounts, adjust settings, and manage power\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn what you can do â€” manage your finances, watch movies, research topics of interest, organize your photos, and create family newsletters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do Windows â€” log on and off, manage files and folders, and use accessibility features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate â€” set up an e-mail account and join a social networking site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be careful â€” learn about online risks, how to protect yourself, and how to recognize fraud and scams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simplify your life â€” shop, bank, and pay bills online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep your laptop running smoothly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do with built-in applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on searching the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for protecting your privacy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to access the Internet when you travel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use accessibility features for vision or hearing challenges\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to connect printers and other devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right laptop for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with the built-in touchpad or attach a wireless mouse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Windows 7 to manage files and optimize performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safely send and receive e-mail and explore the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1728'),
(18280, 'Laptops Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Ryan C. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll get the straight, simple lessons that you need to effectively use your Vista powered laptop in\n <em>\n  Laptops Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n . Get where you need to go with a minimum of steps! This book lays out a specific goal and helps you achieve it with a series of lessons, paired with tips and graphics to illustrate the task. You can read this book from cover to cover or skip to the parts that you need to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a flash, you will understand the basic parts, switches, and drives that make up your laptop. Youâ€™ll learn how to operate the main functions of Windows Vista, like managing user accounts, navigating the system, and working with files, folders, software, and devices. Youâ€™ll learn how to create media and connect to the Internet with or without wires! Youâ€™ll discover how to troubleshoot and patch your operating system. You will find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Clean and maintain your laptop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Operate Windows Vista and manage its options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and store media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a router, connect to a network, and go wireless\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sync data and create backups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot hardware and software and patch your operating system\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Laptops Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n provides you with all of the information you need to work more efficiently than ever before!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for using your laptop wherever you go\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which switch is which\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Vista\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to manage media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up a wireless router\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Browser safety tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sync data and make backups\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1729'),
(18281, 'Las Vegas for Dummies', 'Mary Herczog', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Las Vegas can be classy or tacky, cheesy or a bit sleazy, and it''s always entertaining. Get ready to cruise the hot spots, test your luck at the casinos, shop the upscale boutiques, take in the spectacular shows, hit the swinging dance clubs, or escape from the glitz and neon and take in natural wonders on refreshing day trips. This guide gives you insider info on where to go and what to do, with great advice on how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find the best casinos and play the most popular games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stroll the strip, where you can watch a volcano explode, see the ancient Pyramids, and explore New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dine on delicacies prepared by celebrity chefs such as Joel Robuchon at the Mansion (in the MGM Grand) or Emeril Lagasse at Table 10 (in the Palazzo), load up at buffets like Paris, Le Village Buffet (in the Paris Hotel), or split a sub at Capriotti''s\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take in spectacular entertainment from Cirque de Soleil_,_ Blue Man Group, Penn &amp; Teller, and many more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy performances by big-name stars like Celine Dion or catch the classic topless Vegas revue, Jubilee!\n </li>\n <li>\n  See shows like the magnificent Bellagio Water Fountains, hang out with dolphins at Mirage''s Dolphin Habitat, or tour the inimitable Liberace Museum\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Las Vegas For Dummies, Fifth Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll even find a time-saving "Quick Concierge" section with key phone numbers, addresses, and handy how-to''s for getting around so you wonâ€™t miss a minute of the Vegas action!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fun in Las Vegas is a sure bet!\n</p>\n<p>\n Stroll by the Eiffel Tower, meander down the canals of Venice, gaze at an Egyptian pyramid, or cross the Brooklyn Bridge. Take in a show, experience the Strip, hit the casinos, enjoy fine cuisine, power shop, or even explore nearby natural wonders. Whether you want exciting action or relaxing luxury, with this friendly guide you''ve hit the jackpot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1730'),
(18282, 'The Last Assassin', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Barry Eisler has been compared to Forsyth, Ludlum, le CarrÃ©, Ian Fleming and Graham Green. But his latest thriller brings Eisler into a league of his own. When Japanese/American contract killer John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rainâ€™s enemies, and his sudden appearance puts mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose good olâ€™ boy persona masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever. But to finish the job, heâ€™ll need one more ally: Israeli intelligence agent Delilah, a woman who represents an altogether different kind of threatâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Barry Eisler has been compared to Forsyth, Ludlum, le CarrÃ©, Ian Fleming, and Graham Greene. But his latest thriller brings Eisler into a league of his own. When Japanese/American contract killer John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain''s enemies, and his sudden appearance puts mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose good ol'' boy persona masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever. But to finish the job, he''ll need one more ally: Israeli intelligence agent Delilah, a woman who represents an altogether different kind of threat . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4634'),
(18283, 'Last Bus to Woodstock', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."--The New York Times Book Review"YOU DON''T REALLY KNOW MORSE UNTIL YOU''VE READ HIM. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter''s novels."--Chicago Sun-TimesBeautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia''s bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the girl he''s certain was Sylvia''s companion on that ill-fated September evening. Shrewd as Morse is, he''s also distracted by the complex scenarios that the murder set in motion among Sylvia''s girlfriends and their Oxford playmates. To grasp the painful truth, and act upon it, requires from Morse the last atom of his professional discipline."Few novelists write books as intelligent and deliciously frightening as those by Colin Dexter. . . . What Mr. Dexter does so well, so brilliantly, is weave a thick, cerebral story chock-full of literary references and clever red herrings."--The Washington Times"A MASTERFUL CRIME WRITER WHOM FEW OTHERS MATCH."--Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6162'),
(18284, 'The Last Encounter', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "Hornblower and the Widow McCool".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5977'),
(18285, 'The Last Kashmiri Rose', 'Barbara Cleverly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This exciting new crime thriller introduces detective and World War 1 hero, Joe Sandilands. It is India 1922 and Britain is in her final flush of Empire. In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys, a smart cavalry regiment, have been dying violently, one a year and each in March. The only link between them is the bunch of small red roses that mysteriously appears on the women''s graves on the anniversary of their deaths. Joe is asked discreetly to investigate. It becomes clear to him that the deaths are indeed connected and that the series has not yet run its course. If he has it right there will be one more recipient of the Kashmiri Roses. With only days to go before the end of March and the time for the sixth murder can Joe with his modern policing methods and his faith in the new western science of psychological profiling uncover a murderer whose compulsions seem to be rooted in the dark soul of India itself? And is he hunting an Indian or a European killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4259'),
(18286, 'Last Seen Wearing', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too."--The New York Times Book ReviewValerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she''s dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don''t worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body--a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he getsone. . . . "You don''t really know Morse until you''ve read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter''s novels."--Chicago Sun-Times"Fascinating . . . Very satisfying."--Book Sellers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6163'),
(18287, 'The Last Testament', 'Sam Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n April 2003: As his nation descends into chaos, an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities--unaware that his actions could ignite the war to end all wars.  Years later, on the eve of a historic Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, bodyguards for Israel''s prime minister gun down a possible assassin--and discover a blood-stained note clutched in the dead man''s hand.  With Middle Eastern tensions rapidly reaching the boiling point--in the wake of a frightening wave of seemingly random revenge killings--Maggie Costello is sent by Washington to try to keep the peace. A government negotiator with old sins to atone for, she immediately comes face-to-face with ancient secrets, extremist violence, and sudden, inexplicable death. For Maggie seems to hold the key to the last unsolved riddle of the Bible--a shocking revelation that could end the world''s most bitter conflict . . . or leave the earth in ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6273'),
(18288, 'Late For The Wedding (l&amp;m-3)', 'Jayne Ann Krentz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4060'),
(18289, 'Latte Trouble', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6234'),
(18290, 'Layout 1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10740'),
(18291, 'The Leader and the Damned', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Working from the premise that Hitler was murdered in 1943, and replaced by a look-a-like, this story reinterprets the events which took place from 1943 to 1945. At the centre is Martin Bormann, and his plan to cover-up Hitlers death in an attempt to stop anti-Nazi generals seizing power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6169'),
(18292, 'The Leadership Brain for Dummies', 'Marilee B. Sprenger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover how scientific knowledge of the brain can make you a better leader\n</p>\n<p>\n Based upon the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and advances in brain-based education,\n <em>\n  Leadership Brain For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the edge to influence, lead, and transform any team or organization.__\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing concrete connections between the growing scientific knowledge of the brain and leadership, this book gives you the skills to assess your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, adopt a style of leadership that suits your characteristics, determine the learning styles of individual employees, and conduct training sessions that can physically change brains.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The author is an international educational neuroscience consultant and an adjunct professor, teaching brain-compatible strategies and memory courses. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Learning and Brain Society\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Leadership Brain For Dummies\n  </em>\n  provides practical, hands-on guidance for applying the information to make you a better leader\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Leadership Brain For Dummies\n </em>\n positions current and aspiring leaders to be at the very top of their leadership game.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover how to train your brain for leadership\n</p>\n<p>\n Based upon the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and advances in brain-based education, this friendly guide shows you how you can train your brain to successfully influence, lead, and transform any team or organization. You get practical, hands-on information for assessing your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, adopting a style of leadership that suits your mental and emotional characteristics, and leading your team to its fullest potential.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Leadership is all in your head â€” get a handle on the science behind the brain to understand how it makes connections, how it changes, and the principles of the brain''s need for learning and productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tapping into the brain of a leader â€” discover your unique intellectual strengths to help determine the style of leadership that''s best for you and for the situation at hand\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Thinking your way to the top â€” become a leader who can harness emotions as well as facts to make the right decisions in the workplace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with the brains you have â€” find out how to enable your current employees to excel, hire the best brain for a job, optimize working conditions, and make teams work under any conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Training and developing brains â€” change your employees'' minds (and skill sets) through effective training and development\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways that leadership is linked to the brain\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the brain needs for you to lead well\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to assess your leadership style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand and utilize the different types of intelligence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How music, lighting, temperature, and naps affect productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between male and female brains\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on building better business relationships\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The truth about ten persistent brain myths\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess your strengths and weaknesses as a leader\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your brain and harness its power to lead\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make meetings matter by using brain-compatible techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Utilize brain science to train employees effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2103'),
(18293, 'Lean for Dummies', 'Natalie J. Sayer &amp; Bruce Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps youâ€™re already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed.\n <em>\n  Lean for Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to do more with less and create an enterprise that embraces change.\n</p>\n<p>\n In plain-English writing, this friendly guide explores the general overview of Lean, how flow and the value stream works, and the best ways to apply Lean to your enterprise. You will understand the philosophy of Lean and adopt it not as a routine, but a way of life. This highly informative book teaches you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The foundation and language of Lean\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to map the value stream and using it to your businessâ€™s advantage\n </li>\n <li>\n  The philosophy of Kaizen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different tools to improve management, customer service, and flow and pull\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to â€œGo Leanâ€ within your business and across the industry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes in implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seek out resources for assistance\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This simple, continuous improvement approach that minimizes waste and adds customer value is changing organizations of all sizes all over the world.\n <em>\n  Lean for Dummies\n </em>\n will show you to take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformation!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a culture that embraces change\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to do more with less\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Competitive pressures force everyone to satisfy more demanding customers while using less of everything â€” time, energy, space, materials, and money. This no-nonsense guide shows you how to apply the proven philosophies and techniques of Lean to eliminate waste and maximize the effectiveness of your resources. You''ll see step-by-step how to implement Lean practices in any type of organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand Lean and how it?s implemented\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speak the language of Lean\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify and eliminate the seven forms of waste\n </li>\n <li>\n  Construct and use Value Stream Maps and other Lean tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Engage people in a Lean transformation\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1731'),
(18294, 'The Leavenworth Case', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3925'),
(18295, 'Leg Show Magazine - November  2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6815'),
(18296, 'Legacy of Heorot', 'Larry Niven &amp; Steven Barnes &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the warnings of professional soldier Cadmann Weylanduntil a large, unnaturally fast and cunning predator begins stalking the colony. Learning how to kill the beast is only the first step, for they must then reevaluate their entire understanding of Avalon''s ecology. The novel is best in its sympathetic treatment of the once formidable scientists who wake from cold sleep with impaired mental powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6301'),
(18297, 'Lens Design', 'Milton Laikin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4542'),
(18298, 'Leonora', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4238'),
(18299, 'Les Filles de Playboy 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4549'),
(18300, 'Lessons From the Great Depression for Dummies', 'Steve Wiegand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An in-depth look at the lessons from one of the worst times in America''s financial history\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you worried about the economy? You''re certainly not alone. According to most economists, the turmoil that Americans will face over the next four years will be the roughest financial times since the Great Depression-and many are looking backward to learn how to survive an ongoing and sustained economic downturn.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lessons from the Great Depression For Dummies\n </em>\n takes a historic look at the events and circumstances leading up to the 1929 crash and subsequent depression, then the economic aftermath-particularly the economic response. This book paints a historic picture of those times and examines not only the critical failures that led to a decade of depression, but also the positive and negative aftershocks that created the modern American lifestyle. You''ll see how the lessons we learned have shaped today''s political and financial landscape-and how they''ll continue to be part of the American experience for future generations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides information on what was learned from the Great Depression and how those lessons have shaped the economic foundation of modern society\n </li>\n <li>\n  Looks at the various factors that combined to create the Great Depression\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines the social and cultural impact that the Depression had on the American people-and how our lives today are very much a product of those factors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Steve Wiegand, n award-winning political journalist and history writer, is the also the author of\n  <em>\n   U.S. History for Dummies, 2nd Edition\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n For anyone looking to understand how the American people survived and emerged from a financial disaster with their heads held high and their spirit intact,\n <em>\n  Lessons from the Great Depression For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ideal resource.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your concise guide to the worst time in America''s financial history\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to understand the circumstances that brought about the Great Depression? This friendly, authoritative guide explains the perfect storm of problems that led to the 1929 stock market crash and subsequent economic disaster. You''ll discover the lessons that continue to shape today''s political and financial landscape.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The key players â€” get to know the colorful cast of characters who peopled the government, unions, and other key institutions during this tumultuous time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The lack of a government safety net â€” find out what happened when banks closed, panic ensued, and lines formed for bread, soup, and jobs as Americans received little help from Washington\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A portrait of depression â€” discover the impact of a constricting economy, the effects on family and social life, and the plight of the American farmer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Living through the truly hard times â€” see how Americans coped by moving west to find work and escaped their troubles through entertainment\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of basic economic terms and concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discussion of the U.S. political climate that fueled the country''s economic woes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What it meant to live in "Hooverville"\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Hoover and FDR thought about each other\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What happened across the globe during the Great Depression\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The story of how organized labor grew and changed in response to hard times\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What FDR accomplished during his first 100 days as president\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the Great Depression''s legacy affects your life today\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1732'),
(18301, 'Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Liberty Defined\n  </em>\n  , congressman and #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere clichÃ©. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul''s position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the chairman of the domestic monetary policy subcommittee, and the author of eight books, including the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Revolution: A Manifesto\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   End The Fed.\n  </em>\n  An advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace, he is chairman of the FREE Foundation, founder of the Campaign for Liberty, and distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He and Carol, his wife of fifty-three years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4180'),
(18302, 'Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Liberty Defined\n  </em>\n  , congressman and #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere clichÃ©. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul''s position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the chairman of the domestic monetary policy subcommittee, and the author of eight books, including the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Revolution: A Manifesto\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   End The Fed.\n  </em>\n  An advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace, he is chairman of the FREE Foundation, founder of the Campaign for Liberty, and distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He and Carol, his wife of fifty-three years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4423'),
(18303, 'Libris.Office.2011.til.Mac.Danish.Retail.eBook-DiscoTeK.pdf 19-08-2011', 'Libris.Office.2011.til.Mac.Danish.Retail.eBook-DiscoTeK.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3635'),
(18304, 'Libris.Windows.7.Superbruger.Danish.Retail.eBook-DiscoTeK.pdf 17-08-2011', 'Libris.Windows.7.Superbruger.Danish.Retail.eBook-DiscoTeK.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3604'),
(18305, 'Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me', 'Chelsea&#39;s Family, Friends &amp; Other Victims &amp; Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of\n  <em>\n   Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they''ve all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they''ve lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Friends, family members, and co-workers of Chelsea Handler, who are happy to write a new book for Chelsea to promote since she''s feeling too lazy to write one herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4181'),
(18306, 'Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me', 'Chelsea&#39;s Family, Friends &amp; Other Victims &amp; Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of\n  <em>\n   Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they''ve all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they''ve lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Friends, family members, and co-workers of Chelsea Handler, who are happy to write a new book for Chelsea to promote since she''s feeling too lazy to write one herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4358');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18307, 'Lieutenant Hornblower', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as midshipman to face new responsibilities thrust upon him by the fortunes of war between Napoleon and Spain. Enduring near-mutiny, bloody hand-to-hand combat with Spanish seamen, deck-splintering sea battles, and the violence and horror of life on the fighting ships of the Napoleonic Wars, the young lieutenant distinguishes himself in his first independent command. He also faces an adventure unique in his experience: Maria.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5973'),
(18308, 'Life', 'Keith Richards &amp; James Fox (Contributor)', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones''s first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970''s when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller\n  <i>\n   White Mischief\n  </i>\n  . He lives in London with his wife and sons.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4182'),
(18309, 'Life', 'Keith Richards &amp; James Fox (Contributor)', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones''s first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970''s when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller\n  <i>\n   White Mischief\n  </i>\n  . He lives in London with his wife and sons.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4357'),
(18310, 'Light and Heavy Vehicle Technology, Fourth edition', 'M.J. Nunney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6757'),
(18311, 'The Lightning Conductor / The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5943'),
(18312, 'The Lightning Conductor Discovers America', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5942'),
(18313, 'Limited Liability Companies for Dummies', 'Jennifer Reuting', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What is a limited liability company? How is an LLC different from a corporation? Should you form an LLC for your business?\n <em>\n  Limited Liability Companies For Dummies,\n </em>\n answers all of your questions about LLCs and demystifies the formation and management of these increasingly popular business entities.\n</p>\n<p>\n This clear, concise guide explains the pros and cons of LLCs and shares insider insights on everything from choosing your members and your company name to creating and filing your Articles of Organization, to the day-to-day operation of your LLC. You''ll also find valuable tips on creating your Operating Agreement, saving on taxes, and avoiding bankruptcy and fraud. You''ll discover all the information you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide if an LLC is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the help you need to form your LLC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Form your LLC in or out of your own state\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lower LLC costs and fees\n </li>\n <li>\n  Convert an existing company to an LLC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with state and local licensing issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your LLC to protect your assets\n </li>\n <li>\n  File annual reports and research franchising fees\n </li>\n <li>\n  Issue membership shares\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dissolve or extend an LLC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control LLC assets and debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your LLC intact\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with winning strategies for streamlining your business, protecting your assets, and passing your estate on to your heirs,\n <em>\n  Limited Liability Companies For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the power and the knowledge to take full advantage all the benefits your LLC has to offer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for reducing taxes, and avoiding bankruptcy and fraud\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to eliminate the guesswork in starting and running an LLC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about forming a Limited Liability Company? This clear, concise guide explains the pros and cons, sharing insider insight on everything from choosing your members and your company name to creating and filing your Articles of Organization, to the day-to-day operation of your LLC. You also get expert tips on creating your Operating Agreement, saving on taxes, and finding professional guidance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decide if an LLC is right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Form your LLC in or out of your home state\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Convert an existing company to an LLC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Address state and local licensing issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use your LLC to protect your assets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1733'),
(18314, 'The Lincoln lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life."\n</p>\n<p>\n Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Mickey''s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly''s literary gifts. There''s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he''s no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He''s haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he''s on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can''t help seeing dollar signs: Roulet''s imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son''s innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet''s personality and his past. Levin''s murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he''s in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book''s first half involving the reader in Mickey''s complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4097'),
(18315, 'The Lincoln lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life."\n</p>\n<p>\n Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Mickey''s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly''s literary gifts. There''s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he''s no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He''s haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he''s on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can''t help seeing dollar signs: Roulet''s imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son''s innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet''s personality and his past. Levin''s murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he''s in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book''s first half involving the reader in Mickey''s complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4383'),
(18316, 'The Lincoln lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life."\n</p>\n<p>\n Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Mickey''s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly''s literary gifts. There''s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he''s no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He''s haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he''s on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can''t help seeing dollar signs: Roulet''s imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son''s innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet''s personality and his past. Levin''s murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he''s in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book''s first half involving the reader in Mickey''s complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4441'),
(18317, 'Linear Algebra for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to real-world applications of linear algebra\n</p>\n<p>\n Does linear algebra leave you feeling lost? No worries â€”this easy-to-follow guide explains the how and the why of solving linear algebra problems in plain English. From matrices to vector spaces to linear transformations, you''ll understand the key concepts and see how they relate to everything from genetics to nutrition to spotted owl extinction.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Line up the basics â€” discover several different approaches to organizing numbers and equations, and solve systems of equations algebraically or with matrices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Relate vectors and linear transformations â€” link vectors and matrices with linear combinations and seek solutions of homogeneous systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate determinants â€” see how to perform the determinant function on different sizes of matrices and take advantage of Cramer''s rule\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hone your skills with vector spaces â€” determine the properties of vector spaces and their subspaces and see linear transformation in action\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle eigenvalues and eigenvectors â€” define and solve for eigenvalues and eigenvectors and understand how they interact with specific matrices\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Theoretical and practical ways of solving linear algebra problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Definitions of terms throughout and in the glossary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New ways of looking at operations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How linear algebra ties together vectors, matrices, determinants, and linear transformations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common mathematical representations of Greek letters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real-world applications of matrices and determinants\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Jane Sterling is the author of numerous For Dummies books. She is a lecturer at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where she has taught courses in algebra, calculus, and other mathematics topics for almost 30 years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1734'),
(18318, 'LinkedIn for Dummies', 'Joel Elad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once you''re LinkedIn, you''re part of the largest online network of professionals in the world! When you know how to make the most of your profile, manage your contacts, and handle invitations effectively, you''ll go far. This book is packed with advice that will help you market yourself and find a job, an employee, an investor, or more business for your business!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reconnect, power your career, and get answers\n</p>\n<p>\n See how to make contacts and build a business network with LinkedIn\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you''re LinkedIn, you''re part of the largest online network of professionals in the world! When you know how to make the most of your profile, manage your contacts, and handle invitations effectively, you''ll go far. This book is packed with advice that will help you market yourself and find a job, an employee, an investor, or more business for your business!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sign up and join LinkedIn\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a profile that attracts connections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Request and write recommendations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Generate and research sales leads\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start or join LinkedIn groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Post business questions to LinkedIn Answers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1735'),
(18319, 'LINQ for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve asked yourself â€œWhy canâ€™t I develop database and XML queries in a language I already know?â€, then Language INtegrated Query, or LINQ, is for you.\n <em>\n  LINQ For Dummies\n </em>\n introduces you to LINQ and the .NET Framework technologies, so you can use LINQ to query any object, any data set, any kind of XML, and SQL Serverâ€”no questions asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide gives you a thorough overview of LINQ, from understanding the tasks it performs to making LINQ work with both Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005. It explains the four LINQ providers in the .NET Framework, the easiest ways to go about accessing data, and how to write more efficient applications with less code using LINQ. Thereâ€™s also clear guidance on combining third-party providers with LINQ to create even more powerful apps. With this single, comprehensive guide, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use one query language with all Microsoft languages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examine .NET language extensions and work with extension methods, partial methods, lambda expressions, and query expressions\n </li>\n <li>\n  LINQ to DataSet operators, SQL server operations, XML API, or Active Directory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with databases â€” download and install the Northwind database, generate Northwind entity classes, and create the Northwind XML mapping file\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create the partial class example, the partial method example, and the database modification example\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use objects with LINQ\n </li>\n <li>\n  Query databases in Visual Basic and C#\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n As an added bonus, you can visit the companion Web site for LINQ examples in C# and Visual Basic. With\n <em>\n  LINQ For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll link up with LINQ in no time and see how you can query almost anything!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Link up with LINQ and see how you can query almost anything!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you''re the inquisitive type? LINQ answers your biggest query â€” "Why can''t I develop database and XML queries in a language I already know?" This book introduces you to LINQ and the .NET Framework technologies, so you can use LINQ to query any object, any dataset, any kind of XML, SQL Server, and more â€” no questions asked.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect with LINQ â€” understand the tasks LINQ performs, declarative programming, and how to use LINQ in the real world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extend yourself â€” examine .NET language extensions and work with extension methods, partial methods, lambda expressions, and query expressions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose your language â€” work with LINQ using C# along with Visual BasicÂ® or Visual StudioÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   LINQ up â€” LINQ to DataSet operators, SQL server operations, XML API, or Active DirectoryÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with databases â€” download and install the Northwind database, generate Northwind entity classes, and create the Northwind XML mapping file\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/linqfd for all the source code you need\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How LINQ lets you create more efficient applications with less code\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of the LINQ namespaces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do with expression trees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The four LINQ providers in .NET Framework\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use objects with LINQ\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What LINQ can do for the Visual Studio developer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for getting information about your applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The easiest ways to access data\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1736'),
(18320, 'Linux All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Naba Barkakati', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eight minibooks spanning over 850 pages deliver the scoop on the latest versions of seven leading Linux distributions: Fedora Core, SUSE, Debian, Xandros, SimplyMEPIS, Knoppix, and Ubuntu\n </li>\n <li>\n  The DVD includes the full Fedora Core and Knoppix distributions plus ISO images of the other distributions covered, saving hours of downloading time\n </li>\n <li>\n  This new edition includes all-new coverage of the SimplyMEPIS and Ubuntdistributions, an added section on the Skype Internet telephone system, and expanded coverage of Firefox, SELinux, and OpenOffice.org applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  The eight minibooks cover Linux basics, desktops, networking, the Internet, administration, security, Internet servers, and programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Linux share of the operating system market is expected to grow from three to 11 percent in the next four years\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1â€” your key to success with Linux!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to working with various Linux distributions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Linux is hot! It''s cost-effective, secure, and comes in a lot of varieties. And with this book to walk you through it, choosing and using a Linux distribution is time-efficient too. Here''s the essential scoop on Fedora Core, SUSE, Debian, Xandros, Knoppix, SimplyMEPIS, and Ubuntu, with information on Firefox, SELinux, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and configure Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with multimedia and OpenOffice.org\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a LAN\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore SELinux security features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage mail and news servers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run Internet and FTP servers\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1737'),
(18321, 'Linux All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Naba Barkakati', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organized into eight task-oriented minibooks, this comprehensive 864-page guide shows beginning-to-intermediate users how to get up and running with today''s top five Linux distributions: Fedora Core, SUSE, Debian, Xandros, and Knoppix\n </li>\n <li>\n  The accompanying DVD includes the Fedora Core distribution and the ISO images for the other distributions discussed in the book-an incredible value and convenience\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features step-by-step installation instructions for each distribution\n </li>\n <li>\n  The minibooks offer humorous, easy-to-understand coverage of Linux basics, desktops, networking, the Internet, administration, security, Internet servers, and programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lets readers explore the most popular distributions for desktop and server use\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 8 books in 1 â€” your key to exploring and running Linux!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to installing, using, even programming five Linux distributions\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s Linux in eight handy minibooks â€” plus a DVD with Fedora Core 3 and Knoppix ready to install! This helpful reference walks you step by step through installation and setup for each distribution covered, navigating the desktop, networking, getting online, managing administration and security, working with Linux servers, and even programming. Choose your favorite flavor and get going today!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and use Fedoraâ„¢ Core, SUSEâ„¢, DebianÂ®, XandrosÂ®, or Knoppix\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure and troubleshoot Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a LAN\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer files with FTP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform security audits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run Samba and NFS\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1738'),
(18322, 'Linux for Dummies', 'Dee-ann Leblanc &amp; Richard K. Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Focusing on Fedora Core 6, this accessible guide shows newcomers how to create a full-featured Linux desktop setup that''s comparable to a Windows system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Substantially revised and updated with new material on setting up a wireless home network, recycling an old Windows computer as a Linux home-networking server, running Linux on a laptop, editing digital photos, managing and playing audio and video, using open source productivity software, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  The DVD features the full Fedora Core installation and Fedora Core CD ISOs; there''s also a coupon for readers who prefer to get Fedora Core on CD-ROM\n </li>\n <li>\n  A companion Web site provides installation options and information on other popular Linux distributions, including SuSE, Mandriva, Linspire, Knoppix, and Ubuntu\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Everything you need to install, run, and optimize Linux on your desktop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s how to start using Linux, the popular and free operating system\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to do the same tasks you can with Windows, except for free? Linux is the alternative open source operating system that''s beloved by users in the know. This newly updated guide gives you just what you need to get started with Linux â€” plain-English explanations, savvy tips and advice, and, best of all, the full Fedora Core installation on DVD!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand core Linux tasks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use OpenOffice.org for common functions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage and play multimedia\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your Linux box more secure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Linux and Windows together\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1739'),
(18323, 'Linux for Dummies', 'Richard Blum &amp; Dee-ann Leblanc', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  One of the fastest ways to learn Linux is with this perennial favorite\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight previous top-selling editions of\n <em>\n  Linux For Dummies\n </em>\n can''t be wrong. If you''ve been wanting to migrate to Linux, this book is the best way to get there. Written in easy-to-follow, everyday terms,\n <em>\n  Linux For Dummies 9th Edition\n </em>\n gets you started by concentrating on two distributions of Linux that beginners love: the Ubuntu LiveCD distribution and the gOS Linux distribution, which comes pre-installed on Everex computers. The book also covers the full Fedora distribution.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Linux is an open-source operating system and a low-cost or free alternative to Microsoft Windows; of numerous distributions of Linux, this book covers Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Core Linux, and gOS Linux, and includes them on the DVD.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install new open source software via Synaptic or RPM package managers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use free software to browse the Web, listen to music, read e-mail, edit photos, and even run Windows in a virtualized environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get acquainted with the Linux command line\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want to get a solid foundation in Linux, this popular, accessible book is for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Feature-rich, fast, and free â€” what''s not to love about Linux?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''re going to love Linux, the open-source operating system that lets you create documents, browse the Web, work with audio and video files, and everything else you need without tossing your wallet out the windows. This easy-to-use guide tells you what you need to know to get a Linux desktop system installed, personalized, and working just for you!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start here â€” if you''re new to Linux, learn what it is, how it works, and how to install it on your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the GNOME â€” and the KDEÂ®, the two Linux desktops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Now the fun begins â€” enjoy music, video, and games; use the GIMP image editor; explore the Internet; and make Skype phone calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Got work to do? â€” use the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software suite from OpenOffice.org\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A teeny bit techie â€” discover how to handle file formats, create and manage user accounts, secure your system, and use virtual servers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What "open source" means and how it works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to consider a dual boot installation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of different Linux distributions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Linux filesystem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for adding software to Linux\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to burn CDs and listen to Internet radio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool Google Gadgets and how to add them to your desktop\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Bonus DVD Includes\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n ISOs of Ubuntu Linux 9.04 and Fedora Core 11 Preview Edition for you to try\n</p>\n<p>\n Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1740'),
(18324, 'Linux for Dummies', 'Dee-ann Leblanc', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''ve ever wondered whether the Linux penguin knew something you should know, here''s where to find out. This plain-English guide walks you through installing Linux, using the desktop and tools like OpenOffice.org, securing your system, and more. You even get to check out seven different Linux flavors and pick the one you like best.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare your computer and install Linux.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and set up software.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect to the Internet.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore SkypeÂ® phone service.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the GNOME and KDE desktops.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with multimedia tools.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Includes a DVD with the full Fedora Core and Knoppix distributions plus ISO images of the other distributions.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use the DVD to sample Linux without installing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pick a flavor and see what this stable, economical operating system can do!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve ever wondered whether the Linux penguin knew something you should know, here''s where to find out. This plain-English guide walks you through installing Linux, using the desktop and tools like OpenOffice.org, securing your system, and more. You even get to check out seven different Linux flavors and pick the one you like best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare your computer and install Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and set up software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect to the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore SkypeÂ® phone service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the GNOME and KDE desktops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with multimedia tools\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1741'),
(18325, 'Linux for Dummies', 'Dee-ann Leblanc', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geared to casual users who want to install Linux on a personal machine--in other words, hobbyists--_Linux for Dummies_ walks the reader through installing, configuring, tuning, and using each version of Linux. While the book includes a useful comparison of various Linux distributions, the companion CD-ROM holds Red Hat Linux 5.0 and the book uses that distribution in its examples.\n</p>\n<p>\n This clearly written text begins by helping you prepare your system for Linux, going so far as to recommend you get it a special hard disk. The authors then show you how to install the system--including the mechanics of selecting file systems and setting up hardware--and then help you log on for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Next,\n <em>\n  Linux for Dummies\n </em>\n explains elementary commands, including those used to traverse directories and to copy and move files. The book then explores storage issues, detailing how to install and configure a new hard drive in excellent detail. Shells, such as bash and X Windows, get cursory coverage (but adequate, considering the purpose of the book).\n <em>\n  Linux for Dummies\n </em>\n also includes information on certain applications (including vi and emacs) and a guide to tuning and customization that sadly lacks much about shell programming. Internet services, including WAIS, FTP, and Gopher, get their due, but the Apache Web server gets slighted. Overall, this is the best user-lever Linux guide available.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Linux operating system has grown out of a free Unix-compatible kernel written by Linus Torvalds. Free means the user is free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, sell, and improve the software as long as the source code is always included in the next release, which means that those who follow are able to do the same. Since Linux is multitasking and processing, it supports multiple users doing multiple actions. And because Linux is designed for running on cheap, slightly out-of-date hardware, Linux has proven valuable to libraries of all sizes who can not afford constant, costly upgrade fees for new software. If you are interested in exploring Linux, these three books serve as a great combined-use package. The Sobell book is voluminous?it includes his original book from last year, A Practical Guide to Linux (LJ 9/1/97), along with a copy of Caldera OpenLinux Lite and much more on the CD-ROMs. The IDG books will be invaluable late-night resources in those magical moments when things go wrong. For a really nice introduction to Linux in libraries, check out On the Cheap: Linux at  and consider subscribing to linux4lib, a majordomo discussion list at .\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1742'),
(18326, 'Linux for Dummies', 'Dee-ann Leblanc', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦donâ€™t know where to start, look no furtherâ€¦â€ (_PC Utilities_, June 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Previous editions of\n <em>\n  Linux For Dummies\n </em>\n have garnered rave reviews. However, thereâ€™s one scary term applied to themâ€”outdated! The 6th Edition remedies that with easy-to-understand information on the latest version of the most popular Linux distributions, including Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, and Knoppix. This guide walks you though installing, configuring, tuning, and using each version of Linux, the low-cost, secure alternative to expensive operating systems. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prep your computer for Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boot and stop Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect to the Internet, e-mail, surf the Web, and access and use cool Internet tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage files and directories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do word processing and more with Open Office.org\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated material includes:\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on the wireless Internet connection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the new SELinux infrastructure, an important new security feature\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated GNOME and KDE coverage\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Dee-Ann LeBlanc, award-winning author of numerous books and articles and author or coauthor of the popular previous editions of\n <em>\n  Linux For Dummies,\n </em>\n this edition not only guides you step by step, it also includes an appendix of common Linux commands and a comprehensive index so you can find what you need to know without taking extra steps.\n</p>\n<p>\n The bonus DVD includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The full, installable version of Fedora Core 3 and Knoppix\n </li>\n <li>\n  ISO images (that will save hours of downloading time) for SUSE live, Mandrake full version, Xandros Open Circulation version, and Linspire full version\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want to explore the different distributions of Linux, this is the guide for you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1743'),
(18327, 'Linux Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Susan Douglas &amp; Korry Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Formerly known as Red Hat Linux, the Fedora Core distribution is an excellent, no-cost alternative to Windows, Solaris, and other expensive operating systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Red Hat currently controls an estimated seventy percent of the Linux market in the U.S.\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book gives experienced and first-time Fedora users sixty concise, step-by-step, timesaving techniques to help them perform tasks with Fedora more efficiently\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organized by topic, the techniques are presented in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style, with a minimum of technical jargon\n </li>\n <li>\n  The techniques run the gamut of end-user, system administration, and development tasks, ranging from desktop, file system, RPM, and database tips to Internet server, e-mail server, networking, system monitoring, security, and Linux kernel tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the latest release of Red Hat''s Fedora Core distribution\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fine-tune Linux for peak performance and usability!\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 60 techniques that help you save time byâ€¦\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Controlling time-consuming tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improving your system security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting the most from your file system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating repetitive tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tweaking the kernel on your Linux system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Networking like a professional\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tricks and tips for working smarter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contents arranged by technique\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice that goes beyond the basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1744'),
(18328, 'Linux_Format_2011-11.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Linux_Format_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6811'),
(18329, 'Linux.Journal-October.2011.US.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Linux.Journal-October.2011.US.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7022'),
(18330, 'The Lion&#39;s Mouse', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5944'),
(18331, 'The Lion&#39;s Share', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4249');
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(18332, 'Little Red and the Wolf', 'Alison Paige', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Who said being eaten by the big bad wolf was a bad thing?  Maizie Hood struggles to keep her bakery turning a profit, her landlord from evicting her, and her dear Granny in a nursing facility. Wrestling with the decision to sell Gran-s cottage is hard enough. The last thing she needs is her childhood big-bad-wolf nightmares turning into real-life adult fantasies. Sexy businessman Gray Lupo-s sudden interest just makes matters worse. Is he the answer to her problems, or just a wolf in gentleman-s Armani?  Since his wife was killed twenty-one years ago, Gray-s life has been focused on two things: protecting the pack and avoiding the grown daughter of his wife-s killers. When it becomes clear he can-t do one without compromising the other, Gray finds playing -big bad wolf- to Maizie Hood-s -Little Red- is a role he enjoys far more than he expected.  A real bad wolf-s attack on Maizie changes everything. Gray can-t deny the pull she has on his instincts-and his heart. Suddenly he finds himself taking on a role he never thought he-d want, as her protector and mate. Until the truth about his connection to her nightmarish past comes to light-  Warning: This book contains cookies, pastries, pies, hot-guy-on-girl sex and animalistic passion, all for zero calories. Enjoy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3950'),
(18333, 'Living Gluten-Free for Dummies', 'Danna Korn &amp; Alessio Fasano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes 65 delicious gluten-free recipes plus tips on eating out\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how easy and tasty it can be to go gluten free!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have a wheat allergy, gluten intolerance, celiac disease, or you just want to enjoy the benefits of a diet free of wheat, barley, and rye, then this guide is for you. Author Danna Korn explains the medical problems associated with gluten and shows you step by step how to make the transition to a gluten-free lifestyle - and love it!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what you can and can''t eat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop and decipher food labels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cook crowd-pleasing gluten-free meals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat gluten-free at restaurants and parties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise happy gluten-free kids\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes 65 delicious gluten-free recipes plus tips on eating out\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how easy and tasty it can be to go gluten free!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have a wheat allergy, gluten intolerance, celiac disease, or you just want to enjoy the benefits of a diet free of wheat, barley, and rye, then this guide is for you. Author Danna Korn explains the medical problems associated with gluten and shows you step by step how to make the transition to a gluten-free lifestyleâ€”and love it!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what you can and can''t eat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop and decipher food labels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cook crowd-pleasing gluten-free meals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat gluten-free at restaurants and parties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raise happy gluten-free kids\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1745'),
(18334, 'Living the Country Lifestyle All-In-One for Dummies', 'Tracy Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Living the Country Lifestyle All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n features six books in one, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Country Cooking (cast-iron cooking, canning, pickling, and outdoor cooking, among other topics)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Traditional Crafts (sheering animals and producing wool, knitting, hand sewing, patchwork and quilting, candle making)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Kitchen Gardening (growing and caring for vegetables, herbs, and fruit)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Outdoor Skills (camp skills, fishing, navigation, outdoor family fun)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Raising Farm Animals (buying, housing, and raising animals, beekeeping)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Natural Health (herbal remedies, an encyclopedia of herbs, and healing foods)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Slow down, save money, and simplify your life with these traditional methods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you longing for a less frantic, more meaningful lifestyle? This friendly guide is packed with the time-tested skills and wisdom that have helped generations live simpler and more self-reliant lives. Whether you want to grow your own food, spend more time outdoors, or take a natural approach to health, this resource has everything you need to get back to the basics!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cook a down-home meal â€” from cast-iron cooking and canning to drying fruits and outdoor cooking, get the skills you need to succeed in the kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get crafty â€” discover the joy of knitting, hand sewing, candle making, quilting, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoy the fruits of your labor â€” grow and care for a bountiful, edible garden featuring vegetables, herbs, and fruit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the great outdoors â€” learn basic camping and survival skills and take part in activities the whole family will enjoy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Raise your own farm animals â€” buy, house, and care for livestock and keep them as laborers, food sources, or pets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover natural foods and remedies â€” live healthier as you make your own teas, tinctures, salves, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Delicious recipes for homestyle meals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on pickling and preserving foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instruction on shearing animals and preparing fiber\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to growing your own food\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A field guide to identifying, catching, and preparing freshwater fish\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Outdoor fun for adults and kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of beekeeping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An A-to-Z guide to common herbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Home remedies for common ailments\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1746'),
(18335, 'Living Vegan for Dummies', 'Alexandra Jamieson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to live a vegan lifestyle\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you thinking about becoming a vegan? Already a practicing vegan? More than 3 million Americans currently live a vegan lifestyle, and that number is growing.\n <em>\n  Living Vegan For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop resource for understanding vegan practices, sharing them with your friends and loved ones, and maintaining a vegan way of life.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, practical guide explains the types of products that vegans abstain from eating and consuming, and provides healthy and animal-free options. You''ll see how to create a balanced, nutritious vegan diet; read food and product labels to determine animal-derived product content; and stock a vegan pantry. You''ll also get 40 great-tasting recipes to expand your cooking repertoire.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features expert guidance in living a vegan lifestyle and explaining it to friends and family\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes proper dietary guidelines so you can get the nutrition you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gives you several action plans for making the switch to veganism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides parents with everything they need to understand and support their children''s choices\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the tips and advice in\n <em>\n  Living Vegan For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can truly live and enjoy a vegan way of life!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way to live a vegan lifestyle\n</p>\n<p>\n The more your know about how your food is produced and processed, and how this affects your health, the more appealing it becomes to follow a happier and healthier pathway through life by eating a vegan diet. Whether you''re trying to figure out if a vegan diet is right for you or are looking for guidance to make the switch, Living Vegan For Dummies has it covered!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Ve-gan" at the beginning â€” get the lowdown on vegan living and eating and advice on how quickly (or slowly) you can make the transition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Planting the seeds of change â€” find out how to build a healthy vegan diet to make sure you get all the protein and other nutrients you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sticking to your guns â€” get vegan-focused cooking and shopping tips, advice on how to keep the peace with meat eaters in your home, and meal-planning tips to help you stay true to your goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tasting is believing â€” get delicious and easy-to-follow vegan recipes for breakfast, sides, lighter meals and main courses, and even desserts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Going beyond the food â€” step out of the kitchen and learn how you can embrace the whole vegan lifestyle by shopping for animal-free clothing and footwear, vegan health and beauty aids, and household products\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Vegan living out in the real world â€” discover how you can walk the vegan walk at hotels, restaurants, and just about any social situation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How a plant-based diet is better for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for selecting the best transition plan for your lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real facts about protein and other nutrients\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   40 tasty recipes that even nonvegans will enjoy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on how to stock your pantry with vegan-friendly foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick and healthy vegan snacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Excellent "mock" meats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on checking food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on educating family, friends, and your community\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1747'),
(18336, 'Living Vegetarian for Dummies', 'Suzanne Havala Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical ways to explore and adapt a vegetarian lifestyle\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you considering a vegetarian diet for yourself or your family? Wondering if it''s safe and how you''ll get the right amount of nutrients? This authoritative guide has all the answers you need about living vegetarian, featuring healthful advice as well as delicious dishes involving vegetables, fruits, grains, and dairy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find expert advice on adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, from creating a vegetarian shopping list and understanding the nutritional aspects of vegetarian eating, to using the right cooking supplies to vegetarian etiquette, eating out, and converting a kitchen-and your family''s mindset-away from meat. You''ll discover how to make it work when you''re the only member of the house who is vegetarian, as well as how to support a family member, including a child.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides the latest information on vegetarian diets as they relate to health, the environment, and other areas of our lives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes tips for gradually reducing your meat intake\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers dozens of new recipes designed to ease the transition from omnivore to vegetarian\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a long-time vegetarian or just starting out,\n <em>\n  Living Vegetarian For Dummies,\n </em>\n 2nd Edition is your guide to evaluating and enjoying a meat-free lifestyle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your practical guide to a healthy vegetarian lifestyle\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you considering becoming a vegetarian? This comprehensive guide gives you all the expert advice you need to make the transition smooth, healthy, and happy for yourself and your family. Living Vegetarian For Dummies covers everything from converting your kitchen to a meat-free space to following basic vegetarian etiquette.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Defining vegetarianism â€” the how and why of vegetarian living, benefits for you and the planet, proper nutritional guidance, and ways to make the transition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playing the name game â€” easy-to-understand explanations of lacto ovo vegetarianism, veganism, flexitarianism, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Equipping a vegetarian kitchen â€” information on common ingredients, how to keep your shopping costs low, and cooking tools and techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cooking vegetarian â€” dozens of tasty recipes the whole family will enjoy, from soups, salads, and sides to hearty main dishes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Living vegetarian for life â€” tips for moving through life while living and eating among meat eaters, dating nonvegetarians, managing pregnancy, and aging healthfully\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Replacing meat and meat byproducts â€” suggestions for using vegetarian substitutes and replacement ingredients in place of meat in your favorite traditional recipes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Health benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nutrition know-how for living vegetarian\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Food shopping tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on getting the vitamins and minerals you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Different approaches to ease your transition away from meat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basics of food label lingo\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to eat vegetarian while dining out and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practical advice on entertaining your nonvegetarian guests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meatless meals that the whole family will love\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1748'),
(18337, 'Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies', 'Tracy Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get smart about spending and saving -- and ride out a recession!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life -- from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil -- without extraordinary sacrifice!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Bump up your take-home pay-- spiff up your resume, find a good job fast, explore telecommuting, or start a home-based business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your personal finances in tip-top shape -- create a budget, pay down debt, save on insurance, and protect your retirement funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop recession-proof habits -- use coupons and rebates, extend the life of your wardrobe, utilize community resources, travel on a budget, and save on utilities and fuel expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decorate on a dime and entertain on a shoestring -- plan parties, celebrate the holidays, and give gifts without losing your shirt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bounce back from bad financial situations -- improve bad credit scores, and negotiate with creditors or the IRS\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  125 tips for making changes in your life that allow you to continue to live well\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to stand out on paper and in an interview when looking for a job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on managing debt -- from working with credit counselors and consolidating your debts to boosting your income\n </li>\n <li>\n  Smart solutions for weathering financial emergencies, from bankruptcy to foreclosure\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get smart about spending and saving â€” and ride out a recession!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life â€” from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil â€” without extraordinary sacrifice!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bump up your take-home payâ€” spiff up your resumÃ©, find a good job fast, explore telecommuting, or start a home-based business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your personal finances in tip-top shape â€” create a budget, pay down debt, save on insurance, and protect your retirement funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop recession-proof habits â€” use coupons and rebates, extend the life of your wardrobe, utilize community resources, travel on a budget, and save on utilities and fuel expenses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decorate on a dime and entertain on a shoestring â€” plan parties, celebrate the holidays, and give gifts without losing your shirt\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bounce back from bad financial situations â€” improve bad credit scores, and negotiate with creditors or the IRS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   125 tips for making changes in your life that allow you to continue to live well\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to stand out on paper and in an interview when looking for a job\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on managing debt â€” from working with credit counselors and consolidating your debts to boosting your income\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Smart solutions for weathering financial emergencies, from bankruptcy to foreclosure\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1749'),
(18338, 'Living With Hepatitis C for Dummies', 'Nina L. Paul &amp; Gina Pollichino', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A comprehensive, empathetic guide for anyone suffering from this serious liver disease\n <br />\n Approximately 4 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, a viral liver disease that is treatable but not curable. It accounts for more than 40 percent of U.S. liver disease deaths-about 8,000 to 10,000 people annually-and is the most common reason for liver transplantation. This compassionate guide explains how hepatitis C affects the liver and the body and provides solid advice on today''s treatment options-from drugs (and their side effects) to transplants and alternative therapies-as well as tips on dealing with the emotional and financial burdens the disease brings with it.\n <br />\n Nina L Paul, PhD (New York, NY) earned her doctorate in infectious disease epidemiology and immunology from Yale University. She has researched viruses (human immunodeficiency virus and others) and the immune system.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beat fatigue and confusion\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the right diagnosis, get treated, and live a good life\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to better understand hepatitis C? This compassionate guide provides a path for living a healthy life by addressing the physical, emotional, and financial demands that accompany the disease. Find out how hepatitis C affects the liver and the rest of the body, and check out the best medical treatment options available, along with complimentary and alternative approaches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Spot symptoms and warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help kids deal with the disease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay positive and connected with others\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your loved ones safe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the support you need\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1750'),
(18339, 'Loan Modification for Dummies', 'Ralph R. Roberts &amp; Lois Maljak &amp; Joe Kraynak &amp; Paul Doroh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The crucial information you need to secure a reliable loan modification and save your home\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind on your mortgage payments? Worried about losing your home? Don''t panic.\n <em>\n  Loan Modification For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the reliable, authoritative, easy-to-understand guidance you need to apply for and secure a loan modification that lowers your monthly house payment and keeps you in your home.\n</p>\n<p>\n This practical, plain-English guide leads you step by step through the loan modification process, from contacting your lender to applying for a loan modification, evaluating the lender''s initial offer, and negotiating a modification that lowers your monthly payment while helping you catch up on any past-due amounts. You''ll learn how to communicate with your bank or loan servicer, recognize and avoid loan-modification scams, and find a knowledgeable loan modification specialist, if you choose not to do it yourself.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Advice on determining whether you''re likely to qualify for your lender''s loan modification program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guidance on preparing and submitting a loan modification application that improves your chances of success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you figure out a monthly payment you really can afford\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on modifying your loan even when you owe more than your home''s current market value\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiation advice for securing the best possible terms and lowest monthly payment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Resources for contacting your lender, obtaining free or affordable third-party assistance, and getting government agencies on your side\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Read\n <em>\n  Loan Modification For Dummies\n </em>\n and start saving your home today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loan Modification for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Modify your loan, lower your monthly payment, and keep your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess your needs when facing foreclosure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce and fix your interest rate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have delinquency fees and penalties waived\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ralph R. Roberts\n</p>\n<p>\n Lois Maljak\n</p>\n<p>\n Consumer advocates and authors of Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Secure a reliable loan modification and save your home\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind on your mortgage payments? Worried about losing your home? Don''t panic. This practical, hands-on guide shows you how to apply for and secure a loan modification that will lower your monthly payment and keep you in your home. You get step-by-step guidance in working with lenders, evaluating offers, negotiating, avoiding scams, and maintaining your financial health.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for the loan modification process â€” take stock of your situation, determine whether you qualify, evaluate your options, and team up with the right people\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Submit a successful application â€” contact your lender, gather key documents, assess your needs, and prepare an effective hardship letter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate like a pro â€” explore different loan modification adjustments, analyze offers, spot red flags, and strategize to get more of what you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with uncooperative lenders â€” know your legal rights, audit your mortgage loan, uncover predatory lending practices, and use proof of violations to get a modification\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the assistance you need â€” know when to contact your lender, a consumer support agency, a federal agency, or your state attorney general\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Remember that you''re not alone â€” read about the real-world experiences of other homeowners who faced foreclosure and avoided it with a loan modification\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Loan modification explained in plain English\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proactive, forward-thinking advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reviews of foreclosure alternatives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for securing the best terms and lowest monthly payment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to keep the modification process on track and on time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Resources for obtaining low-cost third-party assistance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for leveraging your legal rights\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on avoiding the foreclosure trap again\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1751'),
(18340, 'Local Online Advertising for Dummies', 'Court Cunningham &amp; Stephanie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kick your local online advertising into high gear with this friendly, timely guide!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Add the newest means of advertising your business into your marketing mix by developing an online advertising strategy. This get-down-to-business guide will show you how. Written by executives from Yodle, a New York-based firm specializing in online advertising, this book reveals the best and brightest ways to get the word out, from creating a Web presence that draws visitors, to using SEO, to jumping boldly into social media advertising.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Online advertising market is estimated to grow to $10-$19 billion by 2011, and you''ll want your business to be part of this huge shift\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores how to research your audience, set goals, and build a plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides steps and tips on creating an effective Web presence and landing pages-then covers how to drive visitors to your site with search engine optimization, AdWords, e-mail blasts, and social media marketing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines blogs, chat rooms, video, and other ways to win customers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Don''t miss the free offer from Yodle that comes with this practical guide!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Competition is tough! Get an advantage with online advertising aimed at local customers\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet has changed the way you attract customers to a local business. Now you need a killer Web site, strong presence on search engines, and a vibrant social media campaign along with your other ads to grab the attention of consumers. This book offers the advice of advertising professionals who know how the online world can provide big help for your business!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a plan â€” discover where your customers hang out online, set goals, and identify strategies for success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The site''s the thing â€” learn how to create a customer-focused Web site that''s search engineâ€“friendly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting them there â€” understand how to use search engine marketing, banner ads, and social networks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn clicks into customers â€” use blogs, online video, and online coupons to engage visitors on your Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure results â€” find out how to determine ROI, where your leads come from, and how to see if your ads are working\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get a $100 advertising credit from Yodle!\n</p>\n<p>\n Look inside for details on how your company can get $100 in online advertising from Yodle!\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proven strategies for using search engines to get more customers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the Web is becoming more local\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Definitions for the lingo of the online advertising world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for creating a catchy Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to engage your customers and keep them coming back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When help is worth paying for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use e-mail without becoming a spammer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common mistakes and how to avoid them\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan and launch an effective local online advertising campaign\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a Web site that draws local traffic\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your presence on top search engines\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Inside â€” find out how to get a $100 advertising credit from Yodle!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1752'),
(18341, 'The Lock and Key Library / The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life', 'Andrew Lang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3964'),
(18342, 'Logic for Dummies', 'Mark Zegarelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Logic concepts are more mainstream than you may realize. Thereâ€™s logic every place you look and in almost everything you do, from deciding which shirt to buy to asking your boss for a raise, and even to watching television, where themes of such shows as\n <em>\n  CSI\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Numbers\n </em>\n incorporate a variety of logistical studies.\n <em>\n  Logic For Dummies\n </em>\n Â explains a vast array of logical concepts and processes in easy-to-understand language that make everything clear to you, whether youâ€™re a college student of a student of life. Youâ€™ll find out about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Formal Logic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Syllogisms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Constructing proofs and refutations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Propositional and predicate logic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Modal and fuzzy logic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Symbolic logic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deductive and inductive reasoning\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n L_ogic For Dummies_ tracks an introductory logic course at the college level. Concrete, real-world examples help you understand each concept you encounter, while fully worked out proofs and fun logic problems encourage you students to apply what youâ€™ve learned.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features real-world examples and worked-out proofs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clarify your thinking and apply logic to everyday life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to learn logic, but feel lost? Relax! This friendly guide explains logic concepts in plain English, from proofs, predicate logic, and paradox to symbolic logic, semantic structures, and syllogisms. Step-by-step examples show you how to build and prove logical arguments and put equivalence rules to work. You even get tips on passing logic exams!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gain a logical perspective\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate statements with truth tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Construct proofs and refutations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prove arguments with quantifier logic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make logical conclusions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grasp quantum and fuzzy logic\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1753'),
(18343, 'Lolita', 'Vladimir Nabokov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of\n  <em>\n   Lolita\n  </em>\n  are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert''s feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov''s 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author''s delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition.\n  <em>\n   Lolita\n  </em>\n  is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Much has been made of\n  <em>\n   Lolita\n  </em>\n  as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel''s symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov''s celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can''t help it--linguistic\n  <em>\n   jouissance\n  </em>\n  is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido.\n  <em>\n   --Simon Leake\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The only convincing love story of our century." â€”_Vanity Fair_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Lolita_ blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farceâ€¦_Lolita_ seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." â€”_Atlantic Monthly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." â€”_Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathyâ€¦The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." â€”_The New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Lolita_ is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflectionâ€“a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(18344, 'London for Dummies', 'Donald Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London is both traditional and trend-setting â€” the home of ceremonious pomp and pageantry and the "anything goes" aura of Soho. You can hang around the Tower of London or seek out the happening spots. Dine on fish and chips, try modern British cuisine, or take advantage of great ethnic restaurants, including Indian, French, Chinese, and more. Take in the historical sites or explore diverse neighborhoods. This guide gives you the latest scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The hottest clubs and night life, the coolest shopping, and the thriving performing arts scene\n </li>\n <li>\n  Attractions ranging from pubs to palaces to Parliament\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incredible museums, including the British Museum with its antiquities, the Tate Modern, and the National Portrait Gallery with likenesses of famous Brits, including pop icons like Elton John\n </li>\n <li>\n  Four itineraries to help you pack the most into your stay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Five day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and other attractions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  London\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Fifth Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore London the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Attractions in London range from historical and hallowed to avant-garde and hip. You can sip high tea or swig a pint of ale?take in theater, symphony, opera or ballet or haunt the happening spots?tour the palaces and museums or explore Soho. With this friendly guide, you''re ready to go.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1754'),
(18345, 'London for Dummies', 'Donald Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London is home to both the traditional and the trend-setting, from ceremonious pomp and pageantry to the "anything goes" aura of Soho. You can hang around the Tower of London or seek out the coolest shops and happening clubs. Once you''ve worked up an appetite, you can feast on fish and chips, try modern British cuisine, or take advantage of great ethnic restaurants, including Indian, French, Chinese and more. Take in the historical sites or explore the cityâ€™s diverse neighborhoods. This guide gives you the latest scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The hottest clubs and night life, the coolest shopping, and the thriving performing arts scene\n </li>\n <li>\n  Attractions ranging from pubs to palaces to Parliament\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incredible museums, including the British Museum with its antiquities, the Tate Modern, and the National Portrait Gallery with likenesses of famous Brits, including pop icons like Elton John\n </li>\n <li>\n  Four itineraries and six easy day trips to help you pack the most into your stay\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  London For Dummies\n </em>\n , Sixth Edition includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explore London the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n London''s got it all, from the hallowed and historical to the hip and avant-garde. You can take high tea or swig a pint of ale . . . enjoy first-rate theater, symphony, opera and ballet or hit the happening nightspots . . . tour palaces and museums or explore neighborhoods like Soho and Chelsea. With this friendly guide, you''re good to go.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1755'),
(18346, 'London for Dummies', 'Donald Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, traditions, and pomp and pageantry abound in London, yet itâ€™s a very modern European city. Whether youâ€™re a history buff, art lover, architecture connoisseur, Royal watcher, dedicated shopper, or pub hopper, thereâ€™s something for you in London. And this friendly guide helps you enjoy it fully with information about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting around via Underground (and saving with Travelcards), bus, taxi, or on foot\n </li>\n <li>\n  Four itineraries to maximize your sightseeing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and other attractions\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best shopping neighborhoods and their specialties, including Knightsbridge for the legendary Harrods, Chelsea for the young and the antique, and Kensington for street chic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Literary landmarks, parks and gardens, and royal castles and palaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Activities and attractions for teens and kids\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  London\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore London the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n London is both a historical Mecca and a modern metropolis. It has the Tower of London and the Tate Modern gallery. Great museums and ultra chic boutiques. With this friendly guide, you can enjoy everything from high tea to pub grub, historic sites to nightlife, the splendor of castles to the edginess of Soho. Cheerio!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1756'),
(18347, 'The Lonely House', 'Arthur Gask', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div style="padding-bottom: 0.2em;">\n   <span style="font-weight:bold">\n    Born:\n   </span>\n   <span rev="austlit:birthOf" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#A)a1">\n    <span about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#Z%23gDu" typeof="austlit:Birth">\n     <span rel="austlit:hasDate">\n      <span about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#V%23@m" typeof="austlit:Date" property="austlit:displayDate">\n       10 Jul 1869\n      </span>\n     </span>\n     London, England\n    </span>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div style="padding-bottom: 0.2em;">\n   <span style="font-weight:bold">\n    Died:\n   </span>\n   <span rev="austlit:deathOf" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#A)a1">\n    <span about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#Z%23gDv" typeof="austlit:Death">\n     <span rel="austlit:hasDate">\n      <span about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#V%23@n" typeof="austlit:Date" property="austlit:displayDate">\n       24 Jun 1951\n      </span>\n     </span>\n     North Adelaide, South Australia\n    </span>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div style="padding-bottom: 0.2em;">\n   <span style="font-weight:bold">\n    Gender:\n   </span>\n   <span property="austlit:gender" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#A)a1">\n    Male\n   </span>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div style="padding-bottom: 0.2em;">\n   <span style="font-weight:bold">\n    Heritage:\n   </span>\n   <span rel="austlit:ethnicity" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#A)a1">\n    <span property="austlit:topicName" typeof="austlit:Ethnicity" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#L8">\n     English\n    </span>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div rel="austlit:arrivedInAustralia" about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#A)a1" style="padding-bottom: 0.2em;">\n   <span style="font-weight:bold">\n    Arrived in Australia:\n   </span>\n   <span about="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&amp;agentId=A)a1#VA" property="austlit:displayDate" typeof="austlit:Date">\n    1920\n   </span>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n Arthur Gask practiced as a dental surgeon for more than forty years in England and Australia, writing over thirty crime and mystery thrillers. His first thriller The Secret of the Sandhills (1921) was based on an incident which occurred on the dunes near an Adelaide beach.\\t\\tSeveral of Gask''s novels are set in South Australia, where he settled in 1920, and involve the detective Larose. His crime thrillers include The Red Paste Murders (1923), The Shadow of Larose (1930) and The Hangman''s Knot (1.... Â  Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4278'),
(18348, 'Lord Hornblower', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this, the tenth volume in C.S. Forester''s series of classic naval adventure tales, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crewâ€”a dubious chore, but one that leads Hornblower, with the aid of his old love, Marie, to the glorious conclusion of his own battle with Napoleon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5974'),
(18349, 'Lord of Scoundrels', 'Loretta Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  They call him many names, but Angelic isn''t one of them . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Bane and Blight of the Ballisters"â€”and\n  <em>\n   he\n  </em>\n  wants nothing to do with respectable women. He''s determined to continue doing what he does bestâ€”sin and sin againâ€”and all that''s going swimmingly, thank you . . . until the day a shop door opens and\n  <em>\n   she\n  </em>\n  walks in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She''s too intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she''s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. If saving himâ€”and with him, her family and futureâ€”means taking on the devil himself, she won''t back down. The trouble is, the devil in question is so shockingly irresistible, and the person who needs the most saving isâ€”herself!\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  To rescue her foolish brother from financial ruin at the hands of an unscrupulous nobleman, Jessica Trent journeys to Paris and confronts Sebastian Ballister, the crafty nobleman. But he creates a scandal when he kisses her at a party. Thus begins the fiery relationship between the callow rake and the strong-willed beauty. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4375');
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(18350, 'Lord of the Flies', 'William Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Description\n  <br />\n  These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man''s return. . . to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. . . Superbly written."\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ --The New York Times\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Other Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck\n  <br />\n  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad\n  <br />\n  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\n  <br />\n  The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow\n  <br />\n  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton\n  <br />\n  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce\n  <br />\n  Swann''s Way by Marcel Proust\n  <br />\n  My Antonia by Willa Cather\n  <br />\n  On the Road by Jack Kerouac\n  <br />\n  White Noise by Don DeLillo\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Amazon.com\n  <br />\n  William Golding''s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph''s chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island''s wild pig population. Soon Ralph''s rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding''s gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€--Jennifer Hubert\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   School Library Journal\n  <br />\n  Grade 10 Up?A solid tool for the study of William Golding''s classic novel. Sixteen critical selections from both journals and books are arranged in chronological order by date of publication from 1961 to 1993. The examined topics, length and completeness of entries, and depth of analysis present a wide range of material. Articles selected by Bloom have not previously appeared in works easily accessible to most readers. There is little duplication with "Contemporary Literary Criticism" (Gale) or with "British Writers" (Scribners); both cover less ground. Clarice Swisher''s Readings on Lord of the Flies (Greenhaven, 1997) includes two of the same critics, but Bloom''s book has complete articles rather than excerpts. While some readers may struggle with these selections, the book is an excellent resource.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   AudioFile\n  <br />\n  A plane crashes on an uninhabited tropical island during wartime. A group of schoolboys--the sole survivors--form their own society, an experiment that quickly descends into chaos and death in Golding''s classic allegory. Listening Library recently rereleased this historic 1976 recording, and the timing could not be more apt. As CNN keeps viewers on edge with the latest military overtures in the real world and the reality TV show "Survivor" offers escape in the form of backstabbing, bug-eating "tribal" rituals, LORD OF THE FLIES gives the reader a lucid and chillingly objective mirror to our modern society. William Golding''s narration is as impartial as his work, yet his grumbly, grandfatherly voice, complete with mid-sentence sniffs and swallows, is intimate. Included on the tapes is background on how he came to conceive the book and a brief rebuttal to critics about its meaning. M.M.O. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Dimension\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)21.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)15\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(18351, 'The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CHAPTERã€€1\n <br />\n A LONGï¼EXPECTED PARTY\n <br />\n When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.\n <br />\n ã€€Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. And if that was not enough for fame, there was also his prolonged vigour to marvel at. Time wore on,but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. Baggins. At ninety he was much the same as at fifty. At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth.\n <br />\n ã€€''It wi]l have to be paid for,'' they said. ''It isn''t natural, and trouble will come of it!''\n <br />\n ã€€But so far trouble had not come; and as Mr. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his oddities and his good fotune. He remained on visiting terms with his relatives (except, of course, the Sackville-Bagginses), and he had many devoted admirers among the hobbits of poor and unimportant families. But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(18352, 'Lord Raingo', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4267'),
(18353, 'Lords of the Bow (c-2)', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The action-packed second novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to lifeThe Mongol tribes have gathered to swear an oath of loyalty to Genghis Khan, who will unite the warring tribes into one nation. But the task is formidable. Genghis is determined to travel to Chin lands and attack the long-term enemy. The distances make it a difficult task even for a people used to travelling to survive. But the greatest challenge is to find a way of fighting wars against a settled urban population, with complex fortifications unlike any the nomadic Mongolians live in.Genghis must also reconcile the restless factions among his own generals and mediate between his ambitious brothers. The young warrior has become a notable and victorious military commander of thousands. Now he must learn to be the great leader of many different races and religions and fulfil his dream of uniting these people into one tribe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6217'),
(18354, 'Lords of the North', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter a world where bloody battles, and heroic deeds combine in the historic struggle to unite Britain in the face of a common enemy.The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell''s King Alfred series, follows on from the outstanding previous novels The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman.The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings.Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred''s lack of generosity and repelled by the king''s insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan, a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable stronghold of Dunholm.Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion, chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his sword, with which he has made a formidable reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king. He takes him across the Pennines to where a desperate alliance of fanatical Christians and beleaguered Danes form a new army to confront the terrible Viking lords who rule Northumbria.''The Lords of the North'' is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory. Uhtred, a Northumbrian raised as a Viking, a man without lands, a warrior without a country, has become a splendid heroic figure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4585'),
(18355, 'Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies', 'Daniel L. Smith-christopher &amp; Stephen Spignesi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lost Books of the Bible For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to once-hidden works that add a new dimension to Biblical teachings. Most people have heard about the discovery of strange ancient religious writings that are not part the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament, such as the Gnostic Gospels. Now, you will find new insights and a fresh perspective on long-lost works that may have once been in the running for Biblical inclusion, but didn''t make the final cut.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand guide examines the sometimes weird, provocative, and profoundly moving texts that have been "lost" as well as those hotly debated works that are in some Bibles and not others. You will come away with a clearer understanding of the Judeo-Christian religion and the development of the Biblical canon. Youâ€™ll learn about the origins of the Bible, explore early scriptures, and understand why translations affect the meanings of texts. Youâ€™ll even learn how the Greek influenced early Biblical writing. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explain what the term â€œlost booksâ€ means\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the definition of â€œcanonâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take translation differences into consideration\n </li>\n <li>\n  Divide early writings into style categories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take another look at scripture with the Dead Sea Scrolls\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how the Greeks influenced early scripture\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decode apocalyptic visions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a list of ten of the weirdest Jewish lost books, ten of the weirdest Christian lost books, ten sayings of Jesus NOT in the Bible, and ten â€œlost books that every student of the Bible should read,\n <em>\n  Lost Books of the Bible\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to understanding and reading the Biblical lost books.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Uncovers the mystery behind ancient Christian and Jewish writings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your complete resource for exploring the major lost books and the Judeo-Christian religion\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you intrigued by the discoveries of strange ancient religious writings that are not part of the Bible? This fun, friendly guide examines these largely unknown works, offering prominent scholars'' views on their meanings and importance. From the Book of Enoch to the Gnostic Gospels to the Gospel of Judas, you''ll understand the differences between the writings and their impact on religion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the biblical canon developed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different categories of ancient religious writing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why these works are not in the Bible\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the lost books teach us about God\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sayings of Jesus not in the Bible\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1757'),
(18356, 'The Lost Coast -- a Larison Short Story', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the sleepy northern California town of Arcata, gateway to the state''s fabled Lost Coast, seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But Arcata isn''t nearly as sleepy as it seems, and when three locals decide Larison would make a perfect target for their twisted sport, Larison exacts a lifetime of vengeance in one explosive evening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Warning: this story is intended for mature audiences, and contains depictions of sexual activity, though perhaps not in the way you''re expecting. 6600 words (about 28 pages in paper). Download includes the first three chapters of the new John Rain novel, The Detachment (available soon), featuring Larison, Rain, Dox, Treven, and others. Also includes a fun interview with novelist J.A. Konrath, a terrific writer, great friend, and the person most responsible for getting me to try a short story and to try indie publishing, as well. So if you have any complaints at all about the story, obviously the person to blame is Joe. And you''ll also get excerpts from RUN and FLEE, the new novels by Blake Crouch and J.A. Konrath &amp; Ann Voss Peterson, some of the hottest thriller writers in the business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4635'),
(18357, 'The Lost Continent', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get.\n  <em>\n   The Lost Continent\n  </em>\n  is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside,\n  <em>\n   The Lost Continent\n  </em>\n  is an amusing book. Here''s Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it''s a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don''t know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bryson, a freelance journalist, succumbed to nostalgia upon returning home to Iowa after living for 20 years in England: he decided to relive the dreary vacation car trips of his American childhood. Starting out at his mother''s house in Des Moines, he motors through 38 states over the course of two months, looking for the quintessential American small town--something he never encountered as a boy, and certainly doesn''t discover now, as he tours superhighways, motels, shopping malls, fast-food joints and tourist traps. And, like a bored, bemused minor tagging along after adults, he trashes almost everything he sees, including the Smithsonian Museum and the trees in Sequoia National Park. Some of Bryson''s comments are hilarious--if you enjoy the nonstop whining wisecracks of a 36-year-old kid. First serial to Cond e Nast Traveler; BOMC alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6302'),
(18358, 'Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Mitchell Zuckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoffâ€™s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trioâ€™s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratroopers jumped into the jungle to provide aid and medical care, consequently leaving the survivors and paratroopers alike trapped on the jungle floor. A perilous rescue by plane became their only possible route to freedom. A riveting story of deliverance under the most unlikely circumstances,\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  deserves its place among the great survival stories of World War II.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Hampton Sides Reviews\n   <em>\n    Lost in Shangri-La\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Outside\n   </em>\n   magazine and the author of the international bestseller __, which won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes &amp; Noble, and also served as the basis for the 2005 Miramax film\n   <em>\n    The Great Raid\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Although World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of this planet, many a jaded reader has come to the reluctant conclusion that there arenâ€™t any more World War II stories left to tell. At least not good onesâ€”not tales of the â€œripping good yarnâ€ variety. Yet remarkably, in his new book\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoff has found one, and heâ€™s told it with reportorial verve, narrative skill, and exquisite pacing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What makes this World War II story all the more fascinating is that it isnâ€™t really a war storyâ€”not in a strict military sense. Itâ€™s more of an exotic adventure tale with rich anthropological shadings. In 1945, near the end of the war, an American plane crashes in a hidden jungle valley in New Guinea inhabited by Stone Age cannibals. 21 Americans die in the crash, but three injured survivors soon find themselves stumbling through the jungle without food, nursing terrible wounds and trying to elude Japanese snipers known to be holding out in the mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first contact between the three Americans and the valleyâ€™s Dani tribesmen is both poignant and comical. The Americans, Zuckoff writes, have â€œcrash-landed in a world that time didnâ€™t forget. Time never knew it existed.â€ The tribesmen, who have never encountered metal and have yet to master the concept of the wheel, think the American interlopers are white spirits whoâ€™ve descended on a vine from heaven, fulfilling an ancient legend. Theyâ€™re puzzled and fascinated by the layers of â€œremovable skinâ€ in which these alien visitors are wrapped; the natives, who smear their bodies in pig grease and cover their genitals with gourds, have never seen clothes before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Americans, in turn, are pretty sure their boartusk-bestudded hosts want to skewer them for dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What ensues in Zuckoffâ€™s fine telling is not so much a cultural collision as a pleasing and sometimes hilarious mutual unraveling of assumptions. Though the differences in the two societies are chasmic, the Americans and the Dani becomeâ€”in a guarded, tentative sort of wayâ€”_friends_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when armed American airmen arrive via parachute to rescue the survivors, relations become more tense. The Americans make their camp right in the middle of a no-manâ€™s land between warring Dani tribesâ€”a no-manâ€™s land where for centuries they have fought the battles that are central to their daily culture. Here, Zuckoff notes, the ironies are profoundly rich. The Dani, untouched by and indeed utterly unaware of the great war thatâ€™s been raging all across the globe, become thoroughly discombobulated when their own war is temporarily disrupted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yes, there\n  <em>\n   are\n  </em>\n  still a few good World War II stories left to tell. And yes, this one meets all the requirements of a ripping good yarn. Zuckoff, who teaches journalism at Boston University, is a first-rate reporter who has spared no expense to rescue this tale from obscurity. His story has it all: Tragedy, survival, comedy, an incredibly dangerous eleventh-hour rescue, and an immensely attractive heroine to boot. Itâ€™s extraordinary that Hollywood hasnâ€™t already taken this tale and run wild with it. If it did, the resulting movie would be equal parts\n  <em>\n   Alive\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Cast Away\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Gods Must Be Crazy\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s as though the Americans have arrived in the Stone Age through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The Dani donâ€™t know what to do with themselvesâ€”and life, as any of us know it, will never be the same.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff transforms impressive research into a deft narrative that brings the saga of the survivors to life.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff delivers a remarkable survival story. . . . In this well-crafted book, Zuckoff turns the long-forgotten episode into an unusually exciting narrative. . . . Polished, fast-paced and immensely readableâ€”ready for the big screen.â€ (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] engaging story. . . . This excellent book will be enjoyed by anyone who loves true adventure stories.â€ (Library Journal (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is an absorbing adventure right out of the Saturday-morning serials. . . . LOST IN SHANGRI-LA deserves a spot on the shelf of Greatest Generation nonfiction. It puts the reader smack into the jungle. â€ (Cleveland Plain Dealer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] gripplingly cinematic account. . . . A remarkable cast of characters. . . . Aâ€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4183'),
(18359, 'Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Mitchell Zuckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoffâ€™s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trioâ€™s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratroopers jumped into the jungle to provide aid and medical care, consequently leaving the survivors and paratroopers alike trapped on the jungle floor. A perilous rescue by plane became their only possible route to freedom. A riveting story of deliverance under the most unlikely circumstances,\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  deserves its place among the great survival stories of World War II.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Hampton Sides Reviews\n   <em>\n    Lost in Shangri-La\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Outside\n   </em>\n   magazine and the author of the international bestseller __, which won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes &amp; Noble, and also served as the basis for the 2005 Miramax film\n   <em>\n    The Great Raid\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Although World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of this planet, many a jaded reader has come to the reluctant conclusion that there arenâ€™t any more World War II stories left to tell. At least not good onesâ€”not tales of the â€œripping good yarnâ€ variety. Yet remarkably, in his new book\n  <em>\n   Lost in Shangri-La\n  </em>\n  , Mitchell Zuckoff has found one, and heâ€™s told it with reportorial verve, narrative skill, and exquisite pacing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What makes this World War II story all the more fascinating is that it isnâ€™t really a war storyâ€”not in a strict military sense. Itâ€™s more of an exotic adventure tale with rich anthropological shadings. In 1945, near the end of the war, an American plane crashes in a hidden jungle valley in New Guinea inhabited by Stone Age cannibals. 21 Americans die in the crash, but three injured survivors soon find themselves stumbling through the jungle without food, nursing terrible wounds and trying to elude Japanese snipers known to be holding out in the mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first contact between the three Americans and the valleyâ€™s Dani tribesmen is both poignant and comical. The Americans, Zuckoff writes, have â€œcrash-landed in a world that time didnâ€™t forget. Time never knew it existed.â€ The tribesmen, who have never encountered metal and have yet to master the concept of the wheel, think the American interlopers are white spirits whoâ€™ve descended on a vine from heaven, fulfilling an ancient legend. Theyâ€™re puzzled and fascinated by the layers of â€œremovable skinâ€ in which these alien visitors are wrapped; the natives, who smear their bodies in pig grease and cover their genitals with gourds, have never seen clothes before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Americans, in turn, are pretty sure their boartusk-bestudded hosts want to skewer them for dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What ensues in Zuckoffâ€™s fine telling is not so much a cultural collision as a pleasing and sometimes hilarious mutual unraveling of assumptions. Though the differences in the two societies are chasmic, the Americans and the Dani becomeâ€”in a guarded, tentative sort of wayâ€”_friends_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when armed American airmen arrive via parachute to rescue the survivors, relations become more tense. The Americans make their camp right in the middle of a no-manâ€™s land between warring Dani tribesâ€”a no-manâ€™s land where for centuries they have fought the battles that are central to their daily culture. Here, Zuckoff notes, the ironies are profoundly rich. The Dani, untouched by and indeed utterly unaware of the great war thatâ€™s been raging all across the globe, become thoroughly discombobulated when their own war is temporarily disrupted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yes, there\n  <em>\n   are\n  </em>\n  still a few good World War II stories left to tell. And yes, this one meets all the requirements of a ripping good yarn. Zuckoff, who teaches journalism at Boston University, is a first-rate reporter who has spared no expense to rescue this tale from obscurity. His story has it all: Tragedy, survival, comedy, an incredibly dangerous eleventh-hour rescue, and an immensely attractive heroine to boot. Itâ€™s extraordinary that Hollywood hasnâ€™t already taken this tale and run wild with it. If it did, the resulting movie would be equal parts\n  <em>\n   Alive\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Cast Away\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Gods Must Be Crazy\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s as though the Americans have arrived in the Stone Age through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The Dani donâ€™t know what to do with themselvesâ€”and life, as any of us know it, will never be the same.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff transforms impressive research into a deft narrative that brings the saga of the survivors to life.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZuckoff delivers a remarkable survival story. . . . In this well-crafted book, Zuckoff turns the long-forgotten episode into an unusually exciting narrative. . . . Polished, fast-paced and immensely readableâ€”ready for the big screen.â€ (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] engaging story. . . . This excellent book will be enjoyed by anyone who loves true adventure stories.â€ (Library Journal (starred review) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is an absorbing adventure right out of the Saturday-morning serials. . . . LOST IN SHANGRI-LA deserves a spot on the shelf of Greatest Generation nonfiction. It puts the reader smack into the jungle. â€ (Cleveland Plain Dealer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] gripplingly cinematic account. . . . A remarkable cast of characters. . . . Aâ€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4204'),
(18360, 'Lost Man&#39;s Lane', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4025'),
(18361, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the worldâ€™s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brownâ€™s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdonâ€™s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon--a prominent Mason and philanthropist--is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations--all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels &amp; Demons, Dan Brownâ€™s novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brownâ€™s fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6241'),
(18362, 'The Lost Years', 'Brian Lumley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Vampires never rest, and neither does Harry Keogh, the world''s greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he''s desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry''s war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family.But it''s not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him.Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realizing that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die. Vampires never rest, and neither does Harry Keogh, the world''s greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he''s desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry''s war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family.But it''s not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him.Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realizing that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6313'),
(18363, 'The Love Of A Good Woman', 'Alice Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A collection of eight stories about what people will do for love and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3943'),
(18364, 'Love Stories in This Town', 'Amanda Eyre Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4033'),
(18365, 'Low-Calorie Dieting for Dummies', 'Susan Mcquillan M. S. R. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Break your bad habits and start enjoying a low-cal lifestyle!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to lose weight and keep it off for good? This no-nonsense guide shows you how to consume fewer calories than you burn, providing a delicious, easy, and safe low-calorie plan you can follow for life! You''ll find tools to improve your eating and exercise habits, cope with stress and boredom, assess your progress, and live healthier and happier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your metabolism.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set realistic, attainable goals.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain a healthy weight.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stock a low-cal kitchen.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat right with simple, scrumptious, low-calorie recipes.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay motivated long-term.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find outside support.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Order your copy today!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with simple, scrumptious, low-calorie recipes\n</p>\n<p>\n Break your bad habits and start enjoying a low-cal lifestyle!\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to lose weight and keep it off for good? This no-nonsense guide shows you how to consume fewer calories than you burn, providing a delicious, easy, and safe low-calorie plan you can follow for life! You''ll find tools to improve your eating and exercise habits, cope with stress and boredom, assess your progress, and live healthier and happier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your metabolism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set realistic, attainable goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain a healthy weight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stock a low-cal kitchen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay motivated long-term\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find outside support\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1758'),
(18366, 'Lowrider - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3901'),
(18367, 'Lowrider 07-2011', 'Lowrider', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3122'),
(18368, 'Lowrider 09-2011', 'Lowrider', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3278'),
(18369, 'Lowrider Girls 09-2011', 'Lowrider Girls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3678'),
(18370, 'LSAT Logic Games for Dummies', 'Mark Zegarelli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Improve your score on the Analytical Reasoning portion of the LSAT\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re like most test-takers, you find the infamous Analytical Reasoning or "Logic Games" section of the LSAT to be the most elusive and troublesome. Now there''s help!\n <em>\n  LSAT Logic Games For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the puzzlement out of the Analytical Reasoning section of the exam and shows you that it''s not so problematic after all!__\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-follow guide examines the types of logic puzzles presented on the LSAT and offers step-by-step instructions for how best to correctly identify and solve each problem within the allocated time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of all six question types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Detailed strategies for quickly and correctly recognizing and solving each question type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Complete with loads of practice problems__\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re preparing to take the LSAT for the first time or looking to improve a previous score,\n <em>\n  LSAT Logic Games For Dummies\n </em>\n is the logical study companion for anyone looking to score high on the LSAT!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fast and easy way to improve your LSAT score!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re like most test-takers, you find the infamous Analytical Reasoning or "Logic Games" section of the LSAT to be the most elusive and troublesome. Now there''s help! This friendly guide takes the puzzlement out of Logic Games and gives you step-by-step instructions for how best to correctly identify and solve each type of problem within the allocated time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   LSAT basics â€” get an overview of the LSAT logic games and discover how to organize information with a game board\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Approaching the questions â€” face down the two main types of logic games â€” line games and sorting games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bringing your A-game â€” learn to tackle open line games, open sorting games, repeated chips, multiple chips, orphan chips, and empty boxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improving your performance â€” kick it up a notch and solve the toughest logic games and logic game questions, like working with 2-dimensional charts and focusing on the time element in logic games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice, practice, practice â€” put your training to the test with three practice tests that are designed just like the real LSAT logic games, complete with answers and detailed solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coverage of line games and sorting games in all their common variations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to read the story, search for clues, and set up your game board\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advanced games and techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to trust your instinct, when to guess, and when to bail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Things to remember on test day\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to avoid the two most basic logical errors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Three practice tests with solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create game boards to answer each question\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine answer profiles and avoid common mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain confidence by solving problems on three practice tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your speed and accuracy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1759'),
(18371, 'Lullaby: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  , Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator''s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim''s direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song''s devastating potential.\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona''s vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his previous works, including the cult favorite __, Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen''s possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments,\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  casts a powerful spell.\n  <em>\n   --Ross Doll\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I need to rebel against myself. It''s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl''s victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen''s Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk''s conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk''s decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6193'),
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(18464, 'Mac Life Magazine', 'October 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3627'),
(18465, 'Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your new Mac with OS X Leopard is so cool! You have digital media, including iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, and iMovie, at your fingertips, as well as everything the Internet has to offer. Where do you start to make the most of it? With\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies,\n </em>\n of course! Here are seven handy minibooks, each devoted to one aspect of your Mac OS X Leopard.\n</p>\n<p>\n One section is devoted to the digital media you love, another to the Internet, others to networking, customizing, sharing, and expanding your Mac. Thereâ€™s even a minibook for you geeky types who want to tweak the system with AppleScript. Youâ€™ll find information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Locating anything with Spotlight and Sherlock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Personalizing your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating movies and burning DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Jamming with iTunes and your iPod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making your own music with GarageBand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Collecting, editing, and sharing photos with iPhoto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browsing the Web with Safari and staying safe online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding RAM, hard drive space, and cool extra applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using AppleScript to program even more customizations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies,\n </em>\n you can find what you need in a hurry and get on with the fun your Mac makes possible. It just may be the best friend a Leopard can have!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1 â€” your key to making Leopard roar!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to using all the cool features of Mac OS X Leopard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Leopard opens up a whole new world for Mac users, and this all-in-one guide covers every terrific feature that makes your computing life better than ever. Here are the answers you need to help you customize and share your Mac with others, stay in touch using iChat, create digital magic with the iLifeÂ® suite, go back in time with Time Machine, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install and set up Leopard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized with Spaces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Browse the Web securely with Safari\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Run Windows on your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simplify your life with AppleScript\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1760'),
(18466, 'Mac OS X Leopard for Dummies', 'Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦the book admirably teaches a useful range of keyboardÂ short cutsâ€¦a goodÂ introduction to the Mac." (_Mac User,_ February 2008_)_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Leopard is the new cat in town, and wait until you see all the tricks it can do! Whether youâ€™re new to the Mac or a longtime Mac-thusiast,\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and friendly way to have your Leopard purring in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the Mac has built its reputation in part on being user-friendly, OS X Leopard has lots of features that do lots of thingsâ€”and thatâ€™s where\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n puts you a step ahead. If youâ€™re meeting your first Mac, start at the beginning and youâ€™ll feel like a pro in no time.Â  If youâ€™re familiar with earlier incarnations of OS X, you can jump right to the chapters on organizing your files and getting a sneak peek with Quick Look, backing up with the cool new Time Machine, using Spaces to manage Finder and application windows, and getting down with all the cool Mac multimedia features.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize your Dock and desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search smarter with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sync your contacts and calendars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Watch movies, play music, and download digital photos or video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Start video chats on the fly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web with Safariâ€”safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get organized with Spaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run Microsoft Windows on an Intel-based Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your kids with Parental Controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a network and share files\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Bob LeVitus, a.k.a. â€œDr. Macâ€,\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n is quite likely the fastest and easiest way to tame a Leopard!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1761'),
(18467, 'Mac OS X Leopard Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Published to coincide with Apple''s release of Leopard\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for setting up e-mail, downloading music, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a Slideshow\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1.Open iPhoto and select a picture roll or album from which you want to base your slideshow.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2.Click Slideshow near the bottom of the iPhoto window. A new slideshow is created, as shown in Figure 15-9, and it contains all the images in the roll or album you selected in Step 1.\n</p>\n<p>\n 3.To remove an image from the slideshow, click and drag it to the Trash icon in the Source panel.\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.To add photos from other albums or rolls, simply click and drag the photos to the desired slideshow in the Source panel.\n</p>\n<p>\n To change the order of images, click and drag their thumbnails left or right at the top of the Slideshow window.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get Ready To:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage system preferences\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize Dashboard widgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chat online or create a blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit digital photos and make movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network wirelessly with AirPort\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect to Bluetooth devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Concise, step-by-step instructions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Get in, get out" information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-recognize tasks and topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick solutions to get it done\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dash of humor and fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1762'),
(18468, 'Mac OS X Panther All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 7 books in 1 - your key to taming the Panther!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to setting up OS X and using the latest Panther features\n</p>\n<p>\n Wow - a whole set of OS X guides under one cover! All the new stuff is here, like iChat AV, Fast User Switching, and all the iLife(TM) applications including iTunes??4, Expose, and the latest incarnations of the Finder(TM) and Apple Mail??. Customize your Panther, explore the digital hub, check into AirPort, and enjoy it all!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n <br />\n * Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n <br />\n * Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Navigate OS X and run programs\n <br />\n * Make repairs with Disk Utility\n <br />\n * Set up multiuser accounts\n <br />\n * Use iTunes and iPod(TM)\n <br />\n * Expand Internet storage with iDisk\n <br />\n * Upgrade your internal hard drive\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 7 books in 1 â€“ your key to taming the Panther!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to setting up OS X and using the latest Panther features\n</p>\n<p>\n Wow â€“ a whole set of OS X guides under one cover! All the new stuff is here, like iChat AV, Fast User Switching, and all the iLifeâ„¢ applications including iTunesÂ®4, Expose, and the latest incarnations of the Finderâ„¢ and Apple MailÂ®. Customize your Panther, explore the digital hub, check into AirPort, and enjoy it all!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate OS X and run programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make repairs with Disk Utility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up multiuser accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use iTunes and iPodâ„¢\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expand Internet storage with iDisk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrade your internal hard drive\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1763'),
(18469, 'Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Larry Ullman &amp; Marc Liyanage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Mac OS X Panther is incredibly full-featured. Chances are, you donâ€™t fully appreciate all the shortcuts and timesaving options you have right at your fingertips.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you up to speed fast with over 60 timesaving techniques! While it includes keyboard shortcuts to expedite basic tasks, it goes further and shows you how to customize your Mac so it works faster for the way you work and the types of things you work on. Step-by-step instructions help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perfect your keyboard and mouse navigation techniques, so you can get where you want to go faster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use keyboard shortcuts and create shortcuts of your own\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize the Finder, Windows, and the Dock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle files, aliases, favorites, and icons so you always know whatâ€™s what and whatâ€™s where\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get proficient and efficient with Safari and Internet Explorer Web browsers, searches, e-mail, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Larry Ullman, and Marc Liyanage. Larry is the Director of Digital Media Technologies at DMC Insights, Inc., author of four other computer books, and an obsessive Mac tinkerer. Marc is a senior software engineer at FutureLAB AG. He has programmed Macs professionally for 15 years and writes Cocoa software for fun! (No, you probably donâ€™t need to know what that is, but if you want to, youâ€™ll find it in the book.) With an easy style and lots of screen shots, they show you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make the most of multimedia\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of servicesâ€”at least a dozen handy little tools available in many of your applications like the Grab utility for taking screen shots and Mail Services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time online with AutoFill forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of iChat, for communicating with your buddies and iTunes for managing your music collection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use iPhoto to manage your digital library, create photo albums, present photographs online, edit images, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure and use Rendezvous to network computers and devices, locate people in iChat, listen to other music collections in iTunes, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Have your computer and your cell phone talk to each other using Bluetooth wireless communications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n covers topics from A (ACC file format) to Z (Zingg application, contextual menus), literally. The index is 20 pages, with three columns to a page. Thatâ€™s a lot of tips! You pick and choose the ones to useâ€”the ones that will save you time and help you make the most of the features and options of Mac OS X Panther.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Optimize your Dock, improve application performance, and maximize multimedia\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 60 techniques that help you save time by...\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customizing your Mac for the way you work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organizing your digital pictures with iPhotoâ„¢\n </li>\n <li>\n  Backing up files with rsync and .mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Searching the Internet effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding files faster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mastering keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stopping spam in its tracks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tricks and tips for working smarter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contents arranged by technique\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice that goes beyond the basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1764'),
(18470, 'Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-In-One for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest Mac operating system, with even better performance and more efficient use of hard drive space as well as cool features like MobileMe, the iWork productivity suite, and improved media technology. And\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop reference for all its features.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight self-contained minibooks cover OS X basics, customizing and sharing your Mac, the digital hub, iWork, Internet features, networking, expanding your system, and advanced Mac OS X (for those with more techie inclinations). Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determine whether your hardware can handle upgrading to Snow Leopard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate Snow Leopard, find things with Spotlight, control your Mac with Front Row, and make backups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the digital hub and its applications: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, GarageBand, QuickTime, and iWeb\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create cool-looking documents with Pages, crunch numbers with Numbers, and build awesome slide presentations with Keynote\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your Internet connection and e-mail, connect with iChat, sync up with MobileMe, and share large files via iDisk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a wireless network with AirPort Extreme\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your Snow Leopard happy with regular maintenance\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n also shows you a little of whatâ€™s under the hood, in case youâ€™re interested in doing a little AppleScript programming or learning a bit more about UNIX. Whatever your level of involvement with OS X Snow Leopard, this complete guide covers what you need to know.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get started with Snow Leopard, enjoy the digital lifestyle, and learn what Mac OS X can do\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest Mac operating system, and this cat has it all. Make your Snow Leopard purr with the step-by-step guidance in these eight minibooks! From the basics for first-time Mac users to setting up file sharing, living the iLife, getting busy with iWork, catching up with MobileMe, and networking wirelessly, here''s the scoop.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hi, Mac â€” learn your way around Mac OS X, find things with Spotlight, control your Mac with Front Row, and back up your system with Time Machine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get personal â€” customize your desktop and system preferences\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Let''s digitize â€” explore the digital hub where photos, music, movies, and your very own Web site all hang out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Beyond word processing â€” create cool-looking documents with Pages that include photos, tables, and text boxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Presenting Keynote â€” use this iWork ''09 application for building awesome slide presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online action â€” get your Internet connection and e-mail set up, connect with iChat, and sync up with MobileMe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network with me â€” set up a network, go wireless, and use Airport Extreme\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fun expansion projects â€” adding RAM to increase performance, hardware additions that will make you giddy, software applications you gotta have, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to navigate around the desktop and get to know the Dock\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for building the Finder of your dreams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for protecting your privacy on the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iTunes, and iWeb\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with iWork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for setting up a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting solutions and techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to UNIX\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1765'),
(18471, 'Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Dummies', 'Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest version of the Macintosh operating system, and â€œDr. Macâ€ Bob LeVitus is the ideal expert to introduce you to Snow Leopard.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the cool stuff and prepares you for the quirks, so whether itâ€™s your first Mac or an upgrade, youâ€™ll enjoy a truly rewarding relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n From starting up your Mac to setting up a network and keeping in touch via iChat AV,\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the scoop on the new features and improvements that help you do more work in less time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn when to shut down your Mac and when not to, how to secure it, and how to back it up with Time Machine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your life with iCal and your stuff with files and folders, and be able to find what youâ€™re looking for\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your Internet connection and e-mail, manage spam, surf with Safari, and start iChatting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download and organize songs, podcasts, and movies with iTunes and plan a playlist with Genius\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create documents with TextEdit, print them, fax then, and make PDFs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a network and share files, printers, and Internet connections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out about operating system updates, firewalls, troubleshooting, and other ways to keep your Mac safe, healthy, and happy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Technology columnist Bob LeVitus has been a Mac guru for nearly two decades.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies\n </em>\n provides just what you need to get up and running with Snow Leopard.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate around the desktop and get to know the Dock\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get online, set up an e-mail account, and surf the Web with Safari\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoy music, movies, DVDs, and digital photos on your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize and manage files and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get to know Mac OS XSnow Leopard and make the most of your Mac\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to the Mac or a longtime Mac-thusiast, you''ve come to the right place. Snow Leopard has a few new tricks up its sleeve, and Mac expert Bob LeVitus will show you how to use them. This handy guide helps you figure out the nuts and bolts of Mac OS X, covers all the cool stuff, and prepares you for the quirks!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basic tour â€” learn how to start up your Mac, shut it down properly, keep it safe, and back it up with Time Machine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tame the chaos â€” organize your life with iCal and your stuff with files and folders, and find what you''re looking for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online and loving it â€” set up your Internet connection and e-mail, manage spam, surf with Safari, and start iChatting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Music and multimedia â€” download and organize songs, movies, and podcasts with iTunesÂ® and create a playlist with Genius\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be productive â€” create documents with TextEdit, print them, make PDFs, and fax\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share your Mac â€” set up a network and share files, printers, and Internet connections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety first â€” learn about software updates, firewalls, troubleshooting, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize the Dock and Finder\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for setting up your keyboard, mouse, and other hardware\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for getting organized with Spaces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to back up your system with Time Machine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about running Windows on your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How iCal helps you manage appointments and projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for networking your Macs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintenance and troubleshooting solutions for your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1766'),
(18472, 'Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the newest version of the Mac operating system, with extra power and additional cool features.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just The Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n is the quick step-by-step way to get up and running on this new beast.\n</p>\n<p>\n This down-to-basics guide features numbered steps and easy-to-follow screen shots that show you exactly how to accomplish more than 150 tasks with Snow Leopard. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Modify the look of the desktop and customize keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and manage user accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save energy by adjusting power settings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and use the iWork productivity suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse the Internet with Safari or Firefox\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and publish a blog or a Web page with iWeb\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure iChat for use with GoogleTalk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up iTunes and export songs to your iPod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make movies with iMovie and burn them to DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download photos from your camera and organize them in iPhoto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your Mac to a Windows network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encrypt your files, safeguard against viruses, and install a firewall\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Each task is clearly presented, with step-by-step instructions and corresponding views of what youâ€™ll see on the screen at each step.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Snow Leopard Just The Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy to find what you want to do, and even easier to do it!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for setting up and using Mac OS X Snow Leopard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps... ...great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open Dashboard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To open Dashboard, simply click the Dashboard icon on the Dock. The screen dims slightly, and Dashboard widgets zoom into view, as shown in Figure 7-1.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To change the way Dashboard opens, open System Preferences and then click the ExposÃ© &amp; Spaces icon.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To create a hot corner for Dashboard, click the ExposÃ© tab and then select Dashboard from one of the Active Screen Corner menus.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n If you want to use a modifier key, such asÂ ( ) or Control, simply hold down that key (or keys) while making a selection in the Hide and Show menu.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize Mac OS X to look and behave the way you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for using the iWorkÂ® applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for setting up e-mail and browsing the Internet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for creating a blog or Web page with iWeb\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to edit digital photos and make movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about configuring and connecting to a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Concise, step-by-step instructions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Get in, get out" information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-recognize tasks and topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick solutions to get it done\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dash of humor and fun\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1767'),
(18473, 'Mac OS X Tiger All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X Tiger is the sum of its parts, and there are a lot of them. What could be easier than to have a handy minibook covering each one, ready to answer your every question?\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re venturing into the Mac world for the first time, youâ€™ve chosen a great time to make the move.Â  And if youâ€™re switching to Tiger from an earlier Mac OS, youâ€™ll be eager to get going as quickly as possible.Â  Either way, youâ€™ll love the convenience of\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies.\n </em>\n Youâ€™ll find sections devoted to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Basic Mac OS X\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customizing and sharing your Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Macâ€™s digital hubâ€”iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, QuickTime, and GarageBand\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Internet (AppleMail, iChat AV, iDisk, and more)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Networking, including Bluetooth, AppleTalk, and Airport Extreme\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expanding your system with cool hardware and software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Some advanced stuff, like hosting a Web site and building custom applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Each self-contained chapter discusses a specific feature, application, connection, or cool thing about Mac OS X. You can start at the beginning, or dive right into the things you most want to explore.Â Â  For example, you can\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Discover how to find anything, anywhere on your system, with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use iDisk to back up your important files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit or create your own DVDs, CDs, and movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep in touch with others through the cool iChat AV application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get step-by-step instructions that make using OS X Tiger as much funâ€”and as productiveâ€”as itâ€™s meant to be\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Because everythingâ€™s handy and neatly organized, youâ€™ll find\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is the reference book youâ€™ll want to keep right next to your Mac. Youâ€™ll refer to it many times over, and be glad you did!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 7 books in 1â€” your key to success with Tiger!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to customizing Tiger, getting online, networking, and going digital\n</p>\n<p>\n You can make the Tiger perform at your beck and call! Whether you''re new to the Mac or switching to Tiger from an older version of Mac OSÂ®, you''ll find simple, no-nonsense instructions for everything you want to do in one of these minibooks â€” including all the cool iLife applications, as well as AirPortÂ®, Safari, AppleScriptÂ®, UNIXÂ®, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find anything, anywhere on your computer, with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work wonders with Dashboard widgets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit or create your own DVDs, CDs, and movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay in touch using iChat AV\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1768'),
(18474, 'Mac OS X Tiger for Dummies', 'Bob Levitus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...with the friendly and expert advice in this book you''ll tame the Tiger in no time..." (_Mac User_, July 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mac OS X just keeps getting better! The newest cat in the pack, 10.4 Tiger, has new bells and whistles and terrific updates that make it even easier and more fun to use, which is why you wonâ€™t want to miss out on the helpful guidance this book has to offer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by â€œDr. Macâ€ himself, veteran Macintosh expert Bob LeVitus,\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger For Dummies\n </em>\n is perfect whether youâ€™re brand-new to the Mac or youâ€™re a longtime Mac-thusiast. Youâ€™ll find sections on\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Basic Mac usage, including keyboard and mouse, menus, windows, the Dock,Â  saving and backing up files, and getting around OS X\n </li>\n <li>\n  Internet ins and outs, how to print from your Mac, and the how and why of System Preferences\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to set up a network, share files, and troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step installation instructions for OS X, and a lot more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Bob LeVitus reaches over a million readers weekly with his â€œDr. Macâ€ column in the\n <em>\n  Houston Chronicle,\n </em>\n and his books have sold more than a million copies worldwide.Â  In this one, he helps you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find your way around the new Finder, go Web surfing with the cool new Safari browser, and search smarter with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Preferences to personalize your system for the way you work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle removable media, including CDs, DVDs, and even classic devices like zip drives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage files, use file sharing, and protect your precious data â€”painlessly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of Dashboard widgets, navigate nested folders, and make the most of Tiger\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the friendly and expert advice in this book, youâ€™ll tame the Tiger in no time.Â  Then, when youâ€™re ready to delve deeper into some of the specific applications like digital media, check out other\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n guides, including\n <em>\n  iLife ''04 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n (ISBN 0-7645-7347-0).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1769'),
(18475, 'Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Larry Ullman &amp; Marc Liyanage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Timeâ€”the commodity most of us never have enough of.\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n is exactly what you need to get more results from every minute you spend with your Mac OS X Tiger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Loaded with more than 60 timesaving tricks and techniques, this helpful volume gets right to the point and shows you how to streamline dozens of everyday computer functions.Â  If you already know your way around Mac OS X Tiger, you can discover how to speed up your Mac, make searches faster and more efficient, optimize your network, and a lot more. For example, you can\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create your own keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find files faster with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save steps with contextual menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of the address book and iCal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of Safari RSS feeds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your iPod for secure, encrypted storage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a videoconference with iChat AV\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n There are guidelines for customizing OS X to meet your specific needs, so your Mac will be well organized even if you arenâ€™t.Â  And the techniques are organized too, by the application or the general concept for which they work. You get no-nonsense, step-by-step instructions for putting each technique to work.Â  After all, the whole point of\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n isâ€”well, saving time!Â  These are a few of the places where this book will help you trim the minutes.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Starting, stopping, and running your Mac more efficiently\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimizing your interface and customizing the Finder, windows, and the Dock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organizing, managing, and finding stuffâ€”yours, and the computerâ€™s\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beefing up application performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the Internet more efficiently, with tips on searching, stopping spam, using Google, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the most of your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Being more efficient with multimedia, including boosting productivity with your iPod\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintaining your Mac and keeping it secure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating your own timesaving techniques with Automator and other slightly advanced tricks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You canâ€™t help but be more productive with\n <em>\n  Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Speed up your Mac, search smarter, and optimize your network\n</p>\n<p>\n OVER 60 techniques that help you save time by...\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customizing your Mac for the way you work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding files faster with Spotlight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating tasks with Automator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the most of the address book and iCalÂ®\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking advantage of Safari RSS feeds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using your iPodÂ® for secure, encrypted storage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Videoconferencing with iChat AV\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1770'),
(18476, 'MacBook All-In-One for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   MacBook All-in-one for Dummies\n  </em>\n  Makes Everything Easier!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With a MacBook, you can work and play anywhere. With 9 books in 1,\n <em>\n  MacBook All-in-one for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how! You''ll find coverage of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting started -- choose the MacBook that suits your needs, set it up, customize your preferences, and organize files and folders.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Mac OS X -- learn your way around Snow Leopard, get to know the Dock, find things with Spotlight, and back up your system with Time Machine.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customizing and Sharing.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Going Mobile With iLife -- explore iLife, where photos, movies, music, and your very own Web site all hang out.\n </li>\n <li>\n  iWork For the Road Warrior -- do it the Mac way with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the iWork productivity applications.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Typical Internet Stuff -- browse with Safari, store your stuff on iDisk, use Apple Mail, and iChat with friends.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Networking in Mac OS X -- set up a network, go wireless, and use AirPort Extreme.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expanding Your System -- see how to add memory and connect hard drives and printers using USB and FireWire.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advanced Mac OS X.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn the basics about using and maintaining your MacBook, how to work with Mac OS X, use the iWork productivity suite, enjoy the iLife, and cruise the Web from anywhere. Plus, you''ll go under the hood and explore custom scripts and tweaks to help you get more from your MacBook and troubleshoot solutions.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With a MacBook, you can work and play anywhere â€” this book shows you how!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t want to be tied to your desk? Of course not! Freedom is found in a MacBook, and this book tells you everything you need to know to make the most of all its goodies. Learn the basics about using and maintaining your MacBook, work with Mac OS X, use the iWork productivity suite, enjoy the iLife, and cruise the Web from anywhere.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started â€” choose the MacBook that suits your needs, set it up, customize your preferences, and organize files and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The big cat â€” learn your way around Snow Leopard, get to know the Dock, find things with Spotlight, and back up your system with Time Machine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The digital life â€” explore iLife, where photos, movies, music, and your very own Web site all hang out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you must work â€” do it the Mac way with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the iWork productivity applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   E-mail and Internet â€” browse with SafariÂ®, store your stuff on iDisk, use Apple Mail, and iChat with friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network with me â€” set up a network, go wireless, and use AirPort Extreme\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you want more â€” see how to add memory and connect hard drives and printers using USB and FireWire\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Under the hood â€” explore custom scripts and tweaks to get more from your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up and personalize your MacBook for the way you work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on navigating your way around Mac OS X\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for setting up a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iTunes, and iWeb\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for controlling your MacBook with your voice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important security advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with iWork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting solutions for your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1771');
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(18477, 'MacBook for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of being tethered to your desktop computer? If you''re ready to break free with a laptop,Â  the new MacBook could be just what you''re looking for. In addition to the freedom to work wherever you happen to be, a MacBook offers you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A portable darkroom with iPhoto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mobile music, podcasts, and Internet radio\n </li>\n <li>\n  GarageBand software that lets you make your own music\n </li>\n <li>\n  The ability to create and share original movies and DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Safari, a safer and ultra-cool Web browser, and all the other OS X advantages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you already have your new MacBook or are still weighing the pros and cons of various models,Â \n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies\n </em>\n is a valuable resource.Â  For newcomers to laptop land, itâ€™s packed with basic information about using and caring for Mac laptops. It also walks you through Mac OS X, the revolutionary Macintosh operating system that makes your laptop tick. Then it''s on to all the fun stuff you can do with your MacBook, like making music, editing photos and turning them into a book, creating DVDs on the road, or adding a wireless keyboard.Â \n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your MacBook and get acquainted with all the features of the Mac OS X Tiger operating system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Safari Web browser and Apple''s .Mac Internet subscriber service, connect your MacBook to a printer, and communicate with your cell phone or PDA\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect to a wired or wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of the iLife applications that come with your MacBookâ€”iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, and GarageBand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your MacBook and your data safe, troubleshoot any problems, and maintain your system\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Popular\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n author Mark Chambers has loaded this fun book with tips, ideas, and his famous "Mark''s Maxims"â€”power user advice that will guide you around the pitfalls and make you a Macxpert in no time.Â  From latptop basics all the way to upgrading and adding memory,\n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies\n </em>\n will be your MacBook''s best friend.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Work with networks, share access, troubleshoot, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Enjoy music and videos, cruise the Web, and even do some work â€” from anywhere!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not only can your MacBook do everything a desktop computer can, it can do some things better! Find out how to use the cool\n <strong>\n  iLife\n </strong>\n applications, like\n <strong>\n  iPhoto\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  iMovie\n </strong>\n , and\n <strong>\n  iTunes\n </strong>\n , plus gobs of other software that comes with your Mac. Connect to a network, get online, and don''t miss Mark''s should-be-patented troubleshooting guide!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up and personalize your laptop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import stuff from your old computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search with Spotlight and Sherlock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Open a .Mac account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create with the iLife suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add wireless devices\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1772'),
(18478, 'MacBook for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Got a new MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro? Want the scoop on Mac laptop basics, using Mac OS X Leopard, networking a laptop, or connecting your laptop to wireless devices? Thereâ€™s no better place to find what you need than\n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n With your Mac laptop, you can take your movies, music, documents, e-mail, and Internet wherever the action is.\n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n provides the lowdown on maintaining and upgrading your MacBook, customizing the Dock and desktop, traveling with a laptop, turning iPhoto into your portable darkroom, and much more. Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Locate the battery compartment, iSight camera, ports, and â€œonâ€ button\n </li>\n <li>\n  Move your existing files from an older computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all the cool new features of Mac OS X Leopard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, and GarageBand, all packaged with your MacBook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify the signs of a well-functioning laptop and check for trouble\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your Mac for multiple users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the cool options available with a .Mac account and iDisk storage that lets you retrieve your files anywhere\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your digital music, photos, and movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Bluetooth and get all your wireless devices communicating with each other\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n And if youâ€™ve been considering switching from a PC to a Mac,\n <em>\n  MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n guides you through the process and even shows you how to run Windows on your Mac laptop. If thereâ€™s a MacBook in your future â€” or present â€” this is the book for you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have more fun and get more done with your MacBook â€” here''s how to claim your freedom!\n</p>\n<p>\n Chained to a desktop computer? Not you! You want to take your movies, music, documents, and Internet wherever the action is. This handy guide gets you up and running, and even walks you through Mac OSÂ® X LeopardÂ®, common upgrades, and troubleshooting.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fall in love with Leopard â€” get familiar with the latest Mac operating system and learn to use all its features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the iLife â€” learn to use iTunesÂ®, iMovieÂ®, iPhotoÂ®, iDVDÂ®, and GarageBandÂ®, all packaged with your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the switch from a PC to a Mac â€” learn how to move your existing files and how you can still run Windows on your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Back up your MacBook â€” discover how to use Time Machine and iDisk storage to keep your files safe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be cool with Bluetooth â€” get your wireless devices communicating with your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintain your Mac â€” find out how to keep your laptop updated and running smoothly\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full coverage of all three MacBook models\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to migrate files from another Mac or PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for conserving battery power\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on customizing your preferences for productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintenance and troubleshooting solutions for your MacBook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for networking your Macs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for customizing Leopard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations for managing your digital music, photos, and movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1773'),
(18479, 'MacFormat_2011-10S370.pdf 25-09-2011', 'MacFormat_2011-10S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6759'),
(18480, 'MacFormat_2011-11.pdf 13-10-2011', 'MacFormat_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10679'),
(18481, 'The Machiavelli Covenant', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nicholas Marten''s former girlfriend is mysteriously killed-along with her child and congressman-husband. A former LA cop, Marten learns her husband had just discovered a secret and illegal bioweapons program. When the feds fail to investigate, Marten pursues the killers himself.  At a NATO summit in Warsaw, President John Henry Harris meets with Europe ''s heads of state. When Harris learns secret a White House cabal has ordered the German chancellor''s assassination, he angrily objects. The cabal not only threatens to kill Harris, they pull the secret service off his detail.  Escaping incognito, he joins two strangers-Nicholas Marten and the beautiful but enigmatic French photo-journalist, Demi Picard. Swept from Warsaw to Washington, D.C. to Malta to Barcelona, the three of them flee a ruthless clique of military leaders and transnational corporate chieftains-as well as top Washington officials-all of whom want them deadâ€¦ The assassination of world leaders, the massacre of millions, assaults on the US with weapons of mass destruction-nothing is beyond the coterie''s cunning.  The group''s origins go back 500 years. In the 16th century, the dying Machiavelli fashioned a sinister work entitled, The Covenant-an ominous plan for gaining true power and keeping it. For centuries this wealthy, despotic order has hidden the plan away, inspired and emboldened by its bloody insights and near-preternatural power. Bonded by vicious rites and ritual slaughter, dedicated to their vision of global rule, they have over the centuries prospered beyond dreams of greed and domination. Three people now stand between the Brotherhood and its final apocalyptic conquest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3996'),
(18482, 'Machinima for Dummies', 'Hugh Hancock &amp; Johnnie Ingram', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great start, covering machinima-friendly games like World of Warcraft, Half Life 2 and Unreal Tournament." (PC Plus, February 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use this book to learn how you can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima. The authors guide you from making your first Machinima movie to a grounding in both conventional filmmaking and Machinima technology that will let you tackle very complex film projects.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book focuses on the following Machinima platforms:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The Sims 2: Arguably the most popular Machinima platform of all time, The Sims 2 allows you to tell stories ranging from romance to noir action.\n </li>\n <li>\n  World Of Warcraft: Tell your own tales of heroism in the world of Azeroth, following in the footsteps of award-winning Machinima creators and even the makers of South Park.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Medieval 2: Total War - This astonishing new game allows you to create Lord of the Rings-scale medieval battle films using just a home computer!\n </li>\n <li>\n  MovieStorm: For the first time, unleash the power of Machinima as a professional user using a fully-featured, fully-licensed commercial Machinima platform.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll be introduced to all aspects of Machinima production, from live filming in a game through the creation of sets, props and characters, as well as the basics of cinematography, storytelling and sound design.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1774'),
(18483, 'Macleans-26.September.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Macleans-26.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6717'),
(18484, 'MacRomedia Flash 8 for Dummies', 'Ellen Finkelstein &amp; Gurdy Leete', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make the Web interactive with your own animations\n</p>\n<p>\n Liven up your Web site with graphics that move, buttons that light up, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Flash is fun - and this book makes it easy whether you''re using a Mac(r) or Windows(r). Fill letters with images, create buttons that glow or change color when you pass your mouse over them, play video and sound files, morph objects into different ones, and do dozens of other things to make your site flashier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Create animated text\n <br />\n * Find sample Flash files\n <br />\n * Explore links to additional information\n <br />\n * Add sound and video\n <br />\n * Build great user interfaces\n <br />\n * Publish your Flash files\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make the Web interactive with your own animations\n</p>\n<p>\n Liven up your Web site with graphics that move, buttons that light up, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Flash is fun â€” and this book makes it easy whether you''re using a MacÂ® or WindowsÂ®. Fill letters with images, create buttons that glow or change color when you pass your mouse over them, play video and sound files, morph objects into different ones, and do dozens of other things to make your site flashier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create animated text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find sample Flash files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore links to additional information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add sound and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build great user interfaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publish your Flash files\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(18485, 'MacRomedia Studio 8 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Damon Dean &amp; Andy Cowitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to six great Macromedia tools for building Web sites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s like a Web-site-in-a-book! First, there''s some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it''s into the nitty-gritty of making it happen - building with Dreamweaver, adding animation with Flash, enabling collaboration with Contribute, using ColdFusion to access databases, and a whole lot more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan content for your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use CSS styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate forms into your pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beef up Flash movies with ActionScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use queries in ColdFusion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate all the Macromedia products\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to six great Macromedia tools for building Web sites\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s like a Web-site-in-a-book! First, there''s some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it''s into the nitty-gritty of making it happen â€” building with Dreamweaver, adding animation with Flash, enabling collaboration with Contribute, using ColdFusion to access databases, and a whole lot more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan content for your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use CSS styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate forms into your pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beef up Flash movies with ActionScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use queries in ColdFusion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate all the Macromedia products\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1775'),
(18486, 'MacRomedia Studio MX 2004 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Damon Dean &amp; Andy Cowitt &amp; Ellen Finkelstein &amp; Doug Sahlin &amp; Camille Mccue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n provides a one-stop reference for users looking to harness the power of this Web building suite. The book covers each of the core applications in Studio MX including Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Fireworks, ColdFusion and, newly added to this edition, Contribute.\n <em>\n  Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n also contains coverage on using all the applications together in a single Web building project as well as an overview of the basics of good Web design. This book, like the product itself, should appeal to both professional and hobbyist Web builders who want a single product that can do the work of six or seven separate products.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 7 books in 1â€“ your key to successful Web sites!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to Studio MX 2004 Web site tools for MacÂ® or WindowsÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n So you think you want to build a Web site? Relax â€“ this book has you covered! First, it helps you analyze and plan your site. Then when youâ€™re ready to go, youâ€™ll have the scoop on using the newest versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FreeHand, Flash, Cold Fusion, and Contribute, all together in one handy volume!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design captivating Web sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit shapes and bitmaps with Fireworks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build Web pages with Dreamweaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with FreeHand objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Flash movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Update site content with Contribute\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1776'),
(18487, 'MacS All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to the wonderful world of the Mac! Whether youâ€™ve just decided to switch from Windows or youâ€™ve been using a Mac for awhile and want to take advantage of all its bells and whistles,\n <em>\n  Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect guidebook to Mac land.\n</p>\n<p>\n You probably already know that Macs were made for media. Thereâ€™s iPhoto for organizing, editing, and sharing your digital photos; iMovie to let you become a moviemaker; iDVD for preserving that movie and playing your favorites; and of course, iTunes for managing your music. But your Mac is just as happy creating documents, browsing the Internet, putting together cool presentations, or even crunching numbers. This guide shows you how to use all those applications and more. Seven minibooks cover Mac basics; working with photos, movies, and music; using the Internet; working with iLife and iWork applications; various other Mac programs; time-saving tips; and networking. Youâ€™ll discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up and customize a new Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get online, choose a browser, configure an e-mail account, and instant-message with iChat\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle Mac security and troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a Web site with iWeb and get it online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your files, sync your stuff, and manage your life with your Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Network your Mac with other computers, even PCs, and share files, printers, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even if youâ€™re a seasoned Mac veteran, we bet youâ€™ll find some things here you didnâ€™t know! And youâ€™ll refer to this book again and again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1 â€” your key to Mac happiness\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to the Mac, plus tips for switching from Windows\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to enjoy a marvelous relationship with your Mac? Everything you need to know is in one of these minibooks. Find out how to turn on your Mac, store and organize audio and video files, browse the Internet, create presentations and crunch numbers with iWork applications, connect your Mac to a local network, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up and customize your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Send and receive e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have fun with iLife and work wonders with iWork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Store and organize digital photos, videos, and music\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshoot problems and protect your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(18488, 'MacS All-In-One for Dummies', 'Joe Hutsko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Seven content-rich minibooks cover the key features and tools of your Mac\n</p>\n<p>\n Macs are easy to use, but this guide helps you take advantage of all the cool features and make the most of your Mac. Fully updated, it covers the newest operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, as well as iLife ''09, iWork ''09, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Minibooks include Mac Basics; Photos, Music, and Movies; Browsing the Internet; Working with iLife and iWork; Other Mac Programs; Timesaving Tips with a Mac; and Mac Networking.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ideal for those switching to a Mac from a PC as well as for Mac users who are upgrading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you set up and customize your Mac and get to know the Mac way\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to get online, surf with Safari, and send and receive e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers working with photos, music, and movies, as well as crunching numbers and creating presentations with iWork\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores setting up a network, running Windows on a Mac via Bootcamp, and automating your Mac\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides troubleshooting tips and advice on protecting your Mac\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Macs All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gives you the full scoop on using all the cool Mac features.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s your guide to getting started, getting creative, and getting more from your Mac\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re meeting your first Mac or you have a long-time relationship, there''s something in this all-in-one guide for you. Newbies will learn to set up a Mac, use the Finder, and juggle folders. Veterans will get the scoop on using iSync, enjoying iLife, building Web sites with iWeb, staying organized, running Windows on a Mac, and so much more!!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Begin with the basics â€” starting up, going to sleep, navigating the interface, and the Mac approach to files and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mac specials â€” get more from Dashboard widgets, back up with Time MachineÂ®, and meet the Automator\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   That''s entertainment â€” listen to music, watch movies, and play online games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect â€” browse the Web; use e-mail, iChat instant messaging and video conferences; and set up Internet security options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get creative â€” make albums of your digital photos, compose and record music, and build your own Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mac at work â€” learn the capabilities of iWork''s document, presentation, and spreadsheet programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize your life â€” manage contacts with Address Book and appointments with iCal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do the network thing â€” understand wired and wireless (Wi-Fi) networks, share files and resources, and connect to BluetoothÂ® devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up and configure your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for getting around on the Mac desktop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use iPhotoÂ®, iMovieÂ®, iDVDÂ®, GarageBandÂ®, iTunesÂ®, and iWeb\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for networking your Macs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with iWorkÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintenance and troubleshooting advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about running WindowsÂ® on your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Valuable advice on making and storing backups\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(18489, 'MacS for Dummies', 'Edward C. Baig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For anyone new to Mac...Mac for Dummies is a must buy." (\n <em>\n  geekanoids.co.uk\n </em>\n , December 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Updated to cover the new Intel-based Macs, Mac OS X Tiger, and the latest Mac tools and trends, this bestseller includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Mac basics,\n </li>\n <li>\n  customizing a workspace,\n </li>\n <li>\n  getting acquainted with Mac OS X, going online,\n </li>\n <li>\n  working with iLife applications,\n </li>\n <li>\n  setting up e-mail,\n </li>\n <li>\n  connecting an iPod to a Mac,\n </li>\n <li>\n  turning a Mac into a fax machine,\n </li>\n <li>\n  troubleshooting,\n </li>\n <li>\n  security,\n </li>\n <li>\n  and more.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n USA Today Personal Technology columnist Edward Baig, a longtime technology writer who appears regularly on TV, radio, and at major industry trade shows, has rewritten this edition from scratch ensuring you get the up-to-date information you need.\n</p>\n<p>\n Order your copy today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1780'),
(18490, 'MacS for Dummies', 'Edward C. Baig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For anyone new to Mac...Mac for Dummies is a must buy." (\n <em>\n  geekanoids.co.uk\n </em>\n , December 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re thinking of switching to a Macintosh computer, are looking into the latest Apple products, or have a Mac and want to learn about Mac OS X Leopard, then\n <em>\n  Macs For Dummies, 10th Edition\n </em>\n will get you going. Here youâ€™ll learn all about how to compare the different desktop and laptop models to choose your perfect match, make Mac OS X Leopard work your way, use the new iLife 2008 digital lifestyle applications, get online and connect to a wired or wireless network, and run Windows on your Mac so you can keep the Microsoft programs you need. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate your way around the Mac interface and work with icons and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Best utilize OS X, work with the new Photo Booth, and manage clutter with ExposÃ© and Spaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get connected, start a Web-browsing Safari, use e-mail and iChat, and shop online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Join .Mac and take advantage of iDisk backups, IMAP mail, and Web Gallery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore all that iTunes offers, process digital photos with iPhoto, make iMovies, and have fun with GarageBand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Windows on your Mac and transfer Windows files\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s a perfect time to join the Mac generation, especially if youâ€™re a Windows user whoâ€™s been thinking of defecting.\n <em>\n  Macs For Dummies, 10th Edition\n </em>\n will get you there, helping you pick peripherals, download freebie programs, set up user accounts, implement security secrets, troubleshoot your Mac, and experience the iLife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1781'),
(18491, 'MacS for Dummies', 'David Pogue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you have inherited an older Macintosh or just bought a brand-new one, you''ll get more from it with the assistance of\n <em>\n  Macs for Dummies\n </em>\n . In addition to the fundamental information that has put generations of Mac users on the right track, this latest edition of a long-standing bestseller incorporates information about the newest Mac developments, including Mac OS 8.5 and the iMac.\n</p>\n<p>\n On top of author David Pogue''s coverage of the system itself and Mac hardware,\n <em>\n  Macs for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use all the most popular Mac application programs, including AppleWorks (also known as ClarisWorks) and Microsoft Office. There''s also an excellent glossary that helps you figure out jargon you may encounter in manuals and on the Internet.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book would be better if Pogue had included more about creating local area networks (LANs) for Macs--such networks are popping up in homes and small offices everywhere. Setting up Mac LANs is so easy, it seems unnecessary to relegate information about it to\n <em>\n  More Macs for Dummies\n </em>\n , as Pogue and his publisher have done. But by itself, the information here is extremely valuable, especially for people totally new to computing.\n <em>\n  Macs for Dummies\n </em>\n makes you feel welcome in the Mac community.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Mac is famous for its user-friendliness. Maybe thatâ€™s why you bought one in the first place. But to make the most of all its marvelous capabilities, youâ€™ll be glad to have an equally friendly resource to help you use it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by the renowned\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n technology columnist David Pogue,\n <em>\n  Macs For Dummies\n </em>\n has long been the bestselling Mac book because it provides just what you need to know to get the best performance from your Mac. And like the Mac itself, this book is easy to use, with plain-English explanations and step-by-step instructions. The revised eighth edition covers\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Basics for beginners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up your printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with OS X\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting online and using e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating and saving documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to do if things go wrong\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether this is your first computer or youâ€™ve just upgraded to OS X, youâ€™ll find help when you need it in this handy guide. Youâ€™ll discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your Mac, connect printers and other devices, and navigate the desktop and Dock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish an account with an Internet service provider, set up e-mail, and start surfing the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all the basic software programs and work with files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit home movies with iMovie, download music and use iTunes, burn CDs and DVDs, and edit images with iPhoto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share your Mac or set up a home network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform basic Mac maintenance, find and fix problems, upgrade your Mac, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Macs For Dummies, 8th Edition\n </em>\n by your side, youâ€™ll be prepared to take advantage of every exciting feature that Mac and OS X have to offer. Before you know it, youâ€™ll be living the digital lifestyle, cruising the Internet like a pro, printing documents and photosâ€”and even getting some work done!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1782'),
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(19012, 'The Magic Goes Away', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Return to the "vivid and unusual" (*Kirkus Reviews*) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle''s *The Burning City*, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep''s Town unprotected for the first time in their history.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn''t the only danger the town is facing. From out of the desert come monsters -- great birds with blades instead of wings, driven by some unknown force. Although they can be killed, the threat these terror birds pose is worse than death. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep''s Town will be no more.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Sent by the Lords of Lordshills to discover the source of the terror birds, Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel into a world where magic is still strong -- and wheresomeone or *something* waits to destroy them!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Filled with the sweeping adventure, memorable characters, and imaginative world-building that have defined the novels of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Burning Tower is another triumph.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6308'),
(19013, 'The Magician King: A Novel', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011\n </strong>\n : This second volume in Lev Grossmanâ€™s  celebrated series picks up just after the events of its 2009 prequel\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n . Quentin, Eliot, Janet, and Julia are now the High Kings and Queens of Fillory, a fantastic realm not unlike Narnia, and they pass their days â€œdeliquescing atom by atom amid a riot of luxury.â€ To ease his royal boredom, Quentin embarks on a quest with Julia. Despite his romantic visions of heroic feats and easy accolades, the quest goes horribly awry, and they find themselves back in the depressingly real world of Chesterton, Massachusetts. With the help of seedy underground magicians, a dragon, and a young boy named Thomas, they undertake a desperate journey back to Fillory. Grossmanâ€™s writing here is sharp and self-aware, and the characters feel like people you actually know, but cooler: they are delightfully profane and dripping with irony, they are arrogant and shallow, they are finding their way in a magically perfect world that somehow still lets them down, and they are learning to fight for the things they love.\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a triumph of (and an homage to) modern fantasy writing, and a must-read for grown-up fans of Narnia and Harry Potter. --_Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed."\n <br />\n -_Kirkus Reviews_ (Starred Review)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fans of\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come."\n <br />\n -_Booklist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4102'),
(19014, 'The Main Chance', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6170'),
(19015, 'Maine', 'J. Courtney Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n "I have never stayed at this cottage in Maine, or any cottage in Maine, but no matter: I now feel I know what it''s like being in a family that comes to the same place summer after summer, unpacking their familiar longings, slights, shorthand conversation, and ways of being together.Â J. Courtney Sullivan''sÂ _Maine_Â is evocative, funny, close-quartered, and highly appealing." â€“Meg Wolitzer, author of _The Uncoupling\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n Maine_ by J. Courtney Sullivan is a powerful novel about the ties that bind families tight, no matter how dysfunctional. Sullivan has created in the Kelleher women a cast of flawed but lovable characters so real, with their shared history of guilt and heartache and secret resentments, that Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™ll be thinking about them for a long time to come." â€“Amy Greene, author of _Bloodroot\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Everyone has dark secrets. Itâ€™s why God invented confession and booze, two balms frequently employed in Sullivanâ€™s well-wrought sophomore effort. Alice Brennan is Irish American through and through, the daughter of a cop, a good Catholic girl so outwardly pure that sheâ€™s a candidate for the papacy. . . . As Sullivanâ€™s tale unfolds, there are plenty of reasons that Alice might wish to avoid taking too close a look at her life: Thereâ€™s tragedy and heartbreak around every corner, as there is in every life. . . .Â Sullivan spins a leisurely yarn that looks into why people do the things they doâ€”particularly when it comes to drinking and churchgoingâ€”and why the best-laid plans are always the ones the devil monkeys with the most thoroughly. The story will be particularly meaningful to Catholic women, though there are no barriers to entry for those who are not of that faith. Mature, thoughtful, even meditative at timesâ€”but also quite entertaining." â€“\n </em>\n Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At the heart of this compelling novel of three generations of women...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her best-selling debut,\n <em>\n  Commencement\n </em>\n , J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, theyâ€™re family.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast, with one tree bearing the initials â€œA.H.â€ At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface.\n</p>\n<p>\n As three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad,\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4376'),
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(19017, 'MAKE Magazine - Volume 28, 2011', 'Volume 28, 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10923'),
(19018, 'Make: vol 26-2011', 'Make Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2504'),
(19019, 'Making Millions for Dummies', 'Howard Brecher &amp; Sandy Brecher &amp; Robert Doyen &amp; Meg Schneider &amp; Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The must-have guide to achieving great wealth\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Making Millions For Dummies\n </em>\n lays out in simple, easy-to-understand steps the best ways to achieve wealth. Through a proven methodology of saving, building a successful business, smart investing, and carefully managing assets, this up-front, reliable guide shows readers how to achieve millionaire or multimillionaire status. It provides the lowdown on making wise financial decisions, with guidance on managing investments and inheritances, minimizing taxes, making money grow, and, most important, how to avoid common and costly financial mistakes. Millionaire wannabes will see how to maintain financial security throughout their life with this easy-to-follow road map to financial independence. For individuals who yearn to make millions but don''t want to be restricted to owning or running a business, the book features other options, such as inventing and patenting the next big thing, consulting, selling high-value collectibles, and flipping or owning real estate.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your practical guide to taking control of your money and achieving great wealth\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be a millionaire? You can! This no-nonsense guide shows you how to make your financial dreams come true with a proven method of saving, smart investing, and solid moneymaking opportunities. You''ll see how to make wise financial decisions, minimize taxes, avoid costly mistakes, and ride out an unstable economy in order to reach your goals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your finances in order â€” understand your relationship with money and lay the groundwork for setting and meeting your financial security goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start building wealth today â€” get rid of bad debt, start and stick to a savings plan, and maximize your paycheck\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Begin a venture to make your millions â€” explore proven wealth-building opportunities, including starting your own business, coming up with an invention, capitalizing on an inheritance, and investing in real estate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your money wisely â€” know your risk tolerance, get help from the pros, and minimize your tax liability\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for the unexpected and the inevitable â€” protect your assets, plan for your heirs, and keep your finances in good health\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay financially secure for the rest of your life â€” reshape your attitude toward money and make the right financial security decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do to immediately improve your finances\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between good and bad debt\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proven strategies for building wealth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to invest for income or growth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Money pitfalls and poor practices to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to free up your money and make it work for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A plan for working out finances with your partner\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for protecting your credit-worthiness\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(19020, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention', 'Manning Marable', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins'' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Manning Marable''s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the\n <em>\n  Autobiography, Malcolm X\n </em>\n unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm''s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents'' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.\n <em>\n  Malcolm X\n </em>\n will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manning Marable\n </strong>\n is M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003. Since 2002, he has directed Columbia''s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable is also the editor of the quarterly journal\n <em>\n  Souls\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4184'),
(19021, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention', 'Manning Marable', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins'' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Manning Marable''s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the\n <em>\n  Autobiography, Malcolm X\n </em>\n unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm''s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents'' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.\n <em>\n  Malcolm X\n </em>\n will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manning Marable\n </strong>\n is M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003. Since 2002, he has directed Columbia''s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable is also the editor of the quarterly journal\n <em>\n  Souls\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4422'),
(19022, 'The Man from Archangel / and Other Tales of Adventure', 'A. Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4280'),
(19023, 'A Man from the North', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4307'),
(19024, 'The Man Who Rocked the Earth', 'Robert Williams Wood &amp; Arthur Cheney Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4315'),
(19025, 'Manage Your Life With Outlook for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An all-new guide that unlocks the secrets of greater Office 2007 productivity-a must-have for power users and everyone who would like to work more efficiently\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers scores of tips, tricks, and techniques to boost productivity with the programs people use every day-Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include dealing effectively with e-mail, effectively managing files, using and creating templates, reusing and remixing content, sharing and reviewing content, and efficiently managing time and scheduling\n </li>\n <li>\n  The CD-ROM and companion Web site offer podcasts of key productivity tips from the book\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Managing your life takes more than meditation â€” it takes a better Outlook!\n</p>\n<p>\n Technology was supposed to help us manage our lives. Instead, most of us feel we spend our lives managing technology. So this book is not about software; it''s about making the software serve YOU. Restore harmony to your life by controlling your e-mail, tracking your appointments, using custom shortcuts, and managing tasks, all with Outlook.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take stock â€” analyze your current work/personal life balance and identify areas where you can be more productive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   One size does not fit all â€” choose and customize the Outlook task-management processes that work for your personal situation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tame the e-mail monster â€” use folders, categories, flags, and message rules to keep e-mail manageable\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To do or not to do â€” empower your calendar, taskpad, and contacts to automate your schedule\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Journal and take Notes â€” learn how these under-utilized Outlook functions help document your time and capture important thoughts\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/manageyourlifewithoutlookfd, where you''ll find bonus content as well as screencasts and videos that explain and illustrate concepts from the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create your own definition of productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to adapt Outlook to work your way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shortcut keys to modules, panes, and toolbars\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Processing tips for managing your mailboxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Scheduling techniques using the Calendar and Contacts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to go mobile with Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for saving and searching data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools to assess your current productivity level\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1784'),
(19026, 'Managing Debt for Dummies', 'John Ventura &amp; Mary Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re trying to kick the â€œBuy Now/Pay Laterâ€ habit and get your spiraling debt under control, you need\n <em>\n  Managing Debt For Dummies\n </em>\n now! This practical, commonsense guide provides straightforward strategies for coping with every kind of secured and unsecured debt, including, personal loans, car loans, mortgages, home equity loans, lines of credit, credit cards, finance company loans, and student loans. Youâ€™ll find out how easy it is to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Distinguish between good and bad debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Go on a â€œdebt dietâ€ to get back into financial shape\n </li>\n <li>\n  Start a filing system to track debt and protect life after debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adopt a smart spending regimen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your income\n </li>\n <li>\n  Consolidate your debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide which bills to pay when you canâ€™t pay them all\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use credit cards responsibly\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You can still live well while slashing spending on groceries, clothing, and entertainment. Find out how in\n <em>\n  Managing Debt for Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips on spending less and getting more for your money\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your money wisely, stop accumulating debt, and start paying it off today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you carrying too much debt? Relax! This practical guide gives you simple, effective methods for paying off your bills as quickly as possible and getting your finances back on track. You''ll find proven strategies for slashing spending, consolidating debts, dealing with collectors, handling high-risk debt such as a mortgage or car loan, and avoiding future debt problems.\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Managing Debt For Dummies_ arms consumers with all of the tools and information they need to pay down their debts. It''s an essential guide for anyone with money troubles."\n <br />\n â€”Richard Alderman, Director of the Center for Consumer Law, Associate Dean, University of Houston Law School\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a debt-busting budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your spending habits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use credit cards responsibly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with creditors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage past-due debt\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rebuild your credit history\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(19027, 'Managing Your Business With Outlook2003 for Dummies', 'Marcelo Thalenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows readers how to use Outlook as an effective and powerful solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information as they are specifically applied in a business setting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses managing and maintaining current customers and how to control customer interactions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the process of using checklists and matching them with Outlook applications-from bulk mailing to planning a telemarketing campaign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses how to build a prospect profile with an action plan for follow-up until the prospect becomes an active customer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides step-by-step examples on how to set up and use Business Contact Manager\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use a tool you already have (plus BCM 2.0) to solve lots of time-consuming problems\n</p>\n<p>\n If you could just get a handle on mail, schedules, meetings, and contacts, you''d have more time to make your business productive, right? Check your Outlook â€” it''s right in your Office! And here are step-by-step examples for using it to build databases, manage customer contacts, handle finances, improve marketing, and finally get organized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize your priorities and your day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate dialing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build and use customer profiles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weed out e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make meetings productive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan and implement marketing activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your team collaboration\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(19028, 'Managing Your Money All-In-One for Dummies', 'Ted Benna &amp; Stephen R. Bucci &amp; James P. Caher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to take control of your finances once and for all?\n <em>\n  Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n combines expert money management with personal finance tips. From credit cards and insurance to taxes, investing, retirement, and more, seven mini-books show you how to improve your relationship with money â€” no matter your age or stage of life.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to assess your financial situation, calculate debt, prepare a budget, trim spending, boost your income, and improve your credit score. Youâ€™ll find ways to run a money-smart household, reduce waste, and cut medical and transportation expenses as you tackle your debt head-on and develop good saving habits. Youâ€™ll even get help choosing the right mortgage and avoiding foreclosure, saving for college or retirement, and determining your home-, car-, and life insurance needs. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Take charge of your finances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage home and personal finances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lower your taxes and avoid tax audits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan a budget and scale back on expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with debt and negotiate with creditors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save and invest safely for college or retirement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your money and assets from fraud and identity theft\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure a comfortable retirement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan your estate and safeguard a will or trust\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n brings you seven great books for the price of one. Can you think of a better way to start managing your money wisely?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a handle on yourmoney and take chargeof your financial future!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take control of your finances once and for all? This easy-to-understand guide combines expert money management advice with personal finance tips. From credit cards and insurance to taxes, investing, retirement, and more, seven minibooks show you how to improve your relationship with money â€” no matter your age or stage of life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess your financial situation â€” calculate debt, prepare a budget, trim spending, boost income, and improve your credit score\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Run a money-smart household â€” save on utilities, reduce waste, and cut medical and transportation costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle your debt head-on â€” consolidate your debt, negotiate with creditors, and get professional help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save and invest wisely â€” develop good saving habits, weigh your investment options, save for college or retirement, and trade online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your money and assets â€” combat identity theft, conduct online banking, and determine your home, auto, and life insurance needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure a comfortable retirement â€” from 401(k)s to IRAs to reverse mortgages, manage your money and maximize your return\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your estate and will â€” prepare and safeguard a will or trust, work with planners and attorneys, and take care of aging parents\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to scale back on expenses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose the right mortgage â€” and avoid foreclosure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for lowering your taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solutions for paying down debt\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proven investment advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to pay for college\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of bankruptcy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance in managing your money online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(19029, 'Manga for Dummies', 'Kensuke Okabayashi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you love Manga, youâ€™ll eat\n <em>\n  Manga For Dummies,\n </em>\n right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings.Â  Youâ€™ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villainsâ€”along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon youâ€™ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it youâ€™ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize and accessorize your Manga characters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create 3-D drawings and give characters motion and emotion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write an exciting Manga Story\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a stunning, full-color 8 page insert,\n <em>\n  Manga for Dummies\n </em>\n is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with hundreds of how-to illustrations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take your manga drawings from rough sketches to finished art!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you an aspiring manga artist? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to create your own manga characters and their world â€” from heroes and villains to weapons, cars, animals, and more. You get expert, step-by-step guidance in various drawing techniques, developing a story, and using motion and emotion to bring your characters to life!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Draw different faces and body types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the manga genres\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create plotlines and storyboards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design high-tech gadgets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Show off your work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your own manga studio\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1788'),
(19030, 'Manga Studio for Dummies', 'Doug Hills &amp; Michael Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and\n <em>\n  Manga Studio For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy to get started.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. Itâ€™s a breeze once you know your way around the program. Manga may have begun in Japan, but\n <em>\n  Manga Studio For Dummies\n </em>\n is written in plain English, and shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build and use page templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rough in your comic with penciling techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work 100% digital, or use a combination of digital and traditional tools if you prefer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with layers, rulers, and panels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add speech bubbles and sound effects text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ink your work and add tones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your creations for print or distribution on the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by a working digital artist,\n <em>\n  Manga Studio For Dummies\n </em>\n covers both Manga Studio Debut and EX versions. As an added bonus, it even gives you a peek into the world of manga and comics in general. With the help of\n <em>\n  Manga Studio For Dummies\n </em>\n , you just might find yourself among the comic artists whose work populates the Web and gathers thousands of fans!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers both Manga Studio Debut and EX versions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use the newest features of Manga Studio to bring your ideas to life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Manga is magnificent, and with the tools available in the latest version of Manga Studio, it''s easy to turn your computer into your drawing board. Here''s the fun and easy wayÂ® to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build and use page templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rough in your comic with penciling techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with layers, rulers, and panels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add speech bubbles and sound effects text\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ink your work and add tones\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1789'),
(19031, 'Manning Marable', 'Malcolm X  A Life of Reinvention (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4345'),
(19032, 'The Map of True Places', 'Brunonia Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world.  Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats â€“ a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She''s now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She''s also about to marry one of Boston ''s most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee''s patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she though she''d left behind.  What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly''s funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson''s disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward.  Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Barry''s considerable if overplotted latest delves into the long-lingering effects of a mother''s suicide. Fifteen years ago, Maureen Finch, a discontented wife and bipolar mother to 13-year-old Zee, commits suicide while Zee watches. Flash forward to the present day, and Zee is a therapist with a new patient, Lilly Braedon, who is far too much like Maureen, and after Lilly kills herself, Zee walks away from her practice and travels back to Salem, Mass., to visit her father and his partner, Melville, only to find that her father''s Parkinson''s disease is advancing rapidly. With Melville missing, Zee becomes a full-time caregiver and must face the half-truths and twisted memories that have compromised her connection to her father, all the while examining how her mother''s legacy extends into her life and a fledgling romance. This is a lovingly told story with many well-drawn characters, who sooner or later reconsider the courses charted by personal decisions and circumstance. But there is almost too much story here, and Barry (_The Lace Reader_) compromises the third act with a weak subplot about Lilly''s traumatic last days that reads as an intrusion on an otherwise well-told tale.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Psychotherapist Zee Finch is dealt a blow when one of her patients, a troubled bipolar housewife named Lilly, leaps off a bridge to her death. The tragedy brings up memories of Zeeâ€™s own motherâ€™s suicide, prompting her to go see her father, Finch, in Salem. She is startled to find Finchâ€™s Parkinsonâ€™s disease is much more advanced than sheâ€™d been led to believe, and that he has kicked his partner, Melville, out of the house. Zee decides to take a leave of absence from her practice to care for Finch, a move that puts a strain on her engagement to Michael, one of her mentorâ€™s closest friends. As her relationship with Michael comes to an end, Zee tries to puzzle out what caused Finch to abruptly break up with his beloved Melville. She also tries to make sense of Lillyâ€™s death, unaware that the dangerous man Lilly was involved with now wants to exact revenge on her. Like her hit debut, The Lace Reader (2008), Barryâ€™s second novel features an involving, intricately woven story and vivid descriptions of historic Salem. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5921'),
(19033, 'Maran Illustrated Dog Training', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4654'),
(19034, 'Marie Claire - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10812'),
(19035, 'Marie Claire India - Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10813'),
(19036, 'Marie Claire UK - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10692'),
(19037, 'Market Timing for Dummies', 'Joe Duarte Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to improve your market timing so you can send your investment returns soaring?\n <em>\n  Market Timing For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the guesswork out of developing a trading strategy and provides all of the tools you need to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market trends and changes.\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative guide is packed with expert advice on how to increase your profits and limit your risk. It helps you grasp the psychology behind market timing as you learn the basics of the method, analyze our finances, select the right software and equipment, and define your market trading style. Youâ€™ll get the hang of using technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and manage risk as you track general market trends, develop a feel for when a particular trend is vulnerable to change, and seize the moment! Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand how Wall Street really works\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use a wide array of market-timing tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Anticipate and prepare for trend shifts using technical analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Time the stock market with the seasons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Time with a feel for the pulse of the market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Execute successful timing trades\n </li>\n <li>\n  Time the stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Yes! You can make money in any market, whether trends are rising, falling, or moving sideways. Let\n <em>\n  Market Timing For Dummies\n </em>\n show you how_._\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tools and techniques you need for market-timing success\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to apply timing methods to your overall investment strategy and send your returns soaring? This completely practical guide is packed with expert advice on increasing your profits and limiting your risk. It takes the guesswork out of market timing and provides tools you can use to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market changes.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand how Wall Street really works â€” grasp the psychology behind market timing and the basics of the method\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize the tools of the timer â€” analyze your finances, use the right software and equipment, and define your market and trading style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Anticipate and prepare â€” use technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and limit risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time the stock market with the seasons â€” track general market trends and the impact of holidays\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time with feeling â€” use the pulse of the market to know when a particular trend is vulnerable to change\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Execute a successful timing trade â€” seize the moment, choose a strategy, execute the trade, and review the results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your horizons â€” apply your timing strategy to stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on timing strategies and choosing a market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Technical analysis how-to''s for market timing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on using economic reports to anticipate market trends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proven techniques for rising, falling, and sideways trends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for successful timing trades\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines on timing sector investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of timing interest-rate-sensitive sectors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rules for staying solvent in difficult times\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1790'),
(19038, 'Marketing for Dummies', 'Alexander Hiam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦an invaluable, practical guide to marketing for those new to the subjectâ€¦" (_Marketer_, September 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers everything from essential marketing principles and techniques to the latest methods and trends\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to sharpen your marketing skills to promote your products and services? Whether you''re introducing a new product or jumpstarting your existing marketing plans,\n <em>\n  Marketing For Dummies, 3rd Edition,\n </em>\n helps you get a handle on such basic marketing concepts as the four P''s-product, pricing, positioning, and placement - and boost your sales with innovative new approaches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with over 25 percent new and revised material, this practical, savvy, guide shows you how to treat every aspect of interacting with customers-including customer service and the product itself - as an opportunity to grow the organization. You''ll learn how to prepare hard-hitting campaigns, plan a marketing budget and stick to it, and seize new opportunities to increase customer awareness and appreciation of your product or service.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains Internet and search engine marketing to work for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you identify customers where you least expect them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers tips on using online resources to size up competitors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers effective product positioning in a crowded marketplace\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduces guerilla and global marketing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You don''t have to be a marketing genius to expand your customer base and boost sales, but you will need a little help from\n <em>\n  Marketing For Dummies, 3rd Edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1791');
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(19039, 'The Marks of Cain', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him.Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them.Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees, to the mysterious castles of the SS, to the arid and frightening wastes of Namibia, Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture and contemporary science to create an unputdownable thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6411'),
(19040, 'The Marx Sisters', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jerusalem Lane is a little piece of Dickensian London untouched by development, its inhabitants mainly refugees from pre-war central Europe. But could elderly Meredith Winterbottom really have been killed for the politics of another age?As Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock delve into the lane''s eccentric melting pot, past and present interlink in unexpected ways. What connects Mrs Rosenfeldt and Adam Kowalski to a smooth property developer and an American academic? And what is Meredith''s son Terry up to? Not to mention the dottily Marxist sisters . . . Is this a recipe for murder?''More please, Mr Maitland'' - The Washington Times''A first-rate, gripping work of fiction . . . Maitland makes the figure who haunts his pages so human that you know you are in the presence of a great writer.'' - Brisbane News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4640'),
(19041, 'Mary Tudor', 'Anna Whitelock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3939'),
(19042, 'The Master and Margarita', 'Mikhail Bulgakov &amp; Mirra Ginsburg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel written by Mikhail Bulgakov in the 1930s and published as Master i Margarita in a censored form in the Soviet Union in 1966-67. The unexpurgated version was published by the Soviets in 1973. It is considered a 20th-century masterpiece. The novel is witty and ribald, and at the same time a penetrating philosophical work that wrestles with profound and eternal problems of good and evil. It juxtaposes two planes of action--one set in Moscow in the 1930s and the other in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The three central characters of the contemporary plot are the Devil, disguised as one Professor Woland; the "Master," a repressed novelist; and Margarita, who, though married to a bureaucrat, loves the Master. The Master has burned his manuscript and gone willingly into a psychiatric ward when critics attacked his work--a portrayal of the story of Jesus. Margarita sells her soul to the Devil in order to obtain the Master''s release from the psychiatric ward. A parallel plot presents the action of the Master''s destroyed novel, the condemnation of Yeshua (Jesus) in Jerusalem. --\n  <em>\n   The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Suppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov''s masterpiece is an ironic parable of power and its corruption, good and evil, and human frailty and the strength of love. Featuring Satan, accompanied by a retinue that includes the large, fast-talking, vodka drinking black tom cat Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, her beloved - a distraught writer known only as the Master - Pontius Pilate, and Jesus Christ, The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy into a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered one of the greatest novels ever to come out of the Soviet Union. "A wild surrealistic romp.... Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous."-Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News; "Fine, funny, imaginative.... The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative."-Saul Maloff, Newsweek; "Funny, devilish, brilliant satire.... It''s literature of the highest order and . . . it will deliver a full measure of enjoyment and enlightenment."-Publisher''s Weekly; "A rich, funny, moving and bitter novel.... Vast and boisterous entertainment."-The New York Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(19043, 'The Master Mystery', 'Arthur B. Reeve &amp; John W. Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4235'),
(19044, 'Master Photography - July 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3611'),
(19045, 'The Master: A Novel', 'Colm Toibin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what TÃ³ibÃ­n, highly talented Irish author of\n  <em>\n   The Heather Blazing\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Blackwater Lightship\n  </em>\n  , has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist''s interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James''s hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James''s life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James''s troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James''s absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which TÃ³ibÃ­n inhabits James''s psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master''s style ring true. Far more than a stunt, this is a riveting, if inevitably somewhat evasive, portrait of the creative life.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Master may not elevate James to the status achieved by Virginia Woolf in Michael Cunninghamâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Hours\n  </em>\n  , but itâ€™s a remarkable accomplishment. Most readers, regardless of their familiarity with Jamesâ€™s work, will appreciate its timeless themes, including war, family, character, and ambition, and graceful, evocative prose. TÃ³ibÃ­n (_Blackwater Lightship_) offers a humane portrait of the writer in middle age, ambitious and mentally energetic but emotionally aloof. Though focused on five years, he captures all stages of Jamesâ€™s life, from his Yankee childhood and European young adulthood to middle-aged angst. Sometimes TÃ³ibÃ­n veers too much into fantasy, mixing up his and Jamesâ€™s voices; at other points, more imagination could have animated the text. Yet, thereâ€™s no doubt that\n  <em>\n   The Master\n  </em>\n  is the work ofâ€”well, another kind of master.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6197'),
(19046, 'Mastering Hand Tool Techniques', 'Alan &amp; Gill Bridgewater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7081'),
(19047, 'The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4240'),
(19048, 'Math Word Problems for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers percentages, probability, proportions, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Get a grip on all types of word problems by applying them to real life\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you mystified by math word problems? This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to conquer these tricky questions with a step-by-step plan for finding the right solution each and every time, no matter the kind or level of problem. From learning math lingo and performing operations to calculating formulas and writing equations, you''ll get all the skills you need to succeed!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Translate word problems into plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Brush up on basic math skills\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Plug in the right operation or formula\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Tackle algebraic and geometric problems\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Check your answers to see if they work\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers percentages, probability, proportions, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a grip on all types of word problems by applying them to real life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you mystified by math word problems? This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to conquer these tricky questions with a step-by-step plan for finding the right solution each and every time, no matter the kind or level of problem. From learning math lingo and performing operations to calculating formulas and writing equations, you''ll get all the skills you need to succeed!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Translate word problems into plain English\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Brush up on basic math skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plug in the right operation or formula\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle algebraic and geometric problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Check your answers to see if they work\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1792'),
(19049, 'Maui for Dummies', 'Cheryl Farr Leas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  For Dummies Travel guides\n </strong>\n are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the\n <strong>\n  For Dummies series\n </strong>\n with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Enjoy a magical Maui vacation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Plan your perfect island adventure on Maui. Go beach hopping or boutique shopping. Party into the night or watch the sun rise over a volcanic crater. Go snorkeling, scuba diving, or surfing â€” or simply sip the perfect mai tai on a beautiful beach. This friendly guide not only gives you the scoop, it gets you in the refreshing aloha spirit.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1793'),
(19050, 'Maxim', 'November 2011 (USA)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10588'),
(19051, 'Maxim - October 2011 US', 'October 2011 US-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7198'),
(19052, 'Maxim - September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3517'),
(19053, 'Maxim - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4852'),
(19054, 'Maxim 05-2011', 'Maxim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(19055, 'Maxim 07-2011', 'Maxim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2541'),
(19056, 'Maxim 08-09-2011', 'Maxim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4692'),
(19057, 'Maxim 08-2011', 'Maxim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2496'),
(19058, 'Maxim 09-2011', 'Maxim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4826'),
(19059, 'Maxim Australia - October 2011', 'October 2011 (Australia)-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6758'),
(19060, 'Maxim Australia - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4821'),
(19061, 'Maxim Australia 2011-10', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6857'),
(19062, 'Maxim India - October 2011', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10599'),
(19063, 'Maxim India - September 2011', 'September 2011-slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4661'),
(19064, 'Maxim Magazine India', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7044'),
(19065, 'Maximum PC - August 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10661'),
(19066, 'Maximum PC - August 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10719'),
(19067, 'Maximum PC - December 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10663'),
(19068, 'Maximum PC - December 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10724'),
(19069, 'Maximum PC - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10671'),
(19070, 'Maximum PC - November 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10723'),
(19071, 'Maximum PC - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10714'),
(19072, 'Maximum PC - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10720'),
(19073, 'Maximum PC - September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10662'),
(19074, 'Maximum PC - September 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10722'),
(19075, 'Maximum PC Magazine', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10769'),
(19076, 'Maximum Tech 05+06-2011', 'Maximum Tech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2478'),
(19077, 'The Maxwell Equations', 'Anatoly Dnieprov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ð”ÐµÐ¹ÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿Ñ€Ð¾Ð¸ÑÑ…Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ñ‚ Ð²Ð¾ Ð²Ñ€ÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ð° Ð»Ð°Ð¼Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ñ‹Ñ… ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑŒÑŽÑ‚ÐµÑ€Ð¾Ð². ÐœÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¹ Ñ„Ð¸Ð·Ð¸Ðº, Ð±ÐµÐ·ÑƒÑÐ¿ÐµÑˆÐ½Ð¾ Ñ€ÐµÑˆÐ°Ñ ÑÐ»Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾Ðµ ÑƒÑ€Ð°Ð²Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ, Ð½Ð°Ñ‚Ñ‹ÐºÐ°ÐµÑ‚ÑÑ Ð½Ð° Ð¾Ð±ÑŠÑÐ²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð² Ð³Ð°Ð·ÐµÑ‚Ðµ Ð¾ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¸ Ð²Ñ‹Ñ‡Ð¸ÑÐ»Ð¸Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÑŒÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ñ†ÐµÐ½Ñ‚Ñ€Ð° Ð² ÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð³Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑˆÐºÐµ. Ð§Ñ€ÐµÐ·Ð²Ñ‹Ñ‡Ð°Ð¹Ð½Ð¾ ÑƒÐ´Ð¸Ð²Ð»Ñ‘Ð½Ð½Ñ‹Ð¹, Ð¾Ð½ Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð·Ñ‹Ð²Ð°ÐµÑ‚ Ñ€ÐµÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÐ²Ð¾ÐµÐ¹ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ñ‡Ð¸, Ð° Ð·Ð°Ñ‚ÐµÐ¼, Ð¿Ð¾Ñ€Ð°Ð¶Ñ‘Ð½Ð½Ñ‹Ð¹ Ñ€ÐµÐ·ÑƒÐ»ÑŒÑ‚Ð°Ñ‚Ð¾Ð¼, Ð¿Ñ‹Ñ‚Ð°ÐµÑ‚ÑÑ Ð²Ñ‹ÑÑÐ½Ð¸Ñ‚ÑŒ ÑÐ¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð± ÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑƒÑ‡ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ, Ð½Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð·Ñ€ÐµÐ²Ð°Ñ Ð¾Ð± ÑƒÐ³Ñ€Ð¾Ð·Ðµ ÑÐ²Ð¾ÐµÐ¼Ñƒ Ñ€Ð°ÑÑÑƒÐ´ÐºÑƒ Ð¸ ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¶Ð¸Ð·Ð½Ð¸.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4062'),
(19078, 'The Mayor&#39;s Wife', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3926'),
(19079, 'McAllister and His Double', 'Arthur Cheney Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4303'),
(19080, 'Medical Terminology for Dummies', 'Beverley Henderson &amp; Jennifer Lee Dorsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confused by medical terms? Donâ€™t know a carcinoma from a hematoma?\n <em>\n  Medical Terminology For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, youâ€™ll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide to language that can be just plain confusing clears up the meanings of the Greek and Latin sources of medical terms. Youâ€™ll get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. Youâ€™ll also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and youâ€™ll find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand word foundations and origins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grasp the essential meanings of unfamiliar terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Define common prefixes and suffixes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify and pronounce medical terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deconstruct words to grasp definitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use plurals and multiples with ease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Describe medical conditions accurately\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bone up on terms that describe the anatomy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use mnemonic devices to remember medical terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know when words refer to diseases, injuries, treatments, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use medical terminology in the real world\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a list of essential references on medical terminology as well as helpful word-building activities\n <em>\n  Medical Terminology For Dummies\n </em>\n puts you in the know in no time_._\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to understand, pronounce, and apply medical terminology\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t know a carcinoma from a hematoma? This friendlyguide gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals, helping you master definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all medical fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you''ll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize common root words â€” identify words that apply to body regions, organs, anatomy, and pathology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pronounce and use terms with ease â€”grasp the phonics of medical terms and understand the context of words, from hospital to pharmacy to test lab\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Break words down â€” understand unfamiliar words by defining their elements and recombining them; and get familiar with prefixes and suffixes, plurals and multiples\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a handle on anatomy and systems â€” bone up on terms that describe and are related to the body''s systems, from skeletal and muscular to gastrointestinal and endocrine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the lingo â€” familiarize yourself with common terms used in the ER, OR, pharmacy, and lab\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to the sourceâ€” understand Greek and Latin sources of medical terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for understanding unfamiliar medical terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of Greek and Latin roots and structures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Definitions of common prefixes and suffixes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance in pronouncing medical terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Word roots commonly used in hospitals, pharmacies, and labs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Terms for diseases, lab tests, and medications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Useful mnemonic devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful word-building activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1794'),
(19081, 'Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Dummies', 'Patricia Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confused about Medicareâ€™s drug coverage? Youâ€™re not alone.\n <em>\n  Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies\n </em>\n explains Part D in plain English and shows you how to find the best deal among numerous drug-coverage plan options. Whether youâ€™re new to Medicare or already in the program, youâ€™ll navigate the system with more ease and confidence, avoid pitfalls and scams, and have plenty of help choosing the plan thatâ€™s right for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand, consumer-friendly guide helps you find out whether Part D affects any drug coverage you already have and weigh the consequences of going without coverage. Youâ€™ll find ways to compare plans, identify the one that covers your drugs at the least cost, and make sure you sign up at the right time. And youâ€™ll learn how to minimize your expenses, use the â€œrightâ€ pharmacies, and troubleshoot any problems with your coverage. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide whether you need Part D\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how Part D works, from costs to coverage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and enroll in the best plan for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get up and running with Part D\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle the coverage gap\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lower your drug costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Join and switch plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with long-term-care rules and rights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Challenge plan decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid scams and hard-sell marketing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Now, more than ever, you need clear, reliable information that helps you understand Part D and make smart, cost-saving healthcare decisions. You need\n <em>\n  Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies\n </em>\n offers strategies to cut through the confusions of Part D, either for yourself or for someone you''re helping. It explains the program''s ins and outs in plain words. It shows you how to avoid or cope with pitfalls and suggests how you can lower your costs or find a better deal. Best of all, it convinces you that you can - yes, you can - handle Medicare Part D!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1795'),
(19082, 'Meditation &amp; Hypnosis [Gray Matter]', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4664'),
(19083, 'Meditation for Dummies', 'Stephan Bodian &amp; Dean Ornish', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "To tell you the truth, you can learn the basics of meditation in five minutes," asserts Stephan Bodian, meditation instructor, psychotherapist, and former editor-in-chief of\n <em>\n  Yoga Journal\n </em>\n . You can also study meditation for years, exploring its subtleties.\n <em>\n  Meditation for Dummies\n </em>\n is a simple, clear introduction to the basics of meditation, including an overview of dozens of techniques, practices, and specific meditations, plus direction for going deeper. You get step-by-step instructions for a variety of meditations, including body position, mental concentration, where to put your attention, what to contemplate or notice, physical movements, and breathing. A nice touch is the recurring "traditional wisdom": ancient stories or anecdotes that make a point. This book is useful whether you want the nuts and bolts for getting started in the next minute or you want to dip your mind into different practices and philosophies. Nothing is too elementary to explain: "how to sit up straight--and live to tell about it," what to wear, dealing with fear and self-judgment, and what to do when you get "stuck." You also get plenty of information about the benefits and varieties of meditation. You''re bound find and develop a practice that feels right for you.\n <em>\n  --Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Absurd as it may seem, the publishers of the immense "...for Dummies" series have now produced a beginner''s guide to meditation written by the former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal, and this entry is as clearly written, carefully organized, sensible, and un-self-serious as all the others. Bodian''s years of experience as a writer and teacher have served him well here, as have the presentation skills of the publisher. This handy manual will be consulted and re-read in secret as much as its more technical predecessors. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1796'),
(19084, 'Memnoch the Devil', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fifth volume of Rice''s Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice''s vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer''s lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who''s not a fraud.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called\n  <em>\n   Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire)\n  </em>\n  . It''s a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn''t the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God''s heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God''s side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ''s suffering felt like--it''s just that her imagination ran away with her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you''ll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you''ll prefer the Memnoch chapters.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rice has made a career out of humanizing creatures of supernatural horror, and in this fifth book of her Vampire Chronicles she requests sympathy for the Devil. Having survived his near-fatal reacquaintance with human mortality in The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), the world-weary vampire Lestat is recruited by the biblical Devil, Memnoch, to help fight a cruel and negligent God. The bulk of the novel is a retelling of the Creation story from the point of view of the fallen angel, who blames his damnation on his refusal to accept human suffering as part of God''s divine plan. Rice grapples valiantly with weighty questions regarding the justification of God''s ways to man, but their vast scope overwhelms the novel''s human dimensions. God and the Devil periodically put on the flesh of mortals, and too often end up sounding like arguing philosophy majors. Meanwhile, the ever-fascinating Lestat, whose poignant personal crisis of faith is mirrored in Memnoch''s travails, becomes a passive observer, dragged along on trips to Heaven and Hell before being returned to Earth to relate what he has witnessed. Though Rice boldly probes the significance of death, belief in the afterlife and other spiritual matters, one wishes that she had found a way to address them through the experiences of human and near-human characters, as she has done so brilliantly in the past. One million first printing; BOMC and QPB main selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(19085, 'Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Penzler Pick, February 2000: What is there about the greatest series of short stories in the history of the world that hasn''t already been said? This is the second (of five) story collections by Doyle about the greatest detective in literature--and a splendid volume it is, containing such superb puzzles as "The Greek Interpreter," in which readers are introduced to Mycroft Holmes; "The Musgrave Ritual"; "Silver Blaze"; and the earth-shattering "The Final Adventure," recounting the struggle between Holmes and the evil Professor Moriarty in which the two titans were apparently killed as they went over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls. But every mystery reader already knows this. I''m pointing out this marvelous book because it has been extensively annotated by a fine Sherlockian scholar, Les Klinger, who has brought to all serious students of the Holmesian canon a level of erudition seldom encountered. In addition to the expected illustrations from The Strand magazine and meticulous scrutiny of chronological evidence of various events, there are references to primary sources and a staggering helping of information from the thousands of works about Sherlock Holmes by others. More than 30 years ago, another great Sherlockian scholar, William S. Baring-Gould, produced a ground-breaking volume that enjoyed more than 35 printings in its original two-volume format and probably sold just as many copies in a slightly less elaborate one-volume size. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes became the single most essential volume in the library of any true Sherlockian, of which the world has far more than you think. Les Klinger has acknowledged Baring-Gould in every way imaginable, and it was an act of extraordinary courage to attempt to supercede that monumental work. But that is exactly what he appears to be doing. The first volume, his annotated edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was introduced by the same publisher last year. There are seven yet to come. If you want to master just about everything there is to know about The Great Detective and The Good Doctor, to understand what Holmes meant when he referred to "a comet vintage" of wine, and to know what discrepancies there are between the English and American editions of the works, plus a thousand other things relating to Holmes, Watson, and the England of the Victorian era, you must have this volume, as well as all the others in the series as they become available over the next few years. --Otto Penzler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4284'),
(19086, 'Men&#39;s Fitness Magazine 09-2011', 'Men&#39;s Fitness Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3179'),
(19087, 'Men&#39;s Fitness UK - December 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10713'),
(19088, 'Men&#39;s Fitness UK - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4822'),
(19089, 'Men&#39;s Fitness USA - August 2011', 'August 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3567'),
(19090, 'Men&#39;s Health 10-2011', 'Men&#39;s Health', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3832'),
(19091, 'Men&#39;s Health UK September 2011(www.mastitorrents.com)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5727'),
(19092, 'Men&#39;s Health USA - October 2011', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6562'),
(19093, 'Men&#39;s.Fitness-7.Rules.of.Building.Muscle-2011.pdf 10-09-2011', 'Men&#39;s.Fitness-7.Rules.of.Building.Muscle-2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4735'),
(19094, 'Menopause for Dummies', 'Marcia L. Jones Phd &amp; Theresa Eichenwald Md &amp; Nancy W. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although menopause is a natural and inevitable stage in every womanâ€™s life, its physical, mental, and emotional manifestations can vary greatly from one person to the next. Add to this all of the conflicting â€œexpertâ€ information about the benefits, risks, and side effects to which women are exposed on a daily basis, and itâ€™s easy to see why most find it difficult to make informed choices about how to deal with their menopausal symptoms.\n</p>\n<p>\n Authored by a team of acknowledged experts in treating menopausal symptoms,\n <em>\n  Menopause For Dummies\n </em>\n arms you with all the information you need to stay in control every step of the way. In plain English, it explains the role menopause plays in a variety of common health problems, such as osteoporosis, stroke, and heart disease. It walks you through proven measures for minimizing your risk of developing complications through including diet and exercise, stress management, hormone replacement, and other techniques. And it arms you with authoritative, up-to-the-minute coverage of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Premenopause how to identify it and what it means\n </li>\n <li>\n  The stages of menopause\n </li>\n <li>\n  How menopause can affect your body, emotions, and libido\n </li>\n <li>\n  The latest facts about hormone replacement therapy\n </li>\n <li>\n  The pros and cons of various alternative treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best ways of handling hot flashes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Easing symptoms with diet and exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Preventing bone loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helpful lifestyle changes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Menopause For Dummies\n </em>\n in your corner youâ€™ll have a kinder, gentler â€œchange of life.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ease symptoms with diet and fitness tips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand and cope with your body''s changes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative and reassuring guide gives you up-to-date information on ways menopause affects your body, your emotions, and your libido. It reveals the latest facts about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), as well as alternative treatments, ways to manage stress, and the effects of the thyroid on menopause. You''ll cope with the changes better and better enjoy life!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the various stages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle hot flashes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent bone loss\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate current therapy options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify perimenopause\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make smarter lifestyle choices\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1797'),
(19095, 'Mens fitness 09 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4657'),
(19096, 'Mens Fitness 10-2011', 'Mens Fitness', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3860'),
(19097, 'Mens Fitness UK', 'August 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3565'),
(19098, 'Mens Fitness UK October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4752'),
(19099, 'Mens Health UK 10-2011', 'Mens Health', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3861'),
(19100, 'Mens_Fitness_2011-10.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Mens_Fitness_2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4693'),
(19101, 'Mens_Health_UK_2011-10.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Mens_Health_UK_2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4705'),
(19102, 'MENSA Publications Presents The Ultimatge Mental Challenge', 'Robert Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(19103, 'Metal Architecture 04-2011', 'Metal Architecture Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2480'),
(19104, 'The Metaphysical Significance of Pi', 'Patrick Mulcahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(19105, 'MetroXpress 01-09-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3815'),
(19106, 'MetroXpress 02-09-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3822'),
(19107, 'MetroXpress 04.07.2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(19108, 'MetroXpress 05-09-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3876'),
(19109, 'MetroXpress 06-09-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4230'),
(19110, 'MetroXpress 06.07.2011', 'MetroXpress &amp; Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(19111, 'MetroXpress 22-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3668'),
(19112, 'MetroXpress 23-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3696'),
(19113, 'MetroXpress 24-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3709'),
(19114, 'MetroXpress 25-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3719'),
(19115, 'MetroXpress 26-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3736'),
(19116, 'MetroXpress 29-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3764'),
(19117, 'MetroXpress 30-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3789'),
(19118, 'MetroXpress 31-08-2011', 'MetroXpress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3803'),
(19119, 'Mexico&#39;s Beach Resorts for Dummies', 'Lynne Bairstow &amp; David Baird', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to relax and bask on sun-drenched beaches or dive in and enjoy great water sports? Drink in Mexico''s rich history and heritage or drink up margaritas? Shop for Huichol art, Oaxacan textiles, Taxco silver, or precious gemstones or explore an eco-park? Explore the pyramids and ancient ruins or tee up for world-class golf? Stay in an incredible luxury resort or a handcrafted casa in a remote village? With information on the top beach resorts in Cancun, Cozumel and the Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, Los Cabos and Southern Baja, and more, this friendly guide gives you all kinds of ideas and options, plus information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The best beaches, most romantic getaways, best bets for families, and hottest night life\n </li>\n <li>\n  The desert caves of Los Cabos, the Caribbean reefs off CancÃºn and Cozumel, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sea kayaking, sportfishing, surfing, snorkeling, scuba diving, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ixtapa with its high-class hotels and Zihuatanejo with its small-town charm\n </li>\n <li>\n  Where to enjoy authentic Mexican foods such as beef filet tacos, pozole, mango Ã©clairs, poc chuc, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Mexico''s Beach Resorts For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best accommodations and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore Mexico''s Beach Resorts the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mexico is a beach bonanza, with CancÃºn, Cozumel, the Riviera Maya, Acapulco, Los Cabos, and more. Find out about historical sites and natural wonders, world-class golf and water sports, day trips and night life. This fun, friendly guide lets you get your feet wet before you go.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1798'),
(19120, 'Microsoft Business Intelligence for Dummies', 'Ken Withee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to create an effective business strategy using Microsoft''s BI stack\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Microsoft Business Intelligence tools are among the most widely used applications for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data to enable the enterprise to make sound business decisions. The tools include SharePoint Server, the Office Suite, PerformancePoint Server, and SQL Server, among others.\n</p>\n<p>\n With so much jargon and so many technologies involved,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies\n </em>\n provides a much-needed step-by-step explanation of what''s involved and how to use this powerful package to improve your business.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Microsoft Business Intelligence encompasses a broad collection of tools designed to help business owners and managers direct the enterprise effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  This guide provides an overview of SharePoint, PerformancePoint, the SQL Server suite, Microsoft Office, and the BI development technologies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how the various technologies work together to solve functional problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Translates the buzzwords and shows you how to create your business strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines related technologies including data warehousing, data marts, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting, dashboards, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplifies this complex package to get you up and running quickly\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies\n </em>\n demystifies these essential tools for enterprise managers, business analysts, and others who need to get up to speed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The book that beats the buzzwords! At last, understand BI and what it can do for your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Buzzwords, begone! This book looks beyond the jargon at real business problems and common-sense solutions. Data is the lifeblood of your business. Microsoft BI tools help you collect that data; sort, store, and analyze it; find it when you need it; and use it to make decisions. You''ll understand terms like "OLAP cube" and "data mart" â€” at last!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s all about the right tools â€” learn which BI technologies can solve specific issues for your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Realistic expectations â€” get a clear understanding of what you expect to achieve with BI\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the parts â€” see how the SQL Server technologies, presentation technologies, and development/customization technologies work together\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The right edge â€” support decision-making by using BI to get the right data to the right person at the right time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Storing this stuff â€” understand how data warehouses and data marts make it easier to manage and retrieve data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The tool on your desktop â€” discover how to use ExcelÂ® for data analysis and data mining\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making it work â€” create a logical plan for BI implementation, know what you need and what you don''t, and get stakeholders on board\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   BI tools that are already hiding in your software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage the data life cycle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for evaluating and choosing technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do with Dashboards and Scorecards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nearly a dozen data mining algorithms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to display and analyze data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on testing and rolling out your BI strategy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keys to making BI successful\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Apply the latest Microsoft technologies and use them together\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an effective strategy to solve business problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with the SQL Server product suite\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the new SharePoint Business Intelligence tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1799');
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(19121, 'Microsoft CRM 3 for Dummies', 'Joel Scott &amp; David Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Manage sales, service, and marketing processes all together\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to manage customer information to make your business more productive\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re completely new to customer relationship management (CRM) software or you just want the scoop on the newest version, this handy guide will get you going. Discover how to set up CRM 3, navigate and customize the system, use it to work with your accounts and contacts, collect leads, forecast sales, run reports, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Develop and manage customer relationships\n <br />\n * Implement a sales process\n <br />\n * Set up security and access rights\n <br />\n * Generate quotes, orders, and invoices\n <br />\n * Manage leads and opportunities\n <br />\n * Create and use product catalogs\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage sales, service, and marketing processes all together\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to manage customer information to make your business more productive\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re completely new to customer relationship management (CRM) software or you just want the scoop on the newest version, this handy guide will get you going. Discover how to set up CRM 3, navigate and customize the system, use it to work with your accounts and contacts, collect leads, forecast sales, run reports, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop and manage customer relationships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement a sales process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up security and access rights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate quotes, orders, and invoices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage leads and opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and use product catalogs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1800'),
(19122, 'Microsoft CRM for Dummies', 'Joel Scott &amp; Michael Delisa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The ideal introductory guide to Microsoft''s much anticipated entry into the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software marketplace\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses the key features of Microsoft''s CRM software, including tools to help businesses sell more effectively, manage all customer communications in one place, track and convert leads, make informed decisions faster, and provide consistent service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides expert tips and tricks to make the software work more effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to achieve increased customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and more profitable customer relationships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Author is considered one of a handful of global experts on CRM for small- and medium-sized businesses\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tailor Microsoft CRM to manage records and workflow for your business\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to target your sales efforts and become a customer service leader\n</p>\n<p>\n A happy customer is a repeat customer, so how do you make â€™em happy? You can manage, with Microsoft CRM and this friendly guide by your side! Find out how easily you can provide super service, track your invoices, sell more effectively, maximize your leads, and show your customers theyâ€™re tops on your list.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1801'),
(19123, 'Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 for Dummies', 'Joel Scott &amp; David Lee &amp; Scott Weiss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Customer relationship management, or CRM, is certainly a hot topic in business today. If you have a small or medium-sized business, chances are youâ€™re already aware of all it can do for you. But with so many options and so much to think about, how do you get a CRM system in place with a minimum of hassle? Well,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 For Dummies\n </em>\n is a great place to start!\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by veteran CRM experts Joel Scott and David Lee, this friendly guide will have you understanding and using Microsoftâ€™s CRM solution in a jiffy. Whether youâ€™re considering a CRM system for the first time or youâ€™ve decided to switch from another system to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, this book will make it easy to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Maintain and manage all your customer information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Personalize Microsoft CRM to work for your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up CRM to support sales, marketing, and customer service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Outlook client\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage territories and business units\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and manage activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate quotes and invoices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement and manage a marketing campaign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with contracts, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with information on the latest version, It will help you get a unified view of your customer information and interactions through integrated sales, marketing, and customer service features. And that, as every business owner knows, is important to improving your bottom line!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Personalize Microsoft CRM to work for your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how to support your sales, marketing, and customer service initiatives\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Microsoft Dynamics CRM means business! Here''s what you need to get going now with this customer relationship management solution. Discover how to set up CRM 4, navigate and customize the system, use it to work with your accounts and contacts, collect leads, forecast sales, run reports, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the Microsoft CRM system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and manage activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Generate quotes and invoices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Implement and manage a marketing campaign\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with contracts\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1802'),
(19124, 'Microsoft Excel VBA Professional Projects', 'Duane Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Microsoft Excel VBA Professional Projects illustrates and teaches intermediate to advanced techniques in VBA programming using Microsoft''s Excel spreadsheet application. It provides an introduction to VBA and Excel VBA before proceeding through four to five programming projects using Excel to illustrate basic and advanced programming techniques. It does not assume any prior knowledge of Excel VBA programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4220'),
(19125, 'Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was made to help you handle e-mail, meeting management, and other essential office services.\n <em>\n  Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you get a handle on Exchange Server. Pretty slick, huh?\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s the lowdown on installing and administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and taking advantage of all the enhancements in Service Pack 1. With this handy guide, youâ€™ll be able to maximize the security, reliability, and speed that Exchange Server 2007 provides.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your organizationâ€™s needs to determine which edition of Exchange Server best meets them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore what Exchange Server does, then plan, install, and configure it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Consider how your users work with their mail and customize your set-up to facilitate their needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to use the Exchange Management Console\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the new Exchange Server security features to protect e-mail from viruses, spam, phishing, and other threats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up an offline address book, use templates, and develop custom forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create settings for the most efficient interaction with clients, use multiple mailboxes, and view digital certificates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage resource scheduling and interactive calendars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot your configuration, perform regular maintenance, and be able to recover from mail-specific problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitor Exchange Server performance and maintain databases, mail flow, and peak performance\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you ready to exchange problems for solutions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Exchange problems for solutions â€” see how to have better e-mail and meeting management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n E-mail is essential but not especially exciting. Exchange Server 2007, however, does a super job of serving up e-mail plus a whole lot more, and this book shows you just how exciting that can be! Get the lowdown on Service Pack 1 enhancements and how to take full advantage of the security, reliability, and speed that Exchange Server 2007 provides.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step by step â€” lay the groundwork by exploring what Exchange Server does, and then install and configure it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick and choose â€” assess your organization''s needs to determine which edition of Exchange Server best meets them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You''ve got mail â€” consider how your users work with their mail and customize your setup to facilitate their needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lock ''em up â€” configure Exchange Server for the greatest level of security\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set it right â€” create settings for the most efficient interaction with clients, use multiple mailboxes, and view digital certificates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize â€” use templates and develop custom forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for anything â€” troubleshoot your configuration, perform regular maintenance, and be able to recover from mail-specific problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The new features of Service Pack 1\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choosing the correct edition of Exchange Server\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Exchange Management Console\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for the initial configuration\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up an offline address book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What it takes to manage resource scheduling and interactive calendars\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to monitor Exchange Server performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for troubleshooting databases, mail flow, performance, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(19126, 'Microsoft Money 2006 for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you know where you money goes? Would balancing your budget take an act of Congress? Does your idea of preparing for the future involve lottery tickets?\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly guide provides everything you need to know to stay on top of your finances and make the most of your money â€” both your cash and your\n <em>\n  Microsoft Money 2006\n </em>\n software program (the Premium, Deluxe, or Standard edition). Youâ€™ll find out how to record financial transactions, analyze different investments, determine your net worth, plan for retirement, make informed financial decisions, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and lots of screen shots,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows and tells you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up accounts and record all transactions, including charge card purchases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do your banking, categorize your spending and income, reconcile an account, print checks, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Research and track investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a realistic budget, schedule bill payments, estimate your income tax bill, plan for retirement, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate reports and charts that help you understand your spending habits, see where you stand financially, and improve your financial picture\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track assets, liabilities, loans, and mortgages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use online banking services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You can even get really serious and use the Lifetime Planner to map out your hopes and dreams and find out if youâ€™re on the way to achieving them. This book could be the best investment youâ€™ll ever make!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers Premium, Deluxe, and Standard editions of Money\n</p>\n<p>\n Use Money to save money, make money, manage money, and get your money''s worth\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever hear that it takes money to make money? Spend a little on this book and discover easy ways to set up accounts, do your banking online, research and track investments, make payments on time, even generate reports that help you understand where your money''s going. Best of all, you''ll find you''re actually managing your money!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up Money or update from an earlier version\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know what your investments are worth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Estimate your tax bill\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track income and expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for retirement\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1817'),
(19127, 'Microsoft Office 2007 for Seniors for Dummies', 'Faithe Wempen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Seniors who are new to computers can learn Office applications quickly and easily\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re over 50 and new to computers, everything about them can seem intimidating. The most common applications you''ll want to use are part of the Microsoft Office suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office 2007 For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use each one in a straightforward, fun manner that takes all the apprehension away.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide shows you just what you need to know to write letters with Word, keep a budget with an Excel spreadsheet, create fun slideshows with PowerPoint, and set up an e-mail account using Outlook.\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office 2007 For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n doesn''t assume you were born knowing how to use a computer; it starts at the beginning and makes learning easy and quick.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Each chapter lists the tasks covered, with page references to help you locate what you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to start each application and navigate the elements on the screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers how to create documents in Word and provides templates for letters and faxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to create spreadsheets and includes a grid for budgeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guides you through creating a PowerPoint presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to set up an e-mail account with Outlook and communicate with others\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office 2007 For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n will have you using basic Office applications in no time, and boost your confidence too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Office isn''t just for the office! Use it for letters, budgets, e-mail, and presentations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that you''ve got the hang of a PC, you want to be able to do real-life tasks with it. Enter Microsoft Office, the world''s most popular suite of applications! It lets you write family newsletters, track your bank balances and plan budgets, create presentations for your club or group, and send and receive e-mail. This handy guide makes it easy!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Some things stay the same â€” get to know the Ribbon and commands that Office applications share\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it pretty â€” apply styles and formatting to your Word documents, and include clip art, photos, and background color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Figure it out â€” calculate interest earned, loan payments, amortization, and more using Excel spreadsheets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mail call â€” set up your Outlook e-mail and learn to avoid fraud, scams, and viruses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized â€” manage contacts, to-do lists, and calendars with Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your point â€” learn your way around PowerPoint and how to create slideshows with photos, animation, and sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Better records â€” keep address lists and other important information in an Excel database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Saving and sharing â€” save documents, e-mail them to others, print them, or share them online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to start and navigate the Office applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide to the Ribbon, the Office menu, and other all-new tools for 2007\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to dress up documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create invitations or newsletters with photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Uses for simple spreadsheets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on setting up e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do with a slideshow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to do a mail merge and print documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(19128, 'Microsoft Office 2010 Ultimate Tips and Tricks', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4750'),
(19129, 'Microsoft Office 2010: Advanced', 'Gary B. Shelly &amp; Misty E. Vermaat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10770'),
(19130, 'Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Formulas &amp; Functions for Dummies', 'Ken Bluttman &amp; Peter G. Aitken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make Excel do the math and make sense of your data\n</p>\n<p>\n Use the Insert Function dialog box, array formulas and functions, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Excel 2007 has more than 500 built-in functions. This book looks at the top 150, so you can find out which ones will make your life easier. Want to compare a 15-year mortgage to a 30-year mortgage? Forecast expenses for your college freshman? See how your online business is doing? Here''s the fun and easy way!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Create worksheets to track costs and revenue\n <br />\n * Tell the difference among average, median, and mode\n <br />\n * Work with statistical functions\n <br />\n * Develop forecasts and track trends\n <br />\n * Manipulate strings and work with database functions\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make Excel do the math and make sense of your data\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use the Insert Function dialog box, array formulas and functions, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Excel 2007 has more than 500 built-in functions. This book looks at the top 150, so you can find out which ones will make your life easier. Want to compare a 15-year mortgage to a 30-year mortgage? Forecast expenses for your college freshman? See how your online business is doing? Here''s the fun and easy way!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create worksheets to track costs and revenue\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tell the difference among average, median, and mode\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with statistical functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop forecasts and track trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manipulate strings and work with database functions\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1806'),
(19131, 'Microsoft Office Live for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Microsoft Office Live is a service that allows individuals, small businesses, and organizations to create Web sites, share documents, and have a shared storage area on the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to create a Web site; share documents, contact lists, project plans, and calendars; send or receive e-mails using Live Mail; and allow customers, employees, and vendors access to data based on specific security restrictions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses establishing security levels, sharing documents, defining and managing projects, tracking company assets, using the Contact Manager, using marketing campaigns, and working with client workspaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Office Live services can be used independently but they also integrate well with Microsoft Office programs used regularly by more than 400 million people around the world, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Small Business Edition\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Automate common tasks like managing projects, customers, and documents\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to share your data online and grow your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make Office Live work for you? Now you can get up and running quickly in all the basics with this nuts-and-bolts guide. From creating a Web site and defining projects to sharing data with key contacts and tracking company assets, you''ll save time (and money!) as you efficiently connect with employees, customers, and vendors â€” leaving more time for business!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sign up for Office Live\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with e-mail accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish security levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Business Contact Manager\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get more with the Premium Service\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Integrate with other Microsoft Office programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1807'),
(19132, 'Microsoft PerformancePoint 2007 for Dummies', 'Rachel Blum &amp; Mark Chen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Microsoft PerformancePoint provides you with an integrated performance management application that enables you to better plan, analyze and monitor how your business is doing. It gives decision-makers in your company more control.\n <em>\n  Microsoft PerformancePoint 2007 For DummiesÂ®\n </em>\n shows you how to utilize this powerful tool so you can gain insights, monitor results, and resolve business problems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if itâ€™s your first look at a business performance management system, youâ€™ll find this handy guide makes you look like a pro! Youâ€™ll find out how to set goals, create plans to get you there, and produce reports to track your progress. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop a plan and set goals to drive performance and accelerate business decision-making\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure security features to protect your information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate the reporting interface to quickly find the data that will help you make the right decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use different data source types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create key performance indicators to find out how your business is really doing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with dashboards and scorecards to quickly view business-critical information\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get the most out of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint so you can dramatically enhance your performance management. With\n <em>\n  Microsoft PerformancePoint 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll find out how as you keep your business activities in line with corporate strategies.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Manage planning and budgeting and produce reports\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s easy to keep business activities in line with corporate strategies\n</p>\n<p>\n PerformancePoint 2007 helps you plan ahead, analyze your changes, and monitor how your business is doing. Even if it''s your first look at a business performance management system, you''ll find this handy guide makes you look like a pro! Here''s how to set goals, create plans to get you there, and produce reports to track your progress.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop a plan and set goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exchange data with Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create key performance indicators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with dashboards and scorecards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create customized reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure security features\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(19133, 'Microsoft Project 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Elaine J. Marmel &amp; Nancy Muir &amp; Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...an excellent book...represents cracking value for money." (_Project Manager Today_, November 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is a compilation of multiple short reference-style books covering Microsoft Project, enhanced by the format of a single, easy-to-use, task-oriented step-by-step package. All-in-One For Dummies books are made up of multiple minibooks that could each stand alone. Each minibook covers one topic completely.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book features a companion Web site where readers can download Microsoft Project add-ins, templates, and author-generated materials. The book also features a gate-fold cheat sheet that contains myriad quick-reference information, tips, and shortcuts for reference when using Microsoft Project 2007.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The structure of the book is as follows:\n </strong>\n <br />\n Book I: Project Basics\n <br />\n Book II: Structure of a Project\n <br />\n Book III: Defining Task Details\n <br />\n Book IV: Establishing Task Timing\n <br />\n Book V: Working with Resources and Costs\n <br />\n Book VI: Communicating Project Information\n <br />\n Book VII: Resolving Problems with Your Plan\n <br />\n Book VIII: Tracking\n <br />\n Book IX: Advanced Project Topics\n <br />\n Book X: Project in the Enterprise Environment\n <br />\n Book XI: Project Case Studies\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1808'),
(19134, 'Microsoft Publisher 2007 for Dummies', 'Jim Mccarter &amp; Jacqui Salerno Mabin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is supposed to be the age of instant and constant communication, right? And if you have a business, belong to an organization, or have a cause you want to promote, a great-looking flyer or brochure can say a lot.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have Microsoft Office Professional, Small Business, or Ultimate on your PC, you already have a great communication tool hidden insideâ€”Publisher 2007. Use it to promote your organization with newsletters, cards, and brochures. This book gets you started with Publisher basics so you can start communicating with your public.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chances are youâ€™re not planning to become a Publisher guru; you just want to use Publisher to get some things done. Then\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n is just the book for you! It has just what you need to know to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand design basics and plan a page\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a flyer or publication and place text and pictures where they work best\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use various Publisher templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate images and files from other programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build Web sites with Publisher\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your creations for printing or posting online\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re selling a product or service, getting the word out about a not-for-profit organization, or helping out your church, synagogue, or school,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Promote your organization with newsletters, cards, and brochures\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get going with Publisher basics and start communicating with your public\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Chances are you just want to use Publisher to get some things done, right? Then you''ve grabbed the right book. Here''s just what you need to know to set up a flyer or publication, place text and pictures where they work best, get it all looking terrific, and print it or post it on the Web for all to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use various Publisher templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand design basics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan a page\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Incorporate images and files from other programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare your creations for printing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build Web sites with Publisher\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1809'),
(19135, 'Microsoft SharePoint 2007 for Dummies', 'Vanessa L. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Microsoft SharePoint now has a 10 percent share of the portal market, and the new release, which features enhanced integration with Office 2007, is sure to give SharePoint a boost\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers clear instructions and soup-to-nuts coverage of this complex product, focusing instead on practical solutions to real-world SharePoint challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features tips, tricks, and techniques for administrators who need to install and configure a SharePoint portal as well as ordinary users who need to populate and maintain the portal and use it for collaborative projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include setting up a SharePoint portal, matching SharePoint to business needs, managing portal content, branding, collaborating on SharePoint sites, using a portal to improve employee relations and marketing, putting expense reports and other interactive forms on a portal, and monitoring and backing up SharePoint\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Match SharePoint to your specific business needs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to deploy SharePoint in your business today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you stymied by SharePoint? This plain-English guide offers simple instructions and focused coverage of this powerful tool, giving you practical solutions to real-world SharePoint challenges. You''ll install SharePoint, create sites and grant access, manage data and business processes, use sites to improve employee relations and marketing, put interactive reports and forms on a portal, and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a SharePoint portal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage portal content and Office documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Integrate Office 2007 with SharePoint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use SharePoint to collaborate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create personalized sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Monitor and back up your portal\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1811'),
(19136, 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 for Dummies', 'Phillip Beadle &amp; Mahesh Krishnan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy guide for building Silverlight 4 applications!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Silverlight is a Web browser plugin that enables functions such as animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback that characterize rich Internet applications. It only requires a simple download, after which most end-users are not even aware that it''s running. This helpful guide covers everything you need to know in order to start creating applications in Silverlight 4 and then moves on to key topics such as controls, data binding, skinning, using Visual Studio tools, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you have just the most basic programming skills and are interested in learning to develop Silverlight apps or you are an experienced developer looking for an understandable guide on the newest version of Silverlight,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies\n </em>\n is ideal for a wide audience.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The Silverlight plugin enables animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to create applications in Silverlight 4\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers important Silverlight topics including controls, data binding, skinning, animations, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses how to best use the offering of tools from Visual Studio\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get enlightened and start creating SilverlightÂ 4 applications with this book by your side.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your rich Internet applications shine on multiple browsers and platforms\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Silverlight makes stunning Web effects â€” animation, streaming media, audiovisual playback â€” easier than you could have imagined. Whether you''re new to Web design or just to Silverlight, this book is packed with all the info you need to start creating applications using Visual Studio and Expression Blend.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting started â€” find out what you need to get started with Silverlight and download the necessary tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain control â€” style and manipulate Silverlight controls such as text boxes and buttons, and create your own\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it move â€” enrich your user interface with animations that upload fast and don''t devour bandwidth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stick things together â€” understand data binding and how it supports your applications and streamlines programming\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Much ADO about data â€” work with ADO.NET Data Services and WCF RIA Services to create versatile business applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Silverlight delivers a rich user experience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear examples of XAML\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on drawing shapes and doing animation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on the best tools to use with Silverlight\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Effective ways to work with controls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize controls and create your own\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop seamless cross-platform, cross-browser Web applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design visually rich user interfaces with ease\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Expression Blend and Visual StudioÂ® with Silverlight\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deliver application data efficiently with WCF RIA Services and ADO.NET\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ten ways to get more from Silverlight\n</p>\n<p>\n How to connect to your data on demand\n</p>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/silverlight4fd to find all the code used in this book and save yourself time and effort\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1812'),
(19137, 'Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Programming for Dummies', 'Andrew Watt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Create and modify databases and keep them secure\n </p>\n <p>\n  Get up to speed on using T-SQL to store and manipulate data\n </p>\n <p>\n  SQL Server 2005 improves an already great database management system. This book shows you how to put it to work in a hurry. You''ll find out how to use the SQL Server Management Studio and the SQLCMD utility to write T-SQL code, retrieve data from single or multiple SQL Server tables, add data using the INSERT statement, and much more.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Create queries to retrieve data\n  </li>\n  <li>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Ensure SQL Server security\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Use Visual Studio(r) 2005 with SQL Server\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Create tables, views, and indexes\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Work with Common Language Runtime\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Query XML data\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Create and modify databases and keep them secure\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Get up to speed on using T-SQL to store and manipulate data\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  SQL Server 2005 improves an already great database management system. This book shows you how to put it to work in a hurry. You''ll find out how to use the SQL Server Management Studio and the SQLCMD utility to write T-SQL code, retrieve data from single or multiple SQL Server tables, add data using the INSERT statement, and much more.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create queries to retrieve data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Ensure SQL Server security\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Use Visual StudioÂ® 2005 with SQL Server\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Create tables, views, and indexes\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Work with Common Language Runtime\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Query XML data\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1813'),
(19138, 'Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for Dummies', 'Mark Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find the right information and present it the right way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take full advantage of all SQL Server Reporting Services can do for you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Without a way to interpret it, the data in your database just sits there doing nothing. Now you have help! This handy guide shows you how to retrieve data and create reports with the newest version of SQL Server Reporting Services, so you can deliver both hard copy and interactive, Web-based reports that tell your story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Access information from different databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build the right queries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the best report type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Move from other reporting tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deliver reports on demand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce drill-down and drill-through reports\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find the right information and present it the right way\n</p>\n<p>\n Take full advantage of all SQL Server Reporting Services can do for you\n</p>\n<p>\n Without a way to interpret it, the data in your database just sits there doing nothing. Now you have help! This handy guide shows you how to retrieve data and create reports with the newest version of SQL Server Reporting Services, so you can deliver both hard copy and interactive, Web-based reports that tell your story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Access information from different databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build the right queries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the best report type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Move from other reporting tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deliver reports on demand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce drill-down and drill-through reports\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1814'),
(19139, 'Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Robert D. Schneider &amp; Darril Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re in charge of database administration, developing database software, or looking for database solutions for your company,\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you get a handle on this extremely popular relational database management system. Here youâ€™ll find whatâ€™s new in the latest version; how to choose and install the right variation for your needs; how to monitor, maintain, and protect your data; and what it takes to keep your database healthy. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build and maintain tables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a database and communicate with it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Retrieve, analyze, and report data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build solid, robust database applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the SQL Server Optimizer and Query Designer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate SQL Server with Visual Studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop useful reports with the Report Builder and Report Designer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Business Intelligence solutions with Business Intelligence Development Studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure your server and perform major administrative tasks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To help you quickly find what you need,\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is divided into nine minibooks:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Essential Concepts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Designing and Using Databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interacting With Your Data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Database Programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reporting Services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analysis Services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Performance Tips and Tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Database Administration\n </li>\n <li>\n  Appendixes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you started, helps you solve problems, and will even answer your questions down the road!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 books in 1 â€” your key to SQL Server 2008 success!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to the SQL Server 2008 database management system\n</p>\n<p>\n You already know that SQL Server 2008 is a blockbuster relational database management system. And because you want to get rolling with it right away, this book is the place to come. Here you find what''s new in this version and how to build and maintain tables; retrieve, analyze, and report data; and keep your database healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right version of SQL Server\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install SQL Server quickly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design a database and communicate with it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Monitor, maintain, and protect your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build solid, robust database applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1815'),
(19140, 'Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Dummies', 'Mike Chapple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a database administrator, you know Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is revolutionizing database development. Get up to speed on SQL Server 2008, impress your boss, and improve your companyâ€™s data management â€” read\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 For Dummies!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n SQL Server 2008 lets you build powerful databases and create database queries that give your organization the information it needs to excel.\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you build the skills you need to set up, administer, and troubleshoot SQL Server 2008. Youâ€™ll be able to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Develop and maintain a SQL Server system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design databases with integrity and efficiency\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn data into information with SQL Server Reporting Services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize query results, summarizing data with aggregate functions and formatting output\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import large quantities of data with SSIS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your server running smoothly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect data from prying eyes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop and implement a disaster recovery plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve performance with database snapshots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automate SQL Server 2008 administration\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n is a great first step toward becoming a SQL Server 2008 pro!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to build powerful databases\n</p>\n<p>\n See how to administer, troubleshoot, and report like a pro in SQL Server\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to unleash the power hidden within your organization''s data to meet business objectives? This book will help you build the skills that SQL Server database administrators must have to succeed. You''ll find out how to develop and maintain a SQL Server system, design databases, manipulate data, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your first SQL Server databases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Insert, manipulate, and retrieve data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your database server running smoothly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect data from prying eyes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve performance with database snapshots\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(19141, 'Microsoft Windows 7: Comprehensive', 'Gary B. Shelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3521'),
(19142, 'Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 Unleashed', 'Paul McFedries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6068'),
(19143, 'Microsoft Word - 978-1-4302-3222-3_Front.doc', 'Scott D. MacAllister', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10775'),
(19144, 'Microsoft Word - Document1', 'Admin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10800'),
(19145, 'Microsoft Word Simple Projects', 'Jan Rader &amp; Jan Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book includes projects for language arts, social studies, science, and math. Use these projects to integrate technology into your curriculum. A CD-ROM provides templates and project samples.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Visit the Teacher Training section of our Web site to find out about training for this software.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2232'),
(19146, 'Midnight In Beauchamp Row', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4026'),
(19147, 'The Midnight Show Murders', 'Al Roker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3959');
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(19148, 'Midnight Sins', 'Lora Leigh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    black jack\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOverflowing with escalating danger, while pent-up sexual cravings practically burst into flamesâ€¦â€â€”_Sensual Reads_Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    HEAT SEEKER\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeighâ€™s pages explode with a hot mixture of erotic pleasures.â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    MAVERICK\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA phenomenal read.â€â€”Romance Junkies\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œScorching-hot sex, deadly secrets and a determined assassin add up to another addicting Leigh thriller. Leighâ€™s ability to credibly build damaged characters who are both intriguing and intense gives her stories that extra punch.â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex and violence power the satisfying second installment of Leighâ€™s Elite Ops series.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFull of wrenching emotion and self-flagellation by the hero, the new series of Elite Ops promises to be even better than the sexy SEALs at this rate.â€â€”_Night Owl Romance_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith her customary panache for emotionally intense, sensual characters, the author attracts readers into every world she creates. This fabulous follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Wild Card\n  </em>\n  is no exception to the rule.â€â€”_A Romance Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    WILD CARD\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œHighly emotional and addictingâ€¦an intoxicating first installment of a brand new series.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Romance Junkies_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFerocious passion!â€ â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€¦and the novels in her sexy SEALs series\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    KILLER SECRETS\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA smoldering hot new espionage tale. This chapter of Leighâ€™s SEAL saga reverberates with deadly danger.â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  His name is Rafer Callahan. He was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who fought through life the only way he knew how: with his fists. But Rafer never meant to bring any harm to Cambria Flannigan, the girlâ€”the loverâ€”whose sister heâ€™d been unable to saveâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cami lost her sister in the brutal murders that rocked her hometown so many years ago. Some still believe that Rafe, along with his friends Logan and Crowe, were involved. But how could Rafeâ€”who haunted her girlish dreams, then her adult fantasiesâ€”be a killer? That is the question that keeps her up at night.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Now a prosperous ranch owner, Rafe is trying to build a new legacy for himself. Itâ€™s finally time to settle the score with Camiâ€”and make her his. But old wounds open up with a series of new murdersâ€¦and each of the victims has a connection to Rafe, Logan, and Crowe. With suspicion, fear, and loyalty tearing her apart, Cami is once again at risk of losing her heartâ€”or her life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4210'),
(19149, 'Milestones; a play in three acts', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 &amp; Knoblock, Edward, 1874-1945', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4301'),
(19150, 'The Mill Mystery', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3927'),
(19151, 'The Million-Dollar Suitcase', 'Alice MacGowan &amp; Perry Newberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3923'),
(19152, 'The Millionaire Baby', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3928'),
(19153, 'MindManager for Dummies', 'Hugh Cameron &amp; Roger Voight', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first book available on this fast-growing and highly regarded software package\n <br />\n MindManager allows users to visually map their ideas and brainstorming sessions in order to better organize thoughts and put them into action. Exploring all there is to know about the MindManager product, including the Standard, Business, Enterprise, and handheld releases, this book walks readers through the process and techniques in using MindManager to communicate ideas.\n <br />\n Hugh Cameron (Indianapolis, IN) heads Camtech, Inc., a clinical engineering company that extends its reach to incorporate a diverse group of projects. Roger Voight, PhD, is a certified project manager with more than 30 years of experience in software design, development, and software project management.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picture your best ideas mapped out for action!\n</p>\n<p>\n Make meetings more productive, hook up with resources, and present results\n</p>\n<p>\n Have no fear -- MindManager isnâ€™t going to get inside your head and take control! But with this guide to help, it will take all those terrific ideas your team tosses out and turn them into plans you can really act upon. Itâ€™ll help you locate resources, build presentations, and look like a wizard to your boss.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Record meeting notes in MindManager\n </li>\n <li>\n  Link different types of maps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Define planning markers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and use wizards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and filter new information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create PowerPointÂ® presentations from your maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1818'),
(19154, 'Mirror Mirror', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maguire has a lock on clever, elaborate retellings of fairy tales, turning them inside out and couching them in tongue-in-cheek baroque prose. After his revisionist takes on Oz''s Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked) and Cinderella''s ugly stepsisters (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister), he now tackles Snow White. The notorious Borgia habit of poisoning rivals inspired him to transplant the classic tale to 16th-century Tuscany, where Vicente de Nevada is an expatriate Spanish widower who lives with his daughter, the fair Bianca. Beholden to sinister Cesare Borgia and Cesare''s sister (and perhaps lover) Lucrezia, Vicente is sent on what appears to be a fool''s errand, to discover and steal from a Middle East monastery a branch of the Tree of Knowledge complete with three apples. When Bianca is 11, Cesare''s attraction to her causes the envious Lucrezia to order a young hunter to murder her and deliver her heart in a casket. Bianca, of course, is spared and taken in by seven dwarfs. But this is not Disney; the dwarfs are boulders, stirred to life by Bianca''s arrival ("a clothed, bearded obstinacy became slowly apparent"). Several years pass in surreal, dreamlike fashion, with Bianca tending to the dwarfs, who cavort stiffly and philosophize collectively. When Vicente returns successful, Lucrezia poisons an apple for her rival. Innocent Bianca''s fate is gentle, but that of the corrupt Lucrezia, in brilliant Venice, is appropriately grotesque. Fairy tales in their original form are often brutal and disturbing; with his rich, idiosyncratic storytelling, Maguire restores the edge to an oft-told tale and imbues it with a strange, unsettling beauty.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School--A dark and vivid retelling of Snow White transposed to the Italy of the Borgias. Lucrezia is the evil stepmother and five-year-old Bianca de Nevada grows into the role of Snow White. Vicente, a minor landlord beholden to Lucrezia and her brother/lover Cesare, unwillingly leaves his motherless daughter to go on a seemingly futile errand for Cesare. Journeying to Greece to seek out a branch of the holy Tree of Knowledge, Vicente languishes for years in the dungeon of the very monks who possess the relic. While her father is gone, Bianca develops into a lovely young woman, attracting Cesare''s attention. Seeing this, Lucrezia orders her killed and sends a young hunter into the woods with the familiar instructions. Adding much historical flavor and returning to the edgy eroticism of the fairy tale, Maguire invests the journeys of the Borgias, Bianca, and Vicente with a compelling urgency. Readers will be intrigued by the new story and yet curious as to how the familiar elements are brought in. Sometimes seven, sometimes eight, the dwarves, slowly awakening to their possibilities, are droll and great fun to listen to. The language has an old-fashioned quality and the point of view shifts frequently, but teens who continue to the end will learn much of medieval Italy and a little of human nature, and have a new respect for the old tale. This is a great addition to the Maguire shelf._--Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6359'),
(19155, 'Missing Justice', 'Alafair Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3974'),
(19156, 'Mistress of the Art of Death', 'Ariana Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Christian children are being kidnapped and murdered in 12th century Cambridge, England, Adelia is sent to seek out the truth, and hopefully absolve the Jews being blamed for the crimes, before the townspeople take matters into their own hands. During a time when women are second-class citizens at best, and the practice of scientific autopsies is considered blasphemous, Adelia is the most skilled â€œspeaker for the deadâ€ hailing from progressive Naples â€“ yet she is forced to masquerade as the meek assistant to her colleagues during their frantic search for the real child killer.  From The Washington Post  It''s hard enough to produce a gripping thriller â€“ harder still to write convincing historical fiction that recreates a living, breathing past. But this terrific book does both, and does it with a cast of characters so vivid and engaging that you''d be happy to read about them even if they weren''t on the track of a sexually depraved serial child-murderer.  Mistress of the Art of Death opens with a clever takeoff on Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales, which introduces the central players, a group of pilgrims returning from the shrine of the newly canonized St. Thomas Ã  Becket: a prior and a prioress (from rival abbeys); two knights, lately returned from the Crusades; an overweight but very shrewd tax collector; a gaggle of citizens; and three Gypsies, who are in fact secret investigators sent by the king of Sicily to discover the truth behind a series of gruesome murders near Cambridge.  Four children have been found dead and mutilated. The Jews of Cambridge have been blamed for the murders, the most prominent Jewish moneylender and his wife have been killed by a mob, and the rest of the Jewish community is shut up in the castle under the protection of the sheriff.  As the only group allowed to commit usury â€“ that is, to lend money at interest â€“ the Jews are prosperous, and thus the king of England considers them his prize cash cows. He wants them cleared of suspicion and released, so they can go back to paying him high taxes. To this end, he appeals to his cousin, the king of Sicily, to send his best master of the art of death: a doctor skilled in "reading" bodies. Enter Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar, 25, the best mistress of death that the medical school at Salerno has ever produced. With Simon of Naples, a Jewish "fixer," and Mansur, a eunuch with a mean throwing-ax, it''s her job to find a murderer before he â€“ or she â€“ can kill again.  Adelia comes onstage when she meets the prior under dramatic circumstances on the road, saving him from a burst bladder caused by a swollen prostate by thrusting a hollow reed up his penis. Not every man would follow up on an introduction like this, but the prior wants the mystery solved, too â€“ and if the solution happens to ace out the rival abbey, so much the better.  Adelia finds 12th-century England a barbarous place. England finds Adelia a jaw-dropping anomaly. And Franklin exploits the contrast brilliantly. We''re on Adelia''s side from the start, identifying with her quite modern sensibilities â€“ but at the same time, as she begins to know the English inhabitants as people, we sympathize with them, too. And a small but nice romantic subplot develops as the celibate, married-to-science Adelia discovers to her horror that live bodies have minds of their own.  Though the story is set in Cambridge, the Crusades run through the culture. We see both the corruption and the idealistic faith of the period, and while the Jews come off by far the best, Christians and Muslims are portrayed with evenhanded understanding. Beyond this, the story''s background is a wonderful tapestry of the paradoxes and struggles of the times: Christianity and Islam, Christians and Jews, science and superstition, and the new power of Henry II''s rule of law versus the stranglehold of the Church.  There are also fascinating details of historical forensic medicine, entertaining notes on women in science (the medical school at Salerno is not fictional), and a nice running commentary on science and superstition, as distinct from religious faith. Franklin does this subtly, by showing effects, rather than by beating us over the head with her opinions. These are clear enough but expressed with artistry rather than political correctness.  Franklin likewise balances cynicism, humanity and objectivity well. Adelia feels horror, fury and sympathy on behalf of the victims and the bereaved, but she doesn''t let that get in the way of finding the truth. And the story makes it clear that the motives of those who want a solution to the crime are not necessarily purer than the motives of those who want to conceal it.  Mistress of the Art of Death is wonderfully plotted, with a dozen twists â€“ and with final rabbits pulled out of not one hat but two, as both the mystery and the romance reach satisfactorily unexpected conclusions. It''s a historical mystery that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and crime-thriller. Above all, though, Franklin has written a terrific story, whose appeal rests on the personalities of the all-too-human beings who inhabit it.  â€“Â Diana Gabaldon, author of a series of historical novels, including "Outlander" and "A Breath of Snow and Ashes."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4243'),
(19157, 'Mixed Breeds for Dummies', 'Miriam Fields-babineau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mixed Breeds For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the mystery out of mixed breed dogs and gives you the 411 on everything you need to know about owning your very own Heinz 57\n <strong>\n  .\n </strong>\n Whether your mixed breed dog is a mangy mutt, a reserved rescue dog, or a dainty designer dog, one thing is for certainâ€”he needs just as much love and attention as his purebred peers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mixed Breeds For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide which mixed breed is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a puppy or adult mixed breed dog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test your dogâ€™s temperament\n </li>\n <li>\n  Housebreak your dog and teach him basic commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome mixed breed training challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weigh the pros and cons of â€œdesigner dogsâ€ (such as Labradoodles, Cockapoos, and Puggles)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Groom and exercise your mixed breed dog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care for senior dogs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mixed Breeds For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how a dog doesnâ€™t need a pedigree to make a fantastic companion and shows you how, sometimes, a little of this, a little of that can be all the more rewarding!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tips for tackling training and behavior issues\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to raise a well-adjusted mixed-breed dog\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do mutts melt your heart? This friendly guide shows you how to find the right one and make him part of the family. You get expert advice on everything from housetraining and feeding to healthcare, grooming, and nutrition. Plus, you''ll find the latest information on today''s "designer dogs," such as Labradoodles, Cockapoos, and Puggles!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a puppy or adult dog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test your dog''s temperament\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog-proof your house\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Teach your dog basic commands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have fun with your pet\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1819'),
(19158, 'Mobil 01-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4476'),
(19159, 'Mobil 01-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4477'),
(19160, 'Mobil 02-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4478'),
(19161, 'Mobil 02-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4479'),
(19162, 'Mobil 03-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4480'),
(19163, 'Mobil 03-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4481'),
(19164, 'Mobil 04-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4482'),
(19165, 'Mobil 04-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4483'),
(19166, 'Mobil 05-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4484'),
(19167, 'Mobil 05-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4485'),
(19168, 'Mobil 06-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4486'),
(19169, 'Mobil 06-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4487'),
(19170, 'Mobil 08-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4488'),
(19171, 'Mobil 08-2011', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3748'),
(19172, 'Mobil 09-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4489'),
(19173, 'Mobil 10-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4490'),
(19174, 'Mobil 11-2009', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4491'),
(19175, 'Mobil 11-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4492'),
(19176, 'Mobil 12-2010', 'Mobil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4493'),
(19177, 'Mobile Internet for Dummies', 'Michael J. O&#39;farrell &amp; John R. Levine &amp; Jostein Algroy &amp; James Pearce &amp; Daniel K. Appelquist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...[covers] topics such as choosing devices, connecting to the net and even building mobile websites".Mobile News Monday 19 May 2008\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™re on the go all the time â€” maybe for business, maybe because itâ€™s a byproduct of your busy lifestyle. But either way, your life would be easier if you had Internet access wherever you are.\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, when it comes to the Internet, you CAN take it with you! You just need the right stuff, and\n <em>\n  Mobile Internet For Dummies\n </em>\n tells you what that is, how to find it, and how to use it. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips on choosing the best mobile device, software, and service provider for your needs, but thatâ€™s not all. Youâ€™ll see how to use your mobile Web browser, find made-for-mobile content (and create your own) and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mobile Internet For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how the Mobile Internet differs from the garden-variety Internet, and shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find your mobile phone browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Mobile Internet to surf, shop, blog, watch movies, and more â€” on the go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive e-mail from your mobile device\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate other mobile applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Watch TV on your mobile phone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your kidsâ€™ access to the Mobile Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure and name a mobile Internet site and acquire mobile Web development tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build your own made-for-mobile Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your Mobile Internet site to promote your business and generate revenue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the help of\n <em>\n  Mobile Internet For Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll be able to stay connected wherever you happen to be, and maybe even make it pay off with a bit of income.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(19178, 'Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems: First International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture ... and Telecommunications Engineering)', 'Fabrizio Granelli, Charalabos Skianis, Periklis Chatzimisios, Yang Xiao, Simone Redana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3914'),
(19179, 'Modern Recording Techniques, Seventh Edition (Book)', 'David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3910'),
(19180, 'Modernist Cuisine 4 pdf file', 'Imaginary People', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10771'),
(19181, 'Molecular &amp; Cell Biology for Dummies', 'Rene Fester Kratz Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on study guide to the inner world of the cell\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to get a handle on molecular and cell biology? This easy-to-understand guide explains the structure and function of the cell and how recombinant DNA technology is changing the face of science and medicine. You discover how fundamental principles and concepts relate to everyday life. Plus, you get plenty of study tips to improve your grades and score higher on exams!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the world of the cell â€” take a tour inside the structure and function of cells and see how viruses attack and destroy them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the stuff of life (molecules) â€” get up to speed on the structure of atoms, types of bonds, carbohydrates, proteins, DNA, RNA, and lipids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Watch as cells function and reproduce â€” see how cells communicate, obtain matter and energy, and copy themselves for growth, repair, and reproduction\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sense of genetics â€” learn how parental cells organize their DNA during sexual reproduction and how scientists can predict inheritance patterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decode a cell''s underlying programming â€” examine how DNA is read by cells, how it determines the traits of organisms, and how it''s regulated by the cell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Harness the power of DNA â€” discover how scientists use molecular biology to explore genomes and solve current world problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-follow explanations of key topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The life of a cell â€” what it needs to survive and reproduce\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why molecules are so vital to cells\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rules that govern cell behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Laws of thermodynamics and cellular work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The principles of Mendelian genetics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Useful Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Important events in the development of DNA technology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten great ways to improve your biology grade\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  RenÃ© Fester Kratz\n </strong>\n , PhD, teaches cellular biology and microbiology. She is a member of the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership, where she helped create inquiry-based science courses for future teachers. Kratz is also the author of\n <em>\n  Microbiology The Easy Way\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(19182, 'A Moment of Silence', 'Anna Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4012'),
(19183, 'MoneySense Sommer 2011', 'MoneySense', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3679'),
(19184, 'Montreal &amp; Quebec City for Dummies', 'Austin Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the urbane, â€œanything goesâ€ atmosphere of MontrÃ©al to the quaint, romantic charm of QuÃ©bec City â€¦from cultural attractions and historical sights to fantastic shopping, dining, and night lifeâ€¦this guide clues you in about the action and attractions in two diverse, fascinating cities. Learn about\n <em>\n  terroi,\n </em>\n locally grown specialty ingredients prominent in Montrealâ€™s restaurants. Discover Quebec''s â€œantique alleyâ€ and rue St-Joseph with its destination boutiques, bustling bistros, and happening pubs. This guide helps makes your visit trÃ©s magnifique with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Info on where to go and how to get there\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on intriguing, distinctive neighborhoods in both cities\n </li>\n <li>\n  5 itinerary options and 3 Day trips from Montreal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Attractions like the lookout atop Parc Mont-Royal in Montreal and the Changing of the Guard at La Citadel, the fortress that protected Quebec\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide, Montreal\n <em>\n  &amp; Quebec City For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore MontrÃ©al &amp; QuebÃ©c City the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Cosmopolitan MontrÃ©al, with its mix of French and North American cultures and its sexy, sophisticated aura. Quaint QuebÃ©c City, with its fantastic views, romantic mystique, and old-world charm. Amusez-vous bien (enjoy yourself) with this friendly guide!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1822'),
(19185, 'The Moon Rock', 'Arthur J. Rees', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4322'),
(19186, 'Moonlight Cove', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jess O''Brien has overcome a lotâ€”the challenges of attention deficit disorder, the near bankruptcy of her beloved Inn at Eagle Point and her self-perception as a screwup in a family of overachievers. Now she''s ready to share the future with a man. Her friends persuade her to join a dating serviceâ€”but she gets no takers! Which is fine with her childhood friend, psychologist Will Lincoln, who''s already chosen the perfect man for Jess: himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will has loved Jess practically forever. He knows her faults and her strengths. But for all Will''s sincerity\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n charm, Jess fears he views her as some psychological case study. With her family and the town of Chesapeake Shores behind him, Will finally makes his case. But is it enough to convince Jess to take the risk of a lifetime?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4125'),
(19187, 'Moonlight Cove', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jess O''Brien has overcome a lotâ€”the challenges of attention deficit disorder, the near bankruptcy of her beloved Inn at Eagle Point and her self-perception as a screwup in a family of overachievers. Now she''s ready to share the future with a man. Her friends persuade her to join a dating serviceâ€”but she gets no takers! Which is fine with her childhood friend, psychologist Will Lincoln, who''s already chosen the perfect man for Jess: himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will has loved Jess practically forever. He knows her faults and her strengths. But for all Will''s sincerity\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n charm, Jess fears he views her as some psychological case study. With her family and the town of Chesapeake Shores behind him, Will finally makes his case. But is it enough to convince Jess to take the risk of a lifetime?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4455'),
(19188, 'Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything', 'Joshua Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  follows Joshua Foer''s compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly uniqueâ€”from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Brains remember visual imagery but have a harder time with other information, like lists, and so with the help of experts, Foer learned how to transform the kinds of memories he forgot into the kind his brain remembered naturally. The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer''s story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Miriam Landis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Author Q&amp;A with Joshua Foer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  First, can you explain the title of you book,\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championshipâ€”specifically it''s a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it''s such a goofy image. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that''s pretty much unforgettable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are the U.S. Memory Championships? How did you become involved?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The U.S. Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. They weren''t savants. And they didn''t have photographic memories. Rather, they''d trained their memories using ancient techniques. They said anyone could do it. I was skeptical. Frankly, I didn''t believe them. I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. A year later I came back to the contest, this time to try and compete, as a sort of exercise in participatory journalism. I was curious simply to see how well I''d do, but I ended up winning the contest. That really wasn''t supposed to happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What was the most surprising thing you found out about yourself competing in the Memory Championships?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  In the process of studying these techniques, I learned something remarkable: that there''s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for. I''m not just talking about the fact that it''s possible to memorize lots of information using memory techniques. I''m talking about a lesson that is more general, and in a way much bigger: that it''s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Can you explain the "OK Plateau?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The OK Plateau is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just never get appreciably faster at it. That''s because it''s become automatic. You''ve moved it to the back of your mind''s filing cabinet. If you want to become a faster typer, it''s possible, of course. But you''ve got to bring the task back under your conscious control. You''ve got to push yourself past where you''re comfortable. You have to watch yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. That''s the way to get better at anything. And it''s how I improved my memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you mean by saying there an "art" to memory?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The "art of memory" refers to a set of techniques that were invented in ancient Greece. These are the same techniques that Cicero used to memorize his speeches, and that medieval scholars used to memorize entire books. The "art" is in creating imagery in your mind that is so unusual, so colorful, so unlike anything you''ve ever seen before that it''s unlikely to be forgotten. That''s why mnemonists like to say that their skills are as much about creativity as memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How do you think technology has affected how and what we remember?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Once upon a time people invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously furnished their minds. They remembered. Today, of course, we''ve got books, and computers and smart phones to hold our memories for us. We''ve outsourced our memories to external devices. The result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they''re failing us altogether. We''ve forgotten how to remember.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the connection between memory and our sense of time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That''s because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday''s lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it''ll end up being forgotten. That''s why it''s so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you''re not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday''s lunch. That''s why it''s so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How is your memory now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Ironically, not much better than when I started this whole journey. The techniques I learned, and used in the memory contest, are great for remembering structured information like shopping lists or phone numbers, but they don''t improve any sort of underlying, generalizable memory ability. Unfortunately, I still misplace my car keys.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Joshua Foer Â© Emil Salman Haaretz)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you sometimes canï¿½t remember where you put your car keys or, like Foer, the car itself, donï¿½t panic. Youï¿½re not alone, and you can do something about it. In this intriguing look at the nature of memory, Foer reassures us that we donï¿½t need to acquire a better memory; we just need to use the one we have more effectively. Foer introduces us to people whose memories are both astonishing, like the man who could memorize 1,528 random digits in order, and frightening, such as a man with such an extreme case of amnesia that he doesnï¿½t know his own age and canï¿½t remember that he has a memory problem. He explores various ways in which we test our memories, such as the extensive training British cabbies must undergo. He also discusses ways we can train ourselves to have better memories, like the PAO system, in which, for example, every card in a deck is associated with an image of a specific person, action, or object. An engaging, informative, and for the forgetful, encouraging book. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4185'),
(19189, 'Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything', 'Joshua Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  follows Joshua Foer''s compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly uniqueâ€”from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Brains remember visual imagery but have a harder time with other information, like lists, and so with the help of experts, Foer learned how to transform the kinds of memories he forgot into the kind his brain remembered naturally. The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer''s story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Miriam Landis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Author Q&amp;A with Joshua Foer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  First, can you explain the title of you book,\n  <em>\n   Moonwalking with Einstein\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championshipâ€”specifically it''s a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it''s such a goofy image. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that''s pretty much unforgettable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are the U.S. Memory Championships? How did you become involved?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The U.S. Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. They weren''t savants. And they didn''t have photographic memories. Rather, they''d trained their memories using ancient techniques. They said anyone could do it. I was skeptical. Frankly, I didn''t believe them. I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. A year later I came back to the contest, this time to try and compete, as a sort of exercise in participatory journalism. I was curious simply to see how well I''d do, but I ended up winning the contest. That really wasn''t supposed to happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What was the most surprising thing you found out about yourself competing in the Memory Championships?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  In the process of studying these techniques, I learned something remarkable: that there''s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for. I''m not just talking about the fact that it''s possible to memorize lots of information using memory techniques. I''m talking about a lesson that is more general, and in a way much bigger: that it''s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Can you explain the "OK Plateau?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The OK Plateau is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just never get appreciably faster at it. That''s because it''s become automatic. You''ve moved it to the back of your mind''s filing cabinet. If you want to become a faster typer, it''s possible, of course. But you''ve got to bring the task back under your conscious control. You''ve got to push yourself past where you''re comfortable. You have to watch yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. That''s the way to get better at anything. And it''s how I improved my memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you mean by saying there an "art" to memory?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The "art of memory" refers to a set of techniques that were invented in ancient Greece. These are the same techniques that Cicero used to memorize his speeches, and that medieval scholars used to memorize entire books. The "art" is in creating imagery in your mind that is so unusual, so colorful, so unlike anything you''ve ever seen before that it''s unlikely to be forgotten. That''s why mnemonists like to say that their skills are as much about creativity as memory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How do you think technology has affected how and what we remember?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Once upon a time people invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously furnished their minds. They remembered. Today, of course, we''ve got books, and computers and smart phones to hold our memories for us. We''ve outsourced our memories to external devices. The result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they''re failing us altogether. We''ve forgotten how to remember.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the connection between memory and our sense of time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That''s because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday''s lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it''ll end up being forgotten. That''s why it''s so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you''re not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday''s lunch. That''s why it''s so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How is your memory now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Ironically, not much better than when I started this whole journey. The techniques I learned, and used in the memory contest, are great for remembering structured information like shopping lists or phone numbers, but they don''t improve any sort of underlying, generalizable memory ability. Unfortunately, I still misplace my car keys.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Joshua Foer Â© Emil Salman Haaretz)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you sometimes canï¿½t remember where you put your car keys or, like Foer, the car itself, donï¿½t panic. Youï¿½re not alone, and you can do something about it. In this intriguing look at the nature of memory, Foer reassures us that we donï¿½t need to acquire a better memory; we just need to use the one we have more effectively. Foer introduces us to people whose memories are both astonishing, like the man who could memorize 1,528 random digits in order, and frightening, such as a man with such an extreme case of amnesia that he doesnï¿½t know his own age and canï¿½t remember that he has a memory problem. He explores various ways in which we test our memories, such as the extensive training British cabbies must undergo. He also discusses ways we can train ourselves to have better memories, like the PAO system, in which, for example, every card in a deck is associated with an image of a specific person, action, or object. An engaging, informative, and for the forgetful, encouraging book. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4421');
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(19190, 'Moratorium', 'Chuck Sampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Some people would do anything to get even â€“even kill.\n <br />\n <br />\n Moratorium is a tale of the backroom deals and political intrigue involved in the high stakes game of striking oil.Â \n <br />\n <br />\n A deranged anarchist, Jeff Moon, fears Californians will vote to lift the moratorium on oil exploration, so he devises a plan to restore the â€œEarth Dayâ€ spirit of the sixties. Moonâ€™s dangerous plan will kill thousands of oil workers and their families and desecrate the pristine Santa Barbara coastline.\n <br />\n <br />\n Mike Tanner, senior editor of Venturaâ€™s local paper, The Messenger, sympathizes with Moonâ€™s hatred of oil companies. Angry at his oil baron father for the death of his mother, he supports the crazed anarchistâ€™s activities with money and political propaganda.\n <br />\n Enter Maverick Duncan, a Russo-Asian and spy for the Chinese Ministry of Intelligence. Seeking revenge against Chevron Oil for their role in denying the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company their chance to own Unocal, he and the wily Bao Yang finance Moonâ€™s scheme for their own purposes.\n <br />\n <br />\n Dana Mathers, former world champion surfer, works for Chevron as a geophysicist. He discovers a large deposit of oil just off the coast of Santa Rosa Island. Unknown to Dana, his boss, Quinn Li, uses Mathers report as leverage against Boa Yang and CNOOC in a bid to further her own personal ambitions.\n <br />\n <br />\n Innocent and oblivious to the impact of his discovery, Dana becomes a mark for oil foes and friends alike. Just after Dana proposes to Kelsey and she accepts, they find Mike washed up dead on the shores of Rincon Beach. Senior Detective Sergeant Cyrus Fleming takes charge of the murder investigation and based on a public fight Dana had with Mike, he arrests him for murder.\n <br />\n <br />\n On the way to jail, Fleming''s squad car flips over and bursts into flame. Dana risks his life to save Fleming from the twisted wreckage. Flemming, now convinced of his innocence, begins his quest to find Mike Tannerâ€™s real killer, stop Jeff Moon, and save Santa Barbara.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6224'),
(19191, 'The Morning Show Murders', 'Al Roker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3961'),
(19192, 'Morse&#39;s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dexter (The Daughters of Cain) demonstrates his absolute mastery of the art of plotting in these 11 short stories, six of which feature Inspector Morse. Morse fans might fear that, by confining the Thames Valley investigator to the short form, Dexter risks losing all that irascible interplay between the beer-swilling snob of a copper and his dogged subordinate, Lewis. Not to worry. In the title story, Morse''s heretofore unrecognized largesse is put to the test when the Christmas charity collection at a local pub is pilfered. In another, a car is borrowed and the owner receives a charming letter and an opera ticket. All these stories are powered by such ruthlessly cunning plot lines that the reader is quickly tipped the wink and finds himself or herself feverishly striving to second-guess the sleuth. In one non-Morse story, "At the Lulu-Bar Motel," Dexter spins an elaborate plot but struggles to create all-American con men, but another Morseless yarn, "Evans Tries an O-Level," is a terrific prison-break tale. Watching Dexter?and Morse?work in constricted space is great, challenging fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You''ve seen him on TV, now catch him in print. Dexter''s Chief Inspector Morse is back in six of the 11 short stories featured here-enough for a whole new PBS series. Dexter throws in five unrelated works for good measure.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6164'),
(19193, 'Mortgages for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Ray Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Need a mortgage but worried about the market? In  Mortgages For Dummies, 3 rd  Edition,  bestselling authors Eric Tyson and Ray Brown give you proven solutions for obtaining a mortgage, whether you want to buy your first home, refinance, or tap into your equity. You get the latest on sub-prime and adjustable-rate mortgages, finding the best lender, avoiding fiscal pitfalls and foreclosure, and much, much, more!         This easy-to-understand, objective, and jargon-free guide helps you fine-tune your finances, figure out what you can afford, and improve your credit score before you go mortgage shopping. Youâ€™ll get familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgages, 15- and 30-year loans, and conforming and jumbo packages. You also get help finding and working with reputable professionals, comparing programs, and securing terms you can live with. Discover how to:              Match your mortgage to your financial goals       Qualify for a mortgage even when money is tight       Find the right loan for you       Choose the best lender/broker       Negotiate the best terms       Calculate your costs and payments       Understand and complete all paperwork       Refinance an existing mortgage       Understand and consider special situation loans       Explore reverse mortgages and other options       Decipher amortization tables and comparison worksheets       Use the Internet wisely when mortgage shopping                Now, more than ever, you need clear, reliable information that helps you get the mortgage you need at a price you can afford. You need  Mortgages For Dummies, 3 rd  Edition!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1823'),
(19194, 'The Mote in God&#39;s Eye', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched. In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they''ve been unable to solve in over a million years. This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle''s interest in the military and sociology with Niven''s talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties'' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity''s economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth. --Brooks Peck\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6309'),
(19195, 'The Motor Maid', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5945'),
(19196, 'Motorcycling for Dummies', 'Bill Kresnak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few activities offer more fun and excitement than motorcycling, but to get the most out of it, thereâ€™s a lot you need to know. From buying and maintaining a bike, to riding safely, to finding great places to ride,\n <em>\n  Motorcycling For Dummies\n </em>\n puts you on the road with savvy and style, whether youâ€™re male or female, new to riding or an experienced vet.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fun, practical, and informative guide gets you geared up and ready to ride! Youâ€™ll get plenty of help in selecting the right bike and step-by-step instructions on performing routing maintenance tasks. Youâ€™ll also find out how to develop safe riding habits and, maybe most important of all, fit in with the biker crowd. Plus, this indispensable resource shows you advanced riding techniques, offers travel tips for long-distance rides, and even helps you get your kids started in motorcycling. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Buy a new or used bike\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select safe, tough riding gear, from helmet and jacket to boots and pants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get proper training and learn essential riding skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Insure your bike\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pass even the toughest licensing test\n </li>\n <li>\n  Try your hand at cruising, touring, sports biking, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get involved in motorcycle clubs and events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with dangers on the road\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize your bike to improve both style and performance\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of great biking events, organizations, people, and even movies,\n <em>\n  Motorcycling For Dummies\n </em>\n gives a whole new meaning to the term â€œeasy rider.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Insider tips for new and veteran riders\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to become a safe, savvy motorcyclist\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to motorcycling or an experienced rider, this fun, informative guide gets you geared up and ready to ride! From selecting the right bike and performing routine maintenance to developing safe riding habits and fitting in with the biker crowd whether you''re male or female, you''ll command the road. Plus, you get advanced riding techniques, travel tips for long-distance rides, and even advice on getting your kids on a bike.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy a new or used bike\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the proper riding gear\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get involved in motorcycle clubs and events\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with dangers on the road\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize your motorcycle\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(19197, 'Motorcyclist.USA.2011.11.pdf 21-10-2011', 'Motorcyclist.USA.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10847'),
(19198, 'Motorworld', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6142'),
(19199, 'Mountain Biking UK - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6849'),
(19200, 'MPC_10_2011.pdf 13-10-2011', 'MPC_10_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10681'),
(19201, 'MPC0910.pdf 11-09-2011', 'MPC0910.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4772'),
(19202, 'Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (h-1)', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The early career of Horatio Hornblower of the British Royal Navy is traced in a series of adventurous episodes. They illustrate the quick thinking, brilliant intuition, and decisiveness characteristic of our hero and leave him with the rank of lieutenant.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book introduces the most gallant and redoubtable figure in naval history - Horatio Hornblower. The seventeen year old Hornblower became infamous as soon as he stepped on board ship as the midshipman who was seasick in the Spithead, but things were soon to change. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. The reader stands right beside him as he prepares to fight his first duel, feels that heat as he battles to control a blazing ship and shares his horror as he experiences for the first time, the panic of the plague. The young Hornblower - a truly formidable force in his majesty''s service.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy''s Hospital and, after leaving Guy''s without a degree, he turned to writing as a career. His first success was Payment Deferred, a novel written at the age of twenty-four and later dramatized and filmed with Charles Laughton in the leading role. In 1932 Forester was offered a Hollywood contract, and from then until 1939 he spent thirteen weeks of every year in America. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect the material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5975'),
(19203, 'Mr. Prohack', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4250'),
(19204, 'MS Windows Command-Line Administration Instant Reference', 'J. Mueller (Sybex, 2010) BBS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10776'),
(19205, 'Multiple Sclerosis for Dummies', 'Rosalind Kalb Ph.d. &amp; Nancy Holland Rn Edd Mscn &amp; Barbara Giesser Md &amp; David L. Lander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) doesnâ€™t have to mean your life is over. Everyoneâ€™s MS is different and no one can predict exactly what yours will be like.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fact is, lots of people live their lives with MS\n <em>\n  without\n </em>\n making a full-time job of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  MS for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you easy to access, easy to understand information about what happens with MSâ€”what kinds of symptoms it can cause, how it can affect your life at home and at work, what you can do to feel and function up to snuff, and how you can protect yourself and your family against the long-term unpredictability of the disease. You''ll learn:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Why some people get MS and others donâ€™t\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to make treatment and lifestyle choices that work for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  What qualities to look for in a neurologist and in the rest of your healthcare team\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to manage fatigue, walking problems, and visual changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the road to diagnosis can be full of twists and turns\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to understand the pros and cons of alternative medicine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why and how to talk to your kids about MS\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to find stress management strategies that work for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with listings of valuable resources such as other books, Web sites, and community agencies and organizations that you can tap for information or assistance_, MS for Dummies_ will tell you everything you need to know in order to make educated choices and comfortable decisions about life with MS.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the latest on medications and treatment options\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take charge of your MS and live a full, active, and satisfying life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to know more about MS? This friendly, authoritative guide gives you expert advice on making personal treatment choices, managing symptoms, staying healthy, and maximizing your health insurance options â€” as well as how to deal with relapses and complications so you can keep your life on track.\n</p>\n<p>\n "When I found out I had MS, other than finally having a label for my problem, I still had no idea what to do with it. . . . Had I had a wonderful book as simple to navigate, yet as comprehensive as Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies, my family and I would have saved a lot of time and aggravation. . . . After reading Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies, you will be much more capable of asking your doctor the right questions, and that makes you an effective component of your own treatment."\n <br />\n â€”David L. Lander ("Squiggy" from Laverne &amp; Shirley), proud member of the MS community\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get an accurate diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assemble your healthcare team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with advanced symptoms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy family life with MS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Request accommodations at work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explain MS to others\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1825'),
(19206, 'Murder in Jerusalem', 'Batya Gur', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Gur''s tremendous literary gifts are on full display in her sixth contemporary Israeli mystery to feature the understated but insightful Sephardic detective, Insp. Michael Ohayon (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Bethlehem Road Murder\n  </em>\n  ). The death of set designer Tirzah Rubin, found beneath a fallen pillar on the set of a film adaptation of S.Y. Agnon''s\n  <em>\n   Iddo and Eynam\n  </em>\n  , appears to be an accident, but later evidence that it was murder brings Ohayon and his team into the swirl of personalities and politics that make up the national TV station, Channel One. When a witness to Tirzah''s final moments also dies, from an overdose of heart medicine while hospitalized, the pressure on Ohayon intensifies. Once again, Gur uses a classic whodunit plot to explore human passions and insecurities with a sophistication equal to that of P.D. James and other better known authors of psychological crime fiction. The concluding moral dilemma Ohayon faces would have been fascinating to follow in future inquiries that will, alas, go unwritten, as Gur died in 2005.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”Tirzah Rubin, set designer for Israeli television, is found dead under a fallen marble pillar. Michael Ohayon, the quiet, introspective Chief Superintendent of the Israeli police, arrives on the scene to begin an investigation of what first appears to be an accident and soon becomes a crime. When the killing is followed by a second and then a third death at the studio, Ohayon and his staff delve further into the deeply intertwined lives of the victims and the other major players in this closely knit television family. Was the murderer''s motive love, politics, or something else? The story is rich in the culture of modern-day Israel and gives a vivid depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama of a television station, including a masterfully written scene depicting the hour before airtime. The characters are well fleshed out, though American teens might find the Israeli names initially distracting. However, young adults will soon be drawn into the love entanglements, the multiple mysteries, and the everyday lives of people in a war-torn country so often in the news. Teachers of world history will want to include this title on reading lists of fiction about current world issues, and English teachers can add it to the list of accessible books by foreign authors.â€”_Ellen Bell, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4567'),
(19207, 'Murder Most Frothy', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clare Cosi-s new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she-ll relax, soak up the sun, and, oh yes, train the staff of his new restaurant. So Clare packs up her daughter, her former mother-in-law, and her special recipe for iced coffee-for what she hopes will be one de-latte-ful summer-\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Soon, Clare tends the coffee bar at her first Hamptons gala. But the festivities come to a bitter end when an employee turns up dead in David-s bathroom-a botched attempt on the millionaire-s life. Thanks to the Fourth of July fireworks no one heard any gunshots, and the police are stuck in holiday traffic. Concerned for everyone-s safety, Clare begins to investigate. What she finds will keep her up at night-and it-s not the java jitters-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6235'),
(19208, 'Murder on a Hot Tin Roof', 'Amanda Matetsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mystery novelist and crime reporter Paige Turner is thrilled to see the hottest show on Broadway-but when she visits the star the next morning, he''s been prematurely chilled. With her friend Abby, Paige embarks on a quest for the killer that has her springing all over the city like an overheated feline.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4057'),
(19209, 'Musetouch  Sept 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10833'),
(19210, 'Music Composition for Dummies', 'Scott Jarrett &amp; Holly Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can!\n <em>\n  Music Composition For Dummies\n </em>\n demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating melodies and chord progressions and working with instruments and voices.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this fun and practical guide, youâ€™ll learn how to match keys and chords to the mood you want to convey, work a form without limiting your creativity, and hammer out a musical idea, even when your mind is drawing a blank. Youâ€™ll find out how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, and video game soundtracks. And, youâ€™ll learn what you need to know about music composition software, including Finale, Sebelius, Pro Tools, and more. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Preserve and organize your musical ideas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with established chord progressions or create your own\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop great rhythms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the right instruments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find melodies in your head, your instrument, and the world around you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use major and minor scales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with modes and moods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build melodic motifs and phrases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the circle of fifths to harmonize\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write for multiple voices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a demo recording\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Filled with creative exercises to build your composing skills,\n <em>\n  Music Composition for Dummies\n </em>\n is the resource you need to get that melody out of your head and into the world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Creative exercises build your composing skills\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to turn the tune in your head into a full-fledged composition!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Wish you could write music? You can! This friendly guide gives you everything you need to start composing, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to writing with chords and melody to expressing your musical ideas through instruments and voices. You''ll see how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, or video game soundtracks!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master chord progressions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Harmonize with melody\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the right instruments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write for multiple voices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Compose electronic music\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a demo recording\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(19211, 'Music of a Life', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A superb new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summersand Requiem for a Lost Empire,set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.  â€œMakine is without doubt one of the greatest living writers. Music of a Life proves it.â€ -Le Figaro( France)  A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summersand Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Lifeis set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.  AlexeÃ¯ Bergâ€™s father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalinâ€™s reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed and proscribed, they have nonetheless, on the eve of Hitlerâ€™s war, not yet been arrested. And young AlexeÃ¯ himself, a budding classical pianist, has been allowed to continue his musical studies. His first solo concert is scheduled for May 24, 1941.  Two days before the concert, on his way home from his final rehearsal, he espies his parents being arrested, taken from their Moscow apartment. Knowing his own arrest will not be far behind, AlexeÃ¯ flees to the country house of his fiancÃ©e, where again betrayal awaits him. He flees, one step ahead of the dreaded secret police until, taking on the identity of a dead soldier, he enlists in the Soviet army. Thus begins his seemingly endless journey, through war and peace, until he lands, two decades later, in a snowbound train station in the Urals, where he relates his harrowing saga to the novelâ€™s narrator.  Music of a Lifehas been AndreÃ¯ Makineâ€™s biggest bestselling novel internationally since Dreams of My Russian Summers.It is, in the words of Franceâ€™s most distinguished daily newspaper Le Monde,â€œextremely powerfulâ€¦ a gem.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4079'),
(19212, 'Music.Tech.Magazine.2011-10.pdf 02-10-2011', 'Music.Tech.Magazine.2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7192'),
(19213, 'Mutual Fund Investing for Canadians for Dummies', 'Andrew Bell &amp; Matthew Elder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mutual funds offer investors a diverse portfolio in a single investment, which is critical in an uncertain economy. Although ideal for buyers who donâ€™t want to tackle the stock market alone, mutual funds can still be intimidating, with a bewildering array of options. And now that foreign content regulations for RRSPs have been lifted, Canadians have even more choices.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mutual Fund Investing For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n explains it all, from the basics -- what is a mutual fund? -- to the not-so-basic -- are index funds better than managed funds? Is my MER cutting into my ROI? With information on how mutual funds can be a vital and profitable component of everyoneâ€™s retirement plans and how they can help readers build their wealth inside their tax-free savings account, this friendly guide offers the principles Canadians need to know in order to be informed and successful mutual fund investors.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is easy and even fun to read. â€¦ Mutual Fund Investing For Canadians For Dummies is worth the investment if you are looking to build a fund portfolio that suits your needs and will give you healthy, long-term returns.â€\n <br />\n Jeff Dupuis, money.canoe.ca\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build your wealth through mutual funds with this fun and friendly guide!\n</p>\n<p>\n Mutual funds offer you the easiest way to diversify your investments, but the range of options can be bewildering. This jargon-free, friendly guide makes mutual fund investing simple â€” and profitable. Valuable recommendations on the best funds available and sample portfolios show you exactly how to accomplish your financial goals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Knowing how and where to buy â€” get the scoop on how to avoid costly commissions that eat into your returns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understanding your options â€” explore equity funds, bond funds, and specialty funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Investigating indexes â€” discover how index and exchange-traded funds can take the work out of investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Building a portfolio â€” determine your personal investment style and find out how to choose funds that will meet your financial goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sorting the stars from the dogs â€” steer clear of investing hype and choose consistently profitable funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Diversifying your investments â€” build a portfolio that will stand up to even the most volatile market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keeping track of your investments â€” understand how to evaluate your funds'' performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Planning for retirement â€” learn how to select the most dependable funds for your RRSP so you can enjoy your golden years in style\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ABCs to picking a profitable fund\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to decipher mutual fund prospectuses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What return to expect from your funds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What types of funds you should avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The funds everyone should own\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tax-efficient ways to invest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Key questions to ask any prospective financial adviser\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reliable online sources of mutual fund information\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(19214, 'Mutual Funds for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Expanded coverage of ETFs, fund alternatives, and Internet research\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cash in on the latest wealth-building techniques with America''s #1 best-selling mutual fund book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make the most of mutual funds? Personal finance expert Eric Tyson shares his time-tested investing advice, as well as updates to his fund recommendations and revised coverage of tax law changes, in this user-friendly resource. Sample fund portfolios and updated forms show you exactly how to accomplish your financial goals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick the best funds and avoid losers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble and maintain a portfolio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your funds'' performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Track and invest in funds online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix common fund problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Expanded coverage of ETFs, fund alternatives, and Internet research\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cash in on the latest wealth-building techniques with America''s #1 best-selling mutual fund book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make the most of mutual funds? Personal finance expert Eric Tyson shares his time-tested investing advice, as well as updates to his fund recommendations and revised coverage of tax law changes, in this user-friendly resource. Sample fund portfolios and updated forms show you exactly how to accomplish your financial goals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick the best funds and avoid losers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assemble and maintain a portfolio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your funds'' performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Track and invest in funds online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix common fund problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1828'),
(19215, 'My Friend the Chauffeur', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5929'),
(19216, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4186'),
(19217, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4356'),
(19218, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4420');
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(19219, 'My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business: A Memoir', 'Dick Van Dyke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van Dyke Show (produced by Carl Reiner, who has written the foreword to this memoir), was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and introduced another major television star, Mary Tyler Moore. But Dick Van Dyke was also an enormously engaging movie star whose films, including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, have been discovered by a new generation of fans and are as beloved today as they were when they first appeared. Who doesnâ€™t know the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A colorful, loving, richly detailed look at the decades of a multilayered life, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, will enthrall every generation of reader, from baby-boomers who recall when Rob Petrie became a household name, to all those still enchanted by Bertâ€™s â€œChim Chim Cher-ee.â€ This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a â€œsimple song-and-dance man,â€ but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4187'),
(19220, 'MySpace for Dummies', 'Ryan Hupfer &amp; Mitch Maxson &amp; Ryan C. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I mentioned earlier the phenomenon that is Dummies and here is an example of just what it does best." (_The Bookseller_, Friday 14th March 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n MySpace has more than 100 million active users. For many of them, MySpace is their central hub for connecting and communicating. They come to meet new people, keep up to date with family members, learn about new products and services, or catch up on the latest news. They come to check out blogs or to share their music. Donâ€™t you just love the MySpace community?\n</p>\n<p>\n What â€” you donâ€™t have a MySpace page yet? Well, we can fix that!\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™ve just decided to join MySpace, need to give your profile more pizzazz, or simply want to find out as much about MySpace as your teenager already knows,\n <em>\n  MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n has what youâ€™re looking for. Find out how to get started, use MySpace safely, customize your page, start a blog, showcase your skills, and lots more. This friendly guide will help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Open an account and set up your profile\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn on and use the MySpace safety and security tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and add friends to your profile\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay in touch by e-mail, bulletins, and profile comments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sell, buy, and market on MySpace\n </li>\n <li>\n  Show off your talents as a filmmaker, author, comic, or musician\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrade your profile with photos, music, and a whole new look\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Everythingâ€™s arranged to help you quickly find what youâ€™re looking for. With\n <em>\n  MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n , you can easily make your MySpace experience truly exceptional!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1829'),
(19221, 'The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3929'),
(19222, 'Mystery.Men.Limited.Series.4.of.5.Oct.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 25-09-2011', 'Mystery.Men.Limited.Series.4.of.5.Oct.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6803'),
(19223, 'The Naked Sun', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov''s trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The three laws of Robotics:\n  <br />\n  1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm\n  <br />\n  2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.\n  <br />\n  3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With this, Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In\n  <strong>\n   I, Robot\n  </strong>\n  , Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact &amp; science fiction that became Asmiov''s trademark.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6368'),
(19224, 'Nanotechnology for Dummies', 'Richard D. Booker &amp; Earl Boysen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n <br />\n This title demystifies the topic for investors, business executives, and anyone interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes can transform our lives. Along with dispelling common myths, it covers nanotechnology''s origins, how it will affect various industries, and the limitations it can overcome. This handy book also presents numerous applications such as scratch-proof glass, corrosion resistant paints, stain-free clothing, glare-reducing eyeglass coatings, drug delivery systems, medical diagnostic tools, burn and wound dressings, sugar-cube-sized computers, mini-portable power generators, even longer-lasting tennis balls, and more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Nanotechnology is the science of matter at the scale of one-billionth of a meter or 1/75,000th the size of a human hair\n <br />\n * Written in the accessible, humorous For Dummies style, this book demystifies nanotechnology for investors, business people, and anyone else interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes will soon transform our lives\n <br />\n * Investment in nanotechnology is exploding, with $3.7 billion in nanotechnology R&amp;D spending authorized by the U.S. government in 2003 and international investment reported at over $2 billion\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Download Description\n <br />\n This title demystifies the topic for investors, business executives, and anyone interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes can transform our lives. Along with dispelling common myths, it covers nanotechnology''s origins, how it will affect various industries, and the limitations it can overcome. This handy book also presents numerous applications such as scratch-proof glass, corrosion resistant paints, stain-free clothing, glare-reducing eyeglass coatings, drug delivery systems, medical diagnostic tools, burn and wound dressings, sugar-cube-sized computers, mini-portable power generators, even longer-lasting tennis balls, and more. Nanotechnology is the science of matter at the scale of one-billionth of a meter or 1/75,000th the size of a human hair Written in the accessible, humorous For Dummies style, this book demystifies nanotechnology for investors, business people, and anyone else interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes will soon transform our lives Investment in nanotechnology is exploding, with $3.7 billion in nanotechnology R&amp;D spending authorized by the U.S. government in 2003 and international investment reported at over $2 billion\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the Author\n <br />\n Iâ€™m one of the authors for the book and a graduate student at Rice University in Houston, Texas - one of the academic leaders in nanotechnology. Personally, my unique background allows me to speak to a wide audience: my engineering degree has given me insight into transitioning research into practical applications; my Air Force experience has allowed me to understand the needs of our government and military (huge financial backers of university research). Now, while working in the trenches of nanotechnology, Iâ€™ve come across a disconnect between this research and the average person. How do we communicate this technologyâ€™s importance and potential applications to the business leader, venture capitalist, investor, or entrepreneur to make it widely available in every day uses?\n <br />\n This book does just that by identifying needs and separating science fiction from science fact â€“ dispelling the myths and laying out realistic expectations not only in applications but timeframe as well. We identify three industries: materials, computers, and healthcare. These areas will be greatly affected by nanotechnology and advances in each will continue to feed each other. For example, future nano-scale processor fabrication methods will be used to create unique materials for healthcare applications.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Another "vision" of the authors was to "show" nanotechnology â€“ there are over 100 line art and photos illustrating the science and applications of nanotechnology distinguishing this book from other nano books. This makes it far easier for the average high school student or even baby boomer to pick up and quickly understand this emerging technology and provide them the tools to choose either a career in the sciences or invest in a nano-company stock.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I encourage those interested in this technology, whether it is for shear interest or for business ideas, to closely read this book.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the Back Cover\n <br />\n See how this "little" technology can generate BIG profits!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Will nanotechnology change the future? How will it change your life? Find out here!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nanotechnology is a huge, complex field of study about matter 1/75,000th the size of a human hair. Here''s a plain-English look at what it can mean to you and your business. See how discovering more about nano-size particles will let scientists build better materials, enhance medical care, aid the environment, and much more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Understand nanotechnology terms\n <br />\n * Identify applications for the technology\n <br />\n * See how nanotechnology affects computer science\n <br />\n * Recognize potential benefits to the environment\n <br />\n * Decide if you should invest in nanotechnology\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book Dimension\n <br />\n length: (cm)23.2    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)18.9\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1830'),
(19225, 'NASCAR for Dummies', 'Mark Martin &amp; Beth Tuschak &amp; Mike Forde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like its teammates in the Dummies series,\n <em>\n  NASCAR for Dummies\n </em>\n is cleverly organized and clearly focused. Winston Cup Series driver Mark Martin is in the driver''s seat, providing a speedy tour through America''s fastest-growing sport. In typical Dummies style,\n <em>\n  NASCAR for Dummies\n </em>\n is filled with fun stuff such as lists of the 10 greatest drivers of all time, the 10 can''t-miss races, and 10 future stars. It also contains plenty of information--from what NASCAR stands for and what makes a stock car a stock car to the rules of Pit Road and quick overviews of the 21 racetracks that host Winston Cup Series races. There''s even good, practical advice about attending races (secure lodging well in advance, decide between infield and grandstand tickets, etc.) and pointers on how to best appreciate the televised races. After reading this book, you''ll have no trouble qualifying as a NASCAR fan.\n <em>\n  --Sunny Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In addition to a new 8 page, full-color insert, this third edition of NASCAR For Dummies offers readers information on recent changes in technology such as the "Car of Tomorrow" and updates to the information that has made previous editions of NASCAR For Dummies a must-have guide for fans of this exciting sport.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1831'),
(19226, 'NASCAR for Dummies', 'Mark Martin &amp; Beth Tuschak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like its teammates in the Dummies series,\n <em>\n  NASCAR for Dummies\n </em>\n is cleverly organized and clearly focused. Winston Cup Series driver Mark Martin is in the driver''s seat, providing a speedy tour through America''s fastest-growing sport. In typical Dummies style,\n <em>\n  NASCAR for Dummies\n </em>\n is filled with fun stuff such as lists of the 10 greatest drivers of all time, the 10 can''t-miss races, and 10 future stars. It also contains plenty of information--from what NASCAR stands for and what makes a stock car a stock car to the rules of Pit Road and quick overviews of the 21 racetracks that host Winston Cup Series races. There''s even good, practical advice about attending races (secure lodging well in advance, decide between infield and grandstand tickets, etc.) and pointers on how to best appreciate the televised races. After reading this book, you''ll have no trouble qualifying as a NASCAR fan.\n <em>\n  --Sunny Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers the latest drivers, records, and rule changes\n</p>\n<p>\n All-new color photos highlight the fun and excitement of NASCAR\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever wonder what''s under the hood of today''s stock cars? Want to know the latest about the changes in NASCAR? Top driver Mark Martin puts you behind the wheel on an insider''s tour of NASCAR, offering great insights into the new drivers, sponsorship changes, safety requirements, and racing schedule â€” helping you get more out of every race you watch!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the rules, regulations, and standings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify driver skills and racing strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get up to speed on NASCAR lingo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy racing from the stands and on TV\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate NASCAR tracks near you\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1832'),
(19227, 'National Geographic - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10920'),
(19228, 'National Geographic 01-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2481'),
(19229, 'National Geographic 02-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2482'),
(19230, 'National Geographic 03-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2483'),
(19231, 'National Geographic 04-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2484'),
(19232, 'National Geographic 05-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2485'),
(19233, 'National Geographic 06-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2486'),
(19234, 'National Geographic 07-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2487'),
(19235, 'National Geographic 08-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2488'),
(19236, 'National Geographic 08-2011', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3088'),
(19237, 'National Geographic 09-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2489'),
(19238, 'National Geographic 10-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2490'),
(19239, 'National Geographic 11-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2491'),
(19240, 'National Geographic 12-2010', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2492'),
(19241, 'National Geographic Interactive - October 2011', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6749'),
(19242, 'National Geographic KIDS - October 2011 (South Africa)', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6584'),
(19243, 'National Geographic Traveler 07+08-2011', 'National Geographic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2505'),
(19244, 'National Geographic Traveler Interactive - October 2011', '10 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6548'),
(19245, 'National.Geographic-10.2011-Slicer.pdf 26-09-2011', 'National.Geographic-10.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6837'),
(19246, 'National.Geographic.Traveler-10.2011-Slicer.pdf 24-09-2011', 'National.Geographic.Traveler-10.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6747'),
(19247, 'Natural Bodybuilding &amp; Fitness 11-2011', 'Natural Bodybuilding &amp; Fitness', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3680'),
(19248, 'Natural Health - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10693'),
(19249, 'Natural_home_garden_09_10_2011', 'September &amp; October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3644'),
(19250, 'Nature Magazine', 'August 11th 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6832'),
(19251, 'The Nautical Chart', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A treasure hunt for a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates off the coast of Spain is the plot on which Perez-Reverte''s new novel turns, but a love story is the real heart of this nicely crafted, carefully told adventure. A suspended sailor happens on a maritime auction in Barcelona, where he meets the beautiful Tanger Soto, a museum curator whose winning bid buys her a 17th-century atlas that may reveal the final resting place of the Dei Gloria. Coy, the sailor, is totally smitten, so it''s no surprise that he signs on to help Tanger track the sunken ship to its grave in waters he''s sailed since childhood. Enlisting the aid of a diver friend, Coy and Tanger stay a few steps ahead of the crooked salvagers who''ve been trying to get the atlas, outmaneuvering the attempts on their lives and the efforts to keep them from the treasure. Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas) is better at plumbing the mysteries of the human heart than those of the sea, but The Nautical Chart manages to combine history, suspense, and obsessive love in a slow-paced but ultimately engrossing read. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4305'),
(19252, 'A Necessary Evil', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Someone is killing Catholic priests across America -- ritualized murders that speak of vengeance and hatred.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the killing spree continues unabated, it quickly becomes very clear to Maggie O''Dell -- the FBI profiler assigned to the case -- that more than one perpetrator is responsible. As she begins to drill down into the facts, Maggie discovers a disturbing Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures -- including Catholic priests.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the first real lead in the investigation, Maggie wonders if this group has turned cyberspace justice into reality by dispensing their own brand of vengeance. As the ritualistic killings leave America''s heartland reeling, Maggie gets a second lead -- one that leaves her stunned.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the past four years she has been driven by blind determination to find Father Michael Keller, the human monster whose acts of brutality continue to haunt her to this day. Sick and twisted, the priest seems to have vanished without a trace. But with an irony that only life can offer, now *he* has become a target.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Keller offers to help Maggie solve the crimes in exchange for protection, she has no choice but to ally herself with the elusive child killer -- the person she despises with a conviction that''s almost religious in its fervor. Maggie must cross a dangerous line into a world of malevolence and evil from which she may not return unscathed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maggie knows the bargain is a necessary evil . . . one that may be made in blood . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4046'),
(19253, 'Negotiating for Dummies', 'Michael C. Donaldson &amp; David Frohnmayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Contents at a Glance\n <br />\n Foreword ....................................................................xix\n <br />\n Introduction .................................................................1\n <br />\n Part I: Preparing to Negotiate .......................................7\n <br />\n Chapter 1: Negotiating for Life..........................................................................................9\n <br />\n Chapter 2: Knowing What You Want and Preparing to Get It .....................................21\n <br />\n Chapter 3: Mapping the Opposition...............................................................................41\n <br />\n Chapter 4: Knowing the Marketplace ............................................................................53\n <br />\n Chapter 5: Setting Goals ..................................................................................................63\n <br />\n Chapter 6: Setting and Enforcing Limits........................................................................73\n <br />\n Part II: Getting Your Point Across ................................87\n <br />\n Chapter 7: Listening â€” Really, Truly Listening ............................................................89\n <br />\n Chapter 8: Asking the Right Questions........................................................................103\n <br />\n Chapter 9: Listening to Body Language.......................................................................119\n <br />\n Chapter 10: Tuning In to Your Inner Voice ..................................................................141\n <br />\n Chapter 11: Being Crystal Clear: Telling It Like It Is...................................................151\n <br />\n Part III: Getting Past the Glitches to Close It Up.........173\n <br />\n Chapter 12: Pushing the Pause Button to Turn Off the Hot Buttons .......................175\n <br />\n Chapter 13: Dealing with Difficult People and Situations..........................................195\n <br />\n Chapter 14: Closing the Deal and Feeling Good About It ..........................................209\n <br />\n Chapter 15: When the Deal Just Wonâ€™t Seem to Close...............................................235\n <br />\n Part IV: Conducting Cross-Cultural\n <br />\n and Complex Negotiations .........................................255\n <br />\n Chapter 16: International Negotiating .........................................................................257\n <br />\n Chapter 17: Negotiating with the Opposite Sex..........................................................277\n <br />\n Chapter 18: Complex Negotiations...............................................................................293\n <br />\n Chapter 19: Blind Negotiating: Telephone and Internet ............................................313\n <br />\n Part V: The Part of Tens ............................................327\n <br />\n Chapter 20: Ten Personality Traits of Top Negotiators.............................................329\n <br />\n Chapter 21: Ten Key Negotiations of Your Life...........................................................335\n <br />\n Index .......................................................................349\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1833'),
(19254, 'Net Magazine 02-2011', 'Net Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2526'),
(19255, 'Net Magazine 06-2011', 'Net Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2558'),
(19256, 'net-October2011.UK.pdf 26-09-2011', 'net-October2011.UK.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6835'),
(19257, 'Netbooks for Dummies', 'Joel Mcnamara', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The only full-service reference on choosing, setting up, and using the hot new Netbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Netbooks are the fastest-selling segment of the PC market. These small, lightweight mini-laptops are less expensive and run longer on a battery charge than traditional laptops. This is the first book to cover everything from choosing the right Netbook to adding memory and remote access.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn to compare various models and identify what best meets your needs, connect to the Internet almost anywhere, choose and use free productivity tools, and much more.\n <em>\n  Netbooks For Dummies\n </em>\n covers both Windows and Linux, since Netbooks are available with either operating system.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains what Netbooks are, what they can do, and the advantages of mobile technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides criteria to help you decide what you need in a Netbook and descriptions of the available models, so you can choose one which best meets your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers both Windows (including Windows 7) and Linux operating systems available on Netbooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through setting up a Netbook and shows you how it can work for you both at home and on the go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses free online productivity applications, data synchronization services, and social networks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers advanced topics like adding memory and remote access\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Netbooks For Dummies,\n </em>\n you''ll be ready to make the most of the hottest mobile computing technology on the market today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Want to streamline your life with a netbook? Here''s what you need to know!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s smaller than a laptop, bigger than a cell phone, and keeps you connected? It''s the netbook, and this "real" book tells you how to pick the right one; use it for work, school, and play; and add bells, whistles, and anything else you might need. The book also covers all the operating systems that run on netbooks, including Linux, Google Chrome, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and even Windows 7.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Out of the box â€” set up your netbook, charge the battery, and sync it with your primary computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get connected â€” via Wi-Fi, 3G networks, Bluetooth, or Ethernet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do some work â€” explore Microsoft Works, OpenOffice.org, Google Apps, and Zoho productivity suites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play time â€” discover free Internet radio, streaming video, and games you can play on your netbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep up with your peeps â€” tweet and IM, keep up with Facebook friends, and make Skype phone calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Even netbooks like accessories â€” check out ways to expand storage, protect your netbook with a case, and add a mouse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety first â€” find quality antivirus programs, firewalls, and encryption options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The maintenance mantra â€” learn about backing up and restoring your netbook, troubleshooting, and managing battery life\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to compare when choosing a netbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different operating systems that run on netbooks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between netbooks and traditional laptops\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for making batteries last longer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best accessories for your netbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep your netbook running smoothly â€” and quickly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   GPS units that work well withyour netbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1834'),
(19258, 'Networking All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 books in 1 - your key to networking success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to the latest updates on networking\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with new and updated material on Windows Server 2008, the latest Red Hat(r) Fedora(r), Vista, and Office 2007, and the most up-to-date wireless standards, this solitary reference contains everything you need to manage both large and small networks. With these ten minibooks, you''ll discover how to make your network share information in the most efficient way possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage Macs in a Windows environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle mobile devices on a network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure Windows(r) XP and Vista clients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up and protect your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless network\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 books in 1 â€” your key to networking success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to the latest updates on networking\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with new and updated material on Windows Server 2008, the latest Red Hat Fedora, Vista, and Office 2007, and the most up-to-date wireless standards, this solitary reference contains everything you need to manage both large and small networks. With these ten minibooks, you''ll discover how to make your network share information in the most efficient way possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage Macs in a Windows environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle mobile devices on a network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure WindowsÂ® XP and Vista clients\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Back up and protect your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1835'),
(19259, 'Networking All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''re setting up a network at home or creating and managing one for business, there are dozens of things to consider.\n <em>\n  Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n replaces a whole shelf full of reference books with one handy volume that covers just what you need to know. And with technology changing faster than the colors in a rock bandâ€™s light show, you''ll be glad this updated edition includes the latest information.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by Doug Lowe, who''s been managing corporate networks for more than 20 years, this helpful guide shows you how to work with all Windows XP service packs as well as Fedora Linux. It''s made up of nine minibooks that cover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Networking basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building a network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Network administration and security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshooting and disaster planning\n </li>\n <li>\n  TCP/IP and the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Home networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Wireless networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Windows 2003 server reference\n </li>\n <li>\n  Linux reference\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you''re a networking newbie, the first two minibooks gives you all the startup information to get your network up and running. If you''ve already done that, you''re probably interested in keeping it running at peak performance. Book IV is loaded with information about finding, diagnosing, and fixing problems you might encounter. Looking for the scoop on keeping your network safe from online bad guys? Check Book III. Want to go wireless? Book VII tells you what you need to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n In these pages, youâ€™ll find out how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan your network, select interface cards, hubs, and routers, and install all the hardware and software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your network so itâ€™s easy to use but hard to break into\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a disaster recovery plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand IP addresses, subnetting, routing, DHCP, DNS, and other TCP/IP protocols and tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate other gadgets into your home network, including VoIP Internet-based telephone service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of the economical Linux networking alternative\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Best of all, it''s easy to locate what you need. There''s even a handy "cheat sheet" that puts really important information about cabling rules, private IP address ranges, valuable network administration tips, and helpful Web sites at your fingertips. With this book on hand, youâ€™ll experience a net increase in your networking prowess!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers all WindowsÂ® XP service packs and Fedora LinuxÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to building and managing a business or home network\n</p>\n<p>\n Why take up a whole shelf with networking books when all the essentials are right here in one handy volume? Here''s how to put a network together, choose the hardware and software, set up a server, troubleshoot problems, keep your network secure, understand Internet protocols, go wireless, and even set up a Linux alternative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select interface cards, hubs, and routers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure client computers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose firewalls and virus protection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a business continuity plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand DHCP, DNS, and FTP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless network\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1836'),
(19260, 'Networking for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Computers in business environments become exponentially helpful and critical for daily operations when they''re linked together in local area networks (LANs) that enable coworkers to share files, Internet access, and valuable resources like printers and plotters. Building a network of IBM-compatible PCs requires careful strategic planning, and\n <em>\n  Networking for Dummies, Fourth Edition\n </em>\n , will help you sort out the technical details as painlessly as possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book helps you figure out whether you need a LAN at all--the author isn''t shy about recommending simpler solutions such as printer switches--and then helps you get everything hooked up. Mainly, Lowe describes LANs in an accurate and comprehensive, though somewhat generic, way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once it has been determined that you need a network operating system, Lowe describes the characteristics of several good ones (including NetWare 4.2, NetWare 5, Windows NT 4, and LANtastic). He also explains network architectures, cabling systems, and security issues. New to this edition is information on transforming your LAN into an intranet by adapting internal protocols to Internet standards. There''s lots of solid information on troubleshooting and optimizing performance too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much of the valuable information in\n <em>\n  Networking for Dummies\n </em>\n comes in the form of scenarios. Lowe uses short situations and explains, specifically, what networking hardware and software will be required or beneficial. Find a story that matches your situation and you''ll be in business.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a good basics book...if you want to Ethernet more than a couple of machines." --\n <em>\n  Portable Computing, May 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1837'),
(19261, 'Networking for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Computers in business environments become exponentially helpful and critical for daily operations when they''re linked together in local area networks (LANs) that enable coworkers to share files, Internet access, and valuable resources like printers and plotters. Building a network of IBM-compatible PCs requires careful strategic planning, and\n <em>\n  Networking for Dummies, Fourth Edition\n </em>\n , will help you sort out the technical details as painlessly as possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book helps you figure out whether you need a LAN at all--the author isn''t shy about recommending simpler solutions such as printer switches--and then helps you get everything hooked up. Mainly, Lowe describes LANs in an accurate and comprehensive, though somewhat generic, way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once it has been determined that you need a network operating system, Lowe describes the characteristics of several good ones (including NetWare 4.2, NetWare 5, Windows NT 4, and LANtastic). He also explains network architectures, cabling systems, and security issues. New to this edition is information on transforming your LAN into an intranet by adapting internal protocols to Internet standards. There''s lots of solid information on troubleshooting and optimizing performance too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much of the valuable information in\n <em>\n  Networking for Dummies\n </em>\n comes in the form of scenarios. Lowe uses short situations and explains, specifically, what networking hardware and software will be required or beneficial. Find a story that matches your situation and you''ll be in business.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a good basics book...if you want to Ethernet more than a couple of machines." --\n <em>\n  Portable Computing, May 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1838'),
(19262, 'Never Knowing', 'Stevens, Chevy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4112'),
(19263, 'New Homes and Ideas', 'Fall 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7039'),
(19264, 'New Orleans for Dummies', 'Julia Kamysz Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you want to go to New Orleans for its history or the revelryâ€¦the incredible, unique cuisine or the music and club sceneâ€¦the risquÃ© aura of Bourbon Street or the ritzy lushness of the Garden District, this is your fun and easy guide to exploring and enjoying "The Big Easy". New Orleans is indeed open for business; more than 1000 restaurants and more than half of the areas hotels are welcoming visitors. Written by Julia Kamysz Lane, a resident and fan of the Crescent City,\n <em>\n  New Orleans For Dummies\n </em>\n , 4th Edition helps you make your most of your time, with:Â \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A full chapter on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, plus sections called â€œAssessing Katrinaâ€™s Effectâ€ at the beginning of relevant chapters and the post-hurricane status for every listing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dining info on where to try a variety of local flavors, such as Cajun and Creole cuisine at Emerilâ€™s, Antoineâ€™s, or Arnauds, a romantic dinner at Court of Two Sisters, a greasy, roast-beef poâ€™ boy from Elizabethâ€™s, a plateful of shucked oysters from Acme Oyster House\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  or\n  <em>\n   beignets\n  </em>\n  â€”tasty fried doughnuts â€” to start your day at CafÃ© du Monde\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on shopping for everything from exquisite antiques and fine art to pralines and T-shirts\n </li>\n <li>\n  A rundown of the cityâ€™s varied and exciting cultural scene, including the best bars and clubs in the French Quarter and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on cultural and historic attractions, including the Canal Streetcar, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the mansions on St. Charles Avenue, the courtyards in the French Quarter, the antebellum plantation houses in the Garden District, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An overview of the vibrant, eclectic music scene, including where to catch live jazz,Â  R &amp; B, Cajun or zydeco vibes, or modern-day brass bands getting funky\n </li>\n <li>\n  Four suggested itineraries, plus three day trips\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <strong>\n  For Dummies\n </strong>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  New Orleans For Dummies\n </em>\n , 4th Edition includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The jazz is jamminâ€™, the jasmine is blooming, and the jambalaya is simmering, so get this book and get packing. The infinite variety and captivating mystiqueÂ  of New Orleans await you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get a local''s takeon this resilient city\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From jazz to jumbalaya, this is your guide to post-Katrina New Orleans. Learn what was lost in the hurricane, which restaurants have reopened, and which bars and clubs are better than ever â€” from a local who knows firsthand.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1839'),
(19265, 'New Product Development for Dummies', 'Ph.d, Ceo Robin Karol &amp; Co-director Beebe Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The global consumer product market is exploding. In 2006 alone, 150,000 new products were brought to market. Now for the bad news: of those, fewer than 5% were hits, and fewer than 15% will even exist five years from now.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking for an inside track on new product development,\n <em>\n  New Product Development for Dummies\n </em>\n offers you a unique opportunity to learn from two consummate insiders the secrets of successfully developing, marketing and making a bundle from a new product or service. You learn proven techniques for sizing up market potential and divining customer needs. You get tested-in-the-trenches strategies for launching a new product or service. And you get a frank, in-depth appraisal of the most challenging issues facing new product developers today, including the need to collaborate with global partners, optimizing technology development for a 21st century marketplace, getting start-up capital in an increasingly competitive environment, and much more. Key topics covered include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Developing a winning NPD strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generating bold new ideas for products and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding what your customers really want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keeping projects on track, on budget, and on-time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building effective cross-functional teams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Planning and executing a blockbuster launch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Collaborating with global partners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximizing your chances for success\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No matter what size or type of business youâ€™re in, this book provides you with an unbeatable competitive advantage in the booming global marketplace for new products and services.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anticipate the needs of your customers and launch your new product or service successfully\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Know the insider secrets, get your products to market, and make money!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking to improve your product development process? This practical, behind-the-scenes guide provides the edge you need to develop and launch new products or services. No matter your size or type of business, you get tips for generating winning ideas, satisfying your customers, planning a blockbuster launch, and increasing your chances of market success.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your NPD strategy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Generate ideas forproducts and services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand what your customers really want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep projects on track\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have effective cross-functional teams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Collaborate with global partners\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(19266, 'New Scientist', 'August 6th 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3520'),
(19267, 'New Scientist - 10 September 2011', '10 September 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5728'),
(19268, 'New Scientist - 17 September 2011', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6120'),
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(19272, 'New York City for Dummies', 'Myka Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From soaring skyscrapers to rumbling subways, power shopping to bargain-hunting, world-renowned restaurants to neighborhood delis and pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Squareâ€”New York has it all. Chances are you can''t do it all, but this friendly guide helps you take a big bite out of the Big Apple with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Maps and tips for getting around by public transit, plus sights best seen on foot\n </li>\n <li>\n  A calendar of events for every season\n </li>\n <li>\n  A shopper''s guide, including trendy areas like SoHo, NoHo, and NoLita\n </li>\n <li>\n  Information about great free attractions, including the Staten Island Ferry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sample itineraries to help you make the most of your trip\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide, New York City\n <em>\n  For Dummies, Fifth Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With information on "must see" attractions like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, places to take the kids, an insider''s look at the nightlife, tips on getting discount tickets to popular shows, and a Quick Concierge with all kinds of info, this guide will have you saying, "I love New York."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take a bite out ofthe Big Apple\n</p>\n<p>\n From soaring skyscrapers to rumblingsubways, power shopping to bargain-hunting, world-renowned restaurants to neighborhood pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Square â€”New York has it all. Packed with info on must-see attractions like the Statue of Liberty and the Empire StateBuilding, plus an insider''s look at nightlife, shopping and dining tips, and more, this guide will have you saying, "I love New York"!\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1841'),
(19273, 'New York City for Dummies', 'Brian Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From soaring skyscrapers to rumbling subways, power shopping to bargain-hunting, world-renowned restaurants to neighborhood delis and pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Squareâ€”New York has it all. Chances are you can''t do it all, but this friendly guide helps you take a big bite out of the Big Apple with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Maps and tips for getting around by public transit, plus sights best seen on foot\n </li>\n <li>\n  A calendar of events for every season\n </li>\n <li>\n  A shopper''s guide, including trendy areas like SoHo, NoHo, and NoLita\n </li>\n <li>\n  Information about great free attractions, including the Staten Island Ferry\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sample itineraries to help you make the most of your trip\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide, New York City\n <em>\n  For Dummies, Fourth Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With information on "must see" attractions like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, places to take the kids, an insider''s look at the nightlife, tips on getting discount tickets to popular shows, and a Quick Concierge with all kinds of info, this guide will have you saying, "I love New York."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take a bite out of the Big Apple\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From teeming Times Square to trendy neighborhoods, the Brooklyn Bridge to Broadway, the Statue of Liberty to Central Park, chic boutiques to venerable pizzerias, museums to nightclubs, with this fun guide, you''ll love New York!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1842'),
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(19285, 'NGamer 09-2011', 'NGamer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3773'),
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(19287, 'NGamer_2011-10.pdf 25-09-2011', 'NGamer_2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6790'),
(19288, 'Night Soldiers', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3984'),
(19289, 'The Night&#39;s Dawn Trilogy', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hamilton concludes his Greg Mandel trilogy, which began with\n  <em>\n   Mindstar Rising\n  </em>\n  (1996) and continued with last fall''s\n  <em>\n   A Quantum Murder\n  </em>\n  . Greg is a "psychic detective" who works for the British corporation Event Horizon, a conglomerate that rose to power because of its patents on a unique, universal energy system. Though Greg has retired to his citrus groves, which thrive in globally warmed southern England, he is called back for a final mission when Julia Evans, heir to Event Horizon, receives a mysterious flower whose DNA resembles nothing terrestrial. An alien, benign but large as a world, has crossed the vacuum of space to colonize earth. It must be sent on its way, which Julia and Greg manage with Greg''s psychic powers of communication and Julia''s near-psychic expression of herself on Event Horizon''s advanced software. The already popular series is likely to become more so, with this able conclusion and with the new film\n  <em>\n   Event Horizon\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third in Hamilton''s trilogy (Mindstar Rising, 1996; A Quantum Murder, p. 1421) featuring Greg Mandel, of the psi- powered Mindstar Battalion. Now retired, Greg has taken up orange-farming in half-drowned, subtropical, 21st-century England. But then his old friend Julia Evans, of the preeminent Event Horizon corporation, receives a mysterious flower sent by her computer-whiz husband, Royan, who''s been missing for eight months. The flower turns out to be extraterrestrial--and highly evolved. Then media manipulator Clifford Jepson of Globecast attempts to peddle scientific information that''s clearly beyond current human capabilities. What''s going on? It seems that Royan, as Julia discovers, sent a probe to Jupiter to investigate possible alien microbes. Greg, meanwhile, traces the flower via its courier, the high-class whore Charlotte Fielder, who received it from a Celestial Apostle cultist aboard New London, an asteroid that Event Horizon has nudged into Earth orbit. Charlotte is horrified to learn that she''s been working for a lethal group of Russian gangsters. Finally, all the movers and shakers converge on New London for a showdown with Royan and a strange, powerful, and immensely dangerous alien. Gratifyingly complex and challenging--indeed, impossible to summarize adequately, what with battles, love stories, vendettas, imponderable aliens, and robust characters: a fine trilogy, sure, but this one''s in a class by itself. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6379'),
(19290, 'Nikon D3000 for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Professional photography advice for D3000 beginners\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Nikon D3000 is Nikon''s new entry-level camera. With the D3000, you get all the features of Nikon''s older cameras along with an updated battery, larger monitor, and improved focus features. In addition, the D3000 also offers simpler menus to help first-time DSLR users.\n</p>\n<p>\n Assuming no prior dSLR knowledge, veteran author Julie Adair King offers you a tour of the camera body, a hands-on how-to on all the features of the D3000, and a step-by-step walkthrough of how to get the photos you want.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains shooting in auto mode, reviews the new video option, and covers working with file size and quality\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through shifting out of automatic mode and using the D3000''s lighting, exposure, focus, and color features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates getting photos from your camera to your PC, developing an effective file system, and sharing photos via print, online, or other ways\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with useful tips, this helpful guide encourages you to take control of your camera.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore your camera''s creative options and learn to get great shots with your dSLR!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Congratulations â€” you''ve chosen to take greater control over your photos with a dSLR camera! Now get expert advice on making the most of your Nikon D3000. Learn how to use its many settings, how to get the best results in automatic mode, when to use the built-in flash, how to produce prints that look as good as they do on your monitor, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lenses, modes, and more â€” learn to attach and remove lenses, set the focus mode, and use all the controls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quality control â€” discover how to get the best picture quality and solve common image problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cultivate creativity â€” explore automatic Scene modes and then step up to full control with manual exposure modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Processing your pictures â€” download your images to yourcomputer, process RAW files, and organize your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share â€” find out how to get perfect prints, optimize photos for e-mailing, and create a digital slide show\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about every camera option\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Answers to common photography questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for capturing great action shots\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pro techniques for photographing people and pets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to avoid red-eye and other photo problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fun effects you can add with your camera\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use JPEG and when to use RAW\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple explanations of f-stops, shutter speed, ISO, and other photo terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1843'),
(19291, 'Nikon D300s for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The know-how you need to get the most out of your Nikon D300s\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Nikon D300s is packed with pro features at a consumer price of less than $2,000, making it a camera both pro and beginning photographers will be looking to scoop up. Newcomers to the D300s can rely on this easy-to-understand book to guide them through the essentials of the camera''s controls and how to adjust them in order to get results you want.\n</p>\n<p>\n Assuming no previous dSLR experience, veteran author Julie Adair King helps familiarize you with the features of the D300s and provides you with an overview of the camera body and automatic settings. You''ll quickly learn to apply what you''ve learned to any shooting situation.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Serves as ideal reading for newcomers to the Nikon D300s\n </li>\n <li>\n  Veteran author Julie Adair King provides you with an overview of the camera body and its controls and features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Looks at the camera''s exposure, lighting, focus, automatic settings, and color controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the retouch menu, as well as lesser-known features, so that you can get a final product worth sharing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Set your focus on learning the essentials of the Nikon D300s with this friendly guide by your side!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Harness the power of this versatile camera and maximize every feature\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Nikon D300s is known for its awesome performance in low-light conditions, its super-powerful 51-point autofocus system, and the really, really long list of ways you can customize it. This friendly guide is known for making it easy to use every one of these features. Get the scoop here, and you''ll start getting excited about what you can create!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When quality counts â€” learn when to shoot RAW and when to use JPEG or TIFF\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master exposure â€” enjoy the ease of Programmed Auto mode, then step up to shutter-priority auto, aperture-priority auto, or manual exposure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capture perfect color â€” create custom white balance settings, choose the best color space, and fine-tune colors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decipher the lingo â€” make sense of technical terms such as bit depth, compression, metadata, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Flash forward â€” take advantage of Flash Compensation, FV Lock, commander mode, and other flash options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up your camera for the way you shoot\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on controlling depth of field\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to capture action with Dynamic Area autofocus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for processing RAW files in the camera\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use dual memory card slots\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help with recording HD movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on handling tricky lighting situations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to include copyright information and text comments in picture files\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the most from every menu option\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adjust the camera controls and shooting modes to get the results you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manipulate exposure, focus, and color to suit your creative vision\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1844'),
(19292, 'Nikon D5000 for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King &amp; Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full-color guide to everything you need to get the most out of your Nikon D5000!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Nikon D5000 packs a lot of punch into a camera that beginners will love, and now you can pack an equal amount of punch into the digital photographs you take with your new Nikon. Whether you want to understand the D5000''s new exposure settings or learn photography basics such as aperture, shutter speed, and downloading photos, this book delivers.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Walks you through the new Nikon D5000''s features, including a 12.3 megapixel sensor, 19 auto-exposure modes, and a swivel viewfinder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows beginners who may be new to DSLR cameras how to take good digital photographs-from using the right settings for things like sunsets, candelight, or portraits-to downloading to your computer and printing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates beginning to advanced techniques with over 200 full-color photos, giving you plenty of great ideas of what you can accomplish\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers practical tips and ideas from two expert digital photographers and authors\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Don''t be intimidated by your new digital camera! This friendly For Dummies guide will get you up and running in no time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to use every feature of your D5000, and capture great shots every time!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if your Nikon D5000 is your first digital camera, this fun and friendly full-color guide will boost your confidence in no time! First, you''ll learn to set up your camera and use the many automatic settings. Then you''ll be ready to take creative control; use advanced modes; experiment with lighting, focus, and color; and download your photos for sharing.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start off easy â€” get acquainted with all the buttons, dials, and menus, and learn to use the automatic modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See what you''ve got â€” position the cool rotating monitor for Live View photography, movie recording, or picture playback\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right settings â€” find out which options work best for portraits, action shots, close-ups, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets exposed â€” understand the exposure trio of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and learn to use the camera''s advanced exposure features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show them off â€” download, organize, and archive your photos, and prepare them for printing, e-mail, or slide shows\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to record HD movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on using flash\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on correcting color with white balance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When and how to shoot in the RAW format\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-understand explanations of technical jargon\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Useful features of the Retouch menu\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions for getting the best prints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to understand picture data\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1845'),
(19293, 'Nikon D60 for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''ve decided to upgrade from your old point-and-shoot by purchasing the compact and economical Nikon D60, an SLR model without all the bulk. Now, make the most of your new digital camera by actually learning how to use all those options and settings! Take advantage of external controls and learn how to navigate the camera menus to fully customize internal options so that you can capture, share, and print photographs like a professional.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll find out how to understand the controls, navigate the menus, choose your settings, access internal options, and become familiar with automatic modes. You''ll learn to use the Image Quality and Image Size settings, which are necessary for both automatic and manual picture-taking. Then, you can easily express your creativity by managing aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and editing your photographs on a computer. You will download photos and print them to share with your friends and family! You will find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Master camera controls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use automatic and manual modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Change, focus, and zoom lenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjust picture quality and resolution\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manipulate exposure and lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with picture files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print and share photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten photo-retouching tricks from repairing red eye to cropping photos and ten special-purpose features you can explore on a rainy day,\n <em>\n  Nikon D60 For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to taking and sharing the pictures like a pro.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Snap up this book and start snapping super shots with your Nikon D60\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Nikon D60 gives you all the power of digital SLR photography in a compact, economical package. You don''t want to waste any of your camera''s amazing features, but if you''re new to digital photography or dSLRs, all the options can make your head swim. Here''s the fun and friendly way to get comfortable with every setting and every shooting situation! Get set up â€” find out how to work with lenses, navigate menus, and customize the camera to your shooting style\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right settings â€” find out which options work best for different subjects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take creative control â€” manage aperture, shutter speed, and other advanced features to manipulate exposure, focus, and color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review your results â€” check your images on the camera, download them, and organize them with Nikon ViewNX\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share the fun â€” print or e-mail pictures, create a slide show, or make a stop-motion movie\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A guide to your D60''s buttons and dials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-understand explanations of technical jargon\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets to getting the best picture quality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Complete coverage of every camera feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for shooting action, scenic vistas, portraits, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to shoot Raw files for ultimate picture control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten terrific retouching tricks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Flash techniques and other lighting tricks\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1846'),
(19294, 'Nikon D90 for Dummies', 'Julie Adair King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your Nikon D90 digital camera offers professional-quality features like 11-point autofocus, Live View, and the ability to shoot HD video. Take full advantage of every feature with\n <em>\n  Nikon D90 For Dummies\n </em>\n ! This fun and easy guide helps you understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this full-color book, getting great shots is a snap. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Format memory cards, use Live View, create custom settings, and change lenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use thumbnail and calendar displays and picture data, and get tips for inspecting your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with active D-lighting; and use various flash modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take control of lighting, exposure, and color\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up, shoot, and review photos using the viewscreen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record HD video, including sound, and know what your D90 can and canâ€™t do\n </li>\n <li>\n  Download, organize, and archive your images, share them in prints, e-mails, or slide shows, and use Nikonâ€™s photo management software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide when you should use JPEG and when to use NEF\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjust resolution for optimum print quality or file size\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Photographic expert Julie Adair King also shares secrets for getting the best point-and-shoot pictures, why you might\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n want to use the top image quality setting, and much more. Grab your Nikon D90 and\n <em>\n  Nikon D90 For Dummies\n </em>\n , and start shooting!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use every feature of your D90, get creative, and snap great shots!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Nikon D90 offers professional-quality features to helpyou take your photography to the next level. Take full advantageof every one with this fun and easy guide! Understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nuts and bolts â€” set up your camera, work with lenses and memory cards, and use automatic photography modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go live â€” get the scoop on using Live View mode and recording and playing HD movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain new shooting skills â€” find out how to use advanced options to capture any subject like a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exposure is everything â€” control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with Active D-Lighting; and use various flash modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Out of the camera â€” download, organize, and archive your images and share them in prints, e-mails, and slide shows\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for taking perfect portraits, dynamic action shots, and beautiful nature pics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for manipulating color and focus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed coverage of every menu option\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on which Custom Settings to use (and which ones to avoid)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose the right Image Quality setting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help with using Retouch menu options to fix problem photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-understand explanations of technical lingo\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1847'),
(19295, 'Ning for Dummies', 'Manny Hernandez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ning is a cool, free social networking platform, and you can learn how to use Ning quickly and easily with\n <em>\n  Ning For Dummies\n </em>\n . If you have a cause to promote or a passion about a topic, hereâ€™s how to explore existing networks and interact with others who share your obsession, as well as how to start one of your own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Begin by joining other networks and participating in groups. Then youâ€™ll find out how to create your own social network, develop your profile, customize your networkâ€™s look and feel, set up privacy controls, oversee participation, and manage all the details.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Investigate existing networks, see how to join private networks, and manage your profile for privacy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add photos, videos, and music files to existing networks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the comment wall, rate items from members, moderate comments on your blog, and respond to events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Start a discussion, invite people to an event, or create a group\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your network, decide if it should be public or private, research the competition, and find your niche\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose a good Web address and learn to monitor traffic with Google Analytics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Give your main page character with custom widgets and personalized features\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ning is fun, easy, and free.\n <em>\n  Ning For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to plan your network so it stands out from the crowd, manage interaction, include multimedia, and more!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create a social network on Ning and get the gang together â€” it''s free and easy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a passion about a topic or cause to promote? Ning''s the thing! Here''s how to explore and join existing networks to interact with others who share your obsession, and how to start one of your own. Learn to plan your network so it stands out from the crowd, set up a profile for your members, manage interaction, include multimedia, and more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore Ning â€” investigate the many existing networks, see how to join private networks, and manage your profile for privacy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about the media â€” learn how to add photos, videos, and music files to existing networks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Communicate â€” discover the comment wall, rate items from members, moderate comments on your blog, and respond to events\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get something going â€” start a discussion, invite people to an event, or create a group\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start networking â€” set up your network, decide if it should be public or private, research the competition, and find your niche\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add the cool stuff â€” give your main page character with custom widgets and personalized features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You''ll manage â€” a lot of things, including members'' profile pages; forums, notes, and chats; groups and events; and multimedia\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The author''s favorite Ning networks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to protect your privacy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to decide before you start creating your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for choosing a good Web address\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for promoting your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to monitor traffic with Google Analytics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to keep members coming back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use tools like the Language Editor and CSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(19296, 'nme-2011-09-10-sep', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5998'),
(19297, 'nme-2011-09-10-sep.pdf 18-09-2011', 'nme-2011-09-10-sep.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6088'),
(19298, 'No Time Left', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4126'),
(19299, 'No Trace: A Brock and Kolla Mystery', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Maitland''s gripping new police procedural to feature DCI David Brock and Det. Sgt. Kathy Kolla (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Verge Practice\n  </em>\n  ), something evil afflicts a group of artists and assorted hangers-on who live in London''s Northcote Square. When six-year-old Tracey Rudd, the daughter of the circle''s most famous artist, Gabriel Rudd, goes missing, it appears she''s the third girl to fall victim to a kidnapper. Soon two of the three girls are found, one dead and the other nearly so. As various members of this community are killed in horrible ways, Brock and Kolla dig through an intricate web of circumstances, which some readers may find too complex. Maitland, an architect who crafts his prose in accord with the dictum that God is in the details, brings the particular world he depicts unforgettably alive. No one who reads this haunting, unnerving work will ever again think about contemporary artists the same way.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Brock and Kolla mystery finds the Scotland Yard partners looking into the kidnapping of a six-year-old girl. The case is made more difficult by the fact that the girl''s father, Gabe Rudd, a renowned artist, is instantly unlikable; and by the fact that the girl''s mother died several years ago, an apparent suicide. Rudd almost immediately turned her death into a controversial work of art, and now, barely hours after his daughter was taken, he is already talking about exploiting her disappearance, too. As usual, Maitland offers up a suspenseful story and a cast of engaging characters. A solid entry in this ever-enjoyable series.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4638'),
(19300, 'Nonprofit Bookkeeping &amp; Accounting for Dummies', 'Sharon Farris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to keeping great records and keeping your nonprofit running smoothly\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to get your nonprofit books in order? This practical guide has everything you need to know to operate your nonprofit according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) â€” from documenting transactions and budgeting to filing taxes, preparing financial statements, and much more. You''ll see how to stay organized, keep records, and be prepared for an audit.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Begin with the basics â€” understand common financial terms, choose your accounting methods, and work with financial statements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Balance your nonprofit books â€” set up a chart of accounts, record transactions, plan your budget, and balance your cash flow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the 4-1-1 on federal grants â€” find grants and apply for them, track and account for federal dollars, and prepare for a grant audit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay in good standing with Uncle Sam â€” set up payroll accounts for employees, calculate taxes and deductions, and complete tax forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Close out your books â€” prepare the necessary financial statements, know which accounts to close, and prepare for the next accounting cycle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know what to do if you get audited â€” form an internal audit committee, follow IRS rules of engagement, and keep an immaculate paper trail\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between bookkeeping and accounting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to maintain a manual or computer record-keeping system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten vital things to know when keeping the books\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do''s and don''ts of managing federal grant money\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to prepare for an audit of your financial statements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   IRS Form 990 good practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most common errors found during nonprofit audits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to figure out employee payroll deductions and taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sharon Farris has been involved in the grants industry for more than ten years. She is the president of Farris Accounting &amp; Consulting Training Services (FACT$) as well as the former president of the American Association of Grant Professionals (AAGP) Montgomery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1849'),
(19301, 'Nonprofit Law &amp; Governance for Dummies', 'Jill Gilbert Welytok Jd Cpa &amp; Daniel S. Welytok Jd &amp; U. S. Senator Chuck Grassley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the number and size of nonprofit organizations continues to grow, NFPs are coming under ever-increasing government scrutiny. Soon Congress will require that nonprofits comply with rigorous accounting and governance standards very similar to those set forth for for-profits in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you work for a nonprofit and are concerned about meeting impending changes to tax and finance standards governing NFPs this book is for you. In simple, straight-forward language, this guide demystifies the often perplexing world of nonprofit governance in the age of Sarbanes-Oxley. Author, Jill Gilbert Welytok, an attorney who heads the Sarbanes-Oxley division of a major Midwest law firm, walks you step-by-step through the process of evaluating your governance structures. She arms you with tips and strategies for adopting uniform standards under current governance and tax laws, while preparing you for any upcoming changes. She shows you how to protect your tax status and reassure donors and volunteers while staying true to your organizationâ€™s mission. And she fills you in on what you need to know to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Comply with state laws and regulations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get and keep taxâ€“exempt status\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid lawsuits and other legal landmines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle the media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Anticipate future trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make sense of the Sarbanesâ€“Oxley act\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Including sample nonprofit bylaws and a complete audit committee report,\n <em>\n  Nonprofit Law &amp; Governance for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n is an indispensable survival tool for 21st century nonprofits.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes sample nonprofit bylaws and audit committee report\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Evaluate your governance structures and take the necessary steps to improve them\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Work for a nonprofit? Worried about meeting impending tax and finance standards? Have no fear â€” this friendly guide demystifies the process, giving you tips and strategies for adopting uniform standards under current governance and tax laws. You''ll see how to protect your tax status and reassure donors and volunteers while staying true to your organization''s mission.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comply with state laws and regulations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get and keep tax-exempt status\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid lawsuits and other legal landmines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle the media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Anticipate future trends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the Sarbanes-Oxley act\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1850'),
(19302, 'Nora Roberts', 'Chasing Fire (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4374'),
(19303, 'Nova Scotia, New Brunswick &amp; Prince Edward Island for Dummies', 'Andrew Hempstead', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make the most of your trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Canadian Maritimes combines beautiful scenery with warm hospitality like few other places do. With this easy-to-follow guide you''ll make sure you find everything worth seeing, from Cape Breton''s breathtaking Cabot Trail to lobster suppers in PEI, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss -- and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make the most of your trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Canadian Maritimes combines beautiful scenery with warm hospitality like few other places do. With this easy-to-follow guide you''ll make sure you find everything worth seeing, from Cape Breton''s breathtaking Cabot Trail to lobster suppers in PEI, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1851'),
(19304, 'The Novice', 'Trudi Canavan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A wonderfully and meticulously detailed world, and an edge-of- the-seat plot, this book is a must for lovers of good fantasy'' JENNIFER FALLON\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imardin is a city of dark intrigues and deadly politics, where those who wield magic wield power. Into this established order has blundered a young street-girl with extraordinary magical gifts. Adopted by the Magicians'' Guild, her life is changed forever - but for better or for worse? Sonea knew that she''d face a tough time training within the Magicians'' Guild but she little realised the level of animosity she would face from her fellow novices. The sons and daughters of the most powerful families in the realm, her classmates seem determined to see her fail - at whatever cost. But in accepting the protection of the guild''s high lord, Sonea may have embraced an even bleaker fate. For High Lord Akkarin harbours a secret that is far darker than his magician''s robes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6412'),
(19305, 'Now You See Her', 'Michael Ledwidge &amp; James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The perfect life\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she''s built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can''t let him pay for the real killer''s crimes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The perfect lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nina''s secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina''s world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The perfect way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, years later, Nina risks everything she''s earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4127'),
(19306, 'Now You See Her', 'Michael Ledwidge &amp; James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The perfect life\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she''s built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can''t let him pay for the real killer''s crimes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The perfect lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nina''s secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina''s world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The perfect way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, years later, Nina risks everything she''s earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4395'),
(19307, 'NUMA 1 - Serpent', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6132'),
(19308, 'NUMA 2 - Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6133'),
(19309, 'NUMA 3 - Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6136'),
(19310, 'NUMA 4 - White Death', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6137'),
(19311, 'NUMA 5 - Lost City', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6138'),
(19312, 'NUMA 6 - Polar Shift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6139'),
(19313, 'NUMA 7 - The Navigator', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6143'),
(19314, 'NUMA 8 - Medusa', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6144');
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(19315, 'Numbered Account', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Through the eyes of Christopher Reich, dive into the corrupt world of international high finance. In his debut novel, Reich offers a realistic and gritty "day-in-the-life" perspective on working in the world''s financial mecca. For Nick Neumann, an ex-marine turned Harvard MBA with a gorgeous fiancÃ©e and an elite position at Morgan Stanley, life is good--until his mother''s untimely death opens old wounds and rehashes questions regarding his father''s unsolved murder. Nick wants the truth and is willing to sacrifice his career, love, and future for a crack at untangling the mystery surrounding his father''s death. To do this, he takes a job at the prestigious United Swiss Bank, the venerable financial cornerstone of Geneva and his father''s former employer. Before he can begin his investigation, however, disturbing events come into play: One portfolio manager is dead, another had a "nervous breakdown," and his training manager is jumping ship to cast accounts with their staunch enemy. All of the managers have one thing in common: they each oversaw a multimillion-dollar numbered account owned by the mysterious Pasha. If that isn''t enough, the DEA steps in and orders Nick to serve up Pasha on a silver platter. Being the embodiment of American ideals, Nick takes matters into his own hands and is caught in a ruthless conspiracy that stretches around the world and into his personal life. Peppered with murder, revenge, and first-rate espionage,\n  <em>\n   Numbered Account\n  </em>\n  is a thinking person''s thriller, a refreshing break from the old standbys.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Delacorte is definitely banking on this first novel, with domestic and foreign rights already sold. Featuring the ever-intriguing Swiss banking system of numbered accounts, Reich''s thriller focuses on the ethical issues of the origin and funding activities of huge "anonymous" sums. Enter ex-Marine Nicholas Neumann, who arrives at United Swiss Bank, his father''s employer, to solve his murder 17 years ago when Nick was a child. Nick''s quest throws him into an international web of hostile takeovers, drugs, and arms sales (including a nuclear weapon). A potential problem is the stereotypic portrayal of the primary villain as a ruthless Muslim. The novel is definitely a male fantasy, for after he conquers all, Neumann returns to the States to reclaim the fiancee who dropped him when he left for Zurich. This has almost all the elements of a best seller: murder, exotic locales, high finance, and danger, but there is surprisingly little sex; does the violence substitute? For public libraries with a large demand for thrillers.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Rebecca Sturm Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib, Highland Heights\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6353'),
(19316, 'Nutrition for Dummies', 'Carol Ann Rinzler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Health reporter Carol Ann Rinzler has produced a comprehensive volume ideal for both occasional reference and a more in-depth introduction to nutrition.\n <em>\n  Nutrition for Dummies\n </em>\n discusses vitamins, minerals, fat content, carbohydrates, and more, prescribing practical ways to incorporate more nutritious eating into everyday life. Particularly helpful is the nutrient chart in the back of the book, which includes extensive nutritional information (gleaned from the USDA Nutrient Database) about hundreds of foods and instructions for accessing the entire database via the Web.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...excellent fad-free, essential and accurate advice..." (Prizes Galore, Dec 05)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a definitive guide for anyone who cares about what they eat..." (Doncaster Advertiser, 2nd December 2005)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a very useful reference...everything you need to know about the subject..." (Newark Advertiser, 6th January 06)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...presents you with all the latest myth-busting research..." (Doncaster Advertiser, 02/12/05)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...the reference no kitchen should be without..." (England Weekly News, 7th January 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...fast becoming the reference no kitchen should be without...ignores every fad going and instead concentrates on giving accurate advice to help readers navigate the world of food..." (Scotland''s Weekly News, January 27th 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...an invaluable guide to navigating the maze of fashionable diets...provides solid, scientifically-based, easy to follow advice..." (Choice Magazine, Feb 06)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...it''s finally here...a great read for both beginners and experts..." (_Natural Products Magazine_, April 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n "....continues the brand''s tradition of making knowledge accessible and fun, making food selection foolproof for those of us who are fed up with the fads..." (_Pride_, April 2006)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1852'),
(19317, 'Nuts - 07 October 2011', '07 October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10564'),
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(19319, 'Nuts 05-2011', 'Nuts Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2519'),
(19320, 'Nuts 06-2011', 'Nuts Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(19321, 'Nuts 08-09-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4662'),
(19322, 'Nuts 08-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3671'),
(19323, 'Nuts 09-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3831'),
(19324, 'Nuts 13-08-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3516'),
(19325, 'Nuts 14-09-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6058'),
(19326, 'Nuts 29-09-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7028'),
(19327, 'Nuts and Volts', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6819'),
(19328, 'Nuts And Volts 08-2011', 'Nuts &amp; Volts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3081'),
(19329, 'Nuts UK - 14 October 2011', '14 October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10652'),
(19330, 'Nuts UK - 21 October 2011', '21 October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10772'),
(19331, 'Nuts UK 09-2011', 'Nuts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4546'),
(19332, 'Nuts.and.Volts-October.2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6839'),
(19333, 'Nylon-2011-10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7219'),
(19334, 'o ed1b4842c46f0324', 'Anders Roslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4064'),
(19335, 'Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Dummies', 'Charles H. Elliott Phd &amp; Laura L. Smith Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arguably one of the most complex emotional disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is surprisingly common. Furthermore, most people at some time in their lives exhibit a smattering of OCD-like symptoms.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies\n </em>\n sorts out the otherwise curious and confusing world of obsessive compulsive disorder. Engaging and comprehensive, it explains the causes of OCD and describes the rainbow of OCD symptoms. The book shows readers whether OCD symptoms represent normal and trivial concerns (for example, a neat freak) or something that should be checked out by a mental health professional (for example, needing to wash hands so often that they become raw and red). In easy to understand steps, the authors lay out the latest treatments that have been proven to work for this disorder, and provide practical and real tools for living well long-term. Whether you or someone you care about has this disorder,\n <em>\n  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you an empathic understanding of this fascinating yet treatable mental disorder.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Understand OCD, get the help you need, and start feeling better\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you â€” or is someone you love â€” struggling with OCD? This reassuring, comprehensive guide explains this disorder in clear language, providing the latest information on treatment to help you in the journey from diagnosis to recovery. You''ll find the motivation you need to change, tips for handling day-to-day life, and the best ways to offer support to loved ones.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the ins and outs of OCD â€” its causes, various forms, symptoms, and the major approaches to treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your way of thinking â€” connect the dots between triggers, thoughts, and feelings, and dismantle OCD beliefs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Undo OCD behavior â€” identify your fears, open yourself to change, delay or alter rituals, and handle setbacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate medications â€” discover the pros and cons, explore the options, and know when to combine, decrease, or stop medications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage the OCD mind â€” accept negative thoughts and feelings and connect with the here and now\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Target specific symptoms â€” from doubting and checking to symmetry and counting to shame and superstitious thinking, apply techniques for overcoming various types of OCD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assist others with OCD â€” recognize symptoms in children and find professional help, support family and friends, and reinforce the right things\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plain-English explanations of the disorder and its symptoms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between obsessions and compulsions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to change OCD thinking and behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose the right mental-health professional\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest scientifically based research on treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools to help track progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The warning signs of relapse and how to handle it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on treating OCD-related disorders\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1853'),
(19336, 'Of Mice and Men', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California''s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie''s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(19337, 'Office 2003 Application Development All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Richard Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the new features in Office 2003 and demonstrates how developers can best exploit them. Many of these features are designed to improve workflow and facilitate better communication between workersâ€” just the sort of goals that Office developers work to achieve. For example, InfoPath simplifies interaction with all kinds of data sourcesâ€” everything from unformatted lists to legacy databases. SharePoint assists developers in building an automated collaborative environment.Underlying many of the improvements in Office 2003 is XML, and related technologies such as Web services. This book explains precisely how to take advantage of XML''s promise with many simple, no-nonsense examples. Readers will understand exactly how to leverage their current work and communication patterns using the new and powerful data sharing techniques available in Office 2003. Businesses understand the importance of remaining competitive. This book shows developers how to make the most of Office''s tools and technologies. All the innovations in Office 2003 are fully explained, employing the famous For Dummies approach: clear explanations, step-by-step examples, and lots of practical advice. The book will be filled with real-world examples including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating an office document collaboration manager\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automating email routing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Administering the Task Pane from within an application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building a distributed business system using Web services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1, plus companion Web site with source code!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to taking Office 2003 to the next level\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So youâ€™re an Office programmer, experienced user, IT professional, or developer. You know thereâ€™s lots of power in Office 2003 youâ€™re not using. Help is on the way! This handy one-stop reference walks you through creating cool VBA programs, using the great new Office features, and moving up to VB.NET Office programming.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assign macros to toolbars and shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage shared documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Power VBA with wizards and add-ins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Trap errors within your code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide analytic content in Excel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create custom controls\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1854'),
(19338, 'Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wouldnâ€™t it be a waste to go on a spectacular, exotic vacation abroad and just hang out at the hotel pool? Wouldnâ€™t it be a waste to buy a new iPod, download four favorite songs, and play them over and over?\n</p>\n<p>\n Most people with Office 2003 are wasting a lot of software power and a lot of time. They do the same routine things in the same routine ways and havenâ€™t begun to explore the capabilities of Office 2003. If youâ€™re one of them,\n <em>\n  Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you out of your rut and into action. It provides over 70 timesaving techniques for Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint. (Most of the tips work with Office 2000 and Office XP, too.) Youâ€™ll customize Office to meet your needs and start working like a pro in no time with easy-to-use tricks, tips, and techniques for:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Streamlining your toolbars (Word alone has dozens to choose from)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up Outlook, searching with folders, organizing with flags, and dealing with spam\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking proper security measures, including using and updating an antivirus package and avoiding potentially dangerous file extensions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing and laying out impressive Word documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Diving into more advanced Office skills such as writing macros, setting up templates, and using multimedia with PowerPoint\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Excel to build self-verifying spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Running totals and subtotals in Access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combining applications to print holiday greetings and run an electronic newsletter\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Woody Leonhard, author of\n <em>\n  Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n and the bestseller\n <em>\n  Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies,\n </em>\n this guides helps you eliminate extra steps and little annoyances\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n do things you probably didnâ€™t know you could do, such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Building e-mail stationery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculating sales tax with the Lookup Wizard\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making professional labels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encrypting messages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recording narration for PowerPoint presentations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with an index that lets you find what you want,\n <strong>\n  fast\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you get up to speed and down to work. After all, times a-wastin!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find tips that work with Office 2000 and Office XP, too!\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 70 techniques that help you save time byâ€¦\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Keeping Office streamlined and secure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organizing OutlookÂ® in a flash\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintaining a virus-free inbox\n </li>\n <li>\n  Crafting smart and handy Access reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating presentations with panache\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building flexible and accurate spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Laying out Word documents like a pro\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tricks and tips for working smarter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contents arranged by technique\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice that goes beyond the basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(19339, 'Office 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Revised and updated to cover changes to all of Office''s applications and productivity tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers beyond-the-basics coverage of Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, databases, and desktop publishing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, productivity tools such as Microsoft OneNote, and SharePoint\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thoroughly updated to cover the new Office interface as well as new features in each application\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1Â â€” your key to Office 2007 success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to solving Office problems and getting work accomplished.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Office 2207 gives you a set of tools for managing documents and data, analyzing numbers, organizing your e-mail and schedule, building presentations, and designing publications - and this book covers them all! Get the scoop on all the Office programs, find out how to supercharge your productivity by using them together, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proofread text in Word\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Crunch numbers in Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Corral data with Access\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Subdue junk mail with Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pack punch into your presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Publish brochures and newsletters\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(19340, 'Office 2007 for Dummies', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...I found it a very useful book and intend keeping it on the corner of my desk." (ARP Webbers Newsletter, Winter Edition)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find and use the features you need right away\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create great documents, Excel charts, and slide shows, and organize your e-mail\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s new at the Office? A lot, and this book takes you through all the cool changes and enhancements so you can rev up and go. Find your way around the new interface, dress up your documents, create spreadsheets that actually make sense, give presentations that wow your audience, and organize your life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Locate commands on the Ribbon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Live Preview\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stop spam with Outlook(r)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format and enhance Word documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Excel(r) formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Store and find data in Access\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1857'),
(19341, 'Office 2008 for Mac All-In-One for Dummies', 'Geetesh Bajaj &amp; Jim Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The perfect companion for taking the Microsoft Office suite to the Mac!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you finally got a Mac, but youâ€™re not looking forward to figuring out how Office works in a different environment? No worries! All you need is\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n to learn the fundamentals of Office 2008_._ With six books in one, it shows you how to use every Office 2008 for Mac application, so you can start getting things done right away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by Microsoft MVPs,\n <em>\n  Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n provides a user-friendly guide on how to master all the programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage. This book explores ways to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create your own templates on Excel and open Web pages in HTML format\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of PowerPoint by adding animation to your slides, inserting music from your iTunes library, and fine-tuning the timing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your schedule on My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a databaseâ€”all through Entourage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage projects of all sizes on the Project Center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all the applications together, and to their full potential\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this all-in-one reference, youâ€™ll become an expert on sharing files with Windows users, integrating Office 2008 with iLife and other Mac applications, and working with Office and Web 2.0, as well as other common business tasks. This book makes it that easy!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tap into all the tools\n</p>\n<p>\n in Office 2008 for Mac â€”\n</p>\n<p>\n this book makes it easy!\n</p>\n<p>\n New to Office 2008? Migrating from Windows to Mac? This complete reference is just what you need! It shows you how to use every Office 2008 application so you can start getting things done right away. Explore the Project Gallery, learn how the applications work together, excel at Excel, present with power, manage your life with Entourage, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the suite â€” use the new galleries that help you quickly find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A gallery of projects â€” see how the Project Gallery serves as a hub for finding and opening documents, projects, or documents within a project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In a Word â€” discover the extra functionality of Word''s built-in Notebook and Publishing layouts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Excel revealed â€” explore ledger sheets, learn how Excel can open Web pages in HTML format, and create your own templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put the power in PowerPoint â€” use the View, add transitions, insert music from your iTunes library, and fine-tune timing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You have an Entourage â€” get organized with My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the Project Center â€” manage projects of all sizes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The tools and features common to all the Office 2008 apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool ways to use the Project Center\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on making the most of the new interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Word streamlines your word processing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to get control of Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add animation to your PowerPoint presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful hints for using Entourage Rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice about sharing and collaborating on projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1858'),
(19342, 'Office 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The leading book on Microsoft Office, now fully updated for Office 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Microsoft Office, the world''s leading productivity suite, has been updated with new tools. Veteran Office users as well as newcomers will need the comprehensive information in this bestselling All-in-One guide.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a self-contained minibook devoted to each Office application plus minibooks on how Office works together and how you can expand its usefulness,\n <em>\n  Office 2010 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you up to speed and answers the questions you''ll have down the road.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Microsoft Office is the office productivity suite used around the globe; nearly every business worker encounters it daily\n </li>\n <li>\n  The 2010 revision will affect all applications in the suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eight minibooks cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, common Office tools, and ways to expand Office productivity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers the new online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as changes to the interface and new tools and techniques\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Office 2010 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy to learn to use Office and gets you up and running on all the changes and enhancements in Office 2010.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Welcome to Office 2010! Here''s where you get up to speed on all the applications â€” right now!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to get your work done better and faster with Office 2010, this book is for you. Whether you''re new to Office or need help navigating Office 2010''s interface and new features, you''ll find the answers, how-to information, advice, shortcuts, and tips right here. And you''ll learn how the tools work together to make you more productive!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   They''re a team â€” explore commands and features common to all the Office programs plus techniques to boost your productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with Word â€” create letters, reports, newsletters, mass mailings, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your Outlook â€” manage your e-mail, track tasks, keep an address book and calendar, and organize your life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your Point across â€” build livelier, more original PowerPoint presentations and even improve your delivery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Excel at number crunching â€” design spreadsheets that are easy to understand, use data-validation rules, and analyze data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Access your information â€” discover all the ways you can build and use an Access database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your own Publisher â€” turn out great brochures, pamphlets, and other publications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step beyond â€” check out the extra programs and customize your Office\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The common tools you''ll find in all Office applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear instructions for revising and collaborating on documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on building tables, charts, and diagrams in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Word''s tools for creating scholarly reports and white papers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on scheduling events with Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of memorable PowerPoint presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to build an Access database from scratch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for creating newsletters in Publisher\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(19343, 'Office 2010 for Dummies', 'Wallace Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest edition of one of the bestselling Microsoft Office books of all time!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Spend less time figuring out Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access and more time working on actual projects with this new edition of\n <em>\n  Office 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n . Filled with straightforward, friendly instruction, this book gets you thoroughly up to speed, and it actually makes doing Office work fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n First learn all the basics, then how to add more bells and whistles, including how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add sound to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Helps you harness the power of Microsoft Office 2010 and all of its new functionality; the book covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains and instructs in the straightforward, friendly, For Dummies style that makes instruction more accessible and skill-building easier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers typing and formatting text in Word and spicing up your documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to navigate and edit an Excel spreadsheet, create formulas, and chart and analyze Excel data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation and add color, sound, and pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores Outlook, including configuring e-mail, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Be ready to take full advantage of Microsoft Office 2010 with this fun and easy guide.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take control of your Office and get more done today â€” learn how, here and now!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Office is calling! And you''re in luck, because this helpful guide walks you step-by-step through the various parts of the Office suite. In no time you''ll be mastering the Ribbon interface, working with Word, crunching numbers with Excel, making your point with PowerPoint, organizing your life with Outlook, and using Access like a pro.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where is . . . â€” easily find the commands you need to complete the job on the Ribbon interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go backstage â€” see how to save files, open and close them, find recently used files, and more with Backstage View\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Let''s share â€” use the Office Clipboard to store up to 24 items for sharing among Office programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tinker with text â€” create and save Word documents, change fonts, add headers, and format your stuff\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Formula for success â€” learn to set up an Excel spreadsheet, enter data, and create formulas to manipulate the data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Present with power â€” define and create a PowerPoint presentation with charts, graphics, movies, and sound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You''ve got e-mail â€” master it and the calendars, contacts, and task lists in Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Delightful databases â€” store, sort, retrieve, analyze, and print important data using Access\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for entering, manipulating, and saving data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize Office 2010 programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on using Office 2010''s built-in photo editing tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on stopping spam with Outlook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details about storing contacts and scheduling appointments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool design tips for dressing up your Word documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to chart and analyze data in Excel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for punching up your PowerPoint presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create great documents and slide show presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit spreadsheets, create formulas, and analyze data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure e-mail settings, manage your calendar, and design Access databases\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1860'),
(19344, 'Oil Painting for Dummies', 'Anita Giddings &amp; Anita Marie Giddings &amp; Sherry Stone Clifton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach that starts you off on the right foot, helps you build your skills one at a time, and gives you plenty of exercises to develop your craft. Thatâ€™s what youâ€™ll find in\n <em>\n  Oil Painting For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Completely free of arty jargon, this full-color guide has all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. Youâ€™ll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create stunning compositions. Youâ€™ll also find everything you need to know about oil paints, solvents, and pigments; brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces; and how to keep costs down at the art supply store. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right supplies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your studio and care for your equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle your materials safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop your design and composition skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make practice sketches and studies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use broken stroke, dry brush, glazing, scraffito and other brush strokes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Try out different compositions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix any color you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tricky still-life subjects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint landscapes and common objects out doors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint portraits and the human form\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with handy color chart, basic materials list, and a very useful viewing square,\n <em>\n  Oil Painting For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to discover your inner artist!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with FULL COLOR, easy-to-complete projects\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to discover your inner artist through oil painting!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you always wanted to paint with oil? Now you can! This friendly guide gives you all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. You''ll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create the right composition. And you''ll practice your new skills by painting a variety of subjects, from portraits to still lifes to landscapes.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right supplies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your design and\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   composition skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice sketches and brush strokes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up your studio and care\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   for your equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work on a variety of compositions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1861'),
(19345, 'OK 10-31-11', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10814'),
(19346, 'ok-2011-10-17-oct', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10629'),
(19347, 'OK! Magazine - 24 October 2011', '24 October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10694'),
(19348, 'The Old Stone House and Other Stories', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3930'),
(19349, 'The Old Wives&#39; Tale', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4232'),
(19350, 'On Old Age', 'Marcus Tullius Cicero', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What then is the purpose of such a long disquisition on Maximus? It is because you now see that an old age like his cannot conscientiously be called unhappy. Yet it is after all true that everybody cannot be a Scipio or a Maximus, with stormings of cities, with battles by land and sea, with wars in which they themselves commanded, and with triumphs to recall. Besides this there is a quiet, pure, and cultivated life which produces a calm and gentle old age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(19351, 'On the Future of Our Educational Institutions', 'Friedrich Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grenkeâ€™s superb edition ... makes [a] most important early work available.... Grenkeâ€™s translation sets new standard of fidelity to Nietzscheâ€™s thought. --\n  <em>\n   Susan Shell, Boston College\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new translation happily makes them readily available at long last to English-speaking readers. --\n  <em>\n   Richard Schacht, University of Illinois\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Friedrich Nietzsche, widely regarded as one of the first existentialist philosophers, needs no introduction to any avid philosophy reader. His works have inspired people from all walks of life all over the world, regardless of culture and occupation. On the Future of Our Educational Institutions is a call for a radical re-examining and reform of the education system in the quest for classical values and education. This series of lectures marks an important milestone in the development of Nietzsche''s thoughts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(19352, 'On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A facsimile of the 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin''s classic work, On the Origin of Species.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(19353, 'On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 1)', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <h1>\n  1 Paperback Bestseller, September 2003 --\n  <em>\n   Independent Mystery Booksellers Association\n  </em>\n </h1>\n <p>\n  A great beginning to a new series...Clare is a well-conceived character...and [her] investigation is very methodical. A fast, one-sitting read... --\n  <em>\n   The Mystery Reader\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hilarious blend of amateur detecting with some romance thrown in the mix...I can''t wait to read the [entire] series. --\n  <em>\n   Cozy Library\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The setting is wonderful...Clare is a character [who is] honest but never brutal and her intelligence is what shines through. --\n  <em>\n   Cozies, Capers &amp; Crimes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The perfect cup of coffee is a mystifying thing. To many of my customers, the entire process seems like some sort of alchemy they dare not try at home...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten years ago, Clare Cosi left an unhappy marriage along with a job she loved: managing the historic Village Blend coffeehouse in New York''s Greenwich Village. For a decade, she was happy raising her daughter in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey; but now that Joy is grown and gone, life has gotten way too quiet for Clare. With a little cajoling from Madame, the Blend''s flamboyant, elderly owner, Clare agrees to return to her old job, and right from the start she gets one heck of a jolt. On her first morning back as Village Blend manager, Clare unlocks the front door to find her beautiful, young assistant manager unconscious in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. As Anabelle is rushed to the hospital, police arrive to investigate, but Detective Mike Quinn finds no sign of forced entry or foul play, and he deems it an accident. Clare disagrees; and after Quinn leaves, there are a few questions she just can''t get out of her mind, like why was the trash bin in the wrong place? If this wasn''t an accident, are her other baristas in danger? And are all NYPD detectives this attractive?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6236'),
(19354, 'Once Upon The River Love', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A novel of love and growing up by AndreÃ¯ Makine, whose bestselling Dreams of My Russian Summerswas hailed by the Los Angeles Timesas one of the "best autobiographical books of the century."  In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya. In the early years of the century the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and the pendulum of history had reduced it by the 1970s to no more than a cluster of izbas. As wars and revolution had succeeded one another, the men had gone away, never to return, the women reduced to dressing in black.  But for three young men-the handsome young Alyosha, the crippled Utkin, and the older, dashing Samurai-little is needed to construct their own special universe. Despite the harshness of the environment and their meager resources, the three adolescents form a tight band of friendship and dream of another life, a world of passion and love. The warm lights of the Transsiberian train passing through give them fleeting glimpses of that other world. And when they learn one day that a Western film is being shown at the Red October Theatre in the closest real city, Nerlug, twenty miles away on the mighty Amur River, they trek for hours on snowshoes to see it. Through that film, starring the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and replete with gorgeous women whom he succeeds in seducing one after the other with consummate ease, the boys'' lives are changed forever. Over the next several months they travel seventeen times to see their hero. And when that film is replaced by another that is equally daring and seductive, their obsession only grows.  Written from the perspective of twenty years after these youthful events, Once Upon the River Lovefollows the destinies of these three young idealists up to the present day, to the boardwalks of Brighton Beach and the jungles of Central America.  With the same mastery of plot and prose that marked the author''s Dreams of My Russian Summers,this novel demonstrates AndreÃ¯ Makine''s remarkable ability to recreate the past with such precision and beauty that the present becomes all the more poignant and moving.  Once Upon the River Loveoffers further proof that AndreÃ¯ Makine is one of the major literary talents of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4080'),
(19355, 'One Day', 'David Nicholls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate livesâ€”lives very different from the people they once dreamed they''d become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayâ€”July 15thâ€”of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4128'),
(19356, 'One Day', 'David Nicholls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate livesâ€”lives very different from the people they once dreamed they''d become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayâ€”July 15thâ€”of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4394');
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(19357, 'One False Move', 'Alez Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly  Nebraskan suspense author Kava takes a break from her successful series featuring FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell (At the Stroke of Madness; Split Second) with this psychological thriller about the fallout from an abortive bank robbery. The principal players are Jared Barnett, just released by his shady attorney''s machinations from a life sentence for murder; his docile sister, Melanie Starks; and her 17-year-old son, Charlie, to whom Jared is a father figure. Just as their lives seem to be approaching normalcy, Jared scopes out a bank heist and bullies his sister and nephew into helping him. Mel is designated driver in the high-risk chase that begins right after Jared and Charlie, empty-handed, flee the bank. In a remote state park cabin, Andrew Kane, a writer, happens to be alone when they appear and Mel, shocked, learns from his TV that four people were killed in the holdup. Then she remembers the childhood that she and Jared were cheated out of-a mother who washed down pills with vodka while their father mercilessly beat the children until Jared took matters into his own hands. Victims accumulate as fast as the escape route changes, while abbreviated chapters and truncated dialogue signal the approaching explosive climax. This is a one-night read with some unexplained loose ends that won''t bother readers hooked on hair-raising car chases and gruesome murder scenes.  Review  "An explosive climax." â€“ Publishers Weekly  Since the first page of her debut novel, A Perfect Evil, Alex Kava has had her fans literally on the edge of their seats. Nail-biting tension, thrilling suspense and labyrinthine twists and turns of plot are her stock in trade â€“ and all feature strongly in her latest thriller, One False Move. Jared Barnett is out of jail after serving five years for murder, released only through the machinations of a crooked lawyer. Barnett is seething with rage for those years he spent behind bars, and he is planning the crime to end all crimes. But he needs help, and who better to be roped in as an accomplice than his loyal sister, Melanie, with whom he shares a dreadful secret? In the intervening years, Melanie has carved some sort of living as a single parent, struggling to bring up her beloved son Charlie through a mixture of odd jobs and petty crime. Jared''s reappearance threatens to bring down her fragile little world, but she has no option â€“ her loyalty to him goes way back, and some debts can never be repaidâ€¦ But only hours after the attempted robbery, Jared, Melanie and Charlie are fleeing for their lives, leaving behind a trail of bodies and picking up a terrified hostage on the way. Crime writer, Andrew Kane, knows only too well what goes on inside a psychopath''s head â€“ and he knows that Jared will only keep him alive as long as he has a use for him. As the hours go by and the police close in, Kane realises he is becoming a liability; can he use his experience of the criminal mind to get Charlie and Melanie on his side before Jared decides it''s just too risky keeping him alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4053'),
(19358, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃ­a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is typical of Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of\n  <em>\n   One Hundred Years of Solitude\n  </em>\n  , BuendÃ­a, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the BuendÃ­a house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta''s chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano JosÃ©, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ãšrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.\n   <br />\n   "Holy Mother of God!" Ãšrsula shouted.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃ­a and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor''s name: his sons, JosÃ© Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano JosÃ©, Aureliano Segundo, and JosÃ© Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Ãšrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then\n  <em>\n   One Hundred Years of Solitude\n  </em>\n  does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow''s outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez''s magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃ­a has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man''s shade that it haunts BuendÃ­a''s house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. BuendÃ­a''s wife, Ãšrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   One Hundred Years of Solitude\n  </em>\n  Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "_One Hundred Years of Solitude_ is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man...Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." -- _William Kennedy,\n  <em>\n   _New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fecund, savage, irresistible...in all their loves, madness, and wars, their alliances, compromises, dreams and deaths...The characters rear up large and rippling with life against the green pressure of nature itself." -- _Paul West,\n  <em>\n   _Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man." --\n  <em>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race." --\n  <em>\n   William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(19359, 'One of My Sons', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4027'),
(19360, 'One Summer', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.\n <strong>\n  ONE SUMMER\n </strong>\n It''s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie''s death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie''s childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4377'),
(19361, 'Online Education for Dummies', 'Kevin Johnson &amp; Susan Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From admission to graduation-your personal guide to studying online\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Online Education For Dummies\n </em>\n explains the ins and outs of attending a virtual classroom, and provides you with the tools you need to hone your skills or obtain additional certification and degrees. This practical reference not only helps you get the most out of an online course, but also offers a wealth of advice to help you pick the one that matches your interests and needs.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identifies the software and hardware needed to study online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals how to get financial aid, transfer credits, and manage online time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to locate legitimate online programs and avoid scams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to earn a degree or just increase your knowledge through an online course, Online Education For Dummies is the only guide you need.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover the ins and outs of online education\n</p>\n<p>\n Welcome to the world of online education! Regardless of your age or experience, taking courses online is a popular and convenient way to earn a degree or certification from the comfort of your home computer. Online Education For Dummies is jam-packed with everything you need to find a program, apply for admission, and be a star student.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online education 101 â€” get an overview of online education and the technology and computer skills needed for success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Click your way from campus to campus â€” find a program that works for you and get easy-to-follow guidance on applying for admission and securing financial aid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tour the virtual classroom â€” learn how to navigate the online classroom and get advice on interacting with your virtual instructors and classmates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop online studying habits â€” discover best practices for being a good student, from setting aside study time to juggling the demands of work and family and everything in between\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand netiquette and ethical behavior â€” learn how to communicate effectively and politely, work well in online groups, and properly cite your work\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on deciding whether online education is best for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online security measures to protect your privacy and assure your safety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance for evaluating online schools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on registering for courses and attending orientation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for completing and success-fully submitting assignments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transition strategies to follow after you complete your course or program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Course options and guidelines for children, international students, and students with disabilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1862'),
(19362, 'Only Mine', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Warm, funny, and sexy, this lighthearted yet touching page-turner is a satisfying, rewarding read and the â€˜ perfect'' beginning for Mallery''s Fool''s Gold series." - Library JournalÂ  on Chasing Perfect\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book brims with quick-witted, good-natured characters... [the] romance grows poignantly and with chemistry to spare."\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Publishers Weekly on Chasing Perfect\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "...an abundance of warmth, caring and romantic passion. Guaranteed to touch your heart!" - RT Book Reviews on Almost Perfect\n</p>\n<p>\n Best Books of 2010! Finding Perfect was selected by Amazon editors as one of the Top Ten Romance Novels of 2010.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t win if you don''t play...\n</p>\n<p>\n Her town''s lack of men may make headlines, but it isn''t news to Dakota Hendrix. The beautiful blonde has bigger problems to deal with, such as overseeing the romance reality competition filming in Fool''s Gold. Screening eligible bachelors is a difficult enough task, but Dakota hits an unexpected snag when a sexy stranger comes to town.\n</p>\n<p>\n Finn Anderssen will do anything to keep his twin brothersâ€” the perfect contestantsâ€” off the show. Despite Dakota''s better judgment, she finds herself drawn to the mysterious outsider. Like her, Finn knows about heartbreak and how a family can fall apart, so she doesn''t dare to hope for anything more than a fling. After all, even in the Land of Happy Endings, finding true love is never as easy as it looks on TV.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4378'),
(19363, 'OpenOffice.org for Dummies', 'Gurdy Leete &amp; Ellen Finkelstein &amp; Mary Leete', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Uses the straightforward For Dummies style to show Linux and Windows users how to use the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  OpenOffice.org has a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites and works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to download, install, and set up both the Linux and Windows versions of OpenOffice.org\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organized by the four key desktop applications provided in the OpenOffice.org suite: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), and Draw (graphics)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Other topics covered include creating and formatting documents with Writer, using templates and styles, creating spreadsheets with Calc, manipulating spreadsheet data, creating a presentation with Impress, and creating and editing images with Draw\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Start using this free and easy productivity suite today\n</p>\n<p>\n Draft and print documents, design cool presentations, create detailed spreadsheets, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Ready to leave your other Office? Open this friendly guide and find out how OpenOffice.org opens up your options! You can collect your thoughts in Writer documents, crunch numbers with Calc spreadsheets, draw great graphics, and create presentations that will really impress â€˜em.\n</p>\n<p>\n All this on the bonus CD-ROM\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Full versions for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use OpenOffice.org with other office suites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format and edit documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage data in spreadsheets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and create Web pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put together picture-perfect presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and edit graphics\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1863'),
(19364, 'Operating Systems In Depth', 'Thomas W. Doeppner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7200'),
(19365, 'Operating.Systems.-.A.concept-based.approach.pdf 13-08-2011', 'Operating.Systems.-.A.concept-based.approach.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3513'),
(19366, 'Oprah Magazine - Sept 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10695'),
(19367, 'Oracle 11g for Dummies', 'Chris Zeis &amp; Chris Ruel &amp; Michael Wessler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you a seasoned system administrator charged with setting up an Oracle database? Or did you suddenly become a DBA by default? If database administration with Oracle is part of your job, youâ€™ll be glad to have\n <em>\n  Oracle 11g For Dummies\n </em>\n in your cubicle.\n</p>\n<p>\n This nuts-and-bolts guide walks you through the mysteries of Oracle and database administration. Youâ€™ll learn how to understand Oracle database architecture, set up and manage an Oracle database, and keep it running in tiptop form.\n <em>\n  Oracle 11g For Dummies\n </em>\n covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The building blocks behind the database engine as well as Oracleâ€™s physical and logical structures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hardware, software, system, and storage requirements for implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to recognize and accommodate the differences between Oracle installations on Windows and on Linux/UNIX\n </li>\n <li>\n  Daily and intermittent tasks necessary to keep your database running properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to assess potential threats to your database, configure Oracle Recovery Manager, and set up backup and recovery procedures\n </li>\n <li>\n  When to use online, offline, controlfile, and archivelog backups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshooting methodology and how to use Oracle database logs and other diagnostic utilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different ways to manage your database\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to automate jobs with the Oracle Scheduler\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using SQL in Oracle, and a great deal more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Completely up to date for the newest release of Oracle,\n <em>\n  Oracle 11g For Dummies\n </em>\n will give you both the information and the confidence to set up and maintain an Oracle database for your organization.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grow wise about Oracle and get going with the leading database software!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you a seasoned system administrator charged with setting up an Oracle database? Or did you suddenly become a DBA by default? Either way, this book will guide you through the mysteries of Oracle and database administration. Here are the nuts and bolts of creating an Oracle database, implementing it, and keeping it running in tiptop form.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build it â€” learn the building blocks behind the database engine and understand Oracle''s physical and logical structures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for takeoff â€” review the hardware, software, system, and storage requirements for implementation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your environment â€” recognize and accommodate the differences between Oracle installations on Windows and on Linux/UNIX\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Defend it â€” assess potential threats to your database, configure Oracle Recovery Manager, and create backup and recovery procedures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintain it â€” know the daily and intermittent tasks necessary to keep your database running properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Head off trouble â€” implement the system troubleshooting methodology, use Oracle database logs, and explore other diagnostic utilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage it â€” monitor with Oracle Enterprise Manager\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Two ways to manage your database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What tablespaces are and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to automate jobs with the Oracle Scheduler\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common installation tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use SQL in Oracle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use online, offline, control file, and archive log backups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Database encryption options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advantages of the Flashback database\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1864'),
(19368, 'Oracle PL/SQL for Dummies', 'Michael Rosenblum &amp; Paul Dorsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find tips for creating efficient PL/SQL code\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  If you know a bit about SQL, this book will make PL/SQL programming painless!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Oracle has spokenâ€”you need to get up to speed on PL/SQL programming, right? We predict it''ll be a breeze with this book! You''ll find out about code structures, best practices, and code naming standards, how to use conditions and loops, where to place PL/SQL code in system projects, ways to manipulate data, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Write efficient, easy-to-maintain code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test and debug PL/SQL routines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate SQL and PL/SQL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply PL/SQL best practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use new features introduced in Oracle 9i and 10g\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find tips for creating efficient PL/SQL code\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  If you know a bit about SQL, this book will make PL/SQL programming painless!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The Oracle has spoken â€” you need to get up to speed on PL/SQL programming, right? We predict it''ll be a breeze with this book! You''ll find out about code structures, best practices, and code naming standards, how to use conditions and loops, where to place PL/SQL code in system projects, ways to manipulate data, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Write efficient, easy-to-maintain code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test and debug PL/SQL routines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate SQL and PL/SQL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply PL/SQL best practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use new features introduced in Oracle 9i and 10g\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1865'),
(19369, 'Orchids for Dummies', 'Steven A. Frowine &amp; National Gardening Association', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color\n</p>\n<p>\n Color your world with orchids\n</p>\n<p>\n Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren''t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Select orchids that will thrive in your home\n <br />\n * Water, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchids\n <br />\n * Decipher complicated orchid names\n <br />\n * Get familiar with favorite orchid varieties\n <br />\n * Create spectacular orchid displays\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Believe it or not, orchids â€” the most glamorous and spectacular flowering plants in the world, natureâ€™s true masterpieces â€” are easy to grow! You just need to give them what they need. And their requirements are not difficult to meet â€” adequate light, humidity, water, and ventilation. Sure, there are other nuances, like fertilizing, repotting, insect and disease control, but none of these are daunting. Iâ€™ve been growing and blooming orchids in my home for almost 40 years â€” mostly not in a greenhouse, but under lights or in the windowsill. Helping you achieve success with these glorious plants is my pleasurable mission. If you follow the steps I lay out in this book, you will grow orchids that thrive. Everything in this book comes from many years of my own trials and errors â€” not from theories about what should happen or what orchids might need. Sure, Iâ€™m a professional horticulturist, but probably more importantly, Iâ€™m a hands-on, sometimes fanatical, home orchid grower. I donâ€™t share with you anything in this book that I havenâ€™t tried myself or am sure that works. Years ago, the methods of orchid culture were well-guarded secrets, hoarded by commercial growers and private estate gardeners. Thatâ€™s not the case here. This is a tell-all book where all secrets are revealed. So you can now enter this wonderful world of orchids without fear, knowing that youâ€™re armed with the information you need to be successful and enjoy one of the most rewarding and fascinating, lifelong hobbies that youâ€™ll ever experience â€” growing orchids.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(19370, 'Organic Chemistry I Workbook for Dummies', 'Arthur Winter Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From models to molecules to mass spectrometry-solve organic chemistry problems with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the organic chemistry terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear - this hands-on guide helps you solve the many types of organic chemistry problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With memorization tricks, problem-solving shortcuts, and lots of hands-on practice exercises, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with resonance; the triple-threat alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes; functional groups and their reactions; spectroscopy; and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know how to solve the most common organic chemistry problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walk through the answers and clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with each problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the inside scoop on acing your exams!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use organic chemistry in practical applications with confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From models to molecules to mass spectrometryâ€”solve organic chemistry problems with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the organic chemistry terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear â€” this hands-on guide helps you solve the many types of organic chemistry problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With memorization tricks, problem-solving shortcuts, and lots of hands-on practice exercises, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with resonance; the triple-threat alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes; functional groups and their reactions; spectroscopy; and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know how to solve the most common organic chemistry problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Walk through the answers and clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with each problem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the inside scoop on acing your exams!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use organic chemistry in practical applications with confidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(19371, 'Organic Gardening for Dummies', 'Ann Whitman &amp; Suzanne Dejohn &amp; The National Gardening Association', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Organic Gardening For Dummies\n </em>\n , 2nd Edition shows readers the way to ensure a healthy harvest from their environmentally friendly garden. It covers information on the newest and safest natural fertilizers and pest control methods, composting, cultivation without chemicals, and how to battle plant diseases. It also has information on updated equipment and resources. It helps readers plant organically year-round, using herbs, fruits, vegetables, lawn care, trees and shrubs, and flowers. The tips and techniques included in\n <em>\n  Organic Gardening For Dummies\n </em>\n , 2nd Edition are intended to reduce a garden''s impact on both the environment and the wallet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ensure a healthy harvest through environmentally friendly gardening techniques.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to grow an organic garden? This guide shows you how. From maintaining your lawn and choosing problem-free plants to growing hearty fruits and vegetables, you''ll discover how to stay organic year-round and reduce your garden''s impact on both the environment and your wallet.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New to this edition â€” learn about the latest natural fertilizers, pest control methods, equipment, and gardening resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Is organic right for you? â€” understand the basic concepts of organic gardening and plan a low-maintenance landscape\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It all starts with the soil â€” test your soil, make compost, and nurture the underground ecosystem that helps your plants thrive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with pesky pests â€” from weeds to bugs to diseases, discover the specific control measures and products for organic pest management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Food, glorious food â€” grow the freshest, tastiest, and most nutritious fruits, vegetables, herbs, and nuts\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits of gardening organically\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on tips for gardeners at all levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Color photos of successful organic gardening practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance in building and maintaining healthy soil\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of pest-control products\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Inspirational tips for making eco-conscious decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to attract helpful insects and other organisms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to have an eco-friendly landscape\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1868'),
(19372, 'Organizing Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Sandra Munson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do-it-Yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n Organizing for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize a room in five steps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put important organization practices to good use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gather the right tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create order in every area of your home and your life\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Sandra Munson\n</p>\n<p>\n Professional home organizer\n</p>\n<p>\n Do-it-Yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n Take control of your space and bring harmony back to your life!\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you have too much stuff? Need to bring order back to your home? Now you can do it yourself!\n</p>\n<p>\n From organizing a closet to reclaiming your home office to handling a complete garage makeover, you can easily eliminate household clutter. This practical guide is filled with hands-on projects featuring lists of materials; detailed instructions; and step-by-step, full-color photos. Now youcan confidently tackle your house room by room!\n</p>\n<p>\n Stuff you need to know:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover the tools and time you need to organize\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Declutter your kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create blissful bedrooms and clean closets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play up your kids'' spaces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn to love yourlaundry room\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   And much more!\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sandra Munson is the founder of Harmony Home Organization and specializes in organizing children''s spaces, home offices, and garages. Her current client list includes residential homes as well as businesses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1869'),
(19373, 'Osteoporosis for Dummies', 'Carolyn Riester O&#39;connor &amp; Sharon Perkins Rn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Facts and advice to help people understand and prevent osteoporosis\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are an estimated 55 million Americans over the age of 50 who have low bone mass. This easy-to-understand guide helps readers assess their risk and find a practical approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of osteoporosis. It covers bone density tests and a wide range of treatment options for osteoporosis-from hormone replacement therapy and acupuncture to calcium-rich foods, supplements, and exercise-and offers pointers on preventing broken hips and other common fractures.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Also addresses osteoporosis in men and children\n</p>\n<p>\n Make no bones about it â€” osteoporosis is treatable\n</p>\n<p>\n Concerned about osteoporosis? Whether you want to avoid it or manage it, this friendly, plain-English guide explains the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of low bone mass, offering reassuring advice on the various bone density tests, medications, and pain management options. You''ll also see how to make changes in your lifestyle to build and maintain healthy bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your bones strong\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the right doctor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a treatment plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recover from fractures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage pain\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1870'),
(19374, 'Outdoor.Life.USA.2011.11.pdf 21-10-2011', 'Outdoor.Life.USA.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10848'),
(19375, 'Outdoor.Photographer-October.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Outdoor.Photographer-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6737'),
(19376, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4188'),
(19377, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4355'),
(19378, 'The Outline of History (1); Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind', 'Herbert George Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(19379, 'Outlook 2007', 'Torben Lage Frandsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(19380, 'Outlook 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Jennifer Fulton &amp; Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Nine minibooks spanning more than 800 pages make this an indispensable guide for Outlook power users\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the new Outlook interface and features and offers detailed coverage of Outlook tools, techniques, and tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minibooks include: Outlook basics; e-mail, RSS, and news; personal information management; managing and controlling information; collaboration; functional forms; VBA programming; managing business information; and maintenance, management, and troubleshooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Office has more than 120 million users worldwide-90 percent of the business productivity software market-and most of these users look to Outlook for e-mail, calendaring, and personal information management\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 books in 1 â€” your key to success with Outlook 2007!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to managing e-mail, contacts, and schedules with Outlook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten handy minibooks show you all the tricks for setting up your e-mail account and sending e-mails; receiving news feeds; sending instant messages; collecting related notes, images, drawings, tables, task and meeting reminders, and other data in OneNoteÂ®; and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create Outlook items with drag-and-drop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your security and privacy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assign tasks to others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a database in Business Contact Manager\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share your calendar, contacts, or tasks\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1871'),
(19381, 'Outlook 2007 for Dummies', 'Bill Dyszel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Most users take advantage of only two percent of Outlook''s power; this book shows them how to harness frequently overlooked tricks and techniques that can significantly boost productivity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to manage time and information in the new interface, covering instant searches, the To-Do bar, color categories, and task integration with OneNote, Project, Access, and Windows SharePoint Services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to connect across boundaries with access to WSS data, two-way sync and offline access, calendar sharing, smart scheduling, RSS support, electronic business cards, and the improved out-of-office assistant\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrates how to stay safe and in control with the improved spam filter, anti-phishing capabilities, e-mail postmark features, e-mail folder organization, and information rights management\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make scheduling and e-mail more efficient with Outlook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Control your contacts, connect to podcasts and blogs, and team up with others\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Outlook is a powerhouse for managing that mountain of e-mail, but do you know all the other things it can do? This book walks you through the cool new interface and every feature â€” sorting and answering your e-mail, activating security safeguards, handling your appointments and to-do list, collaborating with others, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize information for easier understanding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up appointments and manage your calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort incoming and outgoing e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use notes to write handy reminders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synchronize your schedule and share tasks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1872'),
(19382, 'Outlook 2010 for Dummies', 'Bill Dyszel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed on the new features of Outlook 2010 with this fun and friendly guide\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Although Microsoft Outlook is the number one most popular e-mail and productivity tool, many utilize only a fraction of its true potential. This easy-to-understand guide walks you through an abundance of often-overlooked tips and tricks so that you can take advantage of all that Outlook has to offer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Outlook 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n introduces you to the user interface, and explains how to use the To-Do bar, filter junk email, and make the most of Outlookâ€™s anti-phishing capabilities. Before you know it, you''ll be managing e-mail folders; sharing your calendar; using RSS support; integrating tasks with OneNote, Project, Access, and SharePoint Services; accessing data with two-way sync and offline access; and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shares invaluable advice for taking advantage of the newest version of the most popular e-mail and productivity tool: Outlook 2010\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals little-known tips and tricks of underused features of Microsoft Outlook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Presents information in the beloved fun and friendly For Dummies style, showing you how to manage your e-mail, share your calendar, use RSS support, access data, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Describes how to manage your day by filtering junk e-mail, using the To-Do bar, taking advantage of anti-phishing capabilities, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This helpful guide shows you how to work smart with Outlook 2010!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easily manage your e-mail, keep track of your schedule, and connect to business networks\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to improve your workflow and simplify your life? You''ll be surprised at all the things you can accomplish once you learn how to effectively use Outlook 2010. This book shows you how to take advantage of the latest features and better manage your e-mail, take control of your tasks and contacts, and improve the way you do business.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the basics â€” find out how to use Outlook for routine tasks such as handling messages and notes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your work more efficient â€” track your e-mail, contacts, appointments, and everything else you need to keep organized\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tie your Microsoft tasks together â€” learn how to take advantage of Outlook''s special relationship with Office, Internet Explorer, and Windows\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go beyond the basics â€” customize Outlook and set up Internet e-mail accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get rid of spam â€” discover how to filter e-mail to eliminate spam and get the most out of Outlook''s security features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coordinate with others â€” share schedule and task information with other people, synchronize information with them, and even assign tasks\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for setting up the Navigation pane\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Outlook''s most powerful productivity tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The essential secrets of e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for organizing your messages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to collaborate with Exchange\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to track your social media subscriptions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques to enhance Outlook security\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to access your Outlook data from anywhere\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the interface and use the To-Do bar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize Outlook''s security features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Filter your junk e-mail and manage e-mail folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Collaborate on tasks with SharePoint Services and Microsoft Exchange\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
(19383, 'Over-The-Road Wireless for Dummies', 'E. Phil Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you roam the road making a living, or are you enjoying the nomadic life of a retiree with a motor home? Either way, life goes on no matter where you''re hanging your hat tonight. Bills still need to be paid, grandchildren grow up way too fast, and you''ve gotten pretty dependent on your e-mail. How do you stay connected to the rest of the world while you''re on the road?\n</p>\n<p>\n For a growing number of over-the-road drivers, business travelers, and RV enthusiasts, the answer is a wireless Internet connection. With a laptop and wireless access, you can\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pay bills, check accounts, and handle banking online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access your home PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make inexpensive phone calls with VoIP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Watch TV, download movies, and listen to satellite radio\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "So," you say, "I see people in movies popping open their laptops and getting online wherever they happen to be. It looks awfully easyâ€”why do I need a book?" Well, lots of things are easy once you know how.\n <em>\n  Over-the-Road Wireless For Dummies\n </em>\n tells you how in plain English, so you can take advantage of all those cool opportunities safely and easily. You''ll discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the best Wi-Fi access service for your needs and locate hotspots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess cellular data services and satellite access to make informed choices about service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adapt your laptop or PDA for wireless, set up an external antenna, and install an external amplifier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your cell phone as a modem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify security threats, protect your data with strong passwords and encryption, and set up a personal firewall\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and use Skype and make phone calls with your laptop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your truck or RV your office with online freight-finding services, a GPS receiver, a travel printer, and software to keep logs and expense records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access streaming TV and radio on the road\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Over-the-Road Wireless For Dummies\n </em>\n to help, you can send online birthday cards, watch video of the grandchildren, do your banking, pay bills, keep records, connect to your home PC, and even file your taxes, no matter how far away you roam!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keep in touch with the office or the grandkids\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Set up your laptop or PDA, find hot spots, and keep your stuff safe\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re on the road earning a living or satisfying your urge to roam, this book will help you stay connected to the rest of the world. Here''s how to choose equipment and services, protect your data, manage an office on your laptop, enjoy movies and music, and even save on phone calls with VoIP.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the equipment that meets your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up laptops and antennas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find hotspots easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your cell phone into a modem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect remotely to your home PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your data and your laptop\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1874');
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(19384, 'Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies', 'Charles H. Elliott Phd &amp; Laura L. Smith Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Practical, proven ways to get fear, worry, and panic under control\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Think you worry too much? You''re not alone?over 40 million Americans suffer from some form of anxiety. Help is here in this friendly guide, which offers sound advice on identifying anxiety triggers through taking self-tests, improving your eating habits, relaxing, and finding support for you and your loved ones.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now with 25% new and revised content,\n <em>\n  Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n explores all of the most common triggers for anxiety, recent developments in medications, newly emerging biologically oriented approaches for treating anxiety, and the most up-to-date advancements in psychotherapies.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand why you?re anxious and pinpoint your triggers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get trusted advice on whether you can overcome anxiety on your own or seek professional help\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers anxiety in teens, young adults, and veterans\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The practical information in\n <em>\n  Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is your first step toward getting your life back and winning the war against your worries!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get over your anxiety and create a calmer, more peaceful life\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Job loss, natural disasters, terrorism â€” with so many things to worry about today, your anxiety levels can easily skyrocket. This engaging guide is packed with techniques you can use immediately to overcome your worries and gain control of your life. You''ll pinpoint your triggers, discover the latest therapies, and make lifestyle changes that will have you feeling better fast.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand anxiety â€” learn about the main types of anxiety, the toll it takes on your body, and how to break through roadblocks to change\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet your anxiety head on â€” see how to transform anxious thoughts into calm ones, challenge your assumptions, and avoid "worry words"\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Attack anxiety with biology â€” discover the pros and cons of medications and explore the latest biological alternatives for alleviating anxiety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Let go of the battle â€” improve your diet, exercise, and sleep habits; create calm in your imagination; and find peace through mindfulness\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Zero in on specific worries â€” assess actual vs. imagined risks in today''s world, prepare for unexpected calamities, and design a health action plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help others who have anxiety â€” recognize the signs in friends or family, assist anxious children, and offer support with love and without blame\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common symptoms of anxiety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Action steps for conquering your fears\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Examples to illustrate concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Breathing and muscle exercises to help you relax\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for accepting uncertainty in life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for helping kids with anxiety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for stopping anxiety fast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to handle relapse\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Signs you should seek professional help\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get fear, worry, and panic under control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify your anxiety triggers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cope with situations that cause anxiety\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take advantage of the latest treatments and medications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1875'),
(19385, 'Overcoming Dyslexia for Dummies', 'Tracey Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes tips and strategies for kids, teens, and adults with dyslexia\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand what dyslexia is, assess schools and programs, and help your child succeed\n</p>\n<p>\n Does your child mix up d''s and b''s? Does he or she have trouble reading? If so, the cause may be dyslexia. But don''t worry -- these days, there are many ways to overcome dyslexia. This hands-on guide leads you step by step through your options -- and explains how anyone with dyslexia can achieve success in school and life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Recognize the symptoms of dyslexia\n <br />\n * Understand diagnostic test results\n <br />\n * Set up an Individualized Education Program (IEP)\n <br />\n * Work effectively with teachers\n <br />\n * Improve your child?s reading skills\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes tips and strategies for kids, teens, and adults with dyslexia\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand what dyslexia is, assess schools and programs, and help your child succeed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Does your child mix up d''s and b''s? Does he or she have trouble reading? If so, the cause may be dyslexia. But don''t worry â€” these days, there are many ways to overcome dyslexia. This hands-on guide leads you step by step through your options â€” and explains how anyone with dyslexia can achieve success in school and life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recognize the symptoms of dyslexia\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand diagnostic test results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up an Individualized Education Program (IEP)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work effectively with teachers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your child?s reading skills\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1876'),
(19386, 'Oxygen - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10815'),
(19387, 'Paint Shop Pro 8 for Dummies', 'David C. Kay &amp; William Steinmetz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Published in conjunction with the new release of Paint Shop Pro, this book walks readers through image-editing fundamentals as well as more advanced graphics and animation tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows photography and animation hobbyists how to create quality, professional-looking graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses painting, spraying, retouching photos, adding artistic effects, layering, masking layers, adjusting color, moving, reshaping, copying, and printing images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also examines how to create Web images and animated graphics with\n </li>\n <li>\n  Jasc''s Animation Shop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Author has written more than a dozen technology books\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enhance colors, erase mistakes, and improve your image\n</p>\n<p>\n Create professional-looking graphics for print or the Web, easily and economically\n</p>\n<p>\n Okay, youâ€™ve got some great pictures â€“ and maybe some not-so-great ones. With this handy guide and Paint Shop Pro 8, you can make them magnificent, inexpensively! Find out how to capture those images and repair, retouch, create cool effects, add text, animate images, make prints â€“ well, you get the picture.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1877'),
(19388, 'Paint Shop Pro 9 for Dummies', 'David C. Kay &amp; William Steinmetz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Published in conjunction with the next version of Paint Shop Pro software, this easy-to-use reference shows how to edit photos and create high-quality, professional-looking graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers how to capture images from a variety of different media-paper, camera, and screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  More advanced topics include retouching, adjusting colors, creating artistic effects, adding layers of text and shapes, masking layers, and creating Web images\n </li>\n <li>\n  A sixteen-page color insert features before-and-after image edits and graphics highlighting the visual effects that people can achieve\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retouch, reshape, and re-create your graphics for amazing images\n</p>\n<p>\n Create great graphics and Web-friendly images, or fix photos that need help\n</p>\n<p>\n Want your photos and graphics to be picture-perfect? This book is your buddy. It will help you capture and scan images, create a virtual painting, repair damaged, dark, or blurry photos, add Aunt Louise to the picture and get the red out of Uncle Joe''s eyes, and produce great prints or post your masterpieces online.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Capture pictures from paper, camera, or screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Size and crop photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost photo color, retouch, and fix lighting flaws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add shapes and text to your graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn photographs into fine art\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1878'),
(19389, 'Painting Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Katharine Kaye Mcmillan &amp; Patricia Hart Mcmillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Painting your home yourself can be faster, more affordable and even easier than hiring professionalsâ€”but only if you get it right the first time.\n <em>\n  Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies,\n </em>\n helps you do just that with easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures for giving your, floors, walls, and ceilings the extreme makeover of your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n More than 500 photos and illustrations show you exactly how to perform each step of each procedure the right way and avoid drips, smudges, and ugly surfaces. You''ll find out how to choose the best paint for the job, figure out how much paint you''ll need, and use rollers, brushes, and other painting tools with skill and precision. Before you know it, you''ll have the confidence and ability to tackle any household painting project with ease. You''ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select the proper tools and materials for each painting job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose colors that will work for youâ€”now and for years to come\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare your room and the surface for painting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make necessary wall and ceiling repairs before painting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Brush up on painting basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create faux finishes with shapes and patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use glazes to dazzling effect\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bring out the beauty of wood trim, windows and doors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finesse furniture, frames, and other household items\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a handy list of dos and don''ts for perfecting your painting skills,\n <em>\n  Painting Do-It-Yourself for Dummies\n </em>\n , gives you the guidance, tips, and information you need to get a professional-level outcome every time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  DO-IT-YOURSELF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Step-by-Step instruction to get you painting your home like a pro in no time!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you ever walked into a home taken a look at the paint on the walls, and wondered, "How''d they do that?" Now you can find out and\n <em>\n  do it yourself!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Make your walls, floors, and ceilings look like they received an extreme makeover! Generously illustrated, this practical handbook shows you how to jazz up rooms with step-by-step, professional-level instructions that help you master the art of painting and faux finishing without spending a whole lot of time, effort, or money.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stuff You Need to Know\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose from over 50 projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the right color and style of paint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prep and prime your surface for paint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decorate with checks and stripes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spruce up your wall with faux leather or suede\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1879'),
(19390, 'The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Outnumbered Saxon forces continue battling Danish invaders in this rousing sequel to the bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Last Kingdom\n  </em>\n  . It''s A.D. 877, and the dispossessed Northumbrian noble Uhtred has just routed the Danes in a battle at Cynuit in southern England. Logically, Uhtred should now ally himself with Alfred, whose Wessex kingdom alone has successfully resisted Danish control. But Uhtred sees a better chance of recovering his lost estate if he finds a way to join the Danes, who raised him and whose simple life of "ale, women, sword, and reputation" he finds more congenial than Alfred''s Christian piety and military caution. But when the Danes invade Wessex, Uhtred''s loyalties are further divided. His Celtic mistress foretells victory for Alfred, but Uhtred can scarcely believe that the bedraggled king, camped in isolated marshes with a handful of supporters, can repel the invaders and unite England. Yet pride grows in Uhtred: "I understood that among the Danes I was as important as my friends, and without friends I was just another landless, masterless warrior. But among the Saxons I was another Saxon, and among the Saxons I did not need another man''s generosity." Uhtred demonstrates his newfound patriotism in the book''s climactic battle at Edington. Filled with bawdy humor, bloodlust, treachery and valor, this stirring tale will leave readers eager for the next volume in this Alfred the Great series.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the conclusion of Cornwell''s best-selling\n  <em>\n   The Last Kingdom\n  </em>\n  (2005), Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a slain Saxon nobleman raised by Danish warriors, had reluctantly rejoined King Alfred''s beleaguered forces in the rapidly dwindling kingdom of Wessex. Although the Danes had already conquered the kingdoms of East Anglia, Northumbria, and Mercia, Alfred, with an able assist from Uhtred, had stalwartly fended off the Viking invasion. Uneasily allied to the cerebral Alfred, the more vigorous Uhtred is plagued by divided loyalties as the Saxons struggle to maintain a toehold against the mighty Viking war machine. Taking refuge in a boggy marshland, the ragtag remnants of the Saxon army desperately attempt to regroup. Two vastly different heroes--Alfred and Uhtred--stand between the Danes and total annihilation of the Saxon culture. Further complicating the matter is the fact that Uhtred faces a moral dilemma when he realizes he must choose between allegiance to the king he has grown to admire and loyalty to Ragnar, his much-loved foster brother. Cornwell, the author of the excellent\n  <em>\n   Sharpe\n  </em>\n  series, displays his usual flair for providing action-packed martial history populated by a diverse array of realistically drawn characters. A crackerjack adventure tale from a master of the craft.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4611'),
(19391, 'Paper Engineering &amp; Pop-Ups for Dummies', 'Rob Ives', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paper Engineering &amp; Pop-ups For Dummies covers a wide range of projects, from greeting cards to freestanding models. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and dozens of accompanying diagrams help readers not only to complete the diverse projects in the book, but also master the skills necessary to apply their own creativity and create new projects, beyond the book''s pages.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get creative with paper projects the whole family will enjoy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you passionate about paper crafts? This fun, easy-to-follow guide is packed with a wide range of projects that use simple techniques and tools. Step-by-step directions and diagrams show you how to make eye-catching cards, animated models, pop-ups, and much more. Plus, you''ll take your paper engineering skills to the next level as you learn to invent your own unique creations!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Unfold the wonders of paper engineering â€” understand different papers and projects, review the tools of the trade, and set up your workshop\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create classy, crafty greeting cards â€” choose the right color, make cute cutouts, primp it up with embellishments, and work with decoupage and montage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make eye-popping pop-ups â€” from layers and photos to pull tabs, crossfades, and multi-page books, master the techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add life to your paper â€” explore the fascinating world of paper sculpture and animation through clever cam models, levers, linkages, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Draft your own designs and creations â€” develop your ideas, make the transition from sketch to model, enhance your designs with color, and use your computer to help\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most popular paper engineering crafts, explained step by step\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All the basic concepts and techniques you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Photos and illustrations to guide you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for perfect model making\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to recycle and reuse materials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tricks for designing with software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Paper crafting mistakes to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Inspiration for creating your own designs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1880'),
(19392, 'Paris for Dummies', 'Cheryl A. Pientka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Enjoy a magnifique trip to Paris\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Stroll the Champs-ElysÃ©es, visit the top of the Eiffel Tower, or linger in a cozy cafÃ©. Take in the theater, a symphony, or dance the night away. Enjoy gourmet French cuisine or a picnic in the park. Savor a cafÃ© au lait or a glass of Beaujolais. Go power shopping or bargain hunting. With this guide, you''re ready for your exciting bon voyage!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore Paris the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower, stroll the Champs-ElysÃ©es, or linger in a cozy cafe. Take in the theater, symphony, or opera, or dance the night away. Enjoy gourmet French cuisine or a picnic in the park. Go power shopping or bargain hunting. With this guide, your trip to Paris will be trÃ©s magnifique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1881'),
(19393, 'Paris nights, and other impressions of places and people', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paris nights (1910)--Life in London (1911)--Italy (1910)--The Riviera (1907)--Fontainebleau (1904-1909)--Switzerland (1909-1911)--England again (1907)--The Midlands (1910-1911)--The British home (1908)--Street roads and trains (1907-1909)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4233'),
(19394, 'The Paris Wife: A Novel', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Paula McLain on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one weâ€™ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea to write in Hadleyâ€™s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingwayâ€™s memoir,\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, â€œI wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.â€ That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!\n</p>\n<p>\n I couldnâ€™t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20â€™s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, Chamby, Switzerland, winter 1922\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway on their wedding day, 1921\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby, Schruns, Austria, 1925\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hemingways and friends at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Helen Simonson on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Helen Simonson\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _. She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLainâ€™s voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingwayâ€™s own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadleyâ€™s father committing suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her motherâ€™s declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadleyâ€™s eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadleyâ€™s voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of\n <em>\n  The Sun also Rises\n </em>\n , even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadleyâ€™s trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLainâ€™s sure talent.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n History is sadly neglectful of the supporting players in the lives of great artists. Fortunately, fiction provides ample opportunity to bring these often fascinating personalities out into the limelight. Gaynor Arnold successfully resurrected the much-maligned Mrs. Charles Dickens in Girl in a Blue Dress (2009), now Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Hadley and Ernest traveled in heady company during this gin-soaked and jazz-infused time, and readers are treated to intimate glimpses of many of the literary giants of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the real star of the story is Hadley, as this time around, Ernest is firmly relegated to the background as he almost never was during their years together. Though eventually a woman scorned, Hadley is able to acknowledge without rancor or bitterness that ï¿½Hemï¿½ had ï¿½helped me to see what I really was and what I could do.ï¿½ Much more than a ï¿½woman-behind-the-manï¿½ homage, this beautifully crafted tale is an unsentimental tribute to a woman who acted with grace and strength as her marriage crumbled. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4103'),
(19395, 'The Paris Wife: A Novel', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Paula McLain on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one weâ€™ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea to write in Hadleyâ€™s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingwayâ€™s memoir,\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, â€œI wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.â€ That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!\n</p>\n<p>\n I couldnâ€™t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20â€™s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, Chamby, Switzerland, winter 1922\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway on their wedding day, 1921\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby, Schruns, Austria, 1925\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hemingways and friends at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Helen Simonson on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Helen Simonson\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _. She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLainâ€™s voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingwayâ€™s own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadleyâ€™s father committing suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her motherâ€™s declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadleyâ€™s eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadleyâ€™s voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of\n <em>\n  The Sun also Rises\n </em>\n , even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadleyâ€™s trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLainâ€™s sure talent.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n History is sadly neglectful of the supporting players in the lives of great artists. Fortunately, fiction provides ample opportunity to bring these often fascinating personalities out into the limelight. Gaynor Arnold successfully resurrected the much-maligned Mrs. Charles Dickens in Girl in a Blue Dress (2009), now Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Hadley and Ernest traveled in heady company during this gin-soaked and jazz-infused time, and readers are treated to intimate glimpses of many of the literary giants of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the real star of the story is Hadley, as this time around, Ernest is firmly relegated to the background as he almost never was during their years together. Though eventually a woman scorned, Hadley is able to acknowledge without rancor or bitterness that ï¿½Hemï¿½ had ï¿½helped me to see what I really was and what I could do.ï¿½ Much more than a ï¿½woman-behind-the-manï¿½ homage, this beautifully crafted tale is an unsentimental tribute to a woman who acted with grace and strength as her marriage crumbled. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4393'),
(19396, 'The Paris Wife: A Novel', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Paula McLain on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one weâ€™ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea to write in Hadleyâ€™s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingwayâ€™s memoir,\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, â€œI wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.â€ That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!\n</p>\n<p>\n I couldnâ€™t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20â€™s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, Chamby, Switzerland, winter 1922\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway on their wedding day, 1921\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby, Schruns, Austria, 1925\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hemingways and friends at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Helen Simonson on\n  <em>\n   The Paris Wife\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Helen Simonson\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _. She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLainâ€™s voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingwayâ€™s own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadleyâ€™s father committing suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her motherâ€™s declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadleyâ€™s eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadleyâ€™s voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of\n <em>\n  The Sun also Rises\n </em>\n , even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadleyâ€™s trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLainâ€™s sure talent.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n History is sadly neglectful of the supporting players in the lives of great artists. Fortunately, fiction provides ample opportunity to bring these often fascinating personalities out into the limelight. Gaynor Arnold successfully resurrected the much-maligned Mrs. Charles Dickens in Girl in a Blue Dress (2009), now Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Hadley and Ernest traveled in heady company during this gin-soaked and jazz-infused time, and readers are treated to intimate glimpses of many of the literary giants of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the real star of the story is Hadley, as this time around, Ernest is firmly relegated to the background as he almost never was during their years together. Though eventually a woman scorned, Hadley is able to acknowledge without rancor or bitterness that ï¿½Hemï¿½ had ï¿½helped me to see what I really was and what I could do.ï¿½ Much more than a ï¿½woman-behind-the-manï¿½ homage, this beautifully crafted tale is an unsentimental tribute to a woman who acted with grace and strength as her marriage crumbled. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4440'),
(19397, 'Parkinson&#39;s Disease for Dummie', 'Michele Tagliati &amp; Gary N. Guten &amp; Jo Horne &amp; Deborah W. Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with Parkinsonâ€™s Disease youâ€™re probably wrestling with fear, despair, and countless questions about the future. Itâ€™s brighter than you think. In\n <em>\n  Parkinsonâ€™s Disease for Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll discover how to keep a positive attitude and lead an active, productive life as this user-friendly, guide pilots you through the important steps toward taking charge of your condition. It helps you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make sure you have an accurate diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assemble and work with your health care team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Inform others about your condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the most effective medications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish a diet and exercise regimen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Consider surgical options, alternative therapies, and clinical trials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain healthy personal and professional relationships\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjust your routine as your PD progresses\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This one-stop resource provides proven coping skills, first-hand advice, and practical tools, such as worksheets to assess care options, questions to ask doctors, and current listings of care providers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use medications safely and effectively\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get an accurate diagnosis, evaluate treatment options, and manage Parkinson''s disease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This positive, straightforward guide offers proven techniques for finding the right doctors, coping with daily issues, and providing care as the disease progresses. The authors cover young onset Parkinson''s disease, and detail ways to keep your mind sharp, your body in shape, your stress under control â€” and live a full, satisfying life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "We commend [this book''s] emphasis on tenets that we at The Michael J. Fox Foundation strive to incorporate into our work: an action orientation, a problem-solving mentality, and the distillation of a great deal of complicated information into clear, logical next steps."\n <br />\n â€”Deborah W. Brooks, President and CEO of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson''s Research\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assemble a top-notch healthcare team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Feel better with diet and exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain your independence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your symptoms on the job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pursue alternative therapies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle later-stage symptoms\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1882'),
(19398, 'Pascali&#39;s Island', 'Barry Unsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Darkly ironic. . . . Offers an almost Conradian richness. (_The New Yorker_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule. (_Boston Sunday Globe_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "A masterful tale of treachery and duplicity. . . . Spellbinding."--_New York Times_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his small community and secretly reported on their activities to the authorities in Constantinople. Although his reports are never acknowledged, never acted upon, he has received regular payment for his work. Now he fears that the villagers have found him out and he becomes engulfed in paranoia. In the midst of his panic, a charming Englishman arrives on the island claiming to be an archaeologist, and charms his way into the heart of the woman for whom Pascali pines. A complex game is played out between the two where cunning and betrayal may come to haunt them both.\n  <em>\n   Pascali''s Island\n  </em>\n  was made into a feature film starring Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4651');
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(19399, 'Pastels for Dummies', 'Sherry Stone Clifton &amp; Anita Marie Giddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest tips and techniques for working with pastels - in full color\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pastels offer bright colors, a great level of portability, and no drying time - plus they''re relatively inexpensive and can be used to draw and paint on almost any surface.\n <em>\n  Pastels For Dummies\n </em>\n covers the many aspects of this exciting medium, from the fundamentals of choosing the right materials to step-by-step projects, including landscapes, abstracts, and portraits. Inside you''ll find hands-on, easy-to-follow exercises and attractive full-color artwork.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Presents drawing, painting, and shading techniques and styles in an easy-to-understand format\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accessible to artists of all levels\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover your inner artist with\n <em>\n  Pastels For Dummies\n </em>\n and make your artwork come alive!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest tips and techniques for working with pastels â€” in full color!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pastels offer bright colors, a great level of portability, and no drying time â€” plus, they''re relatively inexpensive and can be used to draw and paint on almost any surface.\n <em>\n  Pastels For Dummies\n </em>\n covers the many aspects of this exciting medium, from the fundamentals of choosing the right materials to step-by-step projects.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pastels and paraphernalia â€” discover the basic characteristics of pastels, related tools, and materials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Beginning with baby steps â€” get easy-to-follow guidance on the entire process of drawing with pastels, from making initial sketches to picking paper and layering\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking it to the next level â€” master intermediate techniques like emulating metallic surfaces, trying abstraction, and creating textures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drawing people and places â€” learn how to capture landscapes, draw objects in the environment or from photos, and add people to your pictures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A simple color primer in pastel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Supplies to get you started\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basic still life techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands-on, easy-to-follow exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Attractive full-color artwork\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with chalk pastels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on setting up your own workspace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to achieve different types of strokes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on making your drawings look real (or surreal!)\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Produce colorful drawings and paintings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your artistic skills with full-color, hands-on instruction\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Complete full-scale projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover your inner artist\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1883'),
(19400, 'The Patience Stone', 'Atiq Rahimi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rahimi (Earth and Ashes) won the 2008 Prix Goncourt for this brief, melodramatic novel set amid factional violence somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere. It follows the circumscribed movements of a Muslim woman largely confined to the house where she nurses her comatose husband, who''s been shot by a fellow jihadist. A humorless, inflammatory mullah pays the woman unwelcome visits, and sexually menacing soldiers break into her house. Though such events generate tension and drama, the novel''s cultural and historical milieu lacks specificity, and Rahimi may have erred in sketching the story''s political context vaguely. For some readers, his intimate attention to objects and spaces may compensate for the grating confessional tenor that develops later, when the narrator divulges damning secrets to her husband''s unresponsive body and fulfilling the book''s premise a little too obviously by referring to him as her patience stone. McLean ''s translation is faultless, but the narrator''s reminiscences feel stilted; the patience-stone conceit borders on gimmickry; and incidents of a violent or sexual nature seem overdetermined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4318'),
(19401, 'The Patriots Club', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thomas Bolden, successful 32-year-old investment banker and Harlem Boys Club Foundation trustee, has come a long way from his turbulent childhood on the mean streets of Chicago. But his street smarts surface at the start of Reich''s action-packed but convoluted latest (after\n  <em>\n   Numbered Account\n  </em>\n  ), when Bolden chases a pair of muggers through Manhattan''s financial district after they rob his girlfriend, Jenny Dance. They abduct him at gunpoint, but after a perplexing interrogation by members of a mysterious clan, a narrow escape reunites him with Jenny. Bolden already knows too much, though, and the organization of the novel''s titleâ€”a centuries-old secretive order of powerful lawyers, businessmen and politicians convened to preserve political special interest initiatives that the country''s founding fathers defendedâ€”soon systematically dismantle Bolden''s life. He and a newly pregnant Jenny run for their lives, tracked at every turn by the well-connected "club," which is headed by retired detective Francois Guilfoyle. While they each investigate the clandestine group, a flurry of politically fueled machinations unfolds, setting the stage for the obligatory showdown. Reich''s conspiracy thriller eventually loses the momentum needed to deliver on the tight suspense it promises.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who would have thought that Thomas Bolden would become a successful Wall Street businessman, living the high life and about to become engaged to the perfect woman? Having grown up as "Tommy B from the wrong side of the tracks," Bolden is a bootstraps guy who managed to leave the past behind and carve out a nice life for himself--or so he thought. His world turns upside down when he is inexplicably kidnapped. His captors apparently think he has valuable information about something--but Bolden has no idea what. He''s released, but his problems are far from over. Soon he becomes mired in a manhunt that forces him to tap into the street skills he learned as an orphan. As he runs for his life--literally--he uncovers secrets involving a bizarre club of corrupt politicos with roots extending back to the Founding Fathers. Bolden makes a captivating hero, as Reich uses the ordinary-man premise to good effect, engendering sympathy for a financier who never forgets his past. A first-rate, high-concept thriller that will leave readers breathless and cheering for Bolden to pull through.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6134'),
(19402, 'Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing for Dummies', 'Peter Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Plan and launch your PPC campaign and keep track of its progress\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Pay Per Click just might do the trick. This book will help you decide! It tells you all about Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search, targeting your customers, watching out for fraud, assessing the pros and cons of Pay Per Click, and making Pay Per Click work for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the right keywords to trigger your ads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure your breakeven point\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write ads that reach your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate return on investment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use geo targeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your ad results\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plan and launch your PPC campaign and keep track of its progress\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Pay Per Click just might do the trick. This book will help you decide! It tells you all about Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search, targeting your customers, watching out for fraud, assessing the pros and cons of Pay Per Click, and making Pay Per Click work for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the right keywords to trigger your ads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure your breakeven point\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write ads that reach your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate return on investment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use geo targeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your ad results\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1884'),
(19403, 'PC Advisor - December 2011', '12 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10707'),
(19404, 'PC Advisor 11-2011', 'PC Advisor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4470'),
(19405, 'PC Advisor Magazine', 'October 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3545'),
(19406, 'PC Format - October 2011', 'October 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3649'),
(19407, 'PC Format - September 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6103'),
(19408, 'PC Format 05-2011', 'PC Format', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(19409, 'PC Format 06-2011', 'PC Format', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(19410, 'PC Format 08-2011', 'PC Format', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2318'),
(19411, 'PC Format 09-2011', 'PC Format', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3287'),
(19412, 'PC Format 10-2011', 'PC Format', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3673'),
(19413, 'PC Gamer - December 2011 US', 'December 20110-Mantesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10590'),
(19414, 'PC Gamer 08-2011', 'PC Gamer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3083'),
(19415, 'PC Gamer 09-2011', 'PC Gamer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3279'),
(19416, 'PC Gamer Magazine- August 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4823'),
(19417, 'PC Gamer UK 10-2011', 'PC Gamer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4475'),
(19418, 'PC Gamer World&#39;s No.1 Games Magazine', 'December 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10591'),
(19419, 'PC Magazine - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6585'),
(19420, 'PC Magazine 03-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(19421, 'PC Magazine 04-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(19422, 'PC Magazine 07-2009', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2498'),
(19423, 'PC Magazine 07-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(19424, 'PC Magazine 08-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2479'),
(19425, 'PC Magazine 09-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3806'),
(19426, 'PC Magazine 09-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3865'),
(19427, 'PC Magazine 22-09-2011', 'PC Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6695'),
(19428, 'PC Plus - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6081'),
(19429, 'PC Plus - September 2011', 'September 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3612'),
(19430, 'PC Plus 05-2011', 'PC Plus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(19431, 'PC Plus 07-2011', 'PC Plus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(19432, 'PC Plus 08-2011', 'PC Plus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3077'),
(19433, 'PC Plus 19-09-2011', 'PC Plus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6418'),
(19434, 'PC Powerplay 10-2011', 'PC Powerplay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3864'),
(19435, 'PC Pro - December 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10634'),
(19436, 'PC Pro - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4729'),
(19437, 'PC Pro - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3629'),
(19438, 'PC Pro 02-2011', 'PC Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2335'),
(19439, 'PC Pro 03-2011', 'PC Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2338'),
(19440, 'PC Pro 04-2011', 'PC Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(19441, 'PC Pro 06-2011', 'PC Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(19442, 'PC Pro 07-2011', 'PC Pro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
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(19445, 'PC Recording Studios for Dummies', 'Jeff Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s how to make sound decisions about a desktop studio\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the lowdown on equipment, design your studio space, and set your music free!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been dreaming of making music with your computer, wake up and get started! Musician Jeff Strong clears a path for you through all the confusing options, helping you sort out hardware and software choices, coax the sound you want from your equipment, work with equalizers and processors, and start your creative juices flowing!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Choose the right system and install software\n <br />\n * Optimize studio sound for recording and mixing\n <br />\n * Understand audio interfaces, sound cards, and MIDI gear\n <br />\n * Compare popular programs\n <br />\n * Mix and master your tracks\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s how to make sound decisions about a desktop studio\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the lowdown on equipment, design your studio space, and set your music free!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been dreaming of making music with your computer, wake up and get started! Musician Jeff Strong clears a path for you through all the confusing options, helping you sort out hardware and software choices, coax the sound you want from your equipment, work with equalizers and processors, and start your creative juices flowing!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right system and install software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize studio sound for recording and mixing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand audio interfaces, sound cards, and MIDI gear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare popular programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix and master your tracks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1885'),
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(19477, 'PCs All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦recommended for new PC usersâ€¦â€ (PC Utilities, September 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Covers the most popular PC applications and tools available today, fully revised to include Windows XP, Office "X," Works 7, and basic Internet, digital photography, and home networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks the reader through setting up a computer, navigating the Windows desktop, using e-mail, exploring the Internet, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Convenient minibook format makes it easy to find desired information quickly\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1886'),
(19478, 'PCs All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Mark L. Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦recommended for new PC usersâ€¦â€ (PC Utilities, September 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to a long and happy relationship with your PC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mark Chambers doesn''t believe computers are supposed to be complicated, and this book proves it. Here you''ll find the straightforward scoop on using and enjoying your PC, whether it''s your first one or your fifth. From using Microsoft Works and getting online to digital multimedia, problem-solving, and network security, it''s all at your fingertips!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the different ports on your PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot Windows XP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Listen to Internet radio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Microsoft Works and Office 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make movies and DVDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and secure a network\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1887'),
(19479, 'PCs for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the latest edition of the bestselling PC book on the planet!\n</p>\n<p>\n What better way to make friends with your new PC than with this new edition of the bestselling PC book in the world?\n <em>\n  PCs For Dummies, Windows 7 Edition\n </em>\n explains the latest Windows operating system in a refreshingly jargon-free way that''s loaded with good humor and great help.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to make your PC safe for your kids, get in touch with your digital life, use flash drives, learn about green computing, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Dan Gookin, author of the original DOS For Dummies, helped launch the worldwide popularity of the series; his books have been translated in 32 languages and have more than 12 million copies in print\n </li>\n <li>\n  This guide gets you up to speed on the latest PC hardware and software and covers all the innovations and changes in Windows 7, all without the boring jargon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers making your PC safe for kids, organizing your digital life, green computing, storage on memory cards and flash drives, online photo sharing, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Make your life easier the Dummies way with\n <em>\n  PCs For Dummies, Windows 7 Edition\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n WindowsÂ® 7 Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n PCs for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:&lt;\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with WindowsÂ® 7 and use all the new features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your PC safer for kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Store your files on memory cards and flash drives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share photos online and explore new digital options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Dan Gookin\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of all editions of Laptops For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n You can tame the PC beast, and Windows 7 too! Dan Gookin makes it easy and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n So you''ve become the proud parent of a PC with Windows 7? Congratulations! This book is the best friend you and your PC can have. Here''s all the stuff you need to know, from turning the PC on and keeping your information safe to sharing photos and videos on the Internet, storing your files, and, most importantly, getting things done.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Open the box â€” start at the beginning with a tour of the parts, setup instructions, and a guide to what goes where\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get graphical â€” explore the Windows interface and use the taskbar, Start menu, and Control Panel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s the network â€” use networking hardware and software and set up a HomeGroup\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The Internet â€” configure Windows to use it, choose an ISP, browse the Web, and make the most of e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dodging the evil ones â€” protect yourself with the Action Center and Internet Explorer''s safety tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting stuff done â€” install and upgrade software and manage files and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have some fun! â€” download pictures from your digital camera, watch TV using Windows MediaÂ® Center, and burn music CDs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your life online â€” join FacebookÂ®, share videos on YouTube, and send tweets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A complete PC assembly guide\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The scoop on storage devices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up a printer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on power management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of Internet dangers and how to avoid them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up parental controls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Valuable Web-browsing tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle a cyberbully\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(19480, 'PCs for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explaining the fundamentals of personal computing to those who would rather read words than look at pictures,\n <em>\n  PCs for Dummies\n </em>\n tells you everything you need to know in order to use an IBM-compatible PC running Windows 98. Dan Gookin''s prose is technically astute and fun to read.\n</p>\n<p>\n This isn''t the book for you if you''re looking through a computer catalog and wondering what all the jargon means (_Buying a Computer for Dummies_ covers that). Rather, this book will help you when you''ve gotten the machine into your home and you need to know what to do next. Starting with the process of unpacking the box and plugging in all the cables, this book shows you what to do with your new machine.\n</p>\n<p>\n After assembly is out of the way, Gookin shows you how to get around in Windows 98 (and Windows 95, which is almost identical). He explains concepts like files, directories, and applications, and frequently explains the exact procedures involved in common tasks like adjusting screen resolution. Once you''ve heard all about the basics, Gookin goes on to explain modem configuration, printer problems, productivity software, and a fair amount about Internet use.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who would have thought a line of reference works "for dummies" would ever sell? Well, they have, and this series installment by author Gookin is an excellent example of how to make something otherwise complicated simple for lay readers. Newbie computer users will find much useful information here, from opening the box and setting up a new computer system to basic file management, hardware and software issues, and basic WindowsR steps. Gookin''s fun and easy-to-follow advice is tailor-made for the many people buying PCs for the first time. This new version includes Windows 95R procedures, as well as helpful hints on understanding how computers operate, how to read and write files to hard and floppy disks, and how to set up a basic Windows system configuration. Because of the technical nature of this material, many readers may also want to read the book (available from IDG) while they follow these handy tips with their own computer. This item and the entire "DummiesTM" line is a sure bet for all public libraries.?Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(19481, 'PCs for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  What the book covers:\n </strong>\n This new edition of\n <em>\n  PCs For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n is an ideal reference for beginning PC users who need immediate answers to computing questions at their fingertips. The lay-flat book offers help in setting up a PC, using the basic Windows applications, and getting on the Internet. The book also helps users who want to improve their PC with upgrades or new hardware.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  Updated coverage in the new edition:\n </strong>\n This new edition offers updated information on Windows XP Service Pack 2, wireless networking, broadband Internet, Internet connectionÂ  sharing, digital music and recording, digital photos and scanners, and the latest hardware--CD and recordable DVD drives, USB ports, LCD monitors, optical mice, and more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Getting Around This Book If you''re new to computers, take a look at the first part of this book, The Big Picture. The Big Picture gives you an overview of PCs and provides helpful cross-references to other things you do with a PC. Or jump in at any part, where you find an alphabetical listing of the topics covered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the lowdown on keyboards, Windows, disk drives, files, printing, software, the Internet, maintenance, peripherals and add-ons, troubleshooting, and just plain old having fun with your PC.\n</p>\n<p>\n A handy appendix offers our very own Top Ten list:\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten Things Worth Buying for Your PC.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1890'),
(19482, 'PCs Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re looking for step-by-step instructions for learning a PC,\n <em>\n  PCs Just The Steps For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n , has exactly what you need. Author Nancy Muir knows how to get PC beginners up to speed in a hurry, the fun and easy way.\n</p>\n<p>\n No lengthy theory here;\n <em>\n  Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n books focus on the steps necessary to accomplish key tasks. From the most basic things like turning on your PC and setting the date and time to setting up and using a wireless network, youâ€™ll find simple steps that lead to great results. You learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with the Start menu\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate Windows Vista\n </li>\n <li>\n  View the contents of a drive with Windows Explorer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a password\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play movies with Windows Media Player\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your Internet connection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse the Web with Internet Explorer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with sound and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wired Ethernet network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot problems with hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run Windows Update, and many more common PC tasks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s easy to find what you want to know, because every chapter lists the tasks it covers and the page on which each can be found. Tasks are presented with numbered steps and plenty of illustrations that show you what you should be seeing on your screen.\n <em>\n  PCs Just The Steps For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n gets you going with that new PC in no time, and itâ€™s a great reference to keep handy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Easy steps to learning Vista, getting online, and networking\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for picking the right computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Vista system tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with multimedia\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organizational secrets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to browse the Web and send e-mail\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Security and maintenance advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to connect with others\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n View a Digital Image in Windows Photo Gallery\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   After you upload your photos to your computer, you can view them on-screen. To begin, choose StartÃAll ProgramsÃWindows Photo Gallery.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In the resulting Windows Photo Gallery window, as shown in Figure 13-9, click any of the items in the Navigation pane on the left to choose which images to display (such as those taken in a certain year or saved in a certain folder).\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In the main area of the window, double-click an image to display it. Then you can use the tools at the bottom of the window that appears (see Figure 13-10) to do any of the following: The Undo feature in this window allows you to pick the action you want to undo, unlike many Undo features that force you to undo all the actions leading back to the action you want to undo.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1891'),
(19483, 'PCs Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your first PC can be intimidating. Youâ€™re probably panicky that youâ€™ll hit a wrong key and send your information to some high-tech black hole or cause your PC to self-destruct. Not to worry.\n <em>\n  PCs Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you simple directions for getting stuff done with your PCâ€”everything from turning it on to using the Internet or a network. The bookâ€™s design features two columns, with numbered step-by-step instructions on one side and corresponding illustrations, screen shots, or photos on the other. You just pick the task you want to do and look up practical, no-nonsense how-to. This guide covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hardware basics and peripherals, including printers, faxes, and scanners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Windows XP, including managing memory and working with files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with sound and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Going online, searching the Web with Internet Explorer, and e-mailing with Outlook Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  Networking, including configuration and connection and sharing folders or printers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protecting and troubleshooting your PC\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With practical organization and a task-oriented approach, this book will have you inspired instead of intimidated. You wonâ€™t get an unabridged history of computers and a lot of gibberish; you will get clear, easy-to-follow instructions that help you get your tasks done efficiently on your PC.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps... for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Choose a Desktop Background\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Right-click the desktop and choose Properties from the shortcut menu that appears.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the resulting Display Properties dialog box, click the Desktop tab to display it, as shown in Figure 11-13.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select a desktop background option from the Background list.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n If you don''t want an image on your desktop, choose None for your background and then choose a color from the Color drop-down palette. If you don''t like the colors offered, you can access a whole range of colors by clicking the Other button in the Color palette.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hook up your printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize Windows XP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your monitor the way you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a wired or wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect and troubleshoot your PC\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1892'),
(19484, 'PCWorld 04-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(19485, 'PCWorld 05-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(19486, 'PCWorld 08-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3463'),
(19487, 'PCWorld 09-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3462'),
(19488, 'PCWorld 09-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3712'),
(19489, 'PCWorld 10-2011', 'PCWorld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3833'),
(19490, 'Peachtree for Dummies', 'Elaine Marmel &amp; Diane Koers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not feeling too peachy about computerizing your accounting system? Relax!\n <em>\n  Peachtree For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n will show you how to set up your company in Peachtree and then use it to pay bills, invoice customers, pay employees, produce financial reports, and more. Youâ€™ll quickly discover how Peachtree can save you time, effort, and money so that you no longer have to do your accounting by hand or pay someone else to do it for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Publishing to coincide with the latest release of Peachtree, this third edition is revised to cover the newest updates and enhancements made to the most recent version of Peachtree. Veteran authors Elaine Marmel and Diane Koers break down the capabilities of Peachtree Premium Accounting, from building an effective chart of accounts, to customizing forms and modifying reports, to setting up default information that will save you time down the line. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with purchase orders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sell products and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate invoices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track project costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce income statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up and restore data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balance accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle customer prepayments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pay for purchase orders with a credit card\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your account information safe\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with examples of everyday, real-life situations,\n <em>\n  Peachtree For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n is the reference you need so that you can put Peachtree to work for you and get the job done quickly and correctly.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<p>\n Set up easy invoicing\n <br />\n Tackle general ledger tasks\n <br />\n Create budgets and balance sheets\n <br />\n Generate quarterly reports and W-2s\n <br />\n Use powerful import/export features\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1893'),
(19491, 'Peachtree for Dummies', 'Elaine J. Marmel &amp; Diane Koers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Software thatâ€™s full of flavor for your small business!\n</p>\n<p>\n Manage your books, your business, and your Internet presence with Peachtree\n</p>\n<p>\n Who knew that accounting software could be so sweet? This updated guide covers the newest release of Peachtree and prepares you to fearlessly take a bite out of accounting. Youâ€™ll save time and money by using this computerized accounting software, and youâ€™ll see how the latest enhancements to Peachtree can make your business even juicier!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and track inventory items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sell products and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track project costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pay bills and adjust prices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate financial statements and payroll\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your data\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<p>\n Set up easy invoicing\n <br />\n Tackle general ledger tasks\n <br />\n Create budgets and balance sheets\n <br />\n Generate quarterly reports and W-2s\n <br />\n Use powerful import/export features\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1894'),
(19492, 'Pearl of China', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.  In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family, Pearl the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. She will ultimately become the internationally renowned author Pearl S. Buck, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blonde hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. The two embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.  Moving out into the world together, the two enter the intellectual fray of the times, share love interests and survive early marriages gone bad. Their shared upbringing inspires Pearl ''s novels, which celebrate the life of the Chinese peasant and will eventually earn her both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize. But when a civil war erupts between the Nationalists and Communists, Pearl is forced to flee the country just ahead of angry mobs. Willow, despite close ties to Mao''s inner circle, is punished for loyalty to her ''cultural imperialist" friend. And yet, through love and loss, heartbreak and joy, exile and imprisonment, the two women remain intimately entwined.  In this ambitious new novel, Anchee Min brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who is now hailed in China as a modern heroine. Like nothing before it, Pearl of China tells the story of one of the twentieth century''s greatest writers, from the perspective of the people she loved and of the land she called home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4063'),
(19493, 'Peloton', 'August &amp; September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3573'),
(19494, 'Penthouse 10-2011', 'Penthouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3879'),
(19495, 'Penthouse Letters - December 2011', '12 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7208'),
(19496, 'Penthouse Magazine', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6060'),
(19497, 'Penthouse Magazine Portugal', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5896'),
(19498, 'Penthouse US - November  2011', 'November  2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6814'),
(19499, 'Penthouse USA 2011-11', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6858'),
(19500, 'A Perfect Evi', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nick Morrelli is the Platte City, Nebraska, sheriff who must be smarter than he appears, since there''s a framed Harvard law degree hanging on his wall. Not that appearances don''t count. The reader is treated to a number of descriptions of his sexy, lady-killer looks and his charismatic effect on even the most hard-bitten woman character in this somewhat muddled, serial-killer thriller. Nick is investigating the kidnap-murders of two young Platte City boys when FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell shows up and all but takes over the investigation. Several years earlier, the former sheriff--Nick''s father--capped his own career with the arrest of the last serial killer in the neighborhood, who abducted and tortured three boys in an eerily similar crime spree. When Antonio Morrelli returns from retirement to meddle in the investigation, and when Nick''s own sister uses her connections to advance his career, Nick hardly raises an objection. And that''s the central weakness of what would otherwise be a good, first effort. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4047');
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(19501, 'Performance Appraisals &amp; Phrases for Dummies', 'Ken Lloyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The tools you need to enrich the performance-appraisal experience as you streamline the process\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a manger looking to implement employee appraisals for the first time, concerned with improving the quality and effectiveness of the appraisal process, or simply trying to save time and mental anguish\n <em>\n  Performance Appraisals &amp; Phrases For Dummies\n </em>\n provides the tools you need to save time and energy while presenting fair and accurate evaluations that foster employee growth.\n</p>\n<p>\n This convenient, portable package includes a full-length appraisal phrasebook featuring over 3,200 spot-on phrases and plenty of quick-hitting expert tips on making the most out of the process. You''ll also receive online access to writable, customizable sample evaluation forms other timesaving resources.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Includes more thanÂ 3,200 phrases for clear, and helpful evaluations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps make evaluations faster, more effective, and far less stressful\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers far more advice and coaching than other performance appraisal books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Serves as an ideal guide for managers new to the appraisal process\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With expert advice from Ken Lloyd, a nationally recognized consultant and author,\n <em>\n  Performance Appraisals and Phrases For Dummies\n </em>\n makes the entire process easier, faster, and more productive for you\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n your employees.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tools you need to streamline the process and foster employee growth\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to conduct employee appraisals? This compact, hands-on guide saves you time and energy while helping you present fair, accurate evaluations and enrich the performance appraisal experience. You get more than 3,200 powerful phrases as well as plenty of expert tips on conducting an effective appraisal session.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time to appraise â€” build a solid understanding of the wide range of appraisal systems, techniques, processes, and forms, and gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work your way through the process â€” get hands-on tools to make appraisals smooth, functional, and highly effective\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use phrases and expressions that work â€” discover thousands of phrases designed to encourage and motivate employees, as well as to identify areas that need improvement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save time and effort â€” gain access to writeable, customizable sample evaluation forms and other timesaving resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Over 3,200 phrases for clear, helpful evaluations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Specific guidelines on how to conduct an appraisal\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   State-of-the-art coaching and advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for data gathering, analysis, and planning\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for making the process more productive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Outstanding behaviors that merit special recognition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extra tools to enhance communication\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1895'),
(19502, 'Performance.Auto.and.Sound.2011-09.pdf 26-09-2011', 'Performance.Auto.and.Sound.2011-09.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6840'),
(19503, 'Performance.Auto.Sound.USA.Readers.Choice.2011.pdf 21-10-2011', 'Performance.Auto.Sound.USA.Readers.Choice.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10885'),
(19504, 'Personal Bankruptcy Laws for Dummies', 'James P. Caher &amp; John M. Caher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With tips on understanding -- and surviving -- the new bankruptcy laws\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re considering bankruptcy, you need straightforward answers and reliable advice. This handy guide covers it all -- so you can get your finances in line and your life back on track. This updated new edition covers everything you need to know about the new bankruptcy law and includes even better resources. Don''t get desperate -- get out of debt instead!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Weigh the consequences of bankruptcy\n <br />\n * Manage your spending\n <br />\n * Find professional help you can trust\n <br />\n * Decide on the right type of bankruptcy\n <br />\n * Pass the means test\n <br />\n * Keep more of your stuff\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n With tips on understanding â€” and surviving â€” the new bankruptcy laws\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re considering bankruptcy, you need straightforward answers and reliable advice. This handy guide covers it all â€” so you can get your finances in line and your life back on track. This updated new edition covers everything you need to know about the new bankruptcy law and includes even better resources. Don''t get desperate â€” get out of debt instead!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Weigh the consequences of bankruptcy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your spending\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find professional help you can trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide on the right type of bankruptcy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pass the means test\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep more of your stuff\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1896'),
(19505, 'Personal Finance for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Too many personal finance consultants offer financial advice that ignores the big picture and instead focuses on investing. You need much more than that to plan your future. You need a broader understanding of personal finance that includes all areas of your financial life in order to become financially sound.  Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition is full of detailed, action-oriented financial advice that will show you how to lower expenses and tame debts as well as invest wisely to achieve your financial goals! Now in its 5th edition, this up-to-date guide covers all the latest trends to ensure your financial stability. Just some of the updates and revisions include:  Reviews of the new and revised tax laws and how to take advantage of them The latest scoop on Medicare and Social Security and what it means for you Updated investment advice on mutual funds and other managed investments Enhanced smart spending tips Coverage of new bankruptcy laws and how to eliminate consumer debt Smart ways to use credit and improve credit scores Expanded coverage on educational savings options   This hands-on, straightforward guide features ways to survive life changes such as starting your first job, getting married, having children, and retiring, as well as helpful tactics for preventing identity theft and fraud. With Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition, youâ€™ll be able to achieve financial strength and start concentrating on the more important things in life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1897'),
(19506, 'Personal Finance for Seniors for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Robert C. Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fast and easy way for Baby Boomers to protect their financial future\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you nearing (or already basking in) retirement? This helpful guide addresses the unique financial opportunities and challenges you''ll face as you enter your golden years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n empowers you to chart your financial course for the decades to come, guiding you through the basics of creating a budget for retirement, investing accrued assets, taking advantage of governmental and nongovernmental benefits and planning for your family''s future. You''ll get trusted, practical information on reexamining investment strategies and rebalancing a portfolio, long-term care options, pension plans and social security, health care, Medicare, and prescription drug costs, and so much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Advice on how to invest, spend, and protect your wealth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guidance on wills and trusts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Other titles by Tyson:\n  <em>\n   Personal Finance For Dummies, Investing For Dummies,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Home Buying For Dummies\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n is basic enough to help novices get their arms around thorny financial issues, while also challenging advanced readers to identify areas for improvement.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fast and easy way for Baby Boomers to protect their financial future\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you nearing (or already basking in) retirement? Are you aware of the unique financial opportunities and challenges you''ll face in your golden years? This hands-on, practical guide empowers you to chart your financial course with targeted advice for investing, spending, and protecting your wealth for the decades to come.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan, plan, plan â€” understand just how important it is to plan ahead for retirement (and how it''ll give you more attractive financial options in the future)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle the issues â€” discover the best ways to manage your annual expenses and budget so you''ll have enough to live on now and in the years ahead\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your benefits â€” get the lowdown on government programs available, like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tie up loose ends â€” find out how to plan your estate (no matter how large or modest), prepare a will, and determine considerations for a living will, medical powers of attorney, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on when to retire and guidance on estimating expenses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your best investments for retirement money\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plain-English explanations of retirement account options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to adjust spending when life throws you a curve ball\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on choosing pension options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Housing choices in retirement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best Social Security and healthcare benefits for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to reduce your estate taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a budget for retirement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wisely invest, spend, and protect your wealth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plot the windy road of pension plans, Social Security, healthcare, and Medicare\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1898'),
(19507, 'Personal Finance Workbook for Dummies', 'Sheryl Garrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do the terms personal finance or money management drudge up feelings of inadequacy, confusion, discomfort or fear in you?\n <em>\n  Personal Finance Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you calm your negative feelings and get your financial house in order at the same time. And, you''ll be amazed how easy it is to get on the road to financial fitness.\n</p>\n<p>\n From spending and saving to investing wisely, this hands-on workbook walks you through a private financial counseling session and shows you how to assess your situation and manage your money. You''ll learn how to use credit wisely, plan for large expenses, determine your insurance needs, and make smarter financial decisions. Plus, the featured worksheets and checklists help you manage your day-to-day spending and plan for a robust financial future. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Take stock of your financial history and determine your net worth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a personal financial plan that meets your saving and investing goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop good spending habits and get out of debtâ€”without budgeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore your dreams, grow your wealth, and protect your assets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the most out of your money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minimize your taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for big-ticket purchases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pay for your kids'' college tuition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure a comfortable retirement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Leave a substantial estate for your heirs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The easy-to-follow exercises in\n <em>\n  Personal Finance Workbook for Dummies\n </em>\n take the drudgery and pain out of managing your money. Order this time- and money-saving guide now; it''ll brighten your financial future and your mood.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From spending and saving to investing wisely, get on the road to financial fitness\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to get a handle on your personal finances? No problem â€” this practical, hands-on workbook shows you how to assess your situation and manage your money, walking you through a private financial counseling session. From budgeting and using credit wisely to planning for large expenses and determining your insurance needs, you''ll discover how to make smarter financial decisions. Plus, the featured worksheets and checklists help you manage your day-to-day spending and plan for a robust financial future.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take stock of your financial history and determine your net worth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a personal financial plan that meets your saving and investing goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop good spending habits â€” and get out of debt\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grow your wealth and protect your assets\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1899'),
(19508, 'The Phantom of Manhattan', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera.In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux''s brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera....More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soon thereafter, his intense, unrequited love for a beautiful chorus girl set in motion a tragic string of events, forcing him to flee Paris forever. Now, as she lies dying in a convent, Madam Giry tells the untold story of the Phantom and his clandestine journey to New York City to start anew, where he would become a wealthy entrepreneur and build the glorious Manhattan Opera House....all so he could see his beloved, now a famous diva, once again. But the outcome of her visit would prove even more devastating than before-- and yet, would allow the Phantom to know, for the first time in his brutal life, the true meaning of love....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6341'),
(19509, 'Philosophy of Torah', 'Rabbi Israel Chait', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(19510, 'Phonics for Dummies', 'Susan M. Greve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features kid- and parent-friendly tips and activities\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to grasp the ABCs of reading\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to introduce your child to reading, or strengthen your child''s reading skills? This fun and entertaining guide shows you how to use phonics as an easy and engaging path to reading.\n <em>\n  Phonics For Dummies\n </em>\n contains tips on mastering letter sounds in reading, activities to engage your child''s enthusiasm, and advice for making reading interesting and fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use phonics to learn to read\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve reading and spelling skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master unusual sounds and spellings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your child''s vocabulary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play games that encourage progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All this on the audio CD:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dozens of letter sounds in friendly lessons\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keywords to help your child with reading and spelling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy examples and tips for your child to follow\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features kid- and parent-friendly tips and activities\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to grasp the ABCs of reading\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to introduce your child to reading, or strengthen your child''s reading skills? This fun and entertaining guide shows you how to use phonics as an easy and engaging path to reading.\n <em>\n  Phonics For Dummies\n </em>\n contains tips on mastering letter sounds in reading, activities to engage your child''s enthusiasm, and advice for making reading interesting and fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use phonics to learn to read\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve reading and spelling skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master unusual sounds and spellings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your child''s vocabulary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play games that encourage progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  All this on the audio CD:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dozens of letter sounds in friendly lessons\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keywords to help your child with reading and spelling\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy examples and tips for your child to follow\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1900'),
(19511, 'Photo.Technique.November-December.2011.Slicer.pdf 19-10-2011', 'Photo.Technique.November-December.2011.Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10789'),
(19512, 'Photography Monthly', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10565'),
(19513, 'Photography Monthly 05-2011', 'Photography Monthly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(19514, 'Photography Monthly 06-10-2011', 'Photography Monthly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10577'),
(19515, 'Photography Monthly 09-09-2011', 'Photography Monthly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4732'),
(19516, 'PhotoPlus - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3645'),
(19517, 'PhotoPlus-October.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'PhotoPlus-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6714'),
(19518, 'The PhotoReading Whole Mind System', 'Paul Scheele', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4851'),
(19519, 'Photoshop Album for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes full-color examples to help make your images picture perfect!\n</p>\n<p>\n Organize your photos and share them as slide shows, e-cards, or personalized gifts\n</p>\n<p>\n At last, there''s a better way to manage your virtual shoebox full of digital images! Photoshop Album helps you store, sort, and show off your photos in dozens of creative ways. This book gets you started, helps you import and improve your pictures, shows you cool new ways to share them, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n <br />\n * Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Icons and other navigational aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * Top ten lists\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes full-color examples to help make your images picture perfect!\n</p>\n<p>\n Organize your photos and share them as slide shows, e-cards, or personalized gifts\n</p>\n<p>\n At last, thereâ€™s a better way to manage your virtual shoebox full of digital images! Photoshop Album helps you store, sort, and show off your photos in dozens of creative ways. This book gets you started, helps you import and improve your pictures, shows you cool new ways to share them, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1902'),
(19520, 'Photoshop CS All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n you can''t argue with the price&amp;you''ll never need to invest in another Photoshop CS reference book again&amp; --\n <em>\n  Digital Photography Made Easy, March 2004\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n &amp;you''ll find an amazing collection of tips&amp;the tome is light and friendly enough that learning is never a struggle&amp; --\n <em>\n  Digital Creative Arts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦youâ€™ll find an amazing collection of tipsâ€¦the tome is light and friendly enough that learning is never a struggleâ€¦â€ (_Digital Creative Arts_)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦you canâ€™t argue with the priceâ€¦youâ€™ll never need to invest in another Photoshop CS reference book againâ€¦â€ (_Digital Photography Made Easy_, March 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The complete For Dummies Photoshop resource-ten minibooks with more than 800 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers Photoshop fundamentals, image essentials, selections, painting, drawing and typing, working with layers, channels and masks, filters and distortions, retouching and restoration, Photoshop and the Web, and Photoshop and print\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to create and manage layers, use channels and masks, make corrections with filters, fix flaws and imperfections, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated and revised throughout for Photoshop "X," which Adobe expects to release in Fall 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features sixteen pages of full-color examples\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by veteran For Dummies author Barbara Obermeier, a leading design and graphics author\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(19521, 'Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Phyllis Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦offers a different perspective by looking at productivity boostersâ€¦the accessible tone means this book is unlikely to confuseâ€¦â€\n <em>\n  (iCreate\n </em>\n , No.12, 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦Approachable guideâ€¦ideal if you want pointers without wading through blocks of textâ€¦â€ (_PC Home_, November 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ...ideal if you want pointers without wading through blocks of textâ€ (_Web Pages Made Easy_, August 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦well written, easy to followâ€¦ beginner to intermediate Photoshop users are sure to find something to learn.â€ (_PC Utilities_, No 54, 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦Davis does a sterling job of explaining many of the programâ€™s complex areas with style, panacheâ€¦and simplistic writing style.â€ (_Digital Camera Buyer_, No. 24, 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This guide will probably change your image of Photoshop. Many users tend to use it to do certain things in certain ways and donâ€™t even explore additional features and capabilities.\n <em>\n  Photoshop cs Timesaving Techniques For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you more than 60 timesaving techniques that will speed up the way you do the things you do now and inspire you to do lots more. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and use peripheral devices such as digital cameras, scanners, tablets, and printers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize Photoshop to fit your needs with custom keyboard shortcuts, a color management system, presets, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create custom palette groups and workspaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use a drawing tablet and stylus to easily double your output\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create sketches, water colors, and silkscreens and paint with oils\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create professional-quality separations for high-quality offset printing, including using the CMYK prepress settings, soft proofing, adding printerâ€™s marks and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create action sets so you can perform repetitive tasks that would take an hour in seconds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize, color code, and lock layers and create layer sets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Blending Modes (there are more than 20 to choose from) to enhance images\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Phyllis Davis, a writer, graphics and Web designer, teacher, and graphics software expert , this guide features a Color Insert so you can see the results of many of the techniques explained, and a companion Web site (www.dummies.com/go/photoshopcstt_)_ where you can download many of the images and follow along and experiment. Youâ€™ll discover how to get results like a pro as you experiment with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating great effects with layer styles, using the five types of bevel and emboss, inner and outer glows, blending, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the Brush and Pencil painting tools and the Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Burn, and Sponge editing tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhancing photos, creating montages and panoramas, recoloring, retouching, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating shadow type, knock-out type, liquid type, metal type, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating GIF animations, hotspots, and rollovers for the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll save steps and discover exciting new possibilities with these 60-plus timesaving, image-saving techniques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1904'),
(19522, 'Photoshop CS2 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brace yourselfâ€”this\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n guide is in full, dazzling color! That way you can see how you can lighten, brighten, blur, sharpen, or even age your digital images with Photoshop CS2. Chances are you have Photoshop CS2 and have explored it enough to know that you need a good guide to make the most of all its capabilities and get up to speed fast. Odds are youâ€™ve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe youâ€™re a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEOâ€™s smile. Maybe youâ€™re a novice and gleefully extracted your ex from old photos and gave yourself a flattering mini-makeover at the same time. Maybe you used it to remove a scratch from a treasured family photo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Regardless, you probably havenâ€™t scratched the surface. Photoshop CS2 gives you so many options and tools for digital image creation, correction, and enhancement that even experienced pros can discover new techniques and shortcuts. With explanations for working on a PC or a Mac,\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS2 All-In-One desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is your complete resource that:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Combines nine minibooks: (1) Photoshop Fundamentals (2) Image Essentials (3) Selections (4) Painting, Drawing, and Typing (5) Working with Layers (6) Channels and Masks (7) Filters and Distortions (8) Retouching and Restoration (9) Photoshop and Print\n </li>\n <li>\n  Has more than 650 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Is in glorious, full color, with all kinds of photographs and examples\n </li>\n <li>\n  Has tons of screen shots so youâ€™ll know exactly what to look for on your screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides a tear out Cheat Sheet thatâ€™s your instant reference for finding your way around Photoshop CS2, accessing the tools palette through shortcuts, and making selections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gets you up to speed on the new Adobe Bridge that lets you view, search, and organize your files, edit Camera Raw files, search for and purchase royalty-free stock photography, synchronize color settings, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduces you to the 58 tools in the Tools palette, from the Pen to the Eraserâ€¦ the Spot Healing Brush to the Burnâ€¦the Clone Stamp to the Red Eye\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to work with Vanishing Pointâ€”the new feature that lets you edit three dimensionally on a two-dimension image\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features special Putting-It-Together exercises that walk you through numbered steps to show you how to do various tasks such as getting the red out of eyes, making and fine-tuning a collage, and more; images on the bookâ€™s companion Web site let you follow along\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 books in 1 â€” your key to fantastic Photoshop results!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop, full-color guide to image editing success\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop has become the industry standard because it''s really that good. But it''s also that big. Dividing all that information into nine handy minibooks lets you find what you want when you want it â€” whether it''s choosing resolution and file format; using the new Spot Healing Brush; working with layers, channels, and masks; or preparing images for print.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize files with Adobe Bridge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time with presets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Neutralize red eyes with the one-click red eye correction tool\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select complex shapes easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Repair flaws and imperfections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create collages with text and pictures\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1905'),
(19523, 'Photoshop CS2 for Dummies', 'Peter Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a photography hobbyist, would you like to brighten up that gloomy island vacation photo? Slim down without going on a diet? See whether white or green shutters look best on the house? Expunge the ex-boyfriend from family photos?\n</p>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a pro or semi-pro photographer, would you like to make it snow in that ski resort photo?Â  Replace the old logo in the glamour shot of the corporate headquarters with the new one?Â  Grow hair in the CEOâ€™s glaring bald spot?Â  Freshen up the lettuce in that food shot?\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve come to the right place. With Photoshop CS2, you have the tools. With\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS2 For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll have the know-how.Â  In full color, with all kinds of examples, screen shots, step-by-step explanations, tips, and techniques, this guide takes you from the fundamentals to special power-user tricks! Cross-platform Mac-PC coverage includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The basics of getting around in Photoshop, getting images into and out of Photoshop, choosing the right file formats, and setting your preferences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with tonality, including making easy Auto Repairs, making adjustments with Levels and Curves (and the eyedroppers), and using Shadow/Highlight and the toning tools, Burn and Dodge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making color look natural using the color adjustment commands\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking advantage of the RAW format for maximum flexibility, including using the Adjust, Detail, Lens, Curve, and Calibrate tabs and the Camera Raw buttons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tuning your fixes, including making your selections with tools (four marquee tools, three lasso tools, and the Magic Wand tool)Â \n </li>\n <li>\n  Masking for both layer visibility and for protecting parts of your images\n </li>\n <li>\n  The most common problems in digital photosâ€”red-eye, wrinkles, unwanted objects and people, and noiseâ€”and what to do about them\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With Photoshop CS2, you can go beyond enhancing your images to create â€œart.â€ You have a very powerful painting engine, an extremely complex Brushes palette, and all kinds of painting tools.\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS2 For Dummies\n </em>\n walks you though:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Compositing (combining images into a piece of artwork) and working with layers, including choosing from the almost two dozen blending modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selecting with Extract which is great for making tough selections, such as flyaway hair and various types of fringe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Vanishing Point to â€œmapâ€ a pattern to angled surfaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating panoramas with Photomerge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating precision edges with vector paths, including using shape layers and the Custom Shape tool, choosing from more than 300 ready-to-use shapes with the Custom Shape Picker, and using the Pen tool to create paths\n </li>\n <li>\n  Where to find dozens, or even hundreds, of custom shapes already on your computer â€“ absolutely free\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dressing up images with layer styles, including using the Styles palette and creating custom layer styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding text messages and tweaking your text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the extensive painting tools and the Brushes palette\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using filters, including sharpening to focus the eye using blur filters or the Unsharp Mask and the new Smart Sharpen filter that give incredible control\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting fun effects with the Liquify filter\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In a special Power Photoshop section, youâ€™ll learn about streamlining your work, including creating a PDF for both onscreen presentation and for printing. Youâ€™ll discover how to spiff up your online images by working with Image Ready to slice, optimize, and otherwise juice up your images for the Web and how to create fancy rollover buttons and fun animations,Â \n</p>\n<p>\n From basic cropping to complex techniques that can turn good photos into great ones,\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS2 For Dummies\n </em>\n is your guide to exploring all the possibilities that await you in Photoshop CS2.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tame the Photoshop toolkit and get dazzling results\n</p>\n<p>\n Grasp the basics, correct color and tonality, work with Raw files, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Wait till you see what you can do with Photoshop CS2! You''ll start with the nitty-gritty stuff, like how to get images out of your digital camera and into Photoshop, and go all the way to creating works of art with twisted type and the Photoshop Brush tool. Feeling even more adventurous? Check out Part IV for power-user tricks!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Download, scan, crop, and print photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjust brightness, correct color, and fix flaws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right file format for your images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand the Raw file format\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn photos into works of art\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1906'),
(19524, 'Photoshop CS3 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get your picture-perfect guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS3.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Photoshop, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly master the new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS3, you''ve come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover Photoshop fundamentals plus the newest tools and techniques. "Putting It Together" exercises give you hands-on experience. This is your one-stop guide to Photoshop. You''ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Specify size and resolution.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct contrast, color, and clarity.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create top-notch selections.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Composite images with layers and blending modes.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make adjustments with levels and curves.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prep graphics for print or the Web.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Order your copy of this 9 books in 1 - with hundreds of examples in full color -- today!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9 books in 1 â€” with hundreds of examples in full color!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your picture-perfect guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS3\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Photoshop, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly take advantage of the new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS3, you''ve come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover Photoshop fundamentals plus the newest tools and techniques. "Putting It Together" exercises give you hands-on experience. This is your one-stop guide to Photoshop.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Specify size and resolution\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Correct contrast, color, and clarity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create top-notch selections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Composite images with layers and blending modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make adjustments with levels and curves\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prep graphics for print or the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1907'),
(19525, 'Photoshop CS3 for Dummies', 'Peter Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n <br />\n Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniques\n <br />\n The secrets of digital image editing - explained in plain English!\n <br />\n Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here''s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop - and then turn them into dazzling works of art. You''ll see how to work in the right file formats, master the Brushes palette, get creative with filters, convert color to grayscale, and more!\n <br />\n * Adjust brightness, improve color, and fix flaws\n <br />\n * Take advantage of the Raw file format\n <br />\n * Composite images with layers and blending modes\n <br />\n * Automate your tasks with scripts and Actions\n <br />\n * Apply the new Smart Filters to Smart Objects\n <br />\n From the Back Cover\n <br />\n Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniques\n <br />\n The secrets of digital image editing â€” explained in plain English!\n <br />\n Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here''s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop â€” and then turn them into dazzling works of art. You''ll see how to work in the right file formats, master the Brushes palette, get creative with filters, convert color to grayscale, and more!\n <br />\n * Adjust brightness, improve color, and fix flaws\n <br />\n * Take advantage of the Raw file format\n <br />\n * Composite images with layers and blending modes\n <br />\n * Automate your tasks with scripts and Actions\n <br />\n * Apply the new Smart Filters to Smart Objects\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1908'),
(19526, 'Photoshop CS4 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop Photoshop reference, filled with the latest tips and techniques\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s a reason why Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software. But itâ€™s also that big, Photoshop has so many facets and features that a handy one-stop guide is exactly what you need. And youâ€™ll love the â€œPutting It Togetherâ€ exercises that give you hands-on experience â€“ in rich, full color!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn the parts â€” the desktop, menus, panels, and key tools, and how to use Adobe Bridge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your selection â€” learn about each of the selection tools plus the powerful Pen tool and Paths panel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Brush up â€” on the Brush and Pencil tools and how to create vector shapes, create and edit type, and put type on a path\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restore and retouch â€” correct and enhance color, improve contrast, and use the Clone Stamp and Healing tools to fix flaws and damage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print it â€” learn how to get the right resolution, image mode, and file format, and prepare your work for printing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to crop images and increase their canvas size\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for creating gradients and patterns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on resizing images\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to composite images with layers and blending modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Filter techniques to correct or alter images\n </li>\n <li>\n  How the Vanishing Point feature makes editing easier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Steps for making adjustments with levels and curves\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create contact sheets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your one-stop Photoshop reference, filled with the latest tips and techniques\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s a reason why Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software. But Photoshop has so many facets and features that a handy one-stop guide is exactly what you need. And you''ll love the "Putting It Together" exercises that give you hands-on experience â€” in rich, full color!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the parts â€” the desktop, menus, panels, and key tools, and how to use Adobe Bridge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your selection â€” learn about each of the selection tools plus the powerful Pen tool and Paths panel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Brush up â€” on the Brush and Pencil tools and how to create vector shapes, create and edit type, and put type on a path\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Restore and retouch â€” correct and enhance color, improve contrast, and use the Clone Stamp and Healing tools to fix flaws and damage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Print it â€” learn how to get the right resolution, image mode, and file format, and prepare your work for printing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to crop images and increase their canvas size\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for creating gradients and patterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on resizing images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to composite images with layers and blending modes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Filter techniques to correct or alter images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the Vanishing Point feature makes editing easier\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for making adjustments with levels and curves\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create layer and channel masking for accurate selections\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Go to dummies.comÂ® for more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/photoshopcs4 for extra tips on optimizing images, slicing and animating them, and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1909'),
(19527, 'Photoshop CS4 for Dummies', 'Peter Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is a book once read you will return to when Photoshop will just not do what you tell it to do" (GadgetSpeak.com, March 8th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and\n <em>\n  Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies\n </em>\n will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, itâ€™s all here!\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. Youâ€™ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, youâ€™ll be making beautiful â€œartâ€ with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Import images and use all the tools and processes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize images for print or the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add layer styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten reasons to love your Wacom tablet, ten reasons to own a digital camera, and ten favorite tips and tricks,\n <em>\n  Adobe CS4\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop CS4 for all your digital photography needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1910'),
(19528, 'Photoshop CS5 for Dummies', 'Peter Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦written so that even beginners to the software can be up and running in no time at all''. (Photoshopdaily.co.uk, August 2010). â€˜This book does a sterling job of breaking everything down into small nuggets of information.'' (Digital SLR, October, 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, fully updated\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Previous editions of this\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n guide have sold more 650,000 copies. Richly illustrated in full color, this edition covers all the updates in the newest version of Photoshop, the gold standard for image-editing programs. Used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists, Photoshop has more than four million users worldwide.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Teaches all the basics for first-time users, including how to work with the menus, panels, tools, options, and essential shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers how to fix red-eye, remove blemishes and wrinkles, remove people or objects from a photo, adjust brightness, improve color, add shadows and highlights, work with Camera Raw, decrease digital noise, create composite images, use channels and masks, optimize images for the Web, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS5 For Dummies\n </em>\n helps both amateur and professional Photoshop users take advantage of all the program has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1901');
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(19529, 'Photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies', 'Deke Mcclelland &amp; Galen Fott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you want to rearm Venus de Milo, shave Uncle Harryâ€™s beard, or turn gray skies to blue? Have at it with Photoshop_Elements 3 For Dummies,_ your guide to enhancing the effect, fixing the flaws, or adding artistic effects to your photos. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Import and organize your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create, rearrange, blend and manipulate layers to create a composite image\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save photos using the correct file formatâ€” TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, PDF (Portable Document Format), or BMP (for PC users)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save for the Web with JPEG and GIF\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of the terrific Help Great Help system, including a How To palette with step-by-step tutorials for image editing and features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a slide show, a picture package, or a Web photo gallery\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Dele McClelland, award-winning author of more than 75 titles, including Photoshop\n <em>\n  for Dummies\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Photoshop CS Bible\n </em>\n , and Galen Fott, writer and reviewer for\n <em>\n  Macworld\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  PC Magazine.\n </em>\n It includes 16 pages of full-color examples that demonstrate capabilities and show you â€œbeforeâ€ and â€œafterâ€ photos. Youâ€™ll get step-by-step specifics on techniques that can transform your photos, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Selecting the area you want to work with using the lasso, marquee, or magic wand tools or the selection brush\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the healing brush to remove imperfections such as blemishes and the new red eye removal tool to remove that demonic glow\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjusting color with a variety of tools and techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Applying filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colored Pencil, Diffuse Glow, Glass, Glowing Edges and many more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Color correcting quickly with fast color-corrections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the layer styles in the Styles and Effects palette to let your imagination go wild with painting, drawing, applying drop shadows and bevels, adding text, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the brush, pencil, eraser, shape and cookie cutter tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with the type tools, including formatting options, warping type into unusual shapes, and creating outline type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making the most of the effects, including frame, image effects, text effects, and textures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Photomerge to create panoramic pictures\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies\n </em>\n doesnâ€™t just give you instructionsâ€”it gives you ideas. Youâ€™ll be inspired to capitalize on the capabilities and explore different techniques to enhance and share your photos.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loaded with tips on fixing flaws to create great photos\n</p>\n<p>\n Find your way around Elements 3, organize your photos, enhance them, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to do cool things with your photos but uneasy about braving the Elements? Never fear â€” this handy guide makes it easy to use all the hot new features for both MacÂ® and WindowsÂ®. Improve your pictures or distort them for artistic effect, correct shading, add highlights, change color, create slideshows or online galleries, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Import photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scanners\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and search your digital photo collection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Repair vintage photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create slideshows to share with family and friends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1911'),
(19530, 'Photoshop Elements 4 for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Whether you''re a hobbyist or a pro, look what you can do with Elements 4!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements is all grown up - a powerful program that''s easy to use and gives professional results. This book''s step-by-step instructions and full-color examples help you take creative control of Photoshop Elements'' tools. From sharpening and improving contrast to creating greeting cards, calendars, and photo albums in Windows, here''s how to tweak, improve, print, and share great pictures.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create sharp and colorful images for printing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine multiple images into creative collages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct color, contrast, and clarity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share photos as PDF slideshows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a Web photo gallery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and find photos fast\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Whether you''re a hobbyist or a pro, look what you can do with Elements 4!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements is all grown up â€” a powerful program that''s easy to use and gives professional results. This book''s step-by-step instructions and full-color examples help you take creative control of Photoshop Elements'' tools. From sharpening and improving contrast to creating greeting cards, calendars, and photo albums in Windows, here''s how to tweak, improve, print, and share great pictures.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create sharp and colorful images for printing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine multiple images into creative collages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct color, contrast, and clarity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share photos as PDF slideshows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a Web photo gallery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize and find photos fast\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1912'),
(19531, 'Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements 4 is the fast, easy, and inexpensive way to get studio-quality results from your digital images. You can\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Correct color, exposure, and lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix red-eye and other flaws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use image layers to alter the look of a photo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Change the background\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make albums, display photos online, or print your pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do almost everything you can do with Photoshop CS\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Chances are, you bought Elements because you want to make your photos look better. Maybe you take a lot of pictures and you look forward to sharing them. And if thatâ€™s the case, youâ€™re probably more interested in actually getting something done than in understanding the theory behind the software. Thatâ€™s why you need\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n is a lot like Elements itself â€” fast and easy. Task-based spreads let you find the task you want to perform, then show you step by step how to do it. You pick the task, find it fast, and get it done! For example:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize and find images quickly and easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Acquire photos from your mobile phone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an artistic effect by layering images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate files by caption, media type, or filename\n </li>\n <li>\n  Replace one color with another\n </li>\n <li>\n  Remove color halos from your subjects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Clean dust and scratches from your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a catalog, collection, album, or slideshow\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a photo look like an impressionist painting or a pencil sketch\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print photos on your own printer or order prints online\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s just a fraction of the tasks you can quickly find and perform with the help of this handy, no-nonsense guide.\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n is all about simple steps that lead to great results!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just the steps you need to enhance, repair, and share your photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ...for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fill a Selection with the Paint Bucket Tool\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Select the Paint Bucket tool from the Tools palette.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Specify your options on the Options bar. Tolerance specifies how similar in color a pixel must be before it is selected and filled. The lower the value, the more similar the color must be.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Click the area you want to select and fill. If things go awry, choose Edit?Undo and try again. In the figure, we put our fill on a separate layer and set the Blend mode to Color so the tones of the apple show through the color.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n The Paint Bucket tool makes a selection based on tolerance (similarly colored pixels) and fills that selection with a color and pattern. Reserve this tool for images with a limited number of colors.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize and find images quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print professional-looking photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct color, contrast, and clarity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create slideshows to share with family and friends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Layer images for artistic effects\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1913'),
(19532, 'Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with tips and tricks for creating dazzling images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore layers, change backgrounds, fix flaws, and artistically enhance photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements 5 is a powerhouse, and here''s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. Whether you''re new to digital photography or an old pro, you''ll find out how to make quick fixes, fine-tune exposure, brush away flaws, and print and share photos.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize and manage your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct contrast, color, and clarity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform simple image makeovers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Obtain accurate color from your desktop color printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get artsy with the pencil and brush tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce the family photo album\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with tips and tricks for creating dazzling images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore layers, change backgrounds, fix flaws, and artistically enhance photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements 5 is a powerhouse, and here''s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. Whether you''re new to digital photography or an old pro, you''ll find out how to make quick fixes, fine-tune exposure, brush away flaws, and print and share photos.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize and manage your photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct contrast, color, and clarity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform simple image makeovers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Obtain accurate color from your desktop color printer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get artsy with the pencil and brush tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce the family photo album\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1914'),
(19533, 'Photoshop Elements 7 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements 7 is a sophisticated image-editing program for hobbyists, amateur photographers, and professionals alike. Whether youâ€™re new to Elements or looking for the details on the newest version,\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 7 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you up to speed and offers a handy, full-color reference.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nine convenient minibooks cover everything you need to know about image editing, sharing files, and creating projects with Elements 7. They include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introducing Elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Elements Fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Image Essentials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Painting, Drawing, and Typing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with Layers and Masks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Filters, Effects, Styles, and Distortions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhancing and Retouching\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating and Sharing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by graphics and digital imaging experts Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova, this handy guide covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up your work environment, using tools and shortcuts, and managing your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with resolution, managing color, using appropriate file formats, and handling selections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the Brush and Pencil tools, working with layers, and creating artistic effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Erasing imperfections and fine-tuning color\n </li>\n <li>\n  Doing creative things with your photos, including slide shows, calendars, greeting cards, flip books, and other projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Managing images in Organizer and Bridge and the process for acquiring, saving, and exporting images\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to do quick image makeovers, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 7 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you get great photos for print, Web galleries, and cool projects thatâ€™ll make your friends say â€œwow!â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create extraordinary photos\n</p>\n<p>\n to share in print, on the Web,\n</p>\n<p>\n or as other cool projects!\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements is a powerful photo-editing program, and this handy, one-stop guide gives you the scoop on the latest tips and techniques â€” in rich, full color! These nine minibooks cover everything you need to know about organizing, editing, sharing, and creating projects with your photos.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The groundwork â€” Books I and II cover setting up your work environment, using tools and shortcuts, and managing your files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make them pretty â€” learn to work with resolution, manage color, use appropriate file formats, and handle selections in Books III and IV\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take it up a notch â€” in Books V, VI, and VII, learn to use Brush and Pencil, work with layers, and create artistic effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix the flaws â€” Book VIII helps you erase imperfections, fine-tune color, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be creative â€” with slide shows, calendars, greeting cards, flip books, and other projects in Book IX\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The process for acquiring, saving, and exporting images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for correcting lighting, color, and clarity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to work with Camera Raw files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for working with layers and masks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for modifying and transforming selections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to combine multiple images into creative collages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on working with type and getting artsy with the pencil and brush tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative applications for filters, effects, styles, and distortions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1915'),
(19534, 'Photoshop Elements 7 for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...overall it gives a better understanding of many of the issues...worth buying this book even before you upgrade" (GadgetSpeak.com, March 13th 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements lets you edit and enhance your digital photographs and images with professional quality tools. Whether youâ€™re a professional photographer or a beginner,\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the scoop on using this full-featured photo-editing program.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find out how to transform your ordinary photos into visually stunning creations. This book gives you the tools to enhance your images, fix flaws, share pictures online, correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, take charge with Shortcuts, present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, and create movie files. Youâ€™ll also learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the Organizer to move around efficiently in Elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct color, brightness, contrast, and exposure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Adobeâ€™s free Photoshop.com service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Streamline your work using shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with bitmap, grayscale, and indexed color modes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create albums and import images\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow creative applications for filters and effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare images for printing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums\n </li>\n <li>\n  Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use all the Elements of great image editing, management, and photo fun. Whether youâ€™re concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kidâ€™s photo on a calendar, youâ€™ll learn how with this book!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1916'),
(19535, 'Photoshop Elements 8 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Improve your photos with the exciting new version of Photoshop Elements\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Photoshop Elements has come a long way from its early days as Photoshopâ€™s low-end cousin. Now a feature-rich editing program popular with professionals as well as hobbyist photographers, Elements boasts versatile tools and capabilities. With these self-contained minibooks, youâ€™ll learn to make the most of every feature of Photoshop Elements 8.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll get started by setting up your Elements environment and learn how to launch, navigate, and personalize the program. Youâ€™ll then gradually progress to working with Camera Raw, resolution, layers, masks, color modes, files formats, and more. This All-in-One guide shows you how to make your photos better with Photoshop Elements 8 and inspires you to share your hard work with photo books, calendars, online albums, galleries, prints, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shows you how to set up your environment for Photoshop Elements 8, the newest version of the affordably- priced photo-editing program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explains how to import and export image files and offers advice on picking file formats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Walks you through using the selection tools and shows you what the Pencil and Brush tools can do\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Demonstrates cool things to do with type\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Addresses how and why to create a Photoshop.com account\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Maximize every element of Photoshop Elements 8 with this friendly guide by your side.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s how to do it all with Elements â€” more versatile than you ever imagined\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Photoshop Elements, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly take advantage of the new features and enhancements in Photoshop Elements 8, you''ve come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover everything you need to know about organizing, editing, sharing, and creating projects with your photos.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The groundwork â€” Books I and II cover setting up your work environment, using tools and shortcuts, and managing your files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make them pretty â€” learn to work with resolution, manage color, use appropriate file formats, and handle selections in Books III and IV\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take it up a notch â€” in Books V, VI, and VII, learn to use the Brush and Pencil tools, work with layers, and create artistic effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fix the flaws â€” Book VIII helps you erase imperfections, fine-tune color, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be creative â€” with slide shows, calendars, greeting cards, flip books, and other projects in Book IX\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help in setting up the Elements work environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for acquiring, saving, and exporting images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to correct contrast, color, and clarity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for making and transforming selections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on creating layers and working with masks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool things to do with type\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative applications for filters, effects, styles, and distortions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   ? Instructions for retouching and enhancing images\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1917'),
(19536, 'Photoshop Elements 8 for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The perennial bestseller is updated and revised throughout for the latest release of Photoshop Elements 8\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Richly illustrated in full color, this friendly, easy-to-understand guide provides all the essentials on the latest version of the affordable and popular image-editing program, Photoshop Elements. Get the scoop on using the latest digital imaging tools and techniques to correct color, brightness, and contrast; create postcards, slideshows, and movie files; apply artistic effects to your photos; fix flaws and even remove unwanted elements from your images; and so much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the Organizer on a Windows PC or Adobe Bridge on a Mac to sort, find, tag, and catalog your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Move people or objects in and out of your pictures, change the background, combine multiple images, or replace one color with another\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add effects with filters, get creative with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tag your photos using People Recognition or by geographical location\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo books with a few simple clicks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Import images into Elements from a variety of sources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Upload and save images to Photoshop.com\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Photoshop Elements 8 For DummiesÂ \n </em>\n shows you how to make the most of Elements awesome image editing, organization, and photo sharing tools. Whether youâ€™re concerned about color correction and clarity or just want a cool calendar of your kids for the wall, youâ€™ll learn how to do it with this book!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Repair, enhance, organize, and share your photos â€” it''s never been easier!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a brand-new digital photographer or you get paid to take pictures, Photoshop Elements has something for you â€” and so does this book. Learn the tools, commands, and workspaces; correct color, brightness, and contrast; create postcards, slide shows, and even movie files; give your photos the look of a fine-art painting, and so much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get organized â€” use the Organizer on a Windows PC or Adobe Bridge on a Mac to sort, find, tag, and catalog your photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master simple makeovers â€” crop photos for better composition, straighten crooked images, remove red-eye, or adjust color\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Become a digital magician â€” move people or objects in and out of your pictures, change the background, combine multiple images, or replace one color with another\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bring out your inner artist â€” discover how to add effects with filters, get creative with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share your work â€” turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo books with a few mouse clicks\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get images into Elements from a variety of sources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Instructions for both Windows and Mac users\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple makeover tips to improve your images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to correct color, contrast, and clarity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for tagging your photos by geographic location\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for making and modifying selections\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creative applications for layers, filters, effects, and styles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to upload and save images to Photoshop.com\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1918'),
(19537, 'Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Dummies', 'Rob Sylvan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take your digital photography to the next level by learning how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 with\n <em>\n  Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Dummies\n </em>\n ! From how to install Lightroom and navigate the Lightroom interface to playing with advanced options like creating slideshows and sharing photos with friends and family, this easy-to-understand guide will walk you through every step.\n</p>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll find out all about the Lightroom modules and their functions while understanding the role of the Lightroom catalog, how to care for it, and work with its functions. You will learn everything about working with digital photographs, from distinguishing among various file formats to managing and importing photos. Youâ€™ll find out how to view, find, organize and develop photos in the library and utilize the digital darkroom. Youâ€™ll even find out how to work with external editors. After reading this book, you will know how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and get started with Lightroom\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the role and function of the Lightroom catalog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage and save files\n </li>\n <li>\n  View, find, organize, and develop photos in the library\n </li>\n <li>\n  Unleash your creativity with photo editing options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share and export files to share them with friends and family\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create copies, slideshows, and web galleries\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of ten resources, ten common problems and solutions, and ten favorite tips and tricks,\n <em>\n  Photoshop Lightroom 2\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop Lightroom for all your digital photography needs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The secrets of Lightroom explained in plain English!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to Lightroom or just want to get the most out of it, you''ve come to the right place. Discover how Lightroom''s five modules work together to improve your workflow, so you can manage data for batch processing, streamline the fine-tuning, and produce eye-popping images, prints, Web galleries, and slideshows with less hassle.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage with modules â€” organize with Library, edit with Develop, create presentations with Slideshow, use Print for a color-managed workflow, and put images online with Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save time â€” leverage the power of Lightroom''s database to manage and process images with a single tool\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize the Catalog â€” customize and optimize Lightroom''s database nerve center\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Streamline â€” create file name templates for batch renaming and embed information with metadata templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clean it up â€” customize the interface to clear away clutter and make your workspace look just the way you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solutions for setting up and managing your workflow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for automatically renaming files and adding metadata when importing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time-saving tips using the Quick Develop panel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make adjustments and fix common problems without altering the original image data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the Grid, Loupe, Compare, and Survey views offer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How simple it is to generate sophisticated online Web galleries and slide shows\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1919'),
(19538, 'Photoshop.User.November.2011-Slicer.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Photoshop.User.November.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10933'),
(19539, 'PHP &amp; MySQL for Dummies', 'Janet Valade', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build an online catalog and a members-only site\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything you need to know to create a dynamic PHP and MySQL Web site!\n</p>\n<p>\n Been thinking of creating a high-quality interactive Web site? This book is just what you need to get started! Here''s the fun and easy way(r) to develop a Web application in PHP 4, 5, or 6 and MySQL 5, test your software, enable your Web pages to display, change, and move database information, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Plan and implement a Web database application\n <br />\n * Design and build a MySQL 5 database\n <br />\n * Build dynamic HTML forms\n <br />\n * Create scripts that store, retrieve, and update database information\n <br />\n * Display database information in a Web page\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build an online catalog and a members-only site\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Everything you need to know to create a dynamic PHP and MySQL Web site!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Been thinking of creating a high-quality interactive Web site? This book is just what you need to get started! Here''s the fun and easy wayÂ® to develop a Web application in PHP 4, 5, or 6 and MySQL 5, test your software, enable your Web pages to display, change, and move database information, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and implement a Web database application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and build a MySQL 5 database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build dynamic HTML forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create scripts that store, retrieve, and update database information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Display database information in a Web page\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1920'),
(19540, 'PHP &amp; MySQL Web Development All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Janet Valade &amp; Bill Ballad &amp; Tricia Ballad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you want to build dynamic Web sites that encourage users to interact with them, PHP and MySQL are among the best tools youâ€™ll find. PHP is a scripting language designed specifically for use on the Web, while MySQL is a database management system that works with it perfectly. Best of all, theyâ€™re free. Itâ€™s hard to beat that combination!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PHP &amp; MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is kind of one-stop shopping for the information you need to get up and running with these tools and put them to good use. Itâ€™s divided into six handy minibooks that cover setting up your environment, PHP programming, using MySQL, security, PHP extensions, and PHP Web applications. They make it easy to create a Web site where visitors can sign on, use shopping carts, complete forms, and do business with your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s easy to find what you need in this handy guide. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find and acquire all the tools you need and set up your development environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build PHP scripts to make your Web site work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a MySQL database that visitors can access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Summarize and sort data results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and implement user access control\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a shopping cart application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create extensions that make your site more useful\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  PHP &amp; MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n by your side, youâ€™ll be a Web site guru before you know it!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6 books in 1 â€” your key to great dynamic Web sites!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building dynamic, database-driven sites â€” easily\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s a handy toolbox for building your dynamic Web site, all in one easy-to-use book! Six convenient minibooks give you what you need to know to use PHP &amp; MySQL â€” free, open-source technologies. You''ll find it''s easy to create a Web site that lets visitors sign on, use shopping carts, complete forms, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up your development environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build PHP scripts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a MySQL database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Summarize and sort data results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design and implement user access control\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a shopping cart application\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1921'),
(19541, 'PHP 5 for Dummies', 'Janet Valade', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years\n </li>\n <li>\n  PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP''s features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Start programming PHP and make your Web site interactive\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover arrays of variables, start writing scripts, and get object oriented\n</p>\n<p>\n The script calls for an interactive Web site â€“ where do you start? Right here, with a fast and friendly way to get the hang of PHP 5 programming! Youâ€™ll also discover all the other cool things you can do with PHP, like managing files, interacting with databases, using system commands, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1922'),
(19542, 'PHP and MySQL for Dummies', 'Janet Valade', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s what Web designers need to know to create dynamic, database-driven Web sites\n</p>\n<p>\n To be on the cutting edge, Web sites need to serve up HTML, CSS, and products specific to the needs of different customers using different browsers. An effective e-commerce site gathers information about users and provides information they need to get the desired result.\n</p>\n<p>\n PHP scripting language with a MySQL back-end database offers an effective way to design sites that meet these requirements. This full updated 4th Edition of\n <em>\n  PHP &amp; MySQL For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you quickly up to speed, even if your experience is limited.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains the easy way to install and set up PHP and MySQL using XAMPP, so it works the same on Linux, Mac, and Windows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to secure files on a Web host and how to write secure code\n </li>\n <li>\n  Packed with useful and understandable code examples for Web site creators who are not professional programmers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fully updated to ensure your code will be compliant based on PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.31\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides clear, accurate code examples\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PHP &amp; MySQL For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n provides what you need to know to create sites that get results.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to use the tools that bring Web sites to life â€”it''s easy and fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n Static Web sites don''t cut it anymore. To serve up HTML, CSS,and database-driven pages, you need to know your way around PHP and a MySQL backend database. This book shows you how to build two common applications: a product catalog and a member-only site requiring a username and password. You''ll learn a basic design you can expand however you choose!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New to all this? â€” get acquainted with PHP and MySQL and find out how to install them on WindowsÂ®, MacÂ®, or LinuxÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A perfect partnership â€” see how the language and database work together to produce dynamic Web pages with less hassle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   MySQL moving and storage â€” store data in your database and display it on your Web pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Up to code â€” learn to build PHP scripts and program pieces with code that meets the latest standards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The sum of the parts â€” organize all the parts of your application, ensure security, and complete your documentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/php&amp;mysqlfd4e to find all the code examples used in the book\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep up with PHP and MySQL updates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s different in the newest versions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pros and cons of Web hosting companies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to back up and restore data in your database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Error messages and what they mean\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you must plan your database application\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on what offers value to your users\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten "gotchas" that will mess up your code\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1923'),
(19543, 'PHP and MySQL for Dummies', 'Janet Valade', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows Web developers how to use two popular open source technologies, the PHP scripting language and MySQL database, to build Web database applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  This updated edition covers changes in PHP 5 and the latest version of MySQL, including programming techniques for the new PHP default setting, methods for handling MySQL security problems, and extended information about Apache Web Server and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to install Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes two complete sample applications: an online catalog and a members-only Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features a companion Web site with code examples from the book and links to the author''s successful site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Kevin Beaver has more than fifteen years of experience in security and information technology, specializing in security assessments and incident response\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features a companion Web site with links to various utilities discussed throughout the book and practical security checklists\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Updated for PHP 5 and MySQL 4\n</p>\n<p>\n Create dynamic, interactive Web pages on WindowsÂ®, LinuxÂ®, or Mac OSÂ® X systems\n</p>\n<p>\n Open up a whole new world of Web database applications with PHP and MySQL, the perfect open source pair! This handy guidebook shows you how, with sample applications of an online catalog and a members-only Web site. Get the scoop on security issues, set up your Apache Web server, design the ideal database, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and develop a Web database application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and build the database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write custom PHP application programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with numbers and character strings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Move information from one Web page to another\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1924'),
(19544, 'Physics for Dummies', 'Steve Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm?\n</p>\n<p>\n Thanks to this book, you donâ€™t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As you read about Newtonâ€™s Laws, Keplerâ€™s Laws, Hookeâ€™s Law, Ohmâ€™s Law, and others, youâ€™ll appreciate the\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n law: The easier we make it, the faster people understand it and the more they enjoy it! Whether youâ€™re taking a class, helping kids with homework, or trying to find out how the world works, this book helps you understand basic physics. It covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Measurements, units, and significant figures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Forces such as displacement, speed, and acceleration\n </li>\n <li>\n  Vectors and physics notation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Motion, energy, and waves (sound, light, wave-particle)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solids, liquids, and gases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thermodynamics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Electromagnetism\n </li>\n <li>\n  Relativity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Atomic and nuclear structures\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Steven Holzner, Ph.D\n <strong>\n  .\n </strong>\n earned his B.S. at MIT and his Ph.D. at Cornell, where he taught Physics 101 and 102 for over 10 years. He livens things up with cool physics facts, real-world examples, and simple experiments that will heighten your enthusiasm for physics and science. The book ends with some out-of-this world physics that will set your mind in motion:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The possibility of wormholes in space\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Big Bang\n </li>\n <li>\n  How the gravitational pull of black holes is too strong for even light to escape\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n May the Force be with you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filled with cool physics facts and real-world examples\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to get up to speed on the basic concepts of physics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Does thermodynamics leave you cold? Are you vexed by vectors? Does electromagnetism seem like just a lot of static? Relax! This friendly guide puts the fun back into physics fundamentals. Author Steven Holzner walks you through all the topics typically covered in Physics 101 â€” and throws in some wild physics facts about relativity, time travel, quantum theory, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with physics notation and math\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure force and energy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Investigate heat, pressure, and sound\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examine electricity, magnetism, and light\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore black holes, planetary rotation, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1925'),
(19545, 'Physics Workbook for Dummies', 'Steve Holzner Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you have a handle on basic physics terms and concepts, but your problem-solving skills could use some static friction?\n <em>\n  Physics Workbook for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you build upon what you already know to learn how to solve the most common physics problems with confidence and ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Physics Workbook for Dummies\n </em>\n gets the ball rolling with a brief overview of the nuts and bolts (i.e., converting measures, counting significant figures, applying math skills to physics problems, etc.) before getting into the nitty gritty. If youâ€™re already a pro on the fundamentals, you can skip this section and jump right into the practice problems. There, youâ€™ll get the lowdown on how to take your problem-solving skills to a whole new planeâ€”without ever feeling like youâ€™ve been left spiraling down a black hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n With easy-to-follow instructions and practical tips,\n <em>\n  Physics Workbook for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to you unleash your inner Einstein to solve hundreds of problems in all facets of physics, such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Acceleration, distance, and time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Vectors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Force\n </li>\n <li>\n  Circular motion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Momentum and kinetic energy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rotational kinematics and rotational dynamics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Potential and kinetic energy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thermodynamics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Electricity and magnetism\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete answer explanations are included for all problems so you can see where you went wrong (or right). Plus, youâ€™ll get the inside scoop on the ten most common mistakes people make when solving physics problemsâ€”and how to avoid them.\n</p>\n<p>\n When push comes to shove, this friendly guide is just what you need to set your physics problem-solving skills in motion!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Kirchhoff''s laws to Carnot engines â€” solve physics problems with ease\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the physics terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse, don''t know where to begin? No worries â€” this hands-on guide helps you solve the many types of physics problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with motion, kinetic energy, thermodynamics, electricity, and more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the inside scoop on the Big Three: acceleration, distance, and time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know where to begin and how to solve the most common physics problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use physics in practical applications with confidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1926');
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(19546, 'Piano Exercises for Dummies', 'David Pearl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique--and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling\n <em>\n  Piano For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to tune up your technique and improve your playing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Is the piano your passion? This easy-to-read guide is bursting with fun exercises designed to hone your piano-playing technique, from warm-ups and major and minor scales to octaves, chord cadences, and more. You''ll play challenging rhythms, practice with different tempos, play a performance piece at the end of each chapter, and find inspiration for performing music your way.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Warm up away from the piano â€” release tension in your hands, wrists, and arms and go to the piano feeling loose and comfortable\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wake up those fingers â€” perfect your hand position and develop left and right hand finger independence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop greater control â€” practice smoother finger crossovers and pass-unders for speedier scales and arpeggios\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Incorporate greater movement â€” play chords without tension, jump across the keyboard, and move with ease in parallel and contrary motion\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ramp up your skills â€” perfect your pedaling, play grace notes, trills, and other fancy ornaments\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 150 exercises that vary in style, key, and tempo\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Major and minor scales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blues, diminished and chromatic scales\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finger, rhythm, and chord progression exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Left-hand accompanimentpatterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Performance pieces with every chapter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten one-page dance pieces\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bonus CD Includes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 70 tracks all played by the author\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Selected exercises from each chapter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Every performance piece\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten dance pieces from the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1927'),
(19547, 'Picture Puzzles for Dummies', 'Elizabeth J. Cardenas-nelson &amp; Jennifer Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Exercise your brain with hundreds of colorful, mind-blowing photo puzzles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sudoku, crosswords, word searches, and other brainteasers are wildly popular these days-not just because they''re fun, but also because they stimulate the mind and keep it active and healthy. Now there''s a new puzzle guide guaranteed to hone your powers of observation and perception.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Picture Puzzles For Dummies\n </em>\n features 100 full-color puzzles that use sight to enhance your brain capacity as well as keep you amused for hours!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This portable guide features 100 fun and challenging photo puzzles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes "spot the changes" puzzles, "cut-ups", "which one of these is not like the others", and a collection of bewildering "black and white" puzzles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Visual puzzles have been proven to strengthen memory, attention span, and creativity, as well as amplify logic, vocabulary, and deduction skills.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re completely new to puzzles or you''re a puzzle fanatic,\n <em>\n  Picture Puzzles For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect guide to keep you entertained.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fun way to enhance your brain power!\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve heard the saying, "use it or lose it" â€” now is the time to pump mental iron and muscle-up your memory with picture puzzles! This easy-to-access, practical guide gives you expert advice on solving 100 visual puzzles that will help exercise your memory, train your attention, reduce tension, and keep your brain challenged. From easy to bewildering, these picture puzzles will show you that breaking a sweat with your brain has never been so much fun.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish a solving routine â€” discover how having a routine helps build your confidence to solve puzzles smarter and faster\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep track of what you''ve done â€” grab a pencil and jot down notes to keep track of your puzzle-solving progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Notice the unnoticeable â€” discover how to hone your attention to detail to solve even the most puzzling puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Try a new strategy â€” use a new approach to finish off a hard-to-solve puzzle\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   100 baffling picture puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spot-the-changes, cut-ups, and one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A collection of bewildering black-and-white puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Puzzles organized by level of difficulty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to build your brain for better solving\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for plugging in the obvious parts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on when to take a break . . . but not give up\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on checking your work\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Making Everything Easier!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve 100 puzzles, from easy to challenging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have fun while honing your powers of observation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve puzzles faster with clever strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your brain healthy and sharp\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n IN FULL COLOR!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1928'),
(19548, 'The Pirates of the Levant', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4246'),
(19549, 'A Place of Yes', 'Bethenny Frankel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6805'),
(19550, 'The Plain Man and His Wife', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4326'),
(19551, 'Plato - Complete Works', 'Plato, Cooper, John M., Hutchinson, D. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10624'),
(19552, 'Play Dead', 'Anne Frasier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly  Frasier (Sleep Tight, etc.) has perfected the art of making a reader''s skin crawl, which is evident from this book''s very first scene, in which a medical examiner discovers in the midst of an autopsy that the cadaver he''s working on is really a live person. Set in Savannah, Ga., this exceptional thriller follows the hunt for the deranged person who''s drugging people so that their minds remain wide awake even as their bodies resemble death. The creepiness factor increases when Frasier introduces homicide detective Elise Sandburg, who was abandoned in a cemetery as a baby and who knows Gullah spells and culture. Elise''s partner, anti-social David Gould, is equally strange; his past holds secrets so dark he should be under psychiatric care. Formerly with the FBI, Gould currently lives in a rundown, foul-smelling apartment and sleeps with a prostitute who works for a voodoo priestess. As the two detectives follow leads to the priestess and the former college professor who researched the drug, they forge a tentative bond and come to terms with their own troubled pasts. Frasier''s characters are not only fully realized, but fascinating to boot, and she evokes the dark, mystical side of Savannah with precision and skill. Appropriately, this unsettling tale closes with a grim children''s rhyme and a spell for "Elise''s Follow-Me-Boy Mojo."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4299'),
(19553, 'Playboy - August 2011 Colombia', '08 2011 Colombia-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10616'),
(19554, 'Playboy - October 2011 Greece', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10602'),
(19555, 'Playboy Brazil - September 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5906'),
(19556, 'Playboy Bulgaria', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3575'),
(19557, 'Playboy Bulgaria', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6511'),
(19558, 'Playboy Croatia 09-2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3880'),
(19559, 'Playboy Dream Girl Magazine Gold Edition', 'No.148', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4474'),
(19560, 'Playboy Estonia 09-2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4548'),
(19561, 'Playboy Gold Spain #183', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6076'),
(19562, 'Playboy Greece', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3574'),
(19563, 'Playboy Hungary - July 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3572'),
(19564, 'Playboy Hungary - September 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3655'),
(19565, 'Playboy Magazine', '10 (2011)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5886'),
(19566, 'Playboy Magazine Mexico', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6854'),
(19567, 'Playboy Magazine Venezuela 03-2009', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3672'),
(19568, 'Playboy Nederland - October 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6071'),
(19569, 'Playboy Philippines - July/August 2011', 'JulyAugust 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7204'),
(19570, 'Playboy Poland - July 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3569'),
(19571, 'Playboy Romania - August 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3571'),
(19572, 'Playboy Romania 2011-09', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4472'),
(19573, 'Playboy Special Model Magazine Gold Edition #146', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3728'),
(19574, 'Playboy University&#39;s Girl Magazine Gold Edition', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3657'),
(19575, 'Playboy USA - August 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3547'),
(19576, 'Playboy USA - July 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3549'),
(19577, 'Playboy USA - June 2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3546'),
(19578, 'Playboy USA - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10617'),
(19579, 'Playboy USA - November 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10650'),
(19580, 'Playboy USA - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5999'),
(19581, 'Playboy Venezuela 09-2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3881'),
(19582, 'Playboy Venezuela Magazine', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3628'),
(19583, 'Playboy Voluptuous Vixens Magazine Gold Edition', 'No.140', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5893'),
(19584, 'Playboy-US-11-2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10828'),
(19585, 'Playboy&#39;s 2010 Hottest Nudes Calendar (USA)', 'www.freedowns.net &amp; www.journal-plaza.net', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6423'),
(19586, 'Playboy&#39;s Big Boobs &amp; Hot Buns 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10657'),
(19587, 'Playboy&#39;s Hot Housewives', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4231'),
(19588, 'Playboy&#39;s Lingerie - December 2011-January 2012', '12 2011-01 2012-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10704'),
(19589, 'Playboy&#39;s Lingerie Magazine 10+11-2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3808'),
(19590, 'Playboy&#39;s Natural Beauties - December 2011/January 2012', 'December 2011-January 2012-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10660'),
(19591, 'Playboy&#39;s Nude Beach Babes 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6092'),
(19592, 'Playboy&#39;s Nudes 06-2011', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4755'),
(19593, 'Playboy&#39;s Nudes Magazine', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3807'),
(19594, 'Playboy&#39;s Nudes Magazine', 'Playboy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3849'),
(19595, 'Playboy&#39;s Sexy Girls', '2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7026'),
(19596, 'Playboy&#39;s Sexy Girls 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6818'),
(19597, 'Playboy&#39;s Sexy Sorority Girls 2011', 'WorldMags', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6093'),
(19598, 'Plumbing Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Donald R. Prestly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to save time, money, and frustration on plumbing repair and replacement? Do it yourself!\n <em>\n  Plumbing Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n turns even the most daunting household plumbing project into a simple, step-by-step process that delivers professional-quality results at a fraction of what you''d have to pay a plumberâ€”and you won''t have to wait weeks for an appointment.\n</p>\n<p>\n From fixing leaks and drips to caulking a tub or shower, to replacing a faucet, you''ll discover how to tackle 40 of the most common plumbing jobs in your home. Easy-to-follow, detailed instructions and hundreds of photos and illustrations guide you through each task. And, you''ll even discover what surprises to expect and how to prepare for them. This user-friendly guide delivers all the help you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand your home''s plumbing system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comply with local plumbing codes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fill your plumbing toolboxâ€”including safety equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize, plan, and prepare for your plumbing job\n </li>\n <li>\n  Repair and upgrade faucets of all kinds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Unclog drains, traps, and toilets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Replace toilet parts and fix leaky tanks and bowls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stop toilet tanks from sweating\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with noisy, sweaty, and frozen pipes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Replace a dishwasher or garbage disposal\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a helpful primer on choosing the right pipes and fittings for your project and understanding your home''s supply and drain-waste-vent systems,\n <em>\n  Plumbing Do-It-Yourself for Dummies\n </em>\n is the one tool you must have before starting any household plumbing project.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Do-it-Yourself\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keep your drains flowing and repair your leaky spouts like a pro!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you ever had a plumber fix your home''s pipes and afterward said, "I could''ve done that!" Now you can do it yourself!\n</p>\n<p>\n From fixing leaks and drips to caulking a tub or replacing a faucet, tackle the most common kitchen and bathroom plumbing projects in your own home. This one-stop resource features step-by-step instructions, along with detailed photos and illustrations to confidently walk you through over 40 tasks â€” and leaves no faucet unturned.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stuff you need to know:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover what belongs in your toolbox\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with noisy, sweaty, and frozen pipes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your toilet running properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Repair a leaky faucet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Unclog sink and toilet drains\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1929'),
(19599, 'Podcasting for Dummies', 'Tee Morris &amp; Chuck Tomasi &amp; Evo Terra &amp; Kreg Steppe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Aimed at everyone from first-time podcasters to experienced producers with a thorough update on the software". (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n New tools have made it easier to create a podcast. The second edition of Podcasting For Dummies shows you how you can create and distribute your own online recordings using tools you already have. This edition also covers what you need to build a top-notch podcasting studio. Expert podcasters Tee Morris and Evo Terra are joined on this edition by a fellow podcasting guru, Chuck Tomasi, to walk you through recording, editing, posting, and promoting a podcast. Chapters cover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing a topic that fits your expertise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Writing an outline or script for your podcast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turning your existing computer into a desktop podcasting studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Picking the microphone, headphones, and audio editing software that best suit your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrading to pro-level podcasting equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conducting interviews and recording an interview subject whoâ€™s not in the room with you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigating the XML code you need to share your podcast\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding a place to host your podcast online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promoting your podcasts in the blogosphere, online discussion groups, and social networking sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Seeking out sponsors, advertising, and subscriptions to make your podcast pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating podcasts designed to promote a business\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1930'),
(19600, 'Podcasting for Dummies', 'Tee Morris &amp; Evo Terra &amp; Dawn Miceli &amp; Drew Domkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦Evo Terra,who wrote the book on podcasting, literally; he was co-author of â€˜Podcasting For Dummiesâ€™â€ (_Observer,_ March 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Podcasting is like blogging out loud! It gives you a voiceâ€”one that can be heard worldwide on computers, iPods, or other MP3 players. You can podcast to boost your business, promote your passion, share your opinions, or just have fun. The point is to say what you want to say to those who want to hear it. With step-by-step explanations, screen shots, and tons of examples, this guide clues you in on recording, producing, and hosting your very own podcast with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Finding your voice and your niche, whether you want to talk tech, make your own kinds of music, educate listeners, make people laugh, do soundseeing tours, serialize your novel, or invent a new podcasting genreÂ Â \n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting the bare necessities (if you donâ€™t already have them), including a microphone, recording software, and an audio card\n </li>\n <li>\n  Audio editing software such as Audacity, Cakewalk for PCs, GarageBand for musicality, and Audio HiJack Pro for Macs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recording, including understanding dB (decibel levels), capturing or minimizing ambient noise, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing with GarageBand or Audacity, adding bed music, and including intros and outros for a signature finishing touch\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You want your podcast to be heard.\n <em>\n  Podcasting For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you launch and promote it with info on how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Downsize your audio files with MP3 compression\n </li>\n <li>\n  Change bit rates and sample rates in Audacity and iTunes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and edit your ID3 tags in Audacity or iTunes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Post your show notes using Movable Type or Libsyn\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify the RSS 2.0 feed by using blogging software or a podcast-hosting company such as Audioblog.com, Podcastamatic, and Feeder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ping for publicity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate with your listeners on your blog, through online discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups, or on online forums\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Of course, if you want to be a podcatcher (a listener) and subscribe to podcasts, this guide shows you how to do that, too! Complete with a companion podcastâ€”a free weekly audio commentary that will keep you up to speed on the podsphereâ€”this guide helps you get your message heard, loud and clear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1931'),
(19601, 'The Poisonwood Bible', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com Review  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they''re not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan''s daughters. But of course it isn''t long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they''ve arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan''s fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?  In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan''s intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor''s animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member''s fortune across a span of more than 30 years.  The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver''s most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price''s wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate-teenage Rachel''s tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan''s refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver''s tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.  Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver''s fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. -Alix Wilber  From Publishers Weekly  In this risky but resoundingly successful novel, Kingsolver leaves the Southwest, the setting of most of her work (The Bean Trees; Animal Dreams) and follows an evangelical Baptist minister''s family to the Congo in the late 1950s, entwining their fate with that of the country during three turbulent decades. Nathan Price''s determination to convert the natives of the Congo to Christianity is, we gradually discover, both foolhardy and dangerous, unsanctioned by the church administration and doomed from the start by Nathan''s self-righteousness. Fanatic and sanctimonious, Nathan is a domestic monster, too, a physically and emotionally abusive, misogynistic husband and father. He refuses to understand how his obsession with river baptism affronts the traditions of the villagers of Kalinga, and his stubborn concept of religious rectitude brings misery and destruction to all. Cleverly, Kingsolver never brings us inside Nathan''s head but instead unfolds the tragic story of the Price family through the alternating points of view of Orleanna Price and her four daughters. Cast with her young children into primitive conditions but trained to be obedient to her husband, Orleanna is powerless to mitigate their situation. Meanwhile, each of the four Price daughters reveals herself through first-person narration, and their rich and clearly differentiated self-portraits are small triumphs. Rachel, the eldest, is a self-absorbed teenager who will never outgrow her selfish view of the world or her tendency to commit hilarious malapropisms. Twins Leah and Adah are gifted intellectually but are physically and emotionally separated by Adah''s birth injury, which has rendered her hemiplagic. Leah adores her father; Adah, who does not speak, is a shrewd observer of his monumental ego. The musings of five- year-old Ruth May reflect a child''s humorous misunderstanding of the exotic world to which she has been transported. By revealing the story through the female victims of Reverend Price''s hubris, Kingsolver also charts their maturation as they confront or evade moral and existential issues and, at great cost, accrue wisdom in the crucible of an alien land. It is through their eyes that we come to experience the life of the villagers in an isolated community and the particular ways in which American and African cultures collide. As the girls become acquainted with the villagers, especially the young teacher Anatole, they begin to understand the political situation in the Congo: the brutality of Belgian rule, the nascent nationalism briefly fulfilled in the election of the short-lived Patrice Lumumba government, and the secret involvement of the Eisenhower administration in Lumumba''s assassination and the installation of the villainous dictator Mobutu. In the end, Kingsolver delivers a compelling family saga, a sobering picture of the horrors of fanatic fundamentalism and an insightful view of an exploited country crushed by the heel of colonialism and then ruthlessly manipulated by a bastion of democracy. The book is also a marvelous mix of trenchant character portrayal, unflagging narrative thrust and authoritative background detail. The disastrous outcome of the forceful imposition of Christian theology on indigenous natural faith gives the novel its pervasive irony; but humor is pervasive, too, artfully integrated into the children''s misapprehensions of their world; and suspense rises inexorably as the Price family''s peril and that of the newly independent country of Zaire intersect. Kingsolver moves into new moral terrain in this powerful, convincing and emotionally resonant novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4621'),
(19602, 'PokePlay011.pdf 28-09-2011', 'PokePlay011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6864'),
(19603, 'The Polish Officer', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3988'),
(19604, 'The Politician', 'Andrew Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards storyâ€¦ This isnâ€™t just politics, itâ€™s literature. Itâ€™s the great American novel, the kind that isnâ€™t written anymore.â€ -Michael Wolff on John Edwards''s trajectory, on VanityFair.com  The underside of modern American politics â€“ raw ambition, manipulation, and deception â€“ are revealed in detail by Andrew Youngâ€™s riveting account of a presidential hopefulâ€™s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the Kingâ€™s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.  Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidateâ€™s right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Youngâ€™s responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politicianâ€™s confidant and he was assured he was â€˜like family.â€ In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the Senatorâ€™s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senatorâ€™s mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama administration.  Young had been the senatorâ€™s closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aideâ€™s career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving personal account of Andrew Youngâ€™s political education, THE POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3999'),
(19605, 'Politiken 01-08-2011', 'Politiken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3148'),
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(19661, 'Pomeranians for Dummies', 'D. Caroline Coile', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s easy to see why you fell in love with the idea of adopting a Pomeranian. Distinguished by its vivacity, intelligence, extroversion, and fierce loyalty to its family, this tiny canine can make an excellent companionâ€¦for the right person. As with any breed, or dogs in general for that matter, itâ€™s important for you to know what to expect when you take a Pom into your life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a new or an aspiring Pom owner,\n <em>\n  Pomeranians For Dummies\n </em>\n fills you in on everything you need to know to find, choose, raise, care for, and have a ball with a member of that outstanding breed of dog. From finding your canine soul mate to breeding Pomeranians for show or companionship, award-winning dog author and renowned dog psychologist, Dr. Caroline Coile covers all the bases, including how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide whether the Pom is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a good Pom breeder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the perfect Pom for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make sense of your Pomâ€™s behavior\n </li>\n <li>\n  Train your Pom\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your Pom happy, healthy and well-groomed\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know what common health problems to look for\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take your Pom on the road\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Illustrated with dozens of heart-melting photos of Poms in-action,\n <em>\n  Pomeranians For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you to guarantee that you and your little buddy have a long, happy life together.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips on health, grooming, and having a happy Pom\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover the secrets to\n</p>\n<p>\n nurturing and training this beloved breed\n</p>\n<p>\n Has your heart been stolen by a Pomeranian? You''re not alone. The popular Pom is a wonderful companion, but he also has some unique needs. This book will help you pick a puppy, handle basic training, anticipate health and behavior issues, and enjoy a happy, healthy life with your energetic little pal.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a good Pom breeder\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pom-proof your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your Pom''s behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your Pom well groomed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize common health problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Travel with your Pom\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1932'),
(19662, 'Poodles for Dummies', 'Susan M. Ewing', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Poodle is known for her keen intelligence, excellent trainability, and, most notably, those signature curly locks. But thereâ€™s more to the Poodle than meets the eye (like, say, those expensive grooming bills). So, to Poodle or not to Poodle? That is the question.\n</p>\n<p>\n With an overview of the breedâ€™s history, an exploration of all three varieties (Standard, Miniature, and Toy), and 8 pages of full-color photos detailing the colors available and tips and techniques for grooming,\n <em>\n  Poodles for Dummies\n </em>\n is filled with all the meaty information and enlightening morsels you need to decide if this refined beauty is a good match for you. Youâ€™ll get answers to your most important questions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Which size Poodle is best for me? Which color?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How do I know if a Poodle breeder is reputable?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What are the pros and cons of shelters and rescue groups?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What do I look for in choosing a healthy Poodle?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How can I Poodle-proof my home and yard?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Whatâ€™s the best way to introduce my Poodle to kids and other pets?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How often does my Poodle need grooming?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No matter which size, color, or gender you own, Poodles are not a â€œwash â€˜nâ€™ wearâ€ breed. But if you have the time, passion, and dedication to give her the training, exercise, and upkeep she needs, you and your curly companion will have a happy and rewarding life together.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features 8 pages of full-color photos\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keep your Poodle well trained and well groomed\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you passionate about Poodles? Thinking of owning one? This friendly guide answers all your questions about caring for these energetic, intelligent dogs, from feeding and healthcare to basic training. You''ll find out how to groom your Poodle''s luxurious coat, exercise and entertain him, and help him live a long, happy life!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the breed and its history\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adopt or rescue a Poodle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for your Poodle''s homecoming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Housetrain your Poodle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Socialize your Poodle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle breed-specific health issues\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1933');
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(19663, 'Pool &amp; Billiards for Dummies', 'Nicholas Leider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical, step-by-step tips for players of all levels\n</p>\n<p>\n From Snooker to Carom to good-old-fashioned 8- or 9-Ball,\n <em>\n  Pool &amp; Billiards For Dummies\n </em>\n reveals the tips, tricks, and rules of play, covering the variety of the ever-popular games that make up pool and billiards. This hands-on guide discusses everything from the rules and strategies of the games to how to set up a pool room to choosing the right equipment, and is accompanied by dozens of photos and line drawings.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  See how hard to hit the cue ball and where to hit it, the angle to hold the cue stick and how much chalk to use, how to use a bridge, and how to put spin on the ball\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes advanced pool techniques and trick shots for the seasoned pool sharp\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Pool &amp; Billiards For Dummies,\n </em>\n even a novice can play like a champion!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical, step-by-step tips for players of all levels\n</p>\n<p>\n From snooker to carom to good, old-fashioned 8- or 9-ball, Pool &amp; Billiards For Dummies reveals the tips, tricks, and rules of play, covering the variety of the ever-popular games that make up pool and billiards. This hands-on guide discusses everything from the rules and strategies of the games to how to set up your very own poolroom.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gearing up â€” find, buy, and maintain the cue that''s best for you and accessorize your game with chalk, racks, lights, and triangles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get schooled on the fundamentals of pool â€” find out how to build a solid stance; get a feel for aiming; and create a dependable, consistent stroke\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Control the cue ball â€” discover how to control the movement of the cue ball to make stop shots and incorporate topspin, backspin, and sidespin\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your best shot â€” follow instructions on tackling common shots, eyeing combinations, and playing offensively and defensively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Oh, the games you''ll play â€” get the rules and strategies for playing 8-ball, 9-ball, multiplayer games, and professionals'' games\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between pool and billiards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Game-winning strategies no matter what version of the game is played\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful diagrams and photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drills for all skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Games to measure your progress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The etiquette of pool\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coverage of the Ghost Ball System\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The secrets of creating a powerful break shot\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on finding the right cue for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play by the rules and develop game-winning strategies for the most popular games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hold the stick correctly and hit the cue ball properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play like a champion regardless of your experience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Perform trick shots to amaze your friends\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1934'),
(19664, 'Popcorn', 'Ben Elton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dagger Awards  Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what''s real and what''s not, who''s the hero and the villain. A nation watches in awe as Bruce and Wayne resolve the serious questions. Does art imitate life? And does Bruce use erection cream?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Controversial and past caring, equal parts cool and cruel, Bruce Delametri is Hollywood''s hottest director. Tonight, he''s at the apex of his career, with an Oscar cradled in one hand and Miss February in the other. But then he gets a visit from two special fans, and all hell (quite literally) breaks loose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Popcorn\n  </em>\n  , a novel from British sitcom writer Ben Elton (_Blackadder_,\n  <em>\n   The Young Ones\n  </em>\n  ), is the satirical novel done 1990s style. It is a book about the movies that indicts the movies, and that has every chance of being made into a movie. It rings all the familiar changes on the theme of Hollywood vapidity, crassness, and decadence; however,\n  <em>\n   Popcorn\n  </em>\n  accomplishes this so deftly that you may not realize that you''ve heard it all before until you''re finished with the book.\n  <em>\n   Popcorn\n  </em>\n  has little new to say about America and the culture for which it stands: talk-show hosts that are vacuous, movies that are violent, and audiences that are moronic. (The one benefit to shooting this particular fish in this particular barrel is that most readers will find it hard to disagree.) That said, the book generates an undeniable tension.\n  <em>\n   Popcorn\n  </em>\n  is a pleasing (if not always pleasant) page-turner, and the last 20 pages will definitely give you pause.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YAAA unique novel that combines a thrilling story line with the thought-provoking question of society''s responsibilities toward its various members. Oscar-winning director Bruce Delamitri makes popular movies containing senseless violence and murder. He feels nothing but disdain for the critics and "bleeding hearts" who condemn his work, for he believes that he is just giving the public what they want to see. On Oscar night, two psychopathic killers who have all of Bruce''s movies memorized, and are emulating different scenes, invade the man''s home, taking him captive, along with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, his daughter, and several other members of Hollywood society. As the police and media surround the house, the question that everyone is asking is, "Are Bruce Delamitri''s movies to blame for the situation in which he now finds himself?" This novel often uses fairly sophisticated or graphic language that suits the theme and violent situations, but the plot is easy to follow. Fast-moving recreational reading or a springboard for discussions on the interrelationships of human beings and society.AAnita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4576'),
(19665, 'Popular Hot Rodding 09-2011', 'Popular Hot Rodding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3288'),
(19666, 'Popular Mechanics', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4757'),
(19667, 'Popular Mechanics 01-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2506'),
(19668, 'Popular Mechanics 02-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2507'),
(19669, 'Popular Mechanics 03-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2508'),
(19670, 'Popular Mechanics 04-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2509'),
(19671, 'Popular Mechanics 05-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2510'),
(19672, 'Popular Mechanics 06-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2511'),
(19673, 'Popular Mechanics 07-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2512'),
(19674, 'Popular Mechanics 08-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2513'),
(19675, 'Popular Mechanics 08-2011', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2521'),
(19676, 'Popular Mechanics 09-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2514'),
(19677, 'Popular Mechanics 10-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2515'),
(19678, 'Popular Mechanics 11-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2516'),
(19679, 'Popular Mechanics 12-2010', 'Popular Mechanics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2517'),
(19680, 'Popular Photography', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10729'),
(19681, 'Popular Photography - March 2010', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3553'),
(19682, 'Popular Photography 08-2011', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3101'),
(19683, 'Popular Photography 10-2011', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3866'),
(19684, 'Popular Photography 2010-01', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3552'),
(19685, 'Popular Photography 2010-04', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3554'),
(19686, 'Popular Photography 2010-05', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3555'),
(19687, 'Popular Photography 2010-06', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3556'),
(19688, 'Popular Photography 2010-09', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3559'),
(19689, 'Popular Photography 2010-10', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3560'),
(19690, 'Popular Science - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10600'),
(19691, 'Popular Science - October 2011', 'October 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3906'),
(19692, 'Popular Science - September 2011', 'September 2011 [HQ PDF]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3618'),
(19693, 'Popular Science 08-2011', 'Popular Science', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2499'),
(19694, 'Popular Science 10-2011', 'Popular Science', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3838'),
(19695, 'Popular Science Magazine October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4740'),
(19696, 'Popular.Mechanics-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 09-10-2011', 'Popular.Mechanics-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10611'),
(19697, 'Popular.Mechanics-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 09-09-2011', 'Popular.Mechanics-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4733'),
(19698, 'Popular.Photography-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 09-10-2011', 'Popular.Photography-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10610'),
(19699, 'Popular.Photography-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Popular.Photography-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4685'),
(19700, 'Popular.Science-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-10-2011', 'Popular.Science-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10608'),
(19701, 'Popular.Science-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Popular.Science-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4686'),
(19702, 'The Port of Adventure', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5946'),
(19703, 'Portrait of a Spy: A Novel', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond (Rocky Mountain News). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him. In a dangerous world, one extraordinary woman can mean the difference between life and death. . . . For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London-a visit to a gallery in St. James''s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds. Haunted by his failure to stop the massacre of innocents, Gabriel returns to his isolated cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, until a summons brings him to Washington and he is drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen to whom Allah has granted a beautiful and seductive tongue. A gifted deceiver, who was once a paid CIA asset, the mastermind is plotting a new wave of attacks. Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there-a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood. . . .Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence, Portrait of a Spy moves swiftly from the corridors of power in Washington to the glamorous auction houses of New York and London to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert. Featuring a climax that will leave readers haunted long after they turn the final page, this deeply entertaining story is also a breathtaking portrait of courage in the face of unspeakable evil-and Daniel Silva''s most extraordinary novel to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4129'),
(19704, 'Portrait of a Spy: A Novel', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond (Rocky Mountain News). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him. In a dangerous world, one extraordinary woman can mean the difference between life and death. . . . For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London-a visit to a gallery in St. James''s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds. Haunted by his failure to stop the massacre of innocents, Gabriel returns to his isolated cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, until a summons brings him to Washington and he is drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen to whom Allah has granted a beautiful and seductive tongue. A gifted deceiver, who was once a paid CIA asset, the mastermind is plotting a new wave of attacks. Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there-a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood. . . .Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence, Portrait of a Spy moves swiftly from the corridors of power in Washington to the glamorous auction houses of New York and London to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert. Featuring a climax that will leave readers haunted long after they turn the final page, this deeply entertaining story is also a breathtaking portrait of courage in the face of unspeakable evil-and Daniel Silva''s most extraordinary novel to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4392'),
(19705, 'Portuguese Phrases for Dummies', 'Karen Keller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you thinking about traveling, studying, or working in PortugalÂ or Brazil, but you donâ€™t know any Portuguese? Want to improve your conversation skills with the Portuguese-speaking people in your life?\n <em>\n  Portuguese Phrases for Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect diving board for anyone looking to communicate and even become fluent in the language.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the fifth-most widely spoken language in the world, Portuguese can be heard in South America, Africa, Asia, and of course, Portugal. If you want to know basic Portuguese but donâ€™t want a boring textbook that unloads tons of conjugation rules or long lists of words to memorize, then this quick-and-easy phrasebook will get your feet wet without overwhelming you. This friendly book covers a wide array of subjects both helpful and interesting, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Numbers, days of the week, measurements, and time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making friends and small talk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoying every type of meal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping in markets and at stores\n </li>\n <li>\n  Culture, leisure, and activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work and transportation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding a place to live\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dealing with emergencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Slang and colloquial terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Phrases and particles to make you sound like a local!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Knowing these fundamentals, youâ€™ll be able to communicate with Portuguese-speaking people and continue learning about the language and culture. With hundred of useful phrases at your fingertips,\n <em>\n  Portuguese Phrases for Dummies\n </em>\n will give you a basic comprehension of this beautiful language and have you speaking instantly!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Speak Portuguese â€” instantly!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to Brazil or Portugal but don''t know Portuguese? Need to kick up your conversation skills? This handy phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension and have you speaking basic Brazilian Portuguese in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, times, and money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1935'),
(19706, 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies', 'Mark Goulston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Dr. Mark Goulston tells his patients who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), "The fact that youâ€™re still afraid doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re in any danger. It just takes the will and the way for your heart and soul to accept what the logical part of your mind already knows." In\n <em>\n  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies,\n </em>\n Dr. Goulston helps you find the will and shows you the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n A traumatic event can turn your world upside down, but there is a path out of PTSD. This reassuring guide presents the latest on effective treatments that help you combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back into your life. You''ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand PTSD and the nature of trauma\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a PTSD treatment plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the ideal therapist for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether cognitive behavior therapy is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weight the pros and cons of PTSD medications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive thoughts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your healing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your recovery, both during and after treatment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help a partner, child or other loved one triumph over PTSD\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know when you''re getting better\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your life back on track\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a trauma survivor with PTSD or the caregiver of a PTSD sufferer,\n <em>\n  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies,\n </em>\n gives you the tools you need to win the battle against this disabling condition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive thoughts\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help your heart accept what your mind already knows â€” and overcome PTSD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A traumatic event can turn your world upside down â€” but just because you''re still afraid doesn''t mean you''re still in danger. There is a path out ofPTSD, and this reassuring guide presents the latest on effective treatments that help to combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back to life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the ideal therapist for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Weigh the pros and cons of medications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your healing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help a partner, child, or other loved one triumph over PTSD\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1936'),
(19707, 'Postpartum Depression for Dummies', 'Shoshana S. Bennett Ph.d. &amp; Mary Jo Codey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a great blessing when a new mom with postpartum depression (PPD) is fortunate enough to be diagnosed early by a knowledgeable medical practitioner or therapist. But without guidance, it isn''t always clear where the boundary between normal baby blues and PPD lies. As with any other illness, the quicker that PPD is identified and treated, the faster the woman will recover.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Postpartum Depression For Dummies\n </em>\n can help you begin the process of determining whatâ€™s going on with you and give you a better idea of where you fall so that you can get yourself into proper treatment right away. The book covers all aspects of PPD, from its history and its origins to its effects on women and their families to the wide variety of treatments availableâ€”including conventional Western medicine, psychological therapy, alternative medical treatments, and self-care measures.\n <em>\n  Postpartum Depression For Dummies\n </em>\n reveals:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why some doctors may be hush-hush about PPD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to distinguish between pregnancy hormone changes, "baby blues," and PPD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difficulties of getting a proper diagnosis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The role and importance of a therapist\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits of medication for depression\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Alternative treatments withÂ  a successful track record\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to find the right balance of psychological, medical, and alternative treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways you can help foster recovery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The nutrition you need to care for yourself properly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to help your partner help you\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Postpartum Depression For Dummies\n </em>\n also provides the additional resources you needâ€”web sites, organizations, and further readingâ€”to help avoid the unnecessary suffering caused by undiagnosed and untreated PPD and survive and thrive as a new mom.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers psychological, medical, and alternative treatments\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Identify PPD symptoms, get help, and get your life back\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Worried that you â€” or someone you love â€” are suffering from postpartum depression? This understanding, authoritative guide explains this sensitive disorder and how it differs from the "baby blues." You''ll see how to find the right doctors, evaluate the various treatments â€” from medication to therapy to self-help groups â€” and create a comprehensive plan for recovery.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get an accurate diagnosis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the proper treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break the cycle of negative thoughts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up the recovery process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get support from family and friends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for another baby after PPD\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1937'),
(19708, 'The potato factory', 'Bryce Courtenay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This crime-laden novel is full of deceitful characters, illegal monies and lots of booze. Bryce Courtenayâ€™s The Potato Factory concerns the notorious criminal Ikey Solomon who is the undisputed king rat. While he is on top of the underworld, he is only fearful of his ambitious and resentful wife Hannah. Together they share a safe with plenty of money in it, yet they each only have half the combination. So when Hannah and Mary, Ikeyâ€™s razor sharp mistress, are deported to the penal colony in Vanâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  First book in the fictional trilogy that spans the history of Australia. This is the story of Ikey Solomon, the true character on whom Charles Dickens patterned his villain Fagin. Ikey, his brothel mistress-wife Hannah, and Ikey''s sometime mistress Mary Abacus are all transported as criminals to Van Dieman''s Land. Raising two separate families, each with the surname Solomon, the two women set out to destroy each other. The author is well known for his books which include ''The Power of One'', ''Tandia'' and ''April Fool''s Day''.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5922'),
(19709, 'Power Boating for Dummies', 'Randy Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Power Boating For Dummies is a guide to power boating for both new and experienced boaters. It advises readers of necessary boating supplies, safety concerns and equipment, accessories, and includes locations of boating facilities, and how to safely pilot the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your comprehensive guide to captaining your own boat\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a nautical novice or an experienced boater, this friendly guide explains everything you need to know about owning and operating a power boat. From the basics of safe seamanship and docking and mooring techniques to necessary equipment, routine maintenance, and hosting guests, you''ll discover how to get the most out of this exciting sport.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Power up to be a boaterâ€” determine what type of boat is right for you, set your boat budget, and get trained and licensed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gear up for safety and fun â€” select quality safety gear, secure and protect your boat, and make a splash with watersports activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle your boat like a pro â€” tow your boat, maintain your trailer, launch and load your boat, and drive properly and safely\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be a responsible boater â€” know boating rules and regulations, read boat lights, and understand navigation markers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your boat shipshape â€” perform maintenance and minor repairs (and know when to call a mechanic), and get your boat ready for winter and spring\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eight pages of color photos featuring different types of power boats available\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details on all types of power boats, from fishing to sport\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Info on boating exams and safety courses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step instructions with illustrations for operating your boat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Anecdotes from the author to help you avoid mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Checklists for buying new and used boats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on docking, rafting up, and anchoring\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Options and guidance on how and where to store your boat\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1938'),
(19710, 'Power Electronics', 'Daniel W Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6868'),
(19711, 'The Power', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this thriller, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman face the most professional enemy they have ever encountered. Subjected to overwhelming and murderous pressure, Tweed''s desperate task is to identify this mysterious opponent before it is too late. A nightmare scenario unfolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6171'),
(19712, 'PowerPoint 2003 Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Offers an easy-to-navigate design featuring a two-column landscape layout loaded with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help readers get up to speed fast on key PowerPoint tasks-and create effective and striking presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers creating a new presentation, resizing or moving an object, duplicating a slide, using the outlining toolbar, and adding notes to a slide\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to print a presentation, set up a slide show, work with pictures and clip art, color text and objects, modify the slide master, create a template, insert a diagram or chart, add sound and video, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take these steps to build a presentation with pizzazz!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ...for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Insert an Action Button\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Open a presentation in PowerPoint.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Go to the slide on which you want to insert an action button.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose Slide Show?Action Buttons.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose your desired button from the submenu, as shown in Figure 13-15.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Click on the slide to place the button.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n Insert action buttons (such as Previous, Next, and Play) to help your viewers navigate through your presentation. This is especially helpful for self-running presentations on the Web or in kiosks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a new presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Insert tables, charts, and sound effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design multiple slide masters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add shapes, text effects, and colors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scale, crop, and position pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Import Word documents\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1939'),
(19713, 'Powerpoint 2007', 'Torben Lage Frandsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(19714, 'PowerPoint 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1â€”your key to PowerPoint success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to perfect presentations with PowerPoint 2007\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody uses PowerPoint, right? How can you make your presentations pop? Check this handy reference with its easy-to-use minibooks! Once you get going with all the cool new stuff in PowerPoint 2007, you find out how to jazz up your presentations with charts, transitions, photos, animation, and even some ultra-cool power-user tricks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and create a presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use speed techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle master slides and master styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize slides with themes and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make diagrams and charts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create video slides\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7 books in 1â€” your key to PowerPoint success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to perfect presentations with PowerPoint 2007\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody uses PowerPoint, right? How can you make your presentations pop? Check this handy reference with its easy-to-use minibooks! Once you get going with all the cool new stuff in PowerPoint 2007, you find out how to jazz up your presentations with charts, transitions, photos, animation, and even some ultra-cool power-user tricks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan and create a presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use speed techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle master slides and master styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize slides with themes and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make diagrams and charts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create video slides\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1940'),
(19715, 'PowerPoint 2007 Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Barbara Obermeier &amp; Ted Padova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When youâ€™re trying to harness the power of PowerPoint, you donâ€™t want to wade through lots of background and definitions; you want to make things happen!\n <em>\n  Power Point Just the Steps for Dummies\n </em>\n puts your hands and eyes to work immediately so you can finish any PowerPoint project in a flash.Â  Just choose your task, follow the step-by-step instructions and vivid illustrations, and POOF! Itâ€™s done. In seconds, youâ€™ll be:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating a new presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Resizing or moving an object\n </li>\n <li>\n  Duplicating a slide\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the outlining toolbar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding notes to a slide\n </li>\n <li>\n  Printing your presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting up a slide show\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with pictures and clip art\n </li>\n <li>\n  Coloring text and objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Modifying the slide master\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating a template\n </li>\n <li>\n  Inserting a diagram or chart\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding sound and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  And more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re new to PowerPoint, pressed for time, or visually oriented, this get-it-done guide will help make your next PowerPoint presentation look like a work of genius!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Easy steps for creating and sharing effective presentations\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Simple steps...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ...for great results\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crop a Picture\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Open a presentation in PowerPoint.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the picture you want to crop. Cropping is one of the easiest things you can do to improve the composition of your pictures and hone in on the focal point.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the Ribbon, click the Format/Picture Tools tab. In the Size group, click Crop.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Position your cursor over a cropping handle and drag. To crop equally on two sides simultaneously, press the Ctrl key as you drag the center crop handle on a side. To crop equally on all four sides simultaneously, press the Ctrl key as you drag a corner crop handle.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Click anywhere in your slide outside the selected picture to deselect the Crop tool.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get ready to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a new presentation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Insert tables, charts, and graphs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add shapes, text effects, and colors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scale, crop, and position pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate sound and movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare a self-running presentation\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1941'),
(19716, 'PowerPoint 2010 for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Start creating dynamite presentations with PowerPoint 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n PowerPoint, the number one presentation software, has been revised and improved with the introduction of Microsoft Office 2010. More than 120 million people are using PowerPoint to create business and educational presentations worldwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Both new and veteran PowerPoint users will improve their skills with the fun and friendly advice in\n <em>\n  PowerPoint 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n . Bestselling author Doug Lowe makes it easy to grasp the new features and shows you how to create presentations with pizzazz.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  PowerPoint is used in more than 60 countries to create visual presentations for business and educational settings\n </li>\n <li>\n  The newest revision to PowerPoint adds new features, an online version of the software, and improved audiovisual and video editing capabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  This easy-to-follow guide explains how to create and edit slides, import data from other applications, and add charts, clip art, sound, and video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers working with hyperlinks, creating Web pages with PowerPoint, video editing, and collaboration via online access\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PowerPoint 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you take full advantage of the enhancements in the new version, so you can create more effective and impressive presentations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create powerful presentations with stunning photos, vivid videos, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the best ways to captivate your audience during a presentation is to have an amazing slide show. PowerPoint 2010 will help you do that, and this book will show you how. Get ready for a standing ovation as you learn how to build great-looking slides, add sound and eye-popping video, animate your graphics, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the most out of your text â€” learn the best ways to edit and format your text to make your slides more visually appealing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Remember what to say â€” take advantage of one of the slickest features in PowerPoint 2010 to create speaker notes that only you can see during the presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make a visual impact â€” from inserting pictures and clip art to adding video and controlling when it''s played, you''ll craft some impressive, high-tech presentations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add even more goodies â€” discover how to insert tables, WordArt, hyperlinks, and actions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work as a team â€” find out the best ways to collaborate on slides, add comments, and compare changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reuse slides â€” copy slides from other presentations and set up a slide library that''s managed by SharePointÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An inside look at the new features of PowerPoint 2010\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of designing and formatting slides\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Techniques for adding exciting animations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for working with masters and templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use PowerPoint''s cool drawing tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to spice up slides with video clips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on using PowerPoint''s collaboration tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create a video version of your presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create and edit a slide presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the latest enhancements and features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add charts, clip art, sound, and video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with master slides and templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1942'),
(19717, 'The Powers and Maxine', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5951'),
(19718, 'Practical Demonkeeping (pc-1)', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Granted immortality by Catch, a lovable demon, a young man named Travis O''Hearn struggles to rid himself of this man-eating gremlin, who promises to make eternity hellish for him, in a supernatural comic romp through a California tourist town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6335'),
(19719, 'Practical PC, 6th ed.', 'June Jamrich Parsons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4730'),
(19720, 'Practical Photoshop 09-2011', 'Photoshop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3681'),
(19721, 'Practical Photoshop 09-2011', 'Photoshop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3740'),
(19722, 'Practical Photoshop Magazine 09-2011', 'Photoshop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3805'),
(19723, 'Practical_Photoshop_2011-11.pdf 20-10-2011', 'Practical_Photoshop_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10825'),
(19724, 'Practical.Photoshop.October.2011.BD.pdf 19-09-2011', 'Practical.Photoshop.October.2011.BD.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6417'),
(19725, 'The Practice Effect', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dennis Nuel is a physicist who, during his research, develops a machine that allows him to explore alternate realities, each of which sport some very strange scientific properties.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6265'),
(19726, 'Pre-Calculus Workbook for Dummies', 'Michelle Rose Gilman &amp; Christopher Burger &amp; Karina Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the confidence and the math skills\n</p>\n<p>\n you need to get started with calculus!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you preparing for calculus? This easy-to-follow, hands-on workbook helps you master basic pre-calculus concepts and practice the types of problems you''ll encounter in your cour sework. You get valuable exercises, problem-solving shortcuts, plenty of workspace, and step-by-step solutions to every problem. You''ll also memorize the most frequently used equations, see how to avoid common mistakes, understand tricky trig proofs, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed, fully worked-out solutions to problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The inside scoop on quadratic equations, graphing functions, polynomials, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A wealth of tips and tricks for solving basic calculus problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the confidence and skills you need to get started with calculus\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you confused by calculus? This hands-on workbook helps you master the skills needed to excel in pre-calculus and conquer the next contender â€” calculus. You''ll get hundreds of valuable exercises, problem-solving shortcuts, plenty of workspace, and step-by-step solutions to every problem. You''ll also memorize the most frequently used equations, see how to avoid common mistakes, understand tricky trig proofs, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  100s of Problems\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed, fully worked-out solutions to problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The inside scoop on analyzing and interpreting data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A wealth of tips, tricks, and warnings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to guesstimate with confidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Score your highest in pre-calculus with trusted strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master all the essential topics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Test your skills with practical exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1943');
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(19727, 'Precious Metals Investing for Dummies', 'Paul Mladjenovic', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In recent years, metals have been among the safest and most lucrative investments around, but they are not entirely risk free. Before you begin investing or trading in metals, you need authoritative information and proven investment strategies. You need\n <em>\n  Precious Metal Investing For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n This straightforward guide eases you into the precious metals market with sound advice on trading and owning these profitable investments, including gold, silver, platinum, and uranium, as well as high-demand base metals such as zinc and copper. Youâ€™ll learn how to research their market performance and choose among an array of proven trading plans and strategies. Plus, youâ€™ll get savvy advice on how to choose a broker, buy stocks and futures that involve metals, maximize your investment return, and minimize your risk. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Evaluate the different metals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add metals to your portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether youâ€™re an investor or a trader\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify your metal-investment goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weigh the risks and benefits of metals investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy physical metals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use technical analysis to evaluate opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make long-term investments in precious metals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Diversify your metals investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze base-metals companies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Purchase numismatic coins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add metals to your mutual fund or ETF portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how politics effects metals prices\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Metals can be an important and valuable addition to any investment portfolio or retirement plan. Make the most out of your investment with\n <em>\n  Precious Metal Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features proven trading plans and strategies\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to purchase and trade metal to strengthen your portfolio\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to join the lucrative precious metals market? This straightforward guide gives you sound advice on trading as well as owning these profitable investments â€” from gold, silver, and platinum to uranium, zinc, and copper. You''ll research their performance and choose your trading approach. Plus, you''ll see how to find a broker, buy stocks and futures that involve metals, and minimize your risk.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate the different metals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add metals to your portfolio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Weigh the benefits and risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Buy physical metals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use technical analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use precious metals for long-term investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1944'),
(19728, 'Precipice', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rejecting any terrorist involvement, Tweed senses the danger but cannot identify the source. His desperate search drives Grey, Newman and Cardon underground inside Europe. And Cardon is trapped in an emotional situation with a strange woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6206'),
(19729, 'Prediabetes for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Accessible information on the causes, health risks, and treatment of prediabetes\n</p>\n<p>\n If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with prediabetes â€“ a heightened level of glucose, and/or impaired glucose tolerance - the time to act is now.\n <em>\n  Prediabetes For Dummies\n </em>\n examines the signs and symptoms of this potential precursor to diabetes and offers up-to-date information about treatment. It provides clear, practical advice on steps you can take to minimize the risk of serious health consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide shows you how to stop prediabetes in its tracks and prevent it from progressing to diabetes. You''ll learn how to recognize the symptoms of this often-undiagnosed condition, and what to do if you think you may be prediabetic. You''ll also discover how simple lifestyle changes, such as changes in your diet and moderate exercise, can put the brakes on prediabetes and even reverse the condition.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Offers clear explanations of prediabetes causes, health risks, and treatment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes the latest advances in the use of diabetes medications to treat prediabetes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides diet suggestions, meal plans, and exercise tips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contains helpful suggestions for friends and family members who want to support a loved one with prediabetes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n While there is no cure for diabetes, it can be prevented if prediabetes is diagnosed and treated early. Packed with valuable information for patients of all ages,\n <em>\n  Prediabetes For Dummies\n </em>\n is an important resource for taking control of this dangerous condition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The tools you need to stop prediabetes in its tracks\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n An estimated 60 million people in the United States have prediabetes, a condition that, if not addressed, can lead to serious long-term health problems.\n <em>\n  Prediabetes For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you a look at the signs of this precursor to diabetes and offers up-to-date and easy-to-understand information about how it can be treated and reversed.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Battling an unhealthy lifestyle â€” information on identifying problem foods, facing your weight, the risks of being sedentary, and the impact of stress\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Getting a diagnosis â€” clear coverage of the tests you''ll need to secure a diagnosis and how to interpret results\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Avoiding or reversing prediabetes â€” practical tips on how to stay away from problem foods, change your eating habits, and exercise daily\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Realizing the dangers of moving toward diabetes â€” facts on the short- and long-term consequences of diabetes, including how it affects sexual health and pregnancy\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Considering weight-loss surgery â€” trusted advice on bariatric surgery and what it can (and can''t) do for you\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Seeing a healthier you in three months â€” an easy-to-follow, week-by-week plan to confront prediabetes\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    <em>\n     Understanding the prediabetes epidemic â€” a practical overview of the origins and threats of prediabetes, the people it affects, and its devastating toll on the lives of children and adults, our healthcare system, and our nation\n    </em>\n   </strong>\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Whether you''re at risk for prediabetes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Food ingredients to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for shopping for food\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed instructions on starting a simple exercise plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special considerations for children and the elderly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to consider surgery for an obese child\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coverage of gestational diabetes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten staples to keep in the kitchen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online resources for additional information and support\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Go to Dummies.comÂ® for videos, step-by-step photos, how-to-articles, or to shop!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1945'),
(19730, 'Pregnancy for Dummies', 'Joanne Stone &amp; Keith Eddleman &amp; Mary Duenwald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book''s title sure sounds a little scary, but as its often-hilarious testimonials from first-time parents show, expectant parents frequently feel\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n stupid. Like the vast majority of For Dummies books, this one is supremely organized and indexed to help you find the answer to most any question, especially the embarrassing ones you may be reluctant to ask your doctor ("Is it okay to have sex in the last trimester?" "How long does it take the ugly conehead effect to go away after birth?") and the more serious ones ("Can I breast-feed while I''m on the Pill?").\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike many pregnancy books, this one has plenty of helpful information for the mother''s partner, including ways to deal with vicious mood swings, helpful tips for preparing for childbirth class, and seven tricks for easing her labor pain--even if she''s threatening that you''ll never have sex again. Besides chapter after chapter of information about pregnancy''s physical aspects and how to stay comfortable during the next 40 weeks, there''s also plenty of advice on emotional issues--from learning how to say "hands off!" to the pesky people who want to rub your belly to coping with postpartum blues. Some readers may be offended by the book''s slightly warped sense of humor (example: "breast engorgement really sucks"), but the authors never treat serious topics in an off-base way. The book''s definitely geared toward first-time parents, but for moms and dads confused by the many new medical tests and modern options (such as the\n <em>\n  doula\n </em>\n [pregnancy coach] dilemma or decision to freeze the baby''s umbilical cord or not), there''s a fine education to be had between this book''s covers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦an accurate and informative readâ€¦giving essential information without instilling fearâ€¦â€ (_Junior Pregnancy &amp; Birth_, February 2005)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1946'),
(19731, 'Premiere Elements 8 for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The book of choice for beginning digital video editors\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The popularity of digital video continues to grow, largely because of the dropping prices of cameras. Correspondingly, so does the number of novice digital video editors. This book is for the beginning video editor who is eager to get started using the vast array of tools that Adobe Premiere Elements offers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran author Keith Underdahl covers all the essentials of using Adobe Premiere Elements 8 to import video, create clips, put those clips together, add effects, work with sound and music, and output to DVD or the Internet. You''ll feel like a pro in no time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Adobe Premiere Elements is the user-friendly video-editing software for even the most novice video editor\n </li>\n <li>\n  This guide explains how to import video, edit clips, adjust sound, add music and effects, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes tips for sharing movies on YouTube, Blu-ray discs, and mobile phones\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackles tricky topics in the fun and friendly way that has made the\n  <em>\n   For Dummies\n  </em>\n  brand world renowned\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re looking to use Adobe Premiere Elements so you can post a hilarious homemade movie on YouTube or create a memorable film for your next family gathering,\n <em>\n  Premiere Elements 8 For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n will show you how.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to use the video-editing program made for hobbyists like you!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Home movies of today are nothing like the shaky, unedited ones your parents or grandparents used to show. With Premiere Elements, you can create professional-looking movies and upload them to YouTube or put them on DVDs to share. Here''s how to turn your PC into a movie production studio and create videos that wow your family and friends!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For movie newbies â€” learn moviemaking basics and how to set up your production studio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dive right in â€” set up Premiere Elements, learn its features, and import clips from your digital camcorder\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The moviemaker''s canvas â€” work with the Timeline and Sceneline to import and organize clips and make edits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sound secrets â€” find out how to record better sound quality when you''re shooting video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Movie music â€” add audio transitions and learn to mix audio tracks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The fancy stuff â€” create compositing effects with blue screens, customize special effects, and add titles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s a wrap â€” customize a DVD menu and choose the right file format\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Share your creations â€” export your movies for iPods and mobile devices, upload them to YouTube, or burn DVDs and Blu-ray discs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Premiere Elements with different media formats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to apply transitions between scenes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create Web-friendly video files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for improving and repairing images\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on making movies for the iPod and iPhone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to take advantage of SmartSound\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A glossary of moviemaking terms and acronyms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten tips for making better movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(19732, 'The Prestige', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Flyleaf:  After ten years of quietude, author Christopher Priest (nominated one of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983) returns with a triumphant tale of dueling prestidigitators and impossible acts.  In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in a darkened salon during the course of a fraudulent sÐ¹ance. From this moment, their lives spin webs of deceit and exposure as they feud to outwit each other. Their rivalry takes them both to the peak of their careers, but with terrible consequences. It is not enough that blood will be spilt â€” their legacy is one that will pass on for generations.  The Prestige  is a chimerical triumph of storytelling magic, a fiercely compelling tale of revenge and illusion. Awarded Britain''s prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize and nominated also for the Arthur C. Clarke Award,  The Prestige  is a masterpiece of imaginative storytelling.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award,\n  <strong>\n   The Prestige\n  </strong>\n  is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who''s ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the "It''s alive!" scene in\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Priest, one of Granta''s Best Young British Novelists (1983 list), has not been overproductive since he made a small reputation with The Affirmation and The Glamour, published here more than a dozen years ago. His new novel (the title of which refers to the residue left after a magician''s successful trick) is enthrallingly odd. In a carefully calculated period style that is remarkably akin to that of the late Robertson Davies, Priest writes of a pair of rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London. Each has a winning trick the other craves, but so arcane is the nature of these tricks, so incredibly difficult are they to perform, that they take on a peculiar life of their own?in one case involving a mysterious apparent double identity, in the other a reliance on the ferocious powers unleashed in the early experimental years of electricity. The rivalry of the two men is such that in the end, though both are ashamed of the strength of their feelings of spite and envy, it consumes them both, and affects their respective families for generations. This is a complex tale that must have been extremely difficult to tell in exactly the right sequence, while still maintaining a series of shocks to the very end. Priest has brought it off with great imagination and skill. It''s only fair to say, though, that the book''s very considerable narrative grip is its principal virtue. The characters and incidents have a decidedly Gothic cast, and only the restraint that marks the story''s telling keeps it on the rails.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6350'),
(19733, 'The Pretender&#39;s Crown (The Inheritors&#39; Cycle, Book 2)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Murphy''s crisply written sequel to 2008''s alternate history\n  <em>\n   The Queen''s Bastard\n  </em>\n  , aliens known as the Heseth, the people of the sun, have visited Earth in what would be our 16th century, but the supernatural elements are limited to the occasional use of magical abilities. The plot is more focused on the struggle for power in Echon (Europe), which features familiar rivalries between Aulun (England), Gallin (France) and the Prussian Confederation. As political tensions heat up, Belinda, the witchfire-wielding assassin and illegitimate daughter of Aulun''s Queen Lorraine, faces relationship problems with Javier de Castille, prince of Essandia (Spain) and Gallin, and with her overbearing mother. Murphy tends toward long discussions of war, succession and various attempts by the Heseth to influence human development, mostly balanced by clever intrigue and raw, explicit sex scenes.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The much-anticipated sequel to The Queenâ€™s Bastard (2008) wonâ€™t disappoint patient readers willing to dedicate time and thought to the myriad political machinations in the weighty first nine-tenths of the book. Belinda Primrose, back in Aulun, is finally recognized after saving the navy from the Gallin Armada while being mistaken for the Madonna. Javier de Castilleâ€™s witch-power is deemed a gift from God by the Pappas, allowing him latitude to use it as he wars against Aulun, attempting to bring it back into the ecumenical fold. Battles, marriages, assassinations, changes of allegiance, and political intrigue strip the protagonists down to their cores as they lose everything and gain something else. With secrets of Belindaâ€™s and Javierâ€™s true beginnings revealed, Belinda reevaluates her fealty to an alien queen lurking in space and her responsibilities to the world into which she was born. Readers will have to await future installments of the Inheritorsâ€™ Cycle to know how it all finally comes out. --Herald Diana Tixier\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5950'),
(19734, 'The Pretty Lady', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4263'),
(19735, 'Preventing Identity Theft for Dummies', 'Michael J. Arata Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Twenty-seven million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years and the total cost of identity theft approaches $48 billion per year (total costs to businesses are $43 billion and the direct cost to consumers is $5 billion)\n </li>\n <li>\n  These staggering statistics have prompted security consultant Michael Arata to provide readers with the resources they need to guard themselves against identity theft\n </li>\n <li>\n  In this valuable book, Arata offers easy-to-follow, straightforward advice on understanding identity theft, minimizing risk, maintaining vigilance, choosing who to share personal information with, selecting hard-to-guess PINs, determining victimization, reviewing a credit report, charting a course of action, resolving credit problems, reclaiming good credit, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to recover successfully if identity theft does occur\n </li>\n <li>\n  Author Michael Arata, CISSP, CPP, CFE, ACLM, is a veteran of the security industry with more than fifteen years of experience\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Protect yourself from Americaâ€™s fastest growing crime\n</p>\n<p>\n See how loose lips sink credit ratings and why thereâ€™s no safety in numbers\n</p>\n<p>\n How is a dumpster diver like a wallet snatcher? Both are out to hijack your identity, so dive into this book and find out how to fight back! Discover why every home needs a shredder, what your bank statement can tell you, and how to reclaim your good name if itâ€™s already too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recognize and avoid common scams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guard your privacy effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Act promptly if theft occurs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read your credit report\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose secure passwords\n </li>\n <li>\n  Report identity theft to the right people\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1948'),
(19736, 'Prevention USA - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10696'),
(19737, 'The Price of Love', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4295'),
(19738, 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6276'),
(19739, 'The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli', 'Nicolo Machiavelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(19740, 'Prince of Thieves', 'Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man''s heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves... Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood, produces more bank robbers and armored car thieves than any square mile in the world. In this gripping, intricately plotted thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank and one of an influx of young professionals chipping away at the neighborhood''s insularity, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can''t get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without his mask and gun, Doug introduces himself, and as soon as he and Claire meet, their mutual attraction is undeniable -- as are the risks of a relationship. Meanwhile, Doug''s crew pulls off another audacious, meticulously planned job. Frustrated by their ingenuity and brazen ambition, FBI Agent Adam Frawley begins to zero in on Doug and his pals -- and against his own better judgment, he, too, develops more than a professional interest in Claire. Under pressure from Frawley''s ever-closer investigation, Doug imagines a life for himself away from bank robberies and Charlestown. But before that can happen, the crew learns that there may be a way to rob Boston''s venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. It''s a magnificently dangerous and utterly irresistible opportunity -- yet for Doug, pursuing his former hostage may be the most dangerous act of all... Chuck Hogan''s brash tale of four men -- thieves, rivals, friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent, and the woman who may destroy them all, is a spectacular, stylish, heart-pounding thriller. "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6141'),
(19741, 'Prince of Thieves: A Novel', 'Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dark third novel by the author of\n  <em>\n   The Standoff\n  </em>\n  isn''t the fast-paced thriller it''s marketed to be. It is, rather, a story of doomed love focusing on Doug MacRay, a Boston-based career thief (he comes from Charlestown, "a breeding ground for bank and armored-car robbers") who becomes enamored with the manager of the bank he and his pals have just robbed. Claire Keesey, who has been badly traumatized by the robbery, later begins to develop feelings for him as well, unaware that a masked MacRay was the lead perpetrator in the heist that turned her life upside down. Hogan then leads readers through a long-winded labyrinth of inner reflection as Doug spends much of the book pondering whether he should quit the criminal life in order to pursue a deeper relationship with Claire. This undermines the suspense that crime fiction requires, and the novel is overlong by more than half. Although some characters are quite lively, most of them (including Doug) are not very sympathetic, and the end brings tragedy for many of them. All the same, the author''s original writing style and knack for unusual metaphors can make for engaging reading, and the book''s cinematic quality and grittily realistic action sequences bode well for its day on screen (it''s been optioned by\n  <em>\n   Law &amp; Order\n  </em>\n  producer Dick Wolf).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  If\n  <em>\n   Blood Artists\n  </em>\n  (1998) was a weak follow-up to his crackling 1995 debut\n  <em>\n   Standoff\n  </em>\n  , Hogan is back on track in this moody, resonant thriller that cleverly begins and ends in the same place. Doug, Dez, Jem, and Gloansy have been tight since childhood, growing up tough and street-smart in a rough, working-class Irish enclave where "bringing home the bacon" means stealing it from a local bank. Like his father, Doug is a thief, planning ever more sophisticated gigs for his buddies--as much for the high as for the money. The local bank should have been a piece of cake, but Doug''s falling in love with bank manager Claire Keesey wasn''t part of the plan. Nor did Doug expect a romantic adversary in the person of robbery investigator Adam Frawley. It''s not entirely clear why both men fall for Claire, who''s barely on stage. But there''s no doubt about Hogan''s ability to blend weighty emotions with riveting shoot-outs as he depicts a complicated man, noble and villainous by turns, trapped in a life he desperately wants to change.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6149'),
(19742, 'The Princess Passes', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5952'),
(19743, 'The princess Virginia', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5953'),
(19744, 'Private', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Jack Morgan is a war hero. Returning home from Afghanistan after being wounded, Jack is called into California State Prison to visit his father, Tom, who is serving a life sentence for extortion and murder. Before being incarcerated, Tom ran a private investigation firm called ''Private''. Tom wants Jack to re-start the company, to make it great again, and gives him access to a $15 million dollar account in the Cayman Islands to do it with. Five years later and Jack has set up offices spanning the globe. Private''s services are much sort after and Jack has clients ranging from movie stars to politicians. Jack is keen to keep the business legal and not fall into the same traps as his father. But when the mob come calling, they are not easy to refuse. On a rare night off accompanying a client to the Golden Globe awards, Jack receives a phone call from school friend Abbie Cushman. Abbie''s wife has been murdered and he desperately needs Jack''s help. The murder is brutal and with no apparent motive; fingers begin pointing towards Abbie. Jack is certain that Abbie didn''t kill his wife, but he will have to work night and day to prove it. Meanwhile, Jack''s second-in-command at Private, Justine Smith, is helping the L.A.P.D. in a serial killer investigation. Over the past two years, twelve school girls from the same area in L.A. have been murdered. The killings are highly professional and so far the Police have no leads whatsoever. Justine has been called in to make use of her experience and Private''s resources. A breakthrough is desperately needed, because these killings show no signs of stopping."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4209'),
(19745, 'Private Calendar 2010 Softcore by Mad', 'by Mad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6425'),
(19746, 'Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Jeff Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When you add Pro Tools to your home recording studio, you have the software used to create hit records. Throw in\n <em>\n  Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n and you get the insight you need to capture your sounds, edit your tracks, create a mix, and master your songs for the world to hear. Add a generous helping of your own talent and you have the perfect recipe for music stardom.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fantastic eight-books-in-one package introduces you to Pro Tools audio- and MIDI-recording software and clues you in on basic multitrack recording techniques. You''ll get wise to Pro Tools'' many features and functions and find out how top recording studios use them to create the biggest hits on the planet. This do-it-now handbook also gets you up to speed on the essential audio-engineering skills you need to make ultra-high-quality recordings. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate the Pro Tools windows and menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save hours of experimenting and spend more time recording\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master microphone placement and other home recording basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit errors out of your tracks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Equalize (EQ) tracks and add effects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with midi instruments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Blend your sounds into a stunning final mix\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assemble and release an album\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Don''t spend big bucks and many months taking classes in audio engineering and Pro Tools. Get eight quick-reference guides for one great price with\n <em>\n  Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n and start recording your breakthrough album right away!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1 â€” from miking to mixing to mastering\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to the software and hardware that make music magic\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you add Pro Tools to your home recording studio, you have the software used to create hit records. When you add this book to your bookshelf, you get the insight you need to capture your sounds, edit your tracks, create a mix, and master your songs for the world to hear. Add in your talent and you''re on your way to music stardom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the Pro Tools windows and menus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master microphone choice and placement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Edit the errors out of your tracks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blend sounds into a final mix\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with MIDI instruments and sounds\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1949'),
(19747, 'Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Jeff Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows musicians and home recording enthusiasts how to get up and running with Pro Tools, the leading software for professional music recording\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features minibooks on recording basics, PC and recording hardware, MIDI, editing, mixing, mastering, synchronization, and advanced Pro Tools use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers information on the hot-selling Digi002, Digi001, and Mbox packages for home recording buffs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides more complete information than other books, including basic tips on the recording process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by a professional musician who has been a touring and studio drummer as well as a sound and recording engineer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 8 books in 1â€“your key to success with Pro Tools!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to producing professional music recordings at home\n</p>\n<p>\n Pro Tools lets serious and hobby musicians create recordings that rival big label CDs. And if youâ€™re going to invest in a Pro Tools setup, you want to get the most out of it. So keep this reference handy! It has the scoop on hardware, software, techniques, mixing and mastering, and even marketing your music.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install Pro Tools on a MacÂ® or PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate Pro Tools windows and menus\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up mics to get great sounds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit individual tracks on screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and work with MIDI\n </li>\n <li>\n  Synch with external digital mixers\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1950'),
(19748, 'ProAudio_Review_September_2011.pdf 28-09-2011', 'ProAudio_Review_September_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6863'),
(19749, 'Probability for Dummies', 'Deborah Rumsey-johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems\n</p>\n<p>\n Increase your chances of acing that probability exam -- or winning at the casino!\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability -- and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Conquer combinations and permutations\n <br />\n * Understand probability models from binomial to exponential\n <br />\n * Make good decisions using probability\n <br />\n * Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Increase your chances of acing that probability exam â€” or winning at the casino!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability â€” and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Conquer combinations and permutations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand probability models from binomial to exponential\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make good decisions using probability\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1951'),
(19750, 'The Production Manual: A Graphic Design Handbook (Required Reading Range)', 'Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4545'),
(19751, 'Professional Photographer - October 2011', '10 2011 US-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7046'),
(19752, 'Professional Photographer 08-2011', 'Professional Photographer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3699'),
(19753, 'Professional Photographer Magazine (UK)', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3646'),
(19754, 'Professional Photographer UK - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10792'),
(19755, 'Professional.Photographe-10.2011.US-Slicer.pdf 30-09-2011', 'Professional.Photographe-10.2011.US-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7050'),
(19756, 'Professional.Photographer.UK-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 22-09-2011', 'Professional.Photographer.UK-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6698'),
(19757, 'Professional.Photographer.UK.11.2011.Slicer.pdf 22-10-2011', 'Professional.Photographer.UK.11.2011.Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10930'),
(19758, 'Project 2010 for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A friendly reference guide to Microsoft Project, the leading enterprise project management software\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As project management software, Microsoft Project allows you to oversee your business activities effectively. You can manage resources, share project info, perform modeling and scenario analysis, and standardize reporting processes. This easy-to-understand guide is completely updated to cover the latest changes and newest enhancements to Project 2010 and shows you how to get Project 2010 to work for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n After an introduction to basic project management concepts, youâ€™ll discover the mechanics of using Project software to create and manage projects. Other topics covered include working with calendars, using and sharing resources, budgeting, formatting taskbars, gathering and tracking data, working with reports, and creating templates.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Microsoft Project allows you to manage resources, share project information, perform scenario analysis, and standardize reporting processes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers completely updated coverage of the new Project 2010, which is expected to implement the Office Ribbon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reviews formatting taskbars, gathering and tracking data, and working with reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses using and sharing resources, creating templates, and managing projects\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Let the friendly\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n writing style guide you through maximizing the new features of Project 2010.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In charge of a project? Manage it better with Project 2010 and this book!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve never used project management software before â€” or you''ve used previous versions of Project and want to master the all-new Project 2010 interface and features â€” this is the book for you! You''ll find the project management concepts you need to know, how Project 2010 works and how to get up to speed, what''s new, and most importantly, how to apply it to a real project.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What do I do with this thing? â€” set up Project, learn what types of input you need to provide, and begin building project plans\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be resourceful â€” create and assign work resources, material resources, and fixed costs, and manage resources effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A perfect fit â€” ensure your project has a high chance of success by fine-tuning your plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Running on rails â€” learn to use baselines, track progress and materials, and create reports that help keep projects on track\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enterprise options â€” get an overview of online collaborative features using Project Server, Web Application, and SharePoint\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to maximize control with the new manual scheduling feature\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your way around the Project interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The new Timeline and Team Planner views\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on assigning resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on communicating with your team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about reports and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Scheduling help from the new Task Inspector\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage project schedules with Project 2010\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with new scheduling tools and the Ribbon interface\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assign and share resources and understand calendars\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create impressive reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1952'),
(19759, 'Project Management for Dummies', 'Stanley E. Portny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than two thirds of American companies use teams to execute their most important projects, making project management a highly valuable skill for advancing your career.\n <em>\n  Project Management For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n introduces you to the principles of successful project management and shows you how to motivate any team to gain maximum productivity. Â Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Define your project and what you intend to accomplish\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify project stakeholders and their expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a project plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish project schedules and timetables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine which skill sets and resources the project requires\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose team members and define their roles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Launch you project and track its progress\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage peak performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conclude your project successfully\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful tips on delegating, shortening schedules, and optimizing your own performance Project Management for Dummies, help you get your project, and your career, off the ground in no time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Track your progress and keep everyone in the know\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Overcome scheduling challenges\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Today''s projects are more complex and technically challenging. How do you lead one successfully from start to finish? This practical guide gives you the tools you need to deal with schedules, budgets, and deadlines while keeping your cool under pressure. You get the latest on resource management strategies and fresh tactics for team motivation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Define your project goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a project team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work within your budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage risk and uncertainty\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle multiple projects simultaneously\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the latest technologies to stay on track\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1953');
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(19760, 'Project Management for Dummies', 'Stanley E. Portny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The tools you need for successful project management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. Now with 25% new and updated content,\n <em>\n  Project Management For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n introduces you to the principles of successful project management and shows you how to motivate any team to gain maximum productivity.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn how to organize, estimate, and schedule projects efficiently and effectively. You''ll also discover how to manage deliverables, issue changes, assess risks, maintain communications, and live up to expectations by making the most of the latest technology and software and by avoiding common problems that can trip up even the best project managers.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The latest methods to manage resources and stay on track and within a budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  New coverage of the pros and cons of virtual teams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fresh tactics for team motivation and the hottest risk management strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations of concepts tested in the PMP certification exam with study tips and practices to help you pass\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Project Management For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n gives professionals like you everything you need to be successful project managers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The tools you need for successful project management\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. So what does it take to succeed? This hands-on guide introduces you to the principles of project management and shows you how to put them to use so you can successfully manage a project from start to finish. And if you''re studying for the Project Management Institute''s Project Management Professional certification exam, you can rest easy knowing that this book is aligned with the guide that''s the basis for the exam.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Project management 101 â€” take a look at the who, what, and why of a project and discover what it really takes to ensure success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep an eye on the clock â€” learn how to create foolproof schedules and budgets that keep your projects on track\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put your team to work â€” get plenty of practical tips and guidelines for identifying and involving key players\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drive it home â€” uncover the best ways to track, analyze, and report on your project''s activities and bring it to a successful closure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Up your project management game â€” take your skills to the next level with the use of technology and Earned Value Management\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help for defining your project''s goals and expectations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for knowing your project''s audience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for breaking your project work into manageable pieces\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest methods for determining and managing resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to deal with risk and uncertainty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for providing effective leadership\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize and schedule projects efficiently and effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Motivate any team to gain maximum productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess risks, manage changes, maintain communication, and live up to expectations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for resources and stay within a budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1954'),
(19761, 'Protecting Your Pension for Dummies', 'Robert D. Gary &amp; Jori Bloom Naegele', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you concerned about your pension? In todayâ€™s tumultuous business environment, you have every right to be. With revised pension laws and under-the-table pension cuts by companies making waves, you have to be ever vigilant about protecting what you have.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Protecting Your Pension\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you do just that. This easy-to-follow guide explains all the latest pension laws, what your rights are, and the best ways to keep your money safe. It demystifies the various types of pension plans and outlines just what it takes to qualify for a pension. Once your plan is set up, youâ€™ll see how to navigate company bankruptcies, mergers, and pension cutbacks, as well as divorces, loans, and personal bankruptcyâ€”and take action if youâ€™ve been shortchanged to recoup what is rightfully yours. You get all the expert guidance you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the Pension Protection Act of 2006\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate different pension plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for retirement while youâ€™re working\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure that you get your pension\n </li>\n <li>\n  Request essential plan documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand eligibility, accrual, and vesting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guard your pension from your employerâ€”and from lifeâ€™s ups and downs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand pension distributions\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a glossary of terms and an appendix of charts and forms discussed throughout the book,\n <em>\n  Protecting Your Pension\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy wayÂ® to grasp all the important pension rulesâ€”and retire with a full nest egg!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out about 401(k)s, defined benefit plans, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to grasp pension rules, avoid pitfalls, and retire with a full nest egg\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to protect your pension? This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide explains the big changes in pension laws, how they affect you, and the best ways to keep your money safe. You''ll see how to handle pension plan modifications and company changes as well as personal issues like divorce and bankruptcy â€” and take action if you''ve been shortchanged.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Check pension plan investments and expenses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the scoop on eligibility, accrual, and vesting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for retirement while you''re still working\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure that you receive the right pension distribution\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hire and work with a pension attorney\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1955'),
(19762, 'PSM3 - November 2011 UK', 'November 2011 UK-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6077'),
(19763, 'PSM3 - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4736'),
(19764, 'PSM3-November.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf 19-09-2011', 'PSM3-November.2011.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6415'),
(19765, 'Public Relations for Dummies', 'Eric Yaverbaum &amp; Ilise Benun &amp; Richard Kirshenbaum &amp; Robert W. Bly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦the ideas herein will make your creative mind fly for sure!" (_TamsPalm Blog_, September 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Proven techniques that maximize media exposure for your business\n</p>\n<p>\n A seasoned PR pro shows you how to get people talking\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes to public relations, nothing beats good word of mouth. Want to get customers talking? This friendly guide combines the best practical tools with insight and flair to provide guidance on every aspect of PR, so you can launch a full-throttle campaign that''ll generate buzz -- and build your bottom line.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Map a winning PR strategy\n <br />\n * Grab attention with press releases, interviews, and events\n <br />\n * Cultivate good media relations\n <br />\n * Get print, TV, radio, and Internet coverage\n <br />\n * Manage a PR crisis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1956'),
(19766, 'Puppies for Dummies', 'Sarah Hodgson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features a new 8-page color section\n</p>\n<p>\n The bestselling guide to making the most of puppy''s first year\n</p>\n<p>\n Bringing home a puppy? This fun, friendly guide to puppyhood prepares you for this tough but terrific time. From the basics -- housebreaking, feeding, training -- to the latest on doggie day care, traveling with a puppy, and the new designer breeds, you get everything you need to help your puppy grow up to be a healthy, playful, well-mannered dog.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Choose the perfect puppy for you\n <br />\n * Socialize your puppy\n <br />\n * Stimulate your puppy''s growing mind\n <br />\n * Use the latest training tools\n <br />\n * Keep peace between kids and puppies\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features a new 8-page color section\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling guide to making the most of puppy''s first year\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Bringing home a puppy? This fun, friendly guide to puppyhood prepares you for this tough but terrific time. From the basics â€” housebreaking, feeding, training â€” to the latest on doggie day care, traveling with a puppy, and the new designer breeds, you get everything you need to help your puppy grow up to be a healthy, playful, well-mannered dog.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the perfect puppy for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Socialize your puppy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stimulate your puppy''s growing mind\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the latest training tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep peace between kids and puppies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1957'),
(19767, 'Pygmy', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk''s 10th novel (after\n  <em>\n   Snuff\n  </em>\n  ) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list English alphabet letters) and TV news reporters (Horde scavenger feast at overflowing anus of world history), before moving on to a Columbine-like shooting spree by a closeted kid who has fallen in love with the teenage terrorist who raped him in a shopping mall bathroom. Decoding Palahniuk''s characteristically scathing observations is a challenge, as Pygmy''s narrative voice is unbound by rules of grammar or structure (a typical sentence: Host father mount altar so stance beside bin empty of water), but perseverance is its own perverse reward in this singular, comic accomplishment.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "What will he think of next?" asked the flabbergasted critic from the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  . Indeed, while several reviewers praised the novel as a darkly humorous commentary on American society, most agreed it contained serious flaws. Palahniuk''s tenth novel seems designed to flummox readers with its extreme profanity, graphic sexual violence involving minors, and portrayal of adults as either brainless buffoons or shameless perverts. Critics were also split on the author''s repeated use of an undefined syntax, reminiscent of pidgin English, throughout. What readers, after all, will have the patience to read sentences like, "Revered soon dying mother, distribute you ammunitions correct for Croatia-made forty-five-caliber, long-piston-stroke APS assault rifle"? Overall, critics acknowledged that diehard Palahniuk fans might savor\n  <em>\n   Pygmy\n  </em>\n  but that most folks would find it too stomach-turning.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6194'),
(19768, 'Quake 4 Mods for Dummies', 'Erik Guilfoyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create your own levels and game mods\n</p>\n<p>\n Build single- and multi-player levels, add scripts, and share your mods\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever wonder what Quake 4 would be like if it included that especially cool weapon you dreamed up? Here''s the fun and easy way? to find out. Start by creating a basic level, and then discover how to include your own weapons and effects, change colors, add textures, and send your creations out into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything you need to get started --\n <br />\n * Adobe? Photoshop? Elements tryout version\n <br />\n * WinZip? evaluation version\n <br />\n * The Compressonator and NormalGapGenerator by ATI Technologies, Inc.\n <br />\n * Sample tools, textures, and examples from the book\n <br />\n * For details and complete system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Work with various modding tools\n <br />\n * Develop a map\n <br />\n * Alter user interfaces\n <br />\n * Paint and decorate your level\n <br />\n * Script advanced actions\n <br />\n * Distribute your creations online\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create your own levels and game mods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build single- and multi-player levels, add scripts, and share your mods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever wonder what Quake 4 would be like if it included that especially cool weapon you dreamed up? Here''s the fun and easy wayÂ® to find out. Start by creating a basic level, and then discover how to include your own weapons and effects, change colors, add textures, and send your creations out into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Everything you need to get started â€”\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   AdobeÂ® PhotoshopÂ® Elements tryout version\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   WinZipÂ® evaluation version\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The Compressonator and NormalGapGenerator by ATI Technologies, Inc.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample tools, textures, and examples from the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For details and complete system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with various modding tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a map\n </li>\n <li>\n  Alter user interfaces\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint and decorate your level\n </li>\n <li>\n  Script advanced actions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Distribute your creations online\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1958'),
(19769, 'Quality Control for Dummies', 'Larry Webber &amp; Michael Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So youâ€™ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe youâ€™ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps youâ€™re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Quality Control For Dummies\n </em>\n is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your companyâ€™s quality. It covers all of todayâ€™s available options and provides expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more. This hands-on guide gives you all the tools youâ€™ll ever need to enhance your companyâ€™s quality, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understanding the importance of quality standards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Putting fundamental quality control methods to use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Listening to your customer about quality issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  Whipping quality control into shape with Lean\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working with value stream mapping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focusing on the 5S method\n </li>\n <li>\n  Supplement a process with Kanban\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fixing tough problems with Six Sigma\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using QFD to win customers over\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improving you company with TOC\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This invaluable reference is written from an unbiased viewpoint, giving you all the facts about each theory with no fuzzy coverings. It also includes steps for incorporating quality into a new product and Web sites packed with quality control tips and techniques. With\n <em>\n  Quality Control For Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll be able to speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make quality a priority throughout your organization\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to improve quality in your organization? This practical guide covers quality control options available today, from 5S to Six Sigma to TQM. You''ll find expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set quality standards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use quality assurance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Detect the voice of the customer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess your quality process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right approach for your company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Obtain outside help\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1959'),
(19770, 'The Quantum Enigma: Finding the Hidden Key 3rd Edition', 'Wolfgang Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4216'),
(19771, 'Quantum Physics Workbook for Dummies', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hands-on practice in solving quantum physics problems\n</p>\n<p>\n Quantum Physics is the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller microscopic levels. Like the other titles in our For Dummies Workbook series,_ Quantum Physics Workbook For Dummies _allows you to hone your skills at solving the difficult and often confusing equations you encounter in this subject.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains equations in easy-to-understand terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harmonic Oscillator Operations, Angular Momentum, Spin, Scattering Theory\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Using a proven practice-and-review approach,\n <em>\n  Quantum Physics Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n is all you need to get up to speed in problem solving!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your guided tour through the thicket of solving problems in quantum physics\n</p>\n<p>\n Does quantum physics make your head spin? This friendly, easy-to-follow workbook shows you how to hone your scientific savvy and master your problem-solving skills in quantum physics! You''ll get hands-on guidance and clear explanations for working through the challenging concepts and equations associated with quantum physics. Plus you can find valuable exercises, shortcuts, step-by-step solutions, and plenty of workspace for every equation.\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems\n</p>\n<p>\n Detailed, fully worked-out solutions to problems\n</p>\n<p>\n The lowdown on all the math associated with quantum physics\n</p>\n<p>\n Covers topics ranging from potential walls and hydrogen atoms to harmonic oscillators and the Schrodinger''s equation\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Review your knowledge and understanding of quantum physics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Break down equations step by step\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solve numerous types of quantum physics problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for quizzes and exams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Point out the tricks instructors use to make problem-solving easier\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1960'),
(19772, 'QuarkXPress 6 for Dummies', 'Barbara Assadi &amp; Galen Gruman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n While aimed at beginners, Dummies also highlights new features in Quark v.6for up-graders seeking to brush up their skills. Clear prose, step-by-step instructions, tips and warnings make this a useful guide; sidebars and brief notes on "technical stuff" provide additional information without overwhelming novices. Content ranges from a basic introduction to the interface up through creating web projects and indexes. Covering both the Windows and Mac versions, this is a good purchase for all public libraries and those seeking to replace older guides (see Computer Media, LJ 9/11/02). (_Library Journal_, November 1, 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get a quick handle on the new features of QuarkXPress 6, including Mac OS X and Windows XP compatibility, enhanced undo functionality, full-resolution previews, and new ways to manage complex projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by designers for designers, covering all the major tools for layout, text editing, special effects, Web page development, and printing in simple, easy-to-understand language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enables both beginning and intermediate designers to start using the program quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  From two highly qualified authors: Barbara Assadi, former manager of Quark, Inc.â€™s Editorial Services department, and Galen Gruman, a desktop publishing pioneer and former executive editor of Macworld\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1961'),
(19773, 'Queen of the South', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The critically acclaimed, beloved, and bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Nautical Chart delivers his most magniÃžcent novel to date. Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet. A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the drug smugglers'' ballads, it encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroine''s story unfolds. Teresa Mendoza''s boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he''s dead, and she''d better run, because they''re coming for her next. Then the call comes. In order to survive, she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa, an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos-a woman she never before knew existed. Indeed, the woman who emerges will surprise even those who know her legend, that of the Queen of the South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4272'),
(19774, 'Queen of the South', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The critically acclaimed, beloved, and bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Nautical Chart delivers his most magniÃžcent novel to date. Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet. A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the drug smugglers'' ballads, it encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroine''s story unfolds. Teresa Mendoza''s boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he''s dead, and she''d better run, because they''re coming for her next. Then the call comes. In order to survive, she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa, an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos-a woman she never before knew existed. Indeed, the woman who emerges will surprise even those who know her legend, that of the Queen of the South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4338'),
(19775, 'The Queen&#39;s Bastard (The Inheritors&#39; Cycle, Book 1)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Taking a break from urban fantasy, Murphy (_House of Cards_) turns to this uneven opener for a Reformation-inspired fantasy series. Belinda Primrose is a lovely young woman whose mysterious father, Lord Drake, has trained her to be an assassin serving Lorraine, the queen of Aulun. While Belinda is Lorraine''s unacknowledged bastard, young Prince Javier of Gallin was secretly adopted by Lorraine''s dangerous rival, Queen Sandalia, when her husband''s untimely death caused her to miscarry the child who was to be Gallin''s heir. When Javier encounters Belinda while she''s on a spy mission in Gallin, he falls hopelessly in love with her, a devotion that deepens when they discover they''re both witchbreed magic users. Murphy excels in depicting their passion, but readers looking for romance will be shocked when Belinda incites and abets Javier''s rape of another woman, and the talky political intrigue frequently comes at the expense of much-needed action.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In a world in which women are considered weak and lesser than men, three remarkable women wind up ruling three powerful kingdoms in the first of what promises to be an outstanding series featuring a masterfully intricate dance of politics and intrigue in a world with parallels to the Elizabethan era. Belinda Primrose, supposedly an orphan but truly the bastard of Queen Lorraine and her secret spymaster, Robert Drake, learns to hide her thoughts and feelings at a very young age, masters several combat skills, and executes her first assassination before she is 12. Assuming the identity of Beatrice Irvine, a young widow from a Scotland-like country, her pious attendance at church draws the attention of a wealthy young merchant prince who is an intimate of young Javier, who will be king when his mother steps aside as regent. Belinda and Javier recognize in each other a kinship in their ability to harness powers and do things that would ensure their execution as witches should anyone discover them. Readers will be eagerly awaiting their storyâ€™s next installment inÂ the Inheritorsâ€™ Cycle. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5958'),
(19776, 'QuickBooks 2004 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build your business, create a budget, and pay your bills\n</p>\n<p>\n Improve your business processes while making accounting and financial management easy\n</p>\n<p>\n Drowning in debits and credits? Bogged down in bags of paperwork? It''s time to break free of the daily accounting grind and focus on making your business grow! With this book to help, QuickBooks 2004 will get your finances in order so you can get down to business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA provides accounting, business advisory, and tax preparation and planning services to small businesses. He is the author of over 100 books on computer and business topics.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n <br />\n * Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Icons and other navigational aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * Top ten lists\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Balance your books and print checks\n <br />\n * Generate comprehensive financial reports\n <br />\n * Design your own invoices and statements\n <br />\n * Determine which customers owe money\n <br />\n * Estimate projects and track expenses\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Build your business, create a budget, and pay your bills\n</p>\n<p>\n Improve your business processes while making accounting and financial management easy\n</p>\n<p>\n Drowning in debits and credits? Bogged down in bags of paperwork? Itâ€™s time to break free of the daily accounting grind and focus on making your business grow! With this book to help, QuickBooks 2004 will get your finances in order so you can get down to business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA provides accounting, business advisory, and tax preparation and planning services to small businesses. He is the author of over 100 books on computer and business topics.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Balance your books and print checks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate comprehensive financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design your own invoices and statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine which customers owe money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Estimate projects and track expenses\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1962'),
(19777, 'QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s what you need to become your own accountant! If you love running a business, but despise keeping the books, this is\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n book for you! Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to QuickBooks,\n <em>\n  Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies\n </em>\n covers the basics, walks you through the software installation, and guides you step-by-step through various accounting functions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating invoices and credit memos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tracking accounts receivable and payable\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paying bills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitoring and managing inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balancing the books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Printing checks or paying with plastic\n </li>\n <li>\n  Doing your banking online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Processing payroll\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Stephen Nelson, the author of more than 100 books, including all editions of QuickBooks For Dummies,\n <em>\n  Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies\n </em>\n takes you beyond everyday accounting tasks and helps you use information to boost your productivity and profits by:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Generating and sharing financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building budgets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Efficiently estimating, billing, and tracking jobs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n To expedite your bookwork and grow your business by the numbers, you donâ€™t have to hire expensive consultants or become a CPA; just become a QBEâ€”a QuickBooks Expert. With this book and your QuickBooks software, everything you need to know is at your fingertips!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s what you need to become your own accountant!\n</p>\n<p>\n Set up QuickBooks to manage the money, do electronic banking, and create reports\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re a whiz at business but not at bookkeeping, take heart! QuickBooks 2005 is like having a bookkeeper who''s always on call and never asks for a raise. And with this guide in hand, you have a top-flight CPA to help you set up QuickBooks, enter the right information, and use every feature your business needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Track accounts receivable and payable\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save big on business taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitor inventory levels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Estimate projects and track expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build the perfect budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tax return preparation\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1963'),
(19778, 'QuickBooks 2006 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do a quick take on QuickBooks and youâ€™ll wonder where itâ€™s been all your life. If youâ€™re running a small business, you need an accounting system that monitors profits, losses, and expenses without costing an arm and a leg. And if youâ€™re running your\n <em>\n  own\n </em>\n businessâ€” when youâ€™re trying to do everything, including things like, well, actually\n <em>\n  selling\n </em>\n somethingâ€”you need a good solid software system that stays one step ahead of you. QuickBooks 2006 is that software. Record invoices, pay billsâ€”QuickBooks will crunch the numbers and keep you on track.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now you can add another member to your team:\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2006 For Dummies.\n </em>\n This helpful book is loaded with the latest information, features, and expert advice you need to make the best use of the software. Pop open the book, and youâ€™ll quickly start getting the basics in plain English. Written for those of us who arenâ€™t CPAs, this down-to-earth guide explains how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create invoices and credit memos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce income statements and financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Process payroll and simplify tax preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Estimate, bill, and track expenses\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Author Stephen Nelson not only has an MBA, a CPA and expertise in teaching the rest of us about QuickBooks, he also teaches\n <em>\n  other CPAs\n </em>\n how to teach the rest of us about QuickBooks. Youâ€™ll feel like youâ€™ve got a knowledgeable and humorous buddy at your side as you learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Streamline bill paying with online banking and electronic checks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a workable chart of accounts and a good working budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep track of inventory, fixed assets, and vehicle mileage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle selling a depreciable assetâ€”and nine other â€œTricky Situationsâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure out your break-even pointâ€”and nine more â€œSecret Business Formulasâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install QuickBooks in ten easy steps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you handle the financial parts of your business like a pro, youâ€™re free to concentrate on what you do best.\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2006 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy wayÂ® to get started!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make daily, monthly, and occasional financial chores a whole lot easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks makes managing your business finances a lot less painful, so you can concentrate on what you do best. This friendly book makes using QuickBooks simple too! You''ll find out how to set up QuickBooks for your business and use it to prepare invoices, track sales, pay bills, create a budget, figure job costs, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create invoices and credit memos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce income statements and financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tax preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pay bills and balance accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Estimate, bill, and track job expenses\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1964'),
(19779, 'QuickBooks 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1- your key to QuickBooks 2007 success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to managing your small business finances more efficiently\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks is the leading accounting program for small businesses, and this book gives you a handy reference to all its parts. Set up QuickBooks for your business, load your files, create invoices, pay vendors, understand job costing and capital budgeting, and even get tips on writing your business plan. It all adds up to success!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and set up QuickBooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your inventory and items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare financial statements and reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up project and job costing systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save on business taxes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8 books in 1â€” your key to QuickBooks 2007 success!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to managing your small business finances more efficiently\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks is the leading accounting program for small businesses, and this book gives you a handy reference to all its parts. Set up QuickBooks for your business, load your files, create invoices, pay vendors, understand job costing and capital budgeting, and even get tips on writing your business plan. It all adds up to success!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and set up QuickBooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your inventory and items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare financial statements and reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up project and job costing systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save on business taxes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1965'),
(19780, 'QuickBooks 2007 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keep your small business finances in tip-top form\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your business accounting and financial management tasksâ€”quickly and accurately\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That''s where this handy guide comes in. Written by a CPA, it quickly walks you through bookkeeping basics -- and shows how QuickBooks can put your accounts in order so you can spend less time with the books and more time on business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build the perfect budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare customer invoices and record sales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce common financial statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tax return preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balance accounts\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keep your small business finances in tip-top form\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your business accounting and financial management tasks â€” quickly and accurately\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That''s where this handy guide comes in. Written by a CPA, it quickly walks you through bookkeeping basics â€” and shows how QuickBooks can put your accounts in order so you can spend less time with the books and more time on business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build the perfect budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare customer invoices and record sales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce common financial statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tax return preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balance accounts\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1966'),
(19781, 'QuickBooks 2009 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n QuickBooks accounting software is the favorite financial management and accounting software for small businesses, but it does take a little getting used to.\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2009 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is the QuickBooks reference guide that gets you through the learning curve in a hurry. Eight handy minibooks cover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An Accounting Primer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bookkeeping Chores\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accounting Chores\n </li>\n <li>\n  Financial Management\n </li>\n <li>\n  Business Plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care and Maintenance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Additional Business Resources\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2009 All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is written for the Premier version, but youâ€™ll find the information works for the other versions too. Itâ€™s easy to find what you need to know:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Book I covers all the basic accounting stuff for those who donâ€™t know a credit from a debit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to set up the program, load files, and customize QuickBooks in Book II\n </li>\n <li>\n  In Book III youâ€™ll see how to invoice customers, pay vendors, track inventory, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take on activity-based costing, preparing a budget, and job costing in Book IV\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book V gets into cool stuff like ratio analysis, EVA, and capital budgeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out in Book VI how to write the business plan you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VII shows you how to manage maintenance for QuickBooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VIII covers additional resources, an Excel primer, accounting terms, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Before you know it, youâ€™ll be managing your business finances like a pro with QuickBooks 2009!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s the book that helps you keep your business books with QuickBooks\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks makes it easier to handle all those financial chores you have to do for your small business, and this handy reference makes it easier to use QuickBooks! You''ll find minibooks on setting up QuickBooks for your business needs, using it for accounting, bookkeeping, and business planning, keeping your data safe, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accounting 101 â€” Book I covers the basics of accounting if you don''t know a debit from a credit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ready, set, go â€” learn to set up the program, load files, and customize QuickBooks in Book II\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about bookkeeping â€” in Book III you''ll see how to invoice customers, pay vendors, track inventory, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Channel your inner accountant â€” take on activity-based costing, preparing a budget, and job costing in Book IV\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore financial strategies â€” Book V digs into advanced strategies like ratio analysis, EVA, and capital budgeting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan to succeed â€” find out in Book VI how to write the business plan that can help you find your niche\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep up with upkeep â€” Book VII shows you how to do things that will keep you working productively in QuickBooks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extra help â€” Book VIII covers additional resources, an Excel primer, accounting terms, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to read a financial statement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for tracking accounts receivable and payable\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for managing cash and bank accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up lists of customers, vendors, and payroll items\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to produce common financial statements and reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can learn from ratio analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create and use a business plan workbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to simplify tax preparation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1967');
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(19782, 'QuickBooks 2009 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Got a business to run? QuickBooks makes small-business accounting easier, and\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2009 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how! Bookkeeping may not be your favorite part of running a small business, so learning to use QuickBooks might pay off in more ways than one.\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks helps you keep financial records, prepare invoices and record sales, pay bills, settle up at the end of the year, and more. In this guide, a top accounting and tax planning consultant tells you what you need to do to be ready for QuickBooks, then how to install and set up the program for your business. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the latest version of QuickBooks to maintain your accounting records in compliance with tax laws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create invoices and credit memos, record sales receipts, set up inventory items, and monitor your inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record and pay bills, print checks, and process payroll, including withholding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balance accounts and generate financial reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a business budget and reconcile your account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform weekly, monthly, and annual record-keeping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create job estimates that can be easily converted into invoices or compared with actual costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track accounts receivable and payable\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce reports that help you understand your customer list, vendors, job expenses, inventory, payroll, budget, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use job-costing procedure that help you estimate, bill, and track jobs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether to use accrual-basis accounting or cash-basis accounting\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Handling the financial chores with QuickBooks can put the fun back into owning your own business.\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2009 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easier!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n QuickBooks keeps your business books, and this book makes it easy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Book a little time to make your small-business accounting easier! QuickBooks makes business bookkeeping a breeze, and this guide gives you just what you need to get going. Install and set up QuickBooks for your business, keep financial records, prepare invoices and record sales, pay bills, settle up at the end of the year, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick, get started â€” discover what you need to do to be ready for QuickBooks, then install and set up the software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Satisfy the IRS â€” use QuickBooks to maintain your accounting records to comply with tax laws\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Everyday stuff â€” prepare customer invoices and credit memos, record sales, pay bills, and monitor inventory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Regular record-keeping â€” rely on QuickBooks for the activities you need to perform weekly, monthly, and annually\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be budget wise â€” set up a business budget, print checks and manage payroll, and reconcile your account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s just business â€” create job estimates that can be easily converted into invoices or compared with actual costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Report it â€” create reports to help you understand your customer list, vendors, job expenses, inventory, payroll, budget, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to track accounts receivable and payable\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to keep track of inventory levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping your business checkbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to produce common financial reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Job-costing guidance to help you estimate, bill, and track jobs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on whether to use accrual-basis accounting or cash-basis accounting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to simplify tax preparation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle payroll and withholding\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1968'),
(19783, 'QuickBooks 2010 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything that small-business owners need to manage their financial affairs with QuickBooks\n</p>\n<p>\n Intuit''s QuickBooks, updated each year, is the leading financial management software for small businesses. With eight content-rich minibooks,\n <em>\n  QuickBooks "X" All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything you need to know to get your business finances in order with QuickBooks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  QuickBooks "X" All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is the complete reference for every aspect of this useful software\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  QuickBooks, the leading small-business accounting software package, is updated annually; this guide covers the latest version\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minibooks include An Accounting Primer, Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks, Bookkeeping Chores, Accounting Chores, Financial Management, Business Plans, Care and Maintenance, and Additional Business Resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers understanding double entry bookkeeping, planning and preparing a QuickBooks accounting system, and setting up a QuickBooks network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to invoice customers, pay vendors, track inventory, and set up project and job costing systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to write a business plan, create a business plan forecast, and conduct a ratio analysis\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  QuickBooks "X" All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is an indispensible tool for small-business owners who want to manage their business finances more effectively.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to managing your business finances\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks is the leading small-business accounting software, but there''s a lot to it. This guide makes it simple, with individual minibooks covering different aspects of QuickBooks, along with some basic business financial management tips and pointers. Put them together, and you will find that the business of running your business just got easier!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accounting 101 â€” get a handle on accounting principles and double-entry bookkeeping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Starting out right â€” set up and fine-tune QuickBooks for your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keeping the books â€” become familiar with the procedures for invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, and paying employees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Day-to-day accounting â€” learn to prepare budgets, financial statements, reports, and job-costing systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Managing finances â€” discover ratio analysis, economic value-added analysis, and capital budgeting techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for success â€” get direction for writing a business plan and using profit-volume-cost analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be prepared â€” protect your vital business data and troubleshoot potential QuickBooks problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find support â€” explore online business resources and learn financial terminology\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to read a financial statement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for tracking accounts receivable and payable\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for managing cash and bank accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up lists of customers, vendors, and payroll items\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to produce common financial statements and reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can learn from ratio analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create and use a business plan workbook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to simplify tax preparation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1969'),
(19784, 'QuickBooks 2010 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The annual update of a perennial bestseller, fully revised for the newest QuickBooks release\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks is the leading software package for small business accounting, updated each year so it remains cutting-edge.\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n provides all the information you need to start using the newest version in your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn to set up your business accounting functions on QuickBooks and use all the newest features. You''ll be able to create budgets, process payroll, manage inventory and invoices, track job costs, balance accounts, and make things easier at tax preparation time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows you, in plain English, how to set up QuickBooks and manage your small business accounting on your own\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to set up your business on QuickBooks, create invoices and credit memos, record sales receipts, set up inventory items, and track business credit cards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers recording and paying bills, printing checks, processing payroll, and preparing payroll taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses building a budget, going online with QuickBooks, balancing accounts, generating financial reports, simplifying tax return preparation, and backing up data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also explores job estimating, billing, and tracking jobs and invoices\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Stephen L. Nelson, author of all previous editions and an experienced CPA,\n <em>\n  QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you become your own accountant and keep your business in the black.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Spend less time with the books and more time on business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. This handy guide helps you use QuickBooks to track sales and inventory, build budgets, figure job costs, and much more. Written by a CPA who knows QuickBooks and business, this book will help keep your business in the black.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why QuickBooks? â€” meet Federal business accounting standards, track income and expenses, and know where your business stands\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start here â€” set up the software and quickly start creating invoices, reel in the dough, and pay the bills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The goal is profitability â€” produce common financial reports and track your progress on a regular basis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Save time with forms â€” enter data into QuickBooks once and produce checks, invoices, receipts, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep cash coming in â€” find out what your customers owe, how to reach them, and when to send collection letters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Financial housekeeping â€” estimate jobs, check inventory, evaluate fixed assets, and keep all your files straight\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Track everything â€” keep track of your checkbook, credit card accounts, inventory, payroll, budgets, and all the stuff you''ll need for tax preparation\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up QuickBooks for your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick ways to create invoices and pay bills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to simplify tax preparation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for keeping inventory as you purchase and sell items\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to produce common financial reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for building the perfect budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you need to estimate jobs and track costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to handle payroll and withholding\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Store and organize all your financial information in one place\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a budget, create invoices, pay bills, and process payroll\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage inventory and track job costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make tax preparation easier\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1970'),
(19785, 'QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the principles of good business and good money management is to make the most of what you have.\n <em>\n  QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you make the most of QuickBooks business accounting software. Updated to cover changes and enhancements to the software, it combines eight quick reference guides:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  An Accounting Primer that covers basic principles, double-entry bookkeeping, and special accounting problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks with information on setting up QuickBooks, loading the master file lists, and fine-tuning QuickBooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bookkeeping Chores, covering invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accounting Chores including financial statements, reports, and budgets, using activity-based costing, and setting up project and job costing systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Financial Management such as ratio analysis, economic value-added analysis, and capital budgeting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Business Plans, featuring profit-volume-cost analysis, forecasting, and writing a business plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Care and Maintenance, with information on protecting data, troubleshooting, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Additional Business Resources including a crash course in Excel, a glossary, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by veteran Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, and author of more than 100 books with more than four million copies in print,\n <em>\n  QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n goes beyond the basics of how to use QuickBooks and provides expert advice on accounting chores, financial management, business planning, and much more. With a comprehensive index, itâ€™s your instant, at-your-fingertips reference for everything from how to handle everyday accounting tasks to long-term planning for your business.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune QuickBooks for your business and your accounting systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate breakeven points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Budget for capital expenditures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of online banking\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s even a companion Web site where you can take advantage of a sample business plan workbook and download a profit-volume cost analysis workbook. You wonâ€™t find a more comprehensive, authoritative, yet understandable guide to QuickBooks.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with expert tips to help you stay on top of your finances\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to easier small business accounting and financial management\n</p>\n<p>\n QuickBooks makes it easier to handle all those financial chores you have to do for your small business, and this handy reference makes it easier to use QuickBooks! You''ll find minibooks on setting up QuickBooks for your business needs, using it for accounting, bookkeeping, and business planning, keeping your data safe, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prepare common financial statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simplify tax return preparation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Invoice customers, pay vendors, and track inventory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand ratio analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate breakeven points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save on business taxes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1971'),
(19786, 'QuickBooks Simple Start for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get expert advice on daily, monthly, and yearly activities\n</p>\n<p>\n Define your business, maintain records, manage sales tax, and produce reports\n</p>\n<p>\n So you''ve pulled off the corporate highway and started your own business? Good for you! Now you need a small business accountant, and guess what? With QuickBooks Simple Start and this handy guide, it just might be YOU! Find out how to set up an accounting system, prepare invoices, pay expenses, organize your tax stuff, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n <br />\n * Explanations in plain English\n <br />\n * "Get in, get out" information\n <br />\n * Icons and other navigational aids\n <br />\n * Tear-out cheat sheet\n <br />\n * Top ten lists\n <br />\n * A dash of humor and fun\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n <br />\n * Install Simple Start and understand its features\n <br />\n * Create invoices and sales receipts\n <br />\n * Save big on business taxes\n <br />\n * Set up and reconcile bank accounts\n <br />\n * Measure your profits\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get expert advice on daily, monthly, and yearly activities\n</p>\n<p>\n Define your business, maintain records, manage sales tax, and produce reports\n</p>\n<p>\n So youâ€™ve pulled off the corporate highway and started your own business? Good for you! Now you need a small business accountant, and guess what? With QuickBooks Simple Start and this handy guide, it just might be YOU! Find out how to set up an accounting system, prepare invoices, pay expenses, organize your tax stuff, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install Simple Start and understand its features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create invoices and sales receipts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save big on business taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and reconcile bank accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure your profits\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1972'),
(19787, 'Quicken 2005 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The fun and easy way to get started with Quicken, the #1 personal financial software, with more than fifteen million users\n </li>\n <li>\n  A bestseller year after year-now updated throughout for the latest release of Quicken\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps readers take control of their money by showing how to track their day-to-day finances, better manage their investments, and evaluate the tax implications of their financial decisions-all without hiring expensive professional financial consultants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expert advice shows how to manage bills, maximize investment performance, save money for college or retirement, bank online, maintain detailed financial records, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by veteran For Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA and author of more than 100 books\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Manage your bills, minimize taxes, and maximize savings!\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s the quick way to handle personal or small business finances with Quicken\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to keep flawless financial records, make the most of your money, and be prepared for tax time, painlessly? Quick â€“ grab this book! Itâ€™ll show you how to set up and use the newest version of Quicken to keep a personal or business checkbook, bank online, handle loan payments, track investments, prepare payroll, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up Quicken or update from an earlier version\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track income and expenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate reports\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow your investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage accounts receivable and payable\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle payroll for your small business\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1973'),
(19788, 'Quicken 2007 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Stephen Nelson''s previous For Dummies guides to Quicken have sold more than 900,000 copies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Quicken has more than 16 million active users and 75 percent of the personal finance software market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows people how to get their finances under control quickly and easily using Quicken\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers online banking and bill paying, tracking credit cards, managing loans, maximizing investments, calculating interest, preparing payroll, setting up accounts, creating reports, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements in the new version of Quicken\n </li>\n <li>\n  Published in conjunction with the release of Quicken "X"\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers Premier, Deluxe, and Basic Editions of Quicken\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Quicken your bill paying, check on your checkbook, and manage your money\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You want to get your finances organized, but the project seems overwhelming? Relax â€” help is on the way! Quicken 2007 can handle the organization part, and this book makes it NOT overwhelming. Here''s the easy way to set up Quicken, manage accounts and bills, handle investments, and even take care of small business accounts and payroll.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and set up Quicken\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with reports and charts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track deductions and plan for tax time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage stocks, bonds, and mutual funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up accounts receivable and payable for your small business\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1974'),
(19789, 'Quicken 2009 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If just thinking about financial management gives you a headache, personal finance software is better than aspirin. Quicken is tops, and\n <em>\n  Quicken 2009 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the quickest and easiest way to put it to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s the plain-English guide to using the newest update of the nationâ€™s leading personal finance software. A leading CPA shows you how to track your finances day to day, keep your checkbook and pay bills online, and even plan for tax time with Quicken. Learn as much or as little as you need to know â€” just how to keep your checkbook straight, or even how Quicken helps manage stocks and the business end of rental property.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and set up Quicken 2009, or update data files from a previous version\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to make a budget thatâ€™s flexible enough to work for your family or your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your checkbook up to date, handle banking transactions online, and use Quicken calculators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Print Quicken reports to help you track cash flow, identify missing checks, summarize spending, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up tax-deferred or brokerage accounts and buy and sell securities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your credit cards and bank accounts as well as mortgages, loans, and other debts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Quickenâ€™s Home &amp; Business or Rental Property Manager versions to keep your business books\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle payroll for business or household employees\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track deductions to make tax preparation easier\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Quicken 2009 For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll feel like a financial wizard!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen L. Nelson\n </strong>\n is a CPA in Redmond, Washington. Nelson has an undergraduate degree in accounting, a Master of Business Administration degree in fi nance, and a Master of Science degree in taxation. Heâ€™s spent more than two decades helping individuals, real estate investors, and businesses manage their fi nances â€” usually, in part, by better use of computer systems such as Quicken.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1975'),
(19790, 'Quicken 2010 for Dummies', 'Stephen L. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This classic bestseller has been thoroughly updated for the newest version of Quicken\n</p>\n<p>\n Who doesn''t have questions about managing finances these days? Stephen Nelson translates his years of expertise as a CPA and tax expert into this plain-English guide that shows you how to manage your finances with the nation''s leading personal finance software, Quicken. Trying to keep track of your credit card expenditures? Starting to save money for a college fund? Managing your household expensess? Steve''s straightforward advice shows you how to take control of your money, without being an accounting wizard. Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get started with Quicken and maintain your checkbook on your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access your account information and pay bills online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your 401(k), IRA, stocks, and bonds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get up to speed on the new enhancements and changes in Quicken 2010\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track your deductions and plan for tax time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capture your small business and personal expenses in one place\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Spend less time crunching numbers and more time making the most of your money with this perennial\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n bestseller on Quicken.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take control of your personal finances starting today!\n</p>\n<p>\n This popular software package is just what the financial advisor ordered â€” a great way to track your income and expenses, manage your investments, pay your bills, and keep your checkbook. Count on this plain-English guide to get you started and get your finances in order, so you''re prepared for any economic ups and downs.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started â€” set up Quicken 2010 whether you''re upgrading from an earlier version or using Quicken for the first time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a budget â€” make a plan that''s flexible enough to work for your family or your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Electronic checkbook â€” learn to maintain your checkbook on a computer and enter checks, deposits, and transfers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Crunch some numbers â€” use Quicken''s financial planning calculators to plan for retirement, compare loan programs, or save for your child''s college education\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reporting in â€” use Quicken reports to help track cash flow, summarize spending by category, review investment performance, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mind your business â€” if you have rental property or similar business income, use Quicken to maintain your records\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Watch your investments â€” manage your 401(k), IRA, stocks, and bonds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Is that deductible? â€” see how Quicken helps you keep records to make tax time easier\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to install and set up Quicken\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solutions for managing your financial affairs efficiently\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pointers on how to manage and monitor credit card use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for generating reports and charts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on accessing accounts and paying bills online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage payroll for your small business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for managing your investment accounts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to track deductions and plan for tax time\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1976'),
(19791, 'Quicken All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Gail A. Perry &amp; Gail Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Quicken is the #1 personal finance software on the market, with greater than 70 percent retail market share and 16 million active users\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book features eight minibooks comprising nearly 750 pages-all the information people need to get the most out of the latest Quicken release, get their finances under control, start building a nest egg, and pay less to the IRS\n </li>\n <li>\n  The only book on the market to include coverage on Quicken Premier Home &amp; Business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minibook topics include personal finance basics, an introduction to Quicken, household finances, planning ahead and saving, tracking investments, retirement planning, taxes, and managing small business finances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Quicken books are consistent top sellers, with more than 900,000 copies of Quicken For Dummies sold in all in all editions\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to making the most of Quicken''s great financial tools\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s harder â€” earning money, or managing it? For most of us, that''s tough to answer, but this book and Quicken will make the "managing" part a lot easier. Eight convenient minibooks cover things like setting up Quicken, saving money and paying bills automatically, creating and using a budget, safely traversing the tax jungle, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reconcile checking and savings accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine the true cost of borrowing money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage property, loans, and investment accounts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save money at tax time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for retirement or a child''s education\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1977'),
(19792, 'Quilt As You Go', 'Arlene Sachitano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the dust settles after the Foggy Point Civil War re-enactment, one casualty turns out to be really dead, and his identity sends shockwaves through the community.  Does a long-lost quilt that suddenly re-appears hold a clue? Harriet and the Loose Threads must unravel the mystery before the killer strikes again. And who is the mysterious young man with the military bearing who''s drawn the admiration of Carla, the young woman the Threads have taken under their wing? Is he what he claims to be, or something much more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4309'),
(19793, 'Quilting for Dummies', 'Cheryl Fall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Given the popularity of IDG''s "dummy" books, it would seem that Americans are either suffering from a massive inferiority complex or are supremely confident of their ability to learn any subject from auto mechanics to rocket science. Either way, public libraries would be wise to purchase this book, which is an excellent introduction to patchwork, applique, and quilting, as well as a good refresher course for the intermediate quilter. Starting with a simple hand-quilted pillow, Fall leads the reader step-by-step through 16 colorful practice projects, working up to a quilt for a twin-size bed. Touches of humor, tips, and reference information (such as "Batting 1000," a table comparing different brands of batting) hold the reader''s attention. Recommended generally for public libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the know-how you need to create beautiful quilts and decorative quilted items\n</p>\n<p>\n Quilting is a fun hobby -- but where do you begin? From selecting fabrics and designing a quilt to stitching by hand or machine, this friendly guide shows you how to put all the pieces together -- and create a wide variety of quilted keepsakes for your home. We''ll have you in stitches in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Select the right fabrics and threads\n <br />\n * Design your masterpiece\n <br />\n * Use quilting software\n <br />\n * Save time with rotary cutters and other cool tools\n <br />\n * Quilt by hand or machine\n <br />\n * Get creative with applique\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1978'),
(19794, 'R is for Rocket', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6387'),
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(19796, 'r-gobg1', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3168'),
(19797, 'r-pdi4c', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3169'),
(19798, 'Rabbits for Dummies', 'Connie Isbell &amp; Audrey Pavia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to being a responsible rabbit owner\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to raise a happy, healthy bunny? This practical guide gives you everything you need to know to successfully adopt, nurture, live with, and love a rabbit. From choosing a rabbit and preparing its home to training, healthcare, and having fun with your bunny, you get a wealth of expert tips that will have your rabbit (and you) hopping with joy!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into bunny basics â€” decide whether a rabbit is the right pet for you, discover the different breeds, and find out the best places to adopt your bunny\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take care of creature comforts â€” from housing and grooming to feeding and healthcare, provide the best care for your friend\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice bunny "psychology" â€” understand bunny body language and sounds, handle behavior issues, and train your bunny to do tricks and use the litter box\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enjoy the wonderful world of rabbits â€” play games with your bunny, join clubs and organizations, show your rabbit, and make traveling with bunny easy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Informative photos and illustrations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed breed descriptions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to think like a rabbit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for handling bad bunny behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest on organic cuisine and homegrown feeding options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Games to play with your rabbit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to live with an indoor bunny (which is recommended!)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten signs that require emergency action\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A bunch of bunny resources â€” from rescue groups to registries to Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tips on health, grooming, and litterbox training\n</p>\n<p>\n Find the right rabbit for you and help him live a long, happy life\n</p>\n<p>\n Get a jump on the best care for your rabbit! This friendly guide is packed with informative photos and how-to sections on housing, feeding, and health care. Youâ€™ll also get tips on understanding bunny body language and helpful hints on acclimating your new bunny into your household or backyard.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1979'),
(19799, 'racecar.e.2011.11.nov.pdf 21-10-2011', 'racecar.e.2011.11.nov.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10849'),
(19800, 'Rain Fall', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Rain, a Japanese American\n  <em>\n   konketsu\n  </em>\n  , or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who''s now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA''s station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had--a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan''s ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura''s daughter. In this taut, brilliantly paced debut thriller, set in a vividly rendered Tokyo, the author manages an unlikely feat; he earns the reader''s sympathy and concern for his protagonist, an amoral assassin who is one of most compelling characters in recent crime fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in a memorable noir version of Tokyo (jazz clubs, whiskey bars, "love hotels"), Eisler''s rich and atmospheric debut thriller winds its way around the city''s extensive rail system and its upscale Western boutiques Mulberry, Paul Stuart, Nicole Farhi London, Le Ciel Bleu, J.M. Weston. The author an American lawyer who has lived and worked in Japan brings to life a complex and most interesting hero: John Rain, a hard and resourceful man in his 40s with an American mother, a Japanese father, a childhood spent in both countries and a stretch with Special Operations in Vietnam that literally made him what he is today a highly paid freelance assassin. The book begins with Rain arranging the death (on the subway) of a prominent government figure by short-circuiting his pacemaker and making it look like the man died of a heart attack. But Rain''s relatively simple life suddenly becomes very complicated when he finds himself involved both romantically and professionally with the dead man''s lovely daughter, Midori, a talented jazz pianist. Formidable adversaries a nasty CIA agent from John''s Vietnam days; a right-wing guru who uses Shinto priests as spies and yakuza gangsters as enforcers; a tireless old cop seem intent on exposing Rain and eliminating Midori. There are several excellent action scenes, an amusing and touching young computer nerd who is Rain''s only reliable ally and, most of all, an intriguing and intimate evocation of Japan''s intense love-hate relationship with America.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4631'),
(19801, 'Rain Storm (John Rain Thrillers (Paperback))', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In Rain Storm, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies who have been encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been of â€œnatural causesâ€ and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer supplying criminal groups throughout Southeast Asia.  The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain must survive the downside: a second assassin homing in on the target; the targetâ€™s consort â€“ an alluring woman named Delilah with an agenda of her own; and the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macao to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than he has ever encountered before.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eisler adds a fine new entry to his standout series starring freelance assassin John Rain, who tracks quarry across the Asian capitals of the Pacific Rim. In the third installment (following last year''s\n  <em>\n   Hard Rain\n  </em>\n  ), Rain is lured out of self-imposed exile in Brazil, where he had hoped to find shelter from the killing business, when his old employer, the CIA, dangles $200,000 his way for the elimination of an Arab arms supplier known only as Belghazi. Rain takes the job, promising himself it will be his last, and travels to Macao, a Portuguese peninsula and islands off the coast of China, to begin tracking Belghazi. But Rain, a meticulous hit man equipped with all the latest gadgetry, hardly hits town before he discovers that not only is another assassin stalking Belghazi but somebody is stalking Rain himself. Rain, who specializes in fatal neck-snapping wrestling holds, makes quick work of all the intruders, but Belghazi, aided by a beautiful woman named Delilah (who knows a lot about killing too), eludes him. The action shifts back and forth between Macao, Hong Kong and Tokyo, each setting rendered in intimately warm detail, before catapulting to a chilling finale in which Rain narrowly escapes bleeding to death on a shipping dock. Along the way, the usually detached hero shows a new dimensionâ€”the possible seeds of a fascinating friendship with a fellow hit man, a life-of-the-party type named Dox. The two complement each other like black and white. Yet what truly sets Eisler''s series apart is its near total absence of formula and stereotype. Rain is a wholly original, clichÃ©-free character operating in a world created only for him, serving as both his folly and his foil.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Rain, the Japanese American assassin for the U.S. government, is back. Currently living in Brazil in an attempt to retire from the business of killing, he is approached by his former masters, the CIA, who need him to do one more thing for them: take out an arms dealer who is equipping criminal organizations in Southeast Asia. As always, there''s a fly (or two) in the ointment, namely, a second assassin gunning for Rain''s target and the target''s beautiful companion, who seems to have a program of her own. Can Rain navigate the labyrinth of deception and double-dealing and carry out his mission? This is the third Rain novel, after\n  <em>\n   Rain Fall\n  </em>\n  (2002) and\n  <em>\n   Hard Rain\n  </em>\n  (2003), and it nicely develops the character of John Rain, adding a few more layers of mystery and motivation. Eisler''s storytelling skills, too, are developing as he becomes more familiar with his character and the world he lives in. The Rain series keeps on getting better. For espionage fans who favor adventure over ambiguity.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4632'),
(19802, 'Raising Chickens for Dummies', 'Kimberley Willis &amp; Rob Ludlow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard!\n</p>\n<p>\n Raising chickens on a small scale is a popularâ€“and growingâ€“pastime. And Raising Chickens For Dummies provides an up-to-date, thorough introduction to all aspects of caring for chickens, including choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing, and proper feeding. Raising Chickens For Dummies provides authoritative, detailed information to make raising chickens for eggs, meat, or backyard entertainment that much easier.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raising Chickens for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Raise chickens in virtually any backyard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose and purchase chickens\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Construct the right housing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Feed and care for your chickens\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Kimberly Willis\n</p>\n<p>\n Poultry breeder and enthusiast\n</p>\n<p>\n with Rob Ludlow\n</p>\n<p>\n Owner, BackYardChickens.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about raising chickens? This comprehensive, practical guide gives you expert advice on all aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Whether you''re interested in chickens as pets or as a source for eggs or meat, you''ll find all the latest information on housing, feeding, healthcare, breeding, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do you speak chicken? â€” learn about basic chicken biology, breeds, and behavior\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select your chickens â€” from eggs to chicks to adults, decide which to buy, how many you need, and find the healthy ones\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take care of a small flock â€” choose a type of housing, construct a chicken coop, feed your birds, and do housekeeping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make more chickens â€” discover how to mate your chickens, incubate eggs, and hatch and nurture chicks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reap the harvest â€” manage laying hens, collect and store eggs, butcher meat birds, and package and store meat\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basic chicken-keeping requirements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Misconceptions about chickens explained\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top tips for healthy chickens\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do-it-yourself housing ideas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best feed for your birds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on controlling pests and predators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for optimal egg production\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on raising meat birds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Answers to combat laying issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1980');
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(19803, 'Raising Goats for Dummies', 'Cheryl K. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raise goats and reap the rewards.\n <em>\n  Raising Goats For Dummies\n </em>\n provides you with an introduction to all aspects of owning, caring for, and the day-to-day benefits of raising goats.\n</p>\n<p>\n _Raising Goats For Dummies\n <em>\n  is your How-to guide for\n </em>\n :_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Breaking down the complicated process of choosing and purchasing the right goat breed to meet your needs and getting facilities for your goat set up.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Providing in-depth information on proper grooming, handling, feeding, and milking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covering the basics of goat health and nutrition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offering tips and advice for using your goat to produce milk, meat, fiber, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Understand what makes these useful and delightful creatures so popular and gain the knowledge and skills to properly care for and utilize their many offerings.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Realize the joy and benefits of raising and caring for goats\n</p>\n<p>\n Interest in raising goats is on the increase as people become more concerned about where their food comes from, what is in it, and how it is produced. Goats have become more than just a source for food â€” they make great companions and helpers, too. This helpful and friendly guide introduces you to all aspects of owning and caring for goats so that you, too, can benefit from raising these popular animals.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Goats 101 â€” get the basics on goat breeds, goat terminology, goat behavior, and choosing the best type of goat to suit your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bring your goats home â€” learn how to purchase goats, prepare to transport them home, and get the gear you need to care for them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Goat health and breeding â€” get the lowdown on what you need to keep your goats healthy, from testing and immunizations to common goat health problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Live self-sufficiently and make money from your goats â€” learn about working in partnership with your goats to provide sustenance for your family and to make money from milk or meat\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits of owning goats as companions or helpers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to expect from your goats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping your goats safe and healthy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A rundown of goat breeding, pregnancy, and kidding\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get your property ready for a goat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An explanation of diseases to watch for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for constructing a simple shelter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What and how to feed your goat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Training techniques to keep your herd in order\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1981'),
(19804, 'Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   The *Rant Limited Edition*** **is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet, speckled edges; and an exclusive 1300-word "Automotive Afterword" entitled "Recipes for Disasters" which is not available in print anywhere but only in this limited edition. **â€œLike most people I didnâ€™t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. Thatâ€™s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodesâ€¦â€***Rant* is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster â€œRantâ€ Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. **â€œWhat â€˜Typhoid Maryâ€™ Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian Lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies.â€ **A high-school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize each other by such designated car markings as â€œJust Marriedâ€ toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear timeâ€¦**â€œThe future you have, tomorrow, wonâ€™t be the same future you had, yesterday.â€â€“Rant Casey**Expect hilarity, horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He''s the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the visionary to watch to learn what''sâ€“uh-ohâ€“coming next.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk''s comically nasty eighth novel (after\n  <em>\n   Haunted\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Diary\n  </em>\n  ; etc.). Set in a future where urbanites are segregated by strict curfews into Daytimers and Nighttimers, the narrative unfolds as an oral history comprising contradictory accounts from people who knew Buster. These include childhood friends horrified by the boy''s macabre behavior (getting snakes, scorpions and spiders to bite him and induce instant erections; repeatedly infecting himself with rabies), policemen and doctors who had dealings with the rabies "superspreader"; and Party Crashers, thrill-seeking Nighttimers who turn city streets into demolition derby arenas. After liberally infecting his hometown peers with rabies, Buster hits the big city and takes up with the Party Crashers. A series of deaths lead to a police investigation of Buster (long-since known as "Rant"â€”the sound children make while vomiting) that peaks just as Buster apparently commits suicide in a blaze of car-crash glory. This dark religious parable (there''s even a resurrection) from the master of grotesque excess may not attract new readers, but it will delight old ones.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zombies, government conspiracies, religious epiphanies, time travel, a postmodern Typhoid Mary, and a woman who mixes thumbtacks into her cookie doughâ€”all are fair game in\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  , Chuck Palahniuk''s eighth novel. Critics agreed that\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  is vintage Palahniuk, a grim thriller ride filled with his signature black humor, withering social commentary, and stomach-churning details. Some grumbled, however, that the ideas in\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  have been recycled from previous novels, particularly\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  . They were also disappointed with the novel''s lack of depth, distracting structure (a succession of hundreds of brief eyewitness testimonies), and underlying glorification of violence. The truth is that Palahniuk is an acquired taste. Readers either love him or leave him alone, and will judge\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  accordingly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6210'),
(19805, 'RCCA-2011-11.pdf 04-10-2011', 'RCCA-2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7214'),
(19806, 'Reader&#39;s Digest - October 2011 ', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6121'),
(19807, 'Reader&#39;s Digest (US) - November 2011', 'gnv64', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10918'),
(19808, 'Reader&#39;s Digest 06+07-2011', 'Reader&#39;s Digest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2522'),
(19809, 'Readers.Digest-October.2011.pdf 22-09-2011', 'Readers.Digest-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6696'),
(19810, 'Reading Financial Reports for Dummies', 'Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second edition includes over 25 percent new and updated information including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated information that reflects the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards\n </li>\n <li>\n  New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes over the past three years\n </li>\n <li>\n  New information about how the analyst-corporate connection has actually changed the playing field\n </li>\n <li>\n  The impact of corporate communications and new technologies\n </li>\n <li>\n  New examples that reflect the current trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Updated websites and resources\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ins and outs of financial reports, explained in plain English\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make sense of financial reports? This easy-to-follow guide gives you a set of tools to understand these complicated statements, helping you read between the lines to determine a company''s true financial health. You''ll make informed decisions about investing, spot possible problems, and use these reports to manage your own department or company for success.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get down to reporting basics â€” recognize different business types and how their structure affects the books, and grasp the accounting method underlying it all\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze the annual report â€” make sense of the balance sheet, income and cash flow statements, and the notes while spotting red flags\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your numbers â€” keep an eye on whether a company is making a profit or suffering a loss\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand how companies optimize operations â€” use reports to measure how efficiently management is using its resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the financial watchdogs â€” from auditors to analysts, see who certifies report accuracy and how recent scandals have changed the rules\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice makes perfect â€” put your skills to the test by dissecting the annual reports of two similar companies throughout the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Open the book and find:\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The accounting basics necessary to understand financial reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New information on reporting standards for private/small versus public/large businesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Updates surrounding the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The impact of corporate communications and new technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New real-world examples that reflect current trends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Updated Web sites and resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for spotting the fluff in financial reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1982'),
(19811, 'Real Estate Investing for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Robert S. Griswold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Real Estate Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n , 2nd Edition, is completely revised and updated to help you overcome the challenges and and take advantage of the opportunities in any real estate environment, including a down market. But Eric Tyson and Robert Griswold''s core message remains as relevant today as it did upon the initial publication of\n <em>\n  Real Estate Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n -- investing in real estate is time-tested vehicle to build wealth in the long term. Tyson and Griswold don''t tell you how to become a millionaire overnight. Instead, they offer proven, practical, and actionable advice so that if you chose to invest in income-producing properties, you can do so wisely and confidently.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now updated â€” your guide to building long-term wealth through real estate\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be a successful real estate investor? Eric Tyson and Robert Griswold present their proven strategies, along with updated tips for easily riding out downturns in the real estate market. From homes and apartment buildings to duplexes, commercial properties, and real estate investment trusts (REITs), you''ll master every aspect of investing in and financing properties, and see how to increase their value.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a foundation for investing success â€” get your finances in order, weigh your investment options, understand the risks, and work with real estate pros\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   You have to pay to play â€” raise capital, finance your purchases, and secure the best mortgage terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find and evaluate properties â€” choose the best locations, understand leases, project a property''s cash flow, and decide how much to pay\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master the negotiation process â€” assemble attractive offers, complete the purchase agreement, conduct formal due diligence, and close the sale\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your property â€” be a top-notch landlord (or hire help), get the insurance you need, know the tax angles, and decide when and how to sell\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "Both beginner and experienced real estate investors will profit from studying all the aspects to consider when maximizing property profits."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Bob Bruss\n </strong>\n , Inman News, on\n <em>\n  Real Estate Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is simply the best book on the topic."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Randall Bell\n </strong>\n , author,\n <em>\n  Home Owner''s Manual\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for buying and improving properties\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Proven methods for boosting a property''s return and value\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The opportunities of the market downturn\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expanded coverage on foreclosures, short sales, and REOs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The latest on buying fixer-uppers and flipping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New details on buying hotel condos and timeshares\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Changes in the tax laws\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finding properties online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1983'),
(19812, 'Real Estate License Exams for Dummies', 'Drei John A. Yoegel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, thousands of Americans make the leap to an exciting, rewarding new career in real estate. If real estate is your dream career, passing the real estate license exam is the first step to success. With real estate basics and unbeatable study tips,\n <em>\n  Real Estate License Exams For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you pass the test with flying colors â€” and get your new career off to a great start.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to get the best possible score on the exam, you need the kind of practical test preparation guidance youâ€™ll find here â€” all at a much cheaper price than youâ€™d pay for a test preparation seminar or class.\n <em>\n  Real Estate License Exams For Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the basics on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How â€” and what â€” to study\n </li>\n <li>\n  Knowing what to expect on test day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Developing the math skills youâ€™ll need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding your stateâ€™s license laws and procedures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different exam formats\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition to helping you get a great score on the test and get licensed, this handy guide also covers the basics of the real estate business itself â€” from legal issues to taxes to contracts. For anyone preparing for the license exam, or just thinking about taking it, this unbeatable study guide answers all your most vital questions on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Careers and job opportunities in real estate\n </li>\n <li>\n  How commissions and other forms of payment work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Working independently or for an agency\n </li>\n <li>\n  Federal fair housing laws you should know\n </li>\n <li>\n  Land and ownership rights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Owning through partnerships, cooperatives, and corporations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deeds, mortgages, and closings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Types of real estate contracts and agreements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Environmental regulations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Valuation and property appraisal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Financing and taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using real estate as an investment vehicle\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Plus, two practice exams with answers and explanations let you test your knowledge before you take the exam, so youâ€™ll know if youâ€™re ready or not.\n <em>\n  Real Estate License Exams For Dummies\n </em>\n is a helpful, straightforward resource that puts future real estate professionals on track for success.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes practice exams with answers and explanations\n</p>\n<p>\n With proven test-taking strategies for getting a higher score\n</p>\n<p>\n The real estate license exam is your ticket to a great career and a bright future. This friendly, easy-to-read guide makes studying a breeze â€” and pinpoints exactly what you need to know to score well on the test. With real estate basics and unbeatable study tips, Real Estate License Exams For Dummies will get you licensed in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get your best possible score\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand your state''s license laws\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common test-taking mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop the math skills you''ll need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know what to expect on test day\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1984'),
(19813, 'Reckless', 'Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her deathâ€¦  A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable dangerâ€¦  A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a wave of global panicâ€¦  Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of a friend â€“ and steps into the crosshairs of a sinister conspiracy â€“ in this most electrifying novel yet from New York Times bestselling thriller master Andrew Gross  Private security investigator Ty Hauck, with Naomi Blum, a tenacious agent from the U.S. Department of Treasury, unravels the evidence that joins these seemingly unrelated events â€“ revealing a reckless scheme that stretches from New York to London to central Europe and gives new meaning to the phrase "too big to fail." What began with a tragedy that opened a door to Hauck''s past â€“ a door that he thought was long closed â€“ ends with a frantic race to avert a disaster that could shake the very security of our country â€“ and even the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3945'),
(19814, 'Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon', 'Gretchen Morgenson &amp; Joshua Rosner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Gretchen Morgenson is a national treasure. Year after year, she has dragged Wall Street miscreants out of the shadows, exposing their dirty secrets to the public that they bamboozled with schemes and deceits. Now, working with Joshua Rosner, she has trained her expert eye on the mortgage mess that pushed the American economy to the brink.Â In stunning detail, Morgenson exposes the truth behind the worst financial calamity of modern times, weaving a tale that is as mesmerizing as it is horrifying.\n  <em>\n   Reckless Endangerment\n  </em>\n  names the names and reveals the secrets of the plutocrats and politicians whose greed and recklessness threatened the foundations of capitalism.Â  It is essential reading for anyone struggling to understand how AmericaÂ entered the new era of financial chaos."â€”\n  <strong>\n   K\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   urt Eichenwald,\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_\n  <strong>\n   bestselling author of\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Conspiracy of Fools\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Informant\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Even before _Reckless Endangerment,\n  <em>\n   Gretchen Morgenson was my nominee for Reporter of the Decade for herÂ forensic and propheticÂ coverage ofÂ Wall Street. Now,Â she and the equally talentedÂ sleuthÂ Joshua Rosner, like Holmes and Dr. Watson, have pieced togetherÂ the clues to a seminal mystery ofÂ the financial debacle: how American taxpayers were suckered by theÂ shenanigans, greed, egos, back scratching, and guile ofÂ financial and political elites who swarmed like vultures aroundÂ Fannie Mae,Â pickingÂ it clean of oversight and accountability while its executives gorged themselves on the spoils. Naming names and taking no prisoners, they drillÂ deep into one of theÂ most disturbing scandals ofÂ our time,Â perpetrated in the name of helping "the little guy."Â Â Read it and weep. Read it and vow\n  </em>\n  : Never Again_\n  <strong>\n   !â€”Bill Moyers, journalist, and President, Schumann Media Center\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morgenson and Rosner have written the long-awaited volume that gets to the heart of theÂ mortgage crisis. The fearlessness and breadth of reporting makeÂ the book as compellingly readableÂ as it is exhaustive.Â _Reckless Endangerment_Â is a remarkableÂ achievementâ€”and should be required reading for all Americans."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Bryan Burrough,\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   special correspondent and bestselling author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Barbarians at the Gate\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Big Rich\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner show us how, over the last fifteen years, the mortgage lending industry used money and political influence to escape regulation, enrich itself, and create a catastrophe. Â Particularly in its dissection of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and their enablers, this book is unmatched in its depth and invaluable to anyone interested in the causes and lessons of the financial crisis."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Charles Ferguson, Academy award-winning director of\n   <em>\n    Inside Job\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A chilling account of the reckless disregard for ethical or civilized values at the heart of our financial system.Â  If this compelling history does not completely turn your stomach, that''s good - because by bailing out these individuals, their attitudes, and their way of life, we have set ourselves up for another nauseating turn of the Financial Wheel."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Simon Johnson, co-author of\n   <em>\n    13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Next Financial Meltdown\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times''s\n  </em>\n  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Reckless Endangerment\n  </em>\n  , Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of\n  <em>\n   The New York Times,\n  </em>\n  exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosnerâ€”who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed recordsâ€”Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4346'),
(19815, 'Reconstructing Clothes for Dummies', 'Miranda Caroligne Burns', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reconstructing Clothes for Dummies offers inspiring projects and savvy tips on how to salvage those tired old clothes in your closet and turn them into a one-of-a-kind wardrobe. It shows craftsters, DIY enthusiasts, budget-conscious fashionistas and people from all walks of life how to unleash their inner fashion designer and transform outdated duds into hip new clothes. Featured projects include making good use of old scraps; reviving shrunken sweaters; finding redemption in that bridesmaid dress; decorative repair and embellishment of existing pieces; and creating unexpected home dÃ©cor with whatâ€™s hiding in your drawers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features before-and-after photos of each project\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Recycle clothing into a creative wardrobe that''s uniquely you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to create a fabulous new wardrobe without paying designer prices? This clear, step-by-step guide gives you all the instruction and inspiration you need to transform your current clothes into fun, funky pieces. You''ll see how to glam up old T-shirts, revive shrunken sweaters, jazz up your jeans, revamp skirts and dresses, and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Piece clothes together in a fresh way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add embellishments and edgings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fake it with no-sew options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Redo clothes for men, women, and kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create wine bags, pillows, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1985'),
(19816, 'Red Alert', 'Alastair MacNeill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A magnificent storyteller'' Sunday Mirror ''The most successful British novelist of his time'' Jack Higgins ''Alistar MacLean is one of the few people writing today who has a story to tell.'' Daily Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A deadly virus has been stolen, and the thieves plan to use the hundred million pound ransom to fund terrorist armies. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO. The Italian Red Brigades raid the US-owned Neo Chem laboratory between Rome and Tivoli and steal a vial of deadly DNA virus. They plan to trade the vial - which if opened could kill millions - for a hundred million pounds, to be paid to the terrorist armies of five European countries. The deadline approaches: a summit conference in Switzerland, at which the terrorists threaten to release the virus into the atmosphere if their demands are not met. UNACO agents Mike Graham, C.W. Whitlock and Sabrina Carver are summoned back urgently from leave. Their mission is to find and secure the vial before a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions takes place!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3955'),
(19817, 'Red Gold', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3985'),
(19818, 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for Dummies', 'Terry Collings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides just what administrators need to configure, manage, maintain, and upgrade a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Red Hat is the most popular Linux distribution, with 70 percent of the U.S. market; RHEL subscriptions climbed to 87,000 during the quarter ending February 2004-up 85 percent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers all four RHEL versions-Desktop, Workstation, Enterprise Server, and Application Server\n </li>\n <li>\n  Delivers the lowdown on the X Window System, printer configuration, Samba, Internet server set up, administration of users and groups, backups and file restoration, and security\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Install and use the leading Linux distribution today!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s how to set up, manage, and upgrade RHEL Desktop, WS, AS, and ES versions\n</p>\n<p>\n If you need to get rolling with the newest generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a hurry, you''ll tip your hat to this friendly guide. It walks you through all the system administration and networking tasks, so you can get your RHEL system up and running and keep it going with maintenance and management tips, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Configure the X Window system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up servers for e-mail, FTP, and DNS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Red Hat Network and Samba\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up and restore files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your system and test its vulnerability\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1986'),
(19819, 'Red Hat Fedora Linux 3 for Dummies', 'Jon &#39;maddog&#39; Hall &amp; Paul G. Sery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fedora Core "X" is the latest release of the leading Linux distribution, which boasts approximately 70 percent of the Linux market in the United States and serves as a low-cost alternative to more expensive operating systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written in the trademark friendly, humorous, easy-to-understand For Dummies style, this updated edition shows Linux newbies how to install and use Fedora Core\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes new coverage of the SELinux infrastructure (an important new security feature), Linux and GNOME applications, how to fine-tune the GNOME desktop, and the new GStreamer multimedia tool\n </li>\n <li>\n  Companion DVD includes the full Fedora Core "X" distribution-all the tools and source code on the multi-CD version\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get online with broadband DSL and build Web pages\n</p>\n<p>\n Install Fedora Core 3, use OpenOffice.org, play CDs, and set up a firewall\n</p>\n<p>\n The penguin is back, and better than ever! And this friendly guide will help you install and configure the new edition of Fedora Core so you can use exciting features like the SELinux infrastructure, which boosts system security, and MPlayer, the powerful Linux multimedia tool. Fine-tune the GNOME desktop, connect to a broadband cable modem, and get to work!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Work with the OpenOffice desktop productivity suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install Wine and use MicrosoftÂ® applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play Internet radio and burn CDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrade your network security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Evolution desktop organizer and e-mail client\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1987'),
(19820, 'Red Hat Linux Fedora All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Naba Barkakati', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦this book has merits beyond its marketing targetâ€¦â€ (_Linux Magazine_, April 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Completely updated for the newest release of Red Hat Linux, with nine stand-alone, task-oriented minibooks that enable readers to understand all aspects of the Red Hat Linux operating system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes a new minibook on the OpenOffice.org Desktop Productivity Suite; a new chapter on wireless Ethernet local area networks (LANs); new material on USB devices; and enhanced information on accessing databases, working with graphics and images, and using Linux multimedia tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style, the book offers nearly 900 pages of coverage on basic to advanced Red Hat Linux topics, making it the perfect desktop reference to help readers find quick answers or learn how to perform a particular task\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes a DVD that contains all of the CD-ROMs that make up the full Fedora Core distribution, including the source code.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1988'),
(19821, 'Red Hat Linux Fedora for Dummies', 'Jon &#39;maddog&#39; Hall &amp; Paul G. Sery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n a superb, no-nonsense approach&amp;will delight the newbie&amp; --\n <em>\n  Linux User &amp; Developer, April 2004\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦a superb, no-nonsense approachâ€¦will delight the newbieâ€¦â€ (_Linux User &amp; Developer_, April 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n &amp;a superb, no-nonsense approach&amp;will delight the newbie&amp; --\n <em>\n  Linux User &amp; Developer, April 2004\n </em>\n â€œâ€¦a superb, no-nonsense approachâ€¦will delight the newbieâ€¦â€\n</p>\n<p>\n &amp;a superb, no-nonsense approach&amp;will delight the newbie&amp; --\n <em>\n  Linux User &amp; Developer, April 2004\n </em>\n â€œâ€¦a superb, no-nonsense approachâ€¦will delight the newbieâ€¦â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n &amp;a superb, no-nonsense approach&amp;will delight the newbie&amp; --\n <em>\n  Linux User &amp; Developer, April 2004\n </em>\n â€œâ€¦a superb, no-nonsense approachâ€¦will delight the newbieâ€¦â€\n</p>\n<p>\n &amp;a superb, no-nonsense approach&amp;will delight the newbie&amp; --\n <em>\n  Linux User &amp; Developer, April 2004\n </em>\n â€œâ€¦a superb, no-nonsense approachâ€¦will delight the newbieâ€¦â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1989'),
(19822, 'A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel', 'Alan Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3975'),
(19823, 'Red Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to __ and\n <strong>\n  , or 1998''s\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --L. Blunt Jackson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first installment in Robinson''s ( Blind Geometer ) new trilogy is an action-packed and thoughtful tale of the exploration and settlement of Mars--riven by both personal and ideological conflicts--in the early 21st century. The official leaders of the "first hundred" (initial party of settlers) are American Frank Chalmers and Russian Maya Katarina Toitova, but subgroups break out under the informal guidance of popular favorites like the ebullient Arkady Nikoleyevich Bogdanov, who sets up a base on one of Mars''s moons, and the enigmatic Hiroko, who establishes the planet''s farm. As the group struggles to secure a foothold on the frigid, barren landscape, friction develops both on Mars and on Earth between those who advocate terraforming, or immediately altering Mars''s natural environment to make it more habitable, and those who favor more study of the planet before changes are introduced. The success of the pioneers'' venture brings additional settlers to Mars. All too soon, the first hundred find themselves outnumbered by newcomers and caught up in political problems as complex as any found on Earth.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6289'),
(19824, 'The Red Pyramid', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6230'),
(19825, 'Redbook - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10816'),
(19826, 'Redbook - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10697'),
(19827, 'Redline 07-2011', 'Redline', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(19828, 'Redline 08-2011', 'Redline', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3078'),
(19829, 'The Regent', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4264'),
(19830, 'Reiki for Dummies', 'Nina L. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millions of people seek ways to relax, promote healing, or connect with their soul. Reiki (pronounced\n <em>\n  ray-key\n </em>\n ) is a simple but profound healing system that was originally developed in Japan.\n <em>\n  Reiki\n </em>\n means "spiritual energy" or "universal life-force energy." The Reiki system is universal because it can be used by people of any background or religion.\n <em>\n  Reiki For Dummies\n </em>\n explains how you can harness this energy for yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Reiki For Dummies\n </em>\n is a plain-English Reiki guidebook. Discover what Reiki is, where it came from, and how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find and get the most from a Reiki treatment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Reiki to boost your physical and emotional health\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate a Reiki class and become a Reiki practitioner\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Reiki For Dummies\n </em>\n is amply illustrated and full of useful information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reiki symbols (plus nontraditional symbols)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki hand positions (for giving Reiki to yourself or others)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki for pets and animals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki for children and adults\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki and surgery or medicines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki at birth or end-of-life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reiki in the house, in the car, or at work\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n When you''re ready to go further,\n <em>\n  Reiki For Dummies\n </em>\n covers: Western and Japanese Reiki techniques; crystals, long distance Reiki, and setting up a successful Reiki practice.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Reiki For Dummies\n </em>\n is for you whether you are just finding out about Reiki or you are a seasoned professional who is looking for a clearly written, up-to-date, inclusive, and comprehensive source of Reiki information.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nina Paul, PhD (New York, NY), is a Reiki Master who uses Reiki to help herself and others. She has a doctorate in immunology and epidemiology and she believes in a holistic approach to health and wellness . Nina is also the author of the compassionate guide: Living with Hepatitis C For Dummies (0-7645-7620-8).\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand Reiki''s roots, principles, and therapeutic benefits\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find relief, peace, and enlightenment through Reiki\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Reiki â€” a gentle, noninvasive healing practice â€” is now used by many as a complementary therapy for many conditions. This plain-English guide explains its origins and how Reiki channels life-force energy to alleviate physical and emotional pain. You''ll discover what to expect in a session, how to treat yourself, and ways to share the power of Reiki with others.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand Reiki positions and symbols\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a qualified practitioner\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine Reiki with other therapies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed the healing process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate Reiki into daily life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become a Reiki healer\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1990'),
(19831, 'The Remorseful Day', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 13 novels and a popular television series later, Colin Dexter''s Inspector Morse has taken his place alongside Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, Philip Marlowe, and a handful of other famous sleuths. Like most of them, Morse possesses an uncanny intelligence, especially in matters of crime and crosswords, but Dexter has always made sure that his detective remains fully a man--flawed and uncertain despite an outward bravado. In this final, difficult story, Morse''s humanity unfolds much as his cases do: with the slow revelation of secrets and surprises that frequently catch the reader off guard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The novel begins with events now a year old. Yvonne Hamilton had been found in her home murdered--handcuffed and naked. The Thames Valley Police had supposed robbery, but their suspects had dissolved and all the leads had dried up. A year later, while Morse is on furlough, two anonymous calls to Chief Superintendent Strange open the possibility of a new line of inquiry. Strange wants his best man on the case. Morse, however, shows a surprising reluctance to embroil himself in what seems to be a classic Morsean puzzle. When he finally does reopen the investigation, his unorthodox approach worries even his longtime sidekick, Sergeant Lewis--who begins to suspect that his boss has a personal connection to the victim. What\n  <em>\n   could\n  </em>\n  Morse be up to? And--as many readers will be asking throughout--what could possibly bring his career to a close?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like the work of few other mystery writers, Dexter''s Morse series has consistently blended the dignity of high art with the grimness of crime and punishment. While it''s a clichÃ© to say that he transcends the genre, he has certainly expanded its range to novels that entertain while they instruct--even when that instruction is grammatical.\n  <em>\n   The Remorseful Day\n  </em>\n  is indeed a remorseful farewell, a delicately handled conclusion to a series that will now remain artfully complete, not lingering beyond its time.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first Inspector Morse novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, appeared a quarter-century ago. This finale to a grand series presents a moving elegy to one of mystery fiction''s most celebrated and popular characters. The murder of nurse Yvonne Harrington two years earlier remains unsolved, but the Oxford police receive an anonymous tip that prompts them to revive their investigation. Morse''s superior, Chief Superintendent Strange, wants him to take over the case, but Morse is stubbornly and curiously reluctant to do so. Morse''s faithful dogsbody, the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis, is left wondering whether Morse himself is some how connected to the crime, since the inspector had encountered the murder victim during a stay in the hospital. It falls to Lewis to do most of the delving, with Morse prompting him along the way. The case seems impenetrable until the murder of burglar Harry Repp - though what could be the connection to the original murder? Lewis continues to probe while Morse remains his oracular self. Dexter has fashioned another brilliantly intricate puzzle, one of his finest, with the valedictory tone of the highest possible note, perfectly pitched. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6180'),
(19832, 'The Repair of Vehicle Bodies 5th ed', 'W. Livesey, A. Robinson (B-H, 2006) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3915'),
(19833, 'The Replacement Child: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Billed as the first winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for best debut mystery set in the Southwest, Barber''s first novel is full of exquisite New Mexico scenery, but it''s not enough to buoy a routine plot. Santa Fe newspaper editor Lucy Newroe usually ignores the calls from an old woman known as Scanner Lady with police scanner tidbits, but soon after Scanner Lady tells Lucy she overheard two cops discussing a dead body, Melissa Baca is found dead in a gorge outside the city. Det. Sgt. Gil Montoya strives to reconcile conflicting statements about Melissa''s family and alleged drug use. Responding to an emergency call, Lucy, who also volunteers as a medic, finds the body of an elderly woman near a police scanner and fears her source has been murdered. Reluctantly joining forces, Lucy and Gil discover that the links between the two murders run deeper than they imagined. Like Lucy, Barber is a journalist and volunteer EMT; hopefully, she''ll use this background to flesh out her heroine in a sequel.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lucy Newroe, editor of the Capital Tribune, a Santa Fe newspaper, is given a tip from Scanner Lady, an anonymous reader who listens to her police scanner. That same night, the body of a young woman, Melissa Baca, is found at the bottom of a local bridge. When Scanner Lady is murdered, Lucy connects her tip with Bacaâ€™s murder and tries to convince the police toÂ investigate the link. Santa Fe police detective Gil Montoya is called upon to work with the state police to help investigate the crime, and he and Lucy end up exchanging information. Lucy is also working reluctantly as a volunteer medic and dealing with her recent romantic breakup, while Gil worries about his mother and her health. A strong sense of the city of Santa Fe and its environs and the appeal of the two well-developed main characters show why this mystery was the first winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for the best debut mystery set in the Southwest. --Sue O''Brien\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6325');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19834, 'Replication for Dummies', 'Robert D. Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Add value to your IT organization with database replication\n</p>\n<p>\n Understand how database replication can solve your organization''s business and technological challenges\n</p>\n<p>\n Organizations today have a growing need to move and synchronize data across the enterprise in real-time without the risk of system downtime or performance degradation. Database replication is the solution, but up until now, it''s been costly and difficult to administer. This friendly guide explains how database replication will add value to your distributed organization in a cost-efficient and simple way.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the different techniques for database replication\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce the likelihood of a major system or data outage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do real-time reporting without degraded application performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Consolidate and synchronize data from multiple data sources through replication\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Follow best practices to ensure your replication rollout is effective\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1991'),
(19835, 'Republic', 'Plato &amp; C. D. C. Reeve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato''s Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth century B.C. Republic begins by posing a central question: "What is justice, and why should we be just, especially when the wicked often seem happier and more successful?" For Plato, the answer lies with the ways people, groups, and institutions organize and behave. A brilliant inquiry into the problems of constructing the perfect state and the roles education, the arts, family, and religion should play in our lives, Republic employs picturesque settings, sharply outlined characters, and conversational dialogue to drive home the philosopher''s provocative arguments. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(19836, 'Requiem For A Lost Empire', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Makine''s fifth novel, the memories of an unnamed narrator weave through the 20th century as he recalls episodes in the life of his family-experiences that include those of a battlefield doctor in Afghanistan who was also a KGB agent, a Russian villager who defied the Soviet regime, and a man who swears to avenge the death of his beloved.  This luminous, beautifully crafted new novel by much-praised Russian â€šmigrâ€š author Makine (Dreams of My Russian Summers, etc.) takes as its subject three generations of a Russian family, caught in the violent political struggles of the 20th century. The novel begins after the Russian revolution, when Pavel, a Russian farmer, refuses to comply with the demands of Stalin''s government. The novel then jumps to late-20th-century Russia, where Pavel''s son is swept into a murderous web of KGB espionage, falls in love and then loses his lover in the maelstrom of historical change. When he next hears of her, she has been murdered. The novel gradually becomes a tale of revenge, as the spy goes to Florida to find his lover''s killer. The outcome, however, is not what he expects. Shortly after the novel introduces Pavel''s son, we learn the story of Pavel''s father, a deserter from the Red Army, followed by the story of Pavel himself. Each temporal leap the novel makes illuminates and defines its crucial events, rather than muddying the waters. Makine writes lyrically, baring his struggling characters'' emotions and vivifying their oft-chaotic backdrops with equal brio. As the young spy''s friends and family disappear from his life, his memories become the only things left for him; Makine renders these in brilliantly sharp detail. The arc of the novel shows, above all, that life patterns repeat themselves; we watch the same conflicts playing themselves out in the three life stories presented here. Throughout, Makine displays the sensitivity and honesty of his acclaimed previous works. Agent, Georges Borchardt. (Aug.)Forecast: Makine shows impressive staying power with this fifth novel to be published in English translation, and Arcade is demonstrating its faith with a first printing of 25,000 copies. Chances are good that the writer''s reader base will continue to grow steadily.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4081'),
(19837, 'Requiem for an assassin', 'Barry Eisler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  If you had to kill three people to save your best friend''s life, would you do it?  When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain''s trusted partner and closest friend, and offers Rain a choice: carry out a final assignment, or bear the responsibility for Dox''s murder.  For a professional like John Rain, the choice ought to be easy: Do the job-a series of three hits-then walk away. But how does Rain know Jim Hilger won''t kill Dox anyway, once the assignment is complete? How does he know that each of the hits isn''t simultaneously a setup for Rain himself? And what will he do when he finds out that among the targets of this lethal game of extortion is someone else Rain cares about deeply?  From the urban canyons of Silicon Valley and New York to the lush forests of Bali, the boulevards of Paris, and the old killing fields of Vietnam, Rain must grapple with his age, his enemies, and most of all, his conscience in a battle that not even Rain-"the stuff great characters are made of" (Entertainment Weekly)-can hope to survive intact.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Eisler''s predictable sixth thriller to star half Japanese, half American assassin John Rain (after 2006''s The Last Assassin), Rain''s longtime rival, rogue CIA agent Jim Hilger, kidnaps Rain''s sniper friend Dox and threatens to kill Dox unless Rain murders three people Hilger wants dead. Despite his ambivalence about his chosen trade, Rain carries out the hits with little remorse. Rain''s adventures take him to the usual glamorous localesâ€”Paris, London, Amsterdamâ€”while throughout he remains nostalgic for his Japanese heritage. In a subplot, Rain''s Mossad agent lover, Delilah, enlists some Israeli colleagues in an attempt to foil a major terrorist plot. The revelation of why the three murder victims were selected comes as the book''s one real surprise. 150,000 first printing; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pity John Rain. All the Japanese American contract killer wants to do is retire and live happily with his girlfriend, a beautiful Mossad agent. But little things keep getting in the way. For instance, his close friend and sometime partner, Dox, has been kidnapped. The abductor is Jim Hilger, a CIA agent whose schemes have been foiled by Rain a few times in the past, and who is now looking to use Dox''s life as leverage to force Rain to commit a series of assassinations. But Rain is nobody''s fool: he knows he can''t trust Hilger to live up to his end of the deal, and there''s only one way to make sure Dox stays healthy. Readers may wonder how many stories there are to tell about a hit man who wants to get out of the life, but so far Eisler hasn''t run out of believable scenarios. This one is as good as its five forerunners, and here''s hoping the author has a few more stories to tell.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4633'),
(19838, 'Resumes for Dummies', 'Joyce Lain Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A must for any job seeker. --\n <em>\n  Doug Elliot, Career Counselor/One-Stop Career Center Manager\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n If college graduates had a Joyce Lain Kennedy to guide them ... there would certainly be fewer unfocused, frazzled, jobless people. --\n <em>\n  Dr. Drema K. Howard, Director, Career Resource Center, University of South Florida\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Joyce Lain Kennedy is at the top of her field. --\n <em>\n  Richard K. Knowdell, CEO, Career Planning and Adult Development Network\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Solid, cutting-edge resume advice with today''s Internet technology -- the best of the resume books." --\n <em>\n  Michael R. Forrest, CEO, JobOptions; founding CEO, CareerPath.com and JobWeb\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is your job search stalling out after you submit a resume but before you''re offered an interview? With reinvented recruiting technology, unmanageable millions of resumes choking employer databases, and government mandates in the name of diversity, a gigantic change has occurred in the recruiting world over the past several yearsâ€”and it demands a fresh look at how you write and market your resumes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re entering the job market for the first time, changing jobs, or changing careers,\n <em>\n  Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n will show you the ropes and rules for a new era in recruiting and job finding. With 85% new content added since the previous edition, this up-to-date guide gives you the very latest strategies on how to create, and more importantly, distribute your resume in today''s new job search environment. You''ll learn:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Why most generic online resumes fail\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to customize resumes for each job opening\n </li>\n <li>\n  New quick ways to find the right jobs\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use meta search engines to your advantage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why both digital and print versions of resumes are still needed\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use resumes interactively\n </li>\n <li>\n  The resume basics that still knock ''em dead\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create resumes for your life''s changing phases\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to do\n  <em>\n   after\n  </em>\n  you send them your resume\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With a wealth of sample resumesâ€”organized by industry and career field, experience level and age, and special circumstancesâ€”along with tips on choosing professional resume help and other valuable resources,\n <em>\n  Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n will help you\n <em>\n  get noticed\n </em>\n in a universe saturated with billions of resumes and more on the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1992'),
(19839, 'Retribution', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] publishing phenomenonâ€¦[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene. . .Just one example of arguably the most in-demand and prolific authors in America these days.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKenyonâ€™s writing is brisk, ironic and relentlessly imaginative. These are not your motherâ€™s vampire novels.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”BOSTON GLOBE\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] engaging read.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    From #1\n   </em>\n   New York Times\n   <em>\n    bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the next thrilling installment in her blockbuster Dark-HunterÂ® series\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harm no humanâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore heâ€™d spend eternity protecting the humans heâ€™d once considered prey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one beliefâ€”Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meeting the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A gun in the hand is worth two in the holsterâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature whoâ€™s assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows heâ€™s not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races theyâ€™ve sworn to protect.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4130'),
(19840, 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4324'),
(19841, 'The Return of the Naked Chef', 'Jamie Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second book from  Britain s most exciting chef  (Daily Mail) is now available in paperback. Jamie Oliver has captured the heart of the nation with his passion for simple, delicious, home-cooked food. His talent is huge, his style relaxed and his fans just want more. THE RETURN OF THE NAKED CHEF is filled with fresh ingredients, pukka recipes and boundless enthusiasm. Get stuck in with Jamie!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2303'),
(19842, 'The Return', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shatner serves up the latest installment in the best-selling multiauthored series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Veridian III\n  </em>\n  : A world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy''s greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes at last to the grave of his best and dearest friend, the adventure is only beginning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Borg and the Romulan Empire have joined forces against the Federation, and their ultimate weapon is none other than James T. Kirk, resurrected by alien science to destroy the Borg''s most formidable enemy: Jean-Luc Picard.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6281'),
(19843, 'Reverse Mortgages for Dummies', 'Sarah Glendon Lyons &amp; John E. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For seniors who live on a fixed income, owning a homeâ€”and keeping itâ€”can be financially challenging. Rather than face the choice of selling your home and moving or becoming a home-owning pauper, reverse mortgage products let seniors convert part of their equity into tax-free income that can be used for anythingâ€”even mortgage payments, living expenses, or medical costs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Reverse Mortgages For Dummies\n </em>\n covers all the basics of reverse mortgage products so you and your adult children can understand and take full advantage of these handy loansâ€”and keep the home you love. Covering a full range of reverse mortgage options and topics, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide if a reverse mortgage is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop for the best reverse mortgage products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out if your home is eligible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a counselor who can help you\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Sarah Lyons, an Assistant Editor at\n <em>\n  Mortgage Originator\n </em>\n magazine, and John Lucas, an experienced reverse mortgage specialist,\n <em>\n  Reverse Mortgages For Dummies\n </em>\n explains these helpful loan products in simple, easy-to-understand language free of all the jargon. Once you understand how reverse mortgages differ from other loansâ€”and what you could do with your reverse mortgageâ€”the book covers the specifics you need to find the right loan for you, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Special advice for adult children helping their senior parents secure a loan\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to get a reverse mortgage and keep your second home legally\n </li>\n <li>\n  Property requirements and financing fees\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selecting among a multitude of lenders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spending and estimating leftover equity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sharing the decision-making process with family and loved ones\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re a senior wondering whether a reverse mortgage can help you keep your home, this book gives you the information you need to make smart, informed decisions that are vital to you, and your familyâ€™s, security.\n <em>\n  Reverse Mortgages For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you keep your home and live the life you want.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fully explains how reverse mortgages work\n</p>\n<p>\n With special advice for the adult children of seniors\n</p>\n<p>\n Reverse mortgages are a great way for you to keep your home, even on a retiree''s fixed income. But with so many loan options, where do you start? Relax! This friendly guide covers all the basics so you and your adult children can understand and take advantage of these handy loans â€” and keep the home you love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide if a reverse mortgage is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop for the best reverse mortgage products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out if your home is eligible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walk through each step of the process with confidence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a counselor who can help you\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1993'),
(19844, 'REVOLUTIONART International Magazine - Issue 32 - &quot;I Demand&quot;', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7087'),
(19845, 'RFID for Dummies', 'Patrick J. Sweeney &amp; Patrick J. Sweeney (ii.)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Many companies have asked suppliers to begin using RFID (radio frequency identification) tags by 2006\n </li>\n <li>\n  RFID allows pallets and products to be scanned at a greater distance and with less effort than barcode scanning, offering superior supply-chain management efficiencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  This unique plain-English resource explains RFID and shows CIOs, warehouse managers, and supply-chain managers how to implement RFID tagging in products and deploy RFID scanning at a warehouse or distribution center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the business case for RFID, pilot programs, timelines and strategies for site assessments and deployments, testing guidelines, privacy and regulatory issues, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover how RFID can save your business money\n</p>\n<p>\n See what goes into an RFID set-up, choose your equipment, and test your system\n</p>\n<p>\n Is the rush to implement RFID causing you sleepless nights? Take heart! As more and more retailers require their suppliers to get on the RFID bandwagon, this book can save the day. Even if you''re IT challenged and skipped physics class, you''ll discover how RFID works and how to set up and deploy your network â€” just in time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan your RFID implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate and choose system components\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare types of RFID tags\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and test readers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Administer and maintain your system\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1994'),
(19846, 'Rhythm - September 2011', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3647'),
(19847, 'Rhythm.2011-10S370.pdf 30-09-2011', 'Rhythm.2011-10S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7045'),
(19848, 'RibbonX for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Includes coding examples and sample conversion programs!\n</p>\n<p>\n Create VBA, VB.NET, and C# custom applications with this radical new interface\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to tackle RibbonX? This friendly, plain-English guide gives you the tips and techniques you need to design and implement Ribbon apps fast, as well as plenty of examples for working in VBA and Visual Studio(r). You''ll customize the Ribbon to meet your needs, create new elements, and even find solutions for pre-existing Office apps!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create an effective RibbonX design\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Write RibbonX apps\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Develop business applications for Office\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Work with Web services\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Convert existing toolbars and macros\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Includes coding examples and sample conversion programs!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create VBA, VB.NET, and C# custom applications with this radical new interface\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you ready to tackle RibbonX? This friendly, plain-English guide gives you the tips and techniques you need to design and implement Ribbon apps fast, as well as plenty of examples for working in VBA and Visual StudioÂ®. You''ll customize the Ribbon to meet your needs, create new elements, and even find solutions for pre-existing Office apps!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an effective RibbonX design\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write RibbonX apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop business applications for Office\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with Web services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Convert existing toolbars and macros\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1995'),
(19849, 'Riceyman Steps', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4294'),
(19850, 'The Riddle Of The Third Mile', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once again Oxford becomes the scene of the crime as Inspector Morse investigates a baffling case involving a mysterious disappearance, an unidentified corpse, and a brutal murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6181'),
(19851, 'Rights of Man', 'Paine, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(19852, 'River of Death', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   -\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   THE LOST CITYHamilton knows the way to the ruins deep in the Brazilian jungle - and the secret they hold.The millionaire who calls himself Smith seeks the lost city to avenge a wrong from his hidden past.Their journey down the River of Death is an epic of violence and danger. But the secret that awaits them in the lost city is more dangerous still - as a legacy of theft, treachery and murder stretching back to war-torn Europe comes to a deadly climax beneath the ancient walls.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  THE LOST CITYHamilton knows the way to the ruins deep in the Brazilian jungle - and the secret they hold.The millionaire who calls himself Smith seeks the lost city to avenge a wrong from his hidden past.Their journey down the River of Death is an epic of violence and danger. But the secret that awaits them in the lost city is more dangerous still - as a legacy of theft, treachery and murder stretching back to war-torn Europe comes to a deadly climax beneath the ancient walls.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3956'),
(19853, 'Road and Track 10-2011', 'Road &amp; Track', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3841'),
(19854, 'Road and Track Magazine October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4741'),
(19855, 'The Road to Dune', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ROAD TO DUNE is a compilation of material celebrating - and adding to - the epic Dune novels. It includes out-takes from the original DUNE by Frank Herbert, correspondence with Frank Herbert relating to the original DUNE; short stories by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson; and SPICE PLANET - a long novella by Brian and Kevin incorporating large chunks of material by Frank Herbert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6293'),
(19856, 'The Road to Rome (flc-3)', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third novel in The Forgotten Legion trilogy takes the main protagonists from North Africa back to Rome in the build-up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus'' twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Back in Egypt, Romulus fights at Zela, the vicious battle where Caesar famously said, ''Veni, vidi, vici''. Tarquinius, separated from Romulus in the chaos of war, hides in Alexandria, searching for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both. From the battlefields of North Africa and Spain, to the lawless streets of Rome and the gladiator arena, they face death daily, until on the Ides of March, the twins are reunited and must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day of destiny.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4579'),
(19857, 'Road_Track_2011-11_HQ.pdf 28-09-2011', 'Road_Track_2011-11_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6869'),
(19858, 'The Road', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6229'),
(19859, 'Road.and.Track.Magazine-October.2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Road.and.Track.Magazine-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4670'),
(19860, 'Roast Mortem', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The national bestselling author brews up another mystery-and this time, it''s New York''s Bravest that get burned **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing cafÃ©, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching cafes around the city and firefighters begin to die in suspicious ways...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake sale and sniffing out clues in the pizza ovens of Brooklyn. When her detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation, Clare is desperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike''s rescue before someone tries to extinguish her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6237'),
(19861, 'The Roll-Call', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4302'),
(19862, 'Rolling Stone - The Playlist Issue', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2465'),
(19863, 'Rolling Stone 05-2009', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2432'),
(19864, 'Rolling Stone 09-2011', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3682'),
(19865, 'Rolling Stone June 24, 2010', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2454'),
(19866, 'Rolling Stone Magazine 06-10-2011', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10580'),
(19867, 'Rolling Stone Magazine 20-10-2011', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10802'),
(19868, 'Rolling Stone Magazine 25-09-2011', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6768'),
(19869, 'Rolling Stone Special Collectors Edition', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2470'),
(19870, 'Rolling-Stone-2009-09-03-Sep-1086', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2434'),
(19871, 'Rolling-Stone-2009-09-17-Sep-1087', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2435'),
(19872, 'Rolling-stone-2009-10-01-oct-1088', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2436'),
(19873, 'Rolling-stone-2009-10-15-oct-1089', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2437'),
(19874, 'Rolling-stone-2009-10-29-oct-1090', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2438'),
(19875, 'Rolling-stone-2009-11-12-nov-1091', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2439'),
(19876, 'Rolling-stone-2009-11-26-nov-1092', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(19877, 'Rolling-stone-2009-12-10-dec-1093', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2441'),
(19878, 'Rolling-stone-2009-12-24-dec-1094-1095', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2442'),
(19879, 'Rolling-stone-2010-01-15-jan-1096', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2443'),
(19880, 'Rolling-stone-2010-02-04-feb-1097', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2444'),
(19881, 'Rolling-stone-2010-03-04-Mar-1099', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2446'),
(19882, 'Rolling-stone-2010-03-18-Mar-1100', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2447'),
(19883, 'Rolling-stone-2010-04-01-Apr-1101', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2448'),
(19884, 'Rolling-stone-2010-04-15-Apr-1102', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2449'),
(19885, 'Rolling-stone-2010-04-29-Apr-1103', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2450'),
(19886, 'Rolling-stone-2010-05-13-May-1104', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2451'),
(19887, 'Rolling-stone-2010-05-27-May-1105', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2452'),
(19888, 'Rolling-stone-2010-06-10-Jun-1106', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2453'),
(19889, 'Rolling-stone-2010-07-08-22-Jul-1108-1109', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2455'),
(19890, 'Rolling-stone-2010-08-05-Aug-1110', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2456'),
(19891, 'Rolling-stone-2010-08-19-Aug-1111', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2457'),
(19892, 'Rolling-stone-2010-09-02-Sep-1112', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2458'),
(19893, 'Rolling-stone-2010-09-16-Sep-1113', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2459'),
(19894, 'Rolling-stone-2010-09-30-Sep-1114', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2460'),
(19895, 'Rolling-stone-2010-10-14-Oct-1115', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2461'),
(19896, 'Rolling-stone-2010-10-28-Oct-1116', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2462'),
(19897, 'Rolling-stone-2010-11-11-Nov-1117', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2463'),
(19898, 'Rolling-stone-2010-11-25-Nov-1118', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2464'),
(19899, 'Rolling-stone-2010-12-23-Dec-06-Jan-1120-1121', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2466'),
(19900, 'Rolling-stone-2011-01-20-Jan-1122', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2467'),
(19901, 'Rolling-stone-2011-02-03-Feb-1123', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2468'),
(19902, 'Rolling-stone-2011-02-17-Feb-1124', 'Rolling Stone Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2469'),
(19903, 'The Rome Express', 'Arthur Griffiths', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, a charming woman caught in the meshes of circumstantial evidence, a chivalrous Englishman, and a police force with a keen nose for the wrong clue, are the ingredients from which Major Griffiths has concocted a clever, up-to-date detective story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4323'),
(19904, 'Rome for Dummies', 'Bruce Murphy &amp; Alessandra de Rosa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The history of the Eternal City is permanently recorded in its many monuments and ruins. Rome has delights for anyone and everyoneâ€”art aficionados, architecture buffs, history lovers, foodies, and fashion trendsetters. This guide eases you into\n <em>\n  la dolce vita\n </em>\n ("the sweet life") with information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to get around the meandering streets and the bustling maze of ancient and modern treasures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Entertainment to suit your mood, from classical concerts and opera to bars, pubs, and discos to moonlit walks with spectacular views\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations ranging from the Hotel Hassler, located on top of the Spanish Steps, to the Hotel de Russie with its striking contemporary design\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incredible churches, museums, and ruins\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great buys on handmade gold jewelry, antique prints, fashion accessories such as scarves, handbags, and watches, and a variety of religious items ranging from apparel to artwork\n </li>\n <li>\n  Five itinerary options and five day trips\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Rome For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Experience the Eternal City the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Breathtaking ancient ruins or trendy urban shopping. Small trattorias that are big on personality. Huge cathedrals with amazing works of art. Incredible nightlife, from opera and theatre to modern music, wine bars, and clubs. Must-see museums, architecture, fountains, and piazzas. With this friendly guide, your trip to Rome will be "Perfetto."\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1996'),
(19905, 'Rome for Dummies', 'Bruce Murphy &amp; Alessandra de Rosa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When in Rome, do as the Romans doâ€”enjoy life! Take in the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. The Coliseum, where you can walk a subterranean corridor that was once the passageway for gladiators and animals. Incredible museums, art, and sculpture. Rome enshrines centuries of history amid an atmosphere of modern vitality. From ancient ruins to nightlife hot spots, this friendly guide helps you experience it all, with information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Figuring out the neighborhoods and getting around\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping department stores, the market, or neighborhood specialty shops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great souvenirs, ranging from antique prints to cardinal socks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optional, more specialized itineraries, including Rome for Architecture Lovers and Rome for Michelangelo Lovers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Five day trips, including Tivoli with its villas and The Castelli Romani and their Italian wines\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,Â _Rome For Dummies_ includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore Rome the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Spectacular ancient ruins or incredible modern shopping. Small trattorias or huge cathedrals. Classical concerts and opera or bars, pubs, and discos. Incredible museums, architecture, fountains, and piazzas. With this friendly guide, your trip to the Eternal City will be "Magnifico."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1997'),
(19906, 'Room Number 3', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4028'),
(19907, 'Room: A Novel', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010\n </strong>\n : In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue''s\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room--an 11Ã—11-foot space that is their prison--captives of the terrifying man Jack calls Old Nick. But as Jack grows older and more curious, it becomes clear that the room will not be able to hold him and Ma forever. Michal Friedman shines as Jack; her narration is haunting and compelling in its every inflection and tone. The voice she creates for Jack is so convincing, listeners may even mistake her for an actual child. Her powerful performance is complemented by Robert Petcoff''s sinister Old Nick, and Ellen Archer''s portrayal of resourceful Ma, whose gentle voice is infused with patience, terror, and hope. The chemistry between the players creates a gem of an audiobook that will haunt listeners long after the story''s end. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, July 12). (Sept.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4131'),
(19908, 'Room: A Novel', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010\n </strong>\n : In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue''s\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter\n <em>\n  Room\n </em>\n will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room--an 11Ã—11-foot space that is their prison--captives of the terrifying man Jack calls Old Nick. But as Jack grows older and more curious, it becomes clear that the room will not be able to hold him and Ma forever. Michal Friedman shines as Jack; her narration is haunting and compelling in its every inflection and tone. The voice she creates for Jack is so convincing, listeners may even mistake her for an actual child. Her powerful performance is complemented by Robert Petcoff''s sinister Old Nick, and Ellen Archer''s portrayal of resourceful Ma, whose gentle voice is infused with patience, terror, and hope. The chemistry between the players creates a gem of an audiobook that will haunt listeners long after the story''s end. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, July 12). (Sept.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4391'),
(19909, 'Rosemary / A Christmas story', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5931'),
(19910, 'Rosemary in Search of a Father', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5930'),
(19911, 'Roses for Canadians for Dummies', 'Douglas Green &amp; Lance Waldheim &amp; National Gardening Association (u. S.) &amp; Canadian Gardening Journal &amp; Editors Of The National Gardening Association &amp; Editors Of Canadian Gardening &amp; Lance Walheim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A valuable resource for anyone interested in growing roses in Canada."\n <br />\n â€” Donna Dawson, ICanGarden.com\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celebrated for centuries for their gorgeous blooms and heavenly scents, roses have a certain mystique and romantic aura unlike any other garden plant. And though you might think they''re too impossibly delicate to grow in Canada, Roses For Canadians For Dummies show you they''re not. Using the hardiness recommendations, and the eight-page full colour photo insert, you''ll be able to choose the best rose varieties for your Canadian climate zone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes: Ratings of the biggest blooms and most savoury rose scents; an easy-to-understand and illustrated guide to planting and pruning techniques; winterizing strategies so your shrubs survive the harshest seasonal conditions; buying the healthiest plants and safeguarding against rose pests and diseases; Canadian Plant Hardiness Zone Map\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1998'),
(19912, 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being and Time', 'Stephen Mulhall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult; they both require and reward careful reading.  Being and Time , his first major publication, remains to this day his most influential work.         Heidegger and   Being and Time  introduces and assesses:    * Heideggerâ€™s life and the background to  Being and Time          * the ideas and text of  Being and Time         *Heideggerâ€™s continuing importance to philosophy and his contribution to the intellectual life of our century.    In this second edition, Stephen Mulhall expands his treatment of scepticism, revises his discussion on death, and reassesses the contentious relationship between the two parts of  Being and Time  with a focus on the notion of authenticity.         This guide will be vital to all students of Heidegger in philosophy and cultural theory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/159');
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(19913, 'Roxio Easy Media Creator for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your step-by-step guide to digital media fun - no experience required!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Share your movies, create a music library, or preserve important records\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What do you want to put on CDs or DVDs? Whether you need a backup archive for valuable business data or a personalized video library that rocks, you can do it with Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. Follow this handy guide to find the task you want to perform and make it happen, quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Quickly navigate the Creator 8 suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Copy data with Drag-to-Disc\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule regular backups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce slideshows with background music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build media projects with task Assistants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create DVDs with audio, video, and photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your step-by-step guide to digital media fun â€” no experience required!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Share your movies, create a music library, or preserve important records\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What do you want to put on CDs or DVDs? Whether you need a backup archive for valuable business data or a personalized video library that rocks, you can do it with Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. Follow this handy guide to find the task you want to perform and make it happen, quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Quickly navigate the Creator 8 suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Copy data with Drag-to-Disc\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule regular backups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce slideshows with background music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build media projects with task Assistants\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create DVDs with audio, video, and photos\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1999'),
(19914, 'Roxio Easy Media Creator for Dummies', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to preserve those Super 8 movies of Grandpa with his Studebaker or you in your prized Lone Ranger get -up? Want to create a CD of the newest hits from Napster or old 45s? Want to take videos or photos from Christmases past and turn them into Christmas presents? Itâ€™s Roxio Easy Media Creator for Dummies to the rescue!\n</p>\n<p>\n With Roxioâ€™s digital media toolbox, you can capture video, pictures, and sound, edit photos, store data files, create custom calendars, and more. You can do everything from burning CDs and DVDs to labeling them. First you get acquainted with Easy Media Creator Homeâ€”the hub from which all the applications are launched. Then you create your own flight plan. You donâ€™t have to read each helpful tidbitâ€”each chapter stands on its own, ready for you to dig in and start:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Backing up and organizing media files for quick retrieval\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Photo Suite to fix, edit, and enhance photos and show them off in slideshows, photo collages, calendars, and the like\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recording and editing digital audio with Easy Media Creatorâ€™s Sound Editor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhancing your audio with Alienizer, Enhancer, Equalizer, Maturizer, Robotizer, Room Simulator, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Playing audio backward (if youâ€™re determined to hear the hidden message at last)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the Capture tool to acquire the digital media (audio, photo, and video) you need for DVD projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using DVD Builder to assemble and burn multi-media projects on DVD, combining video clips, still photo images, text, and audio tracks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using VideoWave to assemble and edit video projects\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Greg Harvey, author of\n <em>\n  Excel 2003 For Dummies\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Windows XP for Dummies\n </em>\n and numerous other computer books. It helps you take full advantage of all of Roxioâ€™s application programs and tools and discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use Sound Editor to record audio from audio devices connected to your computer, including analog sources such as cassettes and LP records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get album titles, artistâ€™s names, and track titles from Gracenote CDDB online\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use StoryBuilder to turn video clips into finished videos using pre-designed themes and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add special effects, transitions to bridge scenes, and color panels and text to introduce new scenes or provide credits\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a Help Center &amp; Tutorials link that speeds to you help on a particular topic,\n <em>\n  Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the tools and puts you at the controls.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your guide to Roxioâ€™s fully integrated digital media toolbox\n</p>\n<p>\n Capture video, pictures, and sound, edit photos, store data files, and burn CDs or DVDs\n</p>\n<p>\n What do you want to do with CDs and DVDs? Share home movies? Create a music library? Preserve your business records? Roxioâ€™s Easy Media Creator can do it all and with this handy guide, so can you! This project-oriented book shows you how to integrate all the tools and techniques of Roxioâ€™s digital media suite to create cool CDs and DVDs.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use each digital media application\n </li>\n <li>\n  Back up your data files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create digital photo slide shows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit video productions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize media files with Media Managerâ„¢\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2000'),
(19915, 'RTLS for Dummies', 'Ajay Malik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Select, invest in, and deploy a Real Time Location System\n</p>\n<p>\n Is your business ready for an RTLS? This friendly, hands-on guide shows you how to understand and implement this cutting-edge technology, explaining RTLS methodologies in plain English. From the initial deployment to monitoring to determining Return on Investment, you''ll see how to successfully meet your needs, ensure data accuracy, and sustain your system.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your bearings â€” understand what RTLS does and its various methodologies, determine your needs, and select the right system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for installation â€” outline your goals, plan your applications, assess your site, select the right tag technology, and conduct a pilot test\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Implement RTLS in your world â€” know how to train your staff, set expectations, set up monitoring, and assess whether the RTLS is working as desired\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with design issues â€” learn the most common pitfalls of RTLS implementation and how to handle them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take the technology tour â€” use RTLS to locate at choke points, room level, presence, by association, and precisely\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Monitor and secure your RTLS â€” verify and fine-tune your system, establish performance metrics, and manage security issues and vulnerabilities such as network attacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of RTLS and its uses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of underlying technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to integrate RTLS into your other business applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comparative detail on technologies that enable different types of locating\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for evaluating RTLS vendors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Essential RTLS resources and references\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for getting the most out of the batteries used in tags\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Privacy issues related to RTLS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ajay Malik has nearly 20 years of engineering and management experience. Prior to joining RF Technologies, he was the head of software engineering and advanced development in Motorola''s Wireless LAN Division. He was the principal architect of Motorola RF Switch and championed Real Time Location System supporting multiple technologies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2001'),
(19916, 'The Ruby in Her Navel', 'Barry Unsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enticing titles are typical of Unsworth (_Sacred Hunger_); his gleam, this time out, is dimmed by the setting. Thurstan Beauchamp, royal purveyor of pleasures and shows in the 12th-century Kingdom of Sicily, laboriously narrates his daily rounds, which involve delicate low-level negotiations and machinations. Four pages are devoted to the sale of three mules, in language as artificially antique and exotic as it is languorous. Relief comes in the sudden appearance of Lady Alicia, who had been Thurstan''s love back when he was on a track to knighthood. Bittersweet reflections on his thwarted destiny provide some of the most affecting moments. But the lady is too good to be true, and she proves central to a vile plot in which Thurstan betrays a friend. Perfidy brings epiphany; Thurstan realizes Alicia could not have seduced his soul had he not invested her with the power. And Alicia is not the "Lady" of the title: that distinction belongs to Nesrin, the smolderingly beautiful belly dancer whose name appears on the first page, but whose story is teasingly withheld until further in. It is she who provides the inspiration for Thurstan''s self-exploration, burnishing a mind of which we learn rather too much.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is 1149, and all is not well in Norman Sicily. The Second Crusade''s disastrous failure has turned opinion against Palermo''s Muslims, but King Roger''s magnanimity toward his multicultural populace keeps the land in harmony--or so it seems. Thurstan Beauchamp, a Norman Christian, works at the government office overseeing finances, accounting, and bribes. Still smarting at the loss of his inheritance, he jumps at the chance to reconnect with Alicia, his noble childhood sweetheart. But what of Nesrin, the Anatolian belly dancer who stirs his lust? The undercurrents of political and romantic intrigue prove too much for naive, idealistic Thurstan, whose chivalrous inner core begins to crack as he travels on missions for his king. Unsworth''s subtle prose conjures up an authentically realized medieval world in which one''s nationality and religion overshadow everything, and peace is only an illusion. The twisting plotline, heavy with foreshadowing, conceals as much as it reveals in this heartrending tale, which can be read either as an exceptional historical novel or a modern parable on the dangers of blind patriotism.\n  <em>\n   Sarah Johnson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4652'),
(19917, 'Ruby on Rails for Dummies', 'Barry Burd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Quickly create Web sites with this poweful tool\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don''t dream in computer code, take heart! Ruby on Rails was created for you, and this book will have you up and running in no time. The Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework let you create full-featured Web applications fast. It''s even fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and run Ruby and Rails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the RadRails IDE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a blog with Ruby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your Web site to a database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a shopping cart\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore Ruby''s syntax\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Quickly create Web sites with this poweful tool\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don''t dream in computer code, take heart! Ruby on Rails was created for you, and this book will have you up and running in no time. The Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework let you create full-featured Web applications fast. It''s even fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install and run Ruby and Rails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the RadRails IDE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a blog with Ruby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your Web site to a database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a shopping cart\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore Ruby''s syntax\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2002'),
(19918, 'The Ruins', 'Scott Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Cancun, Mexico, for a peaceful vacation, a group of tourists sets off in search of one of their group who disappeared during an excursion to some nearby Mayan ruins, only to come face to face with an insidious evil that threatens their very lives. By the author of A Simple Plan. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6274'),
(19919, 'Rules of Betrayal', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Reich''s outstanding third thriller featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom (after Rules of Vengeance) finds the courageous surgeon, who no longer works for Doctors Without Borders, in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, where he gets caught in a Taliban raid that ends with him being choppered out of a vicious firefight. As in the two previous novels, Jonathan becomes enmeshed in a mission that''s run by Division, a secret U.S. government agency. The series'' ongoing and fascinating twist is that Jonathan''s wife, the extremely capable and extremely deadly Emma, may or may not be a Division agent, a Russian spy, or something else entirely. Jonathan willingly enters the dark world of espionage to rescue Emma after she falls afoul of Taliban warrior Sultan Haq and an evil arms dealer known as Lord Balfour. Emma''s liberation of a nuclear bomb lost by the U.S. in the mountains of Pakistan in 1980 leads to an untied thread that will have readers eagerly awaiting the next installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Surgeon Jonathan Ransom and his secret-agent wife, Emma, return in this third installment of Reich''s Rules series. Working in Afghanistan for Doctors without Borders, Jonathan has an accidental encounter with a terrorist, from whom he barely escapes. Back in the U.S., he is recruited by his wife''s agency. Emma has disappeared while investigating the possible acquisition of a nuclear weapon by a terrorist cell, and now her only hope of rescue lies with her husband. Does Jonathan have the skills to become a spy and save the woman he loves? Of course, betrayal is the name of the game here. Reich''s ability to craft tense story lines and to populate his high-concept spy thrillers with fully developed main characters quickly have made him one of the new masters in the spy game. It''s a bit disappointing, though, that Jonathan gets drafted into the game this time, because it''s more fun if he''s an outsider. That nitpick aside, this is still a fine effort from the reliable Reich. The number-one rule about his Rules novels: read them. --Jeff Ayers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6354'),
(19920, 'Rules of Deception', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lee Child on\n   <em>\n    Rules of Deception\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _Lee Child has crafted one of literature''s most popular anti-heroes in the form of Jack Reacher, the iconic ex-military policeman of his\n  <em>\n   _Nothing to Lose\n  </em>\n  talks about what makes a good thriller -- and why Christopher Reich is a novelist worthy of a gold medal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I discovered Christopher Reich exactly ten years ago. His first book came out around the same time my second book was published. The modest prosperity that oneâ€™s first book deal brings allowed me to pick up hardcovers that caught my eye. And\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then he got better. It was always clear that he had talent to burn, but he chose to accompany it with a real work ethic. His second, third and fourth books built and built until the release of the next one was an event to be anticipated. (And right there is my only complaint: Reich doesnâ€™t write fast enough.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  His fifth book -\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I was really looking forward to\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  . I got an advance copy. I cracked it open. I started reading. Mostly I read like any other reader, but a small part of me reads like a writer. I think all writers experience the same thing. We sense things between the lines, especially energy and inspiration.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And ambition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  starts with a short prologue, and then the first chapter introduces Jonathan Ransom, the main character. Two pages, and then nine pages. The prologue is a teaser. It baits the hook. Itâ€™s a two-page masterpiece. Itâ€™s intriguing, and then itâ€™s really intriguing. It promises big things ahead. Then chapter one introduces the guy whoâ€™s going to have to deal with them. And why, indirectly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eleven pages. The reader in me wanted to race ahead. But the writer in me had to pause a moment. Because between the lines I was sensing something. Maybe because itâ€™s an Olympic year I can only explain it like this: picture the high jump event. Six competitors are still in. Then five, then four. Then three. Then the gold, the silver, and the bronze are settled. But the rules of track and field allow the winner to go on. The bar is raised. A personal best. The Olympic record. The bar is raised again. World record height. The stadium goes quiet. The jumper stills himself on the runway. Intense concentration. The gold medal is already in the bag. Uncharted territory. The jumper rocks from foot to foot, his mind on nothing except jumping higher than he has ever jumped before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s exactly the between-the-lines feeling I was getting from Reich, eleven pages into\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  - a world-class writer preparing to accomplish something truly noteworthy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are a further 377 pages. They live up to the promise.\n  <em>\n   --Lee Child\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive Essay: Christopher Reich on Thrillers\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Name your five favorite books.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me theyâ€™re all thrillers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  About two years ago, I decided that it was my turn to write the thriller Iâ€™d always wanted to read. I knew exactly where to start. All I had to do was "write what I know." These days, I know a lot about the intelligence community. Not the stuff you read about in the papers -- the stuff you never read about. Over the years, Iâ€™ve made a lot of friends in Washington and overseas. Diplomats, spies, soldiers, politicians â€“ men and women at the highest levels of government. And, I can assure you that what theyâ€™ve taught me about how the world really works is a lot more interesting and a lot more frightening than youâ€™d ever imagine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s where my newest book,\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  , comes in. Itâ€™s a story about an honest and courageous doctor named Jonathan Ransom. Heâ€™s a surgeon who works for Doctors Without Borders in some of the toughest parts of the world. Heâ€™s a happily married man with a big heart and a beautiful English wife he deeply loves named Emma who works with him. What Jonathan doesnâ€™t know is that nothing about his life is what it seems. In fact, itâ€™s all a web of lies and heâ€™s caught in the middle of something extraordinarily dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I canâ€™t say more than that, and I shouldnâ€™t have to, because if Iâ€™ve done my job right, when you get to page five youâ€™ll be hooked and you wonâ€™t come up for air until itâ€™s all said and done.\n  <em>\n   --Christopher Reich\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In true Hitchcockian tradition, Reich plunges his unsuspecting protagonist, Dr. Jonathan Ransom, into a dangerous world of international intrigue and death. After his wife dies in a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps, Ransom learns she had been leading a double life as a spy. What starts out as a search for answers about his late wife''s past quickly escalates into a frantic life and death chase across northern Europe. Paul Michael proves quite adept at narrating this complicated story. Using just the right emphasis on key words, he keeps the listener involved. With solid conviction in his voice, Michael grounds Reich''s over-the-top prose. Although his no-frills interpretation of Ransom is a little bland, Michael essays a rogues'' gallery of distinctly voiced and accented supporting characters. Reich keeps the action coming, and Michael stays with him chase for chase.\n  <em>\n   A Doubleday hardcover (Reviews, May 5). (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6355'),
(19921, 'Rules of Vengeance', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vince Flynn Reviews\n   <em>\n    Rules of Vengeance\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vince Flynn is the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of nine previous thrillers, including\n   <em>\n    Rules of Vengeance\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Last summer, before I picked up Christopher Reichâ€™s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then came the 1990â€™s. The Iron Curtain fell. Russia imploded. And Japan suffered a severe economic crisis. The world was left with America as its sole superpower. The bomb had been defused. We felt safe. And so ended the domination of international espionage blockbusters on the bestseller lists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along came\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  . Was it really a return to the big blockbuster of the 70â€™s and 80â€™s? Critics certainly were embracing it with gusto. So it was with some excitement and no small amount of skepticism that I picked up the book. The story started like a rocket and picked up speed from there. By page 20, I knew the critics had gotten it right.\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  was the very definition of a blockbuster: a lone, intrepid hero battling immense odds to save the world from a cataclysmic battle while also regaining the love of a fallen woman.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Reich gives us\n  <em>\n   Rules of Vengeance\n  </em>\n  . Sequels are rarely as good as the original, so again, I was skeptical. And yet,\n  <em>\n   Rules of Vengeance\n  </em>\n  turns out to be that rare exceptionâ€”where the novel not only stands up to its predecessor, but actually takes the story and characters in newâ€”and completely surprisingâ€”directions. Again we meet Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders. The story begins with his arrival in London to deliver an address at a prestigious international medical conference, and it takes off from there at mach speed, offering more twists than the Monaco Grand Prix. Iâ€™m not going to give away any of the unexpected plot turns (and there are many), but I will say that once again, Ransom quickly finds himself in trouble not of his own making. And, once again, he is forced to maneuver between the good guys and the bad guys in order to figure out just what heâ€™s been pulled into, and then make sure that no one else suffers because of it. The stakes are sky high. The locales are exotic. The plot is ripped from tomorrowâ€™s headlines and Reich controls the story with a deft hand from beginning to end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s particularly appealing about Jonathan Ransom is he is not a spy or a trained assassin. He is, in fact, the opposite: a doctor who has devoted his life to helping othersâ€”a loner working outside political boundaries who exemplifies the best in us all. But like each of us, he has a dark side that is both frightening and compelling. You do not want to make this man angry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As for Christopher Reich, heâ€”like Ransomâ€”also may not be a trained spy or assassin (at least not to the best of my knowledge). But he certainly does manipulate the twists, summon the adrenaline, and create a landscape of thrills that can only leave readers with one lasting impression: Chris Reich is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   â€”Vince Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Peter Hurley)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Near the start of bestseller Reich''s stellar sequel to\n  <em>\n   Rules of Deception\n  </em>\n  , Dr. Jonathan Ransom flies from Africa to London for a medical conference. That same day, intermediaries arrange for him to meet his fugitive wife, Emma, once a secret agent with the Pentagon group known as Division, in a cheap hotel. The next day, Jonathan''s world is literally and figuratively torn apart after a large car bomb explodes in Westminster, seriously injuring the Russian interior minister. Jonathan is sure Emma is behind the car bombing, but the police, led by Det. Chief Insp. Kate Ford, think Jonathan is responsible. Thus begins a convoluted chaseâ€”Jonathan hunting his wife, Kate and the cops along with MI5 agent Colonel Graves tracking Jonathan. Everyone, including the reader, remains clueless, except for master spy Emma, as to who is really the guilty party. A blinding twist at the end adds a spectacular fillip to a masterful performance by one of the genre''s elite.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6125'),
(19922, 'The Rum Diary', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6361'),
(19923, 'The Runner', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set against the backdrop of post-World War II Germany,\n  <em>\n   The Runner\n  </em>\n  is the story of Devlin Judge, an ex-New York City detective turned lawyer on the hunt for Nazi SS soldier Erich Seyss, recently escaped from an American POW camp. Seyss, a former Olympic track star known as "The White Lion," is responsible for myriad heinous war crimes, including the murder of a platoon of unarmed American prisoners--one of whom was Judge''s own brother. Initially a member of the International Legal Tribunal, set to try former Nazis for crimes against humanity, Judge begs for the opportunity to track Seyss down. With only a week in which to do so, his hunt for the cold-blooded killer leads Judge to a race not only for his own life but for the future of Europe itself. Judge is pursuing a killer, but he is also chasing the ghosts of guilt, having decided not to enlist in the hopes of advancing his legal career: "Erich Seyss was his confession and his penance, his expiation and absolution, all tucked into a black-and-silver uniform with a death''s-head embroidered on its collar and his brother''s blood on its cuff."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Runner\n  </em>\n  lacks the crackling tension of __, Christopher Reich''s first novel. Even the moments of crucial conflict, or of bloody disaster, seem wan and pallid. The novel is, paradoxically, handicapped by Reich''s respect for historical detail: his interest in presenting the grim realities of postwar existence leads him into extensive descriptions of place and time that fail to merge with the story he spins. These "set pieces" stand awkwardly apart, like dour history professors coaxed into supervising the machinations of rambunctious students. Reich''s general fidelity to detail also means that the moments in which he temporarily throws accuracy to the wind are painfully apparent: how on earth would Judge, a well-fed and well-dressed American, manage to look as if he belonged in a German work-group detail? And when would any three-star general ever tolerate the gum-cracking insouciance of Judge''s driver Darren Honey, a sergeant with no regard for military hierarchy? Oddly enough, the authorial liberties Reich takes with General George Patton, saddling him with a megalomaniac''s hatred of the Russians and a schemer''s plot to redraw the boundaries of postwar Europe, are largely successful and add a welcome note of barely contained evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Runner\n  </em>\n  works best as a moving meditation on personal and social disjunction: Judge, Seyss, Patton, and the rest are desperately engaged in deciphering the proper place for prewar rules in the postwar chaos--and in confronting the uneasy suspicion that perhaps, after all, there is no place for them or for their beliefs. Judge must move past his easy assumption that the Allied victory was not "just a symbol of superior might but of superior morality": "Overnight, he''d become the hunted, not the hunter.... At some point during the last twenty-four hours, he''d crossed over an interior median into unknown waters. He''d abandoned the rigid structure of his previous life, renounced his worship of authority, and forsworn his devotion to rules and regulation. He''d tossed Hoyle to the wind, and he didn''t care."\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reich''s first novel, Numbered Account, did remarkably well for a debut. Unfortunately, Reich has hit upon a stale notion for his follow-up, and although the book moves along smartly, it feels mechanical in both plot and characters. Set in Germany just after the WWII surrender, it stars ace Nazi Olympic runner Erich Seyss, who as an SS man has performed untold atrocities--including the murder, in a massacre of unarmed American soldiers, of hero Devlin Judge''s brother. That motivates Judge, a lawyer who is supposed to be prosecuting G?ring at the War Crimes Tribunal, to drop everything and set off in hot pursuit of Seyss when he escapes from a POW camp. Seyss is no ordinary escapee, but is being groomed by a band of German arms industrialists who want to revive their shattered country by turning the Americans against the Russians. How better to do it than by having an apparent Russian assassinate Churchill, Truman and possibly Eisenhower as well at Potsdam? Seyss throws himself into the role with vigor, energy and an amazing number of hairbreadth escapes. Meanwhile, Judge''s pursuit is hampered by devious OSS operatives who want just what the Nazis want, for their own reasons; even General George Patton is involved, with apparent tacit support from Field Marshal Montgomery. Seyss''s beautiful former lover, Ingrid, further complicates matters. The only remotely believable part of all this is the despairing postwar atmosphere of Germany in smoking ruins, which Reich brings to life with many sharply observant touches. But there''s more to bestsellerdom than swift action and a long man-on-man chase against the clock, and most of The Runner is likely to strike fans of Ludlum and Forsyth as overly familiar. Agent, Richard Pine. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6135'),
(19924, 'Running a Bar for Dummies', 'Ray Foley &amp; Heather Dismore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you ever thought of owning your own bar? Did you ever stumble into an overpriced watering hole and think how much better it could be if you ran the place? Or maybe you walked into your dream bar and realized that running one was the dream job youâ€™ve always wanted?\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Running a Bar for Dummies\n </em>\n , you can live your dream of operating your own establishment. This hands-on guide shows you how to maintain a successful bar, manage the business aspect of it, and stake your place in your townâ€™s nightlife. It provides informative tips on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understanding the business and laws of owning a bar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Developing a business plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Creating a menu, choosing dÃ©cor, and establishing a theme\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stocking up on equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choosing and dealing with employees\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handling tough customers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Controlling expenses, managing inventory, and controlling cash flow\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting the word out about your place\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Preparing for your grand opening, step-by-step\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This guide cues you in on how to keep your bar safe and clean, making sure everyone is having fun. It warns you about the pitfalls and no-nos that every owner should avoid. There are also helpful resources, such as contact information for State Alcohol Control Boards and Web sites with valuable information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage sales, staff, and more with sample financials, timelines, and checklists\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Break into the bar business and turn your dream into a successful enterprise!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about running a bar? This hands-on guide explains what it takes to own and operate your own establishment, from obtaining liquor licenses to managing inventory, personnel, budgets, and more. You''ll see how to plan drink and food menus, meet financial and legal requirements, attract customers, and make a solid profit.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right location\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select your theme and decor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find financing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Size up your competition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hire and train employees\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid bar biz pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep customers coming back\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2003'),
(19925, 'Running a Bed &amp; Breakfast for Dummies', 'Mary White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All the tools you need to start and run a profitable B&amp;B\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you dream of owning a B&amp;B? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan and finding the right location to handling situations you will encounter as an innkeeper. You''ll make your guests feel at home, keep your inn in tip-top shape, and ensure your long-term success!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand B&amp;B basics â€” get an overview of the business and see if you have the skills (and the desire!) to succeed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a place to call home â€” choose the location, style, and size of your ideal B&amp;B\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transition from visitor to owner â€” create your business plan, secure financing, make an offer, and protect your investment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get ready for your guests â€” organize your recordkeeping, set room rates and policies, furnish your inn, and market your services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set the breakfast scene â€” decide the style of breakfast to offer, accommodate guests'' needs and restrictions, create signature dishes, and serve refreshments and snacks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle day-to-day operations â€” take reservations, make your guests feel welcome, hire employees, and maintain your inn\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take your business to the next level â€” assess your success, expand your market, increase profit, and prevent burnout\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to transition an existing B&amp;B or start from scratch\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The biggest problems new B&amp;Bs encounter â€” and how to avoid them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to furnish your inn\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for saving time cleaning and preparing breakfast\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you must know to design and update your Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tried-and-tested sample menus and recipes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to guarantee a return guest\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get extra help when you need it\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary White is the go-to source in the bed &amp; breakfast industry for opinions and advice. A noted expert on B&amp;B travel, she has been involved in promoting and marketing B&amp;Bs on the Web for more than a decade and has appeared in dozens of media outlets. Her site, BnBFinder.com, is hailed by professionals and consumers alike as the most informative B&amp;B site on the Web.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2004'),
(19926, 'Russian Phrases for Dummies', 'Andrew Kaufman Ph.d. &amp; Serafima Gettys Ph.d. &amp; Nina Wieda', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals.\n <em>\n  Russian Phrases For Dummies\n </em>\n is your handy guide to everyday words and phrases you can start using immediately to make your visit more rewarding and a whole lot easier.\n</p>\n<p>\n This user-friendly phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension and have you speaking basic Russian in no time. Its quick-and-easy approach gives you language fundamentals up front, the Words to Know section helps you find the right word fast, and the easy-to-use pronunciation key helps other people understand what you''re trying to say. You''ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get directions, shop, and eat out\n </li>\n <li>\n  Talk numbers, dates, and time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chat about family and work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sports and the weather\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with problems and emergencies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pronounce familiar English words and phrases in Russian and English\n </li>\n <li>\n  Beware of words that sound to English but don''t mean the same thing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read signs that use the Russian alphabet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow the conventions of Russian pronunciation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use basic Russian grammar correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep ten commonly used Russian phrases on the tip of your tongue\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use basic telephone vocabulary and send letters, emails, and faxes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Don''t have time to study the language before you get to Russia? No worries. Just flip through\n <em>\n  Russian Phrases For Dummies,\n </em>\n find the section that fits your needs, and start talking!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Speak Russian â€” instantly!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Traveling to Russia but don''t know Russian? Need to kick up your conversation skills? This handy little phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension and have you speaking basic Russian in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get directions, shop, and eat out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Talk numbers, dates, and times\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chat about family and work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discuss sports and the weather\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Deal with problems and emergencies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2005'),
(19927, 'RV Vacations for Dummies', 'Harry Basch &amp; Shirley Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦informative and useful'' (MotorHomePlanet.co.uk, January 2011).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From New England to the Oregon Coast, from Texas to the Tetons, America is full of fascinating and friendly places ? and your RV is a great way to get to any one of them. This fun, friendly guide shows you how to get the most out of RV vacations with fun itineraries and handy tips on: Choosing the right route; picking the right RV for your budget; eating and sleeping comfortably on the road; and planning ahead for special travel needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2006'),
(19928, 'RV Vacations for Dummies', 'Shirley Slater &amp; Harry Basch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦informative and useful'' (MotorHomePlanet.co.uk, January 2011).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From New England to the Oregon Coast, from Texas to the Tetons, America is full of fascinating and friendly places â€” and your RV is a great way to get to any one of them. This fun, friendly guide shows you how to get the most out of your RV vacations with fun itineraries and handy tips on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right route and the right season for travel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Picking the RV that will get you where you want to go on a budget you can afford\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eating and sleeping comfortably on the road\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tying up the loose ends before you leave\n </li>\n <li>\n  Planning ahead to take care of special travel needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on fun museums and special getaways for snowbirds\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  RV Vacations For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best restaurants and hotels for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2007'),
(19929, 'rvlife201109', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6002'),
(19930, 'Sacred and Profane Love', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4291'),
(19931, 'Sacred and profane love; a play in three acts, founded on the novel of the same name', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4239'),
(19932, 'The Sacred Vault: A Novel', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œNo fan of Indiana Jones, Matthew Reilly or action in general will be able to put it down.â€ â€”_Northern Territory News_, on _The Pyramid of Doom\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œRaises the bar to please adventure junkies who prefer to mainline their action.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _(starred review), on\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Atlantis\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A DARING HEIST.\n  <br />\n  A PRICELESS ARTIFACT.\n  <br />\n  A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAYâ€”UNTIL NOW.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Michelangeloâ€™s\n  <em>\n   David\n  </em>\n  is stolen from its museum in Florence, itâ€™s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the worldâ€™s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raidersâ€™ ultimate target when the Talonor Codexâ€”a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantisâ€”is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its mythical contents: the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction himself. From a deadly shootout in San Francisco to a hidden valley in the snowbound Himalayas, Nina and Eddie must run a labyrinthine gauntlet of ruthless killers, corrupted faiths, and twisted ambitions to reach the sacred vault ahead of a cunning billionaire with a plot to remake the worldâ€”after he brings this one crashing down.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4005'),
(19933, 'Safe Haven', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo''s empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4132'),
(19934, 'Sailing for Dummies', 'J. J. Isler &amp; Peter Isler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention landlubbers: If you don''t know your port from your starboard, tacking from jibing, then you need to experience clear sailing with the Dummies. With the usual cargo of good humor and demystifying tone, this mast in the Dummies armada lifts the fog on confusing nautical language, teaches the basics about maneuvering a sailboat from dock to open ocean, floats important safety information, and offers advice and info on a variety of related issues (knots, racing, sailboards, how to buy a sailboat). Whether you want to learn to sail or just talk like a sailor,\n <em>\n  Sailing for Dummies\n </em>\n is your anchor to life on the water.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Interested in learning to sail but feel like youâ€™re navigating in murky waters?\n <em>\n  Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n introduces the basics of sailing, looks at the different types of sailboats and their basic parts, and teaches you everything you need to know before you leave the dock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Sailing for Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n , two U.S. sailing champions show you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find and choose a sailing school\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use life jackets correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tie ten nautical knots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle sailing emergencies (such as capsizing and rescuing a man overboard)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Launch your boat from a trailer, ramp, or beach\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your boat from point A to point B (and back again)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Predict and respond to water and wind conditions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read charts, plot your course, use a compass, and find your position at sea\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sailing for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you that getting out on the water is easier than you think. The authors keep the sailor-speak to a minimum where possible, but give you a grasp of the terminology you need to safely and effectively communicate with your crew. A textbook, userâ€™s manual, and reference all in one, this book takes the intimidation out of sailing and gives you the skills and confidence you need to get your feet wet and become the sailing pro youâ€™ve always wanted to be. Anchors away!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2008');
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(19935, 'Saints for Dummies', 'Rev. John Trigilio Jr. &amp; Rev. Kenneth Brighenti', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An in-depth resource that separates fact from myth about the lives of saints\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Saints For Dummies\n </em>\n offers information on famous saints (both men and women) from the Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic traditions. With a historical biography on each saint including information on what they are known for, what they did in life to achieve sainthood, and how readers can pray to them in time of need. This easy-to-understand guide reveals that most saints were very common, ordinary, and imperfect human beings with faults and foibles who overcame their shortcomings to become figures of great spiritual and historical significance. You get a unique glimpse into the lives and the character traits of these righteous men and women, as well as future pending saints.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains which saints are invoked for specific situations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rev. John Trigilio and Rev. Kenneth Brighenti are the coauthors of\n  <em>\n   Catholicism For Dummies\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Women in the Bible For Dummies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   John Paul II For Dummies\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a scholar or just curious about the topic,\n <em>\n  Saints For Dummies\n </em>\n will have you intrigued and informed from the first page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get a glimpse into the lives and achievements of more than 300 saints\n</p>\n<p>\n From Saint Valentine to Saint Nicholas, saints and their extraordinary acts of faith have inspired and guided the lives of believers for centuries. Saints For Dummies gives you practical coverage of saints, both well-known and not-so-well-known. You''ll discover what they''re known for, what they did to achieve sainthood, and how you can pray for their help in times of need.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In the beginning â€” get an overview of sainthood and learn about the apostles and disciples Jesus chose to start and preach in his church\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keeping the faith â€” find out how holy men and women battled religious persecution in defending their faith\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Living the faith â€” learn about the saints who put their faith into practice and were instrumental in shaping church history and life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Existing with the saints â€” meet some modern-day saints-to-be and find out about relics, shrines, and pilgrimages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Quick facts on each saint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Angels and the Apostles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Martyrs, incorruptibles, saints of nobility, and Fathers of the Church\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Saintly popes and Doctors of the Church\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Saintly families\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Litanies and novena prayers for the saints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A listing of patron saints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A calendar of feast days for the saints\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the canonization process\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Appreciate the spiritual and historical significance of the saints\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See how certain saints overcame their shortcomings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ask for intercession from a specific saint for help in various circumstances\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2009'),
(19936, 'Saltwater Aquariums for Dummies', 'Gregory Skomal Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Demystifies aquarium setup and maintenance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Combine and care for a wide variety of marine fish and invertebrates\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Dive into the colorful world of saltwater fish! This fun, friendly guide gives you easy step-by-step instructions for choosing and caring for these amazing animals. You get the latest on feeding, tank upkeep, filtering systems, maintaining live rock, and preventing algae build-up, as well as what not to include in your aquarium.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the best fish and equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your tank up and running\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain proper water conditions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your fish happy and healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid tank pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep a brackish aquarium\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Demystifies aquarium setup and maintenance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Combine and care for a wide variety of marine fish and invertebrates\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Dive into the colorful world of saltwater fish! This fun, friendly guide gives you easy step-by-step instructions for choosing and caring for these amazing animals. You get the latest on feeding, tank upkeep, filtering systems, maintaining live rock, and preventing algae build-up, as well as what not to include in your aquarium.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the best fish and equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get your tank up and running\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain proper water conditions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your fish happy and healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid tank pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep a brackish aquarium\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2010'),
(19937, 'San Francisco for Dummies', 'Paula Tevis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n San Francisco is one of the most exciting, inviting, unique, and eclectic cities in the world. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Lombardy Street to the Embarcaderoâ€¦from Little Italy to Chinatown to Russian Hill, thereâ€™s an invigorating mix of attractions and cultures. This friendly guide helps you zero in on your â€œmust seesâ€ and plan your personal itinerary.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Enjoy incredible upscale shopping or bargain-hunting in Chinatown, browse for books at City Lights, or hit Haight Street or Hayes Street for the latest trends\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose from all kinds of entertainment options, ranging from a Giants game to grand opera to theater to blues to leather-clad, fire-dancing performance artists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Have a romantic dinner at Absinthe or Quince, sip a cappuccino in North Beach, enjoy authentic Italian pastas, or try the catch of the day\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take a day trip to Berkeley, an overnighter to the coast, or a getaway to Wine Country, including winery tours and a mud bath\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  San Francisco For Dummies\n </em>\n , 4th Edition helps you make the most of your vacation. It includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  Info on the best ships for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on sightseeing at ports of call\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you want to experience the thrills and views provided by the cable cars, escape from Alcatraz, climb Telegraph Hill, bike in Golden State Park, or simply relax in a room with a private outdoor soaking tub, this guide helps you find your way in the City by the Bay.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at\n <strong>\n  www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore the City by the Bay the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Meander down the most crooked street in the world, escape from Alcatraz, explore Chinatown, climb Telegraph Hill, stroll along the Embarcadero, hop on a cable car, and enjoy world-class dining and shopping. With this friendly guide, you''ll be on the go in San Francisco.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2011'),
(19938, 'San Francisco for Dummies', 'Paula Tevis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Small trim size for use on-the-go\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n</p>\n<p>\n San Francisco is one of the most exciting, inviting, unique, and eclectic cities in the world. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Lombardy Street to the Embarcaderoâ€¦from Little Italy to Chinatown to Russian Hill, thereâ€™s an invigorating mix of attractions and cultures. This friendly guide helps you zero in on your "must sees" and plan your personal itinerary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoy incredible upscale shopping or bargain-hunting in Chinatown, browse for books at City Lights, or hit Haight Street or Hayes Street for the latest trends\n</p>\n<p>\n Choose from all kinds of entertainment options, ranging from a Giants game to grand opera to theater to blues to leather-clad, fire-dancing performance artists\n</p>\n<p>\n Have a romantic dinner at Absinthe or Quince, sip a cappuccino in North Beach, enjoy authentic Italian pastas, or try the catch of the day\n</p>\n<p>\n Take a day trip to Berkeley, an overnighter to the coast, or a getaway to Wine Country, including winery tours and a mud bath\n</p>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  San Francisco For Dummies\n </em>\n , 5th Edition helps you make the most of your vacation. It includes:\n</p>\n<p>\n Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n</p>\n<p>\n Info on the best ships for every budget\n</p>\n<p>\n Tips on sightseeing at ports of call\n</p>\n<p>\n Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you want to experience the thrills and views provided by the cable cars, escape from Alcatraz, climb Telegraph Hill, bike in Golden State Park, or simply relax in a room with a private outdoor soaking tub, this guide helps you find your way in the City by the Bay.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find your way around the City by the Bay\n</p>\n<p>\n Meander down the most crooked street in the world, escape from Alcatraz, explore Chinatown, climb Telegraph Hill, stroll along the Embarcadero, and hop on a cable car. Enjoy world-class shopping, check out the local food scene, and sip your way around Wine Country. This friendly guide keeps you on the go to enjoy the best of San Francisco.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2012'),
(19939, 'Santorini', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sailing in the Aegean, NATO spyship HMS Ariadne sights two disasters at once, a bomber crashing into the sea and a large yacht sinking. The plane turns out to have been loaded with nuclear weapons, and the survivors rescued from the yacht appear somehow responsible for the plane''s destruction. With potential saboteurs aboard, the crew of the Ariadne must raise the one activated weapon and carefully dispose of it. MacLean (The Lonely Sea has trumped up so many aspects of this novel that he has taken the fun out of it. Rather than have the spies seized and flown off, he keeps them on the frigate. Instead of bringing in experts to remove the weapons, he leaves the job in the hands of the ship''s captain. He also ups the stakes: if the unstable nearby volcano, Santorini, erupts, the combined explosions would create a nuclear winter. The contrived plot together with MacLean''s stiff writing style make for a lazily composed adventure. Paperback to Fawcett.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Aegean a large airplane crashes at almost the same time a luxurious yacht is sinking. Commander Talbot of the Ariadne , a sophisticated British ship that is part of NATO, picks up the yacht''s survivors, among them a wealthy Greek businessman. The downed plane, it is learned, contains hydrogen bombs and atomic mines, one of which is ticking. If the mine explodes in that spot, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tidal waves, ozone cracking, and possibly the end of the world could ensue. Talbot and his crew piece together a fiendish plot involving the Greek, drugs, terrorism, and international blackmail. While a large portion of the book reads like a field manual for reclaiming submerged atomic devices, the pace is swift and relentless. (The involvement of the U.S. President, and his decision to keep the whole thing quiet to avoid credibility problems, is more than a bit eerie.) Fans of MacLean will enjoy this, as would any reader of thrillers. Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown &amp; Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3957'),
(19940, 'SAP GRC for Dummies', 'Denise Vu Broady &amp; Holly A. Roland &amp; Dan Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Governance, risk, and complianceâ€”these three big letters can add up to one giant headache. But GRC doesn''t have to be a boil on your corporate behind.\n <em>\n  SAP GRC For Dummies\n </em>\n untangles the web of regulations that confronts your company and introduces you to software solutions the not only keep you in compliance, but also make your whole enterprise stronger.\n</p>\n<p>\n This completely practical guide starts with a big-picture look and GRC and explains how it can help your organization grow. You''ll find out why these regulations were enacted; what you can do to ensure compliance; and how compliance can help you prevent fraud, bolster your corporate image, and envision and execute the best possible corporate strategy. This all-business handbook will help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control access effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Color your company a greener shade of green\n </li>\n <li>\n  Source or sell goods internationally\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your employees safe and healthy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure that data is kept secret and private\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage information flow in all directions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance your public image through sustainability reporting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use GRC as the basis for a powerful new corporate strategy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with enlightening lists of best practices for successful GRC implementation and conducting global trade, this book also puts you in touch with thought leadership Web sights where you can deepen your understanding of GRC-based business strategies. You can''t avoid dealing with GRC, but you can make the most of it with a little help from\n <em>\n  SAP GRC For Dummies\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See how SAP can help you stay inside the lines\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out how GRC solutions provide a new paradigm for better business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Governance, risk, and compliance â€” the big three that can add up to one giant headache. But they don''t have to be a pain! This book demystifies the many regulations that confront companies so you can think about your whole GRC strategy, not just one project. Then it shows you software solutions and best practices that keep you in compliance while helping you find ways to make your enterprise stronger and more responsive.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the impact of regulations beyond Sarbanes-Oxley\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the complex waters of global trade\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Effectively govern risk and financial compliance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make your company environmentally friendly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Envision and execute risk-adjusted strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2013'),
(19941, 'SAP NetWeaver for Dummies', 'Dan Woods &amp; Jeffrey Word', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine that itâ€™s the 1950s, and you are in charge of developing the U. S. interstate system. There are countless roads already in use. The system can go in numerous different directions. Where do you begin?\n</p>\n<p>\n Starting to transform your business with SAP NetWeaver is that daunting. NetWeaver is both an application platform and an integration platform. It integrates your current IT systems to enable portals, collaboration, data management, and development environments. To grasp the complexities\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n possibilities of SAP ASAP, dig in with\n <em>\n  SAP NetWeaver For Dummies\n </em>\n and explore:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  MySAP Business Suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  SAP Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mobile Infrastructure that performs like a universal translator for mobile interfaces, including laptops, wireless phones, and PDAs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master Data Management, including using the content consolidation technique to â€œclean upâ€ data, master data harmonization to distribute it, and central master data management to maintain a data repository\n </li>\n <li>\n  Web Application Service and NetWeaver Developer Studioâ€”tools that let you integrate and create your own customized applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Dan Woods, former CTO of The Street.com and CapitalThinking, and Jeffrey Word, the Director of Technology Strategy for SAP, this guide features real-life stories from businesses and examples of typical uses to help you cut through the complexities and get up and running. It includes a CD-ROM with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed white papers and product overviews\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stores from customers using SAP NetWeaver today\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demos that show SAP NetWeaver in action\n </li>\n <li>\n  A directory of resources for additional information\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like that interstate system, SAP NetWeaver doesnâ€™t have to be integrated all at once. You choose the applications that have the most potential to benefit your companyâ€™s operations and bottom line.\n <em>\n  SAP NetWeaver For Dummies\n </em>\n even gives you recommendations for rolling it out and suggests practical ways to get started and get quick returns on your SAP investment. Then youâ€™re going full-speed ahead on the road to success!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet the SAP NetWeaver integration/application platform\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how SAP NetWeaver can help benefit your companyâ€™s bottom line\n</p>\n<p>\n So youâ€™ve heard about SAP NetWeaver and you think it might be great for your business, if only you were sure exactly what it is? Relax â€“ weâ€™ve got you covered. Hereâ€™s your guidebook to SAP NetWeaver, the Web services-based business integration and application platform that enables portals, collaboration, data management, development environments, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n All this on the bonus CD-ROM\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Additional detailed information about SAP NetWeaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demos of SAP NetWeaver capabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Success stories from companies already using SAP NetWeaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  For details and complete system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Apply SAP NetWeaverâ€™s capabilities to your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how the components work together\n </li>\n <li>\n  Employ SAP NetWeaverâ€™s ready-made solutions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SAP NetWeaver with existing technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain ideas from other successful users\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2014'),
(19942, 'Sarah&#39;s Key', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel'' d''Hiv'' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family''s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel'' d''Hiv''s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France''s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her toSarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl''s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d''Hiv'', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah''s past, she begins toquestion her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4133'),
(19943, 'Sarah&#39;s Key', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel'' d''Hiv'' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family''s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel'' d''Hiv''s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France''s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her toSarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl''s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d''Hiv'', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah''s past, she begins toquestion her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4390'),
(19944, 'Sarbanes-Oxley for Dummies', 'Jill Gilbert Welytok', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...an informative read..." (_Accounting Technician,_ May 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a CEO or a file clerk, itâ€™s important to understand Sarbanes-Oxley, the post-Enron legislation aimed at keeping corporations honest and ethical. However, with over eighty pages of dense, wordy language in the statute and thousands of pages of related congressional hearings, getting a firm grip of SOX can fluster even the most well-informed businessperson.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies\n </em>\n is the no-nonsense, plain-English guide to this new law that leads you through its rules and pronouncements, giving you a sense of how to anticipate future trends and traps in this area of the law. With this trusty book, youâ€™ll get a handle on the important aspects of the legislation, how it affects you and your company, and how companies can comply more cost-effectively. It provides you with the knowledge to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand why SOX was created\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine what aspects of SOX apply to your company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop meaningful standards for your company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Institute cost-effective compliance with SOX\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage and streamline Section 404 compliance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find specific SEC laws and pronouncements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interpret media accounts, court cases, and economic projections\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid lawsuits and regulatory actions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Anticipate future SEC rules and PCAOB pronouncements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This book also shows you how to build an effective audit committee and makes suggestions on sensible precautions that every manager should take in order to avoid legal troubles. Complete with the entire Sarbanes-Oxley act and sample documents,\n <em>\n  Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you discover how to follow the law and protect your business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2015'),
(19945, 'SAS for Dummies', 'Stephen Mcdaniel &amp; Chris Hemedinger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence tool\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more.\n <em>\n  SAS For Dummies, 2nd EditionÂ \n </em>\n gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your data\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense\n <em>\n  For\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dummies\n </em>\n format,\n <em>\n  SAS For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use SAS to meet your data management, analysis, reporting, and forecasting needs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thousands of businesses use hundreds of SAS products to manage and deliver their data more effectively and create reports that mean something. Are you ready to join them? This book helps you use and understand basic SAS software,including SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, and SAS Web Report Studio.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Swiss army knife â€” learn how SASÂ® Enterprise GuideÂ® facilitates both access to and protection of corporate data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   They can do it themselves â€” see how your analysts can create their own reports with SAS tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Data can''t hide â€” use infomaps and administered libraries to find data hiding in your PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s mine â€” make your data mining more effective with SASÂ® Enterprise Miner\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show me the report â€” find out how to create reports in plain text, PDF, RTF, HTML, and SAS Report formats\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Intelligent BI â€” explore the concepts of statistics and analytics as they relate to quality business intelligence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s everywhere â€” learn to use SAS from your desktop, on the Web, in Excel, and even in PowerPoint\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A peek at programming â€” discover how to tweak SAS to fit your needs perfectly\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How SAS turns data into useful information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A dozen types of graphs you can create\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why the IT department loves SAS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Installation and setup advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find real-world SAS success stories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create SASÂ® content to share with others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Online SASÂ® resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use SAS9 statistical and analytical tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get various types of data into thesoftware\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Web tools to produce reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with operational, financial,performance, and sales data\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2016'),
(19946, 'SAS for Dummies', 'Stephen Mcdaniel &amp; Chris Hemedinger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Created in partnership with SAS, this book explores SAS, a business intelligence software that can be used in any business setting or enterprise for data delivery, reporting, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  SAS employee and technologist Stephen McDaniel combines real-world expertise and a friendly writing style to introduce readers to SAS basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers crucial topics such as getting various types of data into the software, producing reports, working with the data, basic SAS programming, macros, and working with SAS and databases\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use SAS on the Web, in Excel or PowerPoint, and from your desktop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to manage and analyze data\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to get up and running with SAS? This plain-English guide offers information on all the SAS basics, including getting data into the software, generating reports, creating graphs, and sharing results. Step-by-step instructions and screenshots show you how to work with analytics, databases, reports, and queries.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gather and present data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the powerful analytics of SAS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Access SAS from Microsoft Office and the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Master SAS Enterprise Guide\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with SAS and databases\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2017'),
(19947, 'The Savage Gorge', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6172'),
(19948, 'Savage Nature', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Danger lurks in the shadows and desire shimmers in the sultry heat as leopard shifter Drake Donovan is sent to a Louisiana bayou to investigate a murder. He''s ready for anything except the insatiable hunger that rocks him when he meets Saria Boudreaux, a woman with a compelling motive-and ability-to distract him from the task at hand...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4134'),
(19949, 'Savage Nature', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Danger lurks in the shadows and desire shimmers in the sultry heat as leopard shifter Drake Donovan is sent to a Louisiana bayou to investigate a murder. He''s ready for anything except the insatiable hunger that rocks him when he meets Saria Boudreaux, a woman with a compelling motive-and ability-to distract him from the task at hand...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4454'),
(19950, 'Save Me', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this gut-wrenching stand-alone from bestseller Scottoline (Think Twice), an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of Reesburgh (Pa.) Elementary School. Lunch mother Rose McKenna leads two girls to safety before racing to rescue her own daughter, Melly, but Rose soon learns that she may face both civil and criminal charges for her heroics because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the resulting fire that killed three school staff members. The tension rises as the united front presented by Rose and her lawyer husband, Leo Ingrassia, begins to disintegrate in the face of media demands, legal maneuverings, and social pressures. Rose must also deal with school bullying (Melly has a noticeable facial blemish), difficult legal problems, and her husband''s reaction when a secret from her past is revealed. Scottoline melds it all into a satisfying nail-biting thriller sure to please her growing audience. 400,000 first printing; author tour. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suburban mom [Rose McKenna] is forced to make a split-second decision after an explosion goes off in the school cafeteria in which she volunteers. Should she rescue her own daughter, Melly, trapped in the bathroom, or lead the girls standing in front of her, who constantly bully her daughter, to safety? Her choice reverberates throughout the little town of Reesburgh, Pennsylvania, as she is cast as the villain by the local news anchor, parents, and the school. While her attorney and husband construct a defense plan that includes filing a lawsuit against the school, [Rose] sets out to seek the truth behind this mysterious, accidental fire. With the help of a construction worker who may know the cause of the explosion as well as an incognito visit to a local factory, [Rose] slowly unravels the truth and along with it some hidden secrets in Reesburgh''s dark past, including one horrifying buried memory of her own. At the quick pace of a thriller, Scottoline masterfully fits every detail into a tight plot chock-full of real characters, real issues, and real thrills. A story anchored by the impenetrable power of a mother''s love, it begs the question, just how far would you go to save your child? --Annie McCormick\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4135'),
(19951, 'Save Me', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this gut-wrenching stand-alone from bestseller Scottoline (Think Twice), an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of Reesburgh (Pa.) Elementary School. Lunch mother Rose McKenna leads two girls to safety before racing to rescue her own daughter, Melly, but Rose soon learns that she may face both civil and criminal charges for her heroics because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the resulting fire that killed three school staff members. The tension rises as the united front presented by Rose and her lawyer husband, Leo Ingrassia, begins to disintegrate in the face of media demands, legal maneuverings, and social pressures. Rose must also deal with school bullying (Melly has a noticeable facial blemish), difficult legal problems, and her husband''s reaction when a secret from her past is revealed. Scottoline melds it all into a satisfying nail-biting thriller sure to please her growing audience. 400,000 first printing; author tour. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suburban mom [Rose McKenna] is forced to make a split-second decision after an explosion goes off in the school cafeteria in which she volunteers. Should she rescue her own daughter, Melly, trapped in the bathroom, or lead the girls standing in front of her, who constantly bully her daughter, to safety? Her choice reverberates throughout the little town of Reesburgh, Pennsylvania, as she is cast as the villain by the local news anchor, parents, and the school. While her attorney and husband construct a defense plan that includes filing a lawsuit against the school, [Rose] sets out to seek the truth behind this mysterious, accidental fire. With the help of a construction worker who may know the cause of the explosion as well as an incognito visit to a local factory, [Rose] slowly unravels the truth and along with it some hidden secrets in Reesburgh''s dark past, including one horrifying buried memory of her own. At the quick pace of a thriller, Scottoline masterfully fits every detail into a tight plot chock-full of real characters, real issues, and real thrills. A story anchored by the impenetrable power of a mother''s love, it begs the question, just how far would you go to save your child? --Annie McCormick\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4453'),
(19952, 'saveur-2011-10', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6003'),
(19953, 'The Sayings of the Desert Fathers', 'Not Available (na)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(19954, 'Schermata 09-2455818 alle 15.40.15.jpg', 'Victory123', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5904'),
(19955, 'Schizophrenia for Dummies', 'Jerome Levine &amp; Irene S. Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical tools for leading a happy, productive life\n</p>\n<p>\n Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder that afflicts one percent of the population, an estimated 2.5 million people in America alone. The firsthand advice in this reassuring guide will empower the families and caregivers of schizophrenia patients to take charge, offering expert advice on identifying the warning signs, choosing the right health professional, understanding currently available drugs and those on the horizon (as well as their side effects), and evaluating traditional and alternative therapies.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n From diagnosis to recovery, take charge of care and enhance quality of life\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you looking for comprehensive, user-friendly information on schizophrenia? This respectful guide empowers families and caregivers to understand the disorder, as well as help their loved ones make the best healthcare decisions and live more independent lives. You get practical tools for supporting loved ones, staying optimistic, and keeping the whole family informed.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the ins and outs of schizophrenia â€” understand the causes and risk factors; recognize the symptoms and behaviors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the best professional help â€” get an accurate diagnosis, assemble a healthcare team, and ease into treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate treatment options â€” from medication to therapy to alternative methods, choose the treatments that best meet your loved one''s needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage day-to-day life â€” find housing, foster independence, and cope with crises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep the family involved â€” support a spouse, parent, or adult child with schizophrenia; help children understand, manage fears, and plan for the future\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn about the latest research â€” discover the new, promising directions of treatment that are providing help and hope\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "This book is easily read and provides an informative road map that can help everyone to orient themselves and navigate uncertain terrain, as part of a journey toward recovery."\n <br />\n â€”Ken Duckworth, MD, Medical Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between schizophrenia and other mental illnesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get past the shame and stigma\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for coping with medication side effects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on navigating financial and legal issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to avoid relapse and prevent a breakdown\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits and risks of clinical trials\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sources of support for patients and families\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2018'),
(19956, 'Science', 'October 14th 2011 (True PDF)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10725'),
(19957, 'Science', 'September 23rd 2011 (True PDF)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6829'),
(19958, 'Science - 02 September 2011', '02 September 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3899'),
(19959, 'Science - 12 August 2011', '12 August 2011-slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3518'),
(19960, 'Science - 9 September 2011', 'Science - 9 September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6004'),
(19961, 'Science 08-2011', 'Science', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3683'),
(19962, 'Science Illustrated - November/December 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10658'),
(19963, 'Science Illustrated - November/December 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10718'),
(19964, 'Science Illustrated - September 2011', 'September 2011-slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3530'),
(19965, 'Science Magazine', 'American Association for the Advancement of Science', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4696'),
(19966, 'Science Reporter - August 2011', 'August 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6744'),
(19967, 'Science Rocks!', 'Graham, Ian.,Goldsmith, Mike,Wright, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10784'),
(19968, 'Science-02.September.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Science-02.September.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4707'),
(19969, 'Science-16.September.2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'Science-16.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6701'),
(19970, 'Science-October.7.2011.TruePDF.pdf 07-10-2011', 'Science-October.7.2011.TruePDF.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10595'),
(19971, 'Science-September.23rd.2011.True.PDF', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6838'),
(19972, 'Science.October.14th.2011.pdf 15-10-2011', 'Science.October.14th.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10726'),
(19973, 'Scientific American 08-2011', 'Scientific American', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3465'),
(19974, 'Scientific American Mind 09+10-2011', 'Scientific American Mind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4217'),
(19975, 'Scientific.American-09-2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Scientific.American-09-2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4708'),
(19976, 'Scientific.American.Mind-September-October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4671'),
(19977, 'Scotland for Dummies', 'Barry Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enjoy sightseeing and shopping in bustling Edinburgh and Glasgow or explore unspoiled scenery and welcoming towns in the Hebridean Islands, Southern Scotland, Tayside, and the Northeast. Go from the Highlands to the Lowlands. Hike, canoe, or just relax at Loch Lomand. This friendly guide gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Edinburgh Old Town, with its intriguing winding alleyways\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations that range from sumptuous 17th century hotel furnished with Gothic antiques to a secluded seaside escape, and from a 17th century lairdâ€™s house to a sleek, modern and minimalist hotel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoying a pint of lager in a rustic pub where the barmen wear kilts and you donâ€™t tip or touring distinctive distilleries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cathedrals, castles and historic sites like the Calanais Standing Stones (the "Scottish Stonehenge"), Edinburgh Castle that holds the historic Stone of Destiny and Scotlandâ€™s crown jewels, Doune Castle, made famous by the film\n  <em>\n   Monty Python and the Holy Grail,\n  </em>\n  and Glasgow Cathedral\n </li>\n <li>\n  Storied golf courses such as Muirfield, Royal Troon, and St. Andrews in the country credited with developing the sport\n </li>\n <li>\n  Touring Sir Walter Scottâ€™s mansion, Abbotsford, with itâ€™s incredible library, relics, and mementos, or paying homage to poet Robert Burns at numerous sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping for everything from fine wool knits to Caithness glass paper weights to Edinburgh Crystal to tartans and kilts to Highland Stoneware\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Scotland For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy\n  <strong>\n   Post-it\n  </strong>\n  Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re looking for fun nightlife or the legendary Loch Ness monsterâ€¦whether you want to explore art galleries and museums or walk craggy seacoasts, this guide gives you the flavor of Scotland so enchantingly you can almost hear the bagpipes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explore enchanting Scotland the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n From bustling Edinburgh and Glasgow to the unspoiled scenery of the Hebrides...cathedrals to castles...art galleries to golf courses...historic sites to cozy pubs, Scotland has it all. This friendly guide gives the scoop on everything except a sure way to spot the Loch Ness Monster.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2019');
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(19978, 'Scotland for Dummies', 'Barry Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enjoy sightseeing and shopping in bustling Edinburgh and Glasgow or explore unspoiled scenery and welcoming towns in the Hebridean Islands, Southern Scotland, Tayside, and the Northeast. Go from the Highlands to the Lowlands. Hike, canoe, or just relax at Loch Lomand. This friendly guide gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Edinburgh Old Town, with its intriguing winding alleyways\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accommodations that range from sumptuous 17th century hotel furnished with Gothic antiques to a secluded seaside escape, and from a 17th century lairdâ€™s house to a sleek, modern and minimalist hotel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoying a pint of lager in a rustic pub where the barmen wear kilts and you donâ€™t tip or touring distinctive distilleries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cathedrals, castles and historic sites like the Calanais Standing Stones (the "Scottish Stonehenge"), Edinburgh Castle that holds the historic Stone of Destiny and Scotlandâ€™s crown jewels, Doune Castle, made famous by the film\n  <em>\n   Monty Python and the Holy Grail,\n  </em>\n  and Glasgow Cathedral\n </li>\n <li>\n  Storied golf courses such as Muirfield, Royal Troon, and St. Andrews in the country credited with developing the sport\n </li>\n <li>\n  Touring Sir Walter Scottâ€™s mansion, Abbotsford, with itâ€™s incredible library, relics, and mementos, or paying homage to poet Robert Burns at numerous sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping for everything from fine wool knits to Caithness glass paper weights to Edinburgh Crystal to tartans and kilts to Highland Stoneware\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Scotland For Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re looking for fun nightlife or the legendary Loch Ness monsterâ€¦whether you want to explore art galleries and museums or walk craggy seacoasts, this guide gives you the flavor of Scotland so enchantingly you can almost hear the bagpipes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With tips and recommendations from the experts at Frommers\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See the best of Scotland the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Scotland has something for everyone, from historic Edinburgh and bustling Glasgow to the unspoiled scenery of the Hebrides. Whether you''re into cathedrals or castles, art galleries or golf courses, historic sites or cozy pubs, this friendly guide gives you the scoop on everything except a sure way to spot the Loch Ness Monster.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2020'),
(19979, 'Scott Kelby - Digital Photography Book Vol 2.pdf', 'Admin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3885'),
(19980, 'Screenwriting for Dummies', 'Laura Schellhardt &amp; John Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Ideal for general readers, the book uses everyday examples and addresses social issues such as sweatshops and fair trade." Moneywise June 2008 "A guide for absolute beginners, it will take you through the whole process".Writers Forum June 2008\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Write a great script and get it into the hands of the Hollywood players!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you want to be a screenwriter? Whether you want to write a feature film or a TV script or adapt your favorite book, this friendly guide gives you expert advice in everything from creating your story and developing memorable characters to formatting your script and selling it to the studios. You get savvy industry tips and strategies for getting your screenplay noticed!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The screenwriting process from A to Z -- from developing a concept and thinking visually to plotline, conflicts, pacing, and the conclusion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Craft living, breathing characters -- from creating the backstory to letting your characters speak to balancing dialogue with action\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your story into a script -- from developing an outline and getting over writer''s block to formatting your screenplay and handling rewrites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for Hollywood -- from understanding the players and setting your expectations to polishing your copy and protecting your work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sell your script to the industry -- from preparing your pitch and finding an agent to meeting with executives and making a deal\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The latest on the biz, from entertainment blogs to top agents to box office jargon\n </li>\n <li>\n  New story examples from recently released films\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on character development, a story''s time clock, dramatic structure, and dialogue\n </li>\n <li>\n  New details on developing the nontraditional screenplay -- from musicals to animation to high dramatic style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expanded information on adaptation and collaboration, with examples from successful screenwriting duos\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2021'),
(19981, 'The Sea King&#39;s Daughter', 'Barbara Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Ingram Sandy had been lured to the Greek island of Thera by a father she had never known, an archaeologist scorned for his obsession with Atlantis. Now, as the island''s slumbering volcano came back to life, a terrifying power drew Sandy deep into the fathomless waters of her heritage, destiny and doom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since Sandy Frederick first set foot on the volcanic Greek isle of Thera, this breathtaking place of ancient myth and mystery has haunted her dreams. Joining her estranged, obsessed father on a dive to find astonishing secrets from the ocean''s floor, she cannot shake the feeling that she was meant to be here; that some ancient, inscrutable power is calling to her. But there are others who have been eagerly waiting for her arrival to drag her into a tangled and terrifying web of secrets, dark superstition, betrayal, blood, and death. And suddenly Sandy''s heritage and her destiny could be her doom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago''s famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the EdgarÂ® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4624'),
(19982, 'SEAL Team Six', 'Howard E. Wasdin &amp; Stephen Templin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n  <strong>\n   When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six\n  </strong>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)â€”the toughest and longest military training in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges. Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: The Marineâ€™s Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the bestâ€”which meant one of the best snipers on the planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life. The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From rooftops, helicopters and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help, and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while engaging the enemy. His dramatic combat tales combined with inside details of becoming one of the worldâ€™s deadliest snipers make this one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Excerpt from\n   <em>\n    SEAL Team Six\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Reach Out and Touch Someone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the U.S. Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six, the navy''s equivalent to the army''s Delta Forceâ€”tasked with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, occasionally working with the CIA. This is the first time a SEAL Team Six sniper''s story has been exposed. My story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Snipers avoid exposure. Although we prefer to act rather than be acted upon, some forces are beyond our control. We rely on our strengths to exploit the enemy''s vulnerabilities; however, during the war in the Persian Gulf I became vulnerable as the lone person on the fantail of an enemy ship filled with a crew working for Saddam Hussein. On yet another occasion, despite being a master of cover and concealment, I lay naked on an aircraft runway in a Third World country with bullet holes in both legs, the right leg nearly blown off by an AK-47 bullet. Sometimes we must face what we try to avoid.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  In the morning darkness of September 18, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Casanova and I crept over the ledge of a retaining wall and climbed to the top of a six-story tower. Even at this early hour there were already people moving around. Men, women, and children relieved themselves in the streets. I smelled the morning fires being lit, fueled by dried animal dung and whatever else people could find to burn. The fires heated any food the Somalis had managed to obtain. Warlord Aidid knew fully the power of controlling the food supply. Every time I saw a starving child, I blamed Aidid for his evil power play that facilitated this devastation of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tower we were on was located in the middle of the Pakistani compound. The Pakistanis were professional and treated us with great respect. When it was teatime, the boy in charge of serving always brought us a cup. I had even developed a taste for the fresh goat milk they used in the tea. The sounds and scents of the goatherd in the compound reached my senses as Casanova and I crawled onto the outer lip at the top of the tower. There we lay prone, watching a large garage, a vehicle body shop that had no roof. Surrounding the garage was a city of despair. Somalis trudged along with their heads and shoulders lowered. Helplessness dimmed their faces, and starvation pulled the skin tight across their bones. Because this was a "better" part of town, multilevel buildings stood in fairly good repair. There were concrete block houses instead of the tin and wooden lean-to sheds that dominated most of the city and countryside. Nevertheless, the smell of human waste and deathâ€”mixed with hopelessnessâ€”filled the air. Yes, hopelessness has a smell. People use the term "developing countries," but that is bullcrap. What developed in Somalia was things such as hunger and fighting. I think "developing countries" is just a term used to make the people who coined it feel better. No matter what you call them, starvation and war are two of the worst events imaginable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I calculated the exact distances to certain buildings. There are two primary considerations when making a sniper shot, windage and elevation. Because there was no significant wind that could throw my shot left or right, I didn''t have to compensate for it. Elevation is the variable considered for range/distance to the target. Since most of my potential targets were between 200 yards (garage) and 650 yards (intersection beyond the target garage), I dialed my scope in at 500 yards. This way I could just hold my rifle higher or lower depending on range. When the shooting began, there would be no time to dial in range corrections on my scope between shots.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We started our surveillance at 0600. While we waited for our agent to give us the signal, I played different scenarios over in my mind: one enemy popping out at one location, then another popping up at another location, and so on. I would acquire, aim, and even do a simulated trigger pull, going through my rehearsed breathing and follow-through routine while picturing the actual engagement. Then I simulated reloading and getting back into my Leupold 10-power scope, continuing to scan for more booger-eaters. I had done this dry firing and actual firing thousands of timesâ€”wet, dry, muddy, snowbound, from a dug-in hole in the ground, from an urban sniper hide through a partially open window, and nearly every which way imaginable. The words they had drilled into our heads since we began SEAL training were true, "The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war." This particular day, I was charged with making sure none of my Delta Force buddies sprang a leak as I covered their insertion into the garage. My buddies'' not bleeding in war was every bit as important as my not bleeding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our target for this mission was Osman Ali Attoâ€”Warlord Aidid''s main financier. Although Casanova and I would''ve been able to recognize the target from our previous surveillance, we were required to have confirmation of his identity from the CIA asset before we gave the launch command.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The irony wasn''t lost on me that we were capturing Atto instead of killing himâ€”despite the fact that he and his boss had killed hundreds of thousands of Somalis. I felt that if we could kill Atto and Aidid, we could stop the fighting, get the food to the people quickly, and go home in one piece.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t until around 0815 that our asset finally gave the predetermined signal. He was doing this because the CIA paid him well. I had learned firsthand while working with the CIA how payoffs could sway loyalty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When we saw the signal, Casanova and I launched the "full package." Little Bird and Black Hawk helicopters filled the sky. During this time, the Delta operators literally had their butts hanging outâ€”the urban environment provided too much cover, too much concealment, and too many escape routes for the enemy. All a hostile had to do was shoot a few rounds at a helo or Humvee, jump back inside a building, and put his weapon down. Even if he reappeared, he was not considered hostile without a weapon. Things happened fast, and the environment was unforgiving.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Delta Force operators fast-roped down inside the garage, Rangers fast-roped around the garage, and Birds flew overhead with Delta snipers giving the assault force protection. Atto''s people scattered like rats. Soon, enemy militia appeared in the neighborhood shooting up at the helicopters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Normally, snipers operate in a spotter-sniper relationship. The spotter identifies, ranges the targets, and relays them to the sniper for execution. There would be no time for that on this opâ€”we were engaged in urban warfare. In this environment, an enemy could appear from anywhere. Even worse, the enemy dressed the same as a civilian. We had to wait and see his intention. Even if he appeared with a gun, there was a chance he was part of a clan on our side. We had to wait until the person pointed the weapon in the direction of our guys. Then we would ensure the enemy ceased to exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There would be no time for makeup or second shots. Both Casanova and I wielded .300 Win Mag sniper rifles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through my Leupold 10-power scope, I saw a militiaman 500 yards away firing through an open window at the helos. I made a mental note to keep my heart rate down and centered the crosshairs on him as my muscle memory took overâ€”stock firmly into the shoulder, cheek positioned behind the scope, eye focused on the center of the crosshairs rather than the enemy, and steady trigger squeezing (even though it was only a light, 2-pound pull). I felt the gratifying recoil of my rifle. The round hit him in the side of the chest, entering his left and exiting his right. He convulsed and buckled, falling backward into the buildingâ€”permanently. I quickly got back into my scope and scanned. Game on now. All other thoughts departed my mind. I was at one with my Win Mag, scanning my sector. Casanova scanned his sector, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another militiaman carrying an AK-47 came out a fire escape door on the side of a building 300 yards away from me and aimed his rifle at the Delta operators assaulting the garage. From his position, I''m sure he thought he was safe from the assaulters, and he probably was. He was not safe from meâ€”300 yards wasn''t even a challenge. I shot him through his left side, and the round exited his right. He slumped down onto the fire escape landing, never knowing what hit him. His AK-47 lay silent next to him. Someone tried to reach out and retrieve the weaponâ€”one round from my Win Mag put a stop to that. Each time I made a shot, I immediately forgot about that target and scanned for another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chaos erupted inside and outside of the garage. People ran everywhere. Little Birds and Black Hawks filled the skies with deafening rotor blasts. I was in my own little world, though. Nothing existed outside my scope and my mission. Let the Unit guys handle their business in the garage. My business was reaching out and touching the enemy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This wasn''t the first time I''d killed for my country. It wouldn''t be the last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few minutes passed as I continued scanning. More than 800 yards away, a guy popped up with an RPG launcher on his shoulder, preparing to fire at the helicopters. If I took him out, it would be the longest killing shot of my career. If I failed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 2011 by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMr. Wasdinâ€™s narrative is visceral and as active as a Tom Clancy novelâ€¦[it] will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled Seal Team Six to pull off the bin Laden raid with such precisionâ€¦adrenaline-laced.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_SEAL Team Six_ pulses with the grit of a Jerry Bruckheimer production...On his journey to becoming a member of the Navy''s best of the best, Wasdin proved his mettle in Operation Desert Storm and endured training that would break the back of most mortal men." --_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_SEAL Team Six_] describes the harrowing ops he undertook as part of the elite Seal Team Six squadron, including the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu that almost killed him....reveals an intimate look at the rigorous training and perilous missions of the best of the Navy''s best." --_Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œSEAL Team Six\n  <em>\n   is a masterful blend of one manâ€™sâ€”\n  </em>\n  Waz-Manâ€™sâ€”_journey from hard knocks to hard corps. Even better, Waz-Man and Templin can actually write as good as they can shoot. They capture your attention at every turnâ€”not knowing if youâ€™re about to take a bullet to the head from a SEAL sniper or get hit in the gut with a punch line.â€ â€”Dalton Fury, former Delta Force Commander and _New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  Kill Bin Laden\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œGreat insights into the training and operations of one of Americaâ€™s premier counterterrorism units. Grabs you on page one and is hard to put down.â€ â€”General Henry H. Shelton, USA(R), former Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command and 14th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWasdin is a true warrior and real hero.\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  is a must read.â€ â€”Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Shooter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4189'),
(19983, 'SEAL Team Six', 'Howard E. Wasdin &amp; Stephen Templin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n  <strong>\n   When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six\n  </strong>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)â€”the toughest and longest military training in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges. Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: The Marineâ€™s Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the bestâ€”which meant one of the best snipers on the planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life. The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From rooftops, helicopters and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help, and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while engaging the enemy. His dramatic combat tales combined with inside details of becoming one of the worldâ€™s deadliest snipers make this one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Excerpt from\n   <em>\n    SEAL Team Six\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Reach Out and Touch Someone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the U.S. Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six, the navy''s equivalent to the army''s Delta Forceâ€”tasked with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, occasionally working with the CIA. This is the first time a SEAL Team Six sniper''s story has been exposed. My story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Snipers avoid exposure. Although we prefer to act rather than be acted upon, some forces are beyond our control. We rely on our strengths to exploit the enemy''s vulnerabilities; however, during the war in the Persian Gulf I became vulnerable as the lone person on the fantail of an enemy ship filled with a crew working for Saddam Hussein. On yet another occasion, despite being a master of cover and concealment, I lay naked on an aircraft runway in a Third World country with bullet holes in both legs, the right leg nearly blown off by an AK-47 bullet. Sometimes we must face what we try to avoid.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  In the morning darkness of September 18, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Casanova and I crept over the ledge of a retaining wall and climbed to the top of a six-story tower. Even at this early hour there were already people moving around. Men, women, and children relieved themselves in the streets. I smelled the morning fires being lit, fueled by dried animal dung and whatever else people could find to burn. The fires heated any food the Somalis had managed to obtain. Warlord Aidid knew fully the power of controlling the food supply. Every time I saw a starving child, I blamed Aidid for his evil power play that facilitated this devastation of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tower we were on was located in the middle of the Pakistani compound. The Pakistanis were professional and treated us with great respect. When it was teatime, the boy in charge of serving always brought us a cup. I had even developed a taste for the fresh goat milk they used in the tea. The sounds and scents of the goatherd in the compound reached my senses as Casanova and I crawled onto the outer lip at the top of the tower. There we lay prone, watching a large garage, a vehicle body shop that had no roof. Surrounding the garage was a city of despair. Somalis trudged along with their heads and shoulders lowered. Helplessness dimmed their faces, and starvation pulled the skin tight across their bones. Because this was a "better" part of town, multilevel buildings stood in fairly good repair. There were concrete block houses instead of the tin and wooden lean-to sheds that dominated most of the city and countryside. Nevertheless, the smell of human waste and deathâ€”mixed with hopelessnessâ€”filled the air. Yes, hopelessness has a smell. People use the term "developing countries," but that is bullcrap. What developed in Somalia was things such as hunger and fighting. I think "developing countries" is just a term used to make the people who coined it feel better. No matter what you call them, starvation and war are two of the worst events imaginable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I calculated the exact distances to certain buildings. There are two primary considerations when making a sniper shot, windage and elevation. Because there was no significant wind that could throw my shot left or right, I didn''t have to compensate for it. Elevation is the variable considered for range/distance to the target. Since most of my potential targets were between 200 yards (garage) and 650 yards (intersection beyond the target garage), I dialed my scope in at 500 yards. This way I could just hold my rifle higher or lower depending on range. When the shooting began, there would be no time to dial in range corrections on my scope between shots.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We started our surveillance at 0600. While we waited for our agent to give us the signal, I played different scenarios over in my mind: one enemy popping out at one location, then another popping up at another location, and so on. I would acquire, aim, and even do a simulated trigger pull, going through my rehearsed breathing and follow-through routine while picturing the actual engagement. Then I simulated reloading and getting back into my Leupold 10-power scope, continuing to scan for more booger-eaters. I had done this dry firing and actual firing thousands of timesâ€”wet, dry, muddy, snowbound, from a dug-in hole in the ground, from an urban sniper hide through a partially open window, and nearly every which way imaginable. The words they had drilled into our heads since we began SEAL training were true, "The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war." This particular day, I was charged with making sure none of my Delta Force buddies sprang a leak as I covered their insertion into the garage. My buddies'' not bleeding in war was every bit as important as my not bleeding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our target for this mission was Osman Ali Attoâ€”Warlord Aidid''s main financier. Although Casanova and I would''ve been able to recognize the target from our previous surveillance, we were required to have confirmation of his identity from the CIA asset before we gave the launch command.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The irony wasn''t lost on me that we were capturing Atto instead of killing himâ€”despite the fact that he and his boss had killed hundreds of thousands of Somalis. I felt that if we could kill Atto and Aidid, we could stop the fighting, get the food to the people quickly, and go home in one piece.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t until around 0815 that our asset finally gave the predetermined signal. He was doing this because the CIA paid him well. I had learned firsthand while working with the CIA how payoffs could sway loyalty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When we saw the signal, Casanova and I launched the "full package." Little Bird and Black Hawk helicopters filled the sky. During this time, the Delta operators literally had their butts hanging outâ€”the urban environment provided too much cover, too much concealment, and too many escape routes for the enemy. All a hostile had to do was shoot a few rounds at a helo or Humvee, jump back inside a building, and put his weapon down. Even if he reappeared, he was not considered hostile without a weapon. Things happened fast, and the environment was unforgiving.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Delta Force operators fast-roped down inside the garage, Rangers fast-roped around the garage, and Birds flew overhead with Delta snipers giving the assault force protection. Atto''s people scattered like rats. Soon, enemy militia appeared in the neighborhood shooting up at the helicopters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Normally, snipers operate in a spotter-sniper relationship. The spotter identifies, ranges the targets, and relays them to the sniper for execution. There would be no time for that on this opâ€”we were engaged in urban warfare. In this environment, an enemy could appear from anywhere. Even worse, the enemy dressed the same as a civilian. We had to wait and see his intention. Even if he appeared with a gun, there was a chance he was part of a clan on our side. We had to wait until the person pointed the weapon in the direction of our guys. Then we would ensure the enemy ceased to exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There would be no time for makeup or second shots. Both Casanova and I wielded .300 Win Mag sniper rifles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through my Leupold 10-power scope, I saw a militiaman 500 yards away firing through an open window at the helos. I made a mental note to keep my heart rate down and centered the crosshairs on him as my muscle memory took overâ€”stock firmly into the shoulder, cheek positioned behind the scope, eye focused on the center of the crosshairs rather than the enemy, and steady trigger squeezing (even though it was only a light, 2-pound pull). I felt the gratifying recoil of my rifle. The round hit him in the side of the chest, entering his left and exiting his right. He convulsed and buckled, falling backward into the buildingâ€”permanently. I quickly got back into my scope and scanned. Game on now. All other thoughts departed my mind. I was at one with my Win Mag, scanning my sector. Casanova scanned his sector, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another militiaman carrying an AK-47 came out a fire escape door on the side of a building 300 yards away from me and aimed his rifle at the Delta operators assaulting the garage. From his position, I''m sure he thought he was safe from the assaulters, and he probably was. He was not safe from meâ€”300 yards wasn''t even a challenge. I shot him through his left side, and the round exited his right. He slumped down onto the fire escape landing, never knowing what hit him. His AK-47 lay silent next to him. Someone tried to reach out and retrieve the weaponâ€”one round from my Win Mag put a stop to that. Each time I made a shot, I immediately forgot about that target and scanned for another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chaos erupted inside and outside of the garage. People ran everywhere. Little Birds and Black Hawks filled the skies with deafening rotor blasts. I was in my own little world, though. Nothing existed outside my scope and my mission. Let the Unit guys handle their business in the garage. My business was reaching out and touching the enemy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This wasn''t the first time I''d killed for my country. It wouldn''t be the last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few minutes passed as I continued scanning. More than 800 yards away, a guy popped up with an RPG launcher on his shoulder, preparing to fire at the helicopters. If I took him out, it would be the longest killing shot of my career. If I failed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 2011 by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMr. Wasdinâ€™s narrative is visceral and as active as a Tom Clancy novelâ€¦[it] will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled Seal Team Six to pull off the bin Laden raid with such precisionâ€¦adrenaline-laced.â€ â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_SEAL Team Six_ pulses with the grit of a Jerry Bruckheimer production...On his journey to becoming a member of the Navy''s best of the best, Wasdin proved his mettle in Operation Desert Storm and endured training that would break the back of most mortal men." --_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_SEAL Team Six_] describes the harrowing ops he undertook as part of the elite Seal Team Six squadron, including the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu that almost killed him....reveals an intimate look at the rigorous training and perilous missions of the best of the Navy''s best." --_Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œSEAL Team Six\n  <em>\n   is a masterful blend of one manâ€™sâ€”\n  </em>\n  Waz-Manâ€™sâ€”_journey from hard knocks to hard corps. Even better, Waz-Man and Templin can actually write as good as they can shoot. They capture your attention at every turnâ€”not knowing if youâ€™re about to take a bullet to the head from a SEAL sniper or get hit in the gut with a punch line.â€ â€”Dalton Fury, former Delta Force Commander and _New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  Kill Bin Laden\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œGreat insights into the training and operations of one of Americaâ€™s premier counterterrorism units. Grabs you on page one and is hard to put down.â€ â€”General Henry H. Shelton, USA(R), former Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command and 14th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWasdin is a true warrior and real hero.\n  <em>\n   SEAL Team Six\n  </em>\n  is a must read.â€ â€”Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Shooter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4354'),
(19984, 'Search Engine Optimization All-In-One for Dummies', 'Bruce Clay &amp; Susan Esparza', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you have a business, you want your Web site to show up quickly when people search for what youâ€™re selling.\n <em>\n  Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n has the whole story on how to build a site that works, position and promote it, track and understand your search results, and use keywords effectively. And it includes a $25 credit on Google AdWords, to get you off to a good start!\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten handy minibooks cover how search engines work, keyword strategy, competitive positioning, SEO Web design, content creation, linking, optimizing the foundations, analyzing results, international SEO, and search marketing. Youâ€™ll even learn some geeky things like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or how to match metatags and keywords to page content.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Book I explores how search engines work and which ones offer the best exposure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to develop a keyword strategy and be competitive with Books II and III\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book IV helps you design an SEO-friendly site, while in Book V you learn to create content that lures your audience\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips in Book VI show how to line up relevant links for a better search showing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book VII shows how to get more from your server and content management system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how to measure your siteâ€™s success in Book VIII\n </li>\n <li>\n  Book IX helps you globalize your success by marketing in Asia, Europe, and Latin America\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SEO and Book X tips to build your brand\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With all this information and a Google AdWords gift card worth $25,\n <em>\n  Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n has what you need to make your site a hit with search engines.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boost your bottom line with your $25 Google AdWords credit â€” see inside\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have a business, you want your Web site to show up quickly when people search for what you''re selling. Here''s the whole story on how to build a site that works, position and promote your site, track and understand your search results, and use keywords effectively â€” plus a $25 credit on Google AdWords to get your online advertising efforts off to a good start!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What makes ''em tick â€” Book I explores how search engines work and which ones offer the best exposure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Words are key â€” learn to develop a keyword strategy and be competitive in Books II and III\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lookin'' good â€” Book IV helps you design an SEO-friendly site, and in Book V, you learn to create content that lures your audience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Link up â€” the tips in Book VI show how to line up relevant links for a better search showing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s under the hood â€” Book VII shows how to get more from your server and content management system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Confirm your suspicions â€” discover how to measure your site''s (and your competitor''s) success in Book VIII\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your horizons â€” Book IX helps you globalize your success by marketing in Asia, Europe, and Latin America\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Search and find â€” use SEO and Book X tips to build your brand\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What drives search results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to match meta tags and keywords to page content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for selecting keywords and phrases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you should know about HTML, JavaScript, and CSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of SEO-friendly design\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage the mechanics of content\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why your server is important\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your Google AdWords gift card worth $25!\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2022'),
(19985, 'Search Engine Optimization for Dummies', 'Peter Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦cuts through the nonsense, providing a clear, simple and concise explanation of how websites reach top positions in search enginesÂ ..." (_PC Advisor_, September 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why do some sites pop to the top when you search? How do you make yours one of them? You create sites that make search engines happy â€” thatâ€™s what search engine optimization is all about.\n <em>\n  Search Engine Optimization For Dummies\n </em>\n has been the leading resource on how to make that happen, and this third edition is completely updated to cover the newest changes, standards, tips, and tricks.\n</p>\n<p>\n This handy guide shows you how to get more visitors by getting more visibility for your Web site. Find out which search engines matter most, what they look for (and what they hate,) how to get your site included in the best indexes and directories, and the most effective ways to spend your advertising dollars. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan a search engine strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build pages that offer visibility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your site rank high with the most important search engines\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid things that search engines donâ€™t like (and tricks that might actually get your site penalized)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Google universal search, image search optimization, XML sitemaps, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right keywords\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track and measure your results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your exposure with shopping directories and retailers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost your position with popular links and social networking sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use pay-per-click in ways that get the most bang for your advertising buck\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Search Engine Optimization For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n also helps you skirt some of the pitfalls and become a savvy advertiser. With this book at your side, youâ€™ll never need to fear search engines again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2023'),
(19986, 'The Search', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The #1 *New York Times*-bestselling author presents a riveting novel where a canine search and rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle''s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona''s cop fiancÃ© and his K-9 partner.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He''s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon''s house, and he''s at his wit''s end.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can''t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he''s a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn''t want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona''s life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4104'),
(19987, 'The Search', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The #1 *New York Times*-bestselling author presents a riveting novel where a canine search and rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle''s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona''s cop fiancÃ© and his K-9 partner.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He''s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon''s house, and he''s at his wit''s end.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can''t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he''s a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn''t want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona''s life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4439'),
(19988, 'Second Homes for Dummies', 'Bridget Mccrea &amp; Stephen Spignesi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking about owning a second home? Whether you want a relaxing getaway spot, a future retirement home, or just a place to rent out for profit, having a second home has always been a good investment. But how will you know where to look, how to invest, and what you need to avoid?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Second Homes For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the tools you need to handle the entire second-home buying process from concept to completion! This book covers the bases and the basics of buying a second home, presenting all information in a logical and modular format so you can find just what you need on the subjects that interest you. Youâ€™ll find out everything you need to know to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Determine whether or not a second home is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your options for a second home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Search for a home and find the money to pay for it\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rent out your home for profit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Renovate and maintain it to ensure its growing value\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your second home your primary home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Look for and purchase a home in another country\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Also provided are a list of the best places in the world to buy a home, ways to improve your home and make it first rate, and rules that you should talk about with your guests. With\n <em>\n  Second Homes For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can make your dream of having a second home come true!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deal with agents, tenants, mortgages, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Let your second home work for you now, and retire to it later\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Dreaming of that perfect cottage in the mountains or that beachfront getaway? Can you afford it? How do you find one? Will it make money or cost money? What about upkeep and taxes? Relax! This handy book guides you through every step, from assessing your finances and deciding when to buy, to maintaining and maximizing your investment.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decide whether to build\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to pay for it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go it alone or use a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find reliable tenants\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare for the retirement move\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2024'),
(19989, 'The Second Latchkey', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5954');
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(19990, 'Second Life for Dummies', 'Sarah Robbins &amp; Mark Bell &amp; Mark R. Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve heard all about Second Life. Maybe youâ€™ve already jumped with both feetâ€”and gotten stuck. Or maybe youâ€™re a Second Life veteran who wants to build something or run a business. Fear not!\n <em>\n  Second Life For Dummies\n </em>\n is hear to hold your hand, pat your back, and cheer you on through this new and enchanting reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a pair of Second Life old timers, this easy-to-use, flip-and-find guide is packed with expert advice, seasoned insight, and handy tips and tricks to get you moving fast. Youâ€™ll find out how to set up your account, create an avatar, meet people and socialize, and find your comfort zone and stay in it. But itâ€™s a big world out there, so youâ€™ll also learn how to make stuff, buy stuff, do stuff, and keep track of all the stuff youâ€™re accumulating. Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install Second Life get started\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and customize your avatar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Meet and get to know fascinating people\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay safe and comfortable as you learn and explore\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make, wear, and sell your own fashions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Script your Second Life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy land and build a house\n </li>\n <li>\n  Become a land baron or a money maker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  money in Second Life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get a real-life educationâ€”even a degree\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with fantastic lists of cool places, answers to big questions, and supplemental software,\n <em>\n  Second Life For Dummies\n </em>\n is your ticket to a great virtual adventure.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create the world in which you want to live!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make friends, start a business and create amazing products - on your terms!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re feeling overwhelmed by the online world that is Second Life,\n <em>\n  Second Life For Dummies\n </em>\n is the book for you! Written by a pair of experts who know the program inside and out, this book offers the scoop on getting around and making friends as well as how to personalize your avatar or even open a Second Life business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set up a Second Life account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize your avatar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Chat with other residents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start your own business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make real money\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your education\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2025'),
(19991, 'Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O&#39;Malley', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5932'),
(19992, 'Secret of Annexe 3', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Secret of Annexe 3 is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the seventh novel in Inspector Morse series. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Publication history | Sources, references, external links\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the British author''s latest, his admirable Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate a murder committed on New Year''s Eve at a hotel in Oxford. Three couples are housed in the hotel annex, and one man, winner of the prize in the fancy-dress contest, is found dead in his room. The first problem facing Morse and Lewis is locating the other five guests, including the victim''s wife, all of whom have fled, having registered under fake names and addresses. The irascible inspector needs patient Lewis''s calming presence more than ever since the killers seem to have carried out a deep-laid and devious plot. They are so clever that the case challenges Morse''s talent for spying each tree in a forest of tricks. Engrossed in the story that Dexter tells in his witty and stylish fashion, readers will savor the mystery of the masquerade and the detecting partners'' ultimate triumph.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6165'),
(19993, 'The Secret of Excalibur', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Adventure stories don''t get much more epic than this'' -- Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A LEGENDARY WEAPON.\n  <br />\n  A RUTHLESS ASSASSIN.\n  <br />\n  A PERILOUS HUNT.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n Excalibur . . . Legend has it that he who carries King Arthurâ€™s mighty sword into battle will be invincible. But for more than a thousand years, the secret to the whereabouts of this powerful weapon has been lost . . . until now.\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Nina Wilde is hoping for a little R&amp;R with her fiancÃ©, former SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase. But the coupleâ€™s plans are dashed when a meeting with an old acquaintance propels Nina and Eddie into a razorâ€™s-edge hunt across the globeâ€”battling a team of elite mercenaries who will stop at nothing in order to claim a prize every treasure hunter has coveted since the final days of Camelot. Nina and Eddie must do everything they can to keep the legendary blade from falling into the wrong hands. Because the truth behind the swordâ€™s powerâ€”and those who seek itâ€”will not only shock the world but plunge it into a new and more devastating era of war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4006'),
(19994, 'Self-Publishing for Dummies', 'Jason R. Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers budgeting, copyrighting, and marketing\n</p>\n<p>\n Know the pros and cons of self-publishing and get your work in print\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about self-publishing your book? This no-nonsense guide walks you through the entire process of going it alone, from preparing your manuscript and creating the perfect title to selling the final product. You''ll see how to obtain an ISBN, work with printers and distributors, create a buzz with publicity, and take advantage of electronic publishing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Start your own publishing company\n <br />\n * Edit your work effectively\n <br />\n * Design and format your book\n <br />\n * Hire skilled professionals to help\n <br />\n * Manage outside vendors\n <br />\n * Build awareness for your book online\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers budgeting, copyrighting, and marketing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Know the pros and cons of self-publishing and get your work in print\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about self-publishing your book? This no-nonsense guide walks you through the entire process of going it alone, from preparing your manuscript and creating the perfect title to selling the final product. You''ll see how to obtain an ISBN, work with printers and distributors, create a buzz with publicity, and take advantage of electronic publishing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Start your own publishing company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit your work effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and format your book\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hire skilled professionals to help\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage outside vendors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build awareness for your book online\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2026'),
(19995, 'The Selfish Gene', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1859 Charles Darwin''s masterpiece, *On the Origin of Species*, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work *The God Delusion* takes them to task.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master''s vision of life, in all its splendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6178'),
(19996, 'Semantic Web for Dummies', 'Jeffrey T. Pollock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with data on the Web. By connecting random information on the Internet in new ways, Web 3.0, as it is sometimes called, represents an exciting online evolution.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re a consumer doing research online, a business owner who wants to offer your customers the most useful Web site, or an IT manager eager to understand Semantic Web solutions,\n <em>\n  Semantic Web For Dummies\n </em>\n is the place to start! It will help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know how the typical Internet user will recognize the effects of the Semantic Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore all the benefits the data Web offers to businesses and decide whether itâ€™s right for your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sense of the technology and identify applications for it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See how the Semantic Web is about data while the â€œoldâ€ Internet was about documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tour the architectures, strategies, and standards involved in Semantic Web technology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn a bit about the languages that make it all work: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover the variety of information-based jobs that could become available in a data-driven economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll also find a quick primer on tech specifications, some key priorities for CIOs, and tools to help you sort the hype from the reality. There are case studies of early Semantic Web successes and a list of common myths you may encounter. Whether youâ€™re incorporating the Semantic Web in the workplace or using it at home, Semantic Web For Dummies will help you define, develop, implement, and use Web 3.0.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed on the most exciting evolution in the history of the Internet\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet the Web of tomorrow â€” today! The Semantic Web completely changes how we interact with data in the vastness of the Internet. So whether you''re a consumer doing research online, a business owner who wants to offer your customers the most useful Web site, or an IT manager eager to understand Semantic Web solutions, this book is the place to start!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s Web 3.0? â€” explore how the Internet has evolved and where it''s going\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Change is coming â€” know how the typical Internet user will recognize the effects of the Semantic Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Data or documents? â€” see how the Semantic Web is about data while the "old" Internet was about documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s business â€” explore the data Web''s many benefits to businesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Speak the language â€” get into the languages that make it all work: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jobs, jobs, jobs â€” sneak a peek at the variety of information workers that will be needed in our data-driven economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Some geeky stuff â€” tour the architectures, strategies, and standards involved in Semantic Web technology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Already there â€” look at existing Semantic Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What defines Web 3.0\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A quick primer on tech specifications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How business will change as the Semantic Web takes hold\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common Semantic Web myths\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sort the hype from the reality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Interesting case studies of early Semantic Web successes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Key priorities for CIOs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How familiar technologies fit with the Semantic Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2027'),
(19997, 'The Separation', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers. Rowers in the 1936 Olympics, they meet Rudolf Hess, Hitler''s deputy; one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and become''s Churchill''s aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a pacifist, works with the Red Cross, rescuing bombing victims in London. But this is not a straightforward story of the Second World War: this is an alternate history: the two brothers - both called J.L. Sawyer - live their lives in alternate versions of reality. In one, the Second World War ends as we imagine it did; in the other, thanks to efforts of an eminent team of negotiators headed by Hess, the war ends in 1941. THE SEPARATION is an emotionally riveting story of how ordinary people can make a difference; it''s a savage critique of Winston Churchill, the man credited as the saviour of Britain and the Western World, and it''s a story of how one perceives and shapes the past. THE SEPARATION was originally published by Simon &amp; Schuster as a trade paperback, with a very small print run; it went out of print almost immediately and was never reprinted. Gollancz will publish initially as a price-promoted hardcover, as a platform for reviews and national newspaper coverage, prior to lead title paperback publication in 2004.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6351'),
(19998, 'Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk', 'Angie Sage &amp; Mark Zug', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4009'),
(19999, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 9 - The Carnivorous Carnival', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6317'),
(20000, 'Service Management for Dummies', 'Judith Hurwitz &amp; Robin Bloor &amp; Marcia Kaufman &amp; Fern Halper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A plain-English guide to managing IT from the customer''s perspective\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Practical guidance on delivering and managing IT so that it meets the multiple needs and demands of a company and its customers and end-usersâ€“both inside and outside the organizationâ€“is hard to come by; this accessible book takes a common-sense approach that explains exactly what IT services are and how to fit them most effectively into a business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics include setting a framework, keeping costs down, improving efficiency, and maintaining standards and best practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  This concept of how IT should be wired specifically into the goals and need of the company and its customers is part of a broader picture that includes ITIL, BPM, SOA, and Six Sigma\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage your business from a services perspective\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What if technology was designed to serve the business â€” every time? That''s service management! Done properly, it can make everybody happy â€” the customer, the service provider, and the business owner. Understand the value of managing your physical environments and IT systems with an integrated approach. Learn how real companies improve business performance by streamlining business processes and applying service management standards and best practices.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Define service â€” identify what the customer wants, how the business can provide it, and which technological tools will make it happen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Who''s king? â€” whether you''re the IT manager or the business owner, see how to think like the customer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Standards are key â€” understand the standards and best practices that can improve quality and reduce costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategically speaking â€” develop and implement a service management strategy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s it worth? â€” assess the costs and return associated with service management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get down to business â€” discover how to manage data centers, support services, desktops and devices, IT security, and other business services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See it at work â€” explore case studies of service management in the manufacturing, retail, health care, hospitality, and other business sectors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the digital world has altered service\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Service management assets and tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Resources for best practices and standards information\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for defining, creating, and maintaining a service management plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The six layers of service management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to optimize a data center\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ideas for managing your business assets as services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The role of virtualization and cloud computing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2028'),
(20001, 'Service of all the dead', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Chief Inspector Morse, a middle-aged bachelor with a fondness for crossword puzzles, Mozart, and attractive women, investigates a series of suspicious and sinister events at Oxfords Church of St. Frideswide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6166'),
(20002, 'Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies', 'Judith Hurwitz &amp; Robin Bloor &amp; Carol Baroudi &amp; Marcia Kaufman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren''t really sure what it means\n </li>\n <li>\n  This team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers what SOA is, why it matters, how it can impact businesses, and how to take steps to implement SOA in a corporate environment\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed on what SOA is and how to use it\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your business more adaptable and responsive to change\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Today''s businesses seem to change at the speed of light, and software support structures simply have to keep up. And that''s exactly what SOA is all about! Here''s the scoop on creating applications and services that can be organized for reuse, easily maintained and supported, designed to produce consistent results, and shared across an enterprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Respond more quickly to market changes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allow your IT staff to be more flexible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve business agility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate ins and outs of SOA architecture\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enable interaction with new business partners\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2029'),
(20003, 'Servo 04-2011', 'Servo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3844'),
(20004, 'Servo 05-2011', 'Servo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3848'),
(20005, 'Servo 08-2011', 'Servo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3845'),
(20006, 'Servo 09-2011', 'Servo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3846'),
(20007, 'Servo Magazine ', 'October 2011 (True PDF)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6833'),
(20008, 'Servo.Magazine-October.2011.True.PDF', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6809'),
(20009, 'Servo.Magazine-September.2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Servo.Magazine-September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4681'),
(20010, 'Set in Silver', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5933'),
(20011, 'Seven Strange &amp; Ghostly Tales', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4767'),
(20012, 'Seventeen - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10698'),
(20013, 'The Seville Communion', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4285'),
(20014, 'Sex for Dummies', 'Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer &amp; Pierre A. Lehu', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Try new sexual positions\n</p>\n<p>\n The bestselling guide to a rewarding sex life and a deeper relationship\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for the straight facts on sex? In this friendly, authoritative guide, renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth gives you the latest on everything from oral sex and popular positions to new methods of birth control. She also debunks sex myths and covers new therapies to manage low libido, overcome sexual dysfunction, and enhance pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Dr. Ruth and Sex For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her energy level is higher than that of a charged particle."\n <br />\n --People Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dr. Ruth writes the way she talks -- enthusiastically, nonjudgmentally, and informatively. . . ."\n <br />\n --Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her name and the distinctive thrill of her voice have become inextricably linked with the subject of sex."\n <br />\n --New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Enjoy the first time\n <br />\n * Enhance foreplay and afterplay with your partner\n <br />\n * Avoid STDs and have safer sex\n <br />\n * Discuss sex with your kids\n <br />\n * Navigate cybersex\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Try new sexual positions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling guide to a rewarding sex life and a deeper relationship\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for the straight facts on sex? In this friendly, authoritative guide, renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth gives you the latest on everything from oral sex and popular positions to new methods of birth control. She also debunks sex myths and covers new therapies to manage low libido, overcome sexual dysfunction, and enhance pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Dr. Ruth and\n  <em>\n   Sex For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her energy level is higher than that of a charged particle."\n <br />\n â€”_People Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dr. Ruth writes the way she talks â€” enthusiastically, nonjudgmentally, and informatively. . . ."\n <br />\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her name and the distinctive thrill of her voice have become inextricably linked with the subject of sex."\n <br />\n â€”_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Enjoy the first time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance foreplay and afterplay with your partner\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid STDs and have safer sex\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discuss sex with your kids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate cybersex\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2030'),
(20015, 'Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History', 'Ben Mezrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Thad Roberts lead a pretty good life by his estimation. So how did it come about that this NASA employed genius found himself in one of the most dangerous county prisons in the country, sworn to secrecy by NASA and the FBI, and concocting the next step in universal history? Despite his growing up in a strict Mormon household, Thad''s heart was, at a young age, stolen by astronomy. Soon enough he found himself accepted into NASA''s highly competitive Co-op program. Here he stood out both as a bright mind and as a popular figure. After catching a glimpse of moon rocks on a volunteer task within one of the most secure buildings at the NASA space station, Thad''s curiosity was captured. Soon he was strategising over how he could obtain these gems. The security of the vault was insane, the very idea that you could get in there without getting caught was ridiculous. And yet, the fact it seemed impossible spurred Thad to try and figure it out. He became obsessed with the how, and on his third ''tour'' at NASA''s Johnson Space Center Thad, after meticulous planning and at phenomenal risk,did the unthinkableand made off with a six hundred pound safe full of the world''s most precious substance - moon rocks. Illegal to own, given as gifts to heads of state by the President himself, the rocks are a national treasureof unimaginable value, something that had never been stolen before - something that can never, in fact, be replaced. From the unique and exotic locale of NASA''s Johnson Space Center, to the dark, steel cells of the harshest prison in Florida, Sex on the Moon is the compelling story of how a young genius executed one of the biggest and most unique heists ever. Renamed ''moon rock'' by the killers and drug dealers incarcerated along with him, Thad began to think, write and dream again. He began to see a new way oflooking at the world, much more than the stars, the universe and the world he had left behind. Vastly complex in its physics basis, but simple to understand, Thad created what is now being lauded by many scientists as the next step in universal history. Despite NASA''s attempts to cover up the details, Thad Roberts'' spectacular story is finally laid bare - and through his story, a much larger, collective tale is told, ofastronauts and history, of the future that may one day give us Mars - and the awe inspiring past that once truly did give us the moon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4347'),
(20016, 'SFX 10-2011', 'SFX', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3867'),
(20017, 'SFX_Collection_2011-10.pdf 10-10-2011', 'SFX_Collection_2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10625'),
(20018, 'sfx-2011-10.pdf 08-09-2011', 'sfx-2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4677'),
(20019, 'Sh*t My Dad Says', 'Justin Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won''t screw you. Don''t do it for them."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern''s philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny''s, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns'' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, *Sh*t My Dad Says* is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4190'),
(20020, 'Sh*t My Dad Says', 'Justin Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won''t screw you. Don''t do it for them."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern''s philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny''s, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns'' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, *Sh*t My Dad Says* is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4418'),
(20021, 'Shadow Man', 'Cody McFadyen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best - until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead - but her life was shattered forever. Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman who''s lost everything, what is there left to lose? She''s about to find out. In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like him - a new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers'' attempts to understand him. And he''s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live. The killer videotaped his latest crime - an act of horror that left a child motherless - then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever. Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive again - and she''s about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a motherâ€¦and a merciless killer''s next victim.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This disturbing serial killer drama set in California marks a promising debut for McFadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm. FBI agent Smoky Barrett, a haunted, complicated woman, leads a team of investigators assigned to a serial killer task force. Barrett, who escaped the clutches of a different serial killer a year earlier but lost her husband and daughter in the attack, is now tracking a madman known as "Jack Jr.," who believes he''s a descendant of Jack the Ripper. He mauls women, mostly prostitutes with Web sites, then sends the videotapes of the killings to Barrett and her crew. The plot follows a typical arc, complete with some nauseating details and predictable twists. There''s also a romance between Barrett and a bodyguard that seems tacked on for future installments. Yet McFadyen''s writing is crisp and smart, and his scenes pack a visceral punch without being cheap or exploitative. Barrett, for her part, is a memorable protagonist, a deeply troubled woman trying to move on from tragedy, yet possessing special insight into the criminal mind.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A serial killer murdered FBI agent Smokey Barrett''s husband and daughter. Smokey killed the fiend but was left deeply scarred. Now, after spending time contemplating suicide, Smokey finds herself drawn back into the game . . . by a new killer who has addressed his latest crime to her personally. First-time novelist McFadyen writes like an old pro, acknowledging the conventions of the serial-killer thriller without being slavishly devoted to them. Smokey, the not-quite-five-foot-tall, sharp-shooting FBI agent, is no standard-issue heroine, and her nemesis, the killer who calls himself Jack Jr., is both chilling and strangely compassionate. A series to watch.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6157'),
(20022, 'The Shadow Woman', 'Ake Edwardson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3958'),
(20023, 'Shape - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10817'),
(20024, 'Sharpe&#39;s Battle', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de OÃ±oro, May 1811.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4586'),
(20025, 'Sharpe&#39;s Christmas', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Christmas  , is a short story. It features Cornwell''s fictional hero Richard Sharpe. It was originally written for British newspaper  The Daily Mail  which serialised it during the Christmas season of 1994. An extended version was published by The Sharpe Appreciation Society in a short story collection of the same name in 2003 to raise funds for The Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4587'),
(20026, 'Sharpe&#39;s Company', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Company  set January to April 1812 during the Peninsular War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4588'),
(20027, 'Sharpe&#39;s Devil', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The last book, chronologically, in the Sharpe series is set four years after the events of  Sharpe''s Waterloo . Richard Sharpe has retired to live on the farm in Normandy with his common-law wife Lucille Castineau. Patrick Harper has a bar in Dublin with Isabella and has put on a great deal of weight. The two are called out of retirement by an old friend who sends them on a mission to South America.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  An honored veteran of the Napolenic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas. The year is 1820, and military hero Richard Sharpe has quietly passed the years since the Battle of Waterloo as a farmer. Suddenly, his peaceful retirement is disturbed when he and the intrepid Patrick Harper are called to the Spanish colony of Chile to find Don Blas Vivar, an old friend who has vanished without a traceâ€”and who just happened to be the captain-general of Chile. Sharpe and Harper embark on a dangerous journey that carries them first to an unexpected interview with Napoleon, then on to Chile, a land seething with corruption and revolt. On land and at sea, Sharpe faces impossible odds, not only against finding Vivar, but against surviving in a time when tyranny rules, injustice aboundsâ€”Napoleon lurks on the horizon, itching to rekindle the world in a blaze of war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4589'),
(20028, 'Sharpe&#39;s Eagle', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is Bernard Cornwell''s first novel, written as a means of providing him with an income while living with his American fiancÃ©e in her home country where he could not get a work visa.  Cornwellâ€™s plan  "to write a series of tales about the adventures of a British rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars"  and he had wanted to start with the Siege of Badajoz but on reflection, he felt that this was too ambitious for his first novel and so decided to start with a couple of easier books as a warm-up. Cornwell also wanted to find a task just as impossible as the taking of Badajoz for his first adventure, and so the capture of a Regimental Eagle from a French Regiment provided the challenge the author felt necessary to establish the reputation of both Sharpe and his close friend, Sergeant Patrick Harper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4590'),
(20029, 'Sharpe&#39;s Enemy', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue a group of well-born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe''s most implacable enemy. But the rescue is the least of Sharpe''s problems. He must face a far greater threat. With only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop â€” the last word in military incompetence â€” to back his gamble, Sharpe cannot afford even to recognize the prospect of defeat. For to surrender â€” or to fail â€” would mean the end of the war for the Allied armiesâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4591'),
(20030, 'Sharpe&#39;s Escape', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a stunning victory, the French are not stopped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4592'),
(20031, 'Sharpe&#39;s Fortress', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Fortress  is the third (historically) of the Richard Sharpe series, and last of the Sharpe India trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4593'),
(20032, 'Sharpe&#39;s Fury', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Fury  returns to the story during the middle of Sharpe''s tour of duty during Wellington''s campaign in the Iberian peninsula, March 1811.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4594'),
(20033, 'Sharpe&#39;s Gold', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A year after the victory at Talavera, Wellington''s army, outnumbered and bankrupt, is on the verge of collapse. Its only hope lies in a cache of gold hidden in the Portuguese mountains, and the only man capable of stealing it is Captain Richard Sharpe-even if it means turning against his own side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4595'),
(20034, 'Sharpe&#39;s Havoc', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Havoc   is a historical novel by Bernard Cornwell set during the Napoleonic Wars.  This book tells the story of Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, during a portion of his time with the 2nd Battalion of the 95th Rifles during the Peninsular War in 1809.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4596'),
(20035, 'Sharpe&#39;s Honour', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813 Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army''s new campaign with grim expectancy. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain â€” an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. But Sharpe''s enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take a personal revenge on Sharpe. And when the lovely spy, La Marquesa, takes a hand in the game, Sharpe finds himself caught in a web of deadly intrigue and becomes a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alikeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4597'),
(20036, 'Sharpe&#39;s Prey', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book tells the story of Ensign Richard Sharpe, who is sent to Copenhagen in 1807 with the job of protecting a nobleman on an important, but secret, mission. Sharpe soon discovers that his task is not as simple as it seemed and that he must overcome traitors, spies and the bombardment of Copenhagen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4598'),
(20037, 'Sharpe&#39;s Ransom', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Ransom , which takes place after Sharpe''s Waterloo, is set in peacetime providing a glimpse of Sharpe''s life in Normandy with Lucille.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4599'),
(20038, 'Sharpe&#39;s Revenge', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814. It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated, and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war must be fought: the battle for the city of Toulouse. Sharpe''s war is not over with the victory. Accused of stealing a consignment of Napoleon''s treasure en route to Elba, Sharpe must elude his captors and track down the unknown enemy who has tried to incriminate him. Accompanied by his comrade, Captain William Frederickson, Major Richard Sharpe pursues with energy, venom and unflinching resolve an ingenious and devastating revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4601'),
(20039, 'Sharpe&#39;s Rifles', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Rifles  was the first prequel novel in the series written by Bernard Cornwell. It tells the story of Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4602'),
(20040, 'Sharpe&#39;s Siege', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career. Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander and the machinations of his old enemy, French spymaster Pierre Ducos, Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory, facing overwhelming forces and the very real prospect of defeat. He has no alternative but to trust his fortunes to an American privateer â€” a man who has no love for the British invaders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4603'),
(20041, 'Sharpe&#39;s Skirmish', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a lightning raid across the River Tormes, and they reckon the obscure Spanish fort, which guards an ancient bridge across the river, will be lightly guarded. Sharpe is in for a fight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4604'),
(20042, 'Sharpe&#39;s Sword', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bitter rivalry between Sharpe and the ruthless Frenchman Colonel Leroux is brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsular War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4605'),
(20043, 'Sharpe&#39;s Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sharpe''s Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4606'),
(20044, 'Sharpe&#39;s Trafalgar', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Sharpe''s Trafalgar is a nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history''s most historically significant naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the coast of Spain, in 1805.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Fresh from his heroic adventures in India (in "Sharpe''s Fortress"), Richard Sharpe faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a formidable French warship. With the help of a Royal Navy captain, Sharpe learns the French ship carries a treaty that could ignite renewed hostilities against the British in India.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4607');
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(20045, 'Sharpe&#39;s Triumph (s-2)', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.  The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty''s service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo''s city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo''s brutal executioners â€” or, worse â€” his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo''s well-set trap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4608'),
(20046, 'Sharpe&#39;s Waterloo', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A mighty battle conveyed with convincing clarity'' Mail on Sunday ''A brilliantly imaginative novel which sweeps you along at breakneck speed'' Mary Wesley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the inexperienced and incompetent Young Frog, William, Prince of Orange, who has been given command of a large proportion of the Allied force. More concerned with cutting a dash at a grand society ball in Brussels, the Young Frog refuses to listen to Sharpe''s scouting reports of an enormous army marching towards them with the lately returned Napoleon at its head. When the Battle of Waterloo commences, Sharpe has to stand by and watch military folly on a grand scale. But at the height of the conflict, just as victory seems impossible, he makes a momentous decision. With his usual skill, courage and determination he takes command and the most hard-fought and bloody battle of his career becomes Sharpe''s own magnificent triumph.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4609'),
(20047, 'Shattered Silk', 'Barbara Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Recovering from the demise of her unhappy marriage and planning to open the antique-clothing store of her dreams in Georgetown, Karen is suddenly confronted with a series of ominous and deadly events that threaten to turn her dream into a nightmare.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This latest work from the prolific and successful novelist of romantic suspense features a heroine, Karen Nevitt, who begins a new life in Georgetown after her unhappy marriage crumbles. She plans to open an antique-clothing shop with the encouragement of old and new friends. But a series of seemingly unrelated yet terrifying events begins to unfold, and Karen is caught up in a web of deadly suspense on her path to success and love. Michaels has done it again with this entertaining "modern gothic" tale. Virginia A. Doser, Saddleback Coll. Lib., Mission Viejo, Cal.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A master storyteller." --\n  <em>\n   Mary Higgins Clark\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4622'),
(20048, 'She Walks in Beauty: A Woman&#39;s Journey Through Poems', 'Caroline Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n , Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n draws on poetry''s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman''s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life''s journey.\n</p>\n<p>\n The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it''s falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  She walks in beauty\n </strong>\n <br />\n George Gordon, Lord Byron\n</p>\n<p>\n I She walks in beauty, like the night\n <br />\n Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that''s best of dark and bright\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet in her aspect and her eyes:\n <br />\n Thus mellow''d to that tender light\n <br />\n Which heaven to gaudy day denies.\n</p>\n<p>\n II One shade the more, one ray the less,\n <br />\n Had half impair''d the nameless grace\n <br />\n Which waves in every raven tress,\n <br />\n Or softly lightens o''er her face;\n <br />\n Where thoughts serenely sweet express\n <br />\n How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.\n</p>\n<p>\n III And on that cheek, and o''er that brow,\n <br />\n So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,\n <br />\n The smiles that win, the tints that glow,\n <br />\n But tell of days in goodness spent,\n <br />\n A mind at peace with all below,\n <br />\n A heart whose love is innocent!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n CAROLINE KENNEDY is the author and editor of seven bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. She is the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4191'),
(20049, 'She Walks in Beauty: A Woman&#39;s Journey Through Poems', 'Caroline Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n , Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n draws on poetry''s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman''s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life''s journey.\n</p>\n<p>\n The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it''s falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old,\n <em>\n  She Walks in Beauty\n </em>\n is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  She walks in beauty\n </strong>\n <br />\n George Gordon, Lord Byron\n</p>\n<p>\n I She walks in beauty, like the night\n <br />\n Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that''s best of dark and bright\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet in her aspect and her eyes:\n <br />\n Thus mellow''d to that tender light\n <br />\n Which heaven to gaudy day denies.\n</p>\n<p>\n II One shade the more, one ray the less,\n <br />\n Had half impair''d the nameless grace\n <br />\n Which waves in every raven tress,\n <br />\n Or softly lightens o''er her face;\n <br />\n Where thoughts serenely sweet express\n <br />\n How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.\n</p>\n<p>\n III And on that cheek, and o''er that brow,\n <br />\n So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,\n <br />\n The smiles that win, the tints that glow,\n <br />\n But tell of days in goodness spent,\n <br />\n A mind at peace with all below,\n <br />\n A heart whose love is innocent!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n CAROLINE KENNEDY is the author and editor of seven bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. She is the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4419'),
(20050, 'Sherlock Holmes for Dummies', 'Steven Doyle &amp; David A. Crowder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get a comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author.\n</p>\n<p>\n A classic literary character, Sherlock Holmes has fascinated readers for decades -- from his repartee with Dr. Watson and his unparalleled powers of deduction to the settings, themes, and villains of the stories. Now, this friendly guide offers a clear introduction to this beloved figure and his author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, presenting new insight into the detective stories and crime scene analysis that have has made Sherlock Holmes famous.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside you''ll find easy-to-understand yet thorough information on the characters, recurring themes, and locations, and social context of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the relationship of these stories to literature, and the forensics and detective work they feature. You''ll also learn about the life of the author.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Better understand and enjoy this influential literary character with this plain-English guide.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain insight on these classic Doyle tales -- from the classic Hound of the Baskervilles to the lesser-known short stories to Holmes stories written by other mystery writers.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the appearance of Sherlock Holmes on film, TV, and stage.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examine Holmes today -- from the ever-expanding network of fans worldwide to story locations that fans can visit.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n It''s elementary!\n <em>\n  Sherlock Holmes For Dummies\n </em>\n is an indispensable guide for students and fans alike!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s elementary! Sherlock Holmes is a classic character who has fascinated readers for decades, and now this indispensable guide explores the enduring detective''s stories like never before. Discover the rich characters, recurring themes, and social context of Arthur Conan Doyle''s tales; the influence of Holmes on literature and pop culture; and why his stories still offer endless and fascinating new discoveries to readers.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See where it all began â€” meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created the world''s greatest detective, and learn about Victorian London, where the Holmes stories take place\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain new insight into Doyle''s tales â€” from the classic Hound of the Baskervilles to the lesser-known short stories, get a closer look at the forensics and detective work that made Sherlock Holmes famous\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the characters â€” discover why Holmes and Watson are such beloved characters, and meet other characters such as cops, bad guys, victims, and damsels in distress\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Experience Holmes today â€” from the ever-expanding network of worldwide fans to story locations that fans can visit, discover how the character continues to resonate with so many devoted followers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "Move over, Arthur Conan Doyle. Make room for Steve Doyle, whose handy Sherlock Holmes For Dummies will constitute addictive reading for Holmes fans and novices alike. Doyle has merrily put together a compendium of every sort of information regarding The Great Detective, from animal, vegetable, mineral, comical, tragical, and geographical. He even recommends ten Holmes books no aficionado should be without â€” but make that eleven. Sherlock Holmes For Dummies is essential reading." â€“ Nicholas Meyer Author, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A list of all Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A detailed picture of Britain during Holmes''s time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In-depth analysis of Holmes and Watson as characters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Detailed coverage of the four novels in the Sherlockian canon\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Holmes portrayals in television, movies, onstage, and in fan fiction\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The most memorable quotes of Holmes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Active Sherlockian societies in the United States\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify key themes, settings, and characters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   See the influence of Holmes stories and their impact on literature, mystery writing, and detective work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover Holmes through his contemporary fan following, and stage and screen adaptations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Appreciate the literary genius of the Sherlock Holmes canon\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2031'),
(20051, 'Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated', 'Doyle, Arthur Conan Sir', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4289'),
(20052, 'Shih Tzu for Dummies', 'Eve Adamson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n To know a Shih Tzu is to love a Shih Tzu . . . theyâ€™re irresistible, coy, flirtatious, and passionately devoted companions. They love the good life, and though they can be shrewd (or selectively deaf, or consciously naÃ¯ve), the Shih Tzu is so endearing that even â€œbig dogâ€ lovers find themselves swooning over this adorable breed. But is the Chinese Charmer the right match for you?\n <em>\n  Shih Tzu for Dummies\n </em>\n answers all of your questions, like:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What is a Shih Tzu really like?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Can I get a Shih Tzu if I have children or other pets?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How difficult is grooming? Can I do it myself or should I get a professional?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How do I find a good breeder? What about a good vet?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What should my Shih Tzu eat?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do small dogs really need that much training?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How can I teach my Shih Tzu some basic commands?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Shih Tzu is built for one job and one job alone: to be your close personal friend for life. A dog bred for companionship must be allowed to do its job, and its job is to be with you. So, if you have the time (for grooming), dedication (for training), and room (on your lap and in your heart), the Shih Tzu is a small dog with a lot of love just waiting for a new best friend.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers housetraining and socializing your Shih Tzu\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the 411 on bringing you Shih Tzu home and raising him right\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you thinking about owning a Shih Tzu? Or do you already own one? This guide helps you decide, giving you all the basics on the breed. From feeding and grooming to healthcare and training, you''ll get expert advice on making your Shih Tzu''s homecoming a success and having fun with your little companion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Purchase, adopt, or rescue a Shih Tzu\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select supplies and accessories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle common health and behavior issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dog-proof your home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan travel with your Shih Tzu\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2032'),
(20053, 'Ship of Magic', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, has returned to that world for a new series.\n  <em>\n   Ship of Magic\n  </em>\n  is a sea tale, reminiscent of __ and\n  <em>\n   liveships\n  </em>\n  have distinct personalities and partner with specific people, somewhat like\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hobb has peopled the book with many wonderfully developed characters. Most of the primary ones are members of the Vestritts, an Old Trader family which owns the liveship\n  <em>\n   Vivacia\n  </em>\n  . Their stories are intercut with those of Kennit, the ambitious pirate Brashen, the disinherited scion of another family who served on the Vestritt''s ship, and\n  <em>\n   Paragon\n  </em>\n  , an old liveship abandoned and believed mad. The sentient sea serpents have their own story hinted at, as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though\n  <em>\n   Ship of Magic\n  </em>\n  is full of action, none of the plotlines get resolved in this book. Readers who resent being left with many questions and few answers after almost 700 pages should think twice before starting, or wait until the rest of the series is out so that their suspense won''t be too prolonged. But Hobb''s writing draws you in and makes you care desperately about what will happen next, the mark of a terrific storyteller.\n  <em>\n   --Nona Vero\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The untimely death of Old Trader Ephron Vestrit deprives his daughter Althea of her inheritance and places her ambitious brother-in-law Kyle in command of the live ship Viveca and the family fortunes. The author of the Farseer trilogy (Assassin''s Apprentice, LJ 3/15/95; Royal Assassin, Bantam, 1996; Assassin''s Quest, Bantam, 1997) launches a new series set in a world of sentient ships, merchant traders, ruthless pirates, dangerous treasures, seagoing dragons, and a mysterious elder race. Hobb excels in depicting complex characters; even her villains command respect, if not sympathy, for their actions. Most libraries should purchase this exotic, nonstandard fantasy.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6272'),
(20054, 'Ship of the Line', 'C. S. Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems â€œthe ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List.â€ Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train â€œpoachers, bigamists, sheepstealers,â€ and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5976'),
(20055, 'ShopSmart 09-2011', 'ShopSmart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3107'),
(20056, 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6401'),
(20057, 'SHOW - No.21 2011', 'No.21 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6820'),
(20058, 'The Shrieking Pit', 'Arthur J. Rees', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4320'),
(20059, 'Shutter Island', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new Â­partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shadesâ€”with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6284'),
(20060, 'Shutterbug 10-2011', 'Shutterbug', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4543'),
(20061, 'Shutterbug_2011-10S370_HQ.pdf 16-09-2011', 'Shutterbug_2011-10S370_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6084'),
(20062, 'Shutterbug.2011.11.pdf 20-10-2011', 'Shutterbug.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10805'),
(20063, 'The Sicilian', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mario Puzo has created masterful stories of evil on an epic scale, mesmerizing us with the terrible magic of the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6340'),
(20064, 'Siddhartha', 'Hermann Hesse &amp; Susan Bernofsky &amp; Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the novel,\n  <em>\n   Siddhartha\n  </em>\n  , a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Son of the Brahmin\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the shade of the house, in the sunlight on the riverbank where the boats were moored, in the shade of the sal wood and the shade of the fig tree, Siddhartha grew up, the Brahminâ€™s handsome son, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, the son of a Brahmin. Sunlight darkened his fair shoulders on the riverbank as he bathed, performed the holy ablutions, the holy sacrifices. Shade poured into his dark eyes in the mango grove as he played with the other boys, listened to his motherâ€™s songs, performed the holy sacrifices, heard the teachings of his learned father and the wise menâ€™s counsels. Siddhartha had long since begun to join in the wise menâ€™s counsels, to practice with Govinda the art of wrestling with words, to practice with Govinda the art of contemplation, the duty of meditation. He had mastered Om, the Word of Words, learned to speak it soundlessly into himself while drawing a breath, to speak it out soundlessly as his breath was released, his soul collected, brow shining with his mindâ€™s clear thought. He had learned to feel Atmanâ€™s presence at the core of his being, inextinguishable, one with the universe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joy leaped into his fatherâ€™s heart at the thought of his son, this studious boy with his thirst for knowledge; he envisioned him growing up to be a great wise man and priest, a prince among Brahmins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Delight leaped into his motherâ€™s breast when she beheld him, watched him as he walked and sat and stood, Siddhartha, the strong handsome boy walking on slender legs, greeting her with flawless grace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmin girls when Siddhartha walked through the streets of their town with his radiant brow, his regal eye, his narrow hips.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But none of them loved him more dearly than Govinda, his friend, the Brahminâ€™s son. He loved Siddharthaâ€™s eyes and his sweet voice, loved the way he walked and the flawless grace of his movements; he loved all that Siddhartha did and all he said and most of all he loved his mind, his noble, passionate thoughts, his ardent will, his noble calling. Govinda knew: This would be no ordinary Brahmin, no indolent pen pusher overseeing the sacrifices, no greedy hawker of incantations, no vain, shallow orator, no wicked, deceitful priest, and no foolish, good sheep among the herd of the multitude. Nor did he, Govinda, have any intention of becoming such a creature, one of the tens of thousands of ordinary Brahmins. His wish was to follow Siddhartha, the beloved, splendid one. And if Siddhartha should ever become a god, if he were ever to take his place among the Radiant Ones, Govinda wished to follow him, as his friend, his companion, his servant, his spear bearer, his shadow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thus was Siddhartha beloved by all. He brought them all joy, filled them with delight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To himself, though, Siddhartha brought no joy, gave no delight. Strolling along the rosy pathways of the fig garden, seated in the blue-tinged shade of the Grove of Contemplation, washing his limbs in the daily expiatory baths, performing sacrifices in the deep-shadowed mango wood, with his gestures of flawless grace, he was beloved by all, a joy to all, yet was his own heart bereft of joy. Dreams assailed him, and troubled thoughtsâ€”eddying up from the waves of the river, sparkling down from the stars at night, melting out of the sunâ€™s rays; dreams came to him, and a disquiet of the soul wafting in the smoke from the sacrifices, murmuring among the verses of the Rig-Veda, welling up in the teachings of the old Brahmins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Siddhartha had begun to harbor discontent. He had begun to feel that his fatherâ€™s love and the love of his mother, even the love of his friend Govinda, would not always and forever suffice to gladden him, content him, sate him, fulfill him. He had begun to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, all wise Brahmins, had already given him the richest and best part of their wisdom, had already poured their plenty into his waiting vessel, yet the vessel was not full: His mind was not content, his soul not at peace, his heart restless. The ablutions were good, but they were only water; they could not wash away sin, could not quench his mindâ€™s thirst or dispel his heartâ€™s fear. The sacrifices and the invocations of the gods were most excellentâ€”but was this all? Did the sacrifices bring happiness? And what of the gods? Was it really Prajapati who had created the world? Was it not rather Atman, He, the Singular, the One and Only? Werenâ€™t the gods mere shapes, creations like you and me, subject to time, transitory? And was it then good, was it proper, was it meaningful, a noble act, to sacrifice to the gods? To whom else should one sacrifice, to whom else show devotion, if not to Him, the Singular, Atman? And where was Atman to be found, where did He reside, where did His eternal heart lie beating? Where else but within oneself, in the innermost indestructible core each man carries inside him. But where, where was this Self, this innermost, utmost thing? It was not flesh and bone, it was not thought and not consciousness, at least according to the wise menâ€™s teachings. Where was it then, where? To penetrate to this point, to reach the Self, oneself, Atmanâ€”could there be any other path worth seeking? Yet this was a path no one was showing him; it was a path no one knew, not his father, not the teachers and wise men, not the holy songs intoned at the sacrifices! They knew everything, these Brahmins and their holy books, everything, and they had applied themselves to everything, more than everything: to the creation of the world, the origins of speech, of food, of inhalation and exhalation; to the orders of the senses, the deeds of the godsâ€”they knew infinitely many thingsâ€”but was there value in knowing all these things without knowing the One, the Only thing, that which was important above all else, that was, indeed, the sole matter of importance?\n </p>\n <p>\n  To be sure, many verses in the holy books, above all the Upanishads of the Sama-Veda, spoke of this innermost, utmost thing: splendid verses. â€œYour soul is the entire worldâ€ was written there, and it was written as well that in sleep, the deepest sleep, man entered the innermost core of his being and dwelt in Atman. There was glorious wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the wisest men was collected here in magic words, pure as the honey collected by bees. It was not to be disregarded, this massive sum of knowledge that had been collected here by countless generations of wise Brahmins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But where were the Brahmins, where the priests, where the wise men or penitents who had succeeded not merely in knowing this knowledge but in living it? Where was the master who had been able to transport his own being-at-home-in-Atman from sleep to the waking realm, to life, to all his comings and goings, his every word and deed?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Siddhartha knew a great many venerable Brahmins, above all his father, a pure, learned, utterly venerable man. Worthy of admiration was his father, still and regal his bearing, his life pure, his words full of wisdom; fine and noble thoughts resided in his brow. But even he, who was possessed of such knowledge, did he dwell in bliss, did he know peace? Was not he too only a seeker, a man tormented by thirst? Was he not compelled to drink again and again from the holy springs, a thirsty man drinking in the sacrifices, the books, the dialogues of the Brahmins? Why must he, who was without blame, wash away sin day after day, labor daily to cleanse himself, each day anew? Was not Atman within him? Did not the ancient source of all springs flow within his own heart? This was what must be found, the fountainhead within oneâ€™s own being; you had to make it your own! All else was searching, detour, confusion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Such was the nature of Siddharthaâ€™s thoughts; this was his thirst, this his sorrow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Often he recited to himself the words of a Chandogya Upanishad: â€œVerily, the name of the Brahman is Satyam; truly, he who knows this enters each day into the heavenly world.â€ It often seemed near at hand, this heavenly world, but never once had he succeeded in reaching it, in quenching that final thirst. And of all the wise and wisest men he knew and whose teachings he enjoyed, not a single one had succeeded in reaching it, this heavenly world; not one had fully quenched that eternal thirst.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGovinda,â€ Siddhartha said to his friend. â€œGovinda, beloved one, come under the banyan tree with me; let us practice samadhi.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the banyan they went and sat down beneath it, Siddhartha here and Govinda at a distance of twenty paces. As he sat down, ready to speak the Om, Siddhartha murmured this verse:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOm is the bow; the arrow is soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brahman is the arrowâ€™s mark;\n </p>\n <p>\n  Strike it with steady aim.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the usual time for the meditation exercise had passed, Govinda arose. Evening had come; it was time to begin the ablutions of the eventide. He called Siddharthaâ€™s name; Siddhartha gave no answer. Siddhartha sat rapt, his eyes fixed unmoving upon a far distant point; the tip of his tongue stuck out from between his teeth; he seemed not to be breathing. Thus he sat, cloaked in samadhi, thinking Om, his soul an arrow on its way to Brahman.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One day, Samanas passed through Siddharthaâ€™s town: ascetic pilgrims, three gaunt lifeless men, neither old nor young, with bloody, dust-covered shoulders, all but naked, singed by the sun, shrouded in isolation, foreign to the world and hostile to it, strangers and wizened jackals among men. The hot breath of air that follow...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
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(20067, 'The Silent Girl', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert handsâ€”and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Bostonâ€™s Chinatown will do both.In the murky shadows of an alley lies a femaleâ€™s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hairâ€”not humanâ€”cling to her body. They are Rizzoliâ€™s only clues, but theyâ€™re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now sheâ€™s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunningâ€”and a swift, avenging blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4213'),
(20068, 'The Silent Girl', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The Silent Girl\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Suspense doesn''t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory."â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time. Â \n <br />\n And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."â€”Lorraine Bracco\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] deft thriller.â€â€”_Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ice Cold\n </em>\n and Tess Gerritsen\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.â€â€”_Salon_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kind of book youâ€™d read in one sitting.â€â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmazing . . . another winner.â€â€”_The Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior do dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.â€â€”_The Providence Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorraine Bracco loves\n <em>\n  The Silent Girl\n </em>\n , saying "She did it to me again! Â I can''t get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli &amp; Isles." Â So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston''s Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time.Â  And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out--you''re killing me, Tess! Â So good..."\n</p>\n<p>\n No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind\n <em>\n  Ice Cold\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Keepsake\n </em>\n . When New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert handsâ€”and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Bostonâ€™s Chinatown will do both.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the murky shadows of an alley lies a femaleâ€™s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hairâ€”not humanâ€”cling to her body. They are Rizzoliâ€™s only clues, but theyâ€™re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now sheâ€™s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunningâ€”and a swift, avenging blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4389'),
(20069, 'The Silent Sea', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack B. Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The seventh Oregon Files adventure thriller begins on December 7, 1941, when five boys encounter tragedy while looking for buried pirate treasure on a small island off the coast of Washington State. Flash-forward to today: Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon (a high-tech vessel posing as a tramp freighter), is in Argentina, trying to recover a downed NASA satellite. Well, donâ€™t you know, Juan stumbles on something he totally didnâ€™t expect to find, and soon heâ€™s chasing after the secrets of an ancient curse that might still be causing trouble. Fast-paced and a lot of fun, the latest Cabrillo novel delivers the wallop Cusslerâ€™s fans have come to expect. Cabrillo himselfâ€”he shares his name with a sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, by the wayâ€”makes a fine protagonist, sharp-witted and two-fisted. Considering the Oregon Files novels involve action, exploration, and high-tech gadgetry, itâ€™s surprising no one has turned them into movies yet. The prolific Cussler, who, like James Patterson, now employs coauthors (Du Brul in this case), is often accused of writing by the numbers, but this time those numbers add up to entertaining fare for high-adventure fans. --David Pitt\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ancient curse...\n  <br />\n  A prize beyond imagination...\n  <br />\n  Juan Cabrillo will face one to win the other.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6151'),
(20070, 'The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the third novel in Inspector Morse series. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis | Publication history | Sources, references, external links\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."\n  <br />\n  --The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations Board at Oxford, which designs tests for students of English around the world. But when someone slips cyanide into Nicholas''s sherry, Inspector Morse has a multiple-choice murder. Any one of a tight little group of academics could have killed Quinn. Before Morse is done, all their dirty little secrets will be exposed. And a murderer will be cramming for his finals. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Dexter] is a magician with character, story construction, and the English language. . . . Colin Dexter and Morse are treasures of the genre."\n  <br />\n  --Mystery News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a delight to watch this brilliant, quirky man [Morse] deduce."\n  <br />\n  --Minneapolis Star &amp; Tribune\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6182'),
(20071, 'The Silver Eagle (tllc-2)', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kane''s ambitious sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Forgotten Legion\n  </em>\n  continues his chronicle of life in the tumultuous Roman Republic. After four years as a prostitute, Fabiola becomes the lover of the powerful Decimus Brutus, a top lieutenant of Julius Caesar. Her two fiery obsessions are to exploit her social status to track down her rapist father and to reunite with her brother, Romulus, a gladiator turned legionnaire captured by the Parthians at Carrahae. Forced to serve in the Parthian army, Romulus dreams of returning to his native Rome, his quest helped along by a soothsayer and a soldier from Gaul. The siblings'' parallel adventures unfold in propulsive alternating chapters, with military campaigns and pitched battles making up the bulk of the narrative excitement. The historical details, graphic combat sequences, and finely drawn characters lift Kane''s title above standard swords-and-sandals fare and should keep series fans sated until the next installment.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Lively...riveting...Kane clearly knows the history of the period, and his story is rich in accurate historical detail.Â The characterizations are finely drawn and set against a dangerous, cruel, but often thrilling landscape." --_Booklist _on\n  <em>\n   The Forgotten Legion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A pleasure for those like history and great adventure...recommended for historical fiction collections." --_Library Journal _on\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Legion\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4580'),
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(20086, 'Six Sigma for Dummies', 'Craig Gygi &amp; Neil Decarlo &amp; Bruce Williams &amp; Stephen R. Covey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s largest and most profitable companies â€“ including the likes of GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola â€“ have used Six Sigma to achieve breathtaking improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work environments.Â Over the past decade, over $100 billion in bottom-line performance has been achieved through corporate Six Sigma programs.Â  Yet, despite its astounding effectiveness, few outside of the community of Six Sigma practitioners know what Six Sigma is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this book, Six Sigma is revealed to everyone.Â  You might be in a company thatâ€™s already implemented Six Sigma, or your organization may be considering it.Â  You may be a student who wants to learn how it works, or you might be a seasoned business professional who needs to get up to speed. In any case,\n <em>\n  Six Sigma For Dummies\n </em>\n is the most straightforward, non-intimidating guide on the market.Â This simple, friendly book makes Six Sigma make sense.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a compelling foreword by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, the internationally recognized leadership authority and bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The 8th Habit\n </em>\n , and an afterword by Roxanne Oâ€™Brasky, President of the International Society of Six Sigma,\n <em>\n  Six Sigma For Dummies\n </em>\n is the most complete and objective book in the market today.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike most other works that are either graduate-level statistics treatises or thinly-veiled autobiographical success stories, Six Sigma For Dummies teaches the reader all the foundation principles, methods, and tools of this magnificent problem-solving system.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Intended to help readers understand Six Sigma and how they can use it to improve their performance, this no-nonsense guide explains:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What Six Sigma is all about and how it works\n </li>\n <li>\n  The benefits of Six SigmaÂ in organizations and businesses\n </li>\n <li>\n  TheÂ powerful â€œDMAICâ€Â problem-solving roadmap\n </li>\n <li>\n  Yellow, Green and Black -- how the Six Sigma "belt" system works\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to select and utilize the right tools and technologies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speaking the language of Six Sigma\n </li>\n <li>\n  Knowing the roles and responsibilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mastering the statistics skills and analytical methods\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Six Sigma For Dummies\n </em>\n will become everyoneâ€™s No. 1 resource for discovering and mastering the worldâ€™s most famous and powerful improvement tool.Â  Stephen Covey is spot-on when he says, â€œ_Six Sigma For Dummies_ is a book to be read by everyoneâ€.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n With tools and tips for making sense of Six Sigma\n</p>\n<p>\n Use Six Sigma to improve business performance â€” and reap big profits\n</p>\n<p>\n Millions of people work in companies that use Six Sigma to achieve quantum leaps in performance â€” in everything from products and processes to systems and even environments. But for beginners, Six Sigma can seem confusing and mysterious. Relax! Six Sigma For Dummies explains it all â€” whether you need help implementing the methodology, or just understanding it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what Six Sigma is and how it works\n </li>\n <li>\n  Utilize the right tools and technologies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speak the language of Six Sigma\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know the responsibilities of team members\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the statistics skills you''ll need\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2033'),
(20087, 'Six Sigma Workbook for Dummies', 'Craig Gygi &amp; Bruce Williams &amp; Terry Gustafson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Improve your efficiency -- and bring in big profits!\n</p>\n<p>\n Need help implementing or understanding Six Sigma? Want to take this powerful problem-solving methodology and apply it to your business? Six Sigma isn''t just for Fortune 500 companies anymore; it''s for every business, even yours, no matter how big or small. This hands-on workbook provides the knowledge, insight, and practical exercises you need to master Six Sigma and put it to work in your business. Perfect as a companion workbook for Six Sigma For Dummies -- or any other Six Sigma book -- Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies gives you a wealth of examples, problems, and other tools you need to turn Six Sigma theory into practice -- today!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n <br />\n * How to form and lead a Six Sigma initiative\n <br />\n * Project alignment with business objectives and strategy\n <br />\n * How to create process flow maps and models\n <br />\n * Chart and graph plotting for analysis and interpretation\n <br />\n * Methods for calculating Sigma scores\n <br />\n * How to quantify variable relationships\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Improve your efficiency â€” and bring in big profits!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need help implementing or understanding Six Sigma? Want to take this powerful problem-solving methodology and apply it to your business? Six Sigma isn''t just for Fortune 500 companies anymore; it''s for every business, even yours, no matter how big or small. This hands-on workbook provides the knowledge, insight, and practical exercises you need to master Six Sigma and put it to work in your business. Perfect as a companion workbook for\n <em>\n  Six Sigma For Dummies\n </em>\n â€” or any other Six Sigma book â€”\n <em>\n  Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you a wealth of examples, problems, and other tools you need to turn Six Sigma theory into practice â€” today!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to form and lead a Six Sigma initiative\n </li>\n <li>\n  Project alignment with business objectives and strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to create process flow maps and models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chart and graph plotting for analysis and interpretation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Methods for calculating Sigma scores\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to quantify variable relationships\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2034'),
(20088, 'Sixkill', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An extraordinary new Spenser novel from the beloved\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. The situation doesn''t look good for Jumbo, whose appetites for food, booze, and sex are as outsized as his name. He was the studio''s biggest star, but he''s become their biggest liability.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo''s bodyguard: a young, former football-playing Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more within the young man. Despite the odd circumstances, the two forge an unlikely alliance, with Spenser serving as mentor for Sixkill. As the case grows darker and secrets about both Jumbo and the dead girl come to light, it''s Spenser-with Sixkill at his side-who must put things right.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert B. Parker\n </strong>\n was the author of more than fifty books. He died in January 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4136'),
(20089, 'The Sixth Man', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts Hitchcock and James Bond, it''s the perfect literary cocktail...One of Baldacci''s best." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Richmond Times-Dispatch\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Deliver Us from Evil\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s his eager, expansive imagination that drives his books . . . Like other thriller writers, Baldacci depends on a mixture of inventive plotting, appealing characters, luck, and consistency. Unlike others, his books rely more on characters'' relationships than whiz-bang technology or procedural twists . . . What he offers is in some ways more unusual." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsweek\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    First Family\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rousing success . . . Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   (starred review) for\n   <em>\n    Divine Justice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "High-stakes action, shadowy government agencies, and [a] neo-Cold War backdrop . . . Baldacci pushes his plot ahead at such a blistering pace." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Washington Post\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    The Whole Truth\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, chilling, and full of surprises." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Stone Cold\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Simple Genius\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   First Family\n  </em>\n  , Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.\n  <strong>\n   THE SIXTH MAN\n  </strong>\n  Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy''s attorney, Sean''s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy''s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4105'),
(20090, 'The Sixth Man', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts Hitchcock and James Bond, it''s the perfect literary cocktail...One of Baldacci''s best." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Richmond Times-Dispatch\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Deliver Us from Evil\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s his eager, expansive imagination that drives his books . . . Like other thriller writers, Baldacci depends on a mixture of inventive plotting, appealing characters, luck, and consistency. Unlike others, his books rely more on characters'' relationships than whiz-bang technology or procedural twists . . . What he offers is in some ways more unusual." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsweek\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    First Family\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rousing success . . . Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   (starred review) for\n   <em>\n    Divine Justice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "High-stakes action, shadowy government agencies, and [a] neo-Cold War backdrop . . . Baldacci pushes his plot ahead at such a blistering pace." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Washington Post\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    The Whole Truth\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, chilling, and full of surprises." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   on\n   <em>\n    Stone Cold\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Simple Genius\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   First Family\n  </em>\n  , Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.\n  <strong>\n   THE SIXTH MAN\n  </strong>\n  Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy''s attorney, Sean''s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy''s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4438'),
(20091, 'Skin Shots', 'October November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10605'),
(20092, 'Skin Shots - October-November 2011', '10-11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7085'),
(20093, 'Skruen Uden Ende: Den Vestlige Teknologis Historie', 'Keld Nielsen &amp; Henry Nielsen &amp; Hans Siggaard Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1207'),
(20094, 'Sky.and.Telescope_2011-11.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Sky.and.Telescope_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7027'),
(20095, 'Skyborn', 'John Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6383'),
(20096, 'Skype for Dummies', 'Loren Abdulezer &amp; Susan Abdulezer &amp; Howard Dammond &amp; Niklas Zennstrom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n See how to use Skype for secure chats and connect SkypeOut and SkypeIN. Here''s the fun and easy way (r) to understand all the hype about Skype and make this cool alternative communication system work for you! You''ll get great advice about hardware, directions for downloading and installing Skype, ideas for using Skype in your business, and the lowdown on making Skype calls to people with old-fashioned phones.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install Skype and start making calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a contacts list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up voicemail and call forwarding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Skype for worldwide conference calls and Skypecasting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance Skype with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi wireless, and video\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Set up Skype on Windows, Mac OSÂ® X, or PocketPC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See how to use Skype for secure chats and to connect using SkypeIn and SkypeOut\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s the\n <em>\n  fun and easy way\n </em>\n to understand all the hype about Skype and make this cool alternative communication system work for you! You''ll get great advice about hardware, directions for downloading and installing Skype, ideas for using Skype in your business, and the lowdown on making Skype calls to people with old-fashioned phones.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install Skype and start making calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a contacts list\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up voicemail and call forwarding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Skype for worldwide conference calls and Skypecasting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance Skype with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi wireless, and video\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2035'),
(20097, 'Sleep Tight', 'Anne Frasier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly  Women who dye their hair blonde may think twice before heading to the salon after reading Frasier''s (Hush) enthralling thriller about a serial killer who plucks the eyes out of his young blonde victims and grafts rose stems onto their fingers-all in an effort to create the perfect woman. Minneapolis FBI agent Mary Cantrell has a personal interest in the latest string of murders taking place in her hometown. The killer may very well be an old high school classmate named Gavin Hitchcock, who was convicted of raping and murdering her best friend and then released after serving nine years in prison. But when the abductions persist even after Gavin is returned to custody, Mary''s sister, Gillian, a local cop who''s befriended Gavin and believes him to be innocent, goes undercover to trap the real killer. Some vivid autopsy scenes may turn the stomachs of the squeamish, but there''s a lot more to this clever intrigue than graphic police procedures. Indeed, one of Frasier''s many strengths is her ability create characters and relationships that are as compelling as the mystery itself. From the estranged Cantrell sisters and their broad-minded mother to Mary''s handsome partner and the troubled Gavin, Frasier''s well-rounded characters will linger with readers long after the killer is caught.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4247'),
(20098, 'Sleep Toward Heaven', 'Amanda Eyre Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4043'),
(20099, 'Small Business Marketing for Dummies', 'Barbara Findlay Schenck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n <br />\n Having your own business isnâ€™t the same as having customers, and one is useless without the other. Whether your business is a resale store or a high-tech consulting firm, a law office or a home cleaning service, in todayâ€™s competitive environment, strategic marketing is essential.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Small Business Marketing For Dummies, Second Edition is updated from the original version that won rave reviews and inspired thousands of small businesses on their way to becoming big businesses. Updates include more information on online marketing, a whole new section on getting and keeping customers, new cost-effective, fast-acting ideas for instant impact, and more. The book covers:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Marketing basics that prepare you to rev up your business and jumpstart your marketing program\n <br />\n * Information to help you define your business position and brand\n <br />\n * Advice on bringing in professionals\n <br />\n * A quick-reference guide to mass media and a glossary of advertising jargon\n <br />\n * How-tos for creating print and broadcast ads that work\n <br />\n * Ideas for getting the word out without advertising, including information on direct mail, brochures, publicity, promotions, and more\n <br />\n * Ten steps to follow to build your own easy-to-assemble marketing plan\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With pages of ideas for low-cost, high-impact marketing from author Barbara Findlay Schenck, a marketing consultant with more than 20 years experience with clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, Small Business Marketing For Dummies, Second Edition helps you reach and keep new customers. Whether youâ€™re running a home office, a small firm, a family business, a nonprofit organization, or a retail operation, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Custom design your own marketing program\n <br />\n * Create effective marketing messages\n <br />\n * Produce marketing communications that work\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No matter what field youâ€™re in, Small Business Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you make your dreams come true. If you buy it, read it, and implement some of the marketing strategies discussed, customers will come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the Back Cover\n <br />\n Use the Internet to spread the word about your business\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harness the power of marketing and watch your business grow\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If you want your small business to grow, you need a marketing strategy that works. But how do you get people to notice your business without spending a fortune? Packed with savvy tips for low-cost, high-impact campaigns, this friendly guide is your road map to a great marketing campaign, from ads and direct mail to public relations and the Internet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Develop the right marketing strategy\n <br />\n * Establish your position and brand\n <br />\n * Create effective advertising campaigns\n <br />\n * Generate publicity and word-of-mouth\n <br />\n * Maximize Internet marketing opportunities\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book Dimension\n <br />\n length: (cm)23.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)18.5\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2036'),
(20100, 'Smart Computing', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5905'),
(20101, 'Smart Computing Magazine', 'September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5907'),
(20102, 'Smart Homes for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Pat Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...Smart Homes is more than simply accurate, it is truly useful, with an abundance of call-out tips ("The National Burglar &amp; Fire Alarm Association...offers advice on how to shop for a security system and the names of contractors who have qualified for their ''Installation Quality'' certificate."); warnings ("If your modem connects to your computer with an Ethernet interface...you actually need to install two separate Ethernet Network Interface Cards in your proxy server..."); and sound opinions ("You can build a very similar video distribution network that forgoes the second RG6 cable to each outlet....[but] at the risk of being repetitive, we think that this kind of abbreviated network is probably a false economy..."). The best thing about Smart Homes for Dummies--it''s a wonderful guide for smart people, too. --\n <em>\n  Home Network News, Sept/Oct. 1999, Vol. 13 No. 8\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Who needs this book? Anyone considering installing their own home security system, whole-house audio or video system, household LAN, or even those that want a professional to do it. It gives you a good idea about what''s going on, as well as meaning to those funny buzzwords that home contractors use. It''s also useful for those who are interested in getting the most out of their home office or existing automation equipment. Finally, professionals who have most of their expertise in one discipline may find this helpful to learn the basics of the rest of what''s out there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Highlights: Easy to understand; broad overview of home automation; gives good descriptions of what''s currently available and what to expect in the future; great idea source. --\n <em>\n  Edward B. Driscoll, Jr., Popular Home Automation, 2/18/2000\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you long to listen to your favorite CD from anywhere in your house? To set up a wireless network so you can access the Internet in any room? To install an iron-clad security system? To fire up the coffee pot while youâ€™re still asleep and wake up with automated lighting? Smart home technology can help you do just that!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Smart Homes For Dummies, Third Edition,\n </em>\n shows you how easy it can be to create and live in a cutting-edge, fully connected homeâ€”without breaking your bank account. With this user-friendly guide, youâ€™ll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control that will help you make life more enjoyable and comfortable for your entire family. We help you plan for things such as flat-screen TVs, intercom systems, whole-home audio systems, gaming consoles, and satellite systems. We talk about your wiring (and wireless) options and introduce you to the latest technologies, such as VoIP and Bluetooth. Youâ€™ll see how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build your home network on a budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your home into an entertainment center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the Internet from any room\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get VoIP on your phone network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost in-home wireless and cell phone signals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect your computer to your TV\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your home and property\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase your homeâ€™s resale value\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common networking pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  And much, much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a resource list for more information and neat toys of the future,\n <em>\n  Smart Homes For Dummies\n </em>\n is your plain-English, twenty-first century guide to a fully wired home!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2037'),
(20103, 'Smart Photography 07-2011', 'Smart Photography Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2523'),
(20104, 'Smart.Computing-September.2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6085'),
(20105, 'Smart.Computing.Magazine-October.2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6716'),
(20106, 'Smart.Computing.November.2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10748'),
(20107, 'SmartComputing November2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10715'),
(20108, 'SmartComputing November2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10721'),
(20109, 'Smashing.Photoshop.CS5.100.Professional.Techniques.pdf 12-09-2011', 'Smashing.Photoshop.CS5.100.Professional.Techniques.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5897'),
(20110, 'Smokin Seventeen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where thereâ€™s smoke thereâ€™s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanieâ€™s name is on the killerâ€™s list.Short on time to find evidence proving the killerâ€™s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itâ€™s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieâ€™s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoâ€™s just returned to town. Stephanieâ€™s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir â€œbake-off.â€ And Grandma Bella, Morelliâ€™s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts â€œthe eyeâ€ on Stephanie.With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieâ€™s life looks like itâ€™s about to go up in smoke.The hardcover edition of Smokinâ€™ Seventeen contains two smokinâ€™ hot stickers inside!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4137'),
(20111, 'Smokin Seventeen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where thereâ€™s smoke thereâ€™s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanieâ€™s name is on the killerâ€™s list.Short on time to find evidence proving the killerâ€™s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itâ€™s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieâ€™s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoâ€™s just returned to town. Stephanieâ€™s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir â€œbake-off.â€ And Grandma Bella, Morelliâ€™s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts â€œthe eyeâ€ on Stephanie.With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieâ€™s life looks like itâ€™s about to go up in smoke.The hardcover edition of Smokinâ€™ Seventeen contains two smokinâ€™ hot stickers inside!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4388'),
(20112, 'Snuff', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk''s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600â€”the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the businessâ€”as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie''s long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie''s hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there''s surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and\n  <em>\n   Days of Our Lives\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk has followed his tendency towards sensationalism to its logical conclusion and written a novel about a pornographic film, to mixed reactions. Naysayers wrote that\n  <em>\n   Snuff\n  </em>\n  either failed in its satirical role or, worse, Palahniuk has simply run out of ideas and only wants to make readers cringe. Yet other reviewers felt that, as in previous novels, Palahniukâ€™s strong, character-driven explorations of the unseemly actually reveal a great deal about our society. Certainly, he riffs cleverly on Cassieâ€™s cinematic history (â€œGropes of Wrath,â€ for example). But Palahniukâ€™s play on movies and literature in the context of this novel perhaps points to an important question raised by the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  : â€œWhat the hell is going on? The country that produced Melville, Twain and James now venerates King, Crichton, Grisham, Sebold and Palahniuk.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6211'),
(20113, 'The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement', 'David Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Walter Isaacson on\n   <em>\n    The Social Animal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Walter Isaacson\n  </strong>\n  , the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is the author of __ and of\n  <strong>\n   , and the coauthor of\n  </strong>\n  . He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter._\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Brooks has written an absolutely fascinating book about how we form our emotions and character. Standing at the intersection of brain science and sociology, and writing with the wry wit of a James Thurber, he explores the unconscious mind and how it shapes the way we eat, love, live, vacation, and relate to other people. In\n  <em>\n   The Social Animal\n  </em>\n  , he makes the recent revolution in neuroscience understandable, and he applies it to those things we have the most trouble knowing how to teach: What is the best way to build true relationships? How do we instill imaginative thinking? How do we develop our moral intuitions and wisdom and character? Brooks has always been a keen observer of the way we live. Now he takes us one layer down, to why we live that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Walter Isaacson\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author David Brooks\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Josh Haner,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  Several years ago I did some reporting on why so many kids drop out of high school, despite all rational incentives. That took me quickly to studies of early childhood and research on brain formation. Once I started poking around that realm, I found that people who study the mind are giving us an entirely new perspective on who we are and what it takes to flourish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Weâ€™re used to a certain story of success, one that emphasizes getting good grades, getting the right job skills and making the right decisions. But these scientists were peering into the innermost mind and shedding light on the process one level down, in the realm of emotions, intuitions, perceptions, genetic dispositions and unconscious longings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ve spent several years with their work now, and itâ€™s changed my perspective on everything. In this book, I try to take their various findings and weave them together into one story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is not a science book. I donâ€™t answer how the brain does things. I try to answer what it all means. I try to explain how these findings about the deepest recesses of our minds should change the way we see ourselves, raise our kids, conduct business, teach, manage our relationships and practice politics. This story is based on scientific research, but it is really about emotion, character, virtue and love. Weâ€™re not rational animals, or laboring animals; weâ€™re social animals. We emerge out of relationships and live to bond with each other and connect to larger ideas.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times columnist Brooks (Bobos in Paradise) raids Malcolm Gladwell''s pop psychology turf in a wobbly treatise on brain science, human nature, and public policy. Essentially a satirical novel interleaved with disquisitions on mirror neurons and behavioral economics, the narrative chronicles the life cycle of a fictional coupleâ€”Harold, a historian working at a think tank, and Erica, a Chinese-Chicana cable-TV executiveâ€”as a case study of the nonrational roots of social behaviors, from mating and shopping to voting. Their story lets Brooks mock the affluent and trendy while advancing soft neoconservative themes: that genetically ingrained emotions and biases trump reason; that social problems require cultural remedies (charter schools, not welfare payments); that the class divide is about intelligence, deportment, and taste, not money or power. Brooks is an engaging guide to the "cognitive revolution" in psychology, but what he shows us amounts mainly to restating platitudes. (Women like men with money, we learn, while men like women with breasts.) His attempt to inflate recent research on neural mechanisms into a grand worldview yields little except buzz conceptsâ€”"society is a layering of networks"â€”no more persuasive than the rationalist dogmas he derides. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4154'),
(20114, 'The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement', 'David Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Walter Isaacson on\n   <em>\n    The Social Animal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Walter Isaacson\n  </strong>\n  , the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is the author of __ and of\n  <strong>\n   , and the coauthor of\n  </strong>\n  . He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter._\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Brooks has written an absolutely fascinating book about how we form our emotions and character. Standing at the intersection of brain science and sociology, and writing with the wry wit of a James Thurber, he explores the unconscious mind and how it shapes the way we eat, love, live, vacation, and relate to other people. In\n  <em>\n   The Social Animal\n  </em>\n  , he makes the recent revolution in neuroscience understandable, and he applies it to those things we have the most trouble knowing how to teach: What is the best way to build true relationships? How do we instill imaginative thinking? How do we develop our moral intuitions and wisdom and character? Brooks has always been a keen observer of the way we live. Now he takes us one layer down, to why we live that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Walter Isaacson\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author David Brooks\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Josh Haner,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  Several years ago I did some reporting on why so many kids drop out of high school, despite all rational incentives. That took me quickly to studies of early childhood and research on brain formation. Once I started poking around that realm, I found that people who study the mind are giving us an entirely new perspective on who we are and what it takes to flourish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Weâ€™re used to a certain story of success, one that emphasizes getting good grades, getting the right job skills and making the right decisions. But these scientists were peering into the innermost mind and shedding light on the process one level down, in the realm of emotions, intuitions, perceptions, genetic dispositions and unconscious longings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ve spent several years with their work now, and itâ€™s changed my perspective on everything. In this book, I try to take their various findings and weave them together into one story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is not a science book. I donâ€™t answer how the brain does things. I try to answer what it all means. I try to explain how these findings about the deepest recesses of our minds should change the way we see ourselves, raise our kids, conduct business, teach, manage our relationships and practice politics. This story is based on scientific research, but it is really about emotion, character, virtue and love. Weâ€™re not rational animals, or laboring animals; weâ€™re social animals. We emerge out of relationships and live to bond with each other and connect to larger ideas.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times columnist Brooks (Bobos in Paradise) raids Malcolm Gladwell''s pop psychology turf in a wobbly treatise on brain science, human nature, and public policy. Essentially a satirical novel interleaved with disquisitions on mirror neurons and behavioral economics, the narrative chronicles the life cycle of a fictional coupleâ€”Harold, a historian working at a think tank, and Erica, a Chinese-Chicana cable-TV executiveâ€”as a case study of the nonrational roots of social behaviors, from mating and shopping to voting. Their story lets Brooks mock the affluent and trendy while advancing soft neoconservative themes: that genetically ingrained emotions and biases trump reason; that social problems require cultural remedies (charter schools, not welfare payments); that the class divide is about intelligence, deportment, and taste, not money or power. Brooks is an engaging guide to the "cognitive revolution" in psychology, but what he shows us amounts mainly to restating platitudes. (Women like men with money, we learn, while men like women with breasts.) His attempt to inflate recent research on neural mechanisms into a grand worldview yields little except buzz conceptsâ€”"society is a layering of networks"â€”no more persuasive than the rationalist dogmas he derides. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4412'),
(20115, 'The Social Contract', 'Rousseau, Jean-jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.  This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(20116, 'Social Entrepreneurship for Dummies', 'Mark Durieux &amp; Robert Stebbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to bring social responsibility to your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s business world, your bottom line isn''t measured by your company''s financial performance alone.\n <em>\n  Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to implement social responsibility to your business plan in order to increase your bottom line.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book helps any social entrepreneur gain the necessary skills needed to change the system and spread the solution, while providing explanations of the most successful business tools being used today.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A complete reference on the ideas and processes associated with social entrepreneurship\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides a foundation and business plan for those looking to create their own socially oriented business venture\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the trusted and friendly advice you need to get on your way toward social responsibility!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bring social responsibility to your business and beyond\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s world, your bottom line isn''t measured by financial performance alone. Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies shows you how to implement social responsibility using the latest innovations. Whether you''re just starting a business or you''re looking for a way to increase your group''s environmental and social effects, this practical, hands-on guide has you covered.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Social entrepreneurship 101 â€” get a grasp on the fundamental concepts of social entrepreneurship and learn how you can add compassion to your own social enterprise\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A smorgasbord of social change â€” discover the many areas in which social entrepreneurship has flourished and get a look at where more work still needs to be done\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The recipe for success â€” get your own organization up and running and find out how to use networking and the media to keep it alive and well\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be a successful captain of social entrepreneurship â€” take a look at how leadership and good management are essential to keeping your social enterprise on track\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bureaucracy and social enterprise â€” keep bureaucracy under control and get guidance on going corporate\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Some early examples of social enterprises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where social entrepreneurship fits in your community\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to communicate for social change\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Current trends â€” and how you can harness them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The importance of networking\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for dealing with bureaucracy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep your organization strong for the long haul\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Great areas ripe for social entrepreneurial action\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start and run a socially conscious enterprise\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use today''s most progressive business tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Incorporate socially responsible concepts into your business plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Implement ideas and processes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2038');
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(20117, 'Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies', 'Ann C. Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Generate a good return as well as goodwill with this guide to ethical investments\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make money while you make a difference in the world?\n <em>\n  Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n , a 2010 Green Book Festival award winner, is as practical, hands-on guide to smart social investing that shows you how to maximize your profits while remaining true to your values. You get expert advice in targeting an issue you''re passionate about, researching potential investments, and putting your socially responsible choices into action.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with social investing basics â€” understand what it is, why it works, and how investors define social responsibility\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the socially responsible enterprise â€” discover the business principles that help ethical organizations thrive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conduct your research â€” determine whether an investment has financial potential and also serves your personal needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your investment choices â€” from stocks and bonds to mutual funds and ETFs to real estate and high finance, select the best investments and adjust your portfolio over time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get help from the pros â€” find brokers, financial planners, and mutual fund companies that can help you with your decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure your success â€” see how to diversify, monitor your investments, join forces with others, vote your proxies, keep your perspective, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep up with investment trends â€” discover how to take advantage of new investment products and stay on top of industry changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize truly socially responsible investments â€” understand how to tell socially responsible investment opportunities from "feel good" opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Socially Responsible InvestingÂ ForÂ Dummies\n </em>\n you will find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A clear introduction to social investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Issues to invest in, from environmental to international\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different types of investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to buy and sell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fiduciary responsibilities for the social investor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use your investment clout to influence a company''s performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten social investing traps you must avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activist investing success stories\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Generate a good return as well as goodwill with this guide to ethical investments\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make money while you make a difference in the world? This practical, hands-on guide to smart social investing shows you how to maximize your profits while remaining true to your values. You get expert advice in targeting an issue you''re passionate about, researching potential investments, and putting your socially responsible choices into action.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with social investing basics â€” understand what it is, why it works, and how investors define social responsibility\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the socially responsible enterprise â€” discover the business principles that help ethical organizations thrive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conduct your research â€” determine whether an investment has financial potential and also serves your personal needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate your investment choices â€” from stocks and bonds to mutual funds and ETFs to real estate and high finance, select the best investments and adjust your portfolio over time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get help from the pros â€” find brokers, financial planners, and mutual fund companies that can help you with your decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ensure your success â€” see how to diversify, monitor your investments, join forces with others, vote your proxies, keep your perspective, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep up with investment trends â€” discover how to take advantage of new investment products and stay on top of industry changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize truly socially responsible investments â€” understand how to tell socially responsible investment opportunities from "feel good" opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A clear introduction to social investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Issues to invest in, from environmental to international\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different types of investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to buy and sell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fiduciary responsibilities for the social investor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use your investment clout to influence a company''s performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten social investing traps you must avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activist investing success stories\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2039'),
(20118, 'Sociology for Dummies', 'Jay Gabler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this broad and popular topic\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sociology is the study of human and societal interaction, and because society is constantly changing, sociology will always remain a crucial and relevant subject_. Sociology For Dummies_ helps you understand this complex field, serving as the ideal study guide both when you''re deciding to take a class as well as when you are already participating in a course.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Provides a general overview of what sociology in as well as an in-depth look at some of the major concepts and theories\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers examples of how sociology can be applied and its importance to everyday life\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Avoiding jargon,\n <em>\n  Sociology For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you up to speed on this widely studied topic in no time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand human and social interactions in an ever-changing world\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sociology is the study of human and societal interaction. Whether you''re currently enrolled in a course or want to learn how to apply sociological concepts to your personal or professional life,\n <em>\n  Sociology For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you understand how to scientifically analyze social organization and cultural structure.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover the who, what, and where of sociology â€” wrap your head around the basics of sociology to get a handle on what it is, where it came from, and who practices it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put on your sociology sunglasses â€” learn how to look at society through the eyes of a sociologist to get a better understanding of culture, social networks, society and your place in it, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get a grip on the social status quo â€” find out how everything from race to sex and gender plays a role in social equality and inequality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize (and disorganize) social organizations â€” discover what sociology tells us about how corporations, nonprofits, governments, and social movements work (and sometimes don''t)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a look in the mirror â€” understand how your life''s course is inexplicably tied to your society\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The history of sociological study\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Social movements and political sociology\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The value and purpose of think tanks and research institutes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for thinking about the world in an objective way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The lowdown on "Sociology''s Power Trio" â€” Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for conducting socio-logical research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The roles race, sex, and religion play in sociology\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize the basics of how communities work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze the cultural impact that race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation have on society\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use and interpret sociological research methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Identify the social construction and impact of crime and deviance\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2040'),
(20119, 'Software Project Management for Dummies', 'Teresa Luckey &amp; Joseph Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft Project 2003, as well as a variety of methodologies including eXtreme, open source, SQA testing, software life cycle management, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  The companion Web site contains tools, case studies and other resources to help even novices get up and running\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manage scope creep and keep your project on schedule\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the scoop on managing time, cost, people, risk, quality, and integration\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Congratulations â€” you''re now in charge of managing software projects! Before you reach for the antacid, reach for this book. It''s packed with advice to help you identify the project''s purpose, build a team, handle qualitative analysis, estimate resources, communicate with everybody, manage the project from start to finish, and deliver just what your client ordered.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Write a product description\n </li>\n <li>\n  Balance time, cost, scope, and quality\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare a risk response plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track and communicate project performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage conflicts\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2041'),
(20120, 'Solar Power Your Home for Dummies', 'Rik Degunther', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether youâ€™re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up,\n <em>\n  Solar PowerÂ For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, hands-on guide is packed with tips for making your home more energy-efficient though solar powerâ€”and helping the planet at the same time. Youâ€™ll see how to survey your home to determine your current household energy efficiency and use, and evaluate where solar power would best benefit you. Youâ€™ll also calculate what the return on your investment will be before you make any decisions. Once youâ€™ve decided on a project, youâ€™ll see whether itâ€™s best to hire a contractor or do it yourself. We leave no stone unturnedâ€”youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose and install your best solar system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle small to large solar projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Heat and cool your house with solar energy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install exterior solar lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle swimming pool, water heater, or ventilation solar projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create greenhouses or solar rooms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build, buy, or sell a solar home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finance your solar investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of tax rebates and incentives associated with solar power\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid the worst solar mistakes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Featuring ten of the easiest and cheapest do-it-yourself solar projects,\n <em>\n  Solar PowerÂ For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to meet your energy needs with this clean power source!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features the ten best solar investments\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make your home energy efficient and put solar power to work for you!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of solar power? This friendly, hands-on guide takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to do everything from adding small components to your home to building a solar-powered house from the ground up. You''ll see how to heat and cool your home, create solar rooms, install solar lighting, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the best solar system for your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle small to large solar projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build, buy, or sell a solar home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Finance your solar investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid the worst solar mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2042'),
(20121, 'Solar Power Your Home for Dummies', 'Rik Degunther', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling alternative energy reference book in North Americaâ€”now in an updated edition\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether youâ€™re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up,\n <em>\n  Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!\n</p>\n<p>\n This new edition gives you hands-on tips and techniques for making your home more energy-efficient though solar powerâ€”and helping the planet at the same time. Plus, youâ€™ll get all the latest information on changes to federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and tax incentives that seek to make solar-power adoption more feasible.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Expanded coverage of the technology that underpins full-scale solar-power systems for the home\n </li>\n <li>\n  New small- and mid-sized solar products, projects, and applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rik DeGunther is a design engineer who started his own energy consulting firm\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Featuring ten of the easiest and cheapest DIY solar projects,\n <em>\n  Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to meet your energy needs with this clean power source!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new edition of the best-selling guide to solar power\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want solar power in your home? Whether you''re looking to save on energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, this friendly guide takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you! Plus, you''ll get all the latest updates on changes to federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and tax incentives that make solar-power adoption more feasible.\n</p>\n<p>\n Understanding why solar is king â€” find out how you can put solar power to use to reap financial rewards, lessen your carbon footprint, and gain independence from fossil fuels\n</p>\n<p>\n Here comes the sun â€” learn to evaluate your solar potential, plot your sun charts, calculate payback on your investment, and install your solar system\n</p>\n<p>\n Practical applications â€” get easy-to-follow information on how to use solar energy in a variety of projects inside and outside your home\n</p>\n<p>\n Exploring full-scale photovoltaic systems â€” discover the benefits of powering your home with a PV system, understand how the system works, and find out how to install one\n</p>\n<p>\n Building, retrofitting, and selling â€” get practical guidance on building a solar-powered home from the ground up, installing solar in an existing home, and selling your solar home\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on surveying your household energy efficiency and use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to evaluate your solar potential\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Small- and medium-sized DIY projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on analyzing solar investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An introduction to building codes and regulations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to take advantage of your lot''s features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on installing PV systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ten best solar investments\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2043'),
(20122, 'Solaris 9 for Dummies', 'Dave Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover new security features and easier installation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Light up your system with a new resource manager, volume manager, and directory server\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark about Solaris 9? Open this book and let the sun shine in! It''ll help you chart a course for StarOffice, explore CDE and GNOME desktops, and harness Solaris power to configure Web servers, access Internet services, build great Web sites, manage files and directories, and a galaxy of other tasks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover new security features and easier installation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Light up your system with a new resource manager, volume manager, and directory server\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark about Solaris 9? Open this book and let the sun shine in! Itâ€™ll help you chart a course for StarOffice, explore CDE and GNOME desktops, and harness Solaris power to configure Web servers, access Internet services, build great Web sites, manage files and directories, and a galaxy of other tasks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2044'),
(20123, 'Sold Down the River', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4566'),
(20124, 'A Soldier of the Legion', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1914. The book begins: It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men amused before the first act of the play. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5925'),
(20125, 'The Solomon Effect', 'C. S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   A German U-boat lost in the final days of the Second World War rested silent and dead in the deep waters off the Russian coast for more than half a centuryâ€”carrying a cargo too terrifying to contemplate.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Now it has been found and its terrible treasure liberated . . . by those who would set the world on fire.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  A remote viewer working in top secret for the U.S. government, October Guinness can "see" events occurring on the other side of the globe. But she and her loose cannon partner, CIA agent Jax Alexanderâ€”who questions the validity of Tobie''s "gift"â€”have arrived too late to prevent a bloodbath . . . and perhaps the Apocalypse as well. Now every second brings the unthinkable a step closerâ€”and places Tobie and Jax in the gunsights of powerful enemies in frighteningly high placesâ€”as they race to connect the dots between an impending catastrophe and a nightmare cultivated decades earlier by Nazi scientists with an evil agenda about to become all too real â€¦\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5980'),
(20126, 'Something Blue', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Giffin''s sophomore effort-which tells the story that her bestselling Something Borrowed did from a different character''s point of view-stars such an unsympathetic narrator that it''s a little like reading a Cinderella story featuring one of the wicked stepsisters. Perhaps beautiful Darcy Rhone isn''t really wicked, but she is one of the most shallow, materialistic, self-centered and naÃ¯ve 29-year-olds around. Ostensibly a high-powered PR person in Manhattan (though she never seems to work), Darcy spends most of her time shopping, partying and getting ready for her wedding to perfect guy Dex. But an alcohol-fueled Hamptons fling with one of Dex''s pals, Marcus, starts to break Darcy''s perfect life down; and discovering Dex hiding in her best friend Rachel''s closet really shatters it. Pregnant with Marcus''s baby, Darcy decamps for London, where she crashes in high school pal Ethan''s flat and annoys the heck out of him with her endless shopping and complete disregard for her impending motherhood. But after a good lecture from Ethan, whom Darcy has started to fall for a little, Darcy embarks on a self-improvement plan, thereby demonstrating she can think about someone besides herself. And if readers don''t mind the first 200 pages in which she doesn''t, they''ll enjoy her happy ending and the few surprises along the way. Fans of Something Borrowed, too, may relish the "she said, she said" fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Readers who enjoyed Giffin''s stellar debut,\n  <em>\n   Something Borrowed\n  </em>\n  (2004), might be surprised to find that the villainess of that novel is the heroine of this one. Selfish but beautiful Darcy is reeling from the betrayal of her best friend, Rachel, and her fiance, Dex, even though she cheated on Dex with his friend Marcus. Darcy is carrying Marcus'' child, so she assumes he''ll take care of her. After all, she''s always gotten everything she''s ever wanted. But when Marcus dumps her, she finds herself pregnant and alone. Always the opportunist, Darcy contacts her childhood friend Ethan, now a writer living in London, and gets him to agree to let her visit for awhile. She jets off to the UK envisioning a charmed life where a handsome, rich Englishman will sweep her off her feet. The reality isn''t so blissful--Ethan is critical of her selfish behavior and she finds herself incredibly lonely and unprepared for motherhood. After a confrontation with Ethan, she decides it''s time for radical change. Making an unsympathetic character likable isn''t an easy thing to do, but that''s just what Giffin succeeds at in her second outing. Giffin''s writing is warm and engaging; readers will find themselves cheering for Darcy as she proves people can change in this captivating tale.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4138'),
(20127, 'Something Blue', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Giffin''s sophomore effort-which tells the story that her bestselling Something Borrowed did from a different character''s point of view-stars such an unsympathetic narrator that it''s a little like reading a Cinderella story featuring one of the wicked stepsisters. Perhaps beautiful Darcy Rhone isn''t really wicked, but she is one of the most shallow, materialistic, self-centered and naÃ¯ve 29-year-olds around. Ostensibly a high-powered PR person in Manhattan (though she never seems to work), Darcy spends most of her time shopping, partying and getting ready for her wedding to perfect guy Dex. But an alcohol-fueled Hamptons fling with one of Dex''s pals, Marcus, starts to break Darcy''s perfect life down; and discovering Dex hiding in her best friend Rachel''s closet really shatters it. Pregnant with Marcus''s baby, Darcy decamps for London, where she crashes in high school pal Ethan''s flat and annoys the heck out of him with her endless shopping and complete disregard for her impending motherhood. But after a good lecture from Ethan, whom Darcy has started to fall for a little, Darcy embarks on a self-improvement plan, thereby demonstrating she can think about someone besides herself. And if readers don''t mind the first 200 pages in which she doesn''t, they''ll enjoy her happy ending and the few surprises along the way. Fans of Something Borrowed, too, may relish the "she said, she said" fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Readers who enjoyed Giffin''s stellar debut,\n  <em>\n   Something Borrowed\n  </em>\n  (2004), might be surprised to find that the villainess of that novel is the heroine of this one. Selfish but beautiful Darcy is reeling from the betrayal of her best friend, Rachel, and her fiance, Dex, even though she cheated on Dex with his friend Marcus. Darcy is carrying Marcus'' child, so she assumes he''ll take care of her. After all, she''s always gotten everything she''s ever wanted. But when Marcus dumps her, she finds herself pregnant and alone. Always the opportunist, Darcy contacts her childhood friend Ethan, now a writer living in London, and gets him to agree to let her visit for awhile. She jets off to the UK envisioning a charmed life where a handsome, rich Englishman will sweep her off her feet. The reality isn''t so blissful--Ethan is critical of her selfish behavior and she finds herself incredibly lonely and unprepared for motherhood. After a confrontation with Ethan, she decides it''s time for radical change. Making an unsympathetic character likable isn''t an easy thing to do, but that''s just what Giffin succeeds at in her second outing. Giffin''s writing is warm and engaging; readers will find themselves cheering for Darcy as she proves people can change in this captivating tale.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4452'),
(20128, 'Something Borrowed', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The smash-hit debut novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy''s fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren''t always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new tie-in edition will coincide with the release of the film, starring Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin Hannah:\n  </strong>\n  Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n  <em>\n   Heart of the Matter\n  </em>\n  , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily Giffin:\n  </strong>\n  It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n  <em>\n   Night Road\n  </em>\n  , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifying--especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of it--the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" question--what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)--and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily:\n  </strong>\n  I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship in this soap operaâ€“like debut from Atlanta ex-lawyer Giffin. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel is the self-confessed good girl, an attorney trapped at a suffocating New York law firm, Darcy is the complete opposite, a stereotypical outgoing publicist, planning a wedding with the handsome Dex. After Rachel''s 30th birthday party, she knocks back one drink too many and winds up in bed with Dex. Instead of feeling guilty about sleeping with her best friend''s fiancÃ©, Rachel realizes that Dex is the only man she''s really loved, and that she''s always resented manipulative Darcy. Rachel and Dex spend a few weekends in the city together "working" while Darcy''s off with friends at a Hamptons beach share, but finally Rachel realizes she''ll have to give Dex an ultimatum. The flip job Giffin pulls offâ€”here it''s the cheaters who''re sympathetic (more or less)â€”gives Dex and Rachel''s otherwise ordinary affair extra edge. Rachel would be a more appealing heroine if she were less whiny about her job and her romantic prospects, and rambling dialogue slows the story''s pace, but this is an enjoyable beach readâ€”one that''ll make readers cast a suspicious eye on best friends and boyfriends who seem to get along just a little too well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4139'),
(20129, 'Something Borrowed', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The smash-hit debut novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy''s fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren''t always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This new tie-in edition will coincide with the release of the film, starring Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin Hannah:\n  </strong>\n  Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n  <em>\n   Heart of the Matter\n  </em>\n  , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily Giffin:\n  </strong>\n  It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n  <em>\n   Night Road\n  </em>\n  , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifying--especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of it--the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" question--what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)--and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily:\n  </strong>\n  I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship in this soap operaâ€“like debut from Atlanta ex-lawyer Giffin. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel is the self-confessed good girl, an attorney trapped at a suffocating New York law firm, Darcy is the complete opposite, a stereotypical outgoing publicist, planning a wedding with the handsome Dex. After Rachel''s 30th birthday party, she knocks back one drink too many and winds up in bed with Dex. Instead of feeling guilty about sleeping with her best friend''s fiancÃ©, Rachel realizes that Dex is the only man she''s really loved, and that she''s always resented manipulative Darcy. Rachel and Dex spend a few weekends in the city together "working" while Darcy''s off with friends at a Hamptons beach share, but finally Rachel realizes she''ll have to give Dex an ultimatum. The flip job Giffin pulls offâ€”here it''s the cheaters who''re sympathetic (more or less)â€”gives Dex and Rachel''s otherwise ordinary affair extra edge. Rachel would be a more appealing heroine if she were less whiny about her job and her romantic prospects, and rambling dialogue slows the story''s pace, but this is an enjoyable beach readâ€”one that''ll make readers cast a suspicious eye on best friends and boyfriends who seem to get along just a little too well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4451'),
(20130, 'The Somme Stations', 'Andrew Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3970'),
(20131, 'The Songs of the Kings', 'Barry Unsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Provocative and subversive, Unsworth''s new novel rewrites ancient history to show how a wily, ambitious and power-hungry man can distort the truth, convince the masses to support him and incite his country to wage war. It''s an audacious blending of myth with sharp contemporary resonance. The setting is Aulis in 1260 B.C., where unfavorable winds are keeping the fleet of the Greek expeditionary force (actually a motley assemblage of hostile and predatory tribes loosely united under Agamemnon) from setting out to capture Troy. The pretext is revenge for the "rape" of Helen by Paris, but Agamemnon and such tribal leaders as Achilles and Odysseus are, in fact, lusting for the fabled treasures of Troy, spoils of war that each man, down to the most common soldier, yearns to possess. Unsworth (Sacred Hunger) reveals this complex intrigue slowly as he explores the critical situation on which the narrative hinges: the omens that explain Zeus''s wrath and the prophecy that only the sacrifice of Agamemnon''s daughter, Iphigeneia, will reverse the contrary winds. We know of this event from Homer, of course, and he appears here as the Singer, a far from noble figure who is influenced by the conspirators to fashion the version fed to him by Odysseus. It is the hero of The Odyssey who gradually emerges as the chief villain, cynically manipulating his cohorts as he exploits the prophecy to serve his own ends. And it is Iphigeneia, lured to Aulis by false promises, who shows more moral courage than the king, his enemies or any of the court sycophants who seek only their own advantage. Unsworth''s narrative method is as daring as his message; his prose is a mixture of classic cadences and contemporary vernacular, animated by beautifully descriptive vignettes and bawdy humor. He uses a minor figure, Calchas the diviner, as the means through which the reader understands the political machinations that create the illusion of a just war. "People intent on war always need a story, and the singers always provide one.... What [this] is really about is gold and copper and cinnamon and jade and slaves and timber," Calchas says. "It is the stories told by the strong, the songs of kings, that are believed in the end..-- is really about is gold and copper and cinnamon and jade and slaves and timber," Calchas says. "It is the stories told by the strong, the songs of kings, that are believed in the end."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The New Yorker\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A stubborn wind from the northeast ushers in rough times for the House of Atreus, and the Greek ships, en route to Troy, remain trapped in the straits at Aulis. Unsworth''s retelling of the story, familiar from Euripides, of the sacrifice of Iphigeneia to appease the gods so that the boats can sail is a bold, modern tale with cynical riffs on the themes of duty and power, truth and fiction. His Greek warriors are schemers and media-savvy self-promoters who are desperate to look good in the sung reports that are their equivalent of the news mediaâ€”songs that are, we realize, the seeds of the Homeric tradition. As Odysseus says, "Once things get into the Song you will never entirely succeed in getting them out again."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2005\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4653');
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(20132, 'Sony Clie for Dummies', 'Denny Atkin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows users how to make the most of Sony''s popular Palm OS PDA, the CLIE\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sony holds the second largest share of the U.S. PDA market-12.1 percent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guides new and intermediate users through the all the latest CLIE features and functions, from using Graffiti and working with Microsoft Office and PDF files to scheduling appointments, checking e-mail, and beaming data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers cool multimedia features such as taking digital photos, producing slide shows, recording and watching movies, transferring music, and creating reminders using the built-in voice recorder\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written in a friendly, accessible style by PDA guru Denny Atkin, Editorial Director of\n  <em>\n   Handheld Computing\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Put your office and more in the palm of your hand!\n</p>\n<p>\n Manage contacts, tasks, and appointments, send e-mail, and play games\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Sony CLIÃ‰ is an amazing gadget, and with this book to guide you, itâ€™ll soon become your best friend. Sure, it keeps your schedule, to-do list, and address book, but did you know itâ€™ll also play music and movies, show off pictures of the kids, and maybe even take them, too? Find out how!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Manage Word and Excel files\n </li>\n <li>\n  HotSync your CLIÃ‰ to your PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play games, read e-books, and watch movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create business cards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enter appointments and set alarms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extend your CLIÃ‰â€™s memory\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2045'),
(20133, 'The Soul Catcher', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a secluded cabin in rural Massachusetts, six young men stage a deadly standoff with FBI and ATF agents. When dust from the flying bullets finally settles, three agents are wounded, one fatally, and five suspects are dead. In a wooded area near the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the body of a senator''s daughter is discovered. Dead by strangulation, the young woman is left artfully posed, her clothes folded neatly beside her. For FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell, there is nothing routine about being called in to work these two cases. As an expert criminal profiler, Maggie provides psychological insight on cases that involve suspected serial killers. She can''t understand, then, why her boss, Assistant Director Cunningham, has assigned her to these two seemingly unrelated crimes. But as Maggie and her partner, Special Agent R.J. Tully, delve deeper into the two cases, they learn that there is a connection between the crimes: Reverend Joseph Everett. The charismatic leader of a high-profile religious sect, Everett has cultivated a devoted following that is growing in numbers daily. The young men holed up in the cabin were members of Everett''s church, and the murder of the young woman took place following a religious rally Everett held in the capital. The key to unraveling the significance of these two crimes is Everett himself. But he is untouchable, living on a heavily guarded compound the police are unable to penetrate. Maggie realizes, however, that she may have found a way to get to Everett: by using her own mother, a member of his church. Is Everett a psychotic madman who uses his position of power to perform heinous crimes? Or is he merely a scapegoat for a killer more cunning, more disciplined than he? Maggie realizes too late that there is more going on here than the FBI ever imagined . . . and her own mother may be about to pay the price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4055'),
(20134, 'Sound And Vision 10-2011', 'Sound &amp; Vision', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3855'),
(20135, 'Sound and Vision Magazine October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4748'),
(20136, 'Sound.and.Vision.Magazine-October.2011.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Sound.and.Vision.Magazine-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4678'),
(20137, 'Sound.Vision.2011.11.pdf 10-10-2011', 'Sound.Vision.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10639'),
(20138, 'South by Java Head', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant Dutch planter, Van Effen? The strangely beautiful Eurasian girl, Gudrun? The slave trader, Siran? The smiling and silent Nicholson who is never without his gun? Only one thing is certain: the rotting tramp steamer is a floating death trap, carrying a cargo of human TNT.Dawn sees them far out to sea but with the first murderous dive bombers already aimed at their ship. Thus begins an ordeal few are to survive, a nightmare succession of disasters wrought by the hell-bent Japanese, the unrelenting tropical sun and by the survivors themselves, whose hatred and bitterness divides them one against the other.Written after the acclaimed and phenomenally successful HMS Ulysses and The Guns of Navarone, this was MacLeanâ€™s third book, and it contains all the hallmarks of those other two classics. Rich with stunning visual imagery, muscular narrative power, brutality, courage and breathtaking excitement, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of South by Java Head offers readers a long-denied chance to enjoy one of the greatest war novels ever written.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3960'),
(20139, 'Southern Comfort', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Atlanta homicide detective Patrick ''Tick'' Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn''t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favour of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the centre of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger - except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race. Tick finds himself fascinated by Kate''s investigation - and by her inviting mix of courage and kindness. Teaming up, they uncover a web of betrayal, blackmail, and ruthless greed. And as danger mounts, Tick realizes how far he''ll go to protect the rare and surprising gift that''s come his way: a second chance at a happy ending.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n FERN MICHAELS is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood series, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, Up Close and Personal, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is apassionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4140'),
(20140, 'Southern Comfort', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Atlanta homicide detective Patrick ''Tick'' Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn''t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favour of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the centre of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger - except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race. Tick finds himself fascinated by Kate''s investigation - and by her inviting mix of courage and kindness. Teaming up, they uncover a web of betrayal, blackmail, and ruthless greed. And as danger mounts, Tick realizes how far he''ll go to protect the rare and surprising gift that''s come his way: a second chance at a happy ending.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n FERN MICHAELS is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood series, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, Up Close and Personal, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is apassionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4450'),
(20141, 'Space Exploration for Dummies', 'Cynthia Phillips Phd &amp; Shana Priwer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your comprehensive guide to remarkable achievements in space\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you long to explore the universe? This plain-English, fully illustrated guide explains the great discoveries and advancements in space exploration throughout history, from early astronomers to the International Space Station. You''ll learn about the first satellites, rockets, and people in space; explore space programs around the world; and ponder the controversial question: Why continue to explore space?\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a quick tour of astronomy â€” get to know the solar system and our place in the galaxy, take a crash course in rocket science, and live a day in the life of an astronaut\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Run the Great Space Race â€” trace the growth of the Space Age from Sputnik to the Apollo moon landings and meet the robots that explored the cosmos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Watch as space exploration matures â€” from the birth of the Space Shuttle to the creation of the Mir Space Station to successes and failures in Mars exploration, see how space programs reached new levels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Journey among the planets â€” check out the discoveries made during historic voyages to the inner and outer reaches of the solar system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand current exploration â€” review the telescopes in space, take a tour of the International Space Station, and see the latest sights on Mars\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Look into the future â€” learn about upcoming space missions and increased access to space travel\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Descriptions of space milestones and future missions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An easy-to-follow chronological structure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Color and black-and-white photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The nitty-gritty details of becoming an astronaut\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A grand tour of the solar system through space missions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of tragedies and narrow escapes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Facts on the creation of space stations by NASA and the USSR\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten places to look for life beyond Earth\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cynthia Phillips, PhD, and Shana Priwer are the coauthors of 14 books on subjects including astronomy, Einstein, da Vinci, the physics of the built environment, and a variety of other topics. Phillips works at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute. Priwer works for an architectural/design software company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2046'),
(20142, 'The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance (VGSF Classic Series)', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Science fiction-roman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6352'),
(20143, 'Spain for Dummies', 'Neil E. Schlecht', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Art and architecture lovers, ecotourists, history buffs, gourmands, wine aficionados, culture scholars, outdoor sports fanaticsâ€”Spain truly has something for everyone. Its good weather and many varied attractions make it ideal for year-round vacationing. Spain is the home of diverse cultures and traditions. From the stoic independence of the Basques to the progressive architecture and design of the Catalans and the sultry rhythms and sun-drenched siestas of the Andalusians, youâ€™ll discover an intriguing, welcoming country. This guide gets you going with info on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The three major areas: Northern Spain, including Barcelona, the Costa Brava, and the Basque Country; Central Spain, including Madrid and Castile, and Southern Spain, including Andalusia, Seville, Cordoba, and Granada\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to get the best seats at a bullfight\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strolling Barcelonaâ€™s La Rambia, a vibrant street parade, or tripping along on a tavern and tapas crawl\n </li>\n <li>\n  Racing with beasts at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona or leisurely strolling the crooked streets in a lively old district such as Cordobaâ€™s Juderia, Salamancaâ€™s old quarter, Barcelonaâ€™s Gothic Quarter, Granadaâ€™s Albaycin District, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exploring some of the finest art museums in Europe and seeing masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Miro, Dali, Chillida, Titian, Raphael, Botticelli, Rubens, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dining on Catalan haute cuisine in Barcelona, traditional Basque dishes in Bilbao, nueva cocina vasca in SanSebastian, truffles and foie gras in Madrid, regional and traditional French dishes in Cordoba, or tantalizing tapas anywhere\n </li>\n <li>\n  Architecture dating back to the Romans and Moors, including Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Segoviaâ€™s Roman Aqueduct, Avilaâ€™s city walls, and Granadaâ€™s Alhambra, a place of magic, mystery, and legend\n </li>\n <li>\n  Staying in an opulent easly-20th-century palace, a 16th century convent, a farmhouse estate dating to the tenth century, an intimate inn, or roughing it and backpacking around Spain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Meandering through Andalusiaâ€™s pueblos blancos amid the rolling hills and olive groves and near the famous sherry wineries and prancing horses in Jerez and the southern beaches of the Costa de la Lux and Costa del Sol\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  SpainÂ For Dummies\n </em>\n , 4th Editio_n_ includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you enjoy fiestas or siestas, vibrant cities or laid-back seacoasts, with this guide, you can plan a fantÃ¡stico vacation.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore Spain the fun and fantÃ¡stico way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From Madrid to Barcelona...art museums to bullfights...history to outdoor sports...slopes to seacoasts...fiestas to siestas... Spain has it all. With this friendly guide, you''ll take the bull by the horns and plan your perfect trip!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2047'),
(20144, 'Spanish Essentials for Dummies', 'Gail Stein &amp; Mary Kraynak &amp; Cecie Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learning a new language is a fun and challenging feat for students at every level. Perfect for those just starting out or returning to Spanish after time away,\n <em>\n  Spanish Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n focuses on core concepts taught (and tested on!) in a typical introductory Spanish course. From adjectives and adverbs to understanding tenses and asking questions, students will skip the suffering and score high marks at exam time with the help of\n <em>\n  Spanish Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n . This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical Spanish concepts as they help students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back to the classroom who just want to be brush up on the core concepts.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Essentials For Dummies\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Series\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dummies is proud to present our new series,\n <em>\n  The Essentials For Dummies.\n </em>\n Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Presenting the core concepts you need to write and speak Spanish correctly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have some knowledge of Spanish and need a refresher or want a quick reference for grammar and verb conjugation,\n <em>\n  Spanish Essentials For Dummies\n </em>\n contains what you need to communicate effectively. With its focus on everything from constructing sentences to conjugating verbs, this easy-to-follow guide will help you ace writing assignments and tests, and master conversations.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spanish 101 â€” get the lowdown on the basics, from expressing the date and time to counting to one million\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The here and now â€” learn how to communicate in the present tense with verbs and subject pronouns, and how to form the present progressive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Way back when â€” get guidance on working with the past tense, including hints about when to use the preterit and when to use the imperfect\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What lies ahead â€” discover the different ways to express the future, whether you need to form the future tense of a regular verb or just want to predict what may happen\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The parts of speech\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to determine a noun''s gender\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use "de" to show possession\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to select the correct preposition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rules for making adjectives agree\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for asking and answering yes/no questions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to spice up your descriptions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten important verb distinctions\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basics of Spanish grammar and sentence construction\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to conjugate regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To express ideas about the past, present, and future\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2048'),
(20145, 'Spanish Verbs for Dummies', 'Cecie Kraynak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A fun, comprehensive way to get up to speed on Spanish\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With over 325 million speakers, Spanish is in a virtual dead heat with English as the second most popular spoken language. This easy-to-follow guide shows readers how to successfully conjugate verbs, providing easy, entertaining exercises and answer keys to reinforce different grammatical rules. More than just a dictionary-style list of verbs,\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Spanish Verbs For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n covers regular verbs in the present tense and six other simple tenses, interrogatives and imperatives, irregular verbs in all seven tenses, and Spanish verb nuances.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mary Kraynak\n </strong>\n , MA (Indianapolis, IN), teaches Spanish to junior high and high school students and has served as a technical consultant to several Spanish learning guides.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the hang of Spanish verbs and get over verb hang-ups!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With 14 tenses, six conjugations, and a lot of irregularities, Spanish verbs are pretty much out to get you. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and regulations and drill you on the most common exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, conjugation charts, and plenty of exercises â€” just what you need to master even the toughest Spanish verbs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Review regular verbs in the present tense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cope with common exceptions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate all simple tenses, from preterit to imperfect subjunctive\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conjugate compound tenses with the verb haber\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2049'),
(20146, 'Spanish Word Games for Dummies', 'Adam Cohen &amp; Leslie Frates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The fun and easy way\n  </em>\n  to learn Spanish-by playing games!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you want to learn how to speak Spanish? One major aspect of learning a new language is learning the vocabulary, but for many people, this involves memorization, which can be a difficult task. Now,\n <em>\n  Spanish Word Games For Dummies\n </em>\n offers you a fun and painless alternative: games and puzzles designed to help you practice and remember your Spanish vocabulary.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fun, practical guide features more than 100 word games and puzzles, including crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, and more-that range in difficulty from easy to challenging. As you play, you''ll develop your Spanish vocabulary while you improve your language skills.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Spanish Word Games For Dummies\n  </em>\n  provides you with challenging puzzles to build your Spanish vocabulary and enhance your skill set\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, and other word games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Works as a supplement to Spanish language courses and programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  It''s portable enough to easily take to classes or on the road\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a proficient speaker looking to brush up on your vocabulary or a first-time Spanish speaker, this clever guide is the ideal way to have fun while you increase your skills!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to learn Spanish â€” by playing games!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you want to improve your Spanish? This fun, practical guide features more than 100 word games and puzzles, including crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, jumbles, and scrambles â€” each with a language-learning twist. As you play, you develop your Spanish vocabulary while you improve your language skills. It''s that easy!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learning language through puzzles â€” find out how you can learn or brush up on Spanish by solving a variety of puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sharpening your memory and your pencil â€” build brain capacity and make the most of what you''re learning\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Taking the puzzlement out of puzzles â€” discover how to solve each of the puzzle types in the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spicing up your life with puzzles â€” improve your language skills as you solve themed puzzles about work, home, school, culture, and much more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tricky stuff â€” find complex puzzles that use irregular verbs and tenses, present potential vocabulary pitfalls, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 100 word games ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solutions for puzzles in the back of the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on thinking outside the box with crosswords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cryptogram code-cracking techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sound advice on unscrambling word scrambles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to fill in the blanks of fill-ins\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful how-to guidance on solving seek and finds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Smart ways to easily absorb Spanish\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2050'),
(20147, 'Spartan Gold (Fargo Adventures)', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Grant Blackwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The debut of a brand-new, action-packed series from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of ''pure entertainment'' (People).\n  <br />\n  Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. And when Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear.\n  <br />\n  Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a World War II German u-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon''s ''lost cellar.'' Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they''ve just found. He is Hadeon Bondaruk - a half- Russian, half-Persian millionaire. He claims to be a descendant of King Xerxes himself.\n  <br />\n  And he wants his treasure back.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW ADVENTURE SERIES FROM THE #1\n   <em>\n    NEW YORK TIMES\n   </em>\n   - BESTSELLING AUTHOR\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A fortune lost for ages . . . a millionaire pursuing his destiny . . . Sam and Remi Fargo are about to encounter both.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it comes to explosive, adrenaline-charged adventure, Clive Cussler is hailed as "the master of building suspense and tension" (_Richmond Times- Dispatch_). Now Cussler unveils his newest heroes, a husband-and-wife team who hunt treasure for a living-even at the risk of dying. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared-and the treasure was lost again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until now. Treasure-hunting husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon''s famous "Lost Cellar," and fascinated, they set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That man is Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his,\n  <em>\n   no matter what.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention that are unique to Cussler,\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  is a dazzling thriller from the grand master of adventure fiction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of numerous\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers.\n  <strong>\n   Grant Blackwood\n  </strong>\n  , a U.S. Navy veteran, spent three years on a guided missile frigate. He is the author of the Briggs Tanner series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6145'),
(20148, 'Speed Reading for Dummies', 'Richard Sutz &amp; Peter Weverka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to become a more efficient, effective reader!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to read faster â€” and recall more of what you read? This practical, hands-on guide gives you the techniques you need to increase your reading speed and retention, whether you''re reading books, e-mails, magazines, or even technical journals! You''ll find reading aids and plenty of exercises to help you read faster and better comprehend the text.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Yes, you can speed read â€” discover the skills you need to read quickly and effectively, break your bad reading habits, and take in more text at a glance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Focus on the fundamentals â€” widen your vision span and see how to increase your comprehension, retention, and recall\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advance your speed-reading skills â€” read blocks of text, heighten your concentration, and follow an author''s thought patterns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Zero in on key points â€” skim, scan, and preread to quickly locate the information you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Expand your vocabulary â€” recognize the most common words and phrases to help you move through the text more quickly\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tried-and-true techniques from The Reader''s Edge program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to assess your current reading level\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools and exercises to improve your reading skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Speed-reading fundamentals you must know\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Helpful lists of prefixes, suffixes, roots, and prime words\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A speed-reading progress worksheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exercises for eye health and expanded reading vision\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for making your speed-reading skills permanent\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Sutz\n </strong>\n is the founder and CEO of The Literacy Company, developers of The Reader''s Edge speed-reading program. Sutz''s program teaches silent reading fluency for effective and efficient speed reading.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Peter Weverka\n </strong>\n is the author of many\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books. His articles and stories have appeared in\n <em>\n  Harper''s\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  SPY\n </em>\n , and other magazines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2051'),
(20149, 'Spider Trap', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œGrippingâ€¦Maitland brings the particular world he depicts unforgettably alive.Â  No one who reads this haunting, unnerving work will ever again think about contemporary artists the same way.â€ â€“ _Publishers Weekly\n  <em>\n   on\n  </em>\n  No Trace_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA craft and well-crafted showpiece of the genreâ€¦Altogether an intricate and maze-like tale well told and well worth the telling.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles\n  </em>\n  _ Times Book Review_ on\n  <em>\n   The Chalon Heads\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaitland, perhaps the most underrated writer in the field, puts it all together â€“ a memorably twisty plot, cut-and-thrust investigation, unsparing forensics, psychological penetration â€“ in the complete mystery package.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  (starred review) on\n  <em>\n   No Trace\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a procedural, it is first-rate; as a crime thriller, it is compelling; and as a reflection of of contemporary life, it is fascinating.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Dallas\n  </em>\n  _ Morning News_ on\n  <em>\n   Silvermeadow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn what may be his best book yet, Maitland starkly contrasts the modern art worldview of life as art/art as life with the police attitude that life is not a game.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   No Trace\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  WhenÂ human bonesÂ are discovered in Cockpit Lane, a poor area of inner south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard are called in to investigate. The first twist in the case comes when Brock and Kolla learn thatÂ the victims died over twenty years ago, during the Brixton riots, information that leads the two of themÂ on a dangerous journey into the heart of the West Indian community in London.Â Making matters worse,Â a formidableÂ old antagonist, Spider Roach,Â returns, weaving together past and present in an intricate web of deception and intrigue. Now the two have toÂ uncover the truthÂ of those long ago deaths, and be able to prove it with a crucial piece of evidence, in order to prevent the violence of the past from revisiting itself on them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4639'),
(20150, 'Spies of the Balkans', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3986'),
(20151, 'The spies of warsaw', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1937 Warsaw, on the eve of World War II, intelligence operatives on both sides of the forthcoming struggle wage their own espionage battle in a world of betrayal, intrigue, and abduction, including Colonel Jean-Franois Mercier, a decorated hero drawn into a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. 75,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3989'),
(20152, 'Spirit Dances [6]', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Seattle detective Joanne Walker, spring is about new beginnings. She''s mastered her shamanic abilities (mostly), survived a cannibalistic serial killer (barely) and now she''s facing the biggest challenge of her careerâ€”attending a dance concert with her sexy boss, Captain Michael Morrison. But when the performanceâ€”billed as transformativeâ€”actually changes her into a coyote, she and Morrison have bigger things to deal with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And there''s more. Homeless people are disappearing, a mystical murder puts Joanne way out of her jurisdiction and with the full moon coming on, it''s looking like the killer is a creature that can''t possibly exist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Jo could probably handle all of that, if one ordinary homicide hadn''t pushed her to the very edgeâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 8:34 A.M.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Walker, Holliday, you''re up. Homicide in Ballard, probably domestic violence. Be there yesterday." A set of sedan keys flew across the room at my head. I caught them painlessly, only because I''d just come in the door and hadn''t yet taken my gloves off. The guy who''d thrown them at meâ€”our lieutenant, Braxton, who was decent, hardworking, and who never impinged on my consciousness for a single moment beyond those I spent following his direct commandsâ€”jerked his jaw at the door, indicating we should already be gone. I did a quick dance of shedding my coat, shrugging on my duty weaponâ€”an item which, like Braxton, lay outside my realm of active awareness except when I was actually at workâ€”and pulling the coat back on before my partner made it to the door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because my desk was three steps from the door, I got there first, and that meant I won: I got to drive. After nine months of that game, I wasn''t sure why we bothered, because neither of us pretended Billy was the better driver. Not that he was a bad driver, mind you. It''s just that it was the only class at the academy I''d been too proud to come in anything but first.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He caught up to me and muttered, "I hate domestic cases," as we headed out the door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know." Nobody liked them, which was part of why Billy and I were up on this one. Braxton tried to rotate the DV cases through the whole Homicide team, because under the best of circumstances, they were emotionally messy, and under the worstâ€”which was more usualâ€”cops ended up the bad guys no matter what they did. "Could be worse. At least a murder means there won''t be an outraged spouse trying to beat us off because her partner didn''t really do anything wrong."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Walker, are you seriously telling me murder is preferable to a live victim who doesn''t want to press charges?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That wasn''t what I meant." It was, however, kind of what I''d said. No wonder I let Billy do most of the talking at crime scenes. We drove over to Ballard while Dispatch offered a few more details on the homicide we were approaching. There was a pattern of abuse in the family, instigated by the wife, one Patricia "Patty" Raleigh, against whom the city had twice pressed charges. She''d done anger management courses and then a short stint in jail. We weren''t sure yet if it was herself or her husband, Nathan, or possibly both, who was the victim: one of their children had run out of the house, bloody and screaming hysterically about Mommy and Daddy being dead. The neighbor had called it in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Billy left his coffee untouched as the information came in, muscle in his jaw bulging like flexible stone. "I\n  <em>\n   hate\n  </em>\n  domestic cases."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know." There was nothing else to say. I pulled up along the curb in front of the Raleighs'' ranch-style home a few minutes later, and we got out of the car. It wasn''t a wealthy part of the city, the houses mostly from the fifties and sixties. They tended to look careworn, with sagging fences, older tricycles and swing sets in small front yards. A few houses stood out as having been renovated: fresh paint, new roofs, lawns trim and shipshape even though winter was only just letting go its grip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Raleighs'' house wasn''t one of those. I glanced over it, then met the eyes of a broad-boned black woman standing in the next yard over. She had two kids with her, both white, both huddled against her strong form. Her hands were on their chests, over their hearts: protective, like a mama bear. She was probably the neighbor who''d called in the 273D, and the kids were probably Nathan and Patty Raleigh''s. I nodded to her once and she nodded back, then retreated to her front porch, taking the kids with her. She''d been letting us know where they were, and now planned to stay out of the way until we needed them and her. Most people intimately involved with a murder weren''t that clearheaded. I chalked it up to equal likelihoods that she was involved or that she was very sensible, and followed Billy up the driveway to the house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He paused at the door, an eyebrow lifted at me. I gave him a nod much like I''d just given the neighbor, then let the Sight filter over my normal vision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Truth was, though normal investigative homicides like this one made up the bulk of our work, Billy and I weren''t partnered because we were good at solving run-of-the-mill cases. We were partners because he saw dead people and I was a shaman. A healer, basically, though I had a wider range of talents than that. Together we made up Seattle''s one and only paranormal detective team, and even on a mundane case, there was no reason to let our esoteric skills go to waste.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The world viewed with the Sight was something of a wonder to behold. Everything shone with purpose, rich aura colors making light of the most ordinary objects. Newly budding leaves on trees thrummed with brilliant blue-green threads that would become bluer as they grew, until they were vibrant with life pouring through them. Houses, buildings and fences tended to radiate a resolute green, a pride in protecting the things they held. Everything, living or inanimate, had purpose, and I could See that purpose when I looked with shamanic eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I could also See people''s auras, even through walls, which was unusually handy in clearing a house for entry. There was nothing living inside the Raleighs'' house, though a bright orange shimmer said a housecat was probably in the backyard hunting early-season bugs. A crawl space beneath the house would''ve been a better choice for the cat: plastic tarp down there kept the earth warm and I could See the squirms of potato bugs and other such small things doing whatever it was bugs did. The attic was quieter than that, not so much as a squirrel hiding out. I nodded to give Billy the all-clear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He knocked anyway, as was polite, and introduced us loudly before trying the doorknob. It turned, to neither of our surprise: if the kids had come running out, they weren''t very likely to have stopped and locked the door behind them. And an inSightful all-clear or not, we both went in like we were entering hostile territory, because God forbid I should be wrong and we should fail to follow protocol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our bossâ€”Morrison, the precinct captain, not Baxter-the-forgettableâ€”would rip us apart if we did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nathan Raleigh was just inside the door, a late, macabre addition to an otherwise low-key, attractive living room. He hadn''t been dead all that long. His color was still fading, but there was a remarkable amount of blood soaking into the pale blue carpet. Billy and I exchanged glances, then Billy tipped his head to the left, indicating he''d check out the room through the next doorway, barely two steps away. I nodded and edged forward just far enough to keep an eye on him. There was a short hallway in front of us, down which I guessed were bedrooms, which I couldn''t let go uncovered while he checked out the open-plan kitchen and second living room to our left.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He said, "Clear," after a few seconds. "Doorway to my right."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One to my left here, too." We knocked our respective doors open, winding up on opposite ends of a T-shaped bathroom, guns pointed at each other. Billy crooked a faint grin, then stepped into the top of the T, putting himself exactly opposite me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short brunette woman came through the door behind him, a nail-spiked baseball bat already descending toward his skull.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I shot her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time slowed down in crises, for me. I wasn''t sure it was possible to drop into actual bullet-time, like in\n  <em>\n   The Matrix,\n  </em>\n  but I swore I saw the bullet''s spin and the percussion blast as it slammed into Patricia Raleigh''s right shoulder. Blood misted out. She screamed. The bat''s downward momentum was knocked far enough askew to no longer threaten Billy. He hit the deck anyway, flipping on his back to bring his weapon up defensively, finger still on the trigger-guard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mine was still squeezing the trigger. My throat hurt, though I couldn''t remember yelling. I knew I should have.\n  <em>\n   Drop your weapon!\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Police!\n  </em>\n  or something like that. Maybe I''d said both. In protocol terms, it mattered. It mattered very much. In real-world terms, it mattered a lot less: my partner had been under attack, and shouting was never going to stop the bat from bashing into him. One shot, a good one, had been enough. Good thing, too. I''d never shot another human being before. I wasn''t sure I could do it again, even for a double-tap to make certain Billy would remain safe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patty Raleigh staggered a few steps backward and fell over.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My belly erupted with pain, diamond claws digging in and hauling my insides apart as the core of my magic went to war with what I''d just done. I dropped my gun and limped forward, one arm curled over my stomach. I paused next to Billy, who hadn''t yet moved, cords standing out in his neck and breath coming hard. He jerked his gaze to me, then nodded, one sharp movement to say he was okay. Nausea that I interpreted as relief swept through the pain in my gut, and I kicked Patty Raleigh''s baseball batâ€”it was already bloodied, the nail thick with matter I didn''t want to examineâ€”farther away before kneeling at her side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was no exit wound spilling blood onto her pale blue carpet, which meant the bullet had lodged in her right clavicle. A very good shot, then, because the impact and lodgment would have knocked her farther off balance than a clear shot through the muscle would have. In terms of preventing a nail from taking up residence in Billy''s head, I couldn''t have done better without killing her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which I hadn''t. She was still breathing, though the inhalations were shallow and shocky, and her eyes were glazed with pain. The wound technically wasn''t life-threatening, but that made less difference than people thought, with shooting victims. Shock or sepsis did them in. The human body was not meant to stop small metal objects traveling at 850 feet per second, and tended to react poorly. Patty Raleigh might very well die with me kneeling beside her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, I could prevent that from happening. Or at least, I ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5949');
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(20153, 'Split Second', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **They dubbed him the Collector -- so named for his  ritual of collecting victims before disposing of them in the most  heinous ways possible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell spent two years tracking him down,  caught in a game of cat and mouse that left her forever marked by this  killer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Albert Stucky has escaped from prison. And he is setting up a new  game to draw Maggie back into the chase.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some say Maggie O''Dell has lost it -- lost the professional edge that  makes her one of the best criminal profilers, and lost her ability to  think clearly.  Since capturing Stucky she''s been walking a tightwire,  battling nightmares and the guilt over the victims she couldn''t  save. Now with news of his escape, she''s been taken out of the field  until he''s caught again. But Magge knows the truth: only she can see  into the twisted mind of this madman. Only she can catch him. Albert  Stucky wouldn''t have it any other way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it becomes undeniable that Stucky''s trail of victims is leading  closer and closer to Maggie, the Bureau puts her back on the  case. Under the supervision of Special Agent R.J. Tully, Maggie joins  the hunt for a pyschopath who continues to stay one bloody step ahead  of them. And, once again under the control of a cunning killer, Maggie  finds herself pushed to the very edge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What ultimately, is Maggie O''Dell capable of? Has her desire to stop  Albert Stucky -- to make him look into her eyes before she ends the  game once and for all -- become a matter of personal vengeance? Has  she crossed that line in her need to make him suffer as he''s made  others suffer? And is this Stucky''s game -- to turn Special Agent  O''Dell into a monster?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As *Split Second* races toward its inevitable climax, Alex Kava paints a chilling, unflinching portrait of the human psyche pushed past its limits. A runaway train of riveting suspense and heart-pounding drama, *Split Second* is a provocative, bold look at the nature of good and evil in all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4054'),
(20154, 'Split Second', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A serial killer is on the loose, and it''s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead monster Ted Bundy. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, Agent Carlyle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn''t simply walk away from his family twenty-two years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy''s grandmother. Determined to find the truth, Lucy moves into her grandmother''s Chevy Chase mansion. What she finds, however, is a nightmare. Not only does she discover the truth of what happened all those years ago, but she faces a new mystery as well, a strange ring that holds powers beyond her ken.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the hunt for the serial killer escalates, Savich realizes he''s become the killer''s focus, and perhaps the next victim. It''s up to Lucy to stop this madness before it''s too late.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, KnockOut, and Whiplash. She lives in northern California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4148'),
(20155, 'Split Second', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A serial killer is on the loose, and it''s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead monster Ted Bundy. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, Agent Carlyle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn''t simply walk away from his family twenty-two years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy''s grandmother. Determined to find the truth, Lucy moves into her grandmother''s Chevy Chase mansion. What she finds, however, is a nightmare. Not only does she discover the truth of what happened all those years ago, but she faces a new mystery as well, a strange ring that holds powers beyond her ken.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the hunt for the serial killer escalates, Savich realizes he''s become the killer''s focus, and perhaps the next victim. It''s up to Lucy to stop this madness before it''s too late.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, KnockOut, and Whiplash. She lives in northern California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4387'),
(20156, 'Sports Illustrated Swimwear Edition 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10575'),
(20157, 'SPSS for Dummies', 'Arthur Griffith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis software that allows users to generate solid, decision-making results by performing statistical analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book provides just the information needed: installing the software, entering data, setting up calculations, and analyzing data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers computing cross tabulation, frequencies, descriptive ratios, means, bivariate and partial correlations, linear regression, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to output information into striking charts and graphs\n </li>\n <li>\n  For ambitious users, also covers how to program SPSS to take their statistical analysis to the next level\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Program SPSS with PythonÂ® and Command Syntax\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to generate solid decision-making results with SPSS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Stymied by SPSS? This friendly, plain-English guide gets you up and running with the latest version of the software so that you can start performing calculations right away. It then covers all key analysis topics step by step â€” from cross tabulation and descriptive ratios to linear regression, hierarchical analysis, and more. You''ll export data flawlessly and with flair!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install and run the software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get data into and out of SPSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create striking charts and graphs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Execute analyses â€” from correlations to linear models\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Display data in a variety of graphs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2052'),
(20158, 'SPSS for Dummies', 'Arthur Griffith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and friendly guide to the world''s leading statistical software\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Predictive Analysis Software (PASW), formerly SPSS software, is the leading statistical software used by commerical, government, and academic organizations around the world to solve business and research problems. It allows you to quickly and easily discover new insights from data, test hypotheses, and build powerful predictive models.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PASW Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything you need to know to get up and running with this efficient and practical software.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  PASW Statistics is the leading statistical software used to analyze data and create predictive models; it is used by business, academic, and government entities worldwide\n </li>\n <li>\n  This guide explains how to work with automatic codebook generation and customize the variable view\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks you through the rounding method that is used in all calculations and explains using predictive analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to maximize your use of graph templates, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even if you have little or no statistical or mathematical background,\n <em>\n  PASW Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you how to generate statistical support and decision-making information quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Need to analyze some data? SPSS is your statistical friend â€” let it crunch the numbers!\n</p>\n<p>\n Surprise â€” this book is not about statistics. It''s about using SPSS to calculate statistics for you! Here are step-by-step procedures you can follow to see how SPSS operates and start using it with your own data. You''ll be able to enter data, produce graphs, use the statistical methods built into SPSS to generate the numbers you need, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Predict the future â€” use SPSS to identify business risks and opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn your way around â€” install SPSS and set up the options to serve your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Enter the data â€” instruct SPSS to collect data from a database or another file, or type it in yourself\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Data in, data out â€” export the results of your analysis for use in a database, Web page, ExcelÂ® worksheet, or Word document\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Go graphic â€” create bar graphs, line charts, scatterplots, pie charts, histograms, and others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Welcome to analysis â€” learn different ways SPSS can crunch numbers and how to get the analysis you''re looking for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extend the possibilities â€” customize SPSS with Command Syntax or create new scripts with PythonÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your greatest asset â€” protect your data and make regular backups\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can and can''t do with SPSS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Types of graphs and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manually enter data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions for sorting, identifying, and grouping data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Data types and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What a scatterplot can show you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to back up and protect your data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A glossary of SPSS and statistics terms\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2053'),
(20159, 'The Spy', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges towards war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man''s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father''s name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide, but to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone â€“ an elusive spy â€“ is orchestrating the destruction of America ''s brightest technological mindsâ€¦and the murders all connect to a top-secret project called Hull 44. As the intrigue deepens, Bell finds himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnaught battleships, Teddy Roosevelt''s Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell''s Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that''s at stake â€“ it''s the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6152'),
(20160, 'SQL All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SQL is the international standard language for creating and maintaining relational databases. This book is a compendium of information about SQL and relational database design, development, and maintenance. The nine mini-books cover the full spectrum of issues that arise in building, using, and maintaining relational database systems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Book I: SQL Concepts\n</p>\n<p>\n Book II: Relational Database Development\n</p>\n<p>\n Book III: SQL Queries\n</p>\n<p>\n Book IV: Data Security\n</p>\n<p>\n Book V: SQL and Programming\n</p>\n<p>\n Book VI: SQL and XML\n</p>\n<p>\n Book VII: Database Tuning Overview\n</p>\n<p>\n Book VIII: Appendixes\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Master queries for any SQL database!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to building and maintaining relational databases with SQL\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re looking for a good general reference on SQL, look no further. This all-in-one guide delivers the goods on all major SQL topics, from basic concepts to the latest XML data-handling functions. Whether you''re a database developer or DBA, you''ll find fast answers to your SQL questions and savvy tips on building databases that are robust, secure, and efficient.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle a database development project\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Formulate SQL queries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build database applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secure your database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle XML data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tune and optimize a database\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2054'),
(20161, 'SQL for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the rare case of a book that can take you from a beginner to an advanced-intermediate level. Like many of the books in IDG''s Dummies series, this volume begins with a definition ("What is SQL?") and ends with "The Part of Tens," a collection of tips in a top ten list form. Taylor writes in a breezy, entertaining style that SQL novices will find inviting. One caveat: The examples are given in Borland''s Delphi, a rapid application development (RAD) tool. Some sections show several screen shots from Delphi and it may be difficult to follow along in these sections if you don''t have the program in front of you. As with other Dummies books,\n <em>\n  SQL for Dummies\n </em>\n is entertaining to read although the nonstop jokes may distract some readers from the technical content.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n See how SQL interfaces with today''s environments\n</p>\n<p>\n Start building and using relational databases with SQL''s newest features\n</p>\n<p>\n The database may be the twenty-first century filing cabinet, but building one is a little more complex than sliding drawers into a metal box. With this book to guide you through all the newest features of SQL, you''ll soon be whipping up relational databases, using SQL with XML to power data-driven Web sites, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Use SQL in a client/server system\n <br />\n * Build a multitable relational database\n <br />\n * Construct nested and recursive queries\n <br />\n * Set up database security\n <br />\n * Use SQL within applications\n <br />\n * Map SQL to XML\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2055'),
(20162, 'SQL for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the rare case of a book that can take you from a beginner to an advanced-intermediate level. Like many of the books in IDG''s Dummies series, this volume begins with a definition ("What is SQL?") and ends with "The Part of Tens," a collection of tips in a top ten list form. Taylor writes in a breezy, entertaining style that SQL novices will find inviting. One caveat: The examples are given in Borland''s Delphi, a rapid application development (RAD) tool. Some sections show several screen shots from Delphi and it may be difficult to follow along in these sections if you don''t have the program in front of you. As with other Dummies books,\n <em>\n  SQL for Dummies\n </em>\n is entertaining to read although the nonstop jokes may distract some readers from the technical content.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn SQL the fun and easy way â€“ no programming experience needed!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 7th Edition\n </em>\n , shows programmers and web developers how to use SQL to build relational databases and get valuable information from them. This book covers the core features of the SQL language. Topics covered include how to use SQL to structure a DBMS and implement a database design; secure a database; and retrieve information from a database. This edition will be revised to reflect the new enhancements of SQL/XML:2008.\n</p>\n<p>\n The latest update of the perennial bestselling\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies,\n </em>\n which has sold more than 210,000 units in six editions.\n</p>\n<p>\n SQL is the most popular database language in the world\n</p>\n<p>\n Covers creating, accessing, manipulating, maintaining, and storing information in relational database management systems (DBMS) such as Access, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.\n</p>\n<p>\n Includes new content on using SQL with XML to power data-driven web sites and using SQL with Access 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re daunted by database development or a system admin star,\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 7th Dummies\n </em>\n will have you working your web site in no time at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2056'),
(20163, 'SQL for Dummies', 'Allen G. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the rare case of a book that can take you from a beginner to an advanced-intermediate level. Like many of the books in IDG''s Dummies series, this volume begins with a definition ("What is SQL?") and ends with "The Part of Tens," a collection of tips in a top ten list form. Taylor writes in a breezy, entertaining style that SQL novices will find inviting. One caveat: The examples are given in Borland''s Delphi, a rapid application development (RAD) tool. Some sections show several screen shots from Delphi and it may be difficult to follow along in these sections if you don''t have the program in front of you. As with other Dummies books,\n <em>\n  SQL for Dummies\n </em>\n is entertaining to read although the nonstop jokes may distract some readers from the technical content.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many database management system (DBMS) tools run on a variety of hardware platforms. The differences among the tools can be many, but all serious products have one thing in common: They support data access and manipulation in SQL, the industry-standard language specifically designed to enable people to create and manage databases. If you know SQL, you can build relational databases and get useful information out of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Relational database management systems are vital to many organizations. People often think that creating and maintaining these systems are extremely complex activitiesÂ â€“Â the domain of database gurus who possess enlightenment beyond that of ordinary mortals. Well,\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition,\n </em>\n sweeps away the database mystique.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in easy-to-understand terms and updated with the latest information on SQL, this handy reference shows you step-by-step how to make your database designs a reality using SQL:2003. But you don''t have to be a database newbie to find value in\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition\n </em>\n ; even if you have some experience designing and creating databases, you may discover a few things you didn''t know about.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s just a sampling of some of the things you''ll find covered in\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition:\n </em>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Exploring relational database and SQL fundamentals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building and maintaining a simple database structure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building a multiple relational database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manipulating database data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examining SQL nuts and bolts: values, expressions, operators, and queries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Providing database security and protecting your data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exploring ODBC and JDBC, and using SQL with XML\n </li>\n <li>\n  Moving beyond the basics: cursors, persistent stored modules, and error-handling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top Ten lists on common SQL mistakes and retrieval tips\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Plain and simply, databases are the best tools ever invented for keeping track of the things you care about. After you understand databases and can use SQL to make them do your bidding, you wield tremendous power.\n <em>\n  SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition,\n </em>\n can get you well on your way to harnessing the power of databases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2057'),
(20164, 'The Staircase at the Heart&#39;s Delight', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3931'),
(20165, 'Star Magazine - Oc 31 20111', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10818'),
(20166, 'Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christie Golden\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including\n  <em>\n   Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Allies,\n  </em>\n  and several short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include launching the Ravenloft line in 1991 with\n  <em>\n   Vampire of the Mists,\n  </em>\n  more than a dozen\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, and multiple Warcraft and Starcraft novels, including\n  <em>\n   World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Starcraft II: Devilâ€™s Due\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Council Chambers of the Circle,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Capital City of Tahv, KESH\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sun beating down upon the stained-glass dome of the Circle Chambers painted the forms of all those assembled in a riot of colors. Yet it was not hot in this large room; regulating the temperature was child''s play for such masterful users of the Force as the Sith assembled here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was an emergency meeting. Even so, formalities were strictly observed; the Sith were nothing if not meticulous. Grand Lord Darish Vol, the leader of the Lost Tribe, had summoned the meeting less than a standard hour earlier. He now sat upon a dais in the very center of the room, elevated above all others, enthroned on his traditional metal-and-glass seat. While there had been sufficient time to don his colorful formal robes, he had not had time to sit and permit his attendants to paint his gaunt, aged face with the vor''shandi swirls and decorations appropriate to the meeting. Vol shifted slightly in his throne, displeased by that knowledge, displeased with the entire situation that had necessitated the meeting in the first place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His staff of office was stretched over his lap. His ?claw-?like hands closed about it as his aged but still-sharp eyes flitted about the room, noting who was here and who was not, and observing and anticipating the responses of each.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seated on either side of the Grand Lord were the High Lords. Nine members of the traditional thirteen were here today, a mixture of male and female, Keshiri and human. One, High Lord Sarasu Taalon, would never again be among that number. Taalon was dead, and his death was one of the reasons Vol had called the assembly. Seated in a ring around the dais were the Lords, ranked below the High Lords, and standing behind them were the Sabers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Several of their number were missing, too. Many were dead. Some . . . well, their status remained to be seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol could feel the tension in the room; even a non-Force-sensitive could have read the body language. Anger, worry, anticipation, and apprehension were galloping through the Chambers today, even though most present hid it well. Vol drew upon the Force as naturally as breathing in order to regulate his heart rate and the stress-created chemicals that coursed through his body. This was how the mind remained clear, even though the heart was, as ever, open to emotions and passion. If it were closed, or unmoved by such things, it would no longer be the heart of a true Sith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I tell you, she is a savior!" Lady Sashal was saying. She was petite, her long white hair perfectly coiffed, and her purple skin the most pleasing tone of lavender; her mellifluous voice rang through the room. "Ship obeys her, and was not Ship the-" She stumbled on the choice of words for a moment, then recovered. "-the Sith-created construct who liberated us from the chains of our isolation and ignorance of the galaxy? Ship was the tool we used to further our ? destiny-?to conquer the stars. We are well on our way to doing so!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Lady Sashal, we are," countered High Lord Ivaar Workan. "But it is we who shall rule this galaxy, not this stranger."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the attractive, graying human male had been a Lord for many years, he was new to his rank of High Lord. Taalon''s untimely demise had paved the way for Workan''s promotion. Vol had enjoyed watching Workan step into the role as if he had been born to it. While Sith truly trusted no one but themselves and the Force, Vol nonetheless regarded Workan among those who fell on the side of less likely to betray him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is very strong with the dark side," High Lord Takaris Yur offered. "Stronger than anyone we have ever heard of." That was quite a statement, coming from the Master of the Sith Temple. Few on Kesh had as extensive a knowledge of the Sith''s past-and now their present as they expanded across the stars-as this deceptively mild, ?dark-? skinned, middle-aged human. Yur had ambition, but, oddly for a Sith, it was largely not personal. His ambitions were for his students. He was content to teach them as best he could, then set them loose on an unsuspecting world, turning his attention to the next generation of Tyros. Yur spoke seldom, but when he did, all listened, if they were wise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stronger than I?" said Vol mildly, his face pleasant, as if he were engaged in idle chitchat on a lovely summer''s day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yur was unruffled as he turned ?toward the Grand Lord, bowing as he replied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is an ancient being," he said. "It seems to me foolish not to learn what we can from her." Vol smiled a little; Yur had not actually answered the question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One may learn much about a rukaro by standing in its path," Vol continued. "But one might not survive to benefit from that knowledge."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "True," Yur agreed. "Nonetheless, she is useful. Let us suck her dry before discarding the husk. Reports indicate that she still has much knowledge and skill in manipulating the Force to teach us and future generations of the Lost Tribe."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is not Sith," said Workan. The scorn in his melodious voice indicated that that single, damning observation should be the end of the debate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She is!" Sashal protested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not the way we are Sith," Workan continued. "And our ?way-?our culture, our values, our heritage-must be the only way if our destiny is to remain pure and unsullied. We risk dooming ourselves by becoming overly reliant on someone not of the ?Tribe-?no matter how powerful she might be."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sith take what we want," said Sashal, stepping ?toward Workan. Vol watched both of them closely, idly wondering if Sashal was issuing a challenge to her superior. It would be foolish. She was nowhere near as powerful as Workan. But sometimes ambition and wisdom did not go hand in hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her full diminutive height was drawn up, and she projected great confidence in the Force. "We will take her, and use her, and discard her when we are done. But for love of the dark side, let us take her first! Listen to High Lord Yur! Think what we can learn! From all that we have heard, she has powers we cannot imagine!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From all that we have heard, she is unpredictable and dangerous," countered Workan. "Only a fool rides the uvak he cannot control. I''ve no desire to continue to sacrifice Sith Sabers and Lords on the altar of aiding Abeloth and furthering her agenda-whatever it might be. Or have you failed to realize that we don''t even truly know what that is?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol detected a slight sense of worry and urgency from the figure currently approaching the Circle Chambers. It was Saber Yasvan, her attractive features drawn in a frown of concern.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a fool throws away a weapon that still has use," countered Yur. "Something so ancient-we should string her along and unlock her secrets."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Our numbers are finite, Lord Yur," Workan said. "At the rate Sith are dying interacting with her, we won''t be around to learn very much."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vol listened as Yasvan whispered in his ear, then nodded and, with a ? liver-?spotted hand, dismissed the Saber.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Entertaining as this debate has been," he said, "it is time for it to conclude. I have just learned that Ship has made contact with our planetary defenses. Abeloth and the Sith I have sent to accompany her will not be far behind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had all known to expect her; it was, indeed, the reason the meeting had been called. All eyes turned to him expectantly. What would their Grand Lord decide?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He let them stew. He was old, and few things amused him these days, so he permitted himself to enjoy the moment. At last, he said, "I have heard the arguments for continuing to work closely with her, and the arguments to sever ties. While I confess I am not overly fond of the former, and have made little secret of my opinion, neither do I think it is time for the latter. The best way to win is to cover all angles of the situation. And so Kesh and the Circle of Lords will invite Abeloth to our world. We shall give her a grand welcome, with feasting, and arts, and displays of our proud and powerful culture. And," he added, eyeing them all intently, "we will watch, and learn, and listen. And then we will make our decision as to what is best for the Lost Tribe of Kesh."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sith Saber Gavar Khai sat in the captain''s chair on the bridge of the Black Wave, the ChaseMaster frigate that had once belonged to Sarasu Taalon. Filling the viewscreen was the spherical shape of his homeworld-green and brown and blue and lavender. Khai regarded the lush planet with heavy-lidded eyes. For so many years, Kesh had been isolated from the events of the galaxy, and Khai found he had decidedly mixed feelings about returning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part of him was glad to be home. As was the case with every member of the Lost Tribe, he had spent his entire life here until a scant two years ago. Deeply embedded in him were love for its beautiful glass sculptures and purple sands, its music and culture, its casual brutality and its orderliness. For more than five thousand standard years, the Tribe had dwelled here, and with no other option, had-as was the Sith way-made the best of it. The ancient vessel Omen had crash-landed, and the survivors had set about not merely to exist in this world, but to dominate it. And so they had. They had managed to both embrace the Keshiri, the beautiful native beings of Kesh, and subjugate them. Those who were deserving-strong in the Force and able to adapt to the Sith way of thinking and being-could, with enough will, carve out a place for themselves in this society.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those who were not Force-users had no such opportunities. They were at the mercy of the ones who ruled. And sometimes, as was the case with Gavar Khai and his wife, there was mercy. Even love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But most often, there was neither.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Too, those who gambled to increase their standing and power and lost seldom lived long enough to make a second attempt. It was a very controlled society, with precise roles. Everyone knew what was expected of him or her, and knew that in order to change their lot, they would need to be bold, clever, and lucky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gavar Kha...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4141'),
(20167, 'Star.Trek.April.May.2011.UK.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Star.Trek.April.May.2011.UK.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7032'),
(20168, 'Star.Trek.July.August.2011.UK.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Star.Trek.July.August.2011.UK.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7034'),
(20169, 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-02.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-02.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7031'),
(20170, 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-06S.pdf 29-09-2011', 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-06S.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7033'),
(20171, 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-10-11.pdf 30-09-2011', 'Star.Trek.Magazine.2011-10-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7035'),
(20172, 'Starfish', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6381'),
(20173, 'Stars and Galaxies, 7th ed.', 'Michael A. Seeds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6831'),
(20174, 'Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies', 'Rob Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Turn browsers into buyers, boost traffic, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build your store from scratch, or make the one you have more profitable\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n His online business has been paying his mortgage for years. Now Rob Snell is sharing his Yahoo! Store secrets for planning, building, and managing an online store that delivers the goods! Here''s how to profit from keywords, handle credit-card payments, find out what''s hot in other stores, maximize your marketing efforts, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the Yahoo! Store Editor and Manager\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan effective store navigation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use better images to sell more products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build successful advertising strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate more traffic from search engines\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turn browsers into buyers, boost traffic, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Build your store from scratch, or make the one you have more profitable\n</p>\n<p>\n His online business has been paying his mortgage for years. Now Rob Snell is sharing his Yahoo! Store secrets for planning, building, and managing an online store that delivers the goods! Here''s how to profit from keywords, handle credit-card payments, find out what''s hot in other stores, maximize your marketing efforts, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the Yahoo! Store Editor and Manager\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan effective store navigation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use better images to sell more products\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build successful advertising strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Generate more traffic from search engines\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2058'),
(20175, 'Starting an eBay Business for Dummies', 'Marsha Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They started with collectibles from their closets and then realized they could make a living." (_Reader''s Digest_, November 2002)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n eBay is the worldâ€™s marketplace! If youâ€™re ready to turn your hobby into an online business, Marsha Collier knows exactly how to help. Packed with proven techniques for boosting your business,\n <em>\n  Starting an eBay Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition\n </em>\n includes the steps to success that youâ€™ll want to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n More than a million people are earning regular income on eBay. Those who are earning the most know how to set up a business, find and manage inventory, use auction management software to best advantage, get freebies on shipping, and run their businesses professionally.Â  Marsha Collier was one of the first, and she shares all the secrets sheâ€™s learned. In this fun and easy guide to getting your online business off and running, youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Attract more bidders to your auctions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a professional business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what sells and what doesnâ€™t\n </li>\n <li>\n  Increase bidder confidence with strong listings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Price your items to sell\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce your costs by shipping more efficiently\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with a PayPal account and collect your money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand legal issues such as taxes and licenses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep appropriate records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve your image with outstanding customer service\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Marsha Collier has been so successful with her home-based business that she educated her daughter on the profits and today is one of the stars of the eBay community. Along with plenty of solid information and time-and-money-saving tips, sheâ€™ll give you the confidence you need to become an eBay entrepreneur.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2059'),
(20176, 'Starting an Online Business All-In-One for Dummies', 'Shannon Belew &amp; Joel Elad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve thought of starting an online business or if youâ€™re already selling online, hereâ€™s how to get your share of online customers. This second edition of\n <em>\n  Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything from creating a business plan and building a customer-friendly site to marketing with Facebook and MySpace. Thereâ€™s even a section about setting up shop in the virtual world of Second Life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eleven handy minibooks cover online business basics, legal and accounting, Web site design, online and operating, Internet security, boosting sales, retail to e-tail, storefront selling, fundraising sites, niche e-commerce, and e-commerce advanced. Youâ€™ll learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build a business plan that translates your ideas into a profitable enterprise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose software to help you manage taxes, balance sheets, and other accounting chores\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a Web site that helps your business make money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fill orders, pack and ship merchandise, and manage stock\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up, budget for, and implement a plan to protect vital computer equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use PR and advertising tools that best promote your business online, including Google AdWords\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose what sells best in Second Life and earn real money from your virtual store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Market through niche communities, find and use special marketing tools for nonprofit organizations, and apply successful mobile marketing techniques\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Inside the book, youâ€™ll even find a Google AdWords gift card worth $25 to help spread the word about your online business!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boost your bottom line with your $25 Google AdWords credit â€” see inside\n</p>\n<p>\n Get your share of the online business with the information in this complete, fully updated reference. Learn to create a business plan, build a customer-friendly site, set up shop on Second LifeÂ®, keep your books, and promote your business â€” the free $25 Google AdWords gift card inside will help with that!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for success â€” build a business plan that translates your ideas into a profitable enterprise\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Account for taxes â€” choose software to help you manage taxes, balance sheets, and all that accounting stuff\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Site efficiency â€” create a Web site that helps your business make money\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All in order â€” find out how to fill orders, pack and ship merchandise, and manage stock\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety first â€” create, budget for, and implement a plan to protect vital computer equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spread the word â€” explore the PR and advertising tools that best promote your business online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Virtually real â€” discover what sells best in Second Life and how to earn real money from your virtual store\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize exposure â€” use m-commerce, Yahoo! Small Business, and other options\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Successful mobile marketing techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sell through niche communities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for designing your Web store\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get the most benefit from product reviews\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten valuable functions of Yahoo! Merchant Solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special marketing tools for nonprofit organizations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to turn Linden dollars into U.S. currency\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n ? Your free $25 Google AdWords gift card\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2060'),
(20177, 'Starting Online Business for Dum', 'Greg Holden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n So you want to own your own business, be your own boss, set your own hours, and make real money. If you''re comfortable with computers and have a marketable idea, service, or product, this guide will help you become an ontrepreneur (online entrepreneur). It covers everything you need to know to set up shop in cyberspace. You''ll find out about using established storefronts as a shortcut (sort of like setting up shop in a huge, established cybermall) or building your own Web site from scratch. You''ll explore: Doing research, defining your niche and target market, and putting it together in a practical business plan Getting the hardware and software you''ll need to get going Creating your own Web site with good organization, useful content, and eye-catching design, including ten must-have features and info on clip art and photos Selecting a Web hosting service (with info on free Web site homesteading) Setting up for handling business online, including building in security, accepting charge cards, creating shopping carts, and more Managing your goods and services, including sourcing goods, handling returns, adding shipping fees, and maintaining inventory Taking advantage of successful online business models, including storefronts such as Amazon.com, Yahoo!, CafePress, PayPal, or Microsoft that already have all the tools and systems, plus great traffic Running a business on eBay Marketing your business and the secrets to search engine success Keeping good business records and staying on the right side of the law, including everything from trademarks , copyrights, and licensing to taxes, with info on accounting tools and software Written by e-biz whiz Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies, Fourth Edition has all kinds of case studies of successful cyber businesses, including a woman who sells her own insect repellent, a mapmaker, a housewife who sells sweetener and coffee on eBay, a sculptor and painter, and more. Packed with inspiration and information, it includes: Lots of Web sites that will give you good ideas A companion Web site that includes an online directory of Internet business resources A list of legal and business requirements Get going, and build a booming business right at home. The only people you''ll have to take orders from are customers, and those are the kind of orders you''ll like!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2061'),
(20178, 'State of Wonder', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including\n  <i>\n   The Magician''s Assistant\n  </i>\n  and the\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling\n  <i>\n   Bel Canto\n  </i>\n  . Now she raises the bar with\n  <i>\n   State of Wonder\n  </i>\n  , a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina''s assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina''s research partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4010');
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(20179, 'State of Wonder', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : In\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n , pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isnâ€™t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungleâ€™s unforgiving humidity and insects, making\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of todayâ€™s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come,\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself.\n <em>\n  --Jessica Schein\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Elizabeth Gilbert Interviews Ann Patchett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller,\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , as well as the short story collection\n <em>\n  Pilgrims\n </em>\n â€”a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Elizabeth Gilbert:\n </strong>\n As your close personal friend, I happen to know that you traveled to the Amazon to conduct research for this novel, and that you sort of hated the Amazon--can you share a little about that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ann Patchett:\n </strong>\n I absolutely loved the Amazon for four days. It was gorgeous and unfamiliar and deeply fascinating. Unfortunately, I stayed there for ten days. There are a lot of insects in the Amazon, a lot of mud, surprisingly few vegetables, too many snakes. You canâ€™t go anywhere by yourself, which makes sense if you donâ€™t know the terrain, but I enjoy going places by myself. I can see how great it would be for a very short visit, and how great it would be if you lived there and had figured out what was and wasnâ€™t going to kill you, but the interim length of time isnâ€™t great.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Didn''t I hear that you have a sort of magical story about a friend who is also a writer, who was also once going to write a book about the Amazon? Can you share this miraculous tale? Also, is your writer friend pretty?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n This friend of mine, who happens to be you, is gorgeous, and much taller in real life. Yes, you were writing a novel about the Amazon, and then you decided not to write a novel about the Amazon, and then I started writing a novel about the Amazon, and later when we compared notes (your book dismissed, mine halfway finished) they had remarkably similar story lines, to the point of being eerie. I thought this must be because it was an incredibly banal idea and we had both come up with a generic Amazon novel, but then you told me that ideas fly around looking for homes, and when the idea hadnâ€™t worked out with you it came to me. If this is true I think your name should be on the cover. It would increase sales significantly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Readers of your prior work--particularly the luminous\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n --will be delighted to see that opera makes an appearance in this novel, as well. In fact, one of the most dramatic scenes in the book takes place at the opera. Is that a wink and a nod to loyal readers, or just an expression of your own deep and abiding musical passions?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s a wink and a nod to Werner Herzog and his brilliant Amazon film â€œFitzcarraldoâ€ which opens at the opera house in Manaus where the aforementioned scene takes place. I had very little experience with opera when I wrote\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n , and since then itâ€™s become a huge part of my life. It was fun to write a scene set at the opera now that I know what Iâ€™m talking about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n _ State of Wonder_ a rollicking adventure story, full of peril and bravery and death-defying action. I personally know you to be a homebody who likes to bake muffins for neighbors. How the heck did you pull off this wildness so convincingly? Was it as invigorating to write as it is to read?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Ah, the life of the mind. All the adventure I need I can dream up in my kitchen. I love writing outside of my own experience, making imaginary worlds. If I wrote novels based on my own life I would not be making a living at this. I also love to write a strong plot. I want things to happen in my books, I want to be thrilled. I always think about Raymond Chandler. Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™m getting the phrasing wrong but the general idea is that when things get slow, bring in a man with a gun. If you canâ€™t find a gun, a poison arrow works just as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n The cover is a work of beauty. Authors are not always so lucky. Tell us how you managed such a miracle?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n When I first started writing this book, I came downstairs one night and found my husband listening to â€œHorowitz at Carnegie Hallâ€. The album cover has a very lush filigreed border. I had two thoughts: first, I have an amazing husband who thankfully held onto his Horowitz LPs; second, that the album cover had the exact the feeling I wanted for my book--half jungle, half Baroque period. When I was finished writing the novel I sent the album to my editor, who sent it to the art department. They understood exactly what I was talking about.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marina Singh gave up a career as a doctor after botching an emergency delivery as an intern, opting instead for the more orderly world of research for a pharmaceutical company. When office colleague Anders Eckman, sent to the Amazon to check on the work of a field team, is reported dead, Marina is asked by her company''s CEO to complete Anders'' task and to locate his body. What Marina finds in the sweltering, insect-infested jungles of the Amazon shakes her to her core. For the team is headed by esteemed scientist Annick Swenson, the woman who oversaw Marina''s residency and who is now intent on keeping the team''s progress on a miracle drug completely under wraps. Marina''s jungle odyssey includes exotic encounters with cannibals and snakes, a knotty ethical dilemma about the basic tenets of scientific research, and joyous interactions with the exuberant people of the Lakashi tribe, who live on the compound. In fluid and remarkably atmospheric prose, Patchett captures not only the sights and sounds of the chaotic jungle environment but also the struggle and sacrifice of dedicated scientists. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The award-winning, New York Times best-selling author''s latest novel is being supported with an author tour, a national advertising campaign, blogger outreach, and a reading-group guide. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4147'),
(20180, 'State of Wonder', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : In\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n , pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isnâ€™t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungleâ€™s unforgiving humidity and insects, making\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of todayâ€™s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come,\n <em>\n  State of Wonder\n </em>\n truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself.\n <em>\n  --Jessica Schein\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Elizabeth Gilbert Interviews Ann Patchett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller,\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , as well as the short story collection\n <em>\n  Pilgrims\n </em>\n â€”a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Elizabeth Gilbert:\n </strong>\n As your close personal friend, I happen to know that you traveled to the Amazon to conduct research for this novel, and that you sort of hated the Amazon--can you share a little about that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ann Patchett:\n </strong>\n I absolutely loved the Amazon for four days. It was gorgeous and unfamiliar and deeply fascinating. Unfortunately, I stayed there for ten days. There are a lot of insects in the Amazon, a lot of mud, surprisingly few vegetables, too many snakes. You canâ€™t go anywhere by yourself, which makes sense if you donâ€™t know the terrain, but I enjoy going places by myself. I can see how great it would be for a very short visit, and how great it would be if you lived there and had figured out what was and wasnâ€™t going to kill you, but the interim length of time isnâ€™t great.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Didn''t I hear that you have a sort of magical story about a friend who is also a writer, who was also once going to write a book about the Amazon? Can you share this miraculous tale? Also, is your writer friend pretty?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n This friend of mine, who happens to be you, is gorgeous, and much taller in real life. Yes, you were writing a novel about the Amazon, and then you decided not to write a novel about the Amazon, and then I started writing a novel about the Amazon, and later when we compared notes (your book dismissed, mine halfway finished) they had remarkably similar story lines, to the point of being eerie. I thought this must be because it was an incredibly banal idea and we had both come up with a generic Amazon novel, but then you told me that ideas fly around looking for homes, and when the idea hadnâ€™t worked out with you it came to me. If this is true I think your name should be on the cover. It would increase sales significantly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n Readers of your prior work--particularly the luminous\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n --will be delighted to see that opera makes an appearance in this novel, as well. In fact, one of the most dramatic scenes in the book takes place at the opera. Is that a wink and a nod to loyal readers, or just an expression of your own deep and abiding musical passions?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s a wink and a nod to Werner Herzog and his brilliant Amazon film â€œFitzcarraldoâ€ which opens at the opera house in Manaus where the aforementioned scene takes place. I had very little experience with opera when I wrote\n <em>\n  Bel Canto\n </em>\n , and since then itâ€™s become a huge part of my life. It was fun to write a scene set at the opera now that I know what Iâ€™m talking about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n _ State of Wonder_ a rollicking adventure story, full of peril and bravery and death-defying action. I personally know you to be a homebody who likes to bake muffins for neighbors. How the heck did you pull off this wildness so convincingly? Was it as invigorating to write as it is to read?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n Ah, the life of the mind. All the adventure I need I can dream up in my kitchen. I love writing outside of my own experience, making imaginary worlds. If I wrote novels based on my own life I would not be making a living at this. I also love to write a strong plot. I want things to happen in my books, I want to be thrilled. I always think about Raymond Chandler. Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™m getting the phrasing wrong but the general idea is that when things get slow, bring in a man with a gun. If you canâ€™t find a gun, a poison arrow works just as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  EG:\n </strong>\n The cover is a work of beauty. Authors are not always so lucky. Tell us how you managed such a miracle?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AP:\n </strong>\n When I first started writing this book, I came downstairs one night and found my husband listening to â€œHorowitz at Carnegie Hallâ€. The album cover has a very lush filigreed border. I had two thoughts: first, I have an amazing husband who thankfully held onto his Horowitz LPs; second, that the album cover had the exact the feeling I wanted for my book--half jungle, half Baroque period. When I was finished writing the novel I sent the album to my editor, who sent it to the art department. They understood exactly what I was talking about.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marina Singh gave up a career as a doctor after botching an emergency delivery as an intern, opting instead for the more orderly world of research for a pharmaceutical company. When office colleague Anders Eckman, sent to the Amazon to check on the work of a field team, is reported dead, Marina is asked by her company''s CEO to complete Anders'' task and to locate his body. What Marina finds in the sweltering, insect-infested jungles of the Amazon shakes her to her core. For the team is headed by esteemed scientist Annick Swenson, the woman who oversaw Marina''s residency and who is now intent on keeping the team''s progress on a miracle drug completely under wraps. Marina''s jungle odyssey includes exotic encounters with cannibals and snakes, a knotty ethical dilemma about the basic tenets of scientific research, and joyous interactions with the exuberant people of the Lakashi tribe, who live on the compound. In fluid and remarkably atmospheric prose, Patchett captures not only the sights and sounds of the chaotic jungle environment but also the struggle and sacrifice of dedicated scientists. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The award-winning, New York Times best-selling author''s latest novel is being supported with an author tour, a national advertising campaign, blogger outreach, and a reading-group guide. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4386'),
(20181, 'Statistical Analysis With Excel for Dummies', 'Joseph Schmuller Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You too can understand the statistics of life, even if you''re math-challenged!\n</p>\n<p>\n What do you need to calculate? Manufacturing output? A curve for test scores? Sports stats? You and Excel can do it, and this non-intimidating guide shows you how. It demystifies the different types of statistics, how Excel functions and formulas work, the meaning of means and medians, how to interpret your figures, and more â€” in plain English.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting there â€” learn how variables, samples, and probability are used to get the information you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Excel tricks â€” find out what''s built into the program to help you work with Excel formulas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Playing with worksheets â€” get acquainted with the worksheet functions for each step\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Graphic displays â€” present your data as pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, or scatter plots\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s normal? â€” understand normal distribution and probability\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hyping hypotheses â€” learn to use hypothesis testing with means and variables\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When regression is progress â€” discover when and how to use regression for forecasting\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What are the odds â€” work with probability, random variables, and binomial distribution\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten statistical and graphical tips and traps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between descriptive and inferential statistics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why graphs are good\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to measure variations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What standard scores are and why they''re used\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to use two-sample hypothesis testing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use correlations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Different ways of working with probability\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create graphs, develop estimates, and apply probability\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the scoop on all of Excel''s statistical tools and what they can do for you\n</p>\n<p>\n If "permutation" sounds like something you shouldn''t say around your grandmother and you read "margin of error" as "margin of terror," take heart! This easy-to-follow guide explains statistics in plain English and shows you how to use Excel charts, functions, samples, and correlations to make sense of it all â€” even if you''re numerically challenged!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand means, medians, and standard deviations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Excel to give meaning to sets of numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw conclusions from data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test your hypotheses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply statistical concepts to real-world situations\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2062'),
(20182, 'Statistics II for Dummies', 'Deborah Rumsey-johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The ideal supplement and study guide for students preparing for advanced statistics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with fresh and practical examples appropriate for a range of degree-seeking students,\n <em>\n  Statistics II For Dummies\n </em>\n helps any reader succeed in an upper-level statistics course. It picks up with data analysis where\n <em>\n  Statistics For Dummies\n </em>\n left off, featuring new and updated examples, real-world applications, and test-taking strategies for success. This easy-to-understand guide covers such key topics as sorting and testing models, using regression to make predictions, performing variance analysis (ANOVA), drawing test conclusions with chi-squares, and making comparisons with the Rank Sum Test.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to enhance your grasp of statistics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need to expand your statistics knowledge and move on to Statistics II? This friendly, hands-on guide gives you the skills you need to take on multiple regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Chi-square tests, nonparametric procedures, and other key topics. Statistics II For Dummies also provides plenty of test-taking strategies as well as real-world applications that make data analysis a snap, whether you''re in the classroom or at work.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Begin with the basics â€” review the highlights of Stats I and expand on simple linear regression, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start making predictions â€” master multiple, nonlinear, and logistic regression; check conditions; and interpret results\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze variance with ANOVA â€” break down the ANOVA table, one-way and two-way ANOVA, the F-test, and multiple comparisons\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect with Chi-square tests â€” examine two-way tables and test categorical data for independence and goodness-of-fit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Leap ahead with nonparametrics â€” grasp techniques used when you can''t assume your data has a normal distribution\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Up-to-date methods for analyzing data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Full explanations of Statistics II concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear and concise step-by-step procedures\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dissection of computer output\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of tips, strategies, and warnings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common errors in statistical conclusions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Everyday statistics applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tables for completing calculations used in the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Increase your skills in data analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sort through and test models\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make predictions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Apply statistics to real-world situations\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2063'),
(20183, 'Stealing Faces', 'Michael Prescott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now he has a problem. Somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn''t know -- is stalking him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn''t she gone to the police?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cray plans to turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she''s in his power, she will tell him who she is and what she''s after. And then she will die.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even Cray isn''t prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stealing Faces is truly thrilling as well as chilling: I could not put this book down. Reading the first few chapters of this tale is like reading the climax for most thrillers and the excitement just keeps building. Michael Prescott knows how to keep readers'' eyes glued to his pages.... I was completely hooked. Actually, more than completely hooked, I thought the lightning-paced thrills were going to give me a heart attack!" - Judith Flavell, The Mystery Reader\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4142'),
(20184, 'stealthisbook', 'People', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4544'),
(20185, 'Stem Cells for Dummies', 'Lawrence S. B. Goldstein &amp; Meg Schneider', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this controversial topic\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stem Cell Research For Dummies\n </em>\n offers a balanced, plain-English look at this politically charged topic, cutting away the hype and presenting the facts clearly for you, free from debate. It explains what stem cells are and what they do, the legalities of harvesting them and using them in research, the latest research findings from the U.S. and abroad, and the prospects for medical stem cell therapies in the short and long term.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explains the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic/umbilical cord stem cells\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides both sides of the political debate and the pros and cons of each side''s opinions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes medical success stories using stem cell therapy and its promise for the future\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Comprehensive and unbiased,\n <em>\n  Stem Cell Research For Dummies\n </em>\n is the only guide you need to understand this volatile issue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n A balanced, plain-English guide to this politically charged topic\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, practical guide cuts away the hype and clearly presents the facts on stem cells. It explains what stem cells are and what they do, the legalities of harvesting them and using them in research, the latest research findings from the United States and abroad, and the prospects for medical stem cell therapies in the short and long term.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Brushing up on biology â€” understand the basics of cells and tissues and take a guided tour of the history of stem cell research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Delving into stem cell science â€” get easy-to-follow explanations of embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and sources of stem cells\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where we are now â€” dig into the current practices in stem cell treatments, trials, and transplants\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The possibilities are endless â€” discover how stem cells are projected to make medical advances in the understanding and improved treatment of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understanding the debate â€” explore the ethical, religious, philosophical, and moral questions related to stem cell research and get armed with the knowledge needed to take an informed stance\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The current laws and policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ethical, religious, and moral considerations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How stem cells are being used to understand and treat specific diseases\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety issues associated with stem cells\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of current treatments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Promising leads for spinal cord injuries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Uses for hybrid, chimera, clone, and cybrid cells\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How stem cell banking works\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sort through straight, unbiased facts about the stem cell debate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand what stem cells are and how they work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Appreciate how stem cells are used in research and treatment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Look to the future to what''s in store for stem cell research\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2064'),
(20186, 'Stereophile - November 2011', 'gnv6', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10917'),
(20187, 'Stereophile 06-2011', 'Stereophile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(20188, 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand 2 I Edenas Have', 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(20189, 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand 3 Gudinden', 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(20190, 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand 4 Stel', 'Stjernernes Vandringsmand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(20191, 'Stock Investing for Canadians for Dummies', 'Andrew Dagys &amp; Paul Mladjenovic', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stock Investing For Canadians For Dummies,\n </em>\n Â 3rdÂ EditionÂ includes information on stock investing in both bear and bull markets; unique investment segments; stock investing for different types of situations; and examples straight from the real world of stock investing as they have occurred in the past three years. With up-to-date references and resources, this book is the most reliable resource for the new stock market investor.\n</p>\n<p>\n New in this edition:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Investigating how governments affect markets: The authors present an unbiased look at how government intervention can and has shaped the markets, so that investors know what to watch for and can respond appropriately to protect their investments -- or even benefit.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explaining economics: As governments around the world intervene in the markets, media coverage of the economic theory behind these moves (and the economic theories that deplore them) has expanded greatly -- and most of it''s muddled. New content in the book explains what investors need to know about economics.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exploring stock trading: For readers that want to move stocks quickly rather than invest for the long run, the authors offer a crash course in the fundamentals of trading, and some critical do''s and don''ts.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This edition also offers a brand-new part of tens, focusing on how investors can protect their money and spot warning signs that a good stock is about to go bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Â Includes Canadian Web sties, brokerages, and associations\n</p>\n<p>\n Your guide to building wealth and holding on to it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Investing in stocks shouldn''t feel like a crazed roller coaster ride, but more like a steady climb upwards to higher returns.Â  Slow down, spend some time with this book, and get on the right track with everything from choosing the right broker, to picking winning stocks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2065'),
(20192, 'Stock Investing for Dummies', 'Paul Mladjenovic', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stock Investing For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes information on stock investing in both bear and bull markets; unique investment segments; stock investing for different types of situations; and examples straight from the real world of stock investing as they have occurred in the past three years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now updated! Your expert guide to building a profitable stock portfolio\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make money in stocks without losing your shirt? This practical guide gives you proven strategies for weathering the current economic crisis and for selecting and managing profitable investments in either a bear or bull market. You''ll navigate the new economic landscape and choose the right stocks for different situations â€” and you''ll find fresh real-world examples that show you how to maximize your returns.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with the basics â€” understand stock value, assess your finances, set your investing goals, and know your investing style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Recognize the risks â€” explore different kinds of risk and weigh risk against return\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make informed investing decisions â€” research stocks, understand growth and income investing, and use basic economics to improve your stock strategy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a strong foundation for your portfolio â€” investigate industries, evaluate a company''s financial health, and understand the effect of politics/government on stock investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Capitalize on emerging sector opportunities â€” from precious metals to alternative energy, discover the hot sectors that will make your portfolio thrive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build (and hold on to) your wealth â€” get expert tips and tactics for utilizing brokerage orders, buying with fewer costs, and keeping the taxman at bay\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences between stock investing and trading\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to understand and use indexes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The various types of brokers and how to choose one\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New ways to gather stock information online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Methods for tracking insider trading\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Early signs of megatrends that can affect your portfolio\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Solutions for protecting your profits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Investing resources and financial ratios\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2066'),
(20193, 'Stock Investing for Dummies', 'Paul Mladjenovic', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stock Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n covers all the proven tactics and strategies for picking the right stocks. Packed with savvy tips on todayâ€™s best investment opportunities, this book provides a down-to-earth, straightforward approach to making money on the market without the fancy lingo. Soon youâ€™ll have the power to optimize your returns by:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Recognizing and minimizing the risks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gathering information about potential stocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dissecting annual reports and other company documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyzing the growth and demand of industries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Playing with the politicians\n </li>\n <li>\n  Approaching uncertain markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using corporate stock buybacks to boost earnings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handling the IRS and other obligations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With a different strategy for every investorâ€”from recent college grad to married with children to recently retiredâ€”this valuable reference is a must-have. It also features tips and tricks on how to tell when a stock is on the verge of declining or increasing, how to protect yourself from fraud, and common challenges that every investor must go through, along with resources and financial ratios.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fully covers today''s economic realities â€” and new opportunities\n</p>\n<p>\n Build your wealth with smart investing â€” even in a bear market!\n</p>\n<p>\n With so many choices, investing can be tricky. Stock Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, makes it simple with proven tactics and time-tested strategies for picking winners. This updated edition gives you new case studies, resources, and insight on government policy â€” and will have you investing with confidence in no time!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find a great broker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decode company documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right investment strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle your taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Weigh risk versus reward\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover new investing opportunities\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2067'),
(20194, 'The Stockholm Syndicate', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6174'),
(20195, 'A Stolen Life', 'Dugard, Jaycee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4211'),
(20196, 'A Stolen Life: A Memoir', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Stolen Life\n </em>\n is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.thejaycfoundation.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4158'),
(20197, 'A Stolen Life: A Memoir', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Stolen Life\n </em>\n is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.thejaycfoundation.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4353'),
(20198, 'The Stone Leopard', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6175'),
(20199, 'Stonehenge', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernard Cornwell''s new novel, following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer''s day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension, both without from tribal rivalry, and within. The three sons of Ratharryn''s chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest, Lengar, the warrior, harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his tribe. Camaban, the second and an outcast from the tribe, becomes a great visionary and feared wise man, and it is his vision that will force the youngest brother, Saban, to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth. It is Saban who is the builder, the leader and the man of peace. It is his love for a sorceress whose powers rival those of Camaban and for Aurenna, the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods, that finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple, a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. And in the end, when the temple is complete, Saban must choose between the gods and his family. Stonehenge is Britain''s greatest prehistoric monument, a symbol of history; a building, created 4 millenia ago, which still provokes awe and mystery. Stonehenge A novel of 2000 BC is first and foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known and admired for the realism and imagination with which he brings an earlier world to life. And here he uses all these skills to create the world of primitive Britain and to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge and why. ''A circle of chalk, a ring of stone, and a house of arches to call the far gods home''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4610'),
(20200, 'Storage Area Networks for Dummies', 'Christopher Poelker &amp; Alex Nikitin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve been charged with setting up storage area networks for your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storage problems might seem challenging.\n <em>\n  Storage Area Networks For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n comes to the rescue with just what you need to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or youâ€™re a complete novice, hereâ€™s the scoop on how SANs save money, how to implement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, how to develop SANs that will aid your companyâ€™s disaster recovery plan, and much more. For example, you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what you need to build one\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to use loops, switches, and fabric, and design your SAN for peak performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a disaster recovery plan with the appropriate guidelines, remote site, and data copy techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how to connect or extend SANs and how compression can reduce costs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare tape and disk backups and network vs. SAN backup to choose the solution you need\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out how data de-duplication makes sense for backup, replication, and retention\n </li>\n <li>\n  Follow great troubleshooting tips to help you find and fix a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Benefit from a glossary of all those pesky acronyms\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshot copies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems before they happen, hereâ€™s what you need to do the job with confidence!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  So you need to set up a SAN? Here''s how to design, implement, and manage one!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a complete novice or you already have a bit of knowledge about storage area networks, this book is almost guaranteed to make your job easier. From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshot copies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems before they happen, here''s what you need to do the job with confidence!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting started â€” understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what you need to build one\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design basics â€” learn to use loops, switches, and the fabric layer, and design your SAN for peak performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   No surprises â€” create a disaster-recovery plan with the appropriate guidelines and choose a remote site and data replication method\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   SANs united â€” see how to connect or extend SANs and how compression can reduce costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wait, back up â€” compare tape, disk, network, and SAN backup methods to choose the solution you need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What if it breaks? â€” follow great troubleshooting tips to help you find and fix a problem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   De-dupe, de-dupe â€” find out how data de-duplication makes sense for backup, replication, and retention\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s virtual â€” explore different types of virtualization and what they offer\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What RAID is and why it''s important\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Issues to consider when planning your SAN\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A translation of all those pesky acronyms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do when your server gets the hiccups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use CDP and CDR\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you should beware of with storage virtualization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hardware- and software-based copy solutions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   SAN best practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2068'),
(20201, 'Storemags - Free Magazines Download in PDF for iPad/PC', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3562'),
(20202, 'Storemags - Free Magazines for all | Download Back Issues', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3557'),
(20203, 'Storemags - Free Magazines for all | Download Back Issues', 'Release: storemags &amp; fantamag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6422'),
(20204, 'Storemags - Free Magazines for iPad | Download Back Issues', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3558'),
(20205, 'Storemags - Magazine Free PDF Magazine Back Issues ', 'Popular Photography', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3561'),
(20206, 'Storemags.com - Free Magazines Download in PDF for iPad/PC', 'Release: storemags &amp; fantamag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3514'),
(20207, 'Storemags.com - Free Magazines Download in PDF for iPad/PC', 'Release: storemags &amp; fantamag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3532'),
(20208, 'Total Film 10-2011', 'Total Film', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4553'),
(20209, 'Storemags.com - Free Magazines Download in PDF for iPad/PC', 'Release: storemags &amp; fantamag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6011'),
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(20212, 'Storemags.com - Free Magazines Download in PDF for iPad/PC', 'Release: storemags &amp; fantamag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6859');
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(20213, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--_Vanity Fair_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He looks back at the aberrant highs of his heart-throb days, the changing nature of stardom in Hollywood, the trade-off he has made between high life and home life, and the step-by-step effort behind his show business survival. He looked like the callowest kid in the "Outsiders" crew. Now he looks like the sturdiest of them all"--_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really enjoyed it...Thoroughly entertaining: the Brat Pack years, the Wayne''s World years, the Alcoholic Obscurity, the Glamorous Romances (Princess Stephanie of Monaco!), the Inevitable Rehab, and the Triumphant Comeback on The West Wing."--_Time Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe''s] charming, honest, even affectionate memoir is the story of strong guts behind a strikingly handsome face...A book to recommend widely."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4193'),
(20214, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--_Vanity Fair_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He looks back at the aberrant highs of his heart-throb days, the changing nature of stardom in Hollywood, the trade-off he has made between high life and home life, and the step-by-step effort behind his show business survival. He looked like the callowest kid in the "Outsiders" crew. Now he looks like the sturdiest of them all"--_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really enjoyed it...Thoroughly entertaining: the Brat Pack years, the Wayne''s World years, the Alcoholic Obscurity, the Glamorous Romances (Princess Stephanie of Monaco!), the Inevitable Rehab, and the Triumphant Comeback on The West Wing."--_Time Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe''s] charming, honest, even affectionate memoir is the story of strong guts behind a strikingly handsome face...A book to recommend widely."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4352'),
(20215, 'A Storm of Swords', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martinâ€™s magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Clash of Kings**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martinâ€™s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A Storm of Swords**Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at Kingâ€™s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world....But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4385'),
(20216, 'A Storm of Swords', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martinâ€™s magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Clash of Kings**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martinâ€™s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A Storm of Swords**Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at Kingâ€™s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world....But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4091'),
(20217, 'Storm Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Sandford''s superb 20th Lucas Davenport thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  ), the getaway vehicle from a botched early morning robbery, which results in a pharmacy employee''s death, almost collides with the car driven by Lucas''s surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen. Weather, who was on her way to work at the Minnesota Medical Research Center, becomes a key witness. Sandford masterfully handles both sides of the equation as the thievesâ€”planner Lyle Mack, his brother, Joe, and their henchmenâ€”work to cover their crime. The investigation belongs to Minneapolis deputy chief Marcy Sherrill, but Lucas of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension pulls out all the stops to protect his wife. Sandford creates additional drama throughout as Weather and a skilled team of doctors perform an operation to separate twins joined at the skull. Sharply drawn characters, intricate plotting, and smooth dialogue make this a sure-fire winner.\n  <em>\n   500,000 first printing; author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was an inside job, and it should have been easy. Rob the pharmacy at Minneapolisâ€™ largest hospital: in, out, wait till things cool down, and then sell the drugs for a half million or so. But the old man had to be a hero. Who knew heâ€™d be on blood thinners and die after he was kicked? A robbery turned murder means Lucas Davenport and his Bureau of Criminal Apprehension team are called in to assist the investigation. Thereâ€™s another element to the case for Davenport: his wife, Weather, a surgeon at the hospital, may be able to identify one of the killers. The case starts to escalate. An attempt is made on Weatherâ€™s life. The bodies of two motorcycle gang members are found in a rural area. Davenport guesses the gang is imploding from the pressure and murdering its members. Weather, under 24-hour guard, is part of a surgical team working to separate conjoined twins in a procedure thatâ€™s captured the attention of the worldâ€™s media. Meanwhile, Davenport and his team keep finding bodies of likely robbers but canâ€™t seem to isolate either the brains behind the theft or the hospital insider who pointed them at the pharmacy. The twenty-second Prey novel includes most of the elements readers expect: sharp plot, snappy dialogue, and believable action, but the background playfulness and gallows humor that usually fill in the gaps are in short supply. But hey, thatâ€™s nitpicking. On balance, this is another fine entry in a wildly popular series. --Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4143'),
(20218, 'Storm Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Sandford''s superb 20th Lucas Davenport thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  ), the getaway vehicle from a botched early morning robbery, which results in a pharmacy employee''s death, almost collides with the car driven by Lucas''s surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen. Weather, who was on her way to work at the Minnesota Medical Research Center, becomes a key witness. Sandford masterfully handles both sides of the equation as the thievesâ€”planner Lyle Mack, his brother, Joe, and their henchmenâ€”work to cover their crime. The investigation belongs to Minneapolis deputy chief Marcy Sherrill, but Lucas of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension pulls out all the stops to protect his wife. Sandford creates additional drama throughout as Weather and a skilled team of doctors perform an operation to separate twins joined at the skull. Sharply drawn characters, intricate plotting, and smooth dialogue make this a sure-fire winner.\n  <em>\n   500,000 first printing; author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was an inside job, and it should have been easy. Rob the pharmacy at Minneapolisâ€™ largest hospital: in, out, wait till things cool down, and then sell the drugs for a half million or so. But the old man had to be a hero. Who knew heâ€™d be on blood thinners and die after he was kicked? A robbery turned murder means Lucas Davenport and his Bureau of Criminal Apprehension team are called in to assist the investigation. Thereâ€™s another element to the case for Davenport: his wife, Weather, a surgeon at the hospital, may be able to identify one of the killers. The case starts to escalate. An attempt is made on Weatherâ€™s life. The bodies of two motorcycle gang members are found in a rural area. Davenport guesses the gang is imploding from the pressure and murdering its members. Weather, under 24-hour guard, is part of a surgical team working to separate conjoined twins in a procedure thatâ€™s captured the attention of the worldâ€™s media. Meanwhile, Davenport and his team keep finding bodies of likely robbers but canâ€™t seem to isolate either the brains behind the theft or the hospital insider who pointed them at the pharmacy. The twenty-second Prey novel includes most of the elements readers expect: sharp plot, snappy dialogue, and believable action, but the background playfulness and gallows humor that usually fill in the gaps are in short supply. But hey, thatâ€™s nitpicking. On balance, this is another fine entry in a wildly popular series. --Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4449'),
(20219, 'A Strange Disappearance', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4018'),
(20220, 'Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "Full of wonderful momentsâ€¦Palahniuk''s voice is so distinctive and intimate-he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend."Â â€” Los Angeles Times  "Step into Palahniuk''s dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else."Â â€” The Oregonian  â€œOne of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.â€ â€”The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  â€œIn Chuck Palahniukâ€™s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.â€ â€”The New Orleans Times-Picayune  â€œEccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining.â€ â€”The Onion  "Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer."Â â€” The New York Times  â€œRarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . This is a pretty great book.â€ â€”The Seattle Times  "The book''s lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk''s secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world."Â â€” Black Book\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collection from shock novelist Palahniuk (_Choke_;\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  ) is an eye-opening look at the raw material that goes into Palahniuk''s fiction, as well as proof that the novelist''s art is derived from keen observation and recording of details. Often these are as grotesque as a closeup in a horror film (e.g., in talking to a group of wrestlers enduring Olympic tryouts, Palahniuk focuses on their injuries, both physical and emotional). Half the essays are magazine assignments and include insightful profiles of rock star Marilyn Manson, indie-movie queen Juliette Lewis and a high schooler who wants to explore space via a homemade rocket. Others offer the author''s impressions of a demolition derby, the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival and life aboard the USS\n  <em>\n   Louisiana\n  </em>\n  . Palahniuk often philosophizes, dwelling on the effects his fiction has had on "reality," especially the obsession his fans have had with his novel\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  . Palahniuk is fixated on the transformation of life''s raw material into fiction and the writing process itself, which he sees as having the potential for self-fulfillment. (Incidentally, Brad Pitt, who played\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  ''s protagonist, emerges as Palahniuk''s alter ego, and a number of the essays play on this theme, creating a patchwork memoir.) Palahniuk''s fans will undoubtedly revel in the secrets the author reveals. Newcomers might initially feel queasy, but they''re likely to warm up to his visceral prose and come to enjoy it.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  (1996) and the guys who fight for sport to\n  <em>\n   Choke\n  </em>\n  (2001) and a young man who might literally be the son of Jesus, Palahniuk''s novels are consistently populated with extraordinary eccentrics. So it''s no surprise that in this collection of previously published magazine pieces, he writes mostly of the bizarre. Palahniuk focuses on themes of solitude and community, on our need to feel simultaneously special and a part of something. He attends the Olympic wrestling trials, for instance, and examines why men endure cauliflower ear and debilitating injury to participate in a sport that no one watches or cares about. The personal essays (Palahniuk describes a romp through Seattle while wearing a dog costume, for instance) don''t shine as much as the journalistic pieces, although fans will be interested to learn personal details about Chuck and his experiences with quasi celebrity. But the best narratives here-- particularly a lengthy one on Americans who build European-style castles--show Palahniuk''s deep compassion for oddballs and misfits, a hard-boiled kindness for which his fans revere him.\n  <em>\n   John Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6212'),
(20221, 'Strategic Planning for Dummies', 'Erica Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re starting a new business or planning your businessâ€™s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account.\n <em>\n  Strategic Planning For Dummies\n </em>\n covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage â€” no matter what business youâ€™re in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers all the basics, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How a strategic plan is different than a business plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establishing a step-based planning process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Planning for and encouraging growth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking a long-view of your organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluating past performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Defining and refining your mission, values, and vision\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sizing up your current situation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examining your industry landscape\n </li>\n <li>\n  Setting your strategic priorities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Planning for unknown contingencies\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re in business, you have to plan for everything â€” especially if you intend your business to grow. Whether youâ€™re planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book has the planning specifics you need for your organization. Step-by-step, youâ€™ll learn how to lay the foundations for a plan, understand how your plan will affect your business, form planning teams, discover what your strengths are, see where you are, and, finally, plan where youâ€™re going. And thereâ€™s much more:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your businessâ€™s future\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieve\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make strategic planning a habitual part of the organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneously\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This friendly, simple guide puts the power of strategic planning in the palm of your hand. For small businesses that canâ€™t afford to hire strategic planning consultants, itâ€™s even more imperative. Careful, constant planning is the only way to handle an uncertain business future. With this book, youâ€™ll have all the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure youâ€™re ready for anything that comes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Define your company''s mission, vision, and values\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Develop and execute your strategic plan for solid business growth\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need help setting a vision for your business or planning for an uncertain future? Don''t worry!\n <em>\n  Strategic Planning For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to build and sustain a competitive edge, analyze markets and trends, and plan for future growth. With this friendly guide to business planning, you won''t fly blind into your company''s future.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Establish a step-by-step planning process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select a planning team\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prioritize future opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop solid strategies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Execute your plan\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2069'),
(20222, 'Stretching for Dummies', 'Lareine Chabut &amp; Madeleine Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦the ideal book for beginners who want to improve their flexibility, wellbeing and get rid of nagging aches and pains." (_Women''s Fitness_, Issue 38)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did you long ago learn to fear and dread stretching because of overbearing P.E. teachers who forced you to touch your toes? It doesn''t have to be that way anymore. Stretching is a powerful tool that can bring you new ease of movement, an increase in your physical capabilities, and deep composure that requires you to do nothing more than breathe. You can always have access to itâ€”and best of all, it''s free!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stretching for Dummies\n </em>\n shows you that stretching is actually easy to doâ€”and reveals how you can reap the amazing benefits of stretching anywhere, anytime. It explains in simple terms how you can stand taller, look thinner, keep stress from getting the best of you, keep your muscles from feeling achy, and nip injuries in the bud. You''ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The whyâ€™s, whereâ€™s, whenâ€™s, and howâ€™s of letting loose and snapping back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to keep from hurting yourself\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits of stretching with a partner\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to target specific areas: such as head, shoulders, knees, and toes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The art of breathing correctly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use stretching to sooth lower back pain\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stretches to start and end your day right\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stretches you can do at your desk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stretches for various stages of lifeâ€”including stretches for kids and seniors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This easy-to-use reference also includes a list of ten surprising around-the house stretching accessories, along with ten common aches and pain that stretching can help. Regardless of how old or young you are,\n <em>\n  Stretching for Dummies\n </em>\n will introduce you to a kinder and gentler form of flexibility that will reduce that nagging tension and tenderness in your muscles and truly make you feel good all over.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2070'),
(20223, 'String Theory for Dummies', 'Andrew Zimmerman Jones &amp; Daniel Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦explains the basic concepts of what the cover refers to as the controversial theory.'' (ScienceBase.com, October 2010).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basic concepts of this controversial theory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How string theory builds on physics concepts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different viewpoints in the field\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   String theory''s physical implications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your plain-English guide to this complex scientific theory\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n String theory is one of the most complicated sciences being explored today. Not to worry though! This informative guide clearly explains the basics of this hot topic, discusses the theory''s hypotheses and predictions, and explores its curious implications. It also presents the critical viewpoints in opposition to string theory so you can draw your own conclusions.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the "theory of everything" â€” grasp the key concepts and importance of the theory, and learn why scientists are so excited about finding a theory of quantum gravity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It all comes down to physics â€” discover how string theory is built upon the major scientific developments of the early 20th century\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Building the theory â€” trace the creation and development of string theory, discover its predictions, and see whether accurate conclusions can be made\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take string theory for a spin â€” explore the core issue of extra dimensions, the implications for cosmology, and how string theory could explain certain properties of our universe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Boldly go where no one has gone â€” see what string theory has to say about possible parallel universes, the origin and fate of our universe, and the potential for time travel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hear from the critics â€” listen in on the heated debates about string theory and weigh the alternatives being offered\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The questions string theory attempts to answer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy-to-follow examples\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of Einstein''s theory of relativity, quantum theory, and particle physics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The successes and failures of string theory\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fascinating bits of string theory including strings and branes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways that string theory can be tested\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discussions of loop quantum gravity and other possible alternative theories of gravity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How the theory may relate to cosmic mysteries, from the origin of matter to black holes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2071'),
(20224, 'Stringer 01 The Necropolis Railway', 'Andrew Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim canâ€™t believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literallyâ€”a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the cityâ€™s outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductionsâ€”assisted by his landlady, for whom he fallsâ€” he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3968'),
(20225, 'Stringer 02 The Blackpool Highflyer', 'Andrew Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Full stop of the engine; full steam ahead with the mystery. As he did in The Necropolis Railway, Stringer doffs his railway hat and dons his detectiveâ€™s derby, assisted once more by "the wife" and her brilliant detecting skills. Capturing the world of railway stations and locomotives during the Edwardian Age, The Blackpool Highflyer carries readers to a place where dark shadows lurk behind innocence and the solution to the mystery waits at the end of the line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3966'),
(20226, 'Stringer 03 The Lost Luggage Porter', 'Andrew Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author ofThe Necropolis RailwayandThe Blackpool Highflyercomes another ingenious thriller featuring Jim Stringer. It is winter 1906 and Jim has been promoted from sleuth to official railway detective for York station. His first day on the job, the mysterious Lost Luggage Porter, "a human directory to everything in York" tips him off to a group of railway thieves. Jim is instructed by his Inspector to infiltrate their gang and is drawn along into their plot to carry out a robbery and make their getaway across the Channel. Soon Jim finds himself swept off to Paris with the thieves, his plight made even worse when threats are made against his wife. Can Jim get to get to her before the villains do? UK Praise for THE LOST LUGGAGE PORTER: "Page-turning, confidently written..." Guardian "The atmosphere of neglected streets...dingy saloon bars, supper of boiled bacon and pickles, and dismal, unceasing rain are splendidly evoked." Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3967'),
(20227, 'Stringer 04 Murder At Deviation Junction', 'Andrew Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3965'),
(20228, 'Stroke for Dummies', 'John R. Marler M. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features tons of advice for recovery and rehabilitation\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the latest on the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke\n</p>\n<p>\n Have questions and concerns about strokes? This reassuring guide provides invaluable information for stroke victims and their loved ones, from what a stroke is and what it feels like to proven treatments and therapies. You''ll see how to implement a plan for preventing stroke, treat the lingering effects of stroke, and maximize home caregiver effectiveness while minimizing fatigue.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what causes different types of stroke\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the most out of doctors and hospitals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed recovery with the best treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help prevent future strokes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide the best living arrangements after stroke\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features tons of advice for recovery and rehabilitation\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the latest on the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke\n</p>\n<p>\n Have questions and concerns about strokes? This reassuring guide provides invaluable information for stroke victims and their loved ones, from what a stroke is and what it feels like to proven treatments and therapies. You''ll see how to implement a plan for preventing stroke, treat the lingering effects of stroke, and maximize home caregiver effectiveness while minimizing fatigue.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand what causes different types of stroke\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize warning signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the most out of doctors and hospitals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed recovery with the best treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help prevent future strokes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide the best living arrangements after stroke\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2072'),
(20229, 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6746'),
(20230, 'A Study In Scarlet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4252'),
(20231, 'Stuff 10-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4550'),
(20232, 'Stuff Gadgets Magazine UK October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6561'),
(20233, 'Stuff Magazine 05-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(20234, 'Stuff Magazine 07-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2520'),
(20235, 'Stuff Magazine 08-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(20236, 'Stuff Magazine 09-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3467'),
(20237, 'Stuff UK', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6091'),
(20238, 'Stuff UK - November 2011', 'November 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7212'),
(20239, 'Stuff UK 10-2011', 'Stuff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3724'),
(20240, 'Stuff.Best-Selling.Gadgets.Magazine-October.2011.pdf 10-09-2011', 'Stuff.Best-Selling.Gadgets.Magazine-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4761'),
(20241, 'Stuff.UK.2011-11.pdf 09-10-2011', 'Stuff.UK.2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10614'),
(20242, 'The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.  ''Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, after all.  But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he''s not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn''t run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.  But hold on! There''s an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) It''s none other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, our angel''s not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen.  Only Christopher Moore, the man who brought you the outrageous lost gospel  Lamb  and the hysterical fish tale  Fluke  could have devised a new holiday classic that tugs at the heartstrings and serves up a healthy slice of fruitcake to boot.  Move over, Charles Dickens â€” it''s Christopher Moore time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6337'),
(20243, 'Style at Home 09-2011', 'Style at Home', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3468'),
(20244, 'style-at-home-2011-10-oct', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6005'),
(20245, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With __ Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra''s close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dÃ¦mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Subtle Knife\n  </em>\n  offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there''s a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother''s increasing instability and separate them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the novel opens, Will''s enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry''s disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family''s tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dÃ¦mon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dÃ¦mon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra''s father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can''t quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be\n  <em>\n   possible\n  </em>\n  ," Will demands. "Things have to be\n  <em>\n   true\n  </em>\n  !" It is Philip Pullman''s gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful.\n  <em>\n   --Kerry Fried\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a starred review, PW said, "More than fulfilling the promise of The Golden Compass, this second volume in the His Dark Materials trilogy starts off at a heart-thumping pace and never slows down." Ages 12-up. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6384'),
(20246, 'Success as a Real Estate Agent for Dummies', 'Dirk Zeller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to make your fortune in the real estate business. Whether you are looking to rev up your real estate business, deciding whether to specialize in commercial or residential real estate, or just interested in refining specific skills, this book is for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n This no-nonsense guide shows you the fun and easy way to become a successful real estate agent. It provides expert advice on acquiring the skills needed to excel and the respect and recognition youâ€™ll gain through making sales and generating profit. Soon youâ€™ll have all the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Prospect your way to listings and sales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a referral-based clientele\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with expired and FSBO listings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan and host a successful open house\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present and close listing contracts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Market yourself and your properties online and in print\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate contracts and avoid derailment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stake your competitive position\n </li>\n <li>\n  Achieve excellent relationships with clients\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spend less time to earn more money\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This guide features tips and tricks for working with buyers, must-haves for a successful real estate agent, and common pitfalls that can be avoided. Also included is a list of Web sites for real estate agents that are valuable resources for success. With\n <em>\n  Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll discover how to acquire key skills and get on track for a successful career!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features proven, effective strategies for better prospecting and lead generation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn key skills and get on track for a successful career\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to real estate or an old pro, Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies shows you how to become a top-performing agent. This hands-on guide will teach you all the best tricks of the trade, including tried-and-true tactics and fresh ideas for finding more and better prospects â€” and closing more sales!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Success as a\n  <em>\n   Real Estate Agent For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Get ready for real estate training camp. Finish a winner! "\n <br />\n â€”Blanche Evans, editor, Realty Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Solid, practical advice from one of the most dynamic coaches in real estate today."\n <br />\n â€”Stefan Swanepoel, thirteen-time author and CEO of RealtyU Group, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Master the art of prospecting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Research and understand your market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop the key skills of an agent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find the perfect agency for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage and maximize your time\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2073');
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(20247, 'Successful Time Management for Dummies', 'Dirk Zeller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you need help with time management? Need to better manage your time at work or at home? Feel like there are never enough hours in the day?\n <em>\n  Successful Time Management For Dummies\n </em>\n delivers practical solutions for getting organized, working better and faster, reducing stress, and getting rid of time-wasting distractions. Youâ€™ll find out how to eliminate late nights at the office and spend more time with your family, friends, or even just yourself!\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, plain-English guide shows you how to set yourself up for success, overcome common time management obstacles, and focus your efforts on your most important tasks and objectives. It explains how to determine the value of your time, provides fantastic tips on streamlining your workspace to speed up the flow, and even helps you minimize or eliminate interruptions from your workday. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your strengths and weaknesses and establish goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a routine and make the most of time-saving technology\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prioritize daily efforts, block off time, plug in to-do items\n </li>\n <li>\n  Grasp the time-equals-money concept and boost your hourly income\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an environment that fosters solid focus and establish boundaries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate time-wasting behaviors and promote time-efficient habits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reduce stress and anxiety\n </li>\n <li>\n  Say goodbye late nights at the office and enjoy your leisure time more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n At work or at play, donâ€™t let time pass you by. Get\n <em>\n  Successful Time Management For Dummies\n </em>\n and make the most of every precious minute!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Practical strategies and advice for putting time on your sideâ€”and keeping it there!\n</p>\n<p>\n Feel like you never have enough hours in the day? No matter what career and job role you''re in, this plain-English guide delivers solutions for working better and faster, getting rid of time-wasting distractions, and ultimately, reducing stress. You''ll see how to eliminate late nights at the office and spend more time with family, friends â€” or even yourself!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set yourself up for success â€” assess your strengths and weaknesses, establish goals, and create a routine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Overcome time-management obstacles â€” communicate more effectively, circumvent interruptions, and eliminate procrastination\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Focus your efforts â€” identify your most important tasks, prioritize your daily efforts, block off time, and plug in to-do items\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Put a value on your time â€” grasp the time-equals-money concept, figure your hourly income, and boost your hourly value\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Streamline your workspace â€” assemble essential tools, keep a clutter-free desktop, and create an environment that fosters solid focus\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a work/life balance â€” maximize the use of your personal time and enjoy a rich, rewarding life away from the office\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Specific insight addressing challenges for admin staff, salespeople, owners and executives, and managers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools to help organize your physical and electronic workspace for optimal productivity\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions for using traveling time well\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Strategies for communicating directly, effectively, and tactfully\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips and tricks for handling interruptions and ending procrastination\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance for working efficiently with supervisors, colleagues, and business associates\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2074'),
(20248, 'SugarCRM for Dummies', 'Karen S. Fredricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SugarCRM is an innovative customer relationship management software solution that enhances your companyâ€™s marketing effectiveness, drives sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides executive insight into business performance.\n <em>\n  SugarCRM For Dummies\n </em>\n will show you to take advantage of this free, open source CRM application to boost your sales and please your customers.\n</p>\n<p>\n This guide helps you choose the flavor of Sugar you need, acquire and deploy it, set up accounts and contacts, and organize your day. Youâ€™ll first learn how to install SugarCRM, customize user preferences, create databases, and import contacts from other software. Next, youâ€™ll discover how to extend SugarCRMâ€™s capabilities to meet needs unique to your business. Youâ€™ll also find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Schedule appointments, link them to records and notes, and organize your sales opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build campaigns, track their success, and grow your contact list with Web-to-lead forms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage customer issues and forums to exterminate software bugs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send e-newsletters and automate customer e-mail communication with templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of a complete recipe book for SugarCRM administrators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve sales performance with SugarCRM\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide great service to your customers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop searchable libraries and FAQs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and share documents\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  SugarCRM For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you quickly up to speed on this customer relationship management software so you can enhance your business.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sweeten your customer relationship management with SugarCRM!\n</p>\n<p>\n You just have to love a product with "sugar" in its name, especially one that''s open source! This guide helps you choose the flavor of Sugar you need, acquire and deploy it, set up accounts and contacts, and organize your day. With Sugar, you can boost your sales and please your customers so your business will take the cake.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fill your Sugar bowl â€” install SugarCRM, customize user preferences, create databases, and import contacts from other software\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan your day â€” schedule appointments, link them to records and notes, and organize your sales opportunities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Campaign for business â€” build campaigns, track their success, and grow your contact list with Web-to-lead forms\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep customers happy â€” create cases to manage customer issues and forums to exterminate software bugs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stay in touch â€” send e-newsletters and automate customer e-mail communication with templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sweeten the pot â€” learn how to extend SugarCRM''s capabilities to meet needs unique to your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   That administrative stuff â€” take advantage of a complete recipe book for SugarCRM administrators\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Options to implement a SugarCRM database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The scoop on various flavors of Sugar so you can decide which one is right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to turn leads into contacts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for keeping records up to date\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to develop searchable libraries and FAQs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy ways to create and share documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the Dashboard can do for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to integrate Outlook with SugarCRM\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2075'),
(20249, 'Superfoods for Dummies', 'Brent Agin Md &amp; Shereen Jegtvig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It will give you a great foundation to make healthy choices for your body" (BeebleBlog.com, May 28th 2009) "Super read...introduces readers to a complete list of fruits, vegetables, proteins, nuts, and herbs". (Leisure Kicks, 2009 Edition)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Transform your diet and reap the extraordinary benefits of superfoods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to eat healthier, lose weight, and fight off disease? You can do it with superfoods! This friendly guide explains everything you need to know â€” why you need superfoods, the science behind them, and how to prepare and enjoy them. From bananas and carrots to oatmeal and salmon, you''ll gain a healthy attitude toward eating right!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the skinny on superfoods â€” know the basics of a balanced, nutritional diet, and why superfoods are so powerful\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a closer look â€” examine the unique properties of superfoods and the best ways to store and prepare them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore exotic flavors â€” discover Asia''s goji berries, Mexico''s chia, Indonesia''s mangosteen, and other unusual superfoods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Launch your superfoods lifestyle â€” plan healthy meals you and your family will enjoy\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A nuts-and-bolts breakdown of each superfood\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to incorporate superfoods into your everyday diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for saving money on superfoods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The healthiest cooking methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   More than 50 easy-to-prepare, tasty recipes â€” from breakfast to dessert\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The top dietary supplements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to grow your own superfoods garden\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2076'),
(20250, 'The Survivor', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, with over 300 dead and only one survivor. Now the dead were buried and the town of Eton tried to forget. But Keller, the survivor, wanted to know what unseen forces had left him still alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6393'),
(20251, 'Survivor: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain''t so according to Chuck Palahniuk. Oh no. It''s already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author''s bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel, __. Now, in\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  , his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls the reader back to the beginning in a breathless search for where it all went wrong. This time out, the author''s protagonist is self-made, self-ruined mogul-messiah Tender Branson, the sole passenger of a jet moments away from slamming first into the Australian outback and then into oblivion. All that will be left, Branson assures us with a tone bordering on relief, is his life story, from its Amish-on-acid cult beginnings to its televangelist-huckster end. All of this courtesy of the plane''s flight recorder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Speaking of little black boxes, Skinnerians would have a field day with the presenting behavior of the folks who make up Palahniuk''s world. They pretend they''re suicide hotline operators for fun. They eat lobster before it''s quite... done. They dance in morgues. The Cleavers they are not. Scary as they might be, these characters are ultimately more scared of themselves than you are, and that''s what makes them so fascinating. In the wee hours and on lonely highways, they exist in a perpetual twilight, caught between the horror of the present and the dread of the unknown. With only two novels under his belt, Chuck Palahniuk is well on his way to becoming an expert at shining a light on these shadowy creatures.\n  <em>\n   --Bob Michaels\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise and fall of a media-made messiah is the subject of Palahniuk''s impressive second novel (after the well-received Fight Club), a wryly mannered commentary on the excesses of pop culture that tracks the 15 minutes of fame of the lone living member of a suicide cult. Tender Branson, aged 33, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the "black box" while flying randomly until the plane runs out of gas and crashes. Branson relates in his long flashback the vicissitudes of his life: a member of the repressive Creedish Death Cult, supposedly founded by a splinter group of Millerites in 1860, he is hired out as a domestic servant who must dedicate his earnings to the cult. Despite his humble beginnings, Branson finds himself on the edge of fame and fortune when the cult members begin their suicide binge, and he keeps himself on the media radar by using the psychic dreams of his potential romantic interest, Fertility Hollis, in which the girl accurately predicts a series of strange disasters. After a brief period at the top of the freak-show heap, Branson succumbs to the excesses of his trade when his agent mysteriously dies at the Super Bowl as Branson predicts the outcome of the game at half-time, simultaneously triggering a riot and turning him into a murder suspect. Branson''s spookily matter of fact account of his bizarre experiences does not excite tension until the narrative is well under way, but the novel picks up momentum during the homestretch when Branson goes on the lam with Fertility and his murderous brother Adam, and the story steamrolls toward its nightmarish climax. Palahniuk''s DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor that does not quite overcome its lack of a coherent plot. Agent, Edward Hibbert. (Feb.) FYI: Fight Club is being filmed by David Fincher.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6213'),
(20252, 'SUSE Linux 10 for Dummies', 'Naba Barkakati', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Install SUSE Linux and take advantage of cool new tools\n</p>\n<p>\n Use OpenOffice.org, go online with Firefox?, set up a wireless LAN, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n SUSE Linux is gaining popularity everywhere, and you''ll soon see why. This friendly guide will help you install and configure the newest version, then help you work with digital media, build a network, get acquainted with Firefox (the super-secure browser that has everybody excited),explore Skype and Linphone Internet phone services, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Set up an Ethernet LAN with wireless access\n <br />\n * Use the OpenOffice.org productivity suite\n <br />\n * Read newsgroups and use instant messaging\n <br />\n * Play music and burn CDs\n <br />\n * Secure your SUSE system\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Install SUSE Linux and take advantage of cool new tools\n</p>\n<p>\n Use OpenOffice.org, go online with FirefoxÂ®, set up a wireless LAN, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n SUSE Linux is gaining popularity everywhere, and you''ll soon see why. This friendly guide will help you install and configure the newest version, then help you work with digital media, build a network, get acquainted with Firefox (the super-secure browser that has everybody excited),explore Skype and Linphone Internet phone services, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up an Ethernet LAN with wireless access\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the OpenOffice.org productivity suite\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read newsgroups and use instant messaging\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play music and burn CDs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your SUSE system\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2077'),
(20253, 'SUSE Linux 9.3 for Dummies', 'Naba Barkakati', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This easy-to-understand book for beginning SUSE Linux users starts off with step-by-step installation instructions and a discussion of what happens when the system is started for the first time\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to use SUSE on the desktop, work with the file manager, connect to the Internet, and set up a home network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Topics addressed include performing everyday tasks, such as browsing the Web; reading e-mail and newsgroups; and using the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite and multimedia applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers details on basic system administration and security and shows how to add new software and keep the system up to date with YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) and YaST Online Update (YOU)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The DVD contains SUSE 9.3 Special Edition\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find your way around this latest version of SUSE Linux\n</p>\n<p>\n Install SUSE Linux 9.3, work on the desktop, and start using cool office and multimedia tools\n</p>\n<p>\n With this friendly book, you will get to know SUSE Linux in no time! Every chapter helps you get the hang of necessary tasks, so you can install the operating system, explore the desktop and file manager, start using OpenOffice.org, play with multimedia, keep the system up to date with YaST, and secure your system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install SUSE Linux\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect to the Internet via dial-up or DSL\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browse the Linux file system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a home network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit images and burn CDs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Companion DVD contains SUSE Linux 9.3 Special Edition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2078'),
(20254, 'Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies', 'Owen E. Dell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a beautiful, sustainable landscape that''s easy on your pocketbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to go green outside your home? This practical, hands-on guide shows you how to design, create, and live with sustainable lawn and garden spaces. You''ll see how to eliminate the use of chemicals, reduce energy use, and conserve natural resources, all while you craft an attractive and functional outdoor environment that increases the value and improves the appearance of your home.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get sustainable savvy â€” understand what it means, why it matters, and what materials and resources to use\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with water â€” evaluate and maintain irrigation systems, explore water harvesting, and manage watering for maximum conservation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the most of hardscaping â€” from patios and walls to fences, steps, and lighting systems, construct and maintain sustainable elements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add the true green stuff â€” select, establish, and care for gorgeous climate-appropriate plants that need few resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The essentials of sustainable garden care\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to minimize your lawn''s impact and keep it healthy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step-by-step tutorial on designing a great landscape plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to grade, plant, and irrigate the sustainable way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for fitting food into your landscape\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cheap (or free) planet-friendly projects\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nonsustainable gardening mistakes to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When and why to call in the pros\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2079'),
(20255, 'Swan Song', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the world?and their souls.In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6267'),
(20256, 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie', 'Alan Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3977'),
(20257, 'Swing Trading for Dummies', 'Omar Bassal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take advantage of price swings in strongly trending securities and pump up your portfolio!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know the strategies of successful swing trading? This friendly guide covers the ins and outs of this risky but profitable investing approach, explaining all the basics in plain English. You''ll see how to use the two investment approaches - technical and fundamental analysis - to indentify promising securities in strongly trending markets. In addition, this guide covers how to calculate investment returns and, most important, how to manage your portfolio''s risk.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Learn from a highly experienced trader, analyst, and portfolio manager - the author shares his insider knowledge\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand often overlooked topics such as money management, journal keeping, and strategy planning - key areas that will largely determine your success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focus on the fundamentals - often overlooked by swing traders, fundamental analysis can increase your chance of success\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine your entry and exit points with technical analysis - read charts, apply indicators, and compare markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate companies with fundamental analysis - grasp the basics of financial statements and the criteria to screen for undervalued or overvalued stocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop and implement your trading plan - outline what you trade and how often, decide your risk tolerance, and calculate your performance\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The differences among swing trading, day trading, and buy-and-hold investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  The pros and cons of technical and fundamental analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  A step-by-step anatomy of a trade\n </li>\n <li>\n  A wealth of charts and screenshots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Real-world examples of swing trading successes\n </li>\n <li>\n  The 10 deadly sins of swing trading - avoid at all costs!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sample trading plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Useful resources for navigating data\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take advantage of price swings in strongly trending securities and pump up your portfolio!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know the strategies of successful swing trading? This friendly guide covers the ins and outs of this risky but profitable investing approach, explaining all the basics in plain English. You''ll see how to use the two investment approaches â€” technical and fundamental analysis â€” to indentify promising securities in strongly trending markets. In addition, this guide covers how to calculate investment returns and, most important, how to manage your portfolio''s risk.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn from a highly experienced trader, analyst, and portfolio manager â€” the author shares his insider knowledge\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand often overlooked topics such as money management, journal keeping, and strategy planning â€” key areas that will largely determine your success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Focus on the fundamentals â€” often overlooked by swing traders, fundamental analysis can increase your chance of success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Determine your entry and exit points with technical analysis â€” read charts, apply indicators, and compare markets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate companies with fundamental analysis â€” grasp the basics of financial statements and the criteria to screen for undervalued or overvalued stocks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop and implement your trading plan â€” outline what you trade and how often, decide your risk tolerance, and calculate your performance\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The differences among swing trading, day trading, and buy-and-hold investing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of technical and fundamental analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A step-by-step anatomy of a trade\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A wealth of charts and screenshots\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real-world examples of swing trading successes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The 10 deadly sins of swing trading â€” avoid at all costs!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sample trading plans\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Useful resources for navigating data\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2080'),
(20258, 'Switching to a Mac for Dummies', 'Arnold Reinhold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Switch to a Mac with ease using this practical, humorous guide\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to try life outside of Windows? You''ve come to the right place. Users are switching from PCs to Macs in droves, and now you can, too, with this helpful guide.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a fun, but practical way, the book walks you through the entire process-hardware\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n software-including selecting a Mac, moving files, setting up security, and getting the most out of all the fun stuff that makes Macs famous, such as the iLife suite, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This book is fully updated for the new generation of Mac hardware and software, including Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the iLife suite, and the latest trends and tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore running Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp, how to switch your applications, converting your business to a Mac, getting online, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Plus, you don''t even have to give up Microsoft Office, thanks to Microsoft Office for Mac-so get this indispensable book and join the fun!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Making Everything Easier!\n</p>\n<p>\n Switching to a MacÂ® for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n 2nd Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the Mac that''s right for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transfer your files from WindowsÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect your Mac to the Internet by using a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the most from Mac OSÂ® X Snow Leopard and create cool projects with the iLifeÂ® suite\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Arnold Reinhold\n</p>\n<p>\n Switching is almost as easy as using a Mac, and we''ll guide you all the way!\n</p>\n<p>\n So you''ve decided to join the more intuitive, less virus-prone world of the Mac? Congratulations! This book tells you what to expect, how to choose a Mac (if you haven''t already), and how to make the switch a breeze. Discover all the cool preloaded software, how to make your Mac talk to your iPhone and iPodÂ®, and how to work the Mac way.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the family â€” compare MacBooks and the Mac mini, iMacÂ®, and Mac Pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   I''m a Mac, and you''re leaving a PC â€” see what''s alike and what''s different, and learn to use Apple menus and the Finder\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Can I keep it? â€” find out what peripherals will still work with your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Moving day â€” transfer your files, address book, and content stored on other media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get connected â€” set up your Internet service and e-mail application, and connect to your printer and other peripherals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   iLove all these apps â€” play, buy, and organize music with iTunesÂ®; edit, sort, and share photos with iPhotoÂ®; make movies with iMovieÂ®; and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety first â€” learn what makes Macs safer and why strong passwords are still important\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If you just can''t say goodbye â€” see how to run WindowsÂ® on your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How a Mac can simplify your life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Special advice for seniors and parents of young kids\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on keeping your Mac updated and secure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to unleash your creativity with photos, audio, and video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to configure your new Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help with switching specialized software to your Mac\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mac networking instructions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get both WiFi and backup capability by using Time CapsuleÂ®\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2081'),
(20259, 'The Sword of Damocles / A Story of New York Life', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3932'),
(20260, 'The Sword of Shannara Trilogy', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n By all outward appearances, Mrs Merlin''s Academy for Select Young ladies is indistinguishable from other English boarding schools. But the Academy''s students are all orphans - they''ve been plucked from the streets for their toughness and intelligence, and with training in manners, martial arts, swordsmanship and deportment, they are transformed into English spies. One such woman, siena, is chosen for a highly dangerous job: to infiltrate an elite circle of British aristocrats and uncover which one is selling state secrets.Forced to resign his army commission, Adrian Henning, the Earl of Kirtland, feels joy only in the company of books. But his weekly meeting with The Gilded Page, a very exclusive club of book connoisseurs, is ruined by the sudden appearance of London''s newest and most notorious courtesan, the Golden Dove.The Golden Dove is, of course, Siena, and the reclusive Earl of Kirtland proves to be most difficult to investigate. As they each try to decipher what game the other is playing, the plot thickens, and they must work together to bring down the real enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6407'),
(20261, 'Syndicating Web Sites With RSS Feeds for Dummies', 'Ellen Finkelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So you have a business and you have a Web site. Bravo! You re doing all the right things to be successful. But wait the information on your Web site needs to be updated, and your customers need to know. Good heavens, didn t you spend half of last week doing that? There s got to be a quicker, easier way to keep your clientele informed, and while we re at it, how about building your business too?\n</p>\n<p>\n RSS can come to your rescue, but first you need to know what it is and how to use it.\n <em>\n  Syndicating Web Sites With RSS Feeds For Dummies\n </em>\n has what you need to know to get up and running fast and with today s flood of constantly-changing information, fast is a top priority.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, in plain English, you ll find out how to: [HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Use RSS to drive traffic to your Web site and build brand awareness\n </em>\n Choose and install the right software, set up RSS feeds, and decide on the format that meets your needs\n <em>\n  Create RSS feeds from scratch, or put a news reader on your Web site\n </em>\n Improve your site s ranking in search engines and build customer loyalty\n <em>\n  Enable your customers to choose when and how they receive updated information\n </em>\n Tailor information for your audience and publish all your updates quickly and easily\n <em>\n  Promote your RSS feed and explain to your customers how to use it\n </em>\n Provide added value for your customers\n</p>\n<p>\n Making the most of RSS can make life easier for both you and those who do business with you.\n <em>\n  Syndicating Web Sites With RSS Feeds For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you maintain fresh content for your Web site, blog, or e-zine, promote your site and establish links to it, and even update vital documents like employee guides, price lists, and procedures manuals, quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get your site noticed and bring your visitors back\n</p>\n<p>\n Market your business, promote your blog, and make RSS work for you\n</p>\n<p>\n In the beginning was the Internet, and then there was too much e-mail. Now there''s RSS, a win-win solution for both Web sites and their visitors, and this book is your ticket to jump on the bandwagon! It helps you set up RSS feeds â€” including podcasts â€” select the right format, choose software, and keep your visitors coming back for more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find and subscribe to RSS feeds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and use an RSS feed reader\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create compelling RSS feeds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote your feed and syndicate your content\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bring visitors to your Web site\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2082'),
(20262, 'Syren', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6279'),
(20263, 'T-Mobile G1 for Dummies', 'Chris Ziegler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excited about the new Google phone? T-Mobileâ€™s G1 android phone is packed with possibilities, and\n <em>\n  T-Mobile G1 For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you make the most of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fun and friendly guide shows you how to navigate the G1â€™s android interface, make phone calls, view maps, manage contacts, browse the Web, and a whole lot more. Your T-Mobile G1 is so much more than a phoneâ€”itâ€™s also an administrative assistant, movie theater, jukebox, mobile office, and several more things all rolled into one device. With\n <em>\n  T-Mobile G1 For Dummies,\n </em>\n you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find out all about the Android smartphone operating system and what it offers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn your way around the G1â€™s keyboard, buttons, and touch screen\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how your G1 connects to both Wi-Fi networks and T-Mobileâ€™s high-speed network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surf the Web, download music and picture files, and tweak browser settings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send and receive Gmail, get where youâ€™re going with Google Maps, and stay organized with Google Calendar\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take photos, check out YouTube, and fill your phone with media\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your e-mail and choose which messages will be synced to your phone\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop the Android Market and discover more cool apps for your G1\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Donâ€™t waste a single cool feature of your T-Mobile G1!\n <em>\n  T-Mobile G1 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use all the great Google functions, play (and even buy) music, browse the Web, add apps, and more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make the most of the first-ever Google phone -â€” the amazing G1 â€” with this fun and friendly advice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It hardly seems fair to call it a phone! Your G1 is also an administrative assistant, a jukebox, a mobile office, and several more things all rolled into one device. Don''t miss out on a single cool feature â€” this book shows you how to use all the great Google functions, play (and even buy) music, browse the Web, add apps, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Living with an Android â€” find out about the Android smartphone operating system and what it offers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It''s QWERTY â€” learn your way around the G1''s keyboard, buttons, and touch screen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connections â€” see how your G1 connects to both Wi-Fi networks and T-Mobile''s high-speed network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Surf''s up â€” surf the Web, download music and picture files, and tweak browser settings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get Google-eyed â€” send and receive GmailÂ®, get where you''re going with Google Maps, and stay organized with Google Calendar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Picture this â€” take photos, check out YouTubeÂ®, and fill your phone with media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To sync or not to sync â€” manage your e-mail and choose which messages will be synced to your phone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What else can it do? â€” shop the Android Market and discover more cool apps for your G1\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What makes the G1 different\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make calls and send text messages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How Google services integrate seamlessly with Android\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for working with the touch screen\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the trackball, app switcher, and Home button\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions for maintaining your contacts and calendar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to buy music with Amazon MP3 and load music you already own\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to install more memory\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2083'),
(20264, 'T3 08-09-2011', 'T3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4715'),
(20265, 'T3 08-10-2011', 'T3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10596'),
(20266, 'T3 11-2011', 'T3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4539'),
(20267, 'T3 Denmark 05-2011', 'T3 Denmark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(20268, 'T3 Denmark 06-2011', 'T3 Denmark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(20269, 'T3 UK - December 2011', '12 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10601'),
(20270, 'T3 UK - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4738'),
(20271, 'T3 UK 05-2011', 'T3 UK', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(20272, 'T3 UK 08-2011', 'T3 UK', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
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(20280, 'Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''J.K.Rowling has woken up a whole generation to reading'' The Times ''The Harry Potter books are that rare thing, a series of stories adored by parents and children alike'' Daily Telegraph ''The most remarkable publishing sensation for a generation ... the story is told with such momentum, imagination and irrepressible humour that it can captivate both adults and children'' Sunday Express ''Hooray for Harry Potter ... [Harry''s] adventures are as funny as Roald Dahl''s stories and as vivid as Narnia books - and adults seem to enjoy them as much as their children'' Daily Mail\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  HARRY POTTER BOXED SET 1-7 includes the seven phenomenal Harry Potter hardcover books by best selling author J. K. Rowling. These books are housed in a collectible trunk-like box with sturdy handles and privacy lock. Bonus decorative stickers are included in each boxed set.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6370'),
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(20290, 'Taxes 2006 for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Margaret A. Munro &amp; David J. Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Helps you avoid common mistakes â€” before you file\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and friendly guide to saving on taxes this and every year\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Avoid tax headaches with the book that demystifies forms, minimizes errors, and answers your most important tax questions. Fully updated for 2005, including information directed to military families and hurricane victims, this handy, helpful guide covers critical tax code changes and offers reliable advice on keeping more of what you earn.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Itemize your deductions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with the IRS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of tax credits to reduce what you owe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with real estate taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make tax-wise personal finance decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get answers from your tax advisor\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Eric Tyson, MBA,\n </strong>\n is a best-selling author, syndicated columnist, and lecturer. He works with and teaches people from myriad income levels and backgrounds, so he knows the financial and tax questions and concerns of real folks.\n <br />\n After toiling away for too many years as a management consultant to behemoth financialservice firms, Eric decided to take his knowledge of the industry and commit himself to making personal financial management accessible to all of us. Despite being handicapped by a joint B.S. in Economics and Biology from Yale and an MBA from Stanford, Eric remains a master at â€œkeeping it simple.â€\n <br />\n An accomplished freelance personal-finance writer, Eric is the author of other\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n national bestsellers on Personal Finance, Investing, Real Estate Investing, and Home Buying.\n <br />\n His work has been critically acclaimed in hundreds of publications and programs including\n <em>\n  Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Kiplingerâ€™s Personal Finance Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,\n </em>\n and NBCâ€™s\n <em>\n  Today Show\n </em>\n , ABC, CNBC, PBSâ€™s\n <em>\n  Nightly Business Report,\n </em>\n CNN, FOX-TV, CBS national radio, Bloomberg Business Radio, and Business Radio Network.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Margaret Atkins Munro, EA,\n </strong>\n (who answers to Peggy) is a tax advisor, writer, and lecturer with more than 30 yearsâ€™ experience in various areas of taxation and finance with a mission in life to make taxes understandable to anyone willing to learn. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of family tax, small business, trusts, estates, and charitable foundations.\n <br />\n She is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and has also attended University College Cork (Ireland) and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and she feels that her ability to decipher the language in the Internal Revenue Code derives completely from her familiarity with a variety of obscure medieval languages.\n <br />\n Peggy is the author of\n <em>\n  529 &amp; Other College Savings Plans For Dummies.\n </em>\n She lectures for the IRS annually for its volunteer tax preparer programs and speaks on a variety of tax-related topics.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David J. Silverman, EA,\n </strong>\n has served on the Advisory Group to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. David has a Certificate in Taxation from New York University and has been in private practice in Manhattan for more than 25 years.\n <br />\n He regularly testifies on tax issues before both the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. As the result of his suggestions regarding penalty reform that he made while testifying before these committees, legislation was enacted that reduced the amount of penalties that may be assessed in a number of key areas.\n <br />\n David is the author of\n <em>\n  Battling the IRS,\n </em>\n which has received critical acclaim in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, Money, The Wall Street Journal,\n </em>\n and numerous other publications. David has been a contributing editor and wrote a monthly column for\n <em>\n  Smart Money\n </em>\n magazine and is frequently interviewed on national TV and radio as an expert on tax issues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2084');
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(20291, 'Taxes 2007 for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Margaret A. Munro &amp; David J. Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tax season doesnâ€™t\n <em>\n  just\n </em>\n have to be about paying Uncle Sam his due. Sure, giving up your hard-earned dollars hurts, but you can turn lemons into lemonade by turning knowledge into immediate and long-term tax savings. Whatâ€™s more, wising up about your tax situation can only increase your financial savvy and bolster your future fiscal health.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining tax-preparation and tax-planning advice,\n <em>\n  Taxes 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the latest offering in the highly praised\n <em>\n  Taxes For Dummies\n </em>\n series. This easy and fun guide (yes, a fun tax guide) walks you line-by-line through the most common forms, with analysis especially relevant for TurboTax and other tax software users. Fully updated for 2006, including Alternative Minimum Tax relief and Roth IRA conversions, this handy resource covers critical tax code changes and provides new tips for money-saving end-of-year tax moves. Youâ€™ll find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Itemize your deductions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with the IRS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of tax credits to reduce what you owe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make tax-wise personal finance decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes before you file\n </li>\n <li>\n  Audit-proof your tax return\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fill out the dreaded Schedule D\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with standout tips, tax cut opportunities, warnings, reminders, and sidebars,\n <em>\n  Taxes 2007 For Dummies\n </em>\n is a clear road map to doing your taxes in 2007â€”and to wisely planning your future finances for years ahead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guides you through the tax-form maze\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  File properly and save on your taxes this and every year\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Save time, money, and hassles doing your taxes! This fun, friendly guide demystifies forms, minimizes errors, and answers all your tax questions in plain English. Fully updated for 2006, including information on Alternative Minimum Tax relief and Roth IRA conversions, this handy resource covers critical tax code changes and provides new tips for money-saving end-of-year tax moves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Taxes For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best of these books for tax novices."\n <br />\n â€”_Worth_ magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most accessible and creative. It''s also the best organized."\n <br />\n â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Will make tax preparation less traumatic."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sound financial advice you can use throughout the year."\n <br />\n â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Itemize your deductions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with the IRS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of tax credits to reduce what you owe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make tax-wise personal finance decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes before you file\n </li>\n <li>\n  Audit-proof your tax return\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2085'),
(20292, 'Taxes 2008 for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Margaret A. Munro &amp; David J. Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The best of these books for tax novices."\n <br />\n â€”_Worth_ magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n Can a fantastic tax-prep guide actually make doing your taxes fun? Probably not, but you''ll have a lot more fun doing your taxes with the help of\n <em>\n  Taxes 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n than you would without it.\n</p>\n<p>\n This uncommonly friendly tax guide weaves you through the tax-filing maze, walking you line by line through the most common forms for fast, easy filing. Fully updated for 2008, including details on Alternative Minimum Tax relief, enhanced child tax benefits, and deductibility of mortgage insurance premiums, this indispensable handbook also a new list of wise end-of-year moneysaving tax moves. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Organize your records and keep them organized\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose your filing status\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save time and money filing your taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itemize your deductions with Schedule A\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take full advantage of Schedule C deductions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine your capital gains and losses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate with the IRS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use tax credits to reduce what you owe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make tax-wise personal finance decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your tax software and e-filing options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Audit-proof your tax return\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make sure you don''t pay for IRS mistakes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with four Top Ten tip lists covering audit avoidance, finding overlooked tax-reduction opportunities, interview questions for tax advisers, and special tax issues for military families,\n <em>\n  Taxes 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n may not make you laugh while your filling out your tax forms, but you''ll smile when your done.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Taxes For Dummies\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best of these books for tax novices."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Worth\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most accessible and creative. It''s also the best organized."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Will make tax preparation less traumatic."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sound financial advice you can use throughout the year."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Seattle Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers critical tax code changes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  File properly, save time and money and minimize errors\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly book guides you through the tax-filing maze, walking you line-by-line through the most common forms. Fully updated for 2008, including details on Alternative Minimum Tax relief, enhanced child tax benefits, and deductibility of mortgage insurance premiums, this indispensable guide also offers a new list of wise end-of-year money-saving tax moves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Itemize your deductions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate with the IRS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take advantage of tax credits to reduce what you owe\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make tax-wise personal finance decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maximize your tax software and e-filing options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Audit-proof your tax return\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2086'),
(20293, 'Taxes 2009 for Dummies', 'Eric Tyson &amp; Margaret A. Munro &amp; David J. Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The one-stop tax guide for the first-time or last-minute filer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Updated and revised for the 2008 tax year,\n <em>\n  Taxes 2009 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the only tax guide on the market that walks readers through the major tax forms line by line, including the 1040 Schedules A through E. Filled with helpful tips and strategies for filing income tax returns accurately and on time, this book is aimed at individuals who want to do their own taxes without hiring a preparer. Financial expert Eric Tyson teams up with tax experts Margaret Munro and David Silverman to answer the most frequently asked tax questions in plain English.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Your plain-English guide to filing your own returns accurately and on time\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you dreading tax season? Never fear â€” this bestselling guide takes you through the major tax forms line by line, explaining all the latest filing changes. Financial expert Eric Tyson and tax experts Margaret Munro and David Silverman answer all your tax-preparation questions, offer tax-planning advice, and show you how to legally reduce your taxes!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ready, set, file â€” assemble the tools you need to prepare your own return, select your filing status, and determine exemptions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tackle the various forms â€” from 1040EZ to Schedule E, understand how to fill out each form correctly and painlessly\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Comprehend all the tax law changes â€” understand child tax benefits, improved Health Savings Accounts, Alternative Minimum Tax changes, small-business perks, mortgage forgiveness debt relief, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Negotiate with the IRS â€” decipher an assessment notice, survive an audit, fix common IRS mistakes, and locate missing refunds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clean up your own errors â€” amend a return, abate penalties or interest, and make the right moves when you can''t pay your taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Praise for Taxes For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best of these books for tax novices."\n <br />\n â€” Worth magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most accessible and creative. It''s also the best organized."\n <br />\n â€” USA Today\n</p>\n<p>\n "Will make tax preparation less traumatic."\n <br />\n â€” The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sound financial advice you can use throughout the year."\n <br />\n â€” The Seattle Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to itemize your deductions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hints for keeping good records and staying organized\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Smart year-round personal finance and tax advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Questions to ask a tax advisor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to maximize tax software and e-filing options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to file if you''re self-employed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tax tips for military families\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for reducing your taxes and avoiding penalties\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2087'),
(20294, 'TCP/IP for Dummies', 'Candace Leiden &amp; Marshall Wilensky &amp; Scott Bradner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Packed with the latest information on TCP/IP standards and protocols  TCP/IP is a hot topic, because it''s the glue that holds the Internet and the Web together, and network administrators need to stay on top of the latest developments. "TCP/IP For Dummies, 6th Edition, " is both an introduction to the basics for beginners as well as the perfect go-to resource for TCP/IP veterans.  The book includes the latest on Web protocols and new hardware, plus very timely information on how TCP/IP secures connectivity for blogging, vlogging, photoblogging, and social networking. Step-by-step instructions show you how to install and set up TCP/IP on clients and servers; build security with encryption, authentication, digital certificates, and signatures; handle new voice and mobile technologies, and much more. Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the de facto standard transmission medium worldwide for computer-to-computer communications; intranets, private internets, and the Internet are all built on TCP/IP The book shows you how to install and configure TCP/IP and its applications on clients and servers; explains intranets, extranets, and virtual private networks (VPNs); provides step-by-step information on building and enforcing security; and covers all the newest protocols You''ll learn how to use encryption, authentication, digital certificates, and signatures to set up a secure Internet credit card transaction  Find practical security tips, a Quick Start Security Guide, and still more in this practical guide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2088'),
(20295, 'Teach Yourself HTML and CSS', 'Mike Wooldridge &amp; Linda Wooldridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3115'),
(20296, 'Teaching Kids to Spell for Dummies', 'Tracey Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Filled with enjoyable spelling activities and exercises\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way? to help your K-5th grader become an A+ speller\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to make spelling easier for your child or boost spelling skills and confidence, you''ve come to the right place. Veteran reading specialist Tracey Wood gives you tips, games, exercises, word lists, and memory aids to help your child build solid spelling know-how. Her techniques are fun, fast, and effective, and best of all, they''re not boring!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Mix spelling practice with reading and writing\n <br />\n * Spell short and long vowel words\n <br />\n * Make spelling easier with word families\n <br />\n * Gain insight into "sight" words\n <br />\n * Break spelling into syllable chunks\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Filled with enjoyable spelling activities and exercises\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy wayÂ® to help your Kâ€“5th grader become an A+ speller\n</p>\n<p>\n If you want to make spelling easier for your child or boost spelling skills and confidence, you''ve come to the right place. Veteran reading specialist Tracey Wood gives you tips, games, exercises, word lists, and memory aids to help your child build solid spelling know-how. Her techniques are fun, fast, and effective, and best of all, they''re not boring!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Mix spelling practice with reading and writing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spell short and long vowel words\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make spelling easier with word families\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain insight into "sight" words\n </li>\n <li>\n  Break spelling into syllable chunks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2089'),
(20297, 'Tech &amp; Learning Magazine 07-2011', 'Tech &amp; Learning Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2524'),
(20298, 'Tech.and.Learning-October.2011.pdf 01-10-2011', 'Tech.and.Learning-October.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7077'),
(20299, 'Telecom for Dummies', 'Stephen P. Olejniczak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Worldwide telecom spending was over $4 trillion in 2004, and virtually all 12 million businesses in the U.S. buy phone and other telecom services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Our book shows people at small and medium-sized businesses how to make sense of telecom lingo and get the best deals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes an overview of the major players in the telecom industry and an easy-to-understand explanation of the existing telecom infrastructure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps people pinpoint the telecom services best suited to their business needs, understand billing, and troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers emerging industry trends, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and how they can help businesses cut costs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New to telecom? Get the scoop on all the basics\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Order, maintain, and troubleshoot telecom services from area codes to VoIP\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So you''re now in charge of all that telecommunications stuff? Don''t panic â€” here''s your secret weapon! This plain-English guide will fill you in on the products, services, maintenance procedures, and key players in the telecom world, help you choose the most economical solutions for your business, and make you look good to the boss.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Decide what your company needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze telecom carriers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Negotiate the best deal\n </li>\n <li>\n  Move phone numbers to another carrier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Order toll-free numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize the causes of common problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2090'),
(20300, 'Telephone Sales for Dummies', 'Dirk Zeller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nearly 100 million Americans (one out of three) purchase goods and services over the phone each year.\n <em>\n  Telephone Sales For Dummies\n </em>\n shows both new and seasoned sales reps, from realtors, insurance agents to telemarketers, how to create pre-call plans and effectively prospect via the phone. Packed with techniques, scripts, and dialogues, this hands-on, interactive guide assists readers with making cold calls, warm calls, and referral calls, helping them plan and execute openings to create interesting dialogue; ask key questions; develop persuasive presentation techniques; work within the No Call Law parameters; leave effective and enticing voicemails that get results; get past screeners and get quality referrals; find hot leads; and create callback scripts that close the sale.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Increase your sales and income with proven tactics and strategy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your no-nonsense guide to selling and generating leads by phone\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to be persuasive on the phone? This hands-on, interactive guide is packed with proven techniques for becoming a champion telephone salesperson. You''ll see how to make pre-call plans, conquer your sales call fears, prepare a winning script, ask the right questions, overcome objections, and prospect your way to success.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make cold, warm, and referral calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get past screeners\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Orchestrate a successful close\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand the "Do Not Call" law\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2091'),
(20301, 'Tell-All', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourettes Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of of Lillian Hellmans habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine Miss Kathie Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathies heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells her death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World War II musical extravaganza Unconditional Surrender, in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.A dark reimagining of All About Eve and an hilarious assault on celebrity, Tell-All is vintage Palahniuk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6168'),
(20302, 'The Templar Code for Dummies', 'Christopher Hodapp &amp; Alice von Kannon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  (E)verything you would ever want to know about the Templars is laid out in the freewheeling but accessible "Dummies" style to which Hodapp and Von Kannon are becoming very well accustomed.\n </em>\n <strong>\n  --Nathan Brindle, The Indiana Freemason Magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "(A) wonderful book on the history of the Templars and the crusades..."\n <strong>\n  --Stephen Dafoe, author of ''Nobly Born''\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you''ve ever read works about the Templars before and felt like you''d just asked a question of one of the blind men describing an elephant, then this is certainly the book for you."\n <strong>\n  --Ed King, Maine Masonic College\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A captivating look into the society of the Knights Templar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Brought to you by the author of\n <em>\n  Freemasons For Dummies\n </em>\n , The Templar Code is more than an intriguing cipher or a mysterious symbol â€“ it is the Code by which the Knights Templar lived and died, the Code that bound them together in secrecy, and the Code that inspired them to nearly superhuman feats of courage and endurance.\n <em>\n  The Templar Code for Dummies\n </em>\n reveals the meaning behind the cryptic codes and secret rituals of the medieval brotherhood of warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. This intriguing guide will cover such topics as who the Knights Templar were, how they rose so high and fell so far, and most importantly why there is so much interest in them today.\n <em>\n  The Templar Code For Dummies\n </em>\n will explore myths and theories of Christian history that appear in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n such as the quest for the Holy Grail, the Catholic Church''s relationship with women that are hotly debated now with special emphasis on the Templar connection. It also explores the surprising part the Templars have played in some of the most important historic events of these past seven centuries, including the French Revolution, the birth of groups such as the Freemasons, and even the American Civil War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2104'),
(20303, 'Teresa of Watling Street: A Fantasia on Modern Themes', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4270'),
(20304, 'Terminal', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6208'),
(20305, 'The Testament', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world''s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6245'),
(20306, 'Texas Hold&#39;em for Dummies', 'Mark Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turn on the TV, drop by a newsstand, or just browse the checkout your local supermarket and you''ll see firsthand that Texas Hold ''Em is the poker game everyone''s playing. It''s a game that''s deceptively simple, yet within its easy framework youâ€™ll find truth and trickery, boredom and fear, skill and misfortuneâ€”in other words, all the things that make life fun and worth living!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Texas Hold''em For Dummies\n </em>\n introduces you to the fundamental concepts and strategies of this wildly popular game. It covers the rules for playing and betting, odds, etiquette, Hold''em lingo, and offers sound advice to avoid mistakes. This handy reference guide gives new and even seasoned players winning strategies and tactics not just for playing the game, but for\n <em>\n  winning\n </em>\n . You''ll learn:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Rules and strategies for limit, no-limit, tournament, and online play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to "play" the other players\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The importance of your bankrollâ€”recommended sizes and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hands you should and should not play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to camouflage your play and dodge traps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When, who, and how to bluff\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to maximize your win with check-raising and trapping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different approaches for playing in private games, casinos, card rooms, tournaments, and on the Internet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use mathematics to your advantage\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Texas Hold ''Em isÂ  a game of both skill and chance. But it''s a game that\n <em>\n  can\n </em>\n be beaten, and whether you want to make money, sharpen your game, or just have a good time,\n <em>\n  Texas Hold ''Em for Dummies\n </em>\n will give you the winning edge.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers betting, odds, etiquette, and lingo\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read your opponents, avoid mistakes, and win the pot!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to play â€” and win â€” poker''s hottest game? This practical, portable guide gives you all the insider tips and tricks you need to play at the table or online. From playing each stage of a hand and reading other players to betting, bluffing, and minding your bankroll, you get everything you need to play smart and maximize your win!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make the right bets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bluff your opponents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check, call, raise, and fold\n </li>\n <li>\n  Look for tells and dodge traps\n </li>\n <li>\n  Read your hand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play in casinos and tournaments\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2092'),
(20307, 'That Affair Next Door', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4029'),
(20308, 'The Complete Guide to Android 05-2011', 'The Complete Guide to Android', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(20309, 'The Complete Guide to the iPad 2 Magazine', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3551'),
(20310, 'The Consumer', 'M. Gira', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4551'),
(20311, 'The Vegan Sommer 2011', 'The Vegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3289'),
(20312, 'The_economist_10-09-2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6006'),
(20313, 'The_Economist_17_sep_2011.pdf 23-09-2011', 'The_Economist_17_sep_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6707'),
(20314, 'The_Economist_Canada-24th_September-2011.pdf 25-09-2011', 'The_Economist_Canada-24th_September-2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6781'),
(20315, 'The_Economist-2011-09-10S370_HQ.pdf 13-09-2011', 'The_Economist-2011-09-10S370_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6009'),
(20316, 'The.2012.iPad.Handbook.UK-Slicer.pdf 13-09-2011', 'The.2012.iPad.Handbook.UK-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5900'),
(20317, 'The.Economist.-.2011-09-30.=ECO PDF TEAM=', 'David.Soros', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10566'),
(20318, 'The.Hollywood.Reporter.2011.10.14S370.HQ.pdf 09-10-2011', 'The.Hollywood.Reporter.2011.10.14S370.HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10612'),
(20319, 'The.New.Yorker.2011.10.10S370.HQ.pdf 09-10-2011', 'The.New.Yorker.2011.10.10S370.HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10613'),
(20320, 'The.New.Yorker.October.17.2011.pdf 17-10-2011', 'The.New.Yorker.October.17.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10765'),
(20321, 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.13.Jun.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.13.Jun.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3170'),
(20322, 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.14.Jul.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.14.Jul.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3171'),
(20323, 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.16.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'The.Spirit.Vol.2.No.16.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3172'),
(20324, 'The.Week-10.September.2011.pdf 16-09-2011', 'The.Week-10.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6082'),
(20325, 'The.Week-17.September.2011.pdf 18-09-2011', 'The.Week-17.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6100'),
(20326, 'Then Came You', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWeiner has emerged as one of the biggest names in popular fiction.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJennifer Weinerâ€™s bestselling novels twist humor and topical issues into canâ€™t-put-down stories. Her latest follows the lives of four women who explore conflicting notions of family and motherhood.â€ â€”_Houston Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe conflicts enmeshing all these characters...are gripping, and Weinerâ€™s elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever.â€ â€”_Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A savvy taleâ€¦ told with equal parts love and longing--whether it be for a partner, a purpose, or a family." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCompelling...a page-turner. Enjoy this title for its humor mixed with a sympathetic portrayal of real womenâ€™s lives and challenges.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn this warm and winning yarn, Weiner draws readers into the lives of each woman, and brings them together in an unexpected and ultimately rewarding way. Another surefire hit for the popular author." â€”_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Then Came You offers an eye-opening perspective on parenthood in an age where the family is ever evolving." â€”_BookPage_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An unexpected love storyâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family sheâ€™s ashamed to invite to Parentsâ€™ Weekend. With the income sheâ€™ll receive from donating her â€œpedigreeâ€ eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husbandâ€™s salary, she thinks sheâ€™s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcusâ€™ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seemsâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of womenâ€™s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4106'),
(20327, 'Then Came You', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWeiner has emerged as one of the biggest names in popular fiction.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJennifer Weinerâ€™s bestselling novels twist humor and topical issues into canâ€™t-put-down stories. Her latest follows the lives of four women who explore conflicting notions of family and motherhood.â€ â€”_Houston Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe conflicts enmeshing all these characters...are gripping, and Weinerâ€™s elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever.â€ â€”_Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A savvy taleâ€¦ told with equal parts love and longing--whether it be for a partner, a purpose, or a family." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCompelling...a page-turner. Enjoy this title for its humor mixed with a sympathetic portrayal of real womenâ€™s lives and challenges.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn this warm and winning yarn, Weiner draws readers into the lives of each woman, and brings them together in an unexpected and ultimately rewarding way. Another surefire hit for the popular author." â€”_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Then Came You offers an eye-opening perspective on parenthood in an age where the family is ever evolving." â€”_BookPage_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An unexpected love storyâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family sheâ€™s ashamed to invite to Parentsâ€™ Weekend. With the income sheâ€™ll receive from donating her â€œpedigreeâ€ eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husbandâ€™s salary, she thinks sheâ€™s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcusâ€™ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seemsâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of womenâ€™s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4382'),
(20328, 'The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6397'),
(20329, 'There Is a Tide', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6294'),
(20330, 'These twain', 'Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4296'),
(20331, 'Thin Air', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A kick-butt heroine who will appeal strongly to fans of Kelley Armstrong and Charlaine Harris'' Romantic Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After preventing Mother Earth from destroying the planet, Joanne Baldwin lost her memories thanks to Ashan the djinn-and they will remain lost forever unless Joanne can recover her identity-and destroy the demon who is impersonating her, fabulous shoes and all...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6385'),
(20332, 'The Third Secret', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Steve Berry, it''s a fortuitous coincidence that his third novel, a Vatican-centered conspiracy thriller titled\n  <em>\n   The Third Secret\n  </em>\n  , was published in the immediate aftermath of Pope Benedict XVI''s anointment in Rome. While this exuberantly contrived yarn would likely have drawn an audience at any time, it benefits from coming before readers just after they''ve been primed with news reports about papal succession, the relative influence and legacy of pontiffs, and the increasing tug-of-war between Roman Catholic progressives and conservative traditionalists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Set in the near future,\n  <em>\n   Secret\n  </em>\n  introduces Jakob Volkner--Pope Clement XV--a German "caretaker pope" who, nearing the age of 80, was elected as John Paul II''s successor. But three years into his papacy, the thoughtful Clement has begun to quietly express skepticism about papal infallibility and the Church''s restrictive dogma, and to make odd requests of his longtime secretary, Monsignor Colin Michener, an Irish-born but American-reared priest whose vows of celibacy have been tested--and found wanting. Clement has also made repeated visits to a guarded sanctum within the Vatican archives, where sacred and historic documents are stored. And he''s dispatched Michener to Romania to locate an elderly cleric who, in the 1950s, translated three cryptic prophecies, purportedly offered by the Virgin Mary in 1917 to a trio of children in Fatima, Portugal. Those secrets have since been fully disclosed to the world. Or have they? Thatâ€™s the question facing Michener in the wake of Clement''s shocking suicide, as he pursues a twisted trail of clues, crimes, and religious forecasts from Rome to Bosnia to Germany, accompanied by his former lover, journalist Katerina Lew. But making any additional secrets known to the world will put Michener in confrontation with doctrinal reactionaries, led by Cardinal Alberto Valendrea, the Vatican''s Italian secretary of state, who''s determined to follow Clement as the Vicar of Christ--even if that requires inventing a few new sins and flouting a 900-year-old prediction of doom for the next pope.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney-author Berry, praised previously for\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , enriches\n  <em>\n   The Third Secret\n  </em>\n  with glimpses behind the locked doors of a papal selection process and knowledge of centuries-old Catholic prognostications that, while employed judiciously in these pages, nonetheless suggest a prodigious amount of research. He''s less successful with his casting. Valendrea is a wincingly unnuanced scoundrel, and Ms. Lew achieves scarce definition beyond being a raven-tressed temptress to powerful prelates. Thankfully, Berry does better by Michener, who finds himself at a crossroads, carrying on in Clement''s name even as he searches for confirmation that his own life of devotion and service has been meaningful. Although the secrets "revealed" in this tale seem more controversial than plausible, and a potentially intriguing subplot about the excommunication of a maverick priest ends up as a throwaway device,\n  <em>\n   The Third Secret\n  </em>\n  builds to a conclusion that is as suspenseful and stunning as it is inevitable. Have faith.\n  <em>\n   --J. Kingston Pierce\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Visions of the Virgin Mary, secret documents and politicking in the highest echelons of the Catholic Churchâ€”Berry (_The Amber Room_) combines combustive elements in this well-researched thriller. In 1917, the Virgin Mary revealed herself to three children in Fatima, Portugal, disclosing three secrets to the eldest, Lucia, who shared the first two secrets soon after their revelation but left the last to be disclosed upon her death. This third secret was released to Pope John XXIII in 1960 and made public by Pope John Paul II in 2000... or was it? The novel''s stolid protagonistâ€”Msgr. Colin Michener, longtime secretary to Clement XV, the novel''s near-future successor to John Paul IIâ€”has reason to doubt the accuracy of the public version of the secret. Beleaguered by radically dogmatic cardinals and bishops, the embattled Clement XV also appears distressed by recent knowledge of secret documents regarding the Fatima messages. Before his inexplicable suicide, Clement sends Michener to Romania in search of a Father Tibor, who translated the third secret for Pope John XXIII and may hold the key to its mystery. Also on the case, if a step behind, is the ambitious and traditionalist Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Valendrea, with an eye on the papal throne.\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  fans hungry for more may want a taste of this.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Pam Ahearn. 10-city author tour. (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6404'),
(20333, 'This Is a Book', 'Demetri Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this collection of essays, musings, and drawings, Comedy Central host Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin) gently skewers contemporary social trends, conventions, and insecurities, taking on topics from social hotlines to family and relationships. With a gift for describing awkward situations, Martin challenges readers to recognize the human need for connection and recognition. The theme is seen in a panel in which a limousine displaying two flags on its hood is labeled "important"; another displaying seven flags is "very important." He also answers the big questions with essays like "Who I Am" in which he declares: "I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus." Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance that moves easily among surprising topics, like philosophy, to easy targets, like healthy lifestyles. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book embodies the essence of Demetri''s comedy to perfection, which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly smart, it''s exactly what puts me in awe of his work."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <strong>\n   Will Ferrell\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When I first saw\n  <em>\n   Important Things With Demetri Martin\n  </em>\n  , I said to myself, "this is the funniest thing ever." I was wrong.\n  <em>\n   This Is A Book\n  </em>\n  is better." -\n  <strong>\n   Malcolm Gladwell\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Outliers: The Story of Success\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is so funny I forgot to laugh. I know that sounds like a childish criticism, but I mean it literally: This book is so funny, I forgot a whole bunch of things--who I am, what I stand for, large chunks of my childhood, my sense of equilibrium, how to fall asleep, and when I''m supposed to laugh at things."\n  <strong>\n   -Chuck Klosterman\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Demetri Martin has a very funny and original mind. If I could draw a graph explaining how funny and original he is, I would. But I don''t do that. Demetri does that."-\n  <strong>\n   Conan O''Brien\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4162'),
(20334, 'This Is a Book', 'Demetri Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this collection of essays, musings, and drawings, Comedy Central host Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin) gently skewers contemporary social trends, conventions, and insecurities, taking on topics from social hotlines to family and relationships. With a gift for describing awkward situations, Martin challenges readers to recognize the human need for connection and recognition. The theme is seen in a panel in which a limousine displaying two flags on its hood is labeled "important"; another displaying seven flags is "very important." He also answers the big questions with essays like "Who I Am" in which he declares: "I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus." Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance that moves easily among surprising topics, like philosophy, to easy targets, like healthy lifestyles. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book embodies the essence of Demetri''s comedy to perfection, which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly smart, it''s exactly what puts me in awe of his work."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <strong>\n   Will Ferrell\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When I first saw\n  <em>\n   Important Things With Demetri Martin\n  </em>\n  , I said to myself, "this is the funniest thing ever." I was wrong.\n  <em>\n   This Is A Book\n  </em>\n  is better." -\n  <strong>\n   Malcolm Gladwell\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Outliers: The Story of Success\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is so funny I forgot to laugh. I know that sounds like a childish criticism, but I mean it literally: This book is so funny, I forgot a whole bunch of things--who I am, what I stand for, large chunks of my childhood, my sense of equilibrium, how to fall asleep, and when I''m supposed to laugh at things."\n  <strong>\n   -Chuck Klosterman\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Demetri Martin has a very funny and original mind. If I could draw a graph explaining how funny and original he is, I would. But I don''t do that. Demetri does that."-\n  <strong>\n   Conan O''Brien\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4411'),
(20335, 'This United State', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6176');
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(20336, 'Those Guys Have All the Fun', 'James Andrew Miller &amp; Tom Shales', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   THOSE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those who work in the business of sport will devour the book...[readers are] granted the kind of behind-the-scenes access that sports media junkies are rarely given..." (\n  <strong>\n   SportsIllustrated.com\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Richard Deitsch\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Packed with entertaining stories of unpleasant people and awful behavior....[_Those Guys Have All the Fun_ is] offers a nuanced look at ESPN, does some top-notch TV-biz reporting on the early days of the cable industry, and offers compelling behind-the-scenes stories...[It is] a serious, impressive, piece of work." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Entertainment Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Rob Brunner\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A revelation: what goes onto the TV screen turns out to be just the glossy tip of an iceberg of ugly backstage drama. Miller and Shales must be extraordinarily talented interviewers, because their subjects are surprisingly uninhibited and frank and willing to dish and slag....[They are] good at zeroing in on a debacle and getting everybody involved to weigh in...by the end of the book you''re amazed at the disconnect between the chaos behind the scenes and the relatively slick end product." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Time\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Lev Grossman\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As highly anticipated by sports junkies as a Chicago Cubs championship, [_Those Guys Have All the Fun_] provides painstaking details on how a nutty idea concocted by a father-son team developed into a brand worth more than the NHL, MLB and NBA combined...Shales and Miller manage to create a page-turning document about the ultimate dysfunctional workplace" (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Minneapolis Star Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Neil Justin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...Perhaps the most anticipated book in sports media history." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsday\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This treat for sports fans has a cast of characters that is huge and varied." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Janet Maslin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What a story: larger-than-life personalities, salacious gossip, backstabbing and corporate intrigue set against the backdrop of the rise of cable television as an economic and cultural force....The quotes flow seamlessly, and the voices are fresh and vibrant...The depth and breadth of the interviews make it not only the definitive account of ESPN''s first three decades but one of the best books yet on how cable shaped American culture." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Hollywood Reporter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Andy Lewis\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rollicking glimpse behind the guys and gals who sport around at ESPN, America''s sports church. Amen." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN''s personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, gambling addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network''s soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent story of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4163'),
(20337, 'Those Guys Have All the Fun', 'James Andrew Miller &amp; Tom Shales', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   THOSE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those who work in the business of sport will devour the book...[readers are] granted the kind of behind-the-scenes access that sports media junkies are rarely given..." (\n  <strong>\n   SportsIllustrated.com\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Richard Deitsch\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Packed with entertaining stories of unpleasant people and awful behavior....[_Those Guys Have All the Fun_ is] offers a nuanced look at ESPN, does some top-notch TV-biz reporting on the early days of the cable industry, and offers compelling behind-the-scenes stories...[It is] a serious, impressive, piece of work." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Entertainment Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Rob Brunner\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A revelation: what goes onto the TV screen turns out to be just the glossy tip of an iceberg of ugly backstage drama. Miller and Shales must be extraordinarily talented interviewers, because their subjects are surprisingly uninhibited and frank and willing to dish and slag....[They are] good at zeroing in on a debacle and getting everybody involved to weigh in...by the end of the book you''re amazed at the disconnect between the chaos behind the scenes and the relatively slick end product." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Time\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Lev Grossman\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As highly anticipated by sports junkies as a Chicago Cubs championship, [_Those Guys Have All the Fun_] provides painstaking details on how a nutty idea concocted by a father-son team developed into a brand worth more than the NHL, MLB and NBA combined...Shales and Miller manage to create a page-turning document about the ultimate dysfunctional workplace" (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Minneapolis Star Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Neil Justin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...Perhaps the most anticipated book in sports media history." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Newsday\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This treat for sports fans has a cast of characters that is huge and varied." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Janet Maslin\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What a story: larger-than-life personalities, salacious gossip, backstabbing and corporate intrigue set against the backdrop of the rise of cable television as an economic and cultural force....The quotes flow seamlessly, and the voices are fresh and vibrant...The depth and breadth of the interviews make it not only the definitive account of ESPN''s first three decades but one of the best books yet on how cable shaped American culture." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Hollywood Reporter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Andy Lewis\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rollicking glimpse behind the guys and gals who sport around at ESPN, America''s sports church. Amen." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN''s personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, gambling addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network''s soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent story of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4351'),
(20338, 'Three Thousand Dollars', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3934'),
(20339, 'Thriving in the Workplace All-In-One for Dummies', 'Marty Brounstein &amp; Michael C Donaldson &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Practical guidance on thriving-and surviving-in the workplace\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you worried about losing your job? Are you retired but forced to re-enter the workforce to keep up with the rising cost of living? Do you find yourself lucky to have a job at all, no matter how difficult or unpleasant the environment may be?\n <em>\n  Thriving in the Workplace All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n gives people of all ages, in any job, and in any type of workplace the information, tips, and advice needed to boost professional value, increase job security, and manage stress.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside this comprehensive book, you''ll get friendly and practical guidance on dealing with a your boss; becoming self-motivated by setting effective goals; dealing with coworkers'' attitudes; earning a better performance review, raise, or promotion; handling challenging customers; thriving amidst change; increasing morale and productivity; and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Proven tips, tools, and techniques to help employees at all levels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Information on business ethics, negotiating, effective communication, success, and managing\n </li>\n <li>\n  The most comprehensive guide of its kind\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Thriving in the Workplace All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ultimate career bible that will help you survive and thrive at work!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Practical advice on keeping your job, advancing your career, and enjoying yourself a bit along the way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Tough times mean tough job conditions. From job security to extra responsibilities, the job market changes regularly and you need to adapt. This comprehensive book gives people of all ages, in any job, and in any type of workplace the information, tips, and action plans needed to boost professional value, increase visibility, and manage stress.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The foundation of success â€” get the lowdown on the key business skills to ensure your success, from setting goals to being an integral part of your team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time for time management â€” discover how getting organized and managing your time are the smartest ways to preempt problems in the workplace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Talk the talk â€” understand the importance of communication in the workplace, from being an active listener to speaking positively to best practices in correspondence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage negative situations â€” master the art of staying cool when conflicts arise, dealing with difficult bosses and coworkers, and handling conflict constructively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Combat stress and decompress â€” get tips and tools for managing stress, letting go of tension, and relaxing when your mind is working overtime\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to negotiate to get what you need and deserve\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on creating a time-management system you can live with\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to create a productive work environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to combat procrastination\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When (and how) to delegate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for dealing with difficult people\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use business etiquette to prevent problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggestions on using online courses to get ahead\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Business Success Skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Time Management &amp; Organization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Managing Yourself and Others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Effective Communication\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Managing People &amp; Conflicts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Stress Management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Continuing Education &amp; Training\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2106'),
(20340, 'Through My Eyes', 'Tim Tebow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resumeâ€”winning two BCS national championships, becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy, and in the face of massive public scrutiny, being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in\n  <i>\n   Through My Eyes\n  </i>\n  , Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it, revealing how his faith and family values, combined with his relentless will to succeed, have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries, Tebow has a unique story to tellâ€”from the circumstances of his birth, to his home-schooled roots, to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4164'),
(20341, 'Through My Eyes', 'Tim Tebow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resumeâ€”winning two BCS national championships, becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy, and in the face of massive public scrutiny, being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in\n  <i>\n   Through My Eyes\n  </i>\n  , Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it, revealing how his faith and family values, combined with his relentless will to succeed, have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries, Tebow has a unique story to tellâ€”from the circumstances of his birth, to his home-schooled roots, to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4350'),
(20342, 'Through the Grinder', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Business is booming at Clare Cosi''s Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare''s life. Now Clare will risk her heart - and her life - to follow the killer''s trail to the bitter end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6238'),
(20343, 'Thunderbird Falls (twp-2)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For all the bodies she''s encountering, you''d think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne''s a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months agoâ€”surely she deserves more of a break! Yet, incredibly, "Armageddon, Take Two" is mere days away. There''s not a minute to waste. Yet when her spirit guide inexplicably disappears, Joanne needs help from other sources. Especially after she accidentally unleashes Lower World demons on Seattle. Damn. With the mother of all showdowns gathering force, it''s the worst possible moment for Joanne to realize she should have learned more about controlling her powers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joanne Walker, a likable young Seattle beat cop, continues to learn the ropes of her even more dangerous job as a shaman in Murphy''s spirited second urban fantasy (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Urban Shaman\n  </em>\n  ). After a fencing lesson at the university, Joanne stumbles on the body of Cassandra Tucker, a 20-year-old junior, in the showers. The autopsy report states that Cassandra''s death was due to a heart condition, but Joanne suspects otherwise. In her role as shaman, Joanne investigates "the Dead Zone," a place between life and death, while her earthside sleuthing leads to a coven that in recognition of her special abilities invites her to take Cassandra''s place in opening a passage between worlds for Virissong, an ancient Native American spirit who''s expected to end a local heat wave and global warming. Unfortunately, if not surprisingly, Joanne discovers after several nightmarish and somewhat bloated magical misadventures that Virissong is one nasty lying serpent.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A swift pace, a good mystery, a likable protagonist, magic, danger --\n  <em>\n   Urban Shaman\n  </em>\n  has them in spades." --\n  <em>\n   Jim Butcher, author of the bestselling The Dresden Files\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5959'),
(20344, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', 'Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed, --and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: Thou great star  What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest  For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent. But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it. Lo  I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star  Like thee must I GO DOWN, as men say, to whom I shall descend. Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold even the greatest happiness without envy  Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss  Lo  This cup is again going to empty itself, and Zarathustra is again going to be a man. Thus began Zarathustra''s down-going.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(20345, 'TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies', 'C. C. Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Would you order a multi-course gourmet buffet and just eat salad? If you have a TI-83 Plus graphing calculator, you have a veritable feast of features and functions at your fingertips, but chances are you donâ€™t take full advantage of them. This friendly guide will help you explore your TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator and use it for all itâ€™s worth, and thatâ€™s a lot. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions plus screen shots,\n <em>\n  TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Perform basic arithmetic operations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Zoom and panning to get the best screen display\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use all the functions in the Math menu, including the four submenus: MATH, NUM, CPS, and PRB\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the fantastic Finance application to decide whether to lease or get a loan and buy, calculate the best interest, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Graph and analyze functions by tracing the graph or by creating a table of functional values, including graphing piecewise-defined and trigonometric functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore and evaluate functions, including how to find the value, the zeros, the point of intersection of two functions, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw on a graph, including line segments, circles, and functions, write text on a graph, and do freehand drawing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with sequences, parametric equations, and polar equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Math Probability menu to evaluate permutations and combinations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enter statistical data and graph it as a scatter plot, histogram, or box plot, calculate the median and quartiles, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with matrices, including finding the inverse, transpose, and determinant and using matrices to solve a system of linear equations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Once you discover all you can do with your TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator, youâ€™ll find out how to make it do more! This guide shows you how to download and install the free TI Connect software to connect your calculator to your computer, and how to link it to other calculators and transfer files. It shows you how to help yourself to more than 40 applications you can download from the TI Web site, and most of them are free. You can choose from Advanced Finance, CellSheet, that turns your calculator into a spread sheet, NoteFolio that turns it into a word processor, Organizer that lets you schedule events, create to-do lists, save phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Get this book and discover how your TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator can solve all kinds of problems for you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Use this cool tool to perform dozens of tasks!\n</p>\n<p>\n Do simple and complex calculations, analyze loans, even send files to your PC\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing can crunch numbers like your TI-83 Plus, and this handy guide makes the crunching easy! In no time youâ€™ll be punching those buttons to convert decimals to fractions, find factorials, compare interest rates, graph and analyze functions and sequences, tame random numbers, manage matrices, and even have your calculator sharing stuff with your PC.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Solve equations and systems of equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Graph functions, parametric equations, and sequences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use complex numbers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Multiply, reduce, and solve matrices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add applications to your calculator\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2107'),
(20346, 'TI-89 Graphing Calculator for Dummies', 'C. C. Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you own a TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, TI-92 Plus, or a Voyage 200 graphing calculator? If you do, or if you need to get one for school or your job, then you need to know how it works and how to make the most of its functions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  TI-89 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the plain-English nuts-and-bolts guide that gets you up and running on all the things your TI-89 can do, quickly and easily. This hands-on reference guides you step by step through various tasks and even shows you how to add applications to your calculator. Soon youâ€™ll have the tools you need to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Solve equations and systems of equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Factor polynomials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate derivatives and integrals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Graph functions, parametric equations, polar equations, and sequences\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Stat Plots and analyze statistical data\n </li>\n <li>\n  Multiply matrices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Solve differential equations and systems of differential equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer files between two or more calculators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save calculator files on your computer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with exciting and valuable applications that you can download from the Internet and install through your computer, as well as common errors and messages with explanations and solutions,\n <em>\n  TI-89 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the one-stop reference for all your graphing calculator questions!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get up to speed easily with your TI-89 Titanium\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Use advanced science and math applications, PDA functions, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Your TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator is an amazing tool, and this plain-English guide gets you up and running on all the things it can do, quickly and easily. Find out how to use the preloaded applications, let your calculator double as a PDA, do algebra, trigonometry, and calculus, graph and analyze functions, and much more!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use the keyboard, menus, and catalog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find absolute values\n </li>\n <li>\n  Graph and analyze functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add text to a graph\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enter data using formulas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with vector calculus\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummy Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  â€œGet in, get outâ€ information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2108'),
(20347, 'Time Odyssey 3 - Firstborn', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6283'),
(20348, 'Time of Death', 'Alex Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4045'),
(20349, 'Time Summer Journey Issue', 'Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3470'),
(20350, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survivalâ€“six hundred years ago. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6363'),
(20351, 'Timeshare Vacations for Dummies', 'Lisa Ann Schreier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are more than 5,400 timeshare resorts in destinations as diverse as England and Africa, Orlando and Shanghai. More than 3 million North Americans own timeshares around the world. Is timeshare ownership for you? Packed with information for current and prospective owners, this guide points out the plusses and the pitfalls and lets you in on the smartest ways to buy, sell, or swap timeshares. It covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Questions to ask yourself\n </li>\n <li>\n  Questions to ask timeshare sales representatives\n </li>\n <li>\n  An overview of the types of timeshare ownership\n </li>\n <li>\n  An update on variations on traditional timeshare vacations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Financing, maintenance fees, assessments, and other economic considerations\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Timeshare vacations For Dummies\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to look forâ€”and what to look out for\n </li>\n <li>\n  Which options best fit your budget and your vacation style\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore timeshare vacations â€” the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n There are more than 5,400 timeshare resorts around the world and over 3 million timeshare owners in North America. This guide points out the plusses and the pitfalls and lets you in on the smartest ways to buy, sell, or exchange timeshare.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The top timeshare destinations around the globe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Insider tips on buying, selling, and renting timeshare\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to play the timeshare exchange game\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2109'),
(20352, 'The Tipping Point', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Description\n  <br />\n  This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Amazon.com\n  <br />\n  "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell''s The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn''t just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you''ve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue''s Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell''s closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€--Ron Hogan\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n  The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell''s thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. (Paul Revere, for example, was a Maven and a Connector). Gladwell''s applications of his "tipping point" concept to current phenomena--such as the drop in violent crime in New York, the rebirth of Hush Puppies suede shoes as a suburban mall favorite, teenage suicide patterns and the efficiency of small work units--may arouse controversy. For example, many parents may be alarmed at his advice on drugs: since teenagers'' experimentation with drugs, including cocaine, seldom leads to hardcore use, he contends, "We have to stop fighting this kind of experimentation. We have to accept it and even embrace it." While it offers a smorgasbord of intriguing snippets summarizing research on topics such as conversational patterns, infants'' crib talk, judging other people''s character, cheating habits in schoolchildren, memory sharing among families or couples, and the dehumanizing effects of prisons, this volume betrays its roots as a series of articles for the New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer: his trendy material feels bloated and insubstantial in book form. Agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow &amp; Nesbit. Major ad/promo. (Mar.)\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Library Journal\n  <br />\n  This genial book by New Yorker contributor Gladwell considers the elements needed to make a particular idea take hold. The "tipping point" (not a new phrase) occurs when something that began small (e.g., a few funky kids in New York''s East Village wearing Hush Puppies) turns into something very large indeed (millions of Hush Puppies are sold). It depends on three rules: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context. Episodes subjected to this paradigm here include Paul Revere''s ride, the creation of the children''s TV program Sesame Street, and the influence of subway shooter Bernie Goetz. The book has something of a pieced-together feel (reflecting, perhaps, the author''s experience writing shorter pieces) and is definitely not the stuff of deep sociological thought. It is, however, an entertaining read that promises to be well publicized. Recommended for public libraries.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€-Ellen Gilbert, Rutgers Univ. Lib., New Brunswick, NJ\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Booklist\n  <br />\n  Gladwell, a  New Yorker  staff writer, offers an incisive and piquant theory of social dynamics that is bound to provoke a paradigm shift in our understanding of mass behavioral change. Defining such dramatic turnarounds as the abrupt drop in crime on New York''s subways, or the unexpected popularity of a novel, as epidemics, Gladwell searches for catalysts that precipitate the "tipping point," or critical mass, that generates those events. What he finds, after analyzing a number of fascinating psychological studies, is that tipping points are attributable to minor alterations in the environment, such as the eradication of graffiti, and the actions of a surprisingly small number of people, who fit the profiles of personality types that he terms connectors, mavens, and salesmen. As he applies his strikingly counterintuitive hypotheses to everything from the "stickiness," or popularity, of certain children''s television shows to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Gladwell reveals that our cherished belief in the autonomy of the self is based in great part on wishful thinking.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Donna Seaman\n  <br />\n  From   AudioFile\n  <br />\n  Why is it that fashion trends change the way we dress? Why do various TV shows, movies, and books become so popular? Malcolm Gladwell provides a diagram of our society, along with an analysis of the strategies people apply to influence and mold its direction. Gladwell describes the personality types that create trends and those that influence others by "spreading the word." History takes on a whole new perspective as he describes events of early America that specifically follow his theories of "selling the public on an idea" and "social epidemics." Feedback from market mavericks further substantiates Gladwell''s viewpoints. B.J.P.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Dimension\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)17.2    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(20353, 'The Tipping Point', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Description\n  <br />\n  This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Amazon.com\n  <br />\n  "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell''s The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn''t just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you''ve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue''s Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell''s closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€--Ron Hogan\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n  The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell''s thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. (Paul Revere, for example, was a Maven and a Connector). Gladwell''s applications of his "tipping point" concept to current phenomena--such as the drop in violent crime in New York, the rebirth of Hush Puppies suede shoes as a suburban mall favorite, teenage suicide patterns and the efficiency of small work units--may arouse controversy. For example, many parents may be alarmed at his advice on drugs: since teenagers'' experimentation with drugs, including cocaine, seldom leads to hardcore use, he contends, "We have to stop fighting this kind of experimentation. We have to accept it and even embrace it." While it offers a smorgasbord of intriguing snippets summarizing research on topics such as conversational patterns, infants'' crib talk, judging other people''s character, cheating habits in schoolchildren, memory sharing among families or couples, and the dehumanizing effects of prisons, this volume betrays its roots as a series of articles for the New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer: his trendy material feels bloated and insubstantial in book form. Agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow &amp; Nesbit. Major ad/promo. (Mar.)\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Library Journal\n  <br />\n  This genial book by New Yorker contributor Gladwell considers the elements needed to make a particular idea take hold. The "tipping point" (not a new phrase) occurs when something that began small (e.g., a few funky kids in New York''s East Village wearing Hush Puppies) turns into something very large indeed (millions of Hush Puppies are sold). It depends on three rules: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context. Episodes subjected to this paradigm here include Paul Revere''s ride, the creation of the children''s TV program Sesame Street, and the influence of subway shooter Bernie Goetz. The book has something of a pieced-together feel (reflecting, perhaps, the author''s experience writing shorter pieces) and is definitely not the stuff of deep sociological thought. It is, however, an entertaining read that promises to be well publicized. Recommended for public libraries.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€-Ellen Gilbert, Rutgers Univ. Lib., New Brunswick, NJ\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From   Booklist\n  <br />\n  Gladwell, a  New Yorker  staff writer, offers an incisive and piquant theory of social dynamics that is bound to provoke a paradigm shift in our understanding of mass behavioral change. Defining such dramatic turnarounds as the abrupt drop in crime on New York''s subways, or the unexpected popularity of a novel, as epidemics, Gladwell searches for catalysts that precipitate the "tipping point," or critical mass, that generates those events. What he finds, after analyzing a number of fascinating psychological studies, is that tipping points are attributable to minor alterations in the environment, such as the eradication of graffiti, and the actions of a surprisingly small number of people, who fit the profiles of personality types that he terms connectors, mavens, and salesmen. As he applies his strikingly counterintuitive hypotheses to everything from the "stickiness," or popularity, of certain children''s television shows to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Gladwell reveals that our cherished belief in the autonomy of the self is based in great part on wishful thinking.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Donna Seaman\n  <br />\n  From   AudioFile\n  <br />\n  Why is it that fashion trends change the way we dress? Why do various TV shows, movies, and books become so popular? Malcolm Gladwell provides a diagram of our society, along with an analysis of the strategies people apply to influence and mold its direction. Gladwell describes the personality types that create trends and those that influence others by "spreading the word." History takes on a whole new perspective as he describes events of early America that specifically follow his theories of "selling the public on an idea" and "social epidemics." Feedback from market mavericks further substantiates Gladwell''s viewpoints. B.J.P.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Book Dimension\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)17.2    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(20354, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4155'),
(20355, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4349'),
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(20361, 'TiVo for Dummies', 'Andy Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "As TiVo moves out of the early adopter stage, assuming a Google-like verb status ("I''ll just TiVo it"), beginning users need basic guides." (_Library Journal_, October 1, 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did it about kill you when â€œCheersâ€ went off the air? Want to make sure you donâ€™t miss an appointment with Dr. Phil? Want to see anything and everything with Jessica Lange, Kate Winslet, or Clint Eastwood? Are your kids really into SpongeBob SquarePants, judo, gorillas, or the Civil War?\n</p>\n<p>\n TiVo to the rescue. TiVo lets you watch what you want when you want to. You can pause live TV, replay missed high points, skip commercials, and even get TiVo to find and record stuff youâ€™ll be interested in!\n <em>\n  TiVo For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how, even if youâ€™re one of the millions whose VCR clock is only right twice a day! Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right TiVo for your needs and your TV service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get an â€œinstant replayâ€ with the click of a button\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use a Season Pass to get TiVo to seek out and record all episodes of a favorite TV show, no matter when they air\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a WishList so you can turn on whatever turns you on; TiVo will find and record specified TV shows, movie titles, and programs with your favorite actors or directors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expand your WishList to include topics such as sports (there are 93 subcategories to choose from), opera, car repair, volcanoes, or whatever, and TiVo will record related programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use TiVoâ€™s Home Media Option (HMO) to play yourMP3 music files and view digital photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fast-forward through commercials, sometimes cutting an hour show to 40 minutes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Parental Controls to lock out specific channels or filter individual shows based on content\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  TiVo For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Andy Rathbone, possibly the bestselling technology ever, and the author of thirty-five\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books. It takes you from setting up TiVo to fine-tuning it to troubleshooting it with all kinds of info and aids including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A diagram of the TiVo remote with call-outs and descriptions of what all 26 buttons do\n </li>\n <li>\n  Button shortcuts, live TV shortcuts, Now Playing screen shortcuts, and text entry shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Suggestions about additional software you may want for TiVo HMO, including MoodLogic that becomes your personal disc jockey\n </li>\n <li>\n  Web sites that give all kinds of TiVo information\n </li>\n <li>\n  A glossary\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n TiVo puts you in control of your TV viewing, and\n <em>\n  TiVo For Dummies\n </em>\n puts you in control of TiVo!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2110'),
(20362, 'TNY.2011.09.26.pdf 28-09-2011', 'TNY.2011.09.26.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6865'),
(20363, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Harper Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Harper Lee''s classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout''s first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children''s consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout''s hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€--Alix Wilber\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer prize; thirty years later shopping malls may have replaced the main street of Maycomb, Alabama, but not even thirty years of Civil Rights laws or the gentrification of ante-bellum estates render this book an anachronism. Harper Lee combines two of the most common themes of Southern writing - a child''s recollection of life among eccentrics in a small town seemingly untouched by the twentieth century and the glaring injustice of racial prejudice - to create a contemporary American classic. To Kill a Mockingbird has two main threads which carry the plot. The first involves the role of Atticus Finch, who is appointed to defend a shy black man accused of raping the oldest daughter of the town''s least respected citizen. The second is the mythology arising out of the reclusive Boo Radley, about whom it was said "when people''s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them." But what saves the novel from cliche are the irreverent perceptions of the story''s narrator, Atticus Finch''s nine-year-old daughter Scout, who depicts mean racist aspects of Southern life as well as humorous and quite often satirical vignettes. To Kill a Mockingbird only gets better with rereading; each time the streets of Maycomb become more real and alive, each time Scout is more insightful, Atticus more heroic, and Boo Radley more tragically human.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Lee''s Pulitzer Prize-winning first (and last) novel of racial injustice in a small Southern town ranks among just about everyone''s favorite books. This 35th-anniversary edition contains a brief new foreword by the elusive Lee. (LJ\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Roses Prichard''s masterful narration of Lee''s classic novel, originally produced for Books on Tape in 1991, has been repackaged by Audio Partners for the consumer market. Prichard''s skill and talents are evident; all the characters sound true and absolutely real. Listeners hear Scout''s developing wisdom and maturity as the story progresses. Prichard achieves the monumental task of creating--and maintaining--authentic voices for a diverse group of characters while infusing the story with emotional resonance. This stunning production captures the listener and doesn''t let go. M.A.M. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)19.7    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)12.8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(20364, 'Todays Dietitian Magazine 08-2011', 'Todays Dietitian Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3471'),
(20365, 'The Tomb of Hercules', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the author of THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS, comes an electrifying new novel -- prepare yourself for an adrenalin-fuelled ride. An ancient warrior For archaeologist Nina Wilde it''s the opportunity of a lifetime. Her studies of an ancient text have convinced her that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever to be unearthed. An incredible treasure As Nina and Eddie Chase, her ex-SAS bodyguard, begin their search it''s clear that others want to find the tomb -- and the unimaginable riches contained within. Then Chase''s attention is diverted by the re-appearance of a face from his past! A lethal enemy Nina and Chase are soon following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. FromSwitzerland toShanghai,Botswana toLondon, it''s a race against time to find the Tomb of Hercules before it falls into the most evil of hands!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4007'),
(20366, 'The Tommyknockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s new novel, a numbing variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, offers its own best commentary on itself. Nearly one-third of the way through the 560-page book, protagonist Bobbi Anderson, a writer of westerns, describes what she has stumbled upon in her backyard to her friend Gardener, an alcoholic poet: "It was a flying saucer. No self-respecting science-fiction writer would put one in his story, and if he did, no self-respecting editor would touch it with a ten-foot pole.. . . It is the oldest wheeze in the book." After the vampirish Tommyknockers in the spaceship have wrought their evil magic upon the inhabitants of Haven (Tommyknockers live on the blood of comatose humans circulated through mind-reading PCs connected to VCRs), the unfortunate townspeople have, it seems, "become" (the word, over-used and never explained, is King''s) "something else" (the vague words are also the author''s). The "gadgets" of the town "become" living beings that kill (there are marauding hedge cutters and Coke machines, Electrolux vacuums, Yamaha motorcycles and flying smoke detectors ) and The Tommyknockers is consumed by the rambling prose of its author. Taking a whole town as his canvas, King uses too-broad strokes, adding cartoonlike characters and unlikely catastrophes like so many logs on a fire; ultimately he loses all semblance of style, carefully structured plot or resonant meaning, the hallmarks of his best writing. It is clear from this latest work that King himself has "become" a writing machinethis is his fourth novel since It was published 14 months ago; the faithful readers not overwhelmed by his latest fictional "gadget" are likely to wonder, as poet Gardener does near the novel''s end: "What had it all been for? He realized miserably that he was never going to know."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yet another mammoth horror novel from King, this dark tale depicts a small town''s fatal encounter with creatures from outer space. Events start with Roberta Anderson, a writer of Old West novels, unearthing a flying saucer on her remote wooded property. Five hundred pages later alcoholic poet Jim Gardener, Roberts''s former English teacher, finds himself aboard the flying saucer in outer space. In the interval the creatures (Tommyknockers) destroy the citizenry of Haven, Maine. While this is not one of King''s more original novels, it does have plenty of blood and guts, macabre humor, and a well-wrought realization of the New England countryside. No doubt King''s legions of fans will demand it. BOMC main selection. James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6398'),
(20367, 'Too Big to Fail', 'Andrew Ross Sorkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3994'),
(20368, 'Too Much Happiness', 'Alice Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: "She hated to hear the word ''escape'' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about." Taken from a story called "Free Radicals," this line may be the best way to think about the lives unfolding in Alice Munro''s Too Much Happiness. Real life assaults her central characters rather brutally-in the forms of murder and madness, death, divorce, and all manner of deceptions-but they respond with a poise and clarity of thought that''s disarming-sometimes, even nonchalant-when you consider their circumstances. Her women move through life, wearing their scars but not so much wearied by them, profoundly intelligent, but also inordinately tender and thoughtful. There''s more fact than fiction to these stories, rich in quiet, precise details that make for a beautiful, bewildering read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3947'),
(20369, 'TopGear 04-2011', 'TopGear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(20370, 'TopGear 06-2011', 'TopGear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(20371, 'TopGear 08-2011', 'TopGear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2556'),
(20372, 'TopGear 12-2010', 'TopGear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2553'),
(20373, 'The Torah for Dummies', 'Arthur Kurzweil', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism''s most sacred text\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue. This accessible guide explains the Torah in clear language, even to those who were not raised in the Jewish religious tradition. Christians who want to know more about the Jewish roots of Christianity need to understand the Torah, as do followers of Islamic tradition and those interested in the roots of Abrahamic faiths. The Torah For Dummies explains the history of the Torah, its structure and major principles, and how the Torah affects the daily lives of people who follow the Jewish way of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand Jewish celebrations, symbols, and observances\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how the Torah guides all aspects of human behavior\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jewish tradition teaches that hidden within the letters of the Torah is the wisdom of the universe. This plain-English guide to this profound collection of insight and guidance explains how the basic principles of the Five Books of Moses continuously apply to new situations as human history unfolds.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The Torah''s view of God and God''s message\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The celebration of holy days in Torah time\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to follow Jewish customs according to the Torah\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The different levels of Torah interpretation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Translations for studying the Torah\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2105'),
(20374, 'Total Film 04-10-2011', 'Total Film', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7215'),
(20375, 'Total Film 07-2011', 'Total Film', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(20376, 'Total Film 08-09-2011', 'Total Film', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4667'),
(20377, 'Total Film 10-2011', 'Total Film', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3868'),
(20378, 'Total Film Magazine', 'October 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7040'),
(20379, 'Total Guitar 10-2011', 'Total Guitar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3869'),
(20380, 'Total_Guitar_2011-10S370.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Total_Guitar_2011-10S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4710'),
(20381, 'Touch Australia Issue 2-Slicer', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3895'),
(20382, 'Touch Magazine - May 2011 ', 'May 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3916'),
(20383, 'touch-Issue.2.pdf 08-09-2011', 'touch-Issue.2.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4672'),
(20384, 'Tour De France for Dummies', 'Phil Liggett &amp; James Raia &amp; Sammarye Lewis &amp; Lance Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A plain-English guide to the world''s most famous-and grueling-bicycle race\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring eight-pages of full-color photos from recent Tour de France races, this easy-to-follow, entertaining guide demystifies the history, strategy, rules, techniques, equipment, and competitors in what is arguably the most grueling and intriguing multiday, multistage sporting event in the world. Cowritten by the most popular English-speaking cycling commentator on the planet, this book is great reading for both experienced and the new bicycle racing fans alike.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers Tour rules, strategies, and traditions\n</p>\n<p>\n Go behind the scenes and get more from the Tour\n</p>\n<p>\n Curious about the Tour de France? This friendly guide covers the fascinating three-week race and all of its day-to-day operations. You''ll find out about the riders, their equipment, their skills, plus every nuance of the Tour in easy-to-understand detail.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Follow the race and team tactics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand how colored jerseys are awarded\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scout the route\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay on top of news and results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Travel to the Tour de France\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2111'),
(20385, 'Town in a Blueberry Jam', 'B B Haywood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. But, when an aging playboy and the newly crowned Blueberry Queen are killed, Candy investigates to clear the name of a local handyman. And as she sorts through the town''s juicy secrets, things start to get sticky indeedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4245'),
(20386, 'The Track of Sand', 'Andrea Camilleri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4076'),
(20387, 'Trading Card Games for Dummies', 'John Kaufeld &amp; Jeremy Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Check out Magic: The Gathering, Heroclix, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore popular games like Legend of the Five Rings, build decks, and trade online\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re already hooked on trading card games, want to understand what your kids are into, or are just curious to see what all the fuss is about, you''ve come to the right place. Here''s the scoop on the hottest games, secrets of successful collecting, tips for customizing your dream deck, and ways to make your hobby pay.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Get started with the VS System, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and others\n <br />\n * Identify basic types of cards\n <br />\n * Buy and sell online -- wisely\n <br />\n * Play around with collectible miniatures\n <br />\n * Safely store and transport your collection\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Check out Magic: The Gathering, Heroclix, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore popular games like Legend of the Five Rings, build decks, and trade online\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re already hooked on trading card games, want to understand what your kids are into, or are just curious to see what all the fuss is about, you''ve come to the right place. Here''s the scoop on the hottest games, secrets of successful collecting, tips for customizing your dream deck, and ways to make your hobby pay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get started with the VS System, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and others\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify basic types of cards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Buy and sell online â€” wisely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play around with collectible miniatures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Safely store and transport your collection\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2112'),
(20388, 'Trading for Dummies', 'Griffis &amp; Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Making informed trading decisions regardless of the market''s condition\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Savvy traders can make money in both up and down markets.\n <em>\n  Trading For Dummies\n </em>\n , Second Edition is for investors at all levels who are looking for a clear guide to successfully trading stocks in any type of market. It is also for investors who have experience trading and who are looking for new, proven methods to enhance the profitability of their investments. This no-nonsense guide presents a proven system for analyzing stocks, trends, and indicators and setting a buy-and-sell range beforehand to decrease risk in any type of market. It stresses the practice of position trading, conducting technical analysis on a company and its performance, and research methods that enable the trader to strategically select both an entry and exit point before a stock is even purchased. This updated guide features updated stock charts, position trading tips and techniques, and fresh ways to analyze trends and indicators.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now updated â€” your guide to trading success regardless of the market!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make smarter trading decisions? This strategy-packed, no-nonsense guide presents a proven system for analyzing stocks, trends, and indicators and setting a buy-and-sell range beforehand to decrease your risk in both up and down markets. You''ll discover the benefits of position trading, conduct technical analysis, and research your entry and exit points before you even purchase your stock.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build your trading toolbox â€” know the markets and exchanges, find a broker, set up your brokerage account, and determine your computer/Internet needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore position trading â€” discover the benefit of executing trades in and out of positions and holding positions for various lengths of time, depending on trends\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find value in fundamental analysis â€” observe market behavior, understand economic indicators, find critical information in financial statements, and make the most of analysts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take on technical analysis â€” build and read charts, identify trends, recognize bull and bear patterns, and differentiate between stocks that are range bound and ones that are trending\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop strategies for buying and selling â€” know your risks, gather key info through analysis to build your optimum trading strategy, and develop your own powerful trading system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Jump into the deep end â€” from swing and day trading to derivatives and foreign currency, get the basics of these riskier forms of trading\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The ins and outs of trading stocks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fresh ways to analyze trends and indicators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Updated stock charts and Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Position trading tips and techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step-by-step instructions for building and reading charts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Key money management techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Warnings about frauds and scams\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Top ten trading survival techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Huge trading mistakes to avoid at all costs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2114'),
(20389, 'Trading Futures for Dummies', 'Joe Duarte Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore single-stock futures, ETFs, and alternative energy futures\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide gives you the surefire strategies you need to be a successful trader, with up-to-the-minute advice on the various types of futures, conducting research, finding a broker, entering and exiting positions, and minimizing your losses. You also get bearish and bullish strategies and tips for trading online.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand trends in the global economy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use charting patterns and indicators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Execute successful trades\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set realistic goals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common trading pitfalls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your downside risk under control\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore single-stock futures, ETFs, and alternative energy futures\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide gives you the surefire strategies you need to be a successful trader, with up-to-the-minute advice on the various types of futures, conducting research, finding a broker, entering and exiting positions, and minimizing your losses. You also get bearish and bullish strategies and tips for trading online.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand trends in the global economy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use charting patterns and indicators\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Execute successful trades\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Set realistic goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common trading pitfalls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your downside risk under control\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2115'),
(20390, 'Trading Options for Dummies', 'George A. Fontanills', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start?\n <em>\n  Trading Options For Dummies\n </em>\n starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. Youâ€™ll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. Youâ€™ll also find what you need to know about options contract specifications and mechanics. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand option contracts and orders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Determine and manage your risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guard your assets using options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Trade options on securities exchanges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your rights and satisfy your contract obligations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Target sectors using technical analysis\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minimize potential losses and optimize rewards\n </li>\n <li>\n  Map out your plan of attack\n </li>\n <li>\n  Limit your downside when trading the trend\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combine options to limit your position risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Benefit from exchange traded funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Key in on volatility for trading opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Capitalize on sideways movements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Trading options is serious business.\n <em>\n  Trading Options For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the expert help you need to succeed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Features top option strategies that reduce your risk\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Navigate options markets and bring in the profits\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about trading options? This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You''ll see how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter the market conditions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand option contracts and orders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know and manage your risk\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use technical analysis\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guard your assets with options\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minimize potential losses\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2116'),
(20391, 'Training for Dummies', 'Elaine Biech', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millions of Americans have to train others as part of their jobs. Whether youâ€™re an employee training your co-workers on a new process or skill, a volunteer asked to train new volunteers, a chef training your staff, or a paramedic giving CPR training, itâ€™s just as important to know how to teach others as it is to know what youâ€™re talking about. It doesnâ€™t matter how much you know about your subject if you canâ€™t share it with others.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately,\n <em>\n  Training For Dummies\n </em>\n offers all the nuts and bolts of training for anyone who has to educate others on any subject and in any field. It covers all the modern, interactive instructional methods and dynamic training approaches available and helps you get trainees inspired, involved, and enthused.\n <em>\n  Training For Dummies\n </em>\n will help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Keep it interesting so trainees learn more eagerly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master the jargon of training\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use audio and visual aids effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for the training certification process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate your results and improve your tactics\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Elaine Biech, President and Managing Principal of Ebb Associates, Inc., and known as â€œthe trainerâ€™s trainerâ€ shows you all the tips and tricks of the trade. Based on her long experience as a trainer and her work for clients such as the IRS and many Fortune 500 companies, Biech helps you discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Tips, techniques, and tidbits for enhancing your training sessions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Methods that improve trainee participation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Alternatives to the traditional lecture method\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tactics for gauging and managing group dynamics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies for addressing problems in the classroom\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hints for understanding and adapting to different learning styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helpful resources and other extra material you can put to immediate use\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n No matter what you do for a living, there will probably come a time when you have to teach others what you know.\n <em>\n  Training For Dummies\n </em>\n cuts through the complicated jargon to present the basics of teaching and learning in straightforward, plain English so you can share your specialized knowledge with those who need it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Follow a training cycle start to finish!\n</p>\n<p>\n Use modern instructional techniques and dynamic delivery to reach and teach learners!\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s a big difference between "knowing your stuff" and knowing how to teach others your stuff. Trainers have to know both. Whether you''re an employee who has been tapped to train co-workers or a professional trainer who wants to hone your skills, Training For Dummies provides proven, effective tools and approaches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Conduct needs assessments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Custom design training courses\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adapt for different learning styles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance participation and learning\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for the new certification procedure\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2117'),
(20392, 'Transfer of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. Through the quick actions of the Secret Service, the president is evacuated to his underground bunker, but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent in to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the chaotic crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA''s top counterterrorism operative, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington''s power elite had thought. Moving stealthily among the corridors and secret passageways of the White House, stepping terrifyingly close to the enemy, Rapp scrambles to save the hostages before the terrorists can extract the president from the safety of his bunker. In a race against time, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government is maneuvering in hopes that his rescue attempt will fail. With the crackling tension and explosive action that made Term Limits "a roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune), Vince Flynn delivers Transfer of Power -- a blockbuster novel that carries us just beyond today''s headlines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6413'),
(20393, 'Transworld.Motocross.2011.11.pdf 19-10-2011', 'Transworld.Motocross.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10790'),
(20394, 'Traveling With the Dead', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The vampire subculture of 19th-century Europe serves as a vehicle for ruminations on love and honor in Hambly''s follow-up to Those Who Hunt the Night. The time is 1908, and biologist Lydia Asher is hot on the trail of her husband, James, a former spy and Oxford don who in turn is shadowing Charles Farren, the vampire Earl of Ernchester, and Farren''s mortal traveling companion, the nefarious mercenary Ignace Karolyi. Lydia''s pursuit of James parallels a similar trek made by Farren''s wife, Anthea, who travels in James''s company and is as passionately concerned about Farren''s welfare as Lydia is about James''s. International adventures take these characters from London to Vienna and ultimately to Constantinople, where they become enmeshed in the byzantine political power struggle that has lured Farren there against his will. Although Hambly invests these vampire and mortal personages with the traditional values being threatened by an evolving modern Europe, her vivid portraits allow them to emerge as memorable personalities distinct from the viewpoints they represent. Believable and sympathetic, pursuer and pursued carry the story over its occasional plot muddles and gothic contrivances to a spectacular finale. Hambly covers no ground that hasn''t been explored in the historical vampire sagas of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, but once again she uses familiar elements skillfully to tell an engrossing tale. 50,000 first printing; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA?Vampire fans looking for a fast-moving, well-plotted tale need look no further. Soon after his cousin''s death, James Asher catches a glimpse of Ignace Karolyi quietly exchanging newspapers with an almost-ordinary looking figure. Years in the secret service make Asher aware of what average citizens might miss?Karolyi is in the company of a vampire, and they are headed for Paris. Asher follows them. When his wife receives the message of his whereabouts, she entreats an acquaintance vampire to assist her in tracking her husband, knowing that his life is in danger. Details of Europe at the turn of the century, including politics, manners of the wealthy, and vampire lore, are woven seamlessly into this tale. Well-developed characters, both mortal and immortal, span the range of human behavior. Some are mainly noble; some are definitely nasty. Good entertainment for teens ready to move on to literate, light adult fiction.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4617'),
(20395, 'Treason&#39;s Harbour', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6377'),
(20396, 'Triathlon Training for Dummies', 'Deirdre Pitney &amp; Donna Dourney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦every topic you''d ever want to know about when you start outâ€¦for the total novice triathlete.'' (Triathlon Plus, March 2011).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shaping up for a triathlon is serious business.\n <em>\n  Triathlon Training For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with insider tips and proven methods for training for a triathlon and pumping yourself into the best possible shape by race day. It helps you find the motivation you need to stick to your program, eat better to maximize your energy, and prevent injures both before and during the race.\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative guide helps you evaluate your cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, endurance, and flexibility, and to set manageable realistic training goals. Youâ€™ll learn how to establish a workout schedule, choose a target finish time get the right, affordable equipment youâ€™ll need for each leg of the race, and maximize your fitness and form for swimming, biking, and running. Youâ€™ll also get plenty of help in putting it all together as you focus your training, add dual workouts, become a quick-change artist, and save time during transitions. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose an event to train for based on your fitness level\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get into your best possible shape\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the right equipment and sportswear\n </li>\n <li>\n  Train for an Olympic, Sprint, or Ironman triathlon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fuel your body and prevent injuries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for training sessions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maintain energy and recover quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set training schedules for every triathlon event\n </li>\n <li>\n  Treat common training and racing injuries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Live like an athlete\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Triathlon Training For Dummies\n </em>\n comes complete with resources for finding triathlons near you, lists of items to bring along on race day, and tips on registration formalities and racing etiquette_._\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2118'),
(20397, 'Trigonometry Workbook for Dummies', 'Mary Jane Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From angles to functions to identities - solve trig equations with ease\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or worse yet, not know where to begin? No fear - this hands-on-guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of trigonometry equations you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with angles, circles, triangles, graphs, functions, the laws of sines and cosines, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n <br />\n * Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n <br />\n * Get the inside scoop on graphing trig functions\n <br />\n * Know where to begin and how to solve the most common equations\n <br />\n * Use trig in practical applications with confidence\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n From angles to functions to identities â€” solve trig equations with ease\n</p>\n<p>\n Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or worse yet, not know where to begin? No fear â€” this hands-on-guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of trigonometry equations you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you''ll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You''ll see how to work with angles, circles, triangles, graphs, functions, the laws of sines and cosines, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n 100s of Problems!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the inside scoop on graphing trig functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know where to begin and how to solve the most common equations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use trig in practical applications with confidence\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2119'),
(20398, 'The Tristan Betrayal', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6266'),
(20399, 'Tropical.Fish.Hobbist.2011.11.pdf 02-10-2011', 'Tropical.Fish.Hobbist.2011.11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7193'),
(20400, 'Trouble Magnet', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip &amp; Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy''s greatest magnet for big trouble. Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons'' system. All Flinx has to dowhile his pals look after his injured love Clarity Heldis find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth. A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never without his loyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted goons, and the occasional assassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task . . . just as soon as Flinx visits Visariaa dangerously depraved planetto convince himself that humans are indeed worth saving. The chances of stumbling across high moral values and utopian ideals don''t look promisingwhat with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of the corrupt planet''s ruthless crime king. Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a passel of themby turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. For although Flinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of humankind, there''s another mystery waiting here, a shocking clue about his own shadowy past. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6262'),
(20401, 'Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out', 'The ultimate, in-depth troubleshooting reference', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10593'),
(20402, 'Troubleshooting Your Pc for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦solutions are presented in plain English, step-by-step guidesâ€¦â€ (_PC Utilities_, June 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Targeting the snags, glitches, and predicaments cited most frequently by readers, bestselling author Dan Gookin clearly explains how to diagnose and cure common PC problems, whether they originate with software, the operating system, or hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  This updated edition features new, expanded coverage of laptop woes as well as Internet and e-mail issues, broadband connections, spam blocking, and security concerns\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides advice on how to prevent PC problems in the first place and create a safe and secure PC environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dan Gookin is known for his ability to explain technology in an easy-to-understand and enjoyable fashion; his writing style, name, and reputation are unparalleled in the industry\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2120'),
(20403, 'True Believer', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6372');
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(20404, 'Truthseeker', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   Truthseeker\n  </strong>\n  is pure C.E. Murphy at her best.Â  Deftly switching between modern Boston and the alternate reality of the Barrow-lands, Truthseeker builds to an ending that will have you screaming for more."â€”Kim Harrison, author of the Hollows series\n </p>\n <p>\n  "C.E. Murphy can write\n  <em>\n   anything\n  </em>\n  . But when she turned her talents to a new series with the novel\n  <strong>\n   Truthseeker\n  </strong>\n  , she took fantasy, time travel, and overlapping worlds to new heights. I cannot wait for book 2!"â€”Faith Hunter, author of the Jane Yellowrock series\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   Truthseeker\n  </strong>\n  is a thoroughly enchanting tale, with more magical twists and turns than a fairyland road. Through the six senses of the indomitable Lara Jensen, I was immersed in and transfixed by both worlds--Boston and the Barrow-lands--and was sorry to leave them behind on the last page. This master of urban fantasy has done it again!"â€”Jeri Smith-Ready, author of\n  <em>\n   Shade\n  </em>\n  and _Bring on the Night\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ACROSS TWO EXTRAORDINARY WORLDS, TRUTH IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gifted with an uncanny intuition, Lara Jansen nonetheless thinks there is nothing particularly special about her. All that changes when a handsome but mysterious man enters her quiet Boston tailor shop and reveals himself to be a prince of Faerie. Whatâ€™s more, Dafydd ap Caerwyn claims that Lara is a truthseeker, a person with the rare talent of being able to tell truth from falsehood. Dafydd begs Lara to help solve his brotherâ€™s murder, of which Dafydd himself is the only suspect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acting against her practical nature, Lara agrees to step through a window into another world. Caught between bitterly opposed Seelie forces and Dafyddâ€™s secrets, which are as perilous as he is irresistible, Lara finds that her abilities are increasing in unexpected and uncontrollable ways. With the fate of two worlds at stake and a malevolent entity wielding the darkest of magic, Lara and Dafydd will risk everything on a love that may be their salvationâ€”or the most treacherous illusion of all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5960'),
(20405, 'TS91_36_Final:TechSmart.qxd', 'Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3605'),
(20406, 'A Turn in the Road', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''re driving to Florida for Ruth''s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She''s heard he''s alone, tooâ€¦and, well, she''s curious. Maybe even hopeful.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bethanne herself needs time to reÃ¯ Â¬ â€š ect, to ponder a decision she has to make. Her ex-husband, Grantâ€”her children''s fatherâ€”wants to reconcile now that his second marriage has failed. Bethanne''s considering itâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Annie''s out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a\n <em>\n  brilliant\n </em>\n life without him!\n</p>\n<p>\n So there they are, three women driving across America. They have their maps and their directionsâ€”but even the best-planned journey can take you to a turn in the road. Or lead you to an unexpected encounterâ€”like the day Bethanne meets a man named Max who really\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n a hero on a Harley. That''s when Bethanne''s decision becomes a lot harder. Because Grant wants her back, but now there''s Maxâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Seattle''s Blossom Street to the other end of the country, this is a trip that could change three women''s lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Debbie Macomber, the author of Hannahâ€™s List, 1022 Evergreen Place, Summer on Blossom Street, 92 Pacific Boulevard, and Twenty Wishes, is a leading voice in womenâ€™s fiction. Three of her novels have scored the #1 slot on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Debbie Macomber''s Mrs. Miracle was Hallmark Channel''s top-watched movie for 2009. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Best Romance, the prolific author has more than 140 million copies of her books in print worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4092'),
(20407, 'A Turn in the Road', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''re driving to Florida for Ruth''s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She''s heard he''s alone, tooâ€¦and, well, she''s curious. Maybe even hopeful.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bethanne herself needs time to reÃ¯ Â¬ â€š ect, to ponder a decision she has to make. Her ex-husband, Grantâ€”her children''s fatherâ€”wants to reconcile now that his second marriage has failed. Bethanne''s considering itâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Annie''s out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a\n <em>\n  brilliant\n </em>\n life without him!\n</p>\n<p>\n So there they are, three women driving across America. They have their maps and their directionsâ€”but even the best-planned journey can take you to a turn in the road. Or lead you to an unexpected encounterâ€”like the day Bethanne meets a man named Max who really\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n a hero on a Harley. That''s when Bethanne''s decision becomes a lot harder. Because Grant wants her back, but now there''s Maxâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Seattle''s Blossom Street to the other end of the country, this is a trip that could change three women''s lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Debbie Macomber, the author of Hannahâ€™s List, 1022 Evergreen Place, Summer on Blossom Street, 92 Pacific Boulevard, and Twenty Wishes, is a leading voice in womenâ€™s fiction. Three of her novels have scored the #1 slot on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Debbie Macomber''s Mrs. Miracle was Hallmark Channel''s top-watched movie for 2009. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Best Romance, the prolific author has more than 140 million copies of her books in print worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4465'),
(20408, 'Tutt and Mr. Tutt', 'Arthur Train', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Thoroughly delightful book about the goings-on in a law firm around 1920. Wryly humorous, at times full of wise discourse on the law and humanity, it is a far, far cry from Train''s other books. Not a twinge of his preacherly manner. A real precursor to Perry Mason, or Poirot, complete with its Miss Wiggins (Della Street and Miss Lemon), Willie the office boy, and Bonnie Doon, the gumshoe of the outfit. Copmprised of seven short stories, the first two being murder cases, in which Mr.Tutt gets the murderer off in such a way that we agree with him. Of course, in the second instance, the murderer was promptly shot himself. But in the first, he was definitely guilty. There are a whole series of these books which were quite popular in their day, and I can see why. The courts in those times seem to have been much more lax in their procedures than nowadays.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4327'),
(20409, 'The Twinkies Cookbook An Inventive and Unexpected Recipe Collection from Hostess', 'Betsy Stromberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3439'),
(20410, 'Twitter Application Development for Dummies', 'Dusty Reagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the guide to planning, developing and monetizing apps for Twitter!\n</p>\n<p>\n Twitter is the one of the hottest trends in social networking. With several million users, Twitter''s popularity is growing everyday. Twitter will continue to increase user base while third-party companies keep popping up all over to make money building Twitter apps for phones, advertising tools, analytics/management tools and more. Some of the most popular Twitter apps include TwitPic, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and FriendorFollow. With this book, author Dusty Reagan uses one of his unpublished Twitter app ideas and takes you through the API, idea creation, development, and monetization of the app.\n <em>\n  Twitter Application Development For Dummies\n </em>\n offers advice on creating interesting applications, looks at what types of applications thrive, discusses creating unique applications, explains how to make money, examines the business aspects of the process, reviews browsing and downloading applications, addresses protecting your information, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Twitter''s API is open and third-party companies and developers are creating all kinds of apps ranging from analytical tools to advertising tools to tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  The author is going to use one of his unpublished Twitter app ideas\n </li>\n <li>\n  Walks the reader through covering the API, idea creation, development, and monetization of the app\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Twitter Application Development For Dummies\n </em>\n will get you up and running so you can create great apps for Twitter from the creator of one of the most popular apps!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover the fun of building a Twitter app, and earn some cash too!\n</p>\n<p>\n Love Twitter? Know a little (or a lot) about developing applications? Learn how to build a Twitter app, some great ways to make it stand out from the crowd, how to get it discovered, and how to turn your Twitter app-building into a productive little business â€” all from the creator of FriendOrFollow.com, one of the coolest Twitter apps around!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   If your skills are rusty â€” check Chapter 2 for a quickie refresher course in Web application development\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exploring the ecosystem â€” explore the types of Twitter apps already available and the five categories of the Twitter ecosystem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The money thing â€” learn about Twitter''s unusual financial environment and ways you can earn money from your apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a Twitter Web app from the ground up â€” work with Twitter API libraries, choose a Web hosting provider, and set up a Web framework\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the word out â€” discover ways to promote your apps and how to make your app business grow\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basics on using HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create and manage your developer account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on choosing an idea for your app\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of Web apps, Twitter bots, mobile clients, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Twitter''s two APIs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Different ways to monetize your app\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Example code for every API method\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Code for a complete app\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learnt to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn your ideas into applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop apps with a high chance of success\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find out what users are looking for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make money from your apps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2121'),
(20411, 'Twitter for Dummies', 'Laura Fitton &amp; Michael Gruen &amp; Leslie Poston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Twitter for Dummies_ may be 266 pages long and contain an index, but it would probably help quite a few people to give it a read. Thorough." (_AdAge.com_, July 7, 2009)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Twitter can boost your business and marketing efforts, and this guide shows you how\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Twitter, the simple-to-use microblogging service, offers immense benefits for businesses and organizations. Fire departments, political candidates, and C0EOs have used Twitter to share up-to-the-minute information. Laura Fitton, maybe better known by her Twitter handle - @Pistachio, has more than 10,000 followers on Twitter, and gives presentations on how to use Twitter to build business and personal opportunity. She''s joined by Michael Gruen and Leslie Poston to share Twitter expertise in this easy-to-follow guide.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll discover how to get set up on Twitter, build a follower list, and find a voice for your tweets. Then you''ll learn to use third party tools to link Twitter to other sites and incorporate it into business communication models. This book covers\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The basics of signing up and creating tweets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Following other users and adding followers to your own tweets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mastering the "Twecosystem"-the tools that tie Twitter to many other Web applications, including mobile devices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies for enhancing business communication, marketing, and networking opportunities with Twitter\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Twitter For Dummies\n </em>\n gets you up and running on this hot communications tool the fun and easy way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2122'),
(20412, 'Twitter Marketing for Dummies', 'Lacy, Kyle &amp; Hernandez, Manny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An introductory guide to effectively using Twitter to grow your business!\n</p>\n<p>\n The field of social media marketing is exciting, cutting-edge, and...open to almost anything! Twitter''s style of quick remarks lends itself to a carefree, conversational tone, ripe for passing along a plug, sharing a suggestion, or referencing a recommendation. This fun and friendly book is an excellent first step for gaining insight on how to effectively use one of the most popular social media tools to expand the success of a business.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to covering the basics of Twitter, this easy-to-understand guide quickly moves on to techniques for incorporating a Twitter strategy into your marketing mix, combining new and old media, building your network, using Twitter tools, and measuring your success.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Examines how Twitter''s style for character-count caps and real-time posting allows for unique marketing opportunities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyzes several real-world examples of successful strategies for marketing on Twitter\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses ideas for promoting brands on Twitter, building a following, communicating better with followers, and driving traffic to a Web site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares the top Twitter applications\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n So get chirping and put Twitter to work for your marketing needs today!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn how to interact with your customers with Twitter\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Your customers are already tweeting on Twitter, and it''s time to join them. This book shows you how to develop and implement a Twitter strategy into your marketing mix that lets your customers participate in your company and help spread your message. Share company news and build your brand, 140 characters at a time!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn from the best â€” see how other leading companies are using Twitter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details, details â€” learn how to sign up, create a market-friendly profile, and find followers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The old and the new â€” include Twitter marketing in your overall plan with other types of media\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Map your strategy â€” develop a marketing roadmap using Twitter, focus on your target market, and learn to use Twitter''s unique strengths\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure your success â€” discover how to assess your progress with Cligs and Google Analytics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Follow and be followed â€” find the right people to follow and get them to follow you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your image â€” choose the right employees as Twitterers and keep tweets honest and upbeat\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Retweet to advance â€” spread your message with smart retweeting\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to register your company name on Twitter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to enhance your brand with Twitter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for finding your Twitter voice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you should follow the competition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool tools like HootSuite, Ping.fm, and TweetDeck\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pitfalls to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Case studies from successful campaigns\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to become a thought leader\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2123'),
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(20423, 'Type 1 Diabetes for Dummies', 'Alan L. Rubin Md', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you have been living with type 1 diabetes for some time, or you have just discovered that your child is diabetic, thereâ€™s a lot you need to know about the new developments in treating, controlling, and living with this disease.\n <em>\n  Type 1 Diabetes\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies,\n </em>\n explains everything you need to know and do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier and healthier.\n</p>\n<p>\n This reassuring, plain-English guide helps you understand and mange the disease with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet an exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. Youâ€™ll find out about the latest technologies of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and get a handle on everything you need to do to keep yourself or your child healthy, active, and feeling good. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Overcome short-term complications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat a diabetes-friendly diet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use exercise to help control type 1 diabetes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle school, work, and other activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help your child maintain a high quality of life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent long-term complications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be healthier than your friends who donâ€™t have diabetes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deal with the emotional and psychological effects of the disease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose an insulin pump for yourself or your child\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculate insulin dosages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Anyone can live a long, healthy, and productive life with type 1 diabetes.\n <em>\n  Small Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies\n </em>\n delivers every drop of information you need to make sure that you or your child can do just that.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The latest on blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your friendly guide to taking control of type 1 diabetes and living well\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you have type 1 diabetes â€” or have a child who does? This plain-English,reassuring guide helps you understand and manage the disease, with tips on working with your doctor, administering insulin, developing a diet and exercise plan, and coping with illness and travel. You''ll know just what to do so you or your child can stay healthy and feel good!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Overcome short-term complications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat a diabetes-friendly diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle school, work, and other activities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help your child maintain a high quality of life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prevent long-term complications\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2124'),
(20424, 'TypePad for Dummies', 'Melanie Nelson &amp; Shannon Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Start, use, and customize a TypePad blog today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n TypePad is known for its intuitive user interface, built-in SEO features, optional advertising, free professionally designed templates, fully hosted blogs, and outstanding customer support. This book guides you through the technical tasks necessary for starting, using, and customizing a TypePad blog.\n</p>\n<p>\n Step-by-step tutorials walk you through the process of signing up for a new TypePad blog, while screen shots from real-world blogs bring the book''s concepts to life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Guides you through choosing the right TypePad membership plan, signing up, configuring, using, and customizing a blog using the TypePad system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the process of signing up for a new TypePad blog and publishing your content on the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares real-world examples that bring the book''s ideas to life\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get blogging today with TypePad!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Eager to start blogging? Find out how TypePad makes it easy and fun!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve been thinking about breaking into the blogo-sphere but didn''t know where to start, you''ve come to the right place. First, you''ll get some pointers on what blogging''s all about and how to develop your online identity. Then you''ll find out how TypePad works, how to use TypeLists and widgets, and what it takes to make your blog a huge success!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blogging 101 â€” if you haven''t blogged before, explore the why and how of blogging and learn to find your niche\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your TypePad account â€” discover how to set one up, create your Profile, choose settings, and track visitors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ready, set, blog! â€” write your first posts, format the text, add images, and set keywords\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make it your own â€” find out about TypePad tools that let you customize your blog to suit your readers and your subject matter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Import options â€” transfer an existing blog to TypePad\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Money making tips â€” learn how to make money with ads and paid posts, and what your blog needs to attract advertisers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your blog has friends â€” see how to use FacebookÂ®, TwitterÂ®, and other social media to promote your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   For the geek blogger â€” explore Advanced Templates and ways to customize with code\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A primer on blogging etiquette\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to add photo albums and galleries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool ways to beef up your blog with TypeLists\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Things to do with widgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for good blog posts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to encourage comments from visitors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten interesting TypePad blogs to explore\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on managing your blog community\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start blogging with TypePad\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the best pricing plan for you and your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Personalize your blog\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take advantage of TypePad''s built-in SEO features and templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2125'),
(20425, 'U is for Undertow', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This title is from Diamond Dagger winner Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone''s latest compelling case. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned...When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh''s body...But Michael''s account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping; and even members of his family try to discredit his evidence. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael''s recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn''t what anyone expected, she can''t quite let go of the case. As Kinsey gradually brings to light the stories of the protagonists involved in the tragedy, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6406'),
(20426, 'U.S. Constitution for Dummies', 'Michael Arnheim &amp; Andy Jacobs &amp; M. T. W. Arnheim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An in-depth look at the defining document of America\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This plain-English guide walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents and sparked ongoing debates. You''ll understand all the big issues â€” from separation of church and state to impeachment to civil rights â€” that continue to affect Americans'' daily lives.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get started with Constitution basics â€” explore the main concepts and their origins, the different approaches to interpretation, and how the document has changed over the past 200+ years\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know who has the power â€” see how the public, the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court share in the ruling of America\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Balance the branches of government â€” discover what it means to be Commander in Chief, the functions of the House and Senate, and how Supreme Court justices are appointed\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Break down the Bill of Rights â€” from freedom of religion to the prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishments," understand what the first ten amendments mean\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sense of the modifications â€” see how amendments have reformed presidential elections, abolished slavery, given voting rights to women, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The text of the Constitution and its ammendments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discussion of controversial issues including the death penalty, abortion, and gay marriage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why the word "democracy" doesn''t appear in the Constitution\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What the Electoral College is and how it elects a President\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details on recent Supreme Court decisions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The Founding Fathers'' intentions for balancing power in Washington\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dr. Michael Arnheim\n </strong>\n is a practicing British barrister, mediator, and academic, as well as the author of a text on British constitutional law. He consults with various U.S. firms on constitutional issues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2126'),
(20427, 'Ubuntu.For.Begyndere.eBook-RAPiDCOWS.pdf 14-08-2011', 'Ubuntu.For.Begyndere.eBook-RAPiDCOWS.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3538'),
(20428, 'The Ultimate Computer Repair Guide', 'Craig Dawber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(20429, 'UML 2 for Dummies', 'Michael Jesse Chonoles &amp; James A. Schardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Uses friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrates concepts with mini-cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get up to speed on object-oriented modeling\n</p>\n<p>\n Build complex architectures with UML 2, follow best practices, and express yourself\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes to modeling, this book is not just another pretty face! It guides you gently through the complexities of UML, helps you adjust to the UML 2 standard, shows you how to extract key information from UML models, and more. Before you know it, youâ€™ll be communicating and developing systems like never before.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2127'),
(20430, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4165'),
(20431, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4207');
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(20432, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4348'),
(20433, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4410'),
(20434, 'Uncle Petros and Goldbach', 'Apostolos Doxiadis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.co.uk Review  "Every family has its black sheep-in ours it was Uncle Petros": the narrator of Apostles Doxiadis''s novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach''s Conjecture is the mystified nephew of the family''s black sheep, unable to understand the reasons for his uncle''s fall from grace. A kindly, gentle recluse devoted only to gardening and chess, Petros Papachristos exhibits no signs of dissolution or indolence: so why do his family hold him in such low esteem? One day, his father reveals all:  Your uncle, my son, committed the greatest of sinsâ€¦ he took something holy and sacred and great, and shamelessly defiled it! The great, unique gift that God had blessed him with, his phenomenal, unprecedented mathematical talent! The miserable fool wasted it; he squandered it and threw it out with the garbage. Can you imagine it? The ungrateful bastard never did one day''s useful work in mathematics. Never! Nothing! Zero!  Instead of being warned off, the nephew instead has his curiosity provoked, and what he eventually discovers is a story of obsession and frustration, of Uncle Petros''s attempts at finding a proof for one of the great unsolved problems of mathematics-Goldbach''s conjecture.  If this might initially seem undramatic material for a novel, readers of Fermat''s Last Theorem, Simon Singh''s gripping true-life account of Andrew Wiles''s search for a proof for another of the great long-standing problems of mathematics, would surely disagree. What Doxiadis gives us is the fictional corollary of Singh''s book: a beautifully imagined narrative that is both compelling as a story and highly revealing of a rarefied world of the intellect that few people will ever access. Without ever alienating the reader, he demonstrates the enchantments of mathematics as well as the ambition, envy and search for glory that permeate even this most abstract of pursuits. Balancing the narrator''s own awkward move into adulthood with the painful memories of his brilliant uncle, Doxiadis shows how seductive the world of numbers can be, and how cruel a mistress. "Mathematicians are born, not made," Petros declares: an inheritance that proves to be both a curse and a gift.-Burhan Tufail  Review  If you enjoyed Fermat''s Last Theorem, you''ll devour this. However, you don''t need to be an academic to understand its imaginative exploration of the allure and danger of genius. Old Uncle Petros is a failure. The black sheep of a wealthy Greek family, he lives as a recluse surrounded by dusty books in an Athenian suburb. It takes his talented nephew to penetrate his rich inner world and discover that this broken man was once a mathematical prodigy, a golden youth whose ambition was to solve one of pure maths'' most famous unproven hypotheses â€“ Goldbach''s Conjecture. Fascinated, the young man sets out to discover what Uncle Petros found â€“ and what he was forced to sacrifice. Himself a mathematician as well as a novelist, Doxiadis succeeds in shining a light into the spectral world of abstract number theory where unimaginable concepts and bizarre realities glitter with a cold, magical and ultimately destructive beauty. (Kirkus UK)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4297'),
(20435, 'UNCUT - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6852'),
(20436, 'UNCUT.2011-11.pdf 28-09-2011', 'UNCUT.2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6871'),
(20437, 'Understanding Autism for Dummies', 'Stephen Shore &amp; Linda G. Rastelli &amp; Temple Grandin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Autism affects more than 1 million children and adults in the United States, and parents may be confused by the behavior of autistic children. This book provides help-and hope-by explaining the differences between various types of autism and delivering the lowdown on behavioral, educational, medical, other interventions. Featuring inspiring autism success stories as well as a list of organizations where people who support those with autism can go for additional help, it offers practical advice on how to educate children as well as insights on helping people with autism use their strengths to maximize their potential in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen Shore\n </strong>\n , EdD (Brookline MA), serves on the board for several autism spectrum-related organizations and he has written\n <em>\n  Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome\n </em>\n (1-931282-00-5) and edited\n <em>\n  Ask and Tell: Self Advocacy and Disclosure For People on the Autism Spectrum\n </em>\n (1-931282-58-7).\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Linda G. Rastelli\n </strong>\n (Middletown, NJ) is a veteran journalist who specializes in health and business.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , PhD (Fort Collins, CO) is the author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Thinking in Pictures\n </em>\n (0-679-77289-8) and\n <em>\n  Emergence: Labeled Autistic\n </em>\n (0-446-67182-7).\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Identify signs and symptoms for early intervention\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the right diagnosis and customized treatment plan for your loved one or yourself\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This reassuring guide explains the symptoms of autism, how it''s diagnosed, and the current options for treatment. You''ll get helpful information on the latest in genetic and biomedical research, as well as coverage of special-needs financial planning, legal rights for education, and handling issues unique to adults with autism.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find and work with autism specialists\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create and help manage an effective educational plan for your child\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhance communication and social skills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Evaluate treatment options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore other helpful autism resources\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2128'),
(20438, 'Understanding Your Dog for Dummies', 'Stanley Coren Phd &amp; Sarah Hodgson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of getting a dog or nervous about caring for the one youâ€™ve already brought home, now you can relax.\n <em>\n  Understanding Your Dog for Dummies\n </em>\n helps you recognize not only why your dog behaves the way she does, but in a way that enables you to parlay that into a well-behaved companion who listens (and sits, and speaks, and comes, etc.).\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether your pooch is a mixed breed or purebred, she has a distinct identity that makes her unique. The first step in understanding your dog is to respect the honorable task she was originally bred for and to identify how these inbred impulses influence her personality and behavior. In essence, you need to speak her language if you expect her to learn to understand yours.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Understanding Your Dog for Dummies\n </em>\n gives you everything you need to learn to understand your poochâ€™s unique dialect of â€œDoglishâ€â€”and shows you how to take on the role as pack leader to give your dog the cues, guidance, and consistency she needs to shape and develop good behaviors. Inside youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Read your dogâ€™s body language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Communicate with your dog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interpret your dogâ€™s breed-specific traits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Correct dog-behavior-gone-bad\n </li>\n <li>\n  Counter anxiety-based behavior\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and resolve aggressive behavior\n </li>\n <li>\n  And so much more!\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Think of this book as Doglish 101â€”a prerequisite for every human member of your dogâ€™s family. Now, let the training begin!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out about canine communication and motivation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy wayÂ® to get into your dog''s head and be the leader of your pack\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What makes Spot go? What makes Cujo psycho? This friendly guide helps you understand the emotional makeup and drives of your dog. All kinds of fun exercises, questionnaires, and charts help you determine what motivates your dog''s attitudes and behaviors and use that knowledge, practical advice, and proven training techniques to nurture a great pet and a great relationship.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nurture your dog''s individuality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   "Sense" things from your dog''s point of view\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use motivational techniques effectively\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use appropriate training tools and methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Bring out the best in puppies or older dogs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2129'),
(20439, 'Undone', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Genesis brings together, for the first time, her beloved characters from Faithless (''The people in Faithless are so real and so well-developed that the reader can''t help but feel empathy for them.This is the best thing Slaughter has written, both shocking and painful, but also gripping and resonant.''  - Chicago Sun-Times), and Fractured (''.a superior crime novel''  - Washington Post).\n <br />\n Karin Slaughter''s powerful novels of suspense set in the backwoods of Georgia and the mean streets of Atlanta have enthralled listeners and shot to the top of bestseller lists worldwide. Now she puts the small-town residents of Grant Count, Georgia, and the hard-bitten cops of Georgia''s Bureau of Investigation on a collision course, in a relentlessly gripping novel guaranteed to keep the surprises coming. Sarah Linton has fled to Atlanta seeking refuge from the patient in her ER, she''ll find herself deeply ensnared in a case which rips the lid off secrets as dark and complex as they are disturbing. When Special Agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell join forces to probe into the life of the victim, they embark on an investigation which will change all of them forever.\n <br />\n <br />\n Wonderfully crafted and absolutely terrifying, filled with superbly drawn characters and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark, Genesis is the most thrilling Slaughter novel yet.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6269'),
(20440, 'Unified Communications for Dummies', 'Tony Bradley &amp; Satish Shah &amp; Eric Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discover what Unified Communications can do for your business\n</p>\n<p>\n In our increasingly mobile world, communication must be effective, global, and available through multiple technologies seamlessly. Unified Communications logically blends and combines previously separate services and features, making communication possible by any means, with anyone, using any of your devices.\n</p>\n<p>\n This complex topic is perfect for a book dedicated to making everything easier!\n <em>\n  Unified Communications For Dummies\n </em>\n introduces you to the many advantages this technology offers your business and shows you how to develop a strategy for bringing it about.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Unified Communications is a new paradigm for working and communicating efficiently and collaboratively\n </li>\n <li>\n  This book explains the features available with Unified Communications and how they can create new capabilities to drive customer satisfaction\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how Unified Communications encompasses office and mobile phones, voicemail, instant messaging, fax, Internet phone calls, texting, and even Web conferencing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides a step-by-step approach for creating a Unified Communications strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers tips for improving the implementation process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shares real-world examples of how Unified Communications is being used today\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unified Communications For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to meet business needs with this emerging, cutting-edge solution.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Voicemail, e-mail, IM, video conferencing â€” here''s how to get them all working together\n</p>\n<p>\n Unify your company''s communications so your employees, clients, and suppliers can communicate more efficiently to boost your bottom line. This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to develop a strategy for unified communications, make the case for it to your stakeholders, identify the equipment you need, and implement your program.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Discover the problem â€” evaluate your current situation and recognize the limitations of unconnected communications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn the parts â€” get acquainted with the components of a unified communications system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   From voice to VoIP â€” see how to maximize VoIP for instant communication with multiple contacts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start with what you have â€” discover new ways to use the variety of options you may already have available\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Formulate your plan â€” develop realistic goals, research resources, and prepare for implementation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Educate stakeholders â€” maintain communication about the plan, how to use the system, and the benefits it offers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Think ahead â€” anticipate growth and assure that your unified communications program keeps pace\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be compliant â€” know compliance requirements and security protocols\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to assess your existing communications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten unified communications solutions to investigate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The benefits of UC to your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make the case for your plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tools you''ll need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to compare various technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Resources for learning more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2130'),
(20441, 'UNIX for Dummies', 'John R. Levine &amp; Margaret Levine Young', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this book invites comment. "Some things weren''t meant for dummies and Unix is one of them," you might say. Wrong! Levine and Young take advantage of the Dummies format''s strength with command-line operating systems. They flatten the learning curve and have even the greenest beginner doing useful work with Unix in mere hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you get past a couple of pointless chapters about offering pizza to Unix experts in exchange for help, you''ll find conceptual explanations of files, directories, permissions, and redirection. Command explanations take a hybrid form; they mix "type this verbatim" statements with tables showing switches and parameters.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much of\n <em>\n  Unix for Dummies\n </em>\n is task-oriented. You''ll find a whole chapter on printing, for example, that covers the commands you''ll need to know to format and print a document on the right printer. Other chapters cover file searches, software installation, and X Windows navigation. The book also provides cursory coverage of four text editors--ED, vi, Emacs, and pico--but you learn little more than how to enter and save text in each.\n</p>\n<p>\n Levine and Young include an eminently useful "DOS-to-Unix Rosetta Stone" that immediately tells you, for example, that the approximate Unix equivalent of DOS''s copy is cp. DOS experts who are new transplants to a Unix environment will appreciate this translation guide. The authors wrap up with a wealth of basic troubleshooting information and a command reference.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book, along with its companion,\n <em>\n  More Unix for Dummies\n </em>\n , is the perfect choice for those who have no knowledge of Unix and need to learn it quickly.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  UNIX For Dummies has been the standard for beginning UNIX references for nearly ten years, and this latest edition continues that tradition of success\n </li>\n <li>\n  This unparalled resource is updated to cover the latest applications of UNIX technology, including Linux and Mac desktops as well as how UNIX works with Microsoft server software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thorough coverage of how to handle UNIX installation, file management, software, utilities, networks, Internet access, and other basic tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Aimed at the first-time UNIX desktop user growing accustomed to the ins and outs of the OS, as well as the beginning administrator who needs to get a handle on UNIX networking basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by John Levine and Margaret Levine Young, longtime UNIX experts and highly experienced For Dummies authors\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2131'),
(20442, 'Unnatural Exposure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That''s what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta''s vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we''re dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta''s mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta''s gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6376'),
(20443, 'Until Proven Guilty', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œCredible and entertaining.â€ (Orlando Sentinel )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for J.A. Jance:â€œJance delivers a devilish page-turner.â€ (People )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBelievable and intense.â€ (West Coast Review of Books )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJ. P. Beaumont is a star attraction.â€ (Booklist )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSolid entertainment.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJanceâ€™s artistry keeps the reader guessing -- and caring.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJ.A. Jance does not disappoint her fans.â€ (Washington Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful, action-packed.â€ (Dallas Morning News )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTaut . . . entertaining.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The little girl was a treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered. She was only five-too young to die-and Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont of the Seattle Police Department isnâ€²t going to rest until her killer pays dearly. But Beaumontâ€²s own obsessions and demons could prove dangerous companions in a murky world of blind faith and religious fanaticism. And he is about to find out that he himself is the target of a twisted passion . . . and a love that can kill.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4107'),
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(20445, 'Up the Down Staircase', 'Bel Kaufman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bel Kaufman''s\n  <em>\n   Up the Down Staircase\n  </em>\n  is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school.\n  <em>\n   Up the Down Staircase\n  </em>\n  is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bel Kaufman grew up in Russia, learned English at age twelve, and went on to a distinguished literary, academic, and teaching career. She has won many awards for her writing and public speaking, addressing educators and students here and abroad. She is the granddaughter of the celebrated Yiddish humorist Sholom Aleichem.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4569'),
(20446, 'Upgrading &amp; Fixing Laptops for Dummies', 'Corey Sandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keep your laptop on top of its game!\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to care for your laptop, what can go wrong, and what you can fix\n</p>\n<p>\n A laptop is much more than a PC that shrank. It has unique needs, and this book shows you how to meet them. You''ll discover how to diagnose and fix common problems, replace parts, add external upgrades, and develop workarounds. You''ll even get the lowdown on networks, and find out when to repair and when to replace your laptop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Treat your laptop properly\n <br />\n * Identify common problems\n <br />\n * Know when repair may not make economic sense\n <br />\n * Install a new operating system\n <br />\n * Troubleshoot CD and DVD drives\n <br />\n * Add cool peripherals\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keep your laptop on top of its game!\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out how to care for your laptop, what can go wrong, and what you can fix\n</p>\n<p>\n A laptop is much more than a PC that shrank. It has unique needs, and this book shows you how to meet them. You''ll discover how to diagnose and fix common problems, replace parts, add external upgrades, and develop workarounds. You''ll even get the lowdown on networks, and find out when to repair and when to replace your laptop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Treat your laptop properly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify common problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know when repair may not make economic sense\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install a new operating system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot CD and DVD drives\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add cool peripherals\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2132'),
(20447, 'Upgrading &amp; Fixing PCs for Dummies', 'Andy Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like all Dummies books,\n <em>\n  Upgrading &amp; Fixing PCs for Dummies, Third Edition\n </em>\n , shows you what you absolutely need to know and little more--but in very clear language. Oriented toward casual users who want to solve specific problems, the book pays attention to such troubles as parity error messages and out-of-memory warnings.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Upgrading &amp; Fixing PCs for Dummies\n </em>\n promotes the ideas that you shouldn''t fix things that aren''t broken and that you should apply the simplest possible solutions to the broken things. The guide includes excellent coverage of the hardware-management features in Windows 95.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book''s problem-oriented approach yields sections about common hardware-related problems, such as, "My printer puts out only junk characters!" and "How do I install a new hard drive?" Cartoon-like sequential diagrams outline physical procedures, such as installing and removing SIMMs. Similar drawings help you find key parts of your computer, such as the PCI slots and the video port.\n</p>\n<p>\n Overall,\n <em>\n  Upgrading &amp; Fixing PCs for Dummies, Third Edition\n </em>\n , does what all the Dummies books do--it clearly explains how to solve certain problems. If your particular troubles happen to fall outside of what''s covered here, you''ll need to consult a geekier reference book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n They layout is clever...it is useful as a quick reference book. --\n <em>\n  Computer Shopper, London, June 2000\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2133'),
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(20449, 'Uprising', 'Alex Wheeler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6391'),
(20450, 'Upscale - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10819'),
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(20462, 'Urban Shaman (twp-1)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And if all that''s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne''s been a cop, she''s never seen a dead bodyâ€”but she''s just come across her second in three days.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s been a bitch of a week.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And it isn''t over yet.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Tuesday, January 4th, 6:45 a.m.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  T here''s nothing worse than a red-eye flight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, all right, that''s wildly untrue. There are lots of things worse than red-eye flights. There are starving children in Africa, hate crimes and Austin Powers''s teeth. That''s just off the top of my head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But I was crammed into an airplane seat that wouldn''t comfortably hold a four-year-old child, and had been for so many hours I was no longer certain what species I belonged to. I hadn''t slept in over a day. I was convinced that if someone didn''t stay awake, the airplane would fall out of the sky, and I couldn''t trust anyone else to do the job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My stomach was alternating between nausea from the airline meal I''d eaten hours earlier, and hunger from not eating another revolting meal more recently. I''d forgotten to take my contact lens case with me in my carry-on, and my eyes were burning. My spine was so bent out of shape I''d have to visit a chiropractor for a week to stand up straight again. I was flying back from a funeral to be fired.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overall, starving children in Africa were taking a distant second to my own misery and discomfort. Shallow, but true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A very small part of my mind was convinced that if the flight attendants would just let me into the unpres-surized luggage compartment to find my contact case, everything would miraculously be right with the world. None of them would let me, so my contacts were welded to my eyes. Every several minutes I decided it wasn''t worth it and started to take them out. Every time, I remembered that they were my last pair and I''d have to suffer with glasses until I made an eye appointment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I might have succumbed, but the glasses in question were also with my luggage. The idea of navigating a soft-focus world full of featureless faces gave me a headache.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not that I didn''t have one anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I climbed over the round man sleeping peacefully beside me and went to the bathroom. At least I could take the contacts out and stew them in tap water for a few minutes. Anything would be better than keeping them in my eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anything except my reflection. Have you ever noticed that the mirror is by far the largest object in those tiny airplane restrooms? I was a sick pasty color under the flickering florescent light, my eyes much too green against a network of bloodshot vessels. I looked like a walking advertisement for one of those "wow" eye-drop commercials. Second runner-up for Least Attractive Feature on an International Flight was my hair. I put my contacts in two little paper cups and set them ostentatiously on the appropriate sides of the sink, then rubbed water through my hair to give it some life again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now I looked like a bloodshot porcupine. Big improvement. The only thing on my person that didn''t look slimy was the brand-new silver choker necklace my mother''d given me just before she died. A Celtic cross pendant sat in the hollow of my throat. I wasn''t used to jewelry, and now that I''d been reminded it was there, it felt mildly horrible, like someone was gently pushing his thumb against the delicate flesh. I shuddered and put my contacts back in before weaving my way back down the aisles to my seat. The flight attendants avoided me. I couldn''t blame them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I rested my forehead on a grease spot I''d left on the window earlier. The airlines, I thought, must have custodians who clean the windows, or there''d be an inches-thick layer of goo on them from people like me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That thought was proof positive that I shouldn''t be allowed to stay up for more than eighteen hours at a time. I have a bad habit of following every thought to its miserable, pathetic little end when I''m tired. I don''t mean to. It''s just that my brain and my tongue get unhinged. Though some of my less charitable acquaintances would say this condition didn''t require sleep deprivation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The plane had been descending for a while now, and I squinted at my heavy black wristwatch. The bright orange button for changing the time had become permanently depressed in Moscow, or maybe Venice. Probably Moscow; I''d found Moscow depressing, and saw no reason why the watch shouldn''t. It claimed it was 5:50 p.m., which meant it was almost seven in the morning. I frowned out the window, trying to find the horizon. The sky wasn''t turning gray yet, not flying into Seattle three days after New Year''s. I blinked at the darkness, trying to unglue my contacts again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My eyes teared up and I spent a few minutes with my hands over them, hoping perversely that I didn''t blink the contacts out. By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn''t they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don''t like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order. I pressed my head against the window so I could see the ground when it came into view. Maybe I could convince it to let us land without it being our real final descent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Or maybe not. The plane banked abruptly and began to climb again. A moment or two later the captain''s voice crackled over the intercom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sorry about that, folks. Little disagreement over who got to land next. We''re going to take another spin around the Emerald City and then we''ll have you at the gate right on time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don''t usually take umbrage at generic terminologyâ€”I''m one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned raceâ€”but at whatever o''clock in the morning, I thought it would be nice to be called something that suggested unwashed masses a little less. Ladies and gentlemen, for example. Nevermind that, being an almost six-foot-tall mechanic, I had a hard time passing for a lady on a good day, which this wasn''t.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I watched lights slip away beneath us as we circled. If I have to fly, I like flying into cities in the dark of morning. There''s something reassuring and likable about the purposeful skim of vehicles, zooming along to their destinations. The whisk of cars meant that the people driving them had a goal, somewhere to be, something to do. That was a hell of a lot more than I had.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I stared down at the moving lights. Maybe I didn''t like them after all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The plane dropped the distance that made me an active voyeur in people''s lives, instead of a distant watcher. I could see individuals under the streetlights. Trees became sets of branches instead of blurry masses of brown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A school went by below us, swingsets empty. The neighborhood was full of tidy, ordered streets. Carefully tended trees, bereft of leaves, lined uniformly trimmed lawns. Well-washed cars reflected the streetlights. Even from the air well before sunrise, it screamed out, This Is A Good Place To Live.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The next neighborhood over didn''t look as posh. Wrong side of the metaphysical tracks. Cars were older, had duller paint and no wax jobs to make them gleam in the streetlights. Mismatched shingles on patched roofs stood out; lawns were overgrown. It wasn''t that the owners didn''t care. It was that the price of a lawnmower or a matched roof patch could be the difference between Christmas or no Christmas that year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not that I knew anything about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A whole street went by, lightless except for one amber-colored lamp, the kind that''s supposed to cut through fog. It made the street seem unnaturally vivid, details coming into sharp-edged focus below me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A modern church, an A-frame with a sharp, nasty spire, was lit by the edges of the lone amber light. Its parking lot was abandoned except for one car, parked at an angle across two spaces, one of its doors hanging open. I wondered if it closed at all. Probably: it was a behemoth from the seventies, the kind of car that will last forever. I grew up with that kind of car. Air bags or no, the little crumply things they make today don''t seem as safe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone tall and lean got out of the car, draping himself over the door as he looked down the street toward the functional light. Even from above I could see the glitter of light on the butterfly knife he played with, comfortable and familiar. Watching, I knew that he could play knife games in the dark and blindfolded, and he''d never stab a finger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A woman broke into the amber light, running down the center of the street. She took incredibly long strides, eating a huge amount of distance with each step, but her head was down and her steps swerved, like she wasn''t used to running. Her hair was very long, and swung loose, flaring out as she whipped her head back to look behind her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I twisted in my seat as the plane left the subdivision behind, trying to see.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A pack of dogs leaked out of the darkness. Their coats were pale gold under the amber light, and they loped with the casual confidence of a hunting pack following easy prey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman stumbled, the pack gained and the plane took me away from them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You don''t understand. There is a woman in trouble out there." It was the fourth time I''d said it, and the pilot kept looking at me like I was on drugs. Well, maybe I was. Lack of sleep has the same effect as certain narcotics. I was lodged in the door of the cockpit, other passengers pushing out behind me. Fourteen minutes had passed since I saw the woman. There was a knot of discomfort in my stomach, like I''d throw up if I didn''t find a way to help her. I kept hoping I''d burp and it would go away, but I didn''t, and the pilot was still eyeing me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And you saw this from the plane," he said, also for the fourth time. He had that bright lilting sound to his voice that first grade teachers use to mask irritation. "There are lots of people in trouble, ma''am."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I closed my eyes. They screamed with pain, tears flooding as I opened them again. Through the upwell, I saw an expression of dismayed horror cross the pilot''s face.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, if he was going to fall for it, I might as well milk it. "It was five minutes before we landed," I quavered. "We circled around and came in from the northwest." I lifted my wrist to show him the compass on my watch band, although I hoped that, being the pilot, he knew we''d approached from the northwest. "I was looking out the window. I...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5961'),
(20463, 'US Weekly - Ot 31 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10820'),
(20464, 'Us Weekly 05-09-2011', 'Us Weekly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3776'),
(20465, 'Use of Weapons', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances'' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman''s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6362'),
(20466, 'Use Your Memory', 'Tony Buzan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4853'),
(20467, 'Using the Internet Safely for Seniors for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir &amp; Linda Criddle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Internet is amazing, but the risks youâ€™ve heard about are real, too. You can avoid being a victim of online crime with the simple steps for staying safe online that youâ€™ll find in\n <em>\n  Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s the guide you need to steer safely through the hazards so you can shop, visit, invest, explore, pay bills, and do dozens of other things online â€” more securely. Learn to protect yourself from online predators, create strong passwords, find reliable information, spot e-mail and phishing scams, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find out how to share photos and videos, chat with others, and participate in online discussionsâ€”securely\n </li>\n <li>\n  See how, with strong passwords and reasonable caution, online banking and bill-paying might be safer than the old way\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to install and set up a browser, use search engines effectively, and sidestep suspicious ads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how personal information is collected and used by legitimate companies â€” and by crooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be able to spot risks, find out how online criminals think, and know what makes you vulnerable\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enjoy social networking sites without putting yourself at risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spot reputable healthcare sites and avoid medical ID theft and scams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s even a glossary of common computer terms and a guide to your rights when using the Internet.\n <em>\n  Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you feel more secure by showing you how to protect yourself while enjoying the Web.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Protect your privacy and use the Internet more securely with advice from safety experts\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Isn''t the Internet amazing? But oh, the risks you''ve heard about - online identity theft, e-mail scams trying to separate you from your bank accounts, phony medical information, and more. Here''s the guide you need to steer through the hazards with confidence, so you can shop, visit, invest, explore, pay bills, and do dozens of other things online - more securely.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Have fun - find out how to share photos and videos, chat with others, and participate in online discussions - safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose passwords with muscle - they don''t have to be hard to remember, just hard to guess\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your information to yourself - see how personal info is collected and used by legitimate companies - and crooks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Safely surfin'' - follow these tips to set up a browser, use search engines effectively, and sidestep suspicious ads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your pocket - with strong passwords and reasonable caution, online banking and bill-paying might be safer than using your neighborhood bank\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay healthier with online advice - discover how to spot reputable healthcare sites and avoid medical ID theft and scams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to spot online risks - discover how online criminals think, how to recognize risks, and how seniors can become safer online\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The tools you need to protect your computer from viruses\n </li>\n <li>\n  A guide to your rights when using the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  How you can help keep your grandchildren safer online\n </li>\n <li>\n  A glossary of common computer terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ways to find movies, games, and music to enjoy online\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to use social networking sites safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Surprising ways your personal information can be stolen\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2134'),
(20468, 'Vagabond', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6300'),
(20469, 'Vagabond - Grail Quest 02', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4612'),
(20470, 'Vakse Viggo 01 - Kviks Kontorbud', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3576'),
(20471, 'Vakse Viggo 02 - Viggo Kobler Fra', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3577'),
(20472, 'Vakse Viggo 03 - Mesterkokken Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3578'),
(20473, 'Vakse Viggo 04 - Det Var Kattens, Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3579'),
(20474, 'Vakse Viggo 06 - Viggo Charmetrold', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3581'),
(20475, 'Vakse Viggo 07 - Alle Er Ude Efter Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3582'),
(20476, 'Vakse Viggo 09 - Go&#39;e, Gamle Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3584'),
(20477, 'Vakse Viggo 10 - Viggo Kontra Kvik', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3585'),
(20478, 'Vakse Viggo 11 - Opfinderen Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3586'),
(20479, 'Vakse Viggo 13 - Balladen Om Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3588'),
(20480, 'Vakse Viggo 14 - Viggo Eller-Og Kaos', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3589'),
(20481, 'Vakse Viggo 16 - Alle Tiders Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3591'),
(20482, 'Vakse Viggo 17 - Go&#39;nat Viggo', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3592'),
(20483, 'Vakse Viggo 18 - Hvem Klokker Klokkeren For', 'Vakse Viggo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3593'),
(20484, 'Valhalla 04 - Historien Om Quark', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6109'),
(20485, 'Valhalla 07 - Ormen I Dybet', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6119'),
(20486, 'Valhalla 08 - Frejas Smykke', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6116'),
(20487, 'Valhalla 09 - Den Store Udfordring', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6108'),
(20488, 'Valhalla 10 - Gudernes Gaver', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6117'),
(20489, 'Valhalla 12 - Gennem Ild Og Vand', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6106'),
(20490, 'Valhalla 12 - Gennem Ild Og Vand', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6114'),
(20491, 'Valhalla 13 - Balladen Om Balder', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6105'),
(20492, 'Valhalla 14 - Muren', 'Valhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6115'),
(20493, 'The Valley of Fear', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4255'),
(20494, 'Value Investing for Dummies', 'Peter J. Sander &amp; Janet Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Want to follow in Warren Buffettâ€™s investing footprints?\n <em>\n  Value Investing For Dummies\n </em>\n , 2nd Edition, explains what value investing is and how to incorporate it into your overall investment strategy. It presents a simple, straightforward way to apply proven investment principles, spot good deals, and produce extraordinary returns.\n</p>\n<p>\n This plain-English guide reveals the secrets of how to value stocks, decide when the price is right, and make your move. Youâ€™ll find out why a good deal is a good deal, no matter what the bulls and bears say, get tips in investing during jittery times, and understand how to detect hidden agendas in financial reports. And, youâ€™ll uncover the keys to identifying the truly good businesses with enduring and growing value that continually outperform both their competition and the market as a whole. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand financial investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  View markets like a value investor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Assess a companyâ€™s value\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make use of value investing resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate fundamentals and intangibles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make the most of funds, REITs, and ETFs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop your own investing style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Figure out what a financial statement is really telling you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decipher earnings and cash-flow statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Detect irrational exuberance in company publications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a value judgment and decide when to buy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with helpful lists of the telltale signs of value and â€œunvalue,â€ as well as the habits of highly successful value investors,\n <em>\n  Value Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition,\n </em>\n could be the smartest investment youâ€™ll ever make!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Proven investing principles applied to today''s markets\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Value stocks like businesses and survive market ups and downs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to follow in Warren Buffett''s investing footsteps? This plain-English guide explains what value investing is and how to incorporate it into your overall strategy. You''ll see how to value stocks, decide when the price is right, and make your move. You''ll also understand how to invest in jittery markets and detect hidden agendas in financial reports.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand financial statements\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assess a company''s value\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Incorporate fundamentals and intangibles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make the most of funds, REITs, and ETFs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Develop your owninvesting style\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2135'),
(20495, 'The Vanished Man', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty. Forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protÃ©gÃ© to ferret out a master illusionist they''ve dubbed "the conjurer" who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6403'),
(20496, 'Vanishing Acts', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6232'),
(20497, 'VBA for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VBA helps you put your computer in its place\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Write programs that automate tasks and make Office 2007 work better for you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If your computer is becoming your boss instead of your servant, start using VBA to tell it what to do! Here''s the latest on the VBA IDE and program containers, debugging and controlling your programs, working with multiple applications using a single program, and the most exciting stuff -- programming for all the Office 2007 applications.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize an application''s interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Quick-launch a VBA program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Store and modify information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use VBA with the Ribbon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand object-oriented programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid runtime errors\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VBA helps you put your computer in its place\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Write programs that automate tasks and make Office 2007 work better for you\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If your computer is becoming your boss instead of your servant, start using VBA to tell it what to do! Here''s the latest on the VBA IDE and program containers, debugging and controlling your programs, working with multiple applications using a single program, and the most exciting stuff â€” programming for all the Office 2007 applications.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize an application''s interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Quick-launch a VBA program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Store and modify information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use VBA with the Ribbon\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand object-oriented programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid runtime errors\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2136'),
(20498, 'Vegetable Gardening for Dummies', 'Charlie Nardozzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ubiquitous For Dummies series, while not known for pretty illustrations or lush photography, does manage to pack the maximum amount of information into an easy-to-read format--something that gardeners with an eye on the financial bottom line love. For vegetable gardeners, the\n <em>\n  right\n </em>\n information is especially important, because if you don''t end up with edible food on the table, you''ve failed. Charlie Nardozzi and the National Gardening Association editors seem comfortingly aware of this fact, but they also want to make vegetable gardening fun and interesting, and to that end there''s a lot more here than just the standard tomatoes and zucchini. Bok choy, fingerling potatoes, kabocha squash, daikon radishes--they''ve included just about every vegetable you might be able to think of, with pithy recommendations of the tastiest and easiest-to-grow varieties.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s first three chapters deal with deciding what to plant, where to plant it, and when. Nardozzi then turns the bulk of the book--nine chapters--over to the vegetables themselves: the tomato (the most popular vegetable for the home gardener); the pepper and eggplant; root crops; legumes; vine crops; cole crops, such as broccoli and cabbage; greens; and sweet corn and unusual vegetables. A special chapter goes to nonvegetables like herbs and berries. The book''s third section is devoted to gardening techniques, which more experienced gardeners may want to turn to immediately. There''s good, solid information here on irrigation, mulching, reading a fertilizer label, companion and secession planting, and much more. As with all For Dummies titles, the resources listed in the appendix are comprehensive and up to date, and the index (without which any reader might be lost) is complete and useful.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A hands-on guide to the ins and outs of raising and using vegetables\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to grow your own vegetables? You can do it the fun and easy way with this practical guide. From selecting the right spot to preparing the soil to harvesting,\n <em>\n  Vegetable Gardening For Dummies,\n </em>\n <em>\n  2nd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how to successfully raise vegetables regardless of the size of your plot or your dietary needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll discover how to plot your garden and get the soil in tip-top shape; select the types of vegetables you want to grow; plant the seeds properly; and care for them as they grow. You''ll also know the right time to pick your vegetables and the best ways to enjoy them. Plus, you''ll get tips on preserving foods grown at home.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Expert advice on planting, caring for, harvesting, and enjoying the fruits of your own vegetable garden\n </li>\n <li>\n  Features environmentally friendly ways to combat pests in your garden\n </li>\n <li>\n  Charlie Nardozzi is senior horticulturist and spokesperson for the National Gardening Association; he''s also been the gardening expert on such programs as HGTV''s\n  <em>\n   Today at Home\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Way to Grow\n  </em>\n  and the Discovery Channel''s\n  <em>\n   Home Matters\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you have a green thumb or you''ve never grown a plant before,\n <em>\n  Vegetable Gardening For Dummies,\n </em>\n <em>\n  2nd Edition\n </em>\n has all the information you need to create a healthy garden.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2137'),
(20499, 'Vegetarian Times 09-2011', 'Vegetarian Times', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3472'),
(20500, 'Velvet Magazine - September  2011', '09  2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6761'),
(20501, 'Venomous', 'Christopher Krovatin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he''s had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger-a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate''s nose, he''s been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall''s crew hanging out at Riverside Park. Because in addition to meeting his kindred spirit, Casey-who has his own problems with his own kind of venom-Locke meets the spikey blue fairy-haircut Goth girl of his dreams. And if their relationship is going to work, he knows he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy anti-hero alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, Venomous is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read about one teenage boy''s struggle with his inner demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6326'),
(20502, 'The Verge Practice: A Kathy and Brock Mystery', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to call Det. Sgt. Kathy Kolla and Chief Insp. Brock a team, since they work independently and don''t often communicate, yet their sleuthing is smooth and efficient as they hunt down the killer of a prominent architect''s wife in the latest in Maitland''s sophisticated series (_The Malcontenta_, etc.). Charles Verge, owner of the London practice bearing his name, has suddenly gone missing, putting him under immediate suspicion of doing in his ambitious wife just before plans are unveiled for a controversial new prison. The police also focus on the activities of rival architect Sandy Clarke, until he too is found dead, an apparent suicide leaving a dubious "confession" on his computer screen. Kathy does most of the legwork in this intensive search, going first to the north of England and then to Barcelona where Charles may have been sighted, while Brock is back at headquarters in London directing an inquiry into the firm''s shady finances. Maitland, himself an architect, provides vivid insight into the dog-eat-dog world of designing government buildings and also shows us the "nasty end of police business," in the modern forensics lab complete with high-tech gadgetry. Eventually, the pieces of the puzzle fit together in a grisly and unsettling resolution.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4641'),
(20503, 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6378'),
(20504, 'Vertical Art &amp; Fitness - Oct/Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10699'),
(20505, 'Veterans Benefits for Dummies', 'Rod Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Saving veterans and their families from months of phone calls and internet searches, Veterans Benefits For Dummies outlines the various programs that the VA and other government agencies have in place as well as the procedures for filing applications, claims, and appeals for these benefits which include:\n <br />\n * Health care\n <br />\n * Ongoing care for wounded and disabled vets\n <br />\n * Education assistance\n <br />\n * Vocational rehabilitation\n <br />\n * Life insurance\n <br />\n * Home loan guarantees\n <br />\n * Pensions\n <br />\n * Survivors'' benefits\n <br />\n * Burial benefits\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet eligibility requirements, gather the right documents, and earn the benefits due you\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to take full advantage of your military benefits? This concise, plain-English guide explains the various programs available to you and your family, and helps you properly file applications, claims, and appeals. You''ll make sense of the often-confusing world of the Department of Veterans Affairs and see exactly how to get the benefits you need and deserve.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand your status â€” based on length, type, place, and period of service, know where you stand as a veteran\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with the VA and service offices â€” evaluate the VA healthcare program and Tricare, the DOD healthcare system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Navigate the VA disability compensation and application process â€” understand disability ratings and available programs including CRSC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find your way home â€” use a low-interest loan to finance your dream house or retire gracefully in a military home\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Travel in style â€” take advantage of military aircraft and lodging around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Carry on in memory â€” discover payments and benefits available to spouses and dependent children of deceased veterans and how to request honors and memorials\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Whether you meet basic qualifications for veterans\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to change your discharge status\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The lowdown on pensions and retirement pay\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways the new G.I. Bill affects servicemen and women\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clear explanations of medical and dental benefits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of the VA home loan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Financial planning tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Help for homeless veterans\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2138'),
(20506, 'Victory and Honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin &amp; William E. Butterworth Iv', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The spectacular new book in\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin''s Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler''s suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale-the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation, one of great daring-and great danger-but to conduct it and not be discovered, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. One slip, and everyone becomes a casualty of war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  W.E.B. Griffin\n </strong>\n is the author of six bestselling series.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  William E. Butterworth IV\n </strong>\n has worked closely with his father for a decade, and is the coauthor of eight previous books with him, most recently\n <em>\n  The Outlaws\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Spymasters\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4114'),
(20507, 'Videoblogging for Dummies', 'Stephanie Cottrell Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you ever felt the urge to share the entertaining and insightful things that happen in your everyday world? Got a message youâ€™d like to get across to others? A cause you want people to support? A videoblog allows you to share whatever you choose in a colorful, interesting way that gets attentionâ€”and furthermore, videoblogging is fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n Grab\n <em>\n  Videoblogging For Dummies\n </em>\n and put your videoblog on the fast track. Youâ€™ll see how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gather and use videoblogging tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide what you want your videoblog to do\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan content and edit your footage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a video hosting account and post your videoblog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a complete â€œshowâ€\n </li>\n <li>\n  Videoblog safely, without compromising your security or othersâ€™ privacy\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Of course, a great way to get an idea of what you want to do with your videoblog (or vlog, as youâ€™ll be calling it when youâ€™re an insider) is to check out other peopleâ€™s vlogs. Youâ€™ll find information about that in\n <em>\n  Videoblogging For Dummies\n </em>\n too, including where to find videoblogs and how to set up RSS feeds. And youâ€™ll see how vlogs can affect public opinion, offer fresh viewpoints, and be terrifically entertaining.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a true videoblogging pioneer â€”Stephanie Cottrell Bryant launched her first vlog in 2005, and now presents seminars on videoblogging topicsâ€”_Videoblogging For Dummies_ gives you the scoop on\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choosing hardware and software you need to get started, plus an idea of what itâ€™s going to cost\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding the extra bells and whistles and professional touches that will get your vlog noticed\n </li>\n <li>\n  Deciding whether to script your vlog or make it â€œreality TVâ€, dealing with â€œvid frightâ€, and making other people comfortable before your camera\n </li>\n <li>\n  Finding out who your audience is, getting feedback, and fine-tuning your vlog\n </li>\n <li>\n  Giving your vlog a clear identity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Becoming a citizen journalist, an advocate, or a small-screen movie producer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing, adding soundtracks, working with file formats, and publicizing your vlog\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Videoblogging lets you showcase your art, keep in touch with friends and family, make new friends, or do your part to help solve the worldâ€™s problems.\n <em>\n  Videoblogging For Dummies\n </em>\n is\n <strong>\n  the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n to get started!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Add video to a current blog or start a new vlog\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Use your vlog to share family activities, showcase your art, or support a cause\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eager to try this exciting new form of twenty-first century communication? This book makes it easy! A groundbreaking vlogger shows you what you need to get started, how to turn your text blog into a videoblog, how to make things easy for your adoring public, and even how to deal with little snags like stage fright.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Stamp your vlog with your personality and passion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and use the right hardware and software\n </li>\n <li>\n  Script your vlog or wing it â€” with riveting results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shoot and edit video\n </li>\n <li>\n  Host your vlog and set up RSS feeds\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2139'),
(20508, 'The View from Castle Rock', 'Alice Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.  In stories that are more personal than any that she''s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family''s history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh''s Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father''s dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border.  Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her â€œplaceâ€ in the fancy resort world she''s come to, is transformed by her employer''s perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3946');
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(20509, 'Visio 2003 for Dummies', 'Debbie Walkowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did you ever wish you could draw folks a picture of your business processes or the design of your database, but you just donâ€™t have the graphics skills? Then Visio 2003 might be exactly what youâ€™re looking for, and\n <em>\n  Visio 2003 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes it easy for you to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Often, pictures\n <em>\n  do\n </em>\n speak louder than words. Visio enables you to turn business and technical concepts into visual diagrams. Best of all, it doesnâ€™t require you to possess any artistic talent!\n <em>\n  Visio 2003 For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Navigate the software and use the menus, toolbars, and task panes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create simple diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Visio drawings with other software programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Annotate your diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Post diagrams on the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you need to explain business goals and procedures, software concepts, or database designs to others,\n <em>\n  Visio 2003 For Dummies\n </em>\n can get you going with this great software package in no time. Soon youâ€™ll be able to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the appropriate type of drawing for your purpose, work with stencils, and add shapes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pan and zoom to fine-tune your diagram\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up your printer with Visio 2003, add headers and footers, and print an entire drawing or only selected parts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore open and closed or one- and two-dimensional shapes, and manipulate them to demonstrate what you want to show\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add color and text to enhance your drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create custom shapes, develop and use templates, and even add layers to provide more detail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Visio with Excel, Word, Project, and Outlook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce reports using data stored in Visio, update them, make them available for others to review, and even track changes\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Additional information and links to online Visio resources are available on the bookâ€™s companion Web site. Visio 2003 offers you an exciting new way to communicate business processes, information systems, database and software designs, or computer and telecommunications networks, and\n <em>\n  Visio 2003 For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the power to use this great tool quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diagram network layouts, graph business and marketing plans, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n Create dynamite diagrams with Visioâ€™s updated tools â€“ no artistic talent required!\n</p>\n<p>\n Wish you had a magical elf who could present your business processes, database designs, or computer networks visually, without making you draw them? Well, Visio is that elf, and this handy book tells you exactly what to do with him, er . . . it. Customize Visio and discover its streamlined interface, improved collaboration capabilities, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand Visio and create simple diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Attach database information to shapes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create custom shapes and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Annotate diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save diagrams as Web pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Visio drawings with other programs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2140'),
(20510, 'Visio 2007 for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller &amp; Debbie Walkowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Reveal your inner business artist with Visio\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio''s stencils and templates\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They''re both flexible and user-friendly. Here''s how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format an entire drawing using themes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce layered multipage drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save drawings to publish on the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Reveal your inner business artist with Visio\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio''s stencils and templates\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They''re both flexible and user-friendly. Here''s how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format an entire drawing using themes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  Produce layered multipage drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Save drawings to publish on the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2141'),
(20511, 'Vision House', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5955'),
(20512, 'A Visit From the Goon Squad', 'Jennifer Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jennifer Egan''s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other''s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist''s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city''s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco''s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie''s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou''s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4098'),
(20513, 'A Visit From the Goon Squad', 'Jennifer Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jennifer Egan''s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other''s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist''s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city''s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco''s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie''s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou''s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4464'),
(20514, 'Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition for Dummies', 'Richard Mansfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  This valuable and inexpensive resource is ideal for anyone who is new to programming and wants to learn the basics of Visual Basic without being overwhelmed by the complicated Visual Studio integrated development environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  This back-to-basics book covers getting started with the featured "Starter Kits," learning practical programming , and developing applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also shows how to use VB Express Edition with database and Web Programming\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition on CD-ROM\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Begin developing applications today with a fully-functional version of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out how to build cool Web sites quickly!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design fully-functional Windows applications!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add new skills to your toolbox by discovering how to program in Visual Basic\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A For Dummies exclusive!\n</p>\n<p>\n Special Getting Started CD-ROM includes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  More than 8 hours of video-based training that shows how you can build applications, including an RSS reader\n </li>\n <li>\n  Additional references and resources to help you use VB Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  Card Game Starter Kit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection Starter Kit\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A unique resource available only with this book! Everything you need to start building Web sites with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is right here!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2142'),
(20515, 'Visual Basic 2008 for Dummies', 'Bill Sempf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Visual Basic is a favorite programming language, so if youâ€™re new to programming, itâ€™s a great place to start.\n <em>\n  Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the fun and easy way to begin creating applications right away while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon youâ€™ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!\n</p>\n<p>\n This step-by-step guide walks you through a logical series of tasks that build your skills as you get comfortable with .Net terminology, theory, tools, and design principles. Youâ€™ll learn how to build an application in four different architectural styles, and youâ€™ll find out how to make your programs validate input and output, make decisions, and protect themselves from security threats. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Install the Visual Studio environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write a VB program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish good programming practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create class libraries\n </li>\n <li>\n  Write secure applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Debug your applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with strings and â€œif-thenâ€ statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Iterate with counted and nested loops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pass arguments and get return values\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access data with VB.NET\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with the file system using VB\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB.NET in C# programming, troubleshooting your VB programs, taking your programming to the next level, and more! Once you get your hands on\n <em>\n  Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies,\n </em>\n youâ€™ll be programming like a genius in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Write code, develop programs, and build Vista and Web applications\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build Windows apps, Web services, and develop Web pages with Visual Basic 2008\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Visual Basic is a popular and accessible programming language, so if you''re new to programming, it''s a great place to start. Here''s the fun and easy wayÂ® to begin creating applications right away (in Chapter 1!) while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you''ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install the Visual Studio environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish good programming practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Write secure applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Leverage new features of the .NET framework\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2143'),
(20516, 'Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition for Dummies', 'Alan Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Visual Web Developer Express Edition is a low-cost, entry-level version centered around pre-built projects that new developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to harness "drag-and-drop" tools that build on the popularity of ASP.NET, offering Web designers an easy introduction to the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Framework\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows novice Web developers step by step how to create powerful ASP.NET Web applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to access databases through Data Source controls, design site navigation, build interactivity, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition on CD-ROM\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Start developing terrific Web sites today with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Master drag-and-drop tools to make Web site design faster and easier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the hang of implementing database-driven Web applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to design effective site navigation and Web interactivity\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add new skills to your toolbox by learning how to build rich Web sites\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A For Dummies exclusive!\n</p>\n<p>\n Special Getting Started CD-ROM includes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  More than 8 hours of video-based training showing how to create Web applications using VB and C#\n </li>\n <li>\n  Special videos on ASP.NET 2.0 from Wintellect\n </li>\n <li>\n  Club Site Starter Kit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Time Tracker Starter Kit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Other resources including ASP.NET 2.0 QuickStart Tutorials\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A unique resource available only with this book! Everything you need to create your first eye-popping Web site with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is right here!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2144'),
(20517, 'Viz UK - October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10756'),
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(20527, 'Vmax 149 09-2011', 'Vmax', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3804'),
(20528, 'VMware Infrastructure 3 for Dummies', 'William Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  VMware Infrastructure 3 for Dummies\n </em>\n will help you understand, design, and deploy a reliable and fault tolerant Virtual Infrastructure 3 environment. Virtualization can save your business a lot of money! Youâ€™ll find an introduction to the technology and learn from the key topics covered in each chapter. You will have enough information to design and deploy your first system without being overwhelmed by extensive technical details. You can also use this book as a reference for maintenance and troubleshooting.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will find out what you need to do before you virtualize your machines. Learn about ESX servers, how to install them and their anatomy. Hook up your ESX servers with storage and data networks and understand what you need to know about networking and external storage. Youâ€™ll be able to make everything fault tolerant with cluster technology. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make the most of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design and deploy your system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle installation, configuration, and troubleshooting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Virtualize servers, storage and networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover how to assure fault tolerance with clusters and the VirtualCenter database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use resource pools, set them up, and secure them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore new options for disaster preparedness, including a virtual consolidated backup\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of VMware products, the world of virtual appliances, and more information about VI3,\n <em>\n  VMware Infrastructure 3\n </em>\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n is your one-stop guide to virtualizing your machines.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who doesn''t want to save money? Get up to speed on\n</p>\n<p>\n VMware Infrastructure 3!\n</p>\n<p>\n Virtualization can save your business real money. That''s what VMware''s exciting Infrastructure 3 is all about, and this book is all about making VMware Infrastructure 3 easy to understand and use. Here''s what you need to know to understand, design, and deploy a reliable and fault-tolerant VMware Infrastructure 3 environment, whether you''re new to virtualization or just starting with VMware Infrastructure 3.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the groundwork â€” get a basic understanding of how virtualization works and what you need to do before virtualizing your machines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know your needs â€” analyze the capacity your system will require as it grows\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build a foundation â€” learn the anatomy and installation of the ESX hosts on which you build a virtual infrastructure\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tolerant to a fault â€” discover how to assure fault tolerance with clusters and the VirtualCenter database\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Dive in â€” see how to use resource pools, how to set them up and secure them, and why they''re useful\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Always be prepared â€” explore new options for disaster preparedness, including Virtual Consolidated Backup\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage and monitor â€” to stay ahead of trouble\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The pros and cons of virtualization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to plan and implement a VMware solution\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on data-gathering and analysis tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A tour of ESX and how it works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Networking best practices\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How virtual switches and networks work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Infrastructure 3''s storage model and VMFS\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to meet unique virtual security needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2145'),
(20529, 'Vogue India - Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10821'),
(20530, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cassie Black is an ex-con who needs to make one more score in order to fulfill the dream that sustained her in prison. Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she''s thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything - even her darkest moments - she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself. When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses her new life away like a bad hand of cards and goes back in a sprint to her old line of work. Her trade was robbing casino gamblers, and she was the very best. Now it''s the only way she can make enough money fast to maybe make everything right. Quickly she lines up a mark, a man who has been winning steadily for a week at high-stakes baccarat. The job goes smoothly until she opens his briefcase ... And discovers a world of trouble she never dreamed of. Her superstitious friend who lined up the job says it''s the bad-luck void moon having its malignant way. Cassie knows it''s worse. She''s crossed paths again with her life''s nemesis, the man who destroyed everything six years before. He''s Jack Karch, a private investigator by day who does bloody work for casino owners by night. Walking back into his sights is the worst thing that''s ever happened to Cassie. Getting out alive will take all her skill and luck and faith in that one good thing ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6360'),
(20531, 'VoIP Deployment for Dummies', 'Stephen P. Olejniczak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n So youâ€™re in charge of implementing a VoIP phone system for your organization?\n <em>\n  VoIP Deployment For Dummies\n </em>\n is a crash course in Voice over Internet Protocol implementation!\n</p>\n<p>\n Hereâ€™s how to analyze your network and implement a VoIP phone system, manage and maintain it, keep it secure, and troubleshoot problems. Youâ€™ll learn how to plan the rollout, work with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), handle fax issues, and keep your users happy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand how VoIP works, common misconceptions about it, and the pros and cons for your organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare and comprehend hardware and software choices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the options for touch tones and faxing via VoIP systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Analyze network devices, IP addresses, connections to remote sites, and other aspects that will affect VoIP implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Draw up a test plan, check out both voice and fax transmission, get a report, and schedule the installation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Investigate SIP call generation, identify the elements, understand cancelled calls, and re-INVITE calls\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot your system, identify call variables, trace the source of a problem, manage trouble tickets, and resolve failures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage latency, jitter, and flap, and take advantage of Wireshark\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find out what to expect when your system goes live\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by an expert with extensive real-world experience in VoIP implementation and management,\n <em>\n  VoIP Deployment For Dummies\n </em>\n provides the know-how you need. Youâ€™ll be able to implement your system and manage any issues proactively, which is sure to look good to your boss!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get your business talking online with this handy guide to VoIP implementation\n</p>\n<p>\n Your organization has made the decision to go with VoIP. Now it''s up to you to implement the system. Well, fear not â€”here''s the crash course you need! Learn how to analyze your system, plan the rollout, monitor and maintain VoIP, work with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), troubleshoot your system, fax with VoIP, and keep your users happy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand â€” how VoIP works and the pros and cons for your organization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be prepared â€” analyze your network, its devices, IP addresses, connections to remote sites, and other issues that affect VoIP implementation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When it''s not a voice â€” discover the options for touch tones and faxing via VoIP systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Line up your tools â€” compare and evaluate hardware and software options for VoIP\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Activate â€” draw up a test plan, check out both voice and fax transmission, get a report, and schedule the installation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Just a SIP â€” investigate SIP call generation, identify the elements, understand cancelled calls, and re-INVITE calls\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it running â€” troubleshoot your system, identify call variables, trace the source of a problem, manage trouble tickets, and resolve failures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Clarification of common misconceptions about VoIP\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The anatomy of a VoIP call\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to manage latency, jitter, and flap\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why touch tones and faxes pose special challenges\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose a fax option\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Wireshark is and how to use it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to identify the footprint of a problem\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to expect when your system goes live\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2146'),
(20532, 'VoIP for Dummies', 'Timothy V. Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings\n</p>\n<p>\n See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money\n</p>\n<p>\n VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could spell "saving big bucks" for your business! Here''s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use VoIP for your business or home phone service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the best network type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up VoIP on a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand transports and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrate VoIP''s advantages to management\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings\n</p>\n<p>\n See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money\n</p>\n<p>\n VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could spell "saving big bucks" for your business! Here''s where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use VoIP for your business or home phone service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the best network type\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up VoIP on a wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand transports and services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demonstrate VoIP''s advantages to management\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2147'),
(20533, 'Vortex', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6396'),
(20534, 'The Voyage of the Sable Keech', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man''s last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else - adulation, power, control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison ''sprine'' that is crucial to immortality - and, if so, maybe Janer must find it and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus, and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone shell. It''s much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal weapons, thicker armour. He''s going to need them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Essex-born author Neal Asher was writing short science fiction for many years before he embarked on his first full-length novel Gridlinked , followed by four others which have been translated into nine different languages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6365'),
(20535, 'The Walker in the Shadows', 'Barbara Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  A trio of love stories that cross generations and centuries, a pair of historic houses that conceal old and new secret passions, and a series of ghostly appearances are interwoven to form a tapestry of complex horror and beauty.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The house next door to Pat Robbinsâ€”eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Markâ€”has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark''s heart on first glance. But something is not rightâ€”something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next doorâ€”and it means to feed on the fears of two families . . . and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago''s famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the EdgarÂ® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4625'),
(20536, 'Walking Dead', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For once, Joanne Walker''s not out to save the world. She''s come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she''s been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she''s got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.But it''s Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne''s party. Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there''s no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about itâ€”which they doâ€”no one''s getting out of there alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shaman Joanne Walker juggles ghosts, zombies and her day job as a greenhorn Seattle homicide detective in her feverishly cluttered fourth adventure (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Coyote Dreams\n  </em>\n  ). Fortunately, ghost whisperer Billy Holliday is on hand at Joanne''s Halloween party when ghosts burst out of a cauldron. When the ancient Cauldron of Matholwch is stolen from a Seattle museum and a dark pall spreads over the city, it''s not hard to spot the connection. After a dire premonition, Walker travels the astral planes to join the Wild Hunt on a seemingly unrelated quest. The plot doesn''t so much thicken as sag from too many tricky twists and a mishmash of mythology, including Celtic and Native American lore, witchcraft, stage magic, clairvoyance and gods, but at least Joanne remains an appealing protagonist.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For once, Joanne Walker''s not out to save the world. She''s come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she''s been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she''s got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it''s Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne''s party.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there''s no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it which they do no one''s getting out of there alive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5962'),
(20537, 'Walking Dead (twp-4)', 'C.E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaman Joanne Walker juggles ghosts, zombies and her day job as a greenhorn Seattle homicide detective in her feverishly cluttered fourth adventure (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Coyote Dreams\n  </em>\n  ). Fortunately, ghost whisperer Billy Holliday is on hand at Joanne''s Halloween party when ghosts burst out of a cauldron. When the ancient Cauldron of Matholwch is stolen from a Seattle museum and a dark pall spreads over the city, it''s not hard to spot the connection. After a dire premonition, Walker travels the astral planes to join the Wild Hunt on a seemingly unrelated quest. The plot doesn''t so much thicken as sag from too many tricky twists and a mishmash of mythology, including Celtic and Native American lore, witchcraft, stage magic, clairvoyance and gods, but at least Joanne remains an appealing protagonist.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For once, Joanne Walker''s not out to save the world. She''s come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she''s been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she''s got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it''s Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne''s party.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there''s no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it which they do no one''s getting out of there alive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5967'),
(20538, 'Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando for Dummies', 'Laura Lea Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommerâ€™s.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small trim size for use on-the-go\n </li>\n <li>\n  Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out â€œcheat sheetâ€ with full-color maps or easy reference pointers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready for a magical vacation\n</p>\n<p>\n Mingle with The Mouse at the Magic Kingdom. Swim with the dolphins at Discovery Cove. Search for the Yeti in Animal Kingdom. Travel the world at Epcot. Whether you''re looking for the wildest rides, the ritziest resorts, the most fun nightlife, the top water adventures, or the best shows, this friendly guide is the way to go!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2148'),
(20539, 'Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando for Dummies 2006', 'Laura Lea Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you want to escape to a world full of fun and fantasy, head for Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando. The area is the No. 1 family vacation destination in the U.S., and this guide will show you hundreds of reasons why. Whether youâ€™re taking your kids or grandkids or treating your â€œinner childâ€, youâ€™ll find tons to see and do. You can count a sharkâ€™s teeth up close or swim with a dolphin\n <strong>\n  .\n </strong>\n Tour some of the worldâ€™s most unique countries at Epcot or the\n <em>\n  Haunted Mansion\n </em>\n at the Magic Kingdom. Strap in for stomach-churning rides or take in great shows. You can check out incredible marine life, exotic wild life, or Orlandoâ€™s exciting night life. This friendly guide clues you in to must-see attractions, the best deals, great shopping options, and more. It gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Walt Disney World, including The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios, Animal Kingdom, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Other terrific theme parks, including Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, SeaWorld and Discovery Cove, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best daring thrill rides, including\n  <em>\n   The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Dueling Dragons twin roller coasters, Jurassic Park River Adventure,\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Tower of Terror\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tamer rides and attractions, such as\n  <em>\n   Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, Shrek 4-D,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Kilimanjaro Safari\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great shows, parades, fireworks displays, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando For Dummies 2006\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the best of Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando â€” the fun and easy wayÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you want to take in spectacular shows or swim with dolphins at Discovery CoveÂ®, seek thrills at Islands of Adventure or explore Orlando''s varied nightlife, stay at a rustic lodge or dine with Disney characters, this is your guide to a world of fun and fantasy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2151'),
(20540, 'Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando for Dummies 2007', 'Laura Lea Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Iâ€™m going to Disney World."\n</p>\n<p>\n So are more than 15 million other people. Disney World is the number-one tourist destination in the country, and Orlando typically has almost 50 million visitors a year. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Disney World includes four theme parks, a dozen other attractions, and two entertainment districts. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld add another four theme parks, three resorts, and a lively entertainment area to the Orlando mix. So how do you make the most of your time and your money? Whether youâ€™re more interested in braving the rides or seeing the shows and the sites, this guide helps you decide where to stay, what to see, and what to do. It covers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The favorite rides and attractions (wild or mild) at all the major theme parks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Great resorts, themed hotels, and all kinds of kid-friendly accommodations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Orlandoâ€™s exciting nightlife at Pleasure Island, City Walk, and other hot spots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Vacation package options and ways to save money\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transportation around Orlando and Disneyâ€™s special transport system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Orlandoâ€™s best special events\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando For Dummies 2007\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this guide, you plan your trip to fit your style. Test your nerve on stomach-churning rides or rest and relax poolside. Mingle with the mouse or marvel at Shamu. Enjoy gourmet dining or a character meal with Goofy, Cinderella, or Simba. Head out on the Kilimanjaro Safari at Disneyâ€™s Animal Kingdom or go on a shopping safari at Disney World or in Orlando. Take in Revenge of the Mummy, Fear Factor Live and Shrek 4-D at Universal Studios Florida or dance with a German oompah band at Epcot. Test your physical limits at Islands of Adventure or get up close and personal with marine life at SeaWorld and Discovery Cove. With this guide, youâ€™ll have a world of fun!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have a magical vacation the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mingle with The Mouse at the Magic Kingdom. Swim with the dolphins at Discovery Cove. Search for the Yeti in Animal Kingdom. Travel the world at Epcot. Whether you''re looking for the wildest rides, the ritziest resorts, the most fun nightlife, the top water adventures, or the best shows, this friendly guide is the way to go!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldn''t miss â€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2149');
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(20541, 'Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando for Dummies 2008', 'Laura Lea Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Walt Disney World includes four theme parks and a dozen lesser attractions, two entertainment districts, tens of thousands of hotel rooms, and scores of restaurants. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld add another four theme parks, three resorts, and an entertainment district to the mix. So how do you know where to go? This friendly guide puts you in a Mouse mood and in the know. From Terminator 2 to Shrek or Shamu, wild life to nightlife, Finding Nemo to finding souvenirs, it gives you great info on accommodations, restaurants, attractions, and more, covering:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Disneyâ€™s ticket system and the best options in each major park\n </li>\n <li>\n  Highlights of Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, and Discovery Cove, plus two great day-trip options\n </li>\n <li>\n  The top 11 stomach turners and G-force generators in Orlando, including Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Summit Plummet, the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tamer rides and shows, including The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Shark Encounter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Orlando night life, with the scoop on dinner shows, Pleasure Island, CityWalk, and other hot spots\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n travel guide,\n <em>\n  Walt Disney World &amp; Orlando For Dummies 2008\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t missâ€”and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lots of detailed maps\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re traveling with kids or want to recapture your own childhoodor whether your style is adventurous and action-packed or laid-back and relaxed, this friendly guide helps you plan a magical vacation.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have a magical vacation the fun and easy way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mouse fans. Roller coaster fanatics. Marine life enthusiasts. Thrill seekers. Pool siders. Whether you want to conquer the kingdom, experience the action, see the sights, explore the nightlife, or relax at a resort, this guide is your ticket to a world of fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t missâ€”and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lots of detailed maps\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2150'),
(20542, 'War', 'Sebastian Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger''s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ''War on Terror''; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ''hand grenade question'': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger''s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ''War on Terror''; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ''hand grenade question'': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6275'),
(20543, 'War and Peace', 'Leo Tolstoy &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œShimmering. . . . [It] offers an opportunity to see this great classic afresh, to approach it not as a monument but rather as a deeply touching story about our contradictory human hearts.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Michael Dirda, _The Washington Post Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œA major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy''s characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Pevear and Volokhonsky''s new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”James Wood, _The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œExcellent. . . . An extraordinary achievement. . . . Wonderfully fresh and readable. . . . The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translated the book before.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Orlando Figes, _The New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Tolstoy''s\n  <em>\n   War and Peace\n  </em>\n  has often been put in a league with Homer''s epic poems; it seems to me that the same might be said for Pevear and Volokhonsky''s translation of his great novel. . . . Their efforts convey a much closer equivalent in English to the experience of reading the original."\n  <br />\n  â€”Michael Katz, _New England Review\n  <br />\n  _Full review here: http://www.nereview.com/29-4/29-4Katz.htm\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the award-winning translators of\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Brothers Karamazov\n  </em>\n  comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy''s masterwork.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   War and Peace\n  </strong>\n  _ _broadly focuses on Napoleonâ€™s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A s Napoleonâ€™s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgroundsâ€”peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiersâ€”as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most movingâ€”and humanâ€”figures in world literature.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(20544, 'The War Lord', 'Barry Sadler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4649'),
(20545, 'Warlord 01 - The Winter King', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4613'),
(20546, 'Warlord 02 - Enemy of God', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4614'),
(20547, 'Warlord 03 - Excalibur', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4615'),
(20548, 'Warning Signs', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When can a psychologist go to the police about a client without violating the doctor/patient contract? Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory, veteran of nine previous White suspense novels, wrestles with this dilemma in White''s latest top-flight thriller. Neurotic Naomi Bigg seeks help when she suspects her high school son, Paul, plans to avenge his sister''s rape and his father''s murder conviction for killing the rapist, who was let off on a technicality. Paul''s best friend, Ramp, an explosives fanatic, lost his mother to a paroled rapist/murderer and has his own list of targets. Alan''s erratic sessions with Naomi begin to unnerve him when he picks up hints of a connection to the recent brutal murder of Boulder ''s DA, his wife Lauren''s boss. Even worse, he realizes that Lauren, suffering from MS and just ending maternity leave, assisted in the bungled prosecution of Paul''s sister''s rapist. And to further complicate things, the prime suspect in the DA murder case is Boulder police detective Lucy Tanner, partner of Alan''s best friend, Sam Purdy. When a car bomb kills a judge''s wife in Denver, Alan is torn with indecision, but goes to Sam after explosives are found in the dead DA''s house. When a bomb goes off at Alan''s office and Lucy is kidnapped, Alan and Sam team up and track Ramp on his deadly bomb spree. White (Private Practices) deliciously taunts the reader with his trademark twists, smoothly weaving plots together and sprinkling red herrings among the solid clues. Could Columbine have been prevented if the shooters'' parents had gone to the police? How many warning signs are needed before action should be taken? These questions have led to the "no tolerance" policies in many schools and underlie this tensely satisfying outing. National ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6399'),
(20549, 'Warpstone #19', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3686'),
(20550, 'Warpstone #20', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3687'),
(20551, 'Warpstone #24', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3688'),
(20552, 'Warpstone #25', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3689'),
(20553, 'Warpstone #26', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3690'),
(20554, 'Warpstone #6', 'Warpstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3685'),
(20555, 'Washington, D.C. For Dummies', 'Tom Price', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether you want to pay homage to history, marvel at the seat of power, take in world-class museums and art galleries, or see the cherry trees in bloom, the nationâ€™s capital offers a wealth of wonderful choices for visitors. With information on the top sights plus some really interesting lesser-known attractions, this friendly guide gives you the scoop on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The shrines to freedom and the halls of government, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Library of Congress, the White House, the Capitol, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Three great itineraries and three great day trips\n </li>\n <li>\n  Moving sights such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial\n </li>\n <li>\n  The after-dark scene, with options ranging from country, rock, and jazz clubs to world-class symphony, dance, opera, and theater\n </li>\n <li>\n  Free shows, including the National Symphonyâ€™s summer concerts, the Shakespeare Theatreâ€™s summer performances, concerts by the military bands, and performances at the Kennedy Center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hotel options ranging from power palaces to charming inns to welcoming B &amp; Bs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dining, including places the rich and famous feast, great ethnic restaurants, and terrific, affordable delis and bakeries\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Like every For Dummies travel guide,\n <em>\n  Washington, D. C\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  For Dummies, 4th Edition\n </em>\n , includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Down-to-earth trip-planning advice\n </li>\n <li>\n  What you shouldnâ€™t miss â€” and what you can skip\n </li>\n <li>\n  The best hotels and restaurants for every budget\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want practical planning help that gets to the point and gets you to the sights you want to see, this guide will get your vote.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Travel smart at www.dummies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Explore the sites of D.C. knowledgeably and cheaply\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Take in the history, museums, and monuments. Marvel at the halls of government. Enjoy incredible panoramic views and great free entertainment. From the National Mall to the shopping malls, this friendly guide puts you in charge on your trip to our nation''s capital.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Down-to-earthtrip-planning advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you shouldn''t miss â€” and what you can skip\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best hotels andrestaurants for every budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handy Post-itÂ® Flags to mark your favorite pages\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2152'),
(20556, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea. The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4115'),
(20557, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea. The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4381'),
(20558, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea. The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4437'),
(20559, 'Watercolor Painting for Dummies', 'Colette Pitcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can.\n <em>\n  Watercolor Painting For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you the fun and easy way to create breathtaking paintings so beautiful you wonâ€™t believe you made them yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. Youâ€™ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mix colors and work with white\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create backgrounds and foregrounds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Transfer your drawings to watercolor\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common watercolor mistakes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find your way around the color wheel\n </li>\n <li>\n  Practice the principles of design\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan compositions using thumbnails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with strategies for improving your painting immediately and marketing and selling your work,\n <em>\n  Watercolor Painting For Dummies,\n </em>\n is the resource you need to make your creative dreams come true.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filled with FULL COLOR, easy-to-complete projects and sample paintings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to create beautiful works of art with watercolors\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Would you love to paint with watercolors? You can! This friendly guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow exercises to help you master the basics. You''ll see how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. And you''ll paint a variety of subjects, from animals and still lifes to landscapes and seascapes!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the right painting supplies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Mix colors and work with white\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create backgrounds and foregrounds\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transfer your drawings to watercolor\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common painting mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2153'),
(20560, 'Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it''s often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn''t cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams''s bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels,\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won''t "get" it, into reading it), but it''s equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates,\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A classic...A great book."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Quite marvelous...A powerful new vision of the great chain of being."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6177'),
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(20576, 'Weaveworld', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world --- and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror -- a tour de force from one of today''s most forceful and imaginative artists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6246'),
(20577, 'Web Analytics for Dummies', 'Pedro Sostre &amp; Jennifer Leclaire', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Performing your first Web site analysis just got a whole lot easier.\n <em>\n  Web Analytics For Dummies\n </em>\n offers everything you need to know to nail down and pump up the ROI on your Web presence. It explains how to get the stats you need, then helps you analyze and apply that information to improve traffic and click-through rate on your Web site.Â  Youâ€™ll discover:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What to expect from Web analytics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Definitions of key Web analytics terms\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help in choosing the right analytics approach\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to collect key data and apply it to site design or marketing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Techniques for distinguishing human users from bots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on using Google and other free analytics tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on choosing pay and subscription services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A detailed and accurate analysis is crucial the success of your Web site. Web Analytics For Dummies helps you get it right the first timeâ€”and every time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers free and fee-based analytics tools\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Don''t miss another profitable opportunity â€” find out what works and what doesn''t\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you getting a decent return on the time and money you put into your Web site? Let this easy-to-follow guide help you find out! Two analytics experts guide you through choosing the right tools for analyzing your site, measuring your data, and making the changes that will boost your site''s profitability without boosting your budget.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand Web analytics lingo\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find out what visitors do at your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Measure metrics that matter most\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spot where your traffic comes from\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce shopping cart abandonment\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2154'),
(20578, 'Web Design All-In-One for Dummies', 'Sue Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Web designers must wear many hats. Among books on Web design,\n <em>\n  Web Design All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is the one that helps you successfully wear all those hats without losing your head.\n</p>\n<p>\n Full-color illustrations and five self-contained minibooks show you how to be a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual communicator, markup language technologist, and cutting-edge trendsetter, all in one. This book helps you lay the groundwork, follow design rules, test your site, register a domain name, and much more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Getting Started covers planning, defining your target audience, choosing the right software, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Designing For the Web acquaints you with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus how to choose a layout and optimize graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building Web Sites gets down to nuts and bolts: putting text, images, hyperlinks, and multimedia files together, organizing content, and building navigation systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Web Standards &amp; Testing teaches you how to test and validate so everyone can enjoy your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publishing &amp; Site Maintenance helps you get your site online and keep it current\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Web Design All-in-One For Dummies\n </em>\n also helps you learn how to choose a Web editor and graphics program, how to make your site accessible to the widest possible audience, and when itâ€™s time to call in a pro like author Sue Jenkins. Itâ€™s just what you need to start and manage a great site.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything you need to know to create dazzling Web designs is in one of these minibooks\n</p>\n<p>\n A Web designer is a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual communicator, markup language technologist, and cutting-edge trendsetter, all in one. This All-in-One guide helps you wear all those hats without losing your head! Learn to lay the groundwork, follow design rules, test your site, register a domain name, and more. Ready to get started?\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start here â€” Book I covers planning, defining your target audience, choosing the right software, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Design it â€” Book II acquaints you with HTML, CSS, and JavaScriptÂ®, plus how to choose a layout and optimize graphics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Build it â€” Book III gets down to nuts and bolts: putting text, images, hyperlinks, and multimedia files together, organizing content, and building navigation systems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Does it work? â€” Book IV teaches you how to test and validate so everyone can enjoy your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Maintenance and more â€” Book V helps you get your site online and keep it current\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to choose a Web editor and graphics program\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for attracting visitors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why and how to slice up graphics\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make your site accessible to the widest possible audience\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What a layers-based layout is\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use DreamweaverÂ® templates\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ethical SEO techniques and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When to ask for help from a pro\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2155'),
(20579, 'Web Design for Dummies', 'Lisa Lopuck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many times have you visited a Web site and thought that you could do a better job if only you had the knowledge and skills? Â  Or perhaps you have a great idea for a Web site but donâ€™t know how to get started? What was once exclusively a task for professionals, Web designing, has become more accessible to amateurs, thanks to loads of handy software. With\n <em>\n  Web Design For Dummies\n </em>\n , you will be able to design your own Web site like a pro.\n</p>\n<p>\n Web design requires many programs to make a Website attractive and fun, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using Web editors like Dreamweaver\n </li>\n <li>\n  Image editing tools like Photoshop elements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Drawing utensils like Illustrator\n </li>\n <li>\n  Background markup and scripting languages like HTML and CSS\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This fun guide covers all of the topics that every aspiring Web designer should know. Â  This book offers advice on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Designing for your audience\n </li>\n <li>\n  Building a solid framework for easy navigation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating appealing graphics that work with the site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing the proper type and colors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tweaking the HTML to make everything work correctly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Applying next-step technologies including JavaScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Parlaying your skills into paid work\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With expert guidance from Lisa Lopuck, a pioneer in interactive media design and the Senior Producer at Disney, you will be creating superb Web pages that will charm and impress all of your visitors!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Build your own eye-popping site design\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create a user-friendly site, design great graphics, and make updating easy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It can take a flock of folks to build, design, and maintain an out-of-sight Web site. Whether you''re designing a site on your own or are a member of a design team, this updated guide will be your best assistant. Here''s the scoop on planning, producing, choosing colors and fonts, managing content â€” even understanding a dollop of HTML.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess the audience for your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an effective workflow\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add sound, video, and animation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test your site for ease of navigation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build graphics that work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use frames, tables, and CSS\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2156'),
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(20601, 'Web Marketing for Dummies', 'Jan Zimmerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just because youâ€™re launching a Web site for your product or service doesnâ€™t automatically mean youâ€™ll rake in big money. Billions of Web sites are competing for consumersâ€™ attention, and if youâ€™re new to online sales, it may be a little daunting.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Web Marketing for Dummies\n </em>\n provides the know-how for creating a solid Web marketing plan, from building a user-friendly site that draws attention to closing a sale on your site. This easily accessible guide leverages your offline knowledge of marketing into mastery of the Web. It shows you a number of strategies that you can apply to your business and how to put your site to work for you. The items youâ€™ll draw from this book will enable you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand online marketing essentials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare an online business plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design the look and feel of your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a concept, develop content, and make it accessible\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know the key components of an online store\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use buzzing, e-mailing, and other advertising tactics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your site search engine friendly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle Web transactions with ease\n </li>\n <li>\n  Stay out of legal trouble\n </li>\n <li>\n  Wow customers with new technology\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This guide also features free ways to market your site, as well as ways to revamp tired sites. In addition, there is also a list of common mistakes that are easy to make, but also easy to avoid. With\n <em>\n  Web Marketing for Dummies\n </em>\n , youâ€™ll be claiming your space in the online marketplace and maximizing your marketing dollars in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Claim your space in the online marketplace!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Develop a plan, build a marketing-effective site, and create word-of-Web campaigns\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Launching a Web site for your product or service does not automatically ensure sales success. This book provides the know-how for creating a solid Web marketing plan, including how to build a site that draws and keeps visitors. Then add proven strategies like search engine optimization and link campaigns, and measure your results. Successful Web marketing techniques â€” all within your budget\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make your site search engine friendly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Close a sale on your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Drive traffic to your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create an online marketing plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of guerilla marketing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize your marketing dollars\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2157');
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(20602, 'Web Marketing for Dummies', 'Jan Zimmerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By implementing effective Web marketing strategies, you can quickly build a successful Web site and business. But how do you take on search engine optimization and search engine marketing to achieve the results you want?\n <em>\n  Web Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n shows you how! This guide helps you apply your marketing knowledge to the Web world, taking you on the path to online marketing success.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this book youâ€™ll find out how to use online tools to spread your marketing message; establish a strong Web presence; promote your site with e-mail marketing, search engine optimization, pay-per-click, and social networking tools; and measure your marketing success. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Craft an online marketing plan, set site goals, and define your market\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncover what makes an effective online storefront and what your site must offer to encourage shoppers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use e-mail marketing effectively and spread the word via e-newsletters\n </li>\n <li>\n  Safeguard copyrights, link legally, and use disclaimers, terms of use, and privacy policies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Entice customers with video blogs, Webcasts and podcasts, or widgets and gadgets on your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Track site activity with Web analytics, interpret sales statistics, and determine where problems originate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of search engines where you can submit your site for free\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage visitors to come back and find subscribers for your online newsletter\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Utilizing the right online marketing strategies can dramatically boost the success of your Web site and build your business.\n <em>\n  Web Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n makes it easy!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boost your bottom line with your $25 Google AdWords credit â€” see inside\n</p>\n<p>\n The Internet has made it possible to spread your marketing message faster and further than ever. This book helps you translate your marketing skills to the online world. From creating a plan to understanding search engine optimization, marketing via e-mail, and making wise use of pay-per-click and banner advertising, here''s the path to online marketing success!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Prepare your plan â€” set goals, define your market, know why people buy, and craft an online marketing plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Draw them in â€” learn what makes an effective online storefront and what your site must offer to encourage shoppers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Direct mail, 21st Century style â€” use e-mail marketing effectively and spread the word via e-newsletters\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve search engine rankings â€” optimize your site and search terms with best practices and online tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be a smart shopper â€” develop a pay-per-click and banner ad strategy that ensures you get your money''s worth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it legal â€” safeguard copyrights, link legally, and use disclaimers, terms of use, and privacy policies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tease ''em with technology â€” entice customers with video, blogs, Webinars, podcasts, or widgets on your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyze â€” track site activity with Web analytics, interpret sales statistics, and determine where problems originate\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Search engines where you can submit your site for free\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Great ways to encourage visitors to come back\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A glossary of terms you should know\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sites that help you research your market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets for attracting attention and keeping visitors interested\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten free ways to market your site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to gain subscribers for your online newsletter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for generating leads\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2158'),
(20603, 'Web Sites Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Janine Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Lots of good stuffâ€¦it will be read by many peopleâ€¦to see how they [their websites] can be improved." (_GadgetSpeak.com,_ Sunday 23rd March 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you ever looked at a Web site and wondered, "How did they do that?" It seems everyone has a Web site these days. Families use them to swap information and share photos; churches and clubs use them to keep their members informed. And if you have a business or are in charge of communication for an organization, a Web site is a must.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how easy it can be to create a professional-looking Web site for your business, club, or family. The illustrated, step-by-step instructions, along with the templates you can download from the bookâ€™s companion Web site, will help you create an effective Web presence fast, whether you''re creating a site for the first time or redesigning an old one.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the easy-to-follow style you expect from\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books,\n <em>\n  Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gather all your content\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan your site, register a domain name, and create Web graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design pages easily with Dreamweaver templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add a photo gallery, blog, podcasts, videos, or money-making advertising\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find a hosting service\n </li>\n <li>\n  Optimize graphics for faster downloads\n </li>\n <li>\n  Test and publish your site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Promote your site to attract visitors\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All you need are the most basic computer skills, a few easy-to-find software programs, and\n <em>\n  Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n . You''ll be up and running in no time!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1486'),
(20604, 'Web Stores Do-It-Yourself for Dummies', 'Joel Elad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you excited about opening your Web store, but a little intimidated too? Relax!\n <em>\n  Web Stores Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n is here to guide you step by step through the whole process. Youâ€™ll find the easiest and best ways to choose a provider, sign up with payment processors, and open for business in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n This make-it-happen guide for online entrepreneurs walks you through the process of opening an account, designing your store for easy shopping, creating a catalog that shoppers canâ€™t resist, processing orders and payments efficiently, and much more. Youâ€™ll find the best ways to choose merchandise, establish store information, create a skype phone number, develop store policies, and reach the customers you want. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Pick products that will really sell\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and evaluate storefront providers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish payment options\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accept credit card payments safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Lay out your design from the ground up\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a catalog of goods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Arrange for shipping\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate the best practices of super-selling sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your store up to date\n </li>\n <li>\n  Put your Web store at the hub of your sales\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fine-tune before you open\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of search engines and pay-per-click campaigns\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with lists of the top ten things every Web store needs, tips for designing your store, and traps to avoid while building and running your store,\n <em>\n  Web Stores Do-It-Yourself For Dummies\n </em>\n makes opening your Web store fast, fun, and simple!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Do-it-Yourself\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Choose a provider, sign up with payment processors, and open for business!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Are you excited about opening your online business, but a little intimidated too? Fear not â€” help is in this book!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s not hard to set up a Web store when somebody''s guiding you through step by step. Here''s how to open a Web store account, design your store for easy shopping, create a catalog that shoppers can''t resist, process orders and payments efficiently, and more. Covers Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, ProStores, and 1&amp;1 eShops.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stuff You Need to Know\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to pick products that will sell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What it takes to accept credit card payments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to arrange shipping\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of super selling sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for promoting and updating your store\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1487'),
(20605, 'WebEx Web Meetings for Dummies', 'Nancy Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  More than 11,000 customersâ€“ranging from independent consultants to large corporationsâ€“use WebEx online services to decrease the cost and increase the effectiveness of meetings, presentations, conferences, support, and training\n </li>\n <li>\n  Input from WebEx has enriched the book with actual examples and case studies of how individuals, small businesses, and large corporations are making use of the WebEx services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet, train, sell, and support from anywhere!\n</p>\n<p>\n Close deals faster, train employees,and provide remote support â€” all via the Web!\n</p>\n<p>\n What if you gave a meeting . . . and everybody came! Create your own dynamic online business center for sales, marketing, training, and support using WebEx''s Web-based meeting applications. This fun and easy guide shows you how to enrich your collaboration with customers, colleagues, and partners like never before!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create a multimedia meeting experience from your browser\n </li>\n <li>\n  Schedule meetings, invite participants, and share presentations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control software on your attendee?s desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Remotely solve customer problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Train globally via the Web\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2160'),
(20606, 'Website.Magazine-November.2011.pdf 06-10-2011', 'Website.Magazine-November.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10578'),
(20607, 'Webuser - 8 September 2011', '8 September 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6007'),
(20608, 'Webuser 06-2011', 'Webuser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3079'),
(20609, 'Webuser 07-2011', 'Webuser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3097'),
(20610, 'Webuser 08-2011', 'Webuser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3277'),
(20611, 'Webuser 09-2011', 'Webuser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3729'),
(20612, 'Webuser 09-2011', 'Webuser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3784'),
(20613, 'Webuser_-_20_October_2011.pdf 20-10-2011', 'Webuser_-_20_October_2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10826'),
(20614, 'Webuser_2011-08-25.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Webuser_2011-08-25.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4697'),
(20615, 'Webuser-08.September.2011.pdf 13-09-2011', 'Webuser-08.September.2011.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6012'),
(20616, 'The Wedge of Gold (Dodo Press)', 'C. C. Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charles Carroll Goodwin (1832-1917) was an American author. He was admitted to the bar of California and started a law practice in 1859. C. C. Goodwin entered the field of journalism in 1863 as editor of the Washoe Times. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress from Nevada in 1872. He is well remembered for his stories about people and events during Comstock mining days in Nevada such as The Comstock Club (1891) and The Wedge of Gold (1893). Goodwin also wrote poetry, stories, essays and speeches and was a popular orator.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5924'),
(20617, 'The Weed That Strings the Hangman&#39;s Bag', 'Alan Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Dagger Awardâ€“winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fictionâ€™s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deathsâ€”separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishopâ€™s Lacy are overâ€”and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but whoâ€™d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Lucesâ€™ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishopâ€™s Laceyâ€™s deadliest secrets. Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than sheâ€™s letting on? What of the vicarâ€™s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then thereâ€™s a German pilot obsessed with the Bront sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porsonâ€™s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables canâ€™t solveâ€”without Flaviaâ€™s help. But in getting so close to whoâ€™s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Dagger Awardâ€“winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fictionâ€™s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deathsâ€”separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishopâ€™s Lacy are overâ€”and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but whoâ€™d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Lucesâ€™ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishopâ€™s Laceyâ€™s deadliest secrets. Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than sheâ€™s letting on? What of the vicarâ€™s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then thereâ€™s a German pilot obsessed with the Bront sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porsonâ€™s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables canâ€™t solveâ€”without Flaviaâ€™s help. But in getting so close to whoâ€™s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3978'),
(20618, 'Weight Training for Dummies', 'Liz Neporent &amp; Suzanne Schlosberg &amp; Shirley Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Any large bookstore has a few shelves of books about exercise and fitness. Usually they fall into one of two categories: basic books meant for people who''ve never exercised before, and bodybuilding manuals meant for people who do nothing but.\n <em>\n  Weight Training for Dummies\n </em>\n is just about the only book that spans the knowledge gap between the two groups. It has plenty of easy-to-understand instruction for complete beginners, but there''s also a lot of information for those who''ve been training a while. In fact, some veteran gym rats may be startled by the authors'' extreme skepticism about nutritional supplements and some popular classes offered in many gyms.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the easiest-to-understand, best-illustrated guides to important strength exercises we''ve ever seen. --\n <em>\n  Men''s Fitness\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Solid, comprehensive, and fun...Photos illustrate more than 150 pages of exercises. --\n <em>\n  Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2161'),
(20619, 'Weight Waterchers - Sept/Oct 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10700'),
(20620, 'The Wench Is Dead', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While recovering in hospital, Inspector Morse comes across an account of the investigation into a murder from 1849, a crime for which two people were hanged. When he is discharged he can prove that they were convicted wrongly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6184'),
(20621, 'Wet Grave', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4618'),
(20622, 'What can you say about chocolate covered manhole covers', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6296'),
(20623, 'What Digital Camera - August 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3563'),
(20624, 'What Digital Camera - December 2011', '12 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10922'),
(20625, 'What Digital Camera - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7080'),
(20626, 'What Digital Camera 09-2011', 'What Digital Camera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3727'),
(20627, 'What Digital Camera 10-2011', 'What Digital Camera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3837'),
(20628, 'What Digital Camera 10-2011', 'What Digital Camera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3870'),
(20629, 'What Digital Camera Magazine 10-2011', 'What Digital Camera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3824'),
(20630, 'What Digital Camera Magazine October 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4742'),
(20631, 'What Hi-Fi Sound And Vision 10-2011', 'What Hi-Fi Sound &amp; Vision', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3871'),
(20632, 'What Laptop - November 2011', '11 2011-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6560'),
(20633, 'What Would Google Do?', 'Jeff Jarvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3896'),
(20634, 'What.Digital.Camera-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 02-10-2011', 'What.Digital.Camera-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7086'),
(20635, 'What.Digital.Camera-October.2011-Slicer.pdf 08-09-2011', 'What.Digital.Camera-October.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4698'),
(20636, 'What.Digital.Camera.12.2011.Slicer.pdf 22-10-2011', 'What.Digital.Camera.12.2011.Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10934'),
(20637, 'What.Hi-Fi.Sound.and.Vision.2011-10.pdf 11-09-2011', 'What.Hi-Fi.Sound.and.Vision.2011-10.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5880'),
(20638, 'What.HiFi.Sound.and.Vision.2011-11S370_HQ.pdf 26-09-2011', 'What.HiFi.Sound.and.Vision.2011-11S370_HQ.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6842'),
(20639, 'What.Laptop-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 24-09-2011', 'What.Laptop-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6750'),
(20640, 'The Wheel of Darkness', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help.Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting.The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider worldA stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6290'),
(20641, 'Wheel of Time 12 - The Gathering Storm', 'Sanderson, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6243'),
(20642, 'When the Tripods Came', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long ago, the Tripods--huge, three-legged machines--descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods'' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person''s life--in childhood--he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end--unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists. The Tripods trilogy follows the adventures of Will and his cohorts, as they try to evade the Tripods and maintian their freedom and ultimately do battle against them. The prequel, When the Tripods Came, explains how the Tripods first invaded and gained control of the planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6240'),
(20643, 'When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6348'),
(20644, 'When You Dare', 'Lori Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Professional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he''ll take the mission he''s offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who''d had her kidnappedâ€”and for the first time, Dare''s tempted to combine work with pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she''s uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancÃ© who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of allâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4116'),
(20645, 'When You Dare', 'Lori Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Professional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard and fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he''ll take the mission he''s offered. But then the lovely Molly Alexander asks him to help her track down the men who''d had her kidnappedâ€”and for the first time, Dare''s tempted to combine work with pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fiercely independent, Molly vows to trust no one until she''s uncovered the truth. Could the enemy be her powerful estranged father? The ex-fiancÃ© who still holds a grudge? Or the not-so-shy fan of her bestselling novels? As the danger heats up around them, the only anchor Molly has is Dare himself. But what she feels for him just might be the most frightening thing of allâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4436'),
(20646, 'Where Angels Fear to Tread', 'E. M. Forster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6319'),
(20647, 'Where Eagles Dare', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6270'),
(20648, 'Where Men Win Glory', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jon Krakauerâ€™s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauerâ€™s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of Americaâ€™s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6263'),
(20649, 'Whiskey &amp; Spirits for Dummies', 'Perry Luntz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Would you like to better appreciate fine distilled spirits?\n <em>\n  Whiskey &amp; Spirits For Dummies\n </em>\n is your complete guide to selecting and enjoying this family of noble beverages, flavor by flavor. From whiskey, rum, and brandy to vodka, gin, and cordials, this handy reference traces the history of distilled spirits, explains how they are made, and shows you how to evaluate, serve, and savor them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever wonder why the Irish spell it â€œwhiskeyâ€ and the Scottish â€œwhiskyâ€? This friendly book tells you as it reveals where the first whiskeys â€” or â€œdarkâ€ spirits â€” originated and how they came to the United States. It also explores the origins of clear spirits and the different varieties of each. Youâ€™ll compare American and European vodkas, see how to make the new and improved all-purpose Martini, and follow the spread of flavored rums across the globe. A slew of sidebars give you fascinating tidbits of information about these spirits. Youâ€™ll also discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Become a sophisticated taster\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shop for the best spirits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Select the right mixers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use spirits in cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make ten classic cocktails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose and taste cordials and liqueurs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Know the nutrients in one serving of each type of distilled spirit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Present spirits to guests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up tasting events at home\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n This thorough guide also features recipes for cooking with spirits, offering menu choices such as entrees, vegetables, and desserts that all include at least one type of spirit. Complete with an appendix of craft distillers across the United States,\n <em>\n  Whiskey &amp; Spirits For Dummies\n </em>\n will give you the knowledge and hands-on guidance you need to become a connoisseur of such greats as fine Scotch, Bourbon, and Cognac in no time!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Features recipes for cooking with spirits\n</p>\n<p>\n The fun and easy way to appreciate fine distilled spirits\n</p>\n<p>\n From whiskey, rum, and brandy to vodka, gin, and cordials, this guide traces the history of distilled spirits, explains how they are made, and shows you how to evaluate, serve, and enjoy them. You''ll become a connoisseur of fine Scotch, Bourbon, and Cognac in no time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Set up tasting events at home\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Shop for the best spirits\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Become a sophisticated taster\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Cook with distilled spirits\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Make ten classic cocktails\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2162'),
(20650, 'Whisper of Death', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6343'),
(20651, 'The Whispering Room', 'Amanda Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante. Lena spins the sordid story of Ruth and Rebecca Lemay, whose mother brutally murdered her male children in an insane effort to root out an "evil" gene. The girls survived and grew to adulthood--but one is carrying on her mother''s grisly work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the case takes a terrifyingly personal turn, Evangeline''s whole life will depend on a crucial, impossible choice: the lesser of two evils.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Amanda Stevens likes to write about the dusty back roads and murky bayous of the South where she grew up.Â  To learn more about her novels, please visit www.amandastevens.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4061'),
(20652, 'White Night', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A sensational addition to the *Dresden Files* adventures-from a *USA Today* bestselling author. Professional wizard Harry Dresden is investigating a series of deaths in Chicago. Someone is killing practitioners of magic, those incapable of becoming full-fledged wizards. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry''s half-brother, Thomas, as the murderer. Determined to clear his sibling''s name, Harry uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens not only him, but his nearest and dearest, too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6202'),
(20653, 'The White Tiger', 'Aravind Adiga', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Man Booker Prize 2008 Winner.  Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape â€“ of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.  The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balramâ€™s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.  ***  From Publishers Weekly  Starred Review. A brutal view of India ''s class struggles is cunningly presented in Adiga''s debut about a racist, homicidal chauffer. Balram Halwai is from the Darkness, born where India ''s downtrodden and unlucky are destined to rot. Balram manages to escape his village and move to Delhi after being hired as a driver for a rich landlord. Telling his story in retrospect, the novel is a piecemeal correspondence from Balram to the premier of China, who is expected to visit India and whom Balram believes could learn a lesson or two about India ''s entrepreneurial underbelly. Adiga''s existential and crude prose animates the battle between India ''s wealthy and poor as Balram suffers degrading treatment at the hands of his employers (or, more appropriately, masters). His personal fortunes and luck improve dramatically after he kills his boss and decamps for Bangalore. Balram is a clever and resourceful narrator with a witty and sarcastic edge that endears him to readers, even as he rails about corruption, allows himself to be defiled by his bosses, spews coarse invective and eventually profits from moral ambiguity and outright criminality. It''s the perfect antidote to lyrical India.  ***  From The New Yorker  In this darkly comic dÃ©but novel set in India, Balram, a chauffeur, murders his employer, justifying his crime as the act of a "social entrepreneur." In a series of letters to the Premier of China, in anticipation of the leaderâ€™s upcoming visit to Balramâ€™s homeland, the chauffeur recounts his transformation from an honest, hardworking boy growing up in "the Darkness"-those areas of rural India where education and electricity are equally scarce, and where villagers banter about local elections "like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra"-to a determined killer. He places the blame for his rage squarely on the avarice of the Indian Ã©lite, among whom bribes are commonplace, and who perpetuate a system in which many are sacrificed to the whims of a few. Adigaâ€™s message isnâ€™t subtle or novel, but Balramâ€™s appealingly sardonic voice and acute observations of the social order are both winning and unsettling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4310'),
(20654, 'Who Dares Wins', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two brothers.One mission.And a whole world of troubleSam and Jacob Redman. Two brothers, SAS through and through. They fight alongside each other; they watch each others backs. They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war, fiercely loyal wherever they are. But when Jacob is booted from the Regiment for a moment of madness, he disappears. Not even his family knows where he is, or even if hes still alive.All that is about to change. On his return from a brutal mission in Afghanistan, Sam is ordered to conduct another dangerous operation into an inhospitable part of the world. He soon learns, though, that his unit are not being told everything by their government paymasters; and so he is forced to choose between his duty to the men around him and his loyalty to the brother that he loves. Is Jacob part of a plan that threatens world peace? As the body count rises, only Sam can stop these events from reaching their terrifying conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6323'),
(20655, 'Whom God Hath Joined', 'Arnold Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4304'),
(20656, 'Why Didnt They Ask Evans', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6244'),
(20657, 'Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You&#39;d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini', 'Mark Leyner;Billy Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is There a Doctor in the House?Say youâ€™re at a party. Youâ€™ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly youâ€™re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions youâ€™d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but havenâ€™t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. Youâ€™re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If youâ€™ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .â€¢How do people in wheelchairs have sex?â€¢Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?â€¢Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?â€¢Why does asparagus make my pee smell?â€¢Why do old people grow hair on their ears?â€¢Is the old adage â€œbeer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .â€ really true? . . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6386'),
(20658, 'Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid', 'Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian**.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œA pissed off Leary is the best Leary,â€ says one critic of the writer and comic. In *Why We Suck*, Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously. He does so with the extra oomph of a doctorate bestowed upon him by his alma mater Emerson College. â€œSure itâ€™s just a celebrity type of thing--they only gave it to me because Iâ€™m famous.â€ Leary explains. â€œBut itâ€™s legal and it means I get to say Iâ€™m a doctor--just like Dr. Phil.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Why We Suck*, Learyâ€™s famously smart style and sardonic wit have found their fullest and fiercest expression yet. Zeroing in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it, Leary unravels his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-man shows *No Cure for Cancer* and *Lock â€™n Load*, and his platinum-selling song, â€œAsshole.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Proudly Irish American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are penetrating social commentary with no holds barred. Learyâ€™s book will find wide appeal among people who want to laugh out loud or find a guide who matches their view of whatâ€™s wrong in America and the world-at-large; and fans of his one-man shows, his many movies, and *Rescue Me*, Learyâ€™s Golden Globe and Emmyâ€“nominated television show. *Why We Suck* is the latest salvo from one of Americaâ€™s most original and biting comic satirists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6291'),
(20659, 'Wi-Fi Home Networking Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Keith Underdahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wi-Fi Home Networking Just the Steps For Dummies\n </em>\n is the way to go if youâ€™re ready to go wireless and install your own wireless home network. The bookâ€™s easy-to-navigate design features two columns, with numbered step-by-step instructions on one side and corresponding illustrations, screen shots, or photos on the other. Thereâ€™s no fluff, just the vital stuffâ€”_Just The Steps_ you need to get up to speed fast. This guide covers common networking tasks, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up wireless access points and configuring your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding wireless devices to your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Activating Wi-Fi Security, managing firewalls, and preventing unauthorized network users\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You donâ€™t have to leave WI-Fi behind when you leave home; this practical reference tells you how to find public hotspots where you can use your Wi-Fi-equipped portable computer and how to network wirelessly with your pocket PC. It covers practical applications like creating a network bridge or adding wireless network storage, plus fun ways to use your tech toys to integrate and enhance your digital life, such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up a wireless media center so you can use a computer for streaming media, as a TV tuner, as a digital video recorder, or to integrate with your TV and home entertainment system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turning your pocket PC into a remote control\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adding a wireless camera to your network\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Even if your current system with its cables, wires, and convoluted connections works, itâ€™s time to cut the cord. Going wireless gives you many advantages and new options. So take the first stepâ€”get this book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just the steps you need to design and install a wireless network\n</p>\n<p>\n Simple steps...\n</p>\n<p>\n ...for great results\n</p>\n<p>\n Search for Wireless Networks\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Double-click the wireless connection icon in the Windows system tray.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the Wireless Network Connection Status dialog box, shown in Figure 3-11, click the View Wireless Networks button.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the resulting Wireless Network Connectionwindow, shown in Figure 3-12, click RefreshNetwork List in the Network Tasks menu on the left side of the screen.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n Use the Wireless Network Connection window to manage your network connections. You can connect or disconnect from networks and change the order of preferred networks when more than one is available.\n</p>\n<p>\n Get ready to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up wireless access points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost network performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot common problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add peripherals like game consoles\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find and use public hotspots\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2163'),
(20660, 'Wii Fitness for Dummies', 'Christina T. Loguidice &amp; Bill Loguidice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A fun and friendly guide to enjoying the benefits of video games with actual fitness results!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Lose weight, find serenity, and tone your muscles while playing a\n <em>\n  video game\n </em>\n ? It''s almost too good to be true! Yet, the Wii offers all of that, with fitness games that focus on losing weight, achieving balance and building strength. Written by an author team of Certified Personal Trainers, this friendly guide is aimed at anyone who is eager to take advantage of combining the fun, interactive, and motivational aspects of video games with traditional fitness activities.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll learn how to use Wii Fit Plus, EA Sports Active and other games as part of a sensible workout routine and lifestyle. The authors guide you through best practices for doing the exercises and explain how to incorporate a variety of other activities to maintain long-term results.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Wii Fit Plus and EA Sports Active feature different fitness games that focus on losing weight, achieving balance and building strength\n </li>\n <li>\n  An author duo of Certified Personal Trainers guide you through combining the fun, interactive aspect of Wii fitness with traditional fitness activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  More than 100 color screen shots serve as helpful examples for performing the routines safely and effectively\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Using this instructional and innovative book, you''ll be fit with your Wii!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Have fun while getting fit!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Here''s how to get the most from your Wii Fitness system\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a perfect fit â€” Wii gaming fun designed to improve your overall health and fitness! The advice of these two personal trainers makes it even better. You''ll learn to use Wii Fit Plus, EA Sports Active: Personal Trainer, and Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010. Find out how to create your own individualized workout and watch yourself improve!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s all this stuff? â€” set up Wii Fit Plus, EA Sports Active: Personal Trainer, and Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The right way â€” learn the safest and most effective way to perform dozens of exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Spice it up â€” explore different types of exercises to keep your routine fresh\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a deep breath â€” improve health benefits by learning optimal breathing techniques\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have a heart â€” strengthen your heart and lungs while enjoying the challenge of sports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A delicate balance â€” identify routines that improve your balance while strengthening different muscle groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All season sports â€” experience volleyball, baseball, boxing, tennis, inline skating, and basketball right in your living room\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep it interesting â€” vary your workout by moving among the featured games\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to vary your routine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to set up your Fitness Profile\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for staying motivated\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The power of yoga and strength training\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to consider when setting fitness goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Warm-up and cool-down routines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to build your own workout\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten cool Wii Fitness accessories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten other Wii Fitness games to expand your virtual gym\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2164');
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(20661, 'Wii for Dummies', 'Kyle Orland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just got a Nintendo Wii game console? Thinking about one? Wii offers video games, exercise tools, the opportunity to create a cool Mii character, and lot of other entertainment options.\n <em>\n  Wii For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to get the most from this fun family game system.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book shows you how to get physical with Wii Sports, turn game time into family time, make exercise fun with Wii Fit, and discover Wiiâ€™s hidden talents, like displaying photos and browsing the Web. Youâ€™ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hook up the Wii to your TV, home entertainment setup, or high-speed Internet connection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get familiar with Wiiâ€™s unique controllers and learn to use the Nunchuk, Balance Board, Wheel, and Zapper\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore the Wii Channels where you can shop for new games, play games online, check the news, and even watch videos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create Mii avatars you can share, enter in contests, and use in games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to use your whole body as a controller and get fit while you play\n </li>\n <li>\n  Identify the best games for parties, family events, nostalgia buffs, and even non-gamers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build your skill at Wii tennis, golf, baseball, bowling, and boxing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the Wii Message Board and full-featured Web browser\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With tips on choosing games, hot Wii Web sites, how to enjoy photos and slideshows on your Wii, and ways to prevent damage to (and from) Wii remotes,\n <em>\n  Wii For Dummies\n </em>\n makes your new high-tech toy more fun than ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to use the controllers, create a Mii, download new games, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Get the most from your Wii! Whether you just bought a Wii game system, are planning to, or already know the basics and want to get more from this revolutionary game system, this book has the answers. Get physical with Wii Sports, turn game time into family time, make exercise fun with Wii Fit, and discover Wii''s hidden talents, like displaying photos and browsing the Web.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hook it up â€” connect the Wii to your TV, home entertainment setup, or high-speed Internet connection\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain control â€” get familiar with Wii''s unique controllers and learn to use the Nunchuk, Balance Board, Wheel, and Zapper\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start channeling â€” explore the Wii Channels where you can shop for new games, check the weather forecast, check the news, and even watch videos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your Mii character â€” create avatars you can share, enter in contests, and use in games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Who needs a personal trainer? â€” learn to use your whole body as a controller and get fit while you play\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find winning strategies â€” get tips for success with Wii Sports tennis, golf, baseball, bowling, and boxing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Something for everyone â€” discover the best games for parties, family events, nostalgia buffs, and even non-gamers\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to prevent damage to â€” and from â€” Wii remotes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Wii''s full-featured Web browser\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on choosing games\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to enjoy photos, videos, and slideshows on your Wii\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about the Wii Message Board\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Five hot Wii-specific Web sites\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to customize the Channels menu\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool Wii games you can download\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2165'),
(20662, 'Wikis for Dummies', 'Dan Woods &amp; Peter Thoeny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Corporations have finally realized the value of collaboration tools for knowledge sharing and Wiki is the open source technology for creating collaborative Web sites, as either a public site on the Internet or on a private intranet site\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows readers how to set up Wikis in a corporate setting or on a personal site so that users can retrieve information, post information, and edit the content\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers everything from choosing a Wiki engine to administration and maintenance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses the advantages of using Wiki in a corporate environment, which companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, Disney, and Motorola have already discovered\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Create content, link pages and webs, and grow your wiki\n</p>\n<p>\n Set up your own wiki for personal or business use\n</p>\n<p>\n So you want to wiki? This friendly guide gets you up and running in the wiki world in no time, from creating and editing wiki pages and going public to handling maintenance, promotion, and project management. You''ll see how to handle the hurdles of shared authorship, use structured wiki applications, and prepare for the wikis of the future.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create your first hosted wiki\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Invite others to your wiki\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add images, video, and other widgets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use a wiki in your business\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose your wiki engine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secure your wiki\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2166'),
(20663, 'Wild Space', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6388'),
(20664, 'Wilderness Survival for Dummies', 'Cameron M. Smith &amp; John F. Haslett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to surviving and enjoying the Great Outdoors\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know how to stay alive in extreme situations? This practical, accurate guide gives you all the expert, field-tested tools and techniques you need to survive. Whether you find yourself lost in the woods, adrift on a life raft, bitten by a snake, or needing shelter in cold weather, this hands-on resource teaches you how to stay safe (and sane), find rescue, and live to tell the tale!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know the basics of survival â€” perform life-saving first aid, make fire and shelter, and find water and food\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage your emotions â€” cope with panic and anger, get the "survivor''s attitude," and foster cooperation and hope with others\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Increase your chances of rescue â€” signal for help and navigate using a compass or the sky\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Practice expert survival methods â€” tie essential knots, craft your own weapons and tools, and make natural remedies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gain wisdom for water emergencies â€” stay afloat when your ship or boat sinks, avoid dehydration and starvation, and make it to shore\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common survival scenarios you may encounter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tried-and-tested advice for individuals or groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The items you need to stay alive\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Basic orientation skills\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to keep warm or cool\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best methods for building a fire in any environment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can (and can''t) eat and drink in the wild\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   True stories of survival\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Haslett\n </strong>\n is a veteran expedition leader and adventure writer whose articles have been featured in\n <em>\n  National Geographic Adventure\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cameron M. Smith\n </strong>\n is an archaeologist at Portland State University. He has traveled the world''s wildernesses in some of the most unreasonable ways imaginable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2167'),
(20665, 'Wills and Estate Planning for Canadians for Dummies', 'Margaret Kerr &amp; Joann Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wills &amp; Estate Planning For Canadians For Dummies\n </em>\n walks you through the steps of planning your estate. This friendly guide will help you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Reduce the tax you or your estate will pay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for your children''s future\n </li>\n <li>\n  Leave a charitable legacy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decipher the legal lingo in wills\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare a living will to ensure you get the treatment you want\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hire an estate planning team that will meet your needs\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Through practical advice from expert authors, this book helps you ensure that your affairs are in order, and your loved ones will be looked after.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leave what matters to those who matter with this smart, sensible guide\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Worried about what will happen to your assets after you''re gone? Relax! This straightforward, friendly guide will help you create an estate plan and protect your family''s interests. From minimizing estate taxes to selecting an executor to ensuring that your lawyer drafts a will that meets all of your needs, this book will help you put your affairs in order.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the basics â€” understand what estate planning is, why you need a will, and why will kits can cause costly problems for your heirs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce your estate''s tax burden â€” know how estates are taxed and explore strategies that minimize your estate''s taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find a lawyer you can trust â€” know what questions to ask prospective candidates and what information to provide to make the best use of your lawyer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the best insurance option for you â€” find the right amount of protection at the best possible price\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for your children''s future â€” select a guardian for your children and learn how to establish a trust to support them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decide what to do with your small business â€”determine the best time to sell or discover how to hand down your business to your family\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Decipher wills â€” investigate the components of a will and how to help your lawyer craft your ideal will\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect yourself through a living will and power of attorney â€” make certain that you obtain the treatment you want and that your finances are taken care of when you''re ill\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to calculate your estate''s worth\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why giving away some things now may save your estate in taxes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How trusts can help you carry out your wishes after you''re gone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to give to charity that help your favourite cause and your estate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Your funeral options and what they cost\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create a power of attorney\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   When and how to revise your estate plan\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create an estate plan that protects your loved ones\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose an insurance policy that meets your needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Arrange for a living will and power of attorney\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reduce your estate''s tax bill\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2168'),
(20666, 'Wills and Trusts Kit for Dummies', 'Aaron Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Navigate probate, tax issues, and state laws\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create an estate plan and protect your family''s interests\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need a will, but have no idea where to start? This friendly guide shows youhow to prepare a legal will or trust â€” either on your own or with professional help â€” and ensure that your wishes are honored. You''ll handle everything from planning your bequests and writing and signing a will to selecting a trust and drafting your durable power of attorney.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Provide for your children\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hire and work with professionals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minimize tax liabilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Amend or revoke a will or trust\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common estate planning mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Navigate probate, tax issues, and state laws\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create an estate plan and protect your family''s interests\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Need a will, but have no idea where to start? This friendly guide shows youhow to prepare a legal will or trust â€” either on your own or with professional help â€” and ensure that your wishes are honored. You''ll handle everything from planning your bequests and writing and signing a will to selecting a trust and drafting your durable power of attorney.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Provide for your children\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hire and work with professionals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Minimize tax liabilities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Amend or revoke a will or trust\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Avoid common estate planning mistakes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2169'),
(20667, 'Wind in the Willows', 'Kenneth Grahame &amp; Annie Gauger &amp; Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing â€absolutely nothing â€half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. â€the Water Rat to the Mole An instant bestseller upon its initial publication in 1908, The Wind in the Willows has become one of the beloved stories of all time. How could Ratty and Mole have known when they took to the river over one hundred years ago that they would begin a phenomenon that would produce one of the most oft-quoted lines in British literature, and inspire everyone from the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh to Pink Floyd? Drawing from more than a decade of research, Annie Gauger, one of the world "s leading experts on Kenneth Grahame and The Wind in the Willows, now presents a fascinating new annotated edition that reintroduces readers to Otter, curmudgeonly Badger, and rollicking, boastful Toad, while revealing the secrets behind this treasured classic. In The Annotated Wind in the Willows, readers will discover the sheer joy of the original text, restored to the original 1908 version, illustrated with hundreds of full-color images â€including the beloved drawings by E. H. Shepard and Arthur Rackham. This edition also includes Shepard "s famous map of the Wild Wood and rarely seen images by illustrators Graham Robertson, Paul Bransom, Nancy Barnhart, and Wyndham Payne. In an illuminating preface, Gauger explains how Grahame came to write the novel, which began as a bedtime story and then became a series of letters he wrote to his son, Alastair. This edition reproduces the original letters in their entirety and includes nearly a thousand delightful annotations on everything from automobiles (Toad drove an Armstrong Hardcastle Special Eight) and early motorcar etiquette to modern manifestations (Disneyland "s Mr. Toad "s Wild Ride). She reveals how William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, the peculiar Fifth Duke of Portland, built an extensive network of underground tunnels, thus inspiring the character of Badger, and she puts Grahame "s work in literary context, comparing him to Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Finally, new to this edition, long buried in the Kenneth Grahame papers, are the notes, letters, and writings by Alastair Grahame and his governess, including several pieces by Kenneth Grahame himself that have never been published before. With a stunning, lyrical tribute to Grahame by Brian Jacques, the internationally best-selling author of the Redwall series, The Annotated Wind in the Willows should prove a most beautiful and enduring tribute to Grahame "s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(20668, 'Wind Power for Dummies', 'Ian Woofenden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production!\n</p>\n<p>\n Maybe you''re not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard.\n <em>\n  Wind Power For Dummies\n </em>\n supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n This authoritative, plain-English guide walks you through every step of the process, from assessing your site and available wind sources to deciding whether wind power is the solution for you, from understanding the mechanics of wind power and locating a contractor to install your system to producing your own affordable and sustainable electricity.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Guides you step by step through process of selecting, installing, and operating a small-scale wind generator to power your home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Demystifies system configurations, terminology, and wind energy principles to help you speak the language of the pros\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps assess and reduce your energy needs and decide whether wind power is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains the mechanics of home-based wind power\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows you how to tie into the grid and sell energy back to the power company\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers advice on evaluating all of the costs of and financing for your project\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides tips on working with contractors and complying with local zoning laws\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Yes, you can do it, with a little help from\n <em>\n  Wind PowerÂ For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn about home-scale wind energy without getting blown away!\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you thinking about exploring ways you can limit yourhome''s environmental impact, but you''re not sure whethera wind-energy system is right for you? Wind Power For Dummies gives you real-world, easy-to-understand tips and information on each step in the process of acquiring, installing, and maintaining a home-scale wind-energy system. Plus, you''ll learn how to assess your current energy use, increase your home''s energy efficiency, and determine your site''s wind-energy potential.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Getting a wind primer â€” determine whether wind energy is right for you, understand the parts of a basic wind-electric system, and discover basic electricity and wind-energy principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assessing your situation â€” get a realistic understanding of your site''s wind-energy potential and check out alternate options to using wind energy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Assembling your system â€” find helpful advice on designing your wind-electric system, whether you''re doing it yourself or working with experts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Installing and operating your system â€” use trusted tips on safely installing, living with, maintaining, and enjoying your wind-electric system\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Electricity basics defined in clear English\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Vital wind-energy principles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on how to conduct a home energy assessment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on how to increase your home''s energy efficiency\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information on how wind energy will affect your wallet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The basic requirements for a productive, long-lasting system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fundamentals on system sizing and design\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2170'),
(20669, 'Window Treatments and Slipcovers for Dummies', 'Mark Montano &amp; Carly Sommerstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gain inspiration from 8 pages of full-color photos\n</p>\n<p>\n Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that''s uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture -- without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Express your individual style\n <br />\n * Choose fabrics, trims, and hardware\n <br />\n * Ensure the perfect fit\n <br />\n * Create no-sew or low-sew treatments\n <br />\n * Add decorative details\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gain inspiration from 8 pages of full-color photos\n</p>\n<p>\n Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that''s uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture â€” without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Express your individual style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose fabrics, trims, and hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ensure the perfect fit\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create no-sew or low-sew treatments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add decorative details\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2171'),
(20670, 'Windows 7 All-In-One for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eight references in one-fully revised to include all the new features and updates to Windows 7\n</p>\n<p>\n As the #1 operating system in the world, Windows provides the platform upon which all essential computing activities occur. This much-anticiapted version of the popular operating system offers an improved user experience with an enhanced interface to allow for greater user control.\n</p>\n<p>\n This All-in-One reference is packed with valuable information from eight minibooks, making it the ultimate resource. You''ll discover the improved ways in which Windows 7 interacts with other devices, including mobile and home theater.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Windows 7 boasts numerous exciting new features, and this reference is one-stop shopping for discovering them all!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eight minibooks cover Windows 7 basics, security, customizing, the Internet, searching and sharing, hardware, multimedia, Windows media center, and wired and wireless networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses the new multi-touch feature that will allow you to control movement on the screen with your fingers\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this comprehensive guide at your fingertips, you''ll quickly start taking advantages of all the exciting new features of Windows 7.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n What you want to know about Windows 7 is in one of these handy minibooks\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re looking for a Windows 7 guide that goes above and beyond anything you get from Microsoft, start here. With detailed coverage of all of Windows 7, the best Windows add-on programs, in-depth troubleshooting, and much more, this book offers everything from the basics to the secrets of the pros.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What Windows 7 can and can''t do â€” get an honest rundown of the good and not-so-good qualities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making it work â€” set up and customize Windows 7, know what to do about security, and make the system work for you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Control the controls â€” manage user account controls, know when to automatically update and when not to, and handle the Firewall\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have some fun â€” explore Windows games, capture Windows Media streams, set up the Media Center, and make your iPod happy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Safety first â€” learn what the Action Center does and how to show filename extensions, scan for rootkits, and protect your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get the best Windows add-ons â€” discover fabulous free tools, from browsers to antivirus protection to picture editors and music players\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hardware options â€” the scoop on cameras, printers, scanners, memory, USB key drives, and what DeviceStage does\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to get Windows Live Mail and Messenger tools\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Desktop details the way you want them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to dodge problems and protect your PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on improved search features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for sharing files on a home network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Web surfing advice for Internet ExplorerÂ®, FirefoxÂ®, or Google Chrome\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshooting advice\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to avoid zombies, botnets, phishers, and 0day exploits\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2172'),
(20671, 'Windows 7 for Dummies', 'Andy Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The perfect plain-English guide to the much-anticipated release of Windows 7\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows For Dummies\n </em>\n is the all-time bestselling guide to the Windows operating system.\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n answers all your questions about the interface adjustments and all the new tools in Windows 7.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether you''re new to computers or just eager to start using the newest version of Windows, expert author Andy Rathbone will walk you step by step through the most common Windows 7 tasks, including managing files, applications, media, and Internet access. If you''ve never used Windows before, it shows you the things most books assume you already know, like how to navigate the interface, customize the desktop, and work with the file system. Then it helps you get comfortable using all aspects of Windows 7.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Nearly ninety percent of the world''s PCs use the Windows operating system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers basic management of applications, files, and data; creating and printing documents; setting up an Internet connection and e-mail account; and online security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explores using Windows to edit and manage audio, video, and photo files, and how to create CDs, DVDs, and playlists with Media Center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you tweak and customize Windows 7 to operate your way and set up user accounts, build a home network, and maintain your PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides troubleshooting advice, helps you find missing files and use the Help system, and explains common error messages\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Dummies\n </em>\n will have you up and running on the newest version of Windows quickly and easily.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Personalize your Windows 7 desktop with your own photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Speed up Windows with built-in shortcuts\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize Windows warnings to only give the notices you want\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Move your files from your old PC to a Windows 7 computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Windows 7 is loaded with features, tools, and shortcuts designed to make life easier for all users. To learn how they all work, you need this latest version of the book that''s been making Windows clear for years! It starts at Square One, helping you set up Windows 7, use folders and files, get online, play with media, and keep Windows happy.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   New to Windows? â€” Part I is full of stuff everybody thinks you already know, like how to use the Start menu, taskbars, and files\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s new in Windows 7 â€” control the number of prompts and warnings, enjoy plentiful shortcuts, and explore interactive previews\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lost and found â€” use the Search function to locate anything: missing windows, programs, e-mails, songs, photos, files, even other computers on your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cruisin'' with the new Internet Explorer â€” set up and customize Internet Explorer, understand plug-ins, and navigate the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Move your stuff â€” transfer your files from an old PC to your Windows 7 system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where the fun starts â€” play music and movies with Media Player, organize photos, and create slideshows you can put on DVD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep your files safe â€” make backups and create a system repair disk\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Shortcuts for finding photos, music, and video on your PC\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps to setting up separate user accounts for a whole family\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for laptop users\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to get photos from your digital camera to your computer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on managing e-mail with Windows 7\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common Windows 7 headaches and how to avoid them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to create a simple home network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Windows 7''s tools for safe computing\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2173'),
(20672, 'Windows 7 for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This handy reference covers all the must-know elements of Windows 7\n</p>\n<p>\n The much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system brings lots of new elements to Windows, and you may have lots of questions. You''ll find the answers quickly and easily in\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n - a concise, convenient reference you can keep by your PC.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n covers all the information you need most often: tips on navigating the new desktop, launching programs, working with files and folders, getting online and managing e-mail, using special features, and much more. It provides quick, easy-to-find answers that can save you time and hassle every day.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Small size is designed to keep must-have information conveniently at hand\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers all the new features of Windows 7\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gives concise information on navigating the desktop, launching programs, adding and deleting programs, and creating, copying, and deleting files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to create shortcuts, connect to the Internet, search the Web, add favorites, and send and receive e-mail\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers printing as well as how to use Windows Movie Maker and Windows Media Player\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll find what you need to know quickly in\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n , so you can get on with enjoying all you can do with Windows 7.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2174'),
(20673, 'Windows 7 for Seniors for Dummies', 'Mark Justice Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This easy-to-understand guide helps seniors get started with Windows 7!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many seniors use a home computer to stay connected to family and friends. This fun and friendly guide shows how to use Windows 7, the most popular operating system pre-loaded onto personal computers and laptops, to write e-mails, connect with family via Windows Live Messenger, download pictures with Photo Gallery, and listen to music using Windows Media Player.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n uses a large font for the text that makes the book easier to read and it features magnified screen shots to help make the subject matter less intimidating.\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n author Mark Justice Hinton walks you through the basics of Windows 7, shows you how to customize the desktop so that it accommodates your needs, and explains how to use the webcam and instant messenger to keep in contact with family and friends. Plus, you''ll get critical insight for protecting your personal information.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Shows seniors how to stay connected to family and friends using the features of Windows 7\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explains how to use the Internet, send and receive e-mail, upload and download photos, view video, listen to music, play games, use webcam and instant messenger, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses the important topic of keeping data and personal information safe and secure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses a larger font for text and includes more than 150 enlarged screen shots\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n For seniors interested in getting started using the exciting features of Windows 7,\n <em>\n  Windows 7 For Seniors For Dummies\n </em>\n is the ideal beginner guide!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n WindowsÂ® 7 For Seniors for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the Windows 7 desktop and create your first documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect to the Internet and browse the Web\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   View, edit, and print photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Keep in touch by e-mail and play games online\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Mark Justice Hinton\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of Digital Photography For Seniors For Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n You can learn to use Windows, get online, and start doing things today!\n</p>\n<p>\n You don''t need a grandchild to teach you Windows 7 â€” with this friendly guide, you''ll be using the mouse, working with folders, hooking up a printer, and cruising the Internet in nothing flat. Learn to use all the gizmos that come with Windows 7, shop online, view a slideshow of your favorite photos, send e-mail to a friend, enjoy music, and more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tour the desktop â€” learn to use menus, the Start menu button, files, and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do it â€” create notes and letters, connect a printer, download photos from your digital camera, and put music on a CD\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have some fun â€” discover Solitaire and other built-in games, listen to music, and watch a movie\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the accessories â€” display Gadgets on your desktop, draw with Paint, and use the Calculator\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   To keep or not â€” install additional programs you want and remove those you don''t need\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your Windows â€” learn to use the Action Center, download and install virus protection software, and keep it up to date\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Have it your way â€” make your screen easier to see, open files with a single click, and even have your computer read to you\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The wide, wide Web â€” shop and explore online and learn to stay safe\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What''s on the taskbar\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Directions for creating and saving documents\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Steps for installing a printer and other peripherals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to connect to the Internet anywhere\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Backgammon and other games you can play online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidance on protecting your computer from viruses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to send e-mail attachments\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on backing up documents and photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2175'),
(20674, 'Windows 7 Inside Out', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7024'),
(20675, 'Windows 7 The Missing Manual', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4746'),
(20676, 'Windows Middle East Magazine', 'August 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7078'),
(20677, 'Windows Of The Soul', 'Larry Niven, Paul Chafe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Larry Greenberg''s telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. But when Larry''s mind is taken over by an alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind. And when Larry''s mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6306'),
(20678, 'Windows PowerShell 2 for Dummies', 'Steve Seguis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prepare for the future of Microsoft automation with this no-nonsense guide\n</p>\n<p>\n Windows PowerShell 2 is the scripting language that enables automation within the Windows operating system. Packed with powerful new features, this latest version is complex, and\n <em>\n  Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the perfect guide to help system administrators get up to speed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a Microsoft MVP with direct access to the program managers and developers, this book covers every new feature of Windows PowerShell 2 in a friendly, easy-to-follow format.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Windows PowerShell 2 is the updated scripting language that enables system administrators to automate Windows operating systems\n </li>\n <li>\n  System administrators with limited scripting experience will find this book helps them learn the fundamentals of Windows PowerShell 2 quickly and easily\n </li>\n <li>\n  Translates the jargon and complex syntax of Windows PowerShell 2\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers script debugging improvements, the ability to invoke commands remotely, and the new user interface\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses real-world applications to clarify the theory, fundamentals, and techniques of the scripting language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by a Microsoft MVP with direct access to the developers of Windows PowerShell 2\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies\n </em>\n makes this tool easily accessible to administrators of every experience level.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the power to use Windows PowerShell 2 on any Windows system â€” right here!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve heard about Windows PowerShell 2, the Windows scripting environment that''s changing how we think about Windows scripting. This fun and friendly guide gives you a solid understanding of what it is and how to use it, with plenty of real-world examples so you can put the information to good use right away. Your boss will think you''re a genius!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   View from the top â€” get an overview of Windows PowerShell 2 and examine the syntax, structure, and core functionality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Look deeper â€” manipulate strings, work with data structures like arrays and hashtables, and use Windows Management Instrumentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The need for speed â€” see how Windows PowerShell speeds things up by letting you run commands on a remote computer or run multiple commands at once\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   In the real world â€” learn to apply scripts to specific needs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   It does more â€” use Windows PowerShell 2 to manage network configurations, gather hardware info, connect to printers, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for personalizing PowerShell\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about cmdlets\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Things to watch for in value conversions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to internationalize a script\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Debugging tools and how to use them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network configuration tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten common mistakes to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to take advantage of this new feature in Windows 7\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/powershell2fd to find code files for the code listings used in the book and a bonus chapter about exception handling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2176'),
(20679, 'Windows Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™ve been waiting impatiently for the arrival of Windows Server 2008, wait no more! Itâ€™s here, and so is\n <em>\n  Windows Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n to help you install it, configure it, network with it, secure it, command it with Windows PowerShell, and more. Services best practices and the cool IIS Web server are covered too.\n</p>\n<p>\n The eight powerful quick-reference manuals in this one-stop guide cover all the information you need to perform common administrative tasks with Windows Server 2008. Youâ€™ll find sure-handed guidance and considerable detail on everything from installation to figuring out why a user canâ€™t gain access to resources on the server. You also see procedures for all common tasks â€” everything from setting up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to promoting your server to a domain controller. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use Windows Server virtualization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform a complete PC restore\n </li>\n <li>\n  Configure server roles and features\n </li>\n <li>\n  Measure system performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add network clients and protocols\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your server operating at peak performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Monitor network interactions with others\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with Active Directory RMS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use best practices for implementing security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement scripts and cmdlets with PowerShell\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uncloak viruses masquerading as services\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Windows Server 2008 contains so many features that itâ€™s sometimes hard to know which one to install. No problem! Just flip open\n <em>\n  Windows Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n and find your answer in a flash!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers the all-new Windows Server 2008!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to setting up, using, and maintaining Windows Server 2008\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If, like many system administrators, you''ve been waiting impatiently for the arrival of Windows Server 2008, wait no more! It''s here, and so is this book to help you install it, configure it, network with it, secure it, command it with Windows PowerShell, and more. Services best practices and the cool IIS Web server are covered, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use Windows Server Virtualization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Perform a complete PC restore\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure server roles and features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add network clients and protocols\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with Active Directory RMS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2177'),
(20680, 'Windows Server 2008 for Dummies', 'Ed Tittel &amp; Justin Korelc', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If youâ€™re curious, but hesitant, about finding your way around Microsoftâ€™s new Windows Server 2008,\n <em>\n  Windows Server 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n is the book for you. This friendly reference shows you everything you need to know â€” from installation and deployment to building and running a Windows Server 2008 network.\n</p>\n<p>\n Server-based networking really is a big deal, and this 100% plain-English guide helps you make the most of it. Youâ€™ll find out about Windows Server 2008â€™s important functions, capabilities and requirements; develop a network implementation plan; take a step-by-step walkthrough of the installation process; and get valuable tips on how to boost your bandwidth beyond belief! Before you know it, youâ€™ll be configuring connections to the Universe, working with active directory, and treating domains and controllers like old pals. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build and connect your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and configure Windows Server 2008\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up and manage directory services\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage users and groups\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and manage print servers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Secure your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot active networks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for installing Active Directory\n </li>\n <li>\n  Proclaim and manage your own domain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Resolve names between TCP/IP and NetBIOS\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage shares, permissions, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop and implement a regular backup protocol\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows Server 2008 For Dummies\n </em>\n may be easy-going, but itâ€™s simply packed with need-to-know stuff that will send you diving into Windows Server 2008 experience just for the fun of it. So start now!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Windows Server 2008 administration explained in plain English\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take advantage of enhanced features, functions, and capabilities\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re curious â€” but hesitant â€” to start using Microsoft''s newest enterprise operating system, then this is the book for you! Within this friendly reference, you''ll find everything you need to know about Windows Server 2008. From installation and deployment to building and running a Windows Server 2008â€“based network, you''ll gain the knowledge you need to use Windows Server 2008 immediately.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Install and configure Windows Server 2008\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Manage users and groups\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secure your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Troubleshoot problems\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for and install Active Directory\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2178'),
(20681, 'Windows Server 2008 Portable Command Guide', 'D. Gibson (Pearson, 2011) WW', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4219'),
(20682, 'Windows The Official Magazine 08-2011', 'Windows The Official Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3177'),
(20683, 'Windows The Official Magazine 09-2011', 'Windows The Official Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3290');
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(20684, 'Windows Vista All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With Vista, Windows has had an extreme makeover. Many of the features that were old friends in Windows XP now look and act differently. And if youâ€™re thinking of upgrading to Vista but havenâ€™t done it yet, wow â€” there are eight different versions! How do you know which one to choose?\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s easy â€” look in Book One of\n <em>\n  Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies.\n </em>\n Windows expert Woody Leonhard starts off this everything-you-want-to-know-about -Vista guide by helping you choose the version that fits your needs. He follows that with minibooks Two through Nine, each devoted to one specific area â€” setting up, securing, and customizing Vista, going online, adding cool hardware, getting the most from multimedia, exploring Vista video, and setting up a network. Youâ€™ll find out about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ripping and burning discs of data, music, or movies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organizing desktop files and folders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Collecting and editing your digital photos in the Photo Gallery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Controlling users, making backups, and maintaining your system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Locking down your system to deflect spam, scams, spyware, phishers, and viruses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Exploring alternatives to Internet Explorer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adding hard drives, printers, key drives, USB hubs, and other hardware\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making movies, adding music to your iPod, and setting up Media Center\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Covering almost anything you will ever need to know for a long and happy relationship with Vista,\n <em>\n  Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n is a guide youâ€™ll refer to again and again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9 books in 1 â€” your key to Windows Vista survival!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your one-stop guide to new Vista features, video, music, networks, cool hardware, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Tame and tease Vista''s new features with the expert advice in these handy minibooks. From gadgets to glass, desktops to downloads, backups to browsers, find what you need to know about Vista, iPods, free antivirus software, pictures, scumbusting, Windows renovation and resuscitation, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose and install the right Vista version\n </li>\n <li>\n  Rip and burn discs of data, music, or movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your desktop files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Spruce up pictures in the Photo Gallery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play music and podcasts anywhere\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2179'),
(20685, 'Windows Vista for Dummies', 'Andy Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create music CDs and photo DVDs or even watch TV\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Move your files to a new computer, or get your old PC ready for Vista\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The thing that''s made\n <em>\n  Windows For Dummies\n </em>\n so successful is that it''s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find files when they''re hiding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hook up with another computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make Vista work like XP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Block Internet bad guys\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share a PC without sharing your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix problems yourself\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Create music CDs and photo DVDs or even watch TV\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Move your files to a new computer, or get your old PC ready for Vista\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The thing that''s made\n <em>\n  Windows For Dummies\n </em>\n so successful is that it''s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Find files when they?re hiding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hook up with another computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make Vista work like XP\n </li>\n <li>\n  Block Internet bad guys\n </li>\n <li>\n  Share a PC without sharing your files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fix problems yourself\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2180'),
(20686, 'Windows Vista for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Readers will save themselves time and energy by using this handy, A-to-Z reference to quickly find answers regarding the exciting new release of Windows Vista\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes helpful information on the new features of Vista, such as the task-based interface, sidebar, gadgets, new "Aero" interface, 3D-look option, heightened security, new search capabilities, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers navigating the desktop, launching programs, adding programs, removing programs, creating files, copying files and folders, and deleting files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Accessible organization of topics also shows readers how to create shortcuts, connect to the Internet, search the Web, add favorites, use the new file management system, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fast answers to frequently asked questions\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Windows Vista essentials at your fingertips!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you can easily find what you need to know about Vista''s new Aero Glass interface, managing your files and folders, cool new networking capabilities, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Mail, speech recognition, security, entertainment features, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2181'),
(20687, 'Windows Vista Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Nancy C. Muir', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Covering the new features and capabilities of Windows Vista, this book gets readers up to speed fast on interface changes, security options, and setup processes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simple, easy-to-follow instructions for common Windows Vista tasks show readers how to carry out essential activities and gain competence and confidence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bargain-priced at only $14.99, this book explains how to navigate the desktop, create files, copy and delete files and folders, connect to the Internet, search the Web, use e-mail, and much more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Just the steps you need to get going with Vista today!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Simple steps...\n</p>\n<p>\n ...for great results\n</p>\n<p>\n Move a File or Folder\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Right-click Start menu button and choose Explore.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the resulting Windows Explorer window (see Figure 3-8), double-click a folder or series of folders to locate the file that you want to move.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take the following action:\n  <br />\n  Click and drag the file to another folder in the Folders pane on the left side of the window. If you right-click and drag, you are offered the options of moving or copying the item when you place it via the shortcut menu that appears.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get Ready To\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use built-in Windows applications\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get online safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use anti-virus and anti-spyware tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play games, music, and slide shows\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2182'),
(20688, 'Windows XP All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The cover of\n <em>\n  Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies\n </em>\n boasts that it''s "nine books in one." That''s a stretch--it''s really a book about Microsoft Windows XP for novices, with supplementary information about America Online and MSN--but cover claims aside, this book represents a good value for someone new to computing. Woody Leonhard--a respected Windows authority who writes with enough humor to keep things light but not so much as to obscure the facts--begins with how to use a mouse and works all the way through installing printers and setting up a little network in a home or small office. Granted, if you''ve found this page on the Internet you probably don''t need Leonhard''s "how-to-click" tutorial, but you may be shopping for someone unfamiliar with Windows. This book is good for such people.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the nine separate indexes (one at the end of each included "book") will annoy you--the unified one at the back of this book is much easier to find and use--Leonhard''s style will compensate. He''s very good at explaining how to do what Windows XP was meant to do, up to a certain level. Want to add a music file to a Windows Media Player playlist? There''s a procedure for that. Want to cancel AOL because you can''t stand it? He explains how. He does not, however, provide detail on more complicated jobs like setting up a cable modem or dealing with the specific security risk posed by Universal Plug and Play. Overall, this is a nicely written, friendly book that covers Windows XP well, but to a limited depth.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered:\n </strong>\n Microsoft Windows XP for home users, particularly novices. Windows XP fundamentals (like windows and the mouse pointer), customization, Internet tools (including Outlook Express and Internet Explorer), America Online (AOL), Microsoft Network (MSN), printers, small networks, and Internet connectivity are all addressed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Windows is the number one operating system in the world.Â  Thereâ€™s a lot to Windows XP, with office productivity applications, multimedia features, the Internet, and security upgrades. Now and then, you probably wish you could call Tech Support.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s when youâ€™ll be grateful to have nine books about Windows XP in one â€”\n <em>\n  Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition\n </em>\n .Â  It replaces a whole shelf of reference books and covers\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Windows XP basics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customization\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Internet Explorer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Microsoft Network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hardware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Multimedia\n </li>\n <li>\n  Windows Media Center\n </li>\n <li>\n  Wired and wireless networks\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Fully updated with the latest information on Microsoftâ€™s improved security features, the newest on multimedia applications and Windows Media Center, and plenty of additional stuff to help you decide about broadband Internet connections, this edition of\n <em>\n  Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n makes Windows XP manageable.Â Â  It helps you\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get started with Windows XP, search for files, use shortcuts, deal with common problems, and take advantage of built-in help\n </li>\n <li>\n  Customize your desktop, menus, icons, and startup programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your PC by using Windows Firewall, appropriate virus protection, and other security measures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Compare browsers, connect to the Internet, choose the right e-mail program, and manage newsgroups and chats\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with digital images, download and play music, burn CDs, find out about digital camcorders, and create movies with Movie Maker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decide whether a Media Center PC is right for you\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a home network and troubleshoot any problems that come up\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With thumbtabs that make it easy to find what youâ€™re looking for and the famous\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n cheat sheet in the front, this book is designed to make life with Windows XP a lot easier, happier, safer, and a whole lot more fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2183'),
(20689, 'Windows XP Digital Music for Dummies', 'Ryan C. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now you can give new meaning to the description â€œHigh-performance computer!â€ And you can even choose the performersâ€”Elvis or Elton, the Beatles or Beethoven, Eminem or Englebert, Pfish or Pavarotti. Your Windows XP is like a concert hall, and\n <em>\n  Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies\n </em>\n is just the ticket to get you in and get you enjoying digital music. It will help you get in tune with the times with note-by-note information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Setting up your computer to handle music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Windows Media Player thatâ€™s part of the XP package\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making your computer the centerpiece of your music collection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shopping for and downloading music from Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, and more internet sites\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selecting the hardware, software, and audio tools you need\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Ryan Williams, an accomplished musician with an MS in Music Technology who develops digital multimedia tools, this guide helps you explore:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Transferring your CDs or even vinyl records (if you have them, you know what they are) to the realm of your computer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing and using portable audio players\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrading your PC and turning it into a jukebox with your all-time favorite hits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organizing and burning your music to disc for use in other types of devices, like traditional CD or DVD players\n </li>\n <li>\n  Souping up your computer and making it a virtual studio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Laying down basic tracks and mixing them\n </li>\n <li>\n  Taking the finished product to disk, the Internet, and elsewhere\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Hear what youâ€™ve been missing. With\n <em>\n  Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies,\n </em>\n you and your Windows XP can make beautiful (or raucous, harmonious, hip-hop, rousing, jazzy, inspiringâ€”whatever your taste) digital music together!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Find out where music is available online, what''s legal, and what''s free\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlock the sound in your PC with the right software, hardware, and know-how\n</p>\n<p>\n Beneath your Windows XP PC''s staid image as a word processor and number cruncher, there''s a music machine longing to get out and play! Set the music free with this friendly guide. Discover the best places to buy music and how to download songs, organize your tunes, take them with you, and even record your own!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Set up your computer to play music\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make electronic files of your old vinyl records\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use an iPodÂ® with your Windows PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Organize your collection\n </li>\n <li>\n  Turn your PC into a recording studio\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2184'),
(20690, 'Windows XP for Dummies', 'Andy Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Windows XP for Dummies\n </em>\n does a good job in its role as the flagship of the Dummies line, providing Windows novices with a guided introduction to Microsoft''s latest and most feature-rich operating system for everyday computer users. Its treatment of computer, Windows, and Internet fundamentals is among the best on the market, and author Andy Rathbone has an appealing way of writing that''s simultaneously fun and detail-rich. If you''re a Windows novice--meaning you don''t know how to undelete a file that''s been sent to the Recycle Bin, or what a Web browser is, or what it means to "cut and paste" text--you will get a lot out of Rathbone''s work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Some aspects of this book could be better, such as the part of the networking chapter that calls for an Ethernet hub without noting that a switch, though possibly more expensive, would do the job better, without any additional hassle. The networking coverage also does an inadequate job of explaining how to share a cable modem or DSL connection among several computers. This is a serious shortcoming, and we''re getting to the point in our evolution as a society of computer users at which we can assume that everyone knows what the "Cancel" button does and would rather read about the newer, more exciting things that Windows XP can do. Even the dummies aren''t\n <em>\n  that\n </em>\n dumb anymore.\n</p>\n<p>\n But that said--and Rathbone does confine a lot of the really elementary stuff to a skinny introductory chapter--this book is a boon to people who aren''t familiar with Windows XP or its immediate predecessors (including Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me). It''s also great for people who have learned a little about Windows on the job or from their kids, and want to expand on what they know.\n <em>\n  --David Wall\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered:\n </strong>\n Microsoft Windows XP for people completely unfamiliar with the operating system and other recent versions of Windows. Coverage includes how to run programs, move and delete files, connect to the Internet, and use applications like electronic mail programs, Web browsers, and multimedia players.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦the most well-known range of computer booksâ€¦â€ (_Computer Active_, January 2005)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will enjoy reading this bouncy, overwhelming accessible textâ€¦.gives a peek at the next generation of Windows genius.â€ (_Good Book Guide_, December 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦sure to be a huge sellerâ€¦â€ (_Publishing News_, July 2004)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2185'),
(20691, 'Windows XP for Dummies Quick Reference', 'Greg Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Next to your keyboard and mouse, this could be your most important accessory. Just\n <em>\n  keep\n </em>\n it next to your keyboard and your mouse and refer to it to capitalize on the terrific capabilities at your fingertips with Windows XP.\n <em>\n  Windows XP For Dummies Quick Reference Second Edition\n </em>\n covers the latest updates to Windows XP, including enhanced security and changes to Internet Explorer. It starts with the basics for true beginners, goes through everyday stuff, and progresses to the Web, accessories, and the control panel. After a quick introduction to the desktop, My Documents, dialogue boxes, and other basic info, youâ€™ll explore:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customizing your desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Saving music with Windows Media Player\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browsing drives, folders and files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dragging, dropping, cutting, and pasting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Playing music, videos and movies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Browsing with Internet Explorer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sending and receiving e-mails\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Windows Accessories\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Greg Harvey, author of\n <em>\n  Excel 2002 For Dummies\n </em>\n and more than 50 other computer books,\n <em>\n  Windows XP For Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n is so clear and concise it turns computer phobes into computer geeks with step-by-step guides to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Using the Home Networking Wizard so two or more home computers can share a single Internet connection and other resources\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating slideshows with your graphics files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Producing videos with Windows Movie Maker accessory program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Downloading Microsoft Reader free and then downloading eBooks (many are free) and saving them in My Library\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the link to the Photo Printing Wizard to format and print your digital photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Windows Media Player to play audio, video, and animation files youâ€™ve saved, play Internet radio stations, view trailers for upcoming movies, and play MP3 audio files youâ€™ve downloaded\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with a glossary and index,\n <em>\n  Windows XP For Dummies Quick Reference\n </em>\n doesnâ€™t delve into the technology and terminology: it sticks to exploring the things Windows XP lets you do and describing how to!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers the latest Windows XP updates including Service Pack 2\n</p>\n<p>\n Windows XP essentials at your fingertips!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you''ll get the latest information on Windows XP, including the hot new updates in Service Pack 2. From navigating the desktop, launching programs, and creating files to the new firewall, wireless user interface, and Windows Movie Maker 2, find what you need in a hurry!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2186'),
(20692, 'Windows XP Gigabook for Dummies', 'Peter Weverka &amp; Mark L. Chambers &amp; Greg Harvey &amp; Woody Leonhard &amp; John R. Levine &amp; Margaret Levine Young &amp; Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦without doubt the most comprehensiveâ€¦absolutely superbâ€¦9 out of 10â€¦â€ (_Indie Magazine_, August 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦something of a bargainâ€¦easy-to-followâ€¦â€ (_PC Utilities_, July 2004)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whatâ€™s a Gigabook? A collection of just about everything you need to know on a topic, all in one convenient place!Â \n <em>\n  Windows XP Gigabook For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the best from five other\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books and squeezes out everything but the most important stuff. This single super-sized reference â€” more than 800 pagesâ€™ worth â€” gives you a go-to guide on everything connected with Windows XP, PCs and peripherals, the Internet, Office 2003, and Money 2004. You might think of it as a â€œgreatest hitsâ€ collection.\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to know how to set up, navigate, use, and maintain Windows XP? Itâ€™s all in Book I. Book II covers the care and feeding of PCs in general and takes you on a complete tour of peripheralsâ€”those add-ons that make computing cool. Want to explore the world via the World Wide Web? Check Book III. And if you finally have to do some work, check into Book IV, where youâ€™ll get the complete story on Office 2003 and Money 2004. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize Windows XP, set up user accounts, and share files\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with digital photos, Windows Media Player, and Windows Movie Maker\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose a printer, scanner, game hardware, and additional storage\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless home network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get online safely, protect your kids, create your own Web pages, and cruise for bargains on eBay\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your finances with Microsoft Money\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WindowsÂ XP Gigabook For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with information thatâ€™s easy to find and even easier to understand. Keep it handy for referenceâ€”youâ€™ll be gigapleased with how useful it is!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2187'),
(20693, 'Windows XP Hacks &amp; Mods for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever feel as though Windows XP was running YOU, instead of the other way around? Maybe it''s time to show Windows who''s boss. Make it run YOUR way. Get rid of the stuff that doesn''t help you do what you want to do. Soup up security so you''re better protected against spyware and other nasties. Find things faster with more efficient searches.Â  Woody Leonhard shows you exactly how to do it in\n <em>\n  Windows XP Hacks &amp; Mods For Dummies.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t let the word "hack" intimidate you. Woody walks you through every suggested adjustment step by step. He even provides plenty of explanation about what''s involved and what tools you need.\n <em>\n  Windows XP Hacks &amp; Mods For Dummies\n </em>\n even gives you a convenient list of common hacks you should avoid because they donâ€™t accomplish much.Â You''ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eliminate the annoying features that came pre-installed on your PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your system performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pin programs, folders, files, and Web pages so they appear on your Start menu\n </li>\n <li>\n  Launch applications more quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost the performance of your favorite games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the most from your iPod and Windows Media Player\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate peer-to-peer file sharing safely\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find free virus protection\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In the fun and friendly Dummies style, Woody Leonhard gives you tons of helpful advice to make your relationship with Windows XP a lot more rewarding.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make Windows XP look, feel, and act the way you want\n</p>\n<p>\n Simplify searches, find free virus protection, and make Windows love your iPodÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Hacks? Mods? Don''t be frightened â€” this book walks you through each and every one, and even steers you clear of well-known hacks that don''t really accomplish anything. See how some simple tools can help you take control and create settings you can actually use, shortcuts that simplify your life, security measures that really work, and lots more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Remove features you never use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up system performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Launch applications more quickly\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fight spyware more effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get peak performance from your XP games\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2188'),
(20694, 'Windows XP Just the Steps for Dummies', 'Nancy Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The perfect combination of concise instructions and results-oriented visual elements provides readers with a fast and easy understanding of Windows XP essentials\n </li>\n <li>\n  Simple, easy-to-follow instructions walk readers through basic Windows XP tasks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers such topics as navigating the desktop, creating files, copying and deleting files and folders, connecting to the Internet, searching the Web, using e-mail, and much more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Minimal front matter, a bargain price, and the clear two-column design come together to make a unique, indispensable resource\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the latest Service Pack 2 release from Microsoft\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simple steps...\n</p>\n<p>\n ...for great results\n</p>\n<p>\n View Images in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Locate an image file on your hard drive, network, or storage media by using Windows Explorer. (Choose Startâ€¢All Programsâ€¢Accessoriesâ€¢Windows Explorer.)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Right-click the filename or icon, choose Open Withâ€¢Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and see your image in the window shown in Figure 3-8.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n You can easily view several images as a slide show. Simply select and open a group of images. Then click the Start Slide Show icon (or press F11) to begin a full-screen slide show of images.\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  You can click any of the tools at the bottom including the Rotate Clockwise and Rotate Counterclockwise icons, which spin the image 90 degrees at a time (see Figure 3-9).\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n Get Ready To\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customize the Windows desktop\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with files and folders\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot software problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make Windows more secure\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get on the Internet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up new hardware\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2189'),
(20695, 'Windows Xp Media Center PC for Dummies', 'Daniel D. Briere &amp; Pat Hurley &amp; Patrick J. Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The fun and easy way to get up and running quickly with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, the new operating system version specially outfitted for TV, DVD, video, music, and digital photo applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Media Center PCs are the first PCs to feature an easy-to-use interface and all preconfigured hardware and preloaded software needed to create a complete integrated home entertainment system\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explains how to integrate a home computer network with a home theater system, control connected TVs with the Remote Control Interface, record TV programs using a TiVo-like recorder, acquire and play back music files, organize digital videos and photos, play DVD movies, and much more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Written by the authors of Home Theater For Dummies (0-7645-1801-1)and Wireless Home Networking For Dummies (0-7645-3910-8), who worked closely with Media Center Edition product management at Microsoft to complete the book.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get the most from your Windows MCE 2004\n</p>\n<p>\n Watch and record TV, play music, and manage your home videos from your PC\n</p>\n<p>\n Your Media Center PC is the wave of the future, and hereâ€™s the scoop on the newest edition, Windows MCE 2004! With this book and your Media Center PC, you can turn your entire home into an entertainment center. Find out how to choose and set up this amazing PC, network all your audio and video stuff, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Plan your home computing and entertainment system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and configure a Media Center PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Record live TV shows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play and record DVDs, CDs, MP3s, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build a home networkbased on an MCE PC\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot problems\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2190'),
(20696, 'Windows XP Timesaving Techniques for Dummies', 'Woody Leonhard &amp; Justin Leonhard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Computers were supposed to save us time, but Windows XP users know how often the opposite seems to be true. What if you could get a list of shortcuts that would save you time every single day?\n <em>\n  Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n includes 70 of them, great tips and tricks that make Windows work faster, more reliably, and more like the way\n <em>\n  you\n </em>\n work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Collected and tested by Windows guru Woody Leonhard, these timesavers are organized into groups of related tasks so you can quickly find the ones that will help you at any given time. You can set up your desktop and launch your programs in the way that makes sense for you, take back control of the Internet and e-mail, manage your music and visual media, and protect your system in a few simple steps. Youâ€™ll find no-nonsense advice on\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eliminating irritating programs that start automatically\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speeding up the restart or shutdown process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Streamlining searches, the Start menu, and Outlook Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strengthening your firewall and zapping scumware\n </li>\n <li>\n  Adjusting your monitor to reduce eyestrain\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reducing download time for photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Enhancing the performance of your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making online shopping faster as well as safer\n </li>\n <li>\n  Scheduling maintenance chores to run while you sleep\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n From the most basic to somewhat advanced tricks designed for power users, this grocery list of timesavers has something for every Windows XP userâ€” including you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Improve security, find files faster, and post pictures online\n</p>\n<p>\n Over 70 techniques that help you save time by:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Customizing the desktop and Start menu\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speeding the restart or shutdown process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Preventing automatic program launches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Streamlining OutlookÂ® Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strengthening your Windows XP firewall\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decreasing download time for pictures\n </li>\n <li>\n  Zapping spyware, adware, and unwanted cookies\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2191'),
(20697, 'Windows: The Official Magazine - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6564'),
(20698, 'Windows.The.Official.Magazine-11.2011-Slicer.pdf 22-09-2011', 'Windows.The.Official.Magazine-11.2011-Slicer.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6697'),
(20699, 'Wine All-In-One for Dummies', 'Ed Mccarthy &amp; Maryann Egan &amp; Tony Aspler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An all-inclusive, easy-to-use primer to all things wine\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to learn about wine, but don''t know where to start?\n <em>\n  Wine All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n provides comprehensive information about the basics of wine in one easy-to-understand volume. Combining the bestselling\n <em>\n  Wine For Dummies\n </em>\n with our regional and specific wine titles, this book gives you the guidance you need to understand, purchase, drink and enjoy wine.\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ll start at the beginning as you discover how wine is made. From there you''ll explore grape varieties and vineyards, read labels and wine lists, and discover all the nuances of tasting wine. You''ll see how to successfully store wine and serve it to your guests-and even build up an impressive collection of wine. Plus, you''ll find suggestions for perfect food pairings and complete coverage on wines from around the world.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features wine tasting, serving, storing, collecting, and buying tips, all in a single authoritative volume\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes information on California wines, as well as other domestic and foreign locations including the US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Helps you choose the best vintage for your needs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also covers champagne, sherry, and port wine\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan are the authors of seven Dummies books on wine including the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Wine For Dummies, 4th Edition\n  </em>\n  , other contributing authors are recognized wine experts and journalists in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether you''re a wine novice or a budding sommelier,\n <em>\n  Wine All-In-One For Dummies\n </em>\n is the one guide you need on your shelf to make your wine experience complete.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wine all-in-one for Dummies\n</p>\n<p>\n 5 books in 1\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wine For Dummies, 4th Edition\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   French Wine For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Italian Wine For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   California Wine For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Australian &amp; New Zealand Wine For Dummies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ed McCarthy, CWE\n</p>\n<p>\n Wine journalist\n</p>\n<p>\n Mary Ewing-Mulligan\n</p>\n<p>\n Master of Wine\n</p>\n<p>\n Maryann Egan\n</p>\n<p>\n Wine journalist\n</p>\n<p>\n Your comprehensive guide to all things wine\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to learn about wine but don''t know where to start? This value-packed guide gives you all the information you need to understand, purchase, drink, and enjoy wine. You''ll discover how wine is made, explore grape varieties and vineyards, read labels and wine lists, see how to taste and store wine, build an impressive wine collection, make perfect food pairings, learn about wines from around the world, and much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get to know the hows and whys â€” see how grapes become wine and get all the expert tips you need to confidently buy, serve, taste, and store wine\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Become a collector â€” gain the knowledge you need to build an impressive wine collection\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take a trip to France â€” travel region by region through France''s wine production and savor Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Rh?ne, and Champagne\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Next stop, Italy â€” get a detailed introduction to Italy''s broad range of wines and learn about the new wines and wine zones\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Come back to California â€” from Napa Valley to Sonoma County to Southern California, sample the greats of the top-selling wines in the United States\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Meet the up-and-comers â€” visit Australia and New Zealand to experience the lush vineyards and get recommendations for bargains, splurges, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   From the Old to the New World â€” from Spain to Germany, from Chile to South Africa, explore the beauty of such offerings as Portuguese Port, Argentine Malbec, and German Riesling\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Thorough descriptions of wines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Coverage of the prominent wine-making countries\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Delightful food pairings\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details of the different grape-growing climates and soils\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common wine pitfalls to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Details on wines from around the world\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for becoming a wiser wine drinker and buyer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wines that are worth the search\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2192'),
(20700, 'Wine for Dummies', 'Ed Mccarthy &amp; Mary Ewing-mulligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If youâ€™re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on whatâ€™s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If youâ€™re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what youâ€™ve been missing and show you how to get started. It begins with the basic types of wine, how wines are made, and more. Then it gets down to specifics:  How to handle snooty wine clerks, navigate restaurant wine lists, decipher cryptic wine labels, and dislodge stubborn corks How to sniff and taste wine How to store and pour wine and pair it with food Four white wine styles: fresh, unoaked; earthy; aromatic; rich, oaky Four red wine styles: soft, fruity, and relatively light-bodied; mild-mannered, medium-bodied; spicy; powerful, full-bodied, and tannic Whatâ€™s happening in the â€œOld Worldâ€ of wine, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and Greece Whatâ€™s how (and whatâ€™s not) in the New World of Wine, including Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa U.S. wines from California, Oregon, Washington, and New York Bubbling beauties and medieval sweets: champagne, sparkling wines, sherry, port, and other exotic dessert wines   Authors Ed McCarthy, CWE, who is a regular contributor to Wine Enthusiast and The Wine Journal and Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW, who owns the International Wine Center in New York, have co-authored six wine books in the For Dummies series. In an easy-to-understand, unpretentious style thatâ€™s as refreshing as a glass of Chardonnay on a summer day, they provide practical information to help you enjoy wine, including:  Real Deal symbols that alert you to good wines that are low in price compared to other wines of similar type, style, or quality A Vintage Wine Chart with specifics on numerous wines Info on ordering wine from out of state, collecting wine, and more   Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition is not just a great resource and reference, itâ€™s a good read. Itâ€™s full-bodied, yet lightâ€¦rich, yet crispâ€¦robust, yet refreshingâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2193'),
(20701, 'The Wings of Pegasus', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  McCaffrey continues to develop her future world in which psionic Talents, once feared and despised, are by now necessary to the comfort and conduct of society. Following the events in To Ride, Pegasus and set a generation or so before The Rowan , this era finds mankind not yet having settled planets outside the solar system. Even with officially mandated birth control, the world teems with too many people. Essential to the construction of a space station being built to serve as springboard to the stars are the services of the Talents--particularly the telekinetics, who can move objects by mental power. Telepath Rhyssa Owen, a top official of the Center for Parapsychic Talents, must contend with the station''s construction manager, who treats Talents brutally and otherwise discourages them from working for her. Meanwhile two youngsters are found to be unusually Talented: Peter Reidinger overcomes paralysis to develop the first gestalt with electrical generators (this becomes the basis for future space travel), while Tirlap, an illegal child from the vertical slums, facilitates communication among a wide variety of cultures. Meanwhile, kidnappers prey on children for pederastic pursuits and for spare parts. McCaffrey''s world of the Talented is as vivid as that of Pern and its dragons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6280'),
(20702, 'Winnie Childs / The Shop Girl', 'C. N. Williamson &amp; A. M. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5956'),
(20703, 'Winning at Internet Poker for Dummies', 'Mark &quot;the Red&quot; Harlan &amp; Chris Derossi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "easy-to-follow guide" and also "great value" (_The Manx Independent,_ July 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Take poker online the fun and easy way!\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, 50 million people were playing poker recreationally or professionally. Now that number is more than 100 million, including a huge influx of young people. Online betting is up nearly four-fold over the past year, with total wagers running over $30 billion.\n <strong>\n  Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies\n </strong>\n provides the lowdown on the hottest game around, highlighting the best sites and virtual games and showing how to make secure online bets. The book covers setting up an account, securing funds, navigating a basic online poker game, using Internet abbreviations and lingo, observing online poker etiquette, playing popular online poker games such as Texas Hold ''Em and Omaha, devising a winning strategy, and participating in tournaments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2194'),
(20704, 'WIRED_2011-11.pdf 10-10-2011', 'WIRED_2011-11.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10647'),
(20705, 'Wireless All in One for Dummies', 'Sean Walberg &amp; Loyd Case &amp; Joel Durham Jr. &amp; Derek Torres', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Link up, connect, or create a network-with no wires attached!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With such an amazing abundance of electronic devices available in our daily lives, wouldn''t it be nice to eliminate getting wrangled by all those wires? With this guide by your side, a team of technical authors walks you through creating a network in your home or office-without the expense and hassle of stringing cable or paying a network administrator.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight self-contained minibooks answer your questions about wireless devices and wireless networks and address everything from hardware security to wireless hobbies and GPS. Clear, step-by-step instructions show you how to link your TV, computers, PDAs, laptops, TiVo, and sound systems to your wireless network.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Discover how to configure networks and create a completely wireless environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate various hardware into your wireless network, such as notebook computers, handheld devices, sound systems, and printers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tackle common security issues and best troubleshooting practices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn all the basics of wireless computing and how to make it work for you\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With this book, it''s easier than ever to to create an office or home network on a Windows platform. Don''t be a bird on a wire-become a part of a wireless world!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Declare your independence from wires! Here''s what you need to make it happen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n All types of personal electronics have wireless capacity these days â€” you just need to know how to take advantage of it. The minibooks in this handy guide help you choose the right networking hardware, configure printers for wireless access, synchronize your smartphone with your wireless network, plug security leaks, and even get into GPS!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Yank the plug â€” discover the hardware you''ll need and consider the pros and cons of being "always on"\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan the network â€” decide what to include and make your shopping list\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Configure â€” learn how Windows facilitates wireless networking and how to create a bridge between wired and wireless\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Feel secure â€” get the rundown on wireless vulnerabilities and how to lock them down\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Hit the road â€” know how to preserve your laptop battery, watch TV from anywhere with SlingBox, and use hotspots\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network everything â€” explore cell phone services, cordless phones, FRS radio, Bluetooth, and other technologies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Entertain â€” expand with wireless home entertainment, streaming audio and video, and Amazon''s eBook service\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find yourself â€” get the scoop on wireless GPS units and what to do with them\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What you can do on a wireless network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for planning a network without going broke\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to play music with a media server\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Internet threats and how to foil them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to balance your wants with your budget\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about wireless cards\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Why you should consider a DSS phone\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Cool ways to use GPS\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2195');
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(20706, 'Wireless Home Networking for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Pat Hurley &amp; Edward Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wireless home networks are better than ever! The emergence of new industry standards has made them easier, more convenient, less expensive to own and operate. Still, you need to know what to look for (and look out for), and the expert guidance youâ€™ll find in Wireless Home Networks For Dummies, 3rd Edition helps you ensure that your wire-free life is also a hassle-free life!\n</p>\n<p>\n This user-friendly, plain-English guide delivers all of the tips, tricks, and knowledge you need to plan your wireless home network, evaluate and select the equipment that will work best for you, install and configure your wireless network, and much more. Youâ€™ll find out how to share your Internet connection over your network, as well as files, printers, and other peripherals. And, youâ€™ll learn how to avoid the â€œgotchasâ€ that can creep in when you least expect them. Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Choose the right networking equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and configure your wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Integrate Bluetooth into your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with servers, gateways, routers, and switches\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect audiovisual equipment to your wireless network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play wireless, multiuser computer games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Establish and maintain your networkâ€™s security\n </li>\n <li>\n  Troubleshoot networking problems\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve network performance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand 802.11n\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Whether youâ€™re working with Windows PCs, Mac OS X machines, or both\n <em>\n  Wireless Home Networking For Dummies, 3rd Edition,\n </em>\n makes it fast and easy to get your wireless network up and runningâ€”and keep it that way!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers Wi-Fi (including 802.11n) Bluetooth, ZigBee, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Share stuff safely and wirelessly on Windows PCs or Mac OS X machines\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Why go wireless? It''s easy, convenient, inexpensive, and, with the emergence of new industry standards, better than ever! These experts know what you should look for (and look out for). They''ll walk you through the pros and cons of the different standards, planning and installing your network, setting up security, and getting the most from your investment.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Choose the right networking equipment\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Integrate BluetoothÂ® into your network\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Work with servers, gateways, routers, and switches\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Protect your network from intruders\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand 802.11n\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2196'),
(20707, 'Wireless Home Networking for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Pat Hurley &amp; Edward Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get hooked up without getting tangled up in cords, wires, cables\n <em>\n  or\n </em>\n techno mumbo_._ With\n <em>\n  Wireless Home Networking For Dummies\n </em>\n , you can go wireless without going mad.Â  It shows you how to plan, install, secure, and use a wireless home network for PCs or Macs. See how easy it is to share your Internet connection, files, folders, printers, and other peripherals. Put your gaming console on your wireless network and play multiuser computer gamesâ€”Â­even online. With lots of helpful diagrams, screen shots, and step-by-step instructions, this guide:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Gives you the info you need to make wise wireless buying and connecting decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers the latest security issues and hardware as well as today''s wireless standards, including Wi-Fi/802.11 (a, b, g, e, and i), Bluetooth, UWB (Universal Wide Band), WiMAX, and ZigBee\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tells you how to use an inexpensive networking kit to connect your gaming console to a broadband Internet connection and speed up your commands; thatâ€™s often a matter of virtual life and death\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses alternatives to wireless networking, including Bluetooth, HPNA, and Home Plug\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn how to network your entertainment center for all kinds of options. Whether you have a $300 TV set or a $25,000 home theater system, you can wireless enable almost any type of A/V equipment. Then you can use your PC to store audio and video tracks for playback on your TV and through your stereo, stream movies from the Internet and play them on your big screen, load pictures from your digital camera on your PC and view them on the TV, and more. This book will show you how to make your home entertainment system much more entertaining, with:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Info on plugging into wireless with wireless A/V adapters\n </li>\n <li>\n  The latest on wireless media servers like the Sonos Music System\n </li>\n <li>\n  The scoop on the ultimate home theater PC (HTPC) that plays CDs and DVDs, acts as a PVR (personal video recorder); lets you play video games on the big screen, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for buying wireless bridges, along with some specific products and their Web sites\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Find out about how to go wireless wherever you go, with info on public wireless hot spots and types of free and for-pay networks. Delve into the whole-home wireless revolution and see how you can add smart home devices to your network, connect to your car or your home security video monitors, use your cell phone as a remote control, and more.\n <em>\n  Wireless Home Networking For Dummies\n </em>\n even gives you a look into the not-so-distant future and the wireless wonders in the works!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hook ''em up to safely play games and share files and printers\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Wireless networking isn''t rocket science, and you don''t need that computer whiz kid down the street. This book explains wireless networks, shows you what you need and how to install it, and introduces you to all the cool things you can do â€” share an Internet connection, hook in audiovisual toys, and even check your e-mail at the airport!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Understand wireless networking lingo\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choose the right equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add smart home devices to your network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Locate and use wireless hot spots\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play multiuser games\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your network from cyberinvaders\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2197'),
(20708, 'Wireless Home Networking for Dummies', 'Danny Briere &amp; Walter R. Bruce Iii &amp; Pat Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great place to start...well worth the money..." (_Microsoft Windows XP Official Magazine_, March 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...the for Dummies tradition is upheld, through, with clear explanations of technical terms..." (_Computer Active_, 7 August 2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pick the right equipment, secure your network, and share files\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Share your Internet connection, access hot spots, and add on cool wireless peripherals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking of going wireless? It''s not as scary as it sounds! This fast and fun guidebook helps you decide what you need, install it, and get the most from all its cool options. Your PCs can share printers while you groove to your favorite MP3s and the family shares quality video game time - all from anywhere!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Dummies Way\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Icons and other navigational aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Top ten lists\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2198'),
(20709, 'Wireless Network Hacks &amp; Mods for Dummies', 'Daniel D. Briere &amp; Pat Hurley &amp; Patrick J. Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fun projects and valuable content join forces to enable readers to turn their wireless home network into a high-performance wireless infrastructure capable of entertainment networking and even home automation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step instructions help readers find, buy, and install the latest and greatest wireless equipment\n </li>\n <li>\n  The authors are home tech gurus and offer detailed discussion on the next-generation wireless gear that will move the wireless LAN beyond computers and into telephony, entertainment, home automation/control, and even automotive networking\n </li>\n <li>\n  The number of wireless LAN users in North America is expected to grow from 4.2 million current users to more than 31 million by 2007\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connect the old, the new, the practical, and the fun!\n</p>\n<p>\n Play multiplayer games, set up home surveillance, or take your network outside\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that you''ve got a wireless network going, you''re getting the urge to see what else it can do, right? Hook up with this book and find simple, fun ways to expand its possibilities. Add your home entertainment gear, beef up speed and performance, discover wireless on the go, and get more out of your network!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Extend broadband throughout your home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect your network from snoops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Boost cellular signals\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a wireless hot spot\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take wireless to your car\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make calls with your wireless network and VoIP\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2199'),
(20710, 'Wireless Networks for Dummies', 'Barry D. Lewis &amp; Barry Lewis &amp; Peter T. Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youâ€™ve probably heard the expression, â€œItâ€™s time to cut the cord.â€ Well, it may be time to â€œcut the cablesâ€ at your office and free yourself from your desk and computer. Wireless networks are the waves of the futureâ€”literally.\n <em>\n  Wireless Networks For Dummies\n </em>\n guides you from design through implementation to ongoing protection of your system and your information so you can:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Remain connected to the office in airports and hotels\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the Internet and other network resources in the lunchroom, conference room, or anywhere thereâ€™s an access point\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use your PDA or laptop to query your database from the warehouse or the boardroom\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check e-mail wirelessly when youâ€™re on the road\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get rid of the cable clutter in your office\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wireless Networks For Dummies\n </em>\n was coauthored by Barry D. Lewis, CISSP, and Peter T. Davis, who also coauthored\n <em>\n  Computer Security For Dummies.\n </em>\n Barry Lewis is president of an information security consulting firm and an internationally known leader of security seminars. Peter Davis is founder of a firm specializing in the security, audit, and control of information. Together, they cut through the cables, clutter, and confusion and help you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get off to a quick start and get mobile with IrDA (Infrared Data Association) and Bluetooth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perform a site survey and select the right standard, mode, access point, channel and antenna\n </li>\n <li>\n  Check online to verify degree of interoperability of devices from various vendors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install clients and set up roaming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat security threats such as war driving, jamming, hijacking, and man-in-the-middle attacks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Implement security and controls such as MAC (Media Access Control) and protocol filtering, WEP (Wireless Equivalent Privacy), WPA, (Wi-Fi Protected Access), EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol), and VPN (Virtual Private Network)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up multiple access points to form a larger wireless network\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with suggestions of places to get connected, Web sites where you can get more information, tools you can use to monitor and improve security, and more,\n <em>\n  Wireless Networks For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you pull the plug and go wireless!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cut the wires and stay connected almost anywhere\n</p>\n<p>\n Assess your network needs, set up security, and take your office on the road\n</p>\n<p>\n At lastâ€”liberation from that office full of electronic spaghetti is only a few pages away! This fun and friendly guide shows you how to plan and set up a wireless network for your business, install users, provide security, and keep your network healthy. Explore sites, enable roaming, dodge war drivers, and celebrate your freedom!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Differentiate among WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, and WWANs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Conduct a site survey\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Bluetooth\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up a VPN\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install and configure access points\n </li>\n <li>\n  Connect on the go\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2200'),
(20711, 'Wiring Your Digital Home for Dummies', 'Dennis C. Brewer &amp; Paul A. Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Beef up your home''s wiring infrastructure and control systems to accommodate the latest digital home products.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Upgrade wiring in your existing home room-by-room, system-by-system or wire the home you''re building.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn wiring for the latest digital home technologies -- whole home audio, outdoor audio, VoIP, PA systems, security systems with Web cams, home theater, home networking, alarms, back-up systems, and more.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perfect whether you do your own electrical work or want to talk intelligently to an electrical contractor.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Enjoy your home more and boost its value\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get wired for sound, home theater, VoIP, whole house Internet access, and more\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''ve ever started a sentence with "I wish my home was wired for . . . ", this book is for you! Whether you''re a do-it-yourselfer, a builder, or someone who just wants to talk intelligently with your contractor, you''ll find out how to plan, install, and connect the wiring that lets you fill your home with the latest, coolest technology.\n</p>\n<p>\n The CD-ROM contains the full version of HALbasic 3.7 home automation software, a $39.95 value!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  HALbasic 3.7 allows you to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use voice activation to control home appliances\n </li>\n <li>\n  Set up schedules for home lighting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Control the thermostat from anywhere in the house\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n For details and complete system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Design your home with the necessary wiring\n </li>\n <li>\n  Meet code requirements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for remote controls and automatic timers\n </li>\n <li>\n  Install fiber optics and a home network\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be prepared with a backup power system\n </li>\n <li>\n  Wire outdoor areas\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2201'),
(20712, 'Wish You Well', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Baldacci has made a name for himself crafting big, burly legal thrillers with larger-than-life plots. However,\n  <em>\n   Wish You Well\n  </em>\n  , set in his native Virginia, is a tale of hope and wonder and "something of a miracle" just itching to happen. This shift from contentious urbanites to homespun hill families may come as a surprise to some of Baldacci''s fans--but they can rest assured: the author''s sense of pacing and exuberant prose have made the leap as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou''s and 7-year-old Oz''s father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa''s farm in Virginia. Louisa''s hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father''s literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God''s little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Baldacci switches deftly between lovingly detailed character description (an area in which his debt to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harper Lee seems evident) and patient development of the novel''s central plot. If that plot is a trifle transparent--no one will be surprised by Amanda''s miraculous recovery or by the children''s eventual battle with the nefarious forces of industry in an attempt to save their great-grandmother''s farm--neither reader nor character is the worse for it. After all, nostalgia is about remembering things one already knows.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci is writing what? That waspish question buzzed around publishing circles when Warner announced that the bestselling author of The Simple Truth, Absolute Power and other turbo-thrillersâ€”an author generally esteemed more for his plots than for his characters or proseâ€”was trying his hand at mainstream fiction, with a mid-century period novel set in the rural South, no less. Shades of John Grisham and A Painted House. But guess what? Clearly inspired by his subjectâ€”his maternal ancestors, he reveals in a foreword, hail from the mountain area he writes about here with such strengthâ€”Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama centered on the difficult adjustment to rural life faced by two children when their New York City existence shatters in an auto accident. That tragedy, which opens the book with a flourish, sees acclaimed but impecunious riter Jack Cardinal dead, his wife in a coma and their daughter, Lou, 12, and son, Oz, seven, forced to move to the southwestern Virginia farm of their aged great-grandmother, Louisa. Several questions propel the subsequent story with vigor. Will the siblings learn to accept, even to love, their new life? Will their mother regain consciousness? Andâ€”in a development that takes the narrative into familiar Baldacci territory for a gripping legal showdownâ€”will Louisa lose her land to industrial interests? Baldacci exults in high melodrama here, and it doesn''t always work: the death of one major character will wring tears from the stoniest eyes, but the reappearance of another, though equally hanky-friendly, is outright manipulative. Even so, what the novel offers above all is bone-deep emotional truth, as its myriad charactersâ€”each, except for one cartoonish villain, as real as readers'' own kinâ€”grapple not just with issues of life and death but with the sufferings and joys of daily existence in a setting detailed with finely attuned attention and a warm sense of wonder. This novel has a huge heartâ€”and millions of readers are going to love it. Agent, Aaron Priest. 600,000 first printing; 3-city author tour; simultaneous Time Warner Audiobook; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Turkey; world Spanish rights sold. (One-day laydown, Oct. 24)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6264'),
(20713, 'Witch Hunt', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Interpol have tried and failed to find her. Now the combined forces of Scotland Yard and MI5 must try the impossible to prevent a major international incident. Dominic Elder carries her autograph wherever he goes. Witch is his passion, his obsession. And being retired is no bar to his willingness to restart the hunt. MI5 know that the man who wrote the Witch file is the key to catching their quarry. But the truth isn''t easy to spot. And it is only when an MI5 novice and his French counterpart piece together the smallest of clues, that Witch suddenly looks vulnerable . . .Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6366'),
(20714, 'Without Prejudice', 'Andrew Rosenheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3976'),
(20715, 'Without Warning', 'John Birmingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eagerly awaited conclusion to Birmingham''s popular Axis of Time trilogy (after\n  <em>\n   Designated Targets\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Weapons of Choice\n  </em>\n  ) deftly explores how a temporally displaced 21st-century naval battle group changes the outcome of WWII, both militarily and socially. In 1944, the Germans and the Japanese may be close to developing an atom bomb, while the swift Russian advance in the east threatens to engulf all of Europe. Admiral Kolhammer and his future warriors, veterans of 20 or so years of the war on terror, can be just as ruthless as the Axis. How the social changes inspired by Southern California''s multicultural "zone" will fare in the face of opposition from the followers of the outed (and self-slain) J. Edgar Hoover remains an open question. Since the western Allies are left facing a Soviet Union that refuses to accept the judgment of history, it''s clear that the author has the makings for a sequel. Alternate history fans can only hope Kolhammer and crew will soon be back.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What of a writer who once penned a book called\n  <em>\n   He Died with a Falafel in His Hand\n  </em>\n  ? The conclusion to John Birmingham''s\n  <em>\n   Axis of Time\n  </em>\n  trilogy is another imaginative and logistical tour de force (previous volumes include\n  <em>\n   Weapons of Choice\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Designated Targets\n  </em>\n  ). Birmingham has credited fellow Aussie and adventure novelist Matt Reilly (_Ice Station_,\n  <em>\n   Contest\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Seven Deadly Wonders\n  </em>\n  ) as an influence in his foray into popular fiction. The result garners broad praise from critics, who compare Birmingham''s alternate histories favorably to those of genre veterans Eric Flint and Harry Turtledove. The work inspires devotion from general readers as well, with its careful plotting, full-throttle action, social commentary, and a sly sense of humor as the author plays with history and its familiar figures.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6239'),
(20716, 'The Wizard&#39;s Daughter', 'Barbara Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of "The Master of the Blacktower", this is the story of a young orphan girl who possesses the gift of second sight. Fate brings her to the home of a wealthy duchess, where the ghostly presence of her own father calls to her from beyond.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Norma West unevenly narrates Michaels''s (The Dancing Floor, Audio Reviews, LJ 5/1/98) historical romance. Table-turning, a familiar party game in the better circles of Victorian London, turns all too real for ingenue Marianne Ransom. The innocent, country-bred girl, a guest of a wealthy duchess, discovers that her body acts as a spirit channel. Suddenly her parentage is called into question, along with other concerns that certain people would prefer to leave unanswered. Unfortunately, narrator Norma West doesn''t have the repertoire of voices required for this book. Although her depiction of Marianne is letter-perfect, the other characters require greater nuances than West is able to effect. Male voices are particularly troublesome. Too close attention is required to discern the identity of the male speakers. The story itself is neither particularly memorable nor terribly believable. Not a necessary purchase.?Jodi L. Israel, Jamaica Plain, MA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom''s indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privilegeâ€”a power brought on by a strange twist of fate. In the opulent home of a wealthy duchess, Marianne is being called upon to summon her late fatherâ€”a noted mysticâ€”from the grave. But Marianne''s exceptional abilities have become a perilous trap. And suddenly knowing\n  <em>\n   too\n  </em>\n  much could prove fatal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4626'),
(20717, 'Wizard&#39;s First Rule', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The masterpiece that started *The New York Times* bestselling epic Sword of Truth**In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher''s forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can''t imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6408'),
(20718, 'Woken Furies', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan''s World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmasspoking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn''t just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything.Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan''s World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who''s been in storage\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6200'),
(20719, 'The Wolf at the Door', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins''Â¦THE LEGEND IS BACKSomeone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as ''the Prime Minister''s private army'' and all those who work with them.On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York a former British soldier takes a short walk when a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand.For Sean Dillon the hunt is on, a very well-connected old nemesis has clearly become tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task, and surviving it the hardest task of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6390'),
(20720, 'The Woman in the Alcove', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3933'),
(20721, 'Woman&#39;s Day - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10701'),
(20722, 'Womans Murder Club 9 - The 9th Judgment', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body. The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn''t left a shred of evidence, except for a foreboding and cryptic message: WCF, the letters written in blood-red letters. With two elusive criminals on the loose, Detective Lindsay Boxer calls on the Women''s Murder Club to help her stop them before they continue their spree. But before they can break either case, the Lipstick Killer changes his act and demands a ransom--not for a single victim, but for all of San Francisco. Lindsay puts her own life on the line--but will it be enough to save the city from this deranged killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6400'),
(20723, 'Women&#39;s Health - October 2011 US', 'October 2011 US-Slicer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7206'),
(20724, 'Women&#39;s Health SA - Nov 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10822'),
(20725, 'Wonder.Woman.Vol.1.No.613.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'Wonder.Woman.Vol.1.No.613.Sep.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3173'),
(20726, 'The Woodwright&#39;s Guide', 'Working Wood &amp; Wedge &amp; Edge(BBS)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6834'),
(20727, 'Word 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'Doug Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wouldnâ€™t it be a waste to own a Porsche convertible and just drive it to the grocery store at 40 mph? If you have Word 2003, you actually have a high-performance word processing program that can do almost anything you tell it to.\n <em>\n  Word 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n helps you put the pedal to the metal and your fingers to the keys and cover a lot of territory fast. It includes information on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The basics, such as editing, saving, and printing documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Time-savers, including creating keyboard shortcuts, using styles, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Jazzing up your documents with borders, shading, shapes, charts, drawings, and clip art\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handy desktop publishing tricks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Whipping out letters, envelopes, return-address labels, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Written by Doug Lowe, author of more than 30\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books,\n <em>\n  Word 2003\n </em>\n <em>\n  All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n lets you go as far as you want. You can venture off and explore:Â \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Creating Web pages with Word, how to host a Web site, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to store and exchange information in a standardized way thatâ€™s accessible universally\n </li>\n <li>\n  Outlining, indexing, creating a table of contents, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Wordâ€™s Master Document to compile long documents such as your future bestseller, your unabridged collection of bad jokes, or whatever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Wordâ€™s speech recognition so you can dictate text and issue menu commands by speaking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating macros with VBA (Visual Basics for Applications)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A comprehensive index helps you find the information you want fast. So what are you waiting for? With\n <em>\n  Word 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies\n </em>\n as your navigator, take Word 2003 out for a spin and see what this baby can do.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n 9 books in 1â€“ your key to Word 2003 success!\n</p>\n<p>\n Your one-stop guide to getting the most from Word 2003 every day!\n</p>\n<p>\n Writing your own book? Need to mail merge your holiday card list? Want to add a picture to that letter to Grandma? One of these minibooks will tell you how! This trusty guide will be your constant companion as you conquer the basics, take Word on the Web, explore customizing and programming it, and find out all Word can do for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Start, edit, save, and print documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use Styles and other formatting tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Add shapes, charts, and drawings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit HTML with Word\n </li>\n <li>\n  Send faxes and use mail merge\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The Dummies Way\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Coverage of the essentials and beyond\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations in plain English\n </li>\n <li>\n  "Get in, get out" information\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thumbtabs and other navigation aids\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tear-out cheat sheet\n </li>\n <li>\n  A dash of humor and fun\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2202'),
(20728, 'Word 2007', 'Torben Lage Frandsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(20729, 'Word 2007 for Dummies', 'Dan Gookin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Dan Gookin''s\n  <em>\n   For Dummies\n  </em>\n  guides to Word have consistently led the pack, selling more than 1.7 million copies in previous editions\n </li>\n <li>\n  The author''s irreverent sense of humor and crystal-clear prose make getting up to speed on Word a snap\n </li>\n <li>\n  Thoroughly updated to cover Word''s new interface, new file format options, and new collaboration and connectivity features\n </li>\n <li>\n  An essential resource for everyone who wants to hit the ground running with Word 2007 and make the most of all the new features\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The word is "easy" with this friendly guide!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take advantage of cool new file formats and cruise around Word''s new interface\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From bestselling author Dan Gookin, here are words to live by about the world''s most popular word processing program â€” Word 2007. From starting things up (there''s a good, better, and best way) to formatting your documents, dressing them up, and giving them style, here''s everything you need to know to make sure your words get noticed!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use keyboard shortcuts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Navigate with scrollbar buttons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Undo and redo edits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format text, paragraphs, and pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  Split windows on a single document\n </li>\n <li>\n  Collaborate and review documents\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2203'),
(20730, 'Word of Honor', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If fiction can assuage the lingering moral pain of the Vietnam War, it''s through the kind of driving honesty coupled with knowledgeability that DeMille (By the Rivers of Babylon) employs here, in a story which, as riveting as The Caine Mutiny but with wider implications, probes the conflicting concepts of honor, duty and loyalty as they relate to an event of the My Lai varietyand assesses blame. Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government (which has its own "deal" to propose) and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his lawyer''s cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case. The flashbacks to Hue, the pre-trial investigation (involving an attractive female major), the court-martial proceedings, the emotions of the principal characters and the soul-sickness wrought by war (which is the story''s effective subtext)all are depicted with marvelous vividness. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. Foreign rights: Jack Ellison. November 11\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This huge and merciless account follows an ordinary corporate man, Ben Tyson, as his Army commission is reactivated so that he can be court-martialed on charges of murder. The events go back 15 years to a hospital in Vietnam where his platoon took heavy action and many civilians died. Did he wantonly kill enemy and civilian alike? The investigation, intended to restore military honor after My Lai, gives no quarter. All the hostile witnesses are called up while friendly witnesses are lost or silent. Tyson''s own sense of honor lets him give only tiny scraps of information even to his attorney. The courtroom sequences are so powerful that most of the other action is like filler. The dialogue rings true and shows a gift for wit and timing. Apart from its unfortunate length and a slightly over-drawn hero, this succeeds as a mature and compassionate statement about Americans at war in Vietnam. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6371'),
(20731, 'Word Searches for Dummies', 'Denise Sutherland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A travel-friendly puzzle-packed book that keeps the brain in shape\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the best ways to exercise the mind is through word and logic games like word searches and Sudoku. Studies have shown that doing word searches frequently can help prevent diseases like Alzheimer''s and dementia.\n <em>\n  Word Searches For Dummies\n </em>\n is a great way to strengthen the mind and keep the brain active plus, it''s just plain fun! This unique guide features several different types of word searches that take readers beyond simply circling the answer: secret shape word searches, story word searches, listless word searches, winding words, quiz word searches, and more. It provides a large number of puzzles at different levels that will both test and exercise the mind while keeping the reader entertained for hours.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Become a word search whiz â€” and boost your brain power to boot!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you wild about word searches? This fun, go-anywhere guide is packed with puzzles to stretch your skills and strengthen your mind. Inside you''ll find eight different kinds of word searches â€” including one invented by the author! â€” as well as extensive tips and tricks to improve your puzzle-solving abilities. You''ll have a great time mastering increasingly difficult searches while you reap the brain-boosting benefits.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Working with word searches â€” get familiar with the eight word search varieties in the book and the strategies for solving each collection\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Start with straightforward puzzles â€” try simple and story word searches, find hidden words, and solve secret-shape puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Conquer more complex searches â€” gather your wits for scrambles, quiz questions, and secret-list and winding word searches\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Play like a pro with bonus puzzles â€” tackle anagrams and other word games that are guaranteed to make your brain hurt!\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Try not to peek â€” the answers to all puzzles feature full grids, so you can see where each word is placed\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   250 brand-new, handcrafted puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The brain-boosting benefits of doing word searches\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A chapter with hints for every puzzle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten letter-pattern tips\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extra or "Ultra" challenging puzzles\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets to designing your own word searches\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Web addresses for online resources\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fascinating word puzzle facts\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2204'),
(20732, 'WordPerfect 12 for Dummies', 'Margaret Levine Young &amp; David C. Kay &amp; Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you take the shortest route instead of the side roads when youâ€™re trying to get somewhere? Do you choose the streamlined model instead of one loaded with gizmos and gadgets? Do you value ease over extras? WordPerfect 12 is practical software designed to help you create great-looking, readable documents. Whether youâ€™re a recent convert from longhand (welcome to the modern world) or a word processing pro,\n <em>\n  WordPerfect12 For Dummies\n </em>\n covers what you need to know, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The basics, like using menus and toolbars, saving, editing, and printing files, getting help, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Editing and formatting text, adding page numbers, charts, cool fonts, borders, backgrounds, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using templates to make your life easier\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating envelopes and labels and doing multiple mailings\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the compatibility toolbars, Workspace Manager, Office Ready template browser, and wireless office capabilities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating and integrating columns, tables and graphics\n </li>\n <li>\n  Creating Web pages, Adobe Acrobat Documents, XML files, and even Microsoft Office documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Publishing your document as a Web Page\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WordPerfect12 For Dummies\n </em>\n was written by Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, and Richard Wagner, all computer gurus who have written or contributed to other\n <em>\n  For Dummies\n </em>\n books and numerous computer books. After it shows you how to do what you need to do, it inspires you to do things you probably didnâ€™t know you could do, such as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Changing Workspaces to the WordPerfect Legal mode if you need to create legal documents\n </li>\n <li>\n  Choosing from 26 different tool bars to fit the way you work and what youâ€™re working on\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using WordPerfect Office Ready for 40 additional templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Printing bar codes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using Microsoft Outlook contact information in Word Perfect\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n First youâ€™ll get comfortable with WordPerfect 12, and then youâ€™ll get confident and want to explore more. Whether you are a beginner, need a quick refresher, or want to take advantage of the advanced functions, with its complete index,\n <em>\n  WordPerfect12 For Dummies\n </em>\n will be the reference you rely on.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make PDFs, use templates, and print envelopes and labels\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s the perfect way to create and format documents for print or the Web\n</p>\n<p>\n Maybe it''s a revolutionary thought, but could it be you just want to use your word-processing program to create great-looking, readable documents? Perfect! This friendly guide will get you going with WordPerfect 12 so you can get your thoughts on paper â€” or on the Web â€” quickly and easily, with page numbers, charts, cool fonts, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use WordPerfect in a Microsoft Office world\n </li>\n <li>\n  Edit and format text\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make your documents eye-catching\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work with OfficeReadyÂ® and templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Format documents for the Web\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create multiple mailings\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2205');
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(20733, 'WordPress for Dummies', 'Lisa Sabin-wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bloggers love WordPress! If you''re ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash.\n</p>\n<p>\n Professional blog designer Lisa Sabin-Wilson shows you how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the Wordpress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you''re just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help.\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it''s easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover why bloggers love WordPress and make your blog the best it can be\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Blogs are as much a part of life today as the evening newspaper was fifty years ago, and for much the same reason: Inquiring minds want to know. WordPress powers some of the most popular blogs on the Web, and with this guide to help, it can work for you, too. Here''s what WordPress does, how to set it up and use it, and some cool bells and whistles to make your blog stand out.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pick your flavor â€” decide whether to use the WordPress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customization â€” discover CSS and template tags and how to use them to create your own unique style\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Blogging 101 â€” find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Host with the most â€” get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Do it yourself â€” install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Beef up your blog â€” insert audio, video, images, and photos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Think theme â€” discover where to find WordPress themes, explore various options, and work with template tags to create a unique look\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice for creating a blog that draws readers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on managing comments, trackbacks, and spam\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use the Dashboard\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Wonderful widgets and plugins to add\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make permalinks work with your Web server\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The standard templates and how to tweak them\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten popular WordPress themes\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to find help when you need it\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2206'),
(20734, 'Workong After Retirement For Dummies', 'Lita Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The friendly guide for retirees who want to get back into the workforce\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n More than 76 million baby boomers will begin retiring in 2011. Eighty percent of boomers expect to continue working past the age of 65 due to financial and healthcare concerns (seniorcitizensguide.com, 1-06). Working After Retirement For Dummies shows retirees and workers approaching retirement age how to stay in the workforce and thrive after 65 or get back into the workforce after retirement. The book covers new job searching and resume writing; how to overcome employer myths about retirement age workers; and the flexibility of various career options from telecommuting to job sharing. In addition, it also covers nontraditional job search methods that work particularly well for seniors. Even retirement age workers who just want to volunteer their time will find helpful, straightforward advice on getting back to work at any age.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Covers job hunting, resume writing, and career options\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Make the most of your golden years and do what you enjoy!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thinking about going back to work â€” or staying on the job? This practical guide gives workers who have achieved the big "R" â€” or are about to â€” solid advice, from how to stay in the workforce and thrive, to finding that ideal job for the next chapter in your life. You''ll see how to manage your money wisely, brush up on interviewing skills, and get the health care you need for the rest of your life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Assess your skills and interests\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find your next job â€” or start your own business\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage your retirement portfolio\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle job discrimination\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand Medicare\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explore volunteering opportunities\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2207'),
(20735, 'Workshop Processes, Practices and Materials', 'Black, Bruce J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6867'),
(20736, 'The World at Night', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3990'),
(20737, 'World without end', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earthis his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the yearWorld Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you (Chicago Tribune)and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without Endtakes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without Endbreathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. SUMMARY: Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earthis his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the yearWorld Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedit will hold you, fascinate you, surround you (Chicago Tribune)and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without Endtakes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human racethe Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without Endbreathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6286'),
(20738, 'Worth Dying For: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Worth Dying For\n  </em>\n  finds our battered hero hiding in plain sight in a tiny Nebraska town, trying to recover from the catastrophe he left behind in South Dakota (no spoilers here, but readers are still arguing over\n  <em>\n   61 Hours\n  </em>\n  â€™s cliffhanger ending). Fans rarely see such a physically vulnerable Reacher (in the first part of the book he is barely able to lift his arms) but it just adds to the fist-pumping satisfaction of seeing our weary good guy take on the small-town baddies. --_Daphne Durham_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Child''s exciting 15th thriller featuring one-man army Jack Reacher (after 61 Hours), Reacher happens into a situation tailor-made for his blend of morality and against-the-odds heroics. While passing through an isolated Nebraska town, the ex-military cop persuades the alcoholic local doctor to treat Eleanor Duncan, who''s married to the abusive Seth, for a "nosebleed." Reacher later breaking Seth''s nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge. Reacher, who easily disposes of two hit men sent to get him, winds up trying to solve a decades-old case concerning a missing eight-year-old girl. While Child convincingly depicts his hero''s superhuman abilities, he throws in a few lucky breaks to enable the outnumbered Reacher to survive. Crisp, efficient prose and well-rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse-pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4117'),
(20739, 'Worth Dying For: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Worth Dying For\n  </em>\n  finds our battered hero hiding in plain sight in a tiny Nebraska town, trying to recover from the catastrophe he left behind in South Dakota (no spoilers here, but readers are still arguing over\n  <em>\n   61 Hours\n  </em>\n  â€™s cliffhanger ending). Fans rarely see such a physically vulnerable Reacher (in the first part of the book he is barely able to lift his arms) but it just adds to the fist-pumping satisfaction of seeing our weary good guy take on the small-town baddies. --_Daphne Durham_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Child''s exciting 15th thriller featuring one-man army Jack Reacher (after 61 Hours), Reacher happens into a situation tailor-made for his blend of morality and against-the-odds heroics. While passing through an isolated Nebraska town, the ex-military cop persuades the alcoholic local doctor to treat Eleanor Duncan, who''s married to the abusive Seth, for a "nosebleed." Reacher later breaking Seth''s nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge. Reacher, who easily disposes of two hit men sent to get him, winds up trying to solve a decades-old case concerning a missing eight-year-old girl. While Child convincingly depicts his hero''s superhuman abilities, he throws in a few lucky breaks to enable the outnumbered Reacher to survive. Crisp, efficient prose and well-rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse-pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4435'),
(20740, 'The Wrecker', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad''s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the "privileged few"? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn''t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk-it could be the future of the entire country. Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, The Wrecker is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after\n  <em>\n   The Chase\n  </em>\n  ) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against the Wrecker, who''s been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, the Southern Pacific Railroad''s president, who''s constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. If the project isn''t completed by winter, Hennessy''s bankers will withdraw financing and his company will be destroyed. As in the first book, the purposefully stilted writing style takes a little getting used to, but there''s plenty of excitement to be had in a world where massive, fire-breathing trains fly along at speeds of up to 120 mph. While the Wrecker''s identity is revealed early on and there''s never any doubt that Isaac will get his man, readers will find many thrills and much diabolical cleverness along the way.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler, known primarily for his contemporary high-tech thrillers, steps back in timeâ€”more than a century, in factâ€”in this rousing sequel to The Chase (2007). Van Dorn Detective Agency operative Isaac Bell returns, this time to track down a clever saboteur whoâ€™s been dubbed the Wrecker. Seems the Wrecker has it in for the Southern Pacific Company, and he will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep the company from putting through a new railway line between San Francisco and northern California. Isaac is a sharply drawn series lead, and the story, as befits a railroad-themed thriller, moves at a brisk clip. In addition, thereâ€™s a very nice surprise in the final scenes. Readers who have sensed a certain been-there-done-that feeling in some of Cusslerâ€™s recent novels will be pleased to find a new spark here. More Isaac Bell novels would be most welcome. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6153'),
(20741, 'Writing Fiction for Dummies', 'Randy Ingermanson &amp; Peter Economy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦an easy-to-follow guide providing step-by-step instructionsâ€¦'' (Writers Forum, December 2009).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A complete guide to writing and selling your novel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  So you want to write a novel?\n </strong>\n Great! Thatâ€™s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But donâ€™t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher.\n <em>\n  Writing Fiction for Dummies\n </em>\n is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author. Here are some things youâ€™ll learn in\n <em>\n  Writing Fiction for Dummies\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Strategic Planning\n  </strong>\n  : Pinpoint where you are on the roadmap to publication; discover what every reader desperately wants from a story; home in on a marketable category; choose from among the four most common creative styles; and learn the self-management methods of professional writers.\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Writing Powerful Fiction\n  </strong>\n  : Construct a story world that rings true; create believable, unpredictable characters; build a strong plot with all six layers of complexity of a modern novel; and infuse it all with a strong theme.\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Self-Editing Your Novel\n  </strong>\n  : Psychoanalyze your characters to bring them fully to life; edit your story structure from the top down; fix broken scenes; and polish your action and dialogue.\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Finding An Agent and Getting Published\n  </strong>\n  : Write a query letter, a synopsis, and a proposal; pitch your work to agents and editors without fear.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Writing Fiction For Dummies\n </strong>\n _ takes you from being a\n <em>\n  writer\n </em>\n to being an\n <em>\n  author.\n </em>\n It can happenâ€”if you have the talent and persistence to do what you need to do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2208'),
(20742, 'Wrong Way Street', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6311'),
(20743, 'X Y Z', 'Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3938'),
(20744, 'X.Men.Legacy.Vol.1.No.251.Aug.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf 04-08-2011', 'X.Men.Legacy.Vol.1.No.251.Aug.2011.Comic.eBook-iNTENSiTY.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3174'),
(20745, 'Xbox 360 For Dummies', 'Brian Johnson &amp; Duncan Mackenzie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a detailed, comprehensive look at everything to do with the Xbox 360..." (Xbox 360 , March 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Microsoft''s Xbox now accounts for 37 percent of the game console market, and the new Xbox 360 is due out for the 2005 holiday season, months before Sony''s PlayStation 3. When gamers take the new Xbox home, however, they''ll soon discover that it''s more than a just a game machine-it''s a full-fledged home media hub with more power than most PCs. This friendly guide shows how to maximize both gaming and non-gaming features of this amazing machine.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Topics covered include hooking up Xbox 360, taking advantage of HDTV and Dolby capabilities, using built-in digital video recording and wireless functions, storing media files, playing music, and displaying photos\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shows how to have even more fun by taking an Xbox online for massively multiplayer gaming, instant messaging, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses the social potential of the Xbox, which people can use to make new friends, join groups and teams, and even throw fantastic parties\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes tips for securing the Xbox from online threats\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2209'),
(20746, 'Xbox 360: The Official Xbox Magazine UK - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6853'),
(20747, 'Xbox World 09-2011', 'Xbox World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3106'),
(20748, 'Xbox World 11-2011', 'Xbox World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3836'),
(20749, 'Xbox World Magazine', 'November 2011', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4749'),
(20750, 'Xbox_World_2011-11S370.pdf 08-09-2011', 'Xbox_World_2011-11S370.pdf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4699'),
(20751, 'XBRL for Dummies', 'Charles Hoffman &amp; Liv Watson &amp; Eiichi Watanabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The perfect guide to help you understand XBRL-from the "father of XBRL"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What is XBRL and how can it help you streamline your business reporting? This plain-English guide from the "father of XBRL," Charles Hoffman, will tell you what it is, why it is, and how you can get on the bus with this new SEC-mandated business reporting standard for publicly-traded companies. A CPA, Hoffman is credited with the idea of applying XML data to financial reporting; XBRL is the language that resulted. Learn to prepare financial statements with XBRL, use it for strategic planning, move all relevant departments in your company to the same system, and more.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based open standard for accounting data; author Charles Hoffman is credited with the idea of applying XML data to financial reporting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Plan for XBRL implementation, set action-oriented agendas, and identify stakeholders and subject-matter experts within your organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn to choose from and adapt existing XBRL taxonomies to comply with US GAAP and IFRS standards\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Topics also include how to adapt your existing financial information into XBRL.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn to:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand XBRL and its implications for your organization\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plan for XBRL implementation and set action-oriented agendas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Adapt existing US GAAP and IFRS financial information into the XBRL format\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make sense of XBRL using simple, hands-on exercises\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Are you ready for XBRL? Get up to speed with this friendly guide!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Extensible Business Reporting Language â€” XBRL â€” is revolutionizing business reporting, including financial reporting. It''s complicated, but this book isn''t! Here''s how to get business and IT folks on the same spreadsheet so that everyone can grasp the concept and be ready for the switch. You''ll discover the important details you need to make smart business and technical decisions about XBRL.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What is it? â€” understand what XBRL is, its parts, and how it works\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Learn from the masters â€” discover how gurus including Marc van Hilvoorde; Christine Tan, PhD; Raynier van Egmond; and Eiichi Watanabe put XBRL to work\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Information, please â€” see how information is used and why new ways to exchange it are necessary\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Making it happen â€” be able to identify stakeholders, find a common vocabulary, and build an implementation team\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Step by step â€” see how to create and use XBRL modules and taxonomies\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/xbrl to find links to URLs in the book and bonus material\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common misconceptions about XBRL\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ten ways to make learning XBRL easier\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A look at the information supply chain\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make a business case for XBRL\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pitfalls to avoid\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All about meeting the SEC mandate\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The future of business information exchange\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Various implementation approaches\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2210'),
(20752, 'XML for Dummies', 'Lucinda Dykes &amp; Ed Tittel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds\n</p>\n<p>\n Create consistency on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes\n</p>\n<p>\n Tag -- XML is it! XML tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy guide will show you how. You''ll soon be using this markup language to create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming up XML with Office 2003, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n <br />\n * Make information portable\n <br />\n * Use XML with Word 2003\n <br />\n * Store different types of data\n <br />\n * Convert HTML documents to XHTML\n <br />\n * Add CSS to XML\n <br />\n * Understand and use DTDs\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ideal beginner''s guide to XML!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2211'),
(20753, 'Xtreme RC Cars Magazine', 'August 2011 [DwzRG]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3613'),
(20754, 'Yahoo! SiteBuilder for Dummies', 'Richard Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Save up to $75 on Yahoo! Web Hosting!\n</p>\n<p>\n Choose the right graphics, include links and feedback forms, and add "wow"\n</p>\n<p>\n You too can develop cool Web sites with Yahoo! SiteBuilder and this handy, easy-to-follow guide! All the basics of good site design are here, plus step-by-step directions for creating your site with text, links, pictures, and animation. Once you''re finished building your site, cash in a special offer from Yahoo! for discounted Web hosting and share your work with the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and publish a basic site in minutes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SiteBuilder templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a site that?s easy to navigate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes amateurs make\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offer maps and searches on your site\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Save up to $75 on Yahoo! Web Hosting!\n</p>\n<p>\n Choose the right graphics, include links and feedback forms, and add "wow"\n</p>\n<p>\n You too can develop cool Web sites with Yahoo! SiteBuilder and this handy, easy-to-follow guide! All the basics of good site design are here, plus step-by-step directions for creating your site with text, links, pictures, and animation. Once you''re finished building your site, cash in a special offer from Yahoo! for discounted Web hosting and share your work with the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create and publish a basic site in minutes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SiteBuilder templates\n </li>\n <li>\n  Design a site that?s easy to navigate\n </li>\n <li>\n  Avoid common mistakes amateurs make\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offer maps and searches on your site\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2212'),
(20755, 'The Year of the Flood', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. *The Year of the Flood* is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. **The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God''s Gardenersâ€”a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal lifeâ€”has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God''s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren''s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo''hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can''t stay locked away . . .By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, *The Year of the Flood* is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6339'),
(20756, 'Year of the Golden Ape', 'Colin Forbes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''The whole of the West must suffer as we are suffering in Palestine . . . ''  The extremists have taken over. Again the weapon is oil. Masterminding the plan to destroy Israel, Sheik Gamal Tafak has hired professional terrorists - including LeCat, the French killer, and Winter, the enigmatic Englishman.The action races from Cairo to Hamburg, Paris, London and California. The worldwide conspiracy unfolds. Russia and the West are stunned. A super-tanker bound for San Francisco is hi-jacked, armed with a nuclear bomb. The extremists sail for the Golden Gate Bridge, threatening to annihilate America''s most beautiful city. Only two people can turn the tide - Winter, professional adventurer, and Betty Cordell, expert markswoman.  Colin Forbes ''Has no equal'' "Sunday Mirror"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6195'),
(20757, 'Yet Another Modest Proposal', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6307'),
(20758, 'Ylesia', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6395'),
(20759, 'Yoga for Dummies', 'Georg Feuerstein &amp; Larry Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Yoga for Dummies\n </em>\n proves that this 5,000-year-old Indian discipline\n <em>\n  can\n </em>\n be all things to all people--the athlete striving for more-limber limbs, the stressed-out professional needing mental calm, peace, and clarity; the pregnant mom-to-be looking to keep herself toned and her emotions balanced, the spiritual seeker wanting to access the higher planes of consciousness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., and Larry Payne, Ph.D., are internationally recognized yoga experts. After explaining how to prepare your body and mind for yoga--including warnings about how to practice safely--they jump straight into the postures (_asanas_), instructions for which make up the meat of book (relaxation, breathing, movement, sequencing, compensation, sitting). Feuerstein and Payne carefully and in great detail lead the reader through every step, although they do advise first-timers to supplement the book with actual classes until they have the basics down. Throughout the book, clear explanations accompany black-and-white photos and drawings. (Unfortunately, following the written instructions is hard enough when your feet are in the air or your head''s down by your ankles, and the book would have been improved if the pictures always appeared on the same page as their instructions.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers then learn about tailoring a yoga program to their needs; using props; practicing "Yoga Throughout the Day"; incorporating yoga into sex, meditation, menopause, and pregnancy; using yoga to treat back problems and PMS; and practicing yoga with kids. The book also covers yogic ethics, philosophy, and resources. It''s not all\n <em>\n  asanas\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  pranas\n </em>\n , though--_Yoga for Dummies_ is sprinkled with the humor characteristic of the For Dummies series (a section explaining that the ego is the ultimate source of stress is titled "Wherever ego, I go") and practical advice (the Forgiving Limbs maneuver allows you to bend your legs and arms a bit rather than try to fully extend them, so that you can perform postures you''re not yet quite limber enough for). This is both an excellent beginner''s guide and a good reference for more advanced\n <em>\n  yoginis\n </em>\n who want a brush-up course.\n <em>\n  --Stefanie Durbin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition breaks down the concepts and poses, making yoga easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply for everyone.'' (MoneySavingExpert.com, August 2010).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2213'),
(20760, 'Yoga Journal - November 2011', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10702'),
(20761, 'Yoga With Weights for Dummies', 'Sherri Baptiste &amp; Megan Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "a good book if you want to learn how yoga and strength training can improve your fitness and wellbeing." (_Women''s Fitness_, September 2007)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An easy-to-follow guide to a hot new form of yoga\n</p>\n<p>\n Yoga with Weights is the latest breakthrough in mind-body exercise, integrating the mindfulness of yoga with the physical culture of body-building. Building on the strengths of both disciplines, this friendly guide shows readers how to safely combine yoga postures while simultaneously working out with lightweight hand-held free weights. It features customizable exercises that target specific areas of the body, each illustrated with multiple photos, and provides guidelines for combining healthy eating with workouts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sherri Baptiste (Marin County, CA) is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, a nationally recognized method of yoga offered throughout the United States. She teaches yoga classes throughout the United States and hosts retreats around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2214'),
(20762, 'You Suck (ls-2)', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "You bitch, you killed me. You suck!"  Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks.  Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he''s ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jodyâ€”the woman of his dreamsâ€”is a vampire. And surprise! Now he''s one, too.  For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. Like how much Jody should teach Tommy about his new superpowers (and how much he needs to learn on his own). Plus there''s Tommy''s cute new minion, sixteen-year-old goth girl Abby Normal. (Well, someone has to run errands during daylight hours!)  Making the relationship work, however, is the least of Jody and Tommy''s problems. Word has it that the vampire who nibbled on Jody wasn''t supposed to be recruiting any new members into the club. Even worse, Tommy''s erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6338'),
(20763, 'Your Baby&#39;s First Year for Dummies', 'James Gaylord &amp; Michelle Hagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything parents need to give their babies the best start\n <br />\n Each year, more than 4 million babies are born in the United States-and the first year of a baby''s life is a joyous, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming time. Your Baby''s First Year For Dummies serves as a complete guide for baby''s first twelve months-from what to do when arriving home from the hospital to handling feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to providing the right stimuli for optimal progress. Packed with tips on every aspect of baby''s physical, emotional, and social development, this friendly guide gives parents advice on such important topics as breastfeeding vs. bottle-feeding, teething, baby toy safety, food preparation, food allergies, traveling, and much more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers monthly checkups and milestones\n</p>\n<p>\n Your complete guide to your baby''s first twelve months\n</p>\n<p>\n Give your baby the best start! This sensible month-by-month guide is packed with encouraging advice on every aspect of your child''s physical, emotional, and social development in the first year. You''ll find proven tips on everything from bringing baby home and establishing feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to coping with teething, illnesses, and traveling with your bundle of joy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover how to\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Get a baby to sleep\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bond with your baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Manage breast- or bottlefeeding\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep baby healthy and safe\n </li>\n <li>\n  Encourage his/her development\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle returning to work\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2215'),
(20764, 'Your Dream Career for Dummies', 'Carol L. Mcclelland &amp; Richard N. Bolles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From identifying your needs to exploring your options -- make the right career move\n</p>\n<p>\n Changing careers by choice or due to circumstances beyond your control? Have no fear -- this hands-on guide focuses on helping you find a new job, start a business, or return to school in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening self-assessments, you''ll understand how to assess your current situation, explore various career ideas, and identify ways to utilize your talents and skills in jobs that suit your lifestyle. You''ll see how to build a career that lets you express who you are, fulfill your needs and desires, and live the life you want!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n <br />\n * Detailed, to-the-point explanations on outlining your action plan\n <br />\n * The inside scoop on transforming your passions into career options\n <br />\n * A wealth of tips, tricks, and warnings\n <br />\n * How to blend your ideal career with the realities of your life\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n From identifying your needs to exploring your options â€” make the right career move\n</p>\n<p>\n Changing careers by choice or due to circumstances beyond your control? Have no fear â€” this hands-on guide focuses on helping you find a new job, start a business, or return to school in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening self-assessments, you''ll understand how to assess your current situation, explore various career ideas, and identify ways to utilize your talents and skills in jobs that suit your lifestyle. You''ll see how to build a career that lets you express who you are, fulfill your needs and desires, and live the life you want!\n</p>\n<p>\n Discover\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed, to-the-point explanations on outlining your action plan\n </li>\n <li>\n  The inside scoop on transforming your passions into career options\n </li>\n <li>\n  A wealth of tips, tricks, and warnings\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to blend your ideal career with the realities of your life\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2216');
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(20765, 'Your Heart Belongs to Me', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psycheâ€”and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of allâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocketâ€”until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, heâ€™s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; itâ€™s his only hope, and itâ€™s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it allâ€¦his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appearâ€”a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. Sheâ€™s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryanâ€™s own chest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And sheâ€™s come to take it back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive Essay: Dean Koontz on Writing\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I have been asked by the secret masters of Amazon how much research into transplant surgery I did before writing\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  . I would like to reveal that, in the interest of accuracy and the accumulation of vivid detail, and because I bring total commitment to my writing, I underwent a heart transplant myself, even though I didn''t need one. This would be a lie, however, and people without a sense of humor would write by the hundreds to accuse me of taking a perfectly good heart needed by some patient who\n  <em>\n   really\n  </em>\n  needed it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To prepare for this novel, I read a few books on the subject of transplants, watched two educational films during which I passed out repeatedly at the sight of blood, and spoke with a few medical specialists in the field--largely to ascertain how they manage not to pass out in surgery every time they expose the pulsing internal organs of a patient.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ryan Perry, the lead of\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  , is 34, wealthy from the Internet social-networking site that he created, with an ideal life ahead of him. Then he learns he suffers from cardiomyopathy and will die within a year if he does not undergo a heart transplant. The procedure is successful, but a year later he begins to receive gifts--such as a heart-shaped locket--with the message "Your heart belongs to me. I want it back."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although it might seem to be a ghost story,\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  is something else entirely. In addition to being a thriller with a medical procedure as a key element, it is an unusual love story. Those who have never read my books--we know who you are--might be surprised to learn that more often than not, a love story is part of the mix. In a romantic relationship, we''re vulnerable; and when a character in a novel is vulnerable, we are more likely to worry about him or her and to relate more intimately to the story. Furthermore, people in love have something precious to lose, and in their sometimes desperate efforts to hold fast to that love, they reveal themselves more profoundly than they might otherwise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the early years of my career--or what we here in Koontzland call "the long slog"--publishers resisted me when I wanted to mix genres. These days, my publisher encourages me to pursue fresh ways of telling stories. Consequently,\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  is a suspense novel and love story with a thread of the supernatural weaving through it, set against a backdrop of medicine and medical mystery, concerning certain issues of ethics that are timeless--and others that are unique to our time. And I promise you that the medical detail is not so graphic that you will pass out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Dean Koontz\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n   is very suspenseful but at the same time an affecting love story. How difficult was this to pull off?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Well, life is full of suspense and, if we''re lucky, it''s full of love as well. From minute to minute and day to day, we never know what will happen to us, good or bad, so suspense is the fundamental condition of existence. That doesn''t change when we fall in love or when we love a child or a sibling or a great dog. In fact, the more we love, the more we have to lose, which puts a sharper edge on the suspense in life and in\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  . Ryan Perry, the lead of the story, enjoys self-made wealth and good health and the love of a good woman--so when all that starts to slip away from him, it''s actually easier for me to move readers to the edge of their seats and keep them there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Your books are full of details about how things work in the real world--like life in a monastery in\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n   is rich with details about medical conditions and heart transplants. Since you don''t specialize in one kind of novel, how do you learn about all these different things? Do you engage in a lot of Internet research?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: I never go on-line. My writing schedule and other obligations keep me busy 18/7. The other six hours, I sleep. I know that I am a potentially obsessive personality and that it''s easy to become obsessed with one aspect or another of the Internet, until hours a day are consumed by it. Therefore, I stay away. I do most of my research from books and publications, and by conducting interviews with specialists in whatever fields my story will touch upon. One of my assistants is on-line, and in a pinch, if I can''t turn up a fact I need, she can get it for me. As a high-school and college student, I hated research and libraries. I always shamelessly made up the facts in reports that I wrote, and cited nonexistent books by nonexistent writers in my footnotes. And I always got away with it! But as a novelist, I''ve been surprised to find that I greatly enjoy doing research. I think the difference is--in school, they told me what I had to learn, and I bristled at authority; when I chose the subject, I proved to be an industrious autodidact.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Your hero in\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n   , Ryan Perry, is different from your other heroes, like Odd Thomas and Mitchell Rafferty and Tim Carrier. What was it about the story you were telling in\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n   that required this change?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: Most of my heroes come from ordinary occupations--a fry cook, a baker, a mason, a gardener, a bartender--which makes them like many of my friends in real life. But Ryan Perry in\n  <em>\n   Your Heart Belongs to Me\n  </em>\n  has made a couple hundred million from an Internet business. For this story, I needed a hero who, at the opening, has everything: he''s wealthy, he has a beautiful girlfriend whom he loves and who loves him, he essentially leads a life of leisure at 34, he''s vigorous and handsome and charming.... And then everything that really matters begins to slip away from him. He had to be at the top in order to be at risk of a long fall. As he begins to think that some people in his life are involved in a conspiracy to kill him, he needed to be a man of exceptional resources to pursue that investigation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Where did the idea for\n   <em>\n    Your Heart Belongs to Me\n   </em>\n   come from?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: I was on the phone with a friend, talking about a smorgasbord of things, when the subject of heart transplants came up, and he told me something, an anecdote, that astonished me. Before I hung up, I had spun that small fact into a story that I couldn''t wait to write. I''ve already made it clear to him that he gets no royalties! Story ideas have come to me from lines in songs, from a scrap of overheard conversation, from just about everywhere. And sometimes a story pops into my head, and I have no idea what the source of it was. Thank God this keeps happening; otherwise I might have to learn an honest trade like plumbing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: What is next for you? Another Odd Thomas novel?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  A: There will be three more Odd Thomas novels, but my book for spring 2009 is not one of them. It''s titled\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the sophistication and ingenuity of such recent Hitchcockian thrillers as\n  <em>\n   The Husband\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Good Guy\n  </em>\n  , bestseller Koontz stumbles inÃ‚Â this pallid effort. Ryan Kelly, a 34-year-oldÃ‚Â Internet entrepreneur, has it all, including an attractive journalist girlfriend he wants to marry, Samantha Reach, and a house in a gated community in Newport Coast, Calif. Harsh reality intrudes when he learns he has a serious heart defect and must get a transplant. Fortunately, a compatible donor turns up in time, but then someone launches a reign of psychological terror that leaves Ryan suspicious of Samantha and his longtime servants. The ultimate plot payoff is unworthy of this gifted author, as are patches of ponderous prose (With the moon still tethered to the eastern horizon but straining higher, with the giant pepper tree occluding most of the eternally receding stars, the time to talk of death had come). Koontz fans can only hope for a return to form next time.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 25)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6278'),
(20766, 'YouTube for Dummies', 'Doug Sahlin &amp; Chris Botello', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  YouTube For Dummies\n </em>\n takes the classic Dummies tact in helping tech novices get a handle on a popular technology that more tech-savvy audiences consider "simple." With so much content on YouTube getting media attention, more first-timers are jumping on the site and they need help. The book also helps the next step audience of users looking to add content to YouTube. Content includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Watching the Tube - includes getting your PC ready for YouTube viewing, finding video, signing up for an account, and creating favorites.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Loading Video to YouTubeâ€”covers the nuts and bolts of shooting video, transferring it to a PC, editing it, and sending it up to YouTube.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bringing Along YouTubeâ€”covers the various ways you can use YouTube video in places other than on the site. Includes mobile YouTube and adding videos to your MySpace page or another Web site.\n </li>\n <li>\n  I Always Wanted To Directâ€”explores how to use YouTube''s directors program to upload longer video, use the site for marketing, or launch your own videoblog.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Add pizzazz to your videos and make a publicity splash!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The fun and easy way to join the YouTube communityâ€”and get noticed!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you yearning to get more out of YouTube? This fun, friendly guide shows you how to search for videos, save your favorites, and even create your own high-quality production! You''ll see how to subscribe to a YouTube channel, create playlists, get your video seen, embed YouTube videos in your Web site or blog, and much, much more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create a YouTube account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Customize your YouTube channel\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Record, upload, and promote your video\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Network with other YouTubers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Add videos to your blog or Web site\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Sell products on YouTube\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2217'),
(20767, 'Yummy Cooking Magazine 04-2011', 'Yummy Cooking Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(20768, 'Zero Hour', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A code which will jam every item of military hardware from Kabul to WashingtonOn 5 September 2007, Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar supposedly state-of-the-art had failed to warn the target of the incoming assault.A system on the verge of collapseUnknown to anyone but the Israelis and the radars manufacturers, the commercial, off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. A terrorist group who nearly have it in their handsNow British Intelligence has discovered that the same switches are at the heart of every electronic device in the UK and US arsenal. It will take years to replace the components. So they must deactivate the man who controls them instead. And a soldier who wants to go down fightingEx-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find and kill him but this time hes not on receive. For once, his life is under threat for another reason from within. And now he really is a man with nothing to lose...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6277'),
(20769, 'Zodiac', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Believe it or not, some readers find\n  <em>\n   Zodiac\n  </em>\n  even more fun than Neal Stephenson''s defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, __.\n  <em>\n   Zodiac\n  </em>\n  is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stephenson/S. T.''s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephenson''s (The Big U) improbable hero is Sangamon Taylor, a high-tech jack-of-all-trades who inhales nitrous oxide for kicks and scouts environmental hazards for GEE, the Group of Environmental Extremists. Taylor particularly wants to nab the polluters of Boston Harbor, whose toxic sludge he monitors by zipping from illegal pipeline to illegal pipeline in his inflatable Zodiac raft. His work is slow-going and boring until the concentration of deadly PCBs rises inexplicably and then mysteriously drops to nothing. And then the "eco-thriller" begins: the bad guys are everywhere as Taylor ferrets out the connections between his bizarre landlord, a nerdy friend from college who''s at work on a top-secret genetic-engineering project for a high-tech company, an industrialist-turned-Presidential-candidate and the crazed fans of Poyzen Boyzen, a heavy-metal band. In creating this all-too-conceivable story of industry and science running amok, Stephenson puts his technological knowledge elegantly to use, but never lets gadgets and gizmos take over the story. The characters are entertaining, if broadly drawn, and the rip-roaring conclusion will make a dandy denouement in the movie rendition. Film rights to Warner Brothers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6367'),
(20770, 'Zoho for Dummies', 'Steven Holzner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A great way to get started on this new, FREE, Web-based productivity and collaboration tool\n</p>\n<p>\n Zoho is a very cool-and free-alternative to Microsoft Office. Known as "cloud" computing because it''s totally Web-based, Zoho provides 18 different applications to help you write documents, create spreadsheets, send e-mail, and much more. People love it, but what it\n <em>\n  doesn''t\n </em>\n offer are extensive help files, so that''s where this practical book comes in.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Zoho For Dummies\n </em>\n shows you how to use Zoho''s most widely used applications, including Zoho Writer, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Show, Zoho Sheet, Zoho DB, Zoho Mail, Zoho Planner, Zoho CRM, and Zoho Projects. You''ll get thoroughly up to speed on all common tasks and discover enough tips and tricks to get you power-using Zoho in no time.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Zoho is a free, Web-based alternative to Microsoft Office launched in 2007; it is considered to be "cloud computing" because it is categorized as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Web-based\n </li>\n <li>\n  The book guides you through common tasks and provides tips and tricks to maximize your productivity and minimize hassle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Covers Zoho Writer, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Show, Zoho Sheet, Zoho DB, Zoho Mail, Zoho Planner, Zoho CRM, and Zoho Projects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Also provides information about sharing content, scheduling, and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Get your head\n <em>\n  in\n </em>\n the clouds with this friendly guide to the exciting new Zoho "cloud" alternative to Microsoft Office.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn how Web-based Zoho tools help you be productive and manage your business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zoho''s cool tools are terrific for office productivity, communication, and database management, but the documentation can be a little spotty. Fear not â€” you have this book! Learn to use these Web-based applications for creating documents and presentations, handling appointments and e-mail, storing and organizing data, and even managing customer relationships.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Document your activities â€” use Writer for word processing, Sheet for spreadsheet documents, and Notebook for sharing\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Show off â€” create slideshow presentations with Show to share online\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Organize your life â€” use Planner to create schedules and to-do lists you can share\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Extreme Web mail â€” use Mail to organize your e-mail with folders and labels and lock down security\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Data on the Web â€” use Reports to build a database where you can easily create charts, pivot tables, and summaries that can be accessed from anywhere\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to sign up for a Zoho account\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advantages of collaborating with Zoho Writer\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Ways to organize content using Zoho Notebook\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for managing e-mail with folders and flags\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to use formulas and functions in Zoho Sheet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Drag-and-drop methods for creating database reports\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on project management\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to streamline billing procedures\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "If you are interested in exploring Zoho, this book isgoing to be extremely useful. It paves the way to explore Zoho with in-depth coverage on each of our main applications."\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Raju Vegesna\n </strong>\n , Zoho Evangelist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2218'),
(20771, 'Zombie Survival Guide', 'Brooks, Max', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6347'),
(20772, 'Zoom #1-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4516'),
(20773, 'Zoom #1-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4517'),
(20774, 'Zoom #1-2011', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4518'),
(20775, 'Zoom #2-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4519'),
(20776, 'Zoom #2-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4520'),
(20777, 'Zoom #2-2011', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4521'),
(20778, 'Zoom #3-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4522'),
(20779, 'Zoom #3-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4523'),
(20780, 'Zoom #3-2011', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4524'),
(20781, 'Zoom #4-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4525'),
(20782, 'Zoom #4-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4526'),
(20783, 'Zoom #5-2008', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4527'),
(20784, 'Zoom #5-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4528'),
(20785, 'Zoom #5-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4529'),
(20786, 'Zoom #6-2008', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4530'),
(20787, 'Zoom #6-2009', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4531'),
(20788, 'Zoom #6-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4532'),
(20789, 'Zoom #7-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4533'),
(20790, 'Zoom #8-2010', 'Zoom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4534'),
(20791, 'Zorba the Hutt&#39;s Revenge', 'Paul Davids &amp; Hollace Davids', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6394'),
(20792, 'Zune for Dummies', 'Brian Johnson &amp; Duncan Mackenzie &amp; Chute', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Let Microsoft insiders Brian Johnson and Duncan Mackenzie introduce you to Zune, the exciting new portable media player that plays both audio and video. They explain the numerous entertaining possibilities of Zune, such as transferring a music collection to your Zune, purchasing new music, connecting with friends who share similar taste in music via ZuneLive!, and hooking Zune to your Xbox 360. Additional fun features covered include watching video on Zune, subscribing to podcasts, creating content to share with others, and a preview of upcoming Zune models.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get the scoop on Zune from insiders\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Get in the Zune zone, tune in, turn on, watch, listen, and share\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With Zune, you have a portable entertainment unit that fits into your pocket and lets you take your music (500 hours of it), photos, and videos with you everywhere. This friendly guide walks you through everything from installing the software and basic operation to browsing Zune Marketplace with more than two million tracks and connecting with fellow Zuners.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Transfer and manage your music collection\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Import and watch videos\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Create content to share\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Connect to FM radio, your stereo, TV, or Xbox 360\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the built-in Wi-Fi features\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take advantage of Zune Marketplace\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://pk-s.zapto.org:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2219'),
(20793, '101 Option Trading Secrets', 'Kenneth R. Trester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Introducing Ken Trester''s book-101 Option Trading Secrets Author of the best-selling Complete Option Player, now in its 4th edition, Ken Trester is acclaimed for rendering complex subjects into easy-to-understand concepts and ideas. Through his books, seminars, and as a college professor, Ken Trester has educated tens of thousands of investors about the power and benefits of options. His award-winning programs give ordinary investors an edge in the professional arena. In this 336 page book, Ken condenses his options expertise and 30 years of extensive trading experience into 101 concise secrets that can help any investor to maximize their gains. its fourth edition, is among the best selling options books ever. A former computer science professor Ken has taught many popular course on options trading. In addition, he teaches a limited number of individuals through intensive options seminars. Many former students have been very successful using the strategies he espouses. Ken has an MBA and has worked as an investment manager. He developed an economical software program for personal computers, OPTION MASTER, that allows small investors to easily determine an option''s true theoretical value.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(20794, '12 Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders', 'Ruth Roosevelt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Twelve Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders uncovers all the habits unsuccessful traders refuse to accept.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Have you ever found yourself fully intending to do one thing and ending up doing quite the opposite? Or promising yourself you won''t do somet\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(20795, '209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash Into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate', 'Tyler Gregory Hicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n More fortunes are built in real estate on borrowed money than in any other business. And you can build your fortune in real estate using borrowed money too-if you follow the advice and tips in this book.  Whether you''re making your first foray into real estate investing or have invested for a number of years, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate will show you how to acquire income-producing real estate and build your wealth by using borrowed money. Long-time real estate advisor Tyler Hicks offers proven strategies and real-world examples to illustrate how much MIF-Money in Fist-you can realistically earn by investing in real estate.  A valuable guide for new, experienced, or affluent real estate investors, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate covers all the bases, from finding loans to hiring an accountant and an attorney to help with the business. Letters from individuals who have successfully followed the strategies outlined in this book are also included to help you understand exactly what you must do to make this plan work for you.  Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate discusses important real estate topics-including creative financing, acquiring single-family homes, and becoming a private lender client-to allow you to make the most of your investments in real estate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(20796, 'The 3-Dimensional Trading Breakthrough', 'Brian Schad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(20797, '45 Years in Wall Street', 'William D. Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2009 Reprint of the original 1949 edition. Paperback. 149pp. William Delbert Gann (6 June, 1878 - 14 June, 1955) also known as W. D. Gann, was a finance trader who developed the technical analysis tool known as Gann angles. Gann market forecasting methods are based on geometry, astrology, and ancient mathematics. Opinions are sharply divided on the value and relevance of his work. Gann wrote a number of books on trading, the classic text being 45 Years in Wall Street. Gann has developed a very faithful group of followers and adherents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(20798, 'The 5 Day Momentum Method', 'Jeff Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How Would You Like To:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   1. Buy a stock today\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   2. Sell it for a solid profit in 5 days\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   3. Repeat this again and again for the rest of your life!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jeff Cooper''s 5 Day Momentum Method Can Help You Do This\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his first book, Hit &amp; Run Trading, Jeff Cooper taught traders how he has made his living day-trading stocks over the past decade. The book is such a success that it is now back for its fifth printing in its first 18 months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, for the first time, Jeff Cooper releases the 5 Day Momentum Method -- his most powerful trading system for those traders who are looking for substantial 3 - 7 day gains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How The 5 Day Momentum Method Works:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rapidly moving momentum stocks always pause before resuming their trend. The 5 Day Momentum Method will teach you how to identify the exact day and price to enter these stocks before they explode again. You will usually risk only 1-2 points and your upside potential is 5 - 20 points, all within 5 days!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Do I Have To Sit In Front Of A Screen All Day Watching My Stocks?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Absolutely not!\n  </strong>\n  The best part of the 5 Day Momentum Method is that you do not have to watch your positions intra-day. Simply enter an order to buy or sell short, give your broker an order with your protective stop, and then go back to your daily routine. You can check prices each evening at your convenience. At the end of 5 days, simply take your profits (if your stop wasn''t triggered) and go onto the next set-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Among the features you will learn are:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The specific, simple-to-follow rules to identify the fastest moving stocks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Where to exactly place your entry and exit orders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Where and how to take profits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Advanced trading techniques to maximize gains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Precise options strategies to leverage yourself to gains of 50% - 200% within days.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ... and much, much more!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Cooper has been a professional equities trader since 1982 and is the author of three best selling books on trading:\n  <em>\n   Hit &amp; Run Trading I,\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Hit &amp; Run Trading II\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The 5 Day Momentum Method\n  </em>\n  . Cooper''s financial markets experience started in 1981 at Drexel Burnham, working for his father, a private hedge fund manager. During this time, he discovered a love and fascination for the financial markets and the forces that move prices. He started trading for his own account in 1983 and left to exclusively trade the markets in 1986. Cooper has been a trader and author ever since, working out of his home in Malibu, California.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(20799, '99 Gesichter an Einem Tag: Klasse an Der Kasse', 'Carmela Narcisi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(20800, 'The Abc of Stock Speculation', 'Samuel Armstrong Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Nelson in 1903 in 252 pages; Subjects: Business &amp; Economics / Finance; Business &amp; Economics / Investments &amp; Securities; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / General; Business &amp; Economics / Personal Finance / Investing;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(20801, 'Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making', 'Paul M. Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasizes the interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information and encourages a critical, rather than unthinking acceptance, of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real life business situations in service, retail and manufacturing industries.  Paul M. Collier applies a managerial approach to show how to li&gt;Understand the relationship between strategy, business events and financial information Use accounting information in planning, decision-making and control Identify the concepts that underlie the construction of accounting reports and the limitations of accounting numbers p&gt; A website for lecturers and students containing extensive supplementary materials such as multiple choice questions, additional questions and answers, and PowerPoint slides can be found at: www.wiley.co.uk/collier\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(20802, 'Active Investment Management: Finding and Harnessing Investment Skill', 'Charles Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Good introductory books on investment are hard to find â€“ but Active Investment Management by Jackson falls into that rare category." (\n <em>\n  Professional Investor\n </em>\n , May 2004)\n</p>\n<p>\n "â€¦analyses investment and business strategies that he (the author) says will shape the future fund management." (\n <em>\n  Stanford Business\n </em>\n , May 2004)Â  Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charles Jackson''s wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  asset classes and products\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  balancing risk and return\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  active product selection\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  the nature of skill\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  the price of skill\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n .\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(20803, 'Advanced Commodity Trading Techniques', 'J. D. Hamon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Noted technical analyst J.D.Hamon reveals tested techniques and powerful new strategies which prove you can win big in commodities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(20804, 'Advanced GET - Applying Technical Analysis', 'Brett Russell, Tom Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(20805, 'Advanced Options Trading: Approaches, Tools, and Techniques for Professionals Traders', 'Kevin M. Kraus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an active trader in today''s market,you are faced with unprecedented challenges. Dramaticprice swings in equity, debt, and currency havemade it tougher than ever to manage and trade risk.But with great risk, of course, comes great opportunityand Advanced Options Tradingdelivers adetailed system for successfully trading options in ahighly volatile and unpredictable global market. Noted options educator and owner of his ownbrokerage house, Kevin M. Kraus explains the bestpractices for using options to capture premium,reduce equity purchase prices, manage the costs ofbuying options, and control portfolio riskcriticalskills for finding steady profits in our ever-shiftingeconomic landscape. He offers a close examinationof the nature of volatility and what it means forinvestors, whether they''re just getting started orare veterans of the options market. Advanced Options Tradingcovers: The critical nature of forward-lookingimplied volatility Ways to level the volatility playingfield with options Techniques for adding value to aportfolio while managing risk The functions of price hedgingand how to do it effectively Interest rate options and whichfactors drive debt markets Options analysis techniques Options are among the most valuable tools forhedging and risk management, and they alsofunction as profitable investment vehicles, allowingyou to make bearish trades through radicalmarket shifts. Advanced Options Tradingprovides a solid foundationon the options market, along with the necessaryskills for trading and managing risk in today''s constantlyexpanding and contracting market.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(20806, 'Advances in Fuzzy Mathematics and Engineering', 'Lotfi A. Zadeh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(20807, 'Adventures of a Currency Trader', 'Rob Booker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for ADVENTURES of a CURRENCY TRADER  "A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it once again to teach us in the funniest way possible how not to make the most common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-to books, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to all traders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by reading this book." â€”Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market, and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com  "Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read for anyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in the Forex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years of market knowledge and transforming it into an educational and entertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in my trading library!" â€”H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group  "Brilliant! Rob''s humor and humanity shine through in this parable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it''s an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of the learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along the way." â€”Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com  "Rob''s fable of everyman ''Harry Banes'' is destined to become a trading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundation that comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search for the Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journey is authentic and real and if you''re willing to take it with Rob, you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdom been so entertaining!" â€”Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading for Maximum Profit andÂ  Days of Forex Trading  "In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, Rob Booker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hard won truths about the currency market. It''s a must read book written by a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in the biggest and most competitive financial market in the world." â€”Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex Capital Markets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(20808, 'The After Hours Trader: How to Make Money 24 Hours a Day Trading Stocks at Night', 'Michael Sincere &amp; Deron Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Profit horizons for independent investors and traders continue to expand at lightning speed. The latest breakthrough is after-hours trading. The After Hours Trader gives traders and investors everything they need to become players in this dynamic global marketplace -- and grab the advantage in today''s newest, most intriguing opportunity.The right book at the right time, The After Hours Trader builds on the technological wave that has all investors -- from odd-lot home traders to multi-million dollar institutional investors -- meeting and competing on the same playing field. Investors and traders at all levels can look to this book for: -- How to choose the best ECN (Electronic Communication Network)-- The advantages and pitfalls of trading after hours-- Techniques to tune into -- and take advantage of -- after-hours news and conference calls\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(20809, 'The Age of Turbulence', 'Alan Greenspan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ... nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve B\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(20810, 'Ahead of the Market: The Zacks Method for Spotting Stocks Early -- in Any Economy', 'Mitch Zacks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beat the Pros at Their Own Game All too often, you learn about good stocks far too late to profit from the information. By the time you actually buy a stock, professional investors have already been there, bought the stock, driven up the price, and are just waiting to unload it at an inflated price. All That''s About to Change. . . . In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows investors how they can spot stocks that are poised to take off long before the rest of the crowd learns about them. How? By unlocking the gems of priceless information buried in Wall Street''s often self-serving research.  Ahead of the Market is the first book, ever, that enables you to profitably use the analyst stock research for which Wall Street firms pay more than one billion dollars annually. Many investors have rightly felt misled in the past by analysts who continued to hype stocks as prices plummeted. You may have even concluded that Wall Street research is totally worthless. But it''s not. In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows that analysts actually provide a wealth of market-moving information that can generate exceptional returns if interpreted correctly. The key is to use the research produced by Wall Street analysts the same way the professional money managers do. Pioneered by the firm Zacks Investment Research and based on more than twenty years of intensive analysis, the investment strategies revealed in this book are indeed the same ones used by successful professional investors everywhere. In these pages you will learn how to form an investment plan by locating stocks that are poised for price appreciation and avoiding stocks heading for a fall. Zacks shows how you could have prevented being burned when the recent bubble burst, if you had known how to use analyst research correctly and teaches you the rules of the research game so you will not fall victim the next time around. In sum, this book is your guide to picking the right stock at the right time. Mitch Zacks''s groundbreaking research provides new insights and new strategies to: Use revisions to analysts'' earnings estimates to predict the rise and fall of stock prices Interpret the real meaning behind analysts'' stock recommendations Employ the "cockroach" phenomenon and other methodologies to predict earnings surprises before they occur Determine how to react when a company reports earnings and how to profit from "post-earnings announcement drift" Understand and profit from "analyst creep"â€”the reason that earnings estimate revisions occur incrementally over time Avoid being duped by the games that companies play with their earnings reports Whether the economy is healthy or stalled, whether the market is up or down, by focusing on the strategies contained in this book you will always come out ahead. Well-picked individual stocks will always carry the day. Now with Ahead of the Market, you will finally have the same tools institutional investors have and will be able to find great stocks in any market environment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(20811, 'All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs', 'Esme Faerber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Access the unprecedented potential of bond investing! ..Bonds have come a long way in recent years. No longer just a relatively safe and secure investment, bonds now offer the potential for capital appreciation in addition to interest income. All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs is the key to understanding both traditional and new types of bond investments. ..This detailed but accessible introduction covers everything from basic bond characteristics to fixed-income investment techniques. You''ll gain a thorough education on such topics as yield, liquidity, duration, convexity, valuation, and emerging markets and find the answers to many questions a bond investor will ask, such as:..What percentage of my portfolio should be dedicated to bonds?.What are the newest products and where do I find them? .What are the risks involved with investing in bonds, bond mutual funds and bond ETFs?.How can I use the Internet to my advantage?..Whether you''re involved in the bond market already or about to enter it, All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs will guide you though the process of choosing the best bonds for your needs, evaluating their performance, and managing a bond portfolio. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(20812, 'All About Dividend Investing, Second Edition', 'Don Schreiber &amp; Gary E. Stroik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A rock-solid investment strategy for a shaky market! Nervous about the state of your portfolio? Do you want to add stable investments without losing the potential for real growth? If so, you need to explore dividends. This revised and updated edition of the popular All About Dividend Investing leads you through the process of identifying under-priced dividend-paying companies and assembling the best of those companies into a successful portfolio. Itâ€™s simply the best strategy available for anyone looking to build a reduced-risk, growth-oriented investment strategy. All About Dividend Investing is a comprehensive guide that explains: New evidence explaining the extraordinary benefits of dividend-paying stock investing Anticipated tax law changes and their likely effects Updates of historical analysis on market cycles and what this means for you A new chapter discussing the failure of conventional investment over the last 30 years Dividend-paying stocks are ideal for any portfolio because their cash flow provides steady income with less price volatility, in both up and down markets. They also offer the possibility of positive returns during extended periods of time, when there is little or no price appreciation in the equity markets. All About Dividend Investing is the guide for reducing short-term risk while maximizing long-term growth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/130');
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(20813, 'All About High-Frequency Trading', 'Michael Durbin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A DETAILED PRIMER ON TODAY''S MOST SOPHISTICATED AND CONTROVERSIAL TRADING TECHNIQUE Unfair . . . brilliant . . . illegal . . . inevitable. High-frequency trading has been described in many different ways, but one thing is for sure--it has transformed investing as we know it. All About High-Frequency Trading examines the practice of deploying advanced computer algorithms to read and interpret market activity, make trades, and pull in huge profi tsâ€”all within milliseconds. Whatever your level of investing expertise, you''ll gain valuable insight from All About High-Frequency Trading''s sober, objective explanations of: The markets in which high-frequency traders operate How high-frequency traders profit from mispriced securities Statistical and algorithmic strategies used by high-frequency traders Technology and techniques for building a high frequency trading system The ongoing debate over the benefits, risks, and ever-evolving future of high-frequency trading Everything You Need to Know, Including: The internal configuration of a high-frequency trading system Comparisons of benefits and drawbacks, as well as analyses of inherent risks Who profits from high-frequency trading--and how they do it Michael Durbin is an author and financial technology consultant specializing in the high-frequency trading of derivatives. He has taught at Duke University''s Fuqua School of Business and the University of North Carolina''s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Durbin lives near Washington, DC.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(20814, 'All About Market Timing: The Easy Way to Get Started', 'Leslie N. Masonson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shell-shocked investors have lost patience with the traditional buy-and-hold approach to investing. All About Market Timing arms investors with simple, easy-to-use timing techniques that they can use to enter rising markets, exit (or go short) falling markets, and make consistent profits in both market environments while protecting against catastrophic losses.Compelling arguments demonstrate the superiority of basic timing over buy-and-hold, while step-by-step instructions show how uncomplicated timing can be. Specific investment vehicles are recommended that fit well into most timing strategies. Investors who want to time the market using their own strategies are provided with information on available software and Web sites. And those investors who are looking for advisors to help them are provided with unbiased rating services to help them select the advisor that is best for them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(20815, 'All About the Foreign Exchange Market in the United States', 'Sam Y. Cross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The focus of this book is on the U. S. segment of the global foreign exchange market. Chapters 1-3 describe the structure of the market and how it has changed. Chapters 4-6 comment on the main participant groups and the instruments that are traded. Chapters 7-8 look at foreign exchange trading from a micro, rather than macro, point of view - how an individual bank or other dealing firm sees things. Chapters 9-11 comment on some of the broader issues facing the international monetary system and how governments, central banks, and market participants operate within that system. This is followed by an epilogue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(20816, 'An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator &amp; Created a Hedge Fund', 'Timothy Sykes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to industry regulations, the general public knows little about them. This book will change everything. Timothy turned $12,000 of Bar Mitzvah gift money into $1.65 million trading thousands of stocks from 1999-2002, managed the #1 Short Bias Hedge Fund from 2003-2006, starred in the television documentary Wall Street Warriors, and appeared regularly on CNBC all before the age of 26. It''s been a wild ride. This Rocky''-like story is the first realistic look at the world of stock trading and hedge funds-it will educate and inspire everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(20817, 'Angel Capital: How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing', 'Gerald Benjamin &amp; Joel Margulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Get the business insight that has raised millions in capital funding for over 50,000 entrepreneurs.  If you''re an entrepreneur or own a small, fast-growing businesses, Angel Capital provides a complete toolkit for raising capital in today''s challenging economic landscape. The authors, who manage the largest angel network in the U.S., offer real-world advice on how to find investors and take control of the private placement process. Using revolutionary typology and unmatched proprietary research, they explain all stages of raising capital, from valuation to negotiation to due diligence. In addition, you''ll find a comprehensive directory of alternative capital resources, based on research of over 2,000 organizations, and a legal appendix that serves as a short course in exempt offerings and provides the skills needed to have success with any early-stage business venture or investment. Order your copy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(20818, 'Asset Dedication: How to Grow Wealthy With the Next Generation of Asset Allocation', 'Stephen J. Huxley &amp; J. Brent Burns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first book to close theperilous gaps inâ€”andenhance the performanceofâ€”asset allocationAsset allocation is one of todayâ€™s bestknowninvestment approaches. Problem is,its major preceptâ€”that a magic-number,fixed-percentage asset mix will providesuperior results for investors who have dramaticallydifferent goals and needsâ€”is scientificallyunproven and fundamentally flawed.Asset Dedication updates the asset allocationmodel, outlining a seven-step processdesigned to more effectively meet the realneeds of real investors. Showing investorshow to design low-risk portfolios that moreaccurately and successfully dedicate assets,this breakthrough book helps investors fillin the gaps inherent to asset allocation bydemonstrating:Techniques for ascertaining the bestasset mix by determining individualneeds and goalsHow asset dedication providessuperior protection against inflationand market riskInvesting strategies for the threeinvestment life phasesâ€”accumulation,distribution, and transfer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(20819, 'Astro-Cycles: The Trader&#39;s Viewpoint', 'Larry Pesavento', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you have ever wanted to learn how to trade y the stars, but did not know where to start, this book is for you. Pesavento begins at the very beginning by teaching the basics of astrology. He includes the basic definitions and explanations of the planetary movements. Included in the topics covered are explanations of the Zodiac and its relationship to the signs and houses, eclipses, equinoxes and solstices as well as Lunar phenomena. After thoroughly educating the reader in these principles, this book teaches the application of these planetary cycles to financial markets with copious charted illustrations. Covers entry, timing and danger signals. Learn about * use of astrocycles in your trading * history of astro-economics * astro-cycle harmonics for gold, bonds, stocks, lunar cycles, and * key turning points pinpointed 2 years in advance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(20820, 'The Astrological Dictionary and Self-Reading Horoscope', 'Lorne Edward Johndro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(20821, 'The Basis of My Forecasting Method', 'W.D.Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(20822, 'Bear Market Investing Strategies', 'Harry D. Schultz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fresh look at proven ways to protect your wealth from the author of the classic Bear Markets book Harry Schultz has been identifying bear market warning signals and teaching people how to prepare a profitable survival portfolio in light of these signals for over thirty-five years through his highly acclaimed newsletter, The International Harry Schultz Letter, which reaches subscribers in over ninety countries. The 1960s'' classic book Bear Markets has been fully updated and revised to reflect the unprecedented changes taking place in today''s volatile economic environment-making it extremely relevant to the current financial market. This book provides the necessary tools for investors to construct a portfolio that will allow them to protect and grow their money under the most severe bear market conditions through technical analysis and models of numerous bear market variables. Bear Market Investing Strategies offers practical and approachable strategies that every investor needs today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(20823, 'Bear-Proof Investing: Protecting Your Financial Future in a Bear Market and Taking Advantage of an Emerging Bull Market', 'Kenneth E. Little', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Bear-Proof Investing"002864204XFor years, it was hard not to make money in the stock market-then suddenly, investors began asking "Now what do I do?" With high-tech stocks fizzling and utilities and blue chips falling to embarrassing lows, investors watched retirement dreams change as accounts reversed double-digit growth rates. In "Bear-Proof Investing," you''ll learn: economic and market indicators you should watch, how to handle short-term financial goals, age-appropriate strategies for retirement planning, safe vehicles for short-term cash reserves, how to decide what to hold and what to fold, how to fatten your portfolio in a bear market, and signs of an upturn and how to grab the bull by the horns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(20824, 'Beat the Odds in Forex Trading: How to Identify and Profit From High Percentage Market Patterns', 'Igor Toshchakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Beat the Odds in Forex Trading provides traders with tremendous value by disseminating the trading methods and philosophy of one of the most remarkable Forex success stories since Soros."  --Alexander De Khtyar, President, Forex International Investments, Inc.  Add certainty and systematization into Forex trading with this practical approach. Author and industry professional Igor Toshchakov shows how recurring market patterns--which can be recognized on a simple bar chart--can be successfully used to trade the Forex market. Written for traders at every level, this valuable resource discusses the challenges of developing a trading method, while revealing the Toshchakov''s approach to the market--both from a philosophical and tactical point of view. You''ll discover specific trading strategies based on recognizable market patterns, get detailed information on entry and exit points, profit targets, stop losses, risk evaluation, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(20825, 'The Beginner&#39;s Guide to Real Estate Investing', 'Gary W. Eldred', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  Everything you need to know to begin acquiring propertiesâ€“â€“now!\n </b>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   N\n  </b>\n  o matter what obstacles you think you face, real estate still offers you multiple money making opportunities. In The Beginnerâ€™s Guide to Real Estate I\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(20826, 'Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management: How to Build Optimal Portfolios That Account for Investor Biases', 'Michael M. Pompian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Pompian is handing you the magic book, the one that reveals your behavioral flaws and shows you how to avoid them. The tricks to success are here. Read and do not stop until you are one of very few magicians." â€”Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Martingale Asset Management  Fear and greed drive markets, as well as good and bad investment decision-making. In Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management, financial expert Michael Pompian shows you, whether you''re an investor or a financial advisor, how to make better investment decisions by employing behavioral finance research. Pompian takes a practical approach to the science of behavioral finance and puts it to use in the real world. He reveals 20 of the most prominent individual investor biases and helps you properly modify your asset allocation decisions based on the latest research on behavioral anomalies of individual investors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(20827, 'Benjamin Graham on Investing: Enduring Lessons From the Father of Value Investing', 'Benjamin Graham &amp; Rodney G. Klein &amp; David M. Darst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "They laid out a road map forinvesting that I have now beenfollowing for 57 years. There''s beenno reason to look for another." Warren Buffett, on thewritings of Benjamin Graham Legendary investing author and philosopherBenjamin Graham lived throughinteresting times. Soon after his graduationfrom Columbia College, the nation enteredthe First World War. As the stock market fluctuatedin wild dips and peaks, the governmentseized control of the railroad industry, inflationand interest rates rose dramatically, andeconomic depression loomed on the horizon. During these eventsand perhaps inspiredby themGraham began writing articles for The Magazine of Wall Street, putting to paperhis earliest ideas on value investing and securityanalysis. For the first time, these important workshave been anthologized into a single volume. Benjamin Graham on Investingis a treasure troveof rare and out-of-print articles that documentthe early flashes of genius from a manwhose ideas and theories would revolutionizeinvestment philosophy and inspire the careersof such luminaries as Warren Buffett, SethKlarman, Charlie Munger, and countless othertop-tier investors. The early works of Benjamin Graham havenever been as relevant as they are today.The world''s markets are undergoing changeon a scale not unlike that of Graham''s era.David Darst, one of the world''s most respectedexperts on asset allocation, provides insightfulanalyses connecting Graham''s articles toevents today. ,i&gt;Benjamin Graham on Investingis a timelessclassic that continues to have relevance morethan 30 years after the author''s death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(20828, 'The Best of Wilmott 1: Incorporating the Quantitative Finance Review', 'Paul Wilmott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster of speakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to bright young things, discussing the latest developments, with a specific emphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You really had to be there. Until now, at least.\n  <br />\n  The Best of Wilmott 1: Including the latest research from Quantitative Finance Review 2003 contains these first-class articles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with a collection of selected technical papers from Wilmott magazine. In publishing this book we hope to share some of the great insights that, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and give you some idea why Wilmott magazine is the most talked about periodical in the market.\n  <br />\n  Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, Marc Potters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a must for anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. The articles cover a wide range of topics:\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Psychology in Financial Markets\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Equity-to-Credit Problem\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Introducing Variety in Risk Management\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Art and Science of Curve Building\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Cliquet Options and Volatility Models\n  <br />\n  And as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies The Best of Wilmott... will return on an annual basis.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster of speakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to bright young things, discussing the latest developments, with a specific emphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You really had to be there. Until now, at least.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Best of Wilmott 1:Â Incorporating theÂ Quantitative Finance Review\n  </em>\n  Â contains these first-class articles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with a collection of selected technical papers from\n  <em>\n   Wilmott\n  </em>\n  magazine. In publishing this book we hope to share some of the great insights that, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and give you some idea why\n  <em>\n   Wilmott\n  </em>\n  magazine is the most talked about periodical in the market.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, Marc Potters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a must for anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. The articles cover a wide range of topics:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Psychology in Financial Markets\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Equity-to-Credit Problem\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Introducing Variety in Risk Management\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Art and Science of Curve Building\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Cliquet Options and Volatility Models\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   And as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies\n  </em>\n  The Best of Wilmottâ€¦\n  <em>\n   will return on an annual basis.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(20829, 'Beyond Candlesticks', 'Steve Nison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1990, Steve Nison introduced traders in the West to a powerful analytical tool that had long given Japanese investors a competitive edge. Now, with this groundbreaking new book, the "Father of Candlesticks" further revolutionizes technical analysis with an entire collection of stunningly effective Japanese techniques. In Beyond Candlesticks, Steve Nison unveils the mysteries of four more of Japan''s most closely guarded financial secrets - Kagi, Renko, Three-Line Break charts, and the disparity index - incredibly versatile techniques for forecasting and tracking market prices and buying and selling periods. Completely self-contained and requiring no prior experience with Japanese charting techniques, Beyond Candlesticks introduces Kagi, Renko, and Three-Line Break charts - powerful non-time series charting techniques never before seen in the West; explores the exotic twists and turns of the disparity index - a Japanese secret more exact and timely than its Western cousin, moving averages; takes you step by step through each charting technique with the help of nearly 200 illustrations, dozens of detailed real-world examples, and clear-cut guidelines on how to use them in your day-to-day trading and investing; demonstrates how these techniques can be used on equities, futures, fixed-income, foreign exchange, and overseas markets; and explains how they can be merged with candlesticks and traditional Western techniques to create powerful new hybrids. But that''s not all. In addition to instructing readers in these exciting new charting techniques, Nison also takes us deeper inside the mysteries of candlesticks than ever before. Expanding his coverage beyond the futures markets that werethe focus of his 1991 classic, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Nison describes candlestick patterns that can be applied to stocks, bonds, and foreign exchange. He also demonstrates new ways in which candlesticks alone, or in conjunction with traditional Western techniques, can be adapted to virtually any trading, investing, or hedging strategy. Affording Western readers an unprecedented opportunity to acquaint themselves with these powerful, centuries-old techniques, Beyond Candlesticks is a resource that no trader, broker, analyst, or investor can afford to be without.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(20830, 'Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing', 'Hersh Shefrin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Psychology rules the stock market, according to Hersh Shefrin. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Greed and Fear\n </em>\n , Shefrin shows how bias, perception, and other aspects of psychology often rattle investors and move stocks. From the individual who keeps losers too long to overconfident money managers who mistakenly think they can predict financial trends, human nature foils investment returns. "Behavioral finance is everywhere that people make financial decisions. Psychology is hard to escape; it touches every corner of the financial landscape, and it''s important. Financial practitioners need to understand the impact that psychology has on them and those around them. Practitioners ignore psychology at their peril," writes Shefrin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University. An academic volume geared toward financial professionals, the book details an emerging field known as behavioral finance, in which psychology is believed to be at least as important as market fundamentals, such as earnings and balance sheets. Shefrin describes how investors are motivated by fear, hope, overconfidence, and the need for short-term gratification. The book gives plenty of examples of investment mistakes, and analyzes them from a behavioral-finance perspective. While\n <em>\n  Beyond Greed and Fear\n </em>\n targets professionals, individual investors will benefit from this look at an important mover of markets.\n <em>\n  --Dan Ring\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Behavioral finance is defined by Shefrin (finance, Santa Clara Univ.) as "a rapidly growing area that deals with the influence of psychology on the behavior of financial practitioners." This comprehensive study is aimed primarily at practitionersAportfolio managers, analysts, and financial advisersAwho, according to Shefrin, "need to know that because of human nature, they make particular types of mistakes." Shefrin provides a historical background of finance theory, studies of behavioral analysis, and a review of major contributions to the literature. The book is divided into six parts: behavioral finance, the stock market, individual investors, money managers, corporate executives, and options, futures, and foreign exchange. In addition to numerous case studies, Shefrin utilizes statistical charts and tables to illustrate his central theories and concepts. Important and thought-provoking, this study is recommended for academic faculty and students as well as finance practitioners.ALucy T. Heckman, St. John''s Univ. Lib., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(20831, 'Beyond Technical Analysis: How to Develop and Implement a Winning Trading System, 2nd Edition', 'Tushar S. Chande', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(20832, 'The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies', 'Guy Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is the eBook version of the printed book. "Guy Cohen is the master when it comes to taming the complexities of options. From buying calls and puts to iron butterflies and condors, Guy explains these strategies in a clear and concise manner that options traders of any level can understand. His chapter on options and taxes is especially welcomed (and needed). The Bible of Options Strategies is a straightforward, easy-to-use reference work that should occupy a space on any options trader''s bookshelf."â€“Bernie Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, Schaeffer''s Investment Research, Inc. "The author delivers clarity, insight and perception making learning about options a joy, and practicing the art of making money that much easier: truly a bible from a guru."â€“Alpesh B. Patel, Author and Financial Times Columnist "Guy Cohen truly makes learning about options easy in this fact-filled guide. Bullet points make for a quick and enlightened read, getting to the heart of what you really need to know about each options strategy. This book is a must for any serious trader''s library."â€“Price Headley, Founder, BigTrends.com Pick the right options strategies...implement them step-by-step...maximize your profits! Introducing today''s first and only comprehensive reference to contemporary options trading! OptionEasy creator Guy Cohen identifies today''s popular strategies...and tells you exactly how and when to use each one and what hazards to look out for! It''s all here....   Basic Strategies including  Buying and shorting shares, calls, and puts.  Income Strategies including  Covered Call, Naked Put, Bull Put Spread, Bear Call Spread, Long Iron Butterfly, Long Iron Condor, Calendar Call, Diagonal Call...  Vertical Spreads including Bull Call Spread, Bull Put Spread, Bear Call Spread, Bear Put Spread, Ladders...  Volatility Strategies including Straddle, Strangle, Guts, Short Butterflies, Short Condors...  Sideways Strategies including Short Straddle, Short Strangle, Short Guts, Long Butterflies, Long Condors...  Leveraged Strategies including Call Ratio Backspread, Put Ratio Backspread, Ratio Spreads...  Synthetic Strategies including Collar, Synthetic Call, Synthetic Put, Synthetic Straddles, Synthetic Futures, Combos, Box Spread... ...and many more strategies... Plus essential tax-saving information, and more!   No other book presents this much authoritative, current information on options trading strategies  Covers all of today''s best income, volatility, leveraged, synthetic, and sideways market strategies  Discover why each strategy works, when it''s appropriate, and how to use itâ€”step by step   Includes a full chapter on tax issues associated with options strategies  By Guy Cohen, whose OptionEasy application has helped thousands of traders achieve breakthrough results! The Bible of Options Strategies is the definitive reference to contemporary options trading: the one book you need by your side whenever you trade. Options expert Guy Cohen systematically presents today''s most effective strategies for trading options: how and why they work, when they''re appropriate, when they''re inappropriate, and how to use each one responsibly and with confidence. The only reference of its kind, this book will help you identify and implement the optimal strategy for every opportunity, trading environment, and goal. Â© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(20833, 'The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television', 'Brett Pulley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Against overwhelming odds, BET founder Robert Johnson blasted through social and economic barriers using his intelligence and charm, first establishing himself in the realm of Washington politics and later in the media business. One might think his rags-to-riches story would be incredibly uplifting. But in this unauthorized biography, Pulley (a senior editor at Forbes and well-known expert on the business of entertainment) reports that Johnsonâ€™s methods were anything but noble. Though he created the first black-owned and -operated cable company, Pulley says, Johnson had little interest in raising the quality of the programming that BET offered to the black community, despite that communityâ€™s loyalty to his channel. (In Canada, blacks even lobbied to have BET carried on their cable systems.) From the very start, Pulley argues, Johnsonâ€™s goal was to become a billionaire, period. And he realized his dream when he sold his company to Viacom in 1999. Along the way he shed friends, associates and even family members who ceased to be useful in carrying out his business plans, Pulley says, and he also refused to compensate (or even to thank) many of those who helped him in moving forward, including the man who gave him the business plan that he used to find his original investors. Pulleyâ€™s research in this volume is quite impressive; he interviewed all of Johnsonâ€™s most important BET colleagues. And though his prose occasionally leans towards the purple, overall the book is written in a clean, easy-to-follow style. His eye-opening biography will make many readers view Johnson in a new way, and may leave some hoping that there is another side to this cynical story.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Still at BET Helm, Johnson Turns to Sports and Hotels" (\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , May 17, 2004)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those interested in business are not the only ones who will welcome\n  <em>\n   The Billion Dollar BET\n  </em>\n  (Wiley; 24.95). Robert Johnsonâ€™s rise from humble beginnings in Hickory, Miss and Freeport, Ill to bone a fide American billionaire is packed with all the elements of great stories. In addition to a healthy dose of drive and determination, there is a large helping of alleged backstabbing, extramarital affairs, corporate meltdowns and showdowns.\n  <br />\n  Regardless of how some folks feel about BET, author Brett Pulley couches Johnsonâ€™s accomplishments in the historical context of both black American history and the cable industry. Like it or not, Johnson is a trailblazer. He is also proof positive of just how far hard work and tremendous opportunity can take you.\n  <br />\n  Most surprising to some maybe Johnsonâ€™s own grandiose ideas of what BET might have become. Like many of his critics, Johnson himself envisioned a channel with original and educational programming. Economic realities, however, led him to make music videos.\n  <br />\n  Yes, this type book is a far cry from the girlfriend fare that dominates black book shel ves, but, if given a chance, it can be just as titillating. --Ronda Racha Price (\n  <em>\n   Upscale\n  </em>\n  , April 2004)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The rags-to-riches rise of the nation''s first black billionaire is a great story no matter how you tell it. And\n  <em>\n   The Billion Dollar BET\n  </em>\n  (John Wiley &amp; Sons, $24.95), by Forbes senior editor Brett Pulley, is filled with enough sex, villains, and betrayal to make it a guilty pleasure.\n  <br />\n  At the center of the drama is Bob Johnson, who built a $15,000 bank loan into a media empire. Johnson refused to cooperate for the book, but Pulley had extensive access before deciding to write. Plenty of other key players (even Johnson''s former wife of 32 years) were willing to dish on everything from 4 a.m. phone calls from the boss to his extramarital affairs.\n  <br />\n  What makes Johnson''s life more than fodder for an\n  <em>\n   E! True Hollywood Story\n  </em>\n  , however, is the intersection of race and business. Johnson constantly reminds detractors that "the ''E'' in BET does not stand for enlightenment or education but entertainment." Many hoped that Johnson, the first African American with such control over TV, would take a higher road. Pulley does address the issue, but one wishes he had spent even more time on the tensions black executives face balancing financial concerns and responsibility to the race. (\n  <em>\n   Fortune\n  </em>\n  , March 22, 2004)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(20834, 'Bird Watching in Lion Country', 'Dirk du Toit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(20835, 'Bollinger on Bollinger Bands', 'John Bollinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n John Bollinger is a giant in todayâ€™s trading community. His Bollinger Bands sharpen the sensitivity of fixed indicators, allowing them to more precisely reflect a marketâ€™s volatility. By more accurately indicating the existing market environment, they are seen by many as todayâ€™s standardâ€”and most reliableâ€”tool for plotting expected price action.Now, in Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, Bollinger himself explains how to use this extraordinary technique to compare price and indicator action and make sound, sensible, and profitable trading decisions.Concise, straightforward, and filled with instructive charts and graphs, this remarkable book will be essential reading for all serious traders, regardless of market. Bollinger includes his simple system for implementation, and techniques for combining bands and indicators.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(20836, 'Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies', 'Frank J. Fabozzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Learn how to assess and invest in bonds with this best-selling text. Fabozzi''s\n   <em>\n    Bond Markets\n   </em>\n   is the most applied book on the market.Â  It prepares students to analyze the bond market and manage bond portfolios without getting bogged down in the theory. The author''s extensive experience in the field is reflected in this uniquely applied approach. This seventh edition has been painstakingly updated.Â  The author conducted numerous conversations and discussions with analysts and portfolio managers to make sure that this text reflects the field today.\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    * Pricing of Bonds; Measuring Yield; Bond Price Volatility; Factors Affecting Bond Yields and the Term Structure of Interest Rates; Treasury and Agency Securities; Corporate Debt Instruments; Municipal Securities; Non-U.S. Bonds; Residential Mortgage Loans; Agency Mortgage Pass-through Securities; Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities; Prime and Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities; Commercial Loans and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities; Asset-Backed Securities; Cash Collateralized Debt Obligations; Interest Rate Models; Analysis of Bonds with Embedded Options; Analysis of Mortgage-Backed Securities; Analysis of Convertible Bonds; Corporate Bond Credit Analysis; Credit Risk Modeling; Active Bond Portfolio Management Strategies; Indexing; LiabilityÂ  Driven Strategies; Bond Performance Measurement and Evaluation; Interest Rate Futures; Interest Rate Options; Interest-Rate Swaps, Caps, and Floors; Credit Derivatives and Synthetic CDOs\n    <br />\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Â  The latest edition of Fabozziâ€™s\n  </em>\n  Bond Markets *helps make sense of bond markets and mortgage financing. The 2008 financial crisis is explained as part of the newly added chapter on prime and subprime loans.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This comprehensive textbook on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It includes a detailed discussion of each type of bond including a wide range of products. The text features comprehensive discussion of not only the instruments, but their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(20837, 'Booms, Bubbles, and Busts in US Stock Markets', 'David L. Western', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Why did US stock markets experience such a huge bubble in the 1990s? Why did Greenspan ''allow'' the bubble to occur? Why did investors appear to act irrationally and indulge in such vehement speculations? Why the euphoria? This book examines the American stock market during one of its most intriguing periods. By turning his critical eye upon the rise of the stock market bubble during the 1990s boom years and its inevitable crash some years later, David L. Western has written a scholarly yet readable book. Providing historical background as well as solid statistical research, the book helps to explain the mysteries of the stock market in an authoritative manner. Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate and postgraduate students will find this to be an enlightening read, whilst readers with an interest in how the biggest economy in the world got things badly wrong will find this to be a book that remains useful as a reference for many years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(20838, 'Building Automated Trading Systems: With an Introduction to Visual C++.NET 2005', 'Benjamin Van Vliet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(20839, 'Building Financial Models: A Guide to Creating and Interpreting Financial Statements', 'John S. Tjia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Building Financial Models shows you how to create a functional, dynamic spreadsheet financial model that will allow you to create and refine projections for industrial and manufacturing organizations. Leading you step-by-step through the development and implementation process, this first-of-its-kind book provides - An overview of projection models - what they are, how they are used, and how they differ between industries; Exploration of the accounting and finance concepts that underpin working financial models; Basic model design principles, along with detailed directions for using spreadsheet software to put those principles into practice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(20840, 'Building Winning Trading Systems With TradeStation', 'George Pruitt &amp; John R. Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for BUILDING WINNING TRADING SYSTEMS with TradeStation (TM)  "This book will prove vital to all systematic traders. Pruitt and Hill share a wealth of innovative timing patterns and fully disclosed trading strategies. For TradeStation(TM) users, there are powerful tutorials on indicator design and system building. The authors'' vast expertise will benefit even practiced TradeStation(TM) veterans." -Nelson Freeburg Editor, Formula Research  "TradeStation(TM) systems traders will discover a virtual gold mine of knowledge, guidance, and the benefit of vicarious experience from the two foremost experts on the subject in this valuable new addition to trading systems literature. There has long been a notable lack of worthwhile reference material for TradeStation(TM) users, and Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation(TM) fills a large void in this area." -Edward Dobson President, Traders Press, Inc.  "Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation(TM) is filled with useful information and practical real-world examples. I believe TradeStation 6(TM) users will find it a valuable resource." -Bill Cruz Co-CEO, TradeStation(TM) Group, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(20841, 'Bull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999 : What Drove the Breakneck Market--And What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles', 'Maggie Mahar', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Bull!, Maggie Mahar tells the sweeping tale of the Great Bull Market of 1982â€“1999, a legendary run-up that pulled the entire nation into its gravitational field. Mahar lays out the origins of the boom and takes the reader behind the scenes, on Wall Street, on Main Street, and in Washington, letting him see the story through the eyes of the fund managers, market gurus, analysts, politicians, business journalists, and 401(k) investors who, together, helped create the longest-running bull market in U.S. history. Some were touts; others were true believers. On the sidelines, a Greek Chorus of seasoned professionals tried, vainly, to describe the emperor''s new clothes. Filled with colorful portraits of many of the central figures of the boom years -- Alan Greenspan, Henry Blodget, James Cramer, Abby Joseph Cohen -- Bull! draws together a complex cast of characters, illuminating the web of relationships that kept the market aloft. More than a financial history, Bull! is a lively, often witty social history of the stock market that became a part of popular culture. It is also the tale of individual investors, which chronicles the intimate stories of ordinary people -- housewives and college professors, salesmen and waitresses -- who got caught up in the excitement and then watched their life savings drain away. How did it happen that the very real risks of investing in stocks were forgotten? Mahar explodes the myth of "stocks for the long run," explaining how the market''s promoters crunched the numbers to create the illusion that if an investor stays in the casino just a little longer, he is guaranteed to come out a winner. Casting Warren Buffett in a new light, she explains how a value investor is, in the end, a long-term market timer who understands that success depends on how much you pay when you get into the market -- and when you get out. By putting the bull market of 1982â€“1999 in a larger historical context, she shows how, over time, longtime bull markets beget longtime bear markets. The future defies prediction, but the history of financial markets makes one thing clear: markets always revert to a mean. Taken as a single story, Bull! is both an illuminating history and a cautionary tale about investing. Analyzing the economic and psychological forces that drive financial cycles, Mahar shows how an extraordinary influx of cash and credit, combined with the obsessive attention of a new financial media, created a cult of equities. Challenging the notion that stocks always outperform all other investments, she reveals why many of Wall Street''s most experienced investors believe that the 21st-century investor needs to throw out the old rule book and make a new beginning as he plans for his financial future. No investor should keep his or her money in the stock market without first reading this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(20842, 'The Business of Value Investing: Six Essential Elements to Buying Companies Like Warren Buffett', 'Sham Gad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A blueprint to successful value investing Successful value investors have an ingrained mental framework through which all investments decisions are made. This framework, which stems from the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham-who believed that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike-can put you in a better position to improve the overall performance of your portfolio. Written by Sham Gad-founder of the Gad Partners Funds, a value-focused investment partnership inspired by the 1950s Buffett Partnerships-The Business of Value Investing effectively examines the fundamental tenants of this approach and skillfully illustrates the six essential elements of the entire process. Opening with some informative discussions of how value investing focuses more on buying a piece of a business, and less on buying a company''s stock, this reliable resource quickly moves on to detail exactly what it takes to become a successful value investor.  Outlines the six essential elements required for a successful risk averse value investment approach Contains case studies that illustrate how to approach investing in an intelligent, businesslike fashion Walks you through the pitfalls that most investors initially fall into  With The Business of Value Investing as your guide, you''ll quickly become familiar with one of the most effective investment strategies ever created.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(20843, 'Buy Gold Now: How a Real Estate Bust, Our Bulging National Debt, and the Languishing Dollar Will Push Gold to Record Highs', 'Shayne McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Buy Gold NowWith foreign-financed U.S. debt levels continuing to soar, an intensifying real estate bust, and other signs of economic exhaustion following one of the longest booms in history, the probability of a dollar crash is now openly talked about in financial circles. Yet gold--the ultimate escape from financial risk throughout human history--remains one of the least-owned financial assets, representing less than 2% of the typical investment portfolio.Pushing aside Wall Street''s perennial aversion to gold, in Buy Gold Now, investment expert Shayne McGuire skillfully reveals why the opportunity to profit from this precious metal, as well as protect yourself from risk, has rarely been better. Long forgotten, the 2,300% gold surge in the 1970s--when debt was one-tenth the level present in our economy today--is a return not even the 1990s NASDAQ could beat.Masterfully researched and written in a straightforward style, Buy Gold Now makes a case for buying gold as protection against the rising risks of an unprecedented global currency crisis and as a profitable investment vehicle. It examines the country''s current financial situation from a historical perspective, addressing some of the alarming issues that many economists today are pointing to with concern.Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with detailed discussions of: Why U.S. financial risk has never been higherHow our homes are the epicenter of U.S. economic riskWhy the longest economic boom ever is probably coming to an endKeeping these and other issues in mind, the final two parts of the book--The Case for Owning Gold and How to Buy Gold--outline the advantages and disadvantages of this essential asset in securing future wealth and protecting your portfolio during precariouseconomic times. Here, you''ll receive specific recom-mendations regarding stock market investments via mining stocks and exchange-traded funds, and discover the best ways to invest in physical gold through bullion, "digital gold currency," and rare coins.Filled with in-depth insights from some of the world''s leading financial professionals, Buy Gold Now explains why gold isn''t just a defensive purchase anymore, but an investment that can outperform the markets for many years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/331');
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(20844, 'Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact: 85 Maxims of Investing and What They Really Mean', 'Michael Maiello', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The traditional rules of Wall Street--what''s right, what''s wrong, and how investors can distinguish between the two\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Buy on Monday, sell on Friday". . . "Don''t catch falling knives". . . "The trend is your friend". . .\n</p>\n<p>\n These maxims are part of the gospel of Wall Street, repeated so often that, to many, they are beyond question. Unfortunately, they can be wrong--and traders who blindly follow them can get burned.\n <em>\n  Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact\n </em>\n examines 85 of these "insights" to reveal the meaning behind each, discover its factual support or lack thereof, and advise investors on which to follow and which to just plain ignore. Devoting two to four pages to each maxim, this valuable book examines:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Maxims that seem to contradict each other--and why both versions may often be correct\n </li>\n <li>\n  Perilous adages that may work--but then again, may not\n </li>\n <li>\n  The thought, culture, and impact of today''s Wall Street\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today''s Most Refreshingly Straightforward Guidebook to the\n  <em>\n   Real\n  </em>\n  Rules of Wall Street\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Buy the Dips" ... "Don''t catch falling knives" ... "The trend is your friend" ...\n</p>\n<p>\n These trading maxims--and dozens like them--are repeated so often, by everyone from stockbrokers and advisors to stock market pundits, that for many investors they are fact. But when it''s your own money on the line, how can you know which slogans should be followed, which should be ignored, and how to tell the difference?\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Forbes\n </em>\n staff writer Michael Maiello takes an unbiased look at more than 75 of these "rules" to determine if they have value for investors in today''s fast-changing markets--and, if so, what that value is. Before you place your next trade, let this engaging and easy-to-understand book show you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Translate vague and contradictory investment maxims into commonsense investing rules\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and apply the basic mechanisms of the market to your investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Distinguish between advice that is valuable and advice that is dangerous\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n As an independent investor, you need to understand the everyday language of the markets before you can consistently profit from your investments.\n <em>\n  Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact\n </em>\n takes you inside that language to help you craft investment guidelines that apply to\n <strong>\n  you\n </strong>\n , and only you, in your quest to make safe and sound investment decisions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(20845, 'BW1 Broken Wings', 'VC Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(20846, 'The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith', 'Knud Haakonssen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith''s comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith''s system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith''s thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith''s multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(20847, 'Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers: Setups for Stock, Forex, and Futures Markets', 'John L. Person', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With instant electronic market access and powerful financial tools at their disposal, today''s "technician"--one who practices the art of technical analysis--has more opportunities than ever before to profitably trade in a variety of markets. But in order to truly excel, you need a method that will allow you to identify market moves, and strategies that will allow you to make the most of those moves.John Person has been in the trading business for almost thirty years--as a broker, a trader, and a teacher of traders. During this time, he''s refined his trading skills and, by using candlestick formations in conjunction with pivot points, developed a reliable methodology that will help you make smarter trades with less risk.In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics, Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers--in the stock, forex, and futures markets--based on a moving average approach.Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this comprehensive guide: Examines the methodology of pivot point analysis and how it can be applied to different marketsShows you what to look for when reading candlestick charts and why you should rely on price rather than indicatorsDiscusses how to find certain setups and explains what triggers a call to trading actionWalks you through the various types of stop orders, including when and where to place themIllustrates how back testing your methods can help uncover the strengths and weaknesses ofyour systemPerson also fully discloses some of his proprietary setups, such as the high close doji, the low close doji, and the jack hammer pattern, complete with rules on the entries and exits to help you identify high probability trades.With the tools and techniques outlined in this book--which includes a companion CD-ROM that contains Person''s own Pivot Point Calculator and an instructional presentation on how to use it--you''ll be able to put together a trading plan that consistently helps you yield profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(20848, 'Candlestick Charting Explained: Timeless Techniques for Trading Stocks and Futures', 'Gregory L. Morris &amp; Ryan Litchfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Master this powerful trading system and identify the best tradesInside this book you will discover candlestick charting, one of the most popular tools in technical analysis. Candlestick Charting Explained features updated charts and analysis as well as new material on integrating Western charting analysis with Japanese candlestick analysis, grouping candlesticks into families, detecting and avoiding false signals, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(20849, 'Candlestick Charts: An Introduction to Using Candlestick Charts', 'Clive Lambert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clive Lambert is one of the UK''s leading experts in the use and application of Japanese candlestick chart analysis. I have known him for many years and have learnt to greatly respect his depth of knowledge and the objectiveness it brings to his market strategies." - Adam Sorab, Chairman, Society of Technical Analysts (STA)  The aim of this book is to introduce candlestick analysis to anyone from an absolute beginner to an experienced market professional. The text is written to be simple enough for someone new to the topic, but should not exclude those with more experience. The author''s aim is to change the simple viewing of a candlestick chart into a search for the answer to the perennial question: "Who''s controlling the market; the Bulls or the Bears?"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(20850, 'The Candlestick Course', 'Steve Nison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Expert instruction on the practical applications of candlestick charting  Candlestick charting is more popular than ever before, with a legion of new traders and investors being introduced to the concept by some of todayâ€™s hottest investment gurus. Having introduced the candlestick technique to the West through two of his bestselling books, Steve Nison is regarded as a luminary in the field of candlestick charting. In his new venture, The Candlestick Course, Nison explains patterns of varying complexity and tests the readerâ€™s knowledge with quizzes, Q&amp;As, and intensive examples. In accessible and easy-to-understand language, this book offers expert instruction on the practical applications of candlestick charting to give every level of investor a complete understanding of this proven, profitable, and time-tested investing technique. Straightforward answers quickly clarify this easy-to-use charting method. This guide will allow readers to recognize and implement various candlestick patterns and lines in todayâ€™s real-world trading environmentâ€“giving them a noticeable edge in their trading activities\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(20851, 'Candlesticks, Fibonacci, and Chart Pattern Trading Tools: A Synergistic Strategy to Enhance Profits and Reduce Risk', 'Robert Fischer &amp; Jens Fischer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An in-depth examination of a powerful new trading strategy  "Fischer provides an intriguing and thorough look at blending the Fibonacci series, candlesticks, and 3-point chart patterns to trade securities. Backed by explicit trading rules and numerous examples and illustrations, this book is an invaluable tool for the serious investor. Read it." â€“Thomas N. Bulkowski author of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns and Trading Classic Chart Patterns  In this groundbreaking new book, Fibonacci expert Robert Fischer and coauthor Dr. Jens Fischer successfully merge Fibonacci applications with candlestick charting to create an innovative trading strategy that will help you enhance profits and reduce risk.  Filled with in-depth insights, helpful charts and graphs, and practical real-world examples, Candlesticks, Fibonacci, and Chart Pattern Trading Tools reveals how correctly combining these different strategies can give you a noticeable edge in challenging market timesâ€“regardless of whether you are a short-term or long-term traderâ€“and improve your chances of success under a variety of market conditions.  Youâ€™ll be introduced to the critical aspects of this synergistic approach through in-depth analysis and detailed explanations of:  Core combinations of Fibonacci trading tools with candlesticks and regular 3-point chart patterns The magic figure "three" and its relevance in pattern recognition Fibonacci-related trading strategies, selected candlestick chart patterns, and regular 3-point chart patterns Applications of these trading strategiesâ€“double tops, Fibonacci price extensions, PHI-channel applications PHI-ellipses as trading tools And much more   Along with the computer technology of the WINPHI charting program included on the companion CD-ROM, Candlesticks, Fibonacci, and Chart Pattern Trading Tools will help you understand and implement this profitable trading strategy to the best of your ability.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(20852, 'Capital Flows and Crises', 'Barry J. Eichengreen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Recent research in the new comparative economic history is dramatically changing our understanding of the global economy. Only by looking at the evolution of markets, technology, institutions, and policies in a comparative perspective can we fully comprehend the forces behind the most important economic phenomenon of the last 200 years: the great divergence between the economies of the rich core and the poor periphery. In a pathbreaking book that is essential reading for students of world economic history, Jeffrey Williamson presents a new account of the less developed world from 1820 to 1940 and shows how the two revolutions that enriched the core -- industrialization and globalization -- also profoundly shaped the course of events on the periphery."--Alan M. Taylor, Professor of Economics and Chancellor''s Fellow, University of California, Davis\n</p>\n<p>\n "Research on crises has exploded in recent years, and Eichengreen has been in the lead. This volume brings together the best of his recent writings on the subject."--Alan M. Taylor, Professor of Economics and Chancellor''s Fellow, University of California, Davis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth.Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation and the rate of economic growth. But analyses of both recent and historical experience also show an undeniable association between capital mobility and crises, especially when domestic institutions are weak and the harmonization of capital account liberalization and other policy reforms is inadequate. In his conclusion, Eichengreen makes suggestions for policy design to maximize the benefits of international financial liberalization while minimizing the risks of financial instability.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(20853, 'Capital Instincts: Life as an Entrepreneur, Financier, and Athlete', 'Richard Brandt &amp; Thomas Weisel &amp; Lance Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n San Francisco investment boutique Thomas Weisel Partners just offloaded another 100 employees (spurring more rumors the firm will be sold), but its 62-year-old founder is busy charging up other hills. Weisel, a renowned cyclist, has been promoting his new autobiography,\n <em>\n  Capital Instincts: Life as an Entrepreneur, Financier, and Athlete\n </em>\n , and doling out the tome to clients. The book isn''t exactly flying off the shelves (Amazon rank: 9,136), but it''s packed with testosterone-charged tales of Weisel''s athletic, business, and art-collecting exploits--including his recent $40 million sale of abstract impressionist art. Chapter 1: "Never Underestimate Thom Weisel." (\n <em>\n  Fortune Magazine\n </em>\n , March 31,2003)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An insider''s view of the investment banking world from someone who is actually shaping it\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Powerful, controversial and determined, Thomas Weisel is known for his unwavering focus on winning the race, whether he is competing in a national cycling championship, sponsoring Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong or negotiating with business competitors. For twenty-seven years he ran one of the major investment banks on the West Coast, bringing public companies such as Applied Materials, Siebel Systems and Yahoo! and was instrumental in establishing San Francisco as an alternative financial center to Wall Street. In 1997 he sold his company to NationsBank, which later merged with Bank of America. Unhappy with his treatment after the merger, Weisel trumped Bank of America by negotiating a separation package that included $500 million in stock options and the ability to hire away crucial Bank of America management. Within two years, the investment bank he started, Thomas Weisel Partners, reached half a billion dollars in revenues and negotiated high-profile deals such as Yahoo!''s merger with Geocities. Power Investor weaves Weisel''s approach to success, his competitive nature and love of cycling into a fascinating inside account of the cutthroat world of investment banking.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas Weisel\n </strong>\n (San Francisco, CA) is the founder, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Thomas Weisel Partners, a research-driven merchant bank exclusively focused on the growth sectors of the U.S. economy. He is founder and president of Tailwind Sports, which manages the U.S. Postal Service cycling team, and was an Olympic-class speed skater and the former chairman of the U.S. Ski Foundation.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Richard Brandt\n </strong>\n (San Francisco, CA) has twenty years'' experience as a leading business journalist. He was a senior reporter for BusinessWeek for fourteen years and editor in chief of the technology business magazine Upside for four years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(20854, 'Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare', 'Andrew Glyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This accessible and persuasive book challenges the notion of our capitalist destiny. It provides a clear and concise history of the problems facing the economies of Europe, Japan, and the US during the latter half of the twentieth century and questions w\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(20855, 'Chart Pattern Recognition For MetaStock', 'John Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(20856, 'Charting Made Easy', 'John J. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is a treasure trove of easy to use tools for mapping your course through today''s market. Whether you''re using online charts or a professional charting software program, these techniques from master technician John Murphy can increase your trading success."One of the greatest benefits of technical analysis is its applicability to any and all markets ... charts can be an extremely valuable tool-if you know how to use them. This booklet is a good place to start learning how."-from the foreword by John MurphyRenowned market technician John Murphy presents basic principals of technical analysis in easy-to-understand term.He covers...- All types of chart analysis- "Need to know" concepts, including trendlines, moving averages, price gaps, reversal patterns, volume &amp; open interest spreads, and more!- Price forecasting and market timing applications - A full resource guide of technical analysis aide - How to use the industry''s top tools to obtain a better understanding of what charts can do-and how they can help you grab your portion of today''s trading profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(20857, 'The Churchill Lectures in Economic Theory', 'ARIEL RUBINSTEIN', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(20858, 'CliffsNotes: Investing in 401K', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(20859, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(20860, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(20861, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(20862, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(20863, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(20864, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/623'),
(20865, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(20866, 'CNN', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(20867, 'Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading', 'Alexander Elder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The trading bible for the new millennium  In Come Into My Trading Room, noted trader and author Dr. Alexander Elder returns to expand far beyond the three M''s (Mind, Method, and Money) of his bestselling Trading for a Living. Shifting focus from technical analysis to the overall management of a trader''s money, time, and strategy, Dr. Elder takes readers from the fundamentals to the secrets of being a successful trader--identifying new, little known indicators that can lead to huge profits.  Come Into My Trading Room educates the novice and fortifies the professional through expert advice and proven trading methodologies. This comprehensive trading guide provides a complete introduction to the essentials of successful trading; a fresh look at the three M''s, including a proven, step-by-step money management strategy; and an in-depth look at organizing your trading time.Â Come Into My Trading Room reviews the basics of trading stocks, futures, and options as well as crucial psychological tactics for discipline and organizationâ€”with the goal of turning anyone into a complete and successful trader.  By showing traders how to combine the elements of mind, method, and money,Â Come Into My Trading Room gives readers the knowledge and insight to enter the market with confidence and exit with profits. Unparalleled depth and a wide range of coverage will keep all levels of traders engaged, informed, and returning toÂ Come Into My Trading Room again and again.  Dr. Alexander Elder (New York, NY) is a professional trader, technical analysis expert, and practicing psychiatrist. He is the founder of Financial Trading Inc., providing intensive trading camps to traders all over the world. Elder''s first book Trading for a Living (Wiley: 0471592242) and the companion study guide have sold over 160,000 copies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(20868, 'Comfort Zone Investing: How to Tailor Your Portfolio for High Returns and Peace of Mind', 'Gillette Edmunds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The author, a longtime investment author and expert, noticed that many investment strategies go awry because of emotional mistakes. Filled with concrete advice, exercises, anecdotes and deeply felt sharing from actual, anonymous investors, this book is both hard-hitting and entertaining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(20869, 'The Coming Financial Revolution', 'Buck Stephens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You hold in your hands a clear, practical guide to reorganizing your finances so that you can obtain true financial freedom and wealth in your life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Coming Financial Revolution\n  </em>\n  is based upon biblical principles, teaching you how to have more money, but more importantly, how to do the right thing with it. This book will:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Give you practical tools to effectively manage your money.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Show you the basics of good money management.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Help you understand how to create a budget.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Teach you how to manage credit debt.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Explain the best ways to invest.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Show you how to plan your estate.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Buck Stephens is a long-time financial advisor or, in his own words, a -finangelist- (a financial evangelist), who has helped thousands of people get their financial house in order. His easy-going and conversational writing style is free from dry financial statistics and clearly demystifies the world of finance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  God-s will for your life is not financial bondage, but freedom to live life abundantly! This book will help you start a financial revolution not only in your own life but at your local church level or in your community.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Book Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book gives excellent step-by-step instructions on becoming good stewards of God''s money, in a down-to-earth language everyone can relate to. Even those swimming in debt will find practical, helpful tips to help them climb out and stay out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(20870, 'Comparison of Twelve Technical Trading Systems', 'Louis Lukac &amp; Wade Brorsen &amp; Scott Irwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(20871, 'The Compleat Day Trader II (Compleat Day Trader)', 'Jake Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Compleat Day Trader II picks up where the Compleat Day Trader left off. Bernstein provides new trading strategies and techniques soecifically designed for the new breed of intuitive" traders, who create their own system, customized for their own tradi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(20872, 'The Compleat Day Trader, Second Edition', 'Jake Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE BOOK DAY TRADERS RELY ON TO CAPTURE PROFITS AND LOWER RISK Since The Compleat Day Traderwas first published, the tools available to day traders have become incomparably more efficient and effective, thereby dramatically increasing your chances of success. On the flip side, day trading is much riskier and faster paced than ever before. Staying current isn''t an option for the serious day trader--it''s an absolute necessity. Jake Bernstein has revamped his bestselling guide, The Compleat Day Trader, to bring you fully up to date on his trading model, methods, and indicators, all of which are designed to help you take advantage of dramatically increased volatility in the global stock, futures, and forex markets. In order to generate profits consistently, you need to define your intraday time frames, implement a specific trading model, and develop objective and operational procedures. The Compleat Day Traderwalks you through these critical processes step by step to help you execute with focus, logic, and objectivity--no matter how volatile the markets may be. Bernstein''s powerful and clear tools aredesigned to give you the advantage you''ll need. Learn about his: MA Channel Swing Trade with Triggers and Setups MAC Patterns and Signals Power Momentum Day-Trade Formula MACD Divergence Setups and Triggers Gap Day-Trade Method Profit-Maximizing Strategies Media Day-Trade Strategy For fifteen years, traders around the world have been relying on The Compleat Day Traderto help them achieve the highest possible levels of performance. Bernstein presents trading tools and methods that are clear and objective, unlike the mythical, magical, or subjective tools that are so common these days. This refreshed, updated edition of The CompleatDay Traderprovides you with the knowledge you need to make handsome profits while lowering your exposure--so you can rise to the top echelon of day traders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(20873, 'The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook', 'Stephane Reverre', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook explains every aspect of the types, instruments, trading practices, and opportunities of modern equity arbitrage. It travels beyond U.S. borders to examine the worldwide opportunities inherent in arbitrage activities and demonstrates how to understand and practice equity arbitrage in the global professional environment. Written specifically for traders, risk managers, brokers, regulators, and anyone looking for a comprehensive overview of the field of equity arbitrage, this groundbreaking reference provides: ï‚· Details of the financial instruments used in equity arbitrageâ€”stocks, futures, money markets, and indices ï‚· Explanations of financial valuation and risk analysis, tailored to the characteristics of the underlying position and market environment ï‚· Examples of actual arbitrage situationsâ€”presenting a real-life snapshot of equity arbitrage in action The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook is the only book to combine operational details with practical analysis of modern equity arbitrage. Concise in explanation yet comprehensive in scope, it provides an integrated overview of both the practices and the possibilities of the modern equity arbitrage marketplace.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  How to UnderstandÂ­Â­and Take Advantage ofÂ­Â­Arbitrage Opportunities in Modern Financial Markets\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook\n </em>\n explains every aspect of the types, instruments, trading practices, and opportunities of modern equity arbitrage. It travels beyond U.S. borders to examine the worldwide opportunities inherent in arbitrage activities and demonstrates how to understand and practice equity arbitrage in the global professional environment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written specifically for traders, risk managers, brokers, regulators, and anyone looking for a comprehensive overview of the field of equity arbitrage, this groundbreaking reference provides:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Details of the financial instruments used in equity arbitrageÂ­Â­stocks, futures, money markets, and indices\n </li>\n <li>\n  Explanations of financial valuation and risk analysis, tailored to the characteristics of the underlying position and market environment\n </li>\n <li>\n  Examples of actual arbitrage situationsÂ­Â­presenting a real-life snapshot of equity arbitrage in action\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook\n </em>\n is the only book to combine operational details with practical analysis of modern equity arbitrage. Concise in explanation yet comprehensive in scope, it provides an integrated overview of both the practices and the possibilities of the modern equity arbitrage marketplace.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Through the examination of actual examples and practical situations, the goal is to achieve an integrated view of arbitrage opportunities, precisely as a trader would see them..."\n </strong>\n <br />\n Â­Â­\n <em>\n  From the Introduction\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When used with skill and caution, equity arbitrageÂ­Â­despite relentlessly negative press and widespread popular misconceptionsÂ­Â­is a very low-risk strategy. It only becomes perilous in the hands of the inexperienced or overconfident.\n <em>\n  The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook\n </em>\n provides anyoneÂ­Â­from capital market professionals to private traders to non-professionals with a serious interest in understanding Wall Street and its intricaciesÂ­Â­with a safe, solid foundation in the essential knowledge of equity arbitrage trading.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before you can successfully employ equity arbitrage in the marketplace, you must first develop a complete understanding of its mathematics and practice.\n <em>\n  The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook\n </em>\n covers every aspectÂ­Â­mechanics, opportunities, risks, and valuation principlesÂ­Â­to help you move forward with knowledge and confidence. In-depth descriptions and demonstrations of each pertinent financial instrumentÂ­Â­stocks, futures and other derivatives, money market instruments including interest rate swaps, and stock indicesÂ­Â­show you what you need to know to manage these and where to focus your attention in terms of risk management. Detailed sections provide hands-on information about:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Convergence continuums\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cross-exchange listing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Closed-end and convertible funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Holding companies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Oscillators\n </li>\n <li>\n  Mark-to-market versus theoretical valuation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Valuation and random variables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Risk management principles and tools, including value-at-risk\n </li>\n <li>\n  Index arbitrage and absolute convergence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Risk arbitrage and explicit convergence\n </li>\n <li>\n  Pair trading and technical trading\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Fallacies about what arbitrage isÂ­Â­and is notÂ­Â­are common among financial professionals. Concise yet comprehensive,\n <em>\n  The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook\n </em>\n sidesteps fallacy to present fact. It is the only comprehensive overview of the opportunities and perils in the arbitrage marketsÂ­Â­and today''s only complete overview and practical analysis of modern equity arbitrage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(20874, 'The Complete Guide to Market Breadth Indicators', 'Gregory Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Market breadth indicators, i.e. advance/decline, new high/new low, or up/down volume, allow technical analysts and traders to look beneath the surface of a market to quantify the underlying strength or direction associated with a market move. Increasin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(20875, 'A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks &amp; Other Indicators', 'John L. Person', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A thorough trading guide from a professional trader The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics can help the new individual investor understand the mechanics of the markets. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book details what it takes to trade and shows readers how they can broaden their horizons by investing in the futures and options markets. The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics outlines a variety of proven methodologies-pivot points, candlesticks, and other top indicators-so readers may use those that work best for them as well as make their own trading decisions without a second thought. Author John Person also shares his insights on a variety of trading technologies that will allow readers to gain a competitive edge in the market. John L. Person (Palm Beach, FL) publishes The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental new developments as well as technical analysis using his trading system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(20876, 'The Complete Trading for a Living: The Legendary Approach to Trading With the Companion Study Guide', 'Alexander Elder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trading for a Living with Companion Study Guide (Specially Priced Leather Bound Edition)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bestselling trading book of all time, Dr. Alexander Elderâ€™s Trading for a Living is now bound with the companion Study Guide in a handsome leather edition no trader should be without.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Focusing on the three critical areas of Mind, Method, and Money, Dr. Elder helps professionals master new approaches to trading stocks, currencies, futures, and options. A clear understanding of the three Mâ€™s will help you discipline your Mind, master the best Methods for trading the markets, and manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Elderâ€™s revolutionary Trading for a Living has won international acclaim and helped hundreds of thousands of traders bring their skills to new levels. The accompanying Study Guide for Trading for a Living adds more than 200 questions, charts, and assessments that pinpoint the readerâ€™s strengths and weaknesses as a trader, and helps measure improvement and growth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now these two books are available together in one beautifully bound volume, worthy of a place of honor in every traderâ€™s library.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sold separately, Trading for a Living and the Study Guide retail for $120. Add them both to your business library at this special low price in this deluxe edition, available only to Amazon.com customers for a limited time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alexander Elder\n  </strong>\n  , M.D., is a professional trader, based in New York City. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   Trading for a Living\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Study Guide for Trading for a Living,\n  </em>\n  considered modern classics among traders. First published in 1993, these international best sellers have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. His\n  <em>\n   Come into My Trading Room\n  </em>\n  was named a 2002 Barronâ€™s Book of the Year. He also wrote\n  <em>\n   Rubles to Dollars: Making Money on Russiaâ€™s Exploding Financial Frontier; Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand;\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Entries &amp; Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Dr. Elder was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship''s doctor, he jumped a Soviet ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States. He worked as a psychiatrist in New York City and taught at Columbia University. His experience as a psychiatrist provided him with unique insight into the psychology of trading. Dr. Elderâ€™s books, articles, and software reviews have established him as one of todayâ€™s leading experts on trading.\n  <br />\n  Dr. Elder is the originator of Tradersâ€™ Campsâ€”week-long classes for traders. He is also the founder of the Spike group, whose members are professional and semi-professional traders. They share their best stock picks each week in competition for prizes among themselves. Dr. Elder continues to trade, conducts webinars for traders, and is a sought-after speaker at conferences in the United States and abroad. Readers of this book are welcome to request a free subscription to his electronic newsletter by writing or calling:\n  <br />\n  elder.com\n  <br />\n  PO Box 20555, Columbus Circle Station\n  <br />\n  New York, NY 10023, USA\n  <br />\n  Tel. 718-507-1033; fax 718-639-8889\n  <br />\n  e-mail: info@elder.com\n  <br />\n  website: www.elder.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(20877, 'The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires', 'Michael W. Covel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covel (\n <em>\n  Trend Following\n </em>\n ) revisits a famous financial trading experiment conducted by Wall Street trader Richard Dennis and extracts its lessons with mixed results. Dennis, who quickly learned how to trade after starting as a runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1966 at age 17, had made a reported $200 million by 1983. To settle an argument with fellow trader William Eckhardt about whether trading ability was innate or could be taught, he put an ad in the\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n offering to teach candidates how to trade in two weeks, and then backed them with his own money. Of the thousands of people who who applied, 23 turtles were accepted. Their trading made $100 million for Dennis, leading some to become highly successful traders in their own right. Having tracked down most of the people involved, Covel describes the turtle training, including rules for entering and exiting trades as well as Dennis and Eckhardt''s personal lessons, and speculates on why some turtles succeeded more than others. However, there are too many characters with competing interests, and many missing facts. Covel''s own strong views can also get more emphasis than the voices of the principals. Still, the book is a useful training manual distilling the lessons of a fascinating experiment.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis warmly written book brilliantly captures the formation and evolution of the legendary Turtle investment program. It is loaded with wonderful anecdotal insights plus lessons on trading, risk, and life we should all follow. It should be on any novice or seasoned traderâ€™s bookshelf alike. A must read!â€ (Michael Shannon, Original Turtle )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTells the â€˜real storiesâ€™ rather than just the glossy good bitsâ€”a thoroughly good read.â€ (Your Trading Edge )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(20878, 'Computerized Trading: Maximizing Day Trading and Overnight Profits', 'Mark Jurik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Complete with explanatory charts, diagrams, and checklists, a detailed discussion of the use of computerized trading systems draws on the expertise of twenty expert traders, and gives step-by-step advice on strategies and reliable data to both beginning and experienced investors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(20879, 'Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street&#39;s Bluff', 'Christine S. Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collapse of Americaâ€™s credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Streetâ€™s BluffÂ is the story of Bill Ackman''s six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billion when bond insurers kicked off the collapse of the credit markets.  Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama Draws on unprecedented access to one of Wall Street''s best-known investors Shows how excessive leverage, dangerous financial models and a blind reliance on triple-A credit ratings sent Wall Street careening toward disaster   Confidence Game is a real-world "Emperor''s New Clothes," a tale of widespread delusion and one dissenting voice in the era leading up to the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression.  Christine Richard is a reporter with Bloomberg News whose work has been recognized by The New York Press Club and The Newswomenâ€™s Club of New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(20880, 'Connors on Advanced Trading Strategies', 'Larry Connors &amp; Laurence A. Connors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Manual of over 30 short-term strategies for traders. Categories include day trading strategies, advanced strategies, S&amp;P and stock market timing and equity trading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(20881, 'The Conscious Investor: Profiting From the Timeless Value Approach', 'John Price', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An intriguing look at the full range of value methods brought together for the first time\n</p>\n<p>\n The biggest block to success in the stock market is unconscious investing, or following the crowd without asking the right questions such as: â€œWhat is it really worth?â€ Even more fundamental is: â€œWhat rate of return can I confidently expect to get?â€ Without having the methods to answer these questions is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Conscious Investor\n </em>\n covers each of the main methods used to calculate value or return in the stock market, along with descriptions of how and when to use them, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Interspersed throughout the methods are the timeless investment principles of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. The book:\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â Â  Includes balance sheet methods, dividend discount methods, discounted cash flow methods, price ratio methods, and many others\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â Â  Explains the significance of viewing real value as a combination of a stockâ€™s price or market value and its intrinsic value\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â Â  Comes with free access to key functions in the authorâ€™s Conscious InvestorÂ® software\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Conscious Investor\n </em>\n is indispensable reading for everyone with an interest in investing in the stock market, from novices to experienced professionals. Using this book as your guide, youâ€™ll quickly discover what it takes to be a conscious investor and gain more confidence in knowing what and when to buy, when to hold, and when to sell.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The United States is experiencing "the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," according to George Soros. But you don''t need one of the world''s greatest investors to tell you what you already know. What would be useful is knowing how it is that he and other astute investorsâ€”Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, and Peter Lynchâ€”made a great portion of their profits during times of extreme economic uncertainty. The short answer is: successful investors know which stocks to buy and when, as well as when to hold and when to sell. How do they know these things? The Conscious Investor: Profiting from the Timeless Value Approach provides the answerâ€”stock valuation methods.\n</p>\n<p>\n As an investor, if you''re unable to measure a stock''s true value, then it''s all but impossible to know whether your purchase is likely to prove profitable. Your "unconscious investing" makes your hope for a financially secure future just thatâ€”a wish left to the whims of a fickle financial market. In The Conscious Investor, Dr. John Price describes the quantitative methods investors like Buffett use to determine value and, thus, whether or not an investment will make money. Dr. Price details:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Intrinsic value and ways of measuring it\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Price-setting mechanisms and influences in the stock market, as well as the difference between pure price theories and fundamental data theories\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real value as a combination of intrinsic value and price\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Accounting and the role of financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and equity statement) in providing data for valuation methods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Offâ€“balance sheet obligations\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Key financial ratios in analyzing and filtering companies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Over 20 valuation methods, including each of their strengths and weaknesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Despite turbulence at the surface of "the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," investors like Buffett, Soros, and Lynch understand that underneath the uncertainty, they''re still dealing with real businesses with real products and services, and that it''s possible to profitably invest in them using timeless valuation methods. With The Conscious Investor, you''ll know how the great investors profit from uncertainty. You''ll begin the process of transforming yourself from a speculative hopeful into a wealth winner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/426');
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(20882, 'A Course in Monetary Economics: Sequential Trade, Money, and Uncertainty', 'Benjamin Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade is an insightful introduction to the advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of the implications of the different models. The exposition is clear and logical, providing a solid foundation in monetary theory and the techniques of economic modeling. The text is rooted in the author''s years of teaching and research, and will be highly suitable for monetary economics courses in both the upper-level undergraduate and graduate levels.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Course in Monetary Economics is an insightful introduction to advanced topics in the field. Accessible to readers who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of the implications of the different models. The exposition is clear and logical, providing a solid foundation in monetary theory and the techniques of economic modeling. The inventive analysis explores an extensive range of topics, including the optimum quantity of money, optimal monetary and fiscal policy, and uncertain and sequential trade models. Additionally, the text contains a simple general equilibrium version of Lucas (1972) confusion hypothesis, and presents and synthesizes the results of recent empirical work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(20883, 'Create Your Own Hedge Fund: Increase Profits and Reduce Risk With ETFs and Options', 'Mark D. Wolfinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Discover a practical trading strategy that combines options and ETFs.  Create Your Own Hedge Fund explains how exchange-traded funds can be used in conjunction with an options strategy to attain steady growth. Beginning with a tutorial on options and ETFs, the book goes on to describe both investment approaches in great detail providing you with a trading strategy that generates higher returns than buy-and-hold investing -- and allows you to reduce risk by adopting a hedging strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book is intended for you if you''re a sophisticated individual investor or a professional investor, trader, or other money manager looking to update your arsenal of investment tools.  Order your copy today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(20884, 'Credit Derivatives : Risk Management, Trading and Investing (The Wiley Finance Series)', 'Geoff Chaplin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book DescriptionThe credit derivatives market has developed rapidly over the last ten years and is now well established in the banking community and is increasingly making its presence felt in all areas of finance. This book covers the subject from credit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(20885, 'Credit Portfolio Management', 'Charles Smithson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A cutting-edge text on credit portfolio management Credit risk. A number of market factors are causing revolutionary changes in the way it is measured and managed at financial institutions. Charles Smithson, author of the bestselling Managing Financial Risk, introduces a portfolio management approach to credit in his latest book. Understanding how to manage the inherent risks of this market has become increasingly important over the years. Credit Portfolio Management provides readers with a complete understanding of the alternative approaches to credit risk measurement and portfolio management. This definitive guide discusses the pricing and managing of credit risks associated with a variety of off-balance-sheet products such as credit default swaps, total return swaps, first-to-default baskets, and credit spread options; as well as on-balance-sheet customized structured products such as credit-linked notes, repackage notes, and synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Filled with expert insight and advice, this book is a must-read for all credit professionals. Charles W. Smithson, PhD (New York, NY), is the Managing Partner of Rutter Associates and Executive Director of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM). He is the author of five books, including The Handbook of Financial Engineering and Managing Financial Risk (now in its Third Edition).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(20886, 'Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis', 'Ashraf Laidi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Currencies are becoming an integral part of many investors'' portfolios and have grown to be a distinct asset class in banks'' investment products. While the mechanics of the forex market and the theories underpinning it have been widely explored, there has been little discussion regarding the practical intermarket relationships shaping currencies via interest rates, equities, and commodities.Nobody is more familiar with this situation than author Ashraf Laidi. As head FX strategist at CMC Markets--one of the world''s leading forex/commodity brokers--he understands the forces shaping today''s currency market and their interplay with interest rates, equities, and commodities. And now, with Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis, he shares his extensive experiences in this field with you.Following an innovative approach based on what still works and what doesn''t in currency market analysis; applying charts and case studies to intermarket analysis in unprecedented ways; and weighing both old theories and newly emerging phenomena in this arena, Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis will put you in a better position to assess shifts in economic and market dynamics and make more profitable trading decisions in the process.Some of the essential issues addressed include: The latest commodity boom with a breakdown by individual commodity group and its implication for currenciesThe relationship between short- and long-term interest rates and how it can be applied to anticipate vital shifts in central bank decisions and turning points in economic growthThe drivers of risk appetite in the market and their effect on foreign exchangeCentral bank currency reserves in regions such as the oil-producing nations, and the evolution of power between the Dollar and the EuroA gold-based approach to valuing the major currencies and determining their secular strengths and weaknesses over the past decadesAnd much moreCurrency trading has increased in size and speed, and so has its impact on the global financial scene. Having a solid grasp of these markets is no longer limited to figuring out interest rate and growth differentials. Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis outlines the tools needed to understand the macroeconomic and financial nuances of this dynamic field and provides you with insights that are essential to making the most of your time within it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(20887, 'Curtis Arnold&#39;s PPS Trading System: A Proven Method for Consistently Beating the Market', 'Curtis M. Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Identifies chart patterns that make money in a wide range of markets. Provides interesting observations on how some of the classical chart patterns applied to stocks also work in futures trading as well as a chart pattern recognition system, with specific entry and exit rules and stringent risk management rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(20888, 'Cybernetic Trading Strategies: Developing a Profitable Trading System With State-Of-The-Art Technologies', 'Murray A. Ruggiero', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The computer can do more than show us pretty pictures. [It] can optimize, backtest, prove or disprove old theories, eliminate the bad ones and make the good ones better. Cybernetic Trading Strategies explores new ways to use the computer and finds ways to make a valuable machine even more valuable." --from the Foreword by John J. Murphy.  Until recently, the computer has been used almost exclusively as a charting and data-gathering tool. But as traders and analysts have quickly discovered, its capabilities are far more vast. Now, in this groundbreaking new book, Murray Ruggiero, a leading authority on cybernetic trading systems, unlocks their incredible potential and provides an in-depth look at the growing impact of advanced technologies on intermarket analysis. A unique resource, Cybernetic Trading Strategies provides specific instructions and applications on how to develop tradable market timing systems using neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, and machine induction methods.  Currently utilized by some of the most powerful financial institutions in the world--including John Deere and Fidelity Investments--today''s advanced technologies go beyond subjective interpretations of market indicators to enhance traditional analysis. As a result, existing trading systems gain a competitive edge. Ruggiero reveals how "incorporating elements of statistical analysis, spectral analysis, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, and other high-tech concepts into a traditional technical trading system can greatly improve the performance of standard trading systems." For example: spectral analysis can be used to detect when a market is trending earlier than classical indicators such as ADX.  Drawing on his extensive research on market analysis, Ruggiero provides an incisive overview of cyber-systems--systems that, when applied correctly, can increase trading returns by as much as 200% to 300%. The author covers a wide range of important topics, examining classical technical analysis methodologies and seasonal trading, as well as statistically based market prediction and the mechanization of subjective methods such as candlestick charts and the Elliott Wave. Precise explanations and dozens of real-world examples show you how to:  * Incorporate advanced technologies into classical technical analysis methodologies.  * Identify which of these technologies have the most market applicability.  * Build trading systems to maximize reliability and profitability based on your own risk/reward criteria.   Most importantly, Cybernetic Trading Strategies takes you step by step through system testing and evaluation, a crucial step for controlling risk and managing money.  With up-to-date information from one of the field''s leading authorities, Cybernetic Trading Strategies is the definitive guide to developing, implementing, and testing today''s cutting-edge computer trading technologies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(20889, 'THE CYCLE TRADING PATTERN MANUAL (24pgs)', 'Walter Bressert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(20890, 'Day One Trader', 'John Sussex &amp; Joe Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The catastrophic events of 2008 prove that the financial world has not learnt the lessons of my own tragic tale. But anyone who thinks that the world of derivatives is just about greedy bankers who put our pensions and savings at risk is wrong. Day One Trader is the gripping chronicle ofthe unknown working class heroes of the Liffe floor who shattered a glass ceiling of elitism in the City of London and helped build one of the few financial institutions that we can be proud of."  Nick Leeson.   â€œAs I walked into the members entrance of the exchange for the first time on September 30 1982 I felt a buzz of excitement. I had realised my ambition of being a â€œday-one traderâ€. Inside, the fluorescent lit exchange floor bustled with about three hundred traders in orange, red and blue jackets. A brief opening ceremony was overseen by Gordon Richardson, the governor of the Bank of England, before he cut a white ribbon hanging above a pulpit overlooking the floor. I felt at fever pitch as we counted down the start of trading. â€œTen, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!â€ The bell rang and I watched a scrum of dealers scramble to trade Liffeâ€™s first ever contracts in a heap of frenetic energy.â€  From â€˜Day One Traderâ€™    Day One Trader is the exclusive story of John Sussex on his journey from son of a Basildon factory worker, leaving school at 16, to successful City financier and member of the Liffe board.   Providing a unique insight to this competitive and often brutal industry, readers will discover the tactics used by dealers to survive the jungle of the pits in a story that chronicles the floor banter and characters that made Liffe a global derivatives powerhouse.   Packed full of exclusive â€“ until now unreported â€“ stories, Day One Trader sheds new light on what motivated characters such as Nick Leeson, and provides insight to Liffe floors star traders.   Financial experts and novices alike will be gripped by Sussexâ€™s account of the highs and lows of a career that spanned almost three decades in the history of the financial markets.    â€œJohn Sussex lived by the mantra of My Word is My Bond. This makes Day One Trader a must read for all traders. Every page brings back a lifetime of trading memories of days that will never be the same.â€  David Barnett, Global Head of Treasury, Royal Bank of Canada.   "Day One Trader describes a journey through a world that came and went in too short a time. The Liffe floor challenged the status quo in the City of London in the early eighties and was itself killed off by technology in the late nineties. John Sussex was one of the great characters of that world and a man of the utmost integrity."  Richard Berliand J.P. Morgan, Chairman Futures &amp; Options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(20891, 'Day Trade Online', 'Christopher A. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Day trading can be quite lucrative, but only if you know what you are doing. As Farrell points out: "Trading for a living is hard. Trading for a living over the Internet is even harder. There are many challenges and obstacles that confront you. Venturing into this jungle unprepared is a recipe for disaster." This straightforward guide provides the head start and heads up necessary to thrive as a day trader, covering everything from the dangers and pitfalls of trading online to an in-depth analysis of which trading techniques work and which don''t. Day Trade Online, Second Edition presents inside information on the strategies of top trading firms, including the most secretive, misunderstood, and profitable function on Wall Street. Most importantly, you will learn to look at ten different stocks and pinpoint which one to trade, when, at what price, and why. With the right know-how, you will be able to apply this knowledge to every single stock that you screen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(20892, 'The Day Trader: From the Pit to the PC', 'Lewis Borsellino &amp; Lewis J. Borsellino', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Praise for The Day Trader\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "A legendary S&amp;P; floor trader has written a powerful, brutally honest chronicle of his determined rise to the top of his profession. Touching and insightful, this riveting account is one of the best trading memoirs ever."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(20893, 'The Day Trader&#39;s Bible: Or... My Secrets of Day Trading in Stocks', 'Richard D. Wyckoff; David Vallieres', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(20894, 'The Day Trader&#39;s Course: Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Trading Stocks and Futures', 'Lewis Borsellino &amp; Patricia Crisafulli &amp; Lewis J. Borsellino', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "No one in the world has done more battle in the trading pits than Lewis Borsellino. If youâ€™re looking for theory, this is not the book for you. But if you want to learn how to trade in the real world, Lewis is your greatest teacher!" â€“Larry Con\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/505'),
(20895, 'The Day Trader&#39;s Manual: Theory, Art, and Science of Profitable Short-Term Investing', 'William F. Eng', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Presents day traders with a systematic and rational framework for decision-making in the futures, options and equities markets. Offers complete coverage of day-trading methods including price, time and volume analysis techniques, money and position management strategies, trading systems, computerized trading tactics and much more.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Presents day traders with a systematic and rational framework for decision-making in the futures, options and equities markets. Offers complete coverage of day-trading methods including price, time and volume analysis techniques, money and position management strategies, trading systems, computerized trading tactics and much more.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(20896, 'Day Trading Systems &amp; Methods', 'Charles Le Beau,  David Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(20897, 'Day Trading the Currency Market', 'Kathy Lien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written by Kathy Lienâ€”chief strategist for the number one online currency broker in the worldâ€”Day Trading the Currency Market reveals a variety of technical and fundamental profit-making strategies for trading the currency market, and provides a detailed look at how this market actually works. It contains actionable information and strategies, which can help you enter this highly competitive arena with confidence and exit with profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(20898, 'Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout', 'Toby Crabel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Explains the importance of detailed studies on price patterns. Attempts to find forecastable events based on the relation between opening, closing, high and low prices. Includes computer-tested answers to many common short term trading questions. Consists of 5 sections: 1) opening range breakouts, 2) short-term price patterns, 3) patterns of expansion and contraction, 4) combination of price patterns with expansion and contraction patterns, and 5) openings and closings that occur in various segments of a price bar; includes the results of computer analysis for each topic. We highly recommend this book for the serious short-term trader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(20899, 'Dean LeBaron&#39;s Treasury of Investment Wisdom: 30 Great Investing Minds', 'Dean LeBaron &amp; Romesh Vaitilingam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dean LeBaron''s Treasury of Investment Wisdom\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Today, investors are faced with an information overload when it comes to investment opportunities. It''s hard to find straight answers on which investment vehicles are the best, which ones will last, and what opportunities truly suit your needs. Dean LeBaron''s Treasury of Investment Wisdom easily answers all these questions for you. This comprehensive guide to the world''s greatest investment ideas and thinkers gives you everything you need to understand today''s complex and exciting investment landscape.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "There have been other books on investment gurus, but none as complete nor as entertaining as this one. Dean LeBaron has produced an enlightening, thorough, and thought-provoking compendium of the thinking of many of the nation''s investment professionals. It covers all the major investment styles and vehicles, from active portfolio management to venture capital, and offers theoretical insights into everything from behavioral finance to market efficiency, providing point and counterpoint. It''s a must read."\n <br />\n -Michael J. Clowes, editorial director, Pensions &amp; Investments and Investment News and author of The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with commentaries and opinions on a wide range of must-know investment issues, Dean LeBaron''s Treasury of Investment Wisdom is your guide to a profitable investing future. Take your investment knowledge to the next level with one-of-a-kind insights that have made the best investors in the world what they are today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dean LeBaronâ€™s Treasury of Investment Wisdom\n</p>\n<p>\n Innovative investment opportunities and ideas are constantly emergingâ€“from developments in foreign exchange markets to the boom and bust of Internet investing. With the current overload of information offering analysis, advice, and guaranteed success, how can you, the individual investor, obtain only the best and most profitable ideas? The answer is simple: read Dean LeBaronâ€™s Treasury of Investment Wisdom.\n</p>\n<p>\n Financial legend Dean LeBaron and bestselling investment writer Romesh Vaitilingam have created a comprehensive investment guide filled with the ideas and people who have brought us to todayâ€™s market understandingâ€“and shaped the marketâ€™s future. Dean LeBaronâ€™s Treasury of Investment Wisdom offers you valuable insights on thirty of the most important investment areas, all of which will boost your portfolioâ€™s performance. This authoritative resource covers everything you need to understand todayâ€™s unpredictable and complex investment landscapeâ€“from basic investment concepts to technical analysis and performance measurement.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dean LeBaronâ€™s Treasury of Investment Wisdom shares the ideas and advice of investment luminaries who are second to none in their particular areas of expertise. Youâ€™ll hear from:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  William Miller on active portfolio management\n </li>\n <li>\n  John Bogle on mutual funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Peter Bernstein on economic forecasting\n </li>\n <li>\n  George Soros on hedge funds\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gary Brinson on global investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Peter Lynch on growth investing\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n . . . and many other renowned investment experts.\n</p>\n<p>\n By learning how the top investment gurus think and understanding their outlook for the future, you can start investing with renewed confidence today.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique guide also discusses ten additional key investment issues and ten key global issues that are of growing concern to those making important investment decisions. It also provides a "webliography" that consists of a list of recommended investment Web sites for further study and reading.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dean LeBaronâ€™s Treasury of Investment Wisdom is your one-stop reference for the major ideas of modern investment and the people who know how to use them best. See how the ideas and personalities of these experts are interconnected, and match your investment style with theirs to create a winning portfolio. Use their knowledge and advice, and start investing the right way. This is your chance to finally take your investments to the top.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(20900, 'The Delta Phenomenon or the Hidden Order in All Markets', 'Walles Wilder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(20901, 'DeMark Indicators', 'Jason Perl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Long a secret weapon for the hedge-fund elite," says "Trader Monthly," the DeMark Indicators are now used by more than 35,000 traders. This book provides an easy-to-follow system for using the indicators to identify market turns as they happen. Author Jason Perl gives a concise introduction to thirty-nine of the DeMark Indicators, and then shows how to combine the indicators and time frames to achieve a higher probability of trading success. Thomas R. DeMark, the creator of the DeMark Indicators and one of the most well-respected practitioners of technical analysis wrote the Foreword to this book. This is the second book in the Bloomberg Market Essentials(TM) Technical Analysis series, which covers the key elements of the most widely used technical analysis tools. Silver Medal Winner, Investing Category, Axiom Business Book Awards (2009) Winner: Book Series Cover Design, The Bookbinders Guild of New York/2009 New York Book Show Awards\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(20902, 'DeMark on Day Trading Options: Using Options to Cash in on the Day Trading Phenomenon', 'Thomas R. Demark &amp; Thomas R. Demark (jr.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The option day trading blueprint you''ve been waiting for! Options day trading is no walk in the park. But it is your most potentially profitable way to take advantage of the day-trading phenomenon. Put the odds in your favor with Demark on Day DeMark and Thomas DeMark, Jr. Forget complicated formulas! Instead, this nuts-and-bolts guide gives you a set of option trading techniques, indicators, and rules to limit risk without sacrificing profit. You''re shown how to: *Select, design, and build your own highly-personalized trading model *Use filters and screens to select optimal option trading candidates *Identify low-risk entry points in up, down, or even sideway markets You get savvy tips for buying puts or calls based on market,industry, or underlying security Ã¹ even get a phone number to get a free, updated TD Indicators demonstration disk. For three decades, traders using breakthroughs like the DeMark Indicators have made fortunes. Now it''s your turn!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(20903, 'Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader: Lessons From 21 Weeks of Real Trading', 'Peter L. Brandt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Weve all read about the high rollers who go boom and bust, but this book is different. Packed with straightforward prose, practical knowledge and honest counsel, Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader delivers far more than the title promises. Peter Brandt methodically explains what no one has before: how a dedicated individual can trade for a living. If that is your destination, this is your ticket. " - Robert Prechter, Elliott Wave International "This book is insanely great. The refreshing clarity this book brings to the table is brilliant. I think this is an amazing, excellent book, one that could help a whole new generation of traders." - Jack Sparrow, MercenaryTrader.com "This is the most honest trading book of the last decade. Peter tracks recent trials and tribulations on his path to success dating back to the 1980s. He shares numerous insights into the emotional and technical challenges of trading, right down to his track record over the years. Peter candidly documents a recent trading period. His ultimate success reflects the importance of staying true to a process while still allowing flexibility to modify rules as market conditions change. Anyone desiring longevity in the business really needs to read this book." - Linda Raschke, trader, President of LBRGroup, Inc., and co-author of the best selling book, Street Smarts-High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies. "Almost every book about trading for a living is either fraudulent or boring (or both). This book is neither. Not only is it a good read for anyone seriously wanting to know what trading is really like, it is also very interesting, mostly due to its real-time, diary format. As someone who has done myself what he describes, I highly recommend it." - Robert Zellner, Independent trader, former director of Chicago Mercantile Exchange and former CEO, Citicorp Futures Corp "Trading is not what most people think it is, as you will find out in this real life experience from Peter Brandt, a well-seasoned trader. You will learn what he looks for in trades, what tells him to hop aboard and how to get out. Well worth reading!" - Larry Williams, author and trader, www.ireallytrade.com "Anyone interested in trading---and not just commodity trading---is going to cherish this book. In a world that tends to become intoxicated with "magic formulas" Peter Brandt provides the necessary sobering balance: the "secret," if there is any such thing, is in recognizing your basic human weaknesses and strengths and working with them, in the context of some relatively simple rules that are effective if you are persistent. The light that Brandt shines on the inner monologue of trading is of incalculable value. There are many ways to extract profits from the markets, but none of them matter if you cant control yourself---for that we need self recognition and self analysis: Brandts detailed diary is like a great novel, revealing the inner life and character of a trader, revealing the kinds of inner understanding we all need if we hope to navigate an ultimately unknowable future. Traders would do well to try to become, as individuals, more like Peter Brandt." - Lowell Miller President &amp; CIO Miller/Howard Investments, Inc., author of The Single Best Investment "Mr. Brandt takes the reader far beyond mere descriptions of classical trading patterns. His book offers insights, observations and practical information gleaned from over two decades of consistently successful trading performance. A must read for anyone wishing to enter the world of risk." -- Daniel Chesler, CMT, President, Chesler Analytics LLC "Peter provides a fascinating real-world look at commodity trading. This book is a must read for anyone who contemplates being an effective trader. His exquisite use of charting techniques is spot on. And, of course we could not agree with him more regarding the importance of charts in the traders perspective." - Eero Pikat, President, Barchart.com, Inc. "A great book for advanced and beginning traders! The professional trading insights that Peter shares can help traders speed up the progress of their own trading by light years." - Glen Larson, President, TradeNavigator.com A top trader takes you through the markets and revels how he succeeded In Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader, Peter Brandt provides a play-by-play diary of his 2009 trading, offering an inside look at the difficult process and what it takes to excel at such a demanding endeavor. A long-time trader, Brandt clearly explains his thinking as he searches for the right opportunities and executes trades for 21 weeks. And by utilizing a diary format, he reveals exactly what its like to trade, communicating the uncertainty that surrounds every trade and the discipline required to make tough decisions in the face of losing money. Along the way, Brandt touches upon his philosophy on speculation, market analysis, trade identification and selection, risk management, and much more. Fully discloses the methods and rules the author has used to trade so successfully for so many years Each trade include charts, an analysis of the trade, and a play-by-play account of how the trade unfolds Brandt examines all his trades and keeps a running account of his profits and losses Unlike most trading books, which tell people how to trade, this reliable guide will reveal the reality of this discipline and provide you with a firm understanding of what it takes to make it work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(20904, 'Digital Day Trading: Moving From One Winning Stock Position to the Next', 'Howard Abell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can you think faster than the market? If so, you may have what it takes to profit from day trading. More and more professional traders are reaping rewards from market volatility. The money making potential for stock day-traders is equal to that of futures traders because of the favorable cost of entry. The electronic environment also provides great opportunities for success in this growing field.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/534'),
(20905, 'The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes', 'Mark Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Successful trading is 80% psychological and 20% methodological. Emotion is the enemy of successful trades. That''s why, even with a modest knowledge of fundamental and technical information, the trader who is in psychological control will be the winner in the trading environment. ''The Disciplined Trader'' helps traders learn the critical behaviors necessary in responding to market conditions and opportunities. Mark Douglas examines and discusses how he found the market to be and environment where the individual trader ''has the freedom to create his own results'', unimpeded by many of the constraints existing in modern social life. ''The Disciplined Trader'' can help any trader change the fear of losing into a winning attitude based on its organized, systematic, and step-by-step approach for learning the mental skills necessary for accumulating wealth consistently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(20906, 'Divorcing the Dow: Using Revolutionary Market Indicators to Profit From the Stealth Boom Ahead', 'Jim Troup &amp; Sharon Michalsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An investment approach that unlocks the secret of market patterns Based on over forty years of combined author experience as portfolio managers and financial advisors, Divorcing the Dow presents a timely framework for understanding and investing in market cycles. Authors Jim Troup and Sharon Michalsky believe that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is no longer a relevant indicator of market performance; in fact, they feel that watching the Dow may actually obscure indications that the financial markets are poised to experience a boom that dwarfs anything seen before. Based on in-depth research and field-tested in their own successful management of millions of dollars in personal and corporate assets, Divorcing the Dow introduces investors to a revolutionary paradigm for assessing the markets and making investment decisions. Troup and Michalsky''s approach focuses on analyzing patterns of productivity as a way to anticipate market cycles and investment potential-and with this book they''ve outlined how investors can begin to recognize these patterns themselves. Divorcing the Dow provides investors with a new framework for thinking about financial markets and gives readers specific investment techniques to anticipate the market''s direction and identify companies poised for sustained productivity and long-term growth.  Jim Troup (Sarasota, FL) is First Vice President, Financial Consultant, Portfolio Manager, and Corporate Client Group Director at Smith Barney. A twenty-four-year finance veteran, Troup has worked with leading investment firms including E.F. Hutton and Merrill Lynch, and lectures extensively on portfolio management and asset allocation.  SHARON MICHALSKY is First Vice President, Financial Consultant, Portfolio Manager, Corporate Client Group Director at Smith Barney, where she began her career nineteen years ago. She has attended The Wharton School and is the guest speaker at many professional forums where she lectures on investment methodology and portfolio management.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(20907, 'Don&#39;t Spend Your Raise', 'McGraw Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(20908, 'Dow Theory for the 21st Century: Technical Indicators for Improving Your Investment Results', 'Jack Schannep', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dow Theorist Jack Schannep introduces a new generation of investors to Charles Dow''s theory for stock market success Dow Theory for the 21st Century includes everything that the serious investor needs to know about the stock market and how to become financially successful. Expanding upon Charles Dow''s twentieth-century stock market theory, author Jack Schannep provides readers with a better understanding of the ingredients that make up the world of finance, specifically the American stock market, in order to help them achieve investment success. Topics covered within these pages range from the historical background of Charles Dow to the technical application of the Dow Theory to a discussion of other important market trend indicators. The book also introduces the author''s own ''Schannep Timing Indicator.'' Jack Schannep (Tucson, AZ) is the author and editor of the Schannep Timing Indicator and TheDowTheory.com Newsletter and a recognized Dow theorist. Prior to writing his market letter, Schannep was a stockbroker with Dean Witter in Phoenix. He opened and managed the Dean Witter Tucson offices from 1968 until retiring as senior vice president in charge of southern Arizona offices in 1984.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(20909, 'Dragons and Bulls: Profitable Investment Strategies for Trading Stocks and Commodities', 'Stanley Kroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(20910, 'DTPMT.PDF', 'B.Gilmoure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(20911, 'Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options', 'Nassim Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedgingand arbitrage for professional traders and money managers  Watch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(20912, 'Dynamic Technical Analysis', 'Philippe Cahen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gets traders and investors up to speed on the hottest new approach to predicting the markets One of the most talked-about new forecasting tools in today''s international markets, dynamic technical analysis (DTA) arms traders and investors with unprecedented insights into market volatility, price changes, and market trends. DTA is also a valuable money management tool and is much easier for money managers to master than traditional technical analysis techniques. The first practical introduction to this powerful new approach, Dynamic Technical Analysis provides readers with all the tools and know-how necessary to unlock the full power of DTA. * The only guide devoted exclusively to a powerful new forecasting technique * Uses numerous real-world trading examples to quickly acquaint readers with state-of-the art DTA principles and practices Phillippe Cahen (Paris, France) is Head of Technical Analysis for Credit Lyonnais Capital Markets in Paris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(20913, 'Dynamic Trading Indicators: Winning With Value Charts and Price Action Profile', 'Mark W. Helweg &amp; David C. Stendahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Using the insights that stem from value charts and price action profiles, Dynamic Trading Indicators shows traders how to develop systems and whole trading programs that implement these exciting new tools. Through an in-depth exploration of how to effectively use these new technical indicators in a complete trading system, Dynamic Trading Indicators provides a framework that allows readers to obtain a view of what a stock will most likely do next. This innovation in chart design opens up new vistas for traders and unlocks the door to unlimited profits.  New technology and the advent of around the clock trading have opened the floodgates to both foreign and domestic markets. Traders need the wisdom of industry veterans and the vision of innovators in today''s volatile financial marketplace. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market''s ever changing temperament and have prospered-some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future.  Mark W. Helweg has worked and traded on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and, earlier in his career, partnered with an international CTA with over $40 million under management to research new trading system technology.  David C. Stendahl is cofounder of RINA Systems, a software provider for systematic traders. Stendahl is the author of Profit Strategies: Unlocking Trading Performance with Money Management.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(20914, 'E-mini Trading Course', 'Zoran Kolundzic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(20915, 'Earth in the Heavens', 'L.edward Johndro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(20916, 'Easy Language for Tradestation', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(20917, 'The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets - 7th. Ed.', 'Frederic S. Mishkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(20918, 'The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook: Strategies and Trade Set-Ups', 'Ed Ponsi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A practical guide to trading the foreign exchange market"The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook" offers a visual approach to learning specific trading strategies and identifying profitable trading opportunities in the Forex arena. Page by page, it skillfully describes strategies for long-term trading, swing trading, and day trading in a clear, easy-to-understand manner.Written by the author of the hugely successful "Forex Patterns and Probabilities, The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook" takes the entire concept of Forex education to a new level. The author raises the bar with this ambitious work, presenting fresh new strategies and concepts. Ponsi uses clever analogies and comparisons to make his explanations crystal clear.With Ponsi as your "coach," the book employs sports analogies to show you, his players, the way to victory on the Forex playing fieldStrips away the mystery, showing exactly how successful Forex traders make moneyExplains complex financial concepts in ways that the average person can understandProvides not only useful information, but actionable information to the Forex traderThe foreign exchange market is the most actively traded market in the world, and Ed Ponsi is world-renowned as one of the foremost educators in this field. With "The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook" as your guide, you''ll learn how to take advantage of the many opportunities found in the Forex arena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(20919, 'Electronic Day Traders&#39; Secrets: Learn From the Best of the Best Day Traders', 'Marc Friedfertig &amp; George West &amp; Jonathan Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Today''s hottest electronic traders tell others how to get in the game. More than 3 million investors trade electronically today...14 million accounts are predicted by 2002...Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times sing the praises of electronic trading. From the authors of the investing bestseller of 1998 comes Electronic Day Traders'' Secrets. Featuring exclusive tales of the e-traders who are setting the curve--and making up to $80,000 a day! They talk about how they started; they tell heart-stopping stories of making a year''s salary with the flick of a finger; and they share tips and strategies for making incredible fortunes in this exciting, quick-turn-around market. Friedfertig and West--pioneers and innovators in this high-stakes phenomenon--support the interviews with insider insights, background, and hands-on instructions for becoming an e-trading success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(20920, 'Electronic Trading &#39;TNT&#39; I: Gorilla Trading Stuff', 'Joe Ross &amp; Mark Cherlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(20921, 'Electronic Trading &#39;TNT&#39; II: How-To-Win Trading Stuff', 'Joe Ross &amp; Mark Cherlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(20922, 'Electronic Trading &quot;TNT&quot; III Technical Trading Stuff', 'Joe Ross &amp; Mark Cherlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(20923, 'Elite Trader&#39;s Secrets', 'Rich Swannell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(20924, 'Elliot Wave Principle 101: A CAPSULE SUMMARY OF THE WAVE PRINCIPLE', '?', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(20925, 'Elliott Wave Simplified', 'Clif Droke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Puts Elliott Wave theory into terms all traders can understand and successfully apply." - Larry Jacobs, TraderWorld.com &amp; Traders World MagazineElliott Wave Theory is a highly effective tool to help determine the financial condition of a given stock and how it will perform in the near future. With the help of this book, investors will be able to easily understand and apply Elliott Wave Theory, and profit from the results! This book also shows you how to: - Combine Elliott Wave Theory with other technical analysis methods to produce optimal results.- Utilize methods for anticipating, and profiting from, both long-term and short-term moves among listed stocks.- Gain from real-time examples of stock market forecast and analysis.Use the practical information and numerous charts in this book as a hedge against adverse moves in the financial market-you''ll be glad you did!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(20926, 'Emotions in Finance: Distrust and Uncertainty in Global Markets', 'Jocelyn Pixley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''As a chronicle of shared financial anxieties, written by an observer from an alien world, this is an excellent book.'' Times Higher Education Supplement\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fear and greed are terms that make light of the uncertainty in the finance world. Huge global financial institutions rely on emotional relations of trust and distrust to suppress the uncertainties. Many financial firms develop policies towards risk, rather than accepting the reality of an uncertain future. They amass data in the futile hope of gaining certainty and to claim their options are more risk-freea than competitors. Emotions in Finance examines the views of experienced elites in the international financial world. It argues the current financial era is driven by a utopianism a hope--that the future can be collapsed into the present. It points out policy implications of this short-term view at the unstable peak of global finance. This book provides a timely account of the influence of emotion and speculation on the worldas increasingly volatile financial sector. The author includes absorbing interview material from public and private bankers in the United States, UK and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/563');
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(20927, 'Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns', 'Thomas N. Bulkowski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski updates the classic with new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets and 23 new patterns, including a second section devoted to ten event patterns. Bulkowski tells you how to trade the significant events -- such as quarterly earnings announcements, retail sales, stock upgrades and downgrades -- that shape today''s trading and uses statistics to back up his approach. This comprehensive new edition is a must-have reference if you''re a technical investor or trader. Place your order today."The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that''s ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening." -- Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(20928, 'The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies', 'Jeffrey Owen Katz &amp; Donna Mccormick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is for traders who want to take the next step to consistently profitable trading. The authors--themselves seasoned veterans of the futures trading arena--pinpoint the trading methods and strategies that have been sho\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(20929, 'Equity Valuation for Analysts and Investors', 'James Kelleher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Create comprehensive stock valuation models--quickly and efficiently "This amazingly thorough book takes you through real-world financial modeling, provides concise techniques and methods for determining asset value, and offers a blended valuation approach that is responsive to changes inmarket dynamics. Peer Derived Value, introduced in the book, represents an original and commonsense approach to valuing a stock within its peer group. This book, in my view, is an invaluable addition to any investor''slibrary."-- William V. Campbell, Chairman, Intuit Corporation Equity Valuation for Analysts and Investorsintroduces you to the financial statement analysis and model-building methodology used by leading equity research firm Argus Research. Written by Jim Kelleher, the company''s director of research, the book offers thetools for estimating individual equity cash value. These include a completely original and proprietary valuation methodology, Peer Derived Value, which values an equity based on the stock''s current variation from its historical relation to a user-specifi ed peer group. In a conveniently organized format, this in-depth guide covers all the tasks you need to master, including: Financial statement modeling Comparables analysis Discounted free cash fl ow Industry matrix models Blending valuation inputs to calculate fair value in any market environment Valuing and predicting the future value of assets and stocks is a laborious task. Successful analysts andinvestors don''t have time for tedious work that is outdated as soon as it''s done. Equity Valuation for Analysts and Investorsisthe comprehensive guide to efficient financialstatement analysis and model-building from one of the world-leading independent equity research firms, Argus Research. At the helm of the company''s research is author Jim Kelleher, who developed his methodology and model-building techniques during his twenty years covering more thana dozen industries in nearly every sector. A good valuation model is an invaluable tool to help the serious investor: Wring more information from the 10-K and 10-Q Predict unexpected earnings shortfall or positive earnings surprises Master the art of "valuation choreography" One of the biggest challenges to making accurate predictions with a valuation model today is the rapid and constant fluctuation of data. Equity Valuation for Analysts and Investorsprovides a tried-and-true process for creating effective, compact models that add newmeasurement and valuation periods and accommodate a company''s unique data presentation and reporting style. This versatile guidebook also provides both a rigorous process and a shortcut for each step in modeling financial statement data so analysts can customize their data focus based on their position in the value chain. When implemented in the real world, the valuation model uses thepower of Excel to allow investors to quickly and accurately update their valuations and predictions by simply inputting adjusted data. Take control of your investments now by managing them based on your own research and Equity Valuation for Analysts and Investors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(20930, 'Eric Sorensen', 'Microsoft Word - Sf04f117.doc', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(20931, 'Essencials of Financial Analysis', 'George Friedlob, Lidia Schleifer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(20932, 'Essential Finance', 'Nigel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The beginning of the 21st century has seen great turbulence in financial markets. Stockmarkets have plummeted, pensions have been undermined, and derivatives - "financial weapons of mass destruction", according to Warren Buffet -continue to wreak havoc;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(20933, 'Essential Stock Picking Strategies: What Works on Wall Street', 'Daniel A. Strachman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beating the market is every investor''s dream. Essential Stock Picking Strategies allows investors on Main Street to gain the consistent success (and profits) of the pros on Wall Street. Offering in-depth coverage of the most successful and popular strategies, including growth, value, and sector investing, this complete investment resource identifies successful stock-picking strategies and shares insights that help professional money managers make investment decisions. With profiles of several key money managers, including Gerald Frey, Warren Isabelle, Scott Black, Christopher Davis, and Samuel Isaly, Essential Stock Picking Strategies truly provides an "inside" look at how the professionals successfully pick stocks and win on Wall Street. By gaining a better understanding of how the professionals work, individual investors can start to invest as if they too were on Wall Street.Daniel A. Strachman is Managing Director of Answers &amp; Company a New York-based money management firm that offers investment management services to individuals and institutions. Mr. Strachman is also the editor of The Sconset Report, a quarterly newsletter focused on applying fundamental analysis to investing in mutual funds.For the last eight year, he has worked in many capacities on Wall Street, including product development, marketing and sales focused in and around the money management industry. Mr. Strachman is the author of many articles on investment management and strategies in the popular and professional press as well as the book Getting Started in Hedge Funds (Wiley).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(20934, 'Essential Technical Analysis. Tools and Techniques to Spot Market Trends', 'Legh Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(20935, 'Essentials of Investments', 'Zvi Bodie &amp; Alex Kane &amp; Alan J. Marcus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The market leading Essentials of Investments, 6e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(20936, 'ETFs for the Long Run: What They Are, How They Work, and Simple Strategies for Successful Long-Term Investing', 'Lawrence Carrel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for ETFs For The Long Run  "As the title of the book suggests, ETFs are going to be an increasingly important reality for a broad class of investors in coming years. This book offers the reader real understanding of this growing force in our economic lives." â€”Robert J. Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, Co-founder and Chief Economist at MacroMarkets LLC  "ETFs for the Long Run is a fascinating read. A seasoned financial industry journalist, Lawrence Carrel does an excellent job of highlighting exchange traded funds'' meteoric rise in popularity over the last few years. A terrific book for anyone looking to grasp the ABCs of ETF investing." â€”Jerry Moskowitz, President, FTSE Americas Inc.  "ETFs for the Long Run provides a unique combination of a detailed history of the development of ETFs, a clear explanation of the sophisticated mechanics of ETFs, an assessment of investors'' choices amongst this dynamic product area, and unbiased recommendations for appropriate portfolio allocation to these efficient investment tools. Lawrence Carrel has done investors and the industry a great service in pulling these four elements together in a highly readable and often entertaining book. â€”Steven Schoenfeld, Chief Investment Officer, Global Quantitative Management, Northern Trust, and Editor, Active Index Investing  Despite the incredible growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the fact they''ve been on the market for fifteen years, some investors are still either unaware of the effectiveness of ETFs or unsure of how to use them in their investment endeavors.  That''s why respected ETF expert and journalist Lawrence Carrel has written ETFs for the Long Run. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource puts ETFs in perspective and reveals how they can help you profit in both up and down markets.  Page by page, Carrel takes you through the ins and outs of ETFs, including their history, the tax benefits and minimal charges associated with them, and the fundamental differences between ETFs and other types of investments. He also provides you with the resources and tools needed to trade ETFs and build your own ETF portfolio.  You may have heard about ETFs while researching other investments or speaking with an investment advisor. If you want to learn more about them, this book will provide you with a clear understanding of what ETFs are, how they work, and how they can be used to create a low-cost, liquid, and diversified portfolio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(20937, 'Euro Error', 'Jean Jacques Rosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(20938, 'The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies', 'Robert Pardo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A newly expanded and updated edition of the trading classic, Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems Trading systems expert Robert Pardo is back, and in The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies, a thoroughly revised and updated edition of his classic text Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems, he reveals how he has perfected the programming and testing of trading systems using a successful battery of his own time-proven techniques. With this book, Pardo delivers important information to readers, from the design of workable trading strategies to measuring issues like profit and risk. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this detailed guide presents traders with a way to develop and verify their trading strategy no matter what form they are currently using-stochastics, moving averages, chart patterns, RSI, or breakout methods. Whether a trader is seeking to enhance their profit or just getting started in testing, The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies offers practical instruction and expert advice on the development, evaluation, and application of winning mechanical trading systems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/259'),
(20939, 'Excel for the CEO', 'P. K. Hari', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Presenting innovative Microsoft Excel techniques for top management professionals, this reference for company leaders who do not have the time to attend courses or read bulky books on the program provides basics, special shortcuts, and tips that cover the special features of Excel. Useful facts, trivia, and insider secrets about Excel are interspersed throughout the text, and readers have the choice of jumping directly to the section of real-life case studies to learn by the innovative Do &amp; Learn (D&amp;L) approach. This reference is fully updated to reflect Excel 12.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(20940, 'Exceptional Trading', 'Ruth B. Roosevelt &amp; Ruth Roosevelt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This book is written to give traders a winning edge. Winning eludes some 80 to 90 percent of people who trade.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Each year millions of dollars are spent creating and buying and selling trading systems. Hopeful traders seek the holy grail only to find tha\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(20941, 'Exchange-Traded Derivatives', 'Erik Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Exchange-Traded Derivatives provides an overview of the global listed futures and options markets, and how individual exchanges and products are adapting to a new operating environment - an environment characterized by rapid, almost continuous, change. This book serves as an ideal resource on the 21st century listed derivative markets, products and instruments.  Divided into three parts, Exchange-Traded Derivatives begins by providing an overall understanding of the marketplace and the forces that have, and are, altering the operating environment - stressing how exchanges need to change in order to cope with the challenges. The author then provides a comprehensive description of leading established exchanges, detailing their origins and structure, range of products and services, strengths and ''weaknesses''. The book concludes with a look at emerging marketplaces - those in developing countries as well as new "electronic" platforms - that are likely to increase in importance over the coming years.  Exchange-Traded Derivatives is a valuable reference for fund managers, corporate treasurers, corporate risk managers, CFOs and those seeking a detailed guide to the world''s derivative exchanges and products.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(20942, 'Exit Strategies for Stocks and Futures', 'Charles LeBeau', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(20943, 'Exotic Options: A Guide to Second Generation Options', 'Peter G. Zhang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(20944, 'The Fast Forward MBA in Finance', 'John A. Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this revised edition of the successful title, professor Tracy shows readers how to use financial and accounting methods to get to the heart of pressing business problems. Topics include financial statements, management analysis, management control, and capital investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(20945, 'Fibonacci Analysis', 'Constance Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Only someone who is both a successful trader and a successful writer could pull off what Constance Brown has accomplished in this book: distilling Fibonacci analysis to two hundred or so comprehensive, clearly written, eminently practical pages. Brown knows exactly what a professional trying to come up to speed on a new trading tool needs and she provides it, covering what Fibonacci analysis is, how it works, where it comes from, pitfalls and dangers, and, of course, how to use it. Basic trading strategies are touched upon in virtually every chapter. Fibonacci analysis is one of the most popular technical analysis tools, yet it is often used incorrectly. Brown quickly clears up common misconceptions and moves on to show, step by step, the correct way to apply the technique in any market. Those with Fibonacci analysis software will learn how to use it with maximum effectiveness; those without will chart the market the old-fashioned way. All will find answers to the trader''s most important questions: where is the market going; at what level should my stop be entered; based on the size of my trading account, how much should I leverage into a trading position; can I tell if I am in trouble before my stop is hit; how much should I buy or sell if given a second or third opportunity? Occasional references to other tools--including Elliott Wave, W.D. Gann, and candlestick charts--and an extensive bibliography make this book richer for accomplished technical analysts without confounding the less experienced. Plentiful real-life examples and dozens of carefully annotated charts insure every reader will get maximum value from every minute spent with this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(20946, 'Fibonacci Ratios With Pattern Recognition', 'Larry Pesavento &amp; Steven Shapiro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Larry Pesavento has been trading for 30 years and is primarily a day trader. This book describes high probability patterns that coincide with clusters of Fibonacci price projections that provide the short or intermediate term Wader with high probability and low risk Wade setups. Chosen as the Book of the Year by the 1997 SuperTraders Almanac. A well focused and well organized study in the application of Fibonacci relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(20947, 'Fibonacci Trading: How to Master the Time and Price Advantage', 'Carolyn Boroden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Made famous by the Italian mathematician Leonardo De Pisa, the Fibonacci number series holds a Golden Ratio that is universally found in nature and used by architects, plastic surgeons, and many others to achieve â€œperfectâ€ aesthetic proportions. Now, in this groundbreaking guide, noted technical trading advisor Carolyn Boroden shows you how Fibonacci pattern studies can be used as an extremely effective method for achieving greater profitability in stocks, futures, and Forex markets.Fibonacci Trading provides a one-stop resource of reliable tools and clear explanations for both identifying and taking advantage of the trade setups naturally occurring in the markets that will enable you to reach the highest rate of profitable trades. Inside, you''ll find a unique trading methodology based on Fibonacci ratios, and the author''s personal experience analyzing and setting up the markets in real time, which makes this practical volume invaluable to the self-directed investor. Complete with detailed charts and insightful graphics in each chapter, Fibonacci Trading features: Dependable guidance for determining important support and resistance levels, along with expert advice for using them to maximize profits and limit losses Step-by-step processes for using Fibonacci analysis to predict turning points in the market far enough in advance to generate substantial profit Valuable tips for using Fibonacci analysis to establish optimal stop-loss placement Revealing coverage on how Fibonacci relationships can create a roadmap for the trader based on high percentage patternsFibonacci Trading also provides a four-step formula for applying the covered techniques in a highly effective approach. Flexible enough for all markets and trading styles, the formula helps you focus your newly developed knowledge and skill sets into a solid trading methodology, defined trading plan, successful trading mindset, and disciplined trading approach that stacks the odds for profit in your favor. This hands-on guide is packed with a wealth of actual trading situations, setups, and scenarios that bring the four-step formula to life so you can immediately use it in the real world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(20948, 'Fifty Years in Wall Street', 'Henry Clews &amp; Victor Niederhoffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The definitive look at Wall Street in the 19th Century  Perhaps the 19th century''s best book on Wall Street, Fifty Years in Wall Street provides a fascinating look at the financial markets during a period of rapid economic expansion. Henry Clews was a giant figure in finance at that time, and his firsthand account brings this colorful era to life like never before. He reveals shocking stories of political and economic manipulation and how he helped bring down the mighty Boss Tweed. He writes eloquently about the madness of the markets and how the era''s greatest speculators amassed their fortunes. This book provides an expansive view of Wall Street in an era of little regulation, rampant political corruption, and rapid financial change.  Henry Clews was born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1859, he cofounded what became the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the Civil War. Later, he organized the "Committee of 70," which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City, and served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(20949, 'Finance and the Economics of Uncertainty', 'Gabrielle Demange &amp; Guy Laroque', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The authors discuss in a clear and motivated way some essential problems such as incompleteness, market viability or dissemination of information. Graduate students in economics will find this textbook a valuable supplement to the extensive literature on financial engineering."\n <em>\n  Christian Gourieroux, Center of Research in Economics and Statistics in France\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Given the explosive growth of the finance literature, even well-trained microeconomists may feel left behind. They should be grateful to Demange and Laroque for giving them such a clear and unified picture of how financial instruments allocate risk in the economy."\n <em>\n  Bernard Salanie, Columbia University\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Finance and the Economics of Uncertainty\n </em>\n explores the growing range of economic decisions that are conducted under uncertainty both on the personal level, as well as by large firms.\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Analyzes the allocation of risk in the context of the current literature, as well as emphasizes the role of information in decisions and prices.\n   <br />\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Includes end-of-chapter exercises that supply the necessary tools for a comprehensive understanding of the field.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(20950, 'Finance For The Non-Financial Manager (Mcgraw Hill-2003)', 'Gene Siciliano', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(20951, 'Finance of International Trade', 'Eric Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Introduction to International Trade Finance covers the complete cycle of international trade and explains the roles of the specialist operators. Introduction to International Trade Finance aims to:*Guide the reader through every phase of typical trade transactions, examining in detail the relationships between the various parties involved and explaining the facilities employed. *Demonstrate the range of banking instruments and techniques available to exporters and importers which enable them to enter into contracts, confident that whichever method of settlement they agree upon can be provided with the minimum of risk. *Provide a firm understanding of when to apply a particular form of finance, what risks are involved and how they can be counteracted*Inspired from the basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide.*Will enable MSc Finance students, MBA students and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles underlying the topic under discussion*Questions with answers, study topics, practical "real world" examples and text with an extensive bibliography and references ensure learning outcomes can be immediately applied\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(20952, 'Finance: A Fine Art', 'Michel Fleuriet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Like a true Master in Fine Arts, Michel Fleuriet is able to combine a great historical culture with a deep technical background to give us a brilliant and synthetic view of the fundamentals driving financial markets. This book should be a reference in a troubled period where everyone, from the non professional investor to the sophisticated professional, needs to go back to basics!" Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, Ax "As only a talented teacher and seasoned professional can, Fleuriet makes the understanding of capital markets and complex financial instruments unbelievably easy. What a tour de force! So-called financial innovations are given a unique historical perspective that stresses their critical importance since the origin of trade. This book is an absolute must for the novice and should be required reading for all traders, portfolio managers and investment bankers." Michel Crouhy, Head of Business Analytic Solutions, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerc "This is a book that every practitioner should take with him to a desert island. Fleuriet does a beautiful job of blending market expertise from around the world, looking at the historic view as well as up-to-date theoretical developments. He presents strong ideas and interesting opinions to explain the present and explore the future. This book takes a truly global and novel approach to economics." Jerome P. Kenney, EVP and Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(20953, 'Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques : A Guide for Managers', 'Erich A. Helfert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques:"Bona fide treasury for executives, managers, entrepreneurs. Have long used this great work in corporate &amp; university programs. Uniquely makes the arcane clear."Â­Â­Allen B. Barnes, Provost, IBM Advanced Business Institute"A candidate for every consultant-to-management''s bookshelf. Its beauty lies in the dynamic model of the business system and its management decision framework."Â­Â­Stanley Press CMC, Book review in C2M Consulting to Management Journal"Goes a long way to remove the mystery from business finance. Approach allows managers from all areas to understand how their decisions impact shareholder value."Â­Â­Stephen E. Frank, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Southern California Edison"Helfert has rare ability to make financial concepts understandable to those lacking financial background. His finance seminars exceeded our high expectations."Â­Â­L. Pendleton Siegel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Potlatch Corporation"Commend the clarity, organization and currency of contents. There is no other book available that does the task in such an understandable and accessible way."Â­Â­Dr. Thomas F. Hawk, Frostburg State University"Helfert''s excellent overviews and simplified models effectively broadened our managers'' understanding of their fiscal responsibility to HP and our shareholders."Â­Â­Robert P. Wayman, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Hewlett-Packard Company"The book has become a classic, and Helfert has been of substantial help to my company in teaching our people how to think about the numbers which drive it."Â­Â­Robert J. Saldich, President and Chief Executive Officer, Raychem Corporation"Helfert has contributed to the development of financial skills of TRW managers through his book, case studies and presentations, and highly rated instruction."Â­Â­Peter S. Hellman, President and Chief Operating Officer, TRW Inc."Helfert has the ability to make financial concepts understandable, and his credibility and content added significantly to the success of our educational effort."Â­Â­Giulio Agostini, Senior Vice President Finance, and Office Administration, 3M Corporation"Helfert''s writing and teaching have become a mainstay for us, and his business and strategic sense have been recognized as valuable guides to our process."Â­Â­William H. Clover, Ph.D., Manager of Training, and AMOCO Learning CenterConcepts and tools for making sound business decisionsFinancial Analysis Tools and Techniques, a business-focused revision of Erich Helfert''s perennial college bestseller Techniques of Financial Analysis, is a quick, easy read for nonfinancial managers and an excellent refresher and reference for finance professionals. This practical, hands-on guide provides a new introductory chapter that gives context to today''s valuation turmoil and helps professionals understand the economic drivers of a business and the importance of cash flow.The book''s overriding theme is that any business should be viewed as a dynamic, integrated system of cash flowsÂ­Â­one that can be activated and managed by investment decisions. Topics, discussed in clear, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand detail, include:Increasing shareholder value through value-based management (VBM) Interpreting pro forma financial statements\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(20954, 'Financial Risk Manager Handbook (5th Ed.)', 'Acampo GmbH', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(20955, 'Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner&#39;s Guide, 3rd Edition', 'Martin Fridson &amp; Fernando Alvarez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(20956, 'Financing Secrets of a Millionaire Real Estate Investor', 'William Bronchick &amp; Gary Licata', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With news about the real estate market continuing to dominate business news, investors need thorough, up-to-date information like never before. William Bronchick, expert real estate investor and bestselling author of "Flipping Properties", provides just t\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(20957, 'Finding Alpha', 'Eric Falkenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for *Finding Alpha\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Eric Falkenstein is more than one of the smartest and funniest people in finance. He''s been a banker, a key model builder at a major rating agency, and a hedge fund trader. In this tour de force, he outlines the successes and failures of financial theory applications in the real world from the perspective of an aggressive early adopter of the best ideas in finance. To this day, I think Eric''s private firm default model is one of the best papers ever published in applied finance, and this wonderful book falls into the same category."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donald R. van Deventer, PhD\n  </strong>\n  , founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kamakura Corporation\n </p>\n <p>\n  "People dismissed Columbus when he said the world was round. Thank goodness he persisted. Like Columbus, Falkenstein challenges standard thinking, only this time about risk and reward. As the meltdown of the capital markets has shown, the financial industry clearly missed something with regard to risk management. As an industry, we need to consider alternative theories on risk, and clearly Falkenstein is on to something here. Agree with him or not, Finding Alpha is worth a read."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin M. Blakely\n  </strong>\n  , President and CEO,The Risk Management Association\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Writing through the lens of an experienced practitioner, Falkenstein digests decades of research in capital markets, financial economics, and investment psychology that have shaped modern investment theory. This text is an excellent companion for portfolio managers, investment students, or anyone seeking to better understand the relationship between risk, returns, and financial reward."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Todd Houge, PhD, CFA\n  </strong>\n  , The University of Iowa\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How do we find alpha whenrisk does not correlate with return?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Finding Alpha\n  </em>\n  is a practical guide to achieving alpha when conventional measures of risk rarely correlate with higher returns. Author Eric Falkenstein-a PhD who has also been a risk manager and portfolio managerâ€”tells the story of alpha from its beginnings to its current reversal, where risk is now evidenced by return as opposed to vice versa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Falkenstein begins by walking readers through the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), as well as other well-documented theories about risk and return, and explores how these theories measure up to current empirical evidence being documented by researchers and academics. He also outlines a novel approach to the issues of how benchmark risk and investor overconfidence affects expected asset returns, how to understand the nature of alpha and risk, and how to use practical applications of alpha-seeking strategies that he developed as a successful hedge fund manager.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Finding Alpha\n  </em>\n  concludes by outlining some real-life applications of alpha in finance and explains how the search for alpha affects the day-to-day life of all financial professionals.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1992, a long-established finance theory was turned upside down when researchers published a paper in the\n  <em>\n   Journal of Finance\n  </em>\n  â€”later cited in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  â€”which documented that the main empirical implication of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) was untrue: that is, that "beta" was not positively related to stock returns. The article, later corroborated in many subsequent studies, was to be one of the most heavily cited\n  <em>\n   Journal of Finance\n  </em>\n  articles in its history. The basic model of risk and return that academics had taught for decades was shown to be empirically useless, and subsequent extensions have been successful only by redefining risk merely as anything with a high average return. Since that groundbreaking article was published, practitioners have been left asking: So how do we find alpha if we can''t measure risk?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Finding Alpha\n  </em>\n  offers a new approach to finding alpha, backed by current empirical evidence and grounded in the notion that risk and return are not necessarily correlated. Author Eric Falkenstein offers a serious criticism and counterproposal to current financial theory on risk and return that is comprehensive yet understandable to the average person. He argues convincingly for replacing the old assumptions with new ones, primarily replacing greed and introducing another factorâ€”the innate human desire for hope and certainty. Falkenstein clearly shows that once one understands that "risk adjusting" returns, in the sense of adjusting for a priced risk factor, is a red herring, one can search for alpha more productively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author brings his theories down to earth with practical applications of alpha-seeking strategies that he developed through his own experience at Moody''s Risk Management Services and with his own investment company. But ultimately, as the author shows, alpha is about finding a comparative advantage, both in the financial markets and in life. This means sticking to things you are good at, things you enjoy doing, because those are the things where making that extra effort is costless because it is something you like to do. That is the risk-taking that leads to greater returns. Maximizing your alpha should provide you with not merely a way to maximize your income, says Falkenstein, but also give you the greatest satisfaction, and the most meaning, in your life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(20958, 'The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy', 'Michael E. Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(20959, 'The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar&#39;s Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market', 'Pat Dorsey &amp; Joe Mansueto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(20960, 'Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook: Analysis and Valuation', 'Moorad Choudhry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for "Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook, Second Edition""I have been looking for books for my clients and obtained a copy of your book. I think it is the best book about fixed-income securities out there. The book is extremely well written and is the best resource I have found so far."--Patrick Y. Shim, Financial Advisor, CG Investment Group, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLCThe "Second Edition" of the "Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook" is a fully updated and expanded post-crash edition of Moorad Choudhry''s bestselling guide. In this latest edition, he explains the new regulatory twists, the evolving derivatives market, as well as a new set of instruments and opportunities in the bond market.Thoroughly updated and revised, this "Second Edition" includes new material on important topics such as: A practical demonstration of cubic spline methodology, useful in constructing yield curvesThe latest developments in the credit derivative marketAn accessible analysis of credit default swap pricing principlesA description of inflation-indexed derivativesA more detailed look at the basic principles of securitization and an updated chapter on collateralized debt obligationsA new chapter on credit analysis and the different metrics used to measure bond-relative valueWritten in a straightforward and accessible style, Moorad Choudhry''s new book offers the ideal mix of practical tips and academic theory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(20961, 'Float Analysis: Powerful Technical Indicators Using Price and Volume', 'Steve Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A complete guide to trading with price, volume, and float  Float Analysis explains how to use the Woods Cumulative Volume Float Indicator, the landmark concept in technical analysis that teaches the reader how to accurately determine when to purchase stocks. This groundbreaking book also contains all-new insights on how to understand and profit from these indicators, how support and resistance are redefined by this innovation, and how to implement these strategies into a high-growth portfolio.  Steve Woods (Hyattsville, MD) is the Executive Director of FloatAnalysis.com and has written a number of articles for various journals including Technical Analysis of Stocks &amp; Commodities.  New technology and the advent of around the clock trading have opened the floodgates to both foreign and domestic markets. Traders need the wisdom of industry veterans and the vision of innovators in today''s volatile financial marketplace. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market''s ever changing temperament and have prospered-some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(20962, 'Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Talebâ€“veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swanâ€“has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.This book is about luckâ€“or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skillâ€“the world of tradingâ€“Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives.The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper; the ancient worldâ€™s wisest man, Solon; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness.However, the most recognizable character of all remains unnamedâ€“the lucky fool who happens to be in the right place at the right timeâ€“he embodies the â€œsurvival of the least fit.â€ Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their guruâ€™s insights and methods. But no one can replicate what is obtained by chance.Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? It may be impossible to guard ourselves against the vagaries of the goddess Fortuna, but after reading Fooled by Randomness we can be a little better prepared.PRAISE FOR FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS:Named by Fortune One of the Smartest Books of All TimeA Financial Times Best Business Book of the Yearâ€œ[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Lutherâ€™s ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church.â€â€“Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blinkâ€œThe book that rolled down Wall Street like a hand grenade.â€â€“Maggie Mahar, author of Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982â€”1999â€œFascinating . . . Taleb will grab you.â€â€“Peter L. Bernstein, author of Capital Ideas Evolvingâ€œRecalls the best of scientist/essayists like Richard Dawkins . . . and Stephen Jay Gould.â€â€“Michael Schrage, author of Serious Play: How the Worldâ€™s Best Companies Simulate to Innovateâ€œWe need a book like this. . . . Fun to read, refreshingly independent-minded.â€â€“Robert J. Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance â€œPowerful . . . loaded with crackling little insights [and] extreme brilliance.â€â€“National Reviewâ€œIf asked to name the five best books written about markets, Fooled by Randomness would be on my list.â€â€“Jack D. Schwager, author of Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Tradersâ€œExcellent and thought-provoking . . . an entertaining book.â€â€“Financial Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(20963, 'Forcasting', 'W.D.Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(20964, 'Forcasting Profits Using Price and Time', 'Ed Gately', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(20965, 'Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets', 'John L. Knight &amp; Stephen Satchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This new edition of Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key principles and methods of understanding volatility measurement and builds on that knowledge to detail cutting-edge modelling and forecasting techniques. It provides a survey of ways to measure risk and define the different models of volatility and return. Editors John Knight and Stephen Satchell have brought together an impressive array of contributors who present research from their area of specialization related to volatility forecasting. Readers with an understanding of volatility measures and risk management strategies will benefit from this collection of up to date chapters on the latest techniques in forecasting volatility. * Leading thinkers present newest research on volatility forecasting *International authors cover a broad array of subjects related to volatility forecasting *Assumes basic knowledge of volatility, financial mathematics, and modelling\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(20966, 'The Forex Chartist Companion: A Visual Approach to Technical Analysis', 'Michael Duane Archer &amp; James Lauren Bickford &amp; Jim L. Bickford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE FOREX CHARTIST COMPANION  The foreign exchange (Forex) market has quickly become the market of choice for traders looking to increase their profit potential. The combination of high liquidity and low transaction costs-as well as twenty-four-hour accessibility-has attracted the attention of both new and veteran traders.  In The Forex Chartist Companion, authors and active Forex traders Michael Archer and James Bickford provide a visual window into the behavior of the Forex market along with detailed information on the mechanics of day trading, market entry timing, and much more. With this book as your guide, you''ll not only become familiar with innovative software and charting systems that provide a graphical interpretation of the markets, but you''ll also discover how to instantly see patterns throughout those markets.  Divided into six comprehensive parts, The Forex Chartist Companion:  Details Forex-specific charting techniques Illustrates the use of point and figure charting in conjunction with Forex trading Explores Forex swing charting Outlines a variety of Western and Japanese reversal charts-from pivot charts to Kagi charts Examines the actual trading system of veteran futures guru Charles Goodman   Filled with numerous charts-annotated with Archer''s insight into the material-and in-depth information regarding charting theory, The Forex Chartist Companion will help serious traders use technical indicators to enter this market with confidence and exit with profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(20967, 'Forex Patterns &amp; Probabilities: Trading Strategies for Trending &amp; Range-Bound Markets (Wiley Trading)', 'Ed Ponsi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While most books on trading deal with general concepts and shy away from specifics, Forex Patterns and Probabilities provides you with real-world strategies and a rare sense of clarity about the specific mechanics of currency trading. Leading trading educ\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19');
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(20968, 'The Forex Trading Course', 'Abe Cofnas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A pioneer in currency trading shares his vast knowledge  The Forex Trading Course is a practical, hands-on guide to mastering currency trading. This book is designed to build an aspiring trader''s knowledge base in a step-by-step manner-with each major section followed by a thorough question-and-answer section to ensure mastery of the material. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Forex Trading Course outlines a practical way to integrate fundamental and technical analysis to identify high probability patterns and trades; and reveals how to develop a trading plan and appropriate strategies for different size trading accounts; how to control emotions and use emotional intelligence to improve trading performance; and much more. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, The Forex Trading Course will prepare readers for the realities of currency trading, and help them evolve and achieve success in this dynamic market.  Abe Cofnas (Orlando, FL) has been the forex trading columnist for Futures magazine since 2001. He formed Learn4x.com-one of the first Web-based interactive training sites devoted to forex trading in 2001 as well. Cofnas is also founder of www.CurrencyGames.com, a forex education and entertainment company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(20969, 'Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis', 'Louis B. Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In today''s global marketplace, currency values fluctuate every day and foreign exchange is the biggest market of them all, trading well over $1 trillion a day--more than all other markets combined! Master this market that never sleeps, and you could be a big winner. Just to survive in the hottest marketplace in the world, you will have to learn how to stay one step ahead of the game. This book is intended for traders and investors who use technology to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(20970, 'Four Biggest Mistakes in Futures Trading', 'Jay Kaeppel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Veteran trader Jay Kaeppel describes the opportunities and challenges of futures trading with easy grace and engaging wit. After exploring the risks and rewards, Kaeppel shows how the average trader can succeed in futures by embracing four key principles of trading mastery."-Nelson Freeburg, Editor/PublisherFormula Research newsletterFrom the creator of Futures Pro Trading System Software winner of 6 Readers Choice Awards in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazineThis book will help you trade futures profitably by showing you how to identify-and-avoid making four common mistakes that can derail your plan and reduce your profits.Following on the heels of his original bestseller, The Four Biggest Mistakes In Option Trading, system developer Kaeppel now focuses his attention on the volatile futures market and shows traders how to trade these markets to their advantage.In Kaeppel''s quick reading style you''ll ...- Learn how to assess whether you are financially-and emotionally-ready to trade futures.- Determine how much money you can afford to risk.- Learn what leverage is and how it can be used to generate above average returns without exposing yourself to too much risk.- Understand why "fearing" the market is better-and-safer-than downplaying risk.Now, steer clear of tr4ading missteps and learn how to trade more profitably-trade after trade-with Kaeppel''s winning strategies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(20971, 'The Four Cardinal Principles of Trading: How the World&#39;s Top Traders Identify Trends, Cut Losses, Maximize Profits &amp; Manage Risk', 'Bruce Babcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Successful traders utilize a wide variety of approaches to attack the markets. Irrespective of the approach, virtually every top trader abides by four key principles: trade with the trend, cut losses short, let profits run, and manage risk. In this eagerly anticipated book, trading expert Bruce Babcock fully explains each of these principles and shows readers how to implement the four principles in their own trading. Consisting of a series of interviews with top traders, Babcock demonstrates that while there are many ways to trade, only those traders who rigorously apply the four principles will achieve lasting success. Featured traders include Jack Schwager, Larry Williams, and Tom Aspray. All traders, from rank beginners to seasoned veterans, will enjoy and benefit from this important new book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(20972, 'Fractal Market Analisis. Applying Chaos Theory to Investment and Economics', 'Edger E. Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(20973, 'Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age', 'Gregg Braden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n DIVÂ In this fascinating book,Gregg Bradenmerges the modern discoveries of natureâ€™s patterns (fractals) with the ancient view of a cyclic universe. The result is a powerful model of timeâ€”fractal timeâ€”and a realistic window into what we can expect for the mysterious year 2012 . . . and beyond.Applying fractal time to the history of the world and life, he proposes that everything from the war and peace between nations to the patterns of human relationships mirror the returning cycles of our past. As each cycle repeats, it carries a more powerful, amplified version of itself.The key:If you know where to look in the past, you know what to expect when the same conditions return in the present and future. For the first time in print, theTime Code Calculatorgives us the tool to do just that! Through easy-to-understand science and step-by-step instructions, discover for yourself:Â·Â Â Â Â  How the conditions for 2012 have occurred in the past, and what we can expect when they repeat!Â·Â Â Â Â  The â€œhot datesâ€ that hold the greatest threats of war, and the greatest opportunities for peace!Â·Â Â Â Â  How Earthâ€™s location in space triggers cycles of spiritual growth for humans!Â·Â Â Â Â  Your personal time codes for the key events of business, relationships, and change in your life!Â·Â Â Â Â  How each cycle carries a window of opportunityâ€”a choice pointâ€”that allows us to select a new outcome for the returning pattern!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(20974, 'Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance', 'Paul Wilmott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paul Wilmott writes, "Quantitative finance is the most fascinating and rewarding real-world application of mathematics. It is fascinating because of the speed at which the subject develops, the new products and the new models which we have to understand. And it is rewarding because anyone can make a fundamental breakthrough."Having worked in this field for many years, I have come to appreciate the importance of getting the right balance between mathematics and intuition. Too little maths and you won''t be able to make much progress, too much maths and you''ll be held back by technicalities. I imagine, but expect I will never know for certain, that getting the right level of maths is like having the right equipment to climb Mount Everest; too little and you won''t make the first base camp, too much and you''ll collapse in a heap before the top."Whenever I write about or teach this subject I also aim to get the right mix of theory and practice. Finance is not a hard science like physics, so you have to accept the limitations of the models. But nor is it a very soft science, so without those models you would be at a disadvantage compared with those better equipped. I believe this adds to the fascination of the subject."This FAQs book looks at some of the most important aspects of financial engineering, and considers them from both theoretical and practical points of view. I hope that you will see that finance is just as much fun in practice as in theory, and if you are reading this book to help you with your job interviews, good luck! Let me know how you get on!"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(20975, 'Fundamental Numerical Methods and Data Analysis', 'George W. Collins, II', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(20976, 'Fundamentals of Corporate Finance', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(20977, 'Fundamentals of Spectrum Analysis', 'Christoph Rauscher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(20978, 'The Futures Game: Who Wins? Who Loses? And Why?', 'Richard Jack Teweles &amp; Frank Joseph Jones &amp; Ben Warwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Since it first exploded onto the markets in 1974, THE FUTURES GAME has helped thousands of traders gain an intelligent understanding of futures markets. Over the years, Richard Teweles and Frank Jones have kept their fingers on the pulse of the dynamic futures trading industry, first updating their classic text in 1987. Now, this third edition of THE FUTURES GAME has been completely updated and revised to keep all participants--whether speculators or hedgers, new or veteran--one step ahead of this fast moving, high-stakes game. Combining two decades of strength and wisdom with todayÃ•s most innovative research and strategic recommendations, this guide to the futures markets continues its reign as the number one tool for futures trading mastery. THE FUTURES GAME, 3rd Edition, walks you through the universe of futures trading possibilities and opportunities, starting with an in-depth discussion of market basics that includes the nature of the contract, the organized markets for those contracts, and the relationship between cash and futures prices. The elements of successful trading are isolated, described, and analyzed to make you familiar with profitable decision-making processes. After that, detailed chapters devoted to particular markets explain price determinants and speculative possibilities within currencies, commodities, and stock index futures. "Notes from a Trader" sections go beyond theory and speculation to provide valuable tips and pointers -- expert guidance you can use to squeeze the maximum benefit from each trade. The comprehensive facts and insights packed into this traderÃ•s bible will help you predict what might happen--and why it might happen--in virtually every kind of market. New information in this important third edition includes: Latest research on important topics including efficient market hypothesis, technical and fundamental analysis, and much more Ã‰ A comprehensive listing of valuable Internet website names and addresses. Stronger emphasis on financial instruments Ã‰ Innovative strategies for maneuvering through the increasingly important international market Ã‰ Completely revised sections devoted to Basics of the Game, Playing the Game, How to Win or Lose, Succeeding as a Broker, and Choosing the Correct Markets. Filled with knowledgeable trading strategies and insights, revealing charts on todayÃ•s most interesting futures markets, and numerous respected trading approaches that will allow you to craft a style based on your own strengths and requirements, THE FUTURES GAME is likely to become the one resource you refer to most often.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(20979, 'Fuzzy Control Systems Design and Analysis', 'Kazuo Tanaka &amp; Hua O. Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œâ€¦interesting as a source of new ideas leading to applied solutionsâ€ (\n  <em>\n   International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing\n  </em>\n  , Vol.19, No.1, February 2005)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A comprehensive treatment of model-based fuzzy control systems\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This volume offers full coverage of the systematic framework for the stability and design of nonlinear fuzzy control systems. Building on the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model, authors Tanaka and Wang address a number of important issues in fuzzy control systems, including stability analysis, systematic design procedures, incorporation of performance specifications, numerical implementations, and practical applications.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Issues that have not been fully treated in existing texts, such as stability analysis, systematic design, and performance analysis, are crucial to the validity and applicability of fuzzy control methodology. Fuzzy Control Systems Design and Analysis addresses these issues in the framework of parallel distributed compensation, a controller structure devised in accordance with the fuzzy model.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This balanced treatment features an overview of fuzzy control, modeling, and stability analysis, as well as a section on the use of linear matrix inequalities (LMI) as an approach to fuzzy design and control. It also covers advanced topics in model-based fuzzy control systems, including modeling and control of chaotic systems. Later sections offer practical examples in the form of detailed theoretical and experimental studies of fuzzy control in robotic systems and a discussion of future directions in the field.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Fuzzy Control Systems Design and Analysis\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  offers an advanced treatment of fuzzy control that makes a useful reference for researchers and a reliable text for advanced graduate students in the field.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(20980, 'Fuzzy Sets and Systems: Theory and Applications', 'Didier Dubois &amp; Henri M. Prade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(20981, 'Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications to Cognitive and Decision Processes', 'Lotfi A. Zadeh &amp; King-sun Fu &amp; Kokichi Tanaka &amp; Masamichi Shimura', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(20982, 'Gann Made Easy: How to Trade Using the Methods of W.D. Gann', 'William Mclaren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This course was designed to simplify and clarify Gann''s books and his stock and commodity market courses. The Gann student who has encountered difficulties in understanding his methods elsewhere will find this course to be of help in mastering Gann''s methods. It consists of a 155 page hardbound book and over 60 sample charts and overlays. Covers: -- Geometric Charts -- Angles and Price Squares -- The Psychology of Trading -- Decade-long Trading Plan -- Applying the Concepts -- The Cycle of the Years -- How Markets Move -- The Square of Nine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(20983, 'Gann Masters II', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(20984, 'Gann Simplified', 'Clif Droke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Those new to Gann''s methods should find Gann Simplified a fascinating introduction. Clif Droke has done an excellent job of delivering the "essence" of W.D. Gann''s writings... Readers will learn that much of the wisdom from today''s top "gurus" originally came from Gann."Steve WoodsAuthor of The Precision Profit Float Indicator "Panics will come and bull markets will follow just as long as the world stands - and they are just as sure as the ebb and flow of the tides, because it is the nature of man to overdue everything." - from 45 Years in Wall Street by W.D. GannThis is but one of the many predictions and theories developed by Gann that are still relevant and useful in today''s trading arena. Despite advances in everything from technology to communications, Gann''s groundbreaking theories continue to be viable, influencing today''s most successful investors.While his work is considered complex, often dense and difficult for many to decipher, Clif Droke provides an excellent overview of Gann''s seminal theories in Gann Simplified, making them understandable and accessible to a new legion of followers. Gann''s contributions to the field of technical analysis and trading are truly staggering and now, this hands-on manual helps new and experienced traders alike discover how to apply his winning concepts to their own investing success.You''ll find ...* The basic foundations of Gann theory* The type of chart Gann felt was the most important - and why* Gann''s special swing charting approach * Gann''s 24 Never Failing Trading Rules* How he explains support and resistance - and much more.Learn how this guru - who was trading well before WWI - can improve your trading today, using a "simplified"approach to Gann''s classic trading tenets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(20985, 'The Geometry of Stock Market Profits', 'Michael Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(20986, 'George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis: Trading Systems of a Market Master', 'Ed Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eight months in advance, one eccentric genius predicted the start of history''s greatest bull market ; accurate to within 17 days and 7 Dow Jones points. Then, days before his death, he called its end ; precisely. Louis Rukeyser called him "uncannily accurate." The Stock Traders Almanaccalled his work "the finest long-term forecast we have ever seen." Honored by his peers, admired for his profound knowledge of history and markets, George Lindsay is now nearly forgotten. Much of his most significant research has been relegated to yellowing, typed newsletters. Until now. In George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis, Ed Carlson demonstrates the immense power of Lindsay''s methods in today''smarkets. Using visual models, Carlson explains Lindsay''s models clearly, simply, and intuitively. Using this book, investors and traders can apply these techniques withoutstrong mathematical expertise, and withoutdeciphering Lindsay''s dense writing style. Carlson walks through using Lindsay''s "Three Peaks and a Domed House" model to uncover surprising patterns in "haphazard" short-lived movements&amp; using Lindsay''s "Timing Method for Traders" to identify tradeable market tops and get out of bull markets in time&amp; predicting "decisive, often violent" market movements, and more. This book is an indispensable addition to any technical analysis library ;and every technician''s trading arsenal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(20987, 'Get Rich With Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight From the Exchange Floor', 'Lee Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A detailed guide to successfully trading stock and commodity options After numerous years as an options market-maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. Now, in the Second Edition of Get Rich with Options, Lowell returns to show you exactly what works and what doesn''t. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this reliable resource provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to achieve optimal results within the options market. It quickly covers the basics before moving on to the four options trading strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked put options, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered calls.  Breaks down four of the best options trading strategies currently available Explains how to set up a home-based business with the best options trading software, tools, and Web sites Contains detailed discussions of how options can be used as a hedging or speculating instrument  With this book as your guide, you''ll quickly see options in a whole new light and learn how to become part of a small group of investors who consistently win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(20988, 'Getting Started in Bonds', 'Sharon Saltzgiver Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everything you need to know about bonds Bonds are a key component in every portfolio, making it essential that investors understand what exactly they are and how they function. Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition has been fully updated and revised to take into account the ever-changing bond market as well as the current economic environment. This new edition explains the fundamentals of bonds in clear, easy-to-understand language. It includes in-depth coverage of a variety of debt products, from Treasury notes to high-yield junk bonds and everything in between. This comprehensive guide is an essential primer for anyone who would like to invest in bonds but doesn''t know where to start. Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition uses straightforward, accessible language that will help readers understand even the most complicated bond issues. Sharon Wright (Byfield, MA) was, most recently, fixed-income sales director at Lehman Brothers. Previously, she was assistant vice president at Fidelity Capital Markets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(20989, 'Getting Started in Options', 'Michael C. Thomsett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN EASY-TO-READ AND UPDATED GUIDE TO THE COMPLEX WORLD OF OPTIONS INVESTING GETTING STARTED IN OPTIONS SIXTH EDITION Over the years, options have gained the reputation of being too high risk for most investors. While some options strategies are high risk, many others are not. Some strategies are actually both profitable and conservative. In nontechnical, easy-to-follow terms, Getting Started in Options, Sixth Edition thoroughly demystifies the options markets, distinguishes the imagined risks from the real ones, and arms you with the facts you need to make informed investment decisions. The accessible, step-by-step format of this Sixth Edition includes new examples, updated charts, and timely additions that reflect important changes in the markets. This edition also includes new and updated discussions on other important options issues, such as Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS), which are becoming increasingly prominent in options trading; information that simplifies the intricacies of options taxation; and much more. You''ll also learn how to: Master options terminology and concepts Understand time values, striking price, and expiration-- and how to use them effectively Use options in a powerful insurance strategy to protect against losses in stock investments Set up an individually tailored plan based on your specific investment goals Read the market and spot specific risks associated with each type of option Utilize the many new online resources available to you Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this straightforward guide will show you how options work as well as where they can fit into your personal investment plan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(20990, 'Getting Started in Security Analysis', 'Peter J. Klein &amp; Brian R. Iammartino', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An updated look at security analysis and how to use it during tough financial times Due to the current economic climate, individual investors are starting to take much more time and effort to really understand their investments. They''ve been investing on their own in record numbers, but many have no idea how to handle the current financial crisis. This accessible guide shows you how to take control of your investment decisions by mastering security analysis. This fully updated Second Edition of Getting Started in Security Analysis covers everything you need to fully grasp the fundamentals of security analysis. It focuses on the practical mechanics of such vital topics as fundamental analysis, security valuation, portfolio management, real estate analysis, and fixed income analysis.  Easy-to-follow instructions and case studies put the tools of this trade in perspective and show you how to incorporate them into your portfolio Along with dozens of examples, you''ll find special quiz sections that test your skills Focuses on key security analysis topics such as deciphering financial statements, fixed-income analysis, fundamental analysis, and security valuation  If you want to make better investment decisions, then look no further than the Second Edition of Getting Started in Security Analysis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(20991, 'Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --\n <em>\n  Timothy Murphy\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(20992, 'Getting Yours: It&#39;s Not Too Late to Have the Wealth You Want', 'Bambi Holzer &amp; Elaine Floyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n PRAISE FOR GETTING YOURS  "Believe it or not, you won''t want to put this book down once you get started. That''s rare for a book on investing, but this one''s a gem." -Ed McVey, Chairman, Templeton Private Group  "I''ve known Bambi for many years and have read and enjoyed her first two books, but Getting Yours is the best yet! She inspires her readers to take easy steps to achieve their financial goals. I highly recommend this book to beginners and investment pros alike." -Victor Norton, Principal, Managing Director of Advisory Services, Kayne Anderson Rudnick  "Finally, a book on personal finance that''s fun to read! I''m buying copies for all my friends and family-it''s that good!" -Gloria Mayer, President, Institute for Healthcare Advancement Coauthor, Goldilocks on Management\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(20993, 'Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible', 'Brian Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(20994, 'The Greatest Bull Market in History', '?', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(20995, 'The Growth Gamble: When Leaders Should Bet Big on New Businesses and How to Avoid Expensive Failures', 'Andrew Campbell &amp; Robert Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Conventional wisdom tells us to try harder, be more innovative, take more risks-and almost every company tries. Only a tiny percentage of management teams settle for sticking to their core businesses and declining gracefully as their business matures.In reality, at least ninety percent of business attempts fail. Andrew Campbell and Robert Park''s The Growth Gamble: When Leaders Should Bet Big on New Business-and How They Can Avoid Expensive Failures gives managers an alternative. Instead of investing heavily in experimenting with new growth areas and developing an innovative culture, the authors advise managers to be far more selective and to invest in new business only when the opportunity has a high probability of success. Rethink your business model. Read The Growth Gamble today.CONTENTSThe Challenge of New BusinessesBeating the OddsThe Difficulties of Building New LegsWhen Low Growth is Better than GamblingThe New Businesses Traffic LightsDiversificationSearching for New BusinessesIs There a Role for Corporate Venturing?Positioning and Supporting a New BusinessAn Age of Realism\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(20996, 'The Handbook of Alternative Investments: Investment Management Consultants Association', 'Darrell Jobman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(20997, 'The Handbook of Commodity Investing', 'Frank J Fabozzi, Ph.d., Cfa, Cpa &amp; Frank J. Fabozzi, CFA &amp; Roland Fuss &amp; Dieter G. Kaiser &amp; J Frank Fabozzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Filled with a comprehensive collection of information from experts in the commodity investment industry, this detailed guide shows readers how to successfully incorporate commodities into their portfolios. Created with both the professional and individual investor in mind, "The Handbook of Commodity Investments" covers a wide range of issues, including the risk and return of commodities, diversification benefits, risk management, macroeconomic determinants of commodity investments, and commodity trading advisors. Starting with the basics of commodity investments and moving to more complex topics, such as performance measurement, asset pricing, and value at risk, "The Handbook of Commodity Investments" is a reliable resource for anyone who needs to understand this dynamic market.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(20998, 'The Handbook of Pairs Trading: Strategies Using Equities, Options, and Futures', 'Douglas S. Ehrman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Learn both the theory and practice of pairs trading, why it is consistently profitable, and how you can apply the strategies in your own trading with this valuable guide. Author Douglas Ehrman covers pairs trading involving stocks, options on stocks, and futures contracts, and explains how this type of trading allows you to profit from the changing price relationship of securities. In addition to a comprehensive discussion of the theories involved, he also includes practical examples that will to help you put what you''ve learned into practice. Douglas S. Ehrman is a hedge fund manager and a leading authority on pairs trading. He is one of the founders and the Chief Executive Officer of AlphAmerica Asset Management LLC in Chicago. He also served as the chief executive officer of AlphAmerica Financial, Inc., the company that operated PairsTrading.com prior to its merger with PairTrader.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(20999, 'The Harmonic Trader', 'Scott M. Carney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(21000, 'Harmonics in Astrology: An Introductory Textbook to the New Understanding of an Old Science', 'John Michael Addey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(21001, 'Hedge Fund Course', 'Stuart A. Mccrary', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A self-study course that reviews the technical and quantitative knowledge necessary to properly manage a hedge fund Today, traditional asset managers are looking to develop their own hedge funds as alternative offerings to their clients. Hedge Fund Course presents all the technical and quantitative knowledge necessary to run a leveraged investment company, and complements the less-technical information presented in the popular, How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund (0-471-22488-X). Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this book represents an executive-level educational program for money managers exploring the launch of alternative investment strategies or entering the hedge fund industry for the first time. Stuart A. McCrary (Winnetka, IL) is a partner with Chicago Partners LLC and specializes in options, mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and hedge funds. As president of Frontier Asset Management, McCrary managed and ran his own hedge fund before joining Chicago Partners. He received his BA and MBA from Northwestern University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(21002, 'The Hedge Fund Edge: Maximum Profit/minimum Risk Global Trend Trading Strategies', 'Mark Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Achieve higher returns with lower risk and take your profits globally.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A leading hedge fund trader offers a solid and profitable trading approach to the world markets.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the best stock market book that I have read in a long time. Boucher lays it out clearly, concisely, and in a most interesting manner. A ''must read'' for anyone who invests in the equities market." -Dan Sullivan Editor, The Chartist\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A leading practitioner offers rich theoretical insights and sound practical advice based on years of successful trading. Mark Boucher is that rare investment analyst who knows what really works in trading and can communicate it with authority and grace." -Nelson Freeburg Editor and Publisher, Formula Research, Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hedge Fund Edge is an indispensable guide for any investor or trader who wants to consistently profit from the markets without having to undergo huge risks. Mark Boucher, hedge fund manager and well-known speaker on trading, provides readers with a solid methodology for achieving market-beating, long-run returns with risk that is substantially below the long-run risk of U.S. and global equities.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Boucher first looks at the limitations of traditional stock and bond investing, and then explains how to determine the safest and most profitable periods for investing in stocks in any country. He explains this strategy both conceptually and with an objective model that has been used to manage money successfully since the 1950s. He shows how to allocate funds among global equities at any given time while following safe, reliable, and profitable trends. The book also provides a thorough discussion of the Austrian Liquidity Cycle, an original combination of Austrian Economics, Economic Alchemy, and Liquidity Cycle Theory. Boucher explains how to use this theory to understand the major moves behind the markets and determine the most profitable market in which to invest.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hedge Fund Edge provides critical valuation and technical models as well as essential information on stock selection techniques to help readers identify which markets and stocks are both lower-risk and higher-performing. Boucher also describes, in detail, the impact of governmental policies on the markets and the connection between macroeconomic performance and investment performance. Also included are essential timing models for determining when to invest in gold, bonds, commodities, and other asset classes, as well as methods for allocating a portfolio with the goal of investing in the very best trends at any one point in time across all asset classes. The book emphasizes the power of diversification among asset classes, such as arbitrage funds, global hedge funds, different types of futures funds, distressed bonds, and other market-uncorrelated investments. Boucher explains how this diversification can be used to build a bullet-proof and highly profitable portfolio that returns consistently high profits with much lower than market risk. Boucher provides examples from his own real-time hedge fund trading experience and offers his performance as proof of what can be achieved via these techniques.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hedge Fund Edge melds market timing, vehicle selection, risk management techniques, economic insight and understanding, and tactical asset allocation into a totally new philosophy and approach that has been proven to produce spectacular gains with relatively low risk.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introducing a robust trading strategy that incorporates techniques from both technical and fundamental analysis, Mark Boucher examines the major markets and illustrates where the odds are greatest in the trader''s favor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(21003, 'Hedge Fund Leadership: How to Inspire Peak Performance From Traders and Money Managers', 'Ari Kiev', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In recent years, as hedge fund have quickly grown in size and scope, it has become even more important to understand the proper management practices associated with these investment vehicles. And while an increasingly large number of progressive hedge funds are attempting to incorporate teamwork and cooperation into their business plans, this situation has led to new leadership challenges that must be addressed in order to achieve success.That''s why author Ari Kiev has created Hedge Fund Leadership. This book-his sixth combing the complex aspects of trading and psychology-focuses on the issue of leadership in hedge funds and how great leaders can organize themselves and their associates to form a highly functioning fund that is great than the sum of its parts.Written with the financial professional in mind, this valuable resource skillfully explains how to assemble, motivate, and manage a group of traders within a fund and sheds much-needed light on the importance of aligning trades with the overall vision and goals of a hedge fund. throughout the book, Kiev shares his perspectives on various leadership themes-which he''s explored with the help of numerous hedge fund managers over the last several years-and discusses how a delicate balance between empowerment and control must be struck in order to enhance the performance of today''s hedge fund.Along the way, Kiev answers may essential questions, including: What is the value of a vision?How do you empower your team to get the job done?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(21004, 'Hedge Fund of Funds Investing: An Investor&#39;s Guide', 'JOSEPH G. NICHOLAS', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Joe Nicholas''s timely book does a magnificent job of providing concise, valuable information about these popular new funds." --\n <em>\n  Dan Rauchle, President, Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Offers powerful insights into the fast growing word of fund of funds investing and strategies." --\n <em>\n  Lawrence Simon, President and CEO, Ivy Asset Management Corporation\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "While hedge fund of funds have proliferated as a relatively new investment vehicle, reliable information about these vehicles has been limited.\n <strong>\n  Joe Nicholas''s timely book does a magnificent job of providing concise, valuable information about these popular new funds.\n </strong>\n "\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Dan Rauchle\n  <br />\n </strong>\n President, Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A creative and disciplined work\n <strong>\n  that offers powerful insights into the fast-growing world of fund of funds investing and strategies.\n </strong>\n A quick and informative read for both the HNW and institutional investor."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Lawrence Simon\n  <br />\n </strong>\n President and CEO, Ivy Asset Management Corporation\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Hedge Fund of Funds Investing\n </em>\n provides a thorough, well-articulated discussion of the key characteristics and issues associated with investing in a fund of hedge funds. I believe the frank disclosure of both the advantages and disadvantages of these vehicles, as well as the information on selecting a fund of funds, will make this\n <strong>\n  book required reading for individual and institutional investors alike.\n </strong>\n "\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Frank Belvedere, CFA, FCIA\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Vice President of Alternative Investments, Montrusco Bolton, Montreal, Canada\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a great reference for those who are just beginning to invest in hedge funds, as well as those who already have a hedge fund of funds allocation. If you are new to this investment vehicle, the book\n <strong>\n  provides a thorough description of fund of funds and a great framework for conducting the due diligence process\n </strong>\n . If you are already invested in fund-of-funds, it will prompt you to ask some probing questions at the next meeting with your fund-of-funds manager."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Cindy Koury\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Senior Managing Director, Victory Capital Management\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hedge fund expert Joe Nicholas dissects the industry''s hottest trend, investing in fund of hedge funds, in his new book.\n <strong>\n  It''s a must-read for institutional and private investors alike.\n </strong>\n "\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Joe Hershberger\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Managing Director, Putnam Lovell NBF Securities Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joe does it again!\n <strong>\n  By taking complex and critical issues in hedge funds, he transforms them into the most accessible and readable form.\n </strong>\n Read it and reap."Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -\n <strong>\n  P. Morgan Kash\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Senior managing director, Paramount Capital, Inc.\n <br />\n Board Member, Hedge Fund Association\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "There has been tremendous growth in the fund of hedge fund business with assets doubling in the last year.Â  Joe clearly explains the reasons for this growth as he examines the hedge fund industry and assesses fund of hedge funds as the most effective way to gain exposure to the hedge fund arena. The book is\n <strong>\n  a terrific resource\n </strong>\n for those considering an investment in hedge funds and/or a fund of hedge funds."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Patricia Young\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Managing Director and CIO, NewMarket Capital Partners, LLC\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joe Nicholas has created\n <strong>\n  an authoritative and innovative handbook of fund of funds investing that is essential for both financial and nonfinancial decision makers.\n </strong>\n Â  Building upon his previous writing, he has successfully applied his practical hands-on experience to demystify the hedge fund industry using common sense explanations that do not depend on obscure jargon or understanding."\n <br />\n -\n <strong>\n  Sara Albrecht, CFA\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Executive Committee and Trustee,Â  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(21005, 'Hedges on Hedge Funds: How to Successfully Analyze and Select an Investment', 'James R. Hedges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A just-in-time guide to hedge fund investin Today, access to hedge funds is increasingly available to average investors through "funds of hedge funds" and other registered products. These vehicles allow investors to invest as little as $25,000 to start. Hedges on Hedge Funds provides an overview of hedge fund investing and delves into the key investment strategies employed by hedge fund managers. This comprehensive resource directs people to proper fund selection and allocation, but most importantly, it helps investors avoid the potential pitfalls associated with the industry by discussing transparency, size vs. performance, and other important issues associated with selecting and profiting with hedge funds James R. Hedges, IV (Naples, FL), is recognized as a pioneer in the hedge fund industry for his efforts to monitor and review funds and fund managers for performance and transparency. He is the founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer of LJH Global Investmentsâ€“an investment advisory firm that helps clients select and invest in hedge funds\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(21006, 'High Probability Trading Setups for the Currency Market', 'Boris Schlossberg, Kathy Lien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(21007, 'Hit and Run Trading II: Capturing Explosive Short-Term Moves in Stocks', 'Jeff Cooper &amp; David C. Reif', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With or without Volume I, you''ll find plenty of new, high-profit potential strategies and methods in Jeff Cooper''s newly updated Hit and Run Trading II. Broken up into 4 main sections highlighting 16 invaluable trading strategies, this updated version is a must for serious traders looking to take their trading and their returns to the next level. Can you profit from Hit &amp; Run II without having read Volume I? Absolutely! Start making money today using Cooper''s newest techniques and easy-to-master setups in this recently updated edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/493');
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(21008, 'How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas System for Stockmarket Profits', 'Nicolas Darvas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How I Made #2 million in the Stock Market is an extraordinary book. It tells one of the most unusual success stories in the history of the stock market.Darvas was not a stock market professional trading on inside information. He was one half of the highest paid dance team in show business, an expert cryptic crossword compiler, and a championship ping pong player. Yet he was able to make himself a millionaire several times over by his unique investment approach. Unlike other so-called systems, it worked regardless of whether the market rose or fell.When news of Darvas''s fantastic profits and methods leaked out, he was featured in Time magazine. He then was persuaded to write a book which became an instant hit, selling nearly 200,000 copies in eight weeks.Many of the companies talked about in this book no longer exist. Many of the stocks are no longer traded. Nevertheless, the basic principles are as sound as ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n How did a world-famous dancer with no knowledge of the stock market, or of finance in general, make 2 million dollars in the stock market in 18 months starting with only $10,000? Darvas is legendary, and with good reason. Find out why.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com''s standard return policy will apply.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(21009, 'How I Trade for a Living', 'Gary Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Master the Markets by Trading from Home! how I trade for a living "Gary Smith deals in reality. If you want to really learn to trade for real profits, not hypothetical, mumbo-back-tested programs, this book is a must. I seldom read market books anymore, but I read every word of this important book. Get it." -Larry Williams, author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading "How I Trade for a Living is a remarkable book; truly a treasure trove of market information.. Highly recommended." -Humphrey E. D. Lloyd, MD, author of Trading S&amp;P Futures &amp; Options: A Survival Manual and Study Guide "Straight talk from an accomplished veteran on how to succeed as a full-time trader. Gary Smith recounts the obstacles he overcame on the road to trading mastery and describes the strategies, indicators, and insights he used to reach his goals." -Nelson Freeburg, Editor, Formula Research "It is always valuable to get inside the mind of a successful trader. Gary Smith does a good job taking you there in a book loaded with useful tips and helpful hints. A worthy addition to any trader''s library!" -Gary B. Smith, Contributing Editor, The Street.com "In How I Trade for a Living Gary Smith dispenses a healthy dose of that rarest of all commodities, vicarious experience from a consistently winning trader. New traders will find great benefit from looking over Smith''s shoulder as he generously shares with the reader the valuable knowledge he has gained over three decades of trading." -Edward D. Dobson, President, Traders Press, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(21010, 'How I Trade Options', 'Jon Najarian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wiley Online Trading For A Livin Beat Risk and Reap Rewards Like A Pro The Compelling True Story of How a Top Market Maker Built a Successful Trading Busines Praise for How I Trade Option "To much of the outside world, trading appears to be as incomprehensible as rocket science. What Jon Najarian has done in this engaging and very readable book is to ''demystify'' the world of options for both the aspiring trader and the retail investor. How I Trade Options is a rare opportunity to look over the shoulder of this experienced options trader, teacher, and lecturer." â€“Lewis J. Borsellino, CEO/Founder, www.TeachTrade.Com; Author, The Day Trader: From the Pit to the P "How I Trade Options gives retail investors who have little or no prior knowledge the insight into how options work and how to use them effectively and responsibly. For those who want to learn about options, this is a rare opportunity to learn from a master trader. Najarian shows commitment to educating investors on the use of options to enhance their portfolios." â€“Rance Masheck, President, Quantum Vision Inc "Not only is Jon Najarian a Supertrader, he is a Superteacher. I owe much of my good fortune to Jon Najarian. I learned more from him than I had learned in an entire decadeâ€“plus it was fun! Jonâ€™s abilities to make his profitable trading strategies understandable are sure to make How I Trade Options a must-have tool that every option trader will want to own." â€“Don Fishback, Developer of the Fishback Option Pricing Mode "Jon Najarian is a world-class options trader and a world class options educator. His crystal clear explanations of such strategies as vertical spreads empower the average investor to participate in attractive options approaches that, until now, have been dominated by professional traders." â€“Bernie Schaeffer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Schaefferâ€™s Investment Research, Inc Please visit our Web site at www.wileyfinance.co\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(21011, 'How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There', 'D. A. Benton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the follow-up to her bestselling\n <i>\n  How to Think Like a CEO\n </i>\n , #1 executive coach Debra Benton''s work with top-level executives from AT&amp;T, Colgate, Pepsi, Mobil Oil, N abisco, and American Express, and her interviews with 100 CEOs worldwide reveal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(21012, 'How to Avoid the 10 Biggest Mistakes When Owner Financing Real Estate: Insider Tips for Your Protection and Peace of Mind', 'Christen J. Reinke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great book! I learned a few new tricks today. Especially the due on sale clause not being a law!!!!!! --\n <em>\n  Honette Lunski\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Learn What No One Tells You About Owner Financing Real Estate - Especially Your Realtor!\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''d like to discover the best kept secrets of lenders, pension firms, real estate investors, and professional note buyers, this book is for you. You won''t find this information anywhere else and here''s why:\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Real estate attorneys and real estate agents are not taught this information in real estate school or by their licensing real estate commission. THEY don''t even know this information, and yet are PAID to provide you counsel when it comes selling your home and carrying back the financing. No one, other than professional investors and note buyers, are aware of how to safely structure an owner financed transaction. And until now, no one has written this information down for us "mom and pop" home sellers.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The information below comes from the private notebook of Christen Reinke, the owner of a mortgage purchasing and commercial brokerage firm. Christen has spent the last five years recording the mistakes of her clients - mistakes that in some cases, cost them their life savings/investment! Since she is independent from Realtors, title companies, and attorneys, she is loyal to you and I - it makes no difference to her whether you choose to sell your home with owner financing or not. But if you do - you can at least do it without being at the mercy of realtors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n In This Book You Will Learn How To Never Sell To The Wrong Person (What every Realtor, Attorney, FSBO, and Lender should know...)\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Two things you must do so you never sell to the wrong person.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to look for in credit reports on your prospective purchaser and what to do if your buyers credit is poor.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Which types of credit blemishes you can overlook, and which ones NEVER to overlook.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why purchasing the right type of title insurance can save you from losing your investment. Think an owners policy is all you need? Think again!\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  What is LTV and why it is the single most important thing for you to consider.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  How "property type" and "occupancy" can ultimately determine the resale value of your note - how to screen for the right buyer before you sell.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Insider Secrets To Understanding Owner Financing - Key Ingredients of Your Note\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The #1 variable that will determine how much your note is worth.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  What to do each year so you never risk losing your collateral to the local taxing office.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discover the hidden truth about junior position liens, including techniques that show you how to minimize your risk - DO NOT trust your Realtor on this one!!!!\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips on how to handle down payments, terms of your note, and added clauses to help you.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to handle taxes and insurance.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Due-on-sale clauses, assumptions, wraps, and more.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why professional servicing of your note could hurt you.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Two easy, annual techniques you must do every year!\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why and how dramatic changes regarding the secondary mortgage markets affect you and your note.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to capitalize on these changes to put more money in your pocket at closing and in years to come.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Your options in case of default, clearly explained in layman''s terms.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Techniques To Protect Your Investment\n</p>\n<p>\n Who hasn''t heard countless horror stories about owner financing? Once you create a note and have it properly signed and recorded, there''s no going back. You cannot make changes to the terms of the note, you cannot add protective clauses into the security instrument, you cannot make ANY change without the signed consent of the payers (buyers of the property). If they refuse to agree to the changes you want, you''re out of luck.\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you going control the market value of your note, or be a victim of your own ignorance? You''ll be sitting on a valuable cash flow when you know...\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to handle late payments and what not to do that could cause you to lose everything.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to declare default - the right way.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(21013, 'How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange: A Guaranteed Income for Life', 'Courtney Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Solid Forex strategies for capturing profits in today''s volatile markets How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange puts the world of Forex at your fingertips. Author Courtney Smith begins with an introduction to the Forex market-what it is and how it works. He then delves into six moneymaking techniques for trading Forex, including his unique Rejection Rule that doubles the profit of basic channel breakout systems. In addition to two specific methods for exiting positions at critical levels, Smith also discusses powerful risk management techniques and successful trading psychology strategies that will keep you one step ahead of the game.  Reveals the secrets of the Forex market and how to create a lifetime of income trading it Offers advice on maximizing profits during the volatile swings that have increasingly become the norm Other titles by Smith: Option Strategies, Third Edition, Seasonal Charts For Futures Traders, Commodity Spreads, and Profits Through Seasonal Trading  Make more from today''s Forex market with How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(21014, 'How to Make Money With Real Estate Options: Low-Cost, Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Controlling Undervalued Property....Without the Burdens of Ownership!', 'Thomas Lucier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Spend like a miser, profit like a mogul\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who says you have to spend money to make money?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Savvy real estate investors follow the examples of Donald Trump and Walt Disney, turning substantial profits on properties without incurring the debt, risk, and\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(21015, 'How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett', 'Lawrence A. Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Using the ways of the best moneymakers to invest wisely"An intelligent and thoughtful guide."Â­Â­BusinessWeek". . . a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who wants to take control of his or her financial life."Â­Â­United Press InternationalThe bestselling hardcover edition of How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett was widely hailed for its straightforward approach to making wise investment choices. This paperback version makes these same tools and tactics available to a wider audience. Explaining how to analyze investment targets based on honest value instead of hype and mirrors, Lawrence Cunningham''s top-ranked book reveals:How to ask valuable questions, and demand meaningful answers Market-proven methods for evaluating managers and CEOs Value investing techniques that made Warren Buffett a billionaireÂ­Â­and today''s number one investor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(21016, 'How to Trade', 'W.D.Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(21017, 'How to Trade in Stocks', 'Jesse Livermore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jesse Livermore was a loner, an individualist-and the most successful stock trader who ever lived. Written shortly before his death in 1940, "How to Trade Stocks" offered traders their first account of that famously tight-lipped operator''s trading system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(21018, 'How to Trade the New Single Stock Futures', 'Jake Bernstein &amp; Jacob Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Single stock futures (SSFs)-the trading of futures on individual stocks-is a new investment instrument. This union of stock and futures trading promises many new opportunities for investors; however, along with opportunity comes risk, which can only be resolved through experience and education. For the first time ever, a leading stock and futures trading expert explains the ins and outs of SSFs, and tells stock and futures trading professionals as well as sophisticated individual investors how to move forward in the new world of trading futures on single stocks. How to Trade the New Single Stock Futures offers an overview of the vital educational, procedural, and financial management issues regarding SSFs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(21019, 'How to Write &amp; Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit: Your Guide to Writing and Publishing Books, E-Books, Articles, Special Reports, Audio Programs, DVDs, and Other How-To Content', 'Robert W. Bly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Writers should stop wasting time and start reading and applying Bob Bly''s newest book. This book will save every new writer a ton of time getting in print and paid."Â  â€”Gordon Burgett, author,\n <em>\n  How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed in Days\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bob Bly gives the step-by-step details which every aspiring writer needs. Read these pages, apply them to your writing and you will have fun and profit."Â  â€”W. Terry Whalin, publisher and author,\n <em>\n  Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bly''s books are an excellent resource on copywriting, whether you want to market an information product from a web site or promote your how-to services via direct mail."Â Â \n <em>\n  â€”Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bly''s focus on profitable approaches has been helping my writing career for over two decades. [This book] continues this wonderful tradition and earns a prominent place on my reference shelf."Â  â€”Shel Horowitz, marketing consultant and author of eight books, including\n <em>\n  Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Incomparable information with an incomparable writing style. Bob Bly lays out a path to success. All you have to do is follow it!"Â  â€”Marilyn Pincus, author,\n <em>\n  Get The Job! Interview Strategies That Work\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A full picture of today''s evolved info-publishing opportunities . . . jammed with valuable insights. Not to mention, Bob gives rock-solid instructions on how to make it all happen. Great stuff!"Â  â€”John Forde, six-figure copywriter and founding editor, copywritersroundtable.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "If ever you''ve had the urge to write a book or an article . . . grab this book and devour it. It just might be the catalyst that changes your life.Â  â€”Herschell Gordon Lewis, author,\n <em>\n  Internet Marketing: Tips, Tricks and Tactics\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bly states that if you follow his plan, you can realistically earn $100,000 to $200,000 within 12 to 24 months. Good overview and getting started resource."Â  â€”\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing, and the Internet. The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats, allowing writers to turn specialized knowledge into money-making books and products.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(21020, 'The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases: A Visual Dictionary of the Most Useful Charts in Technical Analysis', 'Constance M. Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases provides traders with illustrations of more than 275 key chart patterns along with their most important variations. An innovative and soon-to-be essential addition to every technical trader''s reference library, it provides: An alphabetical listing of every pattern A list of the patterns grouped by subject Clear notations to highlight key reversals and points of interest\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(21021, 'Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor&#39;s Guide', 'Robert B. Jorgensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first investor-friendly book on IMAs By 2010 nearly five million households will invest more than $2.6 trillion in individually managed accounts (IMAs). Today nearly $470 billion is invested in IMAs, yet not one book has clearly addressed the topic-until now. Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor''s Guide shows investors what IMAs are, how to use them, and the related pros and cons of investing in them compared to other investment alternatives. Robert Jorgensen, CIMA (San Diego, CA), is the founder and CEO of RunMoney. He also founded Lockwood Pacific Investment Group and held senior positions at E. F. Hutton and Salomon Smith Barney. He is a regular speaker at numerous financial forums.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(21022, 'Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Sustained M&amp;A Growth', 'Ed Paulson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n According to Cisco CEO and President John Chambers, when a company acquires technologyâ€”any technologyâ€“they are also acquiring people. In order for an acquisition to succeed, a company not only needs to be careful in the selection process, but al\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(21023, 'Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading', 'Rishi K Narang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inside The Black Box The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading Rishi K Narang Praise for Inside the Black Box "In Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading, Rishi Narang demystifies quantitative trading. His explanation and classification of alpha will enlighten even a seasoned veteran." -Blair Hull, Founder, Hull Trading &amp; Matlock Trading "Rishi provides a comprehensive overview of quantitative investing that should prove useful both to those allocating money to quant strategies and those interested in becoming quants themselves. Rishi''s experience as a well-respected quant fund of funds manager and his solid relationships with many practitioners provide ample useful material for his work." -Peter Muller, Head of Process Driven Trading, Morgan Stanley "A very readable book bringing much needed insight into a subject matter that is not often covered. Provides a framework and guidance that should be valuable to both existing investors and those looking to invest in this area for the first time. Many quants should also benefit from reading this book." -Steve Evans, Managing Director of Quantitative Trading, Tudor Investment Corporation "Without complex formulae, Narang, himself a leading practitioner, provides an insightful taxonomy of systematic trading strategies in liquid instruments and a framework for considering quantitative strategies within a portfolio. This guide enables an investor to cut through the hype and pretense of secrecy surrounding quantitative strategies." -Ross Garon, Managing Director, Quantitative Strategies, S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. "Inside the Black Box is a comprehensive, yet easy read. Rishi Narang provides a simple framework for understanding quantitative money management and proves that it is not a black box but rather a glass box for those inside." -Jean-Pierre Aguilar, former founder and CEO, Capital Fund Management "This book is great for anyone who wants to understand quant trading, without digging in to the equations. It explains the subject in intuitive, economic terms." -Steven Drobny, founder, Drobny Global Asset Management, and author, Inside the House of Money "Rishi Narang does an excellent job demystifying how quants work, in an accessible and fun read. This book should occupy a key spot on anyone''s bookshelf who is interested in understanding how this ever increasing part of the investment universe actually operates." -Matthew S. Rothman, PhD, Global Head of Quantitative Equity Strategies Barclays Capital "Inside the Black Box provides a comprehensive and intuitive introduction to "quant" strategies. It succinctly explains the building blocks of such strategies and how they fit together, while conveying the myriad possibilities and design details it takes to build a successful model driven investment strategy." -Asriel Levin, PhD, Managing Member, Menta Capital, LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(21024, 'Inside Volatility Arbitrage: The Secrets of Skewness', 'Alireza Javaheri', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...ideal for academics and practitioners who want to focus on volatility modeling. . . All of this makes the book rich and valuable. . . Go and get it!" (\n  <em>\n   Wilmott\n  </em>\n  magazine, September 2005)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Best New Quantitative Finance Book of the Year" (Wilmott Awards 2006)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Today?s traders want to know when volatility is a sign that the sky is falling (and they should stay out of the market), and when it is a sign of a possible trading opportunity.\n  <em>\n   Inside Volatility Arbitrage\n  </em>\n  can help them do this. Author and financial expert Alireza Javaheri uses the classic approach to evaluating volatility -- time series and financial econometrics -- in a way that he believes is superior to methods presently used by market participants. He also suggests that there may be "skewness" trading opportunities that can be used to trade the markets more profitably. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice,\n  <em>\n   Inside Volatility Arbitrage\n  </em>\n  will help traders discover when "skewness" may present valuable trading opportunities as well as why it can be so profitable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(21025, 'The Insider&#39;s Guide to Trading the World Stock Markets', 'Andrew Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(21026, 'The Insured Portfolio: Your Gateway to Stress-Free Global Investments', 'Erika Nolan &amp; Marc-andre Sola &amp; Shannon Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(21027, 'Intangible Assets: Valuation and Economic Benefit', 'Jeffrey A. Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Intangible Assets  "In Intangible Assets, Jeffrey Cohen presents an informative, thought-provoking and practical look at an increasingly important component of every business''s worth. He describes the art and science of identifying assets that have clear economic benefit, but are typically not found on the balance sheet, and he provides an invaluable framework within which the reader can value these assets, despite their elusive nature." --Rick Westervelt, President, Skylist, Inc.  "Jeffrey Cohen''s integrative approach to conceptual issues of intangible assets is creative and a refreshing contribution. He brings law, economics, finance, and accounting to the same table, which results in a comprehensive framework for understanding how value is created and sustained. His construct of ''proto-assets'' and ''portfolio of intangible economic benefits'' is key. Written in an easy-to-read style with many practical examples, this book will be useful for both novice and experienced professionals." --W. Dana Northcut, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor of Accounting Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Principal, Chicago Partners, LLC  "This volume is the perfect resource for newcomers to IP valuation. Through lucid explanations and well-chosen illustrations, it does for the reader exactly what a valuation expert should do for a client--it makes the abstract concrete. But this volume is not just for the novice; it holds insights that will be useful to IP experts in law, accounting, and economics." --Edward F. Malone, Partner, Jenner &amp; Block LLP\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(21028, 'Integrative Economic Ethics: Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy', 'Peter Ulrich &amp; James Fearns', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This book... is challenging but well worth the effort for those working in the areas of economic methodology and moral reflection in economics. Recommended." - Choice\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Integrative Economic Ethics is a highly original work that progresses through a series of rational and philosophical arguments to address foundational issues concerning the relationship between ethics and the market economy. Rather than accepting market competition as a driver of ethical behaviour, the author shows that modern economies need to develop ethical principles that guide market competition, thus moving business ethics into the realms of political theory and civic rationality. This book was in its fourth edition in the original German in 2008, this English translation of Peter Ulrich''s development of a fresh integrative approach to economic ethics will be of interest to all scholars and advanced students of business ethics, economics, and social and political philosophy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(21029, 'Intelligent Futures Trading', 'Chick Goslin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winning consistently in the futures markets is generally regarded as the single toughest challenge facing traders and investors today. Yet, financial rewards can be quick-in-coming and extraordinarily substantial if these highly leveraged markets are traded correctly and intelligently. In this career capping book, 20 year veteran trader Chick Goslin reveals the incredibly powerful techniques he found to be the most effective for capturing substantial futures profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(21030, 'The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing', 'Benjamin Graham &amp; Jason Zweig &amp; Warren E. Buffett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Among the library of investment books promising no-fail strategies for riches, Benjamin Graham''s classic,\n <em>\n  The Intelligent Investor\n </em>\n , offers no guarantees or gimmicks but overflows with the wisdom at the core of all good portfolio management.\n</p>\n<p>\n The hallmark of Graham''s philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect,\n <em>\n  The Intelligent Investor\n </em>\n is a book for true investors, not speculators or day traders. He provides, "in a form suitable for the laymen, guidance in adoption and execution of an investment policy" (1). This policy is inherently for the longer term and requires a commitment of effort. Where the speculator follows market trends, the investor uses discipline, research, and his analytical ability to make unpopular but sound investments in bargains relative to current asset value. Graham coaches the investor to develop a rational plan for buying stocks and bonds, and he argues that this plan must be a bulwark against emotional behavior that will always be tempting during abrupt bull and bear markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since it was first published in 1949, Graham''s investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as "the best book on investing ever written." These accolades are well deserved. In its new form--with commentary on each chapter and extensive footnotes prepared by senior\n <em>\n  Money\n </em>\n editor, Jason Zweig--the classic is now updated in light of changes in investment vehicles and market activities since 1972. What remains is a better book. Graham''s sage advice, analytical guides, and cautionary tales are still valid for the contemporary investor, and Zweig''s commentaries demonstrate the relevance of Graham''s principles in light of 1990s and early twenty-first century market trends.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best book on investing ever written.â€ (Warren Buffett )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf you read just one book on investing during your lifetime, make it this oneâ€ (Fortune )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe wider Mr. Grahamâ€™s gospel spreads, the more fairly the market will deal with its public.â€ (Barron''s )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(21031, 'Intermarket Technical Analysis: Trading Strategies for the Global Stock, Bond, Commodity, and Currency Markets', 'John J. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows--very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You''ll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(21032, 'Intra-Day Trading Strategies Course Book With DVD: Proven Steps to Trading Profits', 'Jeff Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(21033, 'An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata', 'Christopher F. Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Integrating a contemporary approach to econometrics with the powerful computational tools offered by Stata, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata focuses on the role of method-of-moments estimators, hypothesis testing, and specification analysis and provides practical examples that show how the theories are applied to real data sets using Stata. As an expert in Stata, the author successfully guides readers from the basic elements of Stata to the core econometric topics. He first describes the fundamental components needed to effectively use Stata. The book then covers the multiple linear regression model, linear and nonlinear Wald tests, constrained least-squares estimation, Lagrange multiplier tests, and hypothesis testing of nonnested models. Subsequent chapters center on the consequences of failures of the linear regression model''s assumptions. The book also examines indicator variables, interaction effects, weak instruments, underidentification, and generalized method-of-moments estimation. The final chapters introduce panel-data analysis and discrete- and limited-dependent variables and the two appendices discuss how to import data into Stata and Stata programming. Presenting many of the econometric theories used in modern empirical research, this introduction illustrates how to apply these concepts using Stata. The book serves both as a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate students and as a clear guide for economists and financial analysts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(21034, 'An Introduction to the Bond Markets', 'Patrick J. Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book gives an introduction to the bond markets to readers who have an interest in understanding what they are, how they work, and how they can be used, but do not want to be intimidated by mathematical formulae. This is achieved by relegating most of the mathematical formulae to an appendix and supplementing the book with an interactive website.  The book describes the different types of bonds including fixed-rate, floating-rate and index-linked bonds and many of their variants, together with how they are priced and valued. It provides an introduction to the repo, swaps, futures and derivatives markets, describes how yield curves may be used and discusses the appropriateness of different investment strategies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(21035, 'Invest With Success: Big Profits for Small Investors', 'Dr. Charles B Schaap', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(21036, 'Investing Online for Dummies', 'Kathleen Sindell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everybody talks about ithow much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you''ve decided you''re ready to find out what all the excitement''s about, you''re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable.To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by: Outlining basic investment fundamentals Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor This 5 th edition of Investing Online For Dummies provides clear instructions and ample illustrations, taking you from the basics of online investing to making your own online stock transactions to purchasing bonds online. A few of the things you''ll discover: What''s important in an online brokerage and how to locate one that meets your needs How to find Internet resources that help you select mutual funds How to use stock online screens to find investment candidates that will move you toward your financial goals Where to look for direct stock purchase and ShareBuilder plans that let you invest online for as little as $25 a month How Internet tools can help you analyze and choose stocks and bonds The secrets to paying the lowest commissions when trading online There''s so much information available on the Internet that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Investing Online For Dummies leads you through that maze, showing you how to get started, what you really need to know, where to go online to find it, and how to get the process underway. When it comes to choosing which cruise to take to celebrate your success, however, you''re on your own!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(21037, 'Investment Analysis And Portfolio Management, 7Ed, 2002', 'Frank Relly, Keyth Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(21038, 'Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth From the World&#39;s Best Money Managers', 'Peter J. Tanous', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It sometimes seems as if there were as many different investment styles in practice today as stocks in which to invest, with virtually every one of them--styles as well as stocks--offering varying levels of appeal to various people. Professional investment consultant Peter J. Tanous has come to understand this after three decades in the field, and in\n <em>\n  Investment Gurus\n </em>\n , he presents a wide range of tactics and strategies that have been developed by acknowledged stock-picking experts. At the heart of this book are Tanous''s interviews with 18 top money managers and academics, including Mario Gabelli, William F. Sharpe, Peter Lynch, Laura J. Sloate, and Merton Miller. The book concludes with "Your Roadmap to Wealth," which summarizes the success factors common to each of the money managers interviewed and suggests ways to develop an "intelligent personal investment plan."\n <em>\n  --Howard Rothman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Can a smart money manager working from the outside revive a bankrupt company with his clients'' massive capital and a sharp management agenda? Are "value" stocks better than "growth" stocks? Can anyone "beat the market"? Is volatility okay? What about the role of the Internet in trading? These and other questions vital to stock market investors are aired in this remarkable series of interviews with investment industry leaders by Tanous, whose firm, Lynx Investment Advisory, finds money managers for billion-dollar clients. The author brings out the financial background, strategy and tactics of such mutual-fund miracle men as Fidelity Magellan''s Peter Lynch ("what happens to the company... happens to the stock"); "momentum" trader Richard Driehaus ("look for earnings surprises") and "Super Mario" Gabelli, who champions "intrinsic private market value." Other big-name trader/managers also speak out freely here. In closing, the author constructs sample "portfolios" of guru-managed mutual funds for the reader''s consideration. $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(21039, 'Investment Performance Measurement', 'Bruce J. Feibel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Many investment books include a chapter or two on investment performance measurement or focus on a single aspect, but only one book addresses the breadth of the field. Investment Performance Measurement is a comprehensive guide that covers the subjects of performance and risk calculation, attribution, presentation, and interpretation. This information-packed book covers a wide range of related topics, including calculation of the returns earned by portfolios; measurement of the risks taken to earn these returns; measurement of the risk and return efficiency of the portfolio and other indicators of manager skill; and much more. By reviewing both the concepts of performance measurement and examples of how they are used, readers will gain the insight necessary to understand and evaluate the management of investment funds. Investment Performance Measurement makes extensive use of fully worked examples that supplement formulas and is a perfect companion to professional courses and seminars for analysts.  Bruce J. Feibel, CFA, is Product Manager at Eagle Investment Systems, an investment management software provider located in Newton, Massachusetts. He is responsible for overseeing the development of Eagle''s investment performance measurement, attribution, and AIMR/GIPS compliance software. Prior to joining Eagle, Mr. Feibel was a principal at State Street Global Advisors. He earned his BS in accounting from the University of Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(21040, 'Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets', 'Martin J. Pring', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Expert advice in a back-to-basics handbook on how to beat the market-the classic way\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In Investment Psychology Explained Martin J. Pring, one of the most respected independent investment advisors in the world, argues that in the revisionist ''90s there are no quick, magical paths to market success. Rather, he emphasizes the timeless values of hard work, patience, and self-discipline-and much more. Drawing on the wisdom of creative investors such as Jesse Livermore, Humphrey Neill, and Barnard Baruch, as well as his own experience, Pring shows how to:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Overcome emotional and psychological impediments that distort decision making\n  <br />\n </em>\n Map out an independent investment plan-and stick to it\n <br />\n <em>\n  Know when to buck herd opinion-and "go contrarian"\n  <br />\n </em>\n Dispense with the myths and delusions that drag down other investors\n <br />\n <em>\n  Resist the fads and so-called experts whose siren call to success can lead to disaster\n  <br />\n </em>\n Exploit fast-breaking news events that rock the market\n <br />\n <em>\n  Deal skillfully with brokers and money managers\n  <br />\n </em>\n Learn and understand the rules that separate the truly great investors and traders from the rest\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Reading Investment Psychology Explained will give you a renewed appreciation of the classic trading principles that, through bull and bear markets, have worked time and again. You''ll see, with the help of numerous illustrative examples, what goes into making an effective investor-and how you can work toward achieving that successful profile.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Expert advice in a back-to-basics handbook on how to beat the market-the classic way\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In Investment Psychology Explained Martin J. Pring, one of the most respected independent investment advisors in the world, argues that in the revisionist ''90s there are no quick, magical paths to market success. Rather, he emphasizes the timeless values of hard work, patience, and self-discipline-and much more. Drawing on the wisdom of creative investors such as Jesse Livermore, Humphrey Neill, and Barnard Baruch, as well as his own experience, Pring shows how to:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Overcome emotional and psychological impediments that distort decision making\n  <br />\n </em>\n Map out an independent investment plan-and stick to it\n <br />\n <em>\n  Know when to buck herd opinion-and "go contrarian"\n  <br />\n </em>\n Dispense with the myths and delusions that drag down other investors\n <br />\n <em>\n  Resist the fads and so-called experts whose siren call to success can lead to disaster\n  <br />\n </em>\n Exploit fast-breaking news events that rock the market\n <br />\n <em>\n  Deal skillfully with brokers and money managers\n  <br />\n </em>\n Learn and understand the rules that separate the truly great investors and traders from the rest\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Reading Investment Psychology Explained will give you a renewed appreciation of the classic trading principles that, through bull and bear markets, have worked time and again. You''ll see, with the help of numerous illustrative examples, what goes into making an effective investor-and how you can work toward achieving that successful profile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(21041, 'Investment Strategies of Hedge Funds', 'Filippo Stefanini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the fastest growing investment sectors ever seen, hedge funds are considered by many to be exotic and inaccessible.Â  This book provides an intensive learning experience, defining hedge funds, explaining hedge fund strategies while offering both qualitative and quantitative tools that investors need to access these types of funds.Â  Topics not usually covered in discussions of hedge funds are included, such as a theoretical discussion of each hedge fund strategy followed by trading examples provided by successful hedge fund managers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(21042, '&quot;Investors Chronicle&quot; Guide to Charting: An Analysis for the Intelligent Investor', 'Alistair Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book explores charting from the viewpoint of an outsider. It explains in detail how charting theories work and gives you all you need to start practising technical analysis. Unlike other books on the subject, it puts the charting technique inton context. It compares technical analysis with fundamental analysis, and the records of some renowned exponents are examined. In a unique section, technical analysis is applied to recent price charts for each of the top 25 FTSE companies. This identifies both successful and failed recommendations by professional chartists and provides alternative interpretations of these ''live'' charts. "Guide to Charting "is packed with purpose-drawn charts and worked examples. Written with the private investor''s viewpoint in mind, the book''s coverage will also interest the more sophisticated, experienced practitioner.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alistair Blair is an investment journalist. He read PPE at Oxford and completed an MBA at Manchester Business School. He has ten years of practical city experience, having worked at Hill Samuel and Fidelity Investments. A regular contributor to the Investors Chronicle and other national publications, he also runs a small investment fund.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(21043, 'Hot Trading Secrets', 'J. Christoph Amberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The six trading systems explained in this book have perhaps the best track record in the industry and are the unique creations of our experts. These systems can be found nowhere else. While some common concepts are used in these systems, itâ€™s the combination of analytical components that makes them so successful. And this book reveals where other systems fall short, or what they fail to take into account.  Wave Strength Trading has turned profits of:  31%, 40% and even 92 0n one or two days  40%, 75% and even 400 0n 7 to 10 days  89%, 160% and even 438 0n just a few weeks  Extreme Volatility Trading creates a new standard of money-making, not from day-trading  but from minute or hour-trading:  33 0n less than four hours on American Airlines  67 0n a couple of days from American Airlines  25 0n a few hours on Andrx  109 0n five hours from PCLN  Red Zone Trading has scored kills of:  100 0n just nine days on Clear ChannelÂ   157 0n five weeks on AkamaiÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â   2090n drugstore.com  Trading, as opposed to investing, is all about hard-core technical analysis. Its premise lies not in the fundamental values of a company â€“ price-to-book ratios, P/E margins, projected earnings or other â€œinvestingâ€ indicators. Itâ€™s about how and why the market itself reactsâ€”and how to get the skinny on knowing which way itâ€™s going to move\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/612');
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(21044, 'Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East', 'Steve Nison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A form of technical analysis, Japanese candlestick charts are a versatile tool that can be fused with any other technical tool, and will help improve any technician''s market analysis. They can be used for speculation and hedging, for futures, equities or anywhere technical analysis is applied. Seasoned technicians will discover how joining Japanese candlesticks with other technical tools can create a powerful synergy of techniques; amateurs will find out how effective candlestick charts are as a stand-alone charting method. In easy-to-understand language, this title delivers to the reader the author''s years of study, research and practical experience in this increasingly popular and dynamic approach to market analysis. The comprehensive coverage includes everything from the basics, with hundreds of examples showing how candlestick charting techniques can be used in almost any market.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(21045, 'Jesse Livermore: Speculator-King', 'Paul Sarnoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This biography of Livermore by prolific writer Paul Sarnoff is a fascinating account of Livermore''s life, which explores in detail his market operations and maneuvers, his hopes, his fears, his successes and his failures. Live again the market experiences of the trader known variously as The Wall Street Wonder, The Boy Plunger, The Cotton King, and The Great Bear. You''ll love this book!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(21046, 'The John Deere Way: Performance That Endures', 'David Magee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(21047, 'Just One Thing: Twelve of the World&#39;s Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can&#39;t Overlook', 'John Mauldin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether from business-focused cable TV channels, newspapers, magazines, Web sites, or friends and family, investment advice comes these days from every corner. The nagging question for conscientious investors remains, though: how to separate good advice from bad? In a world of squawking television commentators and garish headlines, who and what should we trust? With\n <em>\n  Just One Thing\n </em>\n , veteran investment writer John Mauldin offers his answer: take just the best advice, from the best investors, and discard everything else. Mauldin has solicited 12 leading investors for what each considers his most valuable insight or lesson over a long and illustrious investment career--the "one thing" he considers most important to investing--and gathered the tips for future generations of investors to learn.\n</p>\n<p>\n The lessons which Mauldin has compiled in this thin, readable volume range widely. Some readers may enjoy the folksier tone of hedge fund manager Andy Kessler''s piece, which analogizes investing to a hike up New England''s Mt. Washington, on a foggy day. Other may prefer the approach of bond investor Gary Shilling, who argues for finding and developing a consistent and long-term narrative (or "story" about a market) around which to build investment picks. Yet others may find it most comforting to go with financial analyst Rob Arnott, who runs a multi-billion dollar fund for Pimco and who anchors his market analysis in deep skepticism and extensive quantitative analytics.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the larger market, Mauldin''s group of 12 expert investors brings its own mix of philosophies, tactics, and personalities to investing, and in his notes between each selection, Mauldin is careful not to tip his hand favoring one or the other. Instead, quality for Mauldin rests in the survey of the masters, and the restriction of those masters to "just one thing" each. Mauldin should know: as the author of\n <em>\n  Bull''s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market\n </em>\n , as well as a weekly investment newsletter with readership over one million, he has seen his share of both charlatans and geniuses.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mauldin''s work can be taken a couple of different ways. For younger investors, it may provide a valuable survey of different investment philosophies, and the opportunity to learn just enough to undertake further research elsewhere. For more experienced investors it can provide the possibility of a new idea gleaned here or there, some new concept that may have been overlooked previously. Either way, both audiences will benefit from the diversity of perspectives included in this book. In an increasingly chaotic and noise-filled world, trusted sources which give such sure-handed perspective on the business of investments deserve high praise.\n <em>\n  --Peter Han\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦a well-researched workâ€¦goes against the grainâ€¦â€ (\n <em>\n  Gulf Business\n </em>\n , January 2006)\n</p>\n<p>\n [Author interview in\n <em>\n  Offshore Engineer\n </em>\n ] â€œâ€¦few books have caused as much consternationâ€¦â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(21048, 'Keeping a Cool Head in a Hot Market', 'Ruth Barrons Roosevelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Learn how to keep a cool head in a hot market... When a "hot" market situation develops, you have an exceptional opportunity to make extraordinary profits...but also, an emotionally draining environment in which it is easy to make mistakes in judgment which can not only lose the opportunity to profit, but can also destroy your trading account. It is vitally important to keep your wits about you when you become involved in such a situation. Veteran trading coach Ruth Roosevelt shows you in her usual no-nonsense, right to the point style, how to maximize the benefits and avoid the landmines encountered in a "hot market\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(21049, 'The Key to Profits in Tough Times', 'Charles J Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(21050, 'Kiplinger&#39;s Practical Guide to Your Money', 'Ted Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Former editor of "Kiplinger''s Personal Finance Magazine, author Ted Miller has a unique understanding of what otherwise knowledgeable adults don''t know about their money. The basics of money management--saving or investing--are presented here in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp style, and will fill in those gaps so you can make money-smart decisions for the rest of your life. In this comprehensive volume, a proven financial expert shows you how to grapple--decisively and effectively, in good times or bad--with any financial decisions you encounter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(21051, 'Kroll on Futures Trading Strategy', 'Stanley Kroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A legendary trader shares his market savvy with you in this insightful and engaging new book. It''s like having dinner with a veteran trader and having him share his experience and knowledge with you. Among the topics addressed and discussed: -- importance of a viable strategy and sound money management-- How to develop a successful strategy-- Creating and using a trading system-- Identifying and trading the trend-- Effective approaches to self-discipline.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(21052, 'Last Chance to Get It Right!: How to Avoid Eight Deadly Mistakes Made With Money', 'J. Thomas Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Last Chance to Get It Right!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tom Moore is one of the capable professionals who made me look good in the last thirty years of my forty-five year career at A.G. Edwards &amp; Sons. He has put together a primer which should help both new and veteran investors understand financial markets and alternatives, and gain a direction and common-sense approach to their estate planning."\n <br />\n -Benjamin F. Edwards III, Chairman Emeritus\n <br />\n A. G. Edwards &amp; Sons\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tom Moore''s grasp of the problems of retirement planning is superb; his methods of solving those problems unrivalled."\n <br />\n -Richard Austin, past president of Templeton Funds Annuity Company\n <br />\n currently a Retirement Income Planning Consultant\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tom has spelled out in plain English, just what it takes to create and implement a successful retirement plan. Boomers and non-boomers alike, will find his step-by-step road map very helpful."\n <br />\n -M. Ellen Simmons, JD, CPA\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Between Social Security uncertainty and uneasiness in the stock market, Americans today face a more uncertain financial future than at any time in decades. Ironically, our response to this growing emergency is to spend more, save less, and put off necessary preparations until tomorrow.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Buckle up, because tomorrow has arrived. Last Chance to Get It Right! outlines a step-by-step program designed to help you:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Increase the size of your nest egg-for a long, enjoyable retirement\n  <br />\n </em>\n Slash your income tax bill-both today and throughout your life\n <br />\n * Reduce your estate taxes-to preserve the assets you fought so hard to build\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Are you truly prepared for the financial future facing you and your family? Let Last Chance to Get It Right! give you the knowledge and tools you need to stop making financial mistakes today-and put more money in your pocket tomorrow.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For more than thirty years, I have helped investors clarify and achieve their financial goals. I wrote this book because I have a mission. My mission is to help you create a minimum of $100,000 of additional financial benefits for you and your family. This book will help you recognize and deal with the biggest mistakes investors make with their money."\n <br />\n â€“From Chapter 1\n</p>\n<p>\n Todayâ€™s baby-boom generation has earned more money than any generation in history. This has led, of course, to a much larger and more bewildering array of investment choices, opportunities, and opinions. The result?\n</p>\n<p>\n More financial mistakes than ever before.\n</p>\n<p>\n Last Chance to Get It Right! is about correcting those mistakes before itâ€™s too late. Written by financial planner J. Thomas Moore, a Certified Financial Plannerâ„¢â€“who, in over three decades of experience, has helped thousands correct their mistakes and get their financial programs back on trackâ€“this plain-spoken, no-nonsense book is packed with hundreds of ideas for avoiding or overcoming the eight most common and costly financial mistakes. Let it show you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Fight the natural urge to procrastinate by making important decisions and taking necessary actions now\n </li>\n <li>\n  Take advantage of every opportunity to minimize taxes on your savings and investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prepare for a financially secure retirement lifeâ€“one that could last nearly as long as your working life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Protect yourself, your family, and your assets by purchasing adequate life, disability, and long-term care insurance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a will and trust, and all other written plans necessary to ensure the orderly distribution of your assets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand and incorporate the devastating effects of inflation into your long-term financial program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain every financial advantage by talking to and, more importantly, listening to competent lawyers and financial consultants\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In todayâ€™s chaotic financial marketplace, investors are more often than not forced to make financial decisions based on worthless financial noise instead of meaningful financial news. Last Chance to Get It Right! helps you to separate the common sense from the nonsense, and outlines a plan designed to dramatically improve both your long-term net worth and your short-term peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(21053, 'The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties', 'Charles R. Geisst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They laid the foundations of American finance and defined the American brand of capitalism. They bankrolled wars, were the impetus behind the building of the first transcontinental railroad system, and fueled a fledgling nationâ€™s grandiose dreams of empire. S&amp;M Allen, J. P. Morgan &amp; Co., Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers...they were the great Wall Street partnerships, and for well over a century, through a combination of financial genius, political chicanery, and the audacity of Caesars, they wielded unprecedented influence over the business, financial, and political landscapes of a nation. The Last Partnerships combines rigorous scholarship with journalism at its best to present a panoramic history of the rise and fall of the great financial housesâ€”from the â€œYankee Bankers,â€ at the turn of the 19th century, up to Goldman Sachsâ€™ historic IPO in 1999â€”tracing their origins, their successes and failures over the years, and the reasons for their ultimate demise. The Last Partnerships is must-reading for history buffs and everyone interested in the world of finance behind the business-page headlines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(21054, 'The Law of Charts', 'Joe Ross', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(21055, 'The Leverage Space Trading Model: Reconciling Portfolio Management Strategies and Economic Theory', 'Ralph Vince', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The cornerstone of money management and portfolio optimization techniques has remained the same throughout history: maximize gains and minimize risk. Yet, asserts Ralph Vince, the widely accepted approaches of combining assets into a portfolio and determi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(21056, 'Lico Reis', 'Microsoft Word - Dictionary of Business.ps.doc', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(21057, 'The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices', 'Gordon T. Pepper &amp; Michael J. Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the wellâ€“springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices.\n</p>\n<p>\n This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so.Â  Understanding this force of compulsion is a key to understanding a financial market when it appears to be behaving irrationally. This book will enable new and seasoned investors to develop an understanding of the factors, so that costly mistakes can be avoided without the lesson of experience.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Central bankers worry about asset markets. Do they convey information about the future course of the economy? How does monetary policy affect these markets - if it does? Should monetary policy attempt to prevent or prick bubbles? These are important matters, sometimes neglected by academic economists. This book, written jointly by a practitioner with a good knowledge of economics and an economic historian with a good knowledge of markets, is most useful and important contribution and asset markets. It is a most welcome book." - Geoffrey E. Wood, Professor of Economics, Cass Business School,\n</p>\n<p>\n "Even a beginner could understand this and this is excellent from a treasurer or a CFO''s viewpoint since many of them would gain a better understanding of why their company''s share price is flagging or performing in the way that it is. As an educational tool it is very impressive. I can see the great potential for this in the marketplace. I wish that I had been armed with this when I first went into the City!" - Michael Shelton - Agar, Director, Lombard Street Associates\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gordon Pepper makes a clear, well argued case for the Liquidity Theory of Asset prices. He provides an interesting and revealing perspective on periods of seemingly irrational behavior in markets. The most important piece of advice I took away with me was ''don''t listen to what central bankers say, watch what they do''. I would recommend any experienced fund manager to read this and have their preconceived ideas, about market fundamentals, challenged." - Anja Balfour, Fund Manager, Framlington\n</p>\n<p>\n "I think this book will prove extremely helpful to young professionals setting out on a career in asset management and seeking to educate themselves about the investment world. The book is clearly the outcome of a lifetime of hard intellectual work combined with practical experience of markets. I think it will be most useful to aspiring investment mangers and I only wish it had been available for me 30 years ago." - Richard Burns, Senior Partner, Baillie Gifford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(21058, 'The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market Is Down', 'Peter D. Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the wake of declining stock prices, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and a weakening dollar, the American economy is poised for a prolonged contraction and U.S. stocks will suffer a protracted bear market, so says seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff. Having accurately predicted the current market turmoil in his recent bestseller Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, the CNBC-dubbed "Doctor Doom" has helped savvy investors protect their portfolios in some very turbulent markets--and now, he''ll show you how to do the same.Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets reveals how you should protect your assets and invest your money when the American economy is experiencing perilous economic downturns and wealth building is happening elsewhere. Filled with insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and pre-scriptive advice, this book shows you how to make money under adverse market conditions by using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy.In detailing lessons learned from the 1930s and 1970s--and from the ways people invested when other economies experienced high inflation, collapsed markets, and rising interest rates coupled with declining currencies--The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets shows you how to successfully implement various bull moves so that you can preserve, and even enhance, your wealth within a prosperous or an ailing domestic economy. Strategies include a top-down investment approach; cutting expenses where you can; buying high-yielding equities in resource-rich and rapidly growing foreign markets; and investing in commodities, natural resources, and precious metals. Plus, at the end of each chapter, Schiff provides you with witty and insightful "parting words" that provide core advice for you to use as you work toward growing your wealth in any market environment.Smart investing will always pay off; the key lies in using the best strategies for the market at hand. For investors who see the writing on the wall, but don''t know what to do about it, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets offers timely insights into how you can protect your portfolio and even profit during these uncertain economic times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(21059, 'The Little Book That Still Beats the Market', 'Joel Greenblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Marketâ€”a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in printâ€”Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available at bargain prices. Now, with a new Introduction and Afterword for 2010, The Little Book that Still Beats the Market updates and expands upon the research findings from the original book. Included are data and analysis covering the recent financial crisis and model performance through the end of 2009. In a straightforward and accessible style, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals the authorâ€™s time-tested formula that makes buying above average companies at below average prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. He shows how to use his method to beat both the market and professional managers by a wide margin. Youâ€™ll also learn why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone â€œknowsâ€ it.  While the formula may be simple, understanding why the formula works is the true key to success for investors. The book will take readers on a step-by-step journey so that they can learn the principles of value investing in a way that will provide them with a long term strategy that they can understand and stick with through both good and bad periods for the stock market.  As the Wall Street Journal stated about the original edition, â€œMr. Greenblattâ€¦says his goal was to provide advice that, while sophisticated, could be understood and followed by his five children, ages 6 to 15. They are in luck. His â€˜Little Bookâ€™ is one of the best, clearest guides to value investing out there.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(21060, 'Little Psychic', 'V. C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a work of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(21061, 'Elliot Wave Theory for Short-Term and Intraday Trading', 'Steven Poser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(21062, 'The Logical Trader: Applying a Method to the Madness', 'Mark Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An in-depth look at the trading system that anyone can use The Logical Trader presents a highly effective, yet simple trading methodology that any trader anywhere can use to trade almost anything. The "ACD Method" developed and refined by Mark Fisher after many years of successful trading, provides price points at which to buy and sell as determined by the opening range of virtually any stock or commodity. This comprehensive guide details a widely used system that is profitably implemented by many computer and floor traders at major New York exchanges. The author''s highly accessible teaching style provides readers of The Logical Trader with a full examination of the theory behind the ACD Method and the examples and real-world trading stories involving it. Mark B. Fisher (New York, NY), an independent trader, is founder of MBF Clearing Corp., the largest clearing firm on the NYMEX. Founded in 1988, MBF Clearing has grown from handling under one percent of the volume on the NYMEX to nearly twenty percent of the trades today. A 1982 summa cum laude graduate from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Fisher also received his master''s degree in finance and accounting from Wharton. New technology and the advent of around the clock trading have opened the floodgates to both foreign and domestic markets. Traders need the wisdom of industry veterans and the vision of innovators in today''s volatile financial marketplace. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market''s ever changing temperament and have prospered-some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(21063, 'Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading', 'Larry Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The public thinks speculation is a game of knowing the future, of knowing that which cannot be known. They are wrong. It is a game of developing strategies with winning advantages, of getting the odds on your side, and then working those odds. Here''s how I''ve done just that for the past 35 years.-Larry Williams. Short-term trading is how most traders and would-be traders play the markets. While it offers the greatest financial payoffs, it also presents the greatest challenge, requiring constant attention and vigilance, as well as a very strict plan. Written by Larry Williams, the most recognized and popular technical analyst for the past three decades, this groundbreaking book-his first in almost a decade-provides the blueprint necessary for sound and profitable short-term trading, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of what can be a fruitful, yet potentially dangerous venture. Sharing his years of experience as a seasoned and successful trader, Williams offers his market wisdom on a wide range of topics, from chaos and speculation to volatility breakouts and profit patterns. With his expert guidance, you''ll learn about such fundamentals as how the market moves, what are the three most dominant cycles, when to exit a trade, and how to hold on to winners until the end of your chosen time frame. Along with in-depth analysis of the most effective short-term trading strategies and details on the best theory and implementation of money management, Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading features Williams''s winning technical indicators, as well as his thoughts on a broad range of topics. A sampling: * "A short-term trader has one objective; to catch the current trend of the market. That''s it. That''s all you should try to do!"* "The shorter your time frame of trading the less money you''ll make." "You will never make big money until you learn to hold on to your winners, and the longer you hold the more potential you have for profiteering. . . . It takes time to make money regardless of the activity."* "Wealth is not amassed with just good market calls. It also requires correct money management."* "I think you need to fear the market and fear yourself. . . . Without fear there is no respect, if you do not respect the markets and fear yourself you will become one more dead body on the long trail of commodity market casualties scattered across the land." Filled with invaluable insight, precise rules and formulas, and helpful advice from one of today''s most respected market players, this comprehensive and practical resource will serve as the basis for, if not indeed become, your short-term trading "gospel." "Having known Larry for 25 years, I can truly say that this is his ''magnum opus''; the culmination of a brilliant career; must reading for anyone who trades futures with success as their goal!-Jake Bernstein, President, MBH Commodity Advisors, Northbrook, Illinois.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(21064, 'Long/Short Market Dynamics', 'Clive M. Corcoran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hedge funds are now the largest volume players in the capital markets. They follow a wide assortment of strategies but their activities have replaced and overshadowed the traditional model of the long only portfolio manager. Many of the traditional technical indicators and commonly accepted trading strategies have become obsolete or ineffective.   The focus throughout the book is to describe the principal innovations that have been made within the equity markets over the last several years and that have changed the ground rules for trading activities. By understanding these changes the active trader is far better equipped to profit in todayâ€™s more complex and risky markets. Long/Short Market Dynamics includes:   A completely new technique, Comparative Quantiles Analysis, for identifying market turning points is introduced. It is based on statistical techniques that can be used to recognize money flow and price/momentum divergences that can provide substantial profit opportunities. Power laws, regime shifts, self-organized criticality, phase transitions, network dynamics, econophysics, algorithmic trading and other ideas from the science of complexity are examined. All are described as concretely as possible and avoiding unnecessary mathematics and formalism. Alpha generation, portfolio construction, hedge ratios, and beta neutral portfolios are illustrated with case studies and worked examples. Episodes of financial contagion are illustrated with a proposed explanation of their origins within underlying market dynamics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(21065, 'Loopholes of the Rich: How the Rich Legally Make More Money and Pay Less Tax', 'Diane Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Loopholes of the Rich\n </em>\n helps Americans from all walks of life use the same tax loopholes that the wealthy use to lower their tax bill. With this handy guide, you won?t need an accountant to find quick and easy ways to pay less. And there?s nothing unethical about these tax loopholes. In fact, the government wants you to take advantage of them! These tax-reducing tactics and strategies can give you the freedom to save for your family?s future or for your own financial independence. Plus, you?ll find a handy checklist of more than 300 business deductions, real-life tax strategy examples, useful sample forms, explanations of IRS codes and rules, and much more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In this book, Loopholes of the Rich, you are going to legally learn\n</p>\n<p>\n how to make more money, keep a whole lot more, and pay less taxes".\n <br />\n â€”from the Foreword by Mark Victor Hansen\n <br />\n Co-creator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the SoulÂ®\n</p>\n<p>\n Taxes are the single biggest expense for the average American today. In fact, small changes in the amount of taxes you pay can lead to big changes in you and your family''s quality of life. This newly revised edition of Loopholes of the Rich covers all the most effective and legal tax strategiesâ€”and loopholes just like the rich useâ€”so that people from every tax bracket can pay less and keep more of what they earn.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s nothing unethical about tax loopholes. The government wants you to take advantage of them! Even better, these tactics and strategies are a great way to save for your family''s future or achieve financial independence. Packed with motivational true stories and practical tax strategies, the book covers the vital areas of business structures, tax-advantaged wealth building, and asset protection. And there''s more:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Take control of when and how much you pay in taxes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Develop a personalized tax loophole strategy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create a systemized approach to building wealth through the tax advantages that the IRS wants you to use\n </li>\n <li>\n  Structure your business to lower its tax burden and protect your wealth\n </li>\n <li>\n  And legally and ethically lower your tax bill\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find a helpful checklist of 300+ business deductions, real-life tax strategy examples, useful sample forms, and details on IRS codes and rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(21066, 'The Major Works of R. N. Elliott', 'Ralph Nelson Elliott &amp; Robert Prechter Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(21067, 'Making Economic Sense', 'Murray Newton Rothbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(21068, 'Managing Cash Flow: An Operational Focus', 'Rob Reider &amp; Peter B. Heyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Provides the tool necessary to determine and evaluate the effectiveness of a corporation''s management of cash. Examines how operational activities can affect cash flow management. Shows how effective cash flow management can improve corporate performance and increase shareholder value. Provides an overview of cash management techniques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(21069, 'Managing International Financial Instability: National Tamers Versus Global Tigers', 'Fabrizio Saccomanni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book is a masterpiece. It combines a clear historical analysis of issues and causes of past international instability with a contemporary discussion of how to avoid future occurrences. It is a very informative book that caters to the need of the savvy and the uninformed. It reviews in a rigorous manner the core obstacles to achieving a durable global financial stability. The presentation is clear, simple and well organised. . . Saccomanni demonstrated a great understanding of monetary and financial matters. The book could not have been better timed given the deepening recession caused by the global financial meltdown. I am very delighted to recommend it. Chika B. Onwuekwe, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation . . . the timing of this publication could not have been better, Fabrizio Saccomanni provides the reader with a well-written analytical and historical survey of the causes and consequences of international financial crisis and possible solutions. . . the book is enjoyable, compendious and concise. . . the book is worth reading by anyone who is interested in understanding the global financial system and is looking for a critical appraisal of its performance. In particular, students and academics of international economics can get a good overview on the issue of international financial stability, since the book bridges the gap between theoretical models and practical policy implications. . . Saccomanni s book is a well-written and valuable contribution to the debate as already said before the timing of its publication could hardly be better. Ralf Fendel, Journal of Economics and Statistics Recurrent instability has characterized the global financial system since the 1980s, eventually leading to the current global financial crisis. This instability and the resultant disruptions sovereign debt defaults, exchange rate misalignments, financial market illiquidity and asset price bubbles are linked, in this book, to the shortcomings of the global financial system which tends to generate cycles of boom and bust in credit flows. These cycles are set in motion by the monetary impulses of major industrial countries and are amplified and propagated through the operation of global financial markets. Fabrizio Saccomanni argues that to counter such systemic instability requires that national authorities give adequate weight to financial stability objectives when formulating their monetary and regulatory policies. He maintains that appropriate multilateral strategies to deal with unsustainable trends in credit aggregates and asset prices should be devised in the International Monetary Fund in the context of a strengthened framework to deal with global payments imbalances and exchange rate misalignments. Providing a comprehensive historical and analytical survey of the causes, consequences and possible cures of international financial instability, this book will be of great interest to students and academics of international economics and finance. It will also appeal to financial market participants and analysts, government officials and central bankers as a comprehensive survey of the relevant academic literature and of the state of the policy debate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(21070, 'Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises', 'Charles P. Kindleberger &amp; Robert Aliber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Underneath the hilarious anecdotes, the elegant epigrams,s and the graceful turns of phrase, Kindleberger is deadly serious. The manner in which human beings earn their livings is no laughing matter to him, especially when they attempt to do so at the ex\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/595'),
(21071, 'Marber on Markets: How to Make Money From Charts', 'Brian Marber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is not your average book on technical analysis. Why? Because the author is not your average technical analyst; Brian Marber is unique -and so, as a result, is this book. Here, Marber sets out to write about his approach, in a language readers can understand and enjoy, telling them why he does what he does, and how he came to do it, including details of market pitfalls and the occasional Marber pratfall. The book does not claim to be comprehensive, but instead aims to be honest and to present the reader with the techniques and indicators that Marber himself uses, and has used successfully in his fifty-one years in the business. Although when you make money you can learn something about making it, you learn far more by losing it, then finding out how to stop doing so.This book tells you his methods; when positions have gone wrong, and what you do about it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(21072, 'Market Leader: International Management', 'Adrian Pilbeam', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(21073, 'Market Neutral Strategies', 'Bruce I. Jacobs &amp; Kenneth N. Levy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented.\n <br />\n Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/600'),
(21074, 'Market Timing and Technical Analysis', 'Alan R. Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(21075, 'Markets in Profile: Profiting From the Auction Process', 'James F. Dalton &amp; Robert B. Dalton &amp; Eric T. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Markets in Profile explores the confluence of three disparate philosophical frameworks: the Market Profile, behavioral finance, and neuroeconomics in order to present a unified theory of how markets work. The Market Profile is an ever-evolving, multidimensional graphic that gives visual form to the market''s continuing auction process, revealing the myriad underlying dynamics that influence market activity. Behavioral finance posits that investors are driven more by emotional factors and the subjective interpretation of minutia than by "rationality" when making investment decisions. And neuroeconomics is the study of how investor psychology permeates and affects the financial markets. Mr. Dalton explicates the ways in which irrational human behavior influences the market''s natural auction process, creating frequently predictable market structure, which results in opportunities for investors to ameliorate risk. The book will improve investors ability to interpret change in markets, enabling better, more confident investment decisions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(21076, 'Martin Pring on Market Momentum', 'Martin J. Pring', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Become an "instant expert" in the use of popular technical studies and indicators which are on technical analysis software, such as McClellan Oscillator, Stochastics, MACD, RSI, Parabolics, CCI, and many others. This is the first comprehensive book on momentum destined to become the definitive guide to effective and proper use of Momentum destined to become the definitive guide to effective and proper use of Momentum studies and indicators. Examines the principles underlying Market Momentum and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of oscillators, how they are computed, and offers much insight into their proper and effective usage. "This Book Will Teach You, In Easily Understood, And Easily Utilized Terms": Characteristics of overbought and oversold markets -- Trend analysis using momentum indicators -- How to become an "instant expert" in the use and interpretation of Stochastics, RSI, MACD, and many other indicators -- Pros and Cons of all major oscillators. How to use technical studiesand indicators effectively in your trading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(21077, 'Martin Zweig&#39;s Winning on Wall Street', 'Martin E. Zweig &amp; Morrie Goldfischer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Renowned financier Martin Zweig guides readers to smart investing in the 1990s stock market with proven strategies on how to make informed buy and sell decisions, pick winners, spot major bull and bear trends early, and more. This constant bestseller was first published in 1986 and first revised in 1990, with 77,000 trade paperback copies sold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(21078, 'Master Calculator to Determine Trends', 'W.D.Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(21079, 'Master Charts', 'W.D.Gann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(21080, 'The Master Profit Plan: Your 5-Step Trading Plan Workbook', 'Vadym Graifer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The online revolution has ushered in the era of ultimate investment freedom for the do-it-yourself retail investor. Anyone can now buy and sell stocks and manage their portfolio by a simple click on their web browser. Many times, they make money trading but more often than not, they lose. Typically, the ''trial and error'' method is used to learn the ropes in the market. The hope is that they eventually stumble across a style that works for them and propel them into becoming consistent, profitable traders.  With a slew of books devoted to trading, none shows a practical, structured and systematic process for creating a Trading Plan. This book is unique because it provides you with a clear process for creating your trading plan. Best of all, it takes the mystery out of trading and puts you on the fast path to success.  Instead of learning how to trade by making endless mistakes, you learn how to structure your trading from day one and earn while you learn.  Vadym Graifer has helped hundreds of traders succeed by structuring their trading approach and watched them grow into mature, profitable traders earning a full time or part time living.  Now, he shares his step-by-step structured mapping method that will help you make conscious choices in defining and executing YOUR perfect trading style. Vadym Graifer offers a clear way to create your trading plan, shows examples of winning trader''s plans, true stories of how the market actually works and guides you through the mindset, planning and implementation of structured trades.  Graifer has a rare gift to teach and trade and he will work along side you as you build your map for the trading world and achieve mastering tradingskills. His impressive knowledge is based on years of experience in the market. His engaging voice and his ability to approach this topic from a practical perspective makes him your dream mentor. Learn how to map out your steps to: Confidently trade with a minimal stress Consistently profit from the market Strict risk control Personal freedom Financial stability\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(21081, 'The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit From Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities', 'Alan Farley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(21082, 'Mastertrader', 'Jens Clever', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(21083, 'Master Traders', 'Fari Hamzei &amp; Steve Shobin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Master Traders\n </em>\n introduces you to an outstanding group of financial expertsâ€”from seasoned hedge fund managers to top technical analystsâ€”who discuss the methods they use to tame todayâ€™s highly volatile and unpredictable markets. Composed of chapters contributed by leading financial professionals,\n <em>\n  Master Traders\n </em>\n contains a variety of proven strategies and techniques that will give you an edge in the world of stocks, options, and futures.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n While there''s no substitute for real-world trading experience, the chance to learn from those who have consistently succeeded in this demanding environment is the next best thing. In Master Traders, author Fari Hamzei provides you with the rare opportunity to learn from some of the top traders and market analysts in this business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Engaging and informative, Master Traders introduces you to an outstanding group of financial expertsâ€”from seasoned hedge fund managers to top technical analystsâ€”who discuss new and provocative methods that they use to tame today''s highly volatile and unpredictable markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Composed of chapters contributed by these leading financial professionals, Master Traders contains a variety of proven strategies and techniques that will give you an edge in the world of stocks, options, and futures. You''ll become familiar with many important strategies from advanced technical and sentiment analyses to pairs trading. Once you''ve gained a firm understanding of all the tools examined, you''ll be able to choose the ones that best suit your trading style. Some of the advice and insights found within these pages include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The question is not whether fundamental analysis or technical analysis works, rather it is "how and when do they work?" (Jeff deGraaf)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding market-implied volatility is the key to bettering your trading performance. (Alex Jacobson)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The ability to market time individual stock sectors can boost overall investment returns dramatically. (Frank Barbera)\n </li>\n <li>\n  One way to approach investment opportunities in the biotech sector is not by chasing the big names, but by carefully researching second-tier players. (David Miller)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The major advantage of using seasonality is that it allows you to trade those periods when seasonal tendencies are consistent. (Phil Erlanger)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Given the cyclical nature of markets and the irrational behavior in the investment environment, the combination of technical and fundamental analyses can help you better identify potential trading opportunities. (Jeffrey Spotts)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The markets for European derivatives, and options in particular, present unique opportunities to diversify holdings, hedge positions, or gain leverage. (Timothy Corliss)\n </li>\n <li>\n  By following specific rules and methods, you can gain a better understanding of how volume interacts with price, and increase the accuracy of predicting future price patterns. (Tim Ord)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The professionals in this book have enjoyed extraordinary long-term success in the marketsâ€”and the hard-earned knowledge they''ve gained can be used to enhance your trading skills. Straightforward and accessible, Master Traders provides you with the information you need to succeed in today''s dynamic markets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(21084, 'Mastering Elliot Wave: Presenting the Neely Method: The First Scientific, Objective Approach to Market Forecasting With the Elliott Wave Theory (Version 2)', 'Glenn Neely &amp; Eric Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/459');
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(21085, 'Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: A Practical Guide for Business Calculations', 'Alastair L. Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Designed for finance directors, finance managers, analysts and decision-makers, Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel, is a practical guide to applying Excel for solving mathematical problems. Financial mathematics can be applied more quickly and easily in Excel than any other package, there is therefore demand for a book in this field. Will improve financial managers'' abilities with Excel and provide them with solutions to their financial problems. Highly practical: includes a library of templates, exercises and solutions as an illustration of the methods. Part of the highly respected and recognised Masteringseries. The second edition will be updated throughout. Specific amendments: Excel 2007 and Windows Vista, Addition of a glossary of key terms, Functions list in English and Euro languages, Continuity check on all formats, layouts and charts, More worked examples, Addition of exercises at the end of each chapter to help build models.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(21086, 'Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High!', 'Jeff Thull', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Mastering the Complex Sale  "Jeff Thull''s process plays a key role in helping companies and their customers cross the chasm with disruptive innovations and succeed with game-changing initiatives." â€”Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin  "This is the first book that lays out a solid method for selling cross-company, cross-border, even cross-culturally where you have multiple decision makers with multiple agendas. This is far more than a ''selling process''â€”it is a survival guideâ€”a truly outstanding approach to bringing all the pieces of the puzzle together." â€”Ed Daniels, EVP, Shell Global Solutions Downstream, President, CRI/Criterion, Inc.  "Mastering the Complex Sale brilliantly sets up value from the customer''s perspective. A must-read for all those who are managing multinational business teams in a complex and highly competitive environment." â€”Samik Mukherjee, Vice President, Onshore Business, Technip  "Customers need to know the value they will receive and how they will receive it. Thull''s insights into the complex sale and how to clarify and quantify this value are remarkableâ€”Mastering the Complex Sale will be required reading for years to come!" â€”Lee Tschanz, Vice President, North American Sales, Rockwell Automation  "Jeff Thull is winning the war against commoditization. In his world, value trumps price and commoditization isn''t a given, it''s a choice. This is a proven alternative to the price-driven sale. We''ve spoken to his clients. This stuff really works, folks." â€”Dave Stein, CEO and Founder, ES Research Group, Inc.  "Our business depends on delivering breakthrough thinking to our executive clients. Jeff Thull has significantly redefined sales and marketing strategies that clearly connect to our global audience. Read it, act on it, and take your results to exceptional levels." â€”Sven Kroneberg, President, Seminarium Internacional  "Jeff''s main thesisâ€”that professional customer guidance is the key to successâ€”rings true in every global market today. Mastering the Complex Sale is the essential read for any organization looking to transform their business for long-term, value-driven growth." â€”Jon T. Lindekugel, President, 3M Health Information Systems, Inc.  "Jeff Thull has re-engineered the conventional sales process to create predictable and profitable growth in today''s competitive marketplace. It''s no longer about selling; it''s about guiding quality decisions and creating collaborative value. This is one of those rare books that will make a difference." â€”Carol Pudnos, Executive director, Healthcare Industry, Dow Corning Corporation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(21087, 'Mastering the Trade', 'John F. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In "Mastering the Trade", veteran trader and educator John Carter shares his hard-won five-point technique for successful swing trading. In addition, Carter helps you move to the next level of confidence by explaining how markets really work and detailing\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(21088, 'Mastering Trading Stress: Strategies for Maximizing Performance', 'Ari Kiev', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The daily grind of the trader is always full of excitement, energy, adventure--and stress. While many live for the thrill of the trade, most also feel the emotional, psychological, and physical impact of the constant changes; riding the roller coaster of the financial markets for eight hours a day, five days a week, forty-eight weeks out of the year.But while some traders just seem naturally better equipped to deal with the emotional turmoil of trading, others seem to "fall apart" under much less dire circumstances. While eliminating stress is not realistic--or an entirely desired approach--reducing stress is. And traders can best cope with stress, says Ari Kiev, by being proactive and taking steps to reduce it. With this book, Kiev shows you how to do this--beginning with developing an appropriate understanding of stress and how it physically affects us, and leading all the way to specific exercises that can help traders manage their daily stress.The author, a psychiatrist who specializes in stress management and performance enhancement, has worked extensively with traders over many years. In Mastering Trading Stress, he draws on his vast experience to offer examples, transcripts of conversations, and personality profiles of real-life traders that illustrate how stress robs them of their ability to perform at their best. He points out that the stressors for all of these traders were different and, accordingly, asserts that aspiring traders need to identify their own particular stress points and learn to deal with them in order to succeed.?Kiev describes a variety of practical techniques that can be used to handle destructive emotions and out-of-control feelings, including his "Most Basic" stress busters, and tells what to do if a breakdown does occur.There is no way to take the stress out of trading. But stress does not have to make you emotionally, mentally, or physically ill, and it does not have to hinder your trading game. With this book as your guide, you can learn to reduce stress, cope with the stresses that are inevitable, and even use stress to your own benefit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(21089, 'A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market', 'John Allen Paulos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We like to think not only that mathematicians are smarter than the rest of us but that by dint of their mastery of numbers, they hold the key to understanding the baffling mysteries of the universe. Alas, Paulos (Innumeracy) says that''s not always the case. As the author relates in this funny, insightful little volume about attempts to bring order and science to the free-for-all that is the stock market, he himself was once a big investor (in WorldCom). Despite strong evidence to sell, he desperately hung on to his stock as the price plummeted, proving that a head for numbers doesn''t always translate to Wall Street know-how. Through most of this book, Paulos discusses various methods for predicting markets and offers thoughts on why people keep trying to perfect them. Shocking in their obtuseness are the so-called Elliot Wave followers, who believe stocks operate according to an impossibly arcane series of numerical waves and cycles. The efficient-market theorists-many of whom believe the stock market is so inherently efficient that everything one needs to know about a company is reflected in its stock price-get the most thorough joshing from Paulos: never able to resist a joke, he tells one about how many efficient market theorists it takes to change a light bulb. "Answer: None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it." Playful and informative, Paulos''s book will be appreciated by investors with a sense of humor.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mr. Paulos, who teaches mathematics at Temple, has a knack for making technical concepts clear and entertaining --\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paulos is a genius at translating the arcane .... This book should be required reading for anyone opening a brokerage account. --\n  <em>\n   Washington Post, June 22, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paulos makes the process rewarding for those who want a better understanding of how the market works --\n  <em>\n   Kansas City Star, August 17, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout this wide-ranging survey, the writing is spirited, funny and clear. --\n  <em>\n   New York Observer, June 6, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yes, there are many percentage signs in this book ... But Paulos'' humor and clarity will see you through. --\n  <em>\n   USA Today, June 15, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  a double-chocolate nougat of a book â€” a rich, densely packed delight. It is also rueful, funny and disarmingly personal --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2003\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  there is a certain pleasure to be had in reading that mathematical genius need be no barrier to financial comeuppance --\n  <em>\n   The Independent (London), July 26, 2003\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(21090, 'Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering', 'Marek Capinski &amp; Tomasz Zastawniak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(21091, 'The Mathematics Of Fiancial Derivatives', '?', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(21092, 'The Mathematics of Financial Modeling and Investment Management', 'Dr. Sergio Focardi &amp; Frank J. Fabozzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n the mathematics of financial modeling &amp; investment management  The Mathematics of Financial Modeling &amp; Investment Management covers a wide range of technical topics in mathematics and finance-enabling the investment management practitioner, researcher, or student to fully understand the process of financial decision-making and its economic foundations.  This comprehensive resource will introduce you to key mathematical techniques-matrix algebra, calculus, ordinary differential equations, probability theory, stochastic calculus, time series analysis, optimization-as well as show you how these techniques are successfully implemented in the world of modern finance. Special emphasis is placed on the new mathematical tools that allow a deeper understanding of financial econometrics and financial economics. Recent advances in financial econometrics, such as tools for estimating and representing the tails of the distributions, the analysis of correlation phenomena, and dimensionality reduction through factor analysis and cointegration are discussed in depth.  Using a wealth of real-world examples, Focardi and Fabozzi simultaneously show both the mathematical techniques and the areas in finance where these techniques are applied. They also cover a variety of useful financial applications, such as: * Arbitrage pricing * Interest rate modeling * Derivative pricing * Credit risk modeling * Equity and bond portfolio management * Risk management * And much more    Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, The Mathematics of Financial Modeling &amp; Investment Management clearly ties together financial theory and mathematical techniques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(21093, 'The Mathematics of Money Management: Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders', 'Ralph Vince', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every futures, options, and stock markets trader operates under a set of highly suspect rules and assumptions. Are you risking your career on yours? Exceptionally clear and easy to use, The Mathematics of Money Management substitutes precise mathematical modeling for the subjective decision-making processes many traders and serious investors depend on. Step-by-step, it unveils powerful strategies for creating and using key money management formulas--based on the rules of probability and modern portfolio theory--that maximizes the potential gains for the level of risk you are assuming. With them, you''ll determine the payoffs and consequences of any potential trading decision and obtain the highest potential growth for your specified level of risk. You''ll quickly decide: What markets to trade in and at what quantities When to add or subtract funds from an account How to reinvest trading profits for maximum yield The Mathematics of Money Management provides the missing element in modern portfolio theory that weds optimal f to the optimal portfolio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(21094, 'MBA in a Day: What You Would Learn at Top-Tier Business Schools (If You Only Had the Time!)', 'Steven Stralser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The same critical information top business schools teach\n <br />\n Based on Professor Stralser''s popular seminar series, MBA in a Day? is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepren\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(21095, 'Measuring Market Risk + CD-ROM , 2nd Edition', 'Kevin Dowd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book DescriptionFully revised and restructured,\n <i>\n  Measuring Market Risk, Second Edition\n </i>\n includes aÂ new chapter on options risk management, as well as substantial new information on parametric risk, non-parametric measurements and liquidity risks\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(21096, 'Mechanical Trading System Using Advanced GET', 'Tom Joseph, President, Trading Techniques Inc.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(21097, 'Mechanical Trading Systems: Pairing Trader Psychology With Technical Analysis', 'Richard L. Weissman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A wide variety of flexible trading systems that combine sophisticated technical analysis with trading psychology theory Mechanical Trading Systems examines the development process for choosing and using mechanical trading systems in conjunction with trader psychology. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of mechanical trading systems; the dangers in system development and how to avoid them; the optimal methods for back-testing trading systems; position sizing and other risk quantification tools; and methods of improving rates of return on investments without significantly increasing risk. Most importantly, through a detailed examination of various types of unsuccessful trader personality traits (e.g., fearfulness, greed, and impatience), the book recommends different types of trading systems for a diverse array of trader types. Richard L. Weissman (Port Richey, FL) has seventeen years'' experience as a trader and developer of trading systems. He currently provides independent consultation an d training services to traders and risk management professionals in the areas of technical analysis, risk management, and trader psychology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(21098, 'Mergers &amp; Acquisitions', 'J. Fred Weston &amp; Samuel C. Weaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MCGRAW-HILL EXECUTIVE MBA SERIES  "Executive education is suddenly every CEO''s favorite strategic weapon."--BusinessWeekNow repackaged in easily transportable paperback editions, these informative titles--written by frontline executive education professors and modeled after the programs of the nation''s top business schools--will find new popularity with today''s on-the-go, every-second-counts executive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(21099, 'The Micro Cap Investor: Strategies for Making Big Returns in Small Companies', 'Richard Imperiale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Micro Cap Investor  Learn how today''s smartest investors are discovering opportunities--and reaping profits--ahead of the Wall Street pros  Micro cap stocks are all but ignored by professional investors who can''t risk losing their companies'' clients--and their own careers--to the sudden volatility and price swings that are common to the micro cap market. But it is just that volatility, plus their proven record for outperforming large cap stocks over the long term, that makes micro caps perfect for independent investors looking for market-beating returns.  The Micro Cap Investor takes a behind-the-scenes look at this exciting sector to: * Detail a market-tested process for uncovering and investing in micro caps with the greatest potential to outperform the market * Reveal the ten key catalysts that take under-the-radar micro caps and propel them into the public spotlight * Explain how smaller investors can use the "information advantage" to actually gain a sizable edge over institutional investors   Let The Micro Cap Investor show you how to uncover today''s most promising companies, and use the power of micro cap investing to dramatically improve your long-term investment performance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(21100, 'Microeconomics: Private and Public Choice: Coursebook', 'James D. Gwartney &amp; Richard L. Stroup &amp; Russell S. Sobel &amp; David Macpherson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Coursebook includes numerous multiple-choice, true/false, and discussion questions to help students self-test their knowledge of each chapter, with answers and short explanations for most questions provided in the back of the Coursebook. Each chapter also contains problem and project exercises designed to improve the student''s knowledge of the mechanics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(21101, 'Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Inside Out eBook', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(21102, 'Million Dollar Stock Market Idea', 'Larry Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(21103, 'Mind Over Markets: Power Trading With Market Generated Information', 'James F. Dalton &amp; Eric T. Jones &amp; Robert B. Dalton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(21104, 'Modelling Financial Markets Using Visual Basic.NET and Databases to Create Pricing, Trading, and Risk Management Models', 'Benjamin Van Vliet, Robert Hendry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(21105, 'A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing (Wiley Finance)', 'Thomas P. Au', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Reviews of A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "What happened in the market? What lies ahead? Investors should be required to read Tom Auâ€™s A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing. Tom delivers a commonsense road map for baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(21106, 'Modern Banking', 'Shelagh Heffernan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n focuses on the theory and practice of banking, and its prospects in the new millennium. The book is written for courses in banking and finance at Masters/MBA level, or undergraduate degrees specialising in this area. Bank practitioners wishing to deepen and broaden their understanding of banking issues may also be attracted to this book. While they often have exceptional and detailed knowledge of the areas they have worked in, busy bankers may be all too unaware of the key broader issues. Consider the fundamental questions:\n <em>\n  What is unique about a bank?\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What differentiates it from other financial institutions?\n </em>\n Answering these questions begins to show how banks should evolve and adapt - or fail. If bankers know the underlying reasons for\n <em>\n  why\n </em>\n profitable banks exist, it will help them to devise strategies for sustained growth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n concludes with a set of case studies that give practical insight into the key issues covered in the book:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The core banking functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different types of banks and diversification of bank activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Risk management: issues and techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Global regulation: Basel 1 and Basel 2.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bank regulation in the UK, US, EU, and Japan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Banking in emerging markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bank failure and financial crises\n </li>\n <li>\n  Competitive issues, from cost efficiency to mergers and acquisitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Case Studies including: Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui, Bancomer\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n is a sequel to the highly successful\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking in Theory and Practice\n  </em>\n </strong>\n , first published in 1996. Over the last decade many aspects of banking have changed considerably, though the key features that distinguish banks from other financial institutions remain. Some might question the need for a book on banking rather than one on financial institutions - while banks remain special and unique to the financial sector, books need to be devoted to them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n focuses on the theory and practice of banking, and its prospects in the new millennium. The book is written for courses in banking and finance at Masters/MBA level, or undergraduate degrees specialising in this area. Bank practitioners wishing to deepen and broaden their understanding of banking issues may also be attracted to this book. While they often have exceptional and detailed knowledge of the areas they have worked in, busy bankers may be all too unaware of the key broader issues. Consider the fundamental questions:\n <em>\n  What is unique about a bank?\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What differentiates it from other financial institutions?\n </em>\n Answering these questions begins to show how banks should evolve and adapt - or fail. If bankers know the underlying reasons for\n <em>\n  why\n </em>\n profitable banks exist, it will help them to devise strategies for sustained growth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Modern Banking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n concludes with a set of case studies that give practical insight into the key issues covered in the book:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The core banking functions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Different types of banks and diversification of bank activities\n </li>\n <li>\n  Risk management: issues and techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Global regulation: Basel 1 and Basel 2.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bank regulation in the UK, US, EU, and Japan\n </li>\n <li>\n  Banking in emerging markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bank failure and financial crises\n </li>\n <li>\n  Competitive issues, from cost efficiency to mergers and acquisitions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Case Studies including: Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui, Bancomer\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(21107, 'Momentum, Direction, and Divergence', 'William Blau', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A guide to the latest, most promising technical indicators and their applications  Momentum, direction, and divergence are the three basic components of nearly all technical indicators used in the analysis of stock and commodities trading. And for those who understand them and their applications, they are also the pillars of a high-performance trading strategy. In this groundbreaking book, technical wizard William Blau schools financial professionals in all three. Combining the latest financial information with dozens of eye-opening graphics, Blau clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of complex mathematics:  * Introduces the principle of double smoothing and develops potent new indicators based on double smoothing techniques  * Describes the uses and limitations of a variety of notable technical indicators  * Explains momentum, direction, and divergence and new ways to apply them  * Presents the True Strength Index and shows how it can dramatically improve most directional indicators  * Provides new ways of identifying divergence that make implementation far simpler than ever before   MOMENTUM, DIRECTION, AND DIVERGENCE  The Wiley Trader''s Advantage is a series of concise, highly focused books designed to keep savvy traders in tune with the latest successful strategies and techniques used by the keenest minds in the business.  In this latest volume, technical expert Bill Blau shows you how momentum, direction, and divergence form the basis of most technical indicators and how they can work for you to provide a considerable competitive advantage. Clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of complex mathematics, Blau shows you how to understand and apply them. Integrating the latest financial insights with more than 75 easy-to-follow graphics, Blau describes the uses and limitations of many of today''s most notable technical indicators. He then demonstrates a variety of ways in which the principles of momentum, direction, and divergence can be used to create a versatile new set of technical indicators or to improve the effectiveness of the most widely used traditional indicators.  Focusing on the groundbreaking double smoothing concept, which he introduces for the first time in this book, William Blau:  * Develops reliable new momentum indicators based on double smoothing techniques  * Shows how these indicators improve the effectiveness of most popular oscillators, including the RSI, MACD, and stochastic indicators, by solving a host of timing problems  * Combines the standard Welles Wilder techniques with his original True Strength Index to improve the effectiveness of most directional movement indicators  * Introduces new ways of identifying divergence that make implementation simpler than ever  * And much more   A complete guide to the most potent new indicators and their applications, Momentum, Direction, and Divergence is an indispensable resource for traders, portfolio managers, and all financial professionals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(21108, 'MAKING YOUR REALESTATE FORTUNE', 'Robert Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(21109, 'Money Management', 'Ryan Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(21110, 'Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders', 'Nauzer J. Balsara', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Distills complex theories for the benefit of the average trader with little or no background in finance or mathematics by offering a wide range of valuable, practical strategies for limiting risk, avoiding catastrophic losses and managing the futures portfolio to maximize profits. Numerous topics are explored including: why most traders lose at the futures game most of the time; why most mechanical trading systems are apt to fail; the probabilistic approach to trading; how to make stop-loss orders work for, rather than against you; the pros and cons of options versus futures trading; and how to limit risk through diversification.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(21111, 'Money Management Strategies for Serious Traders', 'David Stendahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(21112, 'Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen', 'Charles R. Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine the American republic of the 19th century: at the beginning, a sparsely populated agrarian nation where the president, Thomas Jefferson, fords rivers on horseback to make it to his own inauguration; at the end of the century, it''s a land of densely populated cities, teeming with factories and linked by a network of railroads. This extraordinary transition--and all the economic upheavals that went along with it--is described in the opening chapters of\n <em>\n  Money, Greed, and Risk\n </em>\n , and provides the historical context for a broader look at how booms and busts happen. Charles Morris tells the story of American financial markets by looking at its larger-than-life characters: Nicholas Biddle (the first U.S. central banker), Jay Gould (a much-hated financial genius who patched together a network of rail lines), steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, oil baron John D. Rockefeller, and, of course, J.P. Morgan, who made America the world''s banker. By the time these men had all passed from public life, the U.S. economy had changed from a primitive system that could be bent to the will of a single financier, such as Morgan, to a sophisticated, highly regulated, world-dominating conglomeration of massive corporations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then along came Michael Milken and things changed again. Morris makes this chronicle entertaining and enlightening, although the reader is expected to have some previous knowledge of finance and history. He finds connections where we don''t expect them--for example, linking the leverage tactics of junk-bond king Milken to early-19th-century "wildcat" bankers. He also makes it easy to understand the accordion-like expansions and contractions in the world''s developing economies. Once you''ve read this book, you''ll feel as if you''ve seen everything before.\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Morris''s idiosyncratic excursion into the ups and downs of the business cycle is a series of appetizers rather than a meal. He takes the professional''s-eye view that market crashes reveal systemic defects rather than moral failings of economic movers and shakers: greed is good as long as it is properly channeled and controlled. Crashes occur, Morris (Computer Wars, etc.) persuasively argues, when financial innovations are too successful and prod the market to expand too fast. While he discusses the American crises of the 1830s, 1870s and 1890s, as well as the 1980s, he barely touches on the crash of 1929 and ignores entirely the Cotton Panic of 1837, probably the worst financial crisis in American history. With a stoical dispassion unlikely to soothe those whose nest eggs are currently nestled in NASDAQ, he sees crashes as necessary, if painful and unfortunate, corrections to excess. The most penetrating question, he suggests, is not about why a market crashes but rather how prices were allowed to get so high in the first place. Most chapters will be easily understood by anyone who has ever played Monopoly, but the "Options" appendix assumes the reader recognizes, for example, the cumulative Gaussian distribution function. This well-written book can be enjoyed as a brief lesson in financial history or as a warning of a correction to come. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(21113, 'Monopolies in America : Empire Builders and Their Enemies From Jay Gould to Bill Gates', 'Charles R. Geisst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geisst (Wall Street: A History) points out that for many people the board game remains their only exposure to the legal concept of monopoly. But buying up property and eliminating competitors is only part of the picture, according to this intriguing new book. Even though the origins of monopolies can be traced back to Elizabethan England, the model as we know it is uniquely American and has been with the United States since the mid-19th century. The first monopoly, which involved railroads, arose in part out of the economic needs of an expanding new country. Commodore Vanderbilt and Jay Gould certainly personify the monopolistic tendencies of the early railroads, but the greatest and arguably most infamous monopolist of the last 100 years was John D. Rockefeller Sr. Geisst states that "Monopolies were difficult to argue against when they provided a superior product. But when they could be shown to pose a threat to society at large, public sentiment shifted against them." While Geisst knows his facts, he seems too careful in laying out the cast of characters while allowing his scholarly fairness to play down the genuine evils of certain monopolies. At times, he loses his historical narrative while giving attention to legal issues. Nevertheless, his book is recommended for larger nonfiction collections and all business collections.ARichard S. Drezen, Washington Post News Research Ctr., Washington, DC\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geisst (Wall Street, 1997) does his best to make the history of American monopoliesa topic more complex than Parker Brothers ever imaginedaccessible to the general reader. Skating gracefully through a Hit Parade of Monopolies, Geisst takes a mildly Manichaean view of his subject. In his remarkably even-handed introductory course, the regulators are no more heroic than the monopolists. The operations of Standard Oil, the railroad combines, the giant mineral and power trusts, and the money monopolies are briefly described, and the personalities and practices of Jay Gould and Morgan the Elder, Henry Kaiser and Harold Geneen quickly sketched. (Note that none of them drew a\n <code>\n  go to jail'''' card; punishment, if any, was meted out to their corporations.) Aligned against the big businesses are the likes of Louis Brandeis, Upton Sinclair, and, latterly, Ralph Nader. Many of yesteryear''s villainously wealthy are recognizable from editorial cartoons of the day; certainly the caricatures wielded no small influence in the sporadic antitrust campaigns by various administrations. Sometimes strong, often weak, the impact of legislation like the Sherman, the Clayton, and the Robinson-Patman Acts depended less on predatory activity than on the political climate. Not so long ago, AT&amp;T was dismantled. Now the components are being reassembled in new horizontal monopolies. Still on the books, Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era restriction against amalgamations of financial businesses, is simply ignored today as banks, brokers, and insurers combine and recombine with a resourcefulness DNA might envy. Communication firms join in giant oligopolies. Microsoft''s nominal worth exceeds that of some nations. Mega-mergers often increase wealth, but rarely value. Modern robber barons, it seems, aren''t much different from those described by Charles Francis Adams, Ida Tarbell, or Gustavus Meyers. Geissts one-volume survey skims lightly but deftly over the intricate tale of American monopolies. (Illustrated with editorial cartoons, several of which can easily be attributed to artists who are identified as\n </code>\n unknown'''' in the captions). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(21114, 'Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: Five-Star Strategies for Success', 'Christine Benz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n GUIDE TO MUTUAL FUNDS SECOND EDITION "Picking actively managed mutual funds is no mean challenge. And as the recent era underscores, past performance is of little help. The Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds helps cut through the fog with a solid volume of constructive information. The central message--''truly diversify, keep it simple, focus on costs, and stick with it''--is not only timeless, it is priceless."--John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group "Successful investors know they must do their own due diligence. Morningstar has done much of that homework in this guide. Leave it to Morningstar to get it right, offering smart ways to pick, build and monitor a portfolio. It''s a commonsense guide that should grace every investor''s shelf."--Ted David, CNBC Anchor "There''s nothing Morningstar doesn''t know about mutual funds. And at last, for ready reference, there''s a book. You''ll find everything here you need to know about managing fund investments, inside or outside a 401(k)."--Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek columnist and author of Making the Most of Your Money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(21115, 'Mortality, Biochemistry, Diet and Lifestyle in Rural China: Geographic Study of the Characteristics of 69 Counties in Mainland China and 16 Areas in Taiwan', 'Junshi Chen &amp; Richard Peto &amp; Wen-harn Pan &amp; Bo-qui Liu &amp; T. Colin Campbell &amp; Jillian Boreham &amp; Banoo Parpia &amp; Patricia Cassano &amp; Zheng-ming Chen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book analyses patterns in rural China in the late 1980s: patterns of causes of death, of what people ate, what they smoked and drank, what kinds of houses they lived in, what they worked at, their education, and many measurements of their blood (for cholesterol, vitamins, evidence of infectious disease) and urine (for food metabolites and other factors). The variation is examined at the level of counties scattered all over mainland China and Taiwan, representing the extremes of values for deaths from specific cancers; ie the counties with the highest and the lowest rates of lung cancer, or the highest and lowest for liver cancer. Coincidentally, this covers the extremes of many of the other variables, such as the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, and smoking rates. The analysis that fills the pages is the correlation of all of these patterns, one variable at a time, with all the others. The question it answers is, "How well does the variation among the counties for one variable (eg cholesterol in the blood) correlate with the variation across China in deaths from different diseases (eg heart disease)?". If the correlation is strong, it may mean that the variables are related in some causal sense, although this cannot be assumed. If the correlation is weak, it means that the variation must be caused mainly by other factors. Importantly, if the correlation is weak, it does not necessarily mean that the two variables are not related; for example, a weak correlation between blood cholesterol and deaths from heart disease does not mean that cholesterol is not implicated in heart disease, but that in China other factors are more important. Each variable page is similarly arranged, and there are keys to interpreting each element at the beginning of major sections. The book also includes numerous extra tables in the back that give mean values for many variables. These can be useful as many of these values in China are so different from the much more available and common Western values. We tend to think of the range of Western variables as somehow ''normal'', without realizing that in China the mean value may not even be within the generally accepted normal range that we are used to.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sir Richard Peto was awarded a Knighthood in the 1999 Queen''s Birthday Honours List, for Services to Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Professor T Colin Campbell was awarded the 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cancer Research for the American Institute for Cancer Research Dr Wenharn Pan is holder of the Outstanding Research Award from the Taiwan Nutrition Society Professor Liu Boqi is Vice Chair and Senior Consultant of the Chinese Association of Smoking and Health\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(21116, 'The Motley Fool Tax Guide 2002: Money-Saving Tax Tips You Can Actually Understand', 'Roy A. Lewis &amp; Selena Maranjian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the rules often conflicting and confusing, and even the IRS offering disclaimers about the validity of its advice, its no wonder that so many people are terrified of taxes. This annually revised guide, now in its fourth year, makes simple sense of this complex area. Experts Roy Lewis and Selena Maranjian have included all the recent tax law changes as well as assembled a wealth of tips for managing not only the yearly chore of tax filing but also day-to-day activities that have tax implications. Included is sound advice on investment-related tax issues; the 2001 tax cut; and how to maximize tax savings opportunities that come with marriage, children, education, retirement, buying a home, and running a home office. A tax calendar and resource section help readers plan for April 15 all year round.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(21117, 'Multi Asset Class Investment Strategy', 'Guy Fraser-Sampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The book explains that instead of asset allocation being set in an isolated and arbitrary fashion, it is in fact the way in which specific hurdle investment returns can be targeted, and that this approach is already in use in the US (and has been for many years). It involves extended and detailed financial analysis of various asset class returns and proposes a five-asset class approach for future use.  Opening with a study of the historic asset allocation practice of UK pension funds, the book shows how the current approach has led to the present funding crisis. It goes on to compare and contrast the UK approach with that of the US and to propose a new approach to UK asset allocation: the five asset class approach ("MAC Investingâ€).  The book reviews and analyses different asset classes based on historic returns, examines risk, and concludes with a suggestion of the five asset classes to use; Quoted equities (both Domestic and foreign), hedge funds, private equity and property. This book also includes benchmark performance figures never previously published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(21118, 'The Mystery of Banking', 'Murray Newton Rothbard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about great timing. Rothbard''s extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can''t last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best, textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its hitosry and theory--is essentially unrivaled.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most notably, he uses the T account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking and how it sets the stage for centralization, inflation, and the boost-bust cycle.\n</p>\n<p>\n But there is more here. It is an explanation of money''s origins and its meaning in the free market. The abstract theory is here but always with real application in history and in modern banking practice. Never does a paragraph go by without an example drawn from his massive knowledge of the subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even further, he explains the integration between microeconomics and the business cycle. As Douglas French writes in the introduction: "Although first published 25 years ago, Murray Rothbard s The Mystery of Banking continues to be the only book that clearly and concisely explains the modern fractional reserve banking system, its origins, and its devastating effects on the lives of every man, woman, and child. It is especially appropriate in a year that will see; a surge in bank failures, central banks around the globe bailing out failed commercial and investment banks, double-digit inflation rates in many parts of the world and hyperinflation completely destroying Zimbabwe s economy, that a new edition of Rothbard s classic work be republished and made available through the efforts of Lew Rockwell and the staff at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Priced affordably for students and laymen interested in the vagaries of banking and how inflation and business cycles are created."\n</p>\n<p>\n Further, Joseph Salerno explains in the Foreword: "The Mystery of Banking is perhaps the least appreciated work among Murray Rothbard s prodigious body of output. This is a shame because it is a model of how to apply sound economic theory, dispassionately and objectively, to the origins and development of real-world institutions and to assess their consequences. It is institutional economics at its best. In this book, the institution under scrutiny is central banking as historically embodied in the Federal Reserve System the Fed for short the central bank of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rothbard s presentation of the basic principles of money-and-banking theory in the first eleven chapters of the book guides the reader in unraveling the mystery of how the central bank operates to create money through the fractional-reserve banking system and how this leads to inflation of the money supply and a rise in overall prices in the economy. But he does not stop there. In the subsequent five chapters he resolves the historical mystery of how an inherently inflationary institution like central banking, which is destructive of the value of money and, in the extreme case of hyperinflation, of money itself, came into being and was accepted as essential to the operation of the market economy."\n</p>\n<p>\n Incredibly, both authors correctly anticipate the current crisis -- and Rothbard explains it all and shows the way out. This is certainly the book for today, more essential than ever before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(21119, 'Myths of the Free Market', 'Kenneth S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Myths of the Free Market is arguably the most significant book in economics and politics since John Maynard Keynes. It systematically presents a broad range of telling criticisms of free market economics, criticisms that have not been presented elsewhere. Despite our genuine faith in the free market, laissez faire has not maximized wealth. When we moved from the purer free market policies of the 1920s and early 1930s to the proto-socialism of Roosevelt, our economic growth increased. As we have moved back to a purer free market, growth has slowed. We have lagged our trading partners who have mixed economies. Nor is this new. In the late 1800s the mixed economies of Bismarck''s Germany and Meiji Japan outperformed the relatively free market economies of Great Britain and France. It is worse. Even in principle, laissez faire cannot work - it is incompatible with institutions that increase wealth. Patent protection is one example, easily generalized. It is worse yet. Laissez faire promotes the excessive concentration of wealth and exposes us all to avoidable danger. Over the last millennium there has been a 200-300 year cycle of wealth dispersion. Each time wealth disparity grew beyond a critical point it presaged decline and disaster for all of society. We now have the greatest disparity of wealth in our history. Kenneth Friedman holds an MS in Physics and PhD in Philosophy of Science from MIT. He has been interviewed in Barron''s and on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(21120, 'The NASDAQ Trader&#39;s Toolkit', 'M. Rogan Labier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing has changed the markets more in the last few years than the advent of direct access, the combination of NASDAQ Level II quotes and direct order routing which together enable savvy traders to "hit" bids and offers and go up against the market makers. But just having access to these tools is not enough. Knowing how to use the tools-quickly and expertly-is key. In The NASDAQ Trader''s Toolkit, a former market maker reveals the secrets of NASDAQ trading systems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(21121, 'A New Conception of Sign Rulership', 'Lorne Edward Johndro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/440');
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(21122, 'New Era Value Investing: A Disciplined Approach to Buying Value and Growth Stocks', 'Nancy Tengler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for New Era Value Investing\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "No other book reveals so much about how a portfolio manager looks at the world. You will see how the transformation in the U.S. economy and stock market in the 1990s caused this seasoned value investor to transfo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(21123, 'A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia: Process and Outcomes in Infrastructure Industries', 'Yung Chul Park &amp; Yunjong Wang &amp; Takatoshi Ito', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''The general topic is important and highly policy relevant; the authors are well-known, outstanding specialists; and the contents are very good, and very readable. I am impressed by the substance evidently embodied in each chapter. The discussion and analysis is sensible and appropriately careful, nuanced, and cautious. The text is well written, logical and clear and I am confident this book will have great appeal among scholars and market practitioners. The topics are important, even hot, and will continue to be.'' - Hugh Patrick, Center on Japanese Economy and Business Columbia Business School, US"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This book contends that the East Asian financial constitution lacks an appropriate infrastructure, resulting in inefficient allocation of high savings and an over-inflated short-term debt market. It goes on to point out that despite high savings, East Asiaâ€™s dependency on financial centers outside the region is also relatively high, and that there is no strong region-wide network to connect various financial centers in East Asia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Against this economic background, the contributors make recommendations for the establishment of effective and stable capital recycling in East Asia. The financial intermediary function of the regional financial centers - Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo - is evaluated. Discussion focuses on the issues of building an organic network between the financial markets of major economies in the region and enhancing the future role and function of those regional financial centers. The policy implications of the future development of regional financial markets - based on regional financial networks - that could potentially act as intermediaries between the high savings and productive sectors in East Asia are also examined.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Concentrating on the major issues identified as central to building a new financial market structure in East Asia, this book will be appeal to those with a special interest in Asian studies and financial economics.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(21124, 'New Market Timing Techniques: Innovative Studies in Market Rhythm &amp; Price Exhaustion', 'Thomas R. Demark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the world''s foremost authority on chart analysis-- a practical new treatise on mastering powerful trading tools and systems\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the sequel to his best-selling book, The New Science of Technical Analysis, Tom DeMark refines the most popular and precise of his indicators with exacting new attention to real-time trading applications. For the first time, DeMark shares his powerful new indicator, TD Combo, which when combined with the highly popular Sequential Combination is a powerful new tool for understanding market rhythm and calculating price points.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n THOMAS DeMARK (Phoenix, Arizona) and his technical indicators have been a major force at some of the largest and most successful trading operations in the world, including his own firm, Devan Capital.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sequel to the best-selling trading book of 1995, The New Science of Technical Analysis, by one of the most respected and authoritative voices in the industry. DeMark shares--for the first time anywhere--the complete details of a new indicator: TD Combo which, when used in conjunction with his popular TD Sequential, equips traders with a powerful new tool for understanding market rhythms and calculating buy and sell opportunites. In addition, he offers detailed material on indicator construction, application, and interpretation, and makes it much easier for traders to implement his revolutionary concepts in real-time situations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(21125, 'The New Market Wizards: Conversations With America&#39;s Top Traders', 'Jack D. Schwager', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In these absorbing interviews with star performers in the financial markets, Schwager ( Market Wizards ) humanizes the mechanics and psychology behind billion-dollar daily world trading in such sophisticated instruments as currencies, stock options, commodity futures, and mutual-fund accounts by individuals, investment firms and group-trading computerized "money machines." One trader focuses on market response to news events, another calculates mathematical probabilities--one even cocks an ear to the noise level on the exchange floor. All rank assiduous research, self-confidence, a specific plan and the courage to cut losses among essentials to success. Few consider their work gambling, but Schwager entertainingly argues that a successful trader needs many of the qualities of a good poker player. Though the subject matter is esoteric, there is much here to attract the general reader, and Schwager appends a "primer" of technical basics.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Should be required reading for anyone who selects managers for institutional or even personal portfolios." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Futures Industry\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(21126, 'The New Reality of Wall Street : An Investor&#39;s Survival Guide to Triple Waterfalls and Other Stock Market Perils', 'Donald Coxe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  An investor''s survival guide to avoiding costly dangers in today''s uncertain markets\n </b>\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n That the "bubble burst" in 2000 is really a misnomer. The fall of the markets actually marked a seldom-seenâ€”but always dangerousâ€”triple\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(21127, 'The New Technical Trader: Boost Your Profit by Plugging Into the Latest Indicators', 'Tushar S. Chande &amp; Stanley Kroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Extremely well-organized, comprehensive and written within the context of real-world trading, this guidebook integrates new methods of technical analysis with strategies for effective risk control and money management. Linear regression analysis, new momentum oscillators, VIDYA, Qstick, typical trade profile and contingency planning are among the topics discussed. Tutorials and practical examples explain indicators in detail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(21128, 'New Trading Dimensions: How to Profit From Chaos in Stocks, Bonds, and Commodities', 'Bill Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill freely shares his knowledge &amp; experience &amp; offers sound, tested principles. ...should be required reading for market technicians. --\n <em>\n  John Hill, President, Futures Truth Company\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill has a gift for explaining successful trading concepts.\n</p>\n<p>\n This compelling work belongs in every trader''s library. --\n <em>\n  George Angell, Author, "Profitable Day-Trading with Precision:\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Williams'' wisdom, technical expertise, and skillful teaching style makes this a revolutionary must-have new book for stock and commodity traders. --\n <em>\n  Tom Bierovic, Product Manager for User Education, Omega Research, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A powerful new way to navigate today''s unprecedented market conditions\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bill Williams'' pioneering application of chaos theory to the financial markets is leading technical analysis into the twenty-first century and beyond. New Trading Dimensions presents a complete, highly original, and intriguing trading method with clear, detailed illustrations, and challenging practice pages. Bill''s wisdom, technical expertise, and skillful teaching style make this a revolutionary must-have new book for stock and commodity traders." -Tom Bierovic, Product Manager for User Education, Omega Research, Inc.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bill hits the nail on the head. The essence of successful trading is a combination of knowing who you are and allowing the market to reveal its secrets. Bill Williams has the gift of explaining these concepts better than anyone I know. This is a compelling work that belongs in every trader''s library." -George Angell, author, Profitable Day-Trading with Precision\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bill Williams is one of the great educators of our time. He freely shares his knowledge and experience in this inexpensive book. This book is required reading for all market technicians. The principles are sound as we have tested them with our software." -John Hill, President, Futures Truth, Co.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bill Williams has always been an excellent teacher, taking complex terms and concepts and translating them into a clear, commonsense approach to trading. This book provides a complete trading program that reflects Bill''s years of wisdom and experience in the marketplace." -Darrell Jobman, Editorial Consultant and former Editor-in-Chief of Futures magazine\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n As today''s market environment continues to change dramatically, more and more traders are discovering that traditional forecasting methods-pure technical analysis and fundamental analysis-just do not work. Sending out contradictory messages, these opposing schools of thought leave investors baffled about the future direction of the market, and consequently, at a loss as to how to tailor their trading systems. As a result, many practitioners have now turned to a new forecasting "cocktail" that combines traditional charting methodologies with chaos theory and human psychology. In this groundbreaking book, Bill Williams, a seasoned trader at the forefront of this dynamic new approach, explains exactly what it is, how it works in current stock and commodity markets, and how to use it to your advantage.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on human nature rather than the vagaries of the market, the new trading dimension works on the premise that we trade not the market, but our own belief system. By assessing what your personal biases are, you can determine how they influence your ultimate success-or failure-and then adjust your trading strategies accordingly.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by an expert in the field who has been featured in Futures, Worth, Success, and other prominent publications, New Trading Dimensions takes the latest in scientific knowledge about human behavior and applies it directly to the fields of stock and commodity investing and trading. With straightforward guidelines, it shows you how to adopt the right attitude toward the behavior of the market and use the right tools (ATTITOOLS) for profitable trading. Packed with practice exercises, specific applications to different types of investments, and a detailed review of important market signals, here''s where you''ll learn how to:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Discover what the market wants and align your own beliefs with the direction of the market\n  <br />\n </em>\n Apply chaos theory to trading and investing\n <br />\n <em>\n  Use Williams'' "Market Alligator" for analyzing and profiting from the markets\n  <br />\n </em>\n Employ a multidimensional trading program that includes such tools and techniques as fractals, oscillators, AC signals, psychological zones, and balance lines\n <br />\n * Exit trades in a timely fashion to reap high returns\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing on the author''s more than forty years of experience as both a successful trader and seasoned trainer, this invaluable guide offers a breakthrough method that has proven its ability to turn investors into consistent winners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(21129, 'New Ways for Managing Global Financial Risks: The Next Generation', 'Michael H. Hyman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Looks at the present state-of-the-art in global financial risk management, and then at the innovations and solutions that are being developed to solve the problems with current methodologies. The author presents a closely reasoned explanation of why the traditional quantitative methods are no longer adequate and argues the case for the hybrid instrument that will arise from the merging of the capital and insurance markets.Â \n <strong>\n  New Ways for Managing Global Financial Risks\n </strong>\n will allowÂ readers to think differently about how global financial risk is managed, and how to simplify the process.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New Ways for Managing Global Financial Risks\n </em>\n is about the creation of new financial instruments which enable companies of all kind to manage their non-core global financial risks in a more cost efficient, hedge efficient, transparent and counter party diversified manner than what is available today in the global capital and insurance markets. This subject is about delivering a new financial instrument and a new business process in which to transfer those global financial risks into the marketplace. The uses of traditional derivative instruments are not easy to use and often times do not produce the expected hedging results due to correlation deviation and hedge deviation.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The reader will learn about the present issues, constraints and problems facing users of traditional derivative instruments and the ability of the global financial system to deliver risk mitigation solutions.\n </li>\n <li>\n  They will learn about the global financial risks that are affecting their companyâ€™s bottom-line; how they are affecting them in ways they may not be aware. The reader will learn about the ways in which they can manage non-core global financial risks; currencies, hard commodities along with equity and bond portfolio risks affecting insurance reserve management and pension fund investments.\n </li>\n <li>\n  They will learn about why traditional financial risk mitigation instruments, (derivative instruments such as futures and options contracts) do not always provide the hedging effectiveness expected.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The reader will also learn about the global capital pipeline in which global capital flows, in a similar way as oil flows; there are too few pipelines for global capital to flow â€“ a systemic financial risk - and the reader will learn about the new or next generation pipeline for global capital being built today.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to manage non-core global financial risks more effectively; providing a peace of mind experience; a relief that there is a better way to getting rid of global financial risk aches &amp; pains.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn how to apply the new instruments and risk distribution process to their own financial issues.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn from real-life problems and case studies used throughout the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(21130, 'No Bull Investing: Straightforward Advice to Maximize Your Returns in Any Market, With Any Amount of Money', 'Jake Bernstein &amp; Jacob Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Investors, shaken by stock market turbulence, are looking for solid, trustworthy sources of financial advice. "No Bull Investing" will help investors make savvy investing decisions today in order to achieve their financial goals tomorrow. In his new book, "No Bull Investing," Bernstein offers readers an approach to investing that incorporates more than just money. In order to achieve long-term financial success, investors must evaluate what is important to them and what steps they must take to get where they want to be. In clear, straightforward language, Bernstein shows investors how to address these issues and use the information to make smart investing decisions. Jake Bernstein is renowned for his smart, forthright approach to investing. Now, he applies that reader-friendly style to a new book designed to help investors navigate the rough terrain of today''s financial landscape. "No Bull Investing" shows investors every step on the road to financial security, from identifying credible sources of financial advice to smart strategies for every level of wealth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(21131, 'One Strategy for all Markets', 'J.L.Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(21132, 'The One Week Budget: Learn to Create Your Money Management System in 7 Days or Less!', 'Tiffany The Budgetnista Aliche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(21133, 'Operational Risk With Excel and VBA: Applied Statistical Methods for Risk Management', 'Nigel Da Costa Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A valuable reference for understanding operational risk  Operational Risk with Excel and VBA is a practical guide that only discusses statistical methods that have been shown to work in an operational risk management context. It brings together a wide variety of statistical methods and models that have proven their worth, and contains a concise treatment of the topic. This book provides readers with clear explanations, relevant information, and comprehensive examples of statistical methods for operational risk management in the real world.  Nigel Da Costa Lewis (Stamford, CT) is president and CEO of StatMetrics, a quantitative research boutique. He received his PhD from Cambridge University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(21134, 'Option Greeks for Profit', 'J.L.Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(21135, 'Option Selling for Profit: The Builder&#39;s Guide to Generating Design Center Revenue for Profit', 'Gina Gullo &amp; Angela Rinaldi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To be a successful full-service home builder in today s market you must offer more than just a well-built home you must give your customers the opportunity to design a home that suits their individual tastes and lifestyles. By offering a range of options\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(21136, 'Option Theory (The Wiley Finance Series)', 'Peter James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book DescriptionA unified development of the subject, presenting the theory of options in each of the different forms and stressing the equivalence between each of the methodologies.\n <br />\n * Demystifies some of the more complex topics.\n <br />\n * Derives p\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(21137, 'The Option Trader Handbook: Strategies and Trade Adjustments', 'George Jabbour &amp; Philip H. Budwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Strategies, tools, and solutions for minimizing risk and volatility in option trading An intermediate level trading book, The Option Trader Handbook, Second Edition provides serious traders with strategies for managing and adjusting their market positions. This Second Edition features new material on implied volatility; Delta and Theta, and how these measures can be used to make better trading decisions. The book presents the art of making trade adjustments in a logical sequence, starting with long and short stock positions; moving on to basic put and call positions; and finally discussing option spreads and combinations.  Covers different types of underlying positions and discusses all the possible adjustments that can be made to that position Offers important insights into more complex option spreads and combinations A timely book for today''s volatile markets  Intended for both stock and option traders, this book will help you improve your overall trading skills and performance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(21138, 'The Option Trader&#39;s Guide to Probability, Volatility, and Timing', 'Jay Kaeppel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The leverage and profit potential associated with options makes them very attractive. But you must be prepared to take the financial risks associated with options in order to reap the rewards.The Option Trader''s Guide to Probability, Volatility, and Timing will introduce you to the most important concepts in options trading and provide you with a working knowledge of various options strategies that are appropriate for any given situation. Whether you?re a new trader or "returnee" to the options market, this book will not just teach you about options, it will teach you how to successfully trade them.This comprehensive trading guide includes: An overview of the most valuable uses for optionsAn introduction to basic option terminologyAn explanation of the most useful trading strategies available, including risk curves, and the conditions to look for when determining which strategies to employGuidelines for exiting a trade at a loss and exiting a trade at a profitAnd much moreIn clear, easy-to-follow terms, The Option Trader''s Guide to Probability, Volatility, and Timing arms you with the facts you need to understand options as well as choose and use profitable options trading strategies. From time decay, market timing, and volatility to naked options, covered calls, and butterfly spreads, this comprehensive guide will help you trade options intelligently and confidently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(21139, 'The Option Trader&#39;s Workbook: A Problem-Solving Approach', 'Jeff Augen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œUnlike most books that oversimplify trading situations, Augen''s approach forces you to learn by solving real-world problems where stock prices spike up and down and volatility changes constantly. Learning by doing is a distinct advantage for both novice and expert.â€ --Sean Sztern,Alternative Strategies Group, Desjardins Securities â€œThis workbook represents a unique and effective learning tool. It will broaden your understanding of options and raise your trading skills to a higher level.â€ --Dr. W. Edward Olmstead,Northwestern University, author of Options for the Beginner and Beyond â€œSerious options trading requires skills that can only be learned through practice. Augen''s progressively more challenging problems definitely provide that real-world practice. There are lessons here for everyone, from beginner to sophisticated professional.â€ --James Marcus,Partner, CMG Holdings, LLC Most options books offer theory and strategies but don''t give you what you really need: hands-on practice that prepares you for real-world trading, where subtle decisions make the difference between winning and losing. Now, there''s a solution: The Option Trader''s Workbook. Using a question and answer format, this innovative workbook covers key scenarios you''ll encounter as an option trader. Expert trader Jeff Augen explains the challenges they present, reveals the potential pitfalls, and walks you through each example to help you understand how to maximize your success. You''ll master trades designed to profit from rising or falling stock prices, rising or falling volatility, time decay, rapid price spikes, and many other market dynamics. Each section helps you build your skills one trade at a time---whether you''re new to options or you''ve been trading for years. Learn by doing--not by reading or memorizing Practice real decision-making inreal trading situations Gain a detailed, intuitive understanding of pricing Understand exactly what must happen for your trade to be profitable Learn to identify efficient trade structures Avoid errors that cause losses even when you''ve correctly predicted a stock''s direction Learn how to manage risk effectively Optimize profits by choosing the right option strategy for a particular situation Use complex trading strategies with confidence Master highly profitable techniques used by professionals\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(21140, 'Options and Options Trading: A Simplified Course That Takes You From Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes', 'Robert W. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can useToo many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options Trading breaks the code that envelops the often-foreign language of options, providing an accessible introduction into how the options market works as it explains the rules that traders must understand if they hope to take part in this high-leverage, high-profit game. Author Robert Ward''s goal is simple--to demystify the tangled world of options trading without leaving readers too confused and frustrated to continue. The book to read before continuing on to the more detailed, and much higher-level, existing library of options trading guides, Options and Options Trading features:End-of-chapter material including "Things to Think About" and "Key Concepts" Simplified explanations of complex mathematical equations Step-by-step rationales to help readers move from basic to complex\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(21141, 'The Options Course Woorkbook', 'George Fontanillis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(21142, 'The Options Course Workbook: Step-By-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master the Options Course', 'George Fontanills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A comprehensive study companion to The Options Course, Second Edition In The Options Course Workbook, Second Edition, George Fontanills offers a wealth of practical exercises that will help further the readers'' understanding of options, as well as test and apply what they''ve learned before they take their first step into the real markets-where time and money are luxuries they cannot afford to lose. This hands-on companion to The Options Course, Second Edition includes a complete answer key and covers a wide range of options issues. George A. Fontanills (Miami, FL) is the President Emeritus of Optionetics, the world leader in Options Education, with offices around the world specializing in teaching high-profit, low-risk, low-stress option trading strategies (www.optionetics.com.) George also runs a hedge fund and money management company. He has written many books, including Trade Options Online (0-471-35938-6), The Volatility Course (0-471-39816-0), The Volatility Course Workbook (0-471-39817-9), and The Stock Market Course (0-471-39315-0)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/412'),
(21143, 'The Options Course: High Profit &amp; Low Stress Trading Methods', 'George Fontanills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Well-known options strategist and instructor George Fontanills has fully updated his time-trusted and bestsellingÂ book, The Options Course.Â  Presenting a comprehensive options trading curriculum for traders of all kinds, Fontanills has improved and expanded upon allÂ the invaluable information and advice offered in the original.Â Â This book really does act as an all-inclusive course, proceeding from introductory concepts to the more sophisticated strategies for the intermediate-level trader.Options trading continues to capture the mind of the sophisticated individual investor. In these heady markets even more investors have been bitten by the options bug.Â  However,Â many lose money because they either donâ€™t understand the fundamentals of the options market, lack a strategic plan, or fail to manage risk effectively. The Options Course, Second EditonÂ is an invaluable toolÂ sure toÂ help investors avert bad decisions and gain a competitive edge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(21144, 'Options Demystified', 'Thomas A. Mccafferty &amp; Thomas Mccafferty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In good times and bad, you need to know your OPTIONSMarket volatility is at a record high, which has investors running scared. You donâ€™t have to be one of them. Whether your goal is to protect your money in a downturn or profit handsomely from an upturn, trading options is the answer.Options DeMYSTiFieD reveals why today''s smartest investors rely on the versatility of the options marketplaceâ€”and how you can too! With its quick, snappy explanations and easy-to-understand examples, it provides the knowledge you need to start trading options like a pro in no time. Chapter-ending quizzes and a comprehensive final exam round out Options DeMYSTiFieD into a comprehensive self-teaching guide that allows you to learn at your own pace.This fast and easy guide has everything you need to:Protect your investments from market downturnsâ€”even those in your IRA or 401(k) Increase income from stocks you already own Multiply the leverage you have in the market to max out your profits Manage the risk of investing without decrease profit potentialEngage in more complex trading, such as covered calls, spreads, straddles, and hedgesSimple enough for a beginner but challenging enough for an advanced trader, Options DeMYSTiFieD has what you need to build a solid foundation in options trading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(21145, 'The Options Edge: Winning the Volatility Game With Options on Futures', 'William R. Gallacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(21146, 'Options Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies', 'The Options Institute: The Educational Division Of The Chicago Board Options Exchange', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(21147, 'The Options Handbook: How to Supercharge Your Option Trading Profits With Bernard Schaeffer', 'Bernard Schaeffer &amp; Investment Research Institute, Inc', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(21148, 'Options Primer', 'MarketWise Trading School', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(21149, 'Options Trading: The Hidden Reality', 'Charles M. Cottle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(21150, 'Options, Futures &amp; Other Derivatives, 3nd', 'John Hull', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/397'),
(21151, 'Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies, 2nd Edition', 'The Options Institute', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(21152, 'The Outer Game of Trading: Modeling the Trading Strategies of Today&#39;s Market Wizard', 'Robert Koppel &amp; Howard Abell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(21153, 'Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis', 'Ganapathy Vidyamurthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first in-depth analysis of pairs trading Pairs trading is a market-neutral strategy in its most simple form. The strategy involves being long (or bullish) one asset and short (or bearish) another. If properly performed, the investor will gain if the market rises or falls. Pairs Trading reveals the secrets of this rigorous quantitative analysis program to provide individuals and investment houses with the tools they need to successfully implement and profit from this proven trading methodology. Pairs Trading contains specific and tested formulas for identifying and investing in pairs, and answers important questions such as what ratio should be used to construct the pairs properly. Ganapathy Vidyamurthy (Stamford, CT) is currently a quantitative software analyst and developer at a major New York City hedge fund.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(21154, 'Paranormal Case Files of Great Britain', 'Malcolm Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ghost''s and hauntings... these words convey to some individuals, an in-depth fear of the paranormal. The chilling thought that deceased persons have in some cases, returned from the grave to once again appear, if only in shadowy forms, and to fill us with fear of their grimly presences, is a fact that few seriously minded persons cannot now dismiss. Strange tales of ghosts and hauntings can be found from all corners of the earth and records show that accounts of ghostly presences go well back into antiquity. As a researcher on the paranormal, Malcolm takes from his files, incredible tales of ghosts and paranormal events. He also shares with us his own ghostly encounters of which he has had more than his fair share. This book covers some amazing cases from haunted council houses to haunted castles. Malcolm brings forward personal accounts from people who have had first hand dealings with ghosts. Their testimonies will shock and in a court of law these would be hard to dismiss. Malcolm has lectured extensively on UFOs and the Paranormal all over the UK, Ireland and Holland, and was the first Scot to lecture on American soil in Laughlin Nevada in 2009. Malcolm has appeared regularly on TV both in the UK and all over the world and has assisted newspapers and radio stations with information on UFOs and the Paranormal. In this his second book, Malcolm clearly shows that within the pages of this book, evidence can be found of ghosts that will make even the biggest of sceptics sit up and take notice. Britain is known worldwide for its ghostly tales and this book contributes to the growing testimony that shows that whatever we may think ghosts are, there is no denying that, come what may, they are real as the cases from frightened witnesses in this book clearly show. A stunning and frightening look at some of Britain''s ghostly case files. Read on if you dare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/533'),
(21155, 'pat_10_10_03v5', 'Bill Eykyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(21156, 'Pattern Cycles: Mastering Short-Term Trading Through Technical Analysis', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(21157, 'Pattern Recognition and Trading Decisions (McGraw-Hill Trader&#39;s Edge)', 'Chris Satchwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Success in technical analysis is all about recognizing, and quickly acting on, patterns of market behavior.\n <i>\n  Pattern Recognition and Trading Decisions\n </i>\n shows active traders how to realize when a pattern is developing, distinguish b\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(21158, 'Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance', 'Paul Wilmott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, Second Edition is an accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students. Adapted from the comprehensive, even epic, works Derivatives and Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition, it includes carefully selected chapters to give the student a thorough understanding of futures, options and numerical methods. Software is included to help visualize the most important ideas and to show how techniques are implemented in practice. There are comprehensive end-of-chapter exercises to test students on their understanding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(21159, 'Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance', 'Paul Wilmott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition provides a thoroughly updated look at derivatives and financial engineering, published in three volumes with additional CD-ROM.Volume 1: Mathematical and Financial Foundations; Basic Theory of Derivatives; Risk and Return.The reader is introduced to the fundamental mathematical tools and financial concepts needed to understand quantitative finance, portfolio management and derivatives. Parallels are drawn between the respectable world of investing and the not-so-respectable world of gambling.Volume 2: Exotic Contracts and Path Dependency; Fixed Income Modeling and Derivatives; Credit RiskIn this volume the reader sees further applications of stochastic mathematics to new financial problems and different markets.Volume 3: Advanced Topics; Numerical Methods and Programs.In this volume the reader enters territory rarely seen in textbooks, the cutting-edge research. Numerical methods are also introduced so that the models can now all be accurately and quickly solved.Throughout the volumes, the author has included numerous Bloomberg screen dumps to illustrate in real terms the points he raises, together with essential Visual Basic code, spreadsheet explanations of the models, the reproduction of term sheets and option classification tables. In addition to the practical orientation of the book the author himself also appears throughout the bookâ€”in cartoon form, readers will be relieved to hearâ€”to personally highlight and explain the key sections and issues discussed.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(21160, 'PayTrading: From $2000 to $1 Million in 10 Years or Less', 'Eric Shawn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n PayTrading shows you how to turn a modest investment into a million dollars in ten years or less.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In simplest terms, PayTrading is a special kind of day-trading that incorporates the safety of value investing, while taking into account today''s volatile market conditions. Thousands of investors who use the system have enjoyed terrific results.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out what PayTrading is all about, and why this broadly appealing, comforting system beats day trading.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(21161, 'The Penny Stock Trading System', 'Donny Lowy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(21162, 'Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett', 'Warren Boroson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Warren Buffett''s investment strategy of buying and holding good stocks at good prices has proved profitable for thousands of investors. Now, with J.K. Lasser''s Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett you will learn how to use Buffett''s proven techniques to find a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(21163, 'The Pitfalls of Speculation', 'Gibson Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(21164, 'Pivot point Analysis in Stock Trading', 'Clif Droke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(21165, 'PLANETARY EFFECTS ON STOCK MARKET PRICES With Indicators for 1933 - 1934 - 1935', 'James Mars Langham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(21166, 'Planetary Harmonics of Speculative Markets', 'Larry Pesavento', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book provides absolutely phenomenal trend change dates, applies George Bayer''s Secrets of Forecasting Prices to financial markets, proves the validity of planetary harmonics, and illustrates hidden Fibonacci ratios.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was written for 5 reasons: (1) The financial community has become more receptive to the possibility of a connection between planetary events and price activity (fear and greed). (2) George Bayer was virtually unknown for more than 40 years and now is the time that this man''s research into astro-harmonics should become part of the public domain. (3) To illustrate the power and accuracy of planetary harmonics and stimulate your thoughts on the subject. (4) It allows us to share some of our continuing research and build a network of very intuitive traders with some incredible approaches to the market. (5) To give you the exact dates of certain events to 1995.\n</p>\n<p>\n To best benefit from using astro-harmonics, you must first familiarize yourself with the various approaches and how they intermingle. We feel this discipline of market cycles can be used for both short term and long term trading.\n</p>\n<p>\n The monographs interspersed throughout the book are written by Byron Tucker. Formerly, he managed Goldman-Sachs operation at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Larry Pesavento\n</p>\n<p>\n Larry is a trading mentor and a thirty year veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He supervised Drexel-Burnham-Lambertâ€™s Commodity Department in Los Angeles. Larry traded on and off the floor and trained over 200 traders. He is currently a contract trader for a large hedge fund.\n</p>\n<p>\n Larry seeks to distill and share his thirty years of market experience. His contribution is to teach others the "art and science" of trading. He is the author of six books on trading, and he periodically gives seminars on his pattern recognition style of trading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(21167, 'The Poker Face of Wall Street', 'Prepress 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(21168, 'The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, 3rd Edition', 'John Leslie Livingstone, Theodore Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(21169, 'Portfolio Theory and Performance Analysis', 'Noel Amenc &amp; Veronique le Sourd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For many years asset management was considered to be a marginal activity, but today, it is central to the development of financial industry throughout the world. Asset management''s transition from an "art and craft" to an industry has inevitably called integrated business models into question, favouring specialisation strategies based on cost optimisation and learning curve objectives. This book connects each of these major categories of techniques and practices to the unifying and seminal conceptual developments of modern portfolio theory.\n</p>\n<p>\n In these bear market times, performance evaluation of portfolio managers is of central focus. This book will be one of very few on the market and is by a respected member of the profession.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Allows the professionals, whether managers or investors, to take a step back and clearly separate true innovations from mere improvements to well-known, existing techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Puts into context the importance of innovations with regard to the fundamental portfolio management questions, which are the evolution of the investment management process, risk analysis and performance measurement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Takes the explicit or implicit assumptions contained in the promoted tools into account and, by so doing, evaluate the inherent interpretative or practical limits\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is a most extensive and remarkable synthesis of the contribution of best-known academics in finance to modern portfolio and market efficiencies theories. Indeed, a valuable hindsight and updating of the evolutionary perspective of portfolio management, investment process and performance analysis on multistyles and multiclasses assets. â€“\n <em>\n  Pierre Palasi, Chairman, LCF Rothschild Multimanagment\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A wonderful step forward in portfolio management texts! The book is a â€œsoup-to-nutsâ€ feast covering almost all aspects of portfolio management. It takes readers from the basic conceptual underpinnings through important issues such as VaR, extreme value distribution. It covers both equities and fixed income. The material is well laid out, up-to-date, and strikes a welcome balance between presenting the academic background for topics and providing a good feel for current industry practice. I also liked the fact the international issues surfaced frequently, as they should! â€“\n <em>\n  Terry Marsh, Professor of Finance, University of California, Berkeley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The contribution of Prof. Amenc and V. Le Sourd will undoubtedly enable practitioners and other investors alike to better apprehend the tools and techniques available to them, as well as their relevance, in making informed investment decisions in todayâ€™s increasingly turbulent and complex financial markets â€“\n <em>\n  Jean Castellini, Managing Director, Frank Russell Company Ltd (France)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sound investment decisions rest on identifying and selecting portfolio managers who are expected to deliver superior performance. Measuring the performance of portfolio managers is a challenging task, because performance must be evaluated in a risk-adjusted sense. In this book, NÃ¶el Amenc and VÃ©ronique Le Sourd provide the reader with an insightful account of how modern portfolio theory can be used to achieve relevant risk-adjusted performance evaluation. The authors have managed to compile a very comprehensive and structured overview of the set of statistical techniques used to distinguish systematic performance effects from pure chance and to account for the risks taken to earn them. This book is likely to become the reference work in portfolio performance evaluation â€“\n <em>\n  Lionel Martellini, PhD, Assistance Professor of Finance, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396');
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(21170, 'Portfolio Theory and Performance Analysis', 'Noel Amenc &amp; Veronique le Sourd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For many years asset management was considered to be a marginal activity, but today, it is central to the development of financial industry throughout the world. Asset management''s transition from an "art and craft" to an industry has inevitably called integrated business models into question, favouring specialisation strategies based on cost optimisation and learning curve objectives. This book connects each of these major categories of techniques and practices to the unifying and seminal conceptual developments of modern portfolio theory.\n</p>\n<p>\n In these bear market times, performance evaluation of portfolio managers is of central focus. This book will be one of very few on the market and is by a respected member of the profession.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Allows the professionals, whether managers or investors, to take a step back and clearly separate true innovations from mere improvements to well-known, existing techniques\n </li>\n <li>\n  Puts into context the importance of innovations with regard to the fundamental portfolio management questions, which are the evolution of the investment management process, risk analysis and performance measurement\n </li>\n <li>\n  Takes the explicit or implicit assumptions contained in the promoted tools into account and, by so doing, evaluate the inherent interpretative or practical limits\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is a most extensive and remarkable synthesis of the contribution of best-known academics in finance to modern portfolio and market efficiencies theories. Indeed, a valuable hindsight and updating of the evolutionary perspective of portfolio management, investment process and performance analysis on multistyles and multiclasses assets. â€“\n <em>\n  Pierre Palasi, Chairman, LCF Rothschild Multimanagment\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A wonderful step forward in portfolio management texts! The book is a â€œsoup-to-nutsâ€ feast covering almost all aspects of portfolio management. It takes readers from the basic conceptual underpinnings through important issues such as VaR, extreme value distribution. It covers both equities and fixed income. The material is well laid out, up-to-date, and strikes a welcome balance between presenting the academic background for topics and providing a good feel for current industry practice. I also liked the fact the international issues surfaced frequently, as they should! â€“\n <em>\n  Terry Marsh, Professor of Finance, University of California, Berkeley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The contribution of Prof. Amenc and V. Le Sourd will undoubtedly enable practitioners and other investors alike to better apprehend the tools and techniques available to them, as well as their relevance, in making informed investment decisions in todayâ€™s increasingly turbulent and complex financial markets â€“\n <em>\n  Jean Castellini, Managing Director, Frank Russell Company Ltd (France)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sound investment decisions rest on identifying and selecting portfolio managers who are expected to deliver superior performance. Measuring the performance of portfolio managers is a challenging task, because performance must be evaluated in a risk-adjusted sense. In this book, NÃ¶el Amenc and VÃ©ronique Le Sourd provide the reader with an insightful account of how modern portfolio theory can be used to achieve relevant risk-adjusted performance evaluation. The authors have managed to compile a very comprehensive and structured overview of the set of statistical techniques used to distinguish systematic performance effects from pure chance and to account for the risks taken to earn them. This book is likely to become the reference work in portfolio performance evaluation â€“\n <em>\n  Lionel Martellini, PhD, Assistance Professor of Finance, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(21171, 'Practical Elliot Wave Trading Strategies', '?', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(21172, 'Predict Market Swings With Technical Analysis', 'Michael McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fresh perspective on predicting the market The experience of Wall Street investment manager and analyst Michael McDonald offers a new perspective on how to navigate the turbulent ups and downs of the markets. His innovative approach to the stock market teaches investors how to use new investment strategies intended to replace the "buy and hold forever" strategies of yesterday. McDonald discusses what a "trading range" market is-a roller-coaster ride in which the market will neither gain nor lose much ground-and guides readers through this market with his proven investment strategies. This book provides an understandable way to make sense of the unpredictable stock market, taking into account more complex theories, including chaos and contrarian approaches. Along with his expert advice, McDonald presents four investing paradoxes that will help investors make smarter decisions now and predict where the market is heading, using his proven theories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(21173, 'Predicting Weather By the Moon', 'stephane daoust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(21174, 'Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments', 'Hrishikesh D. Vinod &amp; Derrick Peter Reagle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦most students in market finance would benefit from using it as an introduction to downside risks." (\n <em>\n  Journal of the American Statistical Association\n </em>\n , December 2005)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€¦presents the latest ideas in the field from the ground upâ€¦â€ (\n <em>\n  Zentralblatt MATH\n </em>\n , Vol. 1064 (15), 2005)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A timely approach to downside risk and its role in stock market investments\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When dealing with the topic of risk analysis, most books on investments treat downside and upside risk equally. Preparing for the Worst takes an entirely novel approach by focusing on downside risk and explaining how to incorporate it into investment decisions. Highlighting this asymmetry of the stock market, the authors describe how existing theories miss the downside and follow with explanations of how it can be included. Various techniques for calculating downside risk are demonstrated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book presents the latest ideas in the field from the ground up, making the discussion accessible to mathematicians and statisticians interested in applications in finance, as well as to finance professionals who may not have a mathematical background. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to explore the critical issues of finance, portfolio management, and securities pricing, this book:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Incorporates Value at Risk into the theoretical discussion\n </li>\n <li>\n  Uses many examples to illustrate downside risk in U.S., international, and emerging market investments\n </li>\n <li>\n  Addresses downside risk arising from fraud and corruption\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes step-by-step instructions on how to implement the methods introduced in this book\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers advice on how to avoid pitfalls in calculations and computer programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provides software use information and tips\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(21175, 'Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive Advantage', 'John Lawrence Daly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Three things can happen when establishing a product price. A price set too high is a lost sale that could have been profitable at a lower price. A price set too low is rewarded with unprofitable work. Only when a price is set appropriately does a company make both a sale and a profit. Just as activity-based costing and activity-based management revolutionized the cost accounting world, activity-based pricing will bring a disciplined approach to developing pricing. Activity-based pricing examines the relationships between price, cost and sales volume and how this relationship effects profitability. Pricing for Profitability joins the disciplines of marketing, economics, business strategy, engineering and cost accounting to achieve maximum profitability.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(21176, 'A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold', 'Peter L. Bernstein &amp; Paul A. Volcker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "This book reveals and discusses the link that still exists between money and gold."\n </em>\n (Finance &amp; Management Faculty, October, 2008)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as\n <em>\n  Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity\n </em>\n â€”which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the authorâ€”you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the proliferation of financial instruments, new areas of instability, and innovative capital market strategies, many economists and investors have lost sight of the fundamentals of the financial systemâ€”its strengths as well as its weaknesses.\n <em>\n  A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold\n </em>\n takes you back to the beginning and sorts out all the pieces.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Bernstein skillfully addresses how and why commercial banks lend and invest, where money comes from, how it moves from hand to hand, and the critical role of interest rates. He explores the Federal Reserve System and the consequences of the Fed''s actions on the overall economy. But this book is not just about the past. Bernstein''s novel perspective on gold and the dollar is critical for today''s decision makers, as he provides extensive views on the future of money, banking, and gold in the world economy.\n</p>\n<p>\n This illuminating story about the heart of our economic system is essential reading at a time when developments in finance are more important than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(21177, 'Principles of Corporate Finance', 'Richard A. Brealey &amp; Stewart C. Myers &amp; Franklin Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international finance students. In addition to updates on the financial crisis and other current events, new material has been added to make the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(21178, 'Principles: Princ Corp Fin +Sp+Pweb+Cp+Card', 'Richard A. Brealey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(21179, 'Private Equity: Transforming Public Stock Into Private Equity to Create Value', 'Harold Bierman Jr. &amp; Jr. &amp; Harold Bierman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Private Equity\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Harold Bierman has blended an excellent mix of important principles with real case study examples for a better understanding on a rather sophisticated finance subject."\n <br />\n â€“Edward M. Dudley, Vice President &amp; Gener\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(21180, 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science', 'Edwin T. Jaynes &amp; G. Larry Bretthorst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The standard rules of probability can be interpreted as uniquely valid principles in logic. In this book, E. T. Jaynes dispels the imaginary distinction between â€˜probability theoryâ€™ and â€˜statistical inferenceâ€™, leaving a logical unity and simplicity, which provides greater technical power and flexibility in applications. This book goes beyond the conventional mathematics of probability theory, viewing the subject in a wider context. New results are discussed, along with applications of probability theory to a wide variety of problems in physics, mathematics, economics, chemistry and biology. It contains many exercises and problems, and is suitable for use as a textbook on graduate level courses involving data analysis. The material is aimed at readers who are already familiar with applied mathematics at an advanced undergraduate level or higher. The book will be of interest to scientists working in any area where inference from incomplete information is necessary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(21181, 'Process Improvement for Effective Budgeting and Financial Reporting', 'Nils H. Rasmussen &amp; Christopher J. Eichorn &amp; Corey S. Barak &amp; Toby Prince', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The budget and financial reporting processes are well known sources of frustration for most CFOs. Seeking a quick fix to the problem, the common solution is to pour more money into new and better software. This leaves the root cause, the inefficient and dysfunctional underlying processes and routines, unaddressed. As this book shows, substantial and sustainable improvements are only achieved through an holistic approach to process improvement, technology, strategy, and people."\n <br />\n â€”Tom Henry Knudsen, Executive Vice President, Telenor Eiendom Fornebu AS, Proven methods for improving efficiency\n</p>\n<p>\n Corporations face a high turnover among financial managers, rapid changes in technology, lack of time and process redesign skills, and ongoing ambiguity about primary objectives behind the budgeting and financial reporting processes. Amid this frenzy, it is the fundamental efficiency of these processes that dramatically impact overall business performance. Process Improvement for Effective Budgeting and Financial Reporting provides financial managers with a compelling blueprint for increasing efficiency and eliminating waste of time and energy. Four operational experts lay out an 80/20 plan-improving 80% of processes in 20% of the time it would take to improve 100%-and explain a Business Process Improvement (BPI) plan that incorporates:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The emerging trends affecting financial managers today\n </li>\n <li>\n  Step-by-step process implementation\n </li>\n <li>\n  Interviews with industry leaders, consultants, and managers who have successfully instituted BPI plans\n </li>\n <li>\n  Appraisals of the available software that can help or hinder the process\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n There is no substitute for improved efficiency. CFOs, controllers, budget managers, and financial analysts will significantly benefit from adding this authoritative guide to their professional libraries.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a companyâ€™s financial executives inevitably come and go, there is little time or attention paid to improving the essential budgeting and financial reporting processes that in fact dramatically affect a businessâ€™s performance. New software has little effect when incorporated into inefficient routines and when new management styles fail to address fundamental procedural problems. Applying the famed 80/20 ruleâ€“improving 80% of processes in 20% of the time that it would take to improve 100%â€“four operational experts go straight to the heart of the matter, laying out a compelling blueprint for improving a variety of essential procedures in Process Improvement for Effective Budgeting and Financial Reporting.\n</p>\n<p>\n This much-needed guide combinesmethodology and systems from general business process improvement (BPI), as well as from business re-engineering theories, and applies them specifically to budgeting and reporting processes. Part One, "Introduction to Business Process Improvement," introduces readers to financial process analysis and the trends affecting managers today, while Part Two, "Business Process Improvement Project," takes readers step-by-step through actual project implementation. Part Three, "Designing the Ultimate Chart of Accounts," shows readers how to create a chart of accounts that easily adapts to changes and additions, remains clean and structured, and incorporates a code system that better captures relevant management information. Part Four, "Interviews," presents thoughtful discussions with professionals who have implemented BPI projects, BPI consultants, and technology gurus on common pitfalls and solutions. Part Five, "Software Tools and Resources," provides an in-depth look at the products available that can aid the BPI process and which specific tools may be appropriate for individual cases. Other topics covered include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How to sell change to your organization\n </li>\n <li>\n  Budgeting and reporting diagnostics\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to identify key budget process building blocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Software buyerâ€™s guide\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A companion Web site includes appendix material, such as sample nondisclosure contracts, consulting contracts, and business process improvement templates. Process efficiency is intimately related to business performance. Process Improvement for Effective Budgeting and Financial Reporting provides financial management with invaluable insights to help identify and improve processes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(21182, 'Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation', 'Mark R. Conway &amp; Aaron N. Behle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The trading techniques of professional stock traders are presented along with full source code. Advanced concepts such as pair trading, float trading, and geometric trading are developed into real trading systems with specific entry and exit points. The elements of money management, risk management, and position management are synthesized into a professional trading platform. Over 120 charts are presented with real-life trading examples and case studies. All of the trading patterns have been encoded into chart indicators along with pattern recognition functions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(21183, 'Profile of a Trading System', 'Kaufman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(21184, 'Profit With Options: Essential Methods for Investing Success', 'Lawrence G. Mcmillan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A comprehensive guide for beginners by the leading authority on options  Whether the markets are moving up or down, options remain one of the most attractive instruments for all investors. Profit with Options is a beginner''s guide to trading options, delivered in clear and engaging manner by options guru Lawrence McMillan. Starting with a basic explanation of terminology, McMillan explains complete trading methodologies with chapters on direct and contrary indicators, protecting a stock portfolio, and trading volatility. The "Q&amp;A" section in each chapter offers readers a chance to test their knowledge in real life trading situations. Whether you are looking for new investment sources in a bear market or seeking hedge protection in a bull, Profit with Options is a lively, one-stop reference and vital tool.  Lawrence C. McMillan is the President of McMillan Analysis Corporation. He publishes the newsletter The Option Strategist and the innovative fax service "Daily Volume Alerts," updating investors on unusual increases in equity option volume. He is the author of the bestselling Options as a Strategic Investment and McMillan on Options (Wiley: 0-471-11960-1).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(21185, 'Profitable Patterns for Stock Trading', 'Larry Pesavento', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intended audience is short term stock traders as well as long term stock investors. This book takes the trader/investor into the realm of the geometric patterns apparent in all stock charts. Easy to understand chart examples illustrate why these numbers from "sacred geometry" form the classical chart patterns and it demonstrates that these patterns can be quantified. The correct use of Fibonacci numbers in pattern recognition is fully explained. Covers intraday trading and longer term investing. Money management, risk control, and useful entry/exit techniques are discussed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(21186, 'Project Manager&#39;s Spotlight on Risk Management', 'Kim Heldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clear-Cut Ways to Manage Project RiskIf you''re a typical project manager, you''re probably aware of the importance of risk management but may not have the time or expertise to develop a full-blown plan. This book is a quick and practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven risk management practices without the rigor of complex processes.Part of the Project Manager''s Spotlight series from Harbor Light Press, this straightforward book offers solutions to real-life risk scenarios. Inside, best-selling author Kim Heldman highlights critical components of risk management and equips you with tools, techniques, checklists, and templates you can put to use immediately. By following a realistic case study from start to finish, you''ll see how a project manager deals with each concept. Ultimately, this book will help you anticipate, prevent, and alleviate major project risks.Project Manager''s Spotlight on Risk Management teaches you how toLook for and document riskAnticipate why projects failPrevent scope and schedule risksAnalyze and prioritize risksDevelop, implement, and monitor risk response plansAnd much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(21187, 'Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad', 'Richard A. Ferri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Techniques for individual investors to safeguard their money, even when markets fall backWhen attempting to "time" their way around market downturns, individual investors are up against thousands of professionals who are paid billions of dollars to do the same. Throw in unpredictable, marketspooking world events, and the odds against investment success can become even worse.Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad shows investors how to invest for the total market, not just for individual phases, and build a portfolio to weather all markets with long-term safety and security. Full of practical advice and easy-to-understand techniques and examples, this uniquely proactive guidebook provides proven strategies to:Know what news is important and act accordinglyInvest for specific needs, from college savings through long-term careDiversify assets to minimize risk and increase overall returns\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(21188, 'Protective Options Strategies: Married Puts and Collar Spreads', 'Ernie Zerenner &amp; Michael Chupka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "How many stock positions have you entered after meticulous analysis, only to have the stock move in the opposite direction that you anticipated?"  It has happened to every trader -- "the stock that got away." Now you can prevent it from happening again. The secret to minimizing your risk and meeting your goals is the use of the protective strategies you will find in this easy-to-use guide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(21189, 'PYRAPOINT', 'LARRY JACOBS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(21190, 'Pyrapoint for Ensign', 'Don E. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(21191, 'Quantitative Trading &amp; Money Management: A Guide to Risk Analysis and Trading Survival', 'Fred Gehm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(21192, 'Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business', 'Ernie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(21193, 'Quick Harmonic Trader', 'Thomas Long', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(21194, 'Quick Steps to Financial Stability', 'Alan Lavine &amp; Gail Liberman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Personal finance and money management are hot topics but straightforward advice is hard to find. According to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) 54% of Americans do not have a budget or a financial plan, though 78% of those surveyed intend to update or create a plan in the coming year. [CFA Press Release 5/13/03] Quick Steps to Financial Stability is the direct, step-by-step map that you need. Written by Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman, well-known authors and syndicated finance columnists, this book provides you with honest, easy-to-follow financial advice, focusing on simple financial management strategies. It is designed to give you a way to make immediate progress towards your financial goals. You''ll start with an honest assessment of your financial condition, as you analyse income, expenses, and the bottom line of your net worth. The authors then help you identify both long-term and short-term financial goals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(21195, 'R.N. Elliott&#39;s Market Letters: 1938-1946', 'Ralph Nelson Elliott &amp; Robert R. &amp; Jr. Prechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(21196, 'Real Estate Market Valuation and Analysis', 'Joshua Kahr &amp; Michael C. Thomsett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A fresh, insightful look at how real estate professionals actually value properties and analyze markets. The focus on different product types as well as market segments are especially useful." -- Barry Hersh, AICP, Associate Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning, City University of New York  This in-depth look at the core tools of real estate valuation will show you how to analyze the real estate market and assess the financial feasibility of a project. Many people go with their instincts or past experience when reviewing the financials and fail to utilize the useful data and analytical tools available in this field. Get the analytical data and tools you need to assess the financial feasibility of any project. The companion CD-ROM includes vital data so you can to see how household income, population, and crime are shaping the real estate landscape.  Order your copy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(21197, 'Real Options Analysis Course: Business Cases and Software Applications (with Real Options Toolkit Software CD-ROM)', 'JOHNATHAN MUN', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(21198, 'Real Options Analysis: Tools and Techniques for Valuing Strategic Investments and Decisions', 'JOHNATHAN MUN', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Most investors and risk managers are familiar with financial options. But the real option structure is embedded in billions of dollars of stocks traded every day, and strategic or investment decisions made by many companies. This book provides a qualitative description of real options, the methods used in solving real options, why and when they are used, and the applicability of these methods in decision-making. In addition, multiple business cases and real-life scenarios are discussed. Fully revised,Â this book provides the most flexible approach forÂ evaluating and valuing capital investment strategies, and the software tools necessary for decision-making support. It now includes a one-month trial software package,Â with the valuable real options to 1) extend the trial license timeperiod orÂ 2) convert from the trial package to unrestricted access of theÂ Super Binomial Lattice software ($1,000 retail price)Â at a discounted price\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(21199, 'Real Options in Practice', 'Marion A. Brach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Explores real option theory applied in practice  Real options are quickly becoming the valuation and decision-making method of choice for many companies, including oil and gas companies, utilities and natural resource companies, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, Internet companies, and many others.  Real Options in Practice allows readers to view the world of real options from the vantage point of a corporate practitioner applying real option valuation techniques on a regular basis. Expert Marion Brach describes the challenges of implementing a real option framework in practice within a corporate setting. Touching on the real options most firms care about, Real Options in Practice identifies the classic types of real options-deferral, abandonment, switching, expansion, and compound-and explores the main concepts critical to understanding real option theory. Through Brach''s own three-step real option valuation method readers will learn how the theory of real options is now being applied to drive better, more profitable corporate decision-making.  Marion A. Brach, MD, MBA (Hagen, Germany), has undertaken financial valuation of business opportunities and acquisitions using scenario and real option valuation in the biotech industry. A recognized expert on real option theory and practice, Brach received her MBA from the Manchester Business School and frequently speaks at real option seminars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(21200, 'The Real Warren Buffet, Managing Capital, Leading People', 'James O&#39;Loughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(21201, 'The Real World of Finance: 12 Lessons for the 21st Century', 'James S. Sagner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A manager''s guide to the radical changes in corporate finance\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Real World of Finance\n  </em>\n </strong>\n focuses on twelve traditional finance concepts that have been turned upside-down in the last ten years and guides the reader through new finance models so they can implement change in their own organizations. Interspersed throughout the text are examples of what Fortune 500 companies are doing to adapt their financial systems to the 21st century.\n <br />\n James Sagner (White Plains, NY) is a Principal of Sagner/Marks and has managed over 250 large-scale studies for companies and non-profit organizations worldwide. He is a faculty member at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, and author of over forty papers and articles that have appeared in a wide range of industry publications.\n</p>\n<p>\n Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management, asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The spectacular corporate triumphs and tragedies of the past ten years point to one indisputable fact: the rules have changed. Financial managers who want to succeed in a complex, global economy must reconsider conventional wisdom and adopt an entirely new set of guiding principles. Challenging twelve traditional finance concepts, James Sagner delivers a compelling vision of the future of financial management in The Real World of Finance: 12 Lessons for the 21st Century.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing upon real-world examples of Fortune 500 companies and including a discussion of Enron, Sagner demonstrates how current practices can set dangerous precedents and expose corporations to undue risk. In the past, for example, a large working capital meant that a company had a store of value to pay its creditors; now an excess of working capital is seen as a drag on performance and a rat''s nest of inventory and accounts receivable problems. Even a concept as simple as "profitability" has been compromised by companies trying to be all things to all customers, failing to separate profitable customers from their unprofitable counterparts, and mistakenly eliminating "marginal" businesses that are in fact critical to the bottom line.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n James Sagner concisely explains the realities of a new economy that has shifted its focus away from industry and toward finance, people, and information-all operating in a global environment.With his twelve easy-to-follow lessons, Sagner turns MBA dogma on its head, offering a revolutionary blueprint for success in the volatile new marketplace. He covers a variety of flashpoint topics, including:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Outsourcing\n  <br />\n </em>\n Access to credit\n <br />\n <em>\n  Strategic planning and capital budgeting\n  <br />\n </em>\n Audit and control\n <br />\n * Risk management\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Sagner also discusses the external focus of a CFO-acting as a conduit for a company''s financial health to the investment community and the board of directors-and why this new role is critical for a company''s success. The Real World of Finance is an absolute must-read for CFOs, treasurers, financial managers, controllers, and operations managers alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(21202, 'Real-Time Systems Specification, Verification and Analysis', 'Mathai Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(21203, 'Reverse Engineering Deals on Wall Street With Microsoft Excel: A Step-By-Step Guide', 'Keith Allman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A serious source of information for those looking to reverse engineer business deals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s clear from the current turbulence on Wall Street that the inner workings of its most complex transactions are poorly understood. Wall Street deals parse risk using intricate legal terminology that is difficult to translate into an analytical model.\n <em>\n  Reverse Engineering Deals on Wall Street: A Step-By-Step Guide\n </em>\n takes readers through a detailed methodology of deconstructing the public deal documentation of a modern Wall Street transaction and applying the deconstructed elements to create a fully dynamic model that can be used for risk and investment analysis.\n</p>\n<p>\n Appropriate for the current market climate, an actual residential mortgage backed security (RMBS) transaction is taken from prospectus to model by the end of the book. Step by step, Allman walks the reader through the reversing process with textual excerpts from the prospectus and discussions on how it directly transfers to a model. Each chapter begins with a discussion of concepts with exact references to an example prospectus, followed by a section called "Model Builder," in which Allman translates the theory into a fully functioning model for the example deal. Also included is valuable VBA code and detailed explanation that shows proper valuation methods including loan level amortization and full trigger modeling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aside from investment analysis this text can help anyone who wants to keep track of the competition, learn from others public transactions, or set up a system to audit oneâ€™s own models.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Reverse Engineering Deals on Wall Street with Microsoft Excel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Allman has written an excellent sequel to his first book\n <em>\n  Modeling Structured Finance Cash Flows with Microsoft Excel\n </em>\n , providing a simple guide on how to deconstruct cash flows through modeling and understanding the collateral by analyzing the prospectus. Whether you are new to the structured finance industry or steeped in structured financingâ€”this book is a must-read."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Ralph Armenta\n </strong>\n , PMI Mortgage Insurance/Structured Transactions\n</p>\n<p>\n "The credit crisis has shown that more financial institutions and analysts need to be able to reverse-engineer structured finance deals to assess their values and risks for themselves. Keith Allman has produced a thorough guide for creating reverse-engineered models that both beginners and experienced analysts will find invaluable."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Chandan Sengupta\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Financial Modeling Using Excel and VBA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A serious source of information for those looking to reverse-engineer business deals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n How does Wall Street keep track of the competition? They reverse-engineer deals by taking a prospectus or term sheet and recreating a model from it. The skills involved in this task are sophisticated, but are important to understandâ€”especially in today''s dynamic business environment.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this practical resource, financial professional Keith Allman demystifies the process by interpreting complicated legal terminology and clearly showing how it can be organized into a dynamic model. Step by step, Allman walks you through this endeavor with textual excerpts from the prospectus and details how it directly transfers to a model. Each chapter begins with a discussion of concepts with exact references to an example prospectus, followed by a section called "Model Builder," in which Allman translates the theory into a fully functioning model for the example deal. In addition, the companion CD-ROM features all of the modeling exercises, as well as a final version of the model that is outlined in the text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/498'),
(21204, 'Rich in America: Secrets to Creating and Preserving Wealth', 'Jeffrey S. Maurer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Advance Praise for Rich In Americ "I highly recommend Rich in America to investors of all economic levels. While certainly no company understands the wealthy better than U.S. Trust, Jeff Maurer has done a wonderful job of turning the wisdom he gathered during his distinguished career at this venerable institution into advice that will benefit anyone interested in making smarter financial decisions."Charles SchwabP&gt;"Jeff Maurer is uniquely qualified to advise the affluent and those who would be. Rich in America is packed with insight and wisdom gleaned from his long and tremendously successful career at the very pinnacle of wealth management."Timothy C. ForbesP&gt;"For thirty-three years, Jeff Maurer helped build U.S. Trust Corporation into one of the nationâ€™s most prominent and respected wealth managers. In this book, Jeff combines his own experience with the knowledge gleaned from a decade of U.S. Trust research into who the affluent are, how they earned their money, and how they keep it. The U.S. Trust approach to building and maintaining wealth makes relevant reading for anyone eager to provide for their own and their familyâ€™s financial well-being."Alan J. WeberP&gt;"Jeff Maurer has distilled more than three decades of investment advice to affluent clients into a concise, informative, and extraordinarily readable work. Readers who are trying to preserve accumulated assets, as well as those who are setting out to build substantial wealth, will profit from this wide-ranging book."James Poterba\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(21205, 'The Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years', 'Larry Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for The RIGHT STOCK at the RIGHT TIME\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A fundamentally good time to consider the strategies in this book. Macro-market timing, stock-specific approaches, money management revelations and intermarket analysis. Even better that it is written by\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(21206, 'Risk and Financial Management: Mathematical and Computational Methods', 'Charles S. Tapiero', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Financial risk management has become a popular practice amongst financial institutions to protect against the adverse effects of uncertainty caused by fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, and equity prices. New financial instruments and mathematical techniques are continuously developed and introduced in financial practice. These techniques are being used by an increasing number of firms, traders and financial risk managers across various industries. Risk and Financial Management: Mathematical and Computational Methods confronts the many issues and controversies, and explains the fundamental concepts that underpin financial risk management.Â Â   Provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics of risk and financial management. Adopts a pragmatic approach, focused on computational, rather than just theoretical, methods. Bridges the gap between theory and practice in financial risk management Includes coverage of utility theory, probability, options and derivatives, stochastic volatility and value at risk. Suitable for students of risk, mathematical finance, and financial risk management, and finance practitioners. Includes extensive reference lists, applications and suggestions for further reading.   Risk and Financial Management: Mathematical and Computational Methods is ideally suited to both students of mathematical finance with little background in economics and finance, and students of financial risk management, as well as finance practitioners requiring a clearer understanding of the mathematical and computational methods they use every day. It combines the required level of rigor, to support the theoretical developments, with a practical flavour through many examples and applications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(21207, 'Risk Management: With Applications From the Offshore Petroleum Industry', 'Terje Aven &amp; Jan-erik Vinnem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Risk management is a process to assist in the decision-making. The risk management process takes the potential hazards as a starting point, in order to identify suitable arrangements and measures for accident prevention and emergency response in case of an incident. Risk management is a useful approach to satisfy functional regulatory requirements to safety. Technological developments, organisational changes and increased demand for efficiency have influenced the vulnerability of our society. Thus, safety and risk management is becoming an important field.Risk Management with Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management, related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling and risk acceptance criteria. A decision framework for risk management is developed that provides a structure for the classification of risk decision problems and a procedure for the execution of the related decision-making processes. Several examples from the offshore petroleum industry are included to illustrate the use of the framework, but it can also be applied in other areas.With the inclusion of a risk management framework designed to achieve better decisions and therefore more desirable outcomes, Risk Management with Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry is a valuable resource for practitioners in the industry, engineering managers and regulatory authorities. Graduate students and researchers in risk management will find this book a comprehensive reference.Dr Terje Aven and Dr Jan Erik Vinnem are Professors of Risk Analysis and Management at the University of Stavanger, Norway.Springer Series in Reliability Engineering publishes high-quality books in important areas of current theoretical research and development in reliability, and in areas that bridge the gap between theory and application in areas of interest to practitioners in industry, laboratories, business, and government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(21208, 'Rocket Science for Traders: Digital Signal Processing Applications', 'John F. Ehlers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Predict the future more accurately in today''s difficult trading times The Holy Grail of trading is knowing what the markets will do next. Technical analysis is the art of predicting the market based on tested systems. Some systems work well when markets are "trending," and some work well when they are "cycling," going neither up nor down, but sideways. In Trading with Signal Analysis, noted technical analyst John Ehlers applies his engineering expertise to develop techniques that predict the future more accurately in these times that are otherwise so difficult to trade. Since cycles and trends exist in every time horizon, these methods are useful even in the strongest bull--or bear--market. John F. Ehlers (Goleta, CA) speaks internationally on the subject of cycles in the market and has expanded the scope of his contributions to technical analysis through the application of scientific digital signal processing techniques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(21209, 'Rules of the Trade', 'David S. Nassar', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rules of the Trade distills the insights of today''s most successful professional traders, generally available only in prohibitively costly seminars, into a detailed yet accessible paperback. Candid interviews outline the basic rules of trading survival, revealing how the experts enter and exit trades, select favorite trading stocks, hedge risk without biting into profits, and more. This insider''s answer book will show today''s 5 million-plus active traders how to preserve their trading capital, avoid operational and psychological errors, and succeed in the brutally competitive but highly lucrative trading profession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(21210, 'Safety in the Market: The Number One Trading Plan', 'David E. Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(21211, 'Safety in the Market: The Number One Trading Plan', 'David E. Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82');
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(21212, 'Scaling Methods', 'Peter Dunn-rankin &amp; Gerald A. Knezek &amp; Susan R. Wallace &amp; Shuqiang Zhang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   If you are, in any way, connected with the field of measurement...you have the satisfaction of knowing that the methods of interest to you will be readily available at your fingertips...the authors'' have encyclopedic and up-to-date knowledge of the field.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shlomo S. Sawilowsky, Ph.D.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Wayne State University\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ...this book is one of the few textbooks that have made scaling methodology manageable by students in behavioral sciences who may not have very strong quantitative backgrounds... .It is full of a wide variety of highly useful scaling methodologies and vivid examples. The authors have done an excellent job in explaining and simplifying what could have been potentially complicated issues.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Xiang Bo Wang, Ph.D.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Chauncey Group International\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Scaling Methods\n  </em>\n  is written for professionals in the behavioral sciences who analyze data that results from subjective responses. Other books on scaling attitudes or measuring perceptions focus on the psychometrician''s view of measurement. This book focuses on the users'' view by concentrating on effective ways to analyze data rather than the mathematical details of how each program works. The methods included handle the majority of data analysis problems encountered and are accompanied by a software solution. Each chapter features the theory surrounding that methodology, an example, a real-world application, and a computer solution.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book introduces the major uni- and multi-dimensional scaling method techniques most common in educational, social, and psychological research. Using four primary methods of data collection--ordering, categorical rating, free clustering, and similarity judgments--\n  <em>\n   Scaling Methods, Second Edition\n  </em>\n  explains how such data can be represented in ways that illustrate relationships among the data and help reveal underlying dimensional structures. Each method serves as an independent unit so readers can pick and choose from a variety of easy-to-use procedures and more advanced techniques. The new edition features a new chapter on order analysis and a CD-ROM that provides stand-alone, as well as SAS supported demonstrations of multi-dimensional scaling techniques, plus programs to get raw data into matrix form.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The text is written for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in education and the social and behavioral sciences interested in analyzing data resulting from subjective responses, especially in the measurement of attitudes. Each chapter is self-contained making this an excellent resource for use in the classroom or as a self-study tool. A first course in statistics is a helpful prerequisite.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(21213, 'Schaum&#39;s Outline of Principles of Economics (Schaum&#39;s)', 'Dominick Salvatore &amp; Eugene A. Diulio', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Many students find introductory economics interesting but difficult, so they will really appreciate this study tool designed to make the core material easier to understand. A summary and list of key terms begins each chapter, providing readers with a "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(21214, 'Science and Speculation', 'George Henry Lewes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(21215, 'The Secret Code of Japanese Candlesticks', 'Felipe Tudela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(21216, 'The Secret Science of Price and Volume', 'Tim Ord', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Secret Science of Price and Volume,\n </em>\n leading market timer Tim Ord outlines a top-down approach to tradingâ€”identifying the trend, picking the strongest sectors, and focusing on the best stocks within those sectorsâ€”that will allow you to excel in a variety of markets. With this book as your guide, youâ€™ll quickly become familiar with Ordâ€™s proven method and discover how it can be used to make more profitable trading decisions.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Price and volume analysis is a proven way to trade the markets. Pioneered by Richard Wyckoff during the early decades of the twentiethcentury, this technique continues to produce consistent profits for many practitioners.\n</p>\n<p>\n Over the course of his successful career, leading market timer Tim Ord has developed a distinct understanding of this discipline and built a winning trading strategy around it. Now, with The Secret Science of Price and Volume, he looks to share his invaluable insights with you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Secret Science of Price and Volume outlines a top-down approach to trading that will allow you to make the most of your time in a variety of marketsâ€”from stocks to commodities. With this book as your guide, you''ll quickly become familiar with Ord''s time-tested method and discover how it can be used to make more profitable trading decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Step by step, you''ll learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gauge the sentiment of a market to determine if the trend is bullish or bearish, and whether a possible high or low is nearby\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Evaluate breadth, volume, and momentum in order to identify triggers to enter the market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Find the best performing sectors that are aligned with the market\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Select the strongest stocks within those sectors\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Ord also illustrates various techniques for identifying trade setups, concentrating on the volume within a specific index or issue. Using these tools, he shows you how to "listen" to what the market is saying and move in concert with it, rather than making random trades based on one signal, a hunch, or rumors. Rounding out this detailed discussion, Ord replicates the sequence of steps you should take to create a successful game plan for winning in the market.\n</p>\n<p>\n By tackling the markets from the top downâ€”identifying the trend, picking the strongest sectors, and focusing on the best stocks within those sectorsâ€”you can capture high returns with low risk. The Secret Science of Price and Volume will help you to do this and much more, as it details a practical way to make better trades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(21217, 'Secrets of a Pivot Boss: Revealing Proven Methods for Profiting in the Market', 'Franklin O. Ochoa (jr.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(21218, 'The Secrets of Selecting Stocks for Immediate and Substantial Gains', 'Larry Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(21219, 'Secrets of the COT Report', 'Trade Stocks &amp; Commodities &amp; the Insiders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(21220, 'Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate', 'Martin Stone &amp; Spencer Strauss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Property ownership can create a comfortable retirement income.Stock market volatility is causing people to examine different investment options, and real estate is emerging as a leading choice. Learn how to create a fulfilling, predictable, and prosperous nest egg. "Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate," by two leading practitioners, Martin Stone and Spencer Strauss, presents time tested principles of planning, appraising, financing, purchasing and managing almost every type of profitable real estate investment. "Secure Your Financial Future Investing in Real Estate" advises readers how to build a retirement portfolio using techniques such as leverage, compound interest, and tax deferred exchanges. The authors believe that anyone who uses the moneymaking techniques can safely and successfully create a fulfilling, wealthy, and abundant retirement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(21221, 'Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett', 'Benjamin Graham &amp; Dodd David &amp; Seth Klarman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."--From the Foreword by Warren E. BuffettFirst published in 1934, "Security Analysis" is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, "the father of value investing," have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today''s leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today''s vastly different markets. The contributor list includes: Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of "Margin of Safety"James Grant, founder of "Grant''s Interest Rate Observer," general partner of Nippon PartnersJeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of "BusinessWeek"Roger Lowenstein, author of "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" and "When America Aged" and Outside Director, Sequoia FundHoward S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P.J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group .Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management.Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital ManagementBruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business SchoolDavid Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams CapitalFeaturing a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork "at least four times"), this new edition of "Security Analysis" will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing--more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(21222, 'Selective Forex Trading', 'Don Snellgrove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During the early days of the foreign exchange market, banks and other large financial institutions were the primary players in this field. Today, thanks in part to advances in technology, this market has quickly grown into a global electronic network of banks, financial institutions, and individual traders. With a reported volume of over $1.8 trillion changing hands every day, the time to get involved in this exciting global market has never been better.So how can you capture significant profits from the Forex market? With this reliable resource, author Don Snellgrove--an active Forex trader and educator of traders--will show you how.Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Selective Forex Trading skillfully outlines the S90/Crossover(c) an independently verified technical indicator developed by Snellgrove that has provided traders with the ability to achieve over 100 consecutive Forex trades without a single loss. Whether you''re a seasoned professional or just getting started, this approach--which is based on historical resistance and support points within a trading range--can assist you in entering and exiting positions for the greatest profits possible.In order to clearly understand the methodology described throughout this book--which includes the S90/Crossover as well as several other applications--you need to determine trends, resistance, support, and confirming procedures through software that utilizes ROI, RC, RCU/D, and their extensions with cluster formations for possible reversal entries. A brief explanation of each of these subjects is provided when they are initially discussed.Beyond providing hands-on guidance into using the S90/Crossover and Extreme levels, Selective Forex Trading also features specific exercises for creating and maintaining a strong mental discipline. These proven strategies will help you stay focused and committed even during the most difficult of times.The S90/Crossover and Extreme levels of the market are not the only methodologies that will allow you to increase returns and control risk, but they may be the simplest and most reliable approaches to consistently trading the foreign exchange market. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Selective Forex Trading will help you enter this dynamic market with confidence and exit with profits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(21223, 'Short and Simple Guide to Smart Investing', 'Alan Lavine &amp; Gail Liberman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mutual funds are fast becoming America''s investment choice, largely because of their sheer variety. But, with so many mutual funds to choose from more than 8,000 at last count it''s hard for many people to pick the right ones for them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(21224, 'Short Selling: Strategies, Risks, and Rewards', 'Frank J. Fabozzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest theoretical and empirical evidence on short selling in the United States and throughout the world To get the most success out of what the finance community regards as a risky business, short sellers need high-level information. The Theory and Practice of Short Selling offers managers and investors the information they need to maximize and enhance their short selling capabilities for bigger profits. Frank Fabozzi collects a group of market experts who share their knowledge on everything from the basics to the complex in the world of short sales, including mechanics of short selling, the empirical evidence on short-selling, the implications or restrictions on short selling for investment strategies, short-selling strategies pursued by institutional investors, and identifying short-selling candidates. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA (New Hope, PA), is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University''s School of Management and Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management. He is the author or editor of over 100 books on finance and investing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(21225, 'Simple Sector Trading Strategies: Profit By Being in the Right Market - at the right time', 'John Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(21226, 'Simple-as-123', 'Marshall Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(21227, 'Simulating Continuous Fuzzy Systems', 'James J. Buckley &amp; Leonard J. Jowers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is the companion text to Simulating Fuzzy Systems which investigated discrete fuzzy systems through crisp discrete simulation. The current book studies continuous fuzzy dynamical systems using crisp continuous simulation. We start with a crisp continuous dynamical system whose evolution depends on a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The system of ODEs contains parameters many of which have uncertain values. Usually point estimators for these uncertain parameters are used, but the resulting system will not display any uncertainty associated with these estimators. Instead we employ fuzzy number estimators, constructed from expert opinion or from data, for the uncertain parameters. Fuzzy number estimators produces a system of fuzzy ODEs to solve whose solution will be fuzzy trajectories for the variables. We use crisp continuous simulation to estimate the trajectories of the support and core of these fuzzy numbers in a variety of twenty applications of fuzzy dynamical systems. The applications range from Bungee jumping to the AIDS epidemic to dynamical models in economics.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n This monograph studies continuous fuzzy dynamical systems using crisp continuous simulation. A crisp continuous dynamical system is presented whose evolution depends on a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The system of ODEs contains parameters many of which have uncertain values. Usually point estimators for these uncertain parameters are used, but the resulting system will not display any uncertainty associated with these estimators. Instead fuzzy number estimators are employed, constructed from expert opinion or from data, for the uncertain parameters. Fuzzy number estimators produce a system of fuzzy ODEs to solve whose solution will be fuzzy trajectories for the variables. The authors use crisp continuous simulation to estimate the trajectories of the support and core of these fuzzy numbers in a variety of twenty applications of fuzzy dynamical systems. The applications range from Bungee jumping to the AIDS epidemic to dynamical models in economics. This book is the companion text to "Simulating Fuzzy Systems" (Springer 2005) which investigated discrete fuzzy systems through crisp discrete simulation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(21228, 'Single Stock Futures: A Trader&#39;s Guide', 'Patrick L. Young &amp; Charles Sidey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Single Stock Futures are regarded by many as the ultimate derivative. Having finally made their US trading debut in November 2002, the market is set for explosive global growth during 2003 and 2004. Written by experienced traders, this is the first practical guide to this exciting new product as increasingly traded throughout the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(21229, 'Smarter Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets', 'Perry J. Kaufman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a direct result of economic globalization and computerized trading, today''s professional stock, bond, and futures traders face a career-making - or breaking - challenge: to track and immediately comprehend the bewildering place of market, volume, and price changes, then some how profit from this unexpected volatility. In "Smarter Trading" distinguished author and trader Perry Kaufman helps harried financial pros cope with financial market uncertainty by creating a "robust" trading model that adapts quickly to market changes and yields stronger, more predictable results. And he shows them how to make sense of the current barrage of sophisticated, hi-tech trading technologies - neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems, chaos, and fractals, to name a few - and align these weapons with their own trading strategies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(21230, 'Sniper Trading Workbook', '1 [ OEMCOMPUTER ]', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(21231, 'SOROS: The Unauthorized Biography, the Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World&#39;s Greatest Investor', 'Robert Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This interesting, readable, unauthorized biography of George Soros traces the life of a successful money manager across two continents. A blue-eyed, blond boy who enjoyed playing a Hungarian version of Monopoly in Budapest soon was delivering deportation notices to other Hungarian Jews after the Jewish Council of Budapest recruited children for that task. After WWII, Soros waited tables in London before enrolling in the London School of Economics. He came to New York in 1956 armed with a competitive edge?a knowledge of the European financial markets. This insight and his ability to discern long-term trends enabled him to become a successful investor and later successfully manage the Quantum Fund, according to Slater, a reporter for Time magazine. The life and times of George Soros are indeed interesting, but the "trading secrets" of the title are based more on his intuition than on objective evidence. An example: when choosing stocks in an industry, pick two?the best and the worst. The reader is left without further guidance in applying this rule (e.g., what is the worst software company?). Read this biography to learn about the interesting life of a successful financial manager rather than specific steps on how you too can successfully manage money. 25,000 first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hungarian-born investor Soros, already well known for the unmatched success of his Quantum Fund, achieved additional notoriety in 1992 when he amassed over $1 billion in profits with the collapse of the British pound. He is also recognized for his philanthropic activities, having established foundations in several Eastern European nations. Soros on Soros is a book-length interview, conducted by the managing director of Morgan Stanley and a Hungarian journalist. Its scope reaches far beyond the topic of investing and includes Soros''s responses to questions about life influences, philanthropy, international politics, and philosophy. The book should be a hit with those wanting an in-depth look into the mind of the master investor, but the interview format does not allow for the broadest coverage. Reporter and biographer Slater''s Soros is better suited for those approaching the subject for the first time. Slater''s presentation is balanced and well organized, and he succeeds at providing clear, concise summaries of Soros''s sometimes confusing ideas and theories. Both titles would make good additions to business collections.?Mark McCullough, Heterick Lib., Ohio Northern Univ., Ada\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(21232, 'South Asian Bond Markets', 'Klatchal Sophastlenphong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(21233, 'Speculator King', 'Jesse Livermore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(21234, 'Spend Your Way to Wealth', 'Allworth Press', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(21235, 'Stan Weinstein&#39;s Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets', 'Stan Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stan Weinstein''s\n <em>\n  Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets\n </em>\n reveals his successful methods for timing investments to produce consistently profitable results.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Stan Weinstein''s personal philosophy on investing\n </li>\n <li>\n  The ideal time to buy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Refining the buying process\n </li>\n <li>\n  Knowing when to sell\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selling Short\n </li>\n <li>\n  Using the best long-term indicators to spot Bull and Bear markets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Odds, ends, and profits\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(21236, 'Stars: How and Where They Influence', 'L.edward Johndro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(21237, 'Statistical Arbitrage: Algorithmic Trading Insights and Techniques', 'Andrew Pole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While statistical arbitrage has faced some tough times?as markets experienced dramatic changes in dynamics beginning in 2000?new developments in algorithmic trading have allowed it to rise from the ashes of that fire. Based on the results of author Andrew Pole?s own research and experience running a statistical arbitrage hedge fund for eight years?in partnership with a group whose own history stretches back to the dawn of what was first called pairs trading?this unique guide provides detailed insights into the nuances of a proven investment strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Statistical Arbitrage contains comprehensive analysis that will appeal to both investors looking for an overview of this discipline, as well as quants looking for critical insights into modeling, risk management, and implementation of the strategy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(21238, 'Statistics, Econometrics and Forecasting (The Stone Lectures in Economics)', 'Arnold Zellner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n -\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(21239, 'Steidlmayer on Markets: A New Approach to Trading', 'J. Peter Steidlmayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A complete guide to Steidlmayer''s new approach to markets, especially the futures markets. Part I provides background information based on Steidlmayer''s experiences as a commodities trader, showing how he developed his ideas and learned to apply them to futures trading. Part II outlines his theory of markets, explains factors that determine prices, and describes the Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank systems. Part III provides detailed applications, showing how to read market activity, recognize both fundamental and technical factors underlying price movements, and make sound investment and trading decisions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(21240, 'Stochastic Calculus', 'Alan Bain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(21241, 'Stochastic Calculus for Finance: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model', 'Steven E. Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stochastic Calculus for Finance evolved from the first ten years of the Carnegie Mellon Professional Master''s program in Computational Finance. The content of this book has been used successfully with students whose mathematics background consists of calculus and calculus-based probability. The text gives both precise statements of results, plausibility arguments, and even some proofs, but more importantly intuitive explanations developed and refined through classroom experience with this material are provided. The book includes a self-contained treatment of the probability theory needed for stochastic calculus, including Brownian motion and its properties. Advanced topics include foreign exchange models, forward measures, and jump-diffusion processes. This book is being published in two volumes. The first volume presents the binomial asset pricing model primarily as a vehicle for introducing in a simple setting the concepts needed for the continuous-time theory in the second volume. Chapter summaries and detailed illustrations are included. Classroom-tested exercises conclude every chapter. Some of these extend the theoryn, and others are drawn from practical problems in quantitative finance\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(21242, 'The Stock Market Crash of 1929 The End of Prosperity by Brenda Lange', 'Brenda Lange', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(21243, 'Stock Market Techique Number One', 'Richard Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(21244, 'Stock Market Wizards: Interviews With America&#39;s Top Stock Traders', 'Jack D. Schwager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can you beat the market year after year and largely sidestep periodic downturns? What separates the country''s best investors from the ordinary? What lessons can the small investor learn from modern stock market wizards? Acclaimed trading expert Jack Schwager went to thirteen phenomenally successful traders for answers, including Mark Minervini, a junior high school dropout, who has averaged a 220 percent annual return during the past five years, while keeping his maximum quarterly loss to a fraction of one percent; Mark Cook, a Midwestern farmer who registered back-to-back annual gains of 563 and 322 percent in national trading contests; and Steve Lescarbeau, whose computerized trading model earns him an average of 70 percent per year with an incredibly low drawdown of only 3 percent. In lively interviews with his all-star lineup, Schwager brings you true stories, eye-opening tips, and the inside scoop on how to ride the bull, battle the bear, and still come out on top. And in a final wrap-up Schwager lays out 64 market lessons that provide invaluable insights for average investors and market professionals alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(21245, 'Stock Options and the New Rules of Corporate Accountability: Measuring, Managing, and Rewarding Executive Performance', 'Donald P. Delves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "As a former CEO and independent director of several corporations, I find Don Delves'' discussion of executive compensation -- including detailed and insightful reviews of the issues involving stock options -- to be exceedingly instructive. This is a book that members of compensation committees, indeed all corporate board members should read." "-B. Kenneth West, Former CEO, Harris Trust and Savings Bank and member of several corporate boards.Guidelines for curbing today''s stock option abuses, and making "payment for performance" the new imperativeStock options account for up to 90 percent of the average CEO''s compensation--despite a falling stock market and often plunging corporate earnings. "Stock Options and the New Rules of Corporate Accountability examines this hot-button issue, proposing new methodologies and techniques for better aligning stock options, executive compensation, performance rewards, and accounting, and making sense of what has become today''s most controversial form ofcompensation.Executive compensation authority Don Delves explains how high-profile corporations like GE and Coca-Cola have opted to expense stock options and have adjusted their policies to prevent options from becoming disincentive tools, and he shows others how to follow suit. In addition, Delves gives decision makers the knowledge they need to: Increase accountability by treating stock options as expenses Balance options with other incentives Create healthier contra\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(21246, 'Stock Patterns for DayTrading and Swing Trading', 'Barry Rudd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(21247, 'The Stock Trader: How I Make a Living Trading Stocks', 'Tony Oz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(21248, 'Stocks and Bonds, Profits and Losses: A Quick Look at Financial Markets', 'Elaine Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An introduction to the stock market and the world of financial investing including an explanation of stocks and bonds, the various trading that is done and how profits and losses are accrued.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(21249, 'Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors', 'John Y. Campbell &amp; Luis M. Viceira', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This volume provides a scientific foundation for the advice offered by financial planners to long-term investors. Based upon statistics on asset return behavior and assumed investor objectives, the authors derive optimal portfolio rules that investors can compare with existing rules of thumb.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(21250, 'The Strategic Electronic Day Trader', 'Robert Deel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WILEY ONLINE TRADING FOR A LIVING  MASTER MOMENTUM TRADING AND PROFIT FROM THE TREND!  Where are you in the markets food chain?  Youve decided to take the plunge and pursue todays most popular and sophisticated trading methodcomputerized electronic day trading. With a click of a mouse the market is at your disposal. You are now on the same playing field as the very best professional traders in the world. You feel invincible. You are as good as they are and you are going to show the world. Within hours you could be as rich as the pros.Or you could lose your shirt.Without the proper training and mental preparation, the great equalizing power of your computer is dangerously seductive. Even if youre a talented entrepreneur, in the highly specialized, fast-moving world of electronic trading, your past success means very little. But this realization is your first step toward becoming a winner. You must learn new strategies and mentally prepare yourself for this hi-tech arena of profit and loss. In The Strategic Electronic Day Trader, professional trader Robert Deel shows you how to survive and profit in electronic day trading.This invaluable book addresses the variety of questions and hazardous-to-your-wealth misconceptions about day tradingand reveals the strategies and mental conditioning secrets of the successful minority. Identifying what type of trader you are and adopting the right mind-set before you start trading will give you the crucial advantage over the competitionand save you a fortune in uncontrolled losses. Find out if youre best suited to day trading, micro trend trading, or position trend trading. Along with an in-depth look at the mechanics of electronic trading strategies, Deel shares his revolutionary approach to developing the emotional control and psychological preparation to get you in the gameand keep you there.  WHY MOST DAY TRADERS FAILHOW YOU CAN SUCCEED  Can you imagine entering a marathon without conditioning, competing against the best in the worldand expecting to win? What about starting a business without a business plan? Yet this is exactly what most first-time traders do, and why many dont suceed. To be a success in the technologically sophisticated, competitive arena of computerized electronic day trading, your strategy needs to be specific to your ability. From strategy and shorting to sleeping and de-stressing, The Strategic Electronic Day Trader will prepare you to fulfill your dream of making a living trading the market. Learn how to:Profit from seven extremely successful short-term trading strategiesIdentify three to five high probability/profitability trades per dayScreen for momentum acceleration pointsShort intradayUnderstand the mathematics of trading and commissionsLeverage the strengths of your trading personalityAvoid the traders trap of large, uncontrolled losses  "The most comprehensive manual available for those interested in learning basic principles of short-term electronic trading. Offers sound strategies for combining technical signals with fundamental analysis at the same time paying attention to the psycholgical traps that ensnare traders. A must read for novice and experienced traders." Ari Kiev, author, Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(21251, 'Street Smarts: High Probability Short-Term Trading Strategies', 'Laurence A. Connors &amp; Linda Bradford Raschke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Top-selling manual on short term trading methods and strategies from two prominent authors and traders. Combines 25 years of combined trading experience to teach you 20 of their best strategies. Expert guidance on swing trading from "New Market Wizard", Linda Raschke, in her specialty area. Also covers pattern recognition, ADX volatility, Crabel, gap reversals, and many other strategies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(21252, 'Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock: The Savvy Investor&#39;s Key to Beating the Market', 'Gary Gray &amp; Patrick Cusatis &amp; J. Randall Woolridge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the high-level yet down-to-earth style for which McGraw-Hill''s Streetsmart Series is known, STREETSMART GUIDE TO VALUING A STOCK covers everything from basic stock valuation to more advanced valuation models and techniques. Its nuts-and-bolts, nontheoretical methods will be invaluable in helping you locate and analyze undervalued stocks. "The book outlines the fundamentals of making an investment decision in a stock based on a reasoned evaluation of that stock''s worth. The writing is direct, logical, and remarkably interesting..." - William R. McLucas, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler &amp; Pickering, Former Director, Division of Enforcement U.S. Securities &amp; Exchange Commission. "The authors have taken one of today''s rarest commoditiesâ€”good common senseâ€”and applied it to one of today''s most vexing challengesâ€”valuing a stock. This book is a valuable tool for anyone participating in the stock market." - Warren A. Stephens President &amp; CEO, Stephens, Inc. "Today''s stock market is more complex and volatile than ever. A stock''s price does not necessarily represent the intrinsic value of the company. I believe that we all need the safety net of cash flow valuation to make prudent investment decisions. Many Wall Street analysts would benefit from reading STREETSMART GUIDE TO VALUING A STOCK, and I will recommend it to all of my institutional clients." - M. Clara Tucci, Managing Directorâ€”International Equity Sales, ING Baring Furman Seltz. "This is a terrific book for investors! In a witty, fresh style the authors explain how to value a company''s stock by using an easy-to-understand, 4-step approach. They explain what numbers are required, where to get them quickly, and how to use them." - Charles C. Snow, Ph.D., International Education Program Lecturer on Strategic Management, Mellon Bank Professor of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Know the true value of every stock before you invest! "The book outlines the fundamentals of making an investment decision in a stock based on a reasoned evaluation of that stock''s worth. The writing is direct, logical, and remarkably interesting..."--William R. McLucas, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler &amp; Pickering Former Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities &amp; Exchange Commission.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors have taken one of today''s rarest commodities--good common sense--and applied it to one of today''s most vexing challenges--valuing a stock. This book is a valuable tool for anyone participating in the stock market." --Warren A. Stephens, President &amp; CEO, Stephens, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Today''s stock market is more complex and volatile than ever. A stock''s price does not necessarily represent the intrinsic value of the company. I believe that we all need the safety net of cash flow valuation to make prudent investment decisions. Many Wall Street analysts would benefit from reading Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock, and I will recommend it to all of my institutional clients." --M. Clara Tucci, Managing Director--International Equity Sales, ING Baring Furman Seltz.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a terrific book for investors! In a witty, fresh style the authors explain how to value a company''s stock by using an easy-to-understand, 4-step approach. They explain what numbers are required, where to get them quickly, and how to use them."--Charles C. Snow, Ph.D., International Education Program Lecturer on Strategic Management, Mellon Bank Professor of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(21253, 'The Structural Econometric Time Series Analysis Approach', 'Arnold Zellner &amp; Franz C. Palm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bringing together a collection of previously published work, this book provides a timely discussion of major considerations relating to the construction of econometric models that work well to explain economic phenomena, predict future outcomes and be useful for policy-making. Analytical relations between dynamic econometric structural models and empirical time series MVARMA, VAR, transfer function, and univariate ARIMA models are established with important application for model-checking and model construction. The theory and applications of these procedures to a variety of econometric modeling and forecasting problems as well as Bayesian and non-Bayesian testing, shrinkage estimation and forecasting procedures are also presented and applied. Finally, attention is focused on the effects of disaggregation on forecasting precision and the new Marshallian Macroeconomic Model that features demand, supply and entry equations for major sectors of economies is analysed and described. This volume will prove invaluable to professionals, academics and students alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(21254, 'Studies in Tape Reading (Fraser Contrary Opinion Library Book)', 'Rollo Tape', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rollo Tape is the colorful pen name of Richard D. Wyckoff. This 1910 classic on tape reading and stock market tactics is by one of its most astute students. Wyckoff for many years was a publisher of the Ticker Magazine which was later changed to The Magaz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(21255, 'Successful Stock Speculation', 'John James Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author''s Note:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This Book Is Not Copyrighted\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n We believe the principles expounded in this book are of immense value to everyone who buys speculative securities, and we do not object to anyone reproducing any part of it, whether or not we are given credit for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n --J. J. B.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n selections from the first few chapters: CHAPTER I. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK This book is written for the purpose of giving our clients some ideas of the fundamental principles that guide us when we select stocks for them to buy, but these principles are valuable to every person who trades in listed stocks or in any other kind of speculative stocks. First of all, we want you to get a clear conception of the meaning of the word speculation, which is explained in the next chapter. Our purpose is to protect you against losses as well as to enable you to make profits, and it is very important that you understand how to provide for safety in your speculating. It is a well known fact that there are tremendous losses in stock speculation, but we claim that almost all of these losses would be avoided if all speculators were guided by the principles expounded in this book. "What" and "When" are two very important words in stock speculation, and we cannot urge upon you too strongly to study carefully Chapters V. to IX.[8] Chapters X. to XV. tell you much about the influences that affect the prices of stocks, a knowledge of which should also be a guide to you in making your selections. Perhaps the most important chapter in the entire book is XXV., on Market Information. A careful reading of this chapter should convince you that much of the prevailing information about the stock market is misleading. That fact alone accounts for many of the losses in stock speculation. It has been our aim to state all facts briefly. The entire book is not long, and it will not require much of your time to read it through carefully. We are sure you will get many ideas from it that will help you. Â  CHAPTER II.WHAT IS SPECULATION? To speculate is to theorize about something that is uncertain. We can speculate about anything that is uncertain, but we use the word "speculation" in this book with particular reference to the buying and selling of stocks and bonds for the purpose of making a profit. When people buy stocks and bonds for the income they get from them and the amount of that income is fixed, they are said to invest and not to speculate. In nearly all investments there is also an element of speculation, because the market price of investments is subject to change. "Investment" also conveys the idea of holding for some time whatever you have purchased, while speculation conveys the idea of selling for a quick profit rather than holding for income. To the minds of most people, the word "speculation" conveys the thought of risk, and many people think it means great risk. The dictionary gives for one of the meanings of speculation, "a risky investment for large[10] profit," but speculation need not necessarily be risky at all. The author of this book once used the expression, "stock speculating with safety," and he was severely criticized by a certain financial magazine. Evidently the editor of that magazine thought that "speculating" and "safety" were contradictory terms, but the expression is perfectly correct. Stock speculating with safety is possible. Of course, we all know that the word "safety" is seldom used in an absolute sense. We frequently read such expressions as: "The elevators in modern office buildings are run with safety." "It is possible to cross the ocean with safety." "You can travel from New York to San Francisco in a railroad train with safety." And yet accidents do occur and people do lose their lives in elevators, steamships, and railroad trains. Because serious accidents are comparatively rare, we use the word "safety."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(21256, 'Super Money', 'Adam Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(21257, 'Superformance Stocks', 'Richard S. Love', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/197');
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(21258, 'The Superstock Investor: Profiting From Wall Street&#39;s Best Undervalued Companies', 'Charles M. Laloggia &amp; Cherrie A. Mahon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a guide to identifying and selecting undervalued stocks before they become true superstocks. The book provides guidelines for spotting the top nine takeover clues, ways the media reveal superstocks and how to use charts to find and analyze undervalued companies.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Proven Strategies to Spot Companies Poised to Climb 40%, 140%, or More--in Any Type of Market!\n</p>\n<p>\n Superstock--A stock which has the potential to rise significantly in price because of a specific potential event--which will literally force the stock higher.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charles LaLoggia has published his well-regarded investment newsletter for more than a quarter-century. In that time, he has acquired a well-deserved reputation for giving his readers undervalued, out-of-favor companies on the brink of becoming stars--stocks poised to potentially double in price!\n</p>\n<p>\n In The Superstock Investor, LaLoggia tells you how he does it, and provides you with an entirely new way of pulling highly accurate stock leads from seemingly insignificant financial news. He explains how to see the telltale signs of a stock that is poised to shoot up--not "over the years" but practically overnight--including: * Dependable signals to identify the difficult-to-detect "Pure Play" stock * Top 9 takeover clues--and how they crop up time and time again * How charts can help you uncover and analyze undervalued companies that are about to become superstocks\n</p>\n<p>\n Is it easy? Will it work on every stock? Of course not. But one thing is certain: Advice and guidelines in The Superstock Investor will dramatically increase your chances of finding undiscovered superstocks on the verge of breaking out--and climbing on board to consistently lock in market-beating returns.\n</p>\n<p>\n "There are a number of events, or â€˜catalysts,'' which can force a stock that is trading at undervalued levels to move instantly closer to its true value as a business."\n</p>\n<p>\n --From the Introduction\n</p>\n<p>\n The markets are filled with solid stocks that have yet to be discovered by the mainstream of analysts and investors. For any number of reasons--erratic recent earnings, unexciting growth prospects, or other nonvalue considerations--these companies are underpriced in relation to their intrinsic value. They can bump along for years without investors driving up their stock price to fully valued levels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Occasionally, though, events happen that leave the markets no choice but to value these stocks near, at, or even above their intrinsic values. These events--takeover bids, spin-offs, stock buybacks, or other catalysts--often leave surprisingly accurate clues and signs they are about to occur.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Superstock Investor describes how to see and interpret these clues, and add stocks to your portfolio just before they become "superstocks." It explains what makes a superstock--and what makes it different from other undervalued stocks--then outlines the tools needed to uncover these market-beating stocks and detect the signs that they are about to surge higher.\n</p>\n<p>\n Using plainspoken language and unequivocal honesty, Charles LaLoggia--the original superstock investor--and Cherrie Mahon discuss: * Actual examples of superstocks that went undiscovered by traditional analysts--but garnered great returns for tuned-in investors after receiving takeover bids * Decision-making and behavior patterns that generally emerge when an undervalued company is a target--or is thinking of putting itself up for sale * Where to look in business and financial media for vital clues and information on impending superstocks and potential takeover targets\n</p>\n<p>\n The Superstock Investor paints an entirely convincing portrait of today''s "inefficient" market, one in which everyday human emotions--pride, greed, jealousy, arrogance, and just plain lack of common sense--are more important to stock prices than actual intrinsic value. It shows how, in the past quarter-century of bull markets, bear markets, recessions, and other financial environments, single events or series of events have more often than not led to substantial price jumps generated by takeover bids.\n</p>\n<p>\n Certain stocks in any market will march to their own drummer, apart from the daily emotional winds that buffet and drive the overall market. Let The Superstock Investor show you how to read the signs all around you to locate these stocks, make them part of your portfolio, then see the superstock catalysts for what they are--dramatic and proven predictors of impending stock rises.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(21259, 'Sure-Fire Forex Trading', 'Mark McRae', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(21260, 'Swift Trader: Perfecting the Art of Day Trading', 'Charles Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(21261, 'Swing Trading', 'David Landry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(21262, 'Systemic Financial Crises: Resolving Large Bank Insolvencies (473 pages)', 'Douglas D. Evanoff &amp; George G. Kaufman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(21263, 'Tape Reading and Market Tactics: The Three Steps to Successful Stock Trading', 'Humphrey B. Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2010 Reprint of 1931 Edition. In this 1931 Wall Street classic Neill explains not only how to read the tape, but also how to figure out what''s going on behind the numbers. Full of graphs and charts, it contains excellent sections on human nature and speculation. Though first published in 1931, this work remains a classic text in the field, and greatly influence Nicholar Darvas, a later Wall Street Guru. Neill advised that the investor not follow the general public and he himself was very wary of the crowd mentality. Neill''s philosophy pushes the reader to study hard and pay ones'' dues. He insists that the successful trader is an educated entrepreneur; one who can make reasoned decisions based on the movements of price and volume.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(21264, 'Targeting Profitable Entry &amp; Exit Points', 'Alan Farley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(21265, 'The Taylor Trading Technique', 'George Douglas Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(21266, 'Technical Analysis &amp; Options Strategie', 'Kenneth Shaleen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(21267, 'Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits: A Course in Forecasting', 'Richard Wallace Schabacker &amp; Donald Mack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The source of ideas for many bestselling books, the original TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND STOCK MARKET PROFITS is here updated to provide the most complete coverage. The book comprehensively examines patterns, formations, trends, and support and resistance areas. This reference is renowned among traders for its depth of knowledge and clarity of expression in describing the dynamics of price movements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(21268, 'Technical Analysis for Long-term Investors', 'W. Clay Allen CFA', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(21269, 'Technical Analysis of Stock Trends', 'Robert D. Edwards &amp; John Magee &amp; W. H. C. Bassetti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Offering proven trading and investing techniques for success, this ninth edition features updated material such as new markets, technology, and situations, including related tactical procedures and techniques, as well as additional information on Internet tools. It expands material on the three-days-away procedures and short and very short term market analysis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(21270, 'Technical Analysis of the Currency Market', 'Boris Schlossberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Proven currency-specific trading strategies from one of today''s top currency analysts "If you trade currency, then you need to have this book on your desk. It''s the only book you need for technical analysis of the fastest-moving market on the planet." -Rob Booker, Currency Trader, W.R. Booker &amp; Company "In plain English, Schlossberg lays out the basics in using technical analysis to trade foreign currencies, from the fundamentals of how the FX market works to the variety of technical strategies and trade management techniques traders can employ. Along the way, he offers entertaining examples and observations as well as simple, easy-to-read charts and diagrams. Anyone interested in getting started in the hugely popular FX market would do well to begin with this book." -Sarah Rudolph, Executive Editor, SFO Magazine "Boris Schlossberg has done a fabulous job with this book. It''s packed with insightful tips and strategies that are sure to save traders a lot of time and money." -Cory Janssen, CoFounder, Investopedia.com "Schlossberg''s book is a great resource for traders just starting out in currency markets. His focus on simplicity is critical for a new trader''s education on how to make money." -Andrew B. Busch, Global FX Strategist, BMO Financial Group\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(21271, 'Technical Analysis of the Finacial Markets', 'John Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(21272, 'Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors', 'Gerald Appel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this book, one of the world''s most respected technical analysts offers a complete course in forecasting future market behaviour through cyclical, trend, momentum and volume signals. What''s more, unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel''s Technical Analysis offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis the first time. Among the models he covers: NASDAQ/NYSE Relative Strength, 3-5 Year Treasury Notes, Triple Momentum, Seasonality, Breadth-Thrust Impulse, and models based on the revolutionary MACD techniques he personally invented.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(21273, 'Technically Speaking', 'Chris Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Discusses a simple but effective system for timing market entry. Base on a technique used by the legendary W. D. Gann, who said of this method, "You can make a fortune by following this one rule alone!" Incorporates a technical trading rule which utilizes a consistently competitive pattern of market behavior. Applies to all markets and all time periods, whether short term (intraday), intermediate, or long term. Many traders hay contacted us months after reading this book and told us it was one of the most useful books on trading they had ever read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(21274, 'Techniques of Tape Reading', 'Vadym Graifer &amp; Chris Schumacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How to use trading''s most time-honored technique to reap profits in today''s fastmoving, point-and-click marketsTape reading is among the oldest and most successful methods of technical analysis.Techniques of Tape Reading shows traders how to incorporate the best aspects of tape reading into a modern trading plan, by understanding the correlation between volume and price and simply trading off what a stock''s price movement is telling them to do.A practical, how-to guide for using tape reading to improve trading decisions in today''s screen trading environment, Techniques of Tape Reading discusses:Profitable use of tape reading in both swing and day trading How the best traders condition their minds and mind-sets Tape reading techniques for up, down, and nontrending markets\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(21275, 'Technology Valuation Solutions', 'F. Peter Boer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(21276, 'Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness', 'PHILIP KEEFER &amp; Norman Loayza', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To what extent are terrorism and development related? What are the relative weights of the economic, political, and social aspects of development? What is the development impact of different responses to terrorism? This volume addresses these crucial questions, synthesizing what we know about the development links with terrorism and pointing out what we do not. Contributors to this volume examine the economic and fiscal costs of terrorism and the response to terrorism. They conclude that the economic costs of terrorism in rich countries are low, relative to the economic costs of combating terrorism; both are likely high in poor countries. They also report evidence on how development affects terrorism. This work supports the hypothesis that political development - political openness and the quality of government - is inversely associated with the emergence of terrorist organizations, but not that poverty per se is directly responsible for terrorism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(21277, 'The Theory of Money and Credit', 'Ludwig von Mises', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made his reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age. We think this Mises Institute edition is the most beautiful, by far, of any edition in print. It is the first English edition, complete with an explanatory foreword by Murray Rothbard and a preface by Douglas French. The size, look, and feel are just perfect, at once classic and very modern, in a case-wrapped hardback. And the price beats everything. This classic treatise on monetary theory remains the definitive book on the foundations of monetary theory, and the first really great integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics. As Rothbard points out in his introduction to "the best book on money ever written," economists have yet to absorb all its lessons. Mises shows how money had its origin in the market, and how its value is based on its usefulness as a commodity in exchange. In a step-by-step manner, Mises presents the case for sound money with no inflation, and presents the beginnings of a full-scale business cycle theory. This edition includes Mises''s early blueprint, improved later in life, for a return to a fully backed gold standard and competitive banking. The contents of this essential opus include: Part One: The Nature of Money 1. The Function of Money 2. On the Measurement of Value 3. The Various Kinds of Money 4. Money and the State 5. Money as an Economic Good 6. The Enemies of Money Part Two: The Value of Money 7. The Concept of the Value of Money 8. The Determinants of the Objective Exchange Value, or Purchasing Power, of Money 9. The Problem of the Existence of Local Differences in the Objective Exchange Value of Money 10. The Exchange Ration Between Money of Different Kinds 11. The Problem of Measuring the Objective Exchange Value of Money 12. The Social Consequences of Variations in the Objective Exchange Value of Money 13. Monetary Policy 14. The Monetary Policy of Etatism Part Three: Money and Banking 15. The Business of Banking 16. The Evolution of Fiduciary Media 17. Fiduciary Media and the Demand for Money 18. The Redemption of Fiduciary Media 19. Money, Credit, and Interest 20. Problems of Credit Policy Part Four: Monetary Reconstruction 21. The Principle of Sound Money 22. Contemporary Currency Systems 23. The Return to Sound Money Appendix A. On the Classification of Monetary Theories ISBN 978-1-933550-55-8 493 pp. (hardcover)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English, German (translation)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(21278, 'Think and Grow Rich', 'Tony Seruga - OpportunityInformer.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(21279, 'Thoughts on Trading', 'Joe Ross', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(21280, 'Three Swing Trading Examples', 'andreybbrv@gmail.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(21281, 'Time Compression Trading', 'Jason Alan Jankovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Uncover profitable trading opportunities by exploiting the multiple time frames traded by different market participants\n</p>\n<p>\n In virtually all traded markets there are traders working on short-term, medium-term, and long-term perspectives. Each class of trader has different keys for entering and exiting the market. By identifying those keys and understanding where these traders intersect, a trader can spot profitable trading opportunities.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Time Compression in Trading,\n </em>\n author Jason Jankovsky explains the structure of the market through the prism of the time frames of different trader groups. In practical terms, he shows how to identify the probable entry and exit points of short term, medium term, and long term traders. He also explains why traders should pay particular attention to the weakest and strongest hands in a market in order to trade in concert with the stronger market players.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Breaks new ground in its analysis of market structure and at the same time, provides practical, actionable ideas for better trading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Reveals how to profit from the actions of market participants operating in different time frames\n </li>\n <li>\n  Discusses why traders should pay close attention to the time frames of other traders when analyzing markets\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you want to learn how to trade more effectively by understanding market structure and what other traders are doing,\n <em>\n  Time Compression in Trading\n </em>\n is a must read.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n This groundbreaking book reveals a revolutionary new theory that uncovers profitable trading opportunities based on the fact that markets are made up of people, not prices. Here, author and financial expert Jason Alan Jankovsky contends that if we "only study the prices, and not the people who made the prices, we likely won''t understand what the prices really represent moving forward."\n</p>\n<p>\n In Time Compression Trading, Jankovsky skillfully explains the concept of zero sum marketsâ€”you cannot buy unless another trader sells to you. You cannot sell unless another trader buys from you. The market processes entry orders over time and matches them with competing orders from the other side over time. In these markets, the winners get paid by the losers and the order flow is created by individuals addressing the question, "Is the market too high or too low?"â€”and not anything else.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what causes traders to act and place orders at a particular time? Price analysis cannot predict the human behavior that creates the order flow. In virtually all traded markets, there are traders working from short-term, medium-term, and long-term perspectives. Each class of trader has different keys for entering and exiting the market. By identifying those keys and understanding where these traders intersect, a trader can spot profitable trading opportunities.\n</p>\n<p>\n As practical as it is insightful, this book shows how to identify the probable entry and exit points of short-term, medium-term, and long-term traders. Jankovsky also explains why traders should pay particular attention to the weakest and strongest hands in a market in order to trade in concert with the stronger market players.\n</p>\n<p>\n For any trader who wants to learn how to trade more effectively by understanding market structure and what other traders are doing, Time Compression Trading is a must-read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(21282, 'Time Spreads: The Definitive Floor Trader&#39;s Manual', 'J.L.Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(21283, 'Trade Like a Pro: 15 High-Profit Trading Strategies', 'Noble Drakoln', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Trade Like a Pro "Noble''s commitment to the individual trader is exactly what traders need during these volatile times. He has knowledge that spans across markets and is worldwide. He is a valued contributor to the TraderPlanet.com community, and this book further demonstrates his dedication to educating traders and helping them become more successful." â€”Lane J. Mendelsohn, Publisher, TraderPlanet.com "In a time when, on a global level, important things are happening to the financial industry, when new profit opportunities as well as risks are revealed, the book Trade Like a Pro offers a complete picture concerning the risk administration techniques." â€”Teodor Ancuta, President and General Manager, Sibiu Stock Exchange "Trade Like a Pro is a comprehensive presentation of all the basic trading strategies that belongs in every investor''s library. Whether your specialty is futures, options, or stocksâ€”or, for that matter, a combination of all threeâ€”you will find yourself going back to this valuable reference guide again and again. Everything rings true. Moreover, the author gives you the pros and cons of each respective strategy without imposing his own point of view. Well researched and presented." â€”George Angell, author of Small Stocks for Big Profits and Winning in the Futures Market "Armed with good intentions, most new traders are unaware of the realities involved. Although there is often the belief among novice traders that profitability will be easy, the evidence strongly suggests otherwise. In his new book, Trade Like a Pro: 15 High-Profit Trading Strategies, Noble DraKoln offers a thoughtful approach to making the transition from unsuccessful retail trader to the arena of the professional, which is imperative for lasting success as a trader." â€”Ron Rossway, President, Denver Trading Group\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(21284, 'Trade Like Jesse Livermore', 'Richard Smitten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The secret to Jesse Livermore''s legendary trading success Although he began his career in 1892, Jesse Livermore is still considered to be one of the world''s greatest traders. In life and in death, Livermore has always been a controversial figure and his methods held up as a model for traders of all generations. Through 45 years of trading and market observation, Jesse Livermore determined that stocks and stock markets move in a series of repetitive patterns. He then developed a series of unique tools, using secret formulas and equations that allowed him to identify and interpret the movement in stocks with uncanny reliability. In Trade Like Jesse Livermore, author Richard Smitten explores the technical aspects of Livermore''s trading approach and shows readers how they can use these techniques to garner the success Livermore once did. Trade Like Jesse Livermore covers every aspect of Livermore''s trading methods, from discerning market behavior and trends such as top-down and tandem trading to paying close attention to indicators such as one-day reversals and spikes. With this book as their guide, readers can learn how to trade profitably without fear or greed. Richard Smitten (New Orleans, LA) is the author of numerous books including Jesse Livermore: World''s Greatest Stock Trader (0-471-02326-4), The Godmother, Capital Crimes, and Legal Tender.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(21285, 'Trade What You See: How to Profit From Pattern Recognition', 'Larry Pesavento &amp; Leslie Jouflas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trading the financial markets is extremely difficult, but with the right approach, traders can achieve success. Nobody knows this better than authors Larry Pesavento and Leslie Jouflas, both traders and educators of traders, who have consistently used pattern recognition to capture profits from the markets. In "Trade What You See, " Pesavento and Jouflas show traders how to identify patterns as they are developing and exactly where to place entry and exit orders. While some patterns derive from the techniques of Wall Street''s earliest traders and other patterns reflect Pesavento''s emphasis on the geometry of market movements and Fibonacci numbers.. Filled with hard-won knowledge gained through years of market experience, "Trade What You See"outlines both a practical and sophisticated approach to trading that will be of interest to both novice and seasoned traders alike.Larry Pesavento is a forty-year veteran trader. He operates a Web site,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(21286, 'The Trader&#39;s Edge: Cashing in on the Winning Strategies of Floor Traders, Commercials &amp; Market Insiders', 'Grant Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a book for all traders. Although the vast majority of futures traders lose money, a few select groups consistently win: floor traders, commercial traders and insiders. In this fascinating and provocative book, veteran futures trader Grant Noble takes the reader inside the futures market and explains the strategies used by each group of winners. He demonstrates why winners must have an "edge" if they are to outperform other traders consistently. Noble shows how an individual trader can adopt the same methods used by the winners to beat the market. In addition, Noble unveils a system to interpret and profit from news media coverage of the markets. A savvy and streetwise book on trading, "The Trader''s Edge" will provide the "inside edge" needed to become a successful trader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(21287, 'Traders: Risks, Decisions, and Management in Financial Markets', 'Mark Fenton-O&#39;Creevy &amp; Nigel Nicholson &amp; Emma Soane &amp; Paul Willman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed--the best and the worst examples--and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets, cultures, and theories of how the world works. How these institutions function, how traders are managed, and how traders view the world, all have profound effects on the wider financial environment. This book explores these relationships and their implications theoretically and empirically.  The data discussed in this book draw on a three-year project researching the psychological and social influences on the behavior and performance of traders in investment banks. 118 traders and managers in four leading organizations participated. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews supplemented by questionnaires, measures of personality, risk propensity and a novel computer based measure designed to assess illusion of control and other cognitive biases.  The authors'' approach to writing this book is explicitly interdisciplinary. They draw on sociology, psychology and economics in order to illuminate the work of traders and the world they inhabit.  The book is a significant contribution to the growing body of research and literature which suggests that if we are to effectively understand financial markets and the actors who inhabit them, the insights of neo-classical financial economics need supplementing with a broader range of social science approaches.  The book will be of value to researchers interested in the functioning of financial institutions and markets, to those with an interest in market regulation and to practitioners wishing to benefit from an analytical perspective on the challenges facing traders and their managers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(21288, 'TRADING - A LIVING THING', 'David Bowden &amp; Others', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(21289, 'Trading Chaos: Maximize Profits With Proven Technical Techniques', 'Justine Gregory-williams &amp; Bill M. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How to trade the markets by integrating Chaos Theory with market sentiment\n  <br />\n  In the first edition of Trading Chaos, seasoned trader and psychologist Bill Williams detailed the potential of Chaos Theory-which seeks to make the unpredictable understandable-in trading and it revolutionized financial decision-making. The Second Edition of Trading Chaos is a cutting edge book that combines trading psychology and Chaos Theory and its particular effect on the markets. By examining both of these facets in relation to the current market, readers will have the best of all possible worlds when trading.\n  <br />\n  Bill Williams, PhD, CTA (Solana Beach, CA), is President of Profitunity.com, a leader in the field of education for traders and investors. Justine Gregory-Williams (Solana Beach, CA) is President of the Profitunity Trading Group and a full-time trader.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1995, the bestselling first edition of Trading Chaos provided readers with the most practical and comprehensive guide for applying chaos theory to the real world of trading and investing. But today, the markets are different than they were even a few years ago. So with fresh research in hand, coauthors Bill Williams and Justine Gregory-Williams have updated their profitable methods and provide new techniques to help you take profits from the markets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trading Chaos, Second Edition will not only show you how to anticipate, recognize, and react to impending bull and bear market conditions, it will also introduce you to the latest findings in physics and psychology as applied to various marketsâ€“stock, bond, futures, indexes, and many others.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first portion of this book is devoted to understanding how the rewards youâ€™ll acquire in trading and investing are determined by what is happening inside of you. By digging through some very interesting and deep psychological principles, you can become a profitable "trade/vestor"â€“using technical techniques for good short-term entries and exits, but also holding on to long-term investments when the opportunity presents itself. Trading Chaos, Second Edition will help you build a solid psychological foundation before you enter the markets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After youâ€™ve learned how to gain an inner analytic edge, the authors will show you how the application of self-knowledge will improve your bottom line. Through numerous charts, checklists, and examples, youâ€™ll be introduced to proven techniques that can make the unpredictable understandable and make your journey into the markets more profitable. Youâ€™ll learn how to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Sharpen entries and exits, and reduce whiplashes with the powerful "Alligator" indicator\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get into a new trend very early with proper use of the "First Wise Man"\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Add on aggressively after your first entry using the "Second Wise Man" with the help of the Awesome Oscillator (AO)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Make fractal breakout trades with the "Third Wise Man"â€“these almost guarantee profitable follow-through on a trade\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  In this early part of the twenty-first century, you have a choice to either be a part of the last generation of traders and investors using linear (ineffective) techniques or the first generation using effective nonlinear (chaotic) techniques. By reading the Second Edition of Trading Chaos, youâ€™ll learn how you can take your trading skills to the next level and make steady profits in any market.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(21290, 'Trading Chaos: Maximize Profits with Proven Technical Techniques, 2nd Edition', 'Bill Williams, Justine Williams, Marketplace Books', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(21291, 'Trading From Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct &amp; Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader', 'Curtis Faith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œFor all those who wonder if the powers of right brain thinking could apply to the trends-and-charts universe of stock and options trading, Curtis Faith has their answer. In Trading from Your Gut, Faith taps brain research, neurological models, and the wisdom of experience to provide a roadmap for decision making in a new era of volatility.â€ â€“Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mindand Drive â€œI consider a book to be worth reading if it helps me develop a major paradigm shift. The section in this book about how to train your brain to help you become an intuitive trader blew me away and gave some fantastic ideas that will significantly help traders learn to trade better. For me, that kind of idea-generating inspiration is what makes Trading from Your Guta great trading book.â€ â€“Van K. Tharp, bestselling author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedomand Super Trader â€œ&amp;with the skill of both a trained psychoanalyst and market pro, Curtis Faith''s Trading from Your Gutexamines the human instinct behind our investment decisions. Because we are too often our own worst enemy in the markets, this is a unique and thoughtful guide to overcoming the biggest hurdle of financial success...ourselves.â€ â€“Jonathan Hoenig, Portfolio Manager, Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC and Fox News contributor â€œCurtis Faith''s new book Trading from Your Gut&amp;takes the insights derived from psychology, marries them to cogent observations by master traders like George Soros, and then superimposes them onto a series of analysis-based theories to deliver a cogent trading plan.â€ â€“David Stevenson, Financial Timesâ€œAdventurous Investorâ€ columnist â€œ&amp;With the encouragement of this book, you will learn to listen to both your intuition and your intellect to become a more complete trader, giving yourself the edge for success.â€ â€“Alan Northcott, author of The Complete Guide to Investing In Short Term Trading EARN SERIOUS TRADING PROFITS BY USING YOUR WHOLE BRAIN! Legendary traders like Jesse Livermore, George Soros, Richard Dennis, and Steven Cohen use their full range of powers that encompass both instinct and analysis. That''s how they made their fortunesâ€“and that''s how you can, too. In Trading from Your Gut, Curtis Faith, renowned trader and author of the global bestseller Way of the Turtle, reveals why human intuition is an amazingly powerful trading tool, capable of processing thousands of inputs almost instantaneously. Faith teaches you how to harness, sharpen, train, and trust your instincts and to trade smarter with your whole mind. Just as important, you''ll learn when not to trust your gutâ€“and how to complement your intuition with systematic analysis. You''ve got a left brain: analytical and rational. You''ve got a right brain: intuitive and holistic. Use them both to make better trades, and more money! â€œWhole Mindâ€ trading: the best of discretionary and system approaches How winning traders use analysis and disciplined intuition together How to profit from other traders'' â€œWrong Brain Thinkingâ€ Understand other traders, without acting like them How to provide a firm intellectual framework for your trades What successful traders have discovered about the market''s structure and laws The unique value of intuition in swing trading Use your intuition to trade patterns that computer technology can''t recognize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(21292, 'Trading in the Zone: Master the Market With Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude', 'Mark Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Douglas, president of the seminar firm Trading Behavior Dynamics, focuses on the psychology of successful traders. Instead of offering specific strategies, he advises readers, "The first step on the road...is to understand and completely accept the psychological realities of trading." It may be too abstract for some, but given trading''s risks, this book could assist experienced investors willing to engage in self-reflection. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Learning how to think in probabilities is key ~ Douglas is excellent at discerning how to achieve that mindset through examples from his own trading, and examples from his days as one of the first trading coaches.Â  --IGN Network Blog\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(21293, 'Trading on Momentum: Advanced Techniques for High Percentage Day Trading', 'Ken Wolff &amp; Chris Schumacher &amp; Jeff Tappan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(21294, 'Trading Options as a Professional: Techniques for Market Makers and Experienced Traders', 'James B. Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The options market allows savvy investors to assume risk in a way that can be very profitable, if the right techniques are used with the proper insight. In Trading Options as a Professional, veteran floor trader James Bittman provides both full-time and professional traders with a highly practical blueprint for maximizing profits in the global options market. This peerless guide helps you think like a market maker, arms you with the latest techniques for trading and managing options, and guides you in honing your proficiency at entering orders and anticipating strategy performance. Most importantly, it gives you access to one of the world''s leading educators and commentators as he candidly defines the seven trading areas that are essential for successful options traders to master: Option price behavior, including the Greeks Volatility Synthetic relationships Arbitrage strategies Delta-neutral trading Setting bid and ask prices Risk management You will benefit from Bittman''s exceptional understanding of volatility, his perceptive examples from the real world, and the dozens of graphs and tables that illustrate his strategies and techniques. Each chapter is a complete, step-by-step lesson, and, collectively, give you the best toolbox of profit-making solutions on the options trading floor. In addition, Trading Options as a Professional comes with Op-Eval Pro, a powerful software that enables you to analyze your trades before you make them by calculating implied volatility, graphing simple and complex options strategies, and saving analyses to review later. Don''t be left guessing on the sidelines--trade with the confidence of a market maker by following the road map to higher profits in Trading Options as a Professional.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(21295, 'Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame', 'Jeff Augen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLearn and profit from Jeff Augen''s book: It clearly explains how to take advantage of market inefficiencies in collapsing implied volatility, effects of strike price, and time decay. A must-read for individuals who are options oriented.â€ --Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Director of Technical Analysis Studies, New York Institute of Finance â€œA fantastic, insightful book full of meticulously compiled statistics about anomalies that surround option expiration. Not only does Augen present a set of effective trading strategies to capitalize on these anomalies, he walks through the performance of each across several expirations. His advice is practical and readily applicable: He outlines common pitfalls, gives guidance on timing your executions, and even includes code that can be used to perform the same calculations he does in the text. A thoroughly enjoyable read that will give you a true edge in your option trading.â€ --Alexis Goldstein, Vice President, Equity Derivatives Business Analyst â€œMr. Augen makes a careful and systematic study of option prices at expiration. His translation of price behavior into trading strategy is intriguing work, and the level of detail is impressive.â€ --Dr. Robert Jennings, Professor of Finance, Indiana University Kelly School of Business â€œThis book fills a gap in the vast amount of literature on derivatives trading and stands out for being extremely well written, clear, concise, and very low on jargon--perfect for traders looking to evolve their equity option strategies.â€ --Nazzaro Angelini, Principal, Spearpoint Capital â€œInstead of considering macro-time strategies that take weeks to unfold, Jeff Augen is thinking micro here--hours or days--specifically the days or hours right before expiration, and harnessing grinding, remorseless options decay for profit. He builds a compelling case for the strategy here. The concept of using ratio spreads plus risk management for as brief a period as one day--open to close--to capture expiring premium is worth the price of admission alone. A superb follow-up to his first book. Must-read for the serious options student.â€ --John A. Sarkett, Option Wizard software Equity and index options expire on the third Friday of each month. As that moment approaches, unusual market forces create option price distortions, rarely understood by most investors. These distortions give rise to outstanding trading opportunities with enormous profit potential. In Trading Options at Expiration, leading options trader Jeff Augen explores this extraordinary opportunity with never-before published statistical models, minute-by-minute pricing analysis, and optimized trading strategies that regularly deliver returns of 40%-300% per trade. You''ll learn how to structure positions that profit from end-of-contract price distortions with remarkably low risk. These strategies don''t rely on your ability to pick stocks or predict market direction and they only require one or two days of market exposure per month. If you''re looking for an innovative new way to reignite your returns no matter where the markets move, you''ve found it in Trading Options at Expiration. Why traditional option pricing calculations always break down in the final days before expiration Three powerful end-of-cycle effects not comprehended by contemporary pricing models Reducing your risk by reducing your market exposure Trading only one or two days each month and avoiding overnight exposure Structuring trades that reflect true expiration-day behavior Leveraging the surprising power of expiration-day pricing dynamics\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(21296, 'Trading Pairs + CD: Capturing Profits and Hedging Risk With Statistical Arbitrage Strategies', 'Mark Whistler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(21297, 'Trading Secrets of the Inner Circle', 'Andrew Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Andrew Goodwin, a highly successful registered investment advisor, has produced a treasury of professional trading tactics while employed with two famous hedge funds. This is a collection of trading systems and techniques with specific entry and exit rules. TradeStation "TM" code is provided for most, and TradeStation "TM" users will have a field day working with this collection of original ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(21298, 'Trading Stategies for Capital Markets, Chapter 13: Strategy and the Yield Curve', 'Joseph Benning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This chapter comes from a book written by Joseph Benning, a Moody''s Vice President and former Senior Economist at the Chicago Board of Trade.Â  Trading Strategies for Capital Markets provides examples of successful trading strategies, guidance on when and why to use them, and revealing discussions of trading psychology and risk management. With his trademark lively and engaging style, Dr. Benning cuts through the complexities of the capital markets, making them accessible, practical, interesting, and easy to understand.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(21299, 'Trading Strategies: Using Computer Simulation to Maximize Profits and Control Risk', '?', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(21300, 'Trading the Moves: Consistent Gains in ALL Markets', 'Ed Downs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(21301, 'Trading the Opening Range', 'G. Bysshe, S. Janko, DataView, LLC', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(21302, 'Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets', 'Ari Kiev', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A breakthrough programfor achieving new heights of trading success  The product of a five-year collaboration between Dr. Ari Kiev, a leading psychiatrist renowned for his success with Olympic athletes, and top equities trader Steve Cohen, Trading to Win gives you the essential tools to overcome outmoded, self-limiting beliefs and mindsets that may be keeping you from a higher level of success. Illustrated with real market scenarios and applications, this powerful program will help psych you into a less stressful, more self-possessed mastery of the trading game and help you reach goals you may never have thought possible.  "The strategies in this book will unleash the hidden trader in you, and can substantially increase your trading profits." --Jay G. Goldman, Hedge Fund Manager.  "Ari Kiev has written a wonderful guide for money managers, traders, brokers, and investors alike. Sharing his thoughts with us regarding our behavior patterns enables us to take a step back and look at ourselves more objectively." --Seymour W. Zises, President and CEO, Family Management Corp.  The trading arena has produced its share of select "super-traders," market practitioners who set themselves apart from the rest of the field with one distinct advantage: mental and emotional toughness. Like outstanding athletes who stay focused, remain calm, and stick to their game plan, these master traders in this highly risky, highly competitive arena possess an edge that keeps them from being distracted by fear, self-doubt, greed, and other emotional components that can cause major losses and prevent gains from soaring to new highs.  Trading to Win presents a step-by-step, goal-oriented program for building the mental and emotional stamina not only to win, but to win on an unprecedented level. Created by a leading psychiatrist for a top trading firm, this proven approach spotlights a set of philosophical and behavioral principles designed to assist you in implementing proactive trading strategies, as well as developing the mindset needed to trade effectively in the realm of uncertainty. Delving into your underlying thought processes when you trade, Trading to Win enables you to understand what is motivating you, whether it is consistent with your game plan, and whether you are in any way sabotaging yourself.  Fully supplemented with real market trading scenarios, Trading to Win shows you how to apply key concepts where it counts--in actual trading room situations. For both professional traders and sophisticated investors, this remarkable program offers a rare opportunity for both personal and financial gain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151');
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(21303, 'Trading With DiNapoli Levels: The Practical Application of Fibonacci Analysis to Investment Markets', 'Joe Dinapoli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Excellent manual from an experienced trader and exceptional teacher on the practical application of Fibonacci analysis to investment markets. This method is fascinating and often amazingly accurate, and every technical trader should become conversant with its principles. DiNapoli teaches all the basics, as well as his own unique methods of applying Fibonacci to trading in multiple time frames.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(21304, 'Trading with Equivolume', 'Richard W. Arms, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(21305, 'Trading With the Elliott Wave Principle: A Practical Guide', 'David H. Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(21306, 'Trading With the Odds: Using the Power of Statistics to Profit in the Futures Market', 'Cynthia Kase', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every trader will appreciate this reliable, realistic, and systematic approach to trading financial and commodity markets. In a step-by-step manner, the author applies a rigorous mathematical discipline to finanical speculation and explain how to analyze\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(21307, 'Transnational Equity Analysis (The Wiley Finance Series)', 'Mark Clatworthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book DescriptionIn-depth answers for professionals looking to accurately value foreign equities\n <br />\n Transnational Equity Analysis is today''s most thorough guide to its subject, examining and comparing the techniques used by top analysts and fund manage\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(21308, 'Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns', 'Michael W. Covel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is the eBook version of the printed book.Do you ever think the stories you hear about great trading, and the gains produced, sound like luck?Â  Do youÂ ever wonder if there is a real method and philosophy behind the success stories?Â  The concepts condensed into Trend Commandments were gleaned from Michael Covel''s 15 years of pulling back the curtain on great trend following traders.Â  It is a one of a kind money making experience that forever lays to rest the notion that successful trading is akin to winning the lottery.Â  Winning has a formula, as does losing.Â  Covel nails both head on.Â  Getting rich is a fight; make no mistake about it, but at least now with Trend Commandments you have a primer that allows you to crack the code of the winners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(21309, 'Trend Forecasting With Technical Analysis: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Intermarket Analysis to Beat the Market', 'Louis Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Market methods from the last century won''t work in this one and Louis Mendelsohn''s breakthrough book takes technical analysis to a new level. Mendelsohn presents a comprehensive approach combining technical and intermarket analysis into one powerful framework for accurately forecasting trends. You''ll discover: Precise trading strategies that work for day &amp; position traders; the limitations of traditional technical analysis methods; and how to accurately forecast moving averages using intermarket analysis and neural networks. It''s time for a fresh approach to technical analysis. Now, get the latest market timing and trend forecasting methods you need to profit consistently in the equity, options and futures markets.Market techniques that worked in the last century won''t work in the current one. Now, Louis Mendelsohn''s groundbreaking book takes technical analysis to the next level-giving today''s traders all the tools needed to make more winning trades-more often.Mendelsohn presents a comprehensive approach-combining technical and intermarket analysis into one powerful framework for accurately forecasting trends.You''ll also discover: -Precise trading strategies that can be used by both day traders and position traders-The limitations of traditional technical analysis methods-How to use moving averages as a leading-not lagging-indicator by the application of networks to intermarket analysis.PLUS-an introduction to VantagePoint Software and its amazing forecasting capabilities. This powerful software makes Mendelsohn''s work simply-and effectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(21310, 'Trendforcasting with Technical Analysis', 'Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(21311, 'The Triumph of Contrarian Investing: Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain', 'Nathan E. Davis &amp; Ned Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Contrarian investing--what it is, how it works, and why millions of successful investors see it as the only logical choice "(Davis is) one of the most widely respected technical market analysts operating today." --Louis Rukeyser Contrarians say that, when it comes to investing, the crowd is wrong more often than it is right--and prove it with their 200-year history of success! The Triumph of Contrarian Investing is a fascinating, in depth examination of the impact of crowd psychology on markets, how the crowd is often predictably incorrect, and how investors can use long-proven contrarian investing strategies to uncover tremendous buying and selling opportunities. Ned Davis, one of today''s biggest names in investing, reveals: How to ignore the temptation to "join the crowd" and uncover tremendous opportunities Consistent signs that a stock''s price has been driven too high or too low Strategies for protecting contrarian portfolios when--as sometimes happens--the crowd is right\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(21312, 'The Ultimate Trading Guide', 'John R. Hill &amp; George Pruitt &amp; Lundy Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How to Spot Short-Term Trends, Trading Systems That Work, Money Management Techniques, and Patterns for Profit  Become the ultimate trader!  The Ultimate Trading Guide is your chance to get what every trader wants, but few have: the know-how to develop and correctly use a logic-based, reliable, and profitable methodology for successful buying and selling-now. In this complete tutorial, one of today''s most respected analysts and his partners provide you with all you need to know to develop an original, computerized system that works for you.  "Can you make money trading the markets with a system? You bet, and this is the book that shows how it''s done, based on decades of research and actual trading."-Larry Williams, Author, Day Trade Futures Online and Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading  "Traders at all levels of experience will find a treasure chest of knowledge and guidance in The Ultimate Trading Guide. Advice from these expert authors, gained over decades of trading, research, and study of markets and systems, is virtually priceless. This book receives my highest recommendation."-Edward D. Dobson, President, Traders Press, Inc.  "John Hill, George Pruitt, and Lundy Hill are the acknowledged masters in the design and development of mechanical trading systems. So it''s no surprise The Ultimate Trading Guide gets my highest recommendation for those interested in the mechanized trading of stocks and futures." -Gary Smith, Author, How I Trade for a Living  "A well-written and thoroughly enjoyable book. It is filled with refreshingly new ways of looking at the market, combined with valuable perceptions that can only come from John Hill''s years of experience and the ability to see the big picture. My congratulations to John for his tenacity in delivering Futures Truth." -Perry Kaufman, Author, Trading Systems and Methods, President, Strategic Market Systems\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(21313, 'The Undeclared Secrets That Drive the Stock Market', 'Tom Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(21314, 'The undergroundtrader.com Guide to Electronic Trading: Day Trading Techniques of a Master Guerrilla Trader', 'Jea Yu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On his hugely popular Web site Undergroundtrader.com, Jea Yu tells traders how to stand firm, trust their instincts and knowledge, and grab the day trading profits they deserve. Traders trust Yu''s hard core, just-the-facts perspective to cut through the fluff, hype, and misinformation, and deliver effective trading tips and strategies on techniques, order routing, technical analysis, market maker activity, and more.Here, Yu dynamically transfers his methods for making daily, real-time recommendations to the printed page. Traders will derive instant benefit from Yu''s straightforward, Web site-driven analyses including: Vital and detailed information on the different stock markets Techniques to profit from IPOs and Internet stocks A day in the life of a successful electronic trader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(21315, 'Understanding Bollinger Bands', 'Edward Dobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bollinger Bands have been a popular method of technical analysis for several years, however there has never been any comprehensive reference on the subject available. The discussion and treatment of Bollinger Bands has been either "shortchange" or omitte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(21316, 'Understanding Forex: Trading to Win', 'Abe Cofnas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(21317, 'Understanding Stocks', 'Michael Sincere', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everything a novice investor needs to know about getting started in stocks While dozens of books purport to be for the beginning investor, most "beginner" books assume a level of knowledge that true novices just don''t have. Understanding Stocksis targeted to the beginning investor, providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of the stock market without subjecting readers to terms and ideas they can''t understand and frankly, will probably never use. Written in an engaging and direct style, Understanding Stocksuses short, easy-toread chapters to provide a solid working knowledge of the stock market. Topics include: What is a stock? How to place a trade Evaluating a stock Knowing when to sell\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(21318, 'Understanding Wall Street', 'Jeffrey B. Little &amp; Lucien Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of history''s top-selling investment guides--800,000 copies sold!--is now updated for a new generation of investorsPraise for previous editions of Understanding Wall Street:"One of those rare publications that delivers exactly what it promises . . .consistently good."--Barron''s"Among the best for the novice investor."--Los Angeles Times"A good practical education on the stock market."--Business Opportunities DigestOver the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped investors at every level understand exactly how the stock market works, and how they can build strong portfolios while limiting their exposure to risk. Now completely updated to help investors prosper in the new, no-limits market environment, the "little green book" includes:Two all-new chapters, updated charts and graphs, and nearly 40 percent updated, revised, or new material Strategies for uncovering valuable investment information on the Internet Analysis and explanation of the recent market crash, and how to avoid similar disasters\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(21319, 'Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Puts the Financial System at Risk', 'Charles R. Geisst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Glass-Steagall Act, separating commercial banks from investment banks, was passed in 1933 to prevent banks from risking depositors'' funds on the still-shaky stock market. It was repealed in 1999, when gambling other people''s money on the stock market was considered the height of financial probity. In this engaging history of Glass-Steagall, Geisst (\n <em>\n  Wall Street: A History)\n </em>\n surveys the 70 years leading to this ideological sea change, as the widespread Depression-era populist suspicion of Wall Street subsided, to be replaced with the pro-business dogma of the Reagan era and the New Economy bubble. Formal repeal, Geisst shows, was preceded by decades during which big commercial banks, hungry for a slice of the lucrative investment banking business, increasingly flouted Glass-Steagall restrictions with the connivance of ideologically sympathetic Federal Reserve regulators. The vast sums banks have spent on lobbying and campaign contributions, and the cushy Wall Street jobs awaiting government officials who switch sides, make Geisst wonder whether "the gamekeepers and the poachers had all joined the same club." Geisst provides a lucid guide to the financial issues involved and a colorful account of decades-long political debates and legislative wranglings, while raising troubling questions about the direction of public policy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "â€¦incisive explanation of various consiracy theories" (\n <em>\n  Gulf Business\n </em>\n , May 2005)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Glass-Steagall Act, separating commercial banks from investment banks, was passed in 1933 to prevent banks from risking depositorsâ€™ funds on the still-shaky stock market. It was repealed in 1999, when gambling other peopleâ€™s money on the stock market was considered the height of financial probity. In this engaging history of Glass-Steagall, Geisst (\n <em>\n  Wall Street: A History\n </em>\n ) surveys the 70 years leading to this ideological sea change, as the widespread Depression-era populist suspicion of Wall Street subsided, to be replaced with the pro-business dogma of the Reagan era and the New Economy bubble. Formal repeal, Geisst shows, was preceded by decades during which big commercial banks, hungry for a slice of the lucrative investment banking business, increasingly flouted Glass-Steagall restrictions with the connivance of ideologically sympathetic Federal Reserve regulators. The vast sums banks have spent on lobbying and campaign contributions, and the cushy Wall Street jobs awaiting government officials who switch sides, make Geisst wonder whether "the gamekeepers and the poachers had all joined the same club." Geisst provides a lucid guide to the financial issues involved and a colorful account of decades-long political debates and legislative wranglings, while raising troubling questions about the direction of public policy.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n (\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n , November 15, 2004)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(21320, 'Cash in on Chaos', 'Dr. Hans Hannula', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(21321, 'Day Trading into the Millenium', 'Michael P. Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(21322, '25 Creative Real Estate Marketing Strategies', 'John Burley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(21323, 'untitled', 'Jay Fishman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(21324, 'Using Ivestor Relations To Maximize Equity Valuations', 'Thomas Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(21325, 'Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value', 'GEORGE M. NORTON III', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Outlines an effective evaluation methodology for assessing the value of any organization\n <br />\n Valuation offers methods to accelerate the achievement of explicitly stated goals through external means and discusses the implications for valuation that would aid in the prioritization and execution of the most favorable strategies. Filled with numerous checklists and forms, this comprehensive resource addresses important valuation issues for many different situations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before a corporation (or, for that matter, a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a privately owned business, or not-for-profit organization) can achieve its maximum potential, its personnel must reach a common understanding of the organization''s mission and strategic goals, and develop a sense of urgency regarding their achievement. In Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value, George Norton offers a hands-on guide to incorporating sound strategic and valuation principles into decision-making throughout the organization. Valuation shows how, by understanding and using a few simple concepts, the leaders and members of any type of organization can enhance their daily and long-term satisfaction, as well as that of their key stakeholders, while simultaneously reaping substantial financial rewards.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With an effective valuation methodology, organization owners, managers, and other employees can assess the value of an organization, predict its financial direction, and construct a strategic framework for controlling where it should be taken. Among other features, this book:\n <br />\n <em>\n  Provides numerous checklists and forms to facilitate the development and execution of a value-enhancing strategic framework for any type of organization\n  <br />\n </em>\n Describes discounted cash flow and its role in enhancing organization value\n <br />\n <em>\n  Discusses what is the "right" cost of capital to use\n  <br />\n </em>\n Utilizes sample company examples to demonstrate real world applications\n <br />\n * Spells out the specific steps required to facilitate reaching group consensus\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s first three chapters show how-in simple language-to conduct a strategic audit, calculate the current value of the organization, and characterize the strategic landscape. Chapters 4 through 7 explore how to use a strategic framework to develop a foundation for future action, focusing on the development of long-term goals and specific techniques to quantify the economic impacts of alternative strategies. The final, "action-oriented" chapter on implementation analyzes the particulars of executing selected strategies.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value shows how an organization with shared values and a common language can better identify and achieve key objectives. Entrepreneurs, financial specialists, appraisers, and other management professionals and advisors will benefit from its time-tested techniques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(21326, 'Value Investing Today', 'Charles H. Brandes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Updated data and insights to help value investors address the realities of today''s marketsOn the heels of recent stock market tumbles and deceptions, value investing--the staple of investing greats from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett--has roared back into the spotlight. Value Investing Today returns with a new edition, filled with updated information and advice to give investors the skills and knowledge to become successful value investors.Broader in scope than previous editions, this third edition offers fresh lessons investors can use to uncover stocks that are, for whatever reason, underpriced in relation to their value. Updates to this edition include:New chapters on the psychology of investing and corporate governance Expanded discussions on the importance of margin of safety Increased correlations among world markets, and how to capitalize on them\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(21327, 'VCAndrews - Flowers In The Attic', 'User', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(21328, 'Venus in the Kitchen: Or Love&#39;s Cookery Book', 'Pilaff Bey &amp; Norman Douglas &amp; Bruce Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''It is fitting, I think, that his last book should be as unserious and shameless as this collection of aphrodisiac recipes. With its air of scholarship, its blend of the practical and the wildly impractical, the crispness of its comments, this book will be one of my favourite Douglas''s.'' - Graham Greene VENUS IN THE KITCHEN is a delightful and eccentric collection of aphrodisiac recipes. Here are dishes to seduce with and be seduced by - oysters with champagne, elderflower fritters and intoxicating love drinks, combined with fascinating recipes from antiquity to marvel at, from crane cooked with red wine to leopards marrow in goats milk. A classic, indispensable and utterly decadent book of recipes first published in 1952, Norman Douglas''s VENUS IN THE KITCHEN is sure to put you in the mood for love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(21329, 'The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Invest With the Insiders, Not the Masses', 'George Muzea', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for The Vital Few VS. the Trivial Many"George Muzea''s unique approach and market savvy make this a must-read for any investor who is serious about trying to understand what is really going on inside companies. He is hands-down the best analyst of insider activity in the business."--Jon JacobsonManaging Director, Highfields Capital"George Muzea is an insider trading whiz. George sells his research to the cr?me de la cr?me of institutional investors. His market calls have been uncanny. Knowing men like George is one of the perks of my job."--Herb GreenbergCBS MarketWatch and Editor of Herb Greenberg''s RealityCheck "Most investors lose money in the stock market because of a lack of discipline. George Muzea provides a distinct course of action for those who want to win instead of lose. Having followed the market and Mr. Muzea for a number of years, I have no doubt that those who read this book would become better investors."--Stanley DruckenmillerGeneral Partner of Duquesne CapitalFilled with in-depth insight and expert advice, The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many will open your eyes to a new way of looking at the investment world, especially the stock market. You''ll discover how to look past media hype to discern what the Vital Few or corporate insiders--those who know their companies best--are doing. By explaining which information is accurate and valuable, as opposed to that which is misleading and financially hazardous, investment professional George Muzea will show you how to successfully and intelligently evaluate the stock market and find valuable gems that have yet to be discovered by the masses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(21330, 'Volatile Markets Made Easy: Trading Stocks and Options for Increased Profits', 'Guy Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Volatile Markets Made Easy is not just a book; it is a full course of instruction. This is an incredible piece of work." -Ned W. Bennett, CEO/Cofounder, optionsXpress, Inc. "I highly recommend Guy Cohen''sVolatile Markets Made Easy , which introduces to the world his simple approach utilizing flag chart patterns to capitalize on trending stocks. Guy''s combination of clear explanations and lavishly detailed follow-throughs of trade examples cogently demonstrates how to deploy several simple, option-based strategies to make consistent money with one of the most reliable stock chart patterns-while strictly limiting risk with sound money management techniques. Add this one to your shelf." -John Brasher, CallWriter.com The Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Making Profits in Volatile Markets " Earn big returns as you systematically cherry pick the best trades while minimizing your risk " Execute a simple trading plan that leverages your profits in volatile markets " By the international best-selling author of Options Made Easyand The Bible of Options Strategies Markets are more volatile than ever. That terrifies many investors. But it shouldn''t terrify you. Smart investors know how to feast on volatility. That''s because they''ve learned proven trading strategies designed specifically to profit from rapid market shifts. In Volatile Markets Made Easy, investing expert Guy Cohen teaches you exactly how to trade these strategies, using his renowned plain English!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(21331, 'The Volatility Course', 'George Fontanills &amp; Tom Gentile', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Do you want to learn how to trade successfully in every market environment? If so, you have picked up the right book. The Volatility Course is designed to help you integrate the use of volatility in your trading approachâ€“which will help you to become a more successful trader But in order to understand volatility, it is essential to grasp the basics of investing, which is why The Volatility Course first provides a comprehensive review of stock market basics, including equities, indexes, exchange-traded funds, price quotes and charts, and, most importantly, options Through expert advice and in-depth examples, this book LI&gt;Explains what market volatility is and how to quantify it LI&gt;Focuses specifically on stock and options volatility and their corresponding strategiesLI&gt;Provides a road map detailing how to identify the ups and downs of market volatilityLI&gt;Describes the strategies that work best in high and low volatility markets P&gt;Filled with tips and techniques from renowned traders George Fontanills and Tom Gentile, The Volatility Course will help you understand the different types of volatility, how to measure and anticipate changes in volatility, and how to adapt your trading strategies to excel in prevailing market conditions. With The Volatility Course as your guide, you no longer have to wait for the right market conditions to trade successfully, because youâ€™ll know how to trade under any market condition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(21332, 'The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets', 'Jeff Augen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œJeff''s analysis is unique, at least among academic derivatives textbooks. I would definitely use this material in my derivatives class, as I believe students would benefit from analyzing the many dimensions of Jeff''s trading strategies. I especially found the material on trading the earnings cycle and discussion of how to insure against price jumps at known events very worthwhile.â€ - D R . R OBERT J ENNINGS ,Professor of Finance, Indiana University Kelley School of Business â€œThis is not just another book about options trading. The author shares a plethora of knowledge based on 20 years of trading experience and study of the financial markets. Jeff explains the myriad of complexities about options in a manner that is insightful and easy to understand. Given the growth in the options and derivatives markets over the past five years, this book is required reading for any serious investor or anyone in the financial service industries.â€ - M ICHAEL P. O''H ARE ,Head of Mergers &amp; Acquisitions, Oppenheimer &amp; Co. Inc. â€œThose in the know will find this book to be an excellent resource and practical guide with exciting new insights into investing and hedging with options.â€ - J IM M EYER ,Managing Director, Sasqua Field Capital Partners LLC â€œJeff has focused everything I knew about options pricing and more through a hyper-insightful lens! This book provides a unique and practical perspective about options trading that should be required reading for professional and individual investors.â€ - A RTHUR T ISI ,Founder and CEO, EXA Infosystems; private investor and options trader In The Volatility Edge in Options Trading,leading options trader Jeff Augen introduces breakthrough strategies for identifying subtle price distortions that arise from changes in market volatility. Drawing on more than a decade of never-before-published research, Augen provides new analytical techniques that every experienced options trader can use to study historical price changes, mitigate risk, limit market exposure, and structure mathematically sound high-return options positions. Augen bridges the gap between pricing theory mathematics and market realities, covering topics addressed in no other options trading book. He introduces new ways to exploit the rising volatility that precedes earnings releases; trade the monthly options expiration cycâ‰¤ leverage put:call price parity disruptions; understand weekend and month-end effects on bid-ask spreads; and use options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) as a portfolio hedge. Unlike conventional guides, The Volatility Edge in Options Tradingdoesn''t rely on oversimplified positional analyses: it fully reflects ongoing changes in the prices of underlying securities, market volatility, and time decay. What''s more, Augen shows how to build your own customized analytical toolset using low-cost desktop software and data sources: tools that can transform his state-of-the-art strategies into practical buy/sell guidance. An options investment strategy that reflects the markets'' fundamental mathematical properties Presents strategies for achieving superior returns in widely diverse market conditions Adaptive trading: how to dynamically manage option positions, and why you must Includes precise, proven metrics and rules for adjusting complex positions Effectively trading the earnings and expiration cycles Leverage price distortions related to earnings and impending options expirations Building a state-of-the-art analytical infrastructure Use standard desktop software and data sources to build world-class decision-making tools\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(21333, 'Votality Trading Euan Sinclair', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(21334, 'A W.D. Gann Treasure Discovered: Simple Trading Plans for Stocks &amp; Commodities', 'Robert Krausz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(21335, 'Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom', 'Doug Henwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The vocabulary of a financial market can seem arcane, impenetrable even. Yet financial news &amp; comment is everywhere. Can non-specialists ever understand what the markets are up to? This book answers an emphatic yes. Here, with compelling clarity Henwood dissects the world''s greatest financial center, laying open the intricacies of how, &amp; for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not pretty. The markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic &amp; often corrupt. And though their activity contributes almost nothing to the real economy where goods are made &amp; jobs created, they nevertheless wield enormous power. Over a trillion dollars a day crosses the wires between the world''s banks. Charts &amp; tables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(21336, 'The Warren Buffett Way', 'Robert Hagstrom &amp; Stefan Rudnicki', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book DescriptionFirst published in 1984, THE WARREN BUFFETT WAY gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind this living legend''s spectacular success. Tracing Warren Buffett''s career from the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(21337, 'Warrior Trading: Inside the Mind of an Elite Currency Trader', 'Clifford Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Today''s global financial markets are every bit as vicious psychologically, and sometimes even physically, as the battles the great warriors throughout history have faced. Just as the warriors of old rode out to battle with the confidence and knowledge to conquer new lands and foes, so do the warriors of the market who thrive on the battleground of the trading floor.  In Warrior Trading, Clifford Bennett, one of today''s leading currency forecasters, outlines a path to trading success by highlighting the characteristics, the knowledge and skills, and the psychological state of mind required to be a true warrior trader. You''ll be introduced to some fresh and unique perspectives regarding the markets, by looking at fundamental and technical analysis, as well as discovering how best to trade within the markets as an individual. Most importantly, you''ll learn how to take advantage of those moments when the perceptions of most traders (the herd) are at odds with the underlying reality-moments when fear, greed, and other emotions wreak havoc on the ordinary trader''s ability to operate objectively.  Divided into three comprehensive parts, Warrior Trading will show you how to develop the focus, attitude, and mental discipline of a top trader so that you can make the most out of your time in the markets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(21338, 'The Way to Trade: Discover Your Successful Trading Personality', 'John Piper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Most people lose in the markets for one simple reason - they trade emotionally. Good trading is not a question of doing, it is a question of being. How do you trade?Trading is a life experience. It is not like any other business. The beauty of trading is that it becomes an expression of your own personality. The truth is, good traders don''t do, they simply are. And to become a good trader you have to create a model built around an approach that suits you. The Way to Trade will help you do just that.Find your own route to success.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trading is a life experience. It is not like any other business. It becomes an expression of your own personality. The truth is, good traders don''t do, they simply are. And to become a good trader you have to create a model built around an approach, which suits you. Find your own route to success.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(21339, 'The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought', 'Alessandro Roncaglia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is an impressive, wide-ranging and useful volume." Business History Review Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, LÃ©on Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(21340, 'The Wealth of Nations', 'Adam Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Adam Smith''s enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things."\n  <br />\n  --Robert L. Heilbroner\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Wealth of Nations\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  by Adam Smith\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is symbolic that Adam Smithâ€™s masterpiece of economic analysis,\n  <strong>\n   The Wealth of Nations\n  </strong>\n  , was first published in 1776, the same year as the\n  <em>\n   Declaration of Independence.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy.\n  <strong>\n   The Wealth of Nations\n  </strong>\n  provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The result of Smithâ€™s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(21341, 'West of Wall Street', 'George Angell &amp; Barry Haigh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Contents: Understanding the Futures Markets. Becoming a Trader. Strategies for Success. Indexed. This guide offers insights into the futures trading market including practical strategies and rules for winning the game. The first book that takes the mystery out of trading in the volatile stock index futures market, where only the best and the brightest keep the lion''s share of earnings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(21342, 'What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett (Wiley-2003)', 'Barnett Helzberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(21343, 'When Buy Means Sell: An Investor&#39;s Guide to Investing When It Counts', 'Eric Shkolnik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The First Market-Proven System for Understanding--and Profiting From--the Real Truth Behind Analysts'' RecommendationsHow can Wall Street analysts proclaim a stock as a "Strong Buy" at $60--and one year later call it "Neutral" at $17? Why would a stockbroker tell you to "Hold" a stock if his firm''s research suggests it is destined to fall further?And is there any way of knowing what analysts are "thinking"--versus what they are "saying"?"When Buy Means Sell "shows you how to understand the real meanings behind analysts'' recommendations and use them to your long-term advantage. This first-of-its-kind book discusses: When you should follow an analyst''s advice--or do exactly the opposite Research into the track records of Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and other brokerage houses Time-proven rules of investing you should follow "regardless "of what analysts are saying The legitimacy of analysts'' advice is one of the most enduring myths of Wall Street. But Wall Street''s multibillion-dollar research machine "can "provide you with outstanding guidance once you know how to use it."" Let "When Buy Means Sell "show you how to determine what analysts really believe, and build a profitable portfolio based on what will work best for you--instead of for the analyst''s employer.Which brokerage firms have provided consistently strong stock recommendations in the computer and technology sector?When does a plummeting stock price form intrinsic value for the underlying security, and when does it simply indicate a bad investment?Which mutual fund manager has outperformed the S&amp;P 500 Index every year since 1990--and what is he buying now?Investors have discovered that blindlyfollowing the advice of brokerage house "analysts" and market pundits is chancy at best, and can be downright disastrous. While these recommendations appear to serve the investor, they often serve instead to inflate the price of questionable stocks--with those in the know getting out at the top while individual investors hang on for dear life as their portfolio values plummet.So what are you to do? How can you get any value from advice published by stock analysts?"When Buy Means Sell "presents a breakthrough system for reading between the lines and using Wall Street recommendations to beat the market. Based on an in-depth study of the records of today''s top analysts and brokerages, this pull-no-punches book reveals: When to ignore words like "strong buy"--and which words "really" matter Strategies for using upgrades and downgrades to make profitable buy and sell decisions Inescapable rules and techniques that must be a part of every investing strategy "When Buy Means Sell "introduces an approach that is innovative, honest, and refreshingly straightforward to investors weary of wading through conflicts of interest and questionable advice. Author Eric Shkolnik, a veteran follower of stock analysts and founder of the popular website marketperform.com, reviews decades of brokerage house research and its subsequent results to reveal what has worked and what hasn''t. He shows you how to use analysts'' ratings to build a portfolio with a much stronger chance of avoiding meltdowns and beating the market over the long haul.Once you learn to approach analysts'' calls with a healthy dose of skepticism, and follow what analysts are thinking versus what they are actually saying, there "is"measurable value to be found in the recommendations of the pros. "When Buy Means Sell "shows you how to look beyond Street noise and sleight-of-hand to determine what expert analysts "really" believe about today''s market, and use that knowledge to build a stronger, more profitable portfolio.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(21344, 'WHEN THE MARKET MOVES,WILL YOU BE READY? How to Profit from Major Market Events', 'Peter Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(21345, 'Winner Take All: A Top Commodity Trader Tells It Like It Is', 'William R. Gallacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The futures industry is unique, entertaining and, for far too many people, ultimately heartbreaking. What other industry possesses such an entertaining cast of soothsayers, self-proclaimed experts and charlatans? Where else do people become fabulously wealthy simply by acting on their own convictions? And where else does the possibility of failure loom so large and so constant? No other book captures the essence of the futures industry better than Winner Take All. With a penetrating intelligence and a sharp wit, Bill Gallacher dissects many of the industry''s leading lights, exposing the frauds, deflating the pompous and poking fun at the seers who believe they can predict the future. Along the way, he demonstrates why most traders lose and, most importantly, what it takes to win. Winner Take All is a book for all traders. For those who believe in easy-money trading systems, it is a sobering antidote. For those who think the markets can''t be beaten, it is a work of great inspiration. And for thosewho are trading profitably, it is an affirmation of the trading success principles. Winner Take All is a wise and profound book. But it is also perhaps the wittiest book on trading ever written. Read Mr. Gallacher on Fibonacci numbers: "Surely the medieval mathematician would be astounded at his impact on the twentieth-century commodity man. His mathematical series was constructed from observations on the incestuous copulation patterns of rabbits. Let''s see, you start with a male and a female, then you take the first female offspring and you...well, better not get into it". Mr. Gallacher, a successful private trader, questions all conventional wisdom. He exposes the false premises that underliemuch of technical analysis, and he demonstrates why mechanical trading approaches - while sometimes producing marginal profits - can never provide truly superior results. Although out-of-favor in today''s computer age, Mr. Ga\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(21346, 'The Winners Circle. Wallstreets Best Mutual Fund Managers', 'R.J.Shook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(21347, 'Winning the Day Trading Game: Lessons and Techniques From a Lifetime of Trading', 'Thomas L. Busby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Take a proven approach to short-term trading."Winning the Day Trading Game" offers an insider''s view of the trading life and provides proven strategies for profitable trading. Professional trader Tom Busby explains how the strategies that made him so much money early on in his career ultimately failed during the 1987 stock market crash and then reveals how he reinvented himself as a high-percentage day trader. He interweaves personal experiences with technical explanations to outline the cornerstones of his technique. In highlighting his own trading experiences, Busby clearly explains how to beat the market by balancing the impulses of greed and fear, managing risk at all times; and taking responsibility for your trading.Thomas L. Busby (Mobile, AL) has been a professional trader and broker for 25 years, working with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. He founded the Day Trading Institute in 1996 and it has grown into one of the most successful trading schools in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(21348, 'Winning The Forex Trading Battle with Fibonacci Methods', 'ISP Media', '<div class="comments">\n<a href="http://www.infoseekersparadise.com">\n http://www.infoseekersparadise.com\n</a>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/614');
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(21349, 'Winning the Loser&#39;s Game, Fifth Edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing', 'Charles Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Classic Guide to Winning on Wall Streetâ€”Completely Updated and Expanded!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe best book about investing? The answer is simple:\n <em>\n  Winning the Loserâ€™s Game\n </em>\n . Using compelling data and pithy stories, Charley Ellis has captured beautifully in this new and expanded edition of his classic work the most important lessons regarding investing. In today''s unforgiving environment, it''s a must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  F. William McNabb III, Chief Executive Officer and President, Vanguard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharley Ellis has been one of the most influential investment writers for decades. This classic should be required reading for both individual and institutional investors.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Burton Malkiel, author, *A Random Walk Down Wall Street\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo one understands what it takes to be a successful investor better than Charley Ellis and no one explains it more clearly or eloquently. This updated investment classic belongs on every investorâ€™s bookshelf.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Consuelo Mack, Anchor and Managing Editor, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA must-\n <em>\n  re\n </em>\n read classic, refreshed and updated with the latest â€˜lessons to be learnedâ€™ from the 2008-2009 market events.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Martin Leibowitz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Research\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Winning the Loserâ€™s Game\n </em>\n has long been required reading for professional investors. . . . This elegant volume explores approaches for individuals such as relying on intellect rather than emotion, and building a personal portfolio by taking advantage of what other investors already know.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Abby Joseph Cohen, Goldman Sachs &amp; Co\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is less a book about competition than about sound money management. Sounder than Charley Ellis they do not come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Andrew Tobias, author, *The Only Investment Guide Youâ€™ll Ever Need\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Book:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Drucker referred to\n <em>\n  Winning the Loser''s Game\n </em>\n as â€œby far the best book on investment policy and management.â€ Now, in it''s fifth edition, the investing classic has been updated and improved.\n</p>\n<p>\n With refreshing candor, straight talk, and good humor,\n <em>\n  Winning the Loserâ€™s Game\n </em>\n helps individual investors succeed with their investments and control their financial futures. Ellis, dubbed â€œWall Streetâ€™s Wisest Manâ€ by\n <em>\n  Money\n </em>\n magazine, has been showing investors for three decades how stock markets really work and what individuals can do to be sure they are long-term winners.\n</p>\n<p>\n Applying wisdom gained from half a century of working with the leading investment managers and securities firms around the world, Ellis explains how to avoid common traps and get on the road to investment success.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Winning the Loserâ€™s Game\n </em>\n helps you set realistic objectives and develop a sensible strategy. You will learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create an investment program based on the realities of markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the â€œunfairâ€ index fund to succeed, even in tumultuous markets\n </li>\n <li>\n  Institute an annual review process to steer your investments well into the future\n </li>\n <li>\n  Maximize investing success through five stages, from earning and saving through investing, estate planning, and giving\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The need for a trustworthy investing guide has never been greater. Sixty million individuals with 401(k)s are now responsible for making important investment decisions. They know theyâ€™re not experts but donâ€™t know whom to trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Winning the Loserâ€™s Game\n </em>\n explains why conventional investing is a loserâ€™s game, and how you can easily make it a winnerâ€™s game!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charles D. Ellis\n </strong>\n advises institutions and governments around the world on investing. For many years he taught investment courses at both Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management, and he chaired the Yale Investment Committee. He has served on the investment committees of Exeter, Whitehead Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Hollins University and is a director of Vanguard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(21350, 'The Winning Trifecta', 'Jack Gillen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(21351, 'Winning With Stocks: The Smart Way to Pick Investments, Manage Your Portfolio, and Maximize Profits', 'Michael C. Thomsett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(21352, 'Winning!! Zodiacal Timing Revised', 'Joyce C. Wehrman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(21353, 'You Paid How Much for That?: How to Win at Money Without Losing at Love', 'Natalie H. Jenkins &amp; Scott M. Stanley &amp; William C. Bailey &amp; Howard J. Markman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "So often we aren''t even aware of what money means to us--much less to our partner. This book guides you through the maze and--imagine this--actually shows you how to use money to increase love and intimacy! It will help you to have not only better financial future, but also a better marriage and a better life. Buy this book, it''s worth its weight in gold."\n <br />\n --Diane Sollee, director, Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education and www.smartmarriages.com\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Money is the number one problem area for couples because money isn''t simply about dollars and cents. If you scratch the surface of almost any money issue, you''ll find a relationship issue complicating if not actually driving the problem. That''s why You Paid How Much For That? not only sound reveals principles of money management but also provides you with practical tools to uncover and understand the deeper, often hidden meanings of money and conquer the problems it raises in your relationship.\n <br />\n You Paid How Much For That? can help you to\n <br />\n <em>\n  Learn how a Saver and Spender can live together-happily!\n  <br />\n </em>\n Gain a healthy respect for what money can-and can''t-do for you.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Understand how your upbringing, culture, and gender influence how you and your partner approach relationships and money differently.\n  <br />\n </em>\n Find out how to solve problems together in ways that promote teamwork.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Discover practical ways to get what you both want most.\n  <br />\n </em>\n Capture a vision for a prosperous and loving future together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(21354, 'Your Financial Action Plan: 12 Simple Steps to Achieve Money Success', 'G. Cotter Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Your Financial Action Plan outlines twelve simple steps that will improve your level of financial literacy as well as help you forge the financial future you desire.  Today, financial knowledge means financial power, and in Your Financial Action Plan, you''ll be introduced to the important personal financial issues that affect your life.  With this book as your guide, you''ll learn how to: * Make the most of your mortgage * Maintain a good credit rating * Build your retirement savings * Negotiate with your local bank to get the best deals * Navigate the ins and outs of insurance * Create a will * Handle tax deductions and credits * And much more   Filled with practical guidance and extensive expertise, Your Financial Action Plan will help you build the type of financial life you''ve always wanted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(21355, 'Your Financial Edge', 'Paul McCulley &amp; Jonathan Fuerbringer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Your Financial Edge "Paul McCulley is the man to heed. His knowledge of financial markets runs deep, and his experience has been the best. Beyond all his financial and economic wisdom, he is a human being with inborn instincts of kindness and thoughtfulness-attributes that bring to the reader something richer than just hard facts and sage advice. Jonathan Fuerbringer is the perfect partner for this project, a master of lucidity and a longtime observer of the best and the worst habits of investors." -Peter Bernstein, bestselling author of Against the Gods "Paul McCulley''s insightful observations on the economy and financial markets are key inputs to our investment thinking. This book provides analytical tools and actionable advice that can greatly improve your ability to navigate today''s complex financial environment. Learn from a master (and maybe even future Federal Reserve Board member) and become a better investor." -Bill Miller, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Legg Mason Capital Management "Paul McCulley is just the man to bring ''that ole-time religion'' of economics into the new age of investing and help the reader to make coherent sense of just what is going on here. I should know...I listen to his counsel every day here at PIMCO, and for anyone who lacks a key to our door, this is the next best thing! Profit by the prophet-and yes-enjoy." -William H. Gross, Managing Director, PIMCO "In this highly readable book, McCulley and Fuerbringer provide valuable insights, including how the world of policy making impacts investment decisions. Their entertaining and thoughtful analysis is accompanied by a series of penetrating real-life examples that demonstrate the choices facing investors as they seek to maximize returns and minimize risk. With its wisdom and unique perspective, this book will be of interest to both institutional investors and policymakers." -Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, President and CEO, Harvard Management Company, member of the faculty, Harvard Business School, and Deputy Treasurer, Harvard University "There''s a reason Paul McCulley is a favorite among financial pros and journalists all over the world. He anticipates investment trends before they happen and helps both professional and amateur investors stay ahead of the curve. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to build and protect their portfolio in the risky decades ahead." -Consuelo Mack, Anchor and Managing Editor, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(21356, 'Your Inner Path to Investment Success: Insights Into the Psychology of Investing', 'Albert Mehrabian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The trader cannot control the market, he can only control his own reactions to it. This book shows you how to ascertain your own investment personality, and your strengths and weaknesses in order to select investments best suited to your temperament. Shows you how to identity, evaluate, control, and manage the strong emotional responses which gaining and losing money through trading evokein you, the trader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(21357, 'Zen in the Markets', 'Edwards Allen Toppel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A veteran trader takes a Zen approach to the stock market, applying fundamental principles of Zen Buddhism in place of traditional economic thought and encouraging investors to put egos aside and listen to the marketplace in a tested method for success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://99.157.100.112:8080/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(21358, 'Business Week [Sat, 22 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Read the latest international business news &amp; stock market news. Get updated company profiles, financial advice, global economy and technology news.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Are Android Tablets Selling as Well as Claimed?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anatomy of a Baseball Trade\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fixing America''s Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can Netflix Regain Lost Ground?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inside the Man United Machine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer''s Apprentice at Apple\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In India, Whistle-Blowers Pay with Their Lives\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Herman Cain: Mine. Mine. Mine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Speech Smack-Down: Siri vs. Android Voice Actions\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who Is Jonathan Ive?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Six (More) Cringe-Worthy Networking Blunders\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rick Perry Needs a Miracle\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Building a Firewall for the Facebook Generation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Selling Abby Wambach\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Best Undergraduate B-Schools of 2011\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Transocean: No Apologies Over Gulf Oil Spill\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Gay Wedding Windfall for New York\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What Really Has Wall Street Worried\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cash from the Boss to Replace Payday Loans\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Amazon, the Company That Ate the World\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Overdraft Fees: The Dough Keeps Rolling In\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The One-Armed Bandit Finds Friends Online\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More CPUs Won''t Solve Android''s Tablet Problem\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What the Revised Productivity Rate Will Mean\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Solar Panels Start to Outshine Mirrors\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once Wal-Mart''s Equal, Carrefour Falls Behind\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three Leadership Skills That Count\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here Comes Apple''s Real TV\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not Every Real Estate Market Is Struggling\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Four Ways to Leverage Weak Connections\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hallucinogens Legally Sold as ''Bath Salts'' a New Threat\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Amazon''s Provocative New Chapter\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Herman Cainâ€™s Other Tax Plan\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why Harley Can''t Rev Up in China\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The World''s Most Innovative Companies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jeff Foster, the Buffett of Basketball\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Business Etiquette and Corporate Style Tips\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Best U.S. Business Schools 2010\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Working With Steve Jobs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Which Is America''s Best City?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Asia Embraces the Casino Economy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Epic Home Deals Await the Creditworthy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Green Bay Packers Have the Best Owners in Football\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Smartest Spenders in Sports\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cash From the Boss to Replace Payday Loans\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Payrolls Declined in Half of States\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Louisianaâ€™s Jindal Wins Second Term as Governor in Open Primary\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Flooding in Southeast Asia May Cause Food Shortages, UN Says\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Olympus Scandal Spurs Speculation Via Margin Accounts\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cain Confronts Own Abortion Sentiments at Iowa Campaign Test\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Controversial New Virus Tied to Fatigue Not Transmitted by Blood\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hinton Faces Grilling on â€˜Buried Bodiesâ€™ in News Corp. Scandals\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tunisia Holds First Election Since Revolt Sparked Arab Spring\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Odd Bargains Behind Trade Deals\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Expats No Room in Hong Kong''s Schools\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Olympus Scandal Spurs Speculation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Indonesia Tussle Over Financial Body Ends as Government Prevails\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clinton Pushes Afghan Border Security, Trade in Central Asia\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nordic Banks Offer ''Best Place to Hide''\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Southern European Banks Scramble for Savers\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fiat Strikers Tempt Marchionne to Leave Italy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Saabâ€™s Survival Chances Dwindle\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Europe Launches First Two Galileo Satellites\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ikea Owner to Develop Homes Near Olympics\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sacyr Fires Chairman After Repsol Dispute\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sarkozy Has a Tough Week, Despite New Baby\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Libya to Declare Liberation as Lines Form to View Qaddafi Body\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EU Leaders Open Last-Ditch Push to End Debt Crisis, Shield Banks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Crown Prince Sultanâ€™s Death Starts Plans for Saudi Succession\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Rogersâ€™s Bendable Microprocessors\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sports Endorsement Deals That Didnâ€™t Pan Out\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Greeceâ€™s $473 Billion Debt Mirrors Crisis in Cultural Assets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n London Mansion Resurfaces on Hedge-Fund Row as Luxury Homes Boom\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jobs Vowed to â€˜Destroy Androidâ€™\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MetroPCS Said to Emerge as Frontrunner for AT&amp;T-T-Mobile; Assets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Groupon IPO May Value Chairman Lefkofskyâ€™s Stake at $2.3 Billion\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Staples Traders See Rally After Decadeâ€™s Biggest Drop: Options\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Groupon Seeks $11.4 Billion Market Value in Initial Offering\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Europe Launches Two Galileo Satellites to Cut Reliance on GPS\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Businesses Just Want to Hear Your Voice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Occupy Wall Street: The Wealth Debate\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fedâ€™s Yellen: QE3 Could Be Warranted\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fisher Says Operation Twist Benefiting â€˜Moniedâ€™ Interests\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Widow Says Mark Madoff Was Honest Victim\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EU Talks Yield â€˜Limitedâ€™ Progress on Banksâ€™ Role in Greek Crisis\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Neel Kashkariâ€™s Next Tough Job: Pimcoâ€™s Stockpicker\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Memphis May Sue NBA Over Lost Games\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Excerpt: From Pawnshops to Poverty Inc.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Archive: Help an Employee in Financial Crisis\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A LinkedIn for LGBT Entrepreneurs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The New Venture Capital\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Making a Case for Patient Capital\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Huge Swell'' of Technology Entrepreneurs in U.K.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chinese Company Failures ''Overblown,'' Fenby Says\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Applicant''s Dilemma: Choosing Among Top B-Schools\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chat Transcript: Managing Your Online Reputation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Europe Has a Planâ€”Sort Of\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Real Trade Deals\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlie Rose Talks to Wiproâ€™s Azim Premji\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bid &amp; Ask: The Deals of the Week\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Strange Career of Sergio Tacchini\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What Countriesâ€”and Their Citizensâ€”Owe\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Real Lessons of\n <em>\n  Moneyball\n </em>\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Happy 100th Birthday, Chevrolet\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Outside the Lines\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What 9-9-9 Means for Rich and Poor\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Sports Issue\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Blame Game Over South Carolina''s Slump\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Briefs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Banking on Shale Gas to Preserve Wetlands\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Seven Days\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Verification System for New Hires Backfires\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bloomberg View: A Powell Doctrine for Europe; Alternative Energy Needs Storage\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Turning Trash Into Tables in Naples\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(21359, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(21360, 'The Economist [Sat, 22 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Politics this week\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Business this week\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n KAL''s cartoon\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Capitalism and its critics: Rage against the machine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Business in India: Building India Inc\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Argentinaâ€™s presidential election: The widow takes it all\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The euro crisis: Time for Super Mario\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n World population: Now we are seven billion\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chinaâ€™s economy: Afraid of a bump\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letters: On New York''s courts, Cyprus, Mexico, Dennis Ritchie, the euro, Manchu, obesity, doofuses, New Orleans\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Demography: A tale of three islands\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The European Central Bank: Ready for the ruck?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The parable of Detroit: So cheap, thereâ€™s hope\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Other shrinking cities: Smaller is more beautiful\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Campaign funds: A PACket of money\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chicagoâ€™s budget: Reality bites\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Public services: Rubbish competition\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Electoral reform: Second choice or second-class?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clean power: Back to basics\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lexington: Revisiting the Hoover Dam\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lexington: Correction: The ivory-billed woodpecker\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Argentinaâ€™s presidential election: Flying solo\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pollution in Brazil: The silvery TietÃª\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Australian politics: Withered of Oz\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After the tsunami: Old habits die hard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Caste in India: Touchable\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An election in Kyrgyzstan: Bridging the divide\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Equal opportunities in South Korea: Gladder to be gay\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Banyan: Not as close as lips and teeth\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Libyaâ€™s liberation: The colonel is caught\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tunisiaâ€™s election: The Islamist conundrum\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tunisiaâ€™s election: An apology to Rachid Ghannouchi\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Corruption in South Africa: A can of worms\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jordan and its king: Caught in the middle as usual\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hamas after the prisoner exchange: The Islamists reap a reward\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hamas after the prisoner exchange: Correction: Mustafa Barghouti\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n French politics: Sauce Hollandaise\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n German politics: Daylight piracy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portugal and the euro: In the mire\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ireland and the euro: Pig no more?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Italyâ€™s prime minister: Down, but not out\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gays in Turkey: Not wanted\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlemagne: Wake up, euro zone\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The future of the British army: On the defensive\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cambridge gets a new chancellor: Chancing it\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After Foxgate: Ministers v mandarins\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fuel bills: Trouble turning up the heat\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Evictions at Dale Farm: The fight moves on\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Advertising standards: Skin-deep truths about beauty\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Animal-rights protests: A beastly business\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bagehot: Right but wrong-headed\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Protests: Not quite together\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maoists and Wall Street: Long march, longer memories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cheating in sport: Onedownmanship\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adventures in capitalism\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Family firms: The Bollygarchsâ€™ magic mix\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inbound and outbound deals: Their oyster, with grit included\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Innovation and cost-cutting: The limits of frugality\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n State-controlled firms: The power and the glory\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The outlook for entrepreneurs: Looking for the next Infosys\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Indian miracle and the future: Rolls-Royces and pot-holes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pointless regulations: Itâ€™s a jungle out there\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Corporate governance in Japan: Olympian depths\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chinese art buyers: The new Medicis\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The economics of Groupon: The dismal scoop on Groupon\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discovering musical talent: A new, improved hit machine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Schumpeter: The art of selling\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chinaâ€™s economy: Hitting the kerb\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shorting bans: Europeâ€™s new dress code\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wall Street results: Darkness visible\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Buttonwood: Slow finance\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Argentinaâ€™s debt default: Gauchos and gadflies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Economics focus: Unrest in peace\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Climate change: The heat is on\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Facial monitoring: The all-telling eye\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Malaria: Not swatted yet\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deng Xiaopingâ€™s legacy: The great stabiliser\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Death and mourning: The end of the line\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Man Booker prize: The fine print\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Foreign interventions: When to hold and when to fold\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The meaning of food: Eat this book\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New cinema: The cradle will rock\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New fiction: A magical mystery tour\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Muammar Qaddafi\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bill Smith\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Overview\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Output, prices and jobs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Economist commodity-price index\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sub-Saharan African GDP growth forecasts\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Markets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manufacturing productivity\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(21361, 'Harvard Business Review Blogs [Sun, 23 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To subscribe go to http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Olympus Turmoil Shows Independent Oversight Is Critical at Japanese Firms\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five Reasons Companies Fail at Business Model Innovation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Model for Focusing Executives on Long-term Value Creation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Master Chef, Coach, Russian Dolls: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change, Part 2\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Treat Your Employees like Neighbors\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n End the Religion of ROE\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Moving from Transaction to Engagement\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Best Approach to Training\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three Leadership Skills That Count\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yes, You Need More Gadgets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Higher Ambition Leadership\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Living Truthfully Across Cultures\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Behind China''s Prosperity\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How Social Digital Is Your Company?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three Strategies for Long-Term Value\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Manage a Perfectionist\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Medieval Marketing\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Really Listen\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Should You Stay Late or Go Home?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We Need More Mature Leaders\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three Rules for Entrepreneurs During Uncertainty\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leading Through Volatility\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(21362, 'Linux Magazine [Fri, 21 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Linux news\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n How I Learned to Love the KDE 4 Series\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manage Web Server and MySQL Remotely with TinyShell\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Extension Watch: Easy Reading with iReader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/953'),
(21363, 'Mens Health (US) [Sun, 23 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(21364, 'msnbc.com [Sat, 22 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Fuller Spectrum of News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(21365, 'New York Review of Books (no subscription) [November 10, 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book reviews\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Mitt, We Hardly Knew Ye! e-edition  (Christopher Benfey)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Real Deng  (Fang Lizhi)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Zuccotti Park  (Michael Greenberg)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Gay and Crumbling England e-edition  (Daniel Mendelsohn)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n May Time in Frankfurt  (Martin Filler)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Brilliant Music of Ravel e-edition  (Charles Rosen)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Solitude (I) (poem) e-edition  (Tomas TranstrÃ¶mer,Robin Robertson)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Should Some Bankers Be Prosecuted? e-edition  (Jeff Madrick,Frank Partnoy)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Case for Far-Out Possibilities e-edition  (Freeman Dyson)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Jewish Writer in Americaâ€“II  (Saul Bellow)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Man Who Is Upsetting Iran e-edition  (Anonymous)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To Friends Behind a Border (poem) e-edition  (Tomas TranstrÃ¶mer,Robin Robertson)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Core of European Tragedy, Diversity, Fantasy e-edition  (Timothy Snyder)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the New Gangland of El Salvador  (Alma Guillermoprieto)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Old Age of Nostalgia (poem) e-edition  (Mark Strand)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n American Dream Money e-edition  (Gordon S. Wood)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Racist Redskins e-edition  (Michael Tomasky)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Sinister Turn in Zimbabwe e-edition  (Joshua Hammer)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Our â€˜Broken Systemâ€™ of Criminal Justice  (John Paul Stevens)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Double World of Tomas TranstrÃ¶mer e-edition  (Robin Robertson)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fire Graffiti (poem) e-edition  (Tomas TranstrÃ¶mer,Robin Robertson)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Freud &amp; Cocaine: An Exchange  (Howard Markel,Frederick C. Crews)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(21366, 'The Oregonian [Sat, 22 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Portland, Oregon local newspaper\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Attorney for Portland Officer Dane Reister says shooting resulted from bureau''s ''gross negligence''\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Two people critically injured after two-vehicle collision near Battle Ground\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Police investigating sexual assault in Northwest Portland\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ceasefire Oregon collects unwanted guns, while gun enthusiasts offer to buy them\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Former Central Oregon Community College instructor indicted on rape charges\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Newport surfer on great white shark attack: ''I thought I was dead''\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portland veteran Ed Saxbury has first meeting with adult son\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portland Mayor Sam Adams pegs private investment along streetcar at $4 billion: True? (PolitiFact Oregon)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Police arrest suspect in robbery at Milwaukie mobile home\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Animal control workers set trap for alligator in Gresham pond\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Raised in chaos, David ''Joey'' Pedersen turned to white supremacism, and is now accused of killings\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Silver Falls State Park shooting that killed one man appears to be accidental, Marion County Sheriff''s Office says\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For a tribal elder, a kayaker and a fish biologist, setting the White Salmon free of Condit Dam is monumental\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Man dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound after barricading himself in a Southeast Portland home\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Your Washington County: Readers react to Beaverton school levy, Forest Grove recall\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gang Enforcement Team investigating shooting near Jefferson High School\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Move Your Mortgage? Or, how to fight back against poor loan servicing\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Data centers storm into Hillsboro, bringing big investment (but not many jobs)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Northwest News: Crime on the rise near Occupy Portland camp; Seattle lawmaker Scott White dies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michael Wayne Fong, an aerospace systems engineer and chef, loved to travel and explore - Obituaries today\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bring Occupy Portland to a successful finale\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Where the metal meets the road\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Education: Parents need to remember teachers aren''t the enemy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wolf recovery: Reducing conflict and conserving Oregon wildlife\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letters: Leaving Iraq, misspent stimulus money, Iraq war, Herman Cain, 1st Congessional race\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Republican front-runner: Romney always has an answer but lacks trust\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portland''s composting program: Break the chains of our weekly trash pickup habit\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letters: Bloated military spending, Occupy Portland/Wall Street, Charles Krauthammer, learning from history, Herman Cain\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When over means kind of over\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letter to the Editor: Clackamas County ballot measure 3-388 makes a lot of sense\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letter to the Editor: Vote yes on Clackamas County Ballot Measure 3-386, no on 3-388\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Letters: Faith and politics, food composting, war medals, needy bank robber, foreign competition\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A relief for Libya and the world\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deng Xiaoping''s huge impact on China''s history is novel''s focus\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''The Myth of Choice'' review: Public policy and the limits of choice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Chango''s Beads'' review: Another street view of American history from William Kennedy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hot off the Presses: ''Nightwoods,'' ''Fair Food,'' ''Better Angels,'' and ''Instant City''\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''The Sense of an Ending'' review: Age doesn''t necessarily bring wisdom or clarity\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Monday''s Edge: Abbey Road, this isn''t\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Zone One'' review: The living end this isn''t\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pet of the week: Ready for walks and a new home\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge brings color to the forest beneath Mount Adams (video)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pet Talk: Old friend, new arrival\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fall color aspen show should happen this week at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First delivery of news to Oregon by telegraph was news in itself\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Table Talk: Controversial restaurant policies; fattening fast food; better airline meals\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Community Helpers donations as of Oct. 23, 2011\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wild coho seasons draw to a successful close on Oregon Coast\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portland airport encourages winter travel to Europe with contest, roundtrip ticket as prize\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Echinacea popularity spins into the stratosphere\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chat recap: No. 9 Oregon Ducks pound Colorado 45-2\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ducks romp through Folsom Field, winning over Buffaloes, 45-2 (photos)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Live chat: Oregon State Beavers vs. Washington State Cougars\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Bald-Faced Truth'' with John Canzano: interview with Kyle Ringo (audio)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Bald-Faced Truth'' with John Canzano: interview with Brian Smith (audio)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n LaMichael James and Darron Thomas in uniform for Oregon Ducks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Overtime: Conference titles still up for grabs after Week 8 (video)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s a gorgeous day in the Rockies as we wait for what should be an Oregon blowout\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Oregon-Colorado: Where will you watch the game?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Oregon State Beavers football: Take 5 with James Rodgers and Brandin Cooks, mentor and understudy (video)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Bald-Faced Truth'' with John Canzano: interview with Joey Harrington (audio)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Oregon Ducks rundown: Colorado returning to glory would be good for Pac-12\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Oregon-Colorado: What''s your game prediction?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake LaCoste shatters Oregon''s single-game rushing record in West Albany''s win over Silverton\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Oregon State Beavers rundown: Game Day for OSU, WSU\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Highlights: Lake Oswego 28, West Linn 0 (video)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n High school football: Previewing the best matchups of Week 9\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steve Coury, Steven Long after Lake Oswego''s 28-0 win over West Linn (video)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Santa Clara 2, Portland 1: Pilots yield a late goal, lose to No. 12 Broncos\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Big cost of doing small business in Portland: Salon owner''s rezoning request generates $28,560 fee\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is ethanol the culprit for a Stihl chain saw''s faults?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Startup: Good Clean Love of Eugene\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Natural-gas-fired plant proposed for Troutdale''s former Reynolds Aluminum plant, just a mile from Columbia River Gorge\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n China blasts SolarWorld''s request for tariffs, says cheap solar panels help economy, environment\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Denver developer to bring Punch Bowl Social diner-bar-bowling alley to Pioneer Place Mall\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Blue Heron Paper equipment sold for $6.3 million at auction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Occupy Portland: In downtown Portland, police report increase of arrests for vandalism, disorderly conduct around camp\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bagged spinach recalled two days after bagged lettuce pulled over salmonella\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stocks rise sharply on solid corporate earnings\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Investors buy Pearl District property, now own full block\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wilsonville women say goodbye to home decor store, gathering place\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portland document security company BrandWatch completes $3.3 million round\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Occupy Portland: People march from squares to homeless tent city to protest poverty\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nearly 10,800 Oregonians have passed career-readiness tests\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In downtown Portland, Beavers band meets Occupy Portland; everyone plays nice, especially the tubas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(21367, 'Psychology Today [Fri, 21 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n In Pursuit of Freedom\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No Deal for the NBA\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Campaign Charisma\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why We Take Risks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Bureaucracy Kills Leadership\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Mind of the Fan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(21368, 'Strategy+Business [Fri, 21 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Business magazine for senior business executives and the people who influence them.Go to http://www.strategy-business.com/registration to sign up for a free account\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n The Right Side of Financial Services\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n China in Transition\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Competing for the Global Middle Class\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Be a Truly Global Company\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The New Web of World Trade\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Global Lessons for Controlling Healthcare Costs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Data Points: Finding Shoppers Where They Live\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manufacturing''s Wake-Up Call\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Strategist''s Guide to Digital Fabrication\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Prevent Self-Inflicted Disasters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Prepare for a Black Swan\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 10 Clues to Opportunity\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Moore''s Law for Renewable Energy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Renewable Energy at a Crossroads\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is the U.S. Auto Industry Ready for Growth?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Transforming Healthcare Delivery\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Thought Leader Interview: Sylvia Nasar\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Case for Intelligent Industrial Policy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Be Irresistible to Women\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bottling Customer Experience\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Pursuit of Happiness\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Enduring Principles of High-Tech Success\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Closing Implementation Gaps\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Toyota''s Crisis\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Place Your Bets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dialing for Dollars with Phone Apps\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Impact of Bankruptcy Laws on Startups\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Decision-Making Flaw in Powerful People\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Continuing Payoff from Open Innovation\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Employees Talk and Managers Don''t Listen\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reading the Body Language in International Negotiations\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a Chairman Runs the Show\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Challenge of Managing Innovation and the Core Business\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Marketing, a Few Bad Words Can Be a Good Thing\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Putting a Dollar Value on Academic Business Research\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How CEO Security Affects Investment Strategies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The $169 Billion Hidden Market: People without Banks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How Mandatory Reporting on Sustainability Pays Off\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/955');
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(21369, 'Technology Review [Sun, 23 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n MIT Technology Magazine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n New Directions for a Cloudy Future: TR''s Picks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Google News: Friend or Foe for Local News Services?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EmTech: Infusing the Media Lab with Startup Spirit\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Malware Brings Cyberwar One Step Closer\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shoot Now, Focus Later\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Google Smart Phone Recognizes Your Face\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reorganize Your Past, Online\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Smart Phones Could Hear Your Password\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kinect Turns Any Surface Into a Touch Screen\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One Easy Way to Make Siri Smarter\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Small Nukes Get Boost\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Memory Trick Could Speed Up the Web\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Smart-Phone App Tracks Heart Rate\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Space Companies Hatch Plans for Reusable Rockets\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Startup Lets You Save and Share Parts of Web Pages\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Google Wave, Reincarnated\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One Smart Phone, Two Personalities\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A New Twist on Artificial Muscles\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GM Ditches the Gas Tank in Its New Electric Car\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Quasicrystal Laureate\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Metal Deposits Found at Rare Earth Mine\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Monitoring HIV on a Cheap Chip\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Worm Offspring Inherit Longevity Even without the Genes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EmTech: Get Ready for a New Human Species\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Car Warns When Your Blood Sugar Is Low\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Repaired Stem Cells Treat Liver Disease in Mice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mouthpieces Gather Impact Data from Football Players\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wired Petri Dish Gives Real-Time Updates\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Virtual HR Department\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Service Blackouts Threaten Cloud Users\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Transcending Borders but Not Laws\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Criminal Cloud\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Social-Network Chip\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How to Bid on Computing Power\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why Simple File Sharing Is Serious Business\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hollywood''s Cloud\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(21370, 'The Wall Street Journal [October 22, 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n News and current affairs\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n U.S. Troops to Exit Iraq by Year-End [A1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Americans'' Debt Cutting Hampers Growth [A1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Libya''s Future on the Line [A1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Europe''s Options: Few, and Shrinking [A1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Goldman Sachs Sends Its Regrets [A1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A World Population Milestone, Coming Soonish [A2]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Democrats Push Next Piece of Jobs Bill [A2]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Farmers Sense End of Big Boom [A3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BP Prepares Gulf Return [A3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Visas Could Aid Graduates [A3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cain''s Legacy: Selling Big Ideas [A4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fed Official Hints at New Effort on Economy [A4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw [A4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Debt Stays High in Much of World [A14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What Does a Credit Union Do When Its Customers Won''t Borrow Money? [A14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Politics of Pullout Not Without Risk [A6]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Iran Watchers, Cause for Concern [A7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long War Transforms Military [A7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Syrians Rally, Saying Assad Is Next [A9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Removing Libya Sanctions Could Take Months [A9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n U.N. Backs Yemen Power-Transfer Plan [A9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n China Aims to Reshape Libya Role [A9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tunisia Vote Stands as Test [A10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n U.S. Renews Push on Okinawa Pact [A11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Toddler''s Death Stirs Ire in China [A11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Floodwaters Reach Thai Capital [A11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n WORLD WATCH [A12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Economists Quake as Argentina Votes [A12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bolivian Chief Scraps Road [A12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Somalia Islamists Strike African Troops [A13]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Russia Nears WTO Membership [A13]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Italy''s Bank Pick Rattles the ECB [A13]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Baseball Needs Its Own ''9-9-9'' Plan [A18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Formula One Is Coming to New Jersey in 2013 [A18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the NFL, Pink Is All the Rage [A18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n U.S. stocks surged, posting\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The yen surged to\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Resolving Europe''s debt crisis\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The U.S. approved BP''s\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rupert Murdoch, his two\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fox Sports and Telemundo\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GE posted higher earnings\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pressure on Groupon is\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Barnes &amp; Noble''s CFO\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Voters in Tunisia will\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The vote will provide\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Syrian protesters poured into\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The U.N. Security Council\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Obama said all U.S.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Senate has confirmed\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The boom in the\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Islamic militants struck back\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bolivia scrapped the proposed\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Died: Wang Yue, 2,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Rowe: A Life in Energy and (Therefore) Politics [A15]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Andy Kessler: In San Francisco, There Are Many Ways to Occupy Wall Street [A15]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Noonan: The GOP Wins by Bruising [A17]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n John Yoo: Twenty Years of Justice Thomas [A17]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jenkins: Why Europe Dithers [A17]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There''s More to the Minimum Wage Than the Hourly Rate [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Government Has a Role in Financing Energy Technology [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clean Energy Is Winning in the U.S. [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We Are More Bacchus Than Apollo [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Feds Have the Answer [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Language Book Review Is a Hoot [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leaving Iraq Behind [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Democrats Against Stimulus 2.0 [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Senators for McMansion Subsidies [A16]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Corrections &amp; Amplifications\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Political Operative Faces Prison Term [A19]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Engineers Out to Squash the Competition [A19]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Medical Triage at Encampment [A19]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Albany Finally Dips Into Social Media [A19]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Busking in the Underground [A20]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Parent Shot Dead Outside a School [A21]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n History of Change Gives Flushing Diversity [A22]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three One-Acts Make for an Eclectic Crowd [A23]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 50 Years of Aiding Families [A23]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shopping Giants On Same Aisle In Cancer Fight [A23]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aiding Children and Preparing a Charity for the Future [A23]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mother of the Unconventional [A24]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Stage for Diverse Stories [A24]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unsung Composer''s Cinematic Feats [A24]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sunday Is the Acid Test [A25]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What We Can Learn From That Squirrel [A25]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even These Guys Can Win The MLS Championship [A25]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Francesa Gets Booted From Revis Island [A26]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why the Jets Can Take Chances [A26]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Devils Lose in Overtime [A26]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Week 7: Jets and Giants Predictions [A26]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Groupon Scales Down [B1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brighter Mood Buoys Dow Rally [B1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Funds Lend Stock, Who Gains? [B1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n T-Mobile Redials Strategy [B1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Earnings Quirk Boosts S&amp;P; 500 [B2]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BofA Shuffles Team Again [B14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MGIC Loss Wider Than Expected [B14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Murdochs Re-Elected Amid Protest [B3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n GE Sales Flatten, Net Up [B3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fox, Telemundo Get World Cup Rights [B3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Novartis, J&amp;J; Face EU Antitrust Probe [B3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Barnes &amp; Noble''s Finance Chief Quits [B3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yen Hits Record Against Dollar [B4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Investors Have Little to Count On [B4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Investors Returning To ''Junk'' Counter [B4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Palladium Claws Back [B4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Choosing the Right Health-Care Plan [B7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Better Ways to Fight Inflation [B7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Funding the Post-Pension Retirement [B10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This Week [B10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Test Your Prediction Skills [B10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Tax Breaks for 2012 [B10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Investing With the Activists [B10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What''s Ahead for Health Plans [B11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No Deal Yet for Groupon Shares [B18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Overheard: BP''s Russian Front [B18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n China Bonds May Shuffle Local Debt [B18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fed Wants to Bet the House, Again [B18]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wild Ride of the 1% [C1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is This the Future of Punctuation? [C2]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bill and Melinda Gates: Grading Teachers [C3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Colorful Coffins and Funerals to Die For [C3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Picasso of Pumpkin Carving [C11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We Can''t Always Get What They Want [C11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ready for Their Close-Up [C12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet the Real Bionic Man [C12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Conjuring Up a Sense of Place [C12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beware of Catching the King''s Eye [C13]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ideas Calendar: Oct. 22-28 [C13]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Week in Words [C4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea [C4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reasons to Crow About Ever-Bigger Chickens [C4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the Movies Mattered [C5]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An Angry Prophet [C6]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Booking a Journey [C6]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why the Grass Seems Greener [C7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From Medea on the Bayou to Shenanigans in the Office [C7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Photo-Op: In Full Plume [C8]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Surviving Mao, Revamping a Nation [C8]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n City of Peaceâ€”and War [C9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pied Piper Occupies Wall Street [C9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They Were Good Once [C10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five Best: The Beginnings of World War II [C10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Best-Selling Books, Week Ended Oct. 16 [C10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n China''s Zhang Mixes Ash and Spectacle [C14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Seeing Double: A Photography Power Couple [C14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Libeskind Slices Into a Museum [C14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Don''t Miss: Oct. 15-21 [C14]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Getting to the Bottom of Bordeaux [D1]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Redfish With Black-Eyed-Pea Ragout [D3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Good Cheeses Come in Small Packages [D3]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In My Kitchen: Bayou Boy John Besh [D4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Macarons, Madeleines et More: New French Cookbooks [D4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brown Magic: Men''s Suits [D6]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fashion News [D6B]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is Ready-to-Wear the New Couture? [D7]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hiking in New Hampshire [D9]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Food Trips to Fall For [D10]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The All-In-One Room [D11]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Honda''s New Civic, Heavy on the ''Ick'' [D12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bicycle Security in a Bottle [D12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wires-Free, Battery-Free Keyboard [D12]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s Your Camera Calling [D13]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(21371, 'zdnet [21 Oct 2011]', 'calibre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n zdnet security\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Articles in this issue:\n <br />\n Charlie Miller on Android vs iOS security\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adobe fixes webcam hijack Flash flaw\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hungarian Lab found Stuxnet-like Duqu malware\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Opera denies ignoring critical font manipulation vulnerability\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Java update plugs 20 critical security holes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New Mac OS X malware disables Apple''s malware protection\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Special Offer From Our Sponsor Visualize the Future of the Anywhere Office\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Over a million web sites affected in mass SQL injection attack\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hacking group from Nepal posts 10,000 stolen Facebook accounts online\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Spamvertised ''Cancellation of the package delivery'' emails serving malware\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stuxnet 2.0?  Researchers find new ''cyber-surveillance'' malware threat\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://pip.homelinux.net:8080/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(21372, '12 12 english', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(21373, '24 Hours', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This explosive suspense thriller gets off to a blistering start: the kidnapping of a little boy--in eight breathless pages--that culminates with the child''s safe return and the disappearance of the successful kidnappers. That sets the stage for the book''s centerpiece, the abduction of little Abby Jennings, daughter of Will, a successful physician, and Karen, a slightly dissatisfied suburban woman who''s wondering where the passion in her marriage went. The criminals'' modus operandi is established early on. They target the progeny of Mississippi doctors, demand a reasonable (to an affluent M.D.) ransom, release the child after it''s paid, and promise the victim parents that if they ever breathe a word of the incident to anyone, their kids will be taken again and killed. The kidnappings are carefully set up, targeted to take place when one parent is out of town at a medical meeting or convention, thus ensuring the cooperation of the other. And the victim is held by a sweet, slightly retarded but humongous and powerful man whose loyalty to his cousin, the mastermind, is unquestioned.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  24 Hours\n </em>\n is a version of the locked room school of kidnap mysteries and a very good one indeed, especially when Will turns the tables on the kidnapper and takes control of the situation. Abby''s diabetic condition (she needs lifesaving injections on a regular basis) notches the suspense up one last turn. It''s a well worked-out plot, the pacing is terrific, and the characters likable and attractive. Iles is a master storyteller, and this one has big screen written all over it--with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as the Jennings, if we''re lucky.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HAs close to family fare as a kidnapper-rapist-extortionist thriller can get, Iles''s (The Quiet Game) latest brilliantly plotted tale walks the razor''s edge between cinematic excess and bone-chilling suspense. Joe Hickey is a Southern redneck with an Ivy League talent for evil. He has trained his grossly huge, mentally challenged cousin, Huey, and his gorgeous, exotic-dancer, live-in lover, Cheryl, to work with him as part of a tightly controlled kidnap/extortion squad targeting Mississippi physicians'' families while the doctors are off at conferences. But he hits a snag when Dr. Will Jennings, his wife, Karen, and their five-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Abby, prove as resourceful solo as they are formidable in tandem. Joe grabs Abby, turning her over to Huey, who drives her off to a remote forest cabin near Jackson; meanwhile, Joe stays behind to terrorize Karen in the Jennings home. Cheryl gets her hooks into the third family member by vamping her way into Will''s hotel room in Biloxi, where Will receives a phone call and ransom demand from Joe, who stipulates delivery in 24 hours. It''s a long, horrific night for all as Iles pits each of the captives against their captors in riveting battles of will. The well-rounded characters are trademark Iles, the plot runs speed-skating smooth and occasional near-gooey bits of dialogue are offset by nasty surprises and perfectly timed terror. The one-on-one conflicts punch up the pace, and a perfect Mississippi setting, a spot-on sendup of FBI assistance and a hair-raising finale complete the package. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and BOMC alternates. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(21374, '37 Short Stories by Haruki Murakami', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(21375, '4th Of July Picnic', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(21376, '50 Psychology Classics', 'Tom Butler-Bowdon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In his newest addition to the 50 Classics series, Butler-Bowden provides concise summaries and commentaries on fifty of the most influential works on the human mind and behavior, along with special features to provide additional context. Drawing on the rich vein of the classics as well as contemporary works, this book is a worthy addition to a series that has sold over 100,000 copies in English and been translated into 17 languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(21377, '50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment &amp; Purpose', 'Tom Butler-Bowdon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Which books really endure in the literature of the spirit? This final work in the 50 Classics trilogy covers 50 of the all-time classics of spiritual writing, giving listeners the key ideas, insights and applications of these legendary works. From Eastern philosophers (Krishnamurti,Thich Nhat Hanh) and Western mystics (St. Francis of Assisi, Hermann Hesse), to inspiring memoirs (Ghandi, Malcolm X) and current blockbusters (The Purpose-Driven Life, The Power of Now) these are the authors and books that have already guided millions on the journey of inner discovery and enlightenment. Each entry presents key excerpts, a nutshell summary, explanation of the main ideas, author bio and an expert overview that puts it all in practical perspective. As they are introduced to landmark works ranging from the classic (The Prophet, The Alchemy of Happiness) to the contemporary (The Four Agreements, Conversations with God) listeners will: Fulfill their potential through life-changing stories of spiritual awakening Expand their perception Achieve a deeper sense of purpose Gain insights into lifes biggest questions Spanning centuries, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs, 50 SPIRITUAL CLASSICS is a comprehensive course in inspiration for all spiritual seekers.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Butler-Bowdon is a recognized expert in the â€œliterature of possibilityâ€. His first book, 50 Self-Help Classics , won the Benjamin Franklin award and was a Foreword magazine Book of the Year. Tomâ€™s trilogy of personal development books, including 50 Success Classics and 50 Spiritual Classics, have been translated into 17 languages. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the UK and Australia. In addition to his writing, Tom leads seminars and runs his web site www.butler-bowdon.com.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(21378, 'The Affair of the Twisted Scarf', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(21379, 'After Dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamiâ€™s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennyâ€™s into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims theyâ€™ve met before; a burly female â€œlove hotelâ€ manager and her maidstaff; and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These â€œnight peopleâ€ are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Yuriâ€™s slumberâ€“mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime â€“ will either restore or annihilate her.After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency â€“ the interplay between self-expression and understanding, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakamiâ€™s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.â€œEyes mark the shape of the city. Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creatureâ€“or more, like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms. Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old. To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm. Midnight is approaching, and while the peak of activity has indeed passed, the basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished, producing the basso continuo of the cityâ€™s moan, a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding.â€â€”from After DarkFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(21380, 'After the Downfall', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian Turtledove (_The Man with the Iron Heart_) opens this fantasy with Hasso Pemsel, a tough Wehrmacht captain, cornered in a Berlin museum as the Russians close in. Pemsel falls into another world, where he promptly rescues beautiful blonde half-goddess Velona from three swarthy men. Velona seduces him and explains that the blond Lenelli invaders rule over the dark native Grenye, keeping them subjugated with magic. Experienced from fighting on the Russian front, Hasso brings modern military ideas to the Lenelli before they invade the Grenye stronghold of Bucovin, but when the Grenye capture him, conversations with intelligent, lovely high priestess Drepteaza start to erode his assumptions about both races. Pemsel''s slow enlightenment breaks no new ground, but his story will appeal to fans of Turtledove''s straightforward style and military know-how.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ancient relic flings Germany army captain Hasso Pemsel from the ruins of doomed Berlin to a fantastic though also war-torn other world. There he falls among the tall, blond Lenelli and in love with their goddess incarnate, Velona. At first he willingly helps the Lenelli in their war against the short, dark, barbarian Grenye, but soon he sees that his friends are making the same mistakes that the Third Reich did in its death-duel with the Russians. He knows where that course leads. After the Grenye capture him, it becomes even clearer to him that any war of extermination is a bad idea, but this one is especially so because Velona uses her magic to try to terminate him for sleeping with Grenye women. When he genuinely falls for one of the latter, the die is cast. He develops gunpowder, equips the Grenye with dragon-bone amulets to resist enemy magic, and discovers wizardly powers of his own. Modest by Turtledoveâ€™s standards but intelligently carried out. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(21381, 'After the Siege', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(21382, 'An Agacella Or (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(21383, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the one-time bestseller\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he''s off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman''s books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy''s misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second''s encounter with God and with eternity."\n <em>\n  --Gail Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it''s full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. Comparisons to The Little Prince are appropriate; this is a sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(21384, 'Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book', 'Alcoholics Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Includes forwards to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions and the Doctors Opinion. Page and paragraph notations in gray for each paragraph. \n  <b>\n   No Spiritual Experience appx or Doctor Bob''s Nightmare.\n  </b>\n  MobiPocket Publisher Personal Edition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s more than a book. It''s a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(21385, 'Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Note:\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   This edition does not contain the Spiritual Experience appx or Doctor Bob''s Nightmare.\n  </i>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n     From 7th Tradition Software\n     <br />\n     Please see\n     <a href="http://anonpress.org/">\n      http://â€‹anonpress.â€‹org/\n     </a>\n     â€‹\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n  <p>\n   Includes forwards to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions and the Doctors Opinion. Page and paragraph notations in gray for each paragraph of pages 1-164.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   It''s more than a book. It''s a way of life.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Alcoholics Anonymous-the Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Key features and benefits\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Â· the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Â· contains full, original text describing AA program\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary. We think this account of our experiences will help everyone to better understand the alcoholic. Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person. And besides, we are sure that our way of living has its advantages for all. It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication. Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event. We would like it understood that our alcoholic work is an avocation. When writing or speaking publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous." Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this request, for otherwise we shall be greatly handicapped. We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. We are not allied with any particular faith, sect or denomination, nor do we oppose anyone. We simply wish to be helpful to those who are afflicted. We shall be interested to hear from those who are getting results from this book, particularly form those who have commenced work with other alcoholics. We should like to be helpful to such cases. Inquiry by scientific, medical, and religious societies will be welcomed.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(21386, 'All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(21387, 'All Seated on the Ground', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The aliens have landed! The aliens have landed! But instead of shooting death rays, taking over the planet and carrying off Earthwomen, they''ve just been standing there for months on end, glaring like a disapproving relative. And now it''s nearly Christmas, and the commission assigned to establish communications is at their wits'' end. They''ve resorted to taking the aliens to Broncos games, lighting displays, and shopping malls, in the hope they''ll respond to something!\n</p>\n<p>\n And they do, but in a way nobody ever expected, and Meg, the commission, and an overworked choir director find themselves suddenly caught up in an intergalactic mess involving Christmas carols, scented candles, seventh-grade girls, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Meg''s Aunt Judith, Victoria''s Secret, and Handel''s Messiah.\n</p>\n<p>\n Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Connie Willis may be most famous for her books To Say Nothing of the Dog, Doomsday Book, Inside Job, D.A., and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, but she''s also a huge fan of the holidays and their accompanying frivolity and nonsense, and has written a marvelous array of Christmas stories, including Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, Just Like the Ones We Used to Know (made into the CBS movie Snow Wonder), deck.halls@boughs/holly, and now the hilarious All Seated on the Ground.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(21388, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard K. Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced, densely textured, impressive first novel is an intriguing hybrid of William Gibson''s Neuromancer and Norman Spinrad''s Deus X. In the 25th century, it''s difficult to die a final death. Humans are issued a cortical stack, implanted into their bodies, into which consciousness is "digitized" and from which-unless the stack is hopelessly damaged-their consciousness can be downloaded ("resleeved") with its memory intact, into a new body. While the Vatican is trying to make resleeving (at least of Catholics) illegal, centuries-old aristocrat Laurens Bancroft brings Takeshi Kovacs (an Envoy, a specially trained soldier used to being resleeved and trained to soak up clues from new environments) to Earth, where Kovacs is resleeved into a cop''s body to investigate Bancroft''s first mysterious, stack-damaging death. To solve the case, Kovacs must destroy his former Envoy enemies; outwit Bancroft''s seductive, wily wife; dabble in United Nations politics; trust an AI that projects itself in the form of Jimi Hendrix; and deal with his growing physical and emotional attachment to Kristin Ortega, the police lieutenant who used to love the body he''s been given. Kovacs rockets from the seediest hellholes on Earth, through virtual reality torture, into several gory firefights, and on to some exotic sexual escapades. Morgan''s 25th-century Earth is convincing, while the questions he poses about how much Self is tied to body chemistry and how the rich believe themselves above the law are especially timely.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a society in which death has been rendered practically obsolete, suicide and murder take on different significances. After a particularly brutal offing, former UN envoy Takeshi Kovacs finds himself "resleeved"--that is, his consciousness has been put in a new body--and hired as a private investigator by Laurens Bancroft, one of twenty-fifth-century society''s old rich in Bay City (formerly San Francisco). Bancroft claims he was murdered, but the police say it was a suicide. After Kovacs gets hit at his hotel within hours of being resleeved, he sees the possibility that Bancroft was, in fact, murdered, and that someone wants to keep it very hush-hush. As he investigates, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy with ties to the most unsavory characters in his generally unsavory military and criminal past. This far-future hard-boiled detective story is a lovely virtual-reality romp distinguished by a conspiracy whose strands have the potential to generate several successful sequels, which is just what its publicity promises.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(21389, 'Alternatives to Sex', 'Stephen McCauley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The bestselling author of The Object of My Affection and True Enough delivers his most compelling and richly observed novel to date with this portrait of one man''s search for the holy trinity of modern life -- true love, good sex, and great real estate. Stephen McCauley''s new novel is a moving and hilarious chronicle of life in post-traumatic, morally ambiguous America where the desire to do good is constantly being tripped up by the need to feel good. Right now. William Collins is a real estate agent working near Boston. Despite a boom market, his sales figures aren''t what they should be, due mostly to the distractions of compulsive ironing and housecleaning binges and his penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups -- "less impersonal than old-fashioned anonymous sex because you exchanged fake names with the person." There''s also his struggle to collect the rent from Kumiko Rothberg, his passive-aggressive tenant, and his worries about his best friend, Edward, a flight attendant he''s certainly not in love with. William has known for some time that his habits are slipping out of control. But he figures that "as long as I acknowledged my behavior was a problem, it wasn''t one." When he finally decides to do something about his life, he needs a role model of calm stability. Enter Charlotte O''Malley and Samuel Thompson, wealthy suburbanites looking for the perfect city apartment. "Happy couple," William writes in his notes. "Maybe I can learn something from them." But what he learns challenges his own assumptions about real estate, love, and desire. And what they learn from him might unravel a budding friendship, not to mention a very promising sale. Full of crackling dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble of players, Alternatives to Sex is social satire at its very best: A smart, sophisticated, and astonishingly funny look at the way we live now.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)21.4    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)13.5\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(21390, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(21391, 'American Freak Show', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Willie Geist\n </strong>\n is the host of MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Way Too Early with Willie Geist\n </em>\n , the cohost of\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n , and a contributor to several NBC News programs. He also hosts the web show\n <em>\n  Zeitgeist\n </em>\n on MSNBC.com. Geist lives in New York with his wife and two children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(21392, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Anathem* is the latest miraculous invention by the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Cryptonomicon* and *The Baroque Cycle*â€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(21393, 'And Four To Go', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nero Wolfe, the 286 pound beer consuming marvel, who wears yellow silk pajamas, loves orchids and rarely leaves home has been a popular character for seventy years in Rex StoutÃ¢Â¬"s books, films and recently a successful television series. His sidekick Archie Goodwin helps prod Wolfe into action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(21394, 'Anda&#39;s Game', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/78');
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(21395, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly, whose novel __ won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard-boiled police procedural. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel,\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n , Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is assigned to the murder investigation of the high-profile African American attorney Howard Elias. When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Elias, who made a career out of suing the police, was sadistically gunned down on the Angels Flight tram just as he was beginning a case that would have struck the core of the department; not surprisingly, L.A.''s men and women in blue become the center of the investigation. Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n is a detective''s nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century. Amidst the twists and turns of his complex narrative, Connelly affirms his rightful place among the masters of contemporary mystery fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollywood homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (Trunk Music, 1996, etc.) is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. The echo of the Rodney King case is almost deafening when Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight. Bosch and his team?a black woman named Kizmin Rider and a black man named Jerry Edgar?are assigned the highly sensitive case. Although Bosch sniffs racial and departmental political hokum among the brass, he doggedly focuses on finding the killer, knowing that cops will be among the suspects. It all smells even worse when Bosch discovers signs of evidence tampering by the first cops on the crime scene and learns that the civilian attorney assigned to oversee the investigation had personal ties to Elias. A bit of a cowboy anyway, Bosch is even more ornery than usual, since his wife has gone AWOL and returned to gambling. Further hampered by a secretive and even obstructive departmental leadership and by his former partner''s apparent links to the crime, Bosch moves well outside the rules to discover the ugly motivation for the killing. Connelly has all the hard-boiled procedural moves down and gives Bosch a reckless crusader''s moral code. The finale, set against riots, delivers a brutal, anti-establishment sort of justice. This isn''t Connelly''s best; the plot is sufficiently ornate to diffuse tension, and Bosch seems to be evolving from the true character of early books into a sort of icon, a Dirty Harry for our times. Simultaneous Time Warner audio; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(21396, 'Another Roadside Attraction', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if the Second Coming didnâ€™t quite come off as advertised? What if â€œthe Corpseâ€ on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it isâ€”what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(21397, 'Apocalypse 1945: the destruction of Dresden', 'David Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "David Irving attracts credibility and attention by his indefatigable energy, intelligence, and resourcefulness." --Tom Bower, Daily Mail, March 27, 1996\n</p>\n<p>\n "There can be few operations of war as causeless, as purposeless, and as brutal as the attack on Dresden on the attack of February 13, 1945. In "The Destruction of Dresden," Mr. David Irving has analyzed, in an objective manner, the causes and result of this gratuitous act. As Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby comments in his foreword, the bombing of Dresden was "a great tragedy," the purposes of which are "difficult to determine." He agrees that Mr. Irving "tells dispassionately and honestly" the story of a deeply tragic example, in time of war, of man''s inhumanity to man." We should be grateful to the author for having devoted long study to this question and for having provided us with as accurate an account of what acttually happened as we are likely to obtain. It was, in fact, an operation unworthy of our history. Nobody could contend that Dresden was a legitimate strategic target; nobody could contend that this terror raid shortened the war or satisfied our Russian allies. I am not surprised that most Englishmen should strive to forget about Dresden." --Sir Harold Nicholson, The Observer\n</p>\n<p>\n "In devoting a book to this one violent moment of the war, with its antecedents and something of its aftermath, Mr. David Irving has rendered the British people a great service. They have to know. The Dresden event is a part of British (as well as of German, and European, and human) history. It is a piece of a mosaic that makes up the British character and a brushstroke, out of many, in the image that Britain presents to foreign peoples - an image the British are at best imperfectly aware of, and that has consequences which they often find it difficult to understand. Dresden also has lessons necessary to an understanding of the nature of war. What is necessary is to know what happened and to understand how it came to happen. And the only way is to read Mr. Irving''s excellent and terrible book. --The Economist\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n AT 10.10 P.M. ON THE NIGHT of February 13-14, 1945 the R.A.F. Master Bomber broadcast the cryptic order: ''Controller to Plate-Rack Force: Come in and bomb glow of red T.I.s as planned.'' The ill-famed attack on Dresden had begun. The target city was among Germany''s largest, but it alone had developed no single major war industry. The German authorities had made it a centre for the evacuation of wounded servicemen, and by February 1945 most schools, restaurants, and public buildings had been converted into military hospitals. In selecting Dresden for this purpose, the German government probably hoped that this, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, often compared with Florence for its graceful Baroque architectural style, would be spared the attentions of the allied bombers. By 1945, the legend was deeply entrenched in the population''s mind that Dresden was a city that would never be bombed. It was not to be. In February 1945, with the Soviet armies making striking advances in their invasion of Silesia and East Prussia, and when the war''s political and military directors were meeting at Yalta, Mr Winston Churchill was urgently in need of some display both of his offensive strength and of his willingness to assist the Russians in their drive westwards. Dresden, the ''virgin target'' just seven miles behind the eastern Front, became the victim of Mr Churchill''s desire for a spectacular blow. By a combination of delays and poor weather, the raid, the climax of the strategic air offensive against Germany, and the most crushing air-raid of the war, was not delivered until the day that Mr Churchill was departing from Yalta. The city was undefended -- it had no guns, and even the German night-fighter force was grounded by Bomber Command''s brilliant tactics of deception and trickery. It had no proper air-raid shelters. On the night of the attack, Dresden was housing hundreds of thousands of refugees from Silesia, East Prussia, and from western Germany in addition to its own population of 630,000. Up to 100,000 people, perhaps more, were killed in two to three hours, burned alive, that night. Yet until the author''s first book on it appeared in 1963 the raid on Dresden scarcely figured in any official indices of the war. A veil had been drawn across this tragedy. Why was there this official silence about the Dresden tragedy? Certainly little discredit reflected on the officers and men of the bomber forces; equally the two commanders, Sir Arthur Harris and General Carl Spaatz, were not acting out of hand. The directives and orders confronting them were painfully clear. Stung by foreign revulsion at this new St. Valentine''s Day Massacre, the British Prime Minister - who had ordered it - penned an angry minute to his Chief of Staff, even before the war ended, rasping that, "The Destruction of Dresden remains a query against the conduct of Allied Bombing." It is from this remarkably forgetful minute that the subtitle of this documentary account is taken. For the first time, the full story, ommitting nothing, of the historical background to this cruel blow and of its unexpected political consequences, is told. First three, and now forty years'' research in England, Germany, and the U.S.A., and the active cooperation of the military authorities in London, Washington, and Moscow, produce a detailed account of this tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(21398, 'The Art of Public Speaking', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Art of Public Speaking BY\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n The best way to become a confident, effective public speaker, according to the authors of this landmark book, is simply to do it. Practice, practice, practice. And while you''re at it, assume the positive. Have something to say. Forget the self. Cast out fear. Be absorbed by your subject. And most importantly, expect success. "If you believe you will fail," they write, "there is hope for you. You will." DALE CARNEGIE (1888-1955), a pioneer in public speaking and personality development, gained fame by teaching others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies. He also founded the Dale Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and Human Relations, with branches all over the world. JOSEPH BERG ESENWEIN (1867-1946) also wrote The Art of Story-Writing, Writing the Photoplay (with Arthur Leeds), and Children''s Stories and How to Tell Them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(21399, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man. A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(21400, 'As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life...Selected Writings of A.A.&#39;s Co-Founder', 'Bill W.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <center>\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    <h3 style="text-align: center;">\n     <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; ">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n        Note to newcomers - quotes from the Big Book -\n       </span>\n      </span>\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n        ''Alcoholics Anonymous''\n       </span>\n      </span>\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; ">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n        , in this book should not always be directly attributed to Bill W., but were the product of many of the founders of AA, including Dr. Bob and Clarence S\n       </span>\n      </span>\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">\n       .\n      </span>\n     </font>\n    </h3>\n    <h3 style="text-align: -webkit-center;">\n    </h3>\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    <h2 style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; ">\n    </h2>\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    <h1 class="title" style="display: inline !important; ">\n     <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">\n      </span>\n     </font>\n    </h1>\n   </i>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    <i>\n     <h3 style="text-align: -webkit-center; display: inline !important; ">\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n      </span>\n     </h3>\n    </i>\n    <i>\n     <h3 style="text-align: -webkit-center; display: inline !important; ">\n     </h3>\n    </i>\n    <i>\n     <h2 style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; ">\n     </h2>\n    </i>\n    <i>\n     <h1 class="title" style="display: inline !important; ">\n      <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">\n        As Bill sees it : the A.A. way of life-- selected writings of A.A.''s co-founder.\n       </span>\n      </font>\n     </h1>\n    </i>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n </center>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   See at:\n  </b>\n  <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781893007369" style="text-decoration: none; color: blue; ">\n   9781893007369\n  </a>\n </div>\n <br />\n <p class="description">\n  This volume include several excerpts from AA''s Literature, touching nearly every aspect of AA''s way of living.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(21401, 'B Is for Beer', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A Children''s Book About Beer?\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, believe it or not--but\n <em>\n  B Is for Beer\n </em>\n is also a book for adults, and bear in mind that it''s the work of maverick bestselling novelist Tom Robbins, internationally known for his ability to both seriously illuminate and comically entertain.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once upon a time (right about now) there was a planet (how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed thirty-six billion gallons of beer each year (it''s a fact, you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous kindergartner named Gracie; her distracted mommy; her insensitive dad; her non-conformist uncle; and a magical, butt-kicking intruder from a world within our world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Populated by the aforementioned characters--and as charming as it may be subversive--_B Is for Beer_ involves readers, young and old, in a surprising, far-reaching investigation into the limits of reality, the transformative powers of children, and, of course, the ultimate meaning of a tall, cold brewski.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Tom Robbins\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n So, Tom Robbins, youâ€™ve gone and written a childrenâ€™s book about an alcoholic beverage. First, why the ode to beer?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Why not? As ode fodder, its got to have at least as much potential as nightingales and Grecian urns.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beer is so universally beloved that 36 billion gallons of it are sold each year worldwide. Moreover, itâ€™s been popular for thousands of years, with origins dating back to ancient Egypt and Sumer. It has deep connections to the earth -- and possibly to outer space, as well (I explain this in the book). Bittersweet, like much of life itself, itâ€™s exceptionally thirst-quenching and enormously refreshing; itâ€™s cheerful, accessible, affordable, lovely in color, and somewhat nourishing, being one of our few neutral foods: perfectly balanced between acidic and alkaline, between yin and yang. Best of all perhaps, beer makes us tipsy. Whatâ€™s not to ode?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Okay, but whatâ€™s the angle with children?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Children see beer commercials every time they watch a sporting event on TV. In the supermarket, they pass shelves and coolers overflowing with the stuff. Neon beer signs wink at them as theyâ€™re driven to school, to church or the mall. And, if their own parents and older siblings arenâ€™t enjoying beer, then the parents and siblings of their friends surely are.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kids are constantly exposed to beer, itâ€™s everywhere; yet, aside from wagging a warning finger and growling -- true enough as far as it goes -- â€œBeer is for grownups,â€ how many parents actually engage their youngsters on the subject? As a topic for detailed family discussion, itâ€™s generally as taboo as sex.\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s a kind of largely unpremeditated side-stepping, and part of the reason is that most parents are themselves uninformed. Even if mommy and daddy have more than a clue about beerâ€™s ingredients and how itâ€™s brewed, they know nothing of its history, let alone the rich psychological, philosophical, and mythic associations bubbling beneath the surface of its wide appeal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n So, children need to know the â€œmeaningâ€ of beer?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, at the very least they need a clearer understanding of why their dad keeps a second refrigerator in the garage, and why he stays up late out there on school nights with his shirt off, listening to Aerosmith.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Of course. How would you compare B Is for Beer to your previous nine books of fiction?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n At 126 pages, itâ€™s shorter. Itâ€™s illustrated. And itâ€™s less complex, although considerably more complicated than\n <em>\n  Poopie the Pukey Puppy\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What will you possibly do for an encore?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Not my problem. Iâ€™ve decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his children''s book for grown-ups/grown-up book for children, Robbins (_Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)_ takes readers on a whimsical tour of all things beer, written in the language of a bedtime story. Factoids about everything from how beer is made to the number of gallons of beer sold globally each year (36 billion) are woven into this story about six-year-old Gracie Perkel, who craves time with her beer-guzzling Uncle Moe. When Moe disappoints Gracie, she reaches for a drink and is visited by the Beer Fairy, who flies her through the Seam and offers an education about life and, of course, beer. The drive to inform the reader about malt and hops is sometimes relentless, and the language can be frustratingly dumbed-down (If you''re unfamiliar with the word\n <em>\n  podiatrist\n </em>\n , you''re not alone. Fortunately for Gracie [and now for you], Uncle Moe was quick to define\n <em>\n  podiatrist\n </em>\n as a doctor who investigates and treats disorders of the feet. A foot specialist). Still, the premise and execution of this unique book lends itself to moments of real humor.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(21402, 'Banquo&#39;s Ghosts', 'Richard Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  National Review\n </em>\n editor Lowry (_Legacy_) and Korman (_Swan Dive_) have written an exciting, intelligent novel that delivers the thriller goods and tosses barbs at do-gooder politicians, government obstructionists, reporters and a wide array of liberal weenies. Unlikely hero Peter Johnson, a mildly buffoonish writer working for the\n <em>\n  Crusader\n </em>\n , a left-wing magazine, is recruited by CIA agent Stewart Banquo for the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist. Banquo figures no one would ever suspect Johnson, known for his drunkenness and willingness to take a bribe, to be working for the CIA. Johnson, who accepts the job for a variety of reasons, heads off to Iran. A series of double crosses lands Johnson in the hands of the Iranians and sets up the rest of the plot involving a chillingly plausible terrorist attack. A major thread left untied points to what should be a much anticipated sequel. Expect a boost from author appearances on\n <em>\n  Hannity''s America\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  6-city author tour. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rush Limbaugh, nationally syndicated radio host &amp; political commentator\n </strong>\n <br />\n "Part send-up of the drive-by media and the New York cocktail circuit, part warning about the evils of our enemies and the necessity of eternal vigilance--_Banquo''s Ghosts_ is all rollicking fun. You''ll learn, you''ll laugh, you''ll get mad, and you won''t want it to end."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sean Hannity, host of\n  <em>\n   The Sean Hannity Show\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Hannity &amp; Colmes\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Hannity''s America\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n "Lowry and Korman skewer the pompous media and feckless bureaucrats in this wild ride of a novel. And they always come back to the central point: we live in a dangerous world and must never forget it."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Levin, host of\n  <em>\n   The Mark Levin Show\n  </em>\n  , nationally syndicated by ABC networks\n </strong>\n <br />\n "_Banquo''s Ghosts_ is fiction that sounds all too real at time when the country is ham-strung by self-loathing at home and by self-limiting niceties abroad. Not just a good read, but an essential one."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William J. Bennett, former United States Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œOne of the year''s best thrillers involving assassination, terrorism, journalism, and international intrigue.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Brad Thor, #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Last Patriot\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Banquo''s Ghosts _is an intelligent, supercharged thriller. Rich Lowry &amp; Keith Korman have crafted a scenario so real, and so frightening, that readers (both inside and outside the CIA) will undoubtedly lose sleep over it. This is what the modern espionage novel is all about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert K. Tanenbaum\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Escape\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œRich Lowry and Keith Korman have written a dazzling debut political thriller.\n <em>\n  Banquoâ€™s Ghosts\n </em>\n is a brilliantly imagined and incredibly detailed novel about a CIA rogue special operation â€“ terrifying in itâ€™s depiction of a potential war with Iran and what the United States must do to prevent an attack of biological terrorism in a major American city. A fast-paced and chilling wild ride.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Patrick Robinson,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   To the Death\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Banquoâ€™s Ghosts_ is a masterwork of political intrigue and riveting suspense. There are very few times when I canâ€™t put a book down, but I had to read this twisting and gripping thriller late into the night.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn exciting, intelligent novel that delivers the thriller goods... chillingly plausible....â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Harriet Klausner\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[an] exciting espionage thriller....â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œRich Lowry and Keith Korman keep the action moving in this engaging thriller....â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Newsday\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThoughtful, fast-moving fiction, a political thriller that actually thrills.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report\n </strong>\n <br />\n "_Banquoâ€™s Ghosts_ is a conservative gateway drug. Buy it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  National Review\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThe authors of\n <em>\n  Banquoâ€™s Ghosts\n </em>\n have a clarity of vision that has been lacking in much espionage fiction since the conclusion of World War II....\n <em>\n  Banquoâ€™s Ghosts\n </em>\n is a true thriller â€” a fine novel by authors who understand the difference between good and evil and are unashamed to take a position on the side of the former.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(21403, 'Bear Trap (script)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suitable for learning basic programming for Web browsers,\n <em>\n  Beginning JavaScript\n </em>\n is a patient, introductory tutorial on writing scripts successfully. It teaches you how to create client-side scripts (including full coverage of fundamentals like variables and flow control, plus plenty of screen shots.)\n</p>\n<p>\n JavaScript is a good way to learn programming. It''s powerful, of course, but the book takes small steps, using scripts that work with string and time data first, and then moving to manipulating browser objects like forms and windows. A running case study for a trivia game helps anchor the steps with a practical (and fun) example. There are plenty of tips on debugging your scripts (including how to use the Microsoft Script Debugger tool), and each section includes sample questions. (The book also offers extensive answers in over 80 pages at the end of the book.)\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s plenty of material on the differences between Internet Explorer and Netscape, especially when it comes to Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Coverage of the Document Object Model (DOM) for browsers helps bring the text up to date on some of the latest standards in Web browsers (including the new Netscape 6).\n</p>\n<p>\n While the focus of\n <em>\n  Beginning JavaScript\n </em>\n clearly is on the client, later sections turn to server-side ASP development (in which the sample trivia game is enhanced with ASPs written in JavaScript using ADO and Microsoft Access.) Reference sections on JavaScript and the browser object model for Internet Explorer and Netscape (through version 4.x) round out the material.\n</p>\n<p>\n In all, with its approachable style and clearly rendered code examples,\n <em>\n  Beginning JavaScript\n </em>\n makes for a worthwhile first book of programming for today''s browsers. Even if you haven''t programmed before, this text can give you the tools you need to bring your static Web pages to life.\n <em>\n  --Richard Dragan\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Topics covered\n </strong>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduction to JavaScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cross-browser compatibility issues\n </li>\n <li>\n  JavaScript data types and variables\n </li>\n <li>\n  Displaying errors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Calculations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Operators\n </li>\n <li>\n  String handling\n </li>\n <li>\n  Flow control statements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Loops\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduction to using objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  The browser object model\n </li>\n <li>\n  HTML forms (including types of input controls)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Frames and windows\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tutorial for regular expressions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advanced string methods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Date, time, and timer objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  Common errors\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Microsoft Script Debugger\n </li>\n <li>\n  Cookies\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dynamic HTML (DHTML) on Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.x\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Document Object Model (DOM)\n </li>\n <li>\n  ActiveX controls and plug-ins used with JavaScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Server-scripting\n </li>\n <li>\n  Introduction to ASP and databases (including SQL basics and database design with Microsoft Access)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sample case study for a trivia game\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sample exercises and answers\n </li>\n <li>\n  References to JavaScript\n </li>\n <li>\n  Internet Explorer 4 and 5 and Netscape Navigator 4 objects\n </li>\n <li>\n  ASP object model reference\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With my book, you''ll gain a thorough understanding of the JavaScript language, learning all the key concepts from the ground up. The knowledge you''ll gain here will help you to start programming exciting and powerful web applications."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(21404, 'Before I Die', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(21405, 'Before Midnight', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A ripping good yarn in audiobook form like this one is always good to find." --\n <em>\n  Rainbow Electronic Reviews, December 2004\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Veteran narrator Prichard does an outstanding job, especially when Wolfe and Archie work togetherâ€¦ a great listening experience is guaranteed." --\n <em>\n  AudioFile Magazine RealTime Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a contestant is killed during the final round of the Pour Amour perfume contest, Nero Wolfe must find the person who stole the recipe to the dead contestant''s perfume in order to solve the crime. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(21406, 'The Best Revenge', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Clone''s stay on death row is over, thanks to new evidence uncovered by Kelda James, a young FBI agent whose efforts on Clone''s behalf have not exactly endeared her to her colleagues. Referred by that same agent to psychologist Alan Gregory, Clone is struggling to adapt to life outside prison. But others who believe he got off on a technicality don''t agree that the former medical student deserves his freedom, and they will go to any lengths to make sure he''s punished accordingly for the crime of which he was once accused. There are some surprising plot twists here, but more interesting is Gregory''s midlife crisis and his declining interest in his work: as his partner responds when he voices doubts about his efficacy as a therapist, "Those are the bricks we lay. If you''ve started hating the bricks, maybe it''s time to reconsider being a brick layer." Certainly Gregory gets himself into more sinister and frightening scrapes than most shrinks, and this is one of his strangest cases. The Best Revenge is a solid, well-reasoned thriller, set in the marvelously drawn Colorado landscape the author has made his own, with guest appearances by minor figures familiar to readers of this increasingly popular psychological suspense series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(21407, 'the Big Bounce', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n <br />\n --_The WashingtonÂ Â Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is an awfully good writer of the sneaky sort; he is so good, you don''t notice what he''s up to."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler."\n <br />\n --_The Cleveland Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"\n <br />\n --_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n PLAYMATE OF THE DAY\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Ryan has a man''s fists, a boy''s mind, and the cunning of an ex-con. Nancy Hayes has a woman''s sleek moves and the instincts of a shark. Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Ryan the choice is clear: Nancy''s promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns, and maybe stealing a whole lot of money are driving him half mad. But there''s one thing Ryan doesn''t know yet: his new playmate is planning the deadliest thrill of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Razor-sharp and wholly unpredictable,\n <strong>\n  The Big Bounce\n </strong>\n is an Elmore Leonard classic--a sly, beguiling story of a man, a woman, and a nasty little crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Visit the Elmore Leonard Web site at http://www.elmoreleonard.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(21408, 'The Big Over Easy', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just when you thought he''d stretched his astonishing imagination to the limit, Jasper Fforde does it again with this dazzling new series. Unabridged CD - 9 CDs, 11 hours\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(21409, 'Bitterroot', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-Texas Rangers are suckers for old friends in distress, so when Vietnam vet and recent widower Doc Voss calls lawyer Billy Bob Holland from Montana with an apparently innocent invitation to visit, Billy Bob packs up and "head[s] north with creel and fly rod in the foolish hope that somehow my own ghosts did not cross state lines."\n</p>\n<p>\n Doc has managed to alienate everyone in town, including mining interests on the Blackfoot River; a drug-running biker gang; an enclave of white supremacists, led by slimy Carl Hinkel; the local mob connection, in the person of an even slimier Nicki Molinari; and the feds, who don''t want anything interfering with their pursuit of both Hinkel and Molinari. After Doc''s daughter is brutally raped by three of the bikers, and those three are murdered in a particularly nasty fashion, Holland must try to clear his friend of suspicion. As he ferrets through a tangled web of coincidence and connection, Holland risks losing everything and everyone dear to him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The wild card in the pack is Wyatt Dixon, a psychopathic ex-con who holds Holland responsible for his sister''s death, and who has followed him to Montana: "[Wyatt] recycled pain, stored its memory, footnoted every instance of it in his life and the manner in which it had been visited upon him, then paid back his enemies and tormentors in ways they never foresaw."\n</p>\n<p>\n James Lee Burke''s prose alternately sparkles with a perverse insouciance ("Lamar had gotten his. Big time. Soaked in paint thinner and flame-roasted from head to foot like a burned burrito.") and glows with a muted intensity ("I closed the door and slipped the bolt and went back to sleep and hoped that the sun would rise on a better world for all of us."). The author''s capacity to add depth to his characters with a few well-chosen phrases remains striking: the town sheriff walks "heavily, like a man who knew his knowledge of the world would never have an influence upon it"; a group of college boys is "suntanned and hard-muscled, innocently secure in the knowledge that membership in a group of people such as themselves meant that age and mortality would never hold sway in their lives."\n</p>\n<p>\n Is the Billy Bob Holland series (three novels and counting) just\n <em>\n  Robicheaux Redux\n </em>\n ? The ex-Texas Ranger is, as either man might admit, the spittin'' image of Dave Robicheaux, Burke''s Louisiana PI: simultaneously rugged and rage-filled, chivalrous and callow, debonair and disturbing. And like the Robicheaux series, the Holland novels drift effortlessly among genres: regional writing, gritty noir, classic PI. You can cavil that Burke is repeating himself--or you can rejoice that Burke is continuing to enlarge his pool of intense, lyrical crime novels. Personally, I plump for the latter.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A two-time Edgar Award winner, Burke touches on a variety of hot-button issues sure to thrill his fans in his first book since last year''s Purple Cane Road. The author''s popular protagonist, Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland, travels to big sky country for some fishing with Doc Voss, a friend who''s relocated to Montana''s Bitterroot Valley after his wife''s death. Soaring descriptions of the majestic setting contrast sharply with the evil doings of the people who live there. Doc has made some powerful enemies in his campaign against a mining venture he believes would harm the economy and the pristine countryside. The stakes rise when his teenage daughter is raped in her bedroom. The rapists could be any of the white supremacists who live in the woods, randy bikers on the prowl, strange members of a conservative religious cult or even the Native Americans eking out a substandard living on the local reservation. Billy Bob and Doc also have to contend with celebrities wanting to experience "country life," organized crime figures, government agents and a sinister, recently paroled felon who blames Billy Bob for his wife''s death. To top it off, Billy Bob suffers from guilt over the accidental killing of his best friend as well as nightmarish memories of Vietnam. It''s only a matter of time before the powder keg blows. Those who relish Burke''s patented mix of supercharged violence and overheated passions are in for a treat. (June 18)Forecast: While not quite in the same league as Purple Cane Road, this entry is likely to scale bestseller lists as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(21410, 'Black Cherry Blues', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this winner of the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux''s dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner''s girlfriend. All the main characters in this darkly beautiful, lyric saga carry heavy emotional baggage, and Robicheaux''s sleuthing is a simultaneous exorcism of demons of grief, loss, fear, rage, vengeance. Burke''s fictional terrain--stretching from the Louisiana bayous to Montana''s red cliffs and pine-dotted hills--is uniquely his own, yet also a microcosm of a multi-ethnic America. He writes from the heart and the gut. 35,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(21411, 'Black Cross by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is January 1944 â€” and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects. Their only objective: Destroy all traces of the gas and the men who created it â€” no matter how many lives may be lost...including their own.â€œStunning....From the very first page, Greg Iles takes his readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride, juxtaposing tension-filled action scenes, horrifying depictions of savage cruelty, and heart-stopping descriptions of sacrifice and bravery. A remarkable story from a remarkable writer.â€ â€” Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(21412, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n  <code>\n   murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n  </code>\n  tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(21413, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly''s second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug\n <code>\n </code>\n black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©0993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(21414, 'The Black Mountain', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Los Angeles actor Michael Prichard provides a lively rendition of a Nero Wolfe mystery revolving around an eccentric genius who searches for the killer of his best friend. International espionage and high drama set in post-World War II mark an audio which proves suspenseful to the end." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Bookwatch_, December 1997\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enraged by the cold-blooded killing of his closest friend, Nero Wolfe leaves not only his home, but his country as well. In an exotic land where his life depends on a false passport, a knapsack filled with chocolate bars, and a razor-sharp knife, the great man faces the most dangerous adventure of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/242');
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(21415, 'Black Orchids', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show lures Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone. But before the detective and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder puts a blight on the proceedings. The murderer to be weeded out is definitely not a garden-variety killer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wolfe must also throw his considerable weight into another thorny case, this one involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters -- and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe''s orchids with roots even more twisted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like the orchids he so avidly cultivates, Nero Wolfe is one of mystery writing''s most prized ornamentals." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(21416, 'Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm', 'George C. Chesbro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mongo''s back in his 12th novel (after An Incident at Bloodtide). The martial arts expert, PI and former circus star who happens to be a dwarf relies a bit less on gymnastics and coincidence this time, and more on his human nature. On a cold night in Manhattan, against his better judgment, Mongo takes in homeless Mama Spit, who has suddenly become clearheaded and is anxious to abandon her former residence?a heating grate?and to pick up her former life as Margaret Dutton. Her cure was effected by some pills a young man pressed into her hands just before he was killed. As a side effect, Margaret''s senses of smell and taste have been enhanced. Mongo discovers similarly enhanced senses in Michael Stout whom he encounters at a local chess club. From Stout, Mongo learns that a dozen patients at a mental hospital run by the Chill Shop, a covert CIA group, have escaped. All had been taking this unknown drug, a mixture "of heavy duty psychotropics," likely to cause death if abruptly withheld. To cover up the program and the escape, two assassins aim to to eliminate the escaped patients and then Mongo, whose dogged pursuit of the villains creates a diverting mystery.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The twelfth novel (plus one novella) featuring Mongo the Magnificent, aka Robert Frederickson, the famed criminologist/martial arts expert/former circus aerialist and dwarf is true to the formula employed in the others: Mongo discovers a monstrous plot perpetrated on the helpless by immoral minions of a powerful organization, is tortured by those minions, and then wreaks an almost Old Testament revenge while saving the victims. Along the way, the author endlessly moralizes and violates the writer''s dictum, "Don''t tell the readers, show them." In this one, the CIA and a Swiss pharmaceutical company are experimenting illegally on schizophrenics. The drug they''ve developed actually works, but it''s the side effects that intrigue the bad guys. Even worse, missing a single day''s dose is fatal, and Mongo must shatter the Company and the company while ensuring an ongoing supply of an unknown drug. Needless to say, he fills the prescription. Hokey? You bet. But fans will want their Mongo prescriptions filled, so libraries better stock up.\n <em>\n  Thomas Gaughan\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(21417, 'The Blessing Way', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brilliant . . . As fascinating as it is original." -- _--\n <em>\n  _St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sidewinder Publishing is proud to offer this publication of\n <em>\n  The Blessing Way\n </em>\n making Tony Hillerman''s first book available in hardcover to a whole new generation of readers. The Reservation series is being redone with gorgeous cover art and chapter illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin. This printing is designed to be a sleek, easy to store hardback that will maintain consistent dimensions with the rest of the set to appeal to the collector in all of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Blessing Way is introduced with an appreciation by his long time friend Ernie Bulow. Their collaboration, Talking Mysteries, won the Macavity Award and was nominated for both the Edgar and Anthony awards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(21418, 'Blinded', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory hasn''t seen former patient Gibbs Storey since she and her husband were in marriage counseling with him almost a decade ago. So when she walks into his office with a startling declaration--that she believes her husband murdered at least one woman, and may be planning to kill more--Gregory finds himself on the horns of a dilemma that''s not just professional but personal as well: He can''t reveal what his patient has told him, not even to his wife, who''s a prosecutor, or his friend Sam, who''s a cop. What''s more, his feelings for Gibbs may be clouding his judgment about the truth of what she professes. Though he telegraphs the denouement too early, Stephen White once again turns in a thoughtful, well crafted novel full of interesting insights on marriage, friendship, the human condition, and the Colorado landscape.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murder, sex and guilt are all on the couch in bestseller White''s latest (Cold Case; Manner of Death; etc.) featuring ongoing series hero Alan Gregory, a low-key sleuth/psychologist. As always, the author delivers an absorbing mystery, a mix of interesting subplots involving Gregory''s sympathetic friends and family, and a paean to the beauty of the Colorado countryside. This time he splits the point of view equally between Gregory and Gregory''s best friend, Boulder police detective Sam Purdey. Sam has just had a heart attack and is facing a dreaded rehabilitation regimen when his wife decides to leave him, perhaps permanently. Gregory has his own plateful of domestic difficulties caring for his MS-stricken wife and his toddler daughter while tending to a full caseload of clients who run the gamut from mildly neurotic to full-blown psychotic. An old patient he hasn''t seen in a year, the beautiful Gibbs Storey, comes back for therapy and announces that her husband has murdered a former lover, and she''s not sure what to do about it. And by the way, she thinks he may have murdered a bunch of other women as well. Gregory decides that, as a therapist, he cannot report the murders to the police, spending pages and pages justifying his decision. He turns to recuperating pal Sam, and the two of them separately follow various threads until all is resolved, just in the nick of time. White is known for his surprise endings, and this one is no exception. Aside from the repetitive and less than convincing ethical considerations, it''s an engrossing addition to an excellent series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(21419, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blink\n  </em>\n  is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of __, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell''s ideas about what Blink Camp might look like.\n  <em>\n   --Barbara Mackoff\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (_The Tipping Point_) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgmentsâ€”about people''s intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategyâ€”he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why\n  <em>\n   does\n  </em>\n  Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell''s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant factsâ€”and that less input (as long as it''s the right input) is better than more. Perhaps the most stunning example he gives of this counterintuitive truth is the most expensive war game ever conducted by the Pentagon, in which a wily marine officer, playing "a rogue military commander" in the Persian Gulf and unencumbered by hierarchy, bureaucracy and too much technology, humiliated American forces whose chiefs were bogged down in matrixes, systems for decision making and information overload. But if one sets aside Gladwell''s dazzle, some questions and apparent inconsistencies emerge. If doctors are given an algorithm, or formula, in which only four facts are needed to determine if a patient is having a heart attack, is that really educating the doctor''s decision-making abilityâ€”or is it taking the decision out of the doctor''s hands altogether and handing it over to the algorithm? Still, each case study is satisfying, and Gladwell imparts his own evident pleasure in delving into a wide range of fields and seeking an underlying truth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(21420, 'Blood Memory by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Iles''s previous thriller, 2003''s provocative\n <em>\n  The Footprints of God\n </em>\n , featured an omnipotent supercomputer and an on-the-run duo racing around the globe from North Carolina to Jerusalem. This time, Iles returns to more familiar ground: Natchez, Miss.; New Orleans; and the Mississippi delta, where a serial predator has been killing middle-aged men. Forensic odontologist Cat Ferry, an expert on teeth and the damage they can inflict, is called in by the New Orleans PD to explain the bite marks found on the bodies. Cat, the alcoholic granddaughter of Dr. William Kirkland, owner of the sprawling Malmaison estate and the richest, most powerful man in Natchez, has solved previous murders with her married detective lover, Sean Regan. This time, though, she''s pregnant with Sean''s baby, and this plus the discovery of old bloody footprints hidden in the carpet fibers of her Malmaison childhood bedroom threaten to plummet her into the depression that''s plagued her since she was 15. She thinks one footprint might be hers, made on the night her father died of an ill-explained gunshot wound. Iles weaves in dark strains of child sexual abuse and the resulting repressed memories as Cat searches for the serial killer and for answers about her father''s death. This overlong novel lacks the scintillating originality that made Iles''s last outing so memorable, but he ties up all the loose ends in an exciting climax.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his ninth book, Iles returns to the Deep South, an old Natchez mansion to be exact, where 31-year-old Catherine Ferry, a forensic specialist, retreats after panic attacks interfere with her work on what appears to be a string of serial killings. No sooner does she arrive than she discovers that the facts of her privileged if troubled youth in the house, where black servants still cater to the whims of Cat''s racist, iron-willed grandfather, are an elaborate fiction. In her quest for the truth, especially about the brutal death of her father, she opens the door to a disturbing family history that puts her at both physical and emotional risk--and, eventually, leads her to the doorstep of an unusual serial killer. Iles'' dialogue leaves something to be desired this time around ("I have to keep digging until I uncover the truth. If I don''t, I''ll go mad"), and a heavy dose of melodrama (Cat, a longtime alcoholic with bipolar disease, goes cold turkey when she discovers she''s pregnant) gets in the way of the mystery. Still, this provocative tale of twisted lives and dark, agonizing secrets delivers enough atmospheric suspense to keep Iles'' many fans entertained till the last page.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(21421, 'Blood Money and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontier-elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue. For every story of inspiring moral courage in America''s untamed West, there''s one of greed and duplicity, of corrupted souls willingly sacrificed to a merciless deity of ill-gotten gold. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master brings us seven unforgettable western tales of noble stands and cowardly compromises-and battles of will more devastating than a blazing gunfight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(21422, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor''s killer. In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s. As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(21423, 'Booby Trap', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two Rex Stout short stories for war buffs and Nero Wolfe fans alike. In "Not Quite Dead Enough," Archie Goodwin - Nero Wolfe''s perennial legman - literally steals the limelight. Recently inducted into Army Intelligence, Archie goes to Wolfe''s flat to see why he hasn''t been answering his or the Army recruiter''s calls. Wolfe could be dead, but Archie later finds out he''s been "training" to join the Army. It takes the murder of a woman Archie goes dancing with to get Nero Wolfe to investigate crime again. The wartime theme continues in "Booby Trap" as Archie and Wolfe investigate the murder of Captain Albert Cross, killed only hours before he was to make a report about a prototype grenade theft to the group of intelligence people Wolfe works with. Listener favorite Michael Prichard, named by Smart Money magazine as one of the "Top Ten Golden Voices," precisely captures the characters'' personalities and the story locations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n These stories are told by Archie Goodwin, assistant and legman for the fabled orchidist and gourmet sleuth, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is famous not only for his eccentric behavior, but also for solving crimes without ever leaving his desk. Now, however, the U.S. has entered WWII, and Wolfe is on a diet and exercise routine Archie is pretty sure it''s going to kill him if he doesn''t intervene. But did Archie have to go out and get himself accused of murder to pull it off? Archie and Wolfe are left with many pieces of a puzzle to put together. Michael Prichard has recorded hundreds of audiobooks and is especially notable for his mystery and suspense readings. He has the crisp, clipped tones that are perfect for detective stories of crime in the big city. D.G. Â© AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(21424, 'The book of Philip K. Dick', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Comprising:\\rNanny (1955)\\rThe Turning Wheel (1953)\\rThe Defenders (1953)\\rAdjustment Team (1954)\\rPsi-Man (Psi-Man Heal My Child!) (1955)\\rThe Commuter (1953)\\rA Present for Pat (1954)\\rBreakfast at Twilight (1954)\\rShell Game (1954)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(21425, 'Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the\n <em>\n  hacienda\n </em>\n where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy''s Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy''s previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These likable boys affect the cowboy''s taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy''s unblinking imagination the boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials, enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god. Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of McCarthy''s language, others will find his voice completely transporting. In what is perhaps the book''s most spectacular feat, horses and men are joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(21426, 'Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The opening section of\n <em>\n  The Crossing\n </em>\n , book two of the Border Trilogy, features perhaps the most perfectly realized storytelling of Cormac McCarthy''s celebrated career. Like __, this volume opens with a teenager''s decision to slip away from his family''s ranch into Mexico. In this case, the boy is Billy Parham, and the catalyst for his trip is a wolf he and his father have trapped, but that Billy finds himself unwilling to shoot. His plan is to set the animal loose down south instead.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a McCarthy novel, not __, and so Billy''s trek inevitably becomes more ominous than sweet. It boasts some chilling meditations on the simple ferocity McCarthy sees as necessary for all creatures who aim to continue living. But Billy is McCarthy''s most loving--and therefore damageable--character, and his story has its own haunted melancholy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billy eventually returns to his ranch. Then, finding himself and his world changed, he returns to Mexico with his younger brother, and the book begins meandering. Though full of hypnotically barren landscapes and McCarthy''s trademark western-gothic imagery (like the soldier who sucks eyes from sockets), these latter stages become tedious at times, thanks partly to the female characters, who exist solely as ghosts to haunt the men.\n</p>\n<p>\n But that opening is glorious, and the whole book finally transcends its shortcomings to achieve a grim and poignant grandeur.\n <em>\n  --Glen Hirshberg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Billy Parham, in a horse stall, dreams of his father''s eyes, "those eyes that seemed to contemplate with a terrible equanimity the cold and the dark and the silence that moved upon him." Billy could as well be dreaming of McCarthy''s prose and the unsparing tone of this, the second volume in the Border Trilogy. The Crossing , following the award-winning and bestselling All the Pretty Horses , is set in the American Southwest and in Mexico, and features, like its predecessor, teenage boys, their horses, a girl and the recurring spectacles of desert days and nights, awful wonders and appalling deprivations, and no small amount of roadside philosophizing. The story of Billy, his younger brother Boyd, the fates of their horses, a wolf, their parents and their dog, set against a vague and distant backdrop of the coming Second World War, throws little light upon a universe without much meaning, though it is in the nature of McCarthy characters to try to anyway. In the end, when the last dog is hanged, so to speak, what survives is the rhythm of McCarthy''s open, ropey sentences circling a logic as inscrutable as an animal''s or a god''s. Although no mysteries are solved, and no comfort gained for these lonely characters, there is that language wrestling to earth all that it cannot know and all that it can. Readers again will be in awe of McCarthy''s extraordinary prose attentions--the biblical cadences, the freshened vocabulary, the taut, vivid renderings of the struggle to live. 200,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(21427, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities Of The Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n On a ranch in southeastern Texas, soon after World War II, a group of solitary, inarticulately lonely men gathers to work animals as the sun sets for good on the mythic American West. All of these men nurse losses both personal (siblings or wives) and collective (a shared lifestyle and philosophy). Among them is John Grady Cole, the adolescent hero of the first book in Cormac McCarthy''s Border trilogy,\n <strong>\n  . John Grady remains the magnificent horseman he always was, and he still dreams too much. On the ranch, he meets Billy Parham, whose own tragic sojourn through Mexico in\n </strong>\n , the second book of the set, continues to quietly suffocate him. The two form a friendship that will nurture both but save neither from the destiny that McCarthy''s characters always sense lurching to meet them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soaked in storm-heavy atmosphere but brightened by the ranch-hands'' easy camaraderie and gentle humor,\n <em>\n  Cities of the Plain\n </em>\n surprises with its sweetness. The awkward doomed-romance plot at the center of this tight, concise novel fails to convince, but, remarkably, does little to undercut the book''s impact. What lingers here, and what matters, are the brooding, eerie portraits of the plains and the riders, glimpsed mostly alone but occasionally leaning together, who slip across them, over the horizon into memory.\n <em>\n  --Glen Hirshberg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This volume concludes McCarthy''s Border Trilogy?the first two books being All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award in 1992, and The Crossing, published to great acclaim in ''94. Devoted McCarthy readers will know not to expect any neat or dramatic resolution in Cities of the Plain, for the author is more of a poet than a novelist, more interested in wedding language to experience in successive moments than in building and setting afloat some narrative ark. Cities, like the other books, takes place sometime shortly after WWII along the Texas-Mexico border. John Grady Cole, the young, horse-savvy wanderer from All the Pretty Horses, and Billy Parham, who traveled in search of stolen horses with his younger brother in The Crossing, are now cowhands working outside El Paso. John Grady falls in love with Magdalena, a teenage prostitute working in Juarez, Mexico; determined to marry her, he runs afoul of her pimp, Eduardo. That is basically the narrative. Along the way, McCarthy treats the reader to the most fabulous descriptions of sunrises, sunsets, the ways of horses and wild dogs, how to patch an inner tube. The cowboys engage in almost mythically worldly-wise, laconic dialogues that are models of concision and logic. Although there is less of it here than in the earlier books, McCarthy does include a few of his familiar seers, old men and blind men who speak in prophetic voices. Their words serve as earnest if cryptic instructions to the younger lads and seem to unburden the novelist of his vision of America and its love affair with free will. If a philosophy of life were to be extracted from these tales, it would seem to be that we are fated to be whatever we are, that what we think are choices are really not; that betrayals of the heart are always avenged; and that following one''s heart is a guarantee of nothing. There is not much solace in McCarthy-land; there is only the triumph of prose, endlessly renewed, forever in search of a closure it will not find save in silence. 200,000 first printing; BOMC alternate; simultaneous audio, read by Brad Pitt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(21428, 'Brain Twister', 'Randall Garrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is one of the funniest science fiction books ever written! Mark Phillips is the pen name used by Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. The description of the authors reads, "Mr. Garrett is a large, roundish fellow with a beard. He wears flowered vests and always carries a small talisman which no one has ever seen. Mr. Janifer is a somewhat shorter and thinner type, with a shorter and thinner beard. His vests are in solid colors, he wears horn-rimmed glasses because he has always done so, and he is never found without a souvenir subway token from the City of New York. The personal lives of the authors differ widely. Mr. Garrett''s hobbies, for instance, include such sports as close-order drill and river pollution. Mr. Janifer, a less active type, prefers sedentary games such as humming or blinking. Mr. Garrett is engaged to an exotically beautiful creature, and the two plan to be married as soon as they run out of excuses. Mr. Janifer, on the other hand, is fascinated by women, and hopes some day to meet one." Brain Twister is the second in the mystery trilogy. FBI agent Malone is not your typical FBI agent. He investigates psychic criminals. A psionics machine has determined that scientists in Yucca Flats have had their minds scanned. The FBI needs a telepath, but the telepaths are catatonic and are all in mental institutions. There is one old lady names Miss Rose Thompson who is a telepath. However she does believe she is Queen Elizabeth and must be treated like a queen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(21429, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bestseller Connelly delivers one of his most intricate plots to date in his 20th book, a beautifully executed crime thriller. When L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller, last seen in\n <em>\n  The Lincoln Lawyer\n </em>\n (2005), inherits the practice and caseload of a fellow defense attorney, Jerry Vincent, who''s been murdered, the high-profile double-homicide case against famed Hollywood producer Walter Elliot, accused of shooting his wife and her alleged lover, takes top priority. As Haller scrambles to build a defense, he butts heads with LAPD Det. Harry Bosch, the stalwart hero of Connelly''s long-running series (_The Black Echo_, etc.), who''s working Vincent''s murder. When Haller realizes that the Elliot affair is bigger than simply a jealous husband killing his cheating wife, he and Bosch grudgingly agree to work together to solve what could be the biggest case in both their careers. Bosch might have met his match in the wily Haller, and readers will delight in their sparring.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics were pleased to see two of Michael Connelly''s protagonistsâ€”the relatively new Mickey Haller and world-weary homicide detective Harry Boschâ€”come together for the first time. They agreed that while this union of sorts could have been cliched, it succeeded for the most part by adding a new layerâ€”the evolution of a relationship forged by protagonists of different seriesâ€”to Connelly''s oeuvre. Haller''s presence adds a lighter tone to the story, which balances Bosch''s darker, more ruminative outlook. Both play against each other nicely as Connelly writes at once a police procedural and a captivating legal thriller. The\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n called\n <em>\n  The Brass Verdict\n </em>\n primarily entertainment, with deeper undertonesâ€”just right for Connelly fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(21430, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard K. Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics have compared Richard Morgan''s first novel, __, to the classic hardboiled fiction of Raymond Chandler. The comparison doesn''t accurately describe Morgan''s second novel,\n <em>\n  Broken Angels\n </em>\n . Morgan''s prose never approaches Chandler''s metaphoric excess, and Morgan''s antihero, Takeshi Kovacs, doesn''t wisecrack nearly as often as Chandler''s hero, Philip Marlowe. Also, Kovacs''s far-future universe is considerably darker than Marlowe''s noir world. In Kovacs''s universe, high-tech implants called "stacks" record memory and personality; this means soldiers can be sent to their deaths, have their stacks implanted in new bodies, and be sent to their deaths again, and again, and again. Generals needn''t quibble about wasting lives in massacres or nuclear explosions. The slaughtered soldiers will soon be back in action--unless their stacks aren''t recovered. Then their consciousness will go mad, isolated in an indestructible, inescapable virtual reality. The proper term for the Takeshi Kovacs novels isn''t "hardboiled." It''s "brutal."\n</p>\n<p>\n The Martians disappeared long ago, but they left behind their star gates, which have allowed humanity to spread across the galaxy--and bring warfare to the stars. As\n <em>\n  Broken Angels\n </em>\n opens, Takeshi Kovacs is a lieutenant in humankind''s most feared mercenary company, but rumors of an astonishing archaelogical discovery inspire his desertion. Humans have never found a Martian starship until, perhaps, now. If the rumors are true, and the ruthless Kovacs can take possession of the unprecedented relic, he will make his fortune. But if he fails in his quest, he may find himself imprisoned in high-tech hell for eternity.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite its slick formulaic structure, Morgan''s SFâ€“hardboiled hybrid, the sequel to the well-received Altered Carbon, bursts with energy and intelligence. Protagonist Takeshi Kovacs is the product of a brutal future in which corporations and politicians fight for supremacy. Humanity has spread to the stars by deciphering charts left behind by the long-extinct Martians. Since people haven''t discovered how the Martians surpassed the speed of light, however, they usually travel through space by broadcasting their digitalized personalities from one planet to another and having them installed in new bodies, a technique that gives virtual immortality to the most unscrupulous individuals. One such is Kovacs, a young sociopath whom the interstellar government transformed into a super warrior before he went freelance. Kovacs resembles a smarter and deadlier Mike Hammer; part of the pleasure is watching him not only use his skills and conditioning but also struggle past his limitations to develop empathy for other humans. The few people Kovacs gets close to are the team that accompanies him on an expedition to claim the ultimate Martian relicâ€”a functioning FTL starship. Morgan is good at presenting Kovacs''s mastery of high-tech weapons and other gadgets, as well as his reactions to disturbing alien artifacts. The mystery aspect of the story is also well handled, always hovering in the background of the violent action as Kovacs gathers clues. It all adds up to a superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(21431, 'Cadillac Jukebox', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of Burke''s series of crime stories set in the Louisiana bayou country, this story chronicles the difficult mission of Sheriff''s Deputy Dave Robicheaux to confirm the guilt of a redneck named Aaron Crown in the killing of a civil rights leader back in the 1960s, and to find out what Crown''s recent arrest has to do with an upcoming gubernatorial election. His task becomes mired in the history and inbred politics of New Iberia and thwarted by a ghoulish hit man who crawls out of the swamps to silence police informants. A wild story with enough oddball characters to make it interesting and worthwhile.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ripeness of villains, the familiar good guys and some who travel the territory in between comprise the cast of the rich ninth Dave Robicheaux adventure, following Burning Angel. Nearly 30 years after the shooting death of a prominent black civil rights leader, Louisiana redneck Aaron Crown, age 68, is convicted of the crime. Crown, insisting he didn''t do it, asks Robicheaux, sheriff''s deputy of New Iberia, La., who once found his runaway daughter, to investigate. Meanwhile, others turn the story to their own advantage: Buford LaRose, a wealthy university professor running for Louisiana governor, hopes to ride the sales of his book, pointing to Crown''s guilt, to victory; and New York film interests come down to interview Crown. Then in New Orleans, a film writer is brutally executed. Despite a deep reluctance to be involved with the slick LaRose, whose wife he once slept with (and who tempts him still), Robicheaux is drawn into ensuing events. One of three mob-related figures whom Robicheaux suspects of backing LaRose warns him off; Crown escapes; LaRose wins the election; a huge psychopathic hired killer reappears; a mob figure is beaten to death; and a freethinker from the 1960s, now a LaRose family guru, is connected to a Mexican drug operation. Burke delivers more spectacular killings before clearing the 30-year-long thicket of revenge, ambition and blackmail and arriving at the Tara-like ending. The cast''s knotted relationships may not always be clear, but Robicheaux''s angst and stubborn do-right determination shine as bright as the plastic casing on the replica 1950''s Wurlitzer of the title. $250,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(21432, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A guide to get you up and running with calibre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(21433, 'The call of Cthulhu', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft''s best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.\n  <br />\n  It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story''s first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Together, these books offer 30 "weird stories" by our nation''s greatest horror writer. In addition to the title piece, Cthulhu includes "Rats in the Walls," "Herbert West Reanimator" (the basis of several fun B movies), and "The Haunter of the Dark." The Thing sports such standards as "The Dunwich Horror," "Pickman''s Model," and "Beyond the Wall of Sleep." These corrected texts present the definitive versions of each tale. Each volume also contains notes and an introduction by scholar S.T. Joshi.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  <strong>\n   More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99\n  <br />\n  Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Shakespeare\n  <br />\n  To view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church''s Sacred Texts\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Reference: The World''s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(21434, 'Champagne For One', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unwilling to accept a suicide ruling after witnessing the death of the admittedly morbid Faith Usher, Archie Goodwin is assisted in the investigation by Nero Wolfe, who has been warned to stay away from the case. Reissue. NYT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(21435, 'Chasing the Dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Henry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist''s workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence officer of his company, breaks up with him. Lonely and dispirited, he moves into a new apartment and gets a new phone number that attracts a lot of callers, but not for him. His new telephone number seems to have previously belonged to one Lilly Quinlan, an escort whose Internet photo arouses Henry''s curiosity, especially when L.A. Darlings, whose Web page features the beautiful young woman, can''t tell Henry how to find her. With the same single-mindedness that made him a high-tech superstar, Pierce pursues his search for the missing girl, motivated by his guilt over the disappearance years earlier of his own sister, who, like Lilly, was also a prostitute (and ultimately the victim of the Dollmaker, a serial killer from Connelly''s 1994 novel __.) But that motive is too thin to support Pierce''s sudden abandonment of his career at such a critical juncture, even if forces unknown to him are setting him up for a fall. Despite those holes in the plot and a less than compelling protagonist, the novel succeeds due to Connelly''s literary and expository gifts and his more interesting secondary characters.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The copy on the galley of Connelly''s slick new thriller doesn''t mention Hitchcock, but most reviews probably will, with the novel''s many surprises and "wrong man" plot line. Even the opening echoes Hitch''s North by Northwest, in which Cary Grant''s mistaken interception of a bellboy''s page leads to disaster; here it''s nanotechnology entrepreneur Henry Pierce''s getting a phone call that triggers the trouble. The call is for a prostitute, Lilly, and it''s the first of many; turns out that the Web site on which she advertises, L.A. Darlings, has Pierce''s new home phone number next to a photo of gorgeous Lilly. But when Pierce visits the Web site''s offices, he learns that Lilly has vanished. Where has she gone? His search to find the missing woman-prompted by his insatiable curiosity and by memories of his tragic, long-ago hunt for his sister, also a prostitute-draws Pierce into mortal danger. It also pushes him into conflict with the law, for when the cops cotton to Lilly''s disappearance, Pierce becomes the number one suspect-serious bad news for this scientist whose company is being visited by a major investor in just a few days. Connelly''s plotting is shrink-wrap tight, his characters-particularly Pierce, whose impulsiveness is balanced by his measured applications of the scientific method to analyze his plight-are smartly drawn. It''s the rare reader who will be able to finger the villain behind all the mayhem. While very entertaining, however-this is the perfect book for a long airplane ride-the novel lacks the moral resonance and weight of Connelly''s most impressive works, such as City of Bones.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(21436, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/261');
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(21437, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(21438, 'The Closers (OME)', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost. This is where we don''t forget," Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is told by his new boss, as he ends a three-year retirement and rejoins the Los Angeles Police Department at the start of The Closers, the 11th installment of Michael Connelly''s Edgar-winning series. Having long ago demonstrated his knack for cracking previously unsolved homicides, Bosch is assigned to the newly re-branded Open-Unsolved Unit (aka "cold case" squad), and charged with resolving the 17-year-old abduction and slaying of a mixed-race teenager.Rebecca Verloren, 16, was discovered missing from her Chatsworth home on a July morning in 1988. Her corpse and the gun that ended her life were later found on a hill behind the house. An autopsy revealed that she''d recently undergone an abortion, and a piece of skin tissue--presumably the killer''s--was found trapped inside the murder weapon. Only now, though, has DNA science matched that tissue to Roland Mackey, a dyslexic 35-year-old tow-truck operator with no obvious connection to the deceased. It''s up to Bosch, once more partnered with Kizmin Rider, to determine whether Mackey offed Becky Verloren, or was at least an accessory to that tragedy. But the more Bosch and Rider dig into this dusty crime, trying in part to determine whether racial animosity might have been involved, the more pain and resistance they encounter. Becky''s white mother maintains the teen''s old bedroom as a shrine, while her shattered father, an African-American chef, has vanished into LA''s homeless community. Of the two original investigators on the case, one has since committed suicide, and Bosch suspects that the other--now a police commander--is helping to keep the lid tight on some old departmental secrets, perhaps linked to our hero''s nemesis, Deputy Chief Irvin S. Irving.Understandably rusty after three years sans shield, Bosch makes his share of personal and professional mistakes here--including one that supplies The Closers with a lethal, plot-turning climax. But the greater problem is that Connelly exhausts so much time and effort following his protagonist through the tedium of modern police procedures, that he neglects what readers have liked more about this series in the past: its persistently deft exploration of Bosch''s lonely, haunted soul (which remains mostly out of sight in this tale), and the author''s frequent flights of lyrical prose (also not much in evidence). Would-be novelists wanting an example of a solidly constructed cop tale need look no further than The Closers. But readers hoping to learn why Connelly is so well-respected in this genre should turn, instead, to previous Bosch titles such as The Concrete Blonde, Angel''s Flight, or City of Bones. --J. Kingston Pierce\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(21439, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frederick Forsyth on\n  <em>\n   The Cobra\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere are two ways of doing this job,â€ a news agency bureau chief told me once. â€œYou can not bother and get it wrong, or take the trouble and get it right. In my office, we get it right.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n He was a good journalist and taught me a lot. Even when I switched from foreign correspondent to novelist, the training stuck. Even though it is fiction, I try to get it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Anyway, readers nowadays have been around, seen a lot, traveled a lot. And there is the Internet. If they want to check you out, they can. So if it is uncheckable, you can make it up, but if it can be checked, it had better be right. That is why I go all over, looking, probing, inquiring, conversing in low places, until I am damn certain that even the smallest detail really is the way it is.\n</p>\n<p>\n That includes the weird places to be visited. For\n <em>\n  The Cobra\n </em>\n , a deep delve into the murky world of cocaine, smugglers, Coast Guards, cops, and gangsters, there were certain â€œmust-goâ€ targets. The HQ of the DEA in Washington, the backstreets of BogotÃ¡, the dockside dives of Cartagena. But the more I researched, the more I came across a recurring name: Guinea-Bissau.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once a Portuguese West African colony, G-B went through eighteen years of independence war and about the same of civil war. The two left it a shattered, burned-out hellhole. The ultimate failed state. It still is. And the cocaine cartels spotted a perfect shipment point for coke going from South America to Europe. They moved in, put almost every major official and politico on the payroll, and began to shift scores of tons of puro through from Colombia to Europe. This I had to see, so I went, posing as a bird-watcher (the swamps and marshes are a wintering ground for European wading birds).\n</p>\n<p>\n It was not my fault I landed in the middle of yet another coup dâ€™Ã©tat. It started while I was airborne from Lisbon to Bissau city. When I arrived, my contact was in a hell of a state. Flashing his diplomatic pass, he whisked us both through the formalities. It was two a.m.: sweaty hot.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hurry?â€ I asked, as he raced his SUV down the pitted track to the city. â€œLook behind you,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n The horizon in the rearview mirror was aglow with headlights. A vengeful Army was also heading for the city. At eight-thirty the previous evening, someone had put a bucket of Semtex under the Army chief of staff. He was all over the ceiling. The Army reckoned it was the Presidentâ€”different tribes and eternal enemies. They were coming to settle accounts.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was in my hotel by three a.m. but unable to sleep, so I put on the light. It was the only modern hotel and had a generator. There is no public lighting in Bissau. At four-thirty, trying to read, I heard the boom, about five hundred yards down the street. Not thunder, not a head-on crash. Ammo, big ammo. One remembers the sound. Actually, it was the Army putting an RPG through the Presidentâ€™s bedroom window.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems the explosion did not kill the old boy, even at seventy-one. He crawled out of bed. Then the building collapsed on him. Still alive, he crawled from the rubble to the lawn, where the soldiers were waiting. They shot him three times in the chest. When he still wouldnâ€™t die, they realized he had a juju that made him immune to bullets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But that juju cannot prevail against machetes. Everyone knows that. So they chopped him up. He died.\n</p>\n<p>\n The next day was kind of quiet, apart from the patrolling Army jeeps bristling with the usual Kalashnikovs, looking for the murderers of their boss. My contact waved his diplomatic pass; I beamed and distributed signed photos of a smiling Queen Elizabeth, with assurances that she wished them well (the Third World reveres the queen, even with a facsimile signature). We were waved through.\n</p>\n<p>\n The airport was closed; ditto the borders. I was trapped inside, but no one could get in either. In the trade, itâ€™s called an exclusive. So I borrowed my hostâ€™s mobile and filed a thousand-word summing-up to Londonâ€™s Daily Express, for whom I do a weekly column. I had the Express call me back and dictated the story to a lady with earphones in London. No one has filed news like that since Dan Rather was in college. Old-fashioned, but secure from intercept, I thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n But of course the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland, heard it all and told the CIA. In the matter of coups in West Africa, I have what Londonâ€™s Cockneys call â€œa bit of previous.â€ I wrote The Dogs of War long ago about that very subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n After the story, half the Westâ€™s media was trying to get me, but I was out in the creeks checking out the sumptuous mansion of the Colombians, notable for their ponytails, chains of gold bling, and black-windowed SUVs. When I got back to Bissau, a very voluble wife, Sandy, was on the phone.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems she was fixing a lunch date with a girlfriend and explained in her e-mail: â€œIâ€™m free for lunch â€™cos Freddie is away in Guinea-Bissau.â€ Mistake. The e-mail vanished off the screen unfinished. Her mailbox vaporized. Database wiped. Instructions appeared on her screen: â€œDo not open this file. Cease all sending or we will respond.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I had a zany mental image of the morning conference at Langley. Corner suite, seventh floor, Old Building.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s this going on in Africa, Chuck?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA coup in Guinea-Bissau, Director. Several assassinations. It could be that damn limey again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCan we take him out of there?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt seems not. He is somewhere in the jungle.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell, zap his wifeâ€™s lunch dates. Thatâ€™ll teach him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The same night, I dined with new friends, and my neighbor at the table was an elderly Dutchman. â€œYou work here?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJa. Three-year secondment. I am a forensic pathologist. I run the mortuary.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The only things that work in Bissau are the gift-aid projects donated by the developed world. The Dutch built the modern mortuary. Shrewdly, they put it next to the locally run general hospital. Smart, because no one leaves the hospital save feetfirst on a gurney heading for the morgue.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBeen busy?â€ I asked. He nodded solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJa, very busy all day. Stitching the President back together.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It seemed the government wanted the old boy in his coffin more or less in the right order. I tucked into my stewed goat.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took three days for things to calm down and the airport to reopen. I was on the next flight to Lisbon and London. At Heathrow, a passport officer checked the stamps, raised an eyebrow, and passed the document to a colleague. He contemplated both the passport and its owner for a while, then gave it back.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow was Guinea-Bissau, Mr. Forsyth?â€ he asked mildly.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCancel the vacation,â€ I advised. â€œYou wonâ€™t like it.â€ Both smiled thinly. Officials donâ€™t do that. Never jest with officialdom. I stepped out into the crisp morning air of March 1, 2009. Beautifully cool. Good to be home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, West Africa got its own back. It always does. Twenty days later, my left leg blew up like a vegetable marrow, a real prizewinner. Dark red and hurting like hell. The first medic thought deep vein thrombosis. Bull feathers. Even I know DVT cuts in much sooner after the jet flight and there is no swelling.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second surgeon did an ultrasound scan and got it in one. A sting, a bite, a scratch, who knows? But leading to a pretty vicious staphylococcal infection, aka septicemia or blood poisoning.\n</p>\n<p>\n So into ER went the old scribe, and then to ICU. They pumped enough amoxicillin into a catheter to sink the USS Saratoga and saved the leg, though they were close to scrubbing up to take it off.\n</p>\n<p>\n I came out after three weeks and spent the rest of the summer finishing the research among our Special Forces. Then wrote the novel October through December. Now it is with the publisher, due out mid-August.\n</p>\n<p>\n So if you are interested, dear reader, itâ€™s all in\n <em>\n  The Cobra\n </em>\n . The dives of Cartagena, the U.S. Navy SEALs, their British equivalents the SBS, the Global Predator UAVs, oh, and dear old Guinea-Bissau. And itâ€™s all true. Well, okay, itâ€™s not all true, itâ€™s a novel. But itâ€™s accurate.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Frederick Forsyth\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Veteran Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) shows once again he''s a master of the political thriller by taking a simple but completely original idea and turning it into a compelling story. The unnamed Obama-like U.S. president, disgusted by the horrors wrought by illegal drug trafficking, decides to bring the entire weight and resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He first declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists, subjecting them to new and extensive legal procedures, then he brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux to head the team that will implement the effort. Devereaux, known as the Cobra from his operations days, is old school--smart, ruthless, unrelenting, and bestowed by the president with free rein to call in any arm of the government. Forsyth lays out how it would all work, and readers will follow eagerly along, always thinking, yes, why don''t they do this in real life? The answer to that question lies at the heart of this forceful, suspenseful, intelligent novel.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(21440, 'Cold Case', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Crime-fighting psychologist Alan Gregory untangles a vexing unsolved case of double murder in the Colorado Rockies in this rousing page-turner by thriller specialist White. Gregory is drawn into his seventh fictional adventure by a private organization of criminal experts called Locard, named after a 19th-century French detective. Locard, which reopens decades-old murder cases at the request of survivors and their families, wants Gregory to help reexamine a puzzling case in which the partially mutilated bodies of two teenage girlsATami Franklin and Mariko HamamotoAwere found during the spring snowmelt outside Boulder. Gregory is asked to assemble psychological profiles of the girls, their parents and others close to the case in hopes of dispelling the official line that the murders were the work of a drifter. As Gregory''s side of the investigation progresses, the finger of guilt seems to point directly at Colorado congressman Raymond Welle, a psychologist who was treating both girls at the time of the killings. Welle also has a shadowy connection to another notorious murderAthat of his wife, who was shot to death seven years earlier by one of his patients. Gregory, along with his wife, Lauren CrowderAnow pregnant and increasingly weakened by her multiple sclerosisAquickly find themselves in the awkward position of accusing one of the state''s most powerful politicians of not one, but two crimes. The delicate, bookish Gregory and his enfeebled wife make for unlikely crime stoppers, yet White (Manner of Death) drives the story through agile plotting and fine characterizations to a clever, surprise ending. While his description of the Colorado landscape and humdrum details of his protagonist''s daily routines do little to enhance the plot, his fans will enjoy the action and the way the series''s main characters evolve in this latest entry. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-A long-unsolved murder case is referred to as a cold case, as is true of the murders of teens Mariko and Tami, found mutilated and buried in the snow near Steamboat Springs a decade ago. The investigative group known as Locard, composed of nationally known crime experts, agrees to open this case and calls on psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory and his pregnant, attorney wife for local help. Asked to develop profiles of the teens, Dr. Gregory sees his responsibilities widen as more killings occur and the cast of suspects increases. The methodical, detailed development of the story illustrates the often-ponderous routine of investigation and contributes to increasing tension. There''s a rogue''s gallery of participants-all brought to life with robust descriptions-from the almost-slimy, talkative, widowed congressman and the young, too-cool, golf-star brother of one of the victims to an irreverent, carping reporter and the agoraphobic head of Locard who leaves his home for this case. The resolution of the murders follows Gregory''s terrifying trek through the Blowdown, a part of the forest where a powerful storm upended trees and left them scattered in precarious piles that could fall at the flutter of a bat. Wonderfully clever twists; secrets kept from friends, family, and coworkers; illustrative writing; and the statuesque Colorado Rockies add up to a "gotta-read" thriller.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Spencer, Young Adult Literature Specialist, Virginia Beach, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(21441, 'The collected short stories of Philip K. Dick', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas" --\n <em>\n  The Independent\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''An elusive and in-incomparable artist'' --\n <em>\n  Ursula K. Le Guin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.'' --\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A matchless display of Philip K. Dickâ€™s quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(21442, 'Collected Stories 3: The Father-thing', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Vol. 3:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Second Variety and Other Stories\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n by Philip K. Dick\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n eVersion 3.0 / Scan Notes at EOF\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contents\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Cookie Lady\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beyond the Door\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Second Variety\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jon''s World\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Cosmic Poachers\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Progeny\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some Kinds of Life\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Martians Come in Clouds\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Commuter\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The World She Wanted\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Surface Raid\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Project: Earth\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Trouble with Bubbles\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Breakfast at Twilight\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Present for Pat\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Hood Maker\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of Withered Apples\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Human Is\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adjustment Team\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Impossible Planet\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Imposter\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n James P. Crow\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Planet for Transients\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Small Town\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Souvenir\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Survey Team\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Prominent Author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(21443, 'Compass Rose', 'John Casey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to the authorâ€™s National Book Awardâ€“winning Spartina (1989), Natural Resources warden Elsie Buttrick is forced to grapple with the fallout from her affair with Rhode Island fisherman Dick Pierce. As the novel opens, Elsie has just given birth to their daughter, Rose. Over the next 16 years, Elsie reins in her fierce love for the taciturn Dick, is grateful for his wifeâ€™s love and acceptance of Rose, must deal with the insular nature of a community well aware of her daughterâ€™s illegitimate birth, and, finally, must convince her daughter that she is her biggest fan. Elsie also becomes consumed by her brother-in-lawâ€™s greedy development schemes, which are slowly transforming the landscape she knows and loves so well while displacing longtime residents. With its emotionally intricate interior monologues and many complicated relationships among multiple characters, this is a novel best suited to those who have read Spartina. They will most readily appreciate Caseyâ€™s rich paean to the prideful seaside residents of a Rhode Island community and their long and tangled history with the land and with each other. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Beautiful and elegaic...[This] bit of a world is complete unto itself, with its own force fields, its own variations off true north, its own ways of tilting into alignment." ---The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCasey writes old-fashioned novels in the best sense â€“ character driven, thick with dialogue, nuanced and multilayered as they reveal relationships.â€ ---Kirkus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGratifyingly complex. [The] novel hums with energy.â€ ---Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMuch of the enjoyment of this novel is derived from the unobtrusive skill with which Casey charts the entanglements, convergences, repulsions, and compromises of life in a close-knit communityâ€¦Perhaps the greatest achievement of Caseyâ€™s unadorned, clear, and flexible writing is its setting [of] rare moments of individual displacement and transcendence within a narrative that dramatically relates the complex procedures of human relations both public and intimate.â€ ---Boston GlobeÂ Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the kind of novel you don''t just read -- you dwell in -- and when you come to the final scenes...you hate to see it end and hope that Casey won''t wait too many decades to ''finish the story.''" ---Hudson Valley News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(21444, 'The Complete Bachelor', 'Walter Germain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Etiquette; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / Manners\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(21445, 'the Complete Western Stories Of Elmore Leonard (2004)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard''s Western oeuvre.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two "pointless" stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull -- Leonard loved movies set in the West. As he researched deeper into settings, Arizona in the 1880s captured his imagination: the Spanish influence, the standoffs and shootouts between Apache Indians and the U.S. cavalry ...\n</p>\n<p>\n His first dozen stories sold for 2 cents a word, for $100 each. The rest is history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This first-ever complete collection of Leonard''s thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between -- and makes a terrific study of the launch of a phenomenal career.\n</p>\n<p>\n From his very first story ever published -- "The Trail of the Apache" -- through five decades of classic Western tales, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard demonstrates again and again the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(21446, 'The Concrete Blonde Harry Bosch', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They called him the Dollmaker-the serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. With a single faultless shotï¼Œ Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city s nightmare... But then the dead man s widow sues Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker s macabre signature... Nowï¼Œ for the second timeï¼Œ Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much aliveï¼Œ before he strikes again. It s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-the darkness of his own heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(21447, 'CONTENT: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow here proves heâ€™s smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues heâ€™s passionate about. On topics ranging from fanfic (readersâ€™ additions to their favorite authorsâ€™ creations, usually online) to the terrible business model Microsoft presents by treating customers like potential thieves from the beginning, Doctorow moves to the forefront of conversations likely to determine how creators and audiences are able to use new technologies. He compares Internet content-management problems to similar technological snafusâ€”such as the transition from live performance to radio, and from manuscript to printed booksâ€”and how the established order of the day reacted, demonstrating his grasp of the ways in which history repeats itself and how we can use the lessons of history to cope with further changes in the exchange of information. Doctorow excels in writing short forms, the essay no less than the short story, making this collection a pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Doctorow here proves he''s smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he''s passionate about . . . a pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking."Â  â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cory Doctorow straps on his miner''s helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of pop culture."Â \n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Neil Gaiman, author,\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "We should all hope and trust that our culture has the guts and moxie to follow this guy.Â He''s got a lot to tell us."Â  â€”Bruce Sterling, author,\n <em>\n  Zeitgeist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cory Doctorow is the apotheosis of what we talk about when we talk about the Web."Â  â€”SF Site\n</p>\n<p>\n "If all those Generation Z and proto-Singularity kids reading Doctorow''s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n also find their way to\n <em>\n  Content\n </em>\n , this book may well become a classic."Â  â€”mattselznick.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most articulate and accessible writer engaged in these topics."Â \n <em>\n  â€”Time Out Chicago\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A nice collection of essays."Â  â€”TeleReads\n</p>\n<p>\n "More than just insightful, brilliant, and to the pointâ€”it''s also funny and fun to read."Â  â€”Electronic Frontier Foundation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(21448, 'Conversations With God I', 'Neale Donald Walsch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Conversations with God Book 1\n   </em>\n   began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny (_The Pink Panther_ and\n   <em>\n    Clear and Present Danger\n   </em>\n   ) and Ingrid Boulting (_The Last Tycoon_). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of\n   <em>\n    Somewhere in Time\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    What Dreams May Come\n   </em>\n   ) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fox Home Entertainment, the theatrical release is set for October 27, 2006. The movie is the true account of Walsch (played by Cierny), who went from an unemployed homeless man to an "accidental spiritual messenger" and author of the bestselling book\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Blasphemy! Heresy! Who does this man think he is, claiming to speak directly to God?! Jesus did it, Muhammad did it, the Jewish prophets did it, but none of their Gods had the sardonic wit or raw verve of Prophet Walsch''s God. Neale Donald Walsch isn''t claiming to be the Messiah of a new religion, just a frustrated man who sat down one day with pen in his hand and some tough questions in his heart. As he wrote his questions to God, he realized that God was answering them... directly... through Walsch''s pen. The result, far from the apocalyptic predictions or cultic eccentricities you might expect, turns out to be matter-fact, in-your-face wisdom on how to get by in life while remaining true to yourself and your spirituality.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(21449, 'Conversations With God II', 'Neale Donald Walsch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Conversations with God: Book II\n  </em>\n  , Neale Walsch and God resume their discussion and move on to larger topics than the personal issues addressed in their previous dialogue in __. For an "unedited transcript" of a conversation,\n  <em>\n   Book II\n  </em>\n  is remarkably well organized and articulate, as if Walsch anticipatd our "but what about" questions before we asked them. The peculiar pair discuss time, space, politics, and even kinky sex, but\n  <em>\n   Conversations with God: Book II\n  </em>\n  isn''t here for just shock value. It is an honest look at some of the broad issues important to all of us on the planet, and a suggestion of how things might go if we are all willing to open our minds and have our own conversations with divinity. --_Brian Patterson_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I read this and it completely turned everything I believe about religion on its head. If you are at all religious, you should read this book.'' -- Francis Rossi of Status Quo, Metro\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(21450, 'Conversations With God III', 'Neale Donald Walsch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In keeping with the first two books in this trilogy,\n  <em>\n   Conversations With God, Book 3\n  </em>\n  continues to clarify the muddy waters of our spiritual existence, but moves from individual and global issues to "universal truths," which apply to all levels of existence from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. It is difficult to criticize God, but if he is as pleasant as he presents himself in Walsch''s books, then he won''t mind the paltry mention of a structural problem. A hefty portion of\n  <em>\n   Conversations With God, Book 3\n  </em>\n  backtracks to topics that were well covered in\n  <em>\n   Conversations With God, Book 3\n  </em>\n  explores some of the most fantastic subjects that people are prone to ponder under starry evening skies: What happens when we die? What is time? Are we alone in the universe? Walsch''s dialogue with the creator puts these and other imponderables into comprehendible terms. If these revelations are true, and it is ultimately up to us to know them as truths or not, then the universe is a very intriguing place, and we haven''t come close to realizing our potential in understanding it. However, the great thing\n  <em>\n   Conversations With God, Book 3\n  </em>\n  makes clear is that we\n  <em>\n   can\n  </em>\n  understand the universe if we so choose.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Patterson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Walsch is at a low point in his life when he pours out his heart to God - A God who has no gender. Aso well-known performers Ed Asner and Ellen Burstyn fill the void. The theology is New Age, with this particular part of the dialog touching on, among other things, the origin of everything, highly evolved beings, and extraterrestrial civilizations. Walsch asks, argues, and ruminates as Asner and Burstyn answer and explain. Not to sound trite, but in places this was rather entertaining. This particular recording had a very low volume level, and compensation had to be made when listening. Those libraries that have a demand for New Age works should have this recording as well as Books 1 and 2 of the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael T. Fein, Catawba Valley Community Coll. Hickory, NC\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(21451, 'Cordially Invited to Met Death', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(21452, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(21453, 'a Coyote&#39;s in the House', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“Leonard''s knack for creating intriguing, strong characters is evident in his first children''s book. While chasing down his latest meal, Antwan, a hip-talking coyote, makes his way into a Hollywood home, where he meets two dogsâ€“Buddy, an aging film star, and Miss Betty, a champion poodle. In a reversal of roles, Buddy decides that living in the Hollywood Hills as a wild dog with Antwan''s homeboys would suit him just fine and he talks the coyote into taking his place as a pampered pet. He comes up with a plan to convince his owners that Antwan is actually a stray dog, and the coyote is soon adopted. After many misadventures and subplots, including Miss Betty''s scheme to kidnap a cat for Buddy to rescue in order to help the German shepherd overcome his feelings of being a has-been, the animals land back in their original location, feeling content with the way things have ended. Leonard''s enlightening descriptions of the movie business may please adults more than youngsters, but all readers will delight in the growing friendship among the characters. Humorous black-and-white drawings with red accentsâ€“Buddy''s film trademark is a red bandannaâ€“add further interest._â€“Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Gr. 5-8. Anthropomorphism in fiction and film is often derided as a cheap trick, and rightfully so. But not when Elmore Leonard is writing the dialogue. Leonard''s first children''s book begins with a beguiling premise: hip coyote Antwan, leader of his pack in the Hollywood Hills, is foraging for garbage when he makes the acquaintance of German shepherd Buddy, a retired film star. Buddy is bored and has decided he''d like the freedom of the coyote''s life in the wild, while Antwan, who quickly develops a taste for peanut-butter cookies, is interested in getting to know Miss Betty, a prizewinning poodle who lives with Buddy''s family. Antwan successfully passes as a dog, but Buddy resents being displaced as the canine star of the family, prompting Antwan and Miss Betty to hatch a plan in which the German shepherd will be returned to the limelight. The story is good fun, but the real pleasure here, as in Leonard''s adult novels, lies in listening to the characters banter with one another. Kids won''t get all the Hollywood jokes or pick up the references to Leonard''s\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n , but they will respond instantly to the way Antwan and his pals work the humans to their advantage. A poignant ending gives the tale just the right edge, showing that Leonard can mix comedy and reality as nimbly for a younger audience as he does for adults.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(21454, 'Craphound', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(21455, 'Critical Conditions', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Psychologist Alan Gregory is brought in to evaluate 15-year-old Merritt Strait after her attempted suicide. The teenager has had a complicated life: her stepsister is dying from a heart ailment that might be helped by an experimental treatment, but that treatment isn''t covered by the family''s HMO. When the head of said evil HMO is shot and killed, the evidence points toward Merritt as the prime suspect. Alan, along with his police friend (and Merritt''s uncle), Sam Purdy, begin an investigation that will expose blackmail, extortion and dark family secrets. The usually reliable Dick Hill gives a disappointing performance; his overall delivery is so low-key and measured that he doesn''t bring the energy necessary to spark this thriller to life.\n <em>\n  A Signet paperback. (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his sixth suspense novel, White (Remote Control, LJ 1/97) and his protagonist psychologist Alan Gregory take on managed healthcare and come up with another compulsive read. A 15-year-old girl attempts suicide and turns mute, her two-year-old sister is dying from a rare disease while her health insurer won''t pay for expensive experimental treatment, and the doctor who heads the insurance company is found shot to death. While Gregory treats the teenager and consults with police, his cop friend Sam Purdy (an in-law of principals in the case) has to keep his distance, and complications mount. White ties up all the loose ends, concerning death threats, blackmail, murder, extortion, and suicide, after a spine-tingling chase through the conveyor system of the new Denver airport. But he leaves strings dangling regarding his appealing cast of continuing characters (such as Gregory''s wife Lauren''s health and neighbor Adrienne''s love life), guaranteeing anticipation for number seven.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(21456, 'Crusader&#39;s Cross', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke''s powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   Last Car to Elysian Fields\n  </em>\n  ), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace its lineage to fifth-century France as well as the machinations of the New Orleans mafia. A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux''s half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff''s department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount. While the tendrils of the sometimes rambling plot unfold, Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains. Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The aging Robicheaux has led a full lifeâ€”full of loss, violence, and evil. Critics agree that\n  <em>\n   Crusaderâ€™s Cross\n  </em>\n  is a worthy addition to the series. Itâ€™s all hereâ€”the violence, the power plays, the class and racial tensions, Robicheauxâ€™s stubbornness, the Louisiana landscape, and, of course, the references to crosses. As usual, Burke takes readers deep inside his protagonistâ€™s heart to show how one man deals with the worldâ€™s evils, and itâ€™s the lyrical writing and palpable scenes that make that possible. Some tangled subplots and a weak rendering of women (including Robicheauxâ€™s daughter) barely detract. If you believe "that beauty and horror go hand in hand," notes the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , Burke "can touch you in ways few writers can."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/371');
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(21457, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has a long track record of creating memorable characters--enough to bring life to many movies, the two most notable being\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n (based on Leonard''s\n <em>\n  Rum Punch\n </em>\n ). Both are pretty good movies, but the novels are much better. Today Leonard writes mostly "crime" novels, labeled as such because his characters struggle to be good in a world so full of temptation that some kind of crime is\n <em>\n  always\n </em>\n involved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre\n </em>\n finds Leonard reaching for a broader audience than those which appreciated either his crime novels or the westerns he once wrote, which he accomplishes by combining elements of both. Ben Tyler is a cowboy who robs banks, but only those that contain money of people who owe but won''t pay him--he only takes what they owe. Charlie Burke is a businessman who buys horses cheap in the west, then sells them to exporters, while heroine Amelia Brown is the mistress of one of the truly bad men in the novel and struggles with dilemmas similar to those endured by other cast members.\n</p>\n<p>\n Begining around the time that the\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n is sunk in Havana Harbor and ending when Teddy and others storm San Juan Hill, the story is at its best when its colorful characters are turned loose in one of the novel''s colorful settings. If you like Leonard, you''ll love\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre\n </em>\n , and if--for some reason--you haven''t yet discovered the author, prepare for a real treat.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This book has something to interest almost everyone. Set against the rich and compelling backdrop of Cuba during its struggle for independence, the story includes bank robbery, cattle rustling, love, suspense, and action-packed adventure. Realistic, memorable characters come to life in the scheming twists and turns of a complex plot. Leonard writes in an easy-to-follow style; his bad guys are truly BAD, and readers find themselves rooting for the hero and heroine as they hide, the Spanish Civil guards in hot pursuit. The plot is larded with history, beginning with the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor of Havana, and ending with Roosevelt and his Rough Riders''s charge up San Juan Hill. A rare glimpse of the Spanish-American War and the fight for Cuban independence.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(21458, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami''s protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(21459, 'Dance Hall of the Dead', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...as with all of Hillerman''s other books on tape,\n <em>\n  Dance Hall of the Dead\n </em>\n is compelling, colorful, and just complex enough to keep you interested, but not confused." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Catalyst_, September 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "An author''s style has a lot to do with the success of an audio book...One writer whose works on the mark for listeners every time is Tony Hillerman...Hillerman is a former newspaper reporter, and his novels have a journalistic feel. His sentences tend to be straightforward, and they translate well to tape...An editor for Recorded Books said Hillerman''s books are "very crisply written, and he leaves a lot to the imagination. Some writers put in too much detail. He leaves a lot of room for the listener."...Actor Michael Ansara, who has portrayed native Americans on television and in films, is the reader for Audio Partners'' work. His reading is crisp and clear, with a touch of gravity." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Indianapolis Star_, September 1991\n</p>\n<p>\n "High entertainment, an aesthetically satisfying glimpse of the still-powerful tribal mysteries." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When two young boys disappear, one of them leaving a pool of blood behind, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police finds himself not only tracking a ruthless and brutal killer but caught up in the intricate mysteries of the Zuni religion as well. For the dead boy was to have played a key role in an important ritual of the Zuni people. An added complication in the investigation and search is the missing boys'' interest in an archeological dig that seems to be on the brink of proving a controversial theory. And the FBI''s blind certainty that it''s all related to a small hippy commune''s drug dealing doesn''t exactly help either. Leaphorn patiently tracks the murderer into the desert to a terrifying confrontation...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(21460, 'Dark Matter', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Deftly navigating the perilous waters between science and spirituality, Greg Iles has crafted an alarming, believable, and utterly consuming tale of good and evil, of destiny and choice. The Footprints of God is my favorite kind of novel--one that educates while it entertains. Ambitious in its scope and superbly satisfying in its execution, this story resonates long after the final page is turned'' -- Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code ''Greg Iles is a superb writer, and now he displays his genius and style in a stunning new direction. Dark Matter is a powerful brew of science and suspense that will leave you dazzled!'' -- Linda Fairstein ''Compelling'' -- Publishers Weekly 20030721 ''Greg Iles''s new novel, Sleep No More, should come with a red wrapper marked DANGER, HIGH EXPLOSIVES. It is that rarity, a thriller that really thrills, a shocker that really shocks. You''ll find yourself afraid to turn off the light after seven chapters, and after eleven, you may find yourself wondering if the person lying next to you when you do darken the room is someone you really know or a dangerous stranger. This one gets under your skin, and then burrows deep. Imagine what Rebecca might have been if it had been written by a man. That''ll give you the idea of how successful this novel is'' -- Stephen King, on Sleep No More 20030721 ''This one bounds along keeping you turning the pages long after sleep beckons'' -- Independent on Sunday on Dead Sleep 20030721 ''A riveting page-turner in the tradition of Robert Ludlum. Greg Iles brings imagination and vision to a novel as thought-provoking as it is thrilling.'' -- Vince Flynn on Dark Matter 20030721 ''Edge-of-the-seat thrills all the way'' -- Irish Independent 20030813 ''Greg Iles is a phenomenal writer'' -- Independent on Sunday 20030813 ''Terrifying'' -- Mirror on Sleep No More 20030813\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''If you are watching this videotape then I am dead ...'' Yesterday, David Tennant was a highly respected Ethicist with the ear of the President, working on a top secret Government project. Yesterday, he was a man recovering from personal tragedy, just learning to live again. Yesterday, he was falling in love. Today, he is running for his life. Project Trinity has the power to change life forever. Only a few, handpicked men and women know the potential of the biggest artificial intelligence study the world has ever seen. Now, one of those men is dead - and Tennant knows Dr Fielding''s death wasn''t all it seemed. Suddenly his friend''s warnings cannot be dismissed as paranoia. They are the only reason that Tennant is still alive. Today, David Tennant is one man against the state, and he''s fast learning the only rule of survival: Trust no-one. Not even yourself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(21461, 'The Dark Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A beauty of a thriller . . . exotic and compelling reading." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book to read with pleasure." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Colorado Springs Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Amarillo Texas News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s best book in an already strong series." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane''s mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man''s greed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(21462, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a sheriff''s detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb''s Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He''s newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in __), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn''s trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the small statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words "Cave Cave Dus Videt," meaning "Beware, beware, God sees," on the tape binding the victim''s mouth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly''s series star--see\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He''s a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn''s murder and Harry Bosch''s name:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "This last guy''s work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can''t pronounce his first name. It''s spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there."\n </p>\n <p>\n  McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You forgot his last name. What''s his last name?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, sorry. It''s Bosch. Like the spark plugs."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bosch fits McCaleb''s profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly''s __) that he''s being investigated for murder, he''s furious, knowing that Storey''s defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other''s gone bad. But there''s more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Harry Bosch, the worn, pragmatic Los Angeles police detective, protagonist of a number of Connelly''s earlier books, is joined by Terry McCaleb, former FBI crime-scene profiler, introduced in Blood Work (Little, Brown, 1998). Harry is immersed in testifying at the murder trial of a Hollywood film director, Jack Storey. When McCaleb, retired and living a quiet life with a new wife and two young children, is asked by a former colleague to look at the investigation materials of a recent gruesome homicide, he realizes just how much he misses his vocation. Terry alone has noticed some clues from the crime-scene video that point toward the influence of Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Despite pleas from his wife, Terry is drawn into the investigation and finds, to his dismay, that pointers lead straight to acquaintance Harry Bosch, whose real name is Hieronymus. Certain details in Harry''s life fit in well with the profile Terry is developing of a ritualistic killer. The clues stemming from Bosch''s paintings may lead readers straight to the Internet to view some of Bosch''s well-known works to see the clues for themselves. The plot is intricate, and the twists and turns keep coming, but it is so well done, and the characters are so vivid, that confusion isn''t a problem. Despite its length, this involving book is a fast read with "can''t put it down" appeal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(21463, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield''s former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David''s love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not\n <em>\n  David Copperfield\n </em>\n in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up-Dickens'' novel narrated by Flo Gibson.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(21464, 'DEAD SLEEP', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, __, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women," she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn''t her; it''s her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago, and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who''s been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau''s hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan''s father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that''s woven into the action without slowing it down. Jordan is a fascinating, many-sided character who''s a little too tough to be wholly believable, but that''s a minor quibble. While winning well-deserved new fans for Iles,\n  <em>\n   Dead Sleep\n  </em>\n  will keep his readers awake until the very last page.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Iles continues to amaze with his incredible range, this time around crafting a complex serial killer novel with the intimacy of a smalltown cozy and the punch of a techno-thriller. As different from Spandau Phoenix and 24 Hours as possible, it scores with surefooted plotting, a diverse cast of characters and perfectly calibrated suspense. An anonymous painter''s series of candidly posed nudes called The Sleeping Woman bursts on the art scene, each painting selling in the million-dollar range overnight amid rumors that the models are not sleeping but dead. Beautiful, burned-out war photographer Jordan Glass chances into a show and recognizes the subject of a painting as her identical twin, Jane, who was kidnapped near her New Orleans home and never found. Jordan contacts the FBI agent who handled her sister''s case, thereby setting in motion a hunt that ties the paintings to the disappearance of at least 11 New Orleans women. Persuading the FBI task force to add her to the team, Jordan tags along to Tulane University, where evidence points to art department head Roger Wheaton, who has a peculiar terminal illness, and his brilliant but disturbed graduate students. Meanwhile, Jordan falls for damaged FBI agent John Kaiser, and together they link her sister''s case to a French expat art collector from Vietnam who knew Jordan''s war photographer father who disappeared in Cambodia. Are all the women really dead? Is Jordan''s father alive and involved? Is there more than one killer? Iles keeps the reader guessing right up to the double surprise ending, delivering the perfect final payoff his readers expect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(21465, 'Dead Time', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n White constructs a deeply layered, character-driven meditation on â€œdead times,â€ as in times of mourning, times of personal paralysis in the face of crisis or disappointment, times of waiting for someone else to make the next move, or, even, bring a fetus to term. Yet, for all of clinical psychologist Whiteâ€™s ruminations, this novel chugs along on a number of suspenseful fronts. The dead time of shock and grief just after the discovery of a mutual friendâ€™s sudden death in a terrorist bombing attack in Israel brings Boulder psychotherapist Alan Gregory (in his fifteenth appearance as Whiteâ€™s series hero) and ex-wife Meredith together at the friendâ€™s memorial. The discomfort of their reunion is communicated by having the point of view switch back and forth between the two; while this technique gives an intriguingÂ double perspective to the action, readers will notice that White doesnâ€™t bother to give Alan and Meredith separate rhythms in the way they express their thoughts. Meredith wants Alan to help her find someone who has gone missing, the surrogate mother of her child. The surrogateâ€™s disappearance connects to a long-ago disappearance of another girl on the floor of the Grand Canyon. Beautifully orchestrated in plot but very long-winded: the tension could have been tightened dramatically by cutting about 100Â pages. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hypnotically absorbing."\n <br />\n -_Orlando Sentinel_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Moves at light speed."\n <br />\n -_Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(21466, 'Death of a Doxy', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Death of a Doxy, considered a Stout classic, opens with the death of Isabel Kerr, found dead in her lavish bedroom. Was her boyfriend, her "sugar daddy," or someone else responsible? Nero Wolfe puts himself and his side-kick, Archie Goodwin, to work to unravel the mystery and the tangle of relationships as this vintage Wolfe detective story unfolds. Michael Prichard''s reading enhances the twists and turns. Recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Denise A. Garofalo, Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, NY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orrie Cather, a private eye who had occasionally worked for Nero Wolfe, finds himself in jail for the murder of young Isabel Kerr who was obviously being kept and who was equally noticeably pregnant. Archie as legman must cope with Isabel''s sister and brother-in-law who don''t want Isabel scandalized in the paper, her rich benefactor who doesn''t need publicity, her girlfriend - a nightclub singer in the know, and prime suspect Orrie. Wolfe uses math and memory to solve this one. Not his best but good enough for the Stout-hearted. (Kirkus Reviews)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(21467, 'Death Of A Dude', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The mountain couldn''t come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain--to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe''s job was to get an innocent man exonerated of the crime and catch a killer in the process. But when he packed his silk pajamas and headed west, he found himself embroiled in a case rife with local cynicism, slipshod police work, and unpleasant political ramifications. In fact, Nero Wolfe was buffaloed until the real killer struck again, underestimating the dandified dude with an unerring instinct for detection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(21468, 'Death Times Three', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and detection. First the great detective develops an appetite for the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into his lunch--in a case motivated by the most "alimentary" of passions. Then a couturier''s beautiful sister uses Archie as her ready-made alibi--and maybe fall guy--unless Wolfe can spot the loose ends in a nearly seamless crime. Finally Wolfe has a run-in with the law after a mysterious old woman leaves a package at the detective''s West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone that pits him against a cunning criminal--and the U.S. federal government!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(21469, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<h1>\n 1 Paperback Bestseller --\n <em>\n  Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, July 2007\n </em>\n</h1>\n<p>\n Coyle displays a deep understanding of coffee [and] coffee shop culture. If you haven''t yet discovered the series, you should. --\n <em>\n  Eric S. Chen, Baristo.net\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Great characters, smooth plotting, and top-notch writing, it''s no wonder these books are bestsellers. --\n <em>\n  Cozy Library\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(21470, 'December 6 : A Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the New York Times bestselling author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay comes another gripping novel of loyalty, betrayal, and intrigue on the eve of the greatest military conflict in the history of mankind.... DECEMBER 6 Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo''s underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an adulterous affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the machinations of the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival. Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(21471, 'The Devils Punchbowl', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Bestseller Iles''s stellar third suspense novel to feature Penn Cage (after\n  <em>\n   Turning Angel\n  </em>\n  ) finds the former prosecutor and bestselling novelist serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change the system, Cage is plunged into a deadly duel of wits with some bad guys after a childhood friend, Tim Jessup, now a card dealer, alerts him to illegal dog fighting and sexual abuse connected with a floating casino. Before Jessup can deliver proof of his allegations, he''s tortured and killed. Convinced Jessup managed to pass on the evidence to the mayor, Jessup''s boss confronts and threatens Cage. Daniel Kelly, an old friend working for a private security organization, lends support, sneaking Cage''s 11-year-old daughter out of town to safety. Iles brilliantly creates opportunities for his characters to demonstrate principle and courage, both on a large and small scale, making this much more than just an exciting read.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A knockout thriller that''s just the right degree of chilly to combat the dog days of summer... Iles'' knack for perfectly integrating character and plot could serve as a master''s class for other authors."--\n  <em>\n   The Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(21472, 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Now only the rich can afford living creatures; others may buy the amazingly realistic electric simulacrae: horses, cats, sheep. By 2021, the Terminus War had driven most humans off-planet and entire species into extinction. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth - or are substandard health and deemed inferior. Rick Deckard - bounty hunter / android killer for the police and is an owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from an off world colony. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. These artificials are near impossible to tell them from the truly living; except for their lack of empathy. Its Rick Deckards job to find these rogues and retire them. But andys tend to fight back; with deadly results. First published in 1968, Philip K. Dicks darkly satirical masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - the basis of the film Blade Runner - is a fascinating fiction about reality and what it is to be "human".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(21473, 'The Dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against the chaotic backdrop of eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mankell''s intense, accomplished mystery, the last in his Kurt Wallander series (Firewall, etc.), explores one man''s struggle to find truth and justice in a society increasingly bereft of either. Here the provincial Swedish detective takes on a probably fruitless task: investigating the murders of two unidentified men washed up on the Swedish coast in an inflatable dinghy. The only clues: their dental work suggests they''re from an Eastern Bloc country; the raft is Yugoslavian. But their deaths mushroom into an international incident that takes Wallander to Riga, Latvia, and enmeshes him in an incredibly dangerous and emotionally draining situation, battling forces far larger than the "bloodless burglaries and frauds" he typically pursues in Sweden. In Riga, Wallander must deal with widespread governmental corruption, which opens his eyes to the chilling reality of life in the totalitarian Eastern Bloc: grim, harrowing and volatile. Wallander''s introspection and self-doubt make him compellingly real, and his efforts to find out what happened to those men on the life raft makes for riveting reading. There''s a pervasive sense of Scandinavian gloom, in Wallander and in the novel, that might be difficult for some American readers, but this is a very worthy book-a unique combination of police procedural and spy thriller that also happens to be a devastating critique of Soviet-style Communism.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Kurt Wallander has touches of Dexter''s Inspector Morse about him, while remaining an original and highly likeable creation" Marcel Berlins, The Times; "It is not hard to see why the Wallander books have made a particular impact. They are tightly plotted, but even more importantly, as in most good crime fiction, the character of the detective and the atmosphere surrounding the action are what give that extra edge to the performance" Hugh Macpherson, TLS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(21474, 'The Doorbell Rang', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rex Stout''s Nero Wolfe books are all great fun, full of wonderful food and the arcane details of hobbies as diverse as orchid growing and Balkan history. But in this outing, things suddenly become much more serious when Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin face the malevolent forces of J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI minions. Luckily, Stout''s heart and his writing style are more than equal to the challenge.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nero Wolfe is sleuthing as usual in these three mysteries. In the Best Families deals with Mrs. Rackam, an aging millionaire who approaches Wolfe to investigate why her young and penniless husband suddenly and mysteriously has large sums of money. Wolfe''s inquiry leads him to a confrontation with Arnold Zeck; later a letter bomb causes Wolfe to resign from detective work and go into hiding, leaving his assistant, Archie Goodwin, to solve the case. Has Wolfe''s career ended in humiliation? Only time will tell. Michael Pritchard''s clear and strong reading helps support the tale. Rachel Bruner, a wealthy society widow, turns to Wolfe in The Doorbell Rang. She writes him a check for $100,000 and asks him to stop the FBI from spying on her and her family. She will pay more if he is successful. He takes the case, and soon Wolfe and Archie are confronting FBI agents, murder, and threats as they search for answers. Champagne for One challenges Wolfe''s knowledge of gourmet food and of sleuthing. Did society girl Faith Usher commit suicide via cyanide in her champagne, or was she murdered? Archie was there, and he suspects foul play. Saul Rubinek provides pleasant readings of both stories and helps keep the atmosphere charged. Although abridged, The Doorbell Rang/Champagne for One provides more entertainment than In the Best Families and is recommended.ADenise A. Garofalo, Mid-Hudson Lib. Syst., Poughkeepsie, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(21475, 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A lot of ideas are packed into this short novel, but Doctorow''s own best idea was setting his story in Disney World, where it''s hard to tell whether technology serves dreams or vice versa. Jules, a relative youngster at more than a century old, is a contented citizen of the Bitchun Society that has filled Earth and near-space since shortage and death were overcome. People are free to do whatever they wish, since the only wealth is respect and since constant internal interface lets all monitor exactly how successful they are at being liked. What Jules wants to do is move to Disney World, join the ad-hoc crew that runs the park and fine-tune the Haunted Mansion ride to make it even more wonderful. When his prudently stored consciousness abruptly awakens in a cloned body, he learns that he was murdered; evidently he''s in the way of somebody else''s dreams. Jules first suspects, then becomes viciously obsessed by, the innovative group that has turned the Hall of Presidents into a virtual experience. In the conflict that follows, he loses his lover, his job, his respect-even his interface connection-but gains perspective that the other Bitchun citizens lack. Jules''s narrative unfolds so smoothly that readers may forget that all this raging passion is over amusement park rides. Then they can ask what that shows about the novel''s supposedly mature, liberated characters. Doctorow has served up a nicely understated dish: meringue laced with caffeine.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to Bitchun society, where all today''s commonplace problems have been solved: even death is a minor inconvenience, since one can make regular backups. Our hero has gone to Disneyland--his habit at times of major personal crisis--where he works for the ad-hocracy that runs the Haunted Mansion and the Hall of Presidents. It is a great honor to be working on the pinnacle of late-twentieth-century cultural and artistic achievement--Disneyland, that would be--and it inspires great loyalty. Our man begins feeling the pressure of change, however, after a cookie-cutter teenybopper shoots him dead for apparently no reason at all. Convinced that a new ad-hocracy on the block used his death to take over the Hall of Presidents, he vows to sabotage their plans and protect the sanctity of the Haunted Mansion. Thus begins a cycle of destruction and conflict with unexpected ramifications for the park--and his personal life. An excellent ride, entertaining and unpredictable.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(21476, 'Drunkard&#39;s Walk', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(21477, 'Dry Ice', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Contemporary cerebral thrillers don''t get much better than bestseller White''s 15th novel (after\n <em>\n  Kill Me\n </em>\n ), which deftly combines complex characterization and intricate plotting. White''s debut novel,\n <em>\n  Privileged Information\n </em>\n , introduced Boulder, Colo., psychologist Alan Gregory and the clever but deadly Michael McClelland, a former meteorologist turned killer, whose rampage almost cost Gregory and his wife, Lauren, their lives. In this sequel, while Lauren, a local prosecutor, is absorbed in a sensitive grand jury probe that represents her best chance to demonstrate that she can function despite her MS, Gregory learns that McClelland has escaped from custody and has devised a devious, multilayered revenge scheme against everyone he holds responsible for his incarceration. Almost overnight, Gregory finds his routine existence turned into a Hitchcockian nightmare. Suspected of several murders, he can trust no one. Both established fans and those just now discovering the author''s gifts will be turning pages late into the night.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the opening chapters of this latest outing starring Boulder, Colorado, psychologist Alan Gregory, the good doctor is feeling a bit sorry for himself: his wife''s MS, utterly unpredictable, is worsening; his clinical business has been anemic since one of his patients was shot to death on national television--_Kill Me_, 2006; and he remains haunted by long-held secrets. Just as the novel risks getting mired in this pity party, the story picks up speed when an ex-patient, Michael McClelland, escapes from the state mental institution hell-bent on retribution. No one is safe from this madman--not Alan, nor his wife, Lauren, nor his best friend (and cop) Sam. After all, McClelland tried to kill all three of them (_Privileged Information, _1991) before being declared insane. Secrets are the star here; everyone has them--Alan, Lauren, Sam--and keeping them hidden just isn''t working any longer. The big question is, Will Alan uncover the secret that''s keeping McClelland on his heels? White''s thrillers throw the characters into quagmires and then force them to wade through the psychological muck. Along the way, there''s always more than enough suspense to keep readers engaged.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(21478, 'Eastern Standard Tribe', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Eastern Standard Tribe\n </em>\n is a soothsaying jaunt into the not-so-distant future, where 24/7 communication and chatroom alliances have evolved into tribal networks that secretly work against each other in shadowy online realms. The novel opens with its protagonist, the peevish Art Berry, on the roof of an asylum. He wonders if it''s better to be smart or happy. His crucible is a pencil up the nose for a possible "homebrew lobotomy." To explain Art''s predicament, Doctorow flashes backward and slowly fills in the blanks. As a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, Art is one of many in the now truly global village who have banded together out of like-minded affinity for a particular time zone and its circadian cycles. Art may have grown up in Toronto but his real homeland is an online grouping that prefers bagels and hot dogs to the fish and chips of their rivals who live on Greenwich Mean Time. As he rises through the ranks of the tribe, he is sent abroad to sabotage the traffic patterns and communication networks in the GMT tribe. Along the way, he comes across a humdinger of an idea that will solve a music piracy problem on the highways of his own beloved timezone, raise his status in the tribe and make him rich. If only he could have trusted his tightly wound girlfriend and fellow tribal saboteur, he probably wouldn''t be on the booby hatch roof with that pencil up his nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a musing on the future, Doctorow''s extrapolation seems entirely plausible. And, not only is\n <em>\n  EST\n </em>\n a fascinating mental leap it''s a witty and savvy tale that will appeal to anyone who''s lived another life, however briefly, online.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n John W. Campbell Award-winner Doctorow lives up to the promise of his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), with this near-future, far-out blast against human duplicity and smothering bureaucracy. Even though it takes a while for the reader to grasp post-cyberpunk Art Berry''s dizzying leaps between his "now," a scathing 2012 urban nuthouse, and his "then," the slightly earlier events that got him incarcerated there, this short novel''s occasionally bitter, sometimes hilarious and always whackily appealing protagonist consistently skewers those evils of modern culture he holds most pernicious. A born-to-argue misfit like all kids who live online, Art has found peers in cyber space who share his unpopular views-specifically his preference for living on Eastern Standard Time no matter where he happens to live and work. In this unsettling world, e-mails filled with arcane in-jokes bind competitive "tribes" that choose to function in one arbitrary time or another. Swinging from intense highs (his innovative marketing scheme promises to impress his tribe and make him rich) to maudlin lows (isolation in a scarily credible loony bin), Art gradually learns that his girl, Linda, and his friend Fede are up to no good. In the first chapter, Doctorow''s authorial voice calls this book a work of propaganda, a morality play about the fearful choice everybody makes sooner or later between smarts and happiness. He may be more right than we''d like to think.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(21479, 'Echo Park', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn''t crack. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA''s office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits'' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch''s whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(21480, 'Elmore Leonard&#39;s 10 Rules of Writing', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  "These are rules I''ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I''m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what''s taking place in the story." - Elmore LeonardFor aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect and what he calls ''hooptedoodle'', Elmore Leonard explains what to avoid, what to aspire to, and what to do when it sounds like "writing" (rewrite).Beautifully designed, filled with free-flowing, elegant illustrations, and specially priced, ELMORE LEONARD''S 10 RULES OF WRITING is the perfect writer''s - and reader''s - guide.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "(It) won me over. The illustrations, by Joe Ciardiello, are perfectly Leonardesque; the paper is art-book luxurious." --\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Itâ€™s hard to argue with the master of the craft. Clever line drawings by Joe Ciardiello spice things up." --\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "These are the rules I''ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I''m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what''s taking place in the story."--Elmore Leonard\n </p>\n <p>\n  For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect and hoopetedoodle, Elmore Leonard explains what to avoid, what to aspire to, and what to do when it sounds like "writing" (rewrite).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beautifully designed, filled with free-flowing, elegant illustrations and specially priced,\n  <em>\n   Elmore Leonard''s 10 Rules of Writing\n  </em>\n  is the perfect writer''s--and reader''s--gift.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(21481, 'Encounter With Tiber', 'Buzz Aldrin &amp; John Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Buzz Aldrin, one of manned space flight''s pioneers, has helped create a stunning, possibly prophetic novel of the future of space exploration. A radio beacon from an unknown world leads an astronaut to disaster on the Moon -- and his son far beyond that as he searches for the key to the mystery of Tiber, a civilization who left artifacts in the solar system some 9,000 years ago, with sufficient impact on human affairs to explain some odd references in the Bible. The villains of the book are not the aliens, but the benighted politicians with the minds of accountants who won''t fund the necessary scientific derring-do to save the world -- apparently an affliction which alien astronauts also have to bear. You can read an exclusive interview with Buzz Aldrin written by Frank Braun.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Buzz Aldrin, one of manned space flight''s pioneers, has helped create a stunning, possibly prophetic novel of the future of space exploration. A radio beacon from an unknown world leads an astronaut to disaster on the Moon -- and his son far beyond that as he searches for the key to the mystery of Tiber, a civilization who left artifacts in the solar system some 9,000 years ago, with sufficient impact on human affairs to explain some odd references in the Bible. The villains of the book are not the aliens, but the benighted politicians with the minds of accountants who won''t fund the necessary scientific derring-do to save the world -- apparently an affliction which alien astronauts also have to bear. You can read an exclusive interview with Buzz Aldrin written by Frank Braun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/26');
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(21482, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Coyle (a husband-wife team) makes the jump to hardcover with this enjoyable coffeehouse mystery, the seventh in the series to star Clare Cosi, the crime-solving barista of Village Blend (_French Pressed_, etc.). Breanne Summour, the disdainer-in-chief of Manhattan fashion magazine\n <em>\n  Trend\n </em>\n , is engaged to be married to Matteo Allegro, Clare''s ex-husband. Sharing a grown daughter, Clare and Matt remain friends and business partners. When a 22-year-old dancer who looks like Breanne is shot after performing at Matt''s bachelor party, a frantic Matt believes Breanne was the intended target. Clare agrees to protect Breanne until the posh wedding at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after the murder of Breanne''s former assistant, Clare''s life is in jeopardy, too. This mellow-paced cozy includes some surprises for both bride and groom, who must deal with the bitter fruits of their past actions. Recipes and coffee tips are a bonus.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Cleo Coyle''s "Coffeehouse" books are superb examples of the cozy genre because of their intelligent cast of characters, their subtle wit, and their knowledge of the coffee industry used to add depth and flavor to the stories...Coyle, a pen name for a married writing team who grew up in Pittsburgh with Italian parents, brings to the series a love of New York City. Highly recommended for all mystery collections. --Library Journal, Starred Review --Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n Bridal jitters are the least of the problems for an amateur sleuth trying to smooth a path for her ex-husband''s second wedding. Clare Cosi, manager of the Village Blend coffee shop...visits underground restaurants, temples to high fashion and the hotel room of a seductive Italian sculptor in her attempts to keep the wedding plans on track and the bride alive. A realistic depiction of New York City high and low life. The smattering of recipes, romance and caffeine-fueled detection add up to a lively tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Coyle (a husband-wife team) makes the jump to hardcover with this enjoyable coffeehouse mystery, the seventh in the series to star Clare Cosi, the crime-solving barista of Village Blend (French Pressed, etc.). Breanne Summour, the "disdainer-in-chief" of Manhattan fashion magazine Trend, is engaged to be married to Matteo Allegro, Clare''s ex-husband. Sharing a grown daughter, Clare and Matt remain friends and business partners. When a 22-year-old dancer who looks like Breanne is shot after performing at Matt''s bachelor party, a frantic Matt believes Breanne was the intended target. Clare agrees to protect Breanne until the posh wedding at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after the murder of Breanne''s former assistant, Clare''s life is in jeopardy, too... --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(21483, 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <h3>\n    Review\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    "This isÂ Â one of those special novels--a piece of workingÂ Â magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want toÂ Â ride off into the sunset with."--ThomasÂ Â Pynchon\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    "The best fiction, so far,Â Â to come out of the AmericanÂ Â counterculture."--_Chicago Tribune Book World_ --\n    <em>\n     Review\n    </em>\n   </p>\n   <h3>\n    Product Description\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Follow Sissy''s amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax...\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   "This isÂ Â one of those special novels--a piece of workingÂ Â magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want toÂ Â ride off into the sunset with."--ThomasÂ Â Pynchon\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "The best fiction, so far,Â Â to come out of the AmericanÂ Â counterculture."--_Chicago Tribune Book World_ --\n   <em>\n    Review\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor...\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Follow Sissy''s amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This isÂ Â one of those special novels--a piece of workingÂ Â magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want toÂ Â ride off into the sunset with."--ThomasÂ Â Pynchon\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best fiction, so far,Â Â to come out of the AmericanÂ Â counterculture."--_Chicago Tribune Book World_ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Free-spirited hitchhiker Sissy Henshaw makes her way across the confused and paranoid America of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, friends and lovers, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances. Reissue. Movie tie-in.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(21484, 'Even in the Best of Families', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(21485, 'Extreme Measures', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Eric Najarian. He s youngï¼Œ talentedï¼Œ and ambitious. He has all the qualities they re looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn t know he s being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It s only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil. A sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague--he will be their next victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(21486, 'Eye in the Sky', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(21487, 'The Eye of Sibyl &amp; Other Stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author''s standards--\n <code>\n  The Little Black Box'''' and\n </code>\n The Pre-Person'''' among them. By the author of\n <em>\n  The Man in the High Castle.\n </em>\n Original.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author''s standards--\n <code>\n  The Little Black Box'''' and\n </code>\n The Pre-Person'''' among them. By the author of\n <em>\n  The Man in the High Castle.\n </em>\n Original.\n</p>\nSUMMARY:Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dick''s works has continued to grow, and his reputation has been enhanced by an expanding body of critical appreciation. This fifth and final volume of Dick''s collected works includes 25 short stories, some previously unpublished.\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(21488, 'The Eyre Affair', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that''s just a prelude . . . Hades'' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it''s not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte''s novel. Enter Thursday Next. She''s the Special Operative''s renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft''s Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It''s tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte''s masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . . Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. Next up in the Thursday Next series: Lost in a Good Book. Read more about it at thursdaynext.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(21489, 'Faceless Killers', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first appearance in English, Swedish bestselling author Mankell combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of anti-foreigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed. Since his wife walked out on him, Kurt Wallender, a middle-aged cop in the small town of Lenarp, has drowned his sorrows in opera and far too much liquor. Such consolations can''t help him absorb the scene at the Lovgren farm, where elderly Johannes Lovgren has been brutally beaten and stabbed to death and where his wife, Maria, is found barely alive with a noose around her neck. Rydberg, a police force old-timer, says the noose''s unusual knot and the word foreigner, which Maria uttered before she died, are important. Wallender puts those clues on the back burner when he learns that Johannes, ostensibly a simple farmer, had a secret life involving wealth and connections unknown to his wife. However, a leak to the press complicates the investigation by arousing anti-immigrant feelings, some of which are expressed in anonymous threats. Mankell is clearly a skilled writer, and his portrait of Wallender (who periodically slides beneath respectability) is effective. But he provides essential information only at the last minute, which makes the solution feel more like an appendix than a conclusion. Also, American readers may find odd Mankell''s bundling of his upright anti-racism message with broad notions of what constitutes acceptable social control.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(21490, 'The Fallen Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody in the world could have written that paragraph but Tony Hillerman. Two old men sit, surrounded by the natural beauty of Canyon de Chelly, talking about death. The fact that one of the men is Joe Leaphorn, (the Legendary Lieutenant, as his younger colleague Jim Chee irreverently but accurately calls him behind his back) means that something serious has happened--a crime in some way connected to the Navajo people. But Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, and the only person dead so far is a rich Anglo named Hal Breedlove, who fell while trying to climb Ship Rock 11 years before. Chee is busy on another, more prosaic matter, but he can''t resist helping his thorny mentor on Leaphorn''s first case as a private detective.\n <strong>\n  The Fallen Man\n </strong>\n is brisk, beautiful, funny, and poignant--as good a place as any for first-timers to plunge into Hillerman Country. Then they can catch up on past triumphs with\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. The latest Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery has vivid descriptions of Native American mythology and traditions but lacks the suspense and tightly woven plot of the earlier titles in this popular series. A skeleton is found on a high ledge of Ship Rock mountain, a place sacred to the Navahos. Tribal Police Lieutenant Chee and the now retired Leaphorn suspect correctly that it belongs to a wealthy rancher missing for 11 years, and Chee tries to discover if it is murder or an accidental death. Meanwhile, Leaphorn is hired by a lawyer to look into the investigation for the rancher''s Eastern family, who want to own his land legally so they can accept a lucrative bid for the mining rights. The obvious suspects, if there was foul play, are the young woman who inherited the ranch and her brother who manages it. In addition to uncovering the cause of death, Chee must determine if the rancher died before or after his 30th birthday when he legally inherited the ranch from a family trust. The continuing rocky romance between Chee and tribal lawyer Janet Pete brings an interesting love angle to the story. Environmentalism and the survival of Native American culture are strong themes.?Penny Stevens, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(21491, 'A Family Affair', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Published only a month before Rex StoutÂ’s death, this case is regarded as one of the author''s truest. When Nero Wolfe''s favorite waiter is murdered in an explosion just feet from him, the detective takes it as a personal affront and waives his trademark fee. As Wolfe and his sidekick Archie track down the culprit, a second murder is committed and Wolfe realizes that this case is a family affair.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every so often Stout thins the ranks of the Wolfe entourage - a while back he bumped off one of the stable of free-lance operatives, leaving only Saul, Fred and Orrie. Another gets pruned in the course of the latest Rusterman''s Restaurant murder investigation, after a faintly mechanical sequence of leads including Watergate, Women''s Lib and a horny widow. Not one of Stout''s zippiest, but the old pro still has a lot of polish. (Kirkus Reviews)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n When a bomb kills his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, sedentary sleuth and gourmand Nero Wolfe is determined to go to any length to find the killer. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(21492, 'Fatal', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n almer''s 10th medical thriller rides on his usual wave of unrelenting adrenaline, and will make readers think twice the next time they''re due for a routine vaccination. The physician-hero this time is Matt Ruttledge, a doctor in bucolic Belinda, W.Va. When several of his patients turn up in the emergency room, babbling incoherently and sporting unsightly lumps on their faces, Ruttledge blames the town''s main employer, a large mining operation with a history of safety abuses and environmental neglect. As more patients turn up with the same fatal symptoms, Ruttledge discovers that a larger culprit may be responsible: a new supervaccine that''s about to hit the market. Backed by powerful political interests and drug companies, the vaccine, called Omnivax, had been tested in Belinda a decade earlier, and its deadly side effects are now finally surfacing. Joined by a group of like-minded medical professionals and a colorful cast of civilians, Ruttledge sets out to stymie the makers of the vaccine. Omnivax''s backers, however, have no intention of letting a lone doctor and a gaggle of bumpkins kill their cash cow. As with Palmer''s other popular thrillers (The Patient, etc.), the plot at times turns wild to the point of disbelief, and the occasional red herring practically screams its presence the moment it swims into view. But the former ER physician''s ability to craft gripping suspense, likable heroes and hateful villains as well as a thought-provoking dialogue about the risks of the nation''s vaccination program keep the pulse pounding.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Palmer excels at packing current medical issues into a web of suspense. The action begins immediately as people in various cities become afflicted with some unknown malady with bizarre symptoms. Some die quickly from seizures and blood loss, others develop a progressive mental illness along with "Elephant Man"-like growths on their faces and bodies, culminating in uncontrollable violence. Dr. Matt Rutledge is certain that a case he has seen, involving a mine worker for the Belinda Coal and Coke Company, is related to the mine''s criminal offenses. He was raised in the West Virginia town and lost his father to alleged safety violations, and his wife to a rare cancer. Certain that her illness was induced by groundwater contamination, Matt has a double score to settle with BC&amp;C. Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, Ellen Kroft, member of the advocacy group PAVE (Parents Advocating Vaccine Education), is struggling with her vote as part of a group evaluating a new megavaccine, Omnivax. In Boston, medical examiner Dr. Nikki Solari has watched the mental deterioration of her talented roommate as strange growths appear on her face. Both Ellen and Nikki travel to Belinda in search of answers. As expected, the three protagonists get together and set about solving the medical mystery, with danger, attempted murder, and bureaucratic strangulation surrounding them. Palmer skillfully juggles many subplots, integrating colorful characters and using current bioscience topics. FDA testing, vaccines, environmental toxins, spongiform encephalitis, greedy pharmaceutical executives, and bad cops-all contribute to the novel''s action, suspense, and intrigue.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(21493, 'The Father Hunt', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-two-year-old Amy Denovo needs Nero Wolfe''s help. She is determined to learn the identity of her father, a secret her mother scrupulously guarded Â— and took to her grave when struck by a hit-and-run driver. Now Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, have just one clue to go on: a note from Amy''s mother and a box with over $250,000. Seems every month since Amy''s birth, her mother received $1,000 from an unknown source and saved it for Amy''s future. It''s easy enough for Amy to afford Wolfe''s services, and he grudgingly agrees. But as the weeks go by, Wolfe realizes this may be one of his most challenging cases ever. Someone doesn''t want Amy''s pedigree discovered, and that someone appears to wield great power. It isn''t long before Wolfe and Archie come to believe that Amy''s mother was murdered Â— and that Amy could be next. Michael Prichard gives another of his masterful readings to this cleverly plotted tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(21494, 'Fer de lance', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I''ve promised myself for the past decade that, when I finally retire, my first major project will be to reread the entire Nero Wolfe canon in chronological order, a worthwhile occupation if ever there was one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although entirely different and not nearly as literary as Ross Macdonald''s Lew Archer series or the Philip Marlowe novels of Raymond Chandler, the Wolfe saga deserves to be ranked with them as among the finest series of detective stories ever written by an American.\n <em>\n  Fer-de-lance\n </em>\n introduces the brilliant, idiosyncratic, and obese armchair detective to the world and, while it may not be the best book of the series, it provides a wonderful murder set on a golf course and a cast of characters and laundry list of eccentricities that are an integral part of each novel and novella.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rex Stout has managed to pull off a feat unparalleled to this day: the perfect combination of deductive reasoning--as exemplified by the classic Golden Age writers such as Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, and Queen--with the hard-boiled attitude and dialogue of the more realistic tough guy writers such as Chandler, Macdonald, Hammett, and Robert B. Parker.\n</p>\n<p>\n The toughness is brought to the books by Wolfe''s leg man and amanuensis, Archie Goodwin. The structure and ambience of the books is, quite deliberately, very much like the Sherlock Holmes stories that Stout so admired. The house on West 35th Street is as familiar as the sitting room at 221B Baker Street; his cook Fritz pops up as regularly as Mrs. Hudson; and his irritant, Inspector Cramer of the NYPD, serves the same role as several Scotland Yard detectives, notably Inspector Lestrade, did for Holmes. Fair warning: It is safe to read one Nero Wolfe novel, because you will surely like it. It is extremely unsafe to read three, because you will forever be hooked on the delightful characters who populate these perfect books.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Fer-de-Lance_ will be welcomed by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Midwest Book Review_, May 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve noticed books by Rex Stout (1886-1975) for many years but never have purchased or read one. You know, so many books, so little time. I''ve been missing the company of the ever-eccentric Nero Wolfe and his faithful legman, Archie Goodwin...I don''t want to tell you too much about this classic tale and spoil your fun. This version is expertly performed by Michael Prichard, who has also brought novels by Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy to life." --\n <em>\n  Jim Clark, Publisher\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the annals of eccentric private detectives, one of the most famous is Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an obese, misanthropic, arrogant orchid fancier who solves mysteries while never leaving his New York brownstone. His eyes and ears to the world is Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the books. In this well-read audio edition of Stout''s first Wolfe novel, Goodwin is asked to find out who murdered a young Italian immigrant. The path leads to upscale Westchester County and to the body of a recently deceased philanthropist who has a crazy wife, a jealous son, and a beautiful daughter. Throw into the mix an attempt on Wolfe''s life using a poisonous snake and the listener is entertained with a 1934 period mystery that is remarkably fresh." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Roanoke Times_, November 16, 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1934, Fer-de-Lance is the first mystery novel ever written by Rex Stout. This classic crime story (complete and unabridged) introduces one of the great fictional detectives, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe, the arrogant, gormandizing, sedentary sleuth who raises orchids in his Manhattan brownstone, solving his case with help from his assistant, Archie Goodwin, was to become one of American literature''s most recognizable charecters. When a fer-de-lance (one of the most deadly snakes know to man) is delivered to Nero Wolfe, Archie knows he is getting very close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The denouement brings forth all of Nero Wolfe''s talents as he gathers the suspects together. Fer-de-Lance will be welcomes by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(21495, 'Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins''s seventh novel is a philosophical, hedonistic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switters. "Not with\n  <em>\n   all\n  </em>\n  the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brightest and the best." Switters isn''t really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma''s parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon jungle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandakandero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda''s giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bending trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must not let his foot touch the earth, or he''ll die.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not that a little death threat can slow him down. Switters simply hops into a wheelchair and rolls off to further footloose adventures, occasionally switching to stilts. For a Robbins hero, to be just a bit high, not earthbound, facilitates enlightenment. He bops from Peru to Seattle, where he''s beguiled by the Art Girls of the Pike Place Market and his 16-year-old stepsister, and then off to Syria, where he falls in with a pack of renegade nuns bearing names like Mustang Sally and Domino Thirry. Will Switters see Domino tumble and solve the mystery of the Virgin Mary? Can the nuns convince the Pope to favor birth control--to "zonk the zygotic zillions and mitigate the multitudinous milt" and "wrest free from a woman''s shoulders the boa of spermatozoa?" Can the author ever resist a shameless pun or a mutant metaphor?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tangly plot is almost beside the point. Switters is a colorful undercover agent, and a Robbins novel is really a colorful undercover essay celebrating sex and innocence, drugs and a firm wariness of anything that tries to rewire the mind, and Broadway tunes, especially "Send in the Clowns." Some readers will be intensely offended by Switters''s yen for youth and idiosyncratic views on vice. But fans will feel that extremism in the pursuit of serious fun is virtue incarnate.\n  <em>\n   Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates\n  </em>\n  is classic Tom Robbins: all smiles, similes, and subversion.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume; Still Life with Woodpecker) will be delighted to find that his first book in almost six years contains many of the elements they have come to expect from this imaginative author. Sex, sedition and similes abound in a tale of loves both indictable and divine. Unlike Robbins''s previous work, however, the novel''s story line, though typically eclectic, feels contrived. Switters, the protagonist, is an errand boy for the CIA, a secret lover of Broadway show tunes and a pedophile. On assignment in Peru (he has been ordered to verify the philosophical commitment of a new CIA recruit), Switters encounters a Kandakandero medicine man who gives him mind-altering drugs and wisdom, but in exchange inflicts a curse: if Switters''s feet ever touch the ground, he will be struck dead instantly. So Switters spends the rest of the novel in a wheelchair, although this in no way slows him down. He returns to Seattle, chases after his 16-year-old stepsister and numerous art students, then embarks on a mission to Syria to sell gas masks to Kurds; there, he beds a nun who even so remains a virgin. In true Robbins style, the writing throughout is lush and sexy, containing a great deal of witty social and political commentary. But this time around, his story fails to catch hold until too far into the text. And although Robbins''s signature prose is in effect here--he mentions, for example, "a pink wink of panty"--he leaves too many loose ends dangling. Agent, Phoebe Larmore. (May)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(21496, 'The Fifth Vial', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Palmer (_The Society_) tackles the illegal transplant organ trade in his entertaining 12th medical suspense novel. What do three very different peopleâ€”Harvard medical student Natalie Reyes, Chicago PI Ben Callahan and scientific genius Joe Ansonâ€”have in common? Natalie, in Brazil for a conference, is attacked, hospitalized and loses a lung; Ben gets hired to discover how a mutilated anonymous body died; Joe, the inventor of an untested medical breakthrough, is forced into an operation for his life-threatening pulmonary fibrosis. All three seek answers connected to the Whitestone Foundation, a conglomerate that''s a front for the Guardians, a secret cabal of medical specialists. At a hidden hospital in the Brazilian rain forest, Natalie and Ben learn of the Guardians'' insidious methods. Huge sums are at stake as the arrogant Guardians make medical decisions largely motivated by greed. The action, which begins plausibly, becomes less so as the tension builds. Still, Palmer, himself an M.D., does a good job of informing the reader on an important ethical issue.\n <em>\n  225,000 printing; author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmer is adept at tapping into people''s natural fear of disease, doctors, and hospitals and converting that fear into unnerving suspense. In this, his twelfth medical thriller, Palmer plays with the phenomenon of organ donation, forcing the reader to ask nervously, "Where do donated organs come from?" The answer comes slowly, in the best medical-thriller tradition, by having three different characters, widely separated by space and circumstance, each play a role in tracking down a powerful conspiracy network. Natalie Reyes, a brilliant Harvard Medical School student, is summarily dismissed for disagreeing with a doctor. In one of the many wild stretches of the plot, Natalie goes to Rio de Janeiro to present a paper and is kidnapped and left for dead. In another stretch, a newly minted Chicago private eye is hired by a University of Chicago medical anthropologist to conduct an investigation into underworld organ trafficking. Meanwhile, in Yaounde, Cameroon, a doctor is refining a drug that can speed the formation of new blood vessels, but--slight problem--he''s racing the clock against his own life-threatening illness. The sprawling plot lurches along toward the discovery of a conspiracy to obtain organs by any means and sell them at high prices. The characterization is wooden and the plotting clunky, but Palmer''s fans know not to worry overmuch about such niceties. If medical thrills are what you''re after, he delivers.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(21497, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n CRIME &amp; MYSTERY. Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again Wallander''s life is on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Making progress through dogged police work and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander leads a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of new realities that make him despair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(21498, 'The Final Deduction', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan''s elite. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Frol\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Prichard presents Wolfe and Goodwin just as Stout intended them. The old-fashioned (but not dated) story line, vocabulary, and slow pace are called into action when two separate murders are perpetrated within the ranks of the upper class. Goodwin makes his understated mark as he assists Wolfe with the New York City and countryside investigation. Seldom are words such as "phooey," "vulgarian," and "dunce" as well uttered! America in the 1950s is wonderfully recreated with the narrator''s capable performance. Real fun for those who prefer their mysteries from an earlier era. S.G.B. Â© AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(21499, 'The final deduction: a Nero Wolfe novel', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Broadway thespians have never matched the real-life dramas of Manhattan''s money set. Even the legendary Nero Wolfe takes an interest when the last act of a long-running society romance is murder. The spotlight''s on a pair of unusually good -- looking corpses. A half-million in cash is waiting to be found. With his able sidekick Archie Goodwin doing the legwork, Wolfe plans to drop the curtain on a fiendish killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(21500, 'The Final Solution', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books -- intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(21501, 'Finding Moon', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Location figures powerfully in Hillerman''s newest novel, but it isn''t the Southwest of his Navajo mysteries (Sacred Clowns, etc.), nor is this a Joe Leaphorn story. In April 1975, Moon Mathias, managing editor of a small-town Colorado newspaper, begins a redemptive journey that takes him first to Manila and then across the South China Sea to Cambodia, just as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge begin their reign of terror. Moon''s brother Ricky, owner of a helicopter transportation service based in Cambodia, has recently died in a jungle crash. Their mother receives word that Ricky''s baby daughter is being smuggled out of Vietnam to the Philippines. After his mother has a heart attack in the Manila airport, Moon takes over her mission, but the child does not arrive. Finding and contacting Ricky''s acquaintances, Moon fights time, political exigencies and his ignorance of his brother''s life as he tries doggedly to locate his niece. The effort involves an appealing cast, including a wealthy Chinese man seeking his ancestors'' bones, a Dutch woman searching for her missionary brother and Vietnamese refugees, who join Moon on a suspenseful, albeit not quite credible, journey to a series of villages along the Mekong River. In the end, as the title suggests, Moon finds more than he''d known was lost. Hillerman''s mastery of setting and his compassionate, patient characterization are fully present in this tale, which is otherwise somewhat formulaic. 350,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; HarperAudio.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Beginning with The Blessing Way (LJ 5/15/70), Hillerman has contrasted the contemporary cultures of Southwestern Native Americans with the dominant U.S. culture, creating best-selling mysteries in the process. Finding Moon is a dramatic departure, but it contains similar cultural contrasts. Set mostly in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, it is the tale of Moon Mathias, self-described third-rate editor of a third-rate Colorado newspaper who, when his younger brother dies in Southeast Asia, discovers that there is a baby daughter missing somewhere in Vietnam. Reluctantly drawn into a search for the child, Moon is thereby drawn into a search for his own values. He leads a motley group of culturally varied misfits in his quest. With its vivid characters and a strong sense of place, trademarks of Hillerman mysteries, this tale will likely receive a strong reception in libraries everywhere.\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    --Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Location figures powerfully in Hillerman''s newest novel, but it isn''t the Southwest of his Navajo mysteries (Sacred Clowns, etc.), nor is this a Joe Leaphorn story. In April 1975, Moon Mathias, managing editor of a small-town Colorado newspaper, begins a redemptive journey that takes him first to Manila and then across the South China Sea to Cambodia, just as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge begin their reign of terror. Moon''s brother Ricky, owner of a helicopter transportation service based in Cambodia, has recently died in a jungle crash. Their mother receives word that Ricky''s baby daughter is being smuggled out of Vietnam to the Philippines. After his mother has a heart attack in the Manila airport, Moon takes over her mission, but the child does not arrive. Finding and contacting Ricky''s acquaintances, Moon fights time, political exigencies and his ignorance of his brother''s life as he tries doggedly to locate his niece. The effort involves an appealing cast, including a wealthy Chinese man seeking his ancestors'' bones, a Dutch woman searching for her missionary brother and Vietnamese refugees, who join Moon on a suspenseful, albeit not quite credible, journey to a series of villages along the Mekong River. In the end, as the title suggests, Moon finds more than he''d known was lost. Hillerman''s mastery of setting and his compassionate, patient characterization are fully present in this tale, which is otherwise somewhat formulaic. 350,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; HarperAudio.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Beginning with The Blessing Way (LJ 5/15/70), Hillerman has contrasted the contemporary cultures of Southwestern Native Americans with the dominant U.S. culture, creating best-selling mysteries in the process. Finding Moon is a dramatic departure, but it contains similar cultural contrasts. Set mostly in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, it is the tale of Moon Mathias, self-described third-rate editor of a third-rate Colorado newspaper who, when his younger brother dies in Southeast Asia, discovers that there is a baby daughter missing somewhere in Vietnam. Reluctantly drawn into a search for the child, Moon is thereby drawn into a search for his own values. He leads a motley group of culturally varied misfits in his quest. With its vivid characters and a strong sense of place, trademarks of Hillerman mysteries, this tale will likely receive a strong reception in libraries everywhere.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/115');
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(21502, 'The Finkler Question', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they''ve never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dining together one night at Sevcik''s apartmentâ€”the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Tresloveâ€”the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer''s window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath,Â his whole sense of self will ineluctably change. __\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Finkler Question\n </em>\n is a funny, furious,Â unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Author Howard Jacobson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Has your life changed (in ways good and bad) since you were awarded the Man Booker last Tuesday?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Yes. Apart from having had no sleep and having lost my voice giving interviews around the world, I can think of no bad way it has changed. The good is almost incalculable. In practical terms,\n <em>\n  The Finkler Question\n </em>\n has been riding high in the bestselling charts around the English speaking world and will be translated in countries that have never before shown much interest in my work. But the greater good cannot be measured in lists or numbers. The Man Booker prize feels like a vindication of what I do and have done for a quarter of a century, casting a backward light on my earlier novels, introducing and part explaining them to readers who have not read me before.\n</p>\n<p>\n I can best describe what I feel as a profound sensation of relief. From what? The usual: disappointment, frustration, bafflement, and the fear of being forever labelled ''an undervalued writer.'' Whatever else, they cannot call me undervalued now.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your talents are largely comic and you''ve admitted to being ruffled by the lack of respect for comedy among the literary establishment. Do you think most novels lose their footing without a comedic hum? Which novelists do you most admire for their comedy?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Comic is the cruelest word. Yes, I aspire to be funny. Jonathan Safran Foer has just said of me to the\n <em>\n  L.A. Times\n </em>\n that "I don''t know a funnier writer alive," and I take that to be a huge compliment. But I don''t think of myself as a writer of comic novels, for the reason that comic novel suggests lightness or frolicsomeness, a holiday from the serious, and that''s not how I see what I do. That one can be funny and deadly serious doesn''t need to be argued, but there are those who think they demean the solemn act of reading when they laugh - Rabelais called them the agelasts - whereas, of course, laughter can be as profound an act of the intelligence as any other response.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian McEwan once said he hated comic novels: it is like being wrestled to the ground and tickled. I know exactly what he means. But that''s not what you get with me. With me it''s like being wrestled to the ground and stabbed in the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n The other reason I''m not comfortable with the term comic novel is that it''s redundant. The novel began in comedy (Rabelais, Cervantes) and continues to owe an obligation to it. A novel that doesn''t make you laugh at some level, or that doesn''t invigorate in a way we associate with comedy, or whose language isn''t alive to play and paradox and contradiction, isn''t doing its job.\n</p>\n<p>\n For me, some of the novelists who do remember their obligations to comedy are Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad (think\n <em>\n  The Secret Agent\n </em>\n ), Henry James (funnier than he''s often given credit for), Joseph Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera (sometimes), Steve Tesich (I know of no more bitterly funny novel than Karoo), and, if I may return the compliment, Jonathan Safran Foer (Alexander Perchov, the sometime narrator of\n <em>\n  Everything Is Illuminated\n </em>\n , is an inspired comic creation). This is by no means an exhaustive list.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Where do you write? What does the space look and feel like?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I write on a tiny open mezzanine floor in the loft apartment I share with my wife in Soho, London. Steel bookshelves rise from the lower floor and in order to access the top shelves I have to risk my life climbing ladders. Light floods in through large windows and when I look out I see the city of London, St Paul''s Cathedral, the Gherkin, and many of the great financial institutions. So the space I occupy is airy, and the world I look out upon is vast. This is the best space I have ever worked in, partly because of the natural light, but also because I don''t feel locked away. I have only to raise my eyes to see the busy breathing world. Certainly I have never been so prolific, nor looked forward more to going to my desk.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Jacobson''s wry, devastating novel examines the complexities of identity and belonging, love, and grief through the lens of contemporary Judaism. Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer who works as a celebrity double, feels out of sync with his longtime friend and sometimes rival Sam Finkler, a popular author of philosophy-themed self-help books and a rabidly anti-Zionist Jewish scholar. The two have reconnected with their elderly professor, Libor Sevcik, following the deaths of Finkler and Libor''s wives, leaving Treslove-the bachelor Gentile-even more out of the loop. But after Treslove is mugged-the crime has possible anti-Semitic overtones-he becomes obsessed with what it means to be Jewish, or "a Finkler." Jacobson brilliantly contrasts Treslove''s search for a Jewish identity-through food, spurts of research, sex with Jewish women-with Finkler''s thorny relationship with his Jewish heritage and fellow Jews. Libor, meanwhile, struggles to find his footing after his wife''s death, the intense love he felt for her reminding Treslove of the belonging he so craves. Jacobson''s prose is effortless-witty when it needs to be, heartbreaking where it counts-and the Jewish question becomes a metaphor without ever being overdone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(21503, 'The Fire Gospel', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n sends up the publishing industry in this stillborn satire. Visiting an Iraqi museum in the present-day, Aramaic scholar Theo Grieppenkerl discovers nine preserved parchment scrolls. After smuggling the documents home, he discerns that he has discovered a 2,000-year-old gospel composed by an associate of Jesus named Malchus that throws into doubt the New Testament''s narrative of Jesus'' last days and final words. Theo approaches (and is rejected by) every commercial publisher in America, eventually taking a $250,000 advance from an academic house called Elysium and undergoing the standard indignities of book promotion: reviews from ignorant readers on Amazon, humiliating interviews by bland media personalities and, of course, the eager attention of disturbed readers. The novel takes a dark turn after allowing its feckless protagonist to temporarily hobnob with high-flying literary types, but the scenes featuring Theo in danger are as unlikely as the humorous chapters are strained. The end product is less than the sum of its could-be interesting parts.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Faberï¿½s novel, a Canadian linguist is visiting an Iraqi museum when the place blows up. A bas-relief cracks open, revealing nine papyrus scrolls, which turn out to be the Gospel of Malchus, a man mentioned only once in the New Testament, when his ear is cut off by Peter in Gethsemane. Unlike other recently discovered early Christian testimonies, this one is not of an especially lofty character: Malchus seems as interested in his own troubles (ï¿½My innards make noises when all else is quietï¿½) as in Jesusï¿½. He reports no Resurrection; the disciples, he says, had a vision of Jesus making some gestures, but that was it, and drugs may have been involved. The publication of the gospel gives Faber the chance to satirize a number of sitting ducks (book tours, fundamentalists, Amazon reviews), plus some less likely targets (anti-Semitism, disputes among early Christian sects). Unsettlingly, the book at times rises to a great pitch of exultation, or just of sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(21504, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detective and mystery stories. Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(21505, 'First Among Sequels', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop ''88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday''s time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath''s unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can''t fight all these battles on her own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(21506, 'The First Eagle', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalker--a Navajo witch--was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(21507, 'The First Patient', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This over-the-top yet endlessly entertaining thriller from bestseller Palmer (_The Fifth Vial_) pits a country doctor against a conspiracy to kill the president. Dr. Gabe Singleton, an old friend of President Andrew Stoddard, is brought to Washington, D.C., from Wyoming when Jim Ferendelli, Stoddard''s former doctor, goes missing. Almost immediately, things fall apart as Stoddard suffers from a random episode of incoherence, and Singleton is shot at while driving in early morning D.C. traffic. Complicating matters is Alison Cromartie, a sexy nurse who captures Singleton''s heart. Singleton must figure out who''s behind the president''s mysterious illness, investigating everyone from the Secret Service agents to the vice president. Citing specific medical and technological processes, Palmer convinces readers that his novel is logical and reasonable, even as he mixes the unlikely with the insanely hyperbolic. The roller-coaster ride of a plot builds to an undeniably shocking conclusion.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n served.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(21508, 'Five of a kind; the third Nero Wolfe omnibus', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This omnibus edition of THE RUBBER BAND, IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES, and THREE DOORS TO DEATH is titled FIVE OF A KIND because THREE DOORS TO DEATH is itself a collection of 3 short stories: "Man Alive" (1947), "Omit Flowers" (1948), and "Door to Death" (1949).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The selection of titles is an odd assortment. For more detailed discussion of the individual works herein, see reviews of the 3 separate books; no changes were made to include them here. They have few points in common, not even being 3 back-to-back books in publication order. While they''re no worse here than taken separately, this omnibus edition provides no added value.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE RUBBER BAND (1936) was the third Wolfe book. "The rubber band" was a group of wild youngsters 50 years prior to the opening of the story, back in Silver City, when they saved a young English expatriate from hanging. He promised them a percentage of his family fortune whenever he came into it. Now some of the survivors - including grown children - of the band have tracked down George Rowley: the Marquis of Clivers, on a diplomatic mission to the U.S. But they don''t have the document proving the debt, and one of the surviving old men who know Clivers by sight is soon gunned down in the street. In common with other early Wolfe stories, THE RUBBER BAND is much livelier than some later Wolfe stories, although Wolfe himself doesn''t stir out of the house for this case. There *is* a loose connection with playing cards, however: the dart game Wolfe has taken up for "exercise" recently involves trying to hit poker hands rather than bull''s-eyes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES (1950) was the 17th Wolfe book, and the third and final confrontation with Wolfe''s nemesis, Arnold Zeck. The story would more logically be grouped with the other two Zeck stories, and in fact, this was done years after the publication of FIVE OF A KIND with the omnibus TRIPLE ZECK. IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES is noteworthy because Wolfe fled the brownstone as a matter of survival, cutting off communication even with Archie to take his own mysterious course of action in a final showdown with Zeck. Marko Vukcic, Wolfe''s best friend, is the only person in Wolfe''s confidence - a sore point with Archie. While Wolfe acted mainly for personal reasons in the case, he did earn a fee.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THREE DOORS TO DEATH was the 16th Wolfe book, immediately preceding IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES, but the 3 stories within it don''t fit so neatly into that time slot. Two of the three cases are unusual in that Wolfe acted for personal reasons rather than for a fee.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Man Alive" (1947) predates AND BE A VILLAIN, the first Zeck story. Cynthia Nieder, Wolfe''s young client, is a model whose ambition is to apply her creative talent as a fashion designer to her half of Daumery &amp; Nieder, which she inherited upon her uncle''s spectacular suicide (he jumped naked into a geyser). The other partner, Daumery, has also recently died, in a more prosaic boating accident. Her question, however, isn''t *how* either of them died, but *whether* her uncle died - she believes she saw him attend one of the firm''s shows recently.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Omit Flowers" is a case taken on as a favor to Marko; his former mentor has been accused of murder. (Marko doesn''t respect him professionally anymore, however; Pompa now works for a fast-food chain.)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Door to Death" bears no relation to "A Window for Death" from THREE FOR THE CHAIR. Wolfe''s personal motive in this case is to defend Andy Krasicki, a first-class orchid man, and that purely because Wolfe needs a stand-in for Theodore, who''s away indefinitely for a family emergency. Andy''s fiancee was found dead among the orchids after a fumigation, and *nobody* could accidentally have overlooked the DOOR TO DEATH notices posted.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n http://www.amazon.com/Five-Kind-Third-Omnibus-Reprint/dp/0836941365\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(21509, 'Flashback', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A chilling tale of medical suspense from the bestselling author of Side Effects. Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why a young boy is reliving every painful moment of his recent operation--and what terrible secret the hospital where the operation took place is hiding. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he''s gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he''s awake. Now someone must expose the unspeakable truth about this hospital. Or else an innocent child will die. And he won''t be the last. The next victim is being wheeled into surgery right now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(21510, 'Flight of Shadows: A Novel', 'Sigmund Brouwer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Her genetic secret could change humanity forever. Her DNA grants her the ultimate power. But all she wants is to disappear. Looming buildings rise into the sky of a near-future America, shadowing the desperate poverty of the soovie parks, death doctors, and fear bombs. In this world of walled cities, where status matters most, Caitlyn Brown is desperate to remain invisible, wrongly believing what she needs to hide is the deformity on her back. The powerful want her for so much more. Sheâ€™s forced to take flight again, relying on the help of Razor, a street-smart illusionist she canâ€™t trust. Her only hope is to reach friends already tracked by government. With a twisted bounty hunter in full pursuit, she and Razor begin to learn the unthinkable about her past and the unique gifts of her DNA. It leads Caitlyn to a choice between the two men who love her, and whether to keep her freedom or sacrifice herself to change human destiny. In this lightning-fast chase through an all-too-plausible future, best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer is at his best. Flight of Shadows is a terrifying ride into the heart of compelling moral questions about science and society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(21511, 'Flow My Tears The Policeman Said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A TV celebrity of the near future suddenly finds that he has no identity in this SF variation on the amnesia novel, which suffers from an inadequate ending. Vintage also releases, for $10 each, Dick''s Now Wait for Last Year (\n <em>\n  -74220-4 ), about a doctor who is treating the world''s most important and sickest man, and The World Jones Made (\n </em>\n -74219-0 ), about a fanatic clairvoyant.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dick [was] many authors: a poor man''s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing counterculture" Village Voice --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(21512, 'The Fly on the Wall', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n     <a href="http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Edgar+Award+Nominee" style="text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">\n      Edgar Award Nominee (Novel, 1972)\n     </a>\n    </span>\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hillerman] is a master at his game.â€ (Chattanooga Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTony Hillermanâ€™s novels are like no others.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating...breathless suspense.â€ (Minneapolis Tribune )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him.Â  It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John''s hands.Â  Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John''s car.Â  Then John''s car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight.Â  It''s up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(21513, 'The Footprints of God', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The shoot-''em-up potential of spiritual subject matter has recently been profitably exploited by a number of writers (most notably James BeauSeigneur in his Christ Clone trilogy). In this compelling, science-based entry, Iles (Sleep No More; 24 Hours; The Quiet Game) gives his own particular spin on biblical mayhem. "My name is David Tennant, M.D. I''m professor of ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School, and if you''re watching this tape, I''m dead." Tennant works for Project Trinity, a secret government organization attempting to build a quantum-level supercomputer. Using advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques, Tennant and five other top scientists have supplied Trinity, the experimental computer, with molecular copies of themselves as models for a neurological operating system. As Trinity comes to life, the men who control the experiment begin to split into competing factions, each determined to use the computer for his own ends. When Tennant tries to shut the project down because of ethical considerations, he is marked for death by the beautiful but physically and psychologically scarred Geli Bauer, head of security. Iles writes himself onto a high wire that stretches over a dangerous fictional chasm as Tennant begins to have narcoleptic seizures and see life through the eyes of Jesus Christ. That this talented author makes it to the other side without falling is testament to his ingenuity and intelligence. Armageddon looms as nuclear missiles streak toward the United States, and the fate of mankind rests on Tennant''s ability to reason with the omnipotent Trinity. Readers interested in the exploration of religious themes without the usual New Age blather or window-dressed dogma will snap up this novel of cutting-edge science.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Iles, author of eight best-sellers, takes the standard paranoid thriller starring an endangered man and the woman who believes he''s delusional until a series of shocks forces her to accept the too-strange-to-believe truth--and makes it run like Mussolini''s trains. Everything arrives on time, as expected: boy is involved in scientific experiment; boy loses parts of mind; boy meets girl; boy runs away with girl after coworkers sniff out his suspicions and decide to snuff out his life. In this case, physician and ethicist Dr. David Tennant has spent the last few years of his life working on government-funded, hush-hush Project Trinity, which strives to build a supercomputer by liberating human intelligence from the human body. As the project progresses, Tennant''s ethical concerns increase, especially when Trinity team members begin to develop neurological disorders. Once Tennant has sought psychiatric help, his psychiatrist (naturally, a beautiful woman) is drawn into the guessing game of whether Tennant is paranoid or insightful. With the murder of Tennant''s closest colleague, and Tennant''s inability to cover his disillusionment with the project, the game is afoot, as the government bears down on our hero and his psychiatrist friend. Cardboard characters and a mostly predictable plot, but Iles, a consummate storyteller, keeps suspense and blood pressure high.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(21514, 'For The Win', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Up Wei-dong, known to his Orange County family as Leonard, is addicted to guild game play with his Chinese colleagues. Mala and Yasmin, brilliant strategists, are gaming from an Internet cafe in the poor streets of Dharavi. Matthew and Lu are trying to establish their own freelance gold-farming operation in the rough city of Shenzhen. Guided from Singapore by the secretive Big Sister Nor, these young people are slowly coming together and forming a union to demand basic working conditions and protection from organized crime rackets. In order to prove their strength, these Webblies take over the three games owned by the Coca-Cola Company. Battling for real-world rights in a virtual environment, they must overcome corrupt cops, determined sys ops, and social indifference to beat the game. Doctorow is continually at the leading edge of electronic issues, rallying supporters to the causes of intellectual freedom, privacy, and social justice. Readers will appreciate the game descriptions, but will have a harder time relating the gold-farming issues back to their own play. Lengthy asides detail the workings of the game economies, but they aren''t as skillfully incorporated as in\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n (Tor, 2008). The characters are well formed, but at times it is difficult to keep their interactions in order. Leonard''s internal rant with his father is preachy and somewhat tenuous as a justification for the benefits of social gaming. On the other hand, Yasmin''s emotional turmoil and attempt to reconcile her upbringing with her current circumstances is honest and rewarding. Full of action and information, this is a solid, if occasionally soapbox-worthy, narrative.\n <em>\n  Chris Shoemaker, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Doctorow is indispensable. Itâ€™s hard to imagine any other author taking on youth and technology with such passion, intelligence, and understanding. Although perhaps less urgent than Little Brother (2008), this effort is superior in every other aspect: scope, plot, character, and style. Set in the near future and in locations across the globe (though primarily China and India), the story involves a sweeping cast of characters making a livingâ€”if you want to call brutal conditions and pitiful wages a â€œlivingâ€â€”in such virtual-game worlds as Svartalfheim Warriors and Zombie Mecha. Many of them, like 15-year-old Mala (known by her troops as â€œGeneral Robotwallaâ€), endure physical threats from their bosses to farm virtual gold, which is then sold to rich First World gamers. Then these brilliant teens are brought together by the mysterious Big Sister Nor, who has a plan to unionize and bring these virtual worldsâ€”and real-world sweatshops, tooâ€”to a screeching halt. Once again Doctorow has taken denigrated youth behavior (this time, gaming) and recast it into something heroic. He canâ€™t resist the occasional lectureâ€”sometimes breaking away from the plot to do soâ€”but thankfully his lessons are riveting. With itâ€™s eye-opening humanity and revolutionary zeal, this ambitious epic is well worth the considerable challenge. Grades 10-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(21515, 'Forty Lashes Less One', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it''s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they''ll stay behind bars until they''re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there''s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona''s five most dangerous men.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(21516, 'Forty Lashes Less One', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   When Elmore Leonard was just starting out as a writer, a man could make a living writing Westerns, especially if he was good at it--and Elmore Leonard was one of the best. In his Western novels, you can see the earliest traces of themes that would emerge in his contemporary crime novels. Although sheriffs and cavalry men look a little different than cops and G-men, Leonard''s outlaws, bounty hunters, and mercenaries are the same in both worlds: tough and determined because they know that their lives depend on presence of mind and skillful execution of the task at hand, as The Bounty Hunters and Gunsights reveal. And Leonard''s prose is even more stripped down than usual, reduced to the bare essentials of plot and character. The reader''s told exactly what he or she needs to know, and not one bit of information more. Of the three novels reprinted here (plus the other five in Western Roundup #2 and Western Roundup #3), Forty Lashes Less One is something of an anomaly. It''s set in the Yuma Territorial Prison, sure, but the year is 1909. Eventually, it becomes clear that what we''re dealing with here is actually a prison-break novel in which at least half a dozen factions are playing off each other, with two men at the center: Harold Jackson and Raymond San Carlos, the only two nonwhite convicts, who get put through a grueling physical regimen by a missionary warden who thinks it''ll help them develop self-esteem. With its multiple perspectives and serpentine plot twists, this is ultimately as good an escape story as Out of Sight--if not better. --Ron Hogan\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it''s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they''ll stay behind bars until they''re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there''s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona''s five most dangerous men.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n   <em>\n    Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Get Shorty,\n   </em>\n   and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n   <em>\n    sui generis\n   </em>\n   .\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it''s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they''ll stay behind bars until they''re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there''s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona''s five most dangerous men.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n  <em>\n   Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Get Shorty,\n  </em>\n  and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n  <em>\n   sui generis\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(21517, 'The Fourth Bear', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like\n <em>\n  The Big Over Easy\n </em>\n (2005), Fforde''s first Nursery Crime novel, this sequel offers literary allusions, confusions and gentle satire, though, again like its predecessor, it lacks the snap of the author''s Thursday Next series (_The Eyre Affair_, etc.). Jack Spratt, DCI of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading Police Department, is also a PDR (Person of Dubious Reality), as are most of the characters Jack deals with, including the Gingerbreadman, a notorious killer, and Punch and Judy, a violence prone couple who are also marriage counselors. An alien policeman named Ashley, talking bears, a devoted group of cucumber-growing enthusiasts and an immensely powerful company, Quang Tech, add spice. All are grist for Fforde, whose word play runs the gamut from puns to shaggy dog stories. The Gingerbreadman''s on the loose, Goldilocks is missing and Jack''s once again persona non grata at headquarters. As Jack and his associates "bring justice to the nursery world," they also cast a Swiftian eye on corporate hubris, race relations, the drug trade and myriad other targets.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still on leave from his wildly inventive Thursday Next series (_Something Rotten,_ 2004), Fforde offers a second entry in his wildly inventive Nursery Crime series (_The Big Over Easy_, 2005). The sadistic and superpowerful Gingerbreadman, nemesis of Jack Spratt, has escaped from St. Cerebellum''s secure hospital for the criminally insane. Unfortunately, Spratt has been suspended pending psychological evaluation for his role in the Red Riding Hood fiasco. Though at first he resists doing "a plot device number twenty-six" and hunting for the Gingerbreadman on his own, eventually Spratt has no choice but to follow the rules of detective convention. All he and his mismatched team have to do is find the links between exploding extreme-cucumber-growers, a missing reporter nicknamed Goldilocks, a theme park called SommeWorld, and, oh yes, porridge dealers. Chockablock with puns, literary allusions, groanworthy asides, and playful dismantling of the police procedural--wearing its love for an almost-extinct form of children''s literature like a tattoo--_The Fourth Bear_ will appeal to fans of whimsy, silliness, or plain old nonsense.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like\n <em>\n  The Big Over Easy\n </em>\n (2005), Fforde''s first Nursery Crime novel, this sequel offers literary allusions, confusions and gentle satire, though, again like its predecessor, it lacks the snap of the author''s Thursday Next series (_The Eyre Affair_, etc.). Jack Spratt, DCI of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading Police Department, is also a PDR (Person of Dubious Reality), as are most of the characters Jack deals with, including the Gingerbreadman, a notorious killer, and Punch and Judy, a violence prone couple who are also marriage counselors. An alien policeman named Ashley, talking bears, a devoted group of cucumber-growing enthusiasts and an immensely powerful company, Quang Tech, add spice. All are grist for Fforde, whose word play runs the gamut from puns to shaggy dog stories. The Gingerbreadman''s on the loose, Goldilocks is missing and Jack''s once again persona non grata at headquarters. As Jack and his associates "bring justice to the nursery world," they also cast a Swiftian eye on corporate hubris, race relations, the drug trade and myriad other targets.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still on leave from his wildly inventive Thursday Next series (_Something Rotten,_ 2004), Fforde offers a second entry in his wildly inventive Nursery Crime series (_The Big Over Easy_, 2005). The sadistic and superpowerful Gingerbreadman, nemesis of Jack Spratt, has escaped from St. Cerebellum''s secure hospital for the criminally insane. Unfortunately, Spratt has been suspended pending psychological evaluation for his role in the Red Riding Hood fiasco. Though at first he resists doing "a plot device number twenty-six" and hunting for the Gingerbreadman on his own, eventually Spratt has no choice but to follow the rules of detective convention. All he and his mismatched team have to do is find the links between exploding extreme-cucumber-growers, a missing reporter nicknamed Goldilocks, a theme park called SommeWorld, and, oh yes, porridge dealers. Chockablock with puns, literary allusions, groanworthy asides, and playful dismantling of the police procedural--wearing its love for an almost-extinct form of children''s literature like a tattoo--_The Fourth Bear_ will appeal to fans of whimsy, silliness, or plain old nonsense.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(21518, 'The Fourth Man', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank FrÃ¸lich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, FrÃ¸lich coincidentally runs into her again---but their ensuing affair is no accident.By the time he learns that she is no stranger---but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang---it is already too late.In the middle of the night, FrÃ¸lich receives a call that a young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Scrambling to respond, he realizes that Elizabeth is no longer in his bed. And all at once, FrÃ¸lichâ€™s life has changed. In a turn of events cryptic, erotic, and complex, he finds himself a prime murder suspect and under the watch of his doubting colleagues.Led through the dark underworld of Oslo and his own soul, FrÃ¸lich---suspended from the force, blindly in love, and on the hunt for some hint of truth in a vortex of darkness and lies---must find out if he is being used . . . before his life unravels beyond repair.The Fourth Man is a sexy, fast-paced psychological thriller that puts a modern twist on the classic noir story of the femme fatale. K. O. Dahl has crafted a dark, poetic, and incredibly complex crime novel for his U.S. debut---the first in a series of detective novels from this rising international mystery star.Praise for The Fourth Man:â€œA Norwegian Mankellâ€---Norra Vasterbotten (Sweden)â€œI have read many clever and thrilling crime novels through my life, but often they have nothing to do with real life. If I donâ€™t believe in them, they donâ€™t impress me. But when K.O. Dahl tells his stories, I believe every single word.â€---Karin Fossum, author of The Indian Brideâ€œAn absorbing study of sexual enthrallment, dogged police work and a harrowing twist or two: Fans of proceduralsâ€¦will snap this one up.â€---Kirkusâ€œRecommend to fans of Karin Fossum and Kjell Eriksson. Dahl is a formidable talent whose books may well become as popular in the US as in Norway.â€ ---Booklistâ€œA crime master of style... Dahlâ€™s original trait, the rich language, is here fully developed. He is perhaps the most literary of our crime writers. He fully masters the use of images and re-takes that serve to emphasize and strengthen the text, the latter a risky business regardless of genre. In addition to this, he is a proper devil at describing emotions, and throughout the entire spectrum at thatâ€¦. Conclusion: Kjell Ola Dahl has again written an excellent crime novel.â€---Aftenposten (Norway)â€œEffective and entertaining crimeâ€¦.We let ourselves be both mesmerized and entertainedâ€¦â€---Adresseavisen (Norway)â€œElite crime writingâ€¦ Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the big names of Norwegian crime fiction, and The Fourth Man shows why: here, the plot is effectively narrated, the drive forward is dynamic and the reader is served his seconds over and over againâ€¦â€---Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)â€œHigh-shine crimeâ€¦ a crime novel solidly and aptly constructed. Chock full of action, with precise shifts in tempo, sparkling good dialogue and a plot that carries all the way through.â€ ---Bergens Tidende (Norway)â€œA suspenseful and well costructed storyâ€¦ Stringent and directed towards an astounding denouement.â€---MÃ¼nchner Merkur (Germany)â€œâ€¦an excellent crime novel has seen the light of dayâ€¦â€---Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(21519, 'Fourth of July Picnic', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(21520, 'The Franchise Babe: A Novel', 'Dan Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Jenkins''s outrageous sports satire (after\n <em>\n  Slim and None\n </em>\n ), middle-aged sportswriter Jack Brannon is sick of writing about Tiger Woods and the boring testosterone-charged PGA tour. So the swaggering Texan decides to check out the ladies of the LPGA, specifically hot teen sensation and fellow Texan, Ginger Clayton. She''s a fiery eighteen-year-old blonde with the potential to become the next golf superstar (or, in pro golf parlance, a real franchise babe). Soon, Jack is impressed by Thurlene, Ginger''s gorgeous single mom, and enamored of Ginger''s talent, beauty and precocious professionalism. He decides to tag along, taking notes and observing the peculiar peccadilloes of professional sportsâ€”including crazed stage-golf moms and others who''ll stop at nothing to get ahead in the high-stakes game. Jenkins pokes fun at the golf world eccentricities he knows so well and allows Jack major leeway in making smart-mouth commentary as he falls in love and gets a great scoop.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jenkins, the dean of contemporary golf writers, delivers a rollicking broadside aimed at womenâ€™s golf. Our narrator, golf journalist Jack Brannon, weary of the Tiger-dominated PGA Tour, has decided to check out the LPGAâ€™s Franchise Babe, 18-year-old Ginger Clayton, who seems primed to challenge the plethora of Korean women dominating the tour. The tale follows Ginger as she moves through several minor tour stops leading up to a major tournament, the Dinah Shore, renamed the Lagoutte-Dinah Cup in honor of a big-bucks Frenchman attempting to corner the U.S. market for horse meat (the commercial sponsorship of golf tournaments is only one of the many targets at which Jenkins slings his satirical arrows). But will the Ginger Express be derailed by golfâ€™s version of Tonya Harding? The laughs pour forth as Jenkins delivers politically incorrect body blows with an inspired randomness that suggests Jackson Pollack attacking a canvas with an overflowing paint bucket. But, as always with Jenkins, the golf is as precisely and knowledgeably described as the jokes are scattershot. Great fun for golf fans, who will have a ball filling in real names for fictional characters. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/408');
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(21521, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks, alcoholic auto scion; Donnell Lewis, ex-Black Panther who is acting as Woody''s driver, nursemaid and would-be swindler; Robin Abbott, ex-con, exfugitive (she bombed a federal office building) who has plans for a million dollar movie based on Woody''s life, with help from her old boyfriend and erstwhile bombing partner Skip Gibbs, now a movie dynamite expert. The only character who does not have ties to the ''60s is Greta ("Who''s Huey Newton?") Wyatt, stagenamed Ginger Jones, who meets Chris when she reports that Woody has assaulted her. When Chris pursues the investigation, he is suspended from the force, ostensibly for nonresidence in Detroit but really because of Woody''s clout. Now determined to get to the bottom of things, Chris is caught up in a web of scams plotted by Robin, Skip and Donnell. Leonard (Bandits, Glitz) excels here with his trademark menace and his deadpan, throwaway humor. His superlative ear for the vernacular makes all the characters spring to life; Woody,"always in low with his dims on," is a brilliant creation. This bang-up novel has bestseller written all over it. BOMC featured selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Soon after Chris Mankowskilately transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimesvisits rich, mindless alcoholic Woody Ricks on a rape complaint, someone blows up Woody''s limousinealong with Woody''s brother Mark. Ghosts from their student activist past have returned to haunt them. One ex-Panther even now takes care of Woody, and two ex-demonstrators hope to extort cash. Leonard''s latest sports the usual draws of crisp dialogue, satiric wit, and crazy characterization, but it also lacks the pervasive sparkle of Glitz . Better than most, though, and with a wild finale that hoists the villains by their own petard. BOMC featured selection. REK\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(21522, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<h1>\n 1 Paperback Bestseller, April 2008 --\n <em>\n  Independent Mystery Booksellers Association\n </em>\n</h1>\n<p>\n Coyle again entertains, informs, and challenges the reader...The clues are there in the open, but we must put them together. --\n <em>\n  Gayle Surrette, Gumshoe Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n I have read all the Coffeehouse Mysteries and enjoyed them thoroughly. Cleo Coyle has written a wonderful series. --\n <em>\n  Deanna Spencer, I Love a Mystery Newsletter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n I love Cleo Coyle''s coffeehouse mysteries and French Pressed is the best yet. --\n <em>\n  Diana Vickery, Cozy Library\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(21523, 'A Funny Place to hold a War', 'John Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ginger Donnelly is on the trail of Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone. Whilst taking a midnight paddle in a canoe cajoled from a local fisherman along with a willing woman, Donnelly sees an enormous seaplane thunder across the sky only to crash in a ball of brilliant flame. It seems like an accident...at least until a second plane explodes in a blistering shower along the same flight path.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(21524, 'Galactic Pot Healer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman''s Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology,\n <strong>\n  Galactic Pot-Healer\n </strong>\n is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman''s Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology,\n <strong>\n  Galactic Pot-Healer\n </strong>\n is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(21525, 'Gambit', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A private club is the setting for murder whe n Paul Jerim, playing chess with twelve opponents, is poison ed. When her father is accused of the murder, beautiful Sall y Blount calls on gourmet detective Nero Wolfe to find the r eal killer. ''\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The great detective swallows his usual distaste for female clients by undertaking a case from Sally Blount, whose father is suspected of killing a chess opponent at the Gambit Club, by arsenic poisoning. Nero Wolfe, aided by his wisecracking legman, Archie Goodwin, turns up four other suspects, though one of them is eliminated by death. It''s all enough to put Wolfe off his passion for food and orchids. Not for long. Wolfe solves the case with an ingenious gambit of his own. While this is second-tier Nero Wolfe overall, the masterful Michael Prichard gives his all, raising the audio to a tier-one selection. M.T.B. Â© AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(21526, 'The Ghostway', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Old Joseph Joe sees it all, Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Policeman Jim Chee after a killer . . . and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(21527, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n English translation of "Luftslottet som SprÃ¤ngdes" by Stieg Larsson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(21528, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(21529, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(21530, 'Girls at War and Other Stories', 'Chinua Achebe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe''s short fiction, written over twenty years and drawn from literary journals and magazines, to be made available to the wider public. The earliest, "Marriage is a Private Affair" (1952), dates back to his student days at Ibadan, Nigeria, while the latest, "Vengeful Creditor" and "Civil Peace" (1971), are stories of the Nigerian civil war. "Girls at War", the title story, is about the tragic effects of war on the civilian population, in particular on one girl, who sets out with high ideals which vanish as the war drags on and the need for food replaces the need for ideals. This collection provides an interesting cross-section of Achebe''s work and the development of his key themes and distinctive style against the significant historical and political backdrop of Africa in the decades between 1952 and 1972.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(21531, 'Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich', 'David Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a repellent book, and not only because of its subject. Irving (Goering) has been increasingly under fire for exploiting seemingly indefatigable research to distort history. In the book in hand, he uses enough pejoratives to sustain the illusion of objectivity regarding Hitler''s propaganda chief, yet suggests that the admittedly bad man had a cause not entirely bad in itself. Nazi brutality is almost always retaliation for the plots of international Jewry and the criminality of domestic Jews. Even the books notoriously burned are "decadent and anti-German." The term Redakteur (editor) "to Goebbels'' sensitive ear had a Jewish ring." Protesters in Saarbrucken are "a clamoring ragbag of communists, Jews, freemasons and disgruntled emigres." There is always, in Irving''s own words, a "Jewish problem" that Goebbels struggles to solve. Much of the book, heavily indebted to the self-serving Goebbels diaries, is in such a vein. There seems always to be an agenda to Irving''s documentation, and the language of camouflaged admiration suffuses his pages amidst his ritual scolding of the Nazis for their excesses. The real insidiousness of the biography is that its formidable documentation will gain it acceptance as history. Photos not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This latest work by Irving (Goring: A Biography, LJ 3/1/89) depends heavily on Goebbels''s diaries and related papers. Unfortunately, the diaries are boring. Goebbels devoted much of his journal to describing his emotions (banal), love life (promiscuous), and marriage (dysfunctional). At its best, this aspect of the book is keyhole history. Far more troubling is Irving''s general approach to the history of the Third Reich. He takes pains to insist periodically upon his distaste for Goebbels''s Nazi extremism, but to describe Hitler as "less radical on the Jewish question" in 1942 than was Goebbels is to deny reality. Paradigmatic as well is Irving''s insistence that Goebbels''s vicious attacks on Jews in the 1930s were in response to the "hysteria" generated by the foreign press, the Comintern, and such dangerous "Jewish" organizations as the World League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism. In contrast, Irving offers no new evidence establishing Goebbels as the Reich''s "mastermind." He neglects such important subjects as the sources of Goebbels''s anti-Semitism, his development of the theories and techniques of mass propaganda, and his role as wartime Gauleiter of Berlin. Ralf Reuth''s Goebbels (Harcourt, 1993) offers readers a more balanced approach. [For a discussion of the controversy surrounding the publication of this book, see "To Buy or Not To Buy?" p. 70.]?Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Spring.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(21532, 'The Golden Spiders', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Prichard''s hefty voice and condescending tone are perfect for Nero Wolfe, the neurotic orchid-growing gourmand and detective who weigh nearly 300 pounds and never leaves the house...The ''50s-era mystery...is worth the six-hour commitment...The listener has the pleasure of trying to sort the red herrings from the real clues. Wolfe''s eccentricities and Goodwin''s ironic observations lend humor to the otherwise dark and serious tale." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The San Diego Union-Tribune_, October 19, 1997\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(21533, 'Googled', 'Ken Auletta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Googles founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Ken Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Auletta goes inside Googles closed-door meetings, introducing Googles notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with and against them. In Googled, the reader discovers the secret sauce of the company''s success and why the worlds of new and old media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists spines, but its a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.Googled is candid, objective and authoritative. Crucially, its not just a history or reportage: its ahead of the curve and unlike any other Google books, which tend to have been near-histories, somewhat starstruck, now out of date or which fail to look at the full synthesis of business and technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(21534, 'Gorky Park: A Novel (Mortalis.)', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œBrilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind.â€â€“The New YorkerA triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.â€œOnce one gets going, one doesnâ€™t want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence.â€â€“The Washington Postâ€œReminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be.â€ â€“The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œAn unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating.â€â€“Boston Herald Americanâ€œGripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.â€â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(21535, 'The Great Taos Bank Robbery', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This collection is the essence of Hillerman, which is always instructive fun." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  New Mexican\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the very first time in mass market paperback, here is a unique compilation about life in New Mexico by one of the nation''s finest writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tony Hillerman, who knows the Southwest like no other contemporary writer; presents nine extraordinary, true tales that capture the history and rhythms of daily life in New Mexico. From the comical title story of the holdup that didn''t happen, to the riveting account of scientist tracking the Black Death through the arroyos in "We All Fall Down," to the ironic account of how a Black cowboy''s commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution in "Othello in Union County," master storytellerTony Hillerman reveals the present and the timeless past of one of America''s most beautiful and haunting regions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tony Hillerman is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of New Mexico and an Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsman at work...today." --Boston Globe Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(21536, 'Half Asleep in From Pajamas', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robbins (Skinny Legs and All; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) begins this disappointing novel just before Easter weekend, as commodities broker Gwen Mati-half-Filipina, half-Irish-is in her favorite Seattle bar, mourning the stock market''s nosedive. A devout materialist, Gwen is concerned that an honest-to-goodness crash might expose some of her less-than-ethical maneuvers. By the time the market opens again on Monday, however, her life will be altered in ways she can''t imagine. Among those promoting the changes are an obese spiritualist named "Q-Jo," a pizzazzy character who exits too soon from the story; Larry Diamond, Robbins''s requisite mystery man on a bike; and Andre, Europe''s most notorious simian jewel thief. Devotees of the serious should avoid Robbins-this volume, for instance, contains discussions about extraterrestrials who take the form of amphibious humanoids and about the effect of eating asparagus on a person''s urine. All of this is, for Robbins anyway, fairly safe territory-a quirky female protagonist undergoing life changes at the last minute-but something goes wrong here. The biggest problem may be Gwen herself: an unpleasant character, she''s greedy, manipulative and without a trace of remorse. Though Robbins, who narrates to Gwen in the second person, can still put together clever turns-of-phrase ("Tim-buk-tu. One of the phonetic wonders of the world"; "haughty as an unpaired chopstick"), he seems unable to distinguish details and characters worth hanging a plot on from those best discarded.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robbins offers a wild and wacky trip featuring, among other things, a stock market crash and various philosophies about meaning and the origins of cultures. Gwen, an endangered stockbroker, is involved with strait-laced Belford and his born-again monkey. When she is attracted to Larry-who has cancer and is currently between trips to Timbuktu-she must choose among the American dream, the Timbuktu alternate, and something else. The book is a whirlwind of mad incidents, semiprofound observations, and an endless supply of great lines. The author of Skinny Legs and All (LJ 3/1/90) has come up with a very funny book that might incite a bit of thinking as well as laughter.\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Robert H. Donahugh, formerly with Youngstown &amp; Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(21537, 'Happyslapped by a Jellyfish', 'Karl Pilkington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of hilarious and compelling insights and anecdotes, diary entries, poems, ls"truers" facts and cartoons on travel from Karl Pilkington, unlikely star of the Ricky Gervais Show, the worldrs"s most successful podcast now in paperback. This is the travel book for people who donrs"t particularly like travelling, itrs"s Karl Pilkington, star of The Ricky Gervais Podcast Show, with a suitcase, occasionally with his passport, more often with a bemused suspicion of anything vaguely exotic, and an observant eye for the disappointments, tedium, general weirdness and absurdities of being a tourist abroad and at home. From staring at Mount Vesuvius in case it erupts and the horrors of a Lanzarote nudist beach to the curiosities to be seen in the worldrs"s weirdest museum. Told with his inimitable deadpan humour, Pilkingtonrs"s stories are interspersed with fond reflections on life back in England, from Salford joy riders to what his girlfriendrs"s mum and dad have for dinner on a Thursday (itrs"s chops and veg. in case yours"re wondering).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(21538, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7-12-Dickens'' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England. Louisa and Tom Gradgrind have been harshly raised by their father, an educator, to know nothing but the most factual, pragmatic information. Their lives are devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination, and the two have little or no empathy for others. Louisa marries Josiah Bounderby, a vulgar banker and mill owner. She eventually leaves her husband and returns to her father''s house. Tom, unscrupulous and vacuous, robs his brother-in-law''s bank. Only after these crises does their father realize that the principles by which he raised his children have corrupted their lives. -- __\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(21539, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Japan''s most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(21540, 'Harm&#39;s Way', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extravagantly showy murder of a very private man opens White''s engrossing fourth story about Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory (following Higher Authority). Alan''s friend and neighbor, Peter Arvin, a skilled woodworker and solo mountain climber, is found tortured and bleeding to death on top of a grand piano on the stage of the Boulder Theatre. After Peter dies at the hospital where his wife, Adrienne, is a urologist, police detective Sam Purdy asks Alan to work up an informal profile of the killer to see whether it matches that of the person being sought for a similar murder in Denver. Complying with Adrienne''s desire to be able to tell her young son, Jason, more about his father, Alan also investigates Peter''s past. These linked efforts, soon complicated by a third theater murder in a nearby town, call on the full reach of Alan''s professional skills and lead him into unexpected territory, psychological and geographic. He visits Jackson, Wyo., to find out from Peter''s family about a forest fire Peter experienced as a young man, and he encounters danger at the construction site of a Colorado casino where more murders are discovered. All the while, he observes the relationships of others?Peter and Adrienne''s unique marriage; the attraction of the woman cop in charge of the Denver murder to Sam Purdy; his own attraction to Jason Arvin''s young nanny?through the lens of his love for his new ( and second) wife, Lauren, an assistant DA who makes some cogent observations of her own about the crimes. White, a psychologist, informs this intricate tale with convincing emotion.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is there a serial killer staging grisly murders in northern Colorado theaters, or was the murderer of Alan Gregory''s neighbor, Peter Arvin, mimicking a recent Denver killing? Boulder detective and friend Sam Purdy asks clinical psychologist Gregory to profile the murderer(s), while the widow urges Gregory to find out about Arvin''s life before he met her. The trail leads from Arvin''s family to a college pal and a casino construction site in a growing gambling town near Boulder, where the rising body count defies forensic resolution. At risk of his life, Gregory and his assistant D.A. wife help Purdy unravel the web of consequences of a single past decision. In White''s fourth thriller, Gregory once again takes center stage, after a supporting role in Higher Authority (LJ 10/1/94). This highly recommended title is skillfully plotted with a cast of finely drawn characters and a strong sense of place.\n <br />\n <em>\n  V. Louise Saylor, Eastern Washington Univ. Lib., Cheney\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(21541, 'Havana Bay: A Novel (Mortalis.)', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His investigation introduces him to a beautiful Cuban policewoman; to the rituals of Santeria; to an American fugitive and a group of ruthless mercenaries. In this place where all things Russian are despised, where Hemingway fished and the KGB flourished, where the hint of music is always in the air, Arkady finds a trail of deceit that reaches halfway around the worldâ€“and a reason to relish his own life again.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(21542, 'Hear the Wind Sing', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(21543, 'A Heartbeat Away', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmer (The Last Surgeon) offers a nifty plot premise in this high-concept medical thriller, but a plethora of subplots distracts from the more interesting primary issue. As the U.S. president, James Allaire, is beginning his State of the Union address, a number of small containers of a viral agent explode and infect the more than 700 people, including every important member of the government except the director of homeland security, who have gathered in the House chamber. The Capitol must be sealed off and the infected audience held inside until a cure for the disease can be found. The plotters behind the attack, a group of domestic terrorists known as Genesis, demand, among other things, that the government abolish the Patriot Act and cease unchecked spying on ordinary Americans. Overblown prose does little to make the implausible scenario more believable. Readers with a low tolerance for the hyperbolic are advised to give this one a pass. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmerâ€™s early novels were smoothly written, tightly plotted, and memorable. Lately heâ€™s had his ups and downsâ€”more downs than ups, unfortunatelyâ€”and his latest medical thriller sort of straddles the two. On the upside, itâ€™s got a wicked cool story. Terrorists have let loose a highly virulent virus in the Capitol building on the night of the State of the Union address, forcing the president to lock down the building, trapping inside most of the hierarchy of the American government. Only Griffin Rhodes, a virologist whoâ€™s been in prison for allegedly trying to steal the same virus from a research lab, can save the day. On the downside, the writing is, at best, mediocre. The characters are thinly drawn, and the dialogue is wooden and clumsy. This could have been a first-rate thriller; instead, itâ€™s a novel that depends on our loyalty to the author and our interest in its plot, not its characters, to keep us reading. Palmer continues to command an audience, but this is not his best work. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Palmerâ€™s track record (15 medical thrillers, 15 international best-sellers) assures a full-court press on the promotional front, and his latest, though disappointing, will get it, from national print and radio ads to an electronic avalanche. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(21544, 'HELP WANTED, MALE', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(21545, 'The Heroin Diaries', 'Nikki Sixx &amp; Ian Gihins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, M?tley Cr?e''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n When M?tley Cr?e was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for M?tley Cr?e, the legendary rock band he started with friend Tommy Lee. Today he is a family man with many projects on the side, including songwriting, film, a new band, a clothing line, as well as ongoing work with the Cr?e.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(21546, 'Higher Authority', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nuanced, vivid characterization-especially of the right-wing fanatics who are the possible conspirators behind the nasty goings-on in White''s third novel (Privileged Information; Private Practices)-makes this an engrossing thriller. Lester Horner, the first Mormon to sit on the Supreme Court, is implicated when his law clerk, fellow Mormon Blythe Oaks, is charged with sexual harassment by former employee Teresa Crowder. To help her cause, Teresa enlists the aid of her lawyer sister, Lauren, who persuades an old law school pal, Salt Lake City attorney Robin Toner, to handle the case. After Blythe is found murdered and a private investigator hired by Robin turns up dead, Teresa disappears and Lauren turns to Alan Gregory, her fiance and the hero of White''s earlier novels, to help sort matters out. Is the Mormon Church responsible for the murders? The conclusion provides an ambiguous answer, but in the meantime White has portrayed the Church of the Latter Day Saints as an implacable, nearly all-powerful villain. The main plot line is relatively straightforward; it''s the ancillary action and the rich characters that enliven this novel: Teresa''s habit of disappearing during moments of stress; Lauren''s ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis and her relationship with Alan; the secretive and fascinating Mormon church. While some readers may find White''s pot shots at Mormonism offensive, even bigoted, there''s no doubt that he''s cooked up a thriller that will keep most of his large readership happily entertained. 35,000 first printing; paperback rights to Signet; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Lauren Crowder recommends a Salt Lake City lawyer for her younger sister, who has accused her former boss, an impeccably Mormon woman with high political and church connections, of sexual harassment. Crowder assists a private investigator in gathering information on the potentially explosive case, but murder intervenes: someone kills the P.I. and the former boss. Crowder then calls upon boyfriend Alan Gregory (Private Practices, Viking, 1993) to outmaneuver the ubiquitous, corrupt tentacles of the Mormon church. Much background research supports fine prose, subtle characterization, and intricate plotting. A good selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(21547, 'Hitler&#39;s Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII', 'John Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(21548, 'Holiday Grind', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s nothing cozier than a winter evening in Greenwich Village. Streetlights shimmer through icy flakes, cafÃ©s glow with welcoming warmth, and a layer of snow dusts historic townhouses like powdered sugar on holiday confections. Murder has no place in such a pretty picture, until now... Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who''s been using her Village Blend as a place to warm his mittens. When she finds him brutally gunned down in a nearby alley, a few subtle clues convince her that Alfred''s death was something more than the tragic result of a random mugging--the conclusion of the police. With Clare''s boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn, distracted by a cold case of his own, and ex-husband Matt investigating this year''s holiday lingerie catalogs (an annual event), Clare charges ahead solo to solve her beloved Santa''s slaying. Then someone tries to ice Clare, and she really gets steamed. But she''d better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life. This very special holiday entry in Cleo Coyle''s nationally bestselling mystery series includes a bonus section of delicious holiday recipes as well as a glossary of coffeehouse terms, instructions on making espressos and lattes without an expensive machine, and tips for creating tasty coffeehouse syrups at home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(21549, 'Home Again, Home Again', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(21550, 'Homicide Trinity', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deadly trio of Nero Wolfe classics. It''s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe''s hallowed turf. It''s a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent--only to become the suspect when the corpse is found. And it''s murder a la carte when a cop-hating landlady brings Wolfe counterfeit cash that leads to genuine murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(21551, 'House of Cards', 'William D. Cohan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Engrossing....[Cohan] gives us in these pages a chilling, almost minute-by-minute account of the 10, vertigo-inducing days that one year ago revealed Bear Stearns to be a flimsy house of cards in a perfect storm....He does a deft job of explicating the underlying reasons that put Bear Stearns in peril in the first place....turns complex Wall Street maneuverings into high drama that is gripping â€” and almost immediately comprehensible â€” to the lay reader....riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading"\n <br />\n --Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cohan vividly documents the mix of arrogance, greed, recklessness, and pettiness that took down the 86 year old brokerage house and then the entire economy. It''s a page-turner in the tradition of the 1990 Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Heylar, offering both a seemingly comprehensive understanding of the business and wide access to insiders....hard to put down, especially thanks to its dishy, often profane, quotes from insiders" --_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully reported....[Cohan] has turned into one of our most able financial journalists....he deploys not only his hands-on experience of this exotic corner of the financial industry but also a remarkable gift for plain-spoken explanation...the other great strength of this important book is the breadth and skill of the author''s interviews...Cohan does a brilliant job of sketching in the eccentric, vulgar, greedy, profane and coarse individuals who ignored all these warnings to their own profit and the ruin of so many others. It''s impossible to do justice to his reportorial detail in a brief review..." --_ Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A riveting blow-by-blow account of the days leading up to the government-backed shotgun wedding (to JPM)." --\n <em>\n  The Economist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A masterly reconstruction of Bear Stearns implosion--a tumultuous episode in Wall Street history that still reverberates throughout our economy today....meticulous reporting.....first drafts of history don''t get much better than this" --_Bloomberg_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns &amp; Co., the nationâ€™s fifth-largest investment bank: â€œIn my book, they are insolvent.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitable enterprise in the eighty-five years since its founding.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten days later, Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n How this happened â€“ and why â€“ is the subject of William D. Cohanâ€™s superb and shocking narrative that chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Bear Stearns serves as the Rosetta Stone to explain how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cohanâ€™s minute-by-minute account of those ten days in March makes for breathless reading, as the bankers at Bear Stearns struggled to contain the cascading series of events that would doom the firm, and as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began to realize the dire consequences for the world economy should the company go bankrupt.\n</p>\n<p>\n But HOUSE OF CARDS does more than recount the incredible panic of the first stages of the financial meltdown. William D. Cohan beautifully demonstrates_ why_ the seemingly invincible Wall Street money machine came crashing down. He chronicles the swashbuckling corporate culture of Bear Stearns, the strangely crucial role competitive bridge played in the companyâ€™s fortunes, the brutal internecine battles for power, and the deadly combination of greed and inattention that helps to explain why the companyâ€™s leaders ignored the danger lurking in Bearâ€™s huge positions in mortgage-backed securities.\n</p>\n<p>\n The author deftly portrays larger-than-life personalities like Ace Greenberg, Bear Stearnsâ€™ miserly, take-no-prisoners chairman whose memos about re-using paper clips were legendary throughout Wall Street; his profane, colorful rival and eventual heir Jimmy Cayne, whose world-champion-level bridge skills were a lever in his corporate rise and became a symbol of the reasons for the firmâ€™s demise; and Jamie Dimon, the blunt-talking CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who won the astonishing endgame of the saga (the Bear Stearns headquarters alone were worth more than JP Morgan paid for the whole company).\n</p>\n<p>\n Cohanâ€™s explanation of seemingly arcane subjects like credit default swaps and fixed- income securities is masterful and crystal clear, but it is the high-end dish and powerful narrative drive that makes HOUSE OF CARDS an irresistible read on a par with classics such as LIARâ€™S POKER and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made THE LAST TYCOONS a bestseller and a prize-winner, HOUSE OF CARDS is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(21552, 'How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ''Times New Roman''; ">\n   <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency/">\n    <img src="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/src/cupboards.gif" alt="Timothy McSweeney''s Header Image" width="520" height="184" border="0" id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown" />\n   </a>\n  </span>\n  <p style="width: 345px; ">\n  </p>\n  <p align="center">\n   <font size="-1">\n    - - - -\n   </font>\n  </p>\n  <p style="width: 345px; ">\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <font size="-1">\n   </font>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <font size="-1">\n    <i>\n     DarinÂ \n    </i>\n   </font>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <table width="345" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <basefont>\n       <font face="times, times new roman">\n       </font>\n      </basefont>\n      <p align="center">\n       <font face="times, times new roman">\n        <nobr>\n         <font size="+1">\n          H O W\n          <br />\n          C A R L O SÂ Â Â W E B S T E R\n          <br />\n          C H A N G E DÂ Â Â H I SÂ Â Â N A M E\n          <br />\n          T OÂ Â Â C A R L\n          <br />\n          A N DÂ Â Â B E C A M E\n          <br />\n          AÂ Â Â F A M O U S\n          <br />\n          O K L A H O M AÂ Â Â L A W M A N .Â \n         </font>\n        </nobr>\n        <br />\n        <br />\n        <font size="-1">\n         BY ELMORE LEONARD\n        </font>\n       </font>\n       Â \n       <br />\n       <br />\n       <font size="-1">\n        - - - -\n       </font>\n       Â \n       <br />\n       <br />\n       [The following excerpt comes from Issue No. 10:\n       <i>\n        McSweeney''s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales\n       </i>\n       .]Â \n       <br />\n       <br />\n       <font size="-1">\n        - - - -\n       </font>\n      </p>\n      <p align="center" id="">\n       <font size="-1">\n        T H EÂ Â Â F A T EÂ Â Â O FÂ Â Â A\n        <br />\n        B A N KÂ Â Â R O B B I N GÂ Â Â M U R D E R E R\n        <br />\n        R E S I D E DÂ Â Â I NÂ Â Â T W OÂ Â Â S C O O P S\n        <br />\n        O FÂ Â Â P E A C HÂ Â Â I C EÂ Â Â C R E A M\n        <br />\n        O NÂ Â Â T O PÂ Â Â O FÂ Â Â AÂ Â Â S U G A RÂ Â Â C O N E .\n       </font>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/quarterly/tenteasers/leonard.html">\n    http://www.mcsweeneys.net/quarterly/tenteasers/leonard.html\n   </a>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    This is a short story that appears in "McSweeney''s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales" and should not be attributed to Elmore Leonard alone.\n   </span>\n  </p>\n  <div>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/5998412">\n     http://www.librarything.com/work/5998412\n    </a>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/439');
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(21553, 'How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio', 'Mitchell K. &amp; AA Big Book Study Group', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Others will disagree with some of the interpretations - I know that I do. But that disagreement is a salutary invitation to think about the lifesaving and life-enhancing program and fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, which may be one of the best uses of our time available." - Ernie Kurtz\n  <h2 style="text-align: center;">\n   THE STORY OF CLARENCE H. SNYDER\n  </h2>\n  <font size="4">\n   <h5 style="text-align: center;">\n    AND THE EARLY DAYS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IN CLEVELAND, OHIO\n   </h5>\n  </font>\n  <font size="3">\n   <div>\n    <div style="text-align: center;">\n     <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n      By Mitchell K. Â© 1991, 1997, ISBN 0-9663282-0-5\n     </span>\n    </div>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n     <div style="text-align: center;">\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n       First published in 1999 by AA Big Book Study Group\n      </span>\n     </div>\n     <div style="text-align: center;">\n      <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n       <br />\n      </span>\n     </div>\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </font>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">\n    <a href="http://silkworth.net/chs/index.html">\n     http://silkworth.net/chs/index.html\n    </a>\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <h2 style="text-align: center;">\n   FOREWORD\n  </h2>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   by\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Georgia, ''Times New Roman'', Arial; ">\n    Ernie                 Kurtz\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: left;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">\n   </span>\n   <p align="left" style="text-align: auto;font-size: medium; ">\n    <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n     <font color="#000000" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Arial">\n     </font>\n     <font color="#000000">\n      <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">\n       <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n        Despite currently dominant academic fads, history really exists and we can find truth in its study. Where the self-styled "post-moderns" have it right is that the last word is never in. Our finite human minds are incapable of embracing "the whole truth." But we can get closer, we can know more, we can enrich our understanding of any reality, including historical reality.\n        <br />\n       </span>\n      </font>\n     </font>\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n    <font color="#000000">\n     <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">\n      <div style="text-align: auto;">\n       <div>\n        <div>\n         <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n          <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n           <br />\n          </span>\n         </font>\n        </div>\n        <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n         <div style="text-align: auto;">\n          <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n           <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n            Mitchell K., when some years ago he shared with me his treasure of mementoes and materials from Clarence Snyder, urged that I also write another book on the history of Alcoholics Anonymous, updating Not-God in light of recent discoveries. I declined, then and now, for it is up to another generation to produce the focused works that may lead another historian eventually to attempt a comprehensive new history of Alcoholics Anonymous, one incorporating the research of Mary Darrah, Robert Fitzgerald, Kathi Flynn, Mel B., Bill White, Maria Swora,\n            <i>\n             and in a prominent place,\n            </i>\n            Mitchell K.\n            <br />\n            <br />\n            In this biographical study of Clarence Snyder and especially his role in and understandings of early Alcoholics Anonymous, Mitchell gives us both facts and interpretations - Clarence''s, those of contemporaries and commentators, and of course his own. Some readers, both Mitchell and I hope, will be led by his work to check out some of those facts, in which process they may turn up still more information that will enrich us all.\n            <br />\n            <br />\n            Others will disagree with some of the interpretations - I know that I do. But that disagreement is a salutary invitation to think about the lifesaving and life-enhancing program and fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, which may be one of the best uses of our time available.\n            <br />\n            <br />\n            Mitchell K. has given us a gift very much like himself: a gem with some rough edges that can challenge our ability to evaluate, but a truly rich jewel well worth our notice and contemplation. This book will not get anyone either drunk or sober, but it will aid the progress toward sobriety of those fortunate enough to be on that wondrous journey.\n           </span>\n          </font>\n         </div>\n        </font>\n       </div>\n       <br />\n       <i>\n        Whatever leads us towards truth leads us towards its Author.\n       </i>\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       <div style="text-align: right;">\n        Ernie Kurtz\n       </div>\n       <div style="text-align: right;">\n        Ann Arbor, Michigan\n       </div>\n       <div style="text-align: right;">\n        February 22, 1998\n       </div>\n      </div>\n     </font>\n    </font>\n   </font>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <h2 style="text-align: center;">\n   <b>\n    DISCLAIMER\n   </b>\n  </h2>\n  <div>\n   <font color="#000000" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Arial" size="3">\n    <div style="text-align: auto;">\n     <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">\n      <font color="#000000" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Arial" size="3">\n      </font>\n      <font color="#000000">\n       The Publication of this volume does not imply, nor does it suggest any affiliation with, nor approval of or endorsement from, ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC. Alcoholics Anonymous is a registered trademark of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. and the Twelve Steps are copyrighted and used with permission. All quotes from the book Alcoholics Anonymous are from the first and second edition which are in the public domain.\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       This writing of this book was at the direct request of, and authorized by, Clarence H. Snyder. The author was sponsored by Clarence and is himself a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. In deference to A.A.''s Tradition of Anonymity, members of Alcoholics Anonymous are identified only with their first name and last initial. Any members of Alcoholics Anonymous who are identified with their full names have given permission to be identified as such.\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       This is the only biography of Clarence H. Snyder authorized by him. Any other biography relating to Clarence H. Snyder has no affiliation with this authorized and commissioned version. Permission to utilize materials entrusted to this author by Clarence H. Snyder, including archival documents from Cleveland, Ohio A.A., recorded interviews and other related materials has not been given, either expressed nor implied, to any other author publishing a biography of Clarence H. Snyder.\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       Permission to quote brief passages from this book for review purposes or historical research is granted as long as the source is acknowledged. The contents of this book may not be copied, transmitted or otherwise quoted by any means other than as stated above without the expressed written permission of the author.\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.\n      </font>\n     </span>\n    </div>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(21554, 'How to behave: a pocket manual of republican etiquette, and guide to correct personal habits, embracing an exposition of the principles of good manners; useful hints on the care of the person, eating, drinking, exercise, habits, dress, self-culture, and behavior at home; the etiquette of salutations, introductions, receptions, visits, dinners, evening parties, conversation, letters, presents, weddings, funerals, the street, the church, places of amusement, traveling, etc', 'Samuel Roberts Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(21555, 'How to know God', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I congratulate Dr. Deepak Chopra for this wonderful book, reaching out to many, many readers, on the subject of spirituality but with a scientific approach."\n <br />\n --The Dalai Lama\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most important book about God for our times. This book is a magical stairway to ascend to a life-changing experience of the sacred."\n <br />\n --Robert Thurman, Ph.D., professor of religion, Columbia University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book, which unfolds the knowledge of God-consciousness, is at once\n <br />\n a map of Spirit and a map of your own deepest Self."\n <br />\n --Ken Wilber, author of\n <em>\n  Integral Psychology\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "How to Know God is a profound and accessible exploration of the experience\n <br />\n of God, including an understanding of it in biological and scientific terms.\n <br />\n It is both fascinating and uplifting."\n <br />\n --Andrew Weil, M.D., director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best books ever written about a subject that more people\n <br />\n think about than anything else."\n <br />\n ---Larry King, host of Larry King Live, CNN\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deepak Chopra has really done it this time--a brilliant, scholarly yet lyrical synthesis of neuroscience, quantum physics, personal reminiscence, and Eastern, Western, and spiritual thinking."\n <br />\n --Candace Pert, Ph.D., research professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and author of\n <em>\n  Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Just when I think he can''t go any deeper, he does. We have in our midst a spiritual genius."\n <br />\n --Marianne Williamson, author of\n <em>\n  Return to Love\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You don''t have to believe in God in order to experience God.\n <br />\n --- Deepak Chopra\n</p>\n<p>\n The celebrated author of\n <em>\n  Ageless Body, Timeless Mind\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success\n </em>\n has written his most ambitious and important work yet, a runaway international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to rethink their concept of God.\n</p>\n<p>\n According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all faiths), but by the brain''s need to take an infinite, chaotic universe and find meaning in it.\n <em>\n  How to Know God\n </em>\n describes the quest each of us is on, whether we realize it or not. For, as Chopra puts it, "God is our highest instinct to know ourselves." This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to that knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(21556, 'the Hunted (1977)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The coolest, hottest writer in America."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nobody but nobody in the business does it better."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Daily News\n </em>\n (New York)\n</p>\n<p>\n "CRIME FICTION''S GREATEST LIVING PRACTITIONER."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Also by Elmore Leonard\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Be Cool\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Cuba Libre\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Out Of Sight\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Get Shorty\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Riding The Rap\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pronto\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Rum Punch\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Maximum Bob\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Moonshine War\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Switch\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Gold Coast\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Swag\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Big Bounce\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Mr. Majestyk\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Tonto Woman And Other Western Stories\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #1\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #2\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Elmore Leonard''s Western Roundup #3\n </strong>\n <br />\n Available from Dell And Look for\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pagan Babies\n </strong>\n <br />\n Available in Hardcover from Delacorte Press --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Miami to Detroit to Hollywood, Elmore Leonard has carved out a classic turf--and populated it with unforgettable schemers, wiseguys, misfits, and hit men. In\n <strong>\n  The Hunted\n </strong>\n , Leonard goes international, as a man named Rosen runs from some Motor City mobsters--all the way to Israel--and a U.S. marine finds a perfect little war. Al Rosen is lying in bed with a beautiful divorcÃ©e when the hotel around them bursts into flames--and Rosen''s photograph is captured on the news wire. Suddenly lawyers, guns, and money are coming after Al. So are two guys with bombs. Rosen knows his high life in the Holy Land is over. What he doesn''t know is that he''s about to meet the best friend a fugitive could ever have: a U.S. marine who has been looking for a future or a fight, and is willing to kill for both....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(21557, 'Hunting Badger', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The marvelous\n <em>\n  Hunting Badger\n </em>\n is Tony Hillerman''s 14th novel featuring Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Here the two cops (who appeared in separate books early on but whose paths now cross routinely) are working two angles of the same case to catch the right-wing militiamen who pulled off a violent heist at an Indian casino. Hillerman serves up plenty of action and enough plot twists to keep readers off balance, leading up to a satisfyingly tense climax in which Leaphorn and Chee stalk a killer in his hideout. But through it all, the cardinal Hillerman virtues are in evidence: economical, pellucid prose; a panoply of Indian-country characters who seem to rise right up off the page; vivid evocations of the Southwest''s bleak beauty; and rich insights into Navajo life and culture. (Hillerman once told an interviewer that the highest compliment he''d ever received was many Navajo readers'' assumption that he himself is Navajo--he''s not.)\n</p>\n<p>\n While first-time readers will find plenty to enjoy in\n <em>\n  Hunting Badger\n </em>\n , it holds special pleasures for longtime fans. There''s more and deeper contact between Leaphorn and Chee, and we continue to see further into the prickly Leaphorn''s human side (though without fuss or sentimentality). Chee finally begins to get over Janet Pete (it took about six books) and inch toward a new love interest. And in a moving section involving Chee''s spiritual teacher Frank Sam Nakai, the shaman provides a key insight into the case.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a world teeming with "sense of place" mysteries--set in Seattle, Alaska, the Arizona desert, or Chicago--it can be a shock to return to Hillerman, who started it all, and realize just how superior he is to the rest of the pack.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking up a new Hillerman book has the high comfort level of revisiting a favorite old Western hotel like the Bishop''s Lodge in Santa Fe or the Ahwani at YosemiteAthe accommodations will always be first class and the scenery spectacular. Not that Hillerman ignores the passage of time: his two Navajo cops, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, age and change as we all do. There''s a moment in the novel when Chee meets with his retired former boss at the Anasazi Inn dining room in Farmington, N. Mex. "He had looked right past the corner table and the stocky old duffer sitting there with a plump middle-aged woman without recognizing Joe Leaphorn.... He had seen the Legendary Lieutenant in civilian attire before, but the image he carried in his mind was of Leaphorn in uniform." As for the prickly Sergeant Chee, he has to contend with physical problems as well as with the end of one romance and the beginning of anotherAnot to mention the very real possibility of being picked off by a sniper during the search for the men who robbed a casino owned by the Ute tribe. In a rare author''s note, Hillerman talks about an actual 1998 case in which the FBI turned the killing of a Colorado police officer into a gigantic fiasco. The shadow of that failed investigation hangs over the search in this book, leading to many anti-FBI jibes ("If the Federal Bureau of Ineptitude says it, it must be true," another retired cop tells Leaphorn). As usual in recent Hillerman books, the action goes on mostly inside the minds of his two lead characters. But there is one splendid helicopter ride into Gothic Creek Canyon that should speed up the calmest heart, several new insights into the mysteries of Navajo culture and a story with enough twists and surprises to make readers glad they checked in. Major ad/promo; 15-city TV satellite tour; simultaneous HarperAudio. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(21558, 'I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(21559, 'I, Robot', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005.\n <br />\n The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed.\n <br />\n The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(21560, 'I, Row-Boat', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(21561, 'An Idiot Abroad', 'Karl Pilkington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''He''d have been happier in medieval times in a village where you didn''t travel beyond the local community.'' Stephen Merchant\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The companion guide to the hysterical television show of the same name,Â in whichÂ Ricky Gervais and Stephen MerchantÂ force their arrestinglyÂ simple pal Karl Pilkington on a global journey\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "He''d have been happier in medieval times in a village where you didn''t travel beyond the local community."Â  â€”Stephen Merchant\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A cultÂ celebrity due to his role in\n  <em>\n   The Ricky GervaisÂ Show\n  </em>\n  , theÂ most-downloaded podcast ever, Karl PilkingtonÂ has been accused of being a comic creation, so unburdened is heÂ by complex thoughtâ€”but that is truly just him.Â The trio''sÂ newest projectÂ mines Karl massive provinciality: put simply, Karl is notÂ big on traveling. Given the choice, he''ll go onÂ vacation to Devon or Wales or, if pushed, eat English food on a package tour of the Mediterranean. So what happened when he was convinced by Gervais and Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Does travel truly broaden the mind? Find out in Karl Pilkington''s hilarious travel diaries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(21562, 'If death ever slept', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(21563, 'The Imperfectionists', 'Tom Rachman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Imperfectionists\n </em>\n . Set against the backdrop of a fictional English-language newspaper based in Rome, it begins as a celebration of the beloved and endangered role of newspapers and the original 24/7 news cycle. Yet Rachman pushes beyond nostalgia by crafting an apologue that better resembles a modern-day\n <em>\n  Mad Men\n </em>\n exploration of the halcyon past. The chaos of the newsroom becomes a stage for characters unified by a common thread of circumstance, with each chapter presenting an affecting look into the life of a different player. From the comically overmatched greenhorn to the forsaken foreign correspondent, we suffer through the painful heartbreaks of unexpected tragedy and struggle to stifle our laughter in the face of well-intentioned blunders. This cacophony of emotion blends into a single voice, as the depiction of a paper deemed a "daily report on the idiocy and the brilliance of the species" becomes more about the disillusion in everyday life than the dissolution of an industry. --_Dave Callanan_\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tom Rachman on\n  <em>\n   The Imperfectionists\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I grew up in peaceful Vancouver with two psychologists for parents, a sister with whom I squabbled in the obligatory ways, and an adorably dim-witted spaniel whose leg waggled when I tickled his belly. Not the stuff of literature, it seemed to me.\n</p>\n<p>\n During university, I had developed a passion for reading: essays by George Orwell, short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, novels by Tolstoy. By graduation, books had shoved aside all other contenders. A writer--perhaps I could become one of those.\n</p>\n<p>\n There was a slight problem: my life to date.\n</p>\n<p>\n By 22, I hadn''t engaged in a bullfight. I''d not kept a mistress or been kept by one. I''d never been stabbed in a street brawl. I''d not been mistreated by my parents, or addicted to anything sordid. I''d never fought a duel to the death with anyone.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was time to remedy this. Or parts of it, anyway. I would see the world, read, write, and pay my bills in the process. My plan was to join the press corps, to become a foreign correspondent, to emerge on the other side with handsome scars, mussed hair, and a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Years passed. I worked as an editor at the Associated Press in New York, venturing briefly to South Asia to report on war (from a very safe distance; I was never brave). Next, I was dispatched to Rome, where I wrote about the Italian government, the Mafia, the Vatican, and other reliable sources of scandal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly--too soon for my liking--I was turning thirty. My research, I realized, had become alarmingly similar to a career. To imagine a future in journalism, a trade that I had never loved, terrified me.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, with a fluttery stomach, I handed in my resignation, exchanging a promising job for an improbable hope. I took my life savings and moved to Paris, where I knew not a soul and whose language I spoke only haltingly. Solitude was what I sought: a cozy apartment, a cup of tea, my laptop. I switched it on. One year later, I had a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was terrible.\n</p>\n<p>\n My plan â€“ all those years in journalism--had been a blunder, it seemed. The writing I had aspired to do was beyond me. I lacked talent. And I was broke.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dejected, I nursed myself with a little white wine, goat cheese and baguette, then took the subway to the\n <em>\n  International Herald Tribune\n </em>\n on the outskirts of Paris to apply for a job. Weeks later, I was seated at the copy desk, composing headlines and photo captions, aching over my failure. I had bungled my twenties. I was abroad, lonely, stuck.\n</p>\n<p>\n But after many dark months, I found myself imagining again. I strolled through Parisian streets, and characters strolled through my mind, sat themselves down, folded their arms before me, declaring, "So, do you have a story for me?"\n</p>\n<p>\n I switched on my computer and tried once more.\n</p>\n<p>\n This time, it was different. My previous attempt hadn''t produced a book, but it had honed my technique. And I stopped fretting about whether I possessed the skill to become a writer, and focused instead on the hard work of writing. Before, I had winced at every flawed passage. Now, I toiled with my head down, rarely peeking at the words flowing across the screen.\n</p>\n<p>\n I revised, I refined, I tweaked, I polished. Not until exhaustion--not until the novel that I had aspired to write was very nearly the one I had produced--did I allow myself to assess it.\n</p>\n<p>\n To my amazement, a book emerged. I remain nearly incredulous that my plan, hatched over a decade ago, came together. At times, I walk to the bookshelf at my home in Italy, take down a copy of\n <em>\n  The Imperfectionists\n </em>\n , double-check the name on the spine: Tom Rachman. Yes, I think that''s me.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the end, my travels included neither bullfights nor duels. And the book doesn''t, either. Instead, it contains views over Paris, cocktails in Rome, street markets in Cairo; the ruckus of an old-style newsroom and the shuddering rise of technology; a foreign correspondent faking a news story, a media executive falling for the man she just fired. And did I mention a rather adorable if slobbery dog?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English-language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out the intersecting lives of the men and women who produce the paperâ€”and one woman who reads it religiously, if belatedly. In the opening chapter, aging, dissolute Paris correspondent Lloyd Burko pressures his estranged son to leak information from the French Foreign Ministry, and in the process unearths startling family fare that won''t sell a single edition. Obit writer Arthur Gopal, whose overarching goal at the paper is indolence, encounters personal tragedy and, with it, unexpected career ambition. Late in the book, as the paper buckles, recently laid-off copyeditor Dave Belling seduces the CFO who fired him. Throughout, the founding publisher''s progeny stagger under a heritage they don''t understand. As the ragtag staff faces down the implications of the paper''s tilt into oblivion, there are more than enough sublime moments, unexpected turns and sheer inky wretchedness to warrant putting this on the shelf next to other great newspaper novels.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(21564, 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the sixth Dave Robicheaux mystery (following A Stained White Radiance ), Burke explores new narrative territory with qualified success, leading his Cajun detective into a series of dreamlike encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers under Gen. John Bell Hood. Soon after the severely mutilated body of a young woman is found in a ditch outside the southern Louisiana town of New Iberia, deputy sheriff Robicheaux busts Elrod Sykes, star of a Hollywood movie being filmed nearby, for drunk driving. Sykes says a skeleton wrapped in chains was unearthed during filming in a marsh where, in 1957, Robicheaux witnessed--but remained silent about--the killing of a chained black man by two white men. As the belatedly guilt-stricken detective tries to identify that victim, another young woman is brutally killed. Then, Sykes''s co-star is shot to death, perhaps having been mistaken for Robicheaux, who gradually connects the recent murders to Louisiana mob-kingpin Baby Feet Balboni, a key backer of the movie. With the help of FBI agent Rosie Gomez and the intermittent, often elliptical advice of the ghostly Gen. Hood, Robicheaux nails the psycho--but not before the man has kidnapped the detective''s young daughter Alafair. Burke''s evocative prose is well suited to the misty bayou scenes in which past and present mingle, but the links between the two eras are weak, and some of the contemporary characters lack definition. 75,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB selections; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux (A Stained White Radiance, 1992, etc.) is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni--back in his home parish as co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman''s Civil War film--when sozzled/psychic movie-star Elrod Sykes, pulled over for drunk driving, starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp--the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before. Convinced that Baby Feet is the key to both the old murder and the horrific new serial killings of prostitutes, Dave goes outside the law to nail him over the protests of locals getting fat off Hollywood-and- mob money--provoking stunning new outbursts of violence, getting suspended after a shootout leaves still another prostitute dead, and finding himself holding hushed conversations with the specter of a Confederate general whom Sykes had already met deep in the bayou. Dave''s visions of the Confederate dead bring a Faulknerian resonance to the miasmal guilt and self-doubt that enrich all his encounters with evil. After outstanding success in the genre, Burke has produced a violent, somber, deeply satisfying crossover novel. (First printing of 75,000) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(21565, 'In The House Of Secret Enemies', 'George C. Chesbro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  Fans of Chesbro''s novels will relish these 10 stories'''' that feature PI, ex-circus star and dwarf Roberto\n  <code>\n   Mongo'''' Frederickson.\n  </code>\n  All but one of the stories are from the hero-narrator''s 1970s period of straightforward action/mystery, although some presage Chesbro''s later preoccupation with drugs and the occult,'''' said PW.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(21566, 'The Infection', 'Craig DiLouie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Not just another zombie story ... Unflinching horror and surreal, almost dreamlike imagery combine to make THE INFECTION a disturbing, nightmarish read.\n </em>\n -David Moody, author of HATER\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A wild ride into the darkest regions of zombie territory. Brilliant and terrifying!\n </em>\n -Jonathan Maberry, author of PATIENT ZERO\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  28 DAYS LATER meets THE MIST ... a definite page-turner right from the get-go all the way to the insanely intense final scene.\n </em>\n -TheGOREScore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Relentless and unflinching ... It is that rare novel ... that "happens to you." You are not merely a reader but a victim of the Hell it portrays. I highly recommend this book to anyone.\n </em>\n -HorrorReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Proves that just because it''s indie horror doesn''t mean it can''t stand alongside the greats. The book is simply stunning.\n </em>\n _ _-Rhonny Reaper of Dollar Bin Horror\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters.\n</p>\n<p>\n In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost family. Todd, a high school student who sees second chances in the end of the world. Paul, a minister who wonders why God has forsaken his children. And Anne, their mysterious leader, who holds an almost fanatical hatred for the Infected.\n</p>\n<p>\n Together, they fight their way to a massive refugee camp where thousands have made a stand. There, what''s left of the government will ask them to accept a mission that will determine the survival of them all--a dangerous journey back onto the open road and into the very heart of Infection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(21567, 'INSTEAD OF EVIDENCE', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(21568, 'It&#39;s Not Raining, We&#39;re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis', 'Jonathan Tasini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weâ€™re being scammed and robbedâ€”again. Weâ€™re being frightened, bullied and brainwashed into thinking that our entire future is at stake because of the â€œgovernmentâ€™s deficit crisisâ€ and the â€œgovernmentâ€™s debt crisisâ€. We are all being told: America, itâ€™s time to tighten the belt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It isn''t true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There is no crisis. It''s manufactured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book, Jonathan Tasini explodes the myth of the government''s deficit and debt "crisis". He digs into the false statements about the "crisis", who is behind the myth of the "crisis" and he shows that we have plenty of money.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using his trademark easy-to-understand writing style, Tasini leads the reader through a clear, penetrating look at our economic crisis. He shows that there is a crisis--but it has nothing to do with the government''s "debt" or "deficit".\n </p>\n <p>\n  He argues with facts and figures--but not in a Washington wonky style--that the real crisis is the on-going robbery of the American people by the leaders who continue to sell us on the virtues of the so-called "free market".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(21569, 'Italian Shoes', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mankell continues to write literary fiction in addition to his popular crime series starring Swedish policeman Kurt Wallander. This time he tells the story of a lonely old man living alone on an isolated island. Why is former surgeon Fredrik Welin hiding on his grandparentsâ€™ island? Can anything break him loose from his self-imposed exile? These two questions guide this short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel, as first one woman and then another enter Fredrikâ€™s island prison. It starts with Harriet, the girlfriend he abandoned more than 30 years before, who suddenly appears on the frozen bay clinging to a walker. Mankellâ€™s Kurt Wallander readers will appreciate his use of the themes of decay and danger in modern Swedish society, here represented by the dying island communities and the algae-clogged Baltic Sea. This complex novel also addresses themes of redemption and self-understanding, similar to Mankellâ€™s Eye of the Leopard (2008) and Kennedyâ€™s Brain (2007). The premise and tone also suggest Norwegian author Per Pettersonâ€™s Out Stealing Horses (2007). Mankellâ€™s increasing popularity makes this a good choice for all public libraries. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful.â€â€”_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A voyage into the soul of a man."--_The Guardian_, London\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fine meditation on love and loss.â€--_Sunday Telegraph_, London\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntense and precisely detailed. . . . A hopeful account of a man released from self-imposed withdrawal.â€â€”_The Independent_, London\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(21570, 'Jackie Brown (Rum Punch)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers who come to\n <em>\n  Rum Punch\n </em>\n after having seen Quentin Tarantino''s 1997 film adaptation,\n <em>\n  Jackie Brown\n </em>\n , are in for a few surprises. Mainly, Jackie\n <em>\n  Burke\n </em>\n is a 44-year-old white woman (but just as hard-boiled as Pam Grier), bail bondsman Max Cherry has a much more prominent role in the proceedings, and the novel takes place in Miami--not Los Angeles. The core of the story, however, remains the same: when the cops try to use Jackie to get at Ordell Robbie, the gunrunner she''s been bringing cash into the country for, she hatches a plan--with help from Max--to keep the money for herself. It all comes together in the traditional Elmore Leonard style, where the conversations are as crisply written and suspenseful as the action scenes.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like a pulled punch, the author''s latest evocation of lives on the periphery has a somewhat restrained quality, although the characters here, especially the women, are vintage Leonard ( Get Shorty ), and the dialogue is as authentic as conversations overheard in a mall restaurant. A combination of coincidence and choice connects the fates of Jackie Burke, a 44-year-old, thrice-married stewardess, bail bondsman Max Cherry, overweight and in his 50s, and brash young gun dealer Ordell Robbie, in Miami. When Jackie is caught bringing cash into the U.S. from the Bahamas for Ordell, she agrees to cooperate with federal and state agents to catch him in a sting operation. Max, who has posted Jackie''s bond and is drawn to her, becomes her sounding board as she contemplates a sting of her own. The appealing and utterly amoral Ordell involves an unreliable ex-con pal, a crew of jackboys and his three women--sweet young Sheronda; amply endowed, untrustworthy Melanie; older "aunty" Simone, whose appetites are unabated--in his last-ditch effort to make a killing. Chances offered, taken and passed up are the leitmotif in this bittersweet slice of south Florida life. BOMC featured alternate; QPB selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(21571, 'Jitterbug Perfume', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Jitterbug Perfume_ has a large andÂ Â exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interestedÂ Â in immortality and/or perfume... Go see forÂ Â yourself; you''ll have a good time."--_TheÂ Â Washington Post_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Jitterbug Perfume\n </em>\n is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn''t conclude until nine o''clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(21572, 'Jolie Blon&#39;s Bounce', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as "America''s best novelist," "the Graham Greene of the bayou," and "a poet of the mystery novel," returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent "New York Times" best-selling author.  When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne''er-do-well, Hulin just doesn''t fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime.  But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore. The dead girl''s father, however, prefers to take matters in his own hands and sets out to find -- and punish -- the killer himself.  But before Robicheaux can solve these crimes and bring the killer or killers to justice, he is forced to battle his own inner demons, including a painkiller addiction, a habit that begins as the result of a brutal and humiliating beating he suffers at the hands of the mysterious and diabolical character known as Legion. A fixture in the area for years, Legion was once the overseer on a local sugarcane plantation and now gets by doing odd jobs. In temperament, however, he''s still the malicious and malevolent bully he always was, a man defined by evil and seemingly possessed with supernatural skills of survival.  Added to the mix, and on the good guy side of the balance sheet, is Clete Purcel, a longtime buddy of Robicheaux''s and a confirmed boozer and womanizer. Clete comes to New Iberia for a visit and is quickly drawn into the struggle between the various forces of evil in the town, including Jimmy Dean Styles, a black man intent on maintaining his empire of corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer park mafioso with palatial aspirations -- and of course, Legion Guidry, the devil incarnate, in whom Robicheaux finds himself facing a challenge and an enemy unlike any he has ever known. And soon, what began as a duel of wits has turned into a dance of death.  Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling, "Jolie Blon''s Bounce" is classic storytelling from a writer who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(21573, 'Jonathan Stannard&#39;s Secret Vice (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(21574, 'Jury Service', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. Except for the solitary lighthouse beam that perpetually tracks the Earth in its orbit, the system from outside resembles a spherical fogbank radiating in the infrared spectrum; a matrioshka brain, nested Dyson orbitals built from the dismantled bones of moons and planets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander nostalgiawise. When that happens, it casually spams Earth''s RF spectrum with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there''s always someone who''ll take a bite from the forbidden Cox Pippin. There''s always someone whom evolution has failed to breed the let''s-lick-the-frozen-fencepost instinct out of. There''s always a fucking geek who''ll do it because it''s a historical goddamned technical fucking imperative.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whether the enlightened, occulting smartcloud sends out its missives as pranks, poison or care-packages is up for debate. Asking it to explain its motives is roughly as pointful as negotiating with an ant colony to get it to abandon your kitchen. Whatever the motive, humanity would be much better off if the Cloud would evolve into something so smart as to be uninterested in communicating with meatpeople.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But until that happy day, there''s the tech jury service: defending the earth from the scum of the post-singularity patent office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/90');
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(21575, 'Kafka on the Shore', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it''s page thirteen in\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n --the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply.\n</p>\n<p>\n Joining the rich literature of runaways,\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the worldÂ¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.\n</p>\n<p>\n To say that the fantastic elements of\n <em>\n  Kafka On The Shore\n </em>\n are complicated and never fully resolved is not to suggest that the novel fails. Although it may not live up to Murakami''s masterful __, Nakata and Kafka''s fates keep the reader enthralled to the final pages, and few will complain about the loose threads at the end.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Previous books such as\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Norwegian Wood\n </em>\n have established Murakami as a true original, a fearless writer possessed of a wildly uninhibited imagination and a legion of fiercely devoted fans. In this latest addition to the author''s incomparable oeuvre, 15-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, both to escape his father''s oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so too does Nakata, an elderly simpleton whose quiet life has been upset by a gruesome murder. (A wonderfully endearing character, Nakata has never recovered from the effects of a mysterious World War II incident that left him unable to read or comprehend much, but did give him the power to speak with cats.) What follows is a kind of double odyssey, as Kafka and Nakata are drawn inexorably along their separate but somehow linked paths, groping to understand the roles fate has in store for them. Murakami likes to blur the boundary between the real and the surrealâ€”we are treated to such oddities as fish raining from the sky; a forest-dwelling pair of Imperial Army soldiers who haven''t aged since WWII; and a hilarious cameo by fried chicken king Colonel Sandersâ€”but he also writes touchingly about love, loneliness and friendship. Occasionally, the writing drifts too far into metaphysical musingsâ€”mind-bending talk of parallel worlds, events occurring outside of timeâ€”and things swirl a bit at the end as the author tries, perhaps too hard, to make sense of things. But by this point, his readers, like his characters, will go just about anywhere Murakami wants them to, whether they "get" it or not.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(21576, 'Karen Makes Out', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p style="text-align: left;">\n  <b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AA0000">\n    Novelette\n   </font>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    \n   </b>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    Karen Sisco\n   </b>\n  </i>\n  is a \n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional">\n   fictional\n  </a>\n  United States\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">\n   Marshal\n  </a>\n  created by novelist\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore_Leonard">\n   Elmore Leonard\n  </a>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">\n   U.S. Deputy Marshal\n  </a>\n  , based on\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida">\n   Miami, Florida\n  </a>\n  ''s\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_%28Florida%29" title="Gold Coast (Florida)">\n   Gold Coast\n  </a>\n  , Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and Palm Beach highlife while tracking down fugitives. She also struggles to win the respect of her fellow officers. Karen occasionally gets advice from her father, a retired Miami police officer turned private investigator. Heâ€™s Karenâ€™s confidant, counselor, and confessor. He is also her rock when her confidence wavers.\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <sup>\n   The character appeared in two stories:\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <sup>\n    "Karen Makes Out", a 1996 short story, available in two collections:\n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     Murder for Love\n    </sup>\n   </i>\n   <sup>\n    , and\n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     When the Women Come Out to Dance, and Other Stories\n    </sup>\n   </i>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <i>\n    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Sight">\n     <sup>\n      Out of Sight\n     </sup>\n    </a>\n   </i>\n   <sup>\n    , a 1996 novel, and 1998 film wherein she was played by\n   </sup>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lopez">\n    <sup>\n     Jennifer Lopez\n    </sup>\n   </a>\n   <sup>\n    , and Marshall Sisco was played by\n   </sup>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Farina">\n    <sup>\n     Dennis Farina\n    </sup>\n   </a>\n   <sup>\n    .\n   </sup>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sisco\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(21577, 'Karlology', 'Karl Pilkington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A voyage through the strange yet mesmerising mind of cult author Karl Pilkington, now in paperbackBy his own admission Karl Pilkington left formal education behind with only an E in History to his name and not much else. Ever since, his thirst for knowledge has nagged. With this in mind, Karl has embarked on a tour of discovery to make up for the lost years of learning, and to find out more stuff. Karlology is the result. So what exactly has Karl Pilkington learned so far? This is a man, it should be noted, who thinks owning 1,777 acres of the moon is a good idea, and believes that the human testicles should be relocated to the earlobes. Maybe hers"s right. Perhaps his unique brand of wisdom and insight is what the world has been waiting for? Judge for yourself: observe, enjoy, and become a Karlologist. Illuminated by Karl Pilkingtonrs"s own cartoons with extra wisdom from Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand, David Baddiel, Noel Fielding and others.Get even more insight into Karl''s mind and visit his blog at http://www.karlpilkington.com/blog/ .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(21578, 'Kill Me', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT. New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of thriller. Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and surprises. Get ready for the next big thing. Get ready to meet the Death Angels. Weâ€™ve all been there. A loved one or a dear friend becomes desperately ill or is tragically injured. Someoneâ€”maybe even youâ€”says, â€œIf that ever happens to me, I wish someone would just . . . kill me.â€ What if you could choose when to die? But once you decide, you canâ€™t change your mind. Ever. No matter what. Welcome to the next step in the evolution of suspense fiction, to an in-your-face/what-would-you-do? topical thriller. Kill Me is a brilliantly conceived roller-coaster ride that zeros in on some of the most contentious issues of our time, the human yearning for connection between the choices we make about our lives and deaths. Intelligent and relentlessly paced, Kill Me is the smart kind of read that fans have come to expect from Stephen White. Kill Me brings Alan Gregory face-to-face with the most challenging case of his career. As always, Whiteâ€™s characters are indelible and the dialogue is dead-on, but Kill Me is fresh and thought provoking in a way thatâ€™s so uncommon in crime fiction. Kill Me delivers on all the promise of Whiteâ€™s earlier work and then raises the bar in an unforgettably inventive tale of life and death. This is the book that you wonâ€™t be able to put down, but more to the point, this is the book that wonâ€™t go away after readers have raced to the last page. Readers will be asking each other: â€œWhat would you do?â€ â€œIf you could sign upâ€”reallyâ€”would you?â€ Raves for KILL ME: Michael Connelly says: â€œStephen White has always been a rock solid writer. But this book should turn heads. Big, provocative, and downright gripping, this is his best yet.â€ Jeffery Deaver says: â€œKill Me is that rarest of creationsâ€”a thinking personâ€™s thriller. In this age of the same-old, same-old fiction, Whiteâ€™s novel stands dizzyingly above the pack. The concept is unique (and brilliant), the writing is sharp, observant, and wry (Whiteâ€™s trademark), and every page of this compelling tale is filled with perfectly realized human emotionâ€”about life, death, and family. Superb.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(21579, 'Killshot', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <h3>\n    From Publishers Weekly\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    Crime fiction doesn''t get any better than Leonard''s new thriller, which, while it breaks no new ground, is a welcome retreat to his more direct style of classics such as 52 Pickup and Unknown Man #89 . When Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne stumble onto an extortion scheme run by Armand Degas, half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian hit man, and his temporary partner Richie Nix, a talkative sociopath, the two killers set out to eliminate them, hiding out with Nix''s girlfriend Donna, a former prison guard who collects stuffed animals and believes that Elvis is alive. In detailing the killers'' relentless pursuit of the terrified couple, Leonard builds suspense with a deft, master hand, inducing an instant--and sustained--response of sweating hands and a racing heart. Even the most jaded reader will be swept along on the roller coaster of impending violence punctuated by heart-stopping crises. As always, Leonard writes with a natural ear for offbeat speech and a terrific sense of locale, moving the action from Toronto to Detroit and into Michigan and Ohio, telling the story almost totally through the thoughts and dialogue of the characters. In the Colsons, Leonard presents a more mature and realistic portrayal of a relationship than he has in the past, and he stirs up an uncomfortable fondness for the cruel but mellowing hit man Degas, all the while drawing the reader deeply into these ordinary lives. A bravura performance. Literary Guild dual main selection.\n    <br />\n    Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n   </p>\n   <h3>\n    From Library Journal\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    In this fine adaptation of Leonard''s best-selling novel, Wayne and Carmen Colson''s quiet life shatters following their involvement in a failed extortion scheme. To escape from hit man Arman "Blackbird" Degas and his sidekick Richie Nix, the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Protection Program. They soon find out the program contains as many predators as does the underworld. As with all of Leonard''s (Cuba Libre, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/98) works, it is his character development and dialog that propel the simple plot toward its chilling conclusion. Bruce Boxleitner''s reading adds a special effect to the story, and the adaptation captures all the power of the original novel. Highly recommended for all collections containing Leonard''s past works.?Stephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ. Lib, OH\n    <br />\n    Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Crime fiction doesn''t get any better than Leonard''s new thriller, which, while it breaks no new ground, is a welcome retreat to his more direct style of classics such as 52 Pickup and Unknown Man #89 . When Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne stumble onto an extortion scheme run by Armand Degas, half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian hit man, and his temporary partner Richie Nix, a talkative sociopath, the two killers set out to eliminate them, hiding out with Nix''s girlfriend Donna, a former prison guard who collects stuffed animals and believes that Elvis is alive. In detailing the killers'' relentless pursuit of the terrified couple, Leonard builds suspense with a deft, master hand, inducing an instant--and sustained--response of sweating hands and a racing heart. Even the most jaded reader will be swept along on the roller coaster of impending violence punctuated by heart-stopping crises. As always, Leonard writes with a natural ear for offbeat speech and a terrific sense of locale, moving the action from Toronto to Detroit and into Michigan and Ohio, telling the story almost totally through the thoughts and dialogue of the characters. In the Colsons, Leonard presents a more mature and realistic portrayal of a relationship than he has in the past, and he stirs up an uncomfortable fondness for the cruel but mellowing hit man Degas, all the while drawing the reader deeply into these ordinary lives. A bravura performance. Literary Guild dual main selection.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In this fine adaptation of Leonard''s best-selling novel, Wayne and Carmen Colson''s quiet life shatters following their involvement in a failed extortion scheme. To escape from hit man Arman "Blackbird" Degas and his sidekick Richie Nix, the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Protection Program. They soon find out the program contains as many predators as does the underworld. As with all of Leonard''s (Cuba Libre, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/98) works, it is his character development and dialog that propel the simple plot toward its chilling conclusion. Bruce Boxleitner''s reading adds a special effect to the story, and the adaptation captures all the power of the original novel. Highly recommended for all collections containing Leonard''s past works.?Stephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ. Lib, OH\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Crime fiction doesn''t get any better than Leonard''s new thriller, which, while it breaks no new ground, is a welcome retreat to his more direct style of classics such as 52 Pickup and Unknown Man #89 . When Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne stumble onto an extortion scheme run by Armand Degas, half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian hit man, and his temporary partner Richie Nix, a talkative sociopath, the two killers set out to eliminate them, hiding out with Nix''s girlfriend Donna, a former prison guard who collects stuffed animals and believes that Elvis is alive. In detailing the killers'' relentless pursuit of the terrified couple, Leonard builds suspense with a deft, master hand, inducing an instant--and sustained--response of sweating hands and a racing heart. Even the most jaded reader will be swept along on the roller coaster of impending violence punctuated by heart-stopping crises. As always, Leonard writes with a natural ear for offbeat speech and a terrific sense of locale, moving the action from Toronto to Detroit and into Michigan and Ohio, telling the story almost totally through the thoughts and dialogue of the characters. In the Colsons, Leonard presents a more mature and realistic portrayal of a relationship than he has in the past, and he stirs up an uncomfortable fondness for the cruel but mellowing hit man Degas, all the while drawing the reader deeply into these ordinary lives. A bravura performance. Literary Guild dual main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this fine adaptation of Leonard''s best-selling novel, Wayne and Carmen Colson''s quiet life shatters following their involvement in a failed extortion scheme. To escape from hit man Arman "Blackbird" Degas and his sidekick Richie Nix, the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Protection Program. They soon find out the program contains as many predators as does the underworld. As with all of Leonard''s (Cuba Libre, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/98) works, it is his character development and dialog that propel the simple plot toward its chilling conclusion. Bruce Boxleitner''s reading adds a special effect to the story, and the adaptation captures all the power of the original novel. Highly recommended for all collections containing Leonard''s past works.?Stephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ. Lib, OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(21580, 'The Kite Runner', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi''a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir''s school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir''s house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini''s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir''s closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir''s father''s servant and a member of Afghanistan''s despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul''s annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir''s equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah''s 40-year reign and traces the country''s fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan''s orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.\n <br />\n ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)17.8    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)11.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(21581, 'The Known World', 'Edward P. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones''s debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Known World\n </em>\n , is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one''s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through,\n <em>\n  The Known World\n </em>\n is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a crabbed, powerful follow-up to his National Book Award-nominated short story collection (Lost in the City), Jones explores an oft-neglected chapter of American history, the world of blacks who owned blacks in the antebellum South. His fictional examination of this unusual phenomenon starts with the dying 31-year-old Henry Townsend, a former slave-now master of 33 slaves of his own and more than 50 acres of land in Manchester County, Va.-worried about the fate of his holdings upon his early death. As a slave in his youth, Henry makes himself indispensable to his master, William Robbins. Even after Henry''s parents purchase the family''s freedom, Henry retains his allegiance to Robbins, who patronizes him when he sets up shop as a shoemaker and helps him buy his first slaves and his plantation. Jones''s thorough knowledge of the legal and social intricacies of slaveholding allows him to paint a complex, often startling picture of life in the region. His richest characterizations-of Robbins and Henry-are particularly revealing. Though he is a cruel master to his slaves, Robbins is desperately in love with a black woman and feels as much fondness for Henry as for his own children; Henry, meanwhile, reads Milton, but beats his slaves as readily as Robbins does. Henry''s wife, Caldonia, is not as disciplined as her husband, and when he dies, his worst fears are realized: the plantation falls into chaos. Jones''s prose can be rather static and his phrasings ponderous, but his narrative achieves crushing momentum through sheer accumulation of detail, unusual historical insight and generous character writing.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(21582, 'La Brava', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LaBrava is vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we''re glad we don''t. Only Leonard can concoct such a potent cocktail: one part raw humanity, one part pure insanity, a dash of lethal action, and his irresistible, eccentric spice.Joe La Brava is an ex-Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. This is vintage Leonard: fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly, authentically irresistible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(21583, 'The Lady In The Lake', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero Philip Marlowe has graduated into American legend. Together with its companion volume (_Later Novels and Other Writings_ forms the most complete Chandler collection in print. In addition to his later novels, this collection contains selected essays and letters, biographical information, and textual as well as explanatory notes. As an added bonus, the editor has included Chandler''s screenplay to\n <em>\n  Double Indemnity\n </em>\n , the classic Billy Wilder film adapted from James M. Cain''s\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n These additions to the venerable series make official what mystery fans have always known: Raymond Chandler is one of the gods of American literature. Following the trail blazed by Dashiell Hammett, Chandler created Philip Marlowe and set the standard against which all private detective fiction is measured. This two-volume set covers the full canon of Chandler''s work from early pulp stories to all the Marlowe novels, the screenplay for Double Indemnity, and essays on the mystery genre plus the usual Library of America goodies such as notes on the text and a chronology of the author''s life. In terms of literary inventions, the Wild West cowboy and the hard-boiled P.I. are this country''s only true native sons and are deserving of respect. One of them at least now has it.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(21584, 'The Language Of Cannibals', 'George C. Chesbro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While investigating the death of a friend in a small village in the Hudson River Valley, Mongo must unexpectedly duel with an old enemy as well as a right-wing conspiracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(21585, 'The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest installment of the Harry Bosch series has the LAPD homicide detective reopening the 30-year-old unsolved murder of his mother.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After being put on involuntary stress leave for attacking his boss, LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch tackles the 30-plus-year-old murder case of a Hollywood prostitute?his mother. Bummed out by the failure of his latest romance as well, Harry faces a deeper, psychological crisis: his life''s "mission" may end if he solves the case. Harry continues, nonetheless, soon discovering that the police and politically powerful others purposely glossed over his mother''s murder. With prose that cuts to the quick, a masterfully interwoven plot, and gripping suspense, Connelly renders a fitting sequel to The Black Echo (LJ 1/92).\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(21586, 'The Last Fix', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s third novel for an American audience is his longest, but also one of the best. Katrine, a recovering drug addict, disappears a few hours after leaving a party in her honor (celebrating her recovery), and the next day her naked body shows up in a ditch. Oslo detectives fat Frolich and grumpy Gunnarstranda (familiar from The Fourth Man, 2008) doggedly pursue the case despite a lack of clues or suspects. Despite its considerable length, the book moves rapidly, as much of the text is dialogue, either between Frolich and Gunnarstranda, or conversations with suspects and informants. As the investigation continues, characters and events from her past emerge, and Dahl neatly ties them into the ongoing investigation. More a psychological thriller than a police procedural, the novel focuses on Katrine and the people from the recovery center. Dahl has quickly become one of our leading authors of psychological crime fiction, and his books deserve the large audience enjoyed by Ruth Rendell, Minette Walters, and other established masters of the form. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crimewritingâ€” the latest in the Oslo Detectiveâ€™s series\n</p>\n<p>\n A recovering drug addict, Katrine Bratterud, is almost finished with her time in rehab. One evening, contemplating her success at the shore of a lake, she senses that she is not alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n The discovery of Katrineâ€™s corpse the following day brings detectives FrÃ¸lich and Gunnarstranda onto the case and into a web of secrets and lies that stretches back generations.\n</p>\n<p>\n K.O. Dahl weaves an intricate plot, juxtaposing the selfdelusion of drug addicts with the more complex self-delusions of the well-respected middle-class people treating them. Like Henning Mankell, Dahl manages to merge the suspense of the classical whodunit with the detailed precision of the police procedural novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(21587, 'The Last Lie', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr. Alan Gregory returns to the fore in this popular series about the sensitive but tough Boulder psychologist. After years of insisting that his family remain in their idyllic mountain homeâ€”despite the drive to town and wife Laurenâ€™s infrequent but debilitating bouts with MS-related symptomsâ€”Alan begins to consider relocating, especially after new neighbors move in. The husband is an attorney who has made a name for himself on the talk-show circuit on womenâ€™s rights issues, but Alan canâ€™t shake the feeling that this slick talker wonâ€™t make a good neighbor. His instincts prove to be right after controversy surfaces following the new coupleâ€™s housewarming party, where one guest stayed at the party a little too long for her own good, apparently becoming the victim of rape. Secrets abound as Alanâ€™s best friend, Detective Sam Purdy, is put on the case but isnâ€™t talking and Lauren, an attorney in the D.A.â€™s office, also becomes involved. Even Alan himself, whoâ€™s desperate to know whatâ€™s going on, keeps quiet about the fact that the victim is a former patient. With his usual deftness, White mixes psychological thriller with police procedural, all while making room for the characters to develop and interact. Recommend this one to fans of husband-wife duos, including Faye Kellermanâ€™s popular (but uneven) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series. --Mary Frances Wilkens\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Stephen White returns to his beloved Alan Gregory series with a taut, ripped-from-the-headlines crime story.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen White''s most recent bestseller,\n <em>\n  The Siege\n </em>\n , featured his series character Sam Purdy in a relentlessly paced stand-alone thriller that critics hailed as "brilliantly conceived and executed" (_Publishers Weekly_) and "the best and most interesting terrorism thriller I''ve seen." (_The Washington Post_) Now, in\n <em>\n  The Last Lie\n </em>\n , White returns to his Alan Gregory series roots with the popular characters and Boulder setting that first launched him onto the bestseller lists and attracted legions of fiercely loyal fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors-a legal legend in women''s rights law and his beautiful wife-the couple hosts a housewarming party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine, only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped? Lauren, a deputy district attorney, and detective Sam Purdy are both privy to facts they can''t share with Alan, but Alan soon discovers that he has a most unusual perspective into what truly happened after the housewarming party. Before Alan can discover all the pieces to the puzzle, an important witness to the events is murdered. Alan fears that other witnesses-people he loves-will be next. Smart, topical, and deftly plotted,\n <em>\n  The Last Lie\n </em>\n delivers the pulse-pounding return of one of contemporary fiction''s most enduring heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(21588, 'The Last Surgeon', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this anemic medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (_The Second Opinion_), former trauma surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity, who suffers from PTSD as the result of a suicide attack on his field hospital in Afghanistan, is now in charge of the Helping Hands RV, a mobile clinic that plies the streets of Baltimore offering medical aid to the homeless. Meanwhile, a high-priced hit man starts to commit a series of murders, his first victim being Belle Coates, a nurse in Charlotte, N.C. When Belle''s sister, Jillian, who lives in Virginia, searches for her sister''s killer, she finds a connection to Nick. Several missing homeless men lead everyone to a massive plot involving high-level politicians and a secret CIA program. The action is all fairly predictable, the characters off-the-shelf, and the writing, if not exactly purple, at least mauve: A guttural, primal scream exploded from Nick''s throat as he crouched by the body.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmerâ€™s best novel in years is a highly suspenseful story that begins with a murder staged to look like a suicide and ends with the exposure of a far-reaching conspiracy. The three central players are Jillian Coates, a nurse who refuses to believe her sister would kill herself; Nick Garrity, a physician still haunted by the disappearance of his best friend three years ago; and Franz Koller, a ruthless hired killer who has several victims to dispatch, only none of them can look like murder. Palmer cleverly teams up Nick and Jillian, uniting them in a common purpose: to find out how Jillianâ€™s dead sister and Nickâ€™s missing friend seem to have come in contact with one another. Palmer keeps his two leadsâ€”and us, tooâ€”in the dark for a good portion of the book, dispensing the occasional tantalizing hint of some horrible secret lying just below the surface. When we discover the truth behind the mystery, weâ€™re shocked and exhilarated and bewildered, all at the same time. Palmer has always spun a good yarn, but this one is more compelling and features more engaging characters than some of his recent efforts. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(21589, 'Latte Trouble', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...a fun mystery with a twist that you''ll never see coming. -- _ Fresh Fiction_\n</p>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves coffee and a good mystery will love this story. Rating: Outstanding. --\n <em>\n  Mysterious Corner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The strength of this series lies in the characters who are drawn true to life. --\n <em>\n  I Love a Mystery\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(21590, 'the Law at Randado (1954)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever! --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron''s men drag two prisoners from Frye''s jail and hang them from a high tree, there''s nothing the untried young lawman can do about it. But Kirby''s got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscles bargained for. They can beat the boy and humilate him, but they can''t make him forget the jog he has sworn to do. The cattleman has money, fear, and guns on his side, but Kirby Frye''s the law in this godforsaken corner of the Arizona Territories. And he''ll drag Sundeen and his killers straight to hell himself to prove it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(21591, 'The League of Frightened Men', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n Rex Stout''s\n <em>\n  League of Frightened Men\n </em>\n presents a fascinating new Nero Wolfe mystery read by L.A. actor Michael Prichard, who brings to life this fine story of an eccentric detective''s investigation of a classmate''s potential for murder. A man left crippled by a college hazing prank seems out for revenge upon his fellows in this gripping saga." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Midwest Book Review_, August 1997\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Chapin''s college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall.\n</p>\n<p>\n This league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe''s help. But are Wolfe''s brilliance and Archie''s tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer?\n</p>\n<p>\n "Always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery." (The New York Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(21592, 'Lemons Never Lie', 'Richard Stark  (Donald E Westlake)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When heâ€™s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately â€“ which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myersâ€™ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unfortunately, Myersâ€™ plan is insane â€“ so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isnâ€™t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable ofâ€¦\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Stark\n </strong>\n is the best-known pseudonym of multiple award winner Donald E. Westlake. As Stark, Westlake wrote more than 20 books about the ruthless professional thief Parker, starting with\n <em>\n  The Hunter\n </em>\n , which was the basis for the movie_ Point Blank_ starring Lee Marvin. He also wrote books about Parkerâ€™s partner in crime, Allan Grofield, of which\n <em>\n  Lemons Never Lie\n </em>\n is by far the darkest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(21593, 'Life Among the Vikings', 'Thomas Streissguth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discusses the history, settlements, social structure, religion, occupations, and culture of the Vikings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(21594, 'The Lincoln Lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller''s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen''s gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that''s especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it''ll scar you for life."\n</p>\n<p>\n Louis Roulet, Mickey''s "franchise client" (so-called becaue he''s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey''s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet''s story tear Mickey''s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who''s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn''t matter...whether the defendant ''did it'' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey''s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Mickey''s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly''s literary gifts. There''s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he''s no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He''s haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he''s on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can''t help seeing dollar signs: Roulet''s imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son''s innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet''s personality and his past. Levin''s murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he''s in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book''s first half involving the reader in Mickey''s complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(21595, 'Listening Woman', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A good exciting mystery that has everything." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Pittsburgh Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man''s secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn''s investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible ... and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Performed by George Guidall\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/117');
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(21596, 'Little Brother', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grade 10 Upâ€”When he ditches school one Friday morning, 17-year-old Marcus is hoping to get a head start on the Harajuku Fun Madness clue. But after a terrorist attack in San Francisco, he and his friends are swept up in the extralegal world of the Department of Homeland Security. After questioning that includes physical torture and psychological stress, Marcus is released, a marked man in a much darker San Francisco: a city of constant surveillance and civil-liberty forfeiture. Encouraging hackers from around the city, Marcus fights against the system while falling for one hacker in particular. Doctorow rapidly confronts issues, from civil liberties to cryptology to social justice. While his political bias is obvious, he does try to depict opposing viewpoints fairly. Those who have embraced the legislative developments since 9/11 may be horrified by his harsh take on Homeland Security, GuantÃ¡namo Bay, and the PATRIOT Act. Politics aside, Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority. Teen espionage fans will appreciate the numerous gadgets made from everyday materials. One afterword by a noted cryptologist and another from an infamous hacker further reflect Doctorow''s principles, and a bibliography has resources for teens interested in intellectual freedom, information access, and technology enhancements. Curious readers will also be able to visit BoingBoing, an eclectic group blog that Doctorow coedits. Raising pertinent questions and fostering discussion, this techno-thriller is an outstanding first purchase.â€”_Chris Shoemaker, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Seventeen-year-old techno-geek â€œw1n5t0nâ€ (aka Marcus) bypasses the schoolâ€™s gait-recognition system by placing pebbles in his shoes, chats secretly with friends on his IMParanoid messaging program, and routinely evades school security with his laptop, cell, WifFnder, and ingenuity. While skipping school, Markus is caught near the site of a terrorist attack on San Francisco and held by the Department of Homeland Security for six days of intensive interrogation. After his release, he vows to use his skills to fight back against an increasingly frightening system of surveillance. Set in the near future, Doctorowâ€™s novel blurs the lines between current and potential technologies, and readers will delight in the details of how Markus attempts to stage a techno-revolution. Obvious parallels to Orwellian warnings and post-9/11 policies, such as the Patriot Act, will provide opportunity for classroom discussion and raise questions about our enthusiasm for technology, who monitors our school library collections, and how we contribute to our own lack of privacy. An extensive Web and print bibliography will build knowledge and make adults nervous. Buy multiple copies; this book will be h4wt (thatâ€™s â€œhot,â€ for the nonhackers). Grades 8-12. --Cindy Dobrez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(21597, 'Lost in a good book', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(21598, 'Lost Light', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses-one that he had been briefly involved in four years before-is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella''s death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella''s violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security. Few will follow every twist and turn of the labyrinthine plot, but no matter. The fun comes in watching Harry slowly and brilliantly separate the seemingly impossibly knotted strands and then knit them back into whole cloth. This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series, and Connelly''s concluding coda has a kicker about Harry''s private life that will draw gasps of astonishment from longtime readers.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-After more than 25 years with the L.A. Police Department, recently retired Harry Bosch decides to finish the murder investigation of Angella Benton, a case he had been quickly pulled off more than four years earlier. Gaining additional background information from a former colleague, now a quadriplegic as a result of having been shot during the investigation, Harry begins contacting any and all of the people who could have facts pertaining to the crime. He believes that the murder is tied to a film scene and $2 million in cash, and that the entire caper was ingeniously set up well in advance. With dogged determination, he risks his life more than once to prove his theory correct. Connelly expertly weaves the many complex story parts together, resulting in an action-packed ending. As in real life, all aspects of the case must be researched thoroughly, and the bulk of the novel involves the time-consuming, labor-intensive effort that goes into finding answers. Several subplots-including ones involving jazz, Harry''s ex-wife, and another murder-help to round out characters, inject other interests, and relieve the intensity of solving the murder. Young adults who read true crime and forensics, or who are interested in police procedures, will surely pick this one up.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(21599, 'Louly and Pretty Boy', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div class="post">\n <p>\n </p>\n <div class="post">\n  <p>\n   <sup>\n    \n   </sup>\n   <sup>\n    The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He''s one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard''s half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed novelsÂ \n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     The Hot KidÂ \n    </sup>\n   </i>\n   <sup>\n    andÂ \n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     Up in Honey''s Room\n    </sup>\n   </i>\n   <sup>\n    , Carl returns to lay down the law in a novella that originally appeared as a serial in theÂ \n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     New York Times Sunday Magazine\n    </sup>\n   </i>\n   <sup>\n    .\n   </sup>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <sup>\n   </sup>\n  </p>\n  <p style="font-size: medium; ">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n    Comfort to the Enemy is a collection of two short stories and the eponymous novella starring Carl Webster. The two short stories, "Showdown at Checotah" and "Louly and Pretty Boy" also appear in the book, The Hot Kid.Â \n   </span>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <sup>\n    As expected, Leonard''s got style and every character is just cool, cool, cool. Carl Webster reminds me of Raylan Givens of a different era.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    I preferred the two short stories over the novella, as I like the cowboy marshal hunting down or meeting bank robbers more so than solving a murder revolving around Nazis. A lot of the mystery solving also involved longer-than-usual and therefore less-spunky dialogue, which diluted what was supposed to be Leonard''s forte.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    I''m not sure if this collection is meant to satiate existing fans of Carl Webster or to entice new readers to read the Carl Webster novels The Hot Kid and Up in Honey''s Room. As a new reader, I''d say this book successfully piqued my interest in Leonard''s other books, even if the novella contained herein was less than perfect.\n   </sup>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n     <br />\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <sup>\n    WE WANT A ROBERT WEBSTER STORY!\n   </sup>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <sup>\n    <br />\n   </sup>\n   <b>\n    <sup>\n     â€œMissing Storyâ€ - Robert Webster\n    </sup>\n   </b>\n   <sup>\n    <br />\n   </sup>\n   <i>\n    <sup>\n     Carlâ€™s son (Benâ€™s dad), Robert, died in Vietnam and Robertâ€™s wife, Cheryl, dies of drugs and alcohol in San Francisco.â€”from â€œTenkillerâ€\n    </sup>\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  <sup>\n   These two short stories came out before THE HOT KID.Â  They are sections from the book, basically.\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <sup>\n   1 - â€œShowdown at Checotahâ€\n   <br />\n   Title: McSweeneyâ€™s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales\n   <br />\n   Publisher: Vintage (March 25, 2003)\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <sup>\n   2 - â€œLouly and Pretty Boyâ€\n   <br />\n   Title: Dangerous Women\n   <br />\n   Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press, 2005\n  </sup>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(21600, 'The Magician', 'Somerset Maugham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Though Aleister Crowley served, as I have said, as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sinister and more ruthless than Crowley ever was. I gave him magical powers that Crowley, though he claimed them, certainly never possessed. Crowley, however, recognized himself in the creature of my invention, for such it was, and wrote a full-page review of the novel in\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair,\n </em>\n which he signed ''Oliver Haddo.'' I did not read it, and wish now that I had. I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose." -- W. Somerset Maugham\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(21601, 'Makers', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force, Doctorow (_Little Brother_) uses the contradictions of two overused SF themesâ€”the decline and fall of America and the boundless optimism of open source/hacker cultureâ€”to draw one of the most brilliant reimaginings of the near future since cyberpunk wore out its mirror shades. Perry Gibbons and Lester Banks, typical brilliant geeks in a garage, are trash-hackers who find inspiration in the growing pile of technical junk. Attracting the attention of suits and smart reporter Suzanne Church, the duo soon get involved with cheap and easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity and crowd-sourced theme parks. The result is bitingly realistic and miraculously avoids clichÃ© or predictability. While dates and details occasionally contradict one another, Doctorow''s combination of business strategy, brilliant product ideas and laugh-out-loud moments of insight will keep readers powering through this quick-moving tale.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covering the transformation of Kodacell (formerly Kodak and Duracell) into a network of tiny teams, journalist Suzanne Church goes to Florida and the inventors behind it all, Lester and Perry, who have more ideas than they know what to do with. The New Work (i.e., the network) takes off, with a mini-startup in every abandoned strip mall in America. But suddenly, it crashes, and things get really interesting. Lester and Perry build an interactive ride in an abandoned Wal-Mart, a nostalgia trip through their glory days, that catches the eye of a vicious Disney execâ€”and the old corporate giants fight their last battle against the new economic order. Doctorowâ€™s talent for imagining the near future is astonishing, and his novels keep getting better. His prognostications are unnervingly plausible and completely bizarre, obviously developed from careful observation of whatâ€™s going on at the bleeding edge of technology and culture. The characters are simultaneously completely geeky and suave, lovable and flawed. Even the suits, marketing people and lawyers, are interesting. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(21602, 'The Man From Beijing', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A massacre in the remote Swedish village of HesjÃ¶vallen propels this complex, if diffuse, stand-alone thriller from Mankell (_The Pyramid_). Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose mother grew up in the village, comes across diaries from the house of one of the 19 mostly elderly victims kept by Jan AndrÃ©n, an immigrant ancestor of Roslin''s. The diaries cover AndrÃ©n''s time as a foreman on the building of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. An extended flashback charts the journey of a railroad worker, San, who was kidnapped in China and shipped to America in 1863. After finding evidence linking a mysterious Chinese man to the HesjÃ¶vallen murders, Roslin travels to Beijing, suspecting that the motive for the horrific crime is rooted in the past. While each section, ranging in setting from the bleak frozen landscape of northern Sweden to modern-day China bursting onto the global playing field, compels, the parts don''t add up to a fully satisfying whole.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics generally agree that Mankell''s stand-alone thriller--a combination of police procedural and geopolitical novel--lives up to the best of the Kurt Wallander series. Piercing into its inquiries into corruption, revenge, as well as imperialism, Communism, racism, and other evil "isms," The Man from Beijing reaches for deeper truths about humanity and largely succeeds. Some reviewers identified a few missteps, with the Spectator criticizing the wandering narrative and polemical tone. But in the end, the novel just may, as the Los Angeles Times noted, "cement Mankell''s reputation as Sweden''s greatest living mystery writer."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(21603, 'The Man In The High Castle', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dick''s Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternative history considers the question of what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost WWII. Some 20 years after that loss, the United States and much of the world has now been split between Japan and Germany, the major hegemonic states. But the tension between these two powers is mounting, and this stress is playing out in the western U.S. Through a collection of characters in various states of posing (spies, sellers of falsified goods, others with secret identities), Dick provides an intriguing tale about life and history as it relates to authentic and manufactured reality. Tom Weiner reveals an impressive vocal range that delivers the host of characters with distinct culture, class and gender personas, which helps to sort the various plot strands. His prose reading is engaging, though sometimes lacks sufficient emphasis and energy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names; all because twenty years earlier America lost a war and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(21604, 'The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch', 'Michael Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Book Description\n </p>\n <p>\n  If Rupert Murdoch isnâ€™t making headlines, heâ€™s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings--from the\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n  , Fox News, and most recently\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , to name just a few--are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Owns the News\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch''s $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and\n  <em>\n   Newsday\n  </em>\n  as theyâ€™ve never been revealed before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in the irresistible stye that only an award-winning columnist for\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  can deliver,\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Owns the News\n  </em>\n  offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale--and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Interview with Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Over the years, Rupert Murdoch has built a personal fortune worth $9 billion and a global media empire that includes more than 100 newspapers, the Fox movie studio and television networks, satellite TV systems in Europe and Asia, the book publisher Harper Collins, and MySpace. Despite that, he has continued to be regarded as an outsider, an interloper at the establishment ball. Is that perception of him accurate, or is it an image that he has carefully cultivated to serve his own goals?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Wolff: I think both are absolutely true. Rupert Murdoch came into this business as an outsider and he continues to see himself as such, no matter that he owns everything, controls everything, and is the central person of our time. He continues to see himself as an outsider and it gives him enormous happiness, joy, and a reason to get up in the morning to stick it to, I guess, the rest of us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: In 2007, Murdoch mounted a successful $5 billion bid to acquire Dow Jones, a drama that occupies center stage in your narrative. Why did he pursue Dow Jones and its crown jewel,\n   <em>\n    The Wall Street Journal\n   </em>\n   ? Was it an expression of the opportunism for which he is legendary, a bid for respectability, or both?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MW: It was a bid for a newspaper. Murdoch is a newspaper man--a man who is consumed by newspapers. His reason for being is newspapers.\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  is arguably second only to the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , the best newspaper in the world--and Murdoch had set his sights on it long before he had any hope of getting it. Thatâ€™s one of the interesting things about Murdoch: The fact that he has no hope of realizing his dreams is never an impediment to him. With Dow Jones, he was just there and just wouldnâ€™t go away, and, finally, as in all things, it comes to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: Murdoch has said that he is â€œproudâ€ of the enemies he has made. Why does he instill such strong feelings of fear, contempt, and even outright loathing in so many people? What is it about him that gets under peopleâ€™s skin?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MW: The truth is that he doesnâ€™t go along. â€œTo get along, you go alongâ€ is not a Murdochian turn of phrase or turn of mind. He is a man who, because he comes out of the newspaper business, has fought newspaper wars and newspaper-like wars wherever heâ€™s gone. Thereâ€™s always an enemy, and an enemy gives Rupert a reason for being, it gives structure to the fight, it gets him up in the morning--and it means that at the end of the day, thereâ€™s always a winner and thereâ€™s always a loser. Thereâ€™s no middle ground, thereâ€™s no ambivalence with Rupert Murdoch.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: The title of your book,\n   <em>\n    The Man Who Owns the News\n   </em>\n   , calls to mind outsized media moguls such as Henry Luce, William Randolph Hearst, and William Paley, men who relished ownership of their media properties and used them not just to build their fortunes but also to influence politics and society. Do you see Murdoch as a continuation of that historical tradition? And, if so, is he the â€œLast True Mogul,â€ an anachronistic throw-back in todayâ€™s world?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MW: The point is that Rupert Murdoch is so much bigger than any of these men. The world has never seen someone like Murdoch. He has held power literally longer than any politician, any businessman, any celebrity in our day and age. For thirty years he has been at the top of his game, more influential than anyone else across that period of time. So you have to see Rupert as absolutely sui generis, absolutely unique. We will, I doubt, ever see the likes of Rupert Murdoch again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q: In reporting your book, you gained an unprecedented level of access to Murdoch himself, as well as to his family members and most trusted lieutenants. How were you able to gain such access? And did Murdoch try to impose any conditions on your reporting?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MW: Absolutely no conditions were unimposed. The answer to how I gained such access remains entirely unclear to me, and I think, certainly for the first couple of months as I sat interviewing Rupert, that it was entirely unclear to him. I think he looked at me, kept looking at me, and kept asking himself, â€œWhat is this guy doing here?â€ This is partly a function of the unique culture of News Corp. I think Rupertâ€™s people thought that Rupert wanted me to be there, so I kind of found my way in. But I must say that this was cooperation beyond my wildest dreams. They never said no to anything. Even when I went to Australia and spent the day with Rupertâ€™s 99-year old mother, he called ahead and said, â€œOh, tell him anything,â€ and she did. It has been one of the seminal experiences of my long journalistic life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By no means has Michael Wolff given the world the definitive biography of Rupert Murdoch. Several critics, especially those in the United Kingdom, felt that he had not even written a factually adequate one, leaving out major episodes and making several major errors. Others wrote that Wolff has written an interesting book but that it never truly penetrates the "secret world" of its subtitle. But like the tabloid newspapers upon which Murdoch built his empire,\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Owns the News\n  </em>\n  offers so many titillating details that reviewers found it difficult to put down. Add in the fact that its foundation was an encounter between two of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in today''s media elite, and it may not even matter what''s true and what''s not.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(21605, 'The Man Who Smiled', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell''s terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series (_Firewall_, etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway. Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The police accept the assailant''s claim that it was an accident, but when Torstensson''s son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later, the brooding Wallender, who''s on sick leave and vowing to retire from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and resume his career. The chief suspectâ€”a powerful, globe-trotting Swedish businessman who''s the smiling man of the titleâ€”leads Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence. Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Swedish crime writer Mankell has taken U.S. publishing by storm over the last decade, launching a genre-altering invasion of his fellow Scandinavian mystery authors and (with other Europeans such as John Harvey and Andrea Camilleri) reinterpreting the notion of the hard-boiled hero. No longer the strong, silent, stand-up guy of American fiction, the new European hero, led by Mankell''s Kurt Wallander, faces the horrors of the modern world with a sagging spirit, nearly overwhelmed. Lately, though, Mankell has rested Wallander, focusing instead on other cops in and around Ystad, Sweden, including Wallander''s daughter, Linda, the star of\n <em>\n  Before the Frost\n </em>\n (2005). Now the series returns to Wallander but backtracks in time.\n <em>\n  The Man Who Smiled\n </em>\n , written in 1994, was the fourth in the series but is only now appearing in the U.S. It finds Wallander on the verge of quitting the Ystad police force; then a friend who had asked for his help is killed, and the would-be retiree is compelled to go back to work. The case that unfolds, involving a the head of a multinational corporation who traffics in the selling of human organs, opens yet another window on the unimaginable horrors of modern life, but this time Wallander responds with new resolve. Devotees of the series will be thrilled to pick up this missing chapter in the ongoing saga, but it is a bit disconcerting to keep the chronology straight. Still, any new Wallander novel--in whatever order--constitutes a major event in crime fiction.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(21606, 'The Man with the Golden Arm', 'Nelson Algren', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <h3>\n    Review\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     A true novelist''s triumph\n    </i>\n    . --Time\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch....Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful....Mr. Algren, boy, you are good. --Ernest Hemingway\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    A thriller that packs more of a punch than Pulp Fiction and more grittiness than either Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. --Scotsman\n   </p>\n   <h3>\n    Product Description\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    Seven Stories Press is proud to release the first critical edition of Nelson Algren''s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949. Considered Algren''s finest work,\n    <em>\n     The Man with the Golden Arm\n    </em>\n    recounts one man''s self-destruction in Chicago''s Polish ghetto. The novel''s protagonist, Frankie Machine, remains a tragic American hero half a century after Algren created this gritty and relentlessly dark tale of modern urban society.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he''s a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he''s not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. With consummate skill and a finely-tuned ear for the authentic dialogue of the backstreets, Algren lays bare the tragedy and humour of Frankie''s world.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A true novelist''s triumph. --Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch....Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful....Mr. Algren, boy, you are good. --Ernest Hemingway\n </p>\n <p>\n  A thriller that packs more of a punch than Pulp Fiction and more grittiness than either Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. --Scotsman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Back in print at last is this masterwork of one of the truly original voices in 20th-century American literature. Chicago card dealer and junkie Frankie Machine is as tough as anyone in the Windy City''s underworld--but not tough enough to break his habit. This fiction classic was made into an acclaimed film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Frank Sinatra.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(21607, 'Manner of Death', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The spirit of D.B. Cooper--the legendary hijacking parachutist--hovers over Stephen White''s latest book about Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory, and this jaunty ghost gives the outing even more stylish substance than usual. By adding elements of Cooper''s crime and disappearance (with a large amount of cash) to a story of medical malpractice and resulting revenge, White--a practicing Colorado psychologist himself--pushes the envelope of what''s real and what''s fictional to the advantage of both.\n</p>\n<p>\n After attending the funeral of a former colleague from his days as an intern, Gregory is accosted (and has a tempting Mexican lunch spoiled) by a pair of edgy ex-FBI agents now working for a high-ticket private security firm. They believe that the colleague''s "accidental" death on a hiking trip is really part of an attempt to wipe out everyone who was part of a particular team in a psychiatric unit at the University of Colorado''s Health Services Center in Denver in 1982. As members of that team, Gregory--and his former lover, Sawyer Sackett--are among the few remaining survivors and the next likely targets. Overhearing this news causes a waitress to drop two platters of green chili burritos in a messy clatter.\n</p>\n<p>\n D.B. Cooper becomes an important part of the story as Gregory, his prosecutor wife, Lauren (whose multiple sclerosis leads to some unusual and important observations), their cop friend Sam Purdy, and the two ex-FBI agents zero in on possible suspects--one of whom has an abnormal fascination with the hijacker''s life. White spends a tad too much time on Alan''s past history with the mysterious Sawyer, but in general his narrative engine runs smoothly and powerfully toward its satisfying and largely unexpected conclusion. Other Gregory books include __,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The invigorating twists and turns of practicing psychologist White''s (Privileged Information) new Alan Gregory thriller drag readers over rugged Colorado terrain, past a gauntlet of eccentric characters spawned by the Rocky Mountain lifestyle, through the most intimate details of the protagonists'' lives, leaving them gasping at the switchback ending of this chilling stalker novel. Attending the funeral of a former colleague, Boulder psychologist Alan learns from two quirky ex-FBI agents that this is the latest in a string of clueless murders targeting the entire group of students, supervisors and staff who shared Alan''s clinical psychology residency some years earlier. Only Alan and his former lover, Dr. Sawyer Sackett, now survive, and they are undoubtedly next on the killer''s hit list. Alan''s wife, Lauren, a prosecuting attorney afflicted with multiple sclerosis, is threatened as well, but throws her considerable skills fully into the fray. Alan''s friend on the Boulder police force, Detective Sam Purdy, provides police clout, FBI equalizing and protection for Lauren. The pros go after former patients, but Alan and Sawyer snoop best, tracing a lead involving legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper and some truly disturbed suspects. White conveys his love for Colorado and his profession while delivering an evaluation of the mental health industry. Martinet shrinks and caring analysts get equal billing, while both the promise and limitations of psychology are cleanly spelled out. A newly honed sense of humor adds zip to White''s prose without detracting a mite from the menace and gore. Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(21608, 'Martian Time Slip', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker''s union--suspect that Manfred''s disorderÂ Â may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(21609, 'Mary And The Giant', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twenty-year old Mary Anne Reynolds lives in Pacific Park, California, and is looking for love. The time is 1953. Seeking a "giant" of a man to make her life right, Mary has brief affairs with a black blues singer and the middle-aged owner of a classical music record store. Mary knows that she "wants out" of Pacific Park, but she doesn''t know much more. This slice-of-life novel, a classic tale of 1950s frustration, has considerable literary merit both for characterization and the vividness of its setting. A well-drawn, sympathetic character, Mary is something of a forerunner of the liberated Sixties woman. Written 30-odd years ago when the late science fiction great was still in his 20s, this mainstream novel is being published for the first time in its entirety. Even now, it has a strong sense of relevancy and deserves a wide readership. James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own way in the world. But Pacific Park, California, in the 1950s is not really the place for Mary. Her relationship with a black singer offends against the small town''s views on sexual mores and exposes its bigoted views on race. This is a powerful portrayal of the claustrophobia of small-town California, and Mary Anne Reynolds is one of the most memorable characters Dick ever created.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(21610, 'Maximum Bob', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darker than his usual fare (something very bad occurs to a good guy), Leonard''s ( Get Shorty ) latest is no less excellent. Elvin Crowe, of a habitually criminal Florida family, is out of jail and looking to run a scam on rich probationer Dr. Tommy Vasco, ex-friend (lover?) of Elvin''s prison boyfriend. Turns out that all three were sentenced by illiberal Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs, aka Maximum Bob. For $10,000 Elvin contracts to kill Gibbs, wondering if he can get more out of Dr. Tommy. Meanwhile Gibbs is trying to scare off his weird young wife, Leanne, a possible psychic sharing a body with Wanda Grace, a dead slave girl. Racist and sexist as any redneck, Gibbs has eyes for young Kathy Diaz Baker, probation officer for Elvin, Elvin''s nephew and eventually Dr. Tommy. Still angry about a failed marriage to an Anglo cad, Kathy meets youngish detective Gary Hammond. They start working together (Who brought a gator to Gibbs''s house? Who shot at the house? What''s Elvin up to with Dr. Tommy?) and fall in love. Leonard''s suspense, pace, humor and ear (probation officers talking shop, e.g.) are as wonderful, dry and true as ever. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured alternates; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard returns to the Florida coastline for his weakest novel since Touch (1987)--a bumpily humorous but unfocused seriofarce about a probation officer and the eccentric judge she gets entangled with. As one of Leonard''s very few heroines in 29 novels, spunky Kathy Baker of the Florida Dept. of Corrections blows a whiff of fresh air into the Leonard canon--as does the outspoken, aging hanging-judge Bob Gibbs--but not enough to put the spring into a slack plot that begins when skirt-chasing Gibbs takes a fancy to Kathy as she shows up in his courtroom with probation-violator Dale Crowe Junior. Gibbs throws the book at Dale, then asks former psychology-major Kathy out on a date under the guise of her talking to his wife, a former showgirl who seems to be possessed by the spirit of a 12-year-old 18th-century slave girl. Before Kathy can visit Gibbs, however, a hugh alligator appears on his property and sends his wife scurrying for northern climes. And that''s just fine by Gibbs, who turns out to have imported the gator to get rid of his loony wife. But when Gibbs double-deals Dickey Campau, who brought the gator, Campau drives out to the judge''s home and shoots up the house. Which is just as well, because the shots scare off Elvin Crowe, Dale''s mean and flaky uncle, who''s been hired by another of the judge''s irate courtroom-victims, a crack-addicted M.D., to kill the judge. Caught up in the investigation into the gator-attack and shooting, Kathy matches up professionally and romantically with cool cop Gary Hammond--until a jarring note of raw violence takes out Gary and sets Kathy up for an anticlimactic confrontation with Elvin and the M.D. Nicely realized characters, the usual smart Leonard dialogue, a few moments of brisk high/low humor--but the meandering plot lacks drive, Gibbs rolls around like a loose wheel, and the whole affair seems more like a pale Carl Hiaasen imitation than true-blue Leonard: It''s all a big disappointment after Leonard''s crackling last, Get Shorty (1990). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(21611, 'McMafia', 'Misha Glenny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization of organized crime. Current estimates suggest that illegal trade accounts for nearly one-fifth of global GDP.McMafia is a fearless, encompassing, wholly authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether discussing the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, or Chinese labor smugglers, Misha Glenny makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West.To trace the disparate strands of this hydra-like story, Glenny talked to police, victims, politicians, and members of the global underworld in eastern Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, Japan, and India. The story of organized crimeâ€™s phenomenal, often shocking growth is truly the central political story of our time. McMafia will change the way we look at the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(21612, 'McSweeney&#39;s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this varied collection of enchanting though not always astonishing tales, Chabon (who also edited\n <em>\n  McSweeney''s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales\n </em>\n ) aims for an anthology full of "genre bending and stylistic play." There''s quite a lineup of writers taking a stab at "genre" fiction here: many expected (Margaret Atwood, Stephen King), but a few surprises as well, and a newcomer or two. Atwood offers a fantastical tale of a human "lusus naturae" (freak of nature) who suffers from a nameless disease that results in yellow eyes, red fingernails and fangsâ€”how does such a creature fit into a family? Jonathan Lethem''s charming "Vivian Relf," which concerns two strangers who seem familiar to each other and who continue to cross each others'' paths, is a kind of love story, but there are also tales creepy (Jason Roberts''s "7C") and strange (China MiÃ©ville''s "Reports of Certain Events in London"). Stephen King''s "Lisey and the Madman" is full of engaging detail and feeling. While a couple of stories fail to reach the high-water mark, this collection will offer readers plenty of pleasure and perhaps even a sense of doing good (an endnote says that "this book benefits 826 Valencia," the San Francisco writing lab founded by Dave Eggers and Co.).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, and more!\n</p>\n<p>\n Margaret Atwood- Lusus Naturae\n</p>\n<p>\n David Mitchell- What You Do Not Know You Want\n</p>\n<p>\n Jonathan Lethem- Vivian Relf\n</p>\n<p>\n Ayelet Waldman - Minnow\n</p>\n<p>\n Steve Erickson- Zeroville\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen King- Lisey and the Madman\n</p>\n<p>\n Jason Roberts - 7C\n</p>\n<p>\n Heidi Julavits- The Miniaturist\n</p>\n<p>\n Roddy Doyle - The Child\n</p>\n<p>\n Daniel Handler - Delmonico\n</p>\n<p>\n Charles Dâ€™Ambrosio - The Scheme of Things\n</p>\n<p>\n Poppy Z. Brite - The Devil of Delery Street\n</p>\n<p>\n China Mieville- Reports of Certain Events in London\n</p>\n<p>\n Joyce Carol Oates - The Fabled Light-house at Viâ€“a del Mar\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Straub - Mr. Aickmanâ€™s Air Rifle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(21613, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy''s. (It''s in two separate collections, both worth owning,\n <strong>\n  and the Christmas-themed\n </strong>\n .) Sedaris''s caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."\n</p>\n<p>\n Every glimpse we get of Sedaris''s family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word\n <em>\n  pen\n </em>\n had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with\n <em>\n  s\n </em>\n sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn''t share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day''s episode.\n</p>\n<p>\n It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray''s\n <strong>\n  . The only possible reason not to read this book is if you''d rather hear the author''s intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get\n </strong>\n on audio.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedaris is Garrison Keillor''s evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris (Naked) focuses on the icy patches that mar life''s sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor''s. Many of the 27 short essays collected here (which appeared originally in the New Yorker, Esquire and elsewhere) deal with his father, Lou, to whom the book is dedicated. Lou is a micromanager who tries to get his uninterested children to form a jazz combo and, when that fails, insists on boosting David''s career as a performance artist by heckling him from the audience. Sedaris suggests that his father''s punishment for being overlx involved in his kids'' artistic lives is David''s brother Paul, otherwise known as "The Rooster," a half-literate miscreant whose language is outrageously profane. Sedaris also writes here about the time he spent in France and the difficulty of learning another language. After several extended stays in a little Norman village and in Paris, Sedaris had progressed, he observes, "from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. ''Is thems the thoughts of cows?'' I''d ask the butcher, pointing to the calves'' brains displayed in the front window." But in English, Sedaris is nothing if not nimble: in one essay he goes from his cat''s cremation to his mother''s in a way that somehow manages to remain reverent to both of the departed. "Reliable sources" have told Sedaris that he has "tended to exhaust people," and true to form, he will exhaust readers of this new book, tooDwith helpless laughter. 16-city author tour. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/19');
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(21614, 'Messiah', 'Vidal, Gore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When John Cave, a mortician by trade, appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Aided by a relentless public-relations campaign and supported by a "theology" whipped into existence by a historian besotted with love for one of Cave''s alluring disciples, Cave''s message proves irresistible. Things really start to get out of hand, however, when the notion of "voluntary death" creeps into the doctrine and the world''s population is invited to depart from life in "pleasant establishments". A deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy first published in 1954, Messiah eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and "Do", the guru of Heaven''s Gate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(21615, 'Middlesex', 'Jeffrey Eugenides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory. Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides''s command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie''s shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor: Emotions, in my experience aren''t covered by single words. I don''t believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I''d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one''s fantasy." ... I''d like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I''ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I''ve entered my story, I need them more than ever. When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you''ll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing itâ€”putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnightâ€”just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. â€”Brad Thomas Parsons\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins\n <em>\n  Middlesex\n </em>\n , the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut,\n <em>\n  The Virgin Suicides\n </em>\n , remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides''s command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie''s shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p class="description">\n  Emotions, in my experience aren''t covered by single words. I don''t believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." â€¦ I''d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one''s fantasy." ... I''d like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I''ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I''ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class="description">\n When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you''ll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing itâ€”putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnightâ€”just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end.\n <em>\n  â€”Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to know as much about the chemical details of their ancestry as Victorian heroes knew about their estates. If so, Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides) is ahead of the game. His beautifully written novel begins: "Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. Peter Luce''s study, ''Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites.'' " The "me" of that sentence, "Cal" Stephanides, narrates his story of sexual shifts with exemplary tact, beginning with his immigrant grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty. On board the ship taking them from war-torn Turkey to America, they married-but they were brother and sister. Eugenides spends the book''s first half recreating, with a fine-grained density, the Detroit of the 1920s and ''30s where the immigrants settled: Ford car factories and the tiny, incipient sect of Black Muslims. Then comes Cal''s story, which is necessarily interwoven with his parents'' upward social trajectory. Milton, his father, takes an insurance windfall and parlays it into a fast-food hotdog empire. Meanwhile, Tessie, his wife, gives birth to a son and then a daughter-or at least, what seems to be a female baby. Genetics meets medical incompetence meets history, and Callie is left to think of her "crocus" as simply unusually long-until she reaches the age of 14. Eugenides, like Rick Moody, has an extraordinary sensitivity to the mores of our leafier suburbs, and Cal''s gender confusion is blended with the story of her first love, Milton''s growing political resentments and the general shedding of ethnic habits. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about this book is Eugenides''s ability to feel his way into the girl, Callie, and the man, Cal. It''s difficult to imagine any serious male writer of earlier eras so effortlessly transcending the stereotypes of gender. This is one determinedly literary novel that should also appeal to a large, general audience.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(21616, 'Might as Well be Dead', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MysteryLarge Print EditionEleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herald gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesnt want to be found . . . and what if hes the same P.H. whos currently on trial for cold-blooded murder? Its a case that will draw the great detective and his dedicated sidekick, Archie Goodwin, into a sticky web of deceit one that will tax their resources to the utmost, and even cost them one of their own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(21617, 'The Minority Report', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he''s hired to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick''s masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timedthe movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summerbut whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that''s available in various collections remains to be seen.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. The author of thirty-six novels, including the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Blade Runner\n </em>\n , and five short story collections, he won a Hugo Award for\n <em>\n  The Man in the High Castle,\n </em>\n and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award\n <em>\n  for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.\n </em>\n He died in 1982.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the world of\n <em>\n  The Minority Report,\n </em>\n Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"â€“people with the power to see into the futureâ€“to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive\n <em>\n  him\n </em>\n as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a thing, and this knowledge proves the precogs are fallible. Now, whichever way he turns, Anderton is doomedâ€“unless he can find the precogs''s "minority report"â€“the dissenting voice that represents his one hope of getting at the truth in time to save himself from his own system.\n</p>\n<p>\n A film version of\n <em>\n  The Minority Report\n </em>\n , directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, will be released this summerâ€“further proof of the enduring appeal of Philip K. Dick''s visionary fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(21618, 'The minority report: and other classic stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vol. 4\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The popular sci fi author''s classic short story, "The Minority Report"--now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise and produced by Dreamworks--takes place in a future world where scientists predict criminal behavior before it happens. This volume features the title story plus 17 others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(21619, 'Miracle Cure', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....After a troubled past, Dr.Â Â Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself.Â Â At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he''s been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug.Â Â The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted into the study.But Brian is beginning to suspect his superiors are hiding something.Â Â Why are crucial records disappearing? Why did a patient making startling progress suddenly die? Is the miracle drug a prescription for death? The answers could cost Brian more than his career.Â Â For at Boston Heart Institute, knowing too much is the quickest way to the morgue.From the Paperback edition.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   With each successive bestsellerï¼Œ including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgmentï¼Œ ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scaryï¼Œ" (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe.??Nowï¼Œ in Miracle Cureï¼Œ Michael Palmer delivers his most electrifying thriller yetï¼Œ as an unsuspecting doctor seeks the truth behind a miracle drug...and uncovers a deadly conspiracy.An agonizing sports injury did more than end Brian Holbrook s professional football dreams.??It left the skilled cardiologist with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine.??But nowï¼Œ at thirty-eightï¼Œ Brian s cleaned up his actï¼Œ swallowed his prideï¼Œ and is ready to start over.??Yet how far is he willing to go to be a doctor again???The prestigious Boston Heart Instituteï¼Œ home of some of the world s top surgeons and cardiologistsï¼Œ has offered Brian an opportunity to get back into scrubs...and participate in trials of an extraordinary new drug that could revolutionize medicine.??Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosisï¼Œ the number one killer in the civilized world.??In shortï¼Œ it offers the promise of a pharmaceutical fountain of youth.The initial results are so dazzlingï¼Œ Brian pushes to get his own fatherï¼Œ who has a dangerous heart conditionï¼Œ accepted into the Vasclear study.??But soon Brian is uneasy.??Under close scrutiny because of his pastï¼Œ he knows that the last thing he can afford to do is make waves--and yet he finds himself compelled to ask questions that his superiors can tï¼Œ or won tï¼Œ answer: Why crucial records have disappeared....??Why a patient who d made startling progress has suddenly died....??With billions of dollars at stake in the race to get FDA approval for the drugï¼Œ Brian s meddling could destroy his career--or worse.??For as Dr. Brian Holbrook is beginning to suspectï¼Œ at Boston Heart Instituteï¼Œ knowing too much is the quickest way to the morgue.??From the corridors of a world-renowned temple of healing to the halls of Congressï¼Œ an exercise in greed turns into an experiment in terror--in Miracle Cureï¼Œ another suspense triumph from the new master of the medical thrillerï¼Œ Michael Palmer.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this flawed medical thriller about the marketing of a new drug by veteran writer Palmer (The Sisterhood), one plot twist too many turns a frightening vision of corporate greed into an excuse for prefab heroics. The drug is called Vasclear, a heart medication being developed at the Boston Heart Institute by Newbury Pharmaceuticals. The FDA is being pressured by a Massachusetts senator (who, it turns out, is secretly taking Vasclear himself) to approve the release of the drug. And Vasclear may be the magic wand that can save the life of Jack "Coach" Holbrook, whose health is declining after a quintuple bypass. Coach''s son, Brian (an M.D. living at home and working as a rental-car gofer while he recovers from an addiction to painkillers), not only faces the ethical dilemma of stealing the drug if he can''t place his father as a test patient but also finds evidence of potentially dangerous side effects?evidence that could derail the drug''s release to the public. The characters are sitcom thin, the moral dilemma is barely raised before it''s resolved and the inclusion of a Chechen Mafia subplot only serves to transport the story further into an unlikely realm, where otherwise efficient killers do nothing more dangerous than send the hero a threat in the mail and members of drug and alcohol recovery groups know more about pharmaceutical companies than the FDA. Palmer''s thriller-friendly prose, pacing and plotting draw readers on here, but, like Vasclear, his novel should have spent more time in development before it hit the shelves.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A disgraced doctor finds himself working in an experimental program where patients are dying mysteriously.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(21620, 'Missing Persons', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Psychologist Alan Gregory finds his own colleague dead, while one of her patients-a young girl-has gone missing from Boulder on Christmas Day. With the police baffled, the answers to both cases may be locked inside the mind of a deeply disturbed client Alan has been treating. Running a maze of dilemmas, Alan takes a bold risk that will cost him his career-or his life. REVIEW; White''s best. (Denver Post)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(21621, 'Mobipocket Guide September 18, 2009', 'MobileRead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(21622, 'Models for Murder', 'W T Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n  Pulp - Private Detective Stories.45.08.Â \n </span>\n</font>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(21623, 'Moment Of Vengeance and Other Stories (1956)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable\n </em>\n Elmore Leonard\n <em>\n  wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n There is a moment when obsession, rage, and destiny come together at the end of a shotgun barrelâ€”when wrongs, actual or perceived, are addressed with violence, and the awesome power of life or death rests in a trigger finger. In seven magnificent stories of sins, crimes, conscience, and savage retribution, the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling master carries us back to an untamed time and place where a simple transgression most often proved fatal . . . and the only true justice lived in the hands of the gunman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(21624, 'The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist', 'Dan Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unforgettable for his howlingly funny sendup of pro football in Semi-Tough and his equally droll spoof of the PGA Tour Dead Solid Perfect, columnist Jenkins (Golf Digest) is as irreverent and hip a sports satirist as ever tarred and feathered a poor unwary and overpaid former Muni-caddy from Fort Worth, Tex., without benefit of anesthetic. In this latest blasphemous roasting of the PGA, Jenkins''s first novel in 25 years, he offers up nonhero Bobby Joe Grooves, aka "Spin" to his friends, a latter-day self-styled golf historian who resigned to his role as a "light-running money-whipped, steer-job, three-jack, give-up artist" (read: journeyman touring pro) has made a "separate peace." Bobby Joe has become disenchanted with the cheating ways (on and off the course) of the European darling superstar, Knut Thorssun, aka Knut the Nuke, who, largely thanks to his cavalier disregard for rules, has two majors to his credit. Twice-divorced, Bobby Joe is keeping his libido in bounds with Cheryl Haney, a Hooters-class Fort Worth real estate agent. Struggling to make the Ryder Cup team for the first time in his 16-year career, Bobby Joe is having a hard time pacifying his main squeeze and exes, and fighting off a self-styled wannabe golf hack who insists on calling him "Spin" and wants to pen his memoir. To make matters worse, when Cheryl learns he strayed with his amateur partner''s horny wife at Pebble Beach, she goes into knee-lock. Hawaiian Open to Ryder Cup, the tour (and thereby the tale) comes down to crossed-putters mano a mano with Knut. A sort of "Saturday Night Live does Harvey Penick''s Little Red Book," this goofy encyclopedia of golf shines with rays of simple truth. (Aug.)Forecast: This book will be catnip for golf lovers, and the upcoming Ryder Cup matches should feed into the pre-pub hype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n If most golf novels sound like either\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n sketches or Sunday-morning sermons, Jenkins definitely belongs in the late-night category. His\n <em>\n  Dead Solid Perfect\n </em>\n (1974) virtually invented the comic golf novel. Now he returns to the PGA Tour for another attempt to disprove the notion that professional golfers (other than Tiger) are bland, charisma-deprived ciphers. His hero is a good ol'' Fort Worth boy called Bobby Joe Grooves. Bobby may not be the best golfer on the tour (he''s never won a major tournament), but he is definitely no cipher. We pick up Bobby Joe''s story in Hawaii, where he has just "three-jacked" (three-putted) his way to a disappointing nineteenth-place finish in the Hawaiian Open, which is why he''s sitting in a bar downing what he calls "Juniors" (J &amp; B scotch). As Bobby Joe grinds his way through a year on the tour, trying to qualify for the Ryder Cup while dealing with two needy ex-wives and a jealous girlfriend off the course, Jenkins keeps the jokes coming, managing to offend just about everyone with any political ax to grind. Those who enjoy seeing feathers ruffled will enjoy the PC-bashing, but the jokes themselves tend to be a bit of a hit-and-miss affair. Better is the fascinating golf history, especially regarding course design, that Jenkins filters into the story, along with his uncanny ability to expose the pretensions of both golfers and their fans. Not the landmark its predecessor was, but still dead-solid entertainment for anyone who cares about professional golf.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(21625, 'the Moonshine War', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The finest thriller writer alive."Â Â --_The Village Voice_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr.Â Â Leonard dazzles as he sprinkles his work continuallyÂ Â with unexpected convolutions. . . his people areÂ Â real, with nary a stereotype in the pack."Â Â --_The New York Times Book Review_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "An absolute master."Â Â --_The Detroit News_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is the real thing. . . .he raise theÂ Â hard-boiled suspense novel beyond the limits of theÂ Â genre. . .he paints an acute picture of the worldÂ Â that is all too real and recognizable"Â Â --_The Washington Post_. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was Prohibition, and a big, hell-raising Son Martin had himself something special: $125,000 worth of Kentucky''s finest home-made whiskey, no one was going to steal it. Because when it came to shooting, fighting, and outsmarting the Big Boys, Son Martin wasn''t just good. He was bad . . .dangerous. . . and deadly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(21626, 'More deaths than one: a Nero Wolfe mystery', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Cyril Orchard is poisoned during a radio talk show, the brilliant detective, Nero Wolfe, is hired to investigate the murder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(21627, 'Mortal Fear', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raymond Chandler once proclaimed that the first-person narrator should never turn out to be the villain in a good mystery or thriller. Luckily, the excellent writer Greg Iles has seemingly ignored Chandler''s advice. Iles has created a character--Harper Cole, a futures trader and online pornographer--who could very well be the person killing off subscribers to his Internet sex service. Or is it Miles Turner, Cole''s very odd colleague? If you thought that stalking a killer on the Internet had been done to death in books and bad movies, this one will have you pushing the reload button on your browser. Other Iles books in paperback include\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another serial killer stalks the Internet, this one courtesy of the talented Iles (Black Cross; Spandau Phoenix). When futures trader Harper Cole, who moonlights as the systems operator of an erotic online services called EROS, contacts the New Orleans police with information about the murder of celebrated author-and EROS subscriber-Karin Wheat, he immediately becomes the prime suspect in six other murders of EROS subscribers across the country. Also on the FBI''s short list is Cole''s eccentric friend and EROS colleague Miles Turner, who has dubbed the killer "Brahma." When Cole learns that the man he thought was Brahma was killed a year ago and that his online identity was stolen, a tense cat-and-mouse game commences. Professional hunters, like FBI psychiatric profiler Arthur Lenz, have the online tables turned on them time and again by an insanely brilliant murderer, and it''s up to Cole to render justice. His digging leads to an exciting payoff when he goes online and poses as a potential victim, using as bait a secret that endangers the mother of his child, as well as his wife. While Cole''s obsession over this guilty secret makes him less than likable at times, a nailbiting climax erases any doubts about his character-and any lingering questioning about the storytelling abilities of Iles, who here uses rich first-person narration and clever plotting to tell a sizzler of a thriller. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; simultaneous Penguin Audio Book.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(21628, 'Mortal Fear', 'Robin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A chilling odyssey into the origins of life-and death." (_USA Weekend_)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(21629, 'The Mother Hunt (Rex Stout Library)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a baby is abandoned on the doorstep of a young socialite widow, the woman thinks she knows the identity of the father: her deceased writer husband, the cad! But who is the mother? Reluctantly, Nero Wolfe accepts the case, and Archie identifies the first clue: unusual buttons on the babyÂ’s overalls. "Vintage Stout: lots of grumbling and fine dining and brilliant thinking on WolfeÂ’s part." Â— Marilyn Wallace, mystery writer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(21630, 'The Mother Hunt', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A beautiful socialite widow comes to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to ask them to investigate why a baby has been abandoned on her doorstep, in a case that all too quickly leads to murder. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Someone drops off an infant on the doorstep of a wealthy and attractive widow. She hires Nero Wolfe, the famed P.I., to ferret out the baby''s mother. A couple of murders result from the investigation, placing the onus on Wolfe and his street-smart legman, Archie Goodwin, to nab the killer. When reading this and other Wolfe whodunits, one gets the distinct impression that Archie, for all his complaining, not only loves working for the obese orchid-growing P.I., but gets a huge charge from writing about their cases. One gets none of that from listening to Michael Prichard''s oral renderings of Stout''s oeuvre for Audio Editions. He is as flat as a pancake, not even bothering to look up the pronunciation of some of Wolfe''s less familiar expressions. To borrow one of Wolfe''s MORE familiar terms--Pfui! Y.R. Â© AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(21631, 'The Mother of Invention (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Non-Wolfe Stories\n <br />\n http://gadetection.pbworks.com/Stout,%20Rex\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(21632, 'Mr Majestyk', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   "Leonard is the king of crime writers."\n   <br />\n   --_Newsday_\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n   <br />\n   --_The Washington Post_\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "The hottest thriller writer in the U.S."\n   <br />\n   --_Time_\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Whatever you call his novels, they always read like Elmore Leonard, distinctive in style and vision, brilliantly inventive in plot and characters."\n   <br />\n   --_Los Angeles Times_ --\n   <em>\n    Review\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands -- and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man''s refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman. But his tormentors never realized something about their mark: this is\n   <em>\n    not\n   </em>\n   his first war. Vince Majestyk knows more than they''ll ever know about survival ... and\n   <em>\n    everything\n   </em>\n   about revenge.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works under the open skies of the American Southwest, growing melons on his farm. But a strong-arming punk came to Majestyk''s fields and set off a violent chain reaction that left Majestyk without a friend in the worldÂ—except for one tough, beautiful woman.Heading to prison, Majestyk finds himself shackled beside a notorious Mafia hit man. And now a man who''s been searching for peace and a man who''s been looking for an angle are about to be set free by a violent breakout: making the farmer and the hit man each other''s only hopeÂ—and worst possible enemy.Mr. Majestyk is vintage Leonard, an edgy, dark, fiendishly compelling tale of a quiet manÂ—making a whole lot of noise....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(21633, 'Mr Paradise', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifteen years after his last Detroit novel, Killshot, Leonard (whose most recent effort was Tishomingo Blues) returns to Motor City for another exemplary crime thriller. Chloe Robinette, an escort, is on a $5,000 monthly retainer from wealthy, retired octogenarian lawyer Anthony Paradiso; her duties include dancing topless in a cheerleader''s outfit for him as he watches videos of old University of Michigan football games. On a night she persuades her roommate, Kelly Barr, a Victoria''s Secret model, to join her in the dancing, Chloe and Paradiso, aka Mr. Paradise, are shot dead in Paradiso''s mansion by two middle-aged white thugs. The hit has been set up by Paradiso''s right-hand man, Montez Taylor, who''s angry at Paradiso for cutting him out of his will; Montez then asks the shocked Kelly to impersonate Chloe in order to scam valuables from Paradiso''s safe deposit box, to which Chloe had a key. Enter Frank Delsa, a Detroit homicide cop, who smells a rat and falls for Kelly while sorting matters out. She falls for him, too, but will the hit men and/or Montez take her out, since she can identify them as conspirators? Like the best crime thrillers-which means like most of Leonard''s work-this novel is character-driven, and in its wonderfully rich, authentically human cast the story finds its surprises. The prose, as expected from Leonard, is perfect-in 304 pages, there''s not a word that doesn''t belong exactly where he''s placed it. Brilliantly constructed, wise and tough, this book, like so many recent Leonards, offers a master class in how to write a novel.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s a dubious proposition from the outset, destined to lead to trouble: Chloe Robinette, a high-end former Detroit call girl, asks her lingerie model roommate, Kelly Barr, to help her entertain a wealthy octogenarian trial lawyer named Anthony Paradiso. By "entertain," she means donning a cheerleader''s skimpy skirt, but going topless, and doing rah-rah routines beside a TV set while Paradiso--"Mr. Paradise"--watches videotaped football games. A bit kinky for Kelly''s taste, but she finally goes along--only to be caught in the middle of a contract hit on Paradiso and Chloe. Rather than tell what little she knows of these crimes, Kelly buys into a scheme, concocted by Paradiso''s right-hand man, Montez Taylor, that could lead to a huge payoff from the lawyer''s estate. But only if the 27-year-old Kelly can convincingly assume Chloe''s identity ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elmore Leonard, who''s made his career writing about not-too-bright bad guys, fills\n  <em>\n   Mr. Paradise\n  </em>\n  with several memorable specimens of that breed. In addition to Montez, who''d resented his politically incorrect boss for cutting him out of his will, there''s also a bottom-feeding defense attorney, Avern Cohn, who runs a murder-for-hire operation on the side, and his well-armed employees of the month, "tough monkeys" Carl Fontana and Arthur Krupa. Less credibly and entertainingly crafted is Frank Delsa, the widowed homicide detective whose hunt for Paradiso''s killers is complicated by his attraction to the curvilinear Kelly. This romantic subplot is overly predictable and deflates early expectations that the cunning young model is playing some deeper game here, working an angle that neither Delsa nor Montez anticipates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After penning a string of character-propelled novels set in Florida (including __,\n  <strong>\n   , and the particularly winning\n  </strong>\n  ), it''s good to see Leonard exploiting the Detroit backdrop again, as he did so expertly in a few of his earlier successes (\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , for instance). Yet while\n  <em>\n   Mr. Paradise\n  </em>\n  is rich with comic dialogue and cop-shop color, it never goes beyond the expectations of a Leonard work. This author is too good not to take more chances.\n  <em>\n   --J. Kingston Pierce\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(21634, 'Murder By The Book', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Manhattan Police Inspector Cramer asks for Wolfeâ€™s help in solving the suspicious death of a law office clerk who has been fished out of the Hudson River. His probable homicide-causing offense? Submitting a manuscript for publication! With the manuscript missing and the only two to read it dead, the only clues are a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead manâ€™s pocket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(21635, 'Murder In Style', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(21636, 'Murder Most Frothy', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This summer, Clare Cosi leaves her Manhattan coffee shop behind as she heads for the Hamptons--and perhaps the biggest jolt of her life. Because at her wealthy friend''s fabulous Fourth of July bash, more than the coffee gets iced.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(21637, 'Naked Came the Manatee (1996)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Barry starts the madness in\n <em>\n  Naked Came the Manatee\n </em>\n , introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry''s favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida''s literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published as a serial novel in the\n <em>\n  Miami Herald''s Tropic\n </em>\n magazine,\n <em>\n  Naked Came the Manatee\n </em>\n resembles a literary game of telephone, with each writer contributing a chapter and passing it on to the next, who then makes the most of what he or she is given. The result is a novel with wildly fluctuating styles and more crazy plot curves than a daytime drama, but thanks to these 13 masters of the craft this roller coaster of a book is almost as much fun to read as it obviously was to write.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aside from Hiaasen, this collective effort is authored by a host of South Florida writers?Dave Barry, Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan, James W. Hall, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Tananarive Due, Brian Antoni, Vicki Hendricks, John Dufresne, and Elmore Leonard?who joined forces a year ago to write a 13-week serial in the "Tropic" section of the Miami Herald. In Miami, John Deal, Britt Montero, and Jake Lassitor (stock characters of Standiford, Buchanan, and Levine, respectively) join forces to help a 102-year-old environmentalist and her granddaughter investigate a mysterious, hermetically sealed head-sized canister brought up from the depths by Booger, a saintly manatee who roams the coves off Coconut Grove and seems to have a calling to save imperiled creatures. Each chapter of this comic thriller is a gem that builds on the preceding one. Highlights include a parody of Moby Dick ("Call Me Booger...") and a guest appearance by Jimmy Carter in Dufresne''s chapter. Many of these writers have a built-in readership, and all proceeds go to charity. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Laurel Wilson, Alexandrian P.L., Mount Vernon, Ind.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(21638, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a gravitas to the mystery/thrillers of Michael Connelly, a bedrock commitment to the value of human life and the need for law enforcement pros to defend that value, that sets his work apart and above that of many of his contemporaries. That gravitas is in full force in Connelly''s newest, and as nearly always in the work of this talented writer, it supports a dynamite plot, fully flowered characters and a meticulous attention to the details of investigative procedure.There are also some nifty hooks to this new Connelly: it features his most popular series character, retired L.A. homicide cop Harry Bosch, but it''s also a sequel to his first stand-alone,\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n (1996), and is only his second novel (along with\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n ) to be written in both first and third person. The first-person sections are narrated by Bosch, who agrees as a favor to the widow to investigate the death of Bosch''s erstwhile colleague and friend Terry McCaleb (of\n <em>\n  Blood Work\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Darkness More Than Night\n </em>\n ). Bosch''s digging brings him into contact with Rachel Walling, the FBI agent heroine of\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n , and the third-person narrative concerns mostly her. Though generally presumed dead, the Poetâ€”the serial killer who was a highly placed Fed and Walling''s mentorâ€”is alive and killing anew, with, we soon learn, McCaleb among his victims and his sights now set on Walling. The story shuttles between Bosch''s California and the Nevada desert, where the Poet has buried his victims to lure Walling. The suspense is steady throughout but, until a breathtaking climactic chase, arises more from Bosch and Walling''s patient and inspired following of clues and dealing with bureaucratic obstacles than from slash-and-dash: an unusually intelligent approach to generating thrills. Connelly is a master and this novel is yet another of his masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a writer of Connellyâ€™s popularity, particularly one that works with a regular cast of characters, mixed reviews are to be expected. Each successive book opens the possibility of a narrative letdown. Part of Connellyâ€™s decision to collate a few of his most enduring characters into\n <em>\n  The Narrows\n </em>\n was to address concerns many fans had with the ending of\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n . Though it strikes a few critics as a risky move that doesnâ€™t bear repeating, the general consensus is that Connelly pulls the sequel off. Some reviewers disagree about whether the back-story is ample enough for the uninitiated. But whether\n <em>\n  The Narrows\n </em>\n is his best or his worst work, its has elements of both, and plenty of the subtle characterization and gripping storyline that fans have come to expect from Connelly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(21639, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch returns in this "New York Times" bestseller. Harry investigates the death of an old friend who had ties to the hunt for the infamous serial killer, The Poet. What Harry finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she''s dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes â€” and apparently he has not forgotten her.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too â€” from the widow of an old friend. Her husband''s death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Michael Connelly is the author of the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels, including A Darkness More than Night, City of Bones, and, most recently, Lost Light; and the bestselling novels Chasing the Dime, The Poet, Blood Work, and Void Moon. He lives in Florida.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Those who are familiar with the audio adaptations of Connelly''s books will be delighted to see that Cariou lends his talents to Connelly''s latest mystery, which is a sequel to The Poet (1996). At the center of this engrossing thriller is world-weary, retired L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch. While investigating the death of ex-FBI profiler Terry McCalab, Bosch begins to suspect that the notorious serial killer The Poet, presumed dead, may be the culprit. As he digs deeper, Bosch meets and eventually joins forces with FBI agent Rachel Walling, who went up against The Poet the first time around. The novel''s point of view cuts from Bosch''s first-person commentary to the third-person perspectives of Walling and The Poet. Cariou handles these changes with professional ease. He gives Bosch a rough voice, raspy with experience, and provides Walling with a younger, but no less tough, intonation. Cariou''s vocal dexterity becomes truly apparent, however, when he reads Connelly''s descriptive passages. Whether he is illuminating a grisly crime scene, a rainstorm pummeling a Los Angeles freeway or a soft moment between Bosch and his young daughter, Cariou perfectly captures the subtleties of Connelly''s tightly written prose.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Too often when crime novelists bring together characters from different series or combine plot strands from earlier novels, the results seem awkward (like inviting two separate groups of friends to the same party). Not so with Connelly, whose latest Harry Bosch novel seamlessly intermingles material from the author''s previous work. Readers of Connelly''s The Poet (1996) have known that Bob Backus, former FBI profiler turned Poe-spouting serial killer, would be back eventually, and here he is, attempting to stage-manage a grand finale. Bosch, now a PI after retiring from the LAPD, becomes involved when the wife of FBI agent Terry McCaleb (Blood Work and A Darkness More Than Night) hires him to determine if her husband''s death was suicide or murder. The trail leads quickly to Las Vegas and the resurfaced Backus, who is being tracked by his former FBI colleagues, including his onetime protege Rachel Walling (also from The Poet). Expertly juggling the narrative between Bosch''s brooding, hard-boiled voice and a broader third-person perspective that takes in the points of view of Walling and the Poet, Connelly builds tension exponentially through superb use of dramatic irony. A stunning finale in the Narrows--the cement-lined Los Angeles River, which transforms itself during a storm from a harmless puddle into a rampaging death trap--works on multiple levels, satisfying both plot-hungry suspense addicts and character-driven Bosch devotees, who will stick with their hero--he of the "seen-it-all-twice eyes"--on his journey into the metaphorical narrows, where evil "would grab at me like an animal and take me down into the black water." This is Connelly at the top of his game.\n  <br />\n  ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Bill Ott\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  length: (cm)17.6    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€         ã€€width:(cm) 10.8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/332');
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(21640, 'Natural Causes', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest medical thriller from the author of Extreme Measures portrays a holistic healing OB/GYN who discovers that her patients are mysteriously dying from an herbal vitamin she had prescribed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Several deaths occur from definitely unnatural causes in this fast-paced medical thriller that features genetic engineering of a recombinant DNA virus and alternative, nontraditional healing methods. In the final stages of labor, a woman suddenly screams at the pain in her fingers and hands, blood gushes from her nose and mouth, and then she dies. The third time this happens, the common thread points to obstetrician Sarah Baldwin and the herbal vitamin supplements she has prescribed for expectant mothers. Sarah''s reputation, her hard work, and her future are in jeopardy unless she and her inexperienced lawyer can prove her innocence. Palmer captures the hospital environment of medicine, politics, community involvement, and relationship with the drug industry. Although slightly overlong, with several plot twists too many, this exciting page-turner will appeal to fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(21641, 'New Rose Hotel (Short Story)', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <b>\n    New Rose Hotel (1984)\n   </b>\n   <br />\n   The anonymous narrator tells about the corporate defection of Hiroshi, a very talented genetic engineer who works for Maas Biolabs GmbH in Frankfurt. The protagonist and his partner Fox cut a deal with Hosaka corporation to deliver them Hiroshi. They contact Hiroshi via Sandii, the narrator''s latest affair, who prepares the defection in Vienna. Hiroshi disappears in Berlin and is flown to a Hosaka lab in Marrakech. During the next few days, Hosaka''s leading engineers are flown to Marrakech to learn from Hiroshi, but then they all die from a virus that was created by a DNA sequencer modified by Sandii. In Vienna, she defected to Maas Biolabs and programmed their virus. Hosaka kills Fox and hunts the protagonist, who hides in ''New Rose Hotel'' near Narita International Airport and reflects about his lost love Sandii. Â¶\n   <br />\n   16 pages Â¶\n   <br />\n   Â© by Omni Publications International Ltd. 1984 Â¶\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Movie information\n   </b>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  New Rose Hotel (1998)\n  <br />\n  Â Hosaka espionage specialists aid the dangerous defection of a brilliant Japanese geneticist from Maas. Can they survive deadly intrigue, ruthless executives, and the betrayal of a beautiful, treacherous woman? Â¶\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This short story ''New Rose Hotel'' from the ''Burning Chrome'' short story collection was originally optioned by Malcolm McLaren, with Ed Pressman as producer and Kathryn Bigelow (''Blue Steel'', ''Strange Days'') attached to direct. Gibson asked fellow author John Shirley to write the script, which went through a number of revisions, at one point changing the setting from future to present and giving the story a happy ending. Â¶\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  After the project lingered on for a while, director Abel Ferrara (''Driller Killer'', ''Bad Lieutenant'') discoverd the project and asked his long-time partner Zoe Lund (''Bad Lieutenant'' scripter) to rewrite the script, once again set in a dark future setting. Finally Ferrara directed ''New Rose Hotel'', starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento. Â¶\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(21642, 'Newton&#39;s Cannon (Book One of The Age of Unreason)', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dazzling quest whose outcome will raise humanity to unparalleled heights of glory--or ring down a curtain of endless night... 1681: When Sir Isaac Newton turns his restless mind to the ancient art of alchemy, he unleashes Philosopher''s Mercury, a primal source of matter and a key to manipulating the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Now, as France and England battle for its control, Louis XIV calls for a new weapon--a mysterious device known only as Newton''s Cannon. Half a world away, a young apprentice named Benjamin Franklin stumbles across a dangerous secret. Pursued by a deadly enemy--half scientist, half sorcerer--Ben makes his fugitive way to England. Only Newton himself can help him now. But who will help Sir Isaac? For he was not the first to unleash the Philosopher''s Mercury. Others were there before him. Creatures as scornful of science as they are of mankind. And burning to be rid of both...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(21643, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller''s The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks, popular author of several romantically themed best-sellers, including\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  (1998), is back at it with his latest mix of love story and pathos. He doesn''t disappoint, whipping up plenty of melodrama in the story of two shattered people, both badly scarred by past experiences, who find each other late in life and realize they are soul mates. Adrienne Willis is a 45-year-old mother of three whose husband recently abandoned her for a younger woman. When she visits the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, seeking a bit of respite from her problems, she meets Paul Flanner, a 54-year-old doctor who has sold his thriving medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own tortured past. Despite their short courtship, the two find themselves falling madly and passionately in love and vow to spend their lives together. Unfortunately, Paul needs to make amends with the son he has long neglected and so embarks on an ill-fated trip, which leads to heartbreak. Sparks has a very solid fan base, and they will be clamoring for his latest.\n  <em>\n   Kathleen Hughes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(21644, 'Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(21645, 'Nine Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  9 Dragons\n </em>\n is a gritty, coffee-and-cigarettes crime thriller full of smart twists and generous helpings of suspense. Fans of Michael Connelly can expect another exceptional thrill ride, while newcomers will be immediately engaged by the tortured and unrelenting Bosch. "He knew one day it would come to this, that the darkness would find [his daughter] and that she would be used to get him," writes Connelly. "That day was now." --_Dave Callanan_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly nimbly balances Harry Bosch''s personal and professional lives, both of which take a substantial beating, in his 14th novel to feature the LAPD homicide detective. Bosch, last seen with his recently discovered half-brother, lawyer Mickey Haller, in\n <em>\n  The Brass Verdict\n </em>\n (2008), investigates the shooting death of a liquor store owner. While the murder has none of the hallmarks of a regular gang hit, Bosch discovers the dead man was paying a weekly protection fee to a man Bosch suspects is part of a Chinese triad. Even though Bosch is warned to drop the case, he doesn''t take the threat seriously until he receives a video showing his 13-year-old daughter, Madeline, being kidnapped in Hong Kong, where she lives with her mother and Bosch''s ex-wife, a former FBI agent. Bosch flies to Hong Kong to try to rescue Madeline, prepared to face down one of the world''s most powerful crime syndicates. Tenacious as ever, Bosch is even more formidable in his role as a protective father.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Oct. 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(21646, 'Nine Short Stories', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I''ve promised myself for the past decade that, when I finally retire, my first major project will be to reread the entire Nero Wolfe canon in chronological order, a worthwhile occupation if ever there was one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although entirely different and not nearly as literary as Ross Macdonald''s Lew Archer series or the Philip Marlowe novels of Raymond Chandler, the Wolfe saga deserves to be ranked with them as among the finest series of detective stories ever written by an American.\n <em>\n  Fer-de-lance\n </em>\n introduces the brilliant, idiosyncratic, and obese armchair detective to the world and, while it may not be the best book of the series, it provides a wonderful murder set on a golf course and a cast of characters and laundry list of eccentricities that are an integral part of each novel and novella.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rex Stout has managed to pull off a feat unparalleled to this day: the perfect combination of deductive reasoning--as exemplified by the classic Golden Age writers such as Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, and Queen--with the hard-boiled attitude and dialogue of the more realistic tough guy writers such as Chandler, Macdonald, Hammett, and Robert B. Parker.\n</p>\n<p>\n The toughness is brought to the books by Wolfe''s leg man and amanuensis, Archie Goodwin. The structure and ambience of the books is, quite deliberately, very much like the Sherlock Holmes stories that Stout so admired. The house on West 35th Street is as familiar as the sitting room at 221B Baker Street; his cook Fritz pops up as regularly as Mrs. Hudson; and his irritant, Inspector Cramer of the NYPD, serves the same role as several Scotland Yard detectives, notably Inspector Lestrade, did for Holmes. Fair warning: It is safe to read one Nero Wolfe novel, because you will surely like it. It is extremely unsafe to read three, because you will forever be hooked on the delightful characters who populate these perfect books.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Fer-de-Lance_ will be welcomed by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Midwest Book Review_, May 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve noticed books by Rex Stout (1886-1975) for many years but never have purchased or read one. You know, so many books, so little time. I''ve been missing the company of the ever-eccentric Nero Wolfe and his faithful legman, Archie Goodwin...I don''t want to tell you too much about this classic tale and spoil your fun. This version is expertly performed by Michael Prichard, who has also brought novels by Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy to life." --\n <em>\n  Jim Clark, Publisher\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the annals of eccentric private detectives, one of the most famous is Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an obese, misanthropic, arrogant orchid fancier who solves mysteries while never leaving his New York brownstone. His eyes and ears to the world is Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the books. In this well-read audio edition of Stout''s first Wolfe novel, Goodwin is asked to find out who murdered a young Italian immigrant. The path leads to upscale Westchester County and to the body of a recently deceased philanthropist who has a crazy wife, a jealous son, and a beautiful daughter. Throw into the mix an attempt on Wolfe''s life using a poisonous snake and the listener is entertained with a 1934 period mystery that is remarkably fresh." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Roanoke Times_, November 16, 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1934, Fer-de-Lance is the first mystery novel ever written by Rex Stout. This classic crime story (complete and unabridged) introduces one of the great fictional detectives, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe, the arrogant, gormandizing, sedentary sleuth who raises orchids in his Manhattan brownstone, solving his case with help from his assistant, Archie Goodwin, was to become one of American literature''s most recognizable charecters. When a fer-de-lance (one of the most deadly snakes know to man) is delivered to Nero Wolfe, Archie knows he is getting very close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The denouement brings forth all of Nero Wolfe''s talents as he gathers the suspects together. Fer-de-Lance will be welcomes by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(21647, 'No Country For Old Men', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Seven years after\n <em>\n  Cities of the Plain\n </em>\n brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. The bulk of the novel is a gripping man-on-the-run sequence relayed in terse, masterful prose as Moss, who''s taken the money, tries to evade Wells, an exâ€“Special Forces agent employed by a powerful cartel, and Chigurh, an icy psychopathic murderer armed with a cattle gun and a dangerous philosophy of justice. Also concerned about Moss''s whereabouts is Sheriff Bell, an aging lawman struggling with his sense that there''s a new breed of man (embodied in Chigurh) whose destructive power he simply cannot match. In a series of thoughtful first-person passages interspersed throughout, Sheriff Bell laments the changing world, wrestles with an uncomfortable memory from his service in WWII andâ€”a soft ray of light in a book so steeped in bloodshedâ€”rejoices in the great good fortune of his marriage. While the action of the novel thrills, it''s the sensitivity and wisdom of Sheriff Bell that makes the book a profound meditation on the battle between good and evil and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Border Trilogy\n </em>\n , distinguished by the award-winning\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Horses\n </em>\n (1992), contains dark Westerns set against beautiful, bleak landscapes. His newest novel updates his character-driven plots and themes of violence and moral ambiguity. Perhaps the true sign of a master is one whose work raises debateâ€”and this is what\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n has done. Most critics praised McCarthyâ€™s clean, simple prose, though a few thought it too spare for such a graceful stylist. ("The man looked at Chigurhâ€™s eyes for the first time. Blue as lapis. At once glistening and opaque. Like wet stones.") Compelling characters (even women) abound, but Sheriff Bell came off as either smart or too long winded. Finally, the violence seemed gratuitous to some. Even if\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n may be a more minor McCarthy novel, itâ€™s still a terrifying page-turner in the vein of the\n <em>\n  Trilogy\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(21648, 'Nobody Gets the Girl', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Fabulous - funny and tight as a boob tube'' Observer ''We love the Gossip Girl series there''s enough gossip, back-stabbing and bitching to character assassinate the entire population of Manhattan. But all done over a lovely cup of skinny latte or three in the cute neighbourhood coffee house. These girls could write Carrie''s Sex and the City column in their sleep'' Elle Girl ''A publishing sensation'' Independent on Sunday ''A literary phenomenon teenagers, it seems, can''t get enough of her controversial Gossip Girl Books'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n he uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New York''s hottest band, The Raves. Meanwhile, Dan is too busy drowning his sorrows in empty bottles to notice a mysterious French beauty who has a penchant for dirty, Jim Morrison-wannabe lead singers. Blair takes residence at the Plaza to think about her future. Will she become a gun-toting international spy or Manhattan''s snobbiest society hostess? Decisions are so difficult! Sounds like everyone needs a day off at the spa. And Senior Spa Day promises to serve up further doses of scandal for New York''s busiest private-school vixens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(21649, 'Norwegian Wood', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he''s finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami''s later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book''s autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it''s hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man. Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel''s backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe''s love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles: I read Naoko''s letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it. This account of a young man''s sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath''s The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey''s In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami''s other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(21650, 'Not Quite Dead Enough and Booby Trap: Two Nero Wolfe Mysteries (Mystery Masters Series)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two Rex Stout short stories for war buffs and Nero Wolfe fans alike. In "Not Quite Dead Enough," Archie Goodwin - Nero Wolfe''s perennial legman - literally steals the limelight. Recently inducted into Army Intelligence, Archie goes to Wolfe''s flat to see why he hasn''t been answering his or the Army recruiter''s calls. Wolfe could be dead, but Archie later finds out he''s been "training" to join the Army. It takes the murder of a woman Archie goes dancing with to get Nero Wolfe to investigate crime again. The wartime theme continues in "Booby Trap" as Archie and Wolfe investigate the murder of Captain Albert Cross, killed only hours before he was to make a report about a prototype grenade theft to the group of intelligence people Wolfe works with. Listener favorite Michael Prichard, named by Smart Money magazine as one of the "Top Ten Golden Voices," precisely captures the characters'' personalities and the story locations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n These stories are told by Archie Goodwin, assistant and legman for the fabled orchidist and gourmet sleuth, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is famous not only for his eccentric behavior, but also for solving crimes without ever leaving his desk. Now, however, the U.S. has entered WWII, and Wolfe is on a diet and exercise routine Archie is pretty sure it''s going to kill him if he doesn''t intervene. But did Archie have to go out and get himself accused of murder to pull it off? Archie and Wolfe are left with many pieces of a puzzle to put together. Michael Prichard has recorded hundreds of audiobooks and is especially notable for his mystery and suspense readings. He has the crisp, clipped tones that are perfect for detective stories of crime in the big city. D.G. Â© AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(21651, 'Now Wait for Last Year', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dick was... one of the genuine visionaries that American fiction has produced in this century, and his best novels constitute as significant a body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last thirty years."\n <br />\n -- L.A. Weekly --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, Gino Molinari was assassinated by a political Rival. Then he died of a heart attack. But now he is back, younger and more vigorous than ever, giving Earth new hope of survival in the war against the alien reegs. But is this really Molinari, or a robant masquerading as Earthâ€™s overlord? Whatever the truth, only he can save the Solar System â€“ if he can stay alive long enough, or at least not stay dead for too long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(21652, 'An Officer and a Lady (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sexes battle, the head feuds with emotions it cannot control, and crime extorts and strikes and kills but does not pay in this collection of stories by Rex Stout at the outset of his celebrated career in mystery and suspense. Again and again in these tales taken from the pages of the pulps that first published him, Stout proves himself a master of the sudden reversal and unexpected revelation as he probes the thwarted heart and criminal mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(21653, 'Oliver Twist', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n æŸ¥å°”æ–¯Â·ç‹„æ›´æ–¯ï¼Œåä¹ä¸–çºªè‹±å›½æœ€è‘—åçš„çŽ°å®žè®®ä½œå®¶ï¼Œä¸€ç”Ÿå†™æœ‰åå¤šéƒ¨é•¿ç¯‡å°è¯´ã€‚ä»–å†™ä½œã€Šé›¾éƒ½å­¤å„¿ã€‹æ—¶ï¼Œå¹´ä»…äºŒåäº”å²ã€‚è¿™éƒ¨å°è¯´æ›¾è¢«æ”¹ç¼–ã€æ‹æ‘„æˆå¤šç§ç”µå½±ã€ç”µè§†ç‰‡ï¼Œæ”¾æ˜ å’Œæ’­æ˜ ï¼Œå½±å“å¹¿æ³›ã€æ·±è¿œã€‚ä»–ä¸€ç”Ÿå†™æœ‰åå¤šéƒ¨é•¿ç¯‡å°è¯´ï¼Œè¢«ç§°ä¸ºæ°å‡ºçš„è¯­è¨€å¤§å¸ˆã€‚ä»–æ“…é•¿è¿ç”¨è®½åˆºã€å¹½é»˜å’Œå¤¸å¼ çš„æ‰‹æ³•ï¼Œä»–ç¬”ä¸‹çš„äººç‰©é£Žè²Œå’Œè¯­è¨€é£Žæ ¼ï¼Œéƒ½å¯Œæœ‰æµ“åŽšçš„æµªæ¼«ä¸»ä¹‰ç‰¹è‰²ã€‚ã€Šé›¾éƒ½å­¤å„¿ã€‹ï¼ˆå³ã€Šå¥¥ç«‹å¼—Â·é€€æ–¯ç‰¹ã€‹ï¼‰æ˜¯ç‹„æ›´æ–¯çš„ä¸€éƒ¨ä¼Ÿå¤§çš„ç¤¾ä¼šå°è¯´ï¼Œåœ¨ä¸–ç•Œæ–‡å­¦å²ä¸Šå æœ‰é‡è¦çš„ä½ç½®ã€‚\n <br />\n ã€Šé›¾éƒ½å­¤å„¿ã€‹æ˜¯ç‹„æ›´æ–¯çš„ç¬¬ä¸€éƒ¨ç¤¾ä¼šæ‰¹åˆ¤å°è¯´ã€‚å¯Œäººçš„å¼ƒå©´å¥¥åˆ©ä½›åœ¨å­¤å„¿é™¢é‡ŒæŒ£æ‰Žäº†9å¹´ï¼Œåˆè¢«é€åˆ°æ£ºæåº—è€æ¿é‚£å„¿å½“å­¦å¾’ã€‚éš¾ä»¥å¿å—çš„é¥¥é¥¿ã€è´«å›°å’Œä¾®è¾±ï¼Œè¿«ä½¿å¥¥åˆ©ä½›é€ƒåˆ°ä¼¦æ•¦ï¼Œåˆè¢«è¿«æ— å¥ˆå½“äº†æ‰’æ‰‹ã€‚ä»–æ›¾è¢«å¯Œæœ‰çš„å¸ƒèŽ±ç½—å…ˆç”Ÿæ”¶ç•™ï¼Œä¸å¹¸è®©å°æ‰’æ‰‹å‘çŽ°åˆå…¥è´¼çªã€‚å–„è‰¯çš„å¥³æ‰’æ‰‹å—å¸Œä¸ºäº†è¥æ•‘å¥¥åˆ©ä½›ï¼Œä¸é¡¾è´¼å¤´çš„ç›‘è§†å’Œå¨èƒï¼Œå‘å¸ƒèŽ±ç½—æŠ¥ä¿¡ï¼Œè¯´å¥¥åˆ©ä½›å°±æ˜¯ä»–æ‰¾å¯»å·²ä¹…çš„å¤–å­™å„¿ã€‚å—å¸Œè¢«è´¼çªå¤´ç›®æ€å®³ï¼Œè­¦å¯Ÿéšå³å›´å‰¿äº†è´¼çªã€‚å¥¥åˆ©ä½›ç»ˆäºŽå¾—ä»¥ä¸Žäº²äººå›¢èšã€‚\n <br />\n å“è¶Šäºšé©¬é€Šä¸ºæ‚¨å¸¦æ¥è‹±æ–‡åŽŸç‰ˆã€Šé›¾éƒ½å­¤å„¿ã€‹ã€‚\n <br />\n The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.\n <br />\n This novel contains many of the classic Dickensian themes of grinding poverty, the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity, the lures of temptation and the terrors of fear, desperation and menace. It presents some of Dickens''s most enduring characters, such as Fagin.\n <br />\n A Twist of Beauty An inviting design may inspire readers of a newly abridged edition of Charles Dickens''s classic Oliver Twist to join the hero in asking, please sir, for more. Christian Birmingham spots nearly every page of text with a small, charcoal-gray image, and complements important scenes with full-page color illustrations. Birmingham''s hues are predominantly deep, somber and gritty, but not without occasional flashes of royal blues and golds. Text is shaded in the faintest yellow, soft on the eye.\n <br />\n Let''s face it, there are dreary passages in Dickens and convoluted sentences that are impenetrable for young readers and that put them off a great story. This retelling works well: it gets rid of a lot of the padding while keeping the narrative tension of the original. Oliver''s stark request, "Please, sir, I want some more," will thrill kids today as it always has, and the story of the street boy on the run, who lives with outlaws and then finds a safe home, is an archetypal adventure. The problem here is the illustrations. Dickens'' novel is scary. Cruickshank''s original pictures were true to the terror as well as the comic absurdity of the story, but Birmingham''s large, soft pastel pictures are sunny and sweet and angelic, with no hint of darkness and grime. Yes, Dickens'' story does end in sentimental togetherness, but the terror is always there. Fagin''s crowd was never this cute.\n <br />\n Hazel Rochman\n <br />\n Oliver Twist was Dickens''s second novel and one of his darkest, dealing with burglary, kidnapping, child abuse, prostitution, and murder. Alongside this gallery of horrors are the corrupt and incompetent institutions of 19th-century England set up to address social problems and instead making them worse. The author''s moral indignation drives the creation of some of his most memorably grotesque characters: squirming, vile Fagin; brutal Bill Sykes; the brooding, sickly Monks; and Bumble, the pompous and incorrigibly dense beadle. Clearly, a reading of this work must carry the author''s passionate narrative voice while being flexible and broad enough to define the wide range of character voices suggested by the text. John Wells''s capable but bland reading only suggests the rich possibilities of the material. Restraint and Dickens simply don''t go together. The abridgment deftly and seamlessly manages to deliver all major characters and plot lines, but there are many superior audiobook versions of this material, both abridged and unabridged. Not recommended.\n <br />\n -John Owen, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA\n <br />\n This abridged version of the trials of Oliver Twist makes the tale quite accessible to young listeners. Dick Cavett does an excellent job of moving from his familiar, level voice in the narrative passages to the true vibrancy of the dialogue. He handles British accents of the more lowly characters quite well, his characterization of Fagin being especially insidious and distinct. Mr. Brownlow and Monks are less developed, and their characterizations rely more on the text. The abridgment is quite a feat, having reduced a tumultuous tale into a tight storyline. However, some of the final sequences require more careful listening to absorb plot developments. E.S.B.\n <br />\n Novel by Charles Dickens, published serially from 1837 to 1839 in Bentley''s Miscellany and in a three-volume book in 1838. The novel was the first of the author''s works to depict realistically the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime. Written shortly after adoption of the Poor Law of 1834, which halted government payments to the poor unless they entered workhouses, Oliver Twist used the tale of a friendless child, the foundling Oliver Twist, as a vehicle for social criticism. While the novel is Victorian in its emotional appeal, it is decidedly unsentimental in its depiction of poverty and the criminal underworld, especially in its portrayal of the cruel Bill Sikes, who kills his kindly girlfriend Nancy for helping Oliver and who is himself accidentally hung by his own rope.\n <br />\n Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has always tried to make the best books ever written available to the greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd include: a leading scholar or literary critic''s introduction to the text, a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary. All books published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best feature must be Everyman''s uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly standards.\n <br />\n Charles Dickens was born in Portsea, England in 1812. With The Pickwick Papers, he achieved immediate fame; in a few years, he was the most popular and respected author of his time. Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Old Curiosity Shop were all huge successes for Dickens. A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and Hard Times reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society, while A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations complete his major works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n length: (cm)19.8    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)12.6\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(21654, 'On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Breathing', 'Aristotle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(21655, 'One Step Behind', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his fifth U.S. appearance in this taut, intricately plotted series (The Fifth Woman, etc.), Swedish detective Kurt Wallander pursues a long, complex case sure to please those who like weighty police procedurals. Six weeks after three college students are murdered during a Midsummer''s Eve party, their bodies hidden to prevent discovery, Wallander''s secretive colleague Svedberg is found at home with half his head blown off. Wallander''s persistent, occasionally brilliant, investigation points to a connection between Svedberg and the disappearance of the three young people. Soon after their bodies surface, a fourth friend, who was too sick to attend the party, is killed. More murders follow, with the exhausted, understaffed detectives just too late each time to prevent the next crime. Eventually the reader meets the killer, whose bizarre motive and methods the author gradually reveals. The dyspeptic Wallander, whose frazzled personal life is further impaired by the diabetes he ignores, works himself to exhaustion, sidestepping official procedure and making intuitive leaps to find the cold-blooded killer. The glum tone of the book, despite the setting during a warm and luxuriant late summer, reflects a crumbling Swedish society: government corruption is widespread; honest cops are disillusioned by abuses in high officialdom; rifts among social classes and between Swedes and recent immigrants abound. Mankell''s writing is deadpan and stark, the plotting meticulous and exacting. (Feb. 28)Forecast: Though a bestseller in Europe with both film and TV adaptations to his credit, Mankell has so far failed to take off here. Alas, Scandinavian dreariness just doesn''t seem to have broad appeal to American readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Devotees of Inspector Kurt Wallander can only bemoan the fact that this is just the fifth (out of nine books) in this Swedish mystery series to be published in the United States. Here, Wallander confronts perhaps his most horrific case, when the murder of a trusted colleague, Svedberg, and the disappearance of three young people begin to merge. Battling his own fatigue and illness, Wallander assiduously strips away layer after layer, dredging up fragments of conversations and crime-scene clues that lead him closer and closer to the killer, who plays him cleverly and remains one step ahead until the brutal end. Mankell focuses less on Wallander''s personal relationships and on what he sees as the deterioration of Swedish quality of life than in the previous books, but nevertheless the subtext is there. Essential for public libraries, though newcomers may want to start earlier in the series (with The White Lioness or Sidetracked). Francine Fialkoff, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(21656, 'The Other Hand', 'Chris Cleave', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting...[a] superb novel... Besides sharp, witty dialogue, an emotionally charged plot and the vivid characters'' ethical struggles, THE OTHER HAND delivers a timely challenge to reinvigorate our notions of civilized decency.'' -- Independent 20080822 ''Searingly eloquent.'' -- Daily Mail 20080822 ''It would be hard not to romp through it.'' -- Financial Times 20080823 ''An ambitious and fearless gallop from the jungles of Africa via a shocking encounter on a Nigerian beach to the media offices of London and domesticity in leafy suburbia...Cleave immerses the reader in the worlds of his characters with an unshakable confidence. '' -- Guardian 20080809 ''totally believable... the author has a knack of explaining human suffering... I look forward to his next offering.'' -- Daily Express 20080830 ''impresses as a feat of literary engineering... the plot exerts a fearsome grip.'' -- Telegraph 20080913 ''You stay in thrall to the bittersweet end.'' -- Scotland on Sunday 20080809 ''By turns funny, sad and shocking'' -- Sainsburys Magazine 20080804 ''Warm, witty and beautifully written.'' -- Sunday Tribune 20080803 ''In a novel that tackles serious and uncomfortable subject matter, Cleave''s writing makes one laugh and despair in equal measure. (4 stars)'' -- Time Out 20080828 ''A better book than Chris Cleave''s THE OTHER HAND may be published this year, but I wouldn''t bet on it. This exquisitely written story of a Nigerian refugee and a British glossy magazine editor is the most powerful novel I''ve read in a long time... it''s also a very funny book about brave, funny people who the reader quickly grows to love... But the heart of the book is Little Bee; naive yet insightful and sophisticated, damaged yet capable of great courage and humour, she is an unforgettable character. I finished THE OTHER HAND in tears, and I still can''t get it out of my head. Just read it.'' -- The Gloss 20080728 ''I felt the same excitement discovering this as I did Marina Lewycka''s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Paul Torday''s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. There is an urgency here, an inability to put it down and a deep sense of loss once finished. It is a very special book indeed. Profound, deeply moving and yet light in touch, it explores the nature of loss, hope, love and identity with atrocity its backdrop. Read it and think deeply.'' -- Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller 20080320 ''Stunning... a haunting work of art.'' -- Newsweek on INCENDIARY 20051101 ''Chris Cleave has the ability to create moving and beautiful scenes within a terrifying backdrop. I couldn''t put it down; it''s subversive, thought-provoking and well-written.'' -- Observer, Books of the Year on INCENDIARY 20051101 ''Richly sardonic and often disarmingly poignant... How can one fail to be impressed and moved?'' -- Guardian on INCENDIARY 20050720 ''Cleave''s heroine is by turns funny, sad, flawed, sympathetic, both damaged and indomitable, and triumphantly convincing.'' -- Sunday Telegraph on INCENDIARY 20050901\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We don''t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don''t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn''t. And it''s what happens afterwards that is most important. Once you have read it, you''ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don''t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(21657, 'Out Of Sight', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Jack Foley, a career bank robber, surfaces after tunneling out of a medium-security penitentiary in Florida, he comes face to face with Karen Sisco, a beautiful federal marshal. Though the barrel of her shotgun is pointed right at his face, she doesn''t shoot, and Foley''s accomplice, Buddy, overpowers her and puts her in the trunk of a car. Foley gets in with her and the car takes off, the escapee seemingly home free. In the cramped darkness of the trunk, the criminal and marshal find they have much in common and by the time the car reaches its destination, the two have become infatuated with each other. After Karen manages to escape, she and Foley try to reconnect outside the confining roles of kidnapper and victim.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, three other Leonard books, Last Stand at Saber River, Touch and Pronto, are in film or TV production.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(21658, 'Outliers', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(21659, 'Outsourced', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Dave Zeltserman:"If there''s any other young writer out there who does crime noir better than Zeltserman, I don''t even want to know."â€”Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post"Zeltserman''s breakthrough crime novel deserves comparison with the best of James Ellroy."â€”Publishers Weekly, starred review"Pariah is all I know of bliss and lament. Bliss at reading a superb novel and lament at knowing that Dave Zeltserman has now raised the bar so high, we''re screwed."â€”Ken BruenFollowing from his ultra-noir trilogyâ€”Small Crimes, Pariah, and Killerâ€”is Outsourced, Dave Zeltserman''s most commercial book to date.A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Ocean''s Eleven and Dog Day Afternoon, it''s the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to outsourcing. Desperate, and seeing their middle-class lives crumbling apart, they come up with a brilliant plan to use their computing skills to rob a bank. But not even a systems analyst can foresee every eventuality, so the group falls afoul of the Russian Mafia . . .Movie rights have been sold for Outsourced, and the film will be produced by the team behind the hugely successful Resident Evil films.Dave Zeltserman has, over the years, worked developing data communication software at some of the world''s leading networking and computer companies. He lives in the Boston area with his wife Judy. His previous novels include Small Crimes (voted one of NPR''s top five crime and mystery novels of 2008), Pariah, and Killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(21660, 'Over My Dead Body', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe make a combination that is hard to beat." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a woman claiming to be Nero Wolfe''s long-lost daughter gets into trouble over some missing diamonds, Wolfe, along with his sidekick, Archie, becomes involved in a world of international intrigue. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(21661, 'The Overlook', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Connelly''s dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n ) reunites Bosch with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling. Bosch must break in a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they''re called to look into the execution of physicist Stanley Kent on a Mulholland Drive overlook. When a special FBI unit, headed by Walling, arrives and tries to usurp his case, claiming it''s a matter of national security, Bosch refuses to back down. Walling''s focus on the potential theft of radioactive material from the hospital where Kent was lending his expertise to cancer treatment and her unwillingness to share information only make Bosch more determined to solve the case. This is a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly''s previous novels, but he spares no punches when it comes to complexity and suspense. The scramble to investigate threats to national security, justified or otherwise, is a timely subject and one on which Connelly puts a brilliant new spin.\n <em>\n  (May 22)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly originally published\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n as a serialized novella in the\n <em>\n  New York Times Magazine\n </em>\n ; the 16 sections contained 3,000 words each. Although expanded to novel form,\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n weighs in as a good, if slim (and perhaps, as a few critics claim, slight), addition to the Harry Bosch series. For the most part, the novel succeeds in maintaining Connelly''s trademark fast-paced action, plot twists, suspense, and spare, humorous writing-all over the course of 12 hours. Some reviewers cited tired characters, dull romance, a bizarre time frame, and plotting missteps, but for followers of Harry Bosch,\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n is a worthy addition.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/333');
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(21662, 'Pagan Babies (2000)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n During the nine years she spent at St. Lucy''s Catholic School, Cascone, a children''s author, gathered enough pithy observations and opinions to fill this short memoir. Enrolled against her will (she protested by hiding in a closet, under a bed and behind a sofa, all to no avail), Cascone endured her years at St. Lucy''s by imagining what the nuns'' legs looked like and other lofty thoughts. Seen through her not-so-impressionable child''s eyes, Catholic school was a comedy of contradictions and questionable practices, including baptism, to which she cavalierly refers as throwing water on the non-consenting. Cascone writes with little fondness for praying Rosaries, kneeling through the stations of the cross and adopting "pagan babies," the practice of giving money to foreign missions so non-Catholic children could be raised Catholic. Her sole happy memory appears to be that of Father Joseph, who went easy on children in the confessional and always asked them to say a prayer for him. Given her own experiences, Cascone decides against baptizing her own child, fearing that to raise her daughter Catholic would subject her to the same education her mother had, even though the church has changed radically since her youth. Cascone''s irreverent and often funny recollections would surely be pronounced as impertinent by the sisters who taught her. For that, they will delight many readers who underwent Catholic education as reluctantly as she did and considered graduation an escape from earthly purgatory.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sacramento Bee\n </em>\n Delightful...funny, steeped in nostalgia, wisdom, and good humor. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(21663, 'Parrot and Olivier in America', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n __. Carey brings de Tocqueville to life through the fictionalized character of Olivier de Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristocrat. Olivier can only begin to grasp how the other half lives when forced to travel to the New World with John "Parrot" Larrit, a jaded survivor of lifelong hardship who canâ€™t stand his young master who he is expected to spy on for the overprotective Maman Garmont back in Paris. Parrot and Olivier are a mid-nineteenth-century Oscar and Felix who represent the highest and lowest social registers of the Old World, yet find themselves unexpectedly pushed together in the New World. This odd coupleâ€™s stark differences in class and background, outlook and attitudeâ€”which are explored in alternating chapters narrated by eachâ€”are an ingenious conceit for presenting to contemporary readers the unique social experiment that was democracy in the early years of America.\n <em>\n  --Lauren Nemroff\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Democracy of Story-Telling: A Review of\n  <em>\n   Parrot and Olivier in America\n  </em>\n  by Colum McCann\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Parrot and Olivier in America\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Faulkner famously wrote that the past is not dead, it''s not even past. Every now and then a voice comes along to make the proper claim that nobody should forget and, even more radically, that nobody\n <em>\n  should\n </em>\n be forgotten. These voices remind us that life is not yet written down: there is more to the story than meets the original word. Peter Carey has made an exquisite art of this sort of exploration into history and language: he smashes the atom of story-telling and comes up with quirks and quarks and quarries.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carey is a rogue in the very best sense of the word: we are led by delight into a story that is bound to be profound, complex, tender, demanding, reckless, rigorous, charming, and, indeed, true. The value of good literature is that there''s always another story to unfold. And in the unfolding, we are led by mystery towards discovery. Strap on the Carey boots, youâ€™ll encounter new lands.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carey''s newest novel,\n <em>\n  Parrot and Olivier in America\n </em>\n , is the story of two men who begin their lives on different ends of the human spectrum. Olivier is an aristocrat, born in France just after the Revolution, while Parrot is the son of an itinerant English printer. Part of Carey''s provocative genius is that, even in the title, Parrot is named before Olivier: itâ€™s the late 18th century and both men have swallowed the handcuffs of history. The servant and master. The dreamer and the dreamt. The men travel to America together, land in New York, embark on journeys that have both private and mythic overtones in the "you-knighted states." Ramshackle prisons. Convict ships. Broadway brawls. Land deals. Penal colonies. The small revolutions of human desire and failure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The men develop an understanding and a friendship and a complexity that is a hallmark of a Carey novel: it is a wonder, as he points out, how many lives can be held within one single skin. The story is an examination of how landscape forms character, and the instinct towards that most democratic of things, story-telling. The task of fiction is to achieve is, by the power of the written word, a glimpse of truth that we didn''t necessarily know was available to us. Part of Carey''s genius is his ability to allow the reader to become the instigator of ideas.\n <em>\n  Parrot and Olivier in America\n </em>\n is a fantastic riff on the servant/master relationship that can relate to Tocqueville, or to Hegel, or to Nietzscheâ€™s "master morality," or indeed to the inanities of the Bush generation. Carey is well aware of the looking glass of history. Carey is here by being there. Whoever we are is whoever we have been. To label his work as "historical fiction" is to reduce the impact of what it means, and allows. He has his finger on the pulse. But not only that--he has shaped the vigorous graph of the beats.\n</p>\n<p>\n I recall my first foray into the Carey world. It was back in the early 80''s and I picked up a book called\n <em>\n  Parrot and Olivier in America\n </em>\n is Peter Carey at his best: funny and tender and true.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Valentine)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The eminently talented Carey (_Theft_) has the gift of engaging ventriloquism, and having already channeled the voices of Dickens''s Jack Maggs and the Australian folk hero/master thief Ned Kelly, he now inhabits Olivier-Jean-Baptist de Clarel de Barfleur, a fictionalized version of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose noble parents are aghast at his involvement in the events surrounding Napoleon''s return and the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X. To remove him from danger, they send him to America, where priggish snob Olivier inspires Carey''s humor during his self-centered adventures in New York, New England, and Philadelphia. Olivier can''t shake his aristocratic disdain of raw-mannered, money-obsessed Americansâ€”until he falls for a Connecticut beauty. More lovable is Parrot, aka John Larrit, who survives Australia''s penal colony only to be pressed into traveling with Olivier as servant and secret spy for Olivier''s mother. Though their relationship begins in mutual hatred, it evolves into affectionate comradeship as they experience the alien social and cultural milieus of the New World. Richly atmospheric, this wonderful novel is picaresque and Dickensian, with humor and insight injected into an accurately rendered period of French and American history.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(21664, 'The Pay Yeoman (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(21665, 'The Penultimate Truth', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE LONGEST LIE World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. But up on Earth''s surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(21666, 'People of the Darkness', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "He makes the desert come, alive." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Denver Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman deserves to be included in any list of the best living mystery writers." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman gets better with every book." -- _--\n <em>\n  _San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is an expert puzzle-maker." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Atlantic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsmen at work in the genre today." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s mysteries are unique in American crime fiction." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers who have not discovered Hillerman should not waste one minute more." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Oklahoma City Oklahoman\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The only mysteries I read are Hillerman''s." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ursula K. Le Guin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This series of Southwestern mysteries from Tony Hillerman is superb." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whatever your pleasure, you can''t go wrong with this gifted, skillful and . . . unique writer." -- _--\n <em>\n  _San Diego Union\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(21667, 'Perdido Street Station', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China MiÃ©ville''s\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n . The novel''s publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don''t necessarily mean much. But\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n deserves the acclaim. It''s ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake''s Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison''s Viriconium books, but it isn''t much like them. It''s Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It''s a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It''s got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults.\n</p>\n<p>\n Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious,\n <em>\n  Perdito Street Station\n </em>\n is a bloody fascinating book. It''s also so massive that you may begin to feel you''re getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, but what is\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac''s secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac''s quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac''s lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King Rat (1999), Miâ€šville''s much-praised first novel of urban fantasy/horror, was just a palate-teaser for this appetizing, if extravagant, stew of genre themes. Its setting, New Crobuzon, is an audaciously imagined milieu: a city with the dimensions of a world, home to a polyglot civilization of wildly varied species and overlapping and interpenetrating cultures. Seeking to prove his unified energy theory as it relates to organic and mechanical forms, rogue scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin tries to restore the power of flight to Yagharek, a member of the garuda race cruelly shorn of its wings. Isaac''s lover, Lin, unconsciously mimics his scientific pursuits when she takes on the seemingly impossible commission of sculpting a patron whose body is a riot of grotesquely mutated and spliced appendages. Their social life is one huge, postgraduate bull session with friends and associates--until a nightmare-inducing grub escapes from Isaac''s lab and transforms into a flying monster that imperils the city. This accident precipitates a political crisis, initiates an action-packed manhunt for Isaac and introduces hordes of vividly imagined beings who inhabit the twilight zone between science and sorcery. Miâ€šville''s canvas is so breathtakingly broad that the details of individual subplots and characters sometime lose their definition. But it is also generous enough to accommodate large dollops of aesthetics, scientific discussion and quest fantasy in an impressive and ultimately pleasing epic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(21668, 'The Philip K. Dick Reader', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n His religions, psychoses, divorces, and drug use aside, Philip K. Dick changed the face of American science fiction with his mind-bending writing. There may be readers who have only heard of him as the mind behind\n <em>\n  Blade Runner\n </em>\n (based on his novel __). But even casual PKD fans should take a look at these 24 short stories, among them, "Second Variety," from which the movie\n <em>\n  Screamers\n </em>\n was made, and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," basis of the Schwarzenegger film\n <em>\n  Total Recall\n </em>\n . Other standouts include "The Turning Wheel," "The Last of the Masters," "Tony and the Beetles," and "The Minority Report." Readers will recognize PKD''s trademark themes: capitalism and the American dream run amok, a disquieting loss of ability to distinguish friends from enemies, and humans versus machines.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since Philip K. Dick''s heyday, and thanks in large part to his influence, the contemporary science fiction short story has evolved into a form more self-reflective and psychologically complex. This is a wonderful development, to be sure. But don''t regard the older stories in this collection as dated. Instead, enjoy the peppery punch: PKD''s stories provide plenty of plot twists and surprise endings.\n <em>\n  --Bonnie Bouman\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(21669, 'Pinball, 1973', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Murakami''s second novel, the first to be translated into English.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Really more of a novella than a novel, with the flavor of Murakami''s short fiction. One of his hapless protagonists puzzles through his confusion about the empty spaces in his life for a while, then the book ends.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I enjoyed the first-person POV chapters much more than the third person sections about The Rat (this book is the second in the author''s "Trilogy of the Rat"). It''s not thrilling reading, but you get the idea that there is a lot to unpack here, and a great deal of insight into the aimlessness of just living, without a connection to another human being or a sense of your proper place.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pinball plays the role of a lost love for the narrator, and I really enjoyed the brief sections describing his obsession with the game. While certainly not as weird as anything in Murakami''s best-known novels, the story has a sort of fuzzy, other-worldly quality that puts you in the frame of mind of the two lead characters, both of whom don''t quite seem able to connect with the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A very early and maybe hard to find little novel by Murakami. The book came out in a series that is sold only in Japan for English students or those who are studying translations. The editions are usually only $7 or $8 and you may find some copies in Japanese language bookstores. I found my copy in Tokyo and it''s worth tracking down if you are a Murakami fan. It''s interesting that Murakami never put this little novel out in a regular American or British edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I enjoyed reading this book and am glad that I read it close in time to the first book, Hear the Wind Sing. I''m now ready to move on to the other two books in this series, A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance. The book continues the story of The Rat and the narrator in the early 1970s. In the usual Murakami style, the book is some combination of stream of consciousness commentary and slightly weird moments (e.g., where a conversation is held with a pinball machine in a strange and unexplained warehouse).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Recommended for Murakami fans, but probably not a great place to start with his books if you aren''t already a fan. I still think I''d start with either The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (for the more weird) or Norwegian Wood (for the more straightforward).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ã•ã‚ˆã†ãªã‚‰ã€ã‚¹ãƒªãƒ¼ãƒ»ãƒ•ãƒªãƒƒãƒ‘ãƒ¼ã®ã‚¹ãƒšãƒ¼ã‚¹ãƒ»ã‚·ãƒƒãƒ—ã€‚ã•ã‚ˆã†ãªã‚‰ã€ã‚¸ã‚§ã‚¤ãƒ ã‚ºãƒ»ãƒãƒ¼ã€‚åŒå­ã®å§‰å¦¹ã¨ã®â€œåƒ•â€ã®æ—¥ã€…ã€‚å¥³ã®æ¸©ã‚‚ã‚Šã«æ²ˆã‚€â€œé¼ â€ã®æ¸‡ãã€‚ã‚„ãŒã¦æ¥ã‚‹ä¸€ã¤ã®å­£ç¯€ã®çµ‚ã‚Š...ã€‚TOEICãƒ¬ãƒ™ãƒ«470ç‚¹~ã€‚\n <br />\n ã€‚\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(21670, 'A Place so Foreign', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wunderkind Cory Doctrow continues to display his orientation skills at the intersection of Humanity and Technology with the collection of short stories\n <em>\n  A Place So Foreign and 8 More\n </em>\n . In the collection''s titular tale, "A Place So Foreign," a 19th-century boy travels with his father, the Ambassador to 1975. But when Pa meets with an accident, young James becomes a living anachronism in 1898. Doctrow twists the time travel tale into a parable of data mining, as mysterious forces work to plunder the past for corporate gain. In one of several stories about a mysterious alien race who offers to give Earthers a hand up, he documents the adolescent rage of those left behind when the "mothaship" takes the anointed few into the brave new world. Finally, in "0wnz0red", Doctrow explores the dark side of Silicon Valley''s connection to the military industrial complex by posing the question: What happens when hackers learn to hack the human body?\n</p>\n<p>\n Doctrow is a new breed in an increasingly literate and valid subgenre of science fiction. He uses the traditional allegories of the form to explore more human and fragile connections. As the 21st century rockets ahead, he examines the consequences of our frenzy to embrace technology and predicts outcomes that are both charmingly optimistic and bleakly hollow.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Postcyberpunk Doctorow, a rising Canadian SF star, follows his Orwellian Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) with nine too-near-future tales of aliens and the human alienated-and it''s often hard to tell the difference. In "Craphound," the author posits an Earth taken over by "bugouts," aliens obsessed with trading technological expertise for human junk, the ephemera that momentarily defines a society and then becomes silly or naive when some new and more soul-destroying technological amusement arrives. That Faustian central metaphor of the thirst for technology as the ultimate source of spiritual corruption almost guarantees Doctorow''s other absorption, his vision of Disneyland in "Return to Pleasure Island," a horrifying sidewise glimpse of the children''s entertainment industry. Since the short story form seems somewhat restrictive for him, his best pieces, like his achingly funny reflections on adolescence ("The Year of the Hormone") and a Jewish superman in the era of the Pax Aliena ("The Super Man and the Bugout"), need at least novella-size room. His closing story, "OwnzOred," a shockingly original glimpse of 21st-century mankind tottering at the brink of a mortally steep cliff, is a polemic on fair-use freedom. By relentlessly exposing disenchanted Silicon Valley dwellers caught in a military-industrial web of khaki money, Congress-critters and babykiller projects, Doctorow explores the intersection of social concern and technology-Never-Never land, or 2084?\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(21671, 'Playback', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler''s 1948 screenplay was presumed lost until its rediscovery in Universal Studios'' archives in the 1980s, although the author had adapted it into a Philip Marlowe novel in the meantime. More recently, a French publisher adapted it into a graphic novel that is now being presented in English for the first time. While the story has down the requisite cynicism, acerbic humor and casual violence of film noir, it lacks the compelling plots and timeless characters of the author''s classic scripts. A whodunit centering on Betty Mayfield, a beautiful, doomed woman on the run from a troubled past,\n <em>\n  Playback\n </em>\n starts promisingly enough with tough, brisk dialogue and the unusual Vancouver setting. Yet by the third act the plot is bogged down by its own dejected heroine, as Betty''s permanent air of defeat proves more tiring than tragic. Despite Philippe Garnier''s assertion in his introduction that the script was passed over due to the vicissitudes of the studio system, it''s possible that an unrelenting gloom was the real culprit. Ayroles''s art employs a stiff, angular woodblocklike style that does little to capture the dark eddies of Chandler''s tale.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler was once approached about writing a newspaper strip. "I wouldn''t know how to do it, and if I did I wouldn''t want to," the notoriously crusty crime novelist retorted. Hence, this graphic novel adapts a never-produced screenplay, a murder mystery set in Vancouver shortly after World War II. A cad meets a woman fleeing her father-in-law, who thinks she murdered his son, though the trial judge set aside a guilty verdict. The heel gets her into a plush hotel, pushes himself too far, and later is found--by her--dead in her room. A pencil-mustached, monocled, war-hero police detective; a rich wastrel; the dead man''s waspish older girlfriend; and an oleaginous PI are the other principals. Climax and denouement are more Hollywood than Chandler, but the tart, brusque, spoiled-romantic patter is breathtaking, and Ayroles'' brutal artwork, akin to the blunt, high-contrast noir comics styles of fellow Frenchman Jacques de Loustal (_Barney and the Blue Note_, 1986), becomes more fitting with every frame.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(21672, 'Please Pass the Guilt : A Nero Wolfe Mystery (Mystery Masters)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. But was the death trap intended for him or for the man who opened the drawer? Each man had a host of enemies, so was it the ambitious business partner, the jealous wife, the office secretary, or the man with blood on his hands? Nero Wolfe finds himself up to his corpulent neck as he and Archie Goodwin sort their way through secrets, over-the-top ambition, and a long list of suspects to find the truth and the guilty party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(21673, 'Plot It Yourself', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n SUMMARY:\n</h3>\nThe New York literary world is terrorized by a rash of dead-ringer plagiarism--and murder. Nero Wolfe takes a novel approach to solving the case when he analyzes writing style to narrow the search for a suspect. While Nero tracks down nuances, legman Archie Goodwin busies himself cool-looking ladies of letters. Most amazingly, the gourmand and orchid-loving genius Wolfe swears off meat and beer until he solves the case!\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, are called in by a consortium of publishers and writers to investigate several cases of false plagiarism, but the probe soon becomes complicated by murder. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nero Wolfe has another a complicated case. Four famous writers are accused of plagiarism. They are outraged. Things become increasingly suspicious and Nero realizes the intelligence of the criminals he is working against.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(21674, 'The Poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career. His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield. Jack is going to write the story. The problem is that Jack doesn''t believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it looks like Sean''s death was the work of a serial killer. Jack''s research turns up similar cases in cities across the country, and within days, he''s sucked into an intense FBI investigation of an Internet pedophile who may also be a cop killer nicknamed the Poet. It''s only a matter of time before the Poet kills again, and as Jack and the FBI team struggle to stay ahead of him, the killer moves in, dangerously close.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a break from his Harry Bosch novels--including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n --Edgar-winning novelist Michael Connelly creates a new hero who is a lot greener but no less believable.\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n will keep readers holding their breath until the very end: the characters are multilayered, the plot compelling, and the denouement a true surprise. Connelly fans will not be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Mara Friedman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a departure from his crime novels featuring LAPD''s Harry Bosch, Connelly (The Last Coyote) sets Denver journalist Jack McEvoy on an intricate case where age-old evils come to flower within Internet technology. Jack''s twin brother, Sean, a Denver homicide detective obsessed with the mutilation murder of a young woman, is discovered in his car, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot, with a cryptic note written on the windshield. Jack''s investigation uncovers a series of cop suicides across the country, all of which have in common both the cops'' deep concerns over recent cases and their last messages, which have been taken, he quickly determines, from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. As his information reopens cases in Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, New Mexico and Florida, Jack joins up with a team from the FBI''s Behavioral Science Section, which includes sharp, attractive agent Rachel Walling. Connections between the dead cops, the cases they were working on and the FBI profile of a pedophile whom readers know as William Gladden occur at breakneck speed, as Jack and the team race to stay ahead of the media. Edgar-winning Connelly keeps a surprise up his sleeve until the very end of this authoritatively orchestrated thriller, when Jack finds himself in California, caught at the center of an intricate web woven from advanced computer technology and more elemental drives.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(21675, 'Polar Star', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star, a huge fishing-factory ship.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscowâ€™s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the dayâ€™s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.â€œStunning.â€â€“The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œImpossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.â€â€“The Detroit Newsâ€œMartin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.â€â€“The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œGripping . . . absorbing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscowâ€™s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the dayâ€™s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.â€œStunning.â€â€“The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œImpossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.â€â€“The Detroit Newsâ€œMartin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.â€â€“The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œGripping . . . absorbing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscowâ€™s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the dayâ€™s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.â€œStunning.â€â€“The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œImpossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.â€â€“The Detroit Newsâ€œMartin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.â€â€“The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œGripping . . . absorbing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(21676, 'A Princess of Roumania', 'Paul Park', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sharp characterization and an unusual historical backdrop distinguish Park''s charming leadoff to an intricate new fantasy series. In an alternate 18th-century world where England''s been swamped by a tidal wave, America teems with blond savages and "Roumania" and Germany battle for European domination, a magic book concocted by conjuress Aegypta Schenck sends young Miranda Popescu, the "white tyger" descendant of ancient royalty and Roumania''s hope of freedom from "black tyranny," to Massachusetts to escape the fiendish Baroness Nicola Ceausescu and the heinous elector of Ratisbon. With her best friend, Andromeda (turned magically into first a yellow dog and later a charismatic male Roumanian courtier), and her loyal teenage admirer, Peter ("really" the son of Roumania''s bravest warrior), Miranda makes hard choices to start fulfilling her destiny. Park (_Celestis_, etc.) leaves some tantalizing loose ends, while the wily baroness and the necromancing elector promise dashing adventure and delicious heartbreak ahead. Blurbs from Ursula K. Le Guin and John Crowley testify to the novel''s high quality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The world is in two places," says Mirandaâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Essential History\n </em>\n . "One false and one real." You guessed it: weâ€™re in the fake one. In his first of a planned series, Park borrows the idea of alternate worlds from J. K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and even L. Frank Baumâ€”a trick tried and true. Not surprisingly, certain complications thwart Mirandaâ€™s attempt to claim her rightful place in the "real" world. Despite Parkâ€™s generic theme, he draws complex characters (even as Mirandaâ€™s friends transform into new roles) and convincing political ploys. The tale stalls a bit when Park ventures deep into 18th-century life, but fans will anxiously await the sequel,\n <em>\n  The Tourmaline\n </em>\n , due out next year.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(21677, 'Printcrime', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(21678, 'Prisoner&#39;s Base', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prisoner''s Base finds Nero Wolfe''s legman Archie guilt-ridden and seeking the detective''s help. Three women have been murdered, one a towel company heiress. Is her fortune-hunting husband involved, or were greedy business associates behind her death? As usual Wolfe''s sleuthing talents puzzle out the truth. Michael Pritchard''s clear, strong, and pleasant reading supports the tale and helps keep the atmosphere charged. Entertaining and suspenseful; recommended. Denise A. Garofalo, Mid-Hudson Lib. Syst., Poughkeepsie, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that she was murdered, and soon he is investigating her fortune-hunting husband and greedy business associates. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(21679, 'Prisoner&#39;s base: a Nero Wolfe mystery', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nero Wolfe, the brilliant, orchid-loving, gourmet detective, and his debonair assistant Archie Goodwin attempt to protect their client, a young lady expecting an eight-million-dollar inheritance on her birthday NjBwBT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(21680, 'Private Practices', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A madman pushes into psychologist Alan Gregory''s office, his pistol against a young woman''s head. He demands his wife, Claire. She''s in the next office, in session with Gregory''s partner, Diane Estevez. The cops save Diane, but not Claire or the hostage. Claire was to testify before a grand jury. Curiously, another witness in the same case dies, also in front of Gregory. Sam Purdy, a detective with the Boulder police, figures Gregory may be able to help with the case. But Gregory himself needs help. With his own life at risk, he and Diane ransack their files for clues. In this race for truth, life itself is the prize!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(21681, 'Privileged Information', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The manipulations of a psychotic killer test the limits of the therapeutic relationship in this suspenseful first novel by a clinical psychologist. The unexpected suicide of Karen Hart, followed by the violent deaths of two more women patients, brings accusations of sexual misconduct and a lawsuit against Boulder, Colo., therapist Alan Gregory. Although the sinister role of a patient is suggested during a session, it is privileged information Gregory cannot reveal without violating the rules of confidentiality. While seeking aid from colleagues, his lawyer and a female deputy DA whom he romances, Gregory remains convinced that he cannot break the confidentiality code, not even in the face of murder. Forced into sleuthing on his own, he utilizes his training to identify the killer. Despite some overkill on specifics of street routes and Southwest cuisine, White''s skill in conveying the laid-back Colorado lifestyle which permeates the novel allows periodic ambushes by moments of real terror. Gregory''s automatic, instantaneous character analyses, however, may lead readers to agree with Gregory''s therapist partner: "You''re lucky you''re talking to another shrink. I''m not sure anybody else would let you get away with saying something like that." 35,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC and Mysterious Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- A psychological thriller that poses an ethical dilemma. According to police reports, one of psychologist Alan Gregory''s patients has committed suicide. A few weeks later the local paper prints information from an anonymous source alleging that sexual misconduct occurred in the deceased''s therapy sessions. Gregory''s patients cancel appointments, unexplained terrorism randomly occurs, and two more of his female patients die--one in a car accident and another from strangulation. Because of\n <code>\n </code>\n privileged information,'''' Gregory feels he cannot divulge information about these women, and thus clear his reputation. He begins his own quest to unravel the mystery that is destroying him. It doesn''t take long to zero in on the probable suspect. The real question is how these deaths and acts of terror are related and why Gregory is the target. --Margie Jones, Herndon Int., Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(21682, 'The Program', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alan Gregory, the Boulder psychologist who''s starred in Stephen White''s long-running series of suspense novels, takes second billing in\n <em>\n  The Program\n </em>\n . The star is Kirsten Lord, a New Orleans prosecutor who lands in Gregory''s office after her husband is killed and her daughter''s life threatened by a criminal she sent to prison. "Every precious thing I lose, you will lose two" is the warning that sends her on the run until she finally lands in the Witness Protection Program. But the danger''s a long way from over. As a prosecutor, she was a loud and public critic of "the program," and as events unfold, it appears that her deadliest enemies may not be safely behind bars.\n</p>\n<p>\n Some of the most interesting passages put Kirsten and Gregory together in scenes that underscore White''s professional expertise. A clinical psychologist in private practice in Boulder, he brings his understanding of human nature out of the consulting room and onto the page. Fans of Jonathan Kellerman''s Alex Delaware will love Alan Gregory, whose relatively minor role at the start grows as the plot deepens and turns a hunt-and-chase thriller into a multidimensional, complex, and vividly realized novel. Long overdue for a place high on the bestseller list, White may well break out with this one.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once it recovers from a wobbly beginning, this ninth thriller in the bestselling series featuring Boulder, Colo., clinical psychologist Alan Gregory sprints competently along. Peyton Francis, aka Kirsten Lord, was once a New Orleans district attorney. Now she and her nine-year-old daughter are enrolled in the witness protection program, in hiding from Peyton''s husband''s assassin, who was most likely hired by a Colombian drug lord Peyton put away for life. Given a new ID and moved to Boulder, Peyton is befriended by another witness protection participant, a former mob hitman who, like herself, is referred by the Feds to Dr. Gregory for counseling. Plagued by doubts about the federal marshal entrusted with her safety and tortured by second thoughts about the impending execution of a black man she may have mistakenly sent to death row in Florida, Peyton races against time to stay the Florida execution, and is forced to go into hiding from the very witness protection forces assigned to protect her. The usually sure-handed White is guilty of some artless writing at the novel''s start, creating a veritable obstacle course of meandering points of view, including an obscure long-running metaphoric thread linking repressed memories to images of a pod of whales. However, once the narrative drive settles mainly into Peyton''s first-person voice, the story comes handily together. Featuring an interesting cast, including a young Texas schoolmarm turned professional hit person, a sinister cabal of federal marshals with hidden agendas and an entrepreneurial assassination broker in Atlanta, the narrative drives to an edge-of-your-seat denouement. Author tour. (Apr.)Forecast: This is not White''s best effort, but fans of the series will check in to catch up on Alan Gregory''s adventures his wife is pregnant with their first child in this installment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(21683, 'PROSPECT One Hundred Men Corporation', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/471');
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(21684, 'Purple Cane Road', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In New Iberia, Louisiana, memories are long and dangerous, and the past and present are seldom easy to untangle. Homicide investigator Dave Robicheaux is trying to help Letty Labiche, a New Iberia girl on death row for killing the man who molested her and her sister as children, when chance brings him to Zipper Clum, a pimp and pornographer who recognizes Robicheaux secondhand through a 30-year haze:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "Robicheaux, your mama''s name was Mae.... Wait, it was Guillory before she married. That was the name she went by ... Mae Guillory. But she was your mama," he said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" I said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He wet his lips uncertainly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She dealt cards and still hooked a little bit. Behind a club in Lafourche Parish. This was maybe 1966 or ''67," he said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clete''s eyes were fixed on my face. "You''re in a dangerous area, sperm breath," he said to Zipper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They held her down in a mud puddle. They drowned her," Zipper said.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n To Robicheaux, whose memories of the fun-loving Mae are few and bittersweet, the news comes like a bolt of lightning. Though she abandoned him to the uncertain mercies of a violent, alcoholic father, he loved her, and his desire to find her killers--cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, according to Clum--is instantaneous and deeply felt. Unfortunately, Zipper Clum meets the wrong end of a .25 automatic soon after his electrifying announcement, but his conversation with his killer is recorded--and Mae Guillory''s name comes up again.\n</p>\n<p>\n The winding trail of evidence connected to both Letty Labiche and Mae Guillory leads Robicheaux almost immediately to Jim Gable, the New Orleans Police Department''s liaison with city hall, whose position has afforded him a number of less-than-legal advantages. Gable also happens to be an ex-lover of Robicheaux''s wife, Bootsie--formerly the widow of Ralph Giacano. From there the web of connections grows ever wider, and (not surprisingly) incriminates those in high places. These include the state attorney general, a woman who, if photographic evidence is to be trusted, was once friendly with the Labiches'' parents, who were known procurers.\n</p>\n<p>\n But if\n <em>\n  Purple Cane Road\n </em>\n has its share of corrupt powermongers, it''s also filled with beautifully rounded characters, like piano-playing governor Belmont Pugh and hit man Johnny Remeta, whose personality slowly begins to unravel as he gets closer to Robicheaux''s daughter. The plot converges seamlessly to its climax--the true story of what happened to Mae Robicheaux--as James Lee Burke''s trademark of uncompromising justice is brought to fruition. Like Burke''s other Robicheaux novels,\n <em>\n  Purple Cane Road\n </em>\n offers a solidly satisfying piece in the picture of a complex hero.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal case yet, when a pimp puts him on the trail of the truth behind his mother''s long-ago disappearance. Meanwhile, he uncovers new evidence in the case of death-row inmate Letty Labiche, who took a mattock to the man who molested her as a child, state executioner Vachel Carmouche. Burke parades the usual cast of grotesques: feckless Louisiana governor Belmont Pugh; cold-blooded attorney general Connie Deshotel; sleazy police liaison officer Jim Gable, who "keeps the head of a Vietnamese soldier in a jar of chemicals"; and psychopathic hit man Johnny Remata, who acts as all-around avenging angel. Wife Bootsie''s having had a fling with Gable drives Robicheaux into a jealous fury more than once, while daughter Alafair''s flirtation with Johnny raises the temperature even higher. Old buddy Clete Purcell doesn''t have a lot to do, other than to contribute to the general mayhem. Once Robicheaux learns that his mother fell afoul of a couple of New Orleans cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, it''s a simple matter of identifying the guilty pair and bringing them to justiceDor is it? Burke winds up an often convoluted and gratuitously violent plot with a dynamite ending that will leave readers feeling truly satisfied, if a bit shell-shocked. Major ad/promo; author tour. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(21685, 'The Pyramid', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The five stories in this outstanding collection from Mankell (_Faceless Killers_) provide glimpses into Kurt Wallander''s early life as a policeman as well as paint evocative portraits of contemporary Swedish society. An unremarkable businessman is poisoned in The Man on the Beach butâ€”in typical Mankell fashionâ€”the case is larger, more complex and more interesting than it first appears. In the volume''s best entry, The Death of the Photographer, Simon Lamberg takes studio portraits of weddings and children, but a couple of nights each week, he uses his darkroom to distort published photographs of politicians and newsworthy people for a macabre personal scrapbook. It''s a bizarre hobby, but the cause of Lamberg''s brutal, apparently senseless death is an even stranger puzzle. Like the Wallander novels, these stories rank among the finest police procedurals being written today.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In this retrospective collection, internationally best-selling Swedish mystery author Mankell proves himself a master of the short form. This five-story collection offers a look at how Mankellâ€™s series hero, Inspector Kurt Wallander, came to be the cop he is.Â In â€œWallanderâ€™s First Case,â€ Mankell flashes back to his heroâ€™s first homicide investigation, an off-hours project undertaken while Wallander was still working as a Malmo beat cop. The collectionâ€™s title story moves forward in time, picking up Wallander, now the intuitive lead officer of the Ystad violent crimes unit. Wallanderâ€™s marriage, separation, and divorce are all examined as well as his strained relationship with his eccentric father and his evolving relationship with his daughter, Linda. Fans of the series will be most interested, however, in the extended portrait of Rydberg, Wallanderâ€™s beloved mentor and former colleague, who only appears tangentially in the novels. These stories will also serve as an excellent introduction to Mankell in particular and to Scandinavian crime fiction in general; significantly, the first two stories share much the same tone, style, and setting as the works of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Mankellâ€™s great predecessors.Â The Wallander series, which Mankell believes should be subtitled â€œnovels of Swedish anxiety,â€ are essential reading for all crime-fiction fans, and this collection adds an indispensable chapter to the saga. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(21686, 'The Quiet Game by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg Iles, who has proven in such varied efforts as __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Iles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to cope with the recent death of his wife, Cage takes his 5-year-old daughter to Florida''s Disney World, where the child sadly sees visions of her mother everywhere in the fantasy-filled environment. Wouldn''t a trip to his parents'' stately home in Natchez be more soothing for all concerned? Wrong, as it turns out--and before Cage can catch his breath, he''s deeply involved in several dangerous matters. His father, a dedicated doctor, is being blackmailed for a past mistake in judgment, and a powerful judge (who just happens to be the father of Penn''s high school sweetheart) has a nasty personal agenda of his own. Then there''s the unsolved 1968 murder case of a black man, which Cage insists on reopening with the help of an attractive, ambitious newspaper publisher.\n</p>\n<p>\n Iles does for Natchez what John Berendt did for Savannah in __, creating a gothic Southern landscape where elegance and depravity walk hand in hand.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it takes place in Natchez, Miss., and is flavored with the violence and seamy undertones of a Southern Gothic, this fourth thriller by Iles (Spandau Phoenix) owes just as much to a familiar parallel universe where wealthy male lawyers double as tragic heroes, women are invariably smart and attractive, and trials are by definition "high profile." After his wife''s death, Penn Cage, a former Houston prosecutor and a bestselling suspense novelist, retreats to his parents'' home in Natchez with his grieving young daughter. The healing process is interrupted when Cage learns that someone is blackmailing his father, a saintly family doctor who once made a lethal mistake. In tracing the source of his father''s moral dilemma, Cage stumbles upon a trail of lies surrounding the unsolved murder of a black man in 1968. He determines to reopen the case, even though his antebellum hometown is smoldering with racial tension. With the assistance of Caitlin Masters, the attractive, smart and ambitious publisher of the local newspaper, Cage gradually uncovers an intricate conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of the FBI. Forced to confront powerful Judge Leo Marston, who nearly destroyed his father in pursuing an unrelated, unfounded malpractice accusation decades before, Cage must also face Marston''s daughter, Livy, his old high school sweetheart, who tries to persuade Cage to let sleeping dogs lie. It is difficult at times to sympathize with Cage, who proselytizes about truth, justice and obligation, yet destroys evidence to protect his father and fails to properly shield his loved ones as he single-mindedly pursues the case. Still, this ably crafted, richly atmospheric legal thriller is engrossing, and readers will forgive Iles''s protagonist a few shortcomings. Agent, Aaron Priest. Major ad/promo; 15-city author tour; British rights to Hodder Headline; audio rights to Recorded Books. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(21687, 'The Quiet Game', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg Iles, who has proven in such varied efforts as __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Iles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to cope with the recent death of his wife, Cage takes his 5-year-old daughter to Florida''s Disney World, where the child sadly sees visions of her mother everywhere in the fantasy-filled environment. Wouldn''t a trip to his parents'' stately home in Natchez be more soothing for all concerned? Wrong, as it turns out--and before Cage can catch his breath, he''s deeply involved in several dangerous matters. His father, a dedicated doctor, is being blackmailed for a past mistake in judgment, and a powerful judge (who just happens to be the father of Penn''s high school sweetheart) has a nasty personal agenda of his own. Then there''s the unsolved 1968 murder case of a black man, which Cage insists on reopening with the help of an attractive, ambitious newspaper publisher.\n</p>\n<p>\n Iles does for Natchez what John Berendt did for Savannah in __, creating a gothic Southern landscape where elegance and depravity walk hand in hand.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it takes place in Natchez, Miss., and is flavored with the violence and seamy undertones of a Southern Gothic, this fourth thriller by Iles (Spandau Phoenix) owes just as much to a familiar parallel universe where wealthy male lawyers double as tragic heroes, women are invariably smart and attractive, and trials are by definition "high profile." After his wife''s death, Penn Cage, a former Houston prosecutor and a bestselling suspense novelist, retreats to his parents'' home in Natchez with his grieving young daughter. The healing process is interrupted when Cage learns that someone is blackmailing his father, a saintly family doctor who once made a lethal mistake. In tracing the source of his father''s moral dilemma, Cage stumbles upon a trail of lies surrounding the unsolved murder of a black man in 1968. He determines to reopen the case, even though his antebellum hometown is smoldering with racial tension. With the assistance of Caitlin Masters, the attractive, smart and ambitious publisher of the local newspaper, Cage gradually uncovers an intricate conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of the FBI. Forced to confront powerful Judge Leo Marston, who nearly destroyed his father in pursuing an unrelated, unfounded malpractice accusation decades before, Cage must also face Marston''s daughter, Livy, his old high school sweetheart, who tries to persuade Cage to let sleeping dogs lie. It is difficult at times to sympathize with Cage, who proselytizes about truth, justice and obligation, yet destroys evidence to protect his father and fails to properly shield his loved ones as he single-mindedly pursues the case. Still, this ably crafted, richly atmospheric legal thriller is engrossing, and readers will forgive Iles''s protagonist a few shortcomings. Agent, Aaron Priest. Major ad/promo; 15-city author tour; British rights to Hodder Headline; audio rights to Recorded Books. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(21688, 'Red Square', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But his enemies are very much alive, and foremost among them are the powerful black-market crime lords of the Russian mafia. Hounded by this terrifying new underworld, chased by the ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, defector Irina Asanova, Arkady can only hope desperately for escape. But fate has something else in store.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKâ€œExtraordinary.â€â€“Timeâ€œSharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park.â€â€“The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œGripping . . . Smith at his best.â€â€“The Wall Street Journalâ€œA crackling suspense thriller.â€â€“The Boston Globeâ€œFascinating . . . powerful.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirerâ€œAbsorbing.â€â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With the fall of Soviet Communism, Inspector Arkady Renko returns from exile and once again takes up his career with the police, only to find himself embroiled in a perilous confrontation with Moscow''s new crime elite\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With the fall of Soviet Communism, Inspector Arkady Renko returns from exile and once again takes up his career with the police, only to find himself embroiled in a perilous confrontation with Moscow''s new crime elite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(21689, 'Regarding Ducks and Universes', 'Neve Maslakovic', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n On a foggy Monday in 1986, the universe suddenly, without warning, bifurcated. Fast-forward to 35 years later: Felix Sayers is a culinary writer living in San Francisco of Universe A who spends his days lunching at Coconut CafÃ© and dreaming of a successful career penning Agatha Christie-style mysteries. But everything changes when his Aunt Henrietta dies, leaving Felix a photograph of his father and himselfâ€”dated ten days before Felix was born. It can only mean one thing: Felix has an â€˜alterâ€™ in Universe B. In a panic that his mystery novel may have been written already, Felix crosses to San Francisco B and proceeds to flagrantly violate the rules of both worlds by snooping around his alterâ€™s life. But when he narrowly escapes a hit-and-run, it becomes clear that someone knows heâ€™s crossed overâ€¦ and whoever it is isnâ€™t happy about it. Now Felix must uncover the truth about his alter, the events of one Monday, and a wayward rubber duck before his time in both worlds runs out.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Science, Then Fiction: A Q&amp;A with Neve Masklakovic\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Most science fiction writers don''t have a background in real science, but you graduated with your Ph.D. from Stanford''s renowned STAR Lab. How did your scientific work influence your fictional writing? Did working in science inspire you to write?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Neve Maslakovic:\n </strong>\n When I first tried my hand at writing fiction, I found that the process is a close cousin of scientific research--you come up with an idea, sit down at your desk (or in your lab), work at it, spend time thinking, backtrack, try a different approach... neither one happens neatly and both are very creative endeavors. Science is guided by observation and deduction, of course, while in writing\n <em>\n  Regarding Ducks and Universes\n </em>\n my aim was to make the novel a fun read and a bit thought-provoking at the same time. Ultimately, though, you''re just tinkering with ideas until you hit upon something that works and feels right. I don''t feel I''ve moved wholly away from science; on the contrary--scientists and academic settings inhabit my stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n You were born in communist Yugoslavia and have lived all over the world. How did your travels impact the creation of Universe A and Universe B in\n <em>\n  Regarding Ducks and Universes\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Neve Maslakovic:\n </strong>\n I love to travel, both in person and virtually, by reading about real places or by writing about imagined ones. Sometimes a place that''s only a little different than what we''re used to can be more disconcerting than a place that''s hugely different. To that end, I wanted Universe A and Universe B to be "next-door" kind of universes to ours and to each other; the laws of physics are the same and people don''t have five arms, but in Universe B ordinary things like paper books and Ferris wheels seem out of place to A-dweller Felix Sayers, who''s come from a more technologically and environmentally oriented society. So he''s a little baffled by San Francisco B, especially as it seems that someone is trying to kill him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What made you decide to set\n <em>\n  Regarding Ducks and Universes\n </em>\n in San Francisco?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Neve Maslakovic:\n </strong>\n I think writers, even ones of speculative fiction, always end up writing about their lives and the places they''ve been, even if only in some extended sense. I was in California for 12 years, and, like all the places I''ve lived, it''s become a part of me. And San Francisco, in particular, is such a unique and interesting city, a city of innovation, a literary city. A perfect setting for basement-lab experiments with universes and for an encounter with a paper book for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What can we expect to see next from you? More science fiction? Or maybe something travel-related?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Neve Maslakovic:\n </strong>\n As a matter of fact, the novel I''m currently working on is going to be both science fiction and travel-related. I don''t want to say too much at this early stage, but let''s just say that this time there are no ducks, but there is an Australian didgeridoo. And Fibonacci numbers. And cheese, lots of cheese. And time travel.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Felix Sayers has lived his entire life believing he was born six months after a brilliant scientist bifurcated the universe, creating Universe A, where Felix resides, and Universe B. When Felix''s great-aunt leaves him a picture of himself as a baby, dated before the bifurcation of the universe, Felix realizes he has an alter living in Universe B. Afraid that the alter might already have written the mystery novel Felix has been contemplating penning, Felix decides to make a trip to Universe B. Though it''s against regulations to contact his alter, Felix hires a private detective to investigate Felix B. But Felix soon finds himself under scrutiny when he''s approached by a graduate student named Bean who suspects that Felix''s own action as a baby may have caused the split between the universes. The smallest moment may matter, a character tells Felix when explaining the possibility of an infinite number of universes branching off from tiny, seemingly insignificant actions and decisions. Weaving together physics, philosophy, and wry humor, Maslakovic''s inventive debut is a delight. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/259'),
(21690, 'The Reincarnationist', 'M. J. Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Best known as an author of erotic thrillers, Rose (_Lip Service_) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day Rome, a terrorist bomb explosion triggers flashbacks of pre-Christian Italy in photographer Josh Ryder. Josh experiences the memories as Julius, a pagan priest defending the sacrosanct monuments of his gods and the life of his vestal virgin lover against the emperor-mandated onslaught of Christianity in A.D. 391. Six months later, Josh has teamed with the Phoenix Foundation, an institute specializing in past-life memories in children, to explore a newly excavated tomb that may contain pagan memory stones that incite past-life regressions and will, by proving the existence of reincarnation, challenge the church. The stakes rise after it becomes clear that dangerous outside forces also want the stones. In a series of memory lurches, the narratives of Josh and Julius slowly wind together to reveal a\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  â€“esque tale of intrigue that''s more believably plotted and better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown''s ubiquitous book.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a bomb explosion nearly kills photojournalist Josh Ryder, he begins experiencing flashbacksâ€”or, perhaps, memoriesâ€”of events that seem to have happened to him 1,600 years earlier, in another life. Convinced these episodes aren''t figments of his imagination, he enlists the aid of the Phoenix Foundation, a group that specializes in past-life research. Later, when he becomes involved in the unearthing of an ancient tombâ€”and experiences a connection with its long-buried residentâ€”Josh realizes he has a chance to right a wrong that happened a millennium and a half ago, not to mention an opportunity to solve aÂ series of modern-day murders. This is one of those books that succeeds in spite of itself: even though the writing is merely competent, the story itself is so appealing that youÂ can''t stopÂ reading. Josh Ryder is a difficult character to pull off (among other things, he''s a man in love with a woman who lived 1,600 years ago), and atÂ times he comes off a little loopy. But for the most part he, like the novel itself, is surprisingly well grounded in the real world. Pitt, David\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(21691, 'The Reincarnationist', 'MJ Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Best known as an author of erotic thrillers, Rose (_Lip Service_) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day Rome, a terrorist bomb explosion triggers flashbacks of pre-Christian Italy in photographer Josh Ryder. Josh experiences the memories as Julius, a pagan priest defending the sacrosanct monuments of his gods and the life of his vestal virgin lover against the emperor-mandated onslaught of Christianity in A.D. 391. Six months later, Josh has teamed with the Phoenix Foundation, an institute specializing in past-life memories in children, to explore a newly excavated tomb that may contain pagan memory stones that incite past-life regressions and will, by proving the existence of reincarnation, challenge the church. The stakes rise after it becomes clear that dangerous outside forces also want the stones. In a series of memory lurches, the narratives of Josh and Julius slowly wind together to reveal a\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n â€“esque tale of intrigue that''s more believably plotted and better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown''s ubiquitous book.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a bomb explosion nearly kills photojournalist Josh Ryder, he begins experiencing flashbacksâ€”or, perhaps, memoriesâ€”of events that seem to have happened to him 1,600 years earlier, in another life. Convinced these episodes aren''t figments of his imagination, he enlists the aid of the Phoenix Foundation, a group that specializes in past-life research. Later, when he becomes involved in the unearthing of an ancient tombâ€”and experiences a connection with its long-buried residentâ€”Josh realizes he has a chance to right a wrong that happened a millennium and a half ago, not to mention an opportunity to solve a series of modern-day murders. This is one of those books that succeeds in spite of itself: even though the writing is merely competent, the story itself is so appealing that you can''t stop reading. Josh Ryder is a difficult character to pull off (among other things, he''s a man in love with a woman who lived 1,600 years ago), and at times he comes off a little loopy. But for the most part he, like the novel itself, is surprisingly well grounded in the real world. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(21692, 'Remote Control', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his fifth book about intrepid Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory, Stephen White zooms in on Gregory''s wife, Lauren--an assistant district attorney who has multiple sclerosis. Protecting a friend targeted by anti-abortion terrorists, Lauren shoots at a man during a snowstorm and sets off a blizzard of recriminations. As usual, White makes the evolution of a convoluted plot as believable as the rocky landscape. Previous Gregory adventures available in paperback:\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n White (Higher Authority, LJ 10/1/94) wastes no time getting right to the action in this fast-paced, multilayered thriller. Opening with the shocking murder of the U.S. Surgeon General by a zealous right-to-lifer, this story shifts ahead to a mysterious shooting at the home of the surgeon''s daughter, Emma. To complicate matters, the one holding the smoking gun is none other than Lauren Crowder, Boulder County deputy DA and Emma''s friend. So why does Lauren risk jail to protect Emma''s privacy and what does Emma have to hide? The seemingly cluttered cast of characters soon fall into place, with intriguing twists handled adeptly by best-selling author White. Reader Frank Muller adds just enough vocal nuance to differentiate characters without being overly dramatic. White''s numerous fans will not be disappointed with this solid mystery. For most popular collections.?Susan McCaffrey, Sturgis Pub. Sch. Lib., Mich.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(21693, 'Republic: a novel of America&#39;s future', 'Charles Sheehan Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A domestic terrorist attack evokes a violent and oppressive response from the U.S. government... a labor dispute ends in violence... a young boy lies dying of a rare disease with no hope in sight. When the conflict focuses on a small town in West Virginia, Ken Murphy, Iraq veteran and Lieutenant Colonel in the West Virginia National Guard, must find a way to protect his family and community in a world turned upside down. In a future America terrifying to behold, Republic evokes the specter of civil war in a world that is simultaneously familiar and changed beyond recognition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(21694, 'Reservation Blues - Alexie Sherman', 'Alexie Sherman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The characters of Alexie''s acclaimed short fiction (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)-Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Victor, Junior, the habitues of the Spokane Indian reservation-return in this superb first novel, a lyric comic tale with magical realist overtones. A stranger arrives on the reservation carrying a magic guitar, which he''s been given as part of his bargain with "the Gentleman" for blues immortality. Now he''s trying to lose guitar, devil and deal. Taking the instrument off his hands, Thomas soon forms an all-Indian R&amp;B band with Victor and Junior. The group, Coyote Springs, plays small clubs and bars and eventually goes on tour. They even attract their own groupies-white women Betty and Veronica and Indian sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. Will they succeed and, if they do, will they lose their souls? Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur D''Alene Indian, excels at creating colorful characters, and he fills his narrative with subtle and affectionate homages to other contemporary Native American writers (Jim Northrup, Thomas King et al.). Hilarious but poignant, filled with enchantments yet dead-on accurate with regard to modern Indian life, this tour de force will leave readers wondering if Alexie himself hasn''t made a deal with the Gentleman in order to do everything so well.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alexie follows up his story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (LJ 9/1/93), with a first novel about an all-Indian Catholic rock band called Coyote Springs.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(21695, 'The Return Of The Dancing Master', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mankell, known in this country for his Kurt Wallander police procedurals (_Faceless Killers_;\n <em>\n  The Dogs of Riga\n </em>\n ), sets this intricate, stand-alone tale of murder and intrigue in the vast pine forests of north-central Sweden. Stefan Lindman, a 37-year-old policeman in the city of Boras, sees his life, both professional and personal, as absolutely ordinary. Then he discovers a strange lump on his tongue; it''s cancer, and his life changes dramatically. At the doctor''s office he picks up a discarded newspaper and reads that former colleague Herbert Molin has been murdered in the northern forests. Because Lindman needs to take his mind off his upcoming cancer treatment, he decides to investigate Molin''s death. As the details of the crime come to light, Lindman realizes he never knew the real Molin. The plot involves the secret world of Nazis, both past and present. The prose can be cold and spare, at least in translation: "There was a smell of paint in the house. All the lights were on. Lindman had to bow his head when he entered through the door." The unrelenting Lindman turns out to be an innovative investigator, though those seeking fast-paced action rather than meticulous introspection will be disappointed. Secrets are slowly and methodically teased from the evidence, and by the satisfying end readers with a taste for the unusual will find Lindman, and the mystery he solves, not in the least bit ordinary.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mankell''s Kurt Wallander series is one of the quintessential new European procedurals, pitting a melancholy Swedish detective against a hate-filled contemporary world. Wallander is absent here, but the unremitting horror of modern life continues to take its toll, this time on a different crew of overmatched Swedish cops. A younger version of Wallander, Stefan Lindman faces a host of personal demons, not the least of which is his recent diagnosis of mouth cancer. On leave and unwilling to face up to his illness, he decides to travel to the small village of Sveg, where a retired colleague, Herbert Molin, has been murdered. Helping to investigate the crime, Lindman is shocked to discover that Molin was a lifelong Nazi. Suddenly, Lindman''s alternative "therapy" has landed him in the middle of an international ring of neo-Nazis. As always, Mankell tells somber, deeply pessimistic stories about widespread hatred lurking below the multicultural surface, but at the same time, he never fails to find a rich vein of humanity deep within the perpetually furrowed brows of his troubled cops.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(21696, 'Return to Pleasure Island', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(21697, 'The Reversal', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey''s a defense lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one - particularly since the DA''s determination to re-charge and re-try him for the same crime, seems doomed to failure. Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he''s been set up, with the renewed prosecution merely a tactic to prevent Jessup from successfully suing the state and county for millions of dollars. To avoid humiliation, Mickey and Haller are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about Melissa Landy and what really happened to her all those years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(21698, 'A Right to Die', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, are entangled in the murder case of a beautiful young socialite with too many lovers and one too many enemies--but Wolfe is sure the police are wrong to arrest her fiance+a7. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Brooke has everything going for her. Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor. The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas. Before he''s done, he''ll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(21699, 'Road Dogs', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Be Cool\n </em>\n . If Elmore Leonard hadn''t already used it for the\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n ended, Foley was headed back to the clink to finish a 30-year bid.\n <em>\n  Road Dogs\n </em>\n opens with Foley on the van to prison with Cundo Rey, a pint-size Cuban who soon engineers their early release--legally, this time. Jack''s happy to be out and enjoying the California hospitality of Cundo and his wife Dawn (both Leonard veterans too, from\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Elmore Leonard\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:Where did the inspiration for the title\n  <em>\n   Road Dogs\n  </em>\n  come from?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Road Dogs\n </em>\n was on a list of prison expressions my researcher Gregg Sutter got for me: inmates who watch each otherâ€™s back. I liked the sound of the words together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What made you decide to bring back Jack Foley, Cundo Rey, and Dawn Navarro now? What is it about these three characters that stuck with you through the years?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Foley was played by George Clooney in\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n . I imagined George in the scenes I wrote and it worked. Dawn Navarro was the psychic in\n <em>\n  Riding the Rap\n </em>\n , a supporting character ready for a leading role. Cundo Rey from\n <em>\n  LaBrava\n </em>\n , another favorite of mine, also deserved a bigger role, so I brought him back..\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Any chance Foley and the woman he loves, Federal Marshal Karen Sisco, will be back in the near future?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m not sure Foley is up to robbing another bank. But Karen Sisco, the federal marshal in\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n , could show up again; maybe working for her dad, a private investigator.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: One of the hallmarks of your writing is your gift for the telling detail. When Foley is offering Cundo Reyâ€™s money man, Jimmy, some advice about his skimming, he tells him that Cundo wonâ€™t kill him, but he might â€œbreak your legs with a JosÃ© Canseco bat.â€ Thatâ€™s one of those small yet wonderfully deft touches that adds color without slowing the pace. How do you do this so well?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Realism is the key to my style of writing and dialogue is what keeps it moving, always in live scenes. Rather than use my voice, my language, to describe whatâ€™s going on, I let the characters tell who they are and what theyâ€™re up to by the way they talk. Scenes are written from a characterâ€™s point of view, never mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Many of your characters are working class stiffs and tough, intelligent broads. What draws you to these kind of characters? What do you think accounts for their popularity?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n My women often upstage the guys; theyâ€™re natural, their own person, while my cops and criminals talk the way Iâ€™ve observed them through research and being on the scene.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Whatâ€™s next for Elmore Leonard?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Next comes\n <em>\n  Djibouti\n </em>\n , with Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker with the Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard launches three characters from previous novels on a collision course in this seemingly effortless performance. After prison buddy Cundo Rey (last seen in\n <em>\n  LaBrava\n </em>\n ) drops a bundle on a shark attorney, celebrity bank robber Jack Foley (from\n <em>\n  Out of Sight\n </em>\n ) gets his 30-year prison sentence reduced to 30 months. Jack''s quickly back in the world, living large in one of Cundo''s two multimillion-dollar houses in Venice, Calif., juggling a fast seduction with fortune-teller (from\n <em>\n  Riding the Rap\n </em>\n ) Dawn Navarro (who is now Cundo''s lady) and the untoward attention of rogue FBI agent Lou Adams, who''s waiting for Foley to rob another bank. While Dawn tries to enlist Foley in a scheme to steal Cundo''s off-the-books fortune, Cundo surprises them with an early release. Betrayal simmers while Foley considers going semi-straightâ€”with the help of a widowed starletâ€”Dawn hatches a plan that could get her rich and rid her of all her problems, and Cundo''s associates and neighborhood toughs get sucked into the fray. The plot isn''t as tight as it could be, but Leonard''s singular way with words is reason enough to read it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(21700, 'The Road Less Traveled and Beyond', 'M. Scott Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is the culmination of a lifetime of Dr. M. Scott Peck''s counseling, lecturing, and writing, and the conclusion of the "Road" trilogy. In it, we are led to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress and anxiety. With the rare combination of profound psychological insight and deep spirituality that has already spoken to millions of readers, Dr. Peck talks about decision making and the choices we make every day in business and at home, and the ethical choices that may affect the very survival of humankind. We learn the difference between good and evil, to overcome narcissism, to love and be loved, to live with paradox, to accept the consequences of our actions all through life, and to come to terms with dying and death. Dr. Peck is a guide on the adventure that is life, learning, and spiritual growthâ€”life''s greatest adventure. Building in depth and power from the very first chapter to its lyrical and poetic conclusion, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is an adventure in itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The potential danger in this book''s title is the assumption that Peck is rehashing the same material he wrote in\n <em>\n  The Road Less Traveled\n </em>\n . Thankfully, this isn''t so. Although he touches upon the same themes that appear in most everything he writesâ€”narcissism vs. self-love and good vs. evilâ€”Peck is clearly speaking to the crucial dilemmas of the 1990s, such as overly simplistic thinking, institutionalized racism and sexism, as well as the media''s despairing vision. Now that Peck has reached the maturity of 60, his narrative is less know-it-all than in the days of yore. Yet, ironically, his decades of research, writing, and human service give him more authority than ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n Philosophical psychiatrist Peck (Further Along the Road Less Traveled) continues his journey through the existential conflicts and baffling paradoxes on the meandering road of personal development. Mixing selections of pre-digested Freud and Jung for nonacademic consumption, along with an idiosyncratic idea of an immanent yet bland non-denominational God, Peck guides pilgrims toward emotional and spiritual growth. His style is smooth and conversational, though his concession to political correctness, through alternating male and female personal pronouns, can be annoying. He is at his best in colorful anecdotes about his professional and personal life. In these instances, his insights reflect the experiences of a thoughtful and gentle man who has tried to find wisdom in a life that has known both sunlight and shade. Peck''s hard-edged insistence on personal responsibility in everyone''s life, and on an awareness of evil and sin as real, elevate his discourse from cloying New Age palaver to a meaningful concern about humanity''s place in the cosmic order. His honesty in writing about, and working through, his own shortcomings testifies to his integrity and lends credence to his observations. Through copious detailed references from his previous books, he allows readers unfamiliar with them to understand and enjoy the present work, which completes his Road trilogy. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/304');
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(21701, 'The Road', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Best known for his\n  <em>\n   The Road\n  </em>\n  . Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose,\n  <em>\n   The Road\n  </em>\n  is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we''ve read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel,\n  <em>\n   The Road\n  </em>\n  , in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it''s not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that''s the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy''s previous work. McCarthy''s Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in\n  <em>\n   The Road\n  </em>\n  , those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel''s closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father''s (and McCarthy''s) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith.\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Road\n  </em>\n  is now a major motion picture based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, starring Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  McCarthy''s latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, is narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe. He and his young son are trekking along a treacherous highway, starving and freezing, trying to avoid roving cannibal armies. The tale, and their lives, are saved from teetering over the edge of bleakness thanks to the man''s fierce belief that they are "the good guys" who are preserving the light of humanity. In this stark, effective production, Stechschulte gives the father an appropriately harsh, weary voice that sways little from its numbed register except to urge on the weakening boy or soothe his fears after an encounter with barbarians. When they uncover some vestige of the former world, the man recalls its vanished wonder with an aching nostalgia that makes the listener''s heart swell. Stechschulte portrays the son with a mournful, slightly breathy tone that emphasizes the child''s whininess, making him much less sympathetic than his resourceful father. With no music or effects interrupting Stechschulte''s carefully measured pace and gruff, straightforward delivery, McCarthy''s darkly poetic prose comes alive in a way that will transfix listeners.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(21702, 'Roast Mortem', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Coyle''s strong 9th coffeehouse mystery (after 2009''s Holiday Grind) pays tribute to New York City firefighters. Clare Cosi, the head barista at Village Blend; Blend owner Madame Dreyfus Allegro Dubois (who''s Clare''s ex-mother-in-law); and Blend employee Dante Silva narrowly escape death in the bomb-activated blaze that destroys Enzo Testa''s Caffe Lucia in Queens and seriously injures Enzo. Clare informs the irritating, overly flirtatious FDNY captain, Michael Quinn, a cousin of her NYPD detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, that she suspects arson. As fire marshal Stuart Rossi swings into action, Clare is eager to help catch the firebug (aka the Coffee Shop Arsonist), but Rossi is less than enthusiastic about her getting involved. Later, the arsonist torches a Long Island coffeehouse, killing a firefighter, as a warning. While the media worry that a terrorist is loose, new, even more horrible crimes surface. Coyle (the wife-husband writing team of Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini) provides an appendix of useful tips and tempting recipes.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The pseudonymous Coyle''s strong 9th coffeehouse mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   Holiday Grind\n  </em>\n  ) pays tribute to New York City firefighters. Clare Cosi, the head barista at Village Blend; Blend owner Madame Dreyfus Allegro Dubois (who''s Clare''s ex-mother-in-law); and Blend employee Dante Silva narrowly escape death in the bomb-activated blaze that destroys Enzo Testa''s Caffe Lucia in Queens and seriously injures Enzo. Clare informs the irritating, overly flirtatious FDNY captain, Michael Quinn, a cousin of her NYPD detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, that she suspects arson. As fire marshal Stuart Rossi swings into action, Clare is eager to help catch the firebug (aka the Coffee Shop Arsonist), but Rossi is less than enthusiastic about her getting involved. Later, the arsonist torches a Long Island coffeehouse, killing a firefighter, as a warning. While the media worry that a terrorist is loose, new, even more horrible crimes surface. Coyle (the wife-husband writing team of Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini) provides an appendix of useful tips and tempting recipes."\n  <br />\n  -_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(21703, 'The Rope Dance (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(21704, 'Rose Orchid (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(21705, 'The Rubber Band', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_The Rubber Band_ by Rex Stout is a complete and unabridged mystery starring Nero Wolfe and his faithful sidekick, Archie Goodwin. Wolfe, who died in 1975 at age 89, wrote stories that hold up remarkably well. In this, which involves the American West and the British nobility, we have Wolfe''s tongue-in-cheek exercise program developed to comply with his physician''s edict that he must lose weight: dart throwing. Michael Prichard, who has pretty much become the voice of Archie Goodwin, reads. Recently, he was named by\n <em>\n  Smart Money\n </em>\n magazine as one of audio''s "Top 10 Golden Voices." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Arizona Daily Star_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nero Wolfe, the fat detective of Rex Stout''s novels, towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rex Stout...raised detective fiction to the level of art. He gave us genius of at least two kinds, and a strong realist voice that was shot through with hope." --\n <em>\n  Walter Mosley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In all his years of detecting, the unflappable Nero Wolfe has never encountered an investigation as damnably messy as this one. For what began as a clean case of larceny quickly sank into a quagmire of blackmail and broken promises, international scandal and cold-blooded murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin must bridge eras and oceans to find the link between a Wild West lynching and a respected British peer. Only then can they save Wolfe''s beautiful young client -- and a hotly disputed stake of a cool million dollars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(21706, 'Sacred Clowns', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Telling his story the Navajo way, Hillerman ( Coyote Waits ) fully develops the background of the cases pursued by Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, so that the resolutions--personal and professional--ring true with gratifying inevitability. A white woodshop teacher at St. Bonaventure''s mission school is bludgeoned to death in his schoolroom; a student, a young boy from Tano Pueblo, is missing. The boy''s uncle, a koshare, or sacred clown, in a kachina dance, is stabbed to death right after the ceremony in which he has symbolically warned of the dangers of selling sacred objects; an old man is killed on the highway in a hit and run. Chee, who is apprehensive about working for Leaphorn, tries to locate the missing boy, whose grandmother is on the Navajo Tribal Council, and to learn who ran down the old man, but he is distracted by his growing attachment to lawyer Janet Pete and by his desire to be a hataalii , or shaman, as well as a cop. Leaphorn searches for clues while simultaneously grieving for his wife who died 18 months earlier and considering his relationship with linguistics professor Louisa Bourebonette. Jurisdictional conflicts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Apache County Sheriff''s Office reflect the cultural differences that obtain among tribes and clans as this first Leaphorn story in three years, steeped in Navajo lore and traditions, draws to its convincing conclusions. 350,000 first printing; major ad/promo; Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates .\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-In Hillerman''s latest mystery set in the Southwest, Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work together with a runaway student as the only link between two seemingly unrelated murders-one of a well-liked art teacher in his classroom on the reservation and the other the uncle of the runaway boy. The author skillfully employs the elements of detection and routine police work while providing readers with an intriguing glimpse of Navajo culture. The relationships between the officers and between the other well-defined characters give depth to the story, which is spiced with both men''s romantic interests. The thought processes of the characters are accessible; the narrative holds interest and moves smoothly; and the themes of good and evil, greed and generosity, ethical considerations and environmental issues provide conflict. Unique and masterful.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Linda Sudduth, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(21707, 'The Scar', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(21708, 'The Scarecrow', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he''s got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism''s highest honour - a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo''s so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he''s had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he''s coming...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(21709, 'The Second Confession', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a millionaire businessman hires the sedentary detective to snoop on his daughter''s boyfriend, Wolfe finds himself caught in a labyrinthine case involving drugged drinks, murderous debutantes, and a gangland boss. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orchids and machine guns, the privileged rich, and tough private eyes make for a heady mix, which reader Michael Prichard spins in classic late 1940s'' style. The phlegmatic, cerebral, orchid-and-food-fancying sleuth Nero Wolfe, like a twentieth-century Mycroft Holmes, accepts a case involving not only the players mentioned, but also a search for Communists. Prichard tells the story in the first- person point of view of Wolfe''s right hand, the tough, canny, and pleasure-loving Archie Goodwin. This is a fairly cinematic listening experience, as we are treated to lushly described scenes and desperate, intelligent characters. D.J.B. Â© AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(21710, 'The Second Opinion', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this routine medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (_The First Patient_), Dr. Thea Sperelakis, an idealist who''s been working for Doctors Without Borders in the Congo, rushes back to Boston after learning her physician father, Petros, an intimidating figure known as the Lion, is close to death, the victim of a hit-and-run. Thea faces one challenge after another, including having to resuscitate Petros when his heart stops beating. Her brilliant if socially challenged older brother, Dimitri, adds to her anxiety with his computer reconstruction of the accident, which indicates the driver struck Petros deliberately. When Thea manages to communicate haltingly with her father, she suspects he''s stumbled on some medical fraud that''s made him the target of those behind the fraud. Aided by the requisite hunky ex-cop turned hospital security guard, Thea doggedly seeks out the truth. Robin Cook fans have seen all this before and in more engaging form.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmer, a medical-thriller writer who has been producing A-list-quality novels for years, turns in another excellent performance with this story of a physician who uncovers a deadly conspiracy. Dr. Thea Sperelakisâ€™ father is the victim of a hit-and-run; now in a coma, he communicates only with his daughter and only by moving one of his eyes. Slowly, Thea pieces together the truth behind her fatherâ€™s accident, and behind a series of suspicious deaths, but exposing the villains could mean exposing her to certain death. As usual, the novel is fluidly writtenâ€”as a stylist, Palmer is head and shoulders above his more famous competitor, Robin Cookâ€”and very suspenseful. Thea, in particular, is a most intriguing character: she suffers from Asperger syndrome, which gives her an obsession with details, a near-encyclopedic memory, and a rather charming awkwardness in social settings. The novel is not merely a thriller but also an exploration of its central characterâ€™s unique gifts and her determination to communicate with her comatose father despite overwhelming odds. Another winner from a consistently fine writer. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(21711, 'Second Variety', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n ea. vol: 400p. Underwood-Miller. 1987. set: $125. ISBN 0-88733-053-3. LC number unavailable. YA Dick is not just a good craftsman of short stories, but a successful writer of short science fiction stories. These vignettes will expand readers'' points of view and challenge usual cultural assumptions. This collection traces Dick''s growth as a writer, and also the application of major sci/fi themes over the 30 years between his first story in 1952 and his last in 1982. Thermonuclear war, xenophobia, and the tension between man and technology are among the recurring motifs. Each volume contains brief notes that date the stories and offer some context from the author''s perspective. The price may seem high, but it compares favorably with the investment many libraries have in Heinlein and Asimov. These books lend themselves to\n <code>\n </code>\n cover-to-cover'''' reading, an unusual feat for a five-volume collection. Dorcas Hand, Episcopal High School, Bellaire\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Encompassing 34 years and over 100 stories, this collection of the short fiction of the late author provides a retrospective of his contribution to sf literature. Arranged chronologically (with publication history and, in some cases, Dick''s own commentaries at the end of each volume), the progression from early stories such as "The Preserving Machine" (1953) to "The Little Black Box" (1964) and "Frozen Journey" (1980) traces the development of one of sf''s most eccentric and articulate minds. Highly recommended for any library whose budget can afford the price. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(21712, 'Second Variety (Story Only)', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n ea. vol: 400p. Underwood-Miller. 1987. set: $125. ISBN 0-88733-053-3. LC number unavailable. YA Dick is not just a good craftsman of short stories, but a successful writer of short science fiction stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(21713, 'Secret Diaries of Hitler&#39;s Doctor', 'David Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A study of Adolf Hitler''s physical and psychological condition, based on the diaries of Theo Morell, Hitler''s physician, discusses the impact of the dictator''s ailments on world events and the course of World War II\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(21714, 'Shades of Grey', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This inventive fantasy from bestseller Fforde (_The Eyre Affair_) imagines a screwball future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception. Centuries after the cryptically cataclysmic Something That Happened, a Colortocracy, founded on the inflexible absolutes of the chromatic scale, rules the world. Amiable Eddie Russett, a young Red, is looking forward to marrying a notch up on the palette and settling down to a complacent bourgeois life. But after meeting Jane G-23, a rebellious working-class Grey, and a discredited, invisible historian known as the Apocryphal man, Eddie finds himself questioning the hitherto sacred foundations of the status quo. En route to finding out what turned things topsy-turvy, Eddie navigates a vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author''s remarkably detailed color scheme. Sometimes, though, it''s hard to see the story for the chromotechnics.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In Eddie Russettâ€™s world, color is destiny. Peopleâ€™s perceptions of color, once tested, determine their rank in the Colortocracy, with primes ruling â€œbastardâ€ colors and everyone lording it over the prole-like grays. No one can see more than their own color, and no one knows whyâ€”but there are many unknowns ever since Something Happened, followed by the deFacting and successive Great Leaps Backward. Due to an infraction against the Collectiveâ€™s rule-bound bureaucracy, Eddie is sent to East Carmine, in the Outer Fringes, where manners are shockingly poor, to conduct a monthlong chair census. In short order, he falls in love, runs afoul of the local prefects, learns a terrible secret, and is eaten by a carnivorous tree. This series starter combines the dire warnings of Brave New World and 1984 with the deevolutionary visions of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Riddley Walker, but, Fforde being Fforde, his dystopia includes an abundance of tea shops and a severe shortage of jam varieties. Itâ€™s all brilliantly original. If his complex world building sometimes slows the plot and the balance of silly and serious is uneasy, weâ€™re still completely won over. In our own willful myopia, we sorely need the laughs. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(21715, 'Shadow of the Mothaship', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(21716, 'The Shape Shifter', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n A picture cut from a glossy magazine,\n <em>\n  Luxury Living\n </em>\n , draws retired Navajo tribal policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn into a hunt for a soulless killer in bestseller Hillerman''s enthralling 18th Leaphorn/Chee whodunit (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Skeleton Man\n </em>\n ). The picture''s sender, Mel Bork, another cop retiree, wonders if the distinctive Navajo rug shown in the picture is the same one Leaphorn described to him long ago, a rug supposedly destroyed in a fire the two officers investigated that took the life of a person identified as among the FBI''s most wanted. Bork''s subsequent disappearance and murder herald the dangers awaiting Leaphorn from a most formidable enemy. As Leaphorn searches for evidence to confirm his suspicions, he enlists the aid of Sgt. Jim Chee and his bride, Bernadette Manuelito, just back from their honeymoon. Only Hillerman could so masterfully connect such disparate elements as an ancient cursed weaving, two stolen buckets of piÃ±on sap and the Vietnam War. The conclusion is sure to startle longtime fans of this acclaimed mystery series.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe''sâ€”his "last case," unsolved, and one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just back from their honeymoon, Leaphorn is pretty much on his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n The original case involved a priceless, one-of-a-kind Navajo rug supposedly destroyed in a fire. Suddenly, what looks like the same rug turns up in a magazine spread. And the man who brings the photo to Leaphorn''s attention has gone missing. Leaphorn must pick up the threads of a crime he''d thought impossible to untangle. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but it also appears that there''s a murderer still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(21717, 'The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Philip K. Dick has established himself as a major figure in American literature. The landscape of his imagination features a wealth of concepts and fictional worlds: Nazi-rule in a postwar nightmare; androids and the unification of man and machine; and an existence that no longer follows the logic of reality. His vision has shaped the way we perceive the past and present and how we look to the future. This first-time collection assembles his nonfiction writings (the bulk of which either have never before been published or have appeared only in obscure and out-of-print publications) - essays, journals, speeches, and interviews. In these writings he explores issues ranging from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences of "virtual" reality and its consequences to a plot-scenario for a potential episode of "Mission: Impossible, " to the challenge that fundamental "human" values face in the age of technology and spiritual decline. This collection is at once penetrating and entertaining. It is sure to reconfirm Philip K. Dick not only as an important science-fiction writer but also as an explorative thinker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(21718, 'The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford &amp; Other Stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this collection of stories, readers are drawn into a world with a mysterious twist, a sense of otherness that eludes description. This thought-provoking writing--part science fiction, part mystery, part fantasy--includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(21719, 'Side Effects', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr. Kate Bennett, a pathologist at Boston Memorial Hospital, faces problems in her personal life and professional career as she searches for the cause of a bizarre illness responsible for a series of deaths. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate''s closest friend. Soon it will threaten Kate''s marriage. Her sanity. Her life. Kate has uncovered a horrifying secret. Important people will stop at nothing to protect it. It is a terrifying medical discovery. And its roots lie in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(21720, 'Sidetracked', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Told from the perspectives of both cop and criminal, Mankell''s third Kurt Wallander mystery revolves around the veteran Swedish inspector''s search for a savage serial killer who scalps his victims after delivering a fatal hatchet blow. The novel opens as Wallander is called to a farmer''s field, where he helplessly witnesses a teenage girl''s self-immolation. The suicide unsettles the inspector, who can''t understand why someone so young would kill herself. As the police try to identify the young woman, the serial killer''s first victim, a former justice minister, is discovered on a beach in a wealthy neighborhood. Three more people are found murdered and scalped, and other signs of violence suggest that the perpetrator is becoming increasingly agitated. Following standard procedure, Wallander and his crew try to link the four victims, all male, a difficult task because their lives never seem to have intersected. Using American profiling methods as well as his own intuition, Wallander struggles to make headway in the case. What he doesn''t consider, and what readers know, is that the murderer isn''t a man but a boy, who hopes to revive his catatonic sister by the ritual presentation of the scalps. Mankell''s meticulously detailed descriptions of the inspector''s investigationAand his often lyrical portrayal of Wallander''s struggle to rearrange his thought processes in order to catch the criminalAare masterful. The author''s treatment of modern themes such as juvenile killers and broken families adds richness to what is essentially a straightforward police procedural. But above all, the novel stands out for its nuanced evocation of even the peripheral characters. Winner of Sweden''s 1997 Best Crime Novel of the Year, this is another terrific offering from the talented Mankell.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A young girl spends a day almost catatonic in an isolated farm field, then immolates herself. Sweden''s retired minister of justiceAa man with a pornographic interest in young girlsAtakes his usual evening walk on the beach and meets a murderer''s axe. With these possibly connected cases on his plate, series policeman Kurt Wallander (Faceless Killers, LJ 12/96) and his team interrupt their personal agendas to identify the girl, expose unsavory personal/political secrets, and deal with the subsequent connected murder of an art dealer. Full of emotion yet cleanly written, apparently straightforward yet fraught with intriguing revelations, Mankell''s latest mystery is strongly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(21721, 'The Siege', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Yale campus becomes the site of an increasingly tense siege in this stunning novel from bestseller White (_Dead Time_). After unidentified attackers quietly take over a building belonging to one of Yale''s secret societies, they transform it into a virtual fortress holding an unknown number of students hostage. As officials become aware of what has happened, the response escalates in predictable fashion, but these hostage takers are completely unpredictable. They make no demands, agree to no negotiations and execute or release hostages as they choose. Suspended Boulder, Colo., policeman Sam Purdy eventually teams with maverick FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA terror expert Deirdre Drake in an effort outside official channels to figure out what''s going on. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this intellectually challenging and provocative thriller brings home the lesson that 9/11 might have been a mere prelude to more sophisticated assaults.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Whiteâ€”author of over a dozen\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellersâ€” returns with a relentlessly propelled, thriller that will remind readers of his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Kill Me\n </em>\n . Stephen Whiteâ€™s Alan Gregory novels are beloved by both fans and criticsâ€”the most recent,\n <em>\n  Dead Time\n </em>\n , was a USA Today and Book-Sense bestseller. In\n <em>\n  The Siege\n </em>\n , Gregoryâ€™s longtime friend Sam Purdy takes center stage in a story that feels ripped from tomorrowâ€™s headlines. From the first page on, readers need to be buckled in for a nonstop ride full of terror and pathos. As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of studentsâ€”including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court justiceâ€”may have gone missing. Kidnapping? Terrorism? The authorities arenâ€™t sure. But the high-profile disappearances draw the attention of the CIA and the FBIâ€™s vaunted Hostage Rescue Team. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yaleâ€™s secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he is quickly snared by an unlikely pair of Feds: FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake. Sam, Poe, and Dee join together, desperately trying to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus. The clock is pounding in their ears. The unknown enemy is playing by no known rules . . . is making no demands . . . is refusing to communicate with the hostage negotiator . . . is somehow anticipating every FBI move . . . is completely unconcerned about getting away . . . And . . . is sending students, one by one, out of the buildingâ€™s front door to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(21722, 'The Silent Speaker', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a powerful government official turns up dead, the great Nero Wolfe takes notice. On the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon another victim is found, a stenographerâ€™s tape disappears, and the dead man speaks â€” after a fashion. As the business world clamors for a solution, Wolfe patiently lays a trap.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires turns up dead, the business world clamors for a solution, and Nero Wolfe takes the case. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n Narrator Michael Prichard excels as the brilliant detective, gourmet, and grouch, Nero Wolfe. Prichard''s polished, smooth style is the only way to feature the sophisticated, egotistical detective who solves crimes with an incisive mind and an active assistant, one Archie Goodwin. This mystery involves two brutal murders tied to the antagonism between an industrial association and a governmental regulatory agency. Predictably and reassuringly, justice prevails, and the listener knows that even if "they don''t write ''em like that anymore," they still tell them with panache and charm. D.L.G. Â© AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maineâ€”\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(21723, 'Silent Treatment', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his five bestselling novels, from\n <em>\n  The Sisterhood\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Natural Causes\n </em>\n , physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....\n</p>\n<p>\n With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never quick to share her feelings, has been more closed and distant than ever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when Harry reaches Evie''s room, it is too late for reconciliation. Shockingly, without warning, Evie is dead. The police suspect homicide. And their only suspect is Dr. Harry Corbett.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harry is not prepared for the stunning revelations that follow: His bright, beautiful, highly ambitious wife was leading a double life; she may have had\n <br />\n dangerous secrets. But what secret could have been explosive enough to die for?\n</p>\n<p>\n Then the killer strikes again, boldly, tauntingly murdering one of Harry''s favorite patients in such a way that only Harry knows the death was not natural. This time Harry is certain: The killer, medically sophisticated, coolly arrogant, moving undetected through a busy urban hospital, could only be a doctor. And he wonders--how many more will die?\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperately Harry probes deeper, following the only clue Evie left. What he finds is a sinister pattern that threatens patients in every hospital in the city. Harry is engaged in a life-and-death battle of wits with a chillingly efficient monster. And until the doctor is unmasked, no patient is safe from his lethal silent treatment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Palmer has done it again, delivering a no-holds-barred novel of medical intrigue-- a gripping thriller that features the most terrifying physician\n <br />\n since Hannibal Lecter.\n <em>\n  Silent Treatment\n </em>\n will keep your pulse racing from beginning to end\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(21724, 'The Sinister Pig', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tony Hillerman is a national treasure, having achieved critical acclaim, chart-topping popularity, and a sterling reputation as an ambassador between whites and Indians. Fortunately, he''s also still a marvelous writer, much imitated but never equaled.\n <em>\n  The Sinister Pig\n </em>\n --his 16th novel to feature Navajo cops Joe Leaphorn and/or Jim Chee--isn''t his best book, but it''s still a pleasure from the first page to the last. Its plot is almost too complex to summarize, involving the mysterious shooting of an ex-CIA agent, financial shenanigans around oil-and-gas royalties, disappearing congressional interns, exotic pipeline technology, and the cross-border trade in both drugs and illegal aliens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Officer Bernadette Manuelito has left the Navajo Tribal Police for the U.S. Customs Service, patrolling the barren borderlands of southern New Mexico. There, her curiosity and smarts land her in a growing peril that provides much of the book''s suspense--and invokes the protective instincts of Sergeant Chee, who still hasn''t quite been able to tell her how he feels about her. It''s impossible not to care about Hillerman''s exquisitely drawn repertory characters, nor to overlook the pleasures of his beautifully crafted and relaxed-seeming prose. In the midst of these virtues are a few warts: several sections are a little flat or awkward, and the villainous plutocrat behind it all is short on plausibility (though lots of fun to hate). But even a lesser Hillerman is still a richer, more satisfying read than most authors'' top stuff.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Hillerman''s 16th Chee/ Leaphorn adventure offers deeper intrigue and a tighter plot than his previous entry, The Wailing Wind (2002), in this enduring series. When the body of an undercover agent, who''s been looking for clues to the whereabouts of billions of dollars missing from the Tribal Trust Funds, turns up on reservation property near Four Corners, Navajo cop Sgt. Jim Chee and Cowboy Dashee, a Hopi with the Federal Bureau of Land Management, investigate. But the book''s real star is officer Bernadette "Bernie" Manuelito, Chee''s erstwhile romantic interest, now working in the New Mexico boot heel for the U.S. Border Patrol. The miles have only strengthened her feelings for Chee-and vice versa. A routine patrol puts Bernie on the trail of an operation involving some old oil pipelines that connects to the Four Corners murder. Meanwhile, Joe Leaphorn is checking into the same murder from another direction. The three lines converge on a conspiracy of drugs, greed and power, and those who most profit, including the "sinister pig" of the title, will stop at nothing to keep it a secret. With his usual up-front approach to issues concerning Native Americans such as endlessly overlapping jurisdictions, Hillerman delivers a masterful tale that both entertains and educates.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(21725, 'The Sisterhood', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Terrific, aÂ Â compellingly suspenseful tale." -- Clive Cluser. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One by one, patients at Boston Doctors Hospital survive delicate surgery, only to die shortly thereafter--mysteriously and horribly. No one knows why--except the Sisterhood, nurses bound together by a secret pledge to end human suffering--nurses with warped, deadly intentions. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(21726, 'Skeleton Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest in the diamond; it could lead her to her father''s remains, from which she hopes to extract enough DNA to establish her birthright. For good measure, Hillerman adds a couple of villains determined to beat her to the site of the crash, a cache of other diamonds long since given up for lost in the Canyon''s watery depths, and a Hopi ritual that''s kept the site secret for years. It''s a good yarn, well but twice told; Hillerman sets it up in a chronologically confusing opening chapter, in which Joe spins the story for a couple of former law-enforcement colleagues--not just to entertain or enlighten them but to demonstrate what he calls his "Navajo belief in universal connections. The cause leads to inevitable effect. The entire cosmos being an infinitely complicated machine all working together." Hillerman is a name-brand writer with a huge and well deserved following. His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is as compelling as it ever was, and many familiar characters from the other 18 novels in this prize-winning series appear here, notably Sergeant Jim Chee and border patrol officer Bernie Manuelito, the woman Chee hopes to marry. Joe Leaphorn remains his most fully-realized protagonist; his perspective on life, destiny, and the sometimes uneasy truce between Native Americans and whites gives this series a unique place in the genre. But as evidenced by his latest, Hillerman''s hero needs more than a retired duffer''s memories to keep him vital and alive, even for his most dedicated fans. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(21727, 'Skinny Legs and All', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a phantasmagorical, politically charged tale you wish would never end, Robbins holds forth--through a variety of ingenious, off-beat mouthpieces--on art (with and without caps), the Middle East, religious fanaticism of many stripes, and the seven veils of self-deception. Salome, skinny legs and all, belly-dances rapturously at Isaac &amp; Ishmael''s, a much-molested restaurant located across the street from the U.N., founded by an Arab and a Jew as an example of happy, peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence. Ellen Cherry Charles, artist and waitress, heir to the most positive legacy of Jezebel, works at the same joint, nursing a broken heart inflicted by Boomer Petway, redneck welder/bemused darling of the New York art scene. Meanwhile, Can o'' Beans, Dirty Sock, Spoon, Painted Stick and Conch Shell traverse half the world on a hejira to Jerusalem--where Conch and Painted Stick will resume religious duties in the Third Temple, dedicated (of course) to Astarte. Unless, mind you, Ellen Cherry''s boil-encrusted uncle Buddy, a radio evangelist who gets turned on by Tammy Faye Bakker, manages to start WW III first. . . . Robbins''s ( Jitterbug Perfume ) lust for laughs is undiminished; this prescription for sanity couldn''t be better. 125,000 first printing; first serial to Esquire; BOMC and QPB selections; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A painter''s struggle with her art, a restaurant opened as an experiment in brotherhood, the journey of several inanimate objects to Jerusalem, a preacher''s scheme to hasten Armageddon, and a performance of a legendary dance: these are the diverse elements around which Robbins has built this wild, controversial novel. Ellen Cherry Charles, one of the "Daughters of the Daily Spe cial" in Jitterbug Perfume ( LJ 1/85), takes center stage. She has married Boomer Petway and moved to New York, hoping to make it as a painter. Instead, she winds up a waitress at the Isaac and Ishmael, a restaurant co-owned by an Arab and a Jew. Robbins''s primary concern is Middle Eastern politics, supplemented along the way with observations on art, religion, sex, and money. Few contemporary novelists mix tomfoolery and philosophy so well. This is Robbins at his best. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/90.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(21728, 'Skinwalkers', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vibrant with the spirit of the Navajo people of the Southwest, Hillerman''s new story is a spellbinder, like his Edgar Winner Dance Hall of the Dead and other praised novels. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the tribal police work together here, trying to solve crimes that resist logic. There are no clues to three homicides or to the attempted murder of Chee. Leaphorn thinks a "skinwalker," or witch, could have attacked the victims, all adherents of shamanism, as they are otherwise unrelated. The skinwalkers represent a schism between witchcraft and the traditional Navajo Way. A second attempt on Chee bolsters Leaphorn''s suspicion since Chee is an aspiring shaman. The story gathers momentum and tension as the partners get closer to the moment when the murderer comes into the open, and the tragic reason for the crimes becomes painfully clear. 30,000 first printing; BOMC alternate; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHillerman is unique, and Skinwalkers is one of his best works yet.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChoice reading for plot, characters, and superb settingâ€”donâ€™t miss Skinwalkers.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuperb and pure pleasure to read.â€ (Washington Post Book World )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(21729, 'Sleep No More by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eve Sumner has an uncanny resemblance to a long-dead woman with whom John Waters was once obsessively in love. The successful Mississippi oilman''s college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed, but the mysterious Eve knows things about that affair that only Mallory could have known. That''s more than a coincidence, since Eve is actually Mallory''s reincarnationâ€”or, at least, she''s the corporeal body into which Mallory''s restless soul seems to have migrated. Long before the bizarre denouement of this supernatural thriller--a departure for Iles, whose previous thrillers have been much more straightforward--the reader''s sympathies have been engaged by Waters, a decent man whose best friend may be his worst enemy and whose past may destroy his future. Iles has many gifts as a storyteller, including ingenious plotting and solid pacing, both of which are on display here, but this foray into the occult doesn''t show them off to best advantage.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Going over old territory hot-and-bothered small-town Mississippi Iles tells the story of an obsessive love that seems literally to haunt John Waters. Waters has just encountered an enticing stranger who reveals something known only to his former flame, supposedly long dead. Dare we say that when the stranger is murdered, our protagonist finds himself in hot water?\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/48');
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(21730, 'Slim and None', 'Dan Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œJenkins is hilarious, providing more laughs per page than any other writer in the â€˜bidness.â€™â€ â€”_People_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduced in Dan Jenkinsâ€™s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour,\n <em>\n  The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist\n </em>\n , Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. Itâ€™s now or never for Bobby Joe, and excuse him for thinking that his chances are slim and none.\n</p>\n<p>\n So itâ€™s off to the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the rest of the PGA Tour for Bobby Joe, whoâ€™s leaving behind the prospect of a third ex-wife. On the golf courses heâ€™ll face familiar competitors such as Knut Thorssun and Cheetah Farmer, but the rival who may loom the largest is the gameâ€™s newest child star, nineteen-year-old Scott Pritchard. His talents are the talk of the Tourâ€”so is his arroganceâ€”and so, by the way, is his stunning mom, Gwendolyn, a shapely adorable woman who captures Bobby Joeâ€™s full attention and threatens not to let go.\n</p>\n<p>\n Long revered by his peers as one of the worldâ€™s best sportswriters, and beloved by readers for such classics as\n <em>\n  Semi-Tough\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dead Solid Perfect\n </em>\n , Dan Jenkins is at the top of his form in\n <em>\n  Slim and None\n </em>\n . Itâ€™s packed with authentic insider gems about each of the majors and hilarious sketches of many of the charactersâ€”touring pros, officials, media, agents, caddies, and ladiesâ€”who inhabit this outrageous and endearing world of sports.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(21731, 'Slow Learner', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. The collection consists of five short stories: ''The Small Rain'', ''Lowlands'', ''Entropy'', ''Under the Rose'', and ''The Secret Integration'', as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication. The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984, after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition, Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume. The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon''s own views on his work and influences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(21732, 'A Small Room in Koboldtown (Short Story)', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œA Small Room in Koboldtown,â€ an excerpt from Michael Swanwickâ€™s just-finished novel, The Dragons of Babel, is a sort of detective story set in the authorâ€™s intriguing modern-day world populated by the denizens of legend and fairy tale. When a boggart is murdered and a haint is fingered as the prime suspect, powerful haint politician Salem Toussaint arrives to offer assistance to his maligned constituent. Toussaintâ€™s employees, Will le Fey and Ghostface, work together, despite their differences, to solve the baffling case. Swanwickâ€™s novel treatments of fantasy and mystery elements, along with persistent good humor, make this a fun and engaging read.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Asimovâ€™s Science Fictionâ€™s Thirtieth Anniversary Issue (April/May 2007) offers a wide variety of stories from prominent Asimovâ€™s veterans.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tachyon Publications, the publisher of my newest collection, The Dog Said Bow-Wow, has posted a pdf of "A Small Room in Koboldtown."  The link can be found at their blog.  Just scroll down the page to the Friday, March 21 entry, "Hugo nominations announced."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the description of my story, Jill muses, "I wonder where he puts those funny statuettes."  For which reason  I added the above photo of the trophy chimney in my office.\n <br />\n <br />\n If you go down further, to the March 6, "Why you should be careful about asking your authors for help..." entry, wherein Jill opines:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Like any savvy publisher Jacob got on the horn to make sure that his authors actually knew they were nominated . . . and asked them to do what they could to get authors to do what they could to get out the vote for themselves.  Well, authors are funny.  So far there have been posts from Michael Swanwick and Susan Palwick asking for your votes.  They have also had a bit of fun with Jacob for asking them to do so.  Ah, authors, you self-effacing creatures, will you never learn to promote yourselves sans irony?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To which the only possible answer is:  No, of course not.  But Jill also wrote:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Has anyone ever, EVER, described Michael Swanwick as self-effacing?  Okay, it was a stretch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Starred Review. In this triumphant return to the universe of\n <em>\n  The Iron Dragon''s Daughter\n </em>\n (1994), Hugo-winner Swanwick introduces Will le Fey, an orphan of uncertain parentage. After defeating an evil mechanical war dragon who has enslaved him and his village, Will finds himself displaced by war, first imprisoned in an internment camp and then transported to the many-miles-high city of Babel. On the way, he falls in with Esme, an immortal child with no memory, and Nat Whilk, a donkey-eared confidence man of superhuman abilities. Fusing high technology seamlessly with magic, Swanwick introduces us to a wide range of marvelous conceits, fascinating digressions and sparkling characters. His language bounces effortlessly back and forth between the high diction of elfland and thieves'' argot to create a heady literary stew. This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman''s\n <em>\n  Anansi Boys\n </em>\n or China MiÃ©ville''s novels.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p class="description">\n Starred Review. Grade 9 Upâ€”An unusual combination of Faerie, postindustrial Earth, and biblical places,\n <em>\n  The Dragons of Babel\n </em>\n will immediately capture readers'' interest. A war is going on, but the "dragons" involved are part machine and part magic. One crash-lands near a Faerie village and declares itself king. Teenaged Will, part mortal, is forced to become its lieutenant and carry out its commands to the villagers, which eventually causes him to be driven out after it is killed. He is rescued by female centaurs during a battle of giants and ends up on the train to Babel accompanied by Nat Whilk and his adopted daughter, Esme. The three of them wind up in underground Babel (think New York City with a postindustrial fairy twist) where he helps the downtrodden. In a world full of every fairy imaginable (and maybe a few that aren''t), Will becomes the center of Tower of Babel itself. Readers will empathize with the teenager, who is struggling to find his place in this world, and growing both in stature and knowledge, and the zany characters who accompany him. Earthy, bawdy, and often brutal, it''s a story that will keep science fiction/fantasy fans involved till the end.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(21733, 'Some Buried Caesar', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been years since the orchid-growing eccentric Nero Wolfe has been outside his beloved home. This novel finds him in upstate New York with Archie Goodwin where he must endure poor food, uncomfortable chairs, warm beer, and three dead bodies. A family feud over the fate of a prize bull (send him to a stud farm or a steak house) plus tacky publicity stunts and blackmail all fit into the situation, told from Archie''s point of view. Michael Prichard''s reading is clear and adds to the atmosphere and overall enjoyment of the story. Recommended.?Denise A. Garofalo, Mid-Hudson Lib. System, Poughkeepsie, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nero Wolfe, the fat detective of Rex Stout''s novels, towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rex Stout...raised detective fiction to the level of art. He gave us genius of at least two kinds, and a strong realist voice that was shot through with hope." --\n <em>\n  Walter Mosley\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(21734, 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. It''s only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow''s fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he''s the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human beingâ€”or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist''s plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who''s now resurrected and bent on revenge. Life gets even more chaotic after he becomes the lover and protector of the girl next door, whom he tries to restrain from periodically cutting off her wings. Doctorow (_Eastern Standard Tribe_) treats these and other bizarre images and themes with deadpan wit. In this inventive parable about tolerance and acceptance, he demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and the everyday can coexist.\n <em>\n  Agent, Russell Galen. (May 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Middle-aged entrepreneur Alan, for whom mother is a washing machine and father is a mountain, has moved into one of Toronto''s more interesting neighborhoods. The brother Alan and his other brothers killed years ago has returned to hound the family, and those other brothers, who are nesting dolls, show up on Alan''s doorstep starving because the innermost brother has vanished. A next-door neighbor has wings that her boyfriend cuts back regularly so she can pass for normal. In the midst of such ordinary oddness, getting involved in a scheme to provide free wireless Internet to the neighborhood and eventually the city seems reasonable, even when it''s masterminded by a crusty punk whose gear comes from Dumpster diving. Eventually, Alan concludes that he must go back to the mountain, a home he hasn''t visited in years. The combination of Alan facing up to his family and their strangeness, the damage his dead brother will do to everything Alan cares about, and Doctorow''s inescapable technological enthusiasm eventuates in a lovely, satisfying tale.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(21735, 'Something New', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashe was reading listlessly down the column when, from the mass of advertisements, one of an unusual sort detached itself. WANTED: Young Man of good appearance, who is poor and reckless, to undertake a delicate and dangerous enterprise. Good pay for the right man. Apply between the hours of ten and twelve at offices of Mainprice, Mainprice &amp; Boole, 3 Denvers Street, Strand. Ashe, an adventurer at heart, was also uncommonly lazy. As it was, however, he could make an immediate start. It was with fine fervor animating him that he entered the gloomy offices of Mainprice, Mainprice &amp; Boole. His brain was afire and he felt ready for anything.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(21736, 'Something Rotten', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welsh writer Fforde''s fourth entry in the zany, hypercreative Thursday Next detective series revisits the "Literary Detective" as she retreats to her hometown of Swindon, England, retiring from the tedious job (as Head of Jurisfiction) she held in Fforde''s previous novel,\n <em>\n  The Well of Lost Plots\n </em>\n . Joined by her two-year-old son, Friday, pet dodos Pickwick and Alan, and Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, Thursday realizes that there''s someone missing: her husband, Landen, previously "eradicated" by the Goliath Corporation, a ruthless bio-tech conglomerate corporation. She wants Landen back. Aided by her father, she is reinstated into her old employ, the Special Operations Network, and begins investigating the machinations of power-hungry Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine and the mysterious disappearance of England''s president. The fate of the world rests on the outcome of a major croquet tournament, with Thursday pinch-hitting on a lethal playing field as Landen is finally returned to reality (only to fade out again). More than a little wacky, the novel is packed with screwball details as characters get "written" in and out of the story, hybridized creatures stalk malls and Shakespeare clones start popping up everywhere. With humorous illustrations and curious footnotes sprinkled throughout, Fforde''s latest will have hardcore fans roaringâ€”but those new to the series might want to tackle the convoluted mayhem from the very beginning.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This fourth book in the series continues the English detective''s quest to protect her child, regain her husband, and save the world (not necessarily in that order). She decides that it''s time to leave Jurisfiction and return to the real world of the Outland to resume her life. Taking her son and her pet dodoes, Thursday discovers that her actions in real life are possibly even weirder than they were in the realm of literature and certainly of more consequence. Fforde continues to pitch high, wide, and fast: only he could turn croquet into an extreme (and hilarious) sport with the fate of the world hanging on the outcome of the game. Particularly appropriate in this American presidential election year is the political debate show "Evade the Questions Time" where politicians score points for most successfully avoiding answering questions.\n <em>\n  Rotten\n </em>\n is the concluding volume of this series and many of the subplots and characters from the first three titles reappear, floating through the space-time fiction-fantasy continuum. It succeeds in wrapping up in a most gratifying way. As Oscar Wilde''s Miss Prism would say, "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means." The Robertses'' illustrations and mock advertisements echo the irreverent humor. Warning: Reaching the end of\n <em>\n  Rotten\n </em>\n may cause readers to want to start again with\n <em>\n  The Eyre Affair\n </em>\n (Viking, 2002)and ride the manic, maniacal merry-go-round of the Nextian world again._â€“Jane Halsall, McHenry Public Library District, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(21737, 'South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  South of the Border, West of the Sun\n </em>\n , the arc of an average man''s life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami''s trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet\n <em>\n  South of the Border, West of the Sun\n </em>\n is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Romance, accusingly bittersweet but still redemptive, is the theme of this novel written by award-winning novelist Murakami, one of Japan''s most popular authors. Two only children who were schoolmates and best friends meet again after a 25-year separation. Hajime is now married, the father of two little girls and a successful owner of two jazz clubs. Shimamoto has also changed; she has become a very beautiful woman. She is always immaculately and expensively dressed, but she will not talk about her life or anything that has happened to her. Nevertheless, Hajime believes that he loves her more than life itself; he is convinced that he could leave his family and his business to be with her. After they spend a night together, a night filled with raw passion, she vanishes. Hajime is distraught. After much soul searching, he begins to put his life back together and discovers that he has become a stronger man, one who realizes that looking back is often necessary in order to move forward.?Janis Williams, Shaker Heights P.L., OH\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   South of the Border, West of the Sun\n  </em>\n  , the arc of an average man''s life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami''s trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet\n  <em>\n   South of the Border, West of the Sun\n  </em>\n  is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry.\n  <em>\n   --Simon Leake\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Romance, accusingly bittersweet but still redemptive, is the theme of this novel written by award-winning novelist Murakami, one of Japan''s most popular authors. Two only children who were schoolmates and best friends meet again after a 25-year separation. Hajime is now married, the father of two little girls and a successful owner of two jazz clubs. Shimamoto has also changed; she has become a very beautiful woman. She is always immaculately and expensively dressed, but she will not talk about her life or anything that has happened to her. Nevertheless, Hajime believes that he loves her more than life itself; he is convinced that he could leave his family and his business to be with her. After they spend a night together, a night filled with raw passion, she vanishes. Hajime is distraught. After much soul searching, he begins to put his life back together and discovers that he has become a stronger man, one who realizes that looking back is often necessary in order to move forward.?Janis Williams, Shaker Heights P.L., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(21738, 'The Sowers: A Novel (1895)', 'Henry Seton Merriman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Will you please ask Catrina to send me money through the usual channel? No more than she has been sending. It will suffice for my small wants. Perhaps some day we may meet in Switzerland or in America. Tell the dear child that. Tell her I pray the good God to allow that meeting. As for Russia, her day has not come yet. It will not come in our time, my dear friend. We are only the sowers. So much for the future. Now about the past. I have not been idle. I know who stole the papers of the Charity League and sold them. I know who bought them and paid for them." Steinmetz closed the door. He came back to the table. He was not smiling now -- quite the contrary. "Tell me," he said. "I want to know that badly." The Count Lanovitch looked up with a peculiar soft smile -- acquired in prison. There is no mistaking it. "Oh, I bear no ill will," he said. "I do," answered Steinmetz bluntly. "Who stole the papers from Thors?"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(21739, 'Spice Pogrom', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(21740, 'Split Images (1981)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A superb craftsman...his writing is pure pleasure." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Los Angeles Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant...impressive...superb." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lovely...Skillful...Scarily witty...Leonard is working at the peak of his form." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ The Village Voice_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quintessential Elmore Leonard,\n <em>\n  Split Images\n </em>\n stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. He''s the kind of guy who gets away with everything -- even murder -- until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. When this millionaire reptile reveals the psychopath beneath his slippery skin, Hurd finds out this is one helluva way for an out-of-town lawman to spend his vacation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(21741, 'Sputnik Sweetheart', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sputnik Sweetheart\n </em>\n finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping\n <strong>\n  , less playfully bizarre than\n </strong>\n , the author''s seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."\n</p>\n<p>\n The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring young novelist with chronic writer''s block. Sumire is suddenly smitten with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a chilling secret about Sumire''s lover.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sputnik Sweetheart\n </em>\n is a melancholy love story, and its deceptively simple prose is saturated with sadness. Characters struggle to connect with one another but never quite succeed. Like the satellite of the title they are essentially alone. And by toning down the pyrotechnics of his earlier work, Murakami has created a world that is simultaneously mundane and disturbing--where doppelgÃ¤ngers and vanishing cats produce a pervasive atmosphere of alienation, and identity itself seems like a terribly fragile thing.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s seventh novel to be translated into English is a short, enigmatic chronicle of unrequited desire involving three acquaintances the narrator, a 24-year-old Tokyo schoolteacher; his friend Sumire, an erratic, dreamy writer who idolizes Jack Kerouac; and Miu, a beautiful married businesswoman with a secret in her past so harrowing it has turned her hair snowy white. When Sumire abandons her writing for life as an assistant to Miu and later disappears while the two are vacationing on a Greek island, the narrator/teacher travels across the world to help find her. Once on the island, he discovers Sumire has written two stories: one explaining the extent of her longing for Miu; the second revealing the secret from Miu''s past that bleached her hair and prevents her from getting close to anyone. All of the characters suffer from bouts of existential despair, and in the end, back in Tokyo, having lost both of his potential saviors and deciding to end a loveless affair with a student''s mother, the narrator laments his loneliness. Though the story is almost stark in its simplicity more like Murakami''s romantic Norwegian Wood than his surreal Wind-Up Bird Chronicles the careful intimacy of the protagonists'' conversation and their tightly controlled passion for each other make this slim book worthwhile. Like a Zen koan, Murakami''s tale of the search for human connection asks only questions, offers no answers and must be meditated upon to provide meaning. (Apr. 30)Forecast: Long the secret delight of connoisseurs, Murakami has been steadily and quietly acquiring a wider readership. His latest offering breaks no new ground but is packaged in a striking manner and should attract a few newcomers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(21742, 'A Stained White Radiance', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of a bayou family, sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux in this satisfying novel of suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another dark rhapsody on Burke''s favorite themes--power and vengeance, organized crime, maverick Louisiana lawmen, and nightmares from Vietnam--all pulled together more tightly than ever by the Sonnier family, threatened by somebody (oilman brother Weldon''s mob contacts? televangelist brother Lyle''s stray sheep? sister Drew''s old political enemies? brother-in-law Bobby Earl''s followers in the Aryan Nation? hateful paterfamilias Verise, long presumed dead in a tanker explosion?) who first shoots out Weldon''s window and then executes a cop in the family basement. There''ll be more violence--much more--and enough guilt for everybody, as New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux, instead of maundering over the issues, as in Black Cherry Blues (1989) and A Morning for Flamingos (1990), turns in his finest performance to date. By no means a well-made detective story--the Sonniers'' coincidental bad luck rivals Job''s--but a wholly original tale of crime and revenge, inside and outside the law. This series keeps getting stronger and stronger. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\nSUMMARY:A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOSA routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their execution goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid depths of New Orleans. He becomes irrevocably caught up in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must pit himself against his own worst fears in order to survive.A STAINED WHITE RADIANCEA bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier''s house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he''s not sure he wants to be reacquainted with. Weldon Sonnier''s CIA-influenced past has led to dangerous connections. As Weldon puts himself in the line of fire, Lyle Sonnier, television evangelist and faith healer, reveals to Dave a violent family history that intersects menacingly with Dave''s own.IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEADWhen a movie crew arrives in New Iberia to shoot a Civil War epic, Dave Robicheaux finds that it''s not just the bayou''s living inhabitants that are being disturbed. As he hunts a sadistic killer targeting young prostitutes, evidence of an earlier murder is brought to light. The skeletal remains are the last echo of a crime Robicheaux himself witnessed almost forty years ago.\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of a bayou family, sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux in this satisfying novel of suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another dark rhapsody on Burke''s favorite themes--power and vengeance, organized crime, maverick Louisiana lawmen, and nightmares from Vietnam--all pulled together more tightly than ever by the Sonnier family, threatened by somebody (oilman brother Weldon''s mob contacts? televangelist brother Lyle''s stray sheep? sister Drew''s old political enemies? brother-in-law Bobby Earl''s followers in the Aryan Nation? hateful paterfamilias Verise, long presumed dead in a tanker explosion?) who first shoots out Weldon''s window and then executes a cop in the family basement. There''ll be more violence--much more--and enough guilt for everybody, as New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux, instead of maundering over the issues, as in Black Cherry Blues (1989) and A Morning for Flamingos (1990), turns in his finest performance to date. By no means a well-made detective story--the Sonniers'' coincidental bad luck rivals Job''s--but a wholly original tale of crime and revenge, inside and outside the law. This series keeps getting stronger and stronger. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(21743, 'Stick (1981)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it''s tough staying straight in a crooked town -- and Miami is a pirate''s paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man''s sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it -- and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n   <em>\n    Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Get Shorty,\n   </em>\n   and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n   <em>\n    sui generis\n   </em>\n   .\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it''s tough staying straight in a crooked town -- and Miami is a pirate''s paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man''s sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it -- and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n  <em>\n   Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Get Shorty,\n  </em>\n  and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n  <em>\n   sui generis\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(21744, 'Still Life With Woodpecker', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(21745, 'A Stir Of Echoes', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallace, who works in Publications of the North American Aircraft plant, near Los Angeles, heckles hypnotizing, finds he is susceptible and becomes the channel through which his neighbors'' emotions and the secret of his house assume domination. Prescience, sensitive telepathy, and a sense of possession gnaw at his marriage; the haunting of a murder done and one to come lead him to apprehend a killer no saner than his experiences. A teaser which has more possibilities than performance. (Kirkus Reviews)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he''s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom''s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!\n</p>\n<p>\n This eerie ghost story, by award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Hell House\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  I Am Legend\n </em>\n , inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(21746, 'The Stone Throat of the Statue of the Blindfolded Lady Must Have Rumbled With Laughter When Courtroom Clowns Turned the Law Into The', 'Hal Quincy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(21747, 'Super Man and the Bug Out', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(21748, 'the Switch (1978)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The finest thriller writer alive."--_The Village Voice_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Leonard dazzles as he sprinkles his work continually with unexpected convolutions...Â Â his people are real, with nary a stereotype in the pack."--_The New York Times Book Review._\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elmore Lenord is the real thing... he raises the hard-boiled suspense novel beyond the limits of the genre... he paints an acute picture of the world that is all too real and recognizable."--_The Washington Post_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Black Ordell Robbie and white Louis Gara have lots in common--time in the same slammer, convictions for grand theft auto, and a plan for a big score. They''re going to snatch the wife of a Detroit developer and collect some easy ransom money. They don''t figure on a bum of a husband who has a secret mistress and no desire to get his wife back. Or on his crazy, beautiful broad of a housewife who''s going to join Ordell and Louis in the slickest, saviest crime of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(21749, 'A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah&#39;s Book Club)', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature--together in one extraordinary volume.\n</p>\n<p>\n A TALE OF TWO CITIES\n <br />\n After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of the guillotine.\n</p>\n<p>\n GREAT EXPECTATIONS\n <br />\n A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor--these form a series of events that changes the orphaned Pip''s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens''s haunting late novel depicts Pipâ€™s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his "great expectations."\n</p>\n<p>\n This deluxe paperback edition features\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Â French flaps\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Â rough-cut high-quality paper\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Â complimentary front- and back-cover designs highlighting each novel and including foil and debossing\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n A Charles Dickens Timeline\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1812   Born February 7 in Portsmouth, England\n</p>\n<p>\n 1824   His father John sent to Marshalsea Debtor''s Prison for a debt of Â£40 and 10 shillings\n</p>\n<p>\n Began working 10-hour days in shoe-polish warehouse to help support family\n</p>\n<p>\n 1833   First story, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk," appeared in the\n <em>\n  Monthly Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1836   First book,\n</p>\n<p>\n First novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n Married Catherine Hogarth\n</p>\n<p>\n 1837-39\n</p>\n<p>\n 1838-39\n</p>\n<p>\n 1840-41\n</p>\n<p>\n 1841\n</p>\n<p>\n 1842\n</p>\n<p>\n 1843\n <em>\n  The Christmas Carol\n </em>\n , the first of his "\n</p>\n<p>\n 1843-44\n</p>\n<p>\n 1846-48\n</p>\n<p>\n 1849-50\n</p>\n<p>\n 1852-53\n</p>\n<p>\n 1854\n</p>\n<p>\n 1855-57\n</p>\n<p>\n 1857   Met actress Ellen Ternan, his longtime companion\n</p>\n<p>\n 1858   Separated from his wife, Catherine\n</p>\n<p>\n 1859\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1860-61\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n 1864-65\n</p>\n<p>\n 1867-68   Second tour of America\n</p>\n<p>\n 1868-69   Farewell reading tour of the British Isles\n</p>\n<p>\n 1870\n</p>\n<p>\n Died from a stroke on June 9\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the grand masters of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors'' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years'' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney''s clerk and newspaper reporter until his\n <em>\n  Sketches by Boz\n </em>\n (1836) and\n <em>\n  The Pickwick Papers\n </em>\n (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after 23 years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of 58, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/397'),
(21750, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleâ€”offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.\n</p>\n<p>\n This edition of\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.\n</p>\n<p>\n They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy in England. Together, their love touched the hearts of even stodgy banker Mr. Lorry and cynical, jaded lawyer Sydney Carton...\n</p>\n<p>\n But in Paris, the fires of revolution exploded in uncontrollable fury. The noble goals of freedom fighters became the crazed bloodbath called the Reign of Terror. And when three exiles returned home on an errand of mercy, they were trapped in a nightmare of mock trials and made rage. Once in Paris, nothing could save Darnay, Lucie, or Manette...\n</p>\n<p>\n Except a miracle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of Englandâ€™s greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(21751, 'Talking God', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hillerman''s latest is not quite up to his best standards, but it''s still a wonderfully readable, involving mystery. Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution''s Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn''s interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn''s tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the pivotal role of the Talking God mask comes into play. Leaphorn''s grief over the recent death of his wife, Chee''s sorrow at the end of an impossible love affair, both men''s sense of alienation in the capital city''s urban sophistication suffuse this slim, somewhat contrived, tale with palpable melancholy. 150,000 copy first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Mysterious Book Club dual main selection; BOMC and QPBC alternates; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are three things one can expect from a Hillerman mystery: a story that would make no sense without its rock-solid base of Navaho culture; a tale that moves within the rhythms of real time; and an intricate plot that calls for the particular skills of his two detectives, Jim Chee, shaman and officer of the Navaho Tribal Police, and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, older, slower, and wiser. Talking God has all of these things in a plot that absolutely defies summary. Leaphorn and Chee track different paths for different crimes and both end up in the wilds of Washington, D.C., ostensibly on vacation. Instead of the sweet scent of the Southwest, Hillerman has a good time pitting his detectives against the "City of Navy Blue Suits." Welcome as a returning presence is winsome Navaho attorney Janet Pete, who contributes both to the structure of the mystery and to Chee''s emotional disharmony. In 1970, LJ ''s reviewer described Hillerman''s The Blessing Way as "a mystery with literary value; one you can recommend to people who don''t like mysteries." Indeed; enjoy. For more on Hillerman, see "Contributing Factors" in this issue, p. 00.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Ed. -- GraceAnne A. DeCandido, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/122');
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(21752, 'Tao Te Ching', 'Laozi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis crystalline translation of the\n <em>\n  Tao Te Ching\n </em>\n is accurate down to the nuance and is as concisely poetic as the original. Of the many translations I have read in English, this is unquestionably the best.â€â€”Gary Snyder\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is by far the best translation on the market today.â€â€”Livia Kohn, Professor of Religion, Boston University\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In what may be the most faithful translation of the\n <em>\n  Tao Te Ching\n </em>\n , the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal interpretation or bogging it down with explanatory notes. By stepping out of the way and letting the original text speak for itself, they deliver a powerfully direct experience of the\n <em>\n  Tao Te Ching\n </em>\n that is a joy to come back to again and again.\n</p>\n<p>\n And for the first time in any translation of the\n <em>\n  Tao Te Ching\n </em>\n , now you can interact with the text to experience for yourself the nuanced art of translating. In each of the eighty-one chapters, one significant line has been highlighted and alongside it are the original Chinese characters with their transliteration. You can then turn to the glossary and translate this line on your own, thereby deepening your understanding of the original text and of the myriad ways it can be translated into English.\n</p>\n<p>\n Complementing the text are twenty-three striking ink paintings brushed by Stephen Addiss and an introduction by the esteemed Asia scholar Burton Watson.\n</p>\n<p>\n Click on thumbnail to view larger image.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n [HTML_REMOVED] [HTML_REMOVED]\n <br />\n [HTML_REMOVED]\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Pages 88â€“89\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(21753, 'A Thief of Time', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Topping even his highly praised The Blessing Way and Skinwalkers, Hillerman''s new novel seamlessly unites drama, pathos and naturally humorous incidents in the continuing story of Navajo life set in the American Southwest. Tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee head a big and skillfully realized cast involved in the disappearance of anthropologist Eleanor Friedman-Bernal. Near Dr. Friedman-Bernal''s secret dig, Chee finds the bodies of men who have been stealing the Anasazi cultural relics the anthropologist is dedicated to protecting. Leaphorn makes his way to this dangerous, almost inaccessible site after consulting with Chee and questioning the missing woman''s friends, Maxie Davis and her colleague, Randall Elliott. They are also, the detective feels, prickly scientific rivals, a factor that deepens the mystery as does each step on the trail that ends when Leaphorn''s mission seems accomplished in an eerie meeting with a mad hermit. But there is a twist in circumstances so suspenseful it stops the reader''s breath. Once more, Hillerman''s artistry ensures that his latest cannot be easily classified as murder mystery or thrilleror anything except a fine novel. 75,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo, BOMC, QPBC, Detective Book Club and Mysterious Book Club alternates; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Hillerman''s fans have another hit to celebrate, another surprising mysterious adventure. It may be a toss-up as to what draws them most strongly: varied, detailed, and fascinating revelations of contemporary culture; or compelling, complex, and original murder mysteries. Against the backdrop of the puzzle of the long-ago vanished Anasazi people, a complex mystery emerges in which Anglo culture and values pull against those of the Navajo, resulting in a bizarre series of murders solved by the Navajo Tribal Police. Fast, literate, absorbing reading with unique settings and characters, this title is for lovers of adventure as well as mystery.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Annette Demeritt, Houston Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(21754, 'The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(21755, 'Third Degree by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes his latest tour de force thriller -- an unforgettable plunge into a world of sex, violence, marital betrayal, medical malpractice, and Southern intrigue...all of which takes place in the span of one furious, terrifying day.In Third Degree, Greg Iles takes us to the idyllic town of Athens Point, Mississippi, to probe beneath the surface of the modern American marriage -- where the appearance of perfection conceals a soul-searing conflict of unnerving intensity and violent possibility. Packed with the storytelling brilliance and twisting suspense that mesmerized readers of True Evil, Turning Angel, and Blood Memory, Iles''s newest novel delivers a powerful, revelatory reading experience.Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mother of two, awakens to find that her husband, Warren, a prominent local physician, is not in bed with her. Creeping out to the kitchen of their palatial home, she sees him through the doorway of his study, wildly pulling books from the shelves. Two weeks earlier, Warren and his partner were informed by the IRS that their medical practice was being audited; since then the stress on Dr. Shields has steadily ratcheted up.But Laurel has problems of her own. Quickly returning to the bedroom, she locks herself in the master bath, opens a home pregnancy testing kit, and fearfully tests herself. PREGNANT, announces the digital readout. Laurel closes her eyes as though absorbing news of a death, then quickly hides the evidence. She is not sure who the father is. Summoning all her strength, she walks into the kitchen to carry out the acting performance of her life.Later that morning, Laurel returns home and is surprised to find her husband''s car still parked in the driveway. The house has a strange stillness to it. In the den, she finds Warren sitting on the sofa in the same clothes he wore the previous day. His face is pale and unshaven, his eyes hollow with fear. Then, in come the children, innocent of it all....So begins the most terrifying day in the history of a marriage, one that in less than five hours will make the Shields house the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege. While a nervous ring of armed men awaits its chance to storm the suburban home, inside the house the clock ticks down on exposure of Laurel''s terrible secret. But she is not alone in her lies. Before the siege is through, this terrifying drama will pull in desperate characters from the town and drive Dr. Shields, his wife, and her lover to the very brink of sanity and survival.Rich with Southern atmosphere, and perceptively laced with the tacit deceptions and psychological cracks found in nearly all marriages, Third Degree delivers another knockout, page-turning read from Greg Iles, "the poster boy of southern gothic thrillers" (Kirkus Reviews), and proves again that Iles is today''s unparalleled master of the suspense novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(21756, 'This Will Kill You, the World Series Murder (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Making an uncharacteristic foray to a World Series game, Wolfe meets murder again, when a rookie''s struck out before he even gets to bat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(21757, 'Three Doors To Death', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One by one they knocked on Nero Wolfe''s door, each with a case more perplexing than the last: a suicide victim who turns up alive, only to be murdered anew; a murder victim''s family who provides his killer with an alibi; and a master horticulturalist who finds the woman of his dreams--dead and cooling in his hothouse. Previous publisher: Viking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(21758, 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH is, by universal consent, one of his three key novels, and the book in which he first took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make\n <strong>\n  The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch\n </strong>\n moving as well as genuinely visionary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(21759, 'Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America''s frontierâ€”with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man''s life with a well-placed bullet. The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(21760, 'Through the Grinder', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fascinating mystery...a brave, quirky heroine. --\n  <em>\n   Books ''n'' Bytes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There were ample red herrings...I did not guess the outcome until I had finished the book...This is a great mystery... --\n  <em>\n   Roundtable Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Business is booming at Clare Cosi''s Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare''s life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Clare will risk her heart--and her life--to follow the killer''s trail to the bitter end.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(21761, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell''s\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn''t just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you''ve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of\n <em>\n  Sesame Street\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Blue''s Clues\n </em>\n , or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell''s closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling,\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell''s thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. (Paul Revere, for example, was a Maven and a Connector). Gladwell''s applications of his "tipping point" concept to current phenomena--such as the drop in violent crime in New York, the rebirth of Hush Puppies suede shoes as a suburban mall favorite, teenage suicide patterns and the efficiency of small work units--may arouse controversy. For example, many parents may be alarmed at his advice on drugs: since teenagers'' experimentation with drugs, including cocaine, seldom leads to hardcore use, he contends, "We have to stop fighting this kind of experimentation. We have to accept it and even embrace it." While it offers a smorgasbord of intriguing snippets summarizing research on topics such as conversational patterns, infants'' crib talk, judging other people''s character, cheating habits in schoolchildren, memory sharing among families or couples, and the dehumanizing effects of prisons, this volume betrays its roots as a series of articles for the New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer: his trendy material feels bloated and insubstantial in book form. Agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow &amp; Nesbit. Major ad/promo. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(21762, 'Too Many Clients', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I''ve promised myself for the past decade that, when I finally retire, my first major project will be to reread the entire Nero Wolfe canon in chronological order, a worthwhile occupation if ever there was one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although entirely different and not nearly as literary as Ross Macdonald''s Lew Archer series or the Philip Marlowe novels of Raymond Chandler, the Wolfe saga deserves to be ranked with them as among the finest series of detective stories ever written by an American.\n <em>\n  Fer-de-lance\n </em>\n introduces the brilliant, idiosyncratic, and obese armchair detective to the world and, while it may not be the best book of the series, it provides a wonderful murder set on a golf course and a cast of characters and laundry list of eccentricities that are an integral part of each novel and novella.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rex Stout has managed to pull off a feat unparalleled to this day: the perfect combination of deductive reasoning--as exemplified by the classic Golden Age writers such as Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, and Queen--with the hard-boiled attitude and dialogue of the more realistic tough guy writers such as Chandler, Macdonald, Hammett, and Robert B. Parker.\n</p>\n<p>\n The toughness is brought to the books by Wolfe''s leg man and amanuensis, Archie Goodwin. The structure and ambience of the books is, quite deliberately, very much like the Sherlock Holmes stories that Stout so admired. The house on West 35th Street is as familiar as the sitting room at 221B Baker Street; his cook Fritz pops up as regularly as Mrs. Hudson; and his irritant, Inspector Cramer of the NYPD, serves the same role as several Scotland Yard detectives, notably Inspector Lestrade, did for Holmes. Fair warning: It is safe to read one Nero Wolfe novel, because you will surely like it. It is extremely unsafe to read three, because you will forever be hooked on the delightful characters who populate these perfect books.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_Fer-de-Lance_ will be welcomed by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Midwest Book Review_, May 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve noticed books by Rex Stout (1886-1975) for many years but never have purchased or read one. You know, so many books, so little time. I''ve been missing the company of the ever-eccentric Nero Wolfe and his faithful legman, Archie Goodwin...I don''t want to tell you too much about this classic tale and spoil your fun. This version is expertly performed by Michael Prichard, who has also brought novels by Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy to life." --\n <em>\n  Jim Clark, Publisher\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the annals of eccentric private detectives, one of the most famous is Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an obese, misanthropic, arrogant orchid fancier who solves mysteries while never leaving his New York brownstone. His eyes and ears to the world is Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the books. In this well-read audio edition of Stout''s first Wolfe novel, Goodwin is asked to find out who murdered a young Italian immigrant. The path leads to upscale Westchester County and to the body of a recently deceased philanthropist who has a crazy wife, a jealous son, and a beautiful daughter. Throw into the mix an attempt on Wolfe''s life using a poisonous snake and the listener is entertained with a 1934 period mystery that is remarkably fresh." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Roanoke Times_, November 16, 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1934, Fer-de-Lance is the first mystery novel ever written by Rex Stout. This classic crime story (complete and unabridged) introduces one of the great fictional detectives, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe, the arrogant, gormandizing, sedentary sleuth who raises orchids in his Manhattan brownstone, solving his case with help from his assistant, Archie Goodwin, was to become one of American literature''s most recognizable charecters. When a fer-de-lance (one of the most deadly snakes know to man) is delivered to Nero Wolfe, Archie knows he is getting very close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The denouement brings forth all of Nero Wolfe''s talents as he gathers the suspects together. Fer-de-Lance will be welcomes by the legions of Rex Stout fans, and serve as welcome introduction to a whole new generation of mystery buffs. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(21763, 'Too Many Cooks', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the greatest chefs in the world gather for a meeting, Nero Wolfe is their honored dinner guest. It is a rare vacation for the gourmet sleuth - until a four-star killer serves a side dish of murder. Then the half-baked local law cooks up an unappetizing entree. Corpulent Wolfe and sidekick Archie begin mixing the ingredients for their inimitable souffle of detection and deduction, while the killer decides that Wolfe''s prix should be permanently fixed...and that his last meal should be his just desserts. A landmark Wolfe mystery for the true fan. "It''s always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." (New York Times Book Review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(21764, 'Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Mystery', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A classic Nero Wolfe mystery, complete and unabridged! Archie, Nero Wolfe''s assistant, goes undercover to investigate a murder at a Wall Street firm. He is assigned an insider role in the stock department where he discovers a pleasurable fringe benefit: hundreds of women work there and they all seem interested in cooperating. The chief suspect is found murdered under circumstances identical to the first, but everyone''s alibi is airtight. So Archie and Wolfe decide to set a trap--which woman will fall into it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(21765, 'Trainspotting', 'Irvine Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ils sont quatre amis d''un quartier pourri d''Edimbourg partageant la mÃªme passion pour le dÃ©lire Ã  hauts risques, celui de la piquouse fatale et de l''hÃ©roÃ¯ne, aussi efficacement destructrice qu''une bombe atomique dans un champ de coquelicots. Mais que faire d''autre quand on survit entre vols Ã  l''Ã©talage, assurance chÃ´mage, soirÃ©es glauques et baston Ã  coups d''aiguilles Ã  tricoter. Entre deux pintes de biÃ¨re, chacun raconte sa vie et son quartier. Sick Boy qui voudrait travailler, Mark, persuadÃ© de pouvoir dÃ©crocher, Spud, niais et complÃ¨tement paumÃ© et Matty qui ne touche pas Ã  la dope, jusqu''au jour oÃ¹ il se laissera tenter. Pourtant, au milieu du dÃ©sespoir, surnage une envie de vivre plus forte que tout le reste. S''en sortir grÃ¢ce Ã  un dernier coup de bluff, tenter le tout pour le tout. NÃ© en 1958, Irvine Welsh a Ã©tÃ© rÃ©parateur de tÃ©lÃ©, punk, agent immobilier, puis Ã©crivain. Ses influences littÃ©raires se rÃ©sument Ã  Lou Reed et Iggy Pop. Et pourtant, il est responsable de l''un des plus grands succÃ¨s de librairie des annÃ©es quatre-vingt-dix et du plus grand choc qu''ait subi la littÃ©rature anglaise depuis bien longtemps. Trainspotting, livre culte, a Ã©tÃ© adaptÃ© au cinÃ©ma par Dany Boyle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(21766, 'Trio for Blunt Instruments', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles'' heel-which they wouldn''t-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero-and the answer to the mystery of her father''s death....Then an old flame of Archie''s reignites with a plan that may corner him into a lifetime commitment-behind bars....And finally a detective''s work is never done, as a hot tip leads the team into the sizzling center of a sexy scandal that could leave them cold-dead cold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(21767, 'Trouble in Triplicate: A Nero Wolfe Threesome', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nero Wolfe investigates the murders of Dazy Perrit, an underworld kingpin, Ben Jensen, a well-connected publisher, and Eugene R. Poor, an inventor of novelties. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(21768, 'True Evil', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you wanted to kill your spouse and get away with it, you had to do something truly ingenious: something that wouldn''t even be perceived as murder. And that was the service that Andrew Rusk had found a way to provide. Like any quality product, it did not come cheap. Nor did it come quickly. And perhaps most important of all, it was not for those with weak constitutions. Demand was high, of course, but few people were truly suitable clients. It took a deep-rooted hatred to watch your spouse die in agony, knowing that you had brought about that pain. But on the other hand, some people bore up remarkably well." With these words, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns to his trademark Southern milieu in this terrifying thriller, an unnerving tale of evil lurking beneath the veneer of idyllic suburban life. Brimming with the masterful suspense and intense psychological drama that made Turning Angel, Blood Memory, and The Quiet Game bestsellers, True Evil tells the chilling story of a divorce attorney who may be orchestrating the deaths of his clients'' spouses, bringing new meaning to the phrase "''til death do us part." Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life. Or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard''s beautiful new wife is plotting his murder. Shepard is so shocked that he almost throws Agent Morse out of his office. Yet once he is alone, doubt begins to gnaw at him. Paranoia magnifies the small cracks in his marital relationship, and soon he can have no peace unless he knows the truth. When Agent Morse reappears, Chris agrees to act as bait to help her unravel the divorce lawyer''s scheme, which may already have cost nine unsuspecting spouses their lives. At the center of the mystery lies a maddeningly simple question: If these people really were murdered, why can''t the FBI prove it? Rigorous autopsies have uncovered no forensic evidence of foul play, and the police believe no crimes have occurred. As Dr. Shepard and Agent Morse struggle against an invisible adversary, Shepard realizes that he''s working with a desperate woman. The reason: the killer''s last known victim was Alex Morse''s sister, who from her deathbed accused her husband of murder and extracted a vow that Alex save her ten-year-old nephew from his father. This has driven Alex to risk both her life and her career to fulfill that vow. But Chris Shepard soon feels desperation of his own. As he probes his wife''s hidden past, he is confronted by the probability that the woman he loves wants him dead. He has adopted her son and given her everything he has to give, and yet somewhere out there, a killer with the brilliance to outwit the top forensic scientists in the world is closing in on him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(21769, 'True Names', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(21770, 'Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD Homicide detective Bosch is back from an involuntary administrative leave just in time for the bodies to start turning up. When he finds hints of an mob hit but can''t interest the organized crime unit in the murder, Bosch has to take the investigation into his own hands in a this hard-boiled tale full of sharp turns. Fans of Michael Connelly''s excellent,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening bars, when the body of Tony Aliso is pulled from the trunk of his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on Mulholland Drive, to the final grace note on a Hawaiian beach, Connelly has crafted a jazzy, funky, roller coaster of a book. The return of maverick L.A. homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (from 1995''s The Last Coyote) is cause for rejoicing. The Aliso murder quickly embroils Bosch and his new team (Kizmin Rider, a young black female officer on the rise in the department; veteran Jerry Edgar; and their boss, Lieutenant Grace Billets) in a Byzantine tangle of Las Vegas mob money, Hollywood filmmaking and police politics. The plot rushes headlong into deadends and deadfalls, repeatedly reorients and tears off in a new direction. Never known for tact, the single-minded Bosch is soon hotfooting through an acronymic snakepit: the LAPD''s OCID (Organized Crime Investigation Division); the IAD (Internal Affairs Division); the LVPD''s OCU (Las Vegas Police Department''s Organized Crime Unit); the FBI. Not only does each organization claim a piece of the action, but each also wants a piece of Bosch. Connelly has it all working together here: skillful dialogue, solid plotting, nuances of race and status and a pace that will leave readers gasping to keep up. Connelly''s early promise (The Black Echo earned him the 1993 Edgar for best first novel) has been borne out nicely by succeeding novels. Trunk Music is his best yet. $400,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(21771, 'Turning Angel by Greg Iles', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n A string of unique bestsellers (_24 Hours_, etc.) is testament to Iles''s ability to leap genres and geography. His latest, a gripping legal mystery set in Natchez, Miss., proves he doesn''t have to stray far from home to explore the darkest recesses of the human heart. Penn Cageâ€”lawyer, author and protagonist of\n <em>\n  The Quiet Gameâ€”\n </em>\n has just learned that his best friend, Dr. Andrew Elliott, was the secret lover of 17-year-old Kate Townsend, a high school senior found raped and murdered. "Drew was our golden boy, a paragon of everything small-town America holds to be noble, and by unwritten law the town will crucify him with a hatred equal to their betrayed love." Though Penn is furious with Drew for his relationship with Kate, he signs on to represent him in court and unearth the real murderer. Things look bleak for Drew as a DA with political aspirations comes up with plenty of evidence against him. When people start to die and the secret lives of the town''s high school students are revealed, Penn begins to doubt not only Drew, but himself as well. This is a study of character and morality, but also of place, as Iles shows Natchez to be emblematic of racial, social and economic issues. The job of great fiction is to entertain, elucidate and educate while keeping readers nailed to their chairs; this does all of that brilliantly._ (Dec. 27)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Much more than a thriller,\n <em>\n  Turning Angel\n </em>\n is a portrait of a Southern town blighted by a poor economy, bad schools, drugs, racial tensions, and the contrast between this life and the one of privilege. Iles, who lives in Natchez, convincingly depicts how these tensions play out among high school students, who, as Gage repeatedly learns, are not the innocent babes of his youth. The lurid scenes of pornography, drugs, and sex will attract many readers, but so will Iles''s portrayal of emotions and morality. A two-dimensional villain and somewhat hackneyed plot barely detract from the novel''s powerful depiction of teenagers'' lives today.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(21772, 'Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions', 'Bill W.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    <i>\n     Epub is converted from PDF. Contains the forward, the steps, and the traditions.\n    </i>\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    <i>\n     <b>\n      Note to newcomers:\n     </b>\n     <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">\n      The book\n     </span>\n     â€œAlcoholics Anonymousâ€\n     <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">\n      , written by the founders of AA, is still the basic text of our Fellowship. The 12 and 12 is one person''s proposal to broaden and deepen understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written, and to introduce the 12 Traditions. For actual clear cut and precise directions on taking the 12 Steps, please refer to the Big Book, -\n     </span>\n     â€œAlcoholics Anonymousâ€\n    </i>\n   </span>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    <i>\n     Â .Â -\n    </i>\n   </span>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    (please see the Â forwards to the Big Book and the 12 &amp; 12)\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n  <h3>\n   <i>\n   </i>\n  </h3>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n    <i>\n    </i>\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Originally published in 1952, this classic book introduces the 12 Traditions by which the fellowship functions and maintains its unity.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   <br />\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <i>\n </i>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(21773, 'The Two Georges', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Will Oscar-winning actor Dreyfuss collect any new awards for his first novel, coauthored with a Hugo-winning master of alternative SF (Worldwar: Tilting the Balance, Forecasts, Jan. 22)? Probably not, but the talented thespian won''t get the hook for his rookie writing, either, as he partners on an entertaining detective story set in a present-day North American Union, still a colony of the British Empire. Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley of the Royal American Mounties must find the famous Gainsborough painting of The Two Georges?showing Washington kneeling to the king?that has been stolen by the subversive Sons of Liberty while on traveling exhibit. The Mounties are accompanied by the exhibit''s curator, Kathleen Flannery, who''s helpful but may be collaborating with the Sons. Their cross-country search shows off a lower-tech world, in which people get around in dirigibles and steamer cars, and old-style powers like Austria, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire vie for dominance. The authors'' alternate globe is recognizable yet delightfully distorted; in this looking-glass, engaging characters play out a suspenseful and satisfying story.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actor Dreyfuss and novelist Turtledove (World War: Tilting the Balance, LJ 2/15/95) set this alternative-history thriller in an America where the Revolutionary War never occurred. Gainsborough''s painting, The Two Georges (the symbol of the unity between the British Empire and the North American Union), is held for ransom by the fanatical Sons of Liberty. Before King-Emperor Charles III comes to America to deliver a unity speech, Royal American Mounted Police Colonel Tom Bushnell must find the painting. A fast-paced and gripping story of a leisurely and different society; highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(21774, 'A Tyrant Abdicates (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(21775, 'Ubik', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nobody but Philip K. Dick could so successfully combine SF comedy with the unease of reality gone wrong, shifting underfoot like quicksand. Besides grisly ideas like funeral parlors where you swap gossip for the advice of the frozen dead, Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character''s attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll: "I''ll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I''ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it." Chip works for Glen Runciter''s anti-psi security agency, which hires out its talents to block telepathic snooping and paranormal dirty tricks. When its special team tackles a big job on the Moon, something goes terribly wrong. Runciter is killed, it seems--but messages from him now appear on toilet walls, traffic tickets, or product labels. Meanwhile, fragments of reality are timeslipping into past versions: Joe Chip''s beloved stereo system reverts to a hand-cranked 78 player with bamboo needles. Why does Runciter''s face appear on U.S. coins? Why the repeated ads for a hard-to-find universal panacea called Ubik ("safe when taken as directed")? The true, chilling state of affairs slowly becomes clear, though the villain isn''t who Joe Chip thinks. And this is Dick country, where final truths are never quite final and--with the help of Ubik--the reality/illusion balance can still be tilted the other way. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(21776, 'Un Lun Dun', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What is Un Lun Dun?It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, tooâ€“including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle lurks behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes stalk the streets, and a dark cloud dreams of burning the world. It is a city awaiting its hero, whose coming was prophesied long ago, set down for all time in the pages of a talking book.When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into this strange city, it seems that the ancient prophecy is coming true at last. But then things begin to go shockingly wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(21777, 'Under the Andes', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This early lost-race novel by Rex Stout--who later went on to fame as the creator of detective Nero Wolfe--follows two men and a woman on a vacation to the Andes . . . a vacation which takes them to a lost world beneath the mountain! A fun "lost race" novel, complete with White Goddess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(21778, 'Union Atlantic', 'Adam Haslett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte''s grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company''s struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte''s brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte''s intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread long after it causes a sensation this spring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(21779, 'Universal Remote R7 manual', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(21780, 'The Unteleported Man', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rachmael ben Applebaum becomes suspicious of the plan to reduce Earth''s overpopulation by teleporting people to a colony on a distant planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(21781, 'The Usual Suspects (script)', 'Christopher McQuarrie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 5 criminals brought together in a framed police line-up . . . 27 bodies in Long Beach Harbour . . . 1 dying, terrified eyewitness . . . 1 dogged cop determined to unravel the truth . . . And at the root of this twisting tale, the notorious - mythical? - Hungarian master criminal, Keyser Souml;ze. Christopher McQuarrie''s fiendishly tricky script for director Bryan Singer earned him both the US Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay of 1995. The taut, sinewy writing weaves a densely textured yarn that is as satisfying on the page as it is on screen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(21782, 'Valdez Is Coming (1970)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A Leonard novel that still holds up as one of his very best."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Washingtom Post Book World\n </em>\n (_Washington Post, DC_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man''s woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(21783, 'Valis', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first of Dick''s three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer)\n</p>\n<p>\n The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The quest for God is the binding theme of this trilogy. The "funny and painful and sometimes brilliant" VALIS(anagram) finds protagonist and Dick alter-ego Horselover Fat unable to reconcile human suffering with his belief in God. Invasion is a "fascinating and highly readable" vision of Armageddon, blending New Testament, Kabbalah and Dick''s own worldview. In Transmigration , Angel Archer reminisces about her father-in-law, Timothy, an Episcopal bishop obsessed with a set of ancient scrolls that shed faith-threatening new light on Jesus: "This finely crafted, odd but compelling book demonstrates Dick''s great erudition, keen human insight and subtle ironic sense of humor," said PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n(the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer)\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(21784, 'Vardy', 'John Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the Paris of Napoleon III, the beautiful, impetuous Vardy Cutter falls in love with the passionate Colonel Max Cary de Lily, a soldier of fortune and of France. When the Franco-Prussian war begins, Vardy must be rescued from the siege of Paris. But when she returns, it is only to be caught in the wake of violence and to find her lover''s career is in ruins as he is faced with a court martial and his life is at risk. This historical drama is a romp through the chaos that is war. John Harris presents a story of battles and armies, proud regiments, love and loss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/394');
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(21785, 'The Varieties of Religious Experience', 'William James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div style="text-align: center;">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: ''Times New Roman''; ">\n   THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE\n  </span>\n </div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ''Times New Roman''; font-size: 20px; ">\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   A Study in Human Nature\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   Being the 20 Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at EdinÂ­burgh in 1901-1902\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   BYÂ \n  </div>\n  <div style="text-align: center;">\n   WILLIAM JAMESÂ \n  </div>\n </span>\n <h3 style="text-align: center;">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; font-family: ''Times New Roman''; ">\n   To E.P.G. IN FILIAL GRATITUDE AND LOVE\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n   <div style="text-align: center; ">\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" face="''Times New Roman''" size="6">\n     <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; ">\n      University of Virginia Library.\n     </span>\n    </font>\n    <p class="calibre8" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">\n     Â \n    </p>\n    Charlottesville, Va.\n   </div>\n  </span>\n </h3>\n</div>\n<div style="text-align: center; ">\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="''Times New Roman''" size="6">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; ">\n   <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengJ.browse.html" class="calibre5" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; ">\n    http://â€‹etext.â€‹lib.â€‹virginia.â€‹edu/â€‹modeng/â€‹modengJ.â€‹browse.â€‹html\n   </a>\n  </span>\n </font>\n</div>\n<h3 style="text-align: center;">\n <br />\n</h3>\n<h3 style="text-align: center;">\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; font-family: ''Times New Roman''; ">\n </span>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading\n <em>\n  The Varieties of Religious Experience\n </em>\n , it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It''s an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades.\n</p>\n</div>', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(21786, 'Villa Incognito', 'Tom Robbins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Donald Barthelme once said, "Those who never attempt the absurd never achieve the impossible." Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker; Jitterbug Perfume; etc.) has made a career of attempting and achieving both, and in this, his eighth novel, he pulls it off again. Here we have weirdness personified, a quirky, outrageous concoction that is a joy to the imagination. The novel begins with the story of Tanuki, a badgerlike Asian creature with a reputation as a changeling and trickster and a fondness for sake. Also part of the cast is a beautiful young woman who may or may not have Tanuki''s blood in her veins (but definitely does have a chrysanthemum seed embedded in the roof of her mouth), and three American MIAs who have chosen to remain in Laos long after the Vietnam War. Events are set in motion when one of the MIAs, dressed as a priest, is arrested with a cache of heroin taped to his body. In vintage Robbins style, the plot whirls every which way, as the author, writing with unrestrained glee, takes potshots at societal pillars: the military, big business and religions of all ilks. The language is eccentric, electrifying and true to the mark. A few examples: "The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone"; "He crooned the way a can of cheap dog food might croon if a can of cheap dog food had a voice"; "Dickie''s heart felt suddenly like an iron piano with barbwire strings and scorpions for keys." While the ending is a bit of a letdown, this is delectable farce, full of tantalizing secrets and bizarre disguises.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robbins opens with a folkloric tale, set in Japan, of a\n <em>\n  tanuki--\n </em>\n a raccoonlike wild dog with enormous testicles and a thirst for sake--who marries a woman and sires a daughter before angry gods break up the union. Jumping to the present, the arrest of a drug-smuggling priest in Guam--actually an MIA American who disappeared on a bombing run over Vietnam--threatens to blow the cover of his flight crew, who chose to remain incognito in Laos after the war had ended. The two stories are linked by a circus performer who may be the descendant of the original interspecies romance. While the flyers are featured players, the supporting cast includes an earthy military intelligence officer, a cold-blooded CIA spook, and a woman with a sexual attraction to clowns. The largest theme centers on the nature of identity, but there''s a lot swirling around the kitchen sink, including a fleeting incorporation of the events of 9/11. It''s a fun read, although the things about Robbins that his fans love--clever wordplay, nudging asides, and political and philosophical digressions--are the same things that infuriate the nonbelievers, and for them, this short work may seem slow. He remains something of a poor man''s Vonnegut, lacking the careful measure necessary to bake his notions into a cake that won''t fall.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(21787, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero''s life history, whatever the author''s literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly''s police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (_The Poet_ was honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book, __, with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly''s already impressive body of work into new territory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Void Moon\n </em>\n traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It''s not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn''t satisfying, but... well, it isn''t. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail.\n</p>\n<p>\n With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging,\n <em>\n  Void Moon\n </em>\n seems perfectly poised for the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly''s stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for the\n <em>\n  L.A. Times\n </em>\n . What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, the numbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we''re not disappointed with Connelly''s "vacation."\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cassie Black, a resourceful ex-con, plans to burgle the Las Vegas casino''s high roller suite where, five years before, a previous attempt resulted in her arrest and the death of her lover. It''s an intriguing premise, and L.J. Ganser delivers a mesmerizing and nuanced performance. In creating Jack Karch, the bon vivant Vegas private eye who moonlights as a hit man, Ganser settles on a genial, almost charming delivery, underplaying the character''s sinister psychopathology and adding to the suspense. As hunted and hunter race across the twists and turns of the novel''s shadowy landscape, author and reader combine to make all the right moves. A Grand Central hardcover.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(21788, 'Vulcan&#39;s Hammer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Objective, unbiased and hyperrational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizensâ€”or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the â€œHealerâ€ movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behing their rebellion, all Hell breaks loose. Written in 1960, Philip K. Dickâ€™s paranoid novel imagines a totalitarian state in which hammer-headed robots terrorize citizens and freedom is an absurd joke. William Barrios, the morally conflicted hero, may be the only person who can prevent the battle for control from destroying the worldâ€”if, that is, he can decide which side heâ€™s on.Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(21789, 'The Wailing Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in his 15th novel featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The two Navajo cops, one old and one young--who originally debuted in separate series but have been collaborating for many books now--are among the most engaging, fully human characters in crime fiction. As usual, Hillerman puts them to work in a suspenseful, satisfying tale that integrates a wealth of Navajo lore plus breathtaking evocations of the American Southwest, all delivered in prose as clear, clean, and easy-flowing as a mountain stream. Longtime readers will be delighted by several developments, including a prominent role for the appealing Officer Bernadette Manuelito and a glimpse at the phlegmatic Leaphorn''s testy side. But Hillerman welcomes new arrivals as well, with enough exposition to get you oriented.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many writers have tried to follow Hillerman''s trail, setting murder mysteries in Native American cultural landscapes. Many do a fine job. But, as\n  <em>\n   The Wailing Wind\n  </em>\n  beautifully demonstrates, there''s only one Tony Hillerman. In this book he''s at the top of his game.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 15th Chee/Leaphorn mystery (after 1999''s relatively weak Hunting Badger) finds MWA Grand Master Hillerman back at the top of his form as his two Navajo peace officers look into both a past and present mystery. Religious fervency and single-minded greed become strange but necessary bedfellows in a plot filled, as always, with insights into the lives and beliefs of the "Dineh." When an abandoned pickup truck turns out to contain one very dead white man, Sgt. Jim Chee''s instincts lead him to bring retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn into the case. Leaphorn''s trademark curiosity sends him in search of possible links between this homicide and another two years earlier. The first murder occurred on Halloween day when Wiley Denton supposedly shot Marvin McKay in self-defense after McKay tried to sell him bogus information about an old gold mine. That same day Denton''s wife, Linda, disappeared; she has never been heard from again. Leaphorn''s recollection of what had been shrugged off as a Halloween prank out at old Fort Wingate now becomes the itch he has to scratch. It seems a group of teens shortcutting across the area had endured a close call with La Llorana, a mythical wailing woman. The information he gathers adds yet another piece to the puzzle of the missing Linda. Chee is up to his elbows in not only the investigation but also in sorting through his growing emotional confusion about the beautiful Bernadette Manuelito. The seemingly insignificant turns critical and the loose ends tie up in one tidy conclusion as Hillerman repeatedly shines in this masterfully complex new novel.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(21790, 'Warner And Wife (Short Story)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n not a Nero Wolf story\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(21791, 'Warning Signs', 'Stephen White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When can a psychologist go to the police about a client without violating the doctor/patient contract? Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory, veteran of nine previous White suspense novels, wrestles with this dilemma in White''s latest top-flight thriller. Neurotic Naomi Bigg seeks help when she suspects her high school son, Paul, plans to avenge his sister''s rape and his father''s murder conviction for killing the rapist, who was let off on a technicality. Paul''s best friend, Ramp, an explosives fanatic, lost his mother to a paroled rapist/murderer and has his own list of targets. Alan''s erratic sessions with Naomi begin to unnerve him when he picks up hints of a connection to the recent brutal murder of Boulder''s DA, his wife Lauren''s boss. Even worse, he realizes that Lauren, suffering from MS and just ending maternity leave, assisted in the bungled prosecution of Paul''s sister''s rapist. And to further complicate things, the prime suspect in the DA murder case is Boulder police detective Lucy Tanner, partner of Alan''s best friend, Sam Purdy. When a car bomb kills a judge''s wife in Denver, Alan is torn with indecision, but goes to Sam after explosives are found in the dead DA''s house. When a bomb goes off at Alan''s office and Lucy is kidnapped, Alan and Sam team up and track Ramp on his deadly bomb spree. White (Private Practices) deliciously taunts the reader with his trademark twists, smoothly weaving plots together and sprinkling red herrings among the solid clues. Could Columbine have been prevented if the shooters'' parents had gone to the police? How many warning signs are needed before action should be taken? These questions have led to the "no tolerance" policies in many schools and underlie this tensely satisfying outing. National ad/promo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The murder of Boulder''s troubleshooting DA is just the first sign that things in town are getting bad fast.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(21792, 'The Way of the Bow', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This book is written exclusively for the internet by the international best-selling author Paulo Coelho."The Way of the Bow" relates the story of Tetsuya, the best archer of the country, who conveys his teachings to a boy in his village. Throughout the story, several essential thoughts are reflected: our daily efforts and work, how to overcome difficulties, steadfastness, and courage to take risky decisions.Paulo Coelho has managed to express in these pages many of the values which inspire our daily work: innovation, flexibility, adaptation to changes, enthusiasm, and team work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(21793, 'We All Killed Grandma', 'Fredric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  We all killed grandma -\n  <br />\n  from\n  <br />\n  Martians and misplaced clues: the life and work of Fredric Brown\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "In my dream I was reaching right through the glass of the window of a hock shop. It was the hock shop on North Clark Street, the west side of the street, half a block north of Grand Avenue. I was reaching out a hand through the glass to touch a silver trombone..." So begins The Fabulous Clipjoint, winner of the 1948 Edgar Award for best first mystery novel. In that and more than 20 other novels, Fredric Brown spun a web of intrigue and imagination that has made him one of the most popular and respected authors of mystery and science fiction of the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Martians and Misplaced Clues, the first full-length book devoted to the work and life of Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook discusses The Fabulous Clipjoint in depth, as well as Martians, Go Home, The Screaming Mimi and all of the other classic Brown novels. He also provides careful analysis of the author''s many short stories and poems, tracking his work from the early days as a writer for trade magazines, through the years of the pulp magazines and science fiction digests, up to and including the final years of increasingly respectable slick magazines. Along with the discussion of the work are details of the author''s unusual life, from his early years in Cincinnati through the Depression years in Milwaukee, then to a bohemian life living in various towns in the Southwest. Brown''s career as a writer was colorful and varied, and Martians and Misplaced Clues places him squarely in the middle of the most irresistible and consistently enjoyable writers of his time.\n  <br />\n  Booknews\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Brown (1906-1972) was a popular and respected author of more than 20 mysteries and science fiction novels (The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the 1948 Edgar Award for best mystery novel). This study looks closely at his work and chronicles his unusual life. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(21794, 'We Can Build You', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The fact that what Dick is writing about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation - this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges.'' Ursula K. Le Guin ''No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations'' Brian W. Aldiss\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Philip K Dick''s visionary forerunner to the novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' that became the film Bladerunner, tells the story of Louis Rosen and his love for the daughter of his business partner and the truth about where his life-like androids might end up! Making an animatronic replica of Abraham Lincoln has never been easier. Finding someone to buy it is the hard part. Louis Rosen''s firm, the Frauenzimmer Piano Company, builds electronic organs and upright pianos. Deciding to expand the business the firm get ambitious, building exact reconstructions of famous personalities. Sam K. Barrows, a lunar real estate tycoon wants to repopulate the moon with their creations, and he''s the only one rich enough to buy them. As the Lincoln model develops a fault and Rosen begins to fall for the daughter of his business partner, things go from bad to worse and his mental health rapidly begins to deteriorate. ''We Can Build You'' bears striking similarities in Dick''s later novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' which was later transformed into Ridley Scott''s extraordinary science fiction film classic ''Bladerunner''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(21795, 'We Can Remember it For You Wholesale', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick''s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.\n</p>\n<p>\n This collection includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others.\n</p>\n<p>\n "A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection". -- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n "The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people''s minds". -- Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(21796, 'Well of Lost Plots', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde''s redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her duties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction''s Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the imminent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Systems, Thursday''s friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and Thursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where technophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and stock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendish worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of her child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it isuntil the reader gets the hang of Fforde''s intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-busting fantasy. Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel''s pages, and Fforde''s fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of "book operating systems," are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde''s sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Fforde''s third novel featuring English sleuth Thursday Next is an interesting, enjoyable mix of detective story, fantasy, and literature. Thursday works on cases involving the protection of the stories and characters of famous books, which can be affected and changed by people in the real world. In this installment, she enters the Book World itself. Fforde has a nice touch, never pressing on any one aspect of the story, but managing to interweave all of the elements, with a good deal of humor. The use of various literary characters means that it helps to be familiar with the works in which they appear, but, despite knowing very little about\n <em>\n  Anna Karenina\n </em>\n , it is still very funny to read its plot written as a gossipy telephone conversation between two Russian noblewomen. It also helps to have read the first two books in the series,\n <em>\n  The Eyre Affair\n </em>\n (2002) and\n <em>\n  Lost in a Good Book\n </em>\n (2003, both Viking), but teens will want to read\n <em>\n  The Well of Lost Plots\n </em>\n anyway._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(21797, 'WHEN AN ALCOHOLIC LISTENS', 'Cecil Rose &amp; Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; " id="internal-source-marker_0.29205310079741964">\n  With apologies to Cecil Rose and the Oxford Groups, weâ€™ve modified some of the language in this great pamphlet ( original in this catalog or here:\n  <a href="http://tinyurl.com/wmlgs">\n   http://tinyurl.com/wmlgs\n  </a>\n  ) to make it a bit more palatable for non-religious alcoholics. We hope we have done it in the same way that the writers of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. If you notice something seriously in error itâ€™s entirely our error - please let us know by emailing\n  <a href="http://uh_andy@hotmail.com">\n   uh_andy@hotmail.com\n  </a>\n  . Any other suggestions or comments would be welcome as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  -----------------------------\n </p>\n <p>\n  In His preface Cecil Rose writes â€œThe chapters of this book are an attempt to set down briefly the simple elements of Christian living. I believe that there is nothing in them which cannot be found in the New Testamentâ€. What Cecil Rose wrote was a model for living that went beyond the Christian faith. It became one of the sources of the 12 Step recovery program. Which has brought many people to God. It embodies universal principles that serves all of mankind. It is an excellent guide for people who are struggling with the 12 step program.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(21798, 'WHEN MAN LISTENS: Everyone Can Listen to God', 'Cecil Rose &amp; Carl Tuchy Palmieri', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In His preface Cecil Rose writes â€œThe chapters of this book are an attempt to set down briefly the simple elements of Christian living. I believe that there is nothing in them which cannot be found in the New Testamentâ€. What Cecil Rose wrote was a model for living that went beyond the Christian faith. It became one of the sources of the 12 Step recovery program. Which has brought many people to God. It embodies universal principles that serves all of mankind. It is an excellent guide for ; People of the Christian faith People who are struggling with their 12 step program. People seeking to deepen their Spiritual/ religious connection People who are seeking to live a life of honor and integrity in a world filled with the opposite. It is my honor and pleasure to have Cecil Roses work reborn through this reprinting so that the masses can have access to his words and the principles he speaks of.\n </p>\n <p>\n  - Carl (Tuchy) Palmieri\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(21799, 'When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" â€” systems administrators â€” as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(21800, 'When the Women Come out to Dance (2002)', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What a treat! The nine stories in this collection--some never before published, others available only in anthologies or magazines-- demonstrate why Elmore Leonard has achieved both bestsellerdom and critical acclaim. Ranging in length from a four-page trifle to two novellas of 50-plus pages, these are gems of sly humor, suspense, and, above all, character. Most are in the contemporary crime-fiction vein that made Leonard famous, but a few are more contemplative set pieces, and there''s one fine Old West story (Leonard was a Western writer before he became a crime king).\n</p>\n<p>\n Longtime fans will recognize some familiar faces, including the U.S. marshals Raylan Givens, from 1993''s __ and 1995''s\n <strong>\n  , and Karen Sisco, from 1996''s\n </strong>\n (played by J. Lo in the movie). But whether familiar or new, the people in these stories lunge off the page and seize you by the lapels. Nobody writes character and dialogue like Leonard. In fact, several tales feature some rural white-trash bad guys who are so utterly plausible that you''ll look over your shoulder next time you drive a country road.\n</p>\n<p>\n The short story format suits Leonard''s stripped-down style beautifully. While one or two of the slimmer pieces feel a bit disposable, all nine are engaging, and the best are breathtakingly good--the crispest, best- plotted stuff Leonard has published in years.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard''s latest, When the Women Come Out to Dance, is a collection of short sketches that feature strong female characters in trouble. "Sparks" describes a flirtation between an insurance investigator and a widow who has apparently burned down her own mansion in the Hollywood hills. The riveting title piece involves a rich Pakistani surgeon''s wife, a former stripper who''s terrified that her playboy husband will have her killed once he gets bored with her. Hoping to knock him off first, she hires as a maid a Colombian woman rumored to have murdered her own abusive husband. "Fire in the Hole" finds two former co-workers pitted against one another in a deadly showdown: Boyd Crowder is a Bible-quoting neo-Nazi with a penchant for terrorist acts, and Raylan Givens is the U.S. marshal sent to shut him down. Leonard fans may wish for something meatier, but the razor-edged dialogue and brisk storytelling won''t disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(21801, 'Where There&#39;s a Will', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where There''s a Will (1940)\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This mystery from one of America''s best-loved writers features Nero Wolfe, the arrogant, orchid-loving, gourmandizing sleuth, and his invaluable legman, Archie Goodwin, who narrates with his usual wry wit. When the esteemed and wealthy Mr. Noel Hawthorne dies at the age of 49, his sisters are furious that he left his mistress seven million dollars - and nothing for each of them but a piece of fruit! When the investigator discovers that Hawthorne''s death was not an accident, Nero and Archie stumble into what appears to be a legacy of murder. Complete and unabridged, this is the ninth Nero Wolfe mystery in the audio series, and it features Michael Prichard''s gripping and humorous performance. 6 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(21802, 'White Doves at Morning', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''White doves come at morning Where my soldier sleeps in the ground. I placed my ring in his coffin, The trees o''er his grave have all turned brown.'' Set mainly in Louisiana during the years 1861-1868, this passionate novel of men, women and war tells the story of the author''s ancestor, Confederate soldier Willie Burke. A classic Burke hero, innately moral to the point of lunacy, Willie is soon in conflict with his superiors. As his best friend Jim Stubblefield observes: ''the juncture of Willie Burke and the Confederate Army is akin to the meeting of a wrecking ball and a crystal shop.'' The characters who people these pages, many of them based on real historical figures, are as memorable as any Burke has created. Mulatto, Flower Jamison, victim of terrible abuse that never touches her soul, determined to better herself; Quaker abolitionist Abigail Dowling, whose Unionist sympathies put her in constant danger; Colonel Ira Jamison, rotten to his core yet who would rise from a cesspit smelling of roses; these and many others stay powerfully in the mind in this epic tale. Like all the best war novels, WHITE DOVES AT MORNING concentrates not on battles but on the edges of grand events, the detritus that wars create, the human cost, and, in this case, the terrible aftermath.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(21803, 'The White Lioness', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like his countrymen Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Mankell writes mysteries that connect crimes in Sweden to the rest of the world. Faceless Killers (1997), the first of his books about provincial police inspector Kurt Wallender to appear here, involved Turkish immigrants and Eastern European villains. This novel, written in 1993, links the murder of a real estate agent in Wallender''s town of Ystad to South Africa, where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison, and to Russia, where the KGB is busy planning Mandela''s fate. Wallender is a classically dour but dedicated policeman whose progress through his cases is a combination of hard slogging and lucky breaks. But several factors render this effort less compelling than its predecessor. The first is the Day of the Jackal syndrome: we know that Mandela wasn''t killed by KGB agents or white Afrikaner terrorists, and that knowledge makes the suspense writer''s job even harder. Second is the book''s length?560 pages is a long haul, even with three exotic settings and dozens of important characters. Third might be Thompson''s translation, which?unlike Steven T. Murray''s work on Faceless Killers?often seems excessively deadpan. But Wallender is still a solid character, whose strengths and weaknesses are utterly credibld, and Mankell (who now lives in Mozambique) knows how to make the most of his virtues.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mankell''s\n <em>\n  Faceless Killers\n </em>\n , the Swedish author''s first novel to appear in English, introduced Kurt Wallander, an Old World cop on the edge of being overwhelmed by New World crime. Wallander returns in this less compelling but still memorable case involving an assassination attempt on Nelson Mandela in 1990. The disappearance of a Swedish housewife--murdered by an ex-KGB agent training the would-be assassin, hired by right-wing Afrikaaners--draws Wallander into the tangle of South African politics. The action jumps from Sweden to South Africa, where President de Klerk struggles to bring his country into an apartheid-free new era. The massive scope of the novel--race relations in South Africa, on one hand, Wallander''s personal travails in distant Sweden, on the other--proves a bit unwieldy, but the action is skillfully grounded in human rather than political concerns: the ambiguous moral position of the black assassin, Wallander''s single-minded determination to explain the housewife''s death, the tortured psyche of the Afrikaaner leader. If Mankell''s reach slightly exceeds his grasp here, his stature as a major voice in international crime fiction remains undisturbed.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(21804, 'A Wild Sheep Chase', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep. In "a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account of an impossible quest . . . Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent," PW wrote.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This novel, the American debut of a popular contemporary Japanese writer, will have a familiar ring to Western ears. The narrative moves adroitly through mystery, fable, pensive realism, and modernist absurdity to tell the tale--at least on the surface--of a Japanese man caught up in a puzzling quest for a somewhat mystical sheep. The spare style echoes Raymond Carver, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler, with matter-of-fact absurdities reminiscent of John Irving and, in less inspired moments, Tom Robbins. While the climax of the story is somewhat unrewarding, many readers will enjoy being pulled along by the playful and engaging style and fluid structure. Interesting as an example of current Japanese writing and as an unusually hip and irreverent look at contemporary Japanese society, this would be a nice addition to larger fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(21805, 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.\n</p>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution.\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami''s earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.\n</p>\n<p>\n If it were possible to isolate one theme in\n <em>\n  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\n </em>\n , that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amazingly long, incredibly pricey, wildly experimental, often confusing but never boring, Murakami''s most famous novel has been brought to audio life with extreme dedication: by Naxos, a company that regularly wins prizes, and by a reader with an uncommon combination of skills. Degas is already a Murakami veteran, having read the audio version of\n <em>\n  A Wild Sheep Chase\n </em>\n (Naxos), and has worked on radio, stage and even cartoon voice (including\n <em>\n  Mr. Bean\n </em>\n ). He catches the constantly changing mental landscape of Murakami''s fertile imaginationâ€”which moves from detective story to explicit sexual fantasy, heartbreaking Japanese WWII historical flashback, everyday details of married life (cooking, shopping and pet care) and even the occasional burst of satiric humor. Degas treats it all with the clarity and calmness of a very deep, very still pool. Certainly not for everyone''s taste or budget, but anyone interested in this important author will find something to enlighten them.\n <em>\n  Available as a Vintage paperback (Reviews, Aug. 18. 1997). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(21806, 'The Windup Girl', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Noted short story writer Bacigalupi (_Pump Six and Other Stories_) proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences. Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score. Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”In a future Thailand, calories are the greatest commodity. Anderson is a calorie-man whose true objective is to discover new food sources that his company can exploit. His secretary, Hock Seng, is a refugee from China seeking to ensure his future. Jaidee is an officer of the Environmental Ministry known for upholding regulations rather than accepting bribes. His partner, Kanya, is torn between respect for Jaidee and hatred for the agency that destroyed her childhood home. Emiko is a windup, an engineered and despised creation, discarded by her master and now subject to brutality by her patron. The actions of these characters set in motion events that could destroy the country. Bacigalupi has created a compelling, if bleak, society in which corruption, betrayal, and despair are commonplace, and more positive behavior and emotions such as hope and love are regarded with great suspicion. The complex plot and equally complex characters require a great deal of commitment from readers. Even the most sympathetic people have darker sides, and it is difficult to determine which character or faction should triumph. This highly nuanced, violent, and grim novel is not for every teen. However, mature readers with an interest in political or environmental science fiction or those for whom dystopias are particularly appealing will be intrigued. If they are able to immerse themselves completely into the calorie-mad world of a future Bangkok, they will not be disappointed.â€”_Karen E. Brooks-Reese, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/263');
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(21807, 'Woken Furies', 'Richard K. Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Morgan''s powerful third cyberpunk noir SF novel to feature Takeshi Kovacs, whose consciousness is transferred from one ultraâ€“combat-ready body to another in the service of various unscrupulous powers, the interstellar mercenary returns home to Harlan''s World, thoroughly pissed and dangerous. Despite his justified cynicism, he finds himself trying to protect a young woman who\n <em>\n  may\n </em>\n house the soul of a martyred revolutionary from centuries earlier. He also must fight a hired killer who''s a younger version of himself. To succeed, he has to sift through his past to see which allies and memories he can trust. Morgan has become even more nervy since winning the Philip K. Dick Award for his confident first novel,\n <em>\n  Altered Carbon\n </em>\n (2003). This book develops a baroque, appallingly complicated setting, full of opportunities for revelation and betrayal. Both violence and sex are troweled on thickly but appropriately; they have significant consequences for these people who are tryingâ€”in circumstances even more desperate than our ownâ€”to discover who they really are and who they might have a chance to become.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Following\n <em>\n  Altered Carbon\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Broken Angels\n </em>\n (2004), Morgan''s anxiously awaited third Takeshi Kovacs novel makes a terrific addition to an award-winning series. This time Morgan takes a giant leap into the cyberpunk future that William Gibson begin exploring 20 years ago. Unlike Gibson, however, Morgan combines the cyberpunk style with a fast-paced, first-person narrative that is as evocative of classic hard-boiled detective fiction as it is of cutting-edge science fiction. His protagonist, Kovacs, a futuristic version of a\n <em>\n  ronin\n </em>\n ("for hire") samurai, is back on his home planet, Harlan''s World. The ruling Harlan family awakens Kovacs from digital storage into a newly constructed body and launches him on a mission that weaves a dangerous course through labyrinthine politics and murderous hardware. But Kovacs also has his own agenda. Vengeance and a quest for a long-lost love continually put his loyalties into conflict with his powerful and ruthless new employers, in a future where death may or may not be forever. Highly recommended for followers of the series, cyberpunk devotees, and hard-boiled detective fans not averse to a little genre-bending.\n <em>\n  Elliott Swanson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(21808, 'Wolves Eat Dogs', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Why would anyone jump out a window with a saltshaker?" A good question, especially when the suicide victim is Pasha Ivanov, a Moscow physicist-turned-billionaire businessman--a "New Russian" poster boy, if ever there was one--with several homes, a leggy 20-year-old girlfriend ("the kind [of blonde] who could summon the attention of a breeze"), and every reason to be contented in his middle age. So, wonders Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, in Martin Cruz Smith''s\n <em>\n  Wolves Eat Dogs\n </em>\n , what provoked Ivanov to take a header from his stylish 10th-floor apartment? And how does it relate to the shaker clutched in his dead hand or the hillock of table salt found on his closet floor?\n</p>\n<p>\n Renko, introduced in Smith''s 1981 bestseller, __, is a cop well out of sync with rapidly changing Russian society, "a difficult investigator, a holdover from the Soviet era, a man on the skids" whose determination to do more than go through the motions of criminal inquiries inevitably exasperates his superiors. Thus, when this saturnine detective declines to accept the verdict that Ivanov did himself in--who peppered that salt around the capitalist''s premises, Renko still wants to know, and what about rumors of a security breach at Ivanov''s apartment building?--he is exiled to the Ukrainian Zone of Exclusion, the "radioactive wasteland" surrounding Chernobyl, site of a notorious 1986 nuclear disaster and the place where, only a week after Ivanov''s demise, his company''s senior vice-president is found with his throat slit. There, among cynical scientists, entrepreneurial scavengers, and predators both two- and four-legged--an exclusive coterie of the rejected--Renko chews over the crimes on his plate. Unfortunately, the dosimeter that warns him of radiation exposure at Chernobyl does not also protect him from a pair of malevolent brothers, or a "damaged" woman doctor offering him mutually assured disappointment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smith has a keen eye for the comical quirks of modern-day Russia--its chaotic roadways, voracious appetite for post-communist luxuries, and evolving ethics ("Russians used to kill for women or power, real reasons. Now they kill for money"). And this story''s bleakly beautiful Ukrainian backdrop nicely complements the desperate hope of Renko''s task. Still, the greatest strength of\n <em>\n  Wolves Eat Dogs\n </em>\n (Smith''s fifth series installment, after __) is its characters, especially Arkady Renko, who despite his lugubrious nature continues to show a heart as expansive and unfathomable as the Siberia steppe.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smith''s melancholy, indefatigable Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has been exiled to some bitter venues in the pastâ€”including blistering-hot Cuba in\n <em>\n  Havana Bay\n </em>\n and the icy Bering sea in\n <em>\n  Polar Star\n </em>\n â€”but surely the strangest (and most fascinating) is his latest, the eerie, radioactive landscape of post-meltdown Chernobyl. Renko is called in to investigate the 10-story, plunge-to-the-pavement death of Pasha Ivanov, fabulously wealthy president of Moscow''s NoviRus corporation, whose death is declared a suicide by Renko''s boss, Prosecutor Zurin. Renko, being Renko, isn''t sure it''s suicide and wonders about little details like the bloody handprints on the windowsill and the curious matter of the closet filled with 50 kilos of salt. And why is NoviRus''s senior vice-president Lev Timofeyev''s nose bleeding? Renko asks too many questions, so an annoyed Zurin sends him off to Chernobyl to investigate when Timofeyev turns up in the cemetery in a small Ukrainian town with his throat slit and his face chewed on by wolves. The cemetery lies within the dangerously radioactive 30-kilometer circle called the Zone of Exclusion, populated by a contingent of scientists, a detachment of soldiers and thoseâ€”the elderly, the crooks, the dementedâ€”who have sneaked back to live in abandoned houses and apartments. The secret of Ivanov and Timofeyev''s deaths lies somewhere in the Zone, and the dogged Renko, surrounded by wolves both animal and human, refuses to leave until he unravels the mystery. It''s the Zone itself and the story of Chernobyl that supplies the riveting backbone of this novel. Renko races around the countryside on his Uralmoto motorcycle, listening always to the ominous ticking of his dosimeter as it counts the dangerous levels of radioactivity present in the food, the soil, the air and the people themselves as they lie, cheat, love, steal, kill and die.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(21809, 'The World Jones Made', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future -- a power that makes his life a torment -- his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal, even when the dream is indistinguishable from a nightmare. In Philip K. Dick''s unsettling chronicle of the rise and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a novel that is as minutely realistic as it is prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers, and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(21810, 'World War Z', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.Eyewitness reports from the first truly global warâ€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of Chinaâ€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkersâ€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(21811, 'The Yiddish Policemen&#39;s Union.2007', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]_Reviewed by_ Jess WalterThey are the "frozen Chosen," two million people living, dying and kvetching in Sitka, Alaska, the temporary homeland established for displaced World War II Jews in Chabon''s ambitious and entertaining new novel. It isâ€”deep breath nowâ€”a murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller, so perhaps it''s no surprise that, in the back half of the book, the moving parts become unwieldy; Chabon is juggling narrative chainsaws here.The novel beginsâ€”the same way that Philip Roth launched\n <em>\n  The Plot Against America\n </em>\n â€”with a fascinating historical footnote: what if, as Franklin Roosevelt proposed on the eve of World War II, a temporary Jewish settlement had been established on the Alaska panhandle? Roosevelt''s plan went nowhere, but Chabon runs the idea into the present, back-loading his tale with a haunting history. Israel failed to get a foothold in the Middle East, and since the Sitka solution was only temporary, Alaskan Jews are about to lose their cold homeland. The book''s timeless refrain: "It''s a strange time to be a Jew."Into this world arrives Chabon''s Chandler-ready hero, Meyer Landsman, a drunken rogue cop who wakes in a flophouse to find that one of his neighbors has been murdered. With his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner and his sexy-tough boss, who happens also to be his ex-wife, Landsman investigates a fascinating underworld of Orthodox black-hat gangs and crime-lord rabbis. Chabon''s "Alyeska" is an act of fearless imagination, more evidence of the soaring talent of his previous genre-blender, the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n <em>\n  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay\n </em>\n .Eventually, however, Chabon''s homage to noir feels heavy-handed, with too many scenes of snappy tough-guy banter and too much of the kind of elaborate thriller plotting that requires long explanations and offscreen conspiracies.Chabon can certainly write noirâ€”or whatever else he wants; his recent Sherlock Holmes novel,\n <em>\n  The Final Solution\n </em>\n , was lovely, even if the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n sniffed its surprise that the mystery novel would "appeal to the real writer." Should any other snobs mistake Chabon for anything less than a real writer, this book offers new evidence of his peerless storytelling and style. Characters have skin "as pale as a page of commentary" and rough voices "like an onion rolling in a bucket." It''s a solid performance that would have been even better with a little more Yiddish and a little less police.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Jess Walter was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for\n </em>\n The Zero\n <em>\n  and the winner of the 2006 Edgar Award for best novel for\n </em>\n Citizen Vince_._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Does\n <em>\n  The Yiddish Policemen''s Union\n </em>\n live up to Michael Chabon''s formidable reputation? There is no consensus: some critics called the novel the spiritual heir to the Pulitzer Prize?winning\n <em>\n  Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay\n </em>\n (2000); others thought it a disappointing aberration. As in\n <em>\n  Kavalier &amp; Clay\n </em>\n , Chabon explores issues of identity, assimilation, and mass culture, but he also pays homage to the noir detective novelâ€”with mixed results.\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n called Landsman "one of the most appealing detective heroes to come along since Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe," while the\n <em>\n  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n </em>\n felt that the work "came nowhere close to making the cut of a Raymond Chandler novel." Critics similarly disagreed about the writing, the convoluted plot, the symbolism of the Jewish-Native American conflict, and the controversial use of Yiddish slurs and caricatures. If not a glowing success,\n <em>\n  The Yiddish Policemen''s Union\n </em>\n nonetheless illustrates the rare talents and creativity of its author.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(21812, 'The Zap Gun', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Dick [was] many authors: a poor man?s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing counterculture.? --_The Village Voice_\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Dick?s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.? --_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ALIEN SATELLITES CIRCLE THE EARTH - AND MAN''S ONLY HOPE IS A MAD CARTOONIST!\n</p>\n<p>\n The terrifying arms race roared on. Daily, East and West produced more dreadful weaponry. And, daily, yesterday''s weapons were turned into toys, souvenirs, egg beaters, furniture ... and never, ever used as weapons. Which was just as well, since they wouldn''t have worked.\n</p>\n<p>\n It may have looked crazy, but it kept the 21st Century world peaceful and its population securely under the domination of the monstrous, ubiquitous security agencies.\n</p>\n<p>\n But then the Sirius Slavers arrived from outer space. Whole cities began to disappear. The world was defenceless - and the race for an Ultimate Weapon for survival was on, for real this time.The outcome meant life or death for Earth. And it lay in the hands of two misfit weapons ''fashion designers'', a demented comic book artist and a highly unlikely toymaker from the wrong side of time ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://millermoto.doesntexist.com:2001/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(21813, '- Chapter 1', 'The Trouble &amp; Aliens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16714'),
(21814, '- Chapter 1', 'Masters of Fantasy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17425'),
(21815, 'The &quot;God&quot; Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God', 'Matthew Alper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1996, this is a minimally revised new edition of Alper''s manifesto against belief in God. Beginning with philosopher Kant''s supposition that humans cannot know a reality beyond their perception of reality, Alper uses his vast research into scientific phenomenon to build a case that humanity''s perception of a spiritual realm is, in fact, the biological result of thousands of years of evolution. Alper writes that this is "''nature''s white lie'', a coping mechanism selected into our species to help alleviate debilitating anxiety caused by our unique awareness of death." Alper''s theory is elegantly drawn, and he shows an admirable grasp of a wide range of scientific disciplines. However, generalizations weaken his case: Alper''s proof relies on readers'' agreement that all humans are equally spiritual creatures, whose "cross-cultural proclivity toward spiritualism suggests that we must be neuro-physiologically hardwired this way." A harsh anti-religion tone (i.e. "How much longer will be slaves to destructive religious creeds... ?"), though not entirely inappropriate, provides the book''s main flaw; aside from the fact that his anti-faith proclamations themselves demonstrate a certain kind of blind faith, he gives no credence to others'' views, nor is he compassionate to the helpful role that spirituality plays in peoples'' lives. Ultimately, Alper is preaching to the choir, but in a time of renewed interest in the clash between religion and science, this cult classic will appeal to those caught up in the debate.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A Cogent and Engaging Exploration into the Biological Foundations of Spirituality." --\n <em>\n  David C. Noelle, Ph.D. -Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant...Enormously important...Full of scientific and philosophical truths." --\n <em>\n  Mark Waldman, Senior Editor of Transpersonal Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant...Provocative" --\n <em>\n  Arnold Sadwin, M.D.; Chief of Neuropsychiatry at University of Pennsylvania''s Grad. Hospital; Who''s Who in Science, 1995; In Medicine, 1996\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clear, Concise...Bold and Masterful" --\n <em>\n  William Wright, Author of Born That Way\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Excellent Reading for every college student--The resultant residence-hall debates would be the best part of their education." --\n <em>\n  Edward O. Wilson; Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Matthew Alper is high maintenance. Not only is his intellect superior to most Ph.D. candidates that I know, but his intensity in displaying that intellect and arguing his world view is more compelling than many of my grad school courses. So, here I am, fiercely advocating for a self-published, self-educated, thoroughly unconventional first time author who, with one slim book, has thrown hundreds of years of human religious beliefs out the window and replaced them with a concise scientific view of spirituality that is impossible to argue with...The brain is the secret. In our brains lie nature''s survival mechanisms in which god is nothing but a protective lens through which humanity is "programmed" to view the world. Matthew Alper has the chutzpah to remove that lens, to crush it under his heel, and then, as we cringe in the unfiltered light, he dares us all to look up into and stare into the pure scientific truth he has discovered...The "God" Part of the Brain is a challenge at first, but once you open your mind to the potentials of its theories, there is nothing to do but follow its arguments to their logical conclusions. And although he rips away our old stiff crutches, this audacious philosopher is kind enough to spoon feed us a new and positive way to approaching our existences." --\n <em>\n  Rebecca Morris\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thank you for finishing what Julian Jaynes and Joseph Campbell started." --\n <em>\n  B.Brown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Atheist''s Bible" --\n <em>\n  Bob Worthington\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "You have presented what amounts to a unified theory about the nature of mankind''s concepts of God and an afterlife, their origins and evolutionary purposes. I have never seen a better-supported, more comprehensive theory on those questions. Until, or unless, I encounter evidence that meaningfully contradicts your conclusions, I''m going to adopt yours as my own working theory. And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making it available to me." --\n <em>\n  James Hazel\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19035'),
(21816, '(Ebook - English) - Carrie Alexander - His Mistress', 'His Mistress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10651'),
(21817, '[Brotherhood 01] - Dark Lover', 'Ward, JR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13622'),
(21818, '[Brotherhood 02] - Lover Eternal', 'Ward, JR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9236'),
(21819, '[Brotherhood 03] - Lover Awakened', 'Ward, JR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9232'),
(21820, '[Corrected and formatted by braven]', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17081'),
(21821, '[Eric John Stark] Black Amazon Of Mars', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14730'),
(21822, '[Eric John Stark] Enchantress Of Venus', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4892'),
(21823, '[Eric John Stark] People of the Talisman', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7884'),
(21824, '[Eric John Stark] The Secret of Sinharat', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2334'),
(21825, '[Eric John Stark][Skaith 01] The Ginger Star', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3852'),
(21826, '[Eric John Stark][Skaith 02] The Hounds of Skaith', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3638'),
(21827, '[Eric John Stark][Skaith 03] The Reavers of Skaith', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2612'),
(21828, '[Fitzhugh 2]-JINX ON A TERRAN INHERITANCE', 'Jinx on a Terran Inheritance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17311'),
(21829, '[Fitzhugh 3]-FALL OF THE WHITE SHIP AVATAR', 'Fall of the White Ship Avatar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17317'),
(21830, '[Jedi Prince series] - 01', '(Paul, The Glove Of Darth Vader &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, The Glove Of Darth Vader &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3765'),
(21831, '[Jedi Prince series] - 02', '(Paul, The Lost City Of The Jedi &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, The Lost City Of The Jedi &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3236'),
(21832, '[Jedi Prince series] - 03', '(Paul, Zorba The Hutt&#39;s Revenge &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, Zorba The Hutt&#39;s Revenge &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(21833, '[Jedi Prince series] - 04', '(Paul, Mission From Mount Yoda &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, Mission From Mount Yoda &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5876'),
(21834, '[Jedi Prince series] - 05', '(Paul, Queen Of The Empire &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, Queen Of The Empire &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7348'),
(21835, '[Jedi Prince series] - 06', '(Paul, Prophets Of The Dark Side &amp; Davids), Hollace; (Paul, Prophets Of The Dark Side &amp; Davids), Hollace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7366'),
(21836, '[Jedi Quest] - 00', 'Truth, Path To', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(21837, '[Jedi Quest] - 01', 'Apprentice, The Way Of The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15195'),
(21838, '[Jedi Quest] - 02', 'Jedi, The Trail of the', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9949'),
(21839, '[Jedi Quest] - 03', 'Games, The Dangerous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11341'),
(21840, '[Jedi Quest] - 04', 'Disguise, The Master Of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12929'),
(21841, '[Jedi Quest] - 05', 'Fear, The School Of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11738'),
(21842, '[Jedi Quest] - 06', 'Trap, The Shadow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(21843, '[Jedi Quest] - 07', 'Truth, The Moment Of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(21844, '[Jedi Quest] - 08', 'Guard, The Changing Of The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10997'),
(21845, '[Jedi Quest] - 09', 'Peace, The False', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7823'),
(21846, '[Jedi Quest] - 10', 'Showdown, The Final', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6407'),
(21847, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 01', 'Globe, The Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11171'),
(21848, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 02', 'World, Lyrics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(21849, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 03', 'Promises', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7500'),
(21850, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 04', 'Quest, Anakins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7355'),
(21851, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 05', 'Fortress, Vaders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11523'),
(21852, '[Junior Jedi Knights] - 06', 'Blade, Kenobi&#39;s', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14627'),
(21853, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 01', 'Mission, The Desperate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8736'),
(21854, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 02', 'Warning, Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(21855, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 03', 'Underworld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(21856, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 04', 'Naboo, Death On', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8548'),
(21857, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 05', 'Web, A Tangled', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(21858, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 06', 'Side, Return Of The Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6428'),
(21859, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 07', 'Weapon, Secret', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(21860, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 08', 'Empire, Against the', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12192'),
(21861, '[Last Of The Jedi] - 09', 'Deception, Master of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13216'),
(21862, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 01', 'Betrayal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14881'),
(21863, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 02', 'Bloodlines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14665'),
(21864, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 03', 'Tempest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5169'),
(21865, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 04', 'Exile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11918'),
(21866, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 05', 'Sacrifice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16233'),
(21867, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 06', 'Inferno', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10184'),
(21868, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 07', 'Fury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11395'),
(21869, '[Legacy Of The Force] - 08', 'Revelation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7140'),
(21870, '[Legacy of the Jedi] - 01', 'Jedi, Legacy Of The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9946'),
(21871, '[Legacy of the Jedi] - 02', 'Jedi, Secrets Of The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9947'),
(21872, '[Mars] The Treasure Of Ptakuth', 'Leigh Brackett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1854'),
(21873, '[MedStar] - 01', 'Reaves, Battle Surgeons (Michael &amp; Perry), Steve; Reaves, Battle Surgeons (Michael &amp; Perry), Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7164'),
(21874, '[MedStar] - 02', 'Reaves, Jedi Healer (Michael &amp; Perry), Steve; Reaves, Jedi Healer (Michael &amp; Perry), Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7166'),
(21875, '[New Jedi Order] - 01', 'Prime, Vector', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7431'),
(21876, '[New Jedi Order] - 02 - Dark Tide 1', 'Onslaught', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8067'),
(21877, '[New Jedi Order] - 03 - Dark Tide 2', 'Ruin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6867'),
(21878, '[New Jedi Order] - 04 - Agents Of Chaos - 1', 'Trial, Hero&#39;s', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(21879, '[New Jedi Order] - 05 - Agents Of Chaos - 2', 'Eclipse, Jedi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12265'),
(21880, '[New Jedi Order] - 06', 'Point, Balance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7625'),
(21881, '[New Jedi Order] - 07 - Edge of Victory - 1', 'Conquest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13815'),
(21882, '[New Jedi Order] - 08 - Edge of Victory - 2', 'Rebirth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7190'),
(21883, '[New Jedi Order] - 09', 'Star, Star By', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5698'),
(21884, '[New Jedi Order] - 10', 'Journey, Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9778'),
(21885, '[New Jedi Order] - 11 - Enemy Lines - 1', 'Dreams, Rebel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12398'),
(21886, '[New Jedi Order] - 12 - Enemy Lines - 2', 'Stand, Rebel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6036'),
(21887, '[New Jedi Order] - 13', 'Traitor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1119'),
(21888, '[New Jedi Order] - 14', 'Way, Destinys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(21889, '[New Jedi Order] - 15 - Force Heretic - 1', 'Williams, Remnant (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane; Williams, Remnant (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(21890, '[New Jedi Order] - 16 - Force Heretic - 2', 'Williams, Refugee (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane; Williams, Refugee (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(21891, '[New Jedi Order] - 17 - Force Heretic - 3', 'Williams, Reunion (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane; Williams, Reunion (Sean &amp; Dix), Shane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7161'),
(21892, '[New Jedi Order] - 18', 'Prophecy, The Final', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4051'),
(21893, '[Republic Commando] - 01', 'Contact, Hard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5924'),
(21894, '[Republic Commando] - 03', 'Colors, True', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7195'),
(21895, '[Short Stories] - [Gamer]', 'The Crystal (Elaine Cunningham)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4493'),
(21896, '[Short Stories] - [New Jedi Order E-book', 'Apart, A Forest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15272'),
(21897, '[Short Stories] - [New Jedi Order E-book]', 'A Forest Apart (Troy Denning)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15996'),
(21898, '[Short Stories] - [New Jedi Order]', 'Void, Emissaries Of The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(21899, '[Short Stories] - A Dark Path', 'Part 1 (Ali Hadden)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7893'),
(21900, '[Short Stories] - A Dark Path - Part 2', 'Striving for the Light (Ali Hadden)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5442'),
(21901, '[Short Stories] - Dark Emperor 1', 'Ebony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12240'),
(21902, '[Short Stories] - Dark Emperor 4', 'Eclipsed, Emperor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12268'),
(21903, '[Short Stories] - Dark Emperor 6', 'End, Emperor&#39;s', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12043'),
(21904, '[Short Stories] - Journal Of The Whills', 'Liberators, The', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9405'),
(21905, '[Short Stories] - Journal Of The Whills 1', 'The Preservers (Brendon Wahlberg)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2582'),
(21906, '[Short Stories] - Journal Of The Whills 2', 'The Liberators (Brendon Wahlberg)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3266'),
(21907, '[Short Stories] - Rise Of The New Sith 1', 'Shooting Stars (Brendon Wahlberg)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6383'),
(21908, '[Short Stories] - Rise Of The New Sith 2', 'Rising Stars (Brendon Wahlberg)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6976'),
(21909, '[Short Stories] - Rise Of The New Sith 3', 'The Sith System (Brendon Wahlberg)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2107'),
(21910, '[Thrawn Trilogy] - 01', 'Empire, Heir to the', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12193'),
(21911, '[Thrawn Trilogy] - 02', 'Rising, Dark Force', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6985'),
(21912, '[Thrawn Trilogy] - 03', 'Command, The Last', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13875'),
(21913, '[Twilight 1] - Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5622'),
(21914, '[Twilight 2] - New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5623'),
(21915, '[Twilight 3] - Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5624'),
(21916, '[Twilight 4] - Breaking dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5625'),
(21917, '[X-Wing] - 01', 'Squadron, Rogue', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5991'),
(21918, '[X-Wing] - 02', 'Gamble, Wedges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11324'),
(21919, '[X-Wing] - 03', 'Trap, Krytos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(21920, '[X-Wing] - 04', 'War, The Bacta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(21921, '[X-Wing] - 05', 'Squadron, Wraith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5993'),
(21922, '[X-Wing] - 06', 'Fist, Iron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11622'),
(21923, '[X-Wing] - 07', 'Command, Solo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13874'),
(21924, '[X-Wing] - 08', 'Revenge, Isard&#39;s', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7021'),
(21925, '[X-Wing] - 09', 'Adumar, Starfighters of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15769'),
(21926, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 01', 'Anderson, Heirs Of The Force (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Heirs Of The Force (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15395'),
(21927, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 02', 'Anderson, Shadow Academy (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Shadow Academy (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15406'),
(21928, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 03', 'Anderson, The Lost Ones (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, The Lost Ones (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15297'),
(21929, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 04', 'Anderson, Lightsabers (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Lightsabers (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15398'),
(21930, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 05', 'Anderson, Darkest Knight (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Darkest Knight (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15392'),
(21931, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 06', 'Anderson, Jedi Under Siege (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Jedi Under Siege (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15397'),
(21932, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 07', 'Anderson, Shards Of Alderaan (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Shards Of Alderaan (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15294'),
(21933, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 08', 'Anderson, Diversity Alliance (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Diversity Alliance (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15394'),
(21934, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 09', 'Anderson, Delusions Of Grandeur (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Delusions Of Grandeur (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15393'),
(21935, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 10', 'Anderson, Jedi Bounty (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Jedi Bounty (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15396'),
(21936, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 11', 'Anderson, The Emperor Plague (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, The Emperor Plague (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15296'),
(21937, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 12', 'Anderson, Return To Ord Mantell (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Return To Ord Mantell (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15405'),
(21938, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 13', 'Anderson, Trouble On Cloud City (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Trouble On Cloud City (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15298'),
(21939, '[Young Jedi Knights] - 14', 'Anderson, Crisis At Crystal Reef (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca; Anderson, Crisis At Crystal Reef (Kevin &amp; Moesta), Rebecca', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15391'),
(21940, '**Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary : A Novel', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14444'),
(21941, '+Star Wars - [The Adventures of Lando Calrissian] - The Mindharp of Sharu', 'Smith, L. Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9633'),
(21942, '00 The Magicians Apprentice', 'Canavan, Trudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3241'),
(21943, '01 - Killing floor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9738'),
(21944, '01 - The Daemon&#39;s Curse', 'Dan Abnett; Mike Lee - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n v1.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4425'),
(21945, '01 A Shadow on the Glass', 'Irvine, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15946'),
(21946, '01 Amber and Ashes', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15507'),
(21947, '01 Bodyguard of Lightning', 'Nicholls, Stan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14572');
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(21949, '01 Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tradition of Stephen King''s ''Salem''s Lot, Cirque Du Freak is the frightening saga of a young boy whose visit to a mysterious freak show leads him on a journey into a dark world of vampires. Filled with grotesque creatures, murderous vampires, and a petrifying ending, Cirque Du Freak will chill, thrill, and leave readers begging for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14060'),
(21950, '01 City Of Ember', 'DuPrau, Jeanne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4657'),
(21951, '01 City of Golden Shadow', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13932'),
(21952, '01 Daughter Of The Empire', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13465'),
(21953, '01 Dawnthief', 'Barclay, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13511'),
(21954, '01 Dead Witch Walking', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13343'),
(21955, '01 Dragon Wing', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12483'),
(21956, '01 Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12328'),
(21957, '01 Dragons of the Fallen Sun', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12315'),
(21958, '01 Elric Of Melnibone', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12188'),
(21959, '01 Flight of the Nighthawks', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11604'),
(21960, '01 Forging the Darksword', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11511'),
(21961, '01 Guardians of the West', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11004'),
(21962, '01 Honoured Enemy', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10496'),
(21963, '01 Jewel in the Skull', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9992'),
(21964, '01 Joust', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9779'),
(21965, '01 Knight&#39;s Dawn', 'Hunter, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9608'),
(21966, '01 Legend', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9492'),
(21967, '01 Lord of the Silver Bow', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9249'),
(21968, '01 Magician: Apprentice', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9127'),
(21969, '01 Master and Commander', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Aubrey-Maturin - book 1'' Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O''Brian''s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship''s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O''Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O''Brian''s portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as ''the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell''s A Dance to the Music of Time''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9056'),
(21970, '01 Moongather', 'Clayton, Jo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8732'),
(21971, '01 Night of Knives', 'Esslemont, Ian C', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8472'),
(21972, '01 Patriot Games', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7954'),
(21973, '01 Running with the Demon', 'Brooks, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6905'),
(21974, '01 Shadow', 'Parker, KJ', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6620'),
(21975, '01 Shadow of a Dark Queen', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6542'),
(21976, '01 Sword in the Storm', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5393'),
(21977, '01 Sword of Ice', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5395'),
(21978, '01 The Anvil of Ice', 'Rohan, Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5105'),
(21979, '01 The Betrayal', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9653'),
(21980, '01 The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4814'),
(21981, '01 The Blade Itself', 'Abercrobie, Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4842'),
(21982, '01 The Camels are Coming', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14872'),
(21983, '01 The Colour of Magic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4265'),
(21984, '01 The Diamond Throne', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4243'),
(21985, '01 The Dragonbone Chair', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4255'),
(21986, '01 The Elder Gods', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4133'),
(21987, '01 The Final Empire', 'Sanderson, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8745'),
(21988, '01 The Last Of The Renshai', 'Reichert, Mickey Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3274'),
(21989, '01 The Lightning Thief', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3306'),
(21990, '01 The Magician&#39;s Guild', 'Canavan, Trudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3245'),
(21991, '01 The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3247'),
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(21993, '01 The Outstretched Shadow', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2787'),
(21994, '01 The Ruins of Gorlan', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2430'),
(21995, '01 The Runelords', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2445'),
(21996, '01 The Scions of Shannara', 'Brooks, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2405'),
(21997, '01 The Soulforge', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2191'),
(21998, '01 The Stepsister Scheme', 'Hines, Jim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2023'),
(21999, '01 The Summoner', 'Martin, Gail Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2004'),
(22000, '01 The Theives Gamble', 'Mckenna, Juliet E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1988'),
(22001, '01 The War Hound and the World&#39;s Pain', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1733'),
(22002, '01 This Scepter&#39;d Isle', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1411'),
(22003, '01 Time of the Twins', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1407'),
(22004, '01 Way of Shadows', 'Weeks, Brent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(22005, '01 When The Lion Feeds', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smith...a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Tulsa\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TRIUMPH OF THE SUN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "_Triumph of the Sun_ is everything [Smith''s] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure...chalk up another winner."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark...a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful... fans will not be disappointed."--_Booklist_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Nobody does it better."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  BLUE HORIZON\n </strong>\n <br />\n "The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance."--_Booklist_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Really big retro-fun."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "A swashbuckling, brawling, sprawling historical epic. Rich, exciting, and fascinating."--_Library Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Adventure and danger at every turn."--_New York__ Daily News_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Gripping. The writer''s fans will enjoy the ride."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Master storyteller Smith takes his story into another generation of adventurers battling on the sea and on land in the settling of South Africa."--_Tulsa__ World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Everything Smith''s fans have come to expect from his epic adventure novels. His consummate skill at crafting vast battle scenes, passionate and wildly romantic characters, cruel and bloodthirsty villains, and larger-than-life heroes make\n <em>\n  Blue Horizon\n </em>\n irresistible."--_Journal _(Flint, MI)\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  WARLOCK\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival. He is a warlock of writers."--_Tulsa__ World_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Filled with enough action, adventure, battles, betrayals, and actual cliffhangers to satisfy Indiana Jones, Wilbur Smith''s new novel\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  is a rousing and worthy sequel to\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  --_The Plain Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seamlessly composed, this epic historical drama by veteran author Smith tracks a power struggle in ancient Egypt between false pharaohs and a true royal heir, evoking the cruel glories and terrible torments of the era. Those willing to brave the blood and gore will be carried away by the sweep and pace of Smith''s tale."-_Publishers Weekly_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one. It''s the same with\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Brilliant...irresistible and impossible to put down."\n  <br />\n  --_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those of you familiar with Smith''s writing...can expect more of his signature brand of pulse-pounding, "Perils of Pauline"--style of adventure and excitement, with more blood and guts than a slaughterhouse."--_Tampa__ Tribune Times_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "This summer''s most entertaining read...another full-blown tale of war, intrigue, murder, lust, and true love set in ancient Egypt [this] is really the book Taita fans have been waiting for."--_Flint__ Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "Smith is at the top of his game in weaving exotic adventures in this work. Very highly recommended."--_Library Journal_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one."--_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A stirring tale, full of chariot battles...Smith has whipped up a heady brew...and undoubtedly deserves his immense popularity far more than most of his rivals."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Evening Standard_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can almost feel the heat and taste the dust as the narrative builds to a cracking pace...[_Warlock_] is a ripping yarn and a classic adventure story."--_Irish News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  RIVER GOD\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand tale of intrigue, deception, true love and exile."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Denver\n  </strong>\n  Post_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Vivid and fascinating...packed with passion, war, intrigue and revenge...sprawling and absorbing...gripping.... A racy rampage through ancient Egypt that puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifying....The author makes you see it, hear it--even smell it...Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner...few novelists can write action scenes that all but leap off the page the way Smith can...his detailed portrait of ancient Egypt is fascinating."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Anniston__ Star_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith tackles the elevated literary fields of ancient Egypt, and comes up with a full-blooded epic."\n  <br />\n  --_The\n  <strong>\n   London\n  </strong>\n  Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like a good action movie, the book ends with a show-down between the good guys and bad guys on the battlefield...well-written and entertaining."--_Lexington__ Herald-Leader_ (KY)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Compulsively readable...contains intrigue, romance, greed, cruelty, and furious action...rewarding and satisfying."--_El Paso__ Herald-Post_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa__ World _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic novel of ancient Egypt, a great adventure with all the right ingredients: victories and defeats, secrets and revelations, life and death, reverence and godlessness, hate and love"--_The Des Moines Register _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s clear Smith knows his subject: his graphic depiction of lust, bloodletting, politics, and, in Taita''s case, honor is firmly grounded in rich details that evoke the period."_--Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_River God_] gallops swiftly through the action and flying blood his fans have come to relish...Brightly colored, sweeping escapism."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  MONSOON"[Smith] paces his tale as swiftly as he can with swordplay aplenty and killing strokes that come like lightning out of a sunny blue sky."-_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] non-stop thriller that takes readers on a magical tour...this is what makes a Smith book worth reading."-_Midwest__ Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smith...a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."-_Tulsa__ World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wild adventure...brought flawlessly to life through realistic sword fights and sea battles, vivid stories of pirates...breathtaking."-_Times Record News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "A masterful tale of action and suspense.... A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith offers plenty of battles and harrowing escapes for adventure fans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Library Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n BIRDS OF PREY"Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--_The\n <strong>\n  Washington\n </strong>\n Post Book World_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. Its bloodiest scenes are vivid and detailed--and so are hero Hal''s romantic encounters. But, as with Smith''s previous two best sellers,\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , this latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Birds of Prey_ is a wonderful novel filled with excitement, pirates, and vivid sea battles...In short, it is vintage Wilbur Smith."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the 1870s and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love...''The world''s leading adventure writer'' - "Daily Express" ''The pace would do credit to a Porsche, and the invention is as bright and explosive as a fireworks display'' - "Sunday Telegraph". '' ...action follows action ...mystery is piled on mystery ...tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gutsy adventure story'' - "Sunday Express". '' ...a natural storyteller who moves confidently and often splendidly in his period and sustains a flow of convincing incident'' - "The Scotsman".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(22006, '0195374614.pdf', 'William Braxton Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19000'),
(22007, '02 - Bloodstorm', 'Dan Abnett; Mike Lee - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n v1.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14671'),
(22008, '02 - Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Television writer Lee Child''s otherwise riveting first thriller,\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers, a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic leader. Child''s tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays Reacher''s efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries.?Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Television writer Lee Child''s otherwise riveting first thriller,\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers, a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic leader. Child''s tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays Reacher''s efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries.?Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13076'),
(22009, '02 Alta', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15603'),
(22010, '02 Amber and Iron', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15510'),
(22011, '02 Before They Are Hanged', 'Abercrobie, Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14809'),
(22012, '02 Biggles In The Cruise Of The Condor', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14698'),
(22013, '02 Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14302'),
(22014, '02 Brothers In Arms', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14310'),
(22015, '02 Doom of the Darksword', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12581'),
(22016, '02 Dragons of a Lost Star', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12321'),
(22017, '02 Dragons of Winter Night', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12341'),
(22018, '02 Elven Star', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12102'),
(22019, '02 Flyte', 'Sage, Angie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11649'),
(22020, '02 Ill Met By Moonlight', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10362'),
(22021, '02 Into a Dark Realm', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10162'),
(22022, '02 King of the Murgos', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9674'),
(22023, '02 Legion Of Thunder', 'Nicholls, Stan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9500'),
(22024, '02 Magician: Master', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9128'),
(22025, '02 Midnight Falcon', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8905'),
(22026, '02 Moonscatter', 'Clayton, Jo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8746'),
(22027, '02 Murder In LaMut', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8653'),
(22028, '02 Noonshade', 'Barclay, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8380'),
(22029, '02 Oathbreakers', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8210'),
(22030, '02 Pattern', 'Parker, KJ', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7963'),
(22031, '02 People of Sparks', 'DuPrau, Jeanne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2727'),
(22032, '02 Post Captain', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series.  Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: ''Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.''  This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life.  He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey''s adventures in escaping from France and the debtors'' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7570'),
(22033, '02 Return of the Crimson Guard', 'Esslemont, Ian C', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7119'),
(22034, '02 Rise of a Merchant Prince', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6970'),
(22035, '02 River of Blue Fire', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7014'),
(22036, '02 Servant Of The Empire', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6564'),
(22037, '02 Shadowheart', 'Barclay, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6605'),
(22038, '02 Shadows Edge', 'Weeks, Brent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6623'),
(22039, '02 Shield of Thunder', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6526'),
(22040, '02 Ships of the Air', 'Wells, Margeret', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6364'),
(22041, '02 Sorcerer&#39;s Amulet', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6058'),
(22042, '02 Stone of Farewell', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5609'),
(22043, '02 Sun in Glory', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5338'),
(22044, '02 The Assasins', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9651'),
(22045, '02 The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4818'),
(22046, '02 The Blood King', 'Martin, Gail Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4864'),
(22047, '02 The Brothel in Rosenstrasse', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4769'),
(22048, '02 The Burning Bridge', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4799'),
(22049, '02 The Dark of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBest historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith.â€â€”Stephen King\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAction is Smithâ€™s game, and he is a master.â€_â€”The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by fighting, and to retrieve a consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerillas and hostile tribes - and one of his own men.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13481'),
(22050, '02 The Druid of Shannara', 'Brooks, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4287'),
(22051, '02 The Forge in the Forest', 'Rohan, Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3960'),
(22052, '02 The Good The Bad And The Undead', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3746'),
(22053, '02 The Hunt for Red October', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3590'),
(22054, '02 The King Beyond Gate', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3387'),
(22055, '02 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3327'),
(22056, '02 The Mermaids Madness', 'Hines, Jim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3009'),
(22057, '02 The Novice', 'Canavan, Trudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2794'),
(22058, '02 The Ruby Knight', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2426'),
(22059, '02 The Sailor On The Seas of Fate', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2343'),
(22060, '02 The Sea of Monsters', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2288'),
(22061, '02 The Swordsmans Oath', 'Mckenna, Juliet E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2062'),
(22062, '02 The Tower on the Rift', 'Irvine, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1837'),
(22063, '02 The Treasured One', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(22064, '02 The Vampire&#39;s Assistant', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Book 2 of The Saga of Darren Shan. A New York Times Bestselling Author. Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Then Darren joins the powerful vampire Mr. Crepsley as his assistant, and they return to the mysterious freak show. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von. As he struggles with his new life as a vampire''s assistant, Darren tries desperately to resist the temptation that sickens him . . . the one th that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling . . . the wolf-man is waiting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1774'),
(22065, '02 To Light A Candle', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(22066, '02 War of the Twins', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(22067, '03 - Reaper of Souls', 'Dan Abnett; Mike Lee - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n v1.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7300'),
(22068, '03 - Tripwire', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in Lee Child''s two previous thrillers,\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , Reacher is soon up to his neck in lethal trouble, this time involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of course), and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this is not a book by one of the new breed of U.S. thriller writers. Child prides himself on his ability, as an Englishman, to write American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility.\n  <em>\n   Tripwire\n  </em>\n  is no exception. Every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable.\n  <em>\n   --Barry Forshaw\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher, the hulking ex-soldier readers will remember from Child''s first two thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, can kill with his bare hands, and sports chest muscles thick enough to stop bullets. He''s actually a dynamo of a character, wily in an innocent sort of way, and the anchor to one of the best new series in thriller fiction. Here, Reacher is incognito, living the life of a drifter and digging swimming pools in Key West. When a PI from New York comes looking for him, and shortly afterwards turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher flies north and discovers that the instigator of the search is Leon Garber, his former army commanding officer. But Garber has died the day before Reacher arrives. As Reacher finds out from Jodie Jacob, Garner''s beautiful attorney daughter, Garber was helping an elderly couple to locate their son, who supposedly died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War. The military won''t confirm the death, however, or even classify the soldier as missing in action. Pursuing the search together, Reacher and Jacob narrowly escape murder attempts by a pair of dark-suited thugs who work for an evil corporate loan shark named "Hook" Hobie, who has a hideously disfigured face and a metal hook for a right hand. Hobie is harboring a terrible secret linking him to the couple''s vanished son, and he''ll kill anyone who tries to discover his diabolical past. A showdown between the two men is inevitable, and when it happens, it''s a beautAalmost as good as Child''s skillfully laid surprise ending and the crisp and original dialogue throughout. Reacher is a complex, contemplative brute whose aversion to social and material entanglements entail very peculiar habits and ideas. He never cleans his clothes, preferring to buy new ones (going to a dry cleaner implies a commitment to return); and he''s spellbinding whether kicking in doors or just kicking around a thought in his brain. Literary Guild featured alternate; feature film rights for Killing Floor and the character of Jack Reacher optioned by Mark Johnson/Polygram; rights to Jack Reacher series sold to 18 countries. (July)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(22069, '03 Alchymist', 'Irvine, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15653'),
(22070, '03 Beyond the Shadows', 'Weeks, Brent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14832'),
(22071, '03 Biggles of the Camel Squadron', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14707'),
(22072, '03 By Slanderous Tongues', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14324'),
(22073, '03 Changer&#39;s Moon', 'Clayton, Jo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14186'),
(22074, '03 Child Of Thunder', 'Reichert, Mickey Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14033'),
(22075, '03 Dark Haven', 'Martin, Gail Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13610'),
(22076, '03 Demon Lord of Karanda', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13161'),
(22077, '03 Demonstorm', 'Barclay, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13175'),
(22078, '03 Dragons of a Vanished Moon', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12324'),
(22079, '03 Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12332'),
(22080, '03 Equal Rites', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12025'),
(22081, '03 Every Which Way But Dead', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11978'),
(22082, '03 Fall of Kings', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11880'),
(22083, '03 Fire Sea', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11744'),
(22084, '03 H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed  it." ''Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press  Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and  smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the  distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive,  pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy  enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But  somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize  that could make him rich beyond his wildest  dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the  China Fleet... .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10920'),
(22085, '03 Hero of Ages', 'Sanderson, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3715'),
(22086, '03 Jimmy the Hand', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9866'),
(22087, '03 Last Argument Of Kings', 'Abercrobie, Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9491'),
(22088, '03 Memory', 'Parker, KJ', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8926'),
(22089, '03 Mistress of the Empire', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8758'),
(22090, '03 Moonraker', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8741'),
(22091, '03 Mountain of Black Glass', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8664'),
(22092, '03 Nightchild', 'Barclay, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8356'),
(22093, '03 OathBlood', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8208'),
(22094, '03 Physik', 'Sage, Angie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7612'),
(22095, '03 Prophet of Yonwood', 'DuPrau, Jeanne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2632'),
(22096, '03 Rage of a Demon King', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7277'),
(22097, '03 Ravenheart', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7338'),
(22098, '03 Sanctuary', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6890'),
(22099, '03 Scabard&#39;s Song', 'Hunter, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6781'),
(22100, '03 Silverthorn', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6399'),
(22101, '03 Tear of the Gods', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9654'),
(22102, '03 Test of the Twins', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5218'),
(22103, '03 The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4727'),
(22104, '03 The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4534'),
(22105, '03 The Crystal Gorge', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13702'),
(22106, '03 The Elf Queen of Shannara', 'Brooks, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4149'),
(22107, '03 The Gamblers Fortune', 'Mckenna, Juliet E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3951'),
(22108, '03 The Gate of the Gods', 'Wells, Margeret', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3964'),
(22109, '03 The Hammer of the Sun', 'Rohan, Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3718'),
(22110, '03 The High Lord', 'Canavan, Trudi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10615'),
(22111, '03 The Horse and His Boy', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3623'),
(22112, '03 The Icebound Land', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3610'),
(22113, '03 The Sapphire Rose', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2369'),
(22114, '03 The Silver Gryphon', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2243'),
(22115, '03 The Sound of Thunder', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army--and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland--and into the sights of his enemy''s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth Friedman, the only woman Sean can love, even though he shouldn''t. As Sean''s loyalties--to nation, man, and blood--are tested, a saga of duty and betrayal unfolds....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2195'),
(22116, '03 The Sword of The Dawn', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2054'),
(22117, '03 The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1973'),
(22118, '03 To Green Angel Tower Part 01', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(22119, '03 Triumph of the Darksword', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(22120, '03 Tunnels of Blood', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Darren, the vampire''s assistant, gets a taste of the city when he leaves the Cirque Du Freak with Evra the snake-boy and Mr. Crepsley. When corpses are discovered--corpses drained of blood-- Darren and Evra are compelled to hunt down whatever foul creature is committing such horrendous acts. Meanwhile, beneath the streets, evil stalks Darren and Evra, and all clues point to Mr. Crepsley. Can they escape, or are they doomed to perish in the tunnels of blood?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1041'),
(22121, '03 Warriors Of The Tempest', 'Nicholls, Stan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(22122, '03 Waylander', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(22123, '03 When Darkness Falls', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455');
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(22124, '04 - Running Blind', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren''t totally sure he''s not the killer they''re looking for, but believe that even if he isn''t, he''s smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they''ve got on the ex-MP, who''s starred in three previous Lee Child thrillers (__,\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  ), is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher''s inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of harm to the woman he loves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The killer''s victims have only one thing in common--all of them brought sexual harassment charges against their military superiors and all resigned from the army after winning their cases. The manner, if not the cause, of their deaths is gruesomely the same: they died in their own bathtubs, covered in gallons of camouflage paint, but they didn''t drown and they weren''t shot, strangled, poisoned, or attacked. Even the FBI forensic specialists can''t figure out why they seem to have gone willingly to their mysterious deaths. Reacher isn''t sure whether the killings are an elaborate cover-up for corruption involving stolen military hardware or the work of a maniac who''s smart enough to leave absolutely no clues behind. This compelling, iconic antihero dead-ends in a lot of alleys before he finally figures it out, but every one is worth exploring and the suspense doesn''t let up for a second. The ending will come as a complete surprise to even the most careful reader, and as Reacher strides off into the sunset, you''ll wonder what''s in store for him in his next adventure.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher, the wandering folk hero of Child''s superb line of thrillers (Tripwire, etc.), faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventure: who is the exceptionally crafty villain murdering women across the country, leaving the naked bodies in their bathtubs (which are filled with army camouflage green paint), escaping the scenes and leaving no trace of evidence? The corpses show no cause of death and Reacher''s sole clue is that all the victims thus far were sexually harassed while serving in the military. There''s got to be some sort of grand scheme behind the killings, but with no physical evidence, FBI agents bumble around until they finally question Reacher, a former military cop who handled each of the dead women''s harassment cases. After Reacher convinces investigators he''s innocent, theyAcuriouslyAask him to stay on as a case consultant. Reacher doesn''t like the ideaAhe''s too much of a lone wolfAbut he has little choice. The feds threaten him and his girlfriend, high-powered Manhattan attorney Jodie Jacob, with all sorts of legal entanglements if he doesn''t help. So Reacher joins the FBI team and immediately attacks the feds'' approach, which is based solely on profiling. Then he breaks out on his own, pursuing enigmatic theories and hunches that lead him to a showdown with a truly surprising killer in a tiny village outside Portland, Ore. Some of the concluding elements to Child''s fourth Reacher outingAhow the killer gains access to the victims'' homes, as well as the revelation of the elaborate MOAfall into place with disappointing convenience. Yet the book harbors two elements that separate it from the pack: a brain-teasing puzzle that gets put together piece by fascinating piece, and a central character with Robin Hood-like integrity and an engagingly eccentric approach to life.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6889'),
(22125, '04 - Warpsword', 'Dan Abnett; Mike Lee - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n v1.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(22126, '04 A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16110'),
(22127, '04 A Fistfull of Charms', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15990'),
(22128, '04 Aerie', 'Lackey, Mercedes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15683'),
(22129, '04 Biggles Flies Again', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14693'),
(22130, '04 Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13989'),
(22131, '04 Dark Ladys Chosen', 'Martin, Gail Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13616'),
(22132, '04 Diamond of Darkhold', 'DuPrau, Jeanne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4241'),
(22133, '04 Legacy of the Darksword', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9483'),
(22134, '04 Mort', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8786'),
(22135, '04 Prince Caspian', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7433'),
(22136, '04 Queste', 'Sage, Angie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7361'),
(22137, '04 Serpent Mage', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6550'),
(22138, '04 Shards of a Broken Crown', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6492'),
(22139, '04 Shout at the Devil', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _Wilbur Smith''s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In\n  <em>\n   SHOUT AT THE DEVIL\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization''s war..._\n  <br />\n  __\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A MAN ON HIS OWN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  They couldn''t be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O''Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn''t break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  A WOMAN IN LOVE\n </strong>\n <br />\n From the moment Rosa O''Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love forever--never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where O''Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fear--and everything to lose...\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALL\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival--against nature, man, and the devil himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  --_The _\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _ Post Book World_\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  "[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifying.... Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story\n </strong>\n ."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Orlando\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Sentinel_\n </strong>\n _ _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6398'),
(22140, '04 Sorceress of Darshiva', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6059'),
(22141, '04 Stormrider', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5479'),
(22142, '04 The Battle for Skandia', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4941'),
(22143, '04 The Lair Of Bones', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3352'),
(22144, '04 The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3409'),
(22145, '04 The Mauritius Command', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourth book in the series.  Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command -- until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore''s pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains -- Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny.  Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean, O''Brian''s attention to detail of eighteenth-century life ashore and at sea is meticulous. This tale is as beautifully written and as gripping as any in the series; it also stands on its own as a superlative work of fiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3120'),
(22146, '04 The Quest for Lost Heros', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2566'),
(22147, '04 The Runestaff', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2446'),
(22148, '04 The Second Generation', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2314'),
(22149, '04 The Talismans of Shannara', 'Brooks, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2086'),
(22150, '04 The Vanishing Tower', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(22151, '04 The Warriors Bond', 'Mckenna, Juliet E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1757'),
(22152, '04 The Way Between the Worlds', 'Irvine, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1636'),
(22153, '04 The Younger Gods', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(22154, '04 To Green Angel Tower Part 02', 'Williams, Tad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(22155, '04 Vampire Mountain', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the fourth book of the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain-the vampaneze have been there before them. Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren''s human side, or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain-Darren''s initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(22156, '05 - Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI--in fact, Reacher''s even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a bad character think twice about tangling with him. And he''s spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to operate in the gray zone if that''s what it takes to save the fair maiden, punish the bad guys, and right any other wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings.\n  <em>\n   Echo Burning\n  </em>\n  is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who''s so concerned about commitment to anything--a woman, possessions, a permanent address--that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he''s the kind of justice-seeking guy you''d want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can''t get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your old man.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reacher''s sympathetic, but he''s not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into beautiful Carmen Greer''s orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the husband who''s about to be released from jail and, according to Carmen, who''s about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that''s owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family, which despises Carmen because she''s Mexican and tolerates her only because she''s Sloop Greer''s wife and the mother of his child. The expected bloodshed ensues, but it''s Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher''s convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after other evidence comes to light that suggests there''s more--and less--to her unhappy tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it''s your first encounter with Child''s work, be sure to check out his backlist--\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  , etc.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few days, and Carmen fears he will start beating her again. Reacher declines, but agrees to protect Carmen, hiring on as a cowhand at the couple''s remote ranch in Echo County, Tex., far outside Pecos. Within hours of Sloop''s return from prison, where he was serving time for tax evasion, violence strikes. But the victim isn''t Carmen; it''s Sloop. He''s found shot dead, and Carmen is arrested. End of story? Hardly. Most wandering heroes would move on at this point, but not Reacher. He begins taking a hard look at both Carmen and Sloop''s past, as well as local history. What he finds ugly secrets, human suffering, political evil is repulsive to a man who''s been around as many blocks as Reacher. Child (Running Blind; Tripwire) has developed a fine franchise with Reacher, who comes from the Robin Hood mold, but has enough personal quirks and moments of unusual insight to separate him from the pack. Set in a literally and figuratively smoldering landscape, this is a clean, infectious story that taps deeply into two troubling human emotions the psychology of abuse and the desire for retribution. Author tour. (July)Forecast: Reacher''s fifth adventure a BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection is among his strongest, and should hook even those who haven''t read the other novels in the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12249'),
(22157, '05 - Lord of Ruin', 'Dan Abnett; Mike Lee - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n v1.1\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9375'),
(22158, '05 Biggles Learns To Fly', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14703'),
(22159, '05 Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew.  By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O''Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack''s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13095'),
(22160, '05 Dragons of Summer Flame', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12339'),
(22161, '05 For A Few Demons More', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11698'),
(22162, '05 Gold mine', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11106'),
(22163, '05 Prince of the Blood', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7446'),
(22164, '05 Sons of the Oak', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6201'),
(22165, '05 Sourcery', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6094'),
(22166, '05 Syren', 'Sage, Angie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5250'),
(22167, '05 The Assassins Edge', 'Mckenna, Juliet E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15019'),
(22168, '05 The Bane Of The Black Sword', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4926'),
(22169, '05 The Hand of Chaos', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3726'),
(22170, '05 The Last Olympian', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3276'),
(22171, '05 The poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A special promotional edition of The Poet including a first chapter of the new Michael Connelly thriller, The Narrows to be published in May 2004. With a new introduction by Stephen King."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2678'),
(22172, '05 The Seeress of Kell', 'Eddings, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2360'),
(22173, '05 The Sorcerer of the North', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2172'),
(22174, '05 The Sum of All Fears', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2097'),
(22175, '05 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1716'),
(22176, '05 Trials of Death', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you. Darren Shan must pass five fearsome Trials to prove himself to the vampires clan - or face the stakes of the Hall of Death. But Vampire Mountain holds hidden threats. Sinister, potent forces are gathering in the darkness. In this nightmarish world of bloodshed and betrayal, death may be a blessing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(22177, '05 Waylander II In The Realm of the Wolf', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(22178, '06 - Without Fail', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What better way to test the security surrounding a U.S. vice president-elect than to hire someone skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection? Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher in\n  <em>\n   Without Fail\n  </em>\n  . This restive, blunt-edged ex-military cop must also determine whether recent threats against VP-to-be Senator Brook Armstrong are legitimate or are primarily intended to embarrass the perfectionist head of Armstrong''s new Secret Service detail, M.E. Froelich, who happens to have been a girlfriend of Reacher''s late brother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If\n  <em>\n   Without Fail\n  </em>\n  lacks the emotional urgency of Lee Child''s previous novel, __, it still barely lets the reader catch a decent breath between plot crests. Jack and his fetching yet formidable colleague, Frances Neagley, must figure out how warning letters to Armstrong are being delivered into the Secret Service sanctum, whether the senator is at risk because of something political or personal, and who staged the demonstration murders of two innocent men also named Armstrong, first initial\n  <em>\n   B\n  </em>\n  . Unfortunately, a few twists (including the source of a thumbprint applied to the threats against Armstrong) can be figured out in advance, and the story is light on character development. A tiny breach in Reacher''s reclusive carapace opens as Froelich transfers the love she once felt for his brother toward him, and there are suggestions that Neagley may have depths of feeling just waiting to be plumbed. However, other players are mere ciphers--the sacrificial victims of an action-oriented yarn.\n  <em>\n   --J. Kingston Pierce\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sixth time''s a charm for thriller meister Child, whose latest escapade starring ex-military cop Jack Reacher is handily his most accomplished and most compelling to date. The suspense-laden plot kicks off with U.S. Secret Service agent M.E. Froelich telling Reacher: "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States." V-p-elect Brook Armstrong has received a series of anonymous death threats, and Froelich needs to uncover their source and ascertain the effectiveness of Armstrong''s security detail. Reacher agrees to masquerade as an assassin because he can''t resist a challenge and because Froelich had loved his older brother, Joe, a Secret Service colleague killed in a botched operation. As Reacher pieces together an increasingly frustrating puzzle, Child ratchets up the excitement with several breathtaking set pieces, including a Thanksgiving dinner for D.C.''s homeless that turns deadly, a jaw-dropping coup de thâ€šÆ’tre and a slam-bang finale in Wyoming''s mountains. He even extracts tension from mundane events, as when Reacher searches for clues on a security video of an office cleaning crew. The novel''s detailed insider''s view of political skullduggery is certain to intrigue readers, and the various characters'' relationships, handled with careful restraint, provide an added layer the growing attachment between Froelich and Reacher; both characters'' recollections of Joe; Reacher''s regard for Frances Neagley, a former colleague whom he calls in for help. And then there''s Reacher himself, the stolid, flawed man''s man who gives no quarter on any level. Indeed, the novel''s final line serves as a prâ€šcis of this quietly fascinating character: "He headed west for the Port Authority and a bus out of town." This Child''s play will be a tough act to follow.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(22179, '06 Biggles And The Black Peril', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14691'),
(22180, '06 Dr. No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming''s original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent''s early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today''s standards. Still, they can be fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  M called this case a soft option. Bond can''t quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing. But they are both part of the empire of Dr No. His obsession is power, and his gifts are pain-shaped.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12416'),
(22181, '06 For Love of Evil', 'Anthony, Piers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11529'),
(22182, '06 Into the Labyrinth', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10181'),
(22183, '06 The Diamond Hunters', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur Smith leaves fans feeling that they sailed alongside Sir Hal because the geography and the era appear so genuine. This is what makes a Smith book worth reading."\n  <br />\n  --_Midwest Book Review _on\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_ on\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...Swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. This latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."\n  <br />\n  --_The Orlando Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rich, compelling look back in time when history and myth intermingled."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle_ on\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Throughout\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , as in all Wilbur Smith novels, the plot twists and turns with constant surprises...This old-fashioned adventure novel keeps the reader enthralled all the way to its very exciting conclusion."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Van Der Byl Diamond Company is willed by its founder to his son Benedict, it turns out to be a bequest of hatred.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13040'),
(22184, '06 The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4075'),
(22185, '06 The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing  book, which towers over its current rivals in  the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s  longboat."''Times Literary Supplement\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3986'),
(22186, '06 The Kings Buccaneer', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3398'),
(22187, '06 The Outlaw Demon Wails', 'Harrison, Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2777'),
(22188, '06 The Siege of Macindaw', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2215'),
(22189, '06 The Silver Chair', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2239'),
(22190, '06 The Storm Bringer', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2038'),
(22191, '06 The Vampire Prince', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan-Darren Shan, the Vampire''s Assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince? Darren''s initiation on Vampire Mountain draws to a stunning, bloody conclusion-but the Saga continues ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1771'),
(22192, '06 Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(22193, '06 Worldbinder', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(22194, '07 - Persuader', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child''s six\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The promo copy on the ARC of Child''s new thriller proclaims, "We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you''re probably not reading-yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised by Child''s new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane, extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter''s last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family''s isolated, heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard. Richard''s father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend who killed Reacher''s lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he''d killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect he''s not who he seems. But then little in Child''s novels is as it at first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line. What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher''s narration-a unique mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan who has yet to read Lee Child should start now.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7662'),
(22195, '07 Biggles Flies East', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14708'),
(22196, '07 Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor''s killer. In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s. As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14648'),
(22197, '07 Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13205'),
(22198, '07 Elric At The End of Time', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12182'),
(22199, '07 Eraks Ransom', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12035'),
(22200, '07 Goldfinger', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11134'),
(22201, '07 Hunters of the Dusk', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The pursuit begins....Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, leaves Vampire Mountain on a life or death mission. As part of an elite force, Darren searches the world for the Vampaneze Lord. But the road ahead is long and dangerous-and lined with the bodies of the damned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10466'),
(22202, '07 Legend of Deathwalker', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9494'),
(22203, '07 Pyramids', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7444'),
(22204, '07 The Last Battle', 'Lewis, CS', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3384'),
(22205, '07 The Seventh Gate', 'Weis &amp; Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2246'),
(22206, '07 The Sunbird', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one."--_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend milions--and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a seige of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2012'),
(22207, '07 The Surgeon&#39;s Mate', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Aubrey and Maturin are ordered home by desptach vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and  dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry  humor make O''Brian''s nautical adventure a  splendid treat."Ã¢Â€Â”Publishers Weekly  Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O''Brian has written. .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2018'),
(22208, '08 - The Enemy', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest entry in what is arguably today''s finest thriller series (_Persuader_, etc.) flashes back to series hero Jack Reacher''s days in the military police. It''s New Year''s Eve 1990, the Soviet Union is about to collapse and the military is on tenterhooks, wondering how a changed globe will affect budgets and unit strengths, when the body of a two-star general is found in a motel near Fort Bird, N.C. Investigating is Reacher, 29, an MP major who''s just been transferred from PanamaÃ¢â‚¬"one of dozens of top MPs swapped into new posts on the same day, he later learns. Missing from the general''s effects is a briefcase that, it''s also revealed later, contained an agenda for a secret meeting of army honchos connected to an armored division. Then the general''s wife is found bludgeoned to death at home and, soon after, a third body surfaces, of a slain gay Delta Force soldier whose murder contains clues pointing to Reacher as culprit. With Summer, a young black female lieutenant MP at his side (and, eventually, in his bed), Reacher digs deep, in his usual brilliant and violent way, butting against villainous superior officers, part of a grand conspiracy, as well as against members of Delta Force who think that Reacher killed their colleague. Unlike recent Reacher tales, the novel is as much mystery as thriller, as Reacher and Summer sift for and put together clues, but the tension is nonstop. There''s a strong personal element as well, involving Reacher''s relationship with his brother and dying mother, which will make the novel of particular interest to longstanding fans of the series. Textured, swift and told in Reacher''s inimitably tough voice, this title will hit lists and will convince those who still need convincing that Child has few peers in thrillerdom.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Child continues to knock out his action sequences with flair, but in\n  <em>\n   The Enemy\n  </em>\n  , he takes time to depict the piecemeal construction of a criminal investigation. He also spends energy on the heroâ€™s relationship with his mother and brother, an effort that further fills in Reacherâ€™s background and will surely please long-time fans of the character. Itâ€™s true, Child throws in some clichÃ©d elements to this otherwise first-rate story. But most reviewers easily looked past that flaw. â€œAfter reading these books for so many years, Iâ€™m not easily kept in the dark,â€ claims the\n  <em>\n   St. Petersburg Times\n  </em>\n  , â€œso itâ€™s always fun when Iâ€™m still guessing toward the end.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4105'),
(22209, '08 Allies of the Night', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Darren Shan, Vampire Prince and vampaneze killer, is obliged to attend school! But homework is the least of Darren''s problems. Bodies are piling up. Time is running out. And the past is catching up with the hunters fast!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15555'),
(22210, '08 Biggles Hits The Trail', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14696'),
(22211, '08 Chaosbound', 'Farland, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14106'),
(22212, '08 Eagle in the Sky', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.'' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country''s war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart...''Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared'' - "The Times."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12255'),
(22213, '08 Executive orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11911'),
(22214, '08 For Your Eyes Only', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11559'),
(22215, '08 Guards! Guards!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11014'),
(22216, '08 The Fortress of the Pearl', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3985'),
(22217, '08 The Ionian Mission', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action.\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighth book in the series.  Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days.  A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship, and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds, come triumphantly into their own. The book ends with as fierce and thrilling an action as any in this magnificent series of novels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3445'),
(22218, '08 The Kings of Clonmel', 'Flanagan, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3403'),
(22219, '08 Under a Velvet Cloak', 'Anthony, Piers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/935');
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(22220, '09 - One Shot', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The final sentence of Child''s ninth suspenser (after\n  <em>\n   The Enemy\n  </em>\n  )â€”"Then he could buy a pair of shoes and be just about anywhere before the sun went down"â€”is quintessential Jack Reacher, the rugged ex-army cop who practically defines the word "loner" and kicks ass with the best of ''em. In the book''s gripping opening, five people are killed when a shooter opens fire in a small unnamed Indiana city. But when ex-infantry specialist James Barr is apprehended, he refuses to talk, saying only, "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher''s already en route; having seen a news story on the shooting, he heads to the scene with disturbing news of his own: "[Barr''s] done this before. And once was enough." Nothing is what it seems in the riveting puzzle, as vivid set pieces and rapid-fire dialogue culminate in a slam-bang showdown in the villains'' lair. (And what villains: a quintet of Russian Ã©migrÃ©s, the stuff of everybody''s worst nightmares, led by a wily 80-year-old who makes Freddy Krueger look like Little Lord Fauntleroy.) As usual, Child makes the most of Reacher''s dry wit, cut-to-the-chase psychology and stubborn taciturnityâ€”in short, this is a vintage double play for author and leading man.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Child''s new novel begins when a sniper methodically kills five office workers with six quick shots and then disappears. But in a Child thriller the expectations aroused by one page are sure to be dashed on the next; unravelling and re-tangling violent narratives is the writer''s specialty. This is the ninth of his books to feature the drifter-investigator Jack Reacherâ€”a hybrid of John D. MacDonald''s Travis McGee and Mickey Spillane''s Mike Hammerâ€”and it certainly ranks in the first tier of the series. There is considerable mayhem, lovingly described ("A long time ago the bones in his spine had been methodically cracked with an engineer''s ball-peen hammer"), and there''s a good cast, including suspicious law-enforcement personnel and an elderly Russian who is missing most of his fingers. Before it''s all, vividly, over, one feels confident that Reacherâ€”smart, rootless, and braveâ€”will not only get his man but make him suffer.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2005\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8162'),
(22221, '09 Eric', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12054'),
(22222, '09 Killers of the Dawn', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob, Darren Shan the Vampire Prince is public enemy number one! With their enemies clamoring for blood, the vampires are ready for a deadly battle. Is this the end for Darren and his allies? Includes a book preview and book descriptions. SUMMARY: Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob. With their enemies clamoring for blood, the vampires prepare for a deadly battle. Is this the end for Darren and his allies?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9733'),
(22223, '09 Rainbow Six', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7298'),
(22224, '09 The Eye of the Tiger', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set amid the exotic world of deep-sea diving in the tropics, The Eye of the Tiger is a tale of adventure and romance told with rare humour and excitement. ''I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog''s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner''s blade of the dorsal fin.'' Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11827'),
(22225, '09 Thunderball', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(22226, '09 Treason&#39;s Harbour', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the ninth book in the series.  Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O''Brian allows his characters to develop with experience. The Jack Aubrey of Treason''s Harbour has a record of successes equal to that of the most brilliant of Nelson''s band of brothers, and he is no less formidable or decisive in action or strategy. But he is wiser, kinder, gentler too.  Much of the plot of Treason''s Harbour depends on intelligence and counter-intelligence, a field in which Aubrey''s friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clearer insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Nelson''s time than we would ever obtain seeing things through their own eyes.  There is plenty of action and excitement in this novel, but it is the atmosphere of a Malta crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are up to, and wondering whether the war will end before their turn comes for prize money and for fame, that is here so freshly and vividly conveyed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(22227, '09 Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Void of Moon The Emotional Journey Through Marital Separation Void of Moon, The Emotional Journey Through Marital Separation is based on the author, Denise Falcone''s, personal journey and the experiences of many women through this strange and unfamiliar time. Each chapter or stage in this process deals with a single emotion or an important effect that all women must work through before their journey is complete. The author''s personal interpretations give voice to each emotion so women can listen and recognize the feeling as it resonates within them. Once a connection to a feeling is established, a woman is not as alone in this process as she thought she was. From there, she can accept her feeling, experience it, and hopefully move through it. We all have emotions and it is this focus on the emotions that gives this book a huge audience. Void of Moon helps to open the way for women who are separating from their spouses, emotionally and/or physically with encouragement, guidance, and company on their path, while leading them gently in the direction of greater sanity and peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(22228, '09 Waylander III Hero in the Shadows', 'Gemmel, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(22229, '1', 'The Source', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17378'),
(22230, '1 - The False Mirror', 'The False Mirror', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4076'),
(22231, '1_A time to kill', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client''s life... and then his own...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15859'),
(22232, '1_Berlin Game', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it''s up to Bernard Samson, once active in the field but now anchored to a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But soon, Samson is confronted with evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues. And to find out who it is, he must sift through layers of lies and follow a web of treachery from London to Berlin until hero and traitor collide."Each scene in this story is so adroitly realized that it creates its own suspense."NEWSWEEK\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The smoothness with which narrator Robert Whitfield handles the wide array of foreign accents adds an international flavor to this suspenseful espionage thriller. One of Britain''s most valued and productive spies wants to defect to the West after decades of service. He has requested that Bernard Samson, a veteran British intelligence agent who now enjoys the safety of his senior level desk job, help him escape. Samson is obliged to undertake the project since the spy saved his life when he was a field agent in East Berlin long ago. When Samson discovers evidence that the KGB has infiltrated British intelligence, he knows he must move quickly to return to Cold War-era East Berlin before his colleague''s identity is exposed. Deighton''s (Spy Sinker, Audio Reviews, LJ 4/15/95) dignified narrative style gives the program a properness that is characteristic of high-level government proceedings. A worthwhile purchase for most public libraries.?Mark P. Tierney, Charles Cty. Pub. Schs., Waldorf, MD\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Deighton''s best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy'' Observer ''Sheer consistent rightness page after page after page'' The Times ''Virtuoso top level performance'' Guardian ''A masterly performance, much the best thing Deighton has done since SS-GB'' Sunday Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14873'),
(22233, '1_Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bioengineers clone 15 species of dinosaurs and establish an island preserve where tourists can view the large reptiles; chaos ensues when a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, and it''s up to two kids, a safari guide and a paleontologist to set things right. PW called this, "A scary, creepy, mesmerizing technothriller with teeth."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9766'),
(22234, '1_The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver. Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron''s helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the ''Consortium'', a black-ops British government outfit, or is it? Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the identity of the target''s female companion, he knows one thing - his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him. Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and "The Accident Man" is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5215'),
(22235, '1_The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4498'),
(22236, '1: Year Zero Man', 'Year zero', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16696'),
(22237, '10 - Aftermath', 'Aspirin, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15726'),
(22238, '10 - The Hard Way', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employerâ€™s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: Heâ€™s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3739'),
(22239, '10 Cry Wolf', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur smith is a master."--_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith is a captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome", Italy''s army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13693'),
(22240, 'The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy', 'Pamela Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We constantly hear that each of us will have multiple careers in a lifetime. The trick is to know how to switch from one to another. No one understands the process better than Pamela Mitchell, and she shares her secrets here in the\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n -_Fast Company_, "The Best Books for Business Owners 2010"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change."\n <br />\n -_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although there are at least 1,300 career coaches nationwide -- and countless books on career change -- Mitchell is among a handful who are pioneering a new spin on the concept: lifestyle reinvention.''"\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Use Mitchell''s 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."\n <br />\n -_Palm Beach Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mitchell''s advice is spot on."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn''t promise it''ll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."\n <br />\n -_Harvard Business Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n "After reading Pamela Mitchell''s book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."\n <br />\n -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor\n <em>\n  INC. Magazine\n </em>\n , author of\n <em>\n  The Knack\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Move over\n <em>\n  What Color is Your Parachute?\n </em>\n --this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"\n <br />\n -Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick &amp; Struggles\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."\n <br />\n -Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Six Figure Women\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Overcoming Underearning(r)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n doesn''t make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."\n <br />\n -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  Stop Sabotaging Your Career\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nice Girls Don''t Get the Corner Office\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today, career reinvention is the new-and only-form of job security.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Until recently, most people expected to have one career with maybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts advise us to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple\n <em>\n  industry\n </em>\n changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transfer and repurpose your skills in a completely new direction.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can be adapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides the tools to help you navigate the full art of career change.\n</p>\n<p>\n With ten clear, insightful, and practical "laws," you can:\n <br />\n * Market your skills to anyone\n <br />\n * Transition seamlessly from one industry to another\n <br />\n * Find fulfillment in a career that fits you\n</p>\n<p>\n From finding a vision to creating your action plan,\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n walks you through your own path to a new career, with success stories, workbook exercises, and actionable steps to start your new life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5180'),
(22241, '10 LB Penalty', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis''s long and celebrated career (he''s won three\n <em>\n  10 Lb. Penalty\n </em>\n Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben''s relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben''s expulsion from Vivian Durridge''s stables; he''s removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father''s machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father''s wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George''s campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George''s life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Francis''s lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author''s best fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More murderous horseplay from the prolific Francis.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9563'),
(22242, '10 Moving Pictures', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8676'),
(22243, '10 The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.  In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier.  Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade.  Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins.  Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB?  Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right.   For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions.  If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same.  If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4960'),
(22244, '10 The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O''Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack''s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters -- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey''s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4090'),
(22245, '10 The Lake of Souls', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "If you step through after Harkat, you might never come back. Is your friend worth such an enormous risk?" Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey? And what awaits them in the murky waters of the dead? Be careful what you fish for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3363'),
(22246, '10_Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they''ve discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can''t sing, he can''t dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingÃ©nue from a little town (where else?) you''ve probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn''t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood''s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It''s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they''re definitely not ready for their close-up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8678'),
(22247, '10_The Testament', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1985'),
(22248, '10_The_Dreamthief&#39;s_Daughter', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(22249, '100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It', 'David Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one''s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa\n </em>\n , y\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones\n </em>\n . Es psicÃ³logo y cientÃ­fico social, y enseÃ±a en la Florida Atlantic University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(22250, '1001 Low-Carb Recipes', 'Carpender, Dana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(22251, '101 Things to Do with Ramen Noodles', 'Toni Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles. Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup, Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo, Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Garlic Noodle Saute, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, Corny Cheese Noodles, and more! As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several years after graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni currently lives in Walden, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(22252, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(22253, '11 - Bad luck &amp; trouble', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is the perfect antihero--tough as nails, but with a brain and a conscience to match. He''s able to see what most miss and is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Each book in Lee Child''s smart, addictive series (_The New York Times_ has referred to it as "pure escapist gold") follows the wandering warrior on a new adventure, making it easy to start with any book, including his latest gem,\n  <em>\n   Bad Luck and Trouble\n  </em>\n  . However, be forewarned...once you meet Jack Reacher, you''ll be hooked, so be prepared to\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Who Is Jack Reacher? A Video from Lee Child\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Note from Lee Child\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years ago I was on a book tour, promoting that year''s new Jack Reacher novel,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then suddenly I remembered--it was ten years to the day since I had been fired from my previous job. That was why and how I had become a writer. That night in Illinois was a ten-year anniversary of a different sort, somewhat bittersweet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And ten is a nice round number. So I started thinking about my old colleagues. My workmates, my buddies. We had been through a lot together. I started to wonder where they all were now. What were they doing? Were they doing well, or struggling? Were they happy? What did they look like now? Pretty soon I was into full-on nostalgia mode. Ten-year anniversaries can do that to a person. I think we all share those kind of feelings, about high school, or college, or old jobs we''ve quit, or old towns we''ve moved away from.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I decided to make this year''s Jack Reacher book about a reunion. I decided to throw him back among a bunch of old colleagues that he hadn''t seen for ten years, people that he loved fiercely and respected deeply. Regular Reacher readers will know that he''s a pretty self-confident guy, but I wanted him to wobble just a little this time, to compare his choices with theirs, to measure himself against them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The renewed get-together isn''t Reacher''s own choice, though. And it''s not a standard-issue reunion, either. Something very bad has happened, and one of his old team-members from the army contacts him, by an ingenious method (it''s hard to track Reacher down). She gives him the bad news, and asks him to do something about it. He says, "Of course I''ll do something about it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No," his friend says. "I mean, I want you to put the old unit back together."\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s an irresistible invitation. Wouldn''t we all like to do that, sometimes?\n  <em>\n   --Lee Child\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Secrets of the Series: A Q&amp;A with Lee Child\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Why do you think readers keep coming back to your novels?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: Jack Reacher. Reacher is a drifter and a loner with a strong sense of justice. He shows up, he acts, he moves on. He''s the type of hero who has a long literary history. Robin Hood, the Lone Ranger, Aragorn from\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  , Jack Reacher--they''re all part of the same heroic family. Reacher just ratchets it up a notch. Maybe more than a notch. Why is he so appealing? Most often people say to me it''s his sense of justice; he will do the right thing. Even though there is no reward in it for him, even though there is often a high cost to be paid by him, he will always try to do the right thing and people find that reassuring in todayâ€™s world when not too many people are doing the right thing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Jack Reacher gets compared to James Bond, Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne, each of whom now has a "face." In a movie, which actor do you think could fill Reacher''s shoes?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  That''s the toughest question. The thing about Reacher is he''s huge; heâ€™s 6''5" tall and about 250 pounds. There arenâ€™t any actors that size--actors tend to be small. So we aren''t going to find a physical facsimile for Reacher because there aren''t any. We have to find someone who is capable of looking big on the screen. Many people have said to me a young Clint Eastwood would have been perfect--we need someone like that who has the vibe of a big intimidating man. Hopefully there will be somebody available like that. It''s also a question of finding somebody ready to sign up for more than one movie. They want to make a franchise, minimum of three, and that makes it a little bit harder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What research is involved in writing one of your stories?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My research is all kind of backwards. I don''t go to the public library for three months and take notes in advance; instead my best research is by remembering and adapting. I read, travel, and talk to people just for the fun of it, filing away these interesting little snippets to the back of my mind and eventually they float to the surface and get used. The problem is, I approach writing the book with the same excitement and impatience that I hope the reader is going to feel about reading it. But even so, I need a certain measure of technical intrigue in the story. There is specific research I have to do as I go along, anything that''s a small detail; a car, a gun, a type of bullet. I will check that out at the time. But, that''s what I call the detail--the broad stuff is the stuff I already know.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Meet Jack Reacher\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of bestseller Child''s winning 11th Jack Reacher adventure (after\n  <em>\n   The Hard Way\n  </em>\n  ), the bad guys unceremoniously dump Calvin Franz, a former MP, from a Bell 222 helicopter "[t]hree thousand feet above the [California] desert floor." Trouble is, Franz was a member of the army''s special investigation unit headed by Reacherâ€”a one-time military cop who left the service to become a solitary drifter par excellence. A former colleague sends Reacher a coded SOS; the two rendezvous in L.A. and the game''s afoot. More members of the band get back together, only to discover that Franz isn''t the group''s only casualty. As usual in Reacher''s capers, practically nothing is what it seems, and the meticulously detailed route to the truth proves especially engrossing thanks to the joint efforts of this band of brothers (and two sisters). The author carefully delineates Reacher''s erstwhile colleagues, their smart-ass banter masking an unspoken affection. The villains'' comeuppance, a riveting eye-for-an-eye battle scene (hint: helicopter), is one of Child''s more satisfying finales.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14935'),
(22254, '11 - Uneasy Alliances', 'Uneasy Alliances', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(22255, '11 A Sparrow Falls', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him, and as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead''. From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean''s son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15785'),
(22256, '11 City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14079'),
(22257, '11 Lord of the Shadows', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Darren Shan is going home--and his world is going to hell. Old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9242'),
(22258, '11 On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10006'),
(22259, '11 Reaper Man', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7295'),
(22260, '11 Red Rabbit', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7234'),
(22261, '11 The Reverse Of The Medal', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Returning from his duties protecting whalers off South America, Jack Aubrey is persuaded to make investments in the city. It is the first step into the half-worlds of the London criminal underworld and of government espionage.\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "An overwhelming, outstanding  novel...!"Ã¢Â€Â”Irish Times  Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionageÃ¢Â€Â”the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey''s humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O''Brian''s readers have come to expect. .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(22262, '11 The Skrayling Tree', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2116'),
(22263, '11_Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH''s demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7297'),
(22264, '11_The Bretheren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9504'),
(22265, '12 - Nothing to Lose', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of bestseller Child''s solid 12th Jack Reacher novel (after\n  <em>\n   Bad Luck and Trouble\n  </em>\n  ), the ex-military policeman hitchhikes into Colorado, where he finds himself crossing the metaphorical and physical line that divides the small towns of Hope and Despair. Despair lives up to its name; all Reacher wants is a cup of coffee, but what he gets is attacked by four thugs and thrown in jail on a vagrancy charge. After he''s kicked out of town, Reacher reacts in his usual mannerâ€”he goes back and whips everybody''s butt and busts up the town''s police force. In the process, he discovers, with the help of a good-looking lady cop from Hope, that a nearby metal processing plant is part of a plan that involves the war in Iraq and an apocalyptic sect bent on ushering in the end-time. With his powerful sense of justice, dogged determination and the physical and mental skills to overcome what to most would be overwhelming odds, Jack Reacher makes an irresistible modern knight-errant.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Jake Reacher only rents rooms one night at a time, confirming his â€œabsolute freedom to move on.â€ About the only thing sure to convince Reacher to stick around is someone telling him he has to leave. Thatâ€™s what happens when the former military policeman turned inveterate loner stops for a cup of coffee in an aptly named company town called Despair, Colorado. Strangers arenâ€™t allowed in Despair, heâ€™s told, and two cops arrive to drive him out to the city limits. You can run Reacher out of town, maybe, but you sure as hell canâ€™t keep him out. Forming an unlikely alliance with a female cop in the neighboring town thatâ€™s calledâ€”you guessed itâ€”Hope, Reacher sneaks back to Despair and finds all manner of strange goings-on: the creepy burg is run by a megalomaniac entrepreneur who is using his metal-salvage business for something definitely snarky. But what? Reacher finds the answers, of course, but to do so, he pretty much has to go up against the whole damn town. What is it that makes these action-fantasies so satisfying? Yes, there is something of the cartoon superhero in Reacherâ€™s steel-trap mind and body, but the action is so grounded in everyday details that instead of laughing it all off as silly, we find ourselves responding on a deeply emotional, archetypal level. We all feel as if the whole town is against us sometimes; Reacher lets us experience what it would be like, just once, to slap every last one of the fools aligned against us upside the head and then, pausing only to pack our toothbrush, hit the highway. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8297'),
(22266, '12 Chasing the dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life. SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14182');
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(22267, '12 Hungry As The Sea', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One of the world''s most popular and prolific adventure writers."--_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith joins the ranks as one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor''s edge between human courage and nature''s wrath. In\n  <em>\n   Hungry As The Sea\n  </em>\n  , this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the_ Golden Adventurer _before a competitor and a violent storm-- to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that''s when the real danger will begin...\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10440'),
(22268, '12 Sons of Destiny', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Time seemed to collapse... There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach... Steve crowed, "Now I have you! Now you''re gonna die!"Dead if he loses - damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his archenemy, Steve Leopard. One of them will die. The other will become the Lord of the Shadows - and destroy the world.Is the future written, or can Darren trick destiny?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6196'),
(22269, '12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe first edition of this book (published in 2000) was excellent. The second edition is\n  <em>\n   masterfully outstanding.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <br />\n  â€”From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensational! The why and how of a raw-foods lifestyle in a nutshell. A must-read for those who want more vitality, happiness, and success in their lives.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Victor M. Vieira, DC, fellow of the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous book full of useful information for people seeking a better understanding of the relationship between nutritional factors and optimal health. Victoria Boutenko asks probing questions and searches every avenue that can lead to new answers. Her conclusions are remarkable, often surprising, and always illuminating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Melvyn L. Iscove, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImagine what would happen in a society wherein people would take responsibility for their own health and wellness. Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s book provides the basis for this healthier shift in our thinking and daily lifestyle.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Jeannette Vos, EdD, co-author of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â and\n  <em>\n   The New Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor those new to Boutenko, this is a great introduction to her ideas, methods and life experiences, the latter of which includes the inspiring account of how she healed her families illnesses through healthful eating and exercise.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Spiritualitea.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  is magnificent! If you have ever attempted to incorporate raw/living foods into your diet to any degree, and hit the wall of resistance, you absolutely must read this bookâ€¦ Victoriaâ€™s 12-Step outline, which is very loosely derived from her personal research into AA and OA, has helped countless people rise above the struggle of changing behavior, and into an empowered state of raw consciousness.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Reader Views_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-lawâ€™s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who donâ€™t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5630'),
(22270, '12 Teeth of the Tiger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1935'),
(22271, '12 The Letter Of Marque', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the twelfth book in the series.  Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship''s surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a ''private man-of-war'' -- a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d''etre, whose loss he so much regrets. Around these simple, ostensibly familar elements Patrick O''Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once more, in a tale full of human feeling and rarely matched in its drama.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3261'),
(22272, '12_A Painted House', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With A Painted House, however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It''s harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it''s backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice." What''s more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. At this point--with secrets, lies, and at least one knife fight in the offing--the plot begins to take on that familiar, Grisham-style momentum. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in A Painted House to the author''s evocation of time and place. This is, after all, the scene of his boyhood, and Grisham waxes nostalgic without ever succumbing to deep-fried sentimentality. Meanwhile, his account of Luke''s Baptist upbringing occasions some sly (and telling) humor: I''d been taught in Sunday school from the day I could walk that lying would send you straight to hell. No detours. No second chances. Straight into the fiery pit, where Satan was waiting with the likes of Hitler and Judas Iscariot and General Grant. Thou shalt not bear false witness, which, of course, didn''t sound exactly like a strict prohibition against lying, but that was the way the Baptists interpreted it. Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for his next book, is anybody''s guess. But A Painted House suggests that he''s perfectly capable of telling an involving story with nary a subpoena in sight. --James Marcus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15930'),
(22273, '12_Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills--which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it''s up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn''t marry the Prince.But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who''ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"--even if it means destroying a kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(22274, 'The 120 Days of Sodom', 'Marquis De Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ...this astonishing new version renders the previous translation null-and-void...â€ -- Professor Stephen Barber, CalArts\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book that dominates all books.â€ -- Georges Bataille\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript''s loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5193'),
(22275, '1222', 'Anne Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(22276, '13 - Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isnâ€™t.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice--and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller Lee Child.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Markâ€™s plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tellâ€“and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: Theyâ€™re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, itâ€™s a mystery with only one answerâ€“the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive Essay: Lee Child on\n   <em>\n    Gone Tomorrow\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  My career as a writer has been longer than some and shorter than others, but it happens to span the internet era more or less exactly. My first book,\n </p>\n <p>\n  A year or so later I actually got e-mail, and a year or so after that I got a web site, and a couple of years after that I got broadband, and over the following few years I got into the habit of starting the day internet surfing, reading the news and the gossip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it is not until now that I can say that one of my books--the thirteenth Reacher thriller,\n  <em>\n   Gone Tomorrow\n  </em>\n  --is truly and exclusively a product of the internet age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I started the surfing years in a sensible, structured manner, but I eventually learned that the best stuff comes randomly. I started to follow links on a whim, bouncing from place to place, Googling other peopleâ€™s references, following the maze, looking for rabbit holes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I found an anonymous police blog from Britain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was apparently hosted by a London copper, and because it was secure and anonymous it was uninhibited. The people who posted there said all kinds of things. There were complaints and there was bitching, of course, but also there was a frank and unexpurgated view of police work from behind the lines. I got there in the summer of 2005, just after the suicide bombings on Londonâ€™s transportation system, and just after a completely innocent Brazilian student had been shot to death by London police, who were under the mistaken impression that the guy had been involved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, as a thriller writer, Iâ€™m familiar with the idea that cops can be bent or reckless. But Iâ€™m equally aware thatâ€™s mostly literary license. I know lots of cops, and theyâ€™re great people doing a very tough job. Years ago I met a friendâ€™s eight-year-old daughter--a sweet little girl with no front teeth--and she grew up to be a cop. She won a bravery medal for a difficult solo arrest during which she was stabbed and had her thumb broken. Sheâ€™s tough, but sheâ€™s not bent or reckless. So are the other cops I know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I was curious: what happened with the Brazilian kid? How was the mistake made?\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I eavesdropped while the coppers on the anonymous site were asking the same question. And I learned something interesting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Their first consensus explanation was: because of â€œthe list.â€ The Brazilian boy was showing â€œall twelve signs.â€ I thought, what list? What signs? So I clicked and scrolled and Googled, and it turned out that years earlier Israeli counterintelligence had developed a failsafe checklist of physical and behavioral signifiers, that when all present and correct mean you are looking at a suicide bomber. The list had entered training manuals, and after 9/11 those manuals were studied like crazy all over the world. And the response was mandatory: you see a guy showing the signs, you put him down, right now, before he can blow himself up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And by sheer unlucky coincidence, the Brazilian kid had been showing the signs. A winter coat in July, a recent shave, and so on. (Read\n  <em>\n   Gone Tomorrow\n  </em>\n  if you want to know all twelve, and why.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  All writing is what if? So I tried to imagine that moment of... disbelief, I guess. You see a guy showing the signs, and probably every fiber of your being is saying, â€œThis canâ€™t be.â€ But youâ€™re required to act.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So for the opening scene of\n  <em>\n   Gone Tomorrow\n  </em>\n  , I had Reacher sitting on a subway train in New York City, staring at a woman who is showing the signs. Reacher is ex-military law enforcement, and he knows the list forward and backward. Half of his brain is saying, â€œThis canâ€™t be,â€ and the other half is programmed to act. What does he do? What if heâ€™s wrong? What will happen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s where the story starts. It ends hundreds of pages later, in a place you both do and donâ€™t expect. --_Lee Child_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Sigrid Estrada)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. All good thriller writers know how to build suspense and keep the pages turning, but only better ones deliver tight plots as well, and only the best allow the reader to match wits with both the hero and the author. Bestseller Child does all of that in spades in his 13th Jack Reacher adventure (after\n  <em>\n   Nothing to Lose\n  </em>\n  ). Early one morning on a nearly empty Manhattan subway car, the former army MP notices a woman passenger he suspects is a suicide bomber. The deadly result of his confronting her puts him on a trail leading back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. Reacher finds a bit of help among the authorities demanding answers from him, like the NYPD and the FBI, as well as threats and intimidation. And then there are the real bad guys that the old pro must track down and eliminate. Child sets things up subtly and ingeniously, then lets Reacher use both strength and guile to find his way to the exciting climax.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11142'),
(22277, '13 Ghosts: Strange but True Stories', 'Will Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tells the stories of a man who foresaw his own death, a ghost who solved a murder, a mummy''s curse, a haunted museum, and a phantom sailor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(22278, '13 Small Gods', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6296'),
(22279, '13 The Man With The Golden Gun', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3143'),
(22280, '13 The Thirteen-Gun Salute', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin--his friend, ship''s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent--on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan''s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1910'),
(22281, '13 Wild Justice', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master." -_The Washington Post Book World_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure-codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He''s used to doing battle-and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph''s victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride''s every move- down to what could be his last one...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(22282, '13_Skipping Christ', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6307'),
(22283, '13_Small Gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6297'),
(22284, 'The 13th Warrior-Eaters of the dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Crichton excells at storytelling."NEWSDAYIn A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandanavia and save his countrymen and families from the monsters of the mist....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5183'),
(22285, '14 A Falcon Flies', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Uncovering their father''s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16154'),
(22286, '14 Biggles Flies South', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14695'),
(22287, '14 Octopussy', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8237'),
(22288, '14 The Nutmeg Of Consolation', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  At the end of O''Brian''s Thirteen Gun Salute, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked by a typhoon on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies. After they are rescued, Aubrey and crew continue their interrupted mission aboard a new vessel, the Nutmeg.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  <br />\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourteenth book in the series.  Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2804'),
(22289, '14_The Summons', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2007'),
(22290, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(22291, '15 - Worth Dying For', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(22292, '15 Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew. All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13979'),
(22293, '15 Men At Arms', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8932'),
(22294, '15 Men of Men', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was called The Devils''s Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil''s Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fledgling Boer Free State sets the course for Ballantyne and a cast of comrades, enemies, and lovers--and for the continent itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the visions of imperialists to the fury between a father and a son, from the lengths a man will go for a woman and a woman for her convictions, a tragic clash of generations and civilizations was shaking 19th century Africa, where some warriors fought for their gods--and others for the men who came before them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8941'),
(22295, '15 The Closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4557'),
(22296, '15_King of Torts', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3392'),
(22297, '15_Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Young Dwarf''s Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted!He''s now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld''s greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It''s a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrott... And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city--indeed of the universe itself!--depends on a young man''s courage, an ancient sword''s magic, and a three-legged poodle''s bladder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8934'),
(22298, 'The 1500-Calorie-a-Day Cookbook', 'Nancy S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Eat up. Slim down. Itâ€™s just that easy--with just 1,500 delicious calories a day!** From the author of *The 1,200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook*, comes all new recipes for when you are counting calories but donâ€™t want to sacrifice flavor, taste, or variety. While most low-calorie meal plans leave you hungry for more, this cookbook serves up a satisfying selection of energy-boosting breakfasts, fast-fix lunches, and delectable dinners--plus two healthy snacks and one guilt-free dessert--every single day! Itâ€™s hard to believe itâ€™s just 1,500 calories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5196'),
(22299, '16 Soul Music', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6076'),
(22300, '16 The Angels Weep', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wild Justice, nicely read by Steven Pacey, involves Col. Peter Stride, who leads an elite force in an assault on a hijacked airliner in an attempt to free endangered hostages. Though the raid succeeds, Stride is fired for not fully following orders. Free from his military connection, he is then in a position to fight terrorism and conspiracy independently. A good story with lots of twists and treacheries. Together or separately, these three books are fine short adventures; each tale is about one-sixth the length of its original novel and loses an awful lot in the abridging. A recommendation: get these audios if you must for patrons in a hurry, but point them to an unabridged version if you can. - Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15318'),
(22301, '16 The Wine-Dark Sea', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean water reminds Stephen of Homer''s famous description, but it also portends a spectacular submarine volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader''s imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen''s mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O''Brian''s brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted. This is storytelling without models or equals in recent literature; critics have noted in O''Brian''s great Aubrey/Maturin epic, now sixteen volumes in length, haunting echoes of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Jane Austen. Some readers will respond to the undeniable excitement of the chases, storms, and battles, others to the precision of language, or the humor, or the wealth of erudition in Maturin''s researches and conversations. But the truest mark of O''Brian''s stature as a novelist may be the great number of readers who find fresh delights and deeper resonances in rereading his novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(22302, '16_Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaperhimself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death''s adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint,Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds that all his dreams are coming true. Well almost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this finger-snapping, toe-tapping tale of youth,Death, and rocks that roll, Terry Pratchett once again demonstrates the wit and genius that have propelled him to the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6078'),
(22303, '16_The Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14643'),
(22304, '1636: The Saxon Uprising: N/A', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Â Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)Â â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review)Â â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(22305, '17 Echo Park', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12252'),
(22306, '17 Interesting Times', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10136'),
(22307, '17 The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey''s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4504'),
(22308, '17 The Leopard Hunts in Darkness', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Exciled author Craig must return to Zimbabwe - when he is given a spying mission... Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by beautiful photographer Sally-Anne Jay, he is at first unaware of the dangerous currents of tribal conflict that swirl below the calm surface of Zimbabwean politics. Then he stumbles upon a highly organized ivory-poaching operation which masks the treacherous plot to sell the country he once fought for into slavery . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wild Justice, nicely read by Steven Pacey, involves Col. Peter Stride, who leads an elite force in an assault on a hijacked airliner in an attempt to free endangered hostages. Though the raid succeeds, Stride is fired for not fully following orders. Free from his military connection, he is then in a position to fight terrorism and conspiracy independently. A good story with lots of twists and treacheries. Together or separately, these three books are fine short adventures; each tale is about one-sixth the length of its original novel and loses an awful lot in the abridging. A recommendation: get these audios if you must for patrons in a hurry, but point them to an unabridged version if you can. - Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3255'),
(22309, '17_Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s he who''s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire''s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10138'),
(22310, '17_The last juror', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1970, one of Mississippi''s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn''t necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3256'),
(22311, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(22312, '18 Maskerade', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9043'),
(22313, '18 The Burning Shore', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Centaine''s ship is torpedoed and sunk, she is plunged into a shark-filled sea miles from the unseen shore. And when she reaches land, Centaine puts foot not in the lush world that Michael Courtney described to her, but on the edge of a burning desert--alone and fighting for her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a strange world, under a great rushing sky, Centaine sets forth in the company of wandering Bushmen--and then into the arms of a renegade white soldier who may be her savior or destruction. As Michael Courtney''s family searches for Centaine, she comes near her promised land--and the untold tragedy and riches that it holds...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4688');
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(22314, '18 The Yellow Admiral', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighteenth book in the series.  The Yellow Admiral -- the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written --\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O''Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie''s affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out... Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. The Yellow Admiral is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O''Brian''s fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O''Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren''t some rousing and bloody sea-battles!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(22315, '18_Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts the Ankh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice. Perdita''s expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it''s an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks. Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it''s difficult -- and often hazardous -- to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they''ve seen Ankh-Morpork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9044'),
(22316, '18_The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4763'),
(22317, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about.Â  Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.Â \n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundlessÂ  verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19067'),
(22318, '19 Feet of Clay', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11765'),
(22319, '19 The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4719'),
(22320, '19 The Hundred Days', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1815, and Europe''s most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it''s up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For starters, Aubrey and his squadron have been dispatched to the Adriatic coast, to keep Bonapartist shipbuilders from beefing up the French navy. Meanwhile, one Sheik Ibn Hazm is fomenting an Islamic uprising against the Allies. The only way to halt this maneuver is to intercept the sheik''s shipment of gold--because in the Napoleonic era, as in our own, even the most ardent of mercenaries requires a salary. The Hundred Days is the 19th (and, we are told, the penultimate) installment of O''Brian''s epic. Like many of its predecessors, it features a fairly swashbuckling plot, complete with cannon fire, exotic disguises, and Aubrey''s suspenseful, slow-motion pursuit of an Algerian xebek. Yet it never turns into a mere exercise in Hornblowerism. Partly this is due to O''Brian''s delicate touch with character--the relationship between extroverted Aubrey and introverted Maturin has deepened with each book, and even Aubrey''s reunion with his childhood companion Queenie Keith is full of novelistic nuance: "They sat smiling at one another. An odd pair: handsome creatures both, but they might have been of the same sex or neither." Nor does the author focus too exclusively on his dynamic duo. Indeed, The Hundred Days is very much a chronicle of a floating community, which Maturin describes as "his own village, his own ship''s company, that complex entity so much more easily sensed than described: part of his natural habitat." Finally, O''Brian shows his usual expertise in balancing the great events with the most minuscule ones. Other authors have written about battles at sea, and still others have recorded the rapid rise and fall of Napoleon''s fortunes after his escape from confinement. But who else would give equal time--and an equal charge of delight--to Maturin''s discovery of an anomalous nuthatch? --James Marcus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3579'),
(22321, '19 The Power Of The Sword', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sequel to Smith''s The Burning Shore , this novel continues to trace the lives of Lothar de la Rey and Centaine Courtney. Their love/hate unfolds in the South Africa of the 1930s. Centaine''s son by Lothar and her son by an English gentleman also become bitter enemies. Diamonds stolen by Lothar are a pivotal element in the story, which ranges from Bushman country to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Even without the first book, this is an exciting story. Smith makes us sympathize with both the Afrikaners and the British South Africans. His details and historical setting seem authentic. Recommended for historical fiction collections. A third novel is clearly intended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7458'),
(22322, '19_Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett''s humor and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world. Feet of Clay is 19th in the series. --Blaise Selby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11767'),
(22323, '19_The Innocent Man', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3515'),
(22324, '1981 &amp; Counting', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18037'),
(22325, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(22326, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the Women''s Murder Club, they are pursuing a murderer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Their chief suspect is a socially prominent writer, but the men in charge won''t touch him. On the trail of the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever, they discover a shocking surprise that turns everything about the case upside down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(22327, '2 - Phules Paradise', 'Aspirin, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7756'),
(22328, '2 in the Hat: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Â A serial killer the cops thought was long gone.A good detective racing the clock to stop the murders.A chilling and twisty thriller that will leave readers gasping.Â A major spike in gang homicides has Boston on edge, leaving a growing body count of bangers in its wake and the cityâ€™s police and DAâ€™s office scrambling to catch up. Even the mayorâ€™s Street Saviors taskforce of ex-cons, devoted to steering kids out of the thug life, are working overtime to stop the bloodshed. But who will stop the even greater threat thatâ€™s about to descend when a murderous psychopath steps out of the past?Memories of the infamous Blood Bath Killer still loom large, especially for homicide detective Angel Alves, who helped bring down the multiple-murderer whose rampage shocked the city. So when a pair of students turn up bizarrely slain, Alves fears that another serial killer is stalking Boston. A fear that becomes fact when his ex-partner, Wayne Mooney, recognizes the murders as the work of the Prom Night Killerâ€”whose unsolved crimes have haunted Mooney for a decade. Now, with hands-on assistant DA Conrad Darget backing them, Alves and Mooney set out to stop grim history from repeating itself. But matching wits with a twisted mind is a dangerous game. Especially when there are no rulesâ€”and your allies really may be your enemies.Â Mixing edgy psychological suspense, hard-boiled realism, and staccato bursts of pulse-quickening action, 2 in the Hat makes another slam-dunk winning case for Raffi Yessayan, hailed by Robin Moore, author of The French Connection, as â€œthe best prosecutor-turned-crime-writer to hit the streets since George V. Higgins and Scott Turow.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10239'),
(22329, '2_Mexico Set', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step -- and defect. But the price of one Russian''s freedom must be paid in blood -- blood that Samson unexpectedly and incriminatingly finds on his own hands. On every side, he becomes dangerously enmeshed in an intricate web of suspicion and hatred. Yet how can he fight when he doesn''t know where to find his most determined enemies -- or even who they are? Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match: Three spectacular thrillers featuring agent Bernard Samson.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Deighton''s best! until the next'' Daily Mail ''The poet of the spy story'' Sunday Times ''A master of fictional espionage'' Daily Mail ''Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed'' Observer ''Deighton is a marvel! few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton! Mexico Set is a pure tale, told by an author at the height of his power'' Chicago Tribune\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step -- and defect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the price of one Russian''s freedom must be paid in blood -- blood that Samson unexpectedly and incriminatingly finds on his own hands. On every side, he becomes dangerously enmeshed in an intricate web of suspicion and hatred. Yet how can he fight when he doesn''t know where to find his most determined enemies -- or even who they are?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match:\n  <br />\n  Three spectacular thrillers featuring agent Bernard Samson.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8840'),
(22330, '2_No Survivors', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The "Accident Man" returns to prevent a global holy war\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tom Cain''s The Accident Man introduced Samuel Carverâ€”a man hired to make bad things happenâ€”to rave reviews from major newspapers and fellow thriller writers alike. Now, Carver is back in an action packed new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., to the merciless Arctic peaks of Norway and from the palaces of the French Riviera to the war-torn Serbian countryside.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the beginning of No Survivors, Carver lies broken and damaged in a Swiss sanitarium after rescuing his lover, Alix Petrova, from her Russian spymaster. But when Alix''s former employers force her to leave Carver and seduce an American military official, Carver emerges from his catatonia and returnsâ€”violentlyâ€” to his former self. As Carver tracks Alix down, he uncovers a messianic Texas billionaire''s chilling plot to reactivate stolen Soviet suitcase nukes and set off a global holy war that will bring about the final Rapture. Driven...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8340'),
(22331, '2_The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4072'),
(22332, '2_The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3294'),
(22333, '2_The Lost World', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One fact about this sequel to Jurassic Park stands out above all: it follows a book that, with spinoffs, including the movie, proved to be the most profitable literary venture ever. So where does the author of a near billion-dollar novel sit? Squarely on the shoulders of his own past work?and Arthur Conan Doyle''s. Crichton has borrowed from Conan Doyle before?Rising Sun was Holmes and Watson in Japan?but never so brazenly. The title itself here, the same as that of Conan Doyle''s yarn about an equatorial plateau rife with dinos, acknowledges the debt. More enervating are Crichton''s self-borrowings: the plot line of this novel reads like an outtake from JP. Instead of bringing his dinos to a city, for instance, Crichton keeps them in the Costa Rican jungle, on an offshore island that was the secret breeding ground for the beasts. Only chaos theoretician Ian Malcolm, among the earlier principals, returns to explore this Lost World, six years after the events of JP; but once again, there''s a dynamic paleontologist, a pretty female scientist and two cute kids, boy and girl?the latter even saves the day through clever hacking, just as in JP. Despite stiff prose and brittle characters, Chrichton can still conjure unparalleled dino terror, although the wonder is gone and the attacks are predictable, the pacing perfunctory. But his heart now seems to be not so much in the storytelling as in pedagogy: from start to finish, the novel aims to illustrate Crichton''s ideas about extinction?basically, that it occurs because of behavioral rather than environmental changes?and reads like a scientific fable, with pages of theory balancing the hectic action. As science writing, it''s a lucid, provocative undertaking; but as an adventure and original entertainment, even though it will sell through the roof, it seems that Crichton has laid a big dinosaur egg. 2,000,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB main selection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3170'),
(22334, '2: In the Duat', 'Duat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16815'),
(22335, '20 Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The brand new Aubrey-Maturin novel, the twentieth in this classic series. ''If we had only two or three of Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction...This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.'' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O''Brian''s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship''s doctor, part secret agent. The novel''s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon''s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O''Brian''s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14500'),
(22336, '20 Hogfather', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10558'),
(22337, '20 Rage', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this latest epic, popular novelist Smith (The Leopard Hunts in Darkness) takes on a difficult challenge, telling of post-World War II South Africa. What he has created is a hybrid. His narrative seriously addresses the conflicts of whites and blacks, the differences between British and Afrikaners, and the tribes and personalities vying for control of the African National Congress. But it''s also a soap opera, one of those conventional generational sagas with a contrived forbidden love affair between a white and a black, adultery and the rivalry between two men who do not realize they are half-brothers. The combination is simultaneously thrilling and embarrassing. Shasa Courtney is a wealthy United Party minister to the South African Parliament. A moderate of English heritage, he is often opposed to the Nationalist Party''s Manfred De La Rey, an Afrikaner. Their mother, the matriarchal Centaine Courtney-Malcomess, is able to mediate their conflicts but not to control Shasa''s wife, Tara, who sympathizes with the black cause. It is Tara who falls in love with the black Moses Gama, an advocate of violent opposition to apartheid. All their stories intermingle with the history of South Africa in the ''50s and ''60s. Smith''s account of some of the worst racial riots is terrifying and his storytelling powers are strong, but readers of Rage will likely come away wondering whether turgid sub-plots really enhance a novel about one of the world''s most troubled countries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the family saga set in South Africa which he began in The Burning Shore and The Power of the Sword. This new novel focuses on the half brothers, Shasa Courtney and Manfred De La Rey, now high officials in the Nationalist government. During the mounting protest and violence brought on by apartheid in the 1950s and early 1960s, these former enemies find themselves working together to save the land they both love. Other family members are involved too. Michael, one of Shasa''s sons, becomes a reporter who opposes apartheid, while Lothar, Manfred''s son, is a policeman who enforces it. The interlocking stories of these and many others, set against the authentic African historical and cultural background that Smith so effectively provides, produces both a compelling tale and some real insights into South Africa. Recommended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Lib., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7273'),
(22338, '20 The Scarecrow', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2391'),
(22339, '20 Years at Hull-House', 'Jane Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(22340, '20_Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10559'),
(22341, '20_Playing for Pizza', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7578'),
(22342, '2001 - A Space Odyssey', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(22343, '2007 - Two Caravans', 'Marina Lewycka', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(22344, '2009 - We Are All Made of Glue', 'Marina Lewycka &amp; Prefers to remain anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(22345, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(22346, 'The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History', 'John Major Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125- year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including: - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work? - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era? - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them? - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5198'),
(22347, '2012: The War for Souls', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Strieber''s epic sequel to 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Grays\n </em>\n blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar eclipticâ€”a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this ageâ€”he begins to uncover evidence that what he''s writing about is actually happening on a parallel earth. If nothing is done, on December 21, 2012, gateways will open into this world and reptilian invaders will not only enslave humanity but feast on their succulent souls as well. While Strieber''s exploration into the existence and import of the soul isn''t exactly profound, it is wildly entertaining. Fans of apocalyptic page-turners like King''s\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n and Niven and Pournelle''s\n <em>\n  Lucifer''s Hammer\n </em>\n will enjoy this ambitiousâ€”and audaciousâ€”tale as it invokes everything from rectal probes and Ann Coulter to the destruction of the Great Pyramid of Giza._ (Sept.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Archaeologist Martin Winters gets out of the collapsing Great Pyramid of Khufu just in time to see a gigantic lens arise from the rubble. Simultaneously at equally ancient monument sites all over the world, other lenses emerge. What''s happening is a kind of alien invasion, but the aliens, whose advance agents have been subverting human society for some time, aren''t really another species. They''re their world''s degenerates, whose earlier incursions into human history inspired the way the evil beings of religious mythology have been represented. In short, they''re demons, fortunately killable but possessed of awesome power by the standards of Martin''s world, which is one of three parallel Earths. The others are the invaders'' and ours, in which buff sf writer Wiley Dale is compulsively and automatically writing Martin''s story, which is more transmission than story. Eventually the demonic aliens pop up in Wiley''s as well as Martin''s Kansas homeland. Each Earth has advantages over the others; one of those, in both Martin''s and the aliens'' worlds, is that the physical existence of the soul has been discovered. The implications of that discovery drive the action of Strieber''s hyperactive cosmological thriller. Despite Wiley and his cop buddy''s excruciating hardy-har-he-man palaver and the exposition turning to cardboard whenever love is mentioned, it''s immensely entertaining, and it''s optioned for a big, splashy, FX-laden movie. Oh boy! Olson, Ray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(22348, '2061', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world''s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(22349, '21 9 Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12308'),
(22350, '21 A Time to Die', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA --Continuing the saga of the South African family begun in When the Legends Die (Lippincott, 1963; o.p.), Smith weaves another compelling tale of high adventure, politics, and romance in the wilds of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. This new novel finds Sean Courtney leading a big game hunting expedition that is caught deep in hostile territory, where two tribal armies are engaged in battle. Courtney''s fighting and survival instincts are constantly being tested throughout this action-packed story. Compassion and love interest temper the characterization of Sean Courtney, a bit of a change from his wild ways of the past. Smith''s fans will not be disappointed in this addition to the Courtney chronicles, as he expertly describes the excitement and beauty of the African veldt. --Nancy Bard, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sean Courtney, professional hunter and guerrilla fighter, is swept up by the tides of a new war. Caught between two rival armies, between his love for the woman at his side and his instincts as a trained killer, Courtney finds himself the captive of a brutal enemy from the past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(22351, '21 Biggles In the South Seas', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14701'),
(22352, '21 Jingo', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9867'),
(22353, '21_Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Something new has come up between the Discworld''s ancient rival cites of Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali. Literally It''s up island, rising out of Discworld''s sea, uninhabited and claimed by both cities. Under International Law this situation clearly falls under the ancient doctrine of Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis ("You Get What You Grab"). And everyone wants to grab. Besides, the Al-Khalians may have invented algebra, astronomy and alcohol, but hey don''t have a word for lawyer, and how can you talk to people like that? Since there''s no basis for negotiation, it''s down to the long-suffering Commander Vimes of the City Watch to deal with a crime as awful that there''s no law against it. It''s called war. Ankh-Morpork has been at peace for a century, and so has Al-Khali. But now there are people on both sides who think it''s time to give was a chance, and will happily help it on its way with a few murders... Modern war needs modern weapons. Unfortunately, Ankh-Morpork got rich making and selling them to Al-Khali. But it''s just possible that salvation lies in the hands of the great inventive genius Leonard of Quirm, whose sketchbooks are filled with devices for killing people, flying through the air, and weighing cheese. Maybe it''s in his boat tat travels under water--Leonard calls it a "Going Under-The-Water-Safely Device", or "metal sinking fish thing" for short. (Just because he''s an inventor doesn''t mean he''s good at naming stuff.) But this is carrying something else--a device that so powerful that it can finish any war. But don''t be alarmed. It''s fantasy. It all happens on Discworld, where greed and ignorance influence human behavior, politicians pursue was for selfish ends, and perfectly ordinary people occasionally act like raving idiots. A world, in short, totally unlike our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9868'),
(22354, '21_The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5117'),
(22355, '2150 AD', 'Thea Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(22356, '22 Britannia Road', 'Amanda Hodgkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011\n </strong>\n : By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That''s where\n <em>\n  22 Britannia Road\n </em>\n , Amanda Hodgkinson''s stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz''s dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz''s betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson''s poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Miriam Landis\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Amanda Hodgkinson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didnâ€™t feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. â€œWe were so hungry,â€ she said, â€œwe ate the bark of the silver birch trees.â€ An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n From Silvanaâ€™s exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novelâ€™s historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survivalâ€”even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived HÃ©lÃ¨ne and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through\n <em>\n  The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II\n </em>\n by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he\n <em>\n  felt\n </em>\n . I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19080'),
(22357, '22 Golden Fox', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s ( A Time to Die ) 22nd novel, already a bestseller in England, adds to his reputation as a writer of suspenseful, knowledgeable thrillers. Isabella Courtney is the only daughter of a wealthy, influential South African family. Ramon de Santiago y Machado is the calculating, cold-blooded villain who skillfully pursues, seduces and impregnates her, then uses the child as a pawn to force her to participate in his cause: a violent revolution against capitalism. In desperation, Isabella is forced to seek help from her family, and it is here that Smith''s skill in building tension shifts into high gear. The final chapters are fast-paced and action-filled, augmenting the effects of realistic settings and exemplary prose throughout. Though Smith sometimes focuses too long on unnecessary detail, this is an entertaining novel by a gifted, intelligent raconteur.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Smith''s newest novel about the Courtney family centers around Isabella, the only daughter of Shasa Courtney, South Africa''s ambassador to England. Ramon de Santiago y Machado, secretly known as El Zoro Dorado or the Golden Fox, concocts an elaborate plan to seduce Isabella, impregnate her, and then use the child as a pawn to further terrorist plots against South Africa. She gives birth to a son, Nicholas, whom Ramon kidnaps when he is one month old, setting in motion Isabella''s betrayal of her beloved family and country. Smith excels at creating finely drawn characters; descriptive settings in London, Europe, and Africa; and a masterful development of an action-packed thriller that gets better as each new predicament unfolds. Expertly written, this novel engulfs readers until the very last page. --Nancy Bard, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA-\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11126');
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(22358, '22 The Last Continent', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3402'),
(22359, '22 The Reversal', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2435'),
(22360, '22_The Associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4996'),
(22361, '22_The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s 22nd Discworld novel, The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure. Pratchett returns to his first Discworld protagonist, the inept and cowardly wizard Rincewind, who habitually runs into trouble as fast as he flees. Rincewind''s arrival in Fourecks has distorted the space-time continuum, and he has to sort it out before the whole place dries up and blows away. The situation is complicated because the actual problem is located 30,000 years in the past--just where the Faculty of the Unseen University currently are. Pretty frightening, given "the true wizard''s instinct to amble aimlessly into dangerous places," and then "stop and argue ... about exactly what kind of danger it [is]." If you''re baffled by all this, no worries, mate. You needn''t have read Pratchett before--not even the five previous Discworld novels starring Rincewind (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, and Interesting Times)--to enjoy this latest romp. Nor to have visited Australia. When you finish, however, you''ll likely want to rush out and do both. --Nona Vero\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3405'),
(22362, '23 Elephant Song', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his latest novel of Africa, Smith ( The Diamond Hunters ) sets a fast-paced melodrama of greed and political corruption against the stunning, indisputably commanding backdrop of a rain forest. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and African ecologist Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of South African government-protected ivory, in the process brutally killing Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong''s childhood friend, and his family. Tracing the smuggling operation to its highest source, Armstrong comes up against a sadistic Chinese diplomat and his profoundly wealthy clan, an unscrupulous entrepreneur expatriate from India, a knighted British tycoon, assorted thugs and a torture-crazed leopard guarding a warehouse. Armstrong agrees to film a PR piece for a tyrant who has just taken over a small African nation and, with money supplied by Armstrong''s enemies, is despoiling the rain forest and enslaving members of certain tribes. Some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith''s fans and other action-addicted readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dashing producer of TV documentaries battles to save his beloved Africa from callous international multimillionaires and home-grown villainous politicians--in a free-standing adventure from the author of the Africa-based Courtney sagas (Golden Fox, A Time to Die, etc.) and others. Smith''s trademark big-hunter thrills, toned down to accommodate 90''s sensibilities, keep things hopping for Rhodesian- born David Armstrong as he first documents Zimbabwe''s thoughtful elephant management--and then avenges the death of Zimbabwe''s best elephant-manager at the hands of ruthless ivory poachers. Armstrong, a one-time soldier who now turns out PBS-style nature films, just misses the slaughter of old colleague Johnny Nzou and family, but quickly deduces that Taiwan''s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ning Cheng Gong, and his avaricious subcontinental ivory-agent, Chetti Singh, are the monsters behind the murders and the heist of a fortune in elephant teeth. Vowing to send Ning and Singh to their reward, Armstrong returns to London, where he picks up the backing of a bent billionaire and the assistance of a very capable, very randy camera person, meets a lovely scholar of Pygmy life, and then heads again to Africa. The grand confrontation with Singh and Ning takes place in Ubomo, a semi-democracy that has just been taken over by a rapacious army officer. Ubomo is also the home of the pretty Pygmy scholar. Humorless and politically only partially correct, but who cares? The point of a big African adventure is big adventure with big animals and big scenery, and that''s all here. Smith knows the scene. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12126'),
(22363, '23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.**When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to *kill. *Caxtonâ€™s always been able to watch her own backâ€“even when itâ€™s against a cell-block wallâ€“but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the worldâ€™s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtonâ€™s strings, too, and she''s issued an ultimatum that Laura canâ€™t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justiniaâ€™s evil. **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(22364, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You about Capitalism', 'Chang, Ha-Joon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(22365, '23_Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Carpe Jugulum is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onward. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Nonfans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that''s something difficult to put into a few words. The best thing to do for those completely new to Pratchett is to sample him for themselves, and this novel is as good a place to start as any. But fans have a more precise question. They know that Discworld novels come in one of two varieties: the quite good and the brilliant. So, for instance, where Hogfather and Maskerade were quite good, Feet of Clay and Jingo were brilliant. While true fans wouldn''t want to do without the former, they absolutely live for the latter. And with Carpe Jugulum, Pratchett has hit the jackpot again. This novel is one of the brilliant ones. The plot is a version of an earlier Discworld novel, Lords and Ladies, with the predatory elves of that novel being replaced here by suave and deadly vampires, and the tiny kingdom of Lancre being defended by its witches. But plot is the least of Pratchett''s appeal, and Carpe Jugulum is loaded with marvelous characters (not least the witches themselves, about whom we learn a deal more), comic touches and scenes of genius, and even some of the renowned down-to-earth Pratchett wisdom (about the inner ethical conflicts we all face and the wrongness of treating people as things). Pratchett''s vampires are elegant Bela Lugosi types, and they come up against an unlikely but engaging alliance of witches; blue-skinned pixies like Rob Roy Smurfs; a doubting priest with a boil on his face; and a magical house-size Phoenix in a seamless, completely absorbing, and feel-good-about-the-universe mixture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14281'),
(22366, '23_Ford Country', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11581'),
(22367, '24 River God', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Taita, a wise and gifted eunuch slave, begins the long and dangerous journey towards his own glorious dreamâ€”to restore the majesty of the Pharaoh of Pharaohs on the glittering banks of the Nile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7007'),
(22368, '24 The Fifth Elephant', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4023'),
(22369, '24_The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4025'),
(22370, '24_Theodore Boone', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A perfect murder A faceless witness A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth . . . and heâ€™s only thirteen years old Meet Theodore Boone In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though heâ€™s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks heâ€™s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerkâ€”and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected. Because he knows so muchâ€”maybe too muchâ€”he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo wonâ€™t stop until justice is served. Brimming with the intrigue and suspense that made John Grisham a #1 international bestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer will keep readers guessing and pages turning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(22371, '25 The Seventh Scroll', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A search for the 4000-year-old tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh along the Nile''s headwaters in Ethiopia is the focus of this intoxicating sequel to River God. A heady mix of exotic adventure, romance and Egyptology, it pairs blueblood, devil-may-care Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper, who recently has lost his wife and children in a tragic accident, and half-English, half-Egyptian archeologist Royan Al-Sima, herself recently bereaved, in a desperate race to unearth Pharaoh Mamose''s fabulous treasures. Their rival in this quest is Gotthold von Schiller, an old, crazed, murderous German collector of antiquities whose mistress, a porno actress, dresses up as an ancient Egyptian queen to titillate him. The major clue is the eponymous seventh scroll, key to the tomb''s location, written by ancient Egyptian scribe Taita, who figured prominently in River God. As the novel opens, thugs hired by von Schiller steal the scroll, and thereafter the rival archeologist teams play a cat-and-mouse game with Taita across the millennia, avoiding lethal traps and deciphering red herrings, which will fool the reader too. The colorful cast includes alcoholic ex-KGB operative Boris Brusilov and ruthless Texan Jake Helm, von Schiller''s slavish sidekick. Fans of intricate adventure and Egyptian lore will be captivated by Smith''s capacious saga, which should serve to increase his audience in the States. This prolific and popular British writer-with 24 previous novels, he is a bestseller in England and elsewhere, to the tune of 65 million copies-is a master of the genre. 250,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted Egyptologist Royan Al Simma escapes an attempt on her life, but her husband, Duraid, is not so lucky. This husband-and-wife archaeological team was immersed in unraveling the secrets of the "seventh scroll." Written in a type of shorthand, the scroll dates back to the Hyksos invasion of Egypt and was recently discovered in the tomb of Queen Lostris, whose story is told in Smith''s River God (St. Martin''s, 1994). Grieving over the loss of her husband, Royan engages Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a wealthy English collector, to assist her in completing the work she and Duraid had begun by locating the tomb of Pharaoh Mamose the Eighth, husband of Lostris. Through collective teamwork, Royan and Nicholas travel to Ethiopia, at great peril to themselves, as they try to uncover a 4000-year-old secret. This well-crafted novel is full of adventure, tension, and intrigue. Recommended for general readers.?Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2251'),
(22372, '25 The Truth', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(22373, '25_The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4542'),
(22374, '25_The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(22375, '26 Birds of Prey', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Look up "classic adventure novel" in the dictionary and you''ll find the strong and capable features of South Africa''s own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England''s war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal''s swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father''s torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father''s hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales with nonstop action. For popular collections.?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Look up "classic adventure novel" in the dictionary and you''ll find the strong and capable features of South Africa''s own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England''s war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal''s swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father''s torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father''s hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales with nonstop action. For popular collections.?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14777'),
(22376, '26 The Thief of Time', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(22377, '26_Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it''s wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He''s going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world''s first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1586'),
(22378, '27 Monsoon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South Africa''s master storyteller Wilbur Smith has been writing his exotic historical sagas for so long that he''s in danger of being taken for granted and typecast as an author of adventure stories for and about overgrown boys. But there''s a lot more to Smith''s books than mere blood, thunder, swash, and buckle. He might not be as thoughtful or as philosophical as Patrick O''Brian, but his stories have a wider geographical and chronological range and lots more action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  is the latest chronicle in Smith''s Courteney series. In it, Hal Courteney is sent by the East India Trading Company to attack Arab pirates who are harassing trade off the East African coast. He takes three of his four sons, but one of them absconds to Bombay and another is taken prisoner by the Arabs. Although the mission is an eventual success, Hal himself is seriously injured and returns to England. His son Tom becomes the real hero of the story, gallantly rescuing his captured brother from the infidel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like his heroes, Smith''s prose pulls no punches: "Aboli swung the axe in a wide, flashing arc. It took the man full in the side of his neck, severing it cleanly. His head toppled forward and rolled down his chest, while his trunk stood erect before it slumped to the deck. The air escaped from his lungs in a whistling blast of frothy blood from the open windpipe." It may not be pretty, but it certainly grabs your attention.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenth in the swashbuckling saga of the bold and adventuresome Courtneys, this epic sequel to Birds of Prey finds Sir Hal Courtney and his sons up to their bloody sword arms in piracy, intrigue, treachery and civil war in late 17th and early 18th century East Africa and Arabia. Once again the veteran author creates a masterful tale of action and suspense set on the high seas, arid deserts and steaming jungles. Wealthy English landowner Sir Hal earned his fortune as a sea captain with the East India Company. To protect his overseas investments, he becomes a privateer to combat Arab pirates attacking company ships from bases in Zanzibar and Madagascar. Accompanied by three of his four sons, Sir Hal embarks on a desperate voyage that will bring either glory and treasure or ruin. Sir Hal is a skilled leader and a good father, but his sons are a mixed lot, bitter rivals in love and war. William, the eldest son, left in charge of the English estate, is a greedy blackguard and a brutal poltroon. Tom is a fearless leader while his twin brother, Guy, is a bitter and vengeful schemer. Young Dorian, captured by the Arabs and raised as a Muslim, is resourceful and cunning. Sir Hals voyage brings the Courtney family both wealth and catastrophe. One son is murdered, another becomes a fugitive, a third an abusive betrayer and the fourth is abandoned and forlorn. Clever plot twists and lavish historical detail attend the siblings adventures as they battle pirates, slavers, assassins, their own government and each other. A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8799'),
(22379, '27 The Last Hero', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9516'),
(22380, '27_The Last Hero', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new Discworld story is always an event. Terry Pratchett''s The Last Hero is unusually short, a 40,000-word "Discworld Fable" rather than a full novel, but is illustrated throughout in sumptuous color by Paul Kidby. The 160 pages cover the series'' longest and most awesome (but still comic) journey yet, a mission to save all Discworld from a new threat. An old threat, actually. Aged warrior Cohen the Barbarian has decided to go out with a bang and take the gods with him. So, with the remnants of his geriatric Silver Horde, he''s climbing to the divine retirement home Dunmanifestin with the Discworld equivalent of a nuke--a fifty-pound keg of Agatean Thunder Clay. This will, for excellent magical reasons, destroy the world. It''s up to Leonard of Quirm, Discworld''s da Vinci, to invent the technology that might just beat Cohen to his goal. His unlikely vessel is powered by dragons, crewed by himself and two popular regular characters, and secretly harbors a stowaway. Before long we hear the Discworld version of "Houston, we have a problem...." New characters include Evil Dark Lord Harry Dread, who started out with "just two lads and his Shed of Doom," and a god so tiresome that his worshippers are forbidden chocolate, ginger, mushrooms and garlic. Pratchett''s story alone is strong and effective, with several hair-raising frissons contrasting with high comedy; Kidby''s paintings make it something very special. Not to be missed. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3441'),
(22381, '28 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5041'),
(22382, '28 Warlock', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural. Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. He leaves the desert vastness and returns to the world of men, to find himself plunged into a terrible conflict against the forces of evil which threaten to overwhelm the throne and the realm of Egypt, and to destroy the young prince Nefer who is the grandson of Queen Lostris. With vivid depictions of battle and intrigue, of love and passion, with fascinating characters both good and evil, Wilbur Smith brings to life in colourful detail the world of ancient Egypt. This is a masterful feat of story telling by one of the world''s best selling authors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(22383, '28_The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5044'),
(22384, '29 Blue Horizon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s latest Courtney family adventure (after Monsoon), set in colonial South Africa in the early 18th century, follows Jim Courtney, scion of the English shipping and adventuring family seeking their fortune in the Cape of Good Hope colony, administered by the Dutch. A storm at sea blows a ship full of female Dutch convicts into port, and Jim saves the life of the comeliest prisoner, Louisa, before the vessel sinks. Louisa was unjustly imprisoned when she went to the authorities about her lascivious and violent employer. Jim''s rescue infuriates the greedy Dutch overlords, and the Courtneys, with Louisa in tow, head north in search of more hospitable territory. The balance of the long tale is elephant hunts, exploration of Indian sea islands, battles among native tribes and conflicts between principled colonialists-Jim and his father and brother-and their baser counterparts, including Jim''s treacherous uncle and most of the Dutch population. The Courtneys are adored by various native peoples, and a Bushman tracker named Bakkat becomes their acolyte and guide, while his enemy, Xhia, takes orders from the Dutch. The eventual confrontation of the two Bushmen is gripping, if readers can get past the generally condescending way in which Smith writes about black Africans. Subtlety takes a back seat in this broad tale, and readers may be exhausted before they get to the end, but the writer''s fans will enjoy the ride.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. In\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  (1999), brothers Tom and Dorian Courtney established themselves as both swashbuckling seamen and master tradesmen on the shores of South Africa. This time around, their sons, Jim and Mansur Courtney, are equally determined to carve out their own triumphs across the African continent. When Jim falls in love unexpectedly with a beautiful prisoner he spies on a convict ship, he vows to free her from her shackles and a life of certain misery. Escaping with the emotionally shattered and physically damaged Louisa, Jim flees cross country with both his beloved and his faithful manservant, Zama, in tow. Worried about their only son, Tom and Sarah Courtney pursue the young couple, eventually bestowing their family blessing upon them. Blazing a trail across Africa, Jim and Louisa traverse thousands of miles of unexplored wilderness, encountering risk, adventure, and passion along every step of their perilous journey into the unknown. Reuniting with Mansur, Jim and the rest of his expedition face mortal danger from an unexpected source. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance, this rip-roaring historical romp across eighteenth-century Africa will mesmerize faithful fans and win new converts to Smith''s trademark brand of lushly exotic fiction.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14530'),
(22385, '29 Night Watch', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8351'),
(22386, '29_Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This morning, Commander Vimes of the City Watch had it all. He was a Duke. He was rich.He was respected. He had a silver cigar case. He was about to become a father. This morning he thought longingly about the good old days. Tonight, he''s in them. Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there''s only one job he''s good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. He must find his younger self and teach him everything he knows. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force -- fast. Because Sam Vimes knows what''s going to happen. He *remembers* it. He was there. It''s part of history. And you can''t change history . . . But Sam is going to. He has no choice. Otherwise, a bloody revolution will start, and good men will die. Sam saw their names on old headstones just this morning -- but tonight they''re young men who think they have a future. And rather than let them die, Sam will do anything -- turn traitor, burn buildings, take over a revolt, anything -- to snatch them from the jaws of history. He will do it even if victory will mean giving up the only future he knows. For if he succeeds, he''s got no wife, no child, no riches, no fame -- all that will simply vanish. But if he doesn''t try, he wouldn''t be Sam Vimes. And so the battle is on. He knows how it''s going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that''s just a minor detail . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8352'),
(22387, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2nd Chance reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (adetective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner)who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles tosolve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, themurders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all thesigns of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of SanFrancisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even moredisturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at bothmurder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikesagain and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever morecleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--andthe killer knows who they are. 2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves,but unlike recent entries in theAlex Cross series, itdoesn''t sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay''s the star, butthere''s a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even betterdeveloped here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing andinteresting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick theirnecks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a JamesPatterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --BarrieTrinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(22388, '3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10813'),
(22389, '3 Surface Tension', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5398'),
(22390, '3_Assassin', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sam Carver has a rival, a copycat assassin using his modus operandi to organize fatal â€œaccidents.â€ Hounded by suspicion, forced to clear his name to protect his reputation as the best in the business, Carver must go head to head with the challenger in a deadly game of cat and mouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15011'),
(22391, '3_Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12023'),
(22392, '3_London Match', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   "Taut...Splendid...First rate."THE WALL STREET JOURNALWith treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and each falls helplessly into Moscow Centre''s brilliant, complex trap. As LONDON MATCH rushes toward its amazing climax, the ultimate, decisive confrontation is about to take place--between Samson and the British KGB agent who, from the very beginning, has held Samson''s entire life in delicate balance.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Winding up the tense story begun in Berlin Game and continued in Mexico Set, Deighton''s new thriller follows British intelligence agent Bernard Samson as he careens between troubled spots in Berlin and London. Bernard''s recent triumph is persuading the KGB''s renowned spy Erich Stennis to defect to England but, since Samson''s wife Fiona has gone over to the Russians, he isn''t entirely trusted by his colleagues. Now suspicions that another mole has been planted among the operatives in London exacerbate Samson''s fears, mostly for his small children, if he is accused. Determined to protect himself from his own fellow workers and the wily plots of Fiona and the KGB, Samson plunges into harrowing situations, climaxing in a bloody battle which both sides claim they''ve won. Actually, as Samson reveals, everybody loses in the deadly game of espionage. 100,000 first printing; Literary Guild selection. January 3\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this conclusion to his spy trilogy, Deighton''s preoccupation is defection and betrayal, just as it was in the popular earlier volumes, Berlin Game and Mexico Set. But readers need not be familiar with those books to enjoy this one. The plot centers on whether a KGB defector is actually a Soviet plant, and whether there is another Russian mole hidden high up in British Intelligence. Deighton can be a master at creating a tingly sense of deepening tension in the cold and dark of Berlin or in the equally dangerous but deceptively polite office politics of London Central. The suspense tightens steadily to the final showdown, which unfortunately is something of a disappointment. Not quite on the level of Le Carre''s Smiley trilogy, with its similar themes and plot twists, but surely essential reading for all espionage fans. Literary Guild main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9322'),
(22393, '3_The Pelican Brief', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2719'),
(22394, '3: War Crimes', 'Warcrime', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16721'),
(22395, '3. Life, the Universe, and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9439'),
(22396, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(22397, '30 The Triumph of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in colonial Egypt at the end of Victoria''s reign, this sweeping romantic epic reprises Smith regularsâ€”scions of the Courteneys and Ballantynes. (The two fictional British families have provided character fodder for least half of Smith''s 30 novels.) Bloodthirsty legions of Arab dervish troops under the command of the Mahdi, or ruling successor to the Prophet Muhammad, have surrounded (but not taken) Khartoum, trapping comely 17-year-old Rebecca Benbrook; her consul general father, David; and her younger twin sisters, Saffron and Amber. The appearance of a cargo boat owned by the dashing, entrepreneurial Ryder Courteney, as well as the subsequent appearance of Capt. Penrod Ballantyne of Her Majesty''s 10th Hussars, give hope. NaÃ¯ve Rebecca falls in love with Ballantyne, who deflowers her before racing off to warn the rescue force commander that the commander is outnumbered 25 to one. The dervish, led by the fearsome Emir Osman Atalan, overrun Khartoum, and Rebecca''s father is brutally butchered; the saga continues with Penrod heroically leading troops against Osman. Steamy romance alternates with gore, and it''s all done by-the-numbers in a good wayâ€”like a junky, absorbing miniseries. Fans will not be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As popular as he is prolific, and as masterful a storyteller now as he has ever been, Smith once again visits Africa, the continent where he was born, the source of his inspiration, and the setting for his supremely adventuresome novels that make authentic and riveting use of history. He took readers to ancient Egypt in the marvelously wrought\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  (1994), and now he returns there, this time in the late nineteenth century, at the apex of the British Empire. Smith bases this tightly woven narrative on an actual incident in British colonial history: the holy war conducted by a Sudanese man proclaiming himself the Mahdi, or savior, and his forces'' siege of the British garrison at Khartoum, at the convergence of the White and Blue Nile in the Egyptian-held Sudan. Readers who appreciate World War II-era spy thrillers will enjoy this tale of espionage, disguise, and stabbings in the dark, as Smith deliciously elaborates on all the military and religious issues and events surrounding the siege. He marshals telling detail into a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(22398, '30 The Wee Free Men', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1675'),
(22399, '30_The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1678'),
(22400, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--from Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , 6/25/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n <em>\n  The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n </em>\n offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Hungry Vegan blog\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo\n  </em>\n  , 7/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAside from its veganness,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n <br />\n â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   January Magazine\n  </em>\n  , 8/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _September 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5185');
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(22401, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--from Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld &amp; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , 6/25/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n <em>\n  The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n </em>\n offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Hungry Vegan blog\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo\n  </em>\n  , 7/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAside from its veganness,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n <br />\n â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   January Magazine\n  </em>\n  , 8/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _September 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18618'),
(22402, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(22403, '31 Monstrous Regiment', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8816'),
(22404, '31 The Quest', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of bestseller Smith''s ancient Egyptian series will welcome the fourth book in the saga, which picks up where\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001) left off. The powerful magus Taita and his loyal ally, Col. Meren Cambyses, have returned to Egypt after a journey of many years only to find the country beset by a series of plagues that include giant flesh-eating toads and river water turned to blood. Pharaoh Nefer Seti asks the pair to findâ€”and eliminateâ€”the source of his country''s torment, a mission that sends Taita and Meren on a perilous quest in which they must contend with fierce creatures both natural and supernatural. Once again Smith deftly blends history, fantasy and mythology, but newcomers should be prepared for grisly deaths and mutilations.\n  <em>\n   225,000 printing.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest book by best-selling adventure novelist Smith is the fourth volume in his series of historical novels set in pharaonic Egypt, tracing the adventures of eunuch and mystic Taita. Its immediate predecessor was\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001). The quest of the title is just as much a spiritual one as an actual one as Taita, out of a deep devotion to his country and his pharaoh, seeks the identity and the quashing of the "menacing force" that is threatening the very existence of the kingdom; the "land of Egypt quailed, and the population gave in to despair." The Nile has refused to rise and bring fresh, fertile soil to the river valley; the shrunken river runs with blood; and huge, poisonous toads arise from the bloody water and overrun the land. Taita must go deep upriver, far into Africa''s interior, to discover the reason. Ancient mysticism and mythology swirl through the narrative as swiftly as the Nile waters when in full flood. Smith has always been long on action, and his new novel won''t disappoint his fans in that regard; he''s always been graphic in depicting violence and death, and his new novel certainly fits the mold.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2565'),
(22405, '31_Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8817'),
(22406, '32 A Hat Full of Sky', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16067'),
(22407, '32 Assegai', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Courtney - 13\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the saga of the Courtney family of Africa begun in 1964 with\n  <em>\n   When the Lion Feeds\n  </em>\n  . In this installment, Leon Courtney, ladies'' man and former lieutenant in the King''s African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. Among his clients are Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Teddy Roosevelt, and a spoiled German princess who is fond of the whip. The story really doesn''t kick into gear until halfway through, on the eve of war, when Courtney''s uncle, Brig. Gen. Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto''s mistress, Eva, who has a secret life of her own. Will Courtney defeat Otto''s dastardly scheme and rescue Eva? Though the outcome is never in doubt, Smith manages to serve up adventure, history and melodrama in one thrilling package that will be eagerly devoured by series fans.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but thatâ€™s only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leonâ€™s target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesnâ€™t count on falling in love with the targetâ€™s seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbachâ€™s plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smithâ€™s novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15029'),
(22408, '32_A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16069'),
(22409, '33 Going Postal', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11096'),
(22410, '33_Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what''s called for, Moist''s the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11098'),
(22411, '34 Thud!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(22412, '34_Thud', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1368'),
(22413, 'The 34th Rule', 'Armin Shimerman; David R. George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5187'),
(22414, '35 Wintersmith', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(22415, '35_Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(22416, '36 Making Money', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9161'),
(22417, '36_Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9163'),
(22418, '37 Unseen Academicals', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(22419, '37_Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(22420, 'The 37th Hour', 'Jodi Compton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal...and of one woman''s search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives. Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare...**The 37th Hour**On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing-persons investigator, Sarah is used to anxious calls from wives and parents. She''s used to the innocent explanations that resolve so many of her cases. But from the moment she learns that he never arrived at Quantico, she feels a terrible foreboding. Now, beneath the bed in which they make love, Sarah finds Shiloh''s neatly packed bag. And in that instant the cop in her knows: Her husband has disappeared.Suddenly Sarah finds herself at the beginning of the kind of investigation she has made so often. The kind that she and her ex-partner, Genevieve, solved routinely -- until a brutal crime stole Genevieve''s daughter and ended her career. The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives. For Sarah this investigation will mean going back to the beginning, to Shiloh''s religion-steeped childhood in Utah, the rift that separated him from his family -- and the one horrifying case that struck them both too close to home. As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband''s past, she sees her lover and friend change into a stranger before her eyes. And as she moves further down a trail of shocking surprises and bitter revelations, Sarah is about to discover that her worst fear -- that Shiloh is dead -- may be less painful than what she will learn next...In a novel of runaway tension, Jodi Compton masterfully weaves together the quiet details of everyday life with the moments that can shatter them forever. At once a beguiling mystery and a powerful rumination on family, friendship, and loss, **The 37th Hour** is a thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn -- instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5189'),
(22421, '38_I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10417'),
(22422, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed ''August Spies'' is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the explosion cannot be found. Soon a wave of violent incidents, all with links to political terrorism and involving ''August Spies,'' sweeps through the city.An upcoming economic summit of the world''s most powerful nations will surely be a target. And it''s up to the Women''s Murder Club to get to the bottom of the violence before it''s too late. Delivering the breakneck pace and never-saw-it-coming plot twists that have made James Patterson the most addictive writer at work today, 3rd DEGREE is another searing and unforgettable thriller from the nation''s #1 bestselling suspense writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(22423, '4 Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10831'),
(22424, '4_Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can''t refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn''t compulsory. As Death''s apprentice, he''ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won''t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he''d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8789'),
(22425, '4_Spy Hook', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of BERLIN GAME, MEXICO SET, and LONDON MATCH, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood........\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5986'),
(22426, '4_The Client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4546'),
(22427, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.    YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.  Thatâ€™s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5150'),
(22428, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5153'),
(22429, '4: Will you still love me ...', 'Love me', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16715'),
(22430, '4:50 from Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ANTHONY AWARD-WINNING SLEUTH Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she''s returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(22431, '43 Biggles Air Detective', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14690'),
(22432, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a house...a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces for\n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.\n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrives\n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comes\n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive is\n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after all...\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13571'),
(22433, '&#39;48', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(22434, 'The 48 laws of power', 'Robert Greene; Joost Elffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally") but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded -- or been victimized by -- power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5191'),
(22435, '49 - Star Wars - Thrawn Trilogy - 02', 'Rising, Dark Force', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5929'),
(22436, '4th of July', 'James Patterson; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the tranquility of the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay. But the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before - an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts: before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings. It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay. "Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried. There''s no stopping his imagination." -New York Times Book Review "Patterson''s skill at building suspense is enviable." -Kansas City Star "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right." -New York Daily News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(22437, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running! Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5155'),
(22438, '5_Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we''d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer. SOURCERY SEES THE RETURN OF RINCEWIND AND THE LUGGAGE AS THE DISCWORLD FACES ITS GREATEST-AND FUNNIEST-CHALLENGE YET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6095'),
(22439, '5_Spy Line', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  British agent Bernard Samson finds himself inexplicably hunted as a traitor, forced to abandon his life, his job, his position, and plunge into hiding in the most dangerous and darkest corner of Berlin. What is happening? What has he done? Nothing makes sense until Samson discovers that the Secret Service has known all along where he is. In fact, they have never taken him off the payroll. And now they are prepared to return his freedom and good name -- but there are strings attached, strings that begin to tighten around his neck even before his plane lands in Vienna . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5988'),
(22440, '5_The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4696'),
(22441, '5000 Year Leap', 'Skousen, W. Cleon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5199'),
(22442, 'The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World', 'W. Cleon Skousen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This is the best-selling\n   <em>\n    Original Authorized Edition\n   </em>\n   regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The nation the Founders built is now in the throes of a political, economic, social, and spiritual crisis that has driven many to an almost frantic search for\n  <em>\n   modern\n  </em>\n  solutions. The truth is that the solutions have been available for a long time -- in the writings of our Founding Fathers -- carefully set forth in this timely book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World\n  </em>\n  , Discover the\n  <strong>\n   28 Principles of Freedom\n  </strong>\n  our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years. These 28 Principles include\n  <em>\n   The Genius of Natural Law, Virtuous and Moral Leaders, Equal Rights--Not Equal Things,\n  </em>\n  and_ Avoiding the Burden of Debt._ Published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to restoring Constitutional principles in the tradition of America''s Founding Fathers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The National Center for Constitutional Studies...is doing a fine public service in educating Americans about the principles of the Constitution.\n  </em>\n  -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This is possibly the most comprehensive treatment of the genius of the American Founding Fathers which has ever been encompassed in a single volume.\n  </em>\n  --Kenneth C. Chatwin, District Judge, Phoenix, Arizona\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18546'),
(22443, '51 Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14709'),
(22444, '52 Pickup', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn''t pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn''t get mad...he gets even.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(22445, '54 Biggles of 266', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14705'),
(22446, '59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot', 'Richard Wiseman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of â€œrapid changeâ€ and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: â€œThink a little, change a lot.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(22447, 'The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women''s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women''s Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery series takes the Women''s Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5160'),
(22448, '6_The Rainmaker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2590'),
(22449, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18560'),
(22450, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n</p>\n<p>\n Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Ventura\n </strong>\n is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies.\n </em>\n Ventura is the host of the television show\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n </em>\n on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Russell\n </strong>\n is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n </em>\n . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n <em>\n  Joan Rivers Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  NBC Nightly News\n </em>\n . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19385'),
(22451, 'The 6th Target', 'James Patterson; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women''s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren''t demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she''d face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5166'),
(22452, '7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10826');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(22453, '7_Faith', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Deighton''s beleaguered British spy, Bernard Samson, returns to kick off the third trilogy in the outstanding series that has run from 1984''s Berlin Game through 1990''s Spy Sinker. Taking up where Sinker left off, in the fall of 1987 (thus making Deighton perhaps the only major thriller author who''s still writing about the Cold War), this rich entry finds Samson leaving California to pick up VERDI, code name for a high-ranking East German Stasi officer who may be defecting to Britain''s SIS. The operation goes disastrously wrong during a shoot-out in East Germany, but Samson manages to get back to London, where he encounters real danger and fighting: the take-no-prisoners politicking within the SIS, involving Samson, his duplicitous wife and a slew of internal enemies and possible friends. Deighton''s penchant for explosive violence, telling detail and throwaway humor (too much coffee, Samson comments to his boss, "''makes some people very tense.'' ''Not me,'' said Dicky, biting into a fingernail. ''I''m used to it''") are much in evidence here, and readers will enjoy some of the finest intramural politicking since C.P. Snow. What''s more problematic is whether they''ll relish a tale set in the Cold War and thus lacking the unpredictability of stories set in the post-Soviet world or the nostalgia of those evoking less recent wars, like Deighton''s own SS-GB. Given the author''s mastery of the genre, though, the odds are that they will, strongly. 125,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Remember Bernard Samson from Deighton''s "Hook, Line, and Sinker" series? He''s back again, ready to do battle with the bad guys in a 125,000-copy first printing.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Deighton''s beleaguered British spy, Bernard Samson, returns to kick off the third trilogy in the outstanding series that has run from 1984''s Berlin Game through 1990''s Spy Sinker. Taking up where Sinker left off, in the fall of 1987 (thus making Deighton perhaps the only major thriller author who''s still writing about the Cold War), this rich entry finds Samson leaving California to pick up VERDI, code name for a high-ranking East German Stasi officer who may be defecting to Britain''s SIS. The operation goes disastrously wrong during a shoot-out in East Germany, but Samson manages to get back to London, where he encounters real danger and fighting: the take-no-prisoners politicking within the SIS, involving Samson, his duplicitous wife and a slew of internal enemies and possible friends. Deighton''s penchant for explosive violence, telling detail and throwaway humor (too much coffee, Samson comments to his boss, "''makes some people very tense.'' ''Not me,'' said Dicky, biting into a fingernail. ''I''m used to it''") are much in evidence here, and readers will enjoy some of the finest intramural politicking since C.P. Snow. What''s more problematic is whether they''ll relish a tale set in the Cold War and thus lacking the unpredictability of stories set in the post-Soviet world or the nostalgia of those evoking less recent wars, like Deighton''s own SS-GB. Given the author''s mastery of the genre, though, the odds are that they will, strongly. 125,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Remember Bernard Samson from Deighton''s "Hook, Line, and Sinker" series? He''s back again, ready to do battle with the bad guys in a 125,000-copy first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11863'),
(22454, '7_Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention a headstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7447'),
(22455, '7_The Runaway Jury', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2444'),
(22456, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(22457, '7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club faces not one-but two-terrifying cases that may tear it apart. The teenage son of California''s ex-governor has mysteriously vanished-and the pressure on Detective Lindsay Boxer to find him is overwhelming. When she finally does get a lead, it''s devastating. At the same time, Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, must investigate mysterious fires that are destroying some of San Francisco''s most beautiful homes-and leaving their owners dead in the debris. But when Lindsay enlists her friends in the Women''s Murder Club to help uncover the arsonist, the blazes suddenly rage much too close to home . . . and the detective''s life may go up in flames.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(22458, 'The 7th Victim', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Jacobson''s tepid third thriller (after\n <em>\n  Hunted\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n ), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who''s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between Karen''s attempts to unravel the clues left behind at the crime scenes and glimpses of the Dead Eyes Killer himself as he stalks future victims. A messy divorce and custody battle threaten to distract Karen, as do her tentative relationship with a local detective and disturbing revelations about her family history. The author fails to put a fresh spin on any of the genre''s cliches--the serial killer who taunts law enforcement, the FBI agent with an implausible connection to the case, the chaotic crime scene that contains clues only the hero can crack. Though Jacobson''s research into the FBI''s Behavioral Analysis Unit is evident, he overloads his story with too much information and unbelievable coincidences.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jacobson''s third novel (after\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Hunted\n </em>\n ) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer''s crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail''s personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author''s seven years of study with the FBI''s profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.â€”Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19070'),
(22459, '8_Hope', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Bernard Sampson, survivor and spy epy extraordinaire, the star of Len Deighton''s two previous bestselling trilogies--Game, Set and Match and Spy Hook, Spy Line and Spy Sinker--is back in the dazzling new series: Faith, Hope and Charity. Using as a backdrop the months before the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Eastern Bloc dissolved, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies and moles, agents and double agents pitted in which physical violence is only the beginning.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran British spy Bernard Samson returns to fight further Cold War battles in this deceptively easygoing sequel to Faith (and prequel to Charity), set in 1987. Here, the dour secret agent tries to track down his Polish brother-in-law, George Kosinski, who seems to have returned to his homeland in hope that his wife, presumed dead, is still alive. Samson, along with his aggravating superior, Dicky Cruyer, trails his quarry from Switzerland to Poland in the wake of the October 1987 stock market crash, only to be presented with evidence that Kosinski is dead?killed, it is said, by Russian army deserters. Samson doesn''t buy the alleged facts of Kosinski''s death, and events prove him correct?right up to the conclusion, a hair-breadth''s escape from oblivion for himself and others. Deighton''s carefully crafted but seemingly nonchalant narration?droll, almost deadpan?fits perfectly the character of Samson, a perceptive but closed-mouthed gent who is seemingly unimpressed by events like the sudden appearance of a dead body in his ex-mistress''s bedroom or the bizarre theft of a severed hand. Exciting moments are handled casually, while causal conversations are given the detail expected of important ones, resulting in a version of reality that is disjointed and emotionally distanced, as a master spy''s take on things may very well be. Deighton gives readers unfamiliar with Samson''s troubled life plenty of background information, so newcomers as well as old series hands should take equal pleasure in this subtly intense offering by perhaps the only author other than le Carre who deserves to be known as "spymaster."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Perenially popular British spy Bernard Samson resurfaces here in Deighton''s ninth adventure. It is the winter of 1987. Samson''s brother-in-law, George Kosinski, has disappeared and Samson is stuck with his irascible boss, Dicky Cruyer, following leads across Poland''s raw and inhospitable terrain. They trek from the Kosinski country estate, where Nazi tunnels and bunkers lurk for miles, to the black-market bazaars of Warsaw, where reality becomes dreamlike. In the previous trilogy (e.g., Spy Line, LJ 12/1/88), Samson discovered that his gorgeous wife, Fiona, was a double agent. Now his relationships with both Fiona and his young mistress, Gloria, are disintegrating. Uncertain whether Kosinski is dead or alive, Samson returns to Berlin to face the Christmas holiday alone. After a physical breakdown, he rallies to explore his hunch that Kosinski is alive. Deighton''s Poland is a macabre yet captivating landscape wherein scraps of hope, like meat, are scarce. Recommended for popular collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10505'),
(22460, '8_The Partner', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2689'),
(22461, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(22462, 'The 8th Confession', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As San Francisco''s most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city''s most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it''s the *perfect* murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home. As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the story could be *huge*. Probing deeper into the victim''s history, she discovers he may not have been quite as saintly as everyone thought. As the hunt for two criminals tests the limits of the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Women''s Murder Club now faces its toughest challenge: will love destroy all that four friends have built? The exhilarating new chapter in the Women''s Murder Club series, *The 8th Confession* serves up a double dose of speed-charged twists and shocking revelations as only James Patterson can. And remember, this is the only Murder Club episode of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5173'),
(22463, '9_Charity', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   The third volume in the trilogy that began with FAITH and HOPE, in which Bernard Samson wonders how the Cold War will end for him and his family and whether he can continue to out-fox the upper-class desk pilots who have so cleverly dominated his life.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After steering master spy Bernard Samson through\n  <strong>\n   Charity\n  </strong>\n  . Although the beleaguered spook has plenty of intrigue to deal with, this installment seems more diffuse and less plot-driven than its predecessors. Still, Deighton fans will probably enjoy the resolution of several outstanding cliffhangers, including the likelihood of a decent retirement package for the protagonist.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this successor to Faith and Hope, British spy Bernard Samson has used up nine lives as the hero of three trilogies. Yet he, and Deighton, remain full of vitality. In his latest depiction of the hermetic world of English spies, "all those inscrutable public-school ruffians," Deighton brings us up to 1988. Because Deighton''s work is an evolving saga of spycraft channeled through Samson''s life and times, readers unfamiliar with the earlier books may feel like newcomers at a dinner party for old friends. As Deighton regulars appear-including Samson''s tortured, rising intelligence star, Fiona; her vulgar father; department members Dicky, Bret and Gloria; Samson''s mentor, Silas; and his boyhood pal, Werner-there''s a lot of hashing and re-hashing of old and new murders, a dying ex-spy and a missing lockbox. Quickly enough, all readers will be swept up by the complicated plot and by Samson''s sly asides: "Maps are of course the decor adopted by men reluctant to display their taste in art"; an American Anglophile''s car "was tall and angular, built in those days before every Rolls wanted to squat down and look like a Mercedes." Despite an ending that is surprisingly mild, this tale, like those before it, is well crafted and reliably satisfying. $100,000 ad/promo; simultaneous HarperPaper publication of Hope; U.K., translation rights: Brie Burkeman; first serial and dramatic rights: Jonathan Clowes.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14115'),
(22464, '9_Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12056'),
(22465, '9_The Street Lawyer', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2080'),
(22466, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Over 600,000 in print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(22467, '91 Biggles &amp; the Deep Blue Sea', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14874'),
(22468, '97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement', 'Jane Ziegelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In "97 Orchard," Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York''s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century--a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as "pizzarelli," while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. "97 Orchard" charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(22469, '98.6 degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive', 'Cody Lundin; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages Rights: W, Survival/Nature "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise. Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(22470, '98.6 degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive', 'Cody Lundin &amp; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rights: W, Survival/Nature\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Cody Lundin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18919'),
(22471, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5179'),
(22472, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(22473, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White &amp; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18752'),
(22474, 'The A.B.C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHer best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?â€ (Bristol Evening Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie.â€ (Sunday Times (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn entirely original idea.â€ (Daily Telegraph (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMrs. Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective storyâ€”a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.â€ (The Times (London) )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover,\n <strong>\n  B\n </strong>\n is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill,\n <strong>\n  C\n </strong>\n is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confidentâ€”but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5201'),
(22475, 'The A.b.c. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirotâ€™s most challenging cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15877'),
(22476, '&quot;A&quot; is for Alibi', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number-one suspect. The jury thought so, too.Eight years later and out on parole, Niki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner--and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely--and still angry over Fife''s betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills--and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include them all, with Millhone following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she finds herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(22477, 'Aaron&#39;s Rod', 'D. H. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15875'),
(22478, 'The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages', 'Nancy Marie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pontiff in question is Sylvester II, pope from 999 to 1003. From the fragmentary evidence about Gerbert of Aurillac, Sylvesterâ€™s name before his elevation, Brown resourcefully recounts his remarkable career and boldly asserts that the history of mathematics must be revised in light of Gerbertâ€™s life. Born to a humble station around 950, Gerbertâ€™s precocity impressed bishops and counts, and his friendship-forming personality, visible in surviving letters, showed up in places from Barcelona to Reims to Rome. Brown speculates that he also may have studied in Cordoba, then a center of Islamic erudition, where he may have learned about Arabic numerals, the abacus, and the astrolabe. In any event, she recounts that Gerbert served as a conduit of Arab science into Christian Europe as schoolmaster at Reims. His medieval scholarly renown subsequently attracted the attention of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. As readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Overflowing with illuminating material,Â _The Abacus and the Cross_Â is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about." --Maria Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Keith Devlin, Stanford University professor and author of _Fibonacciâ€™s Bridge of Numbers: the Medieval Visionary and the Book that Launched the Modern World\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNancy Marie Brownâ€™s book provides a fascinating, well researched, in depth study of the life and times of one of the key figures who brought modern arithmetic into Western Europe.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Marilyn Yalom, author of _Birth of the Chess Queen\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThis book will change how you think about the so-called Dark Ages.Â  Well-researched, well-written, and vividly illuminating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA thoroughly engrossing account of the Dark Ages and one of its Popes, both far less dark than popular histories teach. . . .The years around 1000 CE seem to be every medieval historianâ€™s favorite era, but Brownâ€™s welcome addition to the genre provides a lively, eye-opening portrait of a sophisticated Europe whose intellectual leaders showed genuine interest in learning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Science Writers Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œAs she reconstructs the strangely illuminated Europe of the Dark Ages, Brown reminds readers that the major conflicts in our world todayâ€”between Christianity and Islam, between religion and scienceâ€”are products of our own age, not historical inevitabilities.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. Â This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rags-to-riches sagaâ€¦ captures how the direction of history can be influenced by one person. . . . Had Gerbert lived longer and been more politically savvy, Brownâ€™s portrait makes one believe his ability to teach might have jump-started science before the Dark Ages enveloped Europe. VERDICT: Enjoyable to read, informative, and highly recommended for all history and history of science buffs.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Rosa Menocal, author ofÂ _The Ornament of the WorldÂ _and co-author ofÂ _The Arts of Intimacy_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOverflowing with illuminating material,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about: the second half of the tenth century, when Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would be pope at the much-anticipated millennium, came of age. Among Brownâ€™s many virtues is her ability to weave the intellectual and the material into a seamless narrative, so that when her readers learn about what books the monks of a monastery might be copyingâ€”and how those volumes connect to the intellectual past and futureâ€”they are also going to learn the mechanics of the copying itself, beginning with the cultivation of the animals whose skins will become parchment. She has the scientistâ€™s eye for detail and the historianâ€™s gift of storytelling and she has not one but dozens of great stories to tell about this transformative moment in Latin Christendom, as it began to embrace the foundations of modern science and technology.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Rubenstein, author ofÂ _Aristotleâ€™s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Abacus and the Cross_ tells the fascinating, little known story of the â€˜Scientist-Popeâ€™ Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac), whom older writers long considered a practitioner of the Black Arts. In this vividly presented, scrupulously researched biography, Nancy Marie Brown shows how a few open-minded intellectuals illuminated the Dark Ages by importing scientific knowledge and methods into Christian Europe from Muslim Spain. Brownâ€™s descriptions of Gerbertâ€™s â€˜magicalâ€™ instruments, the abacus, celestial spheres, and astrolabe, as well as of his worship of a mathematically-inspired Creator, make important contributions to the history of medieval science.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œMs. Brownâ€™s easily readable history draws the reader into a world of political intrigue, the excitement of introducing the abacus and astrolabe to Europe, and the shaky ground that surrounding the broader culture of Europe around 1000. Her book is a useful reminder that clear and well-reasoned history is by no means simplistic. The story of dâ€™Aurillacâ€™s life and papacy shows a medieval milieu more complex than oft portrayed.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19316'),
(22479, 'Abandon', 'Meg Cabot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Meg Cabot:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCabot shows the dark side behind the bling-blingy superficial worlds.â€ â€”Teenreads.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[The] strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, and the possibility of romance will draw mystery and chick-lit readers alike." â€”ALA Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBag the tiara and get out the gun ... Cabot delivers.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can''t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she''s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now she''s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only she can''t. Because even here, he finds her. That''s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he''s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn''t exactly heaven, yet she can''t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19278'),
(22480, 'ABARAT', 'Sandra Cardenas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16512'),
(22481, 'Abbott, Belle K - Leah Mordecai', 'Leah Mordecai', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9573'),
(22482, 'Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(22483, 'ABC Amber LIT Converter', 'Bite Me', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20710'),
(22484, 'ABC Amber Text Converter http://www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/', 'ABC Amber Text Converter http://www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18157'),
(22485, 'ABC Amber Text Converter http://www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/abctxt.html', 'ABC Amber Text Converter http://www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/abctxt.html', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17252'),
(22486, 'An ABC OF SCIENCE FICTION: Let&#39;s Be Frank; Pattern; The Awakening; I Do Not Hear You Sir; Day at the Beach; The King of the Beasts; Homey Atmosphere; Mute Milton; The Conquest by the Moon; In the Bag; Maid to Measure; X Marks the Pedwalk; No Moon for Me', 'Tom (editor) (brian Aldiss; Fredric Brown; Arthur C. Clarke; Avram Davidson; Carol Emshwiller; Philip Jose Farmer; Daniel F. Galouye; Harry Harrison; Washington Irving; Laurence M. Janifer; Damon Knight; Fritz Leiber; Walter M. Miller) Boardman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15434'),
(22487, 'The Abduction - Book 1', 'King, J. Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5203'),
(22488, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she''s ever been unfaithful to her husband. Just as Republican candidate Lincoln Howe (read: Colin Powell) is about to pull ahead, his granddaughter is kidnapped. Leahy''s own newly adopted baby daughter was the victim of a similar crime eight years earlier. Are the abductions linked? Is someone connected to either of the candidates responsible? Those are the questions that never quite propel Grippando''s latest, after The Informant. While that novel had a strong narrative engine fueled by insider information on the FBI, this one never hits second gear. Neither Leahy nor Howe seems a particularly worthy candidate or likable person, and the possible villains?an ex-boyfriend, a pair of conniving campaign managers, Leahy''s tough businessman husband?are equally flat and unconvincing. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A U.S. attorney general running for president must deal with the kidnapping of an opponent''s granddaughter.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5204'),
(22489, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15878'),
(22490, 'Aboriginal America', 'Jacob Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n non-fiction; prose,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15879'),
(22491, 'About a Boy', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else''s very real son--a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown up. From the acclaimed author of "High Fidelity" comes this national bestseller that "GQ" calls "Clever and winning".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15880'),
(22492, 'About a Dragon', 'G.A. Aiken', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Erotic Romance. 106382 words long. First published in 2006, 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16182');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(22493, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15695'),
(22494, 'Above All Have Fun', 'Anthony, Joelle - Above All Have Fun', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15509'),
(22495, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose.".." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon "The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln," and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the "true" life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15696'),
(22496, 'Absent Friends', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15698'),
(22497, 'The Absentee', 'Maria Edgeworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5213'),
(22498, 'Absolute Zero', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan''s previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing and fills in for his uncle as a wilderness guide in the northernmost reaches of the state. It''s hardly a pleasure trip: Broker''s soldier wife, Nina, has just split with their child, and one of Broker''s three clients, action writer Hank Sommer, is constantly fighting with his wife, Jolene, by cell phone while Dr. Allen Falken and lawyer Milt Bane look on. Caught by a sudden blizzard as they are kayaking, Broker nearly drowns until Sommer fights their kayak across the lake, but ruptures his colon in the effort. At a minimal hospital with no surgeon in snowbound Ely, Falken operates with local nurse anesthetist Amy Skoda, but Sommer goes into post-op coma and Skoda gets the blame. Then Sommer''s sexy wife takes Sommer home early, and the kinky death of a CPA, Cliff Stovall, hits the news. Pondering Sommer''s last words "tell Cliff to move the money" Broker teams up with Skoda to visit Sommer and Jolene, but Skoda gets info that puts their lives in danger. Lured back to Ely and tricked by experts, Broker and Skoda are put out of action, and the scene is set for a shattering surprise ending. Logan parlays the plot elements with the icy finesse of James M. Cain and draws characters so real you can feel the body heat steaming off the page. Once again, he proves himself an awesome storyteller with a unique voice and a flawless sense of place and mood. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour; Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his winning streak, Logan (The Big Law) brings back recurring character Phil Broker, now as a wilderness guide rather than an undercover police officer. Broker leads three minimally equipped men deep into the Minnesota woods to hunt moose. Before they can bag a beast, however, a massive storm destroys most of their supplies and critically injures one of the men. As the troupe''s guide, it falls to Phil to get to civilization and bring back a rescue team before the man dies. The rescue and subsequent events connect their four lives in unexpected ways. Readers will delights in the first-rate characterization and compelling plot filled with unexpected twists. Recommended for popular fiction collections. Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15700'),
(22499, 'Absolution Gap', 'Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18149'),
(22500, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionâ€“and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Denning is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star; the Star Wars: Dark Nest trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War; and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, Inferno, and Invincible\n </strong>\n â€“as well as\n <em>\n  Pages of Pain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond the High Road\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Summoning\n </em>\n , and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15702'),
(22501, 'Acacia: Book One: The War with the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest, slaving and drug trade. The Acacian empire, encompassing "The Known World," is hated by its subjugated peoples, especially the Mein, who 22 generations earlier were exiled to the icy northland. Having sent an assassin to kill the Acacian king, Leodan, the rebel chieftain, Hanish Mein, declares war on the empire. As Acacia falls, Leodan''s treasonous but conflicted chancellor, Thaddeus Clegg, spirits the king''s four children to safety. When the Mein''s rule proves even more tyrannical than the old, the former chancellor seeks to reunite the now adult Akaran heirsâ€”the oldest son Aliver (once heir to the throne), the beautiful elder daughter Corinn, their younger sister, Mena, and youngest brother, Darielâ€”to lead a war to regain the empire. Durham has created a richly detailed alternate reality leavened with a dollop of magic and populated by complicated personalities grappling with issues of freedom and oppression.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Anthony Durham, the author of three historical novels, envisions a fascinating, fully developed world in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  . He delves into great detail-explaining religious beliefs, political philosophies, even courting rituals-to draw the reader into his creation. Critics acknowledge the necessity of these "info dumps" (_Science Fiction and Fantasy News_) as setups for future volumes of the saga, while maintaining that the frequent descriptions did not detract from the absorbing, fast-paced plot. Readers won''t find any wizards or dragons in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  ; it is narrated in the alternating voices of genuine, convincing characters that blur the lines between good and evil. Packed with suspense, intrigue, and adventure, most readers will devour this first\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  installment and impatiently await the next.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15706'),
(22502, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord''s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it''s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord''s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15708'),
(22503, 'Accelerando', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16811'),
(22504, 'Accident', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with Steel''s trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her 32nd novel (after Vanished ) is set in California''s plush Marin County. Page Clarke, devoted wife of Brad and mother of Allyson and Andy, finds her golden life shattered when 15-year-old Allyson sneaks off with friend Chloe to meet two boys. In a subsequent head-on collision, one boy is killed, Chloe is seriously injured and Allyson lapses into a coma. Page can''t reach Brad, who confesses when he comes home that he is having an affair. Stunned and hurt, Page keeps a vigil at Allyson''s bedside while also coping with needy seven-year-old Andy and an ambivalent husband who can''t decide whether to stay or leave. Her only support comes from Chloe''s father, Trygve Thorensen, who has been the primary caretaker for his kids since their mother divorced him. Other plot twists include a visit from Page''s self-indulgent, neurotic mother and her sister, and a secret concerning the driver of the other car in the accident. While not drawn in much depth, the characters are believable; Trygve in particular is likable and nurturing. The ending is predictable but pleasant, bound to delight Steel''s fans. One million first printing; national ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s 32nd work, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, but at least Page can lean on handsome Trygve, father of her daughter''s best friend.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15710'),
(22505, 'The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car''s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he''s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he''s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who''s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian''s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAudacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft . . . Maybe itâ€™s true and maybe it isnâ€™t, but either way itâ€™s a great thriller read. I loved it.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the best first thriller I have read since\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal\n </em>\n , and that was a long time ago. With one mighty bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Frederick Forsythâ€™s tail.â€\n <br />\n â€”Wilbur Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18516'),
(22506, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her. Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5216'),
(22507, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler &amp; Jennifer Bassett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon''s attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon''s life gets more and more complicated.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19097'),
(22508, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15712'),
(22509, 'The Accusers', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of "informer" Marcus Didius Falco will be glad to find the classical world''s answer to the modern-day gumshoe back in Rome in Davis''s stellar historical, the 15th entry in this witty and learned series, after two adventures set in Britain (A Body in the Bathhouse; The Jupiter Myth). In an effort to resume his career as an informer on his home turf, Falco ends up playing advocate in a messy dispute that pits him against two highly successful "legals," Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus. The convoluted case, which involves a wealthy, fractious family and tricky questions of inheritance, gives Davis the opportunity to explore the vagaries of Roman law, which she approaches with her usual mix of respect and sarcasm. The corruption conviction of senator Rubirius Metellus followed by his mysterious demise threaten the Metelli family''s fortunes. Hired to prove the senator''s death was not a suicide, Falco finds himself immersed in scandal, blackmail, corruption and intrigueÃ¢â‚¬"common ingredients of legal practice. In one particularly fine scene, Falco delivers a speech in the Basilica that relies on amusing and effective rhetorical tricks. Wry, cynical and principled, Falco makes the perfect guide to Davis''s vividly realized ancient Rome.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rome, 75 A.D. Marcus Didius Falco, professional informer (that is, private investigator), returns to Italy after an extended trip to Britain and finds that his clients have forgotten him. Falco needs a new case to put some money in the coffers, so he signs on to investigate the supposed suicide of a senator who was recently exposed as corrupt. But, after he''s talked to a few interested parties and made a few discoveries, Falco begins to wish he had passed on the case. This is the fifteenth Falco mystery, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. Falco (who narrates the novel in a noirish but never anachronistic tone) is a personable hero, and the stories are always suspenseful and surprising. Also, Davis knows how to stage a mystery against a historical backdrop without overwhelming us with information. Many historical series go flat once the milieu becomes familiar, but this one continues to mix its history and its mystery in a pleasing blend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5219'),
(22510, 'Acheron', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most anticipated story in the blockbuster Dark-Hunter series. The never-before-revealed story of the Dark-Hunter leader, Acheron. He was made human in order to escape death, but in death he was reborn a god. . . Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. However, his human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Then, brought back against his will, Acheron became the sole defender of mankind. Only it was never that simple. For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past heâ€™ll do anything to keep concealed. Until a lone woman who refuses to be intimidated by him threatens his very existence. Now his survival, and ours, hinges on hers and old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both. War has never been more deadly... or more fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15714'),
(22511, 'Acorna', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17756'),
(22512, 'Acorna 01- Quest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15724'),
(22513, 'Acorna 01- Unicorn Girl', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15715'),
(22514, 'Acorna 03 - Acorna&#39;s People', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15719'),
(22515, 'Acorna 05 - Acorna&#39;s Search', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15729'),
(22516, 'Acorna 06 - Acorna&#39;s Rebels', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15725'),
(22517, 'Acorna 07 - Acorna&#39;s Triumph', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15731'),
(22518, 'Acorna&#39;s People', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna''s Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. And with the help of a rogue spacetrader and his feline sidekick, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than the Khleevi. Along the way, she will at last uncover the Universe''s most carefully guarded secret--the true nature of the ancient link between the Linyaari and the space-faring humans she has also come to think of as her "people."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15722'),
(22519, 'Acorna&#39;s People', 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17796'),
(22520, 'Acorna&#39;s Quest', 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17707'),
(22521, 'Acorna&#39;s Rebels', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Acorna''s people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Acorna''s beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Setting off on a quest to find Aari, Acorna and her friends -- Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK -- are forced to crash land on the beautiful and barbaric exotic jungle world of Makahomia, home of the mysterious Temple Cats. But an evil scheme threatens to destroy the sacred felines. To save the cats, Acorna will lead a band of rebels on a journey into Makahomia''s  temples and hidden sanctuaries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And there, within one sacred shrine, she will discover shocking information that could lead to Aari . . .or to disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15727'),
(22522, 'Acorna&#39;s Search', 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 5', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17747'),
(22523, 'Acorna&#39;s Triumph', 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 7', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17744'),
(22524, 'Acorna&#39;s World', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acorna the "unicorn girl" -- found as a baby years ago, abandoned and floating alone in an escape pod at the far end of the galaxy -- has made peace with her past, her *Linyaari* heritage, and with the powerful "differences" that set her apart from the loving humans who raised her. But only in the deep reaches of limitless space can she truly feel at home. Now, aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel *Condor*, Acorna is free once more, traveling through space in the company of her good friend, ship''s commander Captain Jonas Becker, his gargantuan feline "first mate" Roadkill, and Aari, a proud *Linyaari* survivor of torture at the hands of the savage, bug-like *Khleevi*. But the journey is interrupted when a transmitted distress call -- faint but undeniable -- draws Acorna and her companions down to the surface of a nearby planet. What awaits them is a world of wonders, shrouded in an atmosphere of strange, intoxicating perfumes. Intelligent, sentiment plants help guide Acorna, Becker, Aari, and RK to the source of the SOS. But a broken, burned out -- alien ship is all they find, the pitiful remnants of a relentlessly brutal yet carefully coordinated assault. To Acorna, the signs are unmistakable. This is the grim handiwork of the cold-blooded species that seeks the complete eradication of all human and *Linyaari* life from the galaxy...the *Khleevi*! And suddenly all that Acrona holds dear is in grave peril. Because the devastation that was wrought here was no isolated occurence, but the opening move in a planned onslaught that will decimate the two races to whom Acorna is culturally, emotionally, and genetically tied. A worlds-shattering catastrophe is in the making -- unless one courageous and beautiful young woman with remarkable healing powers and her small, motley group of friends can go the unthinkable: discover the fearsome insectile enemy''s greatest weakness...and strike first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15732'),
(22525, 'Acorna&#39;s World', 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 4', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17732'),
(22526, 'Acqua Alta', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Donna Leonâ€™s growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in what many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught of *acqua alta*â€”the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a manâ€™s body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full of marvelous plot twists, *Acqua Alta* is a chilling addition to Donna Leonâ€™s addictive series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15734'),
(22527, 'Acre in the Sky', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15736'),
(22528, 'Across the Bridge', 'Mavis Gallant &amp; Robertson Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer whoâ€“like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munroâ€“has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. InAcross the Bridgefour of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In â€œ1933â€ their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was â€œclever with her hands.â€ In â€œThe Chosen Husbandâ€ the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marieâ€™s mother and sister: â€œBut then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. â€˜How dark it is,â€™ said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.â€ We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymondâ€™s flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. â€œâ€˜The place was full of Canadians,â€™ he said. â€˜They stole like raccoons...â€™â€ With the exception of â€œThe Fenton Child,â€ an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. â€œAcross the Bridge,â€ the title story, begins with the narratorâ€™s mother throwing her reluctant daughterâ€™s wedding invitations into the Seine. â€œI watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.â€ This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19271'),
(22529, 'Across the Nightingale Floor', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦ This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...across the nightingale floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15737'),
(22530, 'Across the river and into the trees', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway''s statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway''s last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O''Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16287'),
(22531, 'Across the Universe', 'Beth Revis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n challenges readers to consider the impact of unchecked power, blind trust, and the ability of one dissenting voice to make a difference.--\n <em>\n  Seira Wilson\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Preview the Spacecraft in\n  <em>\n   Across the Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n , Godspeed is a vast spaceship, the size of a small county. The lives of its passengers are severely regulated. And people are divided into three categories--Feeders, Shippers, and Keepers--represented by the three levels of the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn''t know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy''s and Elder''s points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don''t enjoy science fiction. Revis''s thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15739'),
(22532, 'Across the Wall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself. ''Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case'' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, that range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart. Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today''s leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.Garth Nix is the author of The Old Kingdom trilogy and the Keys to the Kingdom series''The reader''s absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure '' AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15742'),
(22533, 'The Act of Love', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Â Â Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece,Â \n   <i>\n    Kalooki Nights\n   </i>\n   , acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.\n   <p>\n    All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The Act of Love\n    </i>\n    Â is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5220'),
(22534, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in "New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller. It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose. When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15743'),
(22535, 'Act of Will', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don''t want you thinking you''re going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You''re not, I''m not, and in my experience it never does. Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift scenes, Hartley (\n  <i>\n   On the Fifth Day\n  </i>\n  ) deftly proves that people you shouldn''t trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.\n  <i>\n   (Mar.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This fantasy by a Shakespearean scholar tells the story of hapless young actor William Hawthorne in a fictional world that, not unlike Elizabethan England, brims with intrigue. Saving his neck by joining a band of heroes led by a warrior possessed of a magical and powerful sword, Hawthorne unwittingly joins a battle against an evil empire bent on crushing everyone to its will. The subsequent story is at times formulaic, the whole piece a pastiche of clichÃ©s and plot twists from better-known movies and adventure fiction. Only someone unfamiliar with the genre may be surprised, for example, that Hartleyâ€™s foolish and cowardly protagonist learns, over the course of this ripping yarn, to be wise and brave. Hartleyâ€™s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut, and his battle scenes so exciting and well described, however, that one quickly forgives his betimes paint-by-numbers development. All this is especially true of the compulsively readable second half, which unfolds with remarkable elegance and power. --Jack Helbig\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15744'),
(22536, 'Active Meditation: The Western Tradition', 'Robert R. Leichtman; Carl Japikse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a clear, practical description of all aspects of meditation. The authors show people how to improve relationships, be more creative, heal the emotions, etc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15745'),
(22537, 'The active side of infinity', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16308'),
(22538, 'Acts of faith', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Philip Caputoâ€™s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. Thereâ€™s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who canâ€™t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15746'),
(22539, 'Acts of Malice', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O''Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O''Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly''s life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Acts of Malice\n </em>\n begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area''s largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other examples of the O''Shaughnessy expertise include\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O''Shaughnessy sisters'' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly''s client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex''s chest match the soles of Jim''s footgear. But the suspect claims he''s being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim''s wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn''t get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15747');
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(22540, 'Acts of Nature', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Florida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King''s fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.). The vacation trip that Max and his cop girlfriend, Sherry Richards, take to his Everglades cabin and then to a friend''s even more remote fishing camp turns into a struggle for survival when hurricane Simone shifts course unpredictably. A trio of unscrupulous thieves scavenging in the hurricane''s wake and a pair of deadly security guards out to protect an illegal asset compound the danger. King vividly describes the hurricane''s force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen''s\n <em>\n  Stormy Weather\n </em>\n and Tim Dorsey''s\n <em>\n  Hurricane Punch\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The latest entry in the Max Freeman series (King won an Edgar with the debut of cop-turned-recluse Freeman in 2002''s Blue Eye of Midnight) is every bit as polished and absorbing as its four predecessors, and it trumps King''s own standards for description with a stunning depiction of a hurricane and its aftermath. A longtime Philadelphia crime reporter, King knows cops well, and it shows in the hero he has crafted. Ex-cop Freeman has been holed up in a former research shack deep in the Florida Everglades, accepting some detective work from an old lawyer friend but mostly hiding himself away from his horror at having killed a 12-year-old boy in a robbery attempt. Each novel inches Freeman away from his grief and into life; King is both a master plotter and an able psychologist. In his latest, Freeman and his new love, a South Florida detective, are enjoying a break at Max''s retreat when a hurricane rips apart the shack, nearly killing Freeman''s girlfriend. This novel is more adventure-suspense tale than mystery, as the couple struggles to survive, first against the hurricane and then against the villains who flood into the Everglades. King juxtaposes Max''s first-person narration with third-person accounts of criminals in a breathtaking series of survival moves. Gripping. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15748'),
(22541, 'Adam &amp; Eve', 'Sena Jeter Naslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happened to Eden? The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab''s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanityâ€”the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &amp; Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date. Hours before his untimelyâ€”and highly suspiciousâ€”death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofâ€”or acceptâ€”proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work. Devastated by Thom''s death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom''s friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it. Midway through the daring journey, Lucy''s small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy''s wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries. Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam &amp; Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &amp; Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15751'),
(22542, 'Adam &amp; No Eve', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18119'),
(22543, 'Adam Bede', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15757'),
(22544, 'Adams, Richard', 'Adams, Richard - Watership Down (4.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(22545, 'Adaptation', 'Mack Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom" ... and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorant" but "folly." Forward: Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to jumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars.And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy, Never in the history of the race had fervor reached such a peak and held so long. The question of why was seemingly ignored. Millions of Earth-t)pe planets beckoned and with a lemming-like desperation humanity erupted into them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the obstacles were frightening in their magnitude. The planets and satellites of Sol had proven comparatively tractable and those that were suited to man-life were quickly brought under his dominion. But there, of course, he had the advantage of proximity. The time involved in running back and forth to the home planet was meaningless and all Earth''s resources could be thrown into each problem''s solving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But a planet a year removed in transportation or even communication? Ay! this was another thing and more than once a million colonists were lost before the Earthlings could adapt to new climates, new flora and fauna, new bacteria-or to factors which the most far out visionary had never fancied, perhaps the lack of something never before missed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So, mad with the lust to seed the universe with his kind, men sought new methods. To a hundred thousand worlds they sent smaller colonies, as few as a hundred pioneers apiece, and there marooned them, to adapt, if adapt they could.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For a millennium each colony was left to its own resources, to conquer the environment or to perish in the effort.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A thousand years was sufficient. Invariably it was found, on those planets where human life survived at all, man slipped back during his first two or three centuries into a state of barbarism. Then slowly began to inch forward again. There were exceptions and the progress on one planet never exactly duplicated that on another, however the average ivas surprisingly close to both nadir and zenith, in terms of evolution of society.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a thousand years it was deemed by the Office of Galactic Colonization such pioneers had largely adjusted to the new environment and were ready for civilization, industrialization and eventual assimilation into the rapidly evolving Galactic Commonwealth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15759'),
(22546, 'Adept 01 - The Adept', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15761'),
(22547, 'Adept 02 - The Lodge of the Lynx', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3174'),
(22548, 'Adept 03 - The Templar Treasure', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1950'),
(22549, 'Adept 04 - Dagger Magic', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5223'),
(22550, 'Adept 05 - Death of An Adept', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15764'),
(22551, 'Adept 1 - Split Infinity', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5962'),
(22552, 'Adept 2 - Blue Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14497'),
(22553, 'Adept 3 - Juxtaposition', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9786'),
(22554, 'Adept 4 - Out of Phaze', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8038'),
(22555, 'Adept 5 - Robot Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6944'),
(22556, 'Adept 6 - Unicorn Point', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/842'),
(22557, 'Adept 7 - Phaze Doubt', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7707'),
(22558, 'The Adinkra Cloth', 'Mary C Aldridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5225'),
(22559, 'Administrator', 'Anne Rice - Violin.PDF', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17770'),
(22560, 'Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ''This is your enemy''. I searched every compartment, but he wasn''t on the train''. Spike Milligan''s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15765'),
(22561, 'Adrian Hum', 'Aldiss, Brian W - There is a Tide', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15667'),
(22562, 'Adrift on the Mare Commutatio', 'Dana William Paxson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15767'),
(22563, 'The Adventure of Black Peter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5227'),
(22564, 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2541'),
(22565, 'The Adventure of Silver Blaze', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5228'),
(22566, 'The Adventure of the &quot;Gloria Scott&quot;', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5229'),
(22567, 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5230'),
(22568, 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5232'),
(22569, 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5233'),
(22570, 'The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady', 'Grant Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n an excerpt from the beginning of the story: ON the day when I found myself with two-pence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world. It was my stepfather''s death that drove me to it. I had never seen my stepfather. Indeed, I never even thought of him as anything more than Colonel Watts-Morgan. I owed him nothing, except my poverty. He married my dear mother when I was a girl at school in Switzerland; and he proceeded to spend her little fortune, left at her sole disposal by my father''s will, in paying his gambling debts. After that, he carried my dear mother off to Burma; and when he and the climate between them had succeeded in killing her, he made up for his appropriations at the cheapest rate by allowing me just enough to send me to Girton. So, when the Colonel died, in the year I was leaving college, I did not think it necessary to go into mourning for him. Especially as he chose the precise moment when my allowance was due, and bequeathed me nothing but his consolidated liabilities. ''Of course you will teach,'' said Elsie Petheridge, when I explained my affairs to her. ''There is a good demand just now for high-school teachers.'' I looked at her, aghast. ''Teach! Elsie, I cried (I had come up to town to settle her in at her unfurnished lodgings.) ''Did you say teach? That''s just like you dear good schoolmistresses! You go to Cambridge, and get examined till the heart and life have been examined out of you; then you say to yourselves at the end of it all, "Let me see; what am I good for now? I''m just about fit to go away and examine other people!" That''s what our Principal would call "a vicious circle"--if one could ever admit there was anything vicious at all about you, dear. No, Elsie, I do not propose to teach. Nature did not cut me out for a high-school teacher. I couldn''t swallow a poker if I tried for weeks. Pokers don''t agree with me. Between ourselves, I am a bit of a rebel.'' ''You are, Brownie,'' she answered, pausing in her papering, with her sleeves rolled up--they called me ''Brownie,'' partly because of my dark complexion, but partly because they could never understand me. ''We all knew that long ago.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5234'),
(22571, 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5235'),
(22572, 'Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and other stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of corpse in chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the of the dead man who altered his eating habits..and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these six baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15772'),
(22573, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5236'),
(22574, 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5078'),
(22575, 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5237'),
(22576, 'The Adventure Of The Devil&#39;s Foot', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5040'),
(22577, 'The Adventure of the Dying Detective', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5042'),
(22578, 'The Adventure of the Empty House', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5043'),
(22579, 'The Adventure of the Engineer&#39;s Thumb', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15774'),
(22580, 'The Adventure of the Final Problem', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4049'),
(22581, 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5045'),
(22582, 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5047'),
(22583, 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6506'),
(22584, 'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5048'),
(22585, 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5049'),
(22586, 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5050'),
(22587, 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5051'),
(22588, 'The Adventure of the Priory School', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5052'),
(22589, 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14206'),
(22590, 'The Adventure of the Second Stain', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6509'),
(22591, 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2542'),
(22592, 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5053'),
(22593, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5054'),
(22594, 'The Adventure of the Stockbroker&#39;s Clerk', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5056'),
(22595, 'The Adventure of the Three Students.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6197'),
(22596, 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5057'),
(22597, 'Adventurer', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15775'),
(22598, 'Adventures', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Con-man adventurer Dr. Lucifer Jones matches wits with hordes of cannibals, royal mummies, bloodthirsty vampires, the Lord of the Apes, the White Goddess, and other perils on the Dark Continent, in this satirical fantasy romp\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15776'),
(22599, 'Adventures in the Screen Trade', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15778'),
(22600, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado; Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15779'),
(22601, 'The Adventures of Button', 'Richard W. Leech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5060'),
(22602, 'The Adventures of Gerard', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15780'),
(22603, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15781'),
(22604, 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle', 'Tobias George Smollett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5067'),
(22605, 'The Adventures of Roderick Random', 'Tobias George Smollett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5072'),
(22606, 'The Adventures of Sam Spade', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5074'),
(22607, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle', 'Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS TITLE IS AN OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT BOOK. THE QUALITY OF THE CONVERTED EBOOK WILL VARY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6251'),
(22608, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5076'),
(22609, 'The adventures of Tom Bombadil: and other verses from The red book', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This adventure book tells of Tom''s encounters with the River-woman''s beautiful daughter, Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk, the ghostly Barrowwight, a lovely princess, trolls, dwarves, and legendary beasts. A delightful volume of 16 songs, rhymes and poems from the acclaimed The Hobbit. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5079'),
(22610, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5081'),
(22611, 'The adventurous four again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a story of the further adventures of four children who get into some hair-raising scrapes, but always manage to survive them. It is one in a series of adventure stories by Enid Blyton, and should appeal to both boys and girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5084'),
(22612, 'The adventurous four', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5082'),
(22613, 'Adversary 01-The Keep', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Â“Something is murdering my men.â€ Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that''s both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore--who just happens to be Jewish--to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way--a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny. The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other...the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing terror that man has inevitably awakened\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3530'),
(22614, 'Adversary 03 - The Touch', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touch **After a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scientific nature refuses to accept what is happening to him, but there is no rational explanation to be found. So Alan gives himself over to this mysterious power, reveling in the ability to cure the incurable, to give hope to the hopelessÂ—for one hour each day. Although he tries to hide his power, word inevitably leaks out, and soon Alanâ€™s life begins to unravel. His marriage and his practice crumble. Only rich, beautiful, enigmatic Sylvia Nash stands by him. And standing with her is Ba, her Vietnamese gardener, who once witnessed a power such as Dr. Bulmerâ€™s in his homeland, where it is called Dat-tay-vao. And the Dat-tay-vao always comes with a price. Help arrives from an unexpected quarterÂ—Senator James McCready offers the use of his familyâ€™s medical foundation to investigate Alanâ€™s supposed power. If it truly exists, he will back Alan with the full weight of the Foundationâ€™s international reputation. Feeling that he has reached bottom and that things can only get better, Alan accepts McCreadyâ€™s offer. But he has only begun to pay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1829'),
(22615, 'Adversary 04 - Reborn', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When an ancient artifact dissolves in the hands of a man calling himself Mr. Veilleur, he knows something has gone wrongÂ…terribly, cosmically wrong. Dr. Roderick Hanley, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, dies in a plane crash. His last words: Â“The boy! Theyâ€™ll find out about the boy! Heâ€™ll find out about himself!â€ When Jim Stevens, an orphan and struggling writer, learns that he is the sole heir to the Hanley estate, he is sure he has at last found his biological father. But heâ€™s only half right. The true nature of his inheritanceÂ—and the truth about his conceptionÂ—will crush him. In New York City a group of Charismatics has been drawn togetherÂ—without invitation, simply showing up at a Murray Hill brownstoneÂ—with a sense of great purpose. Satan is coming, and they have been chosen to fight him. Mr. Veilleur too has been drawn to the group, but he realizes itâ€™s not Satan who is coming. Satan would be a suitable au pair compared to the ancient evil that is in the process of being Reborn. Tor is reissuing the third title in the Adversary Cycle, *The Touch*, in July 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7196'),
(22616, 'Adversary 05 - Reprisal', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whenever accused child murderer (and defrocked priest) Bill Ryan is near a telephone, it wails a continuous ring. As soon as somebody answers it, the caller, a long-dead boy, begs to be rescued from the psycho who killed him. A fugitive from the law, Ryan (using the alias Will Ryerson) is stalked by a primeval and malevolent force across America in this successfully formulaic installment of the horror series begun in The Keep. Detective Sergeant Renaldo Augustino is also hunting Ryan, and plans to torture Ryan before arresting him. Meanwhile, the evil entity is settling an old grudge with Ryan by killing his loved ones. However, the fugitive''s fear is neither of apprehension nor death, but of the child whom he buried five years ago in an unmarked grave. A large cast of characters fleshes out the ranks in Wilson''s stagy battle pitting good against evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7193'),
(22617, 'Adversary 06 - Nightworld', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terror spreads throughout the world as the days grow shorter and the nights longer. As scientists rush to discover why the sun is rising later and later each day, an ancient evil waits to be reborn. Soon the vampire called Rasalom and the spiritual warrior Glaeken will fight the final battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8399'),
(22618, 'Advertise Your Cyanide', 'Kenneth Bulmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15782'),
(22619, 'An Aegean Prophecy', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece''s eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island''s thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos''s town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer.Andreas''s impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world''s oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church . . . in a matter of days.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15435'),
(22620, 'Aerophilia', 'Tobias S. Buckell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15684');
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(22621, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop &amp; Arthur Rackham &amp; V. S. Vernon Jones &amp; D. L. Ashliman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Aesop''s Fables\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Aesop\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Barnes &amp; Noble Classics_Â series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n As legend has it, the storyteller\n <strong>\n  Aesop\n </strong>\n was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again.\n</p>\n<p>\n This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created.\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  D. L. Ashliman\n </strong>\n is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From D. L Asliman''s Introduction to\n  <em>\n   Aesop''s Fables\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonâ€™t count your chickens before they are hatched!â€ â€œHe is a wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing.â€ â€œShe has a sour-grapes attitude.â€ â€œThey are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.â€ â€œHe demands the lionâ€™s share.â€ â€œDonâ€™t be like the boy who called â€˜wolf!â€™â€ These expressions are so much a part of our everyday language and culture that they seem to have been with us forever, and that is almost the case, for the fables that produced these proverbial sayings are indeed even older than (to name but three) the modern English, French, and German languages where today they are so much at home. The fables behind these sayings are those of arguably the most famous storyteller of all time, the legendary Aesop. Who was the man who created these timeless literary gems?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Man Aesop\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesop (sometimes spelled Ã†sop, Ã†sopus, Esop, Esope, orâ€”using the Greek form of his nameâ€”Aisopos) has been known in history and in legend since the fifth century b.c., or earlier, as a gifted Greek storyteller and the author of the worldâ€™s best-known collection of fables. However, it cannot be proven with any degree of certainty that he existed as a real person. Most modern scholars believe that Aesop was instead a name invented, already in antiquity, to provide attribution for a body of oral tales whose true authors were a number of anonymous storytellers. Martin Luther expressed this view some 500 years ago: â€œAttributing these stories to Aesop is, in my opinion, itself a fiction. Perhaps there has never been on earth a man by the name of Aesopâ€ (quoted in Jacobs,\n <em>\n  History of the Aesopic Fabl\n </em>\n , p. 15; see â€œFor Further Readingâ€).\n</p>\n<p>\n Although it is possible that there was indeed a gifted Greek storyteller by the name of Aesop, his reputation expanded to legendary proportions in the decades and centuries following his death, and with time many more stories and deeds were credited to him than he could have composed and performed. Supporting this view, many of the earliest references to the stories of Aesop refer to Aesopic (or Aesopian) fables rather than Aesopâ€™s fables. In other words, Aesopic, an adjective, describes a kind of story and a literary tradition but does not claim to identify a specific author.\n</p>\n<p>\n One thing is certain: Aesop, if he existed at all, did not leave behind a collection of written fables. His reputation is that of an oral storyteller, not an author of written literature. The oldest references to his fables refer to tales memorized and retold, not written and read. For example, from Aristophanesâ€™s comedy\n <em>\n  Wasps\n </em>\n (written in 422 b.c.) we learn that telling anecdotes and comic stories in the style of Aesop was common entertainment at banquets in ancient Athens. More seriously, in 360 b.c. Plato recorded in his dialog\n <em>\n  Phaedo\n </em>\n (section 61b) that Socrates, under sentence of death in prison, diverted himself by reformulating some of Aesopâ€™s fables. Platoâ€™s Phaedo quotes Socrates himself: â€œI took some fables of Aesop, which I had ready at hand and knew, and turned them into verse.â€ The doomed philosopher did not have a book or manuscript of Aesopâ€™s fables in prison with him, if such a book or manuscript even existed at the time. He knew the fables from memory, as did the partygoers in Aristophanesâ€™s comedy.\n</p>\n<p>\n The most frequently cited ancient reference to the man Aesop is found in the\n <em>\n  History\n </em>\n of the Greco-Persian Wars written by the Greek historian Herodotus about 425 b.c. Here we learn that Aesop, the fable writer, was a slave of Iadmon, son of Hephaestopolis, a Samian, and that Iadmonâ€™s grandson (also named Iadmon) claimed and received compensation for the murder of Aesop. If this account is true, Aesop would have lived during the sixth century b.c. Apart from this sketchy biography, Herodotus recorded essentially no additional details about the fable writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, later Greek and Roman writers were not so reticent. One body of literature is particularly relevant in this regard. Usually referred to as\n <em>\n  The Life of Aesop\n </em>\n , this work has survived in a number of medieval manuscripts by different anonymous compilers and is based on earlier accounts, now lost. The statements about Aesopâ€™s life history contained in the different versions of this work often contradict one another, or they are so miraculous and fantastic as to be unbelievable by modern standards.\n</p>\n<p>\n The ultimate source of these accounts is undoubtedly folklore: anonymous legends told and retold by generations of oral storytellers.\n <em>\n  The Life of Aesop\n </em>\n is today generally held to be fiction, but as is the case with many legends, there could be at least a kernel of truth in one or more of the episodes. The following biographical outline has been gleaned from different versions of\n <em>\n  The Life of Aesop\n </em>\n , most prominently the accounts published by Lloyd W. Daly in his\n <em>\n  Aesop without Morals\n </em>\n (pp. 31â€“90) and the\n <em>\n  Everymanâ€™s Library\n </em>\n version of\n <em>\n  Aesop: Fables\n </em>\n (pp. 17â€“45).\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesop was born a slave, or possibly was captured into slavery at an early age. His birthplace is variously stated as Thrace, Phrygia, Ethiopia, Samos, Athens, or Sardis. He was dark-skinned. In fact, it is said that his name was derived from\n <em>\n  Aethiop\n </em>\n (Ethiopian). He was physically deformed: a hunchback, pot belly, misshapen head, snub nose, and bandy legs are often mentioned. Although in his early years he suffered from a serious speech impediment, orâ€”according to someâ€”the inability to speak at all, he was cured through the intervention of a deity and became a gifted orator, especially skillful at incorporating fables into his speeches.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a young man Aesop was transported by a slave trader to Ephesus (in modern Turkey). Because of his grotesque appearance, no one there would buy him, so he was taken to the island of Samos, where he was examined by Xanthus, identified in the manuscripts as â€œan eminent philosopher,â€ but a person whose existence cannot be verified historically. At first repulsed by Aesopâ€™s appearance, Xanthus changed his mind when the slave proclaimed, â€œA philosopher should value a man for his mind, not for his body.â€ Impressed with Aesopâ€™s astuteness, Xanthus purchased him as a manservant for his wife.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesop soon proved himself to be an irreverent and sarcastic trickster with a clever retort for every occasion. The following episode is typical of many others illustrating how Aesopâ€™s quick wit saved him from punishment, sometimes deserved, sometimes not: Xanthus, wanting to know what fate awaited him on a particular day, sent Aesop to see if any crows were outside the door. According to popular belief, two crows would portend good fortune, whereas a single crow would be an omen of bad luck. Aesop saw a pair of crows and reported this to his master, who then set forth with good cheer. Upon opening the door, Xanthus saw only a single crow, for one of them had flown away, and he angrily turned on his slave for having tricked him into beginning a dangerous venture. â€œYou shall be whipped for this!â€ said Xanthus, and while Aesop was being readied for his punishment a messenger arrived at the door with an invitation for Xanthus to dine with his friends. â€œYour omens have no meaning!â€ cried Aesop. â€œI saw the auspicious pair of crows, yet I am about to be beaten like a dog, whereas you saw the ominous single crow, and you are about to make merry with your friends.â€ Perceiving the irony and the wisdom of this observation, Xanthus released Aesop and spared him the threatened punishment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesopâ€™s cleverness extended from word to deed. An unrepentant trickster, his pranks ranged from tricking his fellow slaves into carrying the heavier burdens to seducing his masterâ€™s wife with her unwitting husbandâ€™s apparent blessing. His tricks often were masked by feigned stupidity on his part, which has led commentators to compare him to the German Till Eulenspiegel and the Turkish Nasreddin Hoca, two of the worldâ€™s most rascally but beloved tricksters.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesopâ€™s legendary wisdom and shrewdness sometimes moved into the realm of the supernatural. He could solve seemingly impossible riddles and conundrums, foretell the future with uncanny accuracy, and unerringly discover hidden treasures. A master of human psychology, he understood what motivated people to act, and used this knowledge to manipulate them to his advantage. As his life progressed he moved to ever greater venues: from a trickster in a slaveâ€™s workroom to a lecturer in a philosopherâ€™s auditorium to a diplomat and councilor in the courts of governors and kings.\n</p>\n<p>\n With time his cunning, wisdom, and oratory skills brought him freedom from slavery, but in the end they cost him his life. At Delphi the citizens, offended by his lack of respect for their aristocracy and for their principal deity Apollo, planted a golden cup in his baggage, then accused him of temple theft.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sentenced to die by being thrown over a cliff, Aesop pleaded his case with a series of fables, one of which was the story of â€œThe Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawkâ€ (no. 67 in the present collection). In this tale a frog and a mouse go swimming together in a pool with their feet tied together, but the mouse drowns. The frog, burdened by the dead mouse, is now an easy prey for a hawk, which forthwith captures and devours him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aesop compared himself to the mouse and the Delphians to the frog. â€œYou may kill me,â€ he predicted, â€œbut my unjust death will bring you great misfortune.â€ Aesop was executed near Delphi, and his dire prediction came true. Shortly after his death the region was visited with famine, pestilence, and warfare. The Delphians consulted the Oracle of Apollo as to the source of these calamities, and they received the answer that they ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18533'),
(22622, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables; a new translation', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book was generated by a preliminary version of makelrf.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15687'),
(22623, 'An affair to forget', 'Rachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15436'),
(22624, 'The Affirmation', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16686'),
(22625, 'An African Millionaire', 'Grant Allen &amp; Gary Hoppenstand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twelve superb, entertaining tales of a confidence man par excellence. Appealing "gentleman crook" devotes himself to repeatedly swindling wealthy diamond magnate. Clever, extremely readable tales about the "first important rogue in short crime fiction." First edition in over 80 years. Illustrated. Introduction.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grant Allen, an English writer, was an atheist and a socialist. He had expertise in different branches of science. He wrote articles on sociology and literature. Besides being an astonishingly expressive and prolific writer, he was also a talented journalist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15437'),
(22626, 'The African Safari Discovery', 'Jeff Brown; Josh Greenhut; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stanleyâ€™s not the only flat one!\n</p>\n<p>\n When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley''s flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it''s the safari of a lifetime!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n <em>\n  Flat Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Invisible Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley in Space\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Stanley, Flat Again!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5086'),
(22627, 'After dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami''s signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny''s, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari''s gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny''s asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami''s omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute''s assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dÃ©nouement.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Other than an unexpected cheerfulness,\n <em>\n  After Dark\n </em>\n is classic Haruki Murakami, featuring themes of loneliness and alienation, carefully crafted characters, Western references (such as an all-night Denny''s where Hall &amp; Oates plays in the background), and distinctive magical-realist twists of fate. Critics also praised the impassive, omniscient narration, like a constantly shifting video camera, which renders each scene in magnificent detail. The chief complaint was the brevity of the novel, and the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n felt that Eri''s dreamlike scenes missed the mark as well. "For the unfamiliar, it''s the perfect appetizer. For the established fan, it''s a quick work that is over far too soon" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15688'),
(22628, 'After Dark, My Sweet', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he''s a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end, for Bill, is inevitable and shattering. This is a tour de force of paranoia and violence from the master of the crime noir novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15689'),
(22629, 'After Doomsday', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15690'),
(22630, 'After Life: Answers From the Other Side', 'John Edward; Natasha (CON) Stoynoff; Larry King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''John has audiences rapt with his amazing spiritual revelations'' News of the World"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What happens after we die?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans'' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what heâ€™s learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that itâ€™s never too late to forgive...and never too far away to love.\n</p>\n<p>\n John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15692'),
(22631, 'After Midnight', 'Laymon, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15693'),
(22632, 'After Midnight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old Alice, the book opens on a peaceful night of house-sittingâ€”but as Alice warns, "You can\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n be sure it''s safe." Indeed, shortly after midnight she spots a strange man emerge from the woods and go swimming naked in the family pool. A fortunately timed phone call that''s a wrong number gives Alice the chance to drive off the stranger, but sets in motion a 24-hour whirlwind of murder, terror and madness, beginning when Alice splits open someone''s head with a Civil War saberâ€”and escalating precipitously from there. Alice''s matter-of-fact attitude toward her grisly handiwork can make her hard to sympathize with ("I felt rotten about killing him, but not particularly guilty"); supporting characters are easier to like, but don''t get too attached. As the night wears on, Laymon piles on gory details and violent sex with perverse, over-the-top glee; it''s definitely not for everyone and can strain credibility, but Alice proves to be one of Laymon''s most original and memorable protagonists, and should keep hardened horror fans reading well past the stroke of midnight.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Alice''s friend Serena goes away she stays in her house, with its sunken bathtub and big-screen TV. Best of all is the outdoor swimming pool. But one night a stranger walks out of the woods and jumps naked into the pool. Alice hopes he won''t be coming to get her, like so many have done before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18748'),
(22633, 'After Moreau', 'Jeffrey Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15694'),
(22634, 'After Sundown', 'Amanda Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15697'),
(22635, 'After the Downfall', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices. 1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper''s bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel''s soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Ubermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15699'),
(22636, 'After the Fall', 'Kylie Ladd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kylie Ladd on\n  <em>\n   After the Fall\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me about my occupation I always reply that Iâ€™m a psychologist. Itâ€™s true. Iâ€™m a clinical neuropsychologist, to be precise, with a Ph.D. in the field and fifteen years'' experience working in both the public and private sectors. What I fail to mention--mostly because I still canâ€™t quite believe that itâ€™s true, and Iâ€™m stupidly afraid that saying it out loud will make it disappear--is that Iâ€™m also a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I never planned to study psychology. At the time it simply seemed like a good compromise between the medical degree my parents wanted me to do and the arts degree I was keener on, but now I realize what a great fit it was. I have always been fascinated by people, and more specifically how we become who we are and why we make the choices we do. I''m also--as is true for most writers--rather a voyeur. Psychology gave me the tools to observe others; writing gives me the reason to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychology has also helped me understand something I think every writer needs to grasp: that "story" is a fluid concept, depending wholly on perspective. In the clinic where I work, part of my role is to take a history from both the client and a member of his or her family. Though I have been doing so for many years, the process still has the power to surprise, given how differently the same events can be perceived and experienced by different people. It seems there is always some fresh way for us to love or hate, to accommodate or alienate each other; there are at least two sides to every story. Listening to my patients and their families gave me the idea for the narrative structure of\n <em>\n  After The Fall\n </em>\n , where four main characters take turns at telling their side of a shared story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that both my children are in school, I write three days a week and practice as a psychologist for two--but the distinction is often blurred. When I write, I am using the resources that psychology has given me; when I am seeing a client I am simultaneously alert for what I can learn from them about being human. In both cases, I am listening for story--the stories that explain and define us all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neuropsychologist Ladd''s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couplesâ€”and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there''s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15701'),
(22637, 'After the fire, a still small voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15704'),
(22638, 'After the First Death', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Block''s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful tale of a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasnÃ‚Â¹t committed . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15705'),
(22639, 'After the Flood 1: Blood and Magic', 'Lena Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15707'),
(22640, 'After the Flood 2: Rise to Power', 'Lena Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15709'),
(22641, 'After the funeral', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the family tree--with eight blows of a hatchet. And detective Hercule Poirot suspects she won''t be the last to go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15711'),
(22642, 'After the prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15713'),
(22643, 'After the quake: stories', 'Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15716'),
(22644, 'After the quake: stories', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18853'),
(22645, 'After the Rain', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan''s last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in\n  <em>\n   Vapor Trail\n  </em>\n  , froze in\n  <em>\n   Absolute Zero\n  </em>\n  , and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil''s estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne''er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina''s assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philâ€”ex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantâ€”is drawn in because it''s a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It''s an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home.â€ (Denver Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book simply canâ€™t be put down....Thrillers donâ€™t get any more up to date than this nail-biter.â€ (Tampa Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA hair-raising yarn thatâ€™s complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thatâ€™s almost unthinkable.â€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action.â€ (St. Paul Pioneer Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLogan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense.â€ (Kansas City Star )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks.â€ (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story.â€ (Fargo Forum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you like your thrillers hard [and] tough â€¦ then Chuck Loganâ€™s books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15717'),
(22646, 'After Twilight', 'Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan; Ronda Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15718'),
(22647, 'After You', 'Julie Buxbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author ofThe Opposite of Love,delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each otherand ourselves. It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner''s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy''s life. While Lucy''s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking. Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child,The Secret Garden.As the two spend hours exploring the novel''s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy''s secretssome big, some smallsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend''s life, she''s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she''d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie''s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeand those around her forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who''s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets,After Youproves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15720'),
(22648, 'Afterlife', 'Merrie Destefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15721'),
(22649, 'Afterlife: The Resurrection Chronicles', 'Merrie Destefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to your next chance.   Chaz Dominguez is a professional Babysitter in New Orleans, helping to integrate the recently deceased into their new and improved lives. Though Fresh Start has always been the only game in town, resurrection isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Nine lives are all a person can getâ€”and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality.   Now the only hope for Chaz and his familyâ€”and the human raceâ€”lies in the secrets locked away in the mind of Angelique, the beautiful, mysterious Newbie he must protect . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18777'),
(22650, 'Afterlight', 'Jasper, Elle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15723'),
(22651, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''An entertaining and well paced thriller'' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH ''A bleak, chilling vision of the furture that ends, finally, on a note of flickering optimism.'' THE PRESS\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation or disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world. But as Jenny and her people explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18982'),
(22652, 'The aftermath', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier *Syracuse**.* With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the *Syracuse* stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat *Chrysalis, *Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attackerâ€™s attention away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by the seductive Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding if heâ€™s to have a prayer of ever seeing his family again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Elverda Apacheta is the solar systemâ€™s greatest sculptor. The cyborg Dorn was formerly Dorik Harbin, the ruthless military commander responsible for the attack on *Chrysalis*. Their lives and destinies have been linked by their joint discovery of the alien artifact that had, earlier, profoundly affected industrialist Martin Humphries. Similarly transformed by the artifactâ€™s mysterious powers, Apacheta and Dorn now prowl the Belt, determined to find the bodies of the many victims of Harbinâ€™s atrocities so that they can be given proper burials.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kao Yuan is the captain of *Viking*, owned by Martin Humphries, whoâ€™s determined to kill Dorn and Elverda because they know too much about the artifact and its power over him. But *Viking*''s second-in-command, Tamara Vishinsky, appears to have the real power on board ship. When *Viking* catches up to Apacheta and Dorn, their confrontation begins a series of events involving them, the Zacharius family, and Martin Humphries and his son in the transformation of the human solar systemâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5088'),
(22653, 'Afternoon Delight', 'Mia Zachary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15730'),
(22654, 'Agahta Christie: An autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15445'),
(22655, 'Again, Dangerous Visions', 'Harlan Ellison (Ed)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15735');
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(22656, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15738'),
(22657, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15740'),
(22658, 'Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)', 'STEPHEN R. DONALDSON', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15741'),
(22659, 'Against the Grain', 'J.-K. Huysmans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15749'),
(22660, 'Against the Tide of Years', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Against The Tide Of Years* continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own.... Praise for *Island In The Sea Of Time*: "...one of the best time/travel alternate history stories I''ve ever read, period. Stirling combines complex, believable characters, meticulous research, and a fascinating setup to produce a book you won''t want to--and won''t be able to--put down." --Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of *Guns of the South* "...unquestionably Steve Stirling''s best work to date, a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans. I wouldn''t be surprised to see it on a few awards ballots either." --George R. R. Martin, author of *A Game of Thrones* "A well thought-out time travel scenario with a few interesting differences from most books in the genre." --*Kliatt* "Stirling has surpassed his previous work in the creation of a compelling cast of characters and does a fine job of conveying both a sense of loss and hope." --*Science Fiction Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15752'),
(22661, 'Agamemnon', 'Aeschylus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15685'),
(22662, 'Age of Chivalry Or Legends of King Arthur', 'Thomas Bulfinch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is believed that this presentation of a literature which held unrivaled sway over the imaginations of our ancestors, for many centuries, will not be without benefit to the reader, in addition to the amusement it may afford. Found within are the tales of King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, Crusades - Robin Hood, and Knights of English History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15753'),
(22663, 'The Age of Desire', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16515'),
(22664, 'Age of Fire 1: Dragon Champion', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Knight, best known for his Vampire Earth mass market series (_Tale of the Thunderbolt_, etc.), makes an auspicious trade paper debut with this smoothly written fantasy told from the point-of-view of its dragon hero. Four dragon hatchlings, flameless and dependent on their father to bring home horses and even men as food, face a host of dangers, including fierce dwarves who invade their cave. Only Auron, the pride of the litter, will survive to fight those determined to drive his breed to extinction. Some flat poetry that poses no threat to Tolkien only slightly slows the brisk pace of this bloody, unsentimental fairy tale.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After escaping those who killed his siblings, Young Auron, a rare, defenseless gray dragon, might be the last of his breed. Armed with nothing but his claws and a determination to survive, he sets off in search of his kind. But to find other dragons-or, at least, find out who''s killing them off-Auron will have to search a world of mercenary elves, vicious humans, and dangers of all kinds. Finding allies in the strangest places-and himself along the way-Auron is about to make the trek of a lifetime...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15754'),
(22665, 'Age of Fire 2: Dragon Avenger', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Knight chronicles the gritty coming-of-age story of the dragon Wistala (sister to Auron, from 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Dragon Champion\n  </em>\n  ) in the second Age of Fire novel. When her young family is betrayed and decimated by a clan of dwarfs while father AuRel is away, Wistala must carry the awful news north to him. But she finds AuRel badly wounded after running afoul of the very same dwarfs, and before she can nurse him back to health, a hunter called the Dragonblade kills him. Once again, Wistala must run for her life, vowing vengeance, even though she knows a year must pass before she''s grown enough to carry out her revenge plan. Befriended by the elf Rainfall of Hypatia, she matures and gains the wisdom to temper her plans. Coming-of-age themes such as personal responsibility and family give the novel a strong YA slant, but Knight makes the story complex enough to entertain readers of all ages.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the national bestselling, award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   Dragon Champion\n  </em>\n  -second in the fantastic new\n  <em>\n   Age of Fire\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Flung to freedom as their mother battles a group of slave-trading dwarves, young Wistala and her gray, scaleless brother, Auron, find themselves alone in the Upper World. And when Auron sacrifices himself so that she may live, Wistala must overcome her grief and fear to find others of her kind-and bring her wrath to bear on those who would destroy them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15755'),
(22666, 'Age of Fire 3: Dragon Outcast', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dragon Outcast\n  </em>\n  continues E.E. Knight''s thrilling fantasy series about a brood of young dragon siblings-each unique, each powerful, and each fated to battle the other to the end. Here, the darkest of the dragons is introduced as he strives to make himself the strongest-and the last-of his brethren...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  E.E. Knight graduated from Northern Illinois University with a double major in history and political science, then made his way through a number of jobs that related to neither. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15756'),
(22667, 'Age of Fire 4: Dragon Strike', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining fourth Age of Fire novel (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Dragon Outcast\n  </em>\n  ) reunites three dragon siblings in a land at the threshold of major change. When scaleless AuRon the Gray hears rumors of his long-lost sister, Wistala, he leaves his family on the Isle of Ice to search for her. Their paths cross in Lavadome, where their outcast brother, RuGaard, now rules. Although some blame RuGaard for a recent food blight, the more likely source is Ghioz''s masked Red Queen, who wants to make Lavadome part of her empire. Brought together by chance, the siblings must overcome their differences and persuade rival nations to stand together against the Red Queen''s forces. Knight turns the familiar features of epic fantasy upside down in this unique world of medieval politics and ancient magic seen through the eyes of dragons.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series continues the saga of the worldâ€™s last dragons.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed, and the final hope for their speciesâ€™ survival. AuRon, Wistala, and Copper find themselves at odds over the coming human war. AuRon thinks dragons should have no part in the affairs of humans. Wistala believes dragons and man can peacefully co-exist. And Copper has designs of his own on the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the civilized humans who have turned to Copper for assistance against their savage enemies have just given him the perfect opportunity to fulfill his plansâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15758'),
(22668, 'Age of Fire 5: Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series presents the fiery fifth book in his epic dragons saga.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattered across a continent, three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed-the final hope for their species'' survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wistala, sister to the Copper who is now Emperor of the Upper World, has long thought humans the equal of dragons. She leads the Firemaids, fierce female fighting dragons who support the Hominids of Hypatia. Which puts her at odds with both her brothers, for the Copper has no use for the humans he now dominates and AuRon, the rare scale-less grey, would isolate himself and his family from both the world of men and the world of dragons. But as the Copper''s empire roils with war, greed, and treachery, the time is fast approaching when Wistala will have to choose who to stand with- and fight for...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   E. E. Knight\n  </strong>\n  lives in Chicago. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15760'),
(22669, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5091'),
(22670, 'The age of innocence: a novel of ironic nostaglia', 'Linda Wagner-Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature.Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text-- Uses clear, conversational language-- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages-- Includes a chronology of the author''s life and era-- Provides an overview of the historical context-- Offers a summary of its critical reception-- Lists primary and secondary sources and index\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5093'),
(22671, 'The Age Of Odin', 'James Lovegrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Gideon Dixon was a good solider but bad at everything else. Now the British Army doesn''t want him any more. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project it seems like a dream come true. They''re recruiting fromer service personnel for execellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations. The last thing Gideon expects is to finding himself fighting alongside the gods of the\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ancient Norse pantheon. The world is in the grip of one of the worst winters it has ever known, and Ragnarok-the fabled final conflict of the Sagas-is looming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5095'),
(22672, 'The Age of Revolution: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume III (Barnes &amp; Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)', 'Winston S. Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5097'),
(22673, 'The Age of Ruin', 'John  M. Faucette', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5099'),
(22674, 'The age of the pussyfoot', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5101'),
(22675, 'The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on\n  <em>\n   The Age of Wonder\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oliver Sacks is the author of\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n I am a Richard Holmes addict. He is an incomparable biographer, but in\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n , he rises to new heights and becomes the biographer not of a single figure, but of an entire unique period, when artist and scientist could share common aims and ambitions and a common language--and together create a "romantic," humanist science. We are once again on the brink of such an age, when science and art will come together in new and powerful ways. For this we could have no better model than the lives of William and Caroline Herschel and Humphry Davy, whose dedication and scientific inventiveness were combined with a deep sense of wonder and poetry in the universe. Only Holmes, who is so deeply versed in the people and culture of eighteenth-century science, could tell their story with such verve and resonance for our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Elena Seibert)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the astronomer William Herschel and his accomplished assistant and sister, Caroline; Humphrey Davy, a leading chemist and amateur poet; and Joseph Banks, whose journal of a youthful voyage to Tahiti was a study in sexual libertinism. Holmes''s biographical approach makes his obsessive protagonists (Davy''s self-experimenting with laughing gas is an epic in itself) the prototypes of the Romantic genius absorbed in a Promethean quest for knowledge. Their discoveries, he argues, helped establish a new paradigm of Romantic science that saw the universe as vast, dynamic and full of marvels and celebrated mankind''s power to not just describe but transform Nature. Holmes''s treatment is sketchy on the actual science and heavy on the cultural impact, with wide-ranging discussions of the 1780s ballooning craze, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n and scientific metaphors in Romantic poetry. It''s an engrossing portrait of scientists as passionate adventurers, boldly laying claim to the intellectual leadership of society. Illus.\n <em>\n  (July 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5102'),
(22676, 'Agent 21', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zak Darkeâ€™s parents die in an unexplained mass murder heâ€™s left alone in the world. That is until heâ€™s sought out by a mysterious man: â€œI work for a government agency,â€ the man tells him. â€œYou donâ€™t need to know which one. Not yet. All you need to know is that weâ€™ve had our eye on you. Thereâ€™s a possibility you could help us in certain... operational situations.â€Zak becomes Agent 21. What happened to the 20 agents before him heâ€™ll never know. What he does know is that his life is about to change forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15762'),
(22677, 'Agent of Byzantium', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a universe in which Constantinople never fell, the Byzantine   Empire has flourished by developing technology and spreading its   influence but finds itself at the mercy of its jealous enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15763'),
(22678, 'Agent Of The Terran Empire', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Flandry, here a captain, undergoes a series of adventures: He is abducted by the Scothians, an alien race hoping to invade the Terran Empire; rescues the Emperor''s kidnapped granddaughter; meets Aycharaych, his nemesis in league with the Merseians; and investigates a previously unencountered alien race that has invaded the distant colonial world of Vixen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15768'),
(22679, 'Agent of the Terran Empire - Flandry #5', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15766'),
(22680, 'Agent X', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noah Boyd on How to Catch a Serial Killer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery Readers,\n</p>\n<p>\n Thought you might like to hear about my last case with the FBI.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first three bodies were found in the abandoned Monterey Motel in Highland Park, a small, once affluent city surrounded by Detroit. But the public concern didnâ€™t reach full pitch until the count reached eight, all the victims raped and strangled. Thatâ€™s when I was called in.\n</p>\n<p>\n My first impulse when tackling any problem is looking for a way to slice through the Gordian knot, a shortcut seekerâ€™s most reliable tool. What I had learned by working on the Green River Murders and studying other serial killings was to search for a surviving victim; itâ€™s how Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy had both been caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I asked for at the Highland Park PD was any tips that had been called inâ€”a technique I had learned during my three months in Seattle. After an exchange of confused looks, one of the detectives said that he thought they were in the third floor (long-abandoned) bathroom. Inside a twisted, dusty filing cabinet, I found about a hundred of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n One had been called in by a woman who had been raped and then severely choked by a man she knew only as â€œTonyâ€ before she escaped by running down a busy street naked in the middle of the winter. The assault had taken place in the basement of an abandoned Howard Johnsonâ€™s restaurant, which was immediately adjacent to the Monterey Motel. Being an investigator of keen insight, it occurred to me that Tony was somebody we needed to find.\n</p>\n<p>\n It being Detroit, the woman had used an alias to report the crime and â€œTonyâ€ would turn out to be a nickname without a single etymological connection to the killerâ€™s true identity. Theseâ€”letâ€™s call themâ€”big city idiosyncrasies, caused a two-month delay before we were able to arrest Benjamin Atkins and obtain a confession to 11th homicides, along with a planned 12th to celebrate his birthday in two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Noah Boyd\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureauâ€™s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russianâ€™s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them. But before that can happen, Vail must solve the many puzzles that Calculus uses to conceal information. Thriller fans get an endlessly twisting plot strewn with chases, gun battles, and explosions. Calculusâ€™ puzzles are engaging, and the bureauâ€™s procedural and bureaucratic thickets sound real. Cynics will enjoy the portrayal of all FBI administrators as butt-covering careerists, but Vail, equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Dirty Harry, strains credulity. Not as strong as The Bricklayer, but fans wonâ€™t want to give up on the series yet. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15773'),
(22681, 'The Agent&#39;s Secret Child', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he''d cherished...a woman who''d died. And one look at the child -- and he saw himself in her eyes.... Until she''d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella''s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake -- and there was only Jake to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5103'),
(22682, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15609'),
(22683, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAddictiveâ€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n</p>\n<p>\n As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n <strong>\n  Aggressor\n </strong>\n is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18702'),
(22684, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19298'),
(22685, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15614'),
(22686, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams &amp; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18924'),
(22687, 'Agua Dulce', 'Mary Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Native American\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15615'),
(22688, 'Ahern, Jerry', 'Ahern, Jerry - The Survivalist 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15618'),
(22689, 'The AI War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dreaded AI''s have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet. But war weary humanity refuses to accept the threat as real. Commodore J''Quel D''Trelna has been secretly ordered to enter forbidden territory to find the only weapon that can stop the AI''s from overwhelming his universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5104'),
(22690, 'AID', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18053'),
(22691, 'Air Bridge', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15623'),
(22692, 'Air Force One Is Down', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15624'),
(22693, 'Airborne', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They are America''s front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation''s armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne''s mission in an ever-changing world... * Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task force * Airborne''s weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter * 18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15626'),
(22694, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15627'),
(22695, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15629'),
(22696, 'Airs from Another Planet', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15632'),
(22697, 'Akhenaten', 'Alex Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18062'),
(22698, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor. You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done. As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15633'),
(22699, 'The Alabaster Staff - Book 1', 'Bolme, Edward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5106'),
(22700, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a tale originally found in a Middle-Eastern folk tale and in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). A poor boy obtains a magic lamp and when the lamp is rubbed, a genie appears and fulfils its owner''s wishes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15634'),
(22701, 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp', 'Anon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15636'),
(22702, 'Alan Lomax', 'John Szwed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Exiled from the US for seven years in the McCarthy era, his influence on British folk and rock was virtually as profound as on American music. The Stones owed both their existence and their name to Lomax''s discovery Muddy Waters, and without Leadbelly there would have been no skiffle and no Beatles as we know them. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? and The Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby''s Play. John Szwed''s biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis and Sun Ra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15640'),
(22703, 'Alara Unbroken', 'Doug Beyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As nefarious forces work to hasten the cataclysmic realignment for their own gain, the populations of once ordered planes struggle to come to terms with a new planar order in which long separated struggles between opposite clash once more; martyrs face executioners, fire and water, earth and air, growth and decay, the innate versus the artificial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid this chaos, Ajani, a fierce leonin planeswalker, struggles to bring justice and resolution to his brother''s death. Noble warrior Rafiq searches for the source of the of this evil that has invaded his world. And Sarkhan Vol, planeswalker and dragon hunter, taps into a power so pure and ancient, it threatens to consume him even as he revels in its unadulterated totality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An action packed story from the mind of one of the creators, Doug Beyer opens up the\n  <strong>\n   Shards of Alara\n  </strong>\n  (TM) set like no one else can.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19124'),
(22704, 'Alarmclock', 'Everett B. Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15642'),
(22705, 'Alas, Babylon', 'Pat Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15643'),
(22706, 'Albatross', 'Evelyn Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15646'),
(22707, 'Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed **London: A Biography** with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, **Albion*** *reveals the manifold nature of English genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15650'),
(22708, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15652'),
(22709, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5108'),
(22710, 'Alchemist&#39;s Secret', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where therea??s Hope therea??s troublea?| Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former ??lite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before. But it soon becomes apparent that others are hunting this most precious of treasures - for far more evil ends. When the secrets of alchemy hidden within the pages remain impenetrable, Ben teams up with beautiful American scientist Dr Roberta Ryder to crack the code. It seems that everyone - from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini - wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. The trail leads Ben and Roberta from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc, where an astonishing secret has lain hidden for centuriesa?|\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19258'),
(22711, 'The Alchemyst', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protectsâ€”the Book of Abraham the Mage. It''s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That''s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won''t know what''s happening until it''s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5110'),
(22712, 'The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel', 'Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5112');
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(22713, 'The Alcoholics', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson''s most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5114'),
(22714, 'Aldiss, Brian W. - A Rude Awakening', 'Aldiss, Brian W.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17249'),
(22715, 'Alex Cross 01 - Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15669'),
(22716, 'Alex Cross 02 - Kiss The Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15670'),
(22717, 'Alex Cross 03 - Jack And Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15671'),
(22718, 'Alex Cross 05 - Pop Goes The Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15672'),
(22719, 'Alex Cross 06 - Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15673'),
(22720, 'Alex Cross 07 - Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15674'),
(22721, 'Alex Cross 08 - Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15675'),
(22722, 'Alex Cross 09 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15676'),
(22723, 'Alex Cross 1 - Along Came A Spider', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15561'),
(22724, 'Alex Cross 10 - London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9317'),
(22725, 'Alex Cross 11 - Mary, Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9038'),
(22726, 'Alex Cross 12 - Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10012'),
(22727, 'Alex Cross 13 - Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12446'),
(22728, 'Alex Cross 14 - Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13760'),
(22729, 'Alex Cross 15 - Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15678'),
(22730, 'Alex Cross 16 - I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10431'),
(22731, 'Alex Cross 17 - Cross Fire', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15677'),
(22732, 'Alex Cross 2 - Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9740'),
(22733, 'Alex Cross 3 - Jack and Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9973'),
(22734, 'Alex Cross 4 - Cat and Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14243'),
(22735, 'Alex Cross 5 - Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7548'),
(22736, 'Alex Cross 8 - Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(22737, 'Alex Cross 9 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4914'),
(22738, 'Alex Delaware 01 - When The Bough Breaks', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can''t or won''t say a word. Which is where child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in - and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocities...A breathtaking novel about the sewer of perversion and corruption lying below the glittering surface of California cool.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15679'),
(22739, 'Alex Delaware 02 - Blood Test', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15680'),
(22740, 'Alex Delaware 04 - Silent Partner', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware hunts for clues to the death of an old flame, Sharon Ransom, a search that takes him through California ''s wealthy enclaves and one family''s dark past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15681'),
(22741, 'Alex Delaware 05 - Time Bomb', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The cheerful chaos of a California schoolyard is shattered one autumn day by gunfire. No children are hurt, but a sniper is shot down â€“ and psychologist Dr Alex Delaware is called in to help the kids cope with the trauma. Then comes another stunning surprise: the identity of the sniper. And Delaware is intrigued by the chance to explore intimately the forces that created such a twisted personality. But as he becomes more deeply involved, he discovers an ever-widening net of malice has been cast â€“ one that reaches far beyond the school compound, and which may already have claimed innocent lives... TIME BOMB is a masterpiece of psychological suspense which shocks...and shocks again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15682'),
(22742, 'Alex Delaware 06 - Private Eyes', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the eyes of the world â€“ ever since a vicious acid attack destroyed the face of Hollywood actress Gina Prince. Then the reclusive Gina climbs into her car â€“ and totally disappears. And as Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis lead the search for her, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque, labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any bad dream... How well did Alex ever understand his star patient Melissa? How could he have ''cured'' her when he never even guessed at the evil and hatred that formed her inheritance?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15562'),
(22743, 'Alex Delaware 07 - Devil&#39;s Waltz', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15563'),
(22744, 'Alex Delaware 08 - Bad Love', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address â€“ a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message: ''Bad love. Bad love. Don''t give me the bad love...'' For child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling trespass outside his home, a sickening act of vandalism. A carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly builds to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness. Searching his memory for the phrase ''bad love'', Alex recalls a symposium he attended over a decade ago commemorating the work of Dr Andres de Bosch who ran a clinic for troubled adolescents. But when he tries to contact the other delegates, Alex discovers a seemingly random series of violent deaths amongst them. As he delves deeper into the history of the clinic, the escalating pattern of violence becomes inescapably clear. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker''s mind-games, he will be the next one to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15565'),
(22745, 'Alex Delaware 09 - Self-Defence', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dr Alex Delaware doesn''t see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he''s prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing. Now Lucy''s dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15567'),
(22746, 'Alex Delaware 10 - The Web', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After thirty years of attending to the phsical and mental health of the inhabitants of Knife Island, a tiny community in the Micronesian archipelago, Dr William Moreland feels it would be of benefit to his successor, and to his colleagues throughout the Pacific, if his records were properly analysed. Only too grateful to escape the violent atmosphere of Los Angeles and recoup their emotional resources, Dr Alex Delaware and his partner Robin accept Moreland''s invitation to spend a sabbatical on the island to help him in the task. But Knife Island is not the paradise of the travel brochures. The murder of a young woman has created an atmosphere of division and fear. A potential development threatens a large part of the island with environmental pollution. And Dr Moreland is not universally regarded as the saintly healer of his own mythology. Co-habiting with cockroaches the size of dinner plates and spiders more venomous than rattlesnakes, Alex and Robin discover the doctor is concealing an older and darker mystery, a conspiracy of such startling magnitude that even Alex, with his knowledge of the depths of human depravity, is hard put to comprehend, or understand why he has been invited into such a horrific web of intrigue and abasement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1669'),
(22747, 'Alex Delaware 11 - The Clinic', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She was found stabbed to death on a quiet, shaded street in one of Los Angeles '' safest neighbourhoods. For three months the police have found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller, and angry indictment of men. Now homicide detective Milo Sturgis, newly assigned to the case, turns to his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Devane''s life. To both men the cold stalking of Hope Devane suggests calculation fuelled by hate â€“ an execution. They discover why as they unlock, one by one, the very private compartments of her life: her marriage, her shadowy work for a Beverly Hills clinic, the Conduct Committee she ran with an iron hand at the University, and her baffling link to another murder victim. But it is when Alex delves into her childhood that he begins to understand the formidable woman she was â€“ and the ties that entangled her life until the horrifying act of betrayal that ended it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4547'),
(22748, 'Alex Delaware 12 - Survival of the Fitte', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15569'),
(22749, 'Alex Delaware 13 - Monster', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Milo Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of his patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Milo needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be. As they slowly unravel the strands of their lies another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilattion and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of the Claire Argent''s patients, apparently securely behind bars. In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8803'),
(22750, 'Alex Delaware 14 - Dr. Death', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "[Kellerman] has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form." â€“ Los Angeles Times Book Review "More than satisfying... Kellerman delves deep into the psyche of his characters, peeling back the layers of secrets to uncover a stunning truth." -The Orlando Sentinel "Kellerman uses bloody killings, psychological intrigue and a straight-ahead writing style to keep readers turning pages well into the night." -The Denver Post "Often, mystery writers can either plot like devils or create believable characters. Kellerman stands out because he can do both. Masterfully." â€“ USA Today "[An] intriguing thriller... A heady blend of criminal profiling and police procedural and another surefire hit for the bestselling Kellerman." -Booklist *** People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call it assisted suicide when cancer or heart disease or painful old age make the quality of life unbearable. Others say it is murder, that no-one has the right to help others take their own life. As the debate rages over whether euthanasia should be legalised or not the man at the centre of the row, nick-named Doctor Death, continues his work. Dr Alex Delaware joins in the argument, but when Detective Milo Sturgis comes to him with the suspicion that some of Doctor Death''s patients are not willing collaborators, Delaware finds himself on the front line of the affair, and increasingly believes that euthanasia is not the prime motivation. So what is driving Doctor Death to kill so many?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12412'),
(22751, 'Alex Delaware 15 - Flesh And Blood', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents â€“ which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Then years later, a shock: at a bachelor party for a fellow doctor, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers going through a degrading display â€“ and one of them is Lauren Teague. And now her mother is pleading for help once again. Lauren has disappeared â€“ and she thinks Delaware can find her. He''s not so sure â€“ but when her disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11686'),
(22752, 'Alex Delaware 16 - The Murder Book', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Alex Delaware''s relationship with his longterm partner is on the rocks. He is floored when Robin announces she''s heading off on a three-month music tour. But he soon has other things to think about. He is sent an envelope with no return address. Inside, he finds an album with gold letters on it â€“ THE MURDER BOOK. It''s full of macabre pictures of murders, with brief descriptions of how, and why, the victims died. One picture is marked ''Not solved'' â€“ the horrifically mutilated body of a young woman. Unsettled, Alex calls his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, who seems strangely familiar with the case. What connects the photograph with Milo ''s past? What''s more, why has it been sent to Alex â€“ and by whom? Ingenious, shocking, unpredictable, THE MURDER BOOK is a masterpiece of suspense fiction that is Jonathan Kellerman at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3019'),
(22753, 'Alex Delaware 19 - Rage', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions. Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he''s emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware''s suspicions run deeper... and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex: "I''m not a bad person"-betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they''re worth killing for. As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake-and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight. Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7269'),
(22754, 'Alex Delaware 20 - Gone', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling â€œmaster of the psychological thrillerâ€ (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold. It''s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault. But before long, doubts arise about the couple''s story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both. Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don''t explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn''t been able to penetrate. Nevertheless, the case is closed â€“ only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he''s gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers â€“ including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11137'),
(22755, 'Alex Delaware 21 - Obsession', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where there is life there is devotion. Where there is death there is obsession. Patty Bigelow thought sheâ€™d finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delawareâ€™s counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alexâ€™s office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty â€“ the only real mother she''s ever known â€“ has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alexâ€™s help...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8226'),
(22756, 'Alex Delaware 22 - Compulsion', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellermanâ€™s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware. A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killerâ€™s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware. What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges; across the paths of commodities brokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death â€“ and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13902'),
(22757, 'Alex Delaware 23 - Bones', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as ''master of the psychological thriller'' (People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling new masterpiece. The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something ''real dead... buried in your marsh.'' The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it''s a prank, but when a young woman''s body turns up in L.A.''s Bird Marsh preserve no one''s laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city''s under siege to an insidious killer. Milo''s first move: calling in psychologist Alex Delaware. The murdered women are prostitutes-except the most recent victim; a brilliant young musician from the East Coast, employed by a wealthy family to tutor a musical prodigy, Selena Bass seems out of place in the marsh''s grim tableau. Conveniently-perhaps ominously-Selena''s blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate''s jittery caretaker raises hackles. But Milo''s instincts and Alex''s insight are too well-honed to settle for easy answers, even given the dark secrets in this troubled man''s past. Their investigation unearths disturbing layers-about victims, potential victims, and suspects alike-plunging even deeper into the murky marsh''s enigmatic depths. Bizarre details of the crimes suggest a devilish serial killer prowling L.A.''s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the pattern, derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Answers don''t come easy, but the darkest of drives and desires may fuel the most devious of foes. Bones is classic Kellerman-relentlessly peeling back the skin and psyches of its characters and revealing the shadows and sins of the souls beneath. With jolt after jolt of galvanizing suspense, it drives the reader through its twists and turns toward a climax as satisfying as it is shattering.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14508'),
(22758, 'Alex Delaware 24 - Evidence', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away. In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A. ''s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple-murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he''s cracked some of the city''s worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo ''s killer instincts-and psychologist Alex Delaware''s keen insights-can hope to solve. While the female victim''s identity remains a question mark, her companion is ID''d as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, who disdains the sort of grandiose superstructure he''s found dead in. And the late Mr. Backer, it''s revealed was also notorious for his power to seduce women. The rare exception is his ex-boss, Helga Gemein, who''s as indifferent to Desmond''s death as she apparently was to his advances. Though Milo and Alex place her on their short list of suspects, the deeper they dig for clues the longer the list grows. An elusive prince who appears to harbor decidedly American appetites, an eccentric blueblood with an ax to grind, one of Desmond''s restless ex-lovers and her cuckolded husband-all are in the homicidal mix spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it''s the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator''s final fury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11993'),
(22759, 'Alex Delaware 25 - Deception', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman''s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap into terrifying and uncharted new territory. Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help â€“ to whoever may be listening â€“ comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a year-and-a-half-long ordeal of monstrous abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even more shocking than the lurid details is the revelation that the offenders, like their victim, are teachers at one of L.A. ''s most prestigious prep schools. With Elise now dead by uncertain means, homicide detective Milo Sturgis is assigned to probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy. And if ever he could use Dr. Alex Delaware''s psychological prowess, it''s now. From the get-go, this case promises to be an uphill climb for truth and a down and dirty fight for justice. Allegations of rape, assault, and possibly murder at this esteemed institution renowned for molding Ivy Leaguers make for a social and political time bomb â€“ especially given that one of the students has connections high up in City Hall. As the scandal-conscious elite of L.A. close ranks around Windsor Prep, Alex and Milo must penetrate the citadel of wealth and scholarship to expose the hidden anguish, dirty secrets, and deadly sins festering among society''s manor-born. But power and position are not easily surrendered, for that''s when the best and the brightest turn brutal and ugly. Searching for predators among the privileged, Alex and Milo may well be walking into a highly polished death trap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15570'),
(22760, 'Alex Delaware 26 - Mystery', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Lt. Milo Sturgis of LAPD homicide asks psychologist Alex Delaware to view the faceless corpse of a young woman in Kellerman''s enjoyable if only average 26th Alex Delaware novel (after Deception), Alex is shocked to recognize the gunshot victim as someone he and wife, Robin, saw the night before in a restaurant bar. A link turns out to exist between the dead woman and a sinister-looking man Alex and Robin observed outside the bar that night. An anonymous tip leads to an online service that matches "sugar daddies" with "star-quality sweeties." The victim, who called herself "Mystery," had a "daddy," Markham McReynolds, whose wealthy, anything-goes family offers plenty of suspects, including McReynolds''s wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law. Kellerman''s bantering detectives make it look almost too easy as they put together the clues and possible scenarios, despite the unusual solution to the crime. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Delaware, the L.A. psychologist and crime-solver, returns to tackle another tricky case. A woman has been murdered, her body mutilated. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis, Delawareâ€™s frequent partner, brings Alex into the case, hoping for some insight into the psychology of the killer. Alex is surprised to discover that the victim is familiar to him; Alex and his girlfriend saw her at a restaurant only hours before her death. But how can Alex and Milo expect to find any usable clues when the restaurant is now out of business? The Delaware series has been going since 1985, and itâ€™s long since settled into a comfortable formula, which is just fine as far as fans are concerned. The books star a pair of engaging protagonists and, for the most part, are well plotted. In addition, Kellerman usually tosses in a couple of twists to keep readers on their toes. This installment is nothing out of the ordinary for the series, but itâ€™s a solid entry that will please the established audience. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8587'),
(22761, 'The Alexander Cipher', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Apparently everybody hates Daniel Knox, an American archaeologist turned dive instructor who is currently living in Egypt. Thereâ€™s the nasty Hassan, his rich Egyptian boss, whom Daniel beat up in order to keep him from raping a young woman, and Hassanâ€™s even nastier head of security, Nessim. Thereâ€™s Gaille Bonnard, the Egyptologist who blames Daniel for the death of her father, and Nicolas Dragoumis, the wealthy industrialist whose own father seems oddly determined to ruin Daniel. Further complicating Danielâ€™s life is, of all people, Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who proves that being dead for 2,300 years doesnâ€™t mean you still canâ€™t wreak havoc in peopleâ€™s lives. After Alexanderâ€™s death, in 323 BCE, his body was brought to Egypt in a massive golden funeral carriage; Alexanderâ€™s power-hungry general, Ptolemy, stole Alexanderâ€™s body for his own purposes, and the funeral carriage vanished. Daniel thinks he knows where the carriage is, but that pales in comparison to a new discovery: artifacts that might point the way to the long-lost body of Alexander himself. All Daniel, a lifelong Alexander scholar, needs to do is keep clear of all the people who are out to get him long enough to solve the mystery. This is a hugely entertaining thriller, very much in the vein of Matthew Reilly: an adroit mixture of action, character, and history. Daniel and his plucky Australian partner, Rick, make for an engaging pair of heroes, and the author does an excellent job of keeping the story moving at a brisk clip while giving us all the historical background we require to understand what all the fuss is about. Thereâ€™s also a nice romantic subplot, and one or two smartly constructed twists. Surprisingly, considering its high quality, this is Adamsâ€™ first novel. It was published in the UK in November 2007, and its sequel, The Exodus Quest, in November â€™08. North American readers of Cipher will eagerly await the arrival here of Quest. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[Knox is] a resourceful and appealing hero, and... the action crackles along with betrayals, vendettas and revelations galore." (\n <strong>\n  Daily Mail\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "A cracking adventure in which Alexander the Great is brought to extraordinary life; plus there''s a modern-day search for the conqueror''s tomb. Enthralling." (\n <strong>\n  Observer\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5116'),
(22762, 'alexandra, gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15584'),
(22763, 'Alexandria', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A locked-room murder provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge in Davis''s 19th novel to feature the first-century Roman sleuth (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Saturnalia\n </em>\n ). In the spring of A.D. 77, while on vacation with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, Falco is stunned to get word that Theon, the Great Library''s head librarian, with whom he just dined, has been found dead with neither marks of violence on the body nor evidence of how the killer got away from the scene of the crime. Falco probes the academic politics surrounding the Great Library to determine whether one of Theon''s potential successors was the culprit. Other deaths follow, including that of a philosophy student, mauled by a crocodile that escaped from the local zoo. While the impossible crime''s solution may disappoint some readers, the twisty plot with its various false leads and the author''s plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even spies age, but fortunately Marcus Didius Falcoâ€”"informer" for the Roman emperor in the first century C.E.â€”is aging with grace. What makes Davis''s long-standing series so indelible is the expert blend of Falco''s wisecracking observations and crazy family life with some masterly suspense. In this latest, Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation. (They''re staying at the house of his wayward uncle and the uncle''s partner.) In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right awayâ€”the Librarian of Alexandria''s great library is found dead in his sealed office. There''s been plenty of controversy surrounding the Librarian already, and the controversy over who will succeed him turns bloody. Who knew that the race for a top library spot could be so intriguing? The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans. [See Prepub Mystery,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 1/09.]â€”Barbara Hoffert,\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15586'),
(22764, 'Alfred Hitchcock presents: Fear and trembling', 'Alfred Hitchcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15589'),
(22765, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5118'),
(22766, 'Alias Grace', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Yet opinion remained fiercely divided about Marks - was she a spurned woman who had taken out her rage on two innocent victims, or was she an unwilling victim herself, caught up in a crime she was too young to understand? Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane.In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood reconstructs Marks''s story in fictional form. Her portraits of nineteenth-century prison and asylum life are chilling in their detail. The author also introduces Dr. Simon Jordan, who listens to the prisoner''s tale with a mixture of sympathy and disbelief. In his effort to uncover the truth, Jordan uses the tools of the then rudimentary science of psychology. Dr. Simon Jordan is an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances? But the last word belongs to the book''s narrator - Grace herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15590'),
(22767, 'The Alibi Machine', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5120'),
(22768, 'Alice I Have Been: A Novel', 'Melanie Benjamin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves''s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she''s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice''s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15591'),
(22769, 'Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics', 'Robert Gilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My eyes tend to glaze over when I encounter YAPBAQPs (Yet Another Popular Book About Quantum Physics). But this volume captured my attention, and imagination. Told in the same way as\n <strong>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </strong>\n (with many of the original passages re-tooled to their new purpose) and a hint of\n <strong>\n  Flatland\n </strong>\n , Gilmore guides us through the principles of Quantum mechanics in a truly lively and fun way. I suspect it may even be a good read for teens or extremely bright children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It (..) includes characters like the uncertain accountant and the state agent who shows Alice how items can be two places at once. --\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15593'),
(22770, 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Lewis Carroll &amp; John Tenniel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One normal summer day, Alice is sitting on the riverbank when a big, white, talking rabbit runs past.  He pops into a big rabbit hole, and Alice follows him down, down, down into a magical and strange land.  Alice has many exciting adventures in this extraordinary place called Wonderland.  Here, anything can happen: all the animals talk, a deck of cards comes to life, and everything gets curiouser and curiouser.  This is the timeless tale of AliceÂ¹s adventures in Wonderland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15595'),
(22771, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15598'),
(22772, 'Alicia', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain''s newest pop sensation Â¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can''t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never call her fake-Spanish again. The only trick: She''ll have to beat her super-bonita cousins to win the coveted spot. Adios, bimbos!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15599'),
(22773, 'Alien Plot (2)', 'Anthony, Piers - Alien Plot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15512'),
(22774, 'Alien Resonance', 'Thomas A. Easton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15601'),
(22775, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5122');
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(22776, 'Alis', 'Naomi Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thiefor worse. Facing an impossible choice between a forced marriage or life on the streets, Alis seizes control of her own fate. But the path she chooses sets off a disastrous chain of events that leave her accused of murder. Steadfastly loyal, Alis must decide: will she betray a loved one or sacrifice herself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15628'),
(22777, 'Alistair MacLean&#39;s time of the assassins', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15635'),
(22778, 'Alitus', 'Kayelle Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15637'),
(22779, 'All Cakes Considered', 'Melissa Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melissa Gray is National Public Radio''s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake\n <em>\n  All Cakes Considered\n </em>\n is an essential addition to every baker''s library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15639'),
(22780, 'All Cats Are Gray', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17935'),
(22781, 'All Families Are Psychotic', 'Douglas Coupland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Psychosis:any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual''s contact with reality becomes highly distorted. Douglas Coupland, the author whom Tom Wolfe calls "one of the freshest, most exciting voices of the novel today," delivers his tenth book in ten years of writing, withAll Families Are Psychotic. Coupland recently has been compared to Jack Kerouac and F. Scott Fitzgerald, yet he is a man firmly grounded in the current era. The novel is a sizzling and sharp-witted entertainment that resounds with eternal human yearnings. In the opening pages, 65-year-old Janet Drummond checks the clock in her cheap motel room near Cape Canaveral, takes her prescription pills and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her three children: Wade, the eldest, in and out of jail and still radiating "the glint"; suicidal Bryan, whose girlfriend, the vowel-free Shw, is pregnant; and Sarah, the family''s shining light, an astronaut preparing to be launched into space as the star of a shuttle mission. They will all arrive in Orlando today along with Janet''s ex-husband Ted and his new trophy wife setting the stage for the most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction. Florida may never recover from their version of fun in the sun. The last time the family got together, there was gunplay and an ensuing series of HIV infections. Now, what should be a celebration turns instead into a series of mishaps and complications that place the family members in constant peril. When the reformed Wade attempts to help his dad out of a financial jam and pay off his own bills at the fertility clinic, his plan spins quickly out of control. Adultery, hostage-taking, a letter purloined from Princess Diana''s coffin, heart attacks at Disney World, bankruptcy, addiction and black-market negotiations Coupland piles on one deft, comic plot twist after another, leaving you reaching for your seat belt. When the crash comes, it is surprisingly sweet. Janet contemplates her family, and where it all went wrong. "People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people''s family. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own." During the writing, Coupland described the book as being about "the horrible things that families do to each other and how it makes them strong." He commented: "Families who are really good to each other, I''ve noticed, tend to dissipate, so I wonder how awful a family would have to be to stick together." Coupland''s first novel,Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, became a cultural phenomenon, affixing a buzzword and a vocabulary to a generation and going on to sell over a million copies. The novels that followed were all bestsellers, and his work has continued to show a fascination with the digital, brand-conscious, media-dense culture of contemporary North American society, leading some to peg him as "an up-to-the-minute cultural reference engine." Meanwhile, his deeper interests in how human beings function in this spiritual vacuum have become increasingly apparent. For example, the character Wade contemplates his father: "Whatwouldthe world have to offer Ted Drummond, and the men like him, a man whose usefulness to the culture had vanished somewhere around the time of Windows 95? Golf? Gold? Twenty-four hour stock readouts?" Janet, on the other hand, nears a kind of peace with life: "Time erases both the best and the worst of us."All Families Are Psychoticshows Coupland being just as concerned for the grown-ups as for the kids.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16281'),
(22782, 'All Good Things...', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This audio adaptation is based on the series finale of Star TrekR: The Next GenerationTM, the most successful syndicated show in television history. As the title suggests, "all good things" must come to an end. The crew''s final adventure begins abruptly as Captain Picard announces he is inexplicably moving backward and forward through time. He soon realizes that his old nemesis, known simply as "Q," is at least partly responsible. As the plot unfolds, three different time lines emerge: one seven years in the past, where we meet old friends long gone; another 25 years in the future, where we get a glimpse of the crew''s fate; and, of course, one in the present. As time collides in a desperate climax, Picard risks everything to save a condemned humanity. The story is deftly read by Jonathan Frakes, who appears as Commander Riker in the TV series. Frakes''s riveting narration is accented by an impeccable depiction of Patrick Stewart''s Picard. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Charles A. Weiss, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity''s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind''s destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15641'),
(22783, 'All Just Glass', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampireâ€”changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood.\n <br />\n Aida Vida is Sarah''s older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida''s mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.\n <br />\n Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia''s fansâ€”old and new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel,\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night,\n </em>\n when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are\n <em>\n  Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator,\n </em>\n all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha''ra:\n <em>\n  Hawksong,\n </em>\n a\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults'' Choice; and\n <em>\n  Wyvernhail\n </em>\n . She is also the author of\n <em>\n  Persistence of Memory\n </em>\n . Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15644'),
(22784, 'All Laced Up', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15645'),
(22785, 'All My Life: A Memoir', 'Susan Lucci &amp; Laura (CON) Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n "See that moon up there?\n <br />\n You can reach that high.\n <br />\n Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n <em>\n  Annie Get Your Gun\n </em>\n ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n <em>\n  Dancing with the Stars\n </em>\n ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n</p>\n<p>\n As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Susan Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19183'),
(22786, 'All of Us Can Almost...', 'Carol Emshwiller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15649'),
(22787, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   SUMMARY:\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."\n  <br />\n  -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15654'),
(22788, 'All Shadows Fled - Book 3', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15656'),
(22789, 'All Souls&#39; Rising', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world''s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul''s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15658'),
(22790, 'all that glitters', 'All That Glitters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15660'),
(22791, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films such as\n <i>\n  De Lovely\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Double Jeopardy\n </i>\n , but these days she is more likely to be found wading through an African refugee camp or Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decade Judd has been visiting human rights hotspots around the world to spread the word of hope, health, and gender equality on behalf of one of the leading public health nonprofits, PSI/YouthAIDS. Her work has put her in the company of Bono, Bill Clinton, and other world leaders in the battle against disease and poverty and in advocating grassroots programs to improve the lives of women and children.\n <br />\n <br />\n Memories of her own painful childhood inspired Judd to reach out to those in desperate need, especially abused and abandoned girls. She writes movingly of friends such as Kausar, an AIDS sufferer in the slums of Mumbai who becomes an activist and peer-educator, and heroes such as Dr. Rene, who lends his heart and soul to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15662'),
(22792, 'All That Lives Must Die', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15663'),
(22793, 'All that remains: a novel', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A masterly new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel by the author of Body of Evidence and Postmortem. A killer stalks young lovers, taking their lives and leaving behind just a single clue--one playing card. Four couples have been murdered, their remains turning up months after their abandoned automobiles are discovered. It is a ferocious case only the Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Virginia can solve. LG Featured Alternate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15665'),
(22794, 'All the Bridges Rusting', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15523'),
(22795, 'All the Possibilities', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cynical Senator Alan MacGregor falls for free-spirited beauty Shelby Campbell despite their long-standing family feud.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15525'),
(22796, 'All The Pretty Dead Girls', 'John Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15529'),
(22797, 'All the pretty horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18633'),
(22798, 'All the Pretty Horses: the Border Trilogy/1', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16270'),
(22799, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men', 'Keith Gessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame. Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work on the Russian Revolution, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting "the first great Zionist epic" even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, more earnest and easily upset than the other two, is haunted by catastrophes both public and private--and his inability to tell the difference. At every turn, at each character''s misstep, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15535'),
(22800, 'All the Things You Are', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15536'),
(22801, 'All the way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15543'),
(22802, 'All The Weyrs Of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For Generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet''s surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F''lar and Lessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancient remains of the planet''s original settlement, they uncovered the colonists'' voice-activated artificial intelligence system-which still functioned! And the computer had incredible news for them: There was a chance-a good chance- that they could at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15544'),
(22803, 'All The Weyrs of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey - Pern 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17753'),
(22804, 'All the Wonder in the World', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15545'),
(22805, 'All Things Lost', 'Josh Aterovis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15648'),
(22806, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15546'),
(22807, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15547'),
(22808, 'All Worked Up', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15548'),
(22809, 'The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."--Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman''s journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune"[A] grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it. Smiley may have snared a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres . . . but it is with Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton that she emphatically captures our hearts. . . . The key word in Smiley''s title is Adventures, and Lydia''s are crammed with breathless movement, danger, and tension; populated by terrifically entertaining characters and securely grounded in telling detail."--The Miami Herald"SMILEY BRILLIANTLY EVOKES MID-19TH-CENTURY LIFE. . . . Richly imagined and superbly written, Jane Smiley''s new novel is an extraordinary accomplishment in an already distinguished career."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A SPRAWLING EPIC . . . A garrulous, nights-by-the-hearth narrative not unlike those classics of the period it emulates. In following a rebellious young woman of 1855 into Kansas Territory and beyond, the novel is so persuasively authentic that it reads like a forgotten document from the days of Twain and Stowe."--The Boston Sunday Globe"CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING, FILLED WITH ACTION AND IDEAS."--The New York Times Book Review"ENGAGING . . . [A] HARROWING ADVENTURE . . . This picaresque tale presents a series of remarkable characters, particularly in the inexperienced narrator, whose graphic descriptions of travel and domestic life before the Civil War strip away romantic notions of simpler times. . . . Smiley has created an authentic voice in this struggle of a young woman to live simply amid a swirl of deadly antagonism."--The Christian Science Monitor"A fine historical novel that describes a fascinating time and place . . . It is both funny and subtle, rich in ideas . . . Smiley has created a better all-around piece of fiction than any of her previous work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres."--The Wall Street Journal"Smiley is a writer of rare versatility who travels widely in her creative endeavors. She proved her mastery of both short fiction and the novel with three sterling works (The Age of Grief, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and A Thousand Acres); her fondness for history had already been established with The Greelanders. In 1995, she successfully extended her repertoire to comedy with the hilarious academic satire Moo. What her new novel shares with all these works is its authorial intelligence."--The Boston Sunday GlobeÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "Jane Smiley is nothing if not protean, a literary ventriloquist of incredible range. . . . This is a novel that manages to combine the evocative storyteller''s voice with the moviemaker''s sense of drama and visuals, an old-fashioned tale told with contemporary steam and panache."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"Not only is this a rollicking feminist tale of a woman who can handle herself in the thick of the Kansas Wars, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is also a coming of age story as well as a lasting portrait of the genuinely tumultuous time just before the Civil War."--The Raleigh News &amp; Observer"A tale of love and war, revenge and betrayal, Smiley''s fictional memoir invites comparisons with Gone with the Wind, even War and Peace. . . . Lidie Newton has the ring of honesty and truth. It also carries the stamp of its author''s historical sense, stylistic verve, and moral passion."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Full of the same arresting authenticity of detail that carried A Thousand Acres."--New York Daily News"LIDIE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER . . . The All-True Travels is a showcase for Smiley''s range and dexterity, dead-on in its emotional impact and resonant in the painful truths it conveys."--San Diego Union-Tribune"Rendered in sharply lucid prose and filled with wonderful period detail . . . Lidie''s story reads like a long and various dream, brightly colored and brilliantly observed--a journey into a world as troubled, ambiguous, and full of life as our own."--Chicago Tribune"An adventure story, full of suspense, near-misses, and coincidence . . . The first and sustaining marvel of [Smiley''s] new novel is Lydia Newton''s voice: grounded in 19th-century reserve, yet honest, self-aware, and curious."--Toronto Globe &amp; Mail"Smiley nabbed a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres. This stunning new effort should win equally thunderous acclaim."--MademoiselleÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "An immensely appealing heroine, a historical setting conveyed with impressive fidelity and a charming and poignant love story make Smiley''s new novel a sure candidate for bestseller longevity. . . . Propelled by Lidie''s spirited voice, this narrative is packed with drama, irony, historical incident, moral ambiguities, and the perception of human frailty. . . . This novel performs all the functions of superior fiction: in reading one woman''s moving story, we understand an historical epoch, the social and political conditions that produced it, and the psychological, moral, and economic motivations of the people who incited and endured its violent confrontations."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gloriously detailed and brilliantly told, this is a hugely entertaining, illuminating, and sagacious vision of a time of profound moral and political conflict, and of one woman''s coming to terms with the perilous, maddening, and precious world."--Booklist (starred review)"Smiley scales another peak with this bighearted and thoughtful picaresque novel. . . . [A] richly entertaining saga of a woman who might have been well matched with Thomas Berger''s Little Big Man, and whom Huck Finn would have been proud to claim as his big sister."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "HER FINEST WORK YET . . . Resembling a cross between the writing of Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain . . . A fast-paced historical ride through a defining moment in our nation''s history as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman. . . . Smiley''s biggest triumph is in the character of Lidie. One can actually ''see'' her growth throughout the story as Lidie learns about the ambiguity of human morality--and that true justice is rarely served."--San Antonio Express-News"Highly recommended . . . Trust Smiley to take a situation charged with both social significance and novelistic opportunity and ride it for all its worth. . . . Smiley gives us a rich lode of historical detail yet keep the story moving, so that it seems to flow by like a river while at the same time yielding up its riches in leisurely fashion."--Library Journal (starred review)"Like Cold Mountain and Beloved--and with more than a casual nod to Mark Twain--this sprawling saga by the Pulitzer-winning author of A Thousand Acres connects readers to the historical issues of the time."--Glamour"Our heroine is a horse-riding, river-swimming, plain-faced young woman with a distinctly well-calibrated mind of her own."--The Baltimore Sun"A long, wild adventure . . . Lidie never loses her pluck, and her story becomes both a rich homage to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a thrilling variation on the derring-do of Lonesome Dove."--Outside magazine"[A] gripping, epic new novel . . . The All-True Travels is consistently absorbing, thanks in large part to the strong, vibrant voice of the unforgettable Lidie Newton."--Good Housekeeping"Packed with action in a setting worthy of a Western shoot-''em-up."--Newark Star-LedgerÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "ROUSING . . . ACTION-PACKED . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for regardless of the outcome. . . . The voice Smiley creates for her sympathetic and wonderfully human heroine is sharp, engaging, wry, and wise."--Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19373'),
(22810, 'Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard', 'Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS TITLE IS AN OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT BOOK. THE QUALITY OF THE CONVERTED EBOOK WILL VARY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15549'),
(22811, 'Allegiance (Timothy Zahn)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15551'),
(22812, 'Alliance', 'Jerry Oltion', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Derec has restored the original Robot City, but his mother''s creations--three, shapechanging robots--threaten to destroy the city his father built. They urge the other robots not to obey Derec''s or Dr. Avery''s orders. Can they disobey the Three Laws of Robotics? A robot revolution hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15553'),
(22813, 'Allies', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After their adventures on Dathomir, Luke and Ben are determined to return to the Maw and confront Abeloth, the evil power that is making the young Jedi go crazy. The newly discovered Lost Tribe of the Sith are also interested in the Maw and make an uneasy alliance with Ben and Luke. While normally Jedi and Sith would rather kill each other than work together, these Sith are a little different, and as an outcast, Luke canâ€™t get help from other Jedi. Most of the book focuses on the preparations for and the journey into the Maw; the story of Han, Leia, and Alanna, by contrast, takes up only a few small scenes. Even with much of the book devoted to setup, however, the tale doesnâ€™t lack for tension, as the alliance between the Sith and Jedi teeters on a knife edge. Golden introduces a new theme here, ending slavery, and she does a good job balancing the larger series plots against the story arc of a single volumeâ€”no easy feat for the fifth installment in a nine volume-series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the secrets of the Mindwalkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. And now the death squadâ€™s sole survivor, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, has summoned an entire fleet of Sith frigates to engage the embattled father and son. But the dark warriors come bearing a surprising proposition that will bring Jedi and Sith together in an unprecedented alliance against an evil more ancient and alien than they can imagine.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the Skywalkers and their Sith allies set off on their joint mission into the treacherous web of black holes that is the Maw, Han and Leia Solo risk arrest and worse to aid the Jedi imprisoned back on Coruscant. Tyrannical Chief of State Natasi Daala has issued orders that will open a permanent schism between her government and the Jedi Orderâ€”a schism that could turn all Jedi into renegades and wanted criminals.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is in the depths of the Maw that the future of the galaxy will be decided. For there the Skywalkers and their Sith allies will engage a true monster in battle, and Luke will come face-to-face with a staggering truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15554'),
(22814, 'Alligator Bayou', 'Donna Jo Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899, Napoli presents a moving, sobering story about an aspect of American immigration that is probably unknown to most readers. After his mother''s death, 14-year-old Calogero leaves his bustling Sicilian home for the sleepy southern town to help his uncles and younger cousin run their grocery store. White customers expect to be served before blacks and make their displeasure angrily apparent when the Sicilians fail to do so. Barred from the white school and unaware that he can attend the black school, Calogero learns English from a tutor who also tries to help him comprehend Southern American behavior. The cousins meet some African American boys who take them on a terrifying alligator hunt that firmly cements their friendship. Calogero is attracted to Patricia, a African American girl, but fails to fully understand the danger behind her fear of being seen in public with him. Although he has heard his uncles'' stories of the recent lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans, he is unprepared for the horrifying tragedy that befalls his family when a local white doctor kills Uncle Francesco''s goats and then convinces an angry mob that the Sicilians plan to retaliate violently. Historical events are smoothly integrated with vivid everyday details, strong characterizations, and genuine-sounding dialogue. Ultimately, the author expands her themes beyond the story''s specifics, encouraging readers to reconsider the motivations behind this calamity and other manifestations of racism.â€”_Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...The facts from [a] little-told chapter in American history frame Napoliâ€™s wrenching novel about a 14-year-old Sicilian, Calogero, who joins male relatives in Tallulah after his motherâ€™s death. Legally segregated from both whites and blacks, the Italians maintain an insular life, focused on their thriving produce business, until Caloâ€™s secret crush on African American Patricia begins to dissolve social barriers between the two communities, even as social tensions with whites escalate into shocking violence. Through Caloâ€™s active questioning, Napoli integrates a great deal of background history that is further explored in an extensive authorâ€™s note. Readers learn, right along with naive Calo, the draconian specifics of Jim Crow laws and the complex factors of fear and economics that fueled the Southâ€™s entrenched bigotry. A few passages do have a purposeful feel, particularly those between Calo and his tutor, but Napoliâ€™s skillful pacing and fascinating detail combine in a gripping story that sheds cold, new light on Southern history and on the nature of racial prejudice. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15556'),
(22815, 'The Alliterative Morte Arthure', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5125'),
(22816, 'Alma', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBell writes with taut drama, building scene upon scene to the climactic revelation.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning YA author William Bellâ€™s Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Times have been tough since Almaâ€™s father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Almaâ€™s teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for â€œMiss Lily,â€ a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickensâ€™ Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19234'),
(22817, 'Alma Alexander - Changer of Days 1', 'The Hidden Queen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18002'),
(22818, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized. Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15557'),
(22819, 'Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15558'),
(22820, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other', 'Sherry Turkle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships from MIT professor Turkle (Simulation and Its Discontents). In this third in a trilogy that explores the relationship between humans and technology, Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. For all the talk of convenience and connection derived from texting, e-mailing, and social networking, Turkle reaffirms that what humans still instinctively need is each other, and she encounters dissatisfaction and alienation among users: teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration but by how they are perceived by the online collective, mothers who feel texting makes communicating with their children more frequent yet less substantive, Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. Turkle ''s prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. In her university-sponsored studies surveying everything from text-message usage among teens to the use of robotic baby seals in nursing homes for companionship, Turkle paints a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage. Despite her reliance on research observations, Turkle emphasizes personal stories from computer gadgetryâ€™s front lines, which keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human speciesâ€”to restrain ourselves from becoming technologyâ€™s willing slaves instead of its guiding mastersâ€”loud and clear. --Carl Hays\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15559');
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(22821, 'Along Came a Husband', 'Helen Brenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy only wanted-still wants-a home and family. Jonas isn''t husband material, not even close. And now his latest undercover mission has trailed him to Mirabelle Island. With both their lives on the line, Missy knows she''s been fooling herself. She loves Jonas as much as she ever did-maybe more. His return also means finally admitting the truth: she can''t lose him againhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15560'),
(22822, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15564'),
(22823, 'Along came a spider: a novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Washington, D.C., police detective, Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve a schizophrenic psychopath. By the author of Black Market. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild &amp; Doubleday Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15566'),
(22824, 'Along for the Ride', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents'' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19254'),
(22825, 'Alongside Night', 'J. Neil Schulman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15568'),
(22826, 'Alpha', 'Catherine Asaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15572'),
(22827, 'Alpha Force 01: Survival', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber bond on board a sailing ship. When they are marooned on a desert island, they must face the ultimate test -- survival! The team is born.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5410'),
(22828, 'Alpha Force 02: Rat-catcher', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The elite young SAS team sees action in a South American operation to catch a drug baron, where their individual skills are tested to the max.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8737'),
(22829, 'Alpha Force 03 - Desert Pursuit', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15573'),
(22830, 'Alpha Force 04: Hostage', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In their toughest challenge yet, Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber fly to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste. They must mobilize all their survival skills to cope with the harsh landscape, and a man who is out to kill them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10548'),
(22831, 'Alpha Force 05: Red Centre', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force â€“ a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world â€“ are in Australia, helping with a TV reality show. But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town, events suddenly force them into a terrifying adventure as the terrorist seizes hostages and flies off into the bush. Supporting the Australian SAS, Alpha Force has to take action â€“ even if it means flying into the middle of a scary bushfire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15575'),
(22832, 'Alpha Force 06: Hunted', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The team freefall into danger.The elite young squad head to Namibia to compete in an extreme sports contest. When they discover a horrifying threat to the local wildlife, they snap into action, only to find themselves facing a desperate flight across the African plains, hunted by a group who are prepared to shoot to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15577'),
(22833, 'Alpha Force 07 - Blood Money', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15579'),
(22834, 'Alpha Force 08 - Fault Line', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15581'),
(22835, 'Alpha Force 09: Black Gold', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force are in the Caribbean, diving, when a sudden oil spill draws them into a new mission. All their skills â€” powerboating, scuba-diving and jetskiing â€” are needed when an underwater bomb explodes. And then an assassin strikes . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15583'),
(22836, 'Alpha Force 10 - Untouchable', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15585'),
(22837, 'Alpha One', 'Chris Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate... Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate. Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. Carla is looking for her sister, who left home 6 years before to join the Collective, led by the sinister and mysterious Professor Winterburn. Winterburn casts a spell over everyone he meets. The Sentinels and the Betanica Sect lock horns with Alpha in a battle to assume control of the Tri Star System. Alpha''s aim is to open the Blue Worm hole; a gateway to another galaxy. The gathering masses are joined by Winterburn and his flock and by Jake and Steve whose sole intention is to rescue Carla Stevenson from Winterburnâ€™s clutches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15587'),
(22838, 'Alphabet Weekends', 'Elizabeth Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime.\n</p>\n<p>\n So when Natalie''s long-term love walks out on her, Tom''s is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. And Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends - starting with A for Abseiling - to make her forget the heartache and, he hopes, to make her see what''s been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as they tumble from A to Z, their families and friends face broken hearts and tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many and wonderful guises? And not just for Natalie and Tom, but for everyone they care about?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15592'),
(22839, 'Alphas', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At OCD the losers are tormented.At Alpha Academy, they''re sent home.Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country''s best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15594'),
(22840, 'Alpine for You', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A TRIP TO DIE FOR... Accompanying her grandmother on a seniors tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food, and a classy European hotel, all worlds away from her rural Iowa hometown. But her dream trip quickly snowballs into mayhem when smooth-talking tour escort Andy Simon is found dead. To be sure, Andy was as randy as a mountain goat on Viagra, hitting on every miss -- Swiss or otherwise -- within striking distance. His constant advances were driving Emily cuckoo -- but had someone orchestrated his untimely death? For savvy, resourceful Emily, leading the tour in Andy''s place is only natural. But she can''t remain neutral when a fellow traveler takes a fatal plunge -- she''s convinced a murderer lurks among them. With precision timing, sexy Etienne Miceli steps in to investigate, and Emily warms to the suave detective. Still, with the group roster suddenly sprouting more holes than the local cheese, Emily wonders: is there a safe haven anywhere in the shadow of the Alps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15596'),
(22841, 'Already Dead', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: theyâ€™re true. Only itâ€™s not like the movies or old man Stokerâ€™s storybook. Itâ€™s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.Thereâ€™s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folksâ€™ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but heâ€™s still the one who has to deal with them. Thatâ€™s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and heâ€™s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and heâ€™s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus thatâ€™s eating at him isnâ€™t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesnâ€™t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattanâ€“it ainâ€™t easy. Itâ€™s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalitionâ€“the cityâ€™s most powerful Clanâ€“and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl whoâ€™s gone missing in Alphabet City.Now the Coalition and the girlâ€™s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15597'),
(22842, 'Already Home', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth Kendrick and Susan Mallery: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Okay, before we start this interview, Iâ€™d like to take a moment to talk to you about your Christmas card this year, which featured your adorable poodle, Nikki. Dressed up in an elaborate chiffon holiday neckpiece. Featuring jingle bells and ribbon. You and I both know that this is not an isolated incident. Oh yes, Iâ€™ve seen the photos of Miss Nikki making love to the camera in Halloween costumes and baseball jerseys. I think everyone here deserves to know the truth: does Nikki have a stylist? Or do poodles have an innate French flair for accessorizing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Nikki actually does have a personal stylist, a friend who sends her a new outfit at least once a year. Nikki is a star. Sigh. Itâ€™s getting to be a problem. She was born in a playpen in Albuquerque, but has grown so used to attention that she demands it. When she decides itâ€™s time to cuddle, nothing will deter her. She bats my hands away from the keyboard with her nose. Like everyone else who meets her, I have fallen under her spell. Iâ€™m helpless to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Who gets more fan mail--you or Nikki?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I get more, but hers tastes better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  is technically womenâ€™s fiction, which means that in addition to the romance storyline, thereâ€™s a truckload of family drama. Oh, how I love family drama. The fictional kind, I mean. Give us a few hints about the book. Whatâ€™s your favorite scene?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  : The story revolves around Jenna, recently divorced and in the midst of an unexpected career change. So her life is already in a state of flux when sheâ€™s hit with the sudden appearance of her birth parents who are, to put it mildly, nothing like Jennaâ€™s â€œrealâ€ (aka, adoptive) parents. Jenna was raised in a conservative Texas town by loving but traditional parents. Her birth parents are throwbacks to the 1970s, vegetarian hippies who get messages from "the Universe" and have an unnatural dislike of dairy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the scenes I love best takes place when Jenna travels with them to their home on a California vineyard. There, she meets siblings and other family, and she gets a glimpse of the life she would have lived if they hadnâ€™t given her up for adoption all those years ago. What I love about this scene is that this is where Jennaâ€™s heart begins to open. First impressions can be wrong... or at least incomplete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Jenna is getting to know her birth family, she canâ€™t help wondering why they seem to think they have to dive into deep family intimacy immediately. Whatâ€™s the urgency? Why canâ€™t they let their feelings develop over time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna, the main character in\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  , has invited Amy and Linnie, the main characters from my novel\n  <em>\n   The Bake-Off\n  </em>\n  , over for a dinner party. Discussion topics will include: dysfunctional families, cooking disasters, and truly unfortunate dating choices. What is your heroine cooking, and what can my characters bring?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna has discovered the joy of fusion cuisine. In the book, she experiments with Mexican-Indian fusion and comes up with a fabulous recipe for Curry Chicken Enchiladas. Served, of course, with chips and salsa and hummus and pita. As for your characters, they can bring dessert. Itâ€™ll have to be apple pie, since they are big old bake-off frauds and that is really the only recipe they can make, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Well, yes. But they prefer the term â€œcounterfeit confectionistasâ€ to â€œfrauds,â€ thank you very much. Since Jenna is a sous chef who wants to open her own cooking store, I assume you had to slog through hours of torturous research at places like Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table. (These are the sacrifices you make for your art!) What is your favorite kitchen implement or gadget?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: wine key.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  If you had a reality show, what would it be called, and what would a typical episode be like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I adore watching reality shows, and Iâ€™m not even embarrassed to admit it. (Okay, Iâ€™m a little embarrassed.) Theyâ€™re just so grotesque. The situations are staged, but the emotions are real, and Iâ€™m an emotion junkie. But I would never go on a reality show because I donâ€™t want people to feed off of my emotions, other than in my books, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  I know, I know, but humor me. If you did...?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I actually do have a reality dating show in\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  , an August release in my\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series of romance novels. It doesnâ€™t go well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  So in addition to being talented and witty, youâ€™re prolific as all get-out. How many books do you have coming out in 2011? Five? Eighteen? What gives? Have you somehow figured out how to clone yourself or survive without sleep? I demand to know your secret. And donâ€™t give me that song and dance about â€œhard workâ€ and â€œself-discipline.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I have four books coming out in 2011.\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  in April, and then Iâ€™ll continue the\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series in August, September, and October with\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Only Yours\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Only His\n  </em>\n  . The Hendrix triplets will all fall in love this year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My secret? I have the attention span of a gnat. If I donâ€™t write quickly, I get bored. I start thinking about the next story I want to write, and the next one after that. I donâ€™t lack for ideas, so I have to be disciplined about completing each one. Working on the next one is my reward for finishing the current project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful story about turning your life around. --Fresh Fiction\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Stars, Top Pick! Warm, snappy dialog...signature Susan Mallery. --Night Owl Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best books I''ve read this year! --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery''s many, devoted fans. --Booklist-Starred Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15602'),
(22843, 'The Also People', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Just how technologically advanced are they?â€™ The Doctor frowned. â€˜Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the clocest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what sheâ€™s always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12730'),
(22844, 'Alta', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey''s latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia with Avatre, the crimson female dragon he has secretly raised. In his native Alta, the former serf finds his fate interconnected with the destinies of Orest, youngest son of the Lord Ya-tiren, and the girl Aket-ten, a "Winged One" in training capable of speaking with animals. Vetch begins a new career teaching other Altan males how to bond with dragons from the egg. Vivid depictions of mythical creatures and a pastoral, casual approach to magic enliven such emotionally charged themes as cultural displacement, alienation and search for self. The crises of individual characters with easily identifiable conflicts nicely mirror larger catastrophes of plot. Full of adventure, romance and political intrigue if low on moral complexity, this highly readable fantasy will appeal particularly to young adults. Fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern series will also be happy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Vetch, former serf turned dragon boy in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n [BKL Mr 15 03], and his hand-reared dragon, Avarte, escape from Tia and cross the deadly desert to Altan-controlled lands. Back among his own people, Vetch becomes indispensable because he knows how to tame newly hatched dragons, which then don''t need to be drugged into submission. All is not well with the Altans, however. The Magi, who work their will on the world, have great powers they use to prolong the war that is raging for their own benefit. There''s plenty of dragon lore as Vetch, now known as Kiron, teaches a close-knit cadre of young jousters how to bond with dragonets and train them for combat in the hope of ending the war. Rife with intrigue and dangerous counterintrigue, the story continues a classic quest-for-good-against-evil plot development while beautifully maintaining the world, society, and characterizations established in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n . A very satisfying sequel with an ending that begs for another episode because the final battle is yet to come.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15604'),
(22845, 'The Altar of Bones', 'Philip Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This conspiracy thriller from the pseudonymous Carter opens in 1937 with a rousing Siberian prison camp escape, but the present-day action soon turns predictable. After the murder of Katya Orlova, the grandmother of San Francisco lawyer Zoe Dmitroff, a letter written by Katya reaches Zoe informing her that she''s now the "Keeper" of an ancient secret involving a Siberian cave known as the Altar of Bones. Many people try to wrest the secret from Zoe, including her own mother, a mysterious business tycoon, and the Russian mob. Ry O''Malley, a hunky tough guy, signs on to protect Zoe, and soon they''re on the run. Zoe and Ry prove to be amazingly lucky, to the point that by the time the unsurprising ending rolls around, all suspense has been drained from the action. Readers should be prepared for prose typical of erotic romance fiction (e.g., "He tried to gentle his kiss, but then she tangled her fingers in his hair and sucked on his tongue, pulling it deeper into her mouth, making love with their mouths, sucking, tonguing, and he was lost"). (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Will blow your mind! Dan Brown meets Robert Ludlum in this gripping, incredibly fast-paced thriller.â€--_New York Times_ bestseller Greg Iles\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t put it down until you get up to walk around and catch your breath."â€”_New York Times_ bestseller Ted Bell\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Altar of Bones_ is one of the most stunning novels I''ve ever read. From superbly etched characters to a plot rich with twists and heart-stopping action . . . an incredible reading experience you can''t miss.â€ --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Catherine Coulter\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] action-filled story . . . lots of sex, lots of violence, and lots of plot twists.â€ --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5127'),
(22846, 'Altar of Eden', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15478'),
(22847, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15479'),
(22848, 'Altered Humans', 'Darrell Bain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don?t care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren?t caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found?if you don?t die first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15480'),
(22849, 'Alternamorphs #02 : The Next Passage (Alternamorphs)', 'K.A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a "choose your own adventure" story, the reader must decide what to do when an alien demands a mysterious blue box in return for not killing the reader''s character''s father.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15483'),
(22850, 'Alternamorphs 1-The First Journey', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15482'),
(22851, 'Alternate Generals II', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15484'),
(22852, 'Alternate Martians', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15485'),
(22853, 'Alternate Orbits', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18380'),
(22854, 'The Alternative Hero', 'Tim Thornton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do if you''re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you "belonged" in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpies'' lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyes--basically taking you with him--and just today you''ve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you? If you''re Clive Beresford--the haplessly obsessed guy at the center of Tim Thornton''s wildly comic and energetic debut novel--you get remarkably drunk and write and deliver a note to your idol (the contents of which you can''t remember the next morning), which causes two very large bouncer types to appear at your door warning you to back off, which, in turn, causes you to hide your true identity when you do finally meet Lance, totally by accident (he''s come a long way since the Magpies, but he is still LANCE F**CKING WEBSTER!) . . . none of which deters you from believing--really believing--that he could still save your life if only you could get that "earth-shattering exclusive" interview with him. With the story shifting between Clive''s life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, we get a headlong, boisterous coming-of-age (if-not-quite-growing-up) romp and a warmhearted, hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18547'),
(22855, 'Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18441'),
(22856, 'THE ALTIAN PLAGUE', 'D M Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5130'),
(22857, 'The Altman Code', 'Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He''s brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn''t want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5132'),
(22858, 'Alvin Maker 1 - Seventh Son', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6599'),
(22859, 'Alvin Maker 2 - Red Prophet', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7231'),
(22860, 'Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7499'),
(22861, 'Alvin Maker 4 - Journeyman', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15493'),
(22862, 'Alvin Maker 5 - Heart Fire', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10790'),
(22863, 'Alvin Maker 6 - The Crystal City', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16241'),
(22864, 'Always', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself livingâ€”and lovingâ€”on the edge of danger. Lisa Landon makes her living with her voiceâ€”a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisaâ€™s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps thatâ€™s what brings her to the exotic desert nation of Sedikhan and the nightclub where she meets Clancy Donahue. Clancy takes one look at the beautiful, vulnerable chanteuse and knows she is exactly the woman heâ€™s been searching for. The Sedikhan security chief needs to bait a trap for a terrorist moneyman, and Clancy is certain that Lisa will be irresistible. What he doesnâ€™t count on is that he wonâ€™t be able to resist her eitherâ€”and that heâ€™ll do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his own life. With deadly plans in motion and Lisa in the crosshairs, Clancy realizes that before their romance can get to always, it will first have to reach tomorrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15494'),
(22865, 'Always a Thief', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild cardâ€¦The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibitedâ€”and the showâ€™s director, Morgan West, canâ€™t ignore her growing uneasiness. Sheâ€™s certain she hasnâ€™t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her helpâ€”help she canâ€™t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and itâ€™s a game that just might get him killed.With Morganâ€™s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusiveâ€¦and more deadlyâ€¦than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trustedâ€”and everythingâ€™s at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19310'),
(22866, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of *Always Looking Up* will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. ***The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.*.** *Always Looking Up* is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s. With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, *Lucky Man*, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15495'),
(22867, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15496'),
(22868, 'Amagansett', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and haunting as its backdrop, Amagansett is an unforgettable evocation of life''s epic forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15497'),
(22869, 'The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5134'),
(22870, 'The amazing Dr. Darwin', 'Charles Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 18th Century Europe: It is an age when superstition is beginning to give way to the force of human reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer of the bizarre and the seemingly supernatural, no mystery can stand for long against Darwin''s enlightened analysis. And there are far more mysteries than history knows... For Erasmus Darwin''s world is filled with oddities that most cannot believe: from unknown beings lurking just outside the boundaries of civilization, to anomalies that even the greatest natural philosophers will be hard-pressed to explain, to mysterious deaths that give rise to fears of malevolent sorcery. And when the renowned Dr. Darwin is called upon to heal a man dying of an ailment that seems impossible, he has no idea that it is the beginning of a quest that will lead him to the darkest corners of Europe, and a stunning encounter with the most famous inhabitant of a certain Scottish loch... Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5039'),
(22871, 'Amazing Grace', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bungalow 2\n </em>\n still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn''t counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admittingâ€”much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriendâ€”that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there''s nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15500'),
(22872, 'The Amazing Mexican Secret', 'Jeff Brown; Josh Greenhut; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Special delivery: Danger!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Stanley''s mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley''s simple trip becomes a race against an opponent that even a flat boy like himself can''t slip past!!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n  <em>\n   Flat Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Invisible Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley in Space\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Stanley, Flat Again!\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5046'),
(22873, 'Amazon Gate', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15503');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(22874, 'Amazon Slaughter', 'Anthony, Piers-Jason Striker-03-Amazon Slaughter &amp; Curse of the Ninja', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15238'),
(22875, 'Amazonia', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15506'),
(22876, 'The Ambassadors', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5055'),
(22877, 'The Amber Enchantress', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15511'),
(22878, 'The Amber Room', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that''s long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel''s father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia''s Catherine Palace. The disappearance of the panels, which together formed a room, remains one of the world''s greatest unsolved art mysteries. Borya''s secret gets him killed as two European industrialists/art collectors go head to head in a deadly race to find the fabled room. Searching for Borya''s killer, Rachel and Paul bumble their way to Europe, where their naivetâ€š triggers more deaths. Berry has obviously done his homework, and he seems determined to find a place for every fact he''s unearthed. The plot slows for descriptions of various art pieces, lectures and long internal monologues in which characters examine their innermost feelings and motives in minute detail, while also packing in plenty of sex and an abundance of brutal killings. A final confrontation between all the principals ends in a looming Bavarian castle where Rachel is raped. All the right elements are in place, but the book is far too long and not as exciting as the ingredients suggest. Readers may end up wishing Berry had written a nonfiction account of the fascinating story of the Amber Room and skipped the fictional mayhem.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Give this man credit: whereas most lawyers who decide to write a novel stay fairly close to home, Berry, a Georgia trial attorney, wanders far off the beaten path. Although his debut novel features a trial judge as its central character and opens with a pretty typical courtroom scene, it soon steps outside the courtroom--way outside. When Judge Rachel Cutler''s father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that, so the legend goes, was appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Now, to find out why her father died, and who''s responsible, Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Germany, where she hopes to find the truth about the Amber Room. Based loosely, very loosely, on certain historical events, the novel is plotted cleverly and written with style and substance. A welcome change from the usual legal-thriller fare from wanna-be Turows.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5059'),
(22879, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5061'),
(22880, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Una fria noche de invierno, la nieve cae en una pequena ciudad, el viento hace resonar las campanas de la iglesia... y Fritz el novelista empieza el relato de su ultima narracion. En ese instante los mas extranos sucesos empiezan a desencadenarse, ligados unos a otros, casi como los engranajes de un reloj.En la inquietante historia se entremezclan un atormentado aprendiz de relojero, un principe automata, un amenazador caballero enfundado en su armadura y el siniestro senor Kalmenius, que, segun algunos, es el diablo en persona... A medida que la historia va desarrollandose, la vida y el reloj mecanico se entremezclan en esta muestra unica de la literatura de suspense, de la mano de uno de los mas prestigiosos escritores de nuestros dias. Philip Pullman ha sido el ganador de los codiciados premios Carnegie Medad y Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18763'),
(22881, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15513'),
(22882, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HE''S SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN''T EXIST--HIMSELF. On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there''s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn''t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was...and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead. "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film...slickly paced...all consuming."--"Entertainment Weekly"" ""Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined."--"The New York Times" " " Visit the Robert Ludlum(TM) Web site atwww.ludlumbooks.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5062'),
(22883, 'Ambulance Ship', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n MBULANCE SHIP begins with "The Secret History of Sector General" - White''s introduction discussing the series to date - then proceeds to the 3 linked short stories of this volume, introducing Sector General''s special ambulance ship Rhabwar (named for a famous figure in Tralthan medicine, being Tralthan-built).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some misconceptions might arise for new readers (or even fans of the series who haven''t previously encountered this book). Rhabwar isn''t special just because it''s an ambulance ship; those are actually common in White''s universe already. What''s special is that somebody in the Galactic Federation government has applied some lessons learned from Sector General''s previous adventures. (Points to the author for giving an interstellar civilization credit for some common sense.) Someone has noticed that over the last 20 years, the Monitor Corps has found 3 new civilizations while Sector General has found 7 - since distress calls are much easier to find than any other communication signal. Once contact has been made, the hospital''s track record for establishing friendly relations is also much more impressive than the Corps'' - since saving lives makes a MUCH stronger impression than ordinary diplomacy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until the opening of this story, the Federation hasn''t had a set policy for dealing with mysterious distress calls - on the face of it, why would they, until it became obvious that they needed one? Calls that DIDN''T happen to fall within Sector General''s area have usually resulted in the death of any unknown aliens involved, since regular ambulance ships are specialized for various known species (usually only one or two). Rhabwar, therefore, has been specially built to handle all kinds of atmospheres, shapes, and sizes on its casualty deck, and is kept in reserve for distress calls that don''t correspond to any known flight plan. (As a bonus, of course, it can fill in for just about any known species'' ambulance craft, if needed.)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Senior Physician Conway, his wife pathologist Murchison, and the fragile Cinrusskin empath Prilicla (with their considerable experience of ship rescue operations and first contacts) have been assigned to Rhabwar. White also introduces Naydrad, the caterpillar-like Kelgian heavy rescue specialist, as part of the new Rhabwar team.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Contagion" - As a shakedown assignment for Rhabwar, the team has been assigned to an ordinary search-and-rescue job: responding to a distress call from the Earth-human-crewed scoutship Tenelphi. This job begins as an opportunity for White to introduce the ship and Captain Fletcher as he and the medical team begin feeling out their relationship (which continues throughout the book). After all, what could go wrong with a simple chore like rescuing the Tenelphi?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Quarantine" - After the Tenelphi job, Rhabwar''s first proper assignment - answering an unknown distress signal - cropped up soon afterward: responding to a distress signal from a ship torn apart by hyperdrive failure. One survivor was found: a child of the previously unknown species.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Recovery" - O''Mara orders the medical team and crew of Rhabwar to spend their on-duty time aboard ship until they''ve established routine procedures. (The crew''s training in rescue procedures by the medical team and the reciprocal training in ship procedures didn''t get launched properly in all the excitement, so White smoothly provides the usual overview of species classification for those who came into the series late.) Their next rescue job introduces the two species later known as the Blind Ones and the Protectors of the Unborn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15514'),
(22884, 'Ambush at Corellia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo backÂ Â to the home world he left many years before.Â Â Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their childrenÂ Â and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun withÂ Â agents of the New Republic Intelligence and findsÂ Â himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not evenÂ Â he understands. One thing is clear: the fiveÂ Â inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civilÂ Â war and the once peaceful coexistence of the threeÂ Â leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan --Â Â has come to an end.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan -- has come to an end. Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5854'),
(22885, 'Ambush at Corellia (Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy, Book 1)', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Star Wars - 167 - Corellian Trilogy 01 - SUMMARY: In this first episode of an exciting new trilogy, the blockbuster adventures of Star Wars "RM" continue...Ambush At CorelliaRoger MacBride AllenA trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home planet he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children, and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful co-existence of the three leading species -- human, Selonian, and Drallan -- has come to an end.Suddenly all that Han, Leia, and others of the Alliance have fought for is threatened. As jammerships block all communication with Luke Skywalker and the outside universe, Han and Leia find themselves trapped on a world about to explode in violence unless they can meet a fanatical rebel leader''s impossible demands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15515'),
(22886, 'Ambushed!', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancÃ©e''s disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office, Cash was finally off the hook...even though his instincts told him he''d never before held this woman in his arms. Posing as a missing woman had seemed like a good idea to on-the-run Molly Kilpatrick...unfortunately, she''d made the mistake of stealing the wrong identity. Someone wanted the woman dead and would stop at nothing to make sure, this time, she stayed dead. Molly needed Cash''s protection and had to trust in his innocence, but if she was wrong, she''d be *dead* wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15516'),
(22887, 'America&#39;s Great Depression', 'Murray Newton Rothbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Applied Austrian economics doesn''t get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard''s *America''s Great Depression* is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises Institute edition features, along with a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson, top-quality paper and bindings, in line with the standard set by The Scholars Edition of *Human Action*. Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive. Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed''s policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust. The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15419'),
(22888, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15518'),
(22889, 'American Beauty', 'Ball, Alan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15519'),
(22890, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This American author describes her ordinary 1950''s childhood in Pittsburgh with extraordinary clarity and humour. Her father quits the family firm and takes a boat down the Ohio River alone for a few months. Her mother teaches the three daughters how to tell a joke and bet a poker hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19099'),
(22891, 'The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5063'),
(22892, 'The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid &amp; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18564'),
(22893, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism, which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new history....This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Roosevelt....I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan....As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent book....H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writer... [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific work.... He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical scenery...This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15520'),
(22894, 'American Empire 01 - Blood and Iron', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15521'),
(22895, 'American Empire 02 - The Center Cannot Hold', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15522'),
(22896, 'American Empire 03 - The Victorious Opposition', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15524'),
(22897, 'American Empire: Blood and Iron', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he''s working close enough to the present for readers to appreciate his detailed analyses of how familiar events might have turned out differently. His massive trilogy, The Great War, described how WWI might have been fought on an Earth where the Confederacy was still an independent nation. This follow-up novel begins by showing postwar life. Teddy Roosevelt is president; however, the Socialist Party gives the establishment serious competition, as veterans question the society they fought to save, and Upton Sinclair challenges TR in the election of 1920. Meanwhile, in the humiliated and bankrupt Confederate states, an angry racist with a gift of demagoguery whips up violent mobs and aims them at his enemies. Readers will recognize some of the names, but watching historical processes in action is the novel''s real attraction. Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the results of different choices. Sometimes, luck and willingness to compromise can resolve conflicts. On the other hand, the Southern Hitler may have his way. It depends on how well people make sense of the situations facing them. Turtledove''s introduction carries over a cast of 16 varied characters from The Great War. Not all survive, but readers will be curious to see how the rest go on to cope with new challenges. This book begins a panoramic story, a new trilogy at least, that promises to be immensely fascinating. 5-city author tour; on-sale date July 31.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s Great War series morphs into the American Empire series. The U.S and imperial Germany have imposed a "blood and iron" peace on Britain, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. On the western front, the Confederacy struggles to overcome defeat, dissension, and Weimar-level inflation, and the U.S. labors to stay on top of things and prepare for the next round of combat. Indomitable, muddleheaded General Custer has his sails trimmed by the election of Socialist Upton Sinclair as president in 1920, which also makes Turtledove''s creation, Flora Hamburger, the wife of the vice-president. In the Confederacy, former artillery sergeant Jake Featherstone founds the Freedom Party. His road to power turns rocky after the crackbrained assassination of President Wade Hampton V, but Ann Colleton escapes the subsequent Freedom Party debacle only slightly damaged and loses her stormy lover when the widow of one of his victims shoots him. Cincinnatus Driver leaves Ohio for the better racial climate of Iowa, and Scipio, married and now named Xerxes, learns that no matter which whites win in the Confederacy, the black man almost always loses. Turtledove''s skill at dramatizing historical forces proves magisterial once more.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15526'),
(22898, 'American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his first book Geist, from MSNBC''s Way Too Early and Morning Joe, imagines private conversations, e-mail exchanges, Twitter feeds, speeches, and other scenarios involving top newsmakers from our time. Such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Kate Gosselin, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, and "President" Sarah Palin are subjected to Geist''s wooden, repetitive send-ups. As Geist tells it, most everyone-including all 20th century presidents-seem to be identical to each other, right down to their speech patterns: they are arrogant, lack self-awareness, and have a penchant for swearing. While they may, indeed, share certain qualities, individual personalities are lost on Geist. Occasional "true story" vignettes about real-life "freaks" feature much fresher and funnier content; while recounting a news story in which a man was arrested for pleasuring himself with a coin-operated car wash vacuum, Geist muses, "One assumes Whitesnake was playing on the radio." Clearly commentary, rather than storytelling, is Geist''s strength, so it''s a shame that narratives make up the bulk of this effort.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15527'),
(22899, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.   One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15528'),
(22900, 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n , acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original "crime of the century"--and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city''s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America''s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men--labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times''s fiercely anti-union owner--of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.\n</p>\n<p>\n While preparation is laid for America''s highest profile trial ever--and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets--two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can''t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today,\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19355'),
(22901, 'American Music', 'Jane Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Mendelsohn on\n  <em>\n   American Music\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The first moment of inspiration for\n <em>\n  American Music\n </em>\n came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fact that there was a secret formula for making cymbals. I was in Maine for a reading of my first novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n I immediately envisioned a story about a woman searching for this formula, desperately, somewhat pointlessly but also movingly, as if it were the secret to life itself. I pictured her trying to work through a loss by realizing the simultaneity of all things, that memories, like symbols, and the sound of cymbals, contain all time. That idea changed over the years, but essentially remained a deep part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n A while later, I heard from a friend who does bodywork about a man who refused to lie on his back. I began imagining a tale about why he wouldn''t and started thinking of a character who was a soldier. The two ideas: the secret formula for making cymbals and the soldier with his mysterious reason for not lying on his back simmered in my mind as I started researching.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I read about the history of cymbals, I was struck that these instruments developed in 17th century Turkey by an Armenian alchemist were so central to American music. I read about jazz and learned that it was the shift to leading the beat with the cymbals instead of the drums that marked the beginning of swing. It interested me that such a quintessentially American art form could be traced so clearly to a moment in time so distant and different from America in the 1930''s, which was when swing began. And I was also struck that Istanbul in 1623 was a place of cosmopolitanism, a vibrant melting pot of cultures.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was at this point in my thinking about the book, and living in New York City, when 9/11 occurred. That I had been writing about Islamic culture and its relation to 20th century America felt uncanny. And when we went to war, the fact that I had been writing about a soldier felt uncomfortable. I put the book away for a while. My daughter was two, and not long after, I had another baby.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not stop thinking about cymbals and about the soldier. I worked on the book in my head while I pushed my daughters on the swings in Washington Square Park, the destruction at ground zero so close but at the same time, in the playground, seemingly very far away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, the strands I had been working on came together, found each other in a way, in one larger narrative about families and love stories and the world that goes on while war is happening someplace else. Of course I am still searching for that secret formula.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Nick Davis)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This digressive novel by the author of\n <em>\n  I Was Amelia Earhart\n </em>\n probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a 21-year-old physical therapist at the Bronx VA hospital; Milo Hatch is a particularly traumatized patient who was severely wounded in Iraq. During Milo''s treatment, both he and Honor begin having visions of people they don''t know. The narrative breaks up in pursuit of the stories behind the visions of the late 1930s love triangle between Joe, a saxophone player and law student; his wife, Pearl, unable to have children after many miscarriages; and Pearl''s cousin, Vivian, who shares with Joe a passion for jazz. (Mendelsohn provides, for instance, a tidy excursus on the significance of cymbals in jazz, tracing their provenance to 17th-century Istanbul.) The fallout from Joe and Vivian''s messy affair connects back to present day, yet the music evoked by this ponderously embellished work remains a vague, distant noise.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19372'),
(22902, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15532'),
(22903, 'American Outlaw', 'Jesse James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19384'),
(22904, 'American Outrage', 'Tim Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show\n <em>\n  American Outrage\n </em>\n , based in New York City, has softened his hard line a bit after his wife''s recent death, but is still capable of going for the jugular when necessary for a hot story. On the home front, to help his preteen adopted son, Sam, get over his grief, Jake agrees to try and track down Sam''s biological mother. This simple request goes from bad to worse once pseudo-celebrity Jake starts asking questions about the boy''s supposed Albanian roots. After Jake is drugged and shot at, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder as his own colleagues ruthlessly chase down the story. When Sam disappears, Jake gets serious and sets out to do whatever it takes to bring his son back, regardless of who pays the price. Green''s tale is ripe with irony and full of barbs.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, Jake Carlson is making big bucks as a reporter on the tabloid news show I^ American Outrage, but the former foreign correspondent is ashamed of his job, and his personal life is a mess, too. Widowed for a year, he''s struggling to keep his 13-year-old adopted son, Sam, on the straight and narrow. Jake finds a renewed sense of purpose, though, when Sam convinces him to help find his birth mother. He knows the hunt will be difficult, but he doesn''t realize just how challenging until he starts asking questions. The head of the agency Jake used for the adoption had died, and there''s no trace of the agency, which had been operating slightly under the radar, funneling babies from Albania to the U.S. for couples desperate for children. As Jake attempts to tie his investigation into a story to bolster his waning popularity at I^ American Outrage, he and Sam become the target of violence and revenge. Genre veteran Green hits his stride here, with his best novel since his early football thrillers (I^ Outlaws, 1996).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15534'),
(22905, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For most of New York''s early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation''s founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island''s heydayâ€”from 1892 to 1924â€”coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island''s chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation''s preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15537'),
(22906, 'American pastoral', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century''s promises of prosperity, civic order,  and domestic bliss. Roth''s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father''s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede''s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede''s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenagerâ€”a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15539');
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(22907, 'American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n . Peter Reinhart, he who gave us\n <strong>\n  and the multi-award winning\n </strong>\n , takes the reader of\n <em>\n  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza\n </em>\n right into the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama''s, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It''s not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it''s only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Work diligently with\n <em>\n  American Pie\n </em>\n and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Schuyler Ingle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe[HTML_REMOVED]s versus Sally[HTML_REMOVED]s, Gino[HTML_REMOVED]s East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angelesâ€”these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s epic tour. Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.\n <em>\n  A fascinating look into the great pizzas and pizzerias of Italy and America.\n </em>\n Peter Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s last book, THE BREAD BAKER[HTML_REMOVED]S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reviewsâ€œPeter Reinhart has taken a deep look into pizza, one of the best and simplest of foods, embracing all its variety. He probes American pizza especially, but he has tasted the original in Naples and visited elsewhere in Italy to learn about variations and relatives. He tells vivid stories, and his recipes and techniques are thorough and practical. A splendid book.â€â€”Edward Behr, editor, The Art of Eatingâ€œI doubt whether anyone else could be as passionate as Peter Reinhart about pizzas or have made such extensive and exciting journeys in pursuing them. He has collected great anecdotes and wonderfully detailed recipes in the course of his intercontinental hunt.â€â€”Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Foodâ€œWe all know that Peter Reinhart is a great baker and teacher, but now that he[HTML_REMOVED]s fallen in love with pizza, we can see he[HTML_REMOVED]s also a great tour guide as he takes us to the best pizzerias in Italy and America. Secrets are divulged, expert tips provided, and stories told. Much more than a collection of recipes, this is a book that is as fun to read as it is to bake from.â€â€”Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15540'),
(22908, 'American psycho: a novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15542'),
(22909, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some things... Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16183'),
(22910, 'American Rust', 'Philipp Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15413'),
(22911, 'American supernatural tales', 'S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction** As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation''s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course- Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15414'),
(22912, 'American Tabloid', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Repackaged to celebrate the release of Blood''s a Rover in PB 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy''s presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant - Howard Hughes''s right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa''s hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy''s drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men''s hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamous for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15415'),
(22913, 'American tabloid: a novel', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK''s presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man''s loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .James Ellroy''s trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he''s written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15416'),
(22914, 'American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15418'),
(22915, 'Americana', 'Don DeLillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young television executive takes to the road in the 1960s with a movie camera to capture his own past in a "cinema verite" documentary. Within this framework, he delivers his observations on the influence of film, modern corporate life, young marriage, New York City and hipness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15417'),
(22916, 'Amerika', 'Franz Kafka; Willa Muir; Edwin Muir; Emlen Etting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15420'),
(22917, 'Amigoland', 'Oscar Casares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino''s good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather''s kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it''s never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares''s debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15421'),
(22918, 'The Amityville Horror', 'Jay Anson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Provides a chilling account account of the four weeks of terror experienced by an Amityville, Long Island, family after moving into a house in which a particularly gruesome mass murder had once been committed. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5064'),
(22919, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Two novels in one trade volume.** There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night... In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead. In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15430'),
(22920, 'Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer', 'Bryan Perro; Y. Maudet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series for middle grade readers. Amos is a hero straight out of the Brothers Grimm--loyal, trustworthy, and very clever--outsmarting villains with their own nefarious schemes. In this classic story of good versus evil, Amos has been chosen as a Mask Wearer, tasked with combating forces of evil using the power embedded in four lost masks. Encountering gorgons, mermaids, nagas, and the Egyptian god Seth, Amos proves he is a fierce opponent and a steadfast friend. A satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next book, and the mythology glossary at the end is an added bonus._--Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Bryan Perro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young boy, I had a passion for comic books, especially the French\n  <em>\n   Pif Gadget\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rahan\n  </em>\n  . At fourteen, I discovered my first book,\n  <em>\n   The Devilâ€™s Triangle\n  </em>\n  by American writer Richard Winer. The book was about the Bermuda Triangle; I loved how it dealt with the supernatural and how unexplained forces exert power over the boats, aircrafts, and people who dare to venture in this eerie part of the Atlantic Ocean. This real-life mystery and Winerâ€™s way with words fueled my imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During my college years, I developed a deep interest in anthropology and the myths that exist throughout the world. I have around 350 books in my home--all myths and legends from places near and far. The fantastical creatures that populate these amazing stories, along with the hero in each of them, inspired me to create\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon\n  </em>\n  , the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I was looking for a magical item that Amos Daragon would need to find on his quest, I was surprised to learn that the first such item in the history of mankind is not the magic wand, but the mask.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the aborigines, the first men, danced around their campfires, they personified animals. How did they do this? They wore masks! If, for example, they put on the mask of the eagle, their vision grew more piercing. This enhanced power allowed them to be a better hunter. So I wanted Amos to be in pursuit of mankindâ€™s first magical item, the mask. Four of them, in fact! And since I wanted to write an extended series, I decided that stones would empower the masks. Not only did this allow Amos to harness his abilities as Mask Wearer slowly, it gave me the opportunity to explore all sorts of adventures for my young hero. Itâ€™s been an incredible journey for him and for me--one that I hope boys and girls will join as they begin\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fast paced, with a litany of new friends and foes introduced in every chapter, this first installment in the Amos Daragon series is a smart choice for die-hard fantasy lovers. Young Amos, a child of peasants in a mythical realm ruled by an evil king, is chosen to fight a ï¿½mysterious and wicked forceï¿½ by collecting four masks that represent earth, wind, fire, and water and along the way eliminating the malevolent forces corrupting the woods of Tarkasis. In his quest, Amos encounters mermaids and mermen, druids and fairies, and he befriends the ï¿½humanimalï¿½ Beorf. The plot is complex, and the fantasy can be heavy-handed at times, but a ï¿½mythological lexiconï¿½ appears as an addendum and provides some cultural context regarding many of the creatures who appear in the story. This is ultimately a tale about finding oneï¿½s own independence, and the climax will leave readers eager for the next installment in the series. Fans of Cornelia Funkeï¿½s Inkheart trilogy will approve. Grades 4-7. --Erin Anderson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15431'),
(22921, 'Amsterdam', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Loin des annÃ©es hippies de leur jeunesse, deux amis liÃ©s depuis trente ans battent la semelle au cimetiÃ¨re tandis qu''achÃ¨ve de se consumer leur ex-maÃ®tresse Molly Lane, critique gastronomique et photographe bien connue : Clive Linley, compositeur cÃ©lÃ¨bre, et Vernon Halliday, directeur de la rÃ©daction d''un prestigieux journal londonien. Ils partagent la mÃªme hostilitÃ© envers un autre ancien amant de Molly, Julian Garmony, ministre des Affaires Ã©trangÃ¨res. Tout occupÃ©s Ã  dÃ©fendre leurs situations, ils n''hÃ©sitent pas Ã  piÃ©tiner les valeurs morales, Clive au nom de son art, Vernon afin d''augmenter les chiffres de diffusion de son journal. A quel drame le plan montÃ© par Vernon contre Garmony va-t-il aboutir ? Et oÃ¹ les mÃ¨nera le pacte qu''ils avaient conclu Ã  la suite de la mort de Molly ? L''intrigue diabolique de ce roman brillamment inscrit dans notre sociÃ©tÃ© contemporaine est traitÃ©e par Ian McEwan avec l''humour corrosif dont il a le secret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15432'),
(22922, 'The Amulet of Samarkand', 'Jonathan Stroud', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5065'),
(22923, 'Amy &amp; Roger&#39;s Epic Detour', 'Morgan Matson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy''s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she''s always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy''s mother''s old friend. Amy hasn''t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she''s surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she''s coming to terms with her father''s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl''s journey to find herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15433'),
(22924, 'The Anabe Girls', 'A. R. Morlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5066'),
(22925, 'The Anabe Girls', 'A. R. Morlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18204'),
(22926, 'Anakin&#39;s Quest', 'Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15359'),
(22927, 'Analog - Aurora in Four Voices', 'Aurora in four voices', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16962'),
(22928, 'Analog -- Death on Venus', 'Death On Venus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17568'),
(22929, 'Analog SFF, December 2009', 'Dell Magazine Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 73724 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15364'),
(22930, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fat Charlie Nancy''s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn''t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.   Now brother Spider''s on his doorstepâ€”about to make Fat Charlie''s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15365'),
(22931, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond. Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15366'),
(22932, 'The Anatomy of Fascism', 'Robert O. Paxton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5068'),
(22933, 'The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller', 'John Truby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own unique approach for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative. Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at once insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will dig deep within and explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effective story. Writers will come away with an extremely precise set of tools to work withâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. They will construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are so fundamental they are applicableâ€”and essentialâ€”to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. John Truby is Hollywoodâ€™s premiere story consultant and founder of Trubyâ€™s Writers Studio. He has worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, and HBO, among others, and has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide. John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry. His students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. His first book, The Anatomy of Story is about the process of writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology and offers techniques and anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own approach to developing an effective, multifaceted narrative. Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at once insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effective story. Truby provides a precise set of toolsâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. Writers will learn to construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are applicable to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "A veritable bible for screenwriters."â€”Backstage "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "The Anatomy Of Story is concrete and practical without resorting to simplistic ''Three Act Structure'' screenwriting clichÃ©s. It will be an indispensable guide to writing your first great script. Then, the perfect survival manual to help you negotiate the often confusing, contradictory and cutthroat world of professional screenwriting."â€”Larry Wilson, co-writer and co-producer of Beetlejuice and co-writer of The Addams Family "Hollywood story consultant Truby commits his vast knowledge of screenwriting and storytelling to the page in this handy guide for aspiring writers of all types. Truby delves into the setup, from basic structure to the premise and the depth behind it. From there, he moves into character, emphasizing the importance of not only the hero but also the characters in the story who aid and oppose him. Truby illustrates the importance of setting to the story and how careful plotting is needed to weave the elements of the story together. He cautions that plot is not incidental and requires careful management and timely revelations. Although most of his examples are from movies, such as Tootsie, The Godfather, and Star Wars, Truby also draws from novels and plays, and his advice is applicable not only to the hopeful screenwriter but to the aspiring novelist as well. A comprehensive guide to writing stories of all kinds, Truby''s tome is invaluable to any writer looking to put an idea to paper."â€”Kristine Huntley, Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5069'),
(22934, 'Ancestral Voices', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15367');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(22935, 'The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry', 'Tony Barnstone; Ping Chou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unmatched in scope and literary quality,\n  <strong>\n   The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n  </strong>\n  _ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translationsâ€“many new and exclusive to the bookâ€“by an array of distinguished translators.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the\n  <strong>\n   Book of Songs\n  </strong>\n  â€“ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himselfâ€“and Laoziâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   Dao De Jing\n  </strong>\n  _ _to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the postâ€”Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. A landmark anthology,\n  <strong>\n   The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n  </strong>\n  _ _captures with impressive range and depth the essence of Chinaâ€™s illustrious poetic tradition.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ZHOU DYNASTY\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (1122-256 BCE)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Chinese civilization stretches back to Neolithic times, the earliest known dynasty, the Xia, is of limited importance to a discussion of Chinese literature, as there is no evidence that a written language was in use. The succeeding dynasty, the Shang, was a Bronze Age agricultural civilization. During the Shang, characters were written on oracle bones (usually made of turtle shell or cattle shoulder bones, and later on bamboo strips, silk, and bronze), but no literature from this time is extant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Shang were overthrown by the king of Zhou, a small dependent nation in the Wei River Valley in the western Shang territory, and thus began the Zhou dynasty, the first great period of Chinese literature. It was during the Zhou dynasty that the doctrine that the Chinese King was exercising a "Mandate of Heaven" in his rule developed. It later became an extremely important doctrine both to justify imperial rule and to explain the fall of an empire (should an emperor prove corrupt or weak, heaven would remove his mandate). The Zhou dynasty is the longest of China''s many dynasties, and is divided into the Western Zhou (1122-771 BCE) and the Eastern Zhou (771-256 BCE), as the Zhou were forced out of their capital at Xian by barbarian invaders from the north, and moved east to found their new capital in Luoyang. The Eastern Zhou is itself subdivided into the Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BCE) and the Warring States Period (463-221 BCE). The troubled Warring States Period marked the waning years of the dynasty. Such great thinkers, moralists, and philosophers as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi lived during the Eastern Zhou. It was the time of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the golden age of Chinese philosophy, when the great traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Militarism, and Mohism developed. In this period, itinerant thinkers traveled with their followers, finding employment with rulers, who would seek their advice on warfare, morality, diplomacy, and government. The Zhou dynasty eventually weakened to the point where it ruled only in name, as seven powerful warring states vied for dominance. In 221 BCE, the ruler of a western state emerged triumphant from the ongoing warfare and unified China, naming himself Shi Huangdi (the "first emperor") and beginning the Qin dynasty. After eight hundred years, heaven had removed its mandate from the Zhou at last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The three Zhou dynasty texts presented here are the source of Chinese poetic literature, evolving out of the beginnings of Chinese writing, and foreshadowing what was to come in this extraordinary three thousand year tradition. Chinese poetry begins with the Book of Songs, comprised of folk songs, hymns, and court songs collected largely from ordinary people living along the Yellow River, and putatively edited by Confucius himself (thus the collection is sometimes referred to as the Confucian Odes). The fact that the Chinese poetic tradition begins with folk poetry reworked and set to music has meant that the long tradition of Chinese poetry written by the nobility has often striven for a sense of folk authenticity to blend with the master poet''s craft and skill, simplicity balancing elegance. The four-character verses in the Book of Songs are the model for shi poetry, whose variations came to dominate classical Chinese poetry for the next two thousand years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, studied throughout Chinese history by the nobility and by those who wished to rise in society as scholar-officials. Poetry is held to be one of the great arts that educated Chinese men (and sometimes women) should know and be able to practice. In fact, poetry has been in the mainstream of literary expression in Chinese literature, and so it is often afforded great powers of influence in the Chinese critical tradition. The "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs states that poetry is a Confucian rectifier that establishes the proper relationships between spouses, encourages respect and loyalty for the old, strengthens human ties, improves civilizations, and excises bad customs. In the Analects, Confucius often mentions the Songs. In Analect 2.2, for example, he states, "There are 300 Songs, but they can be summed up with one phrase: let your thoughts be free of depravity." Poetry serves a moral purpose, according to Confucius, "stimulating the reader, and making him observant, sociable, and capable of expressing his grievances," while at the same time "helping him to serve his family and his King" (Analect 17.8). Though the poems in the Book of Songs were in fact simply songs of the peasants, they were read as moral allegories, or as analogues to political and historical events.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second text presented here is the marvelous, riddling, profound, and elegantly difficult Dao De Jing of Laozi (better known in the West by an earlier transliteration as the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu). As the Book of Songs stands as one of the key texts that gave birth to the Confucian tradition, so the Dao De Jing (along with another great text, the Zhuangzi) stands as the source of the great religious and philosophical tradition of Daoism, and ultimately of Chinese Buddhism, which blended with Daoism in a particularly Chinese philosophical and spiritual mÃ©lange. Though it is not normally considered to be poetry, the Dao De Jing translates as marvelous poetry. A selection from it can help give Western readers an understanding of the concepts that underlie so many of the great Daoist and Buddhist poets in China who were to come later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The final text in this section is a selection from the great long poem Encountering Sorrow, by Qu Yuan (c. 332-c. 295 bce). This poem comes from the Verses of Chu, the second great early anthology of Chinese poetry, which included Qu Yuan''s poetry, as well as that of a later poet, Song Yu. Encountering Sorrow and other poems in the collection tell of how Qu Yuan''s dedication to his king was rewarded with banishment, leading him to drown himself in despair. The poems are celebrated for their Confucian dedication to duty. The work of Qu Yuan represents the beginning of an ornate literary tradition in China, which is counterbalanced by the simpler, vernacular, folk tradition of the Book of Songs. His poems are also the source of Chinese fu poetry, an irregular blend of poetry and prose that was to become an important part of the Chinese tradition. Fu poems usually begin and conclude with prose passages, with rhymed poetry in the center.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Qu Yuan is supposedly the first Chinese poet whose name we know (though in fact there are a few cases in the Book of Songs in which a poet''s name is embedded). That the Verses of Chu begins the tradition of named poetry in China is more important than one might think. When one knows a poet''s name, and something of his or her life, one gets a powerful sense of human connection to the person behind the poem. As poets name the world, so their own names name something to us as readers-a life and, perhaps more important, a lifework. Though the songs from the Books of Songs can often feel personal, they are almost exclusively anonymous and written to set generic topics. Thus, despite their allusive and elaborate nature, the poems of Qu Yuan are the fountainhead of personal poetry in China.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BOOK OF SONGS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (c. 600 bce)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, and the thematic and formal source of the Chinese poetic tradition. The Chinese name for the Book of Songs is the Shi Jing, and the term shi (the general term for poetry, like the Japanese term waka) derives from its name. Legend has it that its 305 poems were compiled by Confucius (551-479 bce) from an earlier manuscript of around three thousand songs. The assertion that Confucius was the compiler is questionable, but certainly the anthology was extant in Confucius''s time, and it seems likely that the anthology was collected between 1100 and 600 bce. Confucius refers to the Book of Songs in the Analects, and it was part of the curriculum of his disciples; it is counted among the Confucian classics that form the basis of Confucian education. The collection was banned in the third century bce, along with the other Confucian classics, but was reconstructed during the Han dynasty, and the edition that is most complete derives from this time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs contains three basic categories of song: folk songs and ballads, court songs, and sacrificial songs. Like the Sanskrit Vedas of India, these songs provide us with a window onto the simple and beautiful life of an ancient time. Heroes and ancestors are praised, love is made, war is waged, farmers sing to their crops, people complain about their taxes, and moral categories are set forth in stark and powerful form. Though these are songs, the music has been lost, and some of them have been revised from folk song roots by court musicians, rhymed and arranged into stanzas. Others were aristocratic songs, songs to be sung to accompany ritual dancing, or to accompany the rites of ancestor worship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   White Moonrise\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The white rising moon\n </p>\n <p>\n  is your bright beauty\n </p>\n <p>\n  binding me in spells\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The light moon soars\n </p>\n <p>\n  resplendent like my lady,\n </p>\n <p>\n  binding me in light chains\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon in white glory,\n </p>\n <p>\n  you are the beautiful one\n </p>\n <p>\n  who delicately wounds me\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Translated by Tony Barnstone\n </p>\n <p>\n  and Willis Barnstone\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  but seven of ten plums remain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You gentlemen who would court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  come on a lucky day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  but three of ten plums still remain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You men who want to court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  come now, today is a lucky day!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can fill up your baskets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gentlemen if you want to court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  just say the word...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5070'),
(22936, 'Ancient Chinese Warfare', 'Ralph D. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional accounts, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures. Sawyer''s analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China''s signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity." Illus. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n P. H. Liotta, author of _The Real Population Bomb: Megacities and Global Security\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAfter decades of intense and dedicated scholarship, Ralph Sawyer has produced an astonishing volume. His linguistic and strategic skillsâ€”his fierce geniusâ€”are everywhere in evidence. Sawyer is a master, and\n <em>\n  Ancient Chinese Warfare\n </em>\n is his masterpiece.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Ralph Peters, retired Military Intelligence officer and author of _The War After Armageddon_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is, paradoxically, a crucial book for the 21st century. As the â€˜newâ€™ China aspires to global power, understanding the foundations of this civilizationâ€™s way of war helps us grasp Beijingâ€™s present psychology and behavior. The Chinese take a very long view of history, and we need to learn to do so. To that end, the brilliant work of Ralph D. Sawyer has long proven unrivalled...and this book is his masterpiece. No work better illustrates the deep (and gnarled) roots of Chinaâ€™s contemporary ambitions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyerâ€™s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of Chinaâ€™s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyerâ€™s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Edward N. Luttwak, author of _The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNot unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyerâ€™s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15368'),
(22937, 'Ancient Forces Collection', 'Bill Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15369'),
(22938, 'An Ancient Future', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The white light surrounded her, exuding from the ground within the circle. The mist rose towards the sky to form a billowing cloud. From within the largest stone a ball of blue light steadily made its way towards her. Late one evening, a car accident leaves Tory - a daughter of a prominent history professor - stranded near a ring of stones in the English countryside. She resolves to spend the night at the sacred site; a black belt in Tae-kwon-do, Tory holds little fear for her safety... But across the vortex of time and space, she is being watched. The Merlin knows of the legend Tory is to become, and through the wisdom of the Old Ones, teleports her back to the Dark Age. Prince Maelgwyn of Gwynedd and his band of knights stumble across this mysterious woman dressed in jeans and a leather jacket. Believing she is the witch of the stones, they threaten to kill her. Rising to her own defence, Tory challenges the Prince''s champion to unarmed combat. With her superior fighting skill she easily overwhelms the warrior, winning the admiration of the Prince, and changing the course of British history forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4443'),
(22939, 'The Ancient Mind at Work', 'Suzy McKee Charnas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5071'),
(22940, 'Ancient shores', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker''s wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there''s the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker''s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. "If the government wants to kill anyone else, it''ll have to start with us," announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt''s readers have been waiting for.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15370'),
(22941, 'And Another Thing', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15371'),
(22942, 'And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Volume Two', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don t seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy s having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: bull;He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina bull;We re all going to explode at the age of 62 bull;Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits bull;No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie s long lost sister bull;Cooking a Sunday Roast is one thing. Gravy is quite another bull;He should probably be nicer about David BeckhamBut while these things play on his mind, the world remains Jeremy s favourite place to be. On the whole, it s brilliant. It s just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating the special things that we should hold dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15372'),
(22943, 'And Another Thing...', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Douglas Adams''s Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At long last, the motley band from Douglas Adams''s renowned five-book Hitchhiker''s Guide Trilogy have returned, thanks to Artemis Fowl author Colfer. When the Vogons return to finish obliterating Earth in our universe and all alternatives, Arthur Dent and his companions find themselves hitchhiking on the spacefaring Viking longship of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an immortal with a death wish who is an expert at mass insults. Readers may find this volume paradoxical. On its own it is a funny novel, but Adams set a legendary, nearly impossible standard. Wacky humor reminiscent of the original Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy rings true, as do most of the characters, but newer elements, such as the brief appearance of Cthulhu, feel out of place. Most notably absent is the supreme inventiveness that hit us with the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the comic-sublime moments like Arthur flying with Fenchurch. You can''t go home again, but Adams fans will still appreciate the reunion with old friends.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wide variety of people love Douglas Adams''s books, so perhaps it is appropriate that each critic brought his or her own expectations to\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing . ...\n  </em>\n  Several who revered Adams''s deadpan prose and verbal inventiveness found that the new book falls short. Others felt that Colfer''s imitation often lacks subtlety and relies too heavily on reviving old Adams gags and characters. The\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  even went so far as to argue that this novel should have been reinvented in some more original form, such as an e-book. But some took the appearance of\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing ...\n  </em>\n  to critically review the Adams oeuvre and found that Colfer made up for some qualities the original author lacked. In any case, even the harshest critics of the book were happy to see Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Random saved from their doom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15373'),
(22944, 'And Daughter Makes Three', 'Caroline Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15374'),
(22945, 'And eternity', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Pursuit of the Ultimate Good\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Joined in Afterlife by Jolie -- her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself -- together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns -- facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15375'),
(22946, 'And Four to Go (Crime Line)', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nero Wolfe, the 286 pound beer consuming marvel, who wears yellow silk pajamas, loves orchids and rarely leaves home has been a popular character for seventy years in Rex StoutÃ¢Â¬"s books, films and recently a successful television series. His sidekick Archie Goodwin helps prod Wolfe into action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15377'),
(22947, 'And His Atomic Earth Blaster - Tom Swift Jr 05', 'Victor Appleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15378'),
(22948, 'And His Flying Lab - Tom Swift Jr 01', 'Victor Appleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15379'),
(22949, 'And His Giant Robot - Tom Swift Jr 04', 'Victor Appleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15380'),
(22950, 'And His Jetmarine - Tom Swift Jr 02', 'Victor Appleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15382'),
(22951, 'And His Rocket Ship - Tom Swift Jr 03', 'Victor Appleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15383'),
(22952, 'And The Deep Blue Sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15384'),
(22953, 'And the Rat Laughed', 'Nava Semel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''''Girl and Rat'''' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw''s personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15385'),
(22954, 'And Then', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18063'),
(22955, 'And then there were none', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they''re unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder, and one by one they begin to fall prey to an unseen hand. As the only people on the island, unable to leave and unable to call for help, they know that the only possible suspects are among their number. And only the dead are above suspicion."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15386'),
(22956, 'And Three to Get Ready', 'H. L. Gold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15388'),
(22957, 'Android Karenina', 'Ben H. Winters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15300'),
(22958, 'Android Karenina', 'Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy &amp; Ben H. Winters &amp; Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18922'),
(22959, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5073'),
(22960, 'Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit', 'Andy Rooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analystâ€”unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooneyâ€™s great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? â€œItâ€™s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.â€ On food? â€œThereâ€™s more dependable mediocrity than there used to be.â€\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <div>\n    Known to millions for his regular commentary on the television news magazine\n    <i>\n     60 Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and his syndicated newspaper column,\n    <b>\n     Andrew A. Rooney\n    </b>\n    is the author of numerous bestselling books. He has published five previous books with PublicAffairs:\n    <i>\n     My War\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Sincerely, Andy Rooney\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Common Nonsense\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Years of Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and\n    <i>\n     Out of My Mind\n    </i>\n    . He lives in New York.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15302'),
(22961, 'The Andy Warhol Diaries', 'Andy Warhol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5075'),
(22962, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15303'),
(22963, 'The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In James Patterson''s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it''s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5080'),
(22964, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15304'),
(22965, 'Angel fire east', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Running with the Demon appeared two years ago, it was recognized at once as a masterpiece in the making, a bold departure that promised to revitalize contemporary urban fantasy and showcase Terry Brooks''s vast storytelling gifts as never before. The second book of the series, A Knight of the Word, raised expectations even higher. Now, in Angel Fire East, sure to be hailed as his most ambitious, most accomplished work yet, Terry Brooks brings his bestselling epic trilogy of good and evil to an unforgettable close. As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years. A rootless wanderer scarred as deeply by the magic he wields as by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed in its service, Ross is driven by dreams that show the world reduced to blood and ashes by the Void and its minions. The grim futures he dreams each night will come true unless he can stop them now, in the present. But for all his power, John Ross is only one man, while the demons he hunts--and which hunt him in turn--are legion. Then Ross learns of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spontaneously knit together. If he can discover its secret, the morph could be an invaluable weapon against the Void. But the Void, too, knows the value of the morph, and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted--or destroyed. Desperate, Ross returns to the town of Hopewell, Illinois, home of Nest Freemark, a young woman with magical abilities of her own. Twice before, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the lives of Ross and Nest have intersected. Together, they have prevailed. But now they face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, for a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning awaits them in Hopewell. As a firestorm of good and evil erupts, threatening to consume lives and shatter dreams, Ross and Nest have but a single chance to solve the mystery of the gypsy morph--and of their own profound connection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15305'),
(22966, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Some cases are as cold as the grave...** A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15306');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(22967, 'Angel of Mercy', 'Toni Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last month I killed a manÃ‚â€¦ and now I''m afraid what I might do next\n</p>\n<p>\n As a hypnotherapist with a special talent, I''m very good at getting people to overcome their problems. My own problem, however, is that my talent comes from a dark place. If I tell you to do something, trust me: you will do it. Most of the time I can keep things from getting out of hand, but when my emotions interfere, I lose control. That''s when people get hurt, sometimes even killed.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only ones who know I''ve got a secret are my best friend Sukey and my boyfriend Sam. So far I''ve been able to keep them safe from the psychic cross fire, but what if one day I can''t? Like now. Because now I find myself in the shadowy world of battered women and children, where I''ve met a little girl who''s been violated in the worst possible way. As you can imagine, my emotions are about to interfere.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dear Angel of Mercy,\n</p>\n<p>\n I know your busy watching over all the children. But please can you help Mommy. She is sad all day. We are in a new place now and Daddy does not know where I am. But Mommy crys all day and says she cant stop. I want too cry to but dont becuase I know your watching and will help me soon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love, Grace\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I killed a guy last month.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A horn sounded behind me, and I jumped. A quick glance told me the light had turned green, so I shook myself out of my reverie and put my foot on the gas pedal. What passed for rush hour in Balboa, California, wasn''t over yet, and I was interfering with the morning commute.\n</p>\n<p>\n My office was only about two miles from my beachfront apartment, and the route had less than five traffic lights, so you''d think I''d be able to make it to work without getting sucked into a spiral of self-doubt and terror. I killed Dominic. Deliberately.\n</p>\n<p>\n I wasn''t afraid I''d be caught. I was pretty sure I had dodged that bullet. No, what woke me from a sound sleep almost every night was the cold dread that I would lose control again. Harm someone again. Put people I cared about in danger again. I have no business doing this. I''ve got to stop kidding myself. I''ve got toâ€”\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet another horn blared, and I jumped. Geeze, two trances in two lights. A new record.\n</p>\n<p>\n Waving apologetically at the driver of the BMW hugging my bumper, I put the Honda into gear and sped out of his way. I probably should have walked or ridden my bicycle to work, as long as the perfect Southern California fall weather was holding out. But walking gave me too much time to think, something I was lately trying to avoid. And my one attempt to ride the bicycle with Cupcake in tow had been a disaster.\n</p>\n<p>\n To distract myself as I drove the last few blocks to where I rented a parking space from a boat builder on the Lido Peninsula, I pondered the problem of Cupcake, who was standing in the backseat with his face squeezed against the window''s narrow opening. I had acquired him less than a month agoâ€”on the same day that I killed Dominic, actuallyâ€”and I had sort of a joint-ownership agreement with my office manager. My apartment was bigger and had a patio along the boardwalk and the beach, so at the moment the one-hundred-and-thirty-five-pound rottweiler was bunking with me.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cupcake, formerly known as Cujo, had been previously owned by a sleazeball who had not only thought it would be a great idea to have him trained to attack, but to respond to obscure voice commands. Nothing obvious like "kill" or "dis-member," either. The two commands I had accidentally stumbled across so far were "nail file" and "bumblebee." Neither discovery had been made at a particularly convenient time, and I was living in fear that someone would say something like "hop-scotch" and the otherwise mild-mannered canine would tear some innocent bystander''s throat out.\n</p>\n<p>\n I pulled into the parking space a few minutes early, got out and opened the back door. Cupcake obediently waited for the leash to be snapped onto his collar before tugging me toward the stairs to my office. He knew what was waiting behind the door marked Mercedes Hollings, Hypnotherapy.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cupcake!" Sukey squealed as if she hadn''t seen the mutt in months, when in fact she''d taken him for a run on the beach the previous evening. He put his big paws on her desk so that he looked more or less directly into her face. "How''s my lover boy? Is he just the best boy in the whole wide world? Yes he is!" Her red curls jostled as she and Cupcake rubbed noses.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good morning, Mercy." Sukey managed to hand me a sheet of paper between sloppy dog kisses. I reviewed my day''s appointments, noting an addition since the previous evening.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tiffany Wentworth. Did she say what she wants?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nope. She said she''d rather talk to you about it. Cupcake!"\n</p>\n<p>\n The enormous paws had knocked a book to the floor at my feet. I picked it up and read the cover. "The Exciting World of Private Investigation. When did you get this?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Last week." Sukey took the book out of my hands, her face coloring. She is sunshine to my darkness, in appearance as well as personality, and the flush of color on her freckled cheeks made her look like a naughty cherub.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Since when are you interested in private investigation?" I tried to keep my amusement out of my voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sukey shrugged, refusing to meet my gaze. "I thought it might come in handy."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Handy how?" Needing caffeine, I went to the alcove and looked at the enormous coffee machine Sukey had purchased the previous week. It was made of chrome and had an assortment of unlabeled nozzles and levers. "Do you know how to work this thing?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She came out from behind the desk and opened the cabinet door over the machine. "Sure." She took a bag of coffee beans from the cabinet and opened a hatch on top of the chrome monster. "I thought I might be able to help you find out aboutâ€¦you know."\n</p>\n<p>\n "About what?" But she was right. I knew.\n</p>\n<p>\n About Dominic. She didn''t say it aloud, but I heard her just the same. And about what you are.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wish you wouldn''t do that." I tried not to sound angry, but I was annoyed, and she knew it.\n</p>\n<p>\n "So you say. But we need to talk about it."\n</p>\n<p>\n I sighed heavily. "What do you want to talk about, Sukey?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "About Dominic. About this telepathy stuff. About that pressing thing you do with your clients. Everything." She punched a button, and the electric coffee grinder started turning, emitting a high-pitched whine that prevented conversation.\n</p>\n<p>\n It didn''t matter, however, if the grinding sound drowned out voices. I didn''t need to be able to hear Sukey for her to talk to me.\n</p>\n<p>\n You promised me we would try to find out more about it. I heard her loud and clear, even the slightly petulant attitude.\n</p>\n<p>\n I had only just discovered I was telepathic, so I wasn''t sure whether Sukey''s communications actually sounded the same as her voice, or if I unconsciously translated them into the tones I was accustomed to hearing. Dominic''s messages had come through in his real voice, too. So far, I hadn''t heard thoughts from anyone else. I guessed they would have to come from a stranger for me to find out about the voice thing.\n</p>\n<p>\n The coffee grinder stopped whining, and the water began to trickle, sending up a fragrance that almost made me moan. Sukey got down two mugs, along with a heavy bowl that had Love Puppy painted on the side in bone-shaped letters.\n</p>\n<p>\n She set the two mugs under the nozzles and pushed a button. Fresh coffee streamed, and I salivated like one of Pavlov''s dogs. She filled Cupcake''s bowl with water from the small sink next to the coffeemaker.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a pointed expression on her face, she handed me the mug. I sighed again. She was rightâ€”I had promised. And there was no avoiding her, since I''d made her my office manager. I saw her every day, and now we had this crazy psychic connection. In fact, it was getting steadily stronger, had been since the day I''d saved her life. By killing Dominic. Who, incidentally, had been the one to show me I was telepathic in the first place. Unfortunately, that was achieved by putting some really nasty images in my head.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sukey thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I wasn''t nearly as enthusiastic, although it had saved me from having to invest in an intercom system for the office.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay. After my last appointment this afternoon, maybe we can spend a little time working on it."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sukey grinned like a happy six-year-old. "Can we do an experiment? I have some ideas."\n</p>\n<p>\n I''d bet she had. "We''ll see." She hummed to herself as she took one of the coffees back to her desk. We both knew she would talk me into whatever mad idea she had dreamed up.\n</p>\n<p>\n And I''m the one who''s supposed to be able to get anyone to do anything.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door behind me opened, and I turned, expecting to see my first client of the day. A vaguely familiar man was standing in the doorway. He nodded at me, but his eyes moved toward the desk, lighting up when they found their target.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hi, Sukey. I got your note."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sukey came around the desk. "Mercy, you know Carl, don''t you? From downstairs?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He held out a hand and, shaking it, I remembered where I''d met him: last month''s opening reception for my hypnotherapy office. He worked for the graphic design firm in the large suite below ours.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I asked Carl if he could help me with some Internet search stuff." She held up the private investigation book. "I''m on chapter fourâ€”''Your Computer is Your Sidekick.''"\n</p>\n<p>\n A frisson of alarm almost soured my coffee. Sukey was the only person in the entire world who knew my secret, and I intended to keep it that way for as long as possible. I didn''t like the idea of anyone looking over her shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before I could think of a way to avert this potential disaster, the door opened again. This time it was my client. I ushered him into the therapy room, giving Sukey what I hoped was a significant look before closing the door. I shouldn''t have bothered. She was already pulling the client chair around the desk so she and Carl could sit together, and she wasn''t paying the least bit of attention to me.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I do requires concentration. The sign on the door says Hypnotherapy, and my goals for each session are probably consistent with what I advertise. But I had an advantage my fellow graduates of the West Coast Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences did not. I called it pressing.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked enough questions to determine what the person really wanted to doâ€”stop smoking, eat better, be patient with their teenaged kidâ€”and instructed them to do it, but with an extra mental shove behind the words. When Sukey had asked me what it felt like, I told her it was like when a door sticks and you have to lean against it a little to get it open. Not very hardâ€”just enough to overcome resistance.\n</p>\n<p>\n My clients did what I told them to do. Exactly as they understood it. Without exception.\n</p>\n<p>\n Which meant getting it wrong could be disastrous. Which was one of the reasons I was currently walking around with a cold piece of lead the size of a basketball in my stomach.\n</p>\n<p>\n Happily, this morning''s client was a slam dunk. I''m not sure I could have handled anything more comple...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15307'),
(22968, 'Angel Souls and Devil Hearts', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15308'),
(22969, 'Angel Star', 'Jennifer Murgia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20696'),
(22970, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Anne Rice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written about many kinds of immortal or supernatural beings. What inspired you to turn to angels in this new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I have always been fascinated by the idea of angels--these perfect beings who are Godâ€™s messengers, sinless, bold, and unfathomable to the human mind. I was deliciously challenged to be biblically correct about them, and theologically correct: to present Malchiah as truly perfect, yet sent to interact with my hero Toby, and commissioned therefore to take a human body and reflect human emotions and respond to Tobyâ€™s human emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did imagining a character like Malchiah the angel differ from creating one like the vampire Lestat?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, again, Malchiah is perfect and sinless. And to make such a character appealing is a challenge; he has to reflect Godâ€™s love for human beings, Godâ€™s compassion. Heâ€™s not sent to judge Toby; heâ€™s sent to guide him to salvation, and to enlist Toby in working for the angels on earth. He must feel things; he must have a personality, but with marvelous theological constraints. Doing Lestat was entirely different: Lestat is sinful and ferociously human, a rebel who wants to be good at being bad; a rebel who is seeking redemption but turning away from it all the time. There is a certain joy in writing about Malchiah because he is sent from God. There was never a perfect joy in writing about Lestat: Lestat suffers too much and does too many bad things with relish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The hero of\n <em>\n  Angel Time\n </em>\n is Toby Oâ€™Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. Heâ€™s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters Iâ€™ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People who have read your memoir\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Yes, I did identify with Toby, though my life has been nothing like his. I know what it is like to struggle with an alcoholic parent; I know what it is like to care for younger siblings in an alcoholic household. But of course Toby suffers a family tragedy that I didnâ€™t suffer, and he turns to evil in a defiant way, whereas I only turned to writing about evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from Godâ€™s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writersâ€™ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People are clearly fascinated with angels. Why do you think even those people who do not consider themselves religious are so drawn to the idea of angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n People are drawn to angels because there is a deep seated instinctive belief that they do exist, that creatures from Heaven are here on Earth looking out for us and playing a special role in our care. Of course we read of this in the Bible. And it is a very seductive idea. Itâ€™s sometimes easier to pray to oneâ€™s guardian angel than to pray to the saints or even to the Lord. Itâ€™s easy to imagine that our guardian angel is right here with us. In my novel, Toby really does believe this, though after he suffered tragedy, he blamed the angels in charge for not stopping it. And he lived as a cursed human being for ten years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice''s new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O''Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who''s just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice''s colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15309'),
(22971, 'The Angel Whispered Danger', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop''s Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband''s conspicuous absence. What she doesn''t expect is murder. Soon after arriving, Kate finds her great uncle''s housekeeper, Ella Stegall, badly injured and incoherent, at the bottom of a wooded ravine after an apparent fall from a ledge. But moments before losing consciousness, Ella whispers she was pushed--not surprising, considering that Bramblewood, Uncle Ernest''s woodsy estate, is no stranger to murder and intrigue. Could Ella''s accident be connected to Bramblewood''s mysterious past, or was her claim just the rambling of a delirious old woman? Poor Ella slips away before leaving more clues to her death. Now Kate must come to terms with disturbing doubts about close family members while coping with her troubled young daughter. Luckily for Kate, guardian angel Augusta Goodnight has dropped by to help, this time with a bumbling young apprentice in tow. With fresh baked goods and sound, heavenly advice, Augusta helps Kate investigate Ella''s untimely demise--and a few other unsolved mysteries along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5083'),
(22972, 'Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they''re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to\n <em>\n  believe\n </em>\n it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Save the Planet: Kill the Humans.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson is the author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels,\n <em>\n  Witch &amp; Wizard\n </em>\n , the Daniel X series, and of bestselling detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women''s Murder Club. His novels have sold more than 180 million copies worldwide. In 2009 and 2010 he was nominated for the Children''s Choice Award for Author of the Year. He lives in Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15310'),
(22973, 'Angela Knight, MaryJanice Davidson, Virginia Kantra, Sunny - Over The Moon', 'Angela Knight, MaryJanice Davidson, Virginia Kantra, Sunny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15312'),
(22974, 'AngelfireHC txt ed2.indd', 'joeltippie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18370'),
(22975, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15313'),
(22976, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss\n <em>\n  Conseil EuropÃ©en pour la Recherche NuclÃ©aire\n </em>\n , a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (__) for achieving the nearly impossible.\n <em>\n  Angels &amp; Demons\n </em>\n is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville''s\n <strong>\n  (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco''s\n </strong>\n (but more accessible).\n</p>\n<p>\n Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society''s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra''s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and\n <em>\n  lots\n </em>\n of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It''s tasty.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra''s death is far from clear. Vetra''s daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren''t allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown''s tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15314'),
(22977, 'Angels and Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil EuropÃ©en pour la Recherche NuclÃ©aire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels &amp; Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville''s The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco''s Foucault''s Pendulum (but more accessible). Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society''s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra''s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization. Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It''s tasty. --Kelly Flynn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15315'),
(22978, 'Angels of Destruction', 'Keith Donohue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Keith Donohueâ€™s first novel, *The Stolen Child*, was a national bestseller hailed as â€œcaptivatingâ€ (USA Today), â€œluminous and thrillingâ€ (Washington Post), and â€œwonderful...So spare and unsentimental that itâ€™s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, *Angels of Destruction*, opens on a winterâ€™s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the womanâ€™s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norahâ€™s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the childâ€™s true identity and her purpose in Margaretâ€™s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter? Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohueâ€™s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15317'),
(22979, 'ANGELS OR MERCY, Sec', 'Trial User', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18135'),
(22980, 'Angels&#39; Blood', 'SINGH, NALINI', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20673'),
(22981, 'Angerhelm', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15319'),
(22982, 'Angry Lead Skies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don''t open the door. But there''s a reason why Garrett''s still in the P.I. business after all these years-he''s not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that''s why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can''t quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he''s done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15320'),
(22983, 'The Anguished Dawn', 'James P. Hogan; James P. Baen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After Earth is devastated by a near miss from a protoplanet that destroys civilization, leaving survivors on the edge of barbarism, technology, culture, and knowledge are preserved only in the Kronian colony near Saturn who send Landen Keene to help rebuild Earth''s civilization, but others will do anything to regain their former privileges and power, in the sequel to Cradle of Sature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5087'),
(22984, 'Anil&#39;s Ghost', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizeâ€”winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anilâ€™s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden pastâ€“a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaâ€™s landscape and ancient civilization, Anilâ€™s Ghost is a literary spellbinderâ€“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s most powerful novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15321'),
(22985, 'The Animal Fair', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18109'),
(22986, 'Animal Farm', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15322'),
(22987, 'Animal farm: a fairy story', 'George Orwell; Russell Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15323'),
(22988, 'Animal farm: and related readings', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the old ways. Orwell''s chilling story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1945. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the old ways. Orwell''s chilling story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1945.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16297'),
(22989, 'The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint', 'Marc Bekoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the "unique responsibilities" of human beings, as "moral agents," to overcome speciesism and recognize animals "as fellow sentient, emotional beings," with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace "who" with "that" when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don''t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff''s arguments can be less than rigorous; an "unwavering optimist and dreamer," he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions ("alienation from nature... kills our hearts") than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being "mindful" in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff''s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the premises that animals both feel and convey emotion, are capable of actions that are motivated by compassion, and exhibit attitudes of kindness and empathy, preeminent ethologist and prolific author Bekoff comprehensively posits that the time has come for humans to return the favor. Just as environmental activists advocate reducing oneâ€™s carbon footprint in order to live more responsibly, Bekoff argues that expanding oneâ€™s compassion footprint, that is, treating animals more humanely, can have equally beneficial consequences. Supporting current scientific research with a wide range of anecdotal evidence, Bekoff outlines six guiding principles designed to increase awareness of the deplorable conditions animals experience across a broad spectrum of activities. From food production to circus acts, drug testing to wildlife encroachment, animals have long been considered objects to be manipulated for the express pleasure and benefit of humans. Unabashedly speaking on their behalf, Bekoff presents impassioned reasons why, and explicit ways in which, such destructive behaviors should stop. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5090'),
(22990, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life', 'Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Nina Planck\n </em>\n Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don''t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldâ€”local food and sustainable agricultureâ€”is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener.\n <em>\n  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle\n </em>\n is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won''t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers'' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what''s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver''s clue to help greenhorns remember what''s in season is the best I''ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodâ€”in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingâ€”demands teamwork.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Nina Planck is the author of\n </em>\n Real Food: What to Eat and Why\n <em>\n  (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresâ€“those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one''s own produce but also of harvesting one''s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatiseâ€“the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousâ€“it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers'' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore''s\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Truth\n </em>\n (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2001)._â€“Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15324'),
(22991, 'Animorphs Book 02 The Vistor', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15326'),
(22992, 'Animorphs Book 03 The Encounter', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15328'),
(22993, 'Animorphs Book 04 The Message', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15329'),
(22994, 'Animorphs Book 05 The Predator', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15330'),
(22995, 'Animorphs Book 06 The Capture', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15331'),
(22996, 'Animorphs Book 07 The Stranger', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15332'),
(22997, 'Animorphs Book 08 The Alien', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15333'),
(22998, 'Animorphs Book 09 The Secret', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15334'),
(22999, 'Animorphs Book 10 The Android', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15335'),
(23000, 'Animorphs Book 11 The Forgotten', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15336'),
(23001, 'Animorphs Book 12 The Reaction', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15337'),
(23002, 'Animorphs Book 13 The Change', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15338'),
(23003, 'Animorphs Book 15 The Escape', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15339'),
(23004, 'Animorphs Book 16 The Warning', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15340'),
(23005, 'Animorphs Book 17 The Underground', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15341'),
(23006, 'Animorphs Book 18 The Decision', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15342'),
(23007, 'Animorphs Book 19 The Departure', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15343'),
(23008, 'Animorphs Book 20 The Discovery', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15344'),
(23009, 'Animorphs Book 21 The Threat', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15345'),
(23010, 'Animorphs Book 22 The Solution', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15346'),
(23011, 'Animorphs Book 23 The Pretender', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15283'),
(23012, 'Animorphs Book 24 The Suspicion', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15284'),
(23013, 'Animorphs Book 27 The Exposed', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15285'),
(23014, 'Animorphs Book 36 The Mutation', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15286'),
(23015, 'Animorphs Book 37 The Weakness', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15288'),
(23016, 'Animorphs Book 42 The Journey', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15289'),
(23017, 'Animorphs Book 44 The Unexpected', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15290'),
(23018, 'Animorphs Book 46 The Deception', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15291');
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(23019, 'Animorphs Book 47 The Resistance', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15292'),
(23020, 'Animorphs Book 48 The Return', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15293'),
(23021, 'Animorphs Book 49 THe Diversion', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15295'),
(23022, 'Animorphs Book 50 The Ultimate', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15311'),
(23023, 'Animorphs Book 51 The Absolute', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15327'),
(23024, 'Animorphs Book 52 The Sacrifice', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15347'),
(23025, 'Animorphs Book 53 The Answer', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15348'),
(23026, 'Animorphs Book 54 The Beginning', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15349'),
(23027, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner''s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15350'),
(23028, 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl', 'Anne Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Introduce your students to award-winning books with these engaging teaching guides. Each guide includes an author biography, chapter summaries, creative cross-curricular activities, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, and discussion questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15361'),
(23029, 'Anne McCaffrey - Tsw 7 Ship That Returned', 'Ship That Returned', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15381'),
(23030, 'Anne of Avonlea', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This duo continue the adventures of Anne Shirley begun in Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables. Avonlea (1909) finds her at 16 taking on a job as a school teacher, while in Island (1915), a slightly older Anne moves on to college to continue her own education. Along with the full text, these editions also include scholarly essays. These budget hardcovers are for all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exceptional audio. Highly recommended." --Reviewerâ€™s Bookwatch\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15387'),
(23031, 'Anne of Green Gables', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMatthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isnâ€™t the boy theyâ€™d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomeryâ€™s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted childrenâ€™s literature scholar Jack Zipes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of nineteen of her twenty novels. She died in Toronto in 1942.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15403'),
(23032, 'Anne of Green Gables: three volumes in one', 'Lucy Maud Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three enchanting classics, favorites of generations of young readers, follow the life of the irresistible Anne Shirley from adolescence to adulthood. Includes: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne''s House of Dreams. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15404'),
(23033, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The continued saga of the now adult, Anne, mother of five children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting -- and wearing out her welcome -- Anne''s life is full to bursting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still Mrs. Doctor can''t think of any place she''d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn''t love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she''s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead -- the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. . . She''s ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15407'),
(23034, 'Anne of the Island', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third volume of the series in which Anne goes to college.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she''s ready for love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15408'),
(23035, 'Anne of Windy Poplars', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables,\n  </em>\n  published in 1908.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Once published,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  and several other television movies and programs, including\n  <em>\n   Road to Avonlea,\n  </em>\n  which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley takes her first job away from Green Gables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15409'),
(23036, 'Anne&#39;s House of Dreams', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“L. M. Montgomery fans will be delighted by Barbara Caruso''s narration of the fifth volume in the series (Indy, 2001). It follows the red-headed heroine and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, to the snug little cottage that is their first home at Four Winds Harbor on Prince Edward Island. There''s laughter, heartache, and unexpected turnabouts with new friends such as lighthouse keeper Captain Jim, and neighbors, Cornelia and Leslie. There''s sorrow after the death of the couple''s first child, and happiness after their healthy son is born. The story is liberally peppered with sketches of other memorable islanders and views of family life around the turn of the 20th century. Caruso''s spirited and versatile narration brings to life diverse character traits such as Anne''s zest for life, Cornelia''s crusty opinions, and Leslie''s soft, sometimes fearful breathlessness. This story will be appreciated by anyone who likes their happy-ending stories wrapped in old fashioned values. A great choice for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 1917 volume is the latest of the publisher''s inexpensive hardcover editions of Montgomery''s adventures of Anne Shirley, which began with Anne of Green Gables.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15410'),
(23037, 'Annie Dunne', 'Sebastian Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The central character in Sebastian Barry''s novel\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie''s nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie''s love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness.\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish playwright and novelist Barry''s gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving story is narrated by the eponymous Annie Dunne, who, in her 60s, has come to live with her cousin Sarah on an impoverished farm in Kelsha, County Wicklow. Plain and poor, and afflicted with a humpback since a childhood attack of polio, Annie is grateful to Sarah for taking her in. She loves the farm and attacks the backbreaking daily chores with fierce ardor. But when a scheming handyman on a neighboring farm begins to court Sarah, Annie sees her livelihood threatened and fights back with the only weapons in her arsenal: bitterness and rage. Complicating the events of the summer spanned by the plot are the two young children left in Annie''s care by her nephew, who''s gone off to London. As Annie is terrified to admit, even to herself, the children have their own dark secret, too fearsome to contemplate. Veering between dread, anger and shame, Anne''s thoughts are also a mixture of whimsical observations, naâ€¹ve ideas and a poetic appreciation of the natural world. This compassionate portrait of a distraught woman mourning the years of promise and dreams that were "narrowed by the empty hand of possibility" is a masterful feat of characterization, all the more vivid against the backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1950s, undergoing changes that throw Annie''s life into sharper focus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15411'),
(23038, 'Annihilation - Book 5', 'Philip Athans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15412'),
(23039, 'Anniversary', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4094'),
(23040, 'The annotated Hunting of the snark: the full text of Lewis Carroll&#39;s great nonsense epic The hunting of the snark', 'Lewis Carroll &amp; Martin Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literatureâ€”a companion to The Annotated Alice.  "It''s a Snark!"â€¦for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools'' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll''s *The Hunting of the Snark* remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of *Alice in Wonderland*, invites readers along on a fictitious hunt to determine whoâ€”or whatâ€”the Snark actually is. More than 130 years later, the indomitable Martin Gardner returns to the Snark with a trove of new annotations and illustrations, uncovering some of the most confounding literary, linguistic, and mathematical references embedded in any of Lewis Carroll''s many works. Included in this gorgeous, two-color volume is an introduction by Adam Gopnik, as well as Henry Holiday''s distinctive, original illustrations, a substantial bibliography, and a suppressed drawing of the infamous Boojum. With a host of other Snark resources, this is the most ambitious work on Lewis Carroll''s masterpiece in many decades. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5092'),
(23041, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton;Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5094'),
(23042, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton &amp; Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18636'),
(23043, 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5096'),
(23044, 'Anon', 'Anderson,.Poul.-.Time.Patrol', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15390'),
(23045, 'The anonymous Venetian', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Commissario Brunetti''s hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15424'),
(23046, 'Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words', 'John Marciano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people. **Eponymous, *adj. *Giving oneâ€™s name to a person, place, or thing. Anonymous, *adj. *Anonymous. Anonyponymous, *adj. *Anonymous and eponymous. The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practicesâ€”such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered. In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu â€œalgorithmâ€ Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you''ll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory. Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like â€œsuperhero eponyms,â€ *Anonyponymous *is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15439'),
(23047, 'Another Alice Universe', 'Asimov, Janet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15446'),
(23048, 'Another Fine Myth', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Skeeve was a magician''s apprentice--until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, Skeeve is on a quest to get even. This title is the first of Asprin''s bestselling Myth novels to become available in digest-sized paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15452'),
(23049, 'Another fine myth: Myth conceptions', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Books One and Two of Asprin''s bestselling Myth series are now together in this two-in-one omnibus. In "Another Fine Myth, " Skeeve''s master is murdered, and now this apprentice magician must deal with Aahz, a powerless demon summoned by the old magician as a joke. And in "Myth Conceptions, " Skeeve auditions for court magician at the court of Rodrick and, unfortunately, gets the job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15454'),
(23050, 'Another Kind of Glamour', 'Richard Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15456'),
(23051, 'Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15457'),
(23052, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15459'),
(23053, 'Another part of the wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15462'),
(23054, 'Another Word for Map is Faith', 'Christopher Rowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16533'),
(23055, 'Anselm Audley', 'Heresy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17701'),
(23056, 'Answered prayers', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Danielle Steelâ€™s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one womanâ€™s struggle to break free from the pastâ€”and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfatherâ€”a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reachâ€”that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood backâ€”and an old friend reenters Faithâ€™s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: â€œFred.â€ Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jackâ€™s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves â€œThe Three Musketeersâ€ as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faithâ€™s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbandâ€™s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faithâ€™s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herselfâ€”and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that healâ€”and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15468'),
(23057, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthem is Ayn Randâ€™s classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"â€”a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell''s "1984," this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philosophy is simple: "planning" is a synonym for "collectivism," and "collectivism" is a metaphor for communism and tyranny. This important book should be read by all who are concerned about the role of government in modern life. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15472'),
(23058, 'ANTHEM by Ayn Rand', 'Anthem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17646'),
(23059, 'Anthill: a novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself. "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County. Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process. An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab. Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River. But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle. In a shattering ending that no reader will forget, Raff suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well. Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15474'),
(23060, 'Anthology - Dates From Hell - Lynsay Sands,Kelley Armstrong,Lori Handeland,Kim Harrison', 'Dates From Hell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15475'),
(23061, 'Anthology - Hot Blooded', 'Christine Feehan Maggie Shayne Emma Ho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15476'),
(23062, 'Anthology - Karen Chance, Yasmine Galeno', 'Inked', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15477'),
(23063, 'Anthology - Slow Heat - Anwar, Celeste; Zant, Kimberly; Sparks, Alicia', 'Anwar Celeste; Zant Kimberly; Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15481'),
(23064, 'Anthology - Under the Boardwalk', 'Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Jillian Hunter, Miranda Jarrett; Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15504'),
(23065, 'Anthonology', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A retrospective anthology of tales is highlighted by autobiographical accounts of the experiences that have shaped his fantasy and science fiction work\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15505'),
(23066, 'Anthony Burgess', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17719'),
(23067, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15243'),
(23068, 'The Anthvoke', 'Steve Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5098'),
(23069, 'Anti-Man', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15247'),
(23070, 'The Anti-Slavery Crusade (Webster&#39;s Spanish Thesaurus Edition)', 'Jesse Macy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Anti-Slavery Crusade by Jesse Macy was edited for three audiences. The first includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Spanish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Spanish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Spanish or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Spanish, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5100'),
(23071, 'Antibodies', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel based on the Emmy Award-winning television series created by Chris Carter.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files" cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI... and beyond.\n</p>\n<p>\n Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery. Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound. In theory, this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality. It was also the only way Dr. Kennessy could save his leukemia-stricken son.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it''s anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every step by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government even perhaps of their own agency at their command. Enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls in the right hands their hands.\n</p>\n<p>\n As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy while Mulder comes face to face with a crazed and desperate man. A man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin J. Anderson''s first\n <em>\n  X-Files\n </em>\n adventure,\n <em>\n  Ground Zero,\n </em>\n became a #1 international bestseller. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels Blindfold, Climbing Olympus, and (with coauthor Doug Beason)\n <em>\n  Virtual Destruction, III Wind,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Assemblers of Infinity.\n </em>\n His work has been nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards. His current projects include a third\n <em>\n  X-Files\n </em>\n novel, based on characters created by Chris Carter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15245'),
(23072, 'Antiphon', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15249'),
(23073, 'Antrax', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new novel by Terry Brooks is always a cause for celebration. For more than twenty years, the* New York Times* bestselling author of the classic Shannara epic has proven himself one of the modern masters of fantasy, winning the hearts and minds of devoted readers around the world. In his last acclaimed novel, *Ilse* *Witch*, a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Boh and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes . . .Now in *Antrax*, as the crew aboard the airship *Jerle Shannara* is attacked by evil forces, the Druidâ€™s protÃ©gÃ© Bek Rowe and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. Meanwhile, Boh is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy. For there is something alive in Castledown. Something not human. Something old beyond reckoning that covets the magic of Druids, elves, even the Ilse Witch. Something that hunts men for its own designs: Antrax. It is a spirit that commands ancient technologies and mechanical monsters, feeds off enchantment, and traps the souls of men.With the *Jerle Shannara* under siege and Antrax threatening the bold and unwary, the Ilse Witch finds herself face-to-face with a boy who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant. Now a young man, Bek wields the magic of the wishsong and carries the Sword of Shannara upon his back. Unsure whether to trust Bek or to slay him, the Ilse Witch takes him prisoner. One has come pursuing truth, the other revenge. Yet both seek Walker Bohâ€“with the fate of the Four Lands hanging in the balance. Return to the world of beloved novelist Terry Brooks, where creatures drift up from the earth like mist, a hypnotic song can kill, a sword can cut through a veil of liesâ€“and one man, the true heir of an ancient magic, must choose between betrayal and redemption.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15251'),
(23074, 'Anvil of Stars', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear''s treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Anvil of Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing.Â  Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.â€Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _--ALA Booklist\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Forge of God_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as â€œThe Benefactorsâ€, who arrived at Earth too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15253'),
(23075, 'Anvil, Christopher &amp; Flint, Eric - Inter', 'The Federation of Humanity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15256'),
(23076, 'Anwar, Celeste - Cajun_02 - CarnalKnowledge.htm', 'Carnal Knowledge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15258'),
(23077, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19190');
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(23078, 'Any way you want me', 'Jamie Sobrato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s learned the hard way that following her impulses lands her in trouble. But being a by-the-book girl has never been so hard for Yasmine Talbot since the hot new guy started at work. Meeting deadlines is impossible with that delicious bod around. It''s time to corner him under the mistletoe with a naughty suggestion or two!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Alex DiCarlo is so hot for Yasmine, he''s almost forgotten that he''s undercover investigating her. He tells himself that spending the holidays with her is perfect for some intimate observation. Truth is, he''s so enjoying this sinfully sexy weekend, he wants it to continue. Too bad flings weren''t meant to last....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15260'),
(23079, 'Anybody Out There?', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy''s house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she''s able, Anna''s flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous questâ€”involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction.   Marrying life''s darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out There? is a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15261'),
(23080, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  3A gorgeous historical indulgence.2 --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  3Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.2 --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  3Lucy Moore1s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.2 --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  3A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelist1s relish for human foibles.2 --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15265'),
(23081, 'Anywhere but here', 'Jerry Oltion', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world dominated by America''s heavy hand, an independent scientist reveals the secret of fast, cheap interstellar travel, sparking an exodus like none in history. When anyone with a few hundred dollars and a little ingenuity can build their own spaceship, even American citizens can''t wait to get out from under the United States''s domineering thumb.Trent and Donna Stinson, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, seal up their pickup for vacuum and go looking for a better life among the stars, but they soon learn that you can''t outrun your problems. America''s belligerent foreign policy is expanding just as fast as the world''s refugees, threatening to destroy humanity''s last chance for peaceful coexistence. When their own government tries to kill them for exercising the freedoms that people once took for granted, Trent and Donna reluctantly admit that America must be stopped. But how can patriotic citizens fight their own country? And how can they succeed where the rest of the world has failed?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15267'),
(23082, 'Apache Security', 'Ivan Ristic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15269'),
(23083, 'Apaches', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra, author of a powerful, best-selling memoir, Sleepers (Ballantine, 1995), here weighs in with his first novel. Although information on the plot is a bit sketchy, the story centers around a group of controversial New York City cops.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Apaches\n </strong>\n is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n , it is a book that will never be forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15271'),
(23084, 'Apartment 16', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it''s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She''s been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15275'),
(23085, 'Apathy and Other Small Victories', 'Paul Neilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time itâ€™s complicated: there''s a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she''s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord''s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shaneâ€™s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesnâ€™t care enough to act like he didnâ€™t do it, the question becomes just how heâ€™ll clear the good name he never had and doesn''t particularly want: his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15276'),
(23086, 'Ape and Essence', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16265'),
(23087, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody. In *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan. The characters, including Amelia''s husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of *The Thin Man*. When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You ought to be ''ome washin'' your ''usband''s trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I assure you, sir, the lady''s trousers are not in such sore need of laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother''s legacy of crime solving. *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes'' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the *Book of the Dead*. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved. Other Peabody mysteries include *Seeing a Large Cat*, *The Hippopotamus Pool*, *The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog*, *The Deeds of the Disturber*, *Lion in the Valley*, *The Curse of the Pharaohs*, and *Crocodile on the Sandbank*. *--Patrick O''Kelley*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5107'),
(23088, 'Aphrodite', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum meets Dashiell Hammett in this gripping, wildly plotted thriller by the author of Gideon and Icarus. In the sleepy town of East End, New York, former homicide cop Justin Westwood is trying to escape the tragedy of his past by consuming scotch and writing traffic tickets for the local police department. The murder of a young reporter (disguised as an accident), however, catapults him out of his stasis and into a complicated investigation. A terrified witness tells of a blond killer, whom readers first met in the book''s opening pages murdering another young woman. As Justin investigates, it seems that the police and the FBI are always one step ahead of him, and that folks with any connection to the case start turning up dead. Signs point to a sinister fountain-of-youth project run by a mysterious, all-powerful cabal, which the reporter had accidentally uncovered. If Westwood penetrates the secrets of the Aphrodite program, he''s sure to be their next victim. A smalltown cop does battle with a great conspiracy: the plot may sound conventional, even hackneyed, but Andrews sustains white-hot tension throughout, bolstered by enough surprises and body blows to satisfy even a hardened mystery/conspiracy buff. The suspense flags slightly at midpoint, but elsewhere the pace is fast, the dialogue sharp, the characters skillfully drawn and the familiar, heady whodunit action cleverly handled.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n From the author of\n <em>\n  Gideon\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  Icarus\n </em>\n (2001) comes another thriller that''s propelled as much by its characters as its plot. In a small Long Island town, a newspaper reporter is found dead, apparently murdered. Justin Westwood, a member of the local police force who would much rather keep to the background, reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. His problem: find out how the victim''s last story, the obituary of a little-known Hollywood actor, could possible have led to her murder. Soon Justin is up against something much bigger--and much weirder--than he could possibly have imagined. The story is solid, but it''s the lead character who elevates the novel above your typical thriller. Justin--the small-town cop in a town without murder, who clearly knows his way around a homicide investigation--keeps us flipping the pages as fast as we can. As we watch him solve the mystery, we''re working on a puzzle of our own: Who is Justin, and where did he come from? Top of the line.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15277'),
(23089, 'Aphrodite Project', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15278'),
(23090, 'The Aphrodite Project', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18375'),
(23091, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5109'),
(23092, 'The Apocalypse Troll', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Richard Ashton is sailing in the middle of the Atlantic when a UFO is shot down. When the crippled alien lifeboat homes in on his sailboat, suddenly his hands are full with a wounded and impossibly "human" alien warrior who also happens to be a gorgeous female.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5111'),
(23093, 'The apocalypse watch', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway-- the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of theWatch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich''s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, HarryLatham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother''s fate. But when he receives the sudden good newsthat Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry''s cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the UnitedStates and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments--but is the listlegitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother? To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother''s identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for HarryLatham--and those who want Drew himself dead. From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, *TheApocalypse Watch* is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5113'),
(23094, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15279'),
(23095, 'Apologue', 'James Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15280'),
(23096, 'Apology', 'Plato', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15281'),
(23097, 'An Apology for Crudity and Other Stories', 'Sherwood Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories. He worked as a manual laborer until near the turn of the century, when he enlisted in the United States Army. He was called but did not see action in Cuba during the Spanish- American War. After the war, in 1900, he enrolled at Wittenberg University. Eventually he secured a job as a copywriter in Chicago and became more successful. His first novel, Windy McPherson''s Son was published in 1916. Three years later, his second major work, Marching Men, was published. However, he is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, which he began writing in 1919, known as Winesburg, Ohio. Although his short stories, especially those mentioned, were very successful, Anderson felt the need to write novels. In 1920, he published Poor White. Amongst his other works are Mid-American Chants (1918), The Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories (1921), Many Marriages (1923) and A Story Teller''s Story (1924).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15440'),
(23098, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet. A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action. In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan. But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free. Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller. **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5115'),
(23099, 'Appeal', 'Dana William Paxson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15282'),
(23100, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18836'),
(23101, 'Appendices and Indexes', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15287'),
(23102, 'Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16184'),
(23103, 'Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz; Matthew Ruscigno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Timesâ€™\n  </em>\n  , November/December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œOffers 125 recipes for low-fat, plant-based dishes that donâ€™t skimp on flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Living\n  </em>\n  (UK), December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œJam-packed with mouth-watering vegan recipes that are low in fat and light on calories...[Moskowitzâ€™s] recipes are visual and gastronomic delights, which inspire the reader to try new things and cook outside of their comfort zone, while never underestimating the beauty of the familiar.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ThisDishisVeg.com_, _12/8/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œ[Isa Moskowitz is] the queen of the vegans.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press Herald_, 12/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA snappy cookbook that embraces whole plant foods without a sugary snack in sight. Those avoiding gluten or soy will appreciate the numerous gluten-free and soy-free recipes, and everyone is sure to learn something from the preparation and nutrition tips [Moskowitz] sprinkles throughout the book. Best of all, her recipes for goodies such as OMG Oven-Banked Onion Rings, Tamarind BBQ Tempeh &amp; Sweet Potatoes, and Chipotle Lentil Burgers will make even dedicated carnivores appreciate the pleasures of plant-based meals.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Technorati.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is an innovative source of vegan recipes..._Appetite for Reduction_ offers tempting recipes that are quick and easy, andâ€”most importantlyâ€”no- or low-fat...Moskowitz has lots of yummy ideas that prove that dieting doesnâ€™t have to be painful...Moskowitz incorporates the reduction of unhealthy foods, environmental impact, grocery store costs, and animal suffering in her cooking philosophy. The results are tasty dishes with no guilt attached.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LeslieLovesVeggies.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 fabulous recipes that are quick to make and most take 30 minutes or less to prepare. These tasty dishes are easy on the budget and are made with real food for real people. Nothing bizarre, no outlandish over the top ingredients, just good for ya, low fat, delish vegan food! Oh and the portions are real, too! None of these ridiculous tiny serving sizes to get the low calorie counts. These are real servings folks!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Examiner.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is a proven advisor you want to have in the vegan kitchen with you, consistently creating recipes that are at once accessinle to the home cook and impressive enough to show off to those you want to, well, impress.\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction...\n  </em>\n  will knock your socks off, just in time for a great Christmas gift for omnivores or vegans alike and strengthen some of those New Yearâ€™s resolutions...Easy-to-follow directions, well-organized chapters, [and] gorgeous art direction and helpful tips...The icons that designate quick-to-prepare, gluten- and soy-free recpies make this cookbook especially user-friendly..._Appetite for Reduction_ casts its culinary net wide...The recipes span the globe and include rare treats calorie-conscious diners usually donâ€™t get to enjoy..._Appetite for Reduction _gives lots of creative, easy and tasty opportunities to eat healthfully...A very worthwhile edition to anyoneâ€™s cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GreenWala.com, 12/27/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz] has done a lot for dispelling the myth that vegan food equals rabbit food or that itâ€™s not satisfying...The tone is conversational and often humorous and the book is not just about leaner recipes. Appetite refers also to environmental impact, animal cruelty, and your bank account.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews,\n  </em>\n  February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFrom the grand dame of vegan cookbooks,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t leave you hungry...From salads that satisfy like meals to hearty pasta dishes to every vegetable imaginable,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t miss a beat...Unlike other diet books,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t about dropping 20 pounds in a weekend; itâ€™s about eating healthfully in a way that can lead to weight loss without resorting to drastic measuresâ€”measures which Moskowitz assures are guaranteed to pile pounds right back on.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/30/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this cookbook for anyone, vegan or not...[Moskowitz] has put together 125 recipes that are under 400 caloriesâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to lose weightâ€”and are packed with nutrientsâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to eat healthier.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/31/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFeatures many quick and delicious low-calorie vegan recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WomanAroundTown.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrammed full of good advice as well as tasty recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org, 1/4/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitzâ€™s] latest cookbook could be one of her greatest yet...Anyone who has already inhaled a lifetime''s worth of vegan sweets and processed foods, or who is interested in the vegan diet for health reasons, will probably love\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  TreeHugger.com, 1/4/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIf you''re suffering through the fourth day of some weird diet, you might want to pick up a copy of this book and make yourself something good to eat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Daily News_, 1/9/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz is] the queen of vegan cookingâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  San Francisco Book Review_, 1/10/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz has singlehandedly revolutionized vegan cooking..._Appetite _is brimming not only with recipes, but also detailed nutritional information useful to everyone, but especially important to those who seek essential vitamins and nutrients from nontraditional (non-animal) sources. But if youâ€™re worried about typical bland diet food, have no fear: This\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  an Isa Chandra Moskowitz cookbook after all. While all recipes are between 200 and 400 calories per serving, each is loaded with delicious, vibrant flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Long Island_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press_, 1/7/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all only 200 to 400 calories per serving, plant-based and packed with nutrients, low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber and, well, delicious.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  South_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Coast_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Insider_, January 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is the best and most creative of all the chefs working with plant based foods...This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  InfoDad.com, 1/13/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt moves along like a well-oiled machine, starting with salads and continuing with side dishes, beans (a mainstay of this type of cooking), tofu and tempeh, soups, stews and more...It contains solid information and a variety of recipes that vegans will find tasty.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  BBC Good Food_ (UK), February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis is a vegan diet book, but forget your preconceptions and look at the food. Isa is an amazing cookâ€”her recipes are delicious and written for people who want to lose weight, but not their enjoyment of food. She uses spices cleverly to make you forget youâ€™re eating low fat and ups the grain and veg content to keep you satisfied. Isa reworks favorites making them lighter and healthier. Her book is worth buying for the salad dressings alone.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   February 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] great read!...Moskowitzâ€”a tireless crusader against the perception that meatless, dairy-free meals taste like cardboardâ€”proves low-fat can be delicious. While offering plenty of tips for novice vegans, Moskowitzâ€™s recipes are interesting and flavorful enough to delight seasoned meatless mavens, too.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Washington_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Post_, 1/19/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSurprisingly creamy and hearty, this vegan soup [Cauliflower Pesto Soup] is elegant enough to serve as a first course at any dinner party.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Hudson_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Valley_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ News,_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re not vegan, but simply donâ€™t like meat very much, youâ€™ll find many tasty recipes here.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  January Magazine_ (Canada), 12/20/10\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Appetite for Reduction_ is all about real food for real people, really easily...Whatâ€™s not to like?...Spend a lot of time eating from the recipes in this book and you will get smaller.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Living Without,\n   </em>\n   1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[The] tortilla soup has a light tomato broth and simple yet assertive seasoning. Stirring crushed tortilla chips into the soup as it cooks gives it a full-bodied texture.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian, _1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeave it to innovative cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the co-author of\n  <em>\n   Veganomicon\n  </em>\n  , to come up with a collection of 125 low-fat recipes that won''t have you leaving the table hungry...Moskowitz''s writing style is accessible and fun, and she demystifies ingredients like tempeh and tofu...Every recipe has detailed nutritional analysis, including vitamin content, something too many diet cookbooks don''t bother with.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo,\n  </em>\n  1/20/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œAs with previous Moskowitz books, one thing not sacrificed is flavor. She plays with Asian, Mediterranean, Indian and Latin cuisine with her recipes in ways that make you feel like youâ€™re not losing ta...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook. Thereâ€™s no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen meals...no fake anything!\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  , bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Only 200 to 400 calories per serving\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plant-based and packed with nutrients\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Drop-dead delicious\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll also find lots of gluten-free and soy-free options, and best of all, dinner can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. So ditch those diet shakes. Skip that lemonade cleanse. And fight for your right to eat something satisfying! Now you can look better, feel better, and have more energyâ€”for health at any size.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15185'),
(23104, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age', 'Steve Knopper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world''s highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry''s wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the ''80s and ''90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.With unforgettable portraits of the music world''s mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it''s going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15186'),
(23105, 'The Applause of Heaven', 'Max Lucado', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5119'),
(23106, 'Apple Training Series', 'White, Kevin M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9191'),
(23107, 'Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6', 'Kevin M. White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18811'),
(23108, 'Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 14', 'TheUnknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15187'),
(23109, 'Appleton, Victor - Tom Swift and His Wireless Message.txt', 'Tom Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15188'),
(23110, 'Applying the 7 Laws of Spiritual Success', 'S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This workbook, which accompanies Selwyn Hughes'', The 7 Laws of Spiritual Success, has much to encourage the reader to read and reread Selwyn''s book which lays out the key elements in the Christian Life. Selwyn believes these are spiritual laws, with consequences, just as natural laws have consequences. The workbook also has probing questions, and action plans to challenge the reader to put into practice Selwyn''s teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15189'),
(23111, 'Appointment at Bloodstar', 'E. E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith &amp; Stephen Goldin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15190'),
(23112, 'Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Twice as brilliant as Death on the Nile, which was entirely brilliant" Observer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don''t you, that she''s got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15192');
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(23113, 'Appointment with death: a Hercule Poirot mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don''t you, that she''s got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15193'),
(23114, 'An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist', 'Mary Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n non-fiction; prose , Women Writers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15441'),
(23115, 'The Apprentice', 'Cunnigham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5121'),
(23116, 'The Approaching Storm (Alan Dean Foster)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5124'),
(23117, 'Appropriate Love', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15197'),
(23118, 'Apt Pupil', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13083'),
(23119, 'The Aquaintaine Progession', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5126'),
(23120, 'Aquitaine Progression', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5128'),
(23121, 'Arabesque: a taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15198'),
(23122, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments', 'Andrew Lang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE\n <br />\n ARABIAN NIGHTS\n <br />\n ENTERTAINMENTS\n <br />\n IN the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sass::.nidre,\n <br />\n who reigned, for about four hun(hed years, from\n <br />\n rersia to the borders of China, beyond the great river\n <br />\n Ga.nges itself, we read the praises of one of tlle kings of\n <br />\n the ra-ee, who was said to be the best mOllarch of his time.\n <br />\n His suhjects loved him, and his neighbours feared him,\n <br />\n and when he 1ied he left his kingdom in a more prosÂ·\n <br />\n pCl''ons and powerful condition tlwn any king had done\n <br />\n before him.\n <br />\n The two sons who survived him loved each other\n <br />\n tenderly, and it was a real grief to tbe elder, Schahriu.r,\n <br />\n that the la.ws of the empire forbade him to share his\n <br />\n dominions with his brother Scllahzeman. IlIr''iee\n <br />\n ten years, during which this state of things had not\n <br />\n ceased to trouble him, Schahrinr cut off the counky of\n <br />\n Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his\n <br />\n brother king.\n <br />\n Now the Sultan Schalll''iar had n ''wife wuorn be. lm-ed\n <br />\n more than all the world, and his\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Table of Contents\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n CONTENTS; PAGE; Introduction I; 7'' he Story of the c-Merchant and the Genius 6; The Story 01 the First Old ~an and of the Hind 13; The Story of the Second Old Jv1an and of the Two; 73lack ''Dogs 19; The Story of tlJe Fisherman 23; The Story of the Greek King and the Physician; Vouban 29; The Story of the Hushand and the Parrot 32; T he Story of the Vizjr who was Punished 34; 7'' he Story of the Young King of the 731ack Isles 48; The Story of the Three Calenders, sons of Kingsl and; 0/ Five Ladies of ~agdad 54; The Story of the First Calender, son of a King 68; The Story of the Second Calender, son of a King 75; The Story of the Envious JlAa17, and of H\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English, Arabic (translation)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5131'),
(23123, 'Arabian Nights with a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15201'),
(23124, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20630'),
(23125, 'The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1', 'Anonymous &amp; Robert Irwin &amp; Malcolm C. Lyons &amp; Ursula Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A magnificent, unexpurgated edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world . . .\n <em>\n  The Arabian Nights\n </em>\n is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have."\n <br />\n -_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The translation . . . ought to become the standard one for the present century."\n <br />\n -_The Times Literary Supplement_\n</p>\n<p>\n "These magnificent volumes are the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of\n <em>\n  The Arabian Nights\n </em>\n since the age of Queen Victoria and the British Empire."\n <br />\n -_The Guardian_\n</p>\n<p>\n "This new translation of the world''s greatest collection of folk stories restores their colour and verve."\n <br />\n -_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier''s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba''s outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5129'),
(23126, 'The Arbiter', 'John Russell Fearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5133'),
(23127, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband. Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15202'),
(23128, 'Arcady and Boris Strugatsky. Prisoners of Power', 'Prisoners of Power', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17762'),
(23129, 'Archangel&#39;s Consort', 'Singh Nalini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20675'),
(23130, 'Archangel&#39;s Kiss', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times* bestselling author of *Angels'' Blood* ** Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find that she has become an angel-and that her lover, the stunningly dangerous archangel Raphael, likes having her under his control. But almost immediately, Raphael must ready Elena for a flight to Beijing, to attend a ball thrown by the archangel Lijuan. Ancient and without conscience, Lijuan''s power lies with the dead. And she has organized the most perfect and most vicious of welcomes for Elena...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20712'),
(23131, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Perry; Steve R. Pieczenik; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5135'),
(23132, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18405'),
(23133, 'Architects of Emortality', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The futuristic biotech world of Stableford''s acclaimed SF novella Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), expanded upon in last year''s novel Inherit the Earth, provides the foundation for this sequel. After an ecological collapse brought on by biological warfare and a runaway greenhouse effect, nanotechnology is regrowing lost forests as well as offering near-immortality to those who can afford it. Although the United Nations calls itself a World Government, the true power rests with the MegaMall, a company produced by generations of multinational mergers and buyouts. On this cusp of a new world, someone is murdering the pioneering scientists of the New Human Race, and it''s up to Detective Sgt. Charlotte Holmes and Inspector Hal Watson, of the U.N. Police, to stop the killing. Charlotte and Hal are assisted by Michael Lowenthal, a "special investigator" from the MegaMall, and Oscar Wilde, a legendary bioengineer of specialty flowers. Evidence indicates that the murderer, a mysterious young woman, is somehow related to a genetic engineer who calls himself Rappaccini (after a character in a Hawthorne story). As the team investigates the murders, they realize that Rappaccini''s taut game of hide-and-seek is leading them to the truth behind a much darker secret. Stableford''s skill at creating technologically overwhelmed future worlds is evident here. His narrative teems with vivid, believable descriptions of man-eating flowers, hundred-year-old artists and rampant genetic engineering. His talent for mystery is less sure, featuring characters whose roles blur unconvincingly as the plot picks up speed. Although the novel''s ending is weakened by premature revelations of Rappaccini''s motives, the scale and audacity of Stableford''s vision is a wonder. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bizarre murder of a prominent architect of the new Decivilization of the world draws New York investigator Charlotte Holmes into a complicated web of murderous intrigue involving death by genetically altered flowers. Aided by a brilliant and occasionally maddening "expert witness" with the unlikely name of Oscar Wilde, Holmes seeks solutions to a series of puzzles rooted in the poets and authors of the 19th century. Set in the same distant future as Inherit the Earth, this literary sf mystery, based on the short story "Flowers of Evil," belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15205'),
(23134, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15212'),
(23135, 'The Arctic Event', 'James Cobb; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-century old aeroplane is merely a relic of the early Cold War. Only a handful of insiders know that it still represents a major threat to civilization, as the aircraft is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform, still armed with two tons of active weaponized anthrax.Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith of Covert-One - the personal action arm of the President of the United States - is assigned to lead CIA agent Randi Russell and the lovely, but lethal, weapons expert, Professor Valentina Metrace to secure the site.But on the island Smith and his team find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Cut off from all outside aid, the operatives must struggle against both betrayal and the brutal polar environment. Gradually they become aware that something else exists within the hulk of the ancient bomber: a secret potentially more devastating than even the plane''s warload, and one that could bring about both a cataclysmic revision of global history and serve as the trigger for a Third World War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5136'),
(23136, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'The Conjure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17726'),
(23137, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'The Clarrington Heritage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17729'),
(23138, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'The Little Finger on the Left Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17730'),
(23139, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'Shock Treatment', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17733'),
(23140, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'Hunters of the Plains', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17735'),
(23141, 'Ardath Mayhar', 'Khi to Freedom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17736'),
(23142, 'The Ardly Effect', 'Gary Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5137'),
(23143, 'Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate&#39;s Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open', 'Rocco Mediate; John Feinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR AMERICA''S FAVORITE SPORTSWRITER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Feinstein...has done perhaps as much for golf writing as Arnold Palmer has for golf." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Monthly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Ron Rappaport\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein is the most successful sportswriter in America....He has the gift of re-creating events known to us all while infusing them with excitement, even suspense." (\n  <strong>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jay Nordlinger\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best chronicler in sports journalism." (\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Craig Smith\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Feinstein has become sportswriting''s John Grisham." (\n  <strong>\n   Sporting News\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   David Kindred\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein makes you care." (\n  <strong>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Bruce Fetts,\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best sportswriters alive." (\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Larry King\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  June 2008''s US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport''s greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game''s finest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15216'),
(23144, 'Are You There, Vodka? Is&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15217'),
(23145, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15218'),
(23146, 'Arena of Antares', 'Alan Burt Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seventh book of the Dray Prescot series.Never a man to leave something half done, Dray Prescot knew his task on the mysterious continent of Havilfar was far from completed. There were cruel conquerors to be overthrown, there was pursuit of the manhounds and their masters, and there was the dreaded arena. Could he survive the life of a gladiator against the killers and monsters of a spoiled queen -- while the Star Lords waited for his mission to continue?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15220'),
(23147, 'Arena of Decisions', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15221'),
(23148, 'Arinn Dembo', 'Between the Lines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17739'),
(23149, 'Arinn Dembo', 'Sisterhood Of Skin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17740'),
(23150, 'Aristophanes: The Complete Plays', 'Paul Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15223'),
(23151, 'Aristotle', 'Narattaphol Charoenphandhu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15225'),
(23152, 'Ark Angel', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day''s work, or will this truly be Alex Rider''s last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The over-the-top characters, with their exaggerated quirks and personalities, work well in this James Bond-like novel. Detailed background, technical, and political information, essential for any spy story, is uncomplicated and easy for most readers to understand. Though there are some references to previous missions, this title can certainly stand alone. Recommend it to your reluctant readers and get ready for them to line up for the rest of the series._-Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6--9. In his sixth adventure Alex Rider runs afoul of a group of murderous "eco warriors" and befriends Paul Drevin, the lonely son of venerated multibillionaire Nikolai Drevin, who isn''t what he seems. In fact, neither is Paul, as Alex finds out when he accompanies the father and son on a vacation to the family''s luxurious home in Flamingo Bay, which happens to be the launching site of a rocket that will carry the observation module for Drevin''s hugely publicized Ark Angel, the first hotel in space. Readers will need to suspend disbelief more than usual this time: Alex''s solo trip into space is unquestionably over the top, and there are a few glitches in plotting. What''s impossible to resist are the imaginative gadgets and the breakneck action, which Horowitz handles with his usual assurance and skill. Expect very high demand for this. The first title in the series,\n  <em>\n   Stormbreaker\n  </em>\n  (2001), is being released as a movie, and to celebrate the event, the publisher has redesigned the series'' book covers to incorporate a snazzy holographic foil.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15227'),
(23153, 'The Ark Sakura', 'Kobo Abe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abe''s first novel in eight yearsan allegorical fantasy at once Kafkaesque, funny and apocalpyticdazzles even when it may confuse. The principal character, nicknamed Mole, has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now in search of his "crew." He falls victim, however, to the wiles of his first crew members, a con man-cum-insect dealer and his two shills, one of them a pretty young woman. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by a gang of youths and a sinister group of elderly people called the Broom Brigade, led by Mole''s odious father, while Mole gets his leg trapped in the ark''s central piece of equipment, a giant toilet powerful enough to flush almost anything, including chopped-up humans, out to sea. Abe (The Woman in the Dunes, The Box Man), generally considered Japan''s leading novelist, is a literary magician with a very special bag of tricks. Among them is a deadpan matter-of-factness that gives his chilling vision of human destiny much of its impact.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most of Abe''s fiction is about escapes that fail and about people who, failing to escape, evaporate into their own alienation and despair. This novel, his first in eight years, raises no hope for a happier resolution. Mole, the grotesquely fat narrator, seeks refuge from nuclear annihilation and hopes to sell tickets to a selected crew needed for his "ark." In fact, Mole''s ark is an abandoned underground quarry, a vast, Piranesi-like complex. But nothing works out as he hoped. His crew usurps his authority and perverts his purpose. Unexpected intruders confound expectation, and Mole becomes trapped in the novel''s central metaphoran enormous and powerful toilet. Abe''s imagination is vivid but harsh. Yet although the novel torments the mind and heart, it compels unswerving attention. Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll., CUNY\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5138'),
(23154, 'The Ark', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A modern-day international thriller hailed by James Rollins as "one of the best debut I''ve read this year. . . here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned." When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah''s Ark--the artifact her father had long been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke--a man she''s never heard of. Two days later Dilara manages to track down former combat engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off Newfoundland. Her helicopter transport goes down well short of the oil rig''s landing pad and Dilara and those aboard nearly drown. No sooner is Dilara safely on the rig than she convinces Tyler the crash was no accident. Tyler agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah''s Ark and, more important, her father''s disappearance. As the picture begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise and a blistering pace, Boyd Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of one of the Old Testament''s great mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4964'),
(23155, 'Arkadi and Boris Strugatski. Hard to be a god', 'Hard to be a god', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17604'),
(23156, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Roadside Picnic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17748'),
(23157, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'I&#39;m Going to Meet My Br', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17751'),
(23158, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'The Snail on the Slope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17755'),
(23159, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Poor Cruel Folk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17757'),
(23160, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Spontaneous Reflex', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17758'),
(23161, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'The Ugly Swans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17768'),
(23162, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Crabs on the Island', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17769'),
(23163, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Wanderers &amp; Travellers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17771'),
(23164, 'Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky', 'Monday begins on Saturday', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19052'),
(23165, 'Arkady and Boris Strugatski', 'Probationers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17746'),
(23166, 'Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Destination Amaltheia', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17759'),
(23167, 'Arm', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15230'),
(23168, 'Armada of Antares', 'Alan Burt Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kregen! That marvelous world circling the double-star Antares in the Constellation Scorpio has been the scene of many an exciting event as its myriad human and non-human races struggle with each other for ascendency. But for Dray Prescot, Earthman and Prince of Vallia, all of the electrifying aspects of his adventurous life on Kregen were to climax when the armies of Havilfar made their move toward his adopted homeland before he had fully solved the secret of their mysterious air fleets Armada of Antares is the culmination of all his experiences on Kregen so far -- a peril-pitched novel, complete in itself, of an alien world stirred up to a life-or-death frenzy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15231'),
(23169, 'Armadillo', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s peculiar protagonist\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the star insurance adjuster of London''s Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd''s\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n -ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who''ve lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people''s woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person''s thriller by exploring Lorimer''s manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he''s oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ever inventive Boyd?whose highly praised first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was followed by others set in Africa and America, sets this latest work in contemporary London, which he observes with the close attention of someone seeing it for the first time. In fact, his protagonist, Lorimer Black, is not exactly a native: his ancestry derives from an obscure Central European Gypsy clan who made it to London after the war. Lorimer is the only truly Anglicized one among them, from his name to his careful sense of what to wear and say on every occasion. He is a loss adjuster at a big insurance company, whose day begins unsettlingly with the suicide of an insured client he was about to visit. Then a new hotel building, mysteriously overinsured, burns down, and his boss, the overbearing and cheerfully philosophical Mr. Hogg, seems to want Lorimer to investigate. A dreadful new colleague comes into his life and tries to make Lorimer his best friend; Lorimer falls hard for a mysterious actress glimpsed in one of his company''s TV commercials; his car is vandalized, and he is attacked in the street; his elderly father dies suddenly; and Hogg turns nasty and fires him. Throughout all this, poor Lorimer, stricken with a severe sleep disorder, tries to get some rest at a sleep clinic where he seeks what he calls "lucid dreams," which?unlike his waking life?he can control. Boyd''s comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer''s adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance. The only flaw in an otherwise sparkling performance is an odd and unlikely journal Lorimer keeps, which is designed to fill the gaps in his previous life, but which never sounds like anything other than the author''s voice. Editor, Vicky Wilson; agent: Georges Borchardt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15234'),
(23170, 'The Armageddon crazy', 'Mick Farren', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4965'),
(23171, 'Armageddon in Retrospect', 'Vonnegut, Kurt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15237'),
(23172, 'Armageddon In Retrospect', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death--a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity''s tendency toward violence.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut''s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II--an essay that is as timely today as it was then--to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut''s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author''s son, Mark Vonnegut.\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, "Guns Before Butter"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Guns Before Butter," Kurt Vonnegut''s story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut''s best-known novel,\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n , and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n . Read the complete story\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut Sketchbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Click through on the images below to see samples of the artwork included in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. When Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007, the world lost a wry commentator on the human condition. Thanks to this collection of unpublished fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut''s voice returns full force. Introduced by his son, these writings dwell on war and peace, especially the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The volume opens with a poignant 1945 letter from Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to his father in Indianapolis, presenting a vivid portrait of his harrowing escape from that city. The fiction, full of his characteristic humor, includes stories about time travel and the impossibility of peace in the world (Great Day) and, in the title piece, a kind of mock\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n , Dr. Lucifer Mephisto teaches his charges about the insidious nature of evil and the impossibility of good ever triumphing. In his final speech, Vonnegut lets go some of his zingers (jazz is safe sex of the highest order) and does what he always did best, tell the truth through jokes: And how should we behave during the Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don''t already have one. So it goes.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18431'),
(23173, 'The Armageddon Inheritance', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Colin MacIntyre had an orderly but exciting life as a NASA astronaut. But then he is kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship; drafted as its captain to suppress a 5,000-year-old mutiny; and forced to declare himself Governor of Earth in order to mobilize the planet against alien attack. And that''s the easy part. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4966'),
(23174, 'Armageddon&#39;s Children', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddonâ€™s Children is a new creationâ€“the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooksâ€™s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his familyâ€™s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilizationâ€™s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined worldâ€™s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a placeâ€“and a peopleâ€“shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting oddsâ€“and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddonâ€™s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and lightâ€“and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15239'),
(23175, 'Armor', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth''s most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man''s mind. This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat-and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15240'),
(23176, 'Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment--the technology, the strategies, and the people... profiled by Tom Clancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first nonfiction book,\n <strong>\n  , captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of\n </strong>\n portrays today''s military as only army personnel can know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more--the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life--from the drama of combat to the daily routine--with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An interview with General Frederick Franks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies behind the Desert Storm account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander, an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s cavalry has traded four-hoofed mounts for heavily armored tanks, fighting vehicles, and helicopters in a combined arms force that is prepared for combat against much larger forces. In this report, noted technothriller novelist Clancy takes readers on a tour of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He explores the delicacies found in an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) and describes such hardware as the Abrams battle tank, the Apache helicopter, and the nine-millimeter Beretta pistol. Through interviews with General Franks of the U.S. Army''s Training and Doctrine Command and Captain McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the author reveals what life was like during the Persian Gulf War. Clancy''s thorough research makes a persuasive case for maintaining a strong post-Cold War military. For all public libraries and many academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15242'),
(23177, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4967'),
(23178, 'Armstrong, Lance - It&#39;s Not About The Bike - My Journey Back To Life', 'paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15244'),
(23179, 'Army of Terror', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15246'),
(23180, 'Around the World in 80 Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001337\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15248');
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(23181, 'Around the World in 80 Dinners', 'Bill Jamison; Cheryl Alters Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke &amp; Spice, American Home Cooking, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining) used all their frequent flier miles on a three-month global culinary tour, chronicled in this charming travelogue. Beginning in Bali, the couple traveled to 10 different countries during the fall of 2005, sampling the local cuisine and taking in the sights. Narrating as "we," the Jamisons bring readers along as they dig into succulent jumbo crab at a hole in the wall in Singapore, dine on a luxurious wood and rattan houseboat in India and tour wineries in Australia; unfortunately, the spell is occasionally broken by awkward lapses into third person. That aside, the Jamisons make for informative and inquisitive travel guides, seeking out lesser-known establishments that capture the feel of each country. Though they occasionally splurge on an upscale meal, the majority of their dining experiences are well within the budgets of most travelers. Those interested in replicating legs of their journey will find the book a welcome resource, including information on lodging, dining destinations and not-to-be-missed cultural experiences (like the Carmen Miranda Museum in Brazil). For the sedentary, the Jamisons have thoughtfully included a native recipe from each stop.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loath to squander frequent-flier miles on pointless excursions, the Jamisons organize a trip around the world to sample the best foods the planet has to offer. Traveling a westerly route, they commence their planetary banquet in Bali, with its unique island version of Hindu cookery. Fine wines enhance the Australian dining experience. Singaporeâ€™s multiculturalism turns the days spent there into a vast Asian banquet. South Africa offers an opportunity to savor such wild delights as smoked zebra. No gastronomic journey being complete without a French stopover, the travelers revisit a favorite ProvenÃ§al inn. For each destination, the Jamisons offer a list of visited hotels and restaurants and a particularly exemplary recipe. Anyone contemplating a similar circumnavigation or other extensive, exotic travel will find here a trove of practical and anecdotal information and encouragement along with useful recommendations for clothes, luggage, and even medicines. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15250'),
(23182, 'Around the World in Eighty Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction ; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15252'),
(23183, 'Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do if the Police Get in Your Face', 'Dale C. Carson; Wes Denham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”Carson has been both a cop and a criminal defense attorney. Here, he puts his years of experience into a "how-not-to" book. He feels that most people who get arrested aren''t the worst criminals; they are just the most "clueless"â€”small-time offenders who make bad decisions and end up in what he calls the "electronic plantation." Now that computers make it ever so easy to track people, getting arrested, even if you''re not ultimately convicted, can and will come back to haunt you. Carson has three golden rules: "If cops can''t see you, they can''t arrest you," "Keep your dope at home," and "Give cops your name and basic info, then shut the f*@# up!" While the book read straight through may seem a little repetitive, it ultimately does come back to one of these three rules, which are imparted with examples and behavior charts. Carson uses a blunt style to make these points, but it''s a style that is sure to hit home with his target audienceâ€”the underclass. And he does make it plain that while there are many middle-class and white-collar criminals, the police tend to focus their patrols in bad neighborhoods. Those most likely to be in situations where they or those they know might get arrested will get the most out of this book, but even readers in more lofty areas with an interest in law enforcement could find much to discuss.â€”_Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This essential â€œhow not toâ€ guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on chargesâ€”which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15254'),
(23184, 'The arrival', 'Applegate, K. A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Animorphs Book 38 SUMMARY: The arrival of Andalites on Earth gives Ax and the Animorphs allies to fight against the Yeerk invasion but also causes new problems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4968'),
(23185, 'The Arrogant Vampire', 'Arthur Porges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4969'),
(23186, 'Arrow of the Queen', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15255'),
(23187, 'Arrow&#39;s Fall', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a diplomatic mission for the Queen of Valdemar, Talia, the Queen''s Herald, is plunged into a deadly sorcerous trap--a trap which may keep her from warning Valdemar and the Queen of the destruction reaching out to engulf them. The dramatic conclusion of the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15257'),
(23188, 'Arrows of Time', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it''s playing tricks ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15262'),
(23189, 'The Arsenal', 'neetha Napew', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4970'),
(23190, 'An Arsonist&#39;s Guide to Writers&#39; Homes in New England: A Novel', 'Brock Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   An Arsonist''s Guide to Writers'' Homes in New Englan\n  </em>\n  , the quirkiest title for a book since\n  <em>\n   --Brad Thomas Parsons\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Clarke''s fourth book (after the story collection\n  <em>\n   Carrying the Torch\n  </em>\n  ) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents'' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15442'),
(23191, 'Art Appreciation', 'Jack Dann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15263'),
(23192, 'Art Influence in the West', 'Mary Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n prose; non-fiction , Native American\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15264'),
(23193, 'The Art of Client Service, Revised and Updated Edition: 58 Things Every Advertising &amp; Marketing Professional Should Know', 'Robert Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""A book about client service that is so practical it''s almost embarrassing. Solomon offers unique perspectives that help clients, creatives, and, oh yeah, account people do their jobs better, resulting in more creative marketing.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Tom Monahan, President, Before &amp; After, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is said that great clients get great work, but it doesnâ€™t magically happen! Without great account people daily bridging the gap between client and agency demands, itâ€™s virtually impossible. This is a must read book for all who have chosen to engage in the fine art of serving clients - truly a fresh dose of account management inspiration!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Karen M. Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, DHL Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith all the time and money it takes to win new business, professional services firms would be smarter to improve client service to retain more clients. Reading and practicing Robert Solomonâ€™s advice is guaranteed to help.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a career-long â€˜client,â€™ Iâ€™ve been on a continuous search for the ideal agency account person. Robert Solomon...and students of his text...would clearly fit the bill. CMOs want insights, partnership, creative team leadership and results.\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n teaches how to deliver them all.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sara Lipson, Chief Customer Sciences Officer, Market &amp; Business Intelligence TIAA-CREF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is essential reading for anyone in the creative services profession. Marketing disciplines may change with the times, but the art of client service is timelessâ€”and Robert has captured its essence.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Barry Wacksman, Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer R/GA\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn addition to sage, prescriptive advice, Robert demonstrates the importance of checking oneself with a good, hard look in the mirrorâ€”to learn lessons, and strive for greatness in the craft of managing client relationships.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sarah Fay, President, Isobar U.S.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you work with clients in any industry,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now fully updated and revised,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff -- anyone who works with clients. With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know when to look it up; know when to make it up. (#7)\n </li>\n <li>\n  What happens when I screw up? (#51)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect what it takes to do great creative. (#19)\n </li>\n <li>\n  In a high-tech world, be low-tech (#46)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be brief, be bright, be gone. (#31)\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to write a letter of proposal (#44)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Zen of PowerPoint. (#45)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4971'),
(23194, 'The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit From Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets', 'Carl Futia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught in bubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futiaâ€™s new book,\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n . This book will teach you Futiaâ€™s novel method of contrarian trading from the ground up.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains the principles and practice of contrarian trading. Discover the Edge which separates winning speculators from the losers. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunch principle to identify profitable trading methods. Learn about the wisdom and the follies of investment crowds â€“ and how crowds are formed by information cascades that drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Discover the power of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these information cascades, measure the strength of the crowdâ€™s beliefs, and decide when the crowdâ€™s view is about to be proven wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigate safely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coaster swings in the U.S. stock market â€“ a time during which Futia kept his own media diary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading. See how this Grand Strategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the Contrarian Rebalancing technique in practice during the dot.com crash of 2000-2002. Find out when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull market of 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs of contrarian trading during that dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period were foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly and consistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By monitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines â€“ and with the guidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides â€“ a trader or investor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turning points.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contrarian theory in investing and trading is based on the idea that markets are driven in large part by crowd behavior. When crowds form around investing themes in the stock market, they push stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Contrarians hold that if investment crowds are responsible for the pricing mistakes made by the stock market, it logically follows that you can do better than buy-and-hold if you can detect those situations in which an investment crowd has driven the stock market too high or too low relative to fair value.\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n shows how to take advantage of the crowd''s periodic bouts of enthusiasm and fear, and make wise investment choices that most others may think are ill-advised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran trader Carl Futia explains the contrarian trader''s principal tool: his media diary. Since major market turning points are almost always foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that turn out to be completely wrong, by monitoring crowd behavior through both quantitative indicators and news media headlinesâ€”and with the hindsight of historical examplesâ€”a trader or investor will be well equipped to profit from market turning points. Futia shows specifically how the information contained in a media diary can be interpreted and then coordinated with a statistical view of a market''s current and past swings. By looking back at the bull market of 1982â€“2000, the 2000â€“2002 bear market, the bull market of 2002â€“2007, and the crash of 2008, he reveals how his own media diary effectively identified the many valuation mistakes the stock market made during those years. In addition, he explains the development of the theory of contrary opinion, highlights the contributions key individuals made to the theory, briefly discusses several books every contrarian should read, and offers a quick primer on value investing for the contrarian trader.\n</p>\n<p>\n The contrarian trader, says Futia, is not in the business of predicting stock market highs and lows or of making correct forecasts of any kind. Instead, his focus is on a single objectiveâ€”that of achieving a higher return than that earned by the buy-and-hold strategy. This book will show you how to achieve this elusive goal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4972'),
(23195, 'The art of dreaming', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16309'),
(23196, 'The art of fiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4973'),
(23197, 'The art of fiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18963'),
(23198, 'The art of mending: a novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the secrets that have long haunted her family. Her emotionally unstable sister, Caroline, tells Laura and their brother, Steve, that their mother abused her as a child. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline''s accusations and wonder how they could''ve been oblivious to or complicit in what happened, their father dies. This could be the stuff of melodrama, but Berg generally manages to avoid it. Her prose is often luminous and buoyant, and her insights can be penetrating. Her big ideas, though, are too frequently interrupted by the sort of domestic-detail overdoses that belong in less ambitious novels ("I hung up, flipped the turkey burgers for the last time, dumped the oven-baked French fries into a basket and salted them, sliced tomatoes, drained the water off the ears of corn..."). Other shortcomings include a few gender stereotypes and a husband and children for Laura who seem too good to be true ("Sometimes it seemed like I was making it up," Laura thinks). But Laura''s thornier relationships with her mother and siblings are carefully rendered and compelling. Berg has written a nuanced account of a family''s implosion, with enough ambiguity and drama to give book clubs-the book''s likely audience-"plenty to discuss and to keep any reader intrigued, right up to the fittingly redemptive ending.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Berg (_Say When_ [BKL Ap 1 03]) is unafraid of tackling gritty domestic issues such as aging and illness; in her latest, she takes on the question of why a mother would be so caring with two of her children but treat the third with great cruelty. Although Berg never answers that question satisfactorily, she does offer a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a flawed family. Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother are tempted to write Caroline''s confidences off as just another example of her histrionics. Because if what she says is true, what would that mean about their complicity in the family dynamics? Although Berg proffers a number of reasons for the mother''s singular treatment of Caroline, none of them is totally convincing. Berg is much better at detailing Laura''s childhood impatience with her gloomy sister and her inability to fully comprehend the cause of her sister''s moodiness. This is a skillful popular treatment of a troubling family issue.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4974'),
(23199, 'The art of nonfiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4975'),
(23200, 'The art of nonfiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18962'),
(23201, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4976'),
(23202, 'The Art of the Moving Picture', 'Vachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4977'),
(23203, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book One of *The Warrior* Series Sun Tzu and Sun PinÃ‚â€™s timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, *The Art of War* by Sun Tzu and *The Art of Warfare* by Sun Pin, in plain English. War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun TzuÃ‚â€™s ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. ***The Art of War*** outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client. ***The Art of War*** teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by: Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down. How to be confident without being overly confident. Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack. Avoiding an opponentÃ‚â€™s strengths and striking his weaknesses. Ã‚â€œThe one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up.Ã‚â€ Be the first to the battlefield with ***The Art of War***.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4978'),
(23204, 'Artemis', 'Julian Stockwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With Kydd, Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William battle ship. Now, Thomas Paine Kydd is back -- with a vengeance -- in the latest installment of Stockwin''s thrilling naval adventure series.Artemis is the eighteenth-century crack frigate that Kydd and sea-mate Nicholas Renzi are set to sail all the way to the fabled Far East. In this great age of fighting sailing ships, Kydd''s voyage promises to be a perilous undertaking. But not even shipwreck, mutiny, or a confrontation with a mighty French frigate manages to thwart Artemis and her crew. It''s only when Kydd receives an urgent message from home -- one that threatens to cut short his career and trap him on shore forever -- that Artemis''s real journey begins.Filled with mesmerizing suspense and vivid details of Napoleonic-era seafaring, Artemis is classic, page-turning storytelling at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15266'),
(23205, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15268'),
(23206, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15270'),
(23207, 'The Artemis Fowl files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4979'),
(23208, 'Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15273'),
(23209, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15274'),
(23210, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons. The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years. Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up. But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him. This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race. It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15090'),
(23211, 'Artemis Fowl: the time paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15092'),
(23212, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15094'),
(23213, 'Arthur C Clarke', 'The Songs Of Distant Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17647'),
(23214, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17614'),
(23215, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'Nightfall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17617'),
(23216, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'History Lesson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17625'),
(23217, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'Reach for Tomorrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17639'),
(23218, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'The Nine Billion Names of God', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17641'),
(23219, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'The Pacifist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17643'),
(23220, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'smitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17649'),
(23221, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'The Ghost From the Grand Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17661'),
(23222, 'Arthur C. Clarke', 'Imperial Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17663'),
(23223, 'Arthur C. Clarke - Rama 2', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17609'),
(23224, 'Arthur C. Clarke - Rama 3', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17667'),
(23225, 'Arthur C. Clarke - Rama 4', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17653'),
(23226, 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Stephen Baxter - A Time Odessey 2', 'Sunstorm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17628'),
(23227, 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Stephen Baxter - A Time Odyssey 1', 'Time&#39;s Eye', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17612'),
(23228, 'Arthur H. Landis - Camelot 01', 'A World Called Camelot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17677'),
(23229, 'Arthur H. Landis - Camelot 03', 'The Magick of Camelot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17674'),
(23230, 'Arthur J. Burks', 'Bells of Oceana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17680'),
(23231, 'Arthur K. Barnes', 'Interplanetary Huntress Returns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17681'),
(23232, 'Arthur K. Barnes', 'Trouble On Titan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17682'),
(23233, 'Arthur K. Barnes', 'Siren Satellite', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17683'),
(23234, 'Arthur K. Barnes', 'Interplanetary Huntress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17687'),
(23235, 'Arthur K. Barnes - Gerry Carlyle 3', 'Satellite Five', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17686'),
(23236, 'ARTHUR Keri - Spook Squad 2 - G18', 'G18', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15096'),
(23237, 'Arthur Porges', 'The Fly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17690'),
(23238, 'Arthur Porges', 'The Devil &amp; Simon Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17693'),
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(23240, 'Arthur Tofte', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17694'),
(23241, 'Arthur Tofte', 'Walls within Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17695'),
(23242, 'Arthur, Keri - Beneath a Rising Moon.txt', 'Beneath a Rising Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15098'),
(23243, 'Arthur, Keri - Circle Of Desire.txt', 'Circle Of Desire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15100'),
(23244, 'Arthurian Saga 01 - The Crystal Cave', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15101'),
(23245, 'Arthurian Saga 02 - The Hollow Hills', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10574'),
(23246, 'Arthurian Saga 03 - The Last Enchantment', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15104'),
(23247, 'Arthurian Saga 04 - The Wicked Day', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15105'),
(23248, 'Article Of Faith', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15107'),
(23249, 'Articles of the Federation', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the events of "Star Trek: Titan", in Book One: "Taking Wings", relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of the Federation/Klingon alliance goes south, Federation councillors unhappy with the solution brokered by Captain. Will Riker in Titan begin power plays of their own against the fledgling Bacco administration.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15108'),
(23250, 'Artifact', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15109'),
(23251, 'Artifact The Last Citizen', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15110'),
(23252, 'Artifice and Intelligence', 'Tim Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15112'),
(23253, 'An Artificial Night', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael''s realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael''s inescapable power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15443'),
(23254, 'An Artist of the Floating World', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15444');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(23255, 'As Dog Is My Witness Another Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Aspergerâ€™s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron''s son Ethan has had since birth. Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when heâ€™s assaulted by visiting Visigothsâ€”-no, wait, that''s just his wife Abby''s brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron''s poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It''s going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey''s funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15113'),
(23256, 'As It Was In the Beginning', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15114'),
(23257, 'As She Climbed Across the Table', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem''s novel\n <em>\n  As She Climbed Across the Table\n </em>\n . The tale echoes __ in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice''s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics'' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer''s consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice''s importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I''m not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this witty but telling new work from the author of The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye (LJ 8/96), our hapless narrator has completed his dissertation on "Theory as Neurosis in the Professional Scientist" and landed a job at the University of North California at Beauchamp (pronouced beach ''em), where he studies academic envirorments, producing "strong but irrelevant work" and falling for physics professor Alice. But Alice is too caught up in Professor Soft''s notorious experiment with a vacuum intelligence called Lack to pay her lover much heed, and soon Lack is the real love of her life. This is not your typically insular campus comedy; Lethem has something bigger in mind, and he succeeds admirably in skewering our pretensions, technological or not, in language that gently mocks the way we hide behind jargon. An ironical book that is, ironically, quite poignant; for public and academic libraries.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19284'),
(23258, 'As The Crow Flies', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15116'),
(23259, 'Asaro Catherine - Walk in Silence', 'Walk In Silence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15117'),
(23260, 'Ascendancy of the Last - Book 3', 'Smedmen, Lisa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15119'),
(23261, 'Ascendant', 'Diana Peterfreund', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16420'),
(23262, 'Ascending', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty''s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar''s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the "apathetic hibernation" overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny ... and in a vast and volatile universe, destiny is never a sure thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Alan Gardner is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, and has published numerous works of short fiction in leading genre publications. He is the author of the novel\n <em>\n  Expendable\n </em>\n . A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15120'),
(23263, 'Ascension', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15122'),
(23264, 'The ascension factor', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Bill Ransom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4980'),
(23265, 'The Ascension: A Novel', 'Michael; G. Cornelius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ASCENSION BEGINS. A Catholic bishop. A Quaker prayer leader. A Methodist minister. A Mormon ward leader. An entire congregation of Seventh Day Adventists. What do they have in common? They all minister to people''s spiritual needs. And someone-or something-is ripping them to shreds for it. A BLOODY WARNING. Police detective Caldwell "Cal" Evans, still three weeks shy of completing rehab, is called in on the case. His only clue is a chilling message written in blood at the first murder scene: "Leave the Christ alone. He does not belong to you." THE SERPENT SHALL REIGN. With bodies piling up, Cal and his partner, Velvet Rabinowitz, chase leads involving snake-handling cults, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and an ancient ceremony left unfinished for two thousand years. With the help of a graduate student and an enigmatic Roman Catholic priest, the two detectives do more than fight for their lives. .THEY FIGHT FOR US ALL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4981'),
(23266, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19321'),
(23267, 'Ash Ock', 'Christopher Hinz - Paratwa 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16630'),
(23268, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career. Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15123'),
(23269, 'Ashes of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A woman driven by blood. A man thirsting for vengeance.\n <br />\n A place where darkness and desire meet...\n</p>\n<p>\n As night falls, Claire Roth flees, driven from her home by a fiery threat that seems to come from hell itself. Then, from out of the flames and ash, a vampire warrior emerges. He is Andreas Reichen, her onetime lover, now a stranger consumed by vengeance. Caught in the cross fire, Claire cannot escape his savage furyâ€”or the hunger that plunges her into his world of eternal darkness and unending pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing will stop Andreas from destroying the vampire responsible for slaughtering his Breed brethren . . . even if he must use his former lover as a pawn in his deadly mission. Blood-bonded to his treacherous adversary, Claire can lead Andreas to the enemy he seeks, but it is a journey fraught with dangerâ€”and deep, unbidden desires. For Claire is the one woman Andreas should not crave, and the only one heâ€™s ever loved. A dangerous seduction beginsâ€”one that blurs the lines between predator and prey, and stokes the flames of a white-hot passion that may consume all in its path. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lara Adrian lives in New Hampshire with her husband where she is at work on the next novel in her sexy vampire series featuring the Midnight Breed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15125'),
(23270, 'The Ashes of Worlds', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.\n</p>\n<p>\n Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." ---\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert''s classic\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n series." --- Scifi.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Everything about Anderson''s latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." ---\n <em>\n  Starlog\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." ---\n <em>\n  Science Fiction Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." ---\n <em>\n  SFX\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4982'),
(23271, 'Ashley McConnel', 'Highlander Scimitar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17698'),
(23272, 'Ashley McConnell - Quantum Leap', 'The Wall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17699'),
(23273, 'Ashley McConnell - Quantum Leap', 'Prelude', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17702'),
(23274, 'Ashley, Anne', 'Lady Jane&#39;s Physician', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15127'),
(23275, 'ASHLEY, ANNE - THE NEGLECTFUL GUARDIAN.TXT', 'The Neglectful Guardian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15129'),
(23276, 'Ashling', 'Isobelle Carmody', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18320'),
(23277, 'Ashok Banker', 'Cleaner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17587'),
(23278, 'Ashok Banker', 'In The Shadow of Her Wings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17589'),
(23279, 'Ashok Banker', 'Prince of Ayodhya', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17703'),
(23280, 'Asian Saga 01 - Shogun', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15130'),
(23281, 'Asian Saga 1 - Shogun', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published third in series. It is first chonologically. Shogun is one of those rare books that you wish would go on forever. Indeed, I know people who re-read it every year. The story follows the adventures of marooned English sailor John Blackthorne in late medieval Japan during the tumultuous years when Tokugawa Ieyasu (here called Toranaga) was uniting all of Japan under his rule by any means necessary. It''s truly an epic tale of war, honor, trechery, masterful manipulations, tragic heroism, and star-crossed love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15132'),
(23282, 'Asian Saga 2 - Tai-Pan', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n Published second in series. It is also second chonologically.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15133'),
(23283, 'Asian Saga 3 - Gai-Jin', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n Published sixth in series. It is third chonologically.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15135'),
(23284, 'Asian Saga 4 - King Rat', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n Published first in series. It is third chonologically.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15137'),
(23285, 'Asian Saga 6 - Whirlwind', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n Published fifth in series. It is sixth chonologically.\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15138'),
(23286, 'Asimov &amp; Bear - 2nd Foundation 02 - Foundation and Chaos', 'Foundation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15140'),
(23287, 'Asimov &amp; Benford - 2nd Foundation 01 - Foundation&#39;s Fear', 'Foundation&#39;s Fear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15142'),
(23288, 'Asimov &amp; Brin - 2nd Foundation 03 - Foundation&#39;s Triumph', 'Foundation&#39;s Triumph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15144'),
(23289, 'Asimov &amp; Silverberg - The Positronic Man', 'The Positronic Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15145'),
(23290, 'Asimov The Naked Sum', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15147'),
(23291, 'Asimov, Isaac - Black Widowers - The Backward Look', 'The Backward Look', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15155'),
(23292, 'Asimov, Isaac - Black Widowers 01 - Tales of the Black Widowers', 'Tales of the Black Widowers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15150'),
(23293, 'Asimov, Isaac - Black Widowers 02', 'Bouquets of the Black Widowers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15152'),
(23294, 'Asimov, Isaac - Catastrophes! (v1.0)', 'Catastrophes!', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Scientist, author, and Earth-dweller, explores the many potential natural and man-made catastrophes that could change life as we know it, or erase us from the face of the Earth. Natural properties and laws might change at any time, rendering life on this planet--or anywhere in the universe--impossible. But the disasters that are most imminent are in our power to control--technology, nuclear warfare, pollution... Natural forces far more powerful than man might destroy us. Or they may have nothing to do with bringing about the end. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15156'),
(23295, 'Asimov, Isaac - Eyes Do More Than See', 'Eyes Do More Than See', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15159'),
(23296, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 03 - Naked Sun', 'Sun, Naked', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15161'),
(23297, 'Asimov, Isaac - Foundation 5', 'Second Foundation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15162'),
(23298, 'Asimov, Isaac - Lucky Starr 01', 'David Starr Space Ranger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15166'),
(23299, 'Asimov, Isaac - Lucky Starr 03', 'And the Big Sun of Mercury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15170'),
(23300, 'Asimov, Isaac - Lucky Starr 05 - and the Moons of Jupiter_v0.9', 'smitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15172'),
(23301, 'Asimov, Isaac - Lucky Starr 06 - and the Rings of Saturn_v0.9', 'smitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15174'),
(23302, 'Asimov, Isaac - Lucky_Starr_2-Pirates_of_the_Asteroids-UC', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15175'),
(23303, 'Asimov, Isaac - Magical Worlds of Fantasy - Faeries v1.0', 'Jason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15082'),
(23304, 'Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall Two', 'Joel Hernandez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15086'),
(23305, 'Asimov, Isaac - Potential', 'Potential', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15087'),
(23306, 'Asimov, Isaac - Profession v1.0.txt', 'Profession (2)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15088'),
(23307, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot 03.5', 'Mirror Image', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15091'),
(23308, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot 1 - The Caves of Steel', 'The Caves of Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15089'),
(23309, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 1 - Odyssey', 'Odyssey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15093'),
(23310, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 2 - Suspicion', 'Suspicion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15097'),
(23311, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 3 - Cyborg', 'Cyborg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15099'),
(23312, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 4 - Prodigy', 'Prodigy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15102'),
(23313, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 5 - Refuge', 'Refuge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15103'),
(23314, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot City 6 - Perihelion', 'Perihelion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15106'),
(23315, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot Mystery - Chimera', 'Chimera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15111'),
(23316, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robot Mystery - Mirage', 'Mirage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15115'),
(23317, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 1 - Changeling', 'Changeling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15118'),
(23318, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 2 - Renegade', 'Renegade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15121'),
(23319, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 3 - Intruder', 'Intruder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15124'),
(23320, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 4 - Alliance', 'Alliance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15128'),
(23321, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 5 - Maverick', 'Maverick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15131'),
(23322, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots and Aliens 6 - Humanity', 'Humanity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15134'),
(23323, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots in Time 1 - Predator', 'Predator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15136'),
(23324, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots in Time 3 - Warrior', 'Warrior', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15139'),
(23325, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots in Time 4 - Dictator', 'Dictator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15141'),
(23326, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots in Time 5 - Emperor', 'Emperor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15143'),
(23327, 'Asimov, Isaac - Robots in Time 6 - Invader', 'Invader', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15146'),
(23328, 'Asimov, Isaac - Sucker Bait v1.0.txt', 'Sucker Bait (2)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15148'),
(23329, 'asimov, isaac - the bicentennial man (v1.0)', 'The Bicentennial Man (2)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15149'),
(23330, 'Asimov, Isaac - The Final Science Fiction Collection', 'The Final Science Fiction Collection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15151'),
(23331, 'Asimov, Isaac - The Gods Themselves (v1.0)', 'The Gods Themselves', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15153'),
(23332, 'Asimov, Isaac - The Human Brain UC.txt', 'It&#39;s Capacities', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15154'),
(23333, 'Asimov, Isaac - Trantorian Empire 01 - Pebble in the Sky', 'Pebble in the Sky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15157'),
(23334, 'Asimov, Janet &amp; Isaac - The Norby Chronicles (v1.0)', 'The Norby Chronicles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15158'),
(23335, 'Asimov&#39;s Choice - Sprague De Camp - The Queen of Zamba', 'Sprague De Camp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15160'),
(23336, 'Asimov&#39;s Mysteries', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen short science-fiction mysteries by the acclaimed science writer are presented together with commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15164'),
(23337, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction, Jan. 2002', 'Various Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15171'),
(23338, 'Asimov&#39;s SF, Feb 2002', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15176'),
(23339, 'Ask the Parrot', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fleeing the authorities after a diastrous bank heist, Parker is rescued from the law enforcement pursuit by Tom Lindahl, an angry recluse and one-time whistleblower tossed aside by the corrupt political establishment, who has a daring scheme to seek revenge and a plan to use Parker to accomplish his goal. By the author of Nobody Runs Forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15177'),
(23340, 'Asking for Trouble', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4 1/2 stars--an October Top Pick! --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times Bookreviews, October 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers who love a good romantic suspense mixed with some blistering love scenes shouldn''t miss Leslie Kelly''s ASKING FOR TROUBLE! --\n  <em>\n   Romance Reviews Today, October 1, 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was a dark and sexy night, and she was in Trouble! Trouble, Pennsylvania, that is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lottie Santori doesn''t realize when she arrives at the mysterious Seaton House that it''s inhabited by Simon Lebeaux, a sinfully sexy recluse. While wildly attracted to the dangerous stranger, she''s also determined to uncover the secrets of his past, and to find out whether Seaton House is merely a dark and dangerous inn on a mountain, or if it truly is inhabited by the ghost of a notorious serial killer...and his victims!\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s gothic romance...Blaze style...and it''s Leslie Kelly at her best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15178'),
(23341, 'Aspirin', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18047'),
(23342, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 01 - Another Fine Myth', 'Another Fine Myth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15179'),
(23343, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 02 - Myth Conceptions', 'Myth Conceptions', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15180'),
(23344, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 04 - Hit Or Myth', 'Hit Or Myth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15181'),
(23345, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 05 - Myth-Ing Persons', 'Myth-Ing Persons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15182'),
(23346, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 06 - Little Myth Marker', 'Little Myth Marker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15183'),
(23347, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 08 - Myth-Nomers &amp; Im-Pervections', 'Myth-Nomers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15184'),
(23348, 'Aspirin, Robert Lynn - Myth 10 - Sweet Myth-tery of Life', 'Sweet Myth-tery of Life', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14998'),
(23349, 'Asprin, Robert', 'Tambu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15000'),
(23350, 'Asprin, Robert - Thieves World 12 - Stealer&#39;s Sky', 'Stealer&#39;s Sky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15002'),
(23351, 'Asprin, Robert L &amp; Takei, George', 'Mirror Friend Mirror Foe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15004'),
(23352, 'Asprin, Robert Lynn - Catwoman - Tiger Hunt (With Lynn Abbey)', 'Tiger Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15009'),
(23353, 'Assassin of Gor', 'John Norman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to Gor, a parallel Earth, where social norms are exotic and the way of life is brutal. In the fifth book in the Gorean Series, the deadly assassin Kuurus is intent on a bloody mission of vengeance. His adventure takes him from the caste of the pleasure-slaves, which are rigorously trained in the rules and techniques of sexual ecstasy, to the brutal arenas where humans participate in deadly hand-to-hand combat. He witnesses violence, conflict and uncertainty, as the inhabitants of Counter-Earth are forced to confront their destinies . no matter how exalted or debased. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first book of the Gorean Saga, TARNSMAN OF GOR, E-Reads is proud to release the very first complete publication of all Gor books by John Norman, in both print and ebook editions, including the long-awaited 26th novel in the saga, WITNESS OF GOR. Many of the original Gor books have been out of print for years, but their popularity has endured. Each book of this release has been specially edited by the author and is a definitive text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15012'),
(23354, 'The assassin', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It couldn''t happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption into the force. The police can''t trust their own people as seconds tick away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4983'),
(23355, 'Assassin&#39;s Creed: Brotherhood', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a sequel to Assassin''s Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oliver Bowden\n </strong>\n is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15017'),
(23356, 'Assassin&#39;s Dagger', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4984'),
(23357, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M.G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4993'),
(23358, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M. G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tension between India''s centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prizeâ€“winner Vassanji (who won for\n <em>\n  The Book of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall\n </em>\n ). Karsan Dargawalla is destined from boyhood to succeed his father and his father''s father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine. As the novel unfolds in fits and starts, Karsan rejects his spiritual inheritance and decamps for Harvard in 1970, against his chagrined father''s wishes. The three decades of stubborn self-exile that follow represent a sorrowful generational rift between father and son that ends when Karsan returns home after his ascetic father''s death, announced at the book''s opening. Though Sufism is a Muslim tradition, Karsan''s father considered himself neither and both Muslim and Hindu, and we, says Karsan at one point, are respected for that. Yet Karsan finds the shrine destroyed by a mob of Hindu hard-liners, while his younger brother, Mansoor, militantly calls himself a Muslim and may be involved in Islamist terrorist activities. Frequent shifts in time and perspective (including flashes of the shrine''s early history) heighten Vassanji''s evocative depiction of India''s ongoing postcolonial tumult, mournfully personalized by the fate of the fractured family at the novel''s heart.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This resplendent novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions. Karsan, rebelling against "the iron bonds of history," leaves for Boston and Canada, though he ultimately returns to India to "research, recall, and write about" his abandoned heritage. Vassanji eloquently details the sufferings of Karsanâ€™s family as the price of his individual freedom, but suggests that this abandonment was necessary, and that tradition, in the face of Indiaâ€™s "ancient animosities," must be engaged with critically and in the context of the wider world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18604'),
(23359, 'The Assassin&#39;s Touch', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogunâ€™s second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin.Â Sanoâ€™s wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the womanâ€™s life as a hinin?a moral outcast, shunned by the world?inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sanoâ€™s.Â As Reikoâ€™s questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata?his most loyal samurai?pursure their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path?even Reiko.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4994'),
(23360, 'Assassination Of Faustino Malarte', 'Paul J. McAuley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15014'),
(23361, 'Assault at Selonia', 'MacBride, Roger Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15024'),
(23362, 'Assault at Selonia', 'Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo findsÂ Â himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, ThrackenÂ Â Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the ImperialÂ Â system and seize total power -- no matter what theÂ Â cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do soÂ Â he must turn his back on his human cousin and joinÂ Â forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrestedÂ Â as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt HumanÂ Â League. Now she and Han will attempt a daringÂ Â escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, LukeÂ Â Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken''s plan. But can Han trustÂ Â the alien to keep her word?\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile,Â Â other questions threaten the New Republic -- and theÂ Â lives of millions. Who is behind the deadlyÂ Â Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to takeÂ Â possession of Corellia''s powerful planetary repulsors?Â Â And what is the secret behind the mysteriousÂ Â Centerpoint Station, and ancient, artificial world ofÂ Â unknown origin that has suddenly -- andÂ Â inexplicably -- come alive?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power -- no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his human cousin and join forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken''s plan. But can Han trust the alien to keep her word?\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, other questions threaten the New Republic -- and the lives of millions. Who is behind the deadly Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to take possession of Corellia''s powerful planetary repulsors? And what is the secret behind the mysterious Centerpoint Station, and ancient, artificial world of unknown origin that has suddenly -- and inexplicably -- come alive? Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15025'),
(23363, 'Assault on Soho', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15027'),
(23364, 'Assemblers of Infinity', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; Doug Beason', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An incredible discovery on the lunar farside--massive structures being erected by intelligent, living machines--could threaten the lives of the colonists living on the Moon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15033'),
(23365, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15034'),
(23366, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max &amp; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18708'),
(23367, 'Assignment Hellhole', 'Andrew J. Offutt - Spaceways 14', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17797'),
(23368, 'Assumptions', 'C.E. Pietrowiak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What would you do if you were sixteen and had the power of God? William Emerson and Jordyn Quig inhabit opposite ends of the social ladder. Each hardly knows the other exists until the disappearance of an ancient and divine text unites them as unlikely partners in a search that leads them to the brink of self-destruction and the crossroads of redemption and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15037'),
(23369, 'Astrid Julian', 'Blowup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17591'),
(23370, 'Astro Boy: The Movie', 'Tracey West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by *New York Times* bestselling author Tracey West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15042'),
(23371, 'Astronaut From Wyoming', 'Adam Troy Castro &amp; Jerry Oltion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18225'),
(23372, 'The Astronaut&#39;s Wife', 'Robert Tine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and Earth for two minutes. Both men return from the trip with no memory of those crucial minutes, and soon thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. Little by little, Spencer''s wife Jillian, played by Charlize Theron, pregnant with twins, begins to suspect that something happened on the mission during those two minutes--something that changed Spencer into someone other than the man she loves, something that might mean the end of us all. Coming to theaters from New Line Cinema in March ''99.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4998'),
(23373, 'Asylum', 'Patrick McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n review praised Patrick McGrath''s "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described\n <em>\n  Asylum\n </em>\n as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren''t quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath''s fourth novel (his other\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGrath (Dr. Haggard''s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. In this tale of headlong descent into darkness and despair, the toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusionary fit, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels'' garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max''s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him. When he begins to manifest the same furious jealousies that led to his wife''s murder, she flees home again, only to find she has ruined her husband''s career. The Raphaels, with their young son, Charlie, are exiled to a remote hospital in rural Wales, where further disaster strikes as Stella drifts into her own desperate delusions. The story is told by another psychiatrist at the asylum, ostensibly through interviews with Stella. Although the doctor''s own interpolations are sometimes a relief in the supercharged atmosphere, this seems an unnecessary device, and the intended frisson of his participation in the somber conclusion doesn''t come off. In every other respect, however, the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple''s strange love is masterly. 75,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; rights sold in the U.K. and six European nations; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15044'),
(23374, 'Asylum', 'A. E. Van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18285'),
(23375, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London''s eminently expensive bastion of tradition. Bertam''s Hotel. but its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished -- by new blood. For someone disreputable has just checked in. And what''s now going on at Bertram''s Hotel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15046');
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(23376, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15052'),
(23377, 'At Grave s End', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15054'),
(23378, 'At Swim, Two Boys', 'Jamie O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Raised in County Dublin,Jamie O''Neillis the author ofKilbrackandAt Swim, Two Boys,which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men''s Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15057'),
(23379, 'At the bottom of a hole', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15060'),
(23380, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet; Bill Harlow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n  <em>\n   The Reagan Diaries\n  </em>\n  ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15063'),
(23381, 'At the Core', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15065'),
(23382, 'At the Gates of Darkness', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten years after the terrible Darkwar finally ended, catastrophe once again threatens to engulf Midkemia and Kelewan, as the demon hordes continue their relentless quest to infiltrate this realm of magic and wonder. . . . ** *At the Gates of Darkness* Book Two of the Demonwar Saga To protect their world from the savage demon hordes, the Black Sorcerer Pug and Midkemia''s clandestine protectors, the Conclave of Shadows, forged an uneasy alliance of formidable magical talents. Together, this brave band of wizards, demon masters, warriors, and elves defeated the brutal Demon King Maarg and turned back the onrushing death tide. But Maarg''s fall has not stopped the demonic onslaught, and danger now looms greater than ever before. Amid the barren ridges of the Valley of Lost Men, in the shadows of an ancient Keshian fortress, the fearsome demon Dahun and the mad necromancer Belasco have joined forces, creating an unstoppable union of deathly black magics that even Pug and a united Conclave may not be strong enough to withstand. Battling the Demon Legion has taken a heavy blood toll on the valiant and dedicated magician, claiming the lives of nearly all those he loves. Though he is racked by despair and rage, Pug knows that the time for mourning must wait. Putting aside his pain, he and the Conclave and their alliesâ€”the cold-blooded master spy Jim Dasher; the fearsome young Knight-Adamant Sandreena; her former lover the necromancer Amirantha; two renegade Star Elves; and Pug''s surviving son, Magnusâ€”must marshal their resources against this latest threat. None can forget the dozens of worlds overrun by the demon plague and the millions of dead left behind in their wake. At the gates of darkness, where shadows hide even deeper shadows, these magical defenders will face what is sure to be the bloodiest, nastiest fight their land has ever seen. And as evil, mayhem, and dark magic are unleashed, none can predict if theyâ€”and Midkemia itselfâ€”will survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15069'),
(23383, 'At the Mercy of Her Pleasure', 'Kayelle Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At eighteen, Senth Antonello already holds a lofty position in the elite Thieves'' Guild. Drugged since puberty to suppress his feral half-feline side, nothing suppresses his other half, a daredevil who lives for risk. Before his master hires him out to a Better, an enhanced woman with addictive, pleasure-laced pheromones, the man offers him a deal too good to pass up. Finish the job successfully and he will buy Senth''s older brother and free him. The job? Grab-and-go. The downside? Senth must remain a virgin, no matter how beautiful or tempting the woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captain NarrAy Jorlan is twenty-five, a career officer, and determined to regain the technology stolen from her murdered parents. She hires a pro to steal it back. Unlike most Betters, NarrAy masters her powerful sex pheromones that addict her partners to her. Yet every moment with this sexually inexperienced young thief makes her wetter, hungrier, and more eager to taste and touch every part of his body. Surely she can steal a kiss or two from a thief without losing control. Can''t she give in just a little, without risking him being at the mercy of her pleasure?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publisher''s Note: This book is a substantially re-edited, revised edition previously released by another publisher, and contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play, dubious consent, mÃ©nage (m/f/m), violence.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the first edition of At the Mercy of Her Pleasure. The new version is available in all ebook formats, and at Amazon in Kindle and print. The new edition is approx. 40,000 words longer, has a new publisher, and new cover art. It was reprinted by Loose Id.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15071'),
(23384, 'At the mountains of madness', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15072'),
(23385, 'At the mountains of madness', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18869'),
(23386, 'At the Post', 'H. L. Gold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15073'),
(23387, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15074'),
(23388, 'At Wick&#39;s End', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Upon his Great-Aunt Belle''s death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he''s playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind his own beeswax...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15075'),
(23389, 'At Witt&#39;s End', 'Beth Solheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Things are really bustling at the Witt''s End resort in Northern Minnesota. Clients are vying for one of the few remaining rentals, except Cabin 14thing isno one gets out of Cabin 14 alive. Sadie isn''t your typical sixty-four year old senior citizen. She has things she wants to do and shouldn''t be expected to solve a murder while trying to prevent an unscrupulous sheriff''s deputy from shutting down the lakeside resort she owns with her straight arrow sister. But that''s exactly what Sadie Witt must do. When five guests with hidden agendas arrive at Cabin 14, they''re stunned to learn that the flamboyant Sadie is their conduit to the hereafter. Clad in the latest fashion trends--fads typically reserved for those without sagging body parts--and sporting hairdos that make bystanders want to look away but can''t, Sadie realizes one of the guests has been murdered and must work against the clock to untangle the web and prevent further mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15076'),
(23390, 'Athabasca', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SABOTAGE!THE VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.THE RESULTCatastrophe.One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15077'),
(23391, 'The Athena Project: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Forceâ€™s newest members have only one thing setting them apartâ€”their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed\n <em>\n  The Athena Project,\n </em>\n four of Deltaâ€™s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nationâ€™s deadliest assignments.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of Americaâ€™s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackâ€”one of unimaginable proportionsâ€”has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinaâ€™s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nationâ€™s most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armyâ€™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brad Thorâ€™s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5001'),
(23392, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'Deadly Species', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17592'),
(23393, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'Witness Protection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17593'),
(23394, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'Seers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17596'),
(23395, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'Spacer&#39;s Digest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17597'),
(23396, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'All the Justice You can Afford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17599'),
(23397, 'Atk. Butterfly', 'Fifty Cent Demon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17600'),
(23398, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History Of The Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5002'),
(23399, 'Atlantic Fury', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15078'),
(23400, 'Atlantis', 'David Gibbins &amp; Gerardo Di Masso', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineâ€”and that''s before they''ve uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It''s thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that''s doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otherâ€”often and at lengthâ€”through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don''t pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren''t your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic."â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19096'),
(23401, 'Atlantis 1 - Opening Atlantis', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15079'),
(23402, 'Atlantis 2 - United States of Atlantis', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15080'),
(23403, 'Atlantis 3 - Liberating Atlantis', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15081'),
(23404, 'Atlantis and Other Places', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian extraordinaire Turtledove (Hitler''s War) explores a dozen different "what if?" scenarios in this reprint collection. These stories, some dead serious and some absurdly improbable, demonstrate his ability to slip, chameleonlike, from one mode to the next. An aging John Audubon searches for rare birds in "Audubon in Atlantis," and Hitler''s life takes a very different turn in the epistolary "Uncle Alf." "The Catcher in the Rhine" adeptly blends an American classic and a Wagnerian opera. Perhaps the most outrageous is "Bedfellows," featuring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Turtledove also takes a few potshots at the modern media in "News from the Front." Helpful forewords explain the inspiration for, or divergence point of, each story. Whether he''s going for humor or pathos, action or social commentary, Turtledove''s research is always solid, his speculation thoughtful, and his execution professional. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove has long been established at the head of the alternate-history field. This short-story collection suggests that he can also thrust his tongue farther into his cheek than most authors can dream of. The first and last stories are laid in his new creation, the mid-Atlantic subcontinent of Atlantis. In one, John James Audubon sets out to capture on canvas the fast-disappearing birdlife; in the other, an eminent London detective and his doctor partner tackle the mystery of the Scarlet Band. In â€œDaimon,â€ the Greek general Alkibiades rises to the level of Alexander the Great, with unfortunate results for Socrates. â€œThe Horse of Bronzeâ€ is a wild romp through classical Greece, while â€œOccupation Dutyâ€ explores another possible conqueror for Southwest Asia. â€œThe Catcher in the Rhineâ€ is a send-up that a certain cult novel has long deserved, while â€œNews from the Frontâ€ savagely juxtaposes modern mediaocracy with WWII. And letâ€™s not forget â€œUncle Alf,â€ wholly spent inside the mind of an alternate Adolf Hitler (the Germans won WWI), and just plain scary. High Demand Backstory: Publisher promotion, plus his recognizable name, equals buzz. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15083'),
(23405, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15084'),
(23406, 'The Atlantis Code', 'Charles Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and powerâ€¦ but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds'' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5005'),
(23407, 'Atlantis Endgame', 'Andre Norton - Time Traders 7', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17948'),
(23408, 'Atlas shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas Shrugged" is unlike any other book you have ever read. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man''s spirit. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query "Who is John Galt?" Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. This is the book that made her not only one of the most popular novelists of our century, but also one of its most influential thinkers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14976'),
(23409, 'Atmospheric Disturbances', 'Rivka Galchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  the person you love but a doppelgÃ¤nger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of\n  <em>\n   Atmospheric Disturbances\n  </em>\n  . David Byrne''s infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo''s reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo''s journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema''s marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo''s obsession as his wife''s whereabouts. (Think\n  <em>\n   --Anne Bartholomew\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leo''s patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n  ) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Rema''s urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chen''s meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leo''s quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Rema''s anguish and anger at her husband. Leo''s devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Don''t be surprised if this gives you a\n  <em>\n   Crying of Lot 49\n  </em>\n  nostalgia hit.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14978'),
(23410, 'Atomic', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14981'),
(23411, 'Atomic Truth', 'Chris Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14983'),
(23412, 'Atonement', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl''s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.Atonement is Ian McEwan''s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, at its centre is a profound - and profoundly moving - exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14985'),
(23413, 'Atonement: a novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14986'),
(23414, 'The atrocity exhibition', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When ''''The Atrocity Exhibition'''' was first published in 1970 it was received by an unprepared world with widespread confusion. I soon became a cult book, however, and is now seen as one of this remarkable author''s key works, featuring many of the obsessions that recur in later books such as Empire of the Sun, High Rise and Super-Cannes, as well as the seed of his controversial Crash. In this revised edition, J.G. Ballard has added extensive annotations that help to unlock many of the mysteries of one of the most prophetic and enigmatic works of fiction of the late 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14988'),
(23415, 'The Attack Of The Ignoroids', 'Wayne Wightman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5008'),
(23416, 'Attanasio, AA - Radix 2 - In Other Worlds', 'In Other Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14991'),
(23417, 'The Audacity of Hope', 'Obama, Barack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5010'),
(23418, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5011'),
(23419, 'The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s Historic Victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5013'),
(23420, 'Audience Reaction', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14992'),
(23421, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14993'),
(23422, 'August Niemann', 'Coming Conquest of England', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17603'),
(23423, 'Auk House', 'Clifford D Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14997'),
(23424, 'Aurora in Four Voices', 'Skolian.Empire.06.-.Quantum.Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14999'),
(23425, 'Aurorarama', 'Jean-Christophe Valtat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--"the pearl of the Arctic"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, "the time when something is about to explode in the dark." Local "poletics" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city''s most prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you''ve ever read before. Brilliant in its conception, masterful in its prose, thrilling in its plot twists, and laced with humor, suspense, and intelligence, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15005'),
(23426, 'Auspicious Eggs', 'James Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15006'),
(23427, 'The Austere Academy', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire arc intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don''t. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night''s sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5015'),
(23428, 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5018'),
(23429, 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n George presents a romanticized Henry VIII and fails to capture the "brilliance, the cunning or the ruthlessness of the grim monarch who tore down monasteries to fill his coffers, executed two of his six wives and sacrificed friend and enemy alike for political expediency," PW commented.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A remarkable achievement...Magnificently researched and admirably written." --_Mary Stewart_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her novel is a...banquet feast for most readers...astonishing. There''s rousing drama, robust atmosphere and consistently solid characterization; and finally, Margaret George''s triumph is anchored in the urgent rhythm her writing attains." --_Forth Worth Star Telegram_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and living conservation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story. --_Detroit Free Press_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5020'),
(23430, 'The autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X; Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times."Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."TEH NEW YORKTIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5023'),
(23431, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15007'),
(23432, 'Automated Alice', 'Jeff Noon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15008'),
(23433, 'Automating System Administration with Perl', 'David N. Blank-Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules,\n <em>\n  Automating System Administration with Perl\n </em>\n will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15010'),
(23434, 'Autopsy Room Four', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15013'),
(23435, 'Autumn Land', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16589'),
(23436, 'Avatar', 'Angel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17094'),
(23437, 'The Avatar', 'Anderson, Poul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5026'),
(23438, 'Avatar, The', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15015'),
(23439, 'Avenger', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having proved his grandfather Fergusâ€™ innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would-be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Starâ€™s spell, it will take all of Dannyâ€™s survival training to find a way out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab was a highly decorated SAS officer and the author of the adult bestsellers\n <em>\n  Bravo Two Zero\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Immediate Action.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert Rigby is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter for young people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18971'),
(23440, 'Avenger of Antares', 'Alan Burt Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sixth book of the Dray Prescot series. Would Dray Prescot be able to remain a prince of proud Vallia or become just another human victim of the hunters and manhounds of the mysterious Southern Continent? For that was the enigmatic fate that the Star Lords had suddenly confronted him with. They wanted someone freed from the terrified pack of human prey among whom Prescot found himself. But who it was and how it was to be done, they left to him to work out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15021'),
(23441, 'Average Jones - The One Best Bet', 'Samuel Hopkins Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15022'),
(23442, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science', 'James D. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvoid Boring People, Watson lays down a lifers"s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. Itrs"s an irreverent romp through Watsonrs"s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15026'),
(23443, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Kar-chee Reign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17605'),
(23444, 'Avram Davidson', 'Love Called This Thing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17607'),
(23445, 'Avram Davidson', 'Bumberboom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17608'),
(23446, 'Avram Davidson', 'Blunt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17611'),
(23447, 'Avram Davidson', 'Dr. Bhumbo Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17613'),
(23448, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Golem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17615'),
(23449, 'Avram Davidson', 'The House the Blakeneys Built', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17616'),
(23450, 'Avram Davidson', 'My Boy Friend&#39;s Name Is Jello', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17619'),
(23451, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Dive People', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17620'),
(23452, 'Avram Davidson', 'Sacrifice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17621'),
(23453, 'Avram Davidson', 'Young Virgil 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17622'),
(23454, 'Avram Davidson', 'Young Virgil 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17623'),
(23455, 'Avram Davidson', 'What Strange Stars &amp; Skies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17626'),
(23456, 'Avram Davidson', 'Knox&#39;s &#39;Nga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17629');
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(23457, 'Avram Davidson', 'Rogue Dragon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17630'),
(23458, 'Avram Davidson', 'Or The Grasses Grow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17632'),
(23459, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Woman who Thought she Could Read', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17636'),
(23460, 'Avram Davidson', 'Or All The Seas &amp; Oysters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17637'),
(23461, 'Avram Davidson', 'Naples', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17638'),
(23462, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Odd Old Bird', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17640'),
(23463, 'Avram Davidson', 'The Montavarde Camera', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17642'),
(23464, 'Avram Davidson', 'Polly Charms, The Sleeping Woman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17644'),
(23465, 'Avram Davidson', 'No Fire Burns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17645'),
(23466, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15028'),
(23467, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart. An Enchanted story. Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone. Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom. Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy. The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15030'),
(23468, 'Awakened: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15031'),
(23469, 'Awakening', 'Wendy Corsi Staub', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16333'),
(23470, 'The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2)', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Book II in the Darkest Powers trilogy takes us deeper into a world where the supernatural intrudes on the everyday with riveting effect. If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl â€“ someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and Iâ€™m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment â€“ not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a group of people who call themselves The Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, Iâ€™m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Iâ€™m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends â€“ a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch â€“ and we have to find someone who can help us gain our freedom back before The Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5028'),
(23471, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction', 'Kate Chopin &amp; Rachel Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Kate Chopin\n </strong>\n , is part of the _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  _Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n Â series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5029'),
(23472, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Stories', 'Kate Chopin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000439\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5030'),
(23473, 'The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girlâ€”someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I''m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experimentâ€”not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I''m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I''m running for my life with three of my supernatural friendsâ€”a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witchâ€”and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20637'),
(23474, 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge''s latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella Bradshaw, a teenage aspiring actress from the slums of Liverpool, Bainbridge limns a tough but beguiling character. She also deftly conveys the atmosphere of 1950s England, still grimly bomb-cratered, coping with food rationing and the visible casualties of maimed veterans. Her portrait of a seedy repertory troupe, whose members histrionically indulge in love affairs and unrequited passions, is classic. Into this company, directed by elegant Meredith Potter, comes Stella, inveigled into their midst by her uncle/guardian, who feels that the stage is Stella''s only alternative to working in Woolworth''s. Added to her knowledge of her illigitimacy and lower-class origins (the Bradshaws bathe once a fortnight, and share "the family towel"), Stella has the normal self-consciousness and naivete of adolescence overlaid by a strong will, guilelessness and lack of tact. Her innocent but dangerous impulses and her crush on Meredith, whose homosexuality eludes her, makes Stella a sort of Typhoid Mary of psychological injury; one after another, members of the troupe suffer from her impetuous behavior. Bainbridge''s prose brims with pithy insights tinged with sardonic humor, and her plot moves swiftly to a chilling conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n  <em>\n   ''Imagine Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES\n  </em>\n  ''A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed'' TIME OUT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15448'),
(23475, 'Awkward Family Photos', 'Mike Bender; Doug Chernack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner Reviews\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  , and her most recent,\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Samuel Butler once said "Every manâ€™s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."\n</p>\n<p>\n If thatâ€™s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos.\n <em>\n  Awkward Family Photos\n </em>\n reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaidsâ€™ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isnâ€™t just a book, itâ€™s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is the best book of embarrassing and strange photos of people who look like my family that I have ever seen."\n <br />\n â€”Judd Apatow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Being a test tube baby doesn''t seem such a bad idea after looking at these folks. I laughed till it hurt. To paraphrase Tolstoy... every family is freaky in its own way. There''s so much love here- but maybe a little more pain, or desperation, or bewilderment. I often feel slightly sad or guilty that I''m not closer with my own family- but looking at this bunch I sense we all have something in common and I''m far from being alone."\n <br />\n â€”David Byrne\n</p>\n<p>\n "Awkwardness has never looked so cool. Finally there''s a book that celebrates the cringe-worthy family photo we all have buried in an album somewhere."\n <br />\n â€” Amanda Goldberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Celebutantes\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anything that both makes me laugh and think my family isn''t so embarrassing deserves to be a book."\n <br />\n â€”Joel Stein,\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine columnist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wept with laughter fourteen times while reading this book and snorted aloud twice. I dare you to find a higher weep/snort ratio in any other publication."\n <br />\n â€”Karen McCullah Lutz, screenwriter of\n <em>\n  Legally Blonde\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Ugly Truth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family Photos_ is the funniest book that I''ve read in a long time. It reminds you that it''s okay to laugh at yourself and celebrates the family that made you awkward in the first place."\n <br />\n â€”Mia Kirshner, The L Word\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family Photos _is absolutely hysterical, yet at the same time, it''s a stunningly accurate photographic record of the late 20th century American family. Now I can be certain I was not alone in my awkwardness."\n <br />\n â€”Adam Herz, Writer, _American Pie I, II, III_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15032'),
(23476, 'Axiomatic', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AU Author. Short Stories. Science fiction. AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including; THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there''s no guarantee they''ll tell the truth... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15035'),
(23477, 'Axler, James - Outlanders 02 - Destiny Run.txt', 'Destiny Run', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15036'),
(23478, 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ', 'Hooman Majd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president''s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author''s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in\n <em>\n  ta''arouf\n </em>\n (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don''t engage his interestâ€”women''s voices are only intermittently includedâ€”this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Ayatollah Begs to Differ\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn this delightful book, Hooman Majd, a gifted storyteller, takes us on a tour of his own private Persia, which is also the Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results are illuminating, humorous, sobering, and ultimately reassuring.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Lee Anderson, author of\n <em>\n  The Fall of Baghdad\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHooman Majd is a stylish and engaging guide through the by-ways of Iranian life. Leading us from seminary to opium den to the presidential compound, his wry sense of humor makes this book a pleasure to read.â€ â€”Gary Sick, Ph.D., senior research scholar at Columbia University and member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA witty, timely perspective on the nation posing the greatest challenge to our next President.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bill White, mayor of Houston and U.S. secretary of energy under President Clinton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5031'),
(23479, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15039'),
(23480, 'The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z', 'Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5032'),
(23481, 'The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18955'),
(23482, 'The Ayn Rand reader', 'Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5033'),
(23483, 'The Ayn Rand reader', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Gary Hull &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18954'),
(23484, 'Azazel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Azazel, an enchanting, other-wordly imp, uses his magical powers to help humans beset by ill fortune, but his efforts frequently have unexpected results, in this collection of fantasy tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15043'),
(23485, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bernard Cornwell has been thinking about this subject for years. He has long wanted to write a book about a single battle, the events that lead up to it, the actual days in the battle and the aftermath from multiple viewpoints. Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispinâ€²s Day, is one of the best known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeareâ€²s Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory and in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow. This was a weapon developed in this form only by the English - parishes were forced to train boys from as young as eight daily - and enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century. Lively historical characters abound on all sides but in Bernard Cornwellâ€²s hands the fictional characters, horsemen, archers, nobles, peasants are authentic and vivid, and the hour by hour view of the battle is dramatic and gripping.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15045'),
(23486, 'Aztec 1 - Aztec', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15047'),
(23487, 'Aztec 2 - Aztec Autumn', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15049'),
(23488, 'Aztec 3 - Aztec Blood', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15051'),
(23489, 'Azure Bonds - Book 1', 'Novak, Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15053'),
(23490, 'B Team', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15055'),
(23491, '&quot;B&quot; Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(23492, 'Baal', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15056'),
(23493, 'Babbit', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1919. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street. His seventh novel, Babbitt, is considered by many critics to be his greatest work. The story follows George Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor who is unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly middle class. Vaguely dissatisfied with his position, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and by having an affair with an attractive widow, only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater than his desire for escape. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15058'),
(23494, 'Babbitt', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15059'),
(23495, 'Babbitt (1922)', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001061\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15061'),
(23496, 'Babel Probe', 'David D. Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15064'),
(23497, 'Babel-17; Empire star', 'Samuel R. Delany', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Author of the bestselling **Dhalgren** and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. **Babel-17***,* winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemyâ€™s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, **Babel-17** is published as the author intended with the short novel **Empire Star**, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when heâ€™s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delanyâ€™s vast and singular talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15062'),
(23498, 'Baby Proof', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isnâ€™t that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all. This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. Itâ€™s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. Itâ€™s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, itâ€™s about the things we will do---and wonâ€™t do---for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15066'),
(23499, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s life...influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash...turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15068'),
(23500, 'Babylon 5', 'Voices', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17651'),
(23501, 'Babylon 5', 'To Dream In the City of Sorrows', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17655'),
(23502, 'Babylon 5 - 01', 'Voices', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17650'),
(23503, 'Babylon 5 - 03', 'Blood Oath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17652'),
(23504, 'Babylon 5 - 15 - Legions of Fire - Book III', 'Out of The Darkness', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17648'),
(23505, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C.S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5034'),
(23506, 'Babyville', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Greenâ€™s rise to reigning queen of commercial womenâ€™s literature has been positively meteoric. *Jemima J*, *Mr. Maybe,* and *Bookends* all took international bestseller lists by stormâ€”and went on to knockout paperback success (*Jemima J *has 390,000 copies in print)â€”thanks to Janeâ€™s fresh perspective on dating and marriage. Now she applies her golden touch to the next phase in a womanâ€™s life, in an insightful, bighearted tale of three friends grappling with their biological clocks. Convinced that a baby will spice up her lackluster relationship with an apathetic boyfriend, Julia launches into a frenetic round of doctorâ€™s appointments and fertility rituals that threatens to send her over the edge. Samantha, happily married and confident that sheâ€™s the next June Cleaver, is appalled to find that her little bundle of joy leaves her exhausted, overweight, and ogling a girlfriendâ€™s hottie husband. Meanwhile, glamorous Maeve knows sheâ€™s allergic to rugratsâ€”until a steamy one-night stand leaves her with more than one surprise. As the three heroines confront their maternity dilemmas, each one discovers a long-lost part of herself and stumbles toward her own unexpected happy ending.In Janeâ€™s trademark luminous and compassionate prose, *Babyville* beautifully tackles that rite of passage that crosses every womanâ€™s mind at least onceâ€”whether it takes her breath away or knocks the wind right out of her: having a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15070');
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(23507, 'Bachelor Unleashed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentiveâ€”and\n <em>\n  ravished\n </em>\n her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn''t expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn''t looking for forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Xavier is.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s something about Farrah...something that touches him deep in his soul...something that keeps him coming back. So when fate brings them together again, Xavier''s ready to pick up where they left off. But this time around, he wants more. Can he convince the lean, leggy beauty that he''s finished playing the field? That he wants only one woman in his bed, in his armsâ€”in his heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, what are your plans for the holidays, X?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier leaned back in the leather chair and propped his legs up on his desk while glancing out the window at New York City''s skyline. The Empire State Building was in his direct line of vision and looked massive against the dark blue sky overhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had arrived in New York a few days ago to wrap up a business deal between the Northeast Division of Cody Enterprises and Oxley Financial Services. Cameron Cody''s takeover of the investment firm was a done deal, and as the executive attorney for all Cameron''s affairs, Xavier needed to be in place to make sure everything was handled as it should be. Not only was he considered Cameron''s right-hand man, they were very close friends. That friendship had begun back at Harvard when the two had been struggling students, determined to become successful in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now, just like then, they looked out for each other, so he wasn''t surprised by Cameron''s question. Cameron knew that Xavier''s parents had left for their annual six-month missionary crusadeâ€”this year to Haitiâ€”and wouldn''t be returning back to the States until sometime in the spring. "I''m not sure yet, Cam. I have a number of invitations out there."\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron''s deep chuckle sounded over the speaker-phone. "Hey, don''t brag about it. Not everyone is blessed to have five sets of godparents."\n</p>\n<p>\n A frown settled on Xavier''s face that was best not seen by anyone. "That could be a blessing or a curse," he said, shaking his head pensively. "Currently it might be the latter. Now that Uriel has married, some of the godparents are eyeing the remaining five of us. I''m not sure I want to be included in any of their get-togethers for the holidays. Thanksgiving was hard enough."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I bet."\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone had been invited to Uriel and Ellie''s place on Cavanaugh Lake. Former neighbors on the lake, the two had remodeled both their homes once married, combining them into one with an enclosed walkway. That meant plenty of space for sleepovers.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was nice having all six godfathers present as they retold the story of how they''d met at Morehouse and become close friends, and how on graduation day they''d promised to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children, and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from U to Z. And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, you know you can add me and Vanessa to your list," Cam was saying. "You''re always welcome to our place. We''re doing Christmas in Jamaica this year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier couldn''t help but smile. His friend sounded happy and contented. What man wouldn''t be once he''d finally gotten the woman of his dreams? The former Vanessa Steele had been determined not to become involved with Cameron after his attempt to take over her family''s business. Cameron, on the other hand, had been just as determined to win her over. Not surprisingly, Cam had succeeded and was a happily married man with a baby on the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Cam, but I think I''m going to use the two weeks I''ll have off during the holidays to chill and relax. I''m even thinking about going someplace quiet. I might decide to visit Zion in Rome," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moments later after hanging up the phone with Cameron, Xavier stood to stretch, ignoring the pile of work sitting on his desk. Not only was he executive attorney to Cameron Cody, he also managed the legal affairs for several well-known Hollywood celebrities, which was the reason he had an office in Los Angeles as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of all his clients, Cam kept him the busiest, which accounted for Xavier''s additional offices in London, Jamaica and Paris. And since Cameron''s newest brother-in-law, Quade Westmoreland, had a first cousin who was married to a sheikh, Cameron and Sheikh Jamal Yasir were anticipating a business venture that could now take Xavier to parts of the Middle East.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kane, those reports you ordered are ready."\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at the intercom on his desk before leaning over to press a button. "Thanks, Vicki. Please bring them in."\n</p>\n<p>\n "With pleasure, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier shook his head. Vicki Connell, the woman who''d replaced Christine James, his New York administrative assistant, while she was out on an extended maternity leave, was determined to get inside his pants one way or the other. He knew the signs and had read those hidden seductive looks in her pretty dark eyes plenty of times whenever he came to town. All of that would be fine and dandy if he was interested, but he wasn''t. And he downright hated admitting that he hadn''t been gung ho about any woman getting into his pants since splitting with Farrah almost a half a year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t know what the hell was wrong with him since, typically, he wasn''t the brooding type. He''d certainly never given a woman any lasting thoughts once things between them had ended. So why was he doing so now?\n</p>\n<p>\n He walked over to the window and glanced out again. If the forecaster''s predictions held true, a snowstorm would be hitting the city by Sunday, and Xavier wished he could return to Charlotte before that happened. He could kiss that wish goodbye since he was due to remain in New York for another week or so.\n</p>\n<p>\n He heard the door opening behind him and then an ultra sexy feminine voice said, "Here are the reports, Mr. Kane. Will there be anything else?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly turned around at the same time Vicki was smoothing her short skirt down her thighs, at least as much of them that could be covered. He was convinced if she were to bend over he would find out what color her panties were.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to admit her outfit looked fine on her, but did nothing for him, other than reminding him how inappropriate it was for the workplace. But then the same thing held true for the outfit she''d worn yesterday. One of his godbrothers, York, who lived in New York, had dropped by the office to take him to lunch and had mentioned a number of times during their meal how good he thought Vicki had looked. Apparently he was impressed with her attire.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, there will be something else," Xavier replied to Vicki. As he spoke he watched lust flare in her eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes?" she asked, with anticipation flowing in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted a brow. "A seat?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the chair?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He inwardly smiled. Evidently she''d been hoping he meant spread-eagle on the desk. "Yes, Vicki, please sit in the chair."\n</p>\n<p>\n When she did so, the hem of her skirt barely covered her thighs. "Yes, Mr. Kane?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "How old are you, Vicki?"\n</p>\n<p>\n After probably trying to figure out why he was asking, she said, "I''m twenty."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded as he leaned against his desk. "And I understand you''re attending classes at the university at night and working for a temp agency part-time."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted in her seat to deliberately show more of a bare thigh. "Yes, that''s right. I''m hoping to get hired here full-time during the summer so I can qualify for an internship next fall."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t surprised to hear that. Cody Enterprises had several internship programs available. Going to college had been a financial hardship for Cameron, so he was a firm believer in assisting college students whatever way he could. The internship program he had in place was just one way of doing so.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I see no reason why that can''t happen for you, other than for one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She looked surprised. "And what reason is that?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "You need to improve your attire in the workplace."\n</p>\n<p>\n She actually looked offended. "I was told there wasn''t a dress code here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "There isn''t one per se. However, a person trying to move up in a company needs to care about the image she projects."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted her chin. "And just what kind of image am I projecting?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An image of someone who enjoys getting a lot of attention. You''ve become a distraction. Deliberately so. Every man in this building finds some excuse to come to this floor every day and your work is suffering because you''re spending more time entertaining than taking care of business matters. I''ve yet to get that report that was due yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s not my fault those guys drop by and take up my time."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier''s gaze roamed up and down her outfit. "Isn''t it?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t say anything, wanting to give her time to consider everything he''d said. "That will be all for now, Vicki," he finally said. "I hope we don''t have to discuss this issue again and I hope to have that report on my desk before I leave today."\n</p>\n<p>\n He took his seat behind his desk and watched her quickly leave the room. Moments later, while sitting staring into space, the truth hit him right between the eyes as to why he wasn''t attracted to other women. He hadn''t gotten Farrah out of his system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Considering everything they''d shared for close to a year, that was understandable. Usually his affairs with women rarely lasted a couple of months. That was when the women began to get possessive, and Xavier had no interest in being tied down to one woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Farrah things had been quite different. She''d never stamped a claim to any kind of ownership on him. He''d liked that. He''d liked her. And dammit, he missed her. He still wasn''t sure why she had ended things between them, but he did have a hunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had started getting too comfortable with each other, had fallen into one of those relationship routines where they just couldn''t get enough of each other. That sort of addiction between two people was kind of scary since there was no telling where it could lead. Straight to their hearts was out of the question since falling in love was in neither of their plans. Still, the thought of doing something as drastic as ending things between them hadn''t crossed his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d been perfectly satisfied with how things had been going. She didn''t ask for anything but gave everything. Hell, no woman could compare to her in the bedroom. And she had never questioned his activities whe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14899'),
(23508, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One mind-blowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she''d approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her great-aunt''s lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiter still wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her great-aunt''s never-completed romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscript but first she needs some real-life inspiration: a sultry summer fling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uriel hasn''t forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his tried-and-true bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that make-believe has turned into sweet reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19125'),
(23509, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. A compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense - THE LONG WALK, ROADWORK and THE RUNNING MAN - in which Stephen King also explains ''Why I was Richard Bachman''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5035'),
(23510, 'Back in the World: Stories', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff''s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier''s Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14902'),
(23511, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14903'),
(23512, 'Back Story', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this 30th entry in one of mystery fiction''s longest-running and best-loved series, Spenser--the tough yet sensitive Boston private eye with no first name--takes on an unsolved murder nearly three decades old. The client, an actress, is a friend of Paul Giacomin, Spenser''s surrogate son (who first appeared in 1981''s Early Autumn). Her mother was slain by leftist radicals at a bank holdup in 1974, and now she wants to know who fired the shot. As Spenser digs into the past, he soon learns that powerful people on both sides of the law want the case left alone--badly enough to kill. These death threats provide a fine excuse for Hawk, Spenser''s extremely scary (yet sensitive) bad-guy pal, to tag along in nearly every scene as bodyguard. The interaction of the two friends is one of this series''s familiar pleasures, as is the presence of Susan Silverman, Spenser''s longtime love interest. Another pleasure is Parker''s stripped-down prose, a marvel of craftsmanship as smooth as 18-year-old Scotch. (Plus we get the first meeting between Spenser and Jesse Stone, hero of another Parker series.) Alas, the whole enterprise feels a little tired. The plot never generates much sustained suspense, and the author''s adoration for his central characters renders them at times almost cartoonesque. Still, Back Story is excellently prepared comfort food, even if it isn''t five-star cuisine. --Nicholas H. Allison\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14905'),
(23513, 'Back Story (2003)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 30', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14909'),
(23514, 'Back to the bedroom', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I''m excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I''ve done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around. I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom. Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake. And for Plum fans, you''ll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur. Janet Evanovich\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14913'),
(23515, 'Back to the Moon', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Praise for Travis S. Taylor * â€œ[Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won''t want to put it down.â€ â€”**John Ringo** â€œIn the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .â€ â€”Publishers Weekly* Praise for Les Johnson:* â€œ. . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary* Travel* . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. â€¦ Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . .â€ â€”Stuart Clark**, Nature* * â€œI can recommend this book [Living* Off the Land* in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos*] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration.â€ â€”Claude Semay**, Physicalia*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14915'),
(23516, 'Backflash', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the master thief deep in troubled waters when his plan to hijack a riverboat casino goes awry. 20,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14917'),
(23517, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Repercussions from the dark sideâ€™s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daalaâ€™s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5770'),
(23518, 'The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama', 'Will Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While it was no secret that Americans on the far right of the political spectrum were unenthusiastic about Obama''s victory, the immediacy and intensity of the backlash went well beyond what anyone expected. In this exhaustive investigation of the Tea Party movement and its loudest mouthpieces, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Bunch seeks to help liberal and moderate America understand the rage of the right, where they see the nation headed, and how legitimate grievances are being manipulated by opportunists hawking fear to make millions off of working class people. While Bunch''s own biases are apparent from page one, he is careful to try to present the far right in an honest light and, according to Bunch, without challenging their perspectives. Maturity in political discourse would be refreshing if Bunch were writing political discourse; he''s not. This is investigative reporting. Bunch''s primary issue seems to be Beck''s opportunism, but his targeting of the only person he doesn''t interview will likely make conservatives avoid his book, something Bunch clearly expects. But for liberals or moderates seeking to understand current far right events, the book will fascinate, and likely frighten.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already fretting over the U.S. Census Bureau prediction that by 2050 whites will no longer be in the majority in the U.S. and worried by the loss of jobs and home equity, a certain element of the white population has been unhinged by the election of the nationâ€™s first black president, argues Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bunch. Thus, the Tea Party, Birthers, Oath Keepers, the 9.12 Project, and other right-wing radicals are on the rise, spurred by television and Internet hustlers, most prominently Glenn Beck. Bunch traveled the circuit from Delaware to Arizona, attending anti-immigration meetings and shooting rallies, to record the astonishing anger, fear, and discontent that has formed into a backlash against President Obama, alleging that he is not a U.S. citizen, that he means to take away guns from private citizens, and that he is directing FEMA to set up internment camps, all of which Bunch debunks. Bunch also profiles the cynical hustlers making money on this visceral fear, comparing Beck to Elmer Gantry as he morphs from evoker of the Founding Fathers and defender of the Constitution to evoker of God the father and defender of Christian morality, all the while hawking gold and survival food packets through Glen Beck, Inc. Despite writing in a sometimes awkward second-person voice, Bunch has rendered an insightful close-up look at the individuals and social forces that promise to churn American politics in the face of huge social and demographic changes. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19233'),
(23519, 'Backseat Saints', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she''s trapped in a marriage that''s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose''s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro''s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she''s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best. BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she''s created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14920'),
(23520, 'Backshot', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperityâ€“or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compoundâ€“guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiersâ€“and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14922'),
(23521, 'Backup &amp; Recovery', 'W. Curtis Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of\n <i>\n  Unix Backup &amp; Recovery\n </i>\n by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14924'),
(23522, 'Bacon: A Love Story', 'Heather Lauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best consumed in small portions; along with anecdotes and opinions from hog farmers, chefs, food bloggers and average Joes, first-time author Lauer also covers topics like bacon production, non-pork variations, and songs devoted to the breakfast meat. Lauer does her best to keep things light, but her relentless cheerleading quickly becomes grating; her phrase "The Best Meat Ever" appears on almost every page. Still, bacon lovers will enjoy (and probably employ) the glut of trivia, including the restaurant chain that first put bacon on a cheeseburger (A&amp;W), the number of states with a town named "Bacon" (six), and alternate uses such as "bacon plaster," assembled with cheesecloth and affixed to one''s chest in order to ward off a cold. Even those well-acquainted with bacon will find new recipes like Black Pepper Bacon Chili, Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, Bacon Bloody Marys and Candied Bacon Ice Cream. Readers who, like Lauer, possess a borderline-obsessive love for bacon are likely to embrace this as their new Bible, but anyone else will quickly get their fill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s salty, smoky, and sweet. It can make almost any dish better. It''s bacon, and it''s the best meat ever!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  , popular bacon blogger Heather Lauer serves up a piping hot dish of fun and facts and explores the ins and outs of how bacon finds its way to your skillet . . . and what to do with it when it gets there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  features\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makin'' Bacon\n  <br />\n  A tour of country-style bacon outfits and their time-honored curing methods and traditions. Includes tips for making your own signature cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon Nation\n  <br />\n  Profiles of bacon-loving chefs across the country who incorporate the meat into their menus in increasingly innovative ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s In This?\n  <br />\n  More than twenty delicious recipes for tons of bacon goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, BLT with caramelized bacon . . . plus a few surprises like Bacon Bloody Marys and Bacon Brownies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon 411\n  <br />\n  An extensive resource section on all things bacon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon fans, prepare to get your pig on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19349'),
(23523, 'The Bad Beginning', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just as they are enjoying a day at Briny Beach, the three Baudelaire children--- 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and baby Sunny--- receive some bad news. Mr. Poe, a friend of the family, comes trekking across the foggy beach to tell the Baudelaires that their parents have died in a fire that also burned down the family mansion. Now orphaned, the Baudelaires face an uncertain future. They are soon packed off to their new guardian--- the icky Count Olaf, who is a distant cousin. But when they move in with the Count, the Baudelaire children are certain that he does not care about them--- he only wants to get his hands on the fortune Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire left behind. See if they are right, as you read this exciting and humorous tale of mystery. Ages 10 &amp; up\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5037'),
(23524, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sept 21, 2010 When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18700'),
(23525, 'Bad Boy: Autobiography', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14927'),
(23526, 'Bad Business', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 31', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14930'),
(23527, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS... Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL... The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas. But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess. BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel. A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware. BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels. *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14932'),
(23528, 'Bad Girls Don&#39;t Die', 'Katie Alender', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6â€“9â€”Although it begins like the average high school misfit story, Alender''s novel quickly takes an unexpected turn. Alexis, a self-described anti-cheerleader, defiantly embraces her role as bad student and social outcast, skipping class and spending her time in the darkroom, until the increasingly odd behavior of her little sister, Kasey, draws her into a world of evil spirits and dangerous games. At first, inexplicable dreams and eerie balls of green light hovering around Alexis''s house seem like fringe occurrences in a story otherwise concerned with family, friendship, and a tentative romance. But soon, bizarre happenings take over, and Alexis comes to realize that Kasey is demon-possessed and hell-bent on murder. It''s difficult to reconcile a teen coming-of-age story with a ghost-populated murder mystery, and Alender succeeds somewhat awkwardly. However, Alexis''s story is compelling, and her voice is funny and authentic despite the creepy situations in which she finds herself. A good additional purchase for girls who like to be scared a littleâ€”but not too much.â€”_Emma Burkhart, Springside School, Philadelphia, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n High-school junior Alexis seems to be the class bad girl, complete with snide remarks, rebellious attitude, and listless motivation. At home, her overachieving mom has alienated her more laid-back dad, while her dollÂ­-obsessed, 13-year-old sister, Kasey, periodically morphs from a blue-eyed, ordinary girl to a green-eyed, evil child plotting against others in their small town. What has possessed Kasey and their familyâ€™s beautiful Victorian home? Alenderâ€™s first novel is both a mystery and a trip into the paranormal, in which a child taunted years ago returns to exact revenge for her violent death. It falls to Alexis to sort out the historical details and protect not just herself and her family, but also the descendants of the girls implicated in the original tragic death. With just enough violence, suspense, and romance to keep readers turning the pages, this is a promising debut for a new young author and will be a popular addition to any YA collection. Grades 7-10. --Frances Bradburn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14933'),
(23529, 'The Bad Hamburger', 'Matthew Jarpe, Jonathan Andrew Sheen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5038'),
(23530, 'Bad Luck and Trouble', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the first shocking scenes in Child''s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and is on its way to something even worse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14937'),
(23531, 'Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14939'),
(23532, 'Bad Men', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "New York Times" bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace. Until now... A group of men are descending on Sanctuary, their purpose to hunt down and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon Macy, and Melancholy Joe Dupree, the island''s strange, troubled policeman. Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island''s secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in blood once; it will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. Now a band of killers is set to desecrate Sanctuary and unleash the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them. On Sanctuary, evil is about to meet its match.... Fast-paced, spellbinding, and elegantly written, "Bad Men" is John Connolly at his chilling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14941'),
(23533, 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14943'),
(23534, 'Bad Patch', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14944'),
(23535, 'Bad Patch', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18372'),
(23536, 'The Bad Place', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4918'),
(23537, 'Bad samaritans : the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism', 'Chang, Ha-Joon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14947'),
(23538, 'Bad science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14949'),
(23539, 'Badlands', 'Richard Montanari', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take on a high-profile cold case in Montanari''s superior thriller, which combines a genuinely creepy villain with fully fleshed-out victims. The dead-end inquiry into the drowning death of 17-year-old Caitlin O''Riordan four months earlier gets a boost when someone, privy to details never made public, tips the police to an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood that later turns out to house a second corpse. The stakes are raised even higher when another body turns up, an ex-girlfriend of Byrne''s who''d worked for the local district attorney. Segments from the killer''s perspective increase the tension, and Montanari (_Merciless_) does a nice job of concealing one of the murderer''s alter egos. The fiend''s methods, modeled after elaborate magical tricks, are a welcome change from the gore typical of the serial killer subgenre. Likewise, Byrne and Balzano possess a psychological depth all too rare in such fiction.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The new Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne mystery is also, by far, the best is the series, a novel worthy of comparison with such elite procedural authors as Michael Connelly. Philadelphia homicide cops Balzano and Byrne are working a cold case, the disappearance of a young girl. Following some new evidence, the partners discover that a serial killer is stalking runaways, abducting and killing them in bizarre ways. This is a stunning novel, combining the best elements of the police procedural with the most unsettling aspects of the psycho serial-killer genre.Â  The villain is not merely a psychopath but a fully realized human being, with a backstory that explains his obsessions. We feel a certain amount of compassion for him even as weâ€™re seriously creeped out by his actions and what goes on inside his head.Â Along with such Connelly jewels as The Narrows (2004), this outstanding, truly memorable novel will remind readers ofÂ Ridley Pearsonâ€™s Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews series, especially The Pied Piper (1998), which also includes a riveting portrait of a deranged serial killer. Montanari seems poised to take his place on the top ranks of the mystery field. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19205');
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(23540, 'The Badlands 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h2 class="about-the-product" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: arial; ">\n   About the The Badlands Book One\n  </h2>\n </span>\n <p class="about-product-ctw" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); width: 540px; ">\n  Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations of the Starship EnterpriseTM....\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  James T. Kirk braves the perils of the Badlands to confront a Romulan Bird of Prey that has entered Federation space in pursuit of a fleeing smuggler. But trespassing Romulans may be the least of Kirk''s problems when the mysterious forces at work in the Badlands threaten both his ship and his crew!\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  A generation later, Jean-Luc Picard faces the same phantom menace when he commands his Enterprise into the Badlands on a mission vital to Federation-Cardassian relations. With Will Riker''s life on the line, and the entire ship in jeopardy, it''s up to Lieutenant Commander Data to determine the true nature of the Badlands'' hidden danger!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4920'),
(23541, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel, *Bag of Bones,* is a story of grief and a lost love''s enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, *Bag of Bones* recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans'' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? As vivid and enthralling as King''s most enduring works, *Bag of Bones* resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive voice of King''s powerful imagination." It''s no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In *Bag of Bones* -- described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he proves to be one of our most moving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14951'),
(23542, 'Bag of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ten years ago, Stephen King published Bag of Bones , a number one bestse ller, a tale of grie f, of love''s enduring bonds, and the haunting secrets of the past .Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway and finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a vindictive millionaire, Max Devore, who is trying to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie''s struggle -- and begins to fall in love with her -- he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What do the forces that have been unleashed here want of Mike Noonan? SUMMARY: Ten years ago, Stephen King published Bag of Bones , a number one bestse ller, a tale of grie f, of love''s enduring bonds, and the haunting secrets of the past .Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway and finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a vindictive millionaire, Max Devore, who is trying to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie''s struggle -- and begins to fall in love with her -- he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What do the forces that have been unleashed here want of Mike Noonan?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14953'),
(23543, 'Bake Sale Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone''s farmhouse, life just hasn''t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy''s lawn to another neighbor''s lovable dog, quaint Tinker''s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn''t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor--with a knife in her back. While the police start their investigation, Lucy gets busy writing up the murder for the local Pennysaver--and following a few leads of her own. Lucy knows the women in her neighborhood didn''t like Mimi, but they certainly didn''t want her dead...right? "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers." --Carolyn Hart "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth." --*Chicago Sun Times* "Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters." --*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14954'),
(23544, 'Baking Artisan Bread: 10 Expert Formulas for Baking Better Bread at Home', 'Ciril Hitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While â€œbreadâ€ once implied a simple, sliced white loaf from the supermarket, consumers have begun to consider the product in a more sophisticated light. Bread enthusiasts are more aware of the diverse array of high-quality breads than ever before and are seeking out handmade artisan products at local farmersâ€™ markets, organic grocery stores, specialty shops...even the Internet.\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  will show that finding these specialty breads is as easy as looking in your own kitchen!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  provides a simplified, formula-based approach to baking bread at home, making the mixing, the rising, and the baking itself more approachable and less intimidating. With step-by-step full-color process shots and clear directions, chef Ciril Hitz will show you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 40 different productsâ€”howâ€™s that for streamlined?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ciril Hitz is the Department Chair for the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson &amp; Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he returned to his native Switzerland and completed a three-year apprenticeship as a Pastry Chef/Chocolatier. He was first introduced to bread baking while in Europe, which laid the foundation for the skills that led him to where he is today. Hitz has been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous awards and accomplishments. He was selected as a Top Ten Pastry Chef in America in both 2007 and 2008 by Pastry Art &amp; Design magazine. In 2004 he competed in the National Bread and Pastry Team Championship, winning the overall team Gold Medal as well as all individual bread awards. He was a member of the Bread Bakers Guild Team USA that competed at the 2002 Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in Paris, France, where the team captured the silver medal. He has been a guest instructor and expert at many national and international culinary events and schools and serves on the Advisory Board of the Bread Bakers Guild of America. Ciril Hitz is frequently seen on The Food Network and has been featured on the NBC''s The Today Show. His work has graced the pages of numerous magazines and the interiors of exhibition halls and museums, including COPIA in Napa, California. He is the producer of his own line of educational DVDs. For more information on his work, visit www.breadhitz.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14958'),
(23545, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14960'),
(23546, 'Balance', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11471'),
(23547, 'Balance of Power', 'Dafydd ab Hugh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14962'),
(23548, 'Baldur Gate', 'Athans, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14967'),
(23549, 'The Balkan Escape (Short Story): A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way." As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. "Who to trust" becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option. Includes a sneak-preview of the new Cotton Malone thriller" The Emperor''s Tomb."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18718'),
(23550, 'The Balkan Escape', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way. As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4922'),
(23551, 'Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage', 'Noel Streatfeild', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14969'),
(23552, 'Balook', 'Balook (2)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14970'),
(23553, 'Bamboo and Blood', 'James Church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature Inspector O of the ministry of public security (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Moon\n </em>\n ). When a foreigner O has been assigned to watch turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, O and his supervisor, Pak, come under the scrutiny of a rival security service. To complicate matters, Pak asks the inspector to investigate the murder of a North Korean diplomat''s wife in Pakistan, but O is restricted to merely collecting facts about the dead woman. O''s efforts to actually solve the crime lead to dangerous encounters with his country''s special weapons program. While the espionage elements compel, the book''s main strength, as with its predecessors, derives from the small details that enable the reader to imagine life in North Koreaâ€”and from O''s struggles to maintain his principles and integrity.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It is brutal winter in North Korea, the first winter after the death of Beloved Leader. His son and successor is grieving, and the countryâ€™s survival is threatened by famine and infrastructure collapse. Even in Pyongyang, government employees are hungry and cold. Word of mouth from the countryside and their own experiences cause Inspector O and Chief Inspector Pak to fear that the nation has â€œfallen apart.â€ But even as the country lurches toward collapse, foreigners interested in guided missiles stream into North Korea. O is sent to Geneva, ostensibly to ensure that the head of a diplomatic delegation doesnâ€™t defect. There, Swiss, Israeli, and North Korean agents alternately charm and menace him, and O doesnâ€™t even knowÂ what his superiors really want of him. The sketch of the most secretive country in the world is as spare and elegant as a Japanese painting. The machinations and motivations of the unseen politicians who pull Oâ€™s strings canâ€™t be fathomed. Pak, Oâ€™s politically astute superior, often speaks in what sound like Zen koans. O is left to rely on himself and the wisdom of his animist-woodworker grandfather for guidance. Bamboo and Blood, the third in this outstanding series,Â invites readers to take aÂ step through the looking glass. Thoughtful crime fans will love what they find. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14971'),
(23554, 'Bamboo Bloodbath', 'Anthony, Piers-Jason Striker-02-Bamboo Bloodbath &amp; Ninja&#39;s Revenge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15236'),
(23555, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose''s tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler''s Eagle''s Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ambrose ( Pegasus Bridge ) narrates in vivid detail the adventures, misadventures, triumphs and tragedies of a single U.S. Army infantry company over its span of organizational life. Formed in July 1944 and deactivated in November 1945, E Company was one of the most successful light infantry units in the European theater. Its troops saw their first action on D-Day behind the Normandy beachhead, took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the perimeter around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and were the first to reach Hitler''s Bavarian outpost at Berchtesgaden. The book is enlivened with pertinent comments by veterans of "Easy Company," who recall not only the combat action but their relations with their officers (one company commander was a petty tyrant of the worst type, but his oppressive ways had much to do with the unit''s impressive esprit de corps ) and their impressions of the countries through which they campaigned (hated the French, loved the Germans). This is a terrific read for WW II actions buffs. Photos. Military Book Club main selection; Literary Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14972'),
(23556, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose''s tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler''s Eagle''s Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ambrose ( Pegasus Bridge ) narrates in vivid detail the adventures, misadventures, triumphs and tragedies of a single U.S. Army infantry company over its span of organizational life. Formed in July 1944 and deactivated in November 1945, E Company was one of the most successful light infantry units in the European theater. Its troops saw their first action on D-Day behind the Normandy beachhead, took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the perimeter around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and were the first to reach Hitler''s Bavarian outpost at Berchtesgaden. The book is enlivened with pertinent comments by veterans of "Easy Company," who recall not only the combat action but their relations with their officers (one company commander was a petty tyrant of the worst type, but his oppressive ways had much to do with the unit''s impressive esprit de corps ) and their impressions of the countries through which they campaigned (hated the French, loved the Germans). This is a terrific read for WW II actions buffs. Photos. Military Book Club main selection; Literary Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14973'),
(23557, 'Bandits', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frank Matisse had specialized in stealing from hotel rooms but was trying hard to go straight. He meets Dick Nichols in New Orleans and discovers that he was raising money for the Contras, although his daughter, Lucy, doesn''t want the money to arrive in Nicaragua. From the author of "Glitz".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14974'),
(23558, 'Bane of Black Sword', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14975'),
(23559, 'The Bane of the Black Sword', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it''s master''s aim''s are met with Elric''s capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric''s hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4924'),
(23560, 'Bangkok 8', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers'' customary system of bribery. This assignment''s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai''s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai''s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of\n  <i>\n   yaa-baa\n  </i>\n  -fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.\n  <p>\n   As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn''t a\n   <i>\n    whodunit\n   </i>\n   , is it?" And, no, it isn''t, but author John Burdett (\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand''s flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist.\n   <i>\n    Bangkok 8\n   </i>\n   is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai.\n   <i>\n    --Benjamin Reese\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop named Sonchai Jitplecheep, finds himself plunged into a dangerous investigation of the deaths by snakebite of his partner Pichai Apiradee and U.S. Embassy Sgt. William Bradley. Sonchai is an unusual character on several levels, from the mysteries of his violent past to his conversations with the ghost of Pichai. His ambiguous feelings toward Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent brought in to work the case, reflect his upbringing as the child of a Thai mother and an unknown American father. Above all else, however, Sonchai''s Buddhism permeates the text. An encounter with an embassy official, for example, leads to this unexpected reverie: "[She] is blithely unaware that she once accompanied me across a courtyard of startlingly similar dimensions, thousands of years ago." As Sonchai''s investigation brings him closer to Bradley''s companion, a woman known as Fatima, and the rich American jade dealer Sylvester Warren, his quest for revenge becomes muddied by the strangeness of his discoveries. The mix of detective work, Bangkok street life, the Thai sex trade and drug smuggling forms a powerful melange of images and insight. Despite an anti-climactic last chapter, the novel''s structure is solid. Sonchai''s fatalism, wry humor and dogged determination-his ability to be both vulnerable and strong-make him one of the more memorable characters in recent novel-length fiction. Readers expecting a traditional mystery structure would be advised to look elsewhere, but those who want something new will find Burdett''s novel an intriguing, fresh take on noir.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14977'),
(23561, 'Bangkok Haunts', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Burdett''s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after\n <em>\n  Bangkok 8\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bangkok Tattoo\n </em>\n ), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he''s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep''s assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong''s killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men''s club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong''s ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.\n <em>\n  75,000 first printing; 6-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the hero of Burdettâ€™s Bangkok-based thrillers, is a unique police detective. A Buddhist as closely attuned to karma as to crime, Sonchai is profoundly aware that the latter is only an expression of the former, and, accordingly, he finds answers in places that logic-hampered Westerners would never know to look. In his third adventure to date, a murdered prostitute proves to beâ€”even more in death than she was in lifeâ€”a femme fatale of special magnitude. As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdettâ€™s baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14979'),
(23562, 'Banker', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Investment banker Tim Ekaterin thought arranging the purchase of a champion racehorse was a sure thing-but he never gambled on getting caught up in murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14982'),
(23563, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hair-raising tribute to the classic British ghost story. Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world and could commune with spirits. But in Scotlandâ€™s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light, and now the students are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited mysteriously disappear. This is no place for outsiders, especially at night, so what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a fast-paced modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14984'),
(23564, 'Barack and Michelle', 'Christopher P. Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19069'),
(23565, 'Barb &amp; J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 01', 'Dhampir', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17656'),
(23566, 'Barb &amp; J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 02', 'Thief of Lives', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17658'),
(23567, 'Barb &amp; J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 03', 'Sister of the Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17662'),
(23568, 'Barb &amp; J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 04', 'Traitor to the Blood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17660'),
(23569, 'Barb &amp; J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 05', 'Rebel Fay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17664'),
(23570, 'Barbara Hambly', 'Libre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17505'),
(23571, 'Barbara Hambly', 'Night&#39;s Edge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17543'),
(23572, 'Barbara Hambly', 'A Night &amp; the Girls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19053'),
(23573, 'Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January 1', 'A Free Man of Color', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17523'),
(23574, 'Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January 2', 'Fever Season', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17507'),
(23575, 'Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January 5', 'Die Upon A Kiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17534'),
(23576, 'Barbara Hambly - Darwath 02 - T', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17519'),
(23577, 'Barbara Hambly - Darwath 4 - Mo', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17526'),
(23578, 'Barbara Hambly - Darwath 5', 'Icefalcons Quest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17504'),
(23579, 'Barbara Hambly - James Asher 1', 'Those Who Hunt The Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17540'),
(23580, 'Barbara Hambly - Sun Wolf 2', 'Witches of Wenshar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17512'),
(23581, 'Barbara Hambly - Windrose 1 - T', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17521'),
(23582, 'Barbara Karmazin - Blackbird 1', 'Down Came a Blackbird', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17544'),
(23583, 'Barbara Karmazin - Blackbird 2', 'Out of the Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17546'),
(23584, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one. Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it. *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday: A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It* For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale* Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104* Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra* On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello* Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between. *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms. Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14987'),
(23585, 'Barefoot in the Head', 'Aldiss, Brian W - Barefoot in the Head', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15661'),
(23586, 'The Barefoot Running Book: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Running', 'Jason Robillard; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4931'),
(23587, 'Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch With the Earth', 'Michael Sandler; Jessica Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Enjoy the insights this book has to offer -- It is about form, joy and the love of running. Run Free!" - Micah True, AKA Caballo Blanco.\n</p>\n<p>\n As seen nationally on TV, radio and in print, Barefoot Running is the original, most comprehensive guide to barefoot running, written by best-selling author and running coach Michael Sandler, who has coached and inspired thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip along with 10 knee operations, no ACL, and an inch leg-length discrepancy, former professional athlete and Olympic hopeful Michael Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground, he began to heal as he learned how to run light and free. He now runs pain free 10-20 miles a day and in all conditions. His step-by-step method helps runners overcome injuries, find their natural form and rediscover the pure joy of running, no matter their age, history, or fitness level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Co-Author Jessica Lee hated running and nagging knee pain and swore off running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women experience the joy of running barefoot (and pain free) nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written to help people get into running, back into running, or run pain free and at your best at any age, Michael Sandler''s inspirational book and step-by-step guide is an easy to read bible of information and a must read for any runner. Barefoot Running is the how-to-guide that picks up where Christopher McDougall''s inspiring book Born to Run left off. If you liked Born to Run, you''ll love Barefoot Running.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include: Barefoot Running for Kids, for Seniors, choosing footwear, transitioning safely, cold-weather running and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for." - Barefoot Ted\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized barefoot running and walking coach, teaching thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers of all abilities. He has coached athletes professionally for nearly 20 years. After a near-death accident in 2006, he was told he was lucky to keep his leg and that he would never run again. With a titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running and the lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again. With co-author Jessica Lee, they teach people how to rediscover the bliss of pain-free running. Together, they are cofounders of RunBare Company, a barefoot running school based out of Boulder, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14989'),
(23588, 'Bargain', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14990'),
(23589, 'Barrayar', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar. At least, that was the plan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14994'),
(23590, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14995'),
(23591, 'Barretts Privateers', 'Anderson Gentry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14996'),
(23592, 'Barrier Island', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14885'),
(23593, 'Barrington J Bayley', 'The Grand Wheel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17554');
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(23595, 'Barrington J. Bayley', 'Annihilation Factor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17555'),
(23596, 'Barrington J. Bayley', 'Sinners', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17558'),
(23597, 'Barrington J. Bayley', 'Don&#39;t Leave Me', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17559'),
(23598, 'Barry B. Longyear', 'Homecoming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17595'),
(23599, 'Barry Hughart - Master Li &amp; #10 Ox 02 - The Story of the Stone', 'Information Systems', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17563'),
(23600, 'Barry Hughart - Master Li 03 - Eight Skilled Gentlemen', 'Master Li 03 Eight Skilled Gentlemen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17564'),
(23601, 'Barry Longyear', 'Homecoming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17566'),
(23602, 'Barry Longyear', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17570'),
(23603, 'Barry Longyear', 'Savage Planet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17572'),
(23604, 'Barry Longyear', 'Dark Corners', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17575'),
(23605, 'Barry Longyear', 'The Last Enemy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17581'),
(23606, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Understanding Entropy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17491'),
(23607, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Major League Triceratops', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17494'),
(23608, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Jobs Partner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17496'),
(23609, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'A Galaxy Called Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17498'),
(23610, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'The Market In Aliens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17501'),
(23611, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Beyond Apollo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17502'),
(23612, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Herovit&#39;s World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17503'),
(23613, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Those Wonderful Years', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17506'),
(23614, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Uncoupling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17508'),
(23615, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Steve Pendergrast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17514'),
(23616, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Transfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17516'),
(23617, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Phase IV', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17518'),
(23618, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'In the Stone House', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17520'),
(23619, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Le Croix', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17525'),
(23620, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'The Third Part', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17527'),
(23621, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Terminus Est', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17586'),
(23622, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Gehenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17588'),
(23623, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Ready When You Are', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17590'),
(23624, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'What I Did To Blunt The Alien Invasion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17598'),
(23625, 'Barry N. Malzberg', 'Closing the Deal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17601'),
(23626, 'Barry N. Malzberg - Standards', 'Steve Pendergrast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17524'),
(23627, 'Barry N. Malzberg &amp; Kathe Koja', 'Orleans, Rheims, Friction Fire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17594'),
(23628, 'Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann', 'The Starry Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17511'),
(23629, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 01', 'The Eternal Mercenary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17538'),
(23630, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 02', 'God Of Death', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17530'),
(23631, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 03', 'The War Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17531'),
(23632, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 05', 'The Barbarian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17528'),
(23633, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 06', 'The Persian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17535'),
(23634, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 13', 'The Assassin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17541'),
(23635, 'Barry Sadler - Casca 16', 'Desert Mercenary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17539'),
(23636, 'The Bartokk Assassins', 'Ryder Windham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4933'),
(23637, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14889'),
(23638, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &amp; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18877'),
(23639, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14890'),
(23640, 'Bastion of Darkness', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14891'),
(23641, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19309'),
(23642, 'Batman and philosophy: the dark knight of the soul', 'Mark D. White; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman''s example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14892'),
(23643, 'Batman and philosophy: the dark knight of the soul', 'Mark D. White &amp; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery?        Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions?        Is Batman better than Superman?        If everyone followed Batman''s example,        would Gotham be a better place?        What is the Tao of the Bat?        Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18797'),
(23644, 'Batrachian', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18136'),
(23645, 'Battering Rams from Space', 'Don Wilcox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14893'),
(23646, 'Battle Circle 1 - Sos the Rope', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14894'),
(23647, 'Battle Circle 2 - Var the Stick', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(23648, 'Battle Circle 3 - Neq the Sword', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8452'),
(23649, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4935'),
(23650, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4936'),
(23651, 'The Battle for Iwo Jima', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4938'),
(23652, 'The Battle for Skandia', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all? The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4943'),
(23653, 'The Battle for Terra Two', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Harrison, a hero of the Biofab War, traces a few renegades to an alternate universe, where the Biofabs are rebuilding for another war\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4944'),
(23654, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Chua, Amy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14895'),
(23655, 'Battle Mask', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears - to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14896'),
(23656, 'The Battle of Betazed', 'Charlotte Douglas; Susan Kearney; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation''s downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem''Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the Dominion within striking distance of Vulcan, Andor, Tellar -- and possibly Earth itself. To secure their position in the very heart of the Federation, the Cardassians begin constructing space station Sentok Nor in orbit of Betazed. The station is to serve as both the seat of the Dominion occupation and the site of horrific experiments by Cardassia''s foremost exobiologist, the infamous Dr. Crell Moset. With Starfleet''s forces spread too thinky in the ongoing struggle to retake Betazed outright, the U.S.S. Enterprise? along with some old and new friends, is deployed to carry out a dangerous and desperate plan. But no matter what the outcome, the consequences could alter Betazed irrevocably, forcing Deanna Troi to choose between her world''s survival and its very soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4947'),
(23657, 'The Battle of Britain', 'Richard Overy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject'' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14897'),
(23658, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dune addicts will happily devour Herbert and Anderson''s spicy conclusion (after 2003''s Dune: The Machine Crusade) to their second prequel trilogy, Legends of Dune. A fearsome robot-engineered plague opens the tumultuous Battle of Corrin, climaxing the century-long galactic war between humans and the computer Omnius''s robotic Synchronized Empire. Vorian Atredies, supreme commander of the human Army of the Jihad, initiates the no-holds-barred feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen by exiling Abulurd Harkonnen for cowardice, while Vorian''s granddaughter Raquella molds the Sorceress survivors into a biochemically based sisterhood and Ishmael leads his people into Arrakis''s sandwormy desert to become Fremen of Dune. All the Dune themes-religion and politics, fanaticism, ecology, opportunism, totalitarianism, the power of myth-exhaustively prepare the way for Frank Herbert''s sweeping classic of corruptibility and survival.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n What appears to be the end of the Herbert-Anderson Dune prequels opens 56 years after the death of Serena Butler. The Jihad offers hopes of victory over the sentient machines and peace on human terms to a war-scarred galaxy. Unfortunately, the machine leader Omnius conceives a final, desperate, and, coming from a machine intelligence, ironic plan: biological warfare that spreads devastating plagues across scores of human-settled worlds. Herbert and Anderson vividly depict the plagues'' effects, although given such a large cast of characters, some readers may feel the emotional impacts of particular characters'' fates are rather blunted. The action rises to a thunderous climax in the account of the Battle of Corrin, which occupies a good third of a long book but more than makes up for previous deficiencies in pacing. At the end, we understand why House Corrino sits on the imperial throne, why House Harkonnen is out of favor, why House Atreides is where it is, and why Ishmael has led the ancestors of the Fremen into the desert wastes of the planet known as Arrakis. Thence on, or back, to Frank Herbert''s perdurable classic. As before, a job well done.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4950'),
(23659, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. The war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin. In the greatest battle of science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time, and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Maud''Dib in Frank Herbert''s classic, Dune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18937'),
(23660, 'Battle of Long Island', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14898'),
(23661, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek god, I''ve had my share of near-death disaster. This summer, I didn''t choose to battle the cheerleading squad, but when two hissing she-devils with fangs are heading straight for you, what''s a half-blood meant to do?\n</p>\n<p>\n That was just the beginning. This is the one where my arch-enemy, Luke, is looking for a way to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it''s goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Gripping, funny and hugely original &#8211; readers aged 9+ will be desperate for more in this award-winning series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7785'),
(23662, 'Battle on Venus', 'William F. Temple', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2232'),
(23663, 'Battle Ready', 'Tom Clancy; General Tony Zinni', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." So says former U.S. Central Command commander in chief Zinni, who retired in September 2000 and has been outspoken ever since regarding the uses and abuses of the U.S. military. This book is the latest of Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series, which has previously featured collaborations with Gen. Fred Franks Jr. of the army, Gen. Chuck Horner of the air force and Gen. Carl Stiner, formerly U.S. Special Operations commander. As in those books, Clancy gives adequate background on his subject and his subject''s context, then quotes him liberally, consigning tens of pages at a time to Zinni''s italicized first-person reflections. Beginning the book with the 1998 CentCom-coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein (the unfortunately named Operation Desert Fox), Clancy and Zinni next move through 150 or so pages of Zinni''s service as a Philadelphia-born (in 1947) Marine infantry officer during Vietnam and his racially charged Headquarters and Service stint on Okinawa in the early ''70s. The book then flashes forward to the end of the Cold War and steams along from there, with details on Zinni''s European command service, including 1990 meetings with a recently de-Sovietized Russian army and support operations during the Persian Gulf War. Zinni joined CentCom just in time for the Somalia debacle, and he is candid about its failings. Over the next years, Zinni traveled widely in parts of the world that were obscure to the U.S. then (Pakistan, Central Asia), but are central now, and played cat-and-mouse with Saddam regarding weapons inspections all through the late ''90s. But it is Zinni''s 24-page closing statement, "The Calling," that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation''s legacy is in jeopardy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the fourth book in Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series; all have been cowritten with generals. This one chronicles the 40-year career of the now-retired Zinni, which includes two tours in Vietnam, two years as an instructor at the Basic School in the U.S., and his role as head of the U.S. Central Command. He also served in posts in Okinawa, Vieques Island, Germany, Turkey, and Somalia. Zinni reflects on the Vietnam War, saying, "Today we are seeing a stream of apologetic books by the policymakers and military leaders of that era--as though saying mea culpa enough will absolve them of the terrible responsibility they bear." On Operation Desert Storm, he says, "The only reason [that campaign] worked was because we managed to go up against the only jerk on the planet who was stupid enough to challenge us to refight World War II." On the Iraq war, he insists, "False rationales presented as justification, a flawed strategy, lack of planning, the unnecessary distraction from real threats, and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military, all of these caused me to speak out." He warns that military conflict has changed in the twenty-first century and we have been reluctant to recognize it or to acknowledge it. Whether or not readers agree with Zinni, this is a book that demands our attention.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14901'),
(23664, 'Battle Royale', 'Koushun Takami', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14904'),
(23665, 'Battleaxe', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for previous books in The Axis Trilogy: ''The twists, revelations and foreshadowings keep you turning pages'' SFX ''Absorbing. Those who like their battles bloody and realistic will get their desire, but here also are moments of great tenderness'' Starburst\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Epic fantasy in the tradition of Trudi Canavan, Fiona McIntosh and Robert Jordan. A thousand years ago, the people of Achar drove the Forbidden from their lands. But now the northern tribes of the Ravensbund are fleeing south again, with nightmarish tales of creatures who feed upon the terror of their prey. Winter has come early, and with it the promise of war. Axis, bastard son of the dead Princess Rivkah, is sent north to the battlefront at Gorkenfort with his elite Axe-Wielders. Once there, he must hand over command to his hated half-brother, Borneheld, Duke of Ichar and heir to the throne. But during the long journey Axis falls in love with Faraday -- Borneheld''s betrothed -- and finds himself reassessing the very essence of his beliefs. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Axis must unite the feuding lands under one banner before it is too late and the evil rising in the north engulfs them all for good.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14906'),
(23666, 'Battledragon', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16547'),
(23667, 'Battlefield Earth', 'L. Ron Hubbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 3000 AD: only one man on Earth rebels against the tyranny of the all powerful Psychlos led by the evil Terl. Based on the novel by L. Ron Hubbard..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14907'),
(23668, 'The Battlemaster', 'Christopher Rowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16550'),
(23669, 'Battlespace : Book Two of The Legacy Trilogy', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge -- and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust -- time they do not have, due to the bizzare disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms. It is a mystery, but there is a starting point: an ancient wormhole threading through the Sirius system. Whatever waits on the other side must be confronted, with stealth, with force, and without fear -- be it an ancient enemy or a devastating new threat.   The Marines are heading into the perilous unknown . . . and what transpires there could reshape the universe for millennia to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14908'),
(23670, 'Battlestar Galactica 01', 'Battlestar Galactica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17542'),
(23671, 'Battlestar Galactica 02', 'The Cylon Death Machine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17550'),
(23672, 'Battlestar Galactica 03', 'Resurrection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17545'),
(23673, 'Battlestar Galactica 04', 'Rebellion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17549'),
(23674, 'Battlestar Galactica 05', 'Paradis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17547'),
(23675, 'The Bay at Midnight', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her family''s cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer - until her sister was murdered. It''s been many years since that August night, but Julie''s memories of Izzy''s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about what really happened that night. About Julie''s own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy''s murder - and the person who didn''t. Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4954'),
(23676, 'Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14910'),
(23677, 'Bayou Moon', 'Ilona Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14912'),
(23678, 'Bayou Moon', 'Andrews, Ilona', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19088'),
(23679, 'Bazil Broketail', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16554'),
(23680, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get Shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they''re power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul''s midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, betrayal, all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer''s working on another movie. And that''s when people tend to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14914'),
(23681, 'Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &amp; Teachers', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone who has difficulty fitting in, this book is fantastic.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , author of Thinking in Pictures\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a love poem to his wife, Pedro Salinas, the Spanish poet, wrote,Â â€˜Glory to the differences / between you and me.â€™ John Robison teaches us toÂ celebrate differences\n <br />\n like Salinas did, but also offers clear insight and valuableÂ advice on how to cope with the challenges that being different can create.Â This book transcends the specific case of Aspergerâ€™s syndrome andÂ is a lesson in humanity and the human condition.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Alvaro Pascual-Leone\n </strong>\n , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolÂ and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone with Aspergerâ€™s, if not everyone else, will derive knowledge andÂ pleasure from the wonderful stories told in John Elder Robisonâ€™s newest book,Â Be Different. Clearly, John is one of our communityâ€™s leading voices.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael John Carley\n </strong>\n , author of Aspergerâ€™s from the Inside OutÂ and executive director of GRASP and ASTEP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBe Different is a fascinating and unique guide for young peopleÂ who may be struggling with autism and feel â€˜out of syncâ€™ with theÂ world around them. John shares personal insights about growing up,Â feeling apart from his peers, and learning to modify his socializing skillsÂ and harness his gifts to discover his path to a successful life.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mark Roithmayr,\n </strong>\n president of Autism Speaks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobison offers down-to-earth life advice for his â€œAspieâ€ peers and their friends, families, and teachers...recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand Aspergian children and adults\n <strong>\n  â€\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n " ...provides incredibly helpful advice to families learning to live with these challenges. Robisonâ€™s clear writing provides substantial insight into the mind of someone whose disorder makes clarity very, very difficult...a valuable read."_â€¬\n <strong>\n  --Booklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI believe those of us with Aspergerâ€™s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir,Â _Look Me in the Eye_, John Elder Robison described growing up with Aspergerâ€™s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didnâ€™t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. InÂ _Be Different_, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories\n <br />\n about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n In each story, he offers practical adviceâ€”for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels â€œdifferentâ€â€”on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations\n <br />\n â€¢ Why manners matter\n <br />\n â€¢ How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills\n <br />\n â€¢ How to deal with bullies\n <br />\n â€¢ When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity\n <br />\n â€¢ How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage\n</p>\n<p>\n Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family.Â _Be Different_Â will help readers and those they love find their path to success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19273'),
(23682, 'Be Merry', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18021'),
(23683, 'The beach house', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons'' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter''s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone''s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4958'),
(23684, 'The Beach House', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the *New York Times* bestselling Author**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womenâ€™s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greenâ€™s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of womenâ€”and *The Beach House* will not disappoint.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesnâ€™t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldnâ€™t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So Nan takes out an ad: *Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach*. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18846');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(23685, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14916'),
(23686, 'The Beach', 'Alex Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Garland''s The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling cult classic and a Hollywood blockbuster. Richard, a gap-year student, is introduced to a beautiful island by the mysterious Daffy. But with drugs and the glamorized violence of Vietnam War films haunting his perception of his Thai paradise, Richard soon finds the hideaway becomes a nightmare. A compulsive adrenaline rush, The Beach is an adventure you''ll never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4955'),
(23687, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.  In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier.  Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade.  Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins.  Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB?  Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right.   For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions.  If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same.  If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18400'),
(23688, 'Bear Island', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Film Crew Sails North To A Barren Arctic Island With A Killer On Board. And A Wartime Graveyard Of Ships And Men Explodes In Violence Once More&amp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14918'),
(23689, 'Bearded Tit', 'Rory McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A poignant but hilarious journey into the arcane world of birdwatching by one of the most popular names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrathâ€™s story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance with the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylarkâ€”peerless king of the summer skyâ€”while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Roryâ€™s tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical, and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and all its attendant arcane knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14919'),
(23690, 'Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14921'),
(23691, 'Bearing an hourglass', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14923'),
(23692, 'The Beast Master', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm â€“ Navaho commando and master of beasts â€“ is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met.On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over â€“ but was it?â€œMiss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.â€ â€“ The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4962'),
(23693, 'The Beast Master', 'Andre Norton - Hosteen Storm 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17896'),
(23694, 'Beast Master&#39;s Circus', 'Andre Norton - Hosteen Storm 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17980'),
(23695, 'The Beast&#39;s Embrace', 'Suzy McKee Charnas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4985'),
(23696, 'Beastchild', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14928'),
(23697, 'Beasts of Gor', 'John Norman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this, the twelfth book in the famous Gor series, the fight for survival on the primitive, Earthlike world, Gor, continues with a ferocity that matches the rest of the series. On Gor, there are three different kinds of beings that are labeled beasts: there are the Kurii, a monster alien race that is preparing to invade Gor from space; the Gorean warriors, who fight with viciousness almost primitive in its blood lust'' and then there are the slave girls of Gor, lowly beasts for men to do with as they see fit, be it as objects of labor or desire. Now all three come together as the Kurii fight to take over Gor with its first beachhead on the planet''s polar ice cap. As all three kinds of beasts struggle together, an incredible adventure is told, one that begins in lands of burning heat and ends up in the bitter cold of the polar north among the savage red hunters of the polar ice pack. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first book of the Gorean Saga, TARNSMAN OF GOR, E-Reads is proud to release the very first complete publication of all Gor books by John Norman, in both print and ebook editions, including the long-awaited 26th novel in the saga, WITNESS OF GOR. Many of the original Gor books have been out of print for years, but their popularity has endured. Each book of this release has been specially edited by the author and is a definitive text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14929'),
(23698, 'The Beasts of Love', 'Steven Utley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4986'),
(23699, 'The beasts of Tarzan ; The son of Tarzan', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE BEASTS OF TARZAN As the rich Lord Greystoke, Tarzan found himself the target of greedy, evil men. Stranded on a desert island, his wife and son kidnapped, Tarzan''s plight seemed helpless. But with the help of Sheeta, the ferocious panther, and the great ape Akut, Tarzan crafted his escape with the giant Mugambi. Yet the trail of the kidnappers led deep into the interior--and it would take all of Tarzan''s skills to reach his family in time. THE SON OF TARZAN Tarzan''s young son narrowly escaped the wrath of his father''s nemesis Paulvitch, and he was forced to flee into the savage African jungles where Tarzan himself had been reared. There the civilized boy would have to learn to face the great beasts and exotic dangers only his father had ever conquered. And as he became known as Korak the Killer--whose legend would rival that of Tarzan--he would learn that the dangers of the jungle were nothing compared to those devised by men . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4987'),
(23700, 'Beat the reaper: a novel', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he''d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room. Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ... Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper. Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14934'),
(23701, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win (5th Edition)', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14936'),
(23702, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named **Beatrice and Virgil**â€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made *Life of Pi* so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey-named Beatrice and Virgil-and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Piso beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14938'),
(23703, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4988'),
(23704, 'Beautiful Assassin', 'Michael C. White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book author of "Soul Catcher," which "USA Today" hailed as "a marvelous historical novel" World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat''yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation''s darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat''yana to visit America and tour the country with her. For the Soviets, Tat''yana''s newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the war--but it''s also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt''s plans. Surrounded by those who would exploit her position, Tat''yana becomes a pawn in a battle for information, and she is forced to question the motivations of everyone she knows, including the American captain who has been assigned as her translator. But as quickly as she rises to fame, Tat''yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat''yana''s story . . . and reveal the truth. In "Beautiful Assassin," Michael White delivers a heartrending story of war, betrayal, and a mother''s love that can never be extinguished. Lyrical, evocative, and powerfully moving, this is a tale you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14940'),
(23705, 'The Beautiful Between', 'Alyssa B. Sheinmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9â€“11â€”Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn''t get into trouble, doesn''t sit with the cool kids, and has a quiet home life. She fantasizes that she is living in a fairy tale and sees herself as Rapunzel, confined in an Upper East Side tower amid college applications and SAT scores. She sees wealthy Jeremy Cole as the prince of their school: loved and respected by all. What she doesn''t see coming is a friendship with him based on tragedyâ€”his younger sister has leukemiaâ€”and secretsâ€”Connelly is preoccupied with learning how her father died. Jeremy knows more about her life than she does, and together they find the fortitude to face the present and the past. Although the narrative concerns death and lies, this first novel is not dark, but instead full of small moments and quiet realism. Connelly and Jeremy''s friendship, which may turn into romance, is realistically portrayed as deepening over time. The story''s pace is steady. Although the buildup to the climaxâ€”Connelly confronts her mother about her fatherâ€”is better paced, and more creative and satisfying than the conflict itself, overall this is a terrific alternative to the clique-y high school novels that are all sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll.â€”_Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching, Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens." â€”_The New York Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sheinmel makes an impressive debut with an absorbing tale of unlikely friendship, loss, and family secrets." - Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satisfying and believable"- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of small moments and quiet realism. -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4989'),
(23706, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14942'),
(23707, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18809'),
(23708, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.** In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob''s Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it''s not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface. When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn''t interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won''t be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined. The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, *A Beautiful Place to Die* marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(23709, 'The beautiful tree: a personal journey into how the world&#39;s poorest people are educating themselves', 'James Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tooley (_Reclaiming Education_) documents his surprising finding that private schools are providing quality education to millions of poor children in the developing world. Whereas development experts insist that the path out of poverty lies in investment in public schools, the author draws on his fieldwork in India, China and Africa to argue that small entrepreneurs are educating the poor. In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China''s Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence. Tooley argues that development funds be invested to support these institutions, through vouchers to parents and microfinance loans to the schools. The author''s engaging style transforms what could have been a dry if startling research report into a moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight. While researching private schools in India for the World Bank, and worried he was doing little to help the poor, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderabad''s Old City. Shocked to find it overflowing with tiny, parentfunded schools filled with energized students, he set out to discover if schools like these could help achieve universal education. Named after Mahatma Gandhi''s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley''s journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces readers to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4990'),
(23710, 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14946'),
(23711, 'Beauty and the Feast', 'Julia Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eva Raines is an uncomplicated country girl who''s all about food. Eva moves to the Napa Valley where her culinary skills come to the attention of the owners of a start-up, All Things to All People, and Eva finds her niche as a personal chef. Now all she needs is a man as perfect as her cooking, but she has serious doubts that such a creature exists. When wealthy entrepreneur, winery owner, and noted lothario, Gabriel Abbott, makes plans to seduce his flavor of the month, his assistant hires All Things to All People to cater a gourmet dinner. Eva expects to use her way with food to showcase the startup. What she unexpectedly discovers is that her culinary skills showcase far more. Once Gabriel finds himself seduced by Eva''s voice, and the sensual flavors and textures of her food, his previous plans are quickly forgotten. He begins to obsess about meeting his little chef in person. But when Eva and Gabe finally come face to face, the question is, how hot will their fire burn?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14948'),
(23712, 'The Beauty Diet: Looking Great Has Never Been So Delicious', 'Lisa Drayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails** According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, itâ€™s not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Drayer''s groundbreaking guide reveals the Top 10 Beauty Foods--natureâ€™s best kept secrets for glowing skin, fuller hair, healthier nails, brighter eyes, and whiter teeth. Her easy-to-follow programâ€”including a mouthwatering four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipesâ€”unlocks the amazing power of these Beauty Foods and makes every part of your body look and feel absolutely fantastic. **Here are the Top 10 Beauty Foods** Wild Salmon Yogurt Blueberries Spinach Kiwis Tomatoes Oysters Sweet Potatoes Walnuts Dark Chocolate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4991'),
(23713, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice''s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice''s fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14950'),
(23714, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17773'),
(23715, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beauty is sold into erotic slavery and forced to obey the orders of the Captain and Mistress Lockley.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18985'),
(23716, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the final volume of Anne Rice''s deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty''s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty''s encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love''s secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14952'),
(23717, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'Anne Rice - Beauty 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17676'),
(23718, 'Beauty&#39;s Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kidnapped by enemy soldiers, Beauty, Tristan, and Prince Laurent are sent across the sea to become sexual slaves to the mysterious Sultan.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, poet Stan Rice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18986'),
(23719, 'Becalmed in Hell', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14955'),
(23720, 'Because Your Vampire Said So', 'Michele Bardsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14956'),
(23721, 'Becca Fitzpatrick', 'Crescendo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20706'),
(23722, 'Beckon', 'Jenesi Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A runaway sex slave has been found. What will her punishment be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14957'),
(23723, 'Becoming Madame Mao', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her historical novel\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  . Known as the White Boned Demon during her reign of terror in China, Madame Mao was blamed for countless bloody and vengeful executions; she sought out those who had wronged her in the past and wiped them off the face of the earth. Eventually she was reviled in China and executed, even as her husband was revered as a hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before her stint as Mao''s first lady, Jiang Ching, as she was then known, was an actress, a singer, and a star in Communist films. Anchee Min grew up in Red China and watched Jiang Ching from afar; she was fascinated by her for many years, by tales of her independence and strength, and by images of her beauty. In a way, the great villain and demon was a role model for Anchee Min, and her teenage devotion is the engine of her remarkable novel. Moving back and forth between stories of the actress and the evil dictator, Min complicates the Madame Mao of history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a girl, Madame Mao narrowly escaped having her feet bound. The book opens with graphic descriptions of this process and of the ensuing infection that freed her. But if her feet were not bound, her spirit was. Reared by a mother who was the last concubine of a rich man, and a father who liked to hit his girls with shovels, Madame Mao as a young girl felt herself doomed: "I see my father hit Mother with a shovel. It happened suddenly. Without warning. I can hardly believe my eyes. He is mad. He calls Mother a slut. Mother''s body curls up. My chest swells. He hits her back, front, shouting that he will break her bones." The father then goes on to treat his daughter the same way. Decades later, when Madame Mao manifests deep brutality, Min seems to be saying that what goes around comes around. Flawed by a clumsy structure that vacillates between third and first person arbitrarily,\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  is nevertheless an immensely interesting work--defiant, morally ambiguous, and difficult to put down.\n  <em>\n   --Emily White\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min''s brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red Azalea, Min is a forceful writer, but her first novel, Katherine, did not prepare us for the highly dramatic, psychologically penetrating and provocative narrative she presents here. A girl called Yunhe is born to a rural concubine in 1919; she renames herself Lan Ping when, in 1934, she runs away to Shanghai with ambitions to be an actress, and later joins the Red Army; and finally, she is dubbed Jiang Ching by the man she marries, Mao Zedong. Madame Mao has become a myth, but Min has the background and the insight to imagine her afresh, and to create a complex psychological portrait of a driven, passionate woman and a period of history in which she would suffer, rise and prosper, and then fall victim to her own insatiable thirst for power. Min draws Madame Mao with bold, arresting strokes, gives her a fierce, imperious voice and a personality devoid of humility or self-knowledge. Lan Ping sets out to seduce the charismatic Mao, and wins him--for a time--until her jealousy, the machinations of his trusted aides, and Mao''s own loss of interest cast her into limbo. By then a veteran of the inner circle betrayals that Mao encouraged, Jiang Ching''s attempts to wrest personal power, but that becomes her undoing. As with a fine ink brush, Min details her heroine''s series of love affairs and marriages, divorces and acrimonious partings, roles in Chinese opera and movies, endurance in the shadow of Mao''s disfavor, desperate ploys to regain his attention, and brief time in the limelight during the Cultural Revolution. As a chronicle of ambition, betrayal, murder, revenge, barbaric cruelty, paranoia and internecine rivalry, the narrative speeds through its turbulent time frame: 1919-1991. But it is foremost a character study of a determined, vindictive, rage-filled, cruel and emotionally needy woman who flourished because she reinvented herself as an actress in different, self-defined roles-- and because China was ready for her. Min uses several effective prose devices to spin her narrative at top speed. Short first- and third-person vignettes juxtapose Madame Mao''s early experience with the comments of an omniciscient narrator who relates pivotal circumstances to events that will grow from their consequences. Such foreshadowing not only raises tension, it also helps readers construct a mental chart of historical figures and events. Striking metaphors and vivid Chinese proverbs enhance Min''s tensile prose, but it is her trenchant comments about the ways in which powerful individuals can paint bold colors on the panorama of history that distinguishes her spellbinding novel. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. 10-city author tour. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14959'),
(23724, 'Becoming The Full Butterfly', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14961'),
(23725, 'The Becoming', 'Jeanne C Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4992'),
(23726, 'The Becoming', 'Jeanne C. Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20734'),
(23727, 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most prophetic voice of all.â€ â€”_GQ_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hottest thinker in the world.â€ â€”Bryan Appleyard,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIdiosyncratically brilliant.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the author of the modern classic\n <em>\n  The Black Swan\n </em>\n , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bed of Procrustes\n </em>\n takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Talebâ€™s view of modern civilizationâ€™s hubristic side effectsâ€”modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4995'),
(23728, 'Bedding the Enemy', 'Mary Wine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He''s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity - were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face...Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother''s ploys for power. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes - and set her free...Among the ruthless ambitions of England''s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. But the treachery, scandal, and treason that follow can unleash as much passion as it does adventure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14963'),
(23729, 'Bedford Square', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even if you prefer the tougher, edgier William Monk books by Anne Perry, such as __, there''s no denying the wealth of detail and the powerful emotions at work in her longer series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The Pitt books effectively merge Henry James with Raymond Chandler: by having a middleclass policeman married to a socialite, Perry can probe both worlds, as she does in\n <em>\n  Bedford Square\n </em>\n , a story of high-level blackmail and murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n A famous historical scandal called the Tranby Croft affair (a gambling case involving the Prince of Wales) is very much in the news when the body of a working-class man is found early one morning on the posh doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne. No one in the house claims to know the murdered man, but he has a valuable piece of jewelry belonging to the Balantynes in his pocket. Thomas Pitt and his outspoken aide, Sergeant Tellman, must tread lightly, but Charlotte--and especially her sharp relative Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--aren''t restrained by such social niceties. Gracie, the Pitts'' smart and rough-tongued maid, is also a valued asset to the investigation, which proceeds in a satisfying, if not particularly surprising, manner to a highly dramatic conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other recent books in the Pitt series include __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry''s popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when a body is found outside the home of respectable General Brandon Balantyne (who appeared in two earlier Pitt novels). Pitt and Sergeant Tellman, whose class prejudices are challenged during the investigation, are mystified by the body''s identity and the motive for the murder. Their diggings lead them to a parallel case, when Pitt discovers that six honorable men, including Balantyne and Assistant Police Commissioner Cornwallis, are being blackmailed. Perry uses the historical Tranby Croft gambling scandal involving the Prince of Wales as backdrop, highlighting how even the imputation of wrongdoing can tarnish someone''s good name. To find the blackmailer, Pitt seeks a common bond among the accused. The careful reader may spy that link before Pitt does, but will nonetheless be swept along by the narrative''s rush and engaged by its attention to period detail. Aiding Pitt is a cast of smart, well-drawn female characters: Charlotte, whose social connections afford her access to society''s upper crust; Gracie, the Pitts'' uneducated but no-nonsense maid; and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, Charlotte''s worldly-wise relation, who dominates the narrative once she joins the investigation. Pitt solves the case based on a clever red herring, uncovering the murderer in a quick, horrifying finale. Yet again, Perry delivers an astute and gripping examination of life behind Victorian England''s virtuous facade. Mystery Guild main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14965'),
(23730, 'Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Erotic Fairy Tales', 'Jean Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** All-new! Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. ** Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as *Beauty and the Beast, Puss n'' Boots*, and *Sleeping Beauty*, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, *Bedtime Stories* reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14966'),
(23731, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement. 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4997'),
(23732, 'Bee&#39;s Kiss', 'Charles Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14797'),
(23733, 'Beekeeper&#39;s Apprentice, The', 'King, Laurie R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4999'),
(23734, 'Been There, but Have We Really Done That', 'Mike Combs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14968');
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(23735, 'Before Dishonor', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that\n  <em>\n   no one\n  </em>\n  believed the Borg could do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter David\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of numerous\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, including the incredibly popular\n  <em>\n   New Frontier\n  </em>\n  series. In addition, he has also written dozens of other books, including his acclaimed original novel,\n  <em>\n   Sir Apropos of Nothing\n  </em>\n  , and its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Woad to Wuin.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  David is also well known for his comic book work, particularly his award-winning run on\n  <em>\n   The Incredible Hulk\n  </em>\n  . He recently authored the novelizations of both the\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Hulk\n  </em>\n  motion pictures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in New York.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14798'),
(23736, 'Before I Fall', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that''s not how it happened for me'' Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn''t. On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died. Forced to live over and over the last day of her life '' the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party '' she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash. This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late. BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bonesand as luminous as Jenny Downham''s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14800'),
(23737, 'Before Midnight', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this ingenious whodunit, a perfume company offers a million dollars for correctly identifying certain women in history who used cosmetics. When the advertising genius behind the campaign is murdered and the answers stolen, Nero Wolfe is called in to find both. Archie Goodwin tries bravely to keep Wolfe away from the irritating women involved and focused on the case. But with puzzling phone calls and conflicting instructions from the ad company, it''s anybody''s guess when - or even if - Wolfe will find the killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14801'),
(23738, 'Before the Play', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14805'),
(23739, 'Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This grim and vivid sequel to 2007''s\n <em>\n  The Blade Itself\n </em>\n transcends its middle volume status, keeping the reader engaged with complicated plotting and intriguing character development. As savage Northmen invade Angland, the northernmost province of the unwieldy Union, honorable, hard-working Union soldier Colonel West watches his notions of civilized warfare erode in one horrible battle after another. In Dagoska, a southern city threatened by Gurkish soldiers and left undefended as Union troops head to Angland, dreadfully maimed Inquisitor Glokta employs tortures and deceptions to ferret out conspiracies against the king. Ignoring these worldly concerns, disreputable magus Bayaz of Calcis drives a squabbling little band through a wasteland in search of a relic that can open a gate to the realm of demons. Abercrombie leavens the bloody action with moments of dark humor, developing a story suffused with a rich understanding of human darkness and light.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Before They Are Hanged is an excellent sequel from an author writing compelling, character-driven, adult fantasy, for readers who want to be entertained as well as challenged." SFF WORLD "In my opinion, Joe Abercrombie possesses all the qualities that made David Eddings such a powerhouse during the 80s and 90s. Before They Are Hanged is a satisfying sequel which should establish Joe Abercrombie as one of the bright new voices of the genre. " FANTASY HOT LIST "Before They Are Hanged grabs you and drags you along." SFF SITE "Dark, deeply ironic and full of character gems that will appeal to your cynical side, Before They Are Hanged is as brilliant as its predecessor." -- John Berlyne SF REVU "We''re right there in the heads of these dudes, thanks to the author''s style of showcasing their thoughts. His knowing turn of phrase means that situations often appear ironic, with peripheral characters verging on the Dickensian. This follow-up is crammed with unexpected betrayals, murders and liaisons, often catching us off guard." -- Dave Bradley SFX\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14811'),
(23740, 'Before You Know Kindness', 'Christopher Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you imagine most writer''s bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you''d picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it''s impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian''s bathroom as anything but an\n <em>\n  Architectural Digest\n </em>\n centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor''s garden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s eighth novel,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n , is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights'' activist Spencer McCullough''s gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer''s political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian''s style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weaponâ€”owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotteâ€”becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer''s employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (_Midwives_, etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon''s families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character''s head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawedâ€”Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activistâ€”others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer''s niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator''s irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian''s skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14813'),
(23741, 'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self', 'Danielle Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The territory Evans covers in her debut collection may be small, but she owns it. Her main characters are almost all teen girls and young women who struggle with disorder, and the reader is given close access to each one''s interior, from which the muted plots originate. "Jellyfish," one of the better stories, starts out with the plight of middle-aged William, whose roof has just collapsed, before settling on his adult daughter, Eva, and examining her life. The two friends in "Virgins," the opening and best story, maneuver unsteadily through the minefield of casually predatory men and boys. "Snakes" looks back on a consequential summer in the lives of two little girls. "The King of a Vast Empire" is the biggest departure from form and is narrated by good son Terrence, who frustratedly tells the story of his free-spirited sister, Liddie. The stories are beautifully observed, though their similarities in theme and voice make them better read individually than together. Evans has some great chops that would really shine with a little more narrative breadth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evansâ€™ first collection of short stories deals thoughtfully and incisively with considerations of class, race, and coming-of-age. That six of the stories are told in their female or male protagonistsâ€™ first-person voices brings them immediacy and emotional resonance. Sometimes, though, this device results in narrative voices that sound too much alike while the stories they tell lack thematic originality. Interestingly, two of the best storiesâ€”â€œSomeone Ought to Tell Her Thereâ€™s Nowhere to Go,â€ about a deeply troubled veteran of the Iraq War, and â€œJellyfish,â€ about the fraught relationship of a young woman and her fatherâ€”are told in third person. Yet, whether told in first or third person, what all of the stories share is a demonstration of the profound influence of the past on the present-day lives of their characters and the intricacies of relationships among African American, white, Hispanic, and mixed-race young people. Clearly, Evans lives up to her reputation as an important new voice in literary fiction. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14817'),
(23742, 'Beg for Mercy', 'Toni Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A page-turning start to what promises to be a very intriguing series." --\n <em>\n  BookPage\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  I''ve never been certain I''m human\n </strong>\n Oh, the X-rays and blood tests are normal, and most people have no reason to suspect I''m more than I appear to be. But if I tell you to do something? You do it -- no ifs, ands or buts.\n</p>\n<p>\n I call my power the "press."\n</p>\n<p>\n My name is Mercy Hollings, and if you think that having the power to control people makes my life easy, you''re dead wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n Because when I get angry, everyone around me is at risk -- Sukey, my friend who has frightening taste in men; my clients, who, ironically, come to be for help; my neighbors, who regard me as a loner; and Sam, a man who wants to know my darkest secret.\n</p>\n<p>\n I have hurt people in the past, and I don''t want that to happen again. But now a powerful stranger is threatening the new life that I''ve made for myself.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And I''m afraid my anger is taking over.\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14819'),
(23743, 'A Beggar at the Gate', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n , native Bostonian and Muslim convert Ali continues the saga of Marianna Givens, a young Englishwoman living in 19th-century India. Though competently written and often entertaining, the novel feels like exoticism cloaked as historical fiction (the prologue delivers a taste of what''s to come: in Calcutta, Marianna encounters a Hindu soothsayer who points his "authoritative, brown hand away from the crowd" and tells her that her "path lies to the northwest" and that she "must return there to find [her] destiny"). Marianna casts her lot with the Sufi family of Shaikh Waliullah as she marries his son, the Punjabi courtier, Hassan Ali Khan. She flees to Calcutta with Hassan''s infant son, Saboor, to protect him from the opium-addicted Maharajah of Punjab. After two years in exile, Marianna travels back to Lahore to give Saboor to his father, divorce Hassan and return to respectable British society. Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture, and her description of the conniving ineptitude of the British as they travel across the subcontinent humanizes them. Upon arriving in Lahore, the traveling party finds itself caught between warring Punjabi factions. The conclusion, in which Marianna predictably displays a redemptive heroism, sets up for the final book in this trilogy, slated for release in 2005.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (Bantam, 2002), Mariana Givens, a tempestuous Englishwoman, is sent to India to find a husband from the surfeit of bachelor British officers there. Two years have passed since her disastrous first visit, when her reputation was ruined by her marriage to a wealthy Punjabi, Hassan. She is devoted to his son Saboor, whom she rescued from kidnappers and has been sheltering. The revelation that the marriage was never consummated affords Mariana the chance to restore her good name: once in Lahore she can return Saboor to his father, request a divorce, and proceed to Afghanistan with her aunt and uncle and the rest of the British entourage. But she again falls under the spell of Hassan and his family, and decides to stay with him. Amid fighting following the death of the maharajah, Mariana goes to tell her aunt and uncle of her decision and returns to find him gravely wounded. This mid-19th-century adventure story contrasts the richness of Islam and its strict laws regarding women with the equally rigid societal norms of privileged, upper-class British. The characters and their actions illustrate the barriers between cultures and the difficulty of establishing trust among peoples with different worldviews. The engaging ending suggests another installment to come._â€“Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(23744, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve. Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€ â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art. Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography. Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound. Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14821'),
(23745, 'Beginings', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14824'),
(23746, 'The Beginner&#39;s Guide to Preserving Food at Home', 'Janet Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wonderful thing is happening in home kitchens. People are rediscovering the joys of locally produced foods and reducing the amount of the grocery budget that''s spent on packaged items, out-of-season produce, and heavily processed foods. But fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables don''t stay fresh and delicious forever - they must be eaten now . . . or preserved for later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all the vegetable gardeners facing baskets overflowing with bright tomatoes, and for all the dedicated farmers'' market fans and CSA members,\n  <em>\n   The Beginner''s Guide to Preserving Food at Home\n  </em>\n  has the simple solutions that turn overwhelming bounty into neatly canned tomatoes, jars of jams and jellies, and crispy-tart relishes and pickles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Organized in a friendly, food-by-food format, readers will find freezing, drying, canning, and storing instructions for each vegetable, fruit, and herb. In many cases, several ways to freeze or can a food are described, and there are often other preserving suggestions as well, such as making juice or fruit leather.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is written with busy people in mind: these are the quickest, most efficient methods for preserving summer''s bounty. Up-to-date information and clear, step-by-step instructions show even absolute beginners the way to a fully stocked pantry.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enjoy local produce year-round.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You don''t need a lot of time or years of experience to preserve garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. Simple step-by-step instructions give you the confidence and know-how to freeze, dry, can, root cellar, and brine the abundance from your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share or summer garden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grate and freeze excess zucchini; it will be perfect in quick breads and muffins all winter long. Pick up a crate of less-than-perfect tomatoes at the farmers'' market and preserve them in jars of spicy salsa. Turn the overflow of green beans from your CSA farm share into tasty dilly beans to eat all winter or give as holiday gifts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  These techniques and recipes will have you eating locally all year long.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19374'),
(23747, 'Beginning operations', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient--though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems--it all lands on Sector General''s doorstep. And the only thing weirder than a hitherto unknown alien species is having a member of that species turn up in your Emergency Room. The first of two omnibus volumes reprints the works that began the Sector General series, which were previously published as "Hospital Station "(1962), "Star Surgeon" (1963), and "Major Operation" (1971).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14825'),
(23748, 'The Beginning... the End... Anew!', 'Zedart Hodges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For sometime Iâ€™ve been clean and at times it has been hard but I think about my love for me and know that I canÂ´t and refuse to fall back into that self pity state of denial and that now I understand that itÂ´s not about me also thereÂ´s a saying that is so true which sayÂ´s in order to keep what you got you must give it away I hope this will help someone or some bodyÂ´s out there thatÂ´s beginning to realize that life is bigger than they are and more important to someone else other than you thank you for time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5003'),
(23749, 'Beginnings', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14827'),
(23750, 'Behind a Mask', 'Louisa May Alcott &amp; Doris Lessing', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA maverick publisher revives literature with modern touches.â€ --\n <em>\n  Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAll hail and welcomeâ€¦ to a splendid new publishing venture. And may Hesperus Press keep on surprising us.â€ --\n <em>\n  Bruce Allen, Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBravo to Hesperusâ€¦. These titles have been largely lost to the general reading publicâ€¦ exquisitely cool little volumes.â€ --\n <em>\n  Adrienne Miller, Esquire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHesperus Press is finding, and often newly translating, astounding forgotten works.â€ --\n <em>\n  Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Hesperus libraryâ€¦ serves as a lasting inoculation against industrially canned literary judgment.â€ --\n <em>\n  Carlin Romano, The Chronicle Review of Higher Education\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisa May Alcottâ€™s little-known novella is an ingenious study of deception, betrayal, and the ruthless power of a woman scorned. When demure Scottish governess Jean Muir arrives at a wealthy household, the family couldnâ€™t be more thrilled with their young new resident and find themselves beguiled by her grace and beauty. But this surrender to her â€œinnocentâ€™ charms soon sets the men quarreling for her attention, with the women beside themselves with jealousy. Delighted with her success, Miss Muir sets her sights on the highest prizeâ€”but she has only three days to claim victory before the truth, behind her mask, will be exposed. American novelist Louisa May Alcott is best remembered for the perennially popular\n <em>\n  Little Women.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14828'),
(23751, 'Beholders', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14829'),
(23752, 'Being a green mother', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb''s life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician. But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that Orb had been chosen for the role of Incarnation of Nature--The Green Mother. But she also warned of a prophecy that Orb was to marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14830'),
(23753, 'Being Jamie Baker', 'Kelly Oram', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a freak accident gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker superhuman abilities she must go to great lengths to hide her secret. But after a supercharged kiss with star quarterback Ryan Miller she lands herself in the kind of trouble that could prove deadly. Will Jamie learn to contain her unstable powers before being discovered by the media or turned into a government lab rat?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16422'),
(23754, 'Bel Ami', 'Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14835'),
(23755, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14837'),
(23756, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19177'),
(23757, 'The Belgariad 4. Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Magnificent Epic Set Against A History Of Seven Thousand Years Of The Struggles Of Gods And Kings And Men - Of Strange Lands And Events - Of Fate And A Prophecy That Must Be Fulfilled!The BelgariadIt Had All Begun With The Theft Of The Orb That Had So Long Protected The West From The Evil God Torak. Before That, Garion Had Been A Simple Farm Boy. Afterward, He Discovered That His Aunt Was Really The Sorceress Polgara And His Grandfather Was Belgarath, The Eternal Man. Then, On The Long Quest To Recover The Orb, Garion Found To His Dismay That He, Too, Was A Sorcerer.Now, At Last, The Orb Was Regained And The Quest Was Nearing Its End. Of Course, The Questors Still Had To Escape From This Crumbling Enemy Fortress And Flee Across A Desert Filled With Murgo Soldiers Searching For Them, While Grolim Hierarchs Strove To Destroy Them With Dark Magic. Then, Somehow, They Must Manage To Be In Riva With The Orb By Erastide.After That, However, Garion Was Sure That His Part In These Great Events Would Be Finished.But The Prophecy Still Held Future Surprises For Garion - And For The Little Princess Ce''Nedra!Thus Continues Book Four Of The Belgariad\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5004'),
(23758, 'The Belgariad I: Pawn of Prophecy', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book 1 of the Belgariad series\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5006'),
(23759, 'The Belgariad II: Queen of Sorcery', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Belgariad Series, Book 2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5007'),
(23760, 'The Belgariad III: Magician&#39;s Gambit', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Belgariad Series Book 3\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5009'),
(23761, 'The Belgariad IV Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book 4 of the Belgariad Series\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5012'),
(23762, 'The Belgariad V Enchanters Endgame', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book 5 in the Belgariad Series\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5014'),
(23763, 'Belinda', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17791'),
(23764, 'The Bell at Sealey Head', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of towels or encounter knights, crows and a lonely princess. As Lady Eglantyne, the ancient matron of the house, lies dying, her long-lost grand-niece is sent for. The townspeople are delighted by wealthy, city-bred Miranda Beryl, but suspicious of her eagerness to make herself at home and inherit the houseâ€”spellbound bell and all. Meanwhile, vacationing academic Ridley Dow''s interest in Aislinn House hints at another motive for his visit to the village beside the ocean. Romantic intrigue and touches of this fantastic make this light mystery an easy and pleasant read.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The small seaside town of Sealey Head is home to a few families, an inn, and Aislinn House, an old mansion with a special powerâ€”its doors sometimes open onto the world of faerie, where princesses like young Ysabo occupy their time with a complex ritual and knights exist to marry the princesses. Each day at sunset, a bell sounds, heard by everyone, yet its whereabouts and the identity of its ringer remain unknownâ€”until a few strangers arrive to unlock an ancient past. McKillip (_Song for the Basilisk_;\n <em>\n  Solstice Wood\n </em>\n ) weaves elegant modern fairy tales from simple themes, drawing the mythical and everyday worlds into an enchanted union. Elegant, deceptively spare prose and well-developed characters make this a good choice for adult and YA fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5016'),
(23765, 'The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories', 'Gertrude Atherton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5019'),
(23766, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5021'),
(23767, 'The Bell', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14838'),
(23768, 'Belladonna', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Mystifying forces of light and dark continue to rend Ephemera, a shattered world of extraordinary, interconnected landscapes that can be altered by strong emotions, in Bishop''s challenging sequel to\n   <em>\n    Sebastian\n   </em>\n   (2006). The Eater of the World spreads its corrupting darkness, and Glorianna Belladonna, disdained and declared rogue for her powers that blend both the Light and the Dark, is the only one who can halt its evil influence. Caitlin Marie, a friendless young sorceress with dark blood, also faces great danger, while her brother, Michael the Magician, is drawn through many perils to Glorianna''s side by dreams of a dark-haired lover. Even as their love is kindled, the key Michael brings to cage the Eater of the World may doom Glorianna and take her away from him. Readers encountering Ephemera for the first time may be confused by the complicated, fantastical world, but fans of the preceding installment will revel in Bishop''s imaginative powers.\n   <em>\n    (Mar.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The thrilling follow-up to\n   <em>\n    Sebastian\n   </em>\n   .\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The Eater of the World continues to spread its dark influence across the realm of Ephemera, corrupting people''s souls with doubts and fears. Only Glorianna Belladonna possesses the ability to thwart the Eater''s plans. But she has been branded a rogue, and must stand alone against the encroaching entity.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   But she is not alone. In dreams, a call has traveled throughout Ephemera-"Heart''s hope lies within Belladonna"-and reached Michael, a man with mysterious powers of his own. It awakens a fierce hunger within him to find the dark-haired sorceress he''s dreamt of-a beautiful woman named Belladonna. Together, they may be Ephemera''s only hope.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mystifying forces of light and dark continue to rend Ephemera, a shattered world of extraordinary, interconnected landscapes that can be altered by strong emotions, in Bishop''s challenging sequel to\n  <em>\n   Sebastian\n  </em>\n  (2006). The Eater of the World spreads its corrupting darkness, and Glorianna Belladonna, disdained and declared rogue for her powers that blend both the Light and the Dark, is the only one who can halt its evil influence. Caitlin Marie, a friendless young sorceress with dark blood, also faces great danger, while her brother, Michael the Magician, is drawn through many perils to Glorianna''s side by dreams of a dark-haired lover. Even as their love is kindled, the key Michael brings to cage the Eater of the World may doom Glorianna and take her away from him. Readers encountering Ephemera for the first time may be confused by the complicated, fantastical world, but fans of the preceding installment will revel in Bishop''s imaginative powers.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The thrilling follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Sebastian\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Eater of the World continues to spread its dark influence across the realm of Ephemera, corrupting people''s souls with doubts and fears. Only Glorianna Belladonna possesses the ability to thwart the Eater''s plans. But she has been branded a rogue, and must stand alone against the encroaching entity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But she is not alone. In dreams, a call has traveled throughout Ephemera-"Heart''s hope lies within Belladonna"-and reached Michael, a man with mysterious powers of his own. It awakens a fierce hunger within him to find the dark-haired sorceress he''s dreamt of-a beautiful woman named Belladonna. Together, they may be Ephemera''s only hope.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14840'),
(23769, 'Belladonna', 'Anne Bishop - Ephemera 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17780'),
(23770, 'Belle', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage. But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her. Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness? Number One bestseller Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lesley Pearse''s novels have sold close to 4 million copies in the UK alone. Her thirteen most recent books, including Stolen, Gypsy, Faith and Hope - each of which occupied a Top Three slot in both hardback and paperback - are huge bestsellers and are all available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14846'),
(23771, 'Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March.txt', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14848'),
(23772, 'The Bells: A Novel', 'Richard Harvell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me â€œson.â€ And I called him â€œfather.â€ On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarification, he simply laughed as though the questioner were obtuse. â€œOf course heâ€™s not my son!â€ he would say. â€œDonâ€™t be ridiculous.â€Â But whenever I myself gained the courage to ask him further of our past, he just looked sadly at me. â€œPlease, Nicolai,â€ he would say after a moment, as though we had made a pact I had forgotten. With time, I came to understand I would never know the secrets of my birth, for my father was the only one who knew these secrets, and he would take them to his grave.Â The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. Shaped by the bellsâ€™ glorious music, as a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discoveredâ€”along with its power to expose the sins of the churchâ€”young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Â Rescued from certain death by two traveling monks, he finds refuge at the vast and powerful Abbey of St. Gall. There, his ears lead him through the ancient stone hallways and past the monksâ€™ cells into the choir, where he aches to join the singers in their strange and enchanting song. Suddenly Moses knows his true gift, his purpose. Like his motherâ€™s bells, he rings with sound and soon, he becomes the protÃ©gÃ© of the Abbeyâ€™s brilliant yet repulsive choirmaster, Ulrich. Â But it is this gift that will cause Mosesâ€™ greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupilâ€™s voice, Ulrich has Moses castrated. Now a young man, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angelâ€”a musicoâ€”yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. When his saviors are exiled and his beloved leaves St. Gall for an arranged marriage in Vienna, he decides he can deny the truth no longer and he follows herâ€”to sumptuous Vienna, to the former monks who saved his life, to an apprenticeship at one of Europeâ€™s greatest theaters, and to the premiere of one of historyâ€™s most beloved operas. Â In this confessional letter to his son, Moses recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europeâ€™s celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired? Â Like the voice of Lo Svizzero, The Bells is a sublime debut novel that rings with passion, courage, and beauty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19202'),
(23773, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do. When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14849');
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(23774, 'Beloved: a novel', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison''s Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  . Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is arguably her best. To modern readers, antebellum slavery is a subject so familiar that it is almost impossible to render its horrors in a way that seems neither clichÃ©d nor melodramatic. Rapes, beatings, murders, and mutilations are recounted here, but they belong to characters so precisely drawn that the tragedy remains\n  <em>\n   individual\n  </em>\n  , terrifying to us because it is terrifying to the sufferer. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the\n  <em>\n   bit\n  </em>\n  , for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate all of slavery''s many cruelties into one apt symbol--a device that deprives its wearer of speech. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothing to soothe the tongue or take the wildness out of the eye." Most importantly, the language here, while often lyrical, is never overheated. Even as she recalls the cruelties visited upon her while a slave, Sethe is evocative without being overemotional: "Add my husband to it, watching, above me in the loft--hiding close by--the one place he thought no one would look for him, looking down on what I couldn''t look at at all. And not stopping them--looking and letting it happen.... And if he was that broken then, then he is also and certainly dead now." Even the supernatural is treated as an ordinary fact of life: "Not a house in the country ain''t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro''s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby," comments Sethe''s mother-in-law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe''s history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby''s death start to make terrible sense. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe''s daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion.\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  may well be\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mixed with the lyric beauty of the writing, the fury in Morrison''s (Song of Solomonp latest book is almost palpable. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this haunting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath traces the life of a young woman, Sethe, who has kept a terrible memory at bay only by shutting down part of her mind. Juxtaposed with searing descriptions of brutality, gradually revealed in flashbacks, are equally harrowing scenes in which fantasy takes flesh, a device Morrison handles with consummate skill. The narrative concerns Sethe''s former life as a slave on Sweet Home Farm, her escape with her children to what seems a safe haven and the tragic events that ensue. The death of Sethe''s infant daughter Beloved is the incident on which the plot hinges, and it is obvious to the reader that the sensuous young woman who mysteriously appears one day is Beloved''s spirit, come back to claim Sethe''s love. Sethe''s surviving daughter, Denver, immediately grasps the significance of Beloved''s return and so does Paul Dno period after D, another escapee from Sweet Home; but Sethe herself resists comprehension, and, as a result, a certain loss of tension affects the latter part of the narrative. But this is a small flaw in a novel full of insights, both piercing and tender, with distinctive, memorable characters, flowing prose that conveys speech patterns with musical intensity and a brilliantly conceived story. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14850'),
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(23822, 'A bend in the river', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Brilliant and terrifying'' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. ''Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Centeral Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sudries, sold to the natives. The place is ''a bend in the river''; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of prepartion for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force.  It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance'' - Elizabeth Hardwick. ''Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit'' - John Updike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
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(23824, 'Beneath a Darkening Moon', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Werewolf Romance. 98283 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14852'),
(23825, 'Beneath a Darkening Moon - Ripple Creek 2', 'Kerri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14854'),
(23826, 'Beneath a Rising Moon - Ripple Creek 1', 'Kerri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14856'),
(23827, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14858'),
(23828, 'Beneath the Skin', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she''s been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterious, cruel, and unstoppable, this assassin is dead-set on killing a certain presidential candidate. Now Team Darkwing has to find him before it''s too late. But soon, Daphne finds herself drawn back into the life she once rejected: a secret vampire underworld, where all pleasures-like human blood-can be found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14860'),
(23829, 'Benjamin January', 'Preferred Customer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17532'),
(23830, 'Bent Road', 'Lori Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in the mid ''60s, Roy''s outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott''s teenage daughter, Arthur decides it''s time to leave Detroit and return to the small Kansas town that he left 20 years earlier after his sister Eve''s mysterious death. His wife, Celia, resents the move that will put her close to in-laws she barely knows and that will change her family dynamic. That Arthur''s younger daughter, Eve-ee, resembles her late aunt unsettles Arthur''s older sister, Ruth, and Ruth''s husband, Ray, who have never seen Eve-ee before. When a neighbor''s child disappears, suspicion uncomfortably settles on Ray, who was suspected in Eve''s death. Roy couples a vivid view of the isolation and harshness of farm life with a perceptive look at the emotions that can rage beneath the surface. This Midwestern noir with gothic undertones is sure to make several 2011 must-read lists. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''_Bent Road_ is a remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy''s voice is a welcome addition to American fiction.'''' --Dennis Lehane,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In her promising debut novel\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  , Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. Set in the beautifully rendered Kansas plains,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  is a family story with a suspenseful gothic core, one which shows that the past always has a price, whether you''re running from it or back toward it. Crisp, evocative prose, full-blooded characters, and a haunting setting make this debut stand out.'''' --Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   Tonight I Said Goodbye\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Dropping us in a world of seeming simplicity, in a time of seeming calm, Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape. Bringing to mind the family horrors of Jane Smiley''s\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Acres\n  </em>\n  and the dark emotional terrain of Tana French''s\n  <em>\n   In the Woods\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  manages to be both psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, burrowing into your brain with a feverish power all its own.'''' --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning novelist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14866'),
(23831, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous &amp; Burton Raffel &amp; Roberta Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The epic poem\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Beowulf\n </em>\n is the earliest extant poem in a modern European languageâ€” reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. Its beauty, power, and artistry have kept it alive for more than thirteen centuries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14868'),
(23832, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous &amp; Gummere', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18969'),
(23833, 'Beowulf&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle &amp; Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This powerhouse trio of science fiction greats united to further explore the island paradise of Camelot from their classic novel, Legacy of Herorot. A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14871'),
(23834, 'The Bereavement Photographe', 'Steve Rasnic Tem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5022'),
(23835, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5025'),
(23836, 'The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing', 'Stan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Illustrated in full color. Brother Bear is a master at teasing--until the tables are turned and he''s the one being heckled for being the principal''s pet. And when Brother finally understands that teasing isn''t just mean, it''s also dangerous, he actually decides to stick up for the new kid at school.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5027'),
(23837, 'The Berlin Conspiracy', 'Tom Gabbay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallowing in a postâ€“Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack''s ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his contact''s identity and his information about a plot to kill President Kennedy during an upcoming visit to West Berlin. His dormant idealism roused, Jack delves into the conspiracy while dodging the threats of corrupt CIA higherups and falling in with colorful residents of Berlin''s Cold War demimonde. Mixing cynical world-weariness with dead-pan humor and a refreshing lack of Bond-style omnicompetence (random mishaps include a nasty dog bite and a disastrous attempt to shoot off a pair of handcuffs), Jack''s story is part John le CarrÃ© and part Elmore Leonard. Gabbay constructs the thriller as a dress rehearsal and what-if scenario for the actual Dallas assassination. With rogue intelligence operatives, gangsters, Texas tycoons and a mob of snipers, coverup hit men, fall guys, fall guy impersonators, and miscellaneous functionaries all jostling each other, the plot''s many moving parts make the climax a virtual parody of ponderous JFK conspiracy theories. But until this odd turn, Gabbay offers a stylish thriller with an appealing hero.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The nuances of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories chillingly collide with the intricacies of Cold War espionage in this well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. CIA agent Jack Teller is a hard-boiled, world-weary pragmatist who would rather be fishing in Florida but warms to the notion that fate has selected him to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. As implausible as this may sound, Gabbay does a credible job of juxtaposing his story with historically accurate but equally implausible events, namely the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination in Dallas. The novel could be viewed as simply a good escapist read, but there is an enormously significant lesson at its core: in a world with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it only takes a well-placed loose cannon or two to set us all on a course of utter destruction. That story has been told before, but it bears repeating. This is a thrilling tale with historical lessons of lasting consequences.â€“_Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16239'),
(23838, 'Bernard Cornwell', 'The Lords Of The North', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17399'),
(23839, 'Bernard Cornwell - Grail Quest 1', 'Harlequin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17489'),
(23840, 'Bernard Cornwell - Grail Quest 3', 'Heretic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17481'),
(23841, 'Bernard Cornwell - Saxon 01', 'The Last Kingdom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17482'),
(23842, 'Bernard Cornwell - Warlord 1', 'Winter King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17398'),
(23843, 'Bernard Cornwell - Warlord 2', 'Enemy of God', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17401'),
(23844, 'Bernard Cornwell - Warlord 3', 'Excalibur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17400'),
(23845, 'Berserker', 'Steve Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14875'),
(23846, 'Beside a Burning Sea', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *Beneath a Marble Sky* comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances. One moment, the World War II hospital ship *Benevolence* is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercyâ€”to save wounded American soldiers. The next, *Benevolence* is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island. Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their companyâ€”and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their makingâ€”a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving. With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countriesâ€”all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14876'),
(23847, 'The Best American Crime Reporting 2009', 'Jeffrey Toobin; Otto Penzler; Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thieves, liars, and killersâ€”it''s a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year''s best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre,\n <em>\n  The Best American Crime Reporting 2009\n </em>\n brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals. Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin,\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Nine\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n since 1993 and is the senior legal analyst for CNN. In 2000 he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the EliÃn GonzÃlez case. He is the author of\n <em>\n  The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court\n </em>\n , which spent more than four months on the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller list. Before joining\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n , Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He lives in Manhattan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4872'),
(23848, 'The Best and the Brightest', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet a new generation of cadets: a newly joined Trill just beginning the first of many lives; a Bajoran Vedek who finds himself torn between his vows and an unspoken love; a reckless young man fond of pushing the limits; a feline alien raised among humans; a brilliant but immature young woman with a lot to learn; and a native-born Earth woman with a talent for engineering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together they will learn about courage, life, teamwork, and themselves. Their future is just beginning -- but one of them will not survive!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4873'),
(23849, 'Best detective stories of Agatha Christie', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14877'),
(23850, 'The best early stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'Francis Scott Fitzgerald; Bryant Mangum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4875'),
(23851, 'The best early stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'Francis Scott Fitzgerald &amp; Bryant Mangum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18637'),
(23852, 'Best Food Writing 2010', 'Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mourning the demise of Gourmet magazine, series editor Hughes asks "is food writing a dying art?" Readers of this year''s anthology will offer a resounding "nowhere close." Ethical concerns of organic and locavore movements and free range meats are tidily summed up by now-famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. Whereas MIT grad J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares a recipe for making French fries as good as what McDonalds makes: "salty, crisp, light, and not greasy." At the other end of the spectrum, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton offers a version of Nora Ephron''s meat loaf recipe to die for. Pulitzer prize winner Jonathan Gold tracks the shifting locations of Los Angeles'' street vendors and Tod Kliman hunts down Peter Chang, the elusive "perfect chef" who moves between Chinese restaurants, from D.C. to Atlanta, to avoid celebrity. Along the way Kliman learns that innocuous Chinese restaurants can have secret menus for the cognoscenti and experiences the exquisite pleasure of hot peppers that scorch and even numb. And travelling to Tokyo, Kevin Pang discovered to his great surprise that eating a bowl of ramen "satisfied every taste sense man is blessed to experience." A sparkling collection.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a time where the most elemental of activitiesâ€”consuming sustenanceâ€”is an increasingly political act, itâ€™s not surprising that there might be more attention paid to talking about eating food than there is in actually eating food. Series editor Hughes sheds a tear for the shuttering of the venerable Gourmet, but maintains that â€œthe rumors of food writingâ€™s death have been greatly exaggerated.â€ Big changes in the culinary world are visible here, from Michael Steinbergerâ€™s lament over the passing of Franceâ€™s reign of culinary mastery (all hail Spain) to Tim Carmanâ€™s plea to put Zagat out of its misery. But the trend du jour continues to be locavorism, evidenced by Carla Capalboâ€™s take on the epicenter of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli, getting dethroned as best restaurant in the world by a small Copenhagen joint that focuses on seasonal, place-specific ingredients. Despite all the delicious food fussiness on parade, though, the best of the best might just be Jason Sheehanâ€™s hilarious (if youâ€™re an industry insider) or terrifying (if youâ€™re an unsuspecting patron) account of flash-defrosting 80-pound blocks of haddock on a frantic fish-fry Friday. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14878'),
(23853, 'Best Friends for Never', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Clique is back ...Massie Block - Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school...she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school''s first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire. She''s not sure which is scarier...Dylan Marvil - Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy. Kristen Gregory - Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren''t. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him. Alicia Rivera - With the Clique unravelling faster than last season''s Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14879'),
(23854, 'Best Laid Plans', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as flexible. But Cody had plans for Abra that not even this spirited beauty could resist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14880'),
(23855, 'The Best Of A. E. Van Vogt', 'A. E. Van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18316'),
(23856, 'The Best of All Possible Wars', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It seemed like a good idea at the time... When the catlike Kzin discovered the human region of the galaxy, they thought it was time to scream and leap again. Bred to be conquering warriors, they thought the salad-munching apes of Earth wouldn''t even put up a good fight. Actually, they should have been more polite to the monkey boys and girls from planet Earth. Humans had developed a pacifist society because they had been good - "too" good - at war and knew that there''s more than one way to skin a cat - even a Kzin. The Warrior Race has encountered its most formidible opponent - and Larry Niven''s Known Space is aflame with war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4883'),
(23857, 'The best of British sf', 'Mike Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4885'),
(23858, 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">\n <h2 style="font-size: 14px; ">\n  The Plot\n </h2>\n</span>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages â€œto keep man man.â€\n</p>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n Set in the Second Age of Space, â€œScanners Live in Vainâ€ concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19081'),
(23859, 'The best of E. E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', 'Edward Elmer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eight stories by a master of science fiction include Robot Nemesis, Pirates of Space, The Vortex Blaster, and Subspace Survivors\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4888'),
(23860, 'Best of Isaac Asimov', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring Asimov''s personal choices, this collection offers a variety of science fiction stories that cover the period from 1949 to the present, each accompanied by a brief introduction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4891'),
(23861, 'The best of Stanley G. Weinbaum', 'Stanley G. Weinbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4897'),
(23862, 'The Best of the Best New SF', 'Dozois, Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4879'),
(23863, 'The Best of the Realms Book I', 'Salvatore, R.A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4899'),
(23864, 'The Best of the Realms Book II', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4901'),
(23865, 'The Best of the Realms Book III', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4902'),
(23866, 'The Best of Times', 'Penny Vincenzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . . On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she''ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4904'),
(23867, 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Mark Bittman is cooking--in every sense of the word--he gets results without fuss. Author of the almost subversively approachable\n  <em>\n   The Best Recipes in the World\n  </em>\n  , a collection of more than 1,000 international recipes, with winners like Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs; Pan-Seared Swordfish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers; and Stewed Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms and Pasilla Chile Sauce, he''s done it again. The selection, which covers cooking from Europe and Asia equally, is all can-do and instantly appealing--readers will want to "cook through" the whole chicken section, for example. But Bittman, a master distiller, also knows when more is more, with one caveat: "I don''t mind spending a long time cooking a single dish as long as I don''t have to pay too much attention to what''s going on," he writes. Thus, even fuller-dress recipes like the Indian Red Fish Stew, Fast and Spicy, and Tea-Smoked Duck or Chicken can work for time-deprived cooks. A dessert section that includes the tempting likes of Orange Custard, Walnut Tart, and Caramelized Pars Poached in Red Wine, caps this incisive collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included also are brief but enlightening notes on ingredients and techniques such as "On Pureeing Soups," which compares all approaches thoughtfully. Symbols indicate a recipe''s potential to be made ahead or in less than 30 minutes (true of most), among other variables. With a beverage chapter and menu suggestions that are actually useful, the book will appeal to a wide audience, not only for its recipes but as a source of relaxed instruction. It''s an exploration of culinary essentials from a true essentialist.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman thinks big, as we saw in his Great Wall of Recipes,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . That doorstop of a title sold big, too; there are now more than 1.7 million copies in print. This volume, in the same I-can''t-believe-I-wrote-the-whole-thing vein, collects recipes from 44 countries. Bittman successfully avoids the usual suspects, drawing as heavily from places like North Africa (home of Harira, a satisfying soup traditionally used to end Ramadan fasting) and India (Marinated Lamb "Popsicles" with Fenugreek Cream) as he does from easy targets like Italy and France. The recipes are terrific in both their variety and execution. Bittman, who writes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ''s "Minimalist" column, has a steady authorial voice and a knack for offering clear instructions, and he smoothly makes the exotic seem easy, or at least familiar (e.g., he compares Moroccan Chicken B''stilla to chicken pot pie). The everything-in-one-place format works differently here than it did in his earlier book, which was, ultimately, about technique, not individual recipes, so while there are more than 1,000 recipes here, the reader doesn''t acquire quite the same "take-away." Still, for one-stop-shopping on the world''s cuisine, it''d be tough to find a better book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4907'),
(23868, 'The Best Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy of the Year', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4908'),
(23869, 'The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1949', 'T. E. Dikty &amp; E. F. Blieler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4910'),
(23870, 'Betrayal', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the New Jedi Order series, Allston blasts off a new multi-author nine-book string of adventures starring beloved Star Wars familiars: the Solos (Han, Leia Organa and their adult Jedi children, Jacen and Jaina) and the Skywalkers (Master Jedi Luke, his wife Mara Jade, and their plucky 13-year-old son Ben, Jacen''s apprentice Jedi-in-training). Allston (Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand) follows the Jedi Knights'' ethical dilemmas and intricate battle maneuvers as they set out to diffuse a developing conflict between the Galactic Alliance (GA) and Correllia, Han''s home planetary system. When Ben infiltrates the Correllian Centerpoint Station, a mega-Death Star with the power to move and destroy planets, he must confront an AI that believes it is Anakin Solo (Jacen and Jaina''s late brother). Jacen also faces a grave, shocking choice about his future as a Jedi when he encounters a Sith. Although Han, Leia, Luke and Mara haven''t lost their mystique in middle-age, Ben and Jacen steal the show in this new installment that should please Star Wars fans eager for an update.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new Star Wars adventure begins with this novel in which the Galactic Alliance faces a new and unexpected threat. Luke Skywalker is surprised and dismayed to learn that the Corellians are chafing under GA rule and are preparing to strike for independence by arming a deadly weapon in their star system known as Centerpoint Station. The weapon caused great destruction during a previous war, and Luke is determined that the Corellians don''t harness its power now. He dispatches Jedi Jacen Solo, the son of Han and Leia, and his own son, Ben, who is Jacen''s apprentice, to neutralize the threat. But Han, a native Corellian, is deeply conflicted by the GA''s plans to stop the Corellians'' strike for independence, and he and Leia go to the Corellian government to warn them of the threat. Much of the GA''s plan goes awry, and although Jacen and Ben are successful in their mission, it comes at a price. The leaders of the GA and the Corellian government agree to meet, but a shocking assassination pushes them closer to conflict. Fans of the Star Wars universe will be impressed by Allston''s deft handling of the complicated issues raised in the novel, particularly how yesterday''s rebels fill their roles as leaders. The novel boasts a shocking ending, one guaranteed to hook readers for the duration of the series.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14882');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(23871, 'Betrayal', 'Lee Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18354'),
(23872, 'Betrayal at Lisson Grove', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branchâ€™s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pittâ€™s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husbandâ€™s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pittâ€™s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the countryâ€™s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before itâ€™s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14883'),
(23873, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;''However the act of murder was committed, in cold blood or hot, Eve Dallas was sworn to pursue it to its root. and serve the dead.''&gt;At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He''s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn''t help solve the crime. Because there''s someone else involved. Someone with a very personal motive. and Eve must face a terrifying possibility that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14884'),
(23874, 'Betrayed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school''s most elite group. Best of all, Zoey''s made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she''s earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14886'),
(23875, 'Better Morphosis', 'Brian W. Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14786'),
(23876, 'BETTER MORPHOSIS', 'Better Morphosis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17227'),
(23877, 'Better Mousetrap', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14787'),
(23878, 'Better Read Than Dead', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14788'),
(23879, 'Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril', 'Judith &amp; 1923 Merril, Emily Pohl-Weary', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific  author and one of the best-known editors in the field. Nicknamed The Grandmother of Science  Fiction, or The Little Mother of Science Fiction, she burst onto the scene in 1948 with a  disturbing story about nuclear radiation. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In  fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science  fiction, politics and literature.  She died in 1997.  Written by her granddaughter, this loving  memoir and biography is illustrated with  * original art works * covers from classic science  fiction magazines * period illustrations * personal and art photographs  Though Judith Merril''s  classic books are now out-of-print, they are widely available in libraries and used book stores;  and first editions of her work are quite collectible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14789'),
(23880, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage. But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4911'),
(23881, 'Better to rest', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier. SUMMARY: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14790'),
(23882, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar; Patsi Bale Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way. From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come. Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom. Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14791'),
(23883, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar &amp; Patsi Bale Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way.   From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come.   Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom.   Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18765'),
(23884, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14792'),
(23885, 'Between Planets', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out, and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward, the friend had been questioned by Earthâ€™s secret police and had diedâ€”from â€œheart failure,â€ they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14793'),
(23886, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n <em>\n  Distant Shores\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14794'),
(23887, 'Between the Dark', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18078'),
(23888, 'Beverly Henderson', 'Stormcrow &amp; The Deer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17405'),
(23889, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19223'),
(23890, 'Bewitched,Bothered &amp; BeVampyred', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14799'),
(23891, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters; Cole Christian Kingseed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14802'),
(23892, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters &amp; Cole Christian Kingseed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18409'),
(23893, 'Beyond belief', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TheNew York Times Book Reviewhailed Roy Johansen''s debut,The Answer Man, as "offbeat [and] fascinating." Now the Edgar Award winner and Shamus Award finalist once again "keeps the pages turning" (Los Angeles Times) in a new thriller that pits a professional skeptic against something inexplicable â€” and undeniably lethal. Joe Bailey is the Spirit Basher. Formerly a professional magician, he''s become an ace police detective in Atlanta, debunking phony psychics and spiritualists who prey on the gullible. And he''s just caught his first sensational murder case. The victim is someone Joe knew. Dr. Robert Nelson was a professor at Landwyn University, head of the parapsychology program. He was killed in his own home, a sculpture of massive chrome spikes driven through his body and into a wall. A sculpture that no one could possibly have lifted. But Nelson''s girlfriend claims to know the murderer: an eight-year-old boy. Jesse Randall is not just any child. Some people say he can move objects using nothing more than his will. Nelson had been studying the boy, and Jesse''s anger at the professor was erupting in "shadow storms" â€” violent telekinetic activity â€” while Jesse slept. Nelson''s girlfriend swears that one of these episodes was responsible for Nelson''s brutal death. Joe is far from convinced. He''s certain that Jesse''s power is a hoax and Nelson''s killer is a master of deception. Driven to seek out the truth that surely lies behind the psychic fakery, Joe must rely on his wits to separate what''s real from what''s illusion â€” even if it means drawing Jesse''s anger on himself. Soon mysterious incidents thrust him and his own child into grave peril. Are they examples of Jesse''s shadow storms? Or deadly warnings from someone who cannot allow the Spirit Basher to discover the truth? Joe cannot abandon his search for answers. And he''d better find them fast before whoever â€” or whatever â€” impaled Robert Nelson like an insect does the same to him and his daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14804'),
(23894, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14807'),
(23895, 'Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink', 'David Margolick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit''s Joe Louis and Germany''s Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The African-American Louis''s success and demeanor were an unsubtle rebuke to the Aryan theories of race; the affable Schmeling, for his part, would be shoehorned into the role of "Nazi Max," despite the uneasiness of the fitâ€”later that year, on Kristallnacht, he would courageously protect two German Jews. _Vanity Fair\n <em>\n  contributor Margolick (\n </em>\n Strange Fruit_) keeps his bold, colorful focus squarely on the hubbub leading up to the bout; the all-consuming welter of hypeâ€”almost every utterance in the book is tinged by race or geopoliticsâ€”makes for compelling reading. The fight pitted talent against tactics: Schmeling''s previous defeat of the hitherto "unbeatable" Louis depended on Schmeling''s shrewd perception of a flaw in Louis''s technique. Louis was a critical transitional figure between the controversial first African-American champ, Jack Johnson, and the equally polarizing Muhammad Ali. Schmeling, in turn, was truly the antithesis of the thugs who were running his country. Every chapter in the company of such estimable and likable stalwarts is an unalloyed pleasure. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the greatest fight of our generation." The greatest fight, as it turned out, was still to come and would be contested outside the boxing ring. This new book examines a world near war and grapple with the lasting importance of Louis versus Schmeling. Margolick provides a roaring ride through Nazi Germany and Depression-era America, as seen in the lives of Louis and Schmeling. Written with all the verve and wit of the best 1930s sportswriters (whom Margolis often quotes to great effect),\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n contains gripping accounts of Louis and Schmeling''s two fights with each other and their bouts with other top contenders. But the greatest strength of Margolick''s narrative is the larger history it supplies. For two boxers who claimed no interest in politics, Schmeling and Louis got caught up in one of the great political conflicts of the century. Margolick magnificently captures the tension--between white and black, American and German, Jew and Gentile, Fascist and Democrat--that defined the time. Readers emerge with nuanced characterizations of the fighters and the nations they represented. With its balance of popular history and riveting comeback story,\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n will be the definitive account of Louis versus Schmeling. And it''s a hell of a good read besides.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14808'),
(23896, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14810'),
(23897, 'Beyond lies the wub: the collected short stories of Philip K. Dick', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14812'),
(23898, 'Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English', 'Bhante Henepola Gunaratana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In\n <em>\n  Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offered basic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana) meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n he presents the levels of concentration with the same simplicity and humor that made the previous book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, those meditative states of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path to joy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the author provides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation as a tool for building a more fulfilling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14814'),
(23899, 'Beyond Seduction', 'Kathleen O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Sex didn''t scare her** Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks''s first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. **This thing beyond seduction did.** This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam''s career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14815'),
(23900, 'Beyond the Aquila Rift', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18166'),
(23901, 'Beyond the blue event horizon', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14816'),
(23902, 'Beyond the City', 'Doyle, Arthur Conan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donohue, Henneberry and Co., Chicago\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14818'),
(23903, 'Beyond The Door and Other Stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n True and Complete Edition: A missing set of four key stories by master Science Fiction writer PKD. Responsible for Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Minority Report, Total Recall and more. These 4 pivotal stories usually not found in Dick books: Beyond The Door...Did you ever what would happen if an inanimate figure not only came to life, but hated you as well?.... Beyond Lies The Wub...The slovenly wub said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools - there is danger of the worst kind coming. The Crystal Crypt...Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl. The Defenders...No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war-perhaps because we never had any weapons that thought for themselves! Among the most powerful, frightening, twisted &amp; funny of Dick''s short stories. A superb book - well recommended! Time to read a missing Philip K. Dick classic set!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14820'),
(23904, 'Beyond the Hanging Wall', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone high fantasy set in the same universe as her Wayfarer Redemption series (Enchanter, etc.), Australian Douglass fashions a promising milieu of elemental Gnostic magic within a rugged coastal setting. Unfortunately, stock characters wending their way down standard plot-lines to a foregone conclusion obscure her world-building. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice healer who''s inherited an extra helping of "the Touch" (the ability to feel-and, to some degree, alleviate-his patients'' pain), journeys to the Veins, a complex of underground mines. While tending condemned workers in the shafts, Garth happens upon prisoner 859, whom Garth''s Touch reveals to be Prince Maximilian, the missing heir to the throne of Escator. Later, in the Land of Dreams, Garth has a conversation with the ancient heraldic beast of Escator, the droll monster Manteceros, who agrees to confirm the identity of the true king if Garth can rescue prisoner 859 from the Veins and have him challenge the vile pretender, King Cavos. In an overly complicated finale Manteceros administers a moral test of worthiness to the two kingly claimants. Maximilian''s near-instantaneous transformation after 17 years'' hard labor from broken-minded wretch to dashing, lighthearted prince strains credibility, while a spate of hand-waving mystical exposition at book''s end does more to confuse than resolve the story. Still, the atmosphere of maritime magic is diverting, and, for fans of the author''s Redemption books, this may be enough.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourteen-year-old Garth and his father are healers gifted with "the Touch." Because the physicians of Escator are required to spend three weeks each year ministering to the prisoners confined in the dank, underground mine called the Veins, Garth''s father brings his son, still an apprentice, along when he goes to fulfill his obligation. Using his own powers to heal, Garth senses the king''s mark on a prisoner and suspects that beneath layers of dirt lies the young prince who disappeared 17 years ago and had been presumed dead. Aided by a marsh witch, a mythical creature, an order of monks, and his own courage, Garth sets out to rescue the prince and restore him to his kingdom. Australian Douglass'' latest American release is packed with sympathetic characters and heroic challenges. Lacking the violence and sex of Douglass''\n <em>\n  Hades Daughter\n </em>\n [BKL Ja 1 &amp; 15 03], this is a rousing fantasy for all ages.\n <em>\n  Candace Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19252'),
(23905, 'Beyond the High Road - Book 2', 'Denning, Troy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14822'),
(23906, 'Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14823'),
(23907, 'Beyond the pale', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making her perfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14826'),
(23908, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom. In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him. Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess. * Beyond the Shadows* is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14833');
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(23909, 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan', 'Jamie Zeppa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Despite the initial shock of material privation and such minor inconveniences as giardia, boils, and leeches, Zeppa felt herself growing into the vast spaces of simplicity that opened up beyond the clutter of modern life. Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. Still she maintained her center by devouring the library''s Buddhist tracts and persevering in an increasingly fruitful meditation practice. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. Zeppa''s candid, witty account is a spiritual memoir, a travel diary, and, more than anything, a romance that retraces the vicissitudes of ineluctable passion.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Bruya\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zeppa''s story is nearly an inversion of the ancient Buddhist tale of Siddhartha (in which a prince ventures from the paradise of his father''s palace only to find the suffering and decay that he never knew existed) in that the author, at the age of 22, abruptly leaves a stale life in Canada to become a volunteer teacher in the remote and largely undisturbed Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Cloaked in the airy mountains between India and China, Bhutan initially frustrates but eventually captivates Zeppa with its rudimentary lifestyle that forces her to question former values and plans for the future. Though the story line would seem to open itself to cloying romanticization, Zeppa''s telling of her clumsy attempts to adapt rings with sincerity and inspires sympathy. She thinks to herself upon visiting a local house: "In one shadowy corner, there is a skinny chicken. I blink several times but it does not vanish. Is it a pet? Is it dinner?" Zeppa''s lucid descriptions of the craggy terrain and honest respect for the daily struggles of the natives bring the tiny land to life in a way that is reverent but real. Though she tries to avoid what a friend terms "that Shangri-La-Di-Da business" and grapples with the poverty, sexism and political squabbles in Bhutan that bother her, there is little doubt that she sees the place in a largely positive light and is tempted to remain. In the end, Zeppa''s is a lively tale of her earnest efforts to reconcile what she has learned with what she has known. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19370'),
(23910, 'Beyond the Waters of the World', 'Ruth Nestvold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14834'),
(23911, 'Beyond World&#39;s End', 'Mercedes Lackey; Rosemary Edghill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***This is your soul on drugs...*** After the events chronicled in *Bedlam''s Bard,* world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there''s a new evil for them to quard against.... When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world -- and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyon. With his possibly loyal companions -- a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle -- Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham''s fate -- and his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14836'),
(23912, 'BeyondTheWall', 'Justin Stanchfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14839'),
(23913, 'Biba&#39;s Northern Italian Cooking', 'Biba Caggiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba''s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from antipasto to dessert, with dishes for all occasions. First she discusses essential Italian ingredients and equivalents and begins each course section with a brief account of what it entails. Her Green Lasagne Bologna Style, Shellfish Risotto, Pheasant with Gin and Juniper Berries and Pears Poached in Red Wine will lure eager diners to a bounteous table.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italian-born Biba Caggiano takes readers under her wing with more than 200 recipes from Northern Italy-the center of great cooking. Simple-to-master recipes cover tortellini from scratch, authentic pasta sauces, savory meat dishes, luscious desserts and more. This new edition features everything from simple dishes for a family meal to more elaborate recipes for special occasions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Homemade Minestrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tagliatelle Bolognese Style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shellfish Risotto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bruschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil\n </li>\n <li>\n  Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14841'),
(23914, 'Bibi', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14842'),
(23915, 'Bible stories for adults', 'James Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Job''s back on the old dung heap, and he wants a rematch with God. A Series-700 computer successfully reconstructs the tablets with the Ten Commandments from a million indecipherable shards - only to have second thoughts. Sheila, the lascivious sinner fished from the Flood by the captain of the Ark, has an agenda all her own. A congregation of sexless androids believes Darwin''s theory of evolution applies to them and awaits the Great Genital Coming. And God justifies why he once beset mankind with an unusual plague. Why? Spare the rod, spoil the species, He says. (And He''s always right. That''s why He''s got the job.). James Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the dozen offerings is "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge," winner of a Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Humorous, cheerfully blasphemous, and ultimately poignant, these tales show Morrow at his divine best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14843'),
(23916, 'Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17, The Deluge', 'James Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14844'),
(23917, 'The Bicentennial Man and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov''s single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4912'),
(23918, 'Bicycle diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities** Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14845'),
(23919, 'Biding Time', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14847'),
(23920, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4913'),
(23921, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4915'),
(23922, 'Big Black Mark', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18376'),
(23923, 'The Big Black Mark', 'A. Bertram Chandler; Bertram A. Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mutiny aboard the Discovery ends John Grimes'' military career with the Galactic Federation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4916'),
(23924, 'The Big Bounce', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n PLAYMATE OF THE DAYJack Ryan has a man''s fists, a boy''s mind, and the cunning of an ex-con. Nancy Hayes has a woman''s sleek moves and the instincts of a shark. Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself.For Ryan the choice is clear: Nancy''s promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns, and maybe stealing a whole lot of money are driving him half mad. But there''s one thing Ryan doesn''t know yet: his new playmate is planning the deadliest thrill of all.Razor-sharp and wholly unpredictable, The Big Bounce is an Elmore Leonard classic--a sly, beguiling story of a man, a woman, and a nasty little crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4917'),
(23925, 'Big City Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14851'),
(23926, 'The Big Four', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot''s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man''s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ''Number Four''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14853'),
(23927, 'The Big Gamble', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Michael McGarrity''s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney''s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4919'),
(23928, 'Big Girl: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Household name Steel (_Going Home_) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the tester cake, and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister''s shadow, and though she loves Gracie dearly, she''s anxious to leave home. The pain doesn''t stop there, though. Her father calls her first job at a prestigious private school in Manhattan pathetic, and Victoria begins a battle with her weight and her belief that she is unlovable (even though men pursue her). The premise of the story is sound, but it doesn''t ring true: the parents are two-dimensional, cruel monsters and Victoria seems to have everything: fantastic job, amazing apartment, perfect best friends. It''s hard to believe that her parents would still wield such power. Steel barely grazes the surface of an important topic, but it''s not reality that has positioned her at the top of bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14855'),
(23929, 'Big Guy', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14857'),
(23930, 'Big Hello', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14859'),
(23931, 'The Big Honey Hunt', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--_Chicago Tribune. _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his â€œsmartsâ€ to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4921'),
(23932, 'The Big Ice', 'Jay Lake &amp; Ruth Nestvold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4923'),
(23933, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14861'),
(23934, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14862'),
(23935, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18762'),
(23936, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(23937, 'The Big Night', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4925'),
(23938, 'The Big Nowhere', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff''s deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they''re his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.''s Bureau brass. He''s climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4927'),
(23939, 'Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19187'),
(23940, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4928'),
(23941, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14865'),
(23942, 'The Big Sleep and Other Novels', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Raymond Chandler created the fast - talking, trouble - seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe''s entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective''s iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell, My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Chandler''s brilliant epitaph, The Long Good - Bye. ''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain.'' Sunday Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4932'),
(23943, 'The big sleep', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in."Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."--Ross Macdonald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4930'),
(23944, 'The Big Sleep: Farewell, My Lovely ; The High Window', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Raymond Chandlerâ€™s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandlerâ€™s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector.In all three novels, Chandlerâ€™s hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establish his claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to the pantheon of literary art.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4934'),
(23945, 'Big Sur', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Ceacute;line, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac''s own athletic sacred insight."Big Sur''s humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a suerior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished-others crack up. Here we meet San Francisco''s poets &amp; recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a ''writer,'' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with ''Sea,'' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur." -Allen Ginsberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19023'),
(23946, 'The Big Thaw', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It''s very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad''s third outing in his series featuring Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his partner Hester Gorse. The only thing mild is the humor in this spare procedural, which involves the usual turf battle between the white hats (local law enforcement) and the black hats (the FBI) as a sidebar to the main plot. Instead of the mean streets and criminal underclass of urban thrillers, we get the militant extremists who frequent the vast, empty reaches of the Midwest. In this case, the black hats are onto the crazies, and the local good guy, Deputy Carl, is caught in the crossfire. The crazies want enough money to blow the heartland (who wouldn''t, in January?), and to get it, they''re prepared to blow up Iowa''s biggest economic asset, a riverboat casino on the Mississippi. They''re being manipulated by a chief crazy (or maybe an arch crazy) named Gabriel, and (naturally) the feds have been a few steps behind Gabriel for a while now. Deputy Carl is a nice guy, but irony is not his strong suit, and he''s not particularly fast on the uptake, either. Eventually he does save the day in this somewhat pedestrian and slow-motion regional mystery. If you liked the movie\n <em>\n  Fargo\n </em>\n , you''ll love\n <em>\n  The Big Thaw\n </em>\n . --_Jane Adams_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony Award nominee Harstad (Eleven Days and Known Dead) makes a third foray to the town of Nation County, Iowa, in this compelling police procedural. One cold winter night, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman gets a call to join the pursuit of a burglary suspect who''s leading the police on a merry car chase. When the suspect drives into a snowy ditch, Houseman digs him out and recognizes him as Fred Grothler, a bored kid who''s committed petty crimes in the past. Fred confesses that he and his two cousins, Dirk and Royce Colson, have been responsible for a spate of recent break-ins into the homes of wealthy residents staying warm in Florida. Two nights earlier he dropped his cousins off at Cletus Borglan''s palatial farmhouse, but they never came out. Maybe they froze? Houseman visits the farm and indeed finds Dirk and Royce frozen stiffAafter having been shot dead. Hardly any of the characters in this busy novel are what they seem. Upstanding citizen Borglan keeps a library whose contents betray his extreme antigovernment views. Even the FBI special agent who takes charge of the case has some strange associates for a lawman. A retired deputy sheriff, Harstad writes "cop talk" that''s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny. He also supplies plenty of interesting trivia. For instance, half a million quarters, stacked, stretch 4.2 miles and weigh 25,000 pounds. That''s what Houseman and Hester Gorse, his second in command, have to secure on the Beauregard, Nation County''s floating casino and scene of the book''s spectacular finale. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4937'),
(23947, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist...and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt''s intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny''s alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid''s room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks'' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur''s embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks'' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph."The funniest book I''ve read in fifty years."--Elmore Leonard"Despite wealth, fame and a tendency to undermedicate himself, Dave Barry remains one of the funniest writers alive. Big Trouble is outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved--and harrowingly close to true life in Florida. This book will do for our tourism industry what Dennis Rodman did for bridal wear."--Carl Hiaasen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14867'),
(23948, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4939'),
(23949, 'Bigger Than Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14869'),
(23950, 'The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!', 'Cheryl Forberg &amp; Melissa Roberson &amp; Lisa Wheeler &amp; Biggest Loser Experts &amp; Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the last six seasons of\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser,\n  </em>\n  you''ve watched as contestants shed pounds, got healthy, and dramatically changed their lives for the better. In fact, you may have been so inspired by the showâ€™s remarkable success stories that you''ve considered embarking on your own weight loss journey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re looking to get healthy now, thereâ€™s good news: You don''t have to spend time at the ranch to benefit from\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  magic.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE BIGGEST LOSER: 30 DAY JUMP STAR\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  T brings all of the secrets of the ranch right into your own home.\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  expertsâ€”the same ones who advise the contestantsâ€”are here to walk you through a 30-day plan that will kick off your weight loss and help you build new, healthy habits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book youâ€™ll find easy-to-follow menus, recipes, exercise plans, and motivation for each day of the week. Youâ€™ll also find helpful tips and advice from past\n  <em>\n   Biggest Losers\n  </em>\n  who have been in your shoes, including the nine contestants from Season 7 who left the ranch early to follow this very plan at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So far, the Biggest Losers have lost more than a combined 10,000 pounds. But for each of them, the journey started with a commitment: to health, to weight loss, and to themselves. The first steps toward a healthier future are in this bookâ€”what are you waiting for? Make the commitment, take the leapâ€”and begin your 30 day jump start today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cheryl Forberg, RD,\n  </strong>\n  is the nutritionist for\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  . As co-creator of the eating plan, she has counseled each season''s contestants on reaching their fitness and nutrition goals. A James Beard award-winning chef, Cheryl brings a flavorful and fresh approach to eating for weight loss with a special emphasis on anti-aging. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Positively Ageless: A 28-Day Plan for a Younger, Slimmer Sexier You\n  </em>\n  (Rodale, 2008). Cheryl is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Napa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Roberson\n  </strong>\n  is the editor of BiggestLoserClub.com, the website that offers food, fitness, and exercise tips. She often visits the ranch and interviews trainers and contestants about their inspiring weight loss journeys. She is a web veteran, having worked on new media projects for Time Inc.,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , News Corps., Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. She lives in Hoboken, NJ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , an international dance/fitness professional based in New York City, is the National Creative Manager for Equinox Group Fitness, a Contributing Editor for\n  <em>\n   Shape\n  </em>\n  Magazine and Choreographer for Cal Pozo''s Fit Vid Productions, where clients include The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, American Gladiators and Denise Austin. She has appeared in more than 20 fitness videos, FiT TV, and hosted The Method Fitness Show. Lisa leads the Westin Workout segments on SPG TV and has hosted fitness programs for the NFL Channel, CNN Headline News, The View and QVC. She holds NASM, ACSM, ACE, and AFAA certifications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19003'),
(23951, 'Biggie and the Devil Diet', 'Nancy Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole. Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14870'),
(23952, 'The Bike Lesson', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, heâ€™s all set to ride itâ€“that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Papa teaches Junior to ride a bicycle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4940'),
(23953, 'Bili the Axe', '(franklin) Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14711'),
(23954, 'Bill 01 Bill The Galactic Hero', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14713'),
(23955, 'Bill 02 Bill on the Planet of Robot Slaves', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14715'),
(23956, 'Bill 03 Bill on the Planet of Bottled Brains', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14718'),
(23957, 'Bill 04 Bill on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14719');
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(23959, 'Bill 06 Bill on the Planet of the Hippies From Hell', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14722'),
(23960, 'Bill 07 The Final Incoherent Adventure', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14724'),
(23961, 'Bill Baldwin - Helmsman 1', 'user', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17422'),
(23962, 'Bill Bryson - Made in America', 'AP1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14726'),
(23963, 'Bill McCay', 'Stargate Retaliation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17430'),
(23964, 'Bill McCay', 'Stargate Rebellion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17431'),
(23965, 'Bill The Galactic Hero', 'Aspirin, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14729'),
(23966, 'Bill Vaughan', 'The Wall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17433'),
(23967, 'Bill Warrington&#39;s Last Chance', 'James King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride ** Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them. In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, *Bill Warrington''s Last Chance* speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14732'),
(23968, 'Bill, the galactic hero', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of apassing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the EmpireSpace Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th Class in the process.En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill''sspaceship is involved in a supreme conflict and -- by accident -- Bill isthe man who saves the ship and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade: the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered planet Helio. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and surprising ways . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14734'),
(23969, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow''s mesmerizing odyssey about a teenage, fatherless street kid adopted by mobsters makes its first appearance in trade paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14736'),
(23970, 'Billy Bob 1 - Cimarron Rose', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14737'),
(23971, 'Billy Bob 2 - Heartwood', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10802'),
(23972, 'Billy Bob 3 - Bitterroot', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14714'),
(23973, 'Billy Bob 4 - In The Moon Of Red Ponies', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14740'),
(23974, 'Billy Budd', 'Herman Melville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001085\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14741'),
(23975, 'Binary', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972 under the pen-name  John Lange. The villain is a middle-class small businessman named John Wright who decides to assassinate the President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14743'),
(23976, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 1 - Refugee', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7131'),
(23977, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 2 - Mercenary', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8962'),
(23978, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 3 - Politician', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7517'),
(23979, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 4 - Executive', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7133'),
(23980, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 5 - Statesman', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14759'),
(23981, 'Bio of A Space Tyrant 6 - The Iron Maiden', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3451'),
(23982, 'Bio of a Space Tyrant: Executive', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14747'),
(23983, 'Bio of a Space Tyrant: Mercenary', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14750'),
(23984, 'Bio of a Space Tyrant: Politician', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14752'),
(23985, 'Bio of a Space Tyrant: Refuge', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14755'),
(23986, 'Bio of a space tyrant: Statesman', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14757'),
(23987, 'Bio Strike', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14760'),
(23988, 'Bio-Strike', 'Tom Clancy; Jerome Preisler; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy lives in Maryland, USA. His bestselling books include RAINBOW SIX and THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14763'),
(23989, 'The Biofab War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Harrison and Zahava, intelligence agents, and Greg Farnesworth, explore an ancient temple and discover a matter transmitter that transports them to an alien spacecraft\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4942'),
(23990, 'The Biography Project', 'H. L. Gold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4945'),
(23991, 'Biped Reegan', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18118'),
(23992, 'Birchwood', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one of the most startling of the century''s varied achievements in Irish writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Seamus Deane\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Scotsman_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Birchwoo_d represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing..â€\n <br />\n â€”Colm Toibin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I am therefore I think\n </em>\n . So starts John Banvilleâ€™s 1973 novel\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secretsâ€”a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmotherâ€”Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland,\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14765'),
(23993, 'Bird Eating Bird: Poems', 'Kristin Naca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca''s debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets'' first books. Poems short and long, made of family anecdotes and (like Neruda''s) of impressionistic lists, poems of remembered place (The Adoration at El Montan, set in San Antonio, Tex.) and poems of sexual joy between women give uncommon variety to the collection, even as Naca''s fast pace, mixed English and Spanish (with bits of Tagalog), and first-person emphasis give it obvious unity. Spanish means there''s another person/ inside you, she remembers her father saying. Poems composed originally in English mix with poems composed in Spanish and printed with her English translations. The next-to-last poem finds Naca in Mexico City, City so high that passion lacks heat... City where I spoke a word of Spanish, and like a spigot, my dreams squeezed shut. She also takes up, repeatedly, her Filipino-American background, the Pittsburgh of her youth, and the wide-open spaces she saw as an optimistic young writer in Nebraska. Chosen for the National Poetry Series'' new mtvU award by Yusef Komunyakaa, the volume might be noticed by young people who may not otherwise purchase poetry but may discover Naca on cable TV.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristinâ€²s work perpetuates NPSâ€²s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter â€²hâ€² -- among other things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14768'),
(23994, 'Bird in Hand', 'Christina Baker Kline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her fourth novel (after\n <em>\n  The Way Life Should Be\n </em>\n ), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey after an awkward party for her lifelong friend Claire''s highly autobiographical first novel, Alison gets into a car accident that kills a boy in the other car. Even though the accident wasn''t her fault, Allison, a mother of two young children, is wracked with grief and guilt. Her husband, Charlie, also struggles with the impulse to blame his wife, especially as he longs for any excuse to escalate his nascent affair with Claire and end his marriage. Episodes detailing the inevitable collapse of Alison and Charlie''s marriage, as well as Claire''s marriage to her well-meaning husband, Ben, are interspersed with vignettes revealing the four friends'' 10-plusâ€“year history together. Shifting perspectives and thoughtful interior monologues reveal just how isolated, and in some cases misguided, the characters are. Kline''s unflinching gaze and lovely prose sets Kline''s novel apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. It''s well-done, thoughtful and thought provoking.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œChristina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful.â€ (Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and That Old Cape Magic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.â€ (More magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is both thrilling and terrifying to read this powerful new novel and think: this could be me. Christina Baker Kline takes us on an intimate journey with her characters, one that brings us dangerously close to the hidden truths about love, trust and friendship.â€ (Ellen Sussman, author of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex; Bad Girls: 25 Writers Misbehave; and On a Night Like This )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set [BIRD IN HAND] apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. Itâ€™s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Bird in Hand] exhibits an unsparing eye for the telling details that reveal how people think and act.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKline explores the complications of the lines and bonds between marriage and friendship with honest and complex emotions on all four narrative fronts.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping tale about two crumbling marriages, [BIRD IN HAND] offers a realistic and, at times, heartbreaking look at love and friendship.â€ (RealSimple.com, Entertainment Pick )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. This is a wise and lovely book.â€ (Roxana Robinson, author of Cost )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14770'),
(23995, 'Bird in the Hand', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14773'),
(23996, 'Bird of Prey', 'John Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14775'),
(23997, 'The Bird Painter in Time of War', 'Carol Emshwiller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4946'),
(23998, 'Birdie', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14776'),
(23999, 'Birdsong', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man''s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as **A Farewell to Arms** and as sensuous as **The English Patient**. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, **Birdsong** is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14780'),
(24000, 'Birth Day', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14781'),
(24001, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians were finally defeated, Arn is saved from certain death by Saladin, his longtime enemy and trusted friend. Ravaged by wounds and sickness, Arn is at last granted his wish: to return at last to his homeland, it plagued by endless wars. Arn is determined to find her - the woman for whom he was exiled. He must discover if their love could endure so long a separation, and if it can sustain his new quest: the create a new people, a new society, both Christian and Muslim, both craftsmen and warriors, with Arn at its helm, fighting for peace in a savage land. A fitting conclusion to a great trilogy, a bestseller all over Europe, and now the basis for a major film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14783'),
(24002, 'Birthmarked', 'Caragh M. O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n IN THE ENCLAVE, YOUR SCARS SET YOU APART, and the newly born will change the future. Sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone and her mother faithfully deliver their quota of three infants every month. But when Gaia''s mother is brutally taken away by the very people she serves, Gaia must question whether the Enclave deserves such loyalty. A stunning adventure brought to life by a memorable heroine, this dystopian debut will have readers racing all the way to the dramatic finish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18416'),
(24003, 'Birthright', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14784'),
(24004, 'Bishop, Anne - Dark Jewels 01', 'Blood, Daughter of the', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16186'),
(24005, 'Bishop, Anne - Dark Jewels 02', 'Shadows, Heir to the', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14687'),
(24006, 'Bishop, Anne - Dark Jewels 03', 'Darkness, Queen of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14688'),
(24007, 'Bishop, Anne - DREAMS MADE FLESH', 'Dreams Made Flesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14689'),
(24008, 'Bishop, Anne - DREAMS MADE FLESH', 'Dreams made of flesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17778'),
(24009, 'A Bit on the Side', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of storiesâ€”a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her marriage to a hateful man in "Sitting with the Dead"; a woman stalked by her lonely, possibly violent ex-husband in "On the Streets"; an heiress who compulsively recounts her tragic life story to total strangers in "Solitude"; and a couple who exploit each other on a blind date in "An Evening Out"â€”are generally 50-ish, usually childless and almost always burdened by regret over relationships decayed or forgone. They live in the aftermath of irremediable mistakes, ruefully cognizant that hope and romance are often delusory covers for self-interest and survival. Even the youngâ€”an 18-year-old girl who weeps with regret over future betrayals, an Irish woman who calls off her wedding after realizing she loves the dream of America more than her intendedâ€”are melancholy and introspective. Trevor reveals his native Ireland as a world sandwiched between modernity and its accompanying wealth, secularism and vulgarity, and a past that was more soulful and pious but also more restrictive. The much-lauded Trevor (_Felicia''s Journey_;\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) explores the many sources and shadings of regret with his usual delicate but brilliant psychological nuance, brightened occasionally by nostalgia for the lost love that once impelled his characters forward.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If one were to pick a single word to characterize\n  <em>\n   A Bit on the Side\n  </em>\n  , it would be forlorn," writes Michael Dirda in the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  . Here, as in his two dozen or so collections of short fiction and novels (see\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  1/2 Jan/Feb 2003), Trevor introduces credible characters beset by hopelessness. But these Chekhovian stories, many previously published in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , offer anything but hopeless reading. Trevor is a master of simple, quiet prose and psychological intuition, and, even if you donâ€™t identify with each characterâ€™s plight, youâ€™ll recognize familiar patterns of behavior. That critics laud the relative merits of each story attests to the great power of this collection as a whole. It only proves, as\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  claims, that Trevor may be "the greatest living writer of short stories."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(24010, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 28 years old, having survived a tortured childhood raised by a peripatetic lesbian mother and a career as one of the few black writers for the New York Times and the only one for Politico.com, Andrews has surpassed the stereotype of the strong black woman and been deemed â€œperfect girlâ€ by a boyfriend desperately trying not to commit. Andrews offers a caustic and humorous running account of her life, mad texting her girlfriends about dates and career horrors, as she navigates the prickly terrain of a modern America getting used to a black First Lady and struggling to rethink its image of black women in general. She recounts adventures with her dog Miles, who apparentlyâ€”to her embarrassmentâ€”hates black men, and her search for Mr. Right, including a date with President Obama''s bodyguard. She also offers painful recollections of near-abandonment by her mother, later growing up the only black child on Catalina Island, watching The Cosby Show with longing. Fans of her acerbic wit will appreciate this collection of essays. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] bitingly funny â€” and honest â€” read....[Andrews] establishes herself as an individual, proving that the women who fit into the â€œstrong (single) black womanâ€ category are more complex than the one-dimensional persona lets on.â€ (Associated Press )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAndrewsâ€™ combination of personal anecdote and analysis of success and race makes her tales unique. And at the same time, her exploration of gender in America is one surely any woman can relate to.â€ (Bust Magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Bitch Is the New Black_ is an authentic fresh exploration of what it is to be young, black, and single right nowâ€”from a voice both outrageously funny and heartbreakingly honest.â€ (Shonda Rhimes, creator of "Grey''s Anatomy" and "Private Practice" )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI didnâ€™t like this book. I\n <em>\n  loved\n </em>\n it....Iâ€™m giving copies to all of my girlfriends who have crazy families, love lives that revolve around IM, and, of course, Iâ€™m pretending I helped Helen write it.â€ (Angela Nissel, author of\n <em>\n  Mixed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Broke Diaries\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe scathingly witty author examines a wide variety of topics that, beneath the jokes and sarcasm, address weighty issues (depression, aging, abortion) with wry astutenessâ€¦An irreverent, savvy and sharp memoir.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith honesty and wit...Andrews is not afraid to reveal anything, even her bra size.â€ (Washington Post )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14692'),
(24011, 'Bite', 'Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14694'),
(24012, 'Bite Club', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14697'),
(24013, 'Bite the Bullet', 'LA Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14700'),
(24014, 'Bitten - Women of the Otherworld 1', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14702'),
(24015, 'Bitten - Women of the Underworld', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9849'),
(24016, 'Bitten by Cupid', 'Lynsay Sands, Pamela Palmer, Jaime Rush', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14704'),
(24017, 'The Bitten', 'LA Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4949'),
(24018, 'Bitter Frost', 'Kailin Gow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20697'),
(24019, 'Bitter Gold Hearts', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Stormwarden''s children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold--after all, even in this enchanted land, he''s only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14710'),
(24020, 'Bitterness of Women', 'Mary Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Native American\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14712'),
(24021, 'Bittersweet', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the rest of her novels, Steel''s 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TV''s\n <em>\n  Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\n </em>\n . Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist if it wasn''t for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom, and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League, and Doug''s revelation that he''s happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, a.k.a. "Lion of Wall Street," who has a yacht called the\n <em>\n  Sea Star\n </em>\n and likes to coo such things as "I think I''m a little crazy, but I love you." Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seem destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. What''s not to love about Danielle Steel? She starts so many sentences with the word\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n that you start to do it yourself. And there''s a run-on quality to the narrator''s consciousness. But she drips glamour, drops famous names better than Robin Leach, and makes those pages fly so fast they cool your face on the hottest beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many a stay-at-home mom''s worst nightmare is realized in Steel''s latest novel when India Taylor''s husband, Doug, threatens to end their 17-year marriage if she dares to pursue her long-abandoned photojournalism career. Doug repetitively intones that marriage is by necessity an unromantic contract in which the wife''s sole purpose is to care for the home, kids and husband, and if she reneges on her end of the deal with a pipe dream of independence, that is the ultimate "deal breaker." But in tried-and-true Steel (Mirror Image, etc.) fashion, India has a handsome Wall Street billionaire, Paul Ward, in the wings. His glamorous wifeAan internationally bestselling authorAdies in a plane crash several months after he and India have struck up a close friendship. But then Paul turns guilty and skittish about the budding romance, leaving India alone to face the harsh realities of being a single mom of four. Predictably, India''s desolation is brief, punctuated by travel, adventure, a thrilling new career and a near-tragedy to put everything into perspective. As usual, Steel takes a theme of interest or concern to manyAin this case, a woman striking out on her ownAand turns it into a compulsively readable tale. With its swiftly moving story line and tidy love-conquers-all ending, Steel''s latest should gratify her millions of fans. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14716'),
(24022, 'Bitterwood', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  In the distant futureâ€”year 1070 of the Dragon Age, to be exactâ€”Earth has been commandeered by dragons, who subject their human inferiors to lives of misery and squalor, either as slaves or pets. Human Bant Bitterwood, consumed with thoughts of vengeance against the dragons he believes murdered his family, goes on a dragon-killing spree that makes him a folk hero among the oppressed human populace. When Bitterwood slays the dragons'' crown prince, Bodiel, their king vows to exterminate humankindâ€”the only way he can be certain of victory over Bitterwood. To that end, the king enlists his murderous brother Blasphiel to build a city that will serve as humanity''s abattoir. Maxey''s world is stunningly imaginative, a landscape both familiar and alien, and packed with thoughtful treats for readers. Skillfully examining themes of faith, martyrdom and heroism, Maxey maintains an unflagging believability even while borrowing some of the most generic elements from science fiction and fantasy. The dragons are wonderfully written, as is the tormented hero; it is almost a shame that the story is so self-contained, as many readers will pine for a whole series of Dragon Age titles.\n  <i>\n   (July)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Bitterwood has spent the past twenty years hunting down dragons, one at a time. But he is getting old and the hate that he has carried in his heart since a group of dragon-soldiers killed his family is beginning to fade. When he kills the royal prince dragon, the king decides the only retribution is genocide of the human race. Bitterwood is forced to enter the Free City, the grand trap designed to eradicate mankind, with thousands of others. Can he lead from within, or can a select few dragons unite to stop the king''s madness from becoming reality. Full of rich characters and drama, this is an amazingly astute vision of our own culture by way of a feudal kingdom where dragons rule, and humans are used as workers or pets.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14717'),
(24023, 'BitTorrent for Dummies', 'Susannah Gardner; Kris Krug', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Share your home movies or download new software Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business There''s certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits. Discover how to * Select, download, and install a BitTorrent client * Manage and store files you download * Choose software for making movies and audio files * Understand the legal risks of file sharing * Trim business costs with BitTorrent\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14720'),
(24024, 'Black', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14725'),
(24025, 'Black air', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14727'),
(24026, 'Black Alice', 'Thomas M. Disch; John Sladek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Held for a million dollars in ransom, Alice, a blonde, is disguised by her kidnappers as a young Black girl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14728'),
(24027, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14731'),
(24028, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler &amp; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18844'),
(24029, 'The Black Angel', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is ''blood'' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis''s violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive. And men are not the only creatures that seek it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4951'),
(24030, 'Black Blood', 'Christopher Pike - The Last Vampire 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16674'),
(24031, 'The Black Book', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh''s seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. Ane he knows that to solve teh case, he''ll have to peel back layer upon layer of unspeakable secrets to arrive at the truth. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4953'),
(24032, 'The Black Bouquet - Book 2', 'Byers, Richard Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4956'),
(24033, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14733'),
(24034, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard &amp; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18804'),
(24035, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“_The Black Cauldron_ (Holt, 1965) is the second book in the five book series by Lloyd Alexander, and is a Newbery Honor Book. It continues the story of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain. Taran, with a band of warriors and friends, is called upon to find and destroy the Black Cauldron, which is being used by the evil Arawn, Lord of the Land of Death, to produce deathless warriors from the bodies of his fallen enemies. Throughout this quest, Taran and his companions learn about sacrifice, honor, and courage. Alexander reads an author''s note at the beginning, explaining that his stories have some basis in the literary tradition of Wales, but that he wants readers to relate the stories to what is going on in their lives right now. The audiobook is ably narrated by actor James Langton who deftly creates distinctive characters and engages the audience. Listeners will must have read or listened to the first book in the series,\n <em>\n  The Book of Three\n </em>\n (Holt, 1964; Listening Library), in order to sort out the numerous characters and place names and develop a bond with the characters and their plight. Libraries already circulating the first book will want to have this available for fans.â€“_Jo-Ann Carhart, East Islip Public Library, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Taran, the gallant Assistant Pig-keeper, and his companions once again fare forth to destroy the evil that threatens their beloved country, Prydain.... A wise and wondrous tale written in epic fashion." --_Booklist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4957'),
(24036, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 2 - The Black Cauldron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15576'),
(24037, 'The Black Cloud', 'Fred Hoyle; Fred Hoyle (Sir.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4961'),
(24038, 'Black Coffee', 'Agatha Christie; Charles Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion''s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip ''twix his low lips.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14735'),
(24039, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4812'),
(24040, 'The Black Dahlia', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: El 15 de enero de 1947, en un solar de Los Angeles, aparecio el cadaver desnudo y seccionado en dos de una mujer joven. El medico forense determino que la habian torturado durante dias. Elizabeth Short, de 22 aÃƒÂ±os, llamada la Dalia Negra, llevara a los detectives a los bajos fondos de Hollywood, para asi involucrar a ciertas personas adineradas de Los Angeles. Ambos estan obsesionados por lo que fue la vida de la Dalia Negra, y, sobre todo, por capturar al individuo que la asesino / On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl''s twisted life.""Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre."" (Los Angeles Times)""Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit."" (Publishers Weekly)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4813'),
(24041, 'Black Dawn', 'LJ Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14738'),
(24042, 'Black Destroyer', 'A. E. Van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(24043, 'Black Dust', 'Graham Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14739'),
(24044, 'The black echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18778');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24045, 'Black Evening', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the American heartland to the edge of Hell, the author presents a career-spanning examination into his own life, and the fears we all share. This title is an anthology of some of this award winning author''s horror stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14742'),
(24046, 'THE BLACK FLEET CRISIS #3 - TYRANTS_TEST', 'KUBE-MCDOWELL, MICHAEL_P.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(24047, 'Black Friar Of the Flame', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14744'),
(24048, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14745'),
(24049, 'The black gryphon', 'Mercedes Lackey &amp; Larry Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fantastic odyssey into the magical prehistory of the world of Valdemar--when Valdemar is as yet unformed--follows the perilous quest of the gryphon Skandranon Rashkae as he braves the dark spells and evil forces of Maar. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4815'),
(24050, 'Black Hawk Down', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14748'),
(24051, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14749'),
(24052, 'The Black Heart', 'Patrick O&#39;Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4816'),
(24053, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14751'),
(24054, 'THE BLACK HOLE', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18265'),
(24055, 'Black Horses for the King', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This fast-moving historical fantasy by bestselling author Anne McCaffrey traces the beginnings of the British cavalry, as recounted by a boy growing up in exciting and perilous times.After his fatherâ€™s death, young Galwyn Varianus is apprenticed to his uncle, who puts the boy to work on the high seas. But horses, not ships, are Galwynâ€™s passion. Luckily, a passenger aboard, Lord Artos (later to rule as the legendary King Arthur), is bound for the great horse fair at Septimania. Risking his life, Galwyn abandons his uncle to serve the gallant leader. Galywnâ€™s calming way with horses quickly impresses Lord Artos and his men. But what no one expects is how crucial Galwyn will be to their upcoming battlesâ€”as he masters the secrets of the iron shoes that will protect the exotic horsesâ€™ delicate hooves. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14753'),
(24056, 'Black Horses For The King', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17717'),
(24057, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14754'),
(24058, 'The Black Ice Score', 'Richard Stark; Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three guys wearing black suits and holding guns were giving Parker a lesson in economics. All about the haves and the have-nots. The good guys in a new African nation were missing a treasury full of diamonds. They were the have-nots. The nation''s corrupt leader had stashed the rocks somewhere in New York City. He and his henchmen were the haves. Now the good guys needed a specialist to get their diamonds back. So they came to the best in the business: Parker. Only the three mysterious tough guys came to Parker, too. They figured three hands filled with .38s could convince him to pass up this international gem game. But leaning on Parker was like pressuring a box of TNT with a short fuse. "Cunning...courage...imagination...Parker is in action once more." (New York Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4820'),
(24059, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this surehanded sequel to The Black Echo , LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch stalks drug traffickers in L.A. and Mexico.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug\n <code>\n </code>\n black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14756'),
(24060, 'Black Is The Colour Of My True Love&#39;s Heart', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Singers and musicians are gathered for a course in folk music that will occupy a weekend in the fantastic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have non-musical scores to settle. When brilliantly talented Liri Palmer sings " Black, black, black is the color of my true-love''s heart!" she clearly has a message for someone in the audience. Passions run high, and there is murder brewing at Follymead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14758'),
(24061, 'Black is the New White', 'Paul Mooney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14761'),
(24062, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney &amp; Dave Chappelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18760'),
(24063, 'Black Jewels 00 - The Invisible Ring (Prequel)', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A prequel set in the â€œdark and sensual worldâ€( 11th Hour) of the national bestselling Black Jewels Trilogy.Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience. After suffering nine years of torment as a slave, he murdered his owner and escapedâ€”only to be caught and sold into slavery once again. The notorious queen who has purchased him, known as the Gray Lady, may not be what she seems. Soon, Jared faces a difficult choice: his freedom, or his honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3542'),
(24064, 'Black Jewels 01 - Daughter of the Blood', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Bishop''s debut novel, Daughter of the Blood, is like black coffee--strong, dark, and hard on delicate stomachs. Within the Blood (a race of magic-users), women rule and men serve, but tradition has been corrupted so that women enslave men, who seek to destroy their oppressors. Female children are violated before they can reach maturity; men are tortured and forced to satisfy witches'' sexual appetites. Bishop''s child heroine, Jaenelle, is destined to rule the Blood, if she can reach adulthood. Her power is hidden; her family believes her mad. Saetan, High Lord of Hell and most powerful of the Blood males, becomes Jaenelle''s surrogate father and teacher. He cannot protect her outside Hell, where he rules. She refuses to leave Terreille, risking herself to protect or heal other victims of violence. Can Daemon, Saetan''s estranged son, keep her safe from the machinations of the evil High Priestess? Or will he lose his battle to control his destructive urges and endanger her? Readers may find some aspects of Bishop''s world confusing; not least that most of the good guys live in Hell. But her protagonists are compelling, sympathetic characters who overcome terrible adversity. If you like Anne Rice or Laurell K. Hamilton, try this one. --Nona Vero\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13459'),
(24065, 'Black Jewels 02 - Heir to the Shadows', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Bishop plunged into dark fantasy with her first book, Daughter of the Blood. She described a world where Blood Witches have always ruled, drawing males to their courts through seductive power. An ambitious High Priestess destroys more powerful females before maturity and has enslaved the strongest males, weakening magic and corrupting natural bonds between men and women. Sexual violence permeates Terreille. Jaenelle, born to be Queen, is vulnerable until adulthood. Though guarded by male Warlord Princes, Jaenelle is violated. Daemon, her destined Consort, rescues her but is convinced he attacked her and goes mad. In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle''s vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. To restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred--animals with magical and communicative powers--and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon''s half-brother, who offers a brother''s love and a warrior''s fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse Terreille. Bishop subverts readers'' expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle''s adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion. --Nona Vero\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10714'),
(24066, 'Black Jewels 03 - Queen of the Darkness', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began with the mystery of Daughter of the Blood. It continued with the magic of Heir to the Shadows. Now, the stunning conclusion to the The Black Jewels Trilogy. Praise for the Black Jewels Trilogy: "Fascinating... One of the most eagerly awaited conclusions to a trilogy."-- The Romance Reader"Darkly mesmerizing...fascinatingly different...worth checking out."-- Locus"Lavishly sensual...a richly detailed world."-- Library Journal"Intense...erotic, violent, and imaginative. This one is white-hot."-- Nancy Kress"So rich, so lush...so dark and compelling."-- American Bookseller"Fabulous...a uniquely realized fantasy...Ms. Bishop holds us spellbound." (four and a 1/2 stars)-- Romantic Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7346'),
(24067, 'Black Jewels 04 - Dreams Made Flesh', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The national bestselling Black Jewels trilogy established award-winning Anne Bishop as an author whose "sublime skill...blends the darkly macabre with spine-tingling emotional intensity, mesmerizing magic, lush sensuality, and exciting action."* Now the saga continues-with four all-new adventures of Jaenelle and her kindred.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12396'),
(24068, 'Black Jewels 06 - The Shadow Queen', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The national bestselling Black Jewels saga continues  Theran Grayhaven is the last of his line, desperate to restore the land of Dena Nehele. But first he needs to find a Queen who remembers the Blood''s code of honor and lives by the Old Ways.  Languishing in the Shadow Realm, Lady Cassidy is a Queen without a court. But when she is chosen to rule Dena Nehele, she must convince bitter men to serve once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2277'),
(24069, 'Black Jewels 07 - Shalador&#39;s Lady', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Return to the "intense...erotic...and imaginative" (Nancy Kress) world of the national bestselling Black Jewels novels in this sequel to The Shadow Queen.  For years the Shalador people suffered the cruelties of the corrupt Queens who ruled them, forbidding their traditions, punishing those who dared show defiance, and forcing many more into hiding. Now that their land has been cleansed of tainted Blood, the Rose-Jeweled Queen, Lady Cassidy, makes it her duty to restore it and prove her ability to rule.  But even if Lady Cassidy succeeds, other dangers await. For the Black Widows see visions within their tangled webs that something is coming that will change the land-and Lady Cassidy-forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6474'),
(24070, 'Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger''s father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger''s door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don''t want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper''s target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father''s murder buried.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of a trilogy. In the process, Hunter confirms his status as one of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger has put his past behind him until he meets Russell Pewtie, who wants to write a book about Bob Lee''s father, Earl, a state trooper who died in a shoot-out in Blue Eye, Ark., in 1955. The link between Pewtie and Bob Lee, which ties the three novels together, is that Lamar Pye, the escaped con who almost killed Pewtie''s father in Dirty White Boys, turns out to be the son of one of the men who killed Earl. Behind that death, it''s revealed here, lies a 40-year-old conspiracy that is somehow tied to the brutal murder of a young black girl that Earl was investigating on the day he died. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush that echoes the finale of Point of Impact but that stands on its own as a classic one-on-one confrontation. Other echoes of the earlier novels sound as well, giving this one the feel of a recapitulation, or a farewell. But then Hunter has set a high standard for himself-and while this novel doesn''t match the escalating craziness of Dirty White Boys or the stone-cold efficiency of Point of Impact, it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well. Literary Guild main selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14762'),
(24071, 'Black Lightning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul''s (The Homing) best?and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel''s heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that''s what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne''s husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer''s identity and motives throughout. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House AudioBook; simultaneous release of The Homing in mass market paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle. The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won''t end it...I''m sorry I won''t be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than with who is responsible. Teens seeking a deliberately told tale that promises to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in this story.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14764'),
(24072, 'Black Lotus', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he makes a shocking discovery. The three victims of the blaze did not die in the fire, but were brutally murdered before the fire even began. With a triple homicide on his hands, Sano''s search for a killer leads him to Haru, an orphan girl found at the scene of the crime. But Sano''s wife, Reiko, investigating the case against Sano''s wishes, is convinced of Haru''s innocence. Reiko''s investigation leads her behind the walls of the Black Lotus Temple, where she discovers a sect involved in extortion, prostitution, and hedonistic rituals. Could one of the sect''s members be the killer? Now Reiko must risk her marriage to Sano in order to prove Haru''s innocence...Set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, this latest installment in the bestselling series by Laura Joh Rowland is filled with shocking surprises and suspense as readers are once again allowed access into the world of Sano Ichiro.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND is the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants. She grew up in Michigan and was educated at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a B.S. in microbiology and a master''s in public health. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, Marty, and their three cats. Her previous novels include The Samurai''s Wife, The Concubine''s Tattoo, and Shinju, all of which feature the samurai-detective Sano Ichiro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14766'),
(24073, 'Black Magic', 'Cherry Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adair launches a "paranormal romantic suspense" series with this heavy-handed tale. Local wizards in San Cristobal are dying hideous deaths. Beautiful Sara Temple hates her pyrotechnic powers and can''t get her magic working to save herself from such a fate. She calls mentally to her despised ex, handsome Jack Slater, whose wizardly powers bring him teleporting to her aid. The Wizard Council informs them they must work together to ward off the evil Omnivatic snake wizards who show up every three centuries and attempt to procreate and become more powerful. Meanwhile, Jack distrusts Sara''s rich, gorgeous boss, Grant. When not over-explaining the obvious, Adair (Hot Ice) keeps the pace brisk and the action vivid. This book should appeal to readers who like bickering protagonists, plenty of sex, and a hero who always comes to the rescue, and who don''t mind a risible magic system or an obvious villain.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SHE HATES USING MAGIC . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since the death of her parents, Sara Temple has rejected her magical gifts. Then, in a moment of extreme danger, she unknowingly sends out a telepathic cry for helpâ€”to the one man she is convinced she never wants to see again.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEâ€™S A POWERFUL WIZARD . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Jackson Slater thought he was done forever with his ex-fiancÃ©e, but when he hears her desperate plea, he teleports halfway around the world to aid her in a situation where magic has gone suddenly, brutally wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n THEYâ€™VE BEEN CHOSEN TO SAVE THE WORLD . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n But while Sara and Jack remain convinced they are completely mismatched, the Wizard Council feels otherwise. A dark force is killing some of the worldâ€™s most influential wizards, and the ex-lovers have just proved their abilities are mysteriously amplified when they work together. But with the fate of the world at stake, will the violent emotions still simmering between them drive them farther apart . . . or bring them back into each otherâ€™s arms?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14767'),
(24074, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires.Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet.Published as ''The Outlaw Demon Wails'' in the US.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14769'),
(24075, 'the Black Marble (1977)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4823'),
(24076, 'The Black Minutes', 'Solares, Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4826'),
(24077, 'Black money', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who''s run off with his client''s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14771'),
(24078, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there. With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition. "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes." -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail." -Kirkus "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves." -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford." -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now." -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4828'),
(24079, 'Black notice', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean''s length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond''s Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim''s personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol''s headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: Go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.In a story that careens across international borders, "Black Notice" puts Dr. Kay Scarpetta directly in harm''s way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14772'),
(24080, 'Black Orchids', 'Rex Stout; Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore".--The New York Times Book Review. Incomparable sleuth Nero Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, find themselves trying to weed out a garden-variety killer at the annual flower show.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14774'),
(24081, 'Black Out: A Novel', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Annie Powers leads the perfect life in Florida with her husband, Gray, and their four-year-old daughter in this stellar character-driven stand-alone from bestseller Unger (_A Sliver of Truth_). Less than a decade earlier, however, Annie was Ophelia March, the teenage captiveâ€”or accompliceâ€”of spree killer Marlowe Geary. Gray, a partner in his father''s private security consultant firm, tracked Marlowe and rescued Ophelia after sending the killer''s car over a cliff. Reinventing herself with Gray''s help, Annie can''t remember all that happened during her years with Marlowe, and she''s prone to panic attacks and blackouts. When a strange man appears on her property, Annie''s sure Marlowe is back. As a shady police detective digs into her past, Annie must try to recover the memories she buried if she''s ever going to be free from Marlowe. Unger expertly turns what could have been a routine serial-killer story into a haunting odyssey for Annie, dropping red herrings and clues along the way until the reader feels as unsettled as Annie.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Annie Powers seems to lead an idyllic suburban life. She has a devoted husband, a cherubic young daughter, and a beautiful home with sweeping views of the Gulf of Florida. But not so many years ago, Annie was entangled in a scenario that was anything but serene. Her emotionally twisted relationship with serial killer Marlowe Geary had turned her from a moody teen into a criminal accomplice with a hardened heart. Only by faking her death and taking on a new identity was Annie able to jettison her pastâ€”or so she thought. Her husband, Gray, had long insisted that Marlowe was dead. But after an eerie encounter on the beach, Annie is not so sure. As the cracks in her carefully constructed facade deepen, she flees her family, determined to learn the truth. Annieâ€™s mental state becomes more precarious with each passing day, until she can no longer distinguish whatâ€™s imaginary from whatâ€™s real. Thereâ€™s a bit too much shifting between present and past in this stand-alone psychological thriller by Unger, author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ridley Jones series. But the author makes up for an occasionally awkward narrative with the compelling character of Annie: dark, troubled, and teetering on the brink. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18796'),
(24082, 'The Black Prince', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley''s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded. "Fertile invention is put to the service of an expansive sense of character; and since the book also has Miss Murdoch''s usual narrative energy and intellectual weight, it is the best novel she has written in years." (The New York Times Book Review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4830'),
(24083, 'The Black Prism', 'Weeks, Brent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4832'),
(24084, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18934'),
(24085, 'Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers', 'Kage Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including "The Queen in Yellow," written exclusively for this compilation. In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company''s field agentsÂ—once human, now centuries-old time-traveling immortal cyborgsÂ—as they attempt to retrieve history''s lost treasures. Botanist Mendoza''s search for the rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape in 1844 Spanish-held Santa Barbara, facilitator Joseph''s dreamlike solicitation of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, and marine salvage specialist Kalugin''s recovering of an invaluable EugÃ¨ne Delacroix painting from a sunken yacht off the coast of Los Angeles in 1894 are included.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14778'),
(24086, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14779'),
(24087, 'Black Rat', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14782');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24088, 'Black River', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the closed court proceedings -- stands uncomfortably in the center of the most crazed media circus to hit Seattle in years . . . until a personal tragedy diverts his attention. When photojournalist Meg Dougherty -- once Corso''s lover and still his dearest friend -- comes face-to-face with a pair of cold-blooded executioners and ends up clinging weakly to life in the I.C.U., the angry lone-wolf reporter vows to make all the guilty parties pay, by his own hand if necessary. But the black river of lies, secrets, corruption, and murder surrounding both the Balagula trial and Meg''s "accident" is much deeper and more dangerous than even Frank Corso anticipated. And if he wades in over his head, the undertow could drag him to his death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14785'),
(24089, 'Black Seconds', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Idaâ€™s friends, anyone who could have seen her. But no one has. Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasnâ€™t spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weeklyâ€”although sheâ€™s sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A motherâ€™s worst nightmare in either case: to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Idaâ€™s relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But heâ€™s puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case heâ€™s seen in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14593'),
(24090, 'Black Shrike', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14595'),
(24091, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14597'),
(24092, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14600'),
(24093, 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4834'),
(24094, 'The Black Tattoo', 'Sam Enthoven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jacks best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil endswhich, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe. Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend with floating sharks, intelligent jelly, oversized centipedes, gladiator pits, and vomiting bats, all for the sake of saving Charlie from the Scourge. And, hopefully, saving the universe from total and utter annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4836'),
(24095, 'The Black Tide', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4838'),
(24096, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now. Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14606'),
(24097, 'Black Wizards - Book 2', 'Niles, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14608'),
(24098, 'Black Wolf - Book 4', 'Gross, Dave', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14610'),
(24099, 'Blackcollar: The Judas Solution', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Damon Lathe and his blackcollar combat team were sent to capture five hidden Nova-class warships from under the Ryqril conquerors'' snouts. Against all odds they had succeeded , sharing their prize with the Terran Democratic Empire''s erstwhile Chryselli allies, who were themselves the current focus of Ryqril aggression. Lathe had followed that by successfully entering Earth''s last mountain war-era fortress and found a small resistance movement''s final project: a drug called Whiplash, which could break the supposedly unbreakable Ryqril loyalty-conditioning. Now they face their most serious challenge. On one of the conquered human colony worlds is a Ryqril tactical center through which flows an entire sector''s worth of military data. If the blackcollars can find a way inside, it could tip the balance in the current Ryqril-Chryselli war. It could even start humanity on the path back to ultimate freedom. But the Ryqril aren''t sitting idly by. Under threat of reprisals against his world, Prefect Jamus Galway of Plinry is already on the case. His plan: to turn the blackcollars and their combat skill into unknowing tools of the Ryqril. His hidden ace: a clone duplicate of Lathe''s ally Allan Caine, ready to be slipped into Lathe''s inner circle. It will be the blackcollars'' most important mission. It may also be their last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14611'),
(24100, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill''s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London''s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone''s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody-from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid-is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14613'),
(24101, 'Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he''s not that concerned. In fact, he can''t remember anything-including who he is.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the way his deadly enemies like it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14615'),
(24102, 'Blackstaff - Book 1', 'Steven E. Schend', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14616'),
(24103, 'Blackstaff Tower - Book1', 'Schend, Steven E', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14618'),
(24104, 'The Blackstone Chronicles', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Metcalf is the editor of the Blackstone Chronicle in Blackstone, NH. His father had been the director of the Blackstone Asylum before his death. Oliver had grown up in a cottage on the asylum''s grounds. A sense of evil and darkness pervades the now empty asylum. The Chronicle reports that the asylum is to be torn down and replaced with an upscale mall. About the time the wrecking ball makes its first swing, the funding for the project falls through. Residents of the town begin to receive mysterious gifts that seem to have the power to visit evil on the recipients. An accidental fall, a suicide, a kidnapping, and an explosion leave the town reeling. Metcalf knows he must remember something key to understanding the mystery and halting the terrible chain of accidents. This abridgment causes the "accidents" to appear with very little plot or character development. This, in turn, causes the terror to become somewhat tedious. The story is read with feeling and skill by Lee Meriwether. Recommended for large library collections.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From atop Blackstone''s highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker''s ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of Blackstone''s finest citizens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each bears a mysterious history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each brings a horrifying power to harm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each reveals another thread in the suspensefully woven web of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES\n</p>\n<p>\n Part I--An Eye for an Eye: The Doll\n <br />\n Part II--Twist of Fate: The Locket\n <br />\n Part III--Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon''s Flame\n <br />\n Part IV--In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief\n <br />\n Part V--Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope\n <br />\n Part VI--Asylum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4841'),
(24105, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14621'),
(24106, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(24107, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14623'),
(24108, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Daniela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17691'),
(24109, 'Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British newcomer Abercrombie fills his muddled sword-and-sorcery series opener with black humor and reluctant heroes. Logen Ninefingers, a barbarian on the run from an ex-employer who''s now king of the North, finds his loyalties complicated when he switches sides and becomes a valuable source of intel to the beleaguered Union. Glokta, a torture victim turned torturer, gets roped into securing the Union''s position against both the invading Northmen and the incompetent Union king and council, and ruthlessly wields his skills in attempts to weed out traitors. Foppish Jezal, a preternaturally excellent swordsman, manages to win the contest to become the Union champion, thanks to a little help from Bayaz, a mage with his own agenda. The workmanlike plot, marred by repetitive writing and an excess of torture and pain, is given over to introducing the mostly unlikable characters, only to send them off on separate paths in preparation for the next volume''s adventures.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "There is a gritty edge to his world and an awareness of the human cost of violence that is very contemporary." -- Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES "Comes close to living up to its publishers hype." -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood THE GUARDIAN "The Blade Itself is a page-turner powered by a combination of fast-paced action and juicy doses of cynicism. Perhaps more remarkable, however, is the way Abercrombie sets the scene." EDGE Magazine "The Blade Itself is therefore an extremely impressive debut, the first in a series subtitled The First Law, and in Joe Abercrombie it brings us a writer who oozes promise. This is surely a novel as sharp as its title." -- John Berlyne SF REVU "There''s a fat vein of cynicism and dark humour throughout. The action scenes are fast-paced and the violence takes its toll both mentally and physically. A great start to a long journey." DREAMWATCH "You''d never guess that The Blade Itself is Joe Abercrombie''s debut novel. He writes like a natural. There are great characters, sparky dialogue, an action-packed plot, and from the very first words and an opening scene that is literally a cliff-hanger, you know you are in for a cheeky, vivid, exhilarating ride." -- Barbara Davies STARBURST "An admirably hard, fast and unpretentious read from debut author Joe Abercrombie. Packs a mean punch in the bloodthirsty mayhem and mystery departments. Crammed full of torture, vengeance and bad behaviour, it''s a lively tale of savagery vs. civilisation. The Blade Itself may not reinvent the wheel, but it does serve up a whole banquet of violent action and intrigue." -- Saxon Bullock SFX "The Blade Itself is in many respects another reprisal of the classic formula. It will be fascinating to see where Abercrombie take his plot and how he develops these characters." -- Roz Kaveney TIME OUT "The star of the show is doubtlessly Inquisitor Glotka for simply being one of the most wonderfully bitter and cynical characters I''ve come across. With a very funny and clever internal monologue going on during every conversation he has, Glotka''s as miserable and nasty at the end as he was to start with and, especially in a heroic fantasy novel, it works perfectly. " SF CROWSNEST\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14626'),
(24110, 'Bladesman of Antares', 'Alan Burt Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The ninth book of the Dray Prescot series. The problem with being a spy is that you have to make friends with the enemy. Dray Prescot, Earthman, who had become prince of Vallia, was the kind of man who always stood by his friends. So in his quest to learn the war secrets of Hamal, empire of the aircraft-makers, Dray found himself not only becoming comrade to some of its greatest warriors but of championing the very life of its cruelly beautiful queen. Although Dray''s devotion to his glorious princess Delia never flagged, his mission, and his life, was perilously balanced upon the razor-edged blades of loyalty versus duty...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14630'),
(24111, 'Blaine Lee Pardoe - Battletech - Battlecorps', 'Betrayal Of Ideals Part 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17435'),
(24112, 'Blaine Lee Pardoe - Battletech - Battlecorps', 'Betrayal Of Ideals Part 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17438'),
(24113, 'Blaine Lee Pardoe - BattleTech - MechWarrior - Dark Age 14', 'Target of Opportunity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17441'),
(24114, 'Blake&#39;s progress', 'R. F. Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14631'),
(24115, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14632'),
(24116, 'Blasphemy', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in an Arizona mountain, the world''s largest supercollider will probe what happened at the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The brainchild of Nobel laureate Gregory North Hazelius, the supercollider, given the name Isabella, is the most expensive machine ever built. Some people think it may unlock the mysteries of the universe. Some think it will create a mini black hole that will suck in the earth. Powerful televangelist Don T. Spates thunders that Isabella is a satanic attempt to disprove Genesis and challenge God Almighty on the very throne of heaven. He''ll do anything to stop Isabella from reaching its goal.When Hazelius and his team of twelve scientists start up Isabella, they make an extraordinary discovery - one that must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is hired by the US government to wrest from the team their dark secret. A secret that will either destroy the world ...or save it. ''This baby roars ...the pages simply fly'' - "Publishers Weekly" ''A superb read! A page-turning thriller about science and religion in which good and evil collide at the speed of light. You''ll be up all night with this book'' - Jeffrey Deaver.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14635'),
(24117, 'Blaze', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Masterâ€™s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were. With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem''s Lot, two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication. Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6'' 7'''' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King''s mÃ©tier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -- one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -- owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. --Barry Forshaw ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling'' -- Independent on Sunday ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities'' -- Daily Telegraph ''Tightly written and compelling'' -- Daily Express ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' -- The Times on CELL ''Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention'' -- Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY ''A consummate and compassionate novel -- one of King''s very best'' -- Guardian on LISEY''S STORY ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling'' (Independent on Sunday ) ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities'' (Daily Telegraph ) ''Tightly written and compelling'' (Daily Express ) ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' (The Times on CELL ) â€˜Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful inventionâ€™ (Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY ) ''A consummate and compassionate novel â€“ one of Kingâ€™s very best'' (Guardian on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14637'),
(24118, 'Blaze of Glory', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) is assigned to the planet K''Trall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet''s newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew put their lives on the line to protect K''Trall from the raids. &gt; But the planet itself holds a deadly secret, one that could lead to a ressurgence of the despotic cruelty they have suffered for centuries. With time running out, Captain Picard must see his way past a maze of deadly deception, with billions of lives hanging in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14638'),
(24119, 'Blaze of Memory', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14640'),
(24120, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Physically a narrow book,\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19275'),
(24121, 'The Bleachers', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14641'),
(24122, 'Bleak History', 'John Shirley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL** **Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, potentially dangerous. *Caution is urged....*** As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or "skip tracer," in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division of Homeland Security has been monitoring the recent emergence of human supernaturals, with Gabriel Bleak being the strongest on record. If they control Gabriel, they''ll gain access to the Hidden -- the entity-based energy field that connects all life on Earth. But Gabriel''s got other ideas. With a growing underground movement called the Shadow Community -- and an uneasy alliance of spirits, elementals, and other beings -- Gabriel''s about to face the greatest demonic uprising since the Dark Ages. But this time, history is not going to repeat itself. This time, the future is Bleak. *Gabriel Bleak.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14646'),
(24123, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14647'),
(24124, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14650'),
(24125, 'The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving on. Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch. Stymied by her recent divorce, she wonders if there are secret ingredients to a happy, long-lasting marriage or if the entire institution is outdated and obsolete. Couples all around her are approaching important milestones. Her parents are preparing to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Her brother and his partner find their marriage dreams legally blocked. Her former sister-in-lawâ€”still her best friendâ€”is newly engaged. The youthfully exuberant romance of her teenage daughter is developing complications. And three separate menâ€”including her ex-husbandâ€”are becoming entangled in Cami''s messy post-marital love life. But as she struggles to come to terms with her own doubts amid this chaotic circus of relationships, Cami finds strange comfort in an unexpected confidant: an angry, unpredictable horse in her care. With the help of her equine soul mate, she begins to make sense of marriage''s great mysteriesâ€”and its disconnects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4845'),
(24126, 'Blind Alley', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan returns in this far-fetched but expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel. When detective Joe Quinn is called to investigate the murder of a young woman whose skin has been peeled away from her skull, he presses the overloaded Eve to work her grisly magic. Eve is shocked to realize that the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane MacGuire, the headstrong 17-year-old she and Joe have adopted, and who was already menaced by another serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n . Then a suspicious inspector from Scotland Yard, Mark Trevor, arrives with the grim news that a string of women with similar features have been murdered in Italy, England and Spain. A serial killer he calls Aldo has been working his way around the globe, butchering women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius), whom he holds responsible for his father''s death (such is the logic of the insane). Since Jane looks like Cira (and, incidentally, has been having nightmares about being her and trying to escape the volcano''s destruction) she will be his preyâ€”or bait. Johansen fans will recall that Eve lost her biological daughter, Bonnie, to a serial killer, so her desire to bring Aldo to justice is tied up with her still-sharp grief. Meanwhile, Jane behaves like a typical teenager, living in denial of her own mortality while feeling intoxicated by the sexy air of peril that now surrounds her. Aldo never comes fully into focus as a villain, but that doesn''t matter much, since one of the real engines of fear in the novel is Jane''s burgeoning sexuality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct. Eerily enough, the face resembles 17-year-old Jane MacGuire, who has been offered sanctuary by Eve and Joe after surviving a rough-and-tumble life on the streets. Now it seems that a killer is trying to erase all evidence of her face because it is identical to that of a statue of a woman who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Several look-alikes have already been killed in Europe, and Scotland Yard sends in hunky Mark Trevor to help. Eve mistrusts him, but Jane, who has had recurring nightmares related to the killings, believes that he''s there to help her. Eve and Joe want to protect Jane, but the intrepid teenager knows that unless she confronts the killer, she will live the rest of her life in fear. Johansen has become adept at mixing supernatural elements with intriguing suspense, and her new tale will please both fans and new converts with its unpredictable journey from Atlanta to the archaeological digs of Herculaneum in Italy. REVWR\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14654'),
(24127, 'The blind assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister''s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4847'),
(24128, 'Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth', 'James M. Tabor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earthâ€™s deepest caveâ€”the supercaveâ€”remained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.Â In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchoukâ€”Stoneâ€™s polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationâ€”has targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverâ€”to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their cavesâ€™ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called The Rapture. James M. Tabor was granted unprecedented access to logs, journals, photographs, and video footage of these expeditions, as well as many hours of personal interviews with surviving participants. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of discovery and adventure. It is also a testament to human survival and enduranceâ€”and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14656'),
(24129, 'A Blind Eye', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso already survived a defrocking by\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , following his alleged fabrication of a major crime story. Having since re-created himself as a true-crime writer, he can ill afford to have his credibility questioned again. So when, in G.M. Ford''s\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , he is subpoenaed to back up his book-selling boast about a Texas high-society murder, Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty--only to stumble onto one of the most horrific stories of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Seeking shelter after an SUV accident in tiny, blizzard-racked Avalon, Wisconsin, Corso discovers the bones of Eldred Holmes and his sons shoved beneath an abandoned barn. Neighbors thought the family had moved away 15 years before; instead, its males had been murdered. Bargaining with Avalon''s sheriff to stay free of the Texas authorities, Corso agrees to investigate these killings. The solution may lie with Eldred''s wife, Sissy, an exotic seductress whose skeleton isn''t among the pile, and whose deliberately obscured--and bloody--trail leads the author and Dougherty to a slain nun in Pennsylvania, a family-destroying fire among isolated hill folk in New York, and a desperate, deadly ambush in northern Michigan. It doesn''t take the rangy Corso long to realize that he''s dealing with a protean and controlling killer, immune to remorse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ford is adept at dribbling out the sort of revelations that build fictional suspense. He enhances that with a mordant wit, oddball secondary players, and a protagonist whose gruffness is infrequently but intriguingly undermined by a warmth born of loyalty. Yet\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , for all of its gripping darkness, pales beside its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . The super-secret information source to which Corso turns here whenever he loses his quarry''s scent is a contrivance beneath Ford''s talents. And the assassination of an Avalon deputy, for which Corso is held responsible, is a complication with little purpose and no satisfactions. Fortunately, this book''s chilling close makes the whole thing go down easier.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at O''Hare, Corso impulsively decides to rent an SUV and drive out of the storm zone, but when he gets to Avalon, Wis., he plunges off the icy road and over a cliff. Tearing up the flooring for firewood in the abandoned farm they take refuge in, Corso uncovers the corpses of a family, merely one set of victims in a killing spree spanning 30 years. Following in the tradition of John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee romps, Ford''s eclectic plot sends his hero from state to state, from an inbred mountain enclave in New Jersey to a nunnery with a murder. Deep into the book, he pointedly has a cop say, "This is like something out of science fiction." Corso and Dougherty alternate between acting like ruthless hard cases and giddy teenagers sneaking a joint-any excuse for a good scene, an entertaining moment (such as the guy who "looked like he''d been captured by vampires and was being kept as a pet"). When Corso falls into the hands of the killer and faces torture, though, Ford achieves fever pitch ("Corso began to make noises in his chest like a gored animal"). This is a thrill ride, sure to please readers looking for fast-paced suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(24130, 'Blind Fire', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14657');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24131, 'The Blind Lark, and Scarlet Stockings', 'Louisa May Alcott &amp; W. H. Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. Due to her familyâ€™s poverty, she began work at an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, governess, domestic helper, and writer - her first book was Flower Fables (1854). As she grew older, she developed as both an abolitionist and a feminist. A lesserknown part of her work are the passionate, fiery novels and stories she wrote, usually under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, such as A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866). Alcott also produced moralistic and wholesome stories for children, and a semi-autobiographical tale Work (1873). In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of womenâ€™s suffrage and was part of a group of female authors during the U. S. Gilded Age to address womenâ€™s issues in a modern and candid manner. Despite worsening health, Alcott wrote through the rest of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4848'),
(24132, 'Blind man with a pistol', 'Chester B. Himes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is dose to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace-their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence-Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart. "The word is out on the street, and the hopheads and whores and flimflam artists are running scared: Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are back in print."-- Newsweek\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14660'),
(24133, 'Blind Man&#39;s Alley', 'Justin Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the Edgar Awardâ€“nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Rothâ€™s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seaÂ­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powÂ­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murÂ­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial â€œmixed incomeâ€ housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Manâ€™s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that â€œ[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . heâ€™s got a good chance to make partner.â€ This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14662'),
(24134, 'The Blind Side of the Heart', 'Julia Franck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4857'),
(24135, 'The Blind Side', 'Lewis, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4850'),
(24136, 'The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michaelâ€™s Lewisâ€™s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oherâ€™s size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the gameâ€™s strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor. Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enthusiast husband. Oscar winner Kathy Bates plays Miss Sue, Oherâ€™s indefatigable tutor. Quinton Aaron has his first major role as Oher. John Lee Hancock, who directed The Rookie and The Alamo, writes and directs the film. Michael Oher was just drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. This edition includes a new afterword bringing Oherâ€™s life up to date through college and the NFL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4858'),
(24137, 'Blind Willie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14664'),
(24138, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14666'),
(24139, 'Blindfold Game', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship.... SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14667'),
(24140, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14672'),
(24141, 'Bliss', 'David Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14673'),
(24142, 'The Blithedale Romance', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4863'),
(24143, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Even the most diehard baseball fans don''t know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game''s history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. This original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this Cemetery Dance hardcover edition brings it into print for the very first time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14676'),
(24144, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14678'),
(24145, 'Blood &amp; Burning', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18013'),
(24146, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/885'),
(24147, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14681'),
(24148, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19283'),
(24149, 'Blood and Verse', 'John Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14682'),
(24150, 'Blood Beast', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"Locked inside Dervish''s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that''s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I''m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don''t know..."\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is currently working on his sixth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14683'),
(24151, 'Blood Bound', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14685'),
(24152, 'Blood Brothers', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal''s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it''s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14686'),
(24153, 'Blood canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16187'),
(24154, 'Blood Coven 01', 'Boys That Bite', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18361'),
(24155, 'Blood Coven 02', 'Stake That', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18362'),
(24156, 'Blood Coven 03', 'Girls That Growl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18360'),
(24157, 'Blood Crimes', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Blood Crimes is a genre-bending collision of dark urban fantasy and crime that rides shot-gun with Jim and Carol as they carve a homicidal path cross-country. Jim is infected with the vampire virus. Carol isn''t. Yet. But they''re united in their hunt for societyâ€™s most dangerous predators for Jim''s dinner -- so he can feed without harming the innocent. What they don''t know is that they''re not alone. There are others on their trail, and the climax of Blood Crimes is a shocking jolt of pure mayhem and rock ''n roll violence.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜I''ve just read the manuscript of Dave Zeltserman''s new novel, Blood Crimes. This is one of the few fresh takes on vampirism I''ve read in years. It''s as if Charles Bukowski sat down and said, OK, Bram Stoker, how about this?â€™ -- Ed Gorman, author of Cage of Night and The Poker Club.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   ''Blood Crimes is fast. It''s visceral. It''s definitely not your fourteen-year-old sister''s dreamy vampire fantasy. This book grabs you by the guttiwuts, wrenches hard, and doesn''t let go... But don''t get me wrong, this isn''t your run-of-the-mill shock literature. Zeltserman weaves a disturbing noir with a passionate craftsman''s hand over his characters.'' Mindy MacKay\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for OUTSOURCED\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A dark, lightening-paced read" Financial Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A small gem of crime fiction" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Outsourced is a dryly witty take on the heist caper genre... fast-paced action romp" London Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Bodies mount up as the double dealing and revenge gather apace. The blurb on the book describes it as a "fast-paced, edge-of-your seat crime novel," and it really does live up to the hype. Add this to your holiday reading list for a piece of escapism." Morning Star\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A finely paced, witty and stylish take on the heist caper novel. More than most authors churning out mysteries, Zeltserman is fully steeped in the conventions of crime fiction. He remains absolutely his own hard man." The Australian\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Dave Zeltserman''s OUTSOURCED is a speedy, gritty, hardboiled bank robbery tale that bops and weaves along as a group of out-of-work computer programmers decide to get their hands dirty and find they like it a lot. As with Zeltserman''s previous novels SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, and KILLER, his greatest storytelling skill is in the small true, emotional details that every reader will understand. He will definitely keep you flipping pages as fast you can, and once you finish one book you''ll be racing on to the next." Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season and The Cold Spot\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "delicious horror-ish novel" Newsday\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Superb mix of humor and horror" Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "superbly crafted horror story" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them." Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "a very darkly funny dark fantasy" Locus Magazine\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD succeeds as a horror novel, a psychological thriller and a haunting parable, even in some ways that Zeltserman may not have intended. There are dark levels to this work, some of which are immediately evident and others of which reveal themselves only upon later reflection. I donâ€™t know if the book will come to be regarded as a classic, either now or at some point in the future, but it deserves to be." BookReporter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜Blood Crimes: Book Oneâ€™ is approximately 68,000 words long and has an additional 20,000 words of bonus material .\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for ''Julius Katz'' and is the acclaimed author of the â€˜man out of prisonâ€™ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes (2008) and Pariah (2009) were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher''s Weekly, calling it a ''superb mix of humor and horror'', has been shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010, Outsourced (2011) has already been called ''a small gem of crime fiction'' by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14588'),
(24158, 'Blood Drive', 'Jeanne C Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14589'),
(24159, 'Blood Drive', 'Jeanne C. Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20737'),
(24160, 'Blood from a stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14590'),
(24161, 'Blood Harvest', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Fletchers'' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that theyâ€™re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away--at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him. The adults in Tomâ€™s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than youâ€™d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to. But there are other clues that something isnâ€™t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tomâ€™s siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little villageâ€™s evil secret turns the Fletchersâ€™ dreams into a nightmare. With *Sacrifice*, *Awakening*, and now *Blood Harvest*, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14591'),
(24162, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4866'),
(24163, 'Blood Lines', 'Eileen Wilks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14592'),
(24164, 'Blood Lite', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14594'),
(24165, 'Blood Magic', 'Eileen Wilks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new World of Lupi novel from "a true master of her craft" (Eternal Night) Lily Yu and Lupi prince Rule Turner have a bigger problem than their families not accepting their impending human/werewolf mixed marriage. A powerful ancient nemesis of Lily''s grandmother has come to San Diego to turn the city into a feeding ground.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14596'),
(24166, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14598'),
(24167, 'Blood Meridian', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14599'),
(24168, 'Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14602'),
(24169, 'Blood Music', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unusual ''invasion'' by intelligent smaller beings who are changing the structure and definition of ''humanity'' are at the heart of Bear''s classic story which has been newly reprinted in paper for new audiences. Blood Music is one of his finest works and its appearance in this new edition assures that new audiences will relish his talents. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear''s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14604'),
(24170, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Readers canâ€™t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.** A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeâ€™s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeâ€™s reignâ€”and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queenâ€™s new rise to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14605'),
(24171, 'Blood of Amber', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some fans of Zelazny''s dense, brilliant writings from the ''60s have been dismayed at the time and effort he has invested in his Amber series during the past 16 years. If these fantasy adventures are simple and formulaic compared with his best work, they have earned him a whole new audience by virtue of their elegance, humor, literacy, vivid action and lightly applied but complex background of tarot, alternate worlds, Olympian gods, and a magic so neat and clear that computers can learn it. In this seventh installment, the sorcerer Merlin of Amberaka Merle Corey of San Franciscolearns the identities of two would-be assassins but makes a truce with one to pursue the greater, more dangerous power beyond them. Once again, the limited plot is enlivened by Zelazny''s irony, his bravura sequences (particularly a harbor visit that turns nasty in Death Alley) and his laconic sense of the incongruous (are magicians the ultimate surrealist artists?). Paperback rights to Avon; Science Fiction Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Surrounded and imprisoned by his enemies, Merle Corey, aka Merlin of Amber, is forced to place his trust in a beautiful shapeshifter in order to restore balance to his world and confronts a force that threatens Earth as well. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14607'),
(24172, 'Blood Of Angels', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins, has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Nina''s boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realize they can''t hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody." "Ward''s brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Ward''s parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society." "The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. It''s just a question of when the next killings will start...and whether they will ever stop."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14609'),
(24173, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14612'),
(24174, 'Blood of the Mantis', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year''s end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14614'),
(24175, 'Blood of Winterhold', 'Stephen Almekinder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The action in Blood of Winterhold is virtually non-stop. Take the normal court intrigue multiplied by two and add the hostile relations between king and queen and there is never a moment to let down oneâ€™s guard. A dash of poison, a stab of blade, or maybe a shushed bundling off to a cell that no one knows about, and an enemy or innocent can disappear with hardly a question asked. A third Winterhold book is on its way. Donâ€™t let my tardiness set you behind on the cycle; youâ€™ll want to be ready to read that next volume as soon as its available. Of course, you could wait until one of the big commercial publishers wises up and grabs the whole trilogy for an omnibus, but donâ€™t you like to be ahead of the wave? Read it now and be one of those people who knew it back when. 4 Stars,\n <em>\n  Lisa DuMond,\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Stephen Almekinder has done it again with Blood of Winterhold, the second in his Winterhold series of books. This book is even better than the original (Winterhold) although it''s set in the same frigid planet environment. Blood of Winterhold, like the first book, is filled with political intrigue. Winterhold and Blood of Winterhold are complete stories, yet related to one another. Both are a must read for fantasy fans. Both volumes are not only exciting and fast-paced, they are excellent literature, teaching us much about the human condition."\n <em>\n  ~ Elaine Hopper for Knowbetter.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fantasy: Blood plays a key role in the lives of the people who inhabit the plant locked in perpetual winter. A young novice Interpreter is brought from the far North to the Hold by the Queen''s own bodyguard. She takes a special interest in his welfare and his future. When he finds out the truth concerning his birth, he must struggle even more to free himself from the meshes of both Hold and Camp. Blood determines his heritage, and he must struggle against the shadow it casts over his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14617'),
(24176, 'Blood on My Hands', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I''m Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." His books vary widely from one another, but they all share two things - humor and loyal fans.Â  Todd lives just outside New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14619');
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(24177, 'Blood on the Sand', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton''s holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corpse. When she professes to be the dead man''s psychic, Horton''s old adversary, DCI Birch, is convinced she is a mentally disturbed killer, but Horton is not so sure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14620'),
(24178, 'Blood Promise', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How far will Rose go to keep her promise?The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimirs Academy was the deadliest ever in the schools history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them. . . including Dimitri.Hed rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissathe one she has sworn to protect no matter whatand keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14624'),
(24179, 'Blood risk', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four men waited on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14625'),
(24180, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18838'),
(24181, 'Blood Song', 'Cat Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20676'),
(24182, 'Blood Song (2010)', 'Adams, Cat - Blood Singer 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14629'),
(24183, 'Blood Spells: A Novel of the Nightkeepers', 'Jessica Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mayan lore and modern science warn that 12/21/2012 will bring a global cataclysm. Dark forces stand poised to crush mankind. The only hope rests with a secret group of modern magic-wielders called the Nightkeepers. But as Patience White-Eagle and her husband, Brandt, team up as a mated warrior pair, they will face a deadly threat that will test their powers-and their love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14633'),
(24184, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4867'),
(24185, 'Blood Sport', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14634'),
(24186, 'Blood Sunset', 'Jarad Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a young runaway is found dead one morning, a syringe hanging out of his arm, no one is terribly shocked. A known junkie, even local detective Rubens McCauley is quick to conclude that Dallas Boyd died of an accidental overdose. But anomalies in the boy''s deathand the haunting memory of a childhood friendcontinue to nag at McCauley. Unable to shake his unease, he soon digs deeper into the case and finds himself enmeshed in a secret network of pedophiles, child abusers, and underage prostitutes. Forced to look evil in the eye, McCauley must conquer his own demons as he battles to find justice for a young boy he never even met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14636'),
(24187, 'Blood Test', 'Johnathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14639'),
(24188, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4868'),
(24189, 'Blood Ties', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14642'),
(24190, 'Blood Ties - The Possession', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7568'),
(24191, 'Blood Ties - The Turning', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1902'),
(24192, 'Blood Ties: Ashes to Ashes', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15126'),
(24193, 'Blood Trail', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box''s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Free Fire\n </em>\n ), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe''s nemesis, game and fish director Randy Pope. The authorities suspect a group led by antihunting activist Klamath Moore, but Joe thinks an enigmatic clue near the body points to a serial killer. As usual, Joe stands alone against official protocol, placing his career and life in peril by following his hunches. He persuades Rulon to release his pal, iconoclast Nate Romanowski, who''s awaiting trial on spurious charges, to help him on the case. Writing beautifully about the mountain West and its people, Box takes care to present both sides of the controversial issue of hunting. The narrative alternates between the searchers and the killer, whose identity will keep readers guessing up to the surprising climax.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January, Box branched out from his popular Joe Pickett series with a stand-alone thriller, Blue Heaven (2008). His publisher for that book seems to be pushing him toward a broader audienceâ€”even ditching his familiar black Stetson in the author photo. Longtime fans might have wondered whether Pickett would soon be an also-ran. But thereâ€™s no need to worry just yet. Although Blood Trail is a mite slimmer than its predecessors (two books a year will do that to a writer), Box is clearly still comfortable in the saddle. And his game wardenâ€”now a special agent reporting directly to the governorâ€”is still as dogged on the trail as he is hard on government-issued vehicles. Thereâ€™s a little less family time for Joe, but there are some interesting developments in his friendship with the enigmatic Nate Romanowski. Joe needs Nateâ€™s help and some luck besides, because itâ€™s elk season, and someone is hunting elk hunters. And with a flamboyant anti-hunting activist coming to town with his supporters, itâ€™s looking like another classic standoff: implacable ideologues on both sides and a pondering Pickett caught in the middle. Box always addresses a New West issue, but thereâ€™s something great about the way heâ€™s waited until the eighth installment to tackle the one that would seem most obvious, given his heroâ€™s occupation. We prefer Box with the cowboy hat, but whether hatted or bareheaded, he continues to be red hotâ€”and now thereâ€™s twice as much of him to go around. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14644'),
(24194, 'Blood Will Tell', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandyâ€™s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires. SUMMARY: Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America''s last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.''s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate''s grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family. It''s the week of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and everyone who''s anyone - as well as a few nobodies - has gathered in Anchorage for a week of shopping, gossiping, bragging, and more than a little wheeling and dealing. But there''s more happening this year than what''s on the official agenda. A vote is coming up on the future of tribal lands, and the arguments are heated. Heated enough to raise suspicions about the recent death of a Native Association board member. Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative, and the one true weakness Kate Shugak has is for her family. Reluctantly agreeing to investigate, she is drawn into a whirlpool of deceit, lies, and secrets; she is torn not only between the modern world and the traditional, but also between opposing factions within each group. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land, and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it... EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. *AB. *"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14645'),
(24195, 'Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14649'),
(24196, 'Blood Wyne', 'Galenorn, Yasmine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20671'),
(24197, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble life..._Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14652'),
(24198, 'Blood, Tears and Folly', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  An objective analysis of World War II examines the various strategies, campaigns, and weaponry used in the war, revealing how each affected the outcome of the conflict. By the author of Funeral in Berlin. $20,000 first printing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of City of Gold here takes a pragmatic look at the early years of WW II, "that complex and frightening time in which evil was in the ascendant, goodness diffident, and the British--impetuous, foolish and brave beyond measure--the world''s only hope." His absorbing narrative concentrates on six major phases of the 1939-1941 period: the Battle of the Atlantic (U-boats versus convoys); Hitler''s blitzkrieg victories in Western Europe and the Dunkirk evacuation; the tank battles between the British and the Germans in the Western Desert; the struggle between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force for command of the air; the German invasion of Russia; and the complex combination of events and hardening attitudes that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Deighton pays close attention to Winston Churchill''s thorny relations with his generals, and is especially critical of the British failure to prepare for an attack in Malaya, since the peninsula''s rubber and tin made it an obvious target. Americans are largely absent from the narrative, but Deighton comments on U.S. isolationism and adds a stirring tribute to Air Corps General Henry Arnold for his foresight in organizing a pilot-training network before Pearl Harbor. Illustrations. $20,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One good reason for looking again at the Second World War is to remind ourselves how badly the world''s leaders performed and how bravely they were supported by their suffering populations." Deighton, best known as the author of spy novels, takes the reader into the early years of World War II, particularly the time when England stood alone. Chapters are organized topically (Atlantic, Blitzkrieg, Mediterranean), with extensive descriptions of prewar events to explain how or why the adversaries fought in a particular place. The British clashes with Axis and Axis sympathizers in places as diverse as East Africa and the Middle East will be unfamiliar to many Americans. Deighton ends his book with the opening of the Pacific war, leaving hope there will be a sequel. Deighton''s opinions are explained reasonably, and his writing is both easily understood and thoroughly researched. Recommended for all libraries with an interest in World War II. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/93.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - John F. Camenga, Tampa-Hillsborough P.L., Fla.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14653'),
(24199, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14655'),
(24200, 'Bloodfire', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14658'),
(24201, 'Bloodhound', 'Tamora Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18325'),
(24202, 'Bloodhype - Flinx 07 - v1.3', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14659'),
(24203, 'the Blooding (1989)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4869'),
(24204, 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin', 'Timothy Synder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14661'),
(24205, 'Bloodshot', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Cherie Priestâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Boneshaker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.â€â€”Scott Westerfeld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.â€â€”Chiaroscuro\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of 2009â€™s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.â€â€”Joe Sherry,\n <em>\n  Fantasy Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VAMPIRE FOR HIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnâ€™t usually hang with her own kind. Sheâ€™s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resistâ€”even though Ian doesnâ€™t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesâ€”documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnâ€™t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14668'),
(24206, 'Bloodstone', 'Barbara Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spirits of other living creatures. Convinced that his parents will also view him as an abomination, Keirith flees, only to be captured by slavers. Carried to the heart of a distant civilization, Keirith must confront the truth about himself and his powers, even while Darak, following the kidnappers'' trail, must struggle with his darkest fears if he is to have any hope of saving his son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14670'),
(24207, 'Bloodsucking Fiends', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16634'),
(24208, 'Bloodsucking fiends: a love story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14674'),
(24209, 'Bloodthirsty', 'Flynn Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.\n </em>\n Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel_ called Bloodthirsty_, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it''s surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected. This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flynn Meaney lives in Mamaroneck, New York. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and is currently a poetry student in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.\n <em>\n  Bloodthirsty\n </em>\n emerged out of Flynn''s broad love of pop culture vampires and her friend Lucila''s comment: "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning." Lucila''s observation made Flynn think about how the paranormal craze would benefit the pale and thin teens who would have suffered during the\n <em>\n  Baywatch\n </em>\n years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flynn is currently working on her second novel, coming Fall 2011.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14675'),
(24210, 'Bloodwalk - Book 2', 'Davis, James P.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14677'),
(24211, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. ** Here''s a job to strain even Anita Blake''s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14679'),
(24212, 'Bloody River Blues', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot â€“ and his life â€“ race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14680'),
(24213, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade - the Alex Cross, Women''s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14684'),
(24214, 'Blott on the Landscape', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude''s dynamism and Blott''s concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. To every official ploy Blott and Lady Maude oppose their own ingenious and unprincipled countermove until in a spectacular finale Blott, with four hundred tins of baked beans among his armoury, takes on the army single-handed. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14490'),
(24215, 'Blow fly', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Readers are in for the shock of Kay Scarpetta''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14492'),
(24216, 'Blowback: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has just become the number one threat to the United States.From the national bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, and State of the Union comes the most gripping international thriller yet featuring Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath."Scot Harvath is the perfect all-American hero for the post-September 11th world."-- Nelson DeMilleWhen a mystery thousands of years in the making threatens to catapult the enemies of America to a sure and decisive victory, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration has just fired.Caught live on Al Jazeera in an off-the-books operation, Scot Harvath''s career has been terminated and he is forced to go to ground as the president bows to pressure from a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the tide in the war on terror suddenly turns against the U.S., the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Ducking a congressional subpoena, Harvath travels to the Mediterranean, where he learns of a shadowy organization that has been combing the earth for decades in search of the ultimate weapon to use against the United States and her allies. Now, after three summers of record-setting heat across present-day Europe, one steadily melting Alpine glacier has given up an ancient secret--one with the potential to thrust civilization back into the Dark Ages.From Cyprus, London, and Paris, to Italy, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia, Harvath must race against the clock to stop one of the greatest evils ever to face the United States. With his characteristic high-voltage action, sweeping international locales, and meticulous research, Brad Thor has created another supercharged novel that is sure to thrill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14494'),
(24217, 'Blue', 'Aronica, Lou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14496'),
(24218, 'Blue Bloods', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14501'),
(24219, 'Blue Bloods #1 - Blue Bloods', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 9 Upâ€“De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don''t realize that they aren''t normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods. This novel constantly name-drops and is full of product placements, drinking, drugs, nonexplicit sex, and superficial characterizations, but the intriguing plot will keep teens reading. De la Cruz''s explanation for the disappearance of the Colony of Roanoke is unique and the idea that models don''t gain weight because they are Blue Bloods rather than anorexic is unusual._â€“Sharon Rawlins, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 9-12. Like the power brokers that are their parents and ancestors, members of the popular clique at New York''s Duchesne School are Blue Bloods, continually reincarnated vampires endowed with preternatural beauty, charisma, and strength. The plot revolves around several teens, unaware of their heritage, who begin to manifest their true natures during a terrifying spate of vampire-to-vampire violence. At book''s end, nonconformist Schuyler has emerged as heroine, having discovered a rift in Blue Blood history that lays the groundwork for forthcoming books. Grafting the chick-lit sensibility of her Au Pairs books onto horror themes, de la Cruz introduces a conception of vampires far different from traditional stake-fleeing demons, coupling sly humor ("What, the Committee was just a front for a bunch of blood-sucking B-movie monsters?") with the gauzier trappings of being fanged and fabulous--as well as abundant references to the taboo-laden "taking" of human familiars, a procedure with overtly sexual overtones. Although the novel isn''t sure quite what it wants to be (satire? beach read? gothic saga?), many teens will savor the thrilling sense of being initiated into an exclusive secret society, and will doubtless want to drink deeply from the vampire-themed offerings suggested in the adjacent "Read-alikes" column.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14504'),
(24220, 'Blue Bloods #2 - Masquerade', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help--her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the Four Hundred Ball, an exclusive gala hosted by the city''s wealthy, powerful, and unhuman--a true Blue Blood affair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it''s at the after-party, a masquerade ball thrown by the cunning Mimi Force, that the real danger lurks. Hidden behind the masks is a revelation that will forever change the course of a young vampire''s destiny.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rich with glamour, attitude, and vampire lore, this second installment in the Blue Bloods saga will leave readers thirsting for more.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the best-selling Au Pairs novels for teens and the coauthor of the popular adult novel\n  <em>\n   The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas.\n  </em>\n  Melissa has appeared as an Expert on Style, trends, and celebrity for\n  <em>\n   CNN\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   E\n  </em>\n  ! Entertainment network and is a frequent contributor to popular magazines like\n  <em>\n   Glamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan.\n  </em>\n  She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Melissa is not a Blue Blood, but she knows people who are...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14505'),
(24221, 'Blue Bloods #3 - Revelations', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Have you ever wondered what secrets lurk behind the closed doors of New York Cityâ€™s wealthiest families? They''re powerful, they''re famous... they''re undead.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Schuyler Van Alenâ€™s blood legacy has just been called into questionâ€”is the young vampire in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? As controversy swirls, Schuyler is left stranded in the Force household, trapped under the same roof as her cunning nemesis, Mimi Force, and her forbidden crush, Jack Force.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by Silver Bloods in Rio de Janeiro, however, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side. The stakes are high; the battle is bloody; and through it all, Carnavale rages on. And in the end, one vampireâ€™s secret identity will be exposed in a revelation that shocks\n  <em>\n   everyone\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the best-selling Au Pairs novels for teens and the coauthor of the popular adult novel\n  <em>\n   The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas.\n  </em>\n  Melissa has appeared as an Expert on Style, trends, and celebrity for\n  <em>\n   CNN\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   E\n  </em>\n  ! Entertainment network and is a frequent contributor to popular magazines like\n  <em>\n   Glamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan.\n  </em>\n  She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Melissa is not a Blue Blood, but she knows people who are...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14507'),
(24222, 'Blue Bloods #4 - The Van Alen legacy', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the stunning revelation surrounding Bliss''s true identity comes the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods. Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods now find themselves in an epic battle for survival. Not to worry, love is still in the air for the young vampires of the Upper East Side. Or is it? Jack and Schuyler are over. Oliver''s brokenhearted. And only the cunning Mimi seems to be happily engaged.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Young, fanged, and fabulous, Melissa de la Cruz''s vampires unite in this highly anticipated fourth installment of the Blue Bloods series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the best-selling Au Pairs novels for teens and the coauthor of the popular adult novel\n  <em>\n   The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas.\n  </em>\n  Melissa has appeared as an Expert on Style, trends, and celebrity for\n  <em>\n   CNN\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   E\n  </em>\n  ! Entertainment network and is a frequent contributor to popular magazines like\n  <em>\n   Glamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan.\n  </em>\n  She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Melissa is not a Blue Blood, but she knows people who are...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14509'),
(24223, 'Blue Bloods #5 - Keys to the Repository', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Midterms. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But there''s oh-so-much more to know about these beautiful and powerful teens. Below the streets of Manhattan, within the walls of the Repository, exists a wealth of revealing information about the vampire elite that dates back before the Mayflower. In a series of short stories, journal entries, and never-before-seen letters, New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz gives her hungry fans the keys to the Repository and an even more in-depth look into the secret world of the Blue Bloods. Won''t you come inside?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14511');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24224, 'Blue Bloods #6 - Misguided Angel', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence--with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler closer to a terrifying crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14512'),
(24225, 'Blue Bloods #7 - Bloody Valentine', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vampires have powers beyond human comprehension: strength that defies logic, speed that cannot be captured on film, the ability to shapeshift and more. But in matters of the heart, no one, not even the strikingly beautiful and outrageously wealthy Blue Bloods, has total control. In\n  <em>\n   Bloody Valentine,\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz offers readers a new story about the love lives of their favorite vamps - the passion and heartache, the hope and devastation, the lust and longing. Combined with all the glitz, glamour, and mystery fans have come to expect, this is sure to be another huge hit in the Blue Bloods series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14513'),
(24226, 'Blue Collar &amp; Proud of It', 'Joe Lamacchia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not everyone is suited to a white-collar career or wants to get the four-year degree\n <br />\n that these jobs typically require. But that doesn''t mean you have to turn your back\n <br />\n on a great salary, exciting work, and a profession that commands respect.\n <br />\n Joe Lamacchia is proof. After graduating high school, he said no to college--"and found\n <br />\n personal and professional success as the owner of a thriving landscaping company. He also started BlueCollarandProudofIt.com, a resource for people who want to find work in the skilled trades. Blue-collar workers build and maintain our bridges, keep our cars running, fix our plumbing, and provide vital services to every home. That''s why Lamacchia\n <br />\n calls these ''necessary jobs.'' Most blue-collar work simply cannot be outsourced to foreign\n <br />\n countries and it''s often recession-proof. As Baby Boomers retire,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14516'),
(24227, 'Blue Dahlia', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel in the new *In the Garden* trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret-finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Stella has a passion for planning that keeps her from taking too many risks. But when she opens her heart to a new love, she discovers that she will fight to the death to protect what''s hers. Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee-and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn''t intimidated by the house-nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge But someone isn''t happy about the budding romance...the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride''s spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14517'),
(24228, 'Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel', 'Ann Aguirre', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGritty, steamy, and altogether wonderful urban fantasy.â€\n <br />\n â€”#1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Corine Solomon is a handlerâ€”when she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missingâ€”which is why people never stop trying to find her. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corineâ€™s gift to find someone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as it leads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombiesâ€”and black magic...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14519'),
(24229, 'Blue Dragon', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The forces of Hell are poised to strike''Åš Emma''s beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her and his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature, and must find the courage to save them all''ÅšDark Heavens, Book One.Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen''s daughter. But John''s world is different, and he is no ordinary businessman - all the gods, demons and dragons in hell want him dead. And though she doesn''t know it, Emma holds the power to save them all''ÅšKylie Chan''s Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author''s native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14522'),
(24230, 'The Blue Edge of Midnight', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4871'),
(24231, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Kurt Austin Adventure** In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply. **BLUE GOLD** **A Novel from the NUMA Files** From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world. Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14526'),
(24232, 'Blue heron', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What is magic really for? As Maggie approaches her thirteenth birthday, she wants to believe that some kind of magic can stop the changes all around her. Her visit with her father and his new family at a lakeside cabin makes her wonder. Will he still love her as much, now that he has a new family, or will he love her baby half-sister more? Her father seems troubled and withdrawn and, while he insists nothing is wrong, she worries. Alone with her own secret thoughts, Maggie finds comfort in the beautiful blue heron she visits at the lake every morning. With each visit, she grows more attached to the bird, and she becomes aware that someone else is watching, too -- someone who''s putting the bird in great danger. Through her determination to protect the bird, Maggie begins to understand the magic of change in her own life, and in the constantly changing world around her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14528'),
(24233, 'Blue Ice', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4874'),
(24234, 'the Blue Knight (1972)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4876'),
(24235, 'Blue Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14531'),
(24236, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We''d broken up after I''d seen him eat somebody.'' You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn''t. It was his brother. And it wasn''t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything''s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it''s Anita Blake to the rescue. I''ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him '' and why. There''s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he''ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14535'),
(24237, 'Blue noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“There is something evil brewing in Bixby, and the teens from the previous Midnighters titles must save the world from the darklings. The monsters have found a way to expand midnight so that all humans will enter the blue time and become prey. Complicating the crisis is Rex''s residual darkling characteristics that leave him with the unsettling notion that other humans are food, Jonathan''s secret desire that the midnight hour could last forever so that he would always be free of the confining flatland gravity, and the fact that no one has yet figured out why the darklings wish to dispose of Jessica Day.\n <em>\n  Blue Noon\n </em>\n has an end of the world premise that will appeal to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Even though the characters are not completely developed, they all have distinct skills that set them apart from one another. Westerfeld doesn''t rehash all the events of the earlier books. Instead, he subtly includes the information that is needed to follow the story. Since the characters'' schemes never proceed according to plan, the plot maintains an exciting pace. However, it is never fully explained why everything works out the way it does. Despite this minor flaw, this is fun recreational reading._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n the darklings will hunt once again\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It''s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Midnighters can''t understand what''s happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14537'),
(24238, 'The Blue Notebook', 'James A. Levine; James Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader:Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levineâ€™s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin. How did Levine, a British-born doctor at the Mayo Clinic, manage to conjure the voice of a fifteen-year-old female Indian prostitute? It all began, he told me, when, as part of his medical research, he was interviewing homeless children on a street in Mumbai known as the Street of Cages, where child prostitutes work. A young woman writing in a notebook outside her cage caught Levineâ€™s attention. The powerful image of a young prostitute engaged in the act of writing haunted him, and he himself began to write.The Blue Notebook brings us into the life of a young woman for whom stories are not just entertainment but a means of survival. Even as the novel humanizes and addresses the devastating global issue of child prostitution, it also delivers an inspiring message about the uplifting power of words and readingâ€“a message that is so important to hold on to, especially in difficult times. Dr. Levine is donating all his U.S. proceeds from this book to help exploited children. Batukâ€™s story can make a difference.Sincerely,Celina SpiegelPublisherFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4878'),
(24239, 'The Blue Nowhere', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of "The Empty Chair" comes the suspenseful story of a computer hacker--code-named PHATE--on a Silicon Valley killing spree. Hot on his trail are ex-hacker Wyatt Gillette and Frank Bristol, a grizzled homicide detective who''s accustomed to using old-fashioned forensics to track his quarry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4880'),
(24240, 'Blue Pluto', 'Sean F. Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14539'),
(24241, 'Blue Skies', 'Catherine Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson (Sweet Nothings, etc.) again explores the ways in which a physical disability can impact a relationship in this moving contemporary romance, set in picaresque Crystal Falls, Ore. Blind since birth, Carly Adams is celebrating the surgical restoration of her sight with a friend at a Western bar when she meets rancher Hank Coulter. Hank plies Carly with liquor, intent on a one-night stand, but he gets more than he bargained for when he learns that their brief encounter has resulted in pregnancy. Neither consider abortion for a second even though pregnancy will have dire consequences for Carly''s sight and her plans to attend graduate school. Nor does Carly worry that her child might inherit her condition, lattice dystrophy. Instead, Hank bullies her into marriage. Hank redeems himself as the story progresses, treating Carly with tender care as she deals with her pregnancy and her deteriorating sight, but his most daunting hurdle may be her emotional insecurities. It''s evident that Anderson has thoroughly researched lattice dystrophy, and this, more than anything, will help readers gain a better understanding of Carly. The last-minute revelation that Carly was burned in a previous relationship feels superfluous, but readers will embrace Anderson''s characters and her message-that love bridges all divides.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carly had to wait 28 years to see what a man looked like. Born with Lattice dystrophy, Carly''s sight has only recently been restored; and to celebrate, she accompanies a friend to a bar. Unused to alcohol and the attention of a handsome cowboy, Carly lets Hank Coulter take her to his truck, but that humiliating experience not only leaves Carly not caring if she ever has sex or sees Hank again but pregnant as well, which threatens her sight. As soon as Hank finds out, he tries to convince Carly to let him help her. The two agree to a marriage in name only to solve Carly''s financial problems, but Hank realizes that he''s in love and sets out to do whatever it takes to turn their temporary arrangement into something permanent. Readers might need to wipe away tears as they read Anderson''s latest contemporary romance featuring another of her Coulter brothers, since few will be able to resist the power of this beautifully emotional, wonderfully romantic love story.\n <em>\n  John Charles\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14540'),
(24242, 'Bluebeard', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man''s compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19320'),
(24243, 'The Boarder', 'Alexander Jablokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4881'),
(24244, 'Boarding Party', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14542'),
(24245, 'Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City', 'Nelson Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''When I was first approached by HBO to use Nelson Johnson''s book as the basis for a TV series, my biggest challenge was choosing a time period in which to set it. Ultimately I settled on the 1920s of Atlantic City''s legendary treasurer Nucky Johnson. A place of spectacle, shady politics, fast women and backroom deals'' -Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos and Executive Producer of Boardwalk Empire From its humble beginnings as a fledgling seaside resort, Atlantic City grew to be America''s playground - loud, brash, and dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. In 1920 alcohol was banned across the States under Prohibition, yet, thanks to racketeers and corrupt politicians, the liquor in Atlantic City never stopped flowing. As the brothels, bars and gambling rooms flourished, the reputation of both the city itself and its most famous resident grew. Enoch ''Nucky'' Johnson was a powerful political force and leading figure in organised crime. His corrupt alliance created a city where the rules just didn''t apply, the dollar ruled and the law could be bought. The book that inspired the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire brings to life Nucky and the whole cast of his shady associates. Recounting the life of this fascinating city and its most colourful residents, it''s a brilliantly told story of a city built on cards and dice, booze and broads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14545'),
(24246, 'The Boat of a Million Years', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Less a novel than a series of short stories and novelettes tied together by their subjects, this volume tells of 11 "immortals": individuals who will not die of old age but who can, however, be killed. Anderson ( The Avatar ) brings proven storytelling abilities and research skills to chronicles that range from 310 B.C. to a centuries-distant future. Many of the stories describe an immortal''s first awareness of his or her difference, and flight from accusations of witchcraft; other tales relate chance encounters between immortals; a few simply tell a good yarn. The penultimate chapter tells of the eight survivors coming together in present times; the last portrays a future where science has extended everyone''s life, creating a world vastly different from what the immortals had expected. BOMC and QPB selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hanno the navigator, Tu Shan the mystic, and Aliyat the courtesan share a common bond--immortality. Their search for others like themselves covers thousands of years of human history, from the earliest explorations of the world to the ultimate journey into the stars. Against an everchanging backdrop that includes medieval Japan, the court of Richelieu, and 19th-century America, Anderson draws together a group of very special heroes. Ambitious in scope, meticulous in detail, polished in style, the author''s first novel in ten years is highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/89.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4882'),
(24247, 'Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adve: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson', 'William Hope Hodgson; Jeremy Lassen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume one of the Hodgson''s collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"\n  </em>\n  , a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book''s second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14546'),
(24248, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music. In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan! Is there any more to be said? The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman. Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way. And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering. From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   . This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14549'),
(24249, 'Bob Lee Swagger 01 - Point of Impact', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14551'),
(24250, 'Bob Lee Swagger 02 - Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14553'),
(24251, 'Bob Lee Swagger 03 - Time to Hunt', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a literally explosive opening where sniper fire cuts through the chest of an unnamed victim (Swagger?), readers of\n  <em>\n   Time to Hunt\n  </em>\n  are plunged into the final years of the Vietnam War and the struggles of Marine Donny Fenn. Stationed in Washington, D.C., after recovering from a nearly mortal wound, Fenn is asked to spy on Marines who may have ties to the peace movement. What Donny quickly learns, however, is that his Navy superiors are more interested in framing\n  <em>\n   somebody\n  </em>\n  than they are in finding the truth. In this first section, readers waiting to discover the outcome of the assassination and glimpse Bob "The Nailer" Swagger will instead be swept away by Hunter''s vivid painting of the divided loyalties and torn identities that plagued soldiers and citizens in the early 1970s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But all of this action is only a prelude to Donny''s subsequent relationship with Swagger in Vietnam. Hunter fleshes out the mythology that he began to create in\n </p>\n <p>\n  The last two sections cut to contemporary events and find Swagger married to Donny''s former love, Julie. Slowly, the events of the first half of the book begin to merge with Swagger''s present history and stories that readers will recognize from Hunter''s earlier novels. Swagger uncovers a deep connection between the Vietnam demonstrations of the 1970s, the predatory work of the CIA, and the killer who is after him and his family now. Nothing is as it first seems, and readers of\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a sniper shoots a man in the mountains of Idaho and wounds the woman who is with him, it is not an isolated incident but the deliberate culmination of events that began during the Vietnam War. Bob Lee Swagger, who was a Marine sniper in Vietnam known as "Bob for the Nailer" for his lethal shooting, at first believes that he was the gunman''s intended target. The wounded woman is his wife and the widow of his wartime comrade, Donny Fenn. Donny had been killed by a Russian sniper assigned the task of neutralizing Bob, or so Bob had always believed. But now it seems possible that Donny might have been the main target all those years ago and that it is Donny''s widow that the sniper has come to kill, not Bob. Both a gripping war novel and a complex thriller coiled around the convoluted intrigues of the supposedly concluded Cold War, this is page-turning entertainment that will delight action adventure readers.?Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, MA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(24252, 'Bob Lee Swagger 04 - The 47th Samurai', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14556'),
(24253, 'Bob Lee Swagger 05 - Night Of Thunder', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14559'),
(24254, 'Bob Lee Swagger 06 - I, Sniper', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four famed ''60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything fits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to motive, means, and opportunity. Maybe it''s a little too perfect.Nick asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data. Using a skill set no other man on earth possesses, Swagger soon discovers unseen anomalies and gradually begins to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy -- one that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals. As Swagger penetrates the deepest secrets of the sniper world and its new technology, Nick stands firm in the face of hardball PR initiatives and an inflamed media calling for his ouster.Swagger soon closes in, and those responsible will stop at nothing to take him out. But these heavily armed men make the mistake of thinking they are hunting Bob, when he is, in fact, hunting them.I, Sniperwill satisfy Stephen Hunter''s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones with its signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights. And when Swagger and the last of his antagonists finally face each other, reenacting a classic ritual of arms, it is clear that at times there''s nothing more necessary than a good man with a gun and the guts to use it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10314'),
(24255, 'Bob Lee Swagger 07 - Dead Zero', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The idea that Stephen Hunter could write a Bob Lee Swagger novel in which the legendary Vietnam sniper doesnâ€™t pull a single trigger seems inconceivable. Not that there isnâ€™t plenty of trigger-pulling by others in this tale of a contemporary marine sniper gone rogue. Swagger, now in his 60s, is drafted by the FBI to find Sergeant Roy Cruz, who was presumed dead after his attempted assassination of an Afghan warlord went awry. The warlord has now changed sides and is being groomed as â€œour man in Kabul,â€ but the resurfaced Cruz isnâ€™t buying the conversion and appears determined to finish his original mission. Swagger, charged with stopping any attempt on the Afghan leaderâ€™s life, soon finds himself sympathizing with his fellow sniper and convinced that CIA generals are behind a secret program to ramp up the war on terror. Itâ€™s a juicy premise, which Hunter admits adapting from Patrick Alexanderâ€™s 1977 Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal; transformed to a contemporary setting, it evokes the government-treachery themes of 24 but does so with less cartoony derring-do and a considerably more nuanced exploration of the psychology of the soldier. Only the revelation of a connection between Swagger and Cruz seems a bit artificial, but this is a top-notch thriller all the same, showing that Bob the Nailer is just as (well, almost as) compelling a hero without his guns. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: I, Sniper, Hunterâ€™s previous Swagger novel (85,000 hardcovers in print), remained on the New York Times best-seller list longer than any of his previous novels, and this one will ride the same wave. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] juicy premise, which Hunter admits adapting from Patrick Alexanderâ€™s 1977\n  <em>\n   Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal\n  </em>\n  ; transformed to a contemporary setting, it evokes the government-treachery themes of â€˜24â€™ but does so with less cartoony derring-do and a considerably more nuanced exploration of the psychology of the soldier. . . . A top-notch thriller.â€â€”Booklist (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStellar . . . Solid characterization complements the tight, fast-moving plot.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn Hunterâ€™s latest, Bob Lee Swagger stalks Bob Lee Swagger. Well, just about. If anyone could be more valorous, more skilled and resourceful, more uncompromisingly upright, and at the same time more downright deadly than Bob Lee Swagger, it would have to be Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz. . . . [An] intricate, interchanging game of predator to prey and prey to predator.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLike good Scotch, Swagger ages marvelously and, in a similar way, even seems to mellow. . . . Recommended for readers who enjoy a lot of satisfying action, adventure, violence, and an extremely engaging hero.â€â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13347'),
(24256, 'Bob Shaw', 'Shadow of Heaven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17444'),
(24257, 'Bob Shaw', 'The Peace Machine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17445'),
(24258, 'Bob Shaw', 'Vertigo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17451'),
(24259, 'Bob Shaw', 'A Full Member of the Club', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17459'),
(24260, 'Bob Shaw', 'Palace of Eternity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17461'),
(24261, 'Bob Shaw - Light of Other Days', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17453'),
(24262, 'Bob Shaw - The Ragged Astronauts 1', 'The Ragged Astronauts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17443'),
(24263, 'Bob Shaw &amp; Walt Willis', 'The Enchanted Duplicator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17455'),
(24264, 'Bob Stickgold', 'The California Coven Project', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17462'),
(24265, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors From the Southwestern Kitchen', 'Bobby Flay; Stephanie Banyas; Sally Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You''ve got to hand it to Bobby Flay. He opened his first restaurant, the inventive "new southwestern" Mesa Grill, in 1991--and he''s still celebrating the sweet, hot and spicy at that Manhattan outpost, not to mention on his TV shows and in other cookbooks like\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Mesa Grill Cookbook\n  </em>\n  offers 140-plus recipes for a wide range of new "signature dishes," such as BBQ Duck Filled Blue Corn Pancakes with HabaÃ±ero Sauce; Chile Rubbed Short Ribs with Creamy Polenta and Cotija Cheese; and Grilled Red Snapper with Tomato-New Mexico Red Chile Sauce. He also includes idiosyncratic takes on old favorites, like Whipped Potatoes with Cilantro Pesto, and desserts including Milk Chocolate-Peanut Butter CrÃ¨me BrÃ»lÃ©e, and Caramel Apple Shortcakes. Even drinks get the Flay treatment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His food (at least in moderation) is difficult not to like. Cooks will find the recipes eminently doable if they''re willing to cull the necessary ingredients--there''s a fine ingredients glossary--and put aside a bit of time. This is great "occasion cooking" and should appeal to dyed-in-the-grill Flay fans, as well as those whose curiosity has been tickled by his winning culinary hegemony.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flay is everywhere: overseeing six restaurants, appearing on four TV shows plus his own Web site and now assembling his seventh cookbook in 13 years. Flay preps the reader for culinary adventure with a tequila guide followed by four different margarita recipes, and then sets off on a whirlwind tour of flavorful dishes inspired by the American Southwest. Flay''s trademark is flavoring a perfectly grilled or roasted hunk of protein with smoke or chili or fruit, exemplified by Pan-Roasted Venison with Tangerineâ€“Roasted JalapeÃ±o Sauce and the slightly tamer Coffee-Rubbed Filets Mignons with Ancho-Mushroom Sauce. Shrimp, snapper and tuna dominate the seafood section, though there is also the quintessentially Flayvian Grilled Swordfish with Pineapple-Mustard Glaze and Cilantro-Mint Chimichurri. A chapter on brunches turns up the heat with dishes like Egg and Aged Sirloin Tortillas with Three-Pepper Relish. Coming full circle by drawing upon recipes from Mesa Grill, his first eatery, Flay also slyly opens the door for a series of cookbooks based on his other properties. 100 color photos not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14561');
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(24266, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network&#39;s Ultimate Cooking Challenge', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Miriam Garron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fall into Cooking Featured Recipes from\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Throwdown!\n  </em>\n  : Pumpkin Pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bobby Flay: Pumpkin Pie with Cinnamon Crunch and Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 10-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cinnamon Crunch\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1/2 cup all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats\n <br />\n 1/2 cup light muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups graham cracker crumbs\n <br />\n 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n 1â„8 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 large egg, lightly beaten\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3 large eggs\n <br />\n 3 large egg yolks\n <br />\n 3/4 cup dark muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1/4 cup granulated sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons molasses\n <br />\n 11/2 cups canned pumpkin puree\n <br />\n 11/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, plus more for the top\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground ginger\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 cup heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/2 cup whole milk\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved, or 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows) for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the cinnamon crunch, preheat the oven to 350ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the flour, oats, muscovado sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor, and process a few times to combine. Add the butter and pulse until combined. Pat the mixture evenly into a 4-inch square on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 15 minutes. Remove and let cool. Transfer to a cutting board and chop into small pieces. Keep the oven on.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, butter, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix until combined. Press evenly onto the bottom and sides of a 10-inch pie plate. Brush with the beaten egg. Bake until light golden brown and firm, about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reduce the oven temperature to 300ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, both sugars, and the molasses together in a medium bowl. Mix in the pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Whisk in the heavy cream, milk, and vanilla seeds or extract. Strain the mixture through a coarse strainer into a bowl. Whisk in the butter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the pie plate on a baking sheet, pour the pumpkin mixture into the shell, and sprinkle additional cinnamon over the top. Bake until the filling is set around edges but the center still jiggles slightly when shaken, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cut the pie into slices and top each with a large dollop of whipped cream and some of the cinnamon crunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, very cold\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons bourbon, to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, vanilla seeds, maple syrup, and bourbon in a large chilled bowl, and whip until soft peaks form.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Challenger: Michele Albano''s Maple Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 9-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pie Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 11/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening, very cold\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, for brushing\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups pumpkin puree, preferably fresh\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1 cup Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 3 large eggs, beaten\n <br />\n Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows), for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the flour and salt in a medium bowl and mix well. Break up the shortening and toss it with the flour mixture to coat. Using a pastry blender or your fingertips, mix the ingredients together until the dough forms coarse crumbs. Add 3 to 4 tablespoons ice-cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough easily forms a ball that can hold itself together. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and as long as overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the dough is resting, make the streusel: Toss the pecans with the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add the butter, and using a pastry blender or your fingertips, work in until you have small clumps. Set aside.\n</p>\n<p>\n Preheat the oven to 425ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sprinkle flour generously over a hard surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it forms an 11-inch round. Fold the round in half, place it in a 9-inch pie plate, and then unfold the dough to completely cover the pie plate with a bit of an overhang. Tuck the overhang under to make a double-thick rim, and then use your fingers to crimp the edges of the pie shell. Brush the heavy cream over the crimped edges, and refrigerate until the filling is complete.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, mix the pumpkin, flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl well. Add the heavy cream and maple syrup, scraping the bowl several times while mixing. Mix in the beaten eggs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pour the filling mixture into the pie shell, and bake for 15 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 350ÂºF and bake until the filling is almost firm, about 30 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven and sprinkle the pecan streusel over the top, covering the pie completely. Return the pie to the oven and bake until the filling is just a bit wobbly in the middle and the pecan streusel is golden, 10 to 15 minutes. The total baking time should be 55 to 60 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cool the pie on a wire rack. The pie is best served at either at room temperature or cold. Before serving, garnish the pie with the Maple Whipped Cream.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/3 cup confectionersâ€™ sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Grade B maple syrup, or to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the metal bowl of an electric mixer in the freezer to chill for at least 15 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, confectionersâ€™ sugar, and vanilla in the chilled bowl, and beat on high speed until the mixture thickens. Add the maple syrup and beat on high speed until the cream holds firm peaks.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let''s see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac ''n'' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn''t want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18928'),
(24267, 'The Bobby Gold stories', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it''s set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef''s menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn''t live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish''s Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain''s version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie''s appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain''s plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it''s a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author''s zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ).\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain''s third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world''s most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("''You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron'' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who''s late on a payment to Eddie and knows he''s about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?''\n <code>\n  Sure,'' said Bobby.\n </code>\n Your choice. You pick it'' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain''s charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4884'),
(24268, 'The Bodies Left Behind', 'Deaver, Jeffery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4886'),
(24269, 'The Body Artist', 'Don DeLillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com Review Don DeLillo''s reputation rests on a series of large-canvas novels, in which he''s proven to be the foremost diagnostician of our national psyche. In The Body Artist, however, he sacrifices breadth for depth, narrowing his focus to a single life, a single death. The protagonist is Lauren Hartke, who we see sharing breakfast with her husband, Rey, in the opening pages. This 18-page sequence is a tour de force (albeit a less showy one than the author''s initial salvo in Underworld)-an intricate, funny notation of Lauren''s consciousness as she pours cereal, peers out the window, and makes idle chat. Rey, alas, will proceed directly from the breakfast table to the home of his former wife, where he''ll unceremoniously blow his brains out. What follows is one of the strangest ghost stories since The Turn of the Screw. And like James''s tale, it seems to partake of at least seven kinds of ambiguity, leaving the reader to sort out its riddles. Returning to their summer rental after Rey''s funeral, Lauren discovers a strange stowaway living in a spare room: an inarticulate young man, perhaps retarded, who may have been there for weeks. His very presence is hard for her to pin down: "There was something elusive in his aspect, moment to moment, a thinning of physical address." Yet soon this mysterious figure begins to speak in Rey''s voice, and her own, playing back entire conversations from the days preceding the suicide. Has Lauren''s husband been reincarnated? Or is the man simply an eavesdropping idiot savant, reproducing sentences he''d heard earlier from his concealment? DeLillo refuses any definitive answer. Instead he lets Lauren steep in her grief and growing puzzlement, and speculates in his own voice about this apparent intersection of past and present, life and death. At times his rhetoric gets away from him, an odd thing for such a superbly controlled writer. "How could such a surplus of vulnerability find itself alone in the world?" he asks, sounding as though he''s discussing a sick puppy. And Lauren''s performances-for she is the body artist of the title-sound pretty awful, the kind of thing Artaud might have cooked up for an aerobics class. Still, when DeLillo reins in the abstractions and bears down, the results are heartbreaking: Why shouldn''t the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don''t know how to love the ones you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take. At this stage of his career, a thin book is an adventure for DeLillo. So is his willingness to risk sentimentality, to immerse us in personal rather than national traumas. For all its flaws, then, The Body Artist is a real, raw accomplishment, and a reminder that bigger, even for so capacious an imagination as DeLillo''s, isn''t always better. -James Marcus From Publishers Weekly After 11 novels, DeLillo (Underworld; White Noise) is an acknowledged American master, and a writer who rarely repeats his successes. This slim novella is puzzling, and may prove entirely mystifying to many readers; like all DeLillo''s fiction, it offers a vision of contemporary life that expresses itself most clearly in how the story is told. Would you recognize what you had said weeks earlier, if it were the last thing, among other last things, you said to someone you loved and would never see again? That question, posed late in the narrative, helps explain the somewhat aimless and seemingly pointless opening scene, in which a couple gets up, has breakfast, and the man looks for his keys. Next we learn that heDfailed film director Rey Robles, 64Dis dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. SheDLauren, a "body artist"Dgoes on living alone in their house along a lonely coast, until she tracks a noise to an unused room on the third floor and to a tiny, misshapen man who repeats back conversations that she and Rey had weeks before. Is Mr. Tuttle, as Lauren calls him, real, possibly an inmate wandered off from a local institution? Or is he a figment of Lauren''s grieving imagination? Is thisDas DeLillo playfully slips into Lauren''s mind at one pointDthe first case of a human abducting an alien? One way of reading this story is as a novel told backwards, in a kind of time loop: DeLillo keeps hidden until his closing pages Lauren''s role as a body artistDand with it, the novel''s true narrative intent. DeLillo is always an offbeat and challenging novelist, and this little masterpiece of the storyteller''s craft may not be everyone''s masterpiece of the storytelling art. But like all DeLillo''s strange and unforgettable works, this is one every reader will have to decide on individually.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4887'),
(24270, 'Body Count', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Major Revell and his Special Combat Company, a new breed of super-warriors waging the war of the future in a land wasted by nuclear destruction, must reclaim the blood-soaked city of Frankfurt, but they find themselves outgunned by an insidious new force from inside the Zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14563'),
(24271, 'The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell brings back Kay Scarpetta, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI''s Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling novel. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more disturbing are the details of the crimes, chillingly reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the unit for years. Into this volatile atmosphere comes Scarpetta''s ingenious, rebellious niece Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico''s computer engineering facility--until she is accused of a shocking security violation. While coming to terms with Lucy, Kay must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known as the Body Farm. There she will find more answers to Emily Steiner''s murder--and evidence that paints a picture of a crime more horrifying than she imagined . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4890'),
(24272, 'The Body Finder', 'Kimberly Derting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodiesâ€”or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he''s claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murdererâ€”and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay''s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she''s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4895'),
(24273, 'A Body in the Bath House', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In another classical crime romp - this time in Roman Britain - Falco investigates a spate of killings, only to find himself next on the assassins'' list. Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associated problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house. The contractors have fled to Britain where, as the Fates have it, Falco is ordered. A local chief and ally of the Romans is having a palace built by the Emperor Vespasian. However, the project is running late, work is slipshod, and fatal accidents keep happening. Somewhere on the site are the murderers who may be behind this latest spate of killings. Somewhere in the forefront, troubleshooting for the Emperor, is Falco, without an ally and now next on the list for assassination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(24274, 'The body in the library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4896'),
(24275, 'Body Language', 'Denise A. Agnew', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14565'),
(24276, 'Body language: how to read others&#39; thoughts by their gestures', 'Allan Pease', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14567'),
(24277, 'Body of evidence', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spine-tingling new novel by an author likened by the press to Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia''s dynamic Chief Medical Examiner and extraordinary sleuth. In Body of Evidence, a Halloween afternoon autopsy soon has Kay personally involved in a murder mystery that will keep readers turning the pages until the shocking conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14569'),
(24278, 'The Body Of Jonah Boyd', 'David Leavitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family''s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone''s lives in ways that none can imagine. Hilarious, scorching, and full of surprises, The Body of Jonah Boyd is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, and, above all, the sisterhood of secretaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4898'),
(24279, 'The Body Politic', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16521'),
(24280, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paretsky''s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago''s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen''s back provokes a violent outburst from Chad Vishneski, a troubled Iraqi war veteran. When two nights later, someone shoots the woman who upset Chad outside the club, Chad is the logical murder suspect. Hired by Chad''s estranged parents to clear his name, Warshawski straddles a minefield that reaches from the Windy City''s neighborhoods to the Gulf War battlefields. Scenes with her aging neighbor and a new love interest give a much needed balance to the serious plot. This strong outing shows why the tough, fiercely independent, dog-loving private detective continues to survive.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. I. Warshawski is "like Spider-Man with a P.I. License," claimed the\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n of its home-based heroine, and critics agreed that, despite her age, Warshawski is no Miss Marple. Reviewers had little but praise for this newest entry in the popular series; of particular note is Paretsky''s deep exploration of social and political issues--notably, homophobia; domestic violence; and the misdeeds spawned by the Iraq War. However, critics diverged in their opinion of these thematic strands. The\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n called the plotting "ingenious," while the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n described it as "bloated." For readers interested in a complex, multistrand story,\n <em>\n  Body Work\n </em>\n is another thoughtful, timely entry in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14571'),
(24281, 'Boeing 787 Dreamliner', 'Mark Wagner &amp; Guy Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing''s 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitementâ€”and more ordersâ€”than any commercial airplane in the company''s history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds of photographs, Boeing 787 Dreamliner closely details the design and building of Boeing''s new twin-engine jet airliner, as well as the drama behind its launch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the key players, the controversies, the critical decisions about materials and technologyâ€”the plastic reinforced with carbon fiber that will make this mid-sized widebody super lightweight. And here, from every angle, is the Dreamliner itself, in all its gleaming readiness to rule the air.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19262'),
(24282, 'The Bohemian Girl', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he doubts therers"s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. But why did she hide the note instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London''the world of artists and their models, of brilliance and depravity, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what itrs"s like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4900'),
(24283, 'The Boleyn Inheritance', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ANNE OF CLEVES\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  KATHERINE HOWARD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She catches the king''s eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  JANE ROCHFORD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul.The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4903'),
(24284, 'Bolo Combat Unit', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14573'),
(24285, 'Bolo Night Of the Trolls', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14574'),
(24286, 'Bolo!', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Their artificial intelligences were designed to make them selflessly serve and protect humans throughout the galaxy and made each Bolo the epitome of the knight sans peur et sans reproche, and often far more noble than the humans who gave them their orders. Now, David Weber, New York Times best-selling author of the Honor Harrington series, continues the history of the Bolo, in four short novels, one of them published here for the first time. One Bolo is driven over the edge by the very humans it is pledged to protect. Another Bolo must decide whether or not to disobey when it is given an order that constitutes genocide. A third must hunt one of its own kind whose robot brain is damaged and rescue two children which the deranged Bolo thinks it is protecting from a nonexistent enemy. And more, including as a bonus, David Weber''s own authoritative technical history of the Bolo, all in a volume that will be irresistible both for David Weber''s huge readership and Bolo fans everywhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14575'),
(24287, 'Bolt', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his smashing sequel to Break In, Francis shows his old racing colors to advantage. Champion jockey Kit Fielding again proves his mettle when Henri Nanterre, the ruthless business partner of his fiancee''s uncle, tries to convert their road construction company into an armaments enterprise. Nanterre threatens the life of Princess Casilia, his partner''s wife, who also owns many of Kit''s mounts. Nanterre is foiled, but then some of the princess''s horses are found dead, killed, ironically, by captive-bullet bolt guns designed for "humane" deaths. Next come several near-lethal attacks against humans, including Kit''s Danielle, and our Kit must devise a plan to thwart Nanterre for good. Soon Danielle has second thoughts about sharing the dangers of a steeplechaser''s life. Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fielding family, reappears and makes Kit''s life even more difficult. The characterization isn''t especially profound, but the plot races along wonderfully well, right up to a jolting twist at the end. BOMC featured alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit''s nemesis has plans to knock him off the track--and plant him under it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14576'),
(24288, 'Bomb Scare', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14577'),
(24289, 'Bomber', 'Len Deighton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Bomber" is the story of the final mission of RAF Lancaster bomber. WF183 - call sign O - Orange, which took place one night in 1943. It is also the story of the many men and women - British and German - whose lives were irrevocably changed by that night''s bombing raid. Starring Tom Baker, Frank Windsor, Samuel West, Emma Chambers and Jack Shepherd, "Bomber" is a brilliant production and a consistent bestseller in the UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14578'),
(24290, 'Bombs away: the story of a bomber team', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14579'),
(24291, 'Bond 1 - Casino Royale', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14209'),
(24292, 'Bond 10 - The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2165'),
(24293, 'Bond 11 - On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8201'),
(24294, 'Bond 12 - You Only Live Twice', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(24295, 'Bond 13 - The Man With The Golden Gun', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3142'),
(24296, 'Bond 2 - Live and Let Die', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9425'),
(24297, 'Bond 3 - Moonraker', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8740'),
(24298, 'Bond 4 - Diamonds Are Forever', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13042'),
(24299, 'Bond 5 - From Russia with Love', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11487'),
(24300, 'Bond 6 - Dr. No', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12880'),
(24301, 'Bond 7 - Goldfinger', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11133'),
(24302, 'Bond 8 - For Your Eyes Only', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11557'),
(24303, 'Bond 9 - Thunderball', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1370'),
(24304, 'Bonds of Justice', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14489'),
(24305, 'The Bone Chamber', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting herâ€”a close friendâ€”and Sydney''s abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tombâ€”on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar . . . and a curse. For buried deep in the mysteries of the Freemasons and the Vatican''s Holy See is a secret that could rock the world. Suddenly an ancient map is pointing Sydney toward something the Templars wished to hide away foreverâ€”something that could unleash an unstoppable tide of blood and devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4906'),
(24306, 'The Bone Conjurer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and profane--creating an object whose power bends to the true nature of its owner....But until she held it in her hands, archaeologist Annja Creed hadn''t heard of the Skull of Sidon nor the twisted tale of its origins. Even now, she''s still not convinced. Yet someone wants it badly enough to hire a man who wields power beyond her imagining. Power enough to prevent Annja from protecting the mysterious skull. And power enough to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4779'),
(24307, 'Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14491'),
(24308, 'Bone Fire', 'Mark Spragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who''s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather. Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife and--far too young--their only child; and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother--Paul''s sister--is off marketing spiritual enlightenment. What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, involving car accidents, runaway children, strokes and Lou Gehrig''s disease, not to mention the motorcycle rallies and rodeos that flood the tiny local jail. But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so. In this gripping story, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in "Bone Fire "he is at the very height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14493'),
(24309, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW* Â  Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra. Â  As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society. Â  Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4781'),
(24310, 'Bone Harvest', 'Mary Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal murders of a farming family fifty years earlier. By the author of Glare Ice and Dark Coulee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14495'),
(24311, 'The Bone House', 'Brian Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year, accusations of an affair with a female student ruined Mark''s teaching career in Wisconsin''s Door County, where he and Hilary had moved to escape Chicago. Even though Tresa Fischer insisted that her crush on Mark was nothing more than that, the tight-knit community shunned the Bradleys and labeled Mark a predator. When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa''s wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary''s hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn''t one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Markâ€”and Glory''sâ€”complicated lives. Well-developed characters and a thrilling climax help compensate for a plot that relies on too many coincidences. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but sheâ€™s on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain sheâ€™s throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilaryâ€™s story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hiddenâ€”and to make sure Mark doesnâ€™t get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freemanâ€™s first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4783'),
(24312, 'Bone House: A Novel', 'Betsy Tobin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gothic, elegant, and suspenseful, "Bone House" vividly evokes seventeenth-century rural England. It is the tale of two women. One is Dora -- large, voluptuous, and charismatic -- a prostitute to whom men are drawn for pleasure, women for friendship. Her strange death in an icy ravine affects everyone in the tiny village: her enormous, slow-minded son; an embittered midwife; the hunchbacked lord of the manor; his decaying mother; and an itin- erant portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone''s expectations. The other -- young, slight, and solitary -- is a dutiful chambermaid to the mistress of the manor until Dora''s accident begins to distract her from her daily tasks. Her quest to uncover the truth about the prostitute''s mysterious life and sudden death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future. A novel about murder, flesh, fertility, desire, medicine, and art, "Bone House" transports readers to stratified Elizabethan England, where the body -- or "bone house" -- had a primary role in deter-mining one''s destiny. Sensual, sophisticated, and fiercely compelling, this is an uncommonly assured debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14498'),
(24313, 'Bone in the Throat', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan''s Little Italy. The FBI is using a former dentist to open and run a restaurant in a sting operation designed to catch 280-pound loan shark "Sally Wig" Patera-a crazed mafioso assigned to do the Don''s dirty work. The deluded dentist thinks he really runs the Dreadnaught Grill and blows FBI cash on dumb marketing schemes instead of paying Sally''s dues and vig. Meanwhile, Sally''s nephew, Tommy Pagano, sous chef at the Dreadnaught, who loathes both his uncle and mob life, still feels loyal to the Family and so gives Sally after-hours use of the kitchen to "talk some business." But Tommy isn''t happy when Sally and Skinny di Milito-who strips naked before his hits to cut down on blood-spatter cleanup-kill a fellow mobster and cut up the body with the chef''s knife. Though the FBI pressures Tommy hard to sell out his uncle, he stays loyal, at least until the restaurant, the chef and his cooking career are threatened by Sally and Skinny, pushing him into unexpected action. The cast of this dark-humored, street-smart novel romps through Greenwich Village and Little Italy on a testosterone high in a perfect sendup of macho mobsters and feebs alike, while the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bourdain''s tongue-in-cheek wiseguy novel features an up-and-coming young chef who owes his position in a New York restaurant to his uncle, a Mob collector^-hit man who has loaned a considerable sum to the restaurant owner. Mobster Sal the Wig and Tommy, the sous-chef, are both unaware that state and federal agents have set up the owner, Harvey, as a plant to uncover extortion, murder, and whatever other criminal activities occur in Harvey''s presence or the eaterie. The combination of fine food and sordid slayings makes an irresistible novel, but perhaps not one to savor while dining.\n <em>\n  Denise Perry Donavin\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14499'),
(24314, 'Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14502');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24315, 'The Bone Palace', 'Downum, Amanda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4786'),
(24316, 'The Bone Palace', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Death is no stranger in the city of ErisÃ­n, but some deaths attract more attention than others.When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi. But worse things than vampires are plotting in ErisÃ­n - a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life but for the throne as well, and Isyllt''s former lover is caught in her schemes. As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city, Isyllt must decide who she''s prepared to betray - the man she still loves, or the royal family she''s sworn to defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18524'),
(24317, 'Bone Thief', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas Oâ€™Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.\n</p>\n<p>\n The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, heâ€™ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator heâ€™s ever facedâ€”a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to come...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14503'),
(24318, 'A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aurora Teagarden''s life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn''t have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn''t anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they''d both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane''s will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn''t take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn''t quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(24319, 'Bonecrack', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14506'),
(24320, 'The Bonehunters', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sixth volume in Steven Erikson''s truly epic fantasy sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Thereâ€™s nothing like sweeping up tag-ends to change the world. The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Shaâ€™ik slain by Tavore, the Malazan forces pacifying city after city on the troubled subcontinent, and one last rebel army, under the reluctant, embittered command of Leoman of the Flails, is pursued to the ancient and infamous city of Yâ€™Ghatan by Tavore and the Fourteenth Army. Dogged by self-doubt and ill omens, the 14th must lay siege to the city, and Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced. Into this fraught scenario come both new and familiar characters. Among the latter, Heboric Ghost Hands, journeying to redress an old wrong. Apsalar, haunted by possession and now the principal agent of Cotillion, Patron of Assassins, marking a trail with blood and dripping daggers. Cutter, the killer who had once been a thief in Darujhistan, fleeing a shattered heart. Karsa Orlong, a warrior hunting his destiny. And two old friends, traveling companions, Mappo and Icarium, wandering once more the ravaged wastelands, Icarium seeking the ancient truths of his own life, Mappo seeking to keep those truths from him, at all costs. All, searching for such fates as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. Alas, the gods are disinclined to be kind, now that knives have been unsheathed, and there shall be war, war in the heavens. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4789'),
(24321, 'Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19131'),
(24322, 'Bones of Faerie', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Lizaâ€™s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to seeâ€”into the past, into the futureâ€”and she has no choice but to flee her town. Lizaâ€™s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.Janni Lee Simnerâ€™s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fictionâ€”as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14510'),
(24323, 'Bones of the Dragon', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Bones of the Dragon\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Weis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the "Darksword" series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following."\n  <br />\n  --_Library JournalÂ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  "Weis and Hickman (_Dragons of the Highlord Skies_) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Publishers Weeky _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Welcome to the World of Dragonships!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creationâ€¦ and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddessâ€™s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with heroes and heroines young and old andÂ exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14514'),
(24324, 'Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs', 'Suzanne Clothier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Definitely not a training book full of stale dos and donts, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY is a beautifully written exploration of the ways in which humans can establish a better rapport with their dogs. Positing that owners relationships with their canine companions have the power to make them more humanand humanethe author examines the way owner/dog relationships go wrong, and how owners can make them right. Profound and practical, the book offers new insights into behavioral problems, improved communication, and mutual respect and trust, while challenging readers to re-examine their own attitudes and discover the joy in a genuine partnership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14515'),
(24325, 'Bones: Recipes, History, and Lore', 'Jennifer McLagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a lot more going on in\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  than the glorification of beef marrow. True, you will want to serve roasted marrow bones after even a casual reading. Jennifer McLagan, chef, food stylist, food writer, and now cookbook author says this is where it all began for her, this journey that has become a singular determination to rehabilitate bones in the family kitchen: "Scooping out the soft, warm marrow and spreading it on crisp toast is a sensual delight. A touch of salt, and all is right with the world."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about meat on the bone, plain and simple. Beef or veal, lamb, game, poultry, fish--it matters not. If the meat is on the bone as it enters the cooking process, be that roasting, braising, steaming, baking, or grilling, it has every chance of being far superior to meat divorced of the skeleton. Think how boring skinless, boneless chicken breasts can be. But McLagan''s underlying theme is about taking time to treat a product like meat with the respect it deserves. If you demand that it morphs into some sort of time-and-labor-saving protein package you end up with chicken fingers, not food. If it is about anything,\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about good food, and good food takes time. And time is the most precious ingredient any cook can add to the broth. The time it takes isn''t a burden, it''s where the cook truly learns and grows and matures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  McLagan divides\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  into sections devoted to Beef and Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Fish, and Game. Each section begins with a precise description of the basic animal from the skeleton on out before moving on to stocks, concentrated stocks, and consommÃ©s. As for recipe enticements you''ll find Beer-Glazed Beef Ribs, Osso Buco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce, Spicy Korean Pork Soup, Roast Leg of Pork with Crackling, Olive-Crusted Lamb Racks, Lamb Shanks in Pomegranate Sauce, Poached Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables, Grilled Quail with Sage Butter, Coconut Curry Chicken, Sardines on Toast, Cantonese-style Steamed Fish, and Herb-Roasted Rabbit (one of four rabbit recipes!).\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the novice cook should not shy away from\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , a firm foundation in basic western cooking technique is a plus. There''s a lot of learning available between these two covers. Some of it is about meat and bones, some about cooking and serving, and some is about an attitude to bring to the kitchen: If you take a little time the rewards will be far superior to any shortcuts along the way. All of which makes Jennifer McLagan something of a revolutionary in our midst.\n  <em>\n   --Schuyler Ingle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this expansive tome, food stylist and writer McLagan offers an alternative to the rubbery chicken breasts and fish filets now standard in Western cookery. By eliminating bones (and fat) from our diet, McLagan passionately argues, we''ve traded flavor for health and efficiency. Indeed, her book operates on the premise that the pleasure of gnawing on a lamb chop cannot be underestimated. More than a cookbook, this is a compendium of folklore, literary quotes and historical facts that refer to bones'' significance across cultures from ancient times to today. There are chapters on beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish and game, each with an introductory section explaining anatomy and recommended cooking temperatures. Sidebars offer suggestions for carving, using unlikely parts, and recovering endangered bone-cooking arts like "spatchcocking," or removing the wishbone from a bird. McLagan''s recipes range from arcane (Lancashire Hot Pot, which traditionally consists of a deep dish of stew covered with a potato crust, and long lamb bones piercing through the topping) to contemporary continental (Osso Bucco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce). While some recipes are time-consuming, McLagan''s instructions are generally clear and precise. With its emphasis on tradition and technique, this work won''t appeal to the 20-minute chef, but it will be a welcome addition to the slow-food aficionado''s library. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14518'),
(24326, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14520'),
(24327, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Â  But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Â  Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Â  His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14521'),
(24328, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4791'),
(24329, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14523'),
(24330, 'Boogeymen', 'Mel Gilden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Baldwin is the Federation''s premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard''s oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin''s discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help him by erasing all traces of his existence. but Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin''s problems. For the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)." has suddenly become a strange and dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk in every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14525'),
(24331, 'Boojum', 'Elizabeth Bear; Sarah Monette', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14527'),
(24332, 'Book 1 of The Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14529'),
(24333, 'The Book of a Thousand Days', 'Shannon Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James Noel Smith SUMMARY: When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious and locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she has her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt, the princess eats the food in their meagre store as if she were still at court, and Dashti soon realises they must either escape or slowly starve. But during their captivity, resourceful Dashti discovers that there is something far more sinister behind her princess''s fears of marrying the prince, and when they do break free from the tower, they find a land laid to waste and the kingdom destroyed. They were safe in the tower, now they are at the mercy of the evil prince with a terrible secret. Thrilling, captivating, and a masterful example of storytelling at its best. The princess''s maid is a feisty and thoroughly modern heroine, in this wonderfully timeless story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14532'),
(24334, 'The Book of Air and Shadows', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch''s Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesâ€”perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (_Night of the Jaguar_, *\n <em>\n </em>\n 1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with\n <em>\n  The Book of Air and Shadows\n </em>\n . While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Rule of Four\n </em>\n , critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre''s standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won''t be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel "hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4792'),
(24335, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4794'),
(24336, 'Book Of Counted Sorrows', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4796'),
(24337, 'Book of Days: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"â€¦ in Your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed\n  <em>\n   _before they had come into being."\n  </em>\n  â€”Psalm 139:16 Young Cameron Vauxâ€™s mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. Memories he knows he has to remember. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find "the book with all days in it" â€”the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book who seems to carry secrets far deeper than anyone imagines. Local hotshot TV personality Ann Bannister thinks the legend of the book is a farce, but she has her reasons to join Cameronâ€™s search anyway. Finally, there is fanatical New Age guru Jason Judah, who will stop at nothing to find the book of days before Cameron does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Acclaim for\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "I devoured\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  in one sitting. It is an exciting but poignant novel about how truly important our memories and choices are to who we become. It''s still resonating in my heart."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Colleen Coble\n  </strong>\n  , best-selling author of _The Lightkeeper''s Bride\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "_Book of Days_ is actually better than Rubart''s best-selling debut,\n  <em>\n   Rooms\n  </em>\n  . . . a terrific story that is equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Acker\n  </strong>\n  , author of _When the Devil Whistles\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "James L. Rubart is officially now one of my favorite writers.\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  is a great read, why people buy novels."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Walsh\n  </strong>\n  , award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James L. Rubart\n  </strong>\n  is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. He serves on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association and lives with his wife and sons in Seattle, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14534'),
(24338, 'The Book of Disquiet', 'Fernando Pessoa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa''s masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he''s now a Pessoa veteran-having edited and translated Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co.: Selected Poems, the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winner-Zenith''s first pass at this book was one of the four misses. He bases this new translation on his own Portuguese edition of 1998, and has done an admirable job in bringing out the force and clarity in Pessoa''s serpentine and sometimes opaque meditations. Pessoa often wrote as various personae (as Pessoa &amp; Co. carefully demonstrated); Disquiet is no exception, being putatively the work of "Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon." Thus it is impossible to ascribe the book''s anti-humanist logophilia directly to the author: "I weep over nothing that life brings or takes away, but there are pages of prose that have made me cry." That is just one of many permutations of similar sentiments, but the genius of Pessoa and his personae is that readers are left weighing each and every such sentence for sincerity and truth value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n . Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa''s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith,\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4798'),
(24339, 'The Book of Fate', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer''s overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning''s deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (_The Zero Game_) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier. Authentic details about Washington politics and historical mysteries enliven the predictable path. While readers looking for efficient plotting may be disappointed, Meltzer''s many fans will enjoy this substantial meal of a book.\n <em>\n  15-city author tour. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president''s close friend. Eight years later, the dead man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the former president. Wes thinks he can figure out what''s going on, but to do so he must decipher a two-century-old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic history. From his first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tenth Justice\n </em>\n (1997), through his sixth,\n <em>\n  Identity Crisis\n </em>\n (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take readers behind the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn''t change this time. Like the television series\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , Meltzer''s novels focus on the political people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear. He could be accused here of jumping on the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n bandwagon, but that wouldn''t really be fair. He''s too good a writer to waste his time imitating someone else''s work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far more plausible--than Dan Brown''s tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept thrillers--and the plot fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, . . . thrilled.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4800'),
(24340, 'The Book of Fathers', 'Miklos Vamos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4801'),
(24341, 'The Book of Fires', 'Jane Borodale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A stunning historical novel, ''The Book of Fires'' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel '' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition?Historical fiction at its very best, ''The Book of Fires'' is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4803'),
(24342, 'The Book of General Ignorance', 'Lloyd, John &amp; Mitchinson, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4804'),
(24343, 'The Book of Lies', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Meltzer (_The Book of Fate_) deserves credit for an audacious conceitâ€”wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Supermanâ€”but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world''s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles Ã  la\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n . A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don''t help.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Meltzer builds suspenseful fiction on a previously little-explored historical nugget: Jerry Siegel, the teenage creator of Superman, lost his father in an unsolved murder in 1932. The author offers a compelling theoretical solution by way of an adult protagonist who is dealing with his conflicted feelings about his own father. Cal works for a rescue mission, picking up vagrants in need of shelter, when he stumbles across a man who turns out to be the father who abandoned him in childhood. The two men join forces in pursuit of what they believe is the lost Book of Cain, the weapon used in the Bibles original murder scene. Meltzer invokes multiple viewpoints as Cal, his father, a mysterious young woman who seems to have befriended the father, a rogue ex-cop, and a hot Federal agent converge on Cleveland in search of the biblical treasure. Teens with a taste for international conspiracies, religion-spouting bad guys, and identity-switching will enjoy this fast ride that leaves some solid and intriguing questions in the wake of its driving plot. Suggest this one to kids who enjoy the likes of Dan Brown, as well as superhero comics._â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4805'),
(24344, 'The Book of Lost Things', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded. By the author of The Black Angel. 75,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4806'),
(24345, 'Book of Lost Threads', 'Tess Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town'' s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14536'),
(24346, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(24347, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders* When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4807');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(24348, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez &amp; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18619'),
(24349, 'The book of night with moon', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4808'),
(24350, 'The book of other people', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell''s hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman''s fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer''s heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O''Hagan''s eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet''s unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt''s lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers'' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic''s solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby''s "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero''s life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell''s "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder''s "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers''s nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...But just when you''re ready to howl in frustration at the anthologification of the book world-_I''ve seen the best minds of my generation, live blogging about recipes that inspire them_-along comes\n <em>\n  The Book of Other People...Other People\n </em>\n collects 23 pieces by a who''s who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Dandicat...Smith sent her contributors just one instruction: Make somebody up."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly hip."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic- strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny." They remind us that an individual''s life is itself a narrative with a beginning, a middle and at least the intimations of an end. And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters'' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon"-like splitting of perspectives."\n <br />\n -Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From its strange, graphic-novelesque cover-an array of cartoonish sketches of odd-looking faces in profile, stacked like ladder rungs-to its uncommonly eye- catching lineup of contributors, "The Book of Other People," a 2008 paperback from Penguin Books, is extraordinary."\n <br />\n -_Charlotte Observer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you only read one book, make it this dazzling selection of short stories..."\n <br />\n -Eve Magazine UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Some of the wittiest and wisest stories you''ll read all year..."\n <br />\n -Elle UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "Character provides the thematic key to these stories, all new to this collection, from some of our finest younger contemporary fiction writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor and contributor Smith (On Beauty, 2005, etc.) invited 22 other authors, many of them (like her) better known for novels than short fiction, to write a story inspired by the creation of a character. "The instruction was simple," she writes in her introduction, "make somebody up." Yet the stories correspond to no consensus about the role of character in fiction, or a return to realism, or the responsibility of fiction to mirror society. To the contrary, what Smith believes the stories show is that "there are as many ways to create ''character'' (or deny the possibility of ''character'') as there are writers." The title of each story comes from the name of a character or type ("The Monster") with the selections sequenced alphabetically. Many of the writers, including Smith, come from the McSweeney''s and/or Believer literary circle (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Chris Ware, Nick Hornby et al.) and most of the contributions range from the short to the very short (Toby Litt''s "The Monster" is a four-page paragraph). With proceeds benefiting 826 New York (a nonprofit organization for the inspiration and development of student writing), none of the writers were paid for their work, with the results sometimes more playful (and occasionally slighter) than one has come to expect from them. Jonathan Lethem''s Dickensian titled "Perkus Tooth" offers a hilarious dismissal of rock critics. A.L. Kennedy''s "Frank" provides an existential parable about a man who isn''t who he thinks he is. Though many of the stories have a first-person perspective, the narrator is rarely the title character, and some of the challenge for the reader can be determining whom a story is really about. In Colm T~ib"n''s "Donal Webster," the name of the title character is never even mentioned, leaving the reader to guess who is addressing whom.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the quality inevitably varies, the spirit of the anthology is that reading should be fun rather than work. -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4809'),
(24351, 'A Book of Remarkable Criminals', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(24352, 'The Book of Secrets', 'Deepak Chopra, M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4810'),
(24353, 'Book of Shadows', 'Sokoloff, Alexandra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14538'),
(24354, 'Book of Shadows', 'Alexandra Sokoloff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Sokoloff''s solid crime thriller, the discovery in a landfill of the mutilated corpse of Erin Carmody, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent Boston businessman, presents homicide detective Adam Garrett with a particularly sensitive case. Marks on the body suggest the killer was conducting Satanic rituals. When Adam and his partner, Carl Landauer, question the prime suspect, Jason Moncrief, a college friend of Erin''s, Jason chants the name of the demon Choronzon, then assaults Carl. Despite what appears to be an open-and-shut case, Adam can''t discount the claim that Jason is innocent made by Tanith Cabarrus, an attractive witch who comes to police headquarters to report that she dreamed of other murdersâ€”and who believes that supernatural forces are behind the slaughter. As usual, Sokoloff (_The Unseen_) does a good job keeping the reader guessing whether a supernatural agency is really at work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderfully dark thriller with amazing is-it-isn''t-it suspense all the way to the end. Highly recommended.â€---Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Unseen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSokoloff keeps her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigatorsâ€™ psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain.â€_---Publishers WeeklyÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe suspense starts on page one, tightening the noose on every page with increasing velocity to a stunning, fearsome climax. Ms. Sokoloff has created a chilling, fantastic supernatural thriller that will have you fearing what you canâ€™t see.â€---Allison Brennan,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times _bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Sudden Death\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spine-tingling story that has every indication of becoming a horror classic . . . this is a chillingly dark look into the unknown. 4 1/2 stars.â€_---RT Book Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful blend of fascinating fact and chilling fiction . . . an unsettling and highly entertaining horror/thriller read.â€---_BookBitch.com_Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18984'),
(24355, 'Book of Sketches, 1952-57', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America''s underbelly ("a pile of junk, â€”&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love â€” good for/ music â€” let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn''t stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer''s habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled\n <em>\n  Book of Sketches.\n </em>\n This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14541'),
(24356, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold. They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests. When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help. Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past. Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens. Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4811'),
(24357, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I', 'Anonymous &amp; John Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Payne (1842 - 1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio''s Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and other poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4817'),
(24358, 'The Book of Three', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tale of Taran, assistant pig keeper, has been entertaining young readers for generations. Set in the mythical land of Prydain (which bears a more than passing resemblance to Wales), Lloyd Alexander''s book draws together the elements of the hero''s journey from unformed boy to courageous young man. Taran grumbles with frustration at home in the hamlet Caer Dallben; he yearns to go into battle like his hero, Prince Gwydion. Before the story is over, he has met his hero and fought the evil leader who threatens the peace of Prydain: the Horned King.\n</p>\n<p>\n What brings the tale of Taran to life is Alexander''s skillful use of humor, and the way he personalizes the mythology he has so clearly studied. Taran isn''t a stick figure; in fact, the author makes a point of mocking him just at the moments when he''s acting the most highhanded and heroic. When he and the young girl Eilonwy flee the castle of the wicked queen Achren, Taran emotes, "''Spiral Castle has brought me only grief; I have no wish to see it again.'' ''What has it brought the rest of us?'' Eilonway asked. ''You make it sound as though we were just sitting around having a splendid time while you moan and take on.''" By the end, Alexander has spun a rousing hero''s tale and created a compelling coming-of-age story. Readers will sigh with relief when they realize\n <em>\n  The Book of Three\n </em>\n is only the first of the chronicles of Prydain.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A very funny adventure tale set in an imaginary kingdom... The writing is sophisticated."-_-Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4819'),
(24359, 'The Book of Three', 'Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 1 - The Book of Three', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15574'),
(24360, 'The Book of Useless Information', 'Botham, Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1592'),
(24361, 'The Book of Xen', 'Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows.\n  <i>\n   The Book of Xen\n  </i>\n  explains everything a sysadmin needs to know to use this powerful technology, with coverage of installation, networking, virtualized storage, and managing guest and host operating systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4822'),
(24362, 'The Book on the Bookshelf', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4824'),
(24363, 'The Book Thief', 'Zusak, Markus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4825'),
(24364, 'The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, enforcer of law and order for the city, desires Thorston''s secrets for himself. Brother Wilfrid, a priest with green eyes, knows the dangers of the book and seeks to retrieve it. To this mix add Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a poor orphan girl whom Thorston has taken in as his servant, and you have an intriguing tale in which goodness ultimately triumphs. Avi''s compelling language creates a dreary foreboding, a grim backdrop against which the characters work out their fate. The old city always seems enshrouded in nasty fog and disgusting odors. Thorston keeps consuming part of his life-giving formula and repeatedly appears to die before resuscitating as a younger person. This, plus the fact that after each "death" Sybil and the others bury him, only to have him tromp up the basement steps covered in grime, will surely keep readers turning pages. Odo''s cleverness and cynicism make him a likable character, while Sybil''s innate goodness will endear her to readers. Clearly this is a story with a message, a true fable. Thoughtful readers will devour its absorbing plot and humorous elements, and learn a "useful truth" along the way._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. Avi''s name on the cover of a new novel is enough to provoke shivers of anticipation in many readers, and in this "Fable of Medieval Magic" set in eleventh-century England, shivers are certainly warranted. Thirteen-year-old Sybil is the servant of Thorston, an alchemist who attempts to steal her "life''s breath" but dies before the magic can take effect. Thorston''s companion, a talking raven, convinces Sybil to help him seek the secret of alchemy, contained within an enchanted book--a task that''s complicated by a flurry of visitors ("A sniff of gold makes everyone sneeze") and by Thorston''s stubborn refusal to stay quietly in his grave. Avi reigns supreme in building gothic atmosphere, and children will be thrilled by the ghastly scenes of fog-shrouded cemeteries and villains reduced "to a foul lump of putrid muck." Less certain is how they''ll respond to the unconventional structure; though unflappable, compassionate Sybil comes closest to a central protagonist, the narrative ricochets among numerous perspectives and is fractured into terse, dialogue-heavy episodes. Many fans of Avi''s 2003 Newbery Award winner\n <em>\n  Crispin\n </em>\n (2002) will miss the feeling of immersion in a narrative conferred by a single point of view even as they ponder the sweeping messages about the transience of life and the evils of avarice.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4827'),
(24365, 'Book, Theatre, and Wheel', 'Karl Schroeder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14544'),
(24366, 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', 'Alan Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindi and Vedantic philosophy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4829'),
(24367, 'Booked for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Carolina Rhapsody Emerald is displayed at the Hatteras West Inn, Innkeeper Alex Winston can''t wait to see it leave. There''s just too much stress having the valuable jewel there. Just before the exhibit is scheduled to end, the emerald is stolen, and the guard is murdered with Alex''s lighthouse-shaped letter opener!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14547'),
(24368, 'The Bookman', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  LATE EXTRA!\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON!\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.\n <br />\n <br />\n For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...\n <br />\n <br />\n Like a steam-powered take onÂ \n <i>\n  V for Vendetta\n </i>\n , rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure.Â \n <i>\n  The Bookman\n </i>\n is the first of a series.\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   â€œThe Bookman is without a doubt the most enjoyable, fascinating and captivating book I have read in a long time. It has managed to claim the throne as my favorite steampunk novel from Moorcockâ€™s A Nomad of the Time Streamsâ€¦ Not only because of the plot and the world with its automatons, simulacra and the giant space cannon, it is also in itself an intricate work of art, very much like clockwork. The storyâ€™s depth is revealed piece by piece, gear by gear, during the entire length of the novel up until the end, which makes for a very exciting and captivating read. It took me very much until the last chapter to piece all the details together, combine all the different gears and cogwheels to one beautiful apparatus, to grasp the full expanse of what was actually going on right from the start of the novel. Finally in the end I understood and was left with the images of a truly fascinating story and world in my mind. But it is not only the depth of the plot, its many twists and mysteries which kept me glued to its pages, it is also the cast of characters and the many striking details of the world, which make this book so enjoyable.â€\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   - Dailysteampunk.com\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4831'),
(24369, 'books do furnish a room', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14548'),
(24370, 'Books of Blood', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14552'),
(24371, 'Books of Blood 01', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16516'),
(24372, 'Books of Blood 02', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16518'),
(24373, 'Books Of Blood 04', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16497'),
(24374, 'Books Of Blood 06', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16504'),
(24375, 'Books of Blood Six', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14554'),
(24376, 'Books of Blood Three', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror include, ""Son of   Celluloid,"" ""Rawhead Rex,"" ""Confessions of a Pornographer''s   Shroud,"" ""Scape-Goats,"" and ""Human Remains."" Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14555'),
(24377, 'Books of Blood Two', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of horror and intrigue include, "Dread," "Hell''s   Event," "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament," "The Skins of the   Fathers," and "New Murders in the Rue Morgue." Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14557'),
(24378, 'Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations:Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology tosolve crime both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crimethriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. Agroup of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seenin Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dan Abnett lives and works in Maidstone, Kent. Well known for his comic book work, he has scripted everything from the Mr Men to the X-Men in the last two decades. He is also the author of twenty three novels, including the acclaimed Eisenhorn and the best selling Horus Rising. He was voted ''Best Writer Now'' at the National Comic Awards 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14560'),
(24379, 'Border songs', 'Jim Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: By the acclaimed author of The Highest Tide, a story of contrary destinies that are further complicated by the border that separates them.Brandon Vanderkoolâ€™s extreme dyslexia and height give him a peculiar perspective, which proves handy once his father pushes him off their Washington dairy farm into the Border Patrol. Though he used to just jump over the ditch into British Columbia, heâ€™s uncomfortable in this uniformed role and instead indulges his obsession with birds and art while incidentally spotting smugglers and illegal immigrants who are provoking an already paranoid society. Drug mansions in the Canadian highlands peer down into berry farms that might offer convenient routes into the American market, where politicians clamor for increased security. Closer to home, Brandonâ€™s father battles disease in his herd and his mother something far worse. Madeline Rousseau, who grew up right across the ditch, has seen her gardening skills turn lucrative, while her father replicates great past inventions and rails against imperialism. And overseeing everything is a mysterious masseuse who knows everybodyâ€™s secrets.Rich in characters contending with a swiftly changing world and their own elusive hopes and dreams, Border Songs is at once comic, tender, and momentousâ€”a riveting portrait of a distinctive community, an inventive love story, and fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14562'),
(24380, 'Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15531'),
(24381, 'Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4479'),
(24382, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities of The Plain', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15530'),
(24383, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities of The Plain:', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad JuÃ¡rez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14066'),
(24384, 'Bordered in Black', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14564'),
(24385, 'The Borderlands of Sol', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4833'),
(24386, 'Borders of infinity', 'Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugo and Nebula Award winner! Miles Vorkosigan in all his guises: prodigal son, back-country judge, lover, spy, diplomat (not his strong suit), strategist, scapegoat, mercenary commander, and -- always -- hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14566'),
(24387, 'The Bormann Testament', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of print for twenty years, and originally published under the title\n <em>\n  The Testament of Caspar Schultz\n </em>\n , this is a Jack Higgins classic reborn!\n</p>\n<p>\n Special Agent Paul Chavasse knows that if he''s being called into action, the job is going bad-and is about to get worse. For a manuscript that exposes former Nazis now in hiding is up for grabs, and Paul must retrieve it before they destroy it-and him.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since The Eagle Has Landedâ€”one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all timeâ€”every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4835'),
(24388, 'Born Free', 'Joy Adamson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifty years ago conservationist Joy Adamson introduced the world to Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that the mature lion must be returned to the wild, despite the incredible bond they shared. Since the first publication of "Born Free" in 1960, and its sequels "Living Free and Forever Free", generations of readers have been inspired and moved by the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. The full story is now available to discover in this beautiful 50th anniversary gift edition, which features a collection of stunning photography and rare sketches.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Joy Adamson was a pioneer in the field of conservation. With her husband George, senior game warden in a huge area of the northern frontier province of Kenya, she established one of the world''s first wild animal appeals. Now the Elsa Conservation Trust, it operates an education, training and wildlife retreat centre at the Adamsons'' former home of Elsamere, on the shores of Lake Naivasha.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14568'),
(24389, 'Born in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14570'),
(24390, 'Born in Exile', 'George Gissing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14580'),
(24391, 'Born in Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attempting to escape her past, reclusive glassmaker Maggie Concannon devotes her life to her art, until gallery owner Rogan Sweeney recognizes her talent and offers to help her build a lucrative career. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14581'),
(24392, 'Born in ice', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sparkling entry in the New York Times bestselling Born In trilogy. The story of modern-day Ireland''s Concannon sisters continues with the tale of Brianna--whose cool beauty hides a heart of fiery passion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14582'),
(24393, 'Born in shame', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With her life turned upside down after learning her true father''s identity, successful graphic artist Shannon Bodine reluctantly leaves America and sets out to meet her family in County Clare and discovers the meaning of true love. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14583'),
(24394, 'Born O&#39;Hurley: Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14585'),
(24395, 'Born of Elven Blood', 'Kevin J. Anderson &amp; John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14584'),
(24396, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19163'),
(24397, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4837'),
(24398, 'Born Standing Up: A Comic&#39;s Life', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been awriter. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott''s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times -- the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies. Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14586'),
(24399, 'Born to Be Riled', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: bull; why Surrey is worse than Wales bull; how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest bull; the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched bull; that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ls"personalitiesrs" and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarksonrs"s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14587');
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(24400, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14396'),
(24401, 'Borne on Wings of Steel', 'Tony Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The much anticipated sequel to MotherShip! Traveling to the farthest known worlds of the universe, Mother, Jaric and Kyle continue their search for other survivors of the human race. They soon find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception and danger Å¼ orchestrated by the mysterious and powerful Paum. As they fight back, Mother comes face-to-face with the Paum Å¼ a life-altering encounter that shakes the foundation of her existence as an AI. As her enemies reveal themselves and attack, both they and the inner truth she discovers threaten to destroy them allÅ¼\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14399'),
(24402, 'Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place. . .or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14402'),
(24403, 'Boscobel; Or, the Royal Oak', 'William Harrison Ainsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14404'),
(24404, 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4839'),
(24405, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14405'),
(24406, 'Boston Blitz', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob. It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war. There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14408'),
(24407, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane ( Mystic River , The Given Day ) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island , the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain ; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred ; Darkness, Take My Hand ; A Drink Before the War , which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day . A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14409'),
(24408, 'The Bostonians', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    The Bostonians\n   </i>\n   , byÂ \n   <b>\n    Henry James\n   </b>\n   , is part of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Â \n   </i>\n   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   :\n   <div>\n    <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n     <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n     </li>\n    </ul>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n    <i>\n     Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n    </i>\n    pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Â \n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement,Â \n  <b>\n   Henry James\n  </b>\n  Â dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner inÂ \n  <i>\n   The Bostonians.\n  </i>\n  Â Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womenâ€™s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenaâ€™s soulâ€”and bodyâ€”their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todayâ€™s sexual politics. In fact, Jamesâ€™s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novelâ€™s quietly haunting final sentence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  <b>\n   Siri Hustvedt\n  </b>\n  Â earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry,Â \n  <i>\n   Reading to You;\n  </i>\n  Â three novels:Â \n  <i>\n   The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,\n  </i>\n  Â andÂ \n  <i>\n   What I Loved;\n  </i>\n  Â and a book of essays,\n  <i>\n   Yonder\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4840'),
(24409, 'The botany of desire: a plant&#39;s-eye view of the world', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4843'),
(24410, 'Both Parties Concerned', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19018'),
(24411, 'The Botticelli Secret', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Gloriously fresh and vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, ''The Botticelli Secret'' is a masterful concoction of enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Resplendent fifteenth-century Italy is seen through the eyes of the gorgeous Luciana Vetra, part-time model and full-time prostitute. After a request from one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, Luciana agrees to model for the central figure of Flora in Botticelli''s masterpiece ''Primavera'' But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively steals an unfinished version of the painting - only to find that friends and clients are slaughtered around her in an attempt to get it back. So Luciana turns to the one man who has never desired her beauty, novice monk Brother Guido Della Torre, to discover what could be so valuable about the painting. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana and Guido race through the seven cities of Renaissance Italy pursued by ruthless enemies who are determined to keep them from decoding the painting''s secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4844'),
(24412, 'The Bottle Factory Outing', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4846'),
(24413, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14411'),
(24414, 'Bound by Sin', 'Jenna Maclaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14412'),
(24415, 'Bound to Rise', 'Horatio Alger, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose , Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14415'),
(24416, 'Bound, Branded, &amp; Brazen', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Three sisters reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master". ** In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a date with destiny... *Bound*: When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband goodbye-along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories. *Branded*: Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask for more than she''s willing to give? *Brazen*: Ranch hand Walker Morgan can''t afford to get too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how she tempts him. But Jolene''s prepared to take the first step. In the style of *Wild, Wicked, &amp; Wanton*, national bestselling author Jaci Burton, delivers a threesome that no reader will ever forget in these steamy stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14418'),
(24417, 'The Bounty Hunter Wars 1: The Mandalorian Armor', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous careerâ€”an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies. As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It''s a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the game is rigged, as he finds himself the target of murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire''s dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4849'),
(24418, 'Bourne 1 The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mr. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combines."â€”_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Bourne.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his deliriumâ€” maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4854'),
(24419, 'Bourne 2 The Bourne supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao''s tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It''s a sure-fire bestseller. 650,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection; Franklin Library limited edition.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this sequel to The Bourne Identity , David Webb, still suffering flashbacks to his Jason Bourne persona, is forced to undertake a final, possibly fatal mission after his wife is kidnapped. He must find and capture an assassin who is posing as Bourne in Hong Kong. By so doing he''ll foil a plot that could plunge the Far East and then the world into war. Ludlum''s latest has a best seller quality that many imitate but few master. You can quibble about this being too long, too talky, too preposterously implausible, but you can''t quit reading. As often happens with sequels, this is not quite up to the standards of the original, but legions of Ludlum fans will send it soaring up the best seller list. BOMC main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4861'),
(24420, 'Bourne 3 The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The literary faults and stylistic excesses that characterized The Icarus Agenda , The Gemini Contenders and other of Ludlum''s works are present in his latest mammoth thriller, but fans will nonetheless cheer the return of his most popular character, David Webb, aka Jason Bourne, the assassin who never was. When the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal penetrates his civilian identity, Webb must again assume the Bourne persona to protect his wife and small children. In their renewed struggle, the two master assassins uncover the revived existence of Medusa, the sinister alliance that originally led to the establishment of the Bourne identity. In action that moves from the U.S. to Montserrat to Paris before concluding in Moscow, Bourne and his allies prove incredibly inept, barely escaping the Jackal''s traps and failing in their repeated attempts to ambush him. The Ludlum trademarks are present: improbable bloodbaths, repetitive action, stilted and off-the-point conversations and--most annoying--the use of italicized words or entire paragraphs to simulate passion. This is formula writing that delivers even less than its meager promise.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Vintage Ludlum."--\n  <em>\n   The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4865'),
(24421, 'Bourne 4 The Bourne Legacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran thriller maestro Lustbader (_Black Heart_, etc.) seizes the reins of Robert Ludlum''s bestselling Jason Bourne series, proving that even Ludlum''s death can''t stop the ex-CIA operative. David Webb, a mild-mannered Georgetown professor, harbors his old Bourne identity deep within his psycheâ€”except in moments of danger. A mysterious assassin, Khan, has targeted Webb. Seeking counsel from his old CIA handler, Alex Conklin, Webb arrives at Conklin''s home to find him, along with Webb''s psychiatrist and friend, Mo Panov, murdered. Unsurprisingly, it''s a setup, and Webb is declared a rogue agent and the prime suspect. His only clue to the real killer is a pad of paper with a faint impression of the notation "NX 20." Meanwhile, in Reykjavik, preparations are underway for the upcoming summit on worldwide terrorism. Even the dimmest thriller reader will immediately intuit that Bourne, pursued by the world''s leading intelligence agencies, will end up in Iceland confronting some evildoer out to wreak havoc on the international terror conference. And thus it comes to pass. Lustbader has wisely eschewed mimicking Ludlum''s signature styleâ€”short punchy paragraphs with lots of exclamation points. His own prose, often cliche-ridden ("Khan felt as if his brain was about to explode. He was shaken to his very foundation"), is perfectly serviceable, effectively conveying the myriad cinematic hairsbreadth escapes, crosses, double crosses, explosions, furious fisticuffs and careening plot twists. It''s a hearty serving of meat and potatoes action adventure, just the sort of fare that both Ludlum''s and Lustbader''s fans relish.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Three of Robert Ludlum''s novels featured the fictional character Jason Bourne. Now comes a Bourne novel not by Ludlum but by Van Lustbader, the author of 20 novels that had nothing to do with Bourne. The publisher assures readers that the individuals who control Ludlum''s estate have given their permission to create this new novel. Here and now, Bourne, described as "an international assassin of deadly repute," has retired from the CIA and is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He has been framed for the murder of two associates and becomes the target of an assassin. The novel begins in Chechnya and continues in such diverse places as Nairobi, Crete, Washington, D.C., and Budapest. The many-paged narrative provides ample room for lots of action, including a body found in a refrigerator, "shared joy" between lovers, fistfights, gun battles, torture, and deceit.\n  <em>\n   The Bourne Legacy\n  </em>\n  reads much like Ludlum, which, of course, is exactly the point.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4855'),
(24422, 'Bourne 5 The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium.Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. Bourne agrees - but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail?Worse still, is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own - gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA . . . SUMMARY: Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium.Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. Bourne agrees - but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail?Worse still, is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own - gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11331'),
(24423, 'Bourne 6 The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Globe-trotting secret agent Jason Bourne returns in the third installment under the helm of Lustbader, who struggles to captivate as convincingly and effectively as Ludlum did in the original novels. Amid a cheesy prologue that features corny background music to set the mood, Jeremy Davidson speeds through the opening paragraphs at breakneck speed. Perhaps in an attempt to increase tension from the start, Davidson comes off sounding incredibly forced and somewhat uncomfortable. As the story progresses, he slows down but lacks any real authenticity. His characters are flat and uninspired, his performance monotonous and bland.\n  <em>\n   A Grand Central hardcover. (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lustbader''s third continuation of Ludlum''s popular espionage series (after\n  <em>\n   The Bourne Legacy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Bourne Betrayal\n  </em>\n  ) finds Jason Bourne trying to unravel the terrorist plot of a previously unknown Muslim group. Audie Award nominee Jeremy Davidson does an outstanding job creating distinctive voices for the multitude of American, British, and Eastern European characters, but their sheer number and the constant switching of settings will test listeners'' attention spans, and the musical cues employed during the action sequences are cheesy. Nevertheless, recommended for public libraries owing to the series'' continuing popularity.â€”Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr. Lib.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6940'),
(24424, 'The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4851'),
(24425, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4852'),
(24426, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18746'),
(24427, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no  future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he  was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body  riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A  frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the  flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has  altered his face. Strange things that he says in  his deliriumâ€” maybe code words.  Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that  leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four  million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.  But now he is marked for death, caught in a  maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep  layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of  murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s  most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason  Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape  him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18744'),
(24428, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4856'),
(24429, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader &amp; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18468'),
(24430, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life - as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4859'),
(24431, 'Bourne Trilogy 1 - The Bourne Identity', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4853'),
(24432, 'Bourne Trilogy 2 - The Bourne Supremacy', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4860'),
(24433, 'Bourne Trilogy 3 - The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4862'),
(24434, 'The Bourne ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  again -- assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap  -- a trap from which only one of them will escape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18745'),
(24435, 'Bova, Ben - Escape Plus', 'Escape Plus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17460'),
(24436, 'Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky', '3C3D62D8, The Sheltering Sky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14424'),
(24437, 'The box garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4707'),
(24438, 'The Box of the Ivory Dragon', 'James L. Aton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13553'),
(24439, 'Boy', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4400'),
(24440, 'A Boy and his God', 'A Boy &amp; His God', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16711'),
(24441, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4709'),
(24442, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', 'John Boyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4710'),
(24443, 'Boy Meets Dyevitza', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14426'),
(24444, 'Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14430'),
(24445, 'Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18975');
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(24446, 'Boy Soldier 1: Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gripping, action-packed thriller from the bestselling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead.Packed...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14427'),
(24447, 'Boy Soldier 2: Payback', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7819'),
(24448, 'Boy Soldier 3: Avenger', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Third in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-seeking Black Star before more ''Angels of Death'' suicide bombers are despatched. Elena is the key to discovering the bomb-master''s whereabouts as she has already made Deep Web contact. The plan is simple - locate Black Star and kill him - at whatever cost. While Fergus is forced to remain in England, confined to a wheelchair as he recovers from his injuries, the hunt takes Danny and Elena to New York on a covert mission led by Marcie Deveraux. Despite Black Star''s trickery and deception, the net gradually closes. Fergus travels to the US to help, but Elena is drawn into terrible danger, and only Danny can save her. Using the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15018'),
(24449, 'Boy Soldier 4: Meltdown', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fourth in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the Canadian lakes, eighteen-year-old Danny and his grandfather, ex-SAS hero Fergus Watts, are once again sucked into a deadly undercover operation and a race against time. Their search for the mastermind behind a pair of murderous gangland twins takes them from the clubs of Manchester to Spain and Germany, and Danny needs all his newly learned expertise when he comes up against an old adversary - someone he hoped never to encounter again. And this time, when the battle is joined, it is a battle to the end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14429'),
(24450, 'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4712'),
(24451, 'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey &amp; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18557'),
(24452, 'The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4714'),
(24453, 'The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu &amp; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18639'),
(24454, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father''s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father''s sanity and his own life hang in the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14432'),
(24455, 'Boys R Us', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The trials and tribulations of the girls at Westchester County''s most exclusive private middle school continue in this 11th novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Follow Massie, Kristen, Layne, Alicia, and Claire as these members of the Pretty Committee attempt to survive their school''s boy-swap intact, or risk tearing the Clique apart at the seams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14433'),
(24456, 'Boys That Bite', 'Mari Mancusi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14434'),
(24457, 'Brad Ferguson', 'Rhuum Service', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17465'),
(24458, 'Brad Ferguson', 'To Tell The Troof', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17467'),
(24459, 'Brad Ferguson', 'The Forever Con', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17469'),
(24460, 'Brad Ferguson', 'The World Next Door', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17473'),
(24461, 'Brad Ferguson', 'Last Rights', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17475'),
(24462, 'Brad Linaweaver', 'Moon Of Ice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17477'),
(24463, 'Brad Linaweaver', 'Press Conference', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17479'),
(24464, 'Bradley', 'Alan Axelrod', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dubbed by the World War II press as " The GI General" because of his close identification with his men, Omar Bradley rose to command the U. S. 12th Army Group in the European Campaign. By the spring of 1945, this group contained 1, 300, 000 men--the largest exclusively American field command in U.S. History. Mild mannered, General Bradley was a dedicated mentor, the creator of the Officer Candidate School system, and a methodical tactician who served through World War II. Then, as a five-star general, he lifted the Veterans Administration from corruption and inefficiency to a model government agency, served as U.S. Army chief of staff, first chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and head of NATO. Alan Axelrod applies his signature insight and compelling prose to the life, strategy and legacy of the general who remains the model for all commanders today as the man who revolutionized the National Guard, shaped the US army''s focus on the individual soldier, and emphasized cooperation and coordination among the military services--a cornerstone of modern U.S. Military doctrine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14435'),
(24465, 'Bradley Denton', 'We Love Lydia Love', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17483'),
(24466, 'Bradley Denton', 'The Territory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17484'),
(24467, 'Bradley Denton', 'Buddy Holly is Alive &amp; Well on Ganymede', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17485'),
(24468, 'Bradley Denton', 'A Conflagration Artist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17487'),
(24469, 'Bradley Denton', 'Blackburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17488'),
(24470, 'Bradley Denton', 'The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17490'),
(24471, 'Bradley Denton', 'Wrack &amp; Roll', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17492'),
(24472, 'Bradley Denton', 'Lunatics', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17493'),
(24473, 'Bradley Denton', 'One Day Closer to Death', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17495'),
(24474, 'Brain Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.Â Â Until the horrifying car accident.Â Â Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.Â Â Now, Alex seems the same.Â Â but in his eyes there is a blankness.Â Â In his hear there is coldness.Â Â If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified.Â Â One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.Â Â A cry for vengeance pierced the night.Â Â That evil still lives.Â Â That vengeance still waits.Â Â Waits for Alex Lonsdale.Â Â Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14436'),
(24475, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14438'),
(24476, 'Brain Jack', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given the classic work-for-us-or-go-to-prison-forever nonchoice. The department is reluctant to use the newfangled neuro-headset technology (which lets users interface directly with their computers and the Net through brain waves), but the advantage they give to the bad guys is too much to discount. What they donâ€™t fully consider, though, are the implications of such unfettered access to the human consciousness. The hacking scenes are relentlessly paced, and Falknerâ€™s stimulating mix of technobabble (â€œIâ€™m going to crash the shell with a buffer overflow and get in via the rhosts fileâ€) and metaphor (â€œA trapdoor in the firewall, Sam thought as he hurled a frag grenade at a murky pool of the intruderâ€™s codeâ€) should appeal to geeks but carry the less savvy as well. Think of this as the high-octane, adrenalized sibling of Cory Doctorowâ€™s more lesson-laden Little Brother (2008). Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another terrifying sci-fi page-turner from the author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n Las Vegas is goneâ€”destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and itâ€™s the Internet at the speed of thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes whatâ€™s happened, Samâ€™s incursion against the worldâ€™s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nationâ€™s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Falkner, author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n , has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n and M. T. Andersonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Feed\n </em>\n will love this high-octane techno thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14441'),
(24477, 'Brain Ships', 'Anne McCaffrey; Mercedes Lackey; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve the interests of the Central Worlds Courier Service.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14442'),
(24478, 'The Brain Spiders', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4717'),
(24479, 'Brain Teaser', 'Tom Godwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14443'),
(24480, 'BRAIN WAVE', 'Brain Wave', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14447'),
(24481, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one. Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality. *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14448'),
(24482, 'Brainship 01 - The Ship Who Sang', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14452'),
(24483, 'Brainship 01-05 - The Ship who Returned', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14450'),
(24484, 'Brainship 02 - Partnership', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14454'),
(24485, 'Brainship 03 - The Ship Who Searched', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14456'),
(24486, 'Brainship 04 - The City Who Fought', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14457'),
(24487, 'Brainship 05 - The Ship Who Won', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14459'),
(24488, 'Brainship 06 - The Ship Avenged', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14460'),
(24489, 'Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000743\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14462'),
(24490, 'Branded by Fire', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14464'),
(24491, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando; Robert Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n <em>\n  Streetcar\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Freshman\n </em>\n , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n <em>\n  Brando\n </em>\n and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n <em>\n  Songs My Mother Taught Me\n </em>\n has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n <em>\n  Bonnie Smothers\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14466'),
(24492, 'Brandon Sanderson', 'Elantris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17497'),
(24493, 'Brass man', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of *Cowl*, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: *Brass Man*. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to *Gridlinked, *which* SFRevu.com *called  "brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of  a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr. Crane, the insane indestructible artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14467'),
(24494, 'Bratfest At Tiffany&#39;s', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Watch out, boys... here comes The Clique!The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules?For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster - she just can''t keep away from irresistible Josh. Meanwhile Claire''s spent all summer dreaming about Cam, but he''s moved on faster than you can say cuh-yutest couple. At least she finally has a secure spot in the Committee - unlessalousy flirting breaks the boy-fast...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14470'),
(24495, 'The Brave and the Bold Book Two', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF\n  <em>\n   STAR TREK\n  </em>\n  Â® HISTORY!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While on their shakedown cruise, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Voyager\n  </em>\n  TM discover the third artifact in the Demilitarized Zone -- in the hands of the Maquis! With the aid of Captain Robert DeSoto of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Hood, Voyager\n  </em>\n  security chief Lieutenant Tuvok infiltrates the Maquis, and must gain the trust of cell leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson before the terrorists use the artifact to throw the DMZ into chaos!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the final artifact is unearthed on Narendra III, it leads to several mysterious disappearances throughout Federation and KlingonTM space -- including Federation Ambassadors Spock and Worf. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM joins forces with Captain Klag of the I.K.S. Gorkon -- but even the greatest vessels of two nations may not be enough when the deadly secret of the final artifact is revealed!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is the author of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelization, The Xander Years Volume One, and is known to Star Trek fans as the author of Perchance to Dream, a Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries published by Wildstorm. He is the editor of Marvel Comics'' tie-in novels and of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4720'),
(24496, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle with Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be. Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14471'),
(24497, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley''s most enduring masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist''s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Saturday Review of Literature*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Forum*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley''s best book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --Martin Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14474'),
(24498, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Leonard Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18187'),
(24499, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Huxley, Aldous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14476'),
(24500, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18474'),
(24501, 'Brave new world: a novel', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley''s most enduring masterpiece. Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist''s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers. A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley''s best book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16266'),
(24502, 'A brave vessel: the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare&#39;s The tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy** In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding. Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(24503, 'Bravo two zero', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-east Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO-ZEROBravo Two-Zero is a breathtaking account of Sepcial Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, Bravo Two-Zero is already part of SAS legend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14482'),
(24504, 'The Brazen Gambit', 'Lynn Abbey &amp; Brom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After finding himself the odd man out in a palace conspiracy, a templar exiles himself from the court and joins forces with an outlaw band of clerics that may be tied to the corrupt Veiled Alliance. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4723'),
(24505, 'The Brazen Locked Room', 'The Brazen Locked Room', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4726'),
(24506, 'Brazen virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whors"s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacherrs"s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.rs"s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnrs"t fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For shers"s setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14483'),
(24507, 'A Breach of Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones When Anne Perry sets her magic pen to paper, Victorian England awakens from her long sleep to vibrant, teeming life. Firelight flickers in luxurious withdrawing rooms. Ambitious ladies gossip and scheme. Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones while cries of flower sellers and newsboys ring out in crowded streets. In this magnificent new novel featuring investigator William Monk, however, it is the breathless hush of a London courtroom that first holds readers enthralled. The plaintiffs in a sensational breach of promise suit are wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert, suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah''s alleged fiancÃ©, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Not even to his baffled counsel, distinguished barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone, will Killian explain his rejection of rich and charming Zillah. Utterly baffled, Rathbone turns for help to his old comrades in crime--Monk, the private investigator who knows his city like the back of his hand, and fearless nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, from Mayfair to sordid Devil''s Acre, the case suddenly and tragically ends. An outcome that no one--except a ruthless murderer--could have foreseen. Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society''s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart''s deepest hiding places--and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(24508, 'The Breach', 'Lee, Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4728'),
(24509, 'The bread lover&#39;s bread machine cookbook: a master baker&#39;s 300 favorite recipes for perfect-every-time bread, from every kind of machine', 'Beth Hensperger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unlike electric ice cream makers and pasta machines, the bread machine hasn''t really enjoyed wholehearted acceptance in the culinary world. There are hordes of enthusiasts, no question about it, but many who consider themselves serious bakers look upon the machine with a skeptical eye. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. The book opens with an excellent orientation to both the machine and the basics of bread making. Step-by-step instructions are given for a few basic loaves. (Less helpful is a "what went wrong" section, which displays a firm grasp of the obvious.) The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it''s hard to believe a bread exists that isn''t included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. She even offers instructions for using bread machines to make pasta, jams and chutneys. By the end, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) will have convinced readers that it''s time to overcome any qualms and get to work. The bread machine is here to stay. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hensperger''s smaller quick breads book includes 100 recipes from her earlier Art of Quick Breads, now out of print, as well as 50 new ones. In addition to quick loaves, both sweet and savory, there are waffles, dumplings, biscuits, popovers, and a variety of other easy baked goods, along with some tasty accompaniments, such as the Fruit Salsa for her Hopi Blue Corn Hotcakes. For most collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18454'),
(24510, 'Break in', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Francis''s 25th thriller is suavely handled and full of suspense. The narrator, Kit Fielding, wins handily as a steeple-chase jockey and enjoys the friendship of the princess who owns the horses he races. But trouble threatening his twin Holly and her husband Bobby Allardeck interrupts Kit''s routine. As horse trainers, the Allardecks are about to go bankrupt after a scandal sheet prints the false report that they can''t pay their debts. Determined to discover the motive for the attack, Kit enlists the help of people in the princess''s circle, which includes her niece, Danielle. A romance develops between the jockey and Danielle, interrupted by villains sent to kill him. Thanks to Kit, the Allardecks'' business is saved and he outwits the perpetrators of a shameful conspiracy. The love story, as well as the author''s colorful descriptions of English jump racing and newspaper tycoons, add zest to the intricate novel. Literary Guild and Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suavely handled and full of suspense. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14485'),
(24511, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: it''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany''s. And nice girls don''t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ''top banana in the shock department'', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: ''House of Flowers'', ''A Diamond Guitar'' and ''A Christmas Memory''. ''One of the twentieth century''s most gorgeously romantic fictions.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16188'),
(24512, 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction "Delightfully fun...a writer to watch." Booklist Rich, the epitome of "anti-domestic," can''t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he''s ready to settle down, and he can''t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women''s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex. Rich is the only guy who''s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she''ll give him the makeover he''s asking for, though she''ll be damned if she''s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires? PRAISE FOR TOO HOT TO HANDLE " Robin Kaye is a master at romance, and her second novel is even better than the first." Armchair Interviews " Robin Kaye has proved herself a master of romantic comedy." Night Owl Romance Praise for Romeo, Romeo " Debut author Kaye provides a pleasing romantic romp mixing Italian Brooklyn family values, hot sex, and plenty of food." Publishers Weekly " The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." Romantic Times "A rollicking romance that''s sure to please!" Novel Thought Comments " Kaye''s writing is just about perfect for this kind of story as she balances a fine line between romance, sex, and family, all of which come together with ease." A Book Blogger''s Diary " Robin Kaye''s Romeo, Romeo is sensational! I loved everything about this novel. The story, characters and writing are all five star material." Crave More Romances\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14389'),
(24513, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14390'),
(24514, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14391');
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(24515, 'Breaking Loose', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLDâ€™S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONEâ€™S LUSTING AFTERâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n No oneâ€™s ever seen it. Everybody wants it. Thatâ€™s why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent whoâ€™s planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it firstâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Dax first spotted her outside a seedy barâ€”in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. Heâ€™d know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is onâ€”and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, theyâ€™re headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the agesâ€¦or expose them to the hottest danger of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tara Janzen lives in Colorado where she is at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19193'),
(24516, 'Breaking Masks', 'Josh Aterovis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14392'),
(24517, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*) "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*) In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14393'),
(24518, 'The breaking of Northwall', 'Paul O. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To the Pelbar, the sentence seemed a living death -- exile to distant Northwall for a year, facing barbarian tribes, isolated from the security and order of Pelbarigan society.But the rebellious Jestak embraced his punishment -- for only with the lore of Northwall and the battle-craft and bravery of the wild tribes could he free the woman he loved from the slaveholding Emeri. This he swore to do -- even if he had to destroy utterly the power of the Emeri . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4730'),
(24519, 'Breaking point', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Perry; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14394'),
(24520, 'Breaking point', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18404'),
(24521, 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code', 'Darrell L. Brock PH.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14395'),
(24522, 'Breaking the Rules: A Novel', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman (Infamous) masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family. Ben, the youngest, asks Danny and Eden to come to Las Vegas and rescue him from their stepfather. Ben befriends Neesha, a teen running away from years of imprisonment in a brothel, as Eden struggles to prove she''s not as messed up as Danny thinks she is. Eden is also dodging her estranged husband, Izzy, who served in the Navy with Danny; he and Danny''s fabulous girlfriend, Jennilyn, are rare voices of sanity as the Gillmans try to forget the past and learn to get along while saving Ben and Neesha from their pursuers. The slowly rekindled attraction between Izzy and Eden is steamy, and Jennilyn is a rock for Danny, giving romance fans two delightful relationships for the price of one. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Breaking the Rules\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family." --\n </em>\n Publisher''s Weekly, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR SUZANNE BROCKMANN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann strikes the perfect balance between white-knuckle suspense and richly emotional romance.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reigning queen of military suspense.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is an undisputed master at writing military and suspense fiction [with] action, danger and passion all rolled into one.â€â€”Curled Up with a Good Book\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is a master of adventure, drama, passion and suspense.â€â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brockmann] brilliantly combines superbly crafted, realistically complex characters with white-knuckle plotting.â€â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14397'),
(24523, 'Breakout', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n , he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.\n</p>\n<p>\n While there are rough spots here and there,\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that''s just what it is.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fifth book about master criminal Parker since his welcome return from a 20-year hiatus is packed so tightly with the painstaking details of everything from the dank tedium of prison life to the architecture and construction of a Midwestern shopping complex that it comes as a shock to realize the volume isn''t bigger than it is. Stark, the nom de crime adopted for this series by MWA Grand Master Donald Westlake, is an artist of compression, with the ability to create a complex, frightening character in very few words. Of an Asian lawyer visiting Parker in prison, he writes, "Li was amused, not by Parker in particular but by his own entire life; it made him easy to be around, but suggested there were circumstances when he might not be completely reliable." But Stark is also remarkable because he seems to know how everything works and can explain it without slowing down the story. Stuck in a fortress-like holding prison "on the outskirts of the only large city in this big empty midwestern state" after a robbery goes bad, Parker links up with two other prisoners in a totally logical way, then plans a breakout (the first of several in the book) so credible that we''re swept up in its mechanics. But before he can return to his haven in rural New Jersey, Parker has to pay off the help he received by taking part in another robbery that falls apart in a different way that''s just as exhilarating. Watching artists like Stark and Parker at work is a great pleasure, which an increasing audience will be delighted to share.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14398'),
(24524, 'Breakout (Parker Novels)', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For master criminal Parker the only thing worse than a jailbird is becoming one, in this latest caper from beloved master of suspense Richard Stark.Parker''s back in jail, but not just any old jail; it''s the correctional center, where people without bail wait before and during their trial. So Parker''s first order of business is to build a network among these cons and break on through to the other side. Once out, he gets involved in a heist set up by one of his co-conspirators, but the deal heads south, and Parker and his fellow escapees are running for their lives. A cast of cops, busybodies, snitches, and weak links quickly have the walls closing in on him. For Parker, the ultimate jailbreak is about to begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14400'),
(24525, 'Breakthrough', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14401'),
(24526, 'Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World', 'Jon Queijo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This very well-written, cogent, and accessible book by freelance writer Queijo will be an important resource, especially for a lay audience. Each of the ten medical discoveries mentioned in the title is really a chapter delimiting the history of medicine. Chapters range from The World[HTML_REMOVED]s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of Medicine[HTML_REMOVED] to [HTML_REMOVED]A Return to Tradition: The Rediscovery of Alternative Medicine.[HTML_REMOVED] This book deserves a very wide readership. Especially useful for general readers, it also will be applicable in undergraduate education across a surprising range of disciplines."\n <strong>\n  Summing Up:\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and researchers/faculty\n </strong>\n . Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness." -â€“\n <strong>\n  Matt Ridley\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Genome\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why are you alive right now?\n </strong>\n Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these havenâ€™t just changed the way we treat disease, theyâ€™ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In _\n <strong>\n  Breakthrough!\n </strong>\n _, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of historyâ€™s most amazing medical discoveries. This isnâ€™t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the worldâ€“and, quite likely, saved your life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14403'),
(24527, 'Breakup', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed. SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14406'),
(24528, 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1998\n </strong>\n : "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat''s novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins in Haiti, on Mother''s Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother''s rights to the girl''s affections above her own. Presented with a Mother''s Day card, Tante Atie responds: "''It is for a mother, your mother.'' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. ''When it is Aunt''s Day, you can make me one.''" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."\n</p>\n<p>\n With Sophie''s transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat''s roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother''s new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie''s graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie''s mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter''s virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie''s struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat''s lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat''s short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl''s coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says narrator Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and love that bind the courageous women in her family. The burden of being a woman in Haiti, where purity and chastity are a matter of family honor, and where "nightmares are passed on through generations like heirlooms," is Danticat''s theme. Born after her mother Martine was raped, Sophie is raised by her Tante Atie in a small town in Haiti. At 12 she joins Martine in New York, while Atie returns to her native village to care for indomitable Grandmother Ife. Neither Sophie nor Martine can escape the weight of the past, resulting in a pattern of insomnia, bulimia, sexual trauma and mental anguish that afflicts both of them and leads inexorably to tragedy. Though her tale is permeated with a haunting sadness, Danticat also imbues it with color and magic, beautifully evoking the pace and character of Creole life, the feel of both village and farm communities, where the omnipresent Tontons Macoute mean daily terror, where voudon rituals and superstitions still dominate even as illiterate inhabitants utilize such 20th-century conveniences as cassettes to correspond with emigres in America. In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, she makes Sophie''s confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14407'),
(24529, 'Breathe', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre... All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again. Itâ€™s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem. As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14410'),
(24530, 'Breathing Room', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14413'),
(24531, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature''s great mysteries has been revealed to him.He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and ''neutralize'' the threat to the known world.Grady and Cammy aren''t sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity '' determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect''å†°reathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14414'),
(24532, 'Breathless', 'McDaniel, Lurlene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16339'),
(24533, 'Breeder', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Priest of Blood and Afterlife, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C.-where shadows and mystery linger in the alleys, and where the haunts of the past come to life. This House has a Name . . . Rachel Adair thought Draper House in Washington, D.C, would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the century-old townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh''s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals . . . and the scraping sounds of an even greater terror that lives within the walls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14416'),
(24534, 'Breeder Reaction', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic lookâ€”just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14417'),
(24535, '&quot;Breeds There a Man', 'SeaGull', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(24536, 'Breeze', 'Alexander Key', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14420'),
(24537, 'Brenda Cooper', 'The War of the Flowers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17302'),
(24538, 'Brent Weeks (Night Angel Trilogy)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20766'),
(24539, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn''t be better. Because they''ve just found the perfect victim...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4731'),
(24540, 'Brian Brookwell', 'His Merwife &amp; othe Metamorphic Fantasies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17303'),
(24541, 'Brian Craig', 'Pawns of Chaos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17306'),
(24542, 'Brian Daley', 'Requiem For a Ruler of Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17316'),
(24543, 'Brian Daley', 'Tron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17320'),
(24544, 'Brian Dana Akers', 'Rollout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17322'),
(24545, 'Brian Dana Akers', 'Online', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17323'),
(24546, 'Brian Herbert', 'The Race for God', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17341'),
(24547, 'Brian Herbert', 'Prisoners of Arionn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17346'),
(24548, 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', 'Hunters of Dune', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17333'),
(24549, 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson - Dune - The Butlerian Jihad', 'beni', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17329'),
(24550, 'Brian Jacques', 'Salamandastron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17367'),
(24551, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 01', 'Redwall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17354'),
(24552, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 02', 'Mossflower', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17355'),
(24553, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 03', 'Mattimeo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17373'),
(24554, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 04', 'Mariel Of Redwall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17363'),
(24555, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 05', 'Salamandastron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17366'),
(24556, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 06', 'Martin The Warrior', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17352'),
(24557, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 07', 'The Bellmaker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17358'),
(24558, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 08', 'The Outcast Of Redwall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17349'),
(24559, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 10', 'The Long Patrol', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17371'),
(24560, 'Brian Jacques - Redwall 15', 'Triss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17360'),
(24561, 'Brian Lumley', 'Aunt Hester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17307'),
(24562, 'Brian Lumley', 'Khai Of Khem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17310'),
(24563, 'Brian Lumley', 'Maze of Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17315'),
(24564, 'Brian Lumley', 'Born Of The Winds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17319'),
(24565, 'Brian Lumley', 'In The Glow-Zone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17382'),
(24566, 'Brian Lumley', 'The Pit-Yakker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17387'),
(24567, 'Brian Lumley', 'Fruiting Bodies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17389'),
(24568, 'Brian Lumley', 'The Whisperer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17393'),
(24569, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 09 - Lost Years 01', 'The Lost Years', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17396'),
(24570, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 10 - Lost Years 02', 'Resurgence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17304'),
(24571, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 2', 'Wamphyri!', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17300'),
(24572, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 5 - Deadspeak', 'Deadspawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17297'),
(24573, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 6', 'Blood Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17321'),
(24574, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 7', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17298'),
(24575, 'Brian Lumley - Necroscope 8', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17394'),
(24576, 'Brian Lumley - Psychomech 01', 'Psychomech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17318'),
(24577, 'Brian Lumley - Psychomech 02', 'Psychosphere', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17397'),
(24578, 'Brian Lumley - Psychomech 03', 'Psychamok', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17326'),
(24579, 'Brian Lumley - Titus Crow 1', 'The Burrowers Beneath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17375'),
(24580, 'Brian Lumley - Titus Crow 2', 'The Transition of Titus Crow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17299'),
(24581, 'Brian Lumley - Titus Crow 3', 'The Clock of Dreams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17390'),
(24582, 'Brian Plante', 'The Astronaut', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17327'),
(24583, 'Brian Plante', 'Drawn Words', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17330'),
(24584, 'Brian Plante', 'Something Meaningful', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17332'),
(24585, 'Brian Plante', 'The Software Soul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17334'),
(24586, 'Brian Plante', 'Moondance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17335'),
(24587, 'Brian Plante', 'Papa Rat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17336'),
(24588, 'Brian Stableford', 'O For a Fiery Gloom &amp; Thee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17210'),
(24589, 'Brian Stableford', 'Sheena', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17213'),
(24590, 'Brian Stableford', 'The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17340'),
(24591, 'Brian Stableford', 'Snowball in Hell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17347'),
(24592, 'Brian Stableford', 'The Plurality of Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17348'),
(24593, 'Brian Stableford', 'Les Fleurs du Mal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17350'),
(24594, 'Brian Stableford', 'The Gates Of Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17351'),
(24595, 'Brian Stableford', 'Rogue Terminator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17357'),
(24596, 'Brian Stableford', 'Doctor Muffet&#39;s Island', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17361'),
(24597, 'Brian Stableford', 'In The Flesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17368'),
(24598, 'Brian Stableford', 'The Trial', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17369'),
(24599, 'Brian Stableford', 'The Face of an Angel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17374'),
(24600, 'Brian Stableford', 'Out of Touch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17377'),
(24601, 'Brian Stableford', 'The House of Mourning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17383'),
(24602, 'Brian Stableford', 'Emptiness', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17384'),
(24603, 'Brian Stableford', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17385'),
(24604, 'Brian Stableford - Emortals 02', 'Architects of Emortality', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17388'),
(24605, 'Brian Stableford - Hooded Swan 1', 'The Halcyon Drift', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17343'),
(24606, 'Brian Stableford - Hooded Swan 3', 'Promised Land', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17214'),
(24607, 'Brian Stableford - Hooded Swan 6', 'Swan Song', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17359'),
(24608, 'BRIAN STABLEFORD - The pipes of Pan', 'The Pipes Of Pan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17370'),
(24609, 'Brian Thomsen - Anthologies 4', 'Realms of the Arcane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17219'),
(24610, 'Brian Thomsen - Forgotten Realms', 'Realms of Magic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17220'),
(24611, 'Brian Thomsen - The Nobles 04', 'The Mage in the Iron Mask', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17218'),
(24612, 'Brian W', 'Jeremy Tassoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14422'),
(24613, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Stephen M Robertson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17229'),
(24614, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Total Environment', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17234'),
(24615, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17235'),
(24616, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'But Who Can Replace a Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17236'),
(24617, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Barefoot in the Head', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17239'),
(24618, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Enemies of the System', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17240'),
(24619, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Intangibles, Inc', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17244'),
(24620, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Greybeard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17245'),
(24621, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Equator &amp; Segregation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17246'),
(24622, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Four Ladies of the Apocalypse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17247'),
(24623, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Swastika', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17262'),
(24624, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Brothers of the Head &amp; Where the Lines Converge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17263'),
(24625, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'The Moment of Eclipse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17265'),
(24626, 'Brian W. Aldiss', 'Starship', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17273'),
(24627, 'Brian W. Aldiss - Helliconia Su', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17232'),
(24628, 'Brian W. Aldiss - Neanderthal Planet', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17268'),
(24629, 'Brian W. Aldiss - The Interpre', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17254'),
(24630, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n <em>\n  Brianâ€™s Hunt\n </em>\n , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n</p>\n<p>\n This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n will not be the last\n <em>\n  Brian\n </em>\n book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14423');
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(24631, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A deer in his canoe, a bear attack, a leg stabbed with an arrowhead--it''s just another week in the life of 16-year-old Brian Robeson. In his opinion, this beats a date at Mackey''s Pizza Den, a fight with a bully, and a video game at the mall any day. After having survived a plane crash and 54 days in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, Brian can''t seem to fit into "civilization." The world of high school and family life makes no sense anymore. So Brian begins to plan. It''s time to return to the woods. This time, though, he makes no plans to come back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gary Paulsen, the popular author of many critically acclaimed books for young people and winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edward Award, has written another sequel to the Newbery Honor Book __. (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were earlier sequels.) Paulsen''s graphic and detailed descriptions of Brian''s adventures demonstrate a deep familiarity and connection to the wilderness; and in fact the author has spent much of his life in the bush, living almost entirely off the land. Brian''s experiences in nature parallel his growing independence and maturity; readers who don''t feel like they "fit in" will easily relate to the young protagonist''s search for identity and purity. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian''s Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier''s Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother''s house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14425'),
(24632, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First there was Hatchet, Paulsen''s classic tale of a boy''s survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn''t been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again"). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time, Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he has become. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers a dog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problem solving. The author''s ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14428'),
(24633, 'The Bricklayer', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *People are dying* . . . Each victim has been a thorn in the side of the FBI, and, inexplicably, domestic terrorists who claim to be anti-Bureau are claiming responsibilityâ€”and threatening more murders if their huge financial demands aren''t met. The trap has been set. The Bureau''s best agents attempt to follow the detailed demands of the blackmailers, only to be drawn into intricate mazes which are ingeniously riddled with hazards, ensuring that no one will emerge alive. The FBI has used every technological secret at their disposal to beat the killers at their gameâ€”and they have failed. The clock is ticking. Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon knows that the solution will not be found by following the rules. It''s time to call in someone from her past, someone who has routinely handled the impossibleâ€”a loose cannon ex-agent fired for insubordination but still the very best she has ever seen. It''s time to call in Steve Vail . . . *The Bricklayer*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4734'),
(24634, 'Brida: A Novel', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world; and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world, and how to pray to the moon. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasureâ€”it is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality from the master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19040'),
(24635, 'The Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4737'),
(24636, 'The Bride&#39;s Awakening', 'Kate Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He-s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria-s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her-an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she-s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana-s untouched body that only he can sate-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4738'),
(24637, 'Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh''s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh''s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh''s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14431'),
(24638, 'Bridge of Birds', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14439'),
(24639, 'BRIDGE OF BIRDS', 'Mark Sinden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17562'),
(24640, 'Bridge to Terabithia', 'Katherine Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He''s been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay. Despite their superficial differences, it''s clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson''s characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14440'),
(24641, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(24642, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4740'),
(24643, 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were young and innocent. Arriving in a place they had barely heard of, they prepared for the ritual many men had endured before them -- war. They were American fighter pilots, and they came on a huge ship that also carried their helicopters. Trained as professionals, but as frightened as every man before them who had ever gone to war, they would face an enemy they couldn''t understand and wage a war they had to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4743'),
(24644, 'A brief history of time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16083'),
(24645, 'A brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes', 'Stephen W. Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig''s disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed,A Brief History of Timeis the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16085'),
(24646, 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace''s latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he''d only slow down for a second. The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don''t have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn''t belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book''s four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead": It''s going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight. Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you''d imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace''s endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it''s going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Some of the 23 stories in Wallace''s bold, uneven, bitterly satirical second collection seem bound for best-of-the-year anthologies; a few others will leave even devoted Wallace fans befuddled. The rest of the stories fall between perplexing and brilliant, but what is most striking about this volume as a whole are the gloomy moral obsessions at the heart of Wallace''s new work. Like his recent essays, these stories (many of which have been serialized in Harper''s, Esquire and the Paris Review) are largely an attack on the sexual heroics of mainstream postwar fiction, an almost religious attempt to rescue (when not exposing as a fraud) the idea of romantic love. In the "interviews," that make up the title story, one man after anotherAspeaking to a woman whose voice we never hearAreveals the pathetic creepiness of his romantic conquests and fantasies. These hideous men aren''t the collection''s only monsters of isolation. In "Adult World," Wallace writes of a young wife obsessed with fears that her husband is secretly, compulsively masturbating; in "The Depressed Person," one of Wallace''s (rare) female narcissists whines that she is a "solipsistic, self-consumed, endless emotional vacuum"Athis, to a dying friend. If MacArthur Fellowship-winner Wallace''s rendition of our verbal tics and trash is less astonishing now than in earlier work (Infinite Jest; A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again), that is because it has already become the way we hear ourselves talk. Wallace seems to have stripped down his prose in order to more pointedly probe distinct structures (i.e., footnoted psychotherapy journal, a pop quiz format). Yet these stories, at their best, show an erotic savagery and intellectual depth that will confound, fascinate and disturb the most unsuspecting reader as well as devoted fans of this talented writer. Author tour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Following the success of his massive, much-acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest (LJ 1/96), Wallace returns to fiction with a similarly dense, cerebral, and self-reflexive set of short works. Wallace''s characters are psychological grotesques, emotionally detached and sometimes, as with the na?ve young wife in "Adult World," finding an odd freedom in their distance. While the inauthenticity of male/female relations is a recurrent motif, the central theme is the nature of narrative itself, as in "Octet," where the author turns self-reflexiveness on itself, creating something that might be termed meta-meta-fiction. Fans of Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme will find comparable challenges here. For libraries where Infinite Jest was popular.ALawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The structure of the short story intrigues and piques Wallace, prompting him to subvert it. He imitates academic writing by attaching substantial footnotes to "The Depressed Person," thus creating a contrapuntal story within the story. "Datum Centurio" is a set of definitions of the word date, purportedly found in Leckie &amp; Webster''s Connotationally Gender-Specific Lexicon of Contemporary Usage, copyright 2076. The title story, appearing in four installments, consists of a string of monologues in which men talk about women. Sex in its more disturbing modes is the collection''s underlying theme. A man listens intently as a woman describes being raped. Another man goes into explicit detail in his rant against men''s sexual selfishness, and a woman worries that her husband doesn''t enjoy their lovemaking. Like Stephen Dixon, Wallace is adept at generating streams of consciousness, rendering mental states in almost psychedelic detail. And he practices this art to perfection in "Forever Overhead," in which a 13-year-old boy is nearly overwhelmed by sensory overload while awaiting his turn at the high dive. Donna Seaman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures. Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as ``Signifying Nothing,'''' in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son''s relationship with his father; and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken ``On his Deathbed . . . [by] the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright''s Father . . . ,'''' The Depressed Person'''' blandly skewers the culture of self-absorption and psychotherapy (while neatly mocking the latter''s passion for clinical precision), and ``Datum Centurio'''' gets impressive comic mileage out of its brief parody of an etymological dictionary entry. Sex rears its comely, come-hither head in the chronicling (in Forever Overhead) of the perplexing sensations of adolescence in full eruption, and particularly in ``Adult World,'''' a deliriously expanding Robert Cooverlike fantasy spun from a young wife''s fretful confusion about pleasing-vs.- offending her docile husband. Most interesting are the title ``stories,'''' divided into four installments scattered throughout, and variously delineating men''s alienation from, and misunderstanding of, women: the amputee who considers his mutilated arm a ``Sexual Asset''''; the self-consciousness of a hotel men''s-room attendant (wreathed in ``The ghastly metastasized odors of continental breakfasts and business dinners''''); the loves of Tristan and Isolde and Narcissus and Echo reshaped for the cable-TV audience by network executive ``Agon M. Nar.'''' Postadolescent whimsy mingled with postmodernist horseplay: this isn''t a book that can be consumed in sizable chunks. Still, Wallace is a witty guide to the fragmented, paranoid Way We Live Now, someone perhaps poised to become the 21st-century''s Robert Benchley or James Thurberboth a frightening and a beguiling prospect. -- Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ...a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. -- Time, R.Z. Sheppard ...in his wild hits and misses, his eccentric obsessions and his sinister experiments, he is beginning to resemble another mad scientist of American literature: Edgar Allan Poe. -- The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart In this book he demonstrates his strengths as a stylist, humorist and thinker.... None of these stories is easy, but all display an intelligence and a swagger that make them hard to put down. -- The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14445'),
(24647, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4746'),
(24648, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen Hawkingâ€™s worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key conceptsâ€”the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. Professor Hawkingâ€™s response is this new work that will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.â€¦ ****Although â€œbriefer,â€ this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawkingâ€™s earlier work. **A Briefer History of Time** both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the fieldâ€”from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make** A Briefer History of Time** an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16087'),
(24649, 'Brighid&#39;s Quest', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14446'),
(24650, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14449'),
(24651, 'Bright Orange for the Shroud', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCERUsually women came to take refuge aboard The Busted Flush. But this time a man stumbled on board, a walking zombie who fell into bed. Turned out poor Arthur Wilkinson was the latest victim of a fragile-looking blonde sexpot who used the blackest arts of love to lure unsuspecting suckers into a web of sordid schemes. Travis had thought he''d have a quiet summer. Instead he took on the most cunning, heartless, vicious con artists he''d ever met....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14451'),
(24652, 'Bright Shiny Morning', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novelâ€”a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader''s sight linesâ€”some never to be seen againâ€”but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA''s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14453'),
(24653, 'Bright Young Things', 'Anna Godbersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York''s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a starâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordelia is searching for the father she''s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imaginedâ€”and more dangerous. It''s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia''s brother, Charlie. But Astrid''s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls'' fortunes will rise and fallâ€”together and apart. From the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Luxe\n </em>\n comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anna Godbersonâ€™s Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Bright Young Things_ may take place during the Jazz Age, but author Anna Godberson shows us that the tunes she prefers range from Cat Power to Prince. Check out what she loves and why. (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n I spend a lot of time in a chair in front of my computer obsessively reworking sentences. This song is ecstatic and full of life and whenever I hear it I want to get up and move.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds to me like the wise, sad, tired, wired, voice of experience, the kind of beauty that you can only see after youâ€™ve been worn down. Thatâ€™s what\n <em>\n  Bright Young Things\n </em>\n is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This one is like an exquisite\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n story, perfect in its simplicity and specificity but universal in what it expresses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m from, and this is the soundtrack of my homesickness. Plus, the lyrics are literary and whip-smart and impossible for a California girl to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n People like to make fun of Liz Phair these days, but her voice was the voice of my young womanhood, and â€œGo Westâ€ was the anthem of all to-hell-with-men, bridge-burning episodes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title says it all, and it just gets better from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Awesome plea for romantic decency, but in that raw, lusty, commanding voice. After at least four thousand listens, I still nod along like the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Not to date myself, but around the time I graduated from college, this was the coolest band to mock. Who cares? In my opinion, this is the ultimate jogging song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is also an instant dance party number for meâ€”is anyone as weird and cool as Prince?\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n To me, this is the ultimate expression of an artistâ€™s belief in self. There is something bleak, but also really clear-eyed and uplifting about. Plus, itâ€™s gorgeous.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n If I could curl up in Sam Cookeâ€™s voice and sleep forever, Iâ€™d do it. This one is just so desperate and romantic and it sounds just like what it means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n My parents were hippies, and I grew up in the Church Of Dylan. For a guaranteed good time, get on the freeway, roll the window down, step on the gas, and turn the volume up on this number. Please be prepared to sing along.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the Luxe series:â€œCharacters are vividly sketched, and the suspenseful story is propelled by interwoven scandals and wellâ€“supported plot twists. A compulsively readable romance about young women who strain against societal conventions.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldnâ€™t put The Luxe down!â€ (Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will clamor for this sharp, smart drama of friends, lovers, lies and betrayal.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14455'),
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(24655, 'Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sharp-witted knockdown of Americaâ€™s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a â€œpositiveâ€ peopleâ€”cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to â€œprosperâ€ you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of â€œpositive psychologyâ€ and the â€œscience of happiness.â€ Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomesâ€”like mortgage defaultsâ€”contributed directly to the current economic crisis. With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of Americaâ€™s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out â€œnegativeâ€ thoughts. On a national level, itâ€™s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative bestâ€”poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of numerous books, including Dancing in the Streets and The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harperâ€™s and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. In Bright-sided, Barbara Ehrenreich reveals how the positive thinking movement, though seemingly harmless, has in fact deluded America and played a role in some of the most destructive events in recent U.S. history. Far from just a â€œhealthy mindset,â€ bright-siding is an epidemic of self-deception that has spread to all circles of American life, from preachers who celebrate the power of prayer, to doctors who promote optimismâ€™s healing abilities. It led officials to overlook clues of 9/11 and overestimate the strength of New Orleansâ€™ levees, and enabled the business world to make egregiously unsafe loans that caused the worst financial crisis since World War II. Ehrenreich exposes the consequences of the belief that positive thinking is the key to achieving success and prosperityâ€”a notion which, at its most dangerous, prevents people from even considering the negative outcomes of major events or their own actions. â€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time "Barbara Ehrenreich wants to make clear that she is not a spoilsport. ''No one can call me a sourpuss,'' she declared. ''I have a big foot in the joy camp.'' She is the author of Dancing in the Streets, a history of ''collective joy,'' she notes, and a lot of fun at parties. So her new book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, should not be mistaken for a curmudgeonly rant. It is serious social history.Many of the 17 books that Ms. Ehrenreich has written during the past three and half decades have taken her into alien worlds. In her fantastically successful 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, for example, she details her experience of trying to get by on the salary of an unskilled, minimum-wage worker. By contrast, this newest volume is based on her stay in a world that she became intimately familiar with: the smiley-faced, pink-ribboned, positive-thinking culture that surrounds breast cancer patients . . . In Bright-sided, she traces the roots of the nationâ€™s blithe sunniness to a reaction against Calvinist gloom and the limits of medical science in the first half of the 19th century. Starting with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, perhaps one of the first American New Age faith healers, she draws a line to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; the psychologist William James; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Norman Vincent Peale, who published The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952; and the toothy television minister Joel Osteen, who preaches the gospel of prosperity."â€”Patricia Cohen, The New York Times"When I finished Barbara Ehrenreich''s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, I went in search of a stiff drinkâ€”or something that would allow me to escape, if only briefly, the feeling that I have been blind to the unyielding grip that positive thinking has on our culture. Very little I have read elsewhere has suggested that the current recession is good for us, but Ehrenreich implies that the implosion of our economy may bring us to our senses and that reason and common sense might have a chance to disempower the foolish, self-serving and dangerous promotion of positive thinking reaching into all areas of our lives: our health, jobs, science, religion, politics. She is relentlessâ€”and persuasiveâ€”in her determination to convince us of this. Her notes run to 15 pages of titles of papers, articles, books and television interviews she has researched to support her contention that the unwarranted optimism urged on us by church and corporations, by medical and psychological ''experts,'' has distorted the reality of the disaster we now find ourselves facing . . . So what''s with all this negativity Ehrenreich forces on us? Isn''t positive thinking better than being a spoilsport? In a voice urgent and passionate, Ehrenreich offers us neither extreme but instead balance: joy, happiness, yes; sadness, anger, yes. She favors life with a clear head, eyes wide open."â€”Jane Juska, San Francisco Chronicleâ€œWe''re always being told that looking on the bright side is good for us, but now we see that it''s a great way to brush off poverty, disease, and unemployment, to rationalize an order where all the rewards go to those on top. The people who are sick or joblessâ€”why, they just aren''t thinking positively. They have no one to blame but themselves. Barbara Ehrenreich has put the menace of positive thinking under the microscope. Anyone who''s ever been told to brighten up needs to read this book.â€â€”Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What''s the Matter with Kansas?â€œUnless you keep on saying that you believe in fairies, Tinker Bell will check out, and whatâ€™s more, her sad demise will be your fault! Barbara Ehrenreich scores again for the independent-minded in resisting this drool and all those who wallow in it.â€â€”Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingâ€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeâ€œOnce again, Barbara Ehrenreich has written an invaluable and timely book, offering a brilliant analysis of the causes and dimensions of our current cultural and economic crises. She shows how deeply positive thinking is embedded in our history and how crippling it is as a habit of mind.â€â€”Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: Americaâ€™s Place in World Historyâ€œOprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil: please read this relentlessly sensible book. Itâ€™s never too late to begin thinking clearly.â€â€”Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essaysâ€œBarbara Ehrenreichâ€™s skeptical common sense is just what we need to penetrate the cloying fog that passes for happiness in America.â€â€”Alan Wolfe, author of The Future of Liberalismâ€œIn this hilarious and devastating critique, Barbara Ehrenreich applies some much needed negativity to the zillion-dollar business of positive thinking. This is truly a text for the times.â€â€”Katha Pollitt, author of The Mind-Body Problem: Poems"In Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Notion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich reprises her role as Dorothy swishing back the curtain on a great and powerful given: â€˜Americans are a â€œpositiveâ€ people.â€™ Sunny, self-confident optimism defines us as individuals and as a nation. Humbug. Ehrenreich wants us to pay close attention to the truth behind the hypeâ€”positive thinking is hurting America, from obliging one another to turn that frown upside-down, to 2008''s financial meltdown . . . â€˜Flapdoodle,â€™ crows Ehrenreich, and the fun begins. Like flying monkeys tearing apart the Scarecrow, she shreds theories based on quantum physics (neuronal impulses are far too large to be influenced by quantum effects), magnetism (the magnetic properties of thought are swamped by competing magnetisms -- like the Earth''s!), and magic (pay no attention to that man behind the curtain). Ehrenreich likewise thrashes from top to bottom â€˜the motivators and gurus of positivity,â€™ from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, to prosperity preachers like Joel Osteen. Osteen makes a juicy target, sidestepping as he does sin and salvation in favor of the â€˜prosperity gospelâ€™â€”â€˜You can have that new car or house or necklace, because God wants to â€œprosper you.â€â€™ In spurning Osteen as a heretical fake, Ehrenreich fights dirty, mocking Osteen''s height (he''s shorter in person) and his mullet (it''s longer). Ehrenreich claims she approached her initial meeting with Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, â€˜with trepidation,â€™ yet we almost expect her to say, â€˜Just one more thing . . .â€™ Ã  la Lt. Columbo, as she tries to pin down the exact measurements of Seligman''s "equation" for happiness, a contrivance that makes him â€˜look like the Wizard of Oz.â€™ The refutation and character assassination, while entertaining, serve to show how positive thinking is as rickety a construct as the Wizard, merely masking insecurities about a world we can''t really control. So complete is Ehrenreich''s argument that she plays her own devil''s advocate: positive thinking requires self-deception, â€˜a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and â€œnegativeâ€ thoughtsâ€™â€”like those created by scathing social critiques . . . Those readers who''ve â€˜gone so far down this yellow brick road that â€œpositiveâ€ seems to us the way you should beâ€™ may bite their nails over the demystification in Bright-Sided. Ehrenreich''s advice on where to go from here is a workable antidote to the pursuit of secret formulas that don''t exist.â€â€”Kassten Alonso, The Oregonian (Portland)"Two-thirds of the way into the book, its theme shines through like sunlight in an old-time Baptist window, the kind they don''t make anymore because nobody knows how and even if they did they wouldn''t have the patience. It''s much easier and faster these days simply to visualize it and wish for it according to the directives of the positive-thinking life coaches of the prosperity-gospel churches. And while you''re about it, you might as well visualize a big house in the suburbs with an adjustable-rate mortgage or a diamond necklace instead, or any other nice piece of bling . . . In precisely crafted, hard-hitting language throughout, she explains how hordes of optimistic American consumers, under the spell of ''new age'' authors and psychologists, television preachers and celebrities, visualized and wished (with a lot of help from credit cards) for so much stuff that now they are enmeshed in unwished-for bankruptcy in record numbers . . . This hard-boiled analysis of the national mass fantasy of wishful thinking contributed, says the author, to the economic collapse of 2008. It represents her hope for recovery from ''the mass delusion that is positive thinking.'' Her personal vision, she says, is composed of better jobs and better health care for all, and a chance for everyone to contribute through clear thinking and hard work, not through the notion that we can ''levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it.''"â€”Tom Dodge, The Dallas Morning News"Ehrenreich, author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed, delivers her indictments of the happiness industry with both authority and wit. . . . Others have critiqued the positivity movement, but Ehrenreich does an impressive job of analyzing its broader social impact."â€”Kristin Ohlson, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"Ehrenreich convinced me completely. . . I hesitate to say anything so positive as that this book will change the way you see absolutely everything; but it just might."â€”Nora Ephron, The Daily Beast"Positive thinking should never be the same after Barbara Ehrenreichâ€™s Bright-Sided . . . Ehrenreich is a sharp and reliable student of the divided middle class, as good as the American left can boast. In attacking the thick irrationality of our public lives, [this book] homes in on a particularly salient line of argumentâ€”that positive thinking is not only preposterous but pernicious."â€”John Summers, Bookforum"Accomplished social critic Ehrenreich eviscerates the positive-thinking movement, which she blames for encouraging us to ''deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.'' The author argues that the promotion of unwarranted optimism began in the early days of the American republic, was taken up by 19th-century philosophers and mysticsâ€”William James urged people to repeat to themselves ''Youth, health, vigor!'' while dressing in the morningâ€”and entered the American mainstream in the 20th century, when it became an integral part of consumer culture. Ehrenreich''s quarrel is not with feeling upbeat but rather with the ''inescapable pseudoscientific flapdoodle'' of life coaches and self-improvement products claiming that thinking positively will result in wealth, success and other joyful outcomes. Such magical thinking has become a means of social control in the workplaceâ€”where uncheerful employees are ostracizedâ€”and prevents action to achieve social change. With life coaches, business motivators and evangelical preachers promoting delusional expectations . . . positive thinking can claim partial credit for a major role in such recent disastrous events as the Iraq war and the financial meltdown. Ehrenreich''s many interviews include meetings with psychologist Martin Seligman, whose ''positive psychology,'' she finds, offers little credible evidence to make it any different from the wishing-will-make-it-so thinking of writers from Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People) to Rhonda Byrne (The Secret). The author''s tough-minded and convincing broadside raises troubling questions about many aspects of contemporary American life, and she provides an antidote to the pervasive culture of cheerfulnessâ€”reality-based critical thinking that will encourage people to alter social arrangements in ways that improve their lives. Bright, incisive, provocative thinking from a top-notch nonfiction writer."â€”Kirkus Reviews"Ehrenreich delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its ''symbiotic relationship with American capitalism'' and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this ''reckless'' national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14463'),
(24656, 'Brightness Reef', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n David Brin''s Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written.Â Â Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies.Â Â But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races.Â Â Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony.Â Â Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo.Â Â Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14458'),
(24657, 'Brilliance of the Moon', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦ A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn''s imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14465'),
(24658, 'Bringing Adam Home', 'Les Standiford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the ultimate cold caseï¿½tragic, high-profile, and, finally, successfully solved. Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adamï¿½s killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adamï¿½s father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of Americaï¿½s Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insiderï¿½s account of the grueling search for Adamï¿½s killer and for the evidence to convict him. While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!â€ (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLes Standifordâ€™s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâ€™ve ever read. A triumph in every way.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But itâ€™s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written.â€ (Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven yearsâ€”both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective.â€ (Joyce Carol Oates )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindberghâ€™sâ€”that of TV host John Walshâ€™s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killerâ€”is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â€ (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful.â€ (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14468'),
(24659, 'Bringing It All Back Home', 'Bud Webster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14469'),
(24660, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14472'),
(24661, 'The British Barbarians', 'British Barbarians', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4753'),
(24662, 'The Bro Code', 'Barney Stinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everyone''s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4754'),
(24663, 'Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryâ€”and become his next target.Ever since she discovered sheâ€™s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, sheâ€™s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whoâ€™s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughâ€”only the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londonâ€™s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersâ€”unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs. Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyâ€™re looking forâ€”which, for some unknown reason, is Elena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14475'),
(24664, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14477'),
(24665, 'The Broken Blade', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the destiny he bears, but this knowledge came at the cost of the voices that had guided him across the burning sands. For the first time in his memory, he feels alone. And still more will be lost... bearing Galdra, the fabled blade of elven kings, and accompanied by his love Ryana, Sorak sets out on a quest assigned him by the Sage. He seeks the Veiled Alliance in Altaruk, hoping to marshal its forces against a growing circle of defilers. But the legend of the Nomad has preceded him, and the defilers plan an end to the legend, and the Nomad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4756'),
(24666, 'Broken Bulbs', 'Eddie Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Fisher is nothing. He wants to be something. When a mysterious young woman named Bonnie offers assistance by injecting seeds of inspiration directly into his brain, Frank finds himself involved in a twisting mystery full of addiction, desperation and self-discovery. Broken Bulbs, a novella by Eddie Wright, tells the story of the lengths one young man will go in the pursuit of "somethingness.""...the absolute perfect spot-on portrait of the mind of an addict.""The whole thing is filled with crazy quips and one liners worthy of a high lighter so you can memorize and use them later."- The Lulu Book Review"...strangely complex and fascinating."- Kaye Trout''s Book Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14478'),
(24667, 'The Broken Cycle', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14479'),
(24668, 'The Broken Lake (The Pace Series, Book 2)', 'Shelena Shorts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the aftermath of Sophie''s ordeal, Weston will make some uncharacteristic decisions to distance himself from the past in an attempt to change the future. But, while venturing into the improbable, the present sneaks up in a chilling way that will lead to Wes'' unexpected submission. Suddenly, Sophie will find herself watching as both his immortal secret and his own existence are threatened. Continuously intriguing, The Broken Lake takes readers to a place where eternal bonds confront a division that is sure to leave everyone wondering whom they can trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18310'),
(24669, 'Broken prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of a series of killings that disturbingly emulates the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. By the author of Hidden Prey. Lit Guild Main. BOMC Main. Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18814'),
(24670, 'Broken Sword', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling who has taken his place in the world of men.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winning many Hugo and Nebula awards, and also winning the Gandalf (Grand Master) Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4758'),
(24671, 'Broken Sword.txt', 'Anderson, Poul - Broken Sword.txt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15399'),
(24672, 'The Broken Teaglass', 'Emily Arsenault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban parkâ€“all collide memorably in Emily Arsenaultâ€™s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.****In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English language, poring over new expressions and freshly coined wordsâ€“all in preparation for the next new edition of the Samuelson Dictionary. Among them is editorial assistant Billy Webb, just out of college, struggling to stay awake and appear competent. But there are a few distractions. His intriguing coworker Mona Minot may or may not be flirting with him. And heâ€™s starting to sense something suspicious going on beneath this companyâ€™s academic facade.Mona has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, **The Broken Teaglass**. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists. And the quotations from it are far too long, twisting, and bizarre for any dictionary. They read like a confessional, coyly hinting at a hidden identity, a secret liaison, a crime. As Billy and Mona ransack the office files, a chilling story begins to emerge: a story about a lonely young woman, a long-unsolved mystery, a moment of shattering violence. And as they piece together its fragments, the puzzle begins to take on bigger personal meaning for both of them, compelling them to redefine their notions of themselves and each other.Charged with wit and intelligence, set against a sweetly cautious love story, **The Broken Teaglass** is a tale that will delight lovers of words, lovers of mysteries, and fans of smart, funny, brilliantly inventive fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4760'),
(24673, 'Broken Vows', 'Cory Daniells', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a world of danger and dark enchantment, the most treacherous magic is desire....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trained in the arts of war and possessed of extraordinary healing gifts, Imoshen was one of the last of the legendary T''En, an ancient race who''d ruled Fair Isle for six centuries. But now, in the space of a heartbeat, all that Imoshen holds dear is gone...lost to invading soldiers and the relentless general who led them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All his life Tulkhan had heard tales of the T''En...of exotic women whose wine-dark eyes could see into a man''s soul and read his mind. Yet nothing could have prepared him for the reality of Imoshen. Even surrounded by his Elite Guard, the fierce beauty would not surrender. But making the last living T''En royal his captive was a grave mistake. For soon Tulkhan will discover the full force of Imoshen''s proud defiance, as this alluring temptress seeks to turn the tables and make her magnificent captor a prisoner of his own raging desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From Cory Daniells comes a glorious romantic fantasy set against a backdrop of dark magic and daring, a spellbinding story of a man and a woman at the heart of a deadly conflict...and at the mercy of an irresistible hunger.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a world of danger and dark enchantment, the most treacherous magic is desire....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trained in the arts of war and possessed of extraordinary healing gifts, Imoshen was one of the last of the legendary T''En, an ancient race who''d ruled Fair Isle for six centuries. But now, in the space of a heartbeat, all that Imoshen holds dear is gone...lost to invading soldiers and the relentless general who led them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All his life Tulkhan had heard tales of the T''En...of exotic women whose wine-dark eyes could see into a man''s soul and read his mind. Yet nothing could have prepared him for the reality of Imoshen. Even surrounded by his Elite Guard, the fierce beauty would not surrender. But making the last living T''En royal his captive was a grave mistake. For soon Tulkhan will discover the full force of Imoshen''s proud defiance, as this alluring temptress seeks to turn the tables and make her magnificent captor a prisoner of his own raging desire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From Cory Daniells comes a glorious romantic fantasy set against a backdrop of dark magic and daring, a spellbinding story of a man and a woman at the heart of a deadly conflict...and at the mercy of an irresistible hunger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14486'),
(24674, 'Bronx Noir', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Akashic''s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale, in 19 tales by authors both well known and obscure. The most imaginative entry, Joseph Wallace''s The Big Five, about a hunter who targets his prey in the Bronx Zoo as part of a national contest, concludes with a satisfying noir twist. Lawrence Block''s Riverdale story, Rude Awakening, also surprises the reader with its clever resolution of a one-night stand. Particularly inventive is Kevin Baker''s grim The Cheers Like Waves, set in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series'' better entries, with memorable tales of betrayal and despair that reflect the borough''s varied ethnic populations and geography.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S.J. Rozan\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. Sheâ€™s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones\n  <em>\n   Absent Friends\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In This Rain\n  </em>\n  (forthcoming). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for best novel. Sheâ€™s at work on another series novel,\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Moon.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14487'),
(24675, 'The Bronze Axe', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first book in the Richard Blade series (1969) Blasted into a fantastic new world, Richard Blade woke at the feet of a strange and beautiful woman, Taleen, Princess of Voth. Running for her life from the savage Albs who had kidnapped her. Without clothes or weapons of any kind, Blade was in trouble himself - but the seductive Taleen needed help... Strange experiences were nothing new to Blade, but he was ill-prepared for his trial by fire and sword, the secret cannibal rites of the Drus, the unquenchable lusts of the evil Queen Beata, and the maddening teasing of the virgin Taleen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4764'),
(24676, 'The Bronze Horseman', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler''s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ€”and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander''s impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ€”a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ€”as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4767'),
(24677, 'Brooklyn Noir', 'Tim McLoughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McLoughlin''s entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City''s most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school methodâ€”for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill''s lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he''d long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian''s compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin''s evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop''s son struggles with his dead father''s secret history, while Maggie Estep''s "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book''s weirdest tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can''t Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops &amp; Robbers." Brooklyn''s Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing."\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14293'),
(24678, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4768'),
(24679, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14297'),
(24680, 'A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls', 'Kate Wilhelm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16089'),
(24681, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls', 'Jane Lindskold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magic That Doesnâ€™t Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raisedâ€”and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. Thereâ€™s no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her past...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14298'),
(24682, 'Brother To Shadows', 'Steven E Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17886'),
(24683, 'Brother To Shadows', 'Andre Norton - Moon Singer 5', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17940');
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(24684, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚ ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14300'),
(24685, 'A Brother&#39;s Price', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world where males are rarely born, they''ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16090'),
(24686, 'Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14304'),
(24687, 'Brothers &amp; Sisters', 'Charlotte Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ''Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ... Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ... You recognise one another, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You are strangers.'' You love them; it cannot be explained why or how.'' -From Charlotte Woods'' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood''s acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-known and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O''Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and non-fictional forms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14305'),
(24688, 'Brothers in Arms', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Milesâ€™s superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Milesâ€™s two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to assassinate which version of him?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Miles unravels the answers, then the complications really *begin*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14308'),
(24689, 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Andrew R. MacAndrew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man''s eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4770'),
(24690, 'The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . .\n  <em>\n   The Brothers Karamazov\n  </em>\n  stands as the culmination of his artâ€“his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.â€ â€“_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration.â€ â€“_The Times_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskyâ€™s original.â€ â€“_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAbsolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting.â€ â€“_The Independent_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt may well be that Dostoevskyâ€™s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowâ€“and through the medium of [this] new translationâ€“beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.â€ â€“_New York Review of Books_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHeartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevskyâ€™s Russian as it is possible.â€ â€“Joseph Frank, Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevsky''s last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4771'),
(24691, 'Brothers of the Head', 'Aldiss,Brian - Brothers of the Head.txt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15668'),
(24692, 'Brought In Dead', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14314'),
(24693, 'Bruce Balfour', 'Star Crusader', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17276'),
(24694, 'Bruce Balfour', 'Prometheus Road', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17278'),
(24695, 'Bruce Balfour', 'The Forge of Mars', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17279'),
(24696, 'Bruce Bethke', 'Cyberpunk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17281'),
(24697, 'Bruce Bethke', 'The Skunky Soul of Jimmy Twist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17282'),
(24698, 'Bruce Bethke', 'Expendables', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17283'),
(24699, 'Bruce Bethke', 'The Final Death of the Comeback King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17286'),
(24700, 'Bruce Boxleitner - Frontier Earth 1', 'Frontier Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17289'),
(24701, 'Bruce Boxleitner - Frontier Earth 2', 'Searcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17290'),
(24702, 'Bruce Coville', 'Oddly Enough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17184'),
(24703, 'Bruce Coville', 'My Teacher Is An Alien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17206'),
(24704, 'Bruce Coville', 'Robot Trouble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17294'),
(24705, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 01', 'I Was A Sixth Grade Alien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17199'),
(24706, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 02', 'The Attack Of The Two-inch Teacher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17203'),
(24707, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 03', 'I Lost My Grandfather&#39;s Brain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17212'),
(24708, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 04', 'Peanut Butter Lover Boy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17188'),
(24709, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 05', 'Zombies Of The Science Fair', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17190'),
(24710, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 06', 'Don&#39;t Fry My Veeblax!', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17198'),
(24711, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 07', 'Too Many Aliens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17205'),
(24712, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 08', 'Snatched From Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17192'),
(24713, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 09', 'There&#39;s An Alien In My Backpack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17211'),
(24714, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 10', 'The Revolt Of The Miniature Mutants', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17293'),
(24715, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 11', 'There&#39;s An Alien In My Underwear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17195'),
(24716, 'Bruce Coville - 6th Grade Alien 12', 'Farewell To Earth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17182'),
(24717, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Listening, Listening', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17216'),
(24718, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Dead Boy At Your Window', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17217'),
(24719, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'The Goblin King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17222'),
(24720, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Thirteen Ways to Water', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17223'),
(24721, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Alexandrian Light', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17224'),
(24722, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Wind Over Heaven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17226'),
(24723, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Don Ysidro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17230'),
(24724, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Something Like the Sound of Wind in the Trees', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17231'),
(24725, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Whalesong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17233'),
(24726, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'The Apple Golem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17237'),
(24727, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'An Eye For Acquisitions', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17238'),
(24728, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Little Brother', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17242'),
(24729, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17243'),
(24730, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'A Common Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17248'),
(24731, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Chambers Like a Hive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17250'),
(24732, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Gravity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17251'),
(24733, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'In the Matter of the Ukdena', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17253'),
(24734, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Estranged', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17256'),
(24735, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Vocabulary Items', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17257'),
(24736, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'The Krishman Cube', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17259'),
(24737, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Hard Autumn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17260'),
(24738, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Why I Filed Late This Year', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17261'),
(24739, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Green Lawns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17264'),
(24740, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Vox Domini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17266'),
(24741, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'Big Far Now', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17269'),
(24742, 'Bruce Holland Rogers', 'What the Wind Carries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17272'),
(24743, 'Bruce McAllister', 'The Lion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17275'),
(24744, 'Bruce Mcallister', 'Stu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17277'),
(24745, 'Bruce McAllister', 'Cold War', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17280'),
(24746, 'Bruce McAllister', 'Dream Baby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17284'),
(24747, 'Bruce McAllister', 'The Passion a Western', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17285'),
(24748, 'Bruce Sterling', 'The Interoperation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17148'),
(24749, 'Bruce Sterling', 'Luciferase', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17150'),
(24750, 'Bruce Sterling', 'Our Neural Chernobyl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17152'),
(24751, 'Bruce Sterling', 'In Paradise', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17291'),
(24752, 'Bruce Sterling - Heavy Weather', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17142'),
(24753, 'Bruce Sterling - Islands In The', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17134'),
(24754, 'Bruce Sterling &amp; Lewis Shiner', 'Mozart in Mirrorshades', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17138'),
(24755, 'Bruggil&#39;s Bride', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14315'),
(24756, 'Brunelleschi&#39;s Dome', 'Ross King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14317'),
(24757, 'Brunette', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18045'),
(24758, 'Brunswick Gardens', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This reading of Anne Perry''s sixth Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (Defend and Betray, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/96) is skillfully rendered by David McCallum, who gives an impeccable performance. Here Perry explores the social and moral issues of the day. Unity Bellwood, assistant to Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, falls down a flight of stairs to her death; her last words are: "No, no, Reverend!" He is suspected of pushing the young woman to her death. There are, however, other people in the house. Thomas, commander of the Bow Street police station, will not be satisfied until the whole truth can be unearthed. Engrossing and enjoyable for lovers of traditional mystery novels, although it holds few surprises for the discerning. Recommended for public library collections.?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Reg. H.S., Little Silver, NJ.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  In London''s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin''s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.\n  <p>\n   When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14319'),
(24759, 'A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16091'),
(24760, 'The Brush-Off: A Hair-Raising Mystery', 'Laura Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer''s hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends. Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio''s hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she''s not only mourning her friend and mentor''s murder: she''s also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she''s one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn''s wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn''s hair curl....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4772'),
(24761, 'Bryant &amp; May on the Loose: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Fowler''s unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Victoria Vanishes\n </em>\n ). With the special police unit shut down, Arthur Bryant is feeling withdrawn and depressed while his partner, John May, is considering PI work.Ã‚Â WhenÃ‚Â a former team member stumbles on a beheaded corpse in the heart of London''s King''s Cross neighborhood,Ã‚Â May artfully uses the discovery to gain the PCU another lease on life. He persuades the higherups that unsolved gang crimes in the area could threaten the economic benefit anticipated from the 2012 Olympics. Given one week to solve the case, without any official sanction or access to police resources, May pulls Bryant out of his doldrums and reassembles the unit. To May''s dismay, his colleague is more interested in reports that a man wearing a stag''s head has been seen in the area. The pacing, prose, planting of clues and characterizations are all top-notch.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The efforts of various officials in the London police have finally succeeded in breaking up the Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). While most of the team have started remaking their lives, brilliant, eccentric Arthur Bryant has become a morose recluse. His old friend John May is definitely concerned. Then along comes a case that May thinks might pique Arthurâ€™s interest and put the unit back in business: a headless corpse is found stuffed in an old freezer. Strangely, itâ€™s not the unfortunate dead guy that calls to the elderly Bryant. Heâ€™s more interested in the oddly dressed man causing havoc around a Kingâ€™s Cross renovation project. With the groupâ€™s future at stake, which case will win out? With a liberal dose of regional history and some surprising humor, this ensemble crime story has lots to offerâ€”not the least of which are a couple of great, unexpected twists that not only change the makeup of the PCU but also lead its members straight into adventures to come. --Stephanie Zvirin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14323'),
(24762, 'Bryn Chandler', 'Eve&#39;s Rib', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17155'),
(24763, 'Buckets', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14327'),
(24764, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Bright Red Star', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17157'),
(24765, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'The Ice Dragon&#39;s Song', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17160'),
(24766, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Alba Krystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17162'),
(24767, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Primrose &amp; Thorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17165'),
(24768, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Magic&#39;s Price', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17170'),
(24769, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Clay&#39;s Pride', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17171'),
(24770, 'Bud Sparhawk', 'Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17178'),
(24771, 'Bud Sparhawk and Ramona Wheeler', 'The Connection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17164'),
(24772, 'Bud Webster', 'Christus Destitutus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17180'),
(24773, 'Bud Webster', 'In the K-Mart at Galactic Central', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17181'),
(24774, 'Bud Webster', 'The Lordly Loofah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17183'),
(24775, 'Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann''s first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann''s novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14330'),
(24776, 'Buddha', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With such bestsellers as *A History of God and Islam*, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (*The New York Times*) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In *Buddha* she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14332'),
(24777, 'The Buddha Lectures on Cosmology', 'Dana William Paxson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4773'),
(24778, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Child Of The Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17089'),
(24779, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Angel Chronicles 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17091'),
(24780, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Angel Chronicles 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17092'),
(24781, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Resurrecting Ravana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17098'),
(24782, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'The Willow Files Vol. 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17101'),
(24783, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Spike &amp; Dru Pretty Maids All In A Row', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17104'),
(24784, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Unnatural Selection by Mel Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17105'),
(24785, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Carnival Of Souls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17110'),
(24786, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Sins of the Father', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17115'),
(24787, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'The Angel Chronicles Vol 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17117'),
(24788, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Paleo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17118'),
(24789, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'How I Survived My Summer Vacation Vol. 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17120'),
(24790, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'The Harvest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17124'),
(24791, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Immortal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17127'),
(24792, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Monster Island', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17130'),
(24793, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Oz Into The Wild', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17185'),
(24794, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Xander Years Volume 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17186'),
(24795, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Prime Evil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17187'),
(24796, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'The Evil That Men Do', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17193'),
(24797, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Xander Years Volume 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17194'),
(24798, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'The Lost Slayer 2 -', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17196'),
(24799, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Coyote Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17197'),
(24800, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Obsidian Fate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17201'),
(24801, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Wisdom of War', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17202'),
(24802, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Return To Chaos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17207'),
(24803, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'Revenant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17209'),
(24804, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Angel - Unseen 1', 'The Burning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17113'),
(24805, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Angel - Unseen 2', 'Door to Alternity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17200'),
(24806, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Angel - Unseen 3', 'The Long Way Home', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17085'),
(24807, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Gatekeeper 1', 'Out Of The Madhouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17121'),
(24808, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Gatekeeper 2', 'Ghost Roads', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17125'),
(24809, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Lost Slayer 1', 'Prophecies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17189'),
(24810, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Lost Slayer 3', 'The King Of The Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17208'),
(24811, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer- Gatekeeper 3', 'Sons Of Entrophy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17096'),
(24812, 'The Bug Wars', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4774'),
(24813, 'Bugs in the Arroyo', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14333'),
(24814, 'Building Dreams From Moondust', 'Mike Combs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14336'),
(24815, 'Building Harlequin&#39;s Moon', 'Larry Niven &amp; Brenda Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first interstellar starship, *John Glenn,* fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology and rife with political dangers. The *John Glennâ€™*s crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that will limit intelligent technology.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system, and extremely low on the antimatter needed to continue to Ymir, they must shape the nearby planet Harlequinâ€™s moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild their store of antimatter through decades of terraforming the moon.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel, the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task, with all the wrong materials. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly illiterate children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequinâ€™s moon into a virtual antimatter factory. With no concept of the future and with life defined as duty, one girl, Rachel Vanowen, begins to ask herself the question: what will become of the children of Selene once the terraforming is complete.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n (20050916)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14342'),
(24816, 'Building homebrew equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14343'),
(24817, 'Building homebrew equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen &amp; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18812'),
(24818, 'Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies', 'Claudia Snell; Doug Sahlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Want to launch a Web site but donâ€™t know where to begin? Information on Web design, page building software, using HTML, site planning, and everything else you need to know can be found easily in *Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition*. So you can easily find what youâ€™re looking for, this plain-English guide is divided into nine minibooks: Preparations Site Design Site Construction Web Graphics Multimedia Audience Interaction E-Commerce Site Management Case Studies From deciding what your site should do to working with HTML, using Dreamweaver, incorporating Flash creations, and keeping your site on the cutting edge, this book is your one-stop course in building Web sites. Learn to: Plan your site, decide whether you need a Web team, and create relevant content Develop your site design, work with wire frames, and organize behind-the-scenes files that make your site work Select the right hardware and software and create pages with Dreamweaver Create cool site graphics with Photoshop and Fireworks Add interest with Flash animations, slideshows, video, and sound Make your site interactive with Javascript, PHP, ASP, and MySQL Build an e-commerce site thatâ€™s user-friendly, legally sound, and secure Keep your content and design fresh and up to date Ready to begin? Grab *Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition* and letâ€™s get started!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14346'),
(24819, 'Bulk Food', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14348'),
(24820, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... *** Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14350'),
(24821, 'Bulletin Board', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14351'),
(24822, 'BULLETPROOF BRIDE', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14353'),
(24823, 'Bump in the Night', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Enter a world where no boundaries exist - and where every seduction is supernatural...* Follow four of today''s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldy suspense. Beginning with an all-new tale from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb-and featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passion of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14356'),
(24824, 'Bundle of Trouble', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"Cigars all around"( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series. First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer.** Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you''re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14357'),
(24825, 'Bundori', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head taken for a bundori -- a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called to find the culprit. In a city where danger and deceit lie just below the lush surface, Sano must rely on his mind, his instincts, and his noble training in Bushido -- the Way of the Warrior -- to solve this case that could bring him glory...or everlasting shame. Set against a backdrop of sumptuous castles, tawdry pleasure districts, and serene temples, and filled with unforgettable, rich characters, Bundori is breathtaking entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14358');
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(24826, 'Bungalow 2', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya''s first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya''s cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren''t enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel''s characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel''s many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood._ (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children will soon be heading off to college. With that hole in her life looming, she accepts an offer from her agent (she is also a free-lance writer) to work on a Hollywood script for a big-time producer and director. For Tanya, returning to the work world full time is a tough choice, but after a lot of hand-wringing and platitudes about leaving her family, she decides to do it. She plans to work in Hollywood during the week (residing at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel, in Bungalow 2) and return home every weekend. Of course, she finds herself working on weekends, and before long, her husband begins an affair with their next-door neighbor, and Tanya herself has begun to take a romantic interest in the producer she is working for. Not surprisingly, their marriage unravels, and Tanya begins a series of fruitless Hollywood relationships, all while trying to maintain her bond with her children. But this is a Steel novel, after all, and eventually she finds her man, works things out with her kids, and wins an Academy Award, no less.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14360'),
(24827, 'Bunner Sisters', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was perhaps with the idea of relieving the tension of their mood that Evelina, the following Sunday, suggested inviting Miss Mellins to supper. The Bunner sisters were not in a position to be lavish of the humblest hospitality, but two or three times in the year they shared their evening meal with a friend; and Miss Mellins, still flushed with the importance of her "turn," seemed the most interesting guest they could invite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14362'),
(24828, 'The Burden of Proof', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Turow''s acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from "Presumed Innocent", faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4776'),
(24829, 'The Burden', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Very much the art of story-telling that would be at home in the woman''s magazine.'' Times Literary Supplement\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura''s emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on Agatha Christie''s metaphor ''Sometimes you haven''t the right currency. And then someone else has to pay...''\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4775'),
(24830, 'Burglar 02 - The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14366'),
(24831, 'Burglar 03 - The Burglar Who liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bookseller, thief â€“ Bernie Rhodenbarr can''t resist the lure or a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire''s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question...but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14369'),
(24832, 'Burglar 04 - The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14371'),
(24833, 'Burglar 05 - The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14372'),
(24834, 'Burglar 06 - Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14373'),
(24835, 'Burglar 07 - The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14376'),
(24836, 'Burglar 08 - Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14377'),
(24837, 'Burglar 09 - The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com Review Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of Burglar in the Rye, is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing-although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination. This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes absolutely necessary. The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn ''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated-and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter. Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14379'),
(24838, 'Burglar 10 - Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14382'),
(24839, 'The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in the chair, vulnerable thanks to a dental instrument in his mouth, he discovers that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar. "Like you, Bernie", the good dentist says. So much for leading a secret life of crime. Bernie, smart guy that he is, turns the dentist down flat. So why is Bernie picking the locks on the posh apartment of Crystal Sheldrake, the dentist''s ex-wife? Because he''s a burglar. Plus, Crystal has a cache of jewels worth any burglar''s time. Trouble is, Crystal comes home early - and she''s not alone. Bernie quickly hides in a closet, which Crystal promptly and inconveniently locks. As time goes by, Crystal rids herself of her companion and Bernie manages to pick his way out of the closet -- only to discover Crystal dead on the floor and the jewels gone. Bernie must sleuth his way out of a real mess. The Burglar in the Closet is a terrific read! --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr''s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie''s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he''s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he''s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernie''s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he''ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn''t commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4777'),
(24840, 'The Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he''s excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&amp;b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagementâ€”she''s getting married . . . and not to Bernieâ€”so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city''s bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there''s a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford''s library that Bernie''s just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie''s a burglar? But first he''s got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot''s thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it''s Bernie who''ll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4780'),
(24841, 'The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n , is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing--although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes\n <em>\n  absolutely\n </em>\n necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated--and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating objects he picks up along the way. The reader also learns about some mind-expanding facts, such as the existence of a tiny South American fish that swims up a man''s urine stream and lodges in his private parts! Or did Block make that up, too?\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Bernie picks include:\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block''s addictive series about bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, etc.) continues as our hero invades the hotel suite of an aged literary agent in search of a cache of letters, by a respected and reclusive writer, that are wanted by people both legitimate and not. As he usually does, Bernie finds a corpse on the other side of the locked door he so neatly opens, and he is immediately suspected of murder by his nemesis, sticky-fingered Ray Kirschmann of the NYPD. More murder ensues before Bernie, with the help of his lesbian buddy Carolyn, can get a handle on the proceedings. But when he does, and has gathered all the principals into a room for the inevitable explanatory/accusatory windup ("I suppose you''re wondering why I summoned you all here," he gets to say, to his and the reader''s delight, time and again), he hits on a solution that fingers a most unlikely suspect, satisfies all the claimants to the letters and leaves him (and Ray) richer. Block''s effortless mastery of his material, his relaxed ease, are as pleasurable as always, and he has some splendid fun with an author not unlike J.D. Salinger. This is the prolific Block''s only new novel of the year, and it''s a steal at any price. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4782'),
(24842, 'The Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable\n <em>\n  Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n , Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going "on the prowl" one restless eveningâ€•-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he''s pawing through a woman''s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim''s life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block''s prose is merely serviceable, but his plotting and storytelling are first-rate. He constructs a complex puzzle, yet weaves in each new development so seamlessly that you almost don''t see it happen. Like its Bernie predecessors,\n <em>\n  The Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n is droll and charming, and at times you can feel Block trying a bit too hard with the charm. However, a few truly horrific bad guys and some ugly violence keep the sweetness from cloying. And it''s impossible not to like Bernie, a gentleman criminal with few peers in contemporary fiction.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''d think that Block, with more than 50 books to his credit, would run out of ideas, but as this 10th in his Burglar series shows (after 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n ), he''s as fresh, witty and inventive as ever. The author builds his plot on stupefying coincidences, but not to worryâ€”everything eventually meshes. A friend asks Bernie Rhodenbarr, confirmed New Yorker, used-book dealer and gentleman burglar, to rob a mob-connected plastic surgeon who stole the friend''s mistress. He agrees, and cases the doctor''s house in Riverdale, the Bronx. But Bernie is restive and, uncharacteristically (because he plans carefully), he breaks into a Manhattan apartment on a whim and almost gets caught, hiding under the bed while a woman is date-raped. Next day a customer is shot near his bookstore, a mysterious Ã©migrÃ© couple is murdered, a former Latvian war criminal is reported in New York and Bernie''s apartment is ransacked. These crimes seem unrelated in such a large city, but Bernie finds a common thread. In the end, Bernie assembles 22 people (including lawmen) in the surgeon''s living room and, Charlie Chan style, explains each participant''s role and, where appropriate, crime. Lesser hands would not bring off this breathtaking performance, but in Block''s it''s seamless and hilarious. Quirky characters like Bernie''s pals Carolyn Kaiser, the dog groomer, and cop Ray Kirschmann; an insider''s love of New York; and a slew of wonderful puns add to the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4784'),
(24843, 'The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warned that their wait must be extended. For this is a reissue, after 17 years, of what was originally the third in the series. It''s therefore likely to be a new pleasure to Rhodenbarr fans won over by his recent rebirth (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart) and to fans of Block''s Matt Scudder novels. In it, Bernie has just opened Barnegat Books, has just got to know his deeply endearing friend, the lesbian dog groomer Carolyn, and is pressed into service to steal a rare book, allegedly a lost anti-Semitic work of Rudyard Kipling. As usual, he finds himself saddled with a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. And also as usual, Block''s stylish narrative flow, humor and pitch-perfect feeling for New York life make getting to the end much more fun than the ultimate solution of the mystery. Until then, it''s unalloyed pleasure?and, yes, we''re ready for another new one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block seems to relish the chance to write about the other side of the law when he''s not detailing the straight-and-narrow exploits of investigator Matthew Scudder (e.g., A Long Line of Dead Men, Morrow, 1994). Here, the literature-loving burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (e.g., The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, Dutton, 1995) is framed for murder after pilfering a Kipling manuscript.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4785'),
(24844, 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he''s also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That''s Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block''s best books about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the other entries in this admirable series--__,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n --Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn''t the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it''s unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man''s library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he''s the cops'' prime suspect when his client is murdered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he''s been masterfully painted into, he''ll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4787'),
(24845, 'The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn''t generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He''s good at it, it''s addictively excitingâ€”and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.\n</p>\n<p>\n He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled\n <em>\n  three times\n </em>\n on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no time to get all existential about itâ€”especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4788'),
(24846, 'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr''s in loveâ€”with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He''s in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festivalâ€”until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary. When he''s hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant''s early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handedâ€”and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he''s hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4790'),
(24847, 'The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It''s been an entire year since he''s entered anyone''s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord''s threat to increase Bernie''s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it''s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie''s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom. So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4793'),
(24848, 'Burglars Can&#39;t Be Choosers', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He''s not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man''s apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn''t the killer. Now he''s really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn''t do it, who will?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14383'),
(24849, 'Burial Detail', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14384'),
(24850, 'The Buried Circle', 'Jenni Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A pacy literary thriller, ''The Buried Circle'' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller '' a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic '' plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller''s spell, with fatal results.Seventy years later, Frannie''s granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing''Åš?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4795'),
(24851, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  - bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best," said\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Storm Prey\n </em>\n . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n</p>\n<p>\n A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Sandford\n </strong>\n is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n <em>\n  Bad Blood\n </em>\n . He lives in Minnesota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19281'),
(24852, 'The Burma Legacy', 'Geoffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4797'),
(24853, 'Burmese Days', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14385'),
(24854, 'Burn, Witch, Burn!', 'A. E. Merritt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18279'),
(24855, 'Burned: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for the House of Night series:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_People_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   TeensReadToo.com\n  </strong>\n  (5 stars)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Tulsa\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Darquereviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Thebestreviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On for\n   <em>\n    Untamed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 4:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Chosen\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 3:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 2:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  !â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Huntress Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Paranormal Romance Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   )\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 1:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“MTV.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Huntress.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   RomanceJunkies.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Beltane Papers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Library Journal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Gena Showalter\n  </strong>\n  , author of MTVâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Oh My Goth\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n  <em>\n   Burned.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14386'),
(24856, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4802'),
(24857, 'Burning Bright', 'Ron Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaâ€”a muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingâ€”with the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven''t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" (The Plain Dealer). In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash''s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsâ€”including his own nephewâ€”comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect. In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sightâ€”first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14387'),
(24858, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson''s characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14388'),
(24859, 'The Burning City', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have created a unique and believable world set in the universe of Niven''s The Magic Goes Away. The story begins nearly 14,000 years ago in Tep''s Town, located on the future site of Los Angeles. Tep''s Town is a city held captive by the slumbering god of fire, Yagen-Atep. Awakening only occasionally, he commands selected men to begin Burnings by giving them the ability to start fires coupled with consuming anger. Whandall Placehold grows up in the stagnant, three-class society of Tep''s town, part of a gang of thieves. No one gets in or out, since the town is hemmed in by a malevolent forest. But when Whandall is chosen by Yagen-Atep to start the Burnings, he resists the compulsion and, aided by Atlantean wizard Morth, escapes through the forest with a group of children he saves from certain death. As the years pass, Whandall builds an empire, buys wagons and bison, and builds a trade route all along the California coast--except for Tep''s Town. Life is good for Whandall and his bride, Willow, until they get a message from a desperate Morth: he convinces Whandall to return to Tep''s Town and help eradicate, once and for all, an ancient magical being from Atlantis who has been trying to kill Morth for many years. The Burning City is a lively book that deftly integrates social concerns of today with the magic and mythology of yesterday. Cameo appearances by the Native American god Coyote and the Norse god Loki add to the mischievous nature of the book. With a well-thought-out system of magic, characters with depth, unicorns, and swashbuckling adventure, this book is sure to please hardcore fantasy readers and fans of Niven and Pournelle. --Robert Gately\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4684');
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(24860, 'Burning Heart', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. The Church of Adjudication holds absolute power over the people, with the consequences that come from absolute power...corruption. The Doctor is imprisoned and chaos looms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14290'),
(24861, 'The Burning Skies', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock ''em sock ''em cyber warfare, space commandos, cutthroat politics and one stunning reversal after another. Strap yourself in. These books start fast and never let up."â€”Jeff Carlson, author of\n </em>\n Plague War\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStellar hard SF.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his electrifying debut,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step furtherâ€”to the edge of annihilation . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tattersâ€”her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the groupâ€™s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd centuryâ€”but to rule all of humanity. And theyâ€™re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now itâ€™s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rainâ€™s next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4689'),
(24862, 'Burning Tower', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Return to the "vivid and unusual" (*Kirkus Reviews*) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle''s *The Burning City*, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep''s Town unprotected for the first time in their history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn''t the only danger the town is facing. From out of the desert come monsters -- great birds with blades instead of wings, driven by some unknown force. Although they can be killed, the threat these terror birds pose is worse than death. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep''s Town will be no more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sent by the Lords of Lordshills to discover the source of the terror birds, Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel into a world where magic is still strong -- and wheresomeone or *something* waits to destroy them!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the sweeping adventure, memorable characters, and imaginative world-building that have defined the novels of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Burning Tower is another triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14291'),
(24863, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight; Nalini Singh; Virginia Kantra; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... ** **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover. **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman. **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14292'),
(24864, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight &amp; Nalini Singh &amp; Virginia Kantra &amp; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18978'),
(24865, 'Burning World', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18015'),
(24866, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters." That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno... The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14294'),
(24867, 'Burnt Shadows', 'Kamila Shamsie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India''s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel''s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" (Salman Rushdie). Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi. She has studied and taught in the United States. Two of her previous novels, "Kartography "and "Broken Verses," have won awards from Pakistan''s Academy of Letters. She writes for "The Guardian" (UK) and frequently broadcasts on the BBC. Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winner for FictionShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionHiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad''s half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel''s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested by wars and disasters, with unforeseeable consequences. "Shamsie stitches together a sweeping saga that begins with a young Japanese woman in wartime Nagasaki and ends, more than half a century later, with a Pakistani prisoner about to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. The tale unfolds through the lives of two unusually multinational (and multilingual) families: the Weiss-Burtons (German, British and American) and the Ashraf-Tanakas (Indian/Pakistani and Japanese). Not counting minor detours, their triumphs and tragedies span five countries and, without giving too much away, at least three world-changing historical events. On the face of it, collapsing so broad a canvas in a relatively slender novel is a recipe for chaos worthy of a subcontinental urban planner. But in Ms. Shamsie''s self-assured hands this does not come to pass. The story line remains taut, the characters vividly etched. Even the implausible romance at the heart of the novel--between Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and Sajjad Ashraf, a young aesthete forced to emigrate from Delhi to Karachi in the wake of the 1947 partition of British India--is somehow rendered believable. Ms. Shamsie is . . . as a cartographer of culture. She notes, for instance, that in Indo-Muslim society the emotional terrain of mourning is often communal rather than personal; Urdu contains no phrase for leaving a person alone with his grief. The siren call of modernity--with its implicit privileging of the nuclear family over the extended clan--can be deeply disturbing. As the matriarch of the undivided Ashraf family in pre-partition Delhi declares archly, ''maa-dern'' is a word ''created only to cut you off from your people and your past.'' Sajjad''s failure to try sushi after 35 years with Hiroko tells you all you need to know about the persistence of inherited attitudes that span everything from the loyalty of taste buds to the mental geography of marriage. In the end, for all its insights into the cultural and familial, this is above all a political novel. The choice of a Japanese protagonist allows the author to question much of the received wisdom of what used to be called the War on Terror. As a young teacher in Nagasaki, Hiroko has known adolescent boys as eager to embrace the cult of martyrdom as any young mujahideen. In General Zia''s concerted effort to drag Islam out of the home and into the public square, she sees the echo of Japanese emperor worship. The implication of these observations, of course, is that criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Not that long ago it was followers of Shintoism who were turning aircraft into missiles while dreaming of immortality . . . A cleverly constructed and powerfully imagined novel. Ultimately, as with any work of the imagination, the color of the politics matters much less than the quality of the prose."--"The"" ""Wall Street Journal Online, "Asia edition "Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world''s many tragedies and histories shape one another, and about how human beings can try to avoid being crushed by their fate and can discover their humanity, even in the fiercest combat zones of the age. "Burnt Shadows" is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response."--Salman Rushdie ""Burnt Shadows" is audacious in its ambition, epic in its scope. A startling expansion of the author''s intentions, imagination and craftsmanship. One can only admire the huge advances she has made, and helped us to make, in understanding the new global tensions."--Anita Desai "In this brilliant book Kamila Shamsie opens a vista onto the century we have just lived through--pointing out its terror and its solace. She is so extraordinary a writer that she also offers hints about the century we are living through--the dark corners that contain challenges, as well as the paths that lead to beauty''s lair."--Nadeem Aslam, author of "Maps for Lost Lovers """Burnt Shadows" is a beautiful, beautiful book. I was entirely swept up in the story, and I feel, now that I''ve (so reluctantly) put it down, that I have traveled the world and spent the past six decades with Hiroko and her family. The book speaks boldly and powerfully of our age; I know it will stay with me for a long time to come."--Tahmima Anam, author of "The Golden Age ""An epic tale of two families whose lives are intertwined by conflict. As a young woman, Hiroko Tanaka survives the bombing of Nagasaki, which takes the life of her first love, German-born Konrad Weiss. Physically and mentally scarred, Hiroko flees to Konrad''s sister Elizabeth, who lives with her English husband James Burton in Delhi. Sajjad Ashraf, who frequents the Burton household, gives Urdu lessons to Hiroko, and they fall in love. But arranged marriages are traditional in his Muslim family, so the couple elopes and flees to Istanbul. Later, after Partition ends Sajjad''s hopes of returning to Delhi, they move to Karachi. There Hiroko bears a son, Raza, who grows into a precocious youth with a passion for languages. With the appearance at their door of James and Elizabeth''s son Harry, the lines of the two families cross once more. Raza flubs a final exam and deviates from his college-bound path to befriend a young Afghani smuggler, with whom he attempts to join the mujahideen. Shamsie builds vivid contemporary scenes on a rich and sometimes sordid history; the modern characters'' struggles attain tragic, even mythic resonance as parents'' ordeals are visited on their children. Wit, formidable imagination and intricate, well-worked characterizations distinguish the twisty narrative. Raza experiences mixed emotions as he travels through the blasted hinterlands with Afghani arms smugglers. In a world fraught with duplicity and inside deals among militant tribesmen, military contractors and CIA operatives, he learns that morality is anything but straightforward. But the struggles of zealots and mercenaries are dwarfed by Hiroko''s titanic journey. Having survived and suffered so much, she finds herself sitting with a crossword puzzle in a West Village bistro, contemplating the grand and hellish pattern of her loved ones'' lives as she considers with horror the threat of nuclear proliferation between India and Pakistan. With a rare combination of skill and sensitivity, Shamsie generates pathos for outsiders and the displaced."--"Kirkus Reviews ""An engrossing story of resilience and humanity in the face of crushing tragedy, Shamsie''s fifth novel follows the interconnected lives of two families brought together in Nagasaki near the end of World War II. Their fates are linked for 60 years through several countries and ultimately to a somewhat paranoid New York following 9/11. The allusion to recent historical events is not simply an overt device on which to hang a particular political viewpoint; these events are integral to the personal narratives presented here. Shamsie explores the meanings of cultural identity through characters who endure sacrifice, betrayal, and human-made disaster as they live and work in countries foreign to them. This critically acclaimed Pakistani author, who writes in English, is a powerful storyteller who deserves a wider U.S. audience. Readers who appreciate the cross-cultural scope and insight into global tensions in the works of Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Highly recommended."--Gwen Vredevoogd, "Library Journal" "Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan. Konrad Weiss, living in Nagasaki in the summer of 1945, hires a local woman, Hiroko Tanaka, to help him write a book about the city. The romance that blossoms is cut short when the atom bomb falls, killing Konrad, and after a while, Hiroko, feeling she can no longer stay in her country, travels to India to find Konrad''s sister, Ilse, the wife of a British lawyer enjoying the privileges of the British raj''s final days. From there, Shamsie brilliantly interweaves the lives of an array of characters as she brings the story forward to the 1980s, then to the beginning of the 21st century, exploring the clashes between loyalty to family, homeland and cause. Shamsie''s unsparing look at how individuals respond when war affects their world makes for an intriguing, heartrending tale of human connection."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14296'),
(24868, 'Burnt Sienna', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once Chase Malone waged war. Now he creates beauty, living as a reclusive painter in Mexico. Until a rich man hires Chase to do his wifeâ€™s portrait. And Chase finds out what beauty is really all about... Derek Bellasar is an international arms merchant who lives in a fortress-like mansion on the Riviera. Sienna is his wife and the woman whose incredible beauty Chase Malone must somehow capture on canvas. Thereâ€™s only one problem: Every time Bellasar has one of his wives painted, she dies. Suddenly, Chase is fighting a one-man battle against Bellasar and a private army of highly trained killers. At stake is Siennaâ€™s life â€“ and more. Because the CIA has been using Chase to keep a blockbuster biological arms deal from going down. And with a manâ€™s evil threatening to devastate the world, Chase Malone must save a woman, save his life, and practice the art of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14299'),
(24869, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14301'),
(24870, 'Bush At War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5596'),
(24871, 'The Business Of Dying', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he''s hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he''s been duped. Instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant -- suddenly Milne, his lucrative sideline and what remains of his conscience are heading for trouble. Twelve hours later he''s back on duty in London''s King''s Cross. Eighteen-year-old Miriam Fox has been found dead -- her throat slashed. Milne''s dogged enquiries into the murky world of the teenage vice trade soon implicate fellow police officers and the manager of the hostel where Miriam once stayed. With his own crimes returning to haunt him, Milne uncovers a web of depravity more shocking than he could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4690'),
(24872, 'Busted Flush', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Inside Straight\n </em>\n , a revamp of the shared Wild Cards universe, features crises ripped directly from today''s newspaper headlines and summer blockbusters. A burgeoning gas shortage has sparked an invasion into the Middle East; New Orleans is hurricane-beset and zombie-ravaged; someone has set off a nuclear explosion in Texas; and genocide rages in Nigeria. The conflicts between the compellingly human superheroes on the U.N.''s Committee shape this fast-paced alternate history. Veteran contributor and now assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass pens standout chapters featuring British triple-agent Double Helix, who drives the plot while posing as both seductive Committee member Lilith and Middle Eastern assassin Bahir. While those unfamiliar with the Wild Cards mosaic novels will flounder, the clever twists on today''s political landscape and the unique powers of several new aces will lure back past readers.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wild Cards revival continues in a second round of the TV show American Hero, a playoff contest between superheroes created by a mostly lethal alien virus and set in a realistically tangled and bloody world. Some players are troubleshooters, others cause trouble and shoot back, and a govement agency wants to get its hands on newcomer Drake, who can generate nuclear explosions out of his body. Drakeâ€™s jailbreak is one plotline in this installment of the multi-authored (one scribe or scribe-team per chapter) series, and it ropes in a Barbarian Days festival in Cross Plains, Texas, home of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. Others include an action-packed civil war in Nigeria and the effort to rescue humans and, this time, zombies from another New Orleansâ€“bound hurricane. Somehow, characters remain the foci of a busy book that mixes the comic and the grim to good effect. For readers who canâ€™t get enough, thereâ€™s an interactive Wild Cards Web site, too. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14303'),
(24873, 'But What Of Earth', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14307'),
(24874, 'BUT WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN', 'But Who Can Replace a Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14309'),
(24875, 'Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buffyand\n <em>\n  Angel\n </em>\n fans are likely to enjoy Kadrey''s offbeat supernatural romp, which blends demonic evil and quirky humor. The relatively normal life of San Francisco tattoo artist Spyder Lee goes thoroughly crazy when he''s rescued from a mugger by Shrike, a mysterious blind woman who reveals that Lee''s assailant was actually a demon. The wounds he suffered in the assault give him the ability to see the Dominions, other spheres of existence that regular mortals are unaware of. Soon Spyder finds himself hip-deep in demonic trouble, protecting his friend Lulu by offering his body to the organ-collecting Black and then dragging her off to join Shrike on a madcap journey to Hell, where they encounter monsters, Lucifer and even an alternate-time version of Lee himself. Kadrey (_Kamikaze L''Amour_) juxtaposes gore and brash insouciance in the face of apocalyptic evil, a blend that may not suit everyone''s taste.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he''s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn''t fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14311'),
(24876, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12206'),
(24877, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert''s son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001''s Dune: House Corrino (the concluding volume of their "House" trilogy), offers the kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud. Reaching back into the beginnings of Arrakis, the authors show us Selim, a boy cast out by his tribe who discovers how to ride the fearsome giant sandworms. Selim tastes and learns the visionary power of the magical spice, melange, and how the future of Arrakis hinges on who controls it. At the same time, on planets far removed from the desolate dunes of Arrakis, others are involved in a Great Revolt. Free League World humans, led by Tercero Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler of Salusa Secundus, battle Omnius, a computer "evermind" intent on extending its dominion. The ominous Omnius seeks to conquer all planets not yet incorporated into his Synchronized Worlds system with the help of servile robotic extensions and colleagues, including Erasmus, a Thinking Machine "Hannibal Lecter" whose whimsical Mr. Spock-ish meditations enliven the proceedings immeasurably. Throughout, key revelations regarding the Zensunni Wanderers and their fight for freedom and other historical Dune elements lend an air of discovery to this fast-paced tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten thousand years before the fall of the Imperial House Corrino, two grand interplanetary organizations ruled the known universe: the Synchronized Worlds, presided over by thinking machines led by the evermind called Omnius, and the League of Nobles, beleaguered survivors of the machines'' revolt against the Old Empire. In this era, a few individuals determined to overturn the rule of the machines sought every opportunity to gain insights into ways to defeat the human race''s most intractable enemy. Herbert and Anderson (Dune: House Atreides; Dune: House Harkonnen; Dune: House Corrino) continue their prehistory of Frank Herbert''s "Dune" series with a new trilogy opener set in the distant past of Herbert''s galactic saga. The authors reveal the origins of the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit, as well as the root of the ancient feud between Houses Atreides and Harkonnen. This compelling saga of men and women struggling for their freedom is required reading for Dune fans and an essential purchase for libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18938'),
(24878, 'The Butterfly', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The life of an Appalachian coal miner, who has been separated from his family for years, is drastically changed and complicated as he seeks revenge when his daughter suddenly appears in his cabin, and he discovers the true identity of her illegitimate chi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4694'),
(24879, 'Butterfly&#39;s Shadow', 'Lee Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world''s great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini''s characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19330'),
(24880, 'Buy Jupiter, and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-four tales set in diverse locations are accompanied by critical and autobiographical commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16213'),
(24881, 'A buyer&#39;s market: a novel', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16094'),
(24882, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14312'),
(24883, 'Buzzard Named Rabinowitz', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14313'),
(24884, 'By Blood We Live', 'John Joseph Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Joseph Adams (Editor) &amp; Stephen King (Contributor) &amp; Kelley Armstrong (Contributor) &amp; L. A. Banks (Contributor) &amp; Neil Gaiman (Contributor) &amp; Sergei Lukyanenko (Contributor) &amp; Harry Turtledove (Contributor) &amp; Anne Rice (Contributor) &amp; Joe Hill (Contributor) &amp; Tanith Lee (Contributor) Vampires. They are the most elegant of monsters--ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you ve ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood. From Dracula to Twilight, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, many have fallen under their spell. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you 33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.Charming gentlemen with the manners of a prior age. Savage killing machines who surge screaming from hidden vaults. Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies. Long-buried loved ones who scratch at the door, begging to be let in. Nowhere is safe, not mist-shrouded Transylvania or the Italian Riviera or even a sleepy town in Maine. This is a hidden world, an eternal world, where nothing is forbidden...as long as you re willing to pay the price.Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live is 245,000 words of the best in vampire fiction. Thirsty? By Blood We Live will satisfy your darkest cravings...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14318'),
(24885, 'By force of arms', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having stopped a mutiny against Earth''s government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology."Dietz''s expertise in matters of mayhem is second to none." --The Oregonian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14320'),
(24886, 'By Reason of Insanity', 'Randy Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O''Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential sourceâ€”a detective working on the case. Catherine''s intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she''s arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn''t believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine''s dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. *Who can understand the human mind?* Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for *this!* To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14322'),
(24887, 'By the Falls', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15173'),
(24888, 'By the light of the moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14326'),
(24889, 'By the pricking of my thumbs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ''something behind the fireplace'', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14328'),
(24890, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14329'),
(24891, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts. Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life''s biggest questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14331'),
(24892, 'By the Rivers of Babylon', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly they''re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14334'),
(24893, 'By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. To get it back, he maneuvers his rivals for possession of the sword--the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, and Kicker Cult leader Hank Thompson--into a bloody melee from which Jack plans to waltz away with the fabled artifact. Also in the mix is a pregnant teenager whose unborn child, loaded with abnormal DNA, will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. A pawn in the game, she is hunted by both sides. Of course, when things donâ€™t go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20635'),
(24894, 'By These Presents', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14338'),
(24895, 'By Timothy Zahn: Star Wars: Survivor&#39;s Quest', '-lucasbooks-', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14339'),
(24896, 'Byzantium', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14340'),
(24897, 'C', 'Guess Who', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16922'),
(24898, 'C H I N A', 'Namtillaku &amp; Barracho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16785'),
(24899, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Little Black Bag', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17026'),
(24900, 'C M Kornbluth', 'That Share Of Glory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17027'),
(24901, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Make Mine Mars', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17029'),
(24902, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Altar At Midnight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17030'),
(24903, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Goodly Creatures', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17034'),
(24904, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Cosmic Charge Account', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17035'),
(24905, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Gomez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17036'),
(24906, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Ms Found In A Chinese Fortune Cookie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17039'),
(24907, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Thirteen O&#39;Clock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17040'),
(24908, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Dominoes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17041'),
(24909, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Friend To Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17043'),
(24910, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Luckiest Man In Denv', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17044'),
(24911, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Virginia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17046'),
(24912, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Silly Season', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17048'),
(24913, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Mindworm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17049'),
(24914, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Theory Of Rocketry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17051'),
(24915, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Shark Ship', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17052'),
(24916, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Everybody Knows Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17055'),
(24917, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Education Of Tigress Mccardle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17059'),
(24918, 'C M Kornbluth', 'A Mile Beyond the Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17060'),
(24919, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Events Leading Down To Tragedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17062'),
(24920, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Marching Morons Collection', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17063'),
(24921, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Kazam Collects', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17067'),
(24922, 'C M Kornbluth', 'Time Bum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17068'),
(24923, 'C M Kornbluth', 'I Never Ast No Favours', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17069'),
(24924, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Adventurer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17071'),
(24925, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Words Of Guru', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17073'),
(24926, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Remorseful', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17076'),
(24927, 'C M Kornbluth', 'The Only Thing We Learn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17077'),
(24928, 'C M Kornbluth &amp; Judith Merril', 'Gunner Cade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17065'),
(24929, 'C. Dale Brittain', 'Count Scar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17139'),
(24930, 'C. Dale Brittain - Wizard of Yurt 1', 'A Bad Spell in Yurt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17131'),
(24931, 'C. Dale Brittain - Wizard of Yurt 2', 'The Wood Nymph &amp; the Cranky Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17137'),
(24932, 'C. Dale Brittain - Wizard of Yurt 3', 'Mage Quest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17140'),
(24933, 'C. Dale Brittain - Wizard of Yurt 4', 'The Witch &amp; the Cathedral', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17135'),
(24934, 'C. Dale Brittain - Wizard of Yurt 5', 'Daughter of Magic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17133'),
(24935, 'C. E. Murphy - Urban Shaman 1', 'Urban Shaman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17146');
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(24936, 'C. E. Murphy - Urban Shaman 1.5', 'Banshee Cries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17141'),
(24937, 'C. E. Murphy - Urban Shaman 2', 'Thunderbird Falls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17147'),
(24938, 'C. E. Murphy - Walker Papers 3', 'Coyote Dreams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17154'),
(24939, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'Voyager In Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17022'),
(24940, 'C. J. Cherryh', '40000 in Gehenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17024'),
(24941, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'Sunfall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17042'),
(24942, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'The Sword of Knowledge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17045'),
(24943, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'Hestia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17050'),
(24944, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'Port Eternity', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17056'),
(24945, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17080'),
(24946, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'The Scapegoat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17100'),
(24947, 'C. J. Cherryh', 'The Paladin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17179'),
(24948, 'C. J. Cherryh - Chanur 1', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17019'),
(24949, 'C. J. Cherryh - Chanur 2', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17161'),
(24950, 'C. J. Cherryh - Chanur 3', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17038'),
(24951, 'C. J. Cherryh - Chanur 5', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17016'),
(24952, 'C. J. Cherryh - Company Wars 01', 'Heavy Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17093'),
(24953, 'C. J. Cherryh - Faded Sun 1', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17074'),
(24954, 'C. J. Cherryh - Faded Sun 2', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17057'),
(24955, 'C. J. Cherryh - Faded Sun 3', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17112'),
(24956, 'C. J. Cherryh - Foreigner 6', 'Explorer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17078'),
(24957, 'C. J. Cherryh - Foreigner 7', 'Destroyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17172'),
(24958, 'C. J. Cherryh - Foreigner 8', 'Pretender', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17175'),
(24959, 'C. J. Cherryh - Foreigner 9', 'Deliverer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17166'),
(24960, 'C. J. Cherryh - Fortress 05', 'Fortress of Ice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17086'),
(24961, 'C. J. Cherryh - Union Alliance', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17108'),
(24962, 'C. J. Cherryh &amp; Mark C. Perry - Elfquest', 'Swift-Spear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17106'),
(24963, 'C. J. Ryan - Gloria VanDeen 1', 'Dexta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17116'),
(24964, 'C. J. Ryan - Gloria VanDeen 2', 'Glorious Treason', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17122'),
(24965, 'C. J. Ryan - Gloria VanDeen 3', 'The Fifth Quadrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17119'),
(24966, 'C. J. Ryan - Gloria VanDeen 4', 'Burdens of Empire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17114'),
(24967, 'C. K. Chandre', 'Not A Game', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17123'),
(24968, 'C. L. Grant', 'The Rest Is Silence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16994'),
(24969, 'C. L. Moore', 'No Woman Born', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16996'),
(24970, 'C. L. Moore', 'Fruit Of Knowledge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16999'),
(24971, 'C. L. Moore', 'The Tree of Life', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17001'),
(24972, 'C. L. Moore', 'The Best of C. L. Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17002'),
(24973, 'C. L. Moore', 'Song in a Minor Key', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17005'),
(24974, 'C. L. Moore', 'The Black Gods Kiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17008'),
(24975, 'C. L. Moore', 'Tryst In Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17010'),
(24976, 'C. L. Moore', 'Julhi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17011'),
(24977, 'C. L. Moore', 'Daemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17013'),
(24978, 'C. L. Moore', 'Greater Than Gods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17017'),
(24979, 'C. L. Moore', 'The Cold Gray God', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17020'),
(24980, 'C. L. Scheel', 'Red Eclipse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17021'),
(24981, 'C. L. Scheel - Talesian 2', 'Weapons of Ruin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17023'),
(24982, 'C. M. Kornbluth &amp; Donald A. Wollheim', 'Interplane Express', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17033'),
(24983, 'C. M. Kornbluth &amp; Donald A. Wollheim', 'The Mask of Demeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17054'),
(24984, 'C. S. Friedman', 'This Alien Shore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16921'),
(24985, 'C. S. Friedman', 'Terms of Engagement', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16923'),
(24986, 'C. S. Friedman', 'Downtime', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16926'),
(24987, 'C. S. Friedman', 'The Wilding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16928'),
(24988, 'C. S. Friedman', 'The Madness Season', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16931'),
(24989, 'C. S. Friedman', 'In Conquest Born', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17079'),
(24990, 'C. S. Friedman - Coldfire 3', 'Crown of Shadows', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16930'),
(24991, 'C. S. Lewis', 'Out of the Silent Planet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16947'),
(24992, 'C. Sanford Lowe &amp; G. David Nordley', 'Kremer&#39;s Limit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16950'),
(24993, 'C. Sanford Lowe &amp; G. David Nordley', 'Imperfect Gods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16953'),
(24994, 'C. Sanford Lowe &amp; G. David Nordley', 'The Small Pond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16954'),
(24995, 'C. Sanford Lowe &amp; G. David Nordley', 'Loki&#39;s Realm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16957'),
(24996, 'C.E. Murphy', 'Banshee Cries', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17153'),
(24997, 'C.J. Cherryh - Cuckoo&#39;s Egg', 'Cuckoo&#39; s Egg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17111'),
(24998, 'C.L. Scheel - Talesian 1', 'Under a Warrior&#39;s Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17025'),
(24999, '&quot;C&quot; Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(25000, 'Cabal', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16524'),
(25001, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal (Book 14 in the McGarvey series) (2010) In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4695'),
(25002, 'Cabin Boy', 'Damon Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14341'),
(25003, 'Cachalot', 'Foster, Alan Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14344'),
(25004, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail', 'Dan White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensueâ€”including the author''s ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactusâ€”that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White''s vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dashâ€¦[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Brysonâ€™s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephronâ€™s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down." --\n <em>\n  Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can goâ€¦.â€˜The Cactus Eatersâ€™ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. Itâ€™s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild." --\n <em>\n  Steve Almond, Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4698'),
(25005, 'Cadfael 00 - A Rare Benedictine', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14345'),
(25006, 'Cadfael 01 - A Morbid Taste for Bones', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14347'),
(25007, 'Cadfael 02 - One Corpse Too Many', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8118'),
(25008, 'Cadfael 03 - Monk&#39;s Hood', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8794'),
(25009, 'Cadfael 04 - St. Peter&#39;s Fair', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6025'),
(25010, 'Cadfael 05 - The Leper of St. Giles', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14349'),
(25011, 'Cadfael 06 - The Virgin In The Ice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(25012, 'Cadfael 07 - The Sanctuary Sparrow', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2361'),
(25013, 'Cadfael 08 - The Devil&#39;s Novice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4217'),
(25014, 'Cadfael 10 - The Pilgrim of Hate', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2631'),
(25015, 'Cadfael 11 - An Excellent Mystery', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15461'),
(25016, 'Cadfael 12 - The Raven in the Foregate', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2605'),
(25017, 'Cadfael 13 - The Rose Rent', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8755'),
(25018, 'Cadfael 14 - The Hermit of Eyton Forest', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10682'),
(25019, 'Cadfael 15 - The Confession of Brother Haluin', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4544'),
(25020, 'Cadfael 16 - The Heretic&#39;s Apprentice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10679'),
(25021, 'Cadfael 18 - The Summer of the Danes', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2101'),
(25022, 'Cadfael 19 - The Holy Thief', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3608'),
(25023, 'Cadfael 20 - Brother Cadfael&#39;s Penance', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14295'),
(25024, 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water', 'Marc Reisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stunning work of history and investigative journalism, Reisner tells the story of conflicts over water policy in the West and the resulting damage to the land, wildlife and Indians. PW stated that this "timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14352'),
(25025, 'Caesar 1 - The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12160'),
(25026, 'Caesar 2 - The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brilliant...stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12156'),
(25027, 'Caesar 3 - The Field of Swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4015'),
(25028, 'Caesar 4 - The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12163'),
(25029, 'Caesar and Cleopatra Caesar and Cleopatra', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Egypt; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14354'),
(25030, 'Cage', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14355'),
(25031, 'Cage of Love', 'V. C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a work of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14359'),
(25032, 'The Cage', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18248'),
(25033, 'Cain His Brother', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction." --Chicago Sun-Times In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus''s fate and his vicious brother''s whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . . "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry." --Mostly Murder A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14361'),
(25034, 'Caine, Rachel - Outcast 2', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Second in the new series from the *New York Times* bestselling author** Living among mortals, the djinn Cassiel has developed a reluctant affection for them-especially for Warden Luis Rocha. As the mystery deepens around the kidnapping of innocent Warden children, Cassiel and Luis are the only ones who can investigate both the human and djinn realms. But the trail will lead them to a traitor who may be more powerful than they can handle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20679'),
(25035, 'Caitlin Brennan - White Magic 1', 'The Mountain&#39;s Call', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16961'),
(25036, 'Caitlin Brennan - White Magic 2', 'Song of Unmaking', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16958'),
(25037, 'Caitlin Brennan - White Magic 3', 'Shattered Dance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16963'),
(25038, 'Cal', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14363'),
(25039, 'Calamity and Other Stories', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay''s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19087'),
(25040, 'Calamity Jayne', 'Kathleen Bacus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, finding a body in the trunk throws her into an even bigger pickle: romance with the sexy park ranger who must help her survive. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14365'),
(25041, 'The Calcium Efflux Conspiracy', 'Joe Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4699'),
(25042, 'Calculating God', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14367'),
(25043, 'Calculating Minds', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14368'),
(25044, 'Calcutta Chromosome', 'Amitav Ghosh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It begins in a near future New York City, when Antar, a low-level programmer and data analyst for a large bureaucratic concern, comes upon the lost and battered I.D. card of a man he once knew--a man who vanished without a trace some where in the teeming excess of Calcutta, India, several years before. Strangely compelled, Antar initiates a search into the facts behind the disappearance of the enigmatic L. Murugan, and is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre alternate history of medical science.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leaping backward in time, we join Murugan in Calcutta in 1995, as he follows the twisted threads of science, counter-science and ritual back a hundred years further to the laboratory of Ronald Ross, the British scientist who discovered how malaria is transmitted to humans. Obsessed with the weird, fortuitous coincidences that led to Ross'' groundbreaking discovery, Murugan has stumbled upon evidence of an impossible ongoing experiment in controlled destiny, protected by a powerful unseen society that moves the world in secret and in silence.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Suddenly, every fact hitherto known can no longer be trusted, for everything has been revealed to be other than it appears. In this steamy, overcrowded city of clashing cultures and hidden faces, L. Murugan has opened a Pandora''s Box that carefully orchestrated death and misdirection have long kept shut. And the truth that is revealed will have momentous con sequences--for Murugan, for Antar, for a troubled female journalist and an exquisite Indian celebrity...for everyone and everything human. It begins in a near future New York City, when Antar, a low-level programmer and data analyst for a large bureaucratic concern, comes upon the lost and battered I.D. card of a man he once knew--a man who vanished without a trace some where in the teeming excess of Calcutta, India, several years before. Strangely compelled, Antar initiates a search into the facts behind the disappearance of the enigmatic L. Murugan, and is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre alternate history of medical science. Leaping backward in time, we join Murugan in Calcutta in 1995, as he follows the twisted threads of science, counter-science and ritual back a hundred years further to the laboratory of Ronald Ross, the British scientist who discovered how malaria is transmitted to humans. Obsessed with the weird, fortuitous coincidences that led to Ross'' groundbreaking discovery, Murugan has stumbled upon evidence of an impossible ongoing experiment in controlled destiny, protected by a powerful unseen society that moves the world in secret and in silence\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14370'),
(25045, 'Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are', 'William Godwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14374'),
(25046, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19153'),
(25047, 'The Calhouns: Suzanna And Megan: Suzanna&#39;s Surrender\\\\Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds. ***New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- ** **Suzanna''s Surrender** -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax. But when beautiful single mom Suzanna invaded his solitude to search for the missing Calhoun emeralds, he couldn''t say no. Holt had changed from a bad-boy teen to a dangerously sexy man, but Suzanna couldn''t risk her well-ordered life for a man who made her mouth go dry . . . **Megan''s Mate** -- Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O''Riley and her young son had traveled far to become the Towers'' newest residents. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions and vowed never to let her heart control her life. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, the practical lady was swept away by his formidable charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4700'),
(25048, 'California Demon', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14375'),
(25049, 'California Hit', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states. Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14378'),
(25050, 'The California Roll', 'John Vorhaus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vorhaus''s amusing thriller about the misadventures of a con man in Los Angeles hums along for a while through gags and gaffes and witty dialogue, but never gels as a whole. Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose tool box of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll, the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he''s found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grifter who lures him into a con of her own. Vorhaus, author of\n <em>\n  The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You''re Not\n </em>\n and the Killer Poker series (_Killer Poker Online_, etc.), has put more effort into generating laughs than developing the plot. Like a lot of comic novels, this one suffers from extended expository passages in which the narrator falls in love with his own voice at the expense of the action.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Master of the snuke and its bafflegab and the scourge of every mook, con artist Radar Hoverlander wonders if heâ€™s met his match in Allie Quinn. Sheâ€™s dazzling and highly intelligent and seems to be setting him up for a con. She also leads a brittle, beautiful Australian cop and a bent FBI agent to him, and everyone but Radar has multiple agendas. Radar simply wants to avoid prison or being killed and to work toward the grand snuke, the California Roll, the last payday heâ€™ll ever need. The California Roll is grand entertainment. Radar, Allie, the law-enforcement odd couple, and hapless grifter Vic Mirplo are all cleverly developed. Double and triple crosses abound in the careening plot, and Vorhaus, who writes primarily about poker, really seems to understand the bedrock mendacity of the grift. Itâ€™s in the blood, like peanut allergy, he writes. The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that heâ€™s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4701'),
(25051, 'Caliphate', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œSlavery is a part of Islam . . . Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.â€ â€”Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid (â€œMonotheismâ€) and senior Saudi cleric.Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continentâ€™s new masters. In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her familyâ€™s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmotherâ€™s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14380'),
(25052, 'Call Back Yesterday', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14381'),
(25053, 'Call Him Demon', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16189'),
(25054, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14192'),
(25055, 'The Call of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Call of Earth continues the story of Nafai, his family, and the few other people selected by the Oversoul to leave the city of Basilica, and their former lives. When the human refugees from a ruined Earth founded a colony on the planet Harmony, they determined that this world would not be devastated by the endless cycle of vicious warfare that had characterized human life from the beginning. They didn''t try to change human nature. Instead they installed a powerful computer, called the Oversoul, and gave it the task of governing human affairs by subtly influencing human minds. That was millions of years ago. Now the Oversoul is growing weak, breaking down. It must be returned to Earth, to the master computer called the Keeper of Earth, to be repaired. The Oversoul must have human help to make that journey. But as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen, stronger, smarter perhaps, than Nafai and his allies. His name is Moozh, and he is deliberately flouting the will of the Oversoul. He has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers straight at Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plains. Who will stop him? Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons, Nafai and Issib, Elemak and Mebbekew, are not strong enough to resist alone. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? And meanwhile, in their dreams, the most sensitive people of the planet Harmony hear the call of the Keeper of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4702'),
(25056, 'The Call of Kerberos: Twilight of Kerberos', 'Jonathan Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Within the call of Kerberos, lies the destiny of humankind!Silus is a fisherman working the Nurn Coast, a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. When a mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus on an extraordinary voyage, his world begins to change. And when an ancient and evil race burts from the sea to try and claim Silus as one of their own, he is forced to flee his home. Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behinf his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon the Llothriall, Silus will find out more about his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4703'),
(25057, 'The Call of Nature', 'Rob Chilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4704'),
(25058, 'The Call of the Canyon', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4705'),
(25059, 'Call of the veld', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14195');
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(25060, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within. *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love. Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated. **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4706'),
(25061, 'The call of the wild', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19024'),
(25062, 'Call to Arms', 'Alan Dean Foster - Damned 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18163'),
(25063, 'A Call to Darkness', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "Enterprise" discovers a lifeless Federation research vessel, orbibting a planet hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Over the strong objections of his senior officers, Captain Picard and an away team beam over in search of the missing crew -- And vanish. But soon his captain''s disappearance is not the only problem facing Commander Riker. For a mysterious disease has begun ravaging the "Enterprise" crew. Now Riker must uravel the secrets of the planet below in order to rescue Picard -- a prevent the starship''s destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16096'),
(25064, 'Call to Treason', 'Tom Clancy; Jeff Rovin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Op-Center''s budget is cut, General Mike Rodgers finds himself out of a job until he is propositioned by a Senator Donald Orr, who, making a run for president as the head of his own third party, needs a military advisor, but his new position comes with a high price - murder. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14197'),
(25065, 'The Call to Vengeance', 'Watson, Jude', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14198'),
(25066, 'The Call', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queenâ€™s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigalâ€”an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boysâ€™ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and itâ€™s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queenâ€™s dangerous daughter, Ereskigalâ€”also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesnâ€™t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic,\n  <em>\n   The Magnificent Twelve: The Call\n  </em>\n  is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grantâ€™s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19291'),
(25067, 'Callaghen', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14203'),
(25068, 'The calligrapher&#39;s daughter: a novel', 'Eugenia Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author''s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother''s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin''s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea''s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In 1910 Gaesong, Korea, a female child is born to a learned scholar and calligrapher and his wife. The child, unnamed by her father, who is despondent over the recent annexing of Korea by Japan, names herself\n <em>\n  Najin\n </em>\n . She proceeds to forge her own destiny, struggling to be an obedient daughter in the Confucian tradition of her father and the Christian faith embraced by her mother. To escape an arranged marriage, Najin goes to the emperor''s palace to be a companion to the princess. With the collapse of the Joseon dynasty, she loses her position. She finds ways to further her studies in education and medicine and helps support her parents and younger, shiftless brother with work as a teacher and physician. When her father arranges another marriage, to a student minister, Najin agrees. Immediately she is left with his family to act as a servant while he studies in the U.S. Accused of spying after she returns to her own now-impoverished family, Najin spends months in prison. The novel, based on the life of the author''s mother, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the surrender of Japan and the reunion of the couple. Descriptive imagery communicates Najin''s philosophical musings, dreams, and appreciation of nature. Readers are left with greater understanding of the horrors of Japanese occupation and of the cultural, political, and religious upheaval that Korean families faced as they negotiated the modern world. Delicate black-and-white illustrations complement the prose. A compelling narrative about an intellectually curious and brave heroine.â€”_Jackie Gropman, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library System, Fairfax, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4708'),
(25069, 'Calling Out For You', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Inspector Konrad Sejer returns on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister''s bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14204'),
(25070, 'The Calm Man', 'Frank Belknap Long', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4711'),
(25071, 'The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary', 'Bill Watterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16303'),
(25072, 'Cambridge Blue', 'Alison Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge''s Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, "Cambridgeshire Murders" and "The Billingtons, Death in the Family."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14208'),
(25073, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as "The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4713'),
(25074, 'Camouflage', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it.  Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home--but the Chameleon has decided there''s only room for one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14210'),
(25075, 'Campbell&#39;s Kingdom', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14212'),
(25076, 'Can These Bones Live', 'Manly Wade Wellman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14213'),
(25077, 'Can you keep a secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14214'),
(25078, 'Can&#39;t Run', 'Hillary Adler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14227'),
(25079, 'Can&#39;t Stand the Heat', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her wickedly entertaining debut, Edwards dishes up a captivating contemporary romance expertly seasoned with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry and deliciously tart humor.â€ â€“_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance___\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€ â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Templeâ€™s kitchen to write an exposÃ© is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what _really\n  <em>\n   goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.\n  </em>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adamâ€™s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesnâ€™t even know the difference between poaching and paring.Â  Heâ€™ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his ownâ€”teaching her what it means to cook with passionâ€¦and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14228'),
(25080, 'Candace Sams', 'The Gazing Globe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16964'),
(25081, 'Candace Sams', 'Stone Heart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16968'),
(25082, 'Candace Sams', 'Gryphons Quest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16970'),
(25083, 'Candace Sams', 'Goblin Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16973'),
(25084, 'The Candidate', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4715'),
(25085, 'The Candidates', 'Inara Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16402'),
(25086, 'Candide, or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism. Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life. **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14217'),
(25087, 'Candle in the Darkness', 'Lynn N. Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fiancâ€š, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve''s Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney''s "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin''s other books are in demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 1 in the Refinerâ€™s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Carolineâ€™s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14219'),
(25088, 'Candle Of Distant Earth', 'Alan Dean Foster - Taken 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18164'),
(25089, 'Cane River', 'Lalita Tademy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family''s past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana''s Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South-a unique and moving slice of America''s past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14220'),
(25090, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14221'),
(25091, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14224'),
(25092, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy &amp; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18967'),
(25093, 'Cannot Wait to Get to Heaven', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town''s inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a hornets'' nest while picking figs. After she dies at the hospital, the novel''s bite-size chapters alternate between funny and touching vignettes showing how Elner''s death and life has affected dozens of people in town, interspersed with scenes of Elner''s laugh-out-loud assent into the hereafter. From there, the plot offers readers a series of delightful surprises. Perhaps Flagg''s funniest novel since her debut, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, she''s created a charming, life-affirming tale and a full cast of memorable characters, including Elner''s late sister, Ida, who greets her in heaven still carrying her purse and a grudge about the bad hair styling she got for her funeral. Flagg is an expert at balancing pathos with plenty of Southern sass, and this could very well be the feel-good read of the summer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?\n</p>\n<p>\n Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerâ€™s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerâ€™s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchâ€“and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, â€œWhat is life all about, anyway?â€ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totâ€™s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep.\n <em>\n  Canâ€™t Wait to Get to Heaven\n </em>\n is proof once more that Fannie Flagg â€œwas put on this earth to writeâ€ (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19143'),
(25094, 'The Canopy of Time', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14226'),
(25095, 'Canticle - Book 1', 'Salvatore, R.A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14229'),
(25096, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.''s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16098'),
(25097, 'Cape Storm', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14231'),
(25098, 'Capitalism: the unknown ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition: "The Wreckage of the Consensus, " which presents the Objectivists'' views on Vietnam and the draft; and "Requiem for Man, " an answer to the Papal encyclical Progressio Populorum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14232'),
(25099, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars. Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4716'),
(25100, 'Capitol Threat', 'William Bernhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt''s 15th political thriller (after\n <em>\n  Capitol Murder\n </em>\n ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman''s corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush''s nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve. Thaddeus Roush, Supreme Court nominee, has just revealed he is gay, and when the body of a woman is discovered during Roush''s press conference--and Roush''s partner is implicated in her death--Ben comes to the man''s defense. Bernhardt has his formula down pat by now (the first Kincaid novel,\n <em>\n  Primary Justice\n </em>\n , appeared in 1992), and those familiar with the series won''t encounter many surprises. This one will feel either tired or comfortable, depending on whether readers think of Kincaid as an old friend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14233'),
(25101, 'Captain Asimov', 'Steve Antczak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14234'),
(25102, 'Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius', 'Kevin J Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne''s classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the "Nautilus.""Captain Nemo" is also the story of Nemo''s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain''s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14237'),
(25103, 'The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4718'),
(25104, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14239'),
(25105, 'The Captain&#39;s Honor', 'David Dvorkin; Dvorkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M''Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S EnterpriseTM and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet''s aid. The Centurion''s captain is Lucius Sejanus -- a powerful, magnetic man who favors taking a far stronger stance against the M''Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus''s instincts seem to be correct...for it appears only extreme measures can stop the murderous raids on Tenara. Now the people of Tenara must decide which pathe they will follow -- the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any one of the Centurion''s officers has made that decision for them -- and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M''Dok Empire!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4721'),
(25106, 'Captain&#39;s Table 02: Dujonian&#39;s Hoard', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a bar called "The Captain''s Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it''s all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even if you''re Jean-Luc Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than two hundred years archaeologists and treasure hunters have dreamed of Dujonian''s Hoard, a fabled trove of priceless historical artifacts that may contain technology that will shift the galactic balance of power. A dream was all the hoard seemed -- until a former Starfleet officer goes in search of the treasure and turns up missing. Now everyone from Romulans to Cardassians to an enigmatic female starship captain is looking for Richard Brant, including Worf and Captain Picard, who have gone deep undercover on a secret Starfleet mission to rescue Brant, if he''s even still alive....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14241'),
(25107, 'Captivated', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A classic novel from the enchanting series *The Donovan Legacy*.** Only the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that''s been handed down through generations -- a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings. ***Captivated*** His interest in her was purely professional . . . Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Dovovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the hardheaded skeptic didn''t believe for a minute she was what she professed to be. But, as Morgana revealed herself to him, Nash found himself falling under her bewitching spell. Nash had never trusted his feelings and always kept them in check. So how could he be sure the irresistible passion he felt for Morgana was real and not just some conjurer''s trick? ***The Donovan Legacy* continues with *Entranced*, coming soon from Silhouette Books.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14244'),
(25108, 'Captive Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class entertainer and Sazi councilman, Antoine Monier, has taken his big cats all over the world without any troubleâ€”until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. to Antoineâ€™s surprise, the German police have another tiger in custodyâ€”a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric. Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoineâ€”the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile. But Tahira doesnâ€™t have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshiftersâ€”and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself. Only if they can set aside their peoplesâ€™ ancient rivalry and rely completely on each otherâ€”body and soulâ€”can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14246'),
(25109, 'Captive of Gor', 'John Norman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this seventh book in the Gorean Series, beautiful and headstrong Elinor Brinton of Earth finds herself thrust into the savage world of Counter-Earth, also known as Gor. Brinton must relinquish her earthly position as a beautiful, wealthy and powerful woman when she finds herself a part of the harsh Gorean society. She is powerless as a female pleasure slave in the camp of Targo the slave-merchant. Forced to learn the arts of providing pleasure to any man who buys her, Elinor is determined to escape. Nevertheless, she is sold for a high price, and her master is determined to get his money''s worth. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first book of the Gorean Saga, TARNSMAN OF GOR, E-Reads is proud to release the very first complete publication of all Gor books by John Norman, in both print and ebook editions, including the long-awaited 26th novel in the saga, WITNESS OF GOR. Many of the original Gor books have been out of print for years, but their popularity has endured. Each book of this release has been specially edited by the author and is a definitive text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14247');
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(25110, 'Captive Scorpio', 'Alan Burt Akers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful world circling the twin suns of Antares, had risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck could not always sustain him. When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally, converged, it was to produce the darkest hour of his long career. For treason struck at the court, while rebel armies marched from the backlands, the war fleets of enemy nations were aloft, and the uncanny wizardry of a master scientist launched a spell of doom for all Prescot held dear. With his back to the wall, Dray Prescot faced that time of peril with unflinching will... until the cruelest blow of all was struck: his warrior daughter Dayra rode in the vanguard of his foes!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14250'),
(25111, 'The Captive Temple', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4724'),
(25112, 'The Captive', 'Joanne Rock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Women should be sweet, mild manneredhellip;docile. Unfortunately, Lady Gwendolyn, a rich Saxon widow, is none of those things.And Viking warrior Wulf Geirsson wants her desperately! One glimpse of the brazen beauty scrambling over the castle ramparts, and he knows he has to have her. Especially when she takes a tumble and lands at his feet.But Wulf quickly finds that taking Gwendolyn and keeping her are two different things. And once she decides to engage in a seductive assault of her own, he''s the one captivatedhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4722'),
(25113, 'The Captive', 'Amanda Ashley - The Captive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15498'),
(25114, 'Cara Mia - Book One of the Immortyl Revolution', 'Denise Verrico', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14253'),
(25115, 'Caravan to Vaccares', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in the Provence region of southern France. But something is different about this year''s gathering, with many suspicious deaths.Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman decide to investigate. Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome center on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile. As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile find that their lives in danger many times in an effort to uncover the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide, and before long are running for their lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14254'),
(25116, 'Carbon Copy', 'Clifford D. Simak - Aliens for Neighbors 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16586'),
(25117, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18401'),
(25118, 'The Cardinal&#39;s Blades', 'Pierre Pevel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Cardinal''s Blades is part historical novel, part old-fashioned swashbuckling high-action adventure, and part classic fantasy. Pierre Pevel has woven some of the best-loved fantasy tropes - musketeer-style adventuring, daring swordsmen, political intrigue, non-stop action and dragons - into a stunning new fantasy series. Paris, 1633. Louis XIII reigns over France ...and Cardinal Richelieu governs the country. One of the most dangerous and most powerful men in Europe, Richelieu keeps a constant, sharp eye on the enemies of the Crown to avoid their assassination attempts, thwart their spies and avert their warmongering. But he''s up against people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even going so far as to forge alliances with France''s oldest and deadliest enemies. Spain, and the Court of Dragons. The nobility keep tiny dragonnets as pets; royal couriers ride tame wyverns, and lethal man-shaped scaled dracs ropam the country. But the power rising from the Court of Dragons is anything but mundane; the Black Claw sect draws on dragons as they once were: ancient, terrible, utterly merciless ...and poised to move against France. Faced with the growing threat from Spain, Richelieu summons Captain la Fargue, an exceptional swordsman, devoted officer and brilliant leader. If he''s to turn aside the Black Claw''s schemes, La Fargue and his legenday company of swashbucklers and rogues must be persuaded to once again risk their lives, fortunes and reputations for Richelieu, and for France. It''s the biggest challenge yet for The Cardinal''s Blades - and they''ll need to be sharp ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4729'),
(25119, 'Cards on the Table', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum--a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in "getting away with it." After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum''s finest in order to determine the most likely killer. Poirot finds that many distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14257'),
(25120, 'The Cardturner', 'Louis Sachar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with no money and no job. Unfortunately, his mother insists that he become his blind great-uncle''s chauffeur and cardturner at local bridge tournaments. Though the 17-year-old has only met Lester Trapp on a few occasions, his mother hopes that this connection will inspire the wealthy old man to write the family into his will. Alton reluctantly agrees, even though he knows nothing about bridge and has no interest in learning the game. He meets Toni Castaneda at the tournaments and soon discovers that he''s not the only long-lost relative intent on winning over Trapp and his inheritance. What transpires is an intriguing glimpse into a crazy family full of secrets and unusual quirks. The characters are well limned, and the narrative is laced with Sachar''s trademark wry humor. Most teens have very little knowledge about bridge, a fact that Alton acknowledges several times throughout the novel. At times, the story line becomes thick with technical game descriptions, though he does offer an option to skip these sections by providing a symbol to indicate more in-depth card instructions. This well-written novel contains a rewarding intergenerational friendship and a sweetly appealing romance in the making. Nonetheless it may require an additional nudge to hook readers. It''s a nudge worth giving for motivated teens and those who enjoy Sachar''s novels.â€”_Stephanie Malosh, Donoghue Elementary School, Chicago, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n With his latest novel, the Newbery-winning author of Holes (1998) fulfills a need the world probably didn''t even know it had: the great teen bridge novel. Alton Richard''s great-uncle Lester Trapp is rich and ailing, a combo that leads Alton''s parents to hatch a plan for the teen to cozy up to the old man and carve out a chunk of inheritance. Though blind, Trapp is a brilliant, world-class bridge player and needs someone to read him his cards and make his plays. Enter Alton, who wouldn''t begin to know how to decipher questions like â€œOne banana, pass, pass, two no-trump. Is that unusual?â€ But he withstands the constant barbs from his irascible uncle and grows more intrigued by the game (in no small part due to the cute, kind-of-crazy girl who also plays). Sachar liberally doles out detailed commentary on the basics and then nuances of the game, and in a nod to the famously dull Moby-Dick chapter on the minutiae of whaling, a little whale image appears when the bridge talk is about to get deep so readers can skip right ahead to a pithy wrap-up. But don''t be fooled: it is astonishing how Sachar can make blow-by-blow accounts of bridge not only interesting but exciting, treating each play like a clue to unravel the riddle of each hand. An obvious windfall for smart and puzzle-minded teens, this is a great story to boot, with genuine characters (save the scheming parents) and real relationships, balanced by casual, confident storytelling. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4732'),
(25121, 'Caress', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14258'),
(25122, 'A Caress of Twilight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œI am Princess Meredith, heir to a throneâ€”if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.â€ After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And thatâ€™s just her day job. . . .From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16099'),
(25123, 'Caressed By Ice', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14260'),
(25124, 'The Caretaker of Lorne Field', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Zeltserman''s superb mix of humor and horror focuses on Jack Durkin, the ninth generation of firstborn sons in his family who have daily weeded Lorne Field to purge it of Aukowies, bloodthirsty plants that could overrun the world in weeks if not attended to. Though Jack takes his job seriously, no one else does: his oldest son doesn''t want to follow in his footsteps; his wife is tired of living poorly on his caretaker''s salary; and the townspeople who subsidize him are increasingly skeptical of purported menaces that no one has ever seen because Jack diligently nips them in the bud. With his support dwindling, Jack finds himself driven to desperate measures to prove that he''s truly saving the world. Zeltserman (_Pariah_) orchestrates events perfectly, making it impossible to tell if Jack is genuinely humankind''s unsung hero or merely the latest descendant of a family of superstitious loonies. Readers will keep turning the pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superbly crafted horror story explores the dichotomy between belief and rationality. Why has a small town maintained a contract since the eighteenth century with a member of the community and his heirs to pull weeds in Lorne Field? Jack Durkin, the current and ninth generation of Lorne Field caretakers, says the things he pulls from the ground aren''t weeds; they are something called Aukowies, and if they''re not pulled up by the roots and burned every day, the world will end. Under pressure from his wife to get a real job; from the town fathers (looking to save a few bucks and end the contract); and from his sons, who don''t see themselves as career weed-pullers, Durkin is finally out of a job. No more weed pulling. So is he just a nut case, or does the novel segue into another Little Shop of Horrors? Sorry, we don''t do spoilers. Horror fans will have to read this first-class cautionary tale themselves. --Elliott Swanson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4733'),
(25125, 'Carey Cauthen', 'Trail of the Blood Mage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16975'),
(25126, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Sp', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16979'),
(25127, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 02', 'Danger in Deep Space', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16977'),
(25128, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 03', 'On the Trail of the Space Pirates', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16985'),
(25129, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 04', 'The Space Pioneers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16990'),
(25130, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 05', 'The Revolt on Venus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16981'),
(25131, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 06', 'Treachery in Outer Space', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16982'),
(25132, 'Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 08', 'The Robot Rocket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16987'),
(25133, 'Caribbean Kill', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man army, tracks the Mafia to their island hideaways - and the lush vacation isles were never hotter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14262'),
(25134, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo: Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn''t the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? Any why is Miss Marple fearing for her own life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16101'),
(25135, 'Caribou Island: A Novel', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14264'),
(25136, 'Carl Sagan', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16992'),
(25137, 'Carl Sagan', 'The Nuclear Winter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16997'),
(25138, 'Carl Sargent &amp; Marc Gascoigne - Shadowrun', 'Nosferatu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16998'),
(25139, 'Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius', 'Alessandro Alciato &amp; Carlo Ancelotti &amp; Paolo Maldini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The bookâ€™s a riot; frank, anecdotal, dripping with hilarious self-deprecation..." ~Jonathan Northcroft,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "hugely entertaining" ~Henry Winter,\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "smart and surprising" ~Paul Doyle,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with an interest in football (soccer), for those with an interest in a well told tale, ''Carlo Ancelotti'' by ''Carlo Ancelotti'' with Alessandro Alciato (Rizzoli New York, $25.00, 264 pages, 35 photographs) fits the bill. The former star player, the famed coach of top teams in Italy and England, the outspoken Ancelotti touches all bases in this illuminating autobiography. There is something to learn on each page about ''the beautiful game'' and the man some call ''the ordinary genius''." ~_Frommer Luxury Travel\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"For the first time in English, Ancelotti''s autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius\n  </em>\n  , released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti''s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Palo Maldini offers the forword."_~Selectism_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions Leagueâ€”European soccerâ€™s most coveted trophyâ€”as both player and coach. After a successful career playing for several of the most important teams in Italyâ€”and for the Italian national teamâ€”Ancelotti went on to become one of the most acclaimed and outspoken coaches in European football, managing Italian giants Parma, Juventus, and Milan before moving to Chelsea, one of the Premier Leagueâ€™s most successful clubs, in 2009. The book moves from anecdotes of his life growing up in Reggio Emilia to stories of his time playing among the best footballers in the world. With a characteristic mixture of sharp insight and humor, Ancelotti explores the differences between the Italian and the English games, shares his thoughts on soccerâ€™s future with the MLS in America, and reflects on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. With a preface by the legendary former captain of the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini, this book is at once a tacticianâ€™s bible from one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated footballing minds, the fascinating story of an ordinary man reaching great heights, and in part a revealing tell-all from an outspoken insider in the cut-throat world of European soccer. The perfect book for anyone with a passion for the beautiful game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19072'),
(25140, 'The Carnadyne Horde', 'Andrew J. Offutt - Spaceways 17', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17820'),
(25141, 'Carnal Appetite', 'Carnal Appetite', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14265'),
(25142, 'Carnal innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town''s most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right next door.Burned out by a whirlwind career, world-famous concert violinist Caroline Waverly arrives in Innocence looking for a little peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at her late grandmother''s house--the one with a covered porch just made for soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs. But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: handsome, charming Tucker Longstreet.Tucker is known for keeping his romances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tucker realizes that she is unlike any other woman he''s met. The coolly reserved Caroline feels an unexpected thrill at his ardent advances. But when she discovers a third murder victim in the murky waters behind her home, her summer liaison threatens to become much more. Because there''s just one small problem with her new romance: Tucker is the leading suspect in the killings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14267'),
(25143, 'Carnal Sin', 'Allison Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon hunter Moira Oâ€™Donnell fears the terror has only just begun.Racing to L.A., Moira discovers that the City of Angels is fast becoming the demon Lustâ€™s decadent playground. She suspects another coven is at work, aided indirectly by her diabolical mother, the powerful witch Fiona. But when Moiraâ€™s unwanted psychic powers intensify, she fears her connection to the underworld is putting everyone she cares about in grave danger.As supernatural war erupts, Moira and smoldering, seductive Rafe Cooper are caught in the crossfire. Cornered by mortal and unearthly enemies, they must master all their own powers to surviveâ€”and to understand if the intensely passionate feelings that bind them are Lustâ€™s demon magic or true desire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14268'),
(25144, 'Carnifex', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Revenge: it won''t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He''s raised an army and air force and used them. He''s raised a fleet and he''s about to use that. He''s suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He''s tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.Now he''s deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera''s hate still burns hot, and that''s a fire that is slowly consuming him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14271'),
(25145, 'Carnivores of Darkness and Light: Journeys of the Catechist, Book 1', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14272'),
(25146, 'Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger', 'Margaret Mittelbach &amp; Michael Crewdson &amp; Alexis Rockman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. Filled with Rockman''s stunning drawings of flora and fauna originally crafted from river mud, wombat scat, and even the artist''s own blood, Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. Carniverous Nights is: One of the New York Public Library''s "25 Books to Remember from 2005" A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006 selection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19343'),
(25147, 'Carol Berg', 'Song of the Beast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17009'),
(25148, 'Carol Berg - Rai-kirah 1', 'Transformation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17003'),
(25149, 'Carol Berg - Rai-Kirah 2', 'Revelation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17000'),
(25150, 'Carol Berg - Rai-Kirah 3', 'Restoration', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17006'),
(25151, 'Carol Berg - The Bridge of D&#39;Arnath 1', 'Son of Avonar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16887'),
(25152, 'Carol Berg - The Bridge of D&#39;Arnath 2', 'Guardians of the Keep', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17007'),
(25153, 'Carol Chase', 'Hawk&#39;s Flight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16896'),
(25154, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'All of Us Can Almost...', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16898'),
(25155, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Creature', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16899'),
(25156, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Day at the Beach', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16902'),
(25157, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Mrs Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16907'),
(25158, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Foster Mother', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16909'),
(25159, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Acceptance Speech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16910'),
(25160, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'I Live &amp; You', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16912'),
(25161, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'The Being of It All', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16914'),
(25162, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Water Master', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16918'),
(25163, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Woman Waiting', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16920'),
(25164, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Gliders Though They Be', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16924'),
(25165, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Boys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16925'),
(25166, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'The General', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16927'),
(25167, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'The Circular Library of Stones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16929'),
(25168, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'Josephine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16933'),
(25169, 'Carol Emshwiller', 'On Display Among the Lesser', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16934'),
(25170, 'Caroline J. Cherryh - [a Union Alliance novel] Tripoint', 'Union Alliance -Tripoint', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17097'),
(25171, 'Carolyn Ives Gilman', 'Okanoggan Falls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16937'),
(25172, 'Carolyn Ives Gilman', 'The Wild Ships of Fairny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16939'),
(25173, 'Carpe Corpus', 'Caine, Rachel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14273'),
(25174, 'Carpe Demon', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14277'),
(25175, 'Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She''d be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that''s what. But in Kenner''s sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she''s making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduledâ€”at the last possible minuteâ€”to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where''s he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuartâ€”and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic.\n <em>\n  Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers\n </em>\n ._ (July)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she''d better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband''s political career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19294'),
(25176, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue. Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift. Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz." His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.* Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight. Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say... Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20627'),
(25177, 'Carpe Jugulum: A Discworld Novel', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14282'),
(25178, 'carpetta 15 - Book of the Dead', 'Patricia, Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14190'),
(25179, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14191'),
(25180, 'Carrie Alexander - In Too Deep', 'In Too Deep', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14193'),
(25181, 'Carrie Richardson', 'The City in Morning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16942'),
(25182, 'Carrie Richardson', 'Sous La Mer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16945'),
(25183, 'Carrie Richerson', 'A Birth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16948'),
(25184, 'Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can. Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone\n <br />\n * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry\n <br />\n * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare\n <br />\n * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams\n <br />\n Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy''s Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14194'),
(25185, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds, experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a compelling thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14196'),
(25186, 'Carroll Brown', 'The Borderlands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16888'),
(25187, 'Carroll Brown', 'Snowface', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16894'),
(25188, 'Carter Scholz &amp; Glen Harcourt', 'Palimpsests', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16951'),
(25189, 'Carved in Bone', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n A woman''s corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave''s chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that''s clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman''s corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county''s powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton''s investigation altogether. So do Brockton''s other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19380'),
(25190, 'The Caryatids', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling''s shimmering new novelâ€”Vera, Radmila and Sonjaâ€”support the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We''re 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinaâ€”the reverse of Russia, where men die youngâ€”and Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions. Sterling''s language is kaleidoscopic. We swim into a chapter, and his ideas and language flash and dance like sunlight off the Adriatic, then coalesce in a moment of plot; the effect is unsettling, but suited to the world he reveals spark by hammered spark. Dispersed around the world, the sisters mirror Earth''s difficulties: traumatized by their origin, they hate each other. Their solutions may be Earth''s solutions as well. In John Brunner''s 1968 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Stand on Zanzibar\n </em>\n , excerpts from fictional author Chad C. Mulligan''s The Hipcrime Vocab provide sharp, street-smart and world-wise commentary on the culture of 2010. Bruce Sterling is the closest we''ve come to Mulligan in the actual 21st century. His international perspective is rare in science fiction, which often suffers from Amerocentric bias. A new novel from Sterling is a guarantee of something wild and tasty, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n amply fulfills that promise._ (Mar.)__Greg Bear''s latest science fiction novel,_ City at the End of Time_, was published by Del Rey in August._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling''s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or "a mess of a book about the mess of the world" (John Clute),\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n , at the very least, illustrates Sterling''s ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier -- and much less diverse -- landscape. Sterling''s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ) and William Gibson (_Neuromancer_). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n is worth a look.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19132'),
(25191, 'Casanova&#39;s Chinese Restaurant', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14199'),
(25192, 'The Cascade', 'Sean McMullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4736'),
(25193, 'Case', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14200'),
(25194, 'The Case for God', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood." "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4739'),
(25195, 'A case of conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16102'),
(25196, 'The Case of El Chupacabra', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4741'),
(25197, 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes', 'Mohammed Hanif', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *Washington Post*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year**Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father''s suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali''s target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There''s only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16103'),
(25198, 'A Case of Identity', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16104');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(25199, 'The Case of Kestra', 'Lynne Armstrong-Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4742'),
(25200, 'Case of Lies', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A math genius, a tough courtroom adversary and an even tougher judge make the 11th legal thriller in the Nina Reilly series (_Unlucky in Law_, etc.) the most intriguing yet. Back in Lake Tahoe, Nina gets her next case from a masseuse whose aunt was killed during a motel robbery. Unless Nina acts, the lawsuit filed against the Ace High Lodge will be dismissed, as no one has been able to locate the witnesses. Reluctant to call on ex-lover PI Paul van Wagoner for help, Nina hires her assistant''s PI son, Wish, who discovers that the witnesses are MIT students with a sideline counting cards. While the old case takes on new life, people connected to it are threatened and worse. O''Shaughnessy (lawyer Pamela and editor Mary O''Shaughnessy) takes the reader inside the beautiful mind of emotionally immature, occasionally delusional, quantitatively inspired Elliott Wakefield as he solves equations, cares for his father and plays blackjack. In thrillers as in math proofs, neatness counts. Here, the Internet and national security bring Elliott''s story to an almost too-neat conclusion, while Nina ingeniously solves the problem of replacing Paul in her personal life. As always, O''Shaughnessy keeps legal procedure straight, language crisp and plot consistently absorbing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Hanna witnessed the murder of his wife (and her unborn fetus) outside a hotel on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Now it''s two years later, and Hanna enlists the help of Nina Reilly, a formidable attorney of some local notoriety (and star of 10 previous O''Shaughnessy adventures). The plan is to hold the hotel accountable for its lack of security, which made possible the robbery that produced the stray bullet that, in turn, killed Hanna''s wife. The perp was never caught, and the three robbery victims, who Nina feels are the key to the case, have been no help, purposely staying in California so that the Nevada court has no jurisdiction over them. Nina''s search for the truth takes her all the way to Europe--and into the arms of her former husband. O''Shaunessy (pseudonym for a sister team) has a knack for plotting and for combining suspenseful action with a light and playful tone. Another fine addition to an appealing and popular series.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14202'),
(25201, 'A Case of Need', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Case of Need is Michael Crichton''s award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16107'),
(25202, 'The Case of the Baited Hook', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who was that masked woman? That''s the question plaguing the perpetually inquiring mind of Perry Mason. No one loves a good mystery more than Mason--but being asked to represent a client who''s concealing her identity, not to mention the particulars of her case, has given even the legendary legal eagle a case of ruffled feathers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4744'),
(25203, 'The Case of the Blonde Bonanza', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mason suspects that a ravishing blonde with a millionaire father is being duped by an agent who promises to turn her into a high-fashion model, and who soon turns up dead. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4745'),
(25204, 'The Case of the Caretaker&#39;s Cat', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: *Erle Stanley Gardner is cited by the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the #1 bestselling writer of all time. In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. But Laxter''s grandson Sam says the deal doesn''t include the caretaker''s cat. When Perry Mason takes the case, he finds there''s much more at stake than an old man''s cat -- a million dollars to be exact. And as he investigates, he finds a web of greed and treachery among the heirs. But which one actually pulled off the almost perfect crime?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4747'),
(25205, 'The Case of the Counterfeit Eye', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A reissue of an original Perry Mason novel finds the legal eagle in the hire of a man whose missing glass eye is found in the hands of a slain millionaire businessman surrounded by suspects. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4748'),
(25206, 'The Case of the Crying Swallow: A Perry Mason Novelette and Other Stories', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4749'),
(25207, 'The Case of the Curious Bride', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After con man Greg Moxley married Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and flew -- only to have his plane crash. Years later, Rhoda wed millionaire scion Carl Montaine. But now Moxley has turned up alive and well . . . with plans to pocket the Montaine fortune -- or else make Rhoda''s bigamy public. Desperate to protect the good name of Montaine, Rhoda seeks out Perry Mason. But before Mason can reel in Moxley, somebody murders the scheming blackmailer. In a case that abounds in lethal twists, Mason suddenly finds himself on a collision course with a cold-blooded killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4751'),
(25208, 'The Case of the Dangerous Dowager', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mason, tasked by a dowager with buying back the IOU''s signed by her niece on a gambling ship, climbs aboard only to discover the ship''s owner dead of a bullet wound and the dowager close by. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4752'),
(25209, 'The Case of the Daring Divorcee', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 1964\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4755'),
(25210, 'The Case of the Fenced-In Woman', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Perry Mason is in the middle again, in the case of the house divided--literally--by a barbed wire fence. And when the house is racked by murder, and both its warring occupants are suspects, which side will Perry choose? The Perry Mason mysteries have been entertaining readers for 60 years. HC: Morrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4757'),
(25211, 'The Case of the Footloose Doll', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4759'),
(25212, 'The Case of the Half-Demon Spy', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4761'),
(25213, 'The Case of the Horrified Heirs', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the readers'' court, no one objects to a full docket of Perry Mason. Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent''s will. Now, Lauretta has been murdered on the highway--after almost being poisoned. Confused? Just think how Virginia''s lawyer, Perry Mason, must feel. HC: Morrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4762'),
(25214, 'The Case of the Howling Dog', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arthur Cartwright''s official complaint about a neighbor''s noisy dog leads Perry Mason and his associates into a case involving a poisoned police dog, a missing wife, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4765'),
(25215, 'The Case of the Lazy Lover', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: MURDER WITH COMPLICATIONSWhen Perry Mason receives two mysterious checks from Lola Allred, a woman he''s never heard of, he smells trouble. A visit from Lola''s husband reveals that she has run away with her daughter''s boyfriend--a key witness in an ongoing lawsuit.The mystery deepens when the bank finds that one of the checks is forged. Yet when homicide finally does rear its head, even the unexpected victim isn''t as surprised as Perry Mason.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4766'),
(25216, 'The Case of the Lucky Legs', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tall, heavy-set, dignified and handsome, Frank Patton was a promoter. He was also a crook. His racket of running contests for girls with beautiful legs was technically within the law, and gullible, small-town chambers of commerce were his victims. There were complaints, but no prosecutions. Frank was a very careful man. But when Perry Mason finally caught up with him, Frank Patton was a very dead man...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16240'),
(25217, 'The Case of the Reluctant Model', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4606'),
(25218, 'The Case of the Singing Skirt', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper -- she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That''s when she sings her song of woe to Perry Mason, who promises to turn her blues into greenbacks with the help of his crack team, Della Street and Paul Drake, and a hefty lawsuit.Things are humming along just fine -- until murder interrupts the merry melody of Mason''s crafty legal maneuvers. When the vindictive wife of Ellen Robb''s not-so-secret lover turns up shot to death, Mason is certain it''s a frame-up -- and that his songbird client''s belligerent boss is to blame. Until his own gun is found at the scene. The cocksure Mason will have to change his tune -- and do some quick thinking -- or else this case could be his swan song.The Perry Mason NovelsCriminal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Today, the great Gardner tradition continues with many of his classics back in print, as well as brand-new additions to the ever-popular series starring the incomparable Perry Mason.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4607'),
(25219, 'The Case of the Sleepwalker&#39;s Niece', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Peter Kent''s niece hires Perry Mason to help protect him from the attempts of his wife and business partner to take control of his assets, but when a bloody knife is found under Kent''s pillow, he becomes a murder suspect\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4609'),
(25220, 'The Case of the Stuttering Bishop', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a stuttering bishop comes to Perry Mason''s office for help, Mason becomes involved in a battle of wills with a woman and the long-lost daughter she believes to be a fraud. The key to the puzzle lies in the bishop--who, unfortunately, has disappeared. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4610'),
(25221, 'The Case of the Sulky Girl', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Unable to marry due to a stipulation in her late father''s will--which states that she will lose his millions if she does wed--headstrong Frances hires Perry Mason to get around the clause, and soon he ends up solving a family murder. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4612'),
(25222, 'The Case of the Troubled Trustee', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An erstwhile young man has his hands full as trustee of a wild young woman''s inheritance. But his love and her money don''t mix. Perry Mason may be able to prove his client is no embezzler--but what happens when murder rears its head? HC: William Morrow and Co.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4615'),
(25223, 'The Case of the Velvet Claws', 'Erle Stanley Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Criminal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason. And the first time the world heard the name Perry Mason was in 1933 with the publication of the novel that has become an enduring classic... The Case of the Velvet Claws Thanks to a bungled robbery at a fancy hotel, the already-married Eva Griffin has been caught in the company of a prominent congressman. To protect the politico, Eva''s ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid his hush money. But Perry Mason has other plans. He tracks down the phantom fat cat who secretly runs the blackmailing tabloid -- only to discover a shocking scoop. By the time Mason''s comely client finally comes clean, her husband has taken a bullet in the heart. Now Perry Mason has two choices: represent the cunning widow in her wrangle for the dead man''s money -- or take the rap for murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4616'),
(25224, 'Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences', 'Alexander L. George; Andrew Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The more widely this book is read, the better future social science will be."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen M. Walt\n </strong>\n , Robert and RenÃ©e Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n "I teach qualitative methods. If I could only have one text in my classroom, this would be it."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Colin Elman\n </strong>\n , Executive Director, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This superb book will improve enormously our disciplinary debates and help all of us in our research and teaching."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter J. Katzenstein\n </strong>\n , Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Cornell University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In scope, clarity, and erudition, this book sets a new standard not just in the analysis of case-study methods, but in the study of social science methods more broadly."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  David Dessler\n </strong>\n , Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the sort of book scholarsâ€”and not just graduate studentsâ€”will want to come back to over and over again."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Marc Trachtenberg\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles\n</p>\n<p>\n "The beauty of George and Bennett''s approach is their careful integration of theory and method and their conviction that the pursuit of empirical knowledge is profoundly theory dependent."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Charles Ragin\n </strong>\n , Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences_ makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on qualitative methods in the social sciences."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Jack S. Levy\n </strong>\n , Board of Governors'' Professor, Rutgers University\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely helpful practical guide to the case method."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen Van Evera\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2006 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association''s Qualitative Methods Section.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and thus have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories.\n <em>\n  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences\n </em>\n will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14205'),
(25225, 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection oftales that have haunted generations of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18989'),
(25226, 'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world''s most accomplished and prolific authors.\n</p>\n<p>\n This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor''s purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men--the resurrectionists--whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose,\n <em>\n  The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein\n </em>\n is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Peter Ackroyd on\n  <em>\n   The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It is of course obviously true that\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n is a wonderful story, and I was eager to see if I could extend it in other directions. It is a myth and a history, an allegory and a nightmare. I wanted to see if it was possible to maintain all those elements in a re-interpretation of the original text.\n</p>\n<p>\n I had been greatly impressed by Mary Shelleyâ€™s original, but I was eager to tease out some of her assumptions and themes.\n</p>\n<p>\n I had always been interested in the Romantic movement of English poetry, in the early nineteenth century, and the story of Victor Frankenstein allowed me to explore all the possible meanings of "romantic" in that context. This also meant that I could discuss the worship of electricity and new science in the period. But it also allowed me to introduce the "real" characters of Byron and others into the plot. I wanted to set the story in London, as a way of re-imagining and re-creating the nineteenth-century city. I also wanted to see if I could recreate the language and texture of the period so that the reader would feel connected in an intimate way with a culture and civilization that have now disappeared.\n</p>\n<p>\n In that I was greatly assisted by the fact that I wrote and presented a series on BBC Television, entitled\n <em>\n  The Romantics\n </em>\n , which allowed me to suggest the lines of continuity between Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and of course Mary Shelley herself. All of these people appear in the novel itself. I was also helped by the fact that in the course of filming I went to all of the sites that appear in the novel itself, particularly the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva where Mary Shelley had the original inspiration for her novel. We spent one night filming there, and on the balcony of the house I had an intimation of the novel I was about to write._--Peter Ackroyd_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Medical student Victor Frankenstein imbibes fellow student Bysshe Shelley''s belief in the perfectability of mankind and strives to create a being of infinite benevolence in this recasting of Mary Shelley''s horror classic from Ackroyd (_First Light_). When Victor reanimates the body of acquaintance Jack Keat, he''s so horrified at the implications of his Promethean feat that he abandons his creation. Outraged, the Keat creature shadows Victor as an avenging doppelgÃ¤nger, bringing misery and death to those dearest to him. Ackroyd laces his narrative intelligently with the Romantic ideals of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and deftly interweaves Victor''s fictional travails with events of the well-known 1816 meeting between the poets that inspired Mary to draft her landmark story. His hasty surprise ending may strike some readers as a cheat, though most will agree that his novel is a brilliant riff on ideas that have informed literary, horror and science fiction for nearly two centuries.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4618'),
(25227, 'Casey Daniels - Pepper Martin 01', 'Don of the Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16952'),
(25228, 'Casey Daniels - Pepper Martin 02', 'The Chick &amp; the Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16955'),
(25229, 'The Cash Boy', 'Horatio Alger, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction, prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4620'),
(25230, 'Cash: The Autobiography', 'Johnny Cash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14207'),
(25231, 'Casino Royale', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19004'),
(25232, 'Casino royale: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the first of Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond''s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14216'),
(25233, 'The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum; Philip Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia''s security service, is murdered by a spray of assassin''s bullets. Now Covert-One''s Jon Smith has Danko''s classified papers, and he''s unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen... It''s up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4625'),
(25234, 'The Cassandra Complex', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran British author Stableford''s Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains? Lisa''s cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one, followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions. Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe, or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford''s background in biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among the scientists, while long practice in the novelist''s trade ensures a smooth and involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large stable of unjustly neglected past work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world hovers on the brink of a biotech war and social breakdown, an attack on forensic researcher Lisa Frieman, along with the disappearance of scientist Jordan Miller, leads to a search for a dangerous secret that could determine humanity''s future. The author of Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth continues to explore his vision of the future with this latest tale of technology gone awry and the efforts of ordinary heroes to put things right. Stableford balances issue-oriented sf with suspense-filled action to create a story that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4627'),
(25235, 'Cast Upon the Breakers', 'Cast Upon The Breakers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14218'),
(25236, 'Castaways 6 - Of Beginings and Endings', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14222'),
(25237, 'Castaways in Time', 'Adams, Robert - Castaways 1 - Castaways in Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14223'),
(25238, 'The Castle of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What is the secret of the old castle on the hill, and why are the locals so afraid of it? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate - and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4628'),
(25239, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Lloyd Alexander is the true High King of fantasy" Garth Nix"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Since\n <em>\n  The Book of Three\n </em>\n was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander''s beautifully written tales not only captured children''s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Black Cauldron\n </em>\n was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles,\n <em>\n  The High King\n </em>\n , crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."\n</p>\n<p>\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for today''s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories,\n <em>\n  The Foundling\n </em>\n is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p>\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4631'),
(25240, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 3 - The Castle of Llyr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15578'),
(25241, 'The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story', 'Horace Walpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4637'),
(25242, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14225'),
(25243, 'Castle Rackrent', 'Maria Edgeworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14230'),
(25244, 'Castle Richmond', 'Anthony Trollope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14235'),
(25245, 'Castle Roogna', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he''s a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14238'),
(25246, 'Castle to Castle (French Literature)', 'Louis-Ferdinand Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine''s darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel''s central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. This translation won a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle [is] a literary event of the first order." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle proves how appallingly up to date its dead appalling author is. . . . Cline''s style consists of outcries and exclamations, groans and curses, all in white heat, separated by dots which like machine-gun bullets mow down even the mitigating orderliness of grammar." --\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Celine''s mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." --\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline walks into great literature as other men walk into their own homes." --\n <em>\n  Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline''s experiences have not mellowed him. Here, as in all his novels, . . . he hates everybody, regardless of race, creed or color. If anyone is singled out, it is his publishers, whose limousines, he says, grow even longer, while their authors, in rags, cling behind like pitiful hitchhikers. . . . the translation is a masterpiece." --\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14240'),
(25247, 'Castles in Spain', 'Rebecca Stratton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14242'),
(25248, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder! Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ''cat'' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot''s help, she will be the next victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14245'),
(25249, 'Cat Fantastic', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17954'),
(25250, 'The Cat from Hell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4640'),
(25251, 'Cat Nap', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14248'),
(25252, 'A Cat of Silvery Hue - Horseclans #4', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16109'),
(25253, 'The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion--a weekly magazine on interior design. But Qwilleran finds himself on familiar territory when a murder is committed, and he and Koko, the brilliant Siamese, take the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4641'),
(25254, 'The Cat Who Blew the Whistle', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder at a railroad tavern. Reprint. *AB. PW. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4643'),
(25255, 'The cat who knew a cardinal', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble literally lands in Jim Qwilleran''s own backyard when the local theatre''s universally disliked director is found dead in Qwilleran''s apple orchard. Qwilleran and his two feline detectives search for an actor who is playing the part of a killer. "Some of the most witty original fare in the genre".--New York Daily News.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4645'),
(25256, 'The cat who lived high', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4646'),
(25257, 'The Cat Who Played Brahms', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn''t sure, but he''s hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a longtime family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight, Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwilleran hooks on to a murder mystery. Soon Qwilleran enters into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4649'),
(25258, 'The Cat Who Played Post Office', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into the limelight of the rich and famous--until a missing maid and a shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it''s his Siamese Koko''s propensity for clues that leads the roving reporter to some unlikely suspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4652'),
(25259, 'The Cat Who Said Cheese', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During the Moose County Great Food Expo, Qwill and his crimesolving Siamese have plenty of delicious distractions. But after a mysterious death, they have to put aside the treats--and cook up a solution to the case! A Mystery Guild selection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4653'),
(25260, 'The Cat Who Sniffed Glue', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It looks like robbery gone awry to the police. But then Koko develops an odd appetite for glue, and he and Qwilleran become entangled in a web of love and danger in their stickiest case yet! "The mix of crime and cats (is) catnip to readers who like both!"--Chicago Sun-Times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4656'),
(25261, 'The Cat Who Tailed a Thief', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The delightful New York Times bestselling mystery series continues with "another winner!" (*Austin American-Statesman*) In this latest installment, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran--along with his lovable Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum--solve a mystery that arises when a local banker dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a flashy young widow, an unfinished house-restoration project, and a trail of clues as elusive as a cat burglar in the night... * *A New York Times* bestseller * Braun''s newest hardcover, *The Cat Who Sang for the Birds*, will be on sale from G.P. Putnam''s Sons Jan. 12th\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4658'),
(25262, 'The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural in the latest entry in Lilian Jackson Braun''s Edgar Award-nominated series. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter farmhouse museum? Qwill doesn''t think so--not until he finds Iris Cobb literally scared to death on the floor of the farmhouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4661'),
(25263, 'The cat who turned on and off', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action -- with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors -- as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career -- and the life -- of one of Junktown''s leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he''s right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4662'),
(25264, 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4664'),
(25265, 'The Cat Who Wasn&#39;t There', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Qwill agrees to join his beloved Polly on a group tour of Scotland to keep her safe from the Pickax Prowler. On their sixth day in Scotland, however, the tour organizer--Polly''s best friend Irma--dies of an apparent heart attack, and Qwill suspects foul play. Koko and Yum Yum may have been miles away from the scene of the crime, but they''re just a whisker away from cracking the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4666'),
(25266, 'The cat who went into the closet', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jim Qwilleran packs up the cats and moves into a mansion in town for the winter. While Koko and Yum Yum play, Qwill turns his attention to two suspicious deaths: the mansion''s former owner and a local farmer. The case is going nowhere until Koko unearths surprising evidence that someone is willing to kill to supress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4668'),
(25267, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world''s most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn''t know that another conspiracy is brewing around himâ€”a poisonous plot to violently dictate the future of the free world. If Bauer does nothing, in twenty-four hours the entire planet may be plunged into chaos, its primary heads of state ruthlessly destroyed. But if he acts, his daughter Kim will die instead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14280'),
(25268, 'Cat&#39;s Cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14283'),
(25269, 'Cat&#39;s eye', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman-but above all, she must seek release from Cordelia''s haunting memory. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, *Cat''s Eye* is a breathtaking contemporary novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14286'),
(25270, 'Cat&#39;s Karma', 'Christopher Moore - Cat&#39;s Karma', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16643');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(25271, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14251'),
(25272, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18478'),
(25273, 'Catastrophe', 'Dick Morris; Eileen McGann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s time to take back our country. Now. It''s that simple. It''s that urgent. So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann''s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security. At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States. Cars, banksâ€”what''s next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries. It''s a catastrophe. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann saw the meltdown coming. In their book Outrage, they called out the house of cards that was Fannie Mae. In Fleeced, they went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economyâ€”and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would "trigger a stock market crash." Now, in Catastrophe, Morris and McGann take a hard look at America in free fallâ€”and at how Obama is transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state. They tell the truth about Obama and his radical policies: He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care. He designed his bank rescue plan to pave the way for nation-alization of the banks and socialization of the economy. He firmly believes in government control of our major industriesâ€”he''s already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry. He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions. He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free. He gives aid to Hamas while Shariah Law threatens to take over America. He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system. But Obama is not working alone. Morris and McGann spell out how Congress is complicit: How Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Charlie Rangel use special interests and special friends for their own enrichment and glorification. How Ted Kennedy Jr. is exploiting his father''s health care power. "This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," Morris and McGann remind us. "It''s a time for action." And that action must begin nowâ€”before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14252'),
(25274, 'Catastrophes!', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14255'),
(25275, 'Catch Me If You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot''s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law caught up with him.  Now recognized as the nation''s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit. The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world''s most sought-after con man currently in development as a DreamWorks feature film. "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies.  I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world''s most famous beaches." From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14259'),
(25276, 'Catch of the Day', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!** **First Date Ã  la Maggie** Take one lovelorn diner owner (me) A generous helping of nosy local gossips A dollop of envy at married sister''s perfect life A splash of divine intervention (my matchmaking priest) *Combine ingredients with one adorable puppy, add a strong but silent lobsterman with a hidden heart of gold . . . and watch the sparks fly.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14261'),
(25277, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of *Catch-22* resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14256'),
(25278, 'Catch-22: a novel', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Catch-22* is one of this century''s greatest works of American literature. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller''s profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction. It is a classic in every sense of the word. *Catch-22* took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly sensible people are the true madmen. And this novel is full of madmen -- Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly m order to finish their tour; Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur who bombs his own airfield when the Germans offer him an extra 6 percent; Major Major Major, whose tragedy in life is that he resembles Henry Fonda; and Major -- de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has dared ask his name. No novel before or since has matched *Catch-22''s* intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, stinging humor, all the while telling the darkly comic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refuses to die. Nearly forty years later, Yossarian lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19033'),
(25279, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he''s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you''ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don''t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4669'),
(25280, 'The catcher in the rye', 'Jerome David Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children''s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden''s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20621'),
(25281, 'Catching Crumbs From the Table', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14263'),
(25282, 'Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human', 'Richard Wrangham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since Darwin and *The Descent of Man*, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in *Catching Fire*, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestorsâ€™ diets, *Catching Fire* sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, *Catching Fire* will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient originsâ€”or in our modern eating habits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14269'),
(25283, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.** Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. **Catching Ideas** * Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.* -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14270'),
(25284, 'Cate of the Lost Colony', 'Lisa Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, "He. Is. Mine" and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn''t evolve, and Cate''s life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh''s writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author''s note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees''s\n  <em>\n   Witch Child\n  </em>\n  (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.â€”_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Catherine incurs the queenâ€™s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O''Malley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14274'),
(25285, 'The Caterpillar&#39;s Question', 'Piers Anthony; Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4672'),
(25286, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14275'),
(25287, 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages', 'Frances Gies &amp; Joseph Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world''s advantage."\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moving chronologically through a millennium (500-1500 A.D.), the authors (who have written numerous books on medieval life, including Life in a Medieval City , LJ 2/1/70) show that the term "Dark Ages" is a misnomer by deftly tracing the period''s "main technological elements, . . . their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts." In addition to the technological developments highlighted in the book''s title, the authors cover such topics as the textile industry and shipbuilding/rigging, plus obligatory topics like printing, engineering, and gunpowder. Throughout, they nimbly weave medieval cultural history into the discussion. Informative, readable, enjoyable, and well written, this work is directed to general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic &amp; State Univ. Libs . , Blacksburg\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19146'),
(25288, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Primary Inversion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16823'),
(25289, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Echea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16826'),
(25290, 'Catherine Asaro', 'A Roll of the Dice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16959'),
(25291, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Sunrise Alley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16966'),
(25292, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Quantum Rose 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16969'),
(25293, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Quantum Rose 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16971'),
(25294, 'Catherine Asaro', 'The Last Hawk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16972'),
(25295, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Standing Room Only', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16976'),
(25296, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Schism', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16978'),
(25297, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Winter Fire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16984'),
(25298, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Walk In Silence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16986'),
(25299, 'Catherine Asaro', 'Skyfall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16991'),
(25300, 'Catherine Asaro - The Charmed Sphere', 'The Charmed Sphere', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16989'),
(25301, 'Catherine Asaro - The Veiled Web', 'The Veiled Web', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16960'),
(25302, 'Catherine Asaro et al - Irresistible Forces.html', 'Irresistable forces', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16974'),
(25303, 'Catherine Drewe', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14276'),
(25304, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14279'),
(25305, 'Catherine Wells', 'Point of Origin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16830'),
(25306, 'Cathy McCarthy', 'The Hollow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16831'),
(25307, 'a Catskill Eagle (1985)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 12', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16115'),
(25308, 'Catspaw', 'Joan D. Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most popular novel in Joan D. Vinges bestselling Cat series is back in print for the first time in trade paperback. Cat, a half-human, half-alien telepath, rose from a childhood in the streets of a city halfway across the galaxy to become a hero. He helped stop a powerful psion who was bent on seizing control of the mines which produce the ore that fuels spaceships throughout the galaxy. But the most popular Cat novel, a bestseller when first published, and one of Joan D. Vinges most enduring works, is Catspaw. Several hundred years from now, in a richly imagined New York, Cat finds himself protecting one of the most powerful women in the galaxy. Cats been through a lot, but nothing can really prepare him for the backstabbing and doubledealing of the rich and famous. Using his telepathic gift and street smarts, Cat has to fend off unseen dangers that surround him and his charge.Between the dangers of a beautiful married woman, an unseen telepath who seems hellbent on thwarting Cats pursuit of the threat to his VIP client, and a power-mad fanatic who has fooled everyone but Cat, the action never stops in this enormously entertaining noir SF thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14288'),
(25309, 'Catwalk', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Big Apple. Bigger Problems. The success of the Forrester sisters'' On the Runway TV show lands them a hot ticket to Fashion Week in New York City. Paige is determined to garner the attention of New York''s top designers, but her newfound fame threatens to go to her head. Erin wants to help promote the work of some eco-minded designers, but struggles to be taken seriously. Can Paige keep her prima donna behavior in check? Will Erin''s involvement hurt the people she''s really trying to help? Success in the big city comes with even bigger challenges, and as the pressure grows, so does the drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14289'),
(25310, 'Catwoman - Tiger Hunt', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14094'),
(25311, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive** 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateâ€”and nationally televisedâ€”sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobenâ€™s trademark, *Caught* tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she canâ€™t trust her own instincts about this storyâ€”or the motives of the people around her. Praise for *Long Lost*: "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense, as *Long Lost* makes clear." -*Chicago Sun-Times* "Roller-coaster plot and savvy dialogue...All the ingredients of a good old- fashioned thriller: murder, action and wit." -*New York Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14095'),
(25312, 'Caught Stealing', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry â€œcall me Hankâ€ Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.It begins when Hankâ€™s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isnâ€™t until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesnâ€™t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesnâ€™t have it.Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guyâ€™s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third baseâ€”without getting caught.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16316'),
(25313, 'Caught Stealing (2004)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14099'),
(25314, 'The Cave Girl (Dodo Press)', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. His first story Under the Moons of Mars was serialised in All-Story magazine in 1912. Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, which was published from October 1912 and went on to become his most successful brand. Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction/fantasy stories involving earthly adventurers transported to various planets, lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories (1915), as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in the Argosy Magazine. Among his most famous works are: A Princess of Mars (1912), The Return of Tarzan (1913), The Gods of Mars (1913), The Warlord of Mars (1913-14), The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), At the Earth''s Core (1914) and The Land that Time Forgot (1918).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4674'),
(25315, 'The Cave of Night', 'James E. Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4675'),
(25316, 'The Cave That Swims on the Water', 'Paul L. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4676'),
(25317, 'The cave', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France. He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat.There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back. Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town.When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone. Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared. He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4673'),
(25318, 'A Cavern of Black Ice', 'J. V. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16117'),
(25319, 'The Caves of Ceres', 'Joe Schembrie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4677'),
(25320, 'The Caves of Steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  Isaac Asimov''s *Robot* novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.  Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.  But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.  The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.  Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner:  R. Daneel Olivaw.  Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4679'),
(25321, 'CB14 Blood From A Stone (2005)', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14102'),
(25322, 'Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Bitterbynde 01', 'The Ill-Made Mute', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16835'),
(25323, 'Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Bitterbynde 02', 'The Lady of the Sorrows', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16836'),
(25324, 'Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Bitterbynde 03', 'The Battle of Evernight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16837'),
(25325, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page. In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution. Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell. --Daphne Durham --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Starred Review. It''s probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott''s beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King''s latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott''s voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important elementâ€”quiet believabilityâ€”to King''s bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead characterâ€”a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocketâ€”a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerousâ€”until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Fans have offered their horror-fiction idol unfaltering loyalty since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, three decades ago. More than 50 books later, Stephen King''s stock-in-trade remains stinging, darkly humorous social commentary. His latest effort, a nod to gore-meisters George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), among others, is no different. The result, though entertaining, is uneven. Some reviewers appreciate King for his prodigious imagination and his storytelling abilities, while others take issue with his two-dimensional characters, scattershot plotting, and the too-obvious echoes of past novels. For longtime fans of King''s work, Cell may bring to mind a more compact (though ultimately less satisfying) version of the author''s epic The Stand. Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14110'),
(25326, 'Cell: A Novel', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.?Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14112'),
(25327, 'The Cellini Chalice', 'Thompson; Jim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4680'),
(25328, 'Celtic Crusades 1: The Iron Lance', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14116'),
(25329, 'Celtic Crusades 2: The Black Rood', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14118'),
(25330, 'Celtic Crusades 3: The Mystic Rose', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14120'),
(25331, 'Celtic Fire', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a Roman commander travels through Britannia to investigate a haunting vision, an ambush by hostile Celts leaves him with an unexpected prize--a beautifully enchanting witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14122'),
(25332, 'Celtic Literature', 'Matthew Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14124'),
(25333, 'The cement garden', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4681'),
(25334, 'Cemetery World', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16545'),
(25335, 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story', 'Shahriar Mandanipour; Sara Khalili', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. Shahriar Mandanipour evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other despite surreal persecution and repressive parents through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creatorrs"s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching,Censoring an Iranian Love Storycelebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14126'),
(25336, 'Centaur Aisle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14127'),
(25337, 'The Centauri Device', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4682');
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(25338, 'The Centaurus', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n National Book Award for Fiction In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur one of John Updike''s most brilliant and unusual novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4683'),
(25339, 'Centennial', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener is America''s best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL."THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14131'),
(25340, 'Center Moon - The Stone Of Cordova [Book One]', 'Stephen Gambuti', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14134'),
(25341, 'The Center of Everything', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty''s breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.** Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty''s captivating debut novel hit the stores in June ''03. Janet Maslin of the *New York Times* praised *The Center of Everything* as "warm" and "beguiling." *USA Today* compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*. It garnered extensive national attention; from *Entertainment Weekly* to the *Boston Globe* and the *San Francisco Chronicle*, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty''s writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a *USA Today* Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after *The Center of Everything''s* original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide. With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of *The Center of Everything* is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4685'),
(25342, 'Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warlike Shâ€™daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh''daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier\n <em>\n  America\n </em>\n toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh''daar assault on Earth''s solar systemâ€”and the war for humankind''s survival must be taken directly to the enemy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n <em>\n  The Heritage Trilogy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Legacy Trilogy\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Inheritance Trilogy\n </em>\n . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14136'),
(25343, 'CenturyRain', 'Century Rain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18158'),
(25344, 'Ceremony', 'Doubleday Publishing; Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Boston private eye Spenser''s search for a missing high school girl takes him to Boston''s Compat Zone, to high-class, specialty brothels, and back to the straight world whose righteous facade overlap pervasive corruption\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14137'),
(25345, 'Ceremony (1982)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 09', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14139'),
(25346, 'Ceremony in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14141'),
(25347, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''People don''t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don''t ask me why, but we make them nervous.'' There''s something about Leo Harlan that I don''t like. He''s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree '' sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don''t, someone else will. But what he hasn''t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14146'),
(25348, 'The Cerulean Storm', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4687'),
(25349, 'The Cestus Deception (Steven Barnes)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4692'),
(25350, 'The Cestus Deception', 'Barnes, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4691'),
(25351, 'Cetaganda', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for the control of software used by Cetaganda''s rulers to genetically engineer an entire people. By the author of Mirror Dance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14148'),
(25352, 'Chad C. Wicker', 'Adams, Robert - Horseclans 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7147'),
(25353, 'Chad Oliver', 'Shadows in the Sun', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16840'),
(25354, 'Chad Oliver', 'Transformer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16841'),
(25355, 'Chad Oliver', 'Hands Across Space', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16845'),
(25356, 'Chad Oliver', 'King of the Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16847'),
(25357, 'Chad Oliver', 'The Winds of Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16851'),
(25358, 'Chaff', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14149'),
(25359, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. SUMMARY: With Wizard''s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14151'),
(25360, 'Chaining The Lady', 'Anthony, Piers - Chaining The Lady', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15196'),
(25361, 'Chains of Command', 'W.A. McCay; E.L. Flood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While exploring a group of devastated class-M planets in a remote sector of space, the crew of the U.S.S. "Enterprise (TM)" is shocked to discover a group of human slaves on a forbidding, glacial world. When the slaves revolt against their human overseers, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves plight but cannot interfere in the conflict. After the revolt is a success, Captain Picard learns that both the slaves and the overseers were controlled by a mysterious bird-like race called the Tseetsk, who are coming to reclaim their property. With the time running out, the rebels kidnap Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi -- drawing the U.S.S. "Enterprise" into the middle of their deadly plan of vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14153'),
(25362, 'Chains of Tartarus', 'Drew Dale Daniel Bryenton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elysium is burning. In the deep levels, the Habs seethe with violence. In the streets, mobs proclaim the ascendancy of Simeon Blaire to the throne of God-Emperor. And below them all, in the teknomantic hades of the R.T., an alien experiment goes horribly awry. Now a shadow which has stalked beside humanity since the dawn of sentience is clothed in flesh - and the Forge might just give it the power to bring about Hell on Earth.\n <br />\n Only a tiny group of disparate souls stand in its path - the alien Technician Zhe, the genecrafted warriors Abdulafia and CeeAn, Subcity miscreants Jaq and Kaito... and other, even stranger allies thrown together by chance.\n <br />\n And while the city is torn apart from within, an even greater peril is falling in toward the sun, the cold, calculating planet-killer Everdark, herald of the Motherbrain...\n <br />\n ''Chains of Tartarus'' concludes the story begun in ''Elysian Fields''in spectacularly destructive fashion, creating an apocalypse-opera that makes Gotterdammerung look like a teddy bears'' picnic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14155'),
(25363, 'Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction From Today&#39;s China', 'Howard Goldblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story''s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu''s folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants'' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui''s "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun''s "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng''s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao''s "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors'' biographies or elaborate on the collection''s post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14158'),
(25364, 'The chairman: a novel', 'Stephen W. Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n <em>\n  Silent Partner\n </em>\n ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n <em>\n  Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4693'),
(25365, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the PacificÂ \n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverÂ changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19227'),
(25366, 'Challenger', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14161'),
(25367, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4697'),
(25368, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden &amp; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18562'),
(25369, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20662'),
(25370, 'Champagne for One', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Whoever administered the deadly dose of champagne isn''t talking, and neither is the victim, as Nero Wolfe searches for the antidote to the perfect crime. Includes never-before-published memorabilia from the life of Rex Stout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14166'),
(25371, 'Champion of the Gods', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14168'),
(25372, 'Champions of the Force', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han''s baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke''s former protÃšgÃš Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han''s baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke''s former protÃ©gÃ© Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side! Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14171'),
(25373, 'Chance', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mafia princess Shirley Meeker wants her husband back. So does her father, kingpin Julius Ventura, and a few other shady characters. Spenser and Hawk head to Vegas to find Anthony Meeker--and confirm their suspicion that all these people aren''t just missing Anthony''s smile. And when bodies start turning up, Spenser has to make sense of some very disorganized crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14174'),
(25374, 'Chance (1996)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 23', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14175'),
(25375, 'Chancy', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Cattle drive in a deadly country... Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn''t hesitate. He guns down a man who''d been using a sheriff''s badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by a deadly gunman. Despite his youth, Chancy won''t run--and when his past catches up to him in Cheyenne, he''ll make his stand, whether his partner and cowhands back his play...or whether he fights alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14176'),
(25376, 'Change', 'Ann Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17893'),
(25377, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16119'),
(25378, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child. Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14178'),
(25379, 'Change Of Mind', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14179'),
(25380, 'A Change of Worlds', 'Josh Aterovis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16122'),
(25381, 'Changeless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14181'),
(25382, 'Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchlingwas] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14184'),
(25383, 'Changeling - Isaac Asimov&#39;s Robot City: Robots and Aliens, Book One', 'Stephen Leigh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14183'),
(25384, 'Changer of Worlds', 'David Weber &amp; Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lady Dame Honor Harrington -- starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess -- has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest...and also a national bestseller *(Ashes of Victory: #7, The Wall Street Journal).*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But it''s a big universe, and Honor''s actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her -- a lesson "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" learns years before rising to command rank, when a desperate battle against "pirates" who aren''t quite what they seem begins her brilliant career.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Closer to home, in "Changer of Worlds," a secret that the alien treecats have kept from their human friends for hundreds of years is about to come out...and completely change the relationship between the two species forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, Eric Flint weighs in with "From the Highlands." Honor can''t be everywhere, so when the People''s Republic of Haven tries to stage a political assassination on Earth, Anton Zilwicki -- husband of one of the Star Kingdom''s most revered military martyrs, and father of a young woman who is clearly a chip off the old block -- steps into the breach...and takes the opportunity to settle some old scores along the way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And finally, Esther McQueen and Oscar Saint-Just square off for their final confrontation in Noveau Paris in "Nightfall."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14185'),
(25385, 'Changes', 'Andrew Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17839'),
(25386, 'Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The new novel in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden''s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry''s not fighting to save the world...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s fighting to save his *child*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18839'),
(25387, 'Changes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18905'),
(25388, 'Changing my mind: occasional essays', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Teeth\n </em>\n in her early twenties, but what kind she''ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n . She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace''s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn''t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ), and, in the collection''s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith''s nonfiction over the past decade.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"-_Changing My Mind_ invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith''s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith''s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14188'),
(25389, 'Changing of the Guard', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14091'),
(25390, 'Changing of the guard', 'Steve Perry &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Larry Segriff &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job -- and is about to prove that no man is above the law ...\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n   <em>\n    Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Debt of Honor.\n   </em>\n   Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n   <em>\n    State of Emergency\n   </em>\n   and co-creator of\n   <em>\n    Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n   </em>\n   series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18422'),
(25391, 'The Changing of the Guard', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14189'),
(25392, 'Changing Planes', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14092'),
(25393, 'Chanur&#39;s homecoming', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When those aliens entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were catastrophically disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew were pitched into the center of a galactic maelstrom, becoming key players in a power game which could cause an intersteller war, or bring the last hope for peace between eight barely compatible alien races.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14093'),
(25394, 'Chanur&#39;s venture', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14096'),
(25395, 'Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness', 'STEPHEN R. DONALDSON', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n , Nick''s archenemy (and slave to the aliens) Sorus Chatelaine aboard\n <em>\n  Soar\n </em>\n , and the mysterious hired gun,\n <em>\n  Free Lunch\n </em>\n . Corrupt cyborg Angus Thermopyle and ruthless Nick Succorso battle for control of the ship and the situation. Their trail leads to Valdor Industrial, where geneticist/engineer Vector Shaheed seeks to redeem himself by manufacturing an antidote to the mutagen used by the alien Amnioni to mutate human beings against their will. Brutalized yet resilient Morn Hyland, her clone/son Davies, tough officer Mikki, Pup, Sib, and the rest continue their suffering and sacrificing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in Earth space, police and politicians battle for power as UMCP director Dios continues his grim revolution against the Dragon. Assassin kazes, political fears, and provocative bills threaten to paralyze the Governing Council for Earth and Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ships battling in space? Laboratory space stations developing antimutagen antidotes against the aliens who seek to conquer humankind by mutation? Outrage, brutality, betrayal, and secrets? Donaldson lays it all out with sharp dialogue, tense scenes, and zippy action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fourth installment of Donaldson''s Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there''s no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet , for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret "antimutagen," which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain''s Fancy , including Morn Hyland (the series'' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax; but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm. Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14098'),
(25396, 'The Chaos Crystal', 'Jennifer Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tide Lords have gathered in Jelidia and find they must find the Chaos Crystal that brought them to this world. It is discovered that Elyssa, Scard Crasii, Warlock''s cruel immortal mistress knows the location of the Chaos crystal and with every immortal searching for the crystal the stakes are high.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4573'),
(25397, 'The Chaos Curse - Book 5', 'Salvatore, R.A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4575'),
(25398, 'The Chaos Curse', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prequel series to\n  <em>\n   The Ghost King\n  </em>\n  comes to an explosive end!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cadderly journeys home to the Edificant Library, hoping to rebuild his shattered life--but the chaos curse has one last surprise in store for him. Failure means the loss of his beloved Danica, success might usher in a new era for the followers of Denier.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4578'),
(25399, 'Chaos Space', 'Marianne De Pierres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''This is serious modern space opera, grappling with big themes and painting on a broad canvas with a great eye for detail ... readers who hunger for perceptive, intelligent and unflinching literary science fiction should seek this book out as soon as possible'' HUB ''Space opera supreme'' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ''A complex and exciting novel ... deftly handles the aspects of bringing characters to life that elude so many space opera writers ... intelligent and exciting'' SCALPEL MAGAZINE\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having fled the invasion on Araldis, Mira Fedor travels to the nearest Orion League planet seeking aid for her devastated world, but the authorities seem more interested in stealing her bio-ship, Insignia, than in rendering help. While Mira flees from world to world, Araldis burns. Why is the initiate Tekton taking such extreme measures just to acquire a mineral alloy? Why do so many of the protagonists in this galaxy-wide drama have links to the Stain Wars? And what part does the Sole Entityâ€”literally, Godâ€”have to play?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14103'),
(25400, 'Chaos Theory', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A brilliant madman dedicated to anarchy has dark plans for the U.S. In twenty-four hours, America will be plunged into chaosâ€”the result of an unthinkable assassination to be carried out flawlesslyâ€”and the government has no inkling of the catastrophe that is about to occur.\n</p>\n<p>\n Only one man can prevent the nightmare: disgraced rogue CTU operative Jack Bauer. But Bauer''s been cut loose, is wanted for murder, and is running from the police, who have orders to shoot to kill. And there''s no one he can turn to for helpâ€”because a high-level traitor in CTU wants Jack Bauer dead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14104'),
(25401, 'Chaosbound', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber. He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14105'),
(25402, 'Chaotic', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14107'),
(25403, 'Chapter 1', 'James Pritchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14109'),
(25404, 'Chapter j', 'Dunny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17364'),
(25405, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14111');
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(25406, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18873'),
(25407, 'Character Flu', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14113'),
(25408, 'Charlaine Harris', 'Grave Sight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16859'),
(25409, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 01', 'Dead Until Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16865'),
(25410, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 02', 'Living Dead In Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16854'),
(25411, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 03', 'Club Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16867'),
(25412, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 04', 'Dead to the World', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16869'),
(25413, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 05', 'Dead as a Doornail', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16855'),
(25414, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 06', 'Definitely Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16862'),
(25415, 'Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse 4.5', 'One Word Answer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16864'),
(25416, 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Toni LP Kelner', 'Wolfsbane; Mistletoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14117'),
(25417, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In bestseller Berry''s fourth thriller to feature exâ€“Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Berry outdoes himself in his latest Cotton Malone adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ). Using his connections in the federal government, Cotton asks to see a classified file that details the mission that resulted in his father''s death. He knew his father died on a submarine but none of the shocking details about where or why he died. But Cotton is not the only person who wants this file, and they kill to get it. Nazi missions to the Antarctic, ancient societies, and a valuable artifact from Charlemagne''s tomb all play key roles as Malone uncovers the truth. So much is going on that there is enough material for two good books, let alone one great one. Mixed in with the complicated action, Berry finds the time to explore the characters as well, making this his most personal and best book to date. For all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 8/08.]â€”Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4580'),
(25418, 'Charles Beaumont', 'Free Dirt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16870'),
(25419, 'Charles Beaumont', 'Night Rider', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16872'),
(25420, 'Charles Beaumont', 'Selected Stories', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16874'),
(25421, 'Charles Beaumont', 'Black Country', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16876'),
(25422, 'Charles Beaumont', 'The Beautiful People', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16879'),
(25423, 'Charles Carr', 'Salamander War', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16882'),
(25424, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'An Eye for an Eye', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16885'),
(25425, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'Moons Like Great White Whales', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16886'),
(25426, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'A Democracy of Trolls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16889'),
(25427, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'A Game of Chicken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16890'),
(25428, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'Passing Through', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16891'),
(25429, 'Charles Coleman Finlay', 'The Moon Is Always Full', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16892'),
(25430, 'Charles De Lint', 'A Pattern of Silver Strings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16798'),
(25431, 'Charles De Lint', 'Spiritwalk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16799'),
(25432, 'Charles de Lint', 'Forests Of The Heart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16900'),
(25433, 'Charles de Lint', 'Make a Joyiful Noise', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16901'),
(25434, 'Charles de Lint', 'The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16903'),
(25435, 'Charles De Lint', 'Jack, The Giant-Killer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16906'),
(25436, 'Charles de Lint', 'Pixel Pixies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16911'),
(25437, 'Charles de Lint', 'The Riddle of the Wren', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16915'),
(25438, 'Charles De Lint', 'The Little Country', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16917'),
(25439, 'Charles DeVet', 'Infinity&#39;s Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16801'),
(25440, 'Charles DeVet', 'Delayed Action', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16803'),
(25441, 'Charles DeVet &amp; Katherine MacLean', 'Cosmic Checkmate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16804'),
(25442, 'Charles Ingrid', 'The Marked Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16808'),
(25443, 'Charles Ingrid', 'Burning Bridges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16813'),
(25444, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 01', 'Solar Kill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16816'),
(25445, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 02', 'Lasertown Blues', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16817'),
(25446, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 03', 'Celestial Hit List', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16818'),
(25447, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 04', 'Alien Salute', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16806'),
(25448, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 05', 'Return Fire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16807'),
(25449, 'Charles Ingrid - The Sand Wars 06', 'Challenge Met', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16810'),
(25450, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Whose Ghosts These Are', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16819'),
(25451, 'Charles L. Grant', 'The Rest Is Silence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16822'),
(25452, 'Charles L. Grant', 'In a Dark Dream', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16824'),
(25453, 'Charles L. Grant', 'An Image in Twisted Silver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16828'),
(25454, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Gallery Of Horror', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16829'),
(25455, 'Charles L. Grant', 'The Sea Harp Hotel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16833'),
(25456, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Gallery of Honour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16834'),
(25457, 'Charles L. Grant', 'The Pet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16839'),
(25458, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Raven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16843'),
(25459, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16844'),
(25460, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Something Stirs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16850'),
(25461, 'Charles L. Grant', 'Secrets of the Heart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16853'),
(25462, 'Charles L. Grant - Black Oak 03', 'Winter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16832'),
(25463, 'Charles L. Grant - Black Oak 04', 'Hunting Ground', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16849'),
(25464, 'Charles L. Grant - Oxrun Station 03', 'The Hour Of The Oxrun Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16846'),
(25465, 'Charles L. Grant - Oxrun Station 05', 'Bloodwind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16838'),
(25466, 'Charles L. Grant - Oxrun Station 4', 'The Grave', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16852'),
(25467, 'Charles L. Grant - X-Files 01', 'Goblins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16825'),
(25468, 'Charles L. Grant - X-Files 02', 'Whirlwind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16842'),
(25469, 'Charles L. Harness', 'The Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16871'),
(25470, 'Charles L. Harness', 'The Ring of Ritornel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16873'),
(25471, 'Charles L. Harness-An Ornament to His Profession', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16868'),
(25472, 'Charles L. Harness-Child by Chronos', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16878'),
(25473, 'Charles L. Harness-George Washington Slept Here', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16875'),
(25474, 'Charles L. Harness-Lethary Fair', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16860'),
(25475, 'Charles L. Harness-O Lyric Love', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16877'),
(25476, 'Charles L. Harness-Probable Cause', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16856'),
(25477, 'Charles L. Harness-Quarks at Appomatox', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16880'),
(25478, 'Charles L. Harness-Stalemate in Space', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16863'),
(25479, 'Charles L. Harness-The New Reality', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16861'),
(25480, 'Charles L. Harness-The Tetrahedron', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16858'),
(25481, 'Charles L. Harness-Time Trap', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16866'),
(25482, 'Charles Platt - Cthon 4', 'Soma', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16881'),
(25483, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Dark As Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16726'),
(25484, 'Charles Sheffield', 'The Peacock Throne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16727'),
(25485, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Borderlands of Science', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16731'),
(25486, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Nancy Hanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16733'),
(25487, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Between The Strokes Of Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16735'),
(25488, 'Charles Sheffield', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16738'),
(25489, 'Charles Sheffield', 'The Feynman Saltation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16743'),
(25490, 'Charles Sheffield', 'The Diamond Drill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16745'),
(25491, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Resurgence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16747'),
(25492, 'Charles Sheffield', 'The Spheres Of Heaven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16751'),
(25493, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Aftermath 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16756'),
(25494, 'Charles Sheffield', 'A Braver Thing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16757'),
(25495, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Skystalk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16759'),
(25496, 'Charles Sheffield', 'With the Knight Male', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16763'),
(25497, 'Charles Sheffield', 'The Mind Pool', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16765'),
(25498, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Out of Copyright', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16769'),
(25499, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Sight of Proteus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16772'),
(25500, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Phallicide', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16774'),
(25501, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Georgia On My Mind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16777'),
(25502, 'Charles Sheffield', 'Tomorrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16884'),
(25503, 'Charles Sheffield - Aftermath 2', 'Star Fire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16767'),
(25504, 'Charles Sheffield - Cold as Ice 01', 'Cold as Ice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16741'),
(25505, 'Charles Sheffield - Cold as Ice 03', 'Dark As Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16729'),
(25506, 'Charles Sheffield - Godspeed', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16752'),
(25507, 'Charles Sheffield - Jupiter 1', 'Higher Education', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16883'),
(25508, 'Charles Stross', 'Dechlorinating The Moderator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16693'),
(25509, 'Charles Stross', 'Nightfall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16695'),
(25510, 'Charles Stross', 'Red, Hot &amp; Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16699'),
(25511, 'Charles Stross', 'Halo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16702'),
(25512, 'Charles Stross', 'Message in a Time Capsule', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16704'),
(25513, 'Charles Stross', 'Remade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16709'),
(25514, 'Charles Stross', 'Elector', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16712'),
(25515, 'Charles Stross', 'Missile Gap', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16724'),
(25516, 'Charles Stross', 'Escape', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16780'),
(25517, 'Charles Stross', 'Rogue Farm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16787'),
(25518, 'Charles Stross', 'Troubadour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16796'),
(25519, 'Charles Stross', 'Tarkovsky&#39;s Cut', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16802'),
(25520, 'Charles Stross - Ancient Of Day', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16786'),
(25521, 'Charles Stross - Examination Ni', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16707'),
(25522, 'Charles Stross - Generation Gap', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16719'),
(25523, 'Charles Stross - Merchant princes 03', 'The Clan Corporate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16793'),
(25524, 'Charles Stross - SEAQ And Destr', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16797'),
(25525, 'Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archives', 'The Atrocity Archives', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16805'),
(25526, 'Charles Stross - The Boys', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16778'),
(25527, 'Charles Stross - Yellow snow', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16812'),
(25528, 'Charley&#39;s Web', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the\n <em>\n  Palm Beach Post\n </em>\n and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (_Heartstopper_). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn''t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill''s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls Jack. Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next targetâ€”her son.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh off the solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Sheâ€™s raising two children on her own, her satirical columns about her neighborsâ€™ hobbies and opinions have not made her very popular in her residential community, and she has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography of notorious female serial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, Fielding turns her latest page-turner into a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14119'),
(25529, 'Charlie and the chocolate factory', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka''s famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka''s orders? In Dahl''s most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14121'),
(25530, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Dahl, Roald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14123'),
(25531, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking right up where\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n left off,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we''ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie''s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.\n <em>\n  (Ages 9 to 12)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms. --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19211'),
(25532, 'Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a dark laboratory at BloorÅ¼s Academy, somebody is brewing up trouble...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14125'),
(25533, 'Charlie Bone and the Hidden King', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charlie Bone awakes one morning to find the city covered with snow and all the animals gone. Where have they gone - and why? Blessed the dog tells Billy there was a terrible shuddering of the earth and immediately after, he saw a witch with two shadows crossing the hall in the Bloor''s Academy. Could the discovery of an ancient mirror, and the movement of the shadow in the Red King''s portrait have something to do with it? And a strange girl appears outside Charlie''s house. She tells him he must follow her to find the animals. Can he trust her, and will she perhaps lead him to find someone he lost long before the animals?The spellbinding final book in the best-selling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14128'),
(25534, 'Charlie Bone and the invisible boy', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the ruins of the castle of the Red King, Charlie and Tancred discover a tree-girl that whispers secrets to them and asks for their help in restoring her to a real girl. When Charlie returns to help her, he finds that the tree has been destroyed. Meanwhile, the Yewbeam sisters are trying to marry Amy Bone, Charlie begins to hear portraits speaking, and a new music teacher has arrived at Bloor''s Academy. Soon Emma discovers that the invisible boy living upstairs in the attic is her older brother, and when Manfred finds out their plans, he threatens to lock up Emma.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14129'),
(25535, 'Charlie Bone and the Time Twister', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam''s cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor''s in the twenty-first century, and realises Henry''s cousin is none other than old Ezekiel Bloor. Charlie and Fidelio are joined by Cook and the Flames in their attempts to hide Henry from Ezekiel''s spies. But Manfred captures Henry, and although Mrs Bloor tried to save him, she vanishes with the Time Twister. With the help of the endowed, Charlie must enter the portrait of Skarpo the sorceror and retrieve the wand of a Welsh wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14130'),
(25536, 'Charlie Parker 01 - Every Dead Thing', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14132'),
(25537, 'Charlie Parker 02 - Dark Hollow', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14133'),
(25538, 'Charlie Parker 03 - The Killing Kind', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14135'),
(25539, 'Charlie Parker 04 - The White Road', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14138'),
(25540, 'Charlie Parker 05 - The Black Angel', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14140'),
(25541, 'Charlie Parker 06 - The Unquiet', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14142'),
(25542, 'Charlie Parker 07 - The Reapers', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14143'),
(25543, 'Charlie Parker 08 - The Lovers', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In John Connolly''s thriller, Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker''s existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14145'),
(25544, 'Charlie Parker 09 - The Whisperers', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''''-Oh, little one,'' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. ''-What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?'' '' In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Illicit goods â€“ drugs, cash, weapons, even people â€“ are changing hands. And something else has changed hands. Something ancient and powerful and evil.The authorities suspect something is amiss, but what they can''t know is that it is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men''s hearts. As the smugglers begin to die one after another in apparent suicides, Parker is called in to stop the bloodletting. The soldiers'' actions and the objects they have smuggled have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14147'),
(25545, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14150'),
(25546, 'Charlotte Gray', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author ofBirdsongcomesCharlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe''s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novelBirdsong,Charlotte Grayconfirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14152'),
(25547, 'The charm school', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. Intelligence officer Sam Hollis, press attache Lisa Rhodes and CIA bureau chief Seth Alevy must discover for themselves what is going on at the Charm School. They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Once DeMille brings readers into the Charm School itself, however, he cannot sustain the magic that has propelled the narrative for two-thirds of its generous length. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Still, it''s riveting reading most of the way. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sustained action of this chilling vision of modern Russia starts with a young American tourist phoning the U.S. embassy in Moscow to report an unusual encounter with a U.S. Air Force major in the forest near Borodino. The tourist then vanishes and the officer is identified as a Vietnam MIA. Attaches Sam Hollis and Lisa Rhodes eventually uncover a spy school graduating several hundred "Americans" each year and staffed by an unwilling faculty made up of American servicemen missing from Vietnam. The blockbuster ends after a maverick CIA agent pulls off a hair-raising escape to the West, carrying proof of the camp''s existence. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4581'),
(25548, 'Charmed', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different, special -perhaps even dangerous. She had pent year hiding her eli from the world,crrified about the can equences of revealing what she really waÂ·. VI''hen Boone Sav.yer came into her life, bent on finding out the ITuth about her, Anastasia had to protect herself and her magic at all costs, She would keep her secrets whatever it look. Then -he was confronted with a terrifying thl-eat to everything he had learned Lo love. With a child''s future at take, Anasla ia could not deny he powers, even if it meant ri king her own life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14154'),
(25549, 'A Charmed Death', 'Madelyn Alt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16124'),
(25550, 'The Charmed Life', 'Achmed Abdullah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (1881-1945) was a Russian-born writer. He wrote under the a pseudonym Achmed Abdullah. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang, an Academy Award nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although he was born Russian Orthodox, his grandparents raised him as a Muslim. At the age of 12, he was sent to Eton; and then to Oxford University to be educated. Upon his graduation he joined the British Army. Throughout his military career, he served in India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Africa, China and Turkey. He mostly spent the time in the military as a spy because of his wide-knowledge of Oriental and Middle-Eastern customs and religions. He travelled widely in Russia, Europe, Africa, the Middle- East and China and spoke many languages and dialects. In the early 1910s he emigrated to the United States and eventually became a successful, well-paid writer, playwright and later on, a Hollywood screenwriter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4583'),
(25551, 'The Charmed Sphere', 'Catherine Asaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4585'),
(25552, 'Charmed To Death', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14156'),
(25553, 'Charmed to death: an Ophelia and Abby mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ophelia Jensen''s good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian''s best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant. Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn''t safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can''t count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she''ll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it''s Ophelia Jensen herself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14157'),
(25554, 'Charmides', 'Plato', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14159'),
(25555, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4586'),
(25556, 'Charon&#39;s Ark', 'Rick Gauger &amp; Richard Gauger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Teachers and students aboard a chartered 747 are kidnapped in midflight by an alien spaceship and taken to Charon, Pluto''s moon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14160'),
(25557, 'Chase', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14162'),
(25558, 'Chase: Roman', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer''s game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14165'),
(25559, 'Chasing Darkness (2008)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14167'),
(25560, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14170'),
(25561, 'Chasing Greatness', 'Lazarus, Adam &amp; Schlossman, Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14172');
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(25562, 'Chasing Greatness: Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer, and the Miracle at Oakmont', 'Adam Lazarus &amp; Steve Schlossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Reigning in a narrative with so many plotlines is no gimme, but Schlossman, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon, and Lazarus, his former pupil, take on the challenge with aplomb. Through extensive research and interviews, they can easily loop the tales together, and the momentum they build en rote is palpable, an achievement, certainly, since the outcome is no secret. In the end it''s the cast of characters themselves- their dramas, comedies, and motives inside the ropes and beyond- that heighten this chase and keep it moving through a series of biographical codas that extend decades past the trophy presentation."\n <br />\n -_Sports Illustrated _\n</p>\n<p>\n "There''s a reason Johnny Miller never gets tired of reminding us about his final round in the ''73 Open: It was that good. But his staggering 63 in the pressure cooker is only one of the compelling storylines that historian Schlossman and his former student Lazarus- a pretty good story right there- weave together in their meticulously detailed narrative of an Open filled with genuine thrills, dramatic subplots, and, in Oakmont itself, the most feared location in the game"\n <br />\n -_Golf.com _\n</p>\n<p>\n "The 1973 U.S. Open had everything: the most terrifying golf course in the land; an aging but still fiercely competitive Arnold Palmer; Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Gary Player at the top of their games; a brilliant but troubled golfer named John Schlee making his one bid for immortality; and Johnny Miller''s final round 63 that remains the Everest of major championship lore. Now that tournament has a chronicle worthy of it,\n <em>\n  Chasing Greatness\n </em>\n , a prodigiously researched, elegantly written, myth-debunking eagle from the fairway by Adam Lazarus and Steven Schlossman. Fore!"\n <br />\n -Ron Rapoport, author of\n <em>\n  The Immortal Bobby: Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In 1973, Oakmont was the stage for one of the most riveting sports stories of the 20th century, and in\n <em>\n  Chasing Greatness\n </em>\n Adam Lazarus and Steven Schlossman deliver a grand re-telling of a U.S. Open finish like no other. A week after Secretariat made history at the Belmont, Johnny Miller''s final turn of 63 shocked the world, denied the hometown hero, Arnold Palmer, a magical punctuation to his prime, and left an impossibly difficult game looking downright vulnerable. This is a must read for fans of golf, and for fans of the human spirit."\n <br />\n -Ian O''Connor, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Arnie &amp; Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf''s Greatest Rivalry\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Informative, engaging, and entertaining... captures the excitement of the 1973 U.S. Open and explains why it was so special in the history of golf."\n <br />\n -George B. Kirsch, Professor of History, Manhattan College, and author of\n <em>\n  Golf in America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Authors Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman recreate the 1973 U.S. Open with a drama worthy of the event itself... Every sentence here is rich with detail, all woven into an intimate play-by-play. Four days of golf changed lives and careers, and in this precise account, you understand why."\n <br />\n -Chico Harlan,\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n staff writer\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you want the most thorough history of a most memorable championship, this is it."\n <br />\n -Al Barkow, former PGA broadcaster and author of\n <em>\n  Golf''s Golden Grind\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Gettin'' to the Dance Floor: An Oral History of American Golf\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The unforgettable story of the 1973 U.S. Open-and the unknown young golfer who astonished the world...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1973, a Who''s Who of golf''s greats gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. Among those favored to win were Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Instead, Johnny Miller-a 26-year-old oneÂ­time phenom from San Francisco-astonished the golfing world by edging out the legends and crafting a record-setting 63 to win by a single stroke.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring extensive archival and video research and candid interviews with leading golfers of the era,\n <em>\n  Chasing Greatness\n </em>\n beautifully captures one of the unlikeliest victories and dramatic sports triumphs of the past half century. Authors Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman also chronicle the careers and the lives of six extraordinary figures during golf''s modern-day golden era: Miller, Palmer, Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Weiskopf, and John Schlee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18980'),
(25563, 'Chasing Silver', 'Jamie Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Born in 2057, Remy Capra never expected a second chance at life in Los Angeles, or her only chance at love in 2007. On the run from a cop who cares more about pain than justice, Remy inadvertently goes 75 years back in time and abruptly arrives at the feet of P.I. Nathan Pierce. Remy needs help, and Nathan finds he wants to offer her even more. There are threats from all sides - are their street smarts and unexpected passion enough to keep them together... and alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14173'),
(25564, 'Chasing Sophea: A Novel', 'Gabrielle Pina', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14177'),
(25565, 'Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For almost forty years, Robert B. Parkerâ€™s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, see how it all began as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master sheds light on Spenserâ€™s formative years spent with his father and two uncles out West. This is an event book for every fan of Spenser, and a revelation for teens about to discover an American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14180'),
(25566, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19359'),
(25567, 'Chasing the Shadows', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vampire Romance. 73876 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16190'),
(25568, 'The Chasm: A Journey to the Edge of Life', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alcorn offers a companion to his novel, Edge of Eternity, in this Pilgrim''s Progressâ€“style allegory about a man who comes to see his own wasted life through a series of misadventures, battles, and sins. These lead him to a chasm he cannot cross without the help of trustedâ€”should he trust them?â€”guides, most importantly a Christ figure, the Woodsman, and a tempter, Joshua. The end is not utopia, but a life with unexpected joys and faithful companions. For those who appreciate allegory, Alcorn''s fills the bill even as it also includes the realities of contemporary life: "I gazed into the emptiness of my daughter''s eyes. I started pushing and shoving. I wanted to kill the men who lusted after herâ€”vile men whose daughters I lusted after." Nothing here tops classic Christian allegories, but noteworthy is a "new creation" view of afterlife: "You will live on a new earthâ€”the old earth made new.... I came not to destroy but to redeem my fallen creation." (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   A Journey He Couldnâ€™t Missâ€¦ and a Step He Couldnâ€™t Take\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is graspedâ€¦and so much more seems unattainable.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Driven by a yearning he doesnâ€™t understand, compelled toward a destination he canâ€™t quite see, the traveler navigates the inhospitable landscape with determination and a flicker of something like hopeâ€”despite the obstacles that seem to unerringly block his path.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Best-selling novelist Randy Alcorn weaves a supernatural interplay of wills and motives, lusts and longings, love and sacrifice. Itâ€™s a potent mix that leaves every reader wondering: _Do I really understand this world I live in? Do I really understand myself? Is there more to all this than Iâ€™ve ever dared hope?\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  INCLUDES 12 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19191'),
(25569, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Relationships always drive Mayor''s plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Second Mouse\n  </em>\n  ). When Gunther''s mother and brother are almost killed in a suspicious car accident, he helps Deputy Sheriff Rob Barrows narrow in on a local, lawless family with a grievance against the Gunthers. Meanwhile, the investigation of two similar but seemingly unrelated deaths leads Gunther''s colleagues at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation to online chat rooms where older men pick up teen girls. Gunther''s former lover, Gail Zigman, makes an appearance, but Lyn Silva, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Surrogate Thief\n  </em>\n  , takes center stage as his new love interest. This book takes Gunther all over Vermont, offering occasional breaks from the tension with evocative descriptions of mountains and snow. Though Mayor is considered a regional writer, his books intelligently deal with subjects of national concern, and Gunther''s crime-solving skills and personal charisma have broad appeal.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The writing is strong, with sharp social observations throughout. Gunther grows on you from novel to novel." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this durable series has always been its insularity: local settings; sharp small-town characterizations; home-grown police procedures." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH PRAISE FOR MAYOR AND THE JOE GUNTHER SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Archer Mayor''s unassuming voice and down-to-earth style stamp his regional crime novels with a sense of integrity." (\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." (\n  <strong>\n   The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today." (\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14006'),
(25570, 'Chaz Brenchley', 'The Samaritan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16725'),
(25571, 'Chaz Brenchley', 'The Keys To D&#39;esperance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16730'),
(25572, 'Chaz Brenchley - Outremer 01', 'The Devil in the Dust', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16732'),
(25573, 'Chaz Brenchley - Outremer 02', 'The Tower of the King&#39;s Daughter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16728'),
(25574, 'Cheat the Grave', 'Vicki Pettersson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14007'),
(25575, 'The Cheating Curve', 'Paula T. Renfroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything. . . Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get their nails done in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then go out for brunch. -The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang''s been keeping a secret from Aminah. She''s cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah''s husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong. Lang can see the disappointment in Aminah''s eyes when she comes clean. But she and Aminah have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn''t understand, her friend''s admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect, will be put to the ultimate test. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4589'),
(25576, 'Check Elastic Before Jumping', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14008'),
(25577, 'The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right', 'Gawande, Atul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4590'),
(25578, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14009'),
(25579, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18442'),
(25580, 'Cheever: A Life', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14010'),
(25581, 'Chef', 'Jaspreet Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar''s camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father''s life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue, who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. ''The smell of a woman is a thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,'' he muses, over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani ''terrorist'' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, Chefis a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14011'),
(25582, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14012'),
(25583, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'Crown of Empire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16734'),
(25584, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'Un Bel Di', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16736'),
(25585, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'Frog Pond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16739'),
(25586, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'The St Germain Chronicles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16744'),
(25587, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'Merchant Prince', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16746'),
(25588, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'Long-Term Investment', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16750'),
(25589, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'The Spider Glass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16758'),
(25590, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'A  Baroque Fable', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16761'),
(25591, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro', 'The Meaning Of The Word', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16762'),
(25592, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Olivia 1', 'A Flame in Byzantium', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16753'),
(25593, 'Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - St Germain 2', 'The Palace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16755'),
(25594, 'Cheri Scotch - VooDoo Moon 01', 'The Werewolf&#39;s Kiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16766'),
(25595, 'Cheri Scotch - VooDoo Moon 03', 'The Werewolf&#39;s Sin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16770'),
(25596, 'Cheri Scotch - Voodoo Moon 2', 'The Werewolf&#39;s Touch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16771'),
(25597, 'Cherryh, C J - [Foreigner 01] Foreigner', 'Foreigner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17167'),
(25598, 'Cherryh, C J - [Foreigner 04] Precursor', 'Precursor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17014'),
(25599, 'Cherryh, C J - [Gene Wars 01] Hammerfall', 'Hammerfall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17061'),
(25600, 'Cherryh, C J - Fortress 02- Fortress of Eagles', 'Fortress of Eagles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17156'),
(25601, 'Cherryh, CJ - [Foreigner 05] Defender', 'Defender', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17058'),
(25602, 'Cherryh, CJ - [Union-Alliance] - Finity&#39;s End', 'Finity&#39; s End', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17066'),
(25603, 'Cherryh, CJ -[a Union Alliance Novel] Merchanters Luck', 'Charles Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17090'),
(25604, 'Chesapeake', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener''s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America''s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14013'),
(25605, 'The Chessmen of Mars (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4595'),
(25606, 'The Chessmen of Mars', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4593'),
(25607, 'Chester Anderson', 'The Butterfly Kid', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16773'),
(25608, 'Chester Anderson &amp; Michael Kurland', 'Ten Years to Doomsday', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16775'),
(25609, 'Chicago Wipe-Out', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14014'),
(25610, 'Chichen Itza', 'Alex Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14015'),
(25611, 'The Chick and the Dead', 'Casey Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4598'),
(25612, 'Chicken Soup', 'Katherine Maclean, Mary Kornbluth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14016'),
(25613, 'Chicks &#39;N Chained Males', 'Esther Friesner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AMAZONS ''R USContinuing a great tradition, Chicks ''n Chained Males is not what you think. That place is down the block, on another street, in another city. In fact, if that''s what you''re looking for one of our Chicks, Helga her name is, will be over shortly to give you a send-off you won''t soon forget. (The term Bouncer takes on a whole new meaning....)All we have here is a bunch of perfectly healthy babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis, bearing broad swords and filled with good intentions. Never would such as they stoop to the exploitation of those poor chained males who have suddenly found themselves under their protection and succor. Never would they force those poor boys to do anything they did not wish to do; perish that thought on the nearest sharp blade!No-no -- these chicks are here to rescue these victims of male-abuse from any number of Fates Worse Than Death.... Right here. Right now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14019'),
(25614, 'Chico Kidd', 'The printer&#39;s devil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16781'),
(25615, 'The Chief Designer', 'Andy Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17854'),
(25616, 'Child 44', 'Tom Rob Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A propulsive, relentless page-turner.** **A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.** **A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.** **CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.** *"There is no crime."* Stalin''s Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals. But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov. A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated. Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he''s ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it''s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won''t admit even exists. Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and lives in London. Child 44 is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14021'),
(25617, 'A CHILD AL CONFINO', 'Lamet, Eric', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16126'),
(25618, 'A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini&#39;s Italy', 'Eric Lamet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most accounts of Holocaust survival are centered on central or eastern Europe, in which the Nazi program of genocide was so explicit. Although Mussolini and his Fascist minions were not necessarily genocidal in intention, they were still virulently anti-Semitic as this engrossing and moving account reveals. Lamet was born in Vienna. When he was seven, his familyâ€™s middle-class existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages. They resided in a southern rural hamlet east of Naples until the Allied liberation in 1943. Lamet recounts his motherâ€™s struggles to provide a secure home for her child while both attempt to adjust from their urban, relatively sophisticated background to life in what initially appears to be a bleak, primitive setting. This memoir will be an excellent addition to Holocaust collections. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother''s valiant efforts to make a home for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini''s Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16129'),
(25619, 'Child of a Dead God', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artifact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a murdering Noble Dead, her half-brother Welstiel. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south, on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession. Accompanying Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn, their canine protector Chap, and two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. For forces more powerful than they are rallying around Magiere, arming her for the conflict to come. Because finding the orb may be just the beginning of the challenges that await her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14024'),
(25620, 'Child of Darkness', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14027'),
(25621, 'Child of the Northern Spring: Book One of the Guinevere Trilogy', 'Persia Woolley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of a queen who deserves to become a legend-a startlingly original tale of Arthur &amp; Guinevere** Often portrayed as spoiled, in Persia Woolley''s hands Guinevere comes alive as a high-spirited, passionate woman. When she is chosen by Arthur to be his wife, Guinevere''s independence wars with her family loyalty. As the wedding approaches and hints of rebellion abound, she learns that the old gods are in revolt against the new Christian church, and that scattered kingdoms are stirring from their uneasy peace. This is Arthurian epic at its best, filled with romance, adventure, authentic historical detail, and a landscape alive with the mystery of Britain in the Dark Ages. "This is truly original. As a re-creation of the legend in a version closer to the realities, it''s far better than anything else I''ve read." -Geoffrey Ashe, author of *The Discovery of King Arthur* "This richly detailed novel is romantic, its characters are vivdly drawn, and Woolley''s clear styles flows as smoothly as her unfolding story." -Morgan Llywelyn, author of *Lion of Ireland *and *The Horse Goddess.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20659'),
(25622, 'The Child Thief', 'Brom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischiefâ€”and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life. He appears to lonely, lost childrenâ€”the broken, hopeless, and sexually abusedâ€”promising to take them to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive, and you never grow old. But his promised land is not Neverland. . . . With this haunting, provocative, relentlessly thrilling reconsideration of a timeless children''s classic, the acclaimed artist Brom dramatically displays another side of his extraordinary talent. Exploring the stygian blackness that gathers at the root of the beloved Peter Pan legend, he carries readers into a faerieland at once magically wondrous and deeply disturbing. Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn parkâ€”murdered by drug dealersÂ­â€”had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter''s crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for him now. And what more can he possibly lose? There is *always* more to lose. Accompanying Peter to a gray and ravished island that was once a lush, enchanted paradise, Nick finds himself unwittingly recruited for a war that has raged for centuries. He must learn to fight or die as he struggles to fit in with the "Devils"â€”Peter''s savage tribe of lost and stolen children. Here, Peter''s dark past is revealed: left to wolves as an infant, despised, tormented, and hunted, Peter moves between the worlds of faerie and man, struggling to understand what he is and where he belongs. The Child Thief is a leader of bloodthirsty children, a brave friend, and a creature driven to do whatever he must to kill the dreaded Captain and stop his murderous crew of "Flesh-eaters" before they blight every trace of magic left in this dying land. Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom''s *The Child Thief* is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will, at once, haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16304'),
(25623, 'Childhood&#39;s end', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14035'),
(25624, 'Children', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(25625, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14036'),
(25626, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity. *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship. After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household. In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort. Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim. Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14038'),
(25627, 'The Children Of Dynmouth', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person''s obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14045'),
(25628, 'The Children of Hamlin', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hamlin Massacre -- every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised. Even worse, the colony''s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers. Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors. This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard -- and the crew of the starship Enterprise...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4600');
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(25629, 'Children of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry''s death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian''s and the biographer''s art."Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir''s sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4601'),
(25630, 'The Children Of Hurin', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4608'),
(25631, 'Children of Men', 'James, P. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4613'),
(25632, 'The Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Told with P. D. Jamesâ€™s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4614'),
(25633, 'Children of the Jedi', 'Hambly, Barbara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14049'),
(25634, 'Children Of The Jedi (Barbara Hambly)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14050'),
(25635, 'Children of the Lens', 'Edward Elmer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14054'),
(25636, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14058'),
(25637, 'Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4) (Ender Quartet)', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now in trade paperback for the first time!With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3000 years, is about to be killed by the Starways Congress, which has finally discovered her existence and fears her control of the galaxy-wide interlocked network of computers and ansibles.Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitaniathe Pequeninos, the Hive Queens daughters, and the human colony. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14061'),
(25638, 'Children of the Red King Book 03 Charlie Bone and The Invisible Boy', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14062'),
(25639, 'Children of the Serpent Gate', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14064'),
(25640, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14065'),
(25641, 'Children of the Vampire', 'Jeanne Kalogridis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14068'),
(25642, 'Children of Tomorrow', 'Arthur Leo Zagat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14069'),
(25643, 'Children&#39;s Crusade', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14070'),
(25644, 'Chill Factor', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14074'),
(25645, 'Chill of Night', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retiredâ€”in part because of a gunshot wound, in part his disrespect for the police hierarchyâ€”Beam morosely deals with the inactivity of retirement, tragically complicated by the recent suicide of his wife. When Deputy Chief Andy da Vinci asks for his help in catching a serial murderer dubbed the Justice Killerâ€”each of his victims at one time served as foreman on a jury that acquitted an "obviously" guilty defendantâ€”Beam is lured back to the fold. As the adversary stays one step ahead of the investigation, Beam''s team get the feeling that the Justice Killer may be looking to add them to his growing list of victims. Though it''s a familiar setup, Lutz breathes fresh life into this genre piece by keeping the suspense high and populating his story with a collection of unique characters that resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they''ve all been jurors in the city''s most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there''s only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he''s been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city''s legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he''s outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn''t officially a cop anymore...and he doesn''t have to play by the rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19276'),
(25646, 'The Chill', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4617'),
(25647, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14076'),
(25648, 'Chimera: Isaac Asimov&#39;s Robot Mystery', 'Mark W. Tiedemann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he''s never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. And he hates mysteries. Lanra''s troubles begin with the death of Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis-all were apparently murdered, but why? The only clue might be contained within the positronic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victims, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess, Lanra searches for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost. Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he''s never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. And he hates mysteries. Lanra''s troubles begin with the death of Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis-all were apparently murdered, but why? The only clue might be contained within the positronic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victims, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess, Lanra searches for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14078'),
(25649, 'China Mieville', 'The Scar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16788'),
(25650, 'China Mieville - Details', 'Details', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16790'),
(25651, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14081'),
(25652, 'China&#39;s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy', 'Minxin Pei', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country''s best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative bookÂ­-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-Â­directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.\n  <br />\n  --Elizabeth J. Perry, author of\n  <em>\n   Patrolling the Revolution\n  </em>\n  (20060531)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this superb work, Pei asks penetrating questions about the course of China''s development. He offers a very effective critique of the gradualist approach to reform, explaining that the problems China faces are not incidental to but an integral part of that approach. Powerfully argued, this is a major contribution sure to stir debate.\n  <br />\n  --Joseph Fewsmith, author of\n  <em>\n   China since Tiananmen\n  </em>\n  (20060612)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s notion of a ''trapped transition'' will prove valuableÂ­-and not just for its application to China. It serves to challenge the deterministic and evolutionary assumptions behind much of the literature on democratization.\n  <br />\n  --Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute (20060901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only does Minxin Pei make the case that the Chinese reforms are partial and self-limiting, but he also calls into question the hopeful view that rapid growth will ultimately generate political reform. His important book has implications for current debates about the United States-China relationship, but will also force a rethinking of the broader comparative literature on the developmental state.\n  <br />\n  --Stephan Haggard, co-author of\n  <em>\n   The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions\n  </em>\n  (20061001)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thought-provoking...Mr. Pei argues, persuasively, that China''s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union''s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.\n  <br />\n  --Martin Wolf (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei does not have much time for the optimistic assumption that democracy in China is just around the corner...For Pei, there is little chance of dethroning the Communist party behemoth in spite of the heroic efforts of the dissidents and democracy campaigners.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Patten (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pei sees it, big trouble looms [for China]. Continued progress toward a more modern economy will require the establishment of a true rule of law, which in turn will require ''institutional curbs'' on governmental action. These two limitations on power are incompatible with the party''s insistence on dominating society. So long as the current political framework remains in place, then, China is effectively, and perhaps fatally, trapped in its state of transition...[_China''s Trapped Transition_ presents a] comprehensive and, I believe, compelling understanding of present-day China.\n  <br />\n  --Gordon G. Chang (_Commentary_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] acute and insightful examination of China''s ongoing transition.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Hunter (_China Economic Review_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s most significant contribution lies in his lucid exposition of the causal links between the structural logic of China''s "illiberal adaptation" and its manifest socio-economic and political consequences...He has arguably--like Elvin before him--raised the level of debate and altered the terms of engagement.\n  <br />\n  --Richard Baum (_China Journal_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, Chinaâ€™s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Partyâ€™s reform strategyâ€”pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why Chinaâ€™s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the â€œshock therapyâ€ prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the stateâ€™s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining powerful insights with empirical research,\n  <em>\n   Chinaâ€™s Trapped Transition\n  </em>\n  offers a provocative assessment of Chinaâ€™s future as a great power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070101)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14083'),
(25653, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14082'),
(25654, 'Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart', 'Apart, Things Fall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14085'),
(25655, 'Chocky', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Matthews parents are worried. At eleven, hes much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence Chocky causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14086'),
(25656, 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Discover the delicious mystery that started it all! No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Flukeâ€™s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimesâ€”one delicious clue at a timeâ€”has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and brand new, mouthwatering recipes, this limited edition of the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for secondsâ€¦ Hannah Swenson already has her hands full trying to dodge her motherâ€™s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesotaâ€™s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannahâ€™s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just canâ€™t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. Who would have the sheer audacityâ€”and the motiveâ€”to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah ever had? Topping the list is the high school football coach. What exactly was his wife doing, making the rounds with the milkman? Could Max Turner, owner of Cozy Cow Dairy, have had a secret he didnâ€™t want to share with his top employee? The more Hannah snoops, the more suspects turn up. Why has Lake Edenâ€™s most prominent prodigal son, Benton Woodley, just resurfaced? And what about the mysterious Mr. Harris who seemed interested in buying the property next to the dairy, but then disappeared? This is one murder thatâ€™s starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannahâ€™s mouth. And if she doesnâ€™t watch her back, Hannahâ€™s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. Filled with a healthy sprinkling of humor and a delightful assortment of nuts, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER serves up a great new mystery series and introduces a delicious, down-home sleuth that mystery readers will surely savor for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14087'),
(25657, 'Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World&#39;s Greatest Chocolate Makers', 'Deborah Cadbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A descendant of the Cadbury family of chocolatiers, author Cadbury is also an award-winning documentary producer for the BBC and has seven other books to her credit. The history of chocolate, from its origins as an exotic Aztec beverage to the most prized confectionery in the world, is told here through the eyes of the British Quaker family that transformed a gritty, oily brew into one of the most sought-after delectable treats on the planet. In doing so, the Cadbury brothers turned their fatherâ€™s humble and nearly bankrupt business into a globally dominant corporation in the span of two generations. The path to success was not easy, and Cadbury tells the story of fierce competition from names like Fry, NestlÃ©, Hershey, and Mars, as well as the Dutch and Swiss entrepreneurs who were so crucial in cracking the food chemistry of the cacao bean. Cadbury chronicles 150 years of chocolate wars that only heated up further into a global-merger competition, which saw the venerated Cadbury brand get swallowed up by the food giant Kraft in 2009. This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , October 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Washington Post\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The New Yorker Book Bench\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFor chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonkaâ€™s factory â€“ or at least something that sounds very much like it â€“ was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one familyâ€™s continuous struggle to reconcile religious values â€“ pacifism, austerity, sobriety â€“ with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... Itâ€™s hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Wars\n </em>\n is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Business Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFascinating..._Chocolate Wars_ presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â â€œA fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAlthough written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Sunday Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Chocolate Wars_ â€“ clear, readable and richly detailed â€“ is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , November 15, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadburyâ€™s branch of the Cadbury family wasnâ€™t involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousinsâ€™ company and the reader ofÂ _Chocolate Wars_Â feels they are getting an insiderâ€™s view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Examiner.com, November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe 150-year rivalry among the worldâ€™s greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families.Â Just think what sweetness came out of these families'' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadburyâ€™s chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and NestlÃ©. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFascinatingâ€¦Read this excellent book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, NestlÃ©, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently inÂ _Chocolate Wars_, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  , December 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[_Chocolate Wars_] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, itâ€™s the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadburyâ€™s book, like her namesakeâ€™s famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bnreview.com, December 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world''s greatest chocolate makersâ€”the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and NestlÃ©, and the American upstarts Hershey and Marsâ€”is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14088'),
(25658, 'Choice', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14089'),
(25659, 'Choice Of Graces', 'Robin Aurelian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14090'),
(25660, 'Choice Of The Cat', 'Knight, E. E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13971'),
(25661, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4619'),
(25662, 'the Choirboys (1996)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4621'),
(25663, 'Choke', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be â€œsavedâ€ by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victorâ€™s life, go on to send checks to support him. When heâ€™s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13973'),
(25664, 'Choke: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13974'),
(25665, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4623'),
(25666, 'Chop Line', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13975'),
(25667, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! ** A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts. In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities. Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13977'),
(25668, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta &amp; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18906'),
(25669, 'Chosen', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13978'),
(25670, 'Chosen', 'Jeanne C. Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20733'),
(25671, 'The Chosen One (The Earth Cleansing Series, Book1)', 'Kenneth E. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deadly disease strikes the United States. Ninety percent of the population will die. Several people must come together to protect a woman named Tony who holds the key to stopping the disease.\n <br />\n Against Tony and her protectors are those who caught the disease and lived. These people are deranged and will do anything to stop her.\n <br />\n Outnumbered a thousand to one, will Tony-s protectors get to her in time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4626'),
(25672, 'The Chosen', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there''s more to the apparitions of Santo NiÃ±o--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja''s own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young artist whose genius portrays a truth too potent for words and a famed monster hunter with a terrifying agenda are the keys to the secrets that lie in the heart of Los Alamos--and unlocking the door to the very fabric of time itself .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4624'),
(25673, 'Chosen: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for The House of Night:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13981'),
(25674, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong. Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13985'),
(25675, 'Chris Beckett', 'The Perimeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16627'),
(25676, 'Chris Beckett', 'Piccadilly Circus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16629'),
(25677, 'Chris Beckett', 'Dark Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16795'),
(25678, 'Chris Bunch', 'Corsair', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16655'),
(25679, 'Chris Bunch', 'Mirror', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16657');
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(25680, 'Chris Bunch - Dragonmaster 01', 'Storm of Wings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16673'),
(25681, 'Chris Bunch - Dragonmaster 02', 'Knighthood of the Dragon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16649'),
(25682, 'Chris Bunch - Legion 1', 'The Last Legion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16664'),
(25683, 'Chris Bunch - Legion 2', 'Firemask', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16637'),
(25684, 'Chris Bunch - Legion 3', 'Storm Force', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16641'),
(25685, 'Chris Bunch - Shadow Warrior 1', 'The Wind After Time', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16675'),
(25686, 'Chris Bunch - Shadow Warrior 2', 'Hunt The Heavens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16667'),
(25687, 'Chris Bunch - Star Risk 01', 'Star Risk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16661'),
(25688, 'Chris Bunch - Star Risk 2', 'The Scoundrel Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16669'),
(25689, 'Chris Bunch - Star Risk 3', 'The Doublecross Program', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16662'),
(25690, 'Chris Bunch - Star Risk 4', 'The Dog From Hell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16642'),
(25691, 'Chris Bunch - The Seer King 1', 'The Seer King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16671'),
(25692, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Alan Cole - Sten 1', 'Sten', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16659'),
(25693, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole', 'The Far Kingdoms', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16647'),
(25694, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 2', 'The Wolf Worlds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16644'),
(25695, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 3', 'The Court of a Thousand Suns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16636'),
(25696, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 4', 'Fleet of the Damned', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16651'),
(25697, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 5', 'Revenge of the Damned', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16653'),
(25698, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 6', 'The Return of the Emperor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16631'),
(25699, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 7', 'Vortex', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16640'),
(25700, 'Chris Bunch &amp; Allan Cole - Sten 8', 'Empires End', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16633'),
(25701, 'Chris Carter &amp; Elizabeth Hand - The X Files', 'Fight the Future', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16677'),
(25702, 'Chris Claremont', 'First Flight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16681'),
(25703, 'Chris Claremont - Shadow War 3', 'Shadow Star', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16679'),
(25704, 'Chris Dolley', 'Resonance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16683'),
(25705, 'Chris Lawson', 'Empathy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16685'),
(25706, 'Chris Lawson', 'Written in Blood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16687'),
(25707, 'Chris Moriarty', 'Spin Control', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16689'),
(25708, 'Chris Roberson', 'Companion to Owls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16692'),
(25709, 'Chris Roberson', 'Gold Mountain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16694'),
(25710, 'Chris Roberson', 'Wishes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16697'),
(25711, 'Chris Wooding - The Braided Path 1', 'Weavers of Saramyr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16698'),
(25712, 'Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The bookâ€™s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing, and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of the young Jesus who tells the story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13990'),
(25713, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of *The Reformation* returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time ** Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch''s *Christianity* is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith. *Christianity* will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus'' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity''s essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II. We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, *The Reformation*, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13992'),
(25714, 'Christie Golden', 'On Fire&#39;s Wings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16701'),
(25715, 'Christie Golden', 'Vampires in the Mist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16708'),
(25716, 'Christie Golden - Final Dance 2', 'In Stone&#39;s Clasp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16706'),
(25717, 'Christie Golden - Ravenloft 03', 'Dance of the Dead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16703'),
(25718, 'Christie Golden - Warcraft', 'Lord of the Clans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16705'),
(25719, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13994'),
(25720, 'Christine Falls', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman''s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman''s history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned-first subtly, then with violence-to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville''s writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13995'),
(25721, 'Christine W. Murphy', 'Through Iowa Glass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16710'),
(25722, 'Christine W. Murphy', 'At Your Command', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16713'),
(25723, 'A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens', 'Dickens, Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS TITLE IS AN OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT BOOK. THE QUALITY OF THE CONVERTED EBOOK WILL VARY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16134'),
(25724, 'A Christmas carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16132'),
(25725, 'Christmas Carol, The Chimes &amp; The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14017'),
(25726, 'Christmas in the Catskills', 'Michael Libling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14018'),
(25727, 'Christmas Past', 'Christmas Past', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14020'),
(25728, 'A Christmas Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While bestseller Perry doesn''t offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  A Christmas Grace\n </em>\n ), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in Whitechapel. As the 1883 holiday season nears in London''s East End, 13-year-old Gracie Phipps, a supporting character in Perry''s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (_Buckingham Palace Gardens_, etc.), encounters a woebegone younger child, Minnie Maude Mudway, on the mean streets of her neighborhood. Minnie is looking for a missing donkey, Charlie, which belonged to her beloved uncle Alf. The animal disappeared the day before, around the same time Alf, a bone-and-rag dealer, was killed. The two girls turn detective in an effort to find Charlie as well as the truth about how Alf died. Mr. Balthasar, a shopkeeper who assists in the sleuthing, lends an appealing Holmesian touch.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Perryâ€™s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two_ New York Times_ bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk.\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n is the seventh in Perryâ€™s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of Londonâ€™s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie.\n</p>\n<p>\n However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maudeâ€™s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlieâ€“and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandoraâ€™s box of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme,\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16136'),
(25729, 'The Christmas train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4629'),
(25730, 'The Chrome Borne', 'Mercedes Lackey &amp; Larry Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tannim is a human mage fond of fast cars and loud music, working with the elf lord Keighvin to rescue runaway kids in serious trouble. But those kids are being used by Keighvin''s enemies to bait a trap. What''s more, Tannim''s predilection for dangerous women may turn lethal. He thinks he''s found Ms. Right, but she seems to want to kill him. Tannim''s magery is sometimes erratic -- but his talent for getting himself into trouble is perfect!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4630'),
(25731, 'Chrome Pastures', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14022'),
(25732, 'Chromosome Circus', 'Amy Sterling Casil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18011'),
(25733, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14023'),
(25734, 'Chronicler Of The Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A major event in publishing - Henning Mankell''s departure from the crime genre will attract huge interest and this mesmerising fable will broaden his readership\n</p>\n<p>\n One night JosÃ© Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre''s uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his story.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, but instead he turned the gun on the bandit and ran. He made his way to the coast, encountering en route bizarre characters who gave him guidance. Upon arrival in the city...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14025'),
(25735, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 1 - The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4634'),
(25736, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 2 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4633'),
(25737, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 3 - The Horse and His Boy', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3621'),
(25738, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 4 - Prince Caspian', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7437'),
(25739, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 5 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
(25740, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 6 - The Silver Chair', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2240'),
(25741, 'The Chronicles of Narnia 7 - The Last Battle', 'Lewis, C. S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4632'),
(25742, 'Chronicles of Nick 02 - Invincible', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When teenager Nick Gautier was saved from almost-certain death by a mysterious warrior, he had a feeling his life was set to change. Fighting the undead has taken the place of fighting with his teachers (well ...almost) and Nick is learning to rely on his powers to protect the world from evil he could never before have imagined. Then, just when he thought things couldn''t get any worse, he wakes up to find himself enslaved in a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul. He''s being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn''t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14026'),
(25743, 'The chronicles of Pern: first fall', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time, a long time ago, even before the classic novel Dragonflight was written, a story was published. It was called "Weyr Search" and it introduced to the world the incredible Dragonriders of Pern. Now, Anne McCaffrey celebrates a quarter-century of dragons and dragonriders as she returns to the form that started it all: the first-ever Pern short-story collection! Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as she brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction. Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent, as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernese ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill with the dragonriders as they expand into a second, then a third Weyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4635'),
(25744, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INo matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major. It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism. They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live until due time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I\n </p>\n <p>\n  No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live--until due time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Lord Marshal knew this better than anyone. While longing for his own time of passing to arrive, he continued to consecrate his continuing existence on the present plane of existence by seeing to it that as many as possible of his unaware, improperly informed fellow humans preceded him onward toward bliss. During the preceding days, many had done so here on Aquila Major. A great many.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clad in battle armor that was intended as much to instill fear and intimidate any who cast eyes upon it as it was to protect its wearer, he stood scowling thoughtfully at the scene of desolation and redemption that flamed below him. The fires were beginning to die out. While the capital had been taken, opposition to the balm and comfort his people brought remained strong in other cities and in isolated pockets across the planet. There was still much work to be done on Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to its final outcome, the Lord Marshal had no doubt. Some worlds resisted the bringing of the message more obstinately than others. A few proved sensible and buckled under at the mere sight of the Necromongers'' ships. Such worlds were much more to the Lord Marshal''s taste. While they were to be admired for having reached a newer, higher state of being, dead resistance fighters were no use to the great cause. The deceased were to be envied, but could not be recruited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nevertheless, by craft or cajoling, by force or by bribery, the faith was advanced. Aquila Major was only the latest, not the last. No time was to be wasted here. As soon as the last pockets of resistance had been eliminated, the armada would move to the next, carrying enlightenment and revelation to the disbelieving. How he longed for his own moment of finality, for his turn to be done with this sordid, unnatural temporal plane!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he could not simply embrace that of which he knew so much. Having striven to rise to the exalted position of lord marshal, it did not behoove him to surrender it voluntarily. By the edicts of his kind he was compelled to master all that it offered, by offering his talents to the cause. This he would continue to do. That he would not be the one to finish the work he knew well, as had the various lord marshals who had preceded him. That he would be joining them eventually he also knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But first, there was much work to be done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vaako stood nearby. A fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right. While his attention was focused on the Lord Marshal, that of the saintly Purifier, who stood nearby, was directed at the destruction below. Neither man spoke. There was no need. They had done what needed to be done, and saw no reason to comment on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nor did the Lord Marshal have anything to say. The fire and smoke, the ruined buildings and flaming vegetation beneath them were more eloquent than anything those beholding it could have voiced. There were times when it was best to say nothing, he knew. Time enough for discussion later, when the last of Aquila Major''s resistance had been eliminated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Turning, he moved up the steps on which he stood. His commanders and the chief spiritual adviser of their people followed. Once they were within the Basilica, the massive portal, through which they had briefly emerged to view in person the horrendous yet beautiful vista below, closed tightly behind them, sealing them in the ship that was their home and their purpose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumbling to itself, the immense Basilica vessel that had been hovering over the once-striking and now thrice-struck capital city lifted skyward. Slowly at first, but with a gathering speed and momentum that were as formidable as the purpose for which it had been built.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are habitable worlds, and there are uninhabitable worlds. There are also worlds that can be rendered marginally habitable, but never should be. Foremost among the latter was a hellish, geologically schizoid, melted and re-formed planetary body of unremarkable size and appearance whose astronomical designation no one bothered to repeat because it had long since been supplanted in the vernacular by the name that had been given to it by its inhabitants. Or rather, its inmates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crematoria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On most worlds, the time just before sunrise is a period of calm and preparation. Of quiet introspection and looking-forward. A time to awaken and gather oneself in readiness for a bright, new day. On Crematoria, pre-sunrise was a time to be denied, avoided, shunned. This was one world where dawn killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The two prison guards lugging their burden along the rough path that wound its tortured way through the scarred, twisted lava field knew that. They moved with the urgency of men assigned to an unpleasant duty that they had tried, and failed, to avoid. The fact that their load consisted of one of their own engendered no special feelings of additional sympathy on their part, even though they knew it could just as easily have been one of them. The fact that the dead man was a former colleague and friend did not make his demised corpus any less heavy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relieved at having reached their destination, they finally halted near a shallow depression that had been machine gouged from reluctant rock. The small hollow was not empty. It was filled with ash, from which protruded a few angular objects. On closer inspection, one became recognizable as a human femur, another as part of a skull. The rest were well on their way to being reduced to the powder that was slowly engulfing them. No artificial agency had been employed to reduce these remnants of what had once been human beings to their constituent chemical components. None was needed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They only had to wait for sunrise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the container they had been carrying, the two men extracted the body of a third and dumped him unceremoniously onto the pile, sending up a small cloud of dust. The body was not intact. It was marred by deep bruises and multiple lacerations. One glance was enough to tell that these wounds had not been incurred in a fall or some other accident. The unfortunate had been involved in a fight that, as clear as the sharp-edged horizon, he had lost. Among the few effects that still adorned his corpse was a visual ident that read "V. Pavlov." Some wag back in the prison had ventured to say that the guard had died like a dog. No one had laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anxious pair who had been charged with conveying the former V. Pavlov to his final resting place looked around uneasily, plainly in a hurry to get away from where they were. There was no thought of digging a grave. It would be a wasted exercise. None would arrive to bear witness over it or view it. Anything they might erect over such an excavation would quickly go the way of the body itself. Crematoria would see to that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Should we, uh, say something? I mean, I knew Vladimir pretty well. He wasn''t a bad guy." On Crematoria, this might be considered a high\n  <br />\n  compliment: one that could be applied equally to guard or prisoner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His companion was gazing nervously eastward. The dull maroon glow that had been seeping over the ragged, distant mountains was beginning to pale toward crimson. Very soon now it would fade to pink, then yellow, and then to white. When it turned white, anything organic would do well to be as far underground as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure. Recite a whole sermon, if you want.&amp;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4636'),
(25745, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18105'),
(25746, 'Chronicles Of The Area Man', 'The Onion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Take a look back at the Onion''s coverage of this generation''s most prominent newsmaker -- the Area Man. The Onion is already universally known for providing the best and most ground-breaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America''s Finest News Source. In this incisive and timeless collection, Chronicles Of The Area Man includes such stirring reports as "Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree," "Area Woman To Get By On Looks For Six More Years," "Area Grandparents Still Have No Idea What Grandson Does For A Living," and the classic story of perseverance, "Area Man Makes It Through Day." With this collection of the Onion''s best local coverage, you''ll see there''s a little bit of the Area Man inside us all.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2847'),
(25747, 'Chronicles of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more . . . This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie and David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition. Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSE With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice, and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyoteâ€™ STEVEN ERIKSON\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14028'),
(25748, 'chronospace', 'Information Systems', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17996'),
(25749, 'The Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4639'),
(25750, 'Chthon 2 - Phthor', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14029'),
(25751, 'Chthon by Piers', 'Anthony, Piers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14030'),
(25752, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14031'),
(25753, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18913'),
(25754, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14032'),
(25755, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18915'),
(25756, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14037'),
(25757, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18916'),
(25758, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include: The Jack Factor Appetite for Replication That ''70s Cruise In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love Band on the Couch Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button Dude Rocks Like a Lady Fargo Rock City, for Real Singularity Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14039'),
(25759, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14040'),
(25760, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. ** Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14041'),
(25761, 'Ciara Gold', 'Celestial Dragon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16621'),
(25762, 'Ciara&#39;s Song', 'Andre Norton - Witch World - The Turning 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17928'),
(25763, 'Cinderella', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14042');
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(25764, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller\n <em>\n  Schoolgirls\n </em>\n reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a sourceâ€”the sourceâ€”of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, realistically, how many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-size wedding gown or the latest Hannah Montana CD? And how dangerous is pink and pretty anywayâ€”especially given girls'' successes in the classroom and on the playing field? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they? Does playing Cinderella shield girls from early sexualizationâ€”or prime them for it? Could today''s little princess become tomorrow''s sexting teen? And what if she does? Would that make her in charge of her sexualityâ€”or an unwitting captive to it?\n</p>\n<p>\n Those questions hit home with Peggy Orenstein, so she went sleuthing. She visited Disneyland and the international toy fair, trolled American Girl Place and Pottery Barn Kids, and met beauty pageant parents with preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than sheâ€”or weâ€”ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniableâ€”yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters'' lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cinderella Ate My Daughter\n </em>\n is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Exclusive Note from Peggy Orenstein\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As a mom, I admit, I was initially tempted to give the new culture of pink and pretty a pass. There are already so many things to be vigilant about as a parent; my energy was stretched to its limit. So my daughter slept in a Cinderella gown for a few years. Girls will be girls, right?\n</p>\n<p>\n They willâ€”and that is exactly why we need to pay more, rather than less, attention to whatâ€™s happening in their world. According to the American Psychological Association, the emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness at ever-younger ages is increasing girlsâ€™ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: eating disorders, negative body image, depression, risky sexual behavior. Yet here we are with nearly half of six-year-old girls regularly using lipstick or lip gloss. The percentage of eight- to twelve-year-old girls wearing eyeliner or mascara has doubled in the last TWO years (I ask you: shouldnâ€™t the percentage of eight-year-olds wearing eyeliner be zero?). A researcher told me that when she asks teenage girls how a sexual experience felt to them they respond by telling her how they think they looked. Meanwhile, the marketing of pink, pretty, and â€œsassyâ€ has become a gigantic business: the Disney Princesses alone are pulling in four BILLION dollars in revenue annually.\n</p>\n<p>\n As I immersed myself in the research for this book, I began to trace a line from the innocence of Cinderella to the struggles Miley Cyrus has faced in trying to â€œage up,â€ which in turn was connected to how regular girls present themselves on Facebook (where identity itself becomes a performance, crafted in response to your audience of 322 BFFs). It seemed that even as new educational and professional opportunities unfurled before my daughter and her peers, so did the path that encouraged them to equate identity with image, self-expression with appearance, femininity with performance, pleasure with pleasing, and sexuality with sexualization.\n</p>\n<p>\n So much is at stake, for mothers with girls of all ages: How do we define girlhood? What about femininity? Beauty? Sexuality? Our choices will tell our girls how we see them, who we want them to be, our values, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Do we want them to be judged by the content of their character or the color of their lip gloss?\n</p>\n<p>\n Iâ€™m the first to admit that I do not have all the answers. Who could? But as a mother who also happens to be a journalist (or perhaps vice versa), I wanted to lay out the contextâ€”the marketing, science, history, cultureâ€”in which we make our choices, to provide information and insight that might help parents, educators, and all of us who care about girls guide them toward their true happily-ever-afters.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orenstein, who has written about girls for nearly two decades (Schoolgirls), finds today''s pink and princess-obsessed girl culture grating when it threatens to lure her own young daughter, Daisy. In her quest to determine whether princess mania is merely a passing phase or a more sinister marketing plot with long-term negative impact, Orenstein travels to Disneyland, American Girl Place, the American International Toy Fair; visits a children''s beauty pageant; attends a Miley Cyrus concert; tools around the Internet; and interviews parents, historians, psychologists, marketers, and others. While she uncovers some disturbing news (such as the American Psychological Association''s assertion that the "girlie-girl" culture''s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls'' susceptibility to depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, and risky sexual behavior), she also finds that locking one''s daughter away in a tower like a modern-day Rapunzel may not be necessary. Orenstein concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat. With insight and biting humor, the author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14043'),
(25765, 'Cindrella, Inc', 'Christopher Anvil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16611'),
(25766, 'Cinnabar Shadows', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruction to the haven. Mahtra, who fled sunlit Urik for the dark undercity, must now emerge to set all to right. Her quest leads her to the palace of a sorcerer-king, to an ancient druidic grove, and beyond...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14044'),
(25767, 'Cinnamon Skin', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Travis McGee''s friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it''s no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed...."Proves again that MacDonald keeps getting better with each new adventure."THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14046'),
(25768, 'Circle of Death', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shapeshifter/Witch Romance. 78212 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14047'),
(25769, 'Circle of Fire', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shapeshifter/PsychicRomance. 77383 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14051'),
(25770, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Bennythe only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Evethe orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother''s wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Bennythey knew the sins and secrets behind every villager''s lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor''s handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14053'),
(25771, 'The Circular Staircase', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4642'),
(25772, 'The Circus of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Why on earth did Bill have to bring Gustavus on vacation? Neither Jack nor Kiki the parrot like the boy at all, but when Gustavus is kidnapped, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack must bravely travel to a faraway country and unravel a plot to kill the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4644'),
(25773, 'A Circus of Hells - Flandy #9', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16137'),
(25774, 'A Circus of Hells', 'Anderson, Poul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16139'),
(25775, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake''s town, a battle of the undead ensues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14057'),
(25776, 'Cirque du Freak', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine''s Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan''s first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding buzz; this one even has Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling''s stamp of approval: "Fast-paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches," she writes. Warner Brothers will be making it into a movie, and the rest of the series is already in the works. Given all that, you''d expect a tour de force! Really, though,\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n is a thrill ride that will keep even the most reluctant readers turning pages, but will never take its place in the literary canon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren Shan, author and narrator, sets the book up as a true story, warning readers: "Real life''s nasty. It''s cruel.... Evil often wins." Indeed, evil begins to win when Darren and his buddies find a flier for "Cirque Du Freak," a traveling freak show promising performances by the snake-boy, the wolf-man, and Larten Crepsley and his giant spider, Madame Octa. Darren and his friend Steve wouldn''t miss it for the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, Saturday night they sneak out to the old theater, tall and dark, with broken windows. "Every act you see tonight is real," croaks Mr. Tall. "Each performer is unique. And none are harmless." That''s for sure. (A werewolf bites off the hand of someone in the audience, for instance.) Things grow very serious for the two boys when Steve not only recognizes Mr. Crepsley as a famous vampire, but professes his true desire to join him! To make matters worse, the spider-obsessed Darren goes back to the old theater to steal Madame Octa so he can teach her tricks in his room. (He does, with mixed results.) The plot further coagulates as Darren is faced with some terrible decisions about what to do to save his bloodthirsty friend Steve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers may be too enthralled to notice some clumsy editing (the aforementioned bitten-off hand is later referred to as an arm, Darren stops dead in his tracks when he''s already stopped, etc.). They may also not notice that the boys constantly use adult-sounding expressions like "his breath stank to the high heavens," though the book is clearly set in the 21st century. If this book gets under your kids'' skin (and it probably will), they''re in luck--we haven''t heard the last of the Saga of Darren Shan. (Ages 10 and older, not for the faint of heart)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with best friend Steve to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler, Mr. Crepsley. "This is a true story," writes Shan. "In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins." The scenario is compelling, and the author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre "Cirque du Freak." But Darren''s actions are often undermotivated: "I can''t explain why Madam Octa [the spider] meant so much to me, or why I was placing my life in such danger to have her. Looking back, I''m no longer sure what drove me on." Also his intermittent attraction to and repulsion by the vampire is never fully explored. His behavior may be explained in the sequel, The Vampire''s Assistant (due in Sept.), but the open ending leaves so many loose ends that readers may leave more frustrated than intrigued, especially since the characters'' wooden dialogue drains them of personality ("I''m upset," says Steve. "It hurt, what Mr. Crepsley said, and you ignoring me at school... If you break up our friendship, I don''t know what I''ll do"). Readers interested in boys becoming vampires would be better served by M.T. Anderson''s Thirsty and those fascinated with freaks by Iain Lawrence''s Ghost Boy. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14059'),
(25777, 'Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition', 'Michael W. Lucas; Michael W. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Cisco Routers for the Desperate\n </i>\n is a brief, meaty introduction to Cisco routers and switches designed to get you comfortable with the Cisco environment, teach you how to troubleshoot problems, and take you through the basics of switch and router maintenance and integration into an existing network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14063'),
(25778, 'Cities of The Plain: The Border Trilogy/3', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad JuÃ¡rez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16272'),
(25779, 'Citizen of the Galaxy', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster . . .OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man''s message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . .CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14067'),
(25780, 'Citizen Soldiers', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14071'),
(25781, 'Citizen Soldiers [Condensed]', 'Stephen Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14073'),
(25782, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14075'),
(25783, 'City', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16471'),
(25784, 'City &amp; the Ship', 'Anne McCaffrey - Ship 8', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17821'),
(25785, 'The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity''s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city. The Sands Of Mars: Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red planet. Its a dream come true, until he discovers the perils of survival on another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4648'),
(25786, 'City at the end of time', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people - Ginny, Jack, and Daniel - dream of a doomed, decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny and Jack''s dreams overtake them without warning."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum-runners on behalf of a terrifying, goddess-like entity known as the Chalk Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn, despite themselves, into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the future."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14077'),
(25787, 'The City At World&#39;s End', 'Edmond Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The line of guns and stolid men remained unmoved. Kenniston considered trying to crash it, and gave that up at once. The lieutenant was watching him suspiciously, so suspiciously that an uncomfortable thought occurred to Kenniston. He spoke the language and he had worked closely with the star-folk, and the good people of Middletown might just possibly take him for a traitor or a spy...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4650'),
(25788, 'The City in the Lake', 'Rachel Neumeier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The City is beautiful at sunset, almost as beautiful as the Lake itself. The waters of the Lake run with crimson and flame-orange and deep lavender as the sun sinks beyond its farther shore, colors pouring across the water all the way to Tiger Bridge. At that moment the exotic lilies carved into the Bridge, crumbling with age, look whole and alive in the moving light and cerulean shadows. But after darkness falls, it will be the tigers of the Bridge that look real and alive. They shake themselves out of stone and come down from their pedestals, the lambent fires of sunset in their eyes, to stalk on great velvet paws through the night--so it is said. At the moment between sunset and dark, the wind off the Lake sometimes dies and the air becomes utterly still. If that pause lasts long enough, it is said, the water becomes a mirror in which a man may see his true face reflected, as well as the reflection of the eternal City. Few would linger at Tiger Bridge to look into the still Lake at that moment, both because truth can be a dangerous thing and because of the tigers that wake out of stone in the night. But that is the story that people in the City tell. That, at least, is a true story. The Bastard, who did not fear velvet-footed hunters, came to Tiger Bridge sometimes to watch the sun set and look into the glass-still Lake. The face he saw in the water was indeed not the face the simple mirror in his Palace apartments reflected. The Bastard could not have explained even to himself where, precisely, the difference lay. But it was to try to find out that he came to Tiger Bridge. The Bastard had a name: Neill. He had a place in the court as elder brother to Prince Cassiel and son of Drustan, who was King. But he was not the son of Ellis, the Queen. The Bastard''s mother had been a woman who had wandered into the City and the King''s bed from some far country beyond the shores of the Lake, beyond the farthest borders of the Kingdom. She had given her son her fine ivory skin, her ash-pale hair, and her dark secretive eyes. And she had given him a heritage that ran outside the bounds of the Kingdom, a mixed blessing at best. The woman had lived in the City for a season, for a year--long enough to carry and bear the King''s son. Then she had walked out of the City. Though I go, this child will keep my presence always near you, she had said to the King, laying the baby in his hands--so the tale went. May he flourish in this Kingdom. Possibly the King did not appreciate reminders of his dalliance, especially once he married his Queen. It was well known he did not favor his illegitimate first-born son. Still, if he did not love Neill, he acknowledged him and kept him close to power. Kings have no need to be ashamed of the evidence of their indiscretions as other men may, and more than one royal bastard has grown up to rule when all the children born on the right side of the blanket have been sickly, or girls. From childhood, then, the court had called the boy Lord Neill to his face with careful deference, and, behind his back, sometimes with no less respect, Lord Bastard. When the Bastard was twelve years old, the true Prince was born, merry and bold even as a baby and beloved by all the City. By that time, folk in both the Palace and the City had learned well the habit of respect toward his elder half brother. The Bastard, even as a child, had a way of kee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4651'),
(25789, 'City of', 'Angel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17204'),
(25790, 'The City of - Book 1', 'Baker, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4654'),
(25791, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   City of Bones\n  </em>\n  , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18587'),
(25792, 'The City of Brass', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4655'),
(25793, 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns are spirits said to be seen only after prolonged fasting and prayer; they too are integral to understanding the city. The author, a young Scot carrying on the fine British tradition of travel writing, has a knack for meeting fascinating people and capturing their most revealing remarks. He introduces us to dervishes, eunuchs, partridge fighting, weddings, and expatriates. His wife contributes sketches that nicely complement his text. Considering the importance of Delhi, the capital of the world''s second most populous nation, this book deserves to be in most public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India'' TLS ''Now read by Tim Pigott-Smith, City of Djinns gets a wonderful new lease of life. Dalrymple has a rare gift for historical narrative and catches the engaging, Anglo-Indian speech of his cast with telling accuracy.'' Independent 23/5/98\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16191'),
(25794, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13918'),
(25795, 'The City of Ember: Book 1', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves--and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve-year-old Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet seem to be the only people who are worried. They have just been assigned their life jobs--Lina as a messenger, which leads her to knowledge of some unsettling secrets, and Doon as a Pipeworker, repairing the plumbing in the tunnels under the city where a river roars through the darkness. But when Lina finds a very old paper with enigmatic "Instructions for Egress," they use the advantages of their jobs to begin to puzzle out the frightening and dangerous way to the city of light of which Lina has dreamed. As they set out on their mission, the haunting setting and breathless action of this stunning first novel will have teens clamoring for a sequel. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Patty Campbell\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“This truly superb audio recording of the novel by Jeane DuPrau (Random, 2003) takes place in the dark city of Ember, a decaying place with no natural light surrounded by the vast Unknown. Although ancestors had arranged for information on leaving Ember to be made available after the inhabitants have spent 200 years there, a corrupt mayor lost the information many years before the novel begins. Two hundred and forty-one years later, Ember''s electrical lighting frequently fails, supplies are dwindling, and the populace is growing increasingly frightened. Twelve-year-old Doon and his acquaintance Lina are intent on finding a way to save Ember. After Lina finds a mysterious and fragmented paper titled "Instructions for Egress," they think they have a way out. Can they escape from the villainous mayor and his soldiers? Can they figure out the missing letters and words in the message? Do they find their way out of Ember and up to a post-apocalyptic Earth? Wendy Dillon, one of the most talented readers of audiobooks, does an amazing job of creating different voices for each character, has absolutely perfect diction, and skillfully conveys the building suspense. Exceptional care has been taken to faithfully convey the author''s excellent tale through a combination of a superior narrator and evocative sound effects. This engaging novel is an exceptional audiobook.â€“_B.Allison Gray, John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4659'),
(25796, 'City of Ghosts', 'Stacia Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ITâ€™S A THIN LINE BETWEEN ALIVE AND UNDEAD. Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, and Chessâ€™s bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to crack the grisly case.Chess is under a binding spell that threatens death if she talks about the investigation, but the cityâ€™s most notorious crime bossâ€”and Chessâ€™s drug dealerâ€”gets wind of her new assignment and insists on being kept informed. If that isnâ€™t bad enough, a sinister street vendor appears to have information Chess needs. Only heâ€™s not telling what he knows, or what it all has to do with the vast underground City of Eternity.Now Chess will have to navigate killer wraiths, First Elders, and a lot of seriously nasty magicâ€”all while coping with some not-so-small issues of her own. And the only man Chess can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13920'),
(25797, 'The City of Gold and Lead', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4660'),
(25798, 'City of Gold and Shadows', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn''t turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest until her missing relative was found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13924'),
(25799, 'City of Hope &amp; Despair: City of a Hundred Rows', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins &amp; Gods | Soul Thief! ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13934'),
(25800, 'City of Lies', 'R. J. Ellory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father''s acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. Then everything changes. A liquor store heist goes wrong - and turns John''s existence on its head. It seems that his father didn''t die all those years ago. In fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it''s time for father and son to meet at last . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13936'),
(25801, 'City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13938'),
(25802, 'City of Reason', 'Matthew Jarpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13941'),
(25803, 'City of Ruin', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire''s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disappearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and holds a degree in Environmental Science. After working in bookselling, he moved into editorial positions at imprints covering film and media tie-in fiction, and later, science fiction and fantasy. He currently lives and works in Nottingham. For more information and updates, visit his website www.markcnewton.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13942'),
(25804, 'City of Souls', 'Vicki Pettersson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13945'),
(25805, 'The City of Splendors - Book 4', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4663'),
(25806, 'City of the Dead', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13949'),
(25807, 'City of the Dead - Book 4', 'Jones, Rosemary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13947'),
(25808, 'City of the Living Dead', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13952'),
(25809, 'City of Torment - Book 2', 'Cordell, Bruce R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13955'),
(25810, 'City of Towers: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coastâ€™s newest D&amp;D&amp;#174; campaign setting. Author Keith Bakerâ€™s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games. AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13956'),
(25811, 'City of War', 'Neil Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russell''s uneven debut pits hunky billionaire adventurer Rail Black against an unlikely combo of villains. Stuck in L.A. freeway gridlock, Rail is shocked to see drop-dead gorgeous Kimberly York, entirely naked, escape from a nearby van. She winds up in his Rolls-Royce and soon reveals that she possesses information of a highly sensitive nature, which has made her a target. Rail wants to help her, but his only lead is the enigmatic phrase city of war, and there''s little excitement in his efforts to glean further clues from the kind of offbeat friends and colleagues that only billionaire adventurers seem to have. There''s not enough action for a thriller and not enough intrigue for a mystery, and a glut of description and dialogue will leave readers snoozing.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel City of War is a first novel for Neil Russell and if this thriller is any indication of the style of writing that he has I canâ€™t wait to read more...This is a must read for anyone who loves a smart, sexy thriller.â€ (Bestsellersworld.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike a James Bond thriller, Neil Russellâ€™s City of War takes readers on an extreme rollercoaster ride of jet set thrills and chills... It would make quite the movie.â€ (Bookloons.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly gripping, City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knifeâ€™s edge of exciting suspense that doesnâ€™t release the reader until the last page. (Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeil Russell has to be one of the finest, skilled, and accomplished writers in the country, a true master of intrigue.â€ (Clive Cussler )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13958'),
(25812, 'The City Who Fought', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4665'),
(25813, 'The City Who Fought', 'Anne McCaffrey - Ship 4', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17830'),
(25814, 'A civil campaign: a comedy of biology and manners', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One cunning plan too many? It''s spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ...money ...bio-genetics ...love ...lack of money ...incompatible planetary sexual mores ...love ...District succession scandals ...the Emperor''s wedding ...and, of course, love ...Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can''t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won''t do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan ...Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can''t solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan...''It''s another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures ...Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and Style!  A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel...Boy, can she write'' - Anne McCaffrey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16141');
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(25815, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4667'),
(25816, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4671'),
(25817, 'The Civil War: A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4670'),
(25818, 'Civilian Slaughter', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A shaky truce has been called, and Major Revell''s Special Combat Company has been assigned mundane duties. But when evidence turns up of civilians being slaughtered by a KGB battalion, Revell and his men take matters into their own hands, waging merciless war on the vicious Reds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13960'),
(25819, 'The Civilisation Game &amp; Other Stories', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16557'),
(25820, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times [Praise for The Ascent of Money] An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13961'),
(25821, 'CJ Cherryh - [ Rusalka 0l ] Rusalka', 'Rusalka', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17177'),
(25822, 'CJ Cherryh - [Foreigner 02] INVADER', 'Invader', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17083'),
(25823, 'CJ Cherryh - [Foreigner 03] Inheritor', 'Inheritor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17075'),
(25824, 'CJ Cherryh - [Union-Alliance] Rimrunners', 'Charles Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17047'),
(25825, 'CJ Cherryh [Merovingen Nights 01] Angel with The Sword', 'Angel &amp; the Sword', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17163'),
(25826, 'CJCHER~1.RTF', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17031'),
(25827, 'CJCHER~2.RTF', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17028'),
(25828, 'CJCHER~3.RTF', 'Administrator', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17037'),
(25829, 'Claimed', 'Evangeline Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brides of the Kindred  A race of Genetic Traders from beyond the stars Three very different types of Alpha males All focused on one thingâ€¦claiming their brides  In all their years of travel the Kindred have come across only three worlds with species close enough to their own to initiate a trade.  Earth is the fourth. Olivia Waterhouse is about to be Claimed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13962'),
(25830, 'Claimed By a Scottish Lord', 'Melody Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Dragon''s Captive\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Raised behind the walls of Hope Abbey, Rose Lancaster''s sheltered upbringing never prepared her for a man like Lord Roxburghe. The fabled "Black Dragon," Ruark Kerr hasn''t been seen in his Scottish homeland for more than a decadeâ€”and now he has burst into Rose''s world to take her hostage, intending to trade her for the life of his young brother. But Rose does not fear this savage, powerful lord . . . and she guards a dangerous secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Villainy called Ruark back to the borderlands, but now that he''s claimed his "prize" his path is less certain. If he does not turn her over to his enemy, a boy may die. Yet gentle, lovely Rose soothes his vengeful spirit, and the longer she remains with him, the hotter his passion for her burns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13963'),
(25831, 'Claimed by Shadow', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13964'),
(25832, 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4535'),
(25833, 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17692'),
(25834, 'The claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice &amp; A. N. Roquelaure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18968'),
(25835, 'The Clan of the Cats', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13965'),
(25836, 'Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth&#39;s Children Series , No 1)', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle. Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla''s personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13966'),
(25837, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4538'),
(25838, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear: A Novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although\n <em>\n  --Sara Nickerson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Imaginative, exciting."\n <br />\n --_The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n <br />\n --_San Francisco Chronicle\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4539'),
(25839, 'Clandestine', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950''s -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill''s reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past. And his good and pure love for a crusading woman lawyer has been corrupted and may not survive. But even without the authority of a badge, Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion. And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13967'),
(25840, 'Clans of the Alphane moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13968'),
(25841, 'The Clapping Hands of God', 'Michael F. Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4541'),
(25842, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13970'),
(25843, 'Clarion', 'William Greenleaf', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13972'),
(25844, 'Clarity', 'Kim Harrington', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16413'),
(25845, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson is the second-best motoring writer in Britain. For twenty years, he''s been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions about them on the BBC''s Top Gear. No one in the business is taller. Here, he''s collected his best car columns and stories in which he waxes lyrical on topics as useful and diverse as: bull; the perils of bicycle ownership bull; why Australians - not Brits - need bull bars bull; why soon only geriatrics will be driving BMW''s bull; the difficulty of deciding on the best car for your wedding bull; why Jesus''s dad would have owned a Nissan Bluebird bull; and why it is bus lanes that cause traffic jams Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy the ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13982'),
(25846, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16143'),
(25847, 'Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories', 'Julian Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When you''re in the mood for suspense, nothing delivers like a collection of mystery and detective stories. These tales have been culled from the golden age of the genre, when masters like Charles Dickens, Thomas De Quincey, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray were producing stories at a rapid clip to satisfy millions of devoted readers. Curl up with Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories tonight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(25848, 'The Classic Mystery Collection', 'Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Agatha Christie &amp; Charles Dickens &amp; Honore de Balzac &amp; Wilkie Collins &amp; Mary Roberts Rinehart &amp; Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Gilbert Keith Chesterton &amp; Sax Rohmer &amp; Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With ATOC (active table of contents):\n</p>\n<p>\n An Historical Mystery Honore De Balzac\n <br />\n The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan\n <br />\n The Baron''s Quarry Egerton Castle\n <br />\n Trent''s Last Case Edmund Clerihew Bentley\n <br />\n Gilbert Keith Chesterton\n <br />\n The Man Who Knew Too Much\n <br />\n The Man Who Was Thursday\n <br />\n Father Brown:\n <br />\n The Innocence of Father Brown\n <br />\n The Wisdom of Father Brown\n <br />\n Riddle of the Sands Robert Erskine Childers\n <br />\n Agatha Christie\n <br />\n The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n <br />\n The Secret Adversary\n <br />\n Wilkie Collins\n <br />\n The Dream Woman\n <br />\n The Haunted Hotel\n <br />\n The Moonstone\n <br />\n The Queen of Hearts\n <br />\n The Woman in White\n <br />\n The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens\n <br />\n Arthur Conan Doyle\n <br />\n The Mystery of Cloomber\n <br />\n The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n The Return of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n A Study in Scarlet\n <br />\n The Sign of the Four\n <br />\n The Hound of the Baskervilles\n <br />\n The Valley of Fear\n <br />\n His Last Bow\n <br />\n Anna Katharine Green\n <br />\n Agatha Webb\n <br />\n Initials Only\n <br />\n The Millionaire Baby\n <br />\n The Mill Mystery\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow\n <br />\n A Strange Disappearance\n <br />\n The Rome Express Arthur Griffiths\n <br />\n The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy\n <br />\n Elusive Isabel Jacques Futrelle\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux\n <br />\n The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes\n <br />\n The Red House Mystery Alan Alexander Milne\n <br />\n Edgar Allan Poe\n <br />\n The Murders in the Rue Morgue\n <br />\n The Mystery of Marie Roget\n <br />\n The Purloined Letter\n <br />\n The Bittermeads Mystery Ernest Robertson Punshon\n <br />\n Mary Roberts Rinehart\n <br />\n The Bat\n <br />\n The Circular Staircase\n <br />\n The Confession\n <br />\n Dangerous Days\n <br />\n The Man in Lower Ten\n <br />\n The Street of Seven Stars\n <br />\n Sax Rohmer\n <br />\n Bat Wing\n <br />\n The Hand Of Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Golden Scorpion\n <br />\n The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy\n <br />\n The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele\n <br />\n The Pavilion on the Links Robert Louis Stevenson\n <br />\n Under the Andes Rex Stout\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19392'),
(25849, 'The Classical World', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robin Lane Fox''s The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world''s first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. Spellbinding and stimulating, it illuminates two civilizations that dominated the ancient world and still inspire and enlighten us today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4545'),
(25850, 'Classifieds', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13983'),
(25851, 'The Claw &amp; the Clock', 'Christopher Anvil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16612'),
(25852, 'Clay Suburb', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13984'),
(25853, 'Clayton Emery', 'Card Master', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16506'),
(25854, 'Clayton Emery', 'Blood Sacrifice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16508'),
(25855, 'Clayton Emery', 'Robin Hood&#39;s Treasure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16513'),
(25856, 'Clayton Emery', 'Robin Hood &amp; the Pirates', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16517'),
(25857, 'Clayton Emery - Descent FreeSpace', 'A Thousand Years', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16522'),
(25858, 'Clayton Emery - Forgotten Realms', 'Forged In Fire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16498'),
(25859, 'Clayton Emery - Joseph Fisher', 'Inwardly Ravening Wolves', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16496'),
(25860, 'Clayton Emery - Joseph Fisher', 'If Serpents Envious', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16502'),
(25861, 'Clayton Emery - Robin &amp; Marian', 'Dowsing The Demon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16505'),
(25862, 'Clayton Emery - Robin &amp; Marian', 'Floating Bread &amp; Quicksilver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16514'),
(25863, 'Clayton Emery - Runesword 01', 'Outcasts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16511'),
(25864, 'Clayton Emery - This Old Weird House', 'Furnace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16523'),
(25865, 'Clayton Emery - Tyger Blake', 'Totaled', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16499'),
(25866, 'Clean Break', 'Roger Dee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13986'),
(25867, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18475'),
(25868, 'Cleaving', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world--from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13991'),
(25869, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13993'),
(25870, 'Cleon the Emperor', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15167'),
(25871, 'Cleopatra', 'Abbott, Jacob - Cleopatra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13997'),
(25872, 'Cleopatra 7.2', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra''s resurrection as the Queen of the Nile''s DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13996'),
(25873, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13998'),
(25874, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony''s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two- the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander-survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian''s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian''s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in "Cleopatra''s Daughter. "Recounted in Selene''s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian''s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian''s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia''s sardonic son and Marcellus''s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian''s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene''s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place-the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empire''s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, "Cleopatra''s Daughter "is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13999'),
(25875, 'Clifford and the Bookmole', 'Colin P. Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14000'),
(25876, 'Clinic', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14001'),
(25877, 'The Clique: Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Happy New Clique! Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together--or rather, a New Year''s Yves party. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just cliques.Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). She has ah-mazing ideas--Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and atching charm bracelets. When will it be her time to rule?Alicia Rivera: Is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. With the captain on vacaÂ­tion, BADSS''s live performance on Merri Lee Marvil''s New Year''s Yves show is her chance to shine. Will she prove herself alpha-worthy--or will she need to find a whole new clique?Dylan Marvil: Is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous?Kristen Gregory: Has made a New Year''s resoÂ­lution to make friends and get a life. Escape from Planet Loser starts . . . now!Claire Lyons: Is psyched times ten to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year''s Yves satellite party in Orlando. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. And the countdown to midnight begins in ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4548'),
(25878, 'Cloak of Anarchy', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14004'),
(25879, 'Cloak Of Deception (James Luceno)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14005'),
(25880, 'Cloak Of Shadow - Book 2', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13878');
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(25881, 'Cloaked', 'Alex Flinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 6-9-Flinn reimagines a fairy-tale world in her latest novel. Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother''s shoe repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. He spends his days with his friend Meg and designs his own line of shoes while dreaming of wealth to free his family from the confines of poverty. Unexpectedly, the striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess pleads for Johnny''s help in finding her missing brother, and offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been turned into a frog. With the aid of a magical cloak and some headphones that allow him to hear animals speak, Johnny embarks on a journey wherein he encounters talking swans, a fox named Todd, and two angry giants. When he lands in hot water with an evil witch bent on destroying him, Meg comes to his rescue. The pair journey from South Beach to Key West, to Europe, and to Manhattan; and in the end, Johnny finds wealth, fame, and true love. Flinn cleverly plays on some lesser-known fairy tales to make this book a fun, romantic adventure with likable characters. Rapid action and amusing situations make it a quick read that will easily entice even reluctant readers.-Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A princess, a cobbler, a witch, and modern-day South Beach mash up in Flinnï¿½s latest fairy-tale retelling. Johnny works tirelessly in a luxury hotelï¿½s shoe-repair shop, dreaming of becoming a high-end shoe designer. He sees an opportunity to get his shoes on famous feet when a hard-partying European princess moves in. Victoriana notices Johnny, too, and thinks he is just the one to find her brother, Prince Philippe, who was turned into a frog as blackmail for Victorianaï¿½s hand in marriage. She gives Johnny a fistful of cash, a transporting cloak, and an earpiece that allows him to understand animals that used to be human, which are a lot more plentiful in Florida than he ever imagined. Instead of a well-known classic, several lesser-known tales combine here to give the book a nice blend of the familiar (the frog who needs a kiss to transform) and the novel (how will a puny kid best two giants?). Readers will keep turning pages to figure out just how many transmogrifications Johnny can resolve, and whose dreams will come true. Grades 6-10. --Heather Booth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13879'),
(25882, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13880'),
(25883, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Queen of Crime clocks in with a classic of untimely demise. At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4550'),
(25884, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13883'),
(25885, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18424'),
(25886, 'Clockwork Lemon', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13885'),
(25887, 'Clockwork Lemon', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18348'),
(25888, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The screenplay for Stanley Kubrickâ€™s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director. This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from â€œA Clockwork Orange,â€ selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: â€œI have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be availableâ€¦ This book represents that attempt.â€ Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16146'),
(25889, 'A clockwork orange: a novel', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16269'),
(25890, 'The Clockwork Traitor', 'E. E. Smith &amp; Stephen Goldin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Classic space opera adventure, Book #3 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. By law, Princess Edna, heir to the interstellar Empire of Earth, must marry a commoner. But as she travels through her domain, word comes of a mysterious threat to her succession. It''s up to Jules and Yvette d''Alembert and their family of circus performers, all agents of the Empire, to uncover this bizarre plot before it can wreak havoc for all of humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4551'),
(25891, 'The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For this narrative of the seventeenth centuryâ€™s scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newtonâ€™s obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to Godâ€™s mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnickâ€™s substance follows the greatsâ€™ progress in code-breaking, depicting Keplerâ€™s mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileoâ€™s in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newtonâ€™s and Leibnizâ€™s in inventing calculus, and Newtonâ€™s in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAn engrossing read.â€ (_Library Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced.â€ (_Kirkus Reviews_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA character-rich, historical narrative.â€ (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read.â€ (_Publishers Weekly_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4554'),
(25892, 'Clones', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13887'),
(25893, 'CloneWarsTimeline', 'robin nh bernardus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13888'),
(25894, 'Close', 'William Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10658'),
(25895, 'Close Contact (2010)', 'Allred, Katherine - Alien Affairs 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13890'),
(25896, 'Close Encounters: An Alien Affairs Novel, Book 1', 'Katherine Allred', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignmentsâ€”and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant "superhero," Kiera wishes she were normal, but it is not to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On Orpheus Two, the indigenous Buri race faces extinction, a prospect the powerful Dynatec corporation welcomes and, in fact, may be actively hastening. It is Kiera''s job to protect these beautiful, exotic aliens . . . and to discover what there is on Orpheus Two that Dynatec feels is worth killing for.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the magnetic allure of Thor, the breathtaking Buri leader, is proving a dangerous distraction. And now, to save Thor''s people, Kiera will need a power she''s never before possessedâ€”something hidden in the unexplored recesses of her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13892'),
(25897, 'Close To The Ground', 'Angel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17099'),
(25898, 'Closer Than Blood', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child)"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer''s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death - is as close as the face in the mirror...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13893'),
(25899, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19140'),
(25900, 'The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American &#39;80s', 'Paul Slansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A political humorist''s caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4558'),
(25901, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13895'),
(25902, 'The Cloud Maker', 'Patrick Woodhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and find themselves on the run from the Chinese secret police. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4560'),
(25903, 'The Cloud Pavilion', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile.But just as Yanagisawa''s true motives begin to emerge, Sano''s estranged uncle comes to him for help: His daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his wifewho once suffered through the kidnapping of their own sonto find her before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4563'),
(25904, 'Cloud&#39;s Rider - CJ Cherryh - Finesterre 02', 'Cloud.s rider', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17070'),
(25905, 'The Clouds Beneath the Sun', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue. Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of Gifts of War, which was praised in USA Today as â€œan absorbing, morally complex read.â€ In a starred review, Library Journal said, â€œFord keeps the reader on a knifeâ€™s edge as the lies build and the truth is only a word or misstep away. Highly recommended.â€ Now Ford takes us to Kenya in 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows sheâ€™s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to be included in a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Masai peopleâ€”and murder. Compounding the tension, Eleanor Deacon, friend of the Masai, who is leading the excavating mission, watches a rift grow between her two handsome sons. Natalieâ€™s growing attracÂ­tion to Jack Deacon soon becomes a passionate affair that turns dangerous when she must give evidence in a trial that could spark even more violence and turmoil. The startling beauty of the Kenyan setting, the tension of loomÂ­ing social upheaval, and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly on every page of this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4564'),
(25906, 'Clown Eggs', 'Jay Lake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13897'),
(25907, 'Club 01 - First to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13898'),
(25908, 'Club 02 - Second Chance', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13901'),
(25909, 'Club 03 - Third Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the start, Patterson''s Women''s Murder Club series (1st to Die; Second Chance) has felt like high-concept TV with a smart edge, featuring an appealing and reliable cast of four female crime busters (a cop, a prosecutor, a medical examiner, a reporter) who race along byzantine plot lines humming with blood and sex, romance and heartbreak. But Patterson is an author who will detonate readers'' presumptions for the sake of story, and in the series'' third installment, the prolific author, working with frequent collaborator Gross (The Jester, etc.), defies expectations in a shocking way. Readers will love him for it. San Francisco Homicide lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, who narrates most of the action, is jogging with assistant DA Jill Barnhardt when Lindsay notices two things: first, bruises on Jill''s shoulder; then the explosion of a nearby townhouse, into which Lindsay rushes to save a child. With the juxtaposition of these two plotlines, Patterson jumpstarts this enjoyably convoluted tale. The townhouse, home to a greedy CEO and his family, was destroyed by members of a terrorist group calling itself "August Spies"; Lindsay''s chase after the group, which commits further killings, brings her into close proximity to what promises to be a new series regular, Joe Molinari, deputy director of the Office of Homeland Security. Love blooms for Lindsay but, meanwhile, love has curdled at Jill''s house, where Jill''s husband is abusing her. Then comes the big surprise, and the story''s remainder plays out at high emotion and warp speed. There''s a calculated feel to all that happens, but clever manipulation of an audience serves Patterson as well as it served Hitchcock: his fans will only clamor for more.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[James Patterson] defies expectations in a shocking way. Readers will love him for it...clever manipulation of an audience serves Patterson as well as it served Hitchcock: his fans will only clamor for more'' Publishers Weekly, 23/2/04 -- Publishers Weekly 20040223 ''A solid thriller'' Australian Daily Telegraph, 1 Mar 04 -- Australian Daily Telegraph 20040301 ''James Patterson has evolved and refined a medium of his own: the crime thriller that moves faster than a book, but not quite as fast as an hour of television!does it keep you reading? I found I couldn''t stop, in an obsessive-compulsive way'' Sydney Morning Herald, 1/5/04 -- Sydney Morning Herald 20040501 ''Another page-turner from the masters of the very short chapter with a surprise twist. In a word: thrilling'' Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia 3/4/04 -- Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia 20040403 ''This book won''t disappoint. It''s no surprise that it''s still at the top of the bestsellers list'' Burnie Advocate, 12/4/04 -- Burnie Advocate 20040412\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13904'),
(25910, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13905'),
(25911, 'The Club Dumas', 'Arturo Perez-Reverte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4566'),
(25912, 'Cluster', 'Anthony, Piers - Cluster 1 - Cluster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15199'),
(25913, 'Coastliners', 'Joanne Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris''s\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n . Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made. The villagers, written with endearing panache by Harris, are an eccentric, curmudgeonly bunch, who eventually cooperate with the help of Flynn, a charismatic stranger with a shady past. He''s not the only man of mystery in Mado''s life; her father, taciturn Grosjean, has a secretive heart that''s as "prickly and tightly layered as an artichoke," and local, wealthy businessman Brismand also seems to be hiding something. Mado does her best to unravel these mysteries, while attempting to keep a hold on her own sense of self in the claustrophobic, close community. It''s not only the shore line that takes a buffeting. The villagers and the island are so vividly described that it''s impossible not to become engrossed in Mado''s story.\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n is a book about longing to belong, and Joanne Harris charts that emotional voyage compellingly.\n <em>\n  --Eithne Farry, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Family history meets village rivalry in Harris''s poignant fourth novel, an understated passion play set on the provincial French island of Le Devin. Madeleine Prasteau leaves her Paris apartment to return to the island village of Les Salants, where she discovers that her father, a widowed boat owner, is going downhill along with the village itself as the rival town of La HoussiniÅ re grows and prospers. Despite her father''s chilly greeting, Madeleine spruces up the family home, and when she meets an attractive, mysterious stranger named Flynn she gets involved in a project to save Les Salants by building a homemade reef to restore the fast-eroding beach. The project gets complicated when Madeleine realizes that Flynn has ties to Brismand, a rival of her father''s, who controls local commerce in La HoussiniÅ re. The reef project succeeds, but with a bitter aftertaste when Madeleine''s older sister, Adrienne, moves back to the island and her father becomes infatuated with Adrienne''s children. Sibling rivalry fades to the background when Madeleine learns that Flynn''s ties to Brismand extend into her own family history, and she discovers that Flynn was an integral part of a romantic triangle involving her father and Brismand. Harris develops her beguiling story in layers, drawing Madeleine into the village life she loves and loathes while exploring the nuances of island living. Despite the narrowly focused setting, Harris exposes a wide range of passions and emotions as Madeline gets involved with Flynn against the effective backdrop of the various family and village rivalries. This book lacks the lurid erotic power of Chocolat, but Harris compensates for the lowered levels of passion and eros by writing with power and grace about the family ties that bind.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13907'),
(25914, 'Cobra', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seduced by the lure of power, Jonny Moreau, a Cobra warrior endowed with surgically implanted weapons and special guerilla training, learns too well the uses--and abuses--of his special abilities\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13909'),
(25915, 'Cobra Alliance: Cobra War: Book One', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the groundâ€”with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. And the Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors.       Long after victory over the Troft was achieved, the Cobras made common cause against their former adversaries against a new enemy. Their reward was three planets that would be a home for the Cobras, whose deadly powers made them too dangerous to feel at home on Earth.       Now, years had passed and not everyone on the Cobra worlds thought that the Cobras were worth the high cost of providing their training and maintaining their existing built-in weaponry, let alone supporting research to improve the Cobra weapons, and possibly even put an end to the negative effects of that built-in weaponry, which caused Cobras to die much too young. Many who had never known interplanetary war were convinced that the Cobras were not needed at all.       That was a grave miscalculation, because a new menace was approaching, one that even the formidable Cobra warriors might not be able to defeat . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13910'),
(25916, 'Cobra Event', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4568'),
(25917, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. ** Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again. What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4567'),
(25918, 'The Cocaine Chronicles', 'Gary Phillips; Jervey Tervalon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine "the scourge of our times" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else''s thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child''s "Ten Keys," in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman''s "The Crack Cocaine Habit," in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West''s shocking "Shame," about a kid who copes with her mother''s habit and the world''s indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother''s habit in Nina Revoyr''s highly effective "Golden Pacific." James Brown''s sobering "The Screenwriter" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call "scary charms."\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NOTHING TO SNORT AT, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in COCAINE CHRONICLES, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. COCAINE CHRONICLES contains tough tales by a cross-section of today''s most thought-provoking writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4569'),
(25919, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son: A Memoir', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dave Itzkoff on\n  <em>\n   Cocaine''s Son\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n</p>\n<p>\n These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cocaineâ€™s Son\n </em>\n is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13911'),
(25920, 'Cockroach', 'Rawi Hage', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage''s second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner\n  <em>\n   DeNiro''s Game\n  </em>\n  ) explores the peculiar politics of Montreal''s immigrant communities through the bleak obsessions of a misanthropic thief. After trying and failing to kill himself, an unnamed narrator who believes himself to be part cockroach is compelled to attend counseling sessions with an earnest and alluring therapist. As he unspools his personal historyâ€”from his apprenticeship with the thief Abou-Roro to the tragic miscalculation that led him to flee his home countryâ€”the narrator, reluctant to tell his story (we never learn where the narrator is from, and inconsistencies in his tale cast doubt upon his honesty), scuttles through the stories of others, recounting secrets both confidentially shared and invasively discovered. Unable to support himself on burglary alone, the narrator takes a job as a busboy, but runs into complications after discovering his lover''s connection to the restaurant''s most prominent customer. The novel''s gritty back-alley world gives rise to a host of glorious rogues, each swindling the others at every opportunity, and yet each is capable of great empathy under just the right circumstances.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is something exhilarating about [_Cockroach_''s] relentlessness. . . . The narrator is ambiguous, untrustworthy, sly, and filled with a despair both nasty and noisy; but he is also deeply wounded, oddly lovable, his voice both moving and manipulative. (Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n -\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13912'),
(25921, 'Cocoon', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13913'),
(25922, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13914'),
(25923, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18878'),
(25924, 'Code 61', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn''t going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. ''I''ll be ten-seventy-six to the scene''" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman''s introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff''s Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss''s niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man''s girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13915'),
(25925, 'Code Blue - Emergency', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13916'),
(25926, 'Code Noir', 'Marianne De Pierres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Refreshingly unpredictable..._Code Noir_ delivers fast-paced tension and futuristic cool by the bucket-load. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  SF Crowsnest_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tert war is over, and bodyguard Parrish Plessis has gotten a piece of the toxic pie-and the responsibilities that go along with it. To pay off a blood debt to the Cabal Coomera tribe, she must enter the heart of tekno-darkness-the slum town of Dis-to find their missing shamans and to kill her ex-lover Daac. But Parrish still has feelings for Daac-feelings that run as deep as the high-tech parasite he infected her with. Bad blood never boiled like this. REVIEW; The world of Parrish Plessis is complex, frenzied, bloody and improbably dangerous. (_Warpcore SF_)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13917'),
(25927, 'Code of Hammurabi', 'Code of Hammurabi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13919'),
(25928, 'Code of the Lifemaker', 'James P. Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once, long ago, a robot factory-ship flew too near a star unexpectedly gone nova. After suffering extensive damage, it continued blindly for millennia.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A million years passed...Then, in the twenty-first century, a colony ship destined for Mars was surreptitiously rerouted to Titan...and only the leaders of the military industrial complex knew why.In addition to its flight crew, the interplanetary transport carried parapsycholoy researchers, linguists, psychologists, representatives of industry, an ambassador...and elite military units from several Western nations. Clearly something was up.But no one was talking!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13921'),
(25929, 'Code Red 01 - Flash Flood', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13923'),
(25930, 'Code Red 02 - Wildfire', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13925'),
(25931, 'Code Red 03 - Outbreak', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that is being mined there. They soon realize that the people in the village close to the mine are frightened and it doesn''t take long for Ben and his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, and no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Ben''s father falls ill, it is up to Ben and his new friend from the village, Halima, to try and tell the government what''s going on so the village can be isolated to prevent the sickness spreading. Will they be able to prevent disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13926'),
(25932, 'Code Red 04 - Vortex', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ben Tracey is having a well-deserved, restful week of birdwatching with his cousin, Annie. They''re keen to catch a glimpse of the rare, nearly extinct Hen Harrier - and their wish comes true, but not in the way they''d hoped as they witness a man in an RAF uniform shoot one of the beautiful birds dead.When, later that day, Ben and Annie meet an old man full of conspiracy theories about the nearby RAF training base they''re curious to know more and creep into the base - Spadeadam. But little do they know that they are in serious danger . . . Having walked into the middle of the real reason the Hen Harriers are being shot down, Ben and Annie are captured as intruders and taken to a secure unit on a deserted area of the camp. These birds are just helpless victims in a much bigger operation - they attract too many visitors to the area and there''s a top-secret piece of warfare technology being developed that needs to be kept quiet.If this weapon gets into the wrong hands it could have catastrophic worldwide effects . . . Can Ben and Annie get out in time to spread the news?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(25933, 'Code Red 05 - Twister', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13927'),
(25934, 'Code Red 06 - Battleground', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13928'),
(25935, 'The Codex', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4570'),
(25936, 'Codgerspace', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18174'),
(25937, 'Coelacanths', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13929');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(25938, 'The Coffee Trader: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Edgar Awardwinning novelA Conspiracy of Paperwas one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world''s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city''s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city''s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at successa daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam''s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4571'),
(25939, 'Coffin Dancer Header', 'Jeffrey Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13930'),
(25940, 'The Coffin Dancer', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Lincoln Rhymes, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually alluded the police. Rhymes - -a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident -- must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who''s been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony. Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene (for a start, scrapings from the tires of the emergency vehicles that responded to the Chicago crash) to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off. In the resulting game of cat-and- mouse, both Rhyme and the Dancer are constantly subject to unbelievably timely hunches and brain waves that keep their deadly shuttlecock in play down to the wire. Fair warning to newcomers: Author Deaver is just as cunning and deceptive as his killer; don''t assume he''s run out of tricks until you''ve run out of pages. By the author of "The Bone Collector."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4572'),
(25941, 'Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age', 'Clay Shirky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The author of the breakout hit\n  <em>\n   Here Comes Everybody\n  </em>\n  reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In\n <em>\n  Cognitive Surplus\n </em>\n , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we''ve had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion''s share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg''s tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clay Shirky\n </strong>\n teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego(r). His writings have appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times\n </em>\n (of London),\n <em>\n  Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Wired\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13931'),
(25942, 'Coils Of Time', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13933'),
(25943, 'Coin of the Realm', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13935'),
(25944, 'Coincidence', 'Alan May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She''s traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, getting credit for a full year of high school in the bargain.And, after her boyless years at a private school, it doesn''t hurt that one of the students on the ship is tall, dark, and handsome Pierre. (She''s most impressed with his height, being close to six feet tall herself.)Melissa is excited to be learning the ropes of crewing the ship as the "Inspiration" completes the first part of its voyage, from San Diego to Mexico and then on to the Galapagos.But then things turn decidedly sour.Before the ship can reach Easter Island, it is taken over by the "Coincidence," a large yacht manned by a ruthless band of smugglers. The band needs the services of the "Inspiration''s" doctor for one of their members, who was shot during a heist in Colombia that netted them more than $100 million worth of cocaine.The future of the "Inspiration" and its passengers â€” and of Melissa and Pierre''s romance â€” hangs in the balance. Will the RCMP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and the teachers and crew be able to save Melissa''s perfect year?ALAN MAY is an entrepreneur and sailor. He was inspired to write "Coincidence" after his own daughter sailed the high seas as part of the Class Afloat high school program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13939'),
(25945, 'The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World&#39;s Favorite Soft Drink', 'Michael Blanding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks to school children." --Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like Morgan Spurlock''s\n <em>\n  Super Size Me\n </em>\n and Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n embeds current issues with history, policy, and interviews to reveal the wizard behind the curtain." --Suite101.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An eye opening expose which blows the plastic lids off a company known to associate itself with love and happiness... The book lays out the case against Coke in startling clarity." --TowerReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book''s sixty-three pages of notes attest to [Blanding''s] careful research, and lend a vital legitimacy to his allegations--this is much more than an activist''s polemic." --[tk] review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and readable... Blanding''s painstakingly reported book reminds us that Coke''s global success--perhaps like all spectacular global success--came at a price" --The Atlantic\n</p>\n<p>\n "Every company has a dark side, and you won''t believe how dark Coca-Cola''s is. After reading this book, good luck having a Coke and smile." --Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coca-Cola wants to teach the world to sing, but in the process they''ve trashed water supplies, peddled sugar to generations of kids, and undermined worker rights around the world. Put down your soda, read\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n and join the global movement to rein in unaccountable corporations." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of\n <em>\n  Nickel and Dimed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n , Michael Blanding takes a tough, unsweetened look at the business practices of this iconic American company. His investigations reveal the costs--in ethics, health, public resources, and sometimes even human life--of Coca-Cola''s relentless pressure to expand sales of its products. This book is a terrific introduction to the inner workings of corporate capitalism as it plays out on a global scale." --Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of\n <em>\n  Food Politics\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What to Eat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In shocking detail, Blanding uncovers Coke''s numerous transgressions against humanity and nature... Blanding''s thoroughly detailed, stimulating and challenging study will have many readers saying, ''Give me a Pepsi.''" --\n <strong>\n  BookPage\n </strong>\n , September 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "By this account, Coke''s domination of the market begins to look less like a triumph of advertising and more like a symptom of the dark side of globalisation." --\n <strong>\n  The Financial Times\n </strong>\n , September 20, 2010\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Coke Machine\n  </em>\n  takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they''ll go to stay there.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since its "I''d like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world''s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and "Coca-Cola" the world''s second- most recognized word after "hello." However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world''s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Michael Blanding''s\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n probes shocking accusations about the company''s global impact, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Coca-Cola''s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How Coke has harmed children''s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ That Coke bottlers stand accused of conspiring with paramilitaries to threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia\n</p>\n<p>\n A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist''s daring, in-depth research,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula for greed.\n</p>\n<p>\n COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.\n <br />\n This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4576'),
(25946, 'The cold Blacksmith', 'Elizabeth Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4577'),
(25947, 'Cold Case', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13940'),
(25948, 'The Cold Cash War', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13943'),
(25949, 'Cold copper tears', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She is tall, blonde, and offering Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seems open-and-shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers - a place where magic and religion could prove an all to potent mix - Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes. Garret''s doubts are confirmed when the Grand Inquisitor comes looking for his help in the lovely lady''s wake. But even a hard-boiled detective like Garret, with the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, can find that it''s too late to say no. Turns out Garret''s been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god - and his only chance to save his neck is to solve the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13944'),
(25950, 'A cold day for murder', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.''s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16148'),
(25951, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4579'),
(25952, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. a oeA master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.a - The San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13946'),
(25953, 'Cold Fusion', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth Doctor''s TARDIS is not the only one to have landed on a barren ice world where a dirty civil war is raging. A genuine threat to the universe unfolds and the Doctor finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13948'),
(25954, 'Cold Hand In Mine', 'Cold Hand In Mine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13950'),
(25955, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4582'),
(25956, 'Cold Midnight', 'Joyce Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After sheâ€™s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13953'),
(25957, 'Cold Moon Rising', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s Baaaaaack. Hired killer Tony Giodone is back in action -- this time, believe it or not, working for the ''good guys.'' Or should that be the ''not quite as bad guys?'' He isn''t sure. One thing is for certain, serving as a newly minted member of Wolven, the Sazi law enforcement agency, certainly does keep a guy busy. AND he gets to do what he does best. Kill things. Of course, Carmine doesn''t plan to let Tony off the hook, particularly when he''s attacked and nearly killed by the boys from the east coast. Paired up with Ahmad al Narmer Tony''s in danger up to his baby blues, which wouldn''t bother him a bit, if his wife, Sue wasn''t bound and determined to be a part of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13954'),
(25958, 'Cold Mountain', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13957'),
(25959, 'The Cold Room', 'J. T. Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellison''s fourth Taylor Jackson thriller finds a serial killer murdering young women in both the United States and Europe. Such an international crime brings New Scotland Yard Detective/profiler James Memphis Highsmythe into the investigation, causing an unexpected hitch in homicide detective Jackson''s romantic involvement with fianceÃŒÃ¼e FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin. But personal feelings or no, the trio must pool their resources to find the serial killer known as the Conductor in the United States and Il Macellaio across the Atlantic, before he can strike again. Joyce Bean is perfectly cast; her narration keeps the book moving at a steady pace and infuses the prose with just the right amount of menace and suspense. Her reading of the killer''s chance encounter with a young woman destined to become his next victim is chilling. Even when the writing may be a little over the top at times, Bean''s performance is down to the ground solid. A Mira paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything a great crime thriller should be. --Allison Brennan on\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Girls\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fusing gritty cop drama with dark psychological thriller, Ellison distinguishes herself with exceptional character development, consistently breakneck pacing and a sense of authenticity throughout. ----_Chicago Tribune_ on 14\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4584'),
(25960, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Spenser''s closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to accept the medical technology that will ensure his physical recovery, and to reinforce the tenuous emotional ties he has to those around him. Spenser quickly learns that the Ukrainian mob is responsible for the hit, but finding a way into their tightly knit circle is not nearly so simple. Their total control of the town of Marshport, from the bodegas to the police force to the mayor''s office, isn''t just a sign of rampant corruption-it''s a form of arrogance that only serves to ignite Hawk''s desire to get even. As the body count rises, Spenser is forced to employ some questionable techniques and even more questionable hired guns while redefining his friendship with Hawk in the name of vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13959'),
(25961, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When his buddy Hawk is beaten within an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a ruthless mob in the name of friendship--and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18756'),
(25962, 'Cold Service (2005)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 32', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13825'),
(25963, 'The Cold Spot', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orphaned at 10â€”his mother murdered, his father a suicideâ€”Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jonah shoots one of his crew during a poker game, Chase, at 21, realizing that the icy old man could easily turn on his own grandson, strikes off on his own. He works his way around the country stealing cars and driving for petty thieves until one night in Mississippi he runs up against deputy sheriff Lila Bodeen, who sees something in this brash young outlaw that she likes. Tragedy puts Chase back on the road, where he faces not only the killer but the truthâ€”about himself and his shattered family. Piccirilli (_The Midnight Road_, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tom Piccirilliâ€™s] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past century....\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is both funny and ferocious.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A powerful, hard-hittng, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." â€”David Morrell, author of _Creepers\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Tom Piccirilli''s fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful."â€”F. Paul Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Keep\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bloodline\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level."â€”Ken Bruen, award-winning author of _The Guards\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  ."â€”Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of _Nerve Damage\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli''s\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is a bull''s-eye hardboiled tale."â€”Megan Abbott, author of _The Song is You\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you''re in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel."â€”Jason Starr, author of _The Follower\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4587'),
(25964, 'Cold Springs', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Texas native Riordan, whose\n  </p>\n  <blockquote>\n   <p>\n    Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n   </p>\n  </blockquote>\n  <p>\n   But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n   <em>\n    Cold Springs\n   </em>\n   substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n   <em>\n    --Nicholas H. Allison\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Texas native Riordan, whose\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n  <em>\n   Cold Springs\n  </em>\n  substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13827'),
(25965, 'A Cold Treachery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16156'),
(25966, 'Cold War', 'Jerome Preisler; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On the wind-swept, Ice-covered continent of Antartica, Roger Gordian''s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears -- along with the repair team sent out after it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium -- that is illegally using Antartica as a nuclear waste dump -- to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station -- and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13830'),
(25967, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn''t guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box''s searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett''s gruesome discovery of Alden''s body is followed almost immediately by the stage-managed arrest of Missy by Sheriff Kyle McLanahan. Both Missy and Earl have done plenty to earn the enmity of their neighbors, so Missy''s arrest benefits McLanahan''s bid for re-election, but Pickett is surprised to find county attorney Lisa Rich already convinced the case is solid. Pickett could use the help of his friend Nate Romanowski, but they are on the outs. Meanwhile, Romanowski, hunted by the widow of a man he killed, finds his withdrawal from the world has endangered others. Box parlays a heady mix of Wyoming politics and the advent of wind power into a deadly brew. This engaging series just keeps getting better with each new entry. Author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Joe Pickettï¿½s mother-in-law is accused of murdering her latest husband, thereï¿½s a part of him that canï¿½t believe his good luck: the social-climbing harpy has had it in for him ever since he married his beloved Marybeth. Unfortunately, itï¿½s hard for him to believe sheï¿½s guilty. Could a petite woman in her midsixties really hoist a body to the top of a wind turbine and chain it to the spinning blade? Whatï¿½s her motive, anyway? Reluctantly, the dogged Wyoming game warden begins his own investigation, one that seems to ruffle the feathers of just about everybody involved. The eleventh installment in Boxï¿½s superlative series returns Pickett to his old stomping grounds, Twelve Sleep County, and spins a complicated mystery that entangles familiar series characters in new and surprising ways. Despite Joeï¿½s guess that ï¿½things are going to get real Western,ï¿½ they end with a courtroom surprise (ï¿½like fuckinï¿½ Perry Mason!ï¿½ as one old-timer observes). But a closing scene promises plenty of action in the next book, featuring fan favorite Nate Romanowski. Boxï¿½s many fans wonï¿½t be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The 75,000-copy first printing may or may not cover all the devoted fans of Boxï¿½s long-running series. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13832'),
(25968, 'A cold-blooded business', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. By the author of Dead in the Water. SUMMARY: The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16158'),
(25969, 'A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross', 'A Colder War', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16800'),
(25970, 'The Coldest Blood', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling his own screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon heâ€™ll be dead â€“ and life can begin again. Â Three decades later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is experiencing a cold, bitter Christmas on the Fens. Drydenâ€™s wife, Laura, is emerging from years in a coma, unsure if she wants to go on living. Meanwhile, people are freezing to death, among them Declan McIlroy, a 39 year old loner found dead in his flat with the windows thrown open. The police rule the death a suicide, but Dryden has his doubts â€“ especially when he finds the body of Declanâ€™s best friend Joe frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded farmhouse. Â At the same time, Dryden is investigating allegations of abuse laid against a Catholic orphanage â€“ a touchy subject, due to his own Catholic upbringing. The incidents seem unrelated until Dryden discovers that Declan was one of the victims. Could his death have been part of a cover-up?Â Soon, Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime, and to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4588'),
(25971, 'The Coldest Place', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4591'),
(25972, 'Coldfire', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13386'),
(25973, 'Coldfire 01 - Black Sun Rising', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13834'),
(25974, 'Coldfire 02 - When True Night Falls', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13836'),
(25975, 'Coldfire 03 - Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13658'),
(25976, 'Coleman&#39;s Angel', 'A Midnight Sentinel Adventure By Jens H. Altmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13838'),
(25977, 'Colin Greenland', 'A Passion For Lord Pierrot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16406'),
(25978, 'Colin Greenland', 'Take Back Plenty', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16407'),
(25979, 'Colin Kapp', 'The Imagination Trap', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16408'),
(25980, 'Colin Kapp', 'The Survival Game', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16409'),
(25981, 'Colin Kapp', 'The Subways of Tazoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16410'),
(25982, 'Colin Kapp', 'The Pattern of Chaos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16418'),
(25983, 'Colin Kapp', 'Letter From An Unknown Genius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16423'),
(25984, 'Colin Kapp - The Dark Mind', 'The Transfinite Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16414'),
(25985, 'Colin Wilson', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16425'),
(25986, 'Colin Wilson', 'The Philospher&#39;s Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16426'),
(25987, 'Colin Wilson', 'The War Against Sleep', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16427'),
(25988, 'Colin Wilson', 'The Glass Cage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16431'),
(25989, 'Colin Wilson - Gerard Sorme 01', 'Ritual in the Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16432'),
(25990, 'Colin Wilson - Spider World 01', 'The Desert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16437'),
(25991, 'Colin Wilson - Spider World 03', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16435'),
(25992, 'Colin Wilson - Spiderworld 02', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16436'),
(25993, 'Colin Wilson - Spiderworld 04', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16441'),
(25994, 'Colin Wilson - Spiderworld 05', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16439'),
(25995, 'Colin Wilson - Spiderworld 06', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16424'),
(25996, 'Collapse - How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed', 'Jared Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13840'),
(25997, 'Collateral Damage', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nationâ€”a refuge for fanatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the secluded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, death, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal blow to the country''s exposed and vulnerable heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU''s New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn''t, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trustâ€”because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n <em>\n  The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n </em>\n and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n <em>\n  The Ultimate Escape\n </em>\n for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n <em>\n  The Tom Clancy Companion\n </em>\n . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n <em>\n  Wolverine: Weapon X\n </em>\n , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n </em>\n , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n <em>\n  The Official Godzilla Compendium\n </em>\n . Marc''s other credits include the book\n <em>\n  24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n </em>\n , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n <em>\n  24 Declassified\n </em>\n novels\n <em>\n  Operation Hell Gate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trojan Horse\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vanishing Point\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13842'),
(25998, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4594');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(25999, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson &amp; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18678'),
(26000, 'Collected Short Fiction', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4596'),
(26001, 'The Collected Stories', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating ''Memories of Youghal'' to the bittersweet ''Bodily Secrets'' and the elegiac ''Two More Gallants'', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4597'),
(26002, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4599'),
(26003, 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kippling', 'Rudyard Kippling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13843'),
(26004, 'The Collective', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4602'),
(26005, 'The collector', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Withdrawn, Uneducated And Unloved, Frederick Collects Butterflies And Takes Photographs. A Chance Pools Win Enables His To Capture The Art Student Miranda And Keep Her In The Cellar Of The Sussex House He Has Bought With The Windfall. The Situation Is Seen First From The Collector''S Point Of View: He Thinks The Chloroform Pad No More Vicious Than His Butterfly Net, And Patiently Waits For The Barriers Of Class And Taste That Inhibit Their Love To Break Down In The Limbo Of Their Isolation. She, The Creator, Desperate For Her Freedom, Tries To Be Understanding But Cannot Banish Her Contempt For Everything Anti-Life That The Collector Stands For.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4603'),
(26006, 'Collector&#39;s Item', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13845'),
(26007, 'The collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling connection to another murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4604'),
(26008, 'Collider', 'Paul Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe** The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world''s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don''t need to go back to school to learn about it. In *Collider*, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover. Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"*-Library Journal* "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don''t know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-*Publishers Weekly* Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics" The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read *Collider* and find out what, when, and how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13846'),
(26009, 'Colliding Branes', 'Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13847'),
(26010, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13848'),
(26011, 'The Colonels', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4605'),
(26012, 'Colony', 'Guillermo Portales', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17434'),
(26013, 'THE COLOR OF HER PANTIES - XANTH 15', 'Piers Anthony (rsv)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4489'),
(26014, 'The Color of Law: A Novel', 'Mark Gimenez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4490'),
(26015, 'The Color of Space', 'Charles R. Tanner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4491'),
(26016, 'The Color Purple', 'Alice Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister''s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4494'),
(26017, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13849'),
(26018, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles &amp; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18936'),
(26019, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There''s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that''s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world''s great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13852'),
(26020, 'The Colors of Space', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUDDEN PANIC\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for *cold-sleep*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Mentorian paused, needle in hand. "Do you wish to be wakened for the time we shall spend in each of the three star systems, sir? You can, of course, be given enough drug to keep you in cold-sleep until we reach your destination."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bart felt tempted -- he wanted very much to see the other star systems. But he couldn''t risk meeting other passengers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The needle went into his arm. In sudden panic, he realized he was helpless. The ship would touch down on three worlds, and on any of them the Lhari might have his description, or his alias! He could be taken off, unconscious, and might never wake up! He tried to move, to protest, but he couldn''t. There was a freezing moment of intense cold and then nothing. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Marion Zimmer Bradley was born in Albany, New York and before she started her writing career she was a file clerk, music teacher, and a carnival performer. Her hobbies are reading science fiction novels, going to the opera and listening to folk music.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In addition to having written a number of other books, she has written more than thirty magazine stories and articles and has been writing professionally for the past ten years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4496'),
(26021, 'A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16160'),
(26022, 'A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald &amp; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18800'),
(26023, 'Colouring the Captains', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13853'),
(26024, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13855'),
(26025, 'Come Hell or High Water', 'Michele Bardsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13856'),
(26026, 'Come Lie With Me', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Blake Remington temporarily loses the ability to walk, he loses his will to live as well, until Dione Kelly, a woman with a broken soul, arrives to heal both him and herself. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19331'),
(26027, 'Come On, Wagon', 'Zenna Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13857'),
(26028, 'Come Out Tonight', 'Laymon, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13860'),
(26029, 'Come Out Tonight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s not a crime novelist around who writes cleaner prose than LaymonAand few who can jack up the tension the way he does. Yet despite his popularity overseas and a minor resurgence here (Bite, Forecasts, May 24), his readership has of late been limited in the States. This new novel, his first since The Midnight Tour, probably won''t change that. Laymon likes to grasp readers by the neck with expert wordsmithery, then haul them into a diabolical situation. Here, foxy substitute teacher Sherry Gates goes searching for her boyfriend, who''s late returning from a condom-run to a local L.A. market, and gets snatched by a homicidal, sex-crazed teen, Toby Bones. Many readers will find that too much of what ensues focuses, graphically, on Toby''s violations of Sherry (and others), including rape, child molestation, slashings, beatings, shootings, a beheading and fratricidal murder by electric drill. Laymon''s outrageousness is part of his appeal, but in his best books it''s leavened by a gratifyingly sardonic sense of humor. That wickedness flashes at times here, as does a surprising tenderness: the series of scenes in which a naked Sherry is aided by two horny teen boys combines both qualities in a dashing display of emotionally complex writing. Once again, Laymon offers unexpected, well-rounded characters blown about in a narrative that moves like the wind. But the many scenes of sadistic torture cross the line from terror to lurid cruelty and will curdle the enjoyment of all but the most dedicated Laymon fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of stomach-churning porno-violence (Quake, 1995, etc.) returns, unredeemed and of no social value whatsoever. Laymon fans must always be telling themselves, I''m sick. Im very sick. I must be absolutely worthless to be enjoying this, but, as the authors numerous villainous psychopaths would undoubtedly say, Kill em all! Let God sort em out! This time, the Santa Ana winds are blowing fire toward L.A., and tubby, teenaged Toby Bones, who with his brother murdered his wealthy parents, is on the loose. Teacher Sherry Gates and her boyfriend Duane are just about to make love when his condom falls to pieces. He''ll be right back, Duane says, heading for the nearby convenience store for some fresh booties. He never comes back. After a while, Sherry goes looking for him and eventually is kidnaped by Toby, a student from a recent class. He beats and tries to rape her, then decides they need a bed. Sherry escapes, gets a stranger named Jim to help her get back to Duane''s place. They find Duane in bed, his skull crushed, then Toby offs Jim with two butcher knives into his back, jumps a woman in Duane''s hallway and knifes her in the back, then re-abducts Sherry for some real fun. And that''s just for tasty openers as Laymon''s novel slides in slime toward a big sweet hell of pain and orgasm. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18749'),
(26030, 'Come to grief', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The bestselling author of "Decider" is back with another suspenseful ride The hero of "Whip Hand" returns Although more than a decade has passed since the publication of "Whip Hand, " little time has elapsed in Sid Halley''s life. Still in his mid-thirties, he remains troubled, courageous, unwilling to admit defeat to disabling injury or to corruption. Now, though, Sid faces nineties'' dilemmas, dangers, and deeply demanding decisions. "I had this friend that everyone loved, and I put him on trial...I grieved for the loss of a friendship, and for the man who looked the same but was different, alien...despicable. I could more easily have grieved for him dead." Having exposed an adored racing figure as a monster, Sid must testify at the man''s trial. But the morning of his appearance, a tragic suicide shatters the proceedings and jars Halley''s conscience. Plagued by regret and the suspicion that there''s more to the death than has yet come to light, he is catapulted into days of hard, rational detection, heart-searching torments, and the gravest of perils. Business as usual for Sid...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13861'),
(26031, 'Come to the Edge: A Memoir', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despair...Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course. Girl loses boy. Boy loses everything. But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families. Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter of _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13862'),
(26032, 'Comeback Moms: How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven&#39;t Had a Job in Years', 'Monica Samuels; J. C. Conklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what''s best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when youâ€™re ready to leave work to be a full-time mother, how to maintain contacts while away from the job, and then how to execute a successful reentry into the workforce anywhere from one to twenty years after you''ve left. Comeback Moms is filled with anecdotes and advice from economists, career counselors, employers and, of course, mothers who have made the transition from the career track to the mommy track and back again. The authors distill the wisdom of the experts and many high profile women--including Ambassador Karen Hughes, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards--into a three-tiered battle plan to help any woman get through this life-changing process and come out ahead.â€œYou canâ€™t fall into the trap of thinking you have to do it all or can do it all. You have to take advantage of opportunities when theyâ€™re offered.â€â€” Anne Richards, former Governor of TexasMillions of educated, professional women are quitting their jobs to stay home and raise their children.That would never be you, right? You worked hard for your degree and even harder to get to this point in your career. Quitting now, even for a few years, would kill your career. Right?Thatâ€™s what Monica Samuels thought when she found out she was pregnant and boy, was she wrong. Once you have a baby, your life changes in ways youâ€™d never imagine. Some of your friends and family members may think youâ€™ve gone a little crazyâ€”crazy enough to leave a salary and paid vacations to stay home with your child. Before you go storming into your bossâ€™s office to announce your departure, read this book. Thereâ€™s more to quitting than saying the words. Thereâ€™s strategy involved.Over sixty percent of professional women who leave work to raise children want to go back into the workforce someday. If you even think you might want to go back to work, be it in one year or twenty, you need to lay the groundwork now for a successful reentry or your options will be limited. If you do a little planning, you can reposition yourself professionally and have the choice to one day get back on the same career track, shift gears, accelerate, or change careers entirely. And, if youâ€™ve already been out of the workplace for several years and never thought youâ€™d go back, youâ€™ll learn about the best strategies and resources for jumping back in.Comeback Moms is a practical, commonsense approach to career planning for all mothers. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin examine every conceivable angle and obstacle to help you make the best decisions possible before leaving your job, during your time at home, and once you decide to return to work. They offer advice on how to keep one foot in the professional pool, when and if itâ€™s best to go back to school, setting realistic expectations when re-entering an old career, helping your children adjust when you do go back, and on the logistics of rebalancing marital power when a spouse leaves or re-enters the work force. It''s all here in an invaluable guide for every woman who wants it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13863'),
(26033, 'Comes the Blind Fury', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13867'),
(26034, 'Comes the Dark Stranger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treasonIn the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years later, Shane has only one goal: find out who betrayed them to Colonel Li. Shane seeks out the five men he fought beside all those years ago in order to expose a shocking truth behind the fateful day that changed all of their lives forever."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13869'),
(26035, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4499'),
(26036, 'Coming Home', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set around the time of WW II, Pilcher''s tale of youthful friendship and romance spent 16 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pilcher''s novel is big, both in size and scope. Yet its charm is in its details. The book''s heroine is Judith Dunbar, who is a schoolgirl of 13 when the tale begins in 1935. Sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore, Judith becomes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who introduces her to a family and an estate, Nancherrow, that is to influence her for the rest of her life. Pilcher does a marvelous job of describing life in England before World War II. Readers, especially Anglophiles, will adore the care Pilcher gives to setting her scenes, decorating them with everything from Cornish wildflowers to china dogs to particular tartan plaids. The same care is evident later in the tale, as Pilcher chronicles the changes brought by the war to the fabric of British life. There is, of course, more to the novel than a carefully rendered historical backdrop. There is a story, too, and a quite involving one even if its outlines are familiar from other melodramas set against the dramatic events of history. As Judith makes her way to adulthood in the midst of great wealth, great tragedy, and, naturally, romance, Pilcher effectively balances the demands of plot with the pleasures of revisiting a different place and time. Fans of the author''s previous books, such as\n <em>\n  September\n </em>\n (1990), will know what they''re getting into and willingly plunge in headfirst. A Literary Guild main selection and an 850,000 first printing indicate supreme confidence on the publisher''s part.\n <em>\n  Ilene Cooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19241'),
(26037, 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way', 'Timothy Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin''s and Lyell''s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists'' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the\n <code>\n </code>\n big names'''' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is good base material for students who will ask questions and go further on their own. Throughout the book, introductory quotations are used to advantage to tease readers into the next topic. Bob Fliess, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19210'),
(26038, 'The Coming of the Dragon', 'Rebecca Barnhouse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Loosely based on the final years of Beowulf''s kingship, this imaginative retelling fleshes out the story of the only man who truly stands beside the great king to the end. Rune is an infant when he washes ashore in a mysterious boat and is spared death by King Beowulf and Amma, a strange old woman who becomes a mother figure to him. The king protects Rune and trains him to fight, but he remains a threat and a misfit in the minds of most villagers. He is content living a simple life until a vicious dragon is awakened and destroys everyone and everything he loves. Avenging his family leads him to answers about his own heritage as well as some nail-biting suspense as he confronts the dragon more than once. While Rune''s naked insecurity and self-doubt wear thin at times, his innocence and perseverance make him a sympathetic and unlikely hero. An adventure-filled coming-of-age tale.â€“Mandy Lawrence, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TXÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune has never known his parents, and the villagers who raised him are not completely convinced he isnâ€™t cursed by the gods. But when King Beowulf is in direst need, only Rune stands by his side, finally able to claim his destiny. Barnhouse takes the final section of Beowulf, which focuses on the story of young Wiglaf, and weaves an absorbing tale of a young man finding his courage. Told as a straight narrative, descriptions of settings and plot elements reflect back to the epic itself. Although few characters are fully developed, Rune and the woman who raised himâ€”as well as King Beowulfâ€”emerge as rounded characters. This is a great bridge book to use in a classroom either before or after broaching the Beowulf story. An authorâ€™s note clearly indicates which bits of the novel have been fabricated and which are drawn directly from the poem. This novel would also appeal to those who enjoy Norse mythology in general and to readers of Judson Robertsâ€™ Strongbow Saga. Grades 7-10. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4500'),
(26039, 'The Coming of the Horseclans', 'Robert Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prophecy Written in Blood! After two hundred years of seaching for other immortals, the Undying High Lord Milo Morai has returned to the Horseclans to fulfill an ancient prophecy and lead them to their destined homeland by the sea. But in their path wait the armed might of the Ehleenee and an enemy even more treacherous-the Witchmen-pre-Holocaust scientists who have survived the centuries by stealing other men''s bodies to house their evil minds and who have in their hidden stronghold the means of destroying all who will not become their willing slaves. Can even Milo save the Horseclans from the bloodthirsty Ehleenee and the malevolent Witchmen who would rip him to shreads to discover his secret of immortality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4501'),
(26040, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4502');
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(26041, 'Coming Out', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 67th novel (following May''s\n <em>\n  The House\n </em>\n ) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages to juggle a challenging full-time job; a loving relationship with her second husband, Harry (an appeals court judge who is her former law professor); the care of their five-year-old son, Max, and her three older children from a previous marriage. Olympia''s first husband, Chauncey, is a stereotypical, upper-class snob, with no job but a passion for playing polo. Harry, son of Holocaust survivors, champions liberal causes. When Olympia''s teenage twin daughters, Veronica and Virginia, are invited to an exclusive "coming out" ball, everyone''s lives are thrown into turmoil. Most of the book revolves around the arguments and disagreements spurred by the invitation, and Steel appears overly didactic as she tries to pump life into the simplistic setup: Olympia''s Jewish mother-in-law, Afro-American law partner and gay older son are trotted out like polo ponies at auction. Steel''s mÃ©tier is glamour and romance; her attempt to deal with social injustice falls flat.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her sixty-seventh novel, Steel sticks to what she knows best, the lifestyles of the rich and glamorous. Here "coming out" refers to an exclusive debutante ball in New York, to which the twin daughters of attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein have been invited. Olympia, a blue-blooded spawn of New York''s upper class, has three children from a previous marriage and a five-year-old son with her current husband, Harry. To Olympia''s surprise, the invitation has caused turmoil and chaos in her household. Ex-husband Chauncey, a stereotypical polo-playing upper-class lout, is demanding that the girls attend the ball and has threatened to withhold college tuition if both girls do not attend. Olympia''s current husband Harry, the son of Holocaust survivors, and a hard-working man with liberal tendencies, is violently opposed to the event, which he finds racist and elitist. In addition, the twins have their own ideas, with Veronica, a passionate liberal, refusing to attend, and Virginia already shopping for a dress. Olympia, who fondly recalls her own debut, is upset by her husband''s feelings but thinks he''ll come around and gently encourages her daughters to attend. The entire plot of this fairly short novel is focused on the resolution of this family dilemma, and as usual, everything works out for the best in the end.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13870'),
(26042, 'Coming Undone', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A new novel of "toe-curling" erotic romance from the national bestselling author of *Laid Bare*. ** After his parents'' death, Brody gave up a promising career to care for his family. Now, with his siblings grown, Brody owns his own business, and for the first time in years he''s alone. Elise has come to Seattle with her daughter to find peace. After years as a world-famous ballerina-and trapped in a marriage gone bad-she''s looking for neither love nor attention. But she finds both in the handsome, honest man who befriends her with no strings attached. Brody and Elise discover in each other the wild, physical passion they need. But it''ll take a shadow from Elise''s past to make them look beyond what they need-to what they truly *desire*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13872'),
(26043, 'Coming Up for Air', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Purchase one of 1st World Library''s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. I remember the morning well. At about a quarter to eight I''d nipped out of bed and got into the bathroom just in time to shut the kids out. It was a beastly January morning, with a dirty yellowish-grey sky. Down below, out of the little square of bathroom window, I could see the ten yards by five of grass, with a privet hedge round it and a bare patch in the middle, that we call the back garden. There''s the same back garden, some privets, and same grass, behind every house in Ellesmere Road. Only difference- where there are no kids there''s no bare patch in the middle. I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath. My face looked back at me out of the mirror, and underneath, in a tumbler of water on the little shelf over the washbasin, the teeth that belonged in the face. It was the temporary set that Warner, my dentist, had given me to wear while the new ones were being made. I haven''t such a bad face, really. It''s one of those bricky-red faces that go with butter-coloured hair and pale-blue eyes. I''ve never gone grey or bald, thank God, and when I''ve got my teeth in I probably don''t look my age, which is forty-five.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13873'),
(26044, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13876'),
(26045, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13877'),
(26046, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19204'),
(26047, 'Communicado', 'Katherine MaClean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13882'),
(26048, 'The Communist Manifesto', 'Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of\n  <em>\n   The Communist Manifesto\n  </em>\n  , commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document''s continued relevance. Marx and Engels''s critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the\n  <em>\n   Manifesto\n  </em>\n  ''s vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  May 1 to honor the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Marx and Engels''s masterpiece with this quality, affordable hardcover. This edition contains a new introduction by historian Eric Hobsbawn, who insists that the work should be read not only as a great work of literature but that, 150 years later, it still has much to teach us for the next millennium.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4506'),
(26049, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances. A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13884'),
(26050, 'Companions of Paradise', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment of Thalassa''s Paradise Trilogy (following\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n ) finds Mariana Givens living within the confines of the British cantonment at Kabul in 1841, on the eve of the first Afghan war. An assassination attempt in Lahore thwarted by her husband, Hassan Ali Khan (son of a Sufi sheikh), has forced Mariana to leave Lahore, abandoning Hassan (and her stepson, Saboor). Mariana lives miserably in an English microsociety that doesn''t recognize her marriage, full of dinner parties and eager suitors. Hassan, meanwhile, is recovering slowly from wounds, and his family is second-guessing Mariana''s intentions. As tension escalates between the British (who have deposed the Afghan king, Amir Dost Muhammad, and installed a more friendly rival, Shah Shuja) and the Afghans (who are preparing to attack the British army and its 10,000 "camp followers"), Mariana faces dangerous choices. As in the other books, Ali does a highly credible job creating the clannish atmospheres of the British and Sufi subcultures, and makes the strictures that Mariana and Hassan face (and those of their servants) palpable. The detail she offers (including mystic writings from a variety of traditions) is nicely wedded to the plot, which moves with brisk and engaging efficiency.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers first met the brave Englishwoman Mariana Givens in Ali''s exciting debut novel,\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (2002), and Ali continued Mariana''s incredible adventures in\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n (2004). The final book of the Paradise trilogy concludes Mariana''s saga. It''s 1841, and Mariana is at the British cantonment in Kabul. The pressure is on to break all ties with Hassan Ali Khan, her Muslim Indian husband (from whom she''s been separated), and marry a British officer as one of her own. Mariana can''t make up her mind. Does Hassan still consider their marriage valid? Does he still love her? To help with her decision, she goes to a mystic, a Sufi seer. But things are never easy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Afghan forces have the British cantonment under siege, and Mariana is put in a terrible position. With its incredible detail, historical accuracy, strong sense of place, Sufi mysticism, and fearless heroine who risks her life to do the right thing, this is a perfect ending to an excellent trilogy.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13886'),
(26051, 'Company', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after\n <em>\n  Jennifer Government\n </em>\n ). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime of turning people into cogs in a machine. Recent b-school grad Stephen Jones, a fresh-faced new hire at a Seattle-based holding company called Zephyr, jumps on the fast track to success when he''s immediately promoted from sales assistant to sales rep in Zephyr''s training sales department. "Don''t try to understand the company. Just go with it," a colleague advises when Jones is flummoxed to learn his team sells training packages to other internal Zephyr departments. But unlike his co-workers, he won''t accept ignorance of his employer''s business, and his unusual display of initiative catapults him into the ranks of senior management, where he discovers the "customer-free" company''s true, sinister raison d''Ãªtre. The ultracynical management team co-opts Jones with a six-figure salary and blackmail threats, but it''s not long before he throws a wrench into the works. As bitter as break-room coffee, the novel eviscerates demeaning modern management techniques that treat workers as "headcounts." Though Barry''s primary target is corporate dehumanization, he''s at his funniest lampooning the suits that tread the stage, consumed by the sound and fury of office politics that signify nothing.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“By turns amusing and wry, this novel is a pleasure to read. It opens with a view of a large corporation as seen by a new employee whose first day on the job is one of high suspenseâ€“one of the doughnuts for a staff meeting is missing. Moving beyond the usual cheap but funny shots taken at corporate life, Barry takes his tale to the next level. What if this giant maze for laboratory rats in which so many people work was actually just that? The characters are stereotypes but readers will sympathize with them, nonetheless._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13889'),
(26052, 'The Company of Four', 'Elizabeth Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4507'),
(26053, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer &amp; Dayna Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19222'),
(26054, 'The company: a novel of the CIA', 'Robert Littell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ''50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell''s place among the genre''s elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4508'),
(26055, 'The compleat traveller in black', 'John Brunner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a collection of stories of the Traveller in Black. It is set in a world where chaos rules. One man - the man with many names, but one nature - is charged with creating order out of the warring forces of nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4509'),
(26056, 'The Compleat Werewolf', 'Anthony Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17704'),
(26057, 'The Complete Android Guide', 'Kevin Purdy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4511'),
(26058, 'Complete Care for Your Aging Cat', 'Amy Shojai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the last few decades, tremendous advances have been made in veterinary technology--nearly tripling the average life span of many pets. But cats that are seven years and older have special needs and require additional emotional support, nutritional help, and medical care. A longer life also means more cats suffer age-related conditions such as kidney problems, diabetes, and arthritis, all of which can be successfully managed with your loving assistance. Complete Care for Your Aging Cat contains the answers you need to care for your mature cat. Pet expert Amy Shojai explains: * How to entice your older cat into getting more exercise. * What changes to expect as your cat ages--and which changes are natural and which are warning signs that should send you to the veterinarian. * Which pet-specific over-the-counter medications every owner should keep on hand. * How to use the L.O.V.E. Program to keep your cat loving longer and living better. * Tips on everything from choosing the right products and food for your aging cat to performing nursing care at home. Filled with heartwarming stories, the latest developments in geriatric veterinary care, age-defying tips, and comprehensive reference material, this is the definitive guide to turning back the clock on aging--and keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13891'),
(26059, 'The Complete Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Wilhelm Grimm;Alfred William Hunt;James Stern;Josef Scharl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way childrenâ€”and adultsâ€”learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, HÃ¤nsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4513'),
(26060, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition', 'Sari Locker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sexy is as sexy does, according to Sari Locker (called "our favorite tantalizing sex writer" by Playboy magazine). But how to feel sexy if you''re a virgin, or if you''ve experienced sexual problems, or have serious body image hang-ups? The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Amazing Sex succeeds in not only teaching technique (as well as a book can), but also offers serious advice for boosting your self-esteem. As with other Complete Idiot guides, you''ll probably want to turn this one backwards in your bookcase, or at least get a book cover for it. But get past the silly title and you''ll find a plethora of facts, tips, and tricks on topics including sexual response, masturbation, foreplay, afterplay, oral sex, fantasy, sex toys, sexual preference, cross-dressing, and "The Big Om": tantric sex. The margin notes liberally decorating the book are worth a hearty chuckle. The "Sextistics" are particularly fun and eye-opening. Some examples: only 9 percent of people surveyed believe sex appeal is innate; the rest feel it can be acquired!; about 7 percent of women have never climaxed; the majority of male crossdressers are married with children; and, according to the Hite Report, nearly 60 percent of men ages 61 to 75 said their desire for sex remained steady or increased with age, Viagra or no. Locker, a sex educator and WCBS-TV relationship correspondent, has been a sex educator for more than a decade. That said, she should have placed the facts on contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases earlier in the book, before the hot and heavy photographs of sexual positions. That gripe aside, Amazing Sex is worth investigating by both sexual neophytes and experienced couples looking to maintain a state of hot monogamy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4514'),
(26061, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4516'),
(26062, 'The Complete Lyonesse', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become embroiled in political rivalries and the quest for the grail. The Gollancz Black Books have proved to be an immensely successful formula for getting well loved stories into the hands of people who also love well made books. Jack Vance''s Complete Lyonesse is a perfect addition to the series and contains Madouc the novel for which Vance won the World Fantasy Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4517'),
(26063, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Over 300 works, with active table of contents)', 'Twain, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4519'),
(26064, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections. See the sample for the complete and navigable table of contents.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18787'),
(26065, 'The Complete Moon Trilogy: The Moon Maid, the Moon Men &amp; the Red Hawk', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps the most imaginative of the ''Planet'' series - the entire ''Moon'' adventures For 60 years all the nations of the Earth have been at war. Now peace has come, but, more momentously, contact has been made with Mars. Into these times steps Julian-a man aware of lives past and present-with a strange story to tell. Mars has launched a ship to Earth, but it is lost in space-now it is Earth''s turn to make an attempt to reach Mars, and Julian is commander of the mission. Sabotage plunges the Earth craft into the moon where, hidden from Earth''s view, civilizations thrive. There Julian becomes involved in a fierce struggle with the Kalkans. In the second adventure, another Julian must deal with the Kalkan invasion and occupation of Earth, as mankind is forced into serfdom and its technology destroyed. The American people of the third adventure are a nomadic horse nation, painted and feathered. Their chieftain is Julian-the Red Hawk-and he is planning the final defeat of the hated Kalkans after centuries of enmity and oppression. This is Edgar Rice Burroughs at his best, with all the thrills, spills, action and hairsbreadth escapes his fans expect. Here, for your enjoyment, are all the ''Moon'' novels in a single volume.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4520'),
(26066, 'The Complete Novels Of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Animal FarmBurmese DaysA Clergyman''s DaughterComing Up for AirKeep the Aspidistra FlyingNineteen Eighty-FourDescribed by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4521'),
(26067, 'The Complete Robot', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov''s stunning visions of a robotic future...\n </p>\n <p>\n  In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov''s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE DEFINATIVE COLLECTION OF ROBOT STORIES.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13896'),
(26068, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I*, by **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveÂ—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. *Volume I* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* starts with Holmesâ€™s first appearance, *A Study in Scarlet*, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling *The Sign of Four*, which introduces Holmesâ€™s cocaine problem and Watsonâ€™s future wife. The story collections *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* and *The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes* feature such renowned tales as Â“A Scandal in Bohemia,â€ Â“The Red-Headed League,â€ and Â“The Musgrave Ritual.â€ Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, killed him off at the end of Â“The Final Problem,â€ the last tale in *The Memoirs*. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, which supposedly takes place before Holmesâ€™s death. The separate *Volume II* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* collects the remaining accounts of Holmesâ€™s exploits, including Â“The Adventure of the Empty House,â€ which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmesâ€™s literary resurrection. **Kyle Freeman**, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4524'),
(26069, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4525'),
(26070, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18723'),
(26071, 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway', 'Hemingway, Ernest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4527'),
(26072, 'The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the century''s great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh'' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh''s stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. ''Mr Loveday''s Little Outing'' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; ''Cruise'' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; ''A House of Gentlefolks'' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in ''The Sympathetic Passenger'' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4528'),
(26073, 'Complete Short Stories of Miss Marple', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8902'),
(26074, 'The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12288'),
(26075, 'The Complete Stories Volume 1', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4531'),
(26076, 'The Complete Stories', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper." --Walter Clemons,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the National Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O''Connor''s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O''Connor put together in her short lifetime--_Everything That Rises Must Converge _and\n <em>\n  A Good Man Is Hard to Find\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n O''Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master''s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ€”is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O''Connor''s longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4529'),
(26077, 'The complete uncollected short stories of J.D. Salinger', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19022'),
(26078, 'Complicit', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is standing in her friendï¿½s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13899');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(26079, 'Complicity', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO -- he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two stories begin to merge, Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the killer. When the arms dealer whom Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before Cameron can even put pen to paper and the brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold out at the expense of his workers finds himself permanently unemployable, the police become convinced of Cameron''s guilt, as do half his friends and colleagues, forcing Cameron to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13900'),
(26080, 'Computer Virus', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13903'),
(26081, 'Comstock Lode', 'Louis L&#39;Amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future. From the Paperback edition. SUMMARY: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13906'),
(26082, 'Concealment', 'A. E. Van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18301'),
(26083, 'Concerning Hades', 'Flavius Josephus; Ken Mattern, eBook creation', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13908'),
(26084, 'Conclave Of Shadows 01 - Talon of the Silver Hawk', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16192'),
(26085, 'Conclave Of Shadows 02 - King Of Foxes', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13770'),
(26086, 'Conclave Of Shadows 03 - Exile&#39;s Return', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11929'),
(26087, 'The concrete blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly''s LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband''s civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch''s previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader''s benefit.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch, hero of the Edgar Award-winning The Black Echo ( LJ 1/92), is in hot water: the family of a serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest accuses him of killing the wrong man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18779'),
(26088, 'The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross', 'Arno Saarvakuonor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16784'),
(26089, 'The Concubine&#39;s Daughter', 'Pai Kit Fai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li lives in a rice shed mostly forgotten, as she wonders about her dead mother, who had been an educated concubine. After Li rebels against attempts to bind her feet, she is sold on her eighth birthday to a silk merchant and finds a temporary family among the female laborers while she dreams of learning to read and write. Capt. Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. Siu-Sing learns about her lineage and returns to face her own tribulations as WWII is about to begin. Fai''s multigenerational tale has predictable elements, but is nonetheless an engaging and entertaining read.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughterâ€™s journey to their destiny.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n L_otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayâ€¦_\n</p>\n<p>\n When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or â€œBeautiful One,â€ the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her fatherâ€™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her motherâ€™s dreams of becoming a scholarâ€”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, â€œLittle Star,â€ in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4536'),
(26090, 'The Concubine&#39;s Secret', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer.But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4537'),
(26091, 'The Concubine&#39;s Tattoo', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty months spent as the shogun''s sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month''s holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun''s favorite concubine interrupts the couple''s wedding ceremony and shatters any hopes the samurai detective had about enjoying a little peace with his new wife. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume''s death to a self-inflicted tattoo, he must travel into the cloistered, forbidden world of the shogun''s women to untangle the complicated web of Harume''s lovers, rivals, and troubled past, and identify her killer. To make matters worse, Reiko, his beautiful young bride, reveals herself to be not a traditional, obedient wife, but instead, a headstrong, intelligent, aspiring detective bent on helping Sano with his new case. Sano is horrified at her unladylike behavior, and the resulting sparks make their budding love as exciting as they mystery surrounding Lady Harume''s death. Amid the heightened tensions and political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting complex investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4540'),
(26092, 'Condemnation - Book 3', 'Baker, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13772'),
(26093, 'Condemned, A Kiss, and Sleep', 'Wayne Wightman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13773'),
(26094, 'A confederacy of dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16161'),
(26095, 'Confess, Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery characters who never turn out to be just exactly what they seem.\n <em>\n  Confess, Fletch\n </em>\n is as stimulent slipped into your nightcap that will have you up to dawn no matter what you think you have to do tomorrow.? --Joe Gores --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasnâ€™t exactly. His Italian fianc?eâ€™s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasnâ€™t exactly uncooperative, but it wasnâ€™t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasnâ€™t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletchâ€™s thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when heâ€™s not â€œentertainingâ€ his future mother-in-law\n <br />\n and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13777'),
(26096, 'Confessions of a crap artist', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier. "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges." -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13780'),
(26097, 'Confessions of a crap artist--Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.): a chronicle of verified scientific fact, 1945-1959', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13782'),
(26098, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at your doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13784'),
(26099, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pages...fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13787'),
(26100, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she''s never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London''s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season''s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can''t actually afford itâ€”not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn''t pay much at all. And lately Becky''s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bankâ€”letters with large red sums she can''t bear to readâ€”and they''re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky''s only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our timesâ€”and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood''s hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13790'),
(26101, 'Confessions of a Teen Nanny 01', 'Victoria Ashton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13791'),
(26102, 'Confessions of a Teen Nanny 02 Rich Girls', 'Victoria Ashton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13793'),
(26103, 'Confessions of a Teen Nanny 03 Juicy Secrets', 'Victoria Ashton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13794'),
(26104, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst', 'Reingold, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13795'),
(26105, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.* Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s. *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone. Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve. He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business. In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13797'),
(26106, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold &amp; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18917'),
(26107, 'Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies From the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion', 'Judy Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For anyone planning eventsâ€”student, novice, or experienced professionalâ€”Confessions of an Event Planner is an â€œapprenticeship in a book.â€ This insiderâ€™s guide takes you on a narrative journey, following a fictional event planning company that stages various types of events around the world for many different clients. While other books, college courses, and training programs give you the theory and how-to of the profession, Confessions of an Event Planner reveals the real world of event planning and what can happenâ€”usually the unexpectedâ€”on an event program when actual participants are added to the event planning design and execution mix. In a climate of media scrutiny and corporate scandals, event planners must be masters of discretion, knowing how to avoid and deal with everything from sexual romps to financial shenanigans, to chainsaw wielding salesmen dead set on â€œre-landscapingâ€ the grounds of the resort theyâ€™re staying at. From an event planner whoâ€™s seen it all and knows how to deal with it all, comes practical first-hand advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible format. Each chapter is set in a unique location, with a cast of characters, and a host of challenges and problems to overcomeâ€”from the boardroom to the resort guest bedrooms. Readers learn what they can come up against, how to problem solve creatively on the fly, get ideas for staging spectacular events, and see the principles of event planning in action. The scenario in each chapter is introduced by an outline of what will be covered in the chapter, and each chapter concludes with a series of review questions to explore key issues and stimulate reflection or discussion for individuals or groups. Ideal as a companion to Judy Allenâ€™s six other event planning books, as a textbook in event planning courses, or as a professional training tool Confessions of an Event Planner prepares planners for what they can expect once they start working in the world of corporate and social event planning, and will help decision-makers set company policies, procedures and protocol and promote discussion about codes of conduct in the office and offsite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13801'),
(26108, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Â Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13804'),
(26109, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva''s protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel''s past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le CarrÃ©, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4553'),
(26110, 'The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West', 'Kathleen Y&#39;Barbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia â€œGennieâ€ Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudentâ€“especially as sheâ€™s supposed to go back to New York and marry another man. As Gennie adapts to the rough-and-tumble world of 1880s Colorado, she must decide whether her future lies with the enigmatic Daniel Beck or back home with the life planned for her since birth. The question is whether Danielâ€™s pastâ€“and disgruntled miners bent on revengeâ€“will take that choice away from her.Â â€œThe Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper is a fast-paced story full of fun, action, drama, and love.â€â€“Mary Connealy, author of Calico Canyon, Petticoat Ranch, and Gingham MountainÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you loved Cathy Marie Hake, give yourself a treat with The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper.â€â€“Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River Series and One Perfect Day\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4555'),
(26111, 'Confluence', 'Brian W. Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13805'),
(26112, 'Confluence Revisited', 'Brian W. Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13807'),
(26113, 'The confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4556'),
(26114, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13809'),
(26115, 'Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16169'),
(26116, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16170'),
(26117, 'CONNIE WILLIS', 'mig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16444'),
(26118, 'Connie Willis', 'Bellweather', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16447'),
(26119, 'Connie Willis', 'Fire Watch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16450'),
(26120, 'Connie Willis', 'The Last of the Winnebagos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16451'),
(26121, 'Connie Willis', 'Passage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16455'),
(26122, 'Connie Willis', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16456'),
(26123, 'Connie Willis', 'At the Rialto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16458'),
(26124, 'Connie Willis', 'Cibola', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16460'),
(26125, 'Connie Willis', 'Spice Pogrom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16462'),
(26126, 'Connie Willis', 'Daisy, in the Sun', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16466'),
(26127, 'Connie Willis', 'Miracle &amp; Other Christmas Stories', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16470'),
(26128, 'Connie Willis', 'Schwarzschild Radius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16473'),
(26129, 'Connie Willis', 'Just Like The Ones We Used To Know', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16475'),
(26130, 'Connie Willis', 'Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16479'),
(26131, 'Connie Willis', 'One-Eyed Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16481'),
(26132, 'Connie Willis', 'Blued Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16486'),
(26133, 'Conqueror', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Conqueror (The second book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter As the comet fills the sky over Britain and rumours of war coming from across the channel spread two young men accompany a lecherous bishop north to the ruins of the ancient Hadrian''s Wall to search for a man known only as ''the last Roman'' and the mysterious prophecy he keeps - the prophecy of Isolde. It is a prophecy that tells of an invasion by a North man and an empire that will last thousands of years, an empire of the Aryans. Stephen Baxter''s new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people who''s future is not yet locked as our past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13811'),
(26134, 'Conquerors&#39; heritage', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n InConquerors'' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award-winning author of theNew York Timesbestselling Star Wars(r) trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstallar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown origin.Â Â Now he probes deeply into the world of the invaders themselves in one of the most powerful evocations of an alien society ever created. The Zhirrzh have won a temporary respite in their war with the barbarians.Â Â But the HumanÂ Â captive Pheylan Cavanaugh has escaped, and for that Thrr-gilag, the young Searcher, finds himself disgraced, his bond-engagement to a female of a rival clan imperilled.Â Â Soon he becomes a target of hidden and powerful forces seeking to remake Zhirrzh society in their own merciless image.Â Â His only hope is to prove that the overclan authorities are wrong:Â Â that it was not the Humans who started the war. But time is short.Â Â The forces of the Zhirrzh are overextended and face swift retaliation.Â Â The Zhirrzh have learned to conquer death itself -- but even that awesome power will be no match for the devastating might of the Human Conqueror armadas.Â Â Thrr-gilag soon comes to realize that his people face a two-fold threat:Â Â destruction by Human technology. . . or destruction from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13813'),
(26135, 'Conquerors&#39; pride', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award-winning author of The New York Times best-selling Star Wars trilogy, blazes a spectacular new path across the sky in an epic original novel of star-spanning action adventure, mystery and intrigue.Â Â A long era of peace and prosperity in the interstellar Commonwealth has suddenly come to an end.Â Â Four alien starships of unknown origin have attacked, without provocation, an eight-ship Peacemaker task force, utterly destroying it in six savage minutes.Â Â The authorities claim there were no survivors.Â Â But Lord Stewart Cavanaugh, a former member of Parliament, has learned through back channels that one man may have survived to be captured by the aliens:Â Â his son, Commander Pheylan Cavanaugh.Â Â A large-scale invasion appears imminent, and the strictest security measures are in effect . . . measures that Lord Cavanaugh has no choice but to defy.Â Â He recruits Adam Quinn, who once flew with the elite Copperheads--fighter pilots whose minds are literally one with their machines--to rescue his son.Â Â Quinn assembles a crack force of Copperheads to steal out of the Commonwealth security zone and snatch Pheylan Cavanaugh from the conquerors.Â Â Depending on the outcome, Quinn and his men will retum home as heroes or as the galaxy''s most despised traitors--if they come home at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13814'),
(26136, 'Conquest', 'Anthony Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17713'),
(26137, 'Conscious Eating', 'Cousens Md, Gabriel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13816'),
(26138, 'Consent to kill: a thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp finds himself directly in the line of fire in the latest riveting political thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn. For years, Mitch Rapp''s bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come. Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him. *Consent to Kill* takes listeners behind the headlines and catapults them to the front lines of the global war on terror. It sizzles "with inside information, military muscle, and CIA secrets" (Dan Brown). Vince Flynn mixes military technology with his exclusive knowledge of Washington politics to create a hero that Americans will wish existed outside the realm of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13817');
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(26139, 'Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster; James Moran; Andrew Cartmel; David Llewellyn; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13818'),
(26140, 'Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster &amp; James Moran &amp; Andrew Cartmel &amp; David Llewellyn &amp; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18815'),
(26141, 'Conservatives Without Conscience', 'John W. Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **On the heels of his national bestseller *Worse Than Watergate*, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement** In *Conservatives Without Conscience*, John Dean places the conservative movementâ€™s inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13820'),
(26142, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13821'),
(26143, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13822'),
(26144, 'Conspiracies', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson''s vigilante hero from the *New York Times *bestseller *The Tomb*, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It''s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted--and that few people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack''s been having vivid dreams that make him wonder whether he''s headed for a clash with his own past--maybe *The Tomb*''s evil rakoshi beasts aren''t through with him quite yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20617'),
(26145, 'Conspiracy - Book 6', 'King, J. Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13824'),
(26146, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring police lieutenant Eve Dallas. New York City''s most vulnerable citizens fall victim to a ruthless serial killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13826'),
(26147, 'A conspiracy of paper: a novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss''s ambitious first novel,\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n , the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver''s father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn''t quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn''t give the idea much credence:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father''s unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior''s death and that of Weaver''s father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London''s financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss seems right at home in the world he''s created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver''s Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity.\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This remarkably accomplished first novel, by a young man still completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, has a great deal going on. It is at once a penetrating study of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency in early 18th-century London, a sympathetic look at the life of a Jew in that time and place and a vision of the struggle between the Bank of England and the upstart South Sea Company to become the repository of the nation''s fiscal faith. If all that sounds daunting, it is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer who had once abandoned his family, and virtually his faith, too, for a life on the fringes of criminal society as a kind of freelance bailiff who brings debtors to book for their creditors. When his uncherished father dies suddenly, however, and he has reason to suspect the apparent accident was actually murder, he plunges himself into a hunt for those responsible, and in the process changes his life. With his native cunning and his brawling skills, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled with the villainous Jonathan Wild, thief-taker par excellence, who has institutionalized criminal mayhem. He also becomes the pawn of some powerful financial giants lurking in the shadows (much like the corporate villains in contemporary thrillers), comes to suspect his glamorous cousin Miriam of actions unbecoming a lady and employs the wiles of his philosophical Scottish friend Elias to decode the mysterious ways of finance and the laws of probability. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. Agent, Liz Darhansoff. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16171'),
(26148, 'The conspiracy', 'K. A. Applegate', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Animorphs Book 31 SUMMARY: The Yeerk that controls Jake''s brother Tom is desperate to keep Tom from going with the family to his great-grandfather''s funeral, even if he has to kill Jake''s father.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4559'),
(26149, 'The Constable of the Tower', 'William Harrison Ainsworth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XII. IN WHAT MANNER THE LORD ADMIRAL''S MABRIAGE WITH THE QTJEEN WAS ANNOUNCED. Meanwhile, the Lord Protector, accompanied by the Earl of Warwick, continued to walk through the apartments, noting their splendour with a jealous eye. Perceiving what was passing in his mind, Warwick sought still further to inflame his anger. "What thinks your highness of this fete?" he asked. " ''Tis a sumptuous affair. The Lord Admiral will ruin himself if he gives many such." " His prodigality is unbounded," cried Somerset. "Yet he has an object in it," pursued Warwick. " He would have all eyes turned on him as towards the rising sun. Your highness will do well to be on your guard, for you may rest assured that all this display is only part of a deep-laid scheme to supplant you. Do you not note how your brother has gathered round him all those of the old nobility who are known to be unfriendly to your highness? Do you not see that he is trying to propitiate the Romish party? With what intent are Gardiner and Tunstal here ? " "His design is plain enough. But I fear him not." " Your highness had best not be too confident. Do not let him strengthen himself too much, or he may become too powerful for you." " I would deprive him of his post at once," cried Somerset, " but he has so much influence with the king that such a step might be dangerous. I must have an excuse for severity. But let us tohis majesty. Dorset, I see, lias returned with my lady marchioness and his daughter." " The king seems wondrously fond of the Lady Jane Grey. Mark how he hangs upon her words, and what a lover-like attitude he assumes! Dorset, I am sure, persuades himself his daughter will one day be Queen of England." " If he indulges any such notion he will find himself mistaken. But the king is too ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4561'),
(26150, 'Constance Ash', 'The Stranger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16488'),
(26151, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13829'),
(26152, 'Contact by Equals', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18060'),
(26153, 'Contact with Chaos', 'Michael Z. Williamson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeformsâ€”the first which humans had ever encounteredâ€”it should have been the most important event in history. And it might beâ€”for all the wrong reasons.                  Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential to disrupt their society. Then there was the U.N., which controlled the planet Earth. Earth and Freehold were not on good terms, to put it mildly, and the U.N. immediately sent its own ship to make contact with the Ithkuil. If the authoritarians from Earth started throwing their weight around, Freehold would have to push back, causing anything from a diplomatic incident to outright war. And then another ship arrived, full of idealistic do-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature . . .                  The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and a Kafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a more advance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely was becoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powder keg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadly explosion. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13831'),
(26154, 'Contagious', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the acclaimed author of *Infected* comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanityâ€™s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the diseaseâ€™s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nationâ€™s best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if theyâ€™re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors. These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but thatâ€™s not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat â€” one that comes from a most unexpected source â€” may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.Catapulting the reader into a world where humanityâ€™s life span is measured in hours and the presidentâ€™s finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. *Contagious* is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13833'),
(26155, 'Containment', 'Christian Cantrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13835'),
(26156, 'Contamination', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The U.S.S. Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship''s science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science''s greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation''s highest honors for their achievements in scientific research. Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship''s science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13837'),
(26157, 'Contents', 'Charles Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10671'),
(26158, 'Continental Contract', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13839'),
(26159, 'Contraband from Otherspace', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18245'),
(26160, 'Contract with God', 'Juan Gomez Jurado', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13850'),
(26161, 'Contrarywise', 'Zohra Greenhalgh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, trouble follows. Trouble of a most peculiar nature. Advertising in Locus and American Fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13841'),
(26162, 'Control Group', 'Roger Dee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13851'),
(26163, 'Convergent Series', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13854'),
(26164, 'Convergent Series', 'Transcenden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16737'),
(26165, 'The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing', 'Conversation Of Ah Le Sing', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Native American\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4562'),
(26166, 'The Convert', 'Simon Ings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4565'),
(26167, 'Conviction', 'Tom Clancy; David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell(r) operative.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13858'),
(26168, 'The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy', 'Iain Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After seeing his father hauled off to debtorâ€™s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familyâ€™s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureâ€”and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemenâ€™s Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom canâ€™t abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if heâ€™s to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I begin my adventure\n</p>\n<p>\n When she was six and I was eight, my little sister, Kitty, died. She fell from a bridge, into the Thames, and drowned before anyone could reach her. My mother was there when it happened. She heard a scream and turned to see my sister spinning through the air. She watched Kitty vanish into the eddies of brown water, and in that instant my mother''s mind unhinged.\n <br />\n She put on mourning clothes of the blackest black and hid herself from head to toe, like a beetle in a shell. As the sun went up, as the sun went down, she stood over Kitty''s grave. Her veils aflutter in the wind, her shawls drooping in the rain, she became a phantom of the churchyard, a figure feared by children. Even I, who had known her all my life, never ventured near the place when the yellow fogs of autumn came swirling round the headstones.\n <br />\n It was a day such as that, an autumn day, when my father had to drag her from my sister''s grave. The fog was thick and putrid, like a vile custard poured among the tombstones. From the iron gate at the street I couldn''t see as far as the church. But I saw the crosses and the marble angels, some distinct, some like shadows, and my father among them, as though battling with a demon. I heard my mother wailing.\n <br />\n Her boots were black, her bonnets black, and the rippling of her clothes made her look more like a beast than a person. She shrieked and fought against him, clinging to the headstone, clawing at the earth. When at last my father brought her through the gate, she was howling like a dog. In her hand was a fistful of dirt. She looked at it, and fainted dead away.\n <br />\n We lifted her into the cart, among the bundles and the chests that represented all our goods. The drayman climbed to his seat. He cracked his whip and swore at his horse, and off we started for Camden Town.\n <br />\n I walked beside my father as we passed our empty house and turned toward the bridge. By chance, the drayman chose the same route that Father took every morning on his useless treks to the Admiralty. I saw him look up at the house, then down at the ground, and we went along in silence. Only a few feet before me, the cart was no more than a gray shape. It seemed to be pulled by an invisible horse that snorted and wheezed as it clopped on the paving stones. My mother woke and sat keening on the cart.\n <br />\n We were nearly at the river before my father spoke. "This is for her own good," he said. "You know that, Tom."\n <br />\n "Yes," I said, though it wasn''t true. We were not leaving Surrey for my mother''s sake, but only to save the two pennies my father spent crossing the bridge every day. We were leaving because Mr. Goodfellow had driven us away, just as he had driven us from a larger house not a year before. I believed he would haunt us forever, chasing us from one shrinking home to the next, until he saw us out on the streets with the beggars and the blind. We were leaving Surrey because my father was a sailor without a ship.\n <br />\n He didn''t walk like a sailor anymore. He didn''t look like one, nor even smell like one, and I wouldn''t have believed he had ever been a sailor if it weren''t for the threadbare uniform he donned every morning, and for the bits of sailory knickknack that had once filled our house but now were nearly gone. In all my life I had watched him sailing out to sea only once, and then in a thing so woeful that it sank before he reached the Medway. That, too, had been Mr. Goodfellow''s doing; that had been the start of it.\n <br />\n When we reached the timber wharfs at the foot of the bridge I could feel the Thames close at hand. Foghorns hooted and moaned, and there came the thumping of a steamboat as it thrashed its way along the river. But I couldn''t smell the water; the stench of the fog hid even that.\n <br />\n We paid our toll and started over the bridge. Father walked at the very edge, his sleeve smearing the soot that had fallen on the rail. Horses and carriages appeared before us, and a cabriolet came rattling up from behind. I had to dodge around people, and step nimbly from a curricle''s path, but my father walked straight ahead with a mind only for the river below us. Ladies on the benches drew in their feet as he passed. One snatched up a little white dog. A man shouted, "Watch where you''re walking." But Father just brushed by them all.\n <br />\n I imagined that he could somehow see the water, and all the life upon it. Sounds that drifted up to me as mere groans and puzzling splashes must, to him, have been visions of boatsmen and bargemen, of oars and sails at work. His head rose; his shoulders straightened for a moment.\n <br />\n I had no wish to know his world, though I had been born by the banks of the Thames, where the river met the sea. We''d left the village before I was two, at the wishes of my mother. The river had taken her father, and the sea had taken her brothers, and ever since my sister''s death she''d taught me to fear them both. I often thought--when I saw the Thames swirling by--that one or the other was waiting to take me too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4398'),
(26169, 'Convincing Alex', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McKnee, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfect - for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13859'),
(26170, 'Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes', 'Lifetime Television', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lose weight without losing your mind! *Cook Yourself Thin* is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste. For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won''t leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! *Cook Yourself Thin* shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love. *Cook Yourself Thin* is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can''t live without your chocolate cake or mac ''n'' cheese? You don''t have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There''s never enough time to cook? *Cook Yourself Thin* keeps it simpleâ”€with easy instructions and fun recipes you''ll want to make again and again. What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13864'),
(26171, 'The Cook&#39;s Illustrated How-to-Cook Library', 'The Editors of Cooks Illustrated', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This very special Kindle collection covers all the culinary ground, from barbecue, grilling, garden vegetables, holiday roasts, potatoes, soups, stews, stir-fries, pasta sauces, pizza, appetizers, salads, shrimp and shellfish, to pies, layer cakes, cookies and brownies, holiday desserts, ice cream, simple fruit desserts, and lots more. It''s all you really need in the kitchen and it all sits nice and handy on a Kindle as well. Now your own definitive recipe collection is portable and easy to access, the perfect helper in the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4402'),
(26172, 'A Cook&#39;s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cook''s Tour\n </em>\n is the written record of Anthony Bourdain''s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of __ as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep''s testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California''s Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined\n <em>\n  kaiseki\n </em>\n rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don''t-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.\n</p>\n<p>\n You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living.\n <em>\n  --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in search of the perfect meal: the Sputnik-era kitchen of a "less-than-diminutive" St. Petersburg matron, the provincial farmhouse of a Portuguese pig-slaughterer and the middle of the Moroccan desert, where he dines on "crispy, veiny" lamb testicles. Searching for the "perfect meal," Bourdain writes with humor and intelligence, describing meals of boudin noir and Vietnamese hot vin lon ("essentially a soft-boiled duck embryo") and ''fessing up to a few nights of over-indulgence ("I felt like I''d awakened under a collapsed building," he writes of a night in San Sebastian hopping from tapas bar to tapas bar). Goat''s head soup, lemongrass tripe, and pork-blood cake all make appearances, as does less exotic fare, such as French fries and Mars bars (deep fried, but still). In between meals, Bourdain lets his readers in on the surprises and fears of a well-fed American voyaging to far-off, frugal places, where every part of an animal that can be eaten must be eaten, and the need to preserve food has fueled culinary innovation for centuries. He also reminds his audience of the connections between food and land and human toil, which, in these sterilized days of pre-wrapped sausages, is all too easy to forget.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16172'),
(26173, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down." way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences. And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne. Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13865'),
(26174, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay &amp; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down."   way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences.   And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne.   Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18872'),
(26175, 'Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food', 'Jeff Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it''s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?\n</p>\n<p>\n More than just a cookbook,\n <em>\n  Cooking for Geeks\n </em>\n applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don''t consider yourself a geek.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist HervÃ© This, and xkcd\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Cooking for Geeks\n  </em>\n  : Butternut Squash Soup\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n PurÃ©e in a food processor or with an immersion blender:\n <br />\n 2 cups (660g) butternut squash, peeled, cubed, and roasted (about 1 medium squash)\n <br />\n 2 cups (470g) chicken, turkey, or vegetable stock\n <br />\n 1 small (130g) yellow onion, diced and sautÃ©ed\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (1g) salt (adjust to taste)\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The weights are for the prepared ingredients and only rough suggestions. So, prepare each item individually. For example, for the squash, peel it, then coat it with olive oil, sprinkle it with salt, and roast it in the oven at a temperature around 400â€“425 F / 200â€“220 C until it begins to brown. When you go to purÃ©e the ingredients, hold back some of the squash and some of the stock, taste the purÃ©e, and see which you think it needs. Want it thicker? Add more squash. Thinner? Add more stock.\n </li>\n <li>\n  This soup by itself is very basic. Garnish with whatever else you have on hand that you think might go well, such as garlic croutons and bacon. Or top with a small dab of cream, some toasted walnuts, and dried cranberries to give it a feeling of Thanksgiving. How about a teaspoon of maple syrup, a few thin slices of beef, and some fresh oregano? Chives, sour cream, and cheddar cheese? Why not! Instead of purchasing items to follow a recipe exactly, try using leftover ingredients from other meals to complement the squash soup.\n </li>\n <li>\n  If youâ€™re in a rush, you can â€œjump-startâ€ the squash by microwaving it first. Peel and quarter the squash, using a spoon to scoop out the seeds. Then, cube it into 1â€“2â€ / 3â€“5 cm pieces, drop it into a glass baking pan thatâ€™s both oven and microwave safe, and nuke it for four to five minutes to partially heat the mass. Remove from microwave, coat the squash with olive oil and a light sprinkling of salt, and roast it in a preheated oven until done, about 20 to 30 minutes. If youâ€™re not in a rush, you can skip the peeling step entirely: cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, add oil and salt, roast it for about an hour (until the flesh is soft), and use a spoon to scoop it out.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pumpkin Cake\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are two broad types of cake batters: high- ratio cakes--those that have more sugar and water than flour (or by some definitions, just a lot of sugar)--and low-ratio cakesâ€”which tend to have coarser crumbs. For high-ratio cakes, there should be more sugar than flour (by weight) and more eggs than fats (again, by weight), and the liquid mass (eggs, milk, water) should be heavier than the sugar.\n</p>\n<p>\n Consider this pumpkin cake, which is a high-ratio cake (245g of pumpkin contains 220g of water--you can look these sorts of things up in the USDA National Nutrient Database, available online at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/).\n</p>\n<p>\n In a mixing bowl, measure out and then mix with an electric mixer to thoroughly combine:\n <br />\n 1 cup (245g) pumpkin (canned, or roast and puree your own)\n <br />\n 1 cup (200g) sugar\n <br />\n 3/4 cup (160g) canola oil\n <br />\n 2 large (120g) eggs\n <br />\n 1 1/2 cups (180g) flour\n <br />\n 1/4 cup (40g) raisins\n <br />\n 2 teaspoons (5g) cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon (5g) baking powder\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (5g) baking soda\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (3g) salt\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (2g) vanilla extract\n</p>\n<p>\n Transfer to a greased cake pan or spring form and bake in an oven preheated to 350 F / 175 C until a toothpick comes out dry, about 20 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Try adding dried pears soaked in brandy. You can also hold back some of the raisins and sprinkle them on top.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One nice thing about high-ratio cakes is that they donâ€™t have much gluten, so they wonâ€™t turn out like bread, even with excessive beating. With a total weight of 920 grams, of which only roughly 20 grams is gluten, there just isnâ€™t enough gluten present in this cake to give it a bread-like texture. Thereâ€™s also a fair amount of both sugar and fats to interfere with gluten development.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. He studied computer science and visual art at Brown University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13866'),
(26176, 'Cooking Up Murder', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common-except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables. But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man-a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot. Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she''s hiding, before someone else''s goose-perhaps one of their own-gets cooked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13868'),
(26177, 'Cooking Well: Osteoporosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Building Strong Bones', 'Marie-Annick Courtier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Can a healthy diet prevent Osteoporosis or make a difference in the health of patients whom already have developed the disease? "In a word, yes. An estimation of 44 million Americans are at risk for Osteoporosis today. The disease eventually affects 1 out of every 2 women and 1 out of every 5 men, which is expected to double in the next 25years. Most physicians encourage not only an active lifestyle, but also a balanced diet to help strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Indeed, people with Osteoporosis often reportconsiderable improvement in their well-being after changing their eating habits. "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" features over 100 recipes designed to improve dailyfunctioning and aid in the treatment of this disease. The book also features: * An overview on how to live with osteoporosis* A list of foods to avoid* A meal diary andchecklist to track your progress All recipes and meals in the "Cooking Well" series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, Chef Marie-AnnickCourtier, and "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" is an invaluable resource for your nutritional healing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19347'),
(26178, 'Cool Hand Luke', 'Donn Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pearce''s 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts'' mythology of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19121'),
(26179, 'A Cool Head', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "My dad used to say to me, ''Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart''. At least I think it was my dad. I don''t really remember him." Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn''t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy''s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Rankin is a regular No.1 bestseller, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diamond Dagger. He lives with his family in Edinburgh, and in 2003 received an OBE for his services to literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16173');
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(26180, 'Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting', 'Michael Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of\n   <em>\n    Truck: A Love Story\n   </em>\n   gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhoodâ€”his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farmâ€”for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he''s not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of\n  <em>\n   Being and Nothingness\n  </em>\n  ").\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it''s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"),\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud,\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Marshaling Memories by Mike Perry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In forming a recollection of that compelling moment when I laid my tongue upon a frozen hammerhead--an act some forty years past--I trust my memory completely. I give this trust based on the electric clarity with which I can resurrect the physical sensation of my taste buds tacking themselves to the subzero steel with a merciless subcellular crinkle. I see no need to verify this reminiscence by licking additional frozen hammers. Still, memory is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and therefore, whenever possible, I rummage around for verification. Sometimes it is as simple as calling Mom. When you took my brother Jud to the Frost-Top Drive-In on his first day with the family after the social worker dropped him off, did he (as I recall) really eat his hamburger, wrapper and all? He ate the wrapper, says Mom, but it was a\n  <em>\n   hot dog\n  </em>\n  . And so the correction is made.* In other instances the verification is archival. Seeming to remember that I experienced my first religious conversion after a spate of bad behavior in third grade, I traveled to the grade school of my childhood and was allowed to rummage through a box in the subterranean boiler room until I found my third grade report cards. The following excerpt served as evidence that yes, the third grade me was in need of spiritual improvement. Also, my third grade teacher wasnâ€™t a top hand with the typewriter:\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Work Habits: Continues to Waste Time. Mike appears to belligerentwhen asked to get to work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  In other cases we strive not for verification but elicitation. In looking at the first photo on the right I can recall what it was like to be a shirtless farm boy in the sun; the straw-like smell of the stubble and how it pricked the soles of my bare feet; and, out of the blue, an unexpected emotional wallop as I recognize my motherâ€™s handwriting and realize that the evocation of a person hardly requires their likeness. Literal traces will do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sometimes--and I am not speaking here of fabrication--we must construct memories we never retained. Poorly-lit as it is, the secpnd photo tells me much about my world as it was on my third day of life: that my father was the type of man who would grab a sheet of discarded stock from the paper mill of his employment and fashion a sign to welcome his wife and firstborn son home from the hospital; that the big ship painting currently hanging upstairs in my parents farmhouse has been in the family since the beginning; and finally (this required close study until I made out the rocking chair in the shadows, and further realized that the two strips of shininess visible toward the right side of the piano were reflected from the gilded pages of two bibles), I was able to conjure the week-old me, safe in my motherâ€™s arms, the Word of God close at hand, belief and unbelief yet to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *_The question of Mom as unreliable narrator is not to be raised. Shame on you._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perry (_Population: 485_) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife, daughters and titular menagerie of livestock (who are fascinating, exasperating personalities in their own right). But these luminous pieces meander back to his childhood on the hardscrabble Wisconsin dairy farm where his parents, members of a tiny fundamentalist Christian sect, raised him and dozens of siblings and foster-siblings, many of them disabled. Perry''s latter-day story is a lifestyle-farming comedy, as he juggles freelance writing assignments with the feedings, chores and construction projects that he hopes will lend him some mud-spattered authenticity. Woven through are tender, uncloying recollections of the homespun virtues of his family and community, from which sprout lessons on the labors and rewards of nurturance (and the occasional need to slaughter what you''ve nurtured). Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentenceâ€”One of the [chickens] stretches, one leg and one wing back in the manner of a ballet dancer warming up before the barreâ€”and you''ll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13871'),
(26181, 'The Coral Kingdom - Book 2', 'Niles, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4405'),
(26182, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it''s different. It''s a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there''s also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever!   Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13729'),
(26183, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The day after they moved in,  Coraline went exploring....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Coraline''s family''s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only it''s different.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there''s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to *change* her and never let her go.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18768'),
(26184, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline''s family''s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it''s different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there''s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to *change* her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20664'),
(26185, 'Cordon Santaire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13730'),
(26186, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13731'),
(26187, 'Cordwainer Smith', 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16364'),
(26188, 'Cordwainer Smith', 'The Planet Buyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16491'),
(26189, 'Cordwainer Smith', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16493'),
(26190, 'The Corfu trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4418'),
(26191, 'Cormac McCarthy', 'The Road', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16365'),
(26192, 'Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing', 'Sonny Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this â€œmostly trueâ€ novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a man and his dog.Cormac, a golden retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes, runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. His owner, meanwhile, devastated by Cormacâ€™s disappearance and trying to juggle a family, a book tour, and writing his new novel, becomes determined to solve the â€œdog-nappingâ€ case. With the help of the local veterinarian, bookstore colleagues, animal rescue employees, and old friends, he picks up on Cormacâ€™s trail and watches his small-town community come together in search of his lost companion.Inspired by real events, and embellished only to serve the story through the spirit of imagination, Brewer has, as he says, â€œmainly told the truth in this story of losing my good dog Cormac.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13734'),
(26193, 'Cormyr - Book 1', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13736'),
(26194, 'The Cornish Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Megaera''s father sold her in marriage at fifteen to Edward Devoran. Edward''s extravagance mortgaged her estates and induced him to join a band of smugglers. Meg paid the interest by selling her jewels and when they were gone-Edward was gone too, murdered by his partner Black Bart. Meg became the smuggler Red Meg, took Edward''s place and Edward''s profits and kept paying her mortgages. Philip St. Eyre wanted to fight Napoleon. Raised as a Frenchman and able to pass as French, he was the perfect spy and had a way to reach France through his father''s old friend, the smuggler Pierre. Thus Philip met Red Meg and fell in love. Meg thought Philip was Pierre''s by-blow, Philip thought Meg was a common smuggler. To both gently born lovers the match was impossible. Until Black Bart tried to murder Meg, and Philip had to take her to France where her handiness with a pistol saved his life and his mission and exposed all their secrets. Publisher Note: The book was previously published elsewhere in 1981.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4420'),
(26195, 'Cornwell, Patricia - All That Remains', 'Remains, All That', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13738'),
(26196, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Body of Evidence', 'jfiller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13741'),
(26197, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Cruel and Unusual', 'Cruel &amp; Unusual; Cruel &amp; Unusual', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13743'),
(26198, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Last Precinct', 'Precinct, Last', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13744'),
(26199, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Point of Origin', 'Origin, Point of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13746'),
(26200, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Postmortem', 'Postmortem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13747'),
(26201, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Cause of Death', 'Cornwell, Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14100'),
(26202, 'Cornwell, Patricia_From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Cornwell, Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11482'),
(26203, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Kay Scarpetta 10 - Black Notice', 'Notice, Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13749'),
(26204, 'Cornwell, Patricia_The Body Farm', 'Cornwell, Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4893'),
(26205, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Unnatural.Exprosure', 'Cornwell, Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13750'),
(26206, 'Coronach of the Bell', 'Christopher Stasheff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13751'),
(26207, 'Coronach of the Bell', 'Christopher Stasheff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16615'),
(26208, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Winner of the National Book Award After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Jonathan Franzenis the author ofThe Twenty-Seventh City,Strong Motion, and the essay collectionHow to Be Alone. He has been named one of theGranta20 Best Novelists under 40 and is a frequent contributor toThe New YorkerandHarper''s. He lives in New York City. Winner of the National Book Award Pulitzer Prize Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Los Angeles TimesBook Award Finalist New York Times Book ReviewEditors'' Choice American Library Association Notable Book The Correctionsis a grandly entertaining novel for the new centurya comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married manor so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today,The Correctionsbrings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic and darkly hilarious, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul. "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless,The Correctionsis a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords."David Foster Wallace "Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole cultureour culture. And he has done it with sympathy and expansiveness that bend the edgy modern temper to a generous breadth of vision."Don DeLillo "In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events,The Correctionsstands in the company of Mann''sBuddenbrooksand DeLillo''sWhite Noise. It is a major accomplishment."Michael Cunningham\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4422'),
(26209, 'Correlated Contents', 'James Ambuehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13754'),
(26210, 'The Corridors of Time', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4424'),
(26211, 'Corsair - Book 2', 'Baker, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13755'),
(26212, 'Corundums Woman', 'Andrew J. Offutt - Spaceways 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17827'),
(26213, 'Cory Doctorow', 'Down &amp; Out In The Magic Kingdom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16367'),
(26214, 'Cory Doctorow', 'Scroogled', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16369'),
(26215, 'Cory Doctorow', 'Liberation Spectrum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16370'),
(26216, 'Cory Doctorow', 'Eastern Standard Tribe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16378'),
(26217, 'Cory Doctorow', 'Printcrime', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16381'),
(26218, 'Cory Doctorow - Someone Comes to Town', 'Someone Leaves Town', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16383'),
(26219, 'Cosmopolis', 'Don DeLillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Publishers Weekly DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer "wants to be one civilization ahead of this one." But on an April day in the year 2000, Eric''s fortune and life fall apart. The story tracks him as he traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony''s, his father''s old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit, an attack by anarchists and a rapper''s funeral. Meanwhile, the yen is mounting, destroying Eric''s bet against it. The catastrophe liberates Eric''s destructive instinct-he shoots another character and increases his bet. Mostly, the action consists of sequences in the back of the limo (where he stages meetings with his doctor, various corporate officers and a New Economy guru) interrupted by various pit stops. He lunches with his wife of 22 days, Elise Shifrin. He has sex with two women, his art consultant and a bodyguard. He is hit in the face with a pie by a protester. He knows he is being stalked, and the novel stages a final convergence between the ex-tycoon and his stalker. DeLillo practically invented the predominant vernacular of the late ''90s (the irony, the close reading of consumer goods, the mock complexity of technobabble) in White Noise, but he seems surprisingly disengaged here. His spotlighted New Economy icon, Eric, doesn''t work, either as a genius financier (he is all about gadgetry, not exchange-there''s no love of the deal in his "frozen heart") or a thinker. The threats posed by the contingencies that he faces cannot lever him out of his recalcitrant one-dimensionality. DeLillo is surely an American master, but this time out, he is doodling. From Library Journal Unlike his sprawling masterpiece, Underworld, DeLillo''s 13th novel is short and tightly focused, indeed almost claustrophobic. Most of the action takes place inside a "prousted" (cork-lined) stretch limo, as the reclusive financial wizard Eric Packer is chauffeured across Manhattan for a haircut. Thanks to a presidential visit, antiglobalization demonstrations, and a celebrity funeral, this journey takes up most of the day. Stuck in traffic, Packer anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo''s computer. Using the car as his office, he summons advisors from nearby shops and restaurants. His physician gives him a rubber-gloved physical exam in the back seat as Packer discusses imminent financial ruin with his broker and angry crowds block the streets. This work most closely resembles The Body Artist in its brevity and straightforward narrative flow. However, the earlier novel was written in an uncharacteristically warm, poetic style, promising a new direction for this important writer, while Cosmopolis reverts to the standard DeLillo boilerplate, perceptive and funny but also brittle and cold. This, coupled with the book''s dated 1990s sensibility, makes Cosmopolis a step backward rather than an artistic advance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13759'),
(26220, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13761'),
(26221, 'A Cotswold Mystery', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With beautiful descriptions of the countryside, this excellent thriller marks a compulsive new series of rural adventures. --Good Book Guide\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client''s mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soon arousing Thea''s suspicion. After all, why do the Montgomery''s lock her connecting door to the house? And why do they set an alarm that goes off every time Granny goes out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea''s concerns, however, soon turn to something more sinister when the arrival of her daughter, trainee policewoman Jessica, prompts the discovery of a body. Slowly the secrets of Blockley begin to unravel themselves to the Osborne women, but nothing in the village is quite what it seems. Up against the clock to try and solve another murder, with the added complications of her elderly charge, her daughter''s career troubles and her deepening relationship with DI Phil Hollis, Thea is beginning to feel well and truly lost in the Cotswolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16174'),
(26222, 'The Cottage', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This "cottage" is actually the huge estate of fading movie star Cooper Winslow, who is so down on his luck that he must rent a part of it to make ends meet. But the two fellows who move in introduce Coop to something completely different friendship and of course in the offing there''s the promise of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â„¢In her fifty-fourth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n . Modeled after the â€œcottagesâ€ of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywoodâ€™s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. Heâ€™s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy Oâ€™Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Markâ€™s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Markâ€™s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.\n</p>\n<p>\n But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered worldâ€”a world that is becoming more and more unpredictable with each passing day.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coopâ€™s budding romance with a wealthy debutante....A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news....A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates....And in the midst of it all,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coopâ€™s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslowâ€“ loner, bachelor, movie starâ€“may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances...of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4429'),
(26223, 'Cotton Malone 01 - The Templar Legacy', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it wasâ€“and its true nature could change the modern world.Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instinctsâ€“and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought heâ€™d left behind.It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cottonâ€™s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, whoâ€™s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But sheâ€™s not alone. Competing for the historic prizeâ€“and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possessesâ€“is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command. Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized worldâ€“and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(26224, 'Cotton Malone 02 - The Alexandria Link', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13763'),
(26225, 'Cotton Malone 03 - The Venetian Betrayal', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13764'),
(26226, 'Cotton Malone 04 - The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13765'),
(26227, 'Cotton Malone 05 - The Paris Vendetta', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13766'),
(26228, 'Cotton Malone 06 - The Emperor&#39;s Tomb', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4167'),
(26229, 'The Council of Blades - Book 5', 'Kidd, Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4431'),
(26230, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America. This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4435'),
(26231, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&amp;N)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Dashing young Edmond DantÃ¨s has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years.The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including DantÃ¨sâ€™s miraculous escape from prison, his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure, and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristoâ€”a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19049'),
(26232, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Dumas, Alexandre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4437'),
(26233, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16268'),
(26234, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas Pere', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA piece of perfect storytelling.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Robert Louis Stevenson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This enduringly popular tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemies and arrested on trumped-up charges. Condemned to lifelong imprisonment, he befriends Faria, a priest and fellow inmate with an escape plan. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes alone. Free at last, and incredibly wealthy, Edmond enters society posing as the Count of Monte Cristo to reclaim his lost love and enact a terrible vengeance on his accusers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18964'),
(26235, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting.Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected.But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whomaren''t remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unpreparedfor what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo onthe Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. Untilhe meets the angel. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13767'),
(26236, 'Countdown', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific bestseller Johansen subjects gutsy Jane Maguire to more troubles in her latest thrill ride. Jane, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, was threatened by one serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n and another in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n , so it''s no surprise that she''s in danger again. The once troubled adolescent is now a brilliant Harvard student and talented artist who spends her summers at far-off archeological digs in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but she''s still haunted by her resemblance to Cira, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago in the latter city. Suddenly she''s being ambushed in alleys. Does the attempted kidnapping have something to do with\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n ''s climax, in which Eve; her husband, Joe Quinn of the Atlanta PD; soldier of fortune Mark Trevor; and Jane, the bait, triumphed over the psychopath who was killing women who looked like Cira? You bet it does, as Trevor turns up in Cambridge, enigmatic but still definitely magnetic, determined to protect Jane from danger due to new developments regarding Cira, "the femme fatale of the ancient world." Seems all kinds of notorious criminals are after Cira''s lost gold, but some people have mass murder on their minds. Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrea Cirillo at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire''s life. In\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n [BKL Ag 04], the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer''s pawn. Now she''s a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure. When one of Jane''s childhood friends is killed, she realizes that she must find out why, especially when, as before, Scotland Yard''s handsome Mark Trevor becomes involved. He has tried to keep Jane out of his latest escapade, but he swoops in to the rescue, bringing her to Scotland to keep her safe. Never completely on the right side of the law, Jane questions Trevor''s motives while trying to keep in check the sexual tension between them as they try to quell a deranged madman who is after Trevor and the lost treasure. Along the way, Jane discovers that many people are trying to find the truth about Cira, and that Jane herself is perceived as the reincarnation of that fabled Roman figure. Johansen delivers a top-notch sequel filled with great chases, original characters, and intricate plot twists, creating a unique supernatural twist on the classic thriller.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13768'),
(26237, 'Countdown: The Liberators', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure. Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader''s son and heir has been kidnapped. We don''t know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object." And then old soldiers--sailors and airmen, too--stop fading away and come back intosharpfocus. "Kratman''s dystopia [inCaliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. he''s a professional military man . . . so he''s certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book." --Mark Steyn,Maclean''s Magazine "Kratman''s written the future [inCaliphate], and it''s scary." --John Ringo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13769'),
(26238, 'Counter-Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dickâ€™s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phaseâ€“a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, â€œGood-bye,â€ and part with, â€œHello,â€ and underneath the worldâ€™s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13771');
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(26239, 'The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Alcorn''s uneven third Norman de Ratour mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  ), Norman, the Museum of Man''s director and the book''s bloviating narrator, discovers a murdered man in a parked car near the museum, located in the New England town of Seaboard. Unfortunately, the victim is honorary numismatics curator Heinrich Heinie von GrÃ¼mh, a wealthy MOM contributor. Worse, Heinie turns out to have been shot with Norman''s revolver, making him a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Norman must find a new home for a highly articulate chimp, fend off neighboring Wainscott University''s efforts to take over the MOM, and look into whether the antique coins Heinie gave the museum are fakes. Alcorn''s barbed darts at academia and the rarified world of top-notch museums amuse, but humor alone isn''t enough to redeem a rambling tale of wavering morals populated by mostly unattractive characters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Before one can do justice to Alfred Alcorn''s third Norman de Ratour mystery novel, it helps to haul out such adjectives as smart, sharp, fresh, sly, wise, original , and wildly funny. Alcorn can keep a story moving with the swiftness of a dirty look and the brilliance of a fine satire. Set in a mythical academic institution (read Harvard)Â  lucky readers of this novel will meet and get to know characters they won''t soon forget--especially Alphus , the most memorable of contemporary philosophers."\n  <br />\n  â€” Anne Bernays\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution. . . . A stylish, fiendish detective story.â€ â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn adroit, hilarious send-up.â€ â€”The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will be choked with laughter.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Sunday Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelicious details on every page.â€ â€”_ The Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSly and spicy from start to finish . . . a just-right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19075'),
(26240, 'The Country Doctor', 'Steven Utley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4439'),
(26241, 'Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for *The New Yorker*, acquired his Chinese driver''s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average peopleâ€”farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneursâ€”who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. *Country Driving* begins with Hessler''s 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital''s auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom *The Wall Street Journal* calls "one of the Western world''s most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13774'),
(26242, 'The Country of the Kind', 'Damon Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4440'),
(26243, 'The coup', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4442'),
(26244, 'The Courage Tree', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you start your novel with a terminally ill child and a last-chance herbal remedy, chances are you''ve got a story. If you have the terminally ill child survive a car accident and become lost in the remote West Virginia woods you''ve got some stressful reading. If, for kicks, you put a psychopathic murderer in the woods, you''ve got Diane Chamberlain''s nail-biting drama\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n . Sophie Donohue is the wise-beyond-her-years child. Janine is the mother wolf who courageously admits her child into the clinical trial of a new medicine against the advice of her ex-husband, Joe, and her cynical parents. Lucas Trowell is the\n <em>\n  literally\n </em>\n tree-hugging love interest who supports Janine. Chamberlain knows how to place her characters in internal and external conflicts, and there are rich subplots for each character, though the abundance and timing of them can detract from the central drama. Even with its faults,\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n will lure you in and keep you reading late into the night._--Nancy R.E. O''Brien_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A race against time to find a sick child lost in the West Virginia wilderness keeps pages turning in this suspenseful family drama by former psychotherapist Chamberlain (Breaking the Silence). Janine Donohue lives with her eight-year-old daughter, Sophie, on the Ayr Creek estate in Vienna, W.Va., a horticultural reserve operated by the descendants of the original owner. Janine''s parents live in the main house, while Janine, a former Army Reserve helicopter pilot, and Sophie, who suffers from renal failure, live in the guesthouse. Despite resistance from her parents and ex-husband, Joe, Sophie is being treated with a new alternative herbal therapy, Herbalina, at the suggestion of estate horticulturist Lucas Trowell. The promising results have allowed Sophie to accompany her Brownie troop on a weekend camping trip. Joe blames Janine for Sophie''s illness, believing it is a result of Gulf War syndrome, and disapproves of Sophie''s trip. Sophie, her friend Holly and troop leader Allison travel in a separate car on the return journey, then an accident kills Holly and Allison. When the three don''t arrive back with the rest of the troop, the police begin to search the dense West Virginia woods. Dazed, scared and weak without her medicine, Sophie manages to make it to a dilapidated cabin, where aging film star Zoe is hiding out. Zoe is awaiting the arrival of her daughter Marti, on the lam after a jailbreak, and Zoe is prepared to do anything to ensure her daughter''s safety after many years of neglect. Meanwhile, Janine''s parents and Joe suspect Lucas of foul play. Despite some cramped characterizations and too many narrative trails converging at once, this page turner will please those who like their stories with as many twists and turns as a mountain road. Multicity author tour. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4444'),
(26245, 'The Court of the Air', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author and blogger Hunt (_For the Crown and the Dragon_). Molly, pursued by determined assassins with mysterious masters, hides underground, while Oliver, framed for his uncle''s death, takes to the air to escape the fey-hunting Special Guard. They also draw the attention of the Court of the Air, a shadowy black-ops organization, and communityist revolutionaries seeking to resurrect ancient subterranean gods. An entire steampunk menagerie is pressed into lackluster service, but the pace leaves no time to focus on any single element. Only the steammen and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original. The historical and geographical parallels are overly frequent and mostly trite. Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks, but the end result is more overload than wonder.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Court of the Air\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks...the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€--_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and more...Harry Potter mugs H.P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€--_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thriller...put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter that includes some nasty paranormal adversaries as this is an exciting tale of two orphans trying to save the world from those who want Armageddon now.â€--_SFRevu__ _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4445'),
(26246, 'Courting Catherine', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trenton St. James III intends to buy the shabby old mansion on the coast of Maine and convert it into a hotel until he meets one of the owners, garage owner and mechanic Catherine "C.C" Calhoun, who is determined to stop him\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13776'),
(26247, 'The Courts of Chaos', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Corwin finds his world dissolving around him when his father Oberon, disguised as Corwin''s friend, steals the Jewel of Judgment so that he may defeat the evil Brand, in a conclusion to the first Amber series. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4447'),
(26248, 'The Courtship Of Princess Leia (Dave Wolverton)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4451'),
(26249, 'Covenant', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13781'),
(26250, 'Covenant [7] The Runes of the Earth', 'STEPHEN R. DONALDSON', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1977, with the publication of THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER, Stephen Donaldson created a true phenomenon: an epic fantasy instant bestseller that has now sold millions and millions of copies across the world.Thomas Covenant is mysteriously struck down by a disease believed eradicated; abandoned by his wife and young son, he becomes a pariah. Alone, despairing, Covenant falls - and is drawn into a mysterious new world where gentle people work magic and the earth itself brings healing. He is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour, but Covenant is convinced he''s having delusions. At the end of the sixth book, as Covenant battles to save the world, he is killed - in both worlds - as Dr Linden Avery, his horrified companion, looks on.Now comes the book every fantasy reader has been waiting for. It''s ten years later and Linden Avery thought she would never see the Land, or Covenant, her beloved, again. But Lord Foul has stolen her adopted son, and is unmaking the very laws of nature.And though she believes Covenant dead, he keeps sending Linden messages: ''Find me'', ''You''re the only one who can do this'' and ''Remember that I''m dead''. The Land is in turmoil, and Lord Foul has plans for them all . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13783'),
(26251, 'Covenant [9] Against All Things Ending', 'STEPHEN R. DONALDSON', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth and Fatal Revenant returns readers to the Land-and unravels some of the mysteries haunting Covenant and Linden Avery. Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery''s Staff of Law, and the ancient dagger called High Loric''s krill. His resurrection is Linden''s defiant act of love, despite warnings from mortals and immortals that unleashing this much power would destroy the world. She brought his spirit back from its prison in the Arch of Time, and revived his slain body, so that Covenant lies whole on the cool grass, and the world seems at peace. But the truth is inescapable: The thunderclap of power has awakened the Worm of the World''s End, and all of them, and the Land itself, are forfeit to its devouring. If they have any chance to save the Land, it will come from unlikely sources- including the mysterious boy Jeremiah, Linden''s adopted son, whose secrets are only beginning to come to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13785'),
(26252, 'Covenant 1 - Lord Foul&#39;s Bane v1', 'Donaldson, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13779'),
(26253, 'The Covenant Of The Flame', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fatal attacks on polluters around the world are investigated by a writer and an NYPD lieutenant. By this environmental thriller''s bloody climax, readers will be thoroughly tired of its padding and cardboard characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4454'),
(26254, 'The Covenant with the Vampire', 'Jeanne Kalogridis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4457'),
(26255, 'The covenant', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4453'),
(26256, 'Covert One 3 - The Paris Option', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13792'),
(26257, 'Covert One 4 - The Altman Code', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13844'),
(26258, 'Covert One 5 - The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13788'),
(26259, 'Covert One 7 - The Arctic Event', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13786'),
(26260, 'Covert-One 01 - The Hades Factor', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A baffling virus has claimed the lives of four people across the country including Dr. Sophia Russell, a research scientist working to understand the disease. Bitter and broken-hearted over the death of his beautiful fiancÃ© e, Jon Smith is determined to uncover the cause of the virus that killed her and prevent it from turning into a pandemic of epic proportions. He''ll travel across the globe and into the darkest corridors of murder and greed, to find a killer who would sacrifice millions of lives for his own success...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3702'),
(26261, 'Covert-One 02 - The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Covert-One, the president''s personal, super-secret agency formed after some recent virus-driven chaos (The Hades Factor, cowritten with Gayle Lynds), is staffed by an unknown number of international covert operatives, including Dr. Jon Smith, late of the USAMRIID. And a good thing, too, because someone''s helped themselves to Russia''s share of the world''s last two stores of the smallpox virus, an eradicated yet hideously deadly bug with no ready vaccine. That the pox was nabbed and who nabbed it is clear enough early on. Why such a seemingly large and disparate cadre of global citizens (keeping the players straight puts one in mind of Abbott and Costello''s "Who''s on First" routine) chose to pinch the bug and for what end are the novel''s driving questions. Freelance Serbian uber-nasty, Ivan Beria, is among the apparent perpetrators as are Dylan Reed and Adam Treloar of NASA, Tony Price, the head of the super- secret NSA, and a bunch of Russians. The good-guys roster claims Smith; Covert- One''s head, Nathaniel Klein; Briton and ex-SAS man, Peter Howell; Smith''s deceased girlfriend''s sister and CIA operative, Randi Russell; the girlfriend''s best friend, backup shuttle astronaut Megan Olson; and another bunch of Russians. Suffice it to say that Smith and company trot the globe, cat-and- mousing after the pox and in so doing careen through a classically speedy and Ludlumesque (if coincidence dependent) plot leaving large numbers of efficiently dispatched corpses in their wake. Most authors of international thriller-mysteries would give their right trench coat to make The New York TimesÂ® Best Sellers list. Of the late Robert Ludlum''s 21 novels, 21 have resided upon that list. Where The Cassandra Compact, written with bestselling thriller author Philip Shelby (Gatekeeper, etc.), winds up is anyone''s guess, but a few hundred thousand nightstands is a good place to start. And stay tuned for more installments--Ludlum may be dead, but he''s not done yet. --Michael Hudson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4622'),
(26262, 'Covert-One 03 - the Paris Option', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13789'),
(26263, 'Cowboy Accomplice', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A COWBOY IN MONTANA...? All J.T. McCall cared about were cattle. He''d always been the responsible brother and had taken over the day-to-day management of the family-owned Sundown Ranch years ago. He was as authentic as a cowboy can come -- and Regina Holland knew it. He was just what she was looking for, and she was determined to have him -- for business purposes only, of course. So when she finagled a job with his cattle drive deep in the Montana mountains, she didn''t count on becoming a killer''s target or on falling for J.T. But would they survive the assault of a madman?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13796'),
(26264, 'Cowboy Grace', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13798'),
(26265, 'The Cowboys of Cthulhu', 'David Bain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4458'),
(26266, 'The cowgirl in question', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WILDEST OF THE MCCALL BOYS WAS BACK The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade -- except he hadn''t counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn''t let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke...and anyone close to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4460'),
(26267, 'Coyote', 'Allen Steele - Coyote 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17975'),
(26268, 'Coyote At The End Of History', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13799'),
(26269, 'Coyote Blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption. As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love -- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13800'),
(26270, 'Coyote Blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16645'),
(26271, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13802'),
(26272, 'Coyote Rising', 'Allen Steele - Coyote 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17998'),
(26273, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19215'),
(26274, 'The Crack in Space: A Novel', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4461'),
(26275, 'Crack in the Cosmic Egg', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13803'),
(26276, 'Crackers', 'Jerry Oltion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13806'),
(26277, 'Cradle', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning grandmaster of science fiction does for the sea in his new novel what his epic classic 2001 did for outer space. Currently in production for a major motion picture from Warner Brothers/Peter Guber.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13808'),
(26278, 'Cradle', 'Alan Brennert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18234'),
(26279, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13810'),
(26280, 'Cradle of Saturn', 'James P. Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims -- that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, and as recently as a few thousand years ago -- flies in the face of the reigning dogma, and is under attack by the scientific establishment.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then the planet Jupiter emits a white-hot protoplanet as large as the Earth, which is hurtling sunwards like a gigantic comet that will obliterate civilization....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13812'),
(26281, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Arabian 1', 'The Other Sindbad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16392'),
(26282, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Arabian 2', 'A Bad Day for Ali Baba', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16390'),
(26283, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Arabian 3', 'The Last Arabian Night', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16389'),
(26284, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Cineverse', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16386'),
(26285, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Ebenezum 01', 'A Malady of Magicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16387'),
(26286, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Ebenezum 03', 'A Night in the Netherhell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16391'),
(26287, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Ebenezum 2', 'A Multitude of Monsters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16393'),
(26288, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Wuntvor 01', 'A Difficulty &amp; Dwarves', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16396'),
(26289, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Wuntvor 02', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16395'),
(26290, 'Craig Shaw Gardner - Wuntvor 03', 'A Disagreement &amp; Death', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16385'),
(26291, 'Cranford', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13819'),
(26292, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13665'),
(26293, 'Crash Deluxe', 'Marianne De Pierres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A kick-ass girl surviving in an ultra-violent world run by the media... This is a character driven series that should gather a strong following in much the same way as Anita Blake'' THE BOOKSELLER ''A compelling mix of MAD MAX and James Cameron''s DARK ANGEL'' THE AGE ''A fevered romp full of colourful characters'' BSFA VECTOR ''Excellent crime noir'' THE GUARDIAN\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Parrish Plessis, sometime coup leader, paid assassin and ex-bodyguard, is finding life tough. Betrayed by the enigmatic Loyl Daac, and still under blood debt to the deadly Cabal Coomera, Parrish is trying to hold together the little empire she''s inherited in the Tert, live up to the expectations of the many strays and waifs she''s accumulated, and attempt to flush the high-tech parasite from her system before she becomes something so much less than human. Not an ideal lifestyle, Parrish would be the first to admit, but she can make everything alright again if she can manage just one little task. Bring down the media. Just another day for Parrish Plessis...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13667'),
(26294, 'The Crate', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4463'),
(26295, 'Cratylus', 'Plato', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13671'),
(26296, 'Cravings', 'L. Hamilton, M. Davidson, E. Wilks, R York', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13673'),
(26297, 'Crazy', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back at 1940s- era New York. As 80-year-old Joey El Bueno begins his memoirs while a patient at Bellevue Hospital, he introduces his adolescent alter ego, a wisecracking Peruvian-Irish kid with an affinity for driving the staff at St. Stephenâ€™s Grammar School batty. But the nuns arenâ€™t the only ones going a little crazy; you see, lately Joey has struck up a friendship with a girl no one else seems to have seen or heard of, and Joey himself seems to know about things before they have happened. As readers attempt to puzzle out whether Joey has a fractured psyche or has broken through the time-space continuum, they will be treated to an entertaining romp through the Lower East Side conducted by an inimitable tour guide. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA superbly executed blend of tenderness and satire that comes to a powerful and emotional crescendo, Crazy is a marvelous work of fiction that cements Blattyâ€™s place of honor among great American authors.â€ -- Fears Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviewed by novelist Elizabeth Hand_\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to believe, but local horror meister William Peter Blatty once had a booming career as a funny guy. In addition to his comic novels, he worked with Blake Edwards on several films, including "A Shot in the Dark," the second Inspector Clouseau movie; he loved P.G. Wodehouse; and he was even compared to S.J. Perelman. All this came before those looming steps in Georgetown forever linked Blatty with his best-known work, "The Exorcist" (1971).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which makes his new novel, "Crazy," a return to form. It''s a sweet-natured, often hilarious tale cast as the memoirs of an 82-year-old former screenwriter named Joey El Bueno. Joey''s writing from a 10th-floor room at Bellevue Hospital, where the usually suspicious Nurse Bloor doesn''t raise an eyebrow at his laptop because "she has read Archy and Mehitabel and knows that sometimes even a rat can type."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joey is the son of an Irish beauty who died giving birth to him and an impoverished Peruvian immigrant who made his living pushing a hot dog cart. Joey''s memoir takes us back to the year he was a seventh-grader at St. Stephen''s, on Manhattan''s Lower East Side, in 1941. That''s where he first meets Jane Bent, a street-smart, foul-mouthed transfer student from Our Lady of Sorrows. At first, Joey finds her "nuttier than a truckload of filberts," but that changes when Jane flashes a $5 bill and suggests an afternoon at the movies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many hours and three screenings of "Gunga Din" later, the two seem to have become an inseparable pair. Then they part, and Joey never sees her again. Not that Jane, anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I won''t say more lest I spoil the pleasures of this lovely, time-shifting novel, which evokes a lost New York complete with a school excursion to Coney Island and side trips to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It''s like a classic Jean Shepherd anecdote with supernatural overtones. Blatty also cites Ray Bradbury and Robert Nathan as influences, and "Crazy" more than once invokes Kurt Vonnegut. Joey''s memoir favors run-on sentences with a comedic payoff: "There was a breeze and these jillions of gulls all circling and squawking forlornly but with great agitation and high excitement as if they were in factions that were blaming one another for the loss of some unspoiled world, some paradise where every automobile was a convertible and where hats and awnings did not exist."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blatty has always been upfront about his Catholic faith. The opening of "The Exorcist" evokes "Lucifer upward-groping back to his God," and Crazy''s poignant final pages make clear that, rather than an exercise in nostalgia, this novel is a reminder of Saint Paul''s command, "While we have time, let us do good." Or, as Joey puts it, "What would Kurt Vonnegut do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Hand''s most recent novel is "Illyria."\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Crazy _is terrific! A wonderful novel: funny, touching and SO full of love!"--Julie Andrews\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrazy left me with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.â€-- _Dread Central\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWith its wildly creative and humorous scenarios,\n  </em>\n  Crazy\n  <em>\n   is wise and witty, funny and sad. Itâ€™s a story of good and evil, of second chances, of coming to peace at the end of the road and welcoming the unknown.â€ --\n  </em>\n  bookreporter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Thereâ€™s a certain vaudevillian flair to all of Blattyâ€™s work, but itâ€™s the sort of vaudeville that powers the absurdist despair of Samuel Beckettâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Waiting For Godot\n  </em>\n  ; one-liners and gags are just another way to deal with the inevitability of death. The difference is, thereâ€™s a core of faith and optimism at the heart of Blattyâ€™s writing. Horror exists, as do evil and the monsters who perpetrate it, but thereâ€™s also God in his heaven, purpose, and at least the possibility of justice._â€ â€“-A.V. CLUB _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13675'),
(26298, 'Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival', 'Norman Ollestad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that ultimately saved his life when the chartered Cessna carrying them to a ski championship ceremony crashed 8,000 feet up in the California mountains, leaving his father and the pilot dead. The devastated eleven-year-old Ollestad had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone. Crazy for the Storm is a powerful and unforgettable true story that illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his extraordinary son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13678'),
(26299, 'Creating Web sites bible', 'David A. Crowder; Andrew Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ? Jam-packed with more than 800 pages of expert advice and hands-on guidance, this book has everything readers need to build their own cutting-edge Web sites ? A one-stop resource that delivers the scoop on everything from HTML, tables, and forms to JavaScript and Flash ? Brand-new chapters cover getting attention with Google AdWords, building Yahoo! and Amazon.com stores, creating great eBay auctions, and getting paid with PayPal ? Includes new information on designing with cascading style sheets, syndicating a site with RSS, building a blog, and more\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13680'),
(26300, 'Creation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn''t save-and the killers she couldn''t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims. When it turns out that the young brunette was employed by Eve''s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him in on the case-a move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal. The victim was washed in products from a store Roarke owns, and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom''s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out on another woman''s life. And chances are he''s working up to the biggest challenge of his illustrious career-abducting a woman who will test his skills and who promises to give him days and days of pleasure before she dies: Eve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13683'),
(26301, 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter &amp; Human Evolution', 'Randal Keynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Soon to be a major motion picture The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. ** As Darwin''s theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, *Creation* (formerly *Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution*) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas. In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin''s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family''s private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13684');
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(26302, 'Creativity', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity. His advice may sound like homilies-"Try to be surprised by something every day"-but is often worthy. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Bringing together 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) describes this book as "an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things." Utilizing the interviews garnered from 91 respondents (ranging from philosopher Mortimer Adler to biologist Edward O. Wilson to politician Eugene McCarthy), the author of the best-selling Flow (LJ 3/15/90) demonstrates the processes that these acknowledged creative thinkers and doers go through and the characteristics that make them stand out. He deals with what makes them and others like them "creative"?which he defines as "a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed"?and how the conduct of their professional and personal lives illustrates these traits. Csikszentmihalyi also deals with creativity and aging and ways to enhance one''s own personal creativity. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of the scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. A welcome addition to both academic and public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A mostly fascinating look at what makes creative people who they are, gleaned largely from interviews with 91 individuals from a wide variety of fields. Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi, who invented the idea of ``flow'''' and authored a book with that title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego- and time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to creativity and high achievement. Rather, he focuses on the interplay between culture, the creative person, and the ``domain'''' (sociologese for ``field''''), including the receptivity of experts to new ideas and inventions. He quotes extensively--too much so--from the subjects he and his research team interviewed, but there are some gems among these passages, such as writer Madeleine L''Engle''s observation that to produce good literature, ``your intuition and your intellect should be working together . . . making love.'''' Csikszentmihalyi''s weakest section consists of detailing ten personality polarities that supposedly distinguish creative individuals, but that are also applicable to ``balanced'''' or ``fulfilled'''' individuals. His best sections consist of longer profiles of individuals as varied as poet Anthony Hecht, ecologist Barry Commoner, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Also valuable is a concluding prescriptive section with some helpful advice to the average person on how to make his or her thinking and way of living more creative, particularly a passage on how to rethink and use a disappointing experiences, such as being passed over for a promotion. Unfortunately, redundancies make the work too long by at least a third, and some meaningless or fatuous generalizations also mar the presentation (e.g., ``Recent studies suggest that the amount of dalliance, marital infidelity and sexual experimentation [among creative people studied] is much less than earlier estimates had suggested''''). Still, the rich anecdotal material Csikszentmihalyi has mined and analyzed make this an important study of a vital topic. ($40,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "Accessible and enjoyable reading." -- --Washington Times "Accessible and enjoyable reading.""--Washington Times""Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.""--Library Journal (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13685'),
(26303, 'Creature', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it''s to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won''t surprise anyone, but it should please the author''s fans as it continues Saul''s focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- An excellent example of the horror genre, although not as extreme as Stephen King. When Craig Tanner is offered a promotion by TarrenTech and the family moves to Silverdale, Colorado, everything seems perfect. It is a company town with quaint houses, little commercialization, and a community that supports its sports teams. Mark Tanner develops dramatically as an athlete after several sessions at the Rocky Mountain High sports center where the football players are given workouts. This is only the beginning of a training program that has some terrifying results. Creature will be widely read by athletes and sports fans.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13687'),
(26304, 'Creatures of Forever', 'Christopher Pike - The Last Vampire 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16668'),
(26305, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some instinctâ€”or maybe just a stir of a breezeâ€”awakened Steven Creed; he sat up in bed, took a fraction of a moment to orient himself to unfamiliar surroundings. One by one, the mental tumblers clicked into place:\n</p>\n<p>\n Room 6. Happy Wanderer Motel and Campground. Stone Creek, Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door stood open to the fresh high-country air, which was crisply cool on this early June night, but not cold, and the little boyâ€”Steven''s newly adopted sonâ€” sat on the cement step outside. A bundleâ€”probably his favorite toy, a plush skunk named Fred, rolled up in his blanketâ€”rested beside him, and the boy''s tiny frame was rimmed in an aura of silvery-gold moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something tightened in Steven''s throat at the poignancy of the sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Poor kid. It wasn''t hard to guess who he was waiting for. Matt was small, with his dad''s dark hair and his mother''s violet eyes, and he was exceptionally intelligentâ€”maybe even giftedâ€”but he was still only five years old.\n</p>\n<p>\n How could he be expected to comprehend that his folks, Zack and Jillie St. John, were gone for good? That they wouldn''t be coming to pick him up, no matter how hard he hoped or how many stars he wished on, that night or any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven''s eyes burned, and he had to swallow the hard ache that rose in his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jillie had succumbed to a particularly virulent form of breast cancer a year and a half ago, and Zack had only lasted a few months before the grief dragged him under, tooâ€”however indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, Tex," Steven said, trying to sound casual as he sat up on the thin, lumpy mattress of the foldout sofaâ€” he''d given the bed to the child when they checked in that evening. Steven shoved a hand through his own dark blond hair. "What''s the trouble?" His voice was hoarse. "Can''t sleep?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt looked back at him, shook his head instead of answering aloud.\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked even smaller than usual, sitting there in the expanse of that wide-open doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven rolled out of bed, shirtless and barefoot, wearing a pair of black sweatpants that had seen better days.\n</p>\n<p>\n He crossed the scuffed linoleum floor, stepped over the threshold and sat down beside Matt on the step, interlacing his fingers, letting his elbows rest on his knees. There was enough of a chill in the air to raise goose bumps wherever his skin was bare, so he figured Matt had to be cold, too, sitting there in his cotton pajamas. With a sigh, Steven squinted to make out the winding sparkle of the nearby creek, sprinkled in starlight, edged by oak trees, with night-purple mountains for a backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt leaned into him a little, a gesture that further melted Steven''s already-bruised heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carefully, Steven put an arm around the boy, to lend not only reassurance, but warmth, too. "Having second thoughts about turning rancher this late in your life?" he teased, thinking he couldn''t have loved Matt any more if he''d been his own child, instead of his best friend''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the morning, Steven would attend the closing over at the Cattleman''s Bank, and sign the papers making him the legal owner of a fifty-acre spread with a sturdy though run-down two-story house and a good well but not much else going for it. The rickety fences had toppled over years ago, defeated by decades of heavy snow in winter and pounding rain come springtime, and the barn was unsalvageable. Yet something about the place had reached out to him and grabbed hold, just the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n The small ranch had been a home once, and it could be one again, with a lot of elbow greaseâ€”and a serious chunk of change. Fortunately, money wasn''t a problem for Steven, which wasn''t to say there weren''t plenty of other things to chap his figurative hide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes, he felt just as lost as Matt did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s mouth quirked up at one side in a flimsy attempt at a smile, all the more touching because of the obvious effort involved. "I''m\n <em>\n  only\n </em>\n five years and three months old," he said, in belated reply to Steven''s question, in that oddly mature way of his. "It''s not late in my life, because my life just got\n <em>\n  started."\n </em>\n The little guy had skipped the baby-talk stage entirely; he hadn''t even\n <em>\n  tried\n </em>\n to talk until he was past two, but he''d spoken in full sentences from then on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Five, huh?" Steven teased, raising one eyebrow. "If you weren''t so short, I''d say you were lying about your age. Come on, admit itâ€”you''re really somebody''s grandfather, posing as a kid."\n</p>\n<p>\n The joke, a well-worn favorite, fell flat. Matt''s small shoulders moved with the force of his sigh, and he leaned a little more heavily into Steven''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feeling lonesome?" Steven asked, after clearing his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt nodded, looking up at Steven. His eyes were huge and luminous in the predawn darkness. "I need a dog," the boy announced solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven chuckled, ruffled Matt''s hair, gleaming dark as a raven''s wing in the night. Relief swelled inside him, flailed behind his chest wall like a living thing doing its best to escape. A dog was something he could manage.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Soon as we''re settled," he promised, "we''ll visit the animal shelter and pick out a mutt."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do they have ponies at the shelter, too?" The question cheered Steven; Matt was pushing the envelope, so to speak, and that had to be a good sign.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already had the pony discussionâ€”repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You know the deal, Tex," he reminded the little boy quietly. "The fences need to be replaced before we can keep horses, and the barn, too."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt sighed again, deeply. "That might take a long time," he lamented, "since you''ll be working in town every day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven fully intended to settle down in Stone Creek, build a normal life for his young charge and for himself. And to him,\n <em>\n  normal\n </em>\n meant showing up somewhere on weekday mornings and putting in eight hoursâ€”whether he needed the paycheck or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d had to fight just to get through high school, let alone prelaw in college, and then earn the graduate degree that had qualified him to take the bar examâ€”a frustrating variety of learning disorders had all but crippled him early in his life. Although they''d been corrected, thanks to several perceptive teachers, he''d had a lot of catching up to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still felt as if he was scrambling, some of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven ruffled Matt''s hair. "Yep," he agreed. "I''ll be working."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about me? Where will I be when you''re gone?"\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already covered that ground, numerous times, but after everythingâ€”and everybodyâ€”the little guy had lost over the past couple of years, it wasn''t surprising that he needed almost constant reassurance. "You''ll be in day camp," Steven said. "Until you start first grade in the fall, anyhow."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s chin jutted out a little way, the angle obstinate and so reminiscent of Zack that the backs of Steven''s eyes stung again. Zack St. John had been his best friend since middle school, a popular athlete, excellent student and all-around good guy. Losing Jillie had been a terrible blow, knocking Zack for the proverbial loopâ€”he''d gone wild and finally died when, driving too fast down a narrow mountain road, he''d lost control somehow and laid his motorcycle down.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Couldn''t I just go to the office with you?" the boy asked, his voice even smaller than he was. "I might not like day camp. Anyhow, it''s summer. Who goes to day camp in\n <em>\n  summer?\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven sighed and got to his feet. "Lots of kids do," he said. "And you might just wind up thinking day camp is the greatest thing since 3D TV." He extended a hand. "Come on, Tex. Let''s get you back to bed. Tomorrow might be a long day, and you''ll need your rest."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt reached for the stuffed skunk, and wound up in the now-tattered blanket he always kept close at hand. Jillie had knitted that herself, especially to bring her and Zack''s infant son home from the hospital in, but the thing had been through some serious wear-and-tear since then.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven supposed that Matt was too old to be so attached to a baby blanket, but he didn''t have the heart to take it away.\n</p>\n<p>\n So he watched as the little boy got to his feet, trundled back inside, took a brief detour to the bathroom and then stood in the middle of the small room, looking forlorn.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can I sleep with you?" he asked. "Just for tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven tossed back the covers on the sofa bed and stretched out, resigned to the knowledge that he probably wouldn''t close his eyes again before the morning was right on top of him. "Yeah," he said. "Hop in."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt scrambled onto the bad mattress and squirmed a little before settling down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven stretched to switch off the lamp on the bedside table.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks," Matt said, in the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re welcome," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I dreamed about Mom and Dad," Matt confided, after a silence so long that Steven thought he''d gone to sleep. "They were coming to get me, in a big red truck. That''s why I was sitting on the step when you woke up. It took me a little while to figure out that it was just a dream."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I thought it was something like that," Steven said, when he could trust himself to speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really miss them," Matt admitted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Me, too," Steven agreed, his voice hoarse.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But we''re gonna make it, right? You and me? Because we''re pardners till the end?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven swallowed, blinked a couple of times, glad of the darkness. "Pardners till the end," he promised. "And we are definitely gonna make it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay," Matt yawned, apparently satisfied. For the moment, anyhow. He''d ask again soon. "''Night."\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Night," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon, the child was asleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, though he would have bet it wouldn''t happen, Steven slept, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Melissa O''Ballivan whipped her prized convertible roadster, cherry-red with plenty of gleaming chrome, up to the curb in front of the Sunflower Bakery and Cafe in downtown Stone Creek, shifted into Neutral and shoved open the door to jump out.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16175'),
(26306, 'The Creed of Violence', 'Boston Teran', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teran''s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone''s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel. A bargain is struck, with Lourdes assigned to accompany Rawbone into the Mexican underground. The twist: Lourdes, unknown to everyone but himself, is Rawbone''s son. As the two men make their way through a snake''s nest of smugglers, thugs and professional killers, Lourdes must suppress the angst he feels toward his father and focus on surviving another day. While this bit of dramatic irony quickly wears thin, father and son share a sharp wit, cunning instinct and thirst for adventure that make this spy mission the very definition of a thrill. Teran''s fast-paced prose reads like it was written for the big screen (Universal scooped up the film rights), and even if the moralizing about U.S. foreign intervention gets heavy-handed, this remains an intelligent page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Creed of Violence\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boston Teran''s The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it''s also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man''s attempts at regeneration. But most of all it''s exciting and tense and you''ll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting." â€”Robert Ward, author of\n <em>\n  Red Baker\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Four Kinds of Rain\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeranâ€™s considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle Ã©poque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soulâ€”a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist.â€ â€”Todd Field\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  God Is a Bullet\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRanks with Joan Didionâ€™s\n <em>\n  The White Album\n </em>\n . . . and John Fordâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  The Searchers\n </em>\n .â€ â€”_The San Francisco Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA millennial morality play . . . that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy . . . if theyâ€™d all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe.â€ â€”_Dallas Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Never Count Out the Dead\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCements Teranâ€™s talent as a . . . virtuoso.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4464'),
(26307, 'Creep, Shadow!', 'A. E. Merritt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18262'),
(26308, 'Creepers', 'Robert Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13689'),
(26309, 'CREWEL LYE - XANTH 08', 'Piers Anthony (rsv)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13695'),
(26310, 'Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been themost valorus of knights--that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he''ll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13697'),
(26311, 'The Crider Chronicles', 'Anderson Gentry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4465'),
(26312, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13699'),
(26313, 'Crime and Punishment in American History', 'Lawrence M. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19325'),
(26314, 'Crime beat: a decade of covering cops and killers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly''s first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly''s firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13700'),
(26315, 'Crime Scene', 'Rick R. Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13705'),
(26316, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big wayâ€”to investigate a decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn''t walking away. Because now Dana''s life was on the lineâ€”as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19105'),
(26317, 'Crime Seen', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13707'),
(26318, 'Crime Spells', 'Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) &amp; Loren L. Coleman (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sixteen original stories about magic-fueled crimes and those who investigate them**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When magic is used for criminal purposes, all sorts of ethical and logistical questions arise beyond the realm of everyday law and order.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, sixteen top tale-tellers offer fascinating new stories of those who commit magic crimes, those who investigate them, and those who prosecute them. From a young woman who uses out-of-body excursions to research paranormal crimes to a bookie whoâ€™s been paying for hex protection against magical interference to an artist who does divination through his sketched visions which may lead to a murdererâ€™s undoing, here are powerful tales of magical crimes and punishments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13708'),
(26319, 'Crime Wave', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles.  In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field.  And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy.  With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp."From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning''s police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims.  Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine.  And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood.  Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13710'),
(26320, 'Crime wave: reportage and fiction from the underside of L.A.', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Los Angeles.Â Â In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field.Â Â And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy.Â Â With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp."From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning''s police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims.Â Â Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine.Â Â And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood.Â Â Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13712'),
(26321, 'Crimes by Moonlight', 'Harris, Charlaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13715'),
(26322, 'A Criminal History of Mankind', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the â€˜razor king of the Mediterraneanâ€™, the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler and more. Each age has a unique characteristic pattern of crime. In the past three centuries crime has changed and evolved until the sex killer and the mass murderer have become symbols of all that is worst about our civilization. But this is not just a study in human depravity; it is an attempt to place crime in perspective against human discovery, exploration and invention. The result is a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16176'),
(26323, 'Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13717'),
(26324, 'The Criminal', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4467'),
(26325, 'The Crimson Gold - Book 3', 'Whitney-Robinson, Voronica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4470'),
(26326, 'Crimson Joy', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman''s eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan''s life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!((Dell--Fiction)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20615'),
(26327, 'Crimson Joy (1988)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 15', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13720'),
(26328, 'Crimson Joy: A Spenser Novel', 'Robert B Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mystery fans will delight in matching wits with Spencer, Robert B. Parker''s critically acclaimed P.I., in this fast-paced, highly entertaining novel. "The sassiest, funniest, most enjoyable-to-read private eye around today".--Cincinnati Post. Striking new cover treatment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13721'),
(26329, 'The Crimson Legion', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4471'),
(26330, 'the crimson petal and the white', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4472'),
(26331, 'Crimson Sails', 'Alexander Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18072'),
(26332, 'The Crimson Shadow', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE CRIMSON SHADOW is an omnibus reissue of R.A. Salvatore''s Crimson Shadow Trilogy, which consists of the novels The Sword of Bedwyr, Luthien''s Gamble, and The Dragon King. This trilogy follows the story of The Crimson Shadow, a Robin Hood-like figure causing mischief and protecting the innocent in a medieval fantasy setting. There''s magic, a humorous dwarf sidekick, and lots of adventure and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4474'),
(26333, 'Crimson Wind', 'Diana Pharaoh Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THERE ARE GOOD GUYS. THERE ARE BAD GUYS. AND THEN THEREâ€™S MAX.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max knows what trusting the wrong person can cost you. Her former friend Giselle, a powerful witch, enslaved Max years ago, turning her into a Shadowbladeâ€”a deadly warrior compelled to fight for Giselle. But thereâ€™s more at stake now than Maxâ€™s thirst for revenge. The Guardians, overseers of the magical world, have declared war on humanity and on any witches not standing with them. Max and Giselle have come to an uneasy truce in order to protect whatâ€™s left of Horngate, their covenâ€™s home. Max would do anything for Horngateâ€”even give herself over to a mysterious otherworldly creature in the nearby mountains in exchange for his help. But first, she intends to save the mortal family she left behind. And Alexander, the Shadowblade warrior who could be her closest ally or her deadliest enemy, is going with her.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a road trip into the unknown, Max and Alexander face wild magic, desperate enemies, and battles that bruise both body and soul. But the greatest challenge will come from unexpected revelations that test everything Max believes about who she isâ€”and where her loyalties lie. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diana Pharaoh Francis has written the fantasy novel trilogy that includes\n <em>\n  Path of Fate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Path of Honor\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Path of Blood. Path of Fate\n </em>\n was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. She has also written The Crosspointe Chronicles, which include\n <em>\n  The Cipher\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Black Ship\n </em>\n . Diana teaches in the English Department at the University of Montana Western, and is a lover of chocolate, Victoriana and sparkly things. For more a lot more information including where to go to read her blog, maps of her worlds, updated news, and other odd and fun tidbits, visit www.dianapfrancis.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20687'),
(26334, 'The crimson witch', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young mans struggle with destiny and desire in a post-nuclear world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4476'),
(26335, 'The Crippled Angel', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <h3>\n    From Publishers Weekly\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    In Australian author Douglass''s stirring final book in her Crucible trilogy (after 2005''s\n    <em>\n     The Wounded Hawk\n    </em>\n    ), ex-priest Thomas Neville confronts such thorny issues as man''s free will, the morality of angels and the natures of both God and Jesus. If Neville gives his soul to the angels, then mankind will be forever in their thrall. In order to save mankind and allow free will, Neville must find a whore to whom he can wholeheartedly deliver his soul. His anguished decision plays out against the backdrop of such tumultuous events as the reign of Hal "the Demon-King" Bolingbroke, the battle for the French throne at Agincourt and Joan of Arc''s fiery martyrdom. This compressed alternate history offers such frightening treats as a view of the angelic heaven and a visit by "the black Dog of Pestilence" (which personally sprays the plague on London). Though the inevitability of Neville''s choice is never in doubt, Douglass''s excellent grasp of period detail and character is certain to delight fans of historical fantasy.\n    <em>\n     (Jan.)\n    </em>\n    <br />\n    Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n   </p>\n   <h3>\n    From\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    The conclusion of Douglass'' Crucible series completes the saga of Thomas Neville, the medieval nobleman turned cleric, whom the Archangel Michael has entrusted with battling a horde of shape-shifting demons unwittingly released from hell. As the fourteenth century comes to a close, Neville has left the Dominican priesthood and is still searching for the late Father de Worde''s casket, a mysterious container that harbors the means to overthrow the demons. Neville has also discovered that heaven''s angelic minions have the power to mate with human females and produce their own less-than-savory offspring. Amid growing friendship with Henry Bolingbroke (eventually England''s King Henry IV), who may be a demon in disguise, Neville is becoming less sure of Michael''s beneficence and more conflicted about his mission. Douglass'' superior blend of high fantasy and realistic historical settings is a fitting vehicle for exploring the grand themes of religion, morality, and the eternal battle between good and evil. History buffs, fantasy enthusiasts, and admirers of superlative storytelling should thoroughly enjoy this sweeping story.\n    <em>\n     Carl Hays\n    </em>\n    <br />\n    <em>\n     Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n    </em>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In Australian author Douglass''s stirring final book in her Crucible trilogy (after 2005''s\n   <em>\n    The Wounded Hawk\n   </em>\n   ), ex-priest Thomas Neville confronts such thorny issues as man''s free will, the morality of angels and the natures of both God and Jesus. If Neville gives his soul to the angels, then mankind will be forever in their thrall. In order to save mankind and allow free will, Neville must find a whore to whom he can wholeheartedly deliver his soul. His anguished decision plays out against the backdrop of such tumultuous events as the reign of Hal "the Demon-King" Bolingbroke, the battle for the French throne at Agincourt and Joan of Arc''s fiery martyrdom. This compressed alternate history offers such frightening treats as a view of the angelic heaven and a visit by "the black Dog of Pestilence" (which personally sprays the plague on London). Though the inevitability of Neville''s choice is never in doubt, Douglass''s excellent grasp of period detail and character is certain to delight fans of historical fantasy.\n   <em>\n    (Jan.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The conclusion of Douglass'' Crucible series completes the saga of Thomas Neville, the medieval nobleman turned cleric, whom the Archangel Michael has entrusted with battling a horde of shape-shifting demons unwittingly released from hell. As the fourteenth century comes to a close, Neville has left the Dominican priesthood and is still searching for the late Father de Worde''s casket, a mysterious container that harbors the means to overthrow the demons. Neville has also discovered that heaven''s angelic minions have the power to mate with human females and produce their own less-than-savory offspring. Amid growing friendship with Henry Bolingbroke (eventually England''s King Henry IV), who may be a demon in disguise, Neville is becoming less sure of Michael''s beneficence and more conflicted about his mission. Douglass'' superior blend of high fantasy and realistic historical settings is a fitting vehicle for exploring the grand themes of religion, morality, and the eternal battle between good and evil. History buffs, fantasy enthusiasts, and admirers of superlative storytelling should thoroughly enjoy this sweeping story.\n   <em>\n    Carl Hays\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n   </em>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Australian author Douglass''s stirring final book in her Crucible trilogy (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   The Wounded Hawk\n  </em>\n  ), ex-priest Thomas Neville confronts such thorny issues as man''s free will, the morality of angels and the natures of both God and Jesus. If Neville gives his soul to the angels, then mankind will be forever in their thrall. In order to save mankind and allow free will, Neville must find a whore to whom he can wholeheartedly deliver his soul. His anguished decision plays out against the backdrop of such tumultuous events as the reign of Hal "the Demon-King" Bolingbroke, the battle for the French throne at Agincourt and Joan of Arc''s fiery martyrdom. This compressed alternate history offers such frightening treats as a view of the angelic heaven and a visit by "the black Dog of Pestilence" (which personally sprays the plague on London). Though the inevitability of Neville''s choice is never in doubt, Douglass''s excellent grasp of period detail and character is certain to delight fans of historical fantasy.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of Douglass'' Crucible series completes the saga of Thomas Neville, the medieval nobleman turned cleric, whom the Archangel Michael has entrusted with battling a horde of shape-shifting demons unwittingly released from hell. As the fourteenth century comes to a close, Neville has left the Dominican priesthood and is still searching for the late Father de Worde''s casket, a mysterious container that harbors the means to overthrow the demons. Neville has also discovered that heaven''s angelic minions have the power to mate with human females and produce their own less-than-savory offspring. Amid growing friendship with Henry Bolingbroke (eventually England''s King Henry IV), who may be a demon in disguise, Neville is becoming less sure of Michael''s beneficence and more conflicted about his mission. Douglass'' superior blend of high fantasy and realistic historical settings is a fitting vehicle for exploring the grand themes of religion, morality, and the eternal battle between good and evil. History buffs, fantasy enthusiasts, and admirers of superlative storytelling should thoroughly enjoy this sweeping story.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13722'),
(26336, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4477');
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(26337, 'Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush', 'John Yoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to â€œbreakdown constitutional safeguards.â€ One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent todayâ€™s controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13723'),
(26338, 'Crisis at Crystal Reef', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Star Wars - 195 - Young Jedi Knights 14 - SUMMARY: Anja Gallandro planned to destroy the Solo family. But now she fights an intense inner battle--against her increasing spice addiction, and her growing friendship with Jacen and Jaina. In desperation for spice, she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy. The young Jedi Knights follow her from the spice mines of Kessel to the dangerous beauty of Crystal Reef--where an even more sinister plan is hatching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13724'),
(26339, 'Crisis on Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a twenty-five year contract--arranging the cohabitation of the planet Doona between humans and the cat-like Hrrubans--comes up for renewal, an unknown entity works to sabotage the heretofore successful alliance. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13726'),
(26340, 'Crisis on Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey - Doona 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17754'),
(26341, 'Crispin: At the Edge of the World', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 5-9â€“At the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying their hard-won freedom, planning to resume their 14th-century lifestyle as traveling minstrels and jugglers. But that freedom doesn''t last long because they soon find themselves hunted again by men who believe Bear to be a traitor to the Brotherhood (which is planning a revolt against the oppressive rulers of England). And, with Bear severely injured, Crispin has to make crucial decisions about their future, which for Bear means confronting the sins of the past. The thoughtful introduction of Troth, a disfigured girl, and the trio''s fearful journey across the Channel add historical relevance and bring home a critical lesson in tolerance. This second book in a planned trilogy explores even more thoughtfully the themes of religion, war, the motives of men, and the meaning of family. This is an extraordinary work of lyrical simplicity, nearly flawless in its execution, and a haunting tale of love and loss. Readers will devour this story and eagerly anticipate the conclusion of Crispin''s adventures._â€“Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Avi''s engrossing follow-up to his Newbery-winning\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (2002) begins with Crispin and his father figure, Bear, tasting freedom briefly before Bear is recognized and shot with an arrow. Fleeing into the forest, they meet Troth, a girl shunned because of her cleft lip. Her protector, old Aude, nurses Bear''s wound, but when villagers brutally turn against Aude, Crispin and Bear must flee again, this time with Troth. The three, now a family, make a stormy voyage to Brittany, where English soldiers force them to help in a ruthless attack on a church. Unlike many stories set in the Middle Ages, this novel doesn''t romanticize the era; instead, it portrays England and France as places where poverty, superstition, and violence were commonplace. Crispin, Bear, and Troth face each new situation with dread born of painful experience, well aware that the people they meet are as likely to harm them as to help them. The love connecting the three main characters is so vital that maintaining the bond and protecting each other become driving forces in their choices. Along with plenty of action and adventure, this displays a solid emotional base. The combination will make fans eager for the final installment.\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13727'),
(26342, 'Crispin: the cross of lead', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Genre-jumping author Avi clocks in here with his 50th book, Crispin:The Cross of Lead, an action-packed historical narrative that follows thefrantic flight of a 13-year-old peasant boy across 14th-century England.After being declared a "wolf''s head" by his manor''s corrupt steward for a crimehe didn''t commit (meaning that anyone can kill him like a commonanimal--and collect a reward), this timid boy has to flee a tiny villagethat''s the only world he''s ever known. But before our protagonist escapes, Avimakes sure that we''re thoroughly briefed on the injustices of feudalism--thecountless taxes cottars must pay, the constant violence, the inability of aflawed church to protect its parishioners, etc. Avi then folds in the book''scentral mystery just as the boy is leaving: "Asta''s son," as he''s always beenknown, learns from the village priest that his Christian name is Crispin, andthat his parents'' origins--and fates--might be more perplexing than he everimagined.Providing plenty of period detail (appropriately gratuitous for the age group)and plenty of chase-scene suspense, Avi tells a good story, develops a couple offairly compelling characters, and even manages to teach a little history lesson.(Fortunately, kids won''t realize that they''re learning about England''s peasantrevolt of 1381 until it''s far too late.) (Ages 10 to 14) --Paul Hughes EDITORIAL REVIEW: The 2003 Newbery Award Winner and New York Times Best-seller. "Avi''s latest novel is superb combination of mystery, historical fiction, and a coming-of-age tale... Breathlessly paced, beautifully written, and filled with details of life in the Middle Ages, this compelling novel is one of Avi''s finest."-Book Report\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13728'),
(26343, 'Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut inThe Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn''t want made public. What''s in those photos, she won''t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20654'),
(26344, 'Critical Angle', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13735'),
(26345, 'The critical period of American history, 1783-1789', 'John Fiske', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4478'),
(26346, 'Crockpot Recipes I&#39;ve Saved', 'AA, H', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13739'),
(26347, 'Crocodile on the Sandbank', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father''s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she''s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13740'),
(26348, 'Crocodile Tears', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”Alex Rider is only 14, but that hasn''t stopped MI6, the British espionage organization, from recruiting him for dangerous missions. Here, Alex is enlisted in a seemingly quick and easy mission of downloading computer data while on a school trip to a lab immersed in the genetic engineering of plants. While there, he discovers a sinister plot involving a criminal turned preacher and philanthropist. As in the earlier installments, the book is chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last. It starts with a bomb at a nuclear plant in India, and along the way there is a charity black-tie card game, poison needles, car crashes, bullets, and exploding gel pens. Most of the backstory is explained, so no prior knowledge of the earlier books is necessary. Great for reluctant readers.â€”_Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Rider, teenage British secret service agent, returns. This time, a wealthy villain schemes to make millions by creating disasters and then pocketing the money from false relief agencies. Alex discovers the bad guyâ€™s plan to cause famine in Africa, but he is able to expose the fake philanthropist, although he is nearly fed to hungry crocs in the process. Horowitz''s series remains on top of the growing genre of YA novels that feature intelligence agencies employing teenagers. He knows how to pace a thriller and delivers one exciting scene after another. Alex Rider fans will rejoice. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19101'),
(26349, 'Crome Yellow', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13742'),
(26350, 'Crooked Creek', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13745'),
(26351, 'Crooked House', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he''s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one''s on the level...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13748'),
(26352, 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter', 'Tom Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tom Franklin''s extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literatureâ€”Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O''Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so farâ€”an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the countyâ€”and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they''ve buried and ignored for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13752'),
(26353, 'Crooked Little Vein', 'Warren Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president''s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitutionâ€”the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom''s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravityâ€”and this case is driving him even deeper into America''s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13753'),
(26354, 'Cropper&#39;s Cabin', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn''t when he''ll explode, but who he''ll take with him when he does. "My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated."--Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13756'),
(26355, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the twelfth exciting novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington , DC , Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington , DC , Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraphcalled ''the master of the suspense genre'', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross''s fans waited years to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13758'),
(26356, 'Cross Fire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The breathtaking new thriller from the author ofBravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13644'),
(26357, 'A Cross of Centuries', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16177'),
(26358, 'Cross the Stars', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hammer''s Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler, planets which hold hidden dangers.And if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys . . . that is when the real fighting starts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13635'),
(26359, 'Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles', 'Sabine Durrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life. Connie''s first order of business: finding her mother a new husband. Connie enlists the help of her best friend, Julie, and before long everything spirals out of control. Boy-crazy Delilah begins fluttering around Connie''s best guy friend, Will, and ever-reliable Will has been acting strangely awkward around Connie. But with a little luck and a lot of determination, Connie is sure that she can make everything right again in her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13637'),
(26360, 'Crosscurrent', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalkerâ€™s hopes for peace. The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”appears to be in distress.But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaughtâ€”bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jediâ€”has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The shipâ€™s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13640'),
(26361, 'Crossers', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the acclaimed author of "Acts of Faith" ("A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience"--"Houston Chronicle"), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family''s sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness--until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man''s death. When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history. Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, "Crossers" is Philip Caputo''s most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13643'),
(26362, 'Crossfire', 'Terry Bisson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13646'),
(26363, 'Crossfire', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920â€“2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic replacement (like another Francis lead, Sid Halley). Upon discharge from National Health Service care, Forsyth makes his way home to Lambourn, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer''s threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to occupy him, he turns detective to identify the extortionist. Though the plot details won''t linger as long as those in Dick Francis''s best work, like Whip Hand, this is still a suspenseful read. Francis aficionados will hope that Felix chooses to carry on the family tradition on his own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Good authors never die; they leave behind at least one book. Francis, who died this year after writing a string of more than 40 racing mysteries, the last 3 in collaboration with his son, Felix, left at least this one book behind. For all lovers of old-fashioned, character-driven, plot-perfect suspense, this is like getting a windfall from a distant, deceased relative. The hero will remind longtime Francis fans of Sid Halley, the driving force of arguably Francisâ€™ finest mysteries. Both have had their careers cut short by a devastating injury (steeplechase jockey Halley lost his hand in a racing accident; new hero, British soldier Captain Tom Forsyth, had his foot blown off by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan). Both have to find their way out of pain and grief to construct a new life. Forsyth, temporarily cut loose from his regiment, returns to the home he fled at age 17, the cold and hostile environment of his mother, one of Britainâ€™s top racehorse trainers. While there, he stumbles into a blackmail plot involving his mother, one that puts her horses at high risk. The Francis team uses both Forsythâ€™s dilemma, which is how to find â€œtargets and objectivesâ€ in a blown-apart life, and his military skills to enable him to get to the bottom of a rotten mess. The plot reads like classic Francis; the research parts presumably come from Felix, and they add a lot of weight to the saddle. The publisher hints that Felix may be carrying on his fatherâ€™s legacy, but itâ€™s doubtful anyone can. Enjoy this bequest. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18884'),
(26364, 'Crossfire', 'Dick Francis; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920â€“2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic replacement (like another Francis lead, Sid Halley). Upon discharge from National Health Service care, Forsyth makes his way home to Lambourn, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer''s threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to occupy him, he turns detective to identify the extortionist. Though the plot details won''t linger as long as those in Dick Francis''s best work, like Whip Hand, this is still a suspenseful read. Francis aficionados will hope that Felix chooses to carry on the family tradition on his own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Good authors never die; they leave behind at least one book. Francis, who died this year after writing a string of more than 40 racing mysteries, the last 3 in collaboration with his son, Felix, left at least this one book behind. For all lovers of old-fashioned, character-driven, plot-perfect suspense, this is like getting a windfall from a distant, deceased relative. The hero will remind longtime Francis fans of Sid Halley, the driving force of arguably Francisâ€™ finest mysteries. Both have had their careers cut short by a devastating injury (steeplechase jockey Halley lost his hand in a racing accident; new hero, British soldier Captain Tom Forsyth, had his foot blown off by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan). Both have to find their way out of pain and grief to construct a new life. Forsyth, temporarily cut loose from his regiment, returns to the home he fled at age 17, the cold and hostile environment of his mother, one of Britainâ€™s top racehorse trainers. While there, he stumbles into a blackmail plot involving his mother, one that puts her horses at high risk. The Francis team uses both Forsythâ€™s dilemma, which is how to find â€œtargets and objectivesâ€ in a blown-apart life, and his military skills to enable him to get to the bottom of a rotten mess. The plot reads like classic Francis; the research parts presumably come from Felix, and they add a lot of weight to the saddle. The publisher hints that Felix may be carrying on his fatherâ€™s legacy, but itâ€™s doubtful anyone can. Enjoy this bequest. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20640'),
(26365, 'Crossing Over', 'Kendall, Anna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13649'),
(26366, 'Crossing Over', 'Anna Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16429'),
(26367, 'Crossings', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sailing to France aboard the majestic\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n amid rumors of an impending world war, the glamorous Liane De Villiers, wife of the French ambassador, meets a handsome American steel magnate trapped in a loveless marriage. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13650'),
(26368, 'Crossover', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran Trek scribe Friedman (All Good Things...) delivers the goods again with the most interesting and ambitious novel to come from this complacent franchise in a while. Friedman assimilates characters from the original TV series into a rollicking adventure/rescue story. Ambassador Spock, still working toward reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan cultures, is captured with several of his proteges by a regional Romulan dictator with delusions of grandeur. Viewing Spock''s capture as a security risk, the Federation sends Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s Enterprise to negotiate Spock''s release, assigning 140-year-old Admiral McCoy to the ship because of his familiarity with Spock. Meanwhile, Scotty steals a starship and engages in his own one-man rescue attempt. The interplay is fast and furious, as is the action, while the political intrigues are sufficiently interesting, if not very complex. Readers will have a fine time second-guessing some of Friedman''s claims (Scotty went to the Academy?), while nodding in agreement with most of them. The prose, like several of the rescue attempts, lacks subtlety and grace but is suited to its task of telling a story that stars characters of whom most readers have already formed full and sympathetic portraits.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Star Trek novel, by one of the most seasoned producers of ST fiction, is aptly titled. Not only do members of both the original and the\n  <em>\n   Next Generation\n  </em>\n  casts appear in it, but it deals with a situation in which both the Romulans and the Vulcans are striving to cross over from their long-standing mutual isolation from and hostility toward each other to some form, at least, of reunification (they were once members of the same race). The story takes place during Jean-Luc Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  but involves Mr. Spock, now a diplomat who is caught up in Romulan factional fighting that leads to his vividly described and nasty incarceration, among other things. Dr. McCoy and engineer Scotty, each of whom may be slowing down but has lost none of his ingenuity, must join forces, unofficially, with Picard and his crew, too, in order to bail out Spock and prevent the reunification effort from coming to a bloody end that would be disastrous for the United Federation of Planets as well as the two cultures directly involved. It''s a classic helping of ST adventure (you can almost hear the ST theme, sawed out on schmaltzy violins, welling up between the lines) that ought to please the seemingly endless saga''s legions of fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13651'),
(26369, 'Crossroads of Time', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18036'),
(26370, 'Crossroads of twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book ofThe Wheel of Timefrom theNew York Times#1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit. Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower. In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe thatsaidinis clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book of he Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18758'),
(26371, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4480'),
(26372, 'The Crow', 'Alison Croggon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Croggon backtracks along her time line to chronicle Hem''s grueling and poignant struggles during The Riddle (2006). Hem''s in Turbansk, lonely and belligerent, resisting his Bard schooling. The poisonous Dark threatens the Suderain, and the Black Army marches on Turbansk. As battle begins and the city is besieged, Saliman allows Hem to stay rather than fleeing with the other children. Hem''s healing powers emerge, and readers see that he, too, has a predestined role in saving Edil-Amarandh--fully as cryptic as Maerad''s role. Escaping the city, living in caves and training in spy techniques all help Hem when he secretly joins a rank of child-slave warriors. By the end, Hem is scarred and saddened forever, but an Elidhu has given him luminous new knowledge in the form of music that may help Maerad complete the Treesong. Saliman''s love sustains Hem through these oppressively grim times. This serious penultimate epic, filled with Tolkien-like images, is emotionally astute and brimming with vivid detail. (map, pronunciation key, appendices) (Fantasy. YA) --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2007\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroineâ€™s brother discovers his own hidden gift â€” and the role he must play in battling the Dark.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white crow. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and an orphan girl named Zelika to join the Lightâ€™s resistance forces. It is there that Hem has a vision and learns that he, too, has a part to play in Maeradâ€™s quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong. As THE CROW continues the epic tale begun with THE NAMING and THE RIDDLE, Alison Croggon creates a world of astounding beauty overshadowed by a terrifying darkness, a world where Maerad and Hem must prepare to wage their final battle for the Light.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4481'),
(26373, 'The Crowded Shadows', 'Kiernan, Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this explosive sequel to The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorehawke travels unprotected in bandit-infested mountains, searching for missing Prince Alberon. But how many of the King''s enemies are lurking in these crowded shadows? New Friends. Old Enemies. Who can you trust? Set in a fantastical medieval Europe, this is the second book in a compelling trilogy of court intrigue, adventure and romance. Now, Wynter Moorehawke finds herself alone for the first time in her life, caught up in confusing formalities and politics very different to life back at court. It seems that every tyrant or bully who has ever threatened the Kingdom is sending delegates to meet with the Rebel Prince, and Wynter is increasingly nervous of Alberon''s intentions. Razi and her beloved Christopher soon make an appearance, but where friends go old enemies soon follow, and Wynter finds herself confronted with the infamous Loups-Garous. It is to Christopher''s adopted people, the nomadic Merron, who she must now turn for sanctuary. But the Merron have sided with Shirken, the woman who has made it her life''s work to wipe their race from the face of the earth. What is behind the conspiracy, and is Alberon at the centre of it all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16329'),
(26374, 'A Crown Disowned', 'Andre Norton - Oak, Yew, Ash &amp; Rowan 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17973'),
(26375, 'Crown of Fire - Book 2', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13654'),
(26376, 'Crown of fire - Book 9', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13655'),
(26377, 'Crown of Infinity', 'John M. Faucette', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13656'),
(26378, 'Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This closing volume of Friedman''s Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory. Even readers unfamiliar with the earlier volumes will quickly be enmeshed in the struggles of the Reverend Damien Vryce and The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, to maintain the order of the planet Erna against the forces of the demon Calesta. The battle is made more complicated in this volume by the development of an allegiance between Calesta and Andrys Tarrant, a descendant of Gerald''s who vows vengeance on his ancestor. Andrys is a bit too inept to ever seem threatening, however, and a bit too lacking in joie de vivre to come off as a classic Pretender/Fool. But the sections without Andrys, especially those focusing on The Hunter, are interesting enough, and as the final battles?involving The Church, The Hunter, the forces of Calesta and various people and factions whose alignments vary throughout the novel?are held around The Hunter''s keep, readers will be enthralled. While Friedman introduces a science fictional raising-of-the-stakes gambit here that isn''t entirely satisfying, her general mastery of her material should delight her fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman''s complex and compelling "Cold Fire Trilogy." The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in hopes of achieving its redemption. A priority purchase for fantasy collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13657'),
(26379, 'Crown of slaves', 'David Weber &amp; Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With its erstwhile ally Erewhon growing restive in the alliance, the Star Kingdom''s Queen Elizabeth sends a mission to Erewhon led by Captain Zilwicki and one of her nieces, but upon arriving at their destination, they find Republic of Haven agent Victor Cachat, a conspiracy led by the Solarian League''s military delegation, and a radical freed slave organization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13659'),
(26380, 'A crown of swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great Hunt Book Three:The Dragon Reborn Book Four:The Shadow Rising Book Five:The Fires of Heaven Book Six:Lord of Chaos Book Seven:A Crown of Swords Book Eight:The Path of Daggers Book Nine:Winter''s Heart Book Ten:Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18595'),
(26381, 'The Crown of the Blood', 'Thorpe, Gav', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4482'),
(26382, 'Crown, The Mark Of The', '[Jedi Apprentice] - 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13660'),
(26383, 'Crowned by Lightning', 'Tais Teng', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13661'),
(26384, 'The crucible of time', 'John Brunner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4483'),
(26385, 'The crucible: a play in four acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4484'),
(26386, 'The Crucifix Killer', 'Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that''s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4485');
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(26387, 'Crucifixion River', 'Marcia Muller; Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13663'),
(26388, 'Crucifixion River', 'Marcia Muller &amp; Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18792'),
(26389, 'Cruddy', 'Lynda Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend''s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write. "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe. The cruddy girl named Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life and the name of the book was called Cruddy. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. She could not give the authorities any information about why she was the only survivor and everyone else was lying around in hacked-up pieces." Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools... Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name. Welcome to "Cruddy, " Lynda Barry''s masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years -- an eternity -- apart, which form the backbone of Roberta''s life. "Cruddy" is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale-"cum"-low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader''s mind long after the final page: Roberta''s father, a dangerous alcoholic and out-of-work meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance; the frightening owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar and sometime slaughterhouse; and two charming but quite mad escapees from the Barbara V. Herrmann Home for Adolescent Rest. Written with a teenager''s eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Roberta''s two stories -- part "Easy Rider" and part bipolar "Wizard of Oz" -- painfully but inevitably converge in a surprising denouement in a nightmarish Dreamland in the Nevada desert. By turns terrifying, darkly funny, and resonant with humanity, propelled by all the narrative power of a superior thriller and burnished by the author''s pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, "Cruddy" is a stunning achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13664'),
(26390, 'Cruel and unusual', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Killing me won''t kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can''t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell''s fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she''d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13666'),
(26391, 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Swedish author Eriksson''s fine second ensemble procedural (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  ), members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division try to connect the dots linking the separate murders of two old men and the disappearance of a third. Eriksson eschews crackling dialogue and facile descriptions in favor of longer, slower developing profiles of the principal men and women of the police unit: Ann Lindell, Ola Haver, Sammy Nilsson, Allan Fredricksson and others. Their investigation proceeds in parallel with the story of Laura Hindersten, daughter of the missing man. Eriksson balances these stories nicely as the detectives reach for clues. Lindell, the single mother of a young boy, emerges as the most compelling investigator, but the others are also distinct individuals. The author''s squad of detectives displays the kind of interdependency and fractious loyalty that endeared Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct squad (_Cop Hater_, etc.) to fans for so many decades.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second procedural to appear in the U.S. from yet another Swedish crime fiction star follows in the substantial footsteps of the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  (2006). This time Eriksson departs a bit from the Ed McBain-like ensemble focus used in the previous book; here the point of view stays mostly with police inspector Ann Lindell as she and her colleagues investigate the murders of three seemingly unrelated men in Uppsala. The connection, unclear to the police, is immediately apparent to the reader, as Eriksson alternates point of view between Lindell and a troubled woman, Laura, whose father has recently disappeared. Dramatic irony builds as we wait for Lindell to connect the dots. Once again Eriksson displays considerable finesse in portraying the inner lives of his cast and in showing how the various inspectors attempt to cope with the strains of the job. This time, though, the alternating focus on the civilian characters is less successful, with the detailed dissection of Laura''s tangled psyche proving more distracting than compelling. Still, Eriksson is a major talent, and his feel for ensemble narrative will have McBain devotees enthralled.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4486'),
(26392, 'Cruel Zinc Melodies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it-s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn-t realize the drama he-s stepping into.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13668'),
(26393, 'The Cruise of the Dolphin, Baby Bell and Other Prose and Verse', 'Thomas Bailey Aldrich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No word was spoken: There stood the Hurons On the dank greensward, With their swart faces Bowed in the twilight. What did they see there ? Only a Lily Kocfced on the azure Breast of the water. Then they turned sadly One to another, Tenderly murmuring, " Miantowona! " Soft as the dew falls Down through the midnight, Cleaving the starlight, Echo repeated, " Miantowona! " FRIAR JEROME''S BEAUTIFUL BOOK A. D. 1200. The Friar Jerome, for some slight sin, Done in his youth, was struck with woe. " When I am dead," quoth Friar Jerome, " Surely, I think my soul will go Shuddering through the darkened spheres, Down to eternal fires below ! I shall not dare from that dread place To lift mine eyes to Jesus'' face, Nor Mary''s, as she sits adored At the feet of Christ the Lord. Alas ! December''s all too brief For me to hope to wipe away The memory of my sinful May! " And Friar Jerome was full of grief That April evening, as he lay On the straw pallet in his cell. He scarcely heard the curfew-bell Calling the brotherhood to prayer; But he arose, for ''t was his care Nightly to feed the hungry poor That crowded to the Convent door. His choicest duty it had been : But this one night it weighed him down. " What work for an immortal soul, To feed and clothe some lazy clown ? Is there no action worth my mood, No deed of daring, high and pure, That shall, when I am dead, endure% A well-spring of perpetual good ? " And straight he thought of those great tomes With clamps of gold â€” the Convent''s boast â€” How they endured, while kings and realms Passed into darkness and were lost; How they had stood from age to age, Clad in their yellow vellum-mail,1 ''Gainst which the Paynim''s 2 godless rage, The Vandal''s 3 fire, could naught avail: 1 Vellum was a usual ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13670'),
(26394, 'Crusade', 'David Weber &amp; Steve White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Neither side having proved capable of pressing their conflict to a successful conclusion, the Human-Orion war to end all interstellar wars has collapsed into an uneasy peace. But it is a peace filled with fear, hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then from out of a warp point notorious for devouring spaceships, appears a ship from the dim mists of half-forgotten history. It responds to hails from the patrolling Orion sentry using ancient human codes from a long lost colony. And it opens fire on the Orions, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13674'),
(26395, 'Crusade - Book 3', 'Lowder, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13672'),
(26396, 'Crusader', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <h3>\n    From Publishers Weekly\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    At the start of Douglass''s powerful conclusion to her Wayfarer Redemption saga (after 2005''s\n    <em>\n     Pilgrim\n    </em>\n    ), the surviving people of Tencendor have taken refuge in Sanctuary, where they are under siege by star-traveling demons, the TimeKeepers. When treason threatens the resistance, DragonStar, the swordswoman Faraday and other fighters leave Sanctuary in an effort to defeat their opponents through attrition rather than pitched battle. Along the way, the defenders confront any number of knotty ethical dilemmas. Faraday resolves the ambiguities of her feelings for DragonStar, and a host of secondary characters (headed by DragonStar''s father, Axis) all play roles that most long-standing readers of this complex fantasy series will find satisfying. Given the large cast and a narrative broken into many short scenes, a glossary is particularly useful, even for those with a good grasp of the backstory.\n    <em>\n     (May)\n    </em>\n    <br />\n    Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n   </p>\n   <h3>\n    From\n   </h3>\n   <p>\n    The sixth and final novel of The Wayfarer Redemption starts with the Timekeeper demons besieging the humans of Tencendor in their last refuge, Sanctuary. Drago, now known as DragonStar Sunsoar, is prepared to send the demons to their own place. But humans being humans, there is always someone willing to deal with the enemy. In the end, the human survivors must leave Sanctuary and wear down the demons in far-flung battles of attrition. Tons of action, myriad characters in all stages of development (the glossary of names at the end is quite helpful), and a classic plot concluded with a nice twist should please everyone who has enjoyed the previous five books:\n    <em>\n     The Wayfarer Redemp\n    </em>\n    tion (2000),\n    <em>\n     Enchanter\n    </em>\n    (2001),\n    <em>\n     Starman\n    </em>\n    (2002),\n    <em>\n     Sinner\n    </em>\n    (2004), and\n    <em>\n     Pilgrim\n    </em>\n    (2005).\n    <em>\n     Frieda Murray\n    </em>\n    <br />\n    <em>\n     Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n    </em>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   At the start of Douglass''s powerful conclusion to her Wayfarer Redemption saga (after 2005''s\n   <em>\n    Pilgrim\n   </em>\n   ), the surviving people of Tencendor have taken refuge in Sanctuary, where they are under siege by star-traveling demons, the TimeKeepers. When treason threatens the resistance, DragonStar, the swordswoman Faraday and other fighters leave Sanctuary in an effort to defeat their opponents through attrition rather than pitched battle. Along the way, the defenders confront any number of knotty ethical dilemmas. Faraday resolves the ambiguities of her feelings for DragonStar, and a host of secondary characters (headed by DragonStar''s father, Axis) all play roles that most long-standing readers of this complex fantasy series will find satisfying. Given the large cast and a narrative broken into many short scenes, a glossary is particularly useful, even for those with a good grasp of the backstory.\n   <em>\n    (May)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   The sixth and final novel of The Wayfarer Redemption starts with the Timekeeper demons besieging the humans of Tencendor in their last refuge, Sanctuary. Drago, now known as DragonStar Sunsoar, is prepared to send the demons to their own place. But humans being humans, there is always someone willing to deal with the enemy. In the end, the human survivors must leave Sanctuary and wear down the demons in far-flung battles of attrition. Tons of action, myriad characters in all stages of development (the glossary of names at the end is quite helpful), and a classic plot concluded with a nice twist should please everyone who has enjoyed the previous five books:\n   <em>\n    The Wayfarer Redemp\n   </em>\n   tion (2000),\n   <em>\n    Enchanter\n   </em>\n   (2001),\n   <em>\n    Starman\n   </em>\n   (2002),\n   <em>\n    Sinner\n   </em>\n   (2004), and\n   <em>\n    Pilgrim\n   </em>\n   (2005).\n   <em>\n    Frieda Murray\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n   </em>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Douglass''s powerful conclusion to her Wayfarer Redemption saga (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Pilgrim\n  </em>\n  ), the surviving people of Tencendor have taken refuge in Sanctuary, where they are under siege by star-traveling demons, the TimeKeepers. When treason threatens the resistance, DragonStar, the swordswoman Faraday and other fighters leave Sanctuary in an effort to defeat their opponents through attrition rather than pitched battle. Along the way, the defenders confront any number of knotty ethical dilemmas. Faraday resolves the ambiguities of her feelings for DragonStar, and a host of secondary characters (headed by DragonStar''s father, Axis) all play roles that most long-standing readers of this complex fantasy series will find satisfying. Given the large cast and a narrative broken into many short scenes, a glossary is particularly useful, even for those with a good grasp of the backstory.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sixth and final novel of The Wayfarer Redemption starts with the Timekeeper demons besieging the humans of Tencendor in their last refuge, Sanctuary. Drago, now known as DragonStar Sunsoar, is prepared to send the demons to their own place. But humans being humans, there is always someone willing to deal with the enemy. In the end, the human survivors must leave Sanctuary and wear down the demons in far-flung battles of attrition. Tons of action, myriad characters in all stages of development (the glossary of names at the end is quite helpful), and a classic plot concluded with a nice twist should please everyone who has enjoyed the previous five books:\n  <em>\n   The Wayfarer Redemp\n  </em>\n  tion (2000),\n  <em>\n   Enchanter\n  </em>\n  (2001),\n  <em>\n   Starman\n  </em>\n  (2002),\n  <em>\n   Sinner\n  </em>\n  (2004), and\n  <em>\n   Pilgrim\n  </em>\n  (2005).\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13676'),
(26397, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business. Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13679'),
(26398, 'Crux', 'Moira Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To find her destiny, she must trust him with her life...and her heart. Southern Arcana, Book 1 Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldnâ€™t crack...until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire. New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesnâ€™t explain why he always finds her no matter how far she runs. When her well-meaning boss puts a PI on her case, Mackenzie comes face to face with the incredible truth: magic is real, and whatever spell has kept her hidden and separate from the paranormal world is rapidly deteriorating. With time running out, she has no choice but to trust Jackson as he struggles to uncover the truth of her pastâ€”and her destiny. Warning: This book contains devious schemes, epic battles, forbidden love between a shapeshifter and a spellcaster, nosy secondary characters, furniture-endangering sex and a woman fighting to choose her own destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13681'),
(26399, 'Crux', 'Albert E. Cowdrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18176'),
(26400, 'Cry for the Strangers', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,Â Â jealously guarded against outsiders. But nowÂ Â strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy isÂ Â suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him sinceÂ Â birth... His sister is haunted by fearfulÂ Â visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways theÂ Â strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. OnlyÂ Â the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struckÂ Â between the people of Clark''s Harbor and someÂ Â supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out forÂ Â a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...Â Â _Cry For The Strangers_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...\n <em>\n  Cry For The Strangers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13682'),
(26401, 'Cry Mercy', 'Toni Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13686'),
(26402, 'The Cry of the Halidon', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can''t refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica''s interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal and they''ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it''s too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4487'),
(26403, 'Cry of the Hunter', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic''ÅšFrom being a fighter in his teens, to becoming a leader north of the border in his twenties, by the age of forty, Martin Fallon was a revered man; a legend and hero of the Organization.After time in prison, and a battle with the bottle, he''s ready to turn his back on the fight.But the war isn''t over, and now, his services are needed once again''ÅšLed back into operation under false pretences by his employers, Fallon is thrown into a rescue mission, and up against The Ulster Constabulary; a ruthless and terrifying sect with a penchant violence, and a ransom on the head of a king.Fallon must drag himself from the edge to fight for justice, searching for truth, and spilling blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13688'),
(26404, 'Cry to Heaven', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13690'),
(26405, 'Cry Wolf', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13692'),
(26406, 'The crying of lot 49', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4492'),
(26407, 'Crypt of the Moaning Diamond - Book 4', 'Jones, Rosemary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13694'),
(26408, 'Crypt of the Shadowking - Book 6', 'Anthony, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13696'),
(26409, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13698'),
(26410, 'Crysis: Legion', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MANHATTAN IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY''RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE. Welcome to the Big Apple, son. Welcome to the city that never sleeps: invaded by monstrous fusions of meat and machinery, defended by a private army that makes Blackwater look like the Red Cross, ravaged by a disfiguring plague that gifts its victims with religious rapture while it eats them alive. You''ve been thrown into this meat grinder without warning, without preparation, without a clue. Your whole squad was mowed down the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. And the chorus of voices whispering in your head keeps saying that all of this is on you: that you and you alone might be able to turn the whole thing around if you only knew what the hell was going on. You''d like to help. Really you would. But it''s not just the aliens that are gunning for you. Your own kind hunts you as a traitor, and your job might be a bit easier if you didn''t have the sneaking suspicion they could be right. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13701'),
(26411, 'The Crystal Brucephalus', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Iâ€™m a Time Lord, not a bank manager. When I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean - a time travelling restaurant?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the galaxyâ€™s most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4495'),
(26412, 'The Crystal Crypt', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4392'),
(26413, 'The Crystal Gryphon', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kerovan, whose cloven hoofs instead of feet set him apart from the human folk of the Dales, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding his birth and the nature of his ultimate destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4393'),
(26414, 'Crystal Healer', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: NINTH IN THE ''CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN'' SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo''s genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal''s secrets before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13704'),
(26415, 'Crystal Lies', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carlson''s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  brings to life the horror of crystal methamphetamine addiction. Hapless Glennis Harmon, who\n  <em>\n   thought\n  </em>\n  she was a typical suburban wife and mother, wakes up one day to find her resentful teenage son, Jacob, addicted to meth, the "poor man''s cocaine." In the bargain, Glennis'' high-rolling husband is having an affair. Carlson''s story is as much about a middle-aged woman''s melancholy coping as it is about drugs, but Carlson makes the point that an addiction has ripple effects: on an indulgent mother; a self-righteous sister; and a stern, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may father. Carlson provides no easy answers; instead, she offers a realistic portrait of addictive behavior, the trap of enabling, and the always incomplete process of recovery.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  isn''t as clever as Carlson''s portrait of the ravages of schizophrenia,\n  <em>\n   Finding Alice\n  </em>\n  , but it''s every bit as valuable for bewildered parents--and therapists.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw, real, and provocative,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  thrusts us into a world inhabited by more people than we may realize on the surface. This account of one motherâ€™s struggle for the healing of her drug-addicted son speaks to anyone who has ever loved anyone else. Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Lisa Samson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Church Ladies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Tiger Lillie\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs an addiction specialist, I was moved by\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  . With great confidence, I can say that Melody Carlsonâ€™s story will enlighten, encourage, and empower you. Read this book; walk through its pages toward healthy God-directed relationships.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Counseling &amp; Health Resources, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn honest, doesnâ€™t-pull-any-punches, look at the reality of addiction and codependency in Christian families. Told in Carlsonâ€™s adept style, this is a novel that will lead readers into the light of a powerful God who stands firm and loves beyond all measure and who delights in meeting His children inside the worldâ€™s most impenetrable, convoluted issues. I found myself praying Carlsonâ€™s prayers over my own children as I lay in bed. Read, enjoy, andâ€“most importantâ€“pass this along to everyone you know who is struggling with addiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Deborah Bedford, author of _If I Had You, Just Between Us\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  When You Believe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œâ€˜Crystallize: to coat with sugar. To give a definite and permanent form.â€™ So says the\n  <em>\n   American Heritage Dictionary.\n  </em>\n  Melody Carlsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  creates a permanent image of a family in pain and the various ways they chose to sugar coat their lives rather than face it. We are this family, whether touched by methamphetamine use, alcohol addiction, super-perfection and adultery or not. We are this family because we avoid, separate, pretend blindness, live inside fogs of drugs or denial because to face the pain alone is just too great. What Melody reveals through her crisp yet tender words is that we are not alone even when we separate ourselves. God has chosen to bring each of us closer. We are given the gift of hope and the definite and permanent form of Godâ€™s love to take us through the lies, the pain and disappointment into a steadied peace. Melodyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is\n  <em>\n   brilliant\n  </em>\n  . Her best.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of The Tender Ties series\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMelody Carlson knows addiction is an issue that affects not only addicts, but their families, their friends, their associates. And she shows that, when the addict is a believer, addiction affects the body of Christ.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful lesson, taught the way Jesus taughtâ€“in story. I recommend it especially to those of us who have thought we were being charitable when we looked at those marginalized by addiction and thought, â€˜There but for the grace of God go I.â€™ Carlson''s highly personable prose puts that viewpoint on its ear, and teaches us to see it as, â€˜Here we are together, in need of God''s grace.â€™\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is clearly truthâ€“revealed in fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Tom Morrisey, author of\n  <em>\n   Yucatan Deep\n  </em>\n  and _Turn Four\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œCrystal Lies\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches about the emotional devastation caused by addictions, and yet offers beautiful, accessible hope. Having been through the turmoil of addictive behavior in my own family, I wept with both the agony and the joy of what I read. Don''t miss this book!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Janelle Burnham Schneider, author of â€œFrom Carriage to Marriageâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Brides for a Bit\n  </em>\n  anthology and â€œA Distant Loveâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Christmas Duty\n  </em>\n  anthology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13706'),
(26416, 'Crystal Line', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers'' profession."LOCUSWhen Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn''t counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra''s mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13709'),
(26417, 'Crystal Line', 'Anne McCaffrey - Crystal 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17817'),
(26418, 'The Crystal Mountain - Book 3', 'Reid, Thomas M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4394'),
(26419, 'The Crystal Seas', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4395'),
(26420, 'Crystal Shard - Book 1', 'R.A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13711'),
(26421, 'The Crystal Shard', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Towns?Or have the barbarians already arranged for that themselves? Their brutal attack on the villages of Ten-Towns seals their fate, and that of the youn barbarian Wulfgar. Left for dead, Wulfgar is rescued by the dwarf, Bruenor, in exchange for five years of service . . . and friendship. With the help of the dark elf, Drizzt, Bruenor reshapes Wulfgar into a warrior with both brawn and brains.But is Wulfgar strong enough to reunite the barbarian tribes? Can an unorthodox dwarf and renegade dark elf persuade the people of Ten-Towns to put aside their petty differences in time to stave off the forces of the crystal shard? Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Towns?Or have the barbarians already arranged for that themselves? Their brutal attack on the villages of Ten-Towns seals their fate, and that of the youn barbarian Wulfgar. Left for dead, Wulfgar is rescued by the dwarf, Bruenor, in exchange for five years of service . . . and friendship. With the help of the dark elf, Drizzt, Bruenor reshapes Wulfgar into a warrior with both brawn and brains.But is Wulfgar strong enough to reunite the barbarian tribes? Can an unorthodox dwarf and renegade dark elf persuade the people of Ten-Towns to put aside their petty differences in time to stave off the forces of the crystal shard?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4396'),
(26422, 'Crystal Singer', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13716'),
(26423, 'Crystal Singer', 'Anne McCaffrey - Crystal 1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17809'),
(26424, 'Crystal Singer 01 - Crystal Singer', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13713'),
(26425, 'Crystal Singer 02 - Killashandra', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9717'),
(26426, 'Crystal Singer 03 - Crystal Line', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13714'),
(26427, 'The Crystal Stair', 'Charles Coleman Finlay &amp; Rae Carson Finlay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4397'),
(26428, 'The Crystal Star (Vonda McIntyre)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4399'),
(26429, 'Crystal World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style. Through a ''leaking'' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most men flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a crystal cross, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13719'),
(26430, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n War in Cuba isn''t Ben Tyler''s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler''s sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he''s not dying until he gets the money he''s owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there''s one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man''s side who could help Ben get everything he''s got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island''s going straight to hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13565'),
(26431, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13569');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(26432, 'Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food With Advice From Top Culinary Professionals', 'Rick Smilow; Anne E. McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you suspect you might have the itch to make a mark anywhere in the hospitality industry, this is your book. It''s chockfull of genuine insights, accurate information, and thoughtful advice from real people who have already walked in your shoesâ€”or the ones you''ve been contemplating trying on."\n <br />\n -Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of _Setting the Table\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmilowâ€™s book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to todayâ€™s professional possibilities in the culinary world.â€\n <br />\n â€”Eric Peterson, The Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThank Goodness Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride have written Culinary Careersâ€\n <br />\n â€”Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmilow leaves no refrigerator unopened in this guide that is excellent for everyone from new grads to those contemplating a major career shiftâ€â€”Lisa Messenger, Cooks Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œCulinary Careers\n </em>\n does a great job laying out road maps for a career in the food world. And through its eighty-nine interviews, the book also conveys the passion and dedication that I see amongst my fellow chefs and restaurant professionals, around the nation.â€\n <br />\n --Marcus Samuelsson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone in the food service business, or even thinking about it, this is a must have guide.â€â€”Tim Zagat, Zagat Survey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCulinary Careers is a refreshingly unbiased introduction to the range of educational opportunities and careersavailable to those who see the world through the lens of food and cooking.â€â€”Bob delGrosso, A Hunger Artist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A heaping plate of solid, first-hand advice from real people in the business." --- The Sacramento Bee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today''s professional possibilities in the culinary world.\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Eric Petersen, Kansas City P.L., MO, Library Journal\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilowâ€”president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York Cityâ€”who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional kitchens. Tapping into that vast alumni network and beyond,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is the only career book to offer candid portraits of dozens and dozens of coveted jobs at all levels to help you find your dream job.\n <br />\n Instead of giving glossed-over, general descriptions of various jobs,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n features exclusive interviews with both food-world luminaries and those on their way up, to help you discover what a day in the life is really like in your desired field.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Get the ultimate in advice from those at the very pinnacle of the industry, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl.\n <br />\n â€¢ Figure out whether you need to go to cooking school or not in order to land the job you want.\n <br />\n â€¢ Read about the inspiringâ€”and sometimes unconventionalâ€”paths individuals took to reach their current positions.\n <br />\n â€¢ Find out what employers look for, and how you can put your best foot forward in interviews.\n <br />\n â€¢ Learn what a food stylistâ€™s day on the set of a major motion picture is like, how a top New York City restaurant publicity firm got off the ground, what to look for in a yacht crew before jumping on board as the chef, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With information on educational programs and a birdâ€™s-eye view of the industry,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for anyone looking to break into the food world, whether youâ€™re a first-time job seeker or a career changer looking for your next step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13570'),
(26433, 'The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live as They Do', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n <em>\n  (June 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4401'),
(26434, 'Cup and Table', 'Tim Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13572'),
(26435, 'Cup of Gold (Ulverscroft Large Print)', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck''s sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by two passions; to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint, and to conquer Panama and wrest ''the cup of gold'' from Spanish hands. This work is a fantastic, swashbuckling stuff!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13574'),
(26436, 'The Cup of Nestor', 'Simon Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4403'),
(26437, 'A Cup of Tea', 'Amy Ephron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n adds a touch of class--and a love triangle--to the classic theme of parallel lives and their accidental crossing. New York City, in the uncertain days of World War I, is home to Rosemary Fells, who is the sort of woman with the time to strike stunning poses and rearrange her curls; Eleanor Smith, whom Rosemary finds under a street lamp, miserable and shivering, is certainly not. Miss Fells indulges a whim of beneficence, whisking "the creature" home to share warmth, tea, and a change of clothing. Once clean and dry--fortified with sandwiches and brandy--young Eleanor and Rosemary''s fiancÃ© meet in the hallway and exchange a look, the kind of look that will forever change the course of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n is a well-crafted, terse novel that reads like a good short story. It''s a refreshing step back to yesterday, a time when the fates picnicked on the glass slopes of privilege.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Rosemary Fell, privileged and accustomed to having all that she wants, is set to marry Philip Alsop. Of the same social class, Philip struggled years to build his own shipping concern into a success after the death of his father. Now their future together seems to promise happiness. Then Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith home with her, offering the seemingly penniless young woman temporary shelter from the weather. Instead, Philip instantly falls in love with her and the star-crossed love pulls all three characters into a dramatic, sorrowful ending. Ephron writes short, intense chapters, yet allows room for emotions and imagination to expand fully. She maintains interest by ending the chapters exactly at the next eventful point in the story, making the novel a natural page-turner. Sustaining the tension between the characters, while subtly interweaving more complexities of the plot, the author builds towards the intense conclusion. Using precise historical details of 1917 New York society, from clothing to moral attitudes, Ephron captures the ambiance of the era as well as the differences in lifestyles between the wealthy and working classes.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19083'),
(26438, 'Cupcake', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family -- and her true love, Shrimp.** She wants to find a cool job, the city''s best caffeination and most perfect cupcake, and a hot new love. But the reality of CC''s new life hits some unexpected obstacles, including a broken leg that renders her immobile; the joy and aggravation of sharing an apartment with a roommate who''s also an older brother; and a tasty selection of guys -- none of whom measure up to Shrimp. Then, just when CC starts to get her new life on track, her old love returns. Shrimp has given up on his plans to live and surf in New Zealand and arrives in NYC with nothing to do other than to be with CC. And this time CC is determined that she and Shrimp will not repeat their old mistakes. This third book about reformed hellion Cyd Charisse is just as unforgettable as *Gingerbread* and *Shrimp*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20632'),
(26439, 'Cupid and Psyche', 'Lucius Apuleius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13575'),
(26440, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13578'),
(26441, 'Cure', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10158'),
(26442, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19267'),
(26443, 'The Cure', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4404'),
(26444, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era â€œa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â€ Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this â€œLost Generationâ€ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâ€™s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgeraldâ€™s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4406'),
(26445, 'The Curious Case of Henry Dickens', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4407'),
(26446, 'Curious Folks Ask', 'Seethaler, Sherry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13579'),
(26447, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  , is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child''s quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor''s poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington''s owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists.\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.\n  <em>\n   --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what''s going on in other people''s heads. When his neighbor''s poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents'' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don''t speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don''t eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4408'),
(26448, 'Curran Volume 1', 'Andrews, Ilona; Andrews, Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Companion to Kate Daniels series. Curran''s point-of-view.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13580'),
(26449, 'The Currents of Space', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.  Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.  He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.  But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:  Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4409'),
(26450, 'Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages', 'R. V. Branham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although he presented only four ways to do it, Paul Simon suggested there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Whether or not there actually are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are certainly more than 80 ways to say "knep dig selv " to someone. For those of you who don''t know, knep dig selv is Danish for lech tiezdayen , which is Hebrew for "go fuck yourself." And if you really wanted to get creative, you could tell someone to "nenda kutomba, nakata tatu ," which is Swahili for "fuck yourself, in triplicate."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anyone who has ever studied foreign languages knows firsthand that what you learn from books and classrooms prepares you for only so much, and then you''re on your own to figure out what it means when someone in Finland tells you, "PÃ¤Ã¤ssÃ¤si tekee kusi patoja ja paska puroja ." But thanks to Curse &amp; Berate in 69+ Languages (Soft Skull Press, 284 pages, $13.95), you now have a useful tool that lets you know when some Finnish faszszopÃ³ has just told you, "In your mind''s eye, dams are built of piss and rivers flow with shit." (FaszszopÃ³ is Hungarian for "cocksucker," in case you were wondering).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written and edited by R. V. Branham, who''s also the editor of the multi-lingual Portland lit journal Gobshite Quarterly , Curse &amp; Berate is an indispensable resource for finding just the right way to say "vai chupar merda, o seu filho da puta "--which is Portuguese for "go suck on shit, you son of a bitch"--so as to get into less trouble than if you just came right out and said it. "From a very early age I always noticed that those people who don''t have anything nice to say and who don''t pull their punches have the most fun," says Barnham, explaining part of what inspired Curse &amp; Berate , which he has been working on in one form or another since 1984.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overflowing with invectives, curses and blasphemous belittlings, the book is more than a resource guide for becoming a multilingual potty mouth. This is a valuable tool for bridging communication barriers, making it possible to say such important things as "millananyawshanmi "--Quechua for "I feel like throwing up"--and "nej, jeg har ikke en prÃ¦servativ, har du ?"--Danish for "I don''t have a condom, do you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hopefully, this book will prove helpful in filling gaps in people''s knowledge of a language--warts and all--and also be a lot of fun," says assistant editor and contributor Channing Dodson. And you know what I say to that? Danke. --\n  <em>\n   Willamette Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those times when â€œyou blackguard!â€ just wonâ€™t do,\n  <em>\n   Sinister Wisdom\n  </em>\n  supplies an amazing array of crude, vulgar, offensive, scurrilous, lewd, and otherwise unprintable denunciations. Organized thematically and translated into more than 69 languages, it contains an alphabetical listing of every conceivable (and inconceivable) slur and insult, from comments on mothers'' peculiar anatomy and hobbies, to suggestions on where to go and how, to observations on how others spend their solitary moments. Appendices cover blasphemies, bodily functions, sexual deviations, and variations on â€œyo mama!â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13582'),
(26451, 'The Curse of Chalion', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has been scarred, physically and mentally, from secret betrayals by the very people who now rule Chalion through Iselle''s uncle, and who seek to control her younger brother, the heir, as well. To rescue the royesse, and save Chalion, Cazaril must play matchmaker between Iselle and the prince of another realm, fight off assassins, lift a century-old curse, and risk everything-learning not to run from his own love for Bertriz-along the way. Bujold weaves a convincing and captivating fantasy world, well researched, with magic that works and gods that live without destroying the balance of this medieval society. Cazaril''s life is rich with detail, and plays a part in the conclusion. The villains are believably motivated. The young heroines are deeply sympathetic characters as well. Readers will find themselves rooting for the good guys, while still uncertain that all can end without at least one of them suffering a dire fate. A finely balanced mixture of adventure, swordplay, court intrigue, romance, magic, and religion makes this book a delightful read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4410'),
(26452, 'The Curse of Deadman&#39;s Forest', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Deadman''s Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepâ€”a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracle--a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice. If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4411'),
(26453, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4412'),
(26454, 'The curse of the Moonraker: a tale of survival', 'Eth Clifford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The survivors of a strange shipwreck in the Auckland Islands fight for survival under seemingly hopeless conditions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4413'),
(26455, 'The Curse of the Pharaohs', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters, a writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key (Washington Post Book World) here continues her series of mysteries starring Amelia Peabody.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4414'),
(26456, 'Curse of the Shadowmage - Book 11', 'Anthony, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13588'),
(26457, 'Curse the Dawn', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13590'),
(26458, 'Cursed Be the City', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13591'),
(26459, 'Cursed to Death', 'LA Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13594'),
(26460, 'The Cursed Towers', 'Kate Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Book 3 - Witches of Eileanan Series\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new age has dawned in the kingdom of Eileanan. But the flame-haired twins--Iseult the Scarred Warrior and Isabeau the apprentice-witch--must face their oldest fears...in the epic series that''s not only "vividly depicted" (_Romantic Times_), but "a lot of fun" (_Locus_).\n </p>\n <p>\n  3rd in the bestselling fantasy series\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4417'),
(26461, 'The Cursed', 'LA Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4415'),
(26462, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera''s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord''s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable - uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army''s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort of a war-torn realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13596'),
(26463, 'Curt Benjamin - Seven Brothers 1', 'Prince of Shadows', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16401'),
(26464, 'Curt Benjamin - Seven Brothers 2', 'Prince of Dreams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16399'),
(26465, 'Curtain', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13599'),
(26466, 'A Curtain Falls', 'Stefanie Pintoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Zielers"s fiancÃ©e in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both men were earmarked for much bigger things, Ziele moved to Dobson, a small town north of the city, to escape the violence, and Mulvaney buried himself even deeper, agreeing to head up the precinct in the most crime-ridden area in the city. Yet with all of the detectives and resources at Mulvaneyrs"s disposal, a particularly puzzling crime compels him to look for someone he can trust absolutely. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading ladyrs"s costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises''no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York. Following on the heels of Stefanie Pintoffrs"s acclaimed and award-winning debut, A Curtain Fallsis a moody and evocative tale that follows Ziele and his partners as they scour the dark streets of early-twentieth-century New York in search of a true fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16179'),
(26467, 'Curtain: Poirot&#39;s last case', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, that ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13601'),
(26468, 'Custer&#39;s Last Jump', 'Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13602'),
(26469, 'Cut', 'McCormick, Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13604'),
(26470, 'Cutie', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13606'),
(26471, 'Cutting Edge (2002)', 'Clancy, Tom - Power Plays 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13609'),
(26472, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother''s death in childbirth and their father''s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics - their passion for the same woman - that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him - nearly destroying him - Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. An unforgettable journey into one man''s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13611'),
(26473, 'Cyber Blood', 'Jonathan Amsbary', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n David meets the woman of his dreams in a chat room. His encounters on-line become more intense and his dreams become more horrific. Can even the combined efforts of his real life and on-line friends and a mysterious vampire hunter save David?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13612'),
(26474, 'Cyber Way', 'Alan Dean Foster - Cyber Way', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15638'),
(26475, 'Cybernation', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ContrÃ´ler le Net, c''est contrÃ´ler le monde. 2011. Black-out total de l''Internet aprÃ¨s une sÃ©rie d''attaques parfaitement synchronisÃ©es contre tous les relais du rÃ©seau mondial. A peine la premiÃ¨re phase exÃ©cutÃ©e, la seconde arrive, mortelle : les terroristes comptent maintenant s''en prendre aux personnes... Pour Jay Gridley et la Net Force, un seul coupable possible : Cybernation. Un groupe qui milite pour la reconnaissance internationale d''un Etat virtuel. Mais, derriÃ¨re l''utopie libertaire, se cachent des motivations aussi mercantiles que criminelles... Entre rÃ©alitÃ© virtuelle et gÃ©opolitique, espionnage et technologie de pointe, Net Force se bat contre les dÃ©rives du Web du XXIe siÃ¨cle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13614'),
(26476, 'Cyberpunk', 'Bethke, Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13619'),
(26477, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13621'),
(26478, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd &amp; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18923'),
(26479, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13624'),
(26480, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13626'),
(26481, 'The cygnet and the firebird', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An award-winning master of fantasy returns to the enchanting world she created in The Sorceress and the Cygnet. It is a world both dark and beautiful, filled with unforgettable characters and wonders beyond imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4419'),
(26482, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13627'),
(26483, 'Cyrano de Bergerac: a play in five acts', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13628'),
(26484, 'Cyteen', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes".--Locus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13629'),
(26485, 'D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food From Scratch', 'Vanessa Barrington; Sara Remington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates.\n <em>\n  D.I.Y. Delicious\n </em>\n goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13630'),
(26486, 'd&#39;Alembert 01 Imperial Stars', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #1 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. The Empire of Earth, spanning more than a thousand solar systems, is threatened by a conspiracy from within. Now, with more than three-quarters of the Galaxy ready to fall into enemy hands, the Empire is forced to call on its top-secret weapon: the renowned Circus of the Galaxy featuring the d''Alembert family, a clan of circus performers with uncanny abilities. But even these super agents may not be in time to save the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith wrote the original novelette, "Imperial Stars," but passed away before he could write any more in this series. I was hired to expand the original story to book length and write nine further books. It''s not easy following in the footsteps of a master, but fans have told me I did a good job. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10254'),
(26487, 'd&#39;Alembert 02 Stranglers&#39; Moon', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5529');
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(26488, 'd&#39;Alembert 03 The Clockwork Traitor', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #3 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. By law, Princess Edna, heir to the interstellar Empire of Earth, must marry a commoner. But as she travels through her domain, word comes of a mysterious threat to her succession. It''s up to Jules and Yvette d''Alembert and their family of circus performers, all agents of the Empire, to uncover this bizarre plot before it can wreak havoc for all of humanity.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith created the universe of the Family d''Alembert in his novelette "Imperial Stars." I have built upon the foundation he established with nine further books of my own. I hope you find them worthy of his talent. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4552'),
(26489, 'd&#39;Alembert 04 Getaway world', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11312'),
(26490, 'd&#39;Alembert 05 Appointment at Bloodstar', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15191'),
(26491, 'd&#39;Alembert 06 Purity Plot', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2652'),
(26492, 'd&#39;Alembert 07 Planet of Treachery', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Classic space opera adventure, Book #7 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. For centuries, the planet Gastonia has been a planet of exile, an escape-proof prison world for the worst sorts of traitors. But now, it seems, prisoners are indeed escaping, and all evidence points to the sinister, all-knowing conspiracy that continues to shadow the Throne. The d''Alemberts must infiltrate this world of traitors--and they must do it without a safety net, because if they fail they themselves will be trapped on this inhospitable world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7684'),
(26493, 'd&#39;Alembert 08 Eclipsing binaries', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chapters: Eclipsing Binary, Epsilon Ursae Majoris, Epsilon Aurigae, Ss 433, Alpha Coronae Borealis, Zeta Andromedae, Delta Orionis, Delta Capricorni, Castor, 8 Andromedae, Vv Cephei, Zeta Cygni, Delta Equulei, Hw Virginis, Dp Leonis, 94 Aquarii, Pi Lupi, Yz Cassiopeiae, Oy Carinae, Delta Velorum, Alcyone, Ww Aurigae, Epsilon Carinae, Nn Serpentis, Zeta Tauri, Delta Cassiopeiae, 29 Aquarii, Qs Virginis, Tau Arietis, Zeta Aurigae, Ly Aurigae, Hu Aquarii, Mu Sagittarii, Hd 87822, Qs Aquilae, Ar Aurigae, Algol Variable, 17 Lyrae, 86 Aquarii, W Ursae Majoris Variable, 31 Camelopardalis, Z Chamaeleontis, Hd 172044, R Arae, V420 Aurigae, Sigma Scorpii, Upsilon Sagittarii, Sigma Aquilae, Xi Tauri, Eo Aurigae, Hr 6902, Hd 126200, Hd 141846, Epsilon Ursae Minoris, 3 Centauri, Lh54-425, Hd 152010, R Canis Majoris, Psi Virginis, V357 Carinae. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher''s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Epsilon Aurigae ( Aur / Aurigae) is a star in the constellation Auriga. It is traditionally known as Almaaz, Haldus, or Al Anz. Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary system composed of a Fo supergiant and a companion which is generally accepted to be a huge dark disk orbiting an unknown object, possibly a binary system of 2 small B-type stars. This star is special because the large supergiant is being elipsed by something even bigger and beause this object is almost completely dark, instead of an expected supergiant star. About every 27 years, epsilon Aurigae''s brightness drops from an apparent visual magnitude of +2.92 to +3.83 . This dimming lasts between 640-730 days . In addition to this eclipse, the system also has a low amplitude pulsation with a period around 66 days. The system lies approximately 2,000 light years from Earth. Epsilon Aurigae was first suspected to be a varia...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2101873\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12269'),
(26494, 'd&#39;Alembert 09 The Omicron Invasion', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2833'),
(26495, 'd&#39;Alembert 10 Revolt of the galaxy', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic science fiction action-adventure. Book #10 in the "Family d''Alembert" series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Goldin was born in Philadelphia, but has lived most of his life in California. He has a Bachelors degree in Astronomy from UCLA, and has served as editor of the SFWA Bulletin and SFWA Western Regional Director. He currently lives in the San Francisco area with his wife (and sometime collaborator) Mary Mason.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7025'),
(26496, '&quot;D&quot; Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(26497, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4421'),
(26498, 'The Da Vinci Code: A Novel', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4423'),
(26499, 'Daddy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend''s unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer''s stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel''s best!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master''s degree at Harvard. Then Oliver''s mother dies of Alzheimer''s disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13631'),
(26500, 'Daemon', 'None', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human controlâ€”a daemonâ€”designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same canâ€™t always be said for the people who design them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designerâ€”the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his companyâ€™s stock price. But Sobolâ€™s fans arenâ€™t the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobolâ€™s secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, itâ€™s up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemyâ€”or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13632'),
(26501, 'Daemon&#39;s Mark', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Werewolf homicide detective Luna Wilder guards the fine line that separates Nocturne City''s humans from the weres and witches that roam its streets. Now, Luna must thwart a new evil more dangerous than anything she''s ever encountered."DAEMON''S MARKSomeone, or some"thing," is setting fire to the homes of the city''s most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that''s growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies, trolls, and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for help. As they work to uncover the source of the bloodshed, Luna''s attraction for Will deepens. But just as she learns Will''s darkest secret, Nocturne City is thrust into total chaos--leaving Luna and Will in a path of destruction they may not be able to stop...or survive.Praise for the Nocturne City series: "A nonstop thriller laced with ferociously deadly menace." --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced."--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13633'),
(26502, 'Dagmar&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13634'),
(26503, 'Daily Reports', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13636'),
(26504, 'The Dain Curse', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett has enough secrets to fill a closet, and when she disappears shortly after the robbery, she becomes the Op''s prime suspect. But her father, Edgar Leggett, keeps some strange company himself and has a dark side the moon would envy. Before he can solve the riddle of the diamond theft, the Continental Op must first solve the mystery of this strange family.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases, as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her - they have a habit of dying violently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4427'),
(26505, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13638'),
(26506, 'Daisy Miller: and, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13639'),
(26507, 'The Dam', 'Daniel Marcus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4428'),
(26508, 'Damaged', 'Pamela Callow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance''s accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it''s just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn''t only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl''s death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm''s charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation--and for redemption.Unwilling to live with the damage she may have caused, Kate pursues the case on her own and unearths some chilling facts.Facts that lead straight to the heart of a legal conspiracy.Facts that lead Kate directly into the surgically skilled hands of the Body Butcher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13641'),
(26509, 'Damia', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Afra has submerged his romantic feelings for the great telepath, Rowan, and has even dedicated his life to helping raise her family, but trouble brews for Afra when Rowan''s talented daughter,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13642'),
(26510, 'Damia', 'Anne McCaffrey - Tower &amp; Hive 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17842'),
(26511, 'Damia&#39;s Children', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although they have inherited their mother''s legendary powers of telepathy, Damia''s children will need more than psionic talent to face the enemy''s children, an alien race more insect than human\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13647'),
(26512, 'Damias Children', 'Anne McCaffrey - Tower &amp; Hive 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17731'),
(26513, 'Damnation Alley', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You''ve gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi''s cinematic canon. But there''s at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it''s prevented the movie''s far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny''s post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy''s most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that''s responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what''s the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren''t much less dangerous. Damnation Alley might not be Zelazny''s best, but for reading on, say, a road trip, you can''t do much better. Throw in some ''60s-style, freak-out closing riffs, and a trip down the Alley becomes pretty hard to pass up. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13648'),
(26514, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their   prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers   that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment   for an ancient debt. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4430'),
(26515, 'Damnation Road Show', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16193'),
(26516, 'The Damned Thing', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his The Devils Dictionary (1911). He wrote some of his books under the pseudonyms Dod Grile and J. Milton Sloluck. Bierces lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, Bitter Bierce. Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writers career. His short stories are considered among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Killed at Resaca, and Chickamauga. His works include: The Fiends Delight (1873), Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874), Black Beetles in Amber (1892), Fantastic Fables (1899), Shapes of Clay (1903), A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky (1907), Write It Right (1909) and A Cynic Looks at Life (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4433'),
(26517, 'The Damned Utd', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4434'),
(26518, 'The Damned', 'LA Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4432'),
(26519, 'dams, Robert - Horseclans 03 - Revenge Of The Horseclans (v1.1)', 'Revenge Of The Horseclans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13527'),
(26520, 'A Damsel in Distress', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Maud Marsh flings herself into American George Benson''s cab in Piccadilly, he believes he has met a damsel in distress. George traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where life is hilariously muddled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16180'),
(26521, 'Dance &amp; the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13528'),
(26522, 'A Dance at the Slaughter House', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16081'),
(26523, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13531'),
(26524, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18445'),
(26525, 'Dance of the Crystal', 'Cris Anson', '<div class="comments">\n<i>\n Book 3 in the Dance series.\n</i>\nEx-Marine and bar-owner Soren, the quiet loner of the Thorvald brothers, reluctantly offers himself at a "Take a Bachelor to Dinner" auction for charity. But when the minx who "won" him seems to be making a quick getaway under the table, a humiliated and angry Soren hoists her over his shoulder and storms from the ballroom. So begins a rocky love affair between two unlikely people. But when thirty-year-old Crystal D''Angelo''s talisman tells her that Soren is The One, she''s ready to give the man she''s been waiting for everything-heart, soul...virginity. Soren, whose man-woman skills are almost nonexistent, finds he is unable to stay away from the innocent but sensual Crystal who unleashes a sexual side of him he never knew existed. But convincing Soren-who learned as a child that love hurts and no woman can be trusted with his heart-that what she feels for him is about more than magic, is a tough battle Crystal won''t give up on. As things heat up between them, a psychotic stalker takes exception to Crystal''s relationship with Soren and violently turns her world upside down.\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13533'),
(26526, 'Dance of the gods', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the second volume in Roberts'' paranormal Circle Trilogy, the Circle of Six prepare to battle for their lives--and their hearts--against the one vampire determined to rule the earth. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13535'),
(26527, 'A Dance to the music of time: a novel. At Lady Molly&#39;s', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16082'),
(26528, 'Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13537'),
(26529, 'Dance Upon the Air', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13538'),
(26530, 'Dance with the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13540'),
(26531, 'Dance: Dance of the Seven Veils', 'Cris Anson', '<div class="comments">\n<i>\n Book 1 in the Dance series.\n</i>\nRobbed of her self-esteem during a loveless marriage, recently divorced Lyssa Markham allows her best friend to drag her, costumed as Salome, to a masquerade. She''s shocked, then intrigued, to discover the participants are members of an exclusive sex club. Hiding behind her mask, she permits her long-submerged sensual side to re-emerge as erotic sights and sounds bombard her. Seeing a darkly sexy gladiator inspires her to dance for him, seductively removing one veil at a time until she falls naked into his hot embrace. Days later, she learns her ex has neglected to fulfill an urgent financial stipulation in the divorce decree. Unable to reach him, she storms into his lawyer''s office to resolve the problem and comes face to face with her gladiator. His first words, "Lift up your skirt...Salome." Robert Savidge is everything a woman could want-rich, handsome, successful. Should she obey her impulse and run from him? Or can she find the courage to explore her nascent sensuality with this man who so obviously wants to teach her?\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13542'),
(26532, 'Dancing the Code', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Brigadierâ€™s going to shoot you, Jo,â€™ the Doctor said grimly, â€˜and then heâ€™s going to shoot me. Both of us are going to die.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor builds a machine designed to predict the future. It shows the Brigadier murdering him and Jo in cold blood. Unable to tell where or when this event is destined to occur, the Doctor and Jo decide that they must stay apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Jo is sent on a top-secret mission to the war-torn Arab nation of Kebiria. But upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and consigned to a brutal political prison. The Kebirians have something to hide: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing. And the Doctor and UNIT soon discover that unless it is stopped, the alien presence will spread to overrun the entire world.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13545'),
(26533, 'Dancing With Bears', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19304'),
(26534, 'Dancing with the Devil', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vampire Romance. 78702 words long. Best Vampire in SimeGen''s Reviewers Choice Awards! (spring 2001), Short listed in the 2002 Woman''s Day/Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year competition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13548'),
(26535, 'Danger, Religion!', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13550'),
(26536, 'The Danger', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4436'),
(26537, 'A Dangerous Fortune', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follett (Night Over Water, 1991; The Pillars of The Earth, 1989, etc.) peeks into the naughty world of late Victorian merchant bankers. A tragic misadventure among schoolboys is at the root of the rotten world of the Pilaster family. Weak bully Edward Pilaster and his too-dear South American chum Mickey Miranda cause the death by drowning of a lad from the lower form at their minor public school and then grow up to become as corrupt as one might expect. Mickey murders his way to a sinecure in the London legation of his nitrate-rich Latin American homeland, and, with much help from his gorgeous, manipulative mum Augusta, Edward bumbles his way to a partnership in the immensely important family bank. The only really good Pilaster, aside from discreetly gay Uncle Samuel, is young Hugh, whose father left the family firm, founded his own bank, and then had to commit suicide when the bank foundered. Hugh is a born banker, but since he''s so much smarter than cousin Edward, Aunt Augusta hates him and throws constant obstacles in his path. Against Hugh''s advice, Mickey and Edward team up on a series of huge loans to Mickey''s government--money that goes to the purchase of war materiel and the advancement of Mickey''s thuggish father. On this rotten foundation, the Pilaster bank grows to Imperial preeminence and Augusta gets the earldom she wants for the husband she dislikes. Hugh, pining for the Polish-born, Jewish bareback- rider he loved and lost and still nursing his childhood memory of That Day At The Swimming Hole, gets nothing but grief until those shaky South American bonds finally collapse and he''s really needed. Interesting financial tips and a sprinkling of naughty bits, but the rest is minor Masterpiece Theatre. (BOM ??) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murders and financial crises...old-fashioned entertainment!" --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Breathlessly plotted...relentlessly suspensenseful." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, complex plot.. sexual intrigue...fascinating characters...you won''t be able to put down this exciting page-turner!" --\n  <em>\n   Lexington Herald-Leader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16084'),
(26538, 'Dangerous Games', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13560'),
(26539, 'Dangerous Games - Book 2', 'Emery, Clayton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13555'),
(26540, 'The Dangerous Games', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13558'),
(26541, 'Dangerous Girls', 'Stine, R. L.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16335'),
(26542, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19338'),
(26543, 'Dangerous liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time** Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13561'),
(26544, 'a Dangerous Man (2006)(+)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16088'),
(26545, 'A Dangerous Man', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œAmong the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where itâ€™s at.â€â€“The Washington Postâ€œHuston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.â€â€“The New York Times Book ReviewReluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillersâ€“and his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isnâ€™t happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when heâ€™s handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league baseball star named Miguel Arenas. Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem that got him in trouble, but he canâ€™t help liking the guy. After all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail. Before he agreed to buy his parentsâ€™ safety with a life of violence.And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the place where all his problems beganâ€“and where Henry might find a real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his life.â€œHuston reminds me of all my favorite writersâ€“Pete Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Charlie has found it. Heâ€™s a true marvel.â€â€“Ken Bruen, author of The Guards â€œCharlie Huston is the real deal.â€â€“Peter Straub\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16315'),
(26546, 'A Dangerous Mourning', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat''s daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth...."A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16092'),
(26547, 'The Dangerous Rescue', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4438'),
(26548, 'Dangling Conversations', 'Ed Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13562'),
(26549, 'Daniel &amp; Ian: For Now, Forever\\\\In from the Cold', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***For Now, Forever*** Annaâ€”Daniel''s wife of forty yearsâ€”relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty. ***In From the Cold*** In this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling the British couldn''t prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for the fight he''s got on his hands to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13563'),
(26550, 'Daniel Deronda', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13564'),
(26551, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13566'),
(26552, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson &amp; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18849'),
(26553, 'Daniel&#39;s Desire', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13573'),
(26554, 'Danielle Ganek', 'The Summer We Read Gatsby (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13568'),
(26555, 'Danielle Steel', 'Full Circle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11365'),
(26556, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4441'),
(26557, 'Danny the Champion of the World', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19209');
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(26558, 'Danse macabre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Timesbestselling series. These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13576'),
(26559, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a warm, golden evening in Romeâ€”a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The filmâ€™s star was missingâ€”and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewsonâ€™s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limboâ€”the first of Danteâ€™s nine circles of Hell.While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locationsâ€”from Rome to San Franciscoâ€”Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Danteâ€™s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killerâ€™s chilling plot is closing in around themâ€”guided by a poetâ€™s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revengeâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13577'),
(26560, 'Darc Ages', 'A. R. Yngve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18208'),
(26561, 'Daring to dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons'' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother''s acceptance...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13583'),
(26562, 'Dark and Dangerous', 'Anwar Hart Harte McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13584'),
(26563, 'Dark Angel', 'LJ Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13585'),
(26564, 'Dark Apprentice', 'Anderson, Kevin J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13586'),
(26565, 'Dark Ararat', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity''s first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth''s sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader''s belief in him.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet''s early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford''s epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man''s singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13587'),
(26566, 'Dark Assassin', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For countless readers, one of lifeâ€™s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside Londonâ€™s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the manâ€™s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk canâ€™t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the womanâ€™s somber beauty, he is impelled to try.Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Maryâ€™s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently diedâ€“a suicide, according to the police and Maryâ€™s sister. But Maryâ€™s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Companyâ€™s current projectâ€“the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolisâ€“was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Suttonâ€™s clever terrier. For once, even Monkâ€™s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.With characters as vivid as Dickensâ€™s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perryâ€™s best.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13589'),
(26567, 'Dark Companion', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17937'),
(26568, 'Dark Corners', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13592'),
(26569, 'Dark Dawn', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13593'),
(26570, 'Dark Defender', 'Alexis Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18102'),
(26571, 'The Dark Design', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation . . . at any cost.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4446'),
(26572, 'The Dark Dimensions', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18346'),
(26573, 'Dark Dreamer: A Dark Vista Romance', 'Jennifer Fulton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Rowe Devlin never expected the solution to writerâ€™s block to be a beautiful psychic, her sexy twin, and a haunted house that is not only very real, but very deadly. Best-selling horror author Rowe Devlin keeps writing flops and falling for straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian home in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she was hoping for. Rowe doesnâ€™t believe in ghosts, yet she finds herself sharing a home with one who scares her dogs and wants her out. As if thatâ€™s not distraction enough, she is living next door to irresistible identical twins, Phoebe and Cara Temple. Phoebe is psychic, Cara is a flirt, and both twins seem to be hitting on her. When Rowe delves into the past to find out why her cottage is haunted, she uncovers a dark and disturbing mystery. Even more disquieting is the startling connection to her beautiful neighbors, one of whom has begun haunting her dreams. Intrigue, passion and suspense combine in this taut paranormal thriller/romance, the first in Jennifer Fulton''s new Dark Vista series. Reprint\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13595'),
(26574, 'Dark Dreams', 'Cory Daniells', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss Cory Daniells''s first captivating tale of the T''En:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Broken Vows\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Available wherever Bantam Books are sold\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A royal enchantress is torn between a magic legacy and a shattering destiny....\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a world of treachery and magic, a warrior princess must face an unknown future â€” while her past comes back to haunt her....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fair Isle was once a lush and lovely land, renowned for its wealth and elegance. Now its fields lie blackened by barbarian Ghebite conquerors who despise its traditions of female freedom â€” and fear its captive young empress, Imoshen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the last pure T''En â€” legendary for their subtle enchantments and fearsome beauty â€” Imoshen''s magical nature is just beginning to emerge as this new era dawns on Fair Isle. Now, pregnant with Ghebite leader Tulkhan''s child, she must battle to save both her land and her new union from being torn apart by suspicion and fear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite their clashing cultures, Tulkhan stirs in Imoshen a quicksilver passion, an all-consuming attraction that trembles on the brink of love. But as Imoshen tries to resist the urge to give in to this powerful longing, an older bond â€” and more sacred lust â€” tempts her. For she cannot forget her youthful betrothal to her kinsman Reothe, the last T''En warrior, a proud and sorcerous renegade who now seeks to reclaim Fair Isle â€” and Imoshen as well....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13597'),
(26575, 'Dark Elite 01 - Firespell', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18426'),
(26576, 'Dark Embers (2010)', 'Adams, Tessa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new erotic paranormal series, starring dragon shapeshifters, kicks off with a very sexy debut... Prince Dylan MacLeod is one of the last pure-blood dragon shape- shifters-and ruler of a dying race, the Dragonstar clan. It falls to him to protect his people and their ancient magic. But he has one important duty: to provide an heir... Like all dragons, Dylan, who has a dark, rampant sexual appetite, can only procreate with his destined mate-for whom he''s searched for the last five hundred years. But his quest is delayed when a disease sweeps through the Dragonstars, and Dylan must venture to the human world to find a cure. He tracks down bio-chemist Phoebe Quillum, never imagining the beautiful scientist would be the mate he''s been seeking. But even with the fate of the clan on their shoulders, Phoebe and Dylan are overcome by their sexual desire. Their passion turns to something truer, but when Phoebe is kidnapped by Dylan''s oldest enemy, he must risk everything for his love and his clan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13598'),
(26577, 'Dark Force Rising', 'Zahn, Timothy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13603'),
(26578, 'Dark Force Rising', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The dying Empire''s most cunning and ruthless warlordâ€”Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”has taken command\n  <br />\n  of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New\n  <br />\n  Republic''s destruction. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason\n  <br />\n  inside the highest Republic Councilâ€”only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that\n  <br />\n  could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past,\n  <br />\n  consumed by bitterness ... and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19212'),
(26579, 'Dark Force Rising (Star Wars)', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 bestselling saga begun in Heir to the Empire continues. The dying Empire''s most cunning warlord takes command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launches a massive campaign against the New Republic. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason inside the Republic Council and a new Dark Jedi attempts to seduce Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13605'),
(26580, 'Dark Forces: Rebel Agent', 'William C. Deets', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13607'),
(26581, 'The Dark Griffin', 'K. J. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being chosen as a griffin''s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where rogue griffins battle to entertain the crowds, there lies another soul crying out to be freed-a kindred spirit that will allow Arren to fulfill his destiny and release the darkness in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4448'),
(26582, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knockout thriller...brilliant, compelling...grips you by the throat. (Flint Journal)In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4449'),
(26583, 'Dark Is Rising Sequence Box Set', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cooper''s highly acclaimed series--Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree--is now available in its entirety for the first time in an attractive, sturdy boxed set that''s perfect for gift giving. CC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13613'),
(26584, 'The dark is rising', 'Susan Cooper &amp; Alan E. Cober', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift-- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full of wonder, terror, and delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4452'),
(26585, 'Dark Journey', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13615'),
(26586, 'The Dark Light Years', 'Brian Wilson Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Utods are a highly advanced alien species from whom the human race might learn much, with superior technology and a profound philosophy. But when they meet, their customs and conventions are far beneath what humankind considers to be civilized. Brian Aldiss''s satirical depiction of the first encounter and subsequent violent conflict between mankind and a gentle, intelligent race which it cannot understand was first published in 1964, but its archly ironic message of cultural misunderstanding and the potential for catastrophe it entails resonates as strongly today. ''Flies straight to its mark with hardly a word wasted: a treat for the fans and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the fiction and ideas of today.'' Kingsley Amis\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brian Aldiss\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4455'),
(26587, 'Dark Lord', 'Vader, The Rise Of Darth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13618'),
(26588, 'Dark Lord : The Rise of Darth Vader', 'Luceno, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13620'),
(26589, 'Dark Lover', 'J R Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13474'),
(26590, 'Dark Magic', 'Cheyenne McCray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13476'),
(26591, 'Dark Matter', 'S. W. Ahmed', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More than a simple adventure story,\n <strong>\n  Ahmed has managed to create a unique first novel\n </strong>\n ."\n <br />\n --W Thomas Payne, Associated Content (Top Ten Best Selling Science Fiction Books of 2008)\n</p>\n<p>\n "What if we could travel travel faster than the speed of light? Ahmed explores this question in his first novel... with alien abductions, the theory of dark matter and galactic warfare."\n <br />\n --SalientGate,\n <strong>\n  Best Science Fiction Books ofÂ 2008\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "While clearly in the 50''s pulp-sf tradition with Arabian Nights sensibilities, this isÂ \n <strong>\n  a fun debut with a very diverse cast\n </strong>\n ." --Fantasy Book Critic\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "A sci-fi debut that shows great potential."\n </strong>\n --Kirkus Discoveries\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulk of all matter in the universe, remains one of science''s greatest mysteries. But what if it actually is nothing more than ordinary matter purposely hidden from our view? What if we are only allowed to see a small fraction of the stars in our galaxy, because the vast majority of star systems are teeming with aliens who wish to remain unseen? Marc Zemin, a brilliant student of astrophysics, is the first human to ever stumble upon this startling secret, when his experiments with wormhole travel cause aliens to land on Earth and whisk him away into space. To his astonishment, the aliens want his help in fighting a colossal galactic war that is rapidly spiraling out of control. But as he struggles to survive from battle to battle across the farthest reaches of the galaxy, he begins to uncover a horrifying conspiracy at play, striving to keep the warring civilizations in continuous conflict with each other. A desperate race against time ensues, as he and a handful of newfound alien friends try to stop the war and confront this mysterious, powerful force bent on destroying all life in the galaxy. But any hope of their success surprisingly appears to hinge on just one thing - whether or not Marc has the strength to overcome his own demons and face the shattering truth about who he really is.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  NOTE: Dark Matter is a classic style space opera combined with elements of fantasy. It is not a pure or hard science fiction book.Â \n </strong>\n You canÂ alwaysÂ previewÂ it first to see ifÂ it''s the kind of story or writing style you''ll like. On Google Books, nearly a third of the book can be previewed for free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16416'),
(26592, 'A Dark Matter', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (_In the Night Room_), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.â€”Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truaxâ€”fall under the spell of charismatic wandering guru Spencer Mallon. During an occult ceremony in which Mallon attempts to break through to a higher reality, something goes horribly awry leaving one participant dead. Decades later, Lee''s writer husband interviews the quartet to find out what happened. In Roshomon-like fashion, each relates a slightly different account of the trauma they experienced. Straub masterfully shows how the disappointments, downturns, and failed promise of the four friends'' lives may have stemmed from this youthful experience, and suggests, by extension, that the malignant evil they helped unleash into the world has tainted all hope ever since. Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six book critics venture into a new novel by a best-selling horror writer. The writer is said to have magical abilities to blend horror conventions with literary fiction to keep the pages turning. He is even said to have touched Stephen King! Four of the critics come away convinced that a transcendent supernatural event has occurred, which may have something to do with the nature of evil. But two are horribly scarred by the event--unbearably bored, convinced they have just read a rejected script from Lost. Whose version of events is true? We may never know. All critics agree on is that the only possible way to describe such a plot structure is to reference Akira Kurosawa''s Rashomon--so readers may just have to investigate for themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16095'),
(26593, 'Dark Mirror', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A gripping\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation\n  </em>\n  tale hearkening back to the original TV series episode, "Mirror, Mirror." That was the one in which Captain Kirk encountered his brutal alter ego in a parallel universe, a place where only the alternative Spock showed any humanity. Here, the alternative\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  draws Captain Picard''s vessel into its alternative space, bent on capturing it and staffing it with a look-alike crew--all to spearhead an invasion of the Federation. Deanna Troi, Geordi La Forge, and Captain Picard outwit the scheme by transporting aboard the other\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and turning its technology against the would-be conquerors. Here''s where Duane''s novel turns clever, with Picard assuming his doppelgâ€žnger''s role and discovering--among other things--just how malicious and threatening a Betazed can be and how bitter the alternative Dr. Crusher can be in the role of the "captain''s woman." There''s also a particularly nasty alternative Riker and a noble alternative Worf. The true Picard maneuvers his ship back into Federation space, but the alien follows; there''s some manipulation of hyperstrings (with the help of a spacegoing dolphin) to send the bad\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  back where it belongs. Another capable entry in this series that always seems to be better than one would expect.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Star Trek: The Next Generation yarn from the fantasist (The Door into Sunset, p. 28) and veteran of numerous Star Trek hardcovers. Duane''s first stab at a Next Generation tale is based on an old Star Trek episode,\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  Mirror, Mirror,'''' in which Kirk, Scott, and Uhura were propelled into a parallel universe where the Federation was a ruthless empire; their personal counterparts, with whom they had exchanged places, turned out to be brutal barbarian warriors bent on conquest and loot. This time, the Enterprise--with Hwiii, a dolphin scientist, aboard--is switched into the same universe visited by Kirk, and finds itself confronted by a counterpart Enterprise, bristling with weapons, of superior speed and power. Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard must defeat his evil twin and prevent the invasion planned by the other, malign, Federation. Anyone who saw the original episode knows more or less what to expect. Given the large first print run, the publishers obviously expect demand to be brisk--but, workmanlike, unsurprising, and mediocre as it is, will it play in Peoria? (First printing of 200,000) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13477'),
(26594, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know: The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth. Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy. It''s all here: The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker" Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust And much more! This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world. H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13479'),
(26595, 'Dark of the Woods', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6205'),
(26596, 'Dark Passions 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper''s nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant''s notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13482'),
(26597, 'Dark Passions 02: Book Two', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Intendant Kira, now Overseer for the entire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, has entered into a dangerous liaison with Annika Hansen, unaware that Hansen is actually an agent of the Obsidian Order who has orders to kill Kira when the time is right. But her treacherous alliance is not the only danger the Intendant faces. Both Deanna Troi, the power-hungry consort of Regent Worf, and B''Elanna Torres, the half-human Intendant of the Sol System, are threatened by Kira''s unquenchable ambition, and would be glad to see her deposed -- or worse. As four powerful women scheme for control of the Alliance, who will survive? And who will claim the ultimate prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13485'),
(26598, 'The Dark Path', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second Doctor and his companions come face to face with the Master on the faded neuron star Darkheart. The last enclave of the Earth Empire is located on one of the dead planets surrounding the star and the Doctor must discover why the Empire came to this desolate sector.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4459'),
(26599, 'Dark Piper', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17959'),
(26600, 'Dark Pitt 3 - Iceberg', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13487'),
(26601, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13489'),
(26602, 'The Dark Priory', 'Alastair J. Archibald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After winning free of the dream city of Brianston and defeating the titanic dragon, Gruon, Mage Questor Grimm Afelnor and his companions march towards Rendale Priory to confront the evil witch, Prioress Lizaveta. Unbeknownst to Grimm, who has now lived up to his Guild soubriquet of Dragonblaster, Lizaveta knows of the partys approach, and she has magically kidnapped the young mages secret lover, Drexelica. When the Dragonblaster reaches Rendale, the evil Prioress will be ready for him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4462'),
(26603, 'Dark Protector', 'Alexis Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18101'),
(26604, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13490'),
(26605, 'Dark Reunion', 'LJ Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13495'),
(26606, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13496'),
(26607, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you dare step through the red door?\n <br />\n Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn''t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can''t fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he''d buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don''t first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18898'),
(26608, 'Dark Side of the Moon', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Susan Michaels was once the hottest reporter on the Beltway Beat until a major scandal ruined her life and left her writing stories about alien babies and Elvis sightings. Life as she once knew it is over, or so she thinks, but then she gets a lead on a story that could salvage her extinct career. She heads to the local animal shelter, expecting a hot news tip, which she gets in the form of a major police cover-up . . . for a ring of soul-sucking vampires out to take over Seattle. So much for saving her credibility.And if that isnâ€™t bad enough, she gets talked into adopting a cat and finds sheâ€™s allergic to it. A cat that turns out to be a shapeshifter who claims to be an immortal vampire slayer on the prowl for the same corrupt cops. Her first thought: seek professional help.But as Susanâ€™s drawn into Ravynâ€™s dark and dangerous world, she comes to realize that thereâ€™s a lot more at stake than just her defunct career. Now itâ€™s no longer a question of bringing the truth to her readers; itâ€™s a matter of saving their very lives and souls.Ravynâ€™s life was shattered over four hundred years ago, when he mistakenly trusted the wrong human with the truth of his existence. He lost his family, his honor, and his life. Now, in order to save the people of Seattle, heâ€™s forced to confront that nightmare all over again, and to trust another woman with the secret that could destroy him. In the world of the Dark-Hunters, life is always dangerous. But never more so than now; when a very human woman can shatter their entire world with just one story. The only question is . . . will she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13498'),
(26609, 'The dark side of the sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4466'),
(26610, 'Dark Space', 'Marianne De Pierres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Overcoming a slow start, de Pierres (_Nylon Angel_) presents an engaging space opera with plenty of action. Sheltered baronessa Mira Fedor, a minor noble of the mining planet Araldis, expects to become the first female pilot of the royal fleet''s AI command ship. She instead finds herself on the run from the Principe, who wants to tear away her piloting skills and give them to his son, Trinder Pellegrini. When playboy Trin enrages his father and is banished to a meaningless desk job, he uncovers machinations related to the family''s mines that may be connected with a burgeoning alien invasion. Playing with the time line, de Pierres creates an absorbing story as the consequences and actions resolve to show her grand design. Twists and hints will keep readers eagerly awaiting the next volumes.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''DARK SPACE lacks focus, but the colourful characters and sense of scale suggest that the series could develop into something special'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ''Dark Space is a rich and vigorous adventure and a promising first instalment'' THE AUSTRALIAN ''A complex and exciting novel, almost devoid of cheap sentiment and comfortable vindication. It''s not a cheerful read, but it is a very rewarding one ... de Pierres'' willingness to display the imperfections of her characters is a large part of the appeal of Dark Space; she deftly handles the aspects of bringing characters to life that elude so many space opera writers, simply by making them genuinely human - with all the contradictory drives and motives that implies ... While a deeply political book, Dark Space is also a very engaging one - the fine characterisation and subtle writing make for a novel which is both exciting and thought-provoking at once ... It''s always a joy to find intelligent and exciting space opera; to find it being written by a woman unafraid to bring her own perspective to a traditionally masculine genre, doubly so.'' SCALPEL MAGAZINE ''Dark Space is an exciting adventure with plenty going on to keep you turning the pages. The story is primed to enter uncharted territory at the end of Book One. Marianne has a knack for creating compelling characters in complex realities-the Parish Plessis novels showed us that-so this is one to watch as it develops through the next volumes.'' AUREALIS ''Reading a Marianne de Pierres novel is almost like immersing yourself in a brilliantly detailed film - you find yourself engrossed in not only the plot and characterization, but in the highly visual nature of the story ... In Dark Space, Marianne de Pierres has drawn a vast cast of characters, but the skill with which she has done so, providing them with depth and breadth without verbosity, and the fascinating relationships she has created between them, mean the reader can be drawn deeply into the world, surfacing only now and then to take a deep breath, then dive right back in. I can''t wait for the next instalment!'' ANDROMEDA SPACEWAYS INFLIGHT MAGAZINE ''This is serious modern space opera, grappling with big themes and painting on a broad canvas with a great eye for detail ... readers who hunger for perceptive, intelligent and unflinching literary science fiction should seek this book out as soon as possible. If the sequels to Dark Space live up to the promise of this opening salvo, de Pierres will become a serious challenge to the big boys of the genre.'' HUB ''Space opera supreme'' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13501'),
(26611, 'Dark star: a novel', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Furst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign correspondent for Pravda , is asked to perform small espionage tasks by the NKVD. These assignments escalate, until Szara finds himself responsible for obtaining vital production figures from a German-Jewish industrialist who fabricates steel wire essential to airplanes. Inevitably, Szara''s integrity as a journalist is also compromised. During this period of Stalinist purges, clearly and chillingly described by Furst, only unpredictability is certain. Szara senses the precariousness of his position, which is compounded by an urgent appeal from a wealthy Jewish Frenchman for Szara to honor his own Jewish heritage by trading his steel wire information to the British in exchange for desperately needed immigration certificates to mandated Palestine. Furst depicts the historical, geographic and political context in lucid and highly readable prose; his observation that Russia annexed Lithuania and Estonia while the world''s attention was focused on France''s struggle with Germany has an eerie timeliness. As darkness descends over Europe, Szara clings to life while simultaneously attempting to make some meaning of it. His story is not a pretty one; but it is beautifully and compellingly told.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an intriguing combination of spy story and historical novel. It is about a Pravda journalist forced to become a Soviet intelligence agent in the years immediately before World War II. It is also about a Europe being driven into war, not simply by supposedly irresistible social forces but by the genuinely evil men who manipulate and direct events. Seen in this way, Stalin is as responsible for the coming of war as Hitler, and Stalin''s Russian purges signal the future deaths of millions in Central Europe. Agents in this novel are not just spies but metaphors for the actors, large and small, on the stage of history. Entertaining, exciting, and thought-provoking reading.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Charles Mi chaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13505'),
(26612, 'The Dark Symphony', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won''t give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4468'),
(26613, 'Dark Tide: Onslaught', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13506'),
(26614, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13510'),
(26615, 'The Dark Tower 00 - The Little Sisters of Eluria', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4469');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(26616, 'The Dark Tower 01 - The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10913'),
(26617, 'The Dark Tower 02 - The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12354'),
(26618, 'The Dark Tower 03 - The Waste Lands', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4473'),
(26619, 'The Dark Tower 04 - Wizard &amp; Glass', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(26620, 'The Dark Tower 05 - Prologue', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4475'),
(26621, 'The Dark Tower 05 - The Wolves of the Calla', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(26622, 'The Dark Tower 06 - Song of Susannah', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6179'),
(26623, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4296'),
(26624, 'DARK TREASURES: Speculative Fiction on the Edge', 'Doyle Wilmoth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18133'),
(26625, 'Dark Warning', 'Watson, Jude', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13514'),
(26626, 'Dark Water', 'Laura McNeal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007 serve as the backdrop for this compelling story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences. In the inland farming community of Fallbrook, 15-year-old Pearl tells her story through a leisurely voice. She deals with her parents'' divorce; her cousin''s anger at his father''s suspected adultery; and, most significantly, her undeniable attraction to the alluring undocumented Mexican migrant worker Amiel, whose damaged vocal chords limit his speech but not his communication. Disaster is referred to throughout the narrative, filling readers with a sense of foreboding as Pearl''s persistence overcomes Amiel''s trepidation and the two draw together in an intense secret affair. All of this leads to a heart-pounding final act when the wildfire breaks out and Pearl must choose between family and romance, safety and uncertainty. The ramifications of the ill-fated decisions made by both Pearl and Amiel will surely spark strong discussion among readers. Both the plot and setting are grounded in rich, realistic detail; the author''s love for the town of Fallbrook shines vividly through lyrical descriptions of avocado groves and orange blossoms. While Amiel remains a somewhat mysterious figure, Pearl''s relationships with her family and friends are fully realized through her nostalgic recollections of simpler times. Drawn in by the appeal of clandestine love and looming disaster, teens will also be rewarded with much thought-provoking substance in this novel''s complex characters and hauntingly ambiguous ending._Allison Tran, Mission Viejo Library, CA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This debut solo effort after several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal (_The Decoding of Lana Morris_, 2007, etc.) stands out in the crowded coming-of-age field. The affecting narrative springs believably from the first-person thoughts of Pearl DeWitt as she recalls her 15th summer, when, entranced by a nearly mute, illegal Mexican migrant worker, the beautiful and gifted teenage Amiel, Pearl makes choices that lead to tragedy. Evocative language electrifies the scenes between the pair, as they develop a relationship both complicated and deepened by their limited verbal communication. Her warnings to readers of impending disaster amplify rather than diminish the impact of the misguided, wrenching decisions she makes when a raging wildfire sweeps through their rural California community. Besides her poignant relationship with Amiel, Pearl navigates her fatherâ€™s recent abandonment of her and her mother and her complicated relationship with her cousin Robby as he blunderingly deals with his fatherâ€™s apparent infidelity. Notable for well-drawn characters, an engaging plot and, especially, hauntingly beautiful language, this is an outstanding book."_\n <br />\n -_\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13517'),
(26627, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13518'),
(26628, 'The Dark-Hunter Companion', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Consider this handbook your education.  Hunter 101.  And donâ€™t go thinking you got off easy just because thereâ€™s not a pop quiz at the end.  This is the good stuff. The real deal.  In here youâ€™ll find out all there is to know about being a Dark-Hunter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now for the disclaimer: This book is mutable. It goes with the wind.  It changes more often than the mind of a sixteen-year-old Gemini with a closet full of clothes and a date in an hour.  Donâ€™t be surprised if you open it up for the thirty-five thousandth time and find something old, something new, something borrowed or. . .well you get the point.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Curl up in a comfy chair with some millennium-old scotch and feast upon the informative banquet I have prepared for your enjoyment.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to your new life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ---From the *Dark-Hunter Companion*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4320'),
(26629, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13520'),
(26630, 'Darkening Island', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16527'),
(26631, 'A Darker Domain: A Novel', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Michelle Gibson reports her father, Mick Prentice, missing at the start of McDermid''s intricate but underwhelming stand-alone psychological thriller, Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, isn''t interested until Michelle reveals that Mick disappeared during the 1984 miners'' strike. At the time, everyone believed Mick went scabbing in Nottingham. Later, Karen is summoned to the home of wealthy Sir Broderick Maclennan Grant, whose daughter, Catriona, and baby grandson, Adam, were abducted in 1985. A botched ransom hand-off left Catriona dead and Adam nowhere to be found. New evidence linked to the kidnapping has surfaced, and now Karen has two missing people to locate. McDermid tries to pack too much story into one book, and the connection she draws between the cases feels forced. Fans of the Scottish author may be better off waiting for the next outing of McDermid''s series to feature psychologist Tony Hill (_The Mermaid Singing_, etc.).\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDermidâ€™s latest is a stand-alone set in Fife, Scotland. Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984, Pirie canâ€™t resist. But her boss, a paper pusher known as the Macaroon, wants Karen in the office, at least until Bel, an investigative journalist, turns up new evidence in a 20-year-old heiress kidnap case. As Karen and Bel investigate, friendsâ€™ and family membersâ€™ memories of the missing people are delivered as flashbacks, resulting in short chapters, multiple viewpoints, and a moderately quick pace. As Karenâ€™s two cases seem to converge, the complex and layered plotlines come together, and McDermid does an excellent job creating tension around a cold case. Sure to be a hit with McDermidâ€™s large fan base, it should also appeal to those who read other Scottish police mysteries, such as Stuart MacBrideâ€™s (Flesh House, 2008). Those who enjoyed the cold-case aspect may also enjoy Johan Theorinâ€™s Echoes from the Dead (2008). --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16097'),
(26632, 'A Darker Dream', 'Amanda Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16100'),
(26633, 'A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel', 'Mark O. Martin &amp; Martin &amp; benford &amp; Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the heart of Known Space lies mystery: How did so anarchic and violent a species as the Kzin ever learn to cooperate sufficiently to develop the technology to conquer an interstellar empire? The answer to this and other questions have been hinted at before, but now Gregory Benford, a renowned high-energy physicist, and molecular biologist Mark O. Martin bring their formidable talents and extraordinarily broad range of expertise to bear on all the mysteries of Known Space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16105'),
(26634, 'Darker Than Amber', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Travis McGee never shies away from damsels in distress. But this Eurasian beauty was different. When Travis and Meyer rescued her from the water, she had a block of cement wired to her feet, and she wasn''t so much grateful as ready to snare them in a murder racket to end all murders...."McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13521'),
(26635, 'Darker Than You Wrote', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13522'),
(26636, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4302'),
(26637, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4305'),
(26638, 'The Darkest Hour', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do. ** It''s been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he''s received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4307'),
(26639, 'Darkest Knight', 'Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4310'),
(26640, 'Darkest Powers 0.5 - Dangerous', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13523'),
(26641, 'Darkest Powers 01 - The Summoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13524'),
(26642, 'Darkest Powers 02 - The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13525'),
(26643, 'Darkest Powers 03 - The Reckoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13526'),
(26644, 'Darkest Powers Book One The Summoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13529'),
(26645, 'The darkest road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18602'),
(26646, 'The Darkest Room', 'Johan Theorin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: WINNER OF SWEDEN''S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD On the idyllic island of Oland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island''s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins'' new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it''s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense-at once a crime novel and a searing family drama-a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4313'),
(26647, 'The Darkest Secret', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Showalter''s seventh Lords of the Underworld novel (after 2010''s The Darkest Lie) focuses on Amun, one of the dozen immortal warriors who absorbed evil demons from Pandora''s box. The demon of Defeat captures Haidee, a part-demon Hunter whose relatives were slain by the Lords in ancient Greece, and takes her to the warriors'' fortress, where Amun is recovering from a journey to hell. Everyone is surprised when Haidee and her icy touch soothe the tormenting demons that burn within Amun. Their roles as Lord and Hunter create obstacles to their growing attraction, as does Haidee''s plan to find closure with her boyfriend before committing herself to a relationship with Amun, and another quest in hell tests their skills and commitment. A complicated backstory, dozens of recurring characters, throwaway references to rape, and graphic sex and violence may limit the book''s appeal to new readers.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of releaseâ€”until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and hidden vulnerability draw him into a reckless test of his loyalty....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haidee is a demon-assassin, raised to despise Amun''s kind. Yet how can she hate the man whose touch sets her aflame? But to save him, she must give herself body and soul...and face the wrath of a powerful adversary sworn to destroy her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4315'),
(26648, 'The Darkest Touch', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ryder. The man was just as sexy as she remembered him: tall, lean, and dangerous, a demon hunter with the body of a god.â€¦ But archaeologist Angelique Deveraux has little time for lust. Sheâ€™s been hiding a gleaming black diamond, a prize everyone wantsâ€”including Ryderâ€”and now sheâ€™s running for her life. Hot on her trail is Ryder, a legendary demon hunter she desires but canâ€™t quite trust, a man with an insatiable need for danger and a few dark secrets of his own.As sparks ignite between the rogue hunter and his latest prey, Angieâ€™s world is rocked again when her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by the same dark forces stalking Angie and the black diamond. With Ryder offering protectionâ€”and moreâ€”suddenly a woman whoâ€™s never trusted anyone is falling for a man who isnâ€™t afraid of anythingâ€¦except losing his heart. Now, as an all-out demon war erupts and Angieâ€™s family secrets unravel, Ryderâ€™s demon hunt and Angieâ€™s quest to save her sister are about to collide. And when they do, itâ€™ll send these two wary hearts on the wildest adventure of their livesâ€”and maybe even save humankind in the process.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4318'),
(26649, 'Darkfall', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this Koontz classic tale, a blizzard brings a city to a standstill--and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. This repackaged edition includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13530'),
(26650, 'Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13532'),
(26651, 'Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13534'),
(26652, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeffry P. Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet Dexter Morgan. He''s a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He''s a handsome, though reluctant, ladies'' man. He''s polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He''s also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mind you, Dexter''s the good guy in this story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter''s learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other''s "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite his penchant for vivisection, it''s hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn''t feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay''s plot is tense and absorbing, but it''s the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n , as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been years since there''s been a thriller debut as original as this one by Lindsay, who takes a tired subgenre-the serial-killer novel-and makes it as fresh as dawn. Lindsay''s premise alone is worthy: narrator Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter specialist for the Miami cops, is also a serial killer. But all his life, Dexter has followed the rules set down by his cop foster father (who knew of Dexter''s proclivities), to indulge his passion only by slaying other serial killers. What makes this novel zing, though, is the narration-humorous, self-deprecating, smart and sometimes lyrical, it''s a macabre fun ride ("I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best-dressed monster in Dade County"). The story opens with Dexter at play, kidnapping and killing a priest who has murdered a number of children, then moves on to the main plot, a series of gruesome killings of prostitutes by an unknown madman. Dexter''s foster sister is a Miami Vice Squad cop working on the killings, so Dexter decides to help her solve the case. This puts him in conflict with a dumb but ambitious female homicide detective as well as, soon enough, the killer himself, whose approach to serial killing mirrors Dexter''s own, uncomfortably so. Might Dexter himself be the culprit? The answer feels a bit contrived, but will surprise most readers, and it''s a minor flaw in a gripping, deliciously offbeat novel that announces the arrival of a notable new talent.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13539'),
(26653, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Basis for a New ShowtimeÂ® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing. Heâ€™s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. Heâ€™s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightenedâ€“of himself or some other fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18600'),
(26654, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Basis for a New ShowtimeÂ® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing. Heâ€™s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. Heâ€™s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightenedâ€“of himself or some other fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13541'),
(26655, 'The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker', 'Leanna Renee Hieber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Learning the truth of her mythic past and that of the reincarnated souls called The Guard is only the beginning, for young Percy Parker''s destiny is to defend both the world and true love from the gathering undead minions of Darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20672'),
(26656, 'Darkness', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul''s ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage "swamp rat" of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of "the Dark Man" and "his children," sees a friend offer up her newborn baby, whereupon the masked Dark Man plunges a knife into the infant. Right after that, the teenager''s husband promises to deliver his own child "the night he''s born." The story proper begins when 16-year-old Kelly Anderson, all her life having suffered nightmares of a menacing old man and now sure she''s pregnant by him, tries to kill herself. She recovers and moves from Atlanta with her adoptive parents to her grandfather''s house just north of the Everglades. Kelly becomes friends with Michael, her age and also adopted, who admits to similar nightmares and a sense of dread. Michael''s adoptive mother, meanwhile, feels a strange kinship to Kelly. The secrets of the Dark Man--his identity and his fountain-of-youth formula--are revealed halfway through the book, and thenceforth the story slides into descriptions of relatively tame to-and-fro-ing, mostly in the swamp, and the revolting revenge of "the children" on a group of nasty but well-preserved old men. Saul''s ending is cozily sentimental.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years after they left the town of Villejeune, Florida, the Anderson family returns, only to find that something unspeakably evil that feeds on the young and innocent is waiting for their teenaged daughter. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13543'),
(26657, 'Darkness &amp; Dawn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17877'),
(26658, 'Darkness and Dawn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Centuries after civilization destroyed itself in a final war, Fors was driven from his clan for the crime of being a mutant. Though his people had long combed the remnants of the old world to regain lost knowledge, the land to the north was taboo. Having nothing to lose, Fors and his feline companion trekked north -- toward incredible danger and a staggering discovery. Elsewhere, Sander also searched: for the Before People, said to have survived the great devastation. Then he met Fanyl, who coveted the lost knowledge for her own purpose. Soon the pair would be threatened by an ancient evil which destroyed not just lives, but minds as well. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13544'),
(26659, 'A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus. In his travels to the Northlands, Arutha finds his father''s former enemy, Guy du Bas-Tyra, as the Protector of the city Armengar. A historic battle ensues, which ends in the destruction of the city. Murmandamus and his forces then strike south to Sethanon, a city beneath which the Lifestone had been buried in the ancient past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16108'),
(26660, 'The Darkness Before the Dawn', 'Ryan Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to destroy whole cities. When the force proves too strong for them to control, they search for a mentor to help them harness their wild talent and use it for the good of their ravaged world. The harsh environment conspires against them at every step, but so do their divergent backgrounds. Can a bond forged by necessity survive the cruelty of Athasian society, the savagery of the gladiatorial arena, or the simple test of time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4323'),
(26661, 'Darkness Dawns', 'Dianne Duvall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this dazzling, sensual novel, Dianne Duvall beckons readers into a world of vampires, immortals, and humans with extraordinary gifts. . .where passion can last forever, if you''re willing to pay the price. . . Once, Sarah Bingham''s biggest challenge was making her students pay attention in class. Now, after rescuing a wounded stranger, she''s landed in the middle of a battle between corrupt vampires and powerful immortals who also need blood to survive. Roland Warbrook is the most compelling man Sarah has ever laid hands on. But his desire for her is mingled with a hunger he can barely control. . . In his nine centuries of immortal existence, no woman has tempted Roland as much as Sarah. But asking her to love him is impossible--when it means forfeiting the world she''s always known, and the life he would do anything to protect. . . These dark, kick-ass guardians can protect me any day! --Alexandra Ivy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13547'),
(26662, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13549'),
(26663, 'A Darkness in my Soul', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16111'),
(26664, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly; Michael Beck (Narrator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a sheriff''s detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb''s Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He''s newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn''s trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the small statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words "Cave Cave Dus Videt," meaning "Beware, beware, God sees," on the tape binding the victim''s mouth. Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly''s series star--see The Black Echo, The Black Ice, et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He''s a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn''s murder and Harry Bosch''s name: "This last guy''s work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can''t pronounce his first name. It''s spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there." McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him. "You forgot his last name. What''s his last name?" "Oh, sorry. It''s Bosch. Like the spark plugs." Bosch fits McCaleb''s profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly''s The Poet) that he''s being investigated for murder, he''s furious, knowing that Storey''s defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free. It''s the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other''s gone bad. But there''s more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3648'),
(26665, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It''s a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff''s office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they''ve missed. McCaleb''s first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch''s movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch''s lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18439'),
(26666, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'Brian Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The medicine man from The Manitou has returned for his ultimate revenge on the white race, who decimated his people: People across the country are suddenly struck blind, leaving them helpless against the spirit warriors who have risen to slaughter their oppressors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13552'),
(26667, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13554'),
(26668, 'The Darkness that Comes Before', 'Bakker, R. Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4324'),
(26669, 'Darkness Under the Sun (Novella): A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13556'),
(26670, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13557'),
(26671, 'The Darkness', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York''s East River\n </p>\n <p>\n  In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to my brother, Stephen Gaines, recently murdered by an elusive drug lord known only as the Fury.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For years this kingpin has been shrouded in darkness. Stephen was executed just as he was about to shed some light. Working alongside my mentor, Jack O''Donnell, I''m going to find the truth behind this blood-soaked curtain. But the more we reveal, the more we realize just how dark the Fury''s plans are. And that no matter how brutal the violence has been, we haven''t seen anything yet....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Pinter clearly knows a thing or two about what makes a good book - having worked in the editorial departments of major New York publishing houses. All that expertise is clear to see in his stunning Henry Parker series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4321'),
(26672, 'Darkover landfall', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Darkover novel.\n <br />\n Chronologically, this is the first Darkover novel. Here we are introduced to the founders of Darkover. We see how humans first came to the planet, and how they began to adapt to their new surroundings. Unlike many other fantasy series, humans were not created on Darkover, but rather there was a space ship on a trip to begin a colony on another planet when the ship had troubles and crashed on an uncharted planet. Granted, that is not a terribly original idea either, but the how Bradley treats the topic is very original, and very well done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The crew is faced with the dilemma of whether to try to rebuild the ship (which will take several years at best) or to try to settle in and adapt on the unnamed planet (the planet does not get the name Darkover for at least a hundred years of its history). The crew and colonists are divided on this. Before anything else can be done there must be preliminary exploration of the planet so that they will be able to survive for as many years as necessary and also because if they are to be trapped on the planet for a while they must know what kind of planet it is.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We are given glimpses of an ESP power that will be refined throughout the series and are introduced to an alien (though native to Darkover) race. We are shown the Ghost Wind, which induces humans to release their inhibitions. ...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This novel serves as an introduction to Darkover (I believe it was the first novel in the series that I read years ago) as well as an important time in the history of Darkover (obviously, it is the founding). Darkover Landfall may not be the best novel in the series, but it provided enough interest for me to want to read more in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13559');
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(26673, 'Darksaber', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You know what they say: build a better a Death Star and the Hutts will beat a path to your door. Poor Bevel Lemelisk, the inventor of the Empire''s signature moon-size battle station, has done just that, and now he''s in the service of Durga the Hutt (only a marginal improvement over working for Emperor Palpatine, who was in the habit of gruesomely executing Lemelisk, only to recombobulate him into a newly cloned body).\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s eight years after the battle of Endor, and the Hutts are hoping to make a galactic power play using Lemelisk''s latest project, a sort of cylindrical Death Star superlaser-on-steroids, dubbed Darksaber. But the newly empowered Rebels and the recovering Empire aren''t sitting idle. As the book opens, Han and Luke are sneaking their way across Tatooine''s Dune Sea, dressed in Tusken drag. Luke''s looking to commune with Obi-Wan to learn how to save his Jedi squeeze, Callista, recently rescued from the innards of the ship computer on Palpatine''s super-duper Star Destroyer. Meanwhile, the ranks of the Imperial Fleet swell under the charismatic Admiral Daala. Will Luke help Callista touch the Force again? Where will Daala''s fleet strike a blow against the New Republic? Will Lemelisk''s new invention hold together long enough to save his own hide? The skilled Kevin J. Anderson sure makes it fun to find out.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson, whose Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars paperbacks were all bestsellers, makes his Star Wars hardcover debut with this novel. Unlike many of the previous series hardcovers, Darksaber often harkens back to the time of the Star Wars movies, invoking familiar scenes and flourishes (Princess Leia being forced to wear a "humiliating costume" after she''s captured by Jabba the Hutt; Han Solo entreating, "It''s not my fault!"). Anderson is careful, though, to include plenty of present-day action. Set just after the events of Barbara Hambly''s Children of the Jedi, this novel follows the quest of Luke Skywalker and Callista to reestablish the latter''s Jedi powers. Meanwhile, Durga the Hutt is using Bevel Lemelisk, co-designer of the original Death Star, to create a similar weapon for his own nefarious purposes, and the still-living Admiral Daala is working to reunite various factions of the Empire to reassert their glory. Anderson manages to keep everything fast-paced, yet the whole never coheres into a properly exciting story. This is probably the most accessible of the Star Wars hardcovers; fans of the movies should experience nostalgic delight, but it often comes off as more of a marketing device than a novel proper, especially with George Lucas''s three-part prequel to the Star Wars movies now in the works.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13423'),
(26674, 'Darksaber (Kevin Anderson)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13425'),
(26675, 'Darkside: A Novel', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author ofBlacklands, a literary thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a small town in the English countryside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13427'),
(26676, 'Darktower 1 - The Gunslinger', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3690'),
(26677, 'Darktower 2 - The Drawing of the Three', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13428'),
(26678, 'Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1768'),
(26679, 'DarkTower 7 - The Dark Tower', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4301'),
(26680, 'Darkvision - Book 3', 'Cordell, Bruce R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13433'),
(26681, 'Darkwalker On Moonshae - Book 1', 'Niles, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13435'),
(26682, 'Darkwell - Book 3', 'Niles, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13437'),
(26683, 'Darkwitch Rising', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prolix third book in Australian author Douglass''s Troy Game historical fantasy saga (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   God''s Concubine\n  </em>\n  ) exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors, but is not the place to start for newcomers. Brutus, legendary king of Troy, is now incarnate in 17th-century England as one of Charles II''s companions, while Charles himself is the Stagking from Celtic folklore. Cornelia, Brutus''s wife and a moderating influence, is now a young woman named Noah, while the sorceress Genvissa is now Kate, a prostitute and sex slave to Weyland Orr, the reborn Asterion (the original Minotaur). Asterion''s sister, Ariadne, reappears as sharp-tongued as ever, revealing that the Labyrinth is now in the parallel universe of Faerie, while the Troy Game itself is incarnate, and still dangerous, in Noah''s daughter, Catling. The stakes rise further when the Game sows plague in England, against which Charles has to unleash the Great Fire of London. Though enriched by the author''s historical and folkloric expertise, the somewhat jumbled narrative with its many characters, their shifting alliances and frequently unsympathetic sexual encounters may weary even established fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Hades'' Daughter\n  </em>\n  (2003) and\n  <em>\n   Gods'' Concubine\n  </em>\n  (2004) finds their characters reborn in seventeenth-century England and striving to re-create the ancient Labyrinth of Knossos. The game they play has taken on a life apart from its players, which draws Faerie folk to England''s defense. Brutus, the prince who refounded Troy in Britain, is now one of Charles II''s courtiers, and Charles himself, the Stagking of folklore. Brutus'' wife, Cornelia, one of the few peacekeepers in the maze, is now a young woman named Noah; and the ancient sorceress Genevissa is a prostitute badly used by Asterion, the Minotaur, now a London lowlife. The Labyrinth has relocated itself on the site of the Tower of London, although only in the alternate universe of Faerie. The restoration brings all the players and ancient powers of the land together, and the game brings plague to England. Crammed with well-developed detail and characters, fully exploiting Douglass'' historical and folkloristic expertise, this could be more enjoyable only if the explicit and distasteful sex in it were extracted.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13439'),
(26684, 'The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A small Southern town blooms into life in Albert''s nostalgic first in a new Depression-era mystery series. Darling, Ala., is in the midst of financial upheaval surrounding the Darling Savings and Trust, though the ladies of the Darling Dahlias Garden Club are still excited about their clubhouse, an old estate recently inherited from Mrs. Dahlia Blackstone, whose garden includes a possibly haunted cucumber tree, which might shelter a buried treasure. Also distracting the members--especially widow and probate clerk Verna Tidwell; legal secretary and freelance journalist Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lacy, and Mayor Jed Taylor''s wife, Ophelia Snow--are a prison break and the disappearance of drugstore clerk Eva Louise "Bunny" Scott, the town tart. After Bunny turns up dead in a wrecked stolen van, the ladies investigate. Veteran Albert (Holly Blues) combines great period detail with surefooted sleuthing that should satisfy fans and attract new ones.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Cozy fans will be delighted to learn that the prolific Albertâ€”known for her clever puzzles, engaging characters, love of nature, and outstanding historic researchâ€”is debuting yet another exceptional series. This one begins in May 1930 in the small town of Darling, Alabama (population 907). The Dahlias comprise the 12 members of a gardening club dedicated to beautifying their town while struggling to survive the Depression. Even small towns can have their share of mysteries, and Darling is no exceptionâ€”fortunately, the Dahlias are sleuths as well as gardeners. Before long, they are searching for an escaped prisoner and a stolen car and investigating troubles at the local bank. And then there is the mysterious death of a young woman. By the end of the account, the mysteries are solved, and readers are thoroughly smitten by Lizzy, Verna, Ophelia, Myra May, Bessie, and the other garden club members. Hints on how to stretch resources (1930s style) and favorite recipes from the period are also included. While awaiting Albertâ€™s next garden club novel, fans should enjoy the gardening mysteries of Ann Ripley, Janis Harrison, and Anthony Eglin. --Judy Coon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4326'),
(26685, 'Darth Bane', 'Two, Rule of', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13440'),
(26686, 'The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The human race''s most "devastatingly" popular humor series returns...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With five previous books and more than 1.5 million copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won''t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction\n </em>\n , readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Nine no''s with power tools\n <br />\n â€¢ Eight ways to incinerate yourself\n <br />\n â€¢ Seven safety warnings you should not ignore\n <br />\n â€¢ Six romance tips for "safe" sex...\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring illustrations and brilliant science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards\n </em>\n enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy Northcutt\n </strong>\n is a scientist and graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up The Darwin Awards in 1993 while working at Stanford University, and is the founder of the popular Web site www.DarwinAwards.com. She is the author five previous Darwin Awards collections.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4327'),
(26687, 'The Darwin Awards II: unnatural selection', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darwin Awards 2follows on from the hugely successful Darwin Awards: Evolution in Actionwhich reached #1 on Amazon and #3 on The New York Timesbestseller list. The Darwin Awards 2contains disturbingly addictive and funny new stories which appeal to an international audience of fans of smart, knowing humour. You won''t believe the absurd ways in which people have managed to maim or kill themselves thereby removing the particularly idiotic genes from the human gene pool and enhancing our chances of survival for the rest of the human race!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18998'),
(26688, 'The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The humour evolution takes another giant step One of the human race''s most popular humour series returns with a brand-new collection of hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures, honouring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it. The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest shows once more how uncommon common sense still is. Celebrate Darwin Award winners who made the ''ultimate sacrifice''; wonder at the misguided pluck of Honorable Mentions who survived their own bad judgment, and look on in awestruck amusement at Personal Accounts shared by the perpetrators themselves. From the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice to the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, we are the most advanced species on the planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18997'),
(26689, 'The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Only two things are infinite-the universe and human stupidity, and I''m not so sure about the universe." *-Albert Einstein* Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, *The Darwin Awards* vividly portrays the finest examples of evolution in action, and shows us just how uncommon common sense can be. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires without shutting off the current. Gape at the lawnchair jockey who floats to a height of 16,000 feet suspended by helium balloons. Learn from the man who peers into a gasoline can using a cigarette lighter. All three -- and many more -- contend for Darwin Awards when their choices culminate in magnificent misadventures. These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error--verified by the author and endorsed by website readers--illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18999'),
(26690, 'Darwin&#39;s children', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Greg Bearâ€™s Nebula Awardâ€“winning novel,Darwinâ€™s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolutionâ€”one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where â€œsurvival of the fittestâ€ takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWINâ€™S CHILDREN Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNAâ€”a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the â€œoldâ€ human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special â€œschools,â€ targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseasesâ€”and who fear the worst if the governmentâ€™s draconian measures are carried to their extreme. Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stellaâ€”a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind. But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the governmentâ€™s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every moveâ€”watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve â€œhumankindâ€ at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13444'),
(26691, 'Darwin&#39;s gift to science and religion', 'Francisco J. Ayala', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With the publication in 1859 of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", Charles Darwin established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation for nature''s diversity. This was to be his gift to science and society - at last, we had an explanation for how life came to be on Earth. Scientists agree that the evolutionary origin of animals and plants is a scientific conclusion beyond reasonable doubt. They place it beside such established concepts as the roundness of the earth, its revolution around the sun, and the molecular composition of matter. That evolution has occurred, in other words, is a fact. Yet, as we approach the bicentennial celebration of Darwin''s birth, the world finds itself divided over the truth of evolutionary theory.Consistently endorsed as "good science" by experts and overwhelmingly accepted as fact by the scientific community, it is not always accepted by the public - and our schools continue to be battlegrounds for this conflict. From the Tennessee trial of a biology teacher who dared to teach Darwin''s theory to his students in 1925 to Tammy Kitzmiller''s 2005 battle to keep intelligent design out of the Dover district schools in Pennsylvania, it''s clear that we need to cut through the propaganda to quell the cacophony of raging debate. With the publication of "Darwin''s Gift", a voice at once fresh and familiar brings a rational, measured perspective to the science of evolution. An acclaimed evolutionary biologist with a background in theology, Francisco Ayala offers clear explanations of the science, reviews the history that led us to ratify Darwin''s theories, and ultimately provides a clear path for a confused and conflicted public.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13445'),
(26692, 'Darwin&#39;s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England', 'Steve Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist''s journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13447'),
(26693, 'Darwin&#39;s radio', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEEGreg Bear''s powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin''s Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny--as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.A mass grave in Russia that conceals the mummified remains of two women, both with child--and the conspiracy to keep it secret . . . a major discovery high in the Alps: the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--the newborn infant possessing disturbing characteristics . . . a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage. Three disparate facts that will converge into one science-shattering truth.Molecular biologist Kaye Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, believes that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can again come to life. But her theory soon becomes chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken--a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service--has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. The shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang, along with anthropologist Mitch Rafelson, must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve. An evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.A fiercely intelligent, utterly enthralling novel of adventure and ideas, genetics and evolution, a fast-paced thriller that is grounded in the timeless human themes of struggle, loss, and redemption, Darwin''s Radio is sure to become one of the most talked-about books of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13449'),
(26694, 'Datacide', 'Steve Bein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13451'),
(26695, 'Dates from Hell', 'Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong; Lori Handeland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13454'),
(26696, 'Dating Game', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time aroundâ€”and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when sheâ€™s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldnâ€™t imagine what he was about to say.â€œI want a divorce,â€ Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to â€œfix her upâ€ with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to moveâ€”as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchmanâ€”so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Parisâ€™s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. Thatâ€™s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in lifeâ€™s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13456'),
(26697, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13458'),
(26698, 'Daughter of the Blood', 'Daughter of the Blood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17904'),
(26699, 'Daughter of the Drow - Book 1', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13461'),
(26700, 'Daughter of the Drow: a novel of the underdark', 'Elaine Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gromph Baenre has had the child''s mother killed. "You are Liriel Baenre, my daughter and a noble", he announced, and then sat back to study the child''s reaction. Her expression remained stoic as she repeated her new name. Liriel accepted the situation--yet the rage and frustration of an untamed spirit burned bright in her eyes. This is his daughter, indeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13463'),
(26701, 'Daughter of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stunning reissues of Raymond Feist &amp; Janny Wurts classic trilogy -- one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time. THE EMPIRE SERIES: BOOK I Enter the mysterious world of Kelewan, where Mara of the Acoma must protect her honour and her people in the ruthless Game of the Council. From the imagination of two of fantasy''s greatest names comes a magnificent epic of heroic adventure and dynastic struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13466'),
(26702, 'Daughter of the Night', 'Richard S. Shaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13467'),
(26703, 'Daughter of Xanadu', 'Dori Jones Yang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The granddaughter of Khubilai Khan, 16-year-old Emmajin takes more interest in joining the army than in finding a husband. When her grandfather asks her to gather intelligence from foreigners who have arrived from the West, she befriends young Marco Polo. Their relationship, begun with some trepidation and marred by cultural missteps and misunderstandings, deepens throughout the story. Meanwhile, Emmajinâ€™s goals slowly alter through her contacts with other cultures and her experiences as a soldier. An appended glossary identifies characters and places, defines Mongolian terms such as del and ger, and offers historical information that separates fact from fiction within the novel. Emmajinâ€™s first-person narrative will capture readers with its scenes of adventure and its vivid depiction of a capable young woman in a time of change. The battle scene is realistically brutal, and the love scenes are subtly written, but the most involving element of the storytelling is Emmajinâ€™s ongoing struggle to forge her own way. Grades 8-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin''s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting ''dragons'' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13468'),
(26704, 'Daughters of Darkness', 'LJ Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13469'),
(26705, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Guide to Life', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Collects the humorist''s views on the problems of everyday life from "Dave Barry''s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex," "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex," "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You''re Dead," and "Claw Your Way to the Top"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13470'),
(26706, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Dave Barry] is one of the funniest people ever to tap tap on a PC. This new book is a riot."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERComplete with maps, histories, quaint local facts, song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs, and tidbits from Dave Barry''s own fond vacation nightmares, here is all you really need to know about travel, including: How to Speak a Foreign Language in Just 30 Minutes Without Necessarily Having Any Idea What You Are Talking About; Camping: Nature''s Way of Promoting the Motel Industry; See the USA First! (While We Still Own Part of It), and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13471'),
(26707, 'Dave Robicheaux 01 - The Neon Rain', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13472'),
(26708, 'Dave Robicheaux 02 - Heaven&#39;s Prisoners', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13473'),
(26709, 'Dave Robicheaux 03 - Black Cherry Blues', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13475'),
(26710, 'Dave Robicheaux 04 - A Morning for Flamingos', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13478'),
(26711, 'Dave Robicheaux 05 - Stained White Radiance', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13480'),
(26712, 'Dave Robicheaux 06 - In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13483'),
(26713, 'Dave Robicheaux 07 - Dixie City Jam', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13484'),
(26714, 'Dave Robicheaux 08 - Burning Angel', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13486'),
(26715, 'Dave Robicheaux 09 - Cadillac Jukebox', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13488'),
(26716, 'Dave Robicheaux 10 - Sunset Limited', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(26717, 'Dave Robicheaux 11 - Purple Cane Road', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(26718, 'Dave Robicheaux 12 - Jolie Blon&#39;s Bounce', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9900'),
(26719, 'Dave Robicheaux 13 - Last Car To Elysian Fields', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9499'),
(26720, 'Dave Robicheaux 14 - Crusader&#39;s Cross', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13677'),
(26721, 'Dave Robicheaux 15 - Pegasus Descending', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7843'),
(26722, 'Dave Robicheaux 16 - The Tin Roof', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1962'),
(26723, 'David Blaine&#39;s Magic Revealed', 'Tarko The Great', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13491'),
(26724, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13492'),
(26725, 'David Crockett: His Life and Adventures', 'John S. C. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n nonfiction , prose\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13494'),
(26726, 'David Falkayn: Star Trader (Technic Civlization)', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Polesotechnic League of star traders was prospering, and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most flamboyant member, was prospering most of all as commerce flowed between the stars. But not all League members played fair when trading, nor did some of the non-human races of the galaxy object to dirty tricks. Van Rijn could not be everywhere, and relied on his representatives, foremost among them his young protege, David Falkayn, and the members of David''s trader team: Adzel, a large dragon-likr being who practiced Buddhism, and Chee-Lan, a brilliant but hot-tempered felinesque extraterrestrial.  This is the second volume in the first complete edition of Poul Anderson''s Technic Civilization saga. And, after the three volumes chronicling the Polesotechnic League''s rise and fall will come more volumes, telling of the rise of the Terran Empire and the adventures of Poul Anderson''s other legendary character, Captain Sir Dominic Flandry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13497'),
(26727, 'David Farland - The Runelords 06', 'Worldbinder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13499'),
(26728, 'David Farland - The Runelords 07', 'The Wyrmling Horde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13502'),
(26729, 'Dawn of Fame The Career of Stanley G Weinbaum', 'Sam Moskowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13503'),
(26730, 'Dawn of Night - Book 2', 'Kemp, Paul S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13504'),
(26731, 'Dawn Of Nothing', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13507'),
(26732, 'Dawn of Nothing', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18371'),
(26733, 'Dawnkeepers', 'Jessica Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13509'),
(26734, 'The Day After Tomorrow: A Novel', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father''s murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father''s unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh accompanies Elton Lybarger, a Swiss national whom she has helped recover from a stroke in a posh New Mexico sanatorium, back to Zurich, where he is greeted rapturously by high-ranking German business leaders. As an extensive Nazi resurgence plot emerges, Folsom adds extra flashes--Joanna in a drug-induced sex marathon, a massive train wreck, Vera''s other affair with a very important French leader--to heighten the suspense on these rapidly turning pages. A huge explosion in secret chambers under the streets of Berlin sends Osborn on a final chase through Europe and up into the Alps, where the high-tech hopes of an earlier generation are finally exposed. This is a one-sitting novel and readers will have to choose: a full, sun-burning day at the beach or, for those who can''t wait, a springtime all-nighter. 300,000 first printing; BOMC selection; movie rights to MGM and the Zanuck Co.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Paul Osborn, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Angeles, looks up from his table in a Paris cafe and sees the face of the man who murdered his father 30 years earlier. At the same time as he is pursuing the killer, the London police have a series of decaptitated corpses on their hands; Osborn falls in love with the French Prime Minister''s mistress; and a German industrialist is recuperating from a stroke in a private sanatorium in Arizona. All of these disparate elements come together nicely in the end. YAs who enjoy a sprawling plot involving Nazis, chases across Europe, and lots of unexpected twists and turns will love this fast-paced thriller.?Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4331'),
(26735, 'The Day Before Midnight', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol''s estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians. The book is fun, even if the finale is too drawn-out and a bit preachy: " . . . the regular people, the Rest of US" will save us. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad budget.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4335'),
(26736, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13513'),
(26737, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: START INTERCEPT SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN. INTERCEPT COMPLETE SURVIVOR, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13515'),
(26738, 'A Day for Damnation', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces. Then he is given the opportunity to contact the Chtorr, but when a helicopter crash leaves him and his companions stranded in enemy territory, he must decide whether to communicate with the Chtorr--or kill them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19094'),
(26739, 'A Day In The Life Of A Galactic Empire', 'Brian W. Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16114'),
(26740, 'The day it rained forever', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4336'),
(26741, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Price family--Viola, the matriarch; her sometimes husband Cecil; and their four adult children--sticks together through life''s most trying circumstances in this new novel by the author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16116'),
(26742, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die', 'Robert Newton Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.â€â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.â€â€“_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll find yourself caught up in the novelâ€™s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.â€â€“_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--\n </em>\n School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy\n</p>\n<p>\n at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of\n</p>\n<p>\n any age."--School Library Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16118'),
(26743, 'Day of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal''s confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China''s water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world''s population and ensure the Church''s world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom''s picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom''s intense novel __ won''t be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom''s frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma''s murder?and that he''s still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he''s the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It''s that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There''s a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina''s master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom''s mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13375'),
(26744, 'Day of Honor 01: Ancient Blood', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To true Klingon warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor demands its price.... Worf finds his honor tested when he goes undercover to infiltrate a planetary criminal network. How can he root out the corruption on Sindikash without resorting to deceit and treachery himself? Worf''s dilemma is shared by his son Alexander, who searches for the true meaning of honor in his own human heritage. Along with his son, Worf must confront deadly danger -- and the inner struggles of his Klingon soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13377');
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(26745, 'Day of Reckoning', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN ENIGMA... Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn''t help but want more of his steady presence...his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer''s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13379'),
(26746, 'Day of the Dead', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jance''s third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n ) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O''odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne''s death, he comes across similar murdersâ€”each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker''s dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O''odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker''s friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from themâ€”no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona''s Tohono O''Odham reservation, also the setting for two earlier nonseries novels,\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n (2000). Retired cop Brandon Walker sets out to investigate a cold case, the mutilation murder of a 15-year-old Tohono O''Odham girl. Suspense builds gradually in the multilayered novel, which is filtered through multiple perspectives, each person adding a piece to a textured puzzle that tracks a pair of serial killers whose crimes extend backward across three decades. As in Jance''s two series, the action is intermixed with well-placed social commentary, this time regarding the unconscionable ill use of reservation peoples by vicious\n <em>\n  mil-ghan\n </em>\n (whites), even in the recent past. Although the Indian cultural backdrop is not as integral to the story as it is in Hillerman''s novels, this will still appeal to Hillerman devotees as well as to thriller fans accustomed to a sheen of blood spatter and sex with their suspense.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13381'),
(26747, 'The Day of the Dead', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Day of the Dead is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of novels. It was first published in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2008) and is now being offered as a free ebook. It features Tomas, a character from Touch the Dark (2006), the first Cassandra Palmer novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4339'),
(26748, 'Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13383'),
(26749, 'Day of the Predator', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liam O''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn''t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he''s torn to pieces by dinosaurs and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16256'),
(26750, 'The Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having â€œall the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.â€Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4343'),
(26751, 'The Day of Their Return', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While the new Terran Commissioner will do whatever is necessary to preserve the Empire, Ivar, a fugitive sought by both the Empire and Terra''s alien rivals, becomes a potent symbol to those who would resist Imperial rule. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling author of such classic novels as\n <em>\n  Brain Wave\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Boat of a Million Years\n </em>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Poul Anderson\n </strong>\n won just about every award the science fiction and fantasy field has to offer. He has won multiple Hugos and Nebulas, the John W. Campbell Award, The Locus Poll Award, the Skylark Award, and the SFWA Grandmaster Award for Lifetime Achievement. His recent books include\n <em>\n  Harvest of Stars, The Stars are also On Fire, Operation Chaos, Operation Luna, Genesis, Mother of Kings,\n </em>\n and_ Going for Infinity_, a collection and retrospective of his life''s work. Poul Anderson lived in Orinda, California where he passed away in 2001.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4346'),
(26752, 'Day of Truce', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16572'),
(26753, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4347'),
(26754, 'The Day the Limited Was Late', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4350'),
(26755, 'The Day the Universe Changed', 'James Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19365'),
(26756, 'A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton', 'Michael R. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vivid historical detail combines with memorable characters in Michael Phillips'' second story in his Shenandoah Sisters series." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other''s strengths and to shore up each other''s weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord''s love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16120'),
(26757, 'Dazzle The Complete Unabridged Trilogy', 'Gould, Judith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Boralevi women rose from the depths of a Russian ghetto to the heights of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, Hollywood and the Middle East. Dazzle is the story of these amazing women, a racy, scintillating novel packed with all the blockbuster potential of Gould''s earlier bestsellers, Sins and Love-Makers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13387'),
(26758, 'De Profundis', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis" explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, "De Profundis" is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls "De Profundis" "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13389'),
(26759, 'Dead Aim', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13395'),
(26760, 'Dead Air', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she finds her coworker''s body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station''s owner, a man who''s been like a father to Gabby? She''s determined to clear her friend''s name, and will recruit anyone she can find to help. Even the mysterious newcomer in town, handsome businessman Clark McKay. Gabby doesn''t quite trust Clark, but she can''t crack the case alone. Especially when the killer threatens them both-either back down from the investigationhellip;or be silenced forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13397'),
(26761, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13401'),
(26762, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.** Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13403'),
(26763, 'Dead and Kicking', 'Wendy Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sadie Novak cleans up crime scenes for a living and is also blessed-or cursed- with the gift of second sight. This time she''s digging out the home of a compulsive hoarder. She discovers unexpected things, including an angry ghost who wants her to go away. And there are even more secrets beneath the surface that someone will kill to keep buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13406'),
(26764, 'The Dead And The Countess', 'Gertrude Atherton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4351'),
(26765, 'Dead as a doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13407'),
(26766, 'Dead Babies', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Blitzed On Uppers, Downers, Blue Movies And Bellinis, The Bacchanalia Bent Bon-Vivants Ensconced At Appleseed Rectory For The Weekend Are Reeling In An Hallucinatory Haze Of Sex And Seduction. But As Friday Melts Into Saturday And Saturday Spirals Into Sunday And Sobriety Sets In, The Orgiastic Romp Descends To Disastrous Depths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13409'),
(26767, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie!    Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18840'),
(26768, 'Dead Beautiful', 'Yvonne Woon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“RenÃ©e Winters, after being inexplicably called into California''s Redwood forest, walks right up to the spot where both of her parents lay dead after suffering apparent heart attacks. Stranger still, their mouths are stuffed with gauze and coins are scattered about their bodies. The teen is put under the care of her estranged grandfather, who sends her to Gottfried Academy, a boarding school devoted to Latin, philosophy, and a strange mix of sciences, located across the country in Northern Maine. There, she meets fellow student Dante and is intensely drawn to himâ€“and he to her. A series of suspicious events occurs throughout the first semester as RenÃ©e and Dante grow closer and students mysteriously die. Woon slowlyâ€“yet suspensefullyâ€“reveals that children who die and are left unburied for 10 days wake up part alive and part deceased. Undead. Gottfried Academy exists to teach both the living and the Undead about this transformation and the rules concerning it. Dead Beautiful could be described as Twilight at Hogwarts. Despite numerous parallels to Stephenie Meyer''s saga, Woon pulls off some interesting twists and captures readers with the romantic connection between RenÃ©e and Dante. This novel will be an easy sell to readers who are still dying for more paranormal, forbidden, chaste romance. Woon sprinkles in some philosophical ideas that set the story apart from others in the same genre. Riveting and different, it is a real page-turner._Emily Chornomaz, West Orange Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly handsome Dante Berlin is the object of every girlâ€™s desire at gothic Gottfried Academy, but he seems unreachable until new girl RenÃ©e Winters crosses his path. They discover a mutual attraction, complicated by the fact that Dante is undead and RenÃ©e is very much alive. A string of murders that create more undead causes Dante and RenÃ©e to start an investigation that reveals the true purpose of Gottfried Academy as well as the potentially fatal connection between the two teens. Boarding-school story meets Murder, She Wrote meets the Twilight series in this nifty title, which also offers an attention-grabbing take on zombies. Detailed world building and setting contribute as much to the story as character and plot. Atmospheric touches such as school rituals, classes like Imaginary Arithmetic, and the use of Latin as the â€œinsiderâ€ language all add to the ambience. This lacks the sassy humor of many zombie booksâ€”not a failing, just a factâ€”so give this to the earnest Twilight crowd but also to teens who like impossible love stories with supernatural flavor. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13412'),
(26769, 'Dead by Midnight', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dead by Morning\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The popular and dependable Barton has again created an intricately plotted, thoroughly engrossing serial killer tale that satisfactorily resolves the current dilemmas but leaves a stunning cliff-hanger.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   As Good as Dead\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A powerful story that kept me up very late--with all the lights on.'''' --Kay Hooper,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In murder . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer''s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And in life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it''s a joke. Then she gets a second. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he''s drawn into a case that''s terrifyingly personal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timing is everything.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie''s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret--before the clock runs out for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19115'),
(26770, 'Dead calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13414'),
(26771, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13415'),
(26772, 'Dead Cert', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fresh and exciting... very lively'' Sunday Times ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true, nowadays, of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racingâ€”where one man must bring his friends'' killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival, Bill Davidson, takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn''t get up again, Alan discovers that it was no accident. Someone rigged a trip wire to take down the running horse. The more Alan investigates, the more he suspects that there is more to the plot than just murderous horseplay. But even as he approaches the finish line to this mysterious race, those responsible for his friend''s death are already planning for Alan to have a fatal accident of his own . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13416'),
(26773, 'Dead Certain', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derekâ€™s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, itâ€™s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek''s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, it''s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19345'),
(26774, 'Dead Even', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sara Tate, a Manhattan assistant DA is about to lose her job. But the case she nabs to secure her professional future is far more complicated â€“ and deadly than it first appears. While forces within the DAâ€™s office conspire against her, an outside threat looms larger: Win the case or her attorney husband, Jared, will die. Jared has his own motivations for winning. Strong-armed into defending the opposition, he learns that Sara will be killed should he lose the case. In court and at home, husband and wife go head to head while harboring the terrible secret of their motives. In a battle of roller coaster emotions and shocking betrayals, Jared and Sara must face the unthinkable truth: No matter who wins, one of them may die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13418'),
(26775, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13419'),
(26776, 'Dead Girls are Easy', 'Terri Garey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13420'),
(26777, 'The Dead Girls Dance', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4352'),
(26778, 'A Dead God Dancing', 'Ann Maxwell - Concord 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17876'),
(26779, 'Dead Guilty', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Beverly Connor''s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13421'),
(26780, 'Dead Hand', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13422'),
(26781, 'Dead Heat', 'Dick Francis; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n MWA Grand Master Francis''s first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father''s previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an unlikely love interest and sinister figures somehow connected with shady racetrack doings, less than fresh. The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another jobâ€”feeding several dozen attendees at a major horse race. While that meal goes off without a hitch, a terrorist''s bomb decimates the crowd at the track. Despite the official theory that an unpopular Middle Eastern ruler at the event was responsible, the chef wonders whether the bombing is related to the earlier food poisoning and turns amateur sleuth. Crisp writing and well-paced action help offset the routine plotting.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a silence of six years,Â Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid Halley in Under Orders. Now, Francis introduces a new hero, chef Max Moreton, who runs a thriving restaurant near the Newmarket racetrack. Moreton has a complex background; he''s afraid of horses yet fascinated by the world of horse racing (his father was a steeplechase jockey and racehorse trainer). Francis is, as always, completely convincing when it comes to the track, but his efforts at depicting the challenges and delights of cooking seem labored and secondhand (his son, Felix, is credited with the research for this book). Unfortunately, the cookery details often seem pasted on and unnecessary. The action, however, is first-rate Francis. It centers on Moreton''s travails as chef. First, food poisoning hits his guests and staff at a racing gala. The next day, a bomb shatters the grandstand box where Moreton has catered a lunch. And as Moreton struggles to decipher the cause of the food poisoning and whether it was connected to the bombing, he suffers the prospect of financial ruin andÂ emotional trauma from the bombing. Then he discovers that someone is out to kill him. This mix of cooking and racetrack isn''t close enough to horse racing to be completely satisfying Francis, but the action and the hero''s struggles deliver a solid punch. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13424'),
(26782, 'Dead Heat', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n MWA Grand Master Francis''s first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father''s previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an unlikely love interest and sinister figures somehow connected with shady racetrack doings, less than fresh. The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another jobâ€”feeding several dozen attendees at a major horse race. While that meal goes off without a hitch, a terrorist''s bomb decimates the crowd at the track. Despite the official theory that an unpopular Middle Eastern ruler at the event was responsible, the chef wonders whether the bombing is related to the earlier food poisoning and turns amateur sleuth. Crisp writing and well-paced action help offset the routine plotting.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a silence of six years,Â Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid Halley in Under Orders. Now, Francis introduces a new hero, chef Max Moreton, who runs a thriving restaurant near the Newmarket racetrack. Moreton has a complex background; he''s afraid of horses yet fascinated by the world of horse racing (his father was a steeplechase jockey and racehorse trainer). Francis is, as always, completely convincing when it comes to the track, but his efforts at depicting the challenges and delights of cooking seem labored and secondhand (his son, Felix, is credited with the research for this book). Unfortunately, the cookery details often seem pasted on and unnecessary. The action, however, is first-rate Francis. It centers on Moreton''s travails as chef. First, food poisoning hits his guests and staff at a racing gala. The next day, a bomb shatters the grandstand box where Moreton has catered a lunch. And as Moreton struggles to decipher the cause of the food poisoning and whether it was connected to the bombing, he suffers the prospect of financial ruin andÂ emotional trauma from the bombing. Then he discovers that someone is out to kill him. This mix of cooking and racetrack isn''t close enough to horse racing to be completely satisfying Francis, but the action and the hero''s struggles deliver a solid punch. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18885'),
(26783, 'Dead Hunt', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clymene O''Riley is in prison for killing her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13426'),
(26784, 'Dead If I Do', 'Tate Hallaway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13429'),
(26785, 'Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery', 'Peter Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wilson, a prominent wine critic, routinely makes or destroys the careers of winemakers in his popular newsletter, The Wine Maven. When he disappears after a tasting in Californiaâ€™s Napa Valley, his sister, Janie, asks her ex-husband, Babe Stern, to investigate. Babe gave up a successful career in the wine industry to run a local bar that does not appear on the tourist circuit. Working with the police after Wilsonâ€™s body turns up in a vat at Norton Winery, he uncovers a long list of possible suspects who would like to get revenge for the bad reviews that ruined their businesses. As Stern digs further into Wilsonâ€™s life, the trail takes him to Burgundy, France, and to the family of a young intern at the Norton Winery who was one of the few people in the winery when Wilson died. This is a well-crafted debut that will appeal to mystery fans interested in winemaking. --Barbara Bibel\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakersâ€™ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valleyâ€™s Norton Winery, his sister Janie looks to her ex-husband Babe Stern for help. But when Wilsonâ€™s body is found floating in a vat at Norton, Sternâ€™s search turns into a hunt for the killer.\n <br />\n Working with the Napa Valley police, Stern quickly finds a string of suspects, all with one thing in common: their desire to get revenge for the reviews that shattered their wines and livelihoods. But as the police work to quickly clear the case, those same suspects have a string of alibis and the trail begins to fade.\n <br />\n Stern digs further into the circumstances of Wilsonâ€™s death and finds himself following his only lead, to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Stern tracks the troubled son of a family of\n <em>\n  vignerons\n </em>\n , one of the few people in the winery the night Wilson died. But the wine families of the CÃ´te dâ€™Or are secretive and entangled, and the further Stern goes to discover the truth, the more he becomes the ultimate target. In a stunning debut mystery packed with revenge and murder, Sternâ€™s only choice is to find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13431'),
(26786, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13432'),
(26787, 'Dead in the water', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, ''s office. Now she''s gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north- where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13434'),
(26788, 'Dead Is the New Black', 'Harper Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since Tash''s grandfather Darkheart revealed the big family secret--Tash and her triplet sisters were born of a vampire slayer--Tash''s life has been a series of surprises. But none of that prepared her for the possibility of turning vamp herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s the good news. The bad? The most gorgeous man she''s ever laid eyes on is over two hundred years old. And one of her sisters wants to stake him, while the other wants to doom him to a life of tortured guilt. Worse yet, with a new Queen Vamp in town, it''s up to Tash to infiltrate her army. As a semihuman, there''s no danger of Tash falling under Lady Jasmine''s control. Or so she thinks...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13436'),
(26789, 'Dead Man', 'Alexander Jablokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18085'),
(26790, 'Dead Man Rising', 'Lilith Saintcrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13438'),
(26791, 'Dead Man Talking', 'Casey Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13441'),
(26792, 'Dead Man&#39;s Bones', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Albert''s assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  A Dilly of a Death\n </em>\n ), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned jointly with her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, when her 14-year-old stepson, Brian, announces a disturbing discovery: while on an archeological dig in a cave, he found a skeleton with its skull bashed in. Analysis later shows that the bones are about 30 years old. After a leading citizen shoots dead an apparent intruder in self-defense, China begins to suspect there''s a link between this incident and the past murder. In her own quiet way, China pursues the truth. China''s warmth and sensitivity toward Ruby''s new boyfriend, the new professor at the local university and others will endear her to readers, while her investigative skills make her a leader among female sleuths. Fascinating information about herbs and tempting recipes round out this leisurely cozy with a Southwestern flair.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n China Bayles is always trying to teach us stuff: it''s not annoying at all but somehow soothing and fascinating. The ex-attorney turned herbalist in the Texas town of Pecan Springs loves to talk about the plants and herbs she grows; she loves to share recipes and run her business (herb shop, tearoom, catering) with her friend and partner, Ruby; and she loves the opportunity to enjoy her spouse and teen stepson. In this gently narrated cozy, a skeleton in a cave allows China to think about archaeology, forensics, love affairs, immigration, and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, two elderly and reclusive sisters, one imperious and the other frail, the last of their family, donate a building, the funds for its renovation, and property for a community theater, with the stipulation that a play written about their father must be the first production. These events turn out to be intimately connected to the body in the cave, and it makes for an enjoyable journey as China makes the necessary connections one by one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19184'),
(26793, 'Dead Man&#39;s Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up, once again, with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction.â€ (_New York Times_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA classic Christie and one of the best.â€ (_The Times_ (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect.â€ (_The Times Literary Supplement_ (London) )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspenseâ€”creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable charactersâ€”brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Poirot is called in to take part in this _Dead Manâ€™s Folly.\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13442'),
(26794, 'Dead Man&#39;s Footsteps', 'Peter James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2008 The fourth book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else''s perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life . . . Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne''er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman''s body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton. ''One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters'' Daily Mail\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13443'),
(26795, 'Dead Man&#39;s Wharf', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims sheâ€™s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead womanâ€™s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13450'),
(26796, 'Dead mans ransom: the ninth chronicle of brother cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13448'),
(26797, 'Dead Men Don&#39;t Get the Munchies', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cooking class is back in session for best friends-and sometime sleuths-Annie and Eve. But this time, Annie finds herself on the teacher''s side of the cutting board, helping out during a bar food cooking class at D.C.''s latest hotspot, Bellywasher''s. And her best friend, Eve, is in more hot water than ever-as the prime suspect in a student''s murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13452');
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(26798, 'Dead of Night', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bioterrorist attacks on DisneyWorld, gun-toting Russians and flesh-eating worms aren''t enough to stop spy-cum-biologist Marion "Doc" Ford in his 12th adventure. When Ford reluctantly agrees to check in on a friend''s brother, Jobe Applebee, a reclusive hydrobiologist, the simple favor escalates to horrific proportions. Ford stumbles onto a brutal interrogation scene, scares off Applebee''s attackers, returns to find Applebee has hung himself and later learns that Applebee was "host to a feeding, breathing, sub-community of parasites." White barrels on full throttle: pretty soon Ford''s uncovered a madman''s plot to unleash ravenous guinea worms into local waterways and piranhas into Texas lakes, which will send property values plummetingâ€”and thus make them ready for a quick snapup once the threats have been taken care of. With the help of his sidekick Tomlinson and a slew of other returning characters, Ford must hunt down the bad guys and find the miracle cure before a statewide infestation begins. Meanwhile, he''s fending off Stokes''s securityâ€”the sexually deviant Russian Dasha, the slow-witted Alexisâ€”and assuring his pregnant girlfriend he''ll be home in time for Christmas. White''s latest is deliciously addictive and nail-bitingly suspenseful.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ecoterrorism takes a new and incredibly grotesque shape in White''s latest Doc Ford thriller. Ford, the mild-mannered marine biologist and reluctant operative for an under-the-radar offshoot of the CIA, agrees to check up on a friend''s biologist brother and stumbles into a scene of unimagined horror--the biologist has been eaten from within by a ravenous species of parasite. Soon the errand has morphed into a deep-cover assignment to track down the rogue scientist whose macabre plan to infiltrate Florida''s intercoastal waterway with parasites and rare poisonous snakes is on the verge of being realized. White effectively plays the horrific but shockingly realistic thriller plot against the ongoing interpersonal drama in Ford''s life: his shaky relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and his equally complex friendship with the mercurial ex--hippie Tomlinson, now struggling with success as an Internet spiritual adviser. Thankfully, the Doc Ford series has grown from genre favorite to crossover success without losing its amiable, Margaritaville spirit. That''s no easy trick when rare parasites are invading your body from the most private of entry points.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13453'),
(26799, 'The Dead of Winter', 'Rennie Airth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "[Rennie Airth''s] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading."\n <br />\n -Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. Scotland Yard suspects the young Polish refugee was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadn''t been her employer. Madden feels he owes it to Rosa to find her killer and pushes the investigation, uncovering her connection to a murdered Parisian furrier, a member of the Resistance, and a stolen cache of diamonds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Delivering the atmospheric writing and compelling characters that have already established Rennie Airth as a master of suspense as well as style, this long-awaited third installment in the John Madden series is historical crime writing at its best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rennie Airth\n </strong>\n is the author of two other John Madden mysteries,\n <em>\n  River of Darkness\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Blood-Dimmed Tide\n </em>\n . He lives in Cortona, Italy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4356'),
(26800, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13457'),
(26801, 'Dead over heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13460'),
(26802, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13462'),
(26803, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The brand-new True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse. How can you resist? With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit - and the twisted motive for the attack. But her attention is divided. Though she can''t ''read'' vampires, Sookie knows her lover Eric Northman and his ''child'' Pam well - and she realises that they are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, she is drawn into the plot - which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human - and that there is a new Queen on the board.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   New in the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n   <em>\n    True Blood\n   </em>\n   !\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Charlaine Harris\n  </strong>\n  writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13464'),
(26804, 'A Dead Rose in a Pineapple Graveyard', 'Scott L. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16121'),
(26805, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13320'),
(26806, 'Dead Sexy', 'Tate Hallaway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13322'),
(26807, 'Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White''s latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons millionaire and Ford''s hippie colleague. The scenes in which Ford painstakingly pieces together clues and provides backstory tend to drag a bit, but the action sequences are gripping and nail-bitingly suspenseful. Mystery fans are well advised to snatch this one up.\n <em>\n  A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 19). (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retirement didnâ€™t sit well with Doc Ford, Whiteâ€™s marine biologist and black-ops agent. Docâ€™s back in the game now but choosing his own projects, including aÂ spot ofÂ vigilante settling up withÂ the serial rapist who killed one of the fishing guides from Dinkinâ€™s Bay Marina, Sanibel Island, Docâ€™s beloved home. With the local cops on his tail, Doc hops a plane for New York, there to rendezvous withÂ a fetching U.S. senator who finds the biologistâ€™s horned-rim glasses and broad shoulders a very appealing combination. Naturally, things happen. Ford witnesses the senatorâ€™s attempted kidnapping and manages to keep her out of harmâ€™s way, but another person riding in the limo, a 14-year-old Native American boy, is snatched instead. Itâ€™s all part of a scheme by some rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castroâ€™s private papers. Soon enough the boy has been buried alive (with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply), and Ford and best-buddy Tomlinson, who hails from Long Island, are on the trail. The action, typical for White, is relentless, and the tension builds agonizingly (nothing like burying somebody alive to ratchet up the suspense). But the real interest here is the glimpse White provides of Tomlinsonâ€™s background (rich kid with seriously bent kinfolk). This may not be the tightest or most entertaining novel in the series, but longtime fansâ€”of whom there are manyâ€”have been wanting toÂ hear more of hippie-dippy Tomlinsonâ€™s backstory for years, and theyâ€™ll be overjoyed to get their wish. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13324'),
(26808, 'Dead Souls', 'Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13326'),
(26809, 'Dead Souls', 'Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dead Souls. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18775'),
(26810, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny. Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear. It cursed our world for centuries to come. This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13328'),
(26811, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn''t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn''t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It''s Eric the vampire--but now he''s a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13331'),
(26812, 'Dead Tomorrow', 'Peter James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2009 The fifth book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. ÄI canÄt believe IÄm thinking this, Ross. IÄm not a violent person, even before CaitlinÄs influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now IÄm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die.Ä The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive an urgent liver transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother, turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black-market organ Ä but at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter''s life . . ÄOne of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters.Ä Daily Mail\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13333'),
(26813, 'The Dead Tossed Waves', 'Carrie Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4358'),
(26814, 'Dead until dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn''t such a bright idea.A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that''s hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore)Praise for Charlaine Harris:Harris writes neatly and with assurance. (*New York Times Book Review*)An author of rare talents. (*Publishers Weekly*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13335'),
(26815, 'Dead Water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13338'),
(26816, 'Dead Waters', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Canderous, of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs, is used to fighting vampires and zombies. But the strange murder of a professor has everyone stumped. And it''s making some people crazy. Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13341'),
(26817, 'Dead Witch Walking', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13345'),
(26818, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4361'),
(26819, 'Dead, The Defenders Of The', '[Jedi Apprentice] - 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13349'),
(26820, 'DEAD(ish)', 'Naomi Kramer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lindaâ€™s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike wonâ€™t tell her what he did with her body, and she canâ€™t find the stupid thing herself. Thereâ€™s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13393'),
(26821, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13350'),
(26822, 'Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha''ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire''s most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures. By the author of Gardens of the Moon. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13352'),
(26823, 'The Deadlier Weapon', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4365'),
(26824, 'The Deadliest Game', 'Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Net Force Explorers Megan O''Malley and Leif Anderson match wits with an unknown and sinister enemy who is targeting computer users playing the Net''s most popular online wargame, "The Dominion of Sarxos"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4366'),
(26825, 'Deadline', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources in order to uncover the truth in this rerelease of the Randy Alcorn bestseller. Jake soon finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, he struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and in doing so is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning to his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His books include the bestsellers The Treasure Principle, Deadline, Dominion, Lord Foulgrin''s Letters, and The Ishbane Conspiracy. He has written seven other nonfiction books. Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon, and have two grown daughters, Karina and Angela.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13355'),
(26826, 'Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All', 'Paul A. Offit M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin''s The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offitâ€”who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism''s False Prophetsâ€”presents a smart, hard-hitting exposÃ© of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings outstanding credentials to the subject: he''s a vaccinologist at Children''s Hospital in Philadelphia and an expert in infectious diseases, and he tackles claims that childhood inoculations cause brain damage, autism, diabetes, and cancer, finding a farrago of misinformation, faulty research, and sly deceptions fed to distraught parents by media hype, ax-grinding activists, and personal-injury lawyers. He embellishes his account with a sprightly history of paranoid medical populismâ€”19th-century critics of the cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine insisted it could turn people into cowsâ€”and a blistering attack on celebrity antivaccine ideologues Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher and the medical writers who pander to parental anxieties. Offit dwells less than Mnookin on the sociology of the controversy and more on the science. The result is a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to antivaccine fear-mongering. Photos. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Infectious disease expert Offit, long an outspoken and prolific (Vaccinated, 2007) champion of universal immunization via vaccines, ratchets up the urgency of his crusade by taking on the loudest and highest-profile spokespersons for the anti-vaccine movement. He spares no one, not Jim Carrey, not Jenny McCarthy, televisionâ€™s Dr. Oz, or even Dr. Bob Sears, as he tosses salvo after salvo of scientific evidence across the bow of their anti-vaccine ships. Their anti-vaccine arguments, he says, consist of nothing more than anecdotal drama combined with conspiracy theories that pander to parentsâ€™ most emotional fears. What they should be doing, he says, is encouraging parents to trust the huge bank of scientific data proving the safety of vaccines and their efficacy in eliminating many deadly infectious diseases. Armed with his own arsenal of anecdotal horror stories that focus on worst case histories of the unvaccinated, mostly children, in addition to pages of scientific study citations supporting his premise, Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13357'),
(26827, 'The Deadly Dance', 'Beaton, M. C.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="blurb">\n   <div>\n    Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big shoulder pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.\n    <br />\n    But then wealthy divorc&amp;eacute;e Catherine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs. Laggat-Brown''s daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she recognizes an opportunity to show what Raisin Investigations can do. Even better, the case gives her a chance to reunite with her long-absent friend, Sir Charles Fraith. As they scour the Cotswolds in search of leads, Charles'' insights prove invaluable and his charms irresistible, leading poor Emma to fall madly in love with him.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    As ever, Agatha bumbles her way through the case, trying her friends'' patience and flirting shamelessly with the chief suspect. Will she put her tiny agency on the map, or has even the outrageous Agatha finally bitten off more than she can chew?\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4369'),
(26828, 'Deadly Debris', 'Mike Combs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13358'),
(26829, 'Deadly Desire', 'Deadly Desire', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13361'),
(26830, 'Deadly Edge', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13364'),
(26831, 'Deadly Edge: A Parker Novel', 'Richard Stark; Charles Ardai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himselfâ€”and his woman, Claireâ€”menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Parker has a score to settle while Claireâ€™s armed with her first rifleâ€”and theyâ€™re both ready to usher in the end of the Age of Aquarius. â€œRichard Starkâ€™s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.â€â€”John Banville, Bookforum â€œThe Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabovokian wit and flair.â€â€”Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13365'),
(26832, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses. ONE DREAM TEAM Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together. But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13366'),
(26833, 'Deadly Games', 'Cate Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Eyes Only\n <br />\n INTERNAL AGENCY E-MAIL\n <br />\n FROM: Rocco Taylor\n <br />\n October 3, 11:50 p.m.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s the waiting I can''t stand. Let me belly crawl across a minefield into an enemy stronghold. Or give me an MP5 and a load of clips and just let me shoot my way in. Anything but this: playing along with the perps while an innocent woman pays the price.\n <br />\n <br />\n I know the last thing Gena wants is a hero--or me. I made the mistake of letting her go once, putting the assignment ahead of the heat between us. Since then she''s survived things I can only imagine, but no one can escape a death agent alone. Now I''ve got one last chance to win her trust, to get it right.\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13367'),
(26834, 'Deadly Greetings: A Card-making Mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson and her partner are suiting up for underwater training in the British Virgin Islands when a plane nosedives into the water and disappears.They save eight people-and lose four. Hannah plunges into an investigation to see if one of the passengers was a target and who would be desperate enough to kill all those people.And as she copes with a nine-year-old survivor, a shady suspect, a shaky relationship-and an approaching hurricane-Hannah begins to feel she might have gotten in too deep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13368'),
(26835, 'The Deadly Hunter', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4371'),
(26836, 'Deadly Little Secret', 'Laurie Faria Stolarz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13369'),
(26837, 'Deadly Little Secrets', 'Jeanne Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Security expert Gates Bromley''s number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton tracing several pieces of stolen art, Gates is distracted by the leggy brunette who stirs up the raciest thoughts...After botching an operation that cost her colleagues'' lives, Ana has been reassigned to cold cases. When news gets out that she''s reopened a case involving stolen art and five brutal murders, Ana is almost killed. Seeking comfort in Gates'' strong embrace is easy, but surrendering trust to the sexiest man she''s ever known isn''t - unless Gates can show her that an attraction this hot is worth all the risks. But first he''ll have to stop a killer who''s bent on keeping the past buried.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13370'),
(26838, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon; Dianna Love; Cindy Gerard; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13371'),
(26839, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon &amp; Dianna Love &amp; Cindy Gerard &amp; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18732'),
(26840, 'Deadly Quicksilver Lies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13372'),
(26841, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Capturing the hot new craze: The new Math Puzzle mystery series. ** Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16123'),
(26842, 'Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback))', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n MacDonald, whose 21 Travis McGee novels represent arguably the best U.S. mystery series of the past 50 years, died in 1986, leaving behind a legion of fans. Sadly, Travis McGee seems lost amid today''s hip, violent, and politically correct private eyes and series detectives, so much so that most of today''s younger mystery readers may never experience this National Book Award-winning series. Yet audio producers seem committed to keeping the series alive for a new generation of readers and audiobook fans, as this example proves. Bright Orange for the Shroud tells of a dangerous confidence scheme that traps one of McGee''s friends. Soon, McGee infiltrates the group and takes on its sexy operative, with explosive results. In A Deadly Shade of Gold, McGee comes into possession of an evil-looking, solid gold Aztec icon that leads to a perilous fortune. Reader Darren McGavin, who narrates the entire series for Random Audio, employs a world-weary, laid-back voice that is perfect for the enigmatic McGee. Recommended wherever good mysteries circulate. Random Audio offers the entire Travis McGee line in abridged format; libraries seeking unabridged versions should look to Books on TapeR.?Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s another bestselling novel featuring P.I. Travis McGee. According to Publishers Weekly, 20th Century Fox, "with an outlay of six figures, has cleared the way for Ruben/Robinson Productions to launch their own Travis McGee series." And according to Larry King''s USA Today column, Harrison Ford has said, "I am interested in doing Travis McGee, the great detective character. Previously published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13373'),
(26843, 'Deadly Visions', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A killer crosses overâ€¦Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey, a.k.a. the Spirit Basher, needs all his expertise when heâ€™s teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders--each involving strange voices and stranger circumstances. Monica senses supernatural forces at work, but whoever--or whatever--is doing the killing, the victims are real. When eerie happenings hit closer to home--to Joeâ€™s daughter, Nikki--and then Monica herself is the victim of a grisly, near-fatal attack, Joe is more determined than ever to unmask the truth behind the phenomena. As he searches for answers to inexplicable questions, he discovers that politics and the paranormal make deadly bedfellows, that his escape-artist skills still come in handy--and that even a psychic can know too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13374'),
(26844, 'Deadman&#39;s Bluff', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.â€\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBask in Swainâ€™s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the worldâ€™s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremesâ€“even cold-blooded murderâ€“to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarcoâ€™s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove thereâ€™s more to any game of chance than meets the eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Swain, the bestselling author of Grift Sense, Funny Money, Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice, Mr. Lucky, and Deadmanâ€™s Poker, is also an authority on crooked gambling and casino scams. He is the winner of the prestigious Prix Calibre 38. He lives in Odessa, Florida, with his wife, Laura, and is currently at work on his next Tony Valentine novel. Visit the authorâ€™s website at www.jimswain.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13376'),
(26845, 'Deadtown', 'Nancy Holsner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13378'),
(26846, 'Deadwood', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1876 William "[Buffalo] Bill" [Hickok] and Charley Utter rode into Deadwood, a hellish frontier settlement in the Black Hills. Bill died there, victim of a possibly demented assassin. Fortunately, this is mostly the story of his constant companion, Charley, a man of sapient insight and, though less famous than his friend, of extensive and varied experience. Charley, Bill, their acquaintance the Bottle Fiend, and later Bill''s widow Agnes and mourner Calamity Jane saw some remarkable things in Deadwood and raised considerable Cain. By turns heroic, ludicrous, vicious, pathetic, and infuriating, the exotic citizens of Deadwood grab the reader''s interest immediately and never let go. Highly recommended for its deadpan, offbeat, credible frontier anarchy. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you want to call\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n a Western, you might as well call\n <strong>\n  The House of Mirth\n </strong>\n chick lit.Â Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, â€˜I recognize that!\n <strong>\n  â€™\n </strong>\n and gave us a world-class entertainment.â€ â€”Jonathan Franzen, author of\n <strong>\n  The Corrections\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric.â€ --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n may well be the best western ever written.â€ â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What deepens and darkens [Dexter''s] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -_-Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter''s strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Great, eccentric characters....Dexter''s writing is a living thing." --_USA Today_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13380'),
(26847, 'Deaf Sentence', 'David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13382'),
(26848, 'The Dealer and the Dead', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply them with arms. With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down... but is the story as simple as they think?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4374'),
(26849, 'Dealing with dragons', 'Patricia C. Wrede', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart. . . .And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon . . . and finds the family and excitement she''s been looking for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13385'),
(26850, 'Dean Koontz', 'Relentless (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7150'),
(26851, 'Dean R Koontz', 'Intensity (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10132'),
(26852, 'Dear DB', 'A. R. Morlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18205'),
(26853, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13388');
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(26854, 'Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street', 'Janet M. Tavakoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Morgan Stanley''s David M. Darst on\n  <em>\n   Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 14 Chapters, 265 pages, and 443 footnotes drawing upon 119 sources, structured finance and derivatives consultant and expert witness Janet M. Tavakoli writes about her â€œmeeting with Warren Buffett on the eve of the greatest market meltdown in historyâ€ and how meeting him subtly changed the way she looks at global financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n </em>\n is much more than a personal investing\n <em>\n  bildungsroman\n </em>\n . The book is so loaded with lessons, warnings, admonishments, and recommendations that readers will find themselves copiously underlining the text and filling the margins with stars, checkmarks, and exclamation points.\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is wide ranging and hard hitting, written with humility, great specificity, honesty, humanity, and historical awareness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captious (or offended) readers may criticize the book as: too harsh in parts; overly broad-brush in its treatment of micro and macro events; and possibly bordering on solipsism when Tavakoli frequently cites her own articles, letters, e-mail exchanges, telephone conversations, and television appearances. Serious financial debacles in the post-Millennium years have left plenty of blame to be apportioned among firms, regulators, the financial system, and letâ€™s face it, human nature, and though polite and deferential, Tavakoli (called by Business Week â€œthe Cassandra of credit derivativesâ€) is not reticent. At times, her tone can be Biblically prophetic.\n</p>\n<p>\n That said,\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is worth its weight in gold for two main reasons. First, the timeless investment lessons laced throughout the book. To cite a few:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Warren does not rely on a price because that is what you pay. He relies on value because that is what you get (page 23).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The five most dangerous words in business may be â€œEverybody else is doing itâ€ (page 38).\n </li>\n <li>\n  Janet Tavakoliâ€™s Theory of Everything in Finance: The value of any financial transaction is based on the timing of cash flows, the frequency of cash flows, the magnitude of cash flows, and the probability of receipt of those cash flows (page 69).\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of Warren Buffetâ€™s core principles: Donâ€™t lend money to people who canâ€™t pay you back. If you do not understand something, do not invest (page 105).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fraud triangle: need, opportunity, and the ability to rationalize oneâ€™s behavior (page 199).\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Second, the book contains lucid, lapidary descriptions of options backdating (Chapter 3); mortgages (Chapter 5); complex structured products, securitizations, and off-balance sheet vehicles (Chapter 7); and the perils of leverage and the developments leading to the difficulties at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and other financial enterprises (Chapters 8 and 9).\n</p>\n<p>\n Parts of the book read like replaying a YouTube video of a hurricane. Whether or not you agree with Tavakoli in all cases on the details and/or her approach, what comes through in every sentence is her conviction and courage in recounting what happened and her creativity and concretization in proposing safeguards and solutions. In the Preface, she says she is â€œstill learning,â€ and the financial realm stands the richer from her energy, discernment, persistence, erudition, curiosity, insight, and human empathy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this book as soon as you can. As Warren Edward Buffett has said, â€œJanet Tavakoli should have been listened to much more carefully in the past... and\n <em>\n  will be\n </em>\n in the future.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  David M. Darst is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm''s Global Wealth Management Group and is the Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee. Darst is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a BA in economics from Yale University. Darst is a CFA charterholder.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Altogether this book is an excellent read, loaded with information about the goings-on in the financial sector in the US till as recently as September 2008. The is informal, almost like a conversation in a lounge bar, racy, laced with wit and when it comments on leading actors in the drama, dipped in vitriol. Tavakoli is a name we will be hearing about frequently in the near future. (_Business Standard_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dear Buffett_ is must reading . . . in a way that only Tavakoli could provide. . . Tavakoli knows her stuff. She knows where the bodies are buried in the complex formulas. . . And, almost as a bonus, we get Buffett''s views and insights into his derivatives trading. There''s nothing more you could ask for in a financial book in this day and age of financial derivatives meltdown." (_Economic Policy Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote." (_Financial Times_, February 21st 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A clear and pacy run through the multitude of sins and sinners in the modern financial world. . . full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth and colour to even the best known episodes of the past two years. [Tavakoli] also covers events only a few years before the current crisis that should have been big warning signs. The correspondence between Buffett and Tavakoli over the past three years reinforced her existing views on the dangers of complex finance. And with Buffett''s blessing, this book will find a ready-made fan base with little marketing effort. . . Tavakoli makes for an attractive pundit - she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote. . . There is a healthy dose of "I told you so" about this volume - but, to be fair, Tavakoli is one of the few who did." (_Financial Times_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Tavakoli has] been railing against emperors wearing no clothes in the credit derivatives markets forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13391'),
(26855, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when heâ€™s under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”but heâ€™s doing his best to keep up the disguise, spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killer couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami and killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do something about it. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13394'),
(26856, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Heâ€™s a charming monster . . . A macabre hero . . . A serial killer who only kills bad peopleDexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s just not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac . . . which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miamiâ€”a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexterâ€™s dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective) is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monsterâ€”but it isnâ€™t until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first . . . With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years. SUMMARY: Lifeâ€™s tough for Dexter Morgan. Itâ€™s not easy being the worldâ€™s only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexterâ€™s had to slip deep into his disguise: spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killing couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami â€” a killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do come out of hiding and hunt the monster down. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13396'),
(26857, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter: A Novel', 'Jeffry P. Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Heâ€™s a charming monster . . . A macabre hero . . . A serial killer who only kills bad peopleDexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s just not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac . . . which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miamiâ€”a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexterâ€™s dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective) is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monsterâ€”but it isnâ€™t until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first . . . With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13398'),
(26858, 'Dearly devoted Dexter: a novel', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Heâ€™s a charming monster . . . A macabre hero . . . A serial killer who only kills bad peopleDexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s just not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac . . . which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miamiâ€”a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexterâ€™s dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective) is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monsterâ€”but it isnâ€™t until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first . . . With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19025'),
(26859, 'The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education', 'Diane Ravitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of Americaâ€™s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitchâ€”former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculumâ€”examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques todayâ€™s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril. Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving Americaâ€™s schools: leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning* expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not â€œmerit payâ€ based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores encourage family involvement in education from an early age *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4375'),
(26860, 'Death And The Housekeeper', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13399'),
(26861, 'Death and the Joyful Woman', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the George Felse mysteries. Det Sgt Felse is called in to investigate a murder at a new roadhouse, once a beautiful old inn known as "The Joyful Woman". There is no shortage of suspects, but the arrest of Kitty Norris leads Felse''s young son, who is convinced she is innocent, into danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13402'),
(26862, 'Death and the Running Patterer: A Curious Murder Mystery', 'Robin Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?\n</p>\n<p>\n Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.\n</p>\n<p>\n With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robin Adair\n </strong>\n is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13404'),
(26863, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Firestorm! A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer. Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13405'),
(26864, 'Death at Dawn', 'Caro Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a daya??s work for Liberty Lane: a new heroine for fans of Matthew Hawkwood and Sarah Watersa??s Victorian novels. Thomas Jacques Lane a?? radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father a?? had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father''s killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levelsa?|.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13408'),
(26865, 'Death at La Fenice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn''t a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13410'),
(26866, 'Death Benefits', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13413'),
(26867, 'Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation''s best-known astrophysicist. â€œOne of todayâ€™s best popularizers of science.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson''s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. "Holy Wars" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. "The Search for Life in the Universe" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And "Hollywood Nights" assails the movie industry''s feeble efforts to get its night skies right. Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13276'),
(26868, 'Death by Ecstasy', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13281'),
(26869, 'Death by the Book', 'Lenny Bartulin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko''s business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client''s request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass''s books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz''s daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko''s unsavory background. While the story twists won''t shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulinâ€™s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isnâ€™t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesnâ€™t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunningâ€™s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13283'),
(26870, 'Death comes as the end', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest''s daughter, believes that the woman''s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father''s household. As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13286'),
(26871, 'Death Dream [017-086-5', 'harry kruiswijk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17413'),
(26872, 'Death in a cage', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13288'),
(26873, 'Death in a strange country', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal...'' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man''s flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal- and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready- made solution to the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13290'),
(26874, 'Death in Paradise (2001)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13293'),
(26875, 'Death in the clouds', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13296'),
(26876, 'A Death in the Family', 'James Agee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16125'),
(26877, 'Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America', 'James R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) "radicals and reformers" and union activists. The Haymarket demonstration, to protest police brutality during labor unrest in Chicago, remained peaceful until police moved in, whereupon a bomb was thrown by an individual never positively identified, killing seven policemen and wounding 60 others. Shortly after, labor leaders August Spies and Albert Parsons, along with six more alleged anarchists, stood convicted of murder on sparse evidence. Four of them went to the gallows in 1887; another committed suicide. The surviving three received pardons in 1893. The Knights of Labor, at that time America''s largest and most energetic union, received the blame for the riot, despite a lack of conclusive evidence , and many Knights locals migrated to the less radical American Federation of Labor. Labor historian Green (_Taking History to Heart_) eloquently chronicles all this, producing what will surely be the definitive word on the Haymarket affair for this generation. Green is particularly strong in documenting the episode''s long aftermath, especially the decades-long efforts of the white Parsons''s black wife to exonerate her husband. B&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 7)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Green, an academic, offers a narrative history of Chicago''s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart of the labor struggle for the eight-hour day, and we learn that "workers'' struggles had often been met with shocking repression, and that when violence bred violence, when powerless laboring people struck back in anger, they often paid with their lives." The Haymarket episode became a seminal moment for the American labor movement, and Green takes us inside the personal, social, and cultural elements of this tragic event. Evaluation of Haymarket includes the contention that a conservative bias against radicals, labor organizers, immigrants, and minorities was fundamental to the conflict as well as the view that execution of the anarchists saved the country from anarchy and was a moral and political victory for law and order. The author notes that after Haymarket, social peace among the various classes in Chicago was impossible, and grudges continued for decades.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13298'),
(26878, 'A Death in the House', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16464'),
(26879, 'Death In Venice', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new, "brilliant ...perfectly nuanced translation" of Thomas Mann''s most famous and poignant collection of novellas and stories (*The Boston Globe*).   Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann''s stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay.   Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here display Mann''s inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13299'),
(26880, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gabriel Allon hasn''t been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria''s next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva''s thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who''s also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16127'),
(26881, 'Death in Winter', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise,TM\n  </em>\n  he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of contentment as Beverly''s close friend, colleague, and daily breakfast partner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Doctor Crusher leaves her position on the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  to become the chief medical officer of Starfleet, the brightest light in Picard''s life is taken from him. And he has hardly resigned himself to his loss when he learns that Beverly has been declared missing in action on a distant planet -- and presumed dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevratas is a bleak, frozen world on the far side of the Romulan Neutral Zone where the Federation has become the plague-ravaged natives'' only real hope of survival and freedom. Starfleet has no recourse but to send in another team to try to save the Kevrata -- and Picard is the natural choice. Critical to the success of his mission are two colleagues who served under him when he commanded the\n  <em>\n   Starship Stargazer\n  </em>\n  -- Pug Joseph, a man with a past to live down, and Doctor Carter Greyhorse, who has served time for attempted murder -- as well as a Romulan who left his people years earlier and never expected to return. Together, they follow the trail of Beverly Crusher to Kevratas, determined to succeed where the doctor failed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the Romulan homeworld, meanwhile, the political vacuum created by the demise of Praetor Shinzon has been filled by his staunchest supporter, Senator Tal''aura. But there are those who oppose her, including Commander Donatra and the warbird fleets under her command, because of the way Tal''aura has mishandled rebellions on the Empire''s subject worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And one rebellion in particular; the movement for self-determination on frigid Kevratas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins a desperate struggle -- not only for the freedom of the long-oppressed Kevrata but also for the soul of the Romulan Empire. Before it''s over, destinies will be forged and shattered, the Empire will be shaken to its ancient foundations, and Jean-Luc Picard''s life will be changed...forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: VoyagerÂ®\n  </em>\n  episode "Resistance" prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13301'),
(26882, 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13304'),
(26883, 'Death March', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13305'),
(26884, 'Death March', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18067'),
(26885, 'Death Mask', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn''t flesh and blood; he''s paint and paper, a portrait come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13307'),
(26886, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13308'),
(26887, 'Death Match', 'Diane Duane; Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the star of South Florida''s spatball team is threatened by a ruthless gang of major bettors who stand to lose a fortune, Catie Murray and the Net Force Explorers delve into the cyber world to protect America''s newest sports phenomenon. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13310'),
(26888, 'Death of a Cad', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13311'),
(26889, 'Death of a Chimney Sweep', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-sixth craggy-cozy. The mystery centers in the tiny Highlands village of Drim, â€œa huddle of white-washed cottagesâ€ on the banks of a sea loch, where mountains rise up at waterâ€™s edge. There, the body of the posh new owner of a long-abandoned estate is found, stuffed up the chimney. The chimney sweep himself, who was to have been cleaning the estate chimney, is found dead on the motorway, an apparent accident victim, a few hours later. The local police feel the case is open and shut, with the chimney sweep tabbed as the murderer of the estate owner, until Constable Hamish Macbeth questions the findings, even of the forensics team. Someone has embarked on a spree, starting at the estate, and spreading to Edinburgh. Great stuff, as usual. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager''s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn''t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete''s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it''s up to Hamish to discover who''s responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13312'),
(26890, 'Death of a Dentist', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several harassed women, and even his wife--Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13313'),
(26891, 'Death of a Doxy', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe''s. Agreeing to help clear his buddy''s name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy''s death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13314'),
(26892, 'Death of a Dude', 'Rex Stout', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The mountain couldn''t come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain--to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe''s job was to get an innocent man exonerated of the crime and catch a killer in the process. But when he packed his silk pajamas and headed west, he found himself embroiled in a case rife with local cynicism, slipshod police work, and unpleasant political ramifications. In fact, Nero Wolfe was buffaloed until the real killer struck again, underestimating the dandified dude with an unerring instinct for detection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13315'),
(26893, 'Death of a Gossip', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Winters--Lady Jane--was a noted gossip columnist enrolled in the Lachdubh School of Casting (fish casting, that is). She had something on everyone in class--and so, bobby Hamish Macbeth figured, any one of them could have killed her. Martin''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13316'),
(26894, 'Death of a Hussy', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13317'),
(26895, 'The Death of A Legend', 'neetha Napew', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4379'),
(26896, 'Death of a Perfect Wife', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although the Thomases were not initially liked by villagers, Trixie Thomas has become a model of domestic efficiency--the perfect wife. So it comes as a great shock to everyone when she is found dead--to everyone but police inspector Hamish Macbeth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13318'),
(26897, 'Death of a Prankster', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Hamish Macbeth hears that there has been a murder at the home of the practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn''t race to the scene of the crime. The last time he was called to investigate a death at the manor, the victim turned out to be a manservant covered in fake blood. Ready for another prank, Hamish arrives to find Trent most decidedly dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13319'),
(26898, 'Death of a Scriptwriter', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish -- and more -- when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer -- or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13321'),
(26899, 'Death of a Snob', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Pure bliss." Atlanta Journal &amp; Constitution A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by the author of "Death of a Hussy." With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish island health farm -- and figure out who is trying to kill her. When Hamish arrives on the island of Eileencraig, he finds threatening locals and fellow guests barely more civil, especially a terrible snob named Heather Todd. It seems like everyone on the island has a grudge against Jane. How to choose among so many suspects? But then one suspect is eliminated. Heather Todd is murdered. And suddenly Hamish''s Christmas is looking very black indeed . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13323'),
(26900, 'Death of a Travelling Man', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "ENTRANCING . . . A GEM." --Ocala Star-Banner Hamish Macbeth''s life is going to pot. He''s been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and--to add insult to injury--a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty, eye-sore-of-a-van in the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he''s right. The doctor''s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors grow suddenly unneighborly. And when the unsavory newcomer is murdered, Hamish regrets it only because his bones tell him the killer may be one of his friends. Nobody wants to volunteer even a scrap of useful information, so canny Hamish single-handedly sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his neighbors. Yet in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the villagers may ever recover from it. . . . "EXCELLENT.. . . A cast of winning characters." --Publishers Weekly "Scottish writer M. C. Beaton develops the locals with humor and verve." --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13325');
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(26901, 'Death of a Valentine', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Beaton''s enjoyable 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Death of a Witch\n </em>\n ), a Valentine''s Day parcel explodes in the face of the Scottish Highlands'' Lammas festival queen, Annie Fleming, as soon as she tries to open it, killing her instantly. Hamish Macbeth, newly promoted to sergeant, would rather investigate with only his trusty pets in tow, but is instead forced to tote along his new constable, the less than professional Josie McSween. Considered prim and proper and a right innocent, Annie turns out to have been leading a less than virtuous double life, with no shortage of suspects in her murder. A much sought after bachelor, Hamish desperately tries to break the case, while Josie, with dreams in her eyes, strives to crack Hamish''s heart. Will Josie succeed in getting Hamish to say I do at the altar? For all the book''s farcical moments, Beaton takes care as usual to provide a satisfying police procedural.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatonâ€™s cozies set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh and starring the crusty village constable Hamish Macbeth are sometimes so predictable in their â€œstranger comes to the village and gets murderedâ€ or â€œirascible villager gets murderedâ€ plotlines that the cozy quickly becomes a drowsy. It seems that Beaton bestirred herself for this, the twenty-fifth in the series. It combines her gift for scenic description with an inventive, constantly surprising plot. Two women are at the center of the action: one is a constable from Strathbane, assigned to work for Macbeth, who lives in perpetual fear of being transferred to the urban blight of Strathbane. The other woman is the town beauty, queen of the Lammas Fest, who dies after opening a letter-bomb Valentine. This beauty queen is, we learn, what Scotland Yard terms a â€œmurderee,â€ someone whose life invites violence. Both Beaton fans and newcomers to cozies will find her latest explosive and engaging. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19337'),
(26902, 'Death of an Addict', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. When he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad''s demise to be particularly fishy - and not of the local salmon variety. Hamish decides to infiltrate the illicit drug trade in nearby Strathbane, but his daft scheme springs a leak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13327'),
(26903, 'Death of an Outsider', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain''s best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, his formerly beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up, a dark-haired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim-and without doubt will strike again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13329'),
(26904, 'The Death of Bunny Munro', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of Cave''s pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days seducing invariably attractive women, servicing both their sexual and moisturizing needs. His wife''s suicide, though, threatens to derail Bunny''s amorous adventures, as he can''t shake the feeling that he might somehow be responsible. Another new obstacle is the need to look after his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr. In an effort to escape the creepiness of the apartment he shared with his wife, Bunny takes his son on the road, teaching him the ropes of salesmanship. Meanwhile, a man in red face paint and plastic devil horns accosts women in northern England before a murderous turn sends him journeying south. Bunny''s deterioration from swaggering Lothario to sputtering pity case suggests he is carrying around more guilt than he cares to admit, and his obsessive behavior, while a bit of a stretch, allows for an interesting portrait of modern family dynamics. Cave''s bawdy humor, along with a gallows whimsy that will be familiar to fans of his music, elevate the novel from what might otherwise be a one-note adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all of Nick Caveâ€™s trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.â€ â€”Irvine Welsh\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Death of Bunny Munro_, is a sexually explicit, hyperactive soap opera of a book that proves, once again, that his talents are wide-ranging. Cave is a darkly gifted storyteller . . . Cave''s prose surprises throughout with flashes of grotesque beauty." â€”Don Waters, _San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"As in song, Cave the novelist is unafraid to launch headlong into roaring caricature, but while the sex and death quotient is significant, the book also reveals surprising new weapons in his armoury, particularly the tenderness and humanity with which he portrays Bunny Junior, a beacon of love and faith in a ruined world . . . Told with verve, studded with scalding humour." â€”Graeme Thomson,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4382'),
(26905, 'The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set adrift by his wifeâ€™s suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wifeâ€™s ghost, seems only dimly aware of his sonâ€™s existence. When his bizarre trip shades into a final reckoning, when he can no longer be sure what is real and what is not, Bunny finally begins to recognize the love he feels for his son. And he sees that the revenants of his worldâ€”decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psychokillersâ€”are lurking in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll. At turns dark and humane, The Death of Bunny Munro is a tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Nick Caveâ€™s singular vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4383'),
(26906, 'The Death of Faith', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Donna Leons mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettis inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinistersomething that puts her life in imminent danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13330'),
(26907, 'The death of grass', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4384'),
(26908, 'The Death of Hope', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13332'),
(26909, 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4385'),
(26910, 'The death of Ivan Ilyich: and, Master and man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf); Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4386'),
(26911, 'The death of Ivan Ilyich: and, Master and man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf) &amp; Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18645'),
(26912, 'The Death of Joan of Arc', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4387'),
(26913, 'The Death Of Joan Of Arc', 'Scott, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20768'),
(26914, 'The Death of Princes', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4388'),
(26915, 'The death of sleep', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Jody Lynn Nye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil know the so-called ''planet pirates'' were capable of terrible things. But - also like every other citizen of the Federation - she never in her heart of hearts believed that anything would happen to her. When pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, Lunzie does not panic. Keeping her head, she makes it to a lifeboat and decides not to worry. She will spend a month or two in cryogenic statis awaiting inevitable resuce, and then proceed with her life. Only it might not be a month or two.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4389'),
(26916, 'Death of the Dragon - Book 3', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13336'),
(26917, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Hedges, Chris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13337'),
(26918, 'Death on Naboo', 'Watson, Jude', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13339'),
(26919, 'Death On the Crosstime Express', 'Chris Roberson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13340'),
(26920, 'Death on the Diagonal', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13342'),
(26921, 'Death on the Nile', 'Death on the Nile', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16468'),
(26922, 'Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hercule Poirot is perhaps Agatha Christie''s most interesting and endearing character; short, round, and slightly comical, Poirot has a razor-sharp mind and puts unlimited trust in his "little grey cells." Those little cells come through for him every time, enabling Poirot to solve some of the most baffling mysteries ever conceived. In\n <em>\n  Death on the Nile\n </em>\n , Poirot, on vacation in Africa, meets the rich, beautiful Linnet Doyle and her new husband, Simon. As usual, all is not as it seems between the newlyweds, and when Linnet is found murdered, Poirot must sort through a boatload of suspects to find the killer before he (or she) strikes again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Linnett Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, brains, and money. Then her best friend Jackie brings her handsome fianc?, Simon Doyle, to visit and asks Linnett to give him a job. Now Linnett and Simon are on their honeymoon, a cruise up the Nile. When Linnett is killed, Jackie is the obvious suspect, but she couldn''t have done it. It seems like an insolvable crime, until the famous detective Hercule Poirot starts to investigate. Death on the Nile deserves its reputation as one of Christie''s best travel mysteries. This recording is capably read by another familiar name, David Suchet, who is well known among both mystery and public TV buffs as the actor who played the role of Poirot in a series of television adaptations of the author''s stories. Expect the trio of Christie, Poirot, and Suchet to be a popular patron selection. St. Mary''s Mead was always a quiet English village, at least until the body of Colonel Protheroe was found in the vicarage library. No one liked the murdered man. His first wife had abandoned him, and their teenage daughter kept out of his way. His much younger, second wife had recently fallen in love with a charming portrait painter. The list of possible suspects seems endless. Two different people confess to the murder. Did either do it? Enter Miss Marple, an elderly maiden lady whose gentle manners conceal an extensive knowledge of human depravity and exceptional deductive abilities. She flutters around, asks questions, and solves the crime. But it is the writing, not the plots, that keeps Christie fans coming back. James Saxon gives a clear, competent reading in Murder at the Vicarage, although initially his voice strikes one as brighter and sharper than one would expect from the gentle, scholarly rector. Eighty-odd years after her first book was published, Christie and her mysteries are more popular than ever. Both programs are recommended for all collections. I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Community Coll., Boone, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13344'),
(26923, 'Death on Tour', 'Janice Hamrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A passport''s not needed to enjoy Hamrick''s ditzy debut, the first in a new cozy series and the winner of the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition. While Austin, Tex., high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her fashionista cousin and best friend, Kyla Shore, are on an Egyptian tour, one of their group, unpopular 55-year-old Millie Owens, takes a fatal plunge off the great pyramid of Khafre outside Cairo. The police later determine that Millie was murdered, stabbed in the neck. Entries in a journal that Jocelyn finds in Millie''s bag suggests someone on the tour might be dangerous. Good-looking Alan Stratton, who''s traveling alone and wears no wedding ring, adds romantic interest. Hamrick does a good job capturing life on an exhausting budget tour as her snazzy if snarky amateur sleuth, who tends to be hard on the middle-aged and elderly, investigates some fishy fellow tourists with a hypercritical eye. (May)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And thatâ€™s only the beginning of their troubles.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the jovial doctor haggling for trinkets he doesnâ€™t want to the mysterious imposter wearing someone elseâ€™s clothing to the attractive stranger traveling alone, this group of tourists is carrying more than one kind of baggage. Add a mistaken identity, a priceless necklace, and another unexpected death, and Jocelyn finds herself reluctantly trying to unravel an intrigue that threatens to end not only her vacation, but her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Janice Hamrickâ€™s Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books Competition winner\n <em>\n  Death on Tour\n </em>\n is a delightful debut and the beginning of a wonderfully charming cozy series featuring Jocelyn Shore, the determined teacher who always seems to get wrapped up in a mystery, against her usually very sound judgment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19375'),
(26924, 'Death Perception', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13348'),
(26925, 'Death Row', 'Mark Pearson; Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifteen years ago when Jack Delaney was a beat cop not long out of Hendon, two children went missing from Carlton Row, a small residential street in Harrow. They were never seen alive again. Two years later Delaney rescued a young girl from the boot of an abandoned car, leading to the capture of Peter Garnier, one of the most horrific child rapists and murderers in recent history. Although the bodies were never found, Garnier admitted to murdering the two children and many, many more. He was sent to prison for the rest of his natural life. Jack had thought the case was closed. But he couldn''t have been more wrong. This morning a another young boy disappears from Carlton Row. Peter Garnier sends Jack the chilling message that they are both at the heart of the mystery, and Delaney has no time to figure out why, or how. Because tonight, the killings begin again a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13351'),
(26926, 'Death Scene', 'Clifford D. Simak - Aliens for Neighbors 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16459'),
(26927, 'Death Squad', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan''s life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan. Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies - all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13353'),
(26928, 'Death Star (Michael Reaves and Steve Perry)', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13354'),
(26929, 'Death Takes a Honeymoon', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TO SURVIVE THE WEDDING OF THE SEASON... Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid can feel the heat when she reunites with an old flame in the wealthy resort community of Sun Valleybut handsome smoke jumper Jack Packard is about to marry Carnegie''s former best friend, now a famous TV actress. With a star-studded ceremony to pull off, a noncommittal boyfriend back in Seattle, and a supercilious Frenchman barking orders, Carnegie has no time for carnal urges. Especially once murder joins the party. YOU''VE GOT TO TAKE THE PLUNGE. The victim was a local hero who leapt from planes to fight fire. But was his impromptu skydive a smoke screen for something sinister? With her florist going AWOL, her bride going ballistically Hollywood, and her curiosity running wild, Carnegie may be in over her head: Someone in Sun Valley is a killerand it''s up to Carnegie to grill the guests and unmask the villain...or watch her glitzy job go up in flames. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13356'),
(26930, 'Death to the Landlords!', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13359'),
(26931, 'Death Trance', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A grieving father wants to enter the world of the dead to visit his murdered family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13360'),
(26932, 'The Death Traps of FX-31', 'Sewell Peaslee Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4390'),
(26933, 'Death Waxed Over', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a competing candlemaker comes to town, Harrison Black tries his best to get along, but when the woman threatens to run him out of town at the Founder''s Day celebration, Harrison argues with her. A few minutes later she is murdered, and someone in the crowd points her finger at Harrison as the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13362'),
(26934, 'Death Wore White', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13363'),
(26935, 'Death, Snow, and Mistletoe', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn''t let a living baby be part of the town''s living crÃ¨che. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13225'),
(26936, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. ** *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13184'),
(26937, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18927'),
(26938, 'Death&#39;s Mistress', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dorina Basarab is a dhampirâ€”half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Doryâ€™s hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she canâ€™t stop the murderer, her friends may be next...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13186'),
(26939, 'Death&#39;s Shadow', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn''t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she''s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity''s greatest threat... _\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his eighth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13192'),
(26940, 'Deathlands - Chill Factor', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14072'),
(26941, 'Deathlands - Dectra Chain', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13223'),
(26942, 'Deathlands - Latitude Zero', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9548'),
(26943, 'Deathlands - Moon Fate', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8724'),
(26944, 'Deathlands - Northstar Rising', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13182'),
(26945, 'Deathlands - Rider, Reaper', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7052'),
(26946, 'Deathlands - Seedling', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6677'),
(26947, 'Deathlands - Shadow Fortress', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6633'),
(26948, 'Deathlands - Shadow World', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6574'),
(26949, 'Deathlands 00 - Encounter', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13228'),
(26950, 'Deathlands 01 - Pilgrimage to Hell', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13230'),
(26951, 'Deathlands 02 - Red Holocoust', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13232'),
(26952, 'Deathlands 03 - Neutron Soltice', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13234'),
(26953, 'Deathlands 04 - Crater Lake', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13236'),
(26954, 'Deathlands 05 - Homeward Bound', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13237'),
(26955, 'Deathlands 06 - Pony Soldiers', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13239'),
(26956, 'Deathlands 07 - Dectra Chain', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13240'),
(26957, 'Deathlands 08 - Ice &amp; Fire', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13241'),
(26958, 'Deathlands 09 - Red Equinox', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13243'),
(26959, 'Deathlands 10 - Northstar Rising', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13258'),
(26960, 'Deathlands 11 - Time Nomads', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13261'),
(26961, 'Deathlands 12 - Latitude Zero', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13263'),
(26962, 'Deathlands 13 - Seedling', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13264'),
(26963, 'Deathlands 14 - Dark Carnival', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13265'),
(26964, 'Deathlands 15 - Chill Factor', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13268'),
(26965, 'Deathlands 16 - Moon Fate', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13269'),
(26966, 'Deathlands 17 - Fury&#39;s Pilgrims', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11401'),
(26967, 'Deathlands 18 - Shockscape', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6374'),
(26968, 'Deathlands 19 - Deep Empire', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13270'),
(26969, 'Deathlands 20 - Cold Asylum', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13271'),
(26970, 'Deathlands 21 - The Twilight Children', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(26971, 'Deathlands 22 - Rider, Reaper', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13272'),
(26972, 'Deathlands 23 - Road Wars', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7040'),
(26973, 'Deathlands 24 - Trader Redux', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13273'),
(26974, 'Deathlands 25 - Genesis Echo', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13245'),
(26975, 'Deathlands 26 - Shadowfall', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13274'),
(26976, 'Deathlands 27 - Ground Zero', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10986'),
(26977, 'Deathlands 28 - Emerald Fire', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13275'),
(26978, 'Deathlands 29 - Bloodlines', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13277'),
(26979, 'Deathlands 30 - Crossways', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13303'),
(26980, 'Deathlands 31 - Keeper of the Sun', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13180'),
(26981, 'Deathlands 32 - Circle Thrice', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14056'),
(26982, 'Deathlands 33 - Eclipse at Noon', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13306'),
(26983, 'Deathlands 34 - Deathlands', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13183'),
(26984, 'Deathlands 35 - Bitter Fruit', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14706'),
(26985, 'Deathlands 36 - Skydark', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13246'),
(26986, 'Deathlands 37 - Demons of Eden', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13173'),
(26987, 'Deathlands 38 - The Mars Arena', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9021'),
(26988, 'Deathlands 39 - Watersleep', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(26989, 'Deathlands 40 - Nightmare Passage', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8377'),
(26990, 'Deathlands 41 - Freedom Lost', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13248'),
(26991, 'Deathlands 42 - Way of the Wolf', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13250'),
(26992, 'Deathlands 43 - Dark Emblem', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13278'),
(26993, 'Deathlands 44 - Crucible of Time', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13662'),
(26994, 'Deathlands 45 - Starfall', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5717'),
(26995, 'Deathlands 46 - Gemini Rising', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11242'),
(26996, 'Deathlands 47 - Gaia&#39;s Demise', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13279'),
(26997, 'Deathlands 48 - Dark Reckoning', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13493'),
(26998, 'Deathlands 50 - Pandora&#39;s Reboubt', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13252'),
(26999, 'Deathlands 51 - Rat King', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7329'),
(27000, 'Deathlands 52 - Zero City', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13280'),
(27001, 'Deathlands 53 - Savage Armada', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13282'),
(27002, 'Deathlands 55 - Shadow Fortress', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13255'),
(27003, 'Deathlands 56 - Sunchild', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13287'),
(27004, 'Deathlands 57 - Breakthrough', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13289'),
(27005, 'Deathlands 58 - Salvation Rd', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13254'),
(27006, 'Deathlands 59 - Amazon Gate', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13291'),
(27007, 'Deathlands 60 - Destiny&#39;s Truth', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13257'),
(27008, 'Deathlands 61 - Skydark Spawn', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6326'),
(27009, 'Deathlands 62 - Damnation Road Show', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13292'),
(27010, 'Deathlands 63 - Devil Riders', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13294'),
(27011, 'Deathlands 64 - Bloodfire', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13295'),
(27012, 'Deathlands 65 - Hellbenders', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13297'),
(27013, 'Deathlands 66 - Separation', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13300'),
(27014, 'Deathlands Crater Lake', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13669'),
(27015, 'Deathlands Genesis Echo', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11266'),
(27016, 'DeathLands Homeward Bound', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13309'),
(27017, 'Deathlands Neutron Soltice', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13302'),
(27018, 'Deathlands Trader Redux', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1108'),
(27019, 'Deathstalker destiny: being the fifth and last part of the life and times of Owen Deathstalker', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible romp through a wonderful universe of space opera.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_SF Site_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owen Deathstalker''s greatest love--Hazel d''Ark--has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." --_Booklist_\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Simon R. Green is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Blue Moon\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Shadows Fall\n   </em>\n   , and thirteen other novels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Deathstalker Destiny\n   </em>\n   is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13193'),
(27020, 'Deathstalker Legacy', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen''s descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor''s desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king''s intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren''t enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis''s jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon''s surface but a brilliant sociopath''s soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn''t withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don''t take it too seriously.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13194');
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(27021, 'Deathstalker Return', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green''s latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003''s Deathstalker Legacy) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the oncoming Terror, an evil and unstoppable force bent on destroying all the worlds in its path. Lewis Deathstalker, descendant of the Beloved Owen, on the lam with his renegade companions, runs into adventure after adventure as he seeks Owen on a variety of planets. Their archenemy, former Paragon Finn Durandal, dogs them every step of the way as he seizes power, overthrows King Douglas and dismantles the Golden Age that Owen helped create 200 years earlier. Others seek to overthrow the nasty Durandal, including the enigmatic robots of Shub, Douglas (who''s not the broken man he appears to be), Paragon Emma Steel and Steel''s unlikely ally, gun-toting girl reporter Nina Malapert. Green ably juggles elements of sword and sorcery, high fantasy, humorous quest and SF, with homages to authors such as Moorcock, Adams, Cordwainer Smith and Zelazny. Amazing coincidences, or the sudden appearance of powerful, supposedly long-dead heroes who give advice, save the day a few too many times, blunting the impact of the characters'' actions, but it''s a fun, twisty romp with surprises around every corner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis Deathstalker''s troubles are many, even if he is with the woman he loves, Jessamine Flowers. The problem is that she was King Douglas'' intended, and that makes Deathstalker a traitor. It is Finn Durandal, nominally a Douglas ally, who is actually hatching the highest treason, and whom Douglas and Deathstalker (the Killer Ds) really have to worry about. Deathstalker''s cohorts continue to be a charming con man, an immortal female gladiator, and a reptiloid named Saturday. They and Lewis constitute a tough bunch, but what will happen should Lewis'' ancestor Owen Deathstalker, thought to have been dead for two centuries, return? But then, is there anything dire enough to necessitate his return? Tune in on the next Deathstalker volume for answers to those questions, but meanwhile have fun with this one. After all, reading even one Deathstalker leaves one feeling jollier than before, for the series continues to avoid the lapses of tone so common in humorous space opera and fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13195'),
(27022, 'Deathworld', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13199'),
(27023, 'Deathworld 2', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9367'),
(27024, 'Deathworld 3', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13197'),
(27025, 'Debt Collectors, CCJs, IVAs and Bankruptcy', 'GA; P', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you worried about Debts? Does the idea of a knock on the door keep you awake at night? Do you really know your rights? This excellent quick-read guide gives you answers to the most commonly asked questions, and firmly puts YOU back in control. Don''t be left in the dark - read this guide and protect yourself from unlawful and unethical action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13200'),
(27026, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13203'),
(27027, 'Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents', 'Zac Bissonnette; Andrew Tobias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In keeping with the new frugality, this college guide, written by a senior attending the University of Massachusetts, offers practical advice on how to pay for college without taking out loans. Decidedly old school in approach, Bissonnette advocates that students should bear the brunt of paying for their educations by working while in college and during breaks. He also suggests that attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year college or university would go a long way toward cutting costs. Systematically and amusingly debunking the selection criteria used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank elite colleges, Bissonnette is a strong advocate of attending reasonably priced state schools. He makes good points about how debt from student loans often prevents recent grads from starting families or buying homes. He also presents convincing research that elite graduate programs and selective employers accept plenty of people who have attended nonelite schools. Although the strictly dollars-and-cents approach to higher education may not sit well with some parents, this is a timely guide to a decision that has important financial ramifications. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If the National Association for College Admissions Counseling had anticipated the dire consequences of one of the smartest teenagers in America encountering the ill-examined assumptions of their profession, they might have found some way to buy him off, maybe a full ride scholarship to Harvard. Too late. Bissonnette is 21 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process."\n <br />\n -Jay Mathews,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let Zac Bissonnette help you plan for college-where to go, what to study, and how to pay for it-and you will finish rich"\n <br />\n -David Bach #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Automatic Millionaire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Start Late, Finish Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the new economy, your college choice is critical. Zac Bissonnette''s\n <em>\n  Debt- Free U\n </em>\n is the one book you need to make this life-changing decision-- thoroughly researched, smart, and funny. Grade: A+."\n <br />\n -Ali Rogers, CBS Moneywatch. Author,\n <em>\n  Diary of a Real Estate Rookie\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With Bissonnette, college-bound students and their parents finally have an unbiased source to help make an educated decision about choosing and affording college. Not to mention, his advice can help you pocket tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to make a smart investment in this economy? Buy\n <em>\n  Debt-Free U\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of\n <em>\n  Psych Yourself Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13207'),
(27028, 'Debtors&#39; Planet', 'W. R. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technological society, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM are ordered to transport an unlikely passenger to the system, a ruthless twentieth-century businessman who is now a Federation ambassador.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Ferengi have been changing Megaran culture, turning a hard working and horoable people into vicious xenophobic killers. But the Ferengi are only hired hands. They have hidden masters, with plans to use the Magaran people as a powerful weapon against the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Picard must find a way to use the talents of this new ambassador to free the Megarans. But the ambassador is hididng a deadly secret of his own -- a secret that could unleash an unstoppable destructive force on the Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13209'),
(27029, 'Decaf and Spacesip, To Go', 'Katherine Sanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13211'),
(27030, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13212'),
(27031, 'The Decameron', 'Giovanni Boccaccio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4391'),
(27032, 'The Decayed Leg Bone', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4292'),
(27033, 'Deceived', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game\n <i>\n  Star Wars\n </i>\n &#174;: The Old Republic&#8482; ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order''s Dark Lords--Darth Malgus, the mysterious, masked Sith of the wildly popular "Deceived" and "Hope" game trailers.\n <br />\n <br />\n Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace would transform him into something far more heinous--something Malgus would never want to be, but cannot stop, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching.\n <br />\n <br />\n Her name is Aryn Leneer--and the lone Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master. And now she''s going to find out what happened to him, even if it means breaking every rule in the book.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5644'),
(27034, 'The deceiver', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling author Frederick Forsyth follows the success of his latest work, The Negotiator, with this major thriller rich in color and suspense. Longtime British Intelligence operative Sam McCready must recount the most intricate cases of his career at a credibility hearing, after he is abruptly handed his walking papers. "A rolling good read".--New York Times Book Review.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4293'),
(27035, 'The Deceivers', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17999'),
(27036, 'December 6: A Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo''s underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13213'),
(27037, 'Deception', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI have just finished reading Randy Alcornâ€™s new novel.\n <em>\n  Deception\n </em>\n is the same high quality as Randyâ€™s related novels\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n . All three are page-turnersâ€¦Randy is a gifted writer. I strongly recommend that you read his books.â€\n <br />\n - Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate champion, international film and television star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Deception_ was as engaging to me as books by Chricton or Clancyâ€¦Iâ€™m sure glad Randy canâ€™t paint, or Iâ€™d be in big trouble!â€\n <br />\n - Ron DiCianni, award-winning artist, author of\n <em>\n  Beyond Words\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn is amazing. Heâ€™s one of my all-time favorite authors.â€\n <br />\n - Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption series and the Firstborn series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcorn has written a novel that combines the suspense of John Grisham and the theological pondering of C.S. Lewis.â€\n <br />\n - New Man Magazine for\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Deadline_] is for clear thinkers who enjoy a good argument. There can be no mistaking â€” and there should be no ignoring â€” the vital message of this book.â€\n <br />\n - Frank Peretti, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  This Present Darkness\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn has hit it out of the park.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is riveting. Motivating. Intriguing. Provocative. And itâ€™s for the mystery lovers too. Many books feed the mind. Some feed the heart.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n nourishes both.â€\n <br />\n - Stu Weber, author of Tender Warrior\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch, and he fills the pages with enough tension to cause ulcers.â€\n <br />\n - Bookstore Journal for\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œMessinâ€™ with meâ€™s like wearinâ€™ cheese underwear down rat alley.â€\n <br />\n -Ollie Chandler\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Homicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when heâ€™s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places heâ€™s never gone before.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Places he never wanted to go.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. Thatâ€™s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubtsâ€¦about himself. Where was\n <em>\n  he\n </em>\n during the time of the murder?\n</p>\n<p>\n Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy themâ€“and anyone who tries to help. But theyâ€™re in too deep to quit. Theyâ€™ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truthâ€¦\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n No matter how uglyâ€“or dangerousâ€“it gets.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollieâ€™s first law: â€œThings are often not what they appear.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13214'),
(27038, 'Deception', 'Lee Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18353'),
(27039, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power. When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13215'),
(27040, 'Deceptions', '[Jedi Apprentice] - Special Edition - 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13217'),
(27041, 'Decider', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of his best.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A smash hit novel now in tradeâ€”from â€œa rare and magical talentâ€¦ who never writes the same story twice.â€(_San Diego Union-Tribune_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Decider\n </em>\n , inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feudâ€”and the target of a ruthless killerâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13218'),
(27042, 'Decision at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13219'),
(27043, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13221'),
(27044, 'Declare', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it''s 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah''s ark. James Theodora is the Ã¼ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There''s plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of\n <em>\n  A Thousand and One Nights\n </em>\n , which is Hale''s guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and\n <em>\n  amonon\n </em>\n plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There''s a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers''s many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah''s Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale''s mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby''s death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It''s all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19206'),
(27045, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4294'),
(27046, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13222'),
(27047, 'Dedication', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16035'),
(27048, 'The Deeds of the Disturber', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody! Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4297'),
(27049, 'Deep As The Marrow', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the president of the United States decides to back the legalization of marijuana, organized crime decides he must die.  But for them to succeed, he must die without blame on them.  So they are going to make his best friendâ€”his personal physicianâ€”kill him.First, they kidnap the doctorâ€™s daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13224'),
(27050, 'Deep black', 'Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13227'),
(27051, 'Deep black', 'Stephen Coonts &amp; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18729'),
(27052, 'The Deep Black Thou Wingest', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4298'),
(27053, 'The Deep Blue Good-By', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Travis McGee, beach bum and ''salvage expert'' (he''ll retrieve what you''ve lost for 50 per cent), lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale. Instead of taking retirement at sixty, he takes it in chunks as he goes along. If he likes you he''ll help you, and he likes Cathy Kerr, who has been robbed of everything but her dignity...the first in the series establishes the fast-talking, wisecracking standard MacDonald maintained for over 20 years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John D MacDonald (1916-1986) MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. After war service in the Far East he wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps and over seventy novels, including the 21 in the Travis McGee sequence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4299'),
(27054, 'The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries... A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love... A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together... "New York Times" bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin--and where they may be fulfilled at last.... Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.... Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice''s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4300'),
(27055, 'Deep Drive', 'Alexander Jablokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18082'),
(27056, 'Deep Fathom', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13229'),
(27057, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13235'),
(27058, 'Deeper (Tunnels)', 'Brian Williams; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx''s dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save all those above from annihilation when his own life is at risk down below--and when his killer sister is still at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13238'),
(27059, 'A deeper sleep', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review) SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16128'),
(27060, 'Deeper than the Night.htm', 'Amanda Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13242'),
(27061, 'A Deepness In The Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep  (1992). The title is coined by one of the story''s main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16130'),
(27062, 'Deepsix', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A spellbinding epic adventure of discovery, catastrophe, and survival from one of the most masterful storytellers in speculative fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity -- a life-supporting planet -- is about to vanish forever, as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team -- including Randall Nightingale, a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure -- must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet''s lifeforms and lost civilizations.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike, primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble ... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles, and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But then the unthinkable occurs. An earthquake destroys the explorers'' only means of escape. As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above, Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way, to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the acclaimed author of *Infinity Beach* comes the ultimate survival adventure -- a riveting, relentlessly suspenseful, awesomely possible tale with a firm foundation in hard science which showcases the best and the worst aspects of complex human nature. It is yet another stunning achievement by Jack McDevitt, proving without a doubt that he is indeed the true heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13244'),
(27063, 'The Deerslayer', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <i>\n       The Deerslayer\n      </i>\n      , byÂ \n      <b>\n       James Fenimore Cooper\n      </b>\n      , is part of theÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      <i>\n       Â \n      </i>\n      series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      :\n      <div>\n       <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n        <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n       All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n       <i>\n        Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n       </i>\n       pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     â€œLive by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.â€\n     <br />\n     -Natty Bumppo,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman ofÂ \n     <b>\n      James Fenimore Cooper\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      Leatherstocking Tales\n     </i>\n     , a series of five novels that includesÂ \n     <i>\n      The Last of the Mohicans\n     </i>\n     Â andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     . Although the final volume to be written,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppoâ€™s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Set in the 1740â€™s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoâ€”known as Deerslayerâ€”and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutterâ€™s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tomâ€™s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the earliest novels to be considered truly â€œAmerican,"Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <b>\n       Bruce L. R. Smith\n      </b>\n      Â is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4303'),
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(27065, 'The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s Clint''s first case and everything should be going really well.  And it probably would be if he''d managed to stay awake when he was briefed. With four suspects and clues flying will he be able to find out who''s guilty? Or even what they''re guilty of?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4304'),
(27066, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦** Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise. *Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.* In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same. Filled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4306'),
(27067, 'The Defenceless Dead', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4309');
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(27068, 'Defend and Betray', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the generalâ€™s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed himâ€“a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose.Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husbandâ€™s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13247'),
(27069, 'Defender', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the best long-running SF series in existence, Cherryh''s Foreigner Universe books (Precursor, etc.) tell the story of a small human colony abandoned on a planet inhabited by the atevi, an alien race whose humanoid anatomy disguises radically different instincts and thought patterns. Misunderstandings have led to war in the past and make human/atevi diplomacy incredibly difficult. Bren Cameron trained for decades to be the paidhi, the only human allowed to negotiate with the atevi, overseeing the slow transfer of advanced human technology to the brilliant but less advanced natives of the planet in trade for vital raw materials. Eventually, Bren changed sides, becoming the representative of Tabini, the atevi''s ruler, to humanity. Now the political situation has been complicated by the return of the Phoenix, the starship whose much hated crew abandoned the colonists some two centuries earlier, and, worse yet, by the starship''s report that its crew has discovered a hostile space-faring race relatively nearby. The senior captain of the Phoenix, negotiating through Bren, agrees to help Tabini build a second starship to defend the planet, but as Bren learns after the captain''s mysterious death, other plots are afoot and not all the information shared by the starship can be trusted. As usual, Cherryh provides a riveting plot that emphasizes intense human/alien interactions instead of physical violence. Perhaps undervalued because she writes in traditional forms that don''t appeal to the literati, while too difficult for some fans of space opera, Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field. (Nov. 6)Forecast: The pulpish jacket art by the usually quite competent Stephen Youll won''t bring in new readers who will appreciate Cherryh''s work, but established fans will know bette\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this sequel to Precursor, the alien atevi enter the treacherous politics of space travel-as their one human negotiator is caught in the throes of a mutiny...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13249'),
(27070, 'The Defenders and Three Others', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four classic tales by Philip K. Dick! Here are "The Defenders," in which mankind has taken refuge beneath the Earth''s surface, leaving all-out war to robots ... "Beyond Lies the Wub," in which a highly philosophical Martian creature finds itself on the wrong end of the dinner table ... "The Crystal Crypt," in which the last Terran ship from Mars finds terrorists aboard ... and "Beyond the Door," a most unusual story in which an abusive husband ends up with more than he bargains for!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4311'),
(27071, 'The Defenders of the Dead', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4314'),
(27072, 'The Defiant Agents', 'Andre Norton - Ross Murdock 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18046'),
(27073, 'Definitely dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13251'),
(27074, 'Definitely, A Crime Of Passion', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(27075, 'DEFINITION', 'harry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17420'),
(27076, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4316'),
(27077, 'Deja Dead', 'KATHY REICHS', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she''ll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who''d arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe''s convinced there are parallels between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues. Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon all her f\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13253'),
(27078, 'Deja Demon', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13256'),
(27079, 'The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction&#39;s Finest Voices', 'Ellen Datlow (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œEllen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America.â€â€“Peter StraubWith original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and othersFrom Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most respected names in science fiction and fantasy, comes a collection of fifteen all-new short stories, plus a science fiction novella, that could count as a virtual â€œbest of the yearâ€ anthology. Here you will find slyly twisted alternate histories, fractured fairy tales, topical science fiction, and edgy urban fantasy. In â€œDaltharee,â€ World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeffrey Ford spins a chilling tale of a city in a bottleâ€“and the demented genius who put it there. In â€œSonny Liston Takes the Fall,â€ John W. Campbell Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear pens a poignant and eerie requiem for the heavyweight forever associated with his controversial loss to Cassius Clay. From hot new writer Margo Lanagan comes â€œThe Goosle,â€ a dark, astonishing take on Hansel and Gretel. In the novella â€œPrisoners of the Action,â€ Paul MccAuley and Kim Newman take a trip down a rabbit hole that leads to a Guantanamo-like prison whose inmates are not just illegal but extraterrestrial. Many of the writers youâ€™ll recognize. Others you may not. But one thing is certain: These stars of today and tomorrow demonstrate that the field of speculative fiction is not only alive and wellâ€“itâ€™s better than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4317'),
(27080, 'Delerium on Deneb', 'Rolf Martell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13259'),
(27081, 'Delicious and Suspicious', 'Riley Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sassy first in a new series from Adams (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Spann Craig), Lulu Taylor, owner of Aunt Pat''s, a Memphis, Tenn., rib eatery, is all aflutter because the Cooking Channel has sent food scout Rebecca Adrian to check out Lulu''s down-home specialties for a future show. Too bad Rebecca''s searching for dirt as well as the best BBQ in Memphis. She quickly insults a number of people, including Lulu''s daughter-in-law, Sara, and Lulu''s son, Seb, who happens to be Rebecca''s former boyfriend. When Rebecca''s poisoned, chaos reigns. Lulu later uncovers the corpse of Mildred Cameron, an elderly bookseller and aspiring romance author/sleuth, who was also offended by the tart-tongued Rebecca. Aiding and abetting Lulu''s investigation are the Graces, docents at Graceland, whose devotion to Elvis adds some goofy firepower to this sometimes poky paint-bythe-numbers cozy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Welcome to Aunt Pat''s barbecue restaurant, which serves up Memphis fun with a side order of murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recipes included.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Named in honor of Lulu Taylor''s great aunt, Aunt Pat''s family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for murder...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Adrian came to Memphis to suss out the best local BBQ for a prominent Cooking Channel Show. Trouble is, a mystery ingredient has killed her-and now all fingers are pointing to Aunt Pat''s restaurant. Horrified that her family is being accused of murder, Lulu fires up her investigative skills to solve the crime before someone else gets skewered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13260'),
(27082, 'DeLint-CoyoteStories - Notepad', 'Glenn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16913'),
(27083, 'Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before I Fall\n </em>\n , throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options donâ€™t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliverâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think itâ€™s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously,\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n could have had this as a sub-title!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moodyâ€”but somehow optimisticâ€”songs. The title couldnâ€™t be more a propos, obviously.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficientâ€”to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n She asks over and over,\n <em>\n  Will you feel anything at all?\n </em>\n Enough said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! Itâ€™s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n -esque.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is one of those anthems that pushes you forwardâ€”a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering youâ€™re in control of your own destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n . It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Blues Traveler is so underratedâ€”itâ€™s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs.\n <em>\n  The time is now and you donâ€™t have long\n </em>\n â€¦ So true, man. So true!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lenaâ€”maybe while they''re in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Nothing like some old school romanceâ€”they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lenaâ€™s mom would have liked.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thereâ€™s something scary about this song. Itâ€™s so foreboding and passionateâ€”and I love it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliverâ€™s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: itâ€™s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalidsâ€”a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alexâ€™s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliverâ€™s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romanceâ€”Alex is standard-issue perfectionâ€”but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orangeâ€“style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13262'),
(27084, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13266'),
(27085, 'Deliverance', 'James Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Released for the first time in trade paperback, this is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13267'),
(27086, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose', 'Tony Hsieh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13123'),
(27087, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13127'),
(27088, 'Delta of Venus', 'Anais Nin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Delta of Venus Anaiuml;s Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13129'),
(27089, 'the Delta Star (1983)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4322'),
(27090, 'deluge', 'The Deluge Drivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13137'),
(27091, 'deluge', 'Deluge Drivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18210'),
(27092, 'Deluge II', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13138'),
(27093, 'Delusions of Grandeur', 'Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13140'),
(27094, 'Delusions of Grandeur (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights (Paperback))', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Star Wars - 190 - Young Jedi Knights 09 - EDITORIAL REVIEW: As the young Jedi Knights continue their search for Raynor Thul''s father, they turn for assistance to a dangerous resource, the reprogrammed assassin droid IG-88, a fearsome bounty hunter that the young Jedis may or may not have under control. Original."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13142'),
(27095, 'The Demigod Files', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood''s senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson''s most perilous adventures, a Spotter''s Guide to Monsters, a Who''s Who in Greek mythology, Percy''s Summer Camp report and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, if you''re armed with this book, you''ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures have just begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4325'),
(27096, 'Demilitarized Zone', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Decorated Legion war hero Captain Joey Czerinski and his platoon go to planet New Coloradoâ€™s New Gobi Desert to guard the demilitarized zone dividing human-occupied territory from areas claimed by the Arthropodan Empire. With a new alien spider commander, a human boy rising to lead a militia, and McDonald''s, Walmart, and Chupacabra added to the mix, the funny bone gets smacked hard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13145'),
(27097, 'Democracy Incorporated', 'Wolin, Sheldon S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13147'),
(27098, 'The demolished man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13149'),
(27099, 'Demolition Angel (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13150'),
(27100, 'The Demon and the City', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  ) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three. Meanwhile, Deveth''s girlfriend, Robin Yuan, frees Mhara, a demon Robin''s research company has been experimenting on for defense reasons. Robin and Zhu Irzh''s paths cross as they follow the trail of the killer, leading them to uncover a larger plot involving a goddess in Heaven''s bid for power. As the end of the world beckons, Mhara, who is far more than he seems, offers his help, but Heaven, Hell, Earth and everything in between falls into chaos. Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  (2005) returns to Singapore Three, a twenty-first-century cityscape renowned for its ready access to the denizens of heaven and hell. While Detective Inspector Wei Chen takes a brief hiatus from his customary paranormal investigations, his underworld sidekick, vice-squad-specialist Zhu Irzh, stumbles on a tricky case involving the apparently demonic murder of a beautiful young woman. When the trail leads to the heiress of the powerful Paugeng Corporation, Zhu Irzh feels inexplicably drawn to this devilishly ruthless but very human woman and inadvertently implicates himself as a murder suspect. Chen''s return to sort things out only complicates matters, however, as the pair tracks other suspects, including an enigmatic demon the corporation has been harboring for experimental purposes and a celestial goddess whose unlikely alliance with hell threatens to rain chaos down on the earthbound. Fantasy enthusiasts looking for something uniquely imaginative will find it in Williams'' surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4328'),
(27101, 'Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18902'),
(27102, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13153'),
(27103, 'Demon Child', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13154'),
(27104, 'Demon Ex Machina', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13156'),
(27105, 'The Demon Girl', 'Penelope Fletcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rae Wilder has problems. Plunged into a world of dark magic, fierce creatures and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. Rae finds herself beaten up, repeatedly, and forced to make a choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something wicked, a force of nature nothing can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18326'),
(27106, 'Demon Hunts', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. **Literally.** She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13158'),
(27107, 'The Demon in Me', 'Michelle Rowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20703'),
(27108, 'The Demon in the Freezer', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œThe bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines.â€*-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with â€œhotâ€ agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In **The Demon in the Freezer**, his first nonfiction book since **The Hot Zone**, a #1 *New York Times *bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the worldâ€™s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines.Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the governmentâ€™s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4330'),
(27109, 'Demon Keepers (2010)', 'Andersen, Jessica - Final Prophecy 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: According to Mayan doomsday prophecy, 12/21/12 marks the end of the world in a global cataclysm that can only be prevented by the Nightkeepers, magical warriors enlisted to fight the rise of the underworld demons. To fulfill the final prophecy the Nightkeepers must find their mates, but when Lucius and Jade are charged with rescuing the Mayan sun god, they try to ignore their growing attraction. Unless they can confront their own demons and accept that love isn''t a weakness, even destiny might not be able to save them...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13159'),
(27110, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13163'),
(27111, 'Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the Dâ€™Artigo Sistersâ€”half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityâ€”and to stop a demon from devouring Delilahâ€™s soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13164'),
(27112, 'The Demon of Dakar', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavezâ€™s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4332'),
(27113, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13165'),
(27114, 'The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4334'),
(27115, 'Demon: A Memoir', 'Tosca Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I''m going to tell you my story, and you''re going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian''s dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon''s story has become his own. And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.************Praise for *Demon: A Memoir*******"So few books rattle me to the core yet lift my hopes to the heavens in the same breath. Tosca Lee''s *Demon:Â A Memoir* is a rare find that must be read."**Ted Dekker**, *New York Times* best-selling author of the Circle Trilogy"Compelling, deep... a novel that has you compulsively turning pages and makes you think at the same time."**James Scott Bell**, best-selling Author of *DeceivedÂ *"Wise, imaginative, funny and poetic, this is a book that lingers in memory after you''ve turned the last page."**Sophy Burnham**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *A Book of Angels*"Fresh, yet older than time. Years from now, we may find other books being compared to this one."**Eric Wilson**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *Fireproof* "Powerful and beautiful. Her imagery of Eden, of Paradise and angels and Elohim, filled me with awe."**Novel Reviews**********"Lee is really proving to be a leader in the art of speculative fiction."Â **Inside Corner Book Reviews** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13166'),
(27116, 'Demon&#39;s Passage', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13174'),
(27117, 'The Demonata #6: Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4333'),
(27118, 'Demonology', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13167'),
(27119, 'Demons', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as "The Possessed," Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of "Demons" as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia-a novel that is rivaled only by "The Brothers Karamazov" as Dostoevsky''s greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13168'),
(27120, 'Demons Are a Ghoul&#39;s Best Friend', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Laurie''s ghoulishly great follow-up to\n   <em>\n    What''s a Ghoul to Do?\n   </em>\n   in her new Ghost Hunter Mystery series\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school''s summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting. But with a demonic disturbance as great as Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no mercyto send him to detention for an eternity-in hell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13169'),
(27121, 'Demons are Forever', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13170'),
(27122, 'Demons Don&#39;t Dream - Xanth 16', 'Piers Anthony (rsv)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13172'),
(27123, 'The Den of Shadows Quartet', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSâ€”ONE CAPTIVATING WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night\n </em>\n <br />\n Three hundred years ago Risika had a familyâ€”a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Demon in My View\n </em>\n <br />\n Jessica isnâ€™t your average high school studentâ€”sheâ€™s an acclaimed published author of vampire fiction. Now two new students at her high school strongly remind her of her favorite characters. But those characters only live in her imaginationâ€”right?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shattered Mirror\n </em>\n <br />\n Christopher Raneva and Sarah Vida may look like a normal high school couple, but heâ€™s actually a vampire whoâ€™s sworn off human blood and sheâ€™s an incredibly powerful, vampire-hunting witch. As if that werenâ€™t enough to prevent their love, his past and her future collide when they get tangled up with Nikolas, one of the most reviled vampires ever.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator\n </em>\n <br />\n Once a happy teenager, Turquoise Draka is now a vampire hunter. Her current assigment is to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. But to do that, sheâ€™ll have to enter Midnight, a fabled vampire realm, as a human slave. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4337');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27124, 'Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives', 'Michael Specter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.** In *Denialism, New Yorker* staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad-that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn''t always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and "natural" cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards-such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed. As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against *progress*. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In *Denialism*, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind''s greatest scientific advances-and our greatest need for them-that deal must be renewed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13176'),
(27125, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13177'),
(27126, 'Depraved', 'Bryan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town''s traps. Some will be held for their captors'' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13178'),
(27127, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13179'),
(27128, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18857'),
(27129, 'Depths of Madness - Book 1', 'Bie, Eric Scott de', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13181'),
(27130, 'Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America&#39;s Most Fiendish Killer', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America''s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place....On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd''s disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13185'),
(27131, 'Derelict For Trade', 'Andre Norton - Solar Queen 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18023'),
(27132, 'The Derelict', 'William Hope Hodgson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4338'),
(27133, 'Dermaphoria', 'Craig Clevenger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13187'),
(27134, 'The Dervish House', 'Ian McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world.THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4340'),
(27135, 'Deryni 01 - Camber of Culdi', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13188'),
(27136, 'Deryni 02 - Saint Camber', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13189'),
(27137, 'Deryni 03 - Camber the Heretic', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13190'),
(27138, 'Deryni 04 - The Harrowing of Gwynedd', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13191'),
(27139, 'Deryni 05 - King Javan&#39;s Year', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13196'),
(27140, 'Deryni 06 - The Bastard Prince', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13198'),
(27141, 'Deryni 07 - In the King&#39;s Service', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13201'),
(27142, 'Deryni 08 - Childe Morgan', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13202'),
(27143, 'Deryni 10 - Deryni Rising', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13206'),
(27144, 'Deryni 11 - Deryni Checkmate', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13208'),
(27145, 'Deryni 12 - High Deryni', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13210'),
(27146, 'Deryni 13 - The Bishop&#39;s Heir', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16194'),
(27147, 'Deryni 14 - The King&#39;s Justice', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13077'),
(27148, 'Deryni 15- The Quest for Saint Camber', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13078'),
(27149, 'Deryni 16 - King Kelson&#39;s Bride', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13079'),
(27150, 'Deryni 20 Deryni Archives', 'Katherine Kurtz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13080'),
(27151, 'The Descent of Anansi', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4344'),
(27152, 'The Descent', 'Jeff Long', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Long''s smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid relatives of Homo sapiens evolved to live in the depths of what appears to be hell." (*Baltimore Sun*) "A return to the fantastic epics readers associate with H.G. Wells or Jules Verne." (*Chicago Tribune*) "As frightening and exhilarating as anything in heaven or hell." (*Denver Rocky Mountain News*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4341'),
(27153, 'A Desert Called Peace', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing â€“as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth''s corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey''s family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do. A legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not become exactly like the enemy he is fighting. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera''s enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16133'),
(27154, 'Desert Gold', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13081'),
(27155, 'Desert Places: a Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13084'),
(27156, 'The Desert Spear', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a generalâ€”some would say prophetâ€”who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it?Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Sharâ€™Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weaponsâ€”a spear and a crownâ€”that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkindâ€”whether they like it or not. But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Sharâ€™Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demonsâ€”or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligentâ€”and deadlyâ€”than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4345'),
(27157, 'Designing With Souls', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13085'),
(27158, 'A Desirable Residence', 'Madeleine Wickham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the *New York Times *bestsellers *The Wedding Girl *and *Sleeping Arrangements, *comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage ***The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their livesâ€”and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. *A Desirable Residence *is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16135'),
(27159, 'Desire Unchained', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13088'),
(27160, 'Desires Of a Perfect Lady (2010)', 'Alexander, Victoria', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13093'),
(27161, 'Desires of the Dead', 'Derting, Kimberly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18344'),
(27162, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13094'),
(27163, 'Desperate Alliances', 'Cory Daniells', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a land of enchantment and betrayal, an empress sworn to a new future must face the\n  <br />\n  world she left behind. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, Imoshen is the last Tâ€™En empress--blessed with exotic beauty and an extraordinary gift for healing. Once the enemy of the fierce Ghebite General Tulkhan, Imoshen surrendered herself and her island to the powerful invader to save her people. But what began as a political alliance blossomed into a passionate love, and now they share both a kingdom and a newborn son.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Imoshenâ€™s past still comes back to haunt her, as the Tâ€™En renegade, Reothe, refuses to relinquish his once betrothed. Believing Tulkhan will reject Imoshen if she carries another manâ€™s child, Reothe uses Tâ€™En trickery to seduce her; but Tulkhanâ€™s love proves stronger. Angered and betrayed by Reothe, Imoshen still cannot bring herself to forsake her fellow Tâ€™En. For Imoshen is hungry for the ultimate intimacy--the sacred mind-touch that she can share only with Reothe. It is a longing that could jeopardize her heart--and perhaps even the future of Fair Isle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a land of enchantment and betrayal, an empress sworn to a new future must face the\n  <br />\n  world she left behind. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, Imoshen is the last T?En empress--blessed with exotic beauty and an extraordinary gift for healing. Once the enemy of the fierce Ghebite General Tulkhan, Imoshen surrendered herself and her island to the powerful invader to save her people. But what began as a political alliance blossomed into a passionate love, and now they share both a kingdom and a newborn son.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Imoshen?s past still comes back to haunt her, as the T?En renegade, Reothe, refuses to relinquish his once betrothed. Believing Tulkhan will reject Imoshen if she carries another man?s child, Reothe uses T?En trickery to seduce her; but Tulkhan?s love proves stronger. Angered and betrayed by Reothe, Imoshen still cannot bring herself to forsake her fellow T?En. For Imoshen is hungry for the ultimate intimacy--the sacred mind-touch that she can share only with Reothe. It is a longing that could jeopardize her heart--and perhaps even the future of Fair Isle.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13100'),
(27164, 'Desperate Cargo', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infiltrating a Dutch human trafficking organization turns deadly when two undercover agents are tortured and shot. Protected by a complex infrastructure and ruthless lawyers, the businessmen behind the crime are untouchable under international law. But Mack Bolan isn''t about to play by their rules.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Entering Holland alone, Bolan heads to Rotterdam where he is prepared to seek out his target and destroy the corrupt organization piece by piece. The leaders of the group think they are invincible, but with the lives of women and children at stake, they are about to learn what it''s like to be hunted by the Executioner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18888'),
(27165, 'Desperate Hearts', 'Lani Aames', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talley Robinson has returned to her hometown in Tennessee in the hopes of rekindling the flame that once burned for her childhood sweetheart Mitch. For years she has missed him, so she wants to give the relationship they''d once shared another try.But Talley soon finds herself forced into a dilemma: she must choose between the young man she''d loved as a girl and the older man she can''t seem to walk away from.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13102'),
(27166, 'The Desperate Mission', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4348'),
(27167, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13104'),
(27168, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13105'),
(27169, 'Desperation, Nevada', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thereâ€™s a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. Itâ€™s known as Desperation, Nevada. Itâ€™s not a very nice place to live. Itâ€™s an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13107'),
(27170, 'Destination unknown', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. DestinationUnknownThomas Charles Betterton, a famous scientist, has vanished. Conflicting reports of sightings of the missing man have come in from all over Europe. Then, his wife of six months decides to take a holiday to Morocco--for a rest That''s when a strange and surprising series of events begins to unfold. A superb--and different--mystery from a master at her best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13109'),
(27171, 'Destined for an Early Grave', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13111'),
(27172, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13113'),
(27173, 'Destiny', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ancient order tied to the Vatican . . . A blood fortune buried in the caves of France . . . A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil . . .** Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed''s fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudin hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny: a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Annja embarks on a high-tension race across Europe and history itself, intent on linking the unholy treachery of the ages with the staggering revelations of the present. But she must survive the shadow figures determined to silence her threat to their existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13119'),
(27174, 'Destiny 01: Gods of Night', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy''s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation -- and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth''s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains -- Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , TM William Riker of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Titan\n  </em>\n  , and Ezri Dax of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Aventine\n  </em>\n  -- that some destinies are inescapable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13114'),
(27175, 'Destiny 02: Mere Mortals', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Earth, Federation President Nanietta Bacco gathers allies and adversaries to form a desperate last line of defense against an impending Borg invasion. In deep space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Ezri Dax join together to cut off the Collective''s route to the Alpha Quadrant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Half a galaxy away, Captain William Riker and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Titan\n  </em>\n  have made contact with the reclusive Caeliar -- survivors of a stellar cataclysm that, two hundred years ago, drove fissures through the structure of space and time, creating a loop of inevitability and consigning another captain and crew to a purgatory from which they could never escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the supremely advanced Caeliar will brook no further intrusion upon their isolation, or against the sanctity of their Great Work....For the small, finite lives of mere mortals carry little weight in the calculations of gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even gods may come to understand that they underestimate humans at their peril.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13116'),
(27176, 'Destiny 03: Lost Souls', 'David MacK; Gene Roddenberry; Rick Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal -- and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back -- only forward to whatever future awaits them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice...this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13118'),
(27177, 'Destiny Kills', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13120'),
(27178, 'Destiny&#39;s Forge (Man-Kzin Wars Series)', 'Paul Chafe, Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For fifty thousand years the Kzinti Patriarchy thrived on battle fought for conquest.  Against all odds the humans stopped them, and for five wars kept on stopping them.  With its violent expansion checked internal strains have built up within the Patriarchy, and now they threaten to tear it apart.  When the ambitious Kchula-Tzaatz makes a bid for ultimate power the established order comes tumbling down, and the flames of war burn hot in Destiny''s Forge. Hammered on that Forge are; Major Quacy Tskombe, battle hardened warrior turned diplomat.  His life is duty, his mission takes him to the Citadel of the Patriarch in a last ditch effort to avert war.  When it all falls apart he''s forced to choose between love and loyalty, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. Captain Ayla Cherenkova, starship commander.  As talented as she is beautiful, her hatred of the Kzinti has driven her to the top.   Her space combat genius is unmatched, but when she''s trapped alone in the jungles of Kzinhome her survival will depend on a whole new skillset. Pouncer, First-Son-of-Meerz-Rritt, heir apparent to the galaxy''s most powerful empire.  He''s reduced to a nameless fugitive with the collapse of his father''s dynasty.  Survival demands escape, but honor demands vengeance, and the price of his Name will be paid in the blood of worlds.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paul Chafe presents a masterpiece in the grand tradition of epic science fiction.  No fan of Larry Niven''s best-selling Known Space series can miss Destiny''s Forge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13121'),
(27179, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A return to the world of the Warlands... ** Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13124'),
(27180, 'Destiny&#39;s Truth', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13125'),
(27181, 'Destiny&#39;s Way', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemyâ€”from without and within.In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrenderâ€”Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-armsâ€”are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republicâ€™s favor.After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jainaâ€™s brother Jacenâ€”liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergereâ€”is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republicâ€™s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight againstâ€”and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13126'),
(27182, 'Destinys Road', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13122'),
(27183, 'Destruction Of A Goddess', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13128'),
(27184, 'The Destruction of Faena', 'Alexander Kazantsev', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18088'),
(27185, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13130'),
(27186, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten &amp; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18854'),
(27187, 'Detroit Deathwatch', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $150 Million Plus. Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown. Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13131'),
(27188, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13132'),
(27189, 'Deviation from a Theme', 'Steven Utley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13133'),
(27190, 'A Device of Death', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The crew of the TARDIS are scattered across the stars and the Doctor''s memory has been wiped. The fourth Doctor is at the heart of a star spanning conspiracy involving the Time Lords and the ultimate device of death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16138');
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(27191, 'The devil and Miss Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new novel of temptation by the author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "The Zahir," A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by his painful past. A woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos, a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to the question: Are human beings good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho''s stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh incentive: to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, and from truly living.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4349'),
(27192, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ''If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outrÃ© results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4353'),
(27193, 'The Devil Bats Will Be a Little Late This Year', 'Ron Goulart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4354'),
(27194, 'The Devil in Pew Number Seven', 'Rebecca N. Alonzo; Bob DeMoss; J. R. Blackstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him-with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca''s father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family''s kitchen . . . and Rebecca''s life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seventells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family''s faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4355'),
(27195, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4357'),
(27196, 'The Devil Inside', 'Jenna Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4359'),
(27197, 'Devil Knows You&#39;re Dead', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a new trend afoot in the series mystery. Mickey Spillane, Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes, and their investigating cohorts seldom changed from book to book. Part of their appeal, in fact, was their consistency. Contemporary series authors, however, such as Bill Pronzini, Robert P. Parker, Joseph Hansen, and Lawrence Block, have taken the series character a step further, allowing growth and change to occur to the hard-boiled hero just as they do to ordinary mortals. Block''s recovering alcoholic Matt Scudder is a perfect example. Once isolated by guilt, angst, and booze, Scudder was the quintessential loner. Now, as his never-ending recovery continues, his world has begun to expand. He has a true friend in Mick Ballou, a sidekick in street urchin T. J., and a lover in former hooker Elaine. Hired by the brother of a mentally handicapped vet accused of the murder of attorney Glenn Holtzmann, Scudder finds that the victim was both less and more than he appeared to be. Much to his surprise--because he loves Elaine--Scudder becomes involved with Holtzmann''s widow. The resolution of the case is a logical surprise that will leave readers contemplating an indifferent universe. Though Scudder''s world is as bleak as it''s ever been, he''s letting a little sun shine through. It''s nice to see a friend happy.\n <em>\n  Wes Lukowsky\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mysteries of the heart eclipse those of the street in Matt Scudder''s quietly compelling new case, which finds the p.i. avoiding the wrenching physical violence of his last few outings (A Walk Among the Tombstones, etc.) but falling prey to all sorts of emotional havoc. The crime on which Block hangs Scudder''s latest study in angst is the apparent shooting death of attorney Glenn Holtzmann by deranged homeless vet George Sadecki. Despite strong evidence of Sadecki''s guilt, the accused''s brother hires Scudder to look into the case--which the unlicensed p.i. does, discovering that Holtzmann, far from being a clean-cut yuppie, was actually a professional rat for various federal agencies and may have been slain by one of his targets. Scudder''s gumshoeing is dogged but not very exciting--lots of phone calls and interviews--and serves mostly to put him in contact with old series regulars and one likely new one, a sympathetic transvestite, as well as with Holtzmann''s widow, with whom he starts an affair despite his commitment to longtime girlfriend Elaine: The widow proves as addictive as booze and in fact may drive Scudder back to drink, especially if he keeps indulging in moody midnight gabfests with Irish gangster Mick Ballou and brooding over a WW I poem about breaking faith with those who''ve died. Meanwhile, in an equally introspective subplot, Scudder''s old flame Jan Keane is dying of cancer and asks Scudder to get her a suicide-gun, which he does. Will she choose life, however painful, instead of the bullet''s oblivion? Will Scudder resist the bottle and widow and do the same? The murder finally resolves through a quirk of fate: Can Scudder command his own fate? Those who can take or leave Scudder will probably leave this gathering of shadows: loyalists, though, will hang on every word as Scudder makes his fascinatingly uncertain way through an increasingly uncertain world. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13134'),
(27198, 'Devil May Care', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate''s palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be...satanic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13136'),
(27199, 'Devil May Cry', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As an ancient Sumerian god, Sin was one of the most powerful among his pantheon. . . Until the night Artemis brutally stole his godhood and left him for dead. For millennia, this ex-god turned Dark-Hunter has dreamed only of regaining his powers and seeking revenge on Artemis. If only life were that simple. Unfortunately he has bigger fish&amp;mdashor in Sin''s case&amp;mdashdemons, to fry. The lethal gallu that were buried by his pantheon are now stirring and they are hungry for human flesh. Their goal is to destroy mankind and anyone else who gets in their way. Sin is the only one who can stop them-that is if a certain woman doesn''t kill him first. Unfortunately, Sin discovers that now he must rely on her or witness an annihilation of biblical proportions. Enemies have always made strange bedfellows, but never more so than when the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Now a man who knows only betrayal must trust the one person most likely to hand him to the demons. Artemis may have stolen his godhood, but this one has stolen his heart. The only question is will she keep it or feed it to the ones who want him dead?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13139'),
(27200, 'Devil May Ride', 'Wendy Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13141'),
(27201, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4362'),
(27202, 'The Devil Wears Plaid', 'Teresa Medeiros', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeirosâ€™s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Â Highlander kidnaps his rivalâ€™s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtorâ€™s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburnâ€™s sworn enemy, Emmaâ€™s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is notâ€”handsome, virile, dangerous . . . and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Â Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemyâ€™s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4363'),
(27203, 'Devil You Don&#39;t', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13143'),
(27204, 'The Devil You Don&#39;t', 'Elizabeth Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4364'),
(27205, 'The Devil You Know', 'Jenna Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4367'),
(27206, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4368'),
(27207, 'The Devil&#39;s Alternative', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4372'),
(27208, 'Devil&#39;s Bargain', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13144'),
(27209, 'The Devil&#39;s Bones: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The lack of a strong central plot undercuts the third forensic thriller by bestseller Bass, the team of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of Tennessee''s world-renowned Body Farm, and journalist Jon Jefferson (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n ). Two cases occupy Dr. Bass''s fictional alter ego, Dr. Bill Brocktonâ€”the death of Mary Latham, a 47-year-old Knoxville native, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car, and a disreputable Georgia crematorium that simply dumped bodies on its grounds. These probes soon take a backseat to a cat-and-mouse game with the doctor''s arch nemesis, Garland Hamilton, who tried to frame him for murder in\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n . When Hamilton escapes from incarceration before going to trial, Brockton must keep looking over his shoulder. While a smattering of Bass''s trademark authentic forensic detail lifts this main narrative thread, a more focused look at a single case might have made the novel a better read.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] fine thriller...this third installment is the best of a steadily improving series, but itâ€™s doubtful weâ€™ve seen the finest moments yet." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4373'),
(27210, 'The Devil&#39;s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers', 'Vicky Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men like them - with zero financial training - could more than equal the Ivy-League-educated white shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for men like them -- men who were hungry and untrained - and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls. In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance. Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But something had gone wrong on the journey. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it. Ward takes you inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. You''ll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. You will encounter an unlikely and almost unknown Marcus Brutus, who may have had more to do with Lehman''s failings than anyone--including Dick Fuld, who has widely been considered the poster-child for the mistakes and greed of all bankers. What Ward uncovers is that Lehman may have lost at the risky games of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage but that was just the end of a bigger story. "Little Lehman" was the Wall Street shop known to be forever fighting for its life and somehow succeeding. On Wall Street it was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But this cat pushed its luck too far -- and died, the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. Come inside "The Devil''s Casino" and see how good men lose their way, and see how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so much from a sun, but from a match lit from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4376'),
(27211, 'The Devil&#39;s Cat', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The town was alive with cats. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many of them. The cats'' eyes were glowing slits as they watched the newcomers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and forth. . . The town was ripe with evil. Soon Sam, Nydia and Little Sam would battle the forces of darkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator--The Devil''s Cat. Book cover designed with "horror" hologram.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4377'),
(27212, 'The Devil&#39;s Closet', 'Stacy Dittrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Multiple Amber Alerts for missing girls bring Detective CeeCee Gallagher onto the case of a serial child abducter and murderer. Time is running out as Gallagher and her partner race to save the girls- lives and apprehend the killer before he can strike again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4378'),
(27213, 'The Devil&#39;s Code', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Computer whiz, artist, and professional criminal Kidd and his sometimes lover, LuEllen, are on the run when a colleague disappears and Kidd suddenly finds himself the subject of a national manhunt and the target of an unknown assassin. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4380'),
(27214, 'The Devil&#39;s Company', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fictionâ€™s most enthralling characters.The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaverâ€™s strength and guile for his own treacherous plans.Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from Englandâ€™s most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the eighteenth centuryâ€™s most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family from Cobbâ€™s reach, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives. With millions of pounds and the security of the nation at stake, Weaver will find himself in a labyrinth of hidden agendas, daring enemies, and unexpected allies.With the explosive action and scrupulous period research that are David Lissâ€™s trademarks, The Devilâ€™s Company, depicting the birth of the modern corporation, is the most impressive achievement yet from an author who continues to set ever higher standards for historical suspense.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4381'),
(27215, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4195'),
(27216, 'The Devil&#39;s Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers', 'Katherine M. Ramsland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A forensics expert follows the historic evolution of CSI through a century of serial killers.** "Katherine Ramsland has brilliantly captured the insights and drama of some fascinating cases" (Dr. Henry Lee) in her previous bestselling books. Now she examines the case histories of twelve of the most notorious serial killers of the last one hundred years, and answers the questions: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic? From exploring the nineteenth century''s earliest investigative tools to remarkable twenty-first century CSI advances, *The Devil''s Dozen* provides a fascinating window into the world of those who kill-and those who dedicate their lives to bringing them to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4197'),
(27217, 'Devil&#39;s Dream', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13146'),
(27218, 'Devil&#39;s Due', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13148'),
(27219, 'The Devil&#39;s Due', 'Jenna Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4199'),
(27220, 'The Devil&#39;s Feather', 'Minette Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Walters''s harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters''s ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4201'),
(27221, 'Devil&#39;s Garden', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.** Critics called Ace Atkinsâ€™s *Wicked City* â€œgripping, superbâ€ (*Library Journal*), â€œstunningâ€ (*The Tampa Tribune*), â€œterrificâ€ (Associated Press), â€œrivetingâ€ (*Kirkus Reviews*), â€œwicked goodâ€ (*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*), and â€œAtkinsâ€™ best novelâ€ (*The Washington Post*). But *Devilâ€™s Garden* is something else again. San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe â€œFattyâ€ Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed herâ€”crushing her under his weightâ€”and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearstâ€™s newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why do so many people at the party seem to have stories that conflict? Why is the prosecution hiding witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so determined to see Fatty Arbuckle convicted? In desperation, Arbuckleâ€™s defense team hires a Pinkerton agent to do an investigation of his own and, they hope, discover the truth. The agentâ€™s name is Dashiell Hammett, and heâ€™s the bookâ€™s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal historyâ€”and his own lifeâ€”forever. â€œThe historical accuracy isnâ€™t what elevates Atkinsâ€™ prose to greatness,â€ said *The Tampa Tribune*. â€œItâ€™s his ability to let these characters breathe in a way that few authors could ever imagine. He doesnâ€™t so much write them as unleash them upon the page.â€ You will not soon forget the extraordinary characters and events in *Devilâ€™s Garden*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13151'),
(27222, 'The Devil&#39;s Gold', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   The Jefferson Key\n  </i>\n  brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .\n  <i>\n   The Devil''s Gold\n  </i>\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he''s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child''s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost gold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4210'),
(27223, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-Responding to an emergency medical call from a Vulcan archeological team digging on the desolate planet Iconia, the Enterprise arrives to find them murdered. Picard comes into possession of a powerful, ancient artifact, the Ko N''Ya. He and the crew of the Enterprise become caught up in the battle to possess this ruby gem, which leaves behind it a trail of blood as red as the devil''s heart itself. In this tale of power and greed, aliens and humans alike are tempted by the endless power of the jewel. Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters. While the novel stands on its own, fans of ST:TNG will find it a rich reading experience.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When communications are cut off from a remote archaeological outpost, the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is sent to investigate, only to discover a ravaged outpost, a dying scientist, and a mystery involving a legendary object of power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4211'),
(27224, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging - the time when the hot wind began to blow, when Satan''s creatures rose from the putrid bowels of the earth, when the inhabitants of Whitfield were touched by... THE DEVIL''S KISS. Now it was summer again in Whitfield. The town was peaceful, quiet, and unprepared for the atrocities to come. Eternal life, everlasting youth, an orgy that would span time - that was what the Lord of Darkness was promising the coven members in return for their pledge of love. The few who had fought against his hideous powers before, believed it could never happen again. Then the hot wind began to blow - as black and as evil as THE DEVIL''S HEART\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18519'),
(27225, 'Devil&#39;s Keep', 'PHILLIP FINCH', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: BORN TO KILLEven trained warriors often feel an internal blink of resistance when the killing takes place within the zone of body heat.Not Ray Favor. He killed with the easeof flipping a light switch.ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTIONA decade ago, Ray Favor was a remorseless killer for theBlack Ops cell Bravo One Nine. He did what he was hiredt o do out of patriotism and duty. Now, having amassed a fortune but deeply troubled by his past and suspicious of his own nature, Favor is motivated by something more: a chance to r ight the wrongs he committed and restore balance .He get s that chance deep in the Philippines, where thedisappearance of two teenagers leads Favor and his Bravo team to confront an illegal operation by the Russian mob--and an evil so deplorable that it can only be righted by the means Favor once used to wreak destruction. Now, driven by a hungry sense of purpose, Ray Favor will seek retribution by any means necessary. And exact a violent justice without mercy--or regret.First in Phillip Finch''s stunning new series, Devil''s Keep is a suspense-packed international thriller introducing a powerful, complex, and memorable action hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13155'),
(27226, 'The Devil&#39;s Kiss', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the years pass, Black Wilder is waiting for just the right moment to emerge from the shadows in the small prairie town. The time is now, the beasts are hungry, the Undead are awake, and the putrid stench of evil hangs in the area. The townspeople are about to be touched by the Devil''s kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4216'),
(27227, 'The Devil&#39;s Playground', 'Jenna Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one ever wants to serve in Hell . . .The Seven Deadlies, a demon club in Philadelphia, has always catered to the most attractive and desirable hosts. Recently, though, more and more of the lower dregs of society have been showing up with demons of their own - in alarming numbers. Morgan is sure that Dougal is behind this, but isn''t sure why. Is Dougal building an army to snatch the throne of the demons from Lugh?If there''s one person who can get to the bottom of this, it''s Morgan Kingsley, but caught between her mortal lover Brian and the demon she lusts for, Lugh, it''s going to take everything she has to keep her head - and heart - in the game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4219'),
(27228, 'The Devil&#39;s Right Hand', 'Lilith Saintcrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4221'),
(27229, 'Devil&#39;s Rock', 'Chris Speyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an innocent young woman and a quest for life.Dealing with the break-up of his parents'' marriage, as well as trying to help his older brother, Zaki has to use all his ingenuity, thoughtfulness and skill to unravel the mysteries of the past and perhaps even to set long-trapped spirits free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13157'),
(27230, 'The Devil&#39;s Teardrop', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C., subway system leaves dozens of people dead, retired FBI document examiner Parker Kincaid must track down the assassin with the aid of only one clue-a ransom note demanding twenty million dollars to stop further massacres.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4223'),
(27231, 'The Devil&#39;s Touch', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE DEVIL''S KISS The evil that triumphed during that long-ago summer in Whitfield is festering now in the unsuspecting town of Logandale. Only Sam and Nydia Balon, lone survivors of the ancient horror, know the signs -- the putrid stench rising from the bowels of the earth, the unspeakable, inexplicable atrocities, the hideous, horrifying Beasts -- that mark the foul presence of the Prince of Darkness. Only they have the weapons that can pierce... THE DEVIL''S HEART Once the carnage begins, there''s no time for anything but terror. Hollow-eyed, hungry corpses rise from the unearthly tombs to gorge themselves on living flesh and spawn a new generation of restless Undead. The very demons of Hell cavort with Satan''s unholy disciples in blood-soaked rituals and fevered orgies. The Balons have faced the red, glowing eyes of the Master before, and they know what must be done. But there can be no salvation for those marked by... THE DEVIL''S TOUCH\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4225'),
(27232, 'The Devil&#39;s Winchester', 'Brandvold, Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4227'),
(27233, 'The Devils Jaw', 'Alexander Key', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4213'),
(27234, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson''s terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite''s Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille''s body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya''s brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya''s, Fr. Francis O''Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie''s sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&amp;B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her pastâ€”and Cammie''sâ€”at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson''s many fans. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crime scene at St. Margueriteâ€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sisterâ€™s death. For weeks, sheâ€™d begged Camille to leave St. Margueriteâ€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices â€” she joined the convent in part because sheâ€™d fallen for Valâ€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police arenâ€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Valâ€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Margueriteâ€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank Oâ€™Toole to the mysterious Mother Superior, has their own agenda. Despite their closeness, even Camille had a hidden life Val never suspected. But someone knew about Camilleâ€™s past â€” and Valâ€™s, too. Now she has no choice but to catch a devious, depraved killer intent on purging St. Margueriteâ€™s of all its sins â€” before she becomes the next victim...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13160'),
(27235, 'Devoured', 'Amanda Marrone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Megan works at an amusement park to keep an eye on her boyfriend, Ryan, and his best friend, Alexa, who clearly likes him, only to begin seeing the ghost of her dead sister and discovering that Luke--who has a crush on Megan, but is being pursued by Megan''s new friend Ari--can also see the apparition. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16344'),
(27236, 'The Devouring', 'Simon Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans. (\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When the dark creeps in and eats the light, / Bury your fears on Sorry Night," begins this creepy tale that reads like A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dollop of demonic possession. Reggie Halloway, a mousy girl and avid horror fan, discovers a strange journal while working at an occult bookstore. Upon investigation, she learns about the Vours, horrific demons who feed on fear and take over the body, morphing its host into a cold, cruel creature. When, as a prank, Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to summon a Vour, things go horribly awry and a Vour takes over the body of her little brother, Henry. Reggie then must battle the Vours to try to get her brother''s soul back into his body. In this introductory volume, cinematic in its scope, Holt borrows conventions from many horror films, including a Stygian carnival complete with killer clowns and dreams in which injuries can manifest themselves in the real world. A scary yarn spun at breakneck speed, perfect for those chilly winter nights. (\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie is a horror junkie who can''t get enough of creepy movies, stories, and books, so she is naturally thrilled to stumble upon a mysterious old journal that describes the Vours, demonic beings that can enter fearful human bodies once a year. Although Reggie initially assumes the journal to be fiction, it quickly becomes clear that her timid younger brother, Henry, has actually been possessed by a Vour. Suddenly, Reggie is faced with a brother who kills his own beloved hamster and threatens her life, but she is certain that the Henry she loves is still there underneath. Although the diary gives few clues about how to actually exorcise demons, Reggie is determined to save her brother, even if it means facing unberable fears of her own. The fear-created world where Henry is stuck is remarkably creepy, built out of the most alarming imaginings of a young boy (murderous clowns, abandoning mothers, grotesquely dying children make up a few of the obstacles through which Reggie must travel to get to her brother). In addition, the intriguing local roots of the Vours, presented mostly through snippets of the desperate journal entries, add a layer of historical depth to this otherwise straightforward, modern novel. Horror fans will likely find the crsip writing, effectively relentless pacing, and haunting concept irresistible. (\n <strong>\n  The Bulletin\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4229');
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(27237, 'Dewey&#39;s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions', 'Vicki Myron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The cat that captured America''s hearts returns, to share more of his special brand of magic.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World\n  </em>\n  was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children''s books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey''s Nine Lives\n  </em>\n  offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey''s Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey''s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Myron\n  </strong>\n  was Dewey''s Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Dewey\n  </em>\n  , she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bret Witter\n  </strong>\n  is a former book editor turned writer. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13162'),
(27238, 'Dexter 01 - Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16195'),
(27239, 'Dexter 02 - Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13001'),
(27240, 'Dexter 03 - Dexter In The Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13002'),
(27241, 'Dexter 04 - Dexter By Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13004'),
(27242, 'Dexter 05 - Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13006'),
(27243, 'Dexter 3 - Dexter in the Dark', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13015'),
(27244, 'Dexter 4 - Dexter by Design', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13008'),
(27245, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The macabre, witty "New York Times "bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter)" continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic "artiste"--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami. After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: he''s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexter''s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexter''s curiosity and Miami''s finest realize they''ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13012'),
(27246, 'Dexter by Design: A Novel', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The macabre, witty *New York Times *bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, *Dexter)* continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic *artiste*â€”who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.**After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: heâ€™s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hardâ€”and Dexterâ€™s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justiceâ€¦and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexterâ€™s curiosity and Miamiâ€™s finest realize theyâ€™ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13014'),
(27247, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter''s happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter''s Dark Passenger â€“ mastermind of his homicidal prowess â€“ immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he''s being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he''s planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancÃ©''s two kids â€“ who might just have dark tendencies themselves. Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in recent fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13017'),
(27248, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13021'),
(27249, 'The Dhammapada', 'Eknath Easwaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: According to Eknath Easwaran, if all of the Buddhist sutras had been lost except the *Dhammapada*, it alone would be enough for readers to understand and appreciate the wisdom of the Buddha. Easwaran''s version of the *Dhammapada* goes a long way toward proving this. In a lengthy introduction, Easwaran summarizes the life of the Buddha and the main tenets of his thought, including key concepts such as dharma, karma, and nirvana. The language of the Dhammapada is as lucid and flowing as the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, and this is why it is one of the most loved and remembered of all Buddhist sutras. Its subject matter, succinctly, is about training the mind, which leads to kind thoughts and deeds, which bring peace and freedom from suffering. If you are interested in reading one of the gems of Buddhist literature, this is a good place to start; and if you are looking for a great version of this beloved scripture, you can''t do better. Like all great world scripture, the verses here reward rereading and reflection, prompting you to "strive for wisdom always." *--Brian Bruya*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4230'),
(27250, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13024'),
(27251, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee &amp; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18945'),
(27252, 'The Dharma bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4232'),
(27253, 'Diagnosis: Danger', 'Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13033'),
(27254, 'Diagnosis: danger', 'Marie Ferrarella &amp; Jenna Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18795'),
(27255, 'Dial M for Monkey', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Adam Maxwell''s first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. The twenty stories included here range from a bizarre quest to find a dead rockstar''s limb (Jim Morrison''s Leg) to a memorable warning about the hidden dangers of building sites (the acclaimed Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun). Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short stories - and short-short stories - most never published before. This unmissable collection represents another shot in the arm for the resurgent form of the short story. As featured in Tonto Short Stories and Dave Eggers'' McSweeney''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13037'),
(27256, 'Dialogue in a Twenty-First Century Dining Room', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13038'),
(27257, 'The Diamond - Book 9', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4236'),
(27258, 'Diamond Age', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4237'),
(27259, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Decades into our future, a stone''s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken therigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He''s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called *A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer  *Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth''s own daughter, the *Primer''s *purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.  It performs its function superbly.  Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes--members of the poor, tribeless class.  Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell.  When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian--John Percival Hackworth--  in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own.  Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of ProtocolEnforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist.  His quest and Nell''swill ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the *Primer-- *a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive informationnetwork that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, *The Diamond Age *is* *a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4239'),
(27260, 'The diamond bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4240'),
(27261, 'Diamond Drill', 'Charles Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13039'),
(27262, 'Diamonds are Forever', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13047'),
(27263, 'Diamonds are forever: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13048'),
(27264, 'Diamonds in the Sky', 'Mike Brotherton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13049'),
(27265, 'Diana Peterfreund - Rampant', 'elisa_berardo@hotmail.com', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16350'),
(27266, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, sheâ€™s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesnâ€™t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages theyâ€™ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from Americaâ€™s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniukâ€™s most impressive work to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13052'),
(27267, 'Diary of a Mad Fat Girl', 'Stephanie McAfee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she''s not going to get it. What she gets is a dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a quest for truth and redemption. In the meantime, the love of her life shows up 3 years after a bad breakup. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is as adventurous as it is entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert ops.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13056'),
(27268, 'Diary of a Nobody', 'George Grossmith &amp; Weedon Grossmith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13061'),
(27269, 'The Diary of a U-boat Commander', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4247'),
(27270, 'The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition', 'Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on *The New York Times* bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4248'),
(27271, 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser', 'Sandra Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie''s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4249'),
(27272, 'Dick, Philip K - The Man In The High Castle v4.0', 'The Man In The High Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13065'),
(27273, 'Dickey, James - Deliverance.txt', 'Deliverance.txt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13067'),
(27274, 'Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy&#39;s Gotta Do While He Still Can', 'Tim Burke; Michael Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two brothers combine forces to compile the ultimate guy''s to-do-before-marriage list. Tim is married but still "fight(ing) the good fight" and Michael is "still a free man." They take advantage of their different points of view, banking on Tim''s nostalgia for his bachelor days and Michael''s determination to take full advantage of the time he has left. Whether offering predictable ideas, like traveling Europe by rail or "road-trippin'' North America" with some buddies, or slightly more original plans like running with the bulls in Spain, throwing a mustache party, or pretending to be someone else for a weekend, they keep readers entertained. The writing style is conversational and candid, and its humor is aimed squarely at the guy''s guy ("You''re not going to meet your wife in Cancun, but you''ll probably take home her slutty sister"). Though at times repetitive; the Burkes themselves happily acknowledge the role formula plays in their schemes: "if you''re in search of a good story just get smashed in a different town" sums it up nicely. Though sure to irritate any woman who happens to pick it up (women are divided into two categories: kill-joy wives and drunken sluts), that shouldn''t be a problem for the target audience. Most single guys under thirty will enjoy this title-and may even be inspired by it.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention, guys of America: It''s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding--_never_ set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it''s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you "settle down."\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n is here to help you create the kind of stories you''ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· How you spent your graduation cash: You start at Oktoberfest in Munich and wake up on a Thai beach (which is totally what your Aunt Edith had in mind). From Fantasy Fest to La Tomatina, here''s a breakdown of the wildest parties and the craziest worldwide destinations.\n <br />\n Â· The best places to, ahem,\n <em>\n  explore other cultures\n </em>\n (or whatever): Corfu''s Pink Palace. Ireland''s pubs. Amsterdam''s Red Light District. Ibiza. Plus plenty of other fascinating events and locales, many of which also happen to serve booze.\n <br />\n Â· Getting a job (don''t worry, not a\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n job): Jet Ski guy. Cruise ship bartender. Casino dealer. Lifeguard. Roadie. Where and how to earn the money to subsidize your fun, usually in some exotic location full of very friendly women.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a "How To," a "To Do," and a "We Did,"\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n contains all the ideas, checklists, and insanely funny true stories you''ll need to help you have as much fun as possible--while you still can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13073'),
(27275, 'Die Leiden des jungen Werther', 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13074'),
(27276, 'Die Rache', 'Steven Utley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13075'),
(27277, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher''s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He''s kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20625'),
(27278, 'Died to Match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13082'),
(27279, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson;Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage''s Difference Engine--a forerunner of today''s computer based on mechanical principles rather than electronic technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4251'),
(27280, 'Different Flesh', 'Different Flesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16717'),
(27281, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986). The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13086'),
(27282, 'Difficult Loves', 'Italo Calvino', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. â€œThe quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth readingâ€ (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19008'),
(27283, 'A Difficulty with Dwarves', 'Craig Shaw Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a wizard is unable to cure his malady of magicks, he sends his apprentice Wuntnor to seek aid in the distant land of the Eastern Kingdoms which are ripe with fiendish peril.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16140'),
(27284, 'The Dig', 'Alan Dean; Clark; Sean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a mile-wide asteroid appears in orbit around Earth, ex-astronaut Boston Low is called on to return to space and nudge the monster into a stable position. When he, a journalist and a scientist investigate the asteroid''s surface, they enter a time and place of mystery, danger and revelation: the planet Cocytus, once home to an intelligent race but now a haunted museum to their incredibly advanced civilization. An epic science fiction adventure too big for even Steven Spielberg to bring to the screen!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13087'),
(27285, 'The Dig', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18197'),
(27286, 'Digital Fortress', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13089'),
(27287, 'The Digital Plague', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is a very rich man. He''s probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4252'),
(27288, 'Digital to Analogue', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18162'),
(27289, 'Dilation Sleep', 'Alastair Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13090'),
(27290, 'Dillinger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13091'),
(27291, 'Diluvium', 'Steven Utley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13092'),
(27292, 'Dime Store Magic', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13096'),
(27293, 'Dime Store Magic - Women of the Otherworld 3', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13097'),
(27294, 'Dimension Kill', 'Sean F. Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13099'),
(27295, 'The Dimension Next Door', 'Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) &amp; Kerrie Hughes (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **13 original stories about the realities just around the corner...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Movements glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, inexplicable sounds, knowledge for which there is no rational explanation, dreams that seem as real as our own everyday lifeâ€”products of overactive imaginations, or unexpected glimpses into dimensions beyond our own? Join thirteen intrepid writers as they explore those unknown territories that may be found in any of countless Dimensions Next Door.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From a Celtic knot maze that could trap an unwary archaeologist; to an Internet site that offers to bring karmic balance into one manâ€™s life; to a man bespelled to walk the future in the service of his queenâ€”here are tales of the strange, challenging, and often wondrous worlds just waiting to be discovered by those with the ability to perceive them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4253'),
(27296, 'Dimension of Dreams', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13101'),
(27297, 'Dimension of Horror', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13103'),
(27298, 'Dimiter', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an American clandestine agent referred to in some quarters of the world as ''legendary,'' while in others as ''the agent from hell.''Ã‚ (Rumor has it Dimiter poisoned Ho Chi Minh while the Vietnamese leader was visiting Albania shortly before his death in 1969.) Dimiter escapes to Jerusalem, where he encounters a number of engaging characters, including a doctor of neurology, a sharp-tongued nurse, and a grief-stricken Israeli policeman. The complicated plot confounds until the isolated pieces of the psychological puzzle that''s Dimiter match up and fall into place, revealing surprising truths.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and intelligent_, Dimiter_ is part detective story and part religious thriller in the grand tradition of_ The Name of the Rose_.â€ â€”Allan Folsom,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost 40 years after\n <em>\n  The Exorcis\n </em>\n t, William Peter Blatty''s new novel ''Dimiter'' is another headspinner." â€”The New York Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is an intelligent, tightly wound, suspenseful novel with a surprising and explosive climax. One can only hope Blatty will publish another sometime soon." â€”USA TODAY\n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting."â€”The Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping and enthralling."â€”The West Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n "An amazing tale that should be read twice â€” once for the captivating and faith-affirming story, and a second time to savor the author''s elegant writing and masterful craft."â€”Book Reporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An astonishing piece of literature. You will want to reread it as soon as you put it down."â€”Horror Drive-in\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read. Had me frantically turning pages to find out what happens next."â€”The Buffalo News\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sure to keep readers'' attention until the final pages."â€”Suite101\n</p>\n<p>\n "A thrilling psychological suspense thriller."â€”Genre Go Round\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling mystery chock-full of suspense and wonder."â€”Stem Shots\n</p>\n<p>\n "A depth of mysery, imagination, and eloquence that will captivate mystery-lovers and suspense enthusiasts until its final pages."â€”BookSwim\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent literary visuals...An all-round fascinating piece of work."â€”Thriller Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Exorcist_ author thrills again!"â€”The Herald Net\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Exorcist_ author Blatty is back -- and he''s in fine form!"â€” Delawareonline\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlattyâ€™s writing contains much grace and beauty."â€”The Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n has outdone himself.â€â€”Dreadlord_Logix\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel was worth the wait.â€â€”The Pittsburgh Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Peter Blatty balances philosophy, thrillsâ€â€”The Palm Springs\n <br />\n Desert Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnfolds a message of faith in a fast-paced thriller.â€â€”The Brothers Judd\n <br />\n Blog\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA Christian thriller with â€˜Lost-â€˜like intrigue.â€â€”Lost Wire\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlatty has outdone himself. Atmospheric, suspenseful and hugely satisfying,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a triumph!â€_â€”_The Speculative Scotsman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping. You will be hooked. I was completely unable to put it down.â€â€”Full Circle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA page turner.â€â€”News-Press.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex, suspenseful, and fast paced thriller, which does not shy away\n <br />\n from the problem of evil contrasted with the mystery of faith." â€”The\n <br />\n Catholic Media Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling spiritual thriller that is\n <br />\n chock full of suspense and wonder,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n pulses with an aura of mystique that almost begs you to revisit the whole novel as soon as you''ve finished."â€”The Horror Fiction Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous THE EXORCIST has written another grand and breathtaking tale, a stunning and powerful puzzlebox of psychological horror by a true master of modern fiction.â€â€”Dark Delights\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grace-haunted novel._â€â€”_Raymond Arroyo''s "The World Over"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Dimiter _is exciting and terrific. Like all of Blattyâ€™s stuff, itâ€™s a theological thriller that you can take on as many different levels as you want. Itâ€™s strange and enigmatic and very ambitious. It would make a great film.â€â€”BookTrust\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is a milestone not only because it comes from an award-winning author, but because he''s not written a full-length novel since his 1983 best-seller LEGION - until now... Gripping ... A â€˜must'' for any Blatty fan and many newcomers."â€”California Bookwatch\n</p>\n<p>\n "Blatty proves not only that he still can write compelling prose nearly\n <br />\n 40 years after his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Excorcist\n </em>\n but also that he makes a fine\n <br />\n narrator." Â© AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Blatty) writes with an unrelenting pace that totally grips you. (The novel) ends in a fantastic climax that''s really unexpected."â€”London Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n "At one and the same time,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a page-turning detective yarn, an affectionate portrait of the Holy Land, its people and Christâ€™s lingering presence there, and a story about the search for faith â€”all told with author William Peter Blattyâ€™s mordant wit, acute powers of observation and truly beautiful writing."â€”Family and Faith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDimiter slowly pushes the thriller throttle back and requires you to feel\n <br />\n and think. Read it!â€â€”Boston Book Bums\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAbsolutely enthralling. The best literary puzzle I''ve ever read, it''s a\n <br />\n book that cannot be visited only once to be truly appreciated."â€”Shocklines\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous modern horror novel, THE EXORCIST, has written another grand and breathtaking tale of terror."â€”countgore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning saga ... Blatty alternately hides and hints at the nature of the forces at play, building to a spectacular climax which will compel most readers to return to page one upon completing this masterful suspense novel."â€”Books.Com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13106'),
(27299, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13108'),
(27300, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“JOHN UPDIKE,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâ€™s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâ€™s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâ€“with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“John Updike, The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â€\n <br />\n â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13110'),
(27301, 'The Dinner', 'Umair Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4254'),
(27302, 'Dinosaur Planet', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Exploratory and Evaluation Corps of the Federated Sentient Planets has sent ARCT-10 to Ireta to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources. It was a simple mission with a standard crew. Kai and his beautiful co-leader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the usual procedures -- but the results were totally unexpected. The planet''s creatures were larger than anticipated and the geological finds smaller. Then the rescue ship disappeared. And, suddenly, a curious change came over many members of the ARCT-10 crew ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13112'),
(27303, 'Dinosaur Planet 1', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17819'),
(27304, 'Dinosaur Planet 1 - Dinosaur Planet', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13115'),
(27305, 'Dinosaur Planet 2 - The Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2022'),
(27306, 'Dinosaur planet survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kai and Varian awoke from their forty years of coldsleep only to discover that mutineers had taken over Ireta. But they were determined to save their planet and its unusual dinosaurs. All they had to do was solve the planet''s myriad mysteries and gain the trust of the most dangerous beings in their Universe....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13117'),
(27307, 'A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil&#39;s Ninth Question', 'Andy Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17849'),
(27308, 'The Diploids', 'Katherine MaClean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4256'),
(27309, 'Diplomatic immunity', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a comedy of terrors. A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy''s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar''s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor''s youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12996'),
(27310, 'Diplomatic Implausibility', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon(TM) Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people "jeghpu''wI''" -- conquered. FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empire invaded Cardassia, breaching the Khitomer Accords and causing a break with the Federation. On taD, depleted Klingon forces were overthrown in a small coup d''etat, and the victorious rebels took advantage of the disruption to appeal for recognition from the Federation. NOW: The Klingons have returned to taD and re-established their control. But the stubborn rebels insist on Federation recognition. A solution to the diplomatic impasse must be found, a task that falls to the Federation''s new ambassador to the Klingon Empire -- Worf. Worf thinks of himself as a fighter, not a negotiator, but the Federation disagrees. Now, for the sake of the Federation and the Empire, a Klingon warrior must weave a fragile peace out of a situation ripe for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12997'),
(27311, 'Diplomatic Impunity', 'A Midnight Sentinel Adventure By Jens H. Altmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12998'),
(27312, 'THE DIPTEROID PHENOMENON', 'The Dipteroid Phenomenon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4258'),
(27313, 'Director&#39;s Cut', 'James Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12999');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27314, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster''s Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on __,\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n fleshes out the foundation for the universe that''s home to the ever-popular\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n provides essential background for fans of all the Humanx books in typical action-packed Foster style.\n</p>\n<p>\n The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in __), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous"--if strangely reticent--new race. But everything isn''t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn''t be much of a story here. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something''s suspicious about these alluring aliens--especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster''s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact team to meet the alien Pitar. Unlike the unpleasantly buglike alien thranx, the Pitar are "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly, gorgeous." Relations with the friendly but disliked thranx slow to a crawl as humanity overwhelmingly embraces the Pitar. Their telegenic appearances are so compelling that the media scarcely notices when the thranx are attacked by terrorists in a protected diplomatic enclave on Earth. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the slaughter is the founding of a joint religion by two clerics, one human and one thranx. As years pass, and the Pitar continue to refuse access to their homeworld, the media spin explains that they are "shy" and refuses to believe they could have anything to hide. Meanwhile, humanity is happily expanding through the galaxy and colonizing Argus V--until disaster strikes and all 600,000 colonists are hideously slaughtered by an unknown force. When Mallory is discovered, crazed and near death, hiding on one of the Argus''s moons, he is the only hope humankind has for ascertaining just who the villainous, slaughtering aliens really are. Although Foster implies that interesting things are going to happen with human-thranx religious philosophies, that doesn''t happen in this novel. Instead we get a vision of humanity as a race unable to see beyond the reflection of surface beauty and incapable of restraining itself from its basest instincts when that enhanced mirror is shattered. (June)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13000'),
(27315, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster - The Founding of the Commonwealth 2', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18159'),
(27316, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3193'),
(27317, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13003'),
(27318, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency/ Long Dark Teatime of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13005'),
(27319, 'Dirk Pitt 01 - Pacific Vortex', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13007'),
(27320, 'Dirk Pitt 02 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13009'),
(27321, 'Dirk Pitt 02: The Meditteranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13010'),
(27322, 'Dirk Pitt 03 - Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10328'),
(27323, 'Dirk Pitt 04 - Raise The Titanic', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13011'),
(27324, 'Dirk Pitt 04a - Vixen 03', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13013'),
(27325, 'Dirk Pitt 05 - Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13016'),
(27326, 'Dirk Pitt 05: Vixen 03', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13018'),
(27327, 'Dirk Pitt 06: Night Probe', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13019'),
(27328, 'Dirk Pitt 07 - Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13020'),
(27329, 'Dirk Pitt 08 - Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13022'),
(27330, 'Dirk Pitt 09 - Treasure', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13023'),
(27331, 'Dirk Pitt 1 - Pacific Vortex', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14002'),
(27332, 'Dirk Pitt 10 - Dragon', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12427'),
(27333, 'Dirk Pitt 10: Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13025'),
(27334, 'Dirk Pitt 11 - Sahara', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6846'),
(27335, 'Dirk Pitt 11: Sahara', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13026'),
(27336, 'Dirk Pitt 12 - Inca Gold', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10295'),
(27337, 'Dirk Pitt 12: Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13027'),
(27338, 'Dirk Pitt 13 - Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13028'),
(27339, 'Dirk Pitt 14 - Flood Tide', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11620'),
(27340, 'Dirk Pitt 14: Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13029'),
(27341, 'Dirk Pitt 15 - Atlantis Found', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15085'),
(27342, 'Dirk Pitt 15: Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16185'),
(27343, 'Dirk Pitt 16 - Valhalla Rising', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(27344, 'Dirk Pitt 17 - Trojan Odyssey', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(27345, 'Dirk Pitt 17: Trojan Odyssey', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13030'),
(27346, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Black Wind', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14603'),
(27347, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Valhalla Rising', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(27348, 'Dirk Pitt 18: Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13031'),
(27349, 'Dirk Pitt 19 - Treasure Of Khan', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13032'),
(27350, 'Dirk Pitt 2 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2971'),
(27351, 'Dirk Pitt 20 - Arctic Drift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15214'),
(27352, 'Dirk Pitt 21 - Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13034'),
(27353, 'Dirk Pitt 4 - Raise The Titanic', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7305'),
(27354, 'Dirk Pitt 5 - Vixen 03', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/631'),
(27355, 'Dirk Pitt 6 - Night Probe!', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13035'),
(27356, 'Dirk Pitt 7 - Deep Six', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13233'),
(27357, 'Dirk Pitt 8 - Cyclops', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13625'),
(27358, 'Dirk Pitt 9 - Treasure', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(27359, 'Dirk Pitt Book 21 - Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13691'),
(27360, 'Dirk Pitt Revealed', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13036'),
(27361, 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations', 'David R. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity''s most essential natural resource and essentially linked to modern civilization''s survival. He traces the history of agriculture, showing that when humans exhausted the soil in the past, their societies collapsed, or they moved on. But moving on is not an option for future generations, he warns: there isn''t enough land. In the U.S., mechanized agriculture has eroded an alarming amount of agricultural land, and in the developing world, degraded soil is a principal cause of poverty. We are running out of soil, and agriculture will soon be unable to support the world''s growing population. Chemical fertilizers, which are made with lots of cheap oil, are not the solution. Nor are genetically modified seeds, which have not produced larger harvests or reduced the need for pesticides. Montgomery proposes an agricultural revolution based on soil conservation. Instead of tilling the land and making it vulnerable to erosion, we should put organic matter back into the ground, simulating natural conditions. His book, though sometimes redundant, makes a convincing case for the need to respect and conserve the world''s limited supply of soil. Illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Anyone interested in environmental issues should read this book. . . . Entertains and stimulates thought."--_Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes)_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating insights into what be our most precious natural resource and gives important pointers toward sustainable land management."--_Bioscience_\n</p>\n<p>\n "How societies fare in the long run depends on how they treat their soils. Simple. Concise. You are your dirt."--_Hobby Farms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sobering. . . . A timely text that will no doubt stimulate the discussion of this issue, and its potential solutions, for years to come."--_Environment &amp; History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strengthen[s] appreciation for how important the soil is to our existence."--_Great Plains Research_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13041'),
(27362, 'Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16639'),
(27363, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They''re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie''s doing okayâ€”until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.   It''s a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody''s gotta do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16142'),
(27364, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13043'),
(27365, 'Dirty White Boys', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13044'),
(27366, 'Dirty Work', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13045'),
(27367, 'A Disagreement with Death', 'Craig Shaw Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wuntvor has caught the cold eye of Death himself, who seeks to add the hapless apprentice to his morbid minions...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16144'),
(27368, 'Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4259'),
(27369, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4261'),
(27370, 'The Discharge', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16684'),
(27371, 'Disciple of the Dog', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  The cleverness Bakker displayed in his Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before, etc.) is lacking in this suspense novel introducing Disciple Manning, a Newark, N.J., PI who can remember everything he has ever heard. Jonathan and Amanda Bonjour hire Manning to track down their missing 21-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who''s joined a New Age cult known as the Framers, dropped out of nursing school, and is possibly now living at "the Compound," an old horse farm in southeastern Pennsylvania that serves as the cult''s retreat. The Framers'' leader, former Berkeley philosophy professor Xenophon Baars, has persuaded his followers that the world is more than five billion years older than it is and is about to end. Manning heads to the Compound in search of Jennifer, though he suspects she''s already dead. A crude, off-putting hero with a flatulence problem may leave few readers eager for a sequel. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    <p>\n     <b>\n      A crime thriller from an acclaimed master of speculative fiction\n     </b>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     <i>\n      â€œAnd you wonder why Iâ€™m cynical. Iâ€™ve literally â€˜seen it all before.â€™ The truth is we all have, every single one of us past the age of, say, twenty-five. The only difference is that I remember.â€\n     </i>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     No matter how hard he drinks, gambles, or womanizes, Disciple Manning simply cannot forget: not a word spoken, not an image glimpsed, not a pain suffered.Â  Disciple Manning has total recall. Whatever he hears, he can remember with 100% accuracy.Â  He can play it back in his head for an infinite number of times without a single change.Â  This ability makes him a dangerously unorthodox private investigator.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     When a New Jersey couple hires Manning to find their daughter, who joined a religious cult before vanishing in a small rust-belt town called Ruddick, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery that will pit his unnatural ability to remember against his desperate desire to forget.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     Â \n    </p>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13046'),
(27372, 'Disclosure', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today''s newspaper headlines: sexual harassment. Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders determines to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment. It''s her word against his, and suddenly Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded as the villian. As he scrambles to save his career and his reputation, Sanders uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom''s secrets . . . and the cynical scheme devised to bring him down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13050'),
(27373, 'Disclosure: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13051'),
(27374, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done. And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in. Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13053'),
(27375, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Harkness, Deborah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16145'),
(27376, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ten More Books for Readers of\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elias Ashmole,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Browne,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Owen Davies,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Karlsen,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Moranâ€™s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander Roob,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyndal Roper,\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Sharpe,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bryan Sykes,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Deborah Harkness\n  </em>\n  (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16147'),
(27377, 'Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13054'),
(27378, 'Discworld 02 - The Light Fantastic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13055'),
(27379, 'Discworld 03 - Equal Rites', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13057'),
(27380, 'Discworld 04 - Mort', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8791'),
(27381, 'Discworld 05 - Sourcery', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6096'),
(27382, 'Discworld 06 - Wyrd Sisters', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13058'),
(27383, 'Discworld 07 - Pyramids', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13059'),
(27384, 'Discworld 08 - Guards! Guards!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13060'),
(27385, 'Discworld 09 - Eric', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13062'),
(27386, 'Discworld 10 - Moving Pictures', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8679'),
(27387, 'Discworld 11 - Reaper Man', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7299'),
(27388, 'Discworld 13 - Small Gods', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6300'),
(27389, 'Discworld 14 - Lords and Ladies', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9257'),
(27390, 'Discworld 15 - Men at Arms', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8936'),
(27391, 'Discworld 16 - Soul Music', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6080'),
(27392, 'Discworld 17 - Interesting Times', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10139'),
(27393, 'Discworld 18 - Maskerade', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9045'),
(27394, 'Discworld 19 - Feet of Clay', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11769'),
(27395, 'Discworld 20 - Hogfather', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10560'),
(27396, 'Discworld 21 - Jingo', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9869'),
(27397, 'Discworld 22 - The Last Continent', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3406'),
(27398, 'Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14278'),
(27399, 'Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4027'),
(27400, 'Discworld 26 - The Thief of Time', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1588'),
(27401, 'Discworld 27 - The Last Hero', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13063'),
(27402, 'Discworld 28 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13066'),
(27403, 'Discworld 29 - Night Watch', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13068'),
(27404, 'Discworld 30 - Monstrous Regiment', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13069'),
(27405, 'Discworld 30 - Thud!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(27406, 'Discworld 31 - The Wee Free Men', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13071'),
(27407, 'Discworld 32 - A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13072'),
(27408, 'Discworld 33 - Going Postal', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12922'),
(27409, 'Discworld 35 - Wintersmith', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12923'),
(27410, 'Discworld 36 - Making Money', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12925'),
(27411, 'Discworld 37 - Unseen Academicals', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12927'),
(27412, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12928'),
(27413, 'Disintegration', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  DISINTEGRATION\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a mysterious fire destroys his home and shatters his family, Jacob Wells is pulled into a downward spiral that draws him ever closer to the past he thought was dead and buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright. Jacobâ€™s wife Renee is struggling with her own past and her attempts to salvage Jacob are driven by guilt and ambition.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Jacob and Joshua return to the twisted roles they adopted at the hands of cruel, demanding parents, they wage a war of pride, wealth, and passion. They share a poisonous obsession with the provocative, manipulative Carlita, whose immigrant family helped build the Wells fortune.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Joshua wants other things, too, but Jacobâ€™s desires are divided between the forbidden love he canâ€™t possess, the respectability he can never have, and the revenge he is dying to taste. And Renee has dark motives of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If only Jacob can figure out which of them to blame. But the lines of identity are blurred, because Joshua and Jacob share much more than blood.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And the childhood games have become deadly serious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  -----\n  <br />\n  A crime thriller from Scott Nicholson, #1 Kindle bestselling author of THE RED CHURCH, THE SKULL RING, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and 13 other books. He''s also written six screenplays, the graphic novels DIRT and GRAVE CONDITIONS, and, as L.C. Glazebrook, the YA paranormal series OCTOBER GIRLS. Visit him at Author Central or www.hauntedcomputer.com\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Buy everything he writes. He''s the real deal."--Bentley Little, The Disappearance\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, Shaken\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12930'),
(27414, 'The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18253'),
(27415, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America', 'Eugene Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority "with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction''s end." Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town during the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation. Of particular interest is the discussion of how immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated group coming to live in the United States," are changing what being black means. Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the past 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in this era of cash-strapped state and local governments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on his years of reporting and observation of changes in black America, journalist Robinson finds that the black community has evolved to the point where it has disintegrated into distinct sectors: the mainstreamers, or black middle-class majority, who have made tremendous but often understated progress; the abandoned minority with little hope of escaping poverty; transcendental elites of such wealth and power that whites canâ€™t deny; and an emergent group of biracial blacks and recent black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are challenging an essentially native black American experience. In the age of Obama, Robinson notes the advancement of the black elites, with wealth and power, into â€œfull ownership stakeâ€ in the U.S., distancing them economically from the middle and lower classes. The emergent group identifies with a different notion of the black experience, making them ideologically and politically unreliable. All are in strong contrast to the abandoned, who are at the center of the black disintegration. Readers donâ€™t have to agree with Robinsonâ€™s observations to appreciate the undeniable differences within black America and to maybe want further analysis. --Vernon Ford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12932'),
(27416, 'The Disinterred', 'Mark W. Tiedemann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4267'),
(27417, 'Dismantling the Empire', 'Johnson, Chalmers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12934'),
(27418, 'A disobedient girl: a novel', 'Ru Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.** Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life''s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place. The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret. Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways. *A Disobedient Girl* is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16149'),
(27419, 'Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival', 'Anderson Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper''s memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper''s ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother''s penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper''s description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It''s the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper''s memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there''s frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12935'),
(27420, 'The Dispossessed', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  PerfectBound e-book extra: A Study Guide to The Dispossessed by Paul Brians.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4269'),
(27421, 'Dissolution - Book 1', 'Richard Lee Byers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12936'),
(27422, 'Distant friends: and others', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In love with fellow telepath Colleen Isaac, Dale Ravenhall realizes that the very thing that enables him and Colleen to read each other''s minds would kill them both if they came within twenty miles of each other. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12938'),
(27423, 'Distant Galaxies Colliding', 'Gareth L. Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12939'),
(27424, 'The Distant Hours', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this enthralling romantic thriller from Australian author Morton (The Forgotten Garden). At crumbling Milderhurst Castle live elderly twins Persephone and Seraphina and their younger half-sister, Juniper, the three eccentric spinster daughters of the late Raymond Blythe, author of The True History of the Mud Man, a children''s classic Edie adores. Juniper addressed the letter to Meredith, Edie''s mother, then a young teen evacuated to Milderhurst during the Blitz. Edie, who''s later invited to write an introduction to a reprint of Raymond''s masterpiece, visits the seedily alluring castle in search of answers. Why was her mother so shattered by the contents of a letter sent 51 years earlier? And what happened to soldier Thomas Cavill, Juniper''s long-missing fiancÃ© and Meredith''s former teacher? Despite the many competing narratives, the answers will stun readers. 5-city author tour. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4270'),
(27425, 'Distant Thunders (2010)', 'Anderson, Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12944');
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(27426, 'Distant Thunders: Destroyermen', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12946'),
(27427, 'Disturbia', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16618'),
(27428, 'Disworld 25 - The Truth', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12947'),
(27429, 'Diuturnity&#39;s Dawn', 'Alan Dean Foster - The Founding of the Commonwealth 3', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18150'),
(27430, 'Divergence', 'Tony Ballantyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a tumultuous beginning, mid-23rd-century Earth now peacefully operates under the constant surveillance of the Watcher, an all-seeing AI who has seized control of the planetâ€”and of the minds and bodies of its people. But is the radical evolution that the Watcher has in mind a step forward or the beginning of a mighty split that will cast aside everything that truly makes us human?It is 2252, and Judy is traveling on a passenger ship in deep space when disaster strikes. Almost too conveniently, strange machines appear onboard just in time to help. They are owned by DIANA, a commercial organization headquartered on Earth. But as the machines arrange for the humans to be taken to safety, Judy is held back. They have detected something in her genetic codeâ€”something shocking: Judy is not human. And she too is the property of DIANA.Now Judy must return to Earth to find out what DIANA expects of herâ€¦how she was grownâ€¦and why she was destined to destroy the Watcher. But is this Judy even the same person? And does the new Judy have a reason to destroyâ€”or is she just a pawn in someone elseâ€™s murderous game?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12948'),
(27431, 'The Diversifal', 'Ross Rocklynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4272'),
(27432, 'Diversity Alliance', 'Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12950'),
(27433, 'Diversity Alliance', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a fellow Jedi student, who holds the key to a New Republic secret coalition, turns up missing, the young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him and are forced to confront a deadly enemy. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12953'),
(27434, 'Divide and conquer', 'Tom Clancy; Jeff Rovin; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit. At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante -- by deposing the President of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the President that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d''etat is within their reach. Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center are pitted against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the President -- and expose the traitors within... *A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology,* Tom Clancy''s Op-Center *is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12956'),
(27435, 'Divided in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die. A slow, withering, agonizing death. Nobody, nobody cheated on Reva Ewing.'' Roarke''s security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover - the woman Reva thought was her best friend. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her. At the time of the murders, Reva''s husband''s computer system was also sabotaged. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Roarke Industries have been working on a top secret government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers. The Doomsday Group are techno-terrorists who attack systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and they kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12957'),
(27436, 'Divided Souls', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An unseen hunter is on the loose. Scholarship girl Cassie Bell is fascinated by the city''s beauty, but there''s no time for her to relax. Torn between an old flame and a new romance, she must also choose between the select world of the Few and her loyalty towards her best friends. And all the time a killer is stalking the Few. As Cassie is about to discover, no one is above suspicion. Sometimes, the people you love can be the most dangerous enemies of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12959'),
(27437, 'Divine by Blood', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12960'),
(27438, 'Divine by Choice', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12963'),
(27439, 'Divine by Mistake', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12964'),
(27440, 'The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri &amp; Mark Musa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante''s Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa''s translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear but doesn''t significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." -- Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n "Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." -- Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4274'),
(27441, 'The divine invasion', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4276'),
(27442, 'Divine justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone''s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone''s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren''t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he''s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Following the instant # 1 *New York Times* bestseller *Stone Cold,* Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci''s most surprising thriller yet . . . ** Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone''s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12966'),
(27443, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought Irs"d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if theyrs"re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12967'),
(27444, 'Divisadero', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil''s Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada''s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. Description in Spanish: En la mas intima y hermosa de sus historias, Michael Ondaatje narra la vida de Anna, quien tras un brutal suceso acontecido en su hogar, tendra que dejar atras la vida en la granja de California y empezar un nuevo camino en el sur de Francia. Lejos de su padre, de su gemela Claire y de Coop un misterioso muchacho acogido por la familia encontrara en la literatura y en la reconstruccion de la biografia de un importante escritor la manera de conciliarse con su pasado. Una novela de vidas cruzadas que se extiende por dos continentes y a lo largo de un siglo. Tras El paciente ingles, Ondaatje demuestra su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dificil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las perdidas y la persistencia del pasado, asi como las exigencias de la familia, del amor y de los recuerdos. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza capaz de emocionarnos y dejarnos sin respiro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12969'),
(27445, 'Division By Zero', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12970'),
(27446, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking, teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12972'),
(27447, 'Djibouti: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <hr />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Joe Hill Reviews\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The author of the critically acclaimed novels\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <img />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In the spirit of\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   , his 48th novel.\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   10. The babes.\n  </strong>\n  The heroine of Djibouti would be one Dara Barr, who has touched down in Africa to make a documentary about the booming piracy business and maybe win herself another Oscar. Dara is as laconic and unflappable as any of Leonardâ€™s finest heroes (see:\n  <em>\n   waaaaaay\n  </em>\n  overmatched.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   9. The bad boys.\n  </strong>\n  Creative writing teachers who want to show their students how to draft an unforgettable antagonist ought to tear out chapter 18 and pass it around. Thatâ€™s where Leonard tells us the story of James Russell, a clever Miami lowlife, who reinvents himself as Jamal Raisuli, al-Queda bomb-throwerâ€¦ all in 7 pages of breezy, economical characterization.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   8. The talk.\n  </strong>\n  Plenty has been written about Elmore Leonardâ€™s mastery of dialogue, and I donâ€™t need to rehash it. Why bother, when I could just quote some of it? An elderly terrorist, jailed in\n  <em>\n   The States\n  </em>\n  , gets talking with James Russell:\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat is it you hope to become in your life?â€\n  <br />\n  â€œFamous,â€ James said. â€œI been looking at ways.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œBecome a prophet?\n  <br />\n  â€œI donâ€™t tell what will happen. I do it.â€\n  <br />\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   7. The walk.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone hustles in an Elmore Leonard novel; you canâ€™t stand still and hope to score. From the slums, where life is the only thing cheaper than khat, to the clubs, where itâ€™s easier to find a pirate than out on the open ocean, everyone is on their way up or on their way downâ€¦ in a hurry.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   6. The sound.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard famously said that if his sentences sound like writing, he rewrites them, but donâ€™t be fooled. These sentences jump to their own dirty, hothouse jazz rhythm. There isnâ€™t a better stylist anywhere in American letters.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   5. The seduction.\n  </strong>\n  Dara isnâ€™t just curious about piracy; she spends thirty days on a boat with 73-year-old Xavier LeBo, long enough to fall a little in love with her best friend, and wonder if the old dude can still get it up. Xavier bets her ten-thousand dollars he can. Itâ€™s the bookâ€™s biggest gamble; trust me, it earns out big.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   4. More boom for your buck.\n  </strong>\n  A lot of the suspense in Djibouti revolves around a tanker filled with enough liquefied natural gas â€œto set off an explosion a hundred times bigger than the Hindenburg disaster.â€ Itâ€™s an atom bomb with a rudder and all it needs is a target.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   3. The place.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard doesnâ€™t beat anyone over the head with his research, but from Djibouti to Eyl to New Orleans (the three backdrops for this story), the details are crisp, unforgettable, and right. You donâ€™t read Djibouti. You live there.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   2. The pay-off.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone in an Elmore Leonard story wants one, but only the reader is guaranteed to get one, and boy do they, in a final chapter that seems inevitable, yet comes as completely unexpected.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   1. The know-how.\n  </strong>\n  Letâ€™s get to it. In the fifty-plus years heâ€™s been turning out lean, loose, laid-back thrillers, Elmore Leonard has cast his indelible stamp on American crime fiction, inspired his peers, and spawned a thousand imitators. Heâ€™s the kind of guy critics describe as old school, but thatâ€™s missing it. Elmore Leonard isnâ€™t old school. He built the school.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  (Photo of Joe Hill by Shane Leonard)\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  *Starred Review* Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subjectâ€”Somalian piratesâ€”but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the back-and-forth banter, always oozing wit but never too smart for the room; the cast of wonderfully idiosyncratic characters, each capable of a star turn; the always startling juxtaposition of the mundane against the violent. This time, mixed in with all of that, Leonard gives us one of his trickiest plots and cleverest turns of storytelling. Dara Barr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently arrived in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa (the gateway to Islam . . . or the back door to the West) to film Somalian pirates in action. With her assistant, a 72-year-old sailor named Xavier, Dara, armed with a concealed spy camera, sets off onboard the Buster in search of pirates. She finds plenty, but she and Xavier also land in the middle of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. Portions of the tale are related in real time, but much of the narration comes in the form of Dara and Xavier viewing film of whatâ€™s already happened and debating how to structure the documentary. This curious dramatic technique works magnificently, taking us inside the characters in a way that straight, action-oriented narration might not do. Leonard never tells a story in the expected way, but this time he outdoes himself. Marvelous entertainment. --Bill Ott\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12973'),
(27448, 'DMV', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12975'),
(27449, 'Do and Dare', 'Horatio Alger, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12977'),
(27450, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12978'),
(27451, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John BrunnerTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results."[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams Rolling Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12979'),
(27452, 'Do Comets Dream?', 'S.P. Somtow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the World, whose coming heralds the end of all things.... But to Captain Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise(TM)"; the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing but a rogue comet, easily destroyed. Picard faces a difficult dilemma: how can he save the Thanetians'' rich and intricate civilization without destroying the very beliefs upon which their culture is based? This quandary is challenge enough, yet the captain''s position becomes even more complicated when Deanna Troi discovers that, incredibly, the comet is alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12983'),
(27453, 'Do They Know I&#39;m Running?', 'David Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, heâ€™s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayalâ€”of his country, his family, his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12984'),
(27454, 'Do You Take This Rebel?', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12985'),
(27455, 'Doc', 'Mary Doria Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell\n </strong>\n <br />\n For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I''ve only had to say four words. â€œIt''s about Doc Holliday.â€ You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just\n <em>\n  light up\n </em>\n . â€œOh, man! I love Doc!â€ they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer''s portrayal in the movie\n <em>\n  Tombstone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I''m really writing about whom and what\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n love. The shining silver wire that runs through\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is John Henry Holliday''s love for his mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, â€œa sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents'' hearts.â€ I''m sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they''re a shock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the hole in his face. Locking eyes. Struggling to stay awake. Struggling to stay alive...\n</p>\n<p>\n When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. John Stiles Holliday performed a successful surgical repair of the cleft--an achievement kept private to protect the family''s reputation. You see, in the 1850s, the Hollidays were Georgia gentry whose large extended family would become the O''Haras, Wilkeses and Hamiltons in\n <em>\n  Gone With The Wind\n </em>\n . (Margaret Mitchell was Doc''s cousin, twice removed.) These were people who took â€œgood breedingâ€ seriously, and birth defects were a source of familial shame--for everyone but Alice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and her son became intensely close. She invented a form of speech therapy to correct his diction. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. She home-schooled him until she was sure his speech wouldn''t be ridiculed, then sent him to a local boys academy, where he excelled in every subject. In the midst of our nation''s ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice didn''t live to see him graduate. She died of tuberculosis when John Henry was 15. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awful death he faced. Hoping dry air and sunshine would restore his health, he left everyone and everything he loved, and went West. He was only 22 when he left Atlanta in 1873.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. But I have written the story of Alice Holliday''s son: a scared, sick, lonely boy, born for the life of a minor aristocrat in a world that ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War, trying to stay alive on the rawest edge of the American frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n John Henry Holliday didn''t have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. Read it, and weep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for_ Doc_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fact and mythmaking converge as Russell creates a Dodge City filled with nuggets of surprising history, a city so alive readers can smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos...Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply movingâ€”a magnificent read." _-Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Mary Doria Russell\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn clean, effortless prose and with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.â€â€”_The Bookwatch,_ on\n <em>\n  The Sparrow\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russellâ€™s storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting . . . saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly,_ on_ A Thread of Grace_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant . . . powerful . . . Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle, _on\n <em>\n  Children of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRapturous and relevant . . . a wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own.â€â€”_Seattle Post-Intelligencer,_ on_ Dreamers of the Day_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19265'),
(27456, 'Doc Ford 01 - Sanibel Flats', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12986'),
(27457, 'Doc Ford 03 - The Man Who Invented Florida', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12987'),
(27458, 'Doc Ford 04 - Captiva', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12988'),
(27459, 'Doc Ford 05 - North of Havana', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12989'),
(27460, 'Doc Ford 07 - Ten Thousand Islands', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12990'),
(27461, 'Doc Ford 08 - Shark River', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12991'),
(27462, 'Doc Ford 09 - Twelve Mile Limit', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12992'),
(27463, 'Doc Ford 10 - Everglades', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11950'),
(27464, 'Doc Ford 12 - Dead of Night', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13455'),
(27465, 'Doc Ford 13 - Dark Light', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12993'),
(27466, 'Doc Ford 14 - Hunter&#39;s Moon', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12994'),
(27467, 'Doc Ford 15 - Black Widow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14601'),
(27468, 'Doc Ford 16 - Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12995'),
(27469, 'Doc Ford 17 - Deep Shadow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller White''s outstanding 17th Doc Ford thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Dead Silence\n  </em>\n  ), two low-life ex-cons, King and Perry, are on the lam after killing a family of five in a burglary. They end up in Doc''s neck of the woods, or rather his neck of the swamp, in central Florida. Doc; his boat-bum hipster pal, Tomlinson; troubled Indian teen Will Chaser, who played a key role in\n  <em>\n   Dead Silence\n  </em>\n  ; and Arlis Futch, a crusty old fisherman, have arrived at a small lake, which they intend to search for Batista''s treasure plane, which disappeared in 1958 while flying the ex-dictator''s looted booty out of Cuba during the Castro takeover. King and Perry, who are as bad as they come, quickly take control of the others, forcing Doc and friends to continue diving in the lake, after which the pair plan to kill them all. Throw in a giant, mysterious swamp creature with an appetite for cattle, horses, and divers, and you''ve got a nail-biter that''s virtually impossible to put down.\n  <em>\n   Author tour. (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Floridaâ€™s mystery heroes have been having a hard time this year. First, James W. Hallâ€™s Thorn spent most of an entire novel trapped in a dry well (Silencer, 2010), and now, in Randy Wayne Whiteâ€™s latest Doc Ford thriller, the intrepid marine biologist goes underwater for a couple hundred pages. It starts innocently enough, with Ford, his hippie pal Tomlinson, teenager Will Chaser (from Dead Silence, 2009), and cranky old-timer Arlis Futch embarking on a treasure-hunting trip to an isolated lake, on the bottom of which is purported to be a mother lode of gold from Batistaâ€™s Cuba. Three problems quickly develop: a sort-of underwater avalanche that leaves all but Ford trapped under tons of limestone (a cave keeps the victims alive as their air supply dwindles); the arrival (on land) of two psycho killers right out of In Cold Blood (one is even named Perry); and, scariest of all, the lurking presence of, yes, a sea monster. Ford eventually surmounts all the obstacles before him, of course, but along the way, we are treated to a wonderful mix of hair-raising horror, grace under pressure, and fascinating natural history. There turns out to be a biologically sound explanation for the presence of the sea monster, but that doesnâ€™t make it any less terrifying for anyone who remembers Creature from the Black Lagoon (as Ford notes, â€œThe universe beneath is aliveâ€”relentlessly aliveâ€). Itâ€™s no surprise that Whiteâ€™s long-running, always-popular series has broken through to mainstream best-sellerdom; his novels appeal on so many levels: as portraits of a steadily evolving, tough-yet-introspective hero; as eco-friendly investigations of natural Florida; and as muscular, head-banging adventure thrillers. And, now, there are sea monsters, too! --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13231'),
(27470, 'Doc Ford 18 - Night Vision', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16196'),
(27471, 'Doc Sidhe', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18219'),
(27472, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12881'),
(27473, 'Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <meta charset="utf-8" />\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London 1963. Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are intrigued by mysterious pupil Susan Foreman. Following her home one night after school, they discover she lives in a strange junkyard. And in a corner of this junkyard is a police box. Their investigations are disturbed by a mysterious old man who emerges out of the London fog and moves toward the police box. They learn he is Susan''s grandfather. He is the doctor. But Doctor Who?\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forcing their way past the Doctor, the two teachers enter the police box, where they suspect Susan is being held against her will. They soon discover that this is no ordinary police box, what they find inside will change their lives forever. However, now that they know its secrets, can the Doctor afford to let them leave?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Carrying the Doctor, Susan and its reluctant new passengers, the TARDIS begins its journey. Travelling back in time, the crew encounter an ancient tribe who have lost the secret of fire.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12883'),
(27474, 'Doctor Who: Abominable Snowmen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in the snowy Himalayas, and the Doctor makes a return visit to the nearby Det-sen monastery, which he last visited three hundred years ago. He his astonished to find the monastery under attack, apparently from the Yeti which are said to roam the mountainside. Furthermore, the Doctor discovers that his friend the High Lama his still alive, his ancient body under the influence of an apparently unearthly force...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, explorer Edward Travers is determined to track down and capture one of the Yeti. When his colleague is murdered, he refuses to blame the creatures and instead accuses the Doctor. The time-travellers discover that the Yeti are all-too prominent in the area - in fact, they are out to kill anyone who threatens the plans of the disembodies Intelligence which they serve...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12892'),
(27475, 'Doctor Who: Alien Bodies', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who novel set on an island in the East Indies, where alien forces are gathering in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rain forest, desperate to acquire what might be the deadliest weapon in creation. The Doctor and Sam walk into the middle of the strangest auction in history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12893'),
(27476, 'Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Landing in Victorian London, the TARDIS crew is surprised to meet up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15550'),
(27477, 'Doctor Who: Amorality Tale', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who disguises himself as a watchmender and visits 1950s London to discover the cause of a mysterious fatality in the East End. 4000 people died here - their deaths linked to a choking smog that blanketed the area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12895'),
(27478, 'Doctor Who: Anachrophobia', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire''s hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They''re picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there''s a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12897'),
(27479, 'Doctor Who: Android Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the zany Doctor Who and his companion, Sarah, land in a small English village, they discover zombie-like inhabitants who turn out to be Kraal androids. The Kraals are attempting to conquer Earth, and Dr. Who must take on his own android clone to stop the invasion. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12898'),
(27480, 'Doctor Who: Androids of Tara', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly peaceful planet of Tara, the Doctor claims he is owed a holiday. While he takes time off to go fishing, Romana quickly locates the Fourth Segment. All is going well until the time-travellers are drawn into the complex political intrigues of Tara.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The benevolent Prince Reynart is soon to be crowned king, but the wicked Count Grendel wants both the throne, and Reynart''s bride-to-be, the Princess Strella, for himself. Grendel plots with the android builder Madame Lamia, and soon both Reynart and Strella are replaced by robotic duplicates. Unfortunately for Romana, she also bears a startling resemblance to the princess - which makes her enormously valuable to the Count.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor is unwillingly thrust into the roles of android repair-man, king-maker and, ultimately, swash-buckling hero, when he finds himself duelling with Grendel, famous for being the finest swordsman on Tara...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12900'),
(27481, 'Doctor Who: Apollo 23', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping center. Maybe it''s a publicity stunt. A photo shows an immaculately-dressed woman in her best shoes lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog ''Poochie''. Maybe it''s a hoax. But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centers on a secret military base on the moon that''s where Amy and the TARDIS are. The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there''s no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens. Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12902'),
(27482, 'Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who learns that the secret of his molecular structure has been stolen from the Time Lord''s master computer, Matrix\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12904'),
(27483, 'Doctor Who: Ark in Space', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In this four part adventure, the Doctor, Harry and Sarah accidentally arrive on an artificial satellite where the survivors of Earth lie in cryogenic suspension waiting to begin a new life. But the Doctor soon discovers that there has been a sinister intrusion...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A gigantic insect has infiltrated the human ark. It is dead, but it was Queen of the Wirrn, sworn enemies of the Earth â€” and her egg sac was full. Something is terribly wrong and when the crew begin to awaken it soon becomes clear that some of them are not entirely what they seem...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find out how to destroy the Wirrn larvae before they absorb the last of the human race and become an invincible swarm. But this involves a desperate gamble with his own life â€” a gamble he must take if he is to save mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12906');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27484, 'Doctor Who: Armageddon Factor', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 conclude their search for the segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Arriving on the planet Atrios, the Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the Atrians'' seemingly endless war with their neighbouring planet of Zeos. Their ruler, the Princess Astra, has been kidnapped, leaving the deranged Marshal in sole charge of the war effort. However, the Marshal is being controlled, receiving orders from behind a strange black mirror in the command centre.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor learns that no-one on Atrios has ever seen a Zeon, and travels to Zeos in an attempt to bring the war to an end, and hopefully find the Princess Astra - who seems to be linked in some way to the Sixth Segment. He finds the planet deserted, run entirely by a huge computer, Mentalis. When the Marshal launches an all-out final attack on Zeos, Mentalis responds by activating its Armageddon Program - rather than lose the war, the computer will destroy everything.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    However, a third planet hangs in space between Atrios and Zeos, shielded from their sensors. This is the lair of the Shadow. He has been waiting for the Doctor to arrive, manipulating the war to his advantage. He is willing to use the Doctor''s own friends against him and he wants the Key to Time.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Although the Doctor''s quest is nearly over, he begins to realise that he may lose everything. For the Shadow is a servant of the Black Guardian.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12908'),
(27485, 'Doctor Who: Asylum', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oxford, 1278 -- the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes -- history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day.Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good.However, more and more murders are being committed and it''s increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12910'),
(27486, 'Doctor Who: Atom Bomb Blues', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point and destroy the human race. Playing detective among the A-bomb scientists, the Doctor tries to avoid falling under suspicion himself, but the head of Los Alamos security is convinced that something is not quite right about the small, eccentric Scottish research physicist calling himself Dr John Smith. As the minutes tick away to the world''s first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14980'),
(27487, 'Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of the television script of a Doctor Who adventure. The Doctor''s old enemy, Lytton, appears to have allied himself with the ruthless Cybermen, who have devised a scheme which, if successful, could completely destroy the web of time and bring the human race to its knees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12911'),
(27488, 'Doctor Who: Auton Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people â€” the Time Lords â€” the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce â€” UNIT for short. Led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon called into action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient â€” a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, UNIT and the recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12912'),
(27489, 'Doctor Who: Autonomy', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hyperville is 2013''s top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it''s ready, and it''s deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience... Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC Television series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12913'),
(27490, 'Doctor Who: Autumn Mist', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ardennes, December 1994: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign that will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle -- an unknown and ancient force that seems to pay little head to the forces of nature.Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12915'),
(27491, 'Doctor Who: Bad Therapy', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950''s Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12917'),
(27492, 'Doctor Who: Battlefield', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, the first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels continues where the 1989 TV series left off. The latest title is an exciting adventure called Battlefield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12919'),
(27493, 'Doctor Who: Beltempest', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the people of Bellania II witness a triple eclipse of their sun, Bel -- an impossibility, as they only have one moon -- it is the beginning of the end for an entire solar system. Their sun is shrouded in night for a month -- then returns to them a younger, brighter, hotter star. But how?100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where 20,000 people are under threat as a catastrophe threatens -- immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are rioting through their sector of space. Sam is swept away by desperate crowds trying to get off their world, and becomes involved in daring rescue attempts. The Doctor tries to stabilize the local gravity fields and help halt the devastation, but the TARDIS is lost to him.Meanwhile, a religious suicide-cult leader attempts to destroy himself on the deadly heated surface of Belannia II, but he does not die. He returns stronger, and with a new religion he is determined to spread through Bel''s system. His word may prove more dangerous even then the terrible forces brought into being from Bel''s sun. Just what has happened to the star Bel -- and will the Doctor hive time to do anything about it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12920'),
(27494, 'Doctor Who: Beyond the Sun', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bernice Summerfield''s no-good ex-husband claims to be in deadly danger. Unfortunately, Benny does not believe him until he is kidnapped. Feeling guilty she sets off to rescue him. Her only clue is a dusty artifact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient weapon, rumored to have powers beyond the sun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12921'),
(27495, 'Doctor Who: Birthright', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <hr size="10" />\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         â€˜I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.â€™ â€˜I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.â€™\n        </b>\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12924'),
(27496, 'Doctor Who: Black Orchid', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes at the tiny railway station of Cranleigh Halt in 1925, and the Doctor, Tegan, Adric, and Nyssa, though looking forward to a rest from their adventures, are faced with the discovery of a brutal murder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12926'),
(27497, 'Doctor Who: Blood and Hope', 'Iain McLaughlin; John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Civil War-a time of great unrest, when fathers found themselves in conflict with their sons and when lawlessness and slavery was rife. The Doctor, together with his companions Peri and Erimem, arrive in the middle of the conflict. The Doctor manages to cope in his own inimitable manner, however Peri - an American - and Erimem - a dark-skinned Egyptian - find themselves faced with all the bigotry and haired that typified the war for some.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12931'),
(27498, 'Doctor Who: Blood Harvest', 'Paul Cornell; Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Docâ€™s peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. Youâ€™re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called â€˜Docâ€™sâ€™, he knows this is one job he canâ€™t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12933'),
(27499, 'Doctor Who: Blood Heat', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <b>\n     â€˜Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.â€™\n    </b>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurrassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12937'),
(27500, 'Doctor Who: Blue Box', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn ''Internet'' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as ''The Doctor'' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles ''Chick'' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation''s vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12940'),
(27501, 'Doctor Who: Bullet Time', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attempting to cover the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Sarah Jane Smith stumbles upon alien activity. The Tzun have been trapped on Earth while searching for the location of a lost ship that will allow them to leave. But with the CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, and UNIT on the ship''s trail, it won''t be easy. Sarah discovers that the Tzun have the wisdom and ingenuity of the Doctor on their side, but finds they are not being put to the best use. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12941'),
(27502, 'Doctor Who: Bunker Soldiers', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people.Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 -- a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed".When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue -- but this creature certainly isn''t killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from -- and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12942'),
(27503, 'Doctor Who: Business Unusual', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''s C19 security division investigates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12943'),
(27504, 'Doctor Who: Byzantium!', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A First Doctor novel. The Tardis arrives in 64 AD close to the ancient capital of Byzantium. The Doctor warns of the brutality and corruption to be found here, only to see his party split up. Each believe that the others are dead and must cope with the complexities of the city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12945'),
(27505, 'Doctor Who: Camera Obscura', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12949'),
(27506, 'Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters', 'Terrance Dicks; Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and Jo find themselves trapped in a time-loop as part of a peepshow on the planet Inter Minor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12951'),
(27507, 'Doctor Who: Castrovalva', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor''s regeneration really be failing this time? It certainly looks that way as his two assistants, Tegan and Nyssa, help him recuperate on the tranquil planet of Castrovalva.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n But are things as peaceful as they seem? What has happened to Adric? What is really going on in Castrovalva? And more importantly, where is the Master?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the Doctor begins to recover he realises that the Master''s trap is even more intricate than he could have imagined and that he will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12952'),
(27508, 'Doctor Who: Casualities of War', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12955'),
(27509, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Times Crucible', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Youâ€™re on your own, Ace.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is invaded by an alien presence, and is then destroyed. The Doctor disappears.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace, lost and alone, finds herself in a bizarre deserted city ruled by the tyrannical, leech-like monster known as the Process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lost voyagers drawn forward from Ancient Gallifrey perform obsessive rituals in the ruins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The strands of time are tangled in a catâ€™s cradle of dimensions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only the Doctor can challenge the rule of the Process and restore the stolen Future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor was destroyed long ago, before Time began.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12961'),
(27510, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Warhead', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The script editor of the Doctor Who television series from 1987 to 1989 returns with the second adventure in the Cat''s Cradle series of Doctor Who novels. As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a desperate effort. If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14284'),
(27511, 'Doctor Who: Catastrophe', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A jubilant Doctor has been given freedom again by the Time Lords to roam time and space. But when he and Sam arrive on the planet of Catastrophea, he begins to wish perhaps his exile on Earth had remained imposed, for the Doctor becomes embroiled in the schemes of off-world drug-smugglers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12958'),
(27512, 'Doctor Who: Cats Cradle: Witch Mark', 'Andrew Hunt; Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14285'),
(27513, 'Doctor Who: Cave Monsters', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a huge creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves, there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not only is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff members.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Now exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins to make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not only a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians - intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind has replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12962'),
(27514, 'Doctor Who: Christmas on a Rational Planet', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜An end to history. An end to certainty. Is that too much to ask?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  December, 1799. Europe is recovering from the Age or Reason, the Vatican is learning to live with Napoleon, and America is celebrating a new era of independence. But in New York State, something is spreading its own brand of madness through the streets. Secret societies are crawling from the woodwork, and thereâ€™s a Satanic conspiracy around every corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roz Forrester is stranded in a town where festive cheer and random violence go hand-in-hand. Chris Cwej is trapped on board the TARDIS with someone whoâ€™s been trained to kill him. And when Reason itself breaks down, even the Doctor canâ€™t be sure who or what heâ€™s fighting for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Christmas is coming to town, and the end of civilization is following close behind...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12965'),
(27515, 'Doctor Who: Citadel of Dreams', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  And in an unknowable future the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind -- simultaneously, for preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows -- and heâ€™s not telling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble, Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12968'),
(27516, 'Doctor Who: City at World&#39;s End', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands the time travellers on the deserted observation deck of a skyscraper-like building. Giant screens show programmes about an evacuation procedure and reveal that "Zero Time" is an estimated 35 days away.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12971'),
(27517, 'Doctor Who: Claws of Axos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A mysterious UFO lands on Earth. The Axons have arrived, desperate for help and eager to offer in return an exciting gift - axonite, potentially the most powerful substance man has ever seen. With its powers of duplication, the possibilities for mankind are endless. The Ministry of Defence is delighted but the Doctor has his suspicions. Are the Axons as genuine as they seem? Just what is the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, doing aboard this ship?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12974'),
(27518, 'Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half''. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books'' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain''s best castles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12976'),
(27519, 'Doctor Who: Coldheart', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion story, the Doctor materializes underground, where he and his companions are led to safety by a humanoid character, who explains that this is the planet Eskon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12980'),
(27520, 'Doctor Who: Combat Rock', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor''s initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust. Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest. It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12981'),
(27521, 'Doctor Who: Companion Piece', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12982'),
(27522, 'Doctor Who: Conundrum', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, weâ€™re talking about an old man who used to dress up in a skintight white jump suit and fly around New York catching super-villains. Donâ€™t you think thereâ€™s something just a bit unusual about that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A killer is stalking the streets of the village of Arandale. The victims are found one each day, drained of blood. And if that seems strange, itâ€™s nothing compared to the townâ€™s inhabitants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Ace and Bernice think theyâ€™re investigating a murder mystery. But itâ€™s all much more bizarre than that. And much more dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Someone has interfered with the Doctorâ€™s past again, and heâ€™s landed in a place he knows he once destroyed. This time there can be no escape.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12819'),
(27523, 'Doctor Who: Corpse Marker', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor and Leela land on the planet Kaldor, home of the Sandminer crew that they recently saved from the dreaded Robots of Death.Intrigue abounds still further on the homeworld. The twisted genius that perverted the robots from their function to serve man, the late Taren Kapel, has become the deity of a cult that is causing chaos. Leda finds herself caught up in their mayhem while the Doctor learns that the survivors of the original sandminer crew are being killed off one by one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12821'),
(27524, 'Doctor Who: Creature from the Pit', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Baker, regarded by many as being the definitive Doctor Who, narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The planet Chloris is very fertile, but metal is in short supply, and has therefore become extremely valuable. A huge creature, with most unusual physical properties, arrives from an alien planet which can provide Chloris with metal from its own unlimited supplies, in exchange for chlorophyll. However, the ruthless Lady Adrasta has been able to exploit the shortage of metal to her own advantage, and has no wish to see the situation change. The Doctor and Romana land on Chloris just as the creature''s alien masters begin to lose patience over their ambassador''s long absence. The action the aliens decide to take will have devastating consequences for Chloris, unless something is done to prevent it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12824'),
(27525, 'Doctor Who: Crusaders', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It''s 12th Century Palestine and King Richard the Lionheart is embroiled in a Holy War against the Saracen ruler, Saladin.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  After Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki make their way to the King''s palace. At first, the King will not help with her rescue, but he relents and lets Ian attempt it, equipping him for the task with a knighthood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, the King''s secret plans to make peace with Saladin are discovered and all hell breaks loose. The Earl of Leicester suspects the Doctor''s influence in the King''s new-found desire for peace. It is time the Doctor left...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12826'),
(27526, 'Doctor Who: Curse of Peladon', 'Brian Hayles; Alan Willow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    On its way back to Earth, the TARDIS crashlands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon''s King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a Galactic war?\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Having assumed the guise of Earth delegates, the Doctor and his assistant Jo attempt to diffuse the political timebomb and to uncover the true identity of the beast of Peladon - which they suspect is something far more sinister than a mere paranormal apparition.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor is amazed, however, to find among the delegates his old adversaries the Ice Warriors - war-like reptiles from the planet Mars. Could they be behind the goings-on and what they stand to profit from a conflict? The Doctor must use all of his wits to ensure that the warnings of Peladon''s High Priest do not come true.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12886'),
(27527, 'Doctor Who: Daemons', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who becomes concerned at plans to explore a prehistoric barrow near the quiet village of Devil''s End\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12828'),
(27528, 'Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in a London of future timesâ€”a city of devastation now ruled by Daleks. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the center of Dalek operations...and the reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth! William Russell, who played the Doctor''s companion Ian in the original TV serial, reads this unabridged novel, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12831'),
(27529, 'Doctor Who: Daleks', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Doctor Who s first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? William Russell, who created the role of Ian in the original television series of Doctor Who, reads David Whitaker s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published in hardback in 1964. The book went on to spearhead the Target Books range of Doctor Who titles, and it is one of the best-loved novelisations to be based on the programme.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Russell, Ian in the original "Doctor Who" series, narrates the novelization of the 1964 season, a retro sci-fi adventure of two average Brits caught up in the mysterious doctor''s travels. On the planet Skaro they intervene to save the pacifist Thals from the evil Daleks. Russell reads with earnest breathlessness, making Ian a sturdy, if querulous, hero. He differentiates other voices adequately, with electronic filtering for the Daleks'' voices. Frequent sound effects and occasional music are sometimes laughable, sometimes effective. The story has both the charms of old-time sci-fi and the flaws, including some nasty xenophobia. But those who overlook the negatives and get into the spirit will find this title fun. W.M. Â© AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12833'),
(27530, 'Doctor Who: Damaged Goods', 'Russell T. Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s continuing investigation of human psi powers brings him to a council estate in Thatcher''s Britain. He discovers that there''s a lethal new batch of cocaine on the streets--and the man who''s dealing it has been dead for two weeks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12834'),
(27531, 'Doctor Who: Dark Progeny', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconstitute it with seed and chemicals to grow crops. Suddenly a dozen babies are born with alien physiology and telekinetic and telepathic powers. The Doctor realizes that an archaeologist has roused up the planet''s long-dead inhabitants. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12836'),
(27532, 'Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is the agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore must die...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas'' world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the population and face certain triumph unless the Doctor betrays all he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of Styles in an attempt to change the course of history... irrevocably.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12838'),
(27533, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Assassin', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     In order to prove his innocence the Doctor must pursue his enemy into the Matrix, a dream-like repository of knowledge formed from the minds of dead Time Lords. However, he quickly discovers that in the Matrix the real assassin rules and behind this enemy lurks the even more deadlier menace of his old adversary - the Master.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12841'),
(27534, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Reunion', 'Terrance Dicks; Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the aftermath of the Second World War, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - then a young subaltan - was involved in intelligence operations in the Greek islands. But now his problems are rather closer to home. The Doctor and Jo are caught up in mysterious events in a small English village. Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates are ready to rush to the rescue. A sinister cult holds unholy ceremonies and prepares for a day of reckoning. And the Doctor has a shrewd idea who might be behind it all. This might seem like business as usual, but things are not always as they seem. The Brigadier finds himself trying to separate the truth from the lies, and the past from the present. Can he once again help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure - because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12843'),
(27535, 'Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dakhaari, Czhans and Salori are locked in a conflict over the planet of Moriel. When the Hollow Gods decree they must settle their differences, only the Doctor has the necessary tact to arbitrate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12845');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27536, 'Doctor Who: Death To The Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    In this exciting space adventure The Doctor is forced into a desperate race against time...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    An inexplicable power-loss strands the TARDIS on the sinister planet Exxilon where the Doctor meets an expedition from Earth seeking a rare material that can cure the virulent space plague that threatens all human life throughout the galaxy. Nearby, Sarah discovers a mysterious, living Citadel but is captured by the savage Exxilons who prepare her for sacrifice...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must uncover the secrets of the ancient Exxilon City, locate the source of the power-drain, save Sarah and help the Earth expedition. But his plans are threatened by new arrivals on the planet - the Doctor''s oldest and deadliest enemies - The Daleks!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12846'),
(27537, 'Doctor Who: Deceit', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Take Arcadia apart if you have to.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earthâ€™s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Nothing is what it seems to be.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12849'),
(27538, 'Doctor Who: Deep Blue', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. He is surprised to bump into an old friend, the Doctor, who has brought his friends Tegan and Turlough there for a holiday -- a holiday which is short-lived after the crew of the boat Papillon are discovered slaughtered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12851'),
(27539, 'Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen', 'Malcolm Kohll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Chimeron homeworld is attacked by Gavrok and his troops - the Bannermen. The sole survivor is the Chimeron Queen, Delta, who flees carrying with her the last chance for the future of her race...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Mel arrive at a Galactic Tollport, to discover they''ve won a holiday to Disneyland in 1959, alongside a party of disguised alien Navarions. Just before they all depart, the tour is joined by Delta, who travels with them back to Earth...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colliding with an early American satellite, the trip back in time is thrown widely off course. Instead of ending up at Disneyland, the whole party lands instead at the Shangri-La holiday camp in South Wales, 1959.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Mel take full advantage of the holiday camp, entertainment and some vintage rock ''n'' roll. But the Bannermen are tracking Delta, and before long the holiday camp is the scene for a battle that could decide the survival of the Chimeron race - not to mention the survival of all those caught up in the conflict...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12853'),
(27540, 'Doctor Who: Demontage', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Sam and Fitz land on the Vega station, a pleasure center given over to gambling, shopping and the Arts. It hangs on the edge of Battrulian Space, close to the Earth colony''s frontier with the Canvine, huge, wolf-like dog creatures.The Earth colony president is arriving to attend an exhibition of the 3-D reality scans in oil paintings of Toulour Martinique. But the Doctor soon discovers there is more to the paintings than meets the eye. A dark secret is hidden behind the shallow delights of the station, and it seems that it is not only the President who is marked for death but the Doctor and his friends, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12854'),
(27541, 'Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Accompanied by the newly regenerated Romana, the Doctor lands on a mystery planet intrigued by the evidence of drilling taking place there, deep underground.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The discoveries he makes are chilling. For the planet is Skaro and the Daleks are in charge of the operation. But just what are his old enemies searching for? And why?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Perhaps the answers lie with the Movellans, a beautiful humanoid race led by Commander Sharrel. They are waging a war of their own with the Daleks and the situation is now stalemate. Should the Doctor tip the balance of power to aid the Daleks'' ultimate destruction? Or are their intentions no less sinister than the Daleks'' themselves?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Suddenly the Doctor finds himself enmeshed in a deadly battle which could result in the destruction of the universe itself as, once more, he summons the strength to face an all too familiar, timelessly evil adversary.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12855'),
(27542, 'Doctor Who: Dinosaur Invasion', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return of these prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and, if so, who can be behind it all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12857'),
(27543, 'Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To most, the entity known as the Celestial Toymaker is an abstract pan-universal force, whose powers, origins and intentions are unknown. To a select few the Toymaker is a god, a being to be worshipped, without whom there would be no existence. But to others, the Toymaker is the embodiment of evil, a force to be thwarted at every possible juncture. Aeons past, the Time Lords of Gallifrey tried to comprehend the Toymaker, and the role this force played in the cosmos. To one group of young Time Lords centuries later, understanding the Toymaker represented a goal, a mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12859'),
(27544, 'Doctor Who: Doctor Who the Colony of Lies', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the ''Realists'' -- has abandoned Ransome''s Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The ''Loyalists'' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet''s first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12862'),
(27545, 'Doctor Who: Dominion', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole originates from there -- but where does it lead to?The time travelers discover a massive military presence in the area. The wormhole is a result of strange experiments in teleport -- but the other end of the time space tunnel is rooted in a bizarre land not even located in our dimension -- the Dominion. And the Dominion itself isn''t under threat from a shapeless, all-pervading blackness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12863'),
(27546, 'Doctor Who: Dragonfire', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who meets Sabalom Glitz at the Space Trading Colony of Iceworld, he decides to join Glitz''s search for hidden treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12865'),
(27547, 'Doctor Who: Dragons&#39; Wrath', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Are the Knights of Jeneve more than legend? Why is the warlord Nusek so desperate to secure Benny''s services? In a world of secret societies, concealed motives and overly elaborate executions, Benny must divine the truth behind the propaganda--or become a footnote in the chronicles of a maniac''s rise to power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12868'),
(27548, 'Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out.Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives?Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12870'),
(27549, 'Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon', 'Paul Leonard; Paul Hinder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , Sam and the Doctor, via different routes because they are still apart, find themselves on a satellite called the Dreamstone Moon. It has come by this name because it is where dreamstone, a substance that allows the dreams of sleepers to be recorded and then played back (or something), is mined. But an artist named Anton finds that the dreamstones only give him nightmares and so determines to go to the moon to find out why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers are unlikely to be impressed with any of the characters here. It is easy to mistakenly believe that the soldier Cleomides is an android since it is the only way to explain her wooden, stilted dialogue and strange actions. The only well-developed character besides Sam is an alien Krakenite named Aloisse (a totally inhuman, cephalopodic sort of creature).\n </p>\n <p>\n  An excellent subplot is the idea that some of the humans cannot see aliens as rational and dependable beings in their own right. This leads to Aloisse being systematically tortured, blinded, and seriously wounded, since the humans simply can''t think of her as a sentient being. This, of course, echoes man''s inhumanity to man--especially where race and color are concerned--and is nicely understated here. The Doctor is probably the only hope they have, but because he is an alien, those in charge cannot see how he can help them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sam spends her time moving from one disaster area to another and encountering a series of hostile environments: it''s amazing that she survives at all. It''s also slightly annoying that she and the Doctor never actually get to meet in the novel--they spend the whole time just missing each other and only actually see each other twice. (I think it was twice--I wasn''t counting!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The biggest problem with\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , however, is that the action (and there is lots of it) is simply not very well handled. Whereas John Peel can write action so that you feel you are watching it on screen, Leonard''s events seem diluted and distant, as if it''s someone telling you about something that happened to a friend some years before.\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  is a little bland in parts. Or it could be that Leonard''s writing simply doesn''t appeal to this reviewer and that others will understand and enjoy the work more.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dreamstone allows people to record and play back their dreams; it can only be found on a certain moon. The Doctor and Sam travel there to prevent its destruction whilst Anton La Serre wants to know why his pleasant dreams have turned into nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12873'),
(27550, 'Doctor Who: Drift', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Screams are carried on the frosty winds, but as the troops break in they find the house deserted. A gunfight with no victims. The Doctor, hoping to give Leela a taste of life among the tribes of Native America, finds he has fractionally misjudged his coordinates, and they too are trapped in the frozen wastes, for he has strangely lost his homing affinity with the TARDIS. In the nearby small town of Winnipesaukee, a little girl called Amber Mailloux, distressed by the disappearance of her father, frustrated with her mother''s roaming, unsettled life, feels almost at one with the heartless, lonely raging of the storm. But none of them know that the snow, the ice is not just a backdrop, but the real enemy. At the heart of the drift is a living presence, glorying in the cold, inhuman structures of the ice. And it''s hungry...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12874'),
(27551, 'Doctor Who: Dying in the Sun', 'Jon De Burgh Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself in Hollywood where a fantastic new movie that''s playing in town is everything each one of its viewers ever wanted from a film. But the ex-fiance of the new movie''s producer thinks the film is evil, and risks her life to prevent its screening. Then a friend of the Doctor''s is found murdered, and his death seems linked to the activities of a secret society, FOCAL. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12875'),
(27552, 'Doctor Who: Earthshock', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and his fellow time-travelers become suspects when they appear at the site of the massacre of a team of paleontologists\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12876'),
(27553, 'Doctor Who: Earthworld', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji novel. The first settlers of New Jupiter were a handful of humans, with androids to help make the planet habitable. Many generations down, the New Jupitan President, John F Hoover, faces a challenge to his hereditary role. His popularity is threatened by the Association for New Jupitan Independence - ANJI - who want to establish New Jupitan Independence. So Hoover has set up an Earth Tneme Park - EarthWorld. It is nearly complete and will enormously boost the planet''s income from off-worlders - and thus the President''s popularity. He has no intention of telling anyone that there are people entering EarthWorld who are mysteriously never seen again. Meanwhile the President has three triplet daughters to succeed him in his hereditary role. Unbeknown to him, they have been tampering with EarthWorld''s androids - but why? And can the Doctor find out before the problems on New Jupiter get out of control?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12877'),
(27554, 'Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala Golightly has been assigned the mission of recovering a devastating weapon that has been accidentally sent back through time. Traced to Wiltshire, 1934, the timer on this weapon is running and if Kala doesn''t recover it before it activates, it will become capable of genetically re-engineering everything that comes into contact with it. In this event, Kala is under orders to detonate a nuclear device that will destroy the entire area.Charles Rigby, resident of the small village of Marpling, discovers the device in his back garden. It is accidentally triggered and takes over some wasps whose nest was nearby. They are transformed into carriers of psionic intelligence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12878'),
(27555, 'Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords are an immensely powerful race, so named because they were the first to discover how to travel freely through time and space. Bored with his life on Gallifrey, the Doctor steals his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) and sets off to explore the universe. He believes passionately in truth and justice, and finds himself getting involved wherever he finds evil and malevolence - which is everywhere! "Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There''s nothing a man - or woman - won''t do for true love." 1812: The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil! 2024: Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel. 5000: Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12879'),
(27556, 'Doctor Who: Empire of Death', 'BBC Worldwide', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England''s most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch''s last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan''s sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric''s ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12882'),
(27557, 'Doctor Who: Endgame', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor''s, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and finds himself caught up in the middle of a dangerous, world-threatening conflict.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12884'),
(27558, 'Doctor Who: Enlightenment', 'Barbara Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The TARDIS materializes on an Edwardian yacht and Dr. Who finds himself involved in a strange and deadly race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12885'),
(27559, 'Doctor Who: Escape Velocity', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the first day of the 21st century, and a space race between rival Earth entrepreneurs is underway.Both teams are being aided by an alien race called the Kulan. They were stranded on planet Earth after their scout ship crashed there and, as far as the rival teams are concerned, the Kulan are motivated by a desire to get back to their home planet.What they don''t realize is that in fact the wrecked scout ship was part of a Kulan invasion force, sent ahead of the rest of its fleet to investigate Earth. The Kulan are a ruthless race who invade planets to exploit whatever economic value they contain, and the rest of the fleet is due to arrive in 2001.However, the stranded Kulan need to escape planet Earth''s radio-thick atmosphere to contact the fleet and arrange their rendezvous. Will one of the teams succeed in helping the Kulan to destroy Earth -- or will the Doctor succeed in averting a catastrophic attack?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12887'),
(27560, 'Doctor Who: Eternity Weeps', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 2003 on Earth and mankind faces apocalypse. The Doctor and his companions must find the secrets of an ancient exodus to prevent the Earth being twisted into the image of a long-dead world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12889'),
(27561, 'Doctor Who: Eye of Heaven', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Leela travel back to Victorian times to unravel the mysteries of the Easter Island statues, and solve the conundrum of how nearly 18,000 islanders left their home without using boats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12891'),
(27562, 'Doctor Who: Fallen Gods', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies. With his encouragement she can fly and surf the time streams and see something of the future. But then the demons come. Death and disaster are meted out by the gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12894'),
(27563, 'Doctor Who: Falls the Shadow', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path,â€™ said Tanith. â€˜We are mad, and you are trapped with us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is imprisoned in a house called Shadowfell, where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet Earth.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12896'),
(27564, 'Doctor Who: Father Time', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn''t know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all the imperial family was slaughtered, with the exception of the infant Miranda. Her nanny brought her to Earth, to save her from the atrocities of the Republicans, but the Imperialists are after her too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12899'),
(27565, 'Doctor Who: Fear Itself', 'Nick Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 22nd Century, a few short years of interstellar contact have taught Man a hard lesson: there are powerful, unstoppable, alien forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. It''s a realization that deals a body blow to Man''s belief in his own superiority and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. The fight against alien forces is no job for an amateur, and for a Doctor only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12901'),
(27566, 'Doctor Who: Fear of the Dark', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon''s only moon, searching for evidence of the planet''s infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics -- and help uncover much more than ancient history. Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction. An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point -- and beyond.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12903'),
(27567, 'Doctor Who: Festival of Death', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stuck in the end of a hyperspace tunnel lies a huge, chaotic, space city known as the G-Lock -- the end product of the most terrible intergalactic traffic jam in history. It has now been transformed into a death-themed park, where the major attraction is a death-simulator known as the Beautiful Death. However, the power generated by people enjoying the ride is being diverted to a mysterious destination. A creature called the Repulsion is on the loose, offering resurrection in two hundred year''s time to anyone who will surrender to it, allowing it to exist in the real world. Can the Doctor defeat it, and escape from the G-Lock before the interface between hyperspace and real space collapses?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12905'),
(27568, 'Doctor Who: First Frontier', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Ace raised her blaster. â€˜Youâ€™ve already killed me once, girl,â€™ Kreer said. â€˜Didnâ€™t you learn anything from that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know whatâ€™s going on: the armyâ€™s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12907'),
(27569, 'Doctor Who: Foreign Devils', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font size="-1">\n   China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and ZoÃ« arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and ZoÃ« into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font size="-1">\n   The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11588'),
(27570, 'Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Doctor Who materializes on an alien spaceship, the Monarch commander of the ship, offers to replicate the doctor as an android\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12909'),
(27571, 'Doctor Who: Frayed', 'Tara Samms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.'' On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12914'),
(27572, 'Doctor Who: Frontier Worlds', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another adventure of the time-travelling Doctor Who, in which the Tardis crew are lured to the mysterious planet Drebnar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12916'),
(27573, 'Doctor Who: Frontios', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unexpected meteorite storm forces Doctor Who to crash-land the TARDIS on a colony on a harsh planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12918'),
(27574, 'Doctor Who: Full Circle', 'Andrew Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor discovers the TARDIS has fallen into E-Space, an alternate universe, and landed on the planet Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana find its only inhabitants are living on a vast, crashed spaceship they have been repairing for generations to return to their home planet, Terradon. But Mistfall, a mythical time of terror, is coming again to Alzarius, and an eerie menace is rising out of the misty marshes.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But why have huge poisonous spiders begun to appear in the Alzarian food supply? And what is the secret of the strange marshmen? The Doctor and Romana must solves these riddles and more if they are to have any chance of returning to their own universe.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12784'),
(27575, 'Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Landing near a North Sea gas refinery off the east coast of England, the TARDIS crew are immediately accused of sabotage. Several rig crews have mysteriously Vanished, strange pressure build-ups have been detected, and in the refinery''s pipelines the Doctor can hear the steady, rhythmic beat of - what?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria will find themselves at the unrelenting mercy of one of the deadliest and most terrifying foe they have ever encountered â€” the deadly, parasitic Weed creatures...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12785'),
(27576, 'Doctor Who: Galaxy Four', 'William Emms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Learning that the planet will explode within two days, Doctor Who must decide which of two warring alien species to rescue, the beautiful Drahvins or the repugnant Rills\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12788'),
(27577, 'Doctor Who: Genocide', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12790'),
(27578, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Light', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 1883. At the heart of a Victorian house by the name of Gabriel Chase, lies an alien ship. For millions of years its owner has been asleep, unaware that part of the cargo has evolved into a malevolent creature.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor brings his assistant Ace to the house to face and overcome a terrible fear from her past, he finds himself catapulted into the secrets lying dormant there. Who or what is the alien presence Josiah? What has he done with the real inhabitants of the house? More importantly, of what is Josiah so frightened and can it help the Doctor?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In order to combat Josiah''s evil presence, the Doctor arranges the release of a more powerful entity called Light - the true owner of the alien ship. However, as events unfold the Doctor discovers he may have awoken an even more dangerous adversary. For Light means to destroy every living thing on Earth...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12792'),
(27579, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Ship', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps sensing the Doctor''s deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary in the year 1963. But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672? And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12793'),
(27580, 'Doctor Who: Godengine', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Weâ€™re on Mars, weâ€™re surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Plutoâ€™s moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12795'),
(27581, 'Doctor Who: Grave Matter', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an island named Dorsill, which has recently been bought by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers aren''t suspicious when they notice a few people dying, and attribute it to natural causes. Little do they realize that they are in fact now part of Sheldon''s closed experiment. The Doctor must discover what dark experiments Sheldon is carrying out on the innocent people of Dorsill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12796'),
(27582, 'Doctor Who: Greatest Show in the Galaxy', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Doctor and Ace need all their death-defying skills in the big top to uncover a brooding, ancient evil that has broken the spirit of the Psychic Circus and demanded the sacrifice of so many lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12798'),
(27583, 'Doctor Who: Grimm Reality', 'Simon Bucher-Jones; Kelly Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS arrives on a planet inhabited by a lost human colony that is dangerously close to an energy-emitting white hole. The Doctor and his companions are intent on discovering more about the territory, and find it is no ordinary planet. Various visitors contend for control over what will happen to this exotic shape-shifting world in the universe beyond. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12800'),
(27584, 'Doctor Who: Halflife', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose it twice looks like carelessness. The Doctor''s not himself. He''s not quite sure who he is, but he''s definitely not himself. It doesn''t help that he''s forgotten quite why he came to the colony world of Espero in the first place, but he''s sure it was something important. Whatever the reason, he''s not the planet''s only visitor. Before long, he''s engaged in the search for a time-bomb - a time-bomb that could have consequences not only for Espero, but for the Doctor himself - and his missing past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12801'),
(27585, 'Doctor Who: Happiness Patrol', 'Graeme Curry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has heard stories of strange and sinister goings-on on Earth colony Terra Alpha. Citizens have disappeared without trace, and strange creatures lurk in the pipes and sewers under the capital city. Believing it is high time someone got to the bottom of the mystery, the Doctor declares to his young companion Ace that tonight will be the night...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  He discovers that Terra Alpha is ruled by the tyrannical Helen A, a dictator who requires her subjects to be happy... or die. Her roving death squads - the Happiness Patrol - are empowered to kill on sight anyone displaying signs of sadness, gloom or melancholy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   However, it is not just the sadistic Happiness Patrol that the Doctor and Ace must contend with. Before they can discover the dark secret of Helen A''s regime, they must face the fearsome bloodlust of her savage pet, Fifi, and the lethal surprises cooked up by her chief executioner - and confectioner supreme - the Kandy Man.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12803'),
(27586, 'Doctor Who: Happy Endings', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, this is my fiance. Please donâ€™t kill him.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Everybodyâ€™s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12806'),
(27587, 'Doctor Who: Head Games', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deranged version of the Doctor, known as Dr. Who, has broken through a rip in reality and is going round the universe dispensing his own kind of justice. Only the real Doctor knows himself well enough to be able to deal with this threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12807'),
(27588, 'Doctor Who: Heart of Tardis', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What''s more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12810'),
(27589, 'Doctor Who: Heritage', 'Dale Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it''s nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it''s actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor''s got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they''re in the neighbourhood. That''s when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he''s not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor''s around. Whether he wants them to or not.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12812');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27590, 'Doctor Who: History 101', 'Mags L. Halliday', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought. Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were ''the Doctor'', ''Anji'' and ''Fitz'' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing ''Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor'' history course.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12813'),
(27591, 'Doctor Who: Hope', 'Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s rather manic attempts to refamiliarise himself with the workings of the TARDIS result in the crew finding themselves stranded on an extremely inhospitable planet, as the TARDIS sinks through the cracking ice it landed on. This is Endpoint, the last planet in a crumbled galaxy, where hairless post-humans scrape out an existence on the noxious, barely habitable surface. In their efforts to persuade someone to resurrect the TARDIS, they encounter the real power on Endpoint, a cyborg named Silver, whose enhanced capabilities and mastery of technology mean he dictates what really happens, not only in the capital city, Hope, but on the entire planet. But he is worried: there is something going on that is beyond even his control. In increasing numbers, people are being killed on the streets of Hope. As the Doctor investigates, he discovers a hidden community below the surface of Endpoint, who are desperate enough to kill...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12814'),
(27592, 'Doctor Who: Human Nature', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Whoâ€™s going to save us this time?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. Heâ€™s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12815'),
(27593, 'Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, "Doctor Who" has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books - over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries - the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor''s new companion Martha Jones and is sure to be snapped up by all fans of the show.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12816'),
(27594, 'Doctor Who: Iceberg', 'David Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Depends on how you define alien,â€™ the Doctor said simply. â€˜They were human once.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilization: the inversion of the Earthâ€™s magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Above them, theÂ \n   <i>\n    SS Elysium\n   </i>\n   Â carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12817'),
(27595, 'Doctor Who: Illegal Alien', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring Doctor Who and Ace. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, a silver sphere falls from the sky, and several large, humanoid figures emerge. The Doctor and Ace realize that the sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology, and whatever it contained is now loose in London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12818'),
(27596, 'Doctor Who: Imperial Moon', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on the far side of the moon and the time safe alarm goes off. Inside is a diary kept by a Captain Richard Halliwell, describing his mission from Earth to the Moon -- in the year 1878. The TARDIS returns to 1878 where the Doctor meets up with the expeditions and the remains of the massacred team member are discovered. The Doctor must find the alien creature responsible for the murder and solve why there is no record of Victorian space travel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12820'),
(27597, 'Doctor Who: Independence Day', 'P. Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS lands on the planet Mendeb, where Ace meets a merchant adventurer named Kedin. She falls for him, seduces him -- and then discovers him to be a slave trader. When, horrified, she tries to flee, he feeds her the will-sapping spore drug that turns independent citizens into obedient slaves, and sells her. The Doctor is on a mission to liberate the Mendeb slaves and lead them in revolt against the emperor Vathran -- but can they survive without the support of their generous employers? Meanwhile, Ace finds herself sold into the henads of Kedin''s arch-enemy Vathran, where she learns the reason for Kedin''s slave trading -- Vathran has imprisoned Kedin''s family and is threatening to have them put to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12822'),
(27598, 'Doctor Who: Inferno', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1984, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to act as the Earth is threatened by a poisonous liquid leaking from top-secret drilling project Inferno.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12823'),
(27599, 'Doctor Who: Infinite Requiem', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of history exists a psychically linked race of powerful beings, the Sensopaths. When three of them betray the race''s unity they are scattered back through time as punishment. Can the Doctor save the universe from destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12825'),
(27600, 'Doctor Who: Instrument of Darkness', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tall, thin Albino man, in various guises, appears in different parts of the world where he holds secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe that they are working for the French Secret Service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organization known as the Magnate. They come from all walks of life -- the one thing they have in common is that they are all psychometrically linked to one another.The Doctor is on Earth and alerted to a cult that attracts an array of young, vulnerable people. When the leader of the cult is held responsible for the abduction of a Magnate agent, the Doctor must work out what the connection is -- and find out exactly what plans the Magnate have for planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12827'),
(27601, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book One', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that he entire life had been stage-managed by a time-traveling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn''t it? Now Sam''s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12829'),
(27602, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book Two', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They call it the Dead Frontier. It''s as far from home as the human race ever went -- the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his own past and his own future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the Empire are only just being sown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12830'),
(27603, 'Doctor Who: Island of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12832'),
(27604, 'Doctor Who: Just War', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is March 1941, and Britain''s wartime fortunes are at their nadir. But events are still following the course of history. The Doctor is therefore alarmed to discover that the Nazis are building a superweapon that could end the war overnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12835'),
(27605, 'Doctor Who: Kinda', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A beautiful, paradise planet, Deva Loka. Its inhabitants, the Kinda, are a gentle and seemingly primitive people. On the surface, a perfect place to colonise. But if it is so perfect, why are the colonisation team disappearing one by one?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Unaware of this, the Doctor and his companions choose to rest on Deva Loka. Enchanted by the beautiful Chimes, "the place of dreams", Tegan sleeps and falls prey to the Mara, a malevolent force out to steal her mind. But just what are its ultimate evil intentions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric are captured by the surviving colonisation team''s officers, Sanders and the unstable Hindle. When Sanders disappears, Hindle collapses into a world of paranoid delusions and suddenly the security of the entire base is at risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor rescue Tegan from the Mara and defeat it - before it pushes Hindle over the edge? And who is the mysterious blind woman who appears in visions? Will she help the Doctor or ultimately impede him?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12837'),
(27606, 'Doctor Who: Kursaal', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam travel to a planet being made into a giant pleasure palace. Eco-terrorists are sabotaging the project because the construction crews are destroying the old civilization. The Doctor and Sam get caught up in the turmoil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12839'),
(27607, 'Doctor Who: Last Man Running', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on a jungle planet, the Doctor and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien life form that appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh. But who has created it?A band of humans arrives on the planet in search of something deadly and illegal -- the robot? Or the things that created it?Assuming the Doctor to be involved in the monstrous crimes against nature on the planet, the humans make life difficult for the TARDIS crew -- but who is waiting and watching in the shadows -- and for whose benefit is the arena of peril set up?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12840'),
(27608, 'Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The beautiful village of Culverton is dominated by the presence of the local Aerodrome, closed by recent defence cuts. When several locals disappear, and Spitfire veteran Captain Alec Bainbridge witnesses black-uniformed troops unloading ominous, coffin-like containers from the hangars, he contacts his old friend the Brigadier who promises to investigate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12842'),
(27609, 'Doctor Who: Left-Handed Hummingbird', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. â€˜Mr Lennon?â€™ he said.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London.Â \n  <br />\n  1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico.Â \n  <br />\n  1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York.Â \n  <br />\n  1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him -- but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events ofÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na19.htm">\n   Blood Heat\n  </a>\n  Â andÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na20.htm">\n   The Dimension Riders\n  </a>\n  , the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered -- and a lethal force from South Americaâ€™s prehistory has been released.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Titanic\n   </i>\n   Â as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12844'),
(27610, 'Doctor Who: Legacy', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜So, thatâ€™s an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime -- and sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxyâ€™s most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctorâ€™s instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly -- perhaps too friendly -- with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan -- but for once it isnâ€™t the Doctorâ€™s.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12847'),
(27611, 'Doctor Who: Legacy of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12848'),
(27612, 'Doctor Who: Logopolis', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unabridged reading of the final adventure for the Fourth Doctor, novelized and narrated by Christopher H. Bidmead from his original TV scripts. The meddling presence on Earth of the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, ensures the disruption of normality. Even he is horrified by the threat of total chaos he unintentionally precipitatesâ€”until he finds a way to turn the imminent destruction of the universe to his own advantage. But the cost for the Doctor himself wiill be terrible...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12850'),
(27613, 'Doctor Who: Longest Day', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having landed on the strange planet of Hirath, the Doctor and Sam become separated as they both strive to understand and help the inhabitants of a world where different time zones mean that the planet''s biosphere is out of control and heading for disaster.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12852'),
(27614, 'Doctor Who: Love or War', 'Paul Cornell; Publishing Carol', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord''s plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This time, has the Doctor gone too far?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12856'),
(27615, 'Doctor Who: Loving the Alien', 'Robert Perry; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace''s tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who''s behind it! Against a background of international (and trans-dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12858'),
(27616, 'Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising', 'Jim Mortimore; Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12860'),
(27617, 'Doctor Who: Lungbarrow', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All is not well on Gallifrey. The House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor left his family 673 years ago, has disappeared. In the seventh Doctor''s final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12861'),
(27618, 'Doctor Who: MacRa Terror', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who, Jamie, Ben, and Polly visit an idyllic colony on a remote planet, only to discover it''s being threatened by mysterious forces\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12864'),
(27619, 'Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, a retired Oxford professor wrote a fantasy opus about a world ruled by super-intelligent dogs with hands. After his mysterious disappearance, his wife published the story, sparking a huge industry of sequels and films. The Doctor knew the professor when he first started writing the tale, and knows the story is similar to a real and troubled world. Someone is trafficking contraband otherworldly history, and the Doctor must find out who.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12866'),
(27620, 'Doctor Who: Made of Steel', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   An obscure Government Ministry is blown up, and secret decoding equipment disappears. High-tech equipment is stolen from an army base. Mysterious figures raid an electronics shop, take the new games consoles and then vanish. Could the Cybermen be back?\n  </font>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12867'),
(27621, 'Doctor Who: Marco Polo', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visiting the Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, in 1289, Doctor Who gambles away his space-time ship, the TARDIS, to Kublai Khan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12869'),
(27622, 'Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don''t have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more... Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12871'),
(27623, 'Doctor Who: Match of the Day', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances... It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duelists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers - the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client - Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offense punishable by death?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12872'),
(27624, 'Doctor Who: Matrix', 'Robert Perry; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is Victorian London and Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets -- or is it the Doctor?A crystal from the TARDIS'' telepathic circuits has a serious effect on the Doctor''s mind, and Ace finds herself isolated and in danger.What part is the Doctor being forced to play? What is the secret of the 12 shadow-TARDISes which eerily wait in silence for events to play out? Only as Ace runs for her life does she realize that the Doctor is at the mercy of a terrifying force from his own future -- one he may be powerless to stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12714'),
(27625, 'Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who is horrified to discover that his time-travelling machine is stuck on a collision course with a strange alien spaceship\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12716'),
(27626, 'Doctor Who: Meglos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor, Leader of the planet Tigella, rules a divided people. Savants and Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue - the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  To the Savants the Dodecahedron is a miracle of science to be studied, observed and used to benefit Tigellan civilisation. To the Deons it is a god and not to be tampered with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the power supply begins to fluctuate wildly the whole planet is threatened, but the Tigellans cannot agree how they should deal with the problem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor welcomes the arrival of the Doctor and invites him to arbitrate, but the Deons are suspicious of the Time Lord - and perhaps rightly so...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12717'),
(27627, 'Doctor Who: Millennium Shock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world''s computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them. In Britain panic has set in, what can the time-travelling Doctor do to help?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12721'),
(27628, 'Doctor Who: Mission Impractical', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12723'),
(27629, 'Doctor Who: Mission to Magnus', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    ''Did I hear "Doctor"? Is it the Doctor I have drawn to me?'' The laugh became more strident, forcing the Doctor to thrust his fingers into his ears in panic and close his eyes, as if here were a frightened child.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor''s transformation into a cringing coward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The takeover of the TARDIS by the school bully from the class of the fourth millennium on Gallifrey is only the first of the Doctor''s problems. On the surface of the planet Magnus more of his old enemies are conspiring to trick the planet''s all-female rulers; the Doctor and Peri have to foil a plot to freeze the entire world and wipe out most of the population.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12725'),
(27630, 'Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Stranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched - the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it''s too late - but will the Daleks find him first?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12728'),
(27631, 'Doctor Who: Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12729'),
(27632, 'Doctor Who: Night of the Humans', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 250,000 years'' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There''s a comet in the sky, and it''s on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it''s up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12731'),
(27633, 'Doctor Who: Nightdreamers', 'Tom Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Perihelion Night on the wooded moon Verd. A time of strange sightings, ghosts, and celebration before the morn, when Lord Esnic marries the beautiful Lady Ria. However, Ria has other ideas, and flees through the gravity wells which dot the moon to meet with her true love, Tonio. When the Doctor and Jo arrive on Verd, drawn down by the fluctuating gravity, they find themselves involved in the unpredictable events of Perihelion.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But what of the mysterious and terrifying Nightdreamers?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And of the Nightdreamer King?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12733'),
(27634, 'Doctor Who: Nightshade', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12736'),
(27635, 'Doctor Who: No Future', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜This time, anarchyâ€™s real. There are power cuts and Wilsonâ€™s resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now thereâ€™s real fear too. Real panic. And thatâ€™s not how itâ€™s supposed to be.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Somebody has been toying with the Doctorâ€™s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 -- where reality has been altered once again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bennyâ€™s the lead singer in a punk band. Ace canâ€™t talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so sheâ€™s made murderous plans of her own. The Doctorâ€™s alone -- he doesnâ€™t know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As usual, itâ€™s up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he canâ€™t even protect himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12738'),
(27636, 'Doctor Who: Oh No It Isn&#39;t', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s former companion, Bernice Summerfield, has found a new job at St Oscar''s University. Whilst on a field trip to Perfecton she is attacked by a reality warping missile. Bernice must be at her best to solve the problems that this creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12740'),
(27637, 'Doctor Who: Only Human', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor looks and seems human. He''s handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But the Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900-year-old alien with two hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered Time Travel. Brace yourself for some exhilarating experiences and deadly confrontations across time and space. The human race will survive - but only with the Doctor''s help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12742'),
(27638, 'Doctor Who: Option Lock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On contemporary Earth, the Doctor and Sam discover an ancient secret society is trying to start a nuclear war. An optical mystery compounds their confusion and the mysterious US-owned Station Nine brings further problems for them to resolve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12744'),
(27639, 'Doctor Who: Original Sin', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is arrested and sentenced to death by Adjudicators, the police of the thirtieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8119'),
(27640, 'Doctor Who: Palace of the Red Sun', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Sixth Doctor novel with Peri Brown Interstellar tyrant Glavis Judd has usurped the royal family of the world-kingdom Esselven, with intergalactic freelance reporter Dexel Dynes close behind him, faithfully advising the universe of Judd''s humanitarian ''liberations''. However, Judd''s ambitions for complete conquest are thwarted, as the royal family have escaped the planet just before his arrival, taking with them - in their genetic make-up - the keys to vital archives and systems essential to Esselven''s governance. In another time and place, the Doctor and Peri have landed in an exquisitely kept ornamental garden, peopled by strange playful creatures, and wild roaming ''scavengers''. This, it turns out, is the Esselvanian royal retreat, a small planetoid where the monarch could relax and recuperate. It is also where Judd strongly suspects they have escaped to now. Determined to avenge his humiliation on Esselven, Judd attacks the planetoid, only to find that, in the year it had taken him to track the family down, things have moved on much quicker than he could have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12746'),
(27641, 'Doctor Who: Paradise Towers', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Built towards the end of the twenty-first century, Paradise Towers is a massive housing block, stretching up towards the sky. With its beautiful decor, smart apartments, fantastic facilities and high standards of maintenance, it is hardly surprising that the architect, Kroagnon, won many professional awards.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Mel wants to go swimming and as the TARDIS pool has been jettisoned due to a leak, Paradise Towers seems to fit the bill. However, when she and the Doctor arrive, instead of the bright squares and charming cloisters the brochure promised, they find dark, rat-infested corridors full of uncontrollable cleaning machines, undisciplined street gangs and over-worked and belligerent caretakers, some of whom are disappearing in mysterious circumstances.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     What has caused such terrible decay? How could such perfect accommodation have become so run down and dangerous? And why do the street-wise Kangs, apathetic caretakers, sinister Rezzies and Pex - the self-appointed warrior who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights - all fear whatever terrible force dwells in the basement? Only the unpredictable Chief Caretaker knows what is down there - and the real secret behind the disappearances...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12750'),
(27642, 'Doctor Who: Parallel 59', 'Natalie Dallaire; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an outpost in space begins to break up, with the TARDIS crew aboard, escape is only possible in tiny life-capsules. Fitz is bundled unconscious into one, while the Doctor and Compassion take another. Steering the capsule back to its planet of origin to try and get help, the Doctor finds a hostile welcome awaits. Fitz''s capsule takes him to the apparent safety of the colony of Mechta. The Doctor decrees that Fitz''s new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12751'),
(27643, 'Doctor Who: Parasite', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Change, Benny. Itâ€™s the most terrifying thing of all.â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜And thatâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to you, is it, Doctor?â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜Itâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to all of us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has arrived in the Elysium system, lost colony of distant Earth and site of the Artifact: a world turned inside out, a world of horrific secrets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a century scientists have studied the ecosystem flourishing within the Artifact. Now the system is in collapse and even the humans trapped inside are changing into something new and strange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the members of one expedition murdered, those of another fighting for their lives and a solar system on the brink of civil war, can the Doctor, Ace and Benny survive a journey to the heart of the Artifact in their search for the truth?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12753'),
(27644, 'Doctor Who: Peacemaker', 'James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for ''the healer''. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who''s patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12754'),
(27645, 'Doctor Who: Placebo Effect', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber''s World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company''s secrets?Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber''s World, are a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor''s hands are too full to pay their threat full attention.This is another in the series of adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam which reintroduces the Wirrrn from the 1975 television adventure The Ark in Space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12757');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27646, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Fire', 'Peter Grimwade; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor''s is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is Turlough''s link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn''s mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12758'),
(27647, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Giants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS lands in England in 1963, Doctor Who and his companions are confronted by gigantic insects who are dying from exposure to DN6, a pesticide with the power to destroy all life forms\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12760'),
(27648, 'Doctor Who: Players', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor and Peri. Suspecting mysterious forces at work behind the scenes, the Doctor determines to keep a close eye on Churchill''s career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12761'),
(27649, 'Doctor Who: Prime Time', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programs of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12763'),
(27650, 'Doctor Who: Psi-Ence Fiction', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Feynman College receives a grant for parapsychology research to be done by devious Barry Hitchens. During a routine test, he identifies five students who have genuine gifts. The students hold a seance at the site of a murder and one of the girls dies under mysterious circumstances. The Doctor arrives to attend a lecture on time travel, and is mistaken for Hitchens and finds himself drawn into the eerie events at the college. (Available in October.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12765'),
(27651, 'Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For many thousands of years the Suthekh had waited, trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up malice would be unleashed upon the world, had come. The TARDIS lands on the site of Unit headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The British actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England. At age 15, Baker left school to become a monk with the Brothers of Ploermel on the island of Jersey. Six years later, he abandoned the monastic life and performed his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he became interested in acting. He attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship. Baker acted in repertory theaters around Britain until the late 1960s when he joined up with the National Theatre. Baker was working as a laborer at a building site when he landed the role of the main character in the popular, long-running British television series "Doctor Who" (1963), which brought him international fame and popularity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12768'),
(27652, 'Doctor Who: Rags', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Third Doctor, Jo and Unit novel. In Dartmoor, a punk band get into a fight with a group of rich and rowdy young students, whose Range Rover crashes into their car. The groups are spurred on to insane acts of violence by a mysterious force, and the punk band singer hears a voice in his head which directs him towards a rusty knife buried in the ground. Murder ensues and blood soaks into the rock. It is much later on that a creature emerges from the bloody rock, greedily anticipating the chaos that it plans to cause...The Tardis alerls the Doctor to an incongruous energy fluctuation in the southwest of England. There, he finds himself part of the audience of one of the band''s gigs, and their anarchic music is attracting an ever-growing convoy of violent disciples. What is the dormant force that has been awakened, and what are its destructive aims? How many more people must suffer a brutal death before the Doctor can halt the bloody trail of the convoy?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12770'),
(27653, 'Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history. The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter? From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher -- until reality itself is threatened.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12772'),
(27654, 'Doctor Who: Relative Dementias', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Seventh Doctor novel with Ace. After the end of the interstellar Tulkan wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony. Their weapons, advanced slavery devices and planet destroying armaments in development, hidden in a secret cache before the end of the war, are bound to remain secret forever, the access codes to their stasis chamber wiped with the Tulk''s memories. But in an old people''s home in Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Brunner, Unit scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimers patients, has noticed disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate. What he and Ace find goes beyond disturbing, with campers murdered, the denizens of the home wired up to some sort of enormous calculating machine, and Ace being followed around by a mysterious figure, always remaining just beyond the edges of vision. They receive help from Annarenes, members of a race devoted to keeping the Tulkan menace down, but help from any quarter has to be regarded with utmost suspicion. Nothing, here, is sure to be what it soems...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12774'),
(27655, 'Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London, 1963. The seventh Doctor returns - with his new companion Ace - to tackle some unfinished business.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Once again, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and Totters, Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology - technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor, even with the help of the local military, stop the Daleks from stealing Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things even more complicated?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation with the fate of the entire Universe at stake!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12776'),
(27656, 'Doctor Who: Return of the Living Dad', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Benny returns to the TARDIS to follow up a clue to the whereabouts of a father who disappeared when she was a child. The trail leads to England in the year 1983 and to Admiral Isaac Summerfield who is leading a crew of aliens. Can Benny trust the man for w.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12778'),
(27657, 'Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12779'),
(27658, 'Doctor Who: Revolution Man', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Sam and Fitz, and set in the Swinging London of 1968. The TARDIS crew are investigating an anarchist group utilizing a drug that seems of an extraterrestrial nature, and how it connects to a series of bizarre, violent events world-wide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12780'),
(27659, 'Doctor Who: Ribos Operation', 'Ian Marter; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and K-9 Mark 2 are sent on a mission by the immensely powerful White Guardian. The six segments of the Key to Time, currently disguised and scattered throughout the cosmos, need to be brought together. Once assembled, the Key will allow the Guardian to restore balance and good to a universe that is descending into evil and chaos. It will also thwart the plans of the fearsome Black Guardian!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  As if accepting such a daunting task wasn''t enough, the Guardian appoints a new young assistant for the Doctor, Romadvoratrelundar - or Romana for short. Fresh out of the Time Lord Academy, the 140-year-old Romana is confident that their mission will be easy and, if the Doctor can curb his irrational behaviour, can be rapidly completed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Using a special Tracer, the TARDIS locates the first segment on the feudal planet of Ribos, where two inter-galactic criminals are using a lump of Jethryk as bait in a plot to trick a visiting nobleman into buying the planet - which is not theirs to sell. The Doctor finds himself drawn into the con-men''s fiendish plan while Romana has to confront the monstrous Shrievenzale...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12781'),
(27660, 'Doctor Who: Rip Tide', 'Louise Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unsettling things are afoot in a sleepy Cornish village. Strangers are hanging about the harbor and a mysterious object is retrieved from the sea bed. Then the locals start getting sick. Could this have anything to do with the alluringly beautiful Ruth who local lifeboatman Steve has taken a shine to...or could the other stranger, a man calling himself the Doctor, be somehow involved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12782'),
(27661, 'Doctor Who: Robots of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. On board the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  This is a society that is dependant on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot''s programming. So when one of the miner crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the prime murder suspects. But the Doctor soon realises that perhaps the killer isnâ€™t human. More deaths occur â€” can he persuade the remaining crewmembers that the killer may be a robot?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12783'),
(27662, 'Doctor Who: Salvation', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical. What are the strangers'' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor''s non-interventionist principles are tested to their limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12786'),
(27663, 'Doctor Who: Sanctuary', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    The Doctor pointed at Bernice. â€˜The wenchâ€™s mind is addled,â€™ he said. â€˜Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the hereticsâ€™ fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12787'),
(27664, 'Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Kennet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don''t like going out onto the streets at night, they don''t like making too much noise, and they certainly don''t like strangers asking too many questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth? While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up to date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12789'),
(27665, 'Doctor Who: Seeing I', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book''s 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and the Doctor spend three years being unable to meet up due to the fact that the Doctor has been locked up in an inescapable prison for the crime of trying to locate his companion using somewhat unorthodox methods. Sam in the meantime becomes a quasi-ecoterrorist seeking to undermine the controlling techno-company on the planet. It''s this same organization that holds the Doctor, and it isn''t until Sam finds his details on a file pirated from the company that they get to finally meet, after almost three whole books spent apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s not explained quite how Sam knows this is the Doctor (presumably there was a photo) since he was going under the name of Doctor Bowman, but within a few pages she manages to break into the prison and rescue him. Bang. All over in a flash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then the rest of the plot kicks in. The company has been using eye-implant technology, which the Doctor has realized is alien to this culture at this time. The trouble is traced to a Gallifreyan mind control device, which is supplying power to the company. Furthermore, this device has been "seeded" on the planet by an insectoid race of aliens called the I so that they may come along later and harvest whatever use the indigenous population have made of the technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is a curious mixture of well-written character pieces and a paper-thin plot designed only to achieve the objective of forcing the characters to develop. The authors have decided to push against the general trend of the BBC''s range and to present a work that only just manages to stand alone in its own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like talk, internal angst, and uncertainty as opposed to action, plot, and adventure, this novel is doubtless going to please you. For those who prefer a more traditional WHO yarn, you''d be better off starting elsewhere.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12791'),
(27666, 'Doctor Who: Set Piece', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship''s are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don''t work out as planned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12794'),
(27667, 'Doctor Who: Shadowmind', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, this first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels will continue where the 1989 TV series left off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12797'),
(27668, 'Doctor Who: Shakedown', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontaransâ€™ secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfieldâ€™s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12799'),
(27669, 'Doctor Who: Shell Shock', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is washed up -- literally -- on an alien beach with only intelligent crabs and a madman for company. How can he possible rescue Peri who was lost at sea the same time as he and the TARDIS? But Peri has problems of her own. ''Rescued'' from drowning by an intelligent sponge growth, she has been adopted by the life form as its own personal God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12802'),
(27670, 'Doctor Who: Ship of Fools', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Krytell, the wealthy head of a hugely powerful interplanetary corporation, asks Benny to do an unofficial and somewhat shady job, the benefits are immediately apparent, or are they? On board a luxurious cruise-liner, wealthy fellow travelers begin dropping dead like flies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12804'),
(27671, 'Doctor Who: Sick Building', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tiermann''s World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won''t protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12805'),
(27672, 'Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis', 'Kevin Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Launched into space 350 years ago, a meteor is returning to Earth--and insideit waits Nemesis, a silver statue made of the living metal validium, the mostdangerous substance in the Universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12808'),
(27673, 'Doctor Who: Sky Pirates!', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Benny are on a cruise with a difference - through skies populated by evil, parasitic, shape-changing monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12809'),
(27674, 'Doctor Who: Sleepy', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor arrives at Yemaya 4, he falls prey to a virus sweeping through the population, which unleashes latent psychic powers and something more sinister. The Doctor must face the Dione-Kismu Corporation, who will go to any lengths to cover up the s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12811'),
(27675, 'Doctor Who: Slow Empire', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Slow Empire''s advanced and complex technology is helping the Vortex Wraiths to materialize. The Empire''s pride in its advanced communications systems has invited in a menace that could mean the end of the confederation altogether. But, as the Doctor discovers, this may be no bad thing...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12686'),
(27676, 'Doctor Who: Snakedance', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The evil Mara gains control of the mind of Dr. Who''s associate, Tegan, and plans to use her in starting a reign of terror on the planet Manussa\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12688'),
(27677, 'Doctor Who: So Vile a Sin', 'Ben Aaronovitch; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The longest wunning science fiction TV series, Dr. Who has delighted fans on both sides of the Atlantic since 1963. Now, the New Adventures series, original, full-length novels which continue the Doctor''s travels in time, presents So Vile a Sin, which culminates in the final confrontation between Dr. Who and the psi-powered Brotherhood, and marks the departure of the Doctor''s companion, Roz Forrester.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12690'),
(27678, 'Doctor Who: Sometime Never', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12693'),
(27679, 'Doctor Who: Sontaran Experiment', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 10,000 years hence and life has been extinguished - or has it?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry find themselves in the Piccadilly Circus of the future where the mysterious alien in the rocks rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the Doctor bumps into an old enemy... and finds himself part of a lethal experiment...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12694'),
(27680, 'Doctor Who: Space Age', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12697'),
(27681, 'Doctor Who: Space War', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its cargo vessels are being raided by the other''s warships.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship is boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and Jo see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor''s investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and then to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects the scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he is shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe waiting in the wings...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12699'),
(27682, 'Doctor Who: Spiral Scratch', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He''s never heard of such a thing. Mel on the other hand has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she''s never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers are watching every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? Just as Mel thinks she''s got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family to challenge everything she believes to be real...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12702'),
(27683, 'Doctor Who: St. Anthony&#39;s Fire', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜No time. They have come. They have come at last.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Bernice visit Betrushia, a planet famous for its beautiful ring system. They soon discover that the rain-drenched jungles are in turmoil. A vicious, genocidal war is raging between the lizard-like natives. The ground itself is wracked by mysterious earthquakes. And an unknown force is moving inexorably forwards, devastating everything in its path.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace wanted out; sheâ€™s resting on a neighbouring world. But from the outer reaches of space, a far greater threat is approaching Betrushia, and even Ace may find it impossible to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor must save the people of Betrushia from their own terrible legacy before the wrath of St Anthonyâ€™s Fire is visited upon them all.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12704'),
(27684, 'Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The TARDIS lands the Doctor and Martha in the Lake District in 1909, where a small village has been terrorised by a giant, scaly monster. The search is on for the elusive "Beast of Westmorland," and explorers, naturalists and hunters from across the country are descending on the fells. King Edward VII himself is on his way to join the search, with a knighthood for whoever finds the Beast. But there is a more sinister presence at work in the Lakes than a mere monster on the rampage, and the Doctor is soon embroiled in the plans of an old and terrifying enemy. And as the hunters become the hunted, a desperate battle of wits begins - with the future of the entire world at stake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12706'),
(27685, 'Doctor Who: Stones of Blood', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that every time the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids - dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic - who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12708'),
(27686, 'Doctor Who: Storm Harvest', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the original population to die out, but tales of vicious monsters proliferate.An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12709'),
(27687, 'Doctor Who: Strange England', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no denying the enormous popularity of Dr. Who, time traveler extraordinaire, or the multi-volume series that showcases his exploits. In Strange England, a rural paradise turns into a world of nightmare when the Tardis crew arrives. Are they responsible, or is some more deadly force at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12710'),
(27688, 'Doctor Who: Sunmakers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing mankind to colonise first Mars, and then Pluto...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by a series of artificial suns. But access to the sunlight is limited to a select few... The majority of the citizens of the vast Megropolis cities are being overworked and overtaxed by the ruling elite, led by the Gatherer, and the sinister Collector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive, and discover that all is not well on Pluto. The human population is being totally exploited, whilst deep in the Undercity, a small band of rebels seeks to overthrow the mysterious ''Company'' that controls all aspects of everyday life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the evil corporate rulers of Pluto. And their taxes...!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12711'),
(27689, 'Doctor Who: Superior Beings', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Rocosia consists of nothing but immaculately-cultivated plant life, which propagates and cultivates itself -- there are no mammals, insects, aquatic or avian creatures living there. So the plants seem to exist for no apparent ecological reason, but visitors to the planet are soon distracted from the enigma by the dazzling beauty of the gardens.One night, Peri spots a strange, multi-limbed creature picking fruit from one of the trees, and she decides to follow it. She gets lost though, and ends up attacked by a Decimator, a vicious, thorny plant. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a humanoid fox in tight-fitting leather who is clearly very excited about eating her...Meanwhile the Doctor finds Rocosia in a state of chaos as the Decimators appear in force and embark upon systematic destruction of the entire planet. The Doctor is rescued by the Valethske -- the creatures holding Peri captive. What are the Valethske doing on Rocosia and why are the Decimatorstrying to destroy the planet? And will the Doctor and Peri be able to escape before the entire planet is consumed by fire?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12712'),
(27690, 'Doctor Who: Survival', 'Rona Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor takes Ace back home to Perivale so she can catch up with her old friends. But Perivale has changed, the old gang has split up, and some of them have vanished without trace. They are not the only ones - West London is plagued by unexplained disappearances.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Before long the mysterious kidnappers make themselves known. A race of galactic hunters called the Cheetah people have found a way to transport themselves to Earth - and the entire human race is their prey. They have been shown the doorway to the planet by an old foe of the Doctor, a bitter and desperate enemy who needs the Doctor''s help to free him from a diabolic enchantment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Doctor tries to unravel the mystery, Ace finds some of her old friends, trapped on the savage and beautiful world of the Cheetah People. But the only way she can lead them to safety is to allow herself to succumb, like so many before her, to the curse of the planet. The Doctor realises that Ace''s new powers will provide the only route home, but it will mean the sacrifice of her humanity to the most bestial and dark side of human nature...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12713'),
(27691, 'Doctor Who: Synthespians', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and on Reef Station One, Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners. But an ancient, dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvelous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic''s greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor''s oldest enemies. If they can''t unravel the link between the two, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12715'),
(27692, 'Doctor Who: Talons of Weng-Chiang', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   n this feature-length adventure set deep in the darkest heart of Victorian London, the Doctor and Leela are confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific events.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  An innocent cabbie is viciously slain by the agents of a secret Chinese cult; young women disappear quietly and suddenly; in the depths below, the rankest sewers are infested by giant, deadly abominations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, helped only by the local pathologist Professor Litefoot and the cowardly Henry Jago, finds himself battling for his life against the hideously deformed Magnus Greel, who pretends to be the ancient Chinese God, Weng-Chiang. But Greel is not the only menace; the Doctor must also deal with the illusionist Li H''sen Chang and the murderous dwarf Mr Sin before Leela falls prey to the Talons of Weng-Chiang.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12718'),
(27693, 'Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth''s bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire''s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12719'),
(27694, 'Doctor Who: Tenth Planet', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12720'),
(27695, 'Doctor Who: Terminus', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sabotage to Doctor Who''s time machine causes the area around it to become dimensionally unstable and makes Nyssa disappear without a trace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12722'),
(27696, 'Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids', 'Pip Baker; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Time Lords have brought the Doctor to trial, accusing him of gross interference in the affairs of other planets. If he is found guilty he must forfeit all his remaining regenerations.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In his defence the Doctor tells of an adventure set on board the Hyperion III space liner in his future. Answering a distress call, the Doctor and Mel arrive on the liner just as a series of grisly murders begins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Who is behind the murders? Do the enigmatic Mogarians have anything to do with them? Who sent the distress call to the TARDIS? And what hideous menace lies waiting in the Hydroponic Centre?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12724'),
(27697, 'Doctor Who: The Adventures of Henrietta Street', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the outer reaches of the universe, where human consciousness cannot reach, time goes "soft", allowing mankind to meets its own animal and subconscious limitations in the form of the brutal baboon-like Beast. In London, and all major cities of the Napoleonic era, covens of witches are using ancient techniques to attain time-consciousness. Perceiving time in a new way, they call on the Beast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12726');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27698, 'Doctor Who: The Algebra of Ice', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edgar Allen Poe lies dying in a gutter in Baltimore... The Doctor and Ace cannot help him - his death has already happened. Poe will be taken to a hospital, and will die in three days time without ever coming out of his coma. But even as the Doctor explains this, the man in the gutter groans and expires. Bewildered, the Doctor hurries Ace back to the TARDIS. At the door, they look back and see that the gutter is empty. In a moment, Poe staggers around the corner, drops to his knees in the gutter, then gets up and stumbles into another bar... Can the Doctor discover what is causing the time anomaly? Will he be able to prevent the universe itself from unraveling when everyone seems to have turned against him - even the TARDIS? Will he be able to escape the cold hell of absolute order? The answer, it seems, lies in the algebra of ice...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12727'),
(27699, 'Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a recovery capsule sent to rescue some astronauts returns to Earth empty but radioactive, the Doctor becomes involved in solving the puzzle of the missing astronauts and alien invaders\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12732'),
(27700, 'Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell', 'Peter Anghelides; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12734'),
(27701, 'Doctor Who: The Ark', 'Paul Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who travels ten million years into the future just in time to join up with the Space Ark, which is taking the doomed Earth''s remaining humans to their new home on the planet Refusis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12735'),
(27702, 'Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world''s starving millions - but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realizes an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano? Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor are soon elevating survival to an art form - as ancient, alien hands practice arts of destruction all around them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12737'),
(27703, 'Doctor Who: The Awakening', 'Eric Pringle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has promised Tegan that they will visit her grandfather in the English village of Little Hodcombe, in the year 1984. But evil lurks in the village''s ancient church, and a historical re-enactment soon takes on a dangerous dimension for the Doctor and his friends. This is an exciting unabridged adventure, first published by Target Books in 1985.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12739'),
(27704, 'Doctor Who: The Aztecs', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who and his companions become prisoners of the Aztecs, he must find a way for them to escape and reach the TARDIS, which is sealed within a tomb\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12741'),
(27705, 'Doctor Who: The Banquo Legacy', 'Andy Lane; Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Middletown in 1889 is a small mining village -- but the local mine is about to be closed down. In an attempt to avoid this catastrophe, the owner, Lord Urton built a huge dam across the river to reduce flooding in a promising area of the mine, but to no avail.However, little does he realise that the construction of the dam has disturbed something that was lying dormant in the earth. Something that is now stirring into life...Strange events are afoot, with local deaths that appear to be caused by lightning strikes. Except that the soles of the victims'' feet are burned black.It''s up to the Doctor to find out what mysterious forces have been unleashed. Perhaps the stranger in town, Nepath, who wants to buy the mine from Lord Urton, can shed some light on the matter...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4929'),
(27706, 'Doctor Who: The Blue Angel', 'Paul Magrs; Jeremy Hoad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tyneside is reverting to an Ice wilderness. Three elderly women have come out shopping, accompanied by Icarus -- an orphaned boy who Maddy Sharp found on the beach. She thinks he is an angel -- the son the lost, returned to her. But he claims to be the cause of the dreadful weather...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12743'),
(27707, 'Doctor Who: The Bodysnatchers', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1895, the place, London. Amid the fog and cold, a gang of bodysnatchers is at work. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the gruesome goings-on, and discovers that the Zygons have returned to Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12745'),
(27708, 'Doctor Who: The Book of the Still', 'Paul Ebbs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence. The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers -- write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it. Fitz knows where it is, but then he''s the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she''s the one who''s stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn''t know where anybody is. Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12747'),
(27709, 'Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor and Sarah arrive on the desolate planet of Karn amid a graveyard of crashed space-ships. As they explore they come to a ruin and are welcomed by Professor Solon and his strange servant Condo. Solon is seemingly the perfect host but his underground laboratory holds a hideous secret... Morbius, exiled Time Lord, greatest criminal mind in the galaxy and long presumed dead, is not entirely dead, and Solon is in the process of bringing him back to life.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The only other inhabitants are the ancient sect of the Sisterhood of Karn who are out to avenge themselves against the Time Lords. Can the Doctor prevent the evil Morbius from regaining absolute power or will he be sacrificed by the Sisterhood?\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12748'),
(27710, 'Doctor Who: The Burning', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12749'),
(27711, 'Doctor Who: The Cabinet of Light', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Where is the Doctor? Everyone is hunting him. Honore Lechasseur, a time sensitive ''fixer, '' is hired by mystery woman Emily Blandish to find him. Lechasseur discovers that the Doctor is, in fact, a semi-mythical figure who has appeared off and on throughout Earth''s history. But what is his connection with London in 1949? And why is a mysterious group seeking ''the cabinet of light'' -- a device somehow connected with the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12752'),
(27712, 'Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on the planet Androzani Minor, Doctor Who and his new assistant, Peri, are caught between fierce gun runners, merciless Federation soldiers, and an android army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12755'),
(27713, 'Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker', 'Gerry Davis; Alison Bingeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in a strange domain where the Doctor, Steven and Dodo meet the Toymaker. The Toymaker is the mysterious, immortal entity who rules this fantastic realm. He forces them to play a succession of games in return for their freedom.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has to solve the complex trilogic game while Steven and Dodo must win at a series of seemingly child-like but ever more deadly games.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12756'),
(27714, 'Doctor Who: The Chase', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Daleks are closing in on the Doctor in a chase through both the universe and through time itself. For having created their own time machine, the Daleks are able to pursue the TARDIS from the planet of Aridius, on to the Empire State Building in 1966, on to the Marie Celeste in 1872 and even on into a haunted house within someone''s nightmare.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Recognising that he must force a resolution to this desperate chase through time, the scene is set for a confrontation between the Time Lord and his most feared enemy on the jungle planet of Mechanus.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12759'),
(27715, 'Doctor Who: The City of the Dead', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fitz, Anji, and the Doctor are in New Orleans in 2000 to relax, but find the city is a center for the occult as practitioners converge on an ancient graveyard. The Doctor is also having strange dreams of something is seeking him out. A bone artifact found on board the TARDIS may be the key to a chain of murders, but can the Doctor and his companions discover the true source of the evil? Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12762'),
(27716, 'Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12764'),
(27717, 'Doctor Who: The Crooked World', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence. Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there''s Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that''s just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn mouse doesn''t jam his tail into the plug socket again. But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything -- and it''s possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again. The Doctor''s TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That''s all folks!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12766'),
(27718, 'Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   The Doctor and Ace are put to the ultimate test when the TARDIS dematerializes in Second World War England at a top â€“ secret naval base.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The army church, built on Viking graves, bears inscriptions calling for the wolves of Fenric to return for their treasure. Thereafter evil will reign... Even as the Doctor translates the words hideous corpses rise up from the sea, the evil Fenric now free to summon his wolves to a killing rampage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the stand against Fenric, only the Doctor can play the final moves...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12767'),
(27719, 'Doctor Who: The Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A mysterious virus is wrecking havoc among the crew of the Earth''s weather control station on the moon. While investigations into the strange disease are in progress, International Space Headquarters Earth puts the entire Moonbase into strict quarantine - the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie included!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   To take matters worse, the personnel of the Moonbase inexplicably vanish, and vital weather control equipment is sabotaged. Who is responsible? The Director of the base suspects the time-travellers. But the Doctor fears a ruthless enemy from his own past responsible... that the evil Cybermen have returned...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12769'),
(27720, 'Doctor Who: The Dalek Factor', 'Simon Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Thal platoon arrive on a hostile planet investigating reports that Dalek artifacts have been detected, they are unprepared for what they find. In an underground room is a stranger, a Professor, or so he claims, with no member of who he is or why he is there, With death and horror their only companions, the Thals make their way with the Professor into the heart of a crumbling Dalek citadel in search of answers-only to find that the Daleks are the least of the horrors they must face. The Dalek Factor is the last of the licensed Telos "Doctor Who" novellas to be published. Copies of all available editions will continue to be available from Telos Publishing until the end of June 2004.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12771'),
(27721, 'Doctor Who: The Deadstone Memorial', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is no such thing as a good night. Maybe, as you fall asleep, you can hide away in dreams. Or so you''d like to think. Because, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And bad dreams are a glimpse into the real world - where the monsters are. And the things in your nightmares that are worse than monsters: the creeping black memories that can bring fear and pain and blood. Even here, today, tonight ... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike. An old man will tell his last ghost story... A young family will encounter a deathless horror... And the Doctor and his friends will uncover the terrible secret of the Deadstone Memorial.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12773'),
(27722, 'Doctor Who: The Death of Art', 'Simon Bucher-Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1880s France, Doctor Who and his companions find themselves caught up in the desperate internal power struggle of a clandestine brotherhood. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12775'),
(27723, 'Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Novrosk Peninsula, the Soviet naval base, has been abandoned, and the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12777'),
(27724, 'Doctor Who: The Devil Goblins From Neptune', 'Keith Topping; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The human race stands at a worrying political crossroads. UNIT is up to its ears in alien sightings, reporting of UFOs and threats from other worlds - and for good reason - the devil goblins from Neptune have landed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16197'),
(27725, 'Doctor Who: The Dimension Riders', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone here has been playing with time, Ace. Like playing with fire, only worse - you get burnt before youâ€™ve lit the match.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Abandoning a holiday in Oxford, the Doctor travels to Space Station Q4, where something is seriously wrong. Ghostly soldiers from the future watch from the shadows among the dead. Soon, the Doctor is trapped in the past, Ace is fighting for her life, and Bernice is uncovering deceit among the college cloisters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is the connection with a beautiful assassin in a black sports car? How can the Doctorâ€™s time machine be in Oxford when it is on board the space station? And what secrets are held by the library of the invaded TARDIS?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor quickly discovers he is facing another time-shattering enigma: a creature which he thought he had destroyed, and which it seems he is powerless to stop.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12614'),
(27726, 'Doctor Who: The Dominators', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who must rescue the planet Dulkis and its pacifist inhabitants from alien invaders and their powerful robots\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12615'),
(27727, 'Doctor Who: The Domino Effect', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within hours one of the Doctor''s friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity''s development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind? The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12617'),
(27728, 'Doctor Who: The Doomsday Weapon', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who travels through time to a desolate planet in the twenty-fifth century in order to find and dismantle the Doomsday Machine stolen by the insidious Master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12619'),
(27729, 'Doctor Who: The Dying Days', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first New Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor. Britain is under threat of invasion by the Ice Warriors from Mars. The only people who can save the country are the Doctor, aided by the Brigadier and Bernice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12621'),
(27730, 'Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting unabridged reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1988, the Doctor and his companions are trapped inside the TARDIS as it hurtles through Time and Space. Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12623'),
(27731, 'Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newly-regenerated and travelling through the universe in his Tardis, the eighth Doctor is suddenly hit by a mind-shattering blast of malignant psychic energy - a final booby trap left by the Master.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12625'),
(27732, 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Tiger', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten tigers not enough. The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to the chaos that mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart... This adventure features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12626'),
(27733, 'Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who tries to stop Salamander, a ruthless despot who is trying to gain control of the entire planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12627'),
(27734, 'Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks', 'John Peel; David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <center>\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         Written by David WhitakerÂ \n         <br />\n         Directed by Derek MartinusÂ \n         <br />\n         Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson\n        </b>\n       </font>\n      </center>\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <p align="justify">\n       Patrick Troughton (\n       <b>\n        Dr. Who\n       </b>\n       ), Frazer Hines (\n       <b>\n        Jamie\n       </b>\n       ), Alec Ross (\n       <b>\n        Bob Hall\n       </b>\n       ) [1], Griffith Davies (\n       <b>\n        Kennedy\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], John Bailey (\n       <b>\n        Edward Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ), Geoffrey Colville (\n       <b>\n        Perry\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], Deborah Watling (\n       <b>\n        Victoria Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor [3-7], John Scott Martin [5-7], Murphy Grumbar [6-7], Ken Tyllsen [7] (\n       <b>\n        Daleks\n       </b>\n       ); Roy Skelton [1,6-7]\n       <font color="red">\n        *\n       </font>\n       , Peter Hawkins [2-7] (\n       <b>\n        Dalek Voices\n       </b>\n       ); Jo Rowbottom (\n       <b>\n        Mollie Dawson\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Marius Goring (\n       <b>\n        Theodore Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Brigit Forsyth (\n       <b>\n        Ruth Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Gary Watson (\n       <b>\n        Arthur Terrall\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7], Windsor Davies (\n       <b>\n        Toby\n       </b>\n       ) [2-4], Sonny Caldinez (\n       <b>\n        Kemel\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7].\n      </p>\n      <hr width="50" align="left" />\n      *Â \n      <font class="minus2" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n       Also in Episode 5, uncredited.\n      </font>\n      <p>\n      </p>\n      <hr size="5" color="#505050" />\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        The Doctor and Jamie are stranded in 1966 London when the TARDIS is stolen, driven away in the back of a lorry. The Doctor uses his keen sense for clues and deduction to track the TARDIS back to a very unusual antique shoppe owned by the even more unusual and mysterious Edward Waterfield. As it transpires Mr. Waterfield and Victorian scientist Theodore Maxtible have devised a method of time travel with the help of some rather sinister associates - the Daleks.\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         The Daleks have taken Edward Waterfield''s daughter, Victoria, hostage. Using her life as a bargaining piece the Daleks force the terrified men to serve them and assist in capturing the Doctor. When this is accomplished the Daleks soon force the Doctor into their service by threatening to destroy the TARDIS if he does not aide them by experimenting on Jamie...\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12629'),
(27735, 'Doctor Who: The Eye of the Tyger', 'Paul J. McAuley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inhabiting a colony spaceship in the thirty second century are members of a religious cult which left Earth to find a world of their own. Their leader, Seraph, has downloaded his mind into the ship''s computers, but now he has gone silent, enticed and serenaded by a siren song coming from inside a black hole. Trapped in orbit around the void, Seraph''s followers are confused by his silence, and when the Doctor arrives, he finds a world on the brink of chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12632'),
(27736, 'Doctor Who: The Face of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a planet the Doctor doesn''t recognise - but its inhabitants seem to know him. They think he''s the Evil One and aren''t pleased to see him.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Two warring tribes occupy the planet: the savage Sevateem and the reclusive Tesh, separated from each other by a deadly energy field. When the Sevateem believe their God, Xoanon, to be a captive of the Tesh, they decide to break through the barrier and rescue him. The Tesh, however, have other ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Befriended by Leela, a Sevateem girl who dares to question the mighty Xoanon, the Doctor sets out to discover exactly what''s happening on this planet. Has he been here before? Is he responsible for the tribal wars? And can it possibly be that Xoanon, the mad God, is really the Doctor?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12634'),
(27737, 'Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Whilst the Doctor and Jo are away from Earth the Brigadier is confronted with open warfare on the streets of Britain. He and UNIT have to rely on an old adversary to help them save Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12636'),
(27738, 'Doctor Who: The Face-Eater', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest. The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out, and humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each corpse''s face being stripped bare.Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12638'),
(27739, 'Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When thousands of young people on vacation with Chameleon Tours fail to return, the Doctor is drawn into the mystery, and must face a group of faceless aliens, the Chameleons\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12641'),
(27740, 'Doctor Who: The Fall of Yquatine', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 4991. The TARDIS is dead and Compassion is evolving into a sentient replacement for it. To avoid the Timelords, the Doctor decides to fit a Randomiser but the only place he can obtain the components is the planet Yquatine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12643'),
(27741, 'Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunts loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser''s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river''s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12644'),
(27742, 'Doctor Who: The Final Sanction', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The year is 2204. The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history. Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome. But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene...\n</p>\n<p>\n In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war. Zoe plans her escape from an alien prison camp, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12646'),
(27743, 'Doctor Who: The Five Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who has to find out who is responsible for kidnapping his other four incarnations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12648'),
(27744, 'Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army', 'Brian Minchin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn''t a story. And the army is ready to attack.'' New York - one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what''s going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they''re only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn''t, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3963'),
(27745, 'Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there''s a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn''t going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12650'),
(27746, 'Doctor Who: The Genesis of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  Back on the dreaded Skaro again, a world torn apart by a thousand-year-long war, the Doctor''s on a mission from the Time Lords themselves... simple enough. All he has to do is destroy the Daleks before they evolve and face their evil creator, Davros.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12652'),
(27747, 'Doctor Who: The Giant Robot', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the Doctor behaving rather oddly after his regeneration, the Brigadier finds a scientific research station under attack after a robot steals the plans for a new disintegrator gun.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Could the members of the mysterious Think Tank be responsible for the giant invader? How sinister are the intentions of the shadowy Scientific Reform Society? More importantly, can the Doctor recover in time to save the Earth from Atomic War?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12654'),
(27748, 'Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... and, as the Doctor and Amy realise, another place... another planet. But if Emmaline Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilization, how come she isn''t famous? How come Amy''s never heard of her? Come to that, since she''s been travelling with him for a while now, how come Amy''s never even heard of the Doctor? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be illusion. Obvious illusions could be real - and deadly! A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gary Russell is one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the author of many novels and reference books in the Doctor Who range. A former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, he also was the producer of Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions for eight years. He lives in Cardiff.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12656'),
(27749, 'Doctor Who: The Green Death', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global''s innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12658'),
(27750, 'Doctor Who: The Gunfighters', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist - the notorious Doc Holliday. Meanwhile, Steven and Dodo decide to explore the town, and soon find themselves in the Last Chance Saloon...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Tensions are running high between the feuding Clanton family and Doc Holliday, whilst the local lawman, Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep the peace. When legendary gunman Johnny Ringo comes to town, events start to escalate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor, Steven and Dodo do anything to stop the situation getting any worse? Or will there be a gunfight at the OK Corral?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12661'),
(27751, 'Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <div align="justify">\n     <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      ldrad was once hailed as the saviour of the world of Kastria. He erected force-barriers around the planet, preventing its imminent destruction. However, when the Kastrians refused to submit to his dictatorship, he removed his force-fields, condemning an entire civilisation to a slow and agonising death. For this, the mightiest of crimes, the people of Kastria sentenced Eldrad to obliteration.\n     </font>\n     <p>\n      Millions of years later, the Doctor''s TARDIS materialises in an English quarry. A freak accident traps the Doctor''s young friend, Sarah Jane Smith, under tons of rock. When she is rescued, she is frantically clinging to a large stone hand. Taken to a local hospital, it soon becomes clear that Sarah has been possessed.\n     </p>\n     <p>\n      After she goes missing - still clutching the hand - the Doctor follows the trail of death and destruction to a nearby atomic power station.\n     </p>\n    </div>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What strange power does the hand have over Sarah? Why has she fought her way to the very core of the nuclear reactor? How can she possibly survive the normally lethal radiation? To answer these questions, the Doctor must travel across the galaxy to a long-dead world - after which, life will never be quite the same again...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12663'),
(27752, 'Doctor Who: The Highest Science', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Many legends speak of this world, home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Bernice to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12665'),
(27753, 'Doctor Who: The Highlanders', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of extraordinary adventures ensues when Jamie McCrimmon discovers an episode of unrecorded history in the Scottish defeat by the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1746\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12667');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27754, 'Doctor Who: The Hollow Men', 'Keith Topping; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12669'),
(27755, 'Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the great maze of the Power Complex dwells the dreaded Nimon, a fearsome monster with immense scientific powers.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Nimon has promised to restore the Skonnan Empire to its former glory. But first it demands sacrifice - youths and maidens from the peaceful planet Aneth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS collides with the space ship delivering the victims, and the captured Romana is condemned to be sacrificed to the Nimon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided by the faithful K-9, the Doctor goes to the rescue. In the heart of the maze he confronts the Nimon and uncovers a terrifying plot to enslave the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12671'),
(27756, 'Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is the turn of the century, and the TARDIS materialises by the lighthouse on the desolate isle of Fang Rock. When the engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, the remaining crew blame the mythical Beast of Fang Rock - until the Doctor and Leela turn up...\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  When a small clipper runs aground on the crags of Fang Rock, the lighthouse offers shelter to its desperate passengers. But the Doctor soon discovers clues that suggest that no one is safe on the tiny island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Whilst a private drama unfolds between the survivors of the wrecked clipper, another death occurs. The Doctor suspects a ruthless alien lurks in the thick unnatural fog around the island, and secures the lighthouse. But has he really locked the horror out, or is it somewhere inside with them...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12672'),
(27757, 'Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors', 'Brian Hayles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12888'),
(27758, 'Doctor Who: The Image of the Fendahl', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When a tussle with a sonic time scan leads the TARDIS back to Earth, the Doctor and Leela discover strange happenings in a nearby lab run by the secretive Dr Fendelman. By night an eight million year old skull glos with a devastating power, leaving destruction in its wake. Already two people lie dead in mysterious circumstances. The Doctor is appalled. Can the Fendahl, the creature from his childhood fairytales, really be emerging from its twelve million year hibernation? And if so, can he stop its energy-draining progress through the Earth''s population? The very safety of the planet depends upon it...\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12676'),
(27759, 'Doctor Who: The Indestructible Man', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thirty years ago, the Earth was covertly attacked by the alien Myloki, who brainwashed humans and seeded them into Earth society as terrorists and assassins. Earth governments pooled their resources and financed Operation PRISM to fight - and win - the secret war against the Myloki. Now the successor to PRISM, the SILHOUETTE organization, runs a series of Early Warning devices in space, should the dreaded Myloki return. But the financial burden of the war has caused global financial meltdown and Earth stands on the brink of anarchy. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover the war was in fact faked by a corrupt Earth dictatorship that has turned the planet into a tightly controlled utopia. Drugs keep the population under strict and docile control. Humanity is reduced to little more than work units. With the help of war hero Captain Grant Matthews, a PRISM agent accidentally made indestructible during the war, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe gradually discover the truth - but in doing so they face the opposition of a whole planet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12680'),
(27760, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gallifrey. The Doctor''s home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity. and eternity, harnessed science, conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and they have used their powers carefully.But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12681'),
(27761, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Race', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn. Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth''s ruthless multi-stellar corporations. Is Sabbath''s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native? As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12682'),
(27762, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n UFO sightings over southern England, a missile attack on the TARDIS, and mysterious deliveries to the world''s largest computer firm foreshadow the Cybermen''s invasion of Earth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12683'),
(27763, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is behaving oddly, having clandestine meetings with a race known as the Vardans who can travel via the power of thought. Leela is concerned - and she worries further when she learns that K9 has been instructed to shoot her if she attempts to interfere.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Returning home to Gallifrey, the Doctor demands to take over as Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords. With no-one able to dispute his claim, he is inducted and begins a systematic purge of Time Lord society, expelling many high ranking officials - and Leela - to the wastes of Outer Gallifrey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It seems that the Doctor has joined forces with the Vardans, and is helping in their attempted conquest of Gallifrey out of revenge for his treatment at the hands of previous High Councils. The Vardans want the secrets of time travel and with only his old teacher, Cardinal Borusa, at his side, the Doctor appears to be granting them their wish. But not everything is exactly what it seems. The Doctor has an agenda hidden from the Vardans - and they in turn have a far darker one hidden from him.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12684'),
(27764, 'Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A three-man shuttle crew are completing the final stages of their journey to Titan base, when a course deviation puts the shuttle in the path of a mysterious cloud in space. The crew members arrive on Titan, but they have been somehow changed, infected by an intelligent virus that threatens everyone in the galaxy. The TARDIS picks up a Mayday message from Titan base, but before the Doctor and Leela can fully respond, the police box also passes through the mysterious cloud. With the infection spreading from person to person, the Doctor and Leela seek assistance on a medical station in the asteroid belt. As the situation worsens, their only hope lies in the unlikely combination of the eccentric scientist Professor Marius, and his dog-shaped computer K9...\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12685'),
(27765, 'Doctor Who: The Janus Conjunction', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun -- but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime''s moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmit system left behind by the planets'' former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?When the Doctor and Sam arrive they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime''s moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12687'),
(27766, 'Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12689'),
(27767, 'Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus', 'Philip Hinchcliffe; Terry Nation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Materialising on an island of glass in a sea of acid, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves chosen to embark on a perilous quest set by Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of the planet Marinus.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Conscience machine has the power to control the minds of everyone on Marinus, and it is in danger of falling into the hands of the sinister Yartek, leader of the alien Voord. To prevent disaster, the TARDIS crew must recover the machine''s operating keys, hidden in various locations around the planet. Others have attempted this task before - but none have ever returned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   From Morphoton to Millenius, battling ice soldiers and deadly plants, overcoming hypnotic conditioning and hostile witnesses, this trek across Marinus promises to be the four travellers'' most challenging adventure yet.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12691'),
(27768, 'Doctor Who: The King of Terror', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two alien races -- the Jex and the Canavitchi -- are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger -- who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination... When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12692'),
(27769, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Demons', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Traveling back in time to the thirteenth century, Doctor Who encounters King John and begins to suspect a subtle plot to alter world history\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12695'),
(27770, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Dragon', 'Una McCormack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor and Amy look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure - the ''glamour'' - and next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the glamour has begun, and only the Doctor and Amy can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Una McCormack lives in Cambridge, where she reads, writes and teaches. She and her partner have no cats and many Daleks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12696'),
(27771, 'Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm', 'Christopher Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS materializes in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil''s Huntsman. And, after a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realizes the city has good reason to be scared!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12698'),
(27772, 'Doctor Who: The Krotons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    As the TARDIS door opens onto a barren planet, the Doctor steps straight into a struggle to destroy the merciless Krotons, the unseen rulers of the Gond people. Conditioned to obey by teaching machines, the Gonds put up no resistance until, with the Doctor''s help, they discover exactly what has been happening to their best students.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Battling against the Krotons'' vast scientific knowledge the Doctor and Zoe must stop them turning mental power into pure energy. With a brave band of Gonds and Jamie, prepared to fight to the end, it may be defeat for the Krotons, but ultimately it will be a test of knowledge that only the Doctor can match...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12700'),
(27773, 'Doctor Who: The Last Dodo', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum''s only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. And for millennia the Museum has been trying to trace one elusive specimen: the last of the Time Lords...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12701'),
(27774, 'Doctor Who: The Last Resort', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it''s a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it''s now time tourism, in fact - and they''re not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12703'),
(27775, 'Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Argolin-Foamasi War lasted for just 20 minutes, during which time the planet of Argolis was turned into a blasted cinder - a radioactive wasteland deadly to almost all.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The few surviving members of the now ageing and sterile Argolin race made a remarkable decision: the story of their people and the husk of their world would stand as a lesson to the galaxy about the horrors of war. The planet would become the most unlikely of holiday resorts...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the Doctor and Romana, Argolis seems like a restful and fascinating place to relax after their recent adventures. They can take in the beauty of the multi-coloured shifting sands from the safety of the towering Leisure Hive, and catch up with Argolin advances in the obscure science of tachyonics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Typically enough, however, murder and intrigue follow the time travellers wherever they go; and a lunatic''s plan to restore Argolis'' proud warrior past could, quite literally, tear the Doctor and his friend apart...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12705'),
(27776, 'Doctor Who: The Loch Ness Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The mystery deepens leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist - and it''s the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor and his companions must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape and the Doctor is in grave danger when he finds that his friends and allies are not always what they seem...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12707'),
(27777, 'Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani', 'Pip Baker; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is unexpectedly forced back in time to the nineteenth-century Luddite uprisings, where Rani, an exile from Gallifrey, is conducting sinister experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12589'),
(27778, 'Doctor Who: The Masque of the Mandragora', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tim Pigott-Smith reads this gripping novelization of a classic Doctor Who adventure. Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the TARDIS lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by the Mandragora energy-form. The Doctor has to defeat not only the Mandragora energy, but the evil schemes of the murderous Count Frederico who plans to usurp the place of his nephew, the rightful ruler of the province.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12591'),
(27779, 'Doctor Who: The Massacre', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands in Paris on 19th August 1572 and the Doctor, driven by scientific curiosity, leaves Steven in order to meet and exchange views with the apothecary Charles Preslin. Before he disappears, he warns Steven to stay out of ''mischief, religion and politics''.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Ignoring the Doctor''s warning to stay out of trouble, Steven finds himself caught up with a group of Huguenots. The Protestant minority of France is being threatened by the Catholic hierarchy and danger stalks the streets of Paris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As Steven tries to find his way back to the TARDIS, he is horrified to find that the greatest persecutor of the Huguenots is actually none other than the Doctor himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12593'),
(27780, 'Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who desperately struggles to stop the wicked Professor Emil Keller''s plot to set off World War III\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12594'),
(27781, 'Doctor Who: The Mind Robber', 'Peter Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ''nowhere''. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine''s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell? Derek Jacobi, who played The Master in the "Doctor Who" episode "Utopia", reads Peter Ling''s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986. ''Giving more depth to the tale than was ever allowed in the original television interpretation, this audiobook will keep the most ardent of "Doctor Who" fans, young and old, enthralled from start to finish'' - "Bournemouth Daily Echo". ''BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers...they benefit from new music and sound effects'' - "Doctor Who Magazine".\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Derek Jacobi won a Tony in 1985 for\n  <em>\n   Much Ado About Nothing\n  </em>\n  and was Tony-nominated in 1988 for\n  <em>\n   Breaking the Code.\n  </em>\n  His voicework includes narration for\n  <em>\n   The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Manor House,\n  </em>\n  and several\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  titles. He was awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1985 and was knighted in 1994.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12596'),
(27782, 'Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sarah to the medieval planet Peladon, some half a century after the Time Lord''s first visit. Now under the benign influence of the Galactic Federation, the Pel nobles enjoy new riches and new technology.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Federation is at war with Galaxy Five, and Peladon has taken on a new tactical importance; it is rich in the rare mineral trisilicate, which is vital to the war effort. The Pel miners, however, are in revolt. For too long they have been overworked and taken for granted by the Federation and the Pel royalty. They believe that Federation machinery has awoken the spirit of the legendary Aggedor, who is now slaughtering aliens and unbelievers. As open rebellion erupts, the Federation sends in a hard-line military taskforce - Commander Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Sarah must not only act as peace-keepers between the warring factions but also discover the truth behind the ''spirit''. They soon learn that the Galactic Federation has been infiltrated by traitors and spies, determined to destroy the alliance from within...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12599'),
(27783, 'Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a brutal deep-space prison colony. Can they stay out of gaol long enough to discover who - or what - is behind the sinister scientific plot that threatens billions of human lives? (***********Additional text added**********************) The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles. But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes? Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12601'),
(27784, 'Doctor Who: The Murder Game', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the Tardis crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But then it seems that someone is taking the games too seriously.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12605'),
(27785, 'Doctor Who: The Mutants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What was happening to the people of Solos? Why are they gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws, flesh that turns scale-like...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor meets the Marshal and Jaeger, he realizes that all is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister plan to gain control of this planet, and it''s up to the Doctor to save Solos from this mad earthman, as well as save the Solonians themselves.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12606'),
(27786, 'Doctor Who: The Mutation of Time', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As they head up an alliance of alien races bent on destroying the human race, in their midst is none other than the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A dangerous chase ensues across volcanoes, jungles, deserts and futuristic cities, as the Doctor and his companions struggle to prevent the Daleks'' plans coming to fruition. The stakes are high, and for the first time in the programme''s history the lives of two TARDIS travellers are lost...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12607'),
(27787, 'Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12608'),
(27788, 'Doctor Who: The Myth Makers', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who''s time machine lands in ancient Troy, he and his friends become involved in the Trojan War\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12609'),
(27789, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair', 'Graham Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Peri find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach along with the evil Chinse Mandarin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12610'),
(27790, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children''s nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12611'),
(27791, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Eden', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft, the Empress and the Hecate. As a result, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K9 and Romana offer to help out.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard - and where has the supply come from?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor soon realises that the aliens stored in a projection machine may hold the answers - and that the cages holding these specimens are anything but secure as the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12612'),
(27792, 'Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space world, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT are called to investigate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12613'),
(27793, 'Doctor Who: The Pescatons', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer universe: The Pescatons. The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless invader.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p align="justify">\n  Who or what is the mighty Zor, whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful alien force that is bringing Earth''s civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path?\n </p>\n <p align="justify">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This is the story of a dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor -- a frightening race against time...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12616'),
(27794, 'Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Doctor''s been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn''t the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what''s this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out he''ll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves... Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn''t hoping for mayhem, death, and badger-faced space pirates. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12618'),
(27795, 'Doctor Who: The Pit', 'Neil Penswick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and itâ€™s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, ARMAGEDDON.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materializes, it becomes clear that the plane has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As riot and anarchy spread on the systemâ€™s colonized worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lordsâ€™ past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12620'),
(27796, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A distress call from the last planet in the known universe forces the TARDIS to commence emergency materialisation on Zeta Minor. Simultaneous with the Doctor''s arrival, is the landing of a spacecraft from the planet Morestra on a rescue mission to recover a missing group of scientists. An expeditionary force from the spacecraft soon uncovers their sinister remains, but who or what has caused their gruesome deaths?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Only one scientist, Professor Sorenson, has survived and he is hell-bent on tapping the powerful resources within Zeta Minor to save his own planet which is slowly dying. But he and his compatriots cannot possibly realise the full extent of the dark forces at work. And so it is left to the Doctor to convince them that Zeta Minor is indeed, the Planet of Evil...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12622'),
(27797, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master and the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet where the TARDIS finally materialises.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Not only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks'' new stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague that will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still - somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and take what they believe is their rightful place as the Universe''s supreme beings!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12624'),
(27798, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Spiders', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIt''s happening, Brigadier! It''s happening!,â€ Sarah cried out. The Brigadier watched, fascinated, as the lifeless body of his old friend and companion, Doctor Who, suddenly began to glow with an eerie golden light. The features were blurring, changing...â€Well, bless my soul,â€ said the Brigadier. â€œWho will be next?â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12628'),
(27799, 'Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Romana to Delta 3, the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. Romana is captured by the Swampies, the original inhabitants of Delta Magna, displaced from their home world by human colonists. They intend to sacrifice Romana to their god, the mighty Kroll.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor''s search for his companion brings him to a massive refinery in the middle of the swamp, which is extracting protein from under the water to feed the people of Delta Magna. The Doctor is mistaken for Rohm-Dutt, an amoral gun-runner who is supplying the Swampies with weapons to aid them in their plan to attack the refinery and force the workers to leave Delta 3.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor escapes the refinery in time to rescue Romana from the sacrificial altar, discovering in the process that Kroll is just a myth, a story to frighten children. They resolve to find the Fifth Segment and leave the moon, avoiding the intrigues of the refinery workers and the attentions of the fanatical Swampies.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     However, all is not as it initially seems. What is stirring on the floor of the swamp and can the instruments on the refinery really be correct in saying that it is five miles across? The Doctor realises that Kroll is more than a mere legend and its centuries-long slumber has been disturbed by the refinery. Now it is awake, the time-travellers find that it is very large, and very hungry...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12630'),
(27800, 'Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Disoriented after his regeneration, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Earth colony Vulcan. Ben and Polly are disturbed - the Doctor isn''t the man he used to be.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor too is worried. The colonists have found the remains of two Daleks - which they plan to revive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once revived, the Daleks claim that they are content to serve humanity. Can it really be true? Or do they have their own, more sinister plans?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12631');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27801, 'Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laylora - the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land... Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? What secret lies at the heart of the natives'' ancient ceremonies? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known? When a planet itself becomes sick, can there be a cure? The Doctor and Rose find themsleves in a race against time to find out...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12633'),
(27802, 'Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a university on planet Sweeney Earth, Paul and Arlene Cole have designed TITAN -- designed to penetrate the vortex and access the very foundations of reality. The Master, who is being pursued by the Chronivores, thinks that TITAN could be the perfect means of revenge...Mel''s old friend Anjeliqua also works at the university and the Master charms her into giving him access to TITAN. He recalibrates its settings and locates the Quantum Archimage, the power source of the Chronivores. When this energy is channeled into Anjeliqua herself, she is transformed into the Quantum Archangel, the living embodiment of the Chronivores'' power source. With her new-found power, her plan is to "make things better. For everyone".If she goes ahead, reality will begin to fracture, as conflicting realities struggle to coexist. Otherwise, when the Chronivores detect the alternate timelines, they will consume every last bit of it. Can the Doctor intervene before the universe disintegrates?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12635'),
(27803, 'Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS materialises near Paris in 1794, Dr. Who and his friends become caught up in the deadly turmoil of the French Revolution\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12637'),
(27804, 'Doctor Who: The Rescue', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12639'),
(27805, 'Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint''s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12640'),
(27806, 'Doctor Who: The Romans', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is Italy 64AD and the Doctor''s intent on a holiday. However, the atmosphere turns sour when he leaves for Rome with Vicki only to be mistaken for a murdered musician - Maximus Pettulian. For Maximus is an enemy of Nero and the terrible fate that awaited him in Rome now awaits the Doctor.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara have been abducted and sold as slaves, unable to contact the Doctor or one another. Are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped in 64AD?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Events reach a climax when the time travellers are caught in the Great Fire of Rome: an inferno which will either provide the cover necessary for their escape or which will, quite literally, be the death of them...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12642'),
(27807, 'Doctor Who: The Room With No Doors', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Sixteenth century Japan a god descends to tip the balance of power in a bloody civil war. Chris finds himself alone and has to become a hero to stop the god falling into the wrong hands - but Chris isn''t sure he wants to be a hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12645'),
(27808, 'Doctor Who: The Roundheads', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure set in the time of Cromwell. The Civil Wars have ended with victory for the Roundheads, and Charles I is threatened with execution. In a country of divided loyalties, strangers are looked upon with suspicion, and the crew of the Tardis soon finds itself in danger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12647'),
(27809, 'Doctor Who: The Savages', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and his companions arrive at a city which appears to be a haven of beauty, harmony, and friendship, but they soon discover that the security of the city is founded on a deadly and appalling secret\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12649'),
(27810, 'Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor''s own race is keen to possess herself; the eccentric time traveler and philanderer Iris Wildthyme.The Doctor and Sam themselves must escape the clutches of the dying Scarlet Empress, and they encounter many strange creatures on their travels -- bearded ladies, humanoid mock turtles, transvestite cyborgs and many more -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12651'),
(27811, 'Doctor Who: The Sea-Devils', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo Grant visit their old enemy the Master, who is the sole inmate of a top-security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. Local shipping has been plagued by a series of tragic accidents and several ships have been lost. Joining forces with Captain Hart of the HMS Seaspite naval base, the Doctor learns that there have been garbled reports of sea monsters. Colonel Trenchard, Governor of the Master''s prison, believes that the ships are being attacked by enemy spies. The Master himself seems to be a reformed man and claims to have turned away from his life of crime.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Nothing could be further from the truth. The Master has in fact made contact with the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the prehistoric Silurian race encountered by the Doctor some time ago. Having slept beneath the sea for millions of years, the Sea Devils have awoken and intend to reclaim what they consider to be their planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided and abetted by the evil Master, who will stop at nothing to take revenge on those who imprisoned him, the Sea Devils plan to eliminate the human race, a species they regard as nothing more than upstart apes...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12653'),
(27812, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the twenty-first century Doctor Who tries to save the Earth from an invasion by Ice Warriors from Mars\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12655'),
(27813, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a mysterious pod unearthed in the Antarctic begins to grow into a giant man-eating plant, Doctor Who is summoned to stop the creature\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12657'),
(27814, 'Doctor Who: The Sensorites', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a seemingly deserted spaceship, Doctor Who, Susan, Ian, and Barbara discover two astronauts who have been terrorized by the Sensorites, telepathic aliens\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12659'),
(27815, 'Doctor Who: The Shadow in the Glass', 'Justin Richards; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Anterctica, nearly fifty years after the end of World War 2, Nazi Initiates inhibit a secret base; around them move the shadows and reflections of strange, Imp-like figures...The village of Turelhampton in Dorset is still a restricted military zone, cordoned off from the outside world. When a rogue film-crew breaks in, welrd damons, invisible to the naked eye, appear on camers...And in a remote country-house in Cornwall, a freelance investigative journalist is horrified to discover neo-Nazis performing an occult ritual involving a functional, accurate, crystal ball - the Scrying Glass. And in the background, the figure of Hilter watching, exactly as he appears in the last pictures of him alive...What really did happen in the Berlin bunker in 1945, when Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly committed joint suicide? And what connection does this have with the uncanny imps that can be seen only in reflections and shadows? Why is it so imperative that no-one discover the secret of Turelhampton? It is up to the Doctor and the faithful Brigadier to find out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12660'),
(27816, 'Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that''s gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor''s TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12662'),
(27817, 'Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest in a long line of suicide attempts sees Caroline ''Laska'' Darnell admitted to the Retreat, a groundbreaking medical center surrounded by woodland. To her horror, she recognizes the Retreat from her recent nightmares of an old building haunted by ghostly dogs with glowing eyes. But who will believe her stories of an evil from the past that has already made one attempt to destroy the building and all its inhabitants? The mysterious Dr. Smith seems curiously aware of the Retreat''s past, and is utterly fascinated by Laska''s waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr. Smith?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12664'),
(27818, 'Doctor Who: The Smugglers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Journeying back in time to a seventeenth century Cornish town, Doctor Who is kidnapped by pirates who are determined to learn the location of a fabulous treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12666'),
(27819, 'Doctor Who: The Space Museum', 'Glyn Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Hartnell is the original Doctor in this soundtrack of a classic TV adventure, with linking narration by Maureen O''Brien. When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a ''time track'' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold...The native Xerons are planning a rebellion against the occupying force of the Moroks who have invaded their world. The Doctor and his friends struggle not only to survive in the midst of battle, but to help change the future sufficiently to ensure their own freedom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12668'),
(27820, 'Doctor Who: The Space Pirates', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, and then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie risk their lives as they attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12670'),
(27821, 'Doctor Who: The State of Decay', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Searching for a way out of E-Space, the Doctor and Romana, joined by a young stowaway, land on a planet eerily similar to Medieval Earth. Its people live in fear, under the thumb of the Three Who Rule, cruel lords who suppress all learning to keep their subjects ignorant and helpless.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor falls in with a group of rebels and discovers a cache of advanced technology banned by the Three Who Rule. But who are these ruthless monarchs?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meeting the lords and exploring their tower, he and Romana uncover a chilling secret. The Doctor realizes an ancient evil is rising once again, a terrible threat to the universe fought by his own race long ago, and one that only he can destroy now.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12673'),
(27822, 'Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the far future, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it''s a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back, and the Doctor wants to help - until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12674'),
(27823, 'Doctor Who: The Stone Rose', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12675'),
(27824, 'Doctor Who: The Suns of Caresh', 'Paul Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet''s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12677'),
(27825, 'Doctor Who: The Taint', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Collier''s previous book, __, featured some good characters (especially the inspired Nashaad) and an interesting alien in the Kusk. With\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , all we get is very confused indeed as a group of inadequately described loonies takes over the asylum. It''s very difficult to keep track of who is who early on, and so at the end knowing who lived or died is impossible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The idea of alien mind parasites is nice if unoriginal, and the two robotic guardian-types were also neat, but their function in the novel is unclear. The new companion character Fitz remains something of an enigma, although he does have some nice moments and some interesting defining characteristics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are some good ideas in\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , but unfortunately the writing never manages to rise above the level of competent, and the plot gets a little submerged under a surfeit of characters. It''s a pity, especially after the excellence of __,\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the eighth Doctor Who and Sam, and Fitz Kreiner, a roguish dreamer from the 1960s. The Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley, who is probing the psyches of people who believe they''ve been possessed by the devil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12678'),
(27826, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they''re not here to arrange flowers...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12679'),
(27827, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Planet 5', 'Simon Bucher-Jones; Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And itâ€™s alive.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside the ordered universe, things move. Theyâ€™re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but itâ€™s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12505'),
(27828, 'Doctor Who: The Terrors of Autons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who Novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, the dreaded Nestene menace is rekindled on Earth -- by the Master! The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion,\n  </em>\n  this is the adventure in which the third Doctor meets his arch-nemesis on Earth for the first time -- and in which the Autons once again stalk England...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12506'),
(27829, 'Doctor Who: The Time Meddler', 'Nigel Robinson; Dennis Spooner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a beach in England. The Doctor, Vicki and new companion Steven discover a Viking helmet, and deduce they have arrived in the past. Whilst Steven and Vicki scale the cliff, the Doctor opts for a far more gentle path...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In the woods above the cliffs, Steven and Vicki find an abandoned modern wristwatch. The Doctor investigates a nearby monastery, only to discover more anachronisms...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the local villages are attacked by invading Vikings, the Doctor realises that they are a few weeks away from the famous battle of Hastings in 1066. Who is the Meddling Monk, and what is his interest in the time travellers?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12508'),
(27830, 'Doctor Who: The Time Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   UNIT are called into monitor the initial trials of a device called TOMTIT - the Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - at the Newton Institute at Wootton. Created by the enigmatic Professor Thascales, TOMTIT''s demonstration causes unexpected time anomalies. The Doctor soon discovers that TOMTIT is not all that it seems...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  At the heart of TOMTIT is an ancient crystal, which the Master hopes to use to gain control over Kronos - a Chronovore which feeds on time itself. But the stone he holds is only part of the sacred crystal of Kronos - the main crystal is hidden...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and the Master journey back in time to the lost city of Atlantis, where the battle for the control of Kronos intensifies... Can the Doctor prevent the Time Monster from being unleashed...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12510'),
(27831, 'Doctor Who: The Time Travellers', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara are eager to explore their own future. But they have arrived in the middle of a war, a war that has left London a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, and with no way of proving otherwise, the Doctor''s granddaughter and companions find themselves in the execution block on the Isle of Dogs. The Doctor has no choice but to help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12513'),
(27832, 'Doctor Who: The Tomb of Valdemar', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who perceived these Higher Dimensions went insane. The Vanier disappeared into the gateway and all that remains of them is shimmering, golden palace floating in the clouds...The Doctor inadvertently materializes on Ashkellia, where Valdemar''s tomb lies. The Doctor must escape imprisonment by Neville, a debauched aristocrat, to save both the universe and himself from the Higher Dimensions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12515'),
(27833, 'Doctor Who: The Tomorrow Windows', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There''s always one, isn''t there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver''s Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12517'),
(27834, 'Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord : The Ultimate Foe', 'Pip Baker; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In a dramatic intervention the Valeyardâ€™s true identity is revealed but he escapes from the Courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow - to his face his ultimate foe...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12519'),
(27835, 'Doctor Who: The Turing Test', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious code is received at Bletchley and Alan Turing, the chief code-breaker, is unable to break it. He meets the Doctor in a club and when Turing tells him about the code, the Doctor reacts by running away, terrified. Turing confesses his indiscretion to the military and the Doctor is arrested. He eventually succeeds in breaking the code from his prison cell -- the message is a desperate cry for help from mysterious refugees in Vienna.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12522'),
(27836, 'Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a rocky fifth regeneration and a near outburst of uncontrolled violent behavior, Doctor Who decides to become a hermit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12525'),
(27837, 'Doctor Who: The Two Doctors', 'Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the 6th Doctor lands on a space station in the Third Zone, he suspects he''s been there before and when he discovers his old assistant - Jamie - he''s certain.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by Jamie and his present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (in his second incarnation) to 20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, about to dissect him in a genetic operation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  But just why are they operating on the Doctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe? Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escape their own excruciating death...\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12527'),
(27838, 'Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil', 'Wally K. Daly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <i>\n      On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series,Â \n     </i>\n     <i>\n      Doctor Who\n     </i>\n     , was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord''s travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens.\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   But missing from the Doctor''s adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories:Â \n   <b>\n    The Ultimate Evil.\n   </b>\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12530'),
(27839, 'Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12531'),
(27840, 'Doctor Who: The Visitation', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Something is very wrong in 17th Century England. The shadowy figure of Death stalks the forests, terrifying the local people. Behind the chaos fugitive alien life forms called Terileptils lurk. Stranded on Earth, they have seized one of the local houses, murdering its inhabitants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But just what do they want? The Doctor must discover the answer - and fast. For as events unfold, he finds he too is looking death in the face, not to mention the threat of mass genocide...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12532'),
(27841, 'Doctor Who: The Wages of Sin', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad monk Rasputin.As history plunges onward inexorably, the Doctor''s companions realize that history books can lie. But the Doctor can see the threads that hold all time together -- can he and his companions escape the depravities of this decadent Russia without unraveling the history of Earth?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12534'),
(27842, 'Doctor Who: The Web of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After being caught up in a web-like substance on its journey through space, the TARDIS arrives in the tunnels of the London Underground railway system, only to find the web also in the tunnels - as is the Great Intelligence''s Yeti.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  How has this happened? The team learn that the impending disaster was triggered nearly forty years before, after their previous encounter with the Intelligence. Professor Travers accidentally reactivated a Yeti, thus giving the Intelligence the ammunition it needed to plan another invasion attempt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The aim is simple: the Intelligence wants to drain the Doctor''s mind. Army forces, led by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, help the Doctor and his team race against time to stop them in their mission. Can they make it?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12537'),
(27843, 'Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12539'),
(27844, 'Doctor Who: The Witch Hunters', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The original Doctor Who (from the 1960s) attempts repairs to the Tardis. Unfortunately, he chooses Salem, Massachusetts at the time of the witch hunts, as the place to do the job. The result is that he and his crew are thrown into danger by Susan''s latent telepathic powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12542'),
(27845, 'Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor has been staying on the planet Hitchemus for the past few months where he has been learning to play the violin from gifted young composer Karl Hassan. Hitchemus is a planet with two distinctive features -- the humans who live there have a formidable reputation for composing, playing and appreciating a wide range of music -- while its tiger population is showing unusual signs of intelligence.Although Anji is greatly unnerved by the sight of a tiger taking a book out of a library, no one is prepared for the day when the tigers take over the planet. Their demands are unusual though -- they want to be taught to play instruments as well as the humans, and to this end kidnap all of the planet''s most eminent musicians.Why are these tigers so intellectually advanced, and can the population of Hitchemus resolve their conflict to avoid civil war? The Doctor sympathises with the tigers and humans alike, but needs to help both parties to resolve their differences before they both begin tosee him as a traitor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12544'),
(27846, 'Doctor Who: The Zarbi', 'Bill Strutton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral plane and the TARDIS materialises in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents them from leaving. Is it a natural phenomenon or some malevolent intelligence?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Uncanny occurrences are followed by encounters with the deadly Zarbi and their unknown leader, to whom the travellers fall prey. With their allies, the Menoptra, the travellers must discover how to immobilise the Zarbi, save the Menoptra from massacre and rid the planet of this powerful and horrifying evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As a growing web building begins to envelop the planet, imprisoning the travellers in its mesh, the Doctor must consult all of his wisdom to escape its hypnotic power. But what is at the centre of the web and from where does it draw its power?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12890'),
(27847, 'Doctor Who: Theatre of War', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    <i>\n     Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.\n    </i>\n    Â \n    <br />\n    Ace stared at the Doctor. He nodded. â€˜Yes, Ace. Weâ€™re in Elsinore. And I donâ€™t like it either.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Five years ago, an archeological expedition came to Menaxus to explore the ruins of an ancient theatre. All but one of the visitors died horribly, and the planet was abandoned, bathed in lethal radiation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the only survivor has returned, determined to uncover the theatreâ€™s secrets whatever the cost. Among her archaeological team is a certain Professor Bernice Summerfield.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the deaths begin again, while the front line of an interstellar war moves ever closer. Desperate for help, Bernice tries to summon her companions. But when the TARDIS lands on the planet, the Doctor finds himself participating in a frighteningly real performance of Shakespeareâ€™s greatest tragedy. And he begins to realize that the truth about Menaxus may be far stranger than anyone imagines.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12547'),
(27848, 'Doctor Who: Three Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, Doctors One, Two, and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthless enemy - Omega. Once a Time Lord, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe. Katy Manning reads Terrance Dicksâ€™ complete and unabridged novelization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12549'),
(27849, 'Doctor Who: Time and Relative', 'Kim Newman; Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12551'),
(27850, 'Doctor Who: Time and the Rani', 'Pip Baker; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    After being attacked by the evil Rani, the TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    In his post-regenerative confusion the Doctor is separated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomanic scheme to construct a giant time manipulator.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani''s ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani''s control of their planet.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani''s plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12554'),
(27851, 'Doctor Who: Time Flight', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Concorde vanishes in midflight, Doctor Who decides to follow its exact route in another Concorde in order to determine exactly where in time or space the ship landed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12557');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27852, 'Doctor Who: Time Warrior', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   AÂ spacecraft crashes near the castle of a robber baron in the Middle Ages, and the Sontaran Warrior within needs help with its repair. Unable to obtain the technical expertise he requires, he ventures forward in time to the 20th century and begins kidnapping scientists.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This attracts the attention of UNIT and the Doctor, who follows the trail back through time, unknowingly taking a young stowaway with him...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12560'),
(27853, 'Doctor Who: Time Zero', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied. At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition''s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice. Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn''t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved? Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12563'),
(27854, 'Doctor Who: Timelash', 'Glen McCoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The planet Karfel is an oppressed world ruled over by a cruel tyrant - the Borad. Anyone opposing his will is cast out through a time tunnel known as the Timelash.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor arrives he is asked to rescue a woman, Vena, who has been sent through the Timelash to Earth with a precious amulet the Borad needs returned. If the Doctor refuses, the life of his companion, Peri, is forfeit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is the truth behind the terrible power of the Borad? Why is he desperate for all-out war with the neighbouring planet of Bandril? The Doctor falls in with the rebels, but to defeat the Borad means a one-to-one confrontation in the mad scientist''s inner sanctum - and unless he acts quickly, Peri may undergo a terrifying change...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12566'),
(27855, 'Doctor Who: Timeless', 'Stephen Cole; Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why ''our'' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard -- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime. Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji''s become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe''s long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a killing ground spawned before time and space began.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12569'),
(27856, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Apocalypse', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has tracked the Timewyrm to the edge of the Universe and the end of time -- to the lush planet Kirith, a paradise inhabited by a physically perfect race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace is not impressed. Kirith has all the appeal of a wet weekend in Margate, and its inhabitants look like third-rate Aussie soap stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is troubled, too: If the Timewyrm is here, why canâ€™t he find her? Why have the elite Panjistri lied consistently to the Kirithons they govern? And is it possible that the catastrophe that he feels impending is the result of his own past actions?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12571'),
(27857, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12574'),
(27858, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Genesis', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind''s long progress to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctorâ€™s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12576'),
(27859, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. Heâ€™s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothyâ€™s skull. She dies instantly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12578'),
(27860, 'Doctor Who: To the Slaughter', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxy''s next megastar designer on the future equivalent of "Changing Planets?"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12579'),
(27861, 'Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the universe without trace. An expedition from Earth arrives on Telos â€” homeworld of the Cybermen â€” to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first mysterious death occurs. With the group now stranded on Telos, it becomes clear that the Cybermen may not be as ''dead'' as it was first thought...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Beneath the planet''s surface, giant ice-tombs hold the last remains of the Cybermen in a frozen sleep. And someone is working to re-activate them from their slumber...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12580'),
(27862, 'Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Children make better soldiers,â€™ said the teddy bear. â€˜They kill without compunction.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves unwilling guests on the planet Qâ€™ell, where a similar war still rages - and has done for fourteen hundred years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Qâ€™ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer any word for peace.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12583'),
(27863, 'Doctor Who: Trading Futures', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On an Earth of the not-so distant future, Anji is surprised by the way the world has developed. The EU and US have become rivals, and a situation in North Africa, in which they both have interests that they wish to protect, threatens to turn into full-scale war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12584'),
(27864, 'Doctor Who: Tragedy Day', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Tomorrow, Tragedy Day. Tomorrow, total control.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In Empire City on the planet Olleril, itâ€™s time for the annual Tragedy Day -- when the privileged few celebrate their generosity to the masses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this year, something is different. Hideous creatures infest the waters around an island that doesnâ€™t officially exist. Assassins arrive to carry out a killing that may endanger the entire universe. A being known as the Supreme One tests horrific weapons. And a secret order of monks observes the growing chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Five minutes after they arrive on Olleril, the TARDIS crew know they want to leave. But Ace is imprisoned in a sinister refugee camp, and Bernice and the Doctor are in the custody of a brutal police gang. There is no way out.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12585'),
(27865, 'Doctor Who: Trial of a Time Lord : Mindwarp', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On trial for his life, Doctor Who must prove that the evidence presented by the prosecution is false\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12587'),
(27866, 'Doctor Who: Ultimate Treasure', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago...\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan''s hoard - the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains sceptical. What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they each race to be the first to the treasure. And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12588'),
(27867, 'Doctor Who: Underworld', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of Minyan race. During the perilous voyage, the astronauts'' craft plunges into the heart of a recently formed planet, wherein an awesome secret is hidden.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   How will the Minyan quest end? What must the Doctor wrest from the Heart of the Oracle?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12590'),
(27868, 'Doctor Who: Unnatural History', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor regenerated in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium. When he returns there a few years later, it seems the catastrophic events that nearly sent the whole of Earth into cosmic oblivion have taken their toll. San Francisco was the anchor point, and a breach between dimensions has sprung up. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures have turned up -- griffins, unicorns -- and things more sinister.The Doctor''s companion Sam is exposed and becomes a changed person -- literally. Her hair is dark, she has never met the Doctor in her life. With Fitz, he is able to convince her to help them put things right -- to sacrifice herself so that the old Sam may return. For stalking the turbulent streets is the sinister Unnaturalist -- a collector of genetic curios whose private collection will be much enriched by the Time Travelers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12592'),
(27869, 'Doctor Who: Vampire Science', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12595'),
(27870, 'Doctor Who: Vanderdeken&#39;s Children', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12597'),
(27871, 'Doctor Who: Vanishing Point', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Khnemu is a closed system where space travel is prohibited by the white and black holes that distantly ring the galaxy. Each person on the planet carries in their genes a hereditary "Godswitch" which enables "God" to monitor their every move. People on their deathbeds are told the meaning of their life by God, but increasing numbers of people seem to be dying of unnatural causes. It is the job of the Destinists to investigate these people''s lifestyles in order to explain the reasons for their premature deaths to their families.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12598'),
(27872, 'Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Varos the descendants of a prison planet are force-fed a diet of endless video nasties, execution is spectacle and torture is high entertainment. The Tardis arrives desperately short of Zeiton 7 ore to power its engines, and Doctor Who knows that Varos is the only place it can be found.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12600'),
(27873, 'Doctor Who: Verdigris', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the hospital, they are watched by an oddly-dressed boy and gift, who quickly vanish. Meanwhile the train passengers die and crumble into a green powder -- Verdigris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12602'),
(27874, 'Doctor Who: War Games', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1979, the Doctor and his companions are faced by an evil of such magnitude they are forced to turn to the only people that can help themâ€”the Time Lords.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12603'),
(27875, 'Doctor Who: War Machine', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   ondon, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his ''secretary'' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life''s work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor''s travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer''s link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12604'),
(27876, 'Doctor Who: War of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16198'),
(27877, 'Doctor Who: Warchild', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Adolescence is a difficult time. Especially when you have the power to rule the world.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Creed is just an ordinary guy -- as ordinary as you can be when youâ€™re a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter. His youngest child seems able to read his mind. His oldest boy, ricky, may posssess a stranger and far more frightening power. And others seem interested in his â€˜giftedâ€™ children -- sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Around the world, the Doctorâ€™s companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right. Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe -- and the evolution of mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(27878, 'Doctor Who: Warlock', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Thereâ€™s a strange new drug on the street. Itâ€™s called warlock and some people say itâ€™s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This disturbing sequel toÂ \n   <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na06.htm">\n    Warhead\n   </a>\n   Â moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(27879, 'Doctor Who: Warmonger', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends. How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious ''General'' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called ''Supremo'', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri? The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo. It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12499'),
(27880, 'Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of a Doctor Who television script. The Doctor and Jo simply meant to take a ride in the Tardis to check that it was working. But instead, the Tardis takes them to Peladon, a medieval world which is seeking membership of the Galactic Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12501'),
(27881, 'Doctor Who: Warriors&#39; Gate', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS while the Doctor is searching for a way out of E-Space. It steers them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a sinister spaceship.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The void is actually a gateway to the past and future, a cosmic mirror guarded by axe-wielding robots. And the creature that brought them here is Biroc, a Tharil, a race doomed to be hunted and enslaved. Biroc seeks freedom for his people, while the captain of the spaceship seeks escape from the alternative universe -- and will kill every Tharil he holds to break free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The gateway offers the only exit, but the void is contracting. Are the Doctor and his friends fated to spend eternity in E-Space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12500'),
(27882, 'Doctor Who: Wetworld', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday''s swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can''t protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they''re only just starting to realise that Sunday''s wildlife isn''t as harmless as it first seems. Why are the native otters behaving so strangely, and what is the creature in the swamps that is so interested in the humans, and the new arrivals? The Doctor and Martha must fight to ensure that human intelligence doesn''t become the greatest danger of all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Michalowski is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels Relative Dementias and Halflife\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12502'),
(27883, 'Doctor Who: White Darkness', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion, Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12503'),
(27884, 'Doctor Who: Winner Takes All', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth to visit Rose''s mum, and become intrigued by the latest craze -- the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans. Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers - on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12504'),
(27885, 'Doctor Who: Wishing Well', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor''s warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they''ll wish they had...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12507'),
(27886, 'Doctor Who: Wolfsbane', 'Jac Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12509'),
(27887, 'Doctor Who: Wonderland', 'Mark Chadbourn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco 1967. A place of love and peace as the hippy movement is in full swing. Summer, however, has lost her boyfriend, and fears him dead, destroyed by a new drug: Blue Moonbeam. Her only friends are 3 English tourists: Ben and Polly, and their mysterious guardian and friend the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12511'),
(27888, 'Doctor Who: Wooden Heart', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted and spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all... Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious, fogbound village - a village traumatised by missing children and tales of its own destruction...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12512'),
(27889, 'Doctor Who: World Game', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12514'),
(27890, 'Doctor Who: Zamper', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the far side of a break in space is the planet Zamper, target for the last warriors of the Chelonian empire: can the Doctor defeat them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12516'),
(27891, 'Doctor Who: Zeta Major', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter.Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets -- with terrifyingly dangerous results.Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12518'),
(27892, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12520'),
(27893, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18453'),
(27894, 'The Doctor', 'Ted Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4279'),
(27895, 'Doctored Evidence', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady''s maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides--unofficially--to take on the case himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12521'),
(27896, 'Document1', 't_ms02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17486');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(27897, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19174'),
(27898, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12523'),
(27899, 'Dog Person', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12524'),
(27900, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Swanwick, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4281'),
(27901, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick''s impressive versatility. Characters vary from feuding prospectors on a heat-scoured Venus in Tin Marsh to clients of The Bordello in Faerie. On one end of the mood spectrum are the three elegantly wry adventures of Darger and Surplus, roguish postapocalypse con artists; on the other is the gentle Triceratops Summer, told in a matter-of-fact, laconic style that at first seems to show wonderful things becoming commonplace and then reveals that the familiar can still be wonderful. Swanwick (_The Iron Dragon''s Daughter_) pulls apart overused situations to see what makes them tick and then constructs fresh, surprising plots from the pieces. The locked-room mystery may seem hopelessly stale, but not when it''s A Small Room in Koboldtown, where voodoo beings and sleazy politics abound. Readers tired of conventional fantasy and SF will find this collection of intriguing characters and lovingly told stories deeply refreshing.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rounding up all Swanwick''s stories to date about unusually nondescript human Darger and genetically modified dog Surplus, a previously unpublished novella, and three Hugo-winning pieces, this generous volume opens with "Hello, Said the Stick," in which a soldier en route to battle picks up a talking stick that turns out to be unwontedly dangerous. The new publication, "The Skysailor''s Tale," is an adventure on board a British airship claiming new lands for Queen Titania that is framed as a father telling his son about some of his strange doings when a lad. The Darger and Surplus capers, occuring after the age of computers in a suspiciously nineteenth-century-ish though far-future Europe, are satisfying tales of plotting and heists involving a great team, indeed. The closer, "Urdumheim," is the brilliantly imagined story of King Nimrod and the time when the world was new, people didn''t die, and there was only one language. Swanwick''s stories are possessed of sufficient depth and generic variety to satisfy quite a range of genre tastes. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18490'),
(27902, 'The Dog Who Came in from the Cold', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ''moved house'' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12526'),
(27903, 'A Dog&#39;s Purpose', 'W. Bruce Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the remarkable story of one endearing dogâ€™s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dogâ€™s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life''s most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Baileyâ€™s search for his new lifeâ€™s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Baileyâ€™s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wondersÂ—will he ever find his purpose?Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog''s Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog''s many lives, but also a dog''s-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man''s best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16150'),
(27904, 'The dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4283'),
(27905, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake; Harry Harison; Joe Haldeman; Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded into the science fiction scene and continue to leave their marks. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic takes of men at arms by SF Greats, including Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12528'),
(27906, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded onto the science fiction scene and continue to leave their mark. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic tales of men at arms by SF greats, including Hary Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer, and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A stronghold of bestselling authors\n</p>\n<p>\n Contributors to this collection include such notable authors as Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Richard C. Matheson, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18908'),
(27907, 'The Dogs Of War', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4286'),
(27908, 'Doing The Circuit', 'Alexander Jablokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18076'),
(27909, 'Dolan&#39;s Cadillac', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12529'),
(27910, 'Dolled Up For Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12533'),
(27911, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12535'),
(27912, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Extraordinarily vivid...an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt. PlayboyMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12536'),
(27913, 'Dolphin Island', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12538'),
(27914, 'The Dolphins of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars, to colonize the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck in the form of Thread, deadly silver spores that fell like rain from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. And as the human colonists'' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate struggle for survival, the dolphins were forgotten, left to make their own life in the seas of Pern. As time went by, human memory of dolphins was lost to legend, and only the occasional tall tale of "shipfish" rescuing fishermen lost at sea kept the legend alive. But the dolphins never forgot, and from generation to generation they preserved their oral history against the day when humans at last might remember their old friends, and once again the seas would resound with the ringing of the dolphins'' bells from docks and ships... Now, centuries later, the dragonriders of Pern were on the verge of ridding their planet of Thread forever. But T''lion, a young bronze rider, was not old enough to participate in that great venture. Instead, he and his dragon, Gadareth, were relegated to conveying people from place to place - until he and Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, made contact with the legendary "shipfish." And as the dragonriders grappled with the ending of an era, T''lion, Readis, and the dolphins faced the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land- and ocean-dwellers and, in the process, resurrecting the dreams of the first colonists of Pern...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4289'),
(27915, 'The Dolphins of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey - Pern 13', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17848'),
(27916, 'Domain', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten''s new thriller is just the ticket.\n <em>\n  Domain\n </em>\n focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who''s an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten''s talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of Meg taps Mayan mythology and Old Testament lore in his sci-fi/fantasy take on the age-old battle of good and evil. Archeologist Julius Gabriel is ridiculed when his research shows that ancient wonders like the pyramids, Stonehenge and Angkor Wat were built with extraterrestrial help to play a role in an Earth-based Alien Armageddon on Dec. 21, 2012, the winter equinox. When Julius dies of a heart attack, his son, Mick, attacks Gabriel''s main tormentor and former partner, Pierre Borgia, now the U.S. secretary of state, and Borgia has him thrown illegally into a Florida insane asylum. Dominique Vazquez, a part-Mayan psychiatric intern, is assigned Mick''s case, but the plan to control him backfires when she reads Julius''s journal and joins forces with Mick. She helps him escape, and they rush to the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula, where evidence supports Mick''s claims. As evil alien interference in human affairs triggers disaster, Mick learns he was born to lead the opposing alien forces for good in an apocalyptic battle. Alten''s imaginative roles for the pyramids and Peru''s Nazca peoples are the perfect springboard for what is set up to be a continuing series grappling with sweeping, Star Wars-like themes. Characters are worthy of the best role-playing games; sorcery aces technology every time; and Alten draws clever parallels with Mayan myths in this ripping space-age yarn equipped with a credible love story and strong Earth-bound side plots. (Feb.)Forecast: Meg had its fans--the novel was a minor bestseller--but not enough to keep sales of Alten''s second novel, The Trench, from dipping precipitously (it''s notable that Forge makes no mention of that novel in its publicity for Domain). This title is bound to do less well in hardcover than in its eventual mass market edition, which can excerpt any positive reviews.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12540'),
(27917, 'Domain', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten''s new thriller is just the ticket.\n <em>\n  Domain\n </em>\n focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who''s an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten''s talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of Meg taps Mayan mythology and Old Testament lore in his sci-fi/fantasy take on the age-old battle of good and evil. Archeologist Julius Gabriel is ridiculed when his research shows that ancient wonders like the pyramids, Stonehenge and Angkor Wat were built with extraterrestrial help to play a role in an Earth-based Alien Armageddon on Dec. 21, 2012, the winter equinox. When Julius dies of a heart attack, his son, Mick, attacks Gabriel''s main tormentor and former partner, Pierre Borgia, now the U.S. secretary of state, and Borgia has him thrown illegally into a Florida insane asylum. Dominique Vazquez, a part-Mayan psychiatric intern, is assigned Mick''s case, but the plan to control him backfires when she reads Julius''s journal and joins forces with Mick. She helps him escape, and they rush to the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula, where evidence supports Mick''s claims. As evil alien interference in human affairs triggers disaster, Mick learns he was born to lead the opposing alien forces for good in an apocalyptic battle. Alten''s imaginative roles for the pyramids and Peru''s Nazca peoples are the perfect springboard for what is set up to be a continuing series grappling with sweeping, Star Wars-like themes. Characters are worthy of the best role-playing games; sorcery aces technology every time; and Alten draws clever parallels with Mayan myths in this ripping space-age yarn equipped with a credible love story and strong Earth-bound side plots. (Feb.)Forecast: Meg had its fans--the novel was a minor bestseller--but not enough to keep sales of Alten''s second novel, The Trench, from dipping precipitously (it''s notable that Forge makes no mention of that novel in its publicity for Domain). This title is bound to do less well in hardcover than in its eventual mass market edition, which can excerpt any positive reviews.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12541'),
(27918, 'Dominant Species', 'Michael E. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With technologies and weapon systems torn from the pages of DARPA''s most advanced military programs, DOMINANT SPECIES is an explosive roller-coaster of futuristic military action. This fast-paced, character-driven novel will immerse you in the world of lethal powered armor aboard a ghostly abandoned starship buried miles underground. Somewhere amid the twisted, frozen decks, a group of elite Marines will find themselves trapped in an ancient mystery and a life-or-death battle to see who really is... the DOMINANT SPECIES.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12543'),
(27919, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12545'),
(27920, 'Dominion', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sweet Revenge?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murdersâ€”and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcornâ€™s powerful bestseller spins off from\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Can One Manâ€™s Search for Justice Stand Up to the Forces of Evil Threatening to Destroy Him?\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n A shocking murder drags black newspaper columnist Clarence Abernathy into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict. In a desperate hunt for answers to the violence (and to his own struggles with race and faith), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, Clarence and Ollie soon find themselves sharing the same mission: victory over the forces of darkness vying for dominion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with insightâ€”and with characters so real youâ€™ll never forget themâ€”_Dominion _is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I donâ€™t know when I have read a novel that affected me so profoundly. Randy Alcorn has combined a superb mystery/detective story with a lesson in racial relations in America, gang dynamics and symbols, Christian values, and spiritual warfare.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Dave Kirby, Troy (Alabama) Broadcasting Corporation\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Even better than its predecessorâ€¦Alcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Sean Taylor,\n <em>\n  CBA Marketplace\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Randy Alcorn thoroughly researched his characters, spending time in the inner city with homicide and gang detectives to better create the scenes for this bestselling novel. He set the story in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and the main character, Clarence Abernathy, is a black journalist whose unforgettable father played baseball in the old Negro Leagues. Randy has received many letters from readers who assume he is African American due to his accurate portrayals of racial issues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12546'),
(27921, 'The Dominion War 01: Behind Enemy Lines', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem''Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon(TM) Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of "Deep Space Nine"(TM), Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance. The "Enterprise"-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to build an artificial wormhole that will allow them to bypass the mined Bajoran wormhole and bring fresh reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant, altering the balance of power irrevocably. If Captain Picard cannot stop the project, the new wormhole will guarantee the ultimate victory of the Dominion!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4290'),
(27922, 'The Dominion War 03: Tunnel Through the Stars', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma Quadrant they came, hordes of merciless Jem''Hadar soldiers commanded by the shape-changing Founders, who seek to conquer both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has joined forces with the Cardassians, and claimed "Deep Space Nine" as their prize, Starfleet is running out of time. As a secret military project nears completion, the destiny of the entire Alpha Quadrant depends on the courage of a few. In the Federation''s time of greatest peril, as the "Starship Enterprise" readies itself for battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads a desperate mission of espionage deep into the heart of the hostile Cardassian Empire. Unless they can prevent the Dominion from creating an artificial wormhole, hordes of fresh Jem''Hadar warriors and Changelings will pour into the Alpha Quadrant, dooming the Federation to unconditional surrender. But there may be a traitor along on the mission and Picard finds he cannot trust even his closest allies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4192'),
(27923, 'Domo Arigato, says Mr Roboto', 'Robert R. Chase', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12548'),
(27924, 'Don of the Dead', 'Casey Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12550'),
(27925, 'Don Pendleton', 'Desperate Cargo (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12552'),
(27926, 'Don Pendleton', 'Frontier Fury (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12553'),
(27927, 'Don Pendleton', 'Salvador Strike (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12555'),
(27928, 'Don Quixote', 'Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; Edith Grossman; Harold Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edith Grossman''s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you''ve never read Don Quixote. "Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman''s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman''s translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction. Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes''s darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake." From the Introduction by Harold Bloom Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor''s prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12556'),
(27929, 'Don Quixote of La Mancha: An abridged version designed to relate without digressions the principal adventures of the knight and his squire', 'Miguel de Cervantes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19038'),
(27930, 'Don&#39;t ask', 'M. Rickert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12558'),
(27931, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12559'),
(27932, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan &amp; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18920'),
(27933, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12561'),
(27934, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson &amp; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18848'),
(27935, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12562'),
(27936, 'Don&#39;t Get Too Comfortable', 'David Rakoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They''ll want to stay on guard as _GQ\n <em>\n  writer-at-large Rakoff (\n </em>\n Fraud_) skewers everything and everyone he encounters. His writing is at its best when trained on the pompous and ostentatious: flying on the Concorde or visiting an exclusive, $1,300-a-night resort off Belize. While attending the Paris couture shows, Rakoff reveals the silliness of the whole enterprise with quips about Karl Lagerfeld''s preâ€“weight loss "large doughy rump" and the "dry spaghetti" of one model''s hair. In another piece, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells Rakoff, "this is the Dark Ages" for cosmetic surgery (meaning that future generations will be amazed by the inevitable advances) before taking him into an examination room. While Rakoff''s sardonic wit is clearly his greatest asset, it is sometimes his undoing; the same dry humor that works so well when aimed at the rich and decadent seems mean-spirited when applied to less prominent targets, like "Wildman" Steve Brill, who forages for food in New York City''s parks. Still, Rakoff is generally a knowing observer of "first world problems," and his devilishly uncomfortable commentaries are generally quite funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff''s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff''s cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12564'),
(27937, 'Don&#39;t Look Back', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don''t Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway''s Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town''s tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town''s seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum''s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12565'),
(27938, 'Don&#39;t Look Now', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12567'),
(27939, 'Don&#39;t panic: Douglas Adams &amp; The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12568'),
(27940, 'DON&#39;T STAND TOO CLOSE TO A NAKED MAN', 'Don&#39;t Stand too Close to a Naked Man', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12570'),
(27941, 'Don&#39;t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man', 'Tim Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actor Allen''s comic meditation on men and woman was a PW bestseller for 17 weeks.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is another differences-between-the-sexes-har-har book, and we can''t get enough of those, can we? Its advantage vis-{â€¦}a-vis the others is that it is written by Allen more or less in the persona of his character in the TV sitcom,\n <em>\n  Home Improvement\n </em>\n . Unfortunately, it is to a large degree an extended routine that Allen does very well but that features nothing new or really insightful. Such an Allen insight as "It''s a man''s place to pretend something doesn''t hurt" typifies the tenor here, as does the extremely brief chapter "The Secrets Men Never Tell Women," which consists of a single throwaway punch line. As comedy, this has the disadvantage of being static and scripted; as literature, the disadvantage of covering familiar territory familiarly. Oh, it''s still funny but probably considerably more so to fans of Allen and his popular TV show than to other readers.\n <em>\n  Mike Tribby\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12572'),
(27942, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before, he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time to consider: the madness of Galapagos tortoises; the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC''s bass guitarist; the problems and perils of being English; God''s dumbest creation. Then there are the the cars: whether it''s the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, no one does cars like Clarkson. Unmoved by mechanics'' claims and unimpressed by press junkets, he approaches anything on four wheels without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12573'),
(27943, 'Don&#39;t Take It to Heart', 'H. L. Gold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12575'),
(27944, 'Don&#39;t Talk Back To Your Vampire', 'Michele Bardsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12577'),
(27945, 'The Doom of Kings: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The return of the shifter Geth!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don Bassingthwaite is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. His latest books are\n  <em>\n   The Yellow Silk\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mistress of the Night\n  </em>\n  (co-authored with Dave Gross), and the books of The Dragon Below trilogy:\n  <em>\n   The Binding Stone\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Grieving Tree\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Killing Song\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Toronto.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4193');
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(27946, 'Doom of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Wielding the powerful, magic-absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to Merilon to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. From the bestselling authors of the Dragonlance series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born without magic, Joram was one of the Dead, denied the throne of Merilon. For years, he lived among outlaws, surviving by wit and sleight-of-hand. Now, wielding the powerful, magic absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to the enchanted Kingdom that once was his home to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. Joined by the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the young mage Mosiah, and the trickster Simkin, Jorma confronts the shattering secret of his past and discovers the ancient prophecy that puts the fate of the world in his hands-the hands that forged\n <em>\n  The Darksword\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12582'),
(27947, 'Doom Ship', 'Robert Moore Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5378'),
(27948, 'The Doom That Came to Smallmouth', 'Joe Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4194'),
(27949, 'Doom With a View', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12403'),
(27950, 'The Doomed Oasis', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4196'),
(27951, 'The Doomsday Conspiracy', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in the Swiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the event. A man whose obsession with his covert assignments has cost him the only woman he can ever love, Bellamy now faces the impossible. But as he searches for clues from Rome to Budapest to Texas, this mission blows up in his face -- and rips the lid off an incredible conspiracy that stretches around the globe and even into space...Alone and betrayed on every side, Bellamy must run for his life -- holding an astonishing secret and the key to the planet''s very survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4198'),
(27952, 'The Doomsday Ship', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4200'),
(27953, 'Doomsday World', 'Peter David; Carmen Carter; Michael Jan Friedman; Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K''vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the "Enterprise(TM)" and its crew are dispatched to help uncover. Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf soon find themselves cut off from the "Enterprise" -- and the prime suspects in a series of terrorist attacks. The three "Enterprise" crewmen are imprisoned, relations between the K''vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos'' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12405'),
(27954, 'Doomstalker', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignorance and poverty, but elsewhere the silth rule a world of technology and spaceflight. In this novel, Marilka is a ten year old meth in a litter of three pups. Her dam is Skiljan, head of a loghouse in the Degnan packstead. Kublin is another pup in the litter. He is small and weak, but has more intelligence than the other male littermate Zamberlin. In this story, Marilka and Kublin like to explore together. Marilka has less fear -- as appropriate for a female -- but Kublin follows her into very fearful situations. They have been testing their limits with the Machen Cave, where the Wise hold their rituals. Kublin detects something within the cave, but Marilka can only sense the presence of old Pohsit, the sagan of the Wise. But as she gets closer, Marilka begins to detects something scary within the cave. Both decide to go elsewhere. Pohsit has decided that Marilka is a silth. Marilka doesn''t know what a silth is, but Pohsit wants her dead. And the death of Marilka will also lead to the death of her littermates. Marilka and Kublin learn to run around and tire out Pohsit. But they keep returning to the cave. Although Marilka can now sense the thing, she still doesn''t know what it is. Then the worse winter in living memory comes to the Upper Ponath. The Degnan huntresses gather meat and the males collect plants and firewood. Then the nomads invade the Upper Ponath in large numbers. Other meth packsteads in the area are overwhelmed. Then hundreds of nomads come to Degnan. The nomads lose many to the Degnan pack, but they eventually overrun the packstead. Runners sent to the packfast return with three silth. These kill or drive away the remaining nomads, but they take the three Degnan survivors back to the packfast. They insist that Marilka shall become a sister, as the silth call themselves. This tale exposes Marilka to advanced technology, but doesn''t lead her to admiration of the sisters. She is trained in three ways, including the use of her powers. But much is withheld from her by the sisters. This story presents a change in the author''s style. Over a decade after his first novel -- The Heirs of Babylon -- and the start of five series, the author tries something new. His previous works were about human cultures or something very similar. In this tale, the author depicts truly alien creatures loosely based on wolves. Then he shows a cultural clash between the primitives and the more advanced society. And he shows this conflict through the eyes of a primitive. This story ends with a cliffhanger. The next installment -- Warlock -- will reveal the extend of the disaster. Read and enjoy! Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone who enjoys tales of alien cultures, witch powers, and young heroines. -Arthur W. Jordin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12407'),
(27955, 'Doomstar Relic', 'Axler, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12409'),
(27956, 'Doona 01 - Decision at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13220'),
(27957, 'Doona 02 - Crisis at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12411'),
(27958, 'Doona 03 - Treaty at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The thirty-year-old peace between the humans and cat-like aliens on the planet Doona once again is threatened by unrest when the Gringgs, a race of alien visitors, propose both friendship and trade and Doona''s leaders begin to question their motives. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(27959, 'DoOon Mode', 'Anthony, Piers - Mode 4 - DoOon Mode', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15219'),
(27960, 'The Door into Summer (Gollancz Collectors&#39; Editions)', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Not only America''s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world. He remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."--Stephen KingElectronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan''s greedy partner and greedier fiancÃ©e trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . .Once again, the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers displays his genius. The Door in to Summer proves why Robert Heinlein''s books have sold more than 50 million copies, winning countless awards, and earning him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction. "Heinlein . . . has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."--Philadelphia Inquirer"One of the grandmasters of science fiction."--The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4203'),
(27961, 'The Door Into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to be launched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "Total Recall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. To celebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author''s classic works back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door into Summer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip Van Winkle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4202'),
(27962, 'The Door of the Trap', 'Sherwood Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4204'),
(27963, 'The Door of the Unreal', 'Gerald Biss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Werewolves Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Door of the Unreal THE BRIGHTON ROAD My name is Lincoln Osgood, my age thirty, my nationality American, my means -- well, such as never to cause me a moment''s anxiety or the negation of any fad; my hobbies have always been travel and science, the latter more particularly in its human than in its mechanical aspects. I am not, if I may say so, in any way the "Yankee millionaire" of popular fiction or even of fact. I both write and talk the King''s English, I trust; and to tell the truth, I was educated up at Christ Church, Oxford, which is my first link with these extraordinary incidents, which it has now fallen to my lot to chronicle. It was up at Oxford ten years ago that I first met Burgess Clymping, with whom, from the first night we sat next to each other in the wonderful old hall of the House with its centuries of historical portraits, I struck up the great friendship of my life. He was a year younger than I, the owner of a nice property in Sussex and had seen but little of life in those days, whereas I had travelled a lot even then for my age. It is the accident of this long friendship and my travels in obscure and unfrequented parts that brought me into the circle of the strange doings I am about to relate -- to which, by good luck, I held the key. I am in no way the hero of the piece -- if hero, in the conventional sense, there be at all -- not even the protagonist, as the Greeks used to call it. I am merely the "handy man" of the play, so to speak, who chanced into the middle of this unconventional drama at its height, and helped to see it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4205'),
(27964, 'The Door That Does Not Close', 'Carl Frederick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4207'),
(27965, 'The Door Through Space', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FANGS OF THE WOLF WORLD\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he''d sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran Headquarters, cut off there ever since he and a rival had scarred and ripped each other in blood-feud.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But when *The Door Through Space* swung suddenly open, the feud was on again -- and with it a plot designed to check and destroy the Terran Empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4208'),
(27966, 'The Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4209'),
(27967, 'The Doorbell Rang', 'Rex Stout; Stuart M. Kaminsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Rachel Bruner sends out copies of a book critical of the FBI to 10,000 influential people, the agency begins harassing her. Then she hires Nero Wolfe to make them stop, and once he''s discovered the bureau''s weak spot, he sets in motion a scheme guaranteed to force the FBI to leave both him and Rachel alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4212'),
(27968, 'The Doors of Perception', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18189'),
(27969, 'Doorstep', 'Keith Laumer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12413'),
(27970, 'Doorsways in the Sand', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ??\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12415'),
(27971, 'The Dope Thief', 'Dennis Tafoya', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ray and his best friend, Manny, close ever since they met in juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam going: With a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they pose as federal agents and rip off small-time drug dealers, taking their money and drugs and disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Itâ€™s the perfect sting: the dealers they target are too small to look for revenge and too guilty to call the police, nobody has to die, nobody innocent gets hurt, and Ray and Manny score plenty.But it canâ€™t last forever. Eventually, they choose the wrong mark and walk out with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a heavy hitter, who is more than willing to kill to get his money back, is coming after them. Now Ray couldnâ€™t care less about the score. He wants out---out of the scam, out of a life he feels like he never chose. Whether the victim of his latest job---not to mention his partner---will let him is another question entirely.Dennis Tafoya brings a rich, passionate, and accomplished new voice to the explosive story of a small-time crook with everything to lose in Dope Thief, his outstanding hardboiled debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4214'),
(27972, 'Doppelganger', 'Marie Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12418'),
(27973, 'Doppelgangster', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Disappearing Nightly\n  </em>\n  teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York''s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther''s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Laura Resnick''s\n  <em>\n   Doppelgangster\n  </em>\n  , the New York actress is ''resting'' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it''s up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn''t believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."\n  <br />\n  --_New York Times_ bestselling author Mary Jo Putney\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12420'),
(27974, 'Dori Bangs', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12421'),
(27975, 'Dorothy Allison - A Psychic Story', 'A Psychic Story', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12423'),
(27976, 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12426'),
(27977, 'Dortmunder 01 - The Hot Rock', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12428'),
(27978, 'Dortmunder 02 - Bank Shot', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12430'),
(27979, 'Dortmunder 03 - Jimmy The Kid', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12431'),
(27980, 'Dortmunder 04 - Nobody&#39;s Perfect', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12432'),
(27981, 'Dortmunder 05 - Why Me?', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12434'),
(27982, 'Dortmunder 06 - Good Behaviour', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12435'),
(27983, 'Dortmunder 07 - Drowned Hopes', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12437'),
(27984, 'Dortmunder 08 - Don&#39;t Ask', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12438'),
(27985, 'Dortmunder 09 - What&#39;s The Worst That Could Happen', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12440'),
(27986, 'Dortmunder 10 - Bad News', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12442'),
(27987, 'Dortmunder 11 - The Road To Ruin', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12443'),
(27988, 'Dortmunder 12 - Watch Your Back', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(27989, 'Dortmunder 13 - What&#39;s So Funny', 'Donald E. Westlake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(27990, 'The Dosadi experiment', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sent to the planet Dosadi to investigate the vicious, fearsome human and Gowachin societies there, prior to their destruction, Jorj X. McKie is captured by a ruthless woman whose plan to escape Dosadi involves her changing bodies with McKie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4215'),
(27991, 'The Double Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin''s Men at War series deceive the Germans in this solid sixth installment (after 2006''s The Saboteurs) from the bestselling author and his son, Butterworth. In 1943, the OSS''s William J. Wild Bill Donovan spearheads a disinformation effort to trick the Nazis into believing that the western Allies won''t invade the European continent through Sicily. One of Donovan''s most accomplished operatives, USAAF Maj. Richard Canidy, devises a clever scheme (albeit one familiar to readers of Ewen Montagu''s The Man Who Never Was) to plant phony plans on a corpse, along with love letters drafted by the requisite attractive female spy. Some fans may find the prominent role of the real-life celebrities a distraction, but all will enjoy the suspenseful ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Men at War series continues with this typically exciting adventure. The plucky, resourceful agents of the Office of Strategic Services face what could be their toughest assignment: to convince Adolf Hitler that the Allied invasion of Europe will not take place at Normandy. This is the second novel Griffin has cowritten with his son, but it retains all of the veteran author''s trademarks: well-researched plot; realistic characters, real and fictional; and snappy dialogue. How Griffin manages to turn out so many novels without resorting to by-the-numbers plotting and cutout characters is a mystery, but as long as he keeps delivering the goods, his legions of fans will be content. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4218'),
(27992, 'The Double Bind', 'Chris Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4220'),
(27993, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4222'),
(27994, 'Double Contact', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now, in the latest adventure, the empathic Dr. Prilicla, a veteran of Sector General for years, is put in command of an expedition answering three distress beacons. What he finds is two hitherto-unknown intelligent species, one of which has nearly wiped out the other. And he also finds evidence of a botched first contact--along with a rare opportunity to set matters right.Assuming, as always, that he can make an accurate diagnosis....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12444'),
(27995, 'Double Dare', 'Weber, Tawny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Wicked** Audra Walker''s old crowd thought she''d turned her back on them and what they liked best-namely hot sex and available men. But they were so wrongâ€¦. **Wanton** And Audra was in the mood to prove it. How? By taking their dare. The challenge? To seduce the very next man through the club doorâ€”regardless of who he wasâ€¦ **Wanted** What the classy chick at the bar saw in his suspect was anybody''s guess. But undercover cop Jesse Martinez would make it his business to find out. Because no guyâ€”unless he was dead from the neck downâ€”would miss the chance to investigate the curvy brunette, tooâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12447'),
(27996, 'Double Deuce', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a teenaged girl and her infant daughter are shot to death outside the Double Deuce housing project, tenants of the gang-plagued neighborhood turn to Hawk for help. He, in turn, enlists Spenser''s aid in finding the killer. Their investigation leads them to a dark world of drugs, death, and despair. Previous publisher: Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12450'),
(27997, 'Double Deuce (1992)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 19', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12452'),
(27998, 'Double Deuce (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Parker''s ( Pastime ) 23rd Spenser novel, our hero finds himself, at the behest of his pal Hawk, defending the residents of a gang-terrorized Boston housing project known as Double Deuce. The drive-by shooting of a teenage mother and her child brings the duo into a confrontation with gangleader Major Johnson and his posse. At the same time, Spenser''s longtime relationship with psychologist Susan is escalating, and the two agree to live together. The contrast between Spenser''s cozy domestic situation (and a new relationship for the enigmatic Hawk, who reveals some of his background) and the poverty and violence of the urban projects reinforces the authenticity of this series, and its quirky appeal. The plot is nothing new--it might be described as Spenser meets New Jack City --but Deuce ''s snappy dialogue, timely, fast-paced action and quick characterizations make it classic Spenser. Mystery Guild main selection; Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternate selection; condensation rights to Time-Life Books; audio rights to Dove Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The still-popular Spenser ( Playmates , LJ 4/1/89) helps sidekick Hawk solve the seemingly random murders of a teenaged mother and baby in a violent housing project.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12454'),
(27999, 'Double Helix 01: Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only the first year of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  -D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stardate: 41211.0 Captain''s Log, Supplemental\n </p>\n <p>\n  The_ Enterprise_ continues on its mission to Archaria III, a planet jointly colonized by humans and Peladians. A new disease has cropped up, terrifying the inhabitants. So far, more than five thousand cases have been confirmed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only drug at all effective in treating this disease is a rare compound called Tricillin PDF, which seems to prolong life, though only for a week at most. The\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  will deliver a supply of the drug, quarantine the planet, then stay to oversee research into finding a cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  " -- And render whatever aid the Archarians require until the emergency is over," Captain Picard said, leaning forward at the conference table and gazing at each of his senior staff in turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Riker, Geordi La Forge, and Worf looked uncomfortable at the mention of the plague, and he didn''t blame them; he had always felt ill at ease when faced with intangible dangers. Deanna Troi looked deeply concerned, and Dr. Crusher looked...intrigued?\n  <em>\n   She has dealt with plagues before,\n  </em>\n  Picard reminded himself.\n  <em>\n   She knows how to contain them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The persistent low rumble of a starship at maximum warp filled the room. None of his crew spoke.\n  <em>\n   They feel the tension building already,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Captain," Dr. Crusher finally said, "I may have to bring samples of this virus aboard the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for study, and perhaps a few patients."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Understood, Doctor. So long as all necessary security precautions are maintained, I see no problem. In the meantime" -- he slid a data padd across the conference table to her -- "the doctors of Archo City Hospital have prepared a full report, which you may find useful."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you." She pulled the padd in front of herself and began skimming the opening remarks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something else is troubling you, sir," Deanna Troi said softly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard hesitated, then gave a curt nod. Best to get it out in the open. "What disturbs me most is the thought that this whole problem may be of our own manufacture...a biological weapon."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Impossible -- how could that be?" Riker said, shaking his head dismissively. "Legalities aside, it''s against everything the Federation stands for!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We do have treaties with most sentient races which prevent the development and use of biological weapons," Data said. "With all due respect, sir, the deployment of a genetically designed plague on a remote agricultural world such as Archaria III seems highly unlikely."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not necessarily," Picard said. He cleared his throat. "Archaria III is in many ways a throwback to human civilization two or three hundred years ago. It was settled by religious zealots early in the twenty-second century, and although they have largely come into the Federation''s fold, old prejudices and resentments still bubble to the surface from time to time." The room was quiet for a moment while Picard allowed his point to sink in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker finally broke the silence. "Sir, if I may ask, what is it that leads you to conclude this disease is a weapon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Might\n  </em>\n  be a weapon, Number One. A radical political group called the Purity League claims the plague is an act of God against ''blasphemous unnatural unions.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker gave him a blank stare. "Sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard cleared his throat.\n  <em>\n   How to phrase this delicately.\n  </em>\n  He said, "The Purity League is opposed to interspecies mating -- ''mixers'' as they call such people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the rumble of the ship''s engines filled the room.\n  <em>\n   They can''t believe it, either,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n  <em>\n   Humanity is supposed to be beyond such prejudices.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He noticed that Deanna Troi, half human and half Betazoid herself, hid her inner feelings behind a mask of professional calm. He would have given a lot to know her true reaction. Undoubtedly she was even more shocked and horrified than he had been.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To think that some humans are still capable of such petty resentments...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He forced himself back to the problem at hand. "Mixers -- or anyone else suspected of adulterating the purity of the human race -- are treated as second-class citizens in many places on Archaria III," he continued. "Officially such prejudices are prohibited, of course, but in the backwater towns discrimination apparently still runs rampant. Only in the half-dozen large cities do humans and Peladians work and live together with something approaching harmony. In the country, things have apparently become so bad that most full-blooded Peladians now live in isolated enclaves surrounded by their own kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker said, "That sounds like a ghetto system."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is. Those of mixed heritage are even less fortunate, since they belong fully to neither the human nor the Peladian world. They were relocating to the cities in record numbers -- until the plague struck. Now they''re fleeing into the countryside once more, living like vagabonds in tent camps." Picard looked down at his clenched, interlaced fingers resting uneasily on the table. He didn''t bother to feign relaxation. Sometimes it was good for the crew to see him share their anger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deanna Troi asked, "How many people of mixed blood are on the planet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody is quite sure. Estimates range from between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Obviously, those mixers who most closely resemble humans hide the truth to avoid conflict with the Purity League."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data said, "I am aware of the Purity League, sir. The Federation has monitored their activities for many years, but has deemed them a minor nuisance with little actual influence."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Their influence is growing," Picard said firmly. The private reports he had read gave alarming statistics; according to confidential surveys, fully half of the planet''s human population harbored feelings of support for the Purity League, though the League''s actual membership numbers were open to conjecture. It was certainly in the tens of thousands if not the hundreds of thousands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He went on. "The Purity League''s leader, Father Veritas, is using the plague as a rallying point for anti-alien sentiment. Apparently Veritas is responsible for inciting dozens of race riots in the last few months. The whole planet is in turmoil. The nonhuman population -- and especially the partly human population -- is running scared. The plague''s growth has only served to make the situation worse."\n  <em>\n   "Veritas," indeed,\n  </em>\n  he thought, grimacing.\n  <em>\n   If ever there was a misnomer...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sir," said Deanna Troi, "Archaria III has a long history of interspecies problems, including wars, assassinations, and racism. Its history is part of several planetary evolution courses at the Academy. I believe everyone here has studied it to some degree."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A general murmur of agreement came from the rest of his senior staff. Picard found himself surprised -- it hadn''t been part of the curriculum when he had studied at the Academy -- but he was pleased.\n  <em>\n   They''re keeping up with the times.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is correct, sir," said Data. "It was settled in 2102 by a human sect of religious fundamentalists called the Brotherhood. Seven years later, these human settlers encountered Peladian settlers, who had colonized the planet almost simultaneously."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard had never seen a Peladian and knew little about them, beyond the fact that they were humanoid, militant about privacy, and generally considered pacifists...except when provoked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data went on, "After a series of small wars, as the two sides got to know each other, peaceful relations and coexistence began. According to the information I have accessed, with the increasing agricultural importance of Archaria III their differences were largely put aside, in favor of economic cooperation."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is the public story," Picard said. He folded his arms and frowned a bit. "There have always been tensions. Until Father Veritas and the Purity League burst onto the scene sixteen years\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12455'),
(28000, 'Double Helix 02: Vectors', 'Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- even to the Cardassian space station that will someday be known as\n  <em>\n   Deep Space NineTM.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor, striking down both the enslaved Bajorans and Cardassian oppressors, who blame each other for the growing epidemic. Dr. Katherine Pulaski, late of the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM,\n  </em>\n  must work with the tyrannical Gul Dukat, as well as a rebel spy named Kira Nerys, to discover the true source of an infection that threatens them all!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor. Its name was as dark as its corridors. He actually found himself seeking the light, but carefully. Oh, so carefully. Sometimes his cloak malfunctioned, and he was seen. Partially, like a heat shimmer across desert sand, or an electronic memory buried in an old computer. But he was seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t dare make that mistake here. The General didn''t tolerate mistakes from his agents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stood in the shadows just to the left of the main entrance to a place called Quark''s Bar. The area the Ferengi bartender had called the Promenade lay before him, turning away to the right, bending with the shape of the station design. The walls were gray, the floors gray, everything was gray. The Cardassians had made no effort to decorate this place. Even the bar seemed dismal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered and drew his cape around his body. He was glad he wouldn''t have to stay here too long. This Terok Nor reminded him of his prison cell. He had lost too many years of his life there. He had spent too much time staring at gray metal walls, dreaming of escape. The metal walls, the ringing sound of boots against hard surfaces, the stench of fear -- impossible to hide, even though the Cardassians kept their Bajoran prisoners separate from the rest of the population -- permeated the place. If he shut his eyes, his other senses would find nothing to distinguish Terok Nor from that hideous cell, from that prison he had finally left. The prison had changed him -- made him bitter, made him wiser, made him more careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oh, so careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two Cardassian guards walked the wide passage. Their gray skin matched the depressing decor. The only thing that seemed wrong to him was the heat. By rights this station should have been as cold as its walls, but it wasn''t. The heat was thick and nearly unbearable. He didn''t know how anyone could stand being here for long. The heat also accentuated the smells: the processed air, the unwashed bodies, the Rokassa juice wafting out from the bar. The sensations were almost too much for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He reminded himself that Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground. Two races, living in close proximity, with others coming and going. Their petty differences didn''t matter. That one race kept the other prisoner, that one made the other labor in uridium processing were merely details. The important factor was much larger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground for the General. A closed system, for the most part. But anyone entering the system -- or departing the system -- would leave a record. A trail he could follow, should he so choose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t choose at the moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now he was most interested in Terok Nor itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To his right in the bar, crowds of uridium freighter pilots and crews shouted and laughed, the sounds echoing off the high ceilings. A few moments before, he''d been in there sitting at the bar, watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trying to stay cool and block out the uridium smell with the odor of one of the pilots'' Gamzian wine. But it hadn''t helped, and besides, he couldn''t see that well or hear that clearly with his cloak on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clang from the far end of the Promenade caught his attention. One of the Cardassian guards had dropped his phaser pistol, then grabbed the wall as if for support. The other guard bent over him, then glanced from side to side, as if worried that a Bajoran might see and take advantage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was too far away to hear their words. The first guard shrugged the other off. The second guard picked up the pistol and spoke on his communicator. Two guards who had apparently been patrolling just out of his line of sight ran toward the far end of the Promenade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first guard put an arm around the second, who again shrugged him off. The second tried to stand, and nearly collapsed. The first guard supported him, and together they walked along the walls, keeping as far out of sight as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He felt excitement flash through him, and he tamped it down. He couldn''t let his emotions interfere with his observations. This might be nothing. It was a bit early to see results. He hadn''t expected anything so soon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guards passed him. He had to press himself against the gray metal so that they wouldn''t brush him. They weren''t conversing, although he wished they would. He wanted to know exactly what had happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He needed to know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He had moved to follow the guards, but the Promenade gave him no cover. So he remained in the shadows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He would wait here, in the heat and the stench, just as he had done in his cell. He was good at waiting, especially when he knew it would end. And it would end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon he would get his answer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12457');
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(28001, 'Double Helix 03: Red Sector', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again -- to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An artificial virus has infected the entire Romulan ruling family. Ambassador Spock must put aside his efforts at unification to summon his old friend, Dr. Leonard McCoy, who discovers that the only hope for a cure lies with a long lost Romulan heir whose blood and tissues have not been contaminated by the virus. But can the heir be found before the collapse of a ruling dynasty throws the entire Empire into chaos?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "ATTENTION! THIS IS A STARFLEET SPECIAL SECURITY TY FORCES EVACUATION SQUAD! WE ARE ABOUT TO LAND A DIPLOMATIC COACH AND FIVE FIGHTER ESCORTS. ALL CIVILIANS MUST CLEAR THE COURTYARD IMMEDIATELY! ANYONE REMAINING WILL BE STUNNED AND REMOVED TO A SECURITY BRIG! ALL PERSONS...ATTENTION!...THEY''RE NOT CLEARING OUT. CAN THEY EVEN HEAR ME? PERRATON, IS THE TRANSLATOR ON? PECAN, GET YOUR WING BACK INTO FORMATION! WHERE''S THE BROADCAST GREENLIGHT? WHAT KIND OF DUNSELS INSTALLED THIS SYSTEM?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AH, PERRATON HERE...STILES, BE AWARE THE BROADCAST SYSTEM IS GREEN AND TRANSLATING. YOU JUST CALLED THE WHOLE PLANET A BUNCH OF DUNSELS."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "SHUT IT DOWN!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "OAK ONE, THIS IS BRAZIL. FORMATION''S SHIFTING STARBOARD. THE EMBASSY''S GOT A BIG GARGOYLE ON IT AND I''M ABOUT TO CLEAN ITS TEETH."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "LATERAL THRUST. ABORT LANDING PATTERN -- PERRATON, WOULD YOU RED THE P.A. BEFORE I COUGH UP A LUNG?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that. Public address speakers are shut down. Fighter formation''s still too cramped for diamond grid, Stiles. Acorn just bumped a water tower."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All wings, pull up! We''ll modify formation and try our approach again. Did the whole city hear us arguing?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They heard\n  <em>\n   you\n  </em>\n  arguing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ahhh, I should''ve become a medic...Nuts, Oak One. Go to Ruby formation. Pecan, move two degrees port. Brazil, get off his tail. Acorn, keep your wings trim. Why can''t you people hold a hover grid?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oak One, Acorn. It''s not us. Stiles, it''s you. You have to put the coach down and vertical your stabilizers to give us enough room to land in that courtyard."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stabilizers...I hate stabilizers...I was supposed to go in for multi-vehicular flight school this week, but nooo, I had to grab a mission. Listen up! I''ll land the coach first, then all wings settle around me five seconds later. Keep it sharp!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "What''s the matter with you, Stiles?"\n  </em>\n  Pilot Andrea Hipp''s German accent seemed crisp over the comm.\n  <em>\n   "This isn''t synchronized swimming, you know."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I said no chatter! The ambassador''s watching!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A prattle of aye-ayes settled the issue for the moment, but did nothing for Eric Stiles''s stomach, or his icy fingers, or his tingling feet. This command stuff left a lot to be wished for. And his hair was in his eyes...he was looking through a blond curtain. Didn''t help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the screens of his fully carpeted cockpit, Stiles saw the platinum glitter of the Federation Embassy at PojjanPiraKot seem to rise up to meet him. Actually, he and the coach he piloted were descending into the brick city courtyard, but the illusion of a floating building disoriented him briefly. On the secondary side monitors, the five fighter escorts regrouped into Ruby formation and found the space to wiggle into the brick court, settling around the main coach vessel like baby ducks crowding a drake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t look like I expected it to," he commented. "What are those metal bands on all the buildings?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The city''s all reinforced." Ensign Travis Perraton''s blue eyes peered with fresh curiosity at a smaller monitor as he adjusted the coach''s shields to let them land, irritating Stiles with his eternal good mood. "They''ve got some kind of gravitational problem on this planet. All the buildings have had to be structurally rebuilt over the past few years since it started."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What kind of gravitational trouble?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something like high tides or earthquakes, I guess. That''s what I''ve heard, anyway."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles wanted to comment, but was busy settling the coach onto its extender pads. The fantasy of brilliant artisanship in moving spaceborne vessels into an atmosphere and landing them in a surefooted, graceful manner had shriveled in his hands. At least that part was over. He trembled with irritation as the system''s check barberpoled. Perraton had managed to clear the belly shields. Otherwise, the coach would''ve sat in the air like a beachball on the water -- and probably rolled over.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''re down," Perraton confirmed. "You can unclench now."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m fine!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yeah, sure you are. You worried about coming in shielded for the whole twenty hours it took us to get here from the starbase."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles bristled at the suggestion that he wasn''t in control. "Emergency diplomatic evacuations have certain\n  <em>\n   regulations\n  </em>\n  attached. Not getting a second chance is just\n  <em>\n   one\n  </em>\n  of the assumptions. Evac regs\n  <em>\n   assume\n  </em>\n  the situation is hostile and precautions have to be -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t quote the book."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Give me a view of the whole courtyard."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Screens around the cockpit flashed views of all six lander pads with irritated civilians scooping dirt out of huge potted plants and dumping it on the ship''s pads. So much for respect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are they throwing rocks?" Stiles asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s garbage." Eying the same screen, Perraton stood up and pulled on his torso armor, buckling the padded vest over his chest. "Some of ''em are throwing balls of mud from those pots."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles straightened. "Secure the coach and scramble the evac squad. Nuts, Oak One. Remain in your cockpits. Do not get out, understood? Sit tight and let Oak Squad flush the dignitaries. I''ll escort Ambassador Spock personally."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "They''re pushing on my struts. Our light-stun phasers can -- "\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Negative!" Stiles broiled. "Let ''em crowd you. Keep finger shields activated in case they touch the wings. And all of you shut up! I don''t want the ambassador to hear the slightest disrespect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oh, we respect you. Don''t you respect him, Cashew?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "I drip respect."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As you were!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "As I was? Did I change? I like me this way. Did you change, Acorn?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Animals," Stiles grumbled. "I''d like to get you disrespectful slugs on starship duty for five minutes, just five minutes..." He buried himself in padded insulation as he pulled his flak vest over his head, then slipped into his gauntlets, adjusted his sidearm, and led Perraton out into the coach''s main seating area.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here, six other members of Oak Squad were already suited up and looking at him from inside their red-tinted helmet shields. Travis Perraton, Jeremy White, Bill Foster, Dan Moose, Brad Carter, Matt Girvan -- their names and faces swam before his eyes like a manifest, and for a moment he thought the blood was rushing out of his head. Midshipmen and ensigns, all in training for what would eventually become specialties, for now they were assigned to Starbase 10 in the Security Division, under their senior ensign -- Stiles. At twenty-one, Eric Stiles was the old man of the outfit. Perraton was next, at twenty years old and forty-two days junior to Stiles'' ensign stripes. Knowing that they had heard the ribbing he took from the wings, Stiles felt his face flush. He had to lead the mission. He''d gotten himself into this on purpose. He had to address them as a commander. Nobody to hide behind. They''d seen the landing. His dream of a crisp textbook military approach and regulation landing had gone up in an ugly puff. Now the squad members were blushing and snickering, burying grins, trying not to look right at him -- that was hard to take!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heads up." His voice cracked. "There''s a riot going on outside. Some kind of local political trouble. The embassy is beam-shielded, so we have to go in the security door. As we approach, the guard will drop the door shields. We''ll have to go in and come out in single file. We''re going to put the dignitaries between us, at two or three in a row. There are about twenty of these people, so the seven of us''ll be just about right. I''ll go last, with the ambassador right in front of me. He''s the primary person to guard, and if he gets so much as a hangnail, somebody''s gonna answer to me in a dark alley. After we go -- shut up, Foster!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I didn''t say anything!" Bill Foster protested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Quit snickering! This is...this is -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Serious," Perraton supplied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know, Eric," Foster muttered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You call me ''Ensign,'' mister!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, Ensign Mister."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I want this mission to go like clockwork! I don''t want a single twitch that isn''t in the rule book! Don''t snicker, don''t slip, don''t do anything that isn''t regulation!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hand was pressed to his shoulder and drew him backward a step on the plush carpet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything''ll go fine, Eric," Perraton mildly interrupted. "We''re ready when you are." His short dark hair was buried under a white helmet with Starfleet''s Delta Shield printed on the forehead, now obscured by the raised red visor. The shield glowed and sang at Stiles. Starfleet''s symbol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Stiles had to make it look good. In the wake of Perraton''s mental leashing, the symbol now lay heavily upon him. If he couldn''t yell at his men, how would he keep them in shape?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He huffed a couple of steadying breaths, but didn''t lower his voice. Now that he''d gotten up to a certain level of volume, it was hard to reel in from that. He took a moment to survey the squad -- bright white helmets, black leggings, white boots, red chest pads against the black Starfleet jumpsuits, and the bright flicker of a combadge on every vest. Elbow pads, chin guards, red visors...looked fair. Good enough.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time to go.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There are riots going on," he repeated, "but so far nobody''s tried to breach the embassy itself. Our job is to clear a path between the coach and the embassy and get all Federation nationals out. These people don''t have a space fleet, but their atmospheric capabilities are strong enough to cause a few problems. I won''t consider the mission accomplished until we''re clear of the stratosphere. When we get out of the coach, completely ignore the people swarming around unless they come within two meters or show a weapon. Clear?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Clear, sir!" Carter, Girvan, Moose, and Foster shouted. Perraton nodded, and White raised his rifle. Had they accented the "sir" just a little too much?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped between them and the hatch. "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton took that as a cue, and punched the autorelease on the big hatch. The coach''s loading ramp peeled back and lay neatly across the brick before them. Instantly the stench of burning fuel flooded the controlled atmosphere inside the coach. At Stiles''s side, Perraton coughed a couple of times. Other than that, nobody''s big mouth cracked open. Stiles led the way down, his heavy boots thunking on the nonskid ramp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They broke out onto a courtyard of grand proportions with colonnades flanking it on three sides and the diplomatic buildings on the fourth side -- a battery of fifteen embassies, halls, and consulates. Most of them were empty now. The Federation was the last to evacuate. Two of the colonnades were in ruins; part of one was shrouded in scaffolding while being rebuilt. Most of the buildings showed signs of structural damage, but generally the Diplomatic Court of PojjanPirakot was a stately and bright place, providing a sad backdrop for the ugliness of these protests.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick glance behind showed him the positions of the five fighters landed around the coach. Their glistening bodies, streamlined for both aerodynamics and space travel, shined in the golden sunlight. There was Air Wing Leader Bernt Folmer, their best pilot, code "Brazil," parked like a big car in front of Greg "Pecan" Blake. Behind the coach the tail fin of Andrea Hipp''s "Cashew" fighter caught a glint of sun. On the other side, hopefully parked nose to tail, were Acorn and Chestnut, brothers Jason and Zack Bolt -- but Stiles didn''t bother to check their position. He only hoped they were in sharp order.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All around were angry people waving signs, some in a language he didn''t understand, others scrawled in English, Vulcan, Spanish, Orion Yrevish, and a few other languages familiar from courtesy placards all over Starfleet Command where multitudes wandered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ones in English jumped out instantly before Stiles''s racing mind. OUT ALIENS...LEAVE OUR PLANET...GET OUT STRANGERS...ALIENS UNWELCOME...CURSE ALIENS ALL....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some of the people were calling out in English, too, though clumsily and without really understanding the arrangement of nouns and verbs. The anti-alien message, though, arrowed directly through to the team.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the music of enraged shouts from the people rattling gates and creating a din by banging small silver knives on the iron posts, Oak Squad broke into a jog and flooded into a broad shield of sunlight glaring between the embassy and the consulate next door. The doorways and lintels were heavily reinforced with titanium T-girders, and titanium bands swept around every building, two on each story, like shiny ribcages. Stiles glanced around at his squad, making sure nobody pulled ahead of the formation. This had to be crisp. The ambassador was watching from some window inside that embassy. Everybody was watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifty meters...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad thundered forward relentlessly, their phaser rifles tight against their chests. As Stiles led his men across the patterned brick, he saw that just the raw heat from the coach''s VTOL thrusters had scorched some of the bricks nearly black and pitted them beyond repair, destroying the geometric design in the historic courtyard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His boots felt secure and thick as he crunched over the litter of broken glass, smashed fruit, and rocks that had been thrown by the rioters, who were now milling around the fighters and the coach. These Pojjan people were stocky and thick, with strong round cheekbones and bronze complexions tinged with an olive Patina, reminding Stiles of Aztec paintings seen under a green filter. They wore various clothing from the men''s ordinary shirts and pants or the women''s shiftlike dresses to the brightly beaded tribal tunics and leggings he''d seen on travel posters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The travel agencies might as well rip those posters up. Nobody was going to want to come to this dump anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He cast the rioters a threatening glance or two, but although some were touching the ships'' landing struts, they weren''t doing anything destructive. Not yet anyway. If anything happened, the escort pilots would zap them. So he kept moving forward at a pace, letting the natives swerve out of his way. He led the squad manfully through a large puddle of fuel, some of which was still gulping out of a discarded and dented container. Their boots splattered it and freshened the stench.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirty meters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cries of anger, protest, and insult at Starfleet''s intrusion into their courtyard grew louder, as the squad jogged across the brick plateau. Stiles didn''t understand the Pojjan language, but some of these people were shouting in English or Vulcan and waving get-out-of-town banners in English, apparently smart enough to know how to get to the Federation personnel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   It''s getting to me. I''m allowing it to shake me. Just do the job, get the people out of the embassy, into the coach and lift off. Ignore the crowd. Just ignore them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At his right elbow, Travis Perraton was watching a gang of Pojjan teenagers on the other side of the embassy fence. A flash of flame -- the teenagers were lighting up a fuel-soaked towel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They can''t throw that this far, can they?" Blake asked from behind Stiles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They don''t have to," Perraton said. "We''re jogging toward puddles of kerosene."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gasoline," Midshipman Jeremy White corrected from the flank.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stinks," Dan Moose added, then cast to the man on his left, "Make room, Foster."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sorry."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bag the noise," Stiles snapped, turning his head briefly to the right. "Don''t splash through the gas. If we get it on our uniforms, we''re in big trouble."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And that was his error -- that one glance over his shoulder. A stunning force struck his left shin just below the kneepad, driving his entire leg out behind him. Blown forward by the force of his own movement, Stiles let out a single strangled yell, leaped forward over a slick of gasoline, and crashed to the bricks just beyond the slick. Though he evaded the gas, he slid sidelong into a pile of garbage dumped on the courtyard. Managing to thrust his arms out, he somehow kept from landing on his phaser rifle, which instead clattered to the brick and butted him in the face shield, then scratched across his bared jaw. If his visor had been up, the rifle would''ve taken out his teeth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A blunt force rammed into his lower back -- a boot -- as Carter tumbled over Stiles, crumpling to the bricks on top of the garbage. Carter rolled and ended up on one knee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his jaw and knee throbbing, Stiles tightened his body, twisted onto his side, and brandished his weapon at the laughing crowd as his face flushed with humiliation. They were laughing at him. His fantasy of a clockwork mission had just cracked and blown up before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bile rose in his throat, a rashy heat down his legs. His lungs tightened as he felt slimy garbage soak into his uniform and the stench of petroleum knot his innards. The sky wheeled above him, cluttered with white helmets and flashing red visors reflecting the afternoon sun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smiling, Perraton reached to pull him to his feet. "Nice going, lightfoot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t help me!" Stiles blurted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As if bitten, Perraton retracted his hand. Stiles rolled to his feet, now smudged with the gummy remains of garbage and mudballs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When he got to his feet, Stiles staggered a few steps in the wrong direction and was forced to endure the foolish chicken-scratch of turning around and struggling back to the front of his squad, and the further embarrassment of realizing his men were deliberately slowing down so he could get in front. He slammed his way between them, elbowing Perraton and White cruelly out of his path. He didn''t need their charity!\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the gates, two Pojjan guards immediately opened the iron grid and let them in without a word. The embassy''s medieval-looking carved wooden door, three guys wide and set between two gargoyles, also opened automatically.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No, not automatically -- this door was manual. Another guard or servant of some nationality Stiles didn''t recognize was now peeking around the door''s iron rim like a shy cow peeking out of a barn. He was an elderly man, with bent shoulders and bright green eyes set in a jowly dark face with stripes painted on it. More tribal weirdness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moving further into the heavily tiled foyer, Stiles suddenly felt ridiculously out of place. The foyer was splendid, its mosaics of gold-and-black chipped stone and glossy ceramics portraying some kind of historic battle scene and the coronation of somebody. Must be from way back, because this wasn''t a monarchical culture anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Was it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guard pushed the big door shut and swung a huge titanium bolt into place to lock them safely inside, then turned to the clutch of evac troopers and gasped, "One minute! I''ll get the ambassador''s assistant!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  And he disappeared into a wide archway that was two stories tall.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad stood in the middle of the gorgeous tile floor, their uniforms scuffed and stinking, and looked around.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''d hate to be the guy who cleans the grout," Perraton commented.\n </p>\n <p>\n  White grunted as he scanned the mosaic on the ceiling. "How long you think we''ll have to wait?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not long," Stiles filled in. "They called for us to come get them, so they''re probably ready to leave. And they''re Vulcans, so you know they''re efficient."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How do you know they''ll be stiffs?" Moose asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Because Ambassador Spock''s a st -- a Vulcan. They like to have their own kind around. They understand each other better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, right," White drawled. "They do everything better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles scoured him with a glare. "Don''t start on me, Jeremy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He turned away, but in his periphery he noted Perraton''s quick motion to White, erasing any further annoying comments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though they stood in this wide foyer feeling dirty and small, they were not alone. Sounds of footsteps and voices leaked from the depths of the embassy halls, and twice Stiles saw ethereal forms slip from one office to another. Did they trust him to get them out safely? Had they seen the botched choreography of the landing? Did they wonder whether the ensign in command was competent enough to handle this?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He gripped his phaser rifle until his hands hurt and shifted from foot to foot, halting only when a young woman -- a human -- skittered through the grand main door and into the foyer. Stiles didn''t pay attention....The small-boned woman, with tightly wrapped brown hair, tiny pearl earrings, and a twitch in her left eye, went directly to the tallest of them -- Jeremy White -- and breathily said, "I''m Miss Karen Theonella, Ambassador Spock''s deputy attachÃ©. Are you Ensign Stiles?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She had a tight foreign accent that sounded Earth-based, but Stiles couldn''t pinpoint the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s over there, ma''am," White told her, and gestured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped through the cluster of Starfleeters and took his helmet off, revealing his sweat-plastered blond hair. "Eric Stiles, ma''am. I''m here to evacuate the entire embassy. Nobody should be left behind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We understand." Miss Theonella rubbed her tiny pink palms as if kneading bread dough between them. "All embassy envoys, functionaries, ministers, delegates, and clerks will be going, as well as four Pojjana defectors who lost their homes in the last Constrictor. They''re being given asylum here and we have clearance for them to be evacuated with us. In all there are thirty-five of us."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thirty-five!" Perraton blurted. Then he instantly clammed up, but the number twenty kept flashing in his eyes like beacons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How could seven of them safely escort thirty-five dignitaries through fifty meters of rioting?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re prepared, ma''am," Stiles shoved in, more loudly than necessary, before anyone else could speak up. "About the landing...the ambassador is probably wondering why we were so...out of formation...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" Miss Theonella''s white temples puckered and her brows came together like pencil points. "We can''t see the courtyard from here. There are only reception rooms on the court side of the building. Was there some reason you wanted us to be watching you? Was there a signal?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stared at her, caught between relief and disappointment that nobody had been watching. "Uh...no, no signal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Preoccupied, the thin young woman simply said, "Continue to wait here, please, Ensign. I''ll get the ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the evac squad stood alone, holding their rifles, standing in the middle of the gleaming tile floor, listening to the drumming chants of angry people outside in the square and trying to imagine how they were going to hustle thirty-five dignitaries through that. The unpleasant possibility of rushing half of them out to the coach, then coming back for the second group -- Stiles winced. Two trips through that courtyard full of alien-haters? Was that safer than one big rush? If he ordered two separate groups, would the angry people see that as their last chance to get them and attack the second group?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wonder why they hate aliens," Dan Moose voiced.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles noted that his men were looking at the windows and doors, but his own eyes were focused on the long hall of offices into which Miss Theonella had disappeared. The ambassador was in there somewhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the men turned to face the hall to their left as a crowd of elegant dignitaries bobbed toward them. In the midst of them was the tall, instantly recognizable figure of the famous Ambassador Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bow? Kneel? Handshake?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t faint! Eric, stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton''s anxious whisper boomed in Stiles''s ear like a foghorn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Attention...." Stiles planted his boots on the tile, but wasn''t able to get them together. He squared his shoulders, raised his chin, held his breath, clutched his rifle, and forced an appearance of adept steadiness and control. Cool. Calm. Military. Crisp. In control. In charge. Confident. Smelly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador and his party approached them, but Spock wasn''t looking at them. Instead his dark head was bowed as he spoke to Miss Theonella, who was clipping along at his side. The ambassador listened, nodded, then spoke again while a male attendant slipped a glossy blue Federation Diplomatic Corps jacket onto the boss''s shoulders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sight was a shock -- Stiles had expected the flowing ceremonial robes that Vulcan seniors were usually seen wearing, but now that he saw Spock in the trim gray slacks and dark blue jacket with the UFP symbol on the left side, that outfit seemed to make more sense for a spaceborne evacuation. Robes might be harder to handle on boarding ramps and in tight quarters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why hadn''t he thought of that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Spock -- tall, narrow, controlled -- possessed all the regal formality common to his race, his famous form was somehow less imperious in person than Stiles had anticipated, his angular Vulcan features more animated, and framed by the fact that he was the only Vulcan in the bunch. Of course, Stiles had only seen still photos or staged lecture tapes. Seeing Spock in real life was very different -- he wasn''t stiff at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they approached, he could hear Miss Theonella''s thready voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...and the provincial vice-warden will be sending his prolocutrix as proxy to speak for the entire hemisphere at Federation central. Also, sir, the consul general''s wife and children are waiting in the Blue Room, and Chancellor De Gaeta''s wife is in his office."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miss Theonella finished her sentence just as she and the ambassador and their party came into the foyer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Karen, very good work," Ambassador Spock said gently, countering her quivering report with his silky baritone voice. "Suggest to the Sagittarian military attachÃ© that he post a Pojjana communications, sentry, and that person must speak both Bal Quonnot and Romulan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  That voice! That famous voice! Stiles had been hearing it all his life! Historical documentaries, training tapes, mission interactives, holoprograms -- now he was here, in person, right in the same room with that voice!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is Ensign Stiles," Miss Theonella added with a gesture. "And the evacuation escort men, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador scanned the team, then fixed his gaze at Stiles. Directly\n  <em>\n   at\n  </em>\n  him. Right in the eyes! He was looking right at him!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those eyes -- like blades! Black blades!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles tried to take a breath, but all he got was a gulp of garbage fumes from his soaked trouser leg. As his lungs seized up, he felt the boink-boink of Perraton''s finger poking him in the back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Report, you idiot!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ev...Evacuation Squad reporting as you requested, sir! Ensign Eric J. Stiles, Starfleet Special Services reporting, sir! One G-rate transport coach, evacuation team, and five fighter escorts, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador''s black-slash brows went up like bird''s wings. The chamber fell to silence. Stiles'' fervid report echoed absurdly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calmly Spock said, "At ease, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His deep mellow voice took Stiles utterly by surprise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, sir!" Stiles choked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be ready within five minutes," the ambassador told him fluidly, then turned to the attendant who''d put the jacket on him. "Edwin, please bring out the consul general''s family and Mrs. De Gaeta and turn them over to Ensign Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Right away, Ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the man left, Spock turned again to Miss Theonella. "You have our records and diplomatic pouches? The legal briefs and service files? Personnel manifests?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She held up a stern black pilot''s case with a magnetic lock, hanging from a strap on her shoulder. "All here, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well. We should also bring the jurisdictional warrants. They could be confiscated and used to gain passage into restricted areas."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll get them, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No, I''ll get them." The ambassador turned to leave, then paused and gazed briefly at the tiled floor, thinking. "Stiles..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock looked up at the inflamed response. Coolly he repeated, "At\n  <em>\n   ease,\n  </em>\n  Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles shivered, glanced at Travis Perraton, and again met the ambassador''s eyes. "Yes, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are you by chance related to -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! I am, sir! Starfleet security commander John Stiles, Retired, is my grandfather, sir! He served with you under Captain James T. Kirk, Stardates 1709 to 1788 point 6 as Alpha-Watch navigator aboard the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise,\n  </em>\n  NCC 1701, commissioned stardate -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I recall the ship, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "0h...oh...aye, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You have a long line of Starfleet service of officers in your family heritage, I also recall."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! Several active-duty servicemen lost in the Romulan Wars, sir! A captain, two lieutenants, two -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Commendable, Mr. Stiles. Carry on." Spock turned to the little gaggle of people behind him and said, "All of you please stand by until everyone else arrives. Then you''ll take your instructions from Ensign Stiles as to how you will arrange yourselves during the actual evacuation. As you know, the building is beam-shielded, and therefore we must go out the door and board the transport coach on foot. Unfortunately, our general safety compromises our safety during emergency evacuations. Karen, keep them in order. I will return momentarily."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With that he disappeared down a different hallway and into an office leaving a confused clutch of embassy persons standing here in the foyer, wide-eyed and obviously frightened. By nature, the two groups divided to opposite sides of the foyer, embassy folks over there, Oak Squad over here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles let himself be tugged aside, and barely registered the low mutters of his men around him through the afterglow of his meeting with Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beam-shielding," Matt grumbled. "There''s planning. What if they had to get out under more dangerous conditions than mudballs and molotovs?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s beam-shielded so assassins or terrorists can''t beam in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Why couldn''t they make it one-way?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Too unstable. Sucks too much energy to maintain over time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter. We''ll get ''em out. Eric''ll carry them all on his back if he has to."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If he doesn''t choke up a lung first."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be lucky if he doesn''t make us bow backward out of the room."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The team laughed. A cluttered sound, muffled...like a storm coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beside Stiles, Perraton raised his helmet visor and smiled with genuine sympathy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You okay, Eric?" he asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles felt his lips chapping as he breathed in and out, in and out, like a landed fish. He''d just met his hero and he didn''t know if he''d liked it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And it wasn''t over. In fact, it was just beginning. He''d have to do everything perfectly from now on. No more botched formations. No more stammering. He had to be perfect. Smooth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ease up, lightfoot," Perraton suggested privately. "He''s just a guy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just a guy," Stiles rasped. "He''s a hero, Travis...a Starfleet icon...the first Vulcan in Starfleet...Captain James Kirk''s executive officer...I''ve heard every story a hundred times all my life -- do you know how many times he participated in saving the\n  <em>\n   whole\n  </em>\n  Federation? And even the Klingon Empire?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter now. Anyway, the hard part''s over. You met him, you survived, and the experience didn''t suck out your brains. He was a Starfleet man for half a century. He knows the drill. So get a perspective. Here he comes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Do the job. Do the job.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador flowed back into the foyer, now carrying a slim red folder and followed by more than a dozen people and his attendant Edwin. Suddenly the foyer was swarming with civilians. At least they were mostly adults, a few teenagers -- Stiles didn''t relish the prospect of herding toddlers through that mess out there. He stiffened as the ambassador came directly to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re ready, Mr. Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Sir...how would you like to do this?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock handed the folder to Miss Theonella. "Pardon me?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I...I figured you''d have some preference about...what order you want them in and...how to do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador thought about that briefly, his dark eyes working, as if he hadn''t considered such an option. After a moment he vocally shrugged. "Your mission, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over Spock''s shoulder, Perraton smiled and gave Stiles a thumbs-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sustained by that, Stiles forced himself to rise to the demand. "Uh...if you people would form a line, two by two, and Oak Squad situate yourselves between them, uh, one every...uh -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  He paused, tried to do the math, but couldn''t remember how. His brain\n  <em>\n   had\n  </em>\n  been sucked out!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe he wouldn''t have to count and add and divide -- his men were already arranging themselves into position. Perraton was taking the lead, and motioning the others into the queue at intervals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll take the rear guard," Stiles said. "Ambassador, would you mind coming back here with me, sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Ensign, I will."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All right, let''s -- no, no, you can''t do the door." Stiles motioned to the funny-looking butler who was still standing his post at the door, waiting to open it for everybody. "Travis, put that man in line behind Girvan and you do the door. Then fall in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Okay, phaser rifles ready."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ready!" his men shouted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rifles up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles took one more look at Ambassador Spock''s steady form in line before him, at the large UFP shield printed on the back of the blue jacket. The stars of the United Federation of Planets swam before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He drew a breath. His voice echoed under the high tiled ceiling\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12459'),
(28002, 'Double Helix 04: Quarantine', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the "Starship Enterprise''s(TM)" first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12462'),
(28003, 'Double Helix 05: Double or Nothing', 'Peter Allen David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a lethal bacillus coursing through the bloodstream of the galaxy, a fiendish master plan has spread death and terror across the 24th century -- until two heroic captains risk everything to stamp out the evil at its source!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a decade, since the very beginning of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise''sTM\n  </em>\n  mission, unknown enemies have unleashed a string of deadly biological weapons throughout the Alpha Quadrant, inflicting ghastly epidemics upon the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and even the Federation. Now, at long last, Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins forces with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Excalibur\n  </em>\n  to track down and confront the hidden architects of the plagues -- and avenge the deaths of thousands!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12464'),
(28004, 'Double Helix 06: The First Virtue', 'Michael Jan Friedman; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helixcurling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard,captain of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12465'),
(28005, 'Double Helix, Downward Gyre', 'Carl Frederick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12466'),
(28006, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman &amp; Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two short novels by a couple who''ve each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who''s luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author''s full-length efforts,\n <em>\n  Double Homicide\n </em>\n nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson''s brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe''s trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author''s gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won''t stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing careers have earned each a huge following. These stories, set at opposite ends of the country, give barely a hint as to who wrote what, providing a little tantalizing "real-life" mystery to the puzzlers on the page. "Double Homicide: Boston," the strongest of the pair, is also the grittier of the two. A city college basketball star is shot at a nightclub following a nasty incident on the court. The prime suspect is a loudmouth on the opposing team, but as detectives McCain and Breton find out, the crime isn''t as straightforward as it seems. The backdrop of "Double Homicide: Santa Fe" is a tad more refined--though murder, after all, is still murder. A cutthroat art dealer is found dead, and there are plenty of suspects in his address book--including the ex-wife of one of the investigating cops. In both stories, the cops'' personal lives add welcome texture to the fairly routine if still wholly entertaining plots. A diversion for the Kellermans but sure to be of interest to their respective fans.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19282'),
(28007, 'Double Image', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a harrowing experience in Bosnia, war photographer Mitch Coltrane makes a vow. From now on, he will take only those pictures that celebrate life and document hope instead of despair. Then the horrors of his previous assignment return to threaten him, and Coltrane must seek refuge from the present in the past. Having uncovered an old, uncaptioned photograph of a hauntingly beautiful woman, Coltrane sets out to discover who the woman was, and why her photo was hidden in the vault of a world-famous art photographer. Soon he finds himself hopelessly obsessed with the woman in the photograph and slipping into a maze of deception and treachery. Surrounded by illusions of the past and present, Coltrane now must fight for his life in the world capital of make-believe: a decadent and deadly L.A...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12468'),
(28008, 'Double Indemnity', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger''s dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist. but adding Philip K Dick''s Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.'' SCOTSMAN\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12471'),
(28009, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12473'),
(28010, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18896');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(28011, 'Double star', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe''s own life was on the line -- for if he wasn''t assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12475'),
(28012, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12477'),
(28013, 'The double: a poem of St. Petersburg', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Most significant of the Russian novelist''s early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal-beautifully handled in small masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16294'),
(28014, 'Doubleblind', 'Ann Aguirre', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a "Jumper" who navigates ships through grimspace, Sirantha Jax is used to kicking ass. So why is she suddenly chosen as an ambassador of peace?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12478'),
(28015, 'Douglas Adams&#39; Starship Titanic', 'Terry Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Starship Titanic is a science-fiction adventure set aboard a colossal spaceship (which is named after a fairly well-known cruise ship from the planet Earth). It seems that something has gone horribly wrong aboard the Starship Titanic--a fact that becomes evident as the vessel slams into the cozy confines of your living room. Now, at the request of the ship''s robotic crew, you must go aboard, figure out what went wrong, and fix it. The game uses impressively rendered graphics to depict Starship Titanic''s opulent interior. For the most part, you can make your way through the ship and the game using the mouse as you would in Myst. For conversations with the robot attendants, you use the keyboard and the game''s text parser. This combination of contemporary adventure-game graphics and classic-style text conversations works well. As with any adventure game, this one has a lot of puzzles for you to solve. And like everything else Douglas Adams comes up with, the puzzles in this game are complex, challenging, and often downright silly. You''ll have to disarm a bomb, for example, that has a 20-digit "combination" and that constantly taunts you. (Monty Python''s John Cleese plays the voice of the bomb.) You''ll also have to deal with an annoying, chicken-eating parrot (played by Terry Jones, another Python veteran and author of the Starship Titanic novel).One thing to keep in mind as you play Starship Titanic is that the puzzles will leave you frustrated at times. That''s OK--in fact, that''s probably what Adams had in mind from the start--because most of the solutions to these puzzles are incredibly bizarre and unusual. If you get really stuck, the DoorBot and BellBot can usually be of some assistance. Even with a little help from these automated assistants, however, Starship Titanic will have you puzzling for hours and hours. --Michael Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12479'),
(28016, 'Douglas Adams&#39; Starship Titanic', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YAAJones, of Monty Python fame, has successfully translated Adams''s vision into a manic interstellar romp that is a welcome companion to the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series. Starship was launched into the public''s consciousness as a brief sentence in Life, the Universe and Everything (Pocket, 1990) and, after experiencing Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure, has resurfaced as a well-received CD-ROM game and as this amusing novel. With not much more plot than a Seinfeld episode, Starship follows the efforts of a cast of daft characters who must earn a free upgrade on the most extravagant and technologically advanced ship ever created. Their mission is to bring the ship''s lobotomized computer brain back online while distracting a single-minded bomb and battling an army of hostile shipbuilders who do more good than harm. Absurdities pile on oddities, leaving oxygen-starved readers gasping between giggles. This collaborative effort between Jones and Adams sparkles with the inane humor and fondness for the ridiculous that has earned them a cult following. It will be popular with their many fans and the release of the CD-ROM in April will create new converts among the few who have thus far missed the boat.ARobin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Conceived by Adams, author of the cult classic Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy, and executed by Sheckley (The Draconian New York, Forge, 1996), this story concerns the most technologically advanced starship ever designed and the very human tensions that arise among the Architect, the Manager, and the Accountant when the ship is finished.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12481'),
(28017, 'Douglas Adams&#39;s Starship Titanic', 'Terry Jones &amp; Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy! Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously). Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man! So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in. Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen''s tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong. . . . Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. And disappears. Except, everything''s got to be somewhere. Coming home that night, on a little known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12480'),
(28018, 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child - Agent Pendergast 09 - Cemetery Dance', 'Dance, Cemetery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12482'),
(28019, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12486'),
(28020, 'Down Flowers', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12487'),
(28021, 'Down Memory Lane', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12490'),
(28022, 'Down River', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they''ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There''s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12399'),
(28023, 'Down the Ladder', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12400'),
(28024, 'Down to the Wire', 'Orr, David W.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12402'),
(28025, 'Downbelow Station: Or the Company Wars', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hugo Award-winning classic, now available in a trade edition for the first time. Pellâ€™s Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between â€œThe Company,â€ whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pellâ€™s locationâ€”on the outer edge of Earthâ€™s defensive perimeterâ€” makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12404'),
(28026, 'Downshadow - Book 3', 'Bie, Erik Scott de', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12406'),
(28027, 'Downtime', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on the original video drama, this book takes place after Victoria''s departure from the Tardis in Fury from the Deep. It features unique photos taken during filming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12408'),
(28028, 'Dr Cyclops', 'Henry Kuttner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12417'),
(28029, 'Dr Dale&#39;s Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive', 'Dale Seslick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Worried about what to do in the event of the dead rising from their graves and trying to destroy humanity? Worry no more! With the help of numerous films and Wikipedia, Dr Dale has compiled this rigorously researched A-Z list of everything you need to know about zombies: how to recognise them, how to fight them and even how to classify them. He can answer all of your burning questions including: Â§ How can a sheep help defend me against the undead? Â§ What will the response of the Women''s Institute be to an attack? Â§ What''s the most useful style of dance to know in the event of the apocalypse? From the best kind of clothing to wear to the most appropriate soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse, this is the ultimate guide to preparing for and surviving the return of the undead. Full money back guarantee offered should you die in a zombie apocalypse within 30 days of purchase!!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18467'),
(28030, 'Dr. Bloodmoney', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dickâ€™s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dickâ€™s undying hope in humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12410'),
(28031, 'Dr. Futurity', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet." --Rolling Stone\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his own instincts and training as a healer and a society where it is illegal to save lives. But Parsons is not the only one left who believes in prolonging life, and those who share his beliefs have desperate plans for Dr.Parsons'' skills, and for the future of their society. Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utlizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12414'),
(28032, 'Dr. No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10004'),
(28033, 'The Draco Tavern', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The cantina scene in\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern stories in this solid SF collection. Most of the tales, set in the 2030s, are short-shorts, often reading like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings. The inverted city carved out of the ice by ocean-dwelling creatures on Europa in "Playground Earth" could be the basis for a novel. Niven tosses it off in a sentence. Many of the best moments are similar hints: an overheard conversation about how an alien species casually denied humans immortality because the perception of death flavors human poetry ("Limits"). The most startling perspective of all comes from "The Green Marauder," in which a two-billion-year-old creature explains how the Earth was "ruined" by "pollution" long ago. These stories are best taken a few at a time, to savor their inventiveness without noticing the undeveloped characters or that, even for bar stories, there''s sometimes too much chatter and not enough action.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Throughout an award-winning 40-year career, Niven has taken time out for brief layovers at his favorite interspecies watering hole, the Draco Tavern. Run by inimitable multimillionaire Rick Schumann in the middle of Siberia, where the enigmatic extraterrestrial Chirpsithra made first contact with humans, the saloon serves as trading post and chat room for aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Here Niven corrals all the Draco Tavern tales into one volume that consequently showcases his ability to use sf to explore mind-boggling, universal questions. In one story, the Chirpsithra reveal knowledge of a species that learned what waits beyond death--but were the resulting mass suicides provoked by discovering heaven, or nothingness? In others, Niven inspects such ultimate conundrums as immortality, extraterrestrial intelligence, and computers that outstrip their creators'' cleverness. Most of the 27 stories are short shorts that, taken altogether, radiate Niven''s wit and technological inventiveness. A must for Nivenites and just plain good reading for everyone else.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4224'),
(28034, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. ** *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power. Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all. **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12422'),
(28035, 'Dracula in Love', 'Karen Essex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bruce Feiler Reviews Dracula in Love **Bruce Feiler is one of Americaâ€™s most popular voices on faith and family. He is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Americaâ€™s Prophet. His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive lifeâ€™s greatest challenges. Read his review of Dracula in Love:** Gorgeously written and erotically charged, the novel Dracula in Love is like its century-jumping central characters: deeply rooted in the past while pushing ageless mythology into strikingly current realms. Historical novels should have plenty of history, and this novel surely does. Romantic novels should have their share of sex and romance, and this novel delivers both. But its true revelation is its gripping sense of anticipation, heartache, discovery, and unflinching chill. With Dracula in Love Karen Essex turns her inimitable, piercing gaze to illuminating what should be familiar terrain--Victorian England--and what might seem like well-trod territory--a certain Count. Her considerable trick is to make you forget entirely all the baggage that attends her story by planting us firmly in the shoes and the psyche of one of the "victims," Mina Harker. I am walking up the steps of the finishing school with the quivering heroine; I am secreting away in Londonâ€™s subterranean shadows with the jilted lover; I am traveling into the mysteries of southern Austria and Ireland''s haunted west coast (yes, begone tired Transylvania!) where our heroine discovers her own dark powers. I shudder in horror and delight when the fangs make their inevitable plunge. I met Karen Essex when both of us were briefly embedded in the Southern gothic world of Nashville. She would soon unearth some of historyâ€™s most misunderstood women and vividly revive them for contemporary ears. From Kleopatra (note the provocative spelling) to the countess of Elgin (and her fascinating courtesan doppelganger from the ancient world, Aspasia) to feuding sisters who posed for Leonardo (watch the genius brought down to earth!), Karen overturns historyâ€™s conventions and shows how these women are keenly relevant today. I am hardly a vampire freak. The Twilight books "eclipsed" me. And Iâ€™ve never owned a set of plastic fangs. But I do love Karen Essex, and this novel is enough to make me a little bloodthirsty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12424'),
(28036, 'Dracula the Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Bram Stoker''s\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula''s true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula''s former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula''s last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos."\n <br />\n --_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian) skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop."\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12425'),
(28037, 'Dracula the Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Bram Stoker''s\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula''s true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula''s former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula''s last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos."\n <br />\n --_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian) skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop."\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18912'),
(28038, 'Dragon', 'Dragon Rule', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12429'),
(28039, 'Dragon Actually', 'G. A. Aiken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear - a lot - or else salute. It''s true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother''s soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way, she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe - a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fill her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn''t get any stranger. She''s wrong...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12433'),
(28040, 'A Dragon At World&#39;s End', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 05', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16546'),
(28041, 'Dragon Avenger', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12436'),
(28042, 'Dragon Champion', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12439'),
(28043, 'The Dragon Charmer', 'Jan Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the enchanting novel Prospero''s Children, Jan Siegel introduced an extraordinary heroine and the lushly evocative world of wonders and terrors that quickly enveloped her normal adolescent life. Now Siegel summons us back to the magic with the continuing story of Fern Capel--and the remarkable power of her extraordinary Gift . . . After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family''s past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capels'' summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. For when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Yet Fern has had enough: Enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world . . . but who will relinquish it all to one man. Jan Siegel has created an intense, fascinating world. To surrender yourself under her captivating spell is to remember how remarkably powerful a literary voyage can be. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4226'),
(28044, 'Dragon DelaSangre', 'Alan F. Troop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18122'),
(28045, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4228'),
(28046, 'The Dragon Factory', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.Â  One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Â Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they''ve drawn first blood.Â  Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4231'),
(28047, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest''s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12445'),
(28048, 'Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestselling author of *Dragon Keeper* returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpentsâ€”ancient, half-starved, and wearyâ€”returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them. With their survival at stake, fifteen dragonsâ€”among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpdaâ€”have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons'' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos. As the dragons, the humansâ€”including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader''s wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedricâ€”and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive. Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12448'),
(28049, 'The Dragon Heir', 'Cinda Williams Chima', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€”In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the series, there is considerable work to be done sorting out the plot and the relationships among the various characters, but after a while the power of the story takes over. The wizarding world is fractured and at war with itself. The only hope for peace lies in those few unaffiliated gifted ones (wizards, warriors, enchanters) in the sanctuary of the town of Trinity. As the novel opens, one of these characters, Jason, steals into the hold of another faction and walks out with a mysterious magical object that appears to be extremely powerful: the Dragonheart. When he brings it back to Trinity, the town and its treasure become the focus of the other factions. The action is largely propelled by the emotional needs and weaknesses of the characters, and not simply by their magical abilities. Madison Moss, whose ability to absorb magic enabled her to save her wizard boyfriend, is now a danger to Seph because she keeps leaking the toxic magic that she absorbed. Her fear that this will be discovered, along with her family problems, leads to her making decisions that put her and others in mortal danger. Maddie, along with Jason and Seph, is the central emotional focus, and it is the details of their lives that make the extraordinary plot twists exciting and compelling. Fans of the first two books are sure to love this one.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town''s perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he''s prepared to fight for his friends. When Jason finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason''s very soul -- showing him that he is meant for more than anyone guessed. Trinity''s guardians take the stone away after they realize that it may be a weapon powerful enough to save them all. Without any significant power of his own, and now without the stone, what can Jason possibly do to help the people he cares about -- and to prove his mettle?\n</p>\n<p>\n Madison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. The desire for it surges through her, drawing her to it. But Maddie has other things besides the Dragonheart on her mind. She has a secret. Ever since absorbing the magical blow that was meant to kill Seph, she''s been leaking dark powers. Although Maddie herself is immune to magic, what would her friends think if they knew what kind of evil lay within her? Trinity''s enemies are as enthusiastic about her powers as she is frightened. They think they can use her to get to the Dragonheart -- and they''ll use anyone Maddie cares about to make her steal the stone for them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason and Maddie be willing to fight for -- and what will they sacrifice? Every man is for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4233'),
(28050, 'Dragon House', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in modern-day Vietnam, DRAGON HOUSE tells the tale of Iris and Noah-two Americans, who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Irish and Noah find themselves reborn in an exotic land filled with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and beauty. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. Resounding with the powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON HOUSE brings together East and West, war and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12449'),
(28051, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12453'),
(28052, 'Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12456'),
(28053, 'Dragon Keepers #3: The Dragon in the Library', 'Kate Klimo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dragon Keepers #3- SUMMARY: Dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help! Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she''s missing "something," and the cousins don''t have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie''s castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and betweenâ€”too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.Visit www.foundadragon.org.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20628');
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(28054, 'Dragon King 1 - In the Hall of the Dragon King', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Onbekend\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A kingdom hangs in the balance...and a young boy answers the call.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Carrying a sealed message from the war-hero Dragon King to the queen, Quentin and his outlaw companion, Theido, plunge headlong into a fantastic odyssey and mystic quest. Danger lurks everywhere in the brutal terrain, and particularly in the threats from merciless creatures, both human and not-so-human.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  While at the castle, the wicked Prince Jaspin schemes to secure the crown for himself, and an evil sorcerer concocts his own monstrous plan. A plan that Quentin and Theido could never imagine.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the youth''s valiant efforts to save the kingdom and fulfill his unique destiny, he will cross strange and wondrous lands; encounter brave knights, beautiful maidens, and a mysterious hermit; and battle a giant, deadly serpent.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this first book of the Dragon King Trilogy, Stephen R. Lawhead has deftly woven a timeless epic of war, adventure, fantasy, and political intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12458'),
(28055, 'Dragon King 2 - The Warlords of Nin', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Onbekend\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Darkness and destruction have come to the land.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It has been ten years since Quentin helped Eskevar, the Dragon King, battle the monstrous sorcerer Nimrood. Since that time, there has been peace in the land of Mensandor. But everything is about to change.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  An urgent message summons Quentin to Castle Askelon. The king, who is dying, wishes to name the brave young man his successor. But first, he sends him on an unfathomable mission.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What Quentin and his friend Toli, the Jher horseman, discover is not for the cowardly. The brightening Wolf Star is an omen of impending evil that might herald the beginning of the end of mankind on earth. It signifies Nin, a fearsome giant of a man who hopes to add Mensandor to his growing empire. Along with his merciless warlords, they are the fulfillment of a nightmarish prophecy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *The Warlords of Nin*, the second book in The Dragon King Trilogy, Stephen R. Lawhead continues the mythical saga that began with *In the Hall of the Dragon King.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12460'),
(28056, 'Dragon King 3 - The Sword and the Flame', 'Stephen R. Lawhead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Onbekend\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Sometimes the greatest evil lies within.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Dragon King who rules the land of Mensandor is none other than Quentin, whose courage and heroism have slowly transformed him from an orphaned servant into a war hero, respected leader, and a fierce man of faith.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But even the powerful can fall prey to weakness. The world is turned upside-down when the dark sorcerer Nimrood--long thought dead after a battle with the previous Dragon King--returns with a fearsome plan. Shattered by the death of a dear and trusted friend, the abduction of his beloved son, and the loss of his enchanted sword, Quentin finds his faith tested like never before.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *The Sword and the Flame*, the final volume of Stephen R. Lawhead''s captivating Dragon King Trilogy, the fate of the entire world depends on the outcome of this climactic battle between good and evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12461'),
(28057, 'The Dragon King&#39;s Palace', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a whim of the shogun''s mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko''s friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun''s powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper.Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies-Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina. The delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters-forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4234'),
(28058, 'Dragon Magic', 'Andre Norton - The Magic Books 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18043'),
(28059, 'The Dragon Man', 'Brian Stableford; Stableford Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4238'),
(28060, 'Dragon Moon', 'Alan F. Troop', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18125'),
(28061, 'The Dragon Never Sleeps', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Glen Cook (The Black Company, The Dread Empire) delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera! For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roaming the galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo. But now the House Tregesser believes they have an edge; a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. Their initial gambits precipitate an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, the most unpredicted of which is the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race - the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of mysterious aliens, biological constructs, and scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must choose which side he will support; the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces from outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4242'),
(28062, 'Dragon on a Pedestal', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably.... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12463'),
(28063, 'Dragon on a Pedestal.', 'James Pritchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12467'),
(28064, 'Dragon Outcast', 'Knight, E. E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12469'),
(28065, 'Dragon Prince', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Melanie Rawn''s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant''s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the strength of the sword-but has yet to discover the true power of knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12470'),
(28066, 'The Dragon Queen', 'Alice Borchardt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18099'),
(28067, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4245'),
(28068, 'Dragon Rule', 'Knight, E. E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12472'),
(28069, 'Dragon Secrets', 'Christopher Golden - Outcast 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16625'),
(28070, 'Dragon Strike', 'Knight, E. E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12474'),
(28071, 'Dragon Tears', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon''s sanity:  "Ticktock, ticktock. You''ll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12476'),
(28072, 'The Dragon Token', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second volume of the bestselling Dragon Star series finds the High Prince rallying his troops to stand against the invaders'' army. But ancient rivalries begin to weaken his alliances, and only time will tell if the combined efforts of warriors, Sunrunners'' magic, and the dragons can defeat both the invaders and the traitors within his own ranks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4246'),
(28073, 'Dragon Ultimate', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16542'),
(28074, 'Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The D''Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they''ve been thrust until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12484'),
(28075, 'Dragon&#39;s Honor', 'Kij Johnson; Robert Slater; Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DRAGON''S HONOR Isolated for centuries, the exotic Dragon Empires finally ready to join the United Federation of Planets. But first the emperor''s eldest son must marry the only daughter of his oldest enemy, bringing to an end decades of civil war. Without the wedding, there can be no peace -- and no treaty with the Federation. As honored guests of the Dragon Empire, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise(TM) must ensure that the royal wedding occurs on schedule, despite the Empire''s complicated and difficult codes of honor. And Dr. Beverly Crusher finds her loyalties torn when she wins the confidence of the unusually reluctant bride-to-be. More than just a treaty is at stake, for a vicious race of alien conquerors will stop at nothing, from assassination to invasion, to keep the Empire out of the Federation. Picard must now use all his skills to save the Empire...and preserve the Dragon''s Honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12309'),
(28076, 'The Dragon&#39;s Mark', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatchedâ€” until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind. A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two swordsâ€”light and darkâ€”must meetâ€¦and only one shall triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4262'),
(28077, 'The Dragonbone Chair', 'Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4257'),
(28078, 'Dragondrums', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of all the young singers at the Harperhall of Pern, Piemur was the one chosen for the leading role at Lord Groghe''s Gather...and then his voice broke. Suddenly his whole future at Harperhall became uncertain. But Masterharper Robinton, Menolly and Sebell had other plans for Piemur. They were sure that his quick wits and discretion could be used to keep a check on the troublesome Oldtimers and their strange traffic in fire lizards. So, whilst serving as a messanger-drum apprentice, Piemur carried out special errands for the three. And it was on one such errand that he realized his wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12485'),
(28079, 'Dragonflight', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguiseâ€”and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessaâ€™s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12491'),
(28080, 'Dragonfly Falling', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire''s imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12493'),
(28081, 'Dragonforge: A Novel of the Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death of King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal daemons and choose where his loyalty really lies\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, the cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12495'),
(28082, 'DragonKnight', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _DragonKnight\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œDragonKnight\n </em>\n is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paulâ€™s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!â€\n <br />\n â€“Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n , we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeveâ€“unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of\n <em>\n  Reluctant Burglar\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.â€\n <br />\n â€“Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result,\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the actionâ€“and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.â€\n <br />\n â€“Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped in an evil spellâ€¦ can the knights of Paladin be rescued?\n</p>\n<p>\n Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, Nâ€™Rae, on a mission to rescue the womanâ€™s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladinâ€™s knights are imprisonedâ€“and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kaleâ€™s missing father.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret is in their handsâ€“and hearts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knightsâ€“who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?\n <br />\n Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12496'),
(28083, 'Dragonlance: The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.They are the Second Generation.An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic **Dragonlance **novel.This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and *Dragons of Summer Flame*. While detailing their adventures, *The Second Generation* also sets up key events and characters in future **Dragonlance **novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12497'),
(28084, 'Dragonlance: The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.They are the Second Generation.An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic **Dragonlance **novel.This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and *Dragons of Summer Flame*. While detailing their adventures, *The Second Generation* also sets up key events and characters in future **Dragonlance **novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18793'),
(28085, 'DragonOutcast', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12498'),
(28086, 'Dragonquest', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Endorsements for DRAGONQUEST\n <br />\n By Donita K. Paul\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a rich tapestry of creatures, characters, and adventure.Â  A whimsical allegory, casting bright light on ultimate truth.â€Â \n <br />\n â€“Lyn Cote, author of The Women of Ivy Manor series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou never know what to expect in a magical world full of creatures like mordakleeps, blimmets, or doneels. But one thing is sure: This grand, fantastical odyssey of Kale the Dragonkeeper will sweep you off your feet.â€\n <br />\n â€“Robert Elmer, author of the HyperLinkz fantasy series for kids\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShut your eyes, hold your breath, and plunge into the unshackled imagination of Donita K. Paul! In\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n Kaleâ€™s journey of self-discovery continues through a succession of adventures and mishaps that leaves you grinning with breathless, page-turning anticipation. I am in awe of Donita K. Paulâ€™s intricate world-building that can rightfully stand alongside master storytellers, Lewis and Tolkien. There is so much depth of heart to this fantastic adventure that itâ€™s difficult to say what I most enjoyed. A fantasy must for the very young at heart, no matter your age.â€\n <br />\n â€“Linda Wichman, author of\n <em>\n  Legend of the Emerald Rose\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n continues the story of Kale and her well-drawn compatriots, who set out on yet another quest in service to God by serving His people.Â  Cleverly and compellingly wrought,\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a terrific sequel to\n <em>\n  DragonSpell\n </em>\n that is sure to delight readers of all ages.â€\n <br />\n â€“Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Giver of Roses\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New Quest Begins\n</p>\n<p>\n A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isnâ€™t going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, itâ€™s Bardonâ€“an older boy Kale finds irritating, but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n New Friendships Are Forged\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, bringing him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Ristoâ€™s devious plans. Itâ€™s up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role thatâ€™s rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Ristoâ€™s hands?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12305'),
(28087, 'Dragonquest', 'Anne McCaffrey - Pern 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17723'),
(28088, 'Dragonrider', 'Anne McCaffrey - Pern 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17845'),
(28089, 'Dragonriders 1 Dragonflight', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12492'),
(28090, 'Dragonriders 2 Dragonquest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12304'),
(28091, 'Dragonriders 3 The White Dragon', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1694'),
(28092, 'The Dragonriders of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne McCaffrey''s Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of\n <em>\n  thread\n </em>\n , a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn''t fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey''s epic series:\n <em>\n  Dragonflight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dragonquest\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The White Dragon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world''s most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: DRAGONFLIGHT, DRAGONQUEST, THE WHITE DRAGON. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F''lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales of danger, deceit, and daring, just waiting to be explored..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4260'),
(28093, 'Dragons of Argonath', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16552'),
(28094, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12330'),
(28095, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18794'),
(28096, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dragons of Spring Dawning, the concluding episode in the ever-popular Chronicles Trilogy, once again takes listeners on a fantastical journey to Krynn, where friendships are made and lost and destinies finally realized.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Armed at last with the powerful dragonlances, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a final desperate battle against the destructive dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-eft, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage -- none has reckoned how high the price of victory -- or even defeat -- might be. One by one, they must each overcome personal doubts and conflicts -- their only hope if they are to stop the return of the five-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis. Listen and discover how truth and virtue at last triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil in this dramatic conclusion to one of fantasy''s most legendary tales.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12336'),
(28097, 'Dragons Of Summer Gulch', 'Robert Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12340'),
(28098, 'Dragons of War', 'Christopher Rowley - Bazil 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16540'),
(28099, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12342'),
(28100, 'Dragons on Englor', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12343'),
(28101, 'Dragonseed: A Novel of Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death ok King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal demons and choose where his loyalty really lies.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12344'),
(28102, 'Dragonseye', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Anne McCaffrey''s New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE, join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern! It''s been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. But one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe--and that disbelief could spell disaster. So as the dragonriders desperately train to face a terrifying enemy, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin--before history repeats itself and unleashes its virulence on all of Pern. . . . From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12345'),
(28103, 'Dragonsinger', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12346'),
(28104, 'Dragonsong', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Science FictionLarge Print EditionMenolly loved music and wanted to be a Harper, though her father would not allow it. It was a disgrace for a woman even to think of such a thing. Finally, he forbad Menolly to even sing for fear her ambition would become known. Menolly had no choice but to run away. On her journey she meets a group of fire lizards who bring new adventure, challenge and direction to her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12348'),
(28105, 'Dragonsong', 'Anne McCaffrey - Pern 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17847'),
(28106, 'Dragonspell', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon''s egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted first by attacking ogres, then by a detour into a cave that hides seven more dragon eggs, and finally by a daring escape aided by dragon-riding rescuers who become Kale''s guides, tutors, and closest cohorts on her travels. Two of her precious eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companionsâ€“first green Gymn, who heals, and then purple Metta, who sings. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girlâ€“she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers. This is classic quest fantasy with echoes of J. R. R. Tolkien''s "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Houghton) and of Christopher Paolini''s\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003). As in C. S. Lewis''s "Narnia" books (HarperCollins), Christian allegories and messages are clearly presented and easily found, but it is equally possible to read this as Kale''s story as it happened in Amara, a world completely separate from our own. It would be a shame to limit readership by relegating this clever and inventive story to the genre of Christian fiction. There is plenty of room for sequels, and readers will want to know much more about Kale and the remainder of her quest._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader''s imagination young and old. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it''s a book families will love reading and discussing together.\n <br />\n Christopher P. N. Maselli, children''s author of\n <em>\n  Reality Shift\n </em>\n and founder of TruthPop.com\n</p>\n<p>\n A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. Paul''s\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . This is adventure and fantasy at its finest a must read for the imaginative soul.\n <br />\n Linda Windsor, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Along Came Jones\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Fires of Gleannmara\n </em>\n trilogy\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, It''s good!high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. I can only nod my head in agreement.\n <br />\n Christopher A. Lane, Gold Medallion and C.S. Lewis award-winning author of children''s and adult fiction\n</p>\n<p>\n Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profound\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is all this and more. If Donita K. Paul''s only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. But she actually does much more than this: she enables us to see our relationship with God and His world through new eyes. A delight for all true fans of fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Jim Ware, author of\n <em>\n  God of the Fairy Tale\n </em>\n and co-author of _Finding God in the Lord of the Rings\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Enchanting! A perilous quest, a timeless battle, an unlikely heroine, and a rousing adventure in a world of magic and mystery Donita K. Paul has concocted a tale brimming with eternal truth and seasoned with delightful and amazing characters that linger in the senses long after the last page.\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is destined to become a classic for a new generation of adventurers!\n <br />\n Susan May Warren, award-winning author of _Happily Ever After\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The greatest thing any author can do is to catch you up and transport you right into the very scene, the very action, the story . . . in such a way that you live the book, not merely read it. That is exactly what Donita K. Paul does with\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . For a few hours, you will take a journey to a place you have never been, with a story you will never forget. Enjoy the trip!\n <br />\n Stephen Bly, author of _Paperback Writer\n <em>\n  and Christy-award-winning\n </em>\n The Long Trail Home\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a tightly written fantasy quest set in an extraordinarily rendered storyworld. With seven intelligent races, seven evil races, several delightful dragons, one weird wizard, and an endless supply of exotic plants and animals, you will NOT be bored.\n <br />\n Randy Ingermanson, Christy award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Oxygen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Premonition\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one will ever be able to read this and doubt that Christian fantasy is a viable genre for spreading God''s word.\n <br />\n Christine Lynxwiler, president of American Christian Romance Writers\n</p>\n<p>\n Charming, well-drawn characters, a story chock full of adventures and misadventures, a land populated with dragons, doneels, emerlindians, grawligs, and all sorts of other fascinating inhabitants I ask you, what more could any reader want With\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has nailed a complex and engaging fantasy world. Whether nine or ninety, you won''t be disappointed.\n <br />\n Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Consuming Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  All Good Gifts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Dragonspell _has a heart-thumping, page-turning plot that is sure to captivate and enthrall even the most reluctant reader!\n <br />\n Peggy Wilber, author of _Reading Rescue 1-2-3\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12350'),
(28107, 'Dragonswan', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon delivers a special collector''s-edition tale of unexpected passion woven from the mysteries of a celebrated ancient tapestry.    Beautiful scholar Channon MacRea has spent years studying the legendary Dragon Tapestry, devoting days and nights to deciphering the impenetrable Old English symbolism. Then one evening the unnaturally handsome Sebastian appears. He claims to hold the key to solving the tapestry''s mysteries. Bearing magnificently taut and tanned flesh marked by intriguing scars of battle, he also claims to be a dragon slayer trapped between two worlds.    For Channon there''s only one way to finally uncover the secrets of the intricate embroidery-by following the seductive stranger into a fantastic alternate world of magic, danger, and erotic adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12351'),
(28108, 'Dragonwall - Book 2', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12352'),
(28109, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4263');
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(28110, 'Drama city: a novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12353'),
(28111, 'The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King''s epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King''s most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. In November 2003, the fifth installment, Wolves of the Calla, will be published under the imprint of Donald M. Grant, with distribution and major promotion provided by Scribner. Song of Susannah, Book VI, and The Dark Tower, Book VII, will follow under the same arrangement in 2004. With these last three volumes finally on the horizon, readers-countless King readers who have yet to delve into The Dark Tower and a multitude of new and old fantasy fans-can now look forward to reading the series straight through to its stunning conclusion. Viking''s elegant reissue of the first four books ensures that for the first time The Dark Tower will be widely available in hardcover editions for this eager readership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4266'),
(28112, 'The drawing of the three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4264'),
(28113, 'Dread Brass Shadows', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Everyone wants to find itâ€”a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. Itâ€™s the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to masterâ€”and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12356'),
(28114, 'Dread Companion', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12357'),
(28115, 'Dread Empire&#39;s Fall Logs', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12359'),
(28116, 'Dread Empire&#39;s Fall Margaux', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12360'),
(28117, 'Dread Empire&#39;s Fall Solidarity', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12362'),
(28118, 'The Dreadful Lemon Sky', 'John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The professional''s professional of suspense writers." THE NEW YORK TIMES Travis McGee has been offered easy money by a longtime lady friend. But when she gets killed, McGee''s got a boatload of mystery. Navigating his boat into troubled waters, he heads for the seamier side of Florida--where drug dealing, twisted sex, and corruption are easy to find--but murderous riddles are hard to solve....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4268'),
(28119, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard. What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it? Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12364'),
(28120, 'Dream', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18058'),
(28121, 'Dream A Little Dream', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12375'),
(28122, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Guralnick, Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam Cooke was the biggest star in gospel music before he crossed over into pop. His first single under his own name, "You Send Me," went to #1 on the charts and sold two million copies. At a time when record companies treated black artists like hired help, Sam Cooke demanded respect equal to that of top white artists. And he connected, in songs like "Wonderful World," "Chain Gang," and "Another Saturday Night"--seemingly effortless compositions that still sound fresh today. This resoundingly praised book captures a human essence so vital, so appealing, that it is impossible not to fall under its spell. At the same time, Dream Boogie re-creates in rich detail the African American world from which Sam Cooke emerged, allowing us to feel both his trials and his triumphs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12377'),
(28123, 'Dream Called Time: A Stardoc Novel', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she''s ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship''s mystery, Cherijo''s own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family-which she''s only just been reunited with-again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12379'),
(28124, 'Dream Chaser', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From #1 *New York Times* Bestselling Author Sherrilyn Kenyon **The spellbinding Dream-Hunter series continues!**Hades doesnâ€™t often give second chances...**Xypher has one month on Earth to redeem himself through one good deed or be condemned to eternal torture in Tarturus. But redemption means little to a demigod who only wants vengeance on the one who caused his downfall.**Until one day in a cemetery...**Simone Dubois is a medical examiner with a real knack for the job. Those who are wrongfully killed appear to her and help her find the evidence the police need to convict their killers. But when a man appears and tells her that sheâ€™s more than just a psychic, sheâ€™s convinced heâ€™s insane.**Now the fate of the world hangs in her hands...**It was bad enough when just the dead relied on her. Nowâ€™s thereâ€™s the seductive Dream-Hunter Xypher who needs Simoneâ€™s help in opening a portal to the Atlantean hell realm to fight insatiable demons. The future of mankind is at stakeâ€”and so is her life. The only question now is: Who is the bigger threat: the demons out to kill her, or the man who has left her forever changed?**â€œBrisk, ironic, sexy, and relentlessly imaginative.â€â€”*Boston** Globe***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12382'),
(28125, 'Dream Done Green', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18280'),
(28126, 'The Dream Hunter', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the ethereal world of dreams, there are champions who fight to protect the dreamer and there are demons who prey on them... Arik is such a predator. Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arik can only feel when heâ€™s in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, heâ€™s drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. Now heâ€™s finally found a dreamer whose vivid mind can fill his emptiness.Dr. Megeara Kafieri watched her father ruin himself and his reputation as he searched to prove Atlantis was real. Her deathbed promise to him to salvage his reputation has now brought her to Greece where she intends to prove once and for all that the fabled island is right where her father said it was. But frustration and bad luck dog her every step. Especially the day they find a stranger floating in the sea. His is a face sheâ€™s seen many times.... in her dreams. What she doesnâ€™t know is that Arik holds more than the ancient secrets that can help her find the mythical isle of Atlantis. He has made a pact with the god Hades: In exchange for two weeks as a mortal man, he must return to Olympus with a human soul. Megearaâ€™s soul. With a secret society out to ruin her expedition, and mysterious accidents that keep threatening her life, Megeara refuses to quit. She knows sheâ€™s getting closer to Atlantis and as she does, she stumbles onto the truth of what Arik really is.For Arik his quest is no longer simple. No human can know of a Dream-Hunterâ€™s existence. His dream of being mortal has quickly turned into his own nightmare and the only way to save himself will be to sacrifice the very thing he wanted to be human for. The only question is, will he?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4277'),
(28127, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion', 'Dexter Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A debut so magicalÂ… so extraordinaryÂ… it has to be read to be believedÂ….** Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane. The tale of Haroldâ€™s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Haroldâ€™s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Haroldâ€™s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Mirandaâ€™s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine. Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4271'),
(28128, 'The Dream of Scipio', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his elegant debut,\n  <em>\n   An Instance of the Fingerpost\n  </em>\n  , Iain Pears''s\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there''s the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius''s called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small ProvenÃ§al town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears''s story. At the heart of\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn''t shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators'' unpopular devotions.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critic Harold Bloom once opined that literature is a series of misprisions, or misreadings, by writers of their predecessors. Although Pears might not have had Bloom in mind in his latest novel, the premise is an unlikely embodiment of Bloom''s thesis. The story unfolds in three time frames, in each of which a man and a woman are in love, civilization itself is crumbling and Jews become the scapegoats for larger cultural anxieties. In the first scenario, Manlius is a wealthy Roman living in Provence in the empire''s crepuscular 5th century. Although he has received the last echo of Hellenic wisdom, he is surrounded by believers in a nasty sect he despises Christianity but must find some means to protect Provence from the barbarians. In fighting for "civilization," he becomes a bishop and the promoter, almost accidentally, of one of the West''s first pogroms. In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius''s poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century. As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death. Barneuve, Pears''s third protagonist, has a Jewish lover, too, but is enmeshed in the racist policies of Vichy France. Pears has a nice sense of what it means to live in a time when things fall apart, and not only the center but even the peripheries will not hold. But the readers who flocked to An Instance of the Fingerpost might not find the pages turning so fast in this less mystery-driven outing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19357'),
(28129, 'The Dream Spheres - Book 5', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4273'),
(28130, 'The Dream Thief', 'Shana Abe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in 18th-century England and the Carpathian Mountains, AbÃ©''s lively sequel to The Smoke Thief continues the saga of the drÃ¡kon (or "dragon-people"), "magnificent, terrifying creatures who have the ability to exist as humans but may transform into dragons at will, especially at night." Zane, a handsome thief, and the Lady Amalia "Lia" Langford, who can see the future, join forces to search for the lost Draumr, a dangerous jewel that can control the drÃ¡kon. Zane, a delicious anti-hero, finds himself captivated by the delightful Lia, who has been dreaming precognitively about him for years, certain that Zane is her destiny, though he might cause future problems for the drÃ¡kon. When Lia finally "Turns," first into smoke, then into full drÃ¡kon power, their passion for each other is tested in an exciting, fire-breathing resolution. Paranormal romance fans will be well rewarded.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drÃ¡kon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turnâ€”changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear hypnotic songs of beauty and wonder. But there is one stone they fear....\n</p>\n<p>\n Buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drÃ¡kon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clanâ€™s Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift....\n</p>\n<p>\n Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamondâ€”along with the fate of the drÃ¡konâ€”rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through Londonâ€™s criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Liaâ€™s mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clanâ€”and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zaneâ€™s hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drÃ¡kon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumrâ€”and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zaneâ€™s, to the one man capable of stealing her futureâ€”and destroying her heart....\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4275'),
(28131, 'Dream Warrior', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The son of Warcraft and Hate, Cratus spent eternity battling for the ancient gods who birthed him. He was death to any who crossed him. Until the day he laid down his arms and walked into self-imposed exile. Now an ancient enemy has been unleashed and our dreams are his chosen battlefield. The only hope we have is the one god who swears he will never fight again. As a Dream-Hunter, Delphine has spent eternity protecting mankind from the predators who prey on our unconscious state. But now that her allies have been turned, she knows in order to survive, the Dream-Hunters need a new leader. Someone who can train them to fight their new enemies. Cratus is her only hope. But she is a bitter reminder of why he chose to lay down his arms. Time is running out and if she can''t win him to her cause, mankind will be slaughtered and the world we know will soon cease to exist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12384'),
(28132, 'Dream Warriors', 'Angelique Anjou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faine Dâ€™Arten is certain from the first moment he sets eyes on the beautiful creature that emerges from the strange craft that she is the soul mate his dream vision has foretold for him. Unfortunately, the language barrier and her determined resistance to his attempts to woo her through her dreams make convincing her of her destiny a little more difficult than he had anticipated. Rating: Contains graphic sexual content.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12385'),
(28133, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. **Dreamcatcher** Twenty-five years after saving a Down''s-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher. Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. *Dreamcatcher,* his first full-length novel since *Bag of Bones,* is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans both new and old.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12388'),
(28134, 'Dreamer', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate by their thoughts alone--over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  They become known as the Silent.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It''s nothing special, nothing unusual...except for the fact that it is home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent telepath ever born--a Silent with the ability to possess the bodies of others against their will. This mysterious child may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n For now, only the Children of Irfan know about him. A monastic-like order of the Silent, the Children protect their members even as they barter their services with the governments and corporations that control known space. But power like that cannot be hidden, and soon every Silent in the universe will know about the boy--and every government will be willing to go to war to control him.\n</p>\n<p>\n And if the Children of Irfan cannot find him first, the Dream itself may be shattered...\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12390'),
(28135, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12391'),
(28136, 'Dreaming Anastasia', 'Preble, Joy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn''t. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn''t know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good collegeâ€”until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman. The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreamsâ€¦ (20091019)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16330'),
(28137, 'Dreaming is a Private Thing', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12392'),
(28138, 'Dreaming With the Angels', 'Jack Dann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12393'),
(28139, 'Dreamlike States', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12394'),
(28140, 'Dreams', 'Dreams (Robinson)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12395'),
(28141, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12397'),
(28142, 'Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Cury, Augusto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4280'),
(28143, 'THE DREAMSTONE', 'Charles Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17053'),
(28144, 'Dresden 01 - Storm Front', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first novel of the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files-now in a hardcover edition.** **As seen on the Sci Fi channel.** The novels of the *Dresden Files* have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. *Storm Front* is Jim Butcher''s first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire. For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry''s eyes light up with dollar signs. But where there''s black magic, there''s a black mage. Now, that black mage knows Harry''s name. And things are about to get very...interesting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5461'),
(28145, 'Dresden 02 - Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11672'),
(28146, 'Dresden 03 - Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in hardcover from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Dresden Files*.** Harry Dresdenâ€™s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoâ€™s only professional wizard. But in all of Harryâ€™s years of supernatural sleuthing, heâ€™s never faced anything like this: the spirit worldâ€™s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleâ€”and not just of the door-slamming, â€˜booâ€™- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnâ€™t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11097'),
(28147, 'Dresden 04 - Summer Knight', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now available in hardcover-the fourth novel in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** Harry Dresden''s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago''s only professional wizard. But in all Harry''s years of supernatural sleuthing, he''s never faced anything like this: the spirit world''s gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble-and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone-or something-is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn''t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5520'),
(28148, 'Dresden 05 - Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16199'),
(28149, 'Dresden 06 - Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. ** For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying. Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14628'),
(28150, 'Dresden 07 - Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie! Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13411'),
(28151, 'Dresden 08 - Proven Guilty', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elevated "into the front rank of urban fantasy heroes" (SF Site), professional wizard Harry Dresden is pledged to fight crime, banish evil, and outwit the masters of dark arts in the shadowy corners of Chicago. Harry, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, is drafted to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. And if that wasn''t enough, he must help the daughter of an old friend, whose boyfriend was the only one in a room where an old man was attacked. He insists he didn''t do it. And what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film turns out to be-well, something quite close to that, as Harry discovers that malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7384'),
(28152, 'Dresden 09 - White Night', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A sensational addition to the *Dresden Files* adventures-from a *USA Today* bestselling author. Professional wizard Harry Dresden is investigating a series of deaths in Chicago. Someone is killing practitioners of magic, those incapable of becoming full-fledged wizards. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry''s half-brother, Thomas, as the murderer. Determined to clear his sibling''s name, Harry uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens not only him, but his nearest and dearest, too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(28153, 'Dresden 10 - Small Favor', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **THE *New York Times* Bestseller** Harry Dresdenâ€™s life finally seems to be calming downâ€”until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harryâ€”one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skillsâ€”and loyaltiesâ€”to their very limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6290'),
(28154, 'Dresden 11 - Turn Coat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The new novel in the hit *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Councilâ€”and thereâ€™s only one, final punishment for that crime. Heâ€™s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden... Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his headâ€”someone like Harry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(28155, 'Dresden 12 - Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14187'),
(28156, 'Dresden XX - Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first short story collection in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series-including a brand-new Harry Dresden novella! Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Timesbestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes. This is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan as well as a perfect introduction for readers ready to meet Chicago''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6427'),
(28157, 'Dress Her in Indigo', '[By] John D. MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.A wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter''s life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She''d cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn''t been heard from again. Travis McGee ventures into the steep hills and strange backwoods of Oaxaca through a bizarre world of dropouts, drug freaks, and kinky rich people--and begins to suspect the beautiful girl''s death was no accident....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12301'),
(28158, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a collection of whimsical essays by the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker. 450,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12302'),
(28159, 'Dressed to Slay', 'Harper Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Megan''s preparing to walk down the aisle with her triplet sisters as her bridesmaids when their long-lost grandfather Darkheart interrupts with staggering news: they are heirs of an ancient vampire-slaying legacy. One of them is a natural-born slayer. One is a healer. One will become a vampire. And they''re all in imminent danger from the vamp who murdered their mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a fiancÃ© out for blood, a bodyguard as wild as he is wolf and a dreamy detective on her trail, Megan is unnerved and deeply conflicted. If the prophecy is true, she may be her sisters'' deadliest enemy. But if it''s not, who will save them all from a world turned vamp?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12303');
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(28160, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4284'),
(28161, 'The Dressmaker', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naÃ¯ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbourâ€™s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4282'),
(28162, 'Drift', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12306'),
(28163, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12307'),
(28164, 'Driftwood Cottage', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Single mom Heather Donovan''s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O''Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son''s father, Connor O''Brien. His parents'' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather''s just about given up on her old dreamsâ€”of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It''s going to take a lot of persuasionâ€”and some help from the O''Brien familyâ€”to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12310'),
(28165, 'Drink', 'Mark W. Tiedemann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12311'),
(28166, 'Drive', 'Pink, Daniel H.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12313'),
(28167, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12312'),
(28168, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today''s challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12314'),
(28169, 'Driven From Home', 'Horatio Alger, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12316'),
(28170, 'Driven to Ink', 'Karen E. Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series. ** Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas''s hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates That''s Amore, a drive-through wedding chapel, as a bride-to-be looking for the mark of a murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12317'),
(28171, 'Driving Blind', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver''s seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12318'),
(28172, 'Driving Force', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12319'),
(28173, 'Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain', 'Chris Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When English sheep shearer Chris Stewart (once a drummer for Genesis) bought an isolated farmhouse in the mountains outside of Granada, Spain, he was fully aware that it didn''t have electricity, running water, or access to roads. But he had little idea of the headaches and hilarity that would follow (including scorpions, runaway sheep, and the former owner who won''t budge). He also had no idea that his memoir about southern Spain would set a standard for literary travel writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This rip-roaringly funny book about seeking a place in an earthy community of peasants and shepherds gives a realistic sense of the hassles and rewards of foreign relocation. Part of its allure stems from the absence of rose-colored glasses, mainly Stewart''s refusal to merely coo about the piece of heaven he''s found or to portray all residents as angels. Stewart''s hilarious and beautifully written passages are deep in their honest perceptions of the place and the sometimes xenophobic natives, whose reception of the newcomers ranges from warm to gruff.\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading about struggles with dialects, animal husbandry, droughts, flooding, and such local rituals as pig slaughters and the rebuilding of bridges, you may not wish to live Chris Stewart''s life. But you can''t help but admire him and his wife, Ana, for digging out a niche in these far-flung mountains, for successfully befriending the denizens, and for so eloquently and comically telling the truth. The rich, vibrant, and unromanticized candor of\n <em>\n  Driving over Lemons\n </em>\n makes it a laudable standout in a genre too often typified by laughable naivetÃ©.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stewart, a former drummer in Genesis, middle-aged travel writer and professional sheepshearer, never quite explains why he and his wife, Ana, decided to quit England 11 years ago for a dilapidated farm without electricity, water or even a road in Andaluc!a, Spain. Perhaps the olives, almonds and rosemary had something to do with it. Stewart clearly has found contentment in his good place among a lovingly described collection of local farmers, New Age travelers, artists and the occasional Buddhist. His hilly farm is a harsher place than Peter Mayle''s Provence or Frances Mayes''s Tuscany, and the local cuisine far less appetizing, yet his unfailing good humor and invincible optimism carry him past obstacles that would send most readers scurrying for home. More than a travel book, this is a record of Stewart''s slowly flourishing friendship with his neighbor, Domingo, and of how Stewart gradually sank roots deep into his beautiful Andaluc!an hillside. A bestseller in England, this enchanting memoir is likely to prove popular in North America with both armchair travelers and readers who, while curious about the odd life choices others make, would just as soon give scorpions and clouds of flies a miss. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12320'),
(28174, 'The Drone', 'A. E. Merritt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18278'),
(28175, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12323'),
(28176, 'DropZone 1: DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12325'),
(28177, 'Dropzone: Terminal Velocity', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Raiders are a talented young skydiving team - with a secret. They are also a highly trained group of covert operatives, carrying out deniable missions for Britain''s intellegence services. Under the demanding guidance of their ice-cold leader, an ex S.A.S. explosives expert with many live covert special ops missions into active war zones behind him, the Raiders are developing into an impressive unit. This time, the mission lands Ethan and the team in the most perilous adventure of their careers. The bodies of homeless teenagers, are turning up dumped on the street, having been beaten to death. At first no-one really seems to care but then one survives long enough to talk of being forced to fight in a cage and the authorities suspect organised crime. But they have no luck cracking the impenetrable wall of silence surrounding the organisation. They need a teenager, trained in hand-to-hand combat, to go in undercover. Ethan''s the obvious choice ...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop. He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18972'),
(28178, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4285'),
(28179, 'The Drowning City', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Downum effectively combines action, magic, police procedure and political intrigue in this complex and striking debut. Isyllt Iskaldur, a SelafaÃ¯an forensic necromancer, travels to the monsoon-soaked canal city of Symir, capital of Sivahra. Her plot to undermine the occupying Assari Empire before it can invade Selafai is complicated by her attraction to handsome Imperial fire-mage Asheris. Isyllt''s bodyguard Xinai, a Sivahran native, despises the empire for its brutal destruction of her clan; young apprentice mage Zhirin Laii struggles between love for a guerrilla leader and loyalty to her mother, a respected politician. Refreshingly, Downum treats necromancy as an unclean but necessary defense against evil and nicely handles the complex nuances of a quasi-Westerner fomenting revolution in a quasi-Asian country occupied by quasi-Arabs. A strong (if not happy) conclusion still leaves plenty of room for sequels.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18966'),
(28180, 'Drowning World', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12326'),
(28181, 'Drowning World', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18286'),
(28182, 'The Druid Queen - Book 3', 'Niles, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4288'),
(28183, 'Druids Sword', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  The meaty, suspenseful final book of Douglass'' Troy Game series (after 2005''s Darkwitch Rising) will both horrify and delight readers enthralled by his combative, perpetually reincarnated characters. Four centuries after his plans to complete the Troy Game collapsed when he was betrayed (again) by his ex-wife, Brutus, a supernaturally powerful Kingman who was once an exiled Trojan prince, returns to WWII-era London, reincarnated as the American Maj. Jack Skelton, summoned by the Lord of the Faerie and the need of the land. With the Nazis spreading across Europe, Britain on the brink war and London wracked by a string of brutal murders, Jack joins the rest of the immortals tied to the Troy Game in their last, desperate attempt to eradicate the Game without destroying themselves. Douglass wraps her millennia-spanning epic with a dark, pitch-perfect finale.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of The Troy Game (_Hades'' Daughter,_ 2003;\n  <em>\n   Gods'' Concubine\n  </em>\n  , 2004; and\n  <em>\n   Darkwitch Rising\n  </em>\n  , 2005, precede it) reunites all the players in London as World War II breaks out. Most are content to live as faerie folk among humans. They no longer hate one another--quite so passionately, anyway--and would like to end the game. But the game came to life with Catling, who, possessed of considerable powers, has a vicious hold on all players. She cursed Grace, daughter of Noah (whose original incarnation was Cornelia, British wife of Brutus) and Weyland Orr (whose original incarnation was Asterion) so that whatever is done to the game is done to Grace. It can''t be destroyed without destroying her. Moreover, an indigenous force that only Jack Skelton (original incarnation, Brutus) can sense also opposes the game. The struggles of characters and game are well woven into events in London from September 1939 through May 1941. Moderating the sex that marred its predecessors, Douglass brings the saga to a smashing finish.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12327'),
(28184, 'Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukaemia, Steven''s world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother''s illness and his parents'' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE is a heart warming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12329'),
(28185, 'Dry Run', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12331'),
(28186, 'The Dry Spell', 'James P. Blaylock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4291'),
(28187, 'Dry: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dryâ€”the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors and Sellevision. He lives in New York City. You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he''s doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drinkâ€”as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs''s first outing."â€”Time"More than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he''s even alive."â€”People"[A] wrenching, edifying journey . . . with the added benefit of being really entertaining."â€”The New York Times Book Review "A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."â€”USA Today "Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer . . . Dry is a great read. Grade A."â€”Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we''re right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink . . . One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."â€”San Francisco Chronicle "Augusten Burroughs''s Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety . . . Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we''ve come to expect from rehab literature."â€”Paper magazine "When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that''s free rein to write 100 memoirsâ€”and bring them on immediately."â€”The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs''s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word "nightmare" doesn''t even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic . . . he is funny and dark . . . in his own half-mad way, he''s an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them . . . Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won''t be disappointed."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12333'),
(28188, 'Dublin Saga 1 - The Princes of Ireland', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12334'),
(28189, 'Dublin Saga 2 - The Rebels of Ireland', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.* *The Princes of Ireland*, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurdâ€™s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. *The Rebels of Ireland* opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest. Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their childrenâ€™s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Irelandâ€™s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic. His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the â€œFlight of the Earls,â€ when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwellâ€™s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the â€œWild Geese.â€ In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattanâ€™s Parliament, Wolfe Tone''s attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel Oâ€™Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England. A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, *The Rebels of Ireland* brings the story begun in *The Princes of Ireland* to a stunning conclusion.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2614'),
(28190, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DUBLINERS is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a beautifully-designed edition of James Joyce''s classic DUBLINERS. Complete and Unabridged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12335'),
(28191, 'Dude, where&#39;s my country?', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stupid White Men comes a hilarious act of sedition to overthrow the ''Thief in Chief''-and effect the kind of change that just may save the country. Michael Moore is on a mission: He aims to unseat the man who slithered into the White House on tracks laid by guilty Enron execs and greased with his daddy''s oil associations. And as for ''The Left,'' they''re just as satisfied to stand idly by as the chasm between the ''haves'' and ''have nots'' grows wider and wider. That''s right, Michael Moore is back with a new book that reveals what''s gone wrong in America and, more importantly, how it can be fixed. In his characteristic style that is at once fearless and funny, Moore takes readers on another wild ride to the political edge of righteous laughter and divine revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12337'),
(28192, 'Due Dilligence', 'Catherine Aird', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12338'),
(28193, 'Duel to the Death', 'Christopher Anvil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16594'),
(28194, 'The duel: Pakistan on the flight path of American power', 'Tariq Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States'' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9/11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country.The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general''s party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters.With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir''s widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country''s history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4093'),
(28195, 'The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever', 'Pierre Dukan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The fat attack French women swear by'' -- Grazia ''The ultimate diet. The French have kept it secret for years... Today, more than 1.5million women swear by its dramatic - and long-lasting - results.'' -- Daily Mail ''The secret that keeps French women slim.'' -- Bella ''It''s a four-stage plan that offers the ultimate fast track to weight loss and maintenance with delish French-inspired recipes to keep you inspired.'' -- She ''Politicians, film stars and high-profile models, including Gisele Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez, live the Dukan life.'' -- Daily Mail ''How do you fancy getting the legs and curves of Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Bundchen without having to go on a diet of lettuce? ... More than 1.5million French women already swear by the slimming regime devised by nutritionist Dr Pierre Dukan ten years ago.'' -- Daily Mirror ''All over France right now, women are talking in hushed reverential tones about a certain Pierre Dukan... he is in fact, currently the biggest name on the French dieting scene.'' -- Grazia ''French women don''t get fat... But now we know the real reason why. for the last ten years, thousands of women across the channel have been following a plan called the Dukan Diet. And the results have been astonishing.'' -- New ''Want to know why French women seem to be able to enjoy long Mediterranean-style lunches but still stay slim and gorgeous? It''s all down to a diet formula worked out by eminent French doctor Pierre Dukan, based on four different eating phases that follow on from each other but result in speedy weight loss while eating unlimited quantities of real food, six days a week.'' -- Reveal\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  # 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime.\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has helped millions in France, where itÂ has been number one for more than ten years and adopted in twenty countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Korea and Brazil. All together,\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Phase one: Attack\n </strong>\n <br />\n Using Dr. Dukan''s True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan Attack phase a two-to-seven-day period during which only unlimited lean protein and a daily Oat bran galette (or pancake) are consumed and dramatic weight loss is achieved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Two: Cruise\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters alternate days of unlimited lean protein with days of protein combined with healthful vegetables until they reach their True Weight.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Three: Consolidation\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters stay on this phase for 5 days for every pound lost. At this point the diet allows unlimited protein and vegetables, and other foods (such as cheese and bread) are reintroduced.Â  Dieters are also allowed two weekly celebration meals to stave off boredom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Four: Stabilization\n </strong>\n <br />\n This is the maintenance portion of the plan, in which followers are allowed to eat whatever they like without regaining weight â€“ provided that they follow 3 unbreakable rules including eating only unlimited lean protein one set day per week.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n For each phase, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines for long term success.Â  The Dukan Diet is the perfect diet for people who want fast weight loss, that can be maintained without counting calories or weighing portions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19186'),
(28196, 'Duke Elric', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12355'),
(28197, 'Duke Of Sin', 'Adele Ashworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12358'),
(28198, 'Dull Drums', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17853');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(28199, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...** A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. *"Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."* Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12361'),
(28200, 'Dumb Witness: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œNovelty, intriguing character types, and ingenuity. â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of Poirotâ€™s most brilliant achievements.â€ (Glasgow Herald )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAgatha Christieâ€™s ability to devise intricate plots, coupled with her understanding of human natureâ€”at its best and worstâ€”have made her tales timeless.â€ (Jan Burke, award-winning author of the Irene Kelly mysteries )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone blamed Emily Arundellâ€™s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.â€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didnâ€™t receive the letter until June 28thâ€¦by which time Emily was already dead.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12363'),
(28201, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced. Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world. *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"* This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat. A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 October No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup November Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup December Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4096'),
(28202, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu &amp; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chapters 10, 11, and 12\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n October\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n November\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n December\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18470'),
(28203, 'Duncton Tales', 'William Horwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''More readable and rewarding than The Lord of the Rings'' --\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE JOURNEY STARTS\n  <em>\n   HERE\n  </em>\n  , AND NOW\n </p>\n <p>\n  A million readers have revelled in William Horwood''s now classic trilogy\n  <em>\n   The Duncton Chronicles\n  </em>\n  which tells how Moledom''s Stone followers struggled to find peace and truth for allmole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now Moledom''s greatest tale can be told - from which all began and to which all is leading.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have never read a Duncton story before, start here and now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are already a Stone follower then prepare for the greatest pilgrimage of your life to find the Silence of the Stone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12365'),
(28204, 'Dune', 'The Battle at', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17342'),
(28205, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18874'),
(28206, 'Dune 01 - Hunting Harkonnens', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12366'),
(28207, 'Dune 01: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12204'),
(28208, 'Dune 02 - The Butlerian Jihad', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12367'),
(28209, 'Dune 02: Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12368'),
(28210, 'Dune 03 - Whipping Mek', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12369'),
(28211, 'Dune 03: Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12370'),
(28212, 'Dune 04 - The Machine Crusade', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12371'),
(28213, 'Dune 05 - The Faces of a Martyr', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12372'),
(28214, 'Dune 06 - The Battle of Corrin', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12373'),
(28215, 'Dune 07 - House Atreides', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12374'),
(28216, 'Dune 08 - House Harkonnen', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12376'),
(28217, 'Dune 09 - House Corrino', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12378'),
(28218, 'Dune 11 - A Whisper of Caladan Seas', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12380'),
(28219, 'Dune 12 - The Road to Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12381'),
(28220, 'Dune 15 Book Series, All Volumes', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12383'),
(28221, 'Dune 16 - Heretics of Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12386'),
(28222, 'Dune 17 - Chapterhouse Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12387'),
(28223, 'Dune 18 - Hunters of Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12389'),
(28224, 'Dune 19 - Sandworms Of Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16200'),
(28225, 'Dune 20 - Paul of Dune', 'Frank; Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This epic science fiction tale fills in the time gap between Frank Herberts\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah\n  </em>\n  . Told by modern-day sci-fi legends Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son), this story packs all the punch that the originals did and then some. Relating the life of Paul MuadDib, leader of Dune at the climax of the original novel, this novel explores the events of the MuadDib jihad that subsequently led to Pauls conquering the galaxy. Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show. Bricks voice is ideally suited to this extraordinary tale; no doubt he studied the prose of each novel to capture the dialect perfectly. This is a superb, solid reading that will appeal to fans and newcomers alike.\n  <em>\n   A Tor Books hardcover. (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Paul Muad''Dib and his army of Fremen desert warriors have succeeded in their overthrow of the Emperor Shaddam IV, but holding onto a universe of fractious planets proves a challenge even for a man revered by his followers as a god. Set in the years following the late Frank Herbert''s classic\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and its sequel,\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah\n  </em>\n  , the latest joint effort by Herbert''s son Brian and noted sf author Anderson fills in the missing years of empire building and looks into the formative years of Paul''s childhood as well as the histories of those closest to him. Drawing on Frank Herbert''s massive body of notes, the coauthors of the new Dune series (_Dune: The Battle of Corrin_;\n  <em>\n   The Road to Dune; Hunters of Dune\n  </em>\n  ) continue their expansion and illumination of the unexplored pieces of one of the genre''s most significant and powerful stories. A priority purchase for libraries of all sizes. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7810'),
(28226, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiahcontinues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12209'),
(28227, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert; Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1965 Frank Herbert published\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n . After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale,\n <em>\n  Sandworms of Dune\n </em>\n . Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke on DUNE ''One of the landmarks of modern science fiction ... an amazing feat of creation.'' -- Analog on DUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20660'),
(28228, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A sparkling new novel from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Beach House*** Jane Green''s last novel, *The Beach House*, was an instant *New York Times* bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafÃ©s of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere. *Dune Road* is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green''s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. *Dune Road* is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. *Dune Road* will surely be *the* book to pack in beach bags next summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12211'),
(28229, 'Dune--House Harkonnen', 'Brian Herbert,Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dune: House Harkonnencontinues t he unforgettable saga begun inDune: House Atreides, as a vast array of rich and complex figures strives to shape a sprawling universe of mystery and vivid universe revealed in the thrilling pages of Frank Herbert''sDune. Dune: House Harkonnen At last Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, his precarious position as ruler of the Known Universe dependent on producing a male heir. But his leadership is further threatened by the ambitious Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, whose insatiable thirst for dominance leads him to plot against some of t he most powerful forced in the Imperium, hoping to elevate his own ruthless House to unprecedented heights of power. His primary targets: House Atreides and the mysterious Bene Gasserit Sisterhood. The Sisterhood are unaware of this threat as they prepare to culminate the work of centuries in the creation of a god-child who will sweep away emperors, houses, and history itself in a terrifying new order of religious tyranny. The desert world Dune, the machine world IX, and countless other conquered planets groan under the numbing slavery of cruel new masters determined to exploit their resources - most notably the addictive spice melange found only on Dune. But small bands of renegades begin to fight back, lighting the spark of freedom against overwhelming odds. New, unexpected heroes arise: young and resourceful Liet-Kynes on Dune, wily and patient C''tair on IX, and the unyielding Gurney Halleck in Giedi Prime, driven to vengeance against his Harkonnen overlords. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is time of momentous choice: between love and honor, friendship and duty, safety and destiny. Leto has finally produced an heir to House Atreides, Victor, and will make whatever choices necessary to protect the young boy and ensure his legacy as Duke. Ultimately, however, for House Atreides there is just one choice - strive for greatness or crushed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12216'),
(28230, 'Dune: House Atreides', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."â€”Dean KoontzFrank Herbert''s Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago. Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert''s award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwideâ€”and transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his visionâ€”vast, sprawling, and multilayeredâ€”remained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel to Duneâ€”where we step onto planet Arrakis...decades before Dune''s hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands. â€”Beginning nearly four decades before Dune, House Atreides introduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation of Dune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnenâ€”or take it to new heights of power.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood''s son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year''s education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegadesâ€”and shapers of history. Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune''s greatest secrets, House Atreides stands next to Dune in its power and scope. While this new novel solves some of Dune''s most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad''Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul''s birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of the Dune chronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imaginationâ€”a future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake. The Story Behind Dune: House Atreidesby Brian HerbertWhen my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn''t teach me how to write; instead, he would teach me what he called "the care and feeding of editors": how to make manuscripts look presentable so that they wouldn''t be tossed into a slush pile, unread. He then proceeded to teach me how to write. I remember many instances when we would brainstorm ideas and dissect my own novel manuscripts. He taught me how to develop worlds, to create characters, to invent action...and to describe all of it. We collaborated on the novel Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert''s last published work, and even talked about working together on a new Dune novel, but we''d set no date, had established no specific details or direction.That novel was not to be. When my father died in 1986, he left several projects unfinished. For years there were rumors that I would write another novel set in my father''s Dune universe, a sequel to the sixth book in the series, Chapterhouse: Dune. Prominent writers approached me with offers of collaboration, but in tossing ideas around with them I couldn''t visualize the project coming to fruition. They were excellent writers, but in combination with them I didn''t feel the necessary synergy for such a monumental task. Along with Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings and a handful of other works, Dune stood as one of the greatest creative achievements of all time, and arguably the greatest example of science fiction world-building in the history of literature. For the sake of my father''s legacy, I could not select the wrong person.It wasn''t until I began conversation with Kevin J. Anderson, a critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling author, that I found someone whose enthusiasm and passion for the Dune universe match my own. Much of Kevin''s writing had been influenced heavily by the work of Frank Herbert. I read everything I could get my hands on that Kevin had written, and did more checking on him. It soon became clear that he was a brilliant writer and that his reputation was sterling. We hit it off immediately, both on a personal and professional level; new story ideas fairly exploded from our minds and together, we found the energy to tackle such a massive project.Frank Herbert had left behind literally thousands of pages of notes, ideas, and sketches. Of all the possible Dune stories we could tell, Kevin and I chose to concentrate on an immediate prequel, to go back to the heart of Dune''s readership, the core characters and situations that had made this the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: The love story of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica; their first battle with Baron Harkonnen; the quest of the planetologist Kynes, sent to the desert world of Dune to investigate the precious spice and the sandworms and the Fremen...and the power-hungry Crown Prince Shaddam, who would do anything to secure the Imperial throne.The Dune universe is a vast canvas, with ample opportunity for many stories, but we have chosen to start here, featuring the characters with whom all Dune fans are familiar. Dune: House Atreides is a personal story that means a great deal to us; we hope booksellers and readers alike will feel the same way. Signed,Brian Herbert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12208'),
(28231, 'Dune: House Corrino', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Dune: House Atreides and Dune: House Harkonnen chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12213'),
(28232, 'Duplicity: A Novel', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We must recognize all people for whom they truly are and not for the characters they\n <em>\n  pretend\n </em>\n to be. A motion picture mogul learns that everyone in his life, including his Emmy-nominated wife, are out to gain more than his multimillionaire estate can buy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motion-picture mogul Parrish Clovis learns that everyone is in his life by designâ€” including Hana Kafka, his wife. In just a few short hours, Parrishâ€™s affluent life takes a downward plunge into a seedy world that lands him on the front page of every newspaper in America. Heâ€™s been accused of the unthinkable. One problem, thoughâ€”he canâ€™t remember brutally assaulting and raping his wife. In order for Hana and a crew of out-of-work actors to drain Parrishâ€™s multimillion- dollar estate, they must first set the stage for Parrish to murder his sister by tricking him into thinking heâ€™s really going to kill the woman he was forced to hate: Hana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parrish, however, discovers the con. He throws an ingenious twist in the script that will either win him an Oscarâ€¦or get him a closed-casket funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19323'),
(28233, 'Durable Goods: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Berg''s understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an officer of unidentified rank. The girls'' mother has died of cancer, although Katie never discusses how much time has passed since the loss. Accustomed to a military lifestyle, suspecting that her home will be only a temporary one, Katie leads a fairly ordinary existence. She and her best friend go swimming, talk about puberty and meet boys. When the inevitable happens and the family learns they''re being transferred to Missouri, Katie tries to accept the impending change, but her sister, who can no longer tolerate her father''s abuse, rebels. Direct, matter-of-fact sentences convey resilient Katie''s point of view; the absence of a maternal figure is acutely felt, particularly in the vulnerable but violent father''s frightening temper. Overall, however, this subdued tale of a troubled family is more modest than memorable, insinuating rather than fully examining its characters'' motives. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-After her mother''s death, Katie and her father move from their home on a Texas army base. Her sister Diane, 18, runs away with her boyfriend rather than spend any more time with her grieving, distant father. Katie, at 12, is just discovering her potential and working through relationships with friends, boys, her sister and, most especially, her father. Every once in a while, she and readers see the unresolved despair that contributes to his abusive spells. No one in this compelling story is completely right or wrong. Diane cannot see the man''s pain or, if she does, cannot forgive him yet. He is seemingly uncaring and cruel, but, at moments, is also loving and concerned for his small family. At the end of this book, readers will feel that the girl and her father are going to make it. Katie is an endearing and persistent heroine, and Berg''s prose borders on the poetic. This is an easy read, but its haunting images of coming of age are sure to remain with YAs.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan H. Woodcock, Potomac Library, Woodbridge, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12217'),
(28234, 'The Durango Affair', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''M HAVING YOUR BABY."\n</p>\n<p>\n Savannah Claiborne''s simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland''s carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime of obligation for the confirmed bachelor.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Westmoreland men always honored their responsibilities, and leaving Savannah to raise his baby on her own was not an option. So he proposed and she accepted...with one condition: Theirs would be an in-name-only marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Durango agreed. For now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4098'),
(28235, 'Dust City', 'Robert Paul Weston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once upon a time was a long time ago in Henry Whelpâ€™s city. Now, the fairies are gone, and with them, their magical fairydust. Corporations manufacture synthetic dust to sell over the counter, while uncut nixiedust gets hawked by shady foxes in dark alleyways. But Henry never touches the stuff since his father went berserk and murdered a red-hooded girl and her granny on behalf of a golden-touch gangster named Skinner. See, dust is the stuff of miracles and fulfills destinies, which is fine if youâ€™re a princess, but can lead to a big bad fate for a wolf like Henry. The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm. Henry gets in deep with Skinnerâ€™s crew to exonerate his dad and trips his way into a scheme to return the animalia (wolves, ravens, and the like) to their primitive state. The ending feels like itâ€™s missing a twist or two, but the clever setup and gutting of fairy-tale tropes will garner plenty of enthusiasm. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Weston deftly tucks his fairy-tale tropes into this thought-provoking mystery." --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weston has created a tightly paced mystery, a coming of age story, and a vivid fantasy...Dust City is a winner." --_Quill and Quire_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dust City is so creative...As soon as I read the first page, I was hooked." --Teens Read Too\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12219'),
(28236, 'The Dust of 100 Dogs', 'A. S. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact.Now she''s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I''d follow Saffron into the briny deep.â€”Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir TodA non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable. â€”Lisa McMann, New York Times best-selling author of WakeSparkling, original, both swashbuckling and contemporary...This gripping adventure is sure to be devoured by both teens and adults. â€”Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Angel''s Choice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4100'),
(28237, 'Dust of Dreams', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n <em>\n  Toll the Hounds\n </em>\n ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12221'),
(28238, 'Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of The Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Toll the Hounds\n  </em>\n  ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12224'),
(28239, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12225'),
(28240, 'Dusty Zebra', 'Clifford D. Simak - Aliens for Neighbors 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16568'),
(28241, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise. Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid. Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16152'),
(28242, 'Dweller', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hands down my favorite book of the year." --Fear Zone\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods.Â  His parents convinced the terrified child it was only his imagination.Â  The next time Toby saw the creature he was a lonely, unhappy teenager without friends.Â But the creature would be his friend.Â  It would be there when Toby needed someone to talk to.Â  And it would take care of the bullies who wouldn''t leave Toby alone.Â After all, the creature needed to eat.Â  And during their macabre, decades-long friendship, there will be other meals...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19379'),
(28243, 'Dying by the sword', 'Sarah d&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12227'),
(28244, 'Dying for Dinner', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend''s restaurant, what''s meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12229'),
(28245, 'Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery', 'Valerie Wilson Wesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Valerie Wilson Wesleyâ€™s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jerseyâ€™s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who â€œhas a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethalâ€ (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.Tamara Hayleâ€™s past has come back to haunt herâ€“literally. Sheâ€™s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celiaâ€™s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his motherâ€™s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.The search for Celia and her sonâ€™s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friendâ€™s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderous grudge. Thereâ€™s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friendâ€™s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained forâ€“and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12232'),
(28246, 'Dying Inside', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1972, Robert Silverberg, even then an acknowledged leader in the science fiction field, published a book that was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. More than three decades later, *Dying Inside* has stood the test of time and has been recognized as one of the finest novels the field has ever produced. Never wasting a word, Silverberg persuasively shows us what it would be like to read minds, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man shaped by that unique power; a power he is now inexorably losing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Acclaimed upon first publication by SF critics and mainstream reviewers alike, *Dying Inside* is overdue for reintroduction to todayâ€™s SF audience. This is a novel for everyone who appreciates deeply affecting characterization, imaginative power, and the irreplaceable perspective unique to speculative fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12235');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(28247, 'A Dying Light in Corduba', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest addition to a durable series, Marcus Didius Falco travels to the distant province of Baetica, pregnant girlfriend in tow, to investigate a possible olive oil cartel. The emphasis in this historical mystery is as much on historical as mystery, with solid detail and vivid insights that bring the ancient Roman alive. But the plotting, though leisurely, is nicely suspenseful and the ending worth the wait.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. One night, a man is killed and Romeâ€™s Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation, and he is soon plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falcoâ€™s troubles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16153'),
(28248, 'Dylan', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Game, Set, Match... Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii''s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis''s wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis- obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12236'),
(28249, 'Dyson Sphere', 'Charles R. Pellegrino; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  save them all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12238'),
(28250, 'Dzur', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In which Vlad Taltos confronts the Left Hand of the Jheregâ€¦and discovers the game has more players than he thought**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vlad Taltos, short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he made a place for himself as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the great imperial city of Adrilankha. But love, revolution, betrayal, and revenge ensued, and for years now Vlad has been a man on the run, struggling to stay a step ahead of the Jhereg who would kill him without hesitation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Vladâ€™s back in Adrilankha. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious â€œLeft Hand of the Jheregâ€â€”a secretive cabal of women who report to no man. His ex-wife needs his help. His old enemies arenâ€™t sure whether they want to kill him, or talk to him and then kill him. A goddess may be playing tricks with his memory. And the Great Weapon heâ€™s carrying seems to have plans of its ownâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Picking up directly where *Issola* left off, *Dzur* gives us Vlad Taltos at his bestâ€”swashbuckling storytelling with a wry and gritty edge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12242'),
(28251, 'E E Knight - [Age of Fire 02]', 'Avenger, Dragon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12247'),
(28252, 'E E Knight - [The Age of fire 01] - Dragon Champion', 'Dragon Champion', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12248'),
(28253, 'E. E. Knight - Dragon Strike (Age of Fire 04)', 'Strike, Dragon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12243'),
(28254, 'E.Godz', 'Robert Asprin; Esther Friesner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12245'),
(28255, '&quot;E&quot; is for evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn''t pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn''t about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the bank and, assaulted by canned carols, waited on hold for an officer to clear up the snafu.It was with something less than Christmas cheer that Kinsey faced off only minutes later with California Fidelity''s Mac Voorhies. Voorhies was smart, humorless, stingy with praise, and totally fair. He was frowning now."I got a phone call this morning." he said, his frown deepening. "Somebody says you''re on the take."Suddenly the $5,000 deposit clicked into place. It wasn''t a mistake. It was a setup."E" is for evidence: evidence planted, evidence lost. "E" is for ex-lovers and evasions, enemies and endings. For Kinsey, "E" is for everything she stands to lose if she can''t exonerate herself: her license, her livelihood, her good name. And so she takes on a new client: namely, Kinsey Millhone, thirty-two and twice-divorced, ex-cop and wisecracking loner, a California private investigator with a penchant for lost causes--one of which, it is to be hoped, is not herself.As Kinsey begins to unravel the frame-up, she finds that her future is intimately tied to one family''s past and to the explosive secret it has protected for almost twenty years. Digging deeper, she discovers that probing the past can have lethal consequences as she follows a trail of murder that leads to her own front door. And in what may well be her most challenging case, Kinsey comes up against the fact that sometimes, "E" is forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(28256, 'Each Night He Pulled the Trigger', 'Robert Edmund Alter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12250'),
(28257, 'Eagle', 'David D. Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12251'),
(28258, 'An eagle swooped', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married -- only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul''s forgiveness -- and married him. Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15449'),
(28259, 'The eagle&#39;s gift', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer''s knowledge--the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left this world--"the warriors of don Juan''s party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through"--and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16310'),
(28260, 'Earl Swagger 01 - Hot Springs', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12257'),
(28261, 'Earl Swagger 02 - Pale Horse Coming', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12258'),
(28262, 'Earl Swagger 03 - Havana', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12261'),
(28263, 'The Early Asimov - Vol 03', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4112'),
(28264, 'The Early Asimov Vol.1', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4116'),
(28265, 'The Early Asimov Volume 01', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4117'),
(28266, 'THE EARLY ASIMOV', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The prominent science-fiction writer presents a collection of his early stories accompanied by background information on their composition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4110'),
(28267, 'Early Autumn', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12263'),
(28268, 'Early Autumn (1980)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12264'),
(28269, 'Early Autumn: A Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12267'),
(28270, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4118'),
(28271, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18956'),
(28272, 'Early Dawn (2010)', 'Anderson, Catherine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12270'),
(28273, 'The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Includes stories such as Afterward the Fullness of Life a Venetian Night''s Entertainment Xingu the Verdict and the Reckoning and verse such as Botticelli''s Madonna in the Louvre etc. SUMMARY: Includes stories such as Afterward the Fullness of Life a Venetian Night''s Entertainment Xingu the Verdict and the Reckoning and verse such as Botticelli''s Madonna in the Louvre etc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4121'),
(28274, 'Early to Death, Early to Rise', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12273'),
(28275, 'Earth and Time', 'O maldito', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12274'),
(28276, 'The Earth Books', 'Robert F. Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4122'),
(28277, 'Earth Is Room Enough', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anything can happen and probably will right here on earth. You don''t have to rent a spaceship or sign up for a singles cruise to Saturn or spend your weekends star-hopping along the Milky Way because ... Earth Is Room Enough. Earth is where the action is and each tomorrow unleashes new discoveries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are brilliant, witty, frightening, and fascinating stories of the future by the greatest science fiction master of them all. Just hitch your mind to these weird and wonderful tales for a spin around the world of tomorrow that will take you right to the center of your wildest dreams.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contains: The Dead Past, The Foundation of S.F. Success, Franchise, Gimmicks Three, Kid Stuff, The Water Place, Living Space, The Message, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Hell-Fire, The Last Trump, The Fun They Had, Jokester, The Immortal Bard, Someday, The Author''s Ordeal, Dreaming Is A Private Thing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12275'),
(28278, 'Earth Stealers', 'Don Wilcox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12277'),
(28279, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point. But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary. To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12279'),
(28280, 'Earth, Air, Fire and Water', 'Stephen Nemeth, William Walling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12281'),
(28281, 'Earth&#39;s Children 01 - The Clan of the Cave Bear', 'Jean Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12297'),
(28282, 'Earth&#39;s Children 02 - The Valley Of Horses', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this second novel of the Earth''s Children saga, Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR, sets out solo into a world far from friendly.She is in search of others like herself...and in search of love.Driven by energies she scarcely understands, she explores where the clan never dared to travel.In a hidden valley, she finds not only a herd of steppe horses, but also a unique kinship with animals as vulnerable as herself.Still, nothing prepares her for the emotional turmoil she feels when she rescues a young man, Jondalar â€“ the first of the Others she has seen â€“ from almost certain death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12299'),
(28283, 'Earth&#39;s Children 03 - The Mammoth Hunters', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses continue to work their spell in this third installment of Auel''s projected six-volume Earth''s Children saga set in Ice Age Europe. The heroine, 18-year-old Ayla, cursed and pronounced dead by the "flathead" clan that reared her, now takes her chances with the mammoth-hunting Mamutoi, attended by her faithful lover, Jondalar. Gradually overcoming the prejudice aroused by her flathead connection, Ayla wins acceptance into the new clan through her powers as a healer, her shamanistic potential, her skill with spear and slingshot and her way with animals (she rides a horse, domesticates a wolf cub, both "firsts," it would seem, and even rides a lion). She also wins the heart of a bone-carving artist of "sparkling wit" (not much in evidence), which forces her to make a painful choice between the curiously complaisant Jondalar, her first instructor in love''s delights, and this more charismatic fellow. The story is lyric rather than dramatic, and Ayla and her lovers are projections of a romantic rather than a historical imagination, but readers caught up in the charm of Auel''s story probably won''t care. 750,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Bantam; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selections; author tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12201'),
(28284, 'Earth&#39;s Children 04 - The Plains of Passage', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€¹pâ€ºThe long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth''s Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters'' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our "memory" were as instinctual as that of the Clan.) The saga continues the cross-continental journey of Ayla, her mate Jondalar and their menagerie to his homeland. En route, they encounter a variety of problems, yet manage to find panaceas for each. Their enlightened compilation of skills, inventions, therapies and recipes transforms the voyagers into spirit-like personas providing The Others with constant awe. A brief encounter with the Neanderthal Clan rekindles the unique charm of the first (and strongest) book. Such locutions as "out of the cooking skin into the coals" or "Mother''s path of milk" for the Milky Way are coyly anachronistic. Nonetheless, this volume is as welcome as letters from a long-lost friend. A novel 1.25 million first printing; major ad/promo; first serial to Ladies'' Home Journal; BOMC main selection; author tour. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. â€¹/pâ€º\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12205'),
(28285, 'Earth&#39;s Children 05 - The Shelters of Stone', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jean Auel''s fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar''s mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancÃ©e? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can''t quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn''t just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar''s tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel''s first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It''s an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12207'),
(28286, 'Earth&#39;s Children 06 - The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12203'),
(28287, 'Earth&#39;s Children 1 - The Clan of the Cave Bear (v5.0)', 'Jean Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12298'),
(28288, 'Earth&#39;s Children 2 - The Valley of Horses (v5.0)', 'Jean Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12300'),
(28289, 'Earth&#39;s Children 3 - The Mammoth Hunters (v5.0)', 'Jean Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12202'),
(28290, 'Earthblood', 'James Axler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15001'),
(28291, 'Earthborn', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak.But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul''s damaged programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12284'),
(28292, 'Earthbound 1 - Earthbound', 'D. M. Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12287'),
(28293, 'Earthbound 3 - Planetbound', 'D. M. Arnold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12289'),
(28294, 'Earthfall', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and Nebula award-winning author''s Homecoming series, the great artificial intelligence has lost control of the population, forbidden technology has been rediscovered, war has broken out, and the only repair lies light years distant on a lost and ruined Earth. "There seems little doubt that the whole series will prove as readable--and as morally committed--as we''ve come to expect from Card." --Locus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12292'),
(28295, 'Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?', 'Clinton Ober; Stephen T. Sinatra; Martin Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In our high tech society, connecting with the Earth has never been morecritical to our health and well-being. This inspired and well-researched book explains the peils we face by being disconnected from the powe and energy of the Earth and its boundless storehouse of free electrons. Could much of disease, chronic inflammation, poor sleep and more be the result of this?A brillian hypothesis well-grounded in Science. Highly recommended." --Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of "Ageless Face, Ageless Mind" --Direct comments from Dr. Perricone\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin. This book is probably the most important health read of the 21st centur" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of "The Fat Flush Diet" --Direct comments from Dr. Gittleman\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing connects us to Nature and Nature is the ultimate source of health and healing. This book is a manual for one of Nture''s great healing secrets." -John Gray, Ph.D., author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" --Direct comments from Dr. Gray\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Earthing\n </em>\n introduces the planet''s powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12294'),
(28296, 'Earthly powers', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Burgess'' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican as a subtle negotiator and shrewd manipulator to become the controversial architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two men, related to each other not only by family ties but also by sympathy, genius and a deep common understanding of mankind''s frailties, Burgess explores the very essence of power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Burgess'' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican as a subtle negotiator and shrewd manipulator to become the controversial architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two men, related to each other not only by family ties but also by sympathy, genius and a deep common understanding of mankind''s frailties, Burgess explores the very essence of power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12296'),
(28297, 'East Of Desolation', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12210'),
(28298, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12212'),
(28299, 'East of Eden (Steinbeck &quot;Essentials&quot;)', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America''s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersÂ—and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12214'),
(28300, 'East of Eden, and Just a Bit South', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12215'),
(28301, 'East of the Sun', 'Julia Gregson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There''s Rose, as beautiful as she is naÃ¯ve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12218'),
(28302, 'Easy Betrayals - Book 8', 'Baker, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12220'),
(28303, 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great With Three Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diets', 'Mary G. Enig; Sally Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans'' false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to helping people implement healthy approaches to nutrition), say "high-fat, low-carb really works," eschewing the disastrous effects a high-fat diet can have on a person''s heart. They like the Atkins diet, but say it doesn''t take advantage of the "metabolism-boosting" powers of coconut oil. Their approach skews more toward traditional diets and away from modern diets (e.g., chose animal fats over vegetable oils; raw or fermented dairy products instead of pasteurized ones). Though based on considerable research, the book is somewhat off-putting. Its emphasis on one ingredient-in the recipe section, for example, one sample menu has readers eating a dish with coconut in it seven times in one day-seems nutritionally suspicious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The healthy alternative to trans fats, this revolutionary program explains why we must eat healthy, saturated fats-especially coconut-to achieve weight loss and good health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the late 1950s, it''s been drilled into Americans that fat makes you fat, saturated fats (such as those found in butter, eggs, and red meat) are unhealthy, and tropical fats and oils (like coconut and palm) are downright deadly. And yet-as we eliminate saturated fats from our diet for fear of high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries-obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates have continued to climb.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on more than two decades of research by world-renowned biochemist and fats expert Dr. Mary Enig,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  flouts conventional wisdom by asserting that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as soybean and corn) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crises, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" are, in fact, essential to weight loss and health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World populations on four continents that subsist on the coconut, with less evidence of heart disease, weight gain, or other chronic illnesses, provide the best proof of this food''s safety and efficacy; dozens of studies conducted by prestigious, mainstream universities support the use of coconut and other healthy fats and reveal the faulty reasoning underlying the saturated fat/heart disease hypothesis; and case stories from a wide range of people illustrate how using coconut oil in concert with other healthy fats can spark weight loss and heal serious illnesses, including anxiety, hypothyroidism, and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring delicious recipes for each of its three nutritional programs,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  is the book to help you build energy, lose weight, fight disease, and boost your immunity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12222'),
(28304, 'Eat Me', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12223'),
(28305, 'Eat, pray, love: one woman&#39;s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life** Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best wayâ€”unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12226'),
(28306, 'Eaten Alive', 'Whitman, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12228'),
(28307, 'Eater', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, no matter how fantastic it might seem, never violates established scientific laws. His newest novel takes one of the oldest SF plotsAfirst contactAand spruces it up with great success using the latest developments in astronomy and, in particular, new information on black holes. In the early 21st century, astronomers observe what appears to be a distant gamma-ray burster, a black hole swallowing another star many light years away. The data is troubling because a second burster occurs only 13 h ours later, which, given the immense distance between stars, should be impossible. Eventually, the astronomers realize that the black hole, rather than being incredibly distant, is on the edge of our solar system, and moving our way at considerable speed. Stranger still, it appears to be under intelligent guidance, or, perhaps, to be intelligent itself. One of Benford''s specialties is presenting science the way it''s really done, and this is clearly the case here. His three astronomer-protagonistsABenjamin Knowlton; his cancer-stricken wife, Channing; and the British Astronomer Royal, Kingsley Dart, whom Benford has partly based on Freeman DysonAare nicely drawn and highly believable. His alien is, well, incredibly alien and endlessly fascinating. Less successful are Benford''s government officials, who can come across as caricaturesAbut this is a minor fault. Full of astronomical pyrotechnics and the kind of intellectual verbal fencing that seems to go along with creative scientific thinking, Benford''s latest should delight any serious reader of SF. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Long before there was time, a black hole became a wandering entity, feeding on asteroids, planets, and remnants of the Big Bang. Eventually, it began engulfing ancient civilizations in its never-ending roaming across the expanse of time and space. When it reaches the edge of Earth''s solar system, three scientists, Benjamin Knowlton, his wife Channing, and their friend and colleague Kingsley Dart, take on the fight to prevent the black hole, named Eater, from annihilating the Earth. Basing the foundation of the story on scientific knowledge in the fields of physics and astronomy, Benford gives enough background in both areas to elucidate concepts without overstating the obvious. He develops the main characters as the story unfolds, paralleling their personal changes, their shared history, and their heroic interactions with the increasing malevolence of the Eater. Deftly weaving scientific procedure around an exciting plot of adventure and destruction, and inserting the interpersonal relationships of three intense personalities, Benford creates scientific fiction that sounds very real.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12230'),
(28308, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customsâ€”the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues themâ€”a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12233'),
(28309, 'The Eaters of the Dead', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12231'),
(28310, 'Eating Animals', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12234'),
(28311, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12237'),
(28312, 'Eating Your Ice-Cream Cones Twice', 'Tais Teng', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12239'),
(28313, 'EC4 - Plains Of Passage', 'Plains Of Passage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12241'),
(28314, 'Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12244'),
(28315, 'Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche &amp; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18876'),
(28316, 'Echo', 'Katherine MaClean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12246');
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(28317, 'An Echo in Time Atlantis', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The narrow stairway inside the mountain led to a door, that opened onto a huge marble plateau. Upon this stood a stone circle, that consisted of nine of the largest hunks of polished crystal Tory had ever seen. A turbulent cloud erupted overhead, its core alive with electromagnetic activity. For twenty years the kingdoms of Prydyn, Dumnonia and Dalriada have prospered in peace under the guidance of their High King, Maelgwn of Gwynedd, and his good Queen, Tory. But when the High King is stricken with madness and a mysterious plague, Britain is set to be thrown into the chaos of yesteryear. Tory seeks the advice of the triple Goddess, and is told of an advanced civilization that thrived long before recorded history, where men of great learning and miracles were abundant. The women of the Otherworld agree to aid Tory to make her passage back through time. But once in Atlantis, Tory must use her own devices to find the cure she seeks and a way to return to her loved ones in the Dark Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15450'),
(28318, 'Echo Park: a novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall, _Echo Park\n <em>\n  "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n </em>\n Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12253'),
(28319, 'Echoes', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bracing sea air brings little pleasure to the year-round residents of Castlebay, a village on the coast of Ireland, where class lines are strictly observed and morals publicly monitored. The youngest daughter of a shopkeeper whose meagre living depends on summer trade, Clare O''Brien is determined to move beyond her present circumstances. Hard work and the guidance of an irreverent, caring schoolteacher bring the resolute scholar to a college in Dublin. There, her steps falter when she enters into an ardent affair with David Power, the son of Castlebay''s only doctor and another willing exile. Although David returns her love, their devotion is sorely tested when they are forced to marry and return home. As a wealthy, new-fledged doctor, David easily resumes his privileged position, but Clare is trapped between her mother-in-law''s cold fury and the town''s unease. Sharply drawn, memorable characters and a convincing picture of a small Irish community bring freshness and zest to a familiar tale. Binchy also wrote Light a Penny Candle. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate; first serial to Cosmopolitan; paperback rights to Dell; U.K. rights: Century Publishing; translation rights: Christine Green. January\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This romantic melodrama, set in an Irish seaside town in the Fifties and early Sixties, is as wholesome and engaging as the author''s first novel, Light a Penny Candle ( LJ 2/15/83). Memorable characters include a poor shopkeeper''s daughter who wins a university scholarship, only to miss final exams by a cruel twist of fate; a medical student who shocks his family by marrying\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  beneath him''''; a lonely schoolteacher who guards two scandalous secrets about her local celebrity brother; and a kindly, ubiquitous priest who knows all, tells nothing, and holds everyone together. It''s a little slow to get into, but by the halfway mark the reader is fully involved in all the subplots and is turning pages nonstop. Recommended for most public libraries and for YA collections. Literary Guild alternate. Joyce Smothers, Ocean Cty. Lib., Toms River, N.J.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12254'),
(28320, 'Echoes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry. When WWI ends, the de Vallerands return to Germany and live happily with their young daughters, Amadea and Daphne. Antoine manages the stables at an old friend''s castle, the perfect job for him, but just as all seems well, he''s thrown from a headstrong horse. Meanwhile, Hitler''s anti-Semitic sentiments spread across Europe, and Beata fears that even her half-Jewish daughters are no longer safe. Devout Catholic Amadea plans to become a Carmelite nun, but as the Third Reich''s campaign of cruelty escalates, she finds a greater sense of purpose outside the convent walls. There''s enough romance to keep readers going, but fans who prefer the glitz and glamour of Steel''s contemporary settings may be nonplussed, and the abrupt disappearance of several major characters leaves giant holes in the narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel''s beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata''s enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has two daughters. The two live happily, despite missing their families (Antoine has been cast out of his family for marrying a Jew). When they move back to Germany, Beata establishes contact with her mother, who relates her fears for the increasing persecution of the Jews under the Nazi regime. Beata, who has lived as a Catholic for nearly 20 years, feels she is safe--in fact, her daughter, Amadea, has taken vows as a Carmelite nun-- but she watches in horror as her family members are shipped off to concentration camps. Readers will enjoy the multigenerational love stories and the historical plot. Librarians should stock up.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18907'),
(28321, 'Echoes in the Darkness (1987)', 'Wambaugh, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12256'),
(28322, 'Echoes In Time', 'Andre Norton - Time Traders 6', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18031'),
(28323, 'Echoes of the Fourth Magic', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12259'),
(28324, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12262'),
(28325, 'Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12260'),
(28326, 'Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre''s most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19287'),
(28327, 'Eclipse Three', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18813'),
(28328, 'Eclipse: A Novel', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases to matter. In fact, his tale here is tenuous in the extreme. Alexander Cleave is a successful actor because only in performance can he hide his essential hollowness, his sense of his own intangibility. When his career starts to falter, he retreats to his childhood home in a small town by the sea and tries to learn to live with himself, to discover who he really is. Into this existential anguish intrude memories of his parents, his estranged wife, his emotionally damaged daughterDand the ghosts of people he may not even know, but to whose sadness he is attuned. He begins an uneasy relationship with a slovenly caretaker, Quirke, and Quirke''s enigmatic teenage daughter, Lily; he is visited by his wife; he goes to a strangeDand magnificently evokedDcircus with Lily; he receives terrible news about his daughter. There is by no means a surfeit of incident, and the book never falters or creates impatience because every scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music. And when Banville does choose toward the end to raise the emotional temperature, the effect is deeply moving. (Feb. 28) Forecast: Banville will probably never be a hugely popular writer, and The Eclipse, unlike The Untouchable, is not structured along conventional lines. But perceptive reviews and the support of people who love exquisitely turned prose will help to slowly build his readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Banvillian narrator is often antisocial to the point of alienating his own audience. Armed with perfect diction, he uses language to hole up in an exclusive, hopelessly cool state of mind where the well-adjusted are unwanted. Esteemed stage actor Alexander Cleave is the latest in a line of haunted white males from Banville (The Untouchable). Beleaguered by a premonition of death, he quits the summer tour to live in his dilapidated childhood home, much to his wife''s contempt. Although his seemingly irrational fears do have a climax, it will leave readers dumbfounded. This has a lot to do with the misleading "plot"Aa tedious chain of Alexander''s memories about his tortured mother and aloof father. Banville''s leading man is at his best when he plays a caring father to the housekeeper Quirke''s daughter, but this comes too late. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12266'),
(28329, 'Eclipsing Binaries', 'Edward Elmer Smith &amp; Stephen Goldin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jules and Yvette d''Alembert must discover who is using doubles of themselves to lure other agents to their death\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12271'),
(28330, 'Ecological Intelligence', 'Ian Mccallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12278'),
(28331, 'Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything', 'Daniel Goleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazoned with the slogan, I''m NOT a plastic bag. But according to Goleman (_Emotional Intelligence_), the people who bought the bag were advertising their ecological ignorance, not their consciousness. In this thorough examination of the inconsistencies and delusions at the core of the going green effort, the author argues that consumers are collective victims of a sleight of hand, helplessly unaware of the true provenance and impact of the products they purchase: they reassure themselves by buying environmentally friendly tote bags that, upon ecological assessment, reveal some uncomfortable facts, e.g., 10,000 liters of water were required to grow the cotton for one bag, and cotton crops alone account for the use of about 10% of the world''s pesticides. Goleman''s critiques are scathing, but his conclusion is heartening: a new generation of industrial ecologists is mapping the exact impact of every production process, which could challenge consumers to change their behavior in substance rather than just show.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Goleman, best-selling author of such groundbreaking works as Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Primal Leadership (2002), brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. Whatâ€™s required, Goleman believes, is ecological intelligence, which he defines as understanding the â€œhidden web of connections between human activity and natureâ€™s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.â€ More concretely, Goleman encourages readers to learn about the many invisible threats to our health and the health of the environment caused by product manufacturing. Wisely focusing on the one element we can control, what we purchase, Goleman calls for higher â€œgreenâ€ standards and â€œradical transparencyâ€ regarding how products are made. An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise. Given Golemanâ€™s track record and the pressing need for smart strategies, this fascinating treatise has tremendous potential for reaching and motivating a large and diverse audience. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12272'),
(28332, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian Mccallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12280'),
(28333, 'The Economics of Enough', 'Coyle, Diane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4123'),
(28334, 'Ecstasy Unveiled', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12282'),
(28335, 'Ed Eagle 01 - Santa Fe Rules', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12283'),
(28336, 'Ed Eagle 02 - Short Straw', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12285'),
(28337, 'Ed Eagle 03 - Santa Fe Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12286'),
(28338, 'Ed Eagle 04 - Santa Fe Edge', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woodsâ€™ fourth Ed Eagle adventure, following Santa Fe Dead (2008), is less about superstar lawyer Ed than it is about his nefarious ex-wife, Barbara, who manages to escape from a Mexican prison and head back to the States with murder on her mind. Her targets are Ed and his new wife, Susannah, a beautiful actress. Barbara isnâ€™t the only fugitive on the lam. Teddy Fay, the notorious ex-CIA operative last seen in Hothouse Orchid (2009), has arrived in Santa Fe, hoping to start a new life with his girlfriend, Lauren. But eager young CIA recruit Todd Bacon is hot on his trail. New to the mix is Edâ€™s latest client, golf pro Tip Hanks, who is under suspicion for the murder of his wife. Readers familiar with Woodsâ€™ multiple long-running series (including the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker books) will find themselves at home amid frequent murders and sexual escapades. And while some plotlines are a bit repetitive, particularly regarding Teddy, who has been on the run for many novels, and Barbara, who is also always one step ahead of her pursuers, thereâ€™s plenty of fun here for those who enjoy losing themselves in Woodsâ€™ entertaining escapist fare. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If you run into trouble in Santa Fe, Ed Eagle is the man to see.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed''s past...and put him in danger once more.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6899'),
(28339, 'Eden 2 - Winter in Eden', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(28340, 'Eden 3 - Return to Eden', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7124'),
(28341, 'The Eden Hunter: A Novel', 'Skip Horack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisiana-born Horack''s novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Spanish slave traders enter the Congo and purchase a captured Pygmy named Kau, transporting him to Pensacola, Fla., where he''s sold to an innkeeper. Five years later, Kau kills the innkeeper''s son and flees into the wilds of southern Florida. Along his wilderness trek, Kau regrets the murder, yearns for his family in Africa, and encounters a "Negro fort" on the Apalachicola River built by General GarÃ§on. The remote fort''s ostentatious "genius" commander befriends the diminutive Kau, who is allowed to take an escaped slave as his mate. The American victory in the War of 1812 makes GarÃ§on, an ally of the British, a target of the imminent American invasion. While sympathetic to the slaves'' desire to be free, Kau realizes the slim chance for success against the Americans; he''s more inclined to follow his heart and "live quietly" in Florida than stand with GarÃ§on. This diminutive man serves as a watchful protagonist in Horack''s crisp, vivid tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after capture and enslavement in the American South, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, manages to escape. He flees into the wilder territories of unsettled Florida, an area still very much in dispute between Native Americans and white Americans, between runaway slaves and slave catchers, between black recruits to the British army to fight the War of 1812 and the white American military. Kau finds himself caught between cultures and clashes on an odyssey through the Florida swamplands, haunted by memories of his own tribe and family, struggling to reconcile the alliances and animosities among the warring black, red, and white tribes he encounters. He meets Native Americans fighting with and against encroaching white men, a family of freed blacks eking a life for themselves, and a mesmerizing former slave who commands a fort while leading a doomed mission. What Kau wants is to find a space in the wilderness that will return him to himself. Horack is masterful in rendering a story of a man whose singularity offers fresh perspective on a turbulent period in American history in an exceptionally evocative novel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19166'),
(28342, 'The Eden Legacy', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The Alexander Cipher: ''The action crackles along'' Daily Mail ''A cracking adventure ! Enthralling'' Observer ''A fast-moving, finely crafted, intelligent action-adventure that delivers on all fronts. Pick it up, settle back, and enjoy the ride.'' Raymond Khoury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams''s fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox. Welcome to Eden. Population: Zero. After she finds out her estranged father and sister are missing from their coastal nature reserve in Madagascar, TV zoologist Rebecca Kirkpatrick is on the first flight home. Underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox is searching for a sunken Chinese treasure ship when he hears of the disappearances and ventures to The Eden Reserve to investigate. Still with a vendetta to settle, Georgian gangster dynasty the Nergadzes send a hitman to hunt down Knox and avenge them. As Knox chases answers he realizes that the idyllic coral reef of Eden hides an ugly truth -- someone is willing to kill and exploit people for a secret that will rewrite the history of the New World!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4124'),
(28343, 'The Eden Mission 2', 'Anthony Wall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17725'),
(28344, 'The Eden Mission', 'Anthony Wall', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17724'),
(28345, 'Edge', 'Thomas Blackthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again."\n  <br />\n  - Robert J Sawyer, author of_ Flash Forward_ and\n  <em>\n   Frameshift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter''s condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising... an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending." - _ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney):\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again." - Robert J Sawyer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now." - Stephen Baxter\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world!" -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of British science fiction''s most original and exciting practitioners." - Barnes &amp; Noble\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Dark Blood_ is highly entertaining, more action driven and seasoned with splatters of the titular liquid." - Andrew Osbourne,\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Dark Blood)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn''t put a foot wrong here." -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Resolution\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE - the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.\n  </strong>\n  In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalized.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country''s best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hires ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland to find him. With the help of the boy''s psychiatrist, Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Science Fiction [ Devastated Britain | Legalised Duelling | Corporate Atrocity | Save the Children ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12290'),
(28346, 'The Edge of Chaos - Book 3', 'Koke, Jak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4128'),
(28347, 'Edge of Night', 'Rae Morgan; Emma Sinclair; Sherrill Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12291'),
(28348, 'The Edge of the Sea', 'Algis Budrys', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18071'),
(28349, 'Edge of Victory - Rebirth', 'Taylor, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12293'),
(28350, 'Edge of Victory 2 Rebirth', 'Keyes, Greg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7192'),
(28351, 'The Edge', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The British author''s 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses and heroes, heart palpitations, speed and comedy. Heading the large, colorful cast, narrator Torquil (Tor) Kelsey is an undercover agent for the British Jockey Club. The members have been balked in their efforts to convict wily Julius Apollo Filmer of murder and other crimes that tarnish the sport of kings. With hopes of gaining evidence against Filmer, Tor joins the rich crowd going from England to Canada for "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train." Pretending he''s a waiter, Tor keeps an eye on Filmer as the train rockets across the Northwest. There is no limit to the thrills along the way, and no way of predicting the stunning denouement. 200,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Tor Kelsey, competent, race-horse wise, and independently wealthy, works for undercover security at the English Jockey Club. "Loaned" to the Canadian Jockey Club, he spies on charming but slippery British extortionist Julius Apollo Filmera horse flesh aficionadoaboard the first-ever Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. During the week-long trip, put together to promote Canadian racing, Kelsey narrowly avoids detection, single-handedly averts catastrophe, and even falls in love. This most excellent and memorable construction, crisply crafted and sparkling with intensity, evidences a deft, masterful hand. Literary Guild main selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4127'),
(28352, 'The Education Of Hailey Kendrick', 'Eileen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4130'),
(28353, 'The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography', 'Henry Adams &amp; Henry Cabot Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But\n <em>\n  The Education of Henry Adams\n </em>\n is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation''s history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.\n</p>\n<p>\n It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother''s birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there''s also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn''t do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams\n <em>\n  pÃ¨re et fils\n </em>\n to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father''s private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.\n</p>\n<p>\n He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is\n <em>\n  The Education of Henry Adams\n </em>\n itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams''s book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the\n <em>\n  Autobiography\n </em>\n confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success.\n <em>\n  --James Marcus\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Autobiographical work by Henry Adams that was privately printed in 1906 and published in 1918. Considered to be one of the most distinguished examples of the genre, the Education combines autobiography, bildungsroman, and critical evaluation of an age. Its chapter entitled "The Dynamo and the Virgin" contrasts the Virgin Mary, the unifying force acting on the European Middle Ages, with the dynamo, as representative of the forces of technology and industry acting upon civilization in the early 20th century. Adams marks the destruction of the human values that supported the achievements of his forebears and fears a future age driven by corruption and greed. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4131'),
(28354, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15451'),
(28355, 'An Education: Screenplay', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the _ New York Times_ bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can''t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening-or her undoing. This edition of Hornby''s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby''s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nick Hornby\n </strong>\n is the author of the bestselling novels _ Slam,A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity_, and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  Shakespeare Wrote for Money\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Polysyllabic Spree\n </em>\n , and editor of the short story collection\n <em>\n  Speaking with the Angel\n </em>\n . A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters'' E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers'' London Award 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15453'),
(28356, 'The Efficiency Expert (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4132'),
(28357, 'Eight Ball Boogie', 'Declan Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Downscale private dick Harry Rigby starts tossing out wisecracks like lit packets of firecrackers on page one of this Irish crime story, and he doesn''t let up until the last sordid plot strand is singed into submission. In both the dialogue and firs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12295'),
(28358, 'Eight Cousins', 'Louisa May Alcott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12104'),
(28359, 'Eight in the Box: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven yearsâ€™ experience as a Boston assistant district attorneyâ€“and as chief prosecutor with the elite Gang Unitâ€“Raffi Yessayan renders a stark, realistic, and gripping portrait of law enforcement professionals on the job, and under the gun, in a city at the mercy of a madman.The scene is perplexingly always the same: the home of a single woman, no signs of forced entry, no evidence of an intruder, and no victimâ€“only a bathtub filled with blood. Newly promoted homicide detective Angel Alves wants to make his mark in the department and a difference on the streets. But juggling the needs of a family and the demands of a relentlessly driven partner tests the young copâ€™s commitment as sorely as tracking the killer challenges his skills. Meanwhile, assistant DA Conrad Darget has his own hands fullâ€“mentoring an ambitious young law student, whom he is also dating, rallying his fellow attorneys in their daily courtroom battles, and striving to win true justice in an imperfect system. With each new attack the twisted mystery only deepens, and the hunger for answersâ€“and actionâ€“intensifies. No sane mind could comprehend the dark design behind it all. And no one can anticipate the final fateful strokes that will lead to a shocking endgame.From its chilling first pages to its heart-stopping home stretch, Eight in the Box thrills at every turn and surprises at every opportunityâ€“racing at an ever increasing velocity to deliver a climax that pays off in devastating style.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12105'),
(28360, 'Eight Million Ways to Die', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in the city of New York. Except a young prostitute named Kimâ€”and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn''t deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn''t deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned P.I. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons in a seedy hotel room. Now, finding Kim''s killer will be Scudder''s penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker''s past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous townâ€”some quick and brutal . . . and some agonizingly slow. With this book, which won the Shamus Award and was short-listed for the Edgar, Lawrence Block elevated the Matthew Scudder series to the top tier of American detective fiction. This special hardcover edition features an afterword by the author. Read Eight Million Ways to Die, the novel that proves Block to be one of the best mystery writers working today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12108');
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(28361, 'Eight skilled gentlemen', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone, this fantasy tale is the equivalent of Holmes and Watson in an ancient China that never was. Master Li and Number Ten Ox investigate a strange case of murder in a book that is equal parts Chinese folklore, sly parody, adventure, horror and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12110'),
(28362, 'Ein Mann Namens Spade: Detektiv-Stories', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12112'),
(28363, 'Einstein&#39;s Monsters (2)', 'Amis, Martin - Einstein&#39;s Monsters (v1.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15422'),
(28364, 'Eisenhorn Omnibus', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inquisitor Eisenhorn is one on the most senior members of the Imperial Inquisition. With his warband he scourges the galaxy in order to root out heresy. When that heresy is found to infiltrate the hierarchy of the Imperium and the Inquisition itself, he must rely on himself alone to deal with it - even if it means making deals with the enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12114'),
(28365, 'EJ-ES', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12116'),
(28366, 'El Dorado', 'Tom Ligon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12117'),
(28367, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12120'),
(28368, 'Eldest (Inheritance ; bk. 2) 1st ed.', 'Paolini, Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After successfully evading an Urgal ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12122'),
(28369, 'The Electric Church', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Avery Cates is a very bad man. Some might call him a criminal. He might even be a killer - for the Right Price. But right now, Avery Cates is scared. He''s up against the Monks: cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and a small arsenal of advanced weaponry. Their mission is to convert anyone and everyone to the Electric Church. But there is just one snag. Conversion means death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4134'),
(28370, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4136'),
(28371, 'The Elegant Universe', 'Greene, Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4137'),
(28372, 'The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.Â Â Â Â Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4138'),
(28373, 'Elegy for a Greenwiper', 'Alex Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18059'),
(28374, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12124'),
(28375, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4144'),
(28376, 'The Elephant vanishes', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4146'),
(28377, 'Elephant Winter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother''s farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12128'),
(28378, 'Elephants can remember', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies -- a husband and wife -- shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it''s just as well that ''old sins leave long shadows''!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12129'),
(28379, 'Elevator', 'Nancy Kress', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12131'),
(28380, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12133'),
(28381, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she''s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She''s tired of creeps, weirdos and stalkers. But just when she thinks she''s out, they pull her back in! So fasten you seatbelt and hang on ? Stephanie''s back in town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12134'),
(28382, 'Elfshadow - Book 1', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12137'),
(28383, 'Elfshadow - Book 2', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12138'),
(28384, 'Elfsong - Book 2', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12141'),
(28385, 'Elfsong - Book 8', 'Cunningham, Elaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12143'),
(28386, 'Elfsorrow', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of an ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12146'),
(28387, 'Elfstones of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12148'),
(28388, 'Elija Bailey 01 - the Caves of Steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12149'),
(28389, 'Elija Bailey 02 - the Naked Sun', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12151'),
(28390, 'Elija Bailey 03 - the Robots of Dawn', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12152'),
(28391, 'Elisha&#39;s Bones', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he''s offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn''t think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones that will take him to the very ends of the earth. But he''s not alone. Joined with a fiery colleague, Esperanza Habilla, they soon discover clues to a shadowy organization whose long-held secrets have been protected . . . at all costs. As their lives are threatened again and again, the real race is to uncover the truth before those chasing them hunt them down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bones of the prophet once raised the dead to life... but they vanished from history in a whisper. Now Jack Hawthorne, part-time skeptic and full-time professor of archaeology, is enlisted to sift them from the sands of time. Bankrolled by a dying man of unlimited means, Hawthorne''s hunt spans the globe and leads him into a deadly conspiracy older than the church itself. And he soon discovers those sworn to keep the secret of the bones will do anything to protect them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12155'),
(28392, 'Elixir', 'Gary Braver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elixir is a novel poised, sometimes awkwardly, between the demands of philosophical speculation and those of hang-on-to-your-hats suspense. Gary Braver''s biotech thriller takes as its premise the existence of a fountain of youth: when Chris Bacon, a dedicated medicinal chemist for Darby Pharmaceuticals, journeys to Papua, New Guinea, in search of "miracle drugs that grow on trees," he finds much more than the contraceptive plant steroids he was looking for. He discovers tabukari, the "forbidden flower of the long day"--a blossom with the power to prolong life. When his bosses, and other powerful and unsavory characters, discover that Chris has successfully synthesized a formula for immortality, the scientist and his family become the targets of a ruthless manhunt. What the bad guys don''t know is that Chris didn''t stop at injecting lab rats with his elixir; he is himself participating in a dangerous experiment. Braver effectively conveys both Chris''s burning desire to test the fruits of his labor, and his wife''s prophetic understanding that those fruits are far more lethal than anything Eve might have given Adam: They were silent for a long spell, and Laura felt the old anger burn itself through the sadness. Chris had brought this upon them himself. In a monumentally stupid act he had injected the stuff into his veins thirteen years ago and forever infected the very fabric of their lives. While she understood all the forces that had driven him to that act, she could never forgive him. More than anyone else alive he was able to foresee the consequences but had chosen to disregard them instead. And while she felt pity and compassion for him, there were moments she hated him for what he had done. In addition to metaphysical speculations on the social consequences of living forever, biotech thrillers demand action, suspense, car chases, villains, breathless pursuits, guns, meaningful glances--you name it, Braver provides it, and it''s an unholy mess at times. His sense of plot is shaky, and the novel falters whenever it moves away from Chris and his family (and even they can become a bit tedious). But Elixir is more successful than the sum of these parts would seem to allow; in taking on the power of research and genetic manipulation, Braver has plugged into a hot topic, and he largely does it justice. --Kelly Flynn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12157'),
(28393, 'Elizabeth Costello', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elizabeth Costellois a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee''s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- feted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world -- a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers'' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life''s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations. J.M. Coetzee''s latest work of fiction offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12159'),
(28394, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12161'),
(28395, 'Ellison wonderland', 'Harlan Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition.     This collection was among Ellison''s first and it shows a writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic.     Among the gems are "All The Sounds of Fear", "The Sky is Burning", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" and "In Lonely Lands". Though they stand tall on their own merits they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than forty years later.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12162'),
(28396, 'Ellora&#39;s Cavemen: Dreams of the Oasis I', 'Myla Jackson; Liddy Midnight; Nicole Austin; Allyson James; Paige Cuccaro; Jory Strong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Ambassador''s Widow Myla Jackson Chameleon Agent Andre Batello is sent on assignment to "fill in" for an ambassador who died the night before a long-negotiated peace treaty is due to be signed. As part of a special team of individuals with the ability to assume another''s identity based on a single strand of DNA, Andre''s mission is to infiltrate the ambassador''s life and sign that treaty. The one major glitch in his mission: he didn''t plan on falling in love with the ambassador''s widow. Call Me Barbarian Liddy Midnight Princess Cedilla enjoys unprecedented privilege in a society where women are neither seen nor heard. Her life changes when twin barbarian gladiators enter the arena. One glance and Cedilla is irrevocably bound to these Southern warriors-and revealed as half-barbarian herself. Whether in the arena or the bedchamber, Asterix and Apostroph live for the moment-until they find their destined mate. When Cedilla is banished by the Emperor, they devote themselves to satisfying her wildest desires. But the Empire needs Cedilla, and the Empire is intolerant of barbarians... Spontaneous Combustion Nicole Austin Dr. Madailein Flannagan''s carnal desires are blazing deep inside, and her best friend Jake Cruise is just the man to fan the flames. But the sexy, bad boy firefighter goes for equally bad girls, and Maddy''s afraid she''s just not his type. Although lately she has been fantasizing about Jake and a few of his friends... Jake thinks that Maddy is way out of his league, but he knows that she can''t refuse a challenge. And he''s come up with an irresistible dare guaranteed to send her body up in flames, gain her submission, and maybe even win her heart. Dragonmagic Allyson James It''s hell to be a dragon enslaved. Arys, a powerful silver dragon in human form, is bound to a witch who uses his magic and his body to pleasure her in every way imaginable. When Arys spies Naida, a young woman just coming into her powers, watching Arys performing erotic acts with the witch, he knows that Naida is the key to his freedom. First he must convince Naida she''s his true mate and that the power of their sexual play, and her love, will release him. Fallen For You Paige Cuccaro For ten thousand years, Zade''s warrior mentality kept him focused on the Watcher''s mission-rid the world of the OscuritÃ  fallen angels. And then the witch Isabel came under his care. The OscuritÃ  will be coming to posses her or kill her, drawn by her burgeoning powers. Isabel is a temptation they can''t ignore, but neither can Zade. If he succumbs to his feelings, Zade''s frozen soul could destroy Isabel. If he resists, his unsatisfied need may cost him everything. To save all he holds dear, Zade must trust that Isabel was born for him, and he has fallen for her. The Joining Jory Strong On the water world of Qumaar, Siria Chaton is a prisoner of her talent. With her credits dwindling, she has few options and little hope for a future. Until Jett and Mozaiic du''Zehren enter her life. After five years of being a couple, Jett and Mozaiic have gained permission to add a third, a woman, to their joining. They can''t believe their good fortune when the woman assigned to them is a water diviner. Now if only she''ll accept them as lovers and come home with them to the forbidden desert planet of Adjara.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12165'),
(28397, 'Ellora&#39;s Cavemen: Seasons of Seduction IV', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12167'),
(28398, 'Elminster in Hell - Book 4', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12169'),
(28399, 'Elminster In Myth Drannor - Book 2', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12173'),
(28400, 'Elminster Must Die: The Sage of Shadowdale', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-anticipated return of Elminster, the most famous mage in the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n --now in paperback!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elminster, the most famous wizard in the Forgotten Realms, has foiled countless world-spanning threats, leaving a trail of powerful enemies behind him. Now that the Spellplague has robbed Elminster of much of his power, those enemies are coming out of the shadows, whetting their blades, and preparing to hunt him down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n fantasy world setting and the author of more than 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over two dozen languages. In real life, he''s a Canadian librarian who lives in the Ontario countryside with his wife, a cat, and far too many books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12176'),
(28401, 'Elminster&#39;s Daughter - Book 5', 'Greenwood, Ed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12177'),
(28402, 'Elphame&#39;s Choice', 'P.C. Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12178'),
(28403, 'Elric at the End of Time', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12180'),
(28404, 'Elric In the Dream Realms', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12186'),
(28405, 'Elric of Melnibone (Elric)', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©\n </em>\n is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which\n <em>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©\n </em>\n is the first installment. The book''s namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of MelnibonÃ©, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric''s nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric''s throne, usually over his dead body.\n <em>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©\n </em>\n follows Yrkoon''s scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I was so impressed with this audiobook that I wrote and thanked the director. --\n <em>\n  SFFAudio.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeffrey West brings this fantasy tale to life with such force, you can feel the swords clashing in his narration. --\n <em>\n  Bennet Pomerantz, Audioworld\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n a time-proven fantasy classic, and a top notch technician, culminating in one of this yearâ€™s stellar releases. --\n <em>\n  CJ Henderson, AudioBooksToday\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12187'),
(28406, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12190'),
(28407, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMICHAEL MOORCOCK IS MY RELIGION.â€â€”from the Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€â€”Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of MelnibonÃ© walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carriesâ€”the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Del Rey is proud to present the sixth and concluding installment of its definitive omnibus editions featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s most famousâ€”or infamousâ€”creation. Here is the full text of the novel\n  <em>\n   The Revenge of the Rose,\n  </em>\n  a screenplay for the novel_ Stormbringer,_ the novella\n  <em>\n   Black Petals,\n  </em>\n  the conclusion to Moorcockâ€™s influential â€œAspects of Fantasyâ€ essay series and other nonfiction, and an indispensable readerâ€™s guide by John Davey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sumptuously illustrated by John Picacio, with a Foreword by Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   Elric: Swords and Roses\n  </em>\n  is a fitting tribute to the most unique fantasy hero of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19297'),
(28408, 'Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Steve Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Science Fiction Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBefore Elric, my idea of a fantasy novel hero was a strapping fellow who rose from simple circumstances to lofty heights. Elric was decadent, sickly, and doomed. I loved him instantly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Foreword by Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.\n  <br />\n  This volume is the third of Del Reyâ€™s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcockâ€™s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19295'),
(28409, 'Elsewhen', 'Anthony Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17708'),
(28410, 'Elvenbane', 'Andre Norton - Elvenblade 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17934'),
(28411, 'The Elvenbane', 'Andre Norton &amp; Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 02 Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime. Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4151'),
(28412, 'Elvenblood', 'Andre Norton - Elvenblade 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17871'),
(28413, 'Elves: Once Walked with Gods', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The elves have fled to Calius, seeking to escape the overwhelming power of the demonic Garonin. A desperate last stand in their own dimension saved the race, at the cost of 100,000 elves lost to the Garonin. The elf who led that fight, Takaar, is blamed for the losses and has gone into hiding. Now the weakened elf race is tearing itself apart in civil war, human mercenaries have arrived in Calius and are ripping the continent apart. Only one elf can unite the elves. And only one elf believes in him. A young warrior named Auum sets out to bring back the shamed hero and save the elven race.James Barclay''s ELVES trilogy will tell the whole story of his immortal elven race, and will appeal to all fans of Tolkien and fantasy - this is a uniquely entertaining take on a fantasy staple perfect to bring new readers to Barclay. And old readers of James Barclay will welcome a return to one of their favourite creations and will also love seeing one of their favourite characters again - the Tai Gethan warriror Auum destined to be one of the Raven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12103'),
(28414, 'Elysian Fields', 'Drew Dale Daniel Bryenton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Technician Zhe is having one hell of a bad day. Not only has he been sent out from Liquid Space to overhaul a stinking little backwater universe, he''s also been tasked by his master (the large and extremely hungry Praetor Primus) to track down his old supervisor Gharfos Nyl. Why in all the hells would a being like Technician Nyl vanish right now, when thousands of alien races have been trying to vaporize him for centuries to no avail? And what could he possibly see in a two-bit mudball called the Earth, a radioactive ruin whose last city totters on the brink of disaster, riven from within by plutocrats, druglords, inbred aristocrats and a faltering A.I. overmind? He''s being paid to find out... the only question is, will that paycheck be enough? Elysian Fields is an all-action pulp sci-fi adventure packed with all the violence, destruction and alien terror you can put down on paper. Just like a comic book, only crunchy!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12107'),
(28415, 'The Emancipation Of The Knowledge Robots', 'Carl Frederick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4153'),
(28416, 'Embassytown', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÃ‰VILLE\n</p>\n<p>\n Embassytown\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œI cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It''s definitely one of the best books I''ve read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.â€ --Io9.com\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kraken\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and MiÃ©ville more than delivers.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandlerâ€™s love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . .\n <em>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </em>\n .â€â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory.â€â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Scar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of MiÃ©villeâ€™s vivid language [and] rich imagination.â€â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Iron Council\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œA masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity.â€â€”_Wired _\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Un Lun Dun\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n .â€â€”Salon\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with\n <em>\n  Embassytown\n </em>\n , MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.\n</p>\n<p>\n When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19144'),
(28417, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-** Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain- **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-** Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly. **To Save Her Life? ** A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12109'),
(28418, 'Embrace the Night', 'Amanda Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12111'),
(28419, 'Embracing-The-New', 'Benjamin Rosenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17478');
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(28420, 'The Emerald City of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition.Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy''s friends discover the danger before it''s too late?All the enchantment of Oz is here for a whole new generation to discover in this deluxe new edition featuring ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill.Afterword by Peter Glassman. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the original edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4154'),
(28421, 'Emerald Germs of Ireland', 'Patrick McCabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCabe''s jokey verbosity and energetic narrative voice are on full display in this messy but manically vibrant novel. Pat McNab''s social position in the dully parochial Irish village of Gullytown ranks above village idiot but below town drunk. Few of his fellow citizens would suspect the wild tales he tells are true, much less entertain the idea that he could be a serial killer. Norman Bates, however, has nothing on the middle-aged, reclusive Pat, who enjoys a beyond-Oedipal relationship with his mother (she recurrently appears long after he has dispatched her with a frying pan) and tallies up a final body count estimated "around the fifty, fifty-five mark." Over the course of McCabe''s fluctuating, episodic novel, Pat''s victims number fewer than two dozen, but each is linked with the popular songs and traditional ballads that reflect Pat''s pathetic dreams of becoming a pop singer. The teetotaling, intrusive Mrs. Tubridy is downed with alcohol to the tune of "Whiskey on a Sunday," and a land-swindling neighbor is burned in Pat''s barn with "Old Flames" for background music. At other times, Pat''s hallucinatory fantasies transform his mundane life into a spaghetti western, sci-fi epic or gangster movie. While Pat bears more than a casual resemblance to Francie Brady, the sympathetic, psychotic hero of The Butcher Boy, this novel''s heavy irony, mock verbosity and genre-juggling are more reminiscent of McCabe''s recent "serial novel," Mondo Desperado. Although the Grand Guignol humor wears thin after the first several deaths, McCabe gives occasional revealing glimpses into Pat''s damaged psyche and the stifling mindset of village life. The mixed results are a thoroughly Irish stew of pathos and bathos, deep melancholy and wild humor, cutting observation and pure blarney. 8-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Potential readers of the two-time Booker Prize finalist''s latest novel are advised first to eat a big bowl of Lucky Charms laced with psychedelics; doing so may be the only way to swallow this jarring musical tragicomedy. In it, our hero/villain, aspiring actor/singer Pat McNab, 45, of Gullytown, Ireland, commits matricide and other heinous murders, each fitted with a theme song (e.g., in "The Turfman from Ardee," the turfman from Ardee bites it). However, the point of all the bloodshed is unclear. Violence for violence''s sake doesn''t make for great literature or gut-splitting comedy. Because Pat is such a surreal concoction, it is also difficult to gauge how much empathy and sympathy he deserves, if any. McCabe has a gift for creating bent-brained yet fiendishly human outcasts ? la Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy (LJ 5/1/93) and Patrick "Pussy" Brady in Breakfast on Pluto (LJ 12/15/98), but with this Pat he falls short. An optional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12115'),
(28422, 'Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy', 'Andrew M. Greeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarr''s "The Hermit and the Sidhe," or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydon''s "The Merrow," to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in "Peace in Heaven?" tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Carey''s "The Isle of Women," or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lint''s "The Butter Spirit''s Tithe." Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lee''s "Speir-Bahn," an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patrick''s Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A sheer delight of grand storytelling."---Publishers Weekly on\n  <em>\n   Emerald Magic\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12119'),
(28423, 'The Emerald Scepter - Book 3', 'Reid, Thomas M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4155'),
(28424, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12121'),
(28425, 'Emile', 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12125'),
(28426, 'Emily', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If Emily hadn''t gone to Annie Richmond''s party, she would never have met the impossible irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home along with his eccentric mother, Coco, and the dog, Walter Scott. She''d never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory''s past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean; never have spent a night in a haunted highland castle, or been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie...Yes, it all started at Annie Richmond''s party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12127'),
(28427, 'Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger', 'Rob Reger; Jessica Gruner; Buzz Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Emily the Strange, evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her timeâ€”golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily''s second journal, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Lost Days\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 2009), is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.â€”_Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Lost Days (2009), Emily the Strange wakes up with a nasty case of amnesia and canâ€™t remember who she is. Now, she has managed to clone herself and canâ€™t tell which is the real her or, more importantly, which clone is evil. The book dresses up teen-identity issues in midnight-black humor and piles on so much persistent weirdness that oddball outsiders, goths in training, and other subversive types will find themselves positively smirking with glee. The diary-entry presentationâ€”crammed full of lists, doodles, and staged dialogueâ€”makes for a frenzied read, which will suit fans just fine. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12130'),
(28428, 'Emily the Strange: The Lost Days', 'Rob Reger; Jessica Gruner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Mystery\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A beautiful golem\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Souped-up slingshots\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Four black cats\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Amnesia\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Calamity Poker\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Angry ponies\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A shady truant officer\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Top-13 lists\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A sandstorm generator\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     DoppelgÃ„ngers\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A secret mission\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Earwigs\n    </p>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Questions for Emily the Strange\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How does it feel to have amnesia? I can imagine there are some situations in life where amnesia would be pretty useful, right?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, when you have it and donâ€™t know whatâ€™s going on, itâ€™s pretty grabbling frustrating. Once you know why you have it, and IF you are lucky enough to have given it to yourself, and IF you have a failproof way to get your memory back, itâ€™s pretty exciting. Still frustrating, but good to know that itâ€™s all for a reason. Did I mention you feel pretty stupid, too? I mean--you donâ€™t even know who you are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   I bet golems are pretty handy, too--can you tell us how you made yours?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hmmm. Letâ€™s see. I wonâ€™t give you the full recipe, but I can tell you that my latest golem, Raven, was made from several parts bird (the Chihuahuan Raven species, to be exact--for its booming voice, navigational abilities, and superior lingual skills), circuitry from a discarded cash register (for simple math skills), extra-strength parabolic synth tubes (for muscle mass), super-long lasting chewing gum (we donâ€™t want her getting tendonitis, do we?), various devices I â€œborrowedâ€ from my mom (her garage door opener, curling iron, and blender), and finally a thermo-reducer distilling apparatus that cools volatile material (this golem needs to keep her cool in heated situations!). All that got blended with some real bad luck--and a golem is born! (Again!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Youâ€™re known for your skills with a slingshot. Can you give us any slingshot-maintenance tips?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Replace the elastic regularly (or better yet, use surgical tubing). This will keep proper torque and prevent backfire, misfire, or breakdown when you need it the most.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Depending on the size of your rig, adding a tasteful bicycle grip to the shaft can improve handling, and thus your aim (and confidence).\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    I find that a few basic modifications (time-reverse, teleport, x-ray vision) can really add value to a simple slingshot.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Keep your gear out of the sun. It dries out the elastic, makes the wood brittle, and shrivels your soul.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If Nee-Chee, Mystery, Sabbath, and Miles wrote a book about your Lost Days, what would they say?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEECHEE: Youâ€™ve gone through a lot of trouble just to make more trouble for yourself.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MYSTERY: Blackrock is such a magical essence, any effort to protect it would be worthy.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MILES: It was a nice return to the alley. Been a while since I camped out there.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    SABBATH: Dude, Cabbage was closeâ€¦but no cigar.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regerâ€™s gothy cult heroine, who began life as a sticker for skaters and other underground types before moving into comics, now makes the leap into full-fledged YA noveldom. But not to worry: this is anything but a sellout. The book (structured as the girlâ€™s diary) opens with Emily coming to with a fresh case of plot-device-grade amnesia. As she tries to figure out who she is, where she is, and just about everything else (aside from remembering an affinity for cats and the number 13), Emily gets involved in a power struggle among a cast of shady characters in the town of Blackrock. Although the lurching plot perambulations are increasingly difficult to follow, thereâ€™s no doubting the lighthearted but darkly hued creativity on display, nearly always sacrificing sense for strangeness. A bevy of lists (all 13 items long) and black-and-red drawings work to break up the narrative. The central mystery of who Emily is eventually gets (sort of) resolved; any number of other unexplained peculiarities will have to wait for further installments. Pure black gold for the right readers. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12132'),
(28429, 'Emissaries from the dead', 'Adam-troy Castro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe''s dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world where an indentured human community hangs suspended high above a poisoned, acid atmosphere. Her assignment is to choose a suitable homicide suspect from among those who have sold their futures to escape existences even worse than this one. And no matter where the trail leads her she must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind in an instant. But Andrea Cort is not about to hold back in her hunt for a killer. For she has nothing to lose and harbors no love for her masters or fellow indentures. And she herself has felt the terrible exhilaration of taking life . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12135'),
(28430, 'Emissary of the Void', 'Keyes, Greg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12136'),
(28431, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12139'),
(28432, 'Emperor', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emperor (The first book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices, in a tale that begins with a Celtic noble''s betrayal and culminates in the fall of the Roman empire. 20,000 first printing. A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power. A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England, the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of the family recognises the words for what they are. Only later does it become clear that the women has spoken a prophecy. A prophecy that relates to the death of the Emperor Constantine/ A prophecy that if enacted will change the fate of the Roman Empire and all of the future beyond it. Stephen Baxter''s new series takes ordinary individuals living at history''s tipping points and presents them with a prophecy that challenges everything they believe about their world and prompts them to take action that could change it forever. The fourth volume reveals the nature of the prophecies and reveals a battle that has been fought through the ages. SUMMARY: A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12147'),
(28433, 'Emperor 1: The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12140'),
(28434, 'Emperor 2: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brilliant...stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader.  In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12142'),
(28435, 'Emperor 3: the field of swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain.  Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C.  For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome.  Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves.  Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged.  And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable.  So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization.  And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man.  A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12144'),
(28436, 'Emperor 4:The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself.  Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city.  The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death.   But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart.      **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself.  Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12145'),
(28437, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4159'),
(28438, 'Emperor of Dawn', 'Steve White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EMPIRE WAS DOOMED -- AND ONLY AN ANCIENT LEGEND COULD SAVE ITBasil Castellan, centuries after his doomed struggle against the New Humans to preserve the Empire, had become a mythic figure and his legend insisted that when the Galaxy was again in danger, he would return to restore justice and freedom and once again rule the Empire. Of course, that was only a legend -- but it held a kernel of truth whose nature no human had even guessed....Now another Empire was in danger, with a weak and cowardly sybarite on the throne, and rebellion rising in outlying regions of the Galaxy and on Earth itself. Then the Emperor was assassinated, and General Ivar Brady-Schiovana was forced to declare himself Emperor, and restore order with the help of his sons and daughter, who -- with one exception -- were courageous born leaders.But that one exception might bring all to naught, for Ivar''s eldest son, Teodor, presumptive heir to the throne, was not only a coward (though one with a lust for power) but was also easily manipulated by devious sycophants into plots that verged on outright treason. If Teodor became Emperor, the galaxy would again be plunged into darkness.Still, there was hope. And it arrived in the persons of two men and a woman. Long ago, a similar trio, one of them the legendary Basil Castellan, had fought for the Empire against its enemies. These three were not, could not be the same legendary heroes. But the resemblance went far beyond mere coincidence....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12153'),
(28439, 'The emperor of Ocean Park', 'Stephen L. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter''s engaging debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Emperor of Ocean Park\n </em>\n . After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife''s fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife''s chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father''s dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott''s thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter''s storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter''s description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Ferch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal''s father''s disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge''s clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened. This thriller, which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4161'),
(28440, 'Emperor: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brilliantâ€¦stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12154'),
(28441, 'Emperor: the field of swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain.  Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C.  For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome.  Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves.  Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged.  And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable.  So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization.  And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man.  A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12158'),
(28442, 'The Emperor&#39;s Plague', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bornan Thul''s secret is out: he''s protecting a deadly plague that could devastate the galaxy if released. And the evil Nolaa Tarkona--leader of the Diversity Alliance--knows where it is hidden. Now Jacen, Jaina and their allies must race against time. As a massive battle rages between New Republic soldiers and the forces of the Diversity Alliance, the young Jedi Knights must find and destroy the plague before it can be released.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4162'),
(28443, 'Empire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card''s bestselling science fiction (Ender''s Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card''s heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel''s polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left. Some video-game developers asked Card to write a scenario for "an entertainment franchise . . . about a near-future American civil war." They came to the right man and held off on releasing the game until he completed this relentless thriller, which couldn''t be timelier and is, for all its hyperactivity and flip, Hollywoodish one-liners, heartfelt and sobering. Its heroes are two special-ops army officers who keep their oaths to defend the U.S. against all enemies when far too many of their ostensible colleagues have decided to abandon theirs. A rocket hits the west wing of the White House, killing the president, vice-president, and secretary of defense. While those directly responsible are Arabs, the next day, 14-foot-tall, bulletproof, armed globes on mechanical legs, backed by shooters on individual hovercraft, seize New York City by killing anyone in uniform. None of the new attackers looks anything other than American. A "Progressive Restoration" administration is established in the city, and it encourages other cities and states to join it to restore government as it should have been but for the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. Intriguing plot wrinkles come fore and aft of those basic developments, there are many deftly shaped supporting players, and major shocks explode in a split second (no Stephen King slo-mo for Card!). Moreover, all the action doesn''t obscure the author''s message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship; indeed, it drives it home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12175'),
(28444, 'Empire', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16482'),
(28445, 'Empire 01 - Daughter of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12166'),
(28446, 'Empire 02 - Servant of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12170'),
(28447, 'Empire 03 - Mistress of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12172'),
(28448, 'Empire 1 - Burr', 'Gore Vidal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12164'),
(28449, 'Empire 2 - Lincoln', 'Gore Vidal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12168'),
(28450, 'Empire 3 - 1876', 'Gore Vidal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12171'),
(28451, 'Empire 4 - Empire', 'Gore Vidal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11496'),
(28452, 'Empire 5 - Hollywood', 'Gore Vidal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12174'),
(28453, 'Empire from the ashes', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published as three separate novels, "Mutineer''s Moon", "The Armageddon" and "Heirs of Empire", this volume recounts the adventures for Duhak, an AI-controlled Imperial starship, when it encounter''s Colin Macintyre''s routine flight over the moon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12179'),
(28454, 'Empire in Black and Gold', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ''Shadows of the Apt'', about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion. Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12181');
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(28455, 'Empire of Blood', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12183'),
(28456, 'Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan&#39;s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Oulaws&#39; Bloody Reign', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain''s hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his fortune, Welshman Morgan arrived in the Caribbean just as British King Charles II decided to challenge Spain by using pirates "as a stick with which to beat [them]." Morgan accepted a privateer''s commission from the Britishâ€”in effect, a license to stealâ€”and set out in 1661 to make his fortune. Smart and charismatic, Morgan quickly rose to the rank of captain and became "fabulously rich." His attack on the Spanish stronghold at Portobelo "showed the world that the empire was vulnerable," and his raid on the city of Panamaâ€”the "greatest raid in the history of buccaneering"â€”forced "the Spanish to renounce their exclusive rights to the New World." Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him deputy governor of Jamaica, a position that tasked himâ€”"the greatest of the buccaneers"â€”with exterminating piracy. Morgan died of the effects of alcohol abuse in 1688 at 53. Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accessible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he became rum, Cap''n Morgan humbled the Spanish Empire. Part swashbuckling pirate, part aristocratic wannabe Henry Morgan blended his desire for adventure and wealth into an innovative military approach. English greed and rugged individualism could defeat Spanish monarchical bureaucracy. Talty illustrates the lures that drew free spirits from the Old World and into the new. Port Royal, Jamaica, serving as the seventeenth-century''s sin city, offered all the vices a young rogue craved, plus the pirate excursions to fund his debaucheries. Talty''s well-researched account weaves together myriad political and financial interests in the New World. From the young rogue in search of wealth and a good time to the British monarchy looking for a cheap way to defeat the Spanish (and finding that champion in the young pirate), the pirate''s ferocity and depravity became known and feared. Morgan succeeded, where most could not, in straddling dual roles. He stood as the vital force in British military cunning and success, and did so as a feared yet respected pirate.\n <em>\n  Blair Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12184'),
(28457, 'The Empire of Glass', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by something on a far greater scale\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4171'),
(28458, 'Empire of Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium''s borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso''s own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that''s only if Dakota doesn''t kill him first ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12185'),
(28459, 'Empire of the Atom', 'A. E. Van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18295'),
(28460, 'Empire of the Eagle', 'Andre Norton &amp; Susan Shwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The tribune Quintus was once a man of honor.  But when Rome''s might is crushed at the battle of Carrhae, Quintus can only watch with honor and hope gone as Rome''s Eagles--the golden standards which every Roman believes houses the very essence of the gods--are dragged through the mud by the barbarian hordes.  The Eagles will go East as bloody testimony to Rome''s humiliation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But even in Hell, there sometimes lies a path of redemption.  Quintus will follow the Eagles, and strive to somehow recapture the honor that Rome has lost.  He will abandon the logic that is Rome...and travel into the mists of myth and legend, where he will see visions of magic unknown to any Roman\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And where he will learn to use barbarian magic to win back Rome''s gods....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12189'),
(28461, 'Empire of the Eagle', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17933'),
(28462, 'Empire of the Sun', 'Ballard, J. G.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12191'),
(28463, 'Empire of the Sun', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A profound and moving work of the imagination."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anthony Burgess\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg''s film, tells of a young boy''s struggle to survive World War II in China.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ballard''s enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18455'),
(28464, 'The Empire Project', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://70.127.237.166:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4173'),
(28465, 'The Empire Trilogy', 'J. G. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   "Farrell''s writing is well worth rediscovering. Sardonic, generous, eccentric and sad, it\n   <br />\n   seems as original now as it must have done in the 1970s, before successive waves of historical\n   <br />\n   and post-colonial fiction dampened the memory of Farrell''s achievements in this line.\n   <br />\n   His ''trilogy'' is concerned with the gap between imperial ideals and imperial practice--with\n   <br />\n   the idea that ''a nation,'' as one of his characters comes to suspect, ''does not create itself\n   <br />\n   according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge.''\n   <br />\n   Yet the novels are never earnest or pompous. On the contrary, they are often\n   <br />\n   extremely funny, combining vivid historical backdrops with an ironic, absurd sense of\n   <br />\n   humour pitched somewhere between P G Wodehouse and Samuel Beckett." -Christopher\n   <br />\n   Tayler, The New Statesmen\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In the post-Warhol world, where any wannabe can grab 15 minutes of literary fame,\n   <br />\n   it''s a rare writer indeed whose reputation is still growing 30 years after his death. All the\n   <br />\n   more reason to raise a glass to JG Farrell...Farrell''s gift was the ability to immerse himself\n   <br />\n   so thoroughly in his worlds, whether early 20th-century Ireland or mid-19th century\n   <br />\n   India, that he never seems to preach as he tackles the big issues of race, culture and class.\n   <br />\n   His drowning at 44 came when his star was at its height, after decades toiling away in\n   <br />\n   obscurity. It is wonderful that his writing is winning new admirers." -The Guardian\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell''s re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connectedÂ by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of theÂ Great Mutiny of 1857, to Ireland immediately after the Great War, to the besieged Singapore of World War II. Together theÂ books constitute not only a spectacular entertainment but also an ambitious refashioning of the traditional historical novel toÂ meet the tragic realities of the modern world.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Siege of Krishnapur - India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion onÂ their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell''s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one ofÂ the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell''s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors\n   <br />\n   of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all,Â moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering,Â and wistful--is soon revealed.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   Troubles - 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whetherÂ he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough.Â But his fiancÃ©e is strangely altered and her family''s fortunes have suffered a spectacular 